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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV, <£hvoniclc & ftntittfl. hkn icy m<mhu;, A. IC. WllKiilT. TEBJIs OF -l BSC:ICII*TI«X. WEEKLY. 8 month# 1 Vt»r jii J. It. W. JOH.N-TON , Ba*:nt»i JUaiwitw. AL'fiVH'l’A, GA : fflWlMii KOIMO, 1161 if ! 5. A Set, Bock. 1 nr. Lost Cai'sk ; ,i r. v > alien. 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,