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History of the war of the Confederates.
Containing a full ;:’i 1 authentic account of'
I the ri •• amjprogrc,-- of the hit South' rn
( Vmfiideracy. The campaign:-, battle.-, in
cidents and adventure- of the tin t gigan
• tic struggje of the world's hi-.lory. Drawn
fronJoflioia! soil re : and approvc-1 by tin
most diatinguishe 1 Confederate lemUr®.
By Edward A. Bollard of Virginia, editor
of the Biehuiorul AV///,. i'/,er durine th<
war. \\ ith numerous .-jilendid *t 1
portraits : New York : K. 15. Treat &
Cos., publishers.
>V e liave received from the agent for
the States of Georgia and Alabama—Geo.
W. Isiyd—a copy of the above work. Ft is
a large and handsome volume of 750 pagt
nicely Fiound in muslin, and contains good
portraits of Pre-Flint Davis, Gen’ls. J, e,
Joe John-on, Hood, A. B. id ill, Hardee
and ‘other* '♦’•ttmotWtcd iir*
ends.
We have not had time to give this work
a thorough examination, but in glancing
through its pages we have become satisfied
that it is wholly unreliable as a history of
the late war.
Mr. Bollard is a graceful, nervous writer,
and his style i easy and copious. Jsut here
end his qualifications as a historian. He is
incapable of rising above the petty preju
dices and personal feelings of the man, and
rising superior to the influences of private
likes and dislikes. He has his favorites —
they are all marvelous heroes and perfect
statesmen. lie has predjudir - against
some, and they are all ignorant, impracti
cable and unskillful in the field, and obsti
nate, thick . bulled and perverse in the
council chamber.
Mr. Bollard is a Virginian. His book
should be confined to a sketch of Virginia
General*, Virginia soldiers- and Virginia
slatc-meii. 11 • very rarely finds that the
soldiers of any other (state participated
much in the great conflicts which he at
tempts to describe. If there should be no •
\ irginia troopsengaged, then he generally
gives a fair and impartial account of the
part taken by the different regiments,
brigades and divisions. But if the troops
of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and
other States engaged with those of Virgi
nia in any of those great conflicts made
historic by the grand old Army of North
ern Virginia—then the whole credit is
given toV irginia skill and \ irginia bravery.
I lie slightest skirmish is magnified into
it great battle' if conducted by \ irginia
officers and tought by \ irginia troops, while
some of the most gallant feats of the Con
federate arms are wholly ignored whore no
Virginians were engaged. This fault of
Mr. Bollard is carried eve'n into the few
naval engagements which the war pro
duced. The first naval fight and capture
made by the Confederate arms, ho does not
deign to notice. We allude to the naval
engagement in Pamlico Sound, just, after I
the fall of Port llattcras, in which the gal j
hint Lynch, with a few Georgians on hoard ;
the steamer Curlew , engaged and cap j
tur'ed the gunboat Fanny with three guns
and a large quantity of army supplies.
Tl»i» could not have been eutirely acci
dental : but, if so, it shows how unreliable,
as a Ilistory of the War, Mr. Bollard’s ■
book is.
Nearly nine pages of the book before us !
tiro devoted to the first battle of Manassas, j
The minutest particulars are given of the I
conduct of other troops, but nowhere is a
single mention made ot a Georgia officer
or Georgia command—this, too, when the
conduct of the 7th and Bth Georgia regi
ments, on that occasion, won the applause
and admiration of the whole country. It
was there the gallant Georgian, the lament
able Bartow, fell. There?, too, the ehival
rie Gardner received a wound which inca
pacitated him for further duty in the field,
and who e conduct as commander of the
immortal Bth Georgia, won for him the
rank of Brigadier General.
The following paragraph, which we find
on page 117 of the History, shows how
very reliable Mr. Bollard's facts are: “A
little further on, Col. Bartow, of Alabama,
lmd fallen, shot through the heart—and
one of the bravest and most promising
spirits of the South was then quenched in
blood."
The di astrous affair at Cheat Mountain
i< rapidly .slurred over on pages 1 11 and 2.
with a brief notice of the death of Garnet,
and the retreat of our forces. No credit
is given, for this masterly retreat, to Col.
Ramsey, of the Ist Georgia Regiment,
upon whom the command devolved on
the fitll of Garnet, and to whose coolness,
skill atul judgment the safety of our little
band is wholly due. The only mention
made of the Georgians engaged in this
affair, is the following statement: “At
one of the fords on the Little Cheat River,
four companies of a Georgia Regiment
were cut off, and Gen. Garnet himself was
killed by one of the enemy's sharpshooters.
The impression here made is, that four
companies of Georgians were captured by
the enemy, which is not true.
In the description of the battle of Seven
Pines, the attempt is again made to dis
parage the services of other troops in order
to Uphold and magnify the skill and valor
of Virginians. After giving the plan of
battle, and the part assigned to the dif
ferent commands, Blr. Pollard says, on
page 280 : “The greater part of the day
was lost in vain expeetalion of Huger’s
movement—the most important part of
the design, as it was to take the .enemy's
flank, and insure his destruction. The
movement was disappointed, as Huger
could not cross thcswolbn stnam in his
front." On the next page Blr. Pollard
says : “ Had Huger obeyed orders, John
ston might have demolished the enemy."
Hero Huger is denounced as the cause of
the failure at (Seven Pines, when, as was
just before stated by Mr. Pollard himself
“ Huger ce idj not cross the swollen stream
in his front.''
In the description of tlto evacuation of
Nort. ;k. General Huger is again made to
share' all the blatne. Mr. Pollard thinks
the evacuation of Norfolk ill-timed and
unwise, and charges General Huger with
badly managing the affair. Wo happen
to Am that General linger was opposed
to the evacuation, and protested against it.
M e know also that the evacuation was
made in the most prudent and cautious
manner, and that not a single man W as
lost in withdrawing the troops scattered
along a line of near thirteen miles on the
Elisabeth river and Hampton Roads. Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston, then commanding
the army of Northern Virginia, is responsi
ble for the evacuation of Norfolk and the
destruction of the - Verritmu \ If any
blame attaches to this movement it must
all fall on General Johnston.
In the description of the battle ot Get
tysburg the same partiality lor Virginia
troops and the same disposition to slur
over the feats and gallant deeds of other
troops is painfully apparent. The truth is.
Mr. Pollard's book i- very little more than
a reharsh of the hasty newspaper articles
which appeared in the columns of the
Richmond Examiner during the war. and
which necessarily omitted much that
ought to have been written, and contained
a great deal which should be entirely in
admisablein a work of such pretension as
the volume before us.
We have not time to go over the whole
of Bollard s book at present. We shall
return again to it at our l- isure. In the
meantime we t-heerfaHy give piu'-e to the
following extract of a letter received from
a gentleman in the country) wHo gallantly
i served through the war. and who bears
honorable marks on his person of Lis de
■ votion to the cause.
Sanokh-vri.i.n, tin., August 2, I-', ;.
General A. ft. Wright, Augusta, ft a.:
iJeor Oene.ynf: Knowing your solicitude
for the fair tame of the Georgia troops in
the late army of Northern Virginia, and
for the purpose of vindicating life truth of
! history, X cnolo a to you the following ex
tru"t from Mr. Pollard s new work, “ The
L , > Cau„e:\
| Von will uijficc that Mr. I’, entirely ig
nores the presence of Georgians in Fort
Gregg, near Pc r.-hnrg, when tile fact is.
that a iiunils rof Thomas brigade were
there,as well a. Captain Chew's men, with
the Missis-ip plan:- and North < 'uroiinians.
.Mr. P. is mistaken aisuit •‘Walker's mules'’
ti lying been ill the Fort when the a-sault
on it w* made, as they had formed and
were march: and oil' when the Mississippians,
North ('aroliniunsand Georgians went into
tie- Fort.
To prove that Georgians were there, J
will inform Mr. I’, that three of the thirty j
survivors are still living in this (Washing
ton; county—l myself being one of them. .
( know of three other Georgians who art:
‘-till living, wlio were there, one in Monroe, i
! one in Taliaferro, arid one in Hancock I
county.' The scenes in Fort Gregg on the j
2d of April will hardly ever he effaced from
\ their or my memory.
Yours, respectfully, M. N.,
i„ute Adjutant -kith Ga. lieg’t. j
The extract alluded to by our corre.-pon- i
-sW from I
Book, and is in the following words :
“ In Fort Gregg there was a small and !
mixed gnrri.-on. ( apt. Chew, of the -Ith j
Maryland battery of artillery, was in com- j
maud of the work. There was added to j
lii.s battery of two 3-ineh rifles and thirty I
men, a body of men known, in the vulgar
parlance ofsoklieiv, as “\\ alters Mules, ’ j
dismounted drivers to whom were given |
muskets. These men were Virginians j
and Louisianian-, who belonged to Wal
ker's artillery brigade, and the garrison, j
about one hundred and twenty, were some i
men from Harris's Mississippi brigade, and 1
some North Carolinians. Both of these j
commands, the Mis-i.-sippians and North 1
Carolinians, had been driven hack from j
the picket lines, and had fled into Fort ,
Gregg for shelter.
It. is somewhat remarkable that Mr.
Bollard is so often wrong in relation to the
Georgia troops, if his errors are merely un
intentional. But, in any event, we must
condemn his work as entirely unreliable,
it is worth about as much, as a History, as
Abbott’s, or Greely’s.
We must say, however, that there is
much in the book instructive and interest
ing to the great body pf Southern readers.
While we cannot recommend it as a His
tory, we can conscicnciously commend it j
as containing a'great deal which will hardly
ever find its way into a true history of the
times.
Mr. Markoy, corner of Mclntosh and
Ellis streets, is the agent for this city,
where subscriptions will he received. Brice
five dollars.
Yellow Fever lit (•Savannah.
In our issue of the lstinst., we published
a telegram from the agent of the Associated
Press in Savannah to the Press agent here,
which was in the following words:
“Savannah, July 30. —Later accounts
from Tybce report the cholera subsiding.
There arc three cases of yellow fever iti this
city—-less than before, in nine years, for
this time.”
This dispatch appeared in the Constitu
tionalist of the .same date, and was copied
in the Press, without em/it, on the 2d inst
ill calling the attention of our City Coun
cil to this matter on the next day, (2d,) we
said :
“There seems to he no doubt now that
our sister city ot’Savaunah has been visited
again by these terrible scourges of the hu
man race. As yet, neither of these diseases
(cholera and yellow fever) scents to have
become epidemic. But, that genuine yel
low lever is there, it is not denied. Our
object in calling attention to this matter
now, is to urge upon our city fathers the
importance of enacting, immediately, strict
quarantine regulations. ’ ’
It is here distinctly stilted, as our belief,
that neither cholera, or yellmc.fever had be
come epidemic in Savannah.
Our dispatch stated merely the fact of
the existence there of three eases of yellow
fever. As journalists, it was our duty to
warn our people of the danger to which
this city was exposed by the semi-daily
communication by rail, and almost daily
conuiiuniciition by steamer, with the in
fected city. Asa matter purely of wise
precaution, we urged our city fathers to
take some action to prevent the introduc
tion of these terrible diseases into our city.
Wc are glad to know that our advice
was not unheeded. Our city authorities
immediately took action on the matter,
and have taken such precautions-as will no
doubt protect us against the introduction
ot'yellow fever in our city from Savannah,
either by boat or railroad.
Our attention has been called to the
proceedings of our Board of Health on the
Ith inst., at which time a communication
was read from one James Stewart, Clerk
of Council and Secretary Board of Health,
dated Savannah, August 3d, 1566, en
closing our dispatch of the Ist with our
article of the 2nd inst. James says he is
directed by His Honor, Kdward C. Ander
son, the Mayor, and Dr. John P. Fisli,
Chairman Board of Health of the city of
Savannah, to call the attention of the
Mayor of Augusta to these extracts from
our paper. We are sorry that James was
put to so much trouble to inform our
worthy Mayor on a subject which Council
had already had under advisement, and
had acted upon in accordance with our
suggestions.
We would not have referred to this
matter now but for the statement in the
closing paragraph of Janas communica
tion. He says:
“ I enclose, in reply to this scandalous
perversion of the truth, the original ceme
tery reports. There is not at present, nor
has there been, one ease of yellow fever in
this city.
B\ e liave before us a communication
from Pr. J. T. McFarland, Health Phy
sician, city of Savannah, to Captain A. F.
Butler of this place, and which we pub
lished in our issue of the sth. in which he
admits that there has been a report of the
death of o.o‘ person by yellow fever, but
denies its existence as an epniemte.
The official announcement of o.ie case of
yellow fever then removes from the press
reporter at Savannah the stigma of "a
scandalous perversion of truth, " and
fixes i; uuuiistakeably upon the C of C. A
S. B. 11. city of Savannah, J ":n.< Stewart.
The Press reporter said there was yellow
fever in Savannah —James Stewart says it
is not true. Iff. McFarland. Health I’liy
2 i:ui. says one case of yellow fever has
been reported, and thereby convicts James
Stewart of the charge which he so flip
pantly made against the Press reporter of
"a scandalous perversion of truth.
In justice to ourselves, we desire to state
that a typographical error iu the conclusion
of our article of the 2d mst.. makes us
seemingly contradict the statement made
iu the first paragraph we wrote : "Some
action in this matter should be had at once.
It we should wait until the disease shall
have assumed tie form of an epidemic at
Savannah, it may be too late to save us
from the scourge. " Our printer made us
jSome action in this matter should be
had at once. If we should wait until the
usea.se shall have assumed the form of an
pi lemie. as at Savannah, it may be too
‘ate to save us from the scourge.”
By inserting the word “as” after epi
demic. the whole sense is changed, and we
are l: ado seemingly to contradict our first
statement that we did not believe the dis
." ■■ This purely typo
graphical blunder could not have deceived
any one of ordinary intelligence, who was
not anxious to find a cause of complaint.
In conclusion, we would respectfully in
form James Stewart, C. of C. and S. B.
H., that we have been reliably informed
that one of the leading physicians of Sa-
vannah has given it as his opinion that
a case of death from yellow fever occurred
in >avannah before the case alluded *to by
Pr McFarland. Will James undertake to
■ -.v that this statement of a Savannah
phy-ieian is “a scandalous perversion of
truth ?’ ’
Croat Libel Suit in St. Louis.
Our Northern exchanges are all agog
with the great libel suit which have been
brought by Gen. Frank Blair against the
proprietors of the St. Louis Democrat.
We are r juiced to find that at least one
Federal officer deems it a libel to be charged
wit It jobbing Southern people of their
. private goods. Gen. Blair is said to have
b- .1 a gallant soldier of the Union army,
1 and his friends claim that in all that thiev
ing <:-;W which accompanied William Te
oumseh Sherman in his march througk
. Georgia and the Carolina.*, there was one
honest man.
Tile Democrat charges Gen. Blair with
having stolen enough cotton while in the
South to purchase a large plantation in
Mi--i.-sippi, and stock it with mules, pro
; visions, &c. . He is also charged with hav
ing* appropriated to l.is private use large
quantities of silver plate, china, Ac.,
j the goods and chattels of sundry citizens of
i Georgia and South Carolina. Asa mat
.of coarse wg. capt m. .Jvtefc individual.
■ oFfEe Yankee army did the stealing. But
this we do know, that a system of thieving
and plundering was carried on by the “men
in blue,” while on their grand raid here,
i that would put to shame all the feats of'the
| c< lebrated Italian bandits or Mexican liigh
! waymen.
i Here are the charges which are made
I against Gen. Blair, upon which the libel
| suits are brought:
; ' 'Look at the audacity of Blair. A thief j
very naturally suspects others, judging by
his own standard. It is said he stole cot
j ton enough while in command of the 15th
and 17th army corps, and used the Gov
! eminent teams and soldiers to do the work, j
i out of the proceeds of which he purchased ■
j a large farm in Mississippi, and stocked it I
with above 300 mules and about as many j
contrabands.
Facts will soon be published to show that
Blair, when campaigning in South Caro
lina, did not hesitate to appropriate silver
ware and china to his own private use.
* * * * *
A “Glass-House.” —Our Washington
correspondence indicates that Mr. Blair’s'
assault upon the members of Congress from
this State is likely to result in some devel
opments not altogether pleasing to him.
The assault was a most reckless and inex
cusable one* and a man whose own record
is open to criticism should be the more
cautious how he resorts to personal abuse.
We shall see.”
The developments likely to be made on
the trial of these suits will no doubt prove
highly interesting to the owners of property
which was stolen by the Federal army.
Gen. Blair has laid his damages at one
hundred thousand dollars, and we shall be
very much gratified if he shall be able to
prove himself clear of any imputation of
having appropriated private property to liis
own use. The General was a gallant sol
dier while the war lasted, and since its ter
mination he lias done much towards restor
ing a spirit of harmony and good feeling
between the two sections. The soldiers of
the late Confederate army owe to him at
least the recognition of’ their claims to gal
lantry and honorable bearin'? on the field.
Jackson's Commissary.
The Commissary of Stonewall Jackson
lias written a letter to the National Repub
lican at Washington, in which he attempts
to justify the action of the late so-called
Louisiana State Convention, which led to
the late bloody riot in New Grleans. The
Commissary is very severe upon the state- ,
ment of Capt. King, of the New Orleans j
Times as to the cause of the late disturb
ance, It is true Capt. King lives in New
Orleans, and is thoroughly acquainted with
the people there —their past history and
present purpose, but then it is not to be
supposed for a moment that anybody knew
as much as the Federal officer who fur
nished old Stonewall with all his supplies
for the prosecution of his famous valley
campaign.
Stonewall’s Commissary says that “ the
Convention was a peaceful and lawful as
sembly.” Very peaceful, when they met
with arms in their hands, and were sup
ported by an armed mob of ignorant blacks
and dishonorable whites. Very peaceful,
when this mongrel mob, without the slight
est provocation, assaulted and felled to the
earth a quiet and peaceable citizen who
had offered them no insult.
Commissary Banks says it was a “lawful
assemblage,” when it is known by every
one that the body which the revolutionists
attempted to represent had been defunct
for more than two years, and had been so
declared by the highest Judicial officer of
the State.
But then the Commissary knew the bar
ber “Dostic” well, and a marvellous gen -
tleman was he. “No country ever gave
birth to a more unselfish man, a truer pa
triot, or a more devoted patriot,” says
Banks. Well, that is piling the agony on
pretty thick, but then we know the capaci
ty of our Commissary for little fibs and big
fibs, and we can readily account for such a
glorious eulogium upon the ignorant and
vicious barber of New Orleans from the
great General who so cruelly defeated the
rebel Jackson in the Shenandoah ('alley,
in the memorable campaign of 1862. The
Commissary will uever forgive the rebels
who drew their rations without a regular
“provision return,” and failed to give the
proper vouchers.
(augiit by their own Testimony.
The Radicals North are howling over the
late riot in New Orleans, as an exhibition
ot' rebel contempt for the legal authorities
of the land. A reference to the proceed
ings of Congress, when the Congressional
delegation from Louisiana presented their
application for admission, shows that they
regarded the Convention of 1564 with
contempt.
The Radical leaders and their newspaper
organ gave the Convention of 1864 no ([Har
ter. One or two specimens to illustrate
their venomous tone, we give. In the de
bate in the Senate, Mr. Sumner said:
Mr. President : I remember lest sum
mer that good fortune threw me in the
path of e. distinguished gentleman just re
turned from Louisiana. I think he had
been present at the sittings of the Conven
tion : at any rate, he had been at New Or- I
leans at the time in the discharge of imp >r
tant public duties. In repl yto an inquiry in
regard to that Convention, he said com
pendiously that it was nothing but a stu
pendous hbhx — yes, sir; nothing but a stu
pendous hoax.
The pretended State Government of Lou
isiana is utterly indefensible, whether you
1< >k at its origin or its character. To de
g ige. It is
mere seven months vbo,'tion. begotten by
the ; in criminal conjunction with the
spirit of crt.dc, and born before its time,
.
In the same debate. Mr. Wade said:
s.r, 1 have heard a great deal about this
pretended election in Louisiana which did
not come from Major General Banks, and
ce ti e jm reeding. a mockery. It
- .
med y.p dkm tt*® oi New (Means
and sent into the vicinity, under the man
date of a major general, more than six
thousand votes, where over fifty thousand
were formerly polled.
Mr. Grimes and other Radicals spoke in
the same strain, and, at the conclusion of
tit- debate, the Louisiana Convention and
its work were coudeno and by the decisive vote
>f 32 to IE 111 the House it was assailed
! i n - Tinul Stevens, Winter Davis, and their
: followers with equal vigor and ferocity,
and met the same fete at the hands of the
; Radicals."
And yet, to make political capital against
j the President, they now change their base
: and become the champion ot the ' stupen
dous hoax’' and “mockery.
General James H. Clanton, Wm. P.
Chilton, Jr. and Major Bolling Hall, are
announced as candidates for Congress in
| the Montgomerv district, Ala., in place of
■ Hon. Geo. C. freeman, deceased.
AUGUSTA ? GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 35, 1866.
Radical Raving.
" No doubt the Rebel flag floats in many
j a Southern town to-day. In Savannah.
* we are told, the Fourth of July was ccle
| brated as the anniversary of the battle of
\ Bull Run, the Rebel flag was displayed
and cheered loudly by the crowd.”
We dip the above most atrocious false
hood from the New York Tribune. The
individual who penned this paragraph
knew that he was uttering a falsehood and
: a vile slander upon the people of Savan
nah and of the South. The Confederate
| flag lives to-day iu the South only in the
j affections of her people. The re has been,
: neither in Savannah nor elsewhere at the
j South, so fir as we are advised, any
; attempt to display the flag under which
the South had hoped to achieve her iude
; pendence. With the surrender of Lee and
j Johnston the last hope of the South for
i separate existence expired. Since then
f our people have submitted with a degree
j of patience and forbearance to the unjust
\ and dishonorable conduct of the Radical
North, which has won for them the adnii
j ration of friend and foe. There is, there
j can be, no disposition at the South to keep
! alive the angry feelings and bitter auimosi
i ties engendered by the war. We are for
i peace. Wc have sense enough to know
that it cannot be obtained by the exhibi
tion of such acts as are charged upon us by
-the Tribune. ~
; Horace Mourns as one Without Hope.
“We publish mournful news from Ar
kansas; but nothing which might not have
been confidently counted on after the
leading example set in Washington.” —
: Tribune.
| The news which, causes Horace so much
; sadness and mournful tribulation, will be j
| hailed with delight by every true friend of j
I the white race, and every lover of Repub
j lican Government. The “ negro equality
| radical disunionists’ ’ can not find a single
! paper in the capital of Arkansas that will
| pollute its columns by the publication of the
| call for the negro disunion convention pro
| posed to be held in Philadelphia next
| month.
The “mournful news from Arkansas”
| is contained in a dispatch from Gov! —
i (God save the mark) Murphy, of Arkan-
I sas, in the following words :
“There is not a paper in Little Rock
j that will publish the call, and but one in
the whole State in the interest of loyal i
men. ’ ’
Poor Murphy!—poor Greely! But one j
paper in the whole State that will prosti- j
tute its columns to the vile purposes of the j
disunion crew! Oh, how shocking !
Cheer up “ Murphy, my (iariiut, '' and
speak sweet words of encouragement to j
poor, distressed, heart-broken Horace.
Murphy says:
“ We just hear of the ratification of the
Constitutional Amendment by the Ten
nessee Legislature, and hail it as an omen
that the measures will become a law. ’ ’
What a Joab stab was that. When
| Horace’s tearful eyes fell upou this cruel
| “joake” of Murphy, his “pheelins” must
have been too “ mournful” to describe. i
Hamilton Terrace School.
| Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Cary and Mrs.
I General John Pegram, Principals, are at
j the head of a boarding and day school, of a
I very high grade, for youug ladies, in Bal
j timore. There is a touching significance,
especially to those who know the history of
! Mrs. 1 degram, in their announcement that
| they “will depend for patronage upon
their Southern friends.” Baltimore is a
charming city for young ladies, and we
have always thought that residence, for
a while in a city, was an essential part of
female education. Next to Richmond, we
would recommend Baltimore, and of all the
schools in Baltimore we would prefer the
one here named.— Richmond paper.
Blrs. Pegram will be remembered by
; many persons in the South as the beauti
| f'ul Bliss Casey, who left Baltimore on the
! breaking out of the war, and came to Ricli-
I mond, where she won the respect and
| esteem of all who were so fortunate as to
| know her.
J She married, in the summer of ’64,
General Pegram, of the Confederate army,
who was killed in one of the battles near
Richmond in a few weeks after their mar
riage. We earnestly recommend the school
to our Southern friends.
Differences of Time at Prominent
| Points. —The inauguration of submarine
telegraphic communication by means of
the Atlantic cable, makes it interesting to
enquire into the difference of time in the
various cities in different parts of the
! world. When it is 12 o'clock high noon
| at New York it is fifty-five imputes and
forty-two seconds after 4 (p. m.) atLon
-1 don; fifty-seven minutes and twenty
| seconds after 6 (p. m.) at St. Petersburg;
| seventeen minutes, twenty-four seconds
after 7 (p. m.) at Jerusalem; fifty-one
j minutes and forty-four seconds after 6
(p. m.) at Constantinople, forty minutes
| and thirty-two seconds after 4 (p. m.) at
I Madrid; thirty-one minutes and twenty
seconds after 5 (p. in.) at Bremen, forty
j minutes and thirty-two seconds after 4
j (p. m.) at Dublin; and forty-one minutes
j and twenty-four seconds after 6 (p. m.) at
I Florence.
j The difference of time between the ex
treme East and West points of the United
States is three hours and fifty minutes. In
I the China sea, between Singapore and
| China, it is midnight when it is noon at
j New York.
Denied.— (\ e published, recently, a
I statement from the Journal of Commerce ,
that Collector Smythe had sold the control
of the Government warehouses st that
port, for $40,000. The Washington cor
respondent of the Times denies the report,
and declares that Blr. Smythe declined the
offer, though it had been the custom of his
predecessors to receive it, as a sort of offi
j cial perquisite. Ex-Collector Barney denies
for himself and others, any such custom.
The Journal of Commerce returns to the
charge, and says at a proper time further
details of these transactions will doubtless
be given to the public under the sanction of
legal authority.
i Statistics of “the Hub.”—The city
| of Boston owes, according to the auditor s
| report, just published, $12,180,250 70.
To meet this she lias a sinking fund, and
j bonds and mortgages to the amount of
| over $3,000,000, and real estate valued at
i $13,518,400. The area of the Common
I and the malls is 481 acres, exclusive of the
! cemetery, which contains one and a quar
j ter acres. The Public Garden contains
! 241 acres. The cost of the new City Hal!
was $505,191. Quincy Market covers
27.012 feet of land.
North Carolina Crops.—We have
reports from several counties, says the
Raleigh Progress, all concurring as to the
great benefit of the late rains to the crops.
They are almost magically improved under
these recent showers, and it is believed
that in this region much more corn to the
acre will be made than last year's yield.
But we hear it whispered that the number
of acres planted falls far short of the year
preceding Sherman's occupation of the
State and city. This is unfortunate.
Seizure of Smuggled Goods. —lt is
estimated that the amount of money
reaiized from the sale of goods seized on
the Northern frontier by custom officials
tor violations ot the revenue laws during
the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1866, will
exceed the necessary expenses of main
taining the system established in the
Treasury Department by about $150,000.
The Tax on Salaries of Army Offi
cers.—The joint resolution of Congress,
exempting army officers' salaries from the
special internal revenue tax of five per
cent., which was passed on the last day of
the session, does not provide for refund
ment of moneys heretofore paid, as is un
derstood by many army officers.
| For the Chfl*jfcle x Sentinel.]
Tin* UtemenHmnlgratioii.
Messrs. Editors .--ffl liave read a com
munication headed aßttterfroux a Farmer.
; from Wortheu s Store, (V ashington coun
ty. Ga.. and I shouflfiot pen this letter a*
a" rejoinder but for Jfee fact that in your
comments heading jgjpkrtide you seem :•
endorse what is saflL This writer says :
'Black labor will TU#t«o here, unless the
white men work with-them and lead them.
; And again he ?:>.y% ’ T and my brother
have hired seven year, and cul
tivate 70 acres ineomand 150 iu cotton by
working with them. «V e have no trouble.
These statements* made from a busi
• ness letter, and nofcprigned for publica
tion; therefore I d® not propose to com
; ment on them, only; oq this statement:
; “Asa general thing,i our white people arc j
: too lazy. I trust yoßwih use your itiflu- 1
i enee in getting immiptation to this State |
. as fast as possible. ’ Jr
Now, Blessrs. Editors, why should we ,
fill our public journaal with appeals in be- i
! half of immigration into our section, seek- ,
j ing to flood the land frith foreigners; with
j a mixed up, incongruous element; a dense, 1
i conglomerated, festering mass—still fur- I
j ther to disorganize and demoralize society, I
i until our financial affairs assume a more 1
i healthy tone—until our own blood and ;
kindred race and color, who have borne the 1
I burdens of the late destructive and bloody 1
war, shall have time to recuperate and se
cure homes for themselves ? The accumu
lated millions of indebtedness in existence,
created in days of prosperity, based on
situation of peril—not move than one-third
of our race, our own citizens, who have a
home or land to live_ and raise up their
families in case no relief is given from the
financial troubles which afflict and distract
the country.
Do not understand me to oppose immi
gration at the proper time, but I do say
the time has not yet come. The disjointed,
| anomalous position of affairs in this section
| is such —the condition of our conquered,
disheartened, poverty-stricken people, tied
hand and foot, prostrate on the earth, is
such —as to make it an uninviting field fob
emigrants, and to be dreaded by ourselves.
I think we need more emigration than
immigration now, when starvation is
staring us in the face. The crop prospects
are exceedingly gloomy in this and adjoin
ing counties. As an example, a large
planter the other day offered his freedmen
his crop to replace the provisions they had
consumed in making the crop, which they
refused to take; another who has some
fifty hands employed, says he will not make
corn to last him till Christmas ; and still
another, who has worked twenty-eight men
on his place, told me he would not make
GOO lbs. of cotton.
Mr. Editor, you may say these cases are
exceptions; but not so, as they are the rule
and not the exception; a sad, solemn reali
ty, and will be felt and known ere the wane
of many moons, all over this and other
States, for there has not been half' the |
number of acres planted in Corn in this
section that has been for five years past,
and what has been planted has not been
half cultivated. The prospect for cotton
is also very gloomy indeed; there are
whole fields of from twenty-five to fifty
acres that will not make more than a sin
gle bale. Now, Blr. Editor, I ask you in
all candor, if this state of things will au
thorize a heavy influx of foreigners to add
to the present confusion and distress of the
country. Your correspondent lays the
blame to our own people in these graceful
words: “ Our white people are too lazy. I
trust you will use your influence in yet tiny
immigration to this State as fast as 2}osst
ble.
Do not understand me to reply to him,
but to you, as indorser, styling him “ A
] Sterling Farmer ,” etc., for my impression
| is lie has hardly been outside his own and
j his brother’s farm.
There are other causes of more profound
consideration than those of which your
correspondent has spoken. The change in
the status of nearly half our population
from bondage to freedom —an unlettered,
ignorant race, incapable of self-government,
has of natural consequence thrown u.s as
a people into an unexampled transition
state; therefore it is but a reasonable ex
pectation that industry and enterprise
must struggle in feebleness to rise.
No cohstil'utibhai pMvffr 'Ttprm earth
could-free the negro but Georgia herself;
therefore, Georgia, in die sovereign ca
pacity of a convention, has stricken down
the right arm of her people’s power —
blotted out of existence the State debt of
eighteen millions, and left the people noth
ing but their lands, which must be only
temporarily, sis this will fall into the hands
of the monied men of the land, who have
gathered up the negotiable paper on spec
ulation by the use of Confederate scrip
I during the war. A systematized traffic of
this kind has been carried on all over the
State.
It may be said of a truth that we are t:e
poorest people upon earth, who have once
been so prosperous. These causes have
more to do with poor crops and inattention
to business than laziness, as your “ Sterl
ing Farmer ” seems to apprehend.
J. (V. J.
Blorgan Cos., Ga., Aug. 0.
[Boston Correspondence of tit# Chicago Tribune.]
Radicalism at tlie “Hub”--Treatment
Received by a Colored Family of Wealth.
Among the visitors whom _ the summer
has brought to Boston is a Liberian family
ofwealth and position, proposing to travel
through America, and expecting certainly
to find a hospitable welcome in Boston, if
nowhere else. They travel in luxurious
style, accompanied by their servants, several
degrees blacker than themselves. They
stopped here at the Marlborough Hotel,
recommended to them as the most liberal
in the city. But after a stay of only one
day they were called on' by the landlord
anil informed that he could not permit
them to sit at his public table, on account
of the prejudices of liis customers. He
generously offered to send meals to their
rooms; but this exclusion the proud
spirits of the Liberians could not brook,
and they left the house. Not another
place in the fanatical city of Boston could
be found to shelter them, and they sought
refuge in a boarding house at Salem. Even
here the spirit of caste pursues them, and
the pressure from her other guests has
compelled the landlady to ask them to sit
at a second and separate table. They are
both astonished and grieved at this display
of popular sentiment in what they had
expected to find a democratic locality.
Being told, and truly, that a far worse
treatment would meet them at Niagara,
the White Mountains, and other resorts or
fashion and conservatism, they are contem
plating, I believe, an immediate return to
their own country from a land which offers
them nothing but insults.
The Public Debt.— The statement of
i the public debt will not be published until
the 3d or 4th of August. It is said that it
will exhibit a decrease of $27,000,000 in
1 the principal of the debt, as compared with
the statement published on the IstofJune.
The debt was decreased ,000 during
the month of June, and $12,000,000 dur
ing the month ot July.
Disbursements of the Go \ erxmen i.
—The disbursements of the Treasury on
account of the following named Depart
ments during the month of July, 1866',
were :
War Department, $2,752,704
i Navv Department,
lutcrior Department i-J
FROM NASHVILLE.
An Injunction Obtained Against ike Me
tropolitan Police
i \ August I. —The Mayor and
i \ fnncil of Nashville obtained an in
! juStton from Chancellor D Campbell, en-
I 'i o imn< r the Metropolitan Police Cqmuns
' aoner® -isniiust any further action in the
i organization of the police force _ until a
i« had on its merits. Allegations
included in the bill is that the Legislature
that passed the original and amended act
I u o t a ic-cal one. having excluded by its
mas many of its duly elected members.
Vg a that the provision for raffing money
for the support of the police force is un
constitutional- and further so by not bein':
a general law. and applying equally to all
j portions of the State. The case will come
up at the next session of the Chancery
j ourt.
FROM ATLANTA.
Disastrous Fire—Loss 575,00.
AVe are indebtea to the Southern Express
Company for the following telegram:
Atlanta, Aug. 6, 1856.
H. B. PlanT. Augusta: A tire broke
out at 12o'clock last (Sunday) nigbt, on
Decatur street. The following buildings
were destroyed: Telegraph office, Nation
al Express and Transportation Company's
office. John Morrow & Son’s Carriage and
nardware establishment, A. J. Haralson,
j R. M. Fall, Joel Yarborough, and several
: wooden stores not occupied. Loss about
$75,000. Mostly covered by insurance.
V. Dunning.
The Cleveland Plamdealer insinuates
that Hon. Win. Dennison aims to succeed
Ben Wade in the United States Senate.
The New Orleans Riot.
j Ihe Radicals are of course attempting
to make capital for their sinking cause, out
of the late riot in New Orleans. The Tri
bune publishes the Mowing dispatch from
Washington, double-leaded, with huge
catch lines.
B\ ashington." Friday, August 3.
Gen. Sheridan telegraphs to-day to Gen.
i Grant that the riot was not the result of a
i mere mob, but a preconcerted and pre-ar
: ranged plan of weeks for the slaughter of!
Union men. The dispatches of the Asso-!
: ciated Press are tempered to suit the lati-j
tilde from whence they are sent, and are '
! dictated by the disloyal State offi
cials. Attorney-General Herron, who was
an officer in the rebel service, virtually
• ranks Gen. Sheridan, as by the order of
i the President die military are subject to
| the call and disposition of the civil author
! ities. Rumor here to-night says General
j Sheridan will resign on account of the
j President's conduct in this affair, and the
l embarrassing position loyal officers are
: placed in.
i In another part of the Tribune, we ob- j
I serve in solid type, the letter from General
i Sheridan, above referred to, is given. It
| is as follows :
New Orleans, August 1.
1 Gen. U. S. Grant, Washington, D. C.: I
You are doutless aware of tlie serious j
riot which occurred in this city on the 30th
ult. A political body, styling itself the
Convention of 1864, met on the 30th for,
leaders were political agitators and revolu
tionary men. and the action of the Con
vention was liable to produce breaches of |
the public peace. I had made up my j
mind to arrest the head men if the pro- |
ceedings of the Convention were calculated i
to disturb the tranquility of the Depart- j
ment, but 1 bad no cause for action until i
they committed the overt act. About forty j
whites and blacks were killed, and about i
one hundred and sixty wounded. Every- j
thing is now quiet, but i deem it best to j
maintain a military supremacy in the city j
for a few days, until the affair is fully in- j
vestigated. I believe the sentiment of the j
general community is great regret at this
unnecessary cruelty, and that the Police
could have made any arrest they saw lit
without sacrificing lives.
P. H. Fiieridan,
Bfaj. Gen. Commanding.
The above dispatch conveys no such
meaning as is put upon it by the Tribune.
The following dispatch shows that the con
flict of authority between the civil and
military officers, has been accommodated :
New Orleans, July 31. — Attorney
General Herron, Lieutenant Governor i
Voorhies and Mayor Blonroe called upon |
General Baird and laid President Johnson's I
dispatch before him. It was agreed that j
the Military Governor should occupy
separate offices in the City Hall, the
Blayor performing liis usual functions, and
the Biilitary Governor directing the move-!
ment of troops in case of further rioting.
It is supposed that the order for martial!
law will be rescinded upon the receipt of i
dispatches from Washington.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Mayor Monroe to lien. Baird.
Mayor Blonroe, of New Orleans, ad
dressed the following letter to Gen. Baird,
in reply to the order proclaiming martial
law in that city :
Mayoralty of New Orleans, )
City Hall, 31st day of July, 1866. j
May. Gen. Baird, Commanding, etc. :
Sir —At a late hour last evening, after
perfect quiet had been restored in this
city through the unassisted efforts of the
municipal police, the order proclaiming
martial law was placed in my hands by
Gen. Kautz.
Without attempting to dispute your
power to carry this order into effect, I must,
nevertheless, express my profound aston
ishment that you should have thought
proper to take so extraordinary a step at a
moment when none of those exigencies ex
isted which have been supposed to palliate
the assumption by a military officer, of con
trol over civil functionaries and the civil
authority. The aid of the military would
have been gladly received by me for the
purpose of'repressing violence, at the time
j when such intervention was needed ; but 1
j am at a loss to ascertain by what authority,
or with what object it is made to assume
the form of a virtual suppression of that
civil authority which, we have always been
taught to believe, it is the principal duty
] of military officers in this country to sustain
| and enforce. If lam to understand, from
the words of your order, that it is your de
sire to prevent a recurrence of the “noto
rious and unlawful proceedings” of yester
day, I would most respectfully suggest that
your release of all the rioters and their ac
cessories, who had been arrested by the
police, the first act of your administration
of martial law, is not well calculated to ac
complish your object.
In conclusion, General, as the duties of
my office are strictly defined by statute,
and as they are purely of a civil character,
I beg leave to decline reporting to any mil
itary authority for instructions. lam but
ill versed in military affairs, and I could
render no assistance to your officers in con
ducting the city administration under the
code of martial law. Until the civil au
thority is restored, I must, therefore, de
cline to act as Mayor of New Orleans.
Respectfully,
John T. Monroe, Blayor.
New Orleans, August 2.—A street
j car was fired into in the outskirts of the
city last night by negroes, killing Captain
Chas. Reynolds, of the steamer Starlight.
One of the murderers has been arrested.
Blany arrests of armed blacks have been
made since the riot. Several houses occu
pied by negroes liave been discovered con
taining arms and ammunition.
The armed sentinels have been with
drawn from the Blunicipal Hall.
Blartial law has been withdrawn.
Several members of the Convention
were indicted by the Grand Jury and ar
rested.
Judge Abell has charged the Grand Jury
to indict all persons engaged in the riot.
Several arrests have already been made,
and all prisoners released by the njilitary
will be rearrested.
The Military Commission for the in
vestigation of the riot has been in session !
to-day. and taking the testimony of police- •
men.
Wise Counsel.
The following extract from the present- j
ments of the Grand Jury of the Washington
County Court which we clip from the
Central Georgian contains w T ise and judi
cious counsel. We are glad to see such feel
ings cultivated, and cordially commend the j
! tone and spirit of those ‘'presentments”]
! to the consideration of our people in every
| section of the State.
The new order of things of which the
] country is now undergoing the ordeal of a
! test, requires from our people, patience
and perseverance. Let us abstain from all
' acts of unnessary violence, give an oppor
tunity to those who were lately our slaves,
i to prove to the world that they are eapa
; hie-ofenjoying their freedom, and that
thatcondilion is not incomputable with
] their usefulness. We commend those
| freedmeu, who have faithfully performed
the duties stipulated by them, and we as
sure them that their faithfulness will always
I meet a responsive acknowledgement from
their employers. \\ idle there are a few
i who, by their idle and vicious conduct, de
| serve the censure of the community, we
i congratulate our fellow-citzens that the
number ot the latter class is very small in
| this eouuity, when compared with those
r of other countie.-.
letter From Governor Brown.
New York, August 1.
The following letter from Gov. Brown,
I of Georgia, is printed in the World ;
Atlanta. Ga., July 25, 1865.
Dear Sir: lam satisfied it would be
better for all who have occupied the posi
tion I did to remaii* at home for the pres
: ent and send others who have been regard
; ed more conservative and better Union
j men. This, I think, would be more ac
ceptable to the people of the South and,
: therefore, the best policy. I feel conscious
that i and others, who would have occu
pied prominent positions, are now as tri
vial to the Government as any other citi
zen.-, : but this is not the general opinion
North. Entertaining these views, I shall
J not consent to be a delegate, but I shaii
heartily support the movement and the
j delegates appointed.
As ever your friend.
[Signed] Joseph E. Brown.
I Gloomy Picture of Mexico.— The
1 press of Mexico draws a gloomy picture of
' that country. Not only is it in a state of
i political, effervescence, but to add to the
! anxiety of the people, the newspaper press
] is able to throw no light upon the state of
public affairs. No sooner is an article fur
nishing real information published than the
Government gives it a warning or sup
presses it altogether. Most of the lead
ing papers of the capital, the Era. Sociedad
etc , have been victims of this political
j censorship.
The Plunder of Sherman's March.
j The robbers of Sherman’s army are be
j ginning to bring to light some of their ill
! gotten booty. Almost every day we hear
i of some article being offered for sale which
| was “ captured ” at the South by “Sher
! man’s Angels.”
Washington city seems to have been par
i tieularly favored by the exposition on sale
of a variety of these “captured” goods and
: articles of curious interest. The National
\ Intelligencer, ot a late date, speaking of
| these, says:
There is no estimating the desolation
j which a gigantic army spreads in itsjhostile
' inarch through a country, even under the
j diseiplire of the most conscientious and
j elevated leadership. The Southern people,
: through the colossal march of Sherman
j carried its inevitable calamities of fire and
death, with all the crimes and abomina
tions which ugly passion in such masses
! of men engenders, are much condemned
by their conquerors, for the bitter denun
] ciations which they have sometimes in
| yoked, while smarting under their calami
ties, upon the Northern people. We have,
on the contrary, often wondered at their
patience and their silence, and especially
haye we thus felt as often as specimens of
the trophies so abounding iu this city,
brought hither by Sherman's returning
victorious troops, have fallen under our
observation.
We have been led to these reflections by
what has recently fallen to our notice.
heavy gold chain and rich ornaments, that
| came form near Columbia, South Carolina.
The plundering soldiers rushed into a fine
residence as they passed, and in a chamber,
from which a young lady had just in terror
fled, the watch and chain were lying upon
the dressing table.
At the auctioneer establishment and
loan office of William Smith & Cos., No.
502 Ninth street, near the avenue, [in this
city, may be seen a fireman’s trumpet,
some foot and a half or more in length; of
solid silver, upon which are the following
inscription: “President of the Indepen
dent Fire Engine Company ; George Kerr,
December 21, 1836 : Peter Boyce, Decem
ber 19, 1837 ; William Cunningham,
December 17, 1838; William B. Stanley,
December 17, 1839; I. I. Blackey, Decem
ber 15, 1846; John M. Keuzie, December
15, 1851 ; I. I. Blackey, December 16,
1856.” Presented to the Independent
Fire Engine Company, of Columbia, South
Carolina, by the Eagle B. G. Company, of
Charleston, South Carolina, November 16,
1858.”
This trumpet was putin pawn at Messrs.
Smith & Co.’s establishment by one of j
Sherman’s soldiers, who hadaMunchau \
sen story of a fierce encounter with the j
rebels connected with its capture in the I
streets of Columbia. At the same store
may be seen also an ancient pair of gold
spectacles, in a heavy silver case, brought
likewise from Columbia. The name upon
each of the flat, heavy bows near the
glasses, is “U. Rami.” They are evidently
ofancient German manufacture. At the
same place is also a large, heavy silver seal,
belonging, as the soldier said, down in V ir
ginia. It is the property of some associa
tion, which will no doubt be glad to find it,
and wc understood Blr. Smith that he would
be very glad to surrender it to the owners
without compensation. The following is
the handsomely-cut inscription : “Astrea
Lodge, No. 85. Honestas et virtus” —
honesty and valor —a curious motto for a
thieving soldier to be bearing about upon
one of his stolen trophies. The seal bears
the figure of Justice holding up the scales.
There is no positive evidence on it to iden
tify it as belonging either to a Blason or an
Odd Fellows’ lodge, but it belongs un- !
doubtedly to one or the other of these fra- j
ternities.
Brazil.
The following extracts from a letter to
the Chester Standard, written by Dr. J.
McFadden Gaston, who has recently re
turned from a trip to Brazil, will bo read
| with interest by a large class of the South
ern people.
We knew Dr. Gaston well during the
war. He was for several years Medical
: Director of Anderson’s Division, in the ar
!my of Northern Virginia. Tie is a strictly
j reliable gentleman, in every sense of the
term. We are glad to learn that Dr. Gas
j ton has written a detailed account of his
j Brazilian trip, and that it will soon bo given
j to the public in book form.
From a mutual friend we learn that Dr.
I G. is willing to give a course of lectures in
J some of our Southern towns upon Brazil,
! its climate and resources, if sufficient
encouragement should be offered. The
j Doctor is in earnest, and those of our
I readers who wish to try the chances of life
j in the Empire of Brazil will best consult
! their interests by securing the delivery, in
their neighborhoods, of the Doctor’s lec
tures :
Ft. Gaines, Ga., July 17, 1860.
* * * My manuscript of the book on
Brazil lias been sent to New Fork for pub
lication, yet I am unable to state with any
certainty when it will be issued; but copies
will be placed at Chesterville for sale as
soon as the first impressions are received.
No observance is required by law in
Brazil as to the ceremonies of the Homan
Catholic Church, and conformity to the
customs of the people in processions or
other matters is entirely optional with for
eigner or citizen.
In the regular packet line of steamships
from New Fork to Bio de Janerio, which
leaves the former place on the 22nd of
each month, the charge for first class pas
sage is two hundred ($200) dollars in spe
cie, and for second class accommodations
one hundred ($100) dollars, with a reduc
tion of 33J percent, to those who' settle in
| Brazil. I have addressed a communication
to the agents of this line with a view to
ascertain whether more moderate rates
may not be allowed to a number of emi
grant families gbing together or at differ
ent periods. It has also been proposed
that the vessel shall take passengers and
freight from Charleston instead of having
us to go to New Fork, or again what will
be the terms upon which rhe eluffter of a
steamer may be effected, but no reply as
yet.
A letter was also addressed to Mrs. Jas.
F. Pendergast of Baltimore, who is chief
owner of a line of sailing vessels to Brazil,
to which a reply has been received to-day,
but the details of terms are not given, and
the rate for a medium size is given at about
$5,000, which is very high estimate for a
charter, and, one which cannot afford us
any prospect of advantage.
My application to tin; Brazilian Govern
ment may secure something to assist our
people without adequate means for ft re
moval, and even provide for those totally
without ‘ resources, but [ cannot receive
any reply before the end of this month or
perhaps the next month, and in the ruean
time-will make further inquiries.
Wagons, harness, cotton gins, castings
for wheels, blacksmith tools, and farming
implements, should be shipped by those
j expecting to engage in cultivating, the soil.
; Cooking stoves, washing machines and
household furniture, so far as necessary,
may be taken advantageously as they can
i not be readily procured in Brazil!
The site reserved for our settlement is
; all in the woods, but there are some lands
' in the vicinity belonging to private parties
j which have open lands and some improve
ments. ‘The public lands are offered at
twenty-two cents per acre with five years
I time without interest, whereas the private
j lands may be had at eighty-eight cents per
! acre, to be paid in three, four, and five
J years, without interest —the latter are near
; the fiver, and thus have more facility for
i transportation of products to, market. —
1 There is no disability to a in
I owning land, and the tax is but six per
i cent on the purchase money paid but once
which will be remitted to us in buying from
i the Government domain. The time Hcre
: tofore required for naturalization has been
1 two years, but it is proposed now to place
: our people on the same basis as Brazilians
in all respects. Civil Engineers are very
much in demand, and especially iri the
business of constructing ordinary roads
and railroads, with a pay of SIOO to $250
per month.
Living of every kind is cheaper in Bra
zil that in this country, and excellent hotel
. accommodations are received at SI 50 per
day.
The means of subsistence to a familv of
I half a dozen would not cost over S3OO a
i year, making an average of SSO per head,
i Houses may be rented in some of the in
terior towns having every comfort about
I them from three to five dollars per month.
Very truly yours,
J. McF. Gaston.
—*
Political.— The first election this fall
takes place in Kentucky, but not for mem
bers of Congress. Vermont and Maine
follow in the early part of September, with
Pennsylvania, Ohio and other Western
| States in October, the election ending with
I Maryland. New York and Massachusetts
in November.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV. NO. 34.
Events of Hie Day.
Two children were killed in Pittsburg
by rats a few days since.
It is reported that the Fenian Brother
hood is actively reorganizing, and that
there will boa jioTitical cast to its future
proceedings.
Blrs. J. C. Calhoun, the venerable, relict
of Carolina's great Statesman, died at Pen
dleton s. (on the night of July 25th.
A Grand National Convention of the
colored population is to be held in Nash
ville the Ist of January, 1867.
It is staffed that Cornelius Wendell has
been appointed Superintendent of Public
Printing.
The venerable cx-Presideiit Burnett, of
Texas, is a delegate to the Philadelphia
National Convention.
A London paper expresses regret at the
humiliation of Austria—“it was such a
gentlemanly old Empire.”
A law, euacted in 1857, provides that the
L. 8. Government is to pay the Atlantic
Cable Company a subsidy of §BO,OOO a year.
It is reported a serious riot occurred
on the Ist among the soldiers at Fort
Schuyler, and that four or live were shot.
It is though it originated in fear of cholera.
The River Danube flows through two
kingdoms and two empires. It begins a
Protestant rivulet, then becomes a Roman
Catholic river, and finally turns Turk.
A St. Louis dispatch says there is a
scheme hijLjtq c.i&', tor Um.
the interest of Ortega.
The Secretary of the Interior lias re
ceived a sample of paper, made of sedge
grass, an article that grows on saltwater
flats. It has taken out a patent.
One hundred and sixty houses, chiefly
poor tenements, were recently destroyed
by fire in tiro city of Charlotte, Prince Ed
ward’s Island, at a loss of §200,000.
A number of prominent army officers
concur in suggesting as a tasteful insignia
for the new rank of General, a metalie
shield substituted for the largest star in ilie
shoulder strap.
A week or more ago a forged check for
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
was paid by the First National Rank of
Philadelphia. The forger was arrested and
the entire amount recovered.
It is claimed at Washington, that both
Grant and Sherman are in favor of the
Philadelphia ('onvention, and will do all
they can in furtherance ofits objects.
- The Tribune states that large numbers
I of the freedmen will on closing up their
: labors for this year, remove with their
I families to the homestead lands provided
for by the Government in the new bill.
An itinerant pedler, name unknown, was
foully murdered near the plantation of |
Judge Faulkner, near Montgomery recent- |
ly.
The Republican party in Lower Canada !
have been defeated in their efforts to ob- |
tain a democratic fprm of Legislature by a I
vote of 69 to 31. Upper Canada will have
a Legislature of one Elective Chamber.
An Affray growing out of political differ
ences, occurred in Madisonville, Eolia
county, Mo., oil the 28th ult., in which
three men were killed and nine severely
wounded.
The Cleveland Plaimlcaler tells us that
a proclamation from the President, an- j
nouncing the restoration of Texas to the j
Union, and declaring, in unequivocal j
terms, the abolition of martial law in the i
I South, may be looked for in a day or two.
I The Auditor of the Post Ohicc Depart
| mentis still engaged in forcing defaulting
| Postmasters of the Southern States to set
tle their accounts with the Government.
I There remains to be collected about one
j hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
i Business in Alexandria has fallen off so
j seriously that oyer three-quarters ol' the
; business places are closed, and there is
| hardly a street but what is covered with
growing grass. The high rate of Corpora
tion taxes is the chief evil.
J The joint resolui ion of July 2.stk,xe,
Moving officers and soldiers from the
| special income' tax assessed in October
! 1864, does not relieve tlioso who have al-
I ready paid the tax, nor does it relate to any
other income tax.
I Charles O’Connor is, visiting his dis
] tinguished client, Jefferson Davis, at For-
I tress Monroe, The recent report of the
| Judiciary Committo of Congress is sup-!
j posed to be in some way connected with
| the interview.
I Parties who have just returned from
Portland, having been there since the fire,
state that terrible destitution still exists.
All articles of clothing for men, women
boys and girls, outer-garments, hats, caps
and bonnets, as well as bed clothing of all
kinds, are greatly needed.
A fire at Pit Hole on the Ist destroyed
10,000 barrels oil and engines, tanks, bar
rels, &e., to the amount of §150,000. The
United States Campany’s loss is §BO,OOO.
The bag factory of Hart, Astin & Cos.,
was burned on tiie night of the 2d inst.,
and the store of Stearns & Forsyth, grocers,
Chicago, were damaged to the amount of
§50,000. Both firms were fully insured.
A fire occurred in Milwaukee on the 2d,
destroying §50,000 worth of property,chiefly
insured.
Information has been received at Wash
ington of extensive frauds at the West on
the Revenue, principally in whiskey. A
number of Ohio distillers are involved.
Acting State Judge Bell has been in
structed from Washington to continue the
Provisional Government until further
orders, and to notify the President im- I
mediately of tiie meeting of the Legislature.
Government officials in service before and i
since the war will be re-appointed.
The Vicksburg Times says the completion 1
of tiie magnificient iron bridge spanning
Big Black, which will be certainly accorn- i
plislied this week, is the severance of an- :
other link that binds us to the last four ;
years of blood and terror. The Southern |
Road will then be complete."
Collector Smythe yesterday received a j
dispatch from the] Secret ary of the Treasury
to the effect that the new tariff law will go ;
into operation on the 10th of August next.
It was generally understood by importers
that duties under the new law would be
levied on the Ist of August. Goods in bond
■ will be chargeable with the old tarii* rates.
At a fire in Buffalo on the 30th ult..
1 97,564 bushels of corn, 135,890 bushels of
oats, 1,000 tons of coal and 707 barrels of j
i oil were destroyed. These, with St urges’
Elevator ninety thousand dollars, and the .
Propeller City of Buffalo eighty thousand
• dollars, made an aggregate loss of tiiree
hundred and thirty-five thousand one
hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
Mr. Edwin James, having finished the i
term of naturalization, was on Thursday j
admitted in the Superior Court a citizen of i
the United States, in New York. .Mr.
James for several years represented one of j
the largest English constituencies in Par- !
iiament, voting on the liberal side in im- \
| portent?questions, and was for some time I
, Gueen’s Counsel and Recorder of Bright- !
| on.
A correspondent, traveling with the !
I Steedman Commission, says the Bureau in I
1 Texas is a mischievous farce. The stations ;
are so far apart that one-half of the colored
' population could not reach one if they i
• were inclined to. The negroes arc work- :
! ing well consequently, and are receiving ,
... ' 1, the oi
institution are generally engaged in solving j
the problem of free iabor by running I
plantations on their on account.
The Health of New York.—The
I following is the notice to country mer
i chants, from the New York Journal of
Commerce , alluded to by our correspondent,
on yesterday: ,
■ \V e wish to as-ure our country readers
that there is no_ epidemic sickness here, the
health or the city being unusually good
and they may come to market without the
shghest fear of contagion or absorption.
1 il° 3e may wish for early assortments
will find the present a favorable time to
; purchase. The display is very good, and
has not been much broken by selections,
and prices favor the buyer, even while he
licis the pick of the market. T'fiere is an
ample stock of most domestic fabrics, and
many look for still lower rates toward the
end ot the season ; but a downward surge
in prices is by no means certain, and an
active demand would give a dearer market
for many weeks to come.”
Madam Anna Bishop was among the
passengers saved from an uninhabited is
land where the ship in which they were
traveling was wrecked.
Georgia.
the Suuitcr Republican gives an account
of a rape committed on a young lady in
tlm, county by a negro. He was overtaken
by the young lady s brother and killed.
The Savannah Herald says the police
hate arrested J. IV. Kearney, who shot
Col. Ashton in the city a few days ago. He
was overtaken when three miles from his
home in Bulloch county. He was sitting
in his wagon with his wife, when arrested.
He was taken to Savannah and lodged in
j jail. He states that he shot Col. Ashton
in self-defence.
Col. Peterson Thweatt has just returned
from upper Georgia, where lie has been
engaged in distributing corn to the des
titute. He informs tlie Journal <£ Mes
senger that 183,000 bushels have been dis
tributed to about 40.000 beneficiaries, af
fording each four and six-tenths bushels.
Flie corn cost about SI.OO a bushel deliv
ered at Chattanooga.
The Savannah Herald says that while
policeman Dougherty was walking his beat
one night last week, he saw two negroes
standing suspiciously by a store door in an
alley. On hailing them, he was shot at,
the bail taking effect in his right hand.
The negroes then ran, and were tired at by
the policeman, but they escaped. A short
a i. v ,u was arrested in a house
in the same lane, who nadbeeh shot in the
ankle. Several witnesses stated that the
negro had just come home from church,
and was shot while sitting 011 his steps by
some unknown person.
The LaGrange Reporter says that some
negroes in Merriwether county, not wishing
to be troubled with their old father, who
was old and infirm, carried him to a brush
tout some distance from their caVin, where,
a few days after, he was found dead from
starvation. Mr. Booker, their former mas
ter, was informed of the facts, and on go
ing to the spot, found the buzzards preying
upon the old man’s body. It was with
great difficulty that Mr. B. could get the
wretches to have the old man buried. One
of the sons gave as a reason why he did not
go and see his father buried —“me afeered
him will ketch me.”
Cyrus \V. Field and the Atlantic Cable.
Preliminaries ofthe Cable.
There is says, the New York Tribune, an
unwritten history ofthe connection of Mr.
Field with the Atlantic Cable that may have
a peculiar interest at this time. Mr. Field
desired to change his business, and looked
around for some sphere tor bis peculiar
talent, He called one day on Moses Tay
lor, one of our wealthy and public spirited
men, and proposed to open anew line of
railroad across the Isthmus, and so create
anew line to California. This new pro
ject was open in the mind of Mr. Taylor
to serious objections, and, so far as he
was concerned, was abandoned. Soon af
ter Mr. Field called again ; he had now a
project, lie said, that was not open to the
objections stated by Mr. Taylor, and to
which Mr, Field asked attention. It was
to purchase the telegraph lines in the
and connect them with the
United States. The company held a
valuable charter from the New Brunswick
Parliament. It was unable to carry on
business, and the whole franchise could be
purchased at a small cost, and, when put
in complete repair, would prove a valuable
investment. The charter was examined
and found not to be satisfactory. But it
was said if the charter could be changed
and amended, and the lines put at a low
price, the purchase would he made. Mr.
Field agreed to visit New Brunswick, and
obtain the changes needed in the charter,
and to do this if paid SI,OOO and his ex-
I iienses. The desired alterations were
| made. Moses Taylor, Peter Cooper, Mar
! shall O. lloberts, Wilson G. Hunt, and
C. W. Field put in the sum of SIO,OOO
each and became the Company.
THE OAISLE SUUGESTED.
The succes fo'i Ins line, did not equal the.
anticipations of this now" Company. "It
seemed likely to be a failure. The boats
had agreed to stop at the telegraph sta
tions, to and from Europe. They did so tor
I a time. But the fog made the stopping at
times dangerous, and ships refused to call,
and so business seemed to take its flight
from the line. Soon, Mr. Field met the
Company with anew suggestion, why not
lay a cable across the Atlantic, and so be
independent of steamships and steam com
panies '< Mr. Field was full of it then, as
he has been ever since. He won over his
little company. He obtained subscriptions
to stock. He crossed the water on the
one great mission that now filled all his
soul, and to which he has since devoted
his life.
HOW PROGRESS WAS MADE.
Mr. Field began the work of raising
money in London. He had to stretch out
his hands and lift up his voice to a gain
saying people. He put a coil of ocean
cable about his neck and went from banker
to banker, from capitalist to capitalist,
working day by day, never weary, never
disheartened by refusals. Persecuted or
repulsed in one place, lie went to another.
He gained his point day by day till the first
cable was sent down to its ocean bed.
PARK DAYS.
The first failure was repaired, and the
second cable took the place of the last one.
Weary and sad, but with strong faith in
the ultimate success of the work, Mr.
Field eauie home after the failure of the
second attempt to lay the cable. Few spoke
words of cheer or hope. The little com
pany who had raised the infant SIO,OOO up
to among the fifties and the hundreds of
j thousands, had no more they wanted cast
! into the depth ot the sea. They regarded
the thing as impracticable, and wanted to
hear no more about the cable. But Mr.
Field told the gentlemen that he would
never give it up—while life lasted he would
renew the attempt till it was a success.—
Like Peter the Hermit, he began the new
crusade. Partly from pity, partly from
love of the pluck Mr. Field displayed, from
one cause or another, quite a liberal sub
j scriptiou was obtained for the third at
■ tempt.
MR. FIELD ABROAD.
Eng’and was more obdurate than Amer
ica. Aio man wanted to see the face of
Mr. Field and he was made to know that
fact. Doors arc closed against him. Mil
lionaires would not hear him talk. Some
: thought his tongue like that of the charmer,
and nod from his approach. He was re
garded as an enthusiast merely. But
! steadily Mr. Field proceeded. lie went
where he was not wanted. He came at
i odd times and in odd places—in the count
ing house and at the country-seat; in the
city home and in the mart of trade. He
gained his point. Some were convinced;
| some wanted to get rid of the importunity;
some were willing to throw away a small
sum because they liked the persistency of
the man; a few had their warning faith re
; vived, and like the old hunter Henry Clay
| told'of were willing to pick flint and try
| again. But Mr. Field cared not what the
motive so long as he had funds, and the
] two continents lvere united.
LAND, IIO!
By the side of Fulton, who started in
j his littie boat up the Hudson amid the
i jeers of the multitude, who expected and
• wished a failure ; by the side of Goodyear
| in poverty and reproach pursuing his mar
velous inventions to their completion ; by
- the side of .Morse, who, in the packet-ship
jon the ocean, while conversing with a
i Boston Physician, announced that he could
I send a message around the world, and was
■ laughed at forms avowal. Mr. Field will
1 now take his place among the world’s bene
iactoiv, because of liis success.
i f’Jshls'of Naturalized C itizens in the
baiui of their Birth— statement of
Secretary Seward.
i aispateh from Nashville. Tennessee,
dated tiie 3Uth, says : “A correspondence
has taken place between the Secretary of
j .fate and a lawyer of this city, about the
rights of naturalized citizens of'the United
States in foreign countries. Mr. Seward
replies that the subject of the right of
naturalized citizens of the United States to
: exemption from military proscription in
the countries of their birth is the subject of
correspondence. Until some agreement
' upon principles on the subject has
been arrived at, the only thing the United
! States Government can do in the way of
| interposition is to direct its diplomatic
| agents to exert their good offices in suen
j cases when they occur. F ran® 3l3 “ ie , e ?"
I ception to this condition of things, and it
is only necessary for a Frenchman, who has
been fully naturalized in the United States,
on his return to France to report at once
to the prefect of the district m which his
name is enrolled, producing his evidence
of nationality, and ask to have his name
erased from the conscription list, when,
according to the laws of France, he is ex
empt from military service.
Gov. Isham G. Harris, was in Selma, on
the 4th, registering from Mexico,