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Governor Brown close* Ills Argument.
Atlanta, August 2, 1867.
Editor* Chronicle & Sentinel To-day I
wml by express the remaining numliers of
my review of Mr. Hill s Note.’qonthc Situa
tion. 1 thank you for the courtesy which,
as a journal opposed to my views, you have
extended to me, in allowing me to reply,
through your columns, and will not further
trespass unless Mr. Hill's reply should
make it necessary.
Very respectfully,
Your ob’t servant,
Joseph E. Brown.
It will be seen by the foregoing letter
that Governor Brown has closed his argu
ment. This announcement, should have
been made Thursday, accompanying the
closing number of Governor Brown's re
view. An oversight caused the omission.
It will be seen, also, that’Governor Brown
desires to “trespass” further should “Mr.
Hill s reply make it necessary.”
In oral debates the party having the j
opening is entitled to the conclusion, for ;
the very obvious good reason, that one |
holding the affirmative and argues to j
prove the truth of positive assertions, j
should have the conclusion to refute the *
arguments by which his logic is assailed. 1
We see no reason why the same rule does j
not apply to printed discussions, and, '
therefore, do not concede Governor j
Brown’s implied right for further “tres- I
pass.”
In extending to Governor Brown the
u.-e of our columns and the benefit to he
derived from our extensive circulation —
benefits which could not have been reached
through the Radical organ—wo have been
actuated by a desire to diffuse among the
people all the light which this discussion
would afford. llow has it been with
Governor Brown's Radical allies ? They
have boasted that no odc was willing to
meet Governor Browu in argument. Has
,> single one of them ever published Hon.
Hen. Hill’s “Notes?” Have they ever
published the propositions to which he di
rected your especial attention? Why is
this, Governor ? What is the matter with
your Radical allies ? Arc they afraid to
let their readers sec Hill's arguments?
Arc they afraid of giving the people too
•melt light ? Are they afraid of trusting
the people with the truth ?
Come, Governor, fair play is a jewel.
You arc the head of that party which pro
poses, as an especial aim, to diffuse know!
edge and instruction among the people
“without distinction us to caste or color.''
Gu a littlo further than this clap-trap
principle permits. Include all of the peo
ple. Diffuse knowledge without distinction
as to (party or partisans. Let your follow
er.s and adherents see the arguments of
both sides. Do not permit them to re
main in darkness and ignorance. Let them
see the principles of their opponents—the
LVinstitulional Union party. Do this and
we will reciprocate the “courtesy” of
“further trespass.”
I’rolligaey of Congress,
The National Intelligencer says the large
and increasing demand upon tho Treasury,
caused by the reckless and despotic, and,
in some cases, corrupt legislation of Con
gress, seem to have postponed indefinitely
all hopes of a return to a specie standard.
Tlic return to specie instead of an uncon
vertible and redundant paper currency,
can never be effected except by-a reduction
of the volume of that currency. How can
such reduction be attempted in the face of
Congress and its profligate operations, such
as the bounty acts?
These bounty acts were passed, as every
body knows, not for the benefit of soldiers,
or at their request, but under the corrupt
influence ofagentsand speculators who buy
up tho claims of the soldiers. One of these
acts—tho act of the thirty-ninth Congress
-calls for eighty millions of dollars. Con
gress made no appropriation in any regular
appropriation bill lor the object; but they
provided in the bounty act itself for the
payment ol the whole amount. There iB
no way in which the payment can he post
poned or evaded so as to await the possible
occurrence of ail honest and prudent
thought to Congress at another ses
sion. A battalion of clerks has been
employed in preparing the papers for this
payment over to tho harpies who hover
around the Radical Congress and direct its
legislation. So impatient were these vul
tures for their prey that they gathered
about Congress at the late July session,
clamorous for an net to force the Executive
to hasten the payment of the money pro
mised them by the bounty bill. They did
obtain the passage of a resolution on the
subject, which elicited the explanation, j
showing that the proper departments were I
busy in making preparations for the de
livery of the money thus demanded, under
a pretext of law.
No progress, under present circumstan
ces, can be made cither toward a reduc
tion of the paper money or of the national
debt. Tho probability is that Congress
will madly pursue their course of malap
propriations for party objects, until they
shall create the necessity for heavier tax
ation, and for an increase of the public
debt.
The New York World says : “Many
readers of this article will, probably, with
in a period of less than three years from
to-day, take the ears at Jersey City on a
Monday morning, cross the Mississippi
forty-eight, hours after ; scale the Rocky
Mountains early Tuesday morning ; sup
comfortably with the Saints at Salt Lake
City the same evening; cross the realm of
perpetual snow among the peaks of the
Sierra Nevada within the next thirty-six
hours, and arrive in time for 5 o’clock
dinner at the Occidental Hotel, San Fran
cisco, on Saturday, a little stiff in knees for
want of pedestrian exercise, perhaps,’ but
still fresh, and flushed with the excitement
of an uubroken steam ride of over 3,000
miles.”
Arguing in favor of speedy reconstruc
tion as the only remedy for the business
stagnation felt everywhere through the
South, the Richmond Whig says:
It would be an endless labor to under
take to record the changes that have oc
curred in business in this city within the
last two years. The same house has, in
numerous instances, had a halt dozcu succes
sive occupants. One after another, after al- J
most superhuman efforts to keep it, found i
it necessary at length to succumb to the f
irresistible pressure of the times. Kvery !
one iu business has been buoyed up with I
the vague hope that affairs must improve,
and each has held on as long as possile, i
iu order to protit by such improvement.
It would be impossible to tell the large ]
number of persons in the various depart-j
meats of business in this city who have i
Imped, toiled, struggled, only to find them- ;
selves disappointed, broken up and ruined.
As it lias been in this city, so has it been
in all the cities and towns of the South.
The Tkaohkrs' Convention.—'We have
received the subjoined with a request to
publish ami desire other papers to copy,
which it affords us great pleasure to Jo.
The time appointed lor the Convention
named is the twenty-first instant, and At
lanta has been designated as the place.
Already assurances have been given by the
teachers and citizens of that city of lively
interest and co-operation. and we cannot
but think good is to result from the meet
ing to the great cause of education. —0»»-
ttiluliomilist.
This is the communication :
Athens, Ga., August 6, 1 867.
\\ e cordially approve the pro petition to
hold a Teachers’ Convention at Atlanta on
the Hist of this month, and would respect
fully urge the teachers of Georgia to meet
on that occasion.
(Signed) A. I’. Lu-sCOMBE.
P. fl. Mf.i.l.,
William Rutherford,
W. 11. Waddell,
Wm. Leroy Brown,
L. 11. CIIARBO.VNIKR,
University of Georgia.
Ucstayus J. Orr.
S. M. P. College, Covington.
A. M. Scupper.
Centre llill School.
B. F. Hunter,
University High School.
Carlton Hillyer,
Carlton Hillyer s School.
Typographical—How does a mother ob
tain ihc'jirst impress of her baby? By
setting it up iu “ small caps."
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Pakadk op the Gazelle Firs. Com
pan Y—CURUTKNIKO OP THK NEW STEAM
ER.— The interesting ceremony of the
naming of tlio new attain fire engine of
tiio Gazelle Company came oir Thursday
•llpwO' x'ii. At the appointed hour the
V.enihers assembled at their headquarters,
anil ' itli their new anil beaut.fill ma
chine, handsomely decorated, proceeded
up Broad street to tin Masonic Hall, in
front of which liio ceremony took place.
The occasion was graced by the presence
Os a largo number of ladies, who occupied
the surrounding balconies and windows.
The males were out in full force.
The Gazelles attracted general admira
tion, and it would bo djfSealt to decide
whether the members or the steamer came
in tor Mk; most praise, to such advantage
did l»th appear. We know of no com
pany composed of belter material.
The hour for the oommenoeinent of the
cere in uy having arrivod, and no mem
ber of the Council having appeared to for
mally present the steamer to tho Gazelles
fas is the usual custom upon such occa
sions 11. Clay Foster, Captain of the
Company, mounted the stand. After brief
ly referring to the absence of any repre
sentative of the City, the hour for the cere
mony having arrived, Captain Foster in
troduced Hon. H. W. Hilliard:
Sl'KM.ir OP HON. it. W. HILLIARD. j
Gen tlemen Honored by your invita- i
tion, 1 am here to-day to receive the new I
and splendid engine which is about to lake
its piece with those already iu the service |
of tiie city. I congratulate you upon
your good fortune in having charge of an
engine of such hue qualities.
1 congratulate this fair city upon
being able to number among its defenders
such a body of meu as compose the Com
pany I see around me.
Bearing the name you do, “The < lazelle,”
it will be your,aim'to exhibit both grace
and speed in the performance of the tasks
that await you. You will be swift to an
swer appeal* tq your gallantry when call
ed on to contend with any conflagration
that tnay threaten to destroy the city ; and
you wilt demonstrate, iu all your move
ments, the activity and vigor that ought to
distinguish you.
From the earliest ages it lues been a cus-
I tom to mark, by appropriate ceremonies,
| the setting apart of any object intended for
1 public use—whether it be to lay the
I foundation of a great building, or a monu
ment which is to rear its shaft on high to
; perjietuate the memory of some glorious
j event; or to launch a vessel destined to
' rid" the waves and hear the flag of the
j country to distant seas; or to bestow some
i engine like this, which is to contend wUh
! the flames that threaten to devour the
arte 'ores that adorn a city and to lay in
a-lc-s the houses of its jieople.
N ■! are such demonstrations idle or an
j meaning. They help us to do our duty,
j They inspire generous emotions. J can
l never give my sanction, gentlemen, to the
i utilitarian philosophy. A system that de
) mands the market value of everything, is
ian ignoble system. It would rob the
world of allilsgraco and quench ail its
j enthusiasm.
li would strip the earth of its beauty,
and if itcould scale the heavens it would
sweep away the stars, and replace them
with tapers or gas lights if that process
would cheapen the expenditure for light
ing the tJuiverse. It would lake away
tile decorations of your public buildings,
I and destroy the articles of taste that adorn
! your homes. Whatever adds beauty to
j the world ; whatever cheers the tasks of
! life ; whatever lightens the burdens of hu
| inanity, makes us better and happier.
| Tho splendid uniform tiiat yon wear
lis no prolitless waste of money.—
j Tho beautiful workmanship displayed
i upon this tinginc lias its use. This very
1 assemblage, called together to witness tho
j ceremony which consecrates your new
| engine to its beneficent work, attests the
j sympathy of the community with you in
your arduous and portions duties, and
I therefore is not an idle gathering. Many
will recall it at pome future time when
they witness your noble eil'orts to save,
ami to rescue to save property, and it
maybe to rescue human life. What is'a
flag? It is lnit a piece of bunting; but it
represents the power and tho glory of tho
nation. Those who see it at home rejoice
under its folds. Those who are abroad, as
they soo it floating in the breeze; under the
light of a foreign sky, are thrilled with
emotion, for it recalls country and home.
Men would die for it. A dying hero borne
from tho deck of a ship over which the
flagofbis country streamed, while the rival
flag of Knglanil floated from the mast of
the vessel with which it contended, cried
out: “Don’t give up tho ship.” Itellyou,
gentlemen, all such things animate us in
ilie performance of the arduous and peril
ous tasks of life.
There is a great deal that is heroic in
tlio duties that a fireman discharges; quite
as heroic as those that the soldier or tho
sailor performs in defence of ids country.
Indeed to me tho exploits of such compa
nies as yours, are more pleasing than those
witnessed on tiie field of battle. Your
mission is not to destroy, but to save ; not
to desolate and lay waste, but to protect
i and cheer. Not to multiply widpws and
| orphans in tho land, but to save life. How
j often does tho fireman risk his own life iu
I defence of the lives of others! Whatactcan
! bo more heroic than that which we some
| times witness when a fireman plants a
j ladder against a burningbuilding and, as
cending into tho very midst of the flames,
returns bearing in his arms a little child
rescued from death? One of the loftiest
and most beautiful monuments in that
loveliest of all oomotorios on tho globe,
Greenwood, near Now York, marks such
an act of heroism as this.
Individual manhood and courage may
be displayed in any department of life.
These high qualities do not belong to war
alone.
I trust, gentlemen, that you will not bo
called again to tho tented field. Hut late
ly tho flames of civil war swept this fair
land; 1 trust that they will never again be
kindled upon our soil. This great country
ought to exhibit the highest and noblest
civilization the world oversaw. From the
great lakes of the North down to tho Mex
ican sea, and frotn the shores of the boister
ous Atlantic to the golden coast of tiie Pa
cific, it is our country. Here wo have un
dertaken to maintain a free Government.
To-day we have our troubles; but I trust
that we shall yet witness the restoration of
tranquility, and the complete triumph of j
Constitutional liberty. Every man in this
country ought to do what lie can toward
restoring peace and harmony. We have a
great future before us. Wiiat are a few
years of trouble in the lifetime of a na
tion? This is not tho occasion for a politi
cal speech. But we all have a stake in the
fortunes of our country. Let us try tc
make it a happy and a great country.
1 loneelbrt Uwe are one people. Let us ex
tinguish our animosities, and strive to
promote tho prosperity and glory of the
whole country. We shall not hereafter
turn our arms against,each other, but we
shall find ample opportunity for tho dis
play of all our energies at home.
,1 observe, gentlemen, that you have
pressed steam into your service. But a
few years since it was unknown to the !
world as an element of power; nowit has |
changed the whole aspect ol the world, j
One of our own countrymen enjoys the j
honor of first applying it to the propelling |
of machinery. Franklin and Fulton rank j
as the great discoverers of tho practical 1
uses of electricity and steam. What a !
revolution has been wrought within the!
life-time of many of us present here to- I
day? loon the land and upon the sea its j
triumphs are as wonderful as if with the '
aid of Aladdin’s lamp wo had called up i
souiepowerfulgeniiand badethemserveus. j
We scale mountains; we traverse vast tracts i
of country hitherto unknown to us; we 1
cross the wide seas so rapidly that the re
motest parts of tho globe are brought near
to each other. And here you arc wielding j
tiie powers of steam to subdue fire.
(low wonderful is the world in which
we live? Water not only governs the in
ferior animals, but it wields the very ele
ments. The elements iu repose are beau
tiful and benilioonL Tlio air refreshes us,
but when the tempest rises in its fury it
sweeps before it the proudest structures
and levels mighty forests.
Water is the ban of Nature. The ocean
in repose is ulorlous in tranquil majesty;
but the great Hoods sometimes visit the
earth and the waves of the sea threaten to
submerge the habitable globe.
Fire is lienetieuut—full of comfort—it
ministers to our wants; but how terrible is
its power when it wraps a city in its wild
sheet of flame and desolates it. as it did
London and Moscow. Man protects him
self, under the guidance of the Ail-wise
Creator, against the fury of the elements.
it is your task, gentlemen, to contend
with lire. You turn one element again.f
the otiier. By your skill and your energy
you-uy tothed v,Hiring llames: ‘-Hitherto
shaitthou come and no further.”
1 lomthat this engine is to bear the
name of one of our own citizens. He has
long resided here. Ho is known for his
sterling worth -for hi- uniform kindness —
for his usefulness— for hi!) public spirit and
for his ready charityin relieving the wants
of the need v. He has presided over the
i .rtunes of the city as its Chief Magistrate.
He Ls destined, l trust, long to live and to
en ov, in tin evening of his life, the tran
4mi and cheerful light, such as the sun
sometimes sheds as he sinks to his repose
in the west.
In obedience to your instructions, I give
to this engine tho name of John Fostkr.
At the conclusion of Hon. H. W.
Hiihar,! s spoe--h, loud calls were given
f r Hon. John Foster, the legally elected
Mayor of our city, and in honor of whom
the sto.nner is named. Mr. Foster appoar
ed on the stand and briefly thanked the
members of tile i laze He for the compliment
paid him in gi\ ing their steamer his name.
The Company, tho ceremony beingover,
formed in line and proceeded to the engine
house, where the John Foster was for
mally deposed. The members were
then dismissed to re-assembie at 9 o'clock,
in company with their friends, to p ar .
tieipatein an “entertainment,” of the com
ponent parts of which, at this hour of
writing, w e are entirely ignorant.
The after-piece of the Gazelles went oft
with groat eclat. The hall was beautifully
testooued with wroatlis and garlands, and
the tables were loaded with a real feast of
the choicest substantiate and delicacies
the whole V;erug designed and executed bv
the lady friendaof the Company. Captain
Foster welcomed the guests iu a few brief
but appropriate remarks, closing with a
command to “pitch in, " which was done
with a hearty good will. The hall was
crowded, and all present enjoyed the feast.
We congratulate the Gazelles upon the
success of their parade and entertainment.
The late guardians of the municipal inter
ests of Augusta paid but a deserved com
pliment Ur the efficiency and welfare of
this Company in selecting them as the re
cipients of the now steamer. Into no bet
ter bauds could its keeping be out rusted.
Governor Tonkins Removed.
“It was currently rumored on our streets i
yesterday, that Governor Jenkins luulbeen I
remov ed, and-one Foster Blodgett,ex-Con
federate Captain, of Uuion League, notori- I
etv, who is now United States Military I
Mayor, Postmaster, etc..etc., of Augusta,
had been appointed to fill that honorable
position. Tile rumor oomes from Augusta
by two different parties and seems to be
believed by come. There has liecn no
official notification itp to this time, and we
hope Hie rumor is false. If.such removal
has taken place, we are satisfied it is done
without any provocation on the part of
our Governor, and only for the purpose of
promoting the Radical Union Leaguers.’’
We copy tho foregoiug from the Macon
Journal and Messenger, of yesterday, and
feel warranted in saying the rumor is un
founded. Much an event may happen, but
if it does, an oliiclal order will announce it
authoritatively. —A tlauta Opinion, SKA.
Barnum never perpetrated a bigger hoax
than the individual who originated this re
port. The rumor was looked upon by all
sensible people in this city as ridiculously
absurd when it was unearthed here last
week—so much so that it was considered
neither worthy of mention nor contradic
tion. We take it that General Pope has
too much regard for the rights of the
people of Georgia and too much good
sense to make such a faux pas.
Following their Example.
! The Radicals have set up a fearful howl
I because the respectable white people of
j Tennessee have discharged their employees
1 lor voting the Radical ticket. In resort
j ing to this means of protecting their inter
| csts the people of Tennessee have but fol
j lowed the example of their Yankee friends.
The thousands of white men employed in
i the New England manufactories and in the
j companies and corporations throughout
j the North and West vote with their em
i ployers. Vi hen election day comes round
these white men march to the polls and
; vote according to the wishes of those who
j give them employment. Why do these
people vote for certain men and certain
, measures ? Clearly because it is to the in
i’ terest of the capitalists who sustain them.
As it is to the interest of the Northern
manufacturer to elect certain men to office
\ and to carry out certain measures, the
j employee is compelled to find it to his in
! terest to vote for the man who gives him
! employment. If he refuses, off goes his
: head and another takes his place in the
j factory, workshop or corporation.
The intelligence and respectability of
Tennessee considered it destructive of their
interests and rights to elect such a misera
ble creature as Brownlovv. They worked
for the success of conservative principles,
deeming such a course a duty as well as
promotive of their interests. Their em
ployees voted against them, and aided in
the election of a creature repugnant to
their feelings and hostile to their best in
terests. Following the example of their
New England and other Northern friends,
some of the people of Tennessee have dis
charged their hands. If it is right to do
this in the North with white men, why is it
not right for the people of Tennessee to do
the same with negroes? The latter are
but following the precedent, established
years ago, and still in existence, laid down
by Northern capitalists. If this physic
possesses such remarkably curative powers
iu New England wo see no reason why it
cannot be administered here in the same
way, and for the same purpose, producing
like results in the one case as in the other.
The Kentucky Election.
The result of the Kentucky election has
been a great triumph for the Constitution
al Union i’arty. The mongrel opposition
was beaten by over forty thousand votes.
The result in Tennessee would have
been the same as in Kentucky, but the
Brownlow despotism disfranchised tho re
spectability of the entire State. Bribery
and every species of fraud and corruption,
backed by Brownlow'? bayonets,carried the
State for the Radical party. If the same
instruments of oppression and tyranny
are to be used in the re-organi
zation of other Southern States under
the infamous Military Bills, the re
sult of the elections in these unfortunate
States is a foregone conclusion. Tho pres
ent military rule of Gen. Pope is far more
preferable than that of Brownlow. The
one is a paradise and the other a hell. Iu
Georgia wo have some show of regard lbr
the rights of person and property, as much
so as could naturally he expected under
military surveillance, while in','Brownlow’s
dominions there is no regard for the rights
of citizens who do not fall down and wor»
ship Satan. For ourselves we had rather
be the subjects of Gen. Pope forever than
pass under the yoke of a Brownlow, who
would blight and curse our State and our
people. Gen. Pope is a soldier and our
little Browulows are imps of tho devii,
from whose grasp may Heaven defend us !
Itc-Actlon.
The people of the North are becoming
nauseated with the quackeries of the Radi
cals, and there is a very fair prospect of
returning to the old system, practiced so
successfully in the earlier days of the Re
public. Tlio llcd-licpublican doses are
compounded of such internal concoctions
as to nearly knock all the vitality out of
the old trunk ; but it is believed there is
enough of life left to re-invigorate and re
store the old Constitution to its wonted
strength and health.
Augusta, like Mobile, is blessed with a
Military Mayor, apparently a patriotic de
vourer of the people’s means; a climber
of the public’s persimmon tree. A few
days ago he called together a secret cau
cus of the members of his parliament, and
got them to raise his salary to SSOOO.
The war has served one good purpose.
It has brought to the surface of society,
and separated from decent people, many
of the foul bubbles that used to float
around unobserved before. Like other
stench-filled bubbles, those creatures, when
they are relieved of all pressure, will swell
until explosion results. When that day
comes let the people have their noses filled
with wool soaked in cologne water. —Mobile
Iribune.
Tiiaddeus Stevens and the Southern
Editor.— lt will he remembered that sev
eral weeks ago a Southern editor called
on Thaddeus Stevens, and on his return
home published an account of the inter
view in his paper. Mr. Stevens afterward
called in question the correctness of the
account, and now the editor reiterates his
statements, asserting that he told nothing
but the truth concerning the interview.
He says, over his own signature, in his
paper, the Union Springs (Miss.) Times:
I reiterate all I said in the account of the
interview with Mr. Stevens, and appeal to
Mr. A. J. Sanderson, of Lancaster, for
proof. There has been no collusion be
tween us. He La# made a public statement
which I have not seen. To show my en
tire confidence ir. my own correctness, I
will add a short account of the circum
stances of the interview. The two state
ments can i>r compared, and the Radicals
have the full benefit of any material dis
crepancy. Sanderson (who knows Mr.
Stevens personally) expressed a willingness
to go with me. ( gladly availed myself of
his k'ndncss in this, and together we went
to Mr. Stevens house. Mr. Sanderson
sent our names to Mr. Stevens, who was in
his library up stairs, telling where I was
from, and that wc desired an interview.
Mr. Sanderson was cordially received,
inquiries made about different members of
his family, in such a manner is to indicate
pleasure on the part of Mr. Stevens at the
meeting. I was courteously addressed.
That there might be no misunderstanding,
l here handed Mr. Stevens my printed
professional card, with the remark that
‘gentlemen of the press were often accused
of violating private confidence: that I was
there for public information only, and de
sired him to say nothing to me that he
would wish kept secret. He said his acts
and sentiments wore pretty well known—
that he had no desire to conceal them.
The conversation then went on as reported,
with the exception that some remarks
that had no special relevance to the subject
of reconstruction were omitted by me in the
letter. Among these was the remark by
Mr. Stevens, when speaking of the bellig
erent rights on the part of the South, by
the Yankee Government, that "the hanging
of Mrs. Surratt was cruel, unnecessary
murder. ’ 1 Those were his identical words,
lie carelessly added: "It is no use to find
fault with it now. It cannot be helped,
and I suppose was done to gratify a morbid
appetite for blood on the part of some
excited people North. ’
I have only to ask, in conclusion, that
the papers which did me the honor to <»py
my letter will publish this for their and my
gratification. We have circulated only the j
truth.
A man advertises for competent persons ;
to undertake the sale of a patent medicine, j
and adds that it will be profitable to the i
undertaker. No doubt ot it.
Bread and Politics. q i
Our Tennessee exchanges are full of ac
counts of the results following upon the
first genera? introduction into the South of
the principle which ha.- obtained so long i
and so universally at the North—of mak- i
ing the wages and bread of the laborer to
depend upon the political character of the |
ballot he may cast. The opponents of |
Brownlowistn. whether original Unionists
or Secessionists, fired with indignation at 1
the unscrupulous fraud practiced upon j
them, avail themselves of the only power
left them—they refuse to give employ
ment to ail who have sustained the party
which has proscribed them, for their politi
cal opinions. Their justification is self
preservation. They have been disfran
chised ; they pay onerous taxes ; they have
saved the State from bankruptcy ; they
bear all theburthensof government but are
deprived of all of its benefits, the intelli
| gent and educated have been allowed no
i participation in public affairs, no legal
j mode of expressing their opinions, while all
the powers of government are made fast
| with ignorance and depravity without a
shadow of interest. Mere numbers,
! without a qualification, either of prop
erty, or character, or intelligence have
j been brought to the support of iniquitous
laws and the acts of unscrupulous adven
turers. Not without either point or pre
cedent, they assert that “to sever all re
lations with those who have so seriously
injured them is simply to resist pro
scription.” They justify their course by
pointing to Brownlow’s proscription, pre
ceding the election, turning out of every
petty office every one, whit* or black,
secessionist or unionist, who avowed a de
termination to vote against him. Nor is
this their only local precedent; they point
to large corporations—particularly in
dicating the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad Company—as having not only dis
charged employees but as having with
held dividends due to individual stock
holders because of “a political bias.” It
does not appear, however, that there has
been any special bad feeling, any malignity
to the colored population. They say :
If the blacks suffer the legitimate con
sequences of their unworthy actions, they
may blame themselves and their un
scrupulous advisers for it. The plea that
the blacks knew not what they were domg
has no bearing in the premises. If utterly
powerless to choose between right and
wrong, they at least knew there was some
great question to be decided ; and not un
derstanding it, even brute instinct should
have suggested the policy of non-inter
ference, But they were as enthusiastic
for Brownlow, and as vulgarly denuncia
tive of Conservatives, as the vilest leaders
in the Radical ranks. They hunted down
like wild beasts every black man who
avowed Conservative principles. They
knew that they were voting against the
wishes and interests of the white masses in
the State ; and knowing it, crowded every
polling booth and thrust white tnen aside.
Let them look to their new friends for
support, and cease looking for it to those
whom they are treating as enemies. The
proportion of Radical to Conservative em
ployers is not as one to twenty. The place
of every Radical black can be easily filled
by a white man who will not treacherously
stab those who befriend him. This rev
olution in labor should progress until all
places now filled by avowed enemies are
occupied by known friends. Self-respect,
as well as seli-deionoo, demands this. It is
a question of political life or death. We
have the solution in our own hands. If
we possess no more spirit than to uphold
those who rob and betray us, we deserve
to be kicked and cuffed and plundered
without stint.
It must bo confessed that our Tennessee
brothers have not displayed a profitable
sagacity in regulating their actions. Such
affairs North would have had far different
management, unless, perhaps, in degene
rate Connecticut, where it seems recently
an open, avowed policy, similar in charac
ter, seems to have been honestly refused.
There there would have appeared no dis
charge for “political bias”—-no-proscrip
tion for political opinion—nothing which
produces beggary or want or misery—no
question rclatuig to bread or daily wages.
The “political bias” would be ascertained
before the election—the discharge would
have been upon the righteous ground that
“you do not suit me;” or, “for the pres
ent it is determined to reduce our force,
and I am sorry to have to discharge yon,
knowing your fidelity and capacity;” and
this would be accompanied with an honora
ble certificate for character and capacity.
The fact is, these Southerners have never
learned to treat the enemy of to-day as if
he may be tho friend of to-morrow —have
never learned to estimate the power of
quiet combination, and to value the coming
of the pickpocket. Will they ever ?
Examine the Books.— Would it not,
says the Southern Recorder , be well for
our Tax Receivers to examine the regis
tration books, and take down the names
of negroes who have registered and ex
pect to vote ? It might be hard to spot
some of them, but a good many who might
otherwise dodge their State and county
taxes would be caught. If the negroes
expect to vote, they must take “a white
man’s chance” and pay their taxes. In
some counties in Virginia more than
double the number have registered to
those who have given in their taxes. We
hope the negroes of Georgia have some
pride in the matter, and will come up
squarely, as good citizens should do, and
shoulder every imposed burden, while en
joying every benefit of government. Rut
it they do uot, we hope registration boards
will see to it that they do not vote if they
have failed to give in their names, and
have not paid their taxes. In this county,
last year, voters had to pay a poll tax of
four dollars and fifty cents. It will doubtless
be as heavy the present year. Wc have
heard a few negroes say that they would
not vote if they had to pay such a tax for
the privilege. IV e rather guess that, af
ter the election is over, many of the color
ed citizens will conclude they have paid
very dear for their whistle.
Southern Manufactures.— We think
it strange that we do not hear of extensive
investments, powerful companies and
great schemes for the introduction of man
ufacturing establishments in our Southern
States, from cotton and woollen factories,
from iron and steel, to leather, boots and
shoes and farming implements. The South
has not only the finest region in the world
for cotton culture, but the best facilities
and the greast advantages for cotton man
ufactures to any extent. From its gener
ous soil and mild winter climate men can
live more cheaply and realize larger profits
from their great agricultural staples in
the South than in the West, and vastly
larger profits from manufactures of all
kinds that can be made in New England or
Old England if they only go properly into
the business. To men of capital looking
about for investments our Southern States
now offer the most inviting field, and
Southern manufactures, not less than
Southern agricultural products otfer the
surest and largest returns on liberal out
lays of cash enterprise and skillful labor.—
Near York Herald.
New Cotton. —We have received from
our gixxl friend, K. T. Pritchard, Esq., of
Mcßean, a matured cotton boll raised in
Richmond county, which we would call a
very good article of middling cotton.
Should the entire crop present as good
surface as the specimen sent us. our old
county will raise her drooping head once
more, for such cotton will always com
mand a ready market.
University Medical College—New
York.—We have received a catalogue of
the medical department of the University
of New York. The session for 1867-68 will
begin on Monday, October 11th, 1867, and
continue until the Ist of March. In con
nection with the medical department is the
New Y'ork Hospital, the largest surgical
hospital in America. There were treated
iu it last year nearly 3,000 cases, more than
half of which were surgical.
Personal. —Hon. Robert Toombs is
stopping at the Central Hotel, appearing
to he in the enjoyment of good health.
It is stated of the late Charles Dennison,
of Pennsylvania, recently deceased, that
just before the adjournment of the late
Congress he called on the President iu re
lation to home appointments for his dis
trict. Mr. Dennison was a Democrat, and
the Senate had rejected his friends as fast
as they had been sent in. “It‘s no use i
sending in any more names," said he. “If
you seat in the names of the twelve apos
tles they wouldn’t confirm but one of
them.” It is not diflieult to guess the one j
he meant.
betters from |iew York.
New York. August 5,1807. j
rtronicle: —The negro lias been!
intoxicated with new ideas. He has been j
made drunk vnto “now wine,’’ His false j
friends, fortbojlnost shameless j>artv pur- i
poses, have thrust him into a false'p< 3‘- !
Tion, wickedly intondia*. when lie has !
i - st ' rv<Hl {he,r tUi P -( to leave him to his inev- [
! itable fate.
For this gigantic crime, the base politi- j
cai party to which I refer, can set up but j
one excuse before God or man—The plea of
lelf-preser»-ation— the plea fthe highway
man v. hen he murders the victim he has
robbed. These guilty and t hameless lead- :
prs of the blind are not themselves blind
to the future. They see the gulf that
yawns to swallow them. They know that
the course they are running will soon
bring them to the precipice. They know
that their crimes are hurrying them on
i into the very jaws of retribution. This
I army of Macbeths feel in their very bones
that they are inarching to their doom. For
. them it wore more dangerous to return
] '-ban to g® o’er,” Hence the negro has had
i the ballot thrust madly into his hand, for
j temporary political safety, and, if possible,
to put the evil day afar off. When the day
ot retribution comes—as come it must —
you will see the Yankee dodging into the
multitude and crying aloud, with Helper,
“Away with the foitid and effete negro;’’
kill him! kill him! crucify him !
This will be the culmination ot their
I crimes aud the lowest depth of their infa
j nay. The poor negro will be made the
| scape-goat of their shame. They have
j forced themselves into the company of the
j negro: they have forced him to listen to
j their deceitful tongues, that they might
use him for the basest purposes. Among
these purposes an unmanly vindictive
ness toward the white men and women of
the South is only second to tho cowardly
subterfuge of party ascendancy.
The old Democratic party of the North is
tumbling about on a sea of uncertainty.
She still retains tho elements, all the ele
ments, of future success and prosperity,
but she has been badly demoralized by
the war for the Union.' that is gone, and
has not yet VecovercA hua -strength and
self-possession. She is badly officered,
she is badly represented, especially here in
New York. The World is the only so
called Democratic daily in New York, and
it represents, in its own conduct, (he pres
ent condition of the party referred to.. It
seems to be purposeless, like the Belmont
Committee, aud without one positive idea
to invigorate it. It has yet to learn that
no party, although thrioc armed with right
and justice, ever succeeded before a peo-.
pie, and especially before such a diversi
fied population us ours, with negative prin
ciples.
Let it come out for a white man’s Gov
ernment, without qualification, reserva
tion or limitation, ami then it tvill have an
Atlas-like party, that can carry the con
tinent on its shoulders. A.
New York, August (i, ISG7.
Dear Chronicle .-—The embrace of tiie
Yankee (I mean tiie political Yankee) will
prove more fatal to the negro than tne
curso of Hum. Tli3chr.se made him black,
and gave him a certain kind of “phizora
cles’' (as Hawkins Hull used to suy), with
a woolly head, and shins accordingly.
But the curse male him a good nigger and
a happy servant. In servitude he ad
vanced to his maximum of civilization
and happiness—lie increased and multi
plied—ho laughed and sung—yes, he
laughed then, booauso he was in his nor
mal condition, because lie was in the con
dition which God and nature assigned
him.
The embrace of .the Yankee is the mod
ern temptation of the Old Serpent. Again
the Devil (the political Yankee) comes in
tho disguise of the serpent. He tells the
deluded negro “eat of this troo and thou
shall surely live !” “Taste of this fruit,
and then you shall enjoy ballot and office,
and idleness, aud livo forever !” Tho ser
pent lies, and whilst he repeats his lies ho
is coiling himself and moistening his
slimy jaws for his great political supper
on tho negro.
Well does the Yankee know that tho
white man of tho North cherishes an un
conquerable dislike for the negro. He
hates tho nigger hut he loves the land, aud
has no objection to a mild climate ! The
Yankee knows this, 1 repeat, and icalke
lates accordingly. Let tiie niggers be
ware. Tiie Yankee has a forked tongue !
Investigate if.,
I learn from some of tho most intelligent
and reliable men of the great West that tho
next Congressional campaign will bo open
ed in earnest; and that the paramount ques
tion Whether the tax-payers shall receive
greenbacks for their debts, and tiie bond
holders gold for their profits, will have to be
met. Ono currency for tho people and
another for the Government and its pets,
will soon become an interesting question.
Gird up your loins, old step-uncle; your
relations are becoming restive and restless.
A Mr. Gibbon, of Boston, who has earn
ed such a reputation as a financial writer
as to bo accepted as a standard American
authority, has recently published a work
of general interest and importance.
Whilst lie repudiates repudiation, lie evi
dently considers it only a question of time. •
He is not able to see how that ealami
tg is to bo guarded against. He boldly
asserts, as a matter of history, .that no re
public ever did pay its war debt. He
hardly considers oar revolutionary debt of
the colonies as an exception. We had mil
lions of acres of public lands for sale, with
a flood of emigration steadily setting in
from the old world, and only had a few mil
lions of dollars to pay, and our fathers drop
ped (lit? continental currency on the peo
ple without redemption! The war debt it- ,
self, however, only amounted in all to about
as much as a smart Yankee contractor
of tho present day could steal in a year
during the war
Speaking of contractors, X will tell you a
ditty about what occurred ihe other day
in tho New York State Constitutional Con
vention.
A clause was brought in to curtail the
Democratic majority of New York city.
That is to say, that a test oath was to lie
applied to every rebel who had served, or
aided, or encouraged the Southern war for
independence. Tho clause was incorporated
of course. Shortly thereupon Mr.Verplatick
brought in a clause applying a test oath to
all army contractors and their assistants,
Ate., requiring them to swear that they had
never, in any way, defrauded the Govern
ment or received any money not honestly
their due. The proposition, under such
cirefiinstauces, had to pass.
Then it was that U. S. Senator Harris
was nailed to the rescue. The peril was
imminent. Mr. Harris moved a reconsid
eration of the rebel clause as well as that
relating to contractors. The President de
clared the proposition out of order. That
night the presiding officer was shampooed,
Tho next morning the proposition to
reconsider was renewed, and declared in
order. Then the whole subject was re con
sidered, and, for the sake of the poor con
tractors, the “d—d rebels” were released !
Interest kicked the beam. A.
Savannah and Charleston Hallway.
(Ynn •• WordtteltS’t 11-Mwiy Directory.’')
The Charleston and Savannah Railroad
was sold under mortgage debt of .81,250,000
tn November, 1866, and was purchased by
individuals, subject to a Stato guaranteed
mortgage of 9500,000, which is now the en
tire debt ol the road.
Its length is one hundred and two miles,
; VT ,V° e ial^l-r 6 >r hs present name is
dated .January 1, ISoT. Fifty miles of the
road out of Charleston was uninjured dur
ing the war, and is to-day in first-rate run
ning order, having been supplied with
new cross-ties and other timbers for most
ol the way. The next thirty miles are be
ing rebuilt from tho resources of tho com-
R ai ?Y' ai T the work is rapidly progressing.
I his arriving point will open a through
connection with Sat annah via the river
iruin J urysburg, and the remaining twen
ty-two miles will be put under work of
repair immediately, so that by Ist No
vember, or soon after, the trains will run
through trqtn Charleston to Savannah.
. i : ( b r 0 ! 1 "? G stock of the road, consisting
os it. lirst-ciuss locomotives, and a propor
.lonutc number of freight and platform
cars, wer not injured during the war,
except trout the unusual wear and ex
posure.
The time between Charleston and Savan
nah, when the road was operating, was 5
hour., and the fare $5. The mails, passen
gers and freight paid equal to 7 per cent, on
i lie entire debt of the road and 10 per cent,
dividend on its stock.
>\ ith the return of prosperity which is
now beaming upon the land to farmers,
merchants and laborers, this road under
its present able management will soon re
gain the reputation accorded by its friends
in its earlier days. It helps make up the
chain of the seaboard route forming what
is called the “Great Annamessie Route,”
the shortest iim. to Savannah, Brunswick,
rernandina and Cedar Kcvs. It is now
tn the hands of ; x stockholders, J. Reed
Boylston, J. jj. Taylor, W. S. H&stie,
Alex. Isaacs, F. ,s. Willis, and under the
especial management of its builder anu ef
neient Superintendent, Col.{John S. Ryan.
Sanford Conover.—On Thursday E.
1. Merrick, Ksq., in his able argument for
the defence in the trial of John 11. Hurrattr
alluded to Sanford Conover, the perjuror,
as having manipulated witnesses for the
prosecution, among whom were W. F.
Cleaver and Richard Montgomery. To j
those who are acquainted with the evidence j
offered by Hoare and Snivel, the tools of |
Sanford Conover, in the attempt to fasten ;
the crime of the assassination conspiracy
on Jeffers >n Davis, will well remember
the adroit cunning with which these men
were manipulated bv Conover. The state
ment of Mr. Merrick mav appear almost
incredible, but it is a positive fact, that the
execution of the sentence of Conover was
delayed at the special request of the coun- i
sol for the prosecution until alltbeevidenee )
to be offered by the Government had been
given in the case of John H. Surratt. The '
fai t that Conover was not removed Hutil
the conclusion of the examination of wit- i
names for the United Stales would seem I
to confirm tho assertion of Mr, Merrick.— j
National Intelligencer, Awj 5. •
[OOMMCNICATED.]
Vote Against Convention. ,
Editors Chronicle <C Sentinel: —Thoqucs- I
lion of the most vital importance Vo tbb I
people of the State is whether we shall
vote for a Convention or not. lam well 1
aware that there are many who itu intend j
to vote for it, and among them arc men
whom 1 know to be actuated by the purest j
motives, who neither seek nor wish offiee, I
p nt who think that by calling this Con- i
veution together we will ward off' many ;
calamities Which, in ease ot the non-elee- ;
tion of a Can volition, will be visited upon j
us. They say they wish to take the bad S
and thus avoid the worse. These opinions
are expressed by men some of whom I j
know to be pure patriots, true Southern- j
ers, and however inucH I believe the
i opinions to be wrong, I must still respect j
and esteem the men. lam convinced that ;
if they gave the subject a proper consul- j
oration, threw* aside all prejudice, and |
thought over it soberly, that they would j
see the fallaciousness of their arguments.
Suppose a Convention is convened, elected
hv the white men of the State, what does
the Military Reconstruction Bill declare
their duty to he? It declares that they
must annul the present constitution of
Georgia and frame anew one in entire ae
j cordanee with the views of the Radical
Congress. We all know that a Conven
tion elected by the Conservative men of
Geogia will nv f frame a constitution to suit
the views ot the framers of tiie Military
Reconstruction Bill, audthat Bill specially
reserves to Congress the right of disagree
ing to any “rebel’’ State Constitution,
either as a whole or to any of its constituent
parts. The Convention meets, frames a
constitution, send it to Washington, and
adjourns. The parchment is returned to
the Governor of the State with rejected
written on its face, with accompanying or
ders that another Convention must he
called, and so on to the end of the chapter.
What is to be lost by not calling a Con
vention ? Simply nothing; but a groat
deal is to be gained. God grant that we
may have the present military rule forever
out of the Union, sooner than be ruled
over in the Unicoi by such a despot as l’ar
son Brownlow. Wilson's clap-trap talk to
the contrary, no representation will be al
lowed us until after the next Presidential
election. This Military Reconstruction
Bill, the grand ultimatum' of Stevens, Sher
man & Cos., is but a bitter pill coated with
sugar to demonstrate to the world that we
had a means offered us of returning under
the protecting wings of the American eagle,
and that being such stubborn rebels we re
fused their kind (?) offer, and preferred to
remain a part and parcel of the Third Mil
itary monarchy.
Oye Georgians! who intend to vote for
the Convention, travel in imagination to
the far off battle-fields, where the twinkling
stars softly kiss the graves where the
bones of the heroes in grey lie mouldering
into dust. Stand by the little mound
which covers the breast where once
throbbed tho heart of the true, devoted
soldier. Look down, and, communing
with yourself, picture on tho canvass of
the brain that dead Southerner, radiant
with the hope of victory, following his be
loved, revered General, brave old Robert
12. Lee, into the thickest of iiio fight, con
tent at his command and for liis country’s
right, for Georgia's weal, to face the hurt
ling storm of iron hail. See him fall in
the pride of his manhood, his last look
turned toward his “Uncle Robert.” And
then ask yourself, Georgian, “Shall I, can
I, cast reproach upon this brave boy who
died for Georgia by declaring that the
dear bid chieftain whom he loved .so much
shall be disfranchised because he fought in
the same cause for which this hero died ?”
I fancy that the cry, “No! no! no!” will
burst from your lips, and that you will go
forth a wiser if not a better man.
Nothing is more desirable than tho re
storation of the unrepresented States to
the Union on the proper basis; but, on the
other hand, nothing is to be more deplored
and fought against than restoration on the
basis which Congress has provided. I have
already demonstrated that ally Constitution
which does not suit the views of Sumner
A Cos. will be at once peremptorily reject -
ed. Why. then, put ourselves in the'way
of tliis additional iiuniiliatiou ? God knows
we have humbled ourselves low enough
already, but we only want this to fill the
cup to overflowing. Because a man comes
to me and tolls me “If you don’t let mo
bum your house I’ll do it anyhow,” that
is no reason why I should give my eon
«ont to my own ruin, if lie does bum it
of his own accord I may, at some future
day, obtain redress for the wrong, but if I
consent I have no right to cpmpiain. The
game of reconstruction is exactly parallel
to this. Call tho Convention ; consent to
the whole Radical programme) and you
have no redress whatever in the future;
whereas, if you vote agdmist the GonvOh
tion and the convention is defeated, (hey
can do no more than what they have called
upon you to do. and tlio whole tiling may,
at some future day, bo reversed by the Su
preme Court asmicoiisUnuioual, therefore,
bo sure to vote “against Convention.”
.1.
Letter from Madison,
Editors Chronicle A Sentinel:
I suppose you would not Object to the
publication of a brief communication from
this section of the State, about matters
and tilings of general interest.
I'he crops in this county.were perhaps
never better than at present, takingovery
thing into considoYation. AVheat was good,
Com extraordinary, and Cotton at least
promising, although speculation as to the
extent of a Cotton crop as yet can only be
doubtful; this month will decide the fate
of this important crop. Times have been
unusually dull and devoid of interest in
our town, of late; no trade, no money, but
politics, registration, voting and the con
dition of the country is all t iie talk among
our people.
Registration closed in this county on
Saturday lasi. The total number will lie
seventeen or eighteen hundred; the blacks
have about three to ono. I suppose a largo
majority will voio for “.I Convention."
There was a large crowd in this city on Sat
urday, colored people, who assembled in
the Court House*yard in Lhe afternoon,
and were entertained for an hour by Rev,
Allen Clark, tlio colored Registrar for this
district, who made a speech to them and
said nothing objectionable to the.whites, I
believe, but did not please all the colored
hearers. He said to them that lie was
ashamed of some of them for coming to
town dirty and ragged, some with their
pants rolled up to their kiioes, others with
their hair tied up with cotton strings, and
some of tho -women with handkerchiefs tied
on their heads. He told them to leave off'
these old habits and take pattern after tiie
whites. He urged them to vote for Con
vention or their children would cry out
against them for their great ignorance and
stupidity. A. B. C.
MADISON, Ga., August sth, i
[FOIt THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL.]
A Mare’s Nest Found by the “National
Republican.”
“And true to destiny, the African is trio
favored race of eartii. If he didn’t bom
through Adam, lie did’nt sin and fall
through him; as he never died, he has no
need of being made alive through Christ.”
Happy Sambo—he is a lucky dog; ho will
be outside and independent of all Consti
tutions, human and divine. Just see here
—tho lucky scamp can be saved without
comiug under that Covenant of grace
made with Abraham,
The whito, yellow and red specimens of
the genus hom'o must look for salvation
'drew dat Cobenant, deso uiggers dent.”
Yaw, yaw, yaw. Oh, who would’nt be
one of them? Wonder if they can make
negroes out of white men? •
There are some lachrymose, pious peo
ple, who shudder when anything said in
the Bible is called in question. People
like unto them persecuted Galliieo, for
teaching the earth was round. Did’nt they
think lie was au arch heretic? Borne at
this day-shudder when they hear any. one
say tho earth is more than six thousand
years old. Some good Bishop (Usher,
perhaps), fixed up a chronological table to
about that figure, and forsooth ail are inti
dels who don’t swear by it. Hugh Miller
and others have taught thinking people
better sense, and able theologians have
found out how to square the truths of Mil
ler with the Bible, just us they did the i
truths of Gallileo with the “ends of the 1
earth,” the sun standing still, Arc.
And when Prof. Agassiz and liia host of i
co-workers shall press homo tiieii Burner- {
ous and stubborn truths, theology will be j
pliant, and dud out for the lirst time the |
true interpretations of tho Mosaic record.
Don’t itatter yourself, Mr. National lie.- j
publican; you can’t pro vo yourself.-Sambo’s ;
“brudder” by that dodge. There are j
thousands, yea a million, perhaps, who j
will reject your logic, and won’t loose i
their religion nor their faith in tiie blessed j
Messiah neither. 1 av.man. !
[COMMUNICATED, i
Charleston, August 0,1867.
My Dears. * * ****** - - * * * *
—I was indebted some days since to your
thoughtful kindness for a copy of Ben.
Hill’s Atlanta speech and the letter of Ex-
Governor Johnson. Please add to the oh
ligation by sending the “Notes on the
Situation,” which, I see, are issued in pam
phlet form by tho '‘'Chronicle & .Sentinel.'’
Wo take the C. it <v. at our oltice but I have
not got the series complete, some copies :
having failed to reach us. i notice that
‘the'illustrious Ex-Governor Joe. Brown ,
(Gods, what a name fora would-be great
man!-has entered the lists in reply to ;
“ben.,” but, so far as I have read, abuse
and scurrility seem to bo more oonjenial I
weapons than argument and logic. Mo we I
go, and may God help us, for He only
knows what we are coming to. But I have j
faith to believe that we will all come out j
right in His own good time, although wo j
may have to perforin a weary journey
through the wilderness before attaining i
the Promised Land. * • - - ’ '
The above is an extract of a letter from I
an old Charleston merchant. \V. 8. J
Fact In Philosophy.
Messrs Editors • —'Your columns have
recently disclosed several facts in conno t
tion with the rapid transmission of gootis
from the “great Central” via South Caroli
na Railroad. In one instance you copy
an article froman Atlanta 'and same
was transferred to the “Charleston Mc>-
enry »citing a case Where gcods-were re
ceived at tno ‘‘Crate City” on Wednesday,
or, to quote, Three days from date of ship
mou’. Our friends in Atlanta mav be
among the favored, but so far as Augusta
is concerned it works reverse!'/. One
shipper to this point, who has faithfully
ined the two routes li.c. Savannah and 1
Charleston; can testify that so faras Augus
ta is concerned, time and greenbacks can
oe saved by shipping via Savannah. The
writer hereof has in no instance received
freight shipped from New York on Satur
iniy l>eio re tin; following Thursday.
Th ere “ la y he exceptions to this experi
ence, although the result of a trial of four
weeks leads one to imagine that the • ‘tor
tutse tine is not tuny U j, Lo <m e ximes. |
_ Merchant.
The Albany Ary us tells of a doctor of
divinity and professor in the Rochester
University, who was arrested in the cars
on the Western RaUoad, a U d compelled
to ride under survcikancc until he could
identify hunsc-Ii and prow tbaUhm- was
a mistake somewhere.
Conservative State Convention, 1
(ihwtti Southern lucfmUir.C ■ - * j
Our eotempomry" of th.: Chfo-&. amk,
S ntiucl, in a coltimn article of great fordr i
calls for a Convention la organize a party ;
opposed, to the present Radical party, and !
to counteract the influence of the etuis
sarvcs sent among us aud those of our own
citizens who arc becoming Africanized.
Vi e cordially endorse the movement, and
suggest Wednesday, the Kith of Septem
ber, and Milledgoville the place. We say
Miiledgeville, because in days past, the old
party conventions met here, and the Capi
tol is the building for such things. Our
hotel accommodations arc good, and as
! cheap or perhaps cheaper, than in any
I other city. What say tho Press to the
! day and place? We must now—
' “Be stirring as tho time : I>> tire with fire ;
| Threaten the Tiireatenor, ami out face the
j brow
j Os bragging Radicalism ; so shall inferior
eyes,
’ That borrow their behaviors from the
: Bold,
; Grow bold by our example, and put on
i The dauntless spirit of Courageous action”
(From the Southern li" a ~)
i The Chronicle & Sentinel, of the Ist iu
■ stant, contains an able article in favor of a
i Conservative State Convention at an early
day, at Atlanta or Macon, for the purpose
I of organizing all who arc opposed to the
, Radicals.
In view of the open as well as secret es-.
forts being made by these enemies to good
government—these conspirators against
the Constitution—who are straining every
nerve to inaugurate a war of races, it is
high time that the Conservatives were
making preparations to organize, and we
vote loudly in favor of the proposed Con
vention.
This we do the more cheerfully, because
it is recommended that the delegates shall
be ‘ I selected by those, who art opposed to
the Radical Republican, party , without re
gard to differences of opinion on tin ques
tion of Convention or no Convention.'' We
are pleased to find so able and induential
a journal as the Chronicle mul Sentinel on
our platform. From the first, we have
deprecated a discussion o! the Convention
question, because we could not perceive
any sense in making an issue iu which we
were already beaten. The Sherman Bill
aud its Supplements settles that question
against us. There are thousands of good
men as much opposed to the Radicals as
are any of us, who will vote for a Conven
tion. There is no sensC“ in stopping to
quarrel over this minor issue. The great
point is to occur c the control of the Con
vention. This is the stake the Radicals
are playing for, and to quarre! about vot
ing for or against a Convention is to play
into their hands. _ Let us avoid this folly,
and at once organize all who are opposed
to Radicalism into solid plalanx and se
cure the defeat of the'enemies of liberty.
There is another suggestion in the arti
cle referred to, which meets our hearty
approval—we mean that the Constitutional
Union party shall keep entirely tree (for
the present at least) front all entangling
affiances with Northern parties. This is
an important point. Let us determine, for
the present, to “tote our own skillet.”
ahe citizens of Baldwin county are to
meet on Saturday, 17th instant, to organize
a Constitutional Union party.
hhe Conservatives, and Constitutional
Union men of Alabama have called for a
Convention on the 3d of September..
(Frofi the Official Internal 11 evalua lh.co/;i.)
Revenue from Raw Cotton.
Tlixs staple has rapidly assumed place
j as an important source of public income,
j find last year it yielded the second largest
| amount received from one source, on the
j list of manufactures and productions.—
During the war, of course, but little cotton
| could be reached on which tax could be
j levied and collected, and it is. therefore,
| not surprising that, the aggregate -receipts
for 1806 on cotton, exhibited an increase
j over those for the preceding year, amount
j ing to over seventeen hundred per cent.
I The attention of Congress, was directed
to the subject as early as tho year 1802,
aniF the lav; of first of .Inly of that yearj
provided, that !! on and after the first day
of October, eighteen hundred and sixty
two, there shall be levied, collected and
paid a tax ot one-half of one per cont. per
pound on all cotton held or owned by any
person or persons, corporation or associa
tion of persons.” p
. In imposing this low rate it was proba
bly believed that a much larger quantity
of the article would be reached than was
j reached. The amount of revenue collected
under this rate bet ween October 1, 1862,
and Juno 30, 1863, ivas not much more
| than three hundred and fifty-one thousand
; dollars, which represents something above
| seventy million pounds. The law of June
30, 1864, however, increased the tax to two
cents per pound, and the total receipts on
the staple for the fiscal year, 1865, amount
ed to considerably more than one and three
quarter millions, representing about eighty
eight and a half million pounds. The last
named rate continued in force during the
entire fiscal year, 1866, but during that
year, the war having terminated and the
whole Southern section of the country be
ing accessible, allowing the establishment
of the cxcise_ officers therein, the revenue
upon the entire crop was collected, realiz
ing to die Government nearly eighteen and
a half millions. This was yielded, too, by
a partial crop, cultivation of the product
baying been seriously impeded by the lack
of implements and laboring hands.
The law of 13th of July, 1866, declares
“on and after the first day of August,
1866, in lieu of the taxes on unmanufac
tured cotton, as provided in ‘an Act to
provide Internal Revenue to support the
Government, to pay interest on the public
debt, and for other, purposed,’ approved
! June 13, 1 864, as amended by the Act o f
| March 3, 1865, there shall be paid by the
! producer, owner or holder, upon all cotton
produced within the United States, and
upon which no tax has been levied, paid
or collected, a tax of throe cents per
pound, as hereinafter provided ; and the
weight of such cotton shall be ascertained
by deducting four per centum for tare
from the gross weight of each bale or pack
age.”
It will be seen from this, that while the
rate of tax was advanced from tw’o cents
per pound to three cents per pound, an
allowance of four per cent, for tare was
granted, which was but just and proper,
and which undoubtedly should have been
conceded from the beginning of the system.
Os the eighteen and a half millions paid 1
into the public Treasury last fiscal year,
Louisiana contributed four and three
tenths millions ; Alabama three and three
quarter millions; Georgia, three and a
half millions; Tennessee, two and a
seventh millions; Texas, one aud four
tenths millions ; Mississippi, seven bun- j
dred and fifty-six thousand ; South Caro- :
lina, seven hundred and thirty-two thou- i
sand ; Missouri, two hundred and forty- j
seven thousand; North Carolina, two hut:- !
dred and twelve thousand; Arkansas, two j
hundred and three thousand ; Kentucky,
one hundred and twenty-one thousand ; !
Florida, ninety-eight thousand, and the i
balance by other States.
The estimate lor this source for the cur- i
rent year was probably twenty-five millions j
aud much more would have been collected !
had the crop of last year been a half j
crop, but it only averaged a one-third crop, !
inconsequence of the ravages of the wet l
and tho worm and other causes.
Last November it was estimated by com
mission merchants and cotton planters in
some quarters, that the year’s crop would
amount to a million and a quarter bales
averaging five hundred pounds to the bale.
Others were assured toe yield would reach
two midton bales. Hut the official esti
mate made at the Department of Agricul
ture, based upon careful county estimates
received from all the cotton producing
States, is, m our opinion, entitled to most
consideration for accuracy and reliability.
I his estimate provided for one and tlirec
quarter million bales, of four hundred
pounds to the bale. This crop would be
wort.i, at »>ow lurk prices, over two
hundred and thirty-five millions, allowing
four per cent, taro, which is unnecessarily
j * * iC ruc tare boiii# about two and a
oal{ per cent. Allowing for this latter tare,
the crop would be worth nearly two hun
dred and thirty-nine millions.
According to the accounts which arc be
ing received from all quarters, there is en
: couragement to believe that the crop for
tins year wiR oe ,- very favorable one. We
arc icdw nope that every acre of cotton
• •■‘hh winch could possibly be cultivated with
chances of successful yield, was planted
i , staple, and that the coining crop
I wm make a heavy total.
r J he present condition of the South is
the consequence of a violent disturbance
that would have entirely broken up any .
I other country. It is fast becoming im
proved, much faster than the majority of ’
| people believed practicable.
Let ner in justice to herself give her
smeore efforts and attention to the es
tablishment of a satisfactory labor system,
and produce by that system crops that
will Lc much more profitable than those
under her old system, and speedily restore
her ancient state of plenty, comfort and
wealth. The garden spot of our country. |
she enjoys advantages of soil and clime ;
that place within her hands the power to
raise crops with one-third of the actual :
labor which is demanded by cultivation in j
less favored regions of our land. She -
should rise to a full comprehension of the j
vast interests at stake, and remember that j
every day lost by her, is one gained by 1
Egypt and Brazil. These great rivals j
whom she so successfully competed with
- the war, have not been idle during j
her long absence from the markets of j
Europe. Stimulated by the high prices ;
prevailing, they have made gigantic efforts j
to secure an advantageous position in all
markets ; and Egypt, who furnished Great !
Britain in 1860 with but nearly thirty-nine
million pounds, supplied that country in :
1861 with one hundred and sixteen million *
pounds, for which she received over sixty
miliions of dollars. And East India, j
whose supply to Great Britain iu iB6O was
sixty-six millions of pounds, actually fur
nished that kingdom in 1604 with two hun
dred and sixty-nine million pounds, re
ceivinv therefor one hutblrcd and seven and j
a halt millions ot doflars. These figures
upOrndicafe someth' -us the efforts' put ;
, forth by these two nations*
CuLil this the South need not fear, i
bhe <Sn without- any doubt regain her
former control, as soon as she is able to
lui-'iwpito the English and Continental
markets the hulk of the cotton that is re
quiredjor consumption,; Past experience
teaches (his iact—Egyptian never raise a
very large crop, toying to rfh; scarcity of
labor. She is limited, and could only go
i beyond a certain amount of cotton by itu
| porting breadstuff's, of which she was once
! a large exporter, before all available soil
■ and labor was turned to cotton cultivation.
! India has disadvantages of soil and clitaate.
The South has every advantage that
could be desired, and the promise of a
most prosperous future. Let her look to
I it, that no exertions be wanting on her
part to ensure the early fulfillment of that
promise. The lesult is one of vital mo
ment to her.
Tennessee—The Klrftion and its Social
Results,
Nashville, August 5, 1567, s o’clock
p. in.—The wholesale discharge of negroes
throughout the State for voting the Radi
• cal ticket has demanded from the Freed
n ’.n’s Bureau prompt measures for their
support. General Carlin is moving in the
matter, but finds it impossible to obiain
employment for the hundreds who are be
ing discharged.
lie has just appointed Judge Lawrence
to take charge of the proscribed freedmen
in Middle Tennessee. In his letter of in
structions the Geueral says : “if necessa
ry, advertise by telegraph N ertli and South
that laborers can be supplied. In.sending
men out of the State, transportation will
be furnished from Washington. You will
establish a depot in Nashville for all who
I have no homes. Good citizens, black and
white, can do something to alleviate hard
ships that must ensue from this wholesale
proscription.
Accompanying these instructions Judge
Lawrence will issue through the papers an
appeal to the people of the State, urging
forbearance and toleration toward the
freedmen. The Conservative press gen
erally favor the proscription. The Nash
ville Banner opposes it.
Full election returns are not in yet, but
it is estimated that the Radical majority
will be about -10,000 out of a voting coiorctf
population of fifty thousand. Not over
two thousand blacks voted the conserva
tive ticket. In the State Senate, the cou
i sorvatives will not have a single member,
| and in the House not over five.
The white vote was about- equally divided.
The State militia is still retained in ser
vice, and likely to be indefinitely.
Chattanooga, Tenn., August 5, 18(17,
10 o’clock p. m. —On Sunday Rev. T. H.
McCallie, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in this city, had an appointment to
preach at Cleveland, Tenn. lie was met
by a crowd of about fifty negroes, headed
by three white men, the loader of whom
was Captain David Nelson, a prominent
Radical, and son of TANARUS, A. R. Nelson. —
Captain Nelson told him he cuuld not
preach tlieicv Mr. McCallie reproved the
young man, alluded to his father as a gen
tleman and a member of tho Presbyterian
Church, and asserted his right and inten
tion to preach. His arguments finally put
tlie_ Radicals to shame, and they drew off
their negroes and McCallie preached.—
McCallie had been a rebel, but has never
discussed polities since the war. Since the
negroes and Radicals have learned their
power, other similar affairs with more se
rious results are anticipated through out the
State.
Kentucky.
THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY NEARLY
SIXTY THOUSAND.
Louisville, Aug. a. —The State elec
tion in Louisville and throughout the
State, and as far as heard from, passed off
quietly. The result has boon another
Democratic triumph by a majority vari
ously estimated at from 45,1)00 to 60,000.
Louisville City and tbs county of Jefferson
have elected their entire legislative ticket
of twelve members, and it is believed that
the Democrats in the State have elected
seven-eighths of the Legislature. In the
city the Radicals and the third party made
a very poor run, Helm, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, beating both of
his opponents by about 3,300 majority.
11 O’clock p. m. —The vote including
Portland, gives Holm. Democrat, 4,147 ;
Kinkcad, National Democrat, 705, and
Barnes, Republican, 454. The vote was
unusually Small. There was no excite
ment except where local contests prevailed.
Helm’s estimated majorities in Mason
county is 1,200; in Fayette, 700; in
Franklin, 500 ; in Simpson county Helm
500, and in Lexington 770. In Frankfort
Helm’s majority over both his competitors
will probably be 500.
Bowling Green gives Helm 332,' Kin
kead 1.38, Barnes 28; Elizabeth town
gives Ilchn 206, Barne.s 45, Kinkead 37 ;
Owensboro give: Helm 662, Kinkcad 3.3,'
Barnes 113.
Other minor returns snow but little
variation in the complexion of the above
votes. Helm’s majority in the State is
estimated between 35,000 and 15,000.
Not more than 25 members opposed to
the Helm ticket will be elected to the Leg
islature.
Washington.
The President Requests Secretary Stanton
to Resign—A Rumored Refusal —The
Petition, for Mrs. Surratt.
By U legraph to the Tribune.
Washington, August 5, 1867.—There
is no longer any necessity for specula
tion as to the purpose of the Presi
dent with reference to Mr. Stanton's con
tinuing in (ho Cabinet. Mr. Johnson this
morning notified him in writing thaf his
resignation as Secretary of War would be
acceptable. So far, Mr. Stanton has not
been heard from on the subject, but his
friends, say he will resign, and that lie is
preparing a written, response to the note of'
the President. In case Mr. Stanton goes
out of the Cabinet Gen. Grant will lie ap
pointed to perform the duties of Secretary
of War until the President shall have time
to consider who he will name as the suc
cessor of Mr. Stanton.
The rupture between the President and
Secretary Stanton is still the chief topic of
conversation here. Stanton’s friends,
who have been with him to-day, state
that he gives out that he will not resign.
He flays that if the President wishes to get
rid of him, he will have to do so by violat
ing the law and removing him; that he
will never yield. On the other hand, the
Job uson men, who claim to be posted as to
the President’s opinion, assert that he,
tiie President, wifi remove or suspend
Stanton if he refuses to resign. The con
templated removal of Sheridan is lost
sight of since it has become known that
Johnson lias stated that Stanton must go
first, and all interest is -entered in a climax
to the Johnson Stanton quarrel. The
White House and War Department politi
cians are very active. Stanton has been
run down (with visitors most of the .Jay.
Siifee writing the foregoing we learn
that certain friends of Mr. Stanton who
called on him to-day say lie assured them
he would not resign.
Secretary Seward is expected hack to- |
morrow, lie has been summoned to piv
. advice on the Johrison-Stanton imbroglio. ■
It is understood that Mr. Johnson uno- •
quivocal’y denies (hat the papas and limy ;
ing of the Court in the assassination trial I
were first submitted to the Cabinet; he
signed his approval of the action of the-
Court, lie says the official record was pre
sented to him by Qen. Holt, and it was
signed in his presence. That at. that time
no recommendation for the commutation
of the sentence of Mrs. Surratt was at
tached to the pajicrs. The approval of
the sentence by the President was com- •
missioned on the next to the last page, on
the last sheet of the averment, and fir.:; hud
on the other side of the same paper, in- i
stoad of only writing on one side of the •
sheet, as in the other sheets, and this was
done because there was no other sheet re- i
maining, and fastened to the documents ;
presented for lffs signature, A> the doen 1
nu.-nt i now found in the War Depart- ■
nienfc, the rccomnicndatiou for the com ;
mutation of Mrs. Furrats'.- sentg'ni.j fol
low.- all the other matters, and is the can
i elusion of the document. In tho official
; refvirt of the trial by Ben Pitman, who
! had access to the records and documents,
by permission of Mr. Stanton, for the pur
| pose of making up a Ixiok, everything
j appears, except the recommendation of
I the Court for commutation of
j sentence. Mr. Pitman says in the intro
i duction to his book, that it contains ;.f!
! orders, findings, sentences, documents, etc..
i connected with the trial. It appears that
: the papers wore not presented to the
[ Cabinet until the application for haUiu
corpus was made, and after the sentence
by the President. The recommendation
for commutation is not in the hand-writing
of Mr. Bingham, as alleged by some. ' i
The forthcoming statement of the public •
debt, will show a considerable reduction as j
compared with the last monthly exhibit. I
Since the 31st of May more than $40,000 - 1
00<> of interest has been paid out of the !
Treasury, $20,0f which were in coin, j
and two investments of 810,000,000 each
in currency. The reduction which will lx,
shown for July is principally owing to re- i
ceipts of internal revenue having be en !
heavier than usual, and increased by the i
i.ayment of the incom e tax. There will be i
comparatively little interest paid by the I
Government until the Ist of November I
when the annual interest will fall due on i
the Five-Twenties. It will amount to i
$24,000,000 in coin.
TIIE CORRESPONDENCE IN FULL, BETWEEN !
PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND MR. STANTON. I
The Herald'a correspondent says: With- j
out assuming to give the exact words, I |
may state that the correspondence between j
the President and Secretary Stanton is j
substantially as follows :
“HE PREtsIDBNTfo NOTE.
Exktittive Mansion. 1
To Krnvw i> teiSSTfe I
Jrtvrt' , i>• * yoi Vi nr.
strain uie ‘to Cun
Secretary of War.* y rcs fo uatl <fli » s
r, -ANimEwJonNso*
1 resident of th e Ust St t *
•SECRETARY- STANTON’.S ANSWER. .
vYar Department I
T it- Mashingtoa, Aug. t‘, 1867
I’rSidc^rn^*r v Johnson,
i u-Mdent ui the liuimd States ■
out—lour note uiformin,. .
public considerations 0 constrain you K
quest my resignation as Secretary of War
has been received. In mt WOT ii ' ar
state that grave public co‘nsldcratinu7co o -'
twifWar nn?ilto Ue “ the of Socrc
ai ot fl at uutn the next meeting of C m
gross. Edav. M. Stanton, See/of War
lhe correspondence Iras been refused to
T-s -h at the White House ffid
the >V at Office ; hut I got the above from
a reliable resotli ce.
iifisiiiH’ Simons Will—Bequest to
the CATirop- Curium.—Tho will of the
late John Onion, Bishop of Buffalo, has
just been admitted to probate by the ’ Sur
rogate of Erie county. It was made more
than thirty years ago. It provides :
Ail my property I consider to lie the
property of the Church, for though I ac
quired most. of it through iongjourneys and
many dangers, yet I only ask for help to
build up the Church ana her charitable in
stitutions in this diocese —never did ask for
m> sell. But though I consider and ever con
sidered the property held in my name in this
ItLrlit, (o bo administered by my successors,
yet to comply with the spirit of the laws,
as much as is really and legally mine, and
iie.d under my name, I bequeath to the
<ught Rev, John Loughlin, Bishop of
Brooklyn, State of New York, all my real
and persona! estate, but with condition that
outut tiie proceeds he pay my just debts.
1 also name the Most Rev. John Mc-
Lioiky, and the Right Rev. John J. Con
roy,,Bishop of Albany, executors of this
i&sfc wui aau testament.
tJohnTimon,
Bishop of Buffalo.
The Weather and the Crops.— There
have been, for weeks past, excessive rains
with most unfavorable conqucnces to the
crops. Generally, the corn crop, which is
good one, has not- boon affected, though
the crop of fodder will be cut offineon
* veniently. Cotton has suffered most. The
weed is large aud thrifty, but in many
eases there is not much promise of fj-uit.
Added to these discouragements is the
presence of the caterpillar. This scourge
is appearing almost everywhere— at least
su.oh is the report we hear. Their appear
ance so soon bodes great destruction, and
many planters express the apprehension
that by the middle of September they will
have pretty much eaten up the crops. On
the whole, we are sorry to say, that the
cotton prospect is poor, and chiefly so on
account or its danger of destruction from
the worm. Tallahassee Floridian.
Appear \nce oe the Cotton Cater
j pillar.-- The caterpillar has undoubtedly
made its appearance in the sea island cot
ton region of this State. But the danger
oi the crop being destroyed is contingent
upon the maturity of the third brood of
caterpillars. The broods are produced at
intervals of three weeks apart, and damp
weather is essential to tho young cater
pillar. A hot, dry spell at this period of
their growth is fatal to those creatures.
So there is no reason yet for alarm. They
have much to go through with before they
become at all formidable, and may.-be all
destroyed by tiie win.—-Charleston M,r
cury.
An Institution _ Deserving Much
Patronaui; vuom Kixikitklp District
—The Medical College of Georgia, that
pride and ornament of our fair neighbor,
Augusta. This old and Well-tried institu
tion, undoubtedly of the very first class in
every respect, stands, as it were, at our
very door. Citizens of our parts who over
look or ignore this fact by sending their
sons to far distant schools oi' Medicine, as
suredly fall far short ol their duty to their
own section and their own people.
T The session of the Medical College of
Georgia for ISC7-CS will commence on
Monday, 4th November, lXf.7, and end on'
1 Saturday, 3rd March, 18GS. The faculty
embraces the well known names of
Campbell, Eve, Ford, Godding , Rains,
Dugas, Doughty, Ac.—all of them dis
tinguished physicians, polished gentlemen,
men of prof ound science—most of them
eminent writers and iccturors.
Than the Medical College of Georgia,
no institution offers a more systematic,
more thorough, more practical, and at. the
same time more popular, method of Medical
Eduoa tion. —E Igifich l A< Inert iscr.
A Woman Tries'j’d Blow Herself
Up with a Cannon Ball— One of the
whimsical and unheard of means of “shuf
fling off this mortal coil,” occurred in this
city on Wednesday. A woman living in
the lower part of the city, named Meyer,
who, from iil treatment of her husband,
had become disgusted wilh life, attempted
to make way with herself in the following
unique manner ; iSlie took a six-pounder
cannon ball, which her husband bad
brought from Vicksburg as a relic, and
which had been lying on the mantle-piece
lor years, and having a rather indistinct
conception of the terrible effects of tho pro
ject'd*, and the manner of using it, at
length hit upon an idea. She went to Ed
ward's grocery and purchased fifty cents
worth of powder, returned home, and
procuring a breakfast plate she placed it
on the floor. She then poured the gun
powder upon the plate, and put the can
non ball on the top of the powder’ Hav
ing thus got her artillery into petition and
everything in readiness, she then sat down
over the loaded plate, and with a burning
taper in one hand fired the powder The
effect of the explosion may be imagined,
The exploding powder burned and blacken
ed the woman’s lower extremities, while
the ball which she vainly expected would
end h -r miseries did not stir from its posi
tion. The unfortunate victim of this in
sane attempt at self destruction is lying in
a precarious condition from the effect of
her foolhardy attempt upon her own life.
— St. Louis Republican
Another Excitement of the Blacks
Near lluutviu.e, Ala.— We learn that
when the passenger train of the Mobile &
Girard Railroad reached Station No. 4
on Monday, on its way to this city, tlic
train was invaded by a considerable crowd
of negroes, some of them armed, all clam
oring for free transportation to Columbus.
It seems that some “mean white man”
had been among them, representing that
there was to be a public meeting of the
blacks in Columbus ou Monday, when a
distribution of property of some kind would
j be made among them, and tiu,t a railroad
i train would bring them to this city without
j charge. The rascal collected twenty live
I cents iron, many of the negroes for this in
! formation. The conductor had some diffi
culty in undeceivin’.: the negr.o and get
! ting them off the tiain, arid probably would
have had greati" difficulty with them but
•for the representations of sonic better in
formed blacks who were on the train.
Afters the passenger train had passed, they
made a similar rl at the freight train,
and renewed uiffiun’ty was experienced in
inducing them l J leave thei train. The
conductor .assured them of th ir mistake,
hut agreed to bring those of them who
could .pay ibr their passug .
It is passing strange that the military
commanders will sbui their eyes to such
impositions by Radical emissaries upon
the black population, and to the imminent
danger of. serious disturbance aiisin"
from their mischievous representations and
advice. Ought riot the white miscreant
who tfius imposed upon the ignorant (but
voting! blacks near liurtviiie to be sent
to the Dry Tortugas for life ?—Columbus
N,n/uirt r.
Europe.— Florence, Awjust !>, 1 607. —
Garibaldi has conn- to the conclu.-ion that,
considering all the circumstances, it Ls best
,to a.bannon for the present the movement
against Roue-. The volunteers -which had
begun iooolleet from all part.- of Italy,
and whj'd. had already inv.-.Ji and in; Papal
territory ay -ev-ra! - p!-.- ~ v. iil dis|«nsc.
out the movement is only delayed, not
abandoned forever. The preparations lbr
another great movement will be pursued
with great activity, and Garibaldi himself
expressed his firm belief in the success of
the next movement.
Registration.—The following total of
persons registered in the three counties of
Macon, Bumtcr, and Hohlcv lias been
kindly furnished by D. W. Lewis, Ksq.,
one of the Registers :
Macon County —Whiles 611
Col< ir ed I L'7 y— 1 USD.
.Sumter County—-Whites 956
Colored 18W—2845.
Schley County—Whites 358
Colored ltd— 859.
[Messenger.
There ha- lately been discovered on the
farm of John 0. Lyon, in Saratoga
county, N. ¥., a valuable bed of iron ore,
known as the red hematite ore. A geolo
gist made a careful survey and in Ids re
port says there is not less than 800,000 .
tons of ore.
Death of Widow MuUree. —The
famous old trotting mare, Widow MeCrce,
died on Tuesday fast, aged fourteen years.
She belonged to Captain i. Rynders. Kite
was oae of the i'a«Uwt and gaitiest trotters
that has npppeared on the turf. She lias
left behind her three horse colts, t,v old
Haiuiltonjan, all very promising.—jv. Y
Herald, Aufjust 3.
The building ot the Delaware Railroad
j is bringing the eastern shore or Peninsular
t part ot Maryland near to the large mar
kets or the seaboard, and that route is be
coming an important thoroughfare, con
necting with Norfolk and the coast beyond.
Experiments at Toulon, instituted by
the 1- tench Government to test the merits
ot unmvcmiqn f!, r “depolarizing iron ves
sels, are said to have been entirely suc
cessful.
