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I» :t Large Cntlnu Crop Desirable ?
Tbe New York Worhl, in an interesting
article, points out the grant iucreae in
• lie production of cotton Ly India and
I'bJ’ft, and other hoantries, and urges the
Houth to renewed efforts, to regain her
supremacy in the gnat markets of Europe.
1 he Worhl hays :
‘ This whole matter of cotton cultivation
to the full extent of our capacities, and in
spite of the obstacles presented, i- one tiiat
we would earnestly urge upon the atten
tion of the South. We would have her
fully appreciate the influences working
against Tier abroad, and have her make
those efforts alone necessary to regain her
lost cotton-control in all markets. We can
see in the first full crop that she produces
the commencement of that season of"great
j>ro, perity which is surely m store lor her.”
It i. rmt at all difficult to appreciate the
value ol the World'* article, nor the object
of its flattering prophecy, by analyzing it iri
tf.e light of great Northern interests. New
"t ork is the emporium of the continent —
the metropolis of the nation. New York
interests are national interests. To cause
the South “to regain her lost-control is to
cause Ni w York to regain her lost ex
change-control in all markets, ’ and to
make New \ ork hills of credit and bills of
exchange of equal value with bills on Lon
don and sterling exchange in the s<. aports
throughout the world. To cause the South
“to regain her lost cotton-control,“ is to
cause Northern commerce to spread her
white sails and plow through the sea, with
steam-driven powers into every nook and
corner of the navigable globe. Such views
are both patriotic and desirable in the lati
tude of New York. Hut we do not see
that, under existing circumstances, a
“full cotton crop ’ is practicable at the
South ; or if practicably desirable, that
the predicted prosperity “would surely fol
low. ’ ’
From our standpoint cotton growing,
if not a crime is, at least, an evil classed as
hurtful to the welfare of the nation. So
far from beyig encouraged it is checked
and repressed by special penal revenue
laws. The measure of the penalty is an ex
ponent of the evil, and fixes its class as
only inferior to the distillation of corn—
whiskey making. The special penalty
affixed in two and one-half cents pur
pound on every pound grown, or from
twelve to fifteen dollars on every bale sent
to market. If the product per band
(perhaps wo should say per help) is es
timated at three bales, every laborer —
without distinction of raoe or color—who
engages in its production must pay for the
privilege n penal tax from thirty-six to
forty-fivedollarsannually. Considered with
reference to land, and estimating the pro
duct to lie one halo per ucre for the best
and one bale to three acres for ordinary
land, this penalty varies from four
to forty-live dollars per aero, for every
acre cultivated, according to its produc
tion. 'IT cotton growing South, without
distinction as to caste or color, is, therefore,
made “to i dly appreciate the iullueucos
working against her’’ at homo in this very
tangible way, to say nothing of other “ob
stacles presented.” If the production is
incraused under these circumstances will
not the tax be raised, the penally increas
ed? Tfof -oSfii we lute how the impover
ished South is “to make those elbuts alone
necessary (o regain her lost cotfoneon
(rol in all markets.” Let Us suppose
the production should be carried to a
“lull crop.” The surplus would have to
he thrown upon the market at Liverpool
to meet in competition the India crop,
exclusively under British control, and
Ivjyptiau cotton and BrazihaA cotton, and
the slock would accumulate. Some ox~
chci|ucr chancellor would then announce,
oracularly, that “it was for the interest of
(Ircnt Britain that low prices should pre
vail. ’ That “old foggy”—(as a Northern
financial journal calls her)—the bank of
Kn band would raise the rates of interest or
refuse to discount American cotton bills—
and the English spinners dictate their own
prices. The American shipper then would
have to pay another penalty for the privilege
of shipping cotton. Nor would affairs at
home be any better. The surplus would
glut the markets. Held at home the
market would bo glutted and prices would
rule so low as to destroy the farmer’s
ability to pay even his expenses
and the revenue tax penalty Jar growing
cotton. We can easily sec why the New
York World "would earnestly urge upon
the attention of the South this whole mat
ter of cotton cultivation to the full extent
of our capacities;” but we see that it can
bring nothing but ruin and disaster to
Southern farmers if they adopt and follow
such a policy, and that, too, without distinc
tion as to caste or color. M e have no tear
that such a course will be pursued. The
bitter experience of the present season is
toe vivid. Thousands of our farmers have
mortgaged the growing crops to borrow
money at ruinous rates ol interest (from
twenty live to fitly and even one hundred
pc;- cent per annum) wherewith to buy
bread, corn and meat, at extravagant
prices, and this fact, too, is another penal
ty pretty generally brought home to out
farmers ami laborers without distinction as
to caste or color.
The crops of the present year promise
abundance. We shall have made wheat
enough to do us two years. The corn crop
H nearly made, and promises to yield an
ample supply for the same length of time,
thunc meat will bo wanted next year,, but
nothing like the quantity used last year.
kis not difficult to predict the future
course investments will take at the South.
The lessens of the war and the results of
the war, indicate and demand that the
South should be self-sustaining, by forcing
the economy of domestic exchange and do
mestic manufacture, rather than that
which arises from national exports and
foreign importations. Surplus funds will
be invested in home factories for surplus
1 cotton and for dtaking such collateral
i articles as may Is* called for by the demand
of reciprocal interests. The future' civili
zation of the South will be municipal—not
( agricultural. The days of large plantations
and extensive cotton culture arc passing
away. The day of small farms—of truck
farms, grain farm- and orchard- farms—is
at hand. The tendency of population is to
' towns an<l villages, and their environs, and
along the lines of railroads. Rapid trans
portation, the present character of labor
and the great breadth of seasons, reaching
from February to November, or nine
months of the year, promote these move
ments, while there is no special revenue
tax penalty to cheek it. and tlm-re is a
special bureau system to encourage it.
The W'erM ha? evidently been poring over |
some statistics from the Census Bureau, j
lias been look in;; at the parallel in our .
commercial marine with that oi’ cotton
bales, has lieec figuring as to whether it
was thirty or fifty millions these slave
lord’ recklessly threw away every year in
the great metropolis and other great cities,
land at those delightful summer resorts,
!Now;>ort, and Saratoga, and the like ; and
has been figucring about iu Sterling Ex
change, French Exchange, and Imports
and Export?, and all that sort of bankers'
jargon ; and has got all of this confused and
jam Wed nt* with Kueonst ruction Bills and
Constitutional Vmendineuu, ami the ex
l>edioiicy of univer-al I‘cmmTalie -'u'ljage.
1 From the very depths of confusion :• nd
I Democratic bliridncs.- “ would earnestly
I urge upon the attention of the South”—
without money—without credit—without
1 banks, or almost any accuinulat i capita!
I ~t w have hail to! c-»- 1 -ritv
;to stay theravagosof famine wbiek ulked
through our land—to even tilt ar-iitisi the
money-king of the worlil and the organized
i-d-or of all contending climes. Wake up 1
Mr. World., anew era is upon you ' wake
up ! National Bonds will protect the trade
—balance and cover all deficiencies in Na
tional Exchanges. Trade in Universal
Suffrage! Tammany has been beaten at
its own gatue. Radicalism has outstripped
barefoot Democracy! i'otton ho.- I* on
dethroned. Money is King. Tin- revela
tion comes to us from Britain's pro
phets. He that hath a penny is a
King .to the amount of a penny
but he that hath an hundred pence is a
hundred times greater king. If you
earnestly down cotton, give us a codfish
bounty for making it for you. We intend
to liave plenty to cat an'l sing
“No more Monday loomings.'’
Our State uniform, “a shirt collar and a
pair of spurs,” is not expensive. Our
winters short and bread-fruit? grow ’ pour
taneously. When we get our representa
tive?. that are to lie looted thSrjflr, in
making our new departure we will teU you
how we will trade.
-4D nrowidow is KlcffWl."
It will appear that Tennessee’s fighting
parson La -' been re-elected Governor of the
two States of Last Tennessee and West
Tennessee and, so far as the returns go, by
precisely the* very majority he predict'd.
It would have been strange had it been
otherwise. An incumbent and candidate
must bo either a very poor politician or a
very honest man not to be re-elected. —
When, in addition to Slate patronage, he
lias the power to name the voters, we
see nothing to prevent him from being
elected ay often as he may desire, and for
so long a term as he may desire. Indeed,
we think there is every reason to believe
that we shall shortly receive a proclamation
from his Excellency declaring that the
hnvpin is at peace.
The Governor predict''!. that his major
ity would be thirty thousand. Ills system
of polities is very simple and very easy to
be understood. No complication is per
mitted. Principles are not allowed to con
flict. Ail who will not vote for Brownlow,
be he white or black, or copper-colored,
Federal or Confederate, socesh or Unionist,
arc disfranchised to an extent sufficient
to secure his predicted majority.
Desperate and Fatal Duel.
We find the following in iho Louisville
j Courier :
Wei,by Rostoffice, Ky., July 22.
j A deplorable tragedy was enacted about a
! mile from our quiet little village this
j morning at daylight, which resulted in the
| death of a promising young man and the
mortal wounding of another whose future
! was all brilliancy and promise.
Littleton Wells and Sandford B. Roberts
wore both young men oi' unexceptionable
i character, and occupying enviable positions
i in our society. Wells was about twenty
j two years old, and Huberts was probably
I two years his senior. The senior was our
I deputy postmaster, while the latter was
I clerk in the store of Roath & Strother,
j For some time both had been paying
! marked attention to an amiable and
; beautiful young lady ot the neighborhood,
| whose name 1 withhold for obvious reasons,
i and until within a month past wore
J generous rivals, their relations toward each
I other being ou the most friendly footing.
Some three or four weeks ago Weils vis
j itud the young lady and made a forugd
I proposal for her hand. liis proposition
i was respectfully but firmly declined, and
| upon his pressing her for her reason lor j
i her declination she indiscreetly hfrumeu !
| him that .die had already accepted a -iuii
j lar proposal from young Roberts. Wells ,
left the house, mounted his horse, and re-
turned to tli** village. He first went to :
the pofitoffiec and armed himself with a j
pitot, and then saw his successful rival at
the store. Hero ap altercation ensued,
which would have had a bloody termina
tion had not by standers interfered and put
•an euil to the difficulty. From that time
nut'll Saturday they were as strangers to
eiieh other. On that day _ they both at
tended a pie nie, Roberts' being accom
panied by his fiance. As soon as Wells
saw them together he seemed to be im
bued with the very spirit ol* insanity.—
Approaching thorn, he grossly insulted
Roberts in the presence of the whole as
sembly. Tin insulted man sprang to his
feet, aud started toward his insulter, evi
dently to resent the insult, when gentle
men present prevented a collision. Roberts
and his fair companion, at the earnest so
licitation of the latter, immediately left
the ground and repaired to hfcr home,
where she, fearing a difficulty between the
parties, endeavored to persuade him to
spend the night. In that she failed, hut
succeeded in exacting a promise from him
that he would not return to the pic-nic
ground.
Reaching the village, and brooding over
the gross outrage that had been put upon
; him. lie went to his room mid penned a
[ challenge to mortal combat, which he in
trusted to a friend to he delivered into the
I hands of Wells. This mission was aceom
j plished that night. Next morning a friend
| of the challenged party called upon the
friend of Roberts te arrange the preiimi
| navies. This was accomplished. The
j arrangement was that the fight was to
, come off in a meadow about one mile east
of town, at daylight on Monday, the weap-
I ons to be Colts revolvers.
, At the appointed time principals and
j seconds wore on the chosen ground. Tin)
: principals were placed ten feet apart, with
i instfuetious to tire between the _ words
i “one” and "three, and then advance,
, firing as tie advanced, such being the
I terms insisted upon by the challenged and
I not rejected by the challenger. At the
1 word both parties fired, and so accurate
' was their aim that Wells fell dead, pioreyd
! through the brain.by his adversary's ball.
! Roberts received his opponent’s bullet in
the centre of the breast, passing through
his lardy at.d lodging under the skin just
j totkebft of the spine. At the moment I
write he is not dead, though sinking so
i rapidiy that the physicians t ay that he
i cannot possibly live more than an hour.
| This terrible affair, it is needless to say,
: has given our entire community a shook
i such as never pervaded it before. Both
1 the young men were highly respected: ocru
j spieuous for their intelligence and social
I qualities. Wells leaves a widowed mother
| "and two sisters to mourn their loss. Rob
! hurts leaves no family bereft, while the
! sad, sad late is mourned by ail who knew
them.
H; :.'s Srrxni. —Pro ntiee says of Hill's
speech : “It is a remarkable speech. It is
stirring, splendid and scathing. It is a
stinger' and a stunner. Aud withal it is
sound as the Constitution and loyal as the
Uuiug.
Registration in Coweta. —llegistra-
tion in Coweta lias closed. The total re
gistered is 2,.ilS —1,2.'? blacks and 1,230
whites.
Registration in Atlanta.—The total
number registered iu Atlanta is 3,35*; —
1,7(56 whites aud 1/521 blacks.
Immigration Wanted at the South.
—A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial writes as follows from Mississippi:
‘‘There never was such anxiety among
Southern people for the introduction of
white immigrants. Every foot of land is
for sale, and its cheapness amazes one
who knew something ot the value of these
lands in former years. The inducements
oflered are very great. Crops grow luxu
riantly. Wheat and com enough will be
made everywhere to make food very cheap,
i The failure of these crops last year changed
1 ths policy of farmers. They have neg
* looted cotton in order to have anal an Luce
of bread and bacon. A Northern man is
: amazed by the productiveness of fields
1 half cultivated. Manures are unused and
■ unknown; and of mechanical agencies em
! ployed in the North the masses of the peo
* nle know nothing. I am inclined to be
lieve die tide of emigration will slowly
■ change its direction, or that the South
i will snare its advantages with Northwest
, ern States and Territories. I enclose a
j pamphlet issued by a land lottery, which
disposes of farms carved oa* of plantations
along railway lines in this and adjacent
i States. The institution called the South
! ern Asylum is very popular. If you w ouid
; promote the purpose of filling the South
j with German and other farmers, die doeu
j moot will prove useful.
The Tennessee Juggle.
The New York Express, one of the Bold
est a- well as one of the ablest advocates of
Constitutional Govermnentandthc eo utility
■ of the States, exposes and denounces the
Tennessee election farce
‘ The result of the bogus election in Ten
nessee ought not —and, it is to be pre
sumed, will not-—.surprise anybody who
j lias beer: at the pains to keep himself in-
I fori;,., i of ;hc conditions of thiugs in that
i unh .ppy Slate. That Brownlow should
! have elected himself by twenty-five or
thirty thou-an 1 majority is certainly
; nothing remarkable. While he was about
j it, he might as easily have made it fifty or
! sixty thousand, or. if need be,‘unanimous,
i “TJlu'telegraph tells us the whole of the
! eightrCongrossiuon are plso elected. Ten
j ncs*c has one (JtSnscrvativ* member in
i the ] ;-e--ci ' Lump, but it looks as if even
jhe : i the Memphis district) has been
j counted out.
“Now, we do not hesitate to say that
! rl,:.* so-called election is, in all its respects,
Jon.- of the boldest and most transparent
| frauds upon the peoplo the country has
i witnessed since the accession of the lladi
j cal party to power -and this is saying not
j a little. About every man who was not a
i Radical was set down as a Rebel, and no
Relic! was permitted to vote. In this way,
it is estimated between fifty and sixty thou
white men were disfranchised; at the
a c ir "nffifbcr
of negroes wore admitted to the ballot
box. And, as we have heretofore shown,
in order to prevent the possible election of
any of the Conservative candidates, in the
more sequestered parts of the »Statc,
Brownlow brought his State militia on the
stage to intimidate, where intimidation
was necessary to secure the success of the
J acobin candidates.
‘ ‘And now, what is the result of it ail ?
We answer —to keep Tennessee awhile
longer under one of tho meanest despotisms
with which ever a people were cursed, and
to send to Congress seven fraudulently
eleteed members to help make laws, not for
Tennessee alone but for us, here in New
York, and for all the rest ot the country.
These Tennessee Radical members ol'Con
gress thus forced into the Capitol, as it
were, by fraud, force, terror, are to sit
there, perchance to make constitutional
amendments for us, to impose taxes upon
us, to help impeach and remove the Presi
dent, and to aid the Stevenses, the Sum
ners, the Wilsons, and the Butlers, to plan
new usurpations and new outrages upon
Constitutional Liberty and the _ rights of
the people! And all this, be it remem
bered, while Democratic and Conservative
members from Kentucky—of whose regu
lar election there eau be no reasonable
doubt —are not permitted to take their
■ oat-. A State that never rebelled against
the Union, but which sent forty thousand
of her sons to suppress the rebellion, dis
franchised- while the negroes and “mean
whites’’of “scce.-ik” Tennessee are per
mitted to send whomsoever they like to
Congress (provided thev be neither Demo
crats nor Conservatives), to strengthen the
hands of the tyrants and despots who are
already supreme there!
“The wickedness of this pretended elec
tion, and the flagrant outrage it per
petuates upou the forms of even self-gov
ernment, may be the means of rousing the
people of the North and West to the ra
pidity with which these demagogues are
subverting the whole system of ouruovorn
ment. The addition of these fraudulently
chosen members of Congress to the exist
ing majority of the Rump, are but so
many new links in tiie chain they are forg
ing for us. It will help them to maintain
their Five Monarchy system throughout
the Southern military dependencies. It
will enable them, by and liya, to give to
Maryland what they call ‘a republican
system of government, ’ whereby they will
be enabled, by the negro vote, and the
‘disfranchisement of rebels,’ to play over
again, with like results, the same game
old Brownlow ha- just been playing in
Tennessee. It will do more than this. It
will euabio them to so lay choir plans as to
cheat the people out of a free expression of
their will in the next Presidential election.
1 1 will enable them to perpetuate their
power, to retain their big bounties and
high tariffs, anu, in short, to transform
our whole system of Government into as
complete an oligarchy as mankind ever
beheld.
“We do not know whether the masses
of'the people are resigned to the prospect
before them. If they are, why, then, it is 1
best to let the Brownlows and the bogus
Congressmen have their own way, in peace.
If they arc not, then the sooner they shako
off the stupor which seams just now io be
numb their senses, if not to destroy their
manhood, the better. There is no time to
lose —for Despotism and Tyranny never
beat a retreat of their own accord. If they
are obliged to turnback, they must bo*
boateu back, or not at all.
Atlanta Lincoln Monument.—The
Columbus Enquirer .>ays :
The New York Times (Republican pa
pev) is “down on” the Atlanta Monu
ment to Lincoln “like a thousand oi brick.”
J.t notices particularly a circular sent out
from the very fast “Gate City,’’ soliciting
contributions from every .State and indi
vidual in the Union to aid in building the
monument. The Times distrusts the sin
cerity of the movement (as well it may),
and expresses the hope that the impatient
patriot-at Atlanta will hold on a bit until
the balance of the South can be brought
up to the sain degree of fervor and dis
interested zeal. Jtsays; “This may lie j
a spontaneous outburst of Southern ioy
alty, and a free-will offering of ‘grati- |
tude and praise', from 'the vanquished,’
but it looks very much like the handle of
tluit well-known jug—all on one side. We
are no believers in the namby-pamby style
of repressing real exhibitions of national
feeling and joy, lest they hurt the feelings
of those who tried to-destroy the nation.
But this bears primu facie evidence of be
ing an absurdly unfair representation of
the feeling of Southern men, and if it be a
a real enterprist (which is not altogether
certain), is an ill-timed and unnecessary
attempt to perpetuate what all truly pa
triotic men wish forgotten—the sorest
, wounds oi ihe war—while it helps to' still
j further postpone the result for which the
war itself was undertaken and put through.
If Mr. Lincoln’s memory is to bo especially
glorified in the South, lot us wait until it
, can be done by the South. ’
Anti-Convention. —The Louisville
Journal referring to the reaction of public
’ sentiment in the South, caused by the
speech and letters of Messrs. Hill, John
son and Rerry. says
This was to have been expected; and, if
anti-registration does not quickly supersede
anti-convention in the popular estimation,
we shall be surprised. The tendency is
i clearly in that direction ; and, iu view of all
i the circumstances, we do not. regret it.
Under the military scheme even as it
stood before its latest modification, the
white people of the South had little chance;
under the scheme as it now stands they
: have none. And they arc realizing their
situation. When they hilly realize it they
will be likely to do as we think that they
should do, wash their hands of the whole
business, and let the North and the world
see the scheme in its naked enormity,
i If the white people of the South have no
chance, aud know that they have none, why
should they attempt to participate in the
proceedings under the military scheme?
. There is surely no rood reason. But there
are good reasons why the attempt should
not be made. It will serve not merely to
degrade the people in their own estimation
, and in the estimation of others, but to
i cloak the enormity of the scheme, thereby
serving to confuse the public vision, if not
to baffle it altogether. Iu other words,
the attempt will lend the.seeming sanction
of the people to their own degradation. It
j can produce nothing but evil.
A conviction of this truth appears to
have been latent in the Southern mind all
: the while. It will presently become ex
press and active. It is perhaps to oc re
gretted that it has not controlled from, the
first, as things are turning out.
• Registration 1b Taliaferro County.
Etl ' rs Chrom'd- & Scntind
Gentlemen : Tlie annexed is the result
of registration iu Taliaferro county :
Whites 37s
Blacks 559
Total 937
Respectfully,
J. A. J. McDonough. Register.
Cnwtordviile, August 3d, 1367,
Trichinosis, which was thought to have
died out in Germany, has again shown ii
solf in Half rstadt, lower Saxony. Aeuu
siderabl ■ maul or of tie inhabitants, and
among ti ji children only three years of
age. have been affected.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY 3IORNING, AUGUST 14, 1567.
The Tennessee Elections.
The late elections in that oppressed,
down-trodden, reconstructed State of Ten
nessee, afford a striking example of the
easy manner by which liberties may be
overthrown a'ifd a despotism may be erect
ed. Such a lesson ought to arouse our
people to a true sense of their situation.
It i- a lessor, for the whole people of the
United States. A similar disregard for tue
supreme law of the land would convert the
United States into a:: Empire -Republican
ism into Imperialism. IV hen an unscru
pulous man possesses the power to dictate
or manipulate the list of voters, to dis
franchise his opponents, to support his
authority by bayonets, by fanning into
flames all the bad passions of the vicious,
using'the credulity of the ignorant and
holding the timid in subjection through
fear, the transition is easy. It is but to
tinkle a little bell to touch a little wire,
ari l, presto, the change is complete. The
deed is done. The will of the. single man
is executed and a despotism, a.- in this
ca c, create! in the name of Republican
ism.
The triumph which Brownlow and his
adherents claim, ail in honor of true Re-
none othor hut' ueh a
triumph as Louis Napoleon schemed when,
in the significant language of his wn
people, lie accomplished his coup ts .(tat.
and epgrertcdjLtepaLlican France' into flu
porial France.
Umler the plea of establishing a repub
lican form ot government, Brownlow’s
adherents delegate to him, in the solemn
form of legislation, the power to nominate
electors—to manipulate the registration
lists —to disfranchise his opponents under a
personal discretion as to loyalty—and eu
francise, without distinction as to casts or
color —but with discrimination as to the
result to be attained. Brownlow accepts
boldly the trust. The power once obtain
ed he docs not condescend to subterfuge,
but boldly organizes an army and stations
them at the ballot box, and with all the
bloated insolence of imperial power, in
dicates his popular majority. Could there
be any wonder that the tally sheets of the
ballot-box should correspond with the
oracular sayings of the Executive Mansion?
W ith all the ignorant and vicious enfran
chised,' and four-fifths of tbe men of in
telligence and property disfranchised,
what else could be expected ? The whole
affair was an unmeaning formality. Gov.
Brownlow could just as readily have been
elected Dictator —Emperor by the grace of
God and .the will of the people, hereditary
King, with ministerial cabinets and all the
dazzling machinery of pompous despotism.
That he has exercised all the (lowers of a
despotic potentate, there can be no doubt;
that lie will introduce the forms and cere
monies of Royalty and court etiquette, wc
do r.ot expect. He must do according to
his kind. Long ago his moral and politi
cal 'character has been regularly defined by
popular baptism, as the Fighting Parson.
The stiff stilts of dignity which would be
demanded to support the character'of
“Sire,” •or our most gracious sovereign,
would not comport with the tastes of one
who delights in the pleasures of a Donne
brook Fair.
This election has been a fearful experi
ment with the people of Tennessee. There
has been no alternative offered them but
submission or exile, or bloody anarchy
and rebellion. Gen. Thomas’ troops has
secured “quiet and good order,” but again
exile in the • form of emigration has com
menced. BroWniow’s rule will develop?
Georgia,
Southern Radicals on the Back Track.
The Chattanooga Union .does not seem
to enjoy the fruits of their late glorious
victory in Tennessee. It says:—“ The
Conservative party of Tennessee liave
made an experiment, They liave. and we
confess ourselves as much responsible for
if, as any person, attempted to reconcile
the black race and the white. They have
yielded up their prejudices, although in
many cases under protest, and have striven
earnestly to obtain for the black men equal
rights with themselves for the White men.
They have failed, and the lessons will not
be lost upon them.
“It has not taught them to proscribe
the black race indiscriminately, for
some of that race have shown themselves'
fit for freedom by their willingness to assist
the white men in their efforts for freedom.
“But if there is one lesson which the re
sult of this election lias taught the people
of the State, it is the great danger of ex
tending the right.of suffrage to the ignor
ant and'degraded portion of a race the
most excitable of all races, and the most
easily influenced by designing demagogues.
It has shown thorn that when unprincipled
men can obtain the control of affairs by m
flueucingthe prejudices of ignorant negroes,
the good of the country imperatively de
mands that ignorance and vice shall bo ex
cluded from the ballot-box. It lias taught
them that although while the negroes re
main among the Anglo-Saxons, the prin
ciple of justice demands an equality of the
elective franchise based upon intelligence,
it is almost impossible to harmonize the
two races; and that it would be far hotter
for both races, either that ihc blacks could
be induced to peaceably emigrate and form
a colony of their own, under the protection
of our Government, or that the Anglo-
Saxons iu their midst should give up the
country to the negroes and depart hence to
a country where it is no disgrace to be
white. ’ ’
* Ke-attion at the North.
Leo, the- intelligent Northern cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier, says:
Quiet a change of policy lias taken place
in the North upon tho subject of the Con
gress policy of forcing universal negro suf
frage upon the South. The matter was
really little thought of by the public here
tofore. It was generally taken for granted
that negro suffrage would be but nominal,
and would be soon left to the several States
for such modifications as might be neces
sary. Now, they find that negro govern
ments are really to Ire set up and support
ed by the military arm, and that these
people, just emerging from abject slavery,
with all its attendant degradation, arc put
over the heads of the white population.
This idea of power by Congress will hardly
bo tolerated by the people of the North.
The passions and prejudices, created by
the civil war, have subsided, and men arc
becoming more disposed to have reason
and do justice.
The Northern States, which have hereto
fore withheld unqualified suffrage from the
negroes, are not the more inclined to grant
it, after seeing the mischief that it will
produce in the South. Republican citizens
of the State of Connecticut, who have
iatcly been here, state confidently that
T he popular feeling m tii.it State agaiust
the extension of suffrage to negroes, has,
been much increased of late, by^the pros
pect of negro ascendancy in the South.
The ‘‘first bales'' of cotton from differ
ent localities are beginning to arrive in
Southern cities. A portion of the crop of
Florida has already been sent to market.
[1 y !ii'auclj ilia Pi ts*.
This is about on a par with other mis
statements from the same source. The
editor knows as much about the culture of
cotton as a pig docs about geometry.
Macon A Wakrkston Railroad,—
The Milledgeville Recorder says the track
laying has commenced, and is progressing
a: a very satisfactory rate at this end of
the road. Hopes are entertained that the
road will be opened to Milledgoville early
in die fall —in time to move this year's
ootton crop.
LaG range.— Major llogh E. Malone,
a brave and gallant Tom federate soldier,
died at InGr.inge on Monday last.
Abundant Grain Crops in the South.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Picayune , under date of Memphis, July
25, says :
After an extensive trip throughout Ten
nessee, Alabama and Mississippi, a review
ol' the cron pva-peets throughout the re
gion in which I Spive been travelling, will
doubtless prove altercating to you. Along
the Memphis arid Ohio Railroad there is
an abundant crop of corn. The cotton sec
tion, extending to Paris, Tenn., does not
!>resent a very' gratifying appearance. Tho
lietter class of lands from Memphis to
Louisville liave more luxuriant corn, wheat,
tobacco, potatoes, peas and grasses than
were ever raised before along the route.
From Nashville to Chattanooga the crops
adapted to that section arc in splendid
condition. These is an jmmense surplus
of all manner of provisions, comprising
vegetables, corn, wheat hogs, chickens, Ac.
Flour is selling at SI 1 a barrel, and falling, in
Nashville. At numerous places, not very
convenient to transportation lines, wheat
is selling at 75b.' to §1.25 a bushel; pota
toes at §1 a hosTilel, and other articles in
proportion, Yb oujrhout North Georgia
the wheat and corn crops are at least three
times as -large as is necessary to the sub
sistence of tim.people. The crops of. ereals
of this season Girj«a.->s iu bulk aud weight
that of any'other .fiver raised in that sec
tion. The fciiflk u&the vicinity of Dalton,
Rome, Adairs'. iiLfKingston, Cartersville,
&e., arq grinding "jmmense quantities of
wheat. Prices,'heyever, rule higher than
throughout Tehpcseea
Throughout Ndj*h Alabama, along the
ami
aha DecatUr Roads, an immense I
yield of wheat has been received. The
threshing machines are now making their
yearly visits to the loaded fields, and their
buzz and clouds of dust are heard and seen
everywhere, exhibiting an extraordinary
scene olM.ustle and activity. The valleys
and hillsides along the route are teeming
everywhere with the most bountiful har
vests. The mills are constantly employed,
and the most cheerful prospects imagina
ble are in store for the hungry. Cotton
promises better along this route and Mis
sissippi than anywhere else I have heard
from. There is a great deal of very poor
and sickly looking cotton, yellow in the
grass and very small, apparent throughout
the entire route ; I think, however, that
at least the hall' that has been planted will
dii well and furnish a good yield.
The crop will be a third more than the
same section produced last season. There
is not more than half as much more plant
ed than there was last year, but this crop
will be vastly more productive. Along the
Mississippi lliver, from eveiy quarter, I
have reliable i eports that the crop prom
ises to be much larger than during any
season of ten years past. Tiie cotton crop
generally is in splendid condition along the
entire bottom and throughout the rich in
ferior lands of the country bordering along
the rivers of this section. The crop iu
Arkansas promises an abundant yield.
The entire county lying along the par
rallel to Knoxville, throughout Western
Virginia, North Georgia, Alabama, North
Mississippi, West Tennessee and all of
Kentucky has been bountifully supplied
with rains. The intense heat that suc
ceeded them have made cotton and corn
spring into an activity of life that is sur
prising.
Early Corn and Wheat.—We have
just received, says the New York Journal
of Commerce, by the Southern Express
Company (transportation free), a box con
taining several samples of ripe corn from
Mr. Jonathan Miller’s plantation, near
Augusta, Ga. The first wheat sent to
market this summer was sent from the
same neighborhood. Tho ears about are
eleven inches iu length and of a proportional
diameter, all bright and firm. The follow
in'' memorandum accompanies the sam
ples : •
The four samples of corn sent were
planted on the 2d of April, 1807, on good
river bottom land, two miles below the
city of Augusta, cultivated iu the usual
manner. Will make 50 bushels of corn
to the acre. lam taking the fodder from
the stocks to-day (29th of July.), and it
could have been taken off without injury
to the ear ou the 15th of the niOiitli. The
yellow Uliuois was raised from seed sent
from Illinois and planted here last. year. I
think it is the best of the four yarjetios,
and as early as either of the others from
seed raised here.
Jonathan M. Miller,
July 29th, 1867.
Make a Note.—lt is so very rarely
(hut even tho fairest of the Radical organs
admit anything to tho discredit of their
party, that we cannot refrain from placing
on record the following admission of the
New -York Tribune about affairs in Ton
uessee:
“The butchery at Rogcrsvillc must be
placed to the discredit of the Radicals.
They had no business at tho meeting ex
cept as quiet listeners. If they did not
choose to hear Etheridge—and wc know
that his harangues are more vitriolic than
those of any other live man, Brownlow,
possibly, excepted—they had only to keep
out of ear-shot. No matter how bitter,
how unjust, were Etheridge’s words, that
was not the time nor the place for contra
diction. Asa presiding officer in a legis
lative body would say; ‘The gentleman
from West Tennessee has the floor;’ aud
no one else had a right to it unless in
vited by the party in possession.”
The Prospects.—To all appearance
just now the consequence will be that the
negroes, under tho guidance of the Radi
cals of the North, will hold for a time the
balance of political power in the South.
\Ye think the expectations of the whites
that they would be able to cjntrol the
votes of their former slaves will not be re
alized. It is quite likely there will he
several negroes elected to Congress, and
probably Senators Sumner, Wade and
Chandler may have ebony fellow-citizens
sitting beside them in the Senate Chamber.
When a negro is chosen to preside over a
State Convention in South Carolina is it
not reasonable to suppose several may he
sent to Congress, especially when wc con
sider that in many districts the negro vote
is overwhelming ? The Southerners proba
bly.anticipate such a result, and expect a
reaction of public sentiment at the North
in consequence. T his may be the reason
in part for their apathy. But we would
advise them not to calculate too much u.p
on'a revulsion of public feeling here. We
are going through a great political and
social revolution, aud it is hard to say
where it wili stop or how far it may go,
— N. Y Herald.
Tiie Episcopal Church in the United
States.—The editor of the Church Alma
nac, for ISG7, has compiled the following
statistics of the Episcopal Church in the
United States:
Dioceses ... 34
Bishops 44
Rriests and deacons 2,480
Whole number ot clergy 2,530
Parishes 2,305
Ordinations—Deacon.- 9S
; . Rrie5t5.......... SO
; Candidates for holy orders... 230
; Churches consecrated 33
Baptisms—lnfants 23,074
Adults 6,527
- Not stated SO3
; Confirmations L 1,290
: Communicants—Added 14,183
Present number.. 101,224
i Marriages 0,000
Burials 10,>28
Sunday school teachers 1T,5«0
Sunday school scholars 157,813
Contributions 83,051,660 04
American Rights,— The New York
Times says that every American is en
titled, as his birthright, to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of a plan of reconstruction.
/ Rain and Caterpillars,—We are now
having any quantity of rain— almost every
day a pine-knot floating, soil-moving del
uge, ami the fodder-puling season being
now upon us. mueh of this very necessary
article of horse-feed must be lost or
damaged badly.
IVe learn that the caterpillar, that ter
rible -eourge of the cotton interest. ,ia,-
rnadc its appearance in our county, and it
is feared will do great injury to the grow
ing crop. It is to be hoped the fear will
not be realised, as it would bring much
destitution with it. — Bainbridgc Georgian.
Cotton Picking. —Quite a number of
our planters are preparing to commence
picking next week. If die rain will only
subside, one of the most bountiful crops
over gathered will be brought to market
this year.— Ailnmp, ( Ga. ) New*.
I All Extract from a Letter from Fort
Kush, Ireland.
i IRISH CROro—REFORM lULI- —PEN IAN ISM,
ETC.
Quietly seated by the side of tho sea, oar
thoughts often revert to you, not without
solicitude. We have every comfort, hav
ing gone to bouse-keeping. The house we
occupy has a dining-room, a drawing-room,
and five commodious bed-rooms, complete
ly furnished with everything requisite for
the comfort and convenience of a family
(with the exception of bed and table linen,
which we had to supply). Our rent is £ls
per month, or about seventy-five dollars.
The house is situated within a stone’s
throw of the ocean.
There lias been no rain of any conse
quence, since our arrival, until a few days
since (July 15th). But this previous want
has been fully made up, and the crops
have improved very much in appearance,
although it is said oat and flax crops have
been injured a good deal.
lam very glad to see, by the Chronicle
<f Sentinel, that the wheat crop in the
South lias been so line. I hope the farm
ers have been able to harvest it and have
it safely garnered. It would have been a
sad thing for the poor South had this crop
proved a failure. I hope tho bitter ex
peri " . v-f last "a' itufefow' 1
able lesson to the planters. There ban he
no security or prosperity without plenty of
bread. The Southern farmer will never
succeed except they grow cotton as a sur
plus, supporting their laborers in abun
dance on their farms, and deriving their
revenue from the cotton as the surplus
crop. This is the only way, in my judgment,
to meet the strong competition which has
arisen and is being fostered in India and
other countries.
I must confess that I look, with rather
gloomy forebodings, as respects the gen
eral state of our country at large, for the
future. If I could only see this universal
suffrage question discarded, and suffrage
made to depend for the future upon in
terest and education, l would feel assured
of our stability and prosperity. 1 feel
afraid that if universal suffrage prevails
it will be followed by a regular traffic iu
votes. The party iu power will endeavor
to retain power by importing votes to the
points where their numbers are weak and
wili retain tiieir power until they are over
thrown by revolution, and anarchy will
follow. Then an Empire or monarchy.
I cannot see that a Republic can exist with
out a strict observance of a Constitutional
compact. Louis Napoleon was elected
President of France, but the extension of
suffrage to his soldiers, of every hue and
color, and nation, enables him to accom
plish his coup d’etat and elect himself
Emperor. I fear that universal suffrage,
unchecked and unqualified, will be the
downfall of Republican liberty. But I
hope that Georgia will be a unit in what
ever is done, and that the people will be
guided by honest men like Jenkins. I
suppose Stephens is still under the ban.
It would be an act of grace, which would
tell with wonderful effect, as to the harmony
and prosperity of the country, if Congress
had the wisdom to free such men from
disabilities, and permit them to exert
their influence among tho people who
esteem and respect them.
I see by the Chronicle that the Street Ita il
road is to succeed. lain very glad of it;
it is the true policy. I consider it all-impor
tant for the city, and of no less importance
to the people of the Sand Hills. I look
for it to increase population and thrift, and
that it will make Augusta desirable as a
residence, especially fn winter, to Northern
travellers. I was rather inclined to think
that it would turn out a failure, but I am
glad to see that it will not, and that our
people are recovering their spirit of en
terprise.
The murder of Maximilian has caused
great sympathy for his fate. Napoleon
must foci it sorely, not less from humanity
than on account of prestige. This feeling
is increased by the condition of Carlotta,
his wife. She must have been a noble
minded woman. It is universally believed
here that Mr. Seward, if he had desired,
could have saved the life of Maximilian.
The fact is, in my opinion, Brother Jona
than is looking forward to no distant day
when he will swallow Mexico and its
greasers at one big gulp. Mr. Seward’s
Sitka purchase shows that he does not in
tend that cither John Bull or Johnny
Crepau shall have any good harbors look
ing toward China.
Tho Reform Bill lias passed the House
of Commons and gone to the Lords. I
will enlarge the constituency very much.
As to the Fenians they arc not likely to
do much. There is, however, very great
discontent. The truth is, Ireland lias
cause to complain that tho legislation in
tended for Ireland lias not. been attended to
as it ought to have been—-particularly as
regards tho Tenant right question.
I do not recollect the time when so
much coin has been suffered to lie idle in
the Banks of England and Franco. Ido
not understand it, but it is clearly an ab
normal condition growing out of politics.
The relative material proportion of idle
coin is : 150,000,(XX) in England, 125,000,-
000 in France, and 100,000,000 in the
United States. If this was put in circula
tion, judiciously, you would see a rebound,
a commercial activity which few can esti
mate. It is difficult to say why coin is
thus accumulated. Something is due to the
unsettled state of international affairs, but
it looks like it was rather intended to pre
vent too great expansion in American se
curities. J. B.
Letter from Kabun.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: We oo
long to no country, noState, no whores, but
are just lying loose around aud looking on.
\Ye do not pretend to be civilized or con
stitutional. Wc have’nt a doctor in the
county so-called. Our women do all tho
doctoring, a few Squires decide the law
and the gospel for us, and that is all we
want. We don’t consider a boy any ac
count until he has had two sets of toe
nails ; and no gal is of any earthly use
whatever up here unless she knows how to
briie venison ami make biskets and apple
toddy, aud vou know that’s not civiliza
tion. Wc don’t want for anything. Y'ou
Confcds showed some of our boys how to
make powder and there’s lead in reach up
here that'll give us all the bullets we want,
and that’s only to kill dear and squrrels
and turkey. Wc hear that Joe Brown is
going to have another fuss and is making
out the lista. I was always agin Joe—
knew lie was smart aud trickey—and after
you folks carried him to middle Georgy
and civilized him I knew he would’nt be
gin to do. Now they do say he is got
clean agin us on the black side and he is
doing of it from spite—jest because
some of our boys went with union
ists and some with the Confeds,
ju.it accordin to nature and they do say Ben
Hill made a powerful speech agin him at
Atlanta Mother day, and tuck our side. I
want to see one of them speeches, so please
send me one, I want tq read it. Ihi vent
rod anything hut tbe Bible since Bill Arp
quit riting. I guess Bill s rit out, lie is,
but he lias said enuff agin Joe Brown any
how. Be sure and send to me a speech.
(Jur crops arc good, and lam keen for
reding now. I hear that we are agoing to
have a good time a repudiating, that is if
a fellow trusts you —you shant pay him ac-
I cordin to the Constitushun. so that he
Giant trust you agin with that money.
| Send me a speech sure—they do say it is
powerful. Bill Kitchens, who is one of
Palmer’s men, and give him the slip, has
been out a scouting and has come Lack, and
says the war isn’t over yet, and he isn t
going into the Black settlement until it is
over. P. Roost.
| The latest triumph, of the French is
' gradually to remove the pith from fruit
j trees, and form grafts of the wood, to grow
J fruit without seed.
' A court-martial has convened at Buffalo
: ibr the trial of seventeen soldiers of the
j Ith artillery for parading with a Fenian
. organization in Fenian uniforms.
Michigan Is going to disfranchise prize
t fighters.
Review of 15. ii. Hill’s Notes on the
Situation -No. 5.
'EY JOSEPH E. BROWN.
The following language is fund in No.
Sos the ‘'Notes ot Mr. HI, 1 : “No sur
rendering people ever did more promptly,
more absolutely, more submissively or
with one-tenth of the sacrifice of property,
and hope, and pride, and feemig, comply
with ali the terms demanded on their part,
than did the Southern States and people.
They laid down their arms ; they gave up
the great, principles of government which
tuoir fathers taught them never io yield ;
and to maintain which they fought so long
and endured Xo much : though already im
poverished they gave up four billions more
ot property--the descended patrimony of
centuries,” Ac.
Now if Mr. Hill’s statement is true that
the people of the South, in Ihc surrender,
consented to so much sacrifice of hope/and
pride, and feeling, and after they were
impoverished gave up four billion.-, uiore of
projxYty .' and in addition to all u,is laid
down their arms and 'pare up the preset
j>rincip!es of government which, their fathers'
taught them mver to yield, what did they
have left that they could hold independent
ly of the will of the conqueror ■ .1 had
always understood tho Constitution to be
the embodiment of the “great principles
of government” transmitted to us. by our
fathers. After «e gave up these great
principles of government, which “our
father taught us never to yield, what con
stitutional rights did wo have left ? What
equality in the l hisn did
'We’su rienaeredth c great principles of gov
ernment ? What right to regulate suf
frage, contrary to the will of tho conqueror,
does a State retain when she has sur
rendered these great principles ? Why
has not the conqueror, to whom these
great principles have been surrendered,
as much right to regulate suffrage
and disfranchise persons who have
incurred his displeasure, as he has to dic
tate the destruction of “lour billions more
of their property” after he has “already
impoverished” them? Thus impoverished
aud perfectly powerless, Mr. Hill advises
us still to resist, fight for our rights, and
stand by the Constitution. What ’part of
tho Constitution is left for us to stand
by, after we have surrendered the great
principles of government embodied in the
Constitution? What rights have we left
to fight for that, wore not protected by
those great principles, and which were not
lost by their surrender ? ’ How can we
claim equality with tho conqueror after we
have surrendered both our property and
the groat principles of government at his
dictation ?
. Mr. Hill denies the power of the Federal
Government to destroy tho government of
a State, or even to regulate the suffrage
in a State, and urges to stand by our
present State government. And at the
same time tells us that we are aud always
were in the Union. This involves a strange
absurdity. II the Federal Government
has no right to destroy the government pi
a State, or to regulate suffrage in a State
in the Union, and if we always were , in
the Union, it necessarily follows that the
present State government is illegal, be
cause it was formed at the dictation of the
President, upon the ruins of the old
government of the State, which he had set
aside by the arrest aud imprisonment of its
Executive, by the refusal to allow its
Legislature to meet, and by its disband
ment by military force. If, then, Mr.
Hill be right the government of the State,
as it existed prior to the surrender, is its
only legal government; and tho constitu
tion as it then existed is its only rightful
constitution ; and both the present State
constitution and tho present State govern
ment aro founded in usurpation, and are
necessarily illegal and void.
The admission that the President had
a right to establish the present State gov
ernment, is an admission that tho con
queror had a right, alter our surrender, to
sot aside our then existing government,
and dictate to us another government in
its place.
If the Constitution did not protect our
right to retain our State government as it
existed prior to tho surrender, what other
right did it protect ? If the conqueror
had the right to give us anew Constitution
and a new State government, abolishing
our old one, why did he not have the
right to regulate suffrage in (fie new?
And if he had the right to arrest and im
prison, and depose the officers of the then
State government, why has he not the
right to disfranchise them ? Is it any
more v violation of the Constitution to
declare that the Governor of a State, or a
Judge of her Supreme Court, shall not
hold office in future, than it is to arrest,
imprison and depose him when found in
office ? Mr. Hill admits the rightto dothe
latter when lie defends the present State
government, which was founded in tho
exercise by the conqueror (the President
acting as such) of his right to destroy the
old. And when lie has made this admis
sion he lias no escape from the position
that a conqueror, possessing the right to
set aside the State government whiuh ho
finds in existence, and set up a uew gov
ernment in its stead,.has a right to regu
late suffrage in the new government set up
by him.
This being the right of thc conqueror, as
admitted by Mr. Hill himself, the only
remaining question is, what department
of the conqueror’s Government has the
right to exercise this power? Admit that
the Government of tho conqueror has this
power over us, and you admit that we have
no constitutional rights except such as the
conqueror chooses to allow. Then it mat
ters very little which department of the
government exercises the power over us.
The President undertook to exorcise it,
and destroyed our old government, and set
aside our old Constitution, and dictated
the terms upon which wc were to form
new ones. r
After this, Congress, which is the war
making power, denied the power of the
President to make peace with us, regulate
the terms of the peace, and f'oriu govern
ments for us, without the consent of Con
gress, which must make all necessary ap
propriations, and pass all necessary laws for
the restoration of the States, and without
even consulting the Senate, which is part ot'
the treaty making power.
All know the unfortunate controversy
(very unfortunate for us) which has grown
out oi’ the question between the President
and Congress. And all know the result.
The people ofthc North in the last elections
endorsed Congress. There is now a ma
jority of over two-thirds in each House,
and the power of Congress is beyond tli
control of the President. It follows,'as wo
arc subject to the will of the conqueror,
and Congress wield.-: the power of' the
conqueror, that wc are .subject to the \yiil
of Congre..-i And it also follows, 1 if the
conqueror had a rightto abolish our old
State government and give us anew one,
that tliw conqueror has the right to change
the new one tiff its provisions have been
approved by all the departments of the
couqueror’sGovernment, or by the supreme
power in that Government. And as Con
gress has shown itself supreme in that
Government, we, as the conquered, are
obliged to submit to any changes made by
Congress, till the State government has
been approved and ratified by them.
Letter from Grcenesboro, Ga.
The political liorizon looks again stormy.
Concessions and compromises are non r»t
inventus. The people arc wrong, the Gov
ernment and country wrong, and the
whole party drunk. Some say it is Crom
well, some say it is Robespierre, and
some it is Marat, that is kicking up this
tamn fas generally. Upon the decision of
the question the destiny of the country
hangs.
In your issue ot' Friday you have wisely
suggested harmony amongst Southerners.
The suggestion is wise as it is good, con
sidering the present status of the country.
But how are we to do it ? The question
of a Convention or no Convention is, and
will be, the issue before the people of Geor
gia. I wish that I could say it iuyolved
no other ; but not so, I am Sony to say it.
Repudiation and Convention are synony
mous to be well shooken and tuckea to
gether by ail convcntionists, who will not
vote for any man, woman or child, unless
he so declares for repudiation.
It is useless to appeal or file a bill of
injunction. It you reach them you must
certiorari , and then the Court, she
wont know herself' as the Pope’s prelate
have the decision ail their own way. iam
sorry to sex; the country thus drifting, but I
can t he!p it. I toil the Democrats yearsago
of. these times. I begged them to keep the
ship from the breakers, but they would’ut
do it. so we arc all now like Sampson
•Culpepper's possum dog. If we aint lost
jes Ibe tamn. Bildad the Shiite. ’
The Successor* of Sheridan.—We
understand the officer to succeed General
fsL._i.daa has not yet teen fully decided
upon, but that he will be designated with
. unnecessary delay. The condition of
affairs in Louisiana and Texas is such that
prompt action is indispensable to the har
mony of that section of the country. Great
public considerations, unconnected with
the uusoldierlike style of Sheridan's official
dispatches, aud gross misconduct in pub
lishing them, are said to constitute the
grounds for relieving him from the posi
tion he lias shown himself so entirely un
qualified to fill.—AGL hUeUujCHcer, ~ '•
NEW SERIES YOL. XXYI. NO. 31.
Bet lew ol B. 11. Hill’s Jfotes on the
Situation—No. t>.
BY JOSEPH E. BROWN.
To the Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
1 pass by mucluilie larger part of Dir.
Hill’s “{Notes on the Situation,” which
consists of vituperation, defamation, de
nunciation. am! egotism, without further
notice. 1 also.fbrbear to comment upon
the appropriateness and beauty of his ex
pressions, such-as: ‘' The fiery flames of
sulphurious hell” “which seems de
termined _ with an adulterous mania to
multiply its hell-visagcd brood.” “Even
this bitter cup of hellish ingredients might
be drunk but for the nausea which makes
us vomit.” “That devilish spirit of trea
son ” “the lowest of the damned spirits
which now inhabit your labyrinths,” “devil
ish prompter,” ‘..‘hellish brood of honors”
and. other like elegances of diction, -not
original, bye tlie'hye,—and proceed to no
tice the remedy proposed in his “Notes,”
by which we are promised relief. Now if
the remedy is “ Constitutional ” and prac
tical Dir. Hill's labors may prove to be of
some benefit; but if Mr. Hill’s object has
simply been to tear the scab from the heal
ing wound, to appeal to the bitterest pre
judices, aud worst passions of our people,
to keep- alive sectional animosity, hate, and
malice; and to alienate as much as possible
those who are compelled to livo together
uuder the same government in the future
—and he has accomplished his object,
without offering any sensible or practical
reroydy—he has done infinite hafffl; and
me people of his own section, who are ihc
weaker and the conquered people, must be
the greatest sufferers. In that ease his
labor has been the labor of an enemy who
comes in the garb of a friend, deceiving
them to their injury and betraying them
with delusive hope. He cannot be your
lrieud who advises you to do that which
must result in your injury, and in entail
ing upon you still greater miseries, with
out the possibility of practical benefit.
Passing by til! the fustian,
and passion, and self-laudation, and
assumed wisdom and statesmanship
of the writer of the “ Notes on
the Situation,’ let us look at the proposed
remedy stripped of all its bombast and ver
bosity, and see if it contains a single sug
gestion that is practical or oven possible.
If not it is simply the recurrence ol' a sim
ilar convulsion recorded hundreds of years
ago, when the mountains labored and a
ridiculous mouse was brought forth. What,
then, is the relief which our'political pro
phet proposes, as a deliverence lor our peo
ple, against the Military Bills and the
power of the conqueror, in the present
emergency ?
A country clergyman is said to have an
nounced tho division of his sermon under
three heads. I propose, said he, under
the first head to show what the Apostle
did not mean; under the second head to
show what he did mean, and under the
third head to get up a rousmiciit generally.
Now it seems that Mr. Hill’s notes were
all written under tho third head, and his
Temedy hangs upon the following advice
under that head. He says: “I, therefore,
beg every citizen, black and white, even
the humblest of the ten millions who in
habit these ten States, to remember—never
forget—that it is his right —his glorious,
unpunishable, unimpeachable right, to
resist every interference by any officer, high
orlovv, with his property or his person, or
his liberty under these Military Bills.”
And in tho Atlanta speech he advises fihem,
before God and the country, to fight for
and, if need be, die for their rights.
Is there anything practical in this ? Af
ter four years of gallant resistance, when
wo have surrendered anu given up our
arms, when we aro “impoverished” and
have, as Mr. Hill says, given up “four
billions more of property” “after vre were
impoverished”—when tho Government,
with vast resources, can bring a million of
armed men into the field agaiust us,
is it sensible or practical to attempt to
find a remedy in a renewal of the
fight. Will Mr. Hill lay aside his
senatorial robes and dignity, this time,
and shmildcr a musket amigo to the front
and engage in the fight recommended by
him ? Wo have not even his pledge
that lie will. Then I dismiss that part of the
remedy as impracticable nonsense, intend
ed to fall under the third head,
But ho proposes' tmf* other modes’ of
resistance. Let us sec under which head
they fall. lie again says : “Every officer,
high or low, who seizes the property of a
citizen, under these Military Bills, is a
trespasser , subject to indictment and suits
for damages as individuals. That every
such officer who arrests a citizen, under
these hills, is guilty of false imprisonment,
and subject likewise as an individual; anil
is amenable to the writ of habeas corjms
before any court, State or Federal, having
jurisdiction to issue the writ.” He then
advises all citizens, who are arrested or
their property interfered wi!,h v to avail
themselves of these remedies by suit,
habeas corpus or indictment,
Mr. Hill, whose “client is tho written
Constitution,” by which, under all circum
stances, lie stands so resolutely and firmly,
promises to aid them without fee or re
ward whenever they see him at a court!
Is this practicable ?
The act of Congress expressly prohibits
any Judge of the United States Courts to
interfere, or to entertain jurisdiction in
any case arising under the execution of
the Military Bills. And the Supreme
Court of the United States has, in the
Georgia and Mississippi eases, refused to
entertain jurisdiction, and thwart the ex
ecution or these laws because the question
is political and belongs to the other de
partments of the Government. Then the
United States Courts would neither enter
tain the suit, nor the indictment, or grant
the habeas corpus. Nothing practical yet.
Tho act ol’ -Congress declares the present
governments of the ten States illegal and
authorizes the Commanding General to set
aside the .J udges or other officers at any
moment of their pleasure.
Suppose Gen. Rope orders the arrest of
•John Smith, in Atlanta, and John adopts
Mr. Hill’s advice, and sues the General j
for damages, and indicts him for false im
prisonment. The lion. John Collier, Judge
of the Circuit, now holds his office at the
will of Gen. Rope, and the grand jury set
only at his pleasure. The act of Congress j
expressly denies to Judge Collier and the
[grand jury any jurisdiction in such case.
| Gen, Rope placed hereto execute tli is
act of Congress. Consequently it is made
[ his duty to sec that Judge Collier, who is j
subject, to removal at his will, entertains i
■ jurisdiction of no such case. Now sup- i
pa«. the Genera! should order the suit, j
j and the indictment dismissed ; or suppose j
: the Judge should grant a writ of habeas j
j corpus for the release of John from im- |
'■ prisomnoat, and the General should refuse |
i to obey it.
• The General, with an act of Congress in |
his favor, lias the army of the United
States: at his bidding to execute his orders.
The Judge has the Sheriff with whom to
r»si*t this army, who also holds his office j
at the pleasure of the General. Who must j
prevail, the Judge or the General? Un
less Mr. Hill, whose client is the written j
Constitution, should be there to represent j
: John, it would seem that the General mutt j
j be the victor.
; And it should not be overlooked by
| John, when lie institutes his proceedings,
; that Mr. Hill’s promise to represent him is
l subject to the condition that Ire sees Mr.
1 Hill tit Court at the time. Now it is at
| least possible, that here would bo an in
; superable obstacle in the way of John’s
success. Mr. Hill would, of course, have
to examine the written Constitution very
i carefully before he appeared in Court on
that occasion. ; and might conclude it to be
: as unojustitutamal lor him to be there as
I it was ibr him to shoulder his gun and go
to the front with tho Troup county eoni
| pany, alter he had volunteered and pledged
i himself toga What practical efficacy, then,
j is to be found in this part of tiie remedy ?
I The only remaining point in the remedy
j is summed up in Mr. Hill’s own language
| in the following quotation:
; “I earnestly hope the people of cadi
j of the ten States will go boldiy forward,
S and preserve and continue their existing
I .State governments, aud hold all elections
; m the manner anu at the time prescrib
|ed by existing State Constitutions,
I Will choose officers qualified . according to
| existing State Constitutions and laws. If
any citizen or officer shall be interfered
with in exercising his rights under these
laws, or in discharging the duties of any
office to which he may he chosen, let him
make the issue fcarhnsly.”
The law of Congress, us alrcaoy remark
ed, declares the existing State govern
ments illegal, and gives- the military com
1 mander power to set them aside at pea»-
j ure. It also confers suffrage on the fr';tu
| men. and allows no election to be held till
! they, with the white men not dust ranchiscil, ,
i are mastered. The law also makes it the 1
duty of thc commander of each Military j
District to see that its provisions are exe- i
eutod, and gives him all the military loro j
necessary to tiiat purpose. Now, suppose j
on the first Wednesday in October next,
the people of Atlanta, or those within the
reach of' any othCT mff.tary ffircc w.th.n
the State, deluded by Mr. Hill s advice,
should o|«:n the polls and proceed to hold
an election for Governor, member* of the
Legislature, &c., and should allow none
but whip men, who are qualified under ex
isting State laws to vote. How long would
the polls be open bofore all engaged in the
election would be under on
their way to prison ? They would, how
ever, have this single cousolatiou, in their
misfortune, Mr flill advised them “to
make the issue fearlessly,"
Again suppose the elections were held
in different parts of th f State, without
the knowledge or the military, and the
Legislatiire elected should fu. Ljmble and
attempt to inaugurate the G overnor elect.
What does any man, not blinded with pas
sion, nor demented with prejudice, sup
pose would be the result?
They would l*o treated as President
Johnson treated tho existing government
ofthc Slate at the time of the surrender.
Tho Legislature would be forbidden to set,
and the Governor would be arrested and
imprisoned. Aud Mr. Hill should ho at
tempt either to vote, of hold office, in
accordance with his ndviee to the people,
would share the same fate. All who know
him, are doubtless satisfied that he would
not dare attempt to practice upon the ad
vice whicli lie gives others on this subject.
Like- the other (joints in the proposed
remedy, this, too, is utterly impracticable,
delusive, deceptive and hopeless.
If Mr. Hill is sincere in this advice lot
him ‘’make the issue fairlcssly." Let him
have an election held under “existing
State Constitution and laws” and let him
go and vote at it, or accept office under
it. This will test the question, and as he
advises it, let him come forward and take
the responsibility, and load his followers.
Don’t he afraid. Try it. You say there
is no Constitutional difficulty iu the way.
Come up to it like a man, “make the issue
fearlessly” yes fearlessly and independent
ly. That is the way to decide the contro
versy. If you succeed we will soon ho rid
of military government and negro suffrage.
If you fail your followers will sec your
remedy is a humbug.
Still They tome.
Griffin, Ga., August X.
Editors Chronicle <0 ‘Sentinel :—Sometime
ago tho publisher of the Daily Press sent
me his paper, aud asked me to act as
Agent. J wrote him, not knowing its
politics, that 1 eared nothing .about being
Agent, but if any persons gave mo their
namos I would send them. After I found
out iiis policy 1 intended to stop the Press,
but neglected to do so. As to my au
thorizing any one to publish my name
as an Agent of the National Pepubliean, I
never did.
I am anything else but a Radical. X
will not attempt to express my opinion of
the party. Language would' fail mo. I
abuse them—particularly a Southern Radi
cal ; in other words, I endorse all Bon.
J LiH says about them.
I am not, nor ou any terms would 1 bo,
an Agent forsuch a sheet. 1 don't want my
friends in Augusta to think so.
Yours, truly, T. O. Heard.
Letter from Barnwell, South Carolina
Barnwell C. 11.. August 2d, 18(37.
Messrs. Editors: 1 ‘lease send me a copy
of Hill’s notes and speech and Johnson’s
lottcr on the Congressional Reconstruction
Acts. I sec, from the Charleston papers,
that there has been a revised edition is
sued, published in pamphlet form, and as
I liave only seen extracts, felt anxious
to read them at large. I think the last
Congressional Act has done much to kill Off
the iutcrest and feeling that existed among
the people in national affairs. The opin
ion in the State, I regret to say, seems to
be gaining ground that it is our best policy
to let the Radicals have full swing anil
play out their game. It is thought by
many that a full representation from tho
South of colored men will do more toward
restoring the North to reason than any
thing we can do. God knows ! when I see
men fleeing from Tennessee, reconstruction
is not inviting ; and 1 certainly would
rather live under the rule and representa
tion of honest but ignorant negroes than
suffer from malice, hatred anil revenge
under Brownlowism—if that be the true
type of Radicalism. **
Drops in Morgan and Jasper.
Ebenezer, Morgan Cos., Ga., )
August 2d, 1567. j
Editors Chronicle di Sentinel: —The
people of this portion of Georgia have
passed through one of the most try
ing times this year, that has ever been ex
perienced since my recollection, and most
or them liave Iwwnud some lessens that
will; perhaps, do them good hereafter. They
have learned how to do without money or
credit, and many luxuries they had always
been used to, and many of us came very
near learning to do without bread ; hut I
am happy to inform you that we now have
the best crop of corn that wc liave had in
twenty years. We have many fields of
corn that will make from thirty to fifty
bushels to the acre. Here can be seen a
field of fifteen acres of upland—tho hills
are planted 30x40 inches, one stalk in each
hill ; the seed corn was of a very large
white kind; the ears aro very large and
stand from six to eight feet from the
ground. A majority of tins stalks have
two of these largo ears, and I think 1 may
safely calculate ou six thousand large ears
to the acre. There are some other small
fields and parts of fields that will produce
more corn to the acre than the above, hut
I have not seen any larger corn.
Our cotton is also promising a good yield,
and some open bolls have been seen. Your
warehousemen may lookout for new cotton
from old Morgan and Jasper in September
early. J. D.
Letter from Pike—Crops, etc.
Liberty Hill, Ga., August 3, 1807.
Editors Chronicb and Ee/itincl:- -The
corn crop is not so promising as when I
wrote you lust, nor, generally speaking, arc
any of the crops so promising as they
were at that time. Our crops have suffer
ed some for the want of rain, but for the
last few days we liave had several good
showers and. they now look considerably
revived. Some com, however, more
especially that growing on bottom land, is
now nearly made, and even if it has but
little more rain, it will make pretty fair
corn.
The cotton, though injured by the recent
dry weather, if the seasons continue favor
able from this time out, will make a good
cron.
The peach crop is very good—as good as
I have seen for several years past.
The potato crop, I think, is very good.
The negroes are working very well, but
are all anxiously looking forward to the
time of registration.
Registration, I learn, will commence in
this District on the 7th instant. I think
our people will take an active part. I
think every man should lOok upon it as
his duty, his whole duty, to register, and
then, it he wishes, he cun vote, man
who disfranchises himself by not register
ing, will do himself an injustice.
It is the duty of every man to exert him
self for the good of his country. Let us,
therefore, resolve and determine to be
firm, and stu£d to our country to the very
last moment, and if anarchy and ruin do
cotne upon our unhappy people, let every
man he able to say conscientiously that ho ’
did his duty.
I regret very much that Hon. B. 11.
Hill closed his Notes on the Situation ot
the country so soon. In those notes, as
well as m his speech which he delivered in
Atlanta a few weeks since, he has more
a,bly discussed the condition of the country
than any man of his age.
In your last issue I see a very able letter
by J lon. B. F. Rerry, of South Carolina.
It was, indeed, very ably written and to
the point. lam glad to see our prominent
men come out and try to use their influence
over the people. It is my earnest wish
that such men as Hill, Johnson and Rerry
may succeed in the noble cause they have
espoused. Respectfully yours,
Pike.
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Wheat. —The Rome Commercial of the
Ist states that wheat has declined in that
market, arid quotes prime rod at 9*1.50.
\\ Lite commands a higher figure.
Registration in Heard County.—
The result of registration in Hoard county
is as follows: 745 whites, 373 blacks, and
I,Us total. The whites have a majority
of 372.