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New Vos *. Au. •• ;
Tin most striking i; q
rn.de upon the strum:
is the apparent abn
tb lavish use whi< i
cai l, no doubt of ‘1 _ t,< tm
fa it p! tr/. The v
l« entirely dixregai : : ir> • 1 n .
the wildest Rpoculv> -,s arid :
tr ivagant investing
tl.e lca.-t idea of c- . v . '
tl ings. The fuA
ti isci .-■how is carrk >• t. • ■
lengths, and i- ox] ii
li e and in every
I was but a i w y : e
l ick fronts of the '
a id the other prii %
C tt and rephn . ! \
ft'one” front-. Iroi *
into the decorative
f: i class mar’ «
j iat;ia seems to ha ■
the leaders of the f- ■ e
t une the l.i-hionab .t r .
]urpo- This ] ‘
) unning some of its votaries into the most
i bsuril and wasteful expenditure-. But
very recently the dry good merchant of
Broadway, A. T. St' wart," bought a line
1 on Fifth Avenue.
li intends shall be the ODc.-i an-. -
costly resilience in America. I have just
returned from a vi w of the new edifice
now in course of instruction, and was
greatly disappointed in it outward ap
jioarance. To my own taste the residence
of Wm. H. Johnson in Macon is much the
handsome and must imposing structure
of the two, and as far as convenience of
arrangement and adaptation to the wants
of a family are concerned, is lar superior
fe it.
barnum’s old museum
is being replaced by a splendid inaime
building, which is now in processed con
struction. It will be one of the handsomest
buildings in the city, and will be used by
the notorious James (Jordon Bennett for
the publication of the daily and weekly
lkralil. The old building gave position
and influence to one of the greatest and
most unscrupulous humbugs of the age,
and from its ashes is rising a temple to be
devoted to the use and expansion of oven a
greater than Barnum in all the arts of vil
lainy and liumbuggory. Janies Gordon
Bennett is to-day not only the most suc
, fol .■„ ipei mm < f thei%e, but he
is at the same time the most dishonest and
unrelifcle.
THE HABITS AND TASTES
of the people here are in sad contrast with
the more simple and refined manners of the
South. Here the gaudiest colors are
sought for in making up the wardrobes of
both sexes, and the same mania for tinsel
and show is carried into their houses and
ajuipagCH. There is here, too, ft constant
effort to ape the manner and assume the
style of what is thought to be foreign good
breeding. I low far they fall short of what
they attempt can only be fully appreciated
by those who are familiar with the habits
of good society in the old world. To such,
the ridiculous pretensions and gaudy dis
play of the codfish and shoddy aristocracy
ol* this city, is a source of constant railory
and pungent criticism.
A EIETII AVENUE LUNCH.
It was my good fortune to receive an invi
tation to take lunch yesterday with one of
I„ . , ,vl,a if Wall street in his pala
tal home on Fifth avonie. 1" told in
rulvnee that it would be -im, V a one
(•!.« k 1 li'iur.ii .V 1 ". - AW'nt Iwilf’,
,'.*#? v<J, in company with ■ o other
.. we took the stre. t eais and pro
.■•■et«‘d to tin dos'icnated (jusr' r. We
were ushered into a magnificent suite of
parlors, where we found our host and
hostess ready to receive us They were
neither of them in full dress, though we
had put on our best Sunday suit. A short
time after we were stated, a large pair of
folding doors, with immense plates of
ground glass, which, while they admitted
the light, prevented our seeing through
them, were thrown back and presented a
gorgeous table docked in all the usual para
phaimlia for a good dinner. But this was
lunch. O'-wf wo sat down at a little after one
jwiu'rose at half-past five. In the meantime
we had gone through with seven or eight
different courses, and had crammed our
selves so full that dinner might have been
put off almost indefinitely. We only had
four sorts of wine for lunch —for dinner
there would have been more. Our hostess
was a charming lady from lleorgia. Sho
was ridsed on the lied 1,1 ills of the middle
portion of the Statc,and oven now yearns for
the good old times of yore, when seated be
hind her beau on the same horse, they
trotted merrily to the"old country eliureh
each Sabbath morning. She frequently
alluded, during the lunch, to the “good
old times," and the many happy days of
her youth and young womanhood spent in
the land of flowers and of warm hearts and
true friendship.
THE CEXTRAI. PARK
is the New Yorker’s pride and chief boast.
He tells you it is the largest in the known
world. Its beauties have never been equal
led since the days of Eden's condemnation
to the growth of cabbage and potatoes for
the table of good old mother Eve. Then
the beautiful swans—real live swans—
which float upon the glassy bosom of the
charming lake; and the water-falls and
grottoes, and skating pond and serpentine
walks, and lovely bowers and splendid
drives, and secluded nooks and rich lawns,
and graceful bridges and deep tunnels cut
through the solid rooks, and magnificent
views, with a thousand other attractions,
are lingered upon in the most enthusiastic
manner. They never tire with enumer-
ating its beauties and excellence. Satur
day evenings the grounds are thrown open
in every part to the outside world, and
thousands of the stifled denizens of the
closely packed city repair thither to catch
a little fresh air and enjoy nature in its
most beautiful and enchanting aspect. I
was one of at least twenty thousand who
lingered among its cool shades, and wan
dered through its green bowers on Satur-
day last. This was ny first vi-ii there,
and 1 was agreeably impressed with its
vastness and beauty. Dodworth’s fine
band discoursed most excellent music
and lent a charm to the scene which wil
long linger in my memory. I learn that
the music is paid for by the different Rail
road Companies, whose lines run to and
near the Park. They find their recom
pense in the increased number of visitors
who are attracted thither by the music,
and which swells their receipts on Satur
days and Wednesdays (music days) to a
very large figure. I have before me some
statistics m relation to the famous Park,
which may not be uninteresting to your
readers. The Park lie. tsetw. on Fifth and
Eighth avenues and Fifty-mntli and One
Hundred and Tenth streets. It is a little
over two and a half miles long and avera-es
something over half a mile wide, and con
tains nearly nine hundred acres. The
principle entrants are en Fifty-ninth
street; and from the.-* it exu nl- Tilth av
round, curving and winding among the
groves and by the side of Lakes, sometimes
crossing the waters upon beautiful au q
airy bridges, and ascending eminences from
which fine views of the surrounding coun
try is had. This drive with its ramifica
tions and branches fc about nine miles
long and is from thirty to sixty feet wide.
I cannot give you a better description of
the entire scene, than the following, which
I clip from a city paper :
“There are other roads, called transverse
roads, which are the connections of certain
of the city streets, by which roads the
traffic of that portion of the city is allowed
to cross from one side to the other. These
roads arc bridged over in many places by
bridges of curious and beautiful construc
tion, adding greatly to the beauty of the
Park. In one instance, a road has been
cut through the solid rock, forming a tun
nel one hundred and forty-two feet long,
fortv feet wide and nineteen feet high.
The rock over this tunnel forms one of the
highest points of observation in the Park,
an( J adjoins the lower Western corner of
the lesser Croton Ilcservior. There is
also five mile and a half of bridle road,
wherein cttria.-NW are not allowed to enter,
but where charming ladies and their dash
ing cavaliers upon beautiful and spinteo
horses, enjoy their equestrian exercises on
un." .Summer evenings. But the walks
in the Park are more extended than
the drives and to enjoy to the full j
the dainty feast the Park offers to
admiring eyes:, one luu.-t walk there- ,
in. Pedestrians are so much more i
independent than those who sport their j
fine carriage., and fast horses, they are al- j
lowed to go withersoever they please and j
wander where their fancy leads—in the .
walks, in the drives, or in the bridle paths, I
ahv.tv- provided they “keep off the grass.”
Os those cool and shady walks there are
twenty-eight mils—the actual distance j
;.}L short of this by a few feet and inches,
rid thousandth part of an inch, but there
- unt that neec .-ity for our being so in
nitc—iuniiy accurate in our figures as
, ( . re }s for the Commissioners. So we
i will -ay there are twenty-eight miles of
j walk. If-you follow these walks they will
i l,. a d you through grassy lawns and cooling
i sh ie, by the banks of sparkling lakes and
• to the brink of minature Niagaras, through
. - llimr flower gardens, through the
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• 4 v.jc2.'ii,"‘ iivf i>j tl'e . to
among trees and sliruDft, and ov
and up the hill and down the dell, till they
finally land you safely in the ‘ Casino,”
tired but delighted, somewhat exhaust
ed, but filled with adminaticn at all
you have seen, and glad to* enjoy
a cool seat and a plate of delicious ice
cream, with a piece of cake, oi perhaps a
dierry cobbler with a straw in it. Having
somewhat recovered yourself, you can
cross the “ Carriage Terrace,” and sitting
quietly in the shade of the “Arbor,” can
feast your soul upon the ravishing music
produced every Saturday afternoon by
Harvey Dodworth’s band. Perhaps your
visit may be upon one of those days when
the amphibious Harvey takes to water
with his Teutonic band, and while sailing
in his fairy-like gondola, plays pleasing
airs, to be heard of all men, and women,
too, who chance to be at Central Park.
You will find the effect most gratifying to
both eye and car, as the canvass-covered
boat, with the musical crew glides in
and out of the many coves, and bays,
and past the headlands and under the
bride,:-, the sweet strains of music, now
near at hand and now gradually receding
from one point to break charmingly upon
the cars of tlie multitude at others. Other
boats, gaily decorated, containing elegant
ly-costumed ladies and fashionably-dressed
gentlemen, arc pulled over the twenty
acres of water by sturdy watermen in uni
form, adding greatly to the pleasing effect of
tliebrilliantscene. Os course the musicians
cannot play for thirty Saturdays during
the season, gratuitously, while their
wives and children require the wherewith
to sustain life, and make a respectable ap
pearance on festive occasions. So the sev
eral railroad companies which are benefit
ted by reason of the musical attractions at
the Park, tempting people to ride over
their roads, generously donate a small por
tion of their illegally extorted fares toward
paying for the music. Last year they gave
§2,500, but as they complain that they are
no longer allowed to steal seven-eighths of
a cent from each passenger, they talk of
reducing their contributions. Nor can the
I bootnn i pull sci live pai Get und tl
I lake for nothing ; so they are lifted u>
make a . auasupftbi*. yb*»; * ‘ ■
The Ur e euSeotca V th«“* at-Wv,
from the 70,1V 1 persons when arnod
lin their L) ii •« .if "ttlo boat.- fr*, l »V-
1 which loft them a profit of
after paying all expenses. A contractor,
who pays a revenue to the Commissioner,
has control of all those water crafts. Dur
ing your rambles through the Park, you
will encounter many delightful arbors, sum
mer-houses. and rustic seat-, where you
may sit and watch the playing of beautiful
fountains, which throw jets of water to
great heights, or sprinkle it in graceful
showers adown their sides. Drinking foun
tains, whereat either man or beast may
quench the consuming thirst which is liable
to overtake them in their wanderings, may
he found in many a cool and shady place,
while at the “Casino,” and also in
the arch of the “ Water-Terrace,” a
substantial luncheon and a glass of ale may
be procured by those who desire. Sitting
in the arch, with your mug of ale in hand
and lunch in front ot you, an hour may be
whiled away most agreeably in watching
the boats upon the lake, and the admiring
crowds who assemble about its edge to
gaze upon the largest fountain in the Park,
and to contemplate the exceedingly orna
mental “gonfalons'’ at the Terrace. Lest
you don’t know what a “gonfalon” is,
learn that it is what we would term a swal
low-tailed flag, hung points downward from
a very handsome iron column. The flags
are bright scarlet, trimmed with yellow;
the one bearing in its centre the coat-of
arms of the State, and the other a similar
mystic symbol pertaining to the city. If
you are fond of natural history, you can
spend an hour profitably in looking upon
the beasts and birds and fishes which arc
securely encaged at the Museum. There
are buffaloes, bear, deer, foxes, squirrels,
rabbits, monkeys, eagles, owls, hawks,
doves, singing-birds, and screeching-birds,
aligators, snakes, fish and mud-turtles, em
bracing the carnaria, the rodentia, the ru
minantni, the pachydcrmata, the rapacia,
and the reptilia, if anybody knows what
they mean. The works of art will impress
you favorably if you chance to hunt them
up. Don’t be afraid to search, for they
will repay the trouble. The most prqmi
inent one is indeed beautiful, being
the "Statue of Commerce,” which is
located near the Eighth avenue en-
trance. It represents a well-formed lady
in her r -V dc unit, with a milk-pail on
her head, two snakes in one hand, a
butcher's cleaver in the other, her eyes sot
and her toes visible. The lady is considera
bly "set up” on an elevated pedestal, which
may account for the wild look of her eyes
and the scarcity of her attire. Asa work
of art this statue will pay to study. The
“Schiller monument” is up near "the
Ramble,” on the banks of the lake. Schil
ler ought to be admired. In a room of the
old Arsenal or present museum, there are
statues of “Mercury and Pysehe,” “Hebe
and Ganymede," “School-boy,” “School
master." “Apollo and Diana." “Orpheus - ’
and a great many other ancient and modern
celebrities, pious and profane. Also, "Bas
reliefs." "Sketches,” “Prepared speci
mens, ” “ Botanical specimens,” and
other beautiful and interesting speci
mens of artistic skill. These are not to be
'coked at casually, for they are the works
of some of the best living artists, and have
been presented to the Commissioners l-y
various wealthy individuals who take a
natural and becoming pride in our Central
Park. Tim more you look about the more
you will find to admire.' Don t drive
through the wide avenue in a carriage and
then go away and say you have seen the
Park, for you haven't. Youv’e simply
-kitmed over the outside and never glanced
at the treasures within. Rather go up
thuv some bright morning, and then with ;
an intelligent and pretty girl on your arm
t-ke all day to stroll about at your leisure
we did. It after doing this you come
away dissatisfied with the manner iu which
thv Commissioners have expended the
•rh'-Aulo placed at their disposal since
the work was commenced, you will bo the
only individual out of the 7,593,139
soti who visited the Park last year who ex
l re-- one single word of complaint.”
FASIUOXBLE RESORTS.
I have visited some of the most notable
places here, and have found much which
I cannot approve and much which every
honest man uniteu: to preserve tin j
I purity of life and the saeredness of the
! domestic relations, must unequivocally con
j demo and denounce. lam told that these
i are but the necessary'and unavoidable eon
! sequences of a high state of civilization,
j If this be true, then civilization is a hum
■ bug, and is alike destructive of the physical
j and moral attributes of humanity and of
religion. I shall, in a day or two, give
you an amount of an evening I spent in
the cella: -of this vast metropolis, and
some of the sights I there witnessed.
THE WEATHER
is cool and deliglitiui, though there is said
to be really no diminition in the number of
i cholera cases occurring here daily. Yv e
1 have had a good deal of rain since yester
i day. and the old citizens here tell me that
! the extreme warm weather is over for this
J season. " •
New York, August 21, 1866.
This great metropolis it now filled with
Southern and Western merchants, who
have come here for their fail and winter
stocks of goods. All the hotels are full,
i a:; 1 the private boarding houses are being
: rapidly filled to the full extent of their ac-
I commodations. Ihi re are more Southern
I merchants here now than there has been at
any time since the war, and I learn that
the number is increasing daily. They all
| seem to have a full supply of money, and
j few are willing to make large purchases ex
! cept for cash, yet there is a considerable
! amount of sales here this fall on time. This
jis particularly true as to the Western
! trade. The stocks here are reported to be—
„„fi tJi C merchants are cxeeed
•. r ' <r
; ! g obeF a new ■
: -A' H.v U”
■I Jli -be l ands A■> t-thorr met' |
j.,'..' . i., Jihr life rMi and :
turned them into cash, with whicn tney
have opened business here in the hope of
being able, at no distant day to restore the
fortunes lost by the conflict of arms just
ended. Strange to say, that instead of the
Southern merchants giving their entire pat
ronage to their fellow Southrons and suffer
ers, many of them give their trade entirely
to the merchants whose money and influ
ence was given freely to impoverish and
enslave them. The Southern men in busi
ness here complain very much at this
course, and feel that their losses and suf
ferings from the war entitle them to the
support,of those for whose welfare their
fortunes were destroyed. Let us hope that
in future the Southern man who conies
here for goods will, all other things being
equal, give his patronage to those who are
of his blood, and who shared the trials and
misfortunes of the lost cause.
MONEY IS ABUNDANT,
and upon the surface, at least, everything
looks stable and prosperous. The great
influx of people here from the South and
West since the war, has contributed mate
rially to the prosperity of the city. There
is no (juestion hut that this huge city is
daily—slowly though it may he—absorbing
and controlling the monied and commercial
interests of the whole country. The course
of trade is centering here, and in a few
years this will be the great city of the
world. Already have the superior advan
tages for business here induced the removal
from Boston and Philadelphia of many of
their leading merchants to this place.
These influences will continue even with
greater force, as soon as the country is
restored to peace and quiet, and the su
premacy of the laws acknowledged by the
American Congress. The only breakers to
be apprehended now in the trade of the
city, looked for in the continued depre
ciation of the
CURRENCY.
The most sagacious of the merchants
. | and capitalists are apprehensive that the
| great inflation of the paper currency of the
I country, and its depreciated value as com
metoaro ot values recognized by the who!
( civilized world—its e i not flucfni-io.
and extreme setu-itivenef.- to tfi balanced'
• of trade with the old world—will ♦end to
I lncrea-'i the now app.-ienf tendency- l<
~ me Motions and ever iradin. in all the de
partments of commerce and trade. Leav
ing out of view the wild gambling opera
tions of Wall-street Bankers and Brokers,
there is a feeling of distrust in the stability
and solvency of the National currency
which is fast driving the country into a
grand vortex of indiscriminate speculations,
which, in the end, will produce a collapse
which will shake to the very foundations
our national and private credit.
The most serious apprehensions arc al
ready entertained that the great national
debt will, in the course of a very few years,
be repudiated r, ’om the sheer inability of
Bio Government to pay the enoAnous inter
ests which is annually’ accruing thereon.
Many , ersons here express the opinio ll
that in less than twelvemonths agreat par
ty here am. ..t the West will be establish*!,
having for its leading and only principle
he annihilation of the bonded debt of the
country. \\ hether this shall prove true or
not, there can ho no question of the fact
that such fears do exist "and have already
mid a powerful influence upon the walue of
our currency.
CONFEDERATE OFFICERS
and soldiers arc here in great numbers. In
all the branches of trade and commerce, and
in nearly all the pursuits of life here you
will find a large number of the Greybacks.
In almost every business house which I
have entered someone connected with the
concern once stood sentry on the Potomac
or kindled his watch fire on the Tennessee-
They are active, cheerful, persevering and
determined to recuperate their fortunes
here in the land of the conqueror.
Major General Heath is here as chief of
the National Express Comp any. lie is
the recipient of a good salary and is man
aging the affairs of . the company with
great tact and success. Gen. Pryor is
otic be Law. and, I am glad to learn, is
doing well. He has talents of the very
highest order and will be able to cope with
the very best of the New York Bar. Col.
Charlie Jones, of Savannah, is also located
here in the practice of law. He is in co
partnership with Hon. John E. Ward
i formerly of Georgia, and I learn that they
have met with the most decided success.
Ex-Governor Lowe, formerly of Maryland,
but who made Georgia his home during
the war, is also here in the practice of the
Law. He is one of the ablest Lawyers in
the United States, and with' his popular
manners and fine address, has already
reached almost the top of the profession.
There are many others here of less note,
who are hopeful of success in their new
homes, and are anxiously looking forward
to the time when, with replenished purses
and restored fortunes, they can return to the
old land, and enjoy the remainder of life iu
the homes of their youth. •
TRICES OF HOODS
of every description are much lower than
they. were last Fall. This is particularly
true in reference to leading articles of Gro
‘ “ 1 stew , crushe . sugars, which
were sold last Fall at 23 and 24 cents per
pound, are now offered freely at 16 and IT
cunts Coffee is also from 10 to 12 per
~nt. cheaper, and so of all the heavier and
more common articles in the grocery line.
In this branch of business a large trade is
done, at prices 10 to 15 per cent, cheaper
than the last season.
DRY GOODS
ate a.- ,owc,, and th. crocks heavier than
ever before known in this city. In Foreign
goods the decline is greater than those ot
domestic manufacture. I learn that there
is considerable stagnation among the manu
factures. and serious apprehensions are felt
lest the continued downward tendency of
prices should cause the stoppage oi many
of the mills, or a: least force them to man
ufacture very sparingly. The jobbers are
doing a fine business now. and seem pleased
with the prospects ahead. There is still a
strong belief here that the crop of cotton
will be at least half that of 1660, and many
think it will even go beyond that amount.
THE POLITICAL ASPECT
here is daily improving. The great body
ot those with whom I have spoken cordially
approve the action of the Philadelphia Con.
vention. and express the belief that the
I>eoplcofthe North and I Vest will sustain
the platform of principles there laid down
The lladicals are already’ alarmed at the
popularity of the new party, and arc vigor
ously exerting themselves to Counteract its
influence. Their press, in the incessant
attacks which it makes upon the pcrsonel of
the Convention, betrays the fears which
no doubt, are felt, that the principles laid
down are such as commend themselves to
the good sense of the Northern masses and
cannot be successfully assailed by a direct
attack. The Conservatives are in good
spirits and arc determin 'd to succeed if
vigorous efforts and a plenty of money will
avail. The Central Executive Committee
of this State will hold a meeting in Albany
next Monday- to take steps for the calling
of a mass meeting in the State to ratify the
proceedings ofthe Philadelphia Convention,
and thoroughly organize for the approach
ing State elections. The general opinion
Is that this State will certainly go by a
large majority in favor of the new organ
ization.
MASS MEETINGS
will beheld in an me nortnern and M est
ern States to ratify the Philadelphia Plat
form, and the friends of the movement are
determined to have a thorough and com
plete organization in every State and Ter
ritory in a few weeks. They are very anx
ious that the Southern States shall show,
at as early a day as possible, that they ap
prove the Platform, and they urge upon
the Southern delegates the importance of
having ratification meetings, cither by
State mass meetings or by County and Dis
trict conventions. Already it has been
charged by the Radicals that the South has
shown no indications of support or appro
val of tlie Platform. They charge that
! : ■ .So" in the cow - -Mon
re no 1 cP.&*w to dm sci
- Hip n, than hat rs i> it
' ; :' r, < r .. CM* f '*•
ih * ■- • tom « Os are en.s
• * full exp! ion 1
era States upon the action of the Conven
tion. It is due to ourselves, and due to
our friends here, that our people should
show at once in some w-ay their hearty ac
ceptance of the principles laid down in the
Platform of this Convention, and their
earnest desire and intention to sustain and
support the new organization. W.
New York, August 22, 1860.
The political cauldron is boiling and bub-
Jling here at a fearful rate. The Radicals
are soured and embittered towards their
late associates, who have thrown them
selves into the party of the Constitution
and the Laws, and their Press teems with
the most violent and hitter denunciations of
men who but lately they were hut too proud
to honor and applaud. There can now be
no doubt of the fact that they are serious
ly alarmed at the progress the new party is
making with the people. Every day brings
to light some new defection from the Radi
cal ranks, and adds hope and buoyancy to
the Conservative heart. In this city, the
majority for the Conservative party will he
larger than has been obtained by any par
ty for the last ten years. There is an ear
nest and determined feeling for success per
vading the entire Conservative organiza
tion, which plainly indicates the fall of
Radicalism in the approaching elections.
THE MEETING „N ALBANY
to-day of the Democratic Central Execu
tive Committee, and the Executive
Committee of the National Union par
ty will insure the cordial co-operation of all
the conservative elements in the State
against the disunionists. It is thought by
some that each organization which meets
in Albany to-day will recommend the hold
ing of a State Syracuse for
the purpose of nominating State officers,
whose elections take place this fall, and that
there will be two setts of delegates—one
representing the old Democratic organiza
tion, and one the new party just inaugu
rated in Philadelphia. From what I can
learn, I do not believe that this course will
he adopted. I incline to the opinion that
*v . Executive Conuntt*«o= now in session
at. ti“ ■ p. tal ol the . , , uiiue. ■ ■ I
a. " . a e/a for a C .r.on >.i of Delegate
[ To**<••• tUbz hi T ‘W' X ■' •
j iViUicm 5. inesj 'cCtvt party afT 1 , a
- to . <sd< li ” - a
j hands that kion. John L ! !ouiiian, the
present , n- • j< iM. f this
city, wil ' ft he
Conservnnuv* \ the
other p< ■ ef
fected b i : .arty
will be fairly itqneseiiuxl.-
THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTIONS
an matters of more serious concern to the
friends of the country than any other of
the State elections. The prospect tlrcrc is
said to be brightening very much in the
last few days. Ten days since, the Con
servatives had little hope of being able to
carry the State; and even up to the sitting
of the Convention in Philadelphia last
week, the contcst'was considered almost a
hopeless one. It was even seriously con
templated to withdraw Mr. Clymer from
the race, and put up someone who might
be more likely to divide the soldiers’ vote
than it was thought he would. I learn
that he and his friends had agreed that
unless the prospect materially brightened,
he would retire from the race, in which
event Maj. Gen. Hancock was to have
been put up in his place. Now, however,
the impression prevails that Clymer is daily
gaining strength, while Geary is as rapidly
losing ground with the soldiers. A dis
tinguished Pennsylvanian informed me
yesterday that the feeling for Clymer was
better and stronger than his friends could
reasonably have hoped for, and no doubt
is now entertained of their being able to
carry the State by a large majority.
IN MAINE.
The canvass has opened cheeringly for
the Conservatives. A few weeks since this
State ivas considered certain for the Radi
cals, but there as in New York and. Penn
sylvania, there has been a decided awaking
of the Conservative element, and our
friends are not without hope that they will
carry the State. Senator Doolittle and
Ex-Governor Parsons, of Alabama, have
been urged to deliver a series of addresses
there, and both left here yesterday for that
j purpose. The main point to be made is to
| satisfy the Northern people that the South
is in good faith determined to let the past
be forgotten, and that there is no consid
erable body of men in any of the Southern
States opposed to the United States Gov
ernment. The masses here who rely main
ly upon the press for information upon the
state of the country, have been again and
again told by the Tribune and Post of this
city and the country organs of the Radicals
that there still exists at the South a feel
ing of bitter animosity to the Federal Gov
ernment, and of malicious hate towards ;
the Northern people. To show you how
badly informed the people here are on this j
subject, I need only state that while on the
cars coming from Philadelphia to this j
place, I engaged in conversation with a
Western New Yorker, who had been a
delegate to the Convention and was return
ing home. He seriously put the question
to me whether a Northern man would be
entirely safe in traveling now through
Georgia. lie had seen statements in the
Northern papers of gross outrages com
mitted upon Northern men by Southerners
for no other cause than that they were
“Yankees.” This gentleman notwithstand
ing his impression that there was a fierce
spirit of revenge and resentment at the
South against Northern men, was in favor
ol the admission of Southern Representa
tives to their seat.- in Congress.
THE PRESIDENT
will do all he can to aid the new party in
carrying the approaching elections To
this end it is now pretty well settled that
the patronage of the Government will be
used so as to strengthen his friends There
is still a strong clamor for the removal of
Manton, and I think I may safely say that
it is determined to displace him in a few
days. He will be sent out of the country
as Minister to Spain or Portugal, and Maj.
Gen. Steedman will succeed him in the
War Department. The latter gentleman I
find is very popular with the Conservatives
in all sections, and particularly in the West
and in this State. His appointment will
give increased strength to the new party,
and will rally to its support thousands of
the personal friends of the General.
GENERAL GRANT,
despite the frantic denials of the Radical
press. is,heartily in favor of the new party.
He is at all times a very quiet man, and
rarely makes any demonstration ofliis feel
ings on any subject. His presence the
other day at the Executive Mansion, when
tne President received the proceedings of
the Philadelphia Convention, was not ac
cidental. “Straws show which way the
wind blows. There are other signs which
aio " f clearly indicate his position. While
the General is r. Aleut man, he has a wife,
an i tnat wife is a woman. Women vrd
talk, and wives of distinguished Generals
as well as of Statesmen, in their talk usually
echo the sentiments of their husband--
Mrs. < ’rant is known to be a Conservative,
and you may well take it for granted tint
she dose not materially differ with her litre
lord.
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE
should not he too exacting in their de
mands upon the President. If he has not
progressed as rapidly in his reconstitution l
policy as they wished, they must not there- j
froe condemn and denounce him. We of !
Ihe South have a very imperfect/ concep- ;
tion of the difficulties and embarrassments i
by which he is surrounded. No I man in
the South feels more kindly, personally,
to Mr. Davis than President Johison. He
is also anxious for tlie return cf General
Breckinridge and other distinguished Con
federate exiles to their homos, but he
knows that any exhibition of kindness or I
amnesty to them would hut strengthen the
Radicals and destroy his power for their
good in the future. Southern men who j
are displeased with President Johnson j
would do well to imagine themselves in his
situation for a few moments and then hon
■ « 11} 1 ,e . I of for- ■
:’• " . , w , ■:!*. South
■ our. \u, if lit, F.r. ronnd
./*;• iy ;-i.t u- :t
, , fjeh: *W ,/y.is
heaped uptib h •> by uthra
! Convention. We all know that there are |
i many things in the platform and address ;
which are particularly odious and offensive |
to the Southern people. But the question !
is not a choice between this platform and ]
a better one, but between it and the polky j
of the Radicals. If we had the power to !
prescribe our own terms and to annunciate '
our own views as to the power and conduct j
of the general Government, then wo might j
well spurn from our presence the policy
indicated in the platform and address. But
our present situation is a far different one,
We can do nothing ourselves to restore our
rights in the Union. We must rely upon
the dominant power for redress of griev
ances and the restoration of our privileges.
That power is now in the hands of tlie
Northern people. These people are divi
ded into two parties; one headed by Thad.
Stevens and the other having for its head
and guide the President. The latter is
hacked and supported by a large number
of Northern Conservatives who have cut
loose from their old friends in the Radical
party, and have joined the President in his
efforts to restore the Union. The South
must select one or tlie other of these par
ties as they now stand arrayed for battle.
We cannot afford to he idle spectators of
this fearful conflict. We have too much
a,t stake to warrant us in a position of neu
trality. The Conservatives invite our sym
pathies Ihid support. The Radicals en
tirely ignore us as a part of the Govern
ment and will have no fellowship with us.
Now is it the partof prudent, sensible men
to higgle about the exact terms upon which
they will co-operate with their friends in a
war w’aged to conquer a common enemy ?
We think not. Our Northern friends-tell
us frankly that any further concessions
made to us in the platform would totally
destroy their hopes of success. They ad
mit that the terms imposed upon the South
are hard —harder much than they desired—
hut the power of the Radicals over the
popular mind is so great that any further
concession would be fatal to all our hopes.
TV np.nnle of Georgia will do well to re-
::*;i upon lbi in i ;ei it’i are
i ■ iH.y condemn me lotion of the Conven
i la Uivv.ft-; Un e r I •save>su <v-e
•riews es . the va.v o. whH.'fb clarets i
was prepared nr ! u -.m i Enclosed I
sei ' job ■ ■ iq ;>>M - tlie i\i ..
York News of this date upon that subject.
The statement made in the editorial of the
News I know to be strictly correct.
A NUMBER OP SOUTHERNERS
arc here spending their money as freely and
enjoying themselves as fully as before tlie
war. Among the number here now are
Brig. Gen. Wilcox, of Alabama ; General
Battle, of Alabama ; and Brig. Gen. N.
H. Harris, of Mississippi, Hon. Thos Har
deman, P. W. Alexander, Judge Lyon and
Col. Wm. F. Wright, of Georgia. I have j
met quite a number of Georgia ladies here
also. Among them the widow of the gal
lant and accomplished Colonel Harris, of
Mcrriwether, who fell a sacrifice to his
country’s cause in the late war. Mrs. H. I
is still in delicate health, having never re- I
covered from the shock produced by her J
husband’s untimely death. Sle is aecom- !
panied by her sprightly and accomplished J
sister, Miss Chambers, of Muscogee, But |
I must close this rambling ie:ter. More '
anon. W.
Hard to Please,
When the call for the Philadelphia Con
vention appeared, it met with severe criti
cism at the hands of a few pa-sons whose
devotion to abstract issues ’ed them to
shut their eyes to all considerations of
pol’cy or expediency.
It was declared that undo- the call no
body save those who could lake the obnox
ious test oath would bo admitted into the
Convention, and therefore it was idle for
the South to attempt any participation in
its objects. This error had been removed
by the utterances of those who issued the
call, before the Convention met, and the
perfect harmony and good feeling displayed
in its deliberations showed how utterly
mistaken w-ere those who predicted confu
sion and failure.
But as if determined still to be fault-find
ing, these carpers sec'little to approve in the
work of the Convention, and actually find
food for ridicule in the exhibition of har
mony which they had declared to be im
possible. They disapproved of sending
: delegates, and though the temper of the
Convention and its policy toward the
South were much more liberal than any
body expected, they condemn those who
went because they got no better overtures,
and submitted to the use of certain offen
sive term.- in the Resolutions and Address.
It is not likely that we shall ever agree
| with any considerable number at the North
| as to the causes of the war, or our right to
make it, and it is certainly unpleasant to
have the motives which actuated us mis
| understood, and to have the struggle
! which we held to be a sacred right, char
: acterized as a rebellion. But having
■ submitted the question to the stern
: arbitration of the sword, in which
the decision was against us, we are
not in condition to exact from the
conqueror a free recognition of the purity
or propriety of our course. It is enough
that we desire in good faith to renew, our
old relations to the Government, and that
there is a party placing conditions upon
our return, which wc cannot accept; and
another party anxious in good faith to re
ceive us, without further conditions, j
While we placed our cause on higher
ground than that of a rebellion, our claim
for representation m the Government in- i
volves the practical admission that wc !
were never out of it. Indeed many of the
States have declared their acts of secession
null and void, .thus virtually acknowledg
ing themselves liable to the disabilities inci
dent to unsuccessful rebellion. May we
not then afford to forego discussion about j
terms— -especially with those who are will- I
mg to fm-get the past, and join us in seeur t
mg future equality, and justice ? Our !
delegates presented their views upon this !
■ object placing the South right upon the I
record—and we are told that “it was by aj
•erica! nvelect that the offensive terms!
wore retained in the address Issued by the I
Convention. Still we find sopie who seek)
to affix odium upon the Southern dele- !
gates, charging them with assenting to j
these obnoxoiis declarations. It is not
denied that in spite of these offensive terms, j
the policy of the Convention, if successful, 1
secures all that the South expects. It re- j
stores her the robes of sovereignty and
equality in the Gouernmcnt. It trill fr&
her people from test oaths, from fredmen’s,
bureaus, from military surveillance, and
from the iniquitous burden of taxation
without representation. How best to at
tain these objects challenged the anxious
solicitude of the Southern delegates.
To accomplish these ends, the Radicals
must be defeated in the* approaching elec
tions. To defeat them, the conservative
Republicans and Democrats of the North
and West must act together. To secure
their harmonious action was far more im
portant to the South than the mere verbiage
of the Platform. If the Southern view had
been insisted upon—-arid Southern ideas
had been thrust before the Convention, the
cry of “Copperhead” would have run off
Northern support from the movement until
it would have been powerless for good re
sults.
The Delegates from the South surveyed
the whole field. They comprehended the
delicate duties of the situation, and we
honor them for having the prudence and
wisdom totassent to a policy that promises
to restore to us our Constitutional rights.
A few sensitive or captious spirits, who >
cling to old names, old issues, and too often
to old prejudices, declare that the South
ern delegates must be held accountable for
the humiliating surrender of principle em
braced in the Platform. They are men
who have not shrunk from responsibility in
the past, and we doubt not their shoulders
are broad enough to bear all the odium re
sulting from their afets, in the future.
What avails it that we stand idle —cher-
ishing the memory of our wrongs, or proud
ly asserting our rights, when we are utter
' to redress the one or enforce
• i while our enemies are tigliten
1s of oppression, and increasing
afour humiliation ? Shall we
trike hands with those, who,
i m liffer from us on the dead issues
are ready to meet us as equals
u. use government, and defend ns against
further aggression ? This is the full extent
of the offence of our delegates in the Phila
delphia Convention; and they may well
regard with indifference the criticism of
those, who, in their untimely zeal for the
honor and rights of the South, are practi
cally strengthening the hands of our ene
mies, and leaving us helpless victims of
their insatiate malice and revenge.
W T e believe the results of the coming
elections at the North and West will vindi
cate the wisdom and patriotism of our
delegates in the Convention. They are at
least entitled to honorable consideration for
their earnest efforts to make the Conven
tion in its results an efficient agent in the
work of reconstruction.
“ Help—Relief—lmmigration.”
The press of matter that s been laying
over for several days prevc. .> us from pub
lishing a communication entitled as above,
from “J. W. J.,” whose letter on the same
subject we published several days o. We
will|do him thejustice to state his points, but
have little room to discuss them now. lie
thinks it impolitic to invite to the ballot
box those from the North or from Europe
who would not recognize the distinctions of
the two races.
We have no fears that immigrants from
tho North or from Europe will fail to re
cognize a distinction of the races, or that
there will be enough of the agrarian radi
cal tribe introduced to make any present
impression on our social policy. Our ob
servation of Northern people who settle in
this country is, that they readily assimilate
to our customs and feelings. The lato war
lias vindicated their fidelity to the institu
tions of their adopted country. If wc were
to-day called on to select the most violent
haters of radicalism in the South, wc would
choose those born at the North, who have
become permanent residents here. So, too,
the records of our army show the valor of
our foreign population, while their quiet and
industrious demeanor since the war, attest
their value as citizens.
He also thinks that subsistence cannot
con woi: o t lands ■
g'-vsi; increase of population. lie urges
" 1: ■ly- p.i the ponpl,, ;
great as in -re iuo:-? than the’ i
would or, to liquidate it, and that u is
to time ' shr. b. si, -ncv.j.r.ious popula
tion.
It is because of this very indebtedness
that we urge immigration. Very many of the
landholders will be obliged, sooner or later,
to part with a portion of their estates,
either from debt or from inability to work
large farms successfully. It is that we may
have a market for these lands tint we in
vito immigration. Show to the thrifty
laborers of Central Europe, or Central Ver
mont, if you please, that immigration is
invited, and that cheap lands may be had
in Georgia, where two crops a year can be
made—where railroads afford outlets to
market—where everything is at hand to
attain the very highest conditions of agri
cultural thrift, and in a short time such a
tide of people, and of money will bo direct,
ed this way, as will lift our farmers out of
the Slough of Despond into which the war
sunk them.
It is not proposed to introduce pauper
immigrants. We do not favor the system
already pursued, to a limited extent, of
bringing out men to work by the month.
They are not the best suited to our wants.
We need men with families, and some
means, to whom wo may lease or sell our
surplus lands.
Our correspondent looks with horror up
on the idea of being forced to live on fifty
acres—the amount exempt by law from
levy and sale. He would be surprised to
see the amount of solid comfort and thrift
attained in Europe, and in portions of
this country, from less than half that area
—and in lands not naturally half as good as
the old red hills of middle Georgia.
We do not expect, and certainly do not
desire to see the planters of this country
reduced to the ownership ofonlyfiftyacres'
But it would be ch«u..: j see such a
system adopted as will secure a different
mode of culture, from our old “slip-shod
skimming process, by which a 4 miporary
gain has been secured at the expense of
future generations. The land murderer 1
ought not to go unpunished. The only :
punishment we would inflict upon him, is
that he shall quit liis outrages on the vir
gin soil; shall cease playing dog in the
manger; and if he will not till his lands
himself, sell them or lease them to some
body who will do it.
Our correspondent urges that it is not j
immigration, but legislation, that is need- I
ed to stay the work of desolation and ruin !
that are sweeping over the land. We cer- j
tainly need legislation suited to the new j
political and social relations which sur
round us; and we doubt not that the Leg- j
islature, at its coming session, will do all j
that is just toprotect the people against;
the ruinous exactions of old creditors. At |
the tame time, the rights of creditors may
not ju.-tly be ignored.
Our space forbids further allusion to this
subject at present
Teacher’s Convention.—-A teachers’
j convention will take place at Jackson,
! Mississippi, on the first Monday in Sep-
I tember next. We have Ifoard a number of
i teachers express a desire for such a con
vention in Georgia. It is very important
I that there be a fixed and uniform educa
: tional policy adopted, and we know no
! other way to inaugurate it than by a con
ference of the teachers of the State. Our
| educational interest.- have been sadly neg
• lected. and there is a deplorable degree of
; indifference on the subject still prevalent.
Parents urge poverty as an excuse for neg*
; lecting the culture of their children, and
j the .same argument is urged by Legislators
; as a barrier to the provision by the State
;of a liberal educational fund. Undoubted
! ly it must be some time before a general
( school system will be perfected. Much,
however, may be done to elevate the char- j
acter of our schools. Normal schools for j
teachers might be established —a uniform I
system of text books might be fixed upon, '
and the standard of preparation for the \
work of teaching so elevated as to secure ;
more thoroughie -s in the schools we have, j
There L- 1. ss ability, as well as less inclina- 1
lion than formerly to send pupils abroad j
to be educated. It is of the highest im- I
portance that everything possible be done I
to elevate the standard of' our home insti
tutions. It is believed that a teacher’s j
convention would Ice highly promotive of
that object.
hie Mexican Emigrants.—A letter 1
from Mrs. Price, dated last month, savs
the country around Cordova and Carlotta
is very beautiful. The peak of Orizaba,
which is in plain sight of both places, does
not at times appear to be more than a mile
or two distant, while it is really thirty miles
away. She remarks: “There is such a
number of fruits that I cannot begin to tell
you their names. Among the American
varieties I have seen cherries, peaches,
pears, apricots, strawberries, blackberries
and mulberries. There are apples, but I
have not seen any. I have not moved out
to Carlotta yet, as our house there will not
be finished for a few weeks. We have a
beautiful grove of mangoes, two orange
trees, a zapota, and anopal. I hope to
have a great variety in a few years. Our
prospects for pleasant society at Carlotta
are good. We have Episcopal services in
Carlotta every Sunday, and Methodist
preaching in Cordova. I think that if no
unforeseen accident occurs the Americans
will do well, aud most of them be comfort
ably settled in a few years. ’ ’
The Legality of the Acts of Con
gress.'—lt is stated that the Hon. Thomas
Ewing, of Ohio, has written a letter de
signed for publication, in which he takes
the bold ground that the Congress which
has just adjourned, being composed of
representatives from only twenty-five
States, could not constitutionally pass
any act over the President’s veto; and that,
therefore, the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill,
Civil Rights Bill, and the constitutional
amendment, arc legal utilities. Mr. Ew
ing is one of tho very few surviving states
men of the Jacksonian era. lie was a
member of the United States Senate when
Clay, Webster aud their illustrions com
peers were there. He was a member of
President Harrison's party, and all
through the brightest days of the old Whig
party he was one of its ablest and most
faithful leaders. He is a thorough Con
servative, purely honest in his political
sentiments, and no doubt he fully belie’
what he says in regard to the aforesaid
of Congress.
Backing Out.— Napoleon 111. is illus
trating the prudent qualities of a prede
cessor on the throne of France, wIW,
“With forty tliouand men
Marched up the hill and then marched
down again.”
His first advance was on Mexico, when,
through Maximilian, ho marched up to
the city of the Aztecs, and is now said
to have liis baggage cheeked for a return
trip. He then made a forward movement
in the directoin of Venetia, and soon de
termined that Venetia wasn’t much of a
prize after all, and abandoned it. He
then modestly suggests that he would like
to have a chance to replenish his wine
cellar from the vineyards along the .Rhine.
Prussia objects, and Napoleon is ready to
take an affidavit that he never said a word
about the Rhine, and is perfectly satisfied
to leave things as they arc.
This wiring in and wiring out by Na
poleon has excited great surprise, and
leaves tho impression that he is losing the
decisive air 1 which
have marked the Napoleonic charm . ,
Indian Affairs in the Southwest.
—Col. J. 11. Leavenworth, United States
Indian Agent for the Camanches, Kiowas,
and Apaches, arrived in Washington city
recently, and brings reliable intelligence
from the region lying between the Arkan
sas and Platte rivers. The Colonel lias
been visiting the tribes mentioned since
early in April last, and during his sojourn
consulted witli every chief, all of whom he
found well-disposed towards the Govern
ment. He also had “talks” with many of
the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, the former
of which tribe lie represents as being scat
tered in small bands, and whose hostility
to the Government is evinced by frequent
predatory excursions on the whites. The
Cheyennes desire to encamp permanently
in what is designated as the Smoky Hill
country. But, owing to tho fact that a
branch of the Union Pacific railroad passes
1 : . ,
ij.j weeded to 1 •,.>j
. "fnT"T“
ally
Convention, and willing • o-C|>. ::iu
'bit, but opposes the abandonment of;
uie ltauuciauc party, l’rie ehiei reason
for such opposition is urged by the Editor
is that there arc thousands of voters all
over the country’, who arc utterly opposed
to the radicals, and willing to endorse the
President, who never were democrats,
and to whom the very name of democrat
is odious. He further urges that it is the j
Democratic party which is to furnish the j
chief element of strength, with which to |
beat the radicals ; and that the two mil
lions of men, who compose that party,
have also their prejudices, and will not
abandon their favorite party to effect a
temporary purpose. The Editor, tlicre
fore, protests against the surrender of the
Democratic organization.
Cotton Frauds.—-Affidavits have been
filed at the Executive Department in Wash
ington, charging Cuthbert Bullitt, United
States Marshall of Louisiana, with com
plicity in cotton operations in that State.
The informer is a New Orleans cotton
speculator, who alleges that he made an
arrangement with Bullitt by which a large
lot of cotton should pass the Government
authorities unquestioned, in consideration
for which Bullitt was to receive one-fifth
of the proceeds of sale. The cotton was
passed out, sent to market and sold, and
Bullitt was paid a number of thousand
dollars as his share of the spoils. He sub
sequently demanded an unreasonable share
of the plunder, and his conduct leaked out.
Seizure of the Central Bank Build
ing.-—-The Montgomery Mail, of the 21st,
says that on yesterday evening, late, a war
rant of seizure posted-on the front.cntrance
of the magnificent Central Bank building)
on Market street, attracted much attention.
The warrant was issued by J. Q. Smith,
United States District Attorney, com
manding the United States Marshal to
seize so much of the said building as would
satisfy the cause of “The United States vs.
JO hales of cotton arid the Central Bank,
a corpora*•«" do? i, ss under the
name and style oi the Central L ■■ of
Alabama, ’ Messrs. Micou & Morgan now
occupy the building as a banking house.
Important Decision Belativeto Dis
loyal Heirs.—The Second Comptroller
has decided that arrears of pay and-bounty
cannot be paid to disloyal heirs, nor can
such heirs be passed over and payment be
made to the next loyal persons in the order
of inheritance prescribed by tho act of July
11, 1802. The case inducing this decision,
the Second Comptroller decides, is not dis
similar to that of a non-resident of the
United States, inasmuch as the above act
provides for payment to the next resident
in the order prescribed; but no such pro
vision is made in any law for passing over
a disloyal heir, and in such cases the money
reverts to the United States.
Art in South America.— I The Brazilian
Exposition will be opened on the 19th of
October next, and will close on the 2d of
December. The New York Chamber of
Commerce lias recommended a participa
tion in it by the manufacturers of the city,
and all wishing to do so should give notice
to the Brazilian Minister.
Internal Revenue.—The receipts of
the Government from this source during
the week ending on the 18th instant
amounted to $8,100,291.53. The total re
ceipts since the commencement of -the
present fiscal year, July Ist, are $49,690,-
167.03, being upwards of one million dol
lars per day.
Health of Mr. Davis.—Maj. Gon.
Miles, in command of Fortress Monroe, re
ports that there is no material change in
the health of Mr. Davis. He now has
liberty to walk at will within the limits of
the fort, but exhibits less inclination to do
so than when his liberty was more re
stricted.
Congressional Unionists.—The Na-1
tional Hall on Market street, below Thir- j
teenth, has been engaged for a meeting oi :
the loyal Southerners' Convention of the
3d of September. The building is one of
the largest in Philadelphia, arid not (iirfrom .
centre of business.
Jefferson Davis ml His Slanderers-In
famous J’asehoods Exposed.
Meadow Nook,(DeKalb Cos., Ga„ 1
July 31st. 186(1. j
To the Editor of ke Metropolitan Record :
Dear Sir: — I lave been convinced by
the teachings of letory and man, and move
particularly by thi events which have come
under my own posonal knowledge during
the past five years) “that a lie well stuck to
answers as well a] the truth’' to serve the
purposes of hate and envy, and wo! be
unto the individual and people who are
forced to permit a systematic and persistent
slander unrenteq Vietor Hugo says some
where that a Ban’s destiny depends as
much upon wh:j is said of him as on what
by actually dot|. The fanatics of the
North have aefcd on this fact for thirty
years, and the) dignified contempt with
which we have Warded their misrepresen
tation has endei in our ruin and desola
tion.
These reflecions have been called to
mind by readin; the report of the commit
tee appointed V Congress to investigate
the charges agapst President Davis of com
plicity with the assassination of the late
President Linean.
It appears to/ me that a sense of shame
would preventany set of men who had a
particle of feeing or honor from the at
tempt to link ;lie name of such a character
as •) efferson l\vis with murder and crime.
After the cost diligent investigation,
running thfoith a period of more than
twelve month; and suborning witnesses
who, for the tenor of humanity bo it said,
recanted at tie last moment and confessed
their dark crine, what does the whole tes
timony amoiut to ?
First, that Mr. Davis, during Ithe pro
gress of a loig and terrible war. conducted
on the part (four enemies with a barbar
ous cruelty unknown to modern _ times,
received a few letters from a few imlivid
; mils requesting permission to offer them
selves as instruments to rid their country
of the men vho wore regarded as the wick
ed authors if our sufferings. These letters
arc paraded before the public—one from
C. L. 0. 3elvalb, another from J. S.
Paramere, and another from Lieutenant
Waldemar Alston, requesting his permis
sion. The two first are unknown to me ;
\ *■ Lieutenant Alston was an officer under
rffiand at one time—an unassuin
,:nd !■ . I’iiront youth, about nineteen
v\:-r >1 who had witnessed enough
iu< ty (1 tPunundsoi the enemy to tum.his
.1 . all. In none of
~ - tl.e permission sought
on • rittce v. re _ care
t'.,j t those cases where it was
not«if. 1. ut rejected with indig
nant scor.q a 1 -i always the case when
these kind of lo.ters were brought to the
I personal knowledge of Mr. Davis. I can
testify to one case which happened in my
own regiment, where it was not only re
fused, but the party who made the request
was placed under arrest, and ordered to be
tried by court-martial. _ A gallant young
lawyer from Memphis, Tennessee, who was
Captain of Co.—, Ninth Tennessee regi
ment, Morgan’s Brigade, smarting under
the sense of Accent injuries, wrote to Mr.
Davis to request permission to go to Wash
ington and assassinate Mr. Lincoln and his
Cabinet, blow up the Capitol, &c. Mr.
Davis endorsed on the back of the letter,
11 Atrocious. Respectfully referred to the
Secretary of War, who will order tic ar
rest and trial by court-martial of the writer.
J. I). ’ ’ This letter, with this endorsement,
was returned to General Morgan while his
brigade was at “Black’s Shop, near Mur
freesboro,” by Mr. Randolph, then Secre
tary of War. Captain ——was arrested,
and was so mortified at his arrest, that lie
shouldered a musket, and marching head
long into the first battle, was killed at Mil
ton, Tennessee.
These facts can be established by Gen.
Basil Duke, Colonel N. C. IJ.1 J . Breckinridge,
j Major William P. Elliott, Commissary of
Brigade, Major David 11. Llewellyn, Q. M.,
Col. R. A. Alston, then Captain and A. A.
G.
The second charge which depends on the
false testimony of one Lewis F. Bates, a
rampant secessionist and regenerate Yan
kee, is, that Mr. Davis when he received
Gen. Breckcnridge’s dispatch announc
ing the assassination of President Lincoln,
said : “Well, General, Ido not know, if
it were to be done at all, it were better
that it were well done ; and if the same
had been done to Andy Johnson, the
Beast, and Secretary Stanton, the job
would then be complete. ’ ’
A more shameless lie was never uttered
even by a renegade Yankee, and if this
man has any conscience left, it must sting
him with remorse, until lie is driven, like
other witnesses, to repent and take back this
damning sin. God forgive him, for we
never can.
The writer of this was standing within
ten feet of Mr. Davis when he received
this dispatch, and never will he forget
the awful solemnity of the occasion, and
the noble grandonv and dignity of Mr.
i •». y atn>- ,i oh--’, ft was ■.in tow:
j-Cb’tuott' Nerds Carolina ; Gem v.i L •
j army Wu wnt n! red, Johnston . ar. y
nt.raa. .1,--, aUL .
! siori, -id ; -J\ tnd "loom. Mr
Davis loomed up more proum- than h
- had ever helot t: a red t. e i\. 1
Mm, of all > u T r. ,
tain tiic majesty and self-possession oi his
character, and to rise with the energies of
that dreadful hour. Biding into town at
the head of a small cavalry escort, he dis
mounted opposite to the?housc of this
Lewis F. Bates, who had sent Mr. Davisj
a special invitation to be his guest—
prompted, no doubt, by the desire to col
lect testimony in private conversation, that
be might use hereafter to advantage; in
stead of soliciting it as an honor, that he
might transmit to his posterity.
Dismounting from his horse, lie proceed
ed to enter the house of Mr. Bates, and
was met at the steps by Col. Wm. John
son, a prominent citizen of Charlotte, and
President of the Charlotte and Columbia
Bailroad, who said : “Mr. President, in
behalf of the citizens of Charlotte, I give
you a cordial welcome to the hospitalities
of our town. ’ ’ Mr. Davis, who was dressed
in a plain suit of gray, and wore a low
crowned felt hat, nearly covered with crape,
bowed low and gracefully, saying, as he did
so, “I thank you, sir.’’ The large crowd,
consisting almost entirely of soldiers, with
tearful eyes and overflowing hearts, said,
with deep earnestness, “speak to us,” “let
us hear from you. ” lie turned with his
kind, benignant, dignified loqfc, to the
crowd and said :
“My friends, I thank you for this evi
dence of your affection. If I had come as
the bearer of glad tidings, I had come to
announce success at the head of a triumph
ant army, this is nothing more than 1 would
have expected; but coining as I do, to tell
you of very great disaster; coining, as I do,
to tell you that our national affairs have
reached a very low point of depression;
coining, I may say, a refugee from the
capital of the country, this demonstration
of your love fills me with feelings too deep
for utterance.” [Ok, my God! he felt it
all. ] “This has been a war of the people*
for the people, and I have been sim
ply their Executive ; and if they desire to
continue the struggle, I am still ready
and willing to devote myself to their«au.-e.
True, General Lee’s army lias surrendered,
but the men are still alive, the cause is not
yet dead, and only show by your determi
nation and fortitude that you are willing to
suffer yet longer, and we may still hope for
j success. In reviewing my administration
' of the past four years, I am conscious of
! having committed errors, and very grave
ones; but in all that I have done, in all that
I have tried to do, 1 can lay my hand upon
my heart and appeal to God that I have
| had but one purpose to serve, but one mis
, sion to fulfill, the preservation of the true
principles of constitutional freedom, which
; are as dear to me to-day as they were four
! years ago. I have nothing to abate or take
i back; if they were right then, they are !
right now, and no misfortune to our arms
can change right into wrong. Again I \
thank you.”
These were the last words of Jefferson j
Davis to his vanquished and scattered pco
pla, and few among that vast audience who
will not remember them. God knows they |
sunk deep into my heart, and I can never j
feel again what I then lelt, when 1 heard
my noble chieftain bid us what 1 felt was
his last adieu. Many of us could no longer
retain our sobs.
He bowed, and was about to turn to go
into the house, when a little boy from the
telegraph office handed him a dispatch.
He opened it calmly, and read it in silence,
and folding it up and returning it to the
envelope, handed it to Colonel William
Johnson, remarking as he did so, “This
contains very astounding intelligence.”
The crowd, whose anxiety could no longer
be restrained, cried out "Bead it!” "Read
it!” and Colonel,Johnson, in hisfdeep,
slow and solemn tone, read it aloud. Some
thoughtless .persons shouted, and Mr.
Davis looked in such earnest reproof, that
instantly every voice was hushed as though
they were ashamed of having broken the
solemnity of the scene by such indiscreet
joy. The writer then shook hands with
Mr. Davis, who asked him about his fami
ly, and other questions of that kind, with
which he was in the habit of making all
feel at ease who came near him. Captain
Edward Lowndes, of South Carolina, was
then introduced, and after a short conver
sation Mr. Davis retired into the house.
This, on my honor, was all that occurred
on that solemn oeeasic n, for who could
ever lbrget it. Alas that one should be so
base as to misrepresent and malign the j
noble man who bore himself under such I
trying circumstances so as to leave his im- j
press forever upon the minds of all who |
saw hiia. I
i It i- well known to the people of the
! South that Mr. Davis was abused, and al
f most threatened, because he refused -o
! firmly to conduct the war on any other than
I the most humane principles.
Tho press accused him oi' being accesso
ry to the murder of our soldiers because
lie refused in so many instances to retaliate
when they had been barbarously executed,
and even the Confederate Congress cen
sured his conduct, and many of its promi
nent members, who have long since re
ceived their pardons, frequently remarked
that We were eying of West Point and
Days religion. _ Nothing could swerve
nhn h .m the rule he had kid down aup
the determination which he had formed of
building up a government which by moral
contrast must finally prevail.
1 am, therefore, amazed that in the face
of those acts which are so well known
and established, that a Congressional Com
mittee would attempt to blacken his name
by connecting it with conspiracy and crime
AH such attempts will most surely fafl and
although he has been imprisoned in a’dun
geon and shackled with fetter< there is a
halo of glory that surrounds bis brow that
no slander can tarnish or persecution de
stroy. Yours yen- truly,
i * A Ai - st °y
Late Confederate Army. *
The Conspiracy
To Connect Jefferson Davis with the As
sassination of Mr. Lincoln--How the
Evidence was to be Obtained.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York World says the following cor
respondence shows clearly the desperate
means that were resorted to by the Bureau
of Military Justice to connect Mr. Davis
with the assassination plot. We do not
think a more infamous, character exists to
day, any where in official position, than the
so called Judge-advocate. Nor can the
records of English history, foul as it is with
debased characters, present a meaner one
than that which is being incorporated into
our history by Judge liolt. lie is a dis
grace to the American name.
The characters mentioned in this corres
pondence, except Holt, swore before the
Congressional Committee that their testi
mony before given was all felse; that they
went under assumed names; that their
object in swearing false was money. The
first letter is directed to Sandford Conover,
Esc... Washington, D. C.:
“Weldon House, St. Albans, 1
“Nov. 19, 1865. j
“Mr. Conover— Dear Sir: I have
just parted with the party I thought
would do to represent Lamar, lie will go
into the game and swear all that iswanted ;
but he places his price at a pretty high
figure. He wants 53,000, and says lie
won’t sell his soul for less. Vou told me
not to go above if 1,500, but the Judge
told me afterwards that, if necessary, I
could go SSOO more. But eveu this is far
below the mark. What am 1 to do ? I
have written the Judge how the matter
stands, and I hope you will urge him to
come to terms. Dick is a good fellow, and
we can depend upon him without fear,
and lie lias the faculty liars need most—a
mighty good memory. I hope to receive a
message from you to-morrow, telling me to
strike the bargain. At any rate, let me
know how to act as soon as possible.
Yours truly,
William Campbell.”
“ New York, March 5,1806.
“Mr. Conover — Dear Sir : I have
been trying to see you for several days, but
hear that you are out of town. I shall
leave this at Station A, that you may get
it as Soon as you return. I am in great
need of more money; my last investments
did not pay, and I am dead broke, and so
jis Snovcl. The Judge told me when L last
saw him to communicate with hitn only
through you, and 1 don’t like to write to
him ; but 1 must have money in a few days.
Get him to send me SSOO, for nothing less
will boos any use to me. 1 wish 1 could
i get in bulk all I am to receive, and then I
I could get into safer business; but 1 sup
| pose you ali are afraid that if you should
| give me ail iu my hands at once, I could
| not be found when most wanted. I don’t
j like to be suspected; but anything is better
than being poor, so I will take what I can
J get—but of course not less than SSOO.
Don’t keep me waiting again, for God’s
| sake, for 1 shall hardly be able to raise
j cocktails and cigars till I hear from you.
Truly yours, Wm. Campbell.
“War Department, |
“Bureau of Military Justice, y
“Washington, I>. C., March 17, iB6O, j
“Mr. S. Conover—Dear Sir: Sine®writ
ing you and enclosing draft as requested, I
have received a letter from Campbell, to
which 1 replied this morning, mentioning
the funds remitted to you for himself and
Mr. Sncvel, and asking him to see you. He
does not, however, know precisely where
to find you, and Ii resume you have nut
his address, which H tho .Whitney House,
corner of Twelfth street and Broadway. 1
hope you will place the funds in his hands
with the least possible delay; as lie seems
to bo greatly in need. Very respectfully,
“Your obedient servant,
“J. Holt,
“Judge Advocate General,”
The following letter is directed to “San
ford Conover, Esq., Post Office, Station F,
New York city:”
■ “Astor House, New York, 1
“April 17, 1800. |
“Dear Conover —I came in last evening,
and have been all day endeavoring to find
you. That villian Campbell has divulged
the whole arrangement to Davis’ friends,
and will, if possible, be pushed before the
Committee. 1 have been sent on to assist
you in getting him sweet, again, so that he
will stand by his story, or else keep out of
the way. It must be done at any cost. I
am prepared with the needful. Old 279
and No. 8 were at headquarters the day
before yesterday, and arc furious. We
shall be well rewarded if we save their
bacon. It must be done. Call the mo
ment you receive this. I shall wait till you
come, for I can do nothing without you. I
have also written to your old address.
As ever yours, “M.”
Congressioal Appropriations.
I A Tribune special says the following are
| the principal amounts appropriated by the
last Congress: For tlie services of the
Government, as appear by the acts already
published, which it is belived comprise
nearly all the appropriation acts, legislative
executive and judical Services, $25,412,-
550, civil and miscellaneous services, $5,-
729,043; collecting revenue from customs,
$4,200,000: dqJomaticservice, $1,105,400;
Indian service $3,971,557; naval service.
$18,904 667; military service, $44,237,000;
pensions, $15,440,000; reward for capture
of assassins, $105,000: various acts for de
ficiencies, $205,000 ; total, $122,005,307.
this does not include amounts necessary
to pay the bounties under tlie recent
bounty law, for which no amount is given,
and there are numerous other appropria
tions made to which no sums arc
affixed. r I lie Treasurer already esti
mates the amount required under the
bounty act at from $60,000,000 to S2OO
-and the other objects for which no
special amounts are given at from SIOO,OOO
to SoOO,UOO. Among the items in the civil
appropriation Dill is one directing the
payment out of the commissary fund
arising from the draft, whiclt now
amounts to about $12,000,000, tlie sun
of three hundred dollars for each slave
who either enlisted or was drafted
in the military service, to lie paid to the
loyal owners of slaves. The benefits of the
bill are confined to the slave States repre
sented in Congress since 1864. The amount
necessary to make the payment will be
about $10,000,000. The Commissioners ap
pointed by the Secretary of War to make
rules for the payment of bounties have not
yet concluded their work, but it is under
stood they will make the swindling of.iol
diers and those entitled to the money a
very uphill business. Tlie Commissioner
is now discussing the feasibility of a plan
recommended by the Postmaster General,
for tlie sending of paymasters in each Con
gressional District, and there distribute to
each claimant the specified bounty. This
proposition meets with warm opposition,
as the inability of every soldier to correctly
prepare bis record of papers and the neces
sary expense of bringing two witnesses
from a distance to testify before the pay
master, will lay the soldier liable to a class
of swindlers so numerous during the days
of substitute. State agents are urging
that the money be collected here, and that
as the State records are necessary to he
searched in many eases, special provisions
be made in cases where they file papers
endorsed by the official seal of their State.
Greensboro’, August 25, iB6O
Gentlemen:— There has been much
said and written about the present crop of
cotton, and men have differed widely in
their views upon the subject. The early
I writers—l mean those gentlemen who wrote
; when the crop was planted and commenced
I growing off—run their estimates from
j seven hundred and fifty thousand to one and
a half millions hales, estimates no doubt hon
estly made, and no doubt based upon the
quantity of acres planted, and the number
of freedmon working upon them, and did
not embrace floods, droughts, and the non
working of the freedmon—three essential
elements that have much to do with the
product of the crop. But now we have
! had the drought, flood, and non-workiug of
I freedmon, all to contend with, consequent
ly aomebody must take down Uieir hat. The
| drought has extended all ovar the most en
; tire cotton belt, and the flood has extended
: to the Mississippi bottoms, and the freed
• men have not worked to usual average, and
i the question is, will ihere be made one and
j one-half million balesof cotton. Me candidly
I affirm, from allthe evidence and information
I derived from every source, our opinion is,
j that we are more liable to come under than
to reach the estimate of one and one-half
j million bales, notwithstanding . a very
prominent mathamatician, who is unac-
I quainted with the übiquitous and changea
j ble nature of King Cotton, has created the
I impression in New York, and possibly in
! Europe, that the crop will reach from two
I to two and one-half’ million bales.
To Illustrate: Greene county has usu
ally made from ten to twelve thousand
bales. The present crop will probably yield
from fifteen hundred to two thousand bales
and this is a fair average for the cotton
counties of the State.
Very respectfully, ft j p
John IV. Anderson, an old esteemed citi
zen of Savannah—a maaoflofty prtriotism,
’W’ersalfy acknowl
edged pict>, diedjn Macon on the 22d.
The work upon i Ac Cuthbert factory is
progressing steadily.