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C viH assowLle at . .-rader.-A ille
SuLl-at !i o; thi* nianih. It ia .-tated that
B>h'>,,‘fierce will pr^ide.
|), v Os pHAVKR AM) HUMILIATION.—
The H . ith'irn Baptist Convention, at its
>n, named Saturday before the
1 ,jrt!i , c nuday In June next us a day of
;ri-n°rul praye and humiliation throughout
Neu ) ni’.K Steamers. —The Savannah
,\tj <•>■, o i yesterday, nays: “One
leaiiisliip lias been withdrawn from ouch
line (lurin'? the doll season. The 1 r ir<jo,
(f llunterA Ofminieil's line, left New
York on Tuesday; the Sw/t Jar into, of It.
11. Hardee's line, on Saturday; and the
Um. Hamm, of Wilder A Fill largo’s 1 uc-,
is to ■' ail on Thursday i exi, thus making
a dejiarture once in loitr days instead of
three times a week. With the increased
business of the fall, the regular tri-weekly
trips will be resumed.”
A Singij.ak Fact.—Tim grain trade of
Anieiiea sw-pis now completely reversed.
I ormetiv the We'tern .States fed (lie At
lantic seaboard and exported large qunnti
: ies of grain to Muropeund California.
tie l United States receives supplies from
boiti liuropeaiid California, nud It is ac
tually ice rdeil that Furopean wheat im
porte ! Into New York is being shipped
from that city to the West. Last year Illi
nois growers had hard work to gel forty
five cents a bushel ; now they have to pay
ab nit seven times that sum for it.
Robert J. Walker is authority for the
tatement that Rut-si: n A merit i wasoffer
■ and to the I oiled .States under Polk's ad
ministration lor nothing, and Housed. The
Russian Consul at New York says that the
failure of’the Fur Company rendered the
country a real incumbrance to Russia, and
that the opportunity of .throwing oil the
burden wiii be felt as a great relief.
Bishop Beckwith.— Our friend of the
.V. .(> lira is extremely solicitous that the
new Bishop of Georgia should take up his
ri'sideuc.) al Atlanta, mill Urges, as an in
ducement, its superiority as missionary
ground. Nobody will question the argu
ment though we understand other consid
erations will likely induce the Bishop to
loe lie al Macon, which is the centre of the
State, and presents unrivalled advantages
in many important respects, —Macon Tel
effruph.
Augusta has many advantages over At
lanta and Macon, and we sincerely hope
Bishop hock with will make this city his
future home, notwithstanding the solici
tations of our Atlanta and Macon friends.
We presume, however, that the good Bishop
will select his location, regardless of the
w ishesofour brethren of the press; but as our
friends have put in their claims for their
respective cities, we see no reason why
those of our beautiful “little town” should
not hr prmenti'il. As Atlanta and Macon
have now grown to be great cities, over
shadowing Savannah and Augusta, the lat
ter are only to bo considered as way sia
t ions on the route to these important cities.
.1 inl;s says that it is in conluinplatiqn to
make Atlanta and Macon see,-port towns
by building ship canals from both points
to Savannah. We are not sanguine of the
project o tin-as Macon is concerned; but
if Atlanta, the seat ofthe great progressive
Ntc\ ens-Slicrm in-Nhellabarger propagand
ists, undertakes the work, it must suc
ceed.
A Press Banquet.— At Richmond, on
Monday evening, tho editorial corps of
that city gave an ontortainnient to tho rep
■ onlativ, h of the press eons>rogateil there
i:i anticipation of tho trial of Mr. Davis.—
The s < at of honor at tiro held of tho table
teas tilled by Horace fireele'y. There was
present, also, (100. A. Townsend, of the
New York Tribune, lien. I’erley Poore, of
the Boston Journal, O'Conner of the Now
York Tiuus, and Washington of the
Xntiimal In/ciligenecr. Wit, wine, elo
<|tn nee, song anil good fouling prevailed.
Mr, tireoley declined to partake of the
supper, as it was his custom never to eat
at that hour, but made an appropriate
response to the toast “A re-united North
and South.” Mr." tireoley was observed
to wear a black slouch hat, and to a re
mark from the spokesman of the Bit h
nion.l /'. jo . that he was expected to ap
pear iu the renowned white lad, he replied
ilia! lie had never owned lut: one white
hat in hi - life. Thu i'ribnnr philosopher
was quite easy anti eommnnieative, and
regaled those near him with a number of
jokes upon himself, lie said that tin one
occasion, while walking along the streets
of New York, he heard ouu Irishman say
to another, “There's tiieeley.” “Tut!"
says the other, “that can't lie, for 11 roe
ley's u naigur!”
Milk t\the Gouda Ni t.—The Phila
tleiphia Age is not at n less to account for
Budical activity at the South. It says:
'•III regard to the votes of the negroes,
there is this fart that should not escape
public attention: The Katlieals _ have
pared no exertions to keep the Southern
Stubs out of the Tiiieu until tint blocks
should, under the law, exercise the
pri\ iiege ut suit rage. They have not, how
ever, displayed anything like the same
1 terest or energy iu negro sutlinge in the
Northern States This would at first seem
inconsistent, and inconsistent it would
e for any other than an Aboiiti m party.
I; ; however, susceptible of explanation.
Tho i.adiea s have counted ee: lainiy upon
the votes of the negroes of the South
n ~n,vo in their favor. They were afraid
to trust to the negroes of the North, who
had lived among them and understood
them too well to vote as they did."
The Lynchburg Virginian of Friday
Yesterday was the heaviest day in tobac
co of the season. The sales were very
heavy, and mostly of shipping, and the
prices were well sustained, ranging from
ten to seventeen dollars per hundred. The
i rakes were completed at only two ware
houses. owing to the quantity of tobacco in
market.
s. Hempstead, postmaster at Adel,
lowa, was arrested on Monday for robbing
the mu il. Tie had been suspected for some !
time, and was caught by a detective, who
mailed to his office a i Lvov letter contain
ing marked money, 'lire letter was ab
stracted from the mail, and the marked
money found iu the postmaster’s posses
sion.
Miscegenation in Egypt. —The New*
Y ork Journal of (himnercv says:
Avery curious picture of human life is
now presented iu some of the mud huts of
old Egypt, and a picture which might
arouse some of the sympathies of Ameri
can philanthropists. Many of the peasant-,
known as h!ioh<. have made money by
raising cotton. This is something quite
new to tho country. A fellah with a few
gold coins to spare is a rarity. Formerly
the man would have given his shining
pieces to his dusky wife to ornament her
head-dress. But his capital is new larger,
and the first luxury he seeks is a white
wd'e. Young girls, accustomed to the
’case and indolence of an education designed
tu tit them for the harems of the wealthy
lurk-, are bought by these peasants and
mu le queens of mud huts, compelled to
pa-s their lives in the most hopeless dogra
< tat ion. The slave dealer cares nothing
! ‘te into which he sells the girl, so
v "my receives his price. This has be-
L "one 0^£ on c occurreßce iu EgTPt, and
American wJr reaching reSult * of the
■ J‘ ,E T V [‘;''i TA Road.—Pre?-
eleiit John hcreven publishes intheSa
vannah papers of a strong and
* or .J, 1, lL n for extending his road
is absolutely necessary to raise the
-Macon Telegraph. no,ILJ *
The !few i'ork Press on the lottile
Kiot.
at Mobile has bien ?r?a*h- misrepresented
and u-ed by the Rad:-,I press of the coun
try agam.it our people. 1 p-, fiu.cly
asserted by tbe ; e un: rj ncipbtti ensation
momrer* th&t thf? wh ~A*s matter • \?t: -
row, breaking up. the nitering andassa..-
• mating Judge Kill .
But the'faets in the case are that the
nflarumatory arc] bombastic harangue of
th;- man. elicited from a tipsy individual
op the outskirts of ti c crowd the remark
"put him out." Mr. Keiiy straightway
became panic-stricken; he appealed to
the crowd and the 1 'nited States troops to
protect hint. The police in arre ting tiie
white man can. .1 u littlo couiiuojtion,
which, added to tins platings of the Radical
Apostie, set the whole mass into confusion
and panic, r -suiting in a riot, for which
th- citizen Mobile ere in no w . i
sponsible, but which is attributable -solely
to Judge Kelly. Yv itliout the c lurago of
Donnybrook Fair-man, he wanted “some
body to tread on tho tail of his coat,’’’ but
when the row commenced, he took re
fuge under a table on the platform and lost
his hat in the meie . JJisturbaneeskSf this
kind should be avoided. Our people
should positively rqkue to bo ;>rcsuit at
all political gatherin:-* where appeals are
made to past prejudices by Radical emis
saries, and in this way. will difficulties be
prevented, and the public peace preserved.
'1 he New Y ork papers, so far as we have
.seen, while coudemuiug the originators of
the riot and regretting the consequences,
justly hold Judge Kelly and his party,re
sponsible for the late disturbance at Mo
bile and Richmond.
The 1 Jerald looks upon these riots as
indications ofthe future, and the result of
attempts to cram hateful political doctrines
down the throats of our people. It .says
the South is to become a second Kansas :
“The .Southern Stales aro to become the
theatre of the Kume soi l of polilical drama
that must be more exciting as the scene is
larger, as the passions arc more intense, as
the results expected must be creator, and
as there arc more cities to bo burned and
throat* to lie cat, In iro the result scan be
come attainable to -either party, ft is easy
for tiie Norti.i, quietly looking on, specta
tors of the terrible struggle, to see what
must the inevitable i sue. \fe tie a
people down by military law—we tell
them that their (States have no political ex
istence just now—that they are only free to
pursue thoordinary courseol'business and
social life, and must leave the rest alone.
They acquiesce and go on as quietly its i
heart could wish, eager only to be quiet--
grateful for rest from political turmoil
and for the chance to cultivate their fields.
But,presto ! before the ink ofourmilitary
laws is dry we let loose on them political
missionaries, propagandists, agitators, to
start again that very political life that wo
have said must for tiie present bo extinct.
We show them that they may go into
politics as much as they like, if they will
go in on the right ide, and we hint broad
ly that we are ready to distribute .South
ern lands lively to the class that will hid
highest for them in Republican votes,
it is useless to cover our eyes—wo may
shut out the view, but tho game goes on.
What Wilson will do plausibly and blandly
tho Haywoods and Uimnieuts will do ex
travagantly, savagely, and even without a
decent attempt to covey a bad purpose,
liven Judge Kelly puts forth braggart in
vitations lor someone to tread on the tail
of his coat, and ho twists Ihe United Sates
army into a most convenient shillalah
with which to damage all hotels that may
come in his way in tlusiine faction light.
No one at the North is deceived by such
l'ume no one here listens with lespeet to
any man’s declaration that lie will come
with the whole United States army behind
him, if he i innot otherwiso pump He
pubiicai; doctrine into tho open ears of the
whole South.”
So far as appears tho trouble in Mobile
was the work of a handful of blackguards
who were hanging on tho outskirts of tho
crowd, and who had come to the meeting
for the express purpose of disturbing its
proceedings. The mass of those m attend
ance had no sympathy with their con
duct, nor does it seem to have received
any countenance or support from the body
of the community. Thu authorities evince
their disapproval of it in the most marked
manner, arrests have been made of the
parties engaged lit it, and assurances were
given to Judge Kelly that if lie would ad
dress the people of Mobileaguin he should
receive the most complete protection.
We take it for granted, therefore, that no
attempt will be Hindu to hold the people of
Mobile —still less the people of the whole
South—respt>:isiblu for this outrageous
attempt to interfere with the freedom of
speech. Tt i- quite true, as the Rixnint/
/Via*/ remarks, that “Judge Kelly had a
right to speak ill Mobile, and to use the
bitterest language he could command;”
but wo do not agree with the Vo.sl that
“ the iristioiH of uttering such language is
not in question.” We submit that, so far
as public opinion in the North is con
cerned, that is in question. If it were im
portalii to the well-being of the country
that we should test the temper of the
Southern people to the uttermost—that wo
should determine, by actual experiment,
just how much of insult they could be
'made to endure without resentment — .
then, perhaps, ii would Lie superfluous to I
inquire into the •‘wisdom” of tho speeches j
made to them by missionaries from the. 1
Northern states. It might in that ease ho I
desirable that we should try on them the j
exercise of every conceivable right which i
conquerors enjoy over n conquered, subject ]
peotde. \Ye have a “right” to apply to j
them every reproachful and opprobrious
epithet at command. We may denounce j
them to their faces as traitors, as perjured i
rebels, as liars, cowards and barbarians, j
Wo may rttlmku and revile them for tho;
past-ami denounce and menace them for
the future. The •• right,” to do all this be
longs to us as their conquerors, and they
have no right, to resent it. We may bring
the whole power of the? army of the United
States to support us in indicting upon
them these or any other verbal indignities
that individual ’ taste may prompt our
over-zealous and ebullient patriots to in diet
upon them.
Tho “right” so to’do Is not inept stion —it
is tho “wisdom” of doing ii, and that only,
which is in question. If we send men to
the South who wantonly iqputtaml exas
perate the Southern poop!*, wo must he
tolerant in judging of the tempo; in which
their insults are received. We do not as
sert the “right'’ of the s mth to resent them
—but we do denounce as tmnmtijv, un
wise and unpatriotic the spirit which
prompt -us to linii. t them. And :. is far
better for ns to be rigid in holding the
Northern men who will go S nth, to tire
lull reponsibiiity and their sayings and do
ings, titan it is ti> In' over-quick t resent
and punish Southern men for resenting in
sults even when it is their duty to accept
them in silence.
We say this n. t with nnv spooia: ; re
of condemning Judge Kelly, although
some of his remarks seem to have been
needlessly defiant and offensive: but for
the purpose of reminding ail Northern
speakers in the South that they are -3 > tod
to preserve their sop' respect and consult
the interest and harmony of the whole
country in their addresses to the Southern
people. 'They have no moral right -how
ever perfect their legal right may be—to
insult tile audiences that assemble to hear
them, or to stir up. hatted and strife among
tho different classes of the communities
which they \ isit.
>Vii .. Me -V York li' -f t
A most regrettable state of feeling is
springing up in the Southern cities, which
threatens to complivu: • matters a!ready
sttfflctently difficult, and to stillfurther de
lay and embarrass the oration of the
Union. Tho riot at Mobile on' Monday
evening, following close upon the negro
riots a: Ri< hm i IN ar Ori ins, chal
lenges inquiry iuto the cause of these most
mu.ovard disturbances. They tend not
only to revive thedecayinganimosities be
tween tho North and the South, but to set
race against race throughout the Southern
states.
The interruption of Judge Kellys speech
at Mobile, and the breaking npof the meet
ing assembled to hear it, might, if consid
ered alone, be susceptible of a coloring
which would represent the South as inimi
cal to free speech. It a: no such construc
tion is warranted by a full view of the facts.
Mr. Kelly has been for some time making
a progress through the South, speaking at
various places with all the freedom of a
Radical zealot; but nowhere else have
there been the slightest symptoms of dis
turbance. Senator Wilson, another free
spoken Republican, who has said many
distasteful things, is on his second stamp
ing Mur iu the South, and in all the nu
merous meetings he hfcs addressed he has
met with treatment as attentive and te
s; ectful as he received Last autumn during
the political canvass iu Maine. Horace
Greeley ami Merritt Smith, two life-long
and m stn itedaboliti aKts, made speeches
in Kicbmoud on ISuuday evening, and
were listened to with cordial good Tec-Hug
by whites as well as biacks.
The W-h-hl stars that Judge Kelly is
more chargeable with Marne than any
body else for the Mobile riot. It concludes:
We are in favor of the widest latitude of
free speech in the South, in the North, and
everywhere. Rut let the utterance of
opinion be alike free to ail! It is not free
dom but intolerance for the military au
thority to be used, as it is by tho recon
struction satraps, to warn and suppress
dissenting newspapers, while bitter Kadi
cstis like .1 ttdge Kelly boast that tho army
will I Hick them in every iusoiem and in
sulting strain of remark their envenomed
breath can utter. Nor i- it consistent with
treedoni to suppress such manifestations
of the feeling and temper of political audi
t enees as prevail in all countries wheie
I-o'.itioa! discussion is tolerated, ar.-i ise in
stantly exhibited even in the British Par
liament.
VVeJiaye no doubt that the speeches of
Wi.son ami Keiiy, and the attempts that
are making to array the black population
of the South in political hostility to the
whitei. a.-c unlortunate and mischievous,
although the sacred right of free speech
requires that they should bo tolerated.
The incipient negro riots in Richmond at
tiie close ofthe last week are their natural
fruit. Let if be borne in mind that it is
to prevent greater outbreaks of negro vio
lence that troops are encamped permanent
ly wiliiin the city ; that it was tiie negroes
that Judge Underwood found it necessary
!o warn, oil oiiadny, that, if they carried
at their projected riot the next day, ean-
u■ i-. .1i - • .anted t . sv. c-fi tin- -treci.-*
•bat it was the*negro Mounted Guards that
■ ..-neral Schofield disbanded ©n Monday,
hk dangerous to the public peace. The
iitat the negroes came armed to tiie
or. Sueh
demonstrations betoken consequences of
it idica! agitation which every patriot,
•vi.ich every friend of the South, and every
wi n-w i-ho: of-the negro race, should most
-...•ci iy icptv-.ueamieleplorc.
Ur op Prospects. ,
• KOI’.- i ACBENs ANb WILKINSON.
U-'.ru: xs Cos., G.v. .May 14, 1867.
iJoiht, tt '/‘ ler/raph : Crops in this coun
-1 ty and in Wilkinson are at present rather
encouraging. We have good stands of
cotton, and a heavy crop ot it planted, but
: all haw planted corn with the expectation
! of making enough for plantation use. The
; latter crop has received tiie first working,
and is generally in good condition. The
! small grain crop is not large, hut tolerably
i- good. -
It makes the thrifty cotton planter
smile to read such articles as “plant corn,
|or peri'h," in your paper. Why, sir, has
1 not every enterprising planter in ail the
! Southern country proven, to his great loss,
I during the war, that cotton is the only
; crop that is remunerative? But all should
i make their own provisions it*possible.
Respectfully, J. T.
j (jaot’.s in Pike.—We copy the follow
! ing letter fivm Pike county from the Grif
j fin St<tr, which says the facts stated an
! true, and applicable to that entire section
\ of the State.
Erin, Ga., May 17, 1867.
Editors Star : According to promise I
will say to you that the fanners and crops
are doing well in this part of the Territo
ry of Pike. In all my life I never saw
men more determined to do their duty.
They rise early, work hard, and have their
crops in a nice condition. Even the wo
men and children are to be found hard at
work in tho cotton Gold. The freedmen,
too, are doing well. Wheat is as good as
the land will produce; corn small, though
it looks well; oats sorry; cotton looks bad,
and a poor stand; gardens, Irish potatoes,
&c.. are splendid. So, upon the whole, a
kind Providence seems to favor us so far.
Last year this time the country was flooded
with water and the crops destroyed by
grass.
THE CROPS IN UERRIEN COUNTV.
Berrien County, Ga., May 1.7, 1807.
Editors Neicsand Herald: As you ask
information in regard to thegrowing crops,
I will state that our'eotton crop in this part
ofthe State is very sorry, owing to the
Spring dews and heavy rains. Corn is
very good, though rather late ; oats, the
best ever known in the country ; wheat,
scarcely raised here on account of rust.
The crops promise well in Lowndes,
Brooks, and other adjoining counties, but
there has been rather too much rain for the
best. I will say to you that there is more
cotton planted in this section than was
ever known, before, and it is cultivated al
most exclusively by Johnny Robs, as we
do not depend upon the free labor system
to auy great extent. P.
The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says the
wheat crop in Cobh and adjacent counties
never looked better, and all other crops
promise well.
The Wheat Crop.—Wc are pleased to
learn that the prospect for an abundant
harvest of wheat in this section is exceed
ingly promising If the weather should
continue favorable a few weeks longer and
the rust not pievail, a‘large yield may be
expected.-- Greensboro (Ga.) Herald.
Hail Storm. — A terrific hail storm
passed over a portion of Calhoun county
last Monday, doing great injury to the
growing crops. The Thiwson Journal Says:
Cotton lields in- which there were good
stands previous to the hail were left with
hut dim traces of the growing cotton.
Acres of corn in good condition were com
pletely destroyed, and re-planting rendered
necessary. Many calves, pigs and young
fowls were also killed.
Crops in Cherokee, Georgia. —The
Rome Courier , of.Monday, says:
Asa general thing, the wheat through
out this section looks finely. In some lo
calities the fiy has injured it, and in others
some rust upon the “blades,” is now re
ported. but we hear of no neighborhood,
taken as a whole, there is not a prospect, of
a tolerably good crop. < lorn is not doing
-o well. In many localities there is a bad
“stand,” and the cotton planted is likely
to he an almost entire failure. The cold,
dry weather, so favorable to wheat, is
ruinous to cotton, and not good fur corn.
Some planters are plowing up their cotton
and planting corn in its stead.
Arrivals and Departures of New ,
Youk Steamers to and for Savannah, j
—The following are tint names of the New
York and Savannah stetmers which will
run during the summer months, as well as
the day of their arrival and departure,
which will correspond to the same dates
in every monthuntil the revival of busi -
ness :
I'ROM NEW YORK.
Saturday, May 18 San Jacinto.
Thursday, May 2:1 Gen. Barnes.
Saturday, June 1.. Leo-.
Thursday, June (i Gen. Barnes.
l-'llOOt SAVANNAH.
Tuesday, May 21 Virgo.
Saturday, May 2.1 san Jacinto.
Thursday, May 2 ) Gen. Barnes.
Tuesday, June 4 Ia o.
Saturday, June 8 San Jacinto.
Thus - . iayyJuuel;? it. Livingston.
The New York Erection.—At the
recent New York election for delegates to
the State Constitutional Convention the
ayt rage Republh in majority was 2 ,602.
M aido Hutchins, the leading Republican
candidate, tcceived 154,72s votes, the high
est number cast ; and Ira Harris 151,471,
the lowest Republican vote cast. Horace
Urec’ey received 152,95:: votes. On the
Democratic ticket the highest vote was for
Henry i>. Murphy, 10:1,984, and the lowest
for Sanfoid E. Church, 125,001. Horatio
Seymour received 183.U67 votes : Augustus
Schell, 132.978, and Ceorge Law, 133,676.
The curious fact is developed by the returns
that the most widely known candidates of
each party received smaller number of
votes than candidates who had at best a
merely local reputation.
Brunswick and its Railroad. —A
letter from Brunswick, to the Covington
Enterprise, says:
The arrival of a cargo of railroad iron
for the Brunswick and Macon road, and
its discharge, adds a business feature to
our otherwise dull city. Other vessels, I
warn, similarly laden, are soon expected.
Should this road be pushed through,
Krurtswie k will grow rapidly. It- natural
advantages for a large maritime and com
inereial mart arc perhaps unsurpassed.
Ot the condition of the people in that
section of the State, the same letter re
ports :
The people here at present are quite
poor, and die larder of both white and
colored is largely supplied from the ocean.
Up to within the las: few days we have
been well supplied with oysters, crabs,
schrimps, and fish of various kinds.
A Memphis dispatch of the 17th inst.
says:
••Emerson Etheridge, Conservative can
didate for Governor, spoke in Court Square
this morning. About K),OO0 persons were
present, among them many ladies. He
was very bitter against Brownlow : he
showed the corruptions by which that
party sought to retain power. lie was
followed by General \\ . B. Stokes, who
defended Brownlow and the Radical party
with great warmth. He said Generals
Gram. Sherman, Thomas, and Sheridan,
were Radicals, and they concocted the
present reconstruction law. Both speakers
admitted that the rebels who fought were
quietly attending to their domestic duties,
and cared nothing for politics. All passed
i off quiet.’’
The New Orleans Plenu m- says : We
learn that the party of Kentuckians and
Missourians, who left this city about the
middle of February, on the bark Elizabeth.
for Venezuela, arrived out safely, and
were well received. They had an inter
view with the Governor, and found their
grant of land confirmed. Letters from
members of the party speak iu glowing
terms of the climate and productions, and
they found the senoritas particularly
charming.
AUGUSTA, GA,, VE DU ESI) AY MORNING MAY ‘29, 18(57.
True a> Gospel.
The Charleston Mercury has produced
some statistic: l which illustrates the philan
thropy of the Yankee for the negro. It
tells the whole truth*, and is as applicable
to tire institution of slavery in all the
Southern States as in South Carolina.
Here is what the Mercury says :
“Whilst Northern emissaries are trav
ersing the South, and striving to excite the
black against the white population, on ac
count of the past institution of slavery, it
may not be useless to show the part the
Northern people took in putting it upon
this continent. Two of these emissaries,
Mr. Wilson, a Senator from Massachusetts,
and a Mr. Solon Robinson, an adjunct of
the TriLun • office in New York, Loth
from New England, have favored us v,i:h
eloquent denunciations of South Carolina,
on account of her complicity and support
of this institution in former days. Coe
talked of the auction block, and the other
ofthe efforts made by the people of South ;
Carolina to protect themselves and this iu
stitution from the interference of Northern
incendiaries. Time will show, if the his- •
tory.of the past is any augury of the future,
that as unscrupulous and cruel as the
course of these people have been toward
the white race of the South, it has been
still more cruel and destructive toward the
black population. We propose, however,
at present, only to show the originators of
the evil of slavery in South Carolina, if
evil it has been ; and for this end, we pub
lish a table below carefully prepared from
the records of the custom house in Charles- |
ton, ia 18”0, anl laid before the Senate ofj
the United States by the Hon. William
Smith, a Senator from South Carolina, !
showing the number of African slaves im
ported from Africa into Charleston from \
the Ist January, 1804, to the hist December, j
1807, and by whom :
British 19,04!! !
French 1,079 ;
IX AMERICAN VESSELS.
Charleston, S. C 7,723
Os this number there were tie
longing to foreigners 5,717
Leaving imported by merchants
and planters«of South Caro
lina 2,000
Bristol, K. 1 3,914
Newport, R. 1 ;i,43S
Providence, R. 1 550 *
Baltimore 750
Savannah 300
Norfolk 287
Warfen 2SO
Hartford, Ct 250
Boston, Mass 200
Philadelphia 200 j
New- Orleans 100 j
39,075
“Ofthe thirty-nine thousand Africans im
ported, during those years into Charleston, :
the people of South Carolina imported !
only two thousand and six. The people I
of Great Britain and New England have
been the most prominent in denouncing |
us lor having slaves ; yet it appears that
Great Britain imported and sold to us
nineteen thousand six hundred, and Rhode !
Island seven thousand nine hundred, ’of
the thirty-nine thousand slaves. Rhode
Island, in order that she might see that
the auction block realized the value of her
importations, liad in Charleston eighty
eight of her trusty natives asthe consignees
of her cargoes. .Now, let it be recollected,
that this was long after the constitution
was in full operation in 1789, and just be
fore the entire prohibition of the African
slave trade took place in 1808, by the
terms of the constitution. When the con
stitution was made, in 1787, South Caro
lina had prohibited the importation of
slaves jrotn any quarter into the State.
“The zeal for the African with these
people, then, was exactly what it is now—
an affair of interest. Then , they went to-
Africa—took the negro from his country
—generally only men and hoys—and
brought him here and sold him to us.
They made money by the operation. Now
because we resist their faithlessness to the
constitution, and their u..,just legislation,
tjy taking taxes from us, and expending
them for their benefit, and enrichment; !
and in order that they may keep us down, I
and set up a power over us, under their j
control, to enforce their unjust rule— j
with mingled hate and avarice they pro
fess love for the negro -make war upon us
—emancipate the slaves they brought and
sold us, anu are sudsing, to organize them j
against us for their own interest and party [
ambition. In this cruel enterprise they 1
have already killed one-fourth of all the
negroes in the Southern States—more
than all the whites who perished in the
war. And now they are busy sending
emissaries all over the South, to array the
black against the white population, with
the certain knowledge that if their
efforts succeed, they are getting up a j
war of races which will inevitably end
in the utter destruction and extirpa
tion of the poor negro from this con
tinent. They delude him with the idea
that they will make him the equal of the !
white man ; that they will make him rule j
the white man—that they will take away
the lands and houses of the white man
and give them to him. We have not a
doubt that this is exactly the sort of
language that they used toward their an
cestors when, on the coast of Africa, they
got them into their slave-ships and brought
them across the Atlantic. Excepting in
two States ofthe thirteen Southern States, j
the white population is greater than the
black ; and in these two States, the races
are.becoming rapidly equalized from death
and emigration. In the thirteen Southern
States, there are eight millions of whites
to three millions of blacks. To attempt to
rule the white population by the black in
any of these States, is the most wicked
and cruel nonsense—too cruel to be at- j
tempted liy any people but those who are
attempting it. We believe, however, that
it will fail. It will fail, just as all their
efforts to get up negro insurrections during :
the war failed; and the black race will
have intelligence enough to understand the
designs of these old friends of theirs, and
strive to live in harmony with those who
have, with them, a common country and a
common destiny.
A Horrible Story—An Extraordinary
Crime by a Child.
A private letter, written by a resident
of Fort Pitt, a small settlement in the
Valley of the Saskatchewan, Prince Ru
pert's Land, contains the following account,
of a most terrible occurrence which took
place there on tho 13th of March :
A dreadful affair happened here the
other day ; such a singular and out-of-the
way crime, if it can bo so called, that is
almost without the bounds of credibility, j
The name of the last new-comer is Martin
Buthiere. He is a habitan from lower Cana
da. He came here last fall, accompanied by
his wife and five children. It is in this fami
ly that the dreadful tragedy which I am
about to relate took place. On Saturday,—
inst.. Buthiere killed three pigs, slaugh
tering them in the usual manner—that is,
after stabbing the animals and allowing
them to bleed to death whilst walking
around, he disembowelled them, and
plunged their carcases into a vat of boiling
water, and then scraped the bristles clean
from tho skin. The three pigs were then
hoisted by the hind legs to an overhang
ing beam. The butchering operations of
Martin were witnessed by hts two younger
children, boys, of the respective ages of
six and eight years. The oldest, Gustave,
it was observed at the time, seemed de-
Hehted, not only by the stupid actions of
the pigs afterreceiving their death wound -,
Lut also excited and interested in the niter
processes - clapping
tie hands and muttering, iu the patois ot
these people, childlike observations of joy.
: The butchering, as 1 have before observed,
took place on Saturday. In the morning
o fthe next dav the various members o: the
different houcehoids assembled in the mue
; chapel at the east corner of the fort, and
heard mass celebrated by our good father
Guoreau. He invited us to attend in tne
eveuinc. when he intended to lecture upon
i some subject suitable .to this season or the
Church year. Iu compliance witn Ins in
vitation the chapel in the evening was
filled with the usual number of worship
pers with the exception of some _ot the
younger members of the community who
! had been left at home. Among these lat
i ter were the two boys of Martin Buthiere.
It was pretty late when the meeting broxe
up I accompanied Buthiere and ms wile
} toward their house, which was but a short
distance from the c-hapel. YY hen within
a few vards of his doorstep we were an
startled by observing the iitfcle Gustave
running toward us holding up his hands
a ll r ed and bloodv: his eyes glistening with
•< wild, but child-like sort ofgiee, and cry
ing out in broken French to the effect that
he = had ''killed little piggy; come anu
I xc •' The mother, startled at the ap
pearance of the boy, interrogated him
auicklv as to the cause of the blood, Uu
he only clapped his hands as before, mut
. tering about "piggy- and said. Come
and see ” My first thought was that the
! child had been playing with the carcasses
of the Dies, and that this accounted for the
blood. ‘The father and mother also seemed
of the same opinion, and chided tne boy
for what they considered his mischievous
ness. Little did we imagine the fearful
' spectacle that awaited us within the house,
j Soon the door was reached, little Gustave
running on before and opening it For us.
Oh, h error ‘ horrors ! The door is open
ed. and right before our eyes, hanging
from one ol the low beams that ran across
the room- was the dead, naked, mutilated
hodv ,:• the precious little boy. the young
e : of Buthiere s children. Tne iloor wa
covered with dots and pools of blood, still
warm and .-treaiaing, and. horrible to re
.am, directly unuer the hanging corpse
were the bo wok of the little fellow iu a
heap, just as they hadbeeu torn from the
-.ill warm iody! The mother, with a
frantic shriek, . crooned on the threshold,
the faiNar transfixed. Fith.horror,
whilst. 1. with a -.'-tokening feeling, leaned
against the doorpost, and with my hands
t: It I t stisa--- jay eyes from the horrid
sight. Some of- the villagers, who were
pawing at the time, _ attracted by the
shrieks of Mrs. Buthiore, came to the
house. Their exclamations aroused ail but
the poor mother to_ consciousness, and we
soon be.-line : cr:-ihte to the trigutiul Ra
tin'.: of tiie dvc : ■ hat hud taken place. The
boy Gustave, ;:t the meantime, stood near
the centre ofthe room, with a wondering
lock on ius youthful countenance, and
gazing up in the appalled face of his
agonized father. Let me draw avail over
the scene which followed, and merely re
count the following facts which have been
elicited by an in-ppctiou of the roo;n and
from the confVsstous of the young fratri
cide: It would seem that, shortly after •
Mr. and Mrs. Euthiere had left their home
for the purpose of attending the lecture at
the chapel, Gustave proposed to his little j
brother, Adolph- that they should play
killing pig. In this request, it is supposed,
the uutortwy n’e; • Mttlis ie'iloyy acquiesced-
The yofttijiSt was t > the pig,' theeldest ‘j
the butcher. Gustave eagerly assisted his i
brother to undress for the tragedy; and,
taking a small rope, tied him down secure- !
ly to a rough lounge that stood in the ;
room; lie then procured the butcher knife j
that his father had used iu slaughtering j
the pigs the day before and plunged it into |
the throat of his passive and helpless j
brother The wound was a mortal one, and
it is supposed that death must have im
mediately resulted. After the child had
bled his little life away the _ unnatural
brother, with the most incredible heart
lessness, took the cord which confined the
body to thelounge, and, tying'one end round
the ibet of the corpse, threw the other over
the beam, and, lending- Ins weight _ and j
strength, hoisted the body to the position
in which it was found; then, not satisfied j
with the programme thus far carried out,
the little butcher must needs disembowel
his dead brother almost in the exact man
ner in which his father had the pigs the
day before. I mention here that the hoy-
Gustave has always been considered as
possessing a weak intellect, but was
thought to he a good-hearted and tractable
child. What could have induced him to
commit this fearful crime is beyond our
conjecture, except it bet from an unavoid
able desire to imitate his father in the kill
ing of the pigs. Since the tragedy he has
seemed to realize, ia a certain degree, the
fearful nature of the deed, and cries bitter
ly when lie sees how unhappy his father
and mother are. At present he is kept in
close custody, hut what disposition the
authorities will make of him 1 cannot say.
Kew York Correspondence.
New York, May 17th, 1867.
ARRIVAL OL’ JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Yesterday morning, shortly after mid
night, the President of the late Southern
.Confederacy arrived in the city. Owing
to the early hour of bis arrival, there was
no crowd, but a few of his friends, who
escorted Mr. Davis and party to the New
York Hotel. As soon as the daily papers
were issued and read, quite a crowd start
ed for the hotel, in hopes of catching a
glimpse of the “Great Rebel,” but were
sorely disappointed, Mr. Davis keeping
close, and being only visible to a few
friends’. In the evening he attended the
performance of Mine. Riston, in aid of
the Southern Relief Fund, and is expected
to become a guest of his able counsel,
Charles O’Conor, for a few days, when-he
will go to Canada to visit Lis children, it
is quite amusing to read the comments of
the press on his release. The majority of
the Radical papers, while acquiescing iu
his release, believe that he ought to have
been brought to trial long ago and pun
ished; the Conservative urcsg, op thy othcr
'hand, proclaim that the (rovernmenf has
just now done what should have been done
more than a year ago. One thing is cer
tain, Mr. .1 )avis is a free man, to go wherev
er he pleases, and the trial in November is
a farce never to be enacted. He has
proved air “elephant” in the hands of the
Government, uuti they aro heartily glad to
get l'iu of him, after confining him in
prison for two years and not daring to
bring him to trial.
THE FINANCIAL PROSPECTS
are somewhat gloomy, and failures here
aro the order of the day. Yesterday Mr.
John Leighton, a’well-known Wall-street
• broker, was arrested on the charge of em
bezzlement to a considerable amount, and
it is reported that lie has victimized the
residents of Boston for two or three hun
dred thousand dollars, Ho has hitherto
borne an excellent character, and was con
sidered a shrewd speculator. It is rumored
that the Secretary of the Treasury has ex
pressed an opinion that no further rer
ductiou of the public debt need be looked
for at present, but there is every likelihood
of an increase for some time to conic.. This
don’t look much like paying off the debt
in thirty year '.
A- GENERAL DULLNESS
of business i- beginning to be generally
felt. 1 have been told by merchants here
that their sales in' the busiest seasons don’t
amount to as much as their salifs in the
dullest times before the war. The trade
with the South amounts to next so noth
ing—Southern merchants buying very lit
tle, and being scarce of All this is
beginning to be felt, and can be seen in
every direction. Living is enormous, and
although the poorer c'asses are better paid
for their labor than ever before, yet it is
almost impossible to live. The fault
lies with the rascally Congress, who,
instead of legislating for the financial re
construction of the country, paid all their
attention/ to the destruction of the
South, morally, socially and politically.
Instead of relieving the South of the tax
ation on cotton, and repairing the levees of
the .Mississippi, everything was done that
could cripple her people and place them
under disabilities next to impossible to
bear. Not alone the South but the,whole
country is beginning to feel the crash which
will and must eventually follow the action
of the Radical fanatics who disgrace the
country as its law-makers.
THE MOBILE AND RICHMOND RIOTS.
The Radical paper:; are loudly clamoring
over the late riots in Richmond and
Mobile, and, of course, leave it at tho doors
of the ‘’unrepentant robe's,” who should
be taught to learn that the right of free
speech must be allowed to everybody.
Free speech, forsooth ! If the incendiary
harangues of such hypocritical rascals as
Wilson and Kelly can be called ‘'free
speech, the sooner it is done away with
the better. No later than last Fall I wit
nessed Hr. Butler.(the beast) pelted with
rotten eggs for not saying quarter as much
as this Radical missionary Kelly, who is
hired to scatter the seed of discord among
the colored people and their late masters.
AMUSEMENTS, ETC., ETC.
Notwithstanding the dullness of the
times the places of amusement are nightly
The “Blac : ( rook i till quite
an attraction, having, so far, the unprece
dented run of two hundred and fifty n
The manager has gone to Europe to secure
the services of another corps d c ballet,
which will, no doubt, enable him to keep it
running until the winter season. Mine.
Ristori's last representation, D'aetin,
takes place on Tuesday night, when she
appears as Mai •», the tragedy selected for
her debut in America. The queen of
tragedy ha- had unbounded success here,
and leaves i'or Europe on Saturday. She
has cleared over two hundred thousand
dollars in six months. he newest sensa
tion in the theatrical iine is the production
of Dion Bourcicault’s play of the “Flying
Scud,” which is drawing crowded houses.
; The plot shows the ups and clowns and vi
cissitudes of life on the lurf. and the scene
of the Derby races is one of the finest
; pieces of stage mechanism ever produced
iin this country. It is needless to say that
jit is destined for a long run. The Opera,
despite Bennett and the incendiaries, has
been very successful tnis reason, and Max
Maretaek has coined money and estab
lished, beyond peradventure, the Opera in
America.
TIIE BROADWAY IIRIDG;',
That very ugly structure, the Broadway
Bridge, is at length completed, and to the
' discomfiture of a certain class of gentry,
the lady's ignore it, preferring the atten
tion of the handsome-policemen m thetr
! street crossing to exposing their ankles to
j the would-be observers. L. ■>. it
The receipts of the
''Oifetv the past vear were : for
j the seven months of this fiscal year, 8145,-
; OUO.
Flax seed is being sown very exten
sively by the Western farmers this season.
There were 3,820 steamboat arrivals in
; gt Louis for the year ending Thursday.
jiu?on Correspondence.
Macon, Ga., May 20,1807.
Messrs. Editors: While trade is at a
stand still—and the prospect ahead oi’ a
long dull season—we are making the most
» stiv< time. ' Sweet May,
thal free;: the land front gloom." has
opened for us all he.-: - ores of jollity, and
the injunction of the old poet is obeyed
with a wiii;
*• Up then, children, we will go
Where the blooming roses grow,
In a joyful company.”
And for the. nonce, we are taking a full
round of pic-nies and May parties—not, in
the open day. only, but extending the en
gagements through these glorious moon
light nights. To the children it is a joyful
time —even to those whose life is shadowed ,
by the sad condition of orphanage. How
touching those ceremonies last Wt dnesday,
at your beautiful cemetery —the tribute's
of the Augusta orphans to the memory of 1
their benefactors ! Our orphans, too. have
been brought to public nonce. Unfor
tunately their claims have not yet secured
for them a Hove. The preliminary steps
toward so good an end have been at least 1
taken, ana last night the Urytsbyterian
Church, a spacious structure, was filled i
with a congregation that contributed like- ;
rally to the deserving enterprise. The
contribution is reported to amount to about
two thousand ’dollars. The good work
should go on until aa institution be reared
rivalling the noble “foundations” of
Charleston and Augusta.
Addresses were u- kverod by the Rev.
D. YV ills and Rev. M. Warren —both men
of nrtrk. JMvW. h;:s a -•—r-taron ;es ,ia
orator. Trf one respect, at least, nets a '
model public speaker : in the perfect dis
tinctness of his enunciation —not a syllable
slurred, but coming out with a ink, round ;
deliverance. It was said (and if I mistake
not so announced) that Hon. Howell Cobb
would address the assemblage. Quite a
mistake and the occasion of great disap
pointment to many. It would have been j
a treat to hear the distinguished gentle
man on the exalted theme of charity. On j
this occasion some of the best musical |
talent of the city was drawn upon to give i
effect to the services. The solos were fine, 1
but the performances—concert or oratorio, j
or what you trill —lacked power; how j
could it be otherwise iu pieces executed by j
four or six voices only in so large a build- ;
ing ? To such an occasion a full choir is j
appropriate; lor iu a public musical ex- I
hioition —eveil a sacred one ivpit>er's
have force ; and in this particular the
organ loft may profit by a hii?t from the j
stage, which usually renders the master- j
pieces with “the whole strength of the \
company.”
There is a notable.amount of musical
talent in the good city of Macon. Highly
cultivated, too. The high attainments iu
this science are due jn.no small degree to
an institution —the Wesleyan Female Col
lege—well-known throughout this State,
and noted for the excellence of'its training
in tills branch, no less than in others, of
womanly culture. This excellent institu
tion is the oldest chartered college in the
United States—so I am informed—aiftl
from the superbly printed catalogue lor
ISG6-7, a gem of typographic art-. It
appears that the college has nearly re
covered from the prostrations occasioned
by war-times. The catalogue gives 153
names • for the current scholastic year.
No better men or abler professors are to
be found than those who constitute the
faculty of this institution of learning.
Our quiet community Was startled last
week by the intelligence of the murder of
Mr. Isaac Hoard. The accused perpetra
tors—two white persons and three colored
—are to have an examination to-day be
fore the proper authorities.
•Hardly -less startling to us is the rumor
of any public improvement in these stag
nant times. A public park is talked of- —
but of course nothing tangible will come of it.
The matter that, most profoundly inter
est us all just now is that of the crops.
The farmers say there can be no liner
weather for wheat than we are now blessed
with. The yield expected is, iu some cases,
extraordinary for this section. One field 1
have heard of in Monroe eo., is estimated
at thirty bushels to the acre, and another
in Houston co., a line yield. On the
latter, however, guano has been freely
used._ In one or two exceptional cases
the wheat will he cut at the close of this
week. For any and ail cheering signs let
its" ‘ 1 tliahk ’GelTamTtake^'cin'fa
CnirFUEUR.
Incidents or Ute Mobile Disturbance.
Mo Riot —An Unreasonable Escapade—
Kelly s Conscience Excites his Cow
ardice —lie Fires in Alarm, Trembles
Behind a Guard at the Battle House,
and Charters a Steamboat.
The Late Riot ami Panic. —The dis
turbance that occurred at the meeting to
hear Judge Kelly was the result, as we
have stated, of the merest accident- First
a citizen who had been drinking made sev
eral load comments on portions of Judge
Kelly’s remarks that Aid not please him.
This happens at every political meeting.
It was very-imprudent and improper to
have been indul I his in eeting. 1 n
truth, the best thing that the white people
can do is to keep away from these 'meet
ings. The police endeavored to quiet the
tipsy citizen, and failing in that, to arrest
him. The arrest provoked a scuttle, and
about the same time a carriage and horses
ran off through the outskirts of the Crowd,
producing a rush'to get out of the way.
The ttf p circumstances created the impres
sion m the body of the crowd that there
was a light begun, and the whole mass
broke up and dispersed at double quick.
Meantime the freedmen commenced firing
their pistols, and, as we learn, in the air,
as they ran. The last account must be
true, tor. as there worefrom 150 to 200 spots
tired, if they had been uimetfin the crowd,
nearly as many men must have been hit.
As it was, the shot! casualties do not ex
ceed six or eight, and most all of those
white men.
Judge KClj. —Since the • escapade of
Judge Kelly from the speakers’ stand at
the late meeting, he has been at the Battle
House, with a platoon of United States
soldiers there to guard him. That fact,
will no dm;' r • ifadccPin Radical-circles
as a most couueianim: cue to'the state of
feeling hi this city. We iv.:i .assure our
Northern readers that gn at us the injury
this man has been the cau m of inflicting on
the peace of this community; ho would
have been perfectly safe without a guard.
That ids conscience sjtouifl have i |m ...
ished him that he inquired a guard is not
surprising.
Riot Incidents, —it is ia
ported on the streets am.Mg the colored
population, that our Mr. Forsyth tired at
Judge Kelly from the cast window of his
house, which overlooked the ipoakiar’s
platform ana the general scene of the
meeting. The truth of the ease was that
Mr. Forsyth was at the Patti concert with
his family, and left his house before the
meeting was organized, and did not get
back until the military reached the ground.
Another report is that seven shots were
fired from the’ same window. The truth
is chut one shot game theta, but none went
from it.
A. gentleman living pretty high up
Church street, was standing in his door as
a party of the freedmen wore retreating from
the meeting, and saw one of them, shoot
twice at a. lady who was looking out at a.
neighboring door tosqe what the row was
ciDoiia Ahcsfiois fortunately uii.v.vj‘l fire,
and Judge Kelly escapes the responsibility
of her blood.
Hi cLLi L 1 iC i■> .. _i.!; - .i; ii >.it [ . i.ml ij .i a iiOy
of the same corps, Flavor Withers called
on Judge Kelly , yesterday morning, and
informed him that a military guard was
wholly unnecessary to his safety, and that
if lie desired to peak again in the day
time, he would pledge himself for his
safety. Judge Kelly couldn’t '‘see it.
*
j over to the Montgomery railroad landing
on the Tensas river.
Tim Mayor and Mr. Ac#/.—We learn
that (Jen. Withers, the Mayor of the city,
.
and expressed regret that the meeting he
was addressing the night before should
have been broken up by riotous conduct.
The Mayor assured him that all lawlessness
was utterly condemned oy the community,
whose tone, temper and sentiment were as
; well understood by him as by any man
living; that he felt that the guard of
so! tiers at the Battle Rouse for Mr. Kelly s
protection was an unnecessary and unjust
reflection upon the people ct tins city,
who deserved no; to be condemned for the
lawlessness of a few bad men; such as
: every large community is cursed with ;
that he would be pleased if Mr. Kedy
would request the withdrawal o. the guard,
go where he pleased, and remain here and
address the public, as might be pleasing to,
himself : that if he would do so, that such
was ids (Gen. Wither's: confidence in the
law-abiding disposition of cur citizen.-, that
he would be personally and officially re
sponsible for me slightest indignity that
should be offered. A e are not advised as
to what reply Fir. Kelly made to Gen.
A ither.s. but we presume that the Mayor s
assurances had very little effect upon his
perturbed spirit, as he left the city soon
1 after by a special boat.
i.etier Lorn Hon. 8. F. Perry.
To tin- Editors ofthe Cohnnhia Plnenir :
J- is most extraordinary, indeed, and
v.i: boas terrific in its results as ii is now
strange and wonderful, to see nn educated,
• refined and gallant people seeking repose
and protection from apprehended political
! evils, under the government and control of
; their former slaves—an inferior race, ut
terly ignorant and debased: There is
nothing in the history of all the nations of
the earth, fbr the last six thousand years,
comparable to It in folly and madness. Fu
cure ages will regard it as the most re
markable fafuity that ever possessed any
people.
Vi hat a change lias come over the spirit
and ieeiings of South Carolina within the
last seven years ! The Federal Union was
then benifieeni, republican and constitu
tional. There was not-an act of Congress,
for eight previous years, which any one
complained of as unjust or oppressive.
We were as happy aucj prosperous as a
people could be. And yet thaw Union was
hated and despised! The rose up
cn mar. -and solemnly determined to rid
themselves of it or die in the attempt!
Now, that Union has trample! the Con
stitution in the dust, violated every re
publican principle, and heaped on us 1
tyranny and oppression which, its .Chief
Magistrate declares, no people, speaking
the English language, have ever borne for i
the last five hundred years! And the
people of South Carolina have so changed
within;seven short years that they are now
clamorous to get back into the Union, and |
hug its tyranny and oppression to their
bosoms—to lick the rod that lias smote j
ike. to the earth and desolated. then
ritate! In order to hasten their return, I
they are not only willing to give up all the
rights of their State —all constitutional
and republican principles, and self-govern- i
ment —but to transfer the government of ;
their once proud and chivalric State into
the hands of the negroes ! Intelligence,
virtue and refinement are to be ruled by I
ignorance and baseness! 'The wealth of
the State to be taxed and plundered by a
race of paupers, who will portion out the
lands and vote themselves homesteads, i
and whose legislation will he such as to
bring, eventually, sooner or later," a war of I
races, in which one or the other must be
exterminated. Whilst writing, I have |
been told that confiscation was boldly j
avowed by the negro convention which !
assembled in Charleston last week.
It is great mistake to suppose that, by
all this humiliation and degradation, we
shall get. back into the Union or be re
lieved of military government. Congress
has given no such guarantee, and leading
Radicals assert to the contrary. The Union
will not be restored until after the next
President;! election —the votes of the
Southern States are not wanted in that
election. A military government, or a
standing army, in South Carolina, after the
enfranchisement of the negro, will be ab
solutely necessary to preserve the peace
and keep down the oppressed white race.
Nothing else will do it. Instead of being
relieved from tiie oppressions of Congress
and military rule, we shall have called into
existence, by our own votes, a third power,
more odious and revolting, more galling
and destructive, than either of the other
two.
No one who reflects can mistake the pur
pose of the Radioal party—the sole pur
pose which they have in view- -and to ac
complish which they are attempting to
move heaven and earth. They have been
influenced in their recent atrocious, bar
barous legislation much more by the hope
of c-ontinuing and perpetuating their power
in the government, and their existence as
a party, than by any love for the negro or
wrongs on Southern people. If their pur
pose had been solely revenge, they could
have instituted, all over the country,
prosecutions for treason, and by military
commissions or negro juries have brought
any prominent man to the gallows. For
two or three years, they waged war against
the Southern States without attempting to
interfere with slavery v or raising a finger to
relieve the poor African from his thral
dom. It was only when they found that
the “Great Rebellion” could not be other
wise suppressed, and that they could suc
cessfully use our slaves against us, that
they declared them free, and enlisted them
in their armies. This was anew element,
and a most powerful one, which they
brought into the contest. By it, they in
creased their forces 2UO,UOd, and greatly
w'eKker.cd the resources of 'the"Southern
States. They cared nothing for the negro,
except to see him slaughtered in battle,
instead of their own soldiers. This was the
extent of their love and philanthropy for
tho African race—nothing more, nothing
less. It is supposed that f ,000,000 of this
unfortunate people, who were happy arid
contented slaves, perished during the war
by disease, hunger, cold, exposure and
neglect, or were killed iu battle. And no
candid or impartial man can say that the
condition of the survivors, as a whole,
has been beuefitted. Time will prove that
their destiny, as a free race in the South
ern States, is extinction.
Anew vision has now broke upon the
wicked hopes and purposes ofthe Badical
Gongress. They think, by giving univer
sal suffrage to the negro, they will be able
to Radicalize the Southern States. With
•this, aim, the Military Bill was passed,
destroy ing the Sfates, disfranchising lead
ing public men arid enfranchising the negro.
They were afraid to take so bold a step in
infamy and in violation of all constitution
al rights before the election., last Fall, in
the Ncrthern States. 1-lad they done so,
tiiey would have been deposed in all
those States where the negro is not allow
ed to vote. The elections in Connecticut,
this Spring, provethis fact. Large Demo
cratic gains iu all the municipal elections
North give evidence of the truth of this
assertion. Kentucky has just swept the
Radical, party out of that State. Every
where we hear of a reaction in favor- of
constitutional liberty. If we will have
patience, and bear our wrongs like Chris
tians and patriots, our deliverance will
come ; hut, ibr God’s sake, do not let us
ourselves rivet the chains on our own
hands.
in order to radicalize the South, and stir
up antagonism between the two races, and
set them to cutting each other’s throats,
.Republican emissaries, black and white,
great and small, arc travelling all over the
h'ou. hern States, and making the most in
is u haiy speeches, organizing secret soci
eties. and forming ‘'Union Leagues.”
I"mm tor \\ iis mi, of Massachusetts, gave
the people of Charleston, the other week, a
specimen of his tactics and political
strategy;. Nothing can be more diabolical,
or less iii.ely to promote the true interest
of tin* black man, than such a course. It
w; . how: v r, vo very far toward estrang
in'" the freedim u from n . and building up
a Moiigand powerful Radical party in all
the Southern States, if left alone the
negro would act in harmony with his
former owner. It is his interest to do so
!>ut of tliis there is now little hope. -Every
day, by means of this Radical agitation
and misrepresentation, he will bo less and
less under the influence of his true friends
and neighbors. At present,’ out of the
towns and villages, the negroes care noth
ing about his right of suffrage, and knows,
nothing. Unless influenced by bad men,
lie will not trouble himself to register or
vote. This, however, will not always be
the case. If', therefore, we are wise in the
coining election, true to ourselves, and
have the true interest of the negro at
heart, we may defeat the call of a con
vention. and save the State from Radical
ism and agrarianism, and a war of races in
the future. It never can be done after
ward.
It is said that tlie adoption of the Mili-
tary Bill, with ail its consequences, is not.
more dishonorable than what the Southern
States have already done, by abolishing
slavery and adopting the Constitutional
Amendment on that subject. This is a
strango assertion. What dishonor is
there in setting your slaves free? Can
there be any ? But there is dishonor in
placing yourself under the control and
government of’ those slaves after they are
made free. The surrender of Jjee and
Johnston was an acknowledgment that
slavery was abolished. The Federal
armies were here to enforce it. The
slaves, too, had become so much demoral
ized that almost every one was willing to
give up the institution, and no one now
desires to <ee it restored. But is this an
argument for giving up self-government,
republican principles, constitutional liberty,
the rights of the F tales, and placing onr
scives at the mercy of onr freedmen?
when South Carolina abolished slavery,
she had an assurance, too, that she would
op forthwith restored to the Union, with
all her eon-titurionai rights unimpaired.
Now, we are told, after all this huroiiia
. tion and degradation, if South Carolina .
wilt radicalize herself and elect Black Re
publicans. they may be admitted to their
seats in Congress! Who wishes to he j
admitted into the Union on these terms ?
No act or deed yet done has sullied the
fair escutcheon of the Palmetto State. It
is to be hoped that none will he in the
future.
I have been charged with inconsistency
in opposing the reconstruction of the Union.
lam not opposed to reconstruction. No
mania South Carolina, or the United
States, more earnestly desires to see the
Union restored as it was before the war.
It is the nearest and dearest wish of my
heart. But I will not dishonor myself or
NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 22.
my State, or bring ruin on my country to
obtain such a Union as' is now proposed. I
have been charged, too, with inconsistency
In going with my State after she seceded.
I can only reply by saying that my notions
of duty, honor and patriotism differ widely
from those of my accuser.-. It is true that
I was a Union man, and did all that I
could to preserve the Union. For thirty
years 1 defended it, with my pen, with my
and with my right arm. But
when South Carolina seceded from that
Union. I said to Governor Means, who de
sired know the course I intended to.
take, “That the State was goihg to the
devil, and I was going with her. " From
that day to the end of the war, I was as
zealous and earnest in her defence as any
son she had. I regarded it my duty, im
posed by lienor and patriotism, to aid
5,000,000 of my fellow-citizens, who had
united, whether wisely or unwisely, in
their attempt to establish that sacred right
of self-government proclaimed in the decla
ration of independence. South Carolina
was the land of my nativity, the home of
my family, kindred and friends. In her
bosom reposed the hones of my forefathers,
and 1 should have been a traitor to her in
terests, honor and glory, had I raised a
parieidal arm against my native State. A
rebel, reluctant and unwilling, I did be
come. My father was one in’76. But a
traitor I never can be. B. F. Perry.
a Second Hubert Emmet.
Two of the Fenian leaders in Ireland
have just been convicted and sentenced to
death by a Dublin jury. One of the wit
nesses against them was the infamous rene
gade Massey. One of the unfortunate
men ‘convicted was Gen. Burke, who, it
seems, was an officer in this country dur
ing the late war. It is to a speech he de
livered before the Court, when asked why
sentence of death shouldnot be pronounced
against him, that we desire to call atten
tion.
Iu speaking of this noble speech, the
Richmond Times says that, “in pathos
and eloquence, it has no parallel, except is
that of the noble Emmet; and it will be
remembered in Ireland, honored by the
patriot and wept overin the cotter’s cabin,
as long as the memory of heroic deeds is
treasured by a gallant people. ” It is stated
that, during its delivery, the Court and a
vast audience “appeared spell-bound, as if
by a voice from beyoud the grave. ’ We
introduce it in the language ofthe Times :
“Let every Irishman rejoice that, by the
splendid courage, eloquence and pathos of
one maimed, broken and feeble prisoner,
the sun-set glory and immortal radiance
of true patrotism will gild the ruins and
wreck of the dead order
“It is not my desire now, my lords, to
give utterance to one word against the
verdict which has been pronounced against
me. But, f ull}' conscious of my honor as
a man, which has never been impugned—
fully conscious that I can go into my grave
with a name and character unsullied—l
can only say this: that these parties, ac
tuated by a desire either for their own
aggrandizement or to save their own pal
try, miserable lives, have pandered to the
appetite, if 1 may so speak, of justice,
and my life shall he the forfeit. Fully
convinced and satisfied of the righteous
ness of my every act in connection with the
lute revolutionary movement in Ireland, I
have nothing to recall—nothing that 1
would not do again—nothing that would
bring up the blush of shame to mantle my
brow; my conduct and career, both here
and in America—if you like, as a soldier—
are before you, and, even in this my hour
of trial, 1 feel the consciousness of having
lived an honest man; and L will die proud
ly, believing that, if I have given my life
to give freedom and liberty to the land of my
Girth, I have done only that which every
Irishman and every man whosesoul throbs
with a feeling of liberty should do. I, my
lords, shall scarcely—l feel I should not at
all—mention the name of Massey I feel
I shouldnot pollute my lips with the name
of that traitor, whose illegitimacy has been
proved here—a man whose name even is not
known, and who, 1 deny point-blank, ever
wore the star of a colonel in the Confed
erate army. " Him I shall let rest. I shall
pass him, wishing him, iuthe words ofthe
poet:
1 May the grass wither from his feet;
May the Woods deny him a shelter—earth
a home;
The ashes a grave; the sun his light;
And Heaven its God.’
“ Lat "Massey remember, from this day
forth, he carries with liiin, as my learned
and eloquent counsel (Mr. Dowse) has
stated, a serpent that will gnaw his
conscience—will carry about with him in
his breast a living hell, from which he can
never be separated. I, my lords, have no
desire for the name ol a martyr. I seek
not the death of a martyr; but if it is the
will of the Almighty and Omnipotent God j
that my devotion for the land of my birth i
should be tested on the scaffold, I am !
willing, there to die in defence of the right |
of man to free government —the right of j
an oppressed people to throw off the yoke (
of thraldom. lam an Irishman by birth, ,
an American by adoption, by naturea lover
of freedom, and an enemy to that power
which holds my native land in the bonds of
tyranny. It has so often been admitted
that the oppressed have a right to throw
off the yoke of oppression, even by English
statesmen, that I deem it unnecessary to
advert to that fact in a British court of
justice. Ireland’s children are not —never
were and never will be—willing or suit
missive slaves, and so long as England’s
flag covers one inch of Irish soil,
long will they believe it to be a divine
right to c-onspire, imagine and devise
means to hurl it from power, and
erect in its stead the God-like struct
ure of self-government. I ask for no
mercy. My present emaciated form —my
constitution somewhat shattered—it is bet
ter that my life should be brought to an
end, than to drag out a miserable existence
in the prison-pens of Portland. Thus it
is, my lords, I accept the verdict. Os
course, my acceptance of it is unnecessary ;
but lam satisfied with it. And now I
shall close.. True it is, there are many
feelings that actuate me at this moment,
in fact, these few disconnected remarks can
give no idea of what 1 desire to state to the
.court. I have ties to bind me to life and
society as strong as any man in this court.
I have a family I love as much as any man
in this court. But I can remember the
Messing received from an aged mother’s
lips, as 1 left her the hut time. She spoke
as the Spartan mother did : ‘Go, my boy.
Return either with your shield, or upon
it. This reconciles me. This gives me
heart. 1 submit (o my doom, and hope
that God will forgive me my past sins. I
hope, too, that inasmuch as He lias, for
seven hundred years, preserved Ireland,
notwithstanding all the tyranny to which
she has been subjected, as a separate and
distinct nationality, lie also will assist
her to retrieve her fallen fortunes—to rise
in her beauty and majesty—the sister of
Columbia--the peer of any nation in the
world.' ’
Supreme Court.
Till. LEGAL-TENDER ACT CONSTITUTIONAL,
May IC. —Thompson & Thompson vs.
Rbjgs <£-• Co. —The plaintiffs in this case
claimed to have made special deposits in
gold with the defendants prior to the
Legal-Tender Act. Subsequent to its pas
! sage the defendants declined to pay in
kind, but made tender of Treasury notes,
; which plaintiffs _ refused to accept, and
i brought their action to compel payment in
geld; In order to show on the triala
spcciaj contract to pay in gold, evidence
wa- of/ered of an arrangement made gen
era.:" in the District ol Columbia, where
t..., action was brought, between deposi
; tors ana their bankers, at the time gold
| commenced rising to a premium, by which
deposits were to be paid in kind. This
evidence was excluded, and the
tender Act being held constitutional, judg
ment was given for the defendants. " The
cause finally came here.
Mr. Justice Clifford now read the opin
ion of the Court, affirming the judgment
below', holding that the evidence offered
was properly excluded, as the judgment
below was that the Legal-tender Act was
; constitutional.
This affirmance is equivalent to a direct
! finding in the case by this Court to that
j effect, although the question is not dis
cussed further than to say that the deposit
was payable in legal money of the United
; States, meaning thereby Treasury notes,
j which were tendered by the defendants.
TEXAS RECOGNIZED BY THE FEDERAL
COURTS.
The. State of Texas vs. White el al.
The State of Texas sought an injunction to
restrain certain parties who purchased
Government bonds, taken from her Treas
ury at the outbreak of the war by the rebel
authorities, from receiving the value there
of f roin the Government The Court now
allowed a temporary injunction, with leave
Registering Officer.— O ur friend
and fellow-citizen, \Vm. H. McWhorter,
L.-q., has leceived tie appointment of
Register for the 19th Senatorial District
comprising the counties of Greene, Wur-
JJTrcdd a la^erro- ~ Greenest,oro .(Ga.)
Sinkinu of a Steamer. at the Wharf.
—lhe iron steamer Z. £. la„ca, which
has, been employed in carrying freight
Clty t 0 , various points on the
, J ntee lover, and which was ready to
leate here with a cargo of.corn, bacon, and
various supplies for the country sunk at
her Wharf on Saturday about eight o’clock.
Ih6 csus6 oi her sinking is not precisely
ascertained, but she was found to be filling
with water very rapidly about fifteen
minutes before she went down, and an
effort was made to start her pumps, but
the leak proved to be so bad as to cause
her to fill with water before any effectual
efforts could be made to get her steal*
pumps to work. She now lies sunk in
deep water, part of her cargo and upper
works floating about the dock, and some
of the freight, we are informed, was picked
up yesterday in a damaged condition. A
part ot her cargo was fortunately in a large
flat, and this portion has been saved.
The Z. R. 1 ancc was owned, we learn,
by Mr. J. Browne, and her sinking will
inflict a heavy loss on him as well as par
ties who uiay have supplies on board,
which were not insured. — Charleston
Neu-s, 20 th.
Mutiny of Convicts in the Tennes
see Penitentiary. —The Nashville Ban
ner of the 14th instant states that a seri
ous disturbance occurred in the penitenti
ary on Sunday last. Martin Coffee, former
ly a member of the Fifth Kentucky
(Federal) cavalry, and it convict named
Henry Holt, a deserter from the Texas
Hangers, had formed a pir nos escape, and
while the convicts, numbering about tlireo
hundred, black anil white, were sifted at
dinner on Sunday, Coffee gave a signal
and immediately commenced an attack
with a knife on the only guard present, a
man named Henderson. He, however,
managed to defend himself until ten of the
penitentiary guards, who had been loung
ing about the yard, rushed in a body into
the room, each with a leveled revolver
covering one of the rebellious crowd, and
the storm died away as suddenly as it had
broken. The leaders were at once seized,
bound and whipped, while their constitu
ents, all save one, sullenly marched to their
cells. A negro named English escaped in
the confusion and hid himself under a pile
of lumber in the yard. He was discovered
.and fired upon by the guard. After being
wounded he came out and surrendered.
All were set to work again on Monday as
usual, the mischief-makers, however, be
ing closely watched, and no further trouble
is antici oated.
A \ mv Performed. —About two years
ago, when Mr: Jefferton Davis was first
thrown into prison, a vow was made by a
veteran typo, and a respected citizen of
Charleston, that he would neither cut his
hair nor trim his beard until the dis
tinguished captive should bo again set at
liberty. The citizen referred to is a man
of much weight and great rotundity of
person, and the power of endurance which
he displayed in remaining faithful to his
vow during the terrible heat of last
summer can be better imagined than de
scribed. The first summer it was not so
bad—neither his hair nor board having
then grown to an inconvenient length, and
in the winter the additional covering was
only comfortable. The telegraph boys-last
night were wild with excitement under the
effect of three such startling pieces of
intelligence, all in one day—the injunction
bills were dismissed, .Mr. Davis was out of
prison, and Mr. had cut his hair
and shaved. Charleston US'. C.) Mercury,
May 14.
Tiie Trial of Surratt.— There ap
pears, after all, to be no certainty in the
commencement of the trial of Surratt on
the 27th of May. The indications are
very decided that it will be postponed un
til the third Monday in June. Additional
evidence is being collected in the mean
time, hut it is of a trivial character. Charles
A. Blinn, a watchman at St. Albans, Ver
mont, who picked up a hankcrehief with
Surratt’s name on it in the streets of that
town, in April, 1805, has been summoned.
Surratt, in his confession so Dr. McMillion,
the Canadian surgeon, stated that he
dropped his handkerchief there at the depot
wliila e« route for Canada.— IV«s/t. Cor.
N. V. World, May 10 th.
Gen. J. C. Breckinridhe.—Tho Nash
ville dimmer has received information by a
private, letter just received from Paris,
and written by a gentleman who has every
reason to. know the facts, that..lien.
C. Breckinridge, who is at present in that
city, will return to the United States
immediately on the release of Mr. Davis.
If Mr. Davis is not released but brought to
trial, Gen. B. will wait the issue of the
trial, and act accordingly. Though not
rich, he is, as he says himself, not a
beggeryct,” and confidently looks to his
old home in Kentucky, and the renewal of
his law practice, which, at the time he Was
called, off to Congress, was becoming very
lucrative.
Religious Union. —The negotiations
for a reunion between the Episcopal
Methodists and Protestant Methodists, re
cently held at Montgomery, did not result
successfully, at least to the extent of per
petuating the end in view. Propositions,
though, were formally made and consider
ed, objections raised and discussed, and the
general course of the negotiations seem not
to have developed any insuperable ob
stacles to a reunion of the two branches of
the Church. The views of both sides arc
fully known, and the probability is that,
after further and mature consideration,
they will finally come to an understanding.
The Conference at Montgomery adjourned
to meet again in Macon, in May, 1368. —
Macon Telegraph.
Corn Marker. —A farmer at Chester
field, 111., describes a simple and cheap
corn marker. It is made by putting a
short axle in the forward wheels of a
wagon and a long one in the hind ones ;
| couple them together by a six feet stick,
| pinned on the hind axle, and running to
the centre of the coupling; the wagon
tongue can be put on the front axle by two
J small iron bolts put through the ends of
! the hounds and axle; the axles can be
! made of poles. Put the front wheels four
feet apart, and the others twelve feet,
though the length of the axie can be made
|to suit. Sixty acres a day can be marked
with it. ft. runs light and makes a good
mark, and one that will show after a rain
as good as a sled mark. ,
Disposals of Public Lands.—Com
missioner Wilson, of the General Land
Office, is in receipt of returns which ex
hibit an aggregate disposal of 23,122 acre:;
of the public lauds during the month of
March last, at the following local offices :
Traverse City, Michigan, 12,026 acres;
Oregon City, Oregon, 7,447 acres : Rose
burg, Oregon, 4,378 acres ; Visalia,
California, 2,170 acres; Vancouver, Wash
ington Territory, 2,112 acres. The greater
portion of the land was taken up for actual
settlement and cultivation under the home
stead law, and the remainder sold for cash
and located with agricultural college scrip
! and bounty land warrants.
Kei.lv, the Radical Missionary. s —
from the New Era, thut ‘7/m-
I distinguished jurist and, stnUnnan” will
visit Atlanta and address the people,
Monday next; and furthermore, that a
| meeting of citizens has been held “to make
! arrangements for bis reception and lor
1 public speaking.! ’
Who doubts the hospitality of Atlanta?
Who will say that friend Bard, of the Era.
j is not the best-hearted man in the world ?
j V hy, if the d—l himself should conic
along, he would bid “his Royal Highness”
cordial welcome, and move the appoint
ment of a committee sand he’d get it too)
to “tender him the hospitalities of the
city '."—Macon Telegraph.
J Spiteful Croaking. —The Even',tty
i Post and Commercial Advertiser are a.<
fierce against Fir. Greeley for signin'
Jefferson Davis’ bond- as if their editors
envied him the credit of so meritorious au
act. Thatit tends to impair his populari
ty with his party is doubtless true, and his
enemies try to make the most of it Is j s
Mr. Greeley’s willingness to brave asper
sions which gives this act (which in others
would he merely kind and inardv) an A r „f
superior virtue. —jVi Y. World. * Ol
The rates of wages paid in Illinois per
day ior ten hours work are, as follow- •
1 la.stercrs,j?4.so; brick layers, $5: nmcliin
istsK;; painters, §5; planing-nii’ll hand-,
i>-0 per week. A majority of the men arc
willing to work eight hours per davas fbl
lovv,K: I fosterers. bricklayers. * ! ,0
and under some circumstances st
cutters, $4.50, and carpenters. $2 75
Charges of fraud have been made against
the dry goods firm of Wiggins A Crowther
°‘ “ t ' l Loni *, a ; l( l the former lias been ar
rested, and the latter has fled. It is
charged that they bought a large stock of
goods on credit in New York, and then
sold them at auction in Philadelphia,
pocketing the proceeds. They made an a
- for the benefit of credi
tors other than those in New York. Mug
gins was released on bail, but was immedi
ately re-arrested.
A large number of boats have ac -uniu
latod at both ends of'the Champlain Canal,
awaiting the completion of repairs. At
Whitehall there are fifty, mostly laden
with lumber.
The leading veterinary surgeons of
Scotland have protested against the vivi
section of horses as altogether unnecessary
and useless for the purpose of anatomieal
study.