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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV. (Chronicle & Sentinel m;\ n \ mookk, A. It. WIUOIIT. . teiois of si rsi uimo>. WEEKLY. J.! n '2l!” .... J. 11. W. JOHNSTON , iiiKiuw Manaci r. A I (i t MTA, ii \ : \V FUNKS DAT MUKMNG, OCTOBER 3. Die Kail Kiertlnii*. 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,