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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Cluoniclc &
MENItY MOOREi
• A. H. WTlioiiT.
Patrick wai.su, Associate Editor.
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AUGUSTA. OA j
KWXKSiKY MOUXIVL, SKI'TKMIiLK ‘Hi.
GojiKv’h.—Our lady readers are in
formed that Godoy’s Ladies’ Book for
October has b< a received at Quinn’s
News Depot. The number is, as usual,
very interesting, containing the latest fash
ion plates, etc.
I)EATH OK CtIA-. MaCMLUPHY, KsQ.—
It is, with sincere regret, that we chronicle
the death of this estimable young man.
He was a native of this city, and had but
recently removed to Galveston, Tcxv-.
where he married and settled in business,
when the fell destroyer, in the garb of yel.
low fever, snatched him away from his fair
young bride and his sphere of usefulness.
He wits well and favorably known in this
community, and was earning an enviable
social and business reputation in his new
home, To his alUieted parent and relatives
we tender our heartfelt sympathies.
Cot . Meredith Rooked—GrossOwt-
H AiiK’ -We are pained to announce the l’aet
that our esteemed fellow-citizen (emphasis
on the steam !), Col. Jas. W. Meredith,
the railroad man, has been robbed ! Home
villain, without the fear of the law be
fore his eyes, or regard for the rights of
others, feloniously and burglariously and
with evil intent, entered the Colonel’s
residence on Saturday night last, and stole
his silver chronometer and all the change
he had in his vest pocket. Colonel!
where wn your “private battery ?’’ “A
litt! e more grape, Copt. Bragg,” and you
might have stopped the wicked burglar !
Wiikaton’.s Ointment is an old and
well tried remedy, which keeps constantly
increasing in popularity as its merits lie
come known. It has been before the pub
lic for more than sixty years, and is univer
sally acknowledged to be the most certain
and speedy cure ever discovered for Halt
Rheum, dicers, Chilblains, Tetter, Pim
ples, Blotches, 'an l all eruptions of the
skin, while it is a sure cure for the Itch,
and will eradicate the most obstinate eases
in forty-eight hours.
Educational Association.—On Satur
day, the 7th iust., a preliminary meeting of
Touchers was held at Masonic llall for the
purpose of inquiring into the proprioty of
organizing an Educational Association for
this county. Gen. F. W. Capers was called
to the Chair, and Mr. Joseph T. Derry re
quested to act as Secretary.
1 lie meeting passed off pleasantly and
agreeably, and resulted in its resolving
itself into a Committee of the Whole on
Declaration, Constitution and By-Laws—
Martin V. Calvin, Esq., as Chairman.
Saturday, the I Ith, another meeting
was held, at which the following report
was submitted and unanimously adopted .
REPORT :
Pursuant to instructions we met on
Wednesday evening, the lltli inst., and,
with entire unanimity, agreed to report
and recommend the adoption of the ac
companying Declaration. Constitution and
By-Laws. Respectfully submitted.
MahtinY. Cai.vin, Chairman.
.). At. via Pr.i.or,
Daniel McCarty,
Patrick Quinn,
Joseph T. Perky.
I). P. Cammann,
Titos. Leukik,
F.*W. Capers.
DECLARATION.
IVTurcxx, It is our UmnUon duty, as
Teachers, to seek, by all possible, honor
able means, to elevate and keep in merited
prominence, the profession we have chosen;
and
IVhemu, Considerations of public in
terest demand that Teachers should l>e
associated in regular organizations ; and
Il’/iewM, Such organizations, when
properly conducted, can but be productive
of good to their membership, not less than
to the important interests which the latter
repr. sent and have at heart: therefore he it
Resolved, That we, whose names are
hereunto affixed, do associate ourselves
together tinder the name and title given in
the Constitution. *
The Constitution provides that any citi
zen of the county may become a member
hv being regularly elected and paying an
initiation fen of sl. The meetings will be
held on the first Saturday of each month.
Treatment ot Colored People in
Atlanta by Federal Soldiers.—Wc
glean the following particulars from the
Atlanta Intelligencer of the 12th :
The Hhermantown disturbance of Mon
day night was by no means a small affair.
Nine soldiers (or persons wearing tho uni
(ortu) made a descent upon that locality
and perpetrated all sorts of outrages, as
we learn from several sources. A small
store kept by a negro man was entered, and
such goods taken as pleased the fancy of
the intruders. The .storekeeper and his
w ife were both beaten. In like manner
were other places, the houses of frecduten,
invaded. The raiders were resisted at one
or two places by the negroes, and a fight
or two ensued. The house of Flipper, a
colored hoot-maker, a very worthy person,
was entered, and the said Flipper severely
beaten, his property taken, Ac. Several
places adjacent to the place of Mayor Wil
liams were visited by the wretches. The
riago was all done before the police
•bed the scene of trouble, and conse
quently no arrests were made. We are
told that the negroes of Hhermantown
were in .a high state of excitement, and
soon collected together in numbers suffi
cient to protect themselves, but the enemy
had retreated . such in fact is said to have
I <n their indignation that it was with some
difficulty the police prevented a party of
about forty of them from demolishing a
small house—a sort of bar room—where it
was supposed some of the raiders had
sought refuge. On Tuesday night it was
rumored among them that further incur
sions would lie made upou Hhermantown,
when there was, we learn, a general rally
ing of ebony to the extent of one or two
hundred, all of them armed. But there
was no disturbance.
These are .Jehu the facts, as obtained
by us troui reliable persons. We trust that
the post commandant will inquire into
such conduct on the part of the men of
this garrison. Our negro population are
entitled to protection in their new rela
tions, and should have it. Have we a
"Bureau” among us ?
Meeting ok the Governors.—On
Thursday last Governors Oglesby, ot' llli- ;
nois Fletcher, of Missouri, and Crapo, of
Michigan, held an interview in the city of
Chicago with Messrs. Yates, Logan, Judd,
Bromwcll, Terry, and other members of
Congress, who agreed iu the policy of in
viting the Republican Governors to hold a
council similar to that which met at Altoo
na in 1562. The time spoken of was from
the 20th of September to October 1. and
the place Chicago, Washington, or Phila
delphia. The object of the meeting is said
to be to concert measures for the impend
ing campaign.
Two white men and a negro escaped
from the Thomasville jail on W ednesday
night last. No looks were broken, no
holes made in the roof or wall, and the
keys were found hanging in the office of
the keeper as usual.
New Firm.—Mr. Win. J. Owens and
Mr. James M. T)ye have associated them
selves together under the firm name of
Owens iV Dye, for the purpose of carrying
on the bactorage and Commission business
at Savannah, Ga. These gentlemen are
among the old and substantial cotton men
of our city, and it gives us pleasure to
commend them to the Press and mer
chants of Savannah.
Messrs. J. M. Dye & Cos. continue the
Factorage and Commission Business at the
old stand, 1-13 Reynolds street.
Anew agricultural paper is to be com
menced in Atlanta on the 15th inst., by
B. A. Grist. It will be issued semi
monthly, at one dollar a year.
hespldHsa Striata.
Tn another column will be found the very
interesting report of Dr. L. A. Berckmans
to the Richmond County Agricultural So
ciety, upon the new plant which has re
cently made its appearance upon the road
sides and waste lands ot Middle, Eastern
and Western Georgia.
Our attention had been called to the ap
pearance of this plant while on a trip to
Middle Georgia in July last, and we were
informed that it had spread so rapidly in
many localities as to completely subdue
and destroy the Bermuda or joint grass
and the broom sedge which infest most of
the old fields in the black bolt of the State.
Many persons attributed it- presence to
the march of General Sherman’s army
through the Stab . as it was found in great
profusion immediately on the line of his
march from Atlanta to Savannah. We
afterward saw it in the upper part of Co
lumbia county, and heard of its having
appeared also in Lincoln and Elbert coun
ties, far from the track of the Federal
army. Its presence in these remote sec
tions clearly rebutted the presumption
that it had ben introduced into the State
through the forage used by the Federal
army.
We saw it in great luxuriance at the In
dian Springs, and had occasion to notice
there its effects upon the salivary glands of
cattle which had fed upon it. The "drib
ling” caused by it led many persons to
believe it was a sort of clover, which belie*'
was strengthened by what was then thought
to be the true manner of its introduction.
Col. G. W. Rains has made a thorough
examination and analysis of this strange
plant for the Richmond county Agricul
tural Society, and ho places it in the bean
or pea family of vegetables. This analy
sis also shows that it is remarkably rich
in fertilizing properties, and wo encourage
the hope that by judicious management it
can l>e made of great value in restoring
fertility to our old, worn and exhausted
lands.
We hope to be able to give, in a few
days, the able and exceedingly interesting
report of Col. Rains upon this subject.
We would be pleased to get front our
planting friends any information which
they may be able to give of its habits,
growth and spread in their respective lo
calities.
Another Constitutional Amendment.
Senator Wilson, in a letter written re
cently to the Radical Border State Con
vention, which met in Baltimore,
recommends that body to declare for
universal suffrage by laws or Constitution
al Amendment. He says: ‘"We can carry
the amendment if we cannot the laws.
Some of our strongest rnuu doubt our
power to carry a law. If wc cannot do it
let us set about umei.din.rj the Constitution. ’ ’
Here, theft, is to be another test which
will be applied to the Southern States be
fore they are permitted to be restored to
the 1 Jtiiou. Wilson and his Radical friends
will require the ten Southern States to
ratify the uuw amendment which he pro
poses giving universal suffrage in all the
States before they are restored to their
rights under the Constitution. To pass
such an amendment will require the assent
of three-fourth of all the States, and he
will keep the Southern States in such a
position as will enable him to control their
action in favor of this project. Thus we
shall see rconstruction according to the
Radical programme postponed as often
and for such purposes as may bo necessary
to carry out the policy of that pttrty.
The Price of (iold-l'otton Can Control It.
Gold advances still. It has already
gone above 45 per cent, premium in New
York, with a still advancing tendency
The flow of currency is abundant and in
excess of the wauts of the country. Paper
is in small demand, even at low rates,
owing to its excess over the regular wants
of business.
Many causes have been assigned for this
sudden and alarming rise in coin. Promi
nent among these causes, we may mention
the unsettled and very unsatisfactory con
dition of the lately seceded States, and the
wild, reckless and extravagant administra
tion of the Government by the Radical
Rump Congress. More recently, the re
pented rumor of changes in the President’s
Cabinet, and the announcement, semi-offi
cially, of his determination to maintain, up
hold and support the Constitution accord
ing to his views of that instrument, and
regardless of personal consequenoes, have
doubtless given a slight impetus to the ad
vance already begun.
Besides these alleged causes for the re- j
cent rise in gold, we must not fail to notice
others which, in our view, have contribut
ed very largely to the present ruling price s
The importations have recently been very
heavy, and have largely increased the
customs demand lor coin. These foreign
purchases will have to be met with coin to
an extent very much greater than for sev
eral years past. The recent and continued
discussions in the Northern, Middle and
Western States upon the propriety of the
payment, by the Government, of its inter
est debt upon the five twenty bonds in cur
rency, have caused large shipments of
these securities hack from Europe to this
country, and have, to a large extent, pre
vented the exchange of those bonds for j
the summer and fall supplies of foreign j
goods which has been done so generally for .
the last three or four vears.
Before the war the cotton and tobacco j
crops of the South furnished the basis upon I
which the great bulk of our foreign pur- j
chases and importations were made. Af- j
ter the war commenced, and during its j
progress, the North made its purchases j
abroad upon the securities of the Federal ;
Government, and mainly of that class :
known as five-twenties. The interest upon '
these bonds being at the rate of six per j
cent., payable semi annually in gold, made
them a very desirable investment for foreign
capitalists. Hence it was that, losing the j
entire cotton and tobacco crop of the
South, Northern importers felt but little I
embarrassment in providing for the pay
ment of their bills by negotiating abroad j
large quantities of five-twenties.
The continued unsettled and revolution- j
ary condition of the country and the recent
discussion upon the propriety of paying the
interest accruing upon these bonds in cur
rency alone, has had the effect of curtailing
their sale or exchange in Europe, and
caused many millions of them to be re- i
turned to this country'. To meet this in- j
j creasing demand for gold Northern jour
-1 nals and financiers are now easting their
eyes upon the forgotten or persecuted
South, and congratulate themselves that
the supply of our great staples —cottonand
| tobacco—will be sufficiently large to furnish
all the sterling bills that will be needed to
pay for the fall importations of foreign
j goods.
It seems to’ bo conceded that goiu will
continue to advance from the causes which
we have slightly glanced at. until the mid
dle of October, when cotton will begin to
, come forward very largely for shipment,
and thou it is claimed that gold will fall.
\t last, when every other resource has
tailed them—when the immense power
of the Government over the traffic in gold
! has proved futile to stay its upward ten-
I .deucy, aud the bloated wealth of New
England manufacturers and Wall-street
millionaires have failed to arrest the rising
tide of financial overthrow, the despised,
: iusulted and deeply wronged South is
| turned to as affording the only means of
! relief.
The Southern people have it in their
I jtower now to make their strength and in
fluence felt at the North and throughout
the whole country. They can scud gold
up- EP--UP till it shall cause the lordly
bondholders financial castles te tumble
with a crash which will bury beneath it,
and forever, the iii-gotten gainsvDphhave
been wrung from the distresses of a free and
gallant people.
Let the cotton planter determine to
receive nothing in exchange for their
cotton crops but gold. .Let them
each one for himself, and wheth
er he be a large or small planter, in -
sist upon gold for every pound of his cot
ton. If the producers of cotton will adopt
this course, we believe that in less than
ninety days gold wili rise above 209. Cot
ton planters should remember that {/old
ii the standard of value for cotton. The
higher the jiruc of gold the greater will
In. their galas from, the production of cot
ton. The interests of the cotton planter
demand a high price for gold. They can,
by refusing to receive currency in exchange
for gold, make the demand lbr the latter so
great a- to run it up to a fabulous rate.
The Radical Congress have taxed the
planter 2j cents per pound in currency on
all tin ir cotton. With gold at par and
with the present ruling prices, this would
be about one snvi nth of the net value of the
entire'cotton crop. With gold at 2 l'orl,
the tax could l< paid with one-fourteenth
of the net value of tie crop, and tli?s the
planters would save, in a crop of three mil
lions of bales, over eighteen millions of dol
lars on this tax alone.
If, then, the determination to sell only
"Tor gold should produce no other effect, this
alone should be a sufficient reason why
such a courso should be adopted. We be
lieve, however, that a demand for gold
would induce Congress, among other
things, to remove this unjust, illegal and
onerous tax. It might have the affect of
opening their eyes to the power which the
South still has over the finances of the
country and thereby soften their animosity
toward us. ,
A three million crop of cotton, which
yankec spinners say will be produced this
year, wili be worth, at present prices, about
three hundred millions in gold. Let this
amount of coin be abstracted from the cur
rents of trade and locked up iu planters’
strong boxes or bid away Ju farmers’ old
stockings, and who can foretell the effect
it would have upon the currency. But
there is another reason why coin should be
hoarded by Southern people. It is found
in the repeated and continued threats of
confiscation which the Radicals are making
against us. It confiscation should be
resorted to, happy will be the planter who,
instead of investing his cotton crop in
lands or stocks and bonds, shall have it
safely and securely hid away in gold for
further use and support.
We would then, in conclusion, urge our
planters to pay their debts promptly and
fully to the extent of their ability, and
invest t..eirsurplus in gold. It is not only
a safe, but we think it the most profitable,
investment which they can make. Gold
is only worth now about forty-five per
cent, premium. In a few weeks or months
it will probably rise to one hundred.
Here, alone, would be a profit from such
an investment of fifty-five per cent. We
have seen that the higher gold goes the
lighter is the tax on cotton.
Thesereasonsalonc, in our opinion, should
induce our planters to demand gold for
their crops. Don’t be afraid about the
supply. Cotton will bring gold to your
doors as soon as it is known that gold alone
will buy it. If your factor sells for cur
rency you can buy gold from the brokers.
They will always keep a supply.
Many _ other reasons could be given in
favor of the course which wc advise.
Most of these will readily suggest them
selves to the mind of the intelligent plant
er. Wc may enlarge somewhat upon this
subject in a future issue. In the mean
time we ask the careful consideration by
our planting friends of the views which we
have herein presented.
The Case or General Fltz Joint Porter.
The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
telegraphs that General Fitz John Porter
is in this city seeking a reopening of his
case. lie is the bearer of letters to the
President from lion. Henry Wilson, John
Sherman, Ira Harris, Horace Greeley, L.
F. H. Foster, N. P. Banks, Governor Cur
tin, It. C. Wiuthrop, Amos Lawrence,
Judge Curtis, andothersof like distinction,
urging a reopening of the case upon evi
dence which peace has developed, and
which it was not possible to obtain during
the war. General Porter’s appeal to the
President is a high-toned, dignified peti
tion for justice upon such grounds as
would in any court'obtain anew trial.
The petition for a reopening of the pro
ceedings of the court-martial in Ids case
ha? been referred by the President to the
War Department. It is expected by the
friends of the General that an order to this
effect will in a few days be issued from that
Department.— National Intelligencer.
It will bo remembered that Porter was
cashiered by a military court ibr an alleged
refusal to obey the order of General Pope
at the second battle of Manassas. Pope
and bis friends were active in the prosecu
tion and it was mainly through their efforts
that Porter was condemned. The? disas
trous defeat of Pope and the Federal army
in that engagement, intensified Northern
feeling and caused it to demand a sacrifice
for the blunder committed there. The offi
cer in command was smart enough to turn
the tide of censure from himself and direct
it upon one of his subordinates, who was
not only a Democrat in principle, but who
was also personally obnoxious to him.
The Now York Tribune's Washington
correspondent says that it is pretty certah:
that anew trial will be granted Genera!
Porter. General Grant, it is said, favors
such a course and has intimated to Gen
eral Porter that he will give him a court
composed of the best men of the army.
Large (Haim for the Discovery of a
Guano Island.
A Baltimore firm have presented a
claim against the United States Govern
ment, amounting to a million and a half of
dollars, for the discovery of an Island in
the South Pacific Ocean, in which are
found large deposits of Guano.
It appears that after the discovery of
this Island, by the vessels of the claimants,
a vessei belonging to the navy of the Unit
ed States visited this place and claims to
have been the first discoverers. The matter
is now before the Secretary of State and is
undergoing a thorough investigation. The
claim is presented by Messrs. Black,
Larnon A Cos.. Attorneys, who, it is said,
are to have one -fourth of the amount re
covered tor their fees.
The Amnesty Proclamation.—Presi
dent Johnson's proclamation of amnesty,
says Prentice of the Louisville Journal , so
far as it goes, is good; but we regret that
it does not go farther. The premises, we
think, are strong enough to support a
broader conclusion: and the logic of the
ease, in our judgment, is seconded by the
demands of sound policy. If the iist of
excluded persons included simply those
who violated the laws of war, we think
that the amnesty would have proved more
acceptable as well as more salutary ;—it
would have pleased the Conservatives bet
ter, and displeased the Radicals no worse,
making a clear tain us public opinion. The
number of excluded piersons who might
have been wisely included is perhaps not
large , but it embraces the men whom the
South love? most, and whose exclusion she
will keenly resent. Their inclusion would
have conciliated her not only directly, but
through their active influence. Their ex
: elusion will do neither. It seems to us to
|be ill-judged. We regret it. So far as
the amnesty goes, however, it is wise and
wholesome. We hail it with pleasure.
The oyster trade Ls resumed with the ad-
Ivent of Septemoer, and is very active.
Philadelphia sends out uo less thau six to
seven hundred vessels.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1867.
T&e Radical Defeat.
The Savannah Republican (Congres
sional Reconstruction advocate), draws
the following conclusions from the Radical
defeat in California:
The defeat is ominous in another sense,
and we presume the wise men of the Re
publican party, such statesmen as Fessen
den and Trumbull, will perceive the truth
fulness of what we are about to utter. Iu
nearly every Southern State there are to
be found to-day regiments of just such
men as Gorham, and corps of men without
either brains or character, who are vocifer
ously seeking to represent the Southern
people. These men are very loud in their
professions of love for the colored race,
have an unlimited amount of friendship
fur the Government and fairly adore Thad.
Stevens’ proscriptive wing of the Republi
can party. Place these adventurers once
iti power and we have the spectacle in
every Southern State of an ignorant usurper
seated on a throne, wielding a sceptre
placed in his hands by the votes of a rabble,
and surrounded by a council ol petty ty
rants, whose chief delight would be in
trampling under foot the sacred rights of
good and true men. Tt is not in the neture
of things that such a plan of political deg
radation should be carried out any more
successfully in the Southern States than
in California or any Northern State. The
day is not lar distant when it will be made
manifest to the Republican party that,
with all the gorgeous trappings and para
phernalia of party power, it is impossible
to force the well meaning Southern people,
who arc as well disposed toward the Gov
ernment as could reasonably be expected
(all tjiiugs coasideretlb eaiujy sulypit tp„.
much less to sanction the elevation to posi
tions and power of a corrupt class of men
who already boast that if ever invested with
authority they will rule their political
opponents with an iron rod. Therccent Am
nesty proclamation which has emancipated
so many good and honorable men from an
unjust restraint, will doubtless have a salu
tary effect in cheeking the designs of these
men.
If the Republican party has any desire
to succeed in the South, they must send
us respectable, faithful men as leaders, or
be prepared, whenever the elections are
held, to see the tableaux of California re
peated. Neither Northern or Southern
men of honor, we sincerely trust, will ever
willingly become the instruments of op
pression or corruption, and wo cannot have
one without the other.
Georgia Jfews,
General John B. Gordon has taken up
his residence, temporarily, in Atlanta.
The Hons, B. 11. llill undll. P. Trippe
addressed a large number of the citizens
of Butts county, at Jackson, on Tuesday.
A recent census of the village of Tal
botton shows the population to be 878 —
whites 431, blacks 447.
The reports from the gold mines in. Hall
and Lumpkin counties are very favorable.
James Jackson, of Lumpkin county, con
victed of the murder of Jesse Turner in
1864, has been sentenced to imprisonment
for life in the penitentiary.
The Savannah Republican announces
the resumption of the old Propeller Line
of steamships between that city and New
York. It is contemplated the first boat
will start on the 25th.
The Rome Courier says that work on
the Selma and Dalton Railroad will be
resumed in less than thirty days, and that
the road will he completed to Rome with
in twenty month's.
A revival is in progress in the Methodist
Church in Rome. Eight new converts
were admitted to the Church on last
Sunday, and more are hopefully looked
for.
The LaGrangc Reporter, of Friday, has
a card f'ropi “Many Voters,” nominating
Eaton Cox, a negro of that place, as can
didate for Congress in the Third District.
A gentleman who has recently returned
from a trip through the counties north of
Atlanta, informs the Intelligencer that so
abundant has been the yield of corn that
in many places it is offered at 25 cents per
bushel. This looks like the good time
coming.
We are informed, upon good authority,
that Joseph Williams, on his recent speak
ing tour in Alabama, succeeded in convert
ing some throe thousand negroes from
Radicalism to Conservatism. Will the
Markhatn-Dunham-Farrow-Ashburn par
ty put this in its pipe and smoke it.
[ Columbus Sun.
A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph
writes that in consequence of the long
continued rainy spell, in Crawford county,
cotton that has opened haa sprouts half an
inch long, and the [tods are rotting. Corn
is also rotting on the stalk.
We learn from the Intelligencer , that the
case of the State vs. J ames Atkins, Col
lector, in U. S. District Court, has been
decided for plaintiff, and that the Collector
has been directed to refund the Superin
tendent of the State Hoad the amount col
lected from the Road as income tax.
A gentleman just returned from a trip
through Chattahoochee, Stewart, Clay,
Randolph and Muscogee counties, informs
the editor of the Talbotton Gazette, that
the planters in the country over which he
passed, do not expect to make more than
a half crop of cotton. The rust has greatly
damaged it, and the worms are destroying
a large part of what the rust and rot have
left.
Cotton Picking.— The work progresses
slowly in consequence of the continual rain.
The past few days has been hairier on cot
ton than any of the season. A great deal
is sprouting in the boll. It is the opinion
of one of the most extensive planters in
our confmunity, that the crop will hardly
exceed that of last year. At all events it
is greatly damaged. —Albany Xncs.
Tire Macon Telegraph finds “stowed
away in an obscure corner of the New
York Tribune" a letter from Atlanta,
dated the 4th inst., which gives the follow
ing as the result of registration in Geor
gia, “nearly complete whites 80,892,
blacks 93,682. The Telegraph , accepting
this report as the real showing ot the
registry lists, denounces the registration
as a fraud. We, too, shall believe that
there has been foul play if any such state
ment is officially published. But we cannot
yet believe that such a result will be an
nounced. — Columbus Enquirer.
Personal. —We had the pleasure yes
terday of meeting the Hon. B. H. Hill—
the only man who has dared to tell the
people the truth, from the mountain to
the seaboard.
He is in good health and spirits, and not
at ail dismayed, either by the suggestions
and threats of despotism in shoulder straps,
or the snapping and snarling of the scala
wags and sneaks who leap to do its bid
ding. —Macon Journal & Messenger, \Ath.
Educational Association. —We are
pleased to learn that the Teachers of this
eounty have organized an association for
the promotion of Educational interests. It
numbers among its members the most ex
perienced and devoted teachers—gentle
men who are devoting their energies and
their very lives to the great cause of edu
cation. and should have the most cordial
and liberal support of the community.
Every teacher in the county should be
come a member, and active and interested
members, while those citizens who «re .not
teachers, but who yet feel an interest in
the cause, can greatly aid it by also becom
ing members, and contributing to its finan
cial support. From such an association we
confidently expect much good, and cheer
fully extend to it our best wishes for its
success and prosperity.
Boarding and Day School.— The
Misses Sedgwick will resume the exercises
of their Boarding and Day School on the
2d of October. The scholastic year will
consist of twenty-five week? of session and
two of vacation at Christmas.
This school Ls located in the pleasant and
commodious dwelling at the corner of
Washington and Telfair streets.
The Misses Sedgwick have taught in
Augusta for many years, and their labors
have been eminently successful. No [tains
have been spared to make their school in
every respect worthy of the best patronage.
Thi? has insured that success of which
the Principals are so well deserving. Per
sons at a distance who desire to ascertain
terms and lull particulars are requested to
send for Circulars to the Misses Sedg
wick.
Real estate in San Francisco is in good
demand.
Special Correspondence of me Chronicle
and Sentinel.
Greenhbboro, September 14, 1867.
Dear Chronicle : At the regular term
of Baldwin Court in this Grout, Judge
Reese found himself embarrassed by the
conflict between the laws of the State and
Military Orders Nos. 53 and 55. This em
barrassment was heightened by the proba
ble trial of a criminal ease which would
exhaust in making up a jury the panels
regularly summoned, and probably as tales
jurors, tax the legal jury poll to the ut
most extent. The Court very properly,
under a desire to conform to these Military
Orders, and at the same time preserve in
violate the laws of the State and the oath
of office, adjourned until the 5a Monday
in September, and at the same time ad
dressed a letter to General Pojto, advising
him of the difficulties of the ease. It is
reported that Judge Reese has said that
he cannot, as these Orders now stand,
discharge the obligations of his conscience,
his duty to the Htatc and to those arraign
ed tor trial and obey those Orders; and
will not, in any instance, put the life of a
citizen in jeopardy before a jury thus
constituted. Your correspondent is not
informed whether or not General Pope
has made any reply. It is presumed
that he will so far modify his Orders
as to permit the laws of the State
to be obserrved as, it L- md by
lawyers, he Ts In Jutyoomfd to uo so,
those laws being in full force by the terms
of the Reconstruction Acts. It is under
stood that General Pope is now in Wash
ington city, but it is expected that further
instructions will be received, and hence
unusual interest attaches to the Baldwin
adjourned term, which will be opened on
Monday next. Some considerable com
ment has been excited by the action of
the Judge of your City Court, and some
grave questions respecting the legality of
a court so constituted are raised.
The increase of the number of attorneys
in attendance here has been very marked
during (he week. Among tie late ar
rivals are Hon. A. 11. Stephens, Hon.
James Wingfield, of Putnam, Colonel
Billups, of Morgan, and many others un
known to your correspondent. The es
teemed Editor of the Miiledgeville Re
corder, Richard Orm, Esq., is the chief
representative of the Third Estate, the
Press. The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
was present to conduct the defence of the
negroes arraigned for murder. I am in
formed that these unfortunate creatures
appealed to Mr. Stephens to befriend
them, with the frank avowal that they
had no money to reward his ser
vices. Mr. Stephens entered hoartily and
earnestly upon thoir defence—obtaining
in the case of one anew trial. Four of
these negroes were found guilty of man
slaughter, and were sentenced to imprison
ment in the penitentiary—one ibr fifteen
years, another for ten, and two for five
years. The opinion is freely expressed with
regard to two of these culprits—that had
they been white men not even Mr. Ste
phens’ eloquence and management could
have saved them from a conviction of mur
der, and the penalty which the code affixes
to this crime. It would be unjust in this
connection to omit commendatiim of the
bearing of Col. Wm. A. Lofton, flic Attor
ney General of the State, and ex-officio the
State’s Solicitor for this Judicia, Circuit.
While he presses with force and dignity
all fair points, and scrutinizes rigorously
testimony, he seems to regard his official
position as created solely to further the
ends of strict justice. The Court adjourned
to-day.
POLITICAL DISCUSSION,
n a quiet, private way, of course, Engaged
the leisure hours both of the people and
the Bar. It was a matter of some surprise
to observe how little difference of opinion
appeared to exist The difference was
never as to principle, but turned exclusive
ly upon the expediency of a State Conven
tion at this time. It seems to be generally
conceded that there was a very large Re
publican party in the State, whose influ
ence would be very great, if the Convention
was held, in its counsels.
The people appear to bo generally satis
fied with the provisions of the present
Stay Law, but are restless under the sup
position that it will be declared unconstitu
tional ; it being affirmed that one of the
Judges has already decided it, in a Circuit
Court, to be unconstitutional, and another
having expressed, in private, an opinion to
the same effect. The “colored Dope
voters” are being thoroughly drilled and
instructed on this point—and it is not un
usual to find them saying “we are going
to wipe out and begin anew.” The Hon.
B. H. Hill’s Notes have been almost uni
versally read, and are much discussed. —
While some criticism is expended upon the
invectives which Mr. Hill ao mf qimes uses,
the concurrent opinion is, that they have
exerted and continue to exert, a very pow
erful, beneficial influence. Mr. Hill’s Let
ters to Gen. Grant are universally com
mended. There is a great desire for a
new editio: of the Notes, including the
Grant Letters.
Mr. Stephens preserves his accustomed
reticence as to politics. He is reported,
however, to have said of the Grant Letters,
“ that they are admirable and cannot fail
to be productive of great good.”
Grant seems to be the only Presidential
candidate talked of hereabouts.
A late letter of a correspondent of the
Louisville Conner, under the signature of
“Nabob,” with regard to Mr. Stephens,
is being freely canvassed and condemned
by his friends in no measured terms. —
“Nabob” assumes that “Libra’s” letter to
the New York Times were not only a correct
representation of Mr. Stephens’ views as
therein presented, but intimates that it
was written with his knowledge and con
sent. A number of gentlemen who were
present at Liberty Hall during “Libra’s”
visit, concur in the statement that his let
ter was a compilation from memory, com
prising conversations of two weeks, atvari'
ous times, in which many took part, and
that the impression conveyed by Libra’s
letter is far different from that, produced
by the conversations themselves. I have
the highest authority for saying that, as
reported by Libra, they are disjointed,
; disconnected, and in no case representing
Mr. Stephens’ views fairly, and that they of
ten represent the opinions of others who
took part in the desultory conversations at
Liberty Hall; and that so far from being
1 cognizant of the purpose of the author to
; sketch themfor publication, Mr. Stephens
; was utterly ignorant of the existence of
! Libra’s letter until it appeared as a re-
I print in the columns of the Chronicle <£
Sentinel. A single instance has been par
| ticuiarly noted for its unfairness. Libra
; relates a part of a conversation in relation
to Mr. Davis, and his narrative leaves the
impression that the Southern people dis
i trusted Mr. Davis, and Nabob assumes
that Libra's verson is an authorized at-
tack upon him. The truth is, that
conversation related to Mr. Jefferson
Davis' political record before the war.
Mr. Stephens being appealed to, affirmed
that Mr. Davis was always known as a
Democrat of the Calhoun school, but never
made a speech nor gave any evidence of
being a secessionist up to the time he unit
ed in the well-known dispatch of the Con
gressional delegation to the people of
Mississippi; and that, so far as his
knowledge extended, he did not believe
Mr. Davis ever favored the ultra views of
the Yancey school.
The mining interest in Georgia i- at
tracting increased attention at the North,
and large investments of Northern capital
are being made. A Boston company has
purchased the interest of a Mr. Pitner, in
Habersham county, for the sum of one
1 hundred thousand dollars, aud are working
under the new system with the water
j slums with great success. They have
j recently taken out two lumps of gold,
weighing, respectively, three hundred and
sixty and two hundred and twenty-nine
pennyweights. Avery valuable copper
mine has been discovered in this county,
stituated about three miles from Union
Point. The proprietor ot the land, Mr.
Brightwell, elected between an offer of one
hundred thousand dollars lor one half
i interest- and one half of the net yield, free
'of expense—to accept the latter proposition
; from a New York company, and prepara
tions are now being made to work it
effectively by use of machinery. I have
recently met a geological and topo
graphical engineer, who have been sent
out by a New York Company to make a
survey of the upper districts of South
Carolina and Northern Georgia. He has
travelled on foot, through the allotted por
tion of South Carolina, coming westward
i from the Limestone Springs. He lias iust
: completed a tour through Columbia, Lin
j coin and Elbert, and has some beautiful
j specimens of coal, which he avers he ob
| tained on the banks of the Savannah river,
in Lincoln county, from a small vein, and
proposes to make further examination as
to the value of the vein. The specimens
he possesses are strikingly like tho Eng
lish Cannel Coal.
the; fall trade
promises to be healthy and remunerative.
Country merchants are now daily hasten
ing by scores and hundrds to Northern
markets. It is not thought that purchases
will be heavy. Tho quick transportation
which now obtains promises to alter ma
terially the manner of doing business.
Quite as much will be done iu future by
order as by actual purchases. Anew
feature in the cotton trade is being develop
ed. Considerable sums have been deposit
ed with interior merchants, by New York
ers and Baltimoreans for the control of
cotton to these markets. I have it, upon
good authority, that two hundred thousand
dollars have been thus deposited in Rome,
sixty thousand in Griffin and forty thou
sand in Madison.
A RADICAL ON DIT
Is that payments of officers’ salaries by
the State will be prohibited by Military
authority after the Ist of October. What
will our Governor do next? The
ballot-box—the jury-box—the conduct of
the State officials and their salaries —are
all now under the regulation of his Impe
rial Holiness, the Governor-General of
this Territory. Very recently he removed
the Ordinary of Habersham—a talented
and estimable gentleman by the name of
Irwin—because he said he would rather
vote for a certain respectable colored citi
zen than for one of his elect —a Registrar
of that county. What will ho do next ?
Quien sabel Joe Brown? or Bryant, or
Blodgett ?
That judicature of the Presbyterian
Church of Georgia, known as Hopewell,
is now in session at Madison. The Synod
of Georgia will meet at Atlanta in October
next. M.
Gen. Sweeney.— lt is reported that the
Loyal Leaguers are, to use a strong expres
sion, “turning heaven and earth” to have
this brave soldier removed from the com
mand of this Post. It appears that Gen.
Sweeny has incurred the displeasure of
that delectable party by studiously dis
charging his duties without any regard
to polities and parties and iri such a
way as to meet with the approval of
all respectable people. He has not put
himself out of his way to associate arid
plot with Loyal Leaguers, and it is for
this that he is now being proscribed—
simply for not taking an active part with
Radicals against the respectable people of
this city.
It is to be hoped, however, that Gen.
Pope will pay no attention to these plot
ters of mischief, and that he will rebuke
their impertinent intermeddling in mat
ters which do not come within their scope.
Not content with the civil machinery they
now seek to control the military. Truly
affairs will have come to a pretty pass
when none but Radicals can hold office in
the United States army.
Wc have no serious apprehension, how
ever, as to Gen. H.’s removal; but as the
report of the movement against him comes
in a creditable form, we give it currency
in order to show our people what is going
on behind the “dark lantern curtains.”
Gen. Pope knows too well the powerful
indignation which such an unheard of
proceeding would give rise to throughout
the whole country. The powerful in
fluence which re-instated Gen. Sweeney
in the army, after his return from Canada,
is not to Ik: overlooked. Least of all, will
the President of the United States ever
consent to the removal of a brave and
meritorious soldier because bo is not a
Radical, and does not work “check by
jowl” with Loyal Leagues and Loyal
Leaguers.
Fashion Magazines.— Mr. Geo. A.
Oates has favored us with a copy of
Godoy’s for October, and lias some more
of the sauie sort left.
Mr. P. Quinn has laid on our table
Frank Leslie’s Lady's Magazine, and Ga
zette of Fashion for October.
Mr. J. Pi. Taylor, of Baltimore, has sent
us a copy of the “Little Messenger," a
Paris Magazine, which contains all the
latest fashions in that gay and festive city.
All of the abov*e works arc interesting and
our lady friends will be sure to find some
thing in them to admire.
llaud to Satisfy.—Public curiosity is
hard to satisfy. We have heai*] of a citizen
who dislikes very much to be interrogated
about his private affairs, and who, there
fore, on commencing the erection of a
dwelling, wrote all the particulars in a
legible hand on a sheet of paper, which he
pasted up in a conspicuous place on his
premises, setting forth from whom he
bought his lot, his lumber, his doors, his
windows, blinds, plaster, lime, brick, hair,
etc., the prices paid for each article, the
name of the contractor, the price paid him
for building, etc., until, in fact, bethought
he had answered every question which
could possibly be asked him on the subject.
But lo ! he was mistaken. Public curios
ity was not satisfied. -One day the door
bell rang and a visitor was shown into the
parlor. Our citizen politely welcomed
him, and asked him his business.
‘’Well, sir,” said the visitor, “I have
just read your card on the gate post where
your are building your house, setting fortli
the particulars, and I trust that you will
pardon me for intruding, sir ; but I would
really like to ask justonequestion in regard
to it ?”
“Well, sir, what is it? asked the citizen,
a little impatiently.
“Why, sir, it is this : Are you going to
use wrought iron or cast iron nails .'
Our friend is of the opinion that it is
useless to attempt to satisfy pabliccuriosity.
The thing can’t be done.
Corrupt .Radical Leaders. —The
Chicago Tribune (Rad.), referring to the
corruption of the Republican leaders in
California, makes these significant re
marks:
“These corrupt leaders thought them
selves secure of victory, and when the
returns came in, showing immense gains
everywhere for the Copperheads, we are
told they ‘were surprised.’ Doubtless!
Certain people were surprised some years
ago when the Vigilance Committee com
menced operations.
“These are not the only politicians in
the country that will be ‘surprised,’ some
fine day, to discover that the people have
been watching them.’
Keport of Hr. L. K. BerCkman's,
One of the Committee appointed by the
Agricultural Club of Richmond county,
for the. investigation of the two plants
known as the Lcspidasa Striata and the
Acanthuipernum Xanthioides :
The attention of the members having
been called in a previous meeting to the
rapid invasion of some unknown weed, a
Committee was appointed to examine the
botanical character and the chemical prop
erties of said plants, in regard to their
bearings upon the flora of the country.
Some years ago the undersigned first
noticed this weed (the Lcspidasa), in some
places on the roadsides in Georgia. We
did not give it any particular attention. It
is only since it has disseminated itself so
widely and so rapidly, that it attracted
general attention, and was recently made
the subject of a thorough investigation by
tho Club. Tt seems not to be relished much
by any cattle, although it is said that, in
some localities, cattle will feed upon it.
It is a native of China and Japan, from
whence came so many valuable additions to
our native flora, as, for instance, the eiuna
berry (melia asedarach), the, pawlonln, the
stfrculeum (Japan varnish), the lagrrstra
mium, the camellia, and a host ot flowers
and shrubs. It will be seen by the able
report of Col. Rains that it may prove
not to be altogether a worthless intruder,
as it contains many elements of fertilizing
matter which may eventually prove bene
ficial to be turned under by the plow, as
green sod, for future crops, as is the ease
with clover, cowpeas, Ac., &c.
Considering the structure of the seed,
and its unfitness to be carried at distances
by-the wind, as is the case with the seed
of the thistle, the caraxicam, and other
winged or feathered seeds, wo may well be
surprised to witness its rapid propagation.
Since the time we first saw it it lias taken pos
session of immense tracts of waste land, old
fields, forests and road-sides. The probabil
ity is, that the seed, being minute and light,
it sticks, in wet places and seasons, to
the feet of cattle, sheep and all kind of
animals, and is thus carried to great dis
tanees. It may be also that, being pur
posedly or accidentally consumed by cattle
or birds, (he seed passes, like so many
other seeds, uninjured through the digest
ive apparatus, and is thus deposited at
great distances, and in places most remote.
Having uo means at present to ascertain
the useful or baneful effect of the plant
upon our fields and pastures, where it is
rapidly superseding most of our native
grasses whenever it takes fairly hold of the
soil, we must confine ourselves to tiie history
of its origin, its botanical character,
and its chemical elements.
Not having been able to examine the
flower, which is now fast coming out, and
the seed which ripens in the fall, we wrote
to a friend, Mr. H. W. Ravenel, our dis
tinguished botanist, and wc can do no
better than to avail ourselves of his re
marks :
“Doctor Chapman (says Mr. 11.) in
formed me that he had it from Macon,
Ga., that ho saw it a year or two ago at his
return from the North, first at West I’oint
on the Chattahoochee, thence along the
road to Columbus, aud down the river to
Eufala. It seems to be all through our
Southern States, along tho line of woods,
and near towns and villages. It is a peren
ial plant, and spreads itself by its seeds.
Enclosed is a small specimen, with mature
fruit, collected last fall, that you may see
small disk-like legumes. It is not yet in
cluded in any of our works on Botany. Dr.
Chapman, the author of the Flora of the
Southern States, published just before the
war, to whom I sent specimens a year ago,
did not know its name, but had seen it as
stated above. He supposed it anew
species, iam indebted to Prof. Gray, of
Cambridge, for giving me the name, which
lie was enabled to do by a comparison with
bis East India collections.”
With these remarks we must conclude.
Statisfiod to have called the attention of
the public to this immigrant; in hopes that
experiments maybe tried in order to ascer
tain whether it is good for anything or
only a troublesome intruder. Its wonder
fully rapid propagation, and the fact that
it kills or supersedes our native graminees
wherever it gets possession of the soil,
makes this a subject well worthy of further
aud careful investigation. If found
worthless, one consolation remains, that is,
that it can easily be uprooted and destroyed
by plowing or hoeing. As far as the eye is
concerned, it makes certainly oae of the
fiuest green earpefci that can be found, and
insects seem not to live upon it. We re
marked, on (he contrary, that they seem
to keep away from it. It is perhaps the
only Southern plant that could give us an
idea of
“The green mossy bunk near a murmur
ing brook.”
Such as we find them in England, and
here in the novels only.
The plant next in order is the Acanthus
permini Xanthioides. This plant (of the
Burr family) is a native ol Brazil and
Tropical South America, thorougly
climatizod and domesticated. It matures
its seed, a five edged shape (or star), cluster
of burrs in September and October most
abundantly. It spreads itself also by
rooting at the points (stoloni(erous). It is
an annual plant, . but the seeds arc easily
carried about by attaching themselves
(like the sheep burr) to any trailing ob
ject. The plant should be destroyed be
fore maturing its burrs, by plowing or up
rooting in any way. IVlien the seeds are
left to mature upon the plant, plowing will
only propagate t hem more rapidly.
Jake most all its congcneres, this weed is
of no use whatever, at least at oar present
time, and with our present knowledge of
nature’s deeply hidden secrets ; but we
may well doubt whether that family will
ever be found to bo anything but a great
nuisance.
Its origin maybe traced to the factories —
Richmond, Bellvillc, Ac.—where first we
saw it, about the year 1859. It was then
confined to the environs of the factories.
Three or four years later we found it at
Richmond Hill, and at present icis in some
places along tho Miiledgeville Road and in
sundry spots where it has been carried by
the animals or vehicles. But as its mode
of propagation is comparatively slow, its
progress may easily bo arrested, and wo
believe that for the present it deserves no
further mention. L. E. Berckmans.
Number of Persons Excluded from
the Benefits of the Amnesty Procla
mation. —-The Northern papers are specu
lating about the number of persons except
ed by the recent amnesty proclamation of
the President. Upon inquiry, we find that
there is no satisfactory data upon which to
found a definite calculation; but a reasona
ble conjecture may be. ventured. In the
first place, the President and Vice-Presi
dent (Messrs. Davis and Stephens), and
the “Heads of Departments,’ and the Con
federate Government, are unequivocally
excluded. Os the latter wc learn that
there were, from first to last, thirteen in
ail, of whom five have been specially par
doned at the instance of distinguished
Radicals—namely: Messrs. Reagan, Mcm
minger, Mallory, Trenkolmand Davis, the
latter appointed Attorney-General near
the close of the war. About twenty Gov
ernors of States, also expressly excluded,
remain unpardoned. Five General.-,
namely : Lee, Cooper, Johnston, Beaure
gard, and Bragg—ten Lieutenant-Gener
als, and about thirty Major-Generals, are
excluded from amnesty by the express
terms of the proclamation, and remain
unpardoned individually. If the language
employed in the proclamation, however,
shall be held to include brigadiers with the
brevet rank of major-general, the number
of the military exclusions will be largely
increased—probably to the extent ol sever
al hundred. There were hut three admi
rals in the Coniederate navy —one ofwhom
(Forrest) is now dead—and no rank be
tween that of admiral and captain existed.
The persons designated as “agents” of the
Confederate Governments “in foreign
States and countries” will reach, perhaps,
two hundred, if it shall be held to em
brace other than those accredited to Gov
ernments abroad, as it doubles- will, there
being no other construction which would
admit of excluding particularly obnoxious
persons without specially naming them.
We take it for granted, however, * that in
the mass of these cases special pardons
will now be granted upon application, as a
matter of course. The above comprehend
all those excluded of the first class, and
they will not probably number practically
over one hundred, if so many.
Os the number of those excluded as be
longing to the second and third classes,
nothing like an accurate .estimate can, of
course, be made. It is presumable, how
ever, that nearly all who are embraced in
the second, that Is, those who are chargea
ble with treating prisoners improperly,
have been either tried and convicted or
acquitted, or are held to hall, and are, oon’
sequently, included in the third. It is
safe, therefore, if this supposition bo cor
rect, to inier that but few will be exclud
ed under the second and third classes.
Upon the whole, alter the disposition of
the applications for special pardon now on
file, which wc hope will be done in the
spirit which dictated the proclamation, it is
not believed that the entire number of the
excluded will finally reach beyond a few
hundred. —National huMigen cer.
Several children have of late been
drowned in the sewers ofCbicago.
NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 38.
Tue Duty of the Hour—No. 3.
Wayerly Hall, September, 1867.
Gen. A. R. Wright:
Respected Sir—l resume my pen and
continue the argumentsm ad hominem.
We are now in the third year since the
termination of hostilities, and the United
States Government to-day is in a more
embarrased condition than it was at the
time of the surrender. Politically, tho
public mind is more unsettled, “not know
ing what a day may bring forth finan
cially we are becoming more embarrassed;
our public debt, instead of decreasing, is
yearly growing larger. Gold is ap
preciating in value, and business, ol all
kinds, which, at the time of tho collapse
of the Confederacy, suprisingly to us of
j the South, was brisk and flourishing at
i the North, lias become almost stagnant.
These unwise acts not only affect the
j whites but they have a correspondingly in-
I jurious influence upon the blacks. Those
yankec emissaries, sent South to convert
the “heathen in his blindness,” shout
loudly to the negro and tell them we
fought for you and freed you, and now we
intend you shall vote and vote for our
party,. and thus help to keep us and our
party in power that we may live on “the
l’at of tho land.” They don’t tell the poor,
ignorant negro that it was not the inten
tion of the Government, in the beginning of
the war, to emancipate the slaves—they
don’t give to the negro the avow
ed and oft repeated policy and
declarations of the Government, that the
“war was not waged to deprive the South
of her rights, or in any way to interfere
with her domestic institutions, and that
emancipation to the negro was only prom
ised in the course of events, when Eng
land and France demanded it. Emanci
pation to the negro or recognition of the
Confederacy was the alternative. I don't
state this as a positive sact —for we of the
South, of course, were not kept posted as
to the actions and correspondence between
this Government and the European {low
ers—-but this was the general accredited re
port at the time, and received as true. Is
the negro well satisfied that the right to
vote is a boon conferred ‘ Are they cer
tain that any practical good will result to
them from it ? Go ask the free negroes of
those lew Northern States where they are
allowed to vote, of what benefit to them
has it been, lias it made them any more
contented, more prosperous or more hap
py? The Wilsons, Kelleys and Bryants
and Frenches will tell the negro that the
Northern masses, and the Southern man,
too, of the Radicalpcrsuasion, are their best
friends, and that their old masters and
protectors, through long years, are their
enemies. Friends, indeed! friends only in
theory, but when you come to test that
friendship, their legislative acts and their
financial operations with the negro are
downright swindles. They take good care
not to tell the negro that emancipation has
brought them but little good at present
and prospectively and a great deal of injury.
By the bad management of the party in
power, gold and silver is scarce in the
country—by their unwise policy, hoavy
taxes are imposed on everything the negro
eats, drinks or wears. They keep up, in tmie
of peace, a large standing army, which is
eating up our substance, requiring heavier
and still more burdensome taxes upon us to
iced, clothe and pay the soldiers when there
is really no necessity for it; and, finally, ,to
culminate and concentrate their hate and
sectionalism, they have levied this tax of
5 cents per pound on cotton, thus dimin
ishing the fund out of tohich the labor is
to he paid. It is in reality a tax upon
labor I The negro who rents his little
patch of land and makes one bale of cotton
ol‘ 400 pounds, has to pay, besides the city
tax, storage and commissions for selling,
$lO, ibr this Federal tax. These are facts
worthy of the consideration of both races,
for they affect injuriously both classes, the
labor as well as tho capital. Those of out
citizens who are not producers and not im
mediately (for all are more or less) affected
by the operation of this cotton tax upon
their labor, but who live upon a division of
the “loaves and fishes," who havo fat
Federal offices, or expect or are working to
get them, “may bend the supple hinges of
the kuee, that thrift may follow fawning,”
but the honest masses will reject this
new fist of loyalty and swear eternal
hostility to these Radical measures.
It is the great wooden horse filled with
armed men. and loaded with missiles for
our destruction, I caution you, my coun
trymen, open uot the gates to this wooden
horse. ’Tis Pandora's Box with all evils,
and without even hope on tho bottom.
1 will make this iand a I’nndcmonium in
a carnival of blood. But if those terrible
scenes and tragic events arc to bo our por
tion, in the name of God, let it never bo I
said of us, as a people, that we “reaped, I
the whirlwind” bemuse we, “sowed the j
wind'. 1 ' that the. thorn in our side is of th ■■ 1
tree we. ourselves planted. It has torn vs \
and ice, bleed unto (b ath —for the “wages of j
sin is death. ’ J .ot us suffer and hoar our i
heavy inflictions like men, and, if need be, j
let us die by the truth and in defence of j
our honor, i
Taste not this apple of discord ! It is
held temptingly to your lips by the serpent
of Radicalism, and you are told to cat
and live. My countrymen, the day you eat
of that forbidden fruit—forbidden by (lie
Constitution of our common country—for
bidden by the local laws of Our State—
forbidden by everything dear and sacred
to human rights, human laws, human
honor, human judgment, and human
destiny—forbidden by the President of the
United States, and which has evoked the
condemnation of all mankind at homo and
abroad, save and except the party which
originated and propagated the fraud. I
say, the day you cat of that forbidden fruit
you die—die politically—die socially—die
the death of a traitor, and you will go
down to your “graves unwept, unhonorod,
and unsung.”
Let vs resist and resist to the last, and
all the time resist, these wooing* to ah
trayal of our country . ’Tis the Siren song
whose music will lure you to your own deg
radation and destruction. Spurn their
advances and treat with contempt their
offers as you would those of a Benedict
Arnold ! ! Then you will leave behind
you a name that will shine on tho pages of
the future historian, while those of our
oppressors and who prove recreant to
hornor, to laws and to public trusts, will
be damned to perpetual infamy. They de
serve a high niche in the temple of fame
be=ide that ambitious Greek who won an
immortality of infamy by burning the
temple of Ephesus. The Persian monarch
inflicted upon the dead body of Leonidas
every indignity that bate could devise or
fiendish malignity invent. But was the
noble, patriotic Spartan martyr degraded
by these Radical insults? What says
history? What is the judgment of mankind
upon Xerxes, who had been, in his day,
the commander of the largest army that
AYas ever marshaled for a deadly conflict ?
Xerxes is remembered only for his base
ness, his meanness, his cowardice, and his
final retreat, while the historian and the
poet chant loudly and gloriously the patriot
ism ’of that little band that fell at
Thermopylae, preferring death to a violation
of the laws of their country. Lot the pros
trate body of the South be beaten with scox
pirmstripes by an irresponsible, miserable
and malignant majority, but by the graves
of our noble braves who fell in defence of
our rights and constitutional liberty, “and
who sleeps the sleep that knows no wak
ing,” from Gettysburg to the Ohio, let us
not, in this trying hour of our country’s
travail, turn to these earnest oj names
nor bring injury and infamy upon our
selves and our country.
“Let our aim be our country, God and
truth ; and, though the storms may rage
all around us, w- will be sustained by an
unfaltering truth, and have that peace
wkica is above all earthly dignities, a still
and quiet conscience.” Let us standby
the Constitution. ’Tis to us the Ark of the
Covenant. 'I Im palladium of all our hopes.
Bet that be abrogated and where is the
sunty for life, liberty ami property iu this
land !
“Whilestands the coliseum Romo shall
stand,
When tails the coliseum Rome shall fall;
And when Home falls—tho world.'’
Let us regard in the same light, and
with the same appreciativeness, the Con
stitution.
While stands the Constitution, the coun
try shall stand. When falls the Consti
tution the country shall fall. And Avhen
falls the country farewell to human liberty
and free government on this continent.
Dean Swift, who was a statesman as tvell
as Divine, said that in every Government
there Averc two classes of men . those who
always believed in and hoped for tho very
best, and those who always despaired of
any good and feared the worst, and that
the truth was about half way between the
tAVO. And such is my opinion in reference
to the future of this country.
While I cannot and do not lielieve the
once good <lays of the Republic will ever
be seen again, yet 1 Jo believe (history
warrants the belief) that if we are true to
ourselves, true to our country, true to the
Constitution and to the laws passed in con
formity to that once sacred, but now vio
lated instrument, out of the upheaving;
the lava and the flood, the turmoil the
Avreek and the baptism inblood, the debris,
the fire and the sword, like a phoenix we
Avill yet rise from the ashes, and, though
faint and weary, we will gather strength.
im the hope of triumph, and finally grasp
j with the determined spirits of patriots the
j lost sceptre, and in the wand of in magic
j power restore the Constitution, and with its
reclamation wdi follow pcacq and prosperi
ty to the land and tuition. For this tho-e of
us who are foremost in this effort to suppress
and put down thi- Uadieai dominate a and
accursed assumption of power, may have
to suffer yet a little longer, in their mad
ness and fury, their hate of “ F bids” and
their iove for aggrandizement, some may lie
brought to the block, the gibbet or the
guillotine, but martyrdom, my countrymen,
is far preferable to traitorism. "The
blood of the martyrs was the seed of the
church.”
Such laws,” said an Irish orator,
“were sown like dragons’ teeth in my
country, but, thank (lod, the ' harvest
has been armed men. ” in our ease it can
not produce armed men, for we have
not the arms, nor any of the materials
of war, but above this and every oi her con
sideration, we have pledged our honors
citizens of the United States not to take
up arms against that Government, and,
faithful to that pledge, we will observe it.
But the question arises just here, and it is
a pertinent one, and not at all impertinent
even in me, a private citir.cn, to propound,
and I will do if even at the risk of offend
ing old Thad Steven , and I know it will
not hurt him as much as the burning ol
his mill did. The question is, Are not
the Radicals usurpers of the Govern
ment? and are they not wielding its vast
machinery in entire disrespect or the (lon
stitution and of all laws, and running it
simply as a party machine ? Another
question thuja follows, Would war upon that
party mean war upon the Government, Z
I answer no. Opposition to the illegal,
unjust and ruinous enactments of a 'mad,
fanatical junto is not disloyalty to tin:
Government. Agood deal is said about this
word “loyalty," and very different mean
ings given to it. Some say by it is
meant alb those who participated,in the
late rebellion or gave aid and comfort to (lie
Confederacy. If that is its meaning, how
few of us herein Georgia are “loyaL” All,
with a very few exceptions, are under the
ban. If this is the true interpretation, how
did Gov. Brown have his disability re
moved? lie certainly was disloyal. The
capture of the United States Arsenal at
Augusta and Fort Pulaski are in attesta
tion of this assertion.
flow comes it that he is “loyal’’ now, and
j not only “loyal,” but a great High Priest
| indoctrinate—a teacher and a prophet !Is
Radicalism the antidote? Tim remedy is
now far worse than the disease. Better he
“disloyal’’ a thousand years, and never
get in sight of an office, than have it re
moved by this l ))os trie, Dead Ufa poison
ous exotic. My interpretation ot the
word “disloyal," and 1 think that is the
range given to it in the reconstruction plan
of the President, is all those who do not
accept, in good faith, the present condition
of things, and who do not consider them
selves citizens of the United States under
the amended Constitution are “disloyal;’*
and the converse of this is also true, those
are “loyal” who subscribe to the eman
cipation of the negroes, the invalidity of
the Secession Ordinance, the abolition of
the war debt, and certain civil rights pre
scribed for the negro. If this is t lie moan
ing of the words “ loyalty and disloyalty"
at Washington oity—and it should be i! it ,
is not,, for it certainly is the rational inter
pretation, justified and palpable by all the
surroundings- -I say we have loyal men
from the mountains to the seaboard, al
most a unit. I say, then, stand by a prin
ciple—uphold tlm course of constitutional
liberty, though the Heavens fall. Perse
cution nor death will not bring odium on a
good work; tho principles will stand
though tho advocates may fall. When
Stephen was stoned to death amidst the
bootings of the multitude, did it make in
famous the cause of Christ? "When Ridly
and Latimer expired at the stake, when the
power and hate of the many overruiedand.
trampled under foot the.resolute few, did
the cause ofreformation come into contempt?
When Emmett ascended a British scaffold
and died the death of a felon, did it degrade
and suppress the cause of Irish liberty ?
These- trials and liardshjps, sad ordeals and
sufferings, “pains and penalties,” always
follow in the train of the great Moloch of
war. War is a great calamity to any. m.
tion. “It is .justified by the
progress qf -events, and unavoidable from
the oppression of those in power, but it is
always aUouded wi'li great demoralization,
heart-readings and sackcloth and ashes,’ ”
Sorrow is the principal fruit which warfare
must ever produce. You may descant upon
glory and martial prowess till you have
exhausted the vocabulary of praiseworthy
epithets—yon may sing paouhs of praise
and shout hosannas, but this sad tvubh is
always prominent and existing, tout, with
the “laurel is ever entwined tho i/iouriiin;/
cyprtss.’’ “Vv hat can't be cured, must, be
endured.” For the evils now desolating
opr land there is, perhaps, no prerent cure.
Tito body politic will have to submit to
them for yet a season longer. Tho Remo
cratie party should, however, organise in
every Stato andin every county, apd adopt
a line of policy in complete and active an
tagonism to tho mad schemes and hellish
designs of these roaring lions who are go
ing about seeking whatever they can dc
vour. Let us lie calm and collected and do
nothing rash, but simply nurture and sus
tain, as far as we can, the civil government
of the States, and oppose,by vote, by speech
and by action,' these Military Bills in their
separate features, and their* tout cnsi nilh.
Like a patient with Typhoid Fever,
for which no remedy is known,
to tho profession, wisdom and sound no di
c'd philosophy ami practical experience
tells the physician husband the energies of
the system, hu careful to use no dcbilita
ting remedies, but try to so conduct the
case as that the system, or constitution,
will outlast the disease, and the patient
ultimately recover by the yielding of the
disease to the recuperative powers ol' the
system. So in relation to the body politic
of the States. It’is languishing under a
wasting arid polluting disease and there is
‘no immediate remedy known to the pro
fession. The President is without help
and powerless. The Supreme Court is
inadequate to the Occasion. “There is no
balm in Gilead, nophysican there,’’and we
have only to “bide our time.” I said (lie
President was powerless—true, and by ids
own unwise action has he placed himself
in this lamentable difficulty, by trying “to
run with the hare and the hounds,” but
the hare has got away from him and the
hounds never eca.se to bay him and con
tinually to annoy hint. But late indica
tions from.the Feifcra! Capitol have shown
that the President is now wincing under
these wholesale insults. These gad-flys
have so annoyed him that he is waking up
from his deep sleep, and overboard goes
Stattfon—the arch-demon of discord in
the Cabinet—Sheridan, the noble and
willing successor of spoon-stealing But!. ;
and Sickles, of late black stud notoriety,
whose administration was a tyranny hither
to unknown in republics, -Stop not, Mr.
President, with these removals, if you arc
acting upon principle—that of removals
fur usurpation of power, and unwar
rantable interference with civil govern
ments. You are not yet through the cata
logue, at least we down in Georgia don’:
think so, and wc think we are just a
clever as Carolinian.-, and the Louisianahus.
Georgians, preserve the Constitution of
the United States and of your own State
all you can, and suiter not Radical quai-hcxy
and trickery to Uniter with its life-blood.
Our only hope is, that the disease will
after awhile wear itself out, and the patient
be left tho vi% MvJlicatrix nature, the re
cuperative powers of the system.
Adieu for the present.
Respectfully,
H. R. Oasky.
The Republican Part'; Down on the
Foreigners. Old Ik-n Wade, whom
! the Republicans wish to make President in
the place of Mr. Johnson, endorses the
i language of the Republican candidate for
Lieut. Governor in Ohio, and said, in a
! recent speech, ofa class of what he termed
ignorant voters :
“Theytome herefrom a foreign country,
and we give them the privilege to vote
when they know no more than the horse
they drive. ; 1 * If you will take tho
poor Irishmen or other foreigner . who
j pomes here and knows nothing of youi
institutions—it you will permit him to
| vote after five years’ residence, then L
I insist upon the ame right for this
Other class of per, on*. ” Asa
mass, in my judgment, they [the negroes |
ate Better qualified to diseharve* their
duties uuder this Government than iff
great mass, equal to them in numbers,
that we ha\e always permitted to A-ote.
I am glad to say that tlie.-e
people [negroes] whom your Legislature
has referred it for you to say whether
they shall be voters or not. are im tdeh/
above the class [foreigners) l have alluded
to, iu all that intelligence that qualities
nun to vote.' ’
The Omaha Republican has authority
for stating that the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad, which was heavily interested in
.the Kansas Pacific Railroad, has withdrawn
all its interest from it and trail ferred it to
the Missouri and Mississippi Railroads,
through Avliich to make connection with
the Union Pacific proper.