Newspaper Page Text
OLD SERIES, VOL. LKXV.
tfluouulc i
HKWfiV MOOKIi,
A. 11. WIIjMIIIT.
TKR .o OK St list UIKTIO.V.
WKKHLV.
• iwiitht '.'.'.'A.'.'. .. YEYYAYAYIi. tv>
J. It. W. JOH NSTON ,
Jfttei'cr.
A I It! 'NT A, <i A :
HKDM’SnU MORMXb, SKl’TKMitl.it 5.
Is it Safe for .Northern People to Come
south 1
- it msty ajt|i< ar lutuany ‘ifour
readers, tliifs question is one which a .S' uttli
crner sojourning at the North is t iHeii
upon to answer many times a day. Our
attention lias been especially directed to it
by the toioimißieatioD from It. 11. Jacqu •*.
Esq., which we publish elsewhere. Ii
avails vew little for Southern papers to re
fer to thi* subject, because the number of
tin:;;- Northern readers is limited compared
to the ihousiif]' and, jxirhap?, millions
wlm read the slanders eirculated anbut
Southern society in the Northern Radical
journals. A 11010111111'.' sense of fielf-refspcet
and regard for truth, as well as our earnest
de ire to induce persons with capital,
energy and enterprise to settle among us
and aid us in rebuilding our seai-twod i,ot'- r
tune* -leads us to protest against th?
that Nortjn mi njen ssjmunsafe in
1 llie Mouth, or tliKftliere i any tlac , respeet
ahle in numbers or intelligence, who are
opposed Oi their coming. Wo solemnly
believe that Northern men are as sale <Oll/-
i’ In 11 in the State of Georgia Ur day as they
are in any district of New England.
II they come here to engage in farming,
in manufacturing, or in trade, they will.
In- everywhere treated with respect and
civility. Several have been engaged in
trade in this city who were officers in
Sherman’s army, which devastated a large
portion of tlm State, and we •have never
heard of the loa-t adront, or indignity of-
I red I hem. W’e must candidly say, Iniw
ever, that those who come to taunt and in
sult our people on account of the war, and
lis advocate negro cipiality and negro suf
(rage, are neither welcome, nor would we
promise them security. The presence A‘\
such men is the chief cause of the riots and
trouble that have occurred in the South
since the war—and it is the falsehoods of
till 1 .vretehes, circulated for political if
frrt, that create the opinion so eurrrent at
the .North, that Northern men are unsafe
here.
He repcetliilly ask that each of our
Northern exchanges friendly to the truth
and to the reconciliation of the parties to
1 lie late unhappy strife will publish these
paragraphs.
In this connection we desire to call at
ti lit ion to the advantages wliieli this State
possesses for immigrants. One of the first
requisites, especially to those with families
is to secure a healthy and agreeable eii
niutc. The statistics show that in these
respects Georgia is unsurpassed by any
Slate in the Union. Though our summers
are long, heat is not as intense as in high
er latitudes, and . the continued genial
weather enables flic fa rmer to secure two
crops mi every acre he tills. Our soil,
though not as fresh or as fertile as the bot
toms and praitics of the West, brings a
liberal reward to the husbandman, and un
der the high culture pursued at the North
and Hast, is more productive than the soil
of those States, and produces a wide.* range i
of marketable staples. Cotton, corn,Js
wheat, rye, oats, barley, hay, peas, pot.a- I
toes, sweet and Irish, are grown in the
liieFTcst perfectsai. Fruits abound in al
most endiess variety, in lulling peaches, j
pi sirs, apples, grapes, figs, nectarines, apri*!
cots, strawberries, melons, Ac. For a!! j
these products our admirable system of]
railroads furnish convenient access to mar
ket. Our fruits ripen from three to four
weeks iii advance of the miudtc States,
giving the Georgia farmer a monopoly of
the Northern markets for early strawber
ries, peaches, Ac.
Lands are cheaper here than inn/wlii ir
in (hr inn Id. There are hundreds of plan
tations now for sale in various parts of the
State, for less than it would cost to clear
anil put the improvements on them.
These are owned hy those who are in debt
and are obliged to sell, or by those who
are not disposed to inaugurate the changed
system of culture which must attend farm
ing w ith free labor. 1 hese lands are not
worn out, hut are productive, healthy up
built farms, with plenty of wood and lim
ber, and in many instances irrigated hy
water courses affording admirable mill
situs.
11 is a shame that the falsehoods of
political agitators should divert the whole
tide of immigration to the West, where the
trials of pioneer life must he endured—
w here markets are remote and inaccessi
ble where the winters are severe and the
summer malaria brings fever and ague
when this favored clime holds out to the
immigrant all the advantages of a settled
and healthy country, with land as cheap
or cheaper, when the cost of improvements
are counted, than the Government lands
of the West.
The Mormons.
Tln> 'Tribune of tlio 21th contains an in
teresting artieleon .'lormonism, from which
we learn tint the total number of this re
markable people in I uah is computed by
them to Ik'from SO.luri to lIHUKH). Others
put it at not over 50.000 or (>O,OOO. The
nutulier in the whoU' world is estimated
tit ItK).OiHk They have missions in Asia.
\triea, Polynesia and Australia, in which
they have desplayed great energy. They
have been most successful in Kuala ml.
Scotland. Wales, Norway and Denmark
from which most of their converts ary
leathered. From 3,000 to ,‘>.ooo emigrants
are gathered together for 1 tali annually
at the various missions, fully half of whom
have been Seandinavians. Brigham Young
jr.. is the foreign President es the Church,
and publishes a paper in Liverpool devoted
to the interests of the Church. lleisL’T
years of aye.
Pn'viotts to leaving for this country they
are organized into companies, or bands,
with separate head officers, who nakeall
artf.tt entents. S no idea of the char
acter of these colonies may be gathered
from the following statement made by one
of the quarantine officers of New York :
"The bark favour recently arrived with 1
a load of them, and an eye-witness that saw
them during the passage says the passen
gers slept together irrespective of sex. and
they appeared to have no regard whatever
for the sacred rites of marriage, and they
were so dirty and tilthy that the stench
arising from them was sickening, and that
several died during the passage to this
I r'Ntn account of the filth. In tact, ot
late tike have boon refused the privilege of
occupying Pastle (Harden, on account ot
their tilth and indecent habits.
On reaching this country many ot them
settle tor a time around New A ork. until
they can make money to get to thcirontier
ot l tali, where they are met by wagons
irom Salt Lake. At Williamsburg there is
a church or branch of about - ' members.
Nearly all ot 1 1 s-, arc English. T\ m.
Parr is President ot this branch. There
are also branches in Newark. Philadelphia
and Cohoes, each having al out fifty mem
bers.
I'hc 7/v/mne.correspondent attended ser
vice at Adelpbi Hall, William-burg, and
say- that services were commenced by the
congregation singing the well-known hymn,
beginning:
1s t every mortal ear attend,
And every heart rejoice.
The trumpet of the Gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.
Prayer was then made by the President
of the Mission, Mr. Miles, in which he
asked the blessing of God upon their Pre
sident, Brigham Young. Th“ sacrament
of the Lord's Supper was thou administer
cd, the elements • used Icing bread and
water. The President then addressed the
congregation at length, claiming that the
Mormon faith recognized revelations from
God in visions and in direct communication,
llie same as Christ taught, and liis follow
ers believed, and he closed by thanking h
Heavenly Father that he had found that,
this religion. Fnecringly called Mormonism,
was the religion of the LordJesii? Ciirist.
Aside from allusions to the B ok of Mor
mon and the teachings of Joseph Smith,
there was. nothing said to which the most
orthodox would object.
Manufacturing.
To show unmistakably the impor
tance of devoting more attention to cotton
manufacturing at the South, it is only
necessary to refer to the immense profit
resulting from the investment in cotton
factories in Lowell. The aggregate capi
tal Invested by her ten large companies is
stated at s'K»,o(i‘>,Ooo. The amount of
cotton consumed is one hundred thousand
Ides; the number c rds produced, ex
cin-ivd of yarns, something over a hundred
millions ; and the number of operatives is
twelve thousami. The operatives arc
■1 no ily winie 11 and '.'iris. It would require
at least thirty thousand field laborers to
raise this cotton, and yet it is converted
intoyarns and cloths by tvjijvi lli'
oporttifes. The process, for mahtiractur
ing tho cotton, about doubles its value, and
the average dividends declared by these
companies is thirty-three percent. When
W'e consider the saving in freight, anil tiie
advantage which the local buyer has over
the agent lor distant companies, it is
manifest that with the same efficient man
agement here which characters ■ the Lowell
compani ;s, a profit of nearly fifty p r cent,
could he realized on tlie investment. This
leaves out of view the general advantages
resulting from such enterprises—increasing
our population~erccting local markets,
and diversifying industrial pursuits. It is
strange that tlie manufacturers of Europe
arc not induced to transfer some of their
capital to the South. They would thus
outflank the tariff imposed for the bene
fit of Eastern manufacturers, and save the
immense amount expended on freights and
charges.
Meeting in Columbus.
A meeting was held in Columbus a few
days ago to ratify the proceedings of the
Philadelphia Convention. The meeting
was largely a.teinli and, and addressed by
lion. .JaniesJohnson, and Marlin .J. (Jrnw
lonl. A committee, consisting of Major
Wiley Williams, Ex-Prov. Gov. .Johnson,
Hon. M. .J. Crawford, .John I’eabouy, ft.
li. Mott, It. 1!. Murdoch and A. R, La
mar, Esq., was appointed.
Tlie following preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Tlie people nf Georgia and of the other
Southern States, having participated i>v
their I lelegates in I he National i ’ nion Cm,,
volition, recently held at, Philadelphia, and
hoingdci p|\ micrested in tlie inflnenecand
results of its laliors upon the public opin
ion of the win>lo country,- and through
public opinion on tlie policy and action of
the 1 ioverninenl of the t 'idled Slates and
il being, therefore, highly .suitable and
proper that the proceedings of that Con
vention should lie the subject of review
mid consideration by us, as a portion of
the Southern people." lie it therefore
Resolved , By the citizens of Muscogee
county, in mass meeting assembled, That
we ratify the action of said Convention,
and hereby endorse the declaration of
principles put lorth by it, cherishing tiie
hope and eonlidenoe that their practical
recognition 1 1 v tho People and t 'overn
ment of tho United States, is all that is
wanted to iieal the wounds of our country,
and make it whole again, and to ensure the
permanent harmony, integrity and well
being of our great Federal' Republic.
Wo observe that if is proposed to hold a
ratification meeting at Cartersvillc at an
early day. It is deemed important., by the
National Executive Committee, that meet
ings he held throughout the South, in sup
port of the Philadelphia movement, to tlie
end that it may he ma le apparent at the
North that tlie Southern people are in
earnest in their desire for restoration ac
cording to the policy of the President. W’e
therefore suggest that county meetings be
held, and that all who wish to see an end
to our present anomalous political cuidi
tion, exert themselves to make these meet
ings effective. The fall sessions of the
Court s, which are now opening, would
perhaps afford convenient occasions for
holding such meetings.
The State Road.
We learn from the fartcrsville Kcpecss
that one who traveled over this road a
year ago would hardly recognize that it is
tin 1 same thorough faro—so great have been
the improvement inaugurated under the
present administration. Governor Jenkins
appears to have been very fortunate ia the
selection of Major Campbell Wallace, as
Superintendent, and bis assistants in all
departments have proven themselves faith
fid and persevering officers. The track
from Atlanta to Chattanooga with the ex
ception of a few miles on this end of the
line, below Marietta—has been put in
thorough order ; several miles of new track
has been laid, new depots have been built,
new machine shops, round house ; many
now and substantial bridges; engines and
ears renovated, and everything along the
line put in perfect order. The road is
bountifully supplied with wood and cross
ties. and everything is working as smooth
as clock-work. These expenditures have
cost vast Mims of money, but the revenues
from the road will, it is believed, be such
as to leave the pockets of the people undis
turbed, and the credit of the State unim
paired.
How to Send Artu i.es to the Paris
Kximtmox.—Congress has provided free
transportation to 1 ’.iris for good; and show
eases in which to exhibit gooes at the Ex
position. as well as competent officers and
guards to take care of them. No article
will be entered or received at the exhibi
tion. except those tor which applications
shall have been duly tiled with, and accept
ed by the General Agent at New York. J.
C. Derby, T mes Building. X 40 Hark
low. All applications, therefore, should
be promptly forwarded to him, as he is re
quired to have the descriptive catalogue
ready by the l oth of next month.
Well Said.— The Fredericksburg II ,-
,\U says well: It is neither necessary nor
incumbent to point out where we agree
and when 1 we disagree with the Philadel
phia ( (invention. e are on the boister
ous deep, and wo mean to get into harbor
1 iefore we have words with the crew. It
will require the energy and good will of
one and all to accomplish that mighty
w irk. Criticism can only distract the pa
triotic men at the head of the movement.
It weak* ns the situ iti< n. It gives
the Radical camp. They s' all get none
from this quarter.
A Freedhan ox Plantation Discip
link. A planter of Sumter entity. Mi-?.,
relates to the Livingston J -mm? an ac
count of an amusing interview between
himsclt and his "head-man." Howard.
Work had not gone to suit him, so. calling
up Howard, he ordered him to quit the
place. Hinging down his hat and assum
ing a " fore Gd attitude, Howard de
livered himself " tliusly
Mass’r. I don’t wish to dictate you. or
any thing o’ dat kind. But don't tell dis
nigger to lobe. Now Esc bin in de family
thirty years, and when I doesn't do right,
jus take dis nigger's shir: off an' whin him
to vour satisiaetion, and he'll be a better
nigger. I doesn't want no such freedom
as~mak.es me lebe home when I don’t
do right. And. Mass'r. when deso udder
11 i„ r ~ doe sen tdo right, et 1u - - you. I
wouldn’t go to de buro. Eil whip em for
you—case es I goes to de buro gm another
nigger, dev pavs no tendon : but when you
dev makes vou pay money. Bat’s all
de buro's fur. An. Mas.-'r. since you lost
all your niggers, you can t afford it.
The census of Mobile shows a impulsion
of 50,000.
LLTTER FKIJM JEW YORK.
The Philadelphia Convention and its Re
sults.
(Special Correspondence of the Chronicle A: Sent*et.|
New York, August 25,18G6.
The Conservative movement inaugura
rted at Philadelphia is fast gaining force
and volume in the North. The Radical,
no less than the Conservative papers af
fi >rd abundant proof upon this point. But
independent of evidence of this character, I
find upon inquiry behind the scenes,
among persons in a position to lie well
infilrmed, that there is every reason to be
have that tho approaching Fall elections will
r -ult in large additions to the supporters
of the President’s policy in the next Con
gress. Conservative Bcpublicnns, war
Democrats and Copperherds, so-called, are
alike confident of success, and are co-ope
rating wi»h each other in a manner as earn
est as it is gratifying. .Since my arrival
liere from Philadelphia, 1 have been in
communication with leading men in all
tlic.se political organizations, and find that
tliey have buried the tomahawk, and are
now getting ready to call a grand mass
meeting where they*will smoke the
pipenof peace. Indeed, when a few weeks
.-ball have passed, we shall hea r no more of
Democrats, Copperheads or Republicans,
among the supporters of the President.
The new orainization which is y;o rapidly
rising %it of the ashes of those old and
effete parties will thereafter he known as
the Conservative Party, or the National
Union Party—probably the former. This
organization will embrace nine-tenths of
the Southern people, and a majority of the
Northern, including among the latter, com
mercial and business men generally, both
in the larger cities and the country. Per
haps this remark will nrt apply to New
England, hut even there considerable gains
are expected cn the popular vote, especial
ly in Connecticut, New Hampshire and
Maine. Even in Boston, there is some
prospect of returning two Conservative
members to Congress.
It is understood among the political
leaders here that a Democrat will ho nom
inated for Governor of this State—pre >ba
hly .Mayor Hoffman of this city, or
Murphy, of Brooklyn, and a Conserv
ative Republican for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. For Congress it is proposed
tn run Democrats ia those Districts
where the Democratic party has a majority,
and to nominate Republicans In those Dis
tricts where that party is in the ascenden
cy. The only test required of candidates
will be their conformity to the platform of
principles laid down at Philadelphia. The
leaders of these respective divisions”of tlie
Conservative party seem to he perfectly
agreed upon these points, and are working
together with perfect harmony. In this
respect their example will doubtless bo
imitated by the great mass of their follow
ers. This course, if pursued, as it doubt
less will ho, will.it is believed, lead to the
formation of a compact and homogenious
party by the next Presidential election,
embracing tho Conservative elements of
the North, and most of its wealth and in
telligence. In numbers there can hardly
he any doubt hut that this new movement
will carry with it a decided majority of the
people.
To do this, however, the most earnest
and unremitting efforts will be necessary.
But these efforts will be made. I have
never known a people more in earnest than
these Northern Conservatives are. They
clearly perceive that the only alternative to
their success is Radical misrule, and, per
haps, disunion and civil war. Even the
peace and safety of the country, they readi
ly acknowledge, now depends upon the res
toration of the South, or rather upon doing
justice to her people, and they have gone
to work in a manner that leaves hardly any
doubt of final success.
The success of the Conservatives of tho
North will depend upon another contingen
cy, namely: Upon the conduct of tho
Southern people and the manner in which
they shall receive and act upon tlie Phila
delphia resolutions. It is true that the bat
tle for our rights will be fought in the North
and by Northern Conservatives; yet it is
none the less true that weeando much toem
liarrass as well as to aid them in the conflict.
Every intemperate expression by a Southern
man or journal, every act that can be
misrepresented into a wrong to -the freed
men, aid any untimely or unseemly de
mand of rights clearly ours under the Con
stitution and laws,of the land, only hurts
ourselves and helps our enemies. Upon*
this point there can be no doubt. And if
our people cannot bide their time —-if
they cannot exercise the necessary patience,
forbearance and discretion, they need not
expect either success in the approaching
elections in the North, or an early remov
al of the burdens under which they now
groan.
To a Southern man here upon the
ground, who is somewhat conversant with
the purposes and feelings of the Radical
and Conservative parties, it appears very
strange that the action of the Philadelphia
Convention should meet with such opposi
tion as it does from certain individuals and
journals in the South. This remark is
ventured with the most perfect respect
and the kindest feelings for the
journals and individuals alluded to.
There are several things, in the
resolutions and address, adopted by the
Convention to which it could not be ex
pected that the people of the South would
be able to give their assent. Indeed there
was probably not a delegate in the whole
Convention who approved of everything
that was done. It is not expected in such
a Convention as that held at Philadelphia
that a result could be reached which would
be satisfactory to every body. It is cer
tainly true, that but very few, if any of
the Southern delegates were able to ap
prove of all that was done. It were the
wildest folly to hope that the beaten par
ty in a great civil war appearing for the
first time in a Convention with their con
querors, would be able to have everything
just as they might desire. The Northern
delegates met us with great kindness and
cordiality—= line of them even with tears
—but it would have been extreme, itnpu
dctiee on our part, especially where they
are now fighting our battles with so much
earnestness, and when there is no
contest at the S«uth, to ask them
to shape the action of the Convention with
exclusive reference to tlieviewsand feelings
of the Southern people.
I may add in conclusion that the tide is
setting strongly in favor of the President's
policy and the Philadelphia movement,
and quite as strongly against those, whether
in the North or in the South, who have
placed themselves in opposition. The on
h- party test now recognized here is that of
approval or disapproval of the President s
policy of restoration, and the action of the
Philadelphia Convention. The Conserva
; tives everywhere approve of the policy o
the President and the Philadelphia rosolu
tious. The Radicals and fanatics every
where oppose and denounce them. No
ether issues will be presented to the Ameri
can people- for some years to come. Our
P' should not t arget this, and above ]
all -..1u1l they remember that every man
who joins the opposition, whatever may be
his intentions, is practically a recruit to the
ranks of the Radicals, an abetter of
Stevens and Sumner. P. W. A.
ihe police force of Savannah, as at
mvsent organized, consists of ninety pri
vates. ten supernumaries. nine officers,
and a detective corps of one officer and
six men, in all one hundred and sixteen
effectives, with full authority under exist
ing ordinance, for the Mayor and Chief of
Police to employ for any emergency, should
circumstances require it, such additional
number of supernumaries as shall seem to
them needful.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1866.
Tlie Spiritualists in Council.
Tlie Spiritualists, so-called, had a Na
tional Convention in Providence; R. 1.. on
Tuesday last. About three hundred dele
gates were present. Mr. Picrpont, of the
District of Columbia, was made temporary
chairman, and Mr. Newman YV eeks, ot
Vermont, was chosen President, with a
number of 5 ice Presidents, mole and fe
male. To the credit cf the .South, no
names of her people figure in the blasphe
mous harangues which characterized the
proceedings, save a Mr. Washington Dan
skin. of Baltimore. It was a mixture of
New England fanatics, infidels and woman's
rights people.
We append a synopsis of the proceedings
which exhibit a rare modleviof tratrondal
isin, infidelity, blasphemy, woman’s rights,
miscegenation and nonsense.
Mr. Wadsworth, of Chicago, opened
with a sort of diagnocis of the new phi
losophy, which wc hardly know whether to
class as
Tit ANCEND ENT A L ISM OR NONSENSE.
Spiritualism enables the human soul to
elevate and progress itself, and it puts the
veil between earth and heaven. This di
vinity in nature is absolute and universal.
Nothing is outside of God, and God is not
outside of any tiling.' Every human soul
that has life presents all that is essentially
divine. With the spiritual phenontva be
fore us, opening our way into the next
•WO! Id. the hfts¥me .'fJable ftvoirfs f\m
should return to this earth, and the rela
tions of this world. Is it not enough to
know that those we seem to have lost are
not lost.
INFIDELITY AND BLASPHEMY.
Miss Johnson —who was pretty and spoke
like a book —saw in the increasing numbers
of the Spiritualists the prospect of legisla
tive power, enabling them to build scoool
houses; she would not say churches, for
they had too long cursed humanity.
Mr. A. B. Child was well satisfied that
there is no such thing as death —that Christ
and Fourier were worthy of our imitation—
that the devil was necessary in his day 7,
but would go down. _ "
Mr. Foss told some amusing stories —the
concluding one being of anew convert,
who, upon being asked whether she be
lieved the Son was equal to the Father, re-
plied, “Well, considering the advantages
lie had, I think he is.” (Laughter.) lie
had preached the old doctrines about an
endless hell, an angry God, and a devil, but
lie had quit all that.
AN EYE TO BUSINESS.
A gentleman called attention to a cu
rious window fastener, which he declared
had been invented at the suggestion of a
spirit. It was patented and for sale cheap.
woman’s rights, miscegenation, Ac.
—Mr. IT. C. Wright offered some resolu
tions against war, and in favor of giving
suffrage and equality to all sexes and
colors, save those who attempted to des
troy tlie government.
NONSENSE.
Most of the proceedings belong proper
ly 7 under this head. A long series of reso
lutions were introduced, the first of which
is as follows :
1. Wc discover no practical unity in any
of the various ceremonies, rites, and for
mulas of any 7 of the various chui ches, and
therefore abandon all and establish none,
leave each individual to follow the dictates
of his’oi; her conscience, believing that God
cannot be informed, influenced,_ glorified,
or praised by human or finite beings.
Another resolution claims perfect “equali
ty in rights, duties, responsibilities and
opportunities for development of both
sexes and all races of human boings.
Other resolutions discountenance _ the
excessive use of animal food, especially
hog meat—and also rum and tobacco.
Another favors the cultivation of music,
dancing and gymnnstics ; and another dis
countenances >Sabbath Schools and alft
sectarian teaching ; another declares that
there are no rewards or responses to mere
words of prayer or praise, and claims that
we must do our praying in acts of charity.
A discussion arose as to whether this
Convention was superior _ or subordinate
to the Spiritual Convention, which was
held at Philadelphia, and something was
Bald aTjOUX tire C2t.v-lu.cion of*' riaoirtDorr; '
A WOMAN WANTS SOMETHING TO DO.
A Miss Hutchings, of Massachusetts,
thought Spiritualists were as scarce as Chris
tians. She was for activity and if any
body was to be excluded she would be ex
cluded. Ir anybody was to go to hell, she
wanted to go with him—she would work for
humanity in hell if necessary. What good
had the Convention done ? Nothing.
What good did resolutions do when people
were suffering in their stomachs ! She
wanted to do something.
A “pome” FROM GEN. JACKSON.
Sanford B. Swan delivered a “I’oem”
professing to be dictated by the spirit of
Andrew Jackson. It opens as follows :
Friends of freedom, awake !
All that’s dear is now at stake;
Bird on your armor for tlie light,
Thus all with you will bo right.
God, thus far, has crowned y 7 ou with suc
cess ;
Peal justly and lie will you bless
With victory o’er the rebel host,
His angles will chase them from your
coast.
Tennessee, where my bones do lay,
Which long for victory did pray,
To-day, in God’s name, can shout.
Knowing their rebel foes are driven out.
Grant, who never did surrender.
He, with veteran troops, came in splendor
To Chattanooga’s bloody battle-Held,
Where ho made Bragg to quail and yield ;
His rebel columns are now broke in twain,
While Longstreot did yield in pain.
They say, to tight tho Yanks there is no
fun
hook up, friends of freedom, behold them
run.
We trust no admirer of old Hickory will
think hard of us for not publishing the
whole of this rare production. At its con
clusion, the members, in the suggestive
language of Miss Hutchings, went to look
after their suffering stomachs. Many it is
believed, started in a wild hunt for a Luna
tic Asylum.
Such is a fair synopsis of the proceedings
of this pow wow ofcrazy fools and fanatics
—as reported for the Now York World—
• who propose to break down the accepted
! forms of evangelical religion, and establish
' in its place the sensless jargin of vagaries
! indicated in the proceedings.
The Fall Election in Ohio.
The Chicago Tribune has an estimate of
the State elections this Fall, which, ac
cording to its figures, are to be largely for
the Radicals. We can only judge of its
reliability from the figures on Ohio, which
it puts down 35,000 tor the Radicals, who
are to. carry all the Congressmen, except
two or three. This convinces us that the
Tribune man has no knowledge at what lie
guesses at in any of the States.
The best informed in political mat
ters in Ohio, observe the same sign
that proceeded the election in ISO-, when
the Republicans carried five members to
the Democrats fourteen. The quarrel be
tween the President’s friends and the mil
itary leaders at that time created a feeling
that entirely destroyed the Republicans
and the Republican Congress. There is
the same general want of confidence in
those who have been trying to regulate
affairs.
The Republicans will, we presume, car
rv the three Congressional districts in the
Western Reserve. It they carry any Con
gressmen outside of that territory it will
be after the closest contest, and by their
pood luck. . .
There is much in the sums ot ine times
• lLjdi
cals. not only in Ohio, but in all the Nor
thern State-'. The chances are that very
few of the Jacobins will be returned to
Congress.— Cbtcinitnt>. Enquu-rer.
Major J. L. Williams, known in this
State as an eminent engineer, lias been ap
pointc-d chief engineer of the railroad from
Blue Mountain to Dalton, and James L.
Cooper, formerly of the State Road, is to
be his assistant. We agree with the Rome
Courier that the railroad companies in
terested are exceedingly fortunate in se
curing the services of gentlemen so
thoroughly versed in the duties of their
offices, and whose successful experience
gives confidence to all parties interested.
The Macon Messenger 'say that Alexan
der "Redding |shot his brother-in-law,
Charles Cherry, on Saturday night, killing
him instantly. The difficulty occurred in
the store of Cherry on cotton avenue, in
the presence of his wife, who. in trying to
prevent bloodshed narrowly escaped being
killed herself, a shot passing through her
Jeeve. Redding was arrested and im
prisoned.
The Southern Delegates at the Phila
delphia Convention. :
Tho following article alluded so in our
Editorial letter of the 22d inst.; freto New
1 ork, is from the New York Ifetshl. We
have every reason to believe thl it was
written by one of the So lthertfjjf. legates
who was a member of the GencfU Com
mittee on the Platform and Add,,- and
who was also one of the Sub-(hi rinV/" of
hirtecn , which prepared and repp ted those
papers. The statements it ecu fains we
know to be true —much more mil’it have
been said of the unfair and treacherous
manner in which the true SoutSorn men
on the Committee were in
that report. Mr. Raymond has not denied
the statements made in this article, and
in truth he c-annot gainsay a single state
ment it contains. We wish the Foutliern
people to-kuow the name of the Ohio del
egate wlm moved in the sub-cojuLittee to
strike out the objectionable matter. It
was Maj. Gen. McCook, late of. tlm Fede
ral army. This gentleman showed pmfcli
more appreciation for true Southern fcel
. ng than either of the Southern men named
in the article which follows:
There are certain facts connected with
the Philadelphia Convention which have
come to our knowledge that deserve
to he stated, and which relieve, some
of the Southern delegates £' qn the
«»i,-ure v,e have’ hc'.vtoforir expressed.
It is but just to observe that these
gentlemen generally did not, in attending
the Convention, hope, or expect, or desire
to exorcise a controlling influence in shap
ing the action of that body. Their chief
object was to testify, by their presence,' tho
peaceful disposition of their constituents,
their desire to have all the States restored
to their constitutional relations with the
Government, and their perfect readiness
to unite with Conservative men oi ail
parties in the North in the work of resto
ration. The duty, therefore, of preparing
a platform of principles and drawing up an
address to the people of the United States
was tiie work of tlie Northern delegates
rather than of the Southern delegates.
The latter merely assented to what was
offered by the former, not so much because
they approved of everything that was of
fered, but because the delegates from tlie
North were of opinion that such a decla
ration of principles was not only just and
proper in itself, but essential to their suc
cess in the elections to he held this fall.
While insisting, as we do, that there are
some things in the address and declaration
of principles adopted by the Convention at
Philadelphia to which Southern men can
not assent without a sacrifice of both prin
ciples and self-respect, the explanation
which we have offered above, and which
we know to be founded in truth, should be
fairly considered.
There is, however, another explanation,
which we make upon tlie authority of dele
gates to the Conventon. There arc certain
terms and phrases which were employed
by the writer of the address to characterize
the late unhappy civil war, and one of the
parties to it, that could add nothing cither
to tlie force or the dignity oi'the appeal
which it makes to the popular mind, and
which are yet well calculated to wound the
sensibilities of a large class of the
‘Southern people. The phraseology here
alluded to was the subject of dis
cussion in the sub-committee of thirteen
who were charged with the duty of
preparing the resolutions and address. It
was contended by at least one Southern
delegate on that committee that these’ ex
ceptionable parts of the resolutions and
address should bo eliminated as wholly un
necessary, and when done, that it would
not make those papers any the less effect
ive while it would render
them far more acceptable in the South.
Certain other delegates from the South
were unable to detect anything in the ad
dress, in this respect, which required to bo
changed. Northern delegates on tlie com
mittee were, however, more liberal, and
especially certain military gentlemen who
had met the people of the South on the
battle field, and knew how to respect them
for their courage and honorable bearing.
Indeed, so reasonable did the request of
the Southern delegate alluded to seem to
tho Northern members of the committee,
-that it was liTiafiy agreed u.iaii; ujv. Jy,
upon the motion of a gentleman from Ohio
lately in the military service of tho United
States, that the offensive and unnecessary
terms and phrase? used in the address
should be sricken out, and the member of
the committee in whose hands the address
was left was instructed to perform that
duty. The duty, however, was not per
formed, and tho address was read the next
day without these alterations being made.
Whether t his was the result of oversight,
forgetfulness, or design, we are not pre
pared to say. Perhaps Mr. Raymond
could throw some light on the subject.
The fact here stated should have its due
weight in the South, and our friends in
that quarter shou'd remember that if they
were not correctly represented in all re
spects in the Convention, they neverthe
less did have some delegates there who
made an earnest effort to render the action
of that body as acceptable to them as pos
sible. If these gentlemen failed, it was not
their fault, nor the fault of the delegates
from tho North, so much as it was of that
class of Southern delegates of which Mr.
Graham, of North Carolina, Governor
Perry, of South Carolina, and Governor
Marvin, of Florida were the acknowledged
leaders.
The Loyal German Party and the Grand
Union Convention.
At a meeting of the General Committee
of the German Democratic Union Party,
held last evening at the Germania Assem
bly Rooms, the President, John J. Freed
man, Esq., m the chair, on motion of Mag
nus Gross, Esq., editor of the New York
Sfruits Zntung , tlie following preamble
and resolutions were unanimously adopted:
II hercas, The German Democratic
union Party was organized during the first
year of civil war for the purpose of
aiding the Government in its endeavors to
suppress the rebellion and combat disunion
ism in whatever form it might manifest it
self : and
Whereas, In order to be better able to
promote these patriotic objects, the Ger
man Democratic Union Party did, in the
year aforesaid, declare itself independent
oi all other oriraTiizations founded strictly
upon old Democratic party doctrines, and
adopt the name of Democratic Union
i arty with the express proviso that the
same should be retained as long as the Un
ion of t.ie e tates remained in danger, and
the. authority of the Government of the
I moil Mas not completely restored over all
tlm states and Territories of the United
States : and
. N hercas , That German Democratic Un
ion i arty has faithfully pursued these
avowed objects during all' the vicissitudes
oHlir war, and has never hesitated to form
alliances with other political elements enter
taining similar views for the promotion of
those objects, and has always been ready
and willing to sacrifice mere party interests
and advantages to the interest sos the 1 Al
ien an J the whole country; and
Whereas. The German Democratic Union
Party, actuated by the same views -ml
principles, did at the close of the war con
demn the acts of Radical Disunion's! s in
just and severe terms, as
thereto denounced the nets of sceossionGts
and Peace Democrats, and did in J, t j lO
National 1 nion policy of the patriotic" \n
drew Johnson, and had endeavored already
during the elections of 18<;r> to demon-trap'
A-‘ ’ e- re fleet SC-it I-; Al ;
about and understanding and em vtivU oo d
operation between the Union
: ami iConservative Republicans : therefore
I be it
Resolved, That the ( Arman Democratic
j Union Party regard with joyful . motion
! the proceedings of the National rni,,n
; Convention, held at Philadelphia on the
August,
i eisive stop toward the realization of its
j own obi. As. and recognizes the tledara
; tion of Principles and the Address to the
People of the United States, adopted hv
said Convention, as the emli - lim-ntof tile
views and principles so long ami dearly
cherished by this organization sin.-e it’s
existence.
Resolved, That the brotherly reunion be
tween the North and South effected by
and the rare unanimity and harmony
cl: '.racterizimr tiie entire pro-■ jq
said Onve.'iti >n. su-.v-t gn a ' ran .
tee of the National Union movement in
augurated thereby, the downfall of Radical
Disunionism in consequencenee thereof,
and the final restoration ot the Union upon
the truly National and Constitutional
foundation laid down by President John
son.
Resolved, Tiiat the German Democratic
Union Party will heartily support the Na
tional Union moveni-iit many united at
Philadelphia, and will exert its best en
:. -:, \ ratio insure ess £,
Resoled, Tiiat all German -itizens and
clubs sympathizing with these declared
objects, are hereby invited to co-operate
with us for the promotion of the same.
It black dresses have stains upon them,
boil a handful of fig leaves in a quart of
water and reduce it to a pint; an 1 a sponge
dipped in this liquid and rubbed upon
them will entirely remove stain- from
crape, bombazines, &e,
INDSTINCT PRINT.
An Alabamian upon tiie Situation
Who is He? —That fair and conscienti
ous journal, the Cincinnati Gazette, pub
lishes a letter purporting to come from a
prominent citizen of Alabama, which states
that “The South is ju.-t as rebellious in
feeling to-day as it was in 1 SCO,” and hopes
“Congress will bring our people back to
their senses before these States are allowed
representation." He hopes “the Repub
licans will carry every State in the fall
elections,” and concludes with the crown
ing and astounding, and devilish falsehood
that “Every difficulty you hear of occur
ring in the South is tlie work of the lately
reconstructed rebels. I don’t care wliat
the newspapers may say, disloyalty is at
the bottom of it all.” A man that will
write such stuff is a disgrace to humanity;
and an editor who will publish it, for tlie
truth, is no better.
Southern Beggars at the North. —
The Tribune indulges in quite a caustic
rebuke to certain parties from the South
who, it alleges, have been making appeals
in the North for money for various chari
table projects at the South. We are not
aware that any representative people of the
Spilth have visited the North on any such
■missions. A few adventurers like Captain
Bryant, failing to make a living out of the
poor froedtnen, have gone on begging ex
pcditionsTo sustain their sinking fortunes.
It is a pretty safe thing to set down any
man who goes to that country to beg for
money as a humbug. We need money, and
have found Northern capital very advanta
geous. and would like more of it, but we
are still able to pay for its use.
Tub Douglas Monument.—Great pre
parations are being made for the Douglas
monumental ceremonies on the Gtli prox.
All the railroads leading into Chicago will
carry passengers on that occasion at one
fifth the usual fare. Rooms for President
Johnson and party have been engaged at
the Sherman House. We acknowledge
the receipt of an invitation to be pre rent,
at the above ceremonies, for which the
committee will accept our thanks. All
parties at the South acknowledge the
ability of Senator Douglas, and however
they may have estimated his political prin
ciples, recognize the propriety of rearing a
monument to his memory.
Provost Marshal’s Bureau.—An or
der was issued on the 20th, from the War
1 Jcpartment abolishing the Bureau and of
fice of the Provost Marshal General, and
requiring that hereafter all business rela
ting to tliat department be conducted
through tho Adjutant General’s office,
where clerks and officers will be retained
to discharge all the required duties. Ex
isting orders and regulations framed for the
Provost General’s Bureau, insofar as they
arc applicable, will remain in force, and the
officers in the respective States and Terri
tories will bo continued until otherwise or
dered hy instructions from the Adjutant
General.
From Havana.—The steamer Manhat
tan arrived at New York on Thursday
last, with Havana dates to the ] Sth. Rig
orous quarantine of American vessels was
maintained, Havana was effectually block
aded thereby, and as a result, provisions
were rapidly advancing in price.
The Captain General has recently ban
ished one hundred and sixty-six notorious
ly bad characters—of whom seventy were
whites—for the rest of their lives, to the
Island of Fernando Po, in Africa.
Business in Havana was very dull.
Several cargoes of Coolies have lately ar
rived.
Removals.—The Radical papers are
raising a terrible howl EY'jji the announce
ment (if the President that those who ac
cept office under him will be expected to
sustain his policy. Let them how!. It is
better that they vent their rage in a few
impotent howls than that tlie country be
longer cursed with their abuse of official
power. I?is time that the work in de
fence of tho Union and the Constitution be
made vigorous and effective. To oppose
tho policy of the President is to he an
enemy to a Constitutional Union—so off
with the heads of tho destructives —the
sooner the better.
Bogus Land Agents.—A colored ex
soldier by the name of Alexander Bas
comb has been imposing on the freedmen
about Tallahassee, by representing himself
as an agent under tbe new homestead law.
A number of his victims detected the fraud,
and took him before the Freedmen’s
Bureau, where, in default of his refunding
the money lie had received, he was sent to
jail. ‘ Freedmen should be very eareful
who they negotiate with for lands under
this law. It will be seized upon by un
principled sharpers to defraud them.
Oberlin College.—This institution,
which admits to college honors white and
black men and women on terms.of perfect
equality, held its 33d annual commence
ment on the 21st and 22d. There were no
graduates in the theological department,
for the reason, stated by the Tribune ,
that the “theologies” were among the first
300 volunteers, and fought so far into ac
tive life that they never came back. They
are still, wc suppose —like the soul of old
John Brown —their patron saint—“march
ing on.”
Tiie Noble Soldiers of Missouri. —
A society for the relief of Southern wid
ows and orphans, at St. Josephs, Mo.,
has sent §I,OOO, to Gov. Orr, of South
Carolina, to ho appropriated in his discre
tion, to the needy classes named in that
State. Mrs. Abell, President of the So
ciety, writes very cheerfully to Governor
Orr, regretting that the contribution is not
larger, and .states that the Society has
sent from time to time, aid to the widows
and orphans of Georgia, Tennessee and
Arkansas, and expect tos persevere in the
pleasing work.
Gs.n t . Howard's Successor as Chief
of tiie Freshmen \s Bureau. —IV ashing
ton advices ofthe22d, state that a dispatch
was sent to General Tilson, Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for
the State of Georgia, now temporarily so
journing at Saco, Maine, instructing him
not to return South, as his services would
soon be required to relieve General How
ard as Chief of the Bureau. It is presumed
that the change will be made during the
present month.
From Japan.— A San Francisco dis
patch. of the 23d. says that the war of the
T nsagaii t Chasm had seen ended by
eonfiscat'ng one-third of the revenue of
the latter, relieving Miso of power and
transferring his rank to his grandson.
Riots were reported at Osaka and Yeddo
on account of the high price for rice—
§:,.so per picul. The Japanese are send
ing large quantities of goods to the Paris
I exhibition.
The Italians, Hawaians anil Danes are
i trying to effect a treaty with the Japanese,
who are averse to further engagements.
Hog Cholera. —We were informed.
! yesterday, says the Livingston Joar/uP, of
the isth. that the hog cholera is prevailing
to an alarming extent in some parts oi the
country. The name of one planter was
given who has, within a short time, lost
o, «) head. A somewhat imilar disease is
; prevailing among the chickens, m the
same neighborhood, and to a great ex
; tent.
Chance fop. a.Brlsii. — Ihe people of
Tennessee are talking seriously of getting
up a convention to make tne government
; o f that State represent the popular will.
Brownlow declares iu the last number of
the Whig that if the convention should be
attempted, be will call out the loyal
militia and put it down, or die in tlic at
i tempt.
Emigration to the South.
Mf.ssrs. Editors : In the course of some
excellent and timely remarks on the sub
ject of Emigration in a late number of your
well conducted and influential journal, you
say:
“Every train of ears hears to the _ Great
West hundreds of stout arms, which be
come at once a productive element in those
growing States. . Is there any real reason
why the South may not share in thi> swell
ing ride which is pouring wealth and power
iuto a region less desirable in almost all re
spects than the cotton States?”
There is a reason why the South is not
viour sharing this influx of population, in
dustry, and wealth, and. though based on
“false facts. ’ and an utter misapprehension
of the true state of things in your section, it
is nevertheless “realenough," practically,
aad will have its effect till’it shall be re
moved. I have had some experience in
the matter, am well acquainted with pub
lic sentiment here, among Northerners
and Europeans, and can speak with confi
dene 3 on the point in question.
Emigrants are deterred from going
Smith bi/ the alleged opposition and hos
tiliti/of the Southern people, and the dis
quiet and unpleasantness, to say nothing
Os the personal danger, which, it is inferred,
must result from this state of feeling.
Thousands are now looking longingly to
ward your sunny clime —'“the laud of the
myrtle and vine” —(and as our inclement
winter approaches their number will be
doubled) but they hpsitate to take the firs';
step in that direction. They are well-dis
posed, industrious, quiet, peaceable peo
pwr fold have nU dire ire to thrust them
selves upon a resident papulation opposed
to their presence, and who would look
upon them with aversion and distrust, if
not with a more active hostility. Tliey do
notS wish to go South to “continue the
war” in another form—to be subjected to
annoyance, insult, and violence, as they
are led to lear they would be.
1 aui well acquainted with tho Southern
people, from long residence among them,
and having also visited the South since the
close of the war, I know how groundless,
in tho main, are tho fears I have alluded
to, and how false the “sensation” stories
so industriously circulated by a certain class
of journals on which the misapprehensions
of the would be-emigrant are based ; but I
find it difficult to remove entirely tlie false
impression. “There must be something in
it,” say even those who have in general lit
tle faith in the stories and assertions of
Radical papers and politicians; and tlie
belief that there is “something in it” is
greatly strengthened hy such articles as
those so widely copied from the Richmond
Whig , in which the editor urges the ‘South
ern people, to oppose immigration, refuse
to sell tlieir land to Northerners and make
the country too uncomfortable for them to
live in. Badadvisersyu'e all such, however
honest, and the articles 1 refer to have
done the South and the whole country,
through her, more harm than a hundred
abusive editorials'in the New York Tribune
could have done. While such articles con
tinue to he published in influential South
ern papers, the Radicals will not lack capi
tal for their political operations against
“the States lately in rebellion” and the
current of emigration will not set strongly
toward the South. You may well exclaim,
“save us from our friends.”
What is needed now, to encourage emi
gration to the South, i.s trustworthy infor
mation in regard to the present condition
of the country, and the real disposition of
the people towards those who may desire to
settle among them to engage in,the peace
ful pursuits of industry. There arc hun
dreds of papers at tlie North which would
gladly publish statements on these points
from well-informed Southerners, and such
statements would do more than anything
else to promote immigration. I have no
doubt but that an article on the subject in
your much esteemed and influential journal
would bo widely copied, and find thousands
of deeply interested readers in tlie North.
Not sharing in the misapprehensions of
which I have been constrained to speak,
and hoping soon to make my home among
tho pine hills of Middle Georgia, I have a
common interest with you, Messrs. Editors,
in the diffusion of correct information in
regard to the South and the Southern peo
ple. D. 11. Jacques.
New York , August 1 Sf/i, I SCO.
“Protection of the City from Floods.”
Messrs.- Editors: plan of .-em
bankment srtiirge amount or 'earth will lie
required which the immediate location can
not supply, and there arc perhaps many
persons who will consider it impracticable
on that account to construct the embank
ment with the dimensions 1 have proposed;
but looking to tlie economy and facility
with which earth may be moved for consul
era!fie distances by means of a temporary [
railway, I would suggest that a largo
amount of tho very best material could be
obtn ined by excavating the three additional
basins of the Water Works, and using the
spoil bank now “cumbering the ground ’
south of the basin. It is not expected
tliat tho locality just mentioned would fur
nish all the earth required, therefore I
would suggest the extension of tlie railway
on tfie south bank of the canal to the deep
cut of the canal at Warren’s, just above
Ilae’s Creek, wherejan almost unlimited
supply could be procured.
it may be asked, if a railway is to be
used, why not take the earth from the j
cliff on the South Carolina Railroad, just
below Hamburg ? Tlie answer is obvious,
for even if our Hamburg friends would
consent to such an appropriation of their
part of the earth, they would no doubt ex
pect to get a good price for it. While by
using our own resources as above indicated,
we would not only get the earth at a chcafi
rate, hut would be at the same time ac
complishing three most useful purposes to
wit-: constructing, the embankment, exca
vating the basin, and to some extent pro
moting the enlargement of the canal.
I do not know enough of the street rail
road project to appreciate any advantage
to be derived from a connection with it and
the proposed railway. It is likely, however,
that with tlieir teams and cars ready fin
operation, an arrangement could be made
which would be of advantage to both ...par-
ties.
You are probably aware that the main
objection to the use of the water from the
new Water Works is, that the water is
not clear. This is attributable, to some ex
tent, to the non-completion of the present j
basins and tlie want of storage .room for
settling. With the present basins dupli
cated. or even with one large basin and the
completion of the others, I have no doubt
but that the water could be made as cical
as that from Turknett Spring, and I be
lieve there is no question as to its being
otherwise equally pure.
The enlargement of the Canal is a sub
ject which will soon force itseft upon the
consideration of our people. And as there
is now upon it one of the best arranged
Powder Works in the country, if not in the
world, it is hoped the Government, now
owning them will turn them to account, and
in doing so. find it advantageous to assist
in making the enlargement. If the earth
for the contemplated embankment is taken
from the deep cut at Warren’s, it will, of
course, save so much of the expense of en
largement.
Respectfully, &c.,
, As Old Engineer.
The Territorial (Jains of Prussia.
The kingdom of Prussia, according so
the latest census of 1804, numbered
19.304,843. In consequence of its recent
brilliant campaign, the government will
receive the following additions:
1. In virtue of the treaty with Austria,
the two Duchies of Chleswig and Holstein,
which, in 1804, had a population of
900 990. The people of .Northern Chics
wig will, however, have a chance to vote
on uieir annexation to Denmark. Thus
the number of people annexed to Prussia
may be reduced to 800.000.
2. It has-been announced that Prussia
will annex the whole of the four States,
which had, in 1804, the following popula
tion :
iianove, 1,923,492 llcKse-Cassel, 7-i-%06'.t
Nassau, -T)S,:;il Frankfort, 91. Iso
Together these States wou'd add to the
Prussian monarchy 3,228,040 inhabitants.
3. I Iv- e-Darmstadt. by a special treaty
with Prussia, cedes to the latter Power the
former Landgravate of Hcsse-Hamlmrg,
which hut recently, in consequence of the
death of the last childless Landgrave, had
been united with Hesse-Darmstadt. It
lias a population of 26,817 inhabitant -.
4. Bavaria is let off by victorious Prus
sia with the cession of the district of Lich
tenfels. and the town of Calmbacli, both. in
the circle (kreis) of Upper. Franconia,
They may represent a population of about
30 .<>oo inhabitants.
j Altogether, the territory which Prussia,
; according to the latest accounts, intended
. to incorporate with its own dominions, has
: a population of about 4,050,090.
According to the tables of the English'
Emigration Commissioners, during the
fifty-one years which have elapsed since
j 1814. there have left the 1 nited Kingdom
1 5,901,513 emigrants, of whom 3,597,780,
or nearly til per cent, have come to the
United States. .Since 1848 the emigrants
to the United States have sent back the
enormous sum. of §13,770,539 to their
friends in the United Kingdom.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV. NO. 37.
The Labor Congress.
Baltimore. August 24.-1„ the Labor
Congress to-day, the report of the Uom
mutee on Finance was taken up, looking
to a levy oi a tax of five dollars on each
delegate excepting tlie Baltimore delega
tion. After some discussion it was ]
.adopted.
• Overton offered a resolution provid
ing for a full report of the conference with
the I resident ot the “United .States, which
"’as adopted.
Mu tamers, of Maryland, chairman of
t i° t ommjttee on Resolution:', submitted
the following :
Y hereas, Ihe growing and alarming en
eroainnicnt oi capital upon tlie rights of
tne industrial classes of the United States,
have rendered it imperative that they
should calmly and deliberately devise the
mrm effective and available means by
wmch the same may be arrested, yourcom
mitiee would recommend the adoption of
the following resolutions:
Ii solved, That tlie first and grand desid
eratum of the hour, in order to deliver- the
labor of the ■.•munry from this thraldom, is
the adoption ot a l iw whereby eight- hours
shall constitute a legal day's work in overy
Sitata ot the American Union, and that
tliey arc determined neVer to relax their
ol'torts until this glorious result is consum
mated.
Resolved , Tliat, it is tho imperative duty
of every workingman in the United Suites
to connect himself with his labor organiza
tion, if any exists, and where none exists,
to immediately commence the formation
ofthe same; that it is the equal duty ol‘
every union to bo represented in a trades
or workingmen’s assembly, and also to aid
in the formation oi national or
al organizations, where the same do not
exist.
Resolved, Tliat we heartily concur in the
action of tiie committee on a national or
gan, and would recommended that the
Workingmen's Advocate, of Chicago; the
Daily and Weekly Voice of Boston ; the
Daily Du ion, of Detroit : I lie Almihtcrs In
ternaUonal Journal, of l’hihidelpliia ; tho
II •raid, of Troy, N. Y. ; the Industrial
Advocate , of St Louis; the German Reform,
of Chicago, and all other papers favorable
to the labor movement, receive tliesupport
and patronage of the Workingmen in those
localities in preference to alt others.
Resolved. Tliat in co-operation, wo re
cognize a sure and lasting remedy for
abuses of the present industrial system,
and bail with delight organizations of co
- stores and workshops in this
conn 1 ry, and would urge i'leir formation
in every section of tlie country, and in
every branch of business.
Resolved, Tliat the system of prison labor,
which is practiced throughout thiscounlry
is not only injurious to the producing
classes, but it is an invitation for mean
employees to contract with the govern
ment for cheap labor, and lionorablo
mechanics not being able to compete with
I tins class of labor and support their fami
lies, are obliged to seek a living elsewhere,
much to their inconvenience, and wewouid
recommend that the public be requested
not to patronize parties who contract for
prise in labor, except they pay tin? rate of
wages demanded by mechanics outside.
Resolved, That we pledge our individual
and undivided support 10 the sewing
women and daughters of toil in this land,
and would solieittheirbeaity co-operation,
knowing as we do tliat no class of industry
is so much in need of having their condi
tion ameliorated as tlie factory operatives,
sew ing women, Ac., of this country.
Resolved, As the sense ot this congress,
that the speedy restoration ofthe agricul
tural interests of the Southern States is of
vital importance to the laboring men of tho
North, and that the aggregation and capi.
taliz'mg ofthe surplus earnings of labor for
the twofold purpose of promoting an in
crease of the production of cotton, and of
aiding and elevating the iabo-ing classes,
as proposed by the American industrial
Agency, is very desirable, and we invite
the attention of the laboring men to tho
subject.
Resolved, That w r e w.ould urgently call
tho attention of tbe industrial classes to
the subject of tenement houses and im
proved dwellings, believing it essential to
the welfare ofthe whole community that
' a reform should he elfocted in this respect
as the experience of the past lias proven
that vice, pauperism and crime are the in
variable attendants of the overcrowded,
ill-ventilated dwellings of tlie poor, anil
urge upon the capitalists ofthe countrythc
] blessings to be derived from investing tlieir
1 means in erecting such dwellings.
; Resolved, Tliat wo this day join hands
j with labor in the interests of agriculture,
I and hereby declare it primary in our dif
j ferent organizations, and all that are now
j or hereafter organized shall adopttlio same,
[ in the following words I —“that the whole
j public domain shall be disposed of to ac
tual settlers onlyand that
ollicers of this convention arc iaprifctcd
to see Unit the foregoing resolutions shall
t?l‘ h-.m.l'ifov.
Resolved, That the ivutei..- -be
longs to tlie people of'liie whole ,States,
pun 'based by their blood and treasure,
and is to them an inheritance; indorsing
fully as wo do the opinion of our best
statesmen on the subject that a minimum
price lie fixed for the whole agricultural
domain to bo disposed of to actual
settlors only ; further, if Congress or
the several States where lands may
exist as belonging to Iho nation of
States, that they shall not bo so con
sidered, but shall bo considered as
belonging to tbe people; and in cases
where fho Legislatures may wish to en
courage any public works with such as
railroads, bridges, roads, agricultural col
leges, Ac., for the several States, or in any
ether improvements that may lie thought
proper from time to time, in all cases of
this kind it shall bo considered unjust and
destructive to the best interests ofthe peo
ple to make special grants of these lauds,
but only of the proceeds thereof.
Resolved, That this Congress deprecate
what is familiarly known as “strikes”
among workingmen, and would recom
mend that every other honorable means
be exhausted before such a course is re
sorted to.
Resolved, That the formation of mechan
ics institutes, lyccuius, reading rooms and
the erection of buildings for the purpose is
recommended to workingmen in all cities
and towns as a means of advancing their
] intellectual culture and social iniprove
: ment.
i Resolved, thatt his Labor Congress would
j most respectfully recommend to the work
: ingmen ofthe country that in case tliey
i are pressed by the want of employment,
j they proceed to the public lands and be
come actual settlers, believing that if the
industry of the country can be coupled
with its natural advantages, it will rebound
] both in individual relief and social ad
i vanccment.
] The report was adopted. Several offi
! cei’s elect were then installed into office.
| After the transaction of some routine
business of no general interest, the Con
gress ad journed, concluding vitli a prayer
j by Mr. Emmons.
Slate Elections.
We have been requested to furnish a j
list of the States where elections are to bo
held before the meeting of Congress in
December next. We present the list,
showing the time at which the elections
take place in the several States. A glance,
therefore, at the list below will furnish the
information desired :
New Hampshire First Tuesday in
March.
Connecticut—First Monday in March.
Rhode Island —First Wednesday in
April.
Virginia—Fourth Thursday in May.
Oregon —First Monday in Ac. rest.
Alabama —First Monday in August.
Arkansas—First Monday in August.
Kentucky--First Monday in August.
Texas —First Monday in A moist.
North Carolina —Second Thursday in
August.
Vermont —First Tuesday in September.
Maine —Second Monday in September.
Florida —First Monday in August.
Mi i sippi First Monday in August.
Georgia —First Wednesday in October.
Indiana —First Tuesday in October.
Luva—first Tuesday iu O tuber.
Pennsylvania -First Tuesday in Oct.
West V irgitiia—Fourth Tuesday in
October.
Louisiana —First .Monday in November.
Delaware —Fir.- c Tuesday in November.
I Uinoi Fii -: Tn di yin November.
Kansas—First Tuesday in November.
Maryland—F irst Tuesday in November.
Massachusetts —First Tuesday in Novem
ber.
Michigan—First Tuesday in N >v - id - r.
Minnesota—First Tuesday in Nov mb> r.
Missouri —First Tuesday in November.
Nevada —First Tuesday in November.
N. Jersey First To - lay in Nov<
\ VsM.— i. set I . -n ‘ ■
Wisconsin —First Tuesday in November,
i Colorado —Second Tuesday in Novcin
i her.
S. Carolina —Fourth Monday in Novem-
I her.
There are no other State elections held
in the months of January, February. July,
| and December.
A Gloomy Prospw t.- a private
ter from Monroe, Louisiana, the well
i known Ouachita district, gives gloomy uc
: counts of the growing crops. N o vain had
| fallen for nearly seven weeks. Vegitation
was parched literally. 'frees had "died to
j the roots. The corn crop is a complete
| failure, and the cotton nearly in the same
S condition. The writer has seen corn fields
that look as if a fire had passed over them.
, Jbe river was getting very low, and navi
j gation would soon be closed.
A numocr of foreign consular officers,
i Particularly those of the United States,
Holland, and Swooden, have .suffered very
| much damage. Tiie consuls haw pro
i tested in the name of their respective gov
ernments.
The Cliristains, or insurgent.-, are2s,Doo
strong, and hold important points aga list
Turkish soldiers.
The Boyal Palaces of England.
_ London, J uly 10, ISGC.
■F Eihtnrx : —-Our Queen having
boon called from Balmoral Palace to Wind
sor Palace, and having left in a few days
for Osborne Palace, Isle of Weight, led
me to east up the amount the t hones of
John Dull s land are compelled to pay to
sustain tlie Queen Jin. The palace of
Vt i.ulsoris the present chosen residence of
her majesty. A Gothic pile, covering
some twelve-acres, with every variety of
tower and battlement, looking for all the
world ;ts though the Goths had reigned
there a thousand years and each king had
added a palace of a dillereut plan—is the
Castle of Windsor.
How many millions have been spent
there I cannot tell. But we learned that
the last addition, a few years sindl cost
$3,000,000. Gentle reader, do not. fancy
that 1 am about to describe what required
Sir James. Wyatsville six hundred pages
folio to print. A palace is a small city,
gotten up in the most pensive manner
imaginable.
T his was, eight hundred years since, l>c-
S«n by lving Arthur, and continued bv
William I. Ilenrys I. and 111. added
ea. tie to castle. \he mews, the name given
to the royal stables here, are larger and
more elaborate than any single establish
ment, public or private, we have in the
1 1 nited States, so far as we remember.
The Pone, in 1351, in those times had his
linger about everybody's business, issued a
bull founding St. George's Chapel. Dieh
ard ' FI. .appointed the poet Charmer as
clerk of this chapel. Ilenrys \ 11. and
VIK. both tinted hevv. Ti*. latter ay as
buried under the aisle of the chapel. It
would he hard this hour in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain, within or with
outher Newgate or Old Dailey, to find a
specimen of humanity so thoroughly de
graded, and such a disgrace to our race, as
this same Henry VIII., over whose ashes
we this day walked in St. George's Chapel.
That good old soldier and honest sovereign',
who raised Fnglaud higher and left her
purer than any other, Oliver Cromwell,
resided here. He was great and good with
out either crown or palace. But thelami
ly worship and quiet order of the Protector
was changed with a witness by Charles 11.
This palace was made to resound with the
disgusting converse and songs of licentious
wits. For the period of his reign the
abandoned nobility gave themselves up,
like very spirits of evil, to serve Dual much!
The. moral wrecks there made of beauty,
genius, and exulted station, still disgrace
ihe walls of Hampton Court Palace. They
might, with propriety, be admitted to the
waits of the Seraglio in Constantinople.
The paintings which now are here, from
the pencils of great masters, would bring
several millions under the hammer. A
gentleman resitting at Windsor informed
me that the Queen had several hundred
horses, and over a hundred carriages. The
splendid sets of china, where some pieces
are broken so as to injure the set, are worth
twenty to thirty thousand dollars—they
bear the royal arms and heraldry, and can
not he used by an/ subject in the realm.
They arc all broken to fragments. So with
splendid gilt frames, a little out of fashion,
they are broken up and used as timber,
because they bear the insignia of royalty.
The number of castles here 1 coukl not
venture to state. Cardinal Wuolsey’s
chapel is being set in mosaic—as a memo
rial to the husband of Victoria, it will
cost the poor and the hungry, who arc
crushed to the earth with taxes, the snug
sum of $50,000.
.She hai. erected one beautiful edifice
already over his dust. Hut her wish with
Parliament is a command. Prince Albert
had returned from hunting, changed his
dollies, and took a cold, which laid him in
his shroud. The various portions of his
hunting suit, ~s he took them and laid
them by, are now lying in precisely the
same part of the royal chamber. The door
is locked, and no one but the Queen has
entered it since his death. It is her chosen
place to retire and mourn her desolation.
I Iu was a kind, prudent, and affectionate
husband. But his prospects were, on a
razor’s edge at one time. About a year
and a half after their marriage, Albert Vie
came fond of playing cards, aud staking
sums of money on the result. Victoria-re
monstrated at. liis folly and prodigality,
hut ill vain. At length one day, whim a
number of noblemen, hungry, and of the
genus InmJsliarlc, laid Prince Albert at a
table, Victoria sent a polite message foe
•Whusband ftHjpmtj to her jvgw.The
Prince paid no attentifm tSrtne fiMuost. A
m, i- urgent dcs’ v c was answered —■ jh-J
the Queen to excuse me fie: a short un.c.l
and 1. will be there.” A third time an
officer came, with—“ The Queen of Eng
land requires the presence of Prince "Al
bert. ’ ’ 1 nstautly he hastened to obey. For
not a subject, however exalted liis rank,
dare disobey such a summons, without lie
ing guilty of treason.
Tlie Palace at Buckingham, that of St.
James, Balmoral, Windsor, Hampton
Court, Osborne, Isle of Wight, at present
arc locking up some $00,000,000 treasure.
Instead of yielding anything, the mere cost
of keeping tlie grounds, gardens, j larks,
furniture, livery, and to salary those living
there, would probably support two hun
dred thousand population in comfortable
circumstances, besides all tlie dead capital,
loss of interest on the sixty millions. At
seven per cent, it would yield nearly half a
million annually, equal to the entire pricely
gift of Mr. George Peabody to the poor of
.London.
While hundreds of thousands cannot
find work enough, the Park at Windsor,
fifty miles in length and several in breadth,
sustains ten thousand head of deer, to sup
ply veiision and hunting for royal tables
and royal hunters.
Turning, as we have this day, from the
superb forests, parks, and drives of Wind
sor, to the squalor and haggard woe which
thrusts on you its dreadful mill and sad
pleadings of inwardj suffering, our heart
sickens, and we cry, “ O Lord, how
long ?’ ’
|From l!io Southern Chrislain Advocnfe.J
Wright’s Improved Cotton Screw.
Every thing connected with the growth
of our great staple or its preparation for
market will he interesting to the public ;
and therefore we venture to give through
the columns of this journal a brief descrip
tion of this admirable improvement in the
Cotton Screw, and to commend it to public
attention. * * * *
We mention, as ils first advantage, that
the nut turns on the pin, and always re
mains in the same horizontal plane, while
the pin has not a rotary but only a vertical
motion. The levers being attached to the
nut, must also revolve in a horizontal plane,
• which circumstance is favorable to the
highest and easiest exertion of the motive
! power.
; Compactness is another idea of great var
i uc, in the construction o! this sej-cw. jhe
I cast-iron pin is only seven feet long, the
j levers only sixteen feet long, the cotton
' box five feet high. The whole isthuscom-
I pressed williin a very.small compass. It is
! found by many experiments made by va
rious parties, that a bag of 500 pounds
weight may be easily packed by unaided
manual force. If heavier bags are required
it will be found most convenient to use a
mule or horse for the last two or thrcQj
rounds, and thus 700 pounds may 1* put
into a bag.
Another striking feature of this machine
is, that after a bag is finished and removed,
by a very simple arrangement the levers,
nut. and follower-block may all be easily
turned off, so as to clear the col ton box of
every obstacle that would impede the pro
cess of refilling the box for another bale.
The nut, we have said, revolves in the
same plane, while the pin moves up and
down. This result is effected by means of
a metallic arch, which stands astride the
cotton box. one end of it being confined
with a fixed, the other with a movable
pin or Key. By means of two Hangers,
one below the arch, and the other above,
and confined to theu.it, the fatter is held
firmly, so that it can have no vertical
motion, but only revolves with levers. By
moving one of the keys of this arch, it may
be turned off on the other as a pivot, along
witli the levers, nut and follower, as be
fog- stated.
We learn upon the highest authority,
that many of these screws have been in
successful operation in the vicinity of
Uoiumbus, Ga.. where they are decidedly
preferred to every form of cotton press.
One practical planter after packing five
hundred bales with one of them, has backed
his j idgment of their great superiority, by
investing many thousand dollars in the
“Right,” and in the necessary outfit for
bringing then into general use. . Hie si-rew
is equally adapted to the packing of hay.
The writer, of this notice, once owned a
grass farm on the borders of
-
; of thi- 1 improved cotton screw, are
pneto.s ot tmsmq W( . st _ with a
rimvtoputTon exhibition, in the Lay
ering districts. We doubt not, that m
a short time, it will supplant every other
press in those latitudes, and realise to the
th« .mptei 'jriUSF
Santa Amts confiscated property
amounts to