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WEBSESDAY JIHK’.IMG. BKPTKM»IiJ>.
Her. Henry Ward Bectlicr’.s Second
Letter.
The letter of Dr. Beecher to General
ITalpine, which we published a few days
ago, caused ,-ueh a sen-m tion among the
brethren of his flock, that he has deemed
it < xpel sent to write a second epistle, in
.explanation rat. To
gratify the curiosity our readers will feel
to sea the let:- r. we publish it. Dr.
Beecher is very anxious lest hi- fidelity to
the Republican party 1.-e doubted, and to
show that ha continues ‘’sound ’on that
s-ore, he,tak<-.* occasion to censure the
]’resident, and to di- ot from some of Ills
... Hi ■ :
iiis form.-: desire for the -paedy restoration ;
of the Union. and breathes a magnani
ni'c;- . tVe Im, therefore, afford to
].-t hurt think what he pleases of the Pres
i J-. ist. if- is oppo-cd to the destructive,
disuniot t ilicy ot the Radicals, and thus ■
fir v • jv<- i-mize him as an ally, and bid ,
bilU God speed.
The Tribune repudiates Dr. Beecher s
explanation--, and says that, “ when one
~... ov r the cm my, the great party of
which Mr. B. claims to he a member un
derstands him to be no longer of it - house-
I" him to write one more
i..) short one —to say which of the
lev.) Pliila!eiphiu conventions commands
]f, .-•••!apathy. Ho Dr. Beecher maybe
con-i'iered as excommunicated from the
; Jj, hip of the faithful of the Tribune
This. perhaps, should give him
r and lim to o a sympathy.
Another Projected Rallrstd.
At. the recent meeting of stockholders of
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, it
wet.: i---o!vi 1 to connect Decatur with Al
iania by mi air line railroad, thereby avoid
in-r tiif great circuit by way of Huntsville,
V',, ,;l |.i(l‘li| ■>'.if U. Tllft COnVO- j
fMem
ti ope (-lid. and til- cjtnof the At - I
!,uit.ic Hi aboard a.’ the other end of the
, r ,niu! lin-. acre the Southern pur- 1
tion of the 3lb-l -ipjii valley cannot be;
overestimated. The Memphis Avalanche I
pay. of it:
** O'li-'-re i- vet ane-tiic-r road, in Alabama
i, ml rria, v.iiich lim Memphis and i
( Piir!'--' .115111-1 tin-(.corgia Central Kernels !
j. 1 u .| buiM • vet it wltl in no sense militate ;
~es| our city. IL is that
i-.l'ling 'ilii- ': 1 y from In-ntnr to Atlanta.
VVhc-ii laiilt, it will is- tho shortest and
direct line tliat will ever connect
M.-in I >li i -and Charleston, or Memphis and
Savannah.”
The projected line of the road is from
Decatur to Gunter’s Landing, about fifty
mile , thence fifty miles southeast to -Jack
sonville, and thence about ninety miles due
cast to Atlanta. About twenty-four miles
of this line, between Jacksonville and
Gunter’s Landing, is already graded,
being Iho bed of one of the projected
branches of the Alabama and Tennessee
I livers Railroad.
With tho immense resources of the
Memphis and Charlo.-tnn Railroad, there
chi be no doubt of this desirable link in
tho eastern and western connection at an
early day.
Straight TaiK.
In Missouri they have a disfranchising
law, diffc iring in its details from that of
Tennes.-ce, but identical with the latter in
its spirit, and object. The general election
in that State will occur on the Gth of No
vember next. The struggle between the
Conservatives and Radicals in the pending
canvass is a tierce one, and the prospects of
success such as to encourage each party to
tho utmost exertion.
In tiii.- state of things It is believed, and
that upon grounds of high probability, that,
the Radical governor, Fletcher, is prepar
ing to carry the election by force of arms.
Tiu- Conservatives have appealed to the
President to protect them against the
meditated violence ; arguing that, by tho
Civil Rights Act, he is empowered to em
ploy the National troo| 'V that purpu-.
What instructions Gen. ’.lupe-.-ck, who
command! the doj pent, h, 1 ceix-d
upon 4n snicijct, i- ot csju* - u .s.i. ivn !■<
thn p.ftiiic, The IHL'.stu. ■ rfep etilhxi /. ex
i-.'c-'C,- the in" - eonh-’i Oeffi” teat th
... li. - ~i flii-cito-.cn- wif pc ,Tij\ pr»ii ;,-f :i,
if necessary, by tho military arm of the
Federal government. In the meantime, '
and in the following most unmistakable j
lauaiiggo, it exhort- the Consorvatiies to
he!)) thcmselrr.:.
Rut whilo Conservatives may rose patient j
and hopeful on this score, encorragcd by |
tlie .absolute certainty that tlie President ;
of the I' .lied States will gr.nt to them j
the fullest extent needed, mo irresistible i
aid ol' th-' General Government in main- j
taiuiiig their vi -lit.-, let meiu hear in mind I
our words of waruiiu given yesterday,
'i'ltere is a grand eon.- liyary on the part of !
ili Radical faction. '>aeked up by force', to i
deprive the majority of the citizens of Mis- j
snuriof the mo*-sacrocl rights a freeman j
can enjoy. JVepare instantly to meet |
force with for- ’• LoMherc bo no bullying I
imr braggim. I lie emergency is too se- ;
rlous for i> re chaffing and gasconade, Lei ;
a calm, "solute. I nave purpose animate the ;
Consort a tivo I uiou party to meet the;
Radied armed ruffians of Missouri in just
sue!’style as they themselves shall choose.
Ifvith amis, eitlieriiidividually or in com
}>• iiies,then meet them liy anus. Fletcher’s
rrinedAnobs must be nus. by companies of
armed citizens, who will rid tlie community
of their presence. They have no right to
exist an hour in Missouri, and may as
lawfully be pursued and hunted down as
gangs of bushwhackers. Be ready to
meet such banditti, whenever they appear,
n: Conservative assemblies, or at tho polls,
with weapons fit for Service and in num
bers sufficient to defend till the rights
thai helonu io us. Since Governor
Fletcher, and Blow and Drake, menace
its with “organi-Mtiimit," let. us have our
organizations without any delay. Get
arms, get powder, got percussion caps,
choose your officers, drill aud he ready.
Au l then if the Radicals want war, they
can have it.
Tiiis is what we call "straight talk,’ and
exactly of the right sort. Front all the in
dications we incline to think there is real
danger of a \'• lent collision of parties in
Missouri, ami however such an occurrence
may be deprecated, honest men everywhere
must desire that, it' a fight must come, tho
friends of equal rights and free government
may he prepared for the conflict.
Ratification Meeting In Macon.
The Telegraph says that the meeting
held on Friday night to ratify the action of
the late Conservative Convention at Phil
adelphia. and pledge the support of our
people to l’resi hut Johnson in his strug
: le lor the Constitution r.ud the rights of ,
the State*, was a most gratifying success, 1
the large hall being well filled, and by an
audioneethat embraced nearly all the old
and influent ial citizens of Macon.
The speeches were all pertinent to the
occasion, and rtveiv 1 with approval and
enthusiasm by the audience. The intro
ductory remarks of Judge Nisbot were ad
mirably toned and i; ipvos-ive. whilst Col.
Hardeman reviewed the condition of the
country with great earnestness and pathos,
and gave a most satisfactory account of his
stewardship as a delegate to the (inven
tion.
Mr. Anderson closed the discussion with
a few can lid, tnanlyand patriotic remarks,
showing that he appreciated the demands
of the 1 willing to do le*
whole dutv as a citizen of both Georgia and
the Cnion.
It is hoped that many other eommuni
ti-'-nit ' -tth wl-.l hold similar meetings,
and show to the President that we are not
umnmdiui of the .rival struggle which he
is engaged m to save them from the hands
\\ omen * Rights and Negro Si f-
IT.ai E. —Mr. Theodore Tilton has under
taken the task of over, ruing the white
mans insimctivo j.hvjuu; o against negro
uii nation; and Mi-*
Anna Dickinson pier.as for negro suffrage
with a distinct understanding that she ap
pears '• in behalf of tiie groat unrepresent
ed class of white women. What is this
but an emphatic hint that after negro
suffrage is to come women's suffrage ? The
universal lights doctrine knows no limit.
If black men may vote simply because they
walk on two legs, shall not the same priv
ilege he conferred upon white women?
and if on white women, why not ou black
ones also? The general opinion, perhaps,
would place the women lir*t. Miss Dick
inson reveals the magnanimity and mod
estjt of her nature when she gives prece
dence to the negro.
LETTER FROM THE NORTH.
The Temper of the Northern People—-Po
litical Malignity in the “( itv of Broth
erly J.ove"’—-southern Securities—ticor
gt» I tools— New Vork Pcli ic*. .
(From o«ro»aC«revo-.*ot.|
SI’itiXGFIELI), Mass.. S-pt. 4, l 'OO.
Di-iar Chronicle:— It is the fashion :
adopted from the courts of Europe to speak ;
of’ th. march of events. It is very proper
so to -jicnk when under governments of
red tape and circumlocution offices. Such
a phrase aptlv characterizes political move
ment.- In monarchal countries, at lea.-t up
te the time of the Au-tro-Prusuan war.
But in this great republic, actions are not
constrained to move in the measured tread
of the march, hut leap forward each day
and each moment with the rapidity of
lighting. It is difficult, therefore, to mark
tie ir dii tion or met; ure their volume
from the stand point of citizenship, and it
is -till more difficult to predict the effect of
these great movements, immediate and ulti
mas . The reflect ion has often occurred to
me that it is only the eye of some intelli
gent, well read, philosophical, unbiased
foreigner, ilk" Do Tocqueville, that reading
aright the general principles at work, will
be able to indicate the current, and predict
the grand result. It is under these
and like misgivings that your corres
pondent has watched with intense
interest the social and political movements I
of tic: past month. Having wit nested th
action of the Philadelphia Convention and
mingled freely with those justly esteemed
friendly to the South, having heard them
frankly confess their motives and express
their views, avowing their private opinions,
and candidly announcing how far a policy
which would ensure success, demanded
suppre.- ion, or modification —your cor
respondent Ims endeavored also to form
; with the best judgment possible for him,
an estimate of the temper and tone and
vi ws, which prevailed among the Radi
] cals by mingling with them, making ac
; quairitances among th en, and hearing their
1 leaders enunciate their policy and calculate
their chances for success. This is a more
difficult ta-k than your readers will imag
ine, I ’arty lim have been during the late
war, and are now, more strictly defined
than ever before. The extreme of bitter
nes.- mid hatred exists between many of
the citizens of the North belonging to the
different parties, eacli against the other,
to an extent hardly possible for Southern
ers to understand. Much of this is life
long and hereditary growing out of social
and political affinities before the war, but
the fiercest and bitterest antagonisms have
: been engendered by the war. These po
i lit'eal animosities influence social in
tercourse and control trade. Each party
patronises or eschews stores, hotels, water
ing places, even liar rooms, and I know
not what else, just as political interest, ;
opinions and revenge justify- Nor is this
rule of conduct confined to secular matters, j
It has become part and parcel of ecclcsias- |
tical polity. Orthodoxy is determined by ]
the political standard of the individual, |
who passes judgment, and tho rule Is the
same for priest, minister, elder and lay-j
man. The sinner, is perhaps, more fierce !
in his denunciations, and utters his anathe- j
mas with a more coarse and ribald tongue. |
These saint, however, is none the less I
unsparing in hatred and revenge, while he j
cries “it is the sword of the Lord and of!
Gideon.” Os all the States through which j
your correspondent has passed from liii- j
nois to Connecticut, this political cojidi- ;
tion of affairs, obtains to a greater degree !
in Pennsylvania than in any other State, j
and the city of Philadelphia —the city of •
brotherly love—in distinguished above all 1
other cities, towns, and villages for rancour
and venomous bitterness of party spirit,
which is indulged to such a length as to
disrupt social ties and long standing
friendships. Tho following will illus
trate in some degree what' 1 have out
lined. During the session of the conven
tion, large assemblages of people gathered
in front of different hotels and club-houses,
■ 1 f disti
{Kia xers. To interrupt, annoy, and eoun
- ’--i the influence of tho-e political
t : . mg.-, baisioi I- Raflliali—so-palled —
vritf if IT i"lii v tfiruily*,
1 ashing aid sh ”ing their way
'a a “hm g Jeff Davis to
a sour apple tree,” “ glory hallalujah”—
’ groaning, screeching, hallowing—crying
| out “Dry up you damned old copper
head,” with all manner of like utterances.
A respectable gentleman—a Democrat—
told your correspondent that lie had his
harness, and the spokes of tho wheels of
his buggie cut so as to be valueless, which
lie could only account lor as a matter of re
venge by some of his political opponents.
In another locality a Republican—and as
“mild a mannered man as everjeut a throat
or scuttled a ship—but I guess, from bis
own statements, one of the strictest of the
sect —had twenty-five line shade trees,
standing in his grounds, girdled in one
night, and irretrievably destroyed—an* act
of vandalism which can only fiud a parallel
in a true “ history of the march to the
sea. ” But enough of these. Your corres-
pondent feels quite assured that life, I
liberty and property is far more secure,
with far less police protection, in Georgia
than in the Keystone State. The con- 1
servativos, drawn from both the Demo
cratic and Republican ranks, feel sure of
gaining a majority of representatives of
Congress at the ensuing election.
Throughout New Jersey the respectable
Republicans, everywhere condemn in no ,
measured terms the summary rejeetment
of Stockton from the Senate last witter.
Your correspondent did not meet a single
Republican • (and hornet many at Gape
May ar.,l elsewhere,) who did not express
the opinion that Stockton would and
ought to be returned at tlie next election
upon the assembling of the Legislature.
There is barfly a doubt but that he will
be so returned. •
In New York every one is alive and
astir. It was conceded that Dean Rich
mond and Thurlow Weed would manipu
late the wires—that there would be a
balance of power in their hands which
would issure the defeat of an obnoxious
candidate, no matter to which party he
might belong. The death of Richmond
will not, it is said, interfere with the plan
matured. Looking impatiently at proba
ble results of the ensuing fall elections, it
seems fair to calculate upon an increase
in the number of Conservative Represen
tatives m Congress. There is among ali
parties, both Radical, Conservative and
Democrat, a growing confidence in the
futuv >of the South. Many, very many
tradesmen and artisans are enquiring as
to the cost of land, prospects for trade,
cost of manufacturing sites. Ac., &<v The
decided rise in Southern securities is an
other marked indication—occurring too,
among capitalists, proverbial, for tiaiidity.
i> too significant to be overlooked,
ine new loan effected by Gov
ernor Jenkins, lias Ivon freely dis
cussed. It was asserted freely in Wall
st root that Governor Jenkins made no public
offer of this loan: but. having lived the
minimum price of the first half a million
at vO. it was taken before the public knew
much about it. Subsequently various
offers were made from 91(-< I'M for the
second half million, which the Governor
promptly rejected, fixing the minimum at
95. One of the largest capitalists of New
York remarked in my hearing, a day or
two since, that, witlun the next five years,
the whole debt of the State of Georgia
would be taken up by its own citizens, it
the policy which exists now, and has here
tofore existed, continues to be enforced.
There has been some large sales of lands
in Southwestern Georgia, to English and
Boston capitalists, within the past few
Jays. Again, there has been quite an ex
citement about gold and iron mines. As
to iron, two Northern companies arc
running extensive rolling mills near Chat
tanooga. and it is said that twenty-seven
furnaces for making pig iron have been
erected, chiefly by Northern capital, in
Northewestern Georgia, during the past
six months. Several gold mines on the
Chestatee have changed hands, at prices
not made public. A mine near Dahlonega.
known in Georgia as the Stephenson mine,
it is -aid, was bought by a New York com
pany for s2s< i.U'A I in currency; and sub
sequently resold for $400,000 to a Boston
company, the explorations made under the
direction of a Boston engineer having dis
dosed a much richer vein than was antiei
i>f fed. Large quantities of machinery are
L ing manufa turod and slapped S ,-:*th
daily to work these mines.
LbTTlIi: FROM ROSTOV.
The Wealth ot tile North—Her Pocket
Patriotism—The Hadical—Their Plans
and their t sars—Speech of Governor
Andrew, cic.
Boston. September 5.
Dear Chronicle : The President s tour
has certainly called forth the sympathies of
the masses. To the eye of an impartial
observer the bulk of the people desire
quiet, freedom from political excitement.
1 hire ha.- been a good deal of distrust felt
towards the South, lest coming into Con
ere.-.s they would unite with the disaffected
of the North and disturb the currency.
But this has worn off very much since the
Philadelphia Convention. The great op
poaition to the admission of the Southern
Representatives in the i nited States Con
gress grows out of a desire to prevent
political power from passing, by means of
Southern votes, into the bands of those at j
the North who are obnoxious to the pres
ent leaders oi the extreme Hadical-. All
of the fanfarronade which is kept up by
political tricksters, is more to gain, at any
sacrifice of principle, or at any cost, in
public welfare Southern men who will sup
port and sustain the precarious fortunes :
of these men. Nearly every intelligent
man you meet with, be he Republican or ;
Democrat, admits tha: so far as the present
political is.-.ucs are concerned they are en
tirely ephemeral—that with the restoration
of the right of representation and the com
pletion of “Reconstruction,” new issues
will arise. Some thinking men who take
no p!lrt in politics beyond depositing their
ballots, uio nervous lest the manoeuvres
1 and (Jpbatcs on the budgets of each suc
eeding year will not be conducted with the
dignity ot English parliamentarians or the
critical i'Uiy froul which adjusts taxation
in the II ouse of Debuts. Nearly all of these
nervous gentlemen, so far as the ob
,-ervation of your correspondent goes,
are now deriving princely revenues by the
profits on manufactures ; and the trepida
tion is caused by the fear that these will
bo greatly diminished. All the manufac
turing districts of the North and East
have grown pethoric by tho profits of war.
: In the outset of the war, this class of citi
zens subscribed to the National debt with
the same unanimity and ardor that South
rons subscribed to the Confederate loan,
Tlie invention of the National Bank sys
tem, enabled them to capitalize these Gov-
I eminent debts and to convert, to within ten
percent, of the amount of bonds held, into
anew currency, the greatest part of which
| was immediately put into circulation for
investments in new factories, palatial
stores, banking houses and mansions,
I elaborate in dimensions and ornamentation.
; From the confluence of the Monengahcla
| and the Alleghany, the seat of Pennsyl
vania’s greatest iron and coal regions,
I Pittsburg, to the forests of the Aroostook
| in real down East Maine, the eye becomes
i surfeited with elegant granite and brown
I stone fronts and custard colored mansions.
Multiplying and increasing with every
| mile Eastward traveled, newly finished or
|in process of erection. The great climax,
| however, is in Baltimore, Philadelphia,.
! New York and Boston, or the large ecn
-1 tres of weal tli and population. The ac
; com payments of these magnificent piles of
| architecture and splendid parks are superb,
I diamonds and exquisite silks and laces, and
j beautiful English horses and Phaetons, and
all else suitable. And these are supported
i by factory dividends and interest on Gov
| eminent bonds. Ilenco the striking dif
ference which meets the ear on all sides
! here, from that which one heard at the
South. At the South before the war, the
I people only knew the Government as a
mail carrier. Halls of justice, ship-yards,
arsenals, forts, and tlie other visible
i avenues which reach the nublie eye, were
bi,significant nlfieimt to be
pe>-.able—and since ti- war little i
:sib" '.ii\ nd, Urn tax gatherer’s
.. .Hi B«< kav*»h ,4 .id (.ho
■ manifestations an- gv ’.' L nd
; thing to be pars and i.arcd :>f the rent
government, and it pays well—beyond esti
mator ller.ee, hardly a conversation
without reference being made to the
! government. Tilden, the editor of the
buhpendant) said, at the Press banquet at
Philadelphia, “That truth is mighty and
will prevail,” if paid for in advance. Is it
not so with patriotism ?
New r York, liowever, is restless. The
main stay of the war was California gold.
It supplied the basis for foreign credit.
With the loss of exports, foreign exchange
and duties to be be paid in gold, become
costly; and as there is not sufficient gold
to do the business of the country, the im
porter frequently lias to pay large interest
—as high as one per cent, per diem for the
loan, and always a large premium for pur
chasing gold. His goods constantly chang
ing i’i value—arrivals from AspinWall, tlie
movements of Mr. McCulloch are, there
fore, more frequently the staple of the New
Yorkers’ conversation; and, collaterally,
the great Pacific Railroad—which is to dc
vclp the far West, and which is to make
secure tlie silver mines of Nevada and the
gold placers of Calfornia for National use.
Cotton and other Southern products are
subjects of earnest enquiry. Tho paltry
sum of the annual products of Louisiana, j
in sugar and molasses, occasions some mis- !
givings as to cotton. But usually th a finale '
of the conversation is that tlie South will
make from one and a half to two millions of j
bales—that there arc no Southern banks to
influence prices, and the Southern planter I
will be obliged to sell to pay his debts and !
purchase subsistence, ergo , the capitalists !
can fix the prices. If you chance to meet;
an Englishman, ho at once broadly t-lls j
you that England will have to furnish the j
gold, and the Bank of Eng.and will fix its ■
own rates.
Politics seems to be guided by drift —not I
principle—and every so-called politician
seems to have his head turned in that par
ticular direction towards which his section
is drifting. The leading political speeches
of the week outside of the Presid< ntial
party, are those of Ex-Gov. Andrews to ;
the farmers of Vermont, and Thud. Ste- i
phens’ at Bedford, at a political pow-wow. !
Thad's speech does, not bear a hopeful!
tone. It sounds more like a mouthful
farewell address to his constituency, and a :
bill of indictment against the President,
than a political stump speech, in which tlie
speaker is confident of success —assured of
victory. Thai, reviews Congress, censures
Congress, tolls what ought to have been ;
done; that he proposed that it should
be done, but that Congress was cowardly, or
timid, or trait, -rous. He i# particularly bitter
towards what he cal’s Republican traitors —
brands them as with the brand ret upon
Cain. ThaJ. avers that the Confederate
State> were a recognized nation, and, con
quered by force of arms. occupy the same
; position as Austria does to Prussia. Thad
would hardly have dared, daring the war, to
have made such a declaration. Foreign
politics and domestic policy would have
prohibited it, and sealed his lips, whatever
he might have thought. There is an
honesty and candor about Thad. wliieh is
rob eshing and commendable. He says il
the Lads succeed, confiscation will go on.
.-mi teat the restorations of' property made
- And - V Johnson U recaptured; that
some political offenders shall be sent to the
penitentiary, and a ffw shall be hung.
Thu, ihe 1 resident shall be impeached as
a traitor, and universal suffrage shall pre
vail from aud after the passage ot the a-t
of his policy. It looked very much like :
Thad. was playing Marquis do Carraba*
Your correspondent doubts very much, if
the Marquis succeeded to power, whether
he would enact his blood and thunder !
programme —and least of ail, be supported
by Gen. Geary, the present Radical candi
date for Governor, of whom a lively Dem
ocratsaidto your correspondent—" Apart
from hi* politics, he is a gentleman, sir:'
but damn his politics.
Governor Andrews' speech to the New
England farmers is replete with statistical
information; but if the suggestion is ad
visable respecting one coming from the
" Hub of the Universe"—and therefore he
knowetn all thine*—hi. political economy
i “ I
is badly digested, so far as relates to the j
kingdom of New England. The text which :
lie sought to cofon e before the New Eng
land farmers was: “diversity of labor!
essential to national success"—a text which
could be enforced with more propriety in
Georgia-—in a State rich in agricultural
and mineral resources —than among the
granite hills of New England. Os course
he reviews the prosperous career of the
New England States : and if the speech is 1
read without reflection—as the Governor !
omits the history of Government bounties,
and Government contracts, and Govern- ,
meat .appropriations —one would suppose
that New England, hardly growing one
month’ • supply of cereals for her popula
tion, and dependent entirely on other
States and countries for the raw material
which she converts into manufacture, has 1
created ail things out of nothing. As
usual, the Governor thinks that New
Englanders are especially ordained to
inaugurate the millcnium throughout the
world, and, last of all, Africa, with her
fifty-five millions of barbarians. Nevertlie
liss, it is a good speech, and your corres
pondent thinks, if you see St to republish
it. that Georgia might gain some valuable
hints from it. There is at least this moral
to draw from it: “Never run down your
own State, but blow your own trumpet
with all possible might.” There is a
squinting at one of the probable contingen
c-es of the future of New England, which
meets my eye in a public speech for
the first time, though 1 have heard it dis
cussed in private circles. The Governor
says that the great Lakes form tlie Medi
terranean sea of the American continent—
that they are to be the seat of power, and
tells something about turning the channel
!of the Ottawa River through Lake
i Champlain, and cutting away mountains to
make it debouch at Boston, But does the
Governor intend to symbolise by this
physical connection the future political con
nection of the six Eastern States. The
j subject of a confederation is already agi
: tated -in tlie Canadas and the other Bri
-1 tish provinces. Qucin sale.
1 C. G. Baylor, Governor Brown’s finance
i man and ambassador, lias re-appeared—
! as a delegate at the Southern Loyal Con
vention at Philadelphia. M.
LETTER FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A Casual Glance at tlie Situation.
Concord, Sep. 3, 1860.
I promised you occasional letters from
i this lladieal-ridden region; but it is a
; delicate task to give your readers a true
; account of tho state of popular feeling here,
i where the spirit of intolleranee pervades
! every circle, and one’s own fireside is not
j secure against the heresies and hitter
prejudices of this destructive party. Two
thirds of tlie newspapers of New England
are poisoning the public mind with the
senseless theories of negro equality, and
the sacred desk is too often converted into
a rostrum for the fuiuiination of political
phillipics. The doctrines and precepts of
our fathers are scouted as the vagaries of
an antiquated age, and the principles
which have made our country great, hon
ored, and prosperous, are no longer re
spected, while those who do not bow the
knee to the modern Moloch of fanaticism,
are spurned as traitors, secessionists and
copperheads. To write you the truth,
. therefore, as it impresses itself upon one,
who, from long residence at the South, re
specks the high dualities of her people, and
would receive in good faith their pledges of
fidelity to the Union, will only bring down
upon my head new epithets from those
who control public opinion here.
It is perhaps questionable whether tlie
interest any facts I may present, possess
to your readers, justifies the risk of in
- creasing the prevailing social discords here.
Puritanism which, ever since that bleak
December clay when the Mayflower anchor
ed at Plymouth Hock —-has been infrollerant
and fanatical—seems to have run stark
mad—and the sacred desk, the school
house, and the family altar, are all desc
; <■. ■i to up; -nsc its insatiate bitterness
li* i . . tli at adds to it
povoi. ....id power >(- Du: " n? >i'Ks
borporseoTr on. Actuated tins fill spirit,
• .■ b .id'ag en.-J and aim just now is to per
petuate its . capacity to rule and ruin the
despised South. To this end large delega
tions have been sent to tlie “loyal Con-’
vention” now about to meet in Philadel-
and to which I observe that the loy
alist, of tlie South are invited. I predict
that the only representatives the South
will have in that piebald body will be a few
cotton stealers and Bureau agents who
have been quartered on you since the war,
with possibly a few broken down hacks of
native growth, who, having failed to at
! tain to any reputation, are courting the
still more empty bubble of notoriety.
; This Convention is expected to strength
!on the radicals here. To heal old wounds,
1 to restore old friendships, and perpetuate
i constitutional liberty constitute no part of
; their purposes. The Southern people will be
! held up as demons, unfit for the privileges
|of freemen. Tlie battles of Chancollors
ville and Gettysburg will sink into insignifi
cance compared to the importance that
will be given to the riots of Memphis and
New Orleans. The dear negro will be
the chief object of pretended sympathy
and affection, while the “mean whites” will
receive the full measure of their mingled
piety and execration.
The late Philadelphia Convention,
which was called for the purpose of
healing tlie wounds of tho nation in
stead of inflicting new ones, has thus far
accomplished all its friends anticipated.
Its labors have given general satifaction to
all but those who will bo -satisfied with
nothing but ruin. The friends of peace
and good feeling have now a banner un
furled, around which they can rally, and
against which Fanaticism and Radicalism
will make little progress. President John
son has been strengthened in his noble pur
pose, and the sword of justice is rapidly
cleaving for itself a path, through which
the great Union and Constitutional Party
will .march to victory.
The month of August hasbecnasunusu- !
ally cold as July was warm: We barely
escaped a fro-t a good many nights, and vege
tation was consequently retarded.
Business is generally good. The manu
facturers of cotton and wool are all doing a
thriving business, and probably making
more money than ever before. AH of the
mechanical interests of this part of the !
country, except, perhaps, tlie shoe trade,
ure flourishing. I believe the manufacture
of leather, in all its ■'•■mous forms, exceeds
that of either cotton or wool in Now Eng
land. and of ail it is the most fluctuating.
Growth of France. —The eleventh
census of France is in progress. The results
are looked for with much interest, owing to
the fact that since 1 Sul, the date of the last
census, the country has been in an eminent
ly prosperous condition. Os all the Eu
ropean nations France shows the largest
rate of increase in population. The 27,-
000,000 of 1 Sol had only increased by 9,-
000.00- iin Isijl. During the same period
Great Britain increased from 11.000.00' ’ to
23,000,000.
The total earning* of the South West
ern Railroad for the year ending July 31st
were $856,845,00. Expenses, $531,044,-
13, leaving §343, $06,47 a* net earnings.
To this add $55.000 new construction
bond*. Making $401,801,47. Amount
paid for dividend, taxes, interest on bonds,
construction, &c., 8-70,096,39, leaving a
surplus of §31.705,08.
The Quitman Banner states that a negro
man named Ben attempted to murder the
innocent family of Mr. Jonathan Knight
on Saturday night, Ist inst.. near Mill
Town in Berrien county. A rev arJ of
SSO is offered for Ben’s arrest. lie is over
six feet high, and about 20 years old.
Ou sale day last, two hundred and eighty
acres of land lying in Goshen District,
Elbert County, was sold at public outcry
for twenty-five dollar*. A horse was
also put up and brought—nothing. Com
ment is unnecessary.
Thor: is to be a meeting of the Army of
the Tennessee at Cincinnati ou the 14th of
November. General Grant has signed
an intention to be present.
Georgia items.
Two bales of new cotton sold in Madison
this week at 24 cents.
The frceduien of Atlanta are organizing
a building and loan association.
The Macon papers refer to tlie active
operations ofburg'ars in that city.
A diamond found recently in Georgia
sold for- $1,500.
The Wilkes county Agricultural Cluo is
to hold a nieetin - on Tuesday next, in
M ashington.
Jesse IV. Jackson, Esq., delivered an
address on repudiation at Greenesboro, on
Tuesday last.
The Grand Jury of tlie Superior Court
of Tailiaferro county recommend the repeal
of the law organizing the County Court.
The Athens Banner says N.B. Durham
was shot by a man named Harper at Skull
Shoals Factory on Sunday.
Ihe quarantine regulations between Sa
vannah and the ports of the Department of
the Carolina- have been removed.
Tiie Quitman Banner reports that the
negroes in the upper part of Brooks couu,
tv are becoming very insolent to thewhites
and boldly threaten an assault upon them.
Cotton shipped over the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad is not required to be weighed,
assessed, marked and branded, be ore
reaching Savannah.
The merchants of Macon talk of organiz
ing a force of private watchmen, to act. as
auxiliiaries to the city police in breaking
up the system of burglary that prevails in
that city.
Tlie Savannah Republican says that the
bark Sagadahoc, which arrived below on ,
Tuesday evening last, has on board 450 |
tons railroad iron for the Florida branch
Road.
The Citizen says a great many buildings
are in process of erection in Macon, and
laborers are in demand. House rents aie
complained* of as very oppressive on the
laboring classes.
A call lias been issued, signed by a large
number of the leading citizens of Mac-on
for a meeting which was to have been
held last night to ratify the proceedings of
the Philadelphia Convention.
The Madison Neivs says that Win. Smith
of New York and Charles Miller of Ohio,
were convicted of highway robbery on the
testimony of negroes at the recent Morgan
Superior Court.
A correspondent of the Milledgeville
Recorder speaks of a genius in Atlanta
who lias propped up an old locomotive so.
that its driving wheels do not touch the
ground, and is running a grist mil], planer,
and other machinery.
A gentleman, who has just returned
from Carrol county,, in this State, stated
in the presence of the Editor of the La- .
Grange Reporter the other day, that a
good lot of land exposed to sale was sold
for eighteen dollars ! Just think of that !
The Cartersville Express says the Com
missioners appointed to inquire into the
disposition to be made of Penitentiary con
victs, are going to Stone Mountain to look
into the propriety of its removal to that
place, or the establishment of a branch of
the institution there.
Mr. Charles H. Eiyea, of Atlanta, has
been appointed by Marshal Dickson United
States Deputy Marshal for tlie Northern
District of Georgia. W. B. Smith, of
Grantville, has been appointed temporary
Clerk.
The U. S. District Court, Judge Er
f-kino. at Atlanta, has granted an injunc
tion restraining tho U. S. Collector from
further proceeding in tho collection of six
thousand dollars and upwards, claimed to
be due the Government as tax from the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, the prop
erty of the State.
A number of farmers in Waiter’s Dis
trict, met at Pinson’s store, Floyd county,
on the Bth inst., to consult upon the agri
cultural prospects and interests of the
country. One object ot the meeting was
to induce the citizens of the District to |
agree not to employ freedmen who violate |
their contracts by quitting their employees I
wit 1 ’ —: good and efficient cause.
Cotton.
)'■ ryean British journals and works in
’ .•forest of Bi ipeh Got O' 1 Swpni -W..
in i: or -n pr.,i:ia!mihg .!'•• m
■■Ur'it of the *: ic when they would K- in
dej dent . !
cotton, by an ability to draw an abundant
supply from other fields. We have an
elaborate work, published at least eighteen
months before the war, in which, with
great show of figures admirably tabulated,
all this is fully shown as very close at hand,
doubtless to the great satisfaction of the
owners of British cotton mills. Seven
years have elapsed, in the course of which
there have been among us great convul
sions, the portents of which, when that
work was printed, were barely to be seen
as specks upon the horizon, recognizable
indeed, in their dread meaning, scarcely by
any mortal. Those convulsions almost
shut off access to our cotton and suspended
its cultivation, making it a matter of
necessity to European manufacturers
to seek every other possible source of
supply, and to use every possible
stimulant to increase the culture of
cotton elsewhere. Tlie result lias been,
we are told by those who gather such sta
tistics, tliat India, which furnished to the
British market an average annual supply
of but 214,000 bales from 1843 to 1802 in
clusively, in 18(55 supplied as many as
1,287,000 bales, Egypt at the same time
furnishing 334,009 bales against 70,000
bales, and Brazil 340,000 bales, against
120,000 hales for t’iie former period. And
yet, with India, producing nearly as much
cotton as the Southern States did in 1860,
Egypt supplying more than four times as
much, and Brazil nearly three times as
much as they did in that year, we find the
same class of writers, lint speaking of the
matter involved as a fact accomplished, but
as one nearly so—not nearer, however,
than was represented actually in 1858, or
eight years ago. And what else do we
find? that with a supply on the market
of 1 nited States, India, Brazilian and
Egyptian raw cottons, (and no increase
but rather a diminished amount of yarns
and fabrics,) iully equal in pounds, to tlie :
amount that the United States and other j
fields supplied before 1861, yet American
upland cotton brought more than three
times as mucin per pound as it did in 1860.
How is this to be explained ?
India cotton years before tho war was j
in excess of the demand, and hence was [
very cheap. It could, only be used by be- j
ing mixed with our staple in about tlie
proportion of one pound of India to two
of our upland. For more than thirty years
the statesmen, capitalists and sentimen
talists of England had persistently worked
together to build up cotton culture in India
to rival ours as to quality : and as much
»os twenty-five millions of sterling had been
expended in the endeavor without produc- ;
ing a pound of such a staple in India, as 1
our fields produce. Nevertheless, in cot
ton supply association reports just be- j
fore tlie •war, as now, there was a
good time represented to be coming I
when the staple was to be as good*as
ours. Moreover, we have been told that
tlie necessities of the war led to material
changes of machinery, by means of which
the porportion of India cotton that could
be used in admixture with that of tlie
South, was reversed, at last. That is ;
two pounds of Sun at.* to one of Americans,
and we have seen the proportions placed
as high even as four-fifths of India to one
| fifth of our staple. That there has, how
fever, been any material alterations of
machinery, or of improvement of the quali
ty of India cotton, we are altogether skepti
cal. For were it not so, and India cotton
could be used with anything like an ap
proximation in value to the American
staple, assuredly, the price that ruled
through 1865 would not have obtained.
Nor would American cotton command
even 13d. to-day in Liverpool. This we
look upon as uncontrovertible. But there
are some other facts which go to support
! our views in this relation.
It is estimatedin the last Liverpool cotton
: statement that the total amount of cotton
to be received in all iB6O, would reach
2,437.050 bales, o*’ which the United State*
supplied 078,730 bales, and India 1.348,-
460 bale*. By the same paper the week
ly consumption of our cotton is set down
at Is 230 bales, at which rate there would
onlv be 4.480, bales remaining on hand ou
December 3L 1366. while it is estimated
their would be 744,796 bales of the India
staple in stock. This seems to us to show,
clearly, that India cotton is supplied large
ly bevond any available use or demand lor
it! In the examination of these tables
we detect other facts that make us du
bious about the alleged, increase of cotton,
during the war, from Egypt and Brazil, un
accepted and stated in the first part of
this article ; for we observe in the estimate
of cotton supplied in all 1866, from Egypt,
but 74.880 or about 5000 bales only, more
than was supplied from the same (quarter,
annually, up to 1862, and but 225,740 bales
from Brazil- or nearly 115.000 bales short
of the quantity reported for 1865.
We have thought it necessary to write
of these things at this time to turn the
thoughts of our cotton plauters and factors
to the subject as one that calls for exhaust
ive investigation, which we would excite
in view of the great commercial stake our
people have, in it! — Memphis Avalanche.
United States District Court—Northern
District of Georgia.
Pursuant to adjournment. this Coart, ;
die Hon. John Erskine presiding, met a t
the Court House in this city yesterday
morning at 10 o’clock. The Marshal for
the District of Georgia, MV G. Dickson,
Esq., proclaimed the opening of the Court!
We noticed a large number of the old 1
practitioners of the United .States Court in j
attendance.
The occasion was an interesting one, i
made especially so by two circumstance—- I
one of which was. that it was the first Uni- i
ted States District Court that was ever
held in this city, and the other, that it was
the first National Court held in the North
ern District of Georgia, since the close of'
the war. Heretofore the Court has been,
held in Marietta, but by an act of the late i
Congress, its sittings have been changed
to Atlanta.
The Court, we were gratified to perceive,
was received with every demonstration of
respect by the professional gentlemen in
attendance. In the case of the State of
Georgia rs. James Atkins, Collector of
United States Internal Revenue, the Court
delivered an opinion which we shall lay
before our readers to morrow. The follow
ing proceedings of the members of the Bar !
in attendance upon the Court explain the !
relations existing betweeuit and the legal 1
profession upon the resumption of its juris
diction in the State. We invite the read
er’s attention to them :
MEETING OF THE BAR.
Atlanta, Ga., Sep. 10, 1866.
After the adjournment of the morning
session of the United States District Court
to-day, a meeting of the members of the
bar was organized by calling lion. Win.
Ezzard, of Atlanta, to the eliair, and
Archibald N. Simpson, Esq., of Marietta,
was requested to act as Secretary.
The chairman, in a few brief appro
priate and feeling remarks, explained the
object of the meeting. It was to him a
somce of great, congratulation to witness
this evidence of the restoration of peace,
at the opening of this court, and at the
privilege of meeting again so many dis
tinguished members of the legal fra
ternity.
Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown then
moved that a committee of live be. ap
pointed to report matter for the considera
tion of the meeting, upon which the fol
lowing gentlemen were appointed by the
chair: Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown,
Hon. Henry R. Jackson, Colonel Win.
Dougherty, Hon. Andrew J. Hansel!, and
Hon. Jared Irvin Whitaker.
The cotpmittee then retired, and, after a
: few moment’s deliberation, returned and
reported, through their chairman, the fol
lowing preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, The National Courts have been
closed in Georgia during the late unfortu
nate war; and whereas, the people of this
State have in good faith acquiesced in the
results of the war, and sincerely desire the
full and complete restoration of civil au
thority. Be it therefore
Revolved, By the members of this Bar,
now in attendance upon the Court from
both the Northern and Southern districts
of Georgia, (who believe that they repre
sent the sentiments and feelings of the le
gal profession of the whole .State, ' that we
are gratified to see the United States District
Court re-opened in this State, and we
pledge our hearty and cordial co-operation
in sustaining said Court, in the exercise of
all its judicial functions; in vindicating
the majesty of the laws, in the suppression
of crime, and in the legal adjustment of
civil rights.
Revolved, That we are gratified to learn
that the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Southern District will be re-opened
at Savanuah, at its regular term in Novem
ber next; and we anticipate wish much
pleasure the presence of our distinguished
fellow-citizen, the Hon. James M. Wayne,
the senior associate Justice oftiie Supreme
Court of the United States, and presiding
Judge of the sth circuit, who together with
the able Judge of the United States Diserict
Court, Hon. John Erskine, are expected to
hold said Court. We tender our thanks
to Mr. Juctice Wayne for his kindness to
many of us, and to large numbers of the
citizens of Georgia, who have visited
Washington City since the termination of
hostilities, and assure him that lie shall
meet a hearty welcome from us when he
visits his native State ; and shall receive
our united and cordial support, while
engaged in the discharge of the high and
responsible ollice which, as an eminent
jurist, lie lias so long and faithfully filled,
with honor to himself and advantage to his
country.
Revolved, That our Secretary he instruct
ed to forward a copy of the proceedings of
this meeting with these resolutions to Mr.
Justice Wayne, and a copy to Judge
Erskine, ancl that he furnish copies to the
newspapers of tiiis city for publication,
that the papers of “this State he re
quested to copy.
After reading tlia preamble and resolu
tions, they were, upo i motion, unanimous
ly adopted.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
Wir. Ezzard, Chairman,
Archibald N. Simpson, Secretary.
I Atlanta. Intelligencer..
What’s (lie Matter With the Yankees?
Upon tlv publication of the vital statis
•ji ’] m Im.-ctt , lust year. V vv Ta-;'dis
. .' "I 'cl rr " !’ ■
U ihsoftl . receding year were the off
snr! ‘ reign born -.rents. This iact
< g 1 deal oi l tn&jU ni at the
time, as it showed that either the virility
of the Yankees proper was running out,
or else that the Massachusetts women had
voluntarily given up the business of bearing
children to their foreign born'ncighbors.
It seems that this surrender of the ma
ternal functions by native New England
women still continues. In the official re
turns of the births in Boston during the
; past year, published in the Advertiser of
! that city, we find the following paragraph:
The table of births shows that the num
ber of children born, whose parents were
both natives of the United States, was
1,306, making 24.75 percent, of all the
births. This ratio of children of native
parentage is lesb than it was in 1864, when
it was 25.28 per cent, of the whole increase
of that year. The births of children of
Irisl; parents in 1864 made 40 per cent, of
the whole number, while in 1865 this class
had increased to 43.35 per cent. The
number ol births, where both parents were
foreign born, was 3,255, or 61.70 per cent.
I of the whole number.
That is to say, of the 4,561 born, 3,255
were parented by foreigners, and this in
the capital of Yankccdom —the Hub of the
Universe. Os the foreigners, the Irish are
by far the most prolific. The consequences
: of this st". to of things in a generation or
two arc apj 'ling to contemplate, By the
year 1966 the old Bay State will seethe
Everetts, Adamses, Sumners, Winthrops,
and Lawrences supplanted by the Hoola
| ghans, OhShanglinessys, McGurks, Molo- j
neys, McFadds, Brannigans, and O’Calla- ;
ghans, while the Blarney Stone will be j
reverenced instead of Plymouth Rock.
A short time since the Commercial Ad- j
i■ertiser, of this city, called attention to the !
change which the war had produced in j
New England. I t pointed out the signifi- \
cant fact that the farms in the rural dis- i
triets, throughout that section, were pass
ing into the hands of foreigners, generally
Germans; while the native population,
such a did not emigrate West, were
crowding into the towns, and becoming
traders and manufacturers. _ This is cer
tainly the fact; and as city' life is wasteful ;
of population, there is reason to believe
that, given time enough, the old Yankee
stock will die out in New England, a
consummation which the native women
are helping along by their unwillingness or j
inability to bear children. —New York j
World.
Important to Planters. — The atten- j
tion of the planters of this State and others I
who have entered into contracts with freed- :
men is invited to the following order ;
Bureau of Freed. & Aban’d Lands)
Office Asm.. Com. State of Geo., <-
Augusta. Ga.. July 17, 18GG. J
•CJircidar No. 8.
]. Numerous well authenticated re- i
ports from officers and agents of the Bu
p au in different parts of the State have been
received at this office, setting forth that;
now the crops arc nearly ready to lay by, i
and the immediate demand for labor has, :
to some extent ceased, planters in some |
instances are driving off freed people em-j
ployed by - them, and refusing to pay for ;
their labor. Sometimes this is done openly, ;
but generally by purposely quarreling
with the freed people—threatening them
with violence if they remain, and then be
cause of their leaving the plantation, claim
ing that they have violated their contracts
and forfeited their wages. If this unjust
and dishonest conduct is persisted in. tne
State will he filled with unemployed freed
people, without mean-; of subsistence, who
must live by theft or be supported by the
G overnment. Therefore, persons employ
ing freed people are forbidden to discharge
them without payment, unless they shall
first show sufficient cause, and ootam the
consent of an officer or oi this Bu
reau. . ~ _
2. Military commanders in this otatc
will a.-sist the officers and agents of the Bu
reau to enforce the provisions or tms Cir
cular. Davis 1 1 i.r.-ox.
Brevet Maj. ( jen. V ols. Commanding, and
Assistant Commissioner.
Served tier Rigiit. —An amusing in
cident is told of a woman in Rngland,
whose husband, .a rich.man. uied suddenly,
without leaving any will. Ihe widow, de
lirious to get all the property, concealed
lier husbands death, and persuaded a poor
shoemaker to take his place while a will
could be made. Accordingly he was
closely muffled in bed. a.-, if very sick, and
a lawyer was called to write a will. The
shoemaker, in a feeble voice, bequeathed
half of the property to the widow. -‘What
shall be done with the remainder ?’* asked
the lawyer, "the remainder, said lie
" I give and bequeath to the poor little 1
shoemaker across the street, who has
always been a good neighbor and a deserv- i
ing man thus securing a rich bequst for
himself. The widow was thunderstruck
at the mans audacious cunning, but did j
not dare expose the fraud, and so two j
rogues shared the estate.
A concert in Houston Texas, for A. S
Johnson s family yielded SSOO,
Political.
The Springfield Republican, in comment- 1
ing oi; Henry Ward Beecher’s letter, says
[hat the Republican party cannot afford to
ignore or expel the class of men he repre
sents.
The Conservatives of Illinois claim that
tney will elect nine members to Congress i
at the next election.
• ■ ,! nc ! c^n ,~ of the Irishmen of Nashville !
°‘ ll .to indorse the action of the Union :
convention at Piiiladblphia, and the resto- I
latum policy of the President.
. Purely the radical have eaten of the
insane root. Their deportment since the
opening of the fall canvass sho»s them to
fie under the influence of the most malig
nant passions known to the human race. !
Here is a specimen of the way their late j
ldo <- t'tJßev. Tlcn.yM ard Beecher is now
attacked. AN e clip from the Newark
Courier :
"This reverend traitor's abandonment of
the negro to the mercies of the white op
pressor is said here .to be induced by the
interest he feels in Vac promotion of his
son as an officer of the regular army.”
Is not this infamous ? What can be
thoughtnf a party that hurrahs for Brown
low, and tolerates, nav encourages, such
party warfare as the above?
The New York Times says: In the Texas
legislature, August. 14th. Mr. Jackson of
sered a resolution instructing the Commit
tee on Public Lands to enquire into the ex
pediency of donating 300 acres toeach con
federate soldier, who by reason of wounds
receivcdjin the late war is incapacitated for
labor, and to report bv bill or otherwise.
It was adopted. »
Ihe Buffalo Christian Advocate, edited
1 Reverend, thus writes :
li any man wants office bad enough to
go in for the blood-stained, God disobey
ing, traitor-loving, treason-rewarding, loy-
I alty-hatiug policy of Andrew Johnson, iie
:is welcome to it. He pays for it at a dear
; rate.
: ~ The same paper closes an article on
i resident Johnson’s address to the Com
j mittce of the Philadelphia Convention, by
j remarking :
1 T hat speech shows very clearly what
he has the disposition to attempt, if he had
the courage. It is that which cost King
Charles his head and may yet make one
tailor less. ’ ’
i Ihe victory of the Radicals in Vermont
~ a [ beat on a par with the famous capture
ol Holland by the Dutch—makes the Now
i ork /nbunc fairly delirious with delight,
from the joy it manifests it would really
seem as it it feared defeat even there.
ihe Ellsworth, Maine, Journal (Repub
lican ) , states that quite a number of promi
nent Republicans in Hancock county have
gone over to the support of the President,
lion C. S. Abbott of Castline is one.
Mr. A., was Senator in the Legislature
last winter.
The Democrats and conservative Re
publicans in Indiana have joined hands,
and are working with a will to defeat their
radical opponents. Having no bogus sol
diers’ votes to contend against, as they had
I in 1864, they entertain strong hopes of
| ousting several radical Congressmen, if not
| of electing their candidates for State ntli
| cers.
The Springfield Republican, a consist
ent but moderate supporter of the Repub
lican party, admits that the claim of the
Southern States t,o representation is a
very strong one —constitutionally it is im
pregnable.” On the correctness of this
conclusion there can be no doubt the mo
ment the Southern States are admitted to
be in the Union, and that their revolt led
to no loss of right on their part.
Closing Scenes of the Mixed Conven
tion.
Philadelphia, September 7.—Quite
an exciting debate took place at the Con
vention to-day on the address reported by
the Committee on Reconstructed States,
and the John Minor Botts’ resolutions,
which were published in the Tribune on
Monday morning, were lost.
The calling of yeas and nays having
been ordered on the report, a scene of the
wildest excitement, ensued, showing that
these reconstructed gentlemen were more
bitter and antagonistic than before the bor
der States retired.
John Minor Botts demanded a division
of the question requiring a separate vote
on the first portion of the report and an
other on the latter portion in respect to
manhood suffrage.
Twenty or thirty gentlemen jumped to
their feet and strongly opposed the divis
ion, and a half dozen were also shouting
at the same time for the speaker’s chair,
and jointly performing the duty of chair
man.
The motion of Botts was finally ruled
out of order, and the calling of the roll
commenced.
During the contest every man shouted at
i the tap of his voice, and beat the air with
his hands and arms.
The roll was called, audit was evident
negro suffrage from the reconstructed
States had gone home with the members
from the border States, leaving the extre
mists in full possession.
The whole number of members from
these States on the roll was 148, and tlio
vote stood 66 ayes to 8 noes, showing that
not one-half of the members of these States
wore present, and that if they had been
; present, they would have defeated the re
port. On announcing the result of the
; vote, the enthusiasm was wild ami un
! bounded.
[ A large number of the negro suffrage
advocates admitted that they did not intend
i to return to their homes, whilst those who
| opposed it, with the exception of the dele
gates from Alexandria and vicinity, com
posed of those who have been long resi
\ dents in the several States, are going
j home, the most of them having started
i this morning, leaving the Convention al-
I most entirely in the hands of the friends of
| negro suffrage.
The committee on address was almost
! unanimous against negro suffrage, while
that on resolutions stood ten in opposition
to five in favor.
Among those who voted in favor of the
report should he added a number of dele
gates from the District of Columbia, from
which place there were twenty-eight dele
gates on the ro 1.
( The delegates, from the reconstructed
States who were in favor of negro suffrage
were invited to step to the secretary’s desk
and sign what was called the charter of
universal freedom.
Resolutions were offered and adopted in
favor of subscriptions for the publication
of the proceedings; of sympathy for Mr.
Dostie, one of the victims of the" Neiv Or
leans massacre; of thanks to the loyal citi
zens of .Philadelphia and to the representa
tives of the press, and for the presentation
of expensively . bound volumes of tho
printed proceedings of the convention to
Miss Anna Dickinson, Fred Douglas, and
Theo. Tilton, and for the appointment of .
a committee to presen Jongress the ad
dress of the delegates from the reconstruct
ed .States.
After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Mattison,
at 3 p. in., the convention adjourned
sine die. •
fromTubv.
Seizure oi the Harriet I.anc and Pelican
Ordered—Deported Seizure of Hidden 1
Arms—Money Crisis.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Times, writing from Havanna, August 26,
says:
lam assured upon reliable authority
that the united States Consulate has re
ceived orders from Washington to claim
the steamers Harriet [mne and /1 licnv.
whatever flag they may be under or in
whosever name they mav be. In regard
or , lner ! ] f is possible there may he
no difficulty ;. but with respect to the lat
tcr, the case Is very different. She is an
Lnglisu built vessel and owned, apparently
or in reality, by British subjects. Mohs
verrons. At all events, the American
Government seems to have taken time
enough to consider the matter, and its
present determination is chiefly owing to
the constancy of Mr. Minor, the I riited
States Consul General, at present in Wash
ington.
The order quarantining American ves
sels is not revoked—and consequently corti
i munieation with the United States is very
irregular.
It is leported that the police have seized
li large number of muskets, etc., outside of
the walls, found bidden hi suspicious
quarters.
-Many of the malefactors who were to be
transported to Fernando Po, have been
pardoned or had their punishment dimin- ;
ished, and as several arrests* bare been
made since, it is supposed that they have
given state’s evidence, particularly as some
of the parties arrested were ‘Avcd-to do in
the world.”
A great many seditious papers have been
seized of late. Some, purporting to be an
appeal to the Cubans to free themselves
from Spanish rule, have even been seen in
the hands 'of our colored population. If
tiie instigators could feel the injury they
inflict on their own countrymen, without
benefit to any one, they would most certain
ly desist from these abortive practices.
* The foregoing incidents, added to the
precarious situation abroad, tend to par
alvze trade in every respect. The general
distrust is increasing, and if it is not a
panic that seems to pervade all class**, it
is certainly a crisis which will prostrate all
business pursuits. 'lhe money market j
cannot be much more stringent than it is—
it is difficult to discount the best gilt-edge
at twelve per cent per annum. Tne banks
refuse to renew matured paper, even with j
the best of signatures, and everything de
notes a doubtful future.
The chief of the pirates in the China
seas has been caught.
The R. M. Steamship Java sailed on the ,
•Ith lor New York with £290,000 in gold.
A quantity of Fenian munitions of war.
has been seized in Liverpool.
• RESTORATION OF THE UNION;
An .'Liar Letter frum Rev. Henry Ward
Heedlier—Vindication of the ’Princi
ples of Restoration—Disapproval of the
Vcliou # i.nd Language of President
Johnson. ,
Sunday morning, at the conclusion
of the services in I’lymouth Church,
the following letter from Rev. Mr.
Beecher was read to the congregation by
Oapt. Duncan, to whom it was addressed.
It was written in reply to representations
of the differences of opinion that prevailed
among the members of his church concern
ing the sentiments and views expressed in
his reply to the invitatian to officiate as
Chaplain of the Soldiers’ and Sailors' Con
vention to be held at Cleveland on the 17tli
instant:
Peekskill. Saturday, Aug. 0, 1866.
My Dear Friend: 1 am obliged to
you for your letter. lam sorry that my
friends and my congregation are grieved
by my Cleveland letter.
This feeling, however, lias no just
grounds, whatever may be the seeming.
I have not left, and do not propose to
leave, or to be put out of the Republican
party. lam in sympathy with its aims,
its great principles and its army of noble
men. But I took the liberty of criticising
its policy, in a single respect, and to do
what I could to secure what I believed and
1 still believe to be a better one.
L am. and from the first have been, fully
| of opinion that the Amendment, of the
! Constitution, proposed by Congress, equal
j izmg representation in Northern and
Southern States, was intrinsically just and
reasonable, and that it sliou.d be sought
; by a wholesome and persistent moral agi
l tation.
But, from the present condition of the
public mind, and from the President’s at
j titude. 1 deemed such a change to bo prac
! tieally impossible in any near period by
1 political action. 'And a plan of reconstrnc
. tion, based upon that, seems to me far
more like a plan ol adjourning reconstruc
| tion for years, at least, with all the liabili
i ties of mischief w hich are always to he ex
pected in the fluctuations of politics in a
! tree nation.
Tt is not the North that chiefly needs the
restoration of Government to its normal
| sphere and regular action. Either the ad
vantages of Union are fallacious, ov the
! continuous exclusion of the South from it
i will breed disorder, make the future re
union more difficult, and, especially, sub
ject the freedman to the very worst condi
tions of society which can well exist. No
army, no Government and no earthly pow
or can compel the South to treat four
j million men justly, if the inhabitants
! (whetherlightly or wrongly) regard these
I men as the cause, or even the occasion, of
| their unhappiness and disfranchisement,
! But no army, or Government or power will
| be required, when Southern society is re-
I stored, occupied and prospering in tiie re
newed Union. Then the negro will be felt
to he necessary to Southern industry, and
interest, will join with conscience, and kind
ness in securing for him favorable treat
ment from bis follow-citizens.
We that live at a distance may think that
the social reconstruction involved in the
email ipation of four million slaves, is as 1
simple and easy as it is to disc,nurse about
it. But such a change is itself oue of the
most tremendous tests to which industry
and society can be subjected; and to its fa
vorable issue is required every advantage j
possible. The longer, therefore, the South j
is left in turmoil, the worse it will be for !
the negro, li there were in other reason;
if the white population werp not our fe low
citizens; if we had lost all kindness and
regard for them, and all pride for the
Union, as in part represented by Southern
States, and confined our attention exclu
sively to the negro, the ease would he j
strong, beyond my power of expression, lor
an early resumption of Federal relations
with all the States. 1 f this is to disregard
the negro, then all social and natural laws
have been studied in vain.
Neither am L a “Johnson man ” in any
received meaning of that term. I accept
that of the policy which ho favors ; but
with modification. 1 have never thought
that it would he wise to bring hack all the
States in a body, and at once; any more
than it would he to keep them all out to
gether. One by one, in due succession,
under a practical judgment, rather than by
a wholesale theoretic rule, I would have
them readmitted. 1 still think a middle
course between (ho President’s and that of
Congress would be wiser than either. But
with this my agreement with the Presi
dent ends. 1 have long regretted his
ignorance of Northern ideas and .senti
ments, and I have been astonished and
pained at. his increasing indiscretions. Un- 1
j consciously, the President is the chief ob- i
■stacle to the re-admission of Southern 1
: States. Tt-1- 1 enough that lie is known to 1
, against it. This is i-> be deplored. But i
1 it; ia largely owing tt. iu* tiicreat-ing itnpvu j
: Jtjpt conduct. 1 believe him to be honest, i
! sincere in Jeering what lie regards as the 1
public : >d, but slow and unapt in re-civ 1
ing help from other minus. Proud and ,
sensitive, firm to obstinacy, resolute to
fierceness, intelligent in his own sphere,
(which is narrow,) lie holds his opinions
inflexibly. He often mistakes the intensity
of his own convictions for strength of evi
dence.
Such a man has a true sphere in periods
of peril, when audacious firmness and rude j
vigor are needed. But in this delicate
task of adjustment which follow civil war,
such a nature lacks that tact and delicacy
and moral intuition which constitute the
true statesman.
Mr. Johnson’s haste to take the wrong
side at the atrocious massacre of New Or
leans was shocking. The perversion and
mutilation of Sheridan’s dispatches need
no characterization. I do not attribute
this act to him. Yet it was of such a
criminal and disgraceful nature that not
to clear himself of it by the exposure and !
rebuke of the offending party, amounted
to collusion with crime after the fact. \
What shall T say of the speeches made in j
the wide recent circuit of the Executive ? I
Arc these the ways of reconciliation ?
Yet Mr. John* on is Lo be our President
i for nearly three years to come ; clothed
| with a power which belongs to few thrones,
j Besides the honor which a people owe to
him as the Chief Magistrate, we must, as
Christian citizens, credit him with his real
excellencies—his original horror of seces
sions, his bold resistances to treachery, his
persistent and self-denying heroism in the
long dark days of Tennessee. M r e must
not forget, that lie has jealously resisted a
| centralization of power in the Federal Gov
| eminent, that he has sought to dignify
i and secure a true State Rights, that he
has xnain.ained simplicity of manners and
j a true love of the common people. It is
i our duty, likewise, to forestall and prevent,
as much as possible, by kind but faithful
criticism of hi.- errors on the one hand, and
! by sympathy and kindness on the other,
those dangers to which he is liable under
i attacks which he his peculiarly unable to !
, bear with calmness, and those dangers of j
1 evil counselors, which more ;uid_ more ;
gravitate toward him. So long as it was :
; possible, S have been silent upon Mr.
Johnson’s faults, and now speak so plain- 1
)y, only lest I seem to approve or cloak
them.
And now allow me to express some sur
prise at the turn which the public mind
lias taken on my letter. U I had never
before spoken m.v sentiments I can see how j
friends mi _i,: n .'v -a; ,1 .! my posi- ,
j tion. 1 -lit !•»:- ay.-w mi--; !. hay-- been ad
i vocating. the v<-:-y ‘e'tli ; Cleve
\ land letter in all the -ityi 1 cities —
• in Boston, Pm band, Sprmgfn-M. Albany,
j Utica, Rtvh- -for. Buffalo, Philadelphia,
IfarrisbiiTgli, I’lii.d.iiraharri Brooklyn, bit
the Academy of Mu-ic, last Winter.) These
’ views were reported, discussed, agreed to
■ or differed from, praised and blamed abun
dantly. But no one thought, or at least
said, that I remember, that I had forsaken
the Republican party, or bad turned my
' back upon the freedman. !Wy recent letter
i but condenses those views which for twelve
months I have been earnestly engaged in
urging upon the attention of the commu
nity. lam not surprised that nwm dis
sent, Rut tliis sudden consternation, and
this late discovery of the nature r. " mv
opinions, seem sufficiently surprising, t
; could not ask a better service than the re
print nig of that sermon of last October,
which first brought upon ine the criticisms
the Tribune and the lad re undent.
1 foresaw that, in the propane condition
of parties and the country, we could not
i carry suffrage for the freedman by imme
diate political action. When the ablest
; and most radical Congress of ...our history
came together they refused to give suffrage
to negroes even in the District of Colum
bia ; and only in an indirect way—not as
a political right, but as the hoped-for re
sult of political selfishness, did they pro-,
vide for it by an amendment of the Consti
tution. Whut was prophesy with me,
Congress has made history, llelinquishiug
political instruments for gaining the full
enfranchisement of men, I instantly turn
ed to moral means ; and enunciating the
broadest doctrine of manhood suffrage, I
gave the widest latitude to that, advoca
ting the rights of black and white, of men
and women, to the vote. If any man has
labored more openly on a bro der principle,
and with more assiduity. Ido not know
him. More ability may have been shown,
but not more directness of purpose, nor
undeviating consistency.
T attribute the recent misunderstanding,
in part, to the greater excitement which
now exists, to the narrowing of the issues,
and to the extreme exacerbation which
.Mr. Johnson's extraordinary and injudi
cious speeches have produced. To this
may be added my known indisposition to
join in criticism upon the President and
the fact that I urged a modified form of
that policy which he, unfortunately for its
success, holds.
Upon Mr. John=on's accession I was
supremely impressed with the conviction
that the whole problem of reconstruction
would practically pivot on the harmony of
we’f.n o tjp S i 0n an(l Congress. With that
, n,icl have secured every erarsntee
' o! > pent n. tie a’ •:. titution.
g,’ ,ij u,,lte d Government said to the
U,v . t ' backed up, as it would
Y. by the united North, “With
• ll ’''•> " L ‘ must take out. of tho Constitu
*‘v ll V cr slavery put in, and put in
whatever slavery, for its own support, left
out biota can scarcely be a doubt that
long before t!,,s, the question would have
fiecn sc tied, the basis of representation in
the .AHitli conformed to that in .the North,
and he principle the most fundamental
and immjrtant °f a h might have been es
tabiirlied in the Constitution, viz: that
and full citizenship are identi
touch great changes required two things,
viz: Promptness and unity of councils.
Lo secure these I lent my whole strength.
I urged the purgation of the Constitution.
1 reasoned against mutual distrust, and
pleaci i' i units of (j overrun cut Action. I
'bJ '1 j I know how to do to confirm
the_ Ii evident in his war-lie gotten zeal
against cry; to prevent such suspicions
and_ criminations as would tend to revive
in liis mind old prejudices, and bring on a
relapse into iiis former hatred of Northern
fanatics. I thought I understood his
nature, and the extreme dangers, at such
a critical time, of irritating a proud, sensi
tive and pugnacious man. of Southern
sympathies, little in sympathy with North
ern feelings or ideas, and brought into the
very leadership of these men, and that
train ofprinciples which he had all his life
hated and denounced. That he was sin
cere and tenacious would make the case all
the more difficult. T thought I foresaw
that a division between him and Congress
would be the worst disaster that could befall
us ; that the practical test of true states
manship just then was not to be found in
theories or philosophies, however sound,
but in securing and confirming Mr. John
son in his then dispositions.
Upon the a-sembiing of Congress I went
to Washington. 1 found Southern men
lying prostrate before Mr. Johnson, and
appealing fii bis tender-heartedness, (for
he is a man of kind and tender heart,) dis
arming his war rage by utter submission.
1 found N irtlieni men already uttering
suspicions of his fidelity, and, conscious of
power, threatening impeachment. The
men who seemed alive to this danger, were
unfortunately, not those who had the man
agement of affairs. Bad counsels prevail
ed. The North denounced and the South
sued ; we see tho consequences.
Long after l despaired of seeing the Pres
ident and Congress harmonious, 1. felt it
to be the duty of all good men to leave no
influences untried to lessen the danger, and
to diminish the evils which are sure to
come, should the President, rebounding
ironi the Republicans, be caught by those
men who were in sympathy and counsel
with the South throughout the war. 1
shall not attempt to apportion blame where
both sides erred. It is enough to say that
unity secured at the seat of Government
would have bclcn a noble achievement of
leadership.
Deeming the speedy admission of the
Southern States necessary to their own
health, as indirectly the best policy for the
freednien, as peculiarly needful to the
safety of our Government, which, for the
sake of accomplishing a good end, ineau
lions men are in danger of perverting, 1
favored, and do still favor the election to
Congress of Republicans who will seek the
early admission of the recusant States.
Having urged it for a year past, I was
more than ready to urge it again upon tho
various Conventions which proceeded the
nomination of Representatives to Con
gress this Fall. In this spirit and for this
end, l drew up iny Cleveland letter. I
deem its views sound ; lam not sorn/ that
/ wrote it. I regret the misapprehension
which it lias caused, and yet more, any
sorrow which it may have needlessly im
posed upon friends. As l look hack upon
my course, I see no deviation from that
straight line which 1 have made, without
wavering, for now thirty years of public
file, in favor of justice, liberty, and the
j elevation of the poor and ignorant.
1 The attempt to class me with men whose
; course I have opposed all my life long will
! utterly fail. 1 shall choose my own place,
and shall not he moved from it. I have
| been, from my youth, a firm, unwavering,
j avowed and active friend of all that were
opppressed. I have done nothing to for-
I feit that good name which I have earned,
j I am not going weakly to turn away from
i my settled convictions of the public weal,
| for fear that bad men may praise me, or
I good blame. There is a serious difference
! of judgment between men as to the best
policy. M e must all remit to the future
! the decision of ‘the question. Facts will
1 soon judge us.
I feel now profoundly how imperfect my
services have been to my country cornnar- 4
ed with its desert of noble services. But
1 am conscious that I have given
*’iat Ihad"to give, without
Above all.earthly thing' ’ aq lOuniry , ; .-
tome. The lips that might me to' *•,-
Our Father,'/.taught iue&say “F»U - •
‘and.” 1 have aimed t,., onecivc of
land in the light of Christianity. Go.
my witness that with sing .• ccm of he.
i have given all u' v .oue, • ■ ngth
service to that which shall make our wl
nation truly prosperous and glorious,
by the lustre of arms, even in a just ca
would I seek her glor", but by a civiliza
tion that should carry its blessings down
to the lowest classes, and nourish the very
roots of society by her moral power and
purity, by her public conscience, her politi
cal justice and by her intelligent homes,
I filling up a continent, and rearing a virtu
! ous and nobler citizenship.
; By night and by day this is the vision
j and dream of my life, and inspires me as
no personal ambition ever could. Tam
not discouraged at the failure to do the
good I meant, at the misapprehension of
my church, nor the severity of former
friends. Just now those angry voices
come to me as rude winds roar through
tho trees. The winds will die, the trees
will live. As soon as my health is again
rc.jfored. I shall go right on in the course
T Lave hitherto pursued. M’lio will fol
low or accompany it is for others to decide.
I shall labor for the education of the whole
people; for the enfranchisement of men
without regard to class, caste, or color;
for full development among all nations of
! the liberty wherewith Christ makes men
! free. In doing this 1 will cheerfully work
| with others, with parties, any and all men
' that seek the same glorious ends. But I
i will not become a partizan. 1 will reserve
| my right to differ and dissc t, and respect
| the saitic l ight in others. Seeking others’
j full manhood and true personal liberty, I
: do not mean to forfeit my own.
Better days are coming. These throes
of our day are labor-pains." God will bring
: forth ere long great, blessings. In some
moments which it pleases God to give me,
I think I discern arising beyond the pre
' sent troubles, and over the other side of
this abyss in which the nation wallows,
that fair form ol liberty—God’s dear child
—whose whole beauty was never yet dis
closed. I know her solemn face. That
she is Divine, l know by her girdle of
purity, by her sceptre of justice, and by
that atmosphere of love, that, issuing from
her, as lighHrom a star, moves with her,
more royal than a king's apparel In this,
too, I know her divinity, that she shall
bless both friends and enemies, and yield
the fullest fruition of liberty to those who
would have slain her ; as, once, her Mas
ter gave his life for the salvation of those
who slew him.
1 am your true friend and pastor,
ITknrv Ward Beecher.
Visit of Governor Patton and Others to
Chicago.
Gov. Patton returned yesterday after an
absence often days to participate in the
monumental services in lymor of Stephen
A. Douglas, at Chicago. The party origi
nally accompanying him. consisted of
Judges A. J. Walker and T. J. Judge, of
the Supreme Court, and Judge <;. Yf.
i Stone. They were joined at Mobile by G.
N. Stewart and Janies jI. Bond, Esqi>T
at Chicago, Hoh. Alex. White was added
to the list.
They called on the President, who warm!”
received them ; were invited to the stand
among other gueste, and received with the
Utmost courtesy bv the citizens of Chicago
and others whom they met on the route.
They went and returned by way of the
Alabama and Florida. Mobile and Ohio
and Great Central Railroads, and over the
entire lino .were complimented with free
tickets At Mobile, going and corning, the
Governor received attentions from the
citizens for which he fee].- under obliga
tions. t Neither Judges Walker nor Judge
returned with the party, the latter extend
ing his trib on to New York, and the for
mer stopping to see bis friends in tlie
Western District of Tennessee. Altogether
the trip was a pleasant one, and all feel
repaid for the visit to Chicago.
j_ A card was read from the President’s
’"stand for the Alabama delegation, express
ing sympathy with the people of Illinois
in the loss of their distinguished orator
and statesman, which was deposited with
: other mementoes of a similar character, in
the corner-stone of the monument ’to
Step.u-n A. Douglas. Ihe remarks of'the
I resident on the occasion were few and
impressive; the crowd immense; but
even tiling passed off in as good order as
comd have been expected under such cir
cumstances.
«n^^ 3ld a nt ~,1' rocee ded thence to
Til. ’ T! and T 1 ® return byway ofLou
,nd Cincinnati to Washington,
w.mre he expects to arrive on Saturday
next— Mont. Adver.
The South and the Freedmex.— The
Richmond II hig truly says :
If the views of the Southern people
prevail, a conflict between the whites and
macks will never occur. It is their desire
to live ou pleasant terms with the colored
pe°l>je._ to employ them as laborers, to pay
them liberally, and to contribute to their
advancement and happiness. If it occur,
it will be forced, by those who are realiy
the worst enemies of the negroes. The
Radicals.'