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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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UKNBY MOORE,
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PATRICK WALsII, Associate Editor.
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Judge Augustas Reese and On, Rope.
Our Greenesboro correspondent M.”
informed our readers a few days since of a
conflict between His Honor Judge August
us Reese and Gen. Pope. The official
correspondence shows that this conflict has
culminated in prohibiting Judge Reese
from exercing the functions of his office.
Hen. Pope s orders, requiring all juries
hereafter impannelled to be drawn from the
lists of registered voters, are, in the opin
ion of Judge Reese, violative of the laws j
of Georgia and the State and Federal j
Con.-titutions. His conscience, his duty ;
to the Slate and the Court would not per
mit him to become instrumental in cany
ingout these orders. In a tone of lofty
integrity and judicial purity, which will
command the admiration and approval of
every honest man in Georgia, this noble
defender of the majesty of the law and the
rights of the people, protests and refuses
obedience to General Pope's unconstitu
tional edicts. In consequence he is bus- I
IKjnded from exercising the functions of 1
his oflico. General Pope presumes to
derive his authority from the Military
Bills, but Judge Reese’s searching analysis
shows up the folly ot his pretended war
rant. Even in these unconstitutional
measures there is no authority, either ex
pressed or implied, which gives the District j
commander the right to exclude a citizen
from the jury box because he chooses to
exercise a privilege accorded him, to wit:
cither to vote or not to vote. Rut, as
Jndgo Reese basso admirably exploded
the omnipotence claimed for the Radical
Reconstruction Rills, it is unnecessary to
refer further, at this time, to Geu. Pope's
powerful arguments—the bayonet and his
unwonted assumption of authority.
The Theatre. —We have beetiinformed
that Mr. Harry Watkins has leased Con
cert Hall for a dramatic season. It is to
be hoped that he will bring a good com
pany with him, and give a series of attract
ive entertainments.
SnciDK. —Mr. Michael O’Neil, of this
city, committed suicide by taking lauda
num on Saturday last, lie was a man of
property and kept a bar-room on Rridge
Row. lie was a quiet, peaceable man,
but, under some unhappy influence, com
mitted tho latal deed, which loft a widowed
and afflicted family to mourn his loss.
Coronor Rhodes held an inquest on the
body of the deceased, and the verdict of
tho Jury was in accordance with the
facts.
Removal of General Pope. —A
Washington special dispatch, of the 18th,
says: Ex-Mayor. Withers, of Mobile,
accompanied by a delegation of Ala
bamians, is now urging the removal of
General Pope. They argue that the
removal of Sheridan Was prompted by a
policy which absolutely demands the dis
placement of their military ruler.
(Dry Goods. —Mr. James Miller has
just returned with a splendid stock, con
sisting of every article known to the Dry
Go.sis line, all of whioh wore putuhasod by
himself from first hands. Identified with
that peculiar liuo of business for so long
that our memory ruuneth not to the con
trary. he is known to the people trading
with our city as a merchant of sterling in
tegrity. His goods, like himself, are first
class. lie has every style and assortment,
suitable for all tastes and conditions, and is,
therefore, prepared to accommodate tho
most fastidious as well as other people
“ who arc no quite so much so." Our
city readers, the ladies, will be sure to
call at Mr. Miller's during the Week. To
our country friends we say be sure, don’t
fail to visit the Dry Goods store at Miller's
Corner—tho only one of the kind in town.
Something Always llegi irkti.—Peo
ple cun never do without crockery and
glasswafo. Wo know of no place in
Augusta where a greater variety and a
better quality can be procured than at the
establishment of Messrs. Mosher, Thomas
A Sehaub, who are always supplied with
English and French china, Bohemian,
French and American glassware, lamps,
etc. The country trade will be supplied
at the lowest rates. We, therefore,
direct the attention of our readers in the
interior to the claims of this house.
in this connection wo republish the
following in reference to the ware of the
Southern Porcelain Company, of which
Messrs. Mosher, Thomas A Sehaub are
Agents :
Fink “Kaolin Ware.—We saw, yes
terday, at the store of Messrs. 0. P. & It.
Ellis, a varied assortment of crockery
ware manufactured at thn Kaolin Works
in k'ou.li Carolina. It will please all
housekeepers or dealers who may exam
ine it. The ware is very white and highly
polished, and has the ring denoting solid
ity and durability. No prettier ware of
this description is manufactured any
where. It i> equal in all respects to the
"Granite," and we understand can be
bought by dealers from the manufacturers
at least twenty-five per cent, cheaper than
the so-called Granite ware can be bought
in New York. Surely, when a Southern
made article has to recommend it an
equality or superiority in all respects to a
Northern or foreign commodity, and is at
the same time considerably cheaper, and
can be obtained at less cost for freight,
parties dealing in such articles will lose no
time in ordering from the home manufac
turers.
Ihe Kaolin ware is fully equally iti de
sign aud style to any other, and embraces
vessels of every kiud coming under the
bead "crockery. — Columbus Enquirer.
( or ntt Court. —The following persons I
won' sentenced by ,1 udgo McLaws in this
Court Tuesday morning :
The State vs. Henry McCoy, simple lar- j
cony, chain gang for three months.
Ihe State vs. John Williams, larceuv
from the house, chain gang for three
months.
The State vs. Pinkney Johnson, simple !
larceny, chain gang for three months, aud
SSO fine, or in default of payment of fine, '
three mouths additional.
The State t». IK'nry Jarvey, attempt at j
larceny from the person, ehaiu gang ten
days. ■*
The State vs. Gabriel Moore and James
Holcombe, chain gang one mouth, and S3O
fine each, or in default of payment of fine
two months additional.
This Court does a very large amount of
business, thereby greatly relieving the
Superior Court ; and the assiduity and
promptness with which Judge McLaws
discharges his duties entitle him to the
thanks of the entire community. The
officers of the Court are also entitled to
credit for the faithful discharge of their
official duties.
A Wise Saying.— Socrates was a wise
man. and said many excellent things which
are worthy of being treasured up. Among
others he has left the following wise saying
on tbe subject of Temperance:
“There is no difference between Knowl
edge and Temperance, for he who knows
what is good embraces it, who knows what
is bad avoids it, is learned and temperate.
But they who know very well what ought
to be done, and yet do quite the reverse,
are ignorant and stupid.”
A lesson of wisdom is that worthy of
practice,
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Emigration Societies. —The Macon
(Ga. ) Telegraph contains proceedings of a
meeting of planters of several counties for
the purpose of organizing societies to im
port foreign labor. They seem to be in
earnest about the matter, having appoint
ed an agent to proceed forthwith to Eu
rope, to secure the labor in time to pitch
the next crop. Major Pendleton, who has
been selected for that purpose, writes to
the Macon Telegraph that parties in other
portions of the State who wish to avail
themselves of his'services can address him
at Savannah up to the 25th, and at New
iork, care of Wm. Bryce & Cos., to the
30th, and he will respond to all such let
ters.
The meeting gave expression to one
opinion in relation to hiring labor that
should be adopted as a rule throughout
thu South, and that was to employ no man
; who bad been discharged for misconduct,
j but that all persons seeking employment
should have a recommendation from form
er employers. In the North no man or i
woman can find employment without the ;
proper certificate as to reliability and ■
trustworthiness.
Fall and Winter Drv Goods.—Now
is the time for dealers and city consumers
to make their selection of goods for fall '
wear. There is nothing like being in tho j
fashion, and this cannot be done without
procuring the latest styles of dress goods, j
Our neighbor, Mr. Wm. C. Jones, at
Clark’s old corner, has received a full line
of dry and fancy dress goods for the fall
and winter trade. Acknowledged by alias
being possessed of a refined taste, having j
always an eye to the beautiful, customers j
may rest assured of finding in his splendid |
stock all the latest and finest qualities of 1
goods.
Highly Important.— Below we have ;
the pleasure of laying before our readers j
an important communication, which speaks !
for itself. Three loud, long cheers for re- j
construction and restoration.
Hd’qbh Military District, ]
Bureau of Registration, >
Atlanta, Ga., Sent. 23, 1867. j
Editor Atlanta Ncv; Era: —Slß: Be
low you have the consolidated returns of
the registered voters for the State of
Georgia:
Whites 95,303 ■
Colored 95,417
Total ... 188,720
I will commence in a few days to furnish
you a statement of registered voters by
counties and districts.
Very respectfully,
E. Hulbert,
Sup’t Registration State of Georgia.
1 New Era , 24 th.
From this exhibit nearly eighteen thou
sand of the most respectable and prominent
citizens of Georgia have been disfran
chised. This has been the work of the
Radicals at the North, but the “lopping
off” has been done by the “whippers in"
and “strikers of the ring" at home. But
time, it is said, rights all things, and wc
hope to live to see the day when this great
wrong will be righted.
Important to Masters and Shippers
to Foreign Forts—Change in the
Form op Outward Manifests.—Collec
tor J. Johnson, of the Port of Savannah,
has received the following circular, which
will be strictly enforced in all cases, on and
after the first day of October next:
Treasury Department, 1
Bureau cf Statistics, Sept. 12, 1867. j
Sir: Herewith are enclosed to you
blank forms of Outward Manifests for
Shipper and Master (or Conductor) re
spectively, which, on and after the first
day of the month succeeding the receipt by
you of this communication, you are hereby
instructed to use, pursuant to Articles 119,
120 and 121, Treasury Regulations, 1857,
and in lieu of the blank form, the use of
which is enjoined therein. You are also
instructed, on after the date above men
tioned, to refuse to grant . clearances for
outward bound merchandize, unless the
manifests shall, and according to said en
closed form, specify respectively the kinds i
and quantities ot the articles shipped, and I
the value of the total quantity of each
kind of article, and shall contain a full,
just and true account of all tho articles
shipped, according to their actual cost or !
tho values which they truly bear at the
port and time of exportation—and shall
be duly verified by oath or affirmation.
These regulations are expected to be
strictly enforced iu all cases.
I am, sir, yours respectfully,
Ai.ex. Delmar, Director.
Approved. 11. McCulloch, Secretary of
the Treasury.
The Virginia Whig is trying to be rec
onciled to the effects of the war. The
editor says, with reference to the future of
that State :
It may yet turn out that the war, dis
astrous as its effects wore and still arc,
will prove a future blessing to us. Our
servitude to old ideas, to political, social
and industrious routines and formulas lias
been broken. We already discern the
symptomsof a general quickening. Poverty
is a spur to effort. Deprived of the labor
which we once owned, wc are becoming
accustomed to rely upon our own energies
and resources. The intellect that formerly
expended itself upon political subjects, or
recreated itself in abstract exercises, will
now bo devoted to industrial pursuits.
With scarcely anything left us but our
lands, necessity compels us to uiako the
most of them. We already begin to see
how we can turn them to more profit than
we have ever done by cultivating crops
hitherto neglected. Not only is our soil
adapted to the great staples ot agriculture,
but to almost every kind of production.
The time is not distant when Virginia will
be as famed for her vineyards, her
orchards, her cranberry crops and her
truck products as she is for her tobaoeo.
Recorder's Court.— Tuesday was a j
lively day in the Recorder’s Court, and !
justice took off the bandage lrom her eyes,
unsheathed her sword and prepared to \
weigh the culprits in the balance, where- ;
in, alas! too many were found wanting, I
and had to pay the difference in Uncle '
Samuel’s verdant hued currency.
Two parties up for transacting business ;
without a license, 134th section, were dis- I
missed, the Recorder bolding that a shoe
maker, a barber, or any other laboring
man working only for himself, and hiring
no operatives, is not required to pay license j
—no more, in fact, than a laborer in the
streets, railroads, or public highways 1
would be. So these parties rejoiced ; but j
three others who kept stores and did not
take out licenses, did not rejoice, instead :
thereof they were required to pay $5 and
costs, each vender payiug for their licenses.
Three other cases under this head were !
1 continued.
One loth section ease, running a fence
J over the street line, and failing to get the j
i Surveyor s certificate, was required to 1
eomply with the ordinance and pay the
cost.
Then came the disorderly brigade. 18 th ;
1 section, white and colored, men and ■
women, who had been acting disorderly. ■
Three paid $2 50 and costs each ; two
j $5 and costs each; one $7 50 and costs;
I and one $lO and costs: five were dismiss
! ed : and five continued.
! The brigade was dismissed until
| further orders ; and the Court adjourned.
i Financial Affairs in New York
The New York correspondent of the Phila
phia Ledger writes from New York on
j Thursday, as follows :
| “This has been a bluish sort of a day in
j financial circles, as you will see from the
! various facts grouped below. Some addi
-1 ticnal failures are reported, but not on
! sufficiently reliable authority to justify
specific reference to them. Steady-going,
j clear-headed men deprecate the loose talk
! in the partizan prints about repudiation,
I and have no doubt that that talk, as well
i as the scandalous allegations against the
! Treasury in Dunbar’s Globe is at the bot
i tom of the depreciation of our bonds in
I London, reported by the cable. The pre
i vailing feeling all round at the close of
j the day was one of uncertainly and dis-
I trust.
Our Metropolis.
| The city of Savannah has shaken off
the Rip Vanwinkle way of doing business,
which characterized it, in years gone by—
that was the old fbgyism which sat
like an incubus, weighing down and killing
off her great arteries of trade, while other
i Southern cities were marching on in com-
I mereial importance and growing rich at
i her expense. But this is no longer the
i case. The condition of affairs has chang
-1 cd and Savannah has changed with it.
■ Cities which were then in the van, mustnow
|be content to follow apace behind. With
, the exception of New Orleans, Savannah
is, to-day, the leading commercial city
j South of the Potomac. The evidence of
this growing commercial importance and
prominence, as a leading business centre,
is found in the present extent and prospect
ive growth of hew merchant marine, which
is, after all, the true barometer of the com
mercial standing of all sc-aports.
The products of Florida, Georgia and
Alabama, arc attracted by a system of
liberal and expeditious freight and travel
to Savannah by rail and thence North by i
steam. The same admirable system
enables the planter and merchant in the
interior of the States named to purchase I
his goods at tho Nurthand have them trans- '
ported direct at a reasonable tariff of
charges without being harrassed by ship- j
menus and freights at various points be- j
fore the good ; reach their point of destina- j
tion.
As an evidence of tho business now be
ing done by Savannah we refer to the fac*-
that there are no less than five distinct
lines in operation, to wit: one to Balti
more, one to Philadelphia and three to
New York. In addition to these lines,
which one would suppose adequate to a
large carrying trade, another line has been
established to New York. This is the
“Black Star Line,” formerly a popular one
between those points. Messrs Octavus
Cohen & Cos., enterprising shipping mer
chants, have been instrumental in re-es
tablishing this old link in the commercial
chain. VVe call attention to their adver
tisement in this issue. All enterprises hav
ing in view the interest of our chief seaport
deserve the support of the people of Geor
gia. That competition is tho life of trade
is an old but true maxim, and the business
men of Savannah are going ahead on it
and rapidly building up the commercial
interests of their city. Keep the ball of
progress marching on, men of Savannah.
It is tangible and profitable reconstruction.
Ttic Maryland Election.
Whenever the people of the Southern
States are left untrammelcd, the party of
mushroom growth will die out as sudden
ly as it came into existence iu these States.
Bayonets never made true converts, either
in matters of religion or politics. These
are the instruments of despotism, and a
high-toned people will never accept the
arbitrament of tho sword They may sub
mit and accept the situation for expediency
sake, but they will never freely accept the
solution thus arrived at and the obnoxious
terms thereby imposed.
The war has not changed the fundament
al law—the Constitution—but the Radical
party has, in a great measure,, perverted
that instrument to subserve party pur
poses. By an unwarranted and des
potic assumption of power it has ex
cluded these States from the Union,
and placed them in the condition of
conquered provinces with irresponsible
satraps to ride over and trample upon
the rights of the States and people. The
bayonet, the bloody instrument of tyrants,
has been invoked to force submission to
Radical reconstruction. Tho people have
no alternative but to submit. It vrouki bet
folly to resist. But with the experience
of tho past—the lamp of history shining
down through the ages illumining its pages
—there can be no citizen of intelligence,
no matter how blinded by partizan feelings,
that can hope for a permanent settlement
of present difficulties on the bases ol what
are known as tho Military Reconstruction
Bills. It would be contrary to all law, and
even the plainest dictates',of common sense,
to expect the Southern people to accept
folly to resist. But with the experience
of the past—the lamp of history shining
down through the ages illumining its pages
—there can be no citizen of intelligence,
no matter how blinded by partizan feelings,
that can hope for a permanent settlement
of present difficulties on the bases ol what
are known as the Military Reconstruction
Bills. It would be contrary to all law, and
even the plainest dictates',of common sense,
to expect the Southern people to accept
the proposed terms. Doubtless they will
be forced upon us. The people will sub
mit, but the submission will be only tem
porary. No law not founded on expediency
and justice can be permanent; no settle
ment of the present difficulties not equita
ble to both parties can be permanent.—
The people of the South will repudiate,
whenever an opportunity presents itself,
the unconstitutional enactments of a seo
tional Radical Congress.
The people of Maryland wore at one
time in a condition analogous to ourselves.
The military had usurped all power, and
the civil authority was in the hands of men
who were only too willing on all occasions
to do the work of the dominant party.
The whole machinery of the State had
passed into the hands of the Radicals.
Truly, the despot’s heel was on thy neck,
Maryland! But the people submitted. It
was madness to resist. They suffered as
!we are now suffering. A sectional Radical
party, backed by Radical bayonets, usurped
all authority, all law, all power —and plun
dered and trampled on the rights of the
people. The Radicals of Maryland played
the same role as the Radicals of Georgia.
They abused the people and, by a species
of legalized robbery, legislated away their
money for self-aggrandizement and party
j purposes.
But how different is the situa
tion of affairs in Maryland now! —
So soon as the Radical pressure was
relieved the people re-asserted their con
stitutional rights, and dashed the “un
clean things which usurped power from
their places. Maryland is, to-day, free j
from the curse of Radicalism. Her new
Constitution has abolished teat oaths, and j
restored the ballot to the thousands of her
sons heretofore disfranchised by the re
taliatory policy of the Radicals. Maryland,
has done all this by a clear majority of
over twenty thousand votes. Think of
this, men of Georgia. Maryland was at
one time held down by Radical tyranny.
She, too, had her Judas Iscariots. But
the hour of her deliverance has come,
and her people are again free. Puritan-
Negro supremacy has received Its death
blow in Maryland.
There is, in the result of this election
much of encouragement to the people of
Georgia. Drop the shackles from her
people, and this once glorious common
wealth will be attain great and free.
Reunion—Who Obstructs It ?
If the military governments, such as
Congress has established, are despotic and
every way objectionable, the President is
responsible for their continuance. These
“ satrapies,” as our adversaries stigmatize
them, are for gateways through
which the Southern States shall return to
that position in the Union which they de
liberately abandoned. Not by Congress
nor by the laws, but bv the President’s
arbitrary will, are those States kept under
military rule. If those States shall not
return to their normal condition in season
to vote for President next Fall, let the
blame rest where it should —on the shoul
ders of Andrew Johnson. — X. Y. Tribune.
Sept. 18.
_ The President may not be altogether
free from blame, but to charge him with
being responsible for the exclusion of the
Souther States from the Union is a Radi
cal electioneering dodge. The Radical
Congress, and not Andrew Johnson, is re
sponsible tor the present condition of these
States. It is very probable that the elec
tions in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New
! York will open wide the gateways of Con
| gross for the admission of the Southern
members. Whether on the Radical plan
ior not remains to be seen. The present
: scheme is unconstitutional. Hence it may
i urn out, the whole business being illegal,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1867.
it will be laid aside and the States declared
in the Union, by a more expeditious and
satisfactory manner. Should Pennsylvania,
Ohio and new York pronounce against the
Destructive Party, the Tribune and its
halt breeds will have no new pretext upon
which to accuse Mr. Johnson of being re
sponsible for the exclusion of Southern
representation from Congress. The indi
cations in the political horizon are favor
able to our cause, but whilst it is well not
to be over sanguine, we think there is no
doubt of a speedy and powerful reaction
against the Radicals in the approaching
elections.
Newspapers. —Newspapers constitute
an important element of society. They
are the lungs through which public opin
ion breathes, and at the same time a
mirror holding up to view the occurrences
of daily life. Bishop Ilornc says of them :
“The follies, vices, and consequent
miseries of multitudes, displayed in a
newspaper, arc so many admonitions and
warnings, so many beacons, continually
burning, to turn others from the rocks on
which they have been shipwrecked.”
On the other hand, Fisher Ames says of
them:
I “It seems really as if our newspapers
were bttsv in spreading superstition.
; Omens and dreams, and prodigies are re
-1 corded as if they were worth minding.
The increasing fashion for printing won
derful tales of crimes and accidents is
worse than ridiculous, as it corrupts but
the public tastes and morals. It multiplies
fables, prodigious monsters, and crimes,
and thus makes shocking things familiar,
while it withdraws all popular atL tion
from familiar truth, because it is not shock
ing. Surely extraordinary events have
not the best title to our studious attention.
To study nature or man we ought to know
things that are in tho ordinary course, not
the unaccountable things that happen out
of it.”
There is a great deal of truth in this.
Tho sickening details of crime are, too
often, too fully and forcibly given in the
columns of newspapers, while prize fights
and other disreputable acts are dwelt upon
with a gusto and vividness worthy of a
noble cause. But all these things con
stitute the occurrences of every day life,
and the faithful chronicler of passing
events cannot well ignore them. It is
true he may record them as briefly as
possible and often can, by their aid, “point
a novel or adorn a tale” with good effect
upon his readers. This would be, perhaps,
after all, the better way, for it is, indeed,
as Cowper asks, in regard to the news
papers,
“What is it but a map of busy life ?”
And this is what makes it a popular in
stitution and “a power in the realm.”
But its power should always be exerted
for good and the promotion of right, truth
andjustiee. In this way it must be, as
Bishop Horne says, a beacon light “con
tinually burning,” and an engine of’ great
good to the community and the nation.
Dry Goods. —The demand for domes
tics has been maintained during the week
by a very good business among the job
bing houses, without any marked change
ol prices. In certain descriptions of heavy
brown goods there has been a plight de
cline, while in the finer quality of bleached
goods there has been a small advance,
with an increased demand. The increased
price of gold has had no influence upon
the value of raw material, and consequent
ly has not at all affirmed the prices of
manufactured goods.
The market is well supplied with .all
descriptions of home-made fabrics, while
the importations of foreign goods continue
equal to the wants of purchasers, Im
porters Complain that, though trade is
good, so far as large sales go, yet they are
making no monej. This is more particu
larly true of woolen importers, la goods
of a more seasonable character—in silks,
fancy eassimeres, dress goods, and articles
which depend upon fashion for their value
—there is less complaint.
The jobbers are generally doing well,
and if they can restrain their ambition to
do a large trade within the prudent limits
of their means, all will go well with them.
Their danger lies in the constant tempta
tion to give too much credit. It was never
safer than now, probably, to trust the
country ; but it is never safe for a mer
chant to trust beyond the point where he
can see his way perfectly clear to meet his
engagements. Some failures have taken
place, and some houses have had exten
sions ; but not to an unusual extent, or to
indicate, anything like a general stringency.
Failures in business must always occur,
and there is nothing in the circumstances
of those which have happened this season
to disturb confidence in the general sound
ness of this branch of business.
Woolen goods of every description are j
in somewhat better demand, and the ac
tivity in j uts and delaines which wc noted !
last week has-been well sustained. Inother ;
descriptions of goods, both foreign aud
domestic, the dealings have been very
steady, with scarce a variation in price
worth noticing. Our revised list of prices
shows what slight variations have taken
place.— Independent.
Archbishop Purcell on the Recent j
Council at Rome.— Archbishop Purcell,
of Cincinnati, attended the great Council
in Rome a few weeks since, where he oc
cupied the seat of honor at the right of the
Pope. He has returned home, and on |
Sunday evening, the Bth, he gave a lec- :
lure, in which lie reviewed his experience.
We quote a few paragraphs :
“When we saw assembled so many hun
dreds of bishops—so many hundreds of
learned teachers, doctors, generals of or
ders, worthy of comparing almost with
those of the primitive Church, coming
from the most distant lands—we said to
ourselves that nothing but truth could
command or receive such homage. If any
other denomination—and i speak not un
kindly, I speak but ior the truth—if any
other —the largest denomination of so
called Christians on the earth —were to
attempt such a demonstration, I ask you
if they could so succeed ? IV hence would
they come,, and how many would there be?
What history? What traditions could
they bring along with them, and trace
their origin to Jesus Christ ?
“As you know, some of the prelates late
ly assembled in Rome had to come further
than the wise men came under the guidance
of the star that led them to the Saviour in
the mauger of Bethlehem. Further and
further did they come than any had ever
come before to worship at Rome or in
Jerusalem. And from the United States
there came bishops from sees, and tribes
and tongues and peoples never before
heard of—never before represented in the
Council of Nice, or in the General Council
of the Catholic Church. From all these
distant places and from all these distant
nations they came with one glorious accord,
with one sympathy of belief in the eternal
truth that has been preserved by Rome—
the mother and mistress of all the churches.
Many of these bishops had to travel on
camel’s backs for eight, nine, ten or twelve
days before they could reach the point of
shipping to get to Rome.
“And when we met there we did not meet
like strangers. There are no strangers to
the Catholic Church. We are not for
eigners or aliens. We are of the house
hold of faith ; the children of God; fellow
citizens of the same Church, and when we
came together we came as members of the
same family, children of the same God,
professors of the same faith. There was
then no stranger among us. I met with a
venerable oriential bishop by the name of
Melchezidee, and we walked together in
that grand procession of Rome as if we
had known one another all our lives, and
we talked together in the language of
the Church. We professed the same
faith, and we united in the same ceremo
nies. We were one, as Christ wi-hed all
his apostles to be, and all who beueve in
Him. to the end of time. Here was a
grand spectacle of Catholic unity ; unity of
government, unity of .faith, one heart,
and one soul, aud one in the Kingdom of
I God.”
! Fire in Hamburg. —Mrs. Moore’s house
was burned in Hamburg about two o’clock
Tuesday morning. It is supposed to have
j been fired by an incendiary.
Departure of Troops. —One of the
companies stationed at the Barracks,
: Capt. Cook commanding, left for Savan
-1 nab Monday afternoon by steamer. The
1 company is to be stationed at I'ort Pulaski.
Georgia News.
The LaGrange Reporter announces the
: death in that place of Mr. W. W. Nix,
j an old and respectable merchant of La
i Grange.
: The Americus Republican of the 21st
j states that planters are busy gathering
I their cotton. The new crop is coming in
! daily to Americus and selling at 15@16
j cents.
The boiler of the steamer Chipola ex
ploded eighteen miles below Columbus
i Thursday afternoon, killing six and
! wuunding four persons,
j The Bainbridge Southern Georgian , of
j the 18th, says the continued wet weather
is still doing very great damage to cotton.
In many places the ground is literally
covered with young bolls and forms that
! have been caused to shed.
The Rome Courier says that a Lieutenant
; and thirty men of that garrison were sent
| to Cartersville Friday to witness the hang
! ing of a freedman. It was reported that
i his rescue would be attempted ; hence the
i guard.
The Savannah Benevolent Association
have forwarded the sum of three hundred
dollars to parties in Galveston, for the
relief oi‘ the suffering in that scourged
j city.
W. J. Russell, of Cobb county, sold a
j plantation of eight hundred acres on
! Nickojack creeL last .reek, for $12,000 in
! gold.
] The Grand Jury of the United States
j District Court at Atlanta were discharged
on Thursday. Forty-seven true bills were
found during the term.
Several large seizures of liquors wero
made on Thursday, in Atlanta, from cer
tain wholesale liquor houses of that city,
for violation of one or more provisions of
the internal revenue law.
The Atlanta New Era declares boldly
that the Southern Radicals have no idea
of putting negroes in office, and that the
only party South that favors their par
ticipation in the offices of the country is
the Conservative s or opponents of recon
struction under the Sherman Bills.
The Federal barracks at Atlanta will
consist of ten buildings, one hundred and
fifty feet long, by twenty-eight wide, and
will furnish quarters for one Colonel, one
Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, ten Cap
tains, twenty Lieutenants, one Surgeon,
one Assistant Surgeon, one Chaplain and
a full regiment of soldiers.
The garrison at (’olumbus received or
ders Thursday to leave for Atlanta. The
orders were, however, coumermanded dur
ing the afternoon. Tho Sun says: “We
don’t want a garrison, but ts one is com
pelled to stay here, we hope the present
force will remain.
The Savannah Ripulluan announces
the receipt on the 18th of th; first consign
ment of new rice at Savamah. The lot
consisted of one hundred bags from the
plantation of R. C. and P. R. Kettles, of
Scriven county.
The live negro men tried for killing
Judge Horne, in Sumpter county, were
convicted of murder on Wednesday last.
One of them, named George Jackson, was
recommended to mercy by the jury. The
four others were former slaves of Judge
Horne.
The Washington Gazette states that
Rayland Beasley has received from the
Military the appointment as Ordinary of
Wilkes county, vice Capt. Norman, de
ceased.
A negro man was killed at the depot of
the Central Railroad at Savannah Friday
under the following circumstances :
He was riding upon what is technically
known as the bumper, a very dangerous
position, but persisted.in maintaining his
'place after repeated warifirigsr ITisTffl*-.
prudence and persistence cost him hislife;
for a few seconds after receiving the last
warning he fell from his position, and five
freight cars passed over him.
Registered voters removing from the
precinct in which they are registered are
authorized by this order to procure certifi
cates from one of the Board of Registrars
which will enable them to vote in the pre
cinct of their present residence.
A young lady named Miss Bryan, of
Florida, was burned to death in a hotel at
Valdosta Thursday last. It is supposed
the unfortunate lady had awakened early
and lit a lamp to dress by, fell asleep again
when by some means either the bed cur
tain or her clothes took fire.
Mrs. Bowden, of Newton county, died
at 10 A. M. Saturday, Aug. 24th. At 7
P. M., her husband died. They were con
verted on the same day, joined the church
the same day, were baptized the same day,
died the same day, and were buried the
same day in the same coffin, after living
together as man and wife a quarter of a
century.
The Macon Journal & Messer ger of
Friday, in speaking of the weatherand the
cotton prospects, says :
The recent heavy rains in this vicinity
have been followed by a succession of
warm sunny days, during which the gloom
caused by the disastrous season has been
somewhat dispelled. The bolls are open
ing rapidly, and planters are pushing their
hands to their utmost in picking, in order
to take advantage of the propitious
weather. The receipts of new cottoD at
the different warehouses in the city are
light, and not comparable to those of last
year of similar date, there being, as yet,
only about six hundred bales of the new
crop in store.
Interesting Decision in Bankruptcy.
—The United States District Court of New
York his just decided that during the in
terval between the adjudication of bank
ruptcy in the case of a voluntary bankrupt
and the delivery of the assignment to the
assignee, and which interval may be as
much as ninety-five days, or even more,
the property of the bankrupt cannot, un
der the Act, be put into the possession or
custody of the court, or of any officer
ac,ing under the Bankrupt Act, but must
remain in the possession and control of
the bankrupt, unless it can, during that
interval, be kept in the temporary cus
tody of the register, to be handed
over by him to the assignee when elected
or appointed.
The editor of this journal has been a
Democrat all his life, but as the conductor
of a reconstruction paper he would say to
the South, move cautiously and wisely, at
least for the present. Reconstruction is
unmistakable, and when Georgia is ready
to ask admission under the present acts of
Congress, she must and will be accepted.—
Atlanta New Era.
Provided she sends a full Radical dele
gation to Congress. This condition being
complied with, Georgia will be admitted
to the Union. May Georgia never be
ready to accept this deep disgrace and
humiliation! Non-representation is always
preferable to mis-representation and dis
honor.
The municipal authorities of New Or
leans seem about to be Africanized. Os
four recorders elected the other day,
three were negroes, and the fourth, says
the Times , was of so unquestionable a hue,
that all the rains that have fallen since
the deluge could not wash him so as to
make him acceptable to the white tax
payers. Both the City Physicians elected
were negroes, but one refused to serve,
and a white man was then elected. The
keeper of the City Park and porter of the
City Hall are both negroes, who had their
white opponents. The Times intimates
that it will soon be unlawful in that city
for a white man to be a candidate for office.
There is to be a novel celebration at Jay
Peak, Vt., on the 26th. The principal at
traction will be the rolling of a rock, esti
mated to weigh one hundred tons, down a
perpendicular descent of one thousand
feet.
—— -•
FOR THE CHRONICLE A SENTINEL.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE OCMTLGEE
JUDICIAL DISTBICT.
Fellow-Citizens : Elected by you to the
Judgeship of this Circuit, without opposi
j tion, it is due to you that you should un
i derstand why it is that I do not, from this
> day, exercise the functions of the office. I
! refer you to the appended correspondence.
Augustus Reese.
September 20, 1867.
(no. 2.)
Madison, Ga., Sept 5, 1867.
To Major- General Rope, Commanding
Third Military-District, ft'e. .•
General : Since I have been on the
Bench of the Superior Court, I have sedu
lously endeavored to have justice adminis
tered according to law, “without discrimi
nation as to classes or individuals.” How
far I have succeeded is best known to the
people, the Bar, and "the Supreme Court
for the Correction of Errors.’ 1
Since the passage of what are commonly
called the Military Bills, looking to my
own interest as well as the interest of my
constitutents, I ha\ e labored to conform to
all military orders, and until the publica
tion of General Orders Nos. 53 and 55,
hoped I should be able so to do. Truth
fulness, General, requires me to say that I
canuot obtain my consent to be made in
strumental in carrying out these orders,
and it is due that you should have my
reasons, which I will now proceed to give
without much argumentation.
General, when I received from the peo
ple of my Judicial District, through the
Executive of the State, my commission, I
took and subscribed the following oath,
viz : “I swear that 1 will administer justice
without respect to persons, and do equal
rights to the poor and the rich, and that I
will faithfully and impartially discharge
and perform all the duties incumbent on
me as Judge of the Superior Court of this
State, according to the best of my ability
and understanding, and agreeable to the
laws and Constitution of this State and
the Constitution of the United Stales."
When, how, or where I have been ab
solved from this obligation I am not able
to understand. With this obligation re
maining, after a careful review of the sev
eral theories touching the status of the
Southern States, I am unable to adopt
any process of reasoning by which I can
arrive at the conclusion that the orders
referred to are the laws of Georgia; the
Constitution thereof; or the Constitution
of the United States, or are otherwise
within the power, view and meaning of
said obligation.
My analysis of these orders is, that the
competency of jurors is made to depend
upon the politics of the person summoned.
It the citizen summoned has registered he
is a competent iuror ; if he has not regis
tered he must be set aside. Now, if reg
istration, like the payment of taxes, was
a legal duty on the citizen, there would be
some plausibility in thejegislative authority
excluding him from the very box until he
discharged that legal duty, but the Mili
tary Bills, even, do not make registra
tion a legal duty ; on the contrary, it is
left to the free will and discretion of every
citizen who can take the registered oath
to register or not. If these orders were
intended as a punishment upon such citi
zens as cannot take the registered oath it
must not be forgotten that there are hun
dreds, if not thousands, in Georgia who
iiave ever been considered true to the
Federal Government, and who can take
the registered oath ; but who have not
and will not register, fearing they may, by
registering, commit themselves to a pro
gramme which will, in their judgment, if
successfully carried out, work an entire
change in the form of government under
which the people of the United States
were for so loug a time prosperous and
happy. This last mentioned class of citi
zens, I think, arc in error, for I hold that
every citizen who can, ought to register,
and thereby qualify himself to prevent
mischief; but these citizens, in declining
to register, are but exercising the rights of
American citizens—rights conceded by the
Military Bills, and in declining to register
commit no crime, and violate no legal
duty.
These ordors carried out cannot fail
to affect most injuriously the rights and
interests of parties in court, especially as
they have the right, under our system, in
equity, appeal, and criminal cases, to select
impartial jurors. You will pardon me,
G«mcrt*i,- intdv tuic'ii\ Jot
latitudinarian construction oftne 11 MilitCry
Bills,” I can find no authority for making
the politics of a citizen the test of his
competency to serve on a jury, and, thereby,
it may be jeopardizing to parties in court
the right of being tried by an impartial
jury.
If the officers of court were ordered to
have the juries made up from the list of
membership in the Baptist, Methodist, or
Presbyterian, or any other Church, I can
not see that such order would be more in
conflict with Americanism than these
orders. In the one case the religious
creed of the citizen would be the test of
his competency to sit on a jury—in the
other case, the test of liia competency is
his politics.
Were I absolved from the obligation re
ferred to, there are other considerations
sufficient to deter me from undertaking to
administer justice through the instru
mentalities indicated. Precedents, Gene
ral, in all public matters, especially in
Judicial matters, if based upon wrong
principles, aro dangerous things ; their in
fluence for evil is felt long after the occasion
which gave birth to them, and their au
thors have passed away. lam unwilling
to bo made instrumental in engrafting upon
American jurisprudence the principle that
the competency of a juryman is dependent
upon his politics. This principle would
endanger the impartiality of juries, and,
sooner or later, destroy all protection to life,
liberty, and property.
Again: Without further authoritative
legislation, in view of my responsibility to
the law, whenever the people of the United
States shall become sane, and in view of
my accountability “to Him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead,” no earthly
consideration could induce me to pass sen
tence upon a person convicted of a capital
offence, by the verdict of a jury organized
as indicated in Orders Nos. 53 and 55.
Whilst I do not expect you, General, to
concur in the view? herein presented, I do
claim to have accorded to me frankness and
honesty of purpose, qualities once consider
ed virtues, the existence of which among
Georgians, I fear you have had too rarely
occasion to remark since you were called
to your present position.
General, I regret to have to present
those considerations, but I dare not ignore
my convictions of duty.
Ts you should feel it to he your duty to
prohibit me from the further exercise of
Judicial powers, notice of that fact at your
earliest convenience is desirable.
I shall make no issue with you for the
reason that I know of no appellate officer
or tribunal in the country at the present
time adequate to the ocaason.
With high consideration, General, I am
yours, most respectfully,
Augustus Reuse.
N. B. —The regular term of Greene
County Superior Court begins on Monday
next.
Hd'qrs. Third Military District, ]
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, V
Atlanta, September, 1867. )
Honorable Augustus Reese , Madison, Ga. :
Dear Sir : I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt of your communication
of the sth inst., in which you inform me
that you cannot, as a Judge of a Superior
Court of the State of Georgia, obtain your
consent to be made instrumental in carry
ing out Orders Nos. 53 and 55, issued
from these Headquarters, and stating your
reasons therefor.
Whilst I thank you for the candor of
your communication I regret that you have
reached such a conclusion.
I cannot undertake to enter into an
argument to convince you that my orders
are legal and obligatory upon you. It
seems not improper, however, to state
that the position upon which your con
clusion is based appears to me to be totally
untenable. Your argument is founded
upon the theory that the i_tate Gov
ernment of Georgia is a legal one,
and that all acts contrary to the
laws of the State, even when done in
pursuance of the acts of Congress, are
illegal. The preamble of the Reconstruc
tion Acts contradicts this theory in direct
terms in the following words, viz :
“ Whereas no legal State Governments
or adequate protection for life or property
now exists in tho rebel States ot w * *
* Georgia * * * * Ac.
The acts then proceed to recognize the
existing State governments as provisional
only, and establish a Military Government
to which the provisional government is
made in almost every respjet subordinate.
As the laws of the United States are
paramount in Georgia it follows that no
proceedings of the existing State govern
ment of Georgia possessed any validity
whatever prior to the enactments of the
Reconstruction Acts, and that whatever
validity they possess now they owe entire
ly to that recognition. Whenever the
proceedings of the provisional State gov
ment, either in its executive or judicial
department, conflict with the provisions of
1 the Reconstruction Acts, or with the or-
dors ot the military commander acting in
comformityfthereco, such proceedings are
without legal validity. The power isvest
ed in me by the Reconstruction Acts to
make such orders as I consider necessary
to carry out the objects therein specified,
and such orders carry with them iu this
District all the force of law until they are
modified or countermanded by higher au
thority than mine.
Any law of the Provisional State Gov
ernment in conflict with orders thus issued
is null and of non-effect, and any proceed
ings whatever, under a law thus set aside
by Military Orders, are without validity.
My Orders 53 and 55 were issued by vir
tue of the power thus vestea in me, and I
consider them necessary to the execution
of the Acts of Congress above specified.
As the Reconstruction Acts became laws of
the United States, in the manner provided
by the Constitution, and as the question of
their constitutionality has been presented
to the Supreme Court of the United States,
and that highest judicial tribunal of the
country has decided that it has : (jurisdic
tion in the case, the considerat i of that
question by subordinate military or judicial
officers is scarcely admissible. Your argu
ment against political test is very good,
but totally inapplicable to the ease.
My Orders require the Jurors to be se
lected from the registered voters, but make
no discrimination as to their politics.
Whilst I do not, for the present, pro
hibit you from tho further exercise of ju
dicial powers, 1 do require you to observe
the above orders, and will not overlook any
failure on your part to carry them fully
into execution.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John Pope,
Brr’tMaj. Gen. U. S. A., Commanding.
Madison, Ga., Sept. 16th, 1861.
To Maj. Gen. Rope, Commandant Third
Military District, Ac. :
General : Owing to my absence in
holding Greene County Superior Court,
your letter (without date), in reply to my
communication of the sth inst., was not re
ceived until the afternoon of Saturday last.
Your suggestion's, in relation to Orders
Nos. 53 and 55, have caused mo to give to
tuy communication of the sth inst. a
most careful and searching review, to see
if I could find any fallacy in the arguments
or error in my conclusions, and candor
compels me to say that I have been unable
to dotcet either.
You say: “My orders require tho jurors
to be selected from the registered voters,
but make no distinction as to polities.”
Now, it is certainly true, that the orders
referred to do not, in so many words, make
a distinction as to politics ; but upon what
ground is it that a large number of citizens,
who can take the registration oath, are
excluded ?
Their politics is not to register or other
wise commit themselves to the Military
Bills; they don’t register—they are ex
cluded from tho jury box. I most respect
fully submit that my analysis of these or
ders, as contained in my first communica
tion, is correct, to wit: That by these
orders the politics ol fthe citizen is made
the test of his cumpotetency to sit upon a
jury.
I concede to the full extent the doctrine
that the private citizen is hound to con
form to all laws passed by authority until
they are declared void by the judiciary ;
but a judicial officer, in discharge of his
duty, sworn to admiuinistcr his office
agreeable to fundamental law, occupies
a very different position. I thank you,
General, for tho deferential consideration
you have been pleased, to give to my
embarrassments upon this subject.
I can’t see that I have any alternative
in the premisos, other than to proceed with
the discharge of my official duties as here
tofore until you shall feel it to be your duty
to have given to me a prohibitory notice.
With high consideration, General, I am
yours, most respectfully,
Augustus Reese,
■ Judge Superior Court, &c.
N. B.—l have an adjourned Court in
Baldwin county, commencing to-morrow.
Next week is the regular term for Putnam
county.
Atlanta, Ga., September 17, 1867.
Dear Sir : I received this morning
your letter of the 16th inst., in answer to
mine of the sth inst. As our views of
your duty to observe and comply with Or
ders. issued by me, as District Commander,
are irreconcilable, and as T. corridor i! my
duty to enforce my own opinion on the '
subject, and as I am very unwilling in the
case of a gentleman of your character and
standing to resort to so unpleasant an act
as your removal from office, I suggest
that, to avoid unpleasantness, which 1 am
sure neither of us seek, you resign your
office. If you should conclude not to do
so, be pleased to inform me, and to consid
er this letter a positive prohibition against
the further exorcise of your office unless
you conform to my Order concerning Juries
in this State.
I regret very much that this disagree
ment should deprive the State of Georgia
of the services of so competent and worthy
a Judge.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John Pope,
Brv’t Maj. Gen. U.S.A., Com’uding.
Hon. Augiistus Ree.se, Madison, Ga.
Milledgeville, September 20th, 1867.
To Major General l’ope, Commanding
Third Military District, &c.:
General : —Yours of the 17th inst, in
reply to mine of the 16th, was not received
by me until last night. I cannot, as you
have been heretofore advised, consistently
with my views of duty, be made instru
mental in carrying out Orders Nos. 53 and
55, nor can I bring my mind to the conchp'-
sion that I ought to resign. Y our letter,
therefore, is accepted by me as “a positive
prohibition against the further exercise of
my office,” and will be acquiesced in by me
as such.
I thank you for the kind and compli
mentary manner in wnicli you have been
pleased to communicate your prohibitory
order. _ With high consideration, General,
I remain
Yours, most respectfully,
Augustus Reese.
Phillips’ Provision Exchange.
Cincinnati, September 20, ISO 7.
Editors of the Chronicle it /Sentinel :
The provision market during tho past
week has boon very quiet, and prices have
slightly declined owing to the desire of
parties holding odds and ends or small
lots to close, out their stock and prepare
for a now season. These lots have been
about all taken. The large purchases of
tho previous two weeks has stocked con
sumers for a short time, and of course the
orders have been light which is another
cause of the decline, together with the
general disposition to keep prices from
goingso high as to affect the price of the
incoming hog crop. Our packers are not
as yet disposed to contract for hogs at over
7'tu net, while feeders aud drovers demand
§8 50 to §9, and as long as this state' of
aifa’rs exists there will be nothing done.
The general market closed very quiet, but
large holders seem to hold on a while yet
before they accept to-day’s current prices.
Mess Pork, much to the surprise of the
trade, has declined since my lust, though
I it is comparatively lower than any other
article ; there are buyers at $24, cash, but
it is generally held at $24 50; some small
lots can be had at $24.
Lard has been in but moderate demand
all the week and closed rather quiet at 13ic
offering and 131 asking for tierce and keg.
Bulk Meats have been dull all the
week but not freely offered ; they are neld
at 13c and 15c, loose, for shoulders and
sides, but in order to effect sales a conces
sion ol fc at least would have to be made.
Bacon is dull and lower, and offered at
14@14}cfor shoulders, 17}(u,l~iC for clear
rib, 17i false for clear, and sales could not
be made over the inside prices. Hams have
been in a little better demand, tho stock
being greatly reduced—plain 19(0,250 and
sugar cured 23<«,231c.
Beef Hams are dull at 18c and Plate
Beef at 22e.
Whiskey quiet at 30c in bond.
Exports of the week were 1,750 bbls.
and 650 kegs Lard, 690 hhds., 297 tierces
and 155 boxes Bulk and Bacon, 1,315 bbls.
Pork.
Imports 25 bbls. and 30 kegs Lard, 11
hhds., 1 tierce and 4 barrels Pork, and
3,025 pounds loose Meats.
Freights remain unchanged, but there
is an effort being made to advance East
bound 10c per 100 lbs.; to New Orleans by
rail to St, Louis, and thence by river 65c
per 100 lbs. Very respectfully,
Geo. W. Philips, Jr.,
Provision and Produce Broker.
Cotton Statlstics, etc., for Wilkes
County.— Shipped per R. R. from Sep
tember 1, 1865, to September 1, 1866,
(partly old cotton) 4,022 bales.
From Sept. 1, 1566, to Sect. 1,
1867. * 2,402 “
Quantity of corn delivered at
this point per Ga. R. R. from
Sept. 1,1866, to Sept. J. ’€7,..53,325 bus.
For the year ending with the first of the
present month, therefore, wo may esti
mate in round numbers as follows.:
\ alue of cotton sold (net) $300,000
Paid out lor corn $90,000
do. do. Lacon, . 20,000 110,000
From which it ap Dears tnat on third, or
thereabouts of the cotton monos the
county has been paid out for p ovision?.
This is better than we had suppo ed. e
derive our information as to the corn
bought and cotton shipped from Mr. R. S.
Smith, the agent of the G. 11. R. at this
point Washington (Ga.) Gazette, 20 th
NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 39.
From the Valdosta Times, 12<A.
Meeting or the Valdosta Immigration
Society.
At a meeting of the citizens of Lowndes
and Echols counties, held at this place to
day, the meeting was organized by calling
W. R. Manning to the Chair and H. B.
Holliday as Secretary. A committee of
eleven was appointed to select business for
the meeting, consisting of the following
persons:
Captain J. R. Stapler, A. Averett, Wm.
Roberts, J. W. Harrell, A. McLeod, C. P.
Gibson, C. 11. M. Howell, t H. M. Coach
man, J. C. Wisenbaker, W. Zeigler, Col.
11. A. Peeples, and Major P. C. Pendle
ton. While the committee was out the
meeting was addressed by Colonel S. W.
Baker.
Our space does not admit of more than
an abstract of the proceedings. The com
mittee charged with the duty of suggest
ing, formally, subject matter for the action
of the meeting, reported, iu substance,
that additional Ir. 1 or upon our farms and
other industrial pursuits was an absolute
and pressing necessity that could no longer
be ignored with detriment to the country-
They report farther: That, from in
formation in their possession, it is entirely
practicable to procure immigrant labor of
the kind wanted, and that they can best be
obtained by sending an agent direct to
Europe from among themselves to obtain
them ; that this labor can be had at a cost
of probably less than $25 per head, to be
returned in the labor of the immigrant.
And further, that it is entirely practicable
to obtain the labor required for the next
crop.
These wero the views of the committee
in brief, and when presented in form, re
ceived the endorsement of the meeting.
A committee, consisting of Capt. J. R.
Stapler, Capt. J. T. Bevil, and J. A.
Cashier, Sr., was appointed to select ail
Agent to go to Europe tor laborers. They
selected Maj. P. C. Pendleton. The se
lection met the endorsement of the meet
ing, arranging compensation, etc.
lie was instructed to contract with
laborers for two and three years if, in his
opinion, practicable, and to allow a min
ister of the Gospel of the faith of the emi
grants and also a brewer to accompany them
il desired by them. Each subscriber was
required to give a descriptive list of the
number and kind of laborers wanted, and
the agent authorized to pay as high as sls
per mouth for labor, the laborer support
ing himself.
It was the expressed and emphatic opin
ion of the meeting that no planter ought
to employ a freedman who has been dis
charged by his employer for misconduct,
but that the freedman should have a rec
ommendation from liis former employer.
On motion a committee of ten was ap
pointed to act as a Finance and Executive
Committee. The following is the commit
tee appointed by the Chair:
J. R. Stapler, James A. Dasher, Sr.,
D. P. Gibson, D. J. Jones, C. 11. M.
Howell, J. W. Harrell, Wm. Zeigler, J.
T. Bevil, A. Averett, J. H. Tillman.
After which tho meeting adjourned to
meet on next Thursday, the 19th, at;which
time a further report may be expected
from the agent, who has been instructed to
visit Savannah to obtain information and
in furtherance of the views of the meeting.
AH interested in this and adjoining
counties, arc requested to unite with the
meeting on that day.
Miscellaneous.
The Providence Journal notices a better
feeling in business, and that manufac
turers who.wore despondent in August are
now in decidedly blitter spirits.
The first whaler of the season, the
George and Mary, arrived at New London
Saturday night, from Cumberland Inlet.
On the voyage of Ristori to New York,
one of the waiters was lost, and an enter
tainment was given on board for the
benefit of his wife and family. A hand
some sum was thus realized. Madame
Bistori recited the interview between the
two Queens in the third act of Mary
Stuart, also a scene, in the French
language, from Joan of Arc. Madame
Lagrange, who was one of the passengers,
sung an aria from Robert Ic Diable and
‘‘Uno voca pom fa." An American
gentleman also sung a romanza in Italian.
People who suspect the French Emperor
of being always bent on war are glad to
find that he recommends an expenditure of
£32,40(5:000, spread over ten years, on
cornu roadc. £lt is u.gnecU that
money cannot be spent on Chassepots and
soldiers and on road making at the same
time—that increased expenditures in roads
implies diminished military expenditure.
The inference is certainly one that may
fairly be drawn.
Frosts occurred in this vicinity yester
day morning, and one or two mornings of
last week; but not sufficient to do much
damage to vegetation. The corn in this
region is mostly so far advanced as to be
out of the way of damage. —Bangor
Whig , 17</i.
The authorities of Palermo sapicntly
detained in quarantine the physicians sent
to attend cholera casus in that city.
The Rockingham (Virginia) Register
states, as an evidence of reluming pros
perity in the V alley, that since the war
there have been sold there over one hun
dred and fifty pianos by one house.
The future Queen of Greece, the
Princess Olga, has accented the presi
dency of a committee of Greek ladies es
tablished to aid the women and children
of the insurgents of Epirus and Thessaly.
The total amount of taxable property in
Illinois for 1867, estimating assessments
for eight or nine counties not received, is
$492,865,984, against $410,840,220 in ]BC6
—a gain of $82,025,764.
As Mr. Chas. Stetson was playing with
the monster elephant at a circus in East
Saginaw, Mich., on Tuesday evening, the
animal became enraged and threw Mr. S.
some fifty feet from the ring. The cause
was feeding him a rotten apple. Mr. S.
escaped with a tew slight scratches.
At a Sunday school celebration recently
on Long Island prizes were given to such
children as had committed the greatest
number of verses. in the New Testament
to memory. An infant four years old re
cited one hundred and eleven verses of St.
Mark’s Gospel. She was “ a very pale
faced child,” the report says.
Said Tom. “Since I have been in
France I have eat so much veal that I am
ashamed to look a calf in the face.” “I
s’pose, sir, then,” said a wag, “you shave
without a glass.”
The coopers of Minneapolis, Minn., are
on a strike. They ought to furm a cooper
ative society.— Express.
Some years since Mr. Thomas Wi
nans procured a buck and a doe for his
place near Baltimore. These in time in
creased until the herd of deer number fifty
two, all in fine condition, and completely
domesticated. The whole herd Mr. Winans
now presents to Druid Hill Park.
The new Tammany Hall on Fourteenth
street is to cost $275,000, exclusive of tho
SBO,OOO paid for the land. The building
is progressing rapidly. It is 121 feet long,
and has a front of 116 feet. It is to be of
brick, trimmed with marble, and will con
tain a hall capable of holding over nine
thousand people.
The college year of Yale began on Wed
nesday. There are 130 applications
for admission to the freshman class. It is
expected that the classes will not be so
large as uiual this year, owing to the strict
ness of the faculty.
Jonesi “I thought I warned you partic
ularly. cook, against boiling my eggs hard.
Now, how is this ? Hero they are boiled
lit for salad, in spite of every direction.
What did I tell you?” Cook: “Oh, sir,
I remember exactly what you told roe, and
acted accordingly. The eggs were in the
water ( to a moment precisely nine min
utes. ’ ’ J ones:_ “Nine! I told you three. ’ ’
Cook : “Yes, sir; but there’s threo eggs.
Os course, if one takes three minutes’
boiling, three must take nine. I may be
a fool, sir, but I happen to know what
three times three makes for all that.”
The Yellow Fever in New Or
leans—A private letter from New Or
leans has the following concerning the
yellow fever :— Montgomery Advertiser.
* * * The fever has taken a
more fatal typo than it was some days
ago. You can see funerals every hour in
the day. Undertakers, cabmen and phy
sicians are doing the most prosperous busi
ness, while dry goods and other pursuits
are languishing.
Among various bequests made by the
will of Mr. Horatio Ward, a native of New
York, who recently died in London, is one
of nineteen thousand dollars to the sur
viving daughters of the late Henry Morris,
of Philadelphia. “These ladies,” says
Mr. Ward, in his will, “are the grand
daughters of the celebrated Henry Morris,
of the Reformation, and it will be a sur
prise to them to receive "a legacy from a
person they never knew, and, perhaps,
never heard of. It is in return lor kind- ;
ness shown me by their father when I was j
a boy-”
An engineer on a railway in Scotland
has been sentenced to three months’ im
prisonment for carelessness in running into
another train.
Five thousand girls are employed in
Wisconsin packing the hop crop.
Gen. Beauregard and the New ¥ork
Express.
Baltimore, September 19, 1867.
To the Editors of the Baltimore Gazette :
Dear Sirs :—I notice in your paper of
yesterday an article copied from tho New
York Express ol the 17th inst., in which
certain political opiuions are stated to have
been expressed by me at a dinner given to
me by a friend at the New York Hotel.
The dinner was a private one, and the
statement of the Express being but a
brief and incomplete abstract of tho re
marks which I made whilst conversing
with the few friends present, conveys an
erroneous impression of the views expressed
by me on that occasion.
Being still an “outlaw” in my own na
tive country, 1 do not feel called upon to
publicly uphold its Government, especially
at this time when the country is divided in
opinion as to whether Congress or the Ex
ecutive constitute “the Government."
But I am free to state that unless the
Conservative element of the nation soon
awakens to the dangers which threaten the
liberties of the country, I confidently be
lieve that its form of Uoverumcnt will, ere
long, bo changed to a military despotism,
after a period of anarchy more or less pro
longed. Yours, very truly,
G. T. Beauregard.
Later from Europe.
The Manchester Riots—England—The
Cholera on Shipboard—Fenian Escape -
Garibaldi Again—A Circular from Jiis
marck.
[BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE.]
New York, September 20.—A' caTfle"
special to the Evening Telegram , dated
Manchester, September 20, 8 a. m., says
the city was quiet ail night, but the police
was vigilant to prevent the escape of the
prisoners. All the avenues are closely
watched. Several suspected parties were
, arrested during the night—some taken out
of bed. It is reported that Kelley is re
captured, but the report is not confirmed.
The outbreak completely surprised the
Government. A strong force is being
mustered to prevent further disturbances.
One policeman is reported to have died
last night. Several were badly injured,
and probably some killed, but were carried
off by the mob. It is impossible to ascer
tain how many lives were lost.
Quebec, September 20. —The steam
troop ship Himalaya , which sailed on the
4th instant with the 16th Rifles on board,
is reported detained at Quarantine Island,
from the prevalence of Asiatic cholera.
Dublin, September 20.—Captain Os
borne, a Fenian prisoner, escaped from
jail at Clourncl, last night, and had not
been recaptured up to noon to-day, al
though the jail guards started in immediate
pursuit. The police arc searching for him
in the surrounding country where it is sup-.
posed he is concealed.
London, September 20. — Preparations
of the party of action in Italy for a revo
lutionary movement on Rome arc about
completed, and it is rumored here that
Sunday next has been fixed as flic day
upon which the attempt will be made.
Count Von Bismarck has recently ad
dressed a circular letter to the department
representatives of Prussia in regard to the
conference of Emperors Napoleon and
Francis Joseph at Salzburg. The docu
ment has just been _ published and is the
principal subject of editorial discussion in
English and continental newspapers. In
it Count Bismarck says Prussia is willing
to accept representations made by France
that the conference at Salzburg should tie
regarded as a pledge of peace, lie also
makes many allusions to tho union of the
German States. The London journals
comment favorably upon this note, regard
ing it as pacific iu tone and tranquilizing
in its tendency.
The French press, while they seamed
disposed to find little fault with what Bis
marck says, denounce the circular because
in all its references to German unity it
completely ignores the treaty of Prague,
and omits all allusion to the obligations
under which Prussia rests to fulfill the
stipulations of that solemn compact.
Steamboat Collision on the Hudson River
—the Dean ltlehmond bunk.
The steamboats Dean Richmond and C.
Vanderbilt came into collision about i
o’clock Friday morning near Rondcut, the
, Vanderbilt striking the Richmond on the
starboard side near the forward gangway,
tbjfO’.iflh. h»i. hui’ ,j • envuttu*
Richmond to sink in about fifty minutes.
The passengers, about 140 in number, were
all saved, as were also the crew of tho
steamer. The Richmond had a small cargo,
principally of butter (833 packages), and
cheese (4,337 boxes), and small lots of
other goods. The loss on the cargo will be
small. Efforts will at once be made to
raise the Richmond. The Richmond was
bound down and the Vanderbilt up the
river. The damage to the hull of the Rich
mond is not thought to be very serious.
So firmly was the bow of tile Vanderbilt
implanted iu the Richmond, that it requir
ed the utmost exertion to disengage it.
In about fifteen or twenty minutes the
passengers were transferred to the steam
boat Drew (and some smaller boats). The
passengers had but been fairly taken off
when the Dean Richmond went to the hot
tom.
Tho Vanderbilt was so badly injured
that it was found impossible to proceed on
the voyage.
The scone on board the Dean RVlmiorul
was frightful. The river was calm, and
there was enough light to sec the shore on
both sides. As the boats neared each
other an alarm was given by a passenger,
and the cabin was instantly filled by fright
ened occupants of the state-rooms as they
fled from the approaching danger. An
appalling crash was heard, intermingled
with the shrieks of women and cries of
children. The Vanderbilt had struck tho
Richmond near the bow, on the left side,
and plowed its way through fully thirty
feet of the vessel, ripping up tho state
room and bridal-chamber, as if the walk
were made of paper. Immediately after
the concussion the passengers retreated to
the other side of the cabin of the Rich
mond, when a cry of fire was raised, and
it was noticed that the vessel was sinking.
The glass of nearly every window was
shattered, and all the lamps knocked down.
The water soon began to reach the fires,
and the steam came up through the parted
planking of the floor. This added greater
confusion to the scene, and the passengers
becamo nearly wild, and rushed to the
bow of the boat. At this time it was seen
that the Vanderbilt was locked to the
Richmond, the bow of the former being
under the side timbers of the latter. As
the Richmond was sinking, the Vander
bilt’s bow was brought down to the water's
edge, and it was supposed that both boats
would go down. Suddenly there was
another crash, and the beats became dis
engaged, when the Vanderbilt floated
away from the sinking steamer, her bow
torn off and her guards crushed in.
The locale of the accident seems to be
an unfortunate ono. Several years ago
the steamer Swallow ran ashore here in u
fog, but she was finally rescued after many
days of severe labor. Subsequently the
steamer Berkshire here took fire and was
totally destroyed. — Nemo York Journal of
Commerce.
Dreadful Steamboat Disaster--Six
Lr. es Lost. —The little steamer Chipola,
Lapt. \an Marcus, plying between this
city and Eufaula, exploded her boiler.., at
the head of Uehee Shoals, on Thursday
evening, about six o’clock, and sunk im
mediately. She was on her up-trip, with
a little cotton. By this distressing disas
ter, six persons employed on the Lobe were
killed, and several others wounded. The
following is a list of - the killed and wound
ed, furnished us by one who was on the
boat :
KILLED.
Alfred, son of Capt. Ben Berry, ayoung
man of 18 or 19 years of age.
Geo. Couch, pilot. He has long been
one of the most reliable pilots on the river.
He leaves in our city a widow and two
children.
Bill Staples, colored pilot.
David Brown (or Broadnax), colored
mate.
John White, head cook.
Alfred, second cook, colored.
Os those killed, only tho body of young
Berry had been recovered yesterday morn
ing. It was brought to this city by his
father.
wounded.
Captain \an Marcus, slightly in the
shoulder.
George, colored, fireman, badly scalded.
John, deck hand, nose broken.
One other colored deck hand had his leg
broken and was scalded.
V e understand that Jno. Shaw, colored,
of this city, employed in the steward’s de
partment, swam to Capt. Marcus, who
was struggling in the water, and assisted
him materially in reaching the shore.
The news of this terrible accident created
quite a sensation in our city, where nearly
all of the persons employed on the boat
are well known. It is the most disastrous
explosion that has occurred on the Chat
tahoochee for years. — Columbus (Ga.)
Eiupnrer, 19/A in
Tho shoemakers of Troy, New York, aro
on a strike for an advance of twenty-five
per cent, per ease on all work turned out
by large manufacturing establishments.