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i’rcsidenl Johnson.
\W notice, in our YVestern exchanges,
that efforts are being made by the larger
cities in the Mississippi Valley to in-luce
the President to extend liis trip to the
Southwest, and we hope that he will lie
able to comply with their wishes. Mr.
Johnson lias proved himself a friend of the
people and of the Constitution of his \
country. He deserves the thanks and j
~ ratitudo of the people of entire country, :
and more especially of the South, for his j
bold, manly and persistent efforts to stay j
the storm of Radical vengeance and save j
mir country from a fate worse than that of
Poland or Ireland. But for his courageous
interposition in our behalf, Hod only
knows what would have been our fate.
Kvery right we enjoy, every hope we cher
ish, we owe to him under the guidance of
Providence.
We respectfully suggest that the muni
cipal authorities of our larger cities at once
tender to him an earnest invitation to visit
our .State on his return to the Capital.
A- our Council meets to-day, we would
Is: pleased to see it take the initiative in
this matter. We see it stated in the West
ern papers that he has, on several occa
sion during this tour, received, at the
hand- of the Radical brutes, most insult
ing and contumelious displays of their
meanness an l revenge. It would doubt-
U- ; be very gratifying to him, just now,
to receive from our people such a recogni
tion of his services as would show our
gratitude for the sacrifices which he has
made for us. Then let our Connell invite
him to visit Augu n' '■ n I*. rto .
the hospitalities of im cny.
A General I*.-
We are not of . n- .aueve that
the prosperity of inland cities depends upon
the continuation of unnecessary obstruc
tion to trade and travel. On the contrary,
we firmly believe the true interests of our
city will Is: lieu promoted hy the adop'ion
of such measures, connected with our Rail
road lines, as will induce the greatest
amount of traffic and travel. If there was
hut one line of travel through the State,
arid that line passed through our city, there
might be some plausible reasons given for
the policy which our city authorities have
adopted of preventing the cars from run
ning through our corporate limits. Rut
with strong competing lines below and
above us, the interests of our whole com
munity suffer from the present want ol
proper connexions.
Passengers west of the Chattahoochee,
who go north, will endeavor to avoid those
routes where the greatest number of chan
ges are made, and more especially those
upon which extra charges arc made for
passing from one lino to another. It is
true that the system of through tickets,
which is now adopted hy the roads to and
through this place, obviates to some extent
the last objection. But. the fact that at
Augusta a change is made from one Rail
road to another, hy means of an omnibus
ride of a good part of a mile, or perhaps
more, will deter—has already deterred—
hundreds of travelers from taking the route
through Augusta.
It has been said that our largest inland
cities have been built up by “tho drippings
of commerce. 1 If this he true, what a
wretched policy is that which would drive
tho tide of trade and commerce from our
city, and force it to seek an outlet through
a more favorable channel ? We very dis
tinctly remember that when it was pro
posed, a few years since, to connect the
roads running into Macon and found a
common depot, some of tho oldest and
wisest (it was thought) of tho citizens of
that city opposed the project as one fraught
with ruin to the place. Wc have seen
how sadly mistaken these good-intentioned
people were. The city of Macon owes, in
a very large degree, its present very pros
perous condition to the admirable railroad
connexions in its midst.
Tho same mg was made at Macon of
inevitable damage to the local transporta
tion interests that is made her here now.
Time and experience have proven that
these city connexi *s have not, cither in
Macon or elsewhere, caused the slightest
damage to any local interest, while they
have given new impulse to trade and en
larged the sphere of traffic ami commence
greatly to the interest and welfare of the
citizens.
We desire to call the attention of our
people to this subject now, because we see
that unusual exertions are being made
elsewhere to inaugurate and foster rail
road enterprises, the probable success of
which gives serious cause of alarm to those
who have the interest of this city at heart.
Our people and city authorities must wake
up, or we will he left far behind in the race
for prestige, prosperity, and progress. Rip
Van Winkle must shake the deep slumber
of the past from liis drowsy lids, and enter
the lists with all his energies and power,
or prepare to remain in the slough and
mire of inactivity and list nessness for some
time to come. The ear of progress cannot
be retarded by the failure of our people to
prepare the track for its resistless sweep. If
obstructions are continued in its path here.
the interests of the great body of the peo
ple. which are at stake, will suggest and
prepare another line over which it will meet
no opposition.
The position of Augusta, the groat faci
lities for successful trade, which her mer
chants enjoy—the valuable and almost
limitless water power —her healthful situa
tion —her water and railroad communica
tions, gi to her advantages possessed by few
cities - in the South. It only remains for
her people and municipal authorities to
give such shape and direction to current
events, and to develop with a slight degree
id - skill and forethought all their resources,
to enable her to spring forward with re
newed energy and assured success in the
contest now going on for commercial su
premacy.
The greatpresent want is a central union
i iss, itycr depot into which the trains from
all the roads having termini here may be
ruu, and where passengers can bo trans
ferred from one train to another without
trouble, loss of time or additional expense.
This is an actual necessity, which must be
met in the spirit of advancing and en
larged views. It must be met also before
the tide of travel has fixed itself upon other
and competing routes. It is much easier
to pirn nt an injury than it is to repair the
damage caused by one. We may bo, indeed
we feel assured we shall be able to prevent
the great through travel from being di
rected to other routes. We question our
ability to restore it here once it becomes
established elsewhere. Travel controls
trade —merchandise is not slow to find that
the routes which afford the greatest induce
ments to travel also hold out superior ad
vantages to freight. The one in some
measure depends upon the other. M e can
not afford to lose either.
More Capital for the Radicals.
The Philadelphia Press, Forney's radi
eal sheet, is furnishing its readers with se
lections from its Southern exchanges to
prove that the South is still rebellious and
defiant, livery issue contains some choice
bits of Southern discontent and splenetic
grumbling which it insists, are but the out
croppings ot the true feelings ami scuti
ments of the Southern people. M ith these
weapons furnished, as we have stated, by
some of our own journals, the destructive
party of the north are endeavoring to
strike down our friends there'.
In a recent issure of the Press we find
the following:
The South.—The Augusta (Ga. > Ocinsti
tutionalixt speaks of theSuirs and Strips as a
“iiagallover befouled with wrong, and a
block guard despotism that daily affronts
God by the vallaiuies it does liis'poor and
persecuted people.”
When will our people and press learn
that silence, total, absolute silence, on such
points of National politics wherein we can
not agree with the North, is the best, safest
and wisest policy, while this canvass is pro
greasing? W e again implore our Southern
journalists to give our friends at the North
the benefit at least of this silence if they
can do nothing more to strengthen and
support them.
A Destructive Civilization.
The Puritan element in the civilization
of the Northern and Eastern States con
tinues to-day the same extreme, self
sufficient and destructive course which
marked its history in England during the
reign of Charles 11., and under the sway
of the Commonwealth. Its tendencies
then, as now, to a “rule or ruin policy,
gave it a sad eminence as a heartless and
aggressive party, ready at all times to
make any sacrifices of life or honor to ac
complish its purposes. Its hand is red
with the blood of martyrs in the Old World.
We have seen with what devilish malignity
it has pursued its victims in this country.
In reviewing its past history somewhat at
length, the New Orleans Tunes says:
“The spirit of Puritanism has always
been a leading element in the political as
well as religious characteristics of New
England's Radical reformers. Severely
stern, it has its tricks, its manners and its
notions, and those who accepted them
without question or hesitancy were admit
ted into the fold, while all others were
thrust into ‘ 'outer darkness. ’ ’ The Ameri
can Puritan is not only cold and stern, but
selfish and Pharisaical. He stands apart
in the inflated pride of assumed superiority,
and thanks God that he is “not as other
men.” What he believes is always ortho
dox ; what others believe Is dangerous and
“desperately wicked!” To him a glad
countenance Is the unerring sign of a de
praved imagination, and an opinion op
posed to his is an outrage on human rights.
Os the beam in his own eye he takes no
notice, but the .slightest mote in his neigh
bor .s ey stand.- out at once in structural
and functional monstrosity. With his—
“stand off. 1 am holier than thou!” —he
rives a stone to those who ask for bread,
,nd a scorpion is his answer to a prayer for
fish. His prejudices are his principles,
>nd l*-t they .-hould f be dissipated by the
menial sunshine of humanity, he keeps
theta constantly surrounded by walls of
unmelripg ice. There i~: nothing frank in
his disposition—nothing disinterested—
nothing fraternal. Ilis avaricious long
ings for other people’s goods he miscalls
“providential forethought,” and his sen
suality he covers up as the natural lan
guage of “passional attraction.”
The Puritan has always been a reformer in
his own estimation of himself, but his re
forms have not always been improvemen ts.
He has laid down rigid rules, and “anathema
and maranatha” to all who refuse to com
ply with his exactions ! Early in the his
tory of this country lie attempted to civil
ize and Christianize the red men of the
forest, who held in lee simple the land of
“this whole boundless continent,” but be
fore the relentless march of his aggressive
civilization whole tribes and peoples
have wasted away. In Mexico and South
America the Indian inhabitants, though
they could not boast of good treatment,
have by no means been destroyed ; but by
our Puritan missionaries of civilization the
Indians of this country have been regard
ed as trespassers in the land of their birth,
having no rights which Christian reform
ers were bound to recognize—no destiny
but perpetual retreat and final extermina
tion —no hope but that centred in those
“happy hunting grounds” which charac
terize the “humbler heaven” prepared by
Manitou, the Great Spirit, for them in
their home beyond the stars.
As soon as the fate of the Indian tribes
was decided by the aposJes of puritanical
radicalism, they looked abroad for other
subjects of reform, or, as wc might proper
ly say, for other victims. Preferring
darkness to light, the negroes of the South
soon attracted their attention, and for more
than a quarter of a century they have
formed a constant subject of their political
and moral mediation. Puritan bards,
missionaries and pamphclteers have, in
the prosecution of their humanitarian
labors, demonstrated, time and again, that
the Southern whites were demons of the
darkest dye, and that the Southern blacks
were the very fairest and purest of human
beings. In these convictions they may
have been sincere, as they doubtless were
in their efforts to civilize and Christianize
tho heretics of the forest, for it has been
their way, to —
“Prove their doctrines orthodox
By apostolic blows and knocks.”
But the result of their teachings has been
in both instances the same—it has proved
destructive to the pupils. Though Mas
sachusetts, the special home of the Puri
tan, profitted greatly by the slave trade
when it was a constitutional and legitimate
business, her -merchant princes conscien
tiously abandoned it as soon as it became
dangerously unremunerative, and the
good old moral State sot the wicked ex
ample of passing an ordinance of secession
the binding force of which was to be con
tingent on the annexation of Texas.
Texas, however, was annexed, and with
a provision permitting its sub-division into
lour additional slave States; but the
heroic seeeders on paper never managed to
“screw their courage to the sticking point;”
their words and deeds were not in harmony,
and their ordinance has ever since been a
dead, disgraceful letter on their statute
books. 5
Finally the preachers of puritanism suc
ceeded in bringing about a destructive civil
war, which (though sadly averse to light
ing) they managed to make profitable to
themselves, and to-day the moral and
physical*fruits of their triumph are abund
antly apparent. Os the four millions of
negroes, to the liberation of whom their
philanthropic efforts were directed, more
than one million have gone the way of all
the earth—have died of starvation and
disease, to which they had never before
been accustomed—and it is now clear that
the fate of the Indian is to be repeated in
that of the negro.
Without stopping to count the number
of white men who have fallen in the con
flict, and the billions of treasure wasted
the relentless march of puritanical pro
gress, we can at least pray that so destruc
tive an clement of our so-called civiliza- j
tion may speedily he brought to a con
sciousness of its own enormities. Further
more. we trust that it may be so deprived
of its serpent tangs as to be powerless for
evil in the future, even as in the past it
has been powerless for good.
The War in South America.
New York, September 4.—Advices
from Buenos Ayres and the seat of war in
Paraguay, dated tho 14th of July, say the
situation is one of masterly inactivity.
The allies are still encamped in a deep
mcrass within easy reach of the Para
guyan guns, which play upon them at
pleasure. The camp cannot be removed
until more horses are obtained, and an or
der has been issued to seize seven thousand
from citizens. In the mean time the Para
guayans have planted a battery of eight
guns in such a manner as to rake the allied
camp.
'1 he difference between Chili and Ar
guay m regard to the judgment of Spanish
prizes in Arguayan ports has been finally
settled.
A strong effort is being made to induce
immigration to these countries, a planta
tion of eighty acres being offered to each
family, with the additional inducement of
freedom from all taxation for a period of
five years.
Aiarming Ravages of tue Hog
Cholera.— We had hoped that the alarm
ing accounts of the ravages of the hog
cholera in this and adjacent counties would
not turn out to be so bad as formerly re
ported. but in this we have been disap
pointed. Several of our farmers have lost
every hog they had, while others arc al
most equally unfortunate. The disease is
not confined to particular districts, as
usual, but extends throughout the coun
try ; and the complaints are alarming. If
this state of affairs continues long we will
not have enough left tor home supply, and
likely much suffering must bo tfee result
among the poorer classes of the people du
ring the coming winter.— Joiictwrouoh
(Ten -t.) Fhw.
Foreign.
Two hundred lives were lost by the up
setting of a ferry boat on the Gances at
Mysore-
One hundred and sixty different kinds of
rifles art* now on trial in the French camp
at Chalons. _
Charles Kean recently testified before a
committee of Parliament that the au
diences at theatres in America were more
quiet aud orderly tliananywhere else in the
wor'd.
Cable News. —The French papers re
ceive very little news from America over
the cable, their dispatches being limited
to two lines, giving the price of gold and
cotton. They need a little cf The spirit of
American journalism.
A Political Prayer-Meeting.
“The great religious campaign,” as |
Forney tells us, was opened last Sunday
night, in Philadelphia by a prayer-meet- I
ing. True to their past history, these i
blood-thristy knaves assume the garb of
Him who, while on earth, taught by his
life and exhortations tile great doctrine j
which underlies ail true Christians—love
thy neighbor as thyself, in the perpetra- 1
tion of deeds which would shock the sensi- j
biiitics of an untutored savage. The :
frequent and irreverent calls upon Diety |
made by these blatant, time-serving Chris- |
tians, in their efforts to reduce the South
to a condition of serfdom and subserving j
to their blind and implacable hate, mast
caase every true Christian of the land to
mourn for the future of his church and
creed.
Speaking of tills “great religious cam
paign.” recently offered by high Priest
Forney, the National Intelligencer says:
“It proved to be a political speaking
club, assembled on Sunday evening. Mr.
Eaton denounced the Church South as
the soul of the rebellion. Mr. Conway
Prayed that “the heart of the President
might be softened and turned from the
error of his ways, and made a righteous
Magistrate, so that he would not be
afraid to meet his God.” Senator
Lane announced that our brethren
were being slain every hour in the South;
that Conventions legally assembled were
dispersed, and the streets of Memphis
were made to run with the blood of its on
ly loyalists, and “men of God in Maryland,
kneeling at the altar, were slaughtered by
ruffian hands.” “If the Government
were saved, it would be by the interference
; of Providence and the action of the noblest
populace that ever inhabited God's foot
stool, ’ and more, to the same purport.
Addresses were delivered also by others,
Messes Maynard, Strong, and the Rev.
Dr. Newman, of New Orleans, who Is
i represented as saying “that this is a reli
gious struggle.” “Those who preach
Christianity in the South with simplicity
I are marked men to be shot, stabbed, or
i clubbed.” “God was selecting the sheep
| from the goats, and those addressed were
|of the chosen band.” The classification
of Dr. Newman would be amusing were it
| not painful to observe his terrible confusion
of moral ideas. Think, for instance, John
! W. Forney being a leader of the sheep,
while Henry Ward Beecher is herding
; among the goats !
Ordinarily such a meeting as this and
such talk might be passed over as the folly
and fanaticism of mistaken devotees. But
this meeting was presided over by Senator
Harris, of New York, and was addressed
by Senator Lane and Representative May
nard. It is held on the eve of a great
political gathering, and it is a significant
symptom of'that Pharisaical spirit of reli
gious intolerance whch is so extensively in
fused into Radical politics. Is there not
enough of bitterness and malignity in our
political strife, that the sacred sanctions of
religion must be invoked to excite and im
peril the country ? Will not the Radical
leaders stop their career of mad passion,
and cease soiling the religious gatherings
with the language of partisanship ? Let
them think for a moment. Honest men
do not always agree. Men as pure, as
patriotic as any who will mingle in their
invention, sincerely believe that their
policy is most hurtful to the coun
try. It will not do to permit the religious
aspects of politics to be bandied about in
our political controversies, or anew and
most dangerous element is introduced into
our campaigns, which will destroy alike
both our politics and religion, and involve
the country in rain. We call attention to
this meeting to protest against it and its
proceedings; and to insist that the people
should hold those men to a strict accounta
bility who would convert the Sabbath into
a political carnival, our politics into pseudo
religious wranglings, and our religion into
the mad ravings of heated and intemperate
partisans. lie is no true friend of his coun
try who would so discuss the moral bear
ings of political questions as to reflect on
the religious character of his opponents.
The essence of religion is charity—tha life
of politics is contention. The two things
are antagonistic. By commingling them
you degrade religion and embitter politics,
and the result is, sanctimonious politicians
and unprincipled pretenders to religion.”
General Grant.
The Radical press and leaders have been,
for several months, industriously circulat
ing reports us General Grant’s position on
the issues which now divide the American
people. Knowing that even Ills name
would be a tower of strength to their revo
lutionary party, they have again and
again insisted that he endorsed their
course and approved their policy. They
even went so far as to prepare a long ar
ticle in a circular at Washington, announc
ing his name as the Radical candidate for
President, and sent it out to the village of
General Grant’s residence in Indiana,
where it appeared as a leading editorial in
the village newspapers. This was claimed
as direct evidence of his being on their
line, as the Radical paper published at his
residence was presumed to know and speak
his views. We did not believe then, any
more than we do now, that General Grant,
in the least, sympathized with them in
their efforts to destroy the Government.
His whole course during the war gave the
lie to sjjcli a presumption.
But we are no longer left in doubt as to
the General’s position. Tlis presence in the
White House, at the right hand of the
President, when the latter received the
proceedings of the Philadelphia Convention,
showed very clearly to our mind that
he stood by the President in his
struggle with the Radicals. More
recently his becoming one of the Presi
dent's party jn his Western tour, and his
presence at theMwYrgptjspeech-makmgs on
the route, where on several oa&sjpns direct
allusion has been made to his cour«2 in
such a way as to demand explanation if lie
was not mi the Kie of the President, tends
to confirm us in the views which we have
long before expressed of his perfect and
thorough identification with the great Con
servative party of the country.
In bis speech in New York, the Presi
dent said, (Gen. Grant standing by his
side): •
“ lem against all who are exposed to the
Union. 1 am for the Union, tie; w hole
Union and nothing but the Union. [Cheer?.]
General Grant and myself have fought se
cession on one end of the line, and I toll
you we are ready to tight it out on the
other. [Applause,] It is a contest and a
struggle for the union of these States.
The silence of the General when this
direct allusion to his jwsitiou was made,
fully identified him with the Presi
dent's policy,
The Radicals sought to break the force
of the argument founded on his presence at
the White House, when the Philadelphia
Committee was received, by declaring that
the President had inveigled him there by
direct invitation to be present, without dis
closing for what purpose his presence was
required. We are anxious to see what ex
cuse they will give for the General's si
lence uuder such allusions as that just
given.
B rudder Boxes. —Fred. Douglas and
negro suffrage seenis to have been very
iar=.e bonesol contention in jLe late Phila
delphia Disunion Convention. The dele
gates Irom Louisiana, Georgia, Texas and
Tennessee were in favor of negro suffrage,
but some gentlemen from the Northern i
States were afraid to make such an issue
least it might injure the Republican ticket
in Pennsylvania and elsewhere this fall.
So they concluded to let the Southern
brethren have the thing all their own way,
in a little tea-party by themselves— the
Northern delegates sitting as honorary
members. In that way the brethrow were
enabled to "dwell together in unity,” at
least until the Convention adjourned'.
A benevolent gentleman in Toronto,
Canada, has devised what he e-aii* a
"Christian Consulate : that is. the pub
lic designation of a Christian resident in
each city and town, who shall be willing to
act as a Christian consul, to whom Chris
tian parents and others m"v in re
gard to their sous or otter friends who may
eo to the town to live or to engage in busi
ness. He hopes this may lie extended to
every town and city throughout the worid.
where there are men of responsible charac
ter and benevolent hearts, and that an al
phabetical list be published and sold at a
remunerative price.
More Radical Slanders.
The St. Louis Democrat (Radical) pub
lishes a letter in one of its recent issues,
which it says is from the pen of a citizen
of Alabama, and until recently a suppor
ter of Andrew Johnson. Ti e following
extracts which we make from that letter
prove very clearly to our own mind
that the writer is either a very great
knave or a very' great fool, and perhaps
both. YY e are sure from our own knowl
edge of the people of Alabama that he
misrepresents their position and feelings.
We know that he utters a foul libel upon
the people of the entire South when he
declares that they are just as rebel
lious in feeling as in 1 -60. The people of
tho South acknowledge their defeat and
accept with what grace they- can command
the results of the war. The veracious
writer for the Democrat says :
The South is just as rebellious in feeling
to-day as it was in )-H i; and I hope the
Congress of the United States wili bring
our people to their senses before these
State- are allowed representatives. V«"c
have the most arrogant and Unreasonable
race of people in the South that Cod ever
permitted to inhabit the earth, and if they
are ne t compelled to know their places and
re.,pent the National Government, they
will bring about another difficulty in a
few years.
The ring of the metal shows very clear
lythat the writer is a puritanical down
Easter. The South—the true men of the
South—will never acknowledge that they
are in anything except hypocrscy, cant
and meanness the inferior of the descendants
of those who murdered at the stake poor
ignorant' and defenceless women, and who
glooted in the murder of weak old then
but a few years since as witches. The ar
ogance of the South consists wholly in her
people refusing to accept the teachings of
these puritanical witch-burners as the
“whole law and the Prophets.” We de
spise their Pharisarical assumption of
great holiness, anti rather prefer the
simple teachings of him “who spake as no
other man spake.”
If the South should be left in
the Providence of God to depend upon
puritanical teachings for a correct knowl
edge of her duty to the Federal Govern
ment, then, indeed, is her lot a hard and
mournful one. In the name of Heaven
how can these willful and corrupt violation
of every law of the decalogue presume to
teach Southern men their duty to a com
mon country.
“Kvery difficulty you hoar of occurring in
the South is the work of the lately recon
structed rebels. I don’t rare what the
newspapers may say, disloyalty is at the
bottom of it all.”
“We don’t care what this radical libel
ler may say,” the world knows that the
true men of' the South are not responsible
for the few acts of lawlessness and violence
which have been committed in their midst
during the last fifteen months. We hon
estly believe that three-fourths of the vio
lations of the public laws—and especially
of those committed upon the persons of
blacks, have been instigated and fostered
by the Radical emissaries (like the writer to
the Democrat ,) sent here to stir up strife
and bad blood between the white and
black races.
The radical party owes its life to the
agitation growing cut of the status of the
negro in the South. Its future hopes are
based upon its ability to keep wide open
the wounds made during the war, in its
efforts to force upon the South the eman
cipation and equality of the blacks. We
uo not hesitate to declare our belief that
if these base tools and emissaries of the
Radicals, could be removed from our midst,
in a few weeks at farthest the white
and black races would so adjust their con
duct towards each other that all cause for
excitement and ill-blood would forever be
removed or satisfactorily arranged.
Major-General 31. L. Smith.
The untimely death of this distinguished
and lamented officer, has called forth from
the Press ot the South many touching
tributes to his worth and services. It was
our good fortune to have served with Gen.
Smith in the Army of Northern Virginia,
and to have known him afterwards, whilst
he was Chief of Engineers in the Depart
ment of Tennessee. He was chief of the
Engineer Corps of Gen. Lee’s Armv in
1864, and contributed hy skill and untiring
exertions in securing our army the series
of commanding positions which it at
different times occupied in the spring
and summer of thatyear, from the Rapidan
to Petersburg. lie was universally es
teemed in the army for his rare gifts, both
of mind and heart, and his old commander
will drop a tear to his memory whenever
the mention of his name recalls tho recol
lection of his services. Gen. Smith mar
ried a Georgia lady, who survives him. We
believe his family are nc.w living in Athens.
We commend the soldier’s widow and fam
ily to the tender care and sympathy of liis
surviving comrades.
The Louisville Courier says of this la
mented, noble, gallant and highly gifted
soldier:
In tlio old Army of the Potomac, a silent
looking gentleman, but one whoso restless
eye seemed to notice every shrub and
hush, wearing the stars of a general, ac
companied by a full staff, could be seen
ridingalong the lines. His presence seemed
to create ail awe as he rode along, and the
most noisy even hushed. Also the staff
that rode behind him were perfectly quiet.
They indulged in no conversation and no
smile wreathed their lips. Like shadows
they rode after spectres.
The soldiers would say, “Wlio’s that?”
“Why that’s General Smith.” “Who’s
General Smith ?” would bo tho next ques
tion. “I don’t know.” We have repeated
ly heard these remarks as this scientific
man passed the lines, and never without
the thought of “what is fame?-’
General Martin Luther Smith was a
graduate of West Point, and served through
the Mexican war with distinction. He
had the reputation of being one of the best
officers in his line in the service. He en
tered the Confederate serv ice, at the com
mencement of hostilities, and from that
time until the close of the war, labored in
dustriously in his duties as general and
chief of engineers. It was he who selected
the sites for the defences thrown up from
the Wilderness to Petersburg, it was lie
who selected the lines for our heroes to
dress upon, and night and day, with indus
try, genius ana perseverance, this great
man labored under his distinguished chief
tain, R. E. Lee, for the cause he loved, so
well.
He died in Rome, Ga., only a few days
ago, and he goes to the grave almost im
clironiciod. His body was carried to
Athens, Georgia, for internment.- At the
time of his death he- was chief of that sec
tion of railroad which is to connect Sel
ma, Ala., and Dalton, Ga.; of which Gen.
Johnston is President, and which is now
in process of construction.
Declines tue ligugf.
From the following letter, which we
clip from the Montgomery Advertiser, it
will be seen that the decent, respectable
negroes of Alabama decline to affiliate with
the mungrei crew in that State, headed by
Saffold. and repudiate any connection with
the mulatto convention now in session in
Philadelphia.
Ned Pfister, or Gen. Pfister, as he is
generally known, is a respectable negro,
once a slave and now a genteel freedman.
He holds himself above the mungrei,
piebald trash, who are willing to have
their names used in connection with the
convention of negro worshippers, W e
commend his views to the honest respecta
ble negroes of this city and vicinity. Every
sensible colored man ought to know that
Lis true interests will be best consulted by
cultivating lije friendship of those with
whom, wider God s Prudence, his lot
has been east, and upon whom be must
continue, in a great measure, dependant
for his future support and maintenance :
Messrs Editors . Some kind friend. I
see from the Mad, of the ist test, has
proposed mv name in connection with the
Rev. Peter Goode, as a delegate to the
Convection which assembles in Phuade.-
phia to-day. V/liile I thank him for the
complimentary and bird isctmo of we, yet
for good and true reasons i must decline
what he evidently deems an honor.
Tltis is my country. I know no other,
neither do I wish to. I have never known
ether frieuds than these. I have been a
slave aud have tried to do my duty, and
what little knowledge I have ‘‘picked up"
has never been used <—- tt for the benefit
|of my friends and my count;.. Mv head
now shows the frosts of seventy winuus.
My days uu earth are fast drawing to a
close, and I catmc*, at this late uay, lend
my mime and whatever u4?encel possess
to a move I think so low and uwgroded.
I have no objection to any gentleman. ,
white or black, being a delegate.; but £.5 I,
cannot make up my mind yet to be a i
traitor to my country, I cannot accept the
position.
I fear my kind friend will find some i
difficulty m getting any gentleman of color !
who .possesses any manliness or standing
in this community to accept the position.
Respectfully,
Gen. Ned Pfister.
Montgomery. Ala.. Sep ItCO. I
Ashamed of their Banying-
It appears that the champion-* of rco
equality at Philadelphia are-asham tor
afraid to go home and ackv . de
fend their principles. D> .if u Con
vention several Governors and Gov
ernors had a nr:rate com' which
it has leaked out that a epic for
consideration was, whel ■ t: ! South
ern Convention adopte • .eiple of
negro suffrage in its platform, it would be
wise or politic to endorse it.
The general expression of sentiment was
in the negative, the Governors generally
taking the ground that, while individually
they were in favor of negro suffrage, the
people of their States were not yet educated
up to that point, and that, therefore, to
avoid this difficult question, it was desira
ble that there should be uo regular convo
cation of the Convention. It is understood
that such is the course resolved upon.
Thus, it appears that these canting
hypocrites refuse to recognize and endorse
the leading measure which they demand
the South to adopt before she can be ad
mitted into the Union. How long will
the common sense and common decency of
a country professing to be civilized tolerate
such a base and contemptible policy.
Geiiral Tillson on the Southern People.
The Radicals of Knox county, Maine,
lately held a convention, and. having been
entertained by several of their orators with
the common claptrap of the part at pres
ent regarding the barbarism of the South
ern people, invited Genera! Tillson, of the
Freedmen’s Bureau, to address them.
The Boston Post contain.? an account ot
liis speech, from which we extract the fol
lowing :
In speaking of the disposition of the peo
ple, the General said that tlie_ intelligent
men felt that they had submitted their
differences to the highest tribunal known
among men—that of arms ; that they had
been thoroughly whipped, howthoroughly
we should never know ; that they had no
thought ot another rebellion ; they had
suffered two much for that; that they De
lieved all their future hopes ot national
and personal prosperity lay in the main
tenance of the General Government, and
that while in their hearts they did not
love the Government of the Northern peo
ple any bettef than before, they had still
determined to be good, law-abiding citi
zens, and he had no doubt that to-day
they were for all practical purposes as loyal
to the Government as anj* men North.
Persons from the North are perfectly
safe among tiasm, provided only that they
conduct themselves with the common pru
dence of gentlemen.
While speaking of the President, in an
swer to an interrogatory of one of the
members as to “ How’s Andy?” without
distinctly stating whether or not he was
his earnest supporter, he said he belived
in his heart the President intended to do
what was right. ITe paid a high compli
ment to tho intense loyalty of the men of
East Tennessee, and said he thought a
majority of them would be found to be
supporters of the President's policy.
The .speech, which was in conversational
style, was quite lengthy and exceedingly
interesting. I cannot, of course, under
take to report any but a few of the promi
nent features of it, and that imperfectly,
but the sentiments are, I think, cornet.
It fell like a wet blanket upon our Friends
who had just listened to an intensely Radi
cal speech, just suited to them, from
Deputy Collector Simonton, of Camden,
Not a mark of applause, not a cheer could
these Union-loving people bestow upon
their gallant fellow-citizen. was si
lence as of the grave, only broken when
some brother, in a mournful tone, pro
posed some interrogatory, to elicit, if possi
ble, some more favorable information.
Sprague, of the Democrat and Free Dress
was particularly lugubrious, and attempt
ed to corner the General by citing instances
of cruelty and barbarity narrated to him
by a now Southern resident; but the Gen
eral told him he kiiow one of the instances
to be false entirely, and had no doubt the
others might be exaggerated. In any event
they were very exceptional cases.
At the close of the speech the Conven
tion separated in silence. None of the
customary enthusiasm of cheers. The
calm, candid speech of the General, exhib
iting wiuit they could not doubt was tho
true state of affairs in the South, had for
the moment taken their political capita]
out of their heads, with all their pluck.
They have not yet recovered.
Financial.
We have been frequently asked whether
the Government 5-20’s are payable, at
maturity, in coin. This doubt has proba
bly arisen from the declaration of a Radi
cal member of Congress that Congress not
only had the power to pay tills principal
in currency, hut that he should and would
avail himself of that privilege. This
declaration lias been widely copied all over
Europe, -and private circulars, in the
interest of buyers of those bonds, have
been issued, reiterating this declaration.
The Journal of Commerce, in alluding to
this subject expresses the belief that “ a
iarge majority of the people of the United
States are opposed to any such course as
th it suggested, and we hold the obliga
tion to pay the principal in gold to boas
sacred as any promise could have made
it.” Still, if the Radicals retain the
power, they are capable of any sort of
trifling with the national honor and good
faith.
ii Mu«rxiggfr
How it is Viewed Abroad.— A few
of our Southern cotemporaries who op
posed the representation of the Southern
States in the Philadelphia Convention are
assailing with much bitterness the plat
form of principles adopted by that body.
To show the impolicy of such a course, and
the importance of assisting the Northern
conservatives to overthrow the Radicals at
the approaching elections, we W’ould call
their attention to tho following remarks of
the London Times:
" If Mr. Sumner amt his followers win
the day to such an extent as to place the
next Congress under their control, the
Southern States must prepare to remain
taxed and unrepresented for the next ten
years to come—for that, be it remembered,
was the distinct plan laid before the House
last session. They must endure all the
misfortunes of a paralyzed trade, the
threats of confiscation, and such treatment
generally as only men could administer
who are still smarting under the sense of
bitter party and personal injuries."
The Supreme Court.
A meeting of the citizens of Lumpkin
Cos. was held a short time ago, to take into
consideration the necessity and propriety of
changing the place of holding the Supreme
Court of this State. Col. Wier Boyd was
called to the chair, and B. J. Davis ap
pointed Secretarj-. Hon. H. P. Bell ex
plained the object of the meeting, and
urged the importance of the matter before
the meeting.
Hon. Geo. D. Rice addressed the meet
ing. and at the conclusion of his remarks
the following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That the location of the Su
preme Court at the City of Milledgeville,
in its practical effect, amounts to a denial
of the right ot that class of our citizens who
are unable to employ counsel to attend
said Court, to have their rights determined
by tiie highest tribunal of the Slate.
' Resolved, That if this Court is not to lie
held at such places as will make it accessi
ble to all classes of our citizens alike, and
if its benefits are to be realized by those
only who have tiie means to carry their
cases to it. then we are in favor of its un
conditional abolition.
Resolved, That we demand such' a
change in the constitution and laws of this
State, as to the location of said Court, or
the places at which it is to be held, as will
make it accessible to all the citizens of the
State.
After the adoption of said report, it was,
on motion.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Mounia in Sig
nal, and that the other papers in the State
be requested to copy.
The meeting then adjourned.
A Steamer for High Speed.—A New
! York engineer has planned and is about
building a river steamer, constructed en
; tirely of Bessemer steel, the length to be
; 450 feet, the breadth forty-five and ine
i displacement 1,700 tons. _ By constructing
j the steamer upon a peculiar model which
j he has planned, the engineer Claims that
1 with 10.000 (indicated; horse-power en
i nines he can secure a speed of at mast
thirty statute miles an hour. The boat
• will accommodate 1.000 passengers,, and is
i to run. if successfully built, between -Vw
’ York and Albany, making the trip m five
| hour;.
The new internal revenue iteteP 3 requir
ed-to be placed on all malt liquors l-.c
been issued. The design is a \ui. neat
one akv-t two and a hall inches m diameter,
and'contains the turds "F nited states In
ternal Revenue Stamp, red the word
one-eighth or one quarter barrel, as tee
ease maybe. They _ are intended ,
placed over the spigot hole, and v. U, oc
cancelled by driving in the spigot ahe
stamps are'of the following denominations:
For one barrel, 5l; half barrel, 50c; quar
ter barrel, 25c-, &e.
Remarks ol Judge Keese to tlie Jury.
Having cone through with my instruc
tions in reference to your Statutory duties,
I ijeg leave to call your attention to a sub
ject which, though not among your pre
scribed duties, in my judgment, deeply
concerns the mortis ::id prosperity of our
people. I allude to the relation of .debtor
and creditor as it now exists in this State.
And that I may not be misunderstood, nor
misrepresented. I give you what I have to
say upon this subject in writing.
tire reeling bow being engendered between
the debtor and creditor . class {unless a
course of conduct different from that now
being pursued by both parties be adopted)
will culminate in deadly hostility, in law
lessness. and in serious injury to the agri
cultural interests of the country.
On one hand, the debtor, whose property
consisted principally in slaves, and who,
by reason of emancipation, is uot now pos
■ sessed of propertv sufficient to discharge
his pecuniary liabilities, feels that the
action of Government has relieved him
from all moral obligation, and is therefore
indifferent _as to the payment of his
debts.
On the other hand, the creditor seeing
this indifference, is. in most cases, pro
ceeding to obtain judgment, so as to be
ready to enforce tire collection of his debt
to flic extent of the debtor's assets when
ever the law shall allow him so to do. ™
This course of conduct by the respective
parties brings about mutual charges of
dishonesty and unfair dealing, and must,
if persisted in- eventually lead to a state
rs things, easily imagined, hard to be
depicted, and greatly to be deplored.
1 propose, briefly, to establish the propo
sition, that in ail cases of debts'contracted
prior to the Ist day of June, 1865, where
the debtor has not a sufficiency of proper
ty to discharge all his liabilities, without
leaving his family comparatively destitute,
it will be to the interest of the debtor, to
the interest of the creditor, and for the
good of th that there should be
a compounding between tho parties at
once, they taking for their guide, the rule
of conduct prescribed by Him who spake
as never man poke, viz : “As ye would
that men should do unto you, do you also
unto them likwise.
First, then: Will it be to the interest
of the debtor : It is clear to my mind
that the planter who finds himself with
out a sufficiency of property at a fair valua
tion, to payoff his indebtedness now, cannot
reasonably expect under the present labor
system, and with heavy pecuniary liabilites
hanging over him, to better his condition in
the pursuit of his former vocation ; and
without capital he cannot embark in any
other business. It is not human nature
for man to be industrious and energetic
with judgment liens against him beyond
the value of his property. He is constant
ly watching and expecting the officer of the
lawto take thelastluxuryifnotthe last com
fort from him and his family. He becomes
j unmanned, useless to liis family and to so
; ciety. It requires no lengthening argu
ment to prove that a debtor thus circum
stanced, will have more left by compound
ing with his creditor now, than ho will
have by waiting for the end of the law;
for lam fully persuaded, that there are
but few creditors, who, when properly ap
proached by the honest debtor, will not be
willing to compound upon liberal terms,
taking into consideration, if you please,
the losses of himself' and debtor by the ac
tion of the Government in abolishing the
institution of slavery, and the ratio which
the debt bears to such losses compared
with the prosperity left to each. You
may, among creditors, now and then find
a pound of flesh creature” who will be un
willing to compound upon any terms, but
he will be the eveeption, unless 1 am much
mistaken in the spirit of pervading the
creditor class, has also their intelligence in
understanding their own interest.
2nd. Will it bo to the interest of the
creditor ? Every lien obtained diminishes
the assets ot the debtor to the extent of
costs, at least, and takes from the creditor
the collecting commissions. Although the
State has no bankrupt law, and may not
have the constitutional power to pass one
affecting contracts made prior to its enact
ment, it is almost certain that Congress
will very soon pass a general bankrupt law,
in which they may, as they .have the pow
er to do, in the distribution of the assets
of tho bankrupt, out of debts upon the
same footing, in entire disregard of local
liens ; but if such law to be passed should
give priority to liens, the expenses of the
proceedings in bankruptcy must necessa
rily take precedence of everything else,
and judging from the experience of those
who are familiar with the operation of the
bankrupt acts heretofore passed hy Con
gress, there will be precious little left for
distribution among creditors, leaving the
creditor not by many degrees as well oil’ as
he' would have been by compounding
now, without cost and without judgment.
Besides, if the creditor compounds now
and discharges the debt, leaving to the
debtor not only what is exempt by our in
solvent laws, but a deficiency of property
to enable him to live and hope, my word
for it, if he be a man imbued with proper
sensibilities, he will be a hundred fold
more anxious to discharge tho moral obli
gation of a debt from which ho has been
released by the voluntary action of his
creditor, than he ever will be if released by
1 operation of law. In the one case he will
! feel that he : s relieved from his legal obli
j gallon merely —in the other case he will
j feel that he has been relieved from his
| moral as well as his legal obliga
tion. Such is tho nature of man. So,
that in every aspect of the subject, it seems
to me, it is to the interest of the creditor
to compound now. Let the debtor and
creditor alike, remember the proverb, “A
prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth
himself, but the simple pass on and are
punished.
3d. Will it be for tiie good of the coun
try? It is undeniable that the largest
number of persons who have not a suffi
ciency of property left to discharge their
indebtedness, belong to the agricultural
' class of our citizens, and have been brought
to their present condition by the action of
Government in abolishing the institution
of slavery ; and, unless these persons can,
in some way, be relieved from the incubus
of indebtedness incurred prior to the Ist of
June, 1865, the country must lose the
benefit of a large portion of its agricultural
talent, and enterprise. The last Legisla
ture of the State, seeing; the difficulties in
the premises, attempted a remedy in the
passage of what is called “The Stay Law;”
but with the meagre crops of this year,
amounting in many districts of the State,
almost to a failure, taken in connection
with the construction put upon said act by
the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
who reported the bill, that a failure to pay
one-fourth of a debt by the first day of
January of any year, makes the whole col
lectable, it is now. reasonably certain that
said act will not afford the relief intended.
What then is to be done in the premises ?
I can think of no better plan than the one
suggested in these remarks. It is worse
than idle to look for energy, industry or a
high standard of morality in a citizen,
without a future. To make him a good
citizen, a blessing to his family and society,
man must be able, in his devotions, truth
fully to say, in reference to temporal as
well as spiritual matters, “We thank-thee,
0! Lord, that we are still prisoners of
hope. ’ ’ Without this he sinks below the
rank of a drone in the hive of society—
with it he may become wealthy and useful.
Having thus, as we think, shown that it
will be to the interest of' the debtor, to the
interest of the creditor, and for the good
of the country, that all debts contracted
before the Ist day of June, 1805, in ease
the debtor had not a sufficiency of pro
perty to discharge his liabilities without
leaving hi.-, family comparatively destitute,
should be compounded at once upon liberal
terms without incurring costs, the inquiry
arises, wby may it not be clone ?
IVhen a merchant fails in business from
error in judgment in conducting it, or from
reckless speculation outside of his regular
business, if there be no charge of fraudu
lent conduct on his part, the general rule
between merchant and merchant is, to
compound immediately, the creditors al
lowing the debtor to retain, not only such
property as is exempt under the insolvent
law, but also, a sufficiency of property
besides to put him on his feet again sand
make him a prisoner of hope. Why, I
earnestly a.-k, should not the like rule of
conduct obtain toward and among those
who have been engaged in agricultural pur
suits, and who owe their present circum
stances to the action of Government and
not to any fault of their’s ?
Is it true that the vocation ofa merchant
is more important to the country than that j
of the_farmer or planter ? or is it true that j
there is anything in the vocation of a iner- j
chant better calculated to liberalize itsfol- i
lower than there is in the noble and in
de; K-ndent business of studying and develop
ing the productiveness of' mother earth '?
I trow ncit.
! In what I have said of you I do not
mean to be understood as having intimated,
in the remotest degree, any opinion as to
. what extent, if at all, contracts based in
whole or in part, upon slave property,_
have been affected in law by the action ol
Government in abolishing the institution.
Nor do I mean to lie understood as inti
mating that there are not many debts,
where the debtor is amply able to respond,
looking to the origin of the credit given,
which may not be compounded upon prin
ciples of "natural equity,” without dis
honor to tiie debtor or creditor. I do,
however, de-sire it to be understood that,
in my judgment, :t a universal repudiation
of debts, even if, allowable under the
of the United States and the
Coustiujtjc-! -of the State of Georgia,
would l«jth unvite and unjust. Repu
diation L one thing—the compounding of
a debt- upon fair and equitable principles
by the parties, upon the data given you in
tl., foregoing remarks, is another, and a
different thine.
-
these views to you, I say to you in all sin
cerity. has been, that they may go to your
p. -pie with your endorsement, (if you ac
cord.) and be adopted by them as their rule j
of conduct in this
body can suggest any better* plan of relief
you will have put the country under a list
ing debt:Of gratitude.
Crop Items.
The Athens post, published in Lime
stone county, North Alabama, says of the
crops there :
Fanners from , the northern, eastern
and southern portions of this county re
present their crops as literally burn
ing up, and unless they have rain soon,
and favorable weather the remainder of
the growing season, cotton and corn will
be cut exceedingly short. From the west
ern portion of the county we hear more
favorable accounts, and the prospects are a
little more fluttering.”
The Army Worm. — We regret to learn
that the army worm is creating great de
struction among the cotton fields in this
county. Planters inform us that the crop
wifi be materially shortened by the worms.
A gentleman from the country stated to us
yesterday that he fully expected to make
three hundred bales, but, since the ap
pearance of the army worm on his planta
tion, he would be satisfied with one hun
dred. This is sad news, not only to the
planter, hut to the entire country.—
Montgomery Mail.
The Wacoe i Texas) Register says : “The
i boll worms still continue their ravages in
this county. Many large cotton farms are
damaged to a very large amount; one
planter says that he lias lost at least sixty
I bales by them. It is hoped, however, that
; the present dry and intensely, hot weather
will destroy them.”
The Marion (S. C.) Star says: ‘Three
weexs ago our farmers were buoyant with
the prospects of their cotton crops, but the
' drought in this immediate neighborhood
h*s Righted their anticipations. Col. W.
" . Durant informs us that he will not
gather more than 100 hales from the fields
wluchj fifteen days ago, promised 200 bales,
i and that his yotitig corn is seriously daw
' a £cd. But we are pleased to state that
the larger portion of our district has been
lavorea with good seasons, and the reports
ot a lair crop are flattering.”
The Marion Crescent says : “Since the
last issue of our paper refreshing rains
have fallen in parts of the District. The
cotton and young corn will be greatly im-
E roved. Cotton is opening in many places,
ut still bearing finely.”
Notes From Mississippi. —From Mr.
11. T. McLarty, who has just arrived from
an extended trip through our neighboring
State of Mississippi, wo learn the follow
ing :
Prospectspf corn very gloomy. People
neglected their corn for the cultivation of
cotton. Cotton crop xvili far exceed an"
farmer’s calculation.” The many re
ports of writers from the South of one mil
lion bales in the Southern States wdf be
increased fifty per cent. After traveling
over most counties of Mississippi, I can
safely say the above report is as nearly
correct as could possibly be obtaiflld.
There is a fine crop of potatoes.” The
above report of Mr. McLarty is certainly
very different from that of all our corres
pondents with regard to the cotton crop.
We Hear the failure of the crop in all parts
of the State, owing to drought, the boll
worm and other causes.— Avalanche.
The Vicksburg Herald says: The corn
crop in that section of the country is almost
a failure. The cotton worm is making sad
havoc with the crop.
Refreshing rains are reported by noarly
all our South Carolina Exchanges.
A gentleman writes a note to the. Abbe
ville Danner, under date of August 17th,
and says that he is in receipt of a letter
from a friend somewhere in South Carolina,
who informs him that o'd corn is selling
there at fifty cents per bushel, and that he
never saw as good a prospect for the grow
ing crop; and he adds, that if no disas
ter befalls it, the new crop will be sold
at twenty-five cents per bushel.
The Alta Californian says : It is not im
probable that this year California will have
7,000,000 bushels of wheat to spare for ex
portation.
An Austin, Texas, correspondent of the
New Orleans Crescent, says: The crops
through the entire State are promising.
The cotton especially looks very fine on the
Colorado river.
The New Orleans Picayune has been
furnished with tho following extract from
a letter from a citizen of Matagorda county,
Texas, dated the loth ult:
The catterpillars arc now fully at
work on Fancy and Oyster creeks and the
Brazos, and it is the general opinion that
the leaf upon the cotton will be entirely
destroyed in the next ten days. In conse
quence of the heavy and continuous rains
m the spring, and the heavy growth of
weeds and grass, tho cotton has been slow
in maturing, and my opinion now is that
one-fourth to one-third of a crop is all
that will be made in the alluvial lands of
this State.”
The Jackson Miss.. Clarion of the 25th
says :
“YVe published yesterday a report of
the cotton growing association of this city.
They report that in the counties Hind’s,
Madison, Carroll, Claiborne aud Scott,
they have received reports of only 323
planters who in 1860employod 7,624 hands,
cultivating 84,311 acres, and raising 46.-
631 bales. These planters, the present
year employ 3,495 hands and have planted
32,222 acres in cotton. ’ ’
North Carolina.—While the pros
pects of the crops in the central and wes
tern part of the counties of this State are
very discouraging along on the eastern
shores of the State, in all those counties
between the sea coast and the YV. and YV.
Railroad, it is said to be certain that a
yield which has seldom before been gath
ered will be produced. This is gratifying,
and taken in connection with the fact that
the thousand of acres in the valleys of the
Ohio and Missouri are producing wonder
fully, give the assurance that there will bo
uo famine in this country at least during
the next year.— Wilmington Dispatch.
The Federal Union believes tho crops in
this State, especially in this section, will
turn out better than we tycro led to sup
pose some time since.
The’editor of the YVaynesboro Times
reports _ that the crop prospects arc much
better in Scriven than in Burke. The
grain yield has been unexpectedly heavy.
The cotton crop will turn out a reasonable
profit.
The Sumter Republican says : YVe have
had several fine showers during the past
few days. Crops generally are doing
very well; planters, we believe, expect to
make very near, or quite an average crop.
The Dawson Journal, of tho 31st ult..
says Captain Evans, brought to town, last
week, six bales of new cotton, which he
disposed of at 27 cents. YVe hear of a
good deal out and ready for market.
A writer in the Rome Courier suggests
that, as the corn crop is short in some see-*
tions of the State, it is necessary to cast
about for a substitute, lie saj’s:
“This may be found, to a great extent,
in the turnip. Let us see to what use the
turnip may be put so as to save corn; One
of the farmer's primary considerations is
his meat. To fatten hogs corn is necessa
ry, at the rate of seven bushels to the head.
1 have known hogs made very fat with
three bushels of corn to the head, but how
was this economy effected? Simply by the
use of turnips. Give your hogs cooked
turnips, with a few quarts of corn meal and
a little salt; to my certain knowledge they
will fatten as fast, if not faster, than when
fed on raw corn alone, An occasional
change to raw turnips, in mild weather,
will be found beneficial. ’ 1
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A Word for Little Girls. —Who is
lovely ? It is the little girl who drops sweet
words, kind remarks, arid pleasant smiles
as she passes along; who has a kind word
of sympathy for every little boy or girl she
meets in trouble, and a kind hand to help
her companions out of difficulties; who
never scolds, never contends, never teases
her mother, nor seeks in any way to di
minish but always to increase her happi
ness. Would it not please you to p'ck up
a string of pearls, drops of gold, diamonds
or precious stones, as you pass along the
street? But these are the precious stones
which can never be lost. Take the hand
of the friendless. Smile on the sac] and
dejected. Sympathize with those in
trouble. Strive everywhere to diffuse
around you sunshine and joy. If you do
this, you will.sure to be beloved.
The Government has appropriated
£75,000 for deepening and maintaining a
channel across the bar of the Southwest
Pass of the Mississippi, and this impor
tant ' work wiil be commenced as soon as
satisfactory proposals are received. It is
designed to harrow and drag the channel
until a passage of' a uniform depth of
eighteen feet and width of two hundred
feet shall be opened from deep water in
the river to deep water in the gulf.
A Good Ticket.—We see in one of
our exchanges the proposition grave A
made to run at the next Proridentiai elec
tion. Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachu
setts, for President, and Win. C. Brown
low, of Tennessee, for Vice-President
W e do not think a better ticket could be
selected to represent the purity and piety
ol Northern rauicallsm and Southern lon
™hJ—so-called. In personal appearance,
as wed as m character, this lovely pair
w°u ; -l make sweet and comely heads to
tlic Radical Rump Government.
Tornado in Mississippi.—On the 2ist
mt., a severe storm, accompanied by a
terrible whirlwind, passed over Marion.
Mississippi, on the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road', frightening everybody and doing
considerable damage. Everything with
which ii came in contact was either de
molished or carried away. The Tiroes
printing office wa, destroyed.
Columbus Meeting.
The ratification meeting held in our city :
during the past week, scorns to have added ;
to the nervous irritability which has afflicted
sthe Augusta “ Constitutionalist ” since the
ijvubiieation of the call for a National Con
vention at Philadelphia. As the evidence
accumulates of the almost unanimous ac
ceptance of the proceedings of that Con
vention by the people of the South,_ and
the united oppposition to them of the
Radical dement of the North, the tone of
the Constitutionalist becomes more queru
lous, and its assaults upon a political
movement more feeble and unwise. The
following extract which we reproduce from
its columns contains its latest attempt _to
render odious everything connected with
the Philadelphia Convention, and isa fair
' specimen of the ridiculous conclusion to
which an obstinate persistence in an un
reasonable course will inevitably lead :
“H e the People of England.”
[Tiie Three Tailors—A Play.
< “At a large meeting of the people of
Muscogee county,” Hon. A. 11. Chap
pell, Ex-Provisional Gov. James John
son, Major Wiley Williams, Hon. M. J.
Crawford, John Peabody, R. L. Mott, R.
B. Murdock and A. 11. Lamar, Esqrs.,
and—presumably— the un-named rank and
file, making up t iie “largi. meeting , rati
fied “the action” of the Philadelphia Con
vention and “endorsed the declaration of
principles put forth by it.''
A e have only to regret thatsostaunch and
respectable a sheet as the “ Constitutional
ist, which in the political contests of the
past, has been wont to use nothing but the
heaviest artillery, should have had its ar
mory despoiled of every weapon of offence
and defence save a “popgun.” ■
We surmise the truth of the whole mat
ter to be about this. The present editor
of that journal belongs to that class who,
feeling that 1 hey were not fairly beaten in
the late strife, cannot fully appreciate the
fact that the people of the South have
recognized and accepted tiie conclusion
that as a community they were conquered.
Believing this to be so we have not been
surprised at the -ebullitions of indignation
that have appeared in the Constitutionalist
upon tho slightest' suspicion that the
South, in order to be restored to political
equality, would be compelled to abase
herself. The feeling is worthy of any one
who understood and espoused the South
ern side of- the date war. and commends
itself to our * sympathy and respect. Con
sequently we have heretofore restrained
from comment when we really thought the
Constitutionalist did not fairly represent
the public-sentiment of the State. From the
eminent success with which that paper has
hitherto been conducted, we naturally sup
posed that its proprietors, with a proper
view to their own interests, and the edifi
cation of their patrons and readers, would,
at the right time, interfere to stop a per
formance which was fast destroying the
prestige and influence of their valuable
journal.
We are sorry to confess that in this we
have been disappointed. We have only
to say further, that the attempt of the
Constitutionalist, to throw by flings and in
sinuations discredit upon the meeting re
cently held in this place, will prove as
abortive as its endeavors to prevent South
ern representation at Philadelphia. The
meeting here was a large o.ie. In point
of intelligence and worth of the men com
prising ii, it was by far the most respect
able assembly of the kind which has been
convened here within our knowledge.
From what we can gather, and our oppor
tunities are quite as good as those of tho
Constitutionalist, the resolutions adopted
by the meeting represent the political sen
timents of tho people of this section of the
State. The editor of the Constitutionalist
may not have been in the State long
enough to be fully acquainted with all of
its public men, and for his benefit wc may
say that there were men in the meeting in
Columbus, the conclusions of whose judg
ments upon political questions would have
more weight with the entire people of
Georgia than the very able and distin
guished paper over which he lias the
honor to preside.— Columbus Sun.
Head Centre Stephens In Cleveland.
Cleveland, September 1. —Stephens,
the Fenian Head Centre, addressed a large
meeting at- Brainard Hall in this city to
night. The Roberts faction of tho Broth
erhood was considerably represented, and
two or three attempts were made by some
of them to break up the meeting. Mr.
Stephens’ remarks were drowned by cheers
for General O’Neil, General Sweeney, Cos!.
Roberts and others. The police interfered,
however, and finally secured order. Ste
phens was very severe on the Roberts wing
of the order, and characterized the Cana
dian movement as one of- stupendous folly,
lie believed the mass of the irishmen who
took part in it were lmnest, but their lead
ers were soldiers of fortune, and lacked
true patriotism as well as competence, else
why did they not move upon Canada before
the United States had time to prevent
them, as they could have done. Colonel
Roberts was a bravo man, but he was not
a true patriot, or he would have been in
Canada directing his troops—the place for
him and all other Fenian leaders. lie was
confident that the instigators of the late
raid knew beforehand that they could not
succeed; for the neutrality laws of the
United States were plain, and the President
was hound by oath to preserve them. If
he failed to do so lie was a perjurer. Be
cause England did not obey her neutrality
laws, and thereby perjured herself, it was
no reason that the United States should do
so. If the American Fenians had fulfilled
one-fourth of their promises to Irishmen in
Ireland, the latter would now lie an inde
pendent country. As it was, however, no
name was more despised than that of Fe
nian. England could only concentrate
seventy tliousond men in Ireland, while the
Fenians there could get together ov«r one
hundred thousand trained soldiers in twen
ty-four hours. They wanted arms!and i
other material in Ireland. He was airaid j
they were fighting there now, being tired j
of waiting for help from this country, i If |
such wore the case, the attempt heir*- j/>y 1
mature, they might foil; and failure now
would be the ruin of Ireland; but they
were tired of waiting for American help.
Tiie Rise and Progress of Prussia.
When Frederick the Great succeeded to
the throne, the population under his rule
was short of two and a half millions ofsouls
—but he inherited an army of seventy thous
and of the best trained soldiery in Europe,
and was possessed of a superlative genius
for war. Frederick added 29,000 square
miles, and some three millions of subjects
to his kingdom, by knowing how to han
dle armies with the genius of a master
of his art. It was the generalship
and capacity for war-administration of the
Monarch, which enabled him to bequeath
to his successor a realm peopled by three
times as many souls as the one which had
descended to him.
But in twenty-five years half the Prus
sian territory had been wrenched away
by' the war genius of another great Captain
who made war upon precisely the same
principles, the appreciation of and obedi
ence to which hau given victory to Freder
ick.
Meanwhile a statesman rose to the head
of affairs in Prussia —Baron Stein, who
fully comprehended in statesmanship as
Frederick and Napoleon had done in war,
.the controlling force of concentration of all
ofa nations resources. Tim resuit was the
uprising of <lermmiy and the defeat of'Na
poleon at Dresden and Leipzig.
Prussia’s late successes are due to what
we shall term the muscular school of di
plomaey and suite v. unship incarnate in
Bismarck, and the utter disregard by his
adversary of" all correct principles iri the art
of war. Prussia, fortunate in having at an
auspicious period at the head of her gov
ernment a man with the requisite capacity
for war administration, with true percep
tions of the principles that win as well as
of those that invariably lose in war—in a
campaign of a fortnight humbled an ad
versary of much greater martial resources,
and has added to her population over four
millions of people, and at least 28,000
square miles, or about the same area added
by the great wars of Frederick! And we
repeat by the same ways and means, pre
cisely—superior war administration and
use of martial resources.— Memphis Ava
lanche.
Life too Short for Strife.— Charles
Dickens relates the following of Douglas
Jerrold :
, "Gs his generosity I had a proof within
tnese two or three years, which it saddens
me to think of now. There had been es
trangement between us—not on any per
sona. subject, and not involving angry
words—and a good many months had pas
sed without' my ever seeing him in the
street, when it fell out that we dined, each
Wl fp own separate party, in tiie Stran
ger s Room of the Club. Our chair,- were
almost back to back and I took mine after
bo was seated and at dinner (I am sorry to
remember) and did not look that way.
Before we had sat long, lie openly wheeled
: his chair round, stretched out both hands
in an engaging manner, and said aloud,
j with a bright and loving face, that 1 can
I see as I write to y’ou : ‘Let us be friends
; again. A life is not long enough for th;- !
Jerrold was not a Christain, buthis con-
I duct in this ease was worthy of the Chris- .
i tain character. On a dying bed, how in- 1
significant will appear many things about j
; winch we contend in bitterness and wrath - j
: Life is too short, its inevitable sorrows so
many, its responsibilities so vast and j
i solemn, that there is, indeed, no time to j
spare in bruising and mangling one another. ,
Let not the sun go down on your wrath. I
Never close your eyes to sleep with a heart
angry toward., vour brother and icilow suf
ferer. See him and be reconciled to him
if you can. If’you cannot see him write
to’him. If he is a true man and a Chris- .
tian. he will listen. If lie is not you will I
have done right, and your soul will be |
bright with the sunshine of Heaven. ’
Tue venerable preacher, poet and spirit
uahst u can I aerpont—-died at Medford,
Mass., aged 81 years. Only a day or two
bdoie liis death he presided at the open
ing ol the National Conveition of Spirit
ualists at Providence. Ilia address, which
is very different from the infidel har
rangucs to which we referred a few d ays
ago—and which characterized the pro
ceedings—may he of interest to some of
our readers. YVe copy from an Eartcru
paper:
. At the National Convention of Spiritual
ly . ™™menced its session at
i rowdence, R. L, lately, eighteen States
and territories were represented. Rev
John Pierpont, who is now about eighty
years of age, took the chair as President
ol the Association, but soon resigned it.
making an address, in which lie gave his
teesoiis for_ believing in Spiritualism :
” hy, said the speaker, am Ia spirit
ualist, and why do I bear that opprobrious
name before the world ? I answer, be
cause I am thoroughly convinced that the
leading doctrines of the Spiritualists are
true. The facts upon which those doc
trines rest are known to he true. I be
lieve in the fact that under certain condi
tions in these our days, communications
do come from tho spirits of those who have
passed through the gates of death. Be
cause of that fact, I believe that the spirit
survives the body in a state of conscious
activity. It is the belief of that fact that
makes us spiritualists. I believe it on ac
count of facts that I myself have witnessed.
What I see, hear, and feel, I know as well
as Ft. John knew what lie saw, heard and
felt. My senses arc as good as were those
of the beloved Disciple ; or any other Dis
ciple.
Now two questions present themselves
to every thoughtful mind. First, “Whence
came I?” second, “Whither am I
going?” Wc are told that all matter pos
sesses “inertia, " and cannot move of its
own inherent power. I believe that as
matter cannot move, even so spirit cannot
rest. That spirit manifests itself through
all works, all worlds, all times. He works
not six days alone, but seven, and so has
done through all eternity. From that
spirit we conic, not from matter.
It is the spirit which is man. Man,
therefore, survives death —not in the actu
al form in which he was before; but his
personal identity, his individuality re
mains.
When I know that the spirit I have
known and loved, and who lias passed into
the spirit world, through certain me
dia, fholds communication with me now;
when I see the expression of his face when
he speaks to me, reminds me of the past,
tells me of his present condition, cheers
me with the assurance that there is a
pleasant place waiting for me when I come;
when my father tells me that he looks like
me, in what particulars I differ from him,
of particulars that no being but he can
know, I am sure that those spirits retain
their personality in the spirit world.
Only remove the dread uncertainty
which hangs over the future, and let me
know what I am bound to be and I am
certain that it will be well with ine in the
hands of tho Infinite Spirit, lor it lias al
ways been well with me in liis hands.
Through Spiritualism Ido know what 1
shall be, for I have proof of the personal
existence in the future state. When the
spirit was first clothed with flesh in the
present state of being, loving eyes were
shining upon it, loving arms were taking
it to a loving heart. All its wants were
graciously and joyously ministered to by
the kindest offices of humanity. Shall
it be otherwise when we step into another
state of being ? When asked then whither
lam going, I answer that I am going to
the spirit world, there to meet with kind
red spirits—“to the general assembly and
church of the tint born whose names are
written in heaven,” Ah but where is
heaven ? Shall the spirit find its abode
in such or such a star, or shall it roam
from world to world as far as the universe
extends ?
If I asked what place I would choose for
my heaven and my future home, I would
say that I have seen this lieautiful world,
and enjoy it so much that I should like to
stay here always around the homes of my
friends, holding communion with them.
And Ibelieve that is where we are to Tie,
and it is what v/c are to do in the future
state.
“Millions of spiritual beings walk the
earth unseen,
Both when we wake and when we sleep.”g
I believe that. And for myself lam
satisfied that before I address another
Spiritual Convention I may walk the earth
unseen, and perhaps may hold communi
cation with you, one or more, when you
wake and when you sleep. This is my
faith, and to that faith I do not mean to
prove infidel so long as I live.
(From the Chicago Times,|
The Douglas Monument Description or
the Memorial Structure.
The time is rapidly approaching when,
without doubt, the greatest gathering of
people that every convened in Chicago
will assemble. But little more than two
weeks now remain, before the arrival of
the day fixed by the President of the Unit
ed States for tne laying of the corner stone
of the Douglas monument, The several
committees having in charge the various
arrangements for the observance of the
occasion arc rapidly perfecting the plans,
and, it is believed, will have completed all
their arrangements before the day of
celebration.
A brief description of the monument to
be erected will be of interest in view of the
near approach of the celebration of the
laying of its corner stone. This will con
sist of a circular platform base, fifty-two
feet in diameter and two and a half feet
high. Upon this will be placed a similar
platform, but a little smaller, which will
be surmounted by a sepulchre twenty feet
square and eleven feet high, with walls five
feet in thickness. It will contain a cham
ber ten feet square. In the chamber will
bo placed the sarcophagus containing tlic
remains of the great statesman. The sar
cophagus will be visible through a bronze
door six and a half feet high and three feet
wide. The sepulchre will be ornamented
with projecting pedestals from the cor
ners. Surrounding the sepulchere will be
a pedestal twenty-one feet in height, hav
ing a base fifteen feet square. On this
will be erected a column forty-three feet in
length, six feet square at the basic and
three and a half feet square at the top.
The column will be terminated by a cap
six feet high, which forms the base for the
colossal statue of Douglas.
Surrounding the sepulchre will be placed
four seated symbolical figures, life-size,
sculptured in light marble. One of these
figures will represent Illinois, holding in
her hand a medallion likeness of Douglas.
By her side will be a sheaf of wheat and
the State arms. The remaining figures
will represent America with a shield.
History reclining on a tablet, and Fame
with the symbolical wreath and trumpet.
Over the entrance of the sepulchre will
stand an eagle, and on the base of the
pedestal above are four bas-reliefs repre
senting the history and progress of the
West. These represent Indian hunting
scenes; pioneers building log cabins, plough
ing and felling trees; commerce is repre
sented by a ship and package* of goods,
and the sciences are represented by a loco
motive, a railroad and a telegraph. Still
another device represents education, a
group of children, the State Capital build
ing, a church in the distance. &c. The
statue will represent the great patriot and
statesman as standing by tne Constitution
OU one side and the Union on the other,
which is represented by the Roman fascas.
the first section of the mqjTument is
about half completed, and the tomb nearly
finished. At each corner of the Doug'as
grave will lie erected a pillar about thi-ty
feet h.gh. These will be joined by four
arches, which will be draped and decorated
with flowers. Around the bases of the
pillars flags will be arranged. In front of
the grave will be placed Yolk’s marble
bust of Douglas, together with a model of
the monurat nt
Spiritualism. —A medical gentleman,
Dr. Rotter, of Trenton, who professes dur
ing the pant fifteen years to have directed
his critical attention to spiritualism, makes
some fearful disclosures of the licentious
ness of the imposture, as follows :
Hundreds of families have been broken
up, and many affectionate wives deserted
by affinity-seeking husbands ; many once
devoted wives have bean seduced and left
their husbands, and tender, helpless chil
dren, to follow' some higher attraction ;
many well disposed but simple-minded
girls have been deluded by affinity notions,
and led off by affinity-hunters, to be de
serted in a few months, with blasted repu
tations, or led to deeds still more darx and
criminal, to hide their shame.
A New York correspondent of the Au
gusta Ga ('on-slitut'intalist says that the
i Philadelphia Convention has privately
: nominated V. . H. Seward for ■ lesident,
[ and James L. Orr for \ lce-Urcsident m
] 808, and that Andrew Johnson has been
betrayed by' his friends.
We are not surprised, says the Savannah
Herald , at any statement that may be
made by the enemies of the Convention to
weaken its influence; we did not, however,
expect to see them obtain currency in
Southern journals.
South Carolina Legislature.— This
body is now convened in extra session.
One of the chief objects of the session is to
devise some means of relief for the people
against past indebtedness. The stay law
was pronounced unconstitutional by Chief
.Justice Duukin, in May last, and his opin
ion has been concurred in bv theentirc ju
niciary of the State save Judge Aldrich
The question of relief is attracting general
attention all over the States devastated
by the war.