Georgia Historic Newspapers

    OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Chronicle & Sentinel
HENRY HOOBEi
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AUGUSTA, CA:
WEDNESDAY MOKMVb, MAItfH 20.
Tilt 1 Alexandria Kleclion.
We have already given our readers an
account of the municipal election lately
held in Alexandria, at which the negro vote
was rejected, and tho present Mayor,
I-atham, re-clccted. This question eaino up
in tho Kenate on the Oth inst., when Mr.
Wilson introduced the following, which
was ordered to bo printed:
Joint resolutions declaring the munici
pal otliee of Alexandria, Vu., to be va
cated.
Where"*, Tho persons holding the mu
nicipal offices ot Alexandria, Vu., have
refused to obey and execute the laws of tho
l Hired States : therefore, bo it
Uesolved, etc., That the municipal olllces.
of the city of Alexandria, Vu., are hereby
declared to ho vacated, and the persons
exercising the authority of said olllces are
forbidden to hold or exercise the authority
of the same, and any 'person who shall at
tempt to hold any of said offices, to exer
cise the authority OY the same, shall, on
conviction, ho inipr) soiled not loss than one
year, and pay a tin e of not loss than SIOO.
A not m: it Ke' lONwraycTioN Bill.—lt
will ho seen, fr»,m tho Congressional pro
ceedings, that tho Judiciary Committee
huvu repovtf.t'i a now bill to facilitate the
reconstruction ot the Southern States, its
provisions ilo not interfere with the Sher
man Hill,but It prohibits llio General com-
JUP.ndiiig from delegating power to the
nctiug G-oyeruors of tho respective ytates,
and, in fact, strips tho latter functionary
of everything except “ his clothes.” Con
gress will do it up ala Brown before it
gets through with those important terri
tories.
lix Gov. J. E. Brown.—This gentle
man, says flie Bainbridge Entaprize ,
whom many of the people of our State
have repeatedly called “the great sentinel
upon tho watch-tower,” and have such
■ great confidence in him, are forced to
acknowledge him to be, at this stage of the
'■nation's troubles, a most weak-kneed
sentry, lie lias seen tho massed columns
of the enemy and proposes a surrender of
, 'ivory stronghold by which we e defended
v, nthout a struggle.
In a letter recently writb by him, lie
pro loses to *ho poop's' 1 tho e
j,.. j; * ..>y it meotin, it n-itiou to I
ratify the V institutional t . •••'{;■■ nt, con- |
for by >nr own act negro x* Ayitgo, and
blot ov > lv intellectual a* ' igaE of our j
political system. to !
until ther ’’ bt no \\-“ j
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Mi-SU"tn, a fore- ;
as to-hetendenc y itßquiteun .
nsual with tlu, warty bounces the i
Military s . , measure most i
streu .ously, declaims that i( { !
'^’ J n t t°T f ° no t ß rd
ot the mluu Ait erican He- 1
public in the jk Ve *. f»ouer ii Grant;” '
and the writer itnmetiw. ,u^’ adds the follow- j
ins»:
The great, boasting Rcpu bfi .’au par'.y,
ifter six years of vacillation and misrule,
has at last declared, so far as language of
egislation can declare, that t he American
people are incapable of sell-got ernuiont,
and that Gen. Grant alone <ian save the
nation. For, say what wo uiay, if no civil
government can be devised fertile Scat es re
cently in rebellion, tn< *.i»n will bt ch tmej
t > to) 'g. J throughout tin Not tk tit less
than thru years.
A Case.— The Alexandria el setion 'may
probably afford an opportunity fir ma sing
up a case for the United States Sup: erne
Court, on the validity of the S. S. S. Re
construction law. The Washing «n 1% epub
licun Says:
"We learn that the legal quest’ .oil t -f the
rielit to hold an election was r efei'r ed to
the Attorney General, and that he ha s not
yet rendered an opinion upon tl su i,j eet."
>Ve hope, says the Richmom i £ n qn irer,
our Legislature will promptly i a fc ( , ho Id of
this case, and not leave it to tit it, -us o r to
a city, out of narrow means, to conduct,
unaided, a suit involving the life of the.St ate
and the liberty of every ciiizen.. A lit tie
less precipitate anxiety abor.t a c onvention,
and au honest fidelity to a fu ndainental
duty and responsibility, t re wba t the hour
demands.
Washington Et iquette. —V ashing
tou etiquette lias some peeul iarities.
Strangers are exp* to call on t be p er
sons whom they » A -ish to know ;in retu -it
they reoeive a r ard) an d, if eligib.’e, an
invitation. Tin wives G s Senators must
lie vailed on b- tbo wives of Ropres. mte
t‘\es. On no _ account must this cert mo
mal be rever se and oromitted, no matter how
intimate th, , parties may lmve been at
lome. one goes to m .ake a call .he
must turn d<)wn the corner . >f his visit iug
card. Sh ou id he omit doing so, he wot aid
bo held to Jaave sent it by a servant, /and
not to have, called in person.
The Crash Coming.
Causes have been in operation for two or
three years past which, in the judgment
of able financiers and political economists,
were bound to bring on a collapse in finan
! cial affairs, and stir from their very
foundations the great monetary interests
of the country. There are now, and have
been from the first, various reasons given
| by those skilled in financial matters for
the impending crash. Chief among these,
is the great inflation of the currency,
, growing out of the exigencies of th(f war,
and unhealthy stimulus thereby given to
trade and coifimeree. Overtrading followed
pari pansy, this increase of the circulating
medium of the country, and manufacturers,
impelled by the strong causes of inflation,
increased their productions more than one
hundred fold. The cessation of actual
j hostilities left one section of the country
flooded with an irredeemable paper cur
rency and warehouses filled to overflow
ing with manufactured products, while
the other section was utterly prostrated
by the war and bankrupt in fortunes,
without the ability to pay old debts or
means to purchase tho superabundant sup
plies which had accumulated at the North.
The sagacious men of the North felt con
fident that the large prices which the pro
ducts of Southern industry were bringing
in jj.be markets of the world. wouldotfiun
the Northern markets with full ptoses to
make their purchases for the Southern
supply, provided the political condition of
the country should become settled in such
a way and time as would give encouragement
to the flow of Northern surplus capital to
the exhausted coffers of the South. This ex
pected flow of money into the South would
have given an impetus to industry and
trade here which might haVc temporarily,
at least, revived our trade, commerce and
agriculture, and, in return, created a de
mand for manufactured goods which
would have relieved Northern man
ufacturers of a large portion of their surplus
products, and, in some measure, has
relieved them from the accumulated diffi
culties growing out of the Northern and
Western demand fir goods.
j Squares,
j 1 Week.
1 2 Weeks.
| 3 Weeks.
| 1 Month.
2 Months.
3 Months.
4 Months.
6 Months.
Ihe prolonged and unsatisfactory ad
justment of political affairs has kept the
whole country in a state of serious anxiety
and painful uncertainty as to the future of
the South, and has prevonted the flow of
capital South which was actually neces
sary to enable the people here to continue,
with vigor and hope of success, in tho
reconstruction of their lost fortunes. Hence
we find the South poorer to-day than at
the close of the war. The crops last year,
owing to a -variety of causes not now neces
sary to enumerate, failed throughout the
South,and planters were, in many instances,
unable to meet the obligations incurred
cultivating their lands. Southern mer
chants, relying evidently upon the ability
of the planters to make purchases from
their stocks, have, many of them, been
unable to meet their notes given for goods
at the North. Trjde this spring promises
to be worse than last year, and there is an
evident tendency to curtailment in Stocks
and purchases.
This stagnation of Southern trnde has,as
must have been expected, had its influence
upon the commercial and manufacturing in
terests of the North. Thelargeexpenditures
which were necessary in a state of war
having ceased, aud tho contemplated
Southern trade which was expected to
supply, in some measure at least, the va -
cuum in business caused by the return of",
peace having failed, we find the financial j
utlairs at the North just now in a critical j
and dangerous condition.
Within the last lew days we find in the
Northern papers accounts of the suspen-,
sion of a number of the National Banks,
and their columns filled with reports of tho
stagnation of trade throughout that sec
tion. Tho largest commercial houses in ;
New York arc, it is said, tottering to their
base, and some have already been forced to
yield to the pressure and suspend. Tho
\\ ashiugton correspondent of the Charles
ton Conner , under a late date, in comment
ing upon this subject, says:
“Among the prominent men brought to
Washington by the state of busness affairs,
is the dry goods prince, Mr. A. T. Stewart.
Ho represents, that, unless the South be
rehabilitated, politically, business cannot
revive, and ho declares that ho cannot
continue his business tyr another year,
unless there be a great change.”
she large house of Claflin & Go. is said
to be in a state of.suspension, a»d many of
the largest manufacturers in New England
arc about to go under. *
■ho New York Tribune, lias, for months
11-1I 1 - 1 t, urged upon Congress a speedy return
< specie payments, and has attempted to
iow that the change which threatened
-••e finances of the country were attributa
ble, solely, to inflation and an irredeemable
currency. Jt has, for purposes well known
v> to the country, kept out of view the de
j'YFossifig effects ot the unsettled condition,
political affairs. A. T. Stewart, asulf a
political sentiments as Greeley-,Lndi
the whole truth and implore s Con
gr - t 1 restoru the Southern States to
their pro 1 * )er position in the U nion.
Ir a lai e *Hiule upoij.' this subject the
: Triiattii say* • >■’
• The las ’ s have reported several
•ks iij world, beside very
’>( r W > t,? <r u age in many instances where
, ' is not complete. Wall street
. i no scone of some great disasters
icly announced. The first move
•r award coming to a settlement, after
longyeurs of speculation and inflation, '
o disclosing the great necessity of it. Al
\ though we have not yet come to any single
j great explosion in this city, beyond, per
haps, a single individual instance, great
! losses have been sustained by the shriuk
i age of values, and many more are iuevi-
I table. As to what other forms of loss we
are to witness in the general overhauling
j that has begun, and which must go on,
time only can disclose. AVe find outside
j of New York that, within the last few
! days, very serious bank defalcations have
j been brought to light. We enumerate
j such its we see reported in the papers:
“First. National Bank at Meredith,
New York—tailed. Cause—speculations
of the president.
“Second. National Bank of Hudson —
closed. Cause—speculations of cashier. j
“Third. First National Bank of New- j
tonville, Massachusetts—lost twice its cap- I
ital. Cause—speculations of cashier.
“Fourth. Mechanics’ National Bank *
Baltimore—defalcation $300,000, by book- I
keeper and paying teller.
“Fifth. State Bank, Boston—defalcation
$*500,000. Cause—speculations of cashier. |
“The State Bank of Boston, which we !
find in the above list, is one of the oldest j
and most respectably managed banks in
the country, aud always has been. Whiat- i
ever other bank was in difficulty, it was al- 1
ways the State Bank that kept out. The fact j
that it is now implicated iu the general ,
( speculations that have grown out of the I
j enormous volume of paper money shows !
j * nto "hat close circles the mischief has ■
penetrated. \\ hen a bank like the State !
Bauk is iutocted, we may look for rotten- I
i ness anywhere and everywhere; and, as !
■ time rolls around, we may expect to see it j
. developed even where least looked for.”
The Impeachment Question.— The ;
Cincinnati Commercial (Rep.) savs:
The lame presentation made by the com
mittee having the matter of impeachment
i in charge warrants the conclusion that no
! effort will be made to depose the President,
j We presume that after a brief season Con
! cress will adjourn, and if it does so there
will be no impeachment. However com
pletely the legality ofthe Fortieth Congress
, as organized may be established, we assume
j that there will be something of hesitation
I to press to a conclusion questions that are
■ full of importance and delicacy.
An editor in Portsmouth, N. H., im
: proves upon the numerous designations by
which the great Lowell hero is known.
; He calls him tlm. ‘‘cockeyed hyena of .New
I Orleans.”
Kadical Venom---Lecture by William
Lloyd Garrison.
W illiam Lloyd Garrison, of Boston, de
: livered a lecture on impeachment at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday
week, which, as a compilation of the vilest
of the innumerable Radical fasehoods in
relation to the South and as a specimen of
the base malignity of the fanatical faction
lie represents, is beyond competition. • The
. following extract will show the character of
the whole:
In regard to my third proposition, How
shall Liberty be secured at the South as it
is at the North? I answer: remember
what the South is; remember that she
j belongs to the dark ages, not to the nine
teenth century; that she is the habitation
of cruelty; that she never was Democratic,
nor for Democratic forms, except as she held
absolute mastery over the country; that
those who led in the rebellion now hold
every place of honor aud emolument on
her soil where she is free to choose; that
the entire white population, with few ex
ceptions, are embittered enemies, and
the largest portion of them in the
depths of moral degradation, and as
illiterate as the heathen in India.—
Left to herself, the most dreadful conse
quences may, with certainty, be predicted.
In that case] woe, woe, woe to the hapless
freedmen, and woe to every man known
or suspected to have been loyal in senti
ment during the rebellion. Lynch law, as
sassination and civil war will do their fatal
work. Within a few days tlie Nashville press
has stated that a diabolical conspiracy
has been entered into by certain rebellious
citizens of counties of the State of Tennes
see to procure the assassination of a num
ber of leading and iulluential Union men
parties [icing, men who were officers in tfie
FederaLarmy and residing in the Third
Congressional district. Unless predictions
can be falsified assassinations of Union
men will soon also be tho order of the day in
Caldwell county, Texas. If such things are
done in the green tree, what will be done in
: the dry? If, without representatives in
Congress, and while partially subjected
to military rule, eager to obtain one and
remove the other, this is the spirit of the
South, what she will be emboldened to do
when fully reinstated may be easily con
jectured.' What then is the inevitable con
clusion? This: tho South must be kept
under tho wise and beneficent guardian
ship of tho General Government for an
indefinite period—that is, until she is
civilized and preponderantly loyal, be
that period when it may. Until then she
must be allowed no Senators or - Repre
sentatives in Congress; there must bo no
bargaining with her for impartial suffrage
in place of universal amnesty—that am
nesty, she ought not to be granted. Trust
the famished wolf with a lamb ; trust that
the thunderbolt will leave no mark on the
object tlidt it strikes, and iu her present
•condition aud mood trust not either in the
will or ability of the South to bo loyal.
Before she can be loyal she needs to
be regenerated—created over again.—
Such is tho view taken by Con
gress on tlfis subject, as set forth in an
act for tho more efficient government
of the Rebel States—an act sure to be
vetoed by tho President, and just as sure
to be passed over bis veto by a two-thirds
vote of Congress. [Applause], But after
all, what real value will there be in such a
triumph so long as Andrew Johnson is
allowed to occupy the Presidential chair.
[Murmurs], The most important step re
mains to bo taken by Congress, and that
is the impeachment and removal of the
President from tho office he now so basely
dishonors and betrays. [Applause], In
him the whole Rebel element is centered;
to him the whole llebel forces look as their
leader and defender for immediate admis
sion to' all political rights, both in Con
gress and out of it. Let justice be exe
cuted upon him, or let those sections of
the Constitution relating to punishment
for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
impeachment for these and treason, bo ex
punged from that instrument forever.
[Applause]. The people aro ready for tho
trial and the verdict. Mene, mene, tekel,
upharsin, thou art weighed in tho balances
and art found wanting, will be unhesita
tingly recorded. [Applause.] Let the
people, the loyal people, be tested in any lit
tle gathering North or South, and they will
unhesitatingly respond for impeachment.
I mean the people, not a party or the rep
resentatives of any party. [Renewed ap
plause.] Two parties indeed exist. The
one is the loyal people, and the other is the
sympathizers with Rebels, theiraiders and
abettors. Cheered and upheld by such a
party, Andrew Johnson' ceases to bo tho
President _ of the United States. There
should not boa traitor in the camp. I
strongly believe that the committee on im
peachment will report in favor of impeach
ing Andrew Johnson. Let impeachment
l>e the first aud the only measure consid
ered and acted upon by Congress.
The Siierman Military Law. — The
following is ol interest just at this time,
and as it is presumed that Mr. Sherman
knew wh.it ho was about when he intro
duced his bill, it is to bo taken for granted
that he understands its meaning.
The Greenville (Ala). Advocate contains
an important telegraphic correspondence
between Judge Porter, of Greenville, and
Hon. John Sherman, in relation to the
status of the civil and judicial affairs of the
South, under the provisions of the military
law. It is as follows:
To Hon. John Sherman,
Senator of United States:
Can officers ill tho State, ineligible un
der the Constitutional Amendment, now
perform their functions under your bill,
etc. Bej. F. Pouter.
To licnj. F. Porter :
Your State officers can still perform their
functions, until susperseded by State Gov
ernments, organized under the law.
John Sherman.
Military Hole.—Gov. Wells, only a
few days since, proclaimed Senator Sher
man’s Bill the law governing all elections;
but a dispatch this morning proclaims that
General Sheridan forbids all elections.
Consequently Mr. Wells’ proclamation
# oes by default. Os two evils, it is best to
choose the least. Military rule is prefera
ble any day to a mongrel civil government
which would neither have the power, on
the one hand, to protect the citizen in liis
rights of personal property, nor the dignity
on the other to command respect. It does
not appear, however, that there is much elec
tion in the matter ; but if the President ;
gives us the right sort of a man —and we
have every reason to believe that he will—
military rule would be much preferable, as
affording more protection for the rights of
person and property than a contemptible
bastardy of civil government engineered
aud perverted by unprincipled civilians.
Planting—Sound Advice.—A Mis
sissippi planter gives the following sound
advice;
There is danger that our misguided |
policy may do us more injury than any
mere political movement.
Since our cotton is heavily taxed, ought j
■we not to raise that which is not taxed?
As 1 have said before, the best and wisest !
production which we can have against i
high tariffs and high taxes on our cotton is !
to manufacture the cotton which we raise, j
and, I might add, produce the food which |
we consume.
If we escape general confiscation, then
there is danger that the policy’ we have
been pursuing (aud I fear will continue to
pursue) will produce general starvation.
I think it very probable that Mississippi
is in a worse condition to-day, so far as
the necessaries of life are concerned, than
slie was on the day of surrender. It is all
owing, 1 think, to "our attempt to raise too
much cotton, in which wo signally failed,
and change of policy can alone save us—
raise our supplies and let cotton be the
surplus. It requires such continuous
labor during the whole year, and is sub- ]
jeet to. so many casualties, .-it is not safe to j
rely ou it as the sole means of providing
ourselves with the necessaries and com- j
forts of life.
The ’Washington Chronicle suggests that
each State shall provide in Washington
residences for its Senators and Represen
tatives, the expenses of grounds, buildings
and the like being borne by the State.
To which the Richmond B adds, would
it not be a simpler mode for Congressmen j
to vote themselves money enough out of
the United States Treasury to pay for resi- j
dences? What’s the difficulty? The j
members of the last Congress voted
themselves a bounty each of $4,000,
why may not the present members vote
themselves $40,000 and purchase resi
dences? Xo harm in a veto if it should
come. Congress is the Government, and
the Government is omnipotent.
The true difficulty in the way of recon
struction was brought out by orator Griffin
in a Radical meeting in Alexandria on
Monday evening :
"Mr. Griffin said that fifty of the
present Congressmen had sworn never to
vote for the readmission of any Southern
State unless such State was in the hands
oi the ‘ loyalists.’ ”
A Prolific Cow*D. P. Hutchins,
|°4 Bainbridgc, Ga.. has a cow, belonging
to him, that had given birth to three
strong and healthy calves at once. If he
has many more of the same sort, beef
must soon become juore plentiful iu that
region.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1567.
Piling on ike Agony.
The last hours of the Thirty-ninth Con
gress were spent in passing over the veto
of the President, and in direct and palpable
violation of the Constitution they had
sworn to support, the revolutionary and
! destructive bill territorializing the South
ern States, and placing over the people
thereof a military dictator, elothed with
absolute power over their lives, liberties,
and property. The chief reasons which
induced many of the more moderate Radi
cals to gto ■ it their support were that the
passage ot this bill was to be a finality
upon the subject of reconstruction, taking
the whole matter out of the Halls of Con
gress, and leaving it with the people of the
States more immediately affected by it
under the principles and rules and regula
tions prescribed in the Bill. This idea of
“finality” was so permanently dwelt upon
by its friends, that in an hour of shameful
weakness, one of the most able and dis
tinguished Conservatives in the Senate
was induced to support the measure “be
cause he saw in its provisions the only
means of settling the disturbances and trou
bles of the country.”
Before this measure had become matured
into a law, distinguished Southern gentle
men advised the adoption of its terms and
acceptance ofits provisions as the only means
of preventing farther oppressive legisla
urged as a finalify to secure
its passage; and then, by its Southern
friends, as merely temporary to secure its
adoption. A distinguished gentleman of
this State—Ex-Governor Brown—who was
in Washington during the early debates
upon the Bill, came home fully impressed
with tho idea that a prompt acceptance of
its terms o'n the part of the South would
probably—he thought almost surely—avert
other and harder terms.
The recent action of the Congress,
composed mainly of the members of the
39th, has shown very clearly that the
author and friends of the Sherman Bill
have deceived and deluded both Governor
Brown and his Southern friends, and the
Conservatives who were induced to sup
port the Bill mainly on account of its
being a finality. Even while Governor
Brown’s voice is ringing in the Atlanta
meeting in tones of supplication for the
call of a State Convention, to prevent
further action in Congress, both Houses
of that body have laid before them different
measures for the further persecution and
oppression of the Southern people. Ex-
Governor Brown tells us that Governor
Jenkins should immediately call the Legis
lature together for the purpose of conven
ing a convention of the people. The 40th
Congress says that a convention shall be
called by the Military Dictator placed over
the State. Ex-Governor Brown advises
that the convention be called and elected un
der the provisionsof our State laws so far as
they are not repugnant to the provisions
of the Military Bill; the 40th Congress
declaresthat the election for members of the
State Convention should be held under a
system of registration to be passed by that
body, and conducted and held by subordi
nates appointed by the Military Dictator.
Wo think that ere this Gov. Brown and
his friends have perceived the 'great mis
take they have made, and we hope that, for
the present at least, we shall have no
further agitation and excitement upon this
question. The Governor was deceived —
tricked, fooled —by the Radicals w T ith
whom he conferred while in Washington,
and he, no doubt, sees by this time that he
has been made the dupe of their wiley and
dishonorable machinations. In proof of
the foregoing, wo insert extracts from the
proceedings of Congress an the Oth- and
again on the 7th instant. Oil the 6th in
the Senate;
“Mr. Slimier, according to previous
notice, iutroi lured a hill to provide a re
publican form of government for the late
rebellious States. In doing so he said he
did not forget that Congress had already
passed wlim is known as the Military Bill,
which has In it certain elements ot recon
struction, but at-the time of the passage of
that bill ho did not disguise liis sense
of its incompleteness. It is not enough.
It is not what the loyal people of the South
liavo a right to expect from Congress. It
contemplates reconstruction, but it does
not supply it proper machinery. Then,
again, such machinery as is to he employed
is left in the hands of the existing govern
ment, which the bill declares to he illegal.
There seems to me a fatal defect in the
whole hill, I hesitate very much to criti
cise a measure which has in it so much of
good, which asserts the complete jurisdic
tion of Congress over that whole region,
and ordains universal suffrage without
distinction of color, hut I am obliged to
add my conviction that something more is
needed in order to give to the loyal people
of those; States the protection which they
have a right to expect.
“Mr. Sumner’s bill is a very le’ngthy
one. It provides for tho re-establishment
of civil government on the basis of loyal
voters.
“It was ordered to he printed, arid to lie
upon the table until the committees are
formed.”
On the same day,
“Mr. Sumner introduced a bill to pre
scribe au oath to maintain a republican
form of government in tho rebel States,
which prescribes that every person in any
State except Tennessee, lately declared to
be in rebellion, shall, before ho s! all he al
lowed to vote or hold office, take an oath
or affirmation to maintain a Republican
form of government in the State of which
he is an inhabitant, and in the United
States, will recognize the indissoluble
unity of the republic, and discountenance
all efforts to break away or secede from
the Union ; that he will give liis influence
to maintain tho national credit, and dis
countenance the repudiation of tho war
debt of tho United States and the payment
of the rebel debt, or ?ny claim for loss of
slaves ; to discountenance and resist all
laws making distinctions on account of
race orcolor ; that he will give his support
to education and tho diffusion of knowledge
in public schools, open to all. Any per.-
son falsely taking such oath to he deemed
guilty of perjury, and subject to the pen
alties therefor, and rendered incapable of
holding office. Ordered to 'lie upon the
table until the committees are appointed.”
On the seventh “Mr. Wilson intro
duced a bill supplementary to an act en
titled ‘An act to provide for the more
efficient government of the Rebel States,
and to facilitate restoration which was
referred to the Judiciary Committee.”
We give, for the information of such of
our readers as might have been disposed
to adopt the advice of Governor Brown,
the following outlines of this Bill, which
we find in the National Intelligencer :
“Section one directs the commanding
officers of each district to cause a registra
tion to he made before September 1. 1887,
in each county or parish in his district, of
the male citizens over twenty-one years of
age resident therein, to include only those
qualified to vote by the act to which this
is a supplement, and who shall take and
subscribe the following oath: ‘I, ,
do hereby solemnly swear, or affirm,
that I am sincerely and earnestly attached
to the Union aud Government of the
I L’nited States ; that I will steadfastly sup
port the Constitution and obev the laws
of the United States, and that I‘will, to the
i best of my ability,- engage all others to
such support and* obedience, so help me
God.’
; “Section two directs the commanding
- general, as soon as the registration is com
pleted, to cause an election for delegates to
, a convention to be held, on a day not less
than thirty days from date of proclamation
j of election, for the purpose of amending
j the existing or framing anew constitution,
■ of firmly establishing loyal civil govern
i ment, and passing needful ordinances to
: put the same into operation,
i “Section three directs that the said con
ventions shall be called on the basis of rep
resentation on which the number of mem
! bers of Congress is apportioned.
“Section four provides for the appoint
ment by thecommaudinggeneral of officers
\ or persons to make the registration, preside
; at the eleciii ns, receive, sort, and count
i the votes, and make return thereof and of
the persons elected, and he shall then
j make proclamation of the persons elected,
! and notify them within sixty days when
and where they shall assemble to organize
the convention; and when the said con
vention shall have amended the existing
I or framed anew constitution in accordance
! with the act to which this is a supplement,
it shall be submitted to the people at an elec
tion to l>e held after the expiration of thir
j ty days from notice thereof given hy the
j convention.
“Section five provides that if the said
constitution is ratified by a majority ,oi
the votes cast, (the president of the con
vention shall transmit the same to the
President of the United States, who shall
transmit it to Congress, if in session, and
j if not in session, then upon its next as
i sembling; and if it be declared by Con
gress to be in conformity with the pro
i visions of the act recently passed by C’on
i gress known as the Military Bill, the State
1 shall be declared entitled to representation,
I and Senators and Representatives shall he
admitted as provided in said act.
“Seotionsix provides that the duties and
| powers delegated and conferred upon the
: commanding general may, with his con
: sent, lie transferred to the acting Governor
' of the State, upon his taking an oath faith
i fully to perform and exercise the same.”
On the same day, in the House of Rep
resentatives, Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania,
| one of the extremist of the extreme Radi
cals, moved to suspend the rules that he
might offer a resolution instructing the
Judiciary Committee, when appointed, to
report a bill declaring who shall call con
ventions for the reorganization of the rebel
States, and providing for the registration
of voters, and that in all elections, until
the constitution of such State shall have
been approved by Congress, voting shall
be by ballot.
The vote on suspending the rules was
taken by yeas and nays, and resulted —yeas
111, nays 31.
So the rules were suspended, and the
resolution was offered and adopted.
The Speaker stated that he would re
gard the resolution as instruction to him to
appoint the Judiciary Committee imme
diately.
The above extracts show very clearly that
Congress intends ,to control the whole mat
ter of reconstruction under the Sherman
Bill, and that,to action (jf ours will change
or modify tho ikogramine which tHiqy have
the restoration of the Southern States
upon any terms whatever until the next
Presidential election is over. A change of
5,000 votes in New York; of 300 in Connec
ticut ; ofsoo in New J ersey, and of 7,000 in
Pennsylvania, will, with the vote of the
Southern States, and that of Kentucky,
Delaware and Maryland, give the Coserva
tives a large majority in the next electoral
college. The Radicals know that once out
of power, they arc out forever, and hence
they will not scruple to take any action,
however unconstitutional and revolution
ary, to preserve their present grasp upon
the Government.
The sooner our people discard from their
thoughts all hope of speedy or honorable
restoration to the Union the better it will be
for them; Nothing can be done by them
which will hasten such a consummation of
their hopes. Let vs all apply ourselves
vigorously and energetically to the building
up and establishing, upon a firm basis, our
national prosperity; let us trust to the
good judgment and sound discretion of
those who we have tailed to rule over us,
relying upon them ti give such advice and
direction and at sued time as may to them
appear proper and light.
Prentice on tlic Duty of the South.
The venerable cdtor of the Louisville
Journal, who write; strongly on all ques
tions, and whose visdom and long expe
rience in public afftirs entitle him to bo
heard with respecl and attention, gives
the following advice to the South in the
matter of the Sherman plan of reconstruc
tion :
It is a mistake to suppose, that, by ac
cepting tho military scheme of reconstruc
tion, the Southern States can take part in
the next Presidential election, unless, in
deed, they take part as slaves of the Radi
cal party; for the very purpose of the
scheme is to prevent their taking part as
equal States. Andthe scheme is effectual
ly adapted to its purpose; it excludes the
possibility of the fiee participation of the
Southern States in tho next Presidential
election. Its conccctcrs would be a set of
bunglers, if it did rot; but it does.- They
have done their work in a workman-like
way.
The fifth section if the Military Bill pro
vides that, when a State shall have ac
cepted tho prescribed conditions, it “ shall
bo declared entitled to representation in
Congress, andSenstorsand Representatives
sliail bo admitted therefrom on their
taking the oath prescribed liy law.” So
that if the- Slate, after wolantarily sur-
rendering itself to the control of the
negroes aud “loyal” whites, should by
any possibility choose Senators and Repre
sentatives who are not Radicals, they
would be rejected, and the State would
continue unrepresented until Radicals
should bo chosen; and this condition of
the admission of members will of course
be imposed or. Presidential electors, for it
is not to be presumed that men who are
not excluded from Congress will lie ad
mitted to the Electoral College. If, there
fore, the Southern States should accept the
military scheme of reconstruction, they
could not vote in the next Presidential
election, unless they voted the Radical
ticket.
We say the Radical ’ ticket, for, even if
tho test applied to electors should not be
more stringent than that applied to Con
gressmen. the effect would lie to exclude
all but Radicals, since nearly all the
Southern men who can take the test oath
are Radicals, andifany who are not should
be chosen they would lie excluded on pre
tended evidence aliunde; in short, the
Conservatives who should not be excluded
by operation of the test oatli would be ex
cluded under cover of it. The forbearance
exercised in the case of Tennessee on the
eve of the Congressional elections would
not be repeated on the morrow of the Presi
dential election. The Southern States
wov-kJ have to vote tho Radical ticket or
no, vote at all. If they should be permit
ted to take any part injiho next Presidential
election, this would be the part.
S (And this part would manifestly be worse
than no part at all, eveii leaving out of
view, what never should be left out of
view, the immeasurable sacrifice of prin
ciple and of self-respect. The South can
not aid in defeating the Radical candidate
for the Presidency by-accepting the scheme
concocted lor the purpose of preventing
such aid. Tho notion is absurd; and, if it
were not, it would still be short sighted as
well as low-minded. We have no faith in
expedients which involve the surrender of
principle. In our judgment, the only way
in which the South can aid the cause of
constitutional liberty is to stand firmly by
it, and we .respectfully commend the same
method to the friends of constitutional lib
erty in other parts of the Union. In this
exigency, as in all other exigencies, devo
tion to principle is thehigliest expediency.
To surrender principle in despair of vindi
cating it is craven: to surrender it as the
means of vindicating it is senseless. We
know the Soutli is not craven. And we be
lieve she is not senseless.
The Comparative Health of Thir
ty-Six States. —So much has been said
concerning the unhealthiness of the South
ern States, that any reliable information
upon the subject will receive general atten
tion ; and, while we are endeavoring to at
tract white emigrants to this State, says
the Mercury, we must not lose sight of the
fact that, according to the census returns
the mortality is less in South Carolina than
it is in either Pennsylvania, -Indiana,
Maine, Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Missou
ri or Louisiana. Massachusetts, Utah and
Louisiana show the greatest degree of mor
tality, and Oregon, Minnesota and Wiscon
sin the least. Out of thirty-six States,
twelve are reported as being more healthy
than South Carolina, and twenty-three as
being less healthy.
The official figures are as follows :
New Hampsbirel.33
Virginia 1.34
Illinois 1.30
Arkansas 1.44
Mississippi 1.44
Ohio 1.46
Texas 1.46
New Y'ork 1.41
Rhode Island 1.52
Kentucky 1.53
Connecticut 1.53
Dist. of Colu mbial.63
Maryland 1.65
Missouri 1.80
New Mexico 1.88
Massachusetts.... 1.95
Utah 2.10
Louisiana .2.31
Oregon 35 j
Minnesota 46
Wisconsin 95 j
California 98
Vermont 1-60
Michigan 1-64 ]
lowa 1-06
Florida L-J®
Alabama l-Jjj
Tennessee... 1-18
North Carolina... 1.19
South Carolina...l.2o j
Pennsylvania .24
Indiana ,2?
Maine j
New Jersey “49
Delaware —l.-A. |
“The Infamous Two-Tiiirds.”—Un
der this caption the New York World
publishes, surrounded by a heavy black
border, the names of the Senators and
members of Congress who voted to pass
Sherman's Military Bill over the Presi
dent's veto, which measure the editor
characterizes as a “a bill to annul the Con
stitution of the United S .tes, to subvert
the government of ten Stales in the Union,
and to substitute therefor military des
potism.” After giving the names of those
who “voted aye on the final passage of the
bill to ‘organize beli’ ” the editor adds :
“The time is coming when every man m
the above list will stand accursed in oltr
history. Their children will deny their
descent from the infamous two-thirds of
the Thirty-ninth Congress.”
Another Munificent Donation.—
George Peabody, Esq., has added another
to his long-list of splendid gifts for charita
ble, educational, and scientific purposes,
by bestowing one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars upon the county of Essex,
Mass. This is Ibis native county.
[COMMUNICATED,j
Hancock County, March 7, 1867.
Editors Chronicle <i Sentinel :
I have read, with unusual interest, the
editorials in your paper, counseling non
action by the uas.-es. Now, above all
other times, is hirmony needed. We are
passing through a momentous revolution—
compared with which, in effects upon the
I future of ourselves and posterity, the late
war is. in my judgment, insignificant.
Now. above all’other times, law and order
I should be paramount. Let all ends be at
j cotuplished'bythe law and through the
! I; } w - Let tlitre be no strife—no dissen
sion—no excitement. Let whatever is
done be done gently’, decently, and with
good order by all classes. I endorse your
views, and you have the cheerful co-opera
tion of Georgia’s best citizens, I hope
you will continue to press upon the minds
of the people the necessity of remaining
calm, quiet and steadfast, acknowleding
the supremacy of law, and yielding obe
dience to km. fostering internal improve
ments and baildin" up our shattered for
tunes. \V e were bravo to maintain our
principles and political creed. We be-,
lieved that the princplesof confederation,
at least so hr as the control of domestic
affairs of each State, were the creed of our
fathers and the true basis of government.
Wc are now a helpless minority. Let us
maintain ourselves with dignity, and
accept, with calmness and serenity, that
destiny which God, in his providence, has
designed for us.
1 have read, with sorrow and mortifica
tion, the recent letter of Ex-Governor
Brown. No matter what his motives are—
political expediency, Radical favor, or
wTuir nnt-'-if is not necessary to inquire.
” e have a Governor in whom all repose
confidence. Governor Brown should have
recollected past history. He should have
recollected that he led public opinion before
the war, beginning the war, during the
war, aud. since the war. Is there anything
in that history which should make him confi
dent? Is there anything that does justify
him or us in believing his judgment
sound above others, or his views of policy
more sagacious ? Can the Governor review
his own political course and claim that his
past political career would justify the peo
ple in taking him for a safe leader in the
future ? Is this present advice character
ized by wisdom and prudence? What
does he ask us to do? To accept, while he
tells us we are conquered with all the parade
of freedom, that measure which will and
must work necessarily a great revolution,
socially and politically. It is well known
that the political power of tho State has
heretofore resided in the mountainous
districts, and those districts were largely in
favor of the United States Government;
what does he ask them to do ? lo surren
der that political power voluntarily. —
What does he ask the southern dis
tricts to do? To assemble in primary
meetings, to declare voluntarily, as their
act, that they demand the enactment of a
law which will defame the good name of
our fathers and brothers, and tear away
from the widow and orphan their sole so-'
lace of thinking that they were honest and
conscientious; and even before the soothing
influence of time has dimmed their grief,
to ask surviving comrades to declare their
brothers traitors. Nay, more : they must
go farther—they must be the instruments
to disfranchise, and perhaps ostracise, those
whom we esteem and love and revere as
great and good men.
I write in no captious spirit; hut I must
express my utter condemnation of Gover
nor Brown’s course. I think it can bring
us no good, and will do us much harm.
There is an old adage, “Look well before
you leap. ” I commend it to Gov. Brown.
I think his past history shows that he, as
a political leader, has never observed it.
But it is well that the prudence it suggests
should be exercised by all of us. There
was no necessity for Governor Brown’s
course. _ The Sherman Bill would pass be
fore action could be had. It would be law,
reversed or repealed. I am glad to see
that the people do not sustain his course.
We are all in the same ship.
It has reached tho whirlpool of excite
ment, of bitter feuds and rankling ani
mosities, involving, not only a condition of
government, but social ties and sacred
memories. Pausing for a moment upon
the verge a whispering breeze or a
flapping sail may plunge us into its
depths. Steadiness—steadfastness, the
preservation .at law and »f..order, may
bear us away in safety.
Now is the time —now is the hour to
avoid the rising storm. Let all good men
and true move quietly and calmly, and
united, at tlic command of our noble Gov
ernor, maintaining law and good order.
Let us have none of the barbarities of Ten
nessee here; but let us support tlic dig
nity and fair fame of our noble old State of
Georgia as worthy sons—ever guided by
the legend of her untarnished escutcheon,
“ Wisdom, Justice and Moderation."
C.
—mm €bp—
[COMMUNCATEDj.
The iieorgla Railroad.
Messrs. Editors: Allow me to bo
heard again upon subjects connected with
the affairs of this company. And I now
speak to the Stockholders’:
4. Your stock is selling for 67 cents on
the dollar, and the cause of the deprecia
tion is not apparent. Congressional action
may now bear upon it, but did not before
this time.
2. The surplus in hand last yearamounted
to such large figures that one would sup
pose the stock should he above par.
In the report (1866) of the Superin
tendent, you had, in real estate, stocks,
bonds, notes and cash, 51,134,443 00; and
this remains, after deducting “liabilities
of all kinds.” But it does not appear
that the cotton is reckoned among these
items—it may be. At that time you had
a sum equal to 25 per cent, on your capi
tal over and above everything tho com
pany owed. Now it does seem that, out
of this and tlic savings of the road up to
May next, a reasonable dividend might
be had and such an exhibit bo made as
would bring tho stock to par.
3. It was stated in my communication to
your paper of February 9, “That the con
dition of the assets belonging to the Com
pany at the close of the war has never
been fully known.” That declaration is
not quite exact, because the cotton ac
count is stated to bo $94,437, and that the
“losses by the war. and its incidents” aro
$2,732,522 71. Still, the assertion in the
main, is true. On page 20-of “Reports of
the Directors, &c.” to the Stockholders,
May 15th, 1860, it is stated this Company
had “stocks of other corporations” $1,051,-
670 —but there is nothing to tell what
sort of corporations they are.
Now, it is true that, by the “war and its
incidents,” you lost $2,732,522, and it is
also true that, in May, 1866, you owed
$774,804. Quite a heavy loss, and some- j
thing of a debt. But it is also true, that I
you had a surplus in May, 1860, of sl,- i
134,443, after making ample provision for j
all your “liabilities of all kinds.” Your
affairs are, then, in about this condition : j
Capital stock all paid $4,156,000 ■
Surplus... 1,134,443 I
Making a total of $5,290,443
If the Mechanics Bank of Augusta could
make a showing like this, its bills would
not be at a discount nor its stockholders
without dividends.
4. Your agents do a great deal of work
for the Express Company ; you pay them
salaries, the Express Company a per cent.
Can any “man serve two masters’-’ faith
fully?
5. The disorder at some places alopg the
road is observed by many persons. Coui
pi&ints are made, and information could
be had, and both without avail. It is even
said that the Company has been sued,
damages and costs recovered by shippers
for losses, and there was none to defend
the road. Like the case of your late Su
perintendent, it-may not be essential that
you should know these things. It is hard
ly possible that they could occur, and no
one be in fault
6. Os what use is your accumulated
savings if they do not contribute to your
profit in these times of scarcity ? The list
of shareholders will prove that nearly one
quarter of your stock is owned by widows,
orphans, charitable and education corpora
tions and churches. The rich stockholder
may do without his dividends —these can
not. H. E. B.
Reconstruction.— The Richmond En
quirer, in commenting upon the Bills intro
duced by Mr. Sumner on the Gth instant,
in the Senate, prescribing the mode by
which State Constitutions shall be formed,
says:
‘•This is at least more manly and direct
than to require us to grope about in the
dark for the sort of constitution that will
please Mr. Sumner.”
Contracts for Carrying tiie Mails.
—A Washington letter says : In view of
the tact that all the contracts for carrying
the mails in the South terminate on the
30th of next June, the whole force of the
contract bureau of the Po3t Office Depart
ment is engaged in preparing for the next
mail lettings. The competition for this
service is about as high as was expected.
The decisions will be announced on the
iisth instant. - ~.... u.
•
[communicated.]
Messrs. Editors; —As it is a matter of
interest to Methodists generally, permit us
to say the action of the Baltimore Confer
ence on the questions of lay representation
and change of the name of the M. E.
Church South, have been received, and we
are gratified to learn that the name of the
Church has been changed from “Methodist
E. Church South,” to “Episcopal Metho
dist Church, and, also, lay representation
adopted by a unanimous vote —104 yeas,
nays none. Thus the Church no longer
bears a sectional name, and lay representa
tion will secure the unity of Methodism
South.
Be kind enough to insert the official pro
eeeedings below. C. W. Key, t
G. H. Pattillo,
A. Wright.
Augusta, Ga., March 12th, 1867.
From the Baltimore Gazette.
ANNUAL MEETING OFTHE BALTIMORE CON
FERENCE OF THE EPISCOPAL METHODIST
CHURCH.
THIRD DAY.
Conference assembled at 9 o’clock and
was opened With devotional exercises.
To the question. Who are tlie elders of
one year? tho official character of the fol
lowing were passed and they wore con
tinued: Allen A. P. Neal, Addison Weller,
, Jqseph UrickOnberger, Charles L. Dame
y-(pn, William McDonald, Wesley Ham
mond. 7The Ret-. Messrs. N. B. Madison
apd E. J. B. Trippe were received by trans
fer from offior Conferences.
iilai y T>t' the
Board of Domestic Missions, on invitation
of tiie Bishop, delivered au address to the
Conference, in which the Domestic M ission
work was fully explained.
The Rev. J. T. Maxwell and Rev. M. G.
Balthis were admitted into lull connection,
and passed for ordination to deacons’
orders. Revs. Bernard Hough aud N. R.
Poole were continued. Revs. Isaac W.
Canter and John A. Kern were elected to
deacons’ orders.
Tlie order of the day, the resolution of
fered by the Rev. Samuel Register, on the
first day of tho session, proposing to,
change the name of the church from the
“Methodist Episcopal Church Soutli” to
the “Episcopal Methodist Churfch,” was
taken up. Witliost any debate the ques
tion was taken up by yeas and nays, and
resulted—ye:us 104, and nays none.
On motion, it was ordered that absent
members be allowed to record their votes
on th&ir appearance iu tho Conference.
The second order, being the resolution
offered by Mr. Register to admit laj
representatives to annual Conference,
was next taken up. There was no debate
upon the subject, and the vote resulted as
follows —yeas 104, nays none.
Tlie following local preachers were
elected to deacons’ orders : James Hobbs,
William H. P. Hopper, Samuel Brown,
Alexander M. Cooper, William L. Rich
ardson, William Hudson.
The following local preachers were
elected to|oldcr,s’ orders : Sylvanus Town
send, George L. Lightner. AVm. A. Wade.
Tho Rev. Thomas Win. •Brown, an inde
pendent preacher, was received into the
Conference after taking the ordination
vows.
The President appointed the Revs. Ner
val Wilson, Samuel Register and Samuel
Kepler .the committee upon the funera)
services of tho late Bishop Soule.
The Rev. A. 11. Bedford, Agent of the
Southern Publishing House at Nashville,
Tennessee, then addressed the Conference
as to tho condition and workings o f the
House, and gave a very gratifying account
of its success since the close of the war.
During his remarks lie stated that when
the Federal soldiers vacated the Book
House they left only one canteen and two
gum overcoats.
Col. Johnson, President of Randolph
Macon College, aiso addressed the Confer
ence upon the general subject of education,
and advancing tho claims of this institution
to the patronage'and countenance of tho
members of tho Church.
During the session yesterday the Presi
dent introduced to the Conference the Rev.
A. H. Bedford, Book Agent, Nashville,
Tennessee ; the Revs. Messrs. Langhorne,
Judkins, Ward andiieroy M. Lee, of the
Virginia Conference; Rev. Mr. Wilson, of
the North Carolina Conference; Rev. W.
A. Harris, of the Wesleyan Female Insti
tute; Rev. Mr. Finlay.
Rev. Dr. Bullock, of the Presbyterian
Church, and the Rev. Dr. Williams, of the
Baptist. Church, were also introduced, and
after a. few remarks, tendered the use of
tlieir pulpits to the Conference. The Rev.
Henry Slicer was also introduced.
Conference, after benediction, adjourned
until 9 o’clock this morning.
The Fenian Programme in Ireland,
STEPHENS AND JOHN MITCHEL—MITCHEL’S
ADVICE FOLLOWED.
The news received by the cable to-day of
anew outbreak of the Fenians in Ireland
gives interest to the following statements,
which appear in the Dublin Freeman's
Journal, under the signature of a corres
pondent :
“When it was discovered in New York
that Stephens failed to keep his promise of
commencing a light at tho close of last
year, the fury of the American Fenians
knew no bounds, and if ho were caught
during the first stages of disappointment,
he would not be nowin Franco to give
trouble to the government, The supposi
tion that he is now in Kerry is entirely
groundless. He is in Paris, and lias al
ready scut for bis wife to join him there,
where he intends to apply himself to lite
rary pursuits for the future, being some
what in the condition of Othello, as far as
Fenianism is concerned. When his disaf
fection, was discovered by Col. Kelly and
others, a convention of the Brotherhood
was called in New York, when lie was
formally deposed, and Gen. Gleason put in
his plaae pro tem , until the views of John
Mitchel could lie had.
“That gentleman was at once communi
cated with on the subject, and his advice
was to tho effect that the organization
should lie kept up in America, lint that
nothing should lie further done in Ireland,
owing to the dangers to organizers and
people, front the extreme watchfulness of
the authorities. Mitchel argued that it
would be madness to keep up tho organi
zation in Ireland, or attempt an insurrec
tion, until England was at war with some
of the great powers—which event, lie
thinks, cannot be Jong delayed. Headvises
the consolidation of the two branches in
America, the accumulation of arms and
stores at conveniont.points for transporta
tion, and that orders lie sent to Ireland to
suspend operations until a more favorable
time. These views were presented at an
adjourned meeting ofthe convention above
alluded to, and unanimously adopted.—
Mitchel a'.so consented to be the future
chief of tlie Fenians on both sides of tho
Atlantic.
“This agreement was notified by the
convention, and a messenger dispatched
immediately to Ireland with the news.
Fortunately, that the messenger arrived
in the nick of time to stop'a foray contem
plated by the more violent Fey i ans. Or
ders were immediately dispatched to all
parts of tlie country to prevent the con
templated movement, which had the de
sired effect. The southwest of Kerry is tlie
only place where the order did not reach
in time ; hence the attempt at insurrec
tion there, and the cause of the people of
other parts not aiding the Kerry insur
gents. It is not for any want of sympathy,
but in obedience to orders, that tlie ‘turn
out’ was not more serious. Tlie order did
not reach England as soon as Ireland ;
hence Chester. Nor need the Chester peo
ple imagine that it was the extraordinary
display of vigor by tlie authorities that
prevented tlie sack of Chester Castle, but
be thankful that the order of John
Mitchel reached the leader just in time
to prevent it. This being so, it is plain
that the men lately arrested in Dublin,
Drogheda, Duudai, and other ports did not
come to Ireland to create disturbance, as
the order of suspension had reached them
before they left England.
“All Americans in Ireland, England.and
Scotland have been ordered back at once,
and most of them have already left. Ail
would have done so but for tho want of
means. The.more indigent have applied
to Mr. Adams and the various American
Consuls at- our ports for transportation
home. So the police and detectives may
relax tlieir vigilance, and Lord Derby let
tho habeas corpus bo restored. The next
invasion of Ireland will depend on John
Mitchel, and the chances of the war be
tween England and the United States
or France—and it is to be hoped that
Ireland may sp improve in the interim
that no change of rulers may be necessary.
Without, however, justieo being fairly
done to Ireland, a strong hostile element
will always exist in the United States,
ready to take any advantage of England’s
troubles with foreign states. The above I
have obtained from Mr. Mitchel’s mes
senger, who is an old friend and school
fellow. and who returned by the Liverpool
steamer on Saturday.”
General Lee. — Gen. It. E. Lee writes
to a friend in Louisiana: “I am glad to in
form you that Washington College is pro
gressing as well as could be expected. We
liave now three hundred and forty aca
demic students, and twenty-five in the
law class, with an able corps of teachers.
The Income Tax.—The public will, no
doubt, have seen that the Internal Revenue
Bureau has issued instructions to the as
sessors throughout the country to begin
immediately the assessments for the in
come tax. The time of assessments is
charmed from May to March, and the um
forr mate of live per cent, is fixed on all
incomes, with one thousand dollars ex
empt.
Louisiana.— The larger plantations in
Louisiana are planted in sugar, and the
smaller ones in cotton. More rice will be
raised this year than formerly. The freed
men command higher wages—sls a month
and rations.
NEW SERIES VOL. XNVI. NO. 12
From the Rome Courier.
Bill Arp on the Situation.
: Home, Big Shanty Territory, No. 3,)
March Sth, ’67. j
! Mr. Editor :My intention was to have
S remained in dignified obscurity the small
remnant of my miserable days, but my
friends Bob Hide, Sam McCrackin, Tip
and other respectable gentlemen of all
sexes and both colors seem to bo disshevel
el about the times, and insist on mv views
about the momentous state of our sufferin
country. The good people in Atlanta have
got shaky in the kuecs, and its the duty of
every good citizen to keep the disease from
spreadin if ho can. I havent been to
Washinton, nor been playing sentinel on a
watch tower, but my observation convinces
me there is a power of fuss on hand about
something. Politics look squally and alarm
in. Bill Sherman overrun the country and
destroyed and carried away our property,
and now his brother John is finishm up
the job by robbin us of the rights and lib
erities our forefathers won. General
Thomas is playin Vantoum with his 21
orders—puttin harmless boys in ihc bar
racks for- tableauin wit I: an old rebel
flag—aceusin us of all tin - : n the
decalogue : such as murder, rape,
arson, burglary, bigamy, perjury and
suicide, throwin up in our teeth the mag
nanimity of our conquerors, as bein our
safety valve from death and Boelzlebub.
Good gracious ! Wha.t an awful people
wc are. And now comes Joseph, the
sentinel, with his long-winded message of
consolation, tellin us how we may fleq,
from the rath to come—skeerin „ tho
people to death, and gettin eve
jxthing in a stew, AVlijat made him
4*. stHfck.a harry?
silence TW IfffTAflfyJr
signed, and the bill was passed ? Why
dident he give Mr. Jenkins a chance ? If
the times was so perilous, why dident he
go and seo Mr. Jenkins, and give him liis
opinion in private and save all this excite
ment ? Mr. Jenkins is the Governor; he
is the sentinel on the watch tower; he’s
the pilot of the old ship; lie's the people’s
choice.- lie can call the Legislature when
its necessary. D - lie is in doubt about it,
he can consult with Lumpkin and Cobb,
and Hill and Cooper, and Hardeman and
Gibson, and Brown, and decide what
ought to be done, and tho people will
bo satisfied. But while the ship is in
a storm let all tho deck hands keep
silence. The word will conic from the
Captain soon enough. May be that Jo
seph feels sorter responsible for the fix lie’s
got us in. May be lie’s repentin for the
didos he cut up,, and the seeds of discord
he sowed during the war ; but I doubt it.
I don’t think his ambition or his vanity
sees anything but lus own importance. It
looks like be thought the Capital was
moved to Atlanta, and lie was Governor
still. He’s afraid tho people will think
lie’s dead, and just as soon as a big thing
happens, and a littleloefore, he clutches the
occasion—seizes the opportunity, delivers
his message, stirs up the people, sets the
Gate City in a ferment, gets his name in
the Herald, and the Tribune. Joe Brown,
a whale, big leader, conspicuous, fame,
history, Mr. Jenkins nowhere, Milledge
ville gone up, Joseph E. runnin the ma
chine, in Atlanta !
Well, I dont’t know what is at tho bot
tom of all this, but [ am atraid that while
Joseph was in Washington somebody car
ried him up onto a high mountain, and
showed him a Kingdom or two, and he fell
down and worshipped. These little
kingdoms that a man sometimes sees from
the top of a mountain aro mighty de
moralizing.
But I notice that all this fuss which
Joseph has kicked up is confined to the
town and cities, where a heap of folks
live, who havent got much of -anything to
do. The farmers don’t know much about
it and care less; the whole concern is a
god-send to some folks. I Know an old
worn-out politician, who.has been poking
around for six months, trying to revive
the Democratic party for a livin, and now
he’s in his element. Parties are formin,
and the old hack is in his glory, lie’s
sorter like the New Era as yet—lie wont
take a side, lie wont join issue, ho wont
commit himself, lie’s kcepin an open rear
as the Era says (I wish that paper would
take an astringent). But, my friends,
we’ve got nothing to be ashamed oi.
Since the war our pursuits have been
and honorable. We needent
hum ilk tiLOU rsfiUfl# through fear of what
humankind can do to us. If tlie Radicals
intend to confiscate us, they will do it, and
no acceptance of feherman’s bill will pre
vent it. If they want our cabbages,
they are goin to have ’em. If they will
ride over one law, they will over another.
If tltcy disregard Mr. Johnson’s great
argument, they 1 disregard anything.
I don’t know how it is generally,
but there aint an unpardoned rebel in
this county, and if they confiscate they
have got to declare the pardons all void.
Nobody knows what they won’t do, or
when they will quit doing it, and my ad
vice is to suffer and be strong, endureevery
thing and accept nothing. All is lost save
honor; hold up your manho and. don’t lick
the hand that’s raised to str ■■ tin blow.
Joe Brown’s banner says “ah ty lost save
honor,and that is only tolerable I thaokyou,
it grows puny and weak. ’ ’ lie says we can
have representation in Congress. Who
by? A man who can take the test oath,
and can control the nigger vote. Who
wants such a representation ? How long
before he would jinc tho Radicals and go in
for confiscation. If lie controlled the nig
ger vote lie and promise ’em land or anything
else._ Demagogues have always controlled
the ignorant whites, demagogues will con
trol the ignorant blacks. Who controls the
nigger influence in Tennessee?—why,
Brownlow and liis party. Tennessee has
denejust what Joe Brown wants us to do,
and now look at her and weep !--a nigger
candidate running for Governor.
But suppose we had representation,
and had elected all good men, fair men,
just men, what could they do for us ?
Just nothing at all. With the present
Radical majority all our votes would’nt
undo anything that has been'done, and
with a Radical President they could do as
much more as they pleased. Just let ’em
all alone, give ’em rope, more rope ; his
tory is repeating itself, the crisis will come
sometime, tyranny and oppression must
run its course, Joe Brown’s programme
wont stop it. One of his resolutions made
my head swim; I felt like taking chloro
form. He would make the whole Yankee
nation believe wc loved ’em like brothers,
and wanted 'em to come out South, and
let us bug ’em. \\ ell, all that sort of stuff
is played out. There aint .a hundred men
in the- State that has any more respect for
a Radical than a hyena, and Joe Brown
knows it. But the good Lord knows our
hearts, and how fondly wo cliotr to those
moderate men of the mighty North who
would save us from the humiliation that
awaits us. Let a kind word he spoken to
a subjugated reb, and the warm blood
quickens in the veins.
Oh, but are here, the Union Leagues,
somebody says, what are they goin to do
with us? Never mind my friends, the
Union Leagues aint agoin to hurt nobody.
They are made of flesh and blood like we
are, and they are citizens, and their fate
will be our fate. They are as much dis
gusted at Sherman’s bill as anybody. They
arc our neighbors and our friends, and if
there is some bad men among ’em, there is
enough of the good to make ’em do'right.
So keep quiet and be easy, and the Union
Leaguers are not going to trouble you. If
they want to save their own, it don’t fol
low that they want to steal yours.
But Joseph is afraid we can’t stand a
military government. Well, I know its
humiliating, withering, crushing, but we
have stood it, and can try it a while longer.
We can do it till we can do better. Mili
tary Government aint the cause of our
poverty and distress. Its a government
higher than Thomas, or Sherman or Sheri
dan. Its the loss of crops and the want of
rain. The military never stopped the corn
from growin, and there’s just as much rain
in one platform as anothor. If the Good
Lord will only bless us with abundant
harvests, everything will go on smooth
enough with the humble and honest people
who drive the plow and hoe the corn. If
they prosper, everybody else will too, if they
mind their own business. M c will have to
quit talking so much, and quit writing alto
gether-muzzled lips and a gagged press.
I’ve done took warnin myself, and quit.
Had my life insured in the Knickerbocker,
and the policy wont allow me to expose
myself, to jump in so unnecessary peril.
The military can out write us anywhow.
Folks say the pen is mightier than the
sword, but you put ’em both together, and
they’l flank a man out of his liberty, and
may be his life, in double quick. The
Mayor of this town had a little billet doin
with General Thomas tie other day, and
only come out second best, though it
wasent an open field nor a fair fight. I
thought myself that 21 order must lie a
hoax, got up by Brick Pomeroy, or some
body, and was lookin for the Genral to
come out in a card deuyin of it. but I soon
found that it was a genuine , lva n
document. I still think hi* - W [U
deny it some 29 years hence.
Well, I was mighty mad. 1 would have
given a hundred dollars to have played
\ antoun with him one hour, just to have
been turned loose in the papers, all free, no
gag, no jail, no barjacks, no bayonets, no
guard. I would haye got such a griu on
him for the. next six months as would have
made everybody except Brick Pomeroy
forget that Beast Butler stole spoons.
‘Living on their magnanimity!” I tell
you that got me, that burnt me, when I
know there wasent enough magnanimity in
| a ship load of all such to support a poor
lveb twenty-four hours. Magnanimity ! My
opinion is they’ve lost the seed, and don’t
know what the commodity is. I was as
full of epitaph as Brownlow is of pisen.
; Language comes to me spontaneous;
j regular hidelifters, that would have peeled
i the bark from a man’s carcass like skin- •
nin an alligator. But you see I was in the
cautious state, and had to smother my
feelings. I think I should have gone up
with spontaneous combustion if my wife
hadent broke the spell with her comic
scenes. She is an arnusin and intcrestin
woman, but much given to music in these
days of numerous and lively offspring, but
just as soon as order 21 come out she
hunted up the "'gray jacket" and tlic
“ conquered banner,” and jest such a solo
soiree as I have 21 times a week, was
never heard in Big Shanty before. She
seems to take a delight in lettin the rebel
flag on the title page “see the light," and
‘‘flaunts it about” in my face because l
call myself a Union man. She says that
part of the order about (Jen. Hanson’s re
mains was founded onseripture, and so was
Phil. Sheridan’s about Gen. Johnston’s,
for Solomon says in Ecclesiastes, “ that a
living dog is better than a dead lion J ’
My opinion is that it will be impossible to
harmonize these women durin this century.
Such orders as-2U will cutoff all hope of
it. * I think if Gen. Thomas hadent been a
Virgiuiau, he woiildent have issued it.' Ive
i.vticeU that, when :i\ ir.inian (alls, be
heard that the'Uenerafand Edwari •Taim
son were both powerful seccsh, and got
mighty impatient because the Old Domin
ion was so slow in movin. The Gcneralsaid
all the good officers would be gobbled up
before she seceded. Well, they say old
Gen. Scott got hold of ’em about this time,
and took ’em up in a high mountain
and showed ’em a kingdom or two, and
the General fell down and worshipped, and
Ed. Johnson wouldent. 1 tell you my
friends, a man ought to be careful about
going up onto these dangerous mountains,
and this leads me to remark we ought to
petition Mr. Johnson to put over Big
Shanty a General who stood square to his
State.
Hope for tlie best, my friends. Don’t
imagine you see panters and in juns, be
cause you are in a Territory. Don't mis- •
take a Bureau track for a boar sign. Don’t
fear, it will be sickly, because Florida is
hitched on to our diggins. Attend to your
business, keep off of a high mountain, and
all will be well. I would say more, but
my wife’s music has begun.
Yours, respectfully,
Bir.T, Arp.
P. S. —I date my letter from Big Shanty,
as I hear these three ‘diggins’ are to have
that name. Let us all be thankful we
know where we are. For two years it lias
been doubtful whether Jwe were in or out.
My opinion now is that we are out, and I
heard a female voice say whoopee !
B. A.
Baltimore M. E. Conference.
The Baltimore Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church began its annual
session of this year on Wednesday morn
ing, at Eutaw street Methodist Episcopal
Church, Bishop Kingsley presiding.
The devotional exercises bore their cus
tomary solemnity, Scripture reading by
Bishop Simpson, and prayer by Rev. Isaac
Collins.
The roll of the Conference was called by
Dr. Edwards, 49 members answering, 45
being absent.
Upon the nominations for secretary, Dr.
Edwards was named, but ho declining,
llev. B. N. Brown was elected secretary.
The following transfers were made to
this Conference: S. L. M. Conser, of
East Baltimore; William M. Osborn,
William C. Mullen, of West Wisconsin;
A. Longacre, G. G. Morgan, of l’hiladel
pliia Conference. D. W. Arnold, who has
been South since 1801, was readmitted a
member of this Conference.
J- N. Hank withdrew from the Con
ference and from membership with the
Methodist Episcopal Church, indicating
his intention by letter of attaching himsefi’
to tho Episcopal Methodist Church.
The rules of the previous Conference
were adopted for the government of the
present session, and the usual committees
directed to be appointed.
W. H. Chapman, S. L. M. Conser, J.
R. Wheeler, and T. Myers were constitu
ted a Committee on Nominations.
T. Myers was made Chairman of tho
Board of Stewards, in place of O. P.
Wergman, absent.
The hours for the assembling of ibis
body were fixed at 9A. M. to 121 P. M.
Tho members of the Conference sit by
order, within the third pillar of tlio church
from the pulpit.
The following named were continued
as supernumeraries : Andrew J. Myers,
A. S. Hank, W. H. Ryland, M. Golicen,
M. A. Turner, T. S. Wysong, W. O.
Lumsden, S. 11. Cummings.
The announcement of the death of S.
M. Dickson was made by N. J. B. Mor
gan, accompanied by appropriate re
marks.
J. L. Bromwell, B. Barry, A. Griffith,
T. S. Harding, Isaac Collins, C. B. Young,
James 11. Bunting, H. Leber, P. D. Lips
comb, J. Bear, and C. Parkinson were
continued in the list of superannuated
Ministers.
W. 11. Chapman fittingly made known
the death of James Sewell, and W. Pretty
man tlie death of R. Barnes.
The ease of David Trout was laid over.
J. R. Kflinger withdraws from this body
and from membership with the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Wm. Champion was
allowed a superannuated relation, ac
companied with an appointment.
The report of Isaac P. Cook, Treasurer
of the Educational Fund of this Confer
ence, was read and accepted. The resig
nation of Mr. ..Cook, as Treasurer, was
temporarily laid upon the table that time
m%ht_be allowed to induce him to with
draw it. The total amount invested is
$50,335 50. The receipts and payments
were $10,078 74.
The report of thePreaehcrs’ Aid Society
was referred to the Committee on Neces
sitous Cases.
The gentlemen who were transferred
from other Conferences to this body were
formally presented to their brethren by
the President.
The following named were passed upon
as Elders:
P. Lanahan, L. J. Morgan, J. A. Mc-
Cauley, A. E. Gibson, W. S. Edwards, C.
A. Reed, R. M. Lipscomb, C. McElfresh,
T. A. Morgan, M. L. Hawley, J. 11.
Swope, J. W. Start, E. E. Shipley, G. W.
Hobbs, J. W. Cornelius, and T. Myers, of
the Baltimore District. W. Prettyman
was retired to the superannuated list.
W. H. Chapman, W. Holliday, R. 11.
Murphy, J. J. Sargent, W. M. 1). Ryan,
W. F. Speake, S. V. Leech, H. McNemar,
F. S. Cassady, W. T. L. Welch, E. D.
Owen, C. C. Cronin, J. W. Hoover, and
W. H. Laney, of tho South Baltimore
District.
N. J. B. Morgan, B. Peyton Brown, B.
N. Brown, F. S. Dcllass, George V.
Leech, William Krebs, J. H. M. .Lemmon,
William Hamilton, James M. Bayliss, Job
W. Lamdcn, William B. Edwards, George
M. Berry, J. K. Wheeler, A. J. Porter,
Alfred 11. Amess and G. G. Markham, of
the Washington District.
Mr. Blake moved that a committee of
five members, together with the lay stew
ard, be appointed, who should prepare
arid submit a plan of life insurance of
preachers. The committee was appointed,
as follows : I >r. W. B. Edwards, B. Pey
ton Brown, S. V. Leech, T. A. Morgan,
A. C- Gibson, and all the hay stewards.
Upon this motion Mr. B. E. Gant spoke
at some length, detailing the advantages
of the proposed measure, and was followed
by Messrs. Collins, Blake, and Morgan.
Dr. Trimble, Corresponding Secretary of
the VY estern Missionary Society • Dr
Wallace, editor of the Philadelphia fc
Journal; Mr. Pancoast, of the lowa Con
icrence ; Dr. \Y alden, Corresponding Sec
retary of the Methodist Freedmen’s Aid
Society, were introduced to the Conference.
Friday, 11 A. M., is fixed for the deliv
eT r ? ’■he missionary sermon by Dr. Ryan.
' he following lay stewards were appoint
ed v, Y Steinmetz, B. G. Gant, and J.
H. Cadden.
At I”! P. M., the Conference adjourned
to meet to-morrow morning at 9 A. M.
Rev. B. F. B. Leech preaches this even
ing at the Eutaw Street Church. — Balti
more American. Wednesday evening.
The railways of which Chicago is the
centre includes 5,000 miles of track.—
Chicago is the centre of attrack-tion for
the whole West.
Belfast (Maine) people are hunting for
gold in that vicinity under the direction of
a “medium.” Circulating medium is what
they are after.
The Louisville Courier announces that
General N. B. Forrest is now preparing
and will soon have ready for the press a
book to be entitled “The Memoirs of
Forrest’s Cavalry.