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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV.
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I he < 'onservative party hope to increase
their strength in the next Congress very
materially, atol although Maine and Ver
mnnt have gone for the Radicals, they are
not thereby greatly disheartened. So one
expected that the Radicals could U bea lento
either ni the fctter (states—all that was
hoped for was a diminution of their already
•ry lar.ee rnajoritie . The full returns
fiom thb.*e i'.tah" show that the Demo
cratic or Conservative vote was a decided
inn-ease upon the vote of '(VI, and in \ er
inont particularly, there wa quite as deei
■h and a failin'/ oft nt the Radical vote. Hut
•he great fight is yet to fie made, .and it
will lic foui/ht in the large Middle and
Western State s There < eni:< to he very
little doubt now that Hoffman, the Conser
’ ’ ativeearididate for Governor in New York,
will he elected hy a handsome majority.
I here are */•<•<•« Congressional district in
thi State, in which it i., hoped the Conser
vative: will gain uieinlit-i s to the next Con
ft re The o are the Third, Sixth. Eighth,
Ninth. Twelfth, Eighteenth and Twenty
first. In the Third District, the Radical
majority in tVf was only 58-1 out of a vote
of nearly 23,000. In the Eighth, the
Democratic vote at, the last, election was
over 12.00 U, divided between two candi
dates, Hrooks and Harr, while the Radi
eal vote was (for Dodge) only 8.507. In
the Ninth District, the Democratic vote
was o, I4(i, again divided between two can
didates, Ward and Herrick, while the
Radical I Darling) wa retained by the mi
nority vote nf.'i,f22. In the Sixth m Ray
moml • District, there were four candidates,
two Democrats and two Republican, and
the vote stood:
Ward, J Hem. i 0,929
Norton, i Doio.i . 1,(147
Total jicmocrat.... 8,570
Ray ml (Rep 7,815
Hawkins (Ite|ii 1,347
Total Kepiibllciin 8,005
Thus out of more, than 17,000 votes, the
Republican ma jority was only ISli.
The result in the other districts men
tioned was as follows:
/oft. Hem. Hep. Maj.
15 Nelson.. 11,5511 Ketelliuil... 12,559 070
I I’aige 13,573 Marvin 14,433 KS|
51 -Kernnn... 10,81 ti C/inkling. .11,000 1,170
By thi: it, will be seen that a very small
gain in each of these districts will enable
the Conservatives to elect their candidates., j
In Pennsylvania at the last election I lie
Radicals carried five districts by very small
ma jorities, as will he seeiTby reference to
the following figures:
List. IJCIU. Hep. l/rl/. :
. Hoes 10,750 Tliaver... 11 01)7 578
II Wlf Millerll, 0t« H KMillelllJilO 517 i
10 <Tpifroth • .11,1, I Ko..ui/ .11,515 Os
17 Johnson.. . 8,710 Barker.... 0,555 509 1
18 Wright ... .10,051 Wilson ...11,533 855
Avery little effort on the part of the
Conservatives ought to secure thy return
at the nest election of thoirowncandidates, i
When parties are so equally balanced vic
tory is secured hy those who are most ac- j
live and energetic. The Conservative par
ty in Pennsylvania is fully aroused to a j
the country if the Radicals should succeed,
and hence wo look hopefully for gains in
these districts.
f n New Jersey the Conservatives ought to
carry' the second District, which at the last
election pave Newell (Rep.) only 362 ma
jority over Middleton (Deni.)
In Illinois, the Conservatives ought to
pain a member in each of the following
di: trift: , an the Hepuhlican majority at the
last election only ranged from 70 toW > as
will lie seen by reference to the following
figures:
Dint. Dim liij > Mn>
I Harris 12,721 Harding tn.siio HIS
12 Morrison 11,711 Maker H..H17 76
»;{ Allen 10.7.71> KykemtaU.lt,742 983
; o also there are three districts in In
diana whir h are alnm t sure to go this year
for the l si ervativos but which under the
in sure of military interference were ear
lied for the Radicals at the last eleetimi by
the following majorities:
ni.t Drill Jii'p. M<tj.
! llarriugton..ll,l7it Hill 12,017 SH
1 ivrrv it,lMn l’’ari|Uhar,lo,ol • 06
10 Kdgerton 11,0,17 l»eflees 1-1,1117 580
In Ohio also the Conservatives ought to
make large gains. In the 10th and Kith
districts the Radical majorities are so
mall as to leave Init little doubt of
their going for the Conservatives it the
latter are properly organized and have the
light men in the field as candidates. At
the last election, Ashlv’s (Rep.) majority
in the 10th district was Rut 527, and He
lane's (Ilep.) in the 13th Iml 225.
In Michigan and Wisconsin, thdle are
several districts which are now represented
I,\ Radicals, who were returned by very
small majorities. In both of these States
our Iricmls expect to make considerable
gains.
If the great lardy of loyal voters in Mis
ouri are not excluded from the polls, the
Conservatives will carry nearly every dis
trict in that Slate. While therefore the
Radicals seem to lie havingeVorythiuc their
own wav at the North, just now. we arc
not without hope that the October and
November elections will show that the
creat Ikxly of the people perceive the dan
cer into which the country is drifting, and
that tiny are determined to sustain the
President in his manly efforts to stem the
torrent of Radical misrule and disruption.
\e\v t ouimissum House in New Orleans.
Hy reference to their cant pulilisln and in
this paper, it will be seen that our fellow
townsmen James T. Pace, Esq., amt Col.
\V. H Harper, have, in connection with
\lr. \V. H. ljvemter. formerly of Ten
ucs- ee, opened a Commission House in
sew Orleans. M'e most cordially recom
mend there gentlemen to the eontidenee
.md patronage of the public. Two of the
memtiers of the firm have l«vu residents
of our city since the breaking out of the
war, and have established here a character
lor probity, business capacity and activity
which is enjoyed by few.
these gentlemen were, at the breaking
out of the war, engaged in a large and lu
crative business, in New York, which they
abandoned and cast their lot with the
South, the land of their nativity. During
the war, the senior partner. J. T. Pace,
list}., was conspicuous for his liberality
and kindness to the Confederate soldiers.
We know of no one who contributed more
of time or money to the “Lost Cause" and
its worthy soldiers.
our people should see to it that these
noble men who contributed so patriotically
to the support of t tie war, should now re
ceive the support and encouragement of
their Southern friends and acquaintances.
\Ve cordially pommend the House of Pace,
Lavender A Harper to the merchants and
people of New Orleans, and hespeak for
them u kind and generous reception.
The General's Uniform. An officii 1
army order has been issued, prescribing
the uniform of the General and Lieutenant
Generals, as follows
For the General the same as for Major
General, except that on the coat there shall
be two rows of twelve buttons each, on the
breast, placed hy fours, and on the shoul
der-straps and epaulets lour silver stars.
For the lieutenant Generals. tLe same
as for a Major General, except that on the
shoulder-straps and epaulettes there shall
he three silver etaiik _
A farm of 400 acres, near Rome, Ga.,
was sold last week for *12.000 cash.
Northern FolUict—A Southerner's
Views.
The editor of th - Mobile Rer/istcr, the
Hon. John Forsyth, writes to that paper
from New Vork on the 14th a follows :
•‘1 heard lately a good anecdote of
Sumner. When the war first began lie
said to one of his friends. "We Republr
cans must fight thi.- war and harvesfallthe
glory of putting down the rebellion. Af
ter Bull Run. Bethel, &r., he was met by
the s..me friend, who inquired what he
thought then. His reply was, "I have
, been reading Car ar lately, ami I find that
he employ.',l the Nuiuidian horsemen with
his legions. We .-hall have to take in the
Democrats. ' The Numidian horse are
against him now. and his j.a rty is making
a terrific tight to beat them. 1 have to
note a change for the worse, iri the political
tone, during the la t week. The timid are
| discouraged hy the Maine election and the
fence men are on tiptoe. The New York
Uera/d, at. the first note of danger, has
j thrown down its arms and given up the
contest. Ten days ago it published a
startling editorial, declaring and proving
, the perils of civil war, if the Radicals
i were not beaten in the Congressional Dis
j tricts. Yesterday it laughs at the fears
of the Timex, expressed in the same vein,
I and says the “country is safe !
. enough Thi Tyle of tergiversation j
is so common with this extraord’nary !
paper that the pre.-a nt flagrant change of
front hardly excite comment. Not being
used to that sort of thing, f mo t say 1 i
\ cannot comprehend how a journal can
: maintain any position of influence that
openly veers with every wind of populari
ty. The Ili-mlil ays it is a fixed fact that
the North will insist on the Congressional
! plan of reconstruction over that of the
President. That means that we of the
1 South are to sell out Lee and Johnston
and our best and truest citizens to disfran
chisement, as the price of the recognition
lof our claims. We can never be so base
jas that. -My hand shall wither before
| casting any vote in that direction. If the
i worse comes to the worst, we can at least
reject re-union at the cost of honor and
decline to elect or send Southern Repre
sentatives to Congre.N. If the Radicals
insist on disunion, let them have it, in this
way. But the llerahl is not an infallible
oracle. While it runs away from the field
at. the first gn:i from the enemy and the
timid are uneasy, the brave men on the
President s side are nerved to greater
exertions. (Maine, in truth, went hy de
fault. It will not be so in New York, nor
any ol the Middle or Western States.
That a New Engl: ml State should sustain
the New England policy of governing
the 'United States is not surprising.
But the great States are chafing
under the domination of New Eng
land's narrow ideas, which have never
prevailed but to disturb the general har
mony and to promote Yat.kee schemes of
profit and advancement. New York re
members that with a population nearly
India million greater than that of the six
New England States, she has two Sena- j
tors and Now England twelve. This j
equality ofSlates is founded in the Const itu- j
tion, but if Constitutional amendments are
in order to deprive ten Southern States of
their equality of rights, why may it not be
changed to take from New England an un
due proportion of Representative power,
which she has ever exerted against
the common weal. This Constitutional
amendment business is a two-edged sword,
one of which may yet cut into Yankee in
terests. Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, j
has been thinking of the question, am)
what do yon think In V hy, that
Massachusetts will resist by force of arms
any attempt to curtail her political power
in this way! Wouldn't, that, he a jolly
sight, and a. truly Yankee comment on
“loyally?" Resistingthe Constitution as
amended, by force of arms ! We should
have anew crop of “Rebels,” and 1 am
clear for dosing them with their own physic.
1 imagine the most hopeful of the great.
Middle States in the cause of Conser
vatism is New York. 1 had the pleas
ure of an interview this morning with
Judge Hoffman, now Mayor of the city
—a id lately nominated hv the Demo
crats and Conservatives as candidate for
Governor against the Radical Fenton. He
is a striking looking man, 35 years of age, en
joys a very high ehnracterfor official probity
and nerve, and is able and eloquent. He
is very strong in this city, where 00,000
majority is claimed for him, and enough,
it is believed, to overcome the Radical vote
in the rural districts. Hisfriendsaregxingto
support him in earnest, and they embrace
the “solid men” oftheeity. They can easily
throw a million of dollars into the treasury
of the canvass. The Judge himself starts
in a day or two upon a tour through the
State, and will canvass it thoroughly, lie
says no man has yet heard of a single
change from the Democratic to the Repub
lican party, and every man from the inte
rior tells of hundreds the other way. As
for the soldiers-vote, admitting it goes
Radical, it cannot begin to equal in reality
tlie imaginary soldier veto east for
Lincoln against McClellan. He does not
regard the result in Maine as a sign
of the general < t of the popular cur
rent, and he believes that New York
will range herself mi the Conservative side
in November. Our friends here expect,
to gain live Congressional districts in this
State. Rut the final struggle in the great
National contest will be at \Ya- hingtini in
the organization of the next Congress. If
the Conservatives hold their own, the
South will ho counted in the organization,
and the two will constitute a quorum.
Washington will be the battle-ground—
whether a bloody one or not, will depend
irn the fighting temper of the Radicals.
The true Union men do not regard the
present Rump as a Congress of the United
States in the meaning of the Constitution,
and their purpose is to organize a Con
. gress of the Constitution. If the struggle
resolves itself into an issue of force, the
war of revolution started at the centre will
i widen its circle, and soon set the whole
North in a blaze. This is an imminent
and natural result of the attempt to gov
ern this country by a faction outside of the
Constitution, and in derogation of the
rights of nearly one third of the States of
the I’nion.
The Street Railway.
We learn that the members of this cor
poration met yesterday, and effected a per
manent organization preparatory to push
ing forward the enterprise, by the election
of the following officers :
IVtsid, nt. —E. \\ . Cole.
Secretary and Treasure r — Dr. J. Mili
gan.
Directors —.las W. Davis, Gen. A. R.
Wright, H. F. Russell, Maj. J. B. Gum
ming, W. C. Jones.
This is a good organization, and we have
no doubt that, with such gentlemen as these
at the head of the movement, there will
be no difficulty in raising the necessary
capital to complete the work. The books
for subscription we learn are now open at
the office of the Secretary and Treasurer,
in the Georgia Railroad Bank building,
and we would urge upon our people the
propriety of subscribing at once.
A large number of small subscriptions
will be better for the interests of the eity
than a small number of large subscriptions.
Let every one favorable to the project con
tribute his mite towards its completion.
Horrid. —A young poet, in describing
Heaven, savs : “It is a world of bliss
fenced in with prety girls." Where is the
man who won't repent now ?—[.Boston
Post
We don’t know about the men repenting,
but if they can be made to believe that
story about the fencemost of them will be
trying to climb it. —Louisville Counts.
State Tax on Land.
The legislature, at its last session, passed
i an act authorizing the issuing of the Bonds
of tin- State and their sale, for the purpose
'of paying to the I’uited States the Land 1
Tax due by the people of the State to the
I uited States(Jovermnent. The language
j of the act is as follows:
Sec. VII. That Ilis Excellency, the
Governor, is -hereby authorized to issue
and negotiate Bonds to the amount of six
1 hundred thousand dollars, at such time
and rate of interest, not exceeding mm
percent., as he may find necessary ami
proper, for the purpose of paying to the
Government of the United States the Land
tax about to h' levied on the people of the
State of Georgia, in behalf of the Govern
ment of the United States ; said tax amount
ing to five hundred and eighty-four thou
sand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars
and thirty-three cents, and interests which
may he due thereon.
By the same act the Governor was “au
thorized to issue and negotiate bonds to
the amount of one and a half'millions of
dollars for the repairs and equipment of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad
We learn that the recent negotiations of
ha'f a million of the Bonds of the State by
the Governor, in New York, was for the
purpose embraced in the latter clause of
the Tax Bill, as we have given it above.
We are not advised whether there is any
probability of the State's being able to sell
the amount of Bonds necessary to meet the
Lund Tax levied by the United States Gov
ernment upon our people, and hence we
cannot say whether the State Land Tax will
be suspended or not.
By an act approved March 12th, 1806, it
was provided:
“That in the event that His Excellency,
the Governor, should not be able, by issu
ing bonds, to pay the Land Tax levied by
the I nited States Government, amounting
to five hundred and eighty Tour thousand
three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and
thirty-three cents,' ($584,367 33,) so that
the same will have to he paid by the own
ers of land so taxed, that then, and in such
case, His Excellency the Governor be and
he is hereby authorized to arrest the eol
lection of so much of the State tax as is
levied on lands in the State, l/j r virtue of
the Tax Bill, to raise a revenue for the
year 1866.”
If, then, the Governor has not been able
to negotiate these bonds for the said
amount of five hundred and eighty-four
thousand three hundred and sixty seven
dollars and thirty-three cents, then the
State Land Tax will, we suppose, lie ar
rested, so that our people will have only to
pay one. Lurid Tax this year—that to the
I nited States Government.
But if the Governor should be able to
sell the bonds, then, by the terms of the
law, the State Land Tax will be collected.
In that event we beg to inform the Gover
nor that the people of Richmond County
hare ulready paid the I 'nited Statex Land
Tax, and they should not now lie compelled
to pay the State Land Tax. It was clear
ly the intention of the Legislature to remit
the State Land Tax , provided the Federal
Land Tax was levied upon our people. We
have paid that tax, and in arranging for the
State Tax we suggest to his Excellency the
Governor, the propriety of exempting us
from its operations. M e learn that the
people of Chatham, Bibb and Fulton have
also paid the Federal Land Tax, and they
should, also, be exempt from further levies
upon their land valuation.
The fotton Tax and Treasury Regula
tions.
We are not surprised to find the more
intelligent and well informed minds of the
North, already condemning the suicidal
policy of the last Congress in burdening the
cotton crop of the country with a tax of three
,«wwta p».r pauad -rsOKriiJjptt iUue. IMR. tXwU. o.u,
its home value. The Government of Eng
land has spent thousands of dollars and
tried numberless experiments to establish
the*culture of cotton in its India possessions
at a cost which would be remunerative to
the producer, and have hitherto failed, be
cause they had to contend with the cheap
cotton of America in the markets of the
world. It has remained for an American
Congress to adopt a policy and enact a law
which confers upon the Indian producer
the protection and support which his own
government has hitherto failed to accom
plish.
American cottons arc now compelled to
pay one-tenth of their value to the home
Government before' they can come in com
petition with the cottons of Brazil, India
and Egypt. And not only is this enormous
tax levied upon the value of the cotton,
but added to this tax is a cumbrous, intri
cate, perplexing and liarrassing series of
“regulations,” which, if enforced by the
Government, will seriously retard the
bringing of the present crop into market.
The New York Journal of Commerce, of
the 9th inst., publishes the following let
ter uioon this subject, which show* that, there
are at least, some people at the North, who
have not run crazy with their opposition
to the South. That paper says in intro
ducing this letter: “The author is a gen
tleman of rare commercial intelligence, at
whose feet many of those who clamored for
the cotton tax were willing aforetime to sit
for instruction. His strictures upon the
tax, and the methods of collecting it, are
not prompted by any special affection for
Southern interests. Both from his position
and experience, he is fully entitled to be
heard:
To the Kditons of the. Journal of Commerce :
The inexpediency of the excise tax of
three cents per pound on cotton is now
evident enough from the increased culti
vation we hear of in Brazil, India and
Egypt.
The injustice of it is equally plain, be
cause cotton is debarred from the privilege
of exportation to foreign countries in bond
and free of duty, which is enjoyed by
breadstuff's, petroleum mid tobacco.’
And the oppressiveness of it is more
striking than ever, since it has become
probable that the product of cotton per
acre planted, and hands employed, will be
very short.
I am not going, however, to discuss tlie
cotton tax, because the propriety of repeal
ing it will force itself even upon Commis
sioner Wells, Secretary McCulloch, and the
House of Representatives atthenext meet
ing of Congress in December.
Mv object is to dirc-ct your attention to
the nearly tiro chisel!/ printed columns of
regulations for the collection of the tax,
signed 17. A. Rollins, Commissioner, and
“approved," \V. K. Chandler, Acting Soere
i n v of the Treasury, which are in the
New Orleans Price < in-rcnt of the Sth inst.
Whether there is any excuse for these
gentlemen in the law itself, I will not de
cide; only, if there is, one object of the
law seems to have been to create offices for
a respectable regiment of what old Cobbet
i-ailed tax eaters. And if they had regard
to the interests of the planters, they might
have extended tlie inland bonding for a
term of 6 months, to give Congress time to
alter or repeal the law.
The law contemplates a duty of 3 cents
on all cotton, whether exported to foreign
countries or consumed in the United
States, except such old cotton as is only
liable to the old duty of 2 cents.
How easy, then, it would have been to
instruct the custom houses to require proof
of the tax having been paid beforeallowing
a foreign clearance of the ship and cargo,
and to require a bond from the coastwise
vessel not to land the cargo in a foreign
country. As to home consumption, let the
spinner pay the tax before he takc-s the
cotton into his mill.
There were probably officers enough
three months ago to attend to these things,
w ithout appointing additional tax-eaters.
Ax Old Subscriber.
New York, Sept. 17, 1866.
Union Movement in Nortu Caroli
na.—On the 20th. the Union men ofXorth
Carolina held a State Convention at Ral
eigh. lion. W. Fred. Dockery was nomi
nated for Governor. The Constitutional
amendment was unanimously indorsed. It
is the only issue between the two parties of
the Slate. Ex-Gov. Holden, who was
chosen President, delivered an able address,
heartily indorsing the candidate and the
platform. Letters from Union men were
received, from different parts of the State,
pledging their support.
A late meeting at Dawson, Terrell coun
ty, to take into consideration the financial
condition of the people resulted in “non
aetion,” on the ground that the people
“will be just as able to pay their debts
next January, as they have any reason to
hope they will be at any future period. ”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 18(56.
How Can the South be Indifferent 7
It is a favorite, and, we doubt not, an
honest argument of those who distrust the
wisdom of the Philadelphia movement,
i that the South should stand aloof from ali
participation in national politics, and let
the North determine for herself the terras
on which we shall be admitted into the
l nion It Is maintained that no good can
l»e effected by a support of the policy of
j the President—by candid and manly
avowals of our fealty to the Constitution
and the laws of the United States. Those
: who hold these views uo not appear fully
i to comprehend the issues involved in the
pending struggle between the Conserva
tives and the Radicals; or to estimate the j
results which are to flow from the decision
of the contest.
The speech of Thad. Stevens, at Bed- j
ford, may 1/e regarded as an authentic
enunciation of the Radical policy. We
publish elsewhere the portion of that i
significant utterance which defines the pro- !
gramme to be pursued when Congress
meets in December. Passing over the
impeachment of the President, which is
the first object to he attained, Mr. Stevens i
distinctly avows that laws must be passed
remanding the Southern States to a terri- 1
torial condition; and giving them terri
torial government and territorial legisla
ttm*e, to he eho?cn hy «idt voUits only
as have borne no part in the late
“ rebellion, the leading “ traitors” to be
tried and executed ; and the property of
others to he confiscated and devoted to the
payment oj the. war debt, and partitioned
out as homesteads for the freal-ami.
This is the key-note of the campaign
now pending at the North. This relentless
policy is defended, first as the right of the
conquorer, and especially on the assumption
that the South is still sullen and rebellious,
and that her restoration into the Union
would be fatal to its stability.
In view of these pretexts for the wrong
and ruin threatened us, it appears to us
that silence is equally criminal and suicidal.
I'he basest felon on trial avails himself of
the plea of not guilty, and employs counsel
to see that all the strong points of his cause
are fairly presented to the jury.
To await the results of trial in silent and
sullen acquisecence confirms the impression
of the conscious guilt of the accused.
I he South stands before the bar of North
ern opinion charged with the grave crime
of treason and persistent disloyalty. A j
party- has arisen under the leadership of a j
few brave spirits who are determined we j
shall at least have a fair trial ; that wo I
shall not be spurned from the Union, after j
they have denied to us the right to with
draw from it. May we not aid those true
friends—these noble champions of peace
and reconciliation —-by a manly assertion
of the purity of our purposes in making
war, and the fidelity of our acquiescence
in its results. May we not strengthen the
hands of the friends of constitutional lib
erty, hy the distinct and earnest avowal of
our desire to return to the Union and
obey its laws ; of our good faith in laying
down our arms ; in our acceptance of the
terms of surrender, and willingness to
, abide by the restoration policy of President
Lincoln as understood and carried out by
his successor.
It does seem to us that the South should
evince hy every agincy of popular utter
ance, her earnest interest in the pending
struggle—and that her support of the
President should be so emphatic as to en
list the enthusiasm of all our people. We
have built bon-iiros, and shouted ourselves
hoarse in campaigns which were utterly
empty ana insignificant, compared with the
vifftl fifties now 1 Viiv t 1 ie!TjMail
popular meetings be discouraged, and a
policy of inaction control us?
We arc told that the President will be
overwhelmed, or feajing the lury of the
storm, will yield before it, and compromise
with the Radicals. When that dread al
ternative comes, there will he time to meet
it with a becoming spirit. Then we may
well bow our heads in sullen despair, for
he, and the gallant party of Conservatives
who support him, constitute the only har
rier between us and the horrors of confis
cation, negro equality and utter ruin.
The State Tax.
We learn from the Federal Union that
the Governor and Comptroller General
have fixed the State Tax at nnr.-si.cth of
one per cent,, or IGJ cents on the one hun
dred dollars worth of property. The tax
returns show a falling off in the value of
property of about one hundred and sixty
millions, independent of tlie loss of the
value of slaves, as compared with the re
turns of 1 stilt.
The United States Government having
suspended the collection of the Federal
Land Tax, the value of real estate is inclu
ded'in the assessment for the State Tax.
We again respectfully call the attention
of the Governor to the fact that the Fede
ral land tax has been collected in this
county, and our people will he compelled
to pay the tico taxes on real estase, unless
some steps are taken to relieve them from
the State tax on such property. If the
Governor has any doubts as to his right or
power under the law to remit the land tax
in those counties where the Federal land
tax has already been paid, we think lie
might at least suspend its collection for the
present, and refer the matter to the Legis
lature, which meets in November for final
action.
The intention of the Legislature is very
clear to our own mind. It was that the
people of the State should pay but one
assessment on their real estate this year.
That if the Federal Government insisted
upon levying its land tax, then the State
would remit her own.
Ex-Senator James S. Green.
Some penny-a-liner, and a pom- piece of
property at that, has written a letter to an
Eastern paper from St. Louis, in which ho
originates a Very disgraceful report con
cerning ex-Senator James S. Green, al
legingthat “he is now earning a pittance
bv anv odd job of manual labor lie may
get." It would be unnecessary to state
for the information of Si. Louis readers
that the report is false, both in spirit and
in detail. Mr. Green is a lawyer of lirst
rank in our courts, before which he is a
daily practitioner. We know of one case
in which his retainer was $1,500, and we
know besides that he is possessed of a
very valuable farm in Canton, Missouri,
where lie is.it present spending his sum
mer vacation. The whole story is one
written for sensational effect or Irom ma
lice. — St. Lonix Times.
We are glad to learn that the disgrace
ful statements which have been recently
circulated about this distinguished gentle
man, are wholly false and unfounded.
James S. Green was once an honorable
and distinguished member of the United
States Senate —was in the Senate when
statesmen and patriots assembled there—
in the days of Clay, Calhoun and Webster,
and was thought no unworthy associate of
these great and good men. We are at a
loss to conceive the motives which could
prompt any decent'or respectable man, to
tarnish the fair fame of a man who has
occupied before the American people such
a high and enviable position.
The Payment of Bounties.— There is
no prospect of the immediate payment of
the bounties authorized by Congress at the
late session. It is estimated that about
forty thousand claims are on tile, with the
number still increasing at the rate of four
or five hundred per day.
What of it ? “We fully believe that
the wiser and stronger Southerners mean
to stay in and rule the Lilian ’ — Tribune'.
Well, what of it? The Luion was
ruled for more than sixty years by South
ern men and Southern policy. \V ho will say
that it was not ruled better and more eco
nomically than under the rule and ruin
policy of the sectional agitators who now
control it ?
Burke County Court Closed.
We publish to-day ftc order of J udire j
H. 11. Perry, of Burketfclosiug the County-
Court of that County, on account of the
interference of the ntjjitary authorities
with the process of thejaOurt.
W e are pained to eftonicle this affair.
M e have been getting along so well in this
State, as compared to o4her localities, that
we indulged the hope that there would be j
no collision between civil and military
authorities of the Stated We regret that
Judge Perry should have felt compelled to
close his court, with®! some effort to i
reconcile the conflict wish Gen. Tillson’s
authority. From our knowledge of the
conduct of that officer sane he has been in
command here, we feel pretty well assured
that the matter iu dispwe could have been
arranged to the mutual satisfaction of both ,
parties.
From what we have heard of the facts,
we are satisfied that the conduct of Judge
Perry in issuing and enforcing his process !
was legal, proper and just, Gen., Till,son, j
doubtless, would have not only not inter
fered with Judge Perry in the premises,
but would have lent hi# any assistance he ;
might have needed, if (he matter had been
properly laid before and? explained to him.
We hope, lor the goad of the State, that
this ftihtig maj be {tjfcfQtjy adjusted, and
that may*
free and full discharge of its functions.
Relief.
We cheerfully give place to the letter of
our correspondent, J. AY. J., on this sub
ject, which appears in our paper to day.
We are not prepared to endorse, just now,
his views as to the propriety or necessity
for the call of a State Convention. We
believe that something should be done to
alleviate the troubles and distress of our
impoverished people, but we are not satis
fied that the Legislature is powerless iu the
premises. The people themse.ves can do
much towards extending the relief demand
ed. We can hardly believe that any con
siderable number of the people of the
State, are less generous to their debtors,
who are their neighbors and friends, than
the great body of our Northern creditors,
who have already accepted settlements
from their Southern debtors at a rate cor
responding with their real present ability
to pay.
This is a subject which will require the
light of the very first minds of the State to
illuminate and satisfactorily arrange. We
shall be glad to receive the views of out
leading and most matured intellectspn this
question, and will cheerfully give place* to
all communications having in view the
proper adjustment and settlement of claims
between the creditor and debtor class.
The South Carolina Stay Laws.
After much debate and disagreement be
tween the two Houses of the South Caro
lina Legislature, the following hill was
adopted just before the final adjournment
of that body.
It will be seen that the relief extended is
temporary and cannot possibly be of much
assistance to the debtor class. We pre
sume that the shape given to the measure
was induced by the recent decision of the
Supreme Court of that Slate against the
constitutionality of the Stay Laws, passed
hy the Legislature last winter. We sup
pose that it is intended to follow up this
bill by the passage of another next winter,
limiting the action of the Courts at the
Spring Term, or by again postponing their
sessions for six months longer.
The failure of the crops in South Caro
lina and in this State, renders some relief
info!.v necessary. We Confess that w think
the provisions of the bill totally inadequate
to meet the pressing emergency :
“A Hill to alter and tixtlietimes ofliold
ing the Courts of Common Pleas in this
State.”
Sec. 1. That from and after the ratifica
tion of this Act, tile Judges of the Superior
Courts of La w in this State shall hold the
first and next sitting of the Court of Com
mon Pleas for the trial of Civil eases, on the
several < 'in-nits now established hy law in
this State, in the ensuing Spring, .at the
times and places iu eacli District already
fixed by law.
Sec. 5. That all suits and other process
of said Courts, mesne, and final, now made
returnable to the Fall Terms heretofore
established, shall be returnable to the
(Spring Terms of the Court, in the year of
onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, the same as if already so
directed; and that (lie same rules of im
parlance, and the same order of proceed
ings now existing, shall apply to theOourts
as established by the first section of this ■
Act.
!Si:e. 3. That all acts and parts of Acts of
the General Assembly of this State, in eoti
fiict with tlxe provisions of this Act, he, and
the same are hereby repealed.
. [Communicated. |
4 Convention of the People.
Messrs. Editors: The people are f
moving in nearly all parts of the State on
the great question of “relief” from the
financial troubles weighing down the hearts
ol our poverty-stricken, unfortunate fel
low countrymen. No man of intelligence,
having a particle of sympathy for our con
quered race, blood and kindred, will say
there should be no relief given, when the
property on which this indebtedness was
based has been lost forever, without remu
neration without fault or dishonesty on
the part of the debtor—-without his will or
consent. There is a great variety of
opinion as to the extent of this relief.
County meetings are being held in many
portions of the State, calling loudly for :
relief of some kind. And unless some just
and equitable plan can 1/e inaugurated to
settle this momentous question, such con
fusion and trouble lias not been seen nor
felt as may be expected, throughout the j
length and breadth of our State, it is
fo’ly in the extreme to shut our eyes to the
threatening violence of the impending
storm. Policy and wisdom appeal in thun
der-tones for a peaceful adjustment of
these difficulties.
It is a reasonable estimate that three
fourths of th a wealth of our State has
been swept away by emancipation; eigh
teen millions by State repudiation; many
millions of Confederate script has died in
the hands of our people ; property of all
kinds worth only one-fourth or fifth its
former value, especially the lands; while
accumulated millions of negotiable paper
is still in existence, based on the property
thus destroyed, almost every dollar of
which will be collected after the first of
January next, on account of the inability
°f ihe people to pay the one-fourth as re
quired oy the stay law.
Is this matter not of sufficient impor
tance to demand a convention of the
sovereign people? Compromising and
compounding debts is well enough; but
cannot prove efficient, because there arc
those among the creditors of the country
who will never do so without intervention
of law. and there is a sufficient number of
this stripe to bankrupt the country.
The Legislature, restrained by constitu
tion restrictions, feci they have not the
power to meet the issue. Then, let their
first business be to call a convention.
Throw this work upon the jieople. and not
foice the people to pursue the revolu
tionary course of calling a convention over
their heads. There is surely not a mem
ber who will raise iiis voice against this
course. Mliat say you, Messrs. Editors,
to this proposition. J- W. J.
Buckqead, Ga.. Sept. 25, 1866.
The new steam fire eugiue for Atlanta
will leave New York on October 20.
The corner stone of the new Masonic
Temple was laid in Atlanta on Tuesday.
On yesterday we published from a Ma
con paper, an announcement ol the death
of Mr. Patrick Crown, of that city. The
Messenger says he is not dead, but is get
ting well.
The stockholders of the Atlanta and
Roswell Railroad met in Atlanta on the
21st, to take steps to complete that enter
prise.
FROM MEXICO.
The Imperial Side of the Picture.
M'e have published one or two accounts
of Mexican affairs very unfavorable to the
prospects of the Empire. We warned our
readers to receive them with many grains
of allowance, for the gasconade ot the
Mexican character is proverbial. They
have a way of manufacturing success out j
of that which comes very little short of ;
defeat. Those who remember the flaming
war bulletins during the Mexican war,
need have no further evidence that the
Mexican is not to be believed when the
prowess of his arms is involved.
An intelligent correspondent of the
New Y’ork Tribune, writing from the City of
Mexico, August 20,_ thus speculates on the
future prospects of the Empire :
The question now, since the French are
to go, resolves itself simply into whether ;
Maximilian can sustain himself here with
out extraneous aid ; whether the Mexican
people are willing, now they are to be rid
of the French, to accept the situation and
avail themselves of their last chance to
build up a respectable power among the
nation's and develops the rescources ot
their splendid country, or become what
they almost are now —the Arabs of Ameri- .
ca. My own impression is .that Maximil
ian will long continue to hold power in
Mexico. He will have to light and main
tain a military Government, as every other
. whatever itowomiwatiou, has,
had to do before him, hut. lie is con
solidating strong and stanch elements of
success; and, holding us lie does the ;
greater part of all that is valuable of Mexi- '
eo he cannot be easily displaced, while his
policy is continually winning for him !
friends and adherents.
Already the Liberals are quarreling like
cats and dogs, over their new acquisition
of Matamoras. A dozen chiefs are con
tending for the place of honor, and giving!
us a sample of what the whole country will !
come to were the Empire to be abandoned, j
Be sure that there exists here, and, in
deed, all over Mexico, a strong Maximilian
party, not merely supported by French
bayonets, but a party who sustain him be
cause they recognize in the Empire, their
last hope against a renewal of the horrible
scenes which have degraded Mexico lor the
last fifty years. In Maximilian and Uar
lotta they see embodied all that insures the ,
respect and love of a people; the highest
intellectual attainments ; the most benefij
cent and noble aspirations; a standard of
moral excellence which might be imitated
with advantage by any sovereigns in the
world : and a disinterested, self-sacrificing .
devotion to the interests of the people they j
have come among, which should be seen
to be properly appreciated.
FUTURE POLICY OP THE EMPIRE.
The immediate means which Maximilian
is adopting for the success of his Empire,
are particularly the raising of a native Mex
ican army in the central departments of
the country. This will be composed of
about 50,000 men of all arms, and the or
ganization of these forces is, and has been for
the last five months, steadily, but quietly I
progressing under the guidance of the best-1
military minds. The army will be obtain
ed by draft this fall, and will be the best
equipped and appointed of any that Mexi
co has ever known. As many of the French
soldiers as desire to enlist as a Foreign Le- !
gion in this army will have the privilege of
so doing, and as considerable inducements
in land and money are bold out to them,
there is reason to believe that numbers
will accept the new service. Great quan
tities of arms and equipments have been
received for this army, and probably one
reason for the late depleted condition of the
treasury was the disbursements which have
been steadily made for this purpose. This
army as it is gradually formed, will be
placed under foreign as well as Mexican
leaders who will exert themselves to main
tain an esprit de. corps such as lias never
yet been felt iu the native ranks.
POSITION OF TIIE LIBERALS AND THE IM
PERIALISTS.
Against an organization such as this, it
would bo idle for any one of-the various
petty chieftains now jealously quarreling
: for power to contend. Not one of them from
- Lhu-w through 'Escoltethi, Alvarez, -Cor
! tina, Santa Anna, down to Ortega, could
place such a ffircc in the field ; and those
who know the Mexican character will un
derstand how unlikely, or rather how im
possible it is that any of them should unite
against Maximilian. It is more probable
that their bickerings would result in one or
more of them going over to the Empire,
which they would rather sec successful,
than yield the palm in their petty strifes
to each other. This will especially be the
case when the policy of rigid neutrality an
nounced by the Government of the United
States is fully understood here. Then,
too, it should be remembered that
sion is nine points of the law, in Empires
as well as in real estate disputes. Look at
the man of Mexico and see what territory
is now held by the Empire and what by the
divided and mutually jealous Liberals.
Every seaport, excepting Matamoros and
Tampico is in the keeping of the Imperial
j forces, and through them the Government
draws a portion of its revenue.
THE CENTERS OF WEALTH AND POPULA
TION.
A glance at the territory held by the
respective forces will show that Maximilian
to-day is the power of Mexico. The popu
lous and rich States of Mexico—Puebla,
Vera Cruz, San Luis Potosi, Quoretaro,
Colima, Oaxaca, Guanajuato and Alichoa
ean —with their teeming millions, and their
cities and towns, ranging from 250,000 in
habitants down through 90,000, 00,000,
40,000 and 20,000, to say nothing of
smaller towns and innumerable peaceful
villages, are all under the government of
Maximilian, including the capitol, the
center of intelligence, culture and wealth
of the country. The regions embraced in
t he above named States are the most valua
ble portions of Mexico, as I have already
said. To hold them is to hold Mexico to
all intents and purposes. Examine the
statistics of population and products, and
see where the center of wealth and people
is located. The Empire holds by far the
larger part of all that is worth living in—
all that constitutes a governing power;
and it is a remarkable fact that in the
checkered history of Mexico, for the last
fifty years, not one of its rulers, from
lturbide down to Juarez, taking in the
terms of Santa Anna, Guerrero, Vittoria,
Bustamento, Conioufort, and you will r.ot
find any of them in quiet possession of so
large a portion of Mexico as that above de
scribed, and not one of them ever helu the
reins of power so long, by a year, as the
Emperor Maximilian has.
THE RECENT POLITICAL EVENTS AND TIIEIK
LESSON.
On the other hand, after a desultory
guerrilla warfare of four years what results
have been attained by the opposite parties.
At one time nearly the whole of Mexico
had effectually passed out of their hands :
and this at a time when the present divis
ions and jealousies between the several
Liberal leaders did not exist as at present.
As long as the French and Austrians con
tinued their advance northward they oc
cupied and held the country despite the
opposition of the Juarists. All the cen
tral and southern States remained under
the Empire as they still d r * ; and it was not
until Napoleon had decided irrevocably to
abandon the Mexican enterprise, for that
purpose checking all further advance
northward and recalling the expeditions
then on foot in that direction, that the
Liberals made any headway there. H hen,
in pursuance ot this policy the frontier
towns of Saltillo, .Monterey and minor
places were evacuated, the first successes
of the Juarists were obtained.
It is all very well, arid quite in keeping
with Mexican bombast, to announce Liber
al victories in these places. The plain
facts are, that the French troops leisurely
withdrew from those places, and when they
were at a safe distance, the Liberals had
nothing to do but walk in. arid take pos
session, with the customary amount ot
views and sky-rockets'. ~
The military news is entirely devoid ot
interest. Since the withdrawal of the
troops from the thinly peopled states to
the northward, the Liberals have been
principally occupied in wrangling among
themselves for political prominence. The
point selected by Marshal Bazatne as the
outpost of the Empire for the present ia
San Lui< Potosi. in the department ot that
name. This city is one of the most pros
perous in Mexico. It is 111 telegraphic
communication with the capital, from which
it is about 2HO miles distant to tne north
ward. You may lie certain that you will
hear of no more concentiatiou south
ward from that place. Bazame was there
yesterdav and telegraphed that the 1 reneh
forces were enjoying their new location
hugelv. Os course Escobedo, who entered
Monterev as soon as the I reneh quitted it,
will never think of risking an attack on San
Luis.
John Minor Bolts, of Virginia has in
press a volume entitled "1 he Great Lebel
fion : Its Secret History, Rise, Progress
and Disastrous Failure. The Political
Life of the Author Vindicated.
Win. Gilmore Simms is preparing, a I
'History of South Carolina, for Schools,” j
Thad. Stevens’ I.atc Speech at Iledtord.
Pennsylvania —The Policy of the ltadi
cals Foreshadowed---The New Yolk
Tribune indorses his Remarks.
Mr. Stevens said:
****** *
In criticising Congress I will try to be
impartial. I will not alk you to bestow
unmingled praise. 1 feel that we omitted
some important things which we ought to
| have done, aud for which omission we de
serve the censure of the people. While it
was impossible, obstructed as we were by
the I’resident, and Copperheads, to make
this a Republic-of “liberty and equality,
wo might have approached it more nearly
than we did. We might have treated the
rebel States as what they are, in fact, con
quered provinces, and through enabling
acts we could have fixed the qualifications
of voters so that every loyal man could par
ticipate in the formation of their organic
law. We should thus, with entire certain
ty, have secured the Government to loyal
Union men, have formed in every one of
those States constitutions giving equal
privileges to all, and which would have
curbed the rising spirit of rebellion which is
now rampant in every one of those States.
For, I assure you, from irrefutable evi
dence, that traitors are now triumphant in
all the Confederate States. N-o Republi
can doubts the powef of Congress to do
what I have stated. No sound constitu
tional lawyer believes any one of the orga
nizations now existing in those States to be
legitimate governments. Formed by the
decrees of a military cotiquyror, without
consulting the people, .they can be tolerat
ed oulv as temporary arrangements, until
flielaw-making power provides them q/or
tnanent laws and forms of government.
They are so considered by the rebels them
selves.
Not a rebel State has this day a lawful
government. They are mere Territories
conquered by our arms from the “Con
federate States of America. Why then
did not Congress give them either Territo
rial Governments or enabling acts so that
they could form State Governments, and
come into the Union with constitutions se
curing equal and impartial rights to every
human being within their limits? Early
in the session I introduced a bill to give
them enabling acts on the true principles
of republican government. It met with
but little countenance. The Republican
mind had not examined, and was not
ready to accept so radical a proposition.
And so the session was spent, in inact 00.
You may find my proposition, together
wiJi thi- reasons for it, in the last number
of the Globe -. 1 wish it might lie copied
into your excellent paper, so that you may
judge of it. I trust you can inform us of
its propriety. 1 shall renew it at the next
session.
In my opinion, Congress was derelict in
another particular. 1 have always held
that while but lew of the belligerents
should suffer the extreme penalty of the
law, yet that a sufficient fund should lie
levied out of their property to pay the dx
peqges and damages of war. Congress in
July, 1862, declared all their properly for
feited, and directed the President to seize
it for the benefit of the United States.
More than ten billions of property be
came invested in the United States. —
Proceedings against more than two bit
lions of property, including the abandoned
estates, had been instituted and were in
progress. The President has restored to
the traitors nearly the whole of it. Thus
has lie illegall r given away half enough to
pay the national debt, lie has enriched
traitors at the expense of loyal men. And
yet Congress, bold as it was, had not the
courage to reverse these proceedings and
compel the Executive to do his duty. I
trust that our constituents will give us
more courage, so that at the next session
we may compel the President to do his
duty and execute the laws. Those are
omissions which I frankly confess and sin
cerely deplore. But our growing sin was
the omission to give homesteads and the
right of suffrage in the rebel States to the
freedmen who had fought our b&tt'es.
.Vs significant of the temper of the times,
we quote the New York Tribune s indorse
ment of Steven’s Jacobin declarations.
The speech of Mr. Stevens, at Bedford,
Pennsylvania—tile first lie lias made in
! this canvass—has this special importance,
; that it announces his intention to return in
! the next to the policy winch,
l at the late Sesstim, he reluctantly sacrificed"
for the sake of obtaining some practical
measures. The main argument lie uses
is unquestionably able, and in the campaign
throughout the country no more compact
and forcible logic has proved the Pres
ident's policy of reconstruction an out
rageous assumption of the Constitutional
powers ofCongress. Of'Congress he has free
ly spoken, and admitted its errors; yet, if we
sum them all up, the aggregate does not corn
parein enormity with any one of Mr. John
son’s usurpations. The main issue is be
tween rightand wrong,law and illegality,aud
Congress, when Ihe lines are fairly drawn,
deserves the confidence and support of the
people. That superb contempt of mean
ness in great offices, which Mr. Stevens has
much cause to cherish, he lias rarely ex
pressed with more force than in this speech,
as, for instance, when he speaks of the j
President as a single apostate, counting
Mr. Raymond and his comrades as nothing. !
We expected no less of Mr. Stevens than
that he would renew, at the next session,
his bold and Radical policy of restoration.
Ho does not give up bis principles. “The
territorial status of the South, the right of
confiscation and impartial suffrage, are the
elements of his creed, and he declares that
‘popular or unpopular, I shall stand hy it
till I am relieved of the unprofitable labors j
of earth.’ Pennsylvania has reason to be I
proud of this man, whose energies age can
not wither, who combines with an untam
able independence of thought and action
the tact of a leader, and who has tlm hon
esty to differ with his party without repu
diating its claims on his services.
lie does not give up ms principles. i ne
territorial status of the South, the right of
confiscation and impartial suffrage, are the
: elements of his creed, and lie declares that
‘popular or unpopular, I shall stand by it
till I am relieved of the unprofitable labors
jof earth.’ Pennsylvania has reason to be
proud of this man, whose energies age can
not wither, who combines with an untam
able independence of thought and action
the tact of a leader, and who has the hon
' esty to differ with his party without repu
diating its claims on his services.
The Trial of Jefferson Davis.
A letter dated Washington 19lli in
stant, says:
United States District Attorney Chand
ler, of Norfolk, bad a lengthy consultation
| to-day with the Attorney General in re
gard to the trial of Jeff. Davis. Nothing
definite was agreed upon, andMr. Chandler
! is preparing a letter to Mr. Stanberry, urg
ing the importance of bringing Mr. Davis
to an early trial, and asking the co-opera
tion of the government to secure that end. •
Mr. Chandler and Judge I'nderwood also
had an interview with Judge Chase to-day
.on tho same subject. Nothing can be
definitely stated, except that the trial of
Mr. Davis will come off, unless he shall be
discharged or paroled by the Executive.
It may come on at the next regular term.
This will not he in October, to which time
the case was adjourned, the District Judge
■ and Attorney finding that the passage of
the act of Congress, re-organizing the !
♦ judical districts subsequent to that ad
journment. fixes the legal term in Novem
ber, and that the holding of a court in Oc
tober would therefore be illegal. There is ,
no doubt that the position of the Chief
Justice with regard to the trial is un
! changed. It may not be generally known j
that able lawyers, in view of the fact that |
the new kuv neither assigns the judges to ;
the different dhtricts nor gives them power
to assign themselves, have serious doubts
whether anv district courts can legally he
held until Congress takes further action on ;
the subject. .
In the late interview of Bishop Green
and .Mr. Kelly with Mr. Davis, at Fortress
Monroe, the latter is represented to have
1 spoken despondiugly on the subject of his
trial taking place in October, but hopeful
j ]y anticipated a speedy release by Presi
‘ jent Johnson, if the court decided in
making no action this term upon his case
and the charges preferred against him. In
answer to the inquiries of his visitors re
i specting an interposition by bis friends
| with President Johnson, and particularly
to their desire to proceed to Washington
for the purpose of having a personal inter
view with the President, and to obtain a
parole upon the grounds of ill-health, Mr.
Davis is said to have replied that any
further efforts would bo futile
His counsel, Messrs. O Conner und
Read, and other warm and influential
friends had visited President Johnson with
the same object, but, notwithstanding their
entreaties and representation, the President
had expressed his inability to assume the ;
responsibility of pardoning him, stating
that under the charges contained in the
bill of indictment brought in by the grand
jury of \ irginia tor treason, and the evi
dence adduced by the Congressional Com
mittee respecting his complicity with the 1
assassination of President Lincoln, it ren
ders him amenable to trial. Until after
the adjournment of the coming term of the
Circuit Court, be contended all action in
bis case should be suspended by his friends. I
Bishop Green alto paid a visit to Mrs.
Davis, and in the course of conversation, j
she expressed her fears for her husband. ,
and added that she feared he could not
survive many months longer if kept in
imprisonment.
The last volume of George Bancroft s
"History of the United States is about to
be published.
General Basil Duke, of the late Confeder
ate army, is writing a “History of the Life
and Military Exploits of General John H.
Morgan. ’ ’
KEW SERIES, VOL. \\y t j^q # 4^
Georgia, Burke County,
I, Ileuiau IL. Perry, Judge of the
County Court of said county, notify and
'declare to the people thereof, that the said
court is hereby closed, and its operations
suspended sine die: for that,
1! he reus. James Bell, a citizen of said
county, did, on the fourteenth day of Sep
tember. 1866, come before me, J udge as
aforesaid, and make affidavit prayin g that
a possessory warrant might issue in terms
of the law to investigate the possession of
property to wit: Two horses valued at
two hundred and fifty dollars, claimed by
deponent, said property having been forci
bly seized and taken from him by one Wil
liam F. Martin and three soldiers of the
United States army—seized without lawful
waruint or authority; and
I Therms. Brevet Major-Genera! Till
son, of the United States army, did, on
the seventeenth day of September, 1866,
send an armed force into said county, and
seize the sheriff of said comity, who had
executed the said ppssessory warrant, and
take the said sheriff out of said county,
without authority of law, and endeavor to
force from said sheriff'said property seized
by him under the authority vested in him
by said warrant issued in terms of law ;
and
Whereas, ■ The said General Till,-son has,
with an armed force, interferred with the
legal investigation of the possession of
said property in the manner contemplated
by law, which interference will mure fully
agpear hy the following order from said
Gen. Tillson, to wit :
[extract. J
HkaqVrs Sun Burr, of Geoikha,
Augusta, Sept. 15, 1866.
Special Orders. A’o. 7.
1. Information having been received at
these headquarters that, on the l-ltli inst.,
at W aynesboro, Burke county, Georgia,
Sergeant Reed and detachment of two
men from Ist battalion 16th United States
Infantry, were forcibly dispossessed of two
horses, the property of the United States
Government, taken by the Sergeant in
pursuance of orders from these headquar
ters, ftom James Beil, and that Sergeant
Heed and his detachment were summoned
to appear lor trial before t he County Court
of said Burke county, for having the said
two public horses in their possession.
Therefore Brevet Major N. L. Dykeinan,
commanding post of Augusta, will send a
commanding officer, with sufficient force,
to Burke county, to arrest James Bell,
and confine him under general orders, No.
1-1. ( . S., from headquarters of the army,
and to get, the two I uited Slates Govern
ment horses in question, which will bo
turned over to Brevet Major C. F. Wat
son, post quartermaster at this place.
The officer sent in charge of the party will
notify the civil authorities that they will
not be allowed to interfere in this matter,
and that, force will be used, if necessary, to
prevent it.
By command of Brevet. Ma j. Gen. Tillson.
(Signed.) W. W. DEANE.
Brevet Major and A. A. G.
Official ;
N. L. Dikeman,
Brevet Major U. S. A.,
Com'dg Post, of August, Ga.,
And II /terras, By said interference of
said military commander Brevet Major
General Tillson, the functions of the civil
authority have been set aside anil may, by
like process, he at any time set aside 1/v
said commander Or any other commander
of the military forces of the United States
in all matters of civil right;
And Whereas, It is desired that no
bloodshed may ensue in order to enforce
the civil authority, or that any collision of
the civil and military authorities ma; take
place which would lead to unhappy eon
sequences, it is hereby ordered and de
clared that, the civil functions of this said
court be closed and suspended until higher
authorities shall determine the rights of,
the said court in the premises.
All persons cemmanded hy any writ, !
summons or process issued from said court
to appear at any subsequent sitting there- \
of, will not appear until notified hereafter i
in manner required by law.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand official signature this loth day of
September, 1860.
11em an 11. Perry,
Judge County Court-of Burke County.
A Grasshopper Plague in Kansas.
Our Western exchanges a c all more or
less excited on the subject of grasshoppers,
which are represented as numerous as the
locusts in Egypt during the reign of a'iia
roah, some time ago. The Wyandotte
Gazette says that on the Cross Creek, be
tween Topeka and Waniego, they fill the
air like snowflakes in a winter storm. In
Marshall county, they have made their ap
pearance iu myriads, doing immense injury
to the crops and grass. The insects are
said to resemble somewhat, our common
prairie grasshopper, with some character
istics of the locust. They are traveling i
East, ami destroy everything vegetable
along the line.-
The Kearney Herald, sajs the whole
country, for miles around, is filled with 1
grasshoppers. They are destroying the j
crops—stalk and branch—with alarming I
brevity. By the last of this week they
will have destroyed th-: last vestige of cul
tivated vegetation, and will then commence
on prairie grass and sod production.
'I he Nemaha < lonrier complains that the
country thereabouts has been stormed by :
them for a week. They come down like '
snowflakes, covering the ground and every ■
visible object, and fluttering in the breeze
thicker and more of them than the shreds
of a dilapidated dishcloth in the hands of
a maddened kitchen maid.
The Kansas City Journal is informed
by John B. Griffin, KSq., who has just
returned from Junction ( it3', Kansas, that
that section is overrun with grasshoppers.
They come in swarms from the west, so
thick that the sun is hidden wherever they
appear. They are farcing sumptuously,
stripping cornfields and eating up the
glass, weeds and leaves of the trees. The
Lawrence Tribune., we also notice, makes
mention of their advent, and says their
ravages have so far been confined to a
track twelve miles wide and three hundred
long. Some idea of the vast quantity of
these insects maybe inferred (i-um the’fact
of their having got on the railroad track of
the Inion Pacific) road in such a manner as
to cause the wheels to slip on the rails,
Tho train due at Wyandotte evening be
fore last was actually detained several
hours in consequence of the grasshoppers
having taken possession of the track.—
St. Louis Democrat ,
Tiic Late Accident to Fernando Wood
and Part}.
The New \ ork E.cprcxx tints describes a
recent accident which occurred near the
i residence of ex-Mayor Wood at Jamaica,
j by which Mr. Wood and bis wife, and
Mr. Hagnerandhis wife, were badly injur
ed. Mr. Hagners injuries are of a fatal
character:
It appears that the ex-Mayor purchased
anew- team, and the party started out for
a drive. On meeting a place known as
Success Hill—three or four miles east of
Jamaica —the horses took ‘right and be
came unmanageable. Mr. W ood who had
the reins, found himself quite iwwerlessto
restrain the horses, and they dashed down
tlie hill at a frightful speed.
The carriage finally struck an embank
ment. by which it was literally dashed to
pieces, and the occupants thrown to the
ground. .Mr. Ilagner was thrown violently
against a tree.in the road, and was picked
up quite insemunle. A medical exami
nation lias disclosed the fact that Iris skull
is fractured, and that there is no hope of
his recovery. Mr. Hagner is a well-known
lawyer, and a resident of Brooklyn, lie
went with bis wife to visit Mr. W ood s
place a few days since. The ladies were
cut and bruised in a terrible manner, and
Col. Wood was also seriously injured, his
face being cut so badly that he may be dis
figured for life. The injured per.-on.-. were
picked up and taken to the ‘’Success Hill
Hotel,” where they still remain, attended
by several eminent physicians.
literary.
Air. James Russell Lowell is -aid to have
been for some time engaged on a novel
which is to be a kind of American Wilheini
Meistcr.
Mr. Edmund Quincy is- at work on a
biography of his father, the late Josiah
Quincy.
Charles Gayarre is preparing a "History
of Louisiana," for Schools.
Air. -J. William Jones is collecting mate
rials for the “Religious History of the
Army of Northern Virginia. ’ ’
General Wheeler is writing a "History
of the Operations of the Cavalry* Force un
der his Command in the Confederate
Army.”
_ Leigh Oldman, Esq., of Texts, died in
St. Louis ori Friday. The Louisville Cou
rier of Monday pronounces a high eulogy
on his character. Mr. Oldham was a na- i
tive of Tennessee, but resided at Port j
Worth, Texas. He was a young man ofi
remarkable energy of character, and high- j
ly esteemed for integrity.
Aliss Fannie Stockton, who has hitherto !
appeared only in Opera, is understood to
be about to make her debut us au actress. I
Foreign Summary.
I , . Iu '- V s ot their harvest in by torch- liMit
this season m Switzerland. g
! tI Au aaidcn ‘ on an English railway cost
the company in law-suit $170;000. ‘
l relative to the boundaries
tied U 1 and Krthvla llas at len Sth been set-
Gen. Ford, late Colonel in the rebel ar
lny. commands a column of infantry under
' Canales in Mexico.
The government of Peru has offered a
prize of $20,000 for the best history of that
; country.
n French firm has offered Chile and
Bolivia an advance of! $6,000,000 lor the
privilege of working the guano deposits.
i lie man who attempted to assassinate
the ( zar several mouths ago, has been exe
cuted.
The large guns purchased in the United
Mates for Chili have been taken to their
destination.
Ihe scene of the battle ot Sadowa is be
ing ravaged by the cholera. Out of a few
thousand inhabitants, over two hundred
died in three or four days.
’[ 1 10 ships of war purchased for the
C hilmn Government—the Henrietta and
■ Neshannoclr are said to be inefficient ves
! sels.
Ihe Emperor oi Austria has concluded
to permit the exile Pulsky to live in Hun
gary. It is said he will take up his quar
ters in Pesth, in that province.
. The Prussian fleet, in the harbor of
Kiel, has been put out of commission, and
there are evidences on all sides of a general
disarming.
I. lie journals of Chemnitz and Gortingen
which had been suspended by the Prussian
commanders in Saxony and Hanover, have
again appeared.
The cholera is on the increase in Russia.
At St. Petersburg, the number of cholera
cases in the first, fortnight, in July has been
1,084; 340 of which ended fatally.
The Prussians lost in the war 2,473
killed, 5,341 seriously wounded, 8*865
slightly wounded, and 2,559 missing, ma
king a total of 19,259.
A Marseilles paper states that an inhab
itant of that city has discovered anew mo-,
five power much more advantageous than
steam and quite free frqni any dangerous
explosion.
The London Jewish Chronicle says that
| more than 40,000 Jewish soldiers are en
j rolled in the Austrian and Prussian ar
. mies, about 30,000 of whom are Austrian
I subjects. V
! The Chronicle says that. Quebec has
been honored by the birth of a lion in the
menagerie attached to Gastello’s circus ;
two were born, but before they could be
taken from the cage one was destroyed by
tlie male.
| __ The present, population of Rome is 210,-
| 701. This is an increase of 30,000 since
i 1861, and of 3,300 during the past year.
’! lie increase lias been partly natural and
i partly owing to tlie concentration of emi
i grants from other parts of Italy from polit
ical motives.
The Chilian press is unanimous for the
j further prosecution of the war, as being
| the only means of settling the questions at
j issue between the South American Repub
lics and Spain. The spirit of the Equado
rians appears to he strongly in the favor of
the carrying on of a war by the allied Re
publics—of which Rquadoris one—against
the power of Spain.
The British register general reports one
hundred distinct causes of death in England,
but more than half the deaths in every
year are due to one or the other of ten
diseases. Thus, of 1864, 53,046 persons
died from phthisis, 38,969 from bronchitis
24,470 from pneumonia, 21,311 from heart
disease, 29,634 deaths from old age, 26,-
! 382 from convulsions, 29,634 from atrophy
and debility, 29,700 persons from scarla
| tiiia, 20,106 from typhus, and 16,432 from
i diarrhoea.
i Begging on the streets in Paris is strict
i ly prohibited, save on the Emperor’s fete
I days.
The disturbances, charged to have been
; made by brigands, near Palermo, in Sicily,
i are now thought to be the work ofa party in
favor of Republieanizing all Italy. They
j do not amount to much.
Berlin has been glorying over the re
! turn of the Prussian armies, the victorious
troops having made a triumphal entry to
thei* capital on Thursday.
The Steamer Snxmna, which sailed for
New York, on the 20th, takes out $70,000
sterling on American account.
New York, September 21. —By tlie
Java we learn that a great deal of rain con
tinued to fall in England, and the still out
standing crops were sustaining considerable
damage.
A French agricultural journal sums up
as follows the latest accounts of the har
vest :
In France there is neither tlie ordinary
quantity or quality of wheat, and but for
free importation a scarcity would succeed
tlie abundance of the past three years.
England is also beginning to complain
not of quantity but of quality.
Russia lias had an excellent wheat har
vest, as well as Spain.
Italy does not seem to he much more
fortunate than France.
The locusts have ravaged Algiera.
As to the United States the deficit is
still greater than in France.
Northern Germany appears to be divided.
The southern provinces of Hungary
have suffered.
Disgraceful Prize-Fight In St. Louis.
Win. M. Davis and .Michael McCoole
fought for a purse of five hundred dollars
on the eveningof the 19th inst., on Chateau
Island, near St. Louis. A large crowd
composed of both sexes, assembled to wit
ness the disgraceful scene. The telegraph
ic dispatch to tho Louisville Courier says :
A prize-tight between Win. M. Davis
andAlicliael McCoole, for a purse of SSOO,
the Championship, and the Champion’s
belt, took place on Chateau Island, about
ten miles above this city, at 4 o’clock this
aft ernoon. Two steamboats took the spec
tors to the field. The seconds of Davis
were Patsey Curtin and Dublin Tricks.
MeCoole’s seconds were Val. McKinney
and Ned. Shaw. The umpires were Frank
Curry and Sherman Thurston. The refer
reo was I ‘at. Coyle, and the time-keeper
John Franklin. Thirty-five rounds were
fought, in thirty-four minutes, when the
seconds of Davis threw up tlie sponge.
I >avis wis terribly punished, while McCoole
was not much hurt. McCoole got the first
blood, and the first knock down in the first
round, and had it pretty much his own
way from the start. Davis acknowledged
himself beaten at the thirteenth round, but
continued to fight on at the solicitation of
bis seconds.
After the fight, a purse of $250 was
made up for Davis, AlcCoolo loading off
with a subscription of $5.
Sporting characters from Chicago, Cin
cinnati, Cleveland, New York, Boston,
Buffalo and other places were present.
The Little Villain.
- You can t make a silk purse out of a
; sow s car. It is an equally difficult task to
manufacture an honest man out of a scurvy
politician who has had a “Radical” bring
ing up. Raymond, of the Timex, is a liv
ing exemplification of the truth in both
instances. Though he was the author of
the Philadelphia Convention address and
the. leader of the so-called Conservative
Republicans in this part of the country,
-and, therefore, bound in honor to adhere to
and support the nominees of the recent
Pnifocratic and Conservative State Con
vention at Albany which nominated Hoff
. man s Democrat) for Governor, and Pruyn
Republican] for Lieutenant Governor, yet
tlie _ Times gives notice that, General Dix
having been shoved aside for Governor,
and the Democrats persisting in calling the
Ujiivention a Democratw. Convention, peo
ple ot its the Jimex ) way of thinking will
now east about to see it the purposes they
have in view cannot as well be achieved
within as without the Radical organization:
?r cr nlca,l l *-hat Raymond has dropped
Hon man and is going for Fenton. Let
him go. Nobody ever expected hitu to be
ot one mind more than a week together;
and his treachery, therefore, creates no
disappointment. \Ye can get on better
without such tricksters than with them.
At hat we lose one way we shall gain in
another. Aleanwhile, Master Raymond
may whistle for Democratic support should
he be re-nominated for Congress.—Louis
ville Democrat.
(icorgia.
We presume the announcement that
manager Flynn, of Nashville, is to open
the new opera house in Atlanta on the
10th of November is a little premature, as
the building has scarcely been com
menced.
The Southern Recorder favors the es
tablishment of a mechanical department in
the new Orphan House to be erected by
the State, where trades suited to both
sexes may be taught.
An interesting revival is now going on
at the Methodist church at Hawkinsville,