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WEBXESB&I MOKNIXti, OCTOBER 3.
A Distinguished Trio—Strclghl, Butler,
and Wllllch.
Ah will be seen by reference to o«dr tele
graphic ooluiun. the bogu- nia-s Conven
tion of fighting officers and soldiers, now
in session al lAlfcsburg, are very severe in
their denunciation.' of .Southern officers
and Southern soldiers. Not only are they
coarse and malignant in their abuse of
Southern men, but, to cap the climax of
their pusilanimity and lascncss, they stig
matize the members of the Cleveland Con
vention as “sniaks and drju rteni.
The leading spirits in this miserable effi
gy ofa Convention in Pittsburg are Streight,
ofJtome I Georgia) memory, Butler, the
In to of Port Fisher and Bermuda Hun
dreds. and one Wiilich, who nobody ever
heard of during the war, or since, until he
joined the Radicals in denouncing the true
soldiers of the North and the whole body
of the Southern people.
According to the hero Butler, Mr. Davis
and Gen. Lee should be hung ! The mis- j
crable old brute se m- so inflated with bis |
own self-importance, a- not to be aware
that decent and respectable men through- j
out the whole country despise his counsels \
and shun hi- presence, as they would a
viper s. He compares Gen. Ijee to one of
bis own tribe, and demands that, he should
receive a traitor s doom 1 Those who do
not agree with this doughty General, in
regard to the eour.se which the G overn merit
should pursue towards Davis, Lee, and the
great mass of Southern officers and sol
diers, he denounces as "sncalcs and deser
for*.” ' •
... a r..• mum.,is to the President
A, , , 01, is a ‘Leak and a dc.-o.r
.** T'■ ho' 1 ti,.... Pitts’mirg
• ■'•dings that the controlling
fiendish hate, not only towards the
South, but against all who do not ap
prove the liadicul programme of fire and
desolation. Their attacks upon Generals
Granger, Kwing. Blair, Wool, Steedman,
Cuater, Couch, Sloan, and the thousands
of true men and gallant soldiers who com
posed the Cleveland Convention, will re
coil with blighting force upon their own
corrupt and infamous heads. Ihe people
of the North have sufficient intelligence to
know who the nmn arc to whom under
Providence they are indebted for flic con
clusion of the war. They also know, as
do- the whole civilized world, that no truer
man, purer patriot, or skilful General has
ever lived upon this broad continent than
Robert P. Bee.
Jefferson Davis, in every element that
makes the Christian patriot, statesman,
and chieftain, is so universally superior to
ihi trio of wretched and contemptible
military upstarts, that they arc incapable
of forming a just or fair estimate of his
character and qualities. The impartial
pesos history will do justice to his great
merits, and will fully vindicate his name
from the foul aspersions cast upon it by
the time-serving politicians and spoon
stealing t Icnerals.
Nnv Terms to be Required.
If, now, tho proposed <’onstitutioiml
sinmiul.mnl is rejected by the Smith, what
results? A now ('engross is elected, after
,t full examination of llm facts at issue by
tlm American people. Tho amendment
now proposed is contumaciously rejected
by ten disloyal States. It then followstliat
Congress will stand where it did before
tho enunciation of its policy; hound tone
past policy, elected by a more radical con
stituency; and having thoAvhole subject of
reconstruction in its hands allow. Does
any man suppose that the conditions they
will demand in that ease will bo milder
tlmn the last? To-day, the South cun come
back, by the acceptance of terms more
generous than were ever accorded to a con
quered rebellion. If this is spurned, will
the North succumb? They will demand
still more stringent conditions. They will
run up impartial sutlrago to tile masthead,
ami nail it there.
Wo clip the above from a Boston Radi
cal journal, to show the animus of the
Torch and Turpentine party towards the
Irtouth. They already claim that the suc
cess of the Radicals in the coming elections
is a foregone conclusion, and they seek to
frighten the South into a ratification of the
Constitutional amendments proposed, by
threatening further and more stringent
conditions if we refuse to comply with their
odious terms.
It seems that Congress will not feel bound
to its past policy in ease we remain inexo
rable, but will proceed to open up the
whole matter of reconstruction anew. We
are told that we need not look for milder
terms than those already proposed. We
are further informed by this Radical press
that “to-day the South can come back, by
the acceptance of terms more generous
than were over accorded to a conquered re
bellion.’’ Wo deny that tlm Southern
States havs any guaranty that they woujd
be re admitted into the Union upon the
acceptance and ratification of the proposed
amendments. We know that what was
called an “Enabling Bill,” containing
provisions for the re-admission of the
Southern States upon the ratification of
the amendment, was killed in the last Con
gress by the Radical majority. But even
if the South had the most undoubted guar
antees of re admission to full and equal
participation in the Federal Government,
upon the Acceptance of the terms embraced
in the amendments to the Constitution, we
'could not consent to accept those ignoble
terms. Bettor remain out of the Union
until the crack of doom, than become a
party to our own inferiority and disgrace.
The Radicals had better understand this
matter at once. We do not believe that
any possible inducements could be held out
to the teu excluded States, which would
cause them, or either of them, to conform
to the plans of Congress by adopting the
degrading terms embraced in the Congres
sional Amendment. We are prepared to
say for ourselves, and we believe we speak
the unanimous decision of the whole State
upon the question, that we can never con
sent to become parties to our own dis
grace and humiliation by accepting
these terms. If the Radicals shall deter
mine to impose new and still more degrad
ing terms upon us. we shall submit with
the best grace we can.
Wo know that the Southern States can,
it they are true U> themselves, defeat this
obnoxious scheme. The teu States now
denied representation in Congress, are
more than one-lburth of all the States, and
until the Congress shall make fv. mar
States we have* the control of the subject in
our own hands. Then let the South speak
plainly and firmly on this point. If there
are any considerable portion of the North
ern people so ignorant as to our position
and feeling as to think that wo might be
induced to ratify our own de gradation, the
sooner their minds are disabused the better
for all parties,
A\ o are further told by t,h is Radical jour
nalist that:
The people of the South have shown no
prudence in the past; perhaps the same
madness which lues marked their former
career will character;re their political ac
tions forever. But ifthev are not hopeless
ly demented, they will aeeept the mag
nanimous terms on whieli, to-dav, tliev
can re-enter the Union. The prophetess
oilers them the sublime books. Soon she
will depart: and on her next return the
price at which the inosiimahte treasure can
lx< obtained, will be enhanced. The loyal
ly! of the country has borne ov., from
these men. How long shall they a< u,e o ( ;r
patience? l-<*t itn*ui remember that uio <
dav may come in which the terms on w hich
tliev can now enter the Unton will be irre
vocably withdrawn.
The charge that vre leave been Minting
in prudence in the y.u-g. i.-. to some extent,
true. Many of the first aud foremost men
in the South think that we “imprudently"
yielded too much in trying to satisfy the
demands of the Federal Government since
the surrender of Lee and Johnston. Many
think, that we would to-d*y have been bet
ter off if wc bad stool ale he upon the
terms of surrender. But in our atiioty to
show our perfect. sincerity, and honest **
sire to let by gones t;e bygones, we rushed
into the adoption of the amendment abol*
ishing slavery in the State, aud declared
our State war debt void. These ,we did
upon the assurance that when oeue, wq
should be re-admitted to all our lights iu
the Union aud under the Constitution.
We “imprudently ’ yielded these points
upon the faith of Northern meu aud states
men. We shall not be caught again in the
same way. ‘
We want no wore of the “sublime
books” offered by ■unprincipled Radicals. ;
Neither do wc care how soon the “prophat
u- , ’ of di-cord, vengeance, aud malice
quietly departs. The sooner all such
friends ;n Wilson, Chase, Sumner and
Stevens leave us alone, the Letter it will
lie for the country. Wc ask nothing from ,
such men. and if the people of the North
j and Wcvt’are going to turn over the gov
eminent into their hands, thou we say,
j God pity us and ours,
i They talk of “Loyally" suffering at the
hand of the South, and a k how long shall
wc abuse their patience? When—since
the day that the Confederate armies stack
ed their arm and abandoned the field,
has loyalty suffered from the Southern peo
ple? Did Loyalty suffer when our people
were dragged from their homes at night
and thrown into Federal dungeons without
cause or warrant? Did Loyalty suffer
when the swarm of Treasury agents cover
ed our land, aud swept from before us our
last resource to feed and clothe our impov
erished families? Did loyalty suffer when
military upstarts sent armed guards into j
every Southern household, and stripped j
them of their personal goods? Did Loy- j
ultjj suffer when the “shoulder strap " en- j
tered the precincts of out- civil tribunals,
and rudely snatched the ermine from the
officer of the law ? All these things have
been done at the South, and more. Yet,
we are charged with deliberately insulting
Loyalty. How long will tlTe intelligent j
masses at the North submit to be ruled by
men so entirely regardless of truth and
honor, it is perhaps, not safe to predict.
But we believe that in the good Provi
i dencc of God, such a state of things will j
not last much longer.
, A. 0. fatten.
Tin- new Senator elect from New.Jersey,
\ G. Cat tell, it seems, is one of the .
wealthiest men in that State. He is a
| self-made matt, having commenced if
poor and without education. The only
inalifi-attons which c« possesses now to.
ihe office .i his reputed wealth, lie can j
hardly be said to lie a citizen of New Jer
-1 sey as his place of business is in Philadel
phia, where lie spends all the day engaged
las ai. officer in one of the city banks. It is
true that his family resides in Camden, just
across the river from Philadelphia, and he
claims that as his home,
Availability was the idea that elected him j
to the Senate, which availability was pro- .j
duecd by a liberal use of money.
This is not the class of men which the
people sent to the Halls of the National
Legislature in the better days of the Re
public. Neither can the country be suc
cessfully and faithfully administered now by
such statesmanship. There never was u
time when the country stood in greater
need of the best intellects and purest pa- j
Diets of the land to guide safely and
prosperously the ship of State through
the rocks and breakers by which we arc
surrounded.
Commenting upon this subject the Nci
liuual Intelligencer says:
“At this time we want in the Senate J
men of (lie highest ability and of the
largest experience in statesmanship. It is
melancholy to sec, in response to this great
want, what the electoral urn supplies.
“When wo recall the proud days of the
United States Senate, when Webster, and
Clay, and Silas Wright, and Benton, and
Calhoun, and Forsyth, and Berrien, and
many men of that stamp, gave their great
intellects to their country, and the discus
sion of public measures instructed and en
lightened society, and men beheld with
veneration the proceedings of their own
Auiphictyoifio council, we cannot but la
ment tho signal mediocrity of the present
Senate.
“What is the matter ? Are we losing the
breed of noble blood, or is ability and fit-
J ness for public position postponed to con
| sidcrations of money ? lias the time
j eouie when a man's chances for the Senate
arc to be measured by the extent of his
rent-roll? If so, we protest against it as
: perilous of the right,sof the people, at war
with the spirit of our institutions, and de
j structive to tho Government, which needs
I brains to conduct it, and not mediocrity
swollen by wealth.”
Proposed Convention of Union and Ex
j* Confederate Soldiers.
I The New York Citizen, which is edited
j by Colonel Charles G. Halpine—“Miles
; O’Reilly”—says a proposition will be
made, perhaps, at the Cleveland Conven
! tion to devise some means to form a sys
-1 tematic organization throughout the
! Union, and for holding an adjourned Con
vention, either at Washington or Whecl
‘ mg, to which all ex-soldiers and sailors of
the late Confederate States will be invited.
This will bo sustained on tlio ground that
it was the politicians of both sections who
led the country blindfold into the recent
civil war ; and that, for this reason, it is
time the men who bore the brunt of the
conflict on either side should meet as
friends and lay down terms to avoid all
difficulties in future. The Louisville Jour
nal says that “such a Convention as this
Would bo one of the noblest —perhaps the
very noblest and most significant—in all
history. It would claim the world’s atten
tion as an evidence of the higher civiliza
tion created by American institutions—a
civilization both Christian and politic, in
which victors and vanquished could unite
for securing the common good on a basis of
accepting the results of the wav as final.
For the Radical papers in their mad
partisanship to denounce this Convention
as a “gathering of Copperheads and trai
tors.” is a folly aud crime which may well
be left to public opinion for punishment.
The Citizen pertinently asks every one who
hears or may read such, an allegation, to
ask himself who is its author, and what
record has that author in the recent strug
gle?
If a “more perfect Union Is the para
mount object of patriotic desire,” then wc
can see no objection to such a gathering,
and it would certainly la; one of the most
benignant and extraordinary, and cue of
the subliniest that the sun ever shone up
on. Let the soldiers of the Republic and
of the late (Vi.Uderacy meet together,
pledge to tho Union uyd swear eternal
friendship.
Killing. Burning amt Dividing. I
The next army that will go to the South
ern country will go there to stay ; it will
not be an army of invasion, bin an army
of migration ; it will not go there to re
venge. but to extirpate. Brow nlow's rem
edy will indeed be tried ; there will be
three columns, the one to kill, the second
to burn, the third to divide the plantations
among the men that go down the second
time to avenge the insulted flag of our
country.— tforney.
It’ it does, you will Tike especial care to
k> cp your pivciou- carcass well in the rear.
The men that fought the battles of tho
Federal Government in the recent conflict
will never K.iii the Torch-and-Turpeutiue
army agaiust a Wave but fallen foe. The
bounty jumpers, shoddy contractors, pro
vast marshals, and prison turnkeys, will
form the rank and file, with such valiant
Generals as the hero of Ft. Fisher, and
Gen. Jackson’s commissary to lead, or
rather to follow them.
These arc big words, but they fail to in
timidate “the Southern white trash.' The
constitutional amendment will never re
ceive the assent of the Southern States,
and if this great army of migration is to
follow our rejection ol that proposition,
they had as well begin to light their torch
es. If iu God’s mercy wo are to be exter
ni'ievo,.;. we shall try and submit to our
fate with Wyoming fortitude.
-
Appropriate organization.
The delegations to the PiuU.'urgh Con
vention indicate that it will be u*r most
important assembly of soldiers and sailors
since the close of "the war. Gen. Butler
" ill probably be toe temporary, and Gen.
Logan the permanent chairman. — Tribune.
The one a rabid fire-eater, who in the
Charleston Convention in 1860 voted 52
times for Jefferson Davis, who he now
wishes to hang, over Stephen A. Douglas,
and the other a blatant Southern sympa
thiser who in 1861 tried to raise a regi
ment la c-vV-ihern Illinois to “aid the op
pressed and injure*. Couth.”
We could not have a more
appropriate organization for the win -utiou
of bounty jumpers and shoddy heroes now
in at Pittsburg— vice la Bagatelle !
Bx-Gov. Gilmore, of New Hampshire,
continues dangerously ill at his home in
Concord, and but little hope is entertained
of his recovery.
The Issue.
Theif can be no doubt now, in tho !
minds of those w ho have watched the pro
gress of the war between the President
and the Radicals, of the purpose of the
latter party, if they succeed in the approach
ing fall elections. Wc are glad to find
that the Conservative men of the North ,
are ready to place the issue upon its true
grounds. The President's policy leads at
once to peace, harmony, union, ihe
plan.- of the Radicals arc laid with a view
to keeping open the wounds made by the .
war and the consequent alienation of the ,
two sections. The success of the Radicals
will not only be destructive to all the South
hol lo dear, but it wiil entail u]»on the
whore country a system of Government
entirely at war with the plainest princi
ples of free institutions.
The Louisville Journal (Prentice's pa
per; has some truthful and forcible reflec
tions upon this subject. It says :
The Issue between the President and the
radicals is now well-defined. We fain
would believe that the people comprehend
it. They cannot too thoroughly compre
hend it. for upon their right decision of it
may depend ‘the fate of the Republic.
And they have but a few weeks longer to
consider it. They must decide it for weal
or woe by the' ides of November. Bet
them consider it well.
In this contest, the President represents
simply the Constitution. His position is
free from every trace of partyi-m or of ego
tism. lie embodies the passionless and
pure injunctions of the law. He seeks, in
fulfillment of his solemn pledges, to re
store and re-establish the Union. He would
faithfully accept the fruit of victory in the
war for the Constitution. This is his
whole aim The radicals represent the
priuctp of anarchy Their r -it is
steeped in revolutionary, w ism. They em
body th ■ worst pas»k o*o the human breast,
he tn lopo t, Thev
tek inamt. m;:. -f . ft ' mi pledges,
eminent of the Union by destroying the
Union itself. They would faithlessly re
ject the fruit of victory in the war for the
Constitution, though the rejection should
cost another war bloodier than the first.
This is indeed but a simple statement of
the fact. For, while the President as of
right would admit the qualified representa
tives of the South and thus close the sole
gap in the work of restoration, vvliat do
the radicals propose ? Nothing less than
to deal with the Southern States as States
out oftho Union, prescribing conditions of
admission which no State could accept
without infamy, and which, to deepen
their odiousness, bear on their face the
acknowledgement of their illegality and
oppressiveness ; and, in the event of the
rejection of these offensive and arbitrary
conditions, to decree through Congress the
enfranchisement of the Southern negro
and the disfranchisement of the Southern
white man, enforcing the decree with the
bayonet, seconded by impeachment at
Washington and by negro insurrection at
the South, followed up at the next'Presi
dential election, if the country ere then
shall not bo wrapped once more in tin/
flames of civil war, by the exclusion from
the Elector el College of tho vote of every
Southern State that may not have been
remodeled and readmitted on the negro
basis, thereby procuring the nominal elec
tion of the radical candidate, whose unlaw
ful claim will be supported by arms. This
is what tho radicals propose. Thus do
they intend to perpetuate tlicir power.
Such is their plan of action. And, full
of .usurpation and of bloodshed as it is,
they will attempt to carry it into effect, if
they arc sustained by the people of the
North in the pending cleetions. Nothing
under heaven is surer. A radical loss, if
decided, will check the execution of this
plan. A radical defeat will prevent it,
with the unspeakable calamities and hor
rors that would follow in its train. And
nothing else will.
Will the people of the North sustain the
radicals ? Will they not overwhelmingly
defeat them ? Do the Northern people,
after having so lately extinguished the
flames kindled by the South, desire them
selves to apply the torch to the temple of
their liberties ? Are they prepared, for
the miserable sake of keeping the radicals
in office, to draw down upon the country
war, bankruptcy, and disunion ? Having
drenched the land in fraternal blood to
maintain the Union, will they turn round
and subvert it, at the same appalling cost ?
Is the fruit of their blood-bought victory
so hateful that they with the radicals not
only disown it but would incur anew war to
getridofit? We cannot believe so. Such
madness is incredible. But they must an
swer for themselves. Will they accept
peace and Union, that eagerly wait to be
embraced, or invite war and disunion, that
stand frowning in the background ? Will
they uphold the Constitution, and prosper,
or trample upon it, and go to ruin ? How
ever expressed, this is the question now
solemnly put to the Northern people.
And, in all human probab’lity, their an
swer will determine the fate of the Repub
lic. Let them, we repeat, consider it well.
The Terms Proposed.
“A T o leading .Republican in Congress
means to admit the ten waiting .States simply
on the adoption of the Constitutional Amend
ment. These States are to be admitted on
no conditions short of the equal political
rights of their loval citizens, without dis
tiholion of race. A reconstruction of the
Union on any other basis would be a na
tional dishonor. Until the rebel States
can come back on this basis, they shall not
come bad. at all. —A'. Y. Independent.
We said in our issue of yesterday that
we had no idea that the Radicals would
admit the South to representation in Con
gress, even if wc did accept and ratify the
proposed amendment. The above extract
which we find in the .Independent, a lead
ing Radical Journal, shows that wo were
not mistaken in our views as to the course
of the Radical party.
The Southern “States are to bo admit
ted on no conditions short of the equal
political rights of their loyal citizens with
out distinction of race.” This is nothing
more nor less that “equal and impartial
suffrage," which the lriLum has been ad
vocating for the last six months. \\ e
have said that even if wc were assured
that upon the ratification of the amend
ment by the South wo would be admitted
to full representation and equal participa
tion in the Government, we should oppose
such ratification.
Now, wo are p’ainly informed that al
though we ratify the amendment, yet wo
“shall not come (go) back at all,” unless
we give the negroes equal political rights.
We doubt whether, if we accorded uni
versal suffrage, we would then be admitted.
These Radicals want the land we own.
Nothing less than that will satisfy them.
Foreign.
It is said that the Empress Eugene will
shortly repair to Home to condole with tile
Pope.
Duke Albrecht has been made command
er-in-chief of the Austrian Army.
Numerous Fenian arrests have been
made in Liverpool. Arms and war muni
tions have been found secreted.
A number of I emails have been arrested
iti Liverpool, and a quantity of ammunition
supposed to beloag to the brotherhood
seized.
The Emperor Napoleon is at Biarritz.
A decree of amnesty has been issued by
the King of Prussia.
Austria has resumed diplomatic rela
tions with Prussia.
A memorial is iu course of signature
asking tor the independence of Frankfort.
The treaty of peace between Prussia and
Saxony has not yet been concluded.
There has been another heavy shipment
of gold for New York.
A wide circle of friends, especially in this
State and in South Carolina, and generally
throughout the country. wUbojgret to learn
of the heavy domestic affliction that has
just befallen Bishop Greg-, of the Episco
pal Diocese of Texas. The cholera has
broken out suddenly at .''untonio. his resi
dence ; and, as always is iu that lime
stone water section, has proven vert iatal.
Among its victims, wr learn to a ju' ;te
letter, is the Bishop's eldest liaugutcr aou
her husband. They had but lately oseo
married. By the vicissitudes ot the war.
the Bishop his eldest son—a blow that
nearly prostrated him. This additional
and grevfous .stroke will call for all the
patience and Christian fortitude This truly
amiable aud excellent minister i* -o
eminently endowed with. We tender biig
our heartfelt sympathy iu his severe trial.
— N. O- Ficayune.
[COMMUNICATED.]
Debts, Relief, Ac.
The condition of the count ry, pecuniarily,
is such that the Legislature will have to
give some relief to the people. The crop
failure this year makes this course imper
ative, and likewise renders it impossible
for those indebted to liquidate their debts.
This failure of crops will cause the peop’e
to have to buy bread and meat, and it will
take every cent of the proceeds of sale of'
the present short cotton crop to buy these
supplies and pay the heavy taxes, State
and Federal. What, then—this being true
—is essential to save the country from utter
ruin ? We answer—a re-enactment of the
Stay Law, if it be constitutional; if not, a
Convention of tbe people of Georgia.
Without relief, there must be a great deal
of suffering. The relief contemplated by
the Stay Law seems to be inadequate.
I Jnder the operations of' the relief law, one
fourth of the debts can be collected by sale
of property. Almost every man holding
notes, we believe, is sueing them in or
der to save himself from loss, by getting
the first grab at the lands, tenements, &c.,
cf his debtor; and in 1867 there will be a
great scramble among creditors after
the property of men in debt. A great
deal of property will be forced upon the
market; there will be but little money, and
capitalists will get it all for a 'song, and a
large majority of the people will he be
reft of the property left them by the rava
ges of war by which they might be enabled
to pay their debts in the future. Forced
sales will certainly ruin the people, and
posterity will remember those who
must next year beggar the wife and child
of the soldier who fought and fell for tho
lost cause of the South. If fair crops had
have been made th:: year the people ’ .mid
have aid one-fourth of their debts, and
many might have done more, but under
the .present circumstances but few ran pay
anythiug. Further relief then by the Leg
islature or Cony a th’ P ; 'pit in
their sovereignty, bee •me» an absolute ne
cessity. It is said by some that the present
stay law is unconstitutional. The courts
have not yet made a decision. If it is un
constitutional it is hoped that it will be made
known by a decision of the courts so that a
Convention maybe held before the property
of the people is sacrificed to the avaricious
capitalists. These capitalists who would
be most ferocious iu urging their claims
for collection are generally men who voted
for the war and deserted the fight by re
maining at home speculating to the detri
ment of their country. Many of them
cloaked behind various petty offices in
order to make money by speculation, and
now that we have lost nearly all by their
dodging they want to get the little that re
mains. Meetings ought to ho held in
every county of the State. Those who
fought the battles of their country should
not have their property sacrificed to those
who remained at home and speculated,
but they, in convention with the good
citizens of Georgia, should see to it that
that couise which is equitable to botli the
debtor and creditor should be taken in the
matter. Equity.
Union Point, Sept., 20tli, 1866.
News from the Seat of War in
South America. —The Herald has received
from Rio Janeiro news up to August 25th
by the steamer North America, which
shows that the allies on the Paraguay had
received their long expected reinforcements
under Baron Porto Allegre. A most stub
born and sanguinary battle commenced oil
the 16th of July and continued till the 18th,
with alternate successes between the allies
and the forces of Lopez. The slaughter
was great on both sides. The allies claim
to have taken and held the most advanced
line of the Paraguayan intrenchments,
which they commenced to strengthen and
arm with heavy cannon and mortars. But
there docs not appear to have been any
definitc'result, except the repulse of a dan
; gerous Paraguayan advance. This news
is from allied sources and must be taken
with due allowance as such.
A Motto for the Douglas Monu
ment. —The corner stone of the Douglas
monument having now been laid, the New
York Day Boole suggests the follovfcng, as
a most appropriate motto to be placed
upon it:
“Ihold that, this Government was made
on the W HITE basis, by WJf ITE men, for
j the benefit of WHITE men and their pos
i teriti/ forever ; and should, be administered
by WHITE men, and NONE OTHERS,
i do mlt believe that ihe Almighty made
the negro capable of self-government.'’
These are the most immortal words that
Stephen A. Douglas ever uttered, and
they ought, by all means, to be engraved
in imperishable letters upon tho marble
that shall perpetuate his memory.
—»»«*> 4ggu»—
Relief. —The Rome Courier recom
mends that a law be enacted similar to one
in Kentucky, whereby all real estate levied
on under execution, shall, previous to sale,
be appraised —perhaps the price at which
it was given in on the tax books of 1860
would answer —and unless two-thirds ol
this price, or more, shall be bid for tbe
property at the sale —the crc litor having
tho privilege of taking it at that price if lie
chooses—the sale shall be hawed, and the
property be freed from that execution and
all others, in favor oftho same creditor ,
for the space of say three years.
In Alabama they have a law allowing a
debtor the right of redemption to two
years, on ail real estate sold under execu
tion.
—«a ——
Important Decision. —An important
decision was recently made at Fayette Supe
rior Court by Judge arner, in tho ease
of Grant et. al, vs. W. P. Allen, trover for
slaves and hire. His Honor decided, says
the Atlanta Intelligencer, that where the
defendant had made a wrongful conversion
of the slave property, the fact of emanci
pation afterwards did not protect him, and
that plaintiffs could recover the slaves, at
the time of the conversion, with interest,
as damages. The jury found in accordance
with the charge.
A Southern Convention. —The Mem
phis Appeal proposes a Convention of the
people of the South by duly elected dele
gates. To meet at some central point ana
qualified by an immediate commission
from the people to express their sentiments
and vindicate their policy and purposes
from the foul aspersions heaped upon them
bv the traveling adventurers, hailing from
tiiis section, and now on a pilgrimage
through the Northern States, awakening
by.their slanders and falsehoods the most
intense animosity against us.
Brownlow s Balance-Sheet. —Blas-
phemous BrownlQW, in his Cleveland j
speech, last week, discoursed of his future j
state as follows:
“If God, in His providence, should call I
me off, 1 have no tear- of the consequences
beyong the grave. If the books have been i
correctly’ kept in the upper world, as I j
have no’ doubt they’ have been,, there will
be a small balance in my favor.”
The “small balance” in his favor in
cludes, probably, his Philadelphia state
ment that he “had rather go to hell with .
loyal negroes than go to heaven with rebel I
whites.”
More Confederates l nearthed.—
The Mobile Tints tells a very strange and j
improbable story of the disco'erj of a cate,
by the chain gang, while removing the ;
breastworks of the city, in which six C ou
federate soldiers were lhund, who had
been concealed there ever since the »ur- i
render of the city. They had an outlet at i
the foot of the moat, in a clamp of ouJies.
aud had determined never to surrender. ;
How they subsisted it is difficult to tell.
They were conveyed to the guardhouse,
and were visited by many citizens.
Provision for the Destitute. The
Legislature of South Carolina having failed
to agree upon a bill for the purchase of j
corn for the destitute, the Governor was.
by resolution, authorized to pledge the
credit of the State for $300,000 for that
purpose.
jhThe Heralds London audDuUin corres
pondenee states that there was a steady !
progress by the people of England and Ire- j
laud towards thu complete attainment of j
their franchise right, the movement being j
confirmed by the reform agitation in the
country, and the Fenian excitement on the ;
other Laud.
Something for the Ladies.
Y\ e present to our lady readers the fol- '
lowing description of the latest styles of
dress now in vogue iu the Northern cities. :
which we find in one of our New \ork
exchanges. Wc confess that a great deal j
of it might have been written in an un- I
known tongue, aqdbeen quite as well un
derstood by ourselves, but we presume our
fair friends will find no difficulty in trans
lating the. to us. unintelligible terms and
phrases:
Rumors have been abroad for some time
that the milliners, alarmed at the ease with
which the graceful little Fanchon and other
simple styles could be copied, had deter
mined to “enlarge,” if not invent, some
thing atrociously udy. which could not be
imitated. “Could this be true?”'was tbe
momentous question, which in the absence
of any right of suffrage, occupied the j
minds of thousands of excited females, and 1
“Opening Day” settled it. whether in the i
affirmative or otherwise we must leave our j
readers to decide, as we must confess to not !
having been able a* yet to come to a satis
factory conclusion.
That there has been an effort to “en- j
large is evident from a scoop which has
been, in some instances, adued to the ;
Fanelion behind, and which has made it as
ugly and unbecoming asrits bitterest enemy ;
could desire. The Empire also reappears ,
with aground, narrow, flashing brim, and
considerably more crown and curtain, but
neither is it improved; and if these were
all the milliners might shut up shop until
they had invented something more attrae- j
tive, for no one would purchase their
goods.
m Fortunately, however, it is not all. I
There are three styles mentioned above, j
and numerous others, all ridiculously small,
just the charming little absurdities that
wiseacres and humdrums are like to vent
their virtuous indignation up”n, but which,
for all that, are so distractingly pretty, that '
without considering either precedence or
the proprieties even sensible women wiil
■' : ha ’ in
the I’i-ioe for before they k.ow wLit they
Are about.
THE FAVORITE STYLES,JN W AND OLD.
The most decided ri’jv&Ry is the ‘'V.'dZny
lane," a square of straw,-\ frit, or tulle, :
which is net a bonnet at db but v. V ’
does duty for oi:c. with the ‘Vi >.f ibv
leathers, chains, uini pendants innumera
ble ; not that these ornaments are all put
upon one bonnet, by any means. One of'
the features of the present style of bounets,
and one quite in accordance with then
size, is their unity and simplicity, aud the
Catabne, especially, will bear very little
trimming.
In d,ark straw, for Fall wear, the rim
only is covered with a band of bright coior
cd velvet, upon which hangs a row of
handsome jet pendants, single or double
chains falling over or below the chignon,
and in front as a necklace, complete the
ensemble.
"V elvet eatalancs and lace, for evening
wear, are more elaborate, but still preserve
and ajr of freshness, 'vliich is an immense
relief to eyes wearied with the perpetual
see saw changes of the scuttle shape of the
past ten years.
Avery stylish cataline was made of
drawn black velvet, ornamented with a
wreath of small white marguerites, a fall
of pointed blonde below the rim, and slen
der jet chains.
Another, for a bride, was a little gem.
It was of white velvet, surrounded by a
wreath of small white frosted flowers and
cut crystals. Very long ends of narrow
white moire ribbon were; arranged to fas
ten under and fall over the chignon, and a
bandeau of velvet, hung with crys
tals, dropped low upon the forehead.
For evening wear we remarked a square
bonnet of white tulle ornamented with a
wreath of fine jet flowers, which descended
in one long slender branch of the shoulders;
and another, the small puffing of which
were divided by lines of white marabout,
a fringe of the same falling in a soft shower
at the b ac k) an l over the bandeau, orna
mentod with a bunch of large purple vel
vet pansies in front.
The Chignon is undoubtedly one of tho
prettiest designs of the season. Why is it
called the Chignon , we were not able to
discover ; probably because it is designed
for the especial accommodation of that
useful and much-abused part of a modern
lady’s furnishing.
The Chignon , that is to say the bonnet
of that name, fits exactly to the top of
every lady’s head who wears a “coil,” a
“waterfall,” a bunch of curls, amass of
braids, or any other of tho ingenious con
trivances for assisting nature and display
ing the hair. It is not round nor square,
but it is bent a trifle, and very coquettisk
ly, to the shape of the head ; it is precise
ly the same back and frout; the bandeau
which constitutes the face trimming, in
front, forming an ornamental mounting
for the hair at the neck.
The Chignon is made very simple—it
beauty consists altogether in Us shape, it
adaptation to the present fashion of weai
ing the hair, and tho contrast of color be
tween the body part of the bonnet and the
bands and bandeaus. White and scarlet
or green and scarlet' mauve ; and crimson,
stone color and. blue, black with white
crystals, or black and sea-let with jet, are
all good combinations. Jet ornaments are
mui'li used upon the bandeaus, and fine jet
chains are either festooned about or hung
pendant.
The Lam balls is one of the favorites for
Fall wear. It is very prettily made of
black lace and velvet, with a frill of lace
below the rim, and jet chains and orna
inents.
Lamballcs are also elegantly made in
satin and velvet, with chains and camci tor
ornaments, or chains and flowers made in
fine jet.
The new Empire , or “Josephine,” as
it is sometimes called, must not be passed
by without a more extended notice, be
cause, ugly and unbecoming as it is, it is
considered very distingue. It is frequently
made of terry velvet, corded upon the edge
and round the crown with Lyons velvet in
a contrasting eolior, and is then, ornament
ed with a bunch of very fine and. small
velvet flowers, also of the contrasting color,
but having centres the same shade as the
bonnet. The little round,, perked up brim,
is exceedingly rococo, and is becoming to no
one, but it is thought by some very
“stylish.”
Some reception bonnets are very beau
tiful, and quite novel in style. They con
sist of crowns varied in shape, some square
Catalanes, others bent to the head In the
Chignon style, but all crossed upon the
top with a wide ribbon doubled, and cov
ered with a rich barbe of blonde whieli ex
tended down upon the strings, full half
their length. These are. either left hang
ing, or they are crossed in front, and fas
tened with a spray, a flower, or handsome
pendant ornament. The rim round the
crown was ornamented sometimes with
leaves, shaded from the lightest to the
darkest tints of the velvet of which the
bonnet was composed—these had a very
Distingue effect. Others were Orna
mented with a fan of velvet, or a shower
ot marabou and jet, or velvet leaves, or
poinvery, with jet ornaments alone, aud a
vail attached as “wings.”
Perhaps the most striking of all the
styles, however, were the little bonnnets,
all black, covered with jet, radiating from
a brilliant jet rose in the centre of the
crown, or the small fanchans with Marie
Stuart front, ornamented with a jet. fringe
and having a little lace coiffure covered
with jet attached, the point of which falls
over the chignon.
Veils are quite a problem with the pres
ent style of bonnet. Long, useful veils
look absurd, and the wings which are at
tached, sometimes at the back and some- i
times at the side, are ornamental, but per- ;
fectly useless—in fact, the small bonnets ;
are not adopted to veils at all.
I , novelties in dress goods.
Among the most expensive novelties of
the season are embroidered silk robes, !
which seem to have been invented to do
away with any supposed necessity tor trim
mings of lace, or vassmenterie. Light, !
, ’wight colors fer evening wear are em- 1
broidered in white silk,“to represent the j
choicest designs of cluny lace ; darker ;
blues and greens are embroidered with silk !
of the same shade, mixed sparingly with
fine jet; but the most distinguished of all ,
are the rick robes of.heavy black grosgrain, \
magnificently embroidered in silk and jetj
besides which any admixture of color looks
vulgar.
Satins are to be iu great favor this sea- !
-on for the grand toilettes ; but there is a j
new material, recently imported, which ;
wu please many much better, and which i
will certainly prove more durable than any
but satins of the very best quality. It is !
cau , . ■"i’j, l * l ' l cashmere,” and is a very rich I
twilled si.k with a satin finish. It is the
very latest and most admired fabric for 1
bridal dresses, though it is to be obtained
in ad colors, and is particularly desirable
m etrusean red, “giraffe” broavn —a shade
>ery nearly like case av lait, bourn, or
“tresh butter.”
Anew material for evening dresses is a
'! :k crepe, with a surface like crape maretz,
'hot with fine silver threads. It is very
rniiant by gaslight, and is prettiest in 1
blue and rose color.
Black silks striped with satin, or silk
poplin striped with satin, are the mosts
fashionable materials for Autumn ordinary
wear. They are always cut gored, the •
stripes forming a point at the front and at
the back, and are deeply trained. Black
with green satin stripes is a favorite com- j
bination.
For walking-dresses, there is a grace or
stone-eolored mixed poplin, made of silk
and wool, with a crepey, or corrugated
surface, which is verv new and very stylish.
It is effectively trimmed with a number of
row- of silk galloon of the same shade, !
with black or white broached polka dots.
I'lain Irish poplins are, of course, as
fashionable worn as’ ever.
There are new and Empress
doth, which are admirable for useful walk
ing dresse>. aud have quite taken the place
of merinos in the street. Black alpacas
are much worn, and are always lady like.
while white mohair is considered beautiful
for morning and house wear, trimmed with j
black or relieved with one of the pretty
little Sultana jackets, in siik or velvet,
which, dotted with beads, and edged with |
narrow fringe or tinkling silver bells, have
now become an established institution.
dresses for the street, and dresses
AT HOME.
The great novelty in fashions abroad, but
which has hardly yet made its appearance
here, is the short dress for the promenade, j
worn over a simulated petticoat of the
same material, or otherwise, as fancy dic
tates.
The short dress is partly the result of au ■
effort to do away with looped-up skirts, :
and partly a necessity of the universal rage
for gored dresses. A gored, trained skirt
cannot be worn with comfort or decency in
the street, and does not loop up conve
niently. A short gored dress, on the con
trary, is extremely simple and convenient; '
all it requires is neat high-heeled boots
and a narrow hoop.
The petticoat may be made of > stout
twilled lining, or any material preferred,
and is onlv trimmed up as high as the
knee, with a band of the material to be
seen, Round the bottom it may be Van
dyked out, or finished with a
the short dress skirt coming to the top of
the trimming, and requiring only a hem,
stitched round on the outside, or a few
rows of narrow jet trimming or galloon.
Petticoats striped in gay colors, with a
plain dress over, are worn in Paris, but
this styleis almost too showy for the quieter
tastes of our American ladies.
The Empress is said to have adapted the
short dress for her daily walks in the park
at St. Cloud, generally appearing in mohair
or alpaca of the finest quality, over a silk
or cashmere petticoat, with a box-pleating
round the edge. The Empress has the
excellent, judgment and good taste to prefer
black or white to brilliant colors, and rarely
wears thin tissues of any description. The
following costume is one of those worn by
Her Majesty:
A mohair dress, striped hi two shades of
gray, and trimmed with a band of blue
silk, stitched on each edge, with a very
narrow line of galloon. A blue silk petti- ,
coat, with a box pleating round, also
stiichcd on with fine gall on, and mohair
paletot, fitting eh >o!y tn ;tie figure, with- ,
out sle -•••• showing long Sleeves of blue
Th , ■ tot was trimmed with a band
of blue silk A straw Lamlalle hat. with
;atl 11 whiti busies, mounted
on black velvet, was worn with this toil
lette.
For house-wear, there is nothing made
now but gored prineesse robes, plain or for
dressy occasions, trimmed in a great varie
ty of styles. Some are oramented upon
the seams, others with sidc-sashes, and
still others with cross-cut bands, vandyked
out, and forming a heading to a flounce, or
simulating a tunic.
White mohair, or cashmere di esses, are
trimmed down the seams with double'
ruches of colored silk, edged with narrow
black lace, or with lines of black passmen
terL embroidery. .
For morning wear, the costume, consist
ing of a gored skirt and short loose jacket,
is trimmed with Indian shawl bordering
edged with a narrow fringe round the skirt
and jacket, and upon the tops and bottoms
of the sleeves. This style is very rich and
elegant, provided the_ cashmere be pure
white, and the bordering of fine quality
and true oriental coloring.
A morning dress of this description,
which we saw in Mine. Demorest’s dressing
department, recently, was certainly one of
the most beautiful things of the kind we
have ever seen ; it was intended for a
bride, and perhaps it would not be out of
place, or uninteresting, to describe the
bridal dress preparing at the same estab
lishment. for the same fortunate young
lady.
It was composed of the new “stain cash
mere,” gored and trimmed upon the seams
with narrow cross cut bands of satin, stud
ded with large pearls to look like nails.
The train was two yards long. A thick
cord of white satin edged the bottom of the
skirt. The body was made with a peplum
basque trimmed to match the skirt, but
edged with narrow white silk fringe. The
dress was ornamated down the front with
pearls, set in rosettes of satin and blonde
lace.
The traveling suit belonging to this
outfit deserves mention. It was of rich
stone-colored poplin, (the lighter lavender
grays seem to be going quite out of date,)
trimmed with a bordering of peacock’s
feather trimming. The contrast was ad
mirable, and the effect very novel and un
ique.
Apropos to the rage for jet chains and
ornaments, Mine. Demoresthas introduced
anew Benoit on dress-looper, composed of
two little holders, fastened to the ends of
short jet chains. This simple contrivance
loops up the dress very securely, and
proves quit. uuro-oital attached to the
ou'side of a plain walking dress.
.i ; y ( a speak with
eortainty of evening dresses Very ism
io. v, ;!1 undoubtedly bo the, mos\ fade
ionabie fbryouiin ladies, hut they are not
tin . . j.st economical Os all useful styles,
a white :1k dress is probably the most dur
able, and most susceptible of changes and
transformation:;.
A set of colored ruches, mpunted on stiff
net, a tulle fichu and sash, a lace jacket
and overshirt, will transform a white silk
dress into three distinct and elegant toi
lettes. Moreover, when it is soiled it can
be covered with black gauze or grenadine,
and afterwards dyed a bright color and
used for a slip.
Quite new and fresh bail dresses, im
ported within the week, are of fine white
organdie muslin, ornamented with an im
mense quantity cf tulle ruching. The
effect is exceedingly light and vaporous.
Another charming style is composed of
tulle puffings, mounted on a gored founda
tion of stiff net, the body low and cut in
one with the skirt. The puffings are ar
ranged in hour-glass form, and are divided
by lines of little star-like daisies, sprinkled
with crystal.
PROMENADE AND OPERA CLOAKS.
The latest novelty of the Summer season
was the peplum , a tight-fitting basque, the
skirt cut out so as to form deep points
upon the back, front and sides, the body
generally festooned with jet chains across
the bust and shoulders. 'This style is very
frequently made en suite for Fall wear, and
also in rich armure silk, ornamented with
jet fringe, with a crochet beading.
There arc also loose black poplins, called
sack-paletots, made both in heavy silk and
cashmere, which are beautifully dotted and
fringed with jot. These are principally for
neglige , and for the difficult intervening
time which ensues when the weather lias I
become too cool for Summer garment! , and
not cold enough for warm Winter ones.
Short neglige sacks for young ladies are!
beautiful, made of soft thick white flannel, '
trimmed or embroidered with black, or of
bright purple, blue or white silk plush,
ornamented only with large spar buttons.
For regular promenade wear there arc
others of velvet cloth, in Humboldt blue
and purple, out upon the edge in square !
or pointed teeth, bound with satin or gal- j
loon, and trimmed with narrow bands of
satin or galloon, stitched on so as to form a I
point upon the back, and also upon the
front. The sleeves to these cloaks are
quite wide at the bottom, and cut out to
match the edge of the skirt.
Altogether, the choicest novelties which
we have seal in cloaks, have been imported
by Mine. Natalie Tilman, of Ninth street, .
who has added this department to her im- j
ported millinery, and ladies trimmings i
and furnishing. One of these cloaks is a |
mass of fine silk and jet embroidery. upon
velvet; it is trimmed with magnificent
lace, displayed by a deep, rich chenille
fringe placed underneath, and is infinitely
finer than anything of the kind we have
ever seen in New York. It would be
unique even in Paris. Many others are
very novel in design, and richly embroid
ered.
Anew Parisian hooped skirt, whicn we
saw at this house, is very narrow at the
top. and spreads out only to a very moder
ate expanse round the bottom. It is en
larged by a flounce, for full dress occasions.
A short dress made in Paris, was of
gray mixed poplin, the skirt simply hem
med, and trimmed with live rows of nar
row gray silk galloon, with black dots at
regular intervals. The petticoat was of
blue cashmere, and was edged with a box
ideating. The upper part of the high
body was blue, the lower part gray, the
long narrow sleeves blue. The half-fitting
paletot was of a gray poplin, trimmed
with three rows of galloon, like that upon
the skirt. _ ,
New opera cloaking is of thick wool,
white or stripped in colors ; it is very
warm, yet very light, and infinitely more
becoming than the smooth merinos and
fiat trimmings which have been worn so
long. The circular will be the favorite
sty 1% made with or without open or hang
ing sleeves, which will not interfere with
the accessories of a full dress toilette.
ORNAMENTAL TRIFLES.
“Shakespeare” collars, deeply pointed
in front and narrow behind, are the present
rage. They are prettiest in clunv lace.
Very pretty sieveless jackets are made ol
cluny lace, alternating with colored ribbon,
or with insertions through which narrow
chenile is run.
It is said that the frilled-elbow sleeve
will be revived this season, with flounces
and narrow skirts.
Few ornaments are now worn upon the
hair, its profusion, when handsomely
dressed, constituting a sufficient adorn
ment.
Ladies who desire the graceful appear
ance of chains and pendant ornaments,
should indulge their fancies before these
articles become too common. Asa fash
ion. it cannot last long.
V ery long, slender gold chains are worn
around the neck in Paris.
Ear-rings continue to be immensely
long. Five or sue interlaced rings, falling
nearly to the shoulder, are a fashionable
model. ■*
Portraits of favorite dogs and horses are
used tn insert in lockets and breastpins.
Such ribbions are over a quarter of a
yard wide, and are $3 50 per yard,
Sold Mining In Georgia.
t'lnee the conclusion of the war, the rich
gold mines of l pperGeorgia have attracted
| to that quarter of the State quite a large
amount of Northern capital, and we have
the most cheering accounts of the progress
which is being made in disemboweling the i
••yellow metal” from its rocky bed.
lor some years before the war, the min
| ing interests of the State had fallen into;
decay. The rich mines of California had
drawn off nearly all the old and most sue- ’
| ecssful mines in our State, and the new
i operatives who succeeded them were men
without means or deficient in scientific skill
and mining experience. Anew and better
! class are now engaged in developing the
vast mineral resources of the State, and we
are gkfd to hear that in the gold diggings
quite a brisk and remunerative business is
being done.
A correspondent of a New York paper,
writing from Dahlouega a few days since,
in describing the character of the* mining
operations carried on in that region, says:
“Vein-mining” is the type of the gold
disease which is nod 1 most prevalent, and
hitherto very little known in these parts.
It is now very prevalent and active, de
veloping itself iu an irruption of machinery
and in the most daring liberties with the
streams and water courses.
The Jones vein, about six or eight miles
north of Dahlouega; the Pigeon-roost
vein, upon which Mr. Pride’s company
are making great preparations to operate,
between three and -four miles southwest of
this pk.ee, on the west side of Cane Crock,
near the road leading to Auraria: the
"Battle Branch” vein, one and a half
miles southwest of Auraria, on the Etowah
River; the 1,052 and 1,031 veins, so called
from the numbers of the lots on which
they are situated, about one mile from
Dahlouega. on the Yohoolah Creek; the
Rutherford vein, two mi m ./beast of
Auraria, and the Griffin vein, on • mile
south of the Rutherford vein, are the spots
where gold is said to 1 • most abundant,
and where capital, skill and enterprise are
about to he employed to add it to the avail
able wealth of the nation. There are other
veins, said to be very rich, in Forsyth
county, thirty miles southwest of this
place, belonging to the Rutherford Brothers
and Mr. Roberts, and the Franklin vein,
which belongs to Mr. Bearing; and there
are others near Acworth, Marietta, and
Alatoona, on the Western & Atlantic rail
road. These veins are in the Gold Belt
proper, but there aye still others outside it
in Habersham, Hall, Hart, Columbia and
Carroll counties, of the value and pro
ductiveness of which many encouraging
stories are told.
I have named above the principal veins
which have most fame and and most pro
mise, but there are a number of others
called after the persons owning them, such
as the Lewis, Wood and Lord’s mines,
which are being worked, and with a fail
prospect of great success.
The gold in these veins is mostly found
imbedded in sulpliuret of iron and quartz
—sometimes in quartzonly, and sometimes,
but rarely, in slate. The veins, as I have
already remarked, run parallel with the
formation of the country, which is north
east and southwest, corresponding with
the Allcghanies.
Eighty feet below the water level, and
about one hundred and forty feet below the
spot where the first gold was found, is the
greatest depth that was reached by those
who first essayed vein mining; therefore
experienced miners, who have been ac
customed to mines 1,000 or 1,500 fcetdeep )
confidently believe that, witli proper
machinery, and all the necessary applian
ces, the idea that the Georgia gold mines
are all “ pockets,” will he exploded.
Hitherto, also, the mode of extracting
the gold has been of the rudest and most
simple, and it is believed that by the in
troduction of the smelting process, the
per centage of gold per bushel will he more
than doubled. Extravagant advocates of
the smelting process assert that it will
yield forty times as much g. Id as by the
best known system of -mah c mat ion.
From what 1 have seen and heard, l
i-.iini. there oau he iiule dpabt ex
istence of troid in vast quantities in flies*
veins, and that when sufficient capital and
skill are brought to bear to work them.
they will prove amply remunerative. Squat
ters, with a shovel and a tin pan, now suc
ceed in picking up the gold of other people,
and in supporting themselves and their
families by this dishonest industry.
I purposely abstain from communicating
any of the tales which I have heard of the
comparative richness of these veins. I
have invariably found that the very richest
in reputation are those which the owners
wish to sell, and I am therefore slow to
credit their representations. The only
mines for sale concerning which I should
implicit!/ believe all that the owners say,
are the Rutherford mines, which belong to
the Professor of Mathematics in the Uni
versity of Georgia. They are certainly
rich, and are in the market because the
Professor is unable to work them, and does
not believe in the success of individual
mining. He is a most worthy man, to
whom undeviating truth is second nature.”
The Cholera Commission at Constanti
nople.
.A commission, consisting of members
selected and appointed by the different
European Governments to inquire into the
history, cause, and cure of cholera, has
been in session in Constantinople for some
months past. The English commissioners
have vfritten a letter to their Government,
giving the results of the commission upon
such subjects in connection with thedisease
as they have finally investigated. Their
labors are not closed, but they have arrived
at the following conclusions, which they
hasten to lay before the public in view of
the rapid progress of the disease westward.
They say the conclusions of the commis
sion comprise the following points:
1. The cholera is communicable from the
diseased to the healthy.
■j.. That it may be communicated—
(a) by persons in the shite of developed
cholera:
(0) by persons suffering from the chole
raic diarrhoea, who can move about, and
who are apparently in health for some
da vs during the progress of the disease.
These last, from their passing unques
tioned, are the most dangerous to the com
munities amongst whom they move.
3. That the discharges of those in a
state of choleraic diarrhoea, becomes the
chief means by which the ciiolera poison
escapes from the system, anil, by ming
ling with tiie pure air or water diffuses lue
disease.
4. That cholera may bo transmitted by
exposure of persons to the atmosphere of
\ buildings, places or vessels which have
I been occupied by cholera patients, and to
| the emanations ‘from clothes, bedding 01-
other articles which have been in contact
with diseased individuals, or which may
have become soiled by their discharges.
5. That when infected articles or places
are shut up and excluded from free air,
they preserve their dangerousqualities for
an‘indefinite length of time, and, on the
other hand the freer the exposure to ven
tilation, the more rapidly they become in
nocuous.
0. That there is no reason to suppose
that cholera is communicable by actual
contact between individual*.
7. That the period of incubation, count
ing from the time of the reception of the
poison to its manifestation in some form
or other, is short. That the disease may
show itself in two wavs, First, by indue
ing fully developed cholera decidedly and
rapidly ; secondly, by producing "slight
disturbances, among which diarrhica may
he considered the chief, anti which may
sooner or latter pass into some more or
less decided choleraic manifestation. The
“Commission” consider that the incuba
tion in the acute form is generally- rapid
and that it seldom or never extends be
yond a few days from the moment of in
fection. There was some difference of
opinion as to the duration of choleraic '
diarrhoea, and also as to the time ihat it
rnav continue to be infectious, the great 1
majority of the commission considering
that persons wffh diarrhoea which has lasted j
eight full days from the commencement of ■
the period of observation, without showing
any-indications of a choleric nature, may
be "excluded from the class of cholera pa- 1
tients. The minority think that tlic chol
eraic and infectious diarrhoea may last for j
several weeks.
In mentioning the views of the Commis
sion upon some of the most important _
points in the history- of cholera, we beg to
i;vo" before your Lordship our own opinion
of their practical bearing. 'A e have little
doubt that the Conference will recommend
measures of restriction of intercourse be
tween the sick and the healthy ; but as it
has not yet entered upon the measures to ,
ho taken, we must be considered as re
presenting our own views only- in stating
that we believe that it logically follows
from the above conclusions that if we wish
to prevent the spread of cholera, or its in- j
troduction into places free from it, measures
should betaken to restrain communication
between those suffering from the cholera
and the healthy. .
Examples taken from the history 01 me
present epidemic most strongly support
the opinion of the great advantage* ot such
measures. We may mention that Sicily j
and Greece completely escaped the disease j
which was raging around them in 1865. ■
Sicily entirely cut herselfoll"from all com
munication with diseased places. Greece |
caused all arrivals from infected localities
to perform severe quarantine at four :
islands—Delos, Pondiconyssi (Salamls,) j
Skiatos, and Vide—and held no inter
course with infected places.
The good results of isolation in the eases
of Sicily and Greece, are hardly negatived
bv the examples of what occurred in other
places said to bo invaded in spite of res
tricted measures. The quarantine enforced
at Marseilles and some other ports of tDo
Mediterranean were ineffective, either
from their incompleteness or from their
having boon established too late—-that is,
; after direct communication with infected
j ports had taken place.
I W. STEWART,
K. Goodevk,
E. 1\ Dickson.
In view of these facts and the known
history of the disease in this country, we
| would urge upon our city council the ne
cessity of strict enforcement of our quaran
tine regulations.
Our latest advices from the West are to
| the effect., that the disease is assuming a
most threatening and alarming character,
especially so in Nashville and Memphis.
5\ e have also private advices from Sa
vannah, which state that there have been
deaths this week, in those classes of so
| ciety which have been heretofore exempt.
Our city fathers cannot well be too cautious
in adopting measures to prevent the intro
duction of the disease here. We hope that
the near approach of cold weather will re
lieve us from the possibility of its advent
here.
County Courts.
The Grand Jury of the County < lourt. in
Muscogee do not endorse (ho popular clam
or against this Court, but made a special
presentment urging the importance of its
continuance. We copy as follows:
We are satisfied that a tribunal of lim
bed criminal juri -diction must, lie retained
' in this county !'. ; tin- ex r nation
1 and punishment of the large t.; :Vr of
petty offenders. Of,tlies • , large propor
tion arc negroes, who, sin uni&ouipauun,
have crowded into our own a: well as the
i other cities and towns of the State. Th
coming season, vii think, will el > i- .■
, to the list of til ■ ‘ in - • i'-
ll some tribunal before which they may be
speedily brought and punished is within
their reach, the county jail will be crowded
beyond its capacity, and the Superior
I Court on account of the want of time will
i be utterly unable to attend to the heavy
| criminal docket which will be forced upon
it.
The continuance of this tribunal is also
recommended on account of its economy.
At present there is a general jail delivery
once a month, while if the Court, be abol
ished parties charged with offences and un
able to give the requisite bonds, will he
kept for months in confinement at the pub
lic expense.
It occurs to us, that the expense of this
Court to the county (of which there is
some complaint,) might be greatly lessen
ed if the Inferior Court would, under the
law giving the authority, establish a chain
gang to which convicted criminals might
be sent, the roads and bridges of the coun
ty might with this labor bo placed in com
plete repair, and the Superintendent of
Hoads and Bridges be furnished employ
ment..
We desire to call the attention of the
Court to the fact that many offenders now
escape the punishment due their crimes by
reason of the fact that the committing
magistrates fail to take a bond to prose
cute from every prosecutor, belbre com
mitting an accused party to prison. We
are satisfied that this lias occurred from
ignorance or neglect in the past, but if con
tinued in the future should demand the
attention of the Prosecuting Oflieer of the
Court.
In conclusion we are of the opinion that
the establishment of the County Court in
this county has been of advantage. The
objection of frequent calls for Jury duty
is not valid, for the reason that the same
amount of jury duty would have to be per
formed in the transaction of the same busi
ness in other Courts. This increased duty
is but one of the many burdens which
have been cast upon our people by the
change produced in our social relations by
the result of tiie war.
The Catholic Church and the Freed
men.
The Roman Catholic Church is moving
in the matter of the education and re
ligious improvement of the negroes, and it
is announced that this subject, will occupy
a large share of the attention of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Bishops and
Archbishops to me- * in Baltimore next
•.uvk. The lit Rev .Augustus V-oPOR
Bishop oi Georgia, !i;,'-addressed.a lengthy
letter to the clergy and laity of the Church
South, from which we make the following
extracts:
j In advocating this course to he followed
with regard to the colored race, let no one
imagine that we embrace and adopt the
doctrine of those false philosophers and
| hypocritical philanthropists, who, under
the name of Abolitionists, have done so
j much mischief, setting aside altogether the
| sacred rule “'non mnt faciendu mala jut
e.veniant buna We hold those men, not
the people of the North at large, to be the
! true authors of the contest which has
I deluged the land in blood. They have
i been the true aggressors of the South and
the unjust authors of all tbe evils that
; have accrued to thecountry, andbound, con
: sequently, to repair all the damages and
losses which tbe war has inflicted on the
nation. When the Apostles spread them
selves over the world, they found slavery
established everywhere, and they did not
teach servants to shake off the yoke of
their master, or masters to give up their
pretended usurpation, but they taught
masters and servants that they had one com
mon master to whom they were accountable,
and by teaching kindness and charity
to masters and obedience to servants, they
established peace every,hero and slavery
was abolished, although, after the lapse of
many centuries by the slowaction of Chris- j
tian principles on Christian hearts, not be
cause slavery was considered as bad in itself I
and absolutely immoral in all cases, but j
because Christians wished to give civil '
and social equality to those whose souls 1
they considered as precious as their own. j
This isa rational and highly Christian vie- j
tory, very different from that in which, in i
the rapid lapse of four years, more than |
two millions of lost their lives in j
order to fre four millions- of them. But j
injudicious and unjust as was the moans j
adopted to obtain this end, wc embrace the
conclusion fully, sincerely, in good faith ■
and irrevocably, the more so as the slavery j
found on the earth at the time of the pro-!
pagation of tbe Christian religion, had
originated in legitimate titles, namely : i
Capture in war, condemnation for crimes, :
insolvency, or other reasonable causes and
titles ; whereas, African slavery seems to I
have commenced and to have been kept up i
by the cruel and evidently un just proceed- j
ings of men kidnapping other men to sell j
them to the tiger-hearted authors and j
abetters of the slave trade, condemned by,
the Holy See and forbidden by all en- i
lightened nations. To ti:!e of former
masters we \cry totfi ring, and w is noth- !
ing more th..u ; cenffiun and the neces
sity of upholding the existing order of
things and avoiding social nmyulsinus. The
late events have do. troy •:! the last vestiges
of that title, and consequently the former
state of thirty.) gan never lie reinstated
without law.- and. ail principles
of justice.
lienee we wish in all sincerity and with
great earnestness, all kinds of blessings to
the colored race, and we exhort all to put
away all prejudice, all dislike, all antipathy,
all bitterness against their former servants.
Away with all feelings of bickerings, envy
or jealousy-, which would only bespeak a
narrow mind and the lack of noble and ele
vated feelings. The golden rule, love thy
neighbor as thyself, must not admit of any'
exception, and, therefore, we call on the
faithful to send most fervent and reiterated
prayers to the throne of Grace, that the
lathers of the Council may receive lightand [
grace from the invisible Head of the j
Church, to procure the speedy and efiiea- !
cions evangelization of the African race.
We know that the subject is beset with
I great difficulties which might appear in
| surmountable to any one that would not
remember that there is nothing hard or
impossible to God. The race is poor and
poverty itself; it was transferred from
slavery into freedom in an instant and
without any possibility to accumulate small
earnings, and hence the labor ol - evangel
izing them must be performed on a gratui
tous foundation, and without even expect
ing that they who have the Gospel preached
unto them will provide for their instructors
to live out of the Gospel. The ministerial
labor among them is not calculated to flat
ter vanity or self-love, or ambition or other
incentives which may in other cases sup
port faltering nature. But on that account
it is but the more worthy of that noble
religion which has produced the Peter
Clever, the Regids, and a host ol others,
who have spent all they had, and over
spent themselves, in announcing the Gospel
to the poor, thus evidencing by their heroic
deeds this mark of the true religion pointed
out by Christ himself. ’ flu: poor have
the Gospel preached to them.’ “Bring
in the poor and the feeble, and the blind
and the lame ; go out into the highways
and hedges, and compel them to come m.
Luke 14, 24.
We have thtis, Brethren, stated to you
these particulars in order to excite your
zeal and inflame your ardor by making you
acquainted with a few of the topics that
will be a subject of deliberation to the
Bishops assembled. This importance, not
to speak of many others equally momen
tous to the welfare of the Church, wll
make you euter iuto the spirit which the
present circumstances require and call for
God alone is the au'ltor of;v«-v (rood gift,
but he wishua as to aik *br those blessings
which wo desire to obtain from him, that
wc may. tuns acknowledge his infinite
mercy, liberality and power, and our own
nnsei-y, poverty anu dependence on him.
Ask and you shall receive : s* ek and you
shall find; knock audit shall be opened
unto you. ’ ’
Reduction of the Number of Volunteer
Officers in the Army.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th
says : The Secretary of War is reducing
the number of volunteer officers remaining
in the service as rapidly as the exigencies
lof the army will permit. Within the pres
' out month a large number have been re-
I turned to their lineal rank in the regular
army, or have found their way to civil oc
cupations* An entirely new method seems
to have been adopted by the War Depart
ment in effecting tl>e,-.e changes. Instead .
of promulgating the muster out orders by
lists, each officer is now mustered out by
virtue of an extract.front a War Depart -
j nient special order, having reference to
i himself only. By tins method the fact is
| known to none but t he department and the
! officer concerned. Juke the enemy’s bul
j * ets , these missiles from the War Depart
j meet speed to their destinations, dealing
i -'vift destruction to official rank and digni-
I ty, and without a warning note titles fall in
I all directions. Most oftho volunteer officers
j that have been retained in the service are
|on duty in the Freedtuen’s Bureau. Many
of these have already been honorably dis
charged since the first of September, and a
j number of others, it is expected, will be
i mustered out by the first ofOctoW. AU
I the officers acting in the capaetityf of As
sistant Commissioners of the Freedmen’s
j Bureau are to he mustered out of their vol
| unteerrank. Each of them will, however,
be retained in the regular service, either by
| virtue of- •mini -ions, now in their pos-
I session or by appointment* recently made,
with the exc, ntions of Major General It.
I K. Scott, Assistant Commissioner of South
; Carolina, and Major General Davis Tillson,
I Assistant Commissioner of Georgia, who
; bold no other than volunteer commissions,
but tiie muster out, oil itese officers has been
suspended until the first of December next,
to allow them tim ' to properly arrange the
affairs ol the Sea Islands, which have
hitherto In u in a rather unsettled coo
dition. Major General Clinton B. Fisk,
late Assistant. Commissioner of Freedmen’s
affairs in the State of Kentucky, has re
cently been mustered'out of service, and
I has gone, to St. Louis for the purpose of
| entering into business. It is understood
that, the officers who have received ap
pointments in the veterian reserve and
colored regiments of the regular army will
he permitted to continue in their present
volunteer rank until their commissions in
the regular army are received by them,
which will be when their commands are
recruited.
[com mi: xic atki >. ]
K. J<\ Lawson, 7'isij. :
My Dkau Sir:—Your letter of the 19th
iiist., asking me whether 1 would allow
my name to be used for re-election to the
Judgeship of this Circuit, and urging me
on your own behalf, and that of “sev
! oral” of your ‘‘neighbors and friends” to
do so, has just been received : And I reply
| at once to thank you and them for the
| kind interest manifested in my favor, and
I to say that I will, Deo volente, serve tin*
| District for another term if elected,
j The many warm assurances I have re
j Reived from all parts of the Circuit, that.
; my judicial administration has given-sat
| istaction, together with the very compli
| mehtary action of the Grand Jury of your
j county, and also of mine ; urging me to
allow the use of my name for election in
I January next, have given me heartfelt
gratification, and will live ever green iu
! my memory.
If 1 have been successful in my earnest
attempt to administer the law .with a fust
hand, i feel that 1 am greatly indebted to
the enlightened jurors and citizens of the
District who have nobly sustained me. If
if have attained to any degree of profieien
j eyas Judge, iu the adjustment of legal
! questions, I owe it mainly to the able bar
j over which I preside, w hose learning and
J lucid discussions have greatly relio—ed
my labors and facilitated my conclusions.
! Hence, whether elected or defeated, 1
J shall ever remember my four years in
cumbency with pride arid pleasure, and
| entertain for the Bar and the people of the
Circuit, sentiments of the highest respect
j and warmest good will. If 1 should he
1 elected, I will attempt to do my duty in
the fear of God: This is all I can promise.
I You can give this letter publicity if you
! desire to do so—and it will be an answer to
I all the enquiries which have been made
on this subject.
Yours very truly,
j . Jas.S. Hook.
The Bathometer—A New Philosophical
Instrument.
We understand that Mr. Sidney E.
Morse, the founder of the Boston Recorder,
the senior founder of the New Voik OUe
... ~f Geography, has
recently invented, . id has just patented,
uaicciitlou with Li- A.
M< rife, anew and 'c.v simple philoapphi
cat instrument which they cal! ft Bathome
ter It is W- tended, as iU name imports,
in the depth of watei everywhere,
even in the deepest parts of the ocean, and
it does this with a rapidity and accuracy
far exceeding that of any apparatus now in
use for the purpose.
No line is used, and it sinks, therefore,
rapidly, with little obstruction from fric
tion. No line being used, its accuracy as a
metre of depth is not affected by currents.
You throw it overboard, with its appen
dages, in the ocean, where the water is
miles deep. Ic goes down like a shot, and
as soon as it touches bottom, it turns and
comes back to the surface. A'ou pick it
up and the true depth of the water at the
point where it struck the bottom is seen on
the scale of the bathometer, Justus you
see the degrees ol’ heat on the scale of a
thermometer. You turn the instrument
on its side, and then cause it again to as
sume a perpendicular position, it is ready
for anew operation.
One of the most curious parts of the
whole contrivance is, that with a slight
change, tbe same bathometer can be used
as a metre of the depth of water iu the
ocean on f lic scale of an inch to a mile, and
in a bathing tub on a scale of not more
than the tenth of an inch to a foot, the
lower part, of the scale being used for sisal
low, and the upper part for deep water. —
New York Observer.
AGRICULTURAL Faiks. —Nearly every
j State in the Union will hold an agricul
! tural fair during this autumn, each lair
! lasting from three to five days. Beginning
j on the 17th inst., there will be a constant
I succession of these useful exhibitions until
j November. On Monday next, September
Kith, California will bold her fair, and on
September IJth will follow Minnesota,
New Fork and. Vermont; on the 12th,
Michigan ; on the IXtli, lowa and New
Hampshire; on the 2.oth, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois and Wise in; on October
Ist, Indiana; on the 2d, Missouri and Mis
sissippi ;on the 3d, Kentucky; on the
17th, Oregon; on the 20th of November,
Louisiana. In Canada a fair will be held
at Toronto on September 21st, and in
Pennsylvania the fair which begins on
September 25th is held at Easton, and
will continue until tiie 28th.
The Late Cotton Order.—Tiie At
lanta IntelL peace r has been kindly per
mitted to use the annexed letter, addressed
to a factor in that-city.- It conveys infor
mation needed by the planter at this time.
It is explanatory of General Order.
No. 21 :
H’dq’s Ass’t Commissioner |
Bureau IL, F., and A. L., S. C.,
Charleston, >S. C., Sept. 18. )
Mr. :
I Sir : —I am instructed by Brevet Major
General R. K. Bco<£ to inform you, in an
swer to your inquiries, that, as soon as the
freed people are sufficiently impressed with
the idea that they cannot sell, or otherwise
dispose of their shares of the crop in small
j lots, whenever they see fit, before a general
; division of the same may have been made,
1 he will issue such orders as will permit the
| planters to go on and gin the cotton.
The circular, as issued for instructions to
the. officers of the Bureau, was intended as
a check to, and a protection to both plan!
ers and freed men from the petty pilfering
which would be so disadvantageous to both
1 jiarlies.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
11. W. Smith,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Theatrical and Operatic.
Julia Dean Hayne played “Bianca” on
August 14th, at the Helena Theatre, M. T.
Mr. J. M. Welhi, the pianist, is to make
another American tour this winter.
Miss Stella Mason is attached to the
Nashville Theatre this season.
Mr. George Vandcrhoff’s new subject
for the coming lecture season is “Mo
liere.”
The w.-11-known actress, Sallie St. Clair,
(Mrs. Charles M. Barras) is said to be
hopelessly ill.
Ghloni and Suisini’s Opera Troupe open
W all s Opera House, Washington, on the
21st inst.
An eminent German musician says (here
are better judges of music in the United
States, better critics, and better perform
ers than can be found in Europe.
Several of Mr. 11. L. Bateman's Con
cert Troupe has arrived, and the rest are
expected soon. Brignoli is on hand, and
« are pa cGmingr. L. B. Mills, the distin
gun lied New York piauist, will be oue of
the company.
Hr. Chapin’s new church on Fifth
avenue and Forty-third street, New York,
is approaching completion, it is of brown
stone and will be one of the most elegant
in New York. The congregation is scat
tered, and will be till the pastor comes
back. But the house in which Dr. Chapin
preaches is always crowded, and the new
one, though away from the hotels and far
up town, will be no exception.