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tfhioniric & frntincl. 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.