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Quick Time. —We learn from a private
’dispatch that the steamer Manhattan ar
rived in Charleston on Monday afternoon,
from New York, in forty-eight hoars.
This is a remarkably quick passage, and
9|>eaks well for those enterprising gentle
men, Messrs. Street Brothers & Cos., who
are the agents for the Manhattan.
Lecture. —Rev. A. J. Ryan, the cele
brated Southern Poet, author of the
‘ ‘Conquered Banner,” “Prayer of "the
South, ' “Sword of Robert J/ee” and
other splendid productions, will deliver a
lecture in our city in a few weeks for a
charitable purpose, lie has been written
to to deliver a lecture in aid of the Catholic
f trphans, and has consented. Due notice
ol the time and place will be given.
A New Institution.— Preparations for
the erection of a large and commodious
building for the Sisters of Mercy have been
commenced on the site of their present
location, corner of Mclntosh and Telfair
street*. We learn that the contract for
bricks, lumber and other material is now
being filled, and workmen are engaged on
the premises preparatory to laying the
foundation. The structure, when com
pleted, will be one of the handsomest in
Augusta, and will be a great ornament to
that neighborhood as well as to the whole
city. The several departments are in
charge of experienced hands, who will
make all proper exertions to show their
handicraft to advantage.
City Loan and Bciedino Associa
tion.—The thirteenth monthly meeting of
the Stockholders of this Association was
held at the City Hall Monday evening and
was largely attended. The report of the
Treasurer, Mr. W. C. Barber, was read
and gavo entire satisfaction. The par
value of each share is sl3, which, on the
Treasurer’s books, calls foe S2B 10 cents
per share. Several shares of stock were
sold at ¥lo 00, and others at sl4 00 per
share. The exhibit was, in every respect,
satisfactory and complimentary to the
President and Directors—so much so that
the old Board were unanimously re-elected
by acclamation for the ensuing year.
President —1 i enuy M yehs.
imtECTOiLs:
11. (I. Bauiiku, Jno. E. Mauley,
■lso. Kenny, Wm. H. Goodrich,
>Jno. C. Galvan, J. O. Matiiewson.
Judge Lime kin. — I The proceedings of
the Court Monday, on the announcement
of the death of Chief .Justice Lumpkin,
will he seen in another column.
Wo regret that we are unable to give
even a fair resume of the speeches of the
different gentlemen who addressed the
Court. Wo will take great pleasure in
laying them before our readers, if we can
obtain a fair report of them as delivered.
One circumstance connected with the
subject of theso mournful proceedings
escaped notice: Forty-seven years ago
Judge Lumpkin was admitted to plead and
practice law and equity in this State by
the Superior Court of Richmond county.
The Court was thon%gld in the old Court
House on Telfuir ’ building uow
known as the paiatiaf', ' ,«*ce of our
fellow citizen f!ol. M. P. ifSfavall—and was
presided over by Judge *J.. Harford Mont
gomery. John 11. Mann, Esq., was
Chief and Judge Johi C. Sneed was Dep
uty Clerk.
Gazelle Firg Company No. 4. —The
annual election for officers of the above
(lompany took place Monday night, with the
following result: .
I’resident —John U. Meyer.
Oaptniq —11. Clay Foster.
Ist Lieut.—Chas. M. Cheesborough.
2nd Lieut.—John W. Stoy.
3rd Lieut. —Wyley F. Ilolleyinan.
The result being announced, calls were
made upon the successful candidates, all
of whom responded in a happy vein. Just
at this juncture in the proceedings, Capt.
Foster was requested to absent himself
from the hall ; whereupon a magnificent
silver pitcher, salver and two beautiful
goblets, previously provided, were brought
forth. A committee of three was appoint
ed to conduct Capt. F. back, who, having
taken his accustomed place, was addressed
in a happy speech by Lieut. Cheesborough,
who had been delegated to present the
testimonials mentioned. Capt. Foster
was taken completely by surprise, but
responded feelingly and at length to his
high appreciation of the gift.
Ftaiiuei). —NVeunderstand that a colored
boy stabbed another colored boy Monday
evening, near the corner of Cuming and
Telfair streets. The wound is a dangerous
one and thought to be mortal. We heard
none of the particulars of the difficulty.
Pickpockets About. — A pickpocket
was detected in the act of picking a man’s
pocket at the auction sale of Messrs. Day
\ Inuian on Monday, lie was immediate
ly arrested and taken before Judge Mc-
Laws, who, after examining into the case,
committed him to jail. This is the second
ease that has occurred recently in our com
munity, and should serve as a warning to
our community to bo careful about their
small change.
Arm'sta Firemen koinu to Savannah.
—We perceive, by a letter in the Savan
nah h'tpublican of the 10th, that Ocrnul
gee Engine No. 1, of Macon, intend to
leave on the 13th instant for a visit to
Savannah, and are to bo met at Millen by
Engine Company No. 3of Augusta, and
proceed on together to the Forest City.
We wish them a good time, and feel as
sured it will be no fault of the gallant tire
men of Savannah if they do not enjoy
themselves hugely.
Affray. —Au affray occurred at the
corner of Houston and Reynolds streets
Monday evening, in which one man was se
verely gashed with a bowie-knife across the
nose aud eyes. Some of the party are
just from the Fatherland, and it appears
they met at the aforesaid corner, got to
driuking, and from driuaing to quarreling,
which led to a duel with fists, in the course
of which one man whipped three others,
he himself scarcely getting a scratch.—
Phrenzied with rage, defeat and liquor,
the bowie-knife leaped from its scabbard
and wiped poor Hans across the nose.
“Oh that men should put an enemy in
Their mouths, to steal away their brains;
that we
Should with joy, pleasance, revel and ap
plause,
Transform ourselvesiuto beasts. -Othello.
Dividends. —The President of the Au
gusta A Savannah Railroad announces that
the regular semi-annual dividend of three
and a half percent, (less the United States
tax) will be paid to the stockholders on
demand at the Central Railroad Bank in
Savannah. •
Supremacy of the Civil Courts. —
The Raleigh Sentinel comments as follows
upon the Raleigh address of Chief Justice
Chase : ‘ ‘ This language admits of no
misinterpretation. It is a plain and em
phatic decision that General Order No. 10,
ot Ue District Commander, does not apply
jurisdiction of the United
‘
regarded by them. It is rumored, we
learn, that General Sickles holds that this
rder so apply. I n this event, we
oe hkelj to have a conflict of authority.”
Richmond Superior Court. The
regular term of this Court commenced its
sitting Monday, Judge Gibson presiding.
After the organization of the juries, Judge
Gibson gave to • the Grand Jury an able
and forcible charge in relation to their
duties and obligations as the grand in
quest oi the county.
Judge Starnes then atiaresse 1 the Court
at some length, in a beautiful and appro
priate tribute to the memory of the iate
Chief-Justice Lumpkin, and moved that,
in respect to bis memory, the Court ad
journ until to-morrow morning.
Judge Starnes stated, in the conclusion
ol his remarks that, at an informal meet
ing of the Bar held during the morning
it bad been determined, in view of the ac
tion of the members of the Bar in attend
ance upon the Supreme Court, not tq re
port or adopt any resolutions in this Court,
as by such a course the proper action at
Milledgeville might he forestalled.
He made this explanation because it had
been usual here to report resolutions in
such cases, and he thought it due to the
Bar and to the county that the omi~sion
to do so to-day should lie explained.
The motion ol Judge Starnes was
seconded by Judge Gould, who, in a feel
ing and impressive address, referred to
the tuct that he hid, when lie first came
to Georgia, many years ago. been thrown
in intimate, social and professional relations
with the lamented Chief Justice, which
had continued up to the time of his elec
tion to the Supreme Bench. His sketch
of the professional life of Judge Lumpkin
was listened to with profound attention by
the Court and Bar.
Governor Johnson addressed the Court
at some length, and gave a graphic sketch
of the life of the Chief Justice, in wliich
he referred mainly to his great wortli as a
man and a patriot. The excellency of his
character, and in particular his benevo
lence, Christian charity and ardent devo
tion to the cause of temperance and educa
tion in the State, were dwelt upon with
great force and power, and iu a style of
simplicity and pathos which charmed his
hearers.
•Judge Gibson responded to the remarks
of the gentlemen of the Bar, and cordially
acceded to the request that in respect to
the memory of their beloved Chief Justice,
the Court would be adjourned until to
morrow morning at Kj o clock.
Gen. Burton. —General Burton, who
has endeared himself to the Southern peo
ple by his soldierly and magnanimous
treatment of Ex-President Davis, lias been
ordered to leave Fortress. Monroe and pro
ceed to Charleston, taking with him com
panies B and 11 of the Fifth Artillery and
all his headquarters.
Fashionable Wedding.— A fashion
able wedding took place at Bt. James’
Cathedral, Toronto, C. W., on the 4tli.
Wm. Hyde, editor of the St. Jiouis Re
publican, was married to Miss Buison, a
Southern lady. lion. Jeff. Davis, J. 31.
Mason, General Jubal Early, Colonel
Dorsey, and other Southern celebrities
were present. Mr. Davis, on being recog
nized, was loudly cheered. The event
created quite a sensation.
Brotherhood or Locomotive Engi
neers.—This is the style of anew organi
zation—the object of which is the im
provement of professional railroad engi
neers. Memphis, Chattanooga and Nash
ville boast of organizations in those cities.
If there is notio in Atlanta, says the
Opinion , the railroad city of the South,
there certainly should be. The number of
professionals who run into our city regu
larly, is undoubtedly greater than at any
of the cities named above.
Mr. 11. C. Shutz, of Nashville, appears
to be the leading spirit of the brotherhood.
He has lately been on a tour of instruc
tion. The Chattanooga division is com
posed of the best engineer? running into
that city—J. S. Maloney, of the N. &C.
lload, as chief engineer. The object of the
organization is thus stated by Chief Engi
neer Slmtz :
“ Great, is the responsibility of the pro
fession, when - taken in all its particulars;
but 1 am sorry to say very few attach any
importance to it. The simple handling of
a reverse lover, the opening and closing of
the throttle valve, and a proper use of the
pumps, does not make or constitute a
competent locomotive engineer. It requires
more : a knowledge of machinery and its
application is important. Experience
teaches a great deal. Perceptibility is
necessary- Resolution, caution, reverence
of laws, discretion and temperance, are all
attributes of a good engineer, and are
essential to the careful distribution of the
lives ami property entrusted to their care,
to the proper destination.
“Not like the steamboat engineer who
works liis engines by the sound of bells,
and lias his craft landed at the proper
place by the rudder in the hands of a pilot.
No; the locomotive, engineer is his own
pilot. He alone is responsible for the
manner in which he drives his liery -steed
from place to place, and must always look
ahead that no obstructions take him una
wares or impedes his progress To his
standard all engineers of the order will
rise, if they follow the precepts laid down
for their guidance. Let our motto be
pro bono publico, and ere long our brother
hood will gain the approbation of a
travelling world.”
Income of Editors. —The following
returns of incomes in New York city show
that journalism' has strong claims to rank
among the lucrative professions, at least
in the metropolis :
Horace Greeley, $87,000 ; II J Ray- j
mond, #46, IKK) ; Erastus Brooks, $26,000.
William O Bryant. sßl,ooo* C Nordhoff,
$6,100 ; Thurlow Weed, $62,000 : Robert
Bonner, $200,000 ; Frank Leslie, $91,000; I
John R Young, $23,000 ; Win. tSwinton. !
$18,000; Moses (teach, 71,000; Win. C
Prime, $32,000 ; James Gordon Bennett,
$292,000. James Gordon Bennett, Jr..
5.7,.")00 ; John D Stockton. SIB,OOO ; G W
Smalley, SS,OOO ; Theo. Tilton, SII,OOO ; 1
Kane 0 Donnell, $9,400 ; James McCon- ;
nell. $6,400 ; Benjamin Wood. $186,000 ;
F J Ottarson, $19,000 ; C P Dewey, $S00:
Frank Bellow, $2,800 ; G A Townsend,
$1,176: CG Halpine. $01,000': Mantou
Marble, $10,000; Wm. H Hurlbert,
$1,250 ; C A Dana, $72,000 : G W Curtis, l
$14,000.
In regard to the spinning and weaving
trade, the Providence Journal says :
“Cotton aud woolen goods are still
accumulating in all the markets in the
face of dull trade in all directions. It
seems to he settled that the supply of
goods at tiiis time is greater than the
demand. W e are glad to see that both
cotton and woolen manufacturers under
stand the difficulties of their situation, and
are preparing to remedy their troubles by
stopping their mills. More than a hun
dred thousand cotton spindles controlled
in this vicinity have been stopped within
the last ten days, and the probability, is
that the number will be considerably iu-
I creased this week.
Attorney-General Stanbervs Opin
ion. —Attorney-General Stanbery's opin
j ion, under the Reconstruction laws, in
-1 terpreting the statutory clauses having
reference to eligibility under the provis
| ional government of the Southern States
for suffrage and office. tr:v- issued to-day in
| official pamphlet-form, for the guidance of
! the office rt" enforcing the Reconstruction
| acts. — lEis'A. Cor. \. 1. World.
! This decision is, we presume, in reference
to the class ot officials in the different
States known as county officers, and in
relation to whom the Attorney-General in
I his report to the President, which has
been published, reserved his opinion for a
| more thorough investigation of the dif
i ferent local statutes bearing thereon.
In our State, the officers whose status
I is fixed by this decision are Sheriffs,
: Coroners, County Judges, Ordinaries, Jus
tices of the Inferior Courts and Justices
i of the Peace.
j Should the Attorney-General's opinion
include this class of officials in the disfran
chised list, it will lessen the white vote in
. the State to the extent of five or six thou
sand. We wait with some anxiety the
publication of Mr. Stanbery's opinion up
on this subject.
The War of Races.
: The war of races, says the New York
Express, has already begun in the capital
.of this country, viz.. Washington, and
in Georgetown, too —where the Degrees. by
organizing as a Race, and with distinction
of color, have beaten the whites at the
polls, in both cities. The same war is ex
isting in New Orleans, and in nearly ail
the cities and towns of the South. This
war of races, itl« true, exists only in politi
cal meetings, and at the polls—but it is
the same sort of war that preceded the
, race outbreak in Jamaica. Hayti, and
Spanish America, and in other mixed,
, mottled, amalgamated lands.
It is folly to suppose —that what God
■ made, two distinct races of men, can be
i unmade by any act 0f Congress, or, that
these two distinct races will better co-ope
rate from being forced by law into being
equal eo-partners in a Government co
; partnership. The idea, of the Radicals,
that alone hi .skin, wily in skin, the color
of the skin, the Caucasian differs from the
African, is just as erroneous as would be
the idea, that man was woman, or woman
man- —for the difference in the anatomical
! organization, between the negro and white,
j is far greater than between men and
; women. The brain of men and women is
about like. The brain of the negro and
the white man is quite unlike. The skin
] of a man and woman is alike ; the skin of
the negro and the white man is very dif—
\ ferent. The bone of a man and woman
is very like, save in size ; the bone of the
negro and white man is quite unlike.
I The hair of the man and woman is alike;
the hair of the negro and white man is
| quite unlike. The lips of the man and
; woman are very like, while the lips of the
negro and white man are very unlike—
ditto, the teeth— ditto, the shoulder. In
short, only in sex, docs man differ from
the woman, while the negro differs from
the white man, from the crown of his
head to the sole of his foot. Hence, the
Crime of the Radicals of the North—the
great crime of Massachusetts men, forex
ample, where the women are in the majori
ty —oTexcluding the woman from a vote,
. while the negro is given the ballot (of chat
tering on manhood, but ignoring woman
hood), is inexcusable, for woman is the
superior race, and the negro is the infe
rior, by the law of God.
This war of races, here, if forced on,
will destroy our white race—where the
inferior race is in a majority here, as in
Hayti, Jamaica, and throughout Spanish
America, Negroes will govern, as in
Hayti, or “orders in Council,” as in
Jamaica, or Indian Blood, as in Mexico,
under Juarez, or mixed, mottled, amalga
mated inferior human beings, as generally
throughout South and Central America.
lienee—we fully concur with the idea of
Gov. Derry, of South Carolina—that the
five monarchy (white) Governments, is
infinitely preferable (and forever), to a
mixed, mottled Government, like those of
the Spanish American, or the Government
of the inferior races of negroes over the
white men of the South.
We believe that ninety-nine hundredths
of the white people of the South agree
with Gov. Perry and the New York Ex
press in the conviction that the military
government under which the South is now
controlled “is infinitely preferable to a
mixed, mottled government like those of
the Spanish American or the government
of the inferior laces of negroes;” but the
great apprehension with our people is that,
by failing to organize under the Military
j Bill, they will have organized over them a
; bitter, malignant and hateful Radical-negro
government, like that under which the
; people of Missouri and Tennessee are to
day groaning. s ,
No docent whito man at the South
i approves the principles of the Sher
man bills. All the intelligence and moral
J worth of the South is opposed to the
| unjust exactions and cruelly unfair
! discriminations oi these bills against in
telligence, and in favor of ignorance—
against morality and virtue and honor, in
favor of immorality and vice and crime;,
yet many good people fear that, by failing
to take action uuder these bills, they will
incur the risk of further and more oppres
sive legislation. Very many of the most
intelligent of our Southern people believe
that there is a fair prospect of organizing
a government under those bills which will
not be wholly destructive to our social pol
ity. They believe that such a government
can be framed as will, for a time at least,
prevent the evils which the history of the
past shows to have invariably followed all
attempts to place the African race upon an
equality with the Caucasian.
The leading minds of the South are a
unit in the conclusion that the Military
Bills are not only unconstitutional, but that
the principles upon which they are predi
cated arc alike ruinous to the best interests
of all sections of the country and de
structive of the great principles ■ which
underlie our system of Republican Govern
ment. While some of these advise sub
mission to the Military Bills and counsel a
| lull and thorough organization of the white
race with the view of making honest efforts
under these hills for the adoption of a sys
tem of government which shall give equal
protection to both races, and defeat the at
tempt which is being made, by a few office
hunting, time-serving and ignoble pale
faces, to frame a government which shall
| be wholly in the interest of the white
sneaks and black people, they do not
thereby commit themselves to an endorse
-1 ment or approval of those measures.
We protest further that this class of our
people do not endorse the views of those
modern ethnologists who assert the unity
of the two races. This question is not
involved in the act of organizing under the
Sherman Bill. The people of the South
are compelled, either to organize under
this tyrannical legislation by adopting a
1 State Constitution wliich shall declare as
the fundamental law of the land the civil
and political equality of the two races, or
1 they mast reject the whole legislation by
; refusing thus to organize. We admit
i that, when the political equality of the two
j races is recognized aud established by law,
\ social equality is bound to follow as a
; natural and necessary sequence.
That any Government can prosper, or
even exist for any length of time, whose
foundation stone is laid in the great and
Radical falsehood of natural equality of
the two races, we do not entertain the
slightest hope. The history of the world
teaches, with unerring certainty, the fact
that no Government has ever prospered
in which antagonistic races shared equally
the governing power.
The pages of history, both modern and
ancient, are filled with instances in which
this experiment has been tried, and tried
where the two races were of the white
blood, aud in every ease, without a single
exception, such experiments have been
followed by collisions, and bloodshed and
anarchy, ultimately resulting in the over
throw or destruction of one or the other of
the ruling races. But who can conceive of
; the ill-blood, strite, jealousies, heartburn
ings, suspicions, criminations and recrim
inations which must follow the effort to
* conduct a government in which two races
| not only differing in culture, in morals,
and in experience, but which has another
■ and more discordant element of difference of
origin and of color, are entitled to equal
rights and authority as law-makers and
expounders.
While we shudder for ' the future of
this once peaceful and happy land, we
should not lie idly by and make no efforts
to arrest the impending ruin. Good men
j should not be deterred in their efforts to
extract, if passible, some good from these
| mighty wrongs, because the future is
covered with the pall of gloom and uncer
tainty. Neither should they be driven
what, in their judgments, they may believe
to he the best for the true interests of
themselves and of posterity because a few
. white-livered, pap-hunting, money-loving
papers like “little Dingy.” or the “Dim-
Diaper' of this place may attempt to thrus 4
, themselves forward as the leaders of recon
struction, or because the greedy secession
millionaires and weak-kneed capitalists of
the Joe Brown school should attempt to
i organize a party in the State to endorse
j the Military Bills as icise, liberal and putt.
j Men should endeavor to be controlled in
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE W. 1867.
making up their minds upon this ques
tion by their judgnihits, and not by their
feelings. This is no time for the exercise
or encouragement of likes and dislikes.
A great stern fact is before us. That fact
is the certainty that the government of our
State wilt pass into the hands of Radical
emissaries and ignorant negroes, unless
their pians are tharted by the united and
harmonious efforts of the Southern white
people. If the good people divide our case
is hopeless. We can only hope for success
by the combination of all the elements in
the State which are in favor of a form of
government which shall bear equally in
its burthens upon all classes, and whose
civil rights and privileges shall be enjoyed
alike by all sects and conditions.
No Missionaries Ytaifled in the South.
About the only truth which has fallen
from the lips of Kelly, the Radical emis
sary lately, escaped him recently in a speech
which he made in Pliiladelphia, immediate
ly after his return from his Southern pil
grimage. In that speech the Press reports
him to have spoken as follows:
“In conclusion, he said that there were
no missionary politicians wanted in the
South, as the negro was capable of taking
care of himself in that respect, and could
do more good for themselves without the
interference ol* such people. ” v , „
As we have the testimony of the truth
ful and courageous Kelly that the presence
of Radical emissaries are not required at
the South, and that the “poor negro” is
capable of taking care of himself, it is to
be hoped that the pestiferous tribe will re
main at home and let the Southern people
and their former slaves work out the
problem of reconstruction under the Sher
man Bill free from the prejudice and ma
lignity of Northern Radicalism.
From Europe.
New Yqrk, June 10, p. m. —The Her
ald's special says the Czar has assured
the French Cabinet that the attempt
ed assassination only tends to strengthen
the bends uniting him to Napoleon and
France.
Napoleon visits the King of Prussia at
Berlin in September.
London, June 10, p. m.—Dispatches
from Paris and St. Petersburg report great
rejoicing in France and liussia at the
Czar’s escape. Poles everywhere disavow
connection or sympathy with the crime.
Dublin, June 10, p. in.—Two promi
nent Fenians have been arrested at Duti
gannon and identified as Colonels Nagle
and Warren, formerly officers of the Irish
Brigade of the Potomac.
Interesting Sews from Mexico.
New Orleans, June 10, noon. — We
have dates from Mexico to the 2d instant.
Miramon was still dangerously ill from
the effects of his wound.
Mendez was executed by order of Esco
bedo on the 10th ult.
Campos was shot a few hours after the
amputation of his leg.
When Maximilian cave up his sword to
Escobedo he said : “I surrender to you
my sword owing to an infamous treason,
without which to-morrow’s sun would
have seen yours in my hands.”
Escobedo had ordered a court martial to
assemble on the 29tli for the trial of Em
peror Maximilian. He sent, through
Diaz, a telegram to the Prussian Minister
at the City of Mexico, together with Mari
ano Riva, Publico, and Licentiate Mar
tezzi De LaTorre, to defend him.
An official list of < the officers made
prisoners at Queretaro was sent to the
Emperor Ferdinand : Maximilian, Guilo,
Miguel, Miramon, Thomas, Mejia, Severs,
Del* Castillo, Francisco G. Cassanard, Jose
De Hessera, Lozado Feliciana, Jose Maria,
Magano Mariano, Reis, Pantaloen, Maret,
Mariano, Monter, Jesus Maria, Calvo
Pedro Valdez, Manuel, Escobel and
Silejrio Rainerez—total 14; Colonels 18;
Lieutenant Colonels 15 ; Captains and
Brevet Lieutenant Colonels 10; Majors 30;
Captains 114; Lieutenants 110, Second
Lieutenants 108—-total 437.
The following is Maxiliau’s proclama
tion : “Countrymen : After the valor and
patriotism of the Republican forces have
destroyed my sceptre in this place, which te
nacious defence was indispensable. To save
the honor of my cause and of my race, af
ter the bloody siege in which the Imperial
and Republican soldiers have competed in
abnegation and boldness, I will explain
myself, countrymen. I cam# to Mexico not
only animated with the best of faith, insur
ing the felicity of all and each of us, but
called and protected by the Emperor of
France, Napoleon 111. He, to the ridi
cule of France, abandoned me, cowardly
and infamously, by demand of the United
States, after having uselessly spent forces
and treasure, and shed the blood of her
sons and your own. When the news of my
fall and death reaches Europe, all the
monarch.? of Charlemagne’s country will
demand of the Napoleon dynasty an ac
count ofniy blood, of the German, Belgian
and French blood shed in Mexico. Then
will be the end. Soon before the whole
world, Napoleon 111. will be covered with
shame from head to foot. To-day lie has al
ready seen his Majesty the Emperor of Aus
tria. my august brother, praying for ray life
to the United States; and myself, a prisoner
ol war in the hands of a Republican
Government, and with my crown and my
head torn in pieces. Countrymen, here are
my last words : I desire that my blood
may regenerate Mexico, and serve as a
warning to all ambitious and incautious ;
and that you will act with prudence and
truthfulness, and ennoble with your virtues
the political cause of the flag you sustain.
May Providence save you and make you
worthy of myself!
(Signed 1 Maximilian.
Indians on the War Path.
San Francisco, June 9. —Arizona ad
vices state that thelndians have commenced
a vigorous campaign, attacking the
ranches in thcvicinity, of Prescott and Fort
Whipple.
From Omaha—Fight with Indians.
Omaha, June 10, noon. —Sherman is
sued an order saying the Pacific Railroad
will be well guarded. Freight passengers !
are forwarded from the terminus under a
sufficient guard. Sherman is sanguine of
clearing Platte Valley of Indians in two
weeks. Nine passengers and twenty
Indians fought within five miles of Moore's
Fort. No passengers were killed. Gen
eral Davis’ son wac mortally wounded and
two Indians killed and five wounded. The
passengers returned to Omaha this morn
ing. General Steel, after a narrow escape,
reached Denver safely.
From Idaho.
San Francisco, June 10, p. m.—ldaho
advices state that the Indians are attack
ing the stages and stage stations, and driv
ing off stock. The Indians are mounted
on fine horses, said to have belonged to the
second cavalry.
An expedition to take possession of the
newly discovered Island in the Pacific in
behalf of the United States, sailed to-day.
The Pacific Mail Company will send a
vessel, also, in hopes of finding a suitable
harbor for a coaling station for Chiua
steamers.
From Raleigh.
Raleigh. N. C., June 10, p. m. — In
the U. S. Circuit Court this morning Chief
Justice Chase ordered that in summoning
1 grand and petit juries no distinction on ae
> count ofeolor should be made.
Burning of the Steamer Forest City.
Savannah, June 10, p. m. —The
: steamer Forest City was burned at three
1 o'clock this morning, while lying alongside
! the British ship S. L. Tilley , at Venus
; Point. The steamer is a total loss, except
her machinery. She drifted to the Caro-'
liua side and sunk. The ship lost her
mizen mast and most of her sails and rig
| ging, which can be easily repaired. The
schooner Cora Moneta also took fire and
; sustained considerable damage.
From Texas.
New Orleans, June 10. p. m.—Geiji
Griffin issued an order on Saturday dis
charging the entire police force of Galves
ton. He appointed anew police force, five
of whom are colored and none of them are
able to read or write.
A Yankee genius out West, conceiving
that a little ipowder thrown upon some
ereen wood would facilitate its burning,
directed a small stream upon the smoking
pile, and not possessing a hand sufficiently
quick to cut this off at a desirable moment,
was blown to pieces. The Coronor thus
reasoned ou the verdict: “It can’t be
called suicide, because he didn't mean to
kill himself: it wasn't a visitation of God,
because he wasn’t struck by lightning; he
didn't die for want of breath, because he
hadn’t anything left to breathe with. It’s
plain he didn’t know what he was about,
so I shall bring in, ‘ Died for want of com
mon sense.’
The FHtnrc Cost of Peruvian Guano.
The Government of Peru possesses a
monopoly, by nature, of the best fertilizer
for the soils of the Atlantic slopes of the
United States, ais yet discovered, in the
immense deposit.- of guano found upon
the Chincha. Lofcos, and other rainless
islands lying off its seacoast near Pisco
in the Southern Pacific Ocean.
The fertilizing properties of guano
appear to have- been known and appre
ciated by the Peruvians from a very early
date. They used it in the growth of corn
and potatoes, irrigating the land after
making the application. Visits to these
islands, during the breeding season of their
feathered inhabitants, were prohibited
under penalty of death. The preservation
of the accumulated and accumulating de
posits was an object of especial care with
their ancient rulers —the Incas—and is of
no less impotfance to their modern Re
publican Government. Nevertheless, the
value of guano, as an article for trade and
export, as a direct source of national
revenue, is of very recent origin. Baron
Humboldt, the world-renowned Prussian,
was the first to invoke the attention of
the scientific world to the chemical corn
posiflon of this substance in ISO 4, and
I procured its analysis by distinguished
! hjnCfiqs*** chemists. About the-ye»t- fsTfVri
Sir Humphrey Davy suggested its value
as a fertilizer, as indicated by chemical
analysis, to English firmer.?. The first
experiment of practical application to the
soil by an European, is said to have been
: made during the same year by a General
Beatson, upon the Island of St. Helena,
i since made so famousas the prison bounds
of tlje Great Napoleon. la the year IS4O,
a 31 r. 31yers imported twenty casks into
the port of Liverpool. This was the be-
I ginning of the Guano Trade. Homeward
bound ships from California and.the Pacific
sought in it a profitable return cargo. The
demand increased rapidly, coming chiefly
from the great maritime nations of the
world—the United States and Great Bri
tain. The foreign transportation of it in
the year 1857 employed six hundred and
twenty ships, having a carrying capacity of
489,914 tons register, of which two hun
dred and eighty vessels of 205,152 tons
went to Great Britain, and two hundred
and one vessels of 213,322 tons came to
the United States. The whole amount
exported from the commencement of the
trade to December, 1557, was 2,457,977
tons, ships’ register.
Hitherto the supplies obtained in this
country have been under special contracts
with, or from consignments made by, the
Peruvian Government, through their ac
credited agents at the ports of New York
and Baltimore. The cargoes consigned,
are sold upon arrival oi to arrive at stipu
lated prices, for usually three different
grades, the prices corresponding thereto.
These purchasers sub-divide into lots and
re-sell to dealers or through the interven
tion of one or more commission merchants
to the farmers for use. At the present time,
we have every reason to believe that much
the larger proportion of that which is im
ported finds its way into the hands of
“manipulators” and Phosphate manufac
turers. Under the operation of this system
the price has steadily advanced. Asa matter
of course, the ordinary market fluctuations
in price, wliich grew out of competition
and an excess of supply, are excluded.
The only possible cause for fluctuation
would be the wants of the Peruviaji Treas
ury, the sale of guano being the chief
scourco of revenue—about fifteen-six
teenths of tire whole revenue of the Re
public. But these .Ag&nfe.- <*s. one may
readily imagine, oouirilas easily met under
a control of shipments, by a reduction in
prices to favored capitalists, without affect
ing what is called the established market
price, or lessening the cost to the farmer.
The present price is, as wo are advised,
from seventy-five to ninety dollars per
ton gold, according to grade. The dis
tribution of the imports of the United
States amounting to more than that of
Great Britain and vastly more than the
aggregate importations of all the world
beside, i.s confined almost exclusively to the
Middle and Southern Atlantic States. The
present cost of pure Peruvian Guano to our
farmers, swelled by commissions, hand
ling, transportation and waste is so great
as almost to interdict its use. Delivered
at liis door it cannot cost the farmer less
than from seven to ten cents per pound—
spread upon liis fields its cost will not be
less than from fifteen to twenty-five dollars
per acre. This high price has led
to adulterations of the grossest kind,
manipulations or admixtures and number
less substitutes. We would not be
understood as condemning all of these
admixtures or manipulations. Some of
them are undoubtedly valuable, being
honestly and carefully prepared with
proper materials, and in accordance with
the rules of science and practical experi
ence. Some manufacturers openly publish,
as of the highest merit, that among the
constituents of their productions there is i),
certain amount of Peruvian guano and
claim that the addition of bone dust, ashes,
poudrette and other substances furnishes
in better proportion, those elements which,
arc needed during the growth and at the
maturity of the crops. It is generally
conceded, as the result of experience, that
the admixture of guano with compost is
highly advantageous if not absolutely
requisite for its successful and profitable
application to light sandy soils, by reason
of the highly volatile and caustic qualities
of its ingredients. Hence all those com
pounds usually sold under the general
name of phosphates and super-phosphates
meet with favor, even when the ingredient
added is nothing more than inferior earth- j
ly matter within the reach of every one. {
Whatever may be the value of these so-call- j
cd phosphates for fertilizingjthe soil, it can- j
not be reasonably doubted that, while they
arc nominally one-third to one-half the |
price of pure Peruvian guano, they are !
really more costly by double if not three or j
four times, and that they might be obtain
ed at much less cost byperforming the man
ipulation on the larger farms orin the vicini
ty of our larger towns and villages, thereby
saving the cost of labor and the transpor- j
tation of the bulky and heavier materials :
which added to the lighter and highly con- !
centrated genuine article obtained from 1
Peru. V c say notning ol the enormous
profits realized in the manufacture.
The Government of Peru has, by legis
lative enactment, recently passed a decree
changing the present system of sale under
control and upon consignment and
compelling cargo purchasers and contract
ors to make their negotiations at their own
doors—thus dispensing with the interven-
I tion of foreign agents. The provisions of
! this decree are as follows:
Article 1. The Government will hence
forth be restricted from entering into anv
new contracts consigning guana and al=o
from continuing, by the system of advance
ments or any other means, those now le
gally in force.
Art. 2. Guano will be sold in Peru to
each -and every country that imports it
The sale will be by public auction. ‘ Notices
will have to be given in the papers for six
months in advance as to the quantity con
sumed annually or at the most every two
years.
Art. 3. The Government will proceed to
make contracts ior tne sale of cuano with
the actual consignees for the quantity con
sumed in their respective markets
Art. 4. These contracts of will be
immediately submitted to the consideration
of Congress, without whose approbation
they will be void or all legal effect.
Art. 5. The Government will have to «ee
that all the obligations contracted by the
nation in reference to the foreign debt are
strictly fulfilled.
Art. 6. If the Government should not
be able to raise funds in accordance with
the means indicated in Art. 3, they will he
authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding
4,000,000 soles, making the best contracts
they can, and submitting the Same to the
approbation of Congress.
It is not necessary that we should offer a
conjecture as to the motives which have
influenced this change. It is reasonable to
suppose that, while the desire may be to
reach the greatest amount ol net revenue
per ton, it : J equally desirable and is for
the interest of the Peruvian Govern
ment to extend the use of their chief
article of export, and chief source for
revenue, and thereby increase the demand.
The amount thus far exported is utterly
insignificant when compared with their
immense reserves. The received estimate
of the larger of the Chincha Islands alone
is 17,000,000 tons, the deposit attaining a
depth of one hundred and sixty feet or
more ; while that of the three islands com
posing this group is forty millions. There
can be, therefore, hut little fear of im
mediate exhaustion. The whole revenue
from the sale of guano in 1857
was $15,296,952 or $G 23 per ton in gold.
The difference between the amount per
ton received by the Peruvian Government,
and the prices current in this country,
would indicate that there must be an ex
ceedingly large margin for profits.
The control and the negotiations are now
made to restsolely within the Government
hOLPeru. There will be nr ‘-rtervention of ■
agents—there need be no control by other
and more grasping monopolists. The
validity of contracts is made to depend
upon a ratification by the Peruvian Con
gress. It cannot be doubted but that
special encouragement will be given to
purchasers at their home ports, and that
whatever contracts be made that these ports
will be kept open and free to all buyers.
The spirit of decree points out that such a
policy will govern in future. Let us sup
pose that the price demanded by the gov
ernment be ten dollars per ton, an advance
of more than sixty per cent on that
which they now receive, and that the
freightage will be twenty dollars per ton, a
rate of which will yield one-third the cost
of a good ship; there still remains a very
large margin for profits. Cannot a combi
nation be effected to secure these profits for
our people? Cannot a Peruvian Guano
Importing Company be organized? What
say our planters? What say our mer
chants ? What say our brethren of the
Press ? What will Savannah say ? What
will Charleston say? Shall we reap the
benefits of direct importation and secure to
our farmers the best of fertilizers at a low
rate and perform our own manipulations,
or continue to be manipulated?
Decline in Breadstuffs.
We took occasion in a recent article to
advise our planting friends to rush their
wheat crops to market as rapidly as they
could. We gave as our reasons for this
advice our opinion that the price of cereals
and. particularly wheat would decline
heavily, and that at an early, day. We
hope that planters have adopted our sug
gestions, and that they are using all possi
ble dispatch to get their wheat crops to
market.
We return to the subject again to-day
with the view to urging all our planters
to suffer no delay in this matter. Already
prices are tending rapidly downward, and
it is thought that wheat will go as low as
$1 70 per bushel. It has already fallen
in the Chicago market from $2 85 per
bushel, which it brought the middle of
last month, to $1 90 —a decline of ninety
five cents in less than one month. Last
Wednesday and Thursday the decline in
the two days was twenty-eight cents per
bushel, with a still further downward ten-
Oorn has also fallen in the Western mar
kets within the last fifteen days over twen
ty cents per bushel, and is now quoted
in Chicago at ninety cents.
There has been a great decline also in
the price of oats. On the 28 th of 3lay,
oats brought in the Chicago market as
high as ninety cents per bushel. On
Wednesday last the price had fallen to 00
cents, being a decline in eight days of
thirty cents per bushel.
Rye is also going down. From $1 57,
wliich it brought in 3lay, it has fallen in
Chicago to $1 02, being a decline of fifty
five cents per bushel.
In view of this general downward ten
dency in prices of all the leading cereals,
we urge the Georgia wheat grower not to
hold liis wheat at present prices, but to
send it forward now while the ruling rates
are high. During the latter part of this
month the crop of the great wheat grow
ing regions of Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Western New York, and' the Western
States, will be coming into market, and
then we shall confidently expect a still
further and more decided decline in prices.
The Southern wheat growers should en
deavor to realize something from the great
advantages which nature and the climate
gives them over their less favored compe
titors of the North and West.
cohserratives Must Not Divide.
There will, no doubt, be some in Geor
gia, says the Federal Union, who are not
Radicals, whowill votefor a Convention, and
others equally patriotic will vote against a
Convention. But there is no necessity for
two parties. Let ail register who can vote,
and at the election those who want a
Convention will, of course, want a good
man to represent them in the Convention.
Those who vote against a Convention
can, at the same time, vote for a good man
to represent them in case a majority should
be iu favor of a Convention. In that way,
both those who favor a Convention and
those who oppose, can vote for the same
man, so that if the State votes for a Con
vention we have a delegate already elect
ed; and if Convention is voted down, there
|is no harm done. We. who are Conser-
I vatives, can all vote for the same delegate
I whether we vote for or against a Convention.
The only safe way will be for all to agree
|on a candidate and elect him. However,
j we may divide on the propriety of a Con
| vent’on, we need not, and we must not,
divide on the propriety of electing the
right sort of delegates.
Stanbery's Opinion.— The Columbus
i Sun lets off the following pungent criticism
; upon the very able and lucid ? (in a horn)
opinjon of the Attorney-General upon the
i construction of the Military Bills :
Our Synopsis of Stanbery. —Every
body can vote that is registeiftd. Every
body can register that will swear. Every
body can swear that is a mind to. Every
negro has a mind to swear. Though what’s
the use of asking him where he lives ?
MR. STANBERY’S OPINION.
The following lucid answer, by a learned
Professor, is a pretty fair illustration of
the opinion of the United States Attorney-
General on the Reconstruction acts :
“Pray, Mr. Professor, what is a pen
| Ph “Madim, it is simply a circumlocutory
cvcle of oratorical sonorosity, circumscrib
ing anatom of ideality, lost in a verbal
profundity.” ,
1 ‘Thank you, sir. _
West Point— Soutiieren Boys Ahead.
—We learn a remarkable fact from the
New York Times, of the nth instant, and it
is this : That of the class just graduating
at West Point, every one of the first six
scholars is from the South. Ruffner of Vir
ginia. leads, and Sears, of Virginia, is
third : then there are Mallory, of Ala
bama, Rogers and Hauft, of Georgia, and
Griffith, of North Carolina. In the next
six there are three Tennesseeans—Pitt
man, Maguire and Bell—while Turtle, of
Massachusetts, Greer, of Pennsylvania,
and Heintzelman, at large, occupy the
other three places. Thus all of the first
twelve places on the scale ot general merit,
are given this year by men appointed from
the South.
P. T. Barnum's place at Fairfield,
I “Lindencroft,” has passed into other
j hands.
A Candid Confession.
“This is the Governor’s position:—
Privately he says he favors the Republi
can party, and expects to join it when the
time comes, but he does not do so now,
as such a step as that might do more harm
than good. So Governor Brown has been
a Bold-back among the white Republicans
in Georgia. But to return to the Conven
tion.”— Cor. Forney's Press.
V hen we stated some two months since
our opinion that Governor Brown had
determined to go out “bag and baggage”
to tlb; Sumner-Stevens Radical party,
we were taken to task by some of his
friends for doing the Ex-Governor injus
tice.
V*e commend to their perusal the above
extract, which we clip from a letter pub
lished in the Press, and written by one of
its Southern correspondents. It will be
seen that Joe gives the same reasons for
not coming out openly for the Radicals
which we charged upon him when he
began coquetting with that party. He
favors the Radical party , but does not
openly avow his opinions now, because it
might do more harm than good. The
people would not follow him so blindly
and confidingly if they knew at the outset
where he was taking them. The old arts
of the demagogue are resorted to until he
can get the unsuspecting herd so far on
his course as to be unable to retrace their
steps; then he will boldly own his full and
cordial adherence to the Radical organiza
tion. “Ho has been holding back among
the white Republicans” in order to fasten
them upon his line and then betray them
to their enemies.
Will the people of Georgia continue
longer to give their countenance and sym
pathy to such a designing and deeeitful,
not to say treacherous, leader ? We think
not.
The “Slang” and the “Morals” of the
Stock Market.
The Journal of Commerce (money arti
cle) is letting the uninitiated into the mys
teries of “the street,” the morals of stock
gambling, &c., Ac.:
“if our non-professional readers who are
interested in the theme will preserve this
paper for reference (the editor thinks),
they will soon, with its aid, acquire a
familiarity with the lauguage of the Stock
Exchange, and better understand the
technicalities which are employed daily in
describing its business. A sale marked C
(cash) is for money down, and the stock
must be delivered and the payment made
on the day it occurs. Where no mark is
given, or conditions prescribed, the sale is
understood to be ‘regular’; in this ease
the stock is deliverable and the cash pay
able the day following. A sale ‘buyer
three’ (or b3, as it is always printed),
gives the buyer the privilege of calling for
the stock at any time within three days
without notice ; if not demanded before, it
is deliverable at the end of the time, and is
always payable on delivery. Where the
condition is ‘seller three’ (s3j the seller at
his option, may deliver it and demand
payment without notice, during the time
specified, and must deliver it at the close
if not before. When the contract is to
run beyond three days, it is governed by
different rules. By a rule adopted several
years ago, the Board of Brokers agreed
not to recognize a contract for more than
00 days. Previous to this, engagements
were made to run 4,6, 9 and even 12*
months. Ajl contracts for more than three
days carry interest at six per cent, per
annum on the amount paid on the stock,
which accrues to the seller, whether the
engagement is on buyer’s or seller's op
tion. Whichever party has the option
may avail himself of it precisely as on a
three days’ sale, except that lie must give
oneday’snoticeinwriting. Thus buyer 5,10,
30, or 00 days give tlie buyer the privilege
of calling lor the stock on one day’s notice
at any time during the running of the con
tract, when he must be prepared to pay
for it with interest on the amount to that
date. . A r jA,stiller .5,. 10, JjlL.or MU. days
gives the seller the option to deliver during
this time, upon one day’s notice, when he
is entitled to the payment of the price and
interest.
The phrase “long” in stocks means
nothing more than to express the fact that
the operator has purchased a supply, and
has them on hand. He may have bought
them to hold for a rise, or to prepare for a
future delivery which ho has undertaken,
but he holds the stocks as he would any
other property. To be “short” in stocks
is to sell or contract to deliver stocks
which the operator does not possess. He
expects to buy them in at a price lower
than liis contract, and thus to make a profit
out of the transaction. There is usually a
difference of 1 to i of one percent between
regular sales and time contracts. «Buyer’s
options are usually higher, and seller’s
options lower than the rate for immediate
delivery.
If any one should ask us to set forth the
essential difference between these time
contracts and other forms of gambling, we
should bo obliged to confess ourselves at
fault. There may be cases where a capital
ist having money to invest which is not
yet in hand, may contract for a favorite
security, so as to be certain of it when lie
is ready for the purchase ; and a bona fide
holder of stock wishing to realize on it at
some uncertain day in the future, may
contract to sell it for a given price at liis
option. But the bulk of these transactions
are mere bets upon the future price of the
securities named by the operators, and are
the most pernicious sort of gambling.
Scrupulously observant of their word,
and with a nice regard for their honor
among their fellows, are most of this class
of dealers ; but there is no valuable con
sideration in their service, and defalcation,
bright and general misery, mostly summed
up in the word ruin, are the natural fruits
of their doings.”
Sudden Death.—An old colored man,
while walking down Broad street Tuesday
morning, suddenly fell dead in front of the
residence of J. 11. Mann, Esq. It is
supposed that he died of disease of' the
heart.
Movement of U. S. Troops.—A de
tachment of United States troops, num
bering four hundred, under the command
of Major Greene, passed through our city
Tuesday, en route to the scat of Indian
war, from Charleston.
Wheat Harvest. —The Rome Courier
of the 11th inst. says: “The principal
part of the wheat in this section will be
harvested in the next ten days. Every
thing indicates a good crop, and we hope
the cry for bread will soon be hushed in the
land. We hear some merchants predict
that three hundred thousand bushels will
be shipped from Rome.”
Pic-Nic of the Citizen Fire Company.
—The members of the Citizen Fire Com
pany, with their invited guests, met at the
Georgia Railroad Depot Tuesday morn
ing, and in a short time were landed at
Berzelia, where the day was spent in the
enjoyment of such amusements as arc
usual upon occasions of the kind.
The party was largely attended, number
ing about four hundred and fifty. Wm.
Bryson, Captain of the Citizen, and his
officers, rendered the occasion very agree
able by their assiduous attention to the
wants of their friends.
Mr. Henry A. Merry, of the Berzelia
Hotel, by his courtesy and attention, aided
materially in furthering the festivities of
the occasion, and although he was taken
by surprise at the number of visiters, yet
he provided accommodations for all, and
will lie pleased at all times to make similar
provision for his Augusta friends, who
rnay favor him with their presence, whether
in search of health or pleasure.
The 11 Citizen and their guests ar
rived at home at a quarter after nine, after
having spent the day in the enjoyment of
innocent amusement with no accident to
mar the pleasures of their Pic-Nic.
A company has lately been organized in
Florida—the “Southern Land and Immi
gration Company”—for the of
facilitating the disposal of lands in the
Southern States, introducing European
immigrants, &c. David S. W alker, Gov
ernor of Florida, is president of the com
pany, and it embraces several large capi
talists.
A vessel from the West Indies, the
RUing Sun, has landed at New Haven
seventy-seven thousand gallons of molasses,
the largest cargo ever brought to that port.
NEAT SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 25.
The South
Whether they will or won't, the people
must face the fact that the prosperity of
the North is closely identified with that
of the South. It is time to see the truth
that there is something else to Jbe done
with the Southern people besides this
business of managing theta with reference
to the future power of the Radical party.
There are other interests at stake than
this one of gerrymandering the South to
give the Radicals an increased vote in Con
gress. For no sensible man will dispute
that the present management of the South
is wholly controlled by the question of
future power and plunder for a party. The
interests of the country arc forgotten. The
interests of the Union are left out of view.
The absurdities which our present course
exhibits are a disgrace to ns. An example
is visible in the twaddle of Radical men
about treason. Among the inhabitants of
the Southern States there is not one man
in a hundred, black or white, that lias not
been an enemy of the government. The
most ardent aiders and abetters ot tlie re
bellion were to be found among tlie non
combatants, tlie females and the negroes.
The negro population was deeply imbued
with the spirit of hatred to the North ;
and in thousands of instances this spirit
led them to the verge of the battle-field;
and where they could overcome their
innate cowardice, it led some into the heat
of battle. The Southern army was attend
ed by large numbers of negroes who, irom
choice, continued in the field, and who were
as ardent enemies of the. ‘.‘Yankees'’ as
any of their white masters.
Here we have, then, a population of
some millions scattered through the South
ern States, who have’ come under the
dominion of the law, and are now subject
to such punishment as the government
may administer. But no one dreams of
punishing them. Why not? Because it
is said they were slaves, and their acts
were to be regarded as compulsory. It is
then conceded by the most enthusiastic,
devotees of the blood-for-blood doctrine,
that a nominal compulsion is sufficient
reason for excusing the great crime. That
the compulsion was only nominal, no one
can doubt. At every moment, from 1801
to 1805, the negroes held possession of the
homes and the base of supplies of the
Southern army. There was never an in
surrection, never a dream among them of
casting off the nominal yoke of servitude.
They were willing servants, and their masters
had implicit confidence in their fidelity,
both to them and the Confederate cause.
Emissaries were amoug them all this time,
seeking to arouse them into action on the
side of the Union, but they refused the
temptations.
Looking at these facts, will the gentle
men who have never yet seen a battle
field, but who desire to add the terrors of
legal executions to the slaughters of these
years past, explain on what principle they
draw a distinction between the white man
and the negro in questions relating to con
fiscation, treason, and the like ?
It is agreed on all hands that even the
negro, who, with rifle in hand, on the rebel
side, helped in the awful bloodshed of Gold
Harbor, should not be tried as a traitor.
It is even agreed that the free negro who
took a shot now and then for the fun of
the tiling over the deadly works in front of
Petersburg, ought not to be punished as a
traitor. But who will define the distinction?
The pressure at the South which drove
young and old into the ranks was tenfold
more visible and tangible than the pressure
on the negro. Why not have some sym
pathy for the white man? Why this
fundamental distinction which tends to a
conflict of races? Certainly the day of
wisdom and of calmer thought and wiser
action must be before us. It is impossible
that a nation should go blundering on in
this blind inconsistent manner forever.
Our present policy at the South, distin
guishing as it does white from black, to the
depreciation of the white and the elevation
of tlie black over him, is a disgrace to civ
ilization. There is no satisfactory explana
tion of the conduct of some of the Generals
now in command at the South, nor is it
improper to attribute to them a desire to
provoke hatred and perpetuate disooril,
since there is no choice between charging
them with this desire and with the gross
est stupidity. They are none of them
stupid, and, therefore, it is beyond reason
able doubt that they work with intent to
accomplish that result which their course
does accomplish. Riot, and more and
more bloodshed, follow their tracks. The
Generals to whom we aliude have thus far
succeeded in keeping their departments in
a state of turmoil, and in giving their
Northern Radical friends abundant ma
terial for abuse of the South. With
such Generals the condition of the South
may fairly be regarded as hopeless. So long
as they remain in command the prospect
will grow darker and darker. Up to the
present moment a careful estimate of tlie
work done in the Southern States liy the
military oftieers convinces us that it
amounts to this, namely, from a condition
of comparative quiet and hopefulness for
white and black, they have brought things
itrto a much worse state for both, and
whereas the relations of the two races
were peaceful and mutually satisfactory,
they arc now becoming dangerously dis
turbed by the acts of the Generals and the
men they employ. All this reacts with
terrible force on us at the North. There
lias not been in many years a more serious
state of feeling than now pervades our
business circles. Ruin stares men in the
face, and ics approach is hastened by the
folly, the madness with which politicians
are using the military position to accom
plish their nefarious purposes at the South.
—iV Y. Journal of Commerce..
The Kaflleals Working Their Own Knln.
Wendell Phillips, says the New York
Herald , wants to put anigger on the Pres
idential ticket with General Grant. This
is tlie latest limit of Radical movement—
the most advanced position of the most
advanced man—and show's like a beacon
the tendency and direction of revolutionary
thought moving onward wave by wave.
Mr. Phillips’ nomination of a nigger for
Vice President is in our revolution exactly
analagous to one of the most characteristic
facts of the French revolution- -the crown
ing of an immoral woman as Goddess ol
Reason. The deification of the nigger—
the apotheosis of that great cause of the
war —is the necessary sequence of success;
it is the necessary party result of the ter
rible contest that party leaders look upon
as having been purely and simply a nigger
war. Phillips sees this, and is consistent.
Reasoning on the bare facts, looking at the
matter purely in its logical forms, he sees
that the inevitable next step for the party
that lias gone so far is to exalt the nigger
to the highest possible point of power and
dignity; and seeing this, he states it bold
ly ana broadly, not deterred by any' such
trashy commonplaces as a sense of what it
may be judicious, decorous or even decent
for his party to do. In the French revo
lution all the surroundings of the event we
have alluded to make it an exact parallel to
this exaltation of the nigger. Each was
the same defiance of commonplace pro
priety—the same natural next step of rev
olutionary' movement.
The only thing that is impossible to a
revolution is to stop. Incessantly and in
exorably to go forward, working out its
fate, is the law of its life. Attempts to
stay revolution at any point short of its
ultimate end only expose those who make
them to he crushed under the onward
moving wheels. Revolutions of modern
history has illustrated no point so dis
tinctly as this. The great one that an
nihilated the whole ancient system of
France bore at its opening the harrnlessap
pearanee of a movement for reform ; but,
sweeping forward, it soon left the most ad
vanced philosophical extremists far be
hind, and at its close was seen to have left
nothing unchanged in the nation, and to
have spared no person or party that had
attempted to stay its course, until it fairly
ran into the counter revolution of military
despotism. Barnave had fulminated like
the rest against aristocracy, against royalty,
for the liberty of the people ; but the day
came when this extravagant democrat ven
tured to say that the revolution was going
too far—ventured to warn the country
that it was destroying not merely royalty,
but government —not privilege, but prop
erty —— an ,l for such wise warnings Barnave,
once a (foremost man of the Revolution,
went to the guillotine, as the aristocrats
j had gone so plentifully before. This
is the history of nearly all the
men of the French Revolution, its au
thors and abettors who at any time raised
a voice against its dangerous tendencies.
They who urged one series of executions
were the victims of the next. With the
Girondists went down the attempt of a
great party to stay the movement. Thence
there was no restraint. It was only a
question for how trivial an opposition a j
man should die. Camille Desmoulins, a
Jacobin, was guillotined for proposing a
committee of clemency—a committee em- :
powered to set at liberty persons who :
were merely “suspected” of evil inten
tions. The great crime of the age was to
attempt to modify the revolutionary ex
travagance. This is, in a party sense, the j
great crime now —fotwe are only repeating
that history: Radical leaders are working
out in essentially the same way their own
destiny and ruin. He who is not willing i
to go to any extremity in the great diree- !
tion of universal nigger worship must go
down, and will go down, so far
aR party position is iiii plied.
General Pope is a ruined man if
he had any party views. He has just
suppressed a newspaper in Mobile for
merely giving the niggers some lessons in
killing, '‘instructing them how, when and
where to use firearms/’ This interference
with the amiable recreation of republican
voters will send him to the political guil
lotine. On the other hand, the Superin
tendent of the Freedmen’s Bureau in V ir
ginia is in the line of promotion. He has
made the Bureau openly a party machine,
by instructing his subordinates to see that
every negro "is registered and votes.’’ He
appreciates the fact that the revolution is
going on, and that the point at which
Wendell Phillips has now fixed the party
standard is not very far in advance of the
present partj- line. He is right. However
moderates protest and demur, that is the
next great point; and it will be but a lit
tle while before we reach it, for we go
through a revolutionary cycle in much less
time than it required in any of the famous
European revolutions.
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A letter from Koine describes "Holy
week.’’ The writer says :
l think the sight of the gorgeous car
riages was as interesting as any part of the
aflair. All those belonging to the cardi
nals arc red, profusely gilded, with flun
kies in cocked hats, two in front, and loot
men behind. The manner in which their
horses are harnessed is very handsome,
loaded as they aie with gorgeous purple
and gold and bright, steel. The horses
themselves are very fine, generally black,
with magnificent manes and tails. 1 have
not seen finer animals anywhere.
A correspondent at lluatan, which now,
in common with other parts of Central
America, enjoys monthly steam mail com
munication with the United States, writes
as follows :
In regard to Honduras and Guatemala,
in the Bay of Honduras, it is destined to
become of importance in the course of
two or three years more. There are al
ready some sixty or seventy families from
Louisiana and Texas settled at Santo
Tomas, in Guatemala, and commenced
raising sugar cane, and as almost any
ground will produce a ton of sugar per
acre, they will expect a good deal of sugar
the coming season. They have a splendid
harbor, healthy climate, and if industrious
will succeed in making up their recent
losses. v
Supreme Court Reporter.—The At
lanta Arte Era of Tuesday says : "Col.
L. E. Breckley. owing to ill health, has re
signed the office of Reporter of the
Supreme Court—a trust which ho filled
with signal ability. We. are pleased to
learn that Col. F. J. Hammond has been
appointed to that position. Wo congratu
late the State and country upon so emi
nently a good appointment.
Sanitary Preparations. —Populous
ckies on our western rivers were severe
sulferers last year from the prevalence ol‘
cholera, and they arc now moving in good
season to make such sanitary prepara
tions as may most effectually protect them
from another visitation. No precaution
should be neglected, anywhere. It is de
sirable that all contemplated improvements,
such as building sowers, excavating cellars,
especially if the ground is low and moist,
should cither bo finished before the com
mencement of hot weather, or bo deferred
until the return of frost. The malaria
from fresh excavations is liable to do mis
chiefin cities.
A statement is going the rounds of the
papers that Queen Victoria is 52 years of
age. This is a mistake. She was born
May 24, ]BJ 9, so that she is 48 years old.
She succeeded to the throne on the death
of her uncle, William the Fourth, June 20,
1847, when she was a little over JS years
of age. She was married to Prince Al
bert, February 10,1840. She has 9 children
and 10 grand children. Her eldest child,
who is now the princess royal of Prussia,
and has 4 children, was born Novej»** or
21, 1840.. The youngest child ;* f ’ Queen
Victoria is the Princess Heat rice Mary
Victoria Feodore. She was born April 14,
1857.
Precept vs. Practice.—The New
York Trilmnc is a loud-mouthed advocate
for encouraging what it calls “home in
dustry and yet this same Tribune im
ports aUitspapcrfromforcTgrrcour.tr'ies.' A
New York exchange asks this pertinent
question—“ How much weight would
Horace Greeley’s editorials in favor of pro
tection have with his readers if they all
could pass the Tribune office and see for
themselves the tons of foreign paper
bought by the Tribune Association, and on
which the 'lribxcneya printed ?”
Worse and Worse.— Judge Richard
Bustped, not satisfied with having the door
of the Union Bepuhlican Convention
slammed in his face, yesterday wrote a let
ter of compliments to that body, and in
return therefor received a complimentary
vote of one hundred and forty-eight to
twenty-five against a proposition to invite
him to address them. The imperturbable
■Judge,” determined no longer to be
strangled in the house of his friends, ad
dressed a crowd of outsiders at the Capitol
last night.— Montgomei-jj Advertiser.
The Cnors in Florida.— lt is reported
that the crops in Florida promise but
badly. 1 hey arc very backward in con-
of the coolness of the Spring,
and the Floridians do not feel particularly
cheerful at tne prospect before them.
Charleston Mercury, 10th.
Gone After Him.— A gentleman from
Lawrenceville, a brother-in-law of Willie
< )rr, who was killed at the above place a
few months ago, by Chas. Ambrose, passed
through this city on Friday for Miliedgc
ville, whither he goes to get a requisition
from the Governor of Georgia upon the
Governor of Florida for the said Ambrose,
lie will then proceed to Tallahassee, where
Ambrose now remains in jail, and briti"
him to Georgia. The prisoner will be sent
to Milledgevillo for safe keeping until ait
investigation can he had of the unfortu
nate affair. — Atlanta Tut., Oth.
The Champion.— The steamship Cham
pion, R. W. Lockwood, Commander, was
cleared on Saturday evening by Messrs
Courtenay & Trenholm, anil sailed early
next morning for New York, with a very
large freight list. Besides which Messrs.
Street Bros. & Cos., furnished accom
modation for ninety-five passengers.—
Charleston Mercury, 10th.
The steamship San Jacinto sailed on
Saturday last, at 12 o’clock, with 130 cabin
passengers and a freight consisting of
1,244 bales of upland cotton, 20 bales of
yarns, 21 bales of wool, 42 casks of rice,
400 packages of vegetables, and 81 pack
ages of merchandize.
She went crowded, at least twenty-five
persons being unable to obtain passage,
and nearly one hundred bales of cotton
having been refused. — Savannah Republi
can, 10th.
More La roe Turtles.— The Dictator,
on her last trip from Florida, brought for
shipment to New York, ten enormous
turtles, which were caught on the Indian
River—one of them weighing three hun
dred and sixty pounds, and would sell in
New York for o\er one hundred dollars.
The usual rate is about forty cents per
pound.— Charleston Mercury, 10th.
Jay Cooke & Cos. are said to have re
cently made a heavy investment in Min
nesota, by the purchase of 11)0,000 acres
of pine lands on the St. Louis river. They
will immediately erect a number of mills.
Two Protestant missionaries have just
made a tour from 2,000 to 3,000 miles in
the interior of - China, and report ap open
door everywhere for preaching and the
sale of Christian books.
The Howland will contest at New Bed
ford is “richness” to others besides the
lawyers. One photographer has already
made 1,100 in takingyizc similes to prove
a single point.
The work of building the first convent
in Western Massachusetts, which wascom
menced about a year ago by the Catholic
church of the Holy Name at Chicopee,
has been resumed.
A Jury in New Orleans has given a
verdict of $20,000 against the City Rail
road Company, for personal injuries to a
lad named Martinez, previously woak
witted, who was made wholly imbecile bv
being run over.
After an interval oi more than six years,
the Alexandria, Loudon A Hampshire
Km I road has been re-opened to Leesburg,
There is an announcement in the Turkish
refreshment room at the French Exhi
bition to the effect that every purchaser of
a dozen of Celestial wine will receive, as a
premium, one bottle of the water of the
river Jordan for baptismal purposes.
A citizen of Springfield, Mass., took a
ride the other day through the Long
meadow meadows, and without leaving
his carriage, except to bag the game, shot
thirteen woodcocks with his rifle, some of
them at pretty long distances.
The total amount of sales of Jive stock
at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago,
during the year ending April 30th, reached
the sum of $30,888,124. During the
same time 372 cattle-brokers’ licenses were
assessed.
The Cincinnati Volksblatt says that
seventy thousand emigrants are on their
way from Germany, many of them intend
ing to come to Missouri.