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ifhtonictr & £cntmcl VEOKISDAI MmKMM.', SEI'TKMLKH 12. 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 - 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.