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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Chronicle & Sentinel.
IIEMtV MOOKE,
A. IL. W)U(>I IT.
PATRICK VVAI.SH, Associate Editor.
TERMS OF SI IWCIUraOS.
AUGCBTA. <. A :
WIBHiSPVT MgEIISC, <K T'UihK 9.
An Attempt to Sink the Steamer
Express.— Wc are informed that during
the absence of the watchman, some ma
licious person boarded the steamer Express
Sunday morning, between two o clock and
daylight. An aperture of three and a
half inches was made in the side of the
steamer, which filled her with water to
within :-.ix iuche- of her guards. When
the mischief was discovered, steam was
raised and the donkey pump speedily clear
ed her hull of water. This pump, we
Jcarn, i- of larger capacity than that of any
other steamer plying on the Savannah
River.
New Cotton. — We learn that the
si- amer Katie, which arrived from Savan
nah Sunday afternoon, brought up a lot of
new eo'ton from some of the landings be
low this city.
UsFoKTINATK ACCIDENT.—Jessie, a
little son ol' hr. J. M. .Jeans, keeper of the
Oity Hospital, while in the act of picking
hiekorynuts, from a tree in DcLaigle’s
glove l a-1 Sunday, fell on his head and
died yesterday from the effects of the fall.
Another Accidental Death.—Dur
ing service at Thankful Church Sunday
afternoon, a colored woman suddenly
.jumped up from herseat, fell back against
a pew striking her head and neck. She
died very shortly after.
The Fire Sendav Night.—The fire
Sunday night was caused by the burning of
an old wooden shanty on the river bank, in
the upper part of thecity. The fire com
panies were out with their accustomed
promptness, but the house being old and
dry was consumed in a very brief time.
The Kick Crop.— We published, last
week, an extract from Messrs. Willis &
Chisolm’s Circular, in reference to the
Riee Crop of the present year, in which
the types gave the estimate as 3,7socasks,
in lead of •17,500, as reported by Messrs.
Willis & Chisolm.
The Nashville Election.—From a
correspondence in the Nashville Union &
Dispatch of Sunday, between Mayor
Drown and General Thomas, it appears
that the latter construed the orders of
General Grant to prevent the citizens from
exercising their chartered rights and to
mi tain Brownluw’a election. With the
regulars and melish against them, the
municipal authorities wisely decided to
hold no election, so that Rrownlow’s pets
had everything their own way, and, of
course, carried the day without opposition.
Fortunately there was no collision, and so
the farce was not converted into a bloody
tragedy.
.litxieCami oki l and Governor Orr. !
—The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Host says : “Mr. Campbell, Sena
tor elect from South Carolina, is here,
:ind expresses his dissent from the views
expressed by Governor Orr in bis letter «,o
General Sickles, lie contends that the
Legislature of South Carolina would have
passed aStay haw had the people desired
one, or had there been the apprehensions
of bloodshed of which Governor Orr
speaks. The cx|daii»l.ion seems to ho that I
General Sickles and Governor Orr had
arranged to have themselves elected United
States Senators, which was supposed to
he an easy thing, as General Sickles could ;
control the popular vote, while Governor
Orr secured the General’s nomination with
his own. It, is apprehended that the game
lias been spoiled by the changes of the
Military Commanders.”
Fort Macon. —A correspondent of the
Philadelphia Age has seen Fort Macon
aud was not favorably impressed with our
“military district” prison, lie says: The
next foaturo that startled mo was at Fort
Macon, North Carolina. That fort is gar
risoned by blacks and is used as a place of
puni diuieut for convicts. Recently 1 saw
there a negro soldier, driving and ordering
eight white men who were prisoners,
while he made them haul a seine and catch
lishf>r hi •• black comrades and himself.
Some of them were white soldiers, con
victed by court-martial of petty offences,
,id some were citizens of the United
States, sent, there by militaryeommissions, .
without trial by jury, without warrant of I
Ja\v, and in the exercise of pure arbitrary j
power.
The Charleston Daily News.—On j
Recount of irreconcilable political dif
ferences Mr. <f. U. Cat heart Ims retired
from the editorial management ol this
paper. Under Mr. t’ufliearfs manage
ment the Nciv.i favored reconstruction
under the Military Dills. Tho other Pro
prietors, Messrs. McMillan and Morton,
do not, and lienee the change.
Wruhit's Iron Cotton Screw. —M e
lake pleasure in calling tho attention ol
our country friends to the advertisement
of Wright’s Iron Cotton Screw. These
.-■crews are manufactured in this city, at
i he Vugusta Foundry and Machine W orks,
L\ Mr. Philip Malone, who is an experi
enced and skillful mechanic, worthy of
the patronage of tho people.
Encourage and sustain home enterprises.
This is the best and speediest way to build
up our waste places and bring about sub
stantial reconstruction throughout the
.South.
\ Case of Yellow Fever in Bartow
Cofnty. —Tno Cartorsville Repress, ol
Saturday, contains the following :
“There was a ease of yellow lever in
lids county last week. The gentleman,
whose name we did not learn, was a broth
er-in-law of Col. J. L. Rowland, of this
county, and had stopped with Col. R., as
l.e u;is passing through the country trout
the West, where he had contracted the
disease, lie died on last, Saturday at Col.
U. > residence and his remains were sent
back to Texas, bis home, for interment. "
The Probability oe Mu. Davis’
Tri , :..—The New York lie rail has a
special dispatch from its Richmond cor
respondcpt, which states that it has be
como definitely settled that Mr. Davis will
i , tried at the November term of tho Cir
cuit Court in that city, and that t i.tei
Justice Chase has expressed his intention
to preside T 1 •' dispatch adds :
The opinion is expressed that, allow
ing Davis will appear, the tnai will be
shirked by the Government, and the pris
oner will again be set at liberty on bail.—
There is reason, however, to contra;! t
such an erroneous impression. Indications
1, ad to the belief that the trial will be pro
eeededwith, and a mass of the mo*<. mi
portant events connected with ihehistorj
of the rebellion disclosed, Ihe counsel ior
defence will demand a trial, and it the
Government urges as an excuse not ready,
th Court will express its determination to
remain in session a sufficient time to pre
pare ; failing in this, a nolle prost put will
then be entered, by which the discharge
of the prisoner may be effected, ahe .ut
ter ts not likely, and the trial, which toe
nation at large demands, will be proceeded
with. Davis can scarcely be convicted.
With Chase on the bench and Davis in the
prisoner s Fox. and the right of secession
in question, a drama of great national in
terest will be pri seated, iu which the prin
cipal actors will have to study well their
parts.”
Relic of the War.— Mr. T. E. Lloyd,
,>f Washington, D. C.. has in his possession
;l _Masonic jewel, which ho received irom a
Union soldier. It is of gold, and is in
scribed “Charles Obertneier, Lulhla Chap
ter. No. -d. Eufala, Alabama, 1m12." Its
owner dout'tless fell in battle, and it came
into possession of one of the United
States soldiers. Mr. Lloyd has written to
the Chapter for iuibp'uauun iu regard to
ts owner. .
The Municipal Election in Nashville-
Trouble Ahead.
! The Mayor ol Nashville has shown a
little more pluck in standing up for the
rights of his people than is particularly
agreeable to Brownlow. A dispute has
arisen between them, growing out of the
right claimed by the latter to appoint
“holders of elections” for the approach
ing municipal election of that city. The
Mayor insists that, under the laws of the
State, he alone has the right to, make these
appointments, and has pr ceedcu to per
form that duty. Brownlow has also ap
pointed a similar set of officers and has
ordered the State militia to enforce the
election before these apoointecs of the
Governor. The Mayor Ira.-, applied to the
President for protection against thece
Brownlow ruffians, and General Thomas
has ordered the commanding officer of the
United States forces at Nashville to pre
serve order.
Thus the matter now stands. It is
thought that the adherents of the Mayor
arid his party will deposit their votes be
fore tho officers appointed by the Mayor,
and that the Rrownlowitcs will vote before
the officers appointed by him. The
validity of the elections thus held will then
be passed upon by the judiciary. We
fear that there will be much blood shed on
the day of election unless the military are
prompt and energetic in their dealings
with Brownlow’h militia ruffians.' '
Since the above was in type we have re
ceived Nashville papers ol the 28th, con
taining a telegram from General Grant to
General Thomas directing the latter "not
to prevent the State fotce from the execu
tion of its orders.” This was required as
a virtual abandonment of the people of
Nashville to the tender mercies of the
Brownlow ruffians, and both of the Con
servative candidates for Mayor withdrew
their names from the contest.
We presume that the farce of an elec
tion was held on Saturday last, and that,
under the manipulations of the “ruffians,”
the Radicals have swept the city.
The telegram of General Grant directing
Thomas to sustain Brownlow was unex
pected, and caused much indignation
among the Conservatives. The President
was telegraphed to, and begged to inter
pose and annul Grant’s instructions. We
have not heard of the result ot the appli
cation.
Mhy Don’t They Come?
Six weeks ago we were informed by the
Radical press that thirty of their best ora
tors from the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania
aud New York had been secured by the
Radical Executive Committee to canvass
tho Southern States in favor ol - the Re
construction Bills. Kelley and Wilson, and
Wade and Ashley, and Logan and Colfax,
and Conkling were to come among the
benighted heathens of the Soutli and
illuminate the dark and besotted minds of
the “poor whites.”
We have beeu anxiously expecting this
grand array of shining lights aud had pre
pared ourselves for a most interesting and
intellectual canvass. Why don’t they
come V The elections in two of these be
nighted States are now about occurring
and in a few weeks will be had in all the
dependencies. Why don’t the great lights
come? Is it possible that the valiant
Kelley is kept at home to prevent the Key
stone State—the home of Thad. Stevens,
and Dead Duck Forney—from falling into
tho hands of tho unterrified Democracy ?
Can it be true that “Old Ben, Wade” can
not be spared from his pets of the West
ern Reserve, now that the clear and con
vincing logic of Pendleton and Thurman are
stirring up from their inmost depths what
ever of truth and patriotism has been
slumbering there for the last six years?
Surely Radicalism has been brought to no
such straights as these in tho good old
Buck Eye State.
Where is Conkling, and Logan, and
Colfax? Why don’t then come to the
rescue of their brother Radicals in the
South? Will these doughty champions of
Radical misrule and ruin leave their South
ern friends in tho lurch in this their hour
of greatest peril and danger ? Have they
not heard of the intestine troubles, and
troubles from without which are besetting
their dear friends of tho “Atlanta Ring?”
Have they not been informed of the un
grateful contumacy of their black friends
and brothers who, now that they are
clothed with the ballot, demand some of
t ho vahoiblc. fruits which the ballot secures?
Have they not heard the cry of anguish
and alarm which lias been sent up front
the brazen throats of the “white niggers”
of Atlanta, and their imploring supplica
tions for “aid and comfort ?” Why don’t
these Northern war-horses of ruin and
desolation come to the suppport of their
Southern friends ?
Conservative State Convention in
Florida.
The Conservative party of Florida held
a Convention on the 25th September at
Tallahassee. The attendance was not large,
but tho proceedings were harmonious, and
| the action of the Convention of such a
| character as to give assurance that the
| Conservative masses in the “Land offlow
j ers" will not give their beautiful country
i to the black and slimy embraces of modern
Radicalism without a struggle.
Maj. VauNess, of St. Augustine, lorm
i erly an officer in the Federal army, presid
; ed over the Convention, and made a
■ speech upon taking his scat, iu which he
boldly avowed his determination to act
with the true men of tho State in their
! efforts to crush the negro-loving Radical
i party.
\ An address to the people of the State
was adopted, and a series of resolutions
were passed declaring the principles which
j should control the true men of the State
in the coming canvass.
In referring to the Radical emissaries
j who swarm over the land, the address char
acterizes them as follows :
“But what do we see around us ? In
stead of every effort being made to allay all
• excitement and remove every element of
, bitterness, the country is invested with a
set of political demons, who traverse the
• land amidst the darkness of the night.
■ seeking by low and despicable tricks, by
ohicauery, by falsehoods, to deceive the
ignorant people ; to set them a< a race
against the virtuous whites, as if with a
devilish malignity they would lure the
freedman to his own destruction, by set
ting him against his every interest and
forcing him to invite, not only his death,
but the overthrow of every principle and
the destruction of all that man holds dear
on earth—life, liberty and the pursuit of
| happiness. Such is the villainous mission
! of those emissaries who prowl about our
preiuis.-o under the darkness of the night
\\ e advise all honest and virtuous people,
irrespective ot condition or color, to shun
them as they would a deadly poison. Let
j it be impressed upon the freedmen that
these secret leagues, managed by people
who know them not, are but snares to de
, lude and destroy them, while their true
and only friend is the white race, to whom
thej- formerly belonged, but now, under
j the sanction of God, are free.”
We trust thatthe efforts of these “politi
cal demons” may be frustrated by the
movement so auspiciously set on foot by
! the Conservatives, and that their beauti
ful and lovely little State may be spared
| from the ignominy aud disgrace which would
inevitably result from the ascendancy of
these miserable Africanized mean whites.
Abraham Lincoln on Neuron-Suf
frage.—ln a speech delivered a: Charles
ton, IU., on the isth of September, HSB,
Abraham Liucoln said :
I “J icitl say that lam not, nor ever have
j been, in favor of making voters or jurors
I of negroes, or qualifying them to hold
j office, nor to intermarry with white peo
ple ; and I will shv iu addition to tins,
I that' there is a physical dtp create bet tree a
the white and black races, which, / believe,
unit forbid the two vac's living together on
t ,nns of social and political equality. * 1
: 1 as much as any other man, am in favor
I of having the superior position assigned to
I the white race.”
Organize.
We cannot too earnestly recommend the
j people of Georgia to organize in their re-
I speetive counties and districts at once for
| the election for members to the Conven
| tion which ha- been ordered for the last of
the month.
j Those who oppose a Convention should
I co-operate with their neighbors who are
, inclined to favor it. in bringing out the
j best men in their respective districts. It
! will require the united action and untiring
: efforts of all the good men of the country
• to defeat the Radicals,
j Let there be harmony and concert of
action between the Conservative elements
of the State. Every good man should be
; willing to devote a little time to the per
| fecting of an organization in their respect
j ive neighborhoods for the defeat of the
i Radicals. Wo beg our friends throughout
the State to be up and doing. The enemy
i are thoroughly organized, are active and
| aggressive. We cannot hope to defeat
I them unless ail the good men will take an
interest in organizing against them. Don’t
j wait for your neighbor to begin the good
work. Don’t think that someone else
ought to take the initiative. It is your duty
to do it. If you fail it may induce your
neighbor to be lukewarm. Let every man
see lus neighbor and talk the matter over
freely with him. Survey the whole fieid
and then bring out your strongest and best
men.
Having done this, don’t think you have
performed your whole duty. Having
brought out proper candidates, it then
becomes your duty to see to it that they
are elected. If every good white man in
the State would make proper efforts, wu
might send true Conservative men to
the Convention. There is not a respecta
ble white mas in the State who cannot
influence and control one negro vote. Let
each one determine to do this, and the
State is safe, for a while, at least.
Tho first thing to do, however, is to
[ hold at once preliminary meetings in the
different counties and agree upon a plan
for action. Individual efforts, however
strong and active they may be, cannot
accomplish so much as organized action.
We must have this at once. Will our
friends in the different counties take this
matterin hand, without further persuasion
or delay ?
■«»qwi
Lespidiisa Striata.
This new and hitherto unknown grass,
; which has appeared recently throughout
Middle Georgia, seems to have spread in
the rich prairie lands of Alabama.
The Tuskeegee News, in noticing itsad
! vent in that place, describes it as follows:
j “The horses, cows, sheep, goats, hogs—
i overythings that eats grass are delighted
! with and are fattening upon it. It ap
pears to be a variety of ciover; does not
grow high ; higher among weeds, briars
and sedges than anywhere else. Three or
four inches is its common heighth in the
woods and on old tields; eight or ten inches
among weeds, briars aud sedge. Grows
thick, aud is very rich and green. Dry
weather has but little intlueuce upon ir.
It comes early and remains nourishing
and green all the season. We believe it to
be the greatest blessing in the form of a
grass that has ever been bestowed upon
the South. It will be a great agent in re
| nowing our exhausted lands. Farmers
J need not fear it, for it can be easily killed,
Having only a straight tap root, and but
few fibres. ' Whether it can be so improved
by cultivation that it can be cut as hay re
mains to be tested. What is it ? Where
does it come from 7”
As we have already stated, it came from
Japan. Wc lately conversed with a plant
er from Morgan county, who informs us
that it has been cut for hay this summer
in that county, and that it made a large
yield, which all kinds of stock seem to be
I fond of. We Jearn, also, that a large
planter in Columbia county hits made his
crop of cotton and corn this year upon the
Lespidasaalone, without corn or fodder.
We believe, with the editor of the News,
that it will prove “tho greatest blessing iu
j the form of a grass that has ever been be
stowed upon the South. ’ ’
A Ratlical Mare’s Nest.
Senators Sherman, Wade and Thayer
addressed tho Cincinnati Radicals on the
21st, in which it is reported that the forni
ersaid :
“Unless tho President can give better i
reasons for suspending Stanton than I be- j
lievc can bo given, I will, as a Senator, j
vote to reinstate him as Secretary of VVar.
This removal was simply for political
reasons—to got out of the way a man who
insisted on a fair execution of a law passed j
by Congress and sanctioned by the people, j
and 1 have no doubt he will be restored |
to his office, to remain there until the end
of the term for which Andrew Johnson
was elected Vice President Johnson of the
United States.
Old Ben Wade followed in the same
strain though it is said (remarkable consci
entiousness) he restrained himself some
what on the ground that he might have to
be a judge in the ease, and it he should he
would hoar testimony impartially and give
even the devil his due.
But the most remarkable thing said !
was that by the Senator from Nebraska, ]
Mr. Thayer, who declared that he had |
recently made a trip to Washington and j
through Maryland, and that while there
he took special pains to inform himself in
regard to the purpose of the President, and
that the statements he should make were
based upon the most reliable authority.
He said :
I declare upon my responsibility as a
Senator of the United States, that to-day
Andrew Johnson meditates and designs !
forcible resistance to the authority of Con- i
gross. I make this statement deliberately, j
having derived it from unquestioned and j
unquestionable authority. I cannot point j
out the occasion on which he may attempt j
military force. It may be to prevent the '
assembling of Congress, or when assem- |
bled, if the House ot' Representatives i
passes articles of impeachment, or it may j
be for the purpose of forcing Southern I
Senators at.d Representatives to seats in
Congress. The question may be asked,
How can he do such a thing ? You recol
lect that six months ago Governor Swann,
of Maryland, was elected United States
Senator, and that a few weeks afterward
he declined, giving ‘ 'grave reasons of state’ ’ !
as the cause. It was that Lieutenant
Governor Cox, of that State, would not be
trusted for Johnson’s purpose. There is !
to-day a standing army in Maryland, an
organized militia force such as no other
State in the Union has, officered mainly by
returned rebels. When the time comes j
which he looks for, under some pretence
Johnson may declare Maryland and the
District of Columbia under martial law,
and call upon Governor Swann to bring
forth his militia. There is nothing will
deter Johnson from his purpose except
when the issue comes that his courage may
tai!, and l make this statement that
the American people may know the dan
ger that threatens their peace and safety.
What a rawhead and bloody bones this
is. the weak-kneed Senator from the plains
has concocted and published for the benefit .
of his Ohio Radical friends ? Neither he
nor a single respectable man in his audi
ence attached one feather's wrighc to this
ill contrived Roarlaek. Yet it will be
paraded before the people in all the Radi
cal papers, and many timid men will be
actually frightened into the belief that the
President is really contemplating force
in the carrying out of his views. This is
Radical truth and political honesty.
Death of a Centenarlan. —Mis.
Mary Arnold, probably the oldest woman
in the United States died at her residence
in Douglas street. Brooklyn, on the 25th
September, at the advanced ageofl 10 years.
Mrs. Arnold was born in Charleston, S. C.,
’ in 1758, and moved to Long Island in
j 1794, where she dwelt until her death.
| She was the mother of eight children, five
of whom are still living, the eldest being.
I 70 and the youngest 55 years of age.
A correspondent of the Rome Courier
urges the people of that section to aid in
| deepening the shoals of the Coosa river,
| in order to make it navigable at all times.
' He says that the river when once repaired
will not break down, as railroads some
times do.
We understand that the distinguished
- Georgian. Ex-Gov. llcrsehei 5 . Johnson,
i was in our city for a few hours yesterday,
i We regret that his stay was so short.—
1 Eufaula (.Ala,,) Actcs -bth.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 0, 1867.
The West as a Provision Country.
Kelley—the impressible Kelley—the man
who lost bis hat during the riot which his
own Lad temper and indiscretion aroused
in Mobile last Spring—Kelley, the extraor
dinary traveller, who rode for fifteen hun
dred miles in Georgia and the Carolinas,
over solid beds of gold, richer and thicker
than those of Golconda or the placers of
California —Kelley, the great Mogul of
Pennsylvania Radicalism —made a speech
the other day in Springfield, Ohio, in
which he laid before the Buckeye men
some startling facts in relation to their
own productions and those of the South
ern Status.
He tells the Western grain-growers that
they never can compete with the nations
of Europe and with our own people of the
Pacific States, in the growth, production
and sale of wheat, corn, aud other cereals.
That the freights on grain from the
Western States over their splendid lines
of railways to the great markets of the
East and to our Atlantic ports, are greater
than the charges for 23,000 miles of water
carriage from California to New York.
He tells them that the expenses to the
Minnesota farmer is one bushel out of two
for freight and charges in getting his crop
to market.
But the most astounding declaration made
by the valiant Kelley in his long speech is
tlhijotiowing. A democratic speaker had
the night before in the same place spoken
of the South as an agricultural people.—
This the. Hon. Mr. Kelley indignantly de
nied in the following words: “Itell you,
without the fear of contradiction, that the
Southern people are not an agricultural
people. That is not an agricultural people
or agricultural country which depends on
other people and other States for food for
man and beast; and the South does that.”
This discovery of the learned M. C. will,
if true, give him high rank among the
learned and distinguished discoverers of
the age. We had thought—history has
declared, and the judgment of the world
lias sustained the declaration—that we were
exclusively an agricultural people.
Evidently the assumed fact that the
Southern States “dependon other people
and States for their food” induces the
declaration that we are not an agricultural
people. A little further on in this remark
able speech he tells the Western people
they have been laboring under a great
mistake in supposing that they have ex
ported •to foreign countries any large
amount of their agricultural productions—
he asserted that not one or certainly not
more than two per cent, of their produc
tions have been disposed of in that direc
tion. On the contrary he says:
“ Tho Western and Northwestern States
have imported annually from England
largely more of food for man and beast
than they have exported to the British
Islands or the manufacturing nations of
Europe.”
He warns the people, of Ohio and
the Great West against encouraging
the delusion that they have the
control of the great grain markets of this
continent, and, after opening his long
harangue with the declaration that the
Southern people are not agriculturists,
he proceeds to warn the West -sgainst the
power of the South in controlling the grain
aud provision business of the country.
He urges them to give up the raising of
corn, pork, wheat and this class of pro.
vision crops, and devote themselves to the
production of beet root, the development of
their mineral resources and the establish
ment of manufactories. Ho says :
“1 come to tell you, as the whole of my
message, that if you go on raising wheat,
corn, pork and beef, in the hope of selling
it to the South, you will be waisting your
| labor—l come to tell you thatthe markets of
the East will no longer be open to you, as
they have been, for those very men who
hold you in subjection, who prevented you
from making wealth of your coal, lead aud
water-power, who prevented you from
spinning and weaving your own wool and
engaging in the commerce of tho world,
are to-day between you and your markets
and devoting their energies to the culture
of wheat, corn, rye, buckwheat, beef and
pork. Day before yesterday I saw Ala
bama aud Mississippi corn being deliver
ed by the boat load in St. Louis, and a
drove of long-horned Texas cattle driven
through tho streets, that would have glad
dened the eye of any cattle fancier. I as
sure you that they are entering the field
against you, and that tiiey lie between
you and tho sea-board.
“ You may say they cannot raise wheat!
/I teil you they can, and will, aud that this
year they have done it and taken tho cream
off the market of New York. Louisiana
and Texas wheat can he sold in New York
| in May ; Georgia wheat follows it imme
diately; South Carolina next, and Ala
| barna succeeds ; and lastly North Carolina
and Virginia. Southern Illinois wheat
comes in with that of the two latter ; the
i wheat of Wisconsin and Minnesota will
j come in the market when tho South has
I sold as much as she is prepared to sell.”
| This is certainly a very extraordinary
| flow of agricultural productions from a
people and a country not agricultural.
The South—no longer a profitable consumer
of the provision crops of the great West —
has actually become a large exporter of
breadstuff's and beef to the great cities of
the W est. The Southern wheat growers are
driving the Western farmers from the
Northern markets, and the Texas cattle
breeders have invaded the domain of the
; great West with the fat bullocks grown on
j the rich grasses of their beautiful prairies.
Sees the Handwriting on the Wall.
“ But the day approaches—nor is it
distant—when the Republican party will
deeply deplore its infatuation; when its
eyes will bo opened to the dangers which
threaten it; when the folly of committing
it to the leadership of Sumner, Stevens,
Butler, etc., etc., will be apparent; and
when the attempt to demoralize suffrage
by the admission of masses of persons who,
as is admitted in a national appeal, are
‘ignorant of tho means by which suffrage
is expressed, 7 will recoil, not merely to
‘plague the inventors,’ but to jeopardize,
if not overthrow, our Republican ascend
ancy.”—‘[Thurlow Weed.
If wc are not greatly mistaken, - he sensi
ble and cautious of the Radical leaders
have already .seen the day in which they
deplore the blind infatuation which has
led them to the destruction of their party
and brought imminent peril to the Govern
ment itself. They see already that the
blind, tyrannical and malignant schemes of
the Rump Congress to place the virtue
and intelligence of the South at the mercy
and under the heel of the ignorant and
debauched blacks, are about to terminate
in the establishment iu the ten Southern
States of negro governments, in which the
rights and franchises of the whites will be
forever destroyed and their own pet
schemes of reconstruction rendered abortive.
They find that the white people ot the
South canno*: be either cajoled or fright
ened into an acceptance of their unconsti
tutional and revolutionary plans—that they
reject and despise their schemes of recon
struction —that they are determined to
plant themselves upon the Constitution of
the country and appeal to the conservative
masses of the North for aid aud support in
the struggle. The revolutionists already
perceive the mighty groundswell of
popular sentiment at the North turning in
favor of constitutional liberty, and hence
it is, the more sagacious of their leaders,
like Weed, Bennett and Fessenden, are
vainly striving to induce them to abandon
their heresy of universal suffrage, cease
their reviiings and persecutions of the
Southern whites aud return to their
allegiance to the Constitution of the
country.
It is too late now for them to change
front. The enemy are too close upn them.
Already their strongest outposts have
been stormed and taken. The centre of
their lines quiver and waver under the
effects of the terrible charge which is
being made upon it in the great States of
Ohio. New Y'ork and Pennsylvania.
Victory is about to perch upon the banners
of conservatism and the death-kneil of
Radicalism will soon be sounded throughout
the length and breadth f this fair land.
Dedic \tion of a Jewish Synagogue
in The new synagogue on
the corner of State and Montgomery
streets Savannah, we learn irom the Ad
vertiser. was dedicated on I riday evening.
Rev. Mr. Lewin delivered a and
addresses were made by
| Gerstman and S. L. Bvck. The congre
; cation that is to worship. in it is n.nown
j under the style of “B'nai B nth Jacob.
General Sickles an p Marshal
| Goodloe. —United States Marshal Good
loe publishes in the RaleiA Register, of
which he is the editor, a fpply to the
j elaborate defence of General Sickles. He
-hows the absurdity of Gsj3ral Sickles'
! statement that he had not’made an issue
with the United States but Yaat a
i subordinate of that court had made an
j issue with the military authority, and
makes it clear that there was no course for
, him (Goodloe) but to execute the judg
; rnents of the court placed iff his hands.
When he was resisted in hissuty by Gen
eral Sickles’ subordinate he the
| facts to the United States-District At
: torney, who ordered him toßiako another
| effort, and if resistance w3* again made
i to report the facts to the Attorney-Gener
! al, who would have the military officer
indicted under criminal iawsoi the United
States. The removal of Gfneral Sickles,
i however, made it possible f ‘iff the marshal
| to execute the judgments of the court
: On the main point in controversy with
I General Sickles, Mr. Goodlao says :
If New York or Massachusetts cannot
l establish a Stay law, it will |ot _be gener
' ally conceded that General Sickles had
1 more right as Commander of District No.
2, than these States, to abrogate the na
tional Constitution. But tail is immateri
al to his issue of forc-> wpl the United
States Court. If it be oojfcißed that he
may establish a State it will still
‘be impossibleto-adroitcan over
ride the Constitution and laws of the
United States, which the President has
taken an oatli to see faithfully executed.
To do so would be to confer on the com
manders the right to abolish the internal
revenue laws, and the tariff laws, or _to
suspend their operation in their respective
districts ; or, that being absolute, as Gen
eral Sickles claims, they may _ appropriate
the revenues collected to their own high
purposes. It is in vain, therefore, for him
to insist upon tho expediency of abolishing
the law of 1790, in order that the United
States Courts may be put on a footing with
those of the States. He must first show
his power to do so.
A Split in the Radical Party.—
Current rumors that the Radicals of our
city had a big row at a secret meeting held
one night this week, received confirmation
from a handbill that made its appearance
yesterday. The handbill is a call for a
meeting to nominate delegates to the Con.
vention, and to it are appended only the
names of men who, according to the re
ports above alluded to, comprise one of the
wings of the party. Even the names of
the great “Organizer” and the Chief
Registrar do not appear on the handbill,
and it is said that they are particularly
interested in the nominations and the man
ner ot making them. The following are
the names appended to the call:
R L Mott, Jos E Webster,
T M Hogan, Enoch Willet,
It W Jaques, J W Duer,
R Coleman, Van Jones,
C W Chapman, Phillip Monroe,
Daniel Harris, R Sullivan,
E Breedlove, R B Bailey,
Edmund Thomas, Jas C Hogan,
W H Johnson, A T Calhoun,
Leonidas May, Enoch Dudley,
C W Arnold.
Committee : H G Bonnet, T Rhodes,
Jerry Terry, A Smith, 11 Hudson.
O. Saunders, Cha’n of Comm.
According to report, the quarrel in the
Radical meeting grew out of a difference
as to the mode of making this very call.
The defeated faction, it is said, wanted the
nominations to be made in the secret
meetings of the League, while the majority
insisted on the mode announced by hand
bill. The dispute was very bitter and of a
personal character. The wing that carried
its point is believed to be the more moder
ate of the two; but whether it can maintain
its advantage when the strength of the
party is more fully cabled out, remains to
be seen. — Columbus Enquirer Sept. 27 th.
Negro Suffrage finder Full Headway—
Voting Away the (jredit of (Jities.
The Richmond Dispatch says : ‘‘A care
ful examination of the polls of the vote on
tho corporate subscription of $2,000,000
to tho stock of tho Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company by the city of Rich
mond enables us to give tho following
comparative statement of the white and
colored votes :
WHITE. COLORED.
Ward. Fur. Against. Fur. Against.
Jefferson 149 6 978 2
Madison 264 46 465 2
Monroe 202 107 1,229 5
Total... 565 159 2,762 9
Here, upon a vote four to one black, the
city’s credit is given away. The Constitu
tional i ’onvention, just adjourned, refused
to permit tho electors of our own cities
thus to vote away tho property of their
fellow-citizens, and impose upon them in
definite taxation.
Yet this power is given to and wielded
by the negro class under the military dic
tation at the South. The Virginia whites
are struck from the poll lists, and their
property disposed of by the colored voters.
It is in such hands, too, that public
credit is to be reposed. A population
ignorant of the idea of national credit, and
unconscious of mercantile honor, its value,
or its obligation, will one day or other be
appealed_to with the cry of “repudiation.”
On one side will stand taxation, the excise
on cotton, tobacco, and whiskey, and on
the other the abstraction called public
faith. Who doubts which will go to the
wall ?
To degrade the suffrage is the first step
in the game of the Radical revolutionists.
To destroy it afterward is the intention of
these enemies of liberty. —Albany Argus.
Radical Love for Foreigners. —Mr.
Greeley calls the Germans the “rum-lov
ing and school-hating Dutch.” The act
ing Vice President of the United States,
the Radical Ben. Wade, is perambulating
the State of Ohio, delivering speeches in
which he asserts the superiority of the
negro over the foreign-born American citi
zen. In his speech at Marietta, he insult
ed the hundreds of thousands of foreign
born by the remark that the “negroes are
infinitely more intelligent in whatever qual
ifies a man to vote than the voters of
foreign birth.” This is the style in which
Radicals talk of foreign born citizens who
are independent enough to question the in
fallibility of the Radical party. They
would abuse the German Radicals of this
city as heartily as they do the Irish, if they
should refuse to vote the Radical ticket.
They are doing it now in lowa, because
the Germans are organizing in opposition
to Radical tyranny in the matter of license
and Sunday laws. But the German Rad
icals in St. Louis are humble and submis
sive, and fly as the bob-tail to the Radical
party, whose leaders in Ohio say that the
foreign born, when they come to vote,
“know no more than the horse they drive.”
— St. Louis Republican.
On the street, yesterday, it was generally
understood that the grand convocation in
this city of the shining lights of the Loyal
Leagues ended in disaster, and that
Radical stock yesterday was at a discount
on ’change. It appears that the important
question cf negroes holding office was
warmly discussed, and, as the poor, duped
negro discovered that the “buzzard” fell
to Iris lot all the time, and his chances for
"turkey” were gradually growing smaller,
his iudignation was aroused —and “that is
what’s the matter with Hanna!” The
result is, we are told, to be a full-fledged
ebony ticket for the Convention. Does
everybody want to buy an’elephant ? It
is understood that the Radicals have one
for sale ! —Atlanta Intelligencer, 29 tli.
A Nigger in the Fence.— The State
Constitutional Convention has adjourned
until one week after the State election ,
thus openly telling the public that it is
afraid at present to go before the people
on such points as are put in that instru
ment, especially the pointofnegrosuffrage.
This is au attempt to dodge popular in
dignation ; but the people will have to
give such a majority against the Repub
lican party, on even a bare ticket, that the
leaders will be startled out of their wild
notions into something like political de
cency, and then we may have a constitu
tion presented eventually with something
in it that that the Deople wish there, —
N. Y. Herald.
A Remarkable Case of Longevity.
—Died, in this city, on the 16th Sept,
in the family of Thomas H. Hill,. a negro
woman (an imported native African), by
the names C'iara. at the age ol 104 years.
She often walked five miles, to this city, in
an hour and a half, to see her daughter
and acquaintances. She never tost her
eyesight, and could thread a needle and
do ail ordi: ry kinds of sewing. Also,
could spin the finest kinds of thread, and
was always at work, although she had
been excused from labor for many years by
her owners. —Macon Journal & Messenger.
[communicated. )
Madison, Ga., Sept. 23,1567.
Gentlemen : Thinking it might be a
matter of some interest to sketch a scene
that transpired in our quiet town to-day,
I have concluded to drop you a line giving
a short synopsis of two speeches made at
a meeting held to-day. The recent plat
! form put forth by Mr. Hubert, on Relief
; and Reconstruction, brought out a notice
from Georgia’s champion on relief that he
would address the citizens of this county
to-day on that subject and reconstruction,
and he desired all colors to attend. At the
hour appointed the proclamation was
made, and a goodly number of colored cit
izens assembled in the Court-room, and
some fifteen or twenty whites. Mr.
W. Jackson, iua short while, ascended the
Judge’s stand, and unfolded about half-a
quire of paper, and commenced reading a
speech, most of which you published some
twelve months since in your paper. It is
unnecessary that I attempt to sketch it
fully to your readers again; but will call
your attention to only a few points made
by him, which was not in his former pro
duction. His harangue was so disjointed
that it would weary any stenographer to
take it down. lie said there was a party
in G-eorgia for relief and reconstruction,
and those who did not favor this—black
or white—would not be recognized as fa . or
able to a Convention, and that they were
opposed to a Convention as well as the best
interest ol the country; and that the co
alition between these two interests would
carry the State by twenty thousand ma
jority; and, after a tirade against Shylocks
and those opposing Convention, he then
appealed to his colored friends to rally to
the friends of rebel, saying it was their in
terest to do so, for if parties were permit
ted to collect their debts most of the lands
would have to be sold, and as there was no
money iu the country the lands would
bring nothing, and be bought up by lbr
eigners, and they would not employ the
colored people as laborers, and the conse
quence would be that they would have to
leave the country ur perish, and it was to
their interest for the present owners of the
lands to retain them, as they would employ
the colored people. He further stated
that he had long been opposed to slavery,
and was always the friend of the blacks
—forgetting to say that he was an open
secessionist, and at one time, when a poor
tellow whose attachment was strong
enough to tho old Government to make
some indiscreet remark, was arraigned be
fore a public meeting, and a committee was
appointed to investigate the matter, and
reported to the meeting that, after investi
gation, if the gentleman would take the oath
of allegiance to the Confederacy, that was
all that was requisite. Mr. Jackson was the
only man in the meeting who was notsatis
fied, and, in a very patriotic speech de
clared that the gentleman ought to be
treated as General Pope recommended for
Ben. Hill and others; and it may be that,
after all, Jackson is the man who gave the
General the idea of banishing the re
fractory. But I have departed from the
subject. After about an hour’s harangue
about sustaining the action of the Gov
ernment, and relief in particular, the gen
tleman closed. The speech being as per
fect a medley of nonsense as was ever
crammed into the same number of words
by any one.
After Mr. Jackson had con
cluded a very respectable colored Baptist
Minister, who resides in our town, Allen
Clark, arose and asked the audience to
indulge him for a few moments as he de
sired to say a few words, and especially to
his colored friends. He said the colored
people had just become free, and knew
very little about the duty of citizenship,
and it was wrong in any gentleman to try
to come the demagogue over them, it
was tho duty of the white people to teach
what was right, and what their duty was.
It would be as criminal for an intelligent
man to mislead them as it would be to
mislead a child. He thought a kindly
feeling should be cultivated between the
races. The white man had the education
and the money, and the black man had the
mussle and endurance, aud, by proper
management, they could promote each
other’s happiness, and restore the country
to its wonted prosperity. We lived in one
country and one section, and our interest
was identical. Why not strive to promote
each other’s interest and happiness? The
black man was herclnot by his own act, and
he was made free not by his efforts. And
this, too, is his native home as well as the
white man’s. Why should there be any
animosity against him by the whites or
why should the black man have any
animosity'to the white man? There was
no reason on earth why there should be
any other,feeling than kindness; a common
interest required it should be so. He
would say to his colored friends that very
shortly they would be called upon to vote
for a Convention ; lie took it for granted
that most, if not all of them, would vote
for a Convention; this, he thought, was
right. He had met but very few of his
white friends but that had told him they
thought ho ought to vote fora Convention,
even those who were against a Convention
themselves, as it would be to the inter
est ofhi.s people to favor a Convention.
He then went on tell them what was
meant by a Convention, and exhorted them
to convince the white man they werecapa
ble of discharging the duties of citizenship.
This only could be done by selecting
honest and c tpable men for office, be they
who they may. Condemn bad men, of all
colors, and sustain good men without re
gard to color. Align yourself ou the side
of virtue, law and order, and the good
white man, ns well as the correct black
man, will sustain you ; otherwise they will
be against you, as they ought to. Your
future prosperity and welfare is in your
otvn hands—choose ye your position. A
great responsibility is resting upon you.
See to it that you are equal tothe occasion.
lie said his brother Jackson (he sup
posed he might so address him as they
were both iu the same Church) had ad
dressed you. Some few things he had
said he endorsed, but much he said ho was
opposed to, and particularly on tho subject
of’ relief, as he called it. Ho could not
see what connection it had with the Con
vention. It was true Mr. Hulbert, a man
he respected, had issued a circular rec j
ommending a blending of the two, but he |
was glad to say he did not do it officially— j
only as an individual. The Convention was
called, as he understood, to frame a Con
stitution and not to look after the in- !
debtedness of parties. That was the j
duties of courts and not Conventions. It j
had no connection with the Convention, ]
and ought not to, and he looked upon it as
a misfortune that it ever was attempted to
be thrust into this canvass, and he hoped |
that repudiation would be condemned by |
his people. He would advise them not, ]
by the first vote they over cast, to suffer i
themselves to be made the instrument of I
being the means of placing a foul blot on
the character of the State of Georgia. If 1
such a thing was done_, let it be done by
Mr. Jackson andhis friends, and not by the
colored voters of the State or not by
co-operation with men to entail such a dis
grace on the State. The Convention was
called to form a Constitution. The great
object of the Constitution being to secure
the citizens of the State, of every color, in
the enjoyment of life, liberty and property,
and not to interfere with, or in any way
abridge, these privileges and rights. If a
citizen’s life is taken to punish the party
taking the life, or, if endangered, to pro
vide means to protect the_ life of the citi
zen ; or, if the liberty is interfered with,
to give redress in damages or otherwise for
the interference and to take steps to
protect il in the future, and if a person’s
property is interfered with to provide
means to restore it or to give damages to
the extent of injury; and if a per
son labor for another, or stll
them property or loan others money
to provide remedies to compensate
them for their labor and their property
sold or to collect the money loaned, and if
the Convention fails in accomplishing these j
ends it will fall that much short of dis- :
charging its duty. It will not be its
province to relieve men of paying their
just debts. It would be a disgrace to the
Convention and to its constituency. For
he did not look upon it as being honest to
try to relieve a man from paying his just
debts. He would say to his brother
Jackson that if he could find, anything to
justify it in the Bible, he had read it very
different from what he had. He would
put a case: suppose that he had sold Mr.
Jackson a tract ofland before the war for
a thcrusand dollars, and Mr. Jackson was
still in possession of the land and he had j
his notes, would it be right to relieve Mr. j
J ackson from paying the notes and let him
keep the lands i Does he think it would
be honest for him to "hold it under such 1
circumstances, even if a Convention could j
be elected corrupt enough to pass such an
ordinance? Again, what would be the
difference between buying it direotly from
a party or borrowing the money from \
another and paying for it with another
man’s money, and let the debt be repudi- ;
ated and the’purchaser returned the land ? ]
M ould such a course be inculcating honesty j
in a people for a Convention to counte
nance any such a course as this? He
thought not. And he was sure the whole
world would look upon us as a batch of
thieves if we were to do any such a thing.
The gentleman says we have just passed
through a great war and we are ruined.
I Then let us give up what we have got and
! commence again.
| I heard a white friend say the other day
! the State allowed a homestead of fifty
acresoi land and other property, amounting
to about five hundred dollars in ali, and
that a bill was passed last Congress allow
| ing five hundred more to the debtor, the
| two, in his language, making a man well
; off and releasing him from his debts also.
" h.v, this is more than three-fourths of the
j white people have, and more than any
black man has. Why, sir. we should think
ourselves well off with half of it. Give a
black man that much land and he would
; think his fortune was made.
But why take away from the creditor
J and give to the debtor? Give us a reason
j for it. I heard none in your speech. I
I am against taking away from any ; but if
j wc must doit, let us not give it back to a
[ few, but let us have a general division. If
; we take from the creditor a lien on j our
I Hnd a »d other property do not let us give
the entire land to you, but let you have fifty
| acres—that is as much as you can cultivate.
| The balance we will give to the thousands
ot poor houseless and homeless blacks aud
j whites. Would not that look better ?
Either would look bad, but I must insist
J upon the last as being the programme of
the recoustructionists if relief must be re
sorted to. This is what such a doctrine
will lead to. But once commence to take
from one and you will give to the other,
and there is but one more step to a general
division of property. And it will come if
you start this, if you succeeded in carrying
out your programme, you will not long be
permitted to enjoy your lands above fifty
acres. Asa very large majority of your
future voters do not own a foot of land,
and if they took your land from your credi
! tor and gave it to you they will expect you
to give them a portion. For it would be
nothing but right it should be, so as there
ought to bo au honest division amongst
thieves. Let us have our part if we are
to be used to rob others. Lc tho spoils
be equally divided. I trust ,uch a scene
will never be enacted in Georgia, and that
the lately enfranchised citizens will scorn
the coalition. Let us show to the world,
though we are poor, houseless aud home
less, we have one virtue which is above
price—that is honesty. By so acting and
voting we will command tho respect of the
whites and of our section, and we will con
vince_ thecivilized world that we arc worthy
of beingfree men, and of participating in
the best government the world ever knew.
Let our aim be to make a Constitution that
will secure to all political rights equally,
and let us give no occasion for our white
friends to discard us. The gentleman
says if the creditor is not stayed from col
lecting his just dues the lands of tho South
will be sold, and there being no money
here it will _be bought up by foreigners,
and they will not employ you ? Why will
they not ? Because your skin is black.
This a scarecrow. For I assure you that
if you prove yourselves efficient laborers
those seeking labor will never bo driven off
by your color, it makes no difference where
he is from, or who he is. Do your duty
when you are employed by others and
they will not stop to inquire about your
color.
My colored friends select intelligent, up
right and honest men to represent you ;
be not the dupes of men who arc solely
after securing their property that rightly
belongs to others. They will deceive you
when they accomplish their pur
pose. The honest, upright man will
fulfil his promise to you. Give no
cause of quarrel with your white
friends; be their friends; act honestly
with them;. secure their respect. As
they have the intelligence and information,
they can aid us, and will do it, if we are
just to ourselves. We, necessarily, will
have to be laborers for them, for we are
poor ; they have the money, what there is
in the country ; they have the lands, and
we must work for a living. Let us es
tablish a Constitution that will work for
the good of all. Do not start out
with the first political act you ever
exercised, by robbing one portion of the
community for the benefit of the other.
If white men will not vote (or the Conven
tion without being bought by robbing
others, why let them vote against it. By
so acting it will be better for us in the end.
“ Honesty is the best policy in al! things.”
If it was not it would be a great mis
fortune. The speaker said many other
good things to his colored friends and
■closed. .
Mr. Jackson then again came to
tho stand, and said that Alien Clark had
abandoned the party, and he would advise
them not to listen to his advice, as the
rulers had laid down the programme and
they must.stand up to it; and that ‘‘relief”
was one of the planks in the platform, and
after a few other words, closed his address.
When he concluded there was a general
call for Alien Clark, who came forward
and stated that lie desired to take a vote,
and asked ail his colored friends who
favored his views to hold up their hands—
when almost every one held up their
hands. Ho stated that relief was no part
of the platform of the party, and the
circular had been issued to catch the votes
of such men as Mr. Jackson. He thought
it bad policy and he should condemn the
measure; and he would take occasion to
reply to any of the party of Mr. Jackson’s
creed, whenever they attempted to lead
the colored people into any policy so
unjust and wrong as that would be. Andi
he would notify them that it could not be j
carried out by the agency of the colored
people. They had too much respect for |
their reputation as well as the reputation |
of the State. The meeting then closed,
much to the mortification of Jackson and
his few friends. We think that Allen has
spiked_ that gun for the balance of the
campaign. Reporter.
Second Military District.
Charleston, September 29. —General
Canby has issued Genera! Orders No. 92,
as follows :
1. Numerous and well-founded repre
sentations having been made that illegal
and oppressive taxes have boon imposed in
different sections of the States of North
and South Carolina, it is ordered: That
the collection of taxes be suspended in tho
following cases:
First —Whenever any tax is or shall be
imposed, otherwise than under tho author
ity of the Government of the United
States, which, by the terms of the act im
posing tho same, or by the action of the
public authorities thereunder, shall apply
to any property or rights parted with, or
any transaction made and completed prior
to the adoption of the act authorizing the
same.
Second —Whenever tho power of Con
gress to regulate commerce with foreign
nations and among tho several States is
impugned by the imposition of taxes dis
criminating in commercial transactions in
favor of resident citizens and against the
citizens of foreign nations or of other
_States of the United States.
Third —Whenever any tax is or shall
hereafter be imposed for tho purpose of
discharging any obligation contracted in
aid and furtherance of the rebellion
against’the Government and authority of
the United States, or to reimburse tho
public treasury, or any local body or pubiie
officer or other person for any expenditure
on account of any such obligation or pre
tended obligation.
Commanding officers of posts are author
ized to suspend the collection of any tax
embraced in paragraph I, reporting their
action and the grounds and all proof* re
lating thereto to these Headquarters.
From Savanna!) —Serious Disturbance.
Savannah, September 30, p. m.—One
Aaron Bradley (mulatto) of Boston, who
has been several times arrested by the
military and civil authorities for swindling
negroes and exciting disturbances, had a
gathering here to-day of some thousand
negroes, mostly from the country. Iu the
course of his harangue against the white
men and in favor of the distribution of
lands, the Conservative negroos interrupt
ed him, when a melee occurred. A large
force cf police charged through the crowd.
The military came to their aid, and, to
gether. cleared the square. The muskets
brought in by a large band of country
negroes wero taken by the police anil
turned over to the military. A large pro
portion of the colored population disap
prove of Bradley’s conduct and threaten to
assassinate him. The entente cordiale be
tween the city government and military
affords great satisfaction to all classes, ex
cept the ignorant adherents af Bradley.
[second DESPATCH.]
Savannah, September 30, p. m. — All
quiet now. Disturbances, however, are
threatened between the country and Con
servative colored people of the city to
night. General Anderson, Chief of Po
lice, has given orders to arrest every dis
orderly person, regardless of color or poli
tics. The military remain under arms,
but their services probably will not bo
needed. A large number of arrests of the
rioters haVe been made. Several of the
ringleaders will probably be sent to Fort
Pulaski by the military authorities.
From New York.
New York, September 29. — General
Scon’s will has just been probated. He
bequeathes his Pulaski sword to West
Point and that worn in the Mexican war
to his grandson, Winfield Scott Hoyt.
NEW SERIES YOL. XXVI. NO. 40.
LATEST FI!0>I WASHINGTON.
From the World. 2~lh.
EXPOSURE OF TIIE LIES ABOUT THE PRES
IDENT'S TERRIBLE INTENTIONS.
Washington, September26.—Tho letter
of Senator Howard, telegraphed all over
the country from Detroit, relative to the
! declarations of a penny paper of this city
! that Senators who had'expressed an opiu-
I ion on impeachment shall not be peruiit-
I ted to sit in judgment on Andrew John
! son, and that as a consequence, according
! to Mr. Howard, the President intends to
j do violence to Congress, may be a part of
| the Radical scheme inaugurated by Senator
[ Thayer at Cincinnati to frighten the States
j of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York
into voting the Radical ticket. If so. it
is hardly worthy of the official contradic
tion which I obtained for Thayer's
stupendous tale; but it is not a part of
this scheme. I have the highest authority
for stating that the declaration in question
was made solely on the responsibility of
the writer of’the article in tho Evening
Union. It never received Executive au
thority, suggestion, or intimation; and
the President is no more responsible for
it than he is for tho malignant and erratic
Senator Howard. Tho Maryland miitAv,
which Mr. Howard drags into this sb
ealled contemplated Presidential coup
d'etat is, so far as tho Executive is con
cerned, a mere myth. He has never heard
of itexeept in the columns of Radical news
papers. > Tho contradiction of these fabrica
tions is of course beneath tho dignity of
the Executive. They are on a par with the
falsehoods that the President contemplat
ed, as stated over three weeks ago, reopen
ing registration and the postponement of
tho Southern elections. I may add that
these terrible revelations of the inaugura
tion of revolution by tho Executive still
continue to amuse Mr. Johnson, though
such Radical Senators as Mr. Howard, of
Michigan, and Mr. Thayer, of Nebraska,
may persist in trying to pass them off as
of genuine coinage. I have based this
dispatch on information derived from a
proper source.
A STOCK-JOBBING CANARD.
The paragraph started in an Eastern
paper that Secretary McCulloch has de
cided to sell twenty millions of gold is a
mere stock-jobbing canard. 'The Secretary
is at present relieving the money market
by the 3 per cent, loan certificate, which
will give the banks all the legal-tender re
serve they need to meet the wants of bor
rowers.
DISCHARGE OF CLERKS.
In pursuance of General Grant’s re
trenchment policy, 180 clerks were dis
charged from the Quartermaster’s Depart
ment to-day.
INFORMATION FOR MARINERS.
The Eight-house Board gives official
notice that the light-station at Tybee
Island, on the northeast end of the island,
south side entrance to the Savannah River,
Georgia, lias been re-established, and the
lights will be exhibited therefrom on the
evening of October 1,1867. The illumina
ting apparatus ol'tho main lightisai'resnel
lens of the first order, showing a fixed
white light. Tho focal plane is 150 ft.
above sea level, and the light should bo
seen in clear weather a distance of twenty
two miles. The tower is a brick octagonal
in form, colored white, surmounted by a
black lantern. Tybee beacon light will be
situated in front of the main light at a dis
tance of twenty-six hundred feet, and is
designed as a range light in crossing the
bar entrance to Savannah River.
From tho Times.
FRAZER, TRENHOLM & CO.
The ease of the Government vs. Frazer,
Trenholm A Cos., which lias occupied so
much time in the English Courts with so
little chance of success, is now in fair way
of settlement on conditions advantageous to
the Government. Mr. Wagner, of Charles
ton, a partner of tho firm, together with
James 13. Campbell and Ex-Governor
Magrath, their counsel, and Ex-Governor
Ward, of Georgia, counsel for the outside
creditors, have been here for the past week
endeavoring to arrange the case. It will
be remembered that iu the English Courts
the ease of the United States vs. Prioleau,
English partner of the firm, has never
made much progress. The settlement of
Morse and Gibbs was fortunately repu
diated by our Government. And in May
last, shortly before the failure of tho firm,
the Treasury Department instituted a suit
la equity against Geo. 4. Trenholm, W.
L. Trenholm, D. A. Welsman and T. D.
Wagner, the Charleston members of the
firm, and by injunction prohibited them
from disposing of any of tho property held
either in the firm name or individually.
In tho meantime the private creditors,
whose claims reach in the aggregate :£500,-
000 sterling, have commenced proceedings,
and to their surprise find that George a’.
Trenholm claims to have gone out of tho
firm two years ago, and that W. L. Tren
holm and Welsman also claim to have left
it about a year ago. And further, that
nearly all the property of tho firm, which
consists mostly of real estate, is held in
tlioir individual names. They, therefore,
threaten to put the partners into involun
tary bankruptcy, and as tho Government
injunction has completely tied up every
thing, and as the firm fears tho proceed
ings by the private creditors will bo car
ried into effect, they find themselves in
such a situation as compels them to make
overtures to the Government for a settle
ment ot its claims, which matter is now
pending aud will probably bo brought to a
satisfactory conclusion very soon.
LATER.
Frazer, Trenholm <fc Co.—The settle
ment of the case of the Government against
Frazer, Trenholm A Cos., alluded to at
length iu these dispatches iast night, has
been consummated. The negotiations
were cone! tided to-day, and Messrs. War
ner, Magrath and Campbell left for Charles
ton to-night. The Treasury Department,
for reasons of policy, declines to make tho
terms public just at present, but there is
warrant for saying that tho terms of the
settlement are fully as favorable as the
Government has ever hoped for.
Trill TAX ON TOBACCO.
The delegations of tobacco manufactur
ers winch arrived hero yesterday, for the
purpose of securing changes in tho new
regulations for bonded warehouses, had
interviews to-day with tho Secretary of
the Treasury and the Commissioner oi' In
ternal Revenue. Their requests are held
under advisement.
From iAc Herald.
REPORTF,I) HEAVY REVENUE FRAUDS IN
NEW YORK.
The Treasury Department has, it is
stated, received a report from J. H
Wiggin, Treasury Agent in New York
city, to the effect that he has caused an
attachment to be made upon the personal
property of Mr. H enry Hart, of New York
tothe amount 0f§400,600, to indemnity the
United States for losses alleged to have
been sustained through the frauds of
himself and accomplices. Tho method on
which the alleged swindling scheme was
organized is as follows: Mr. Hart, to
gether with Messrs. George Com mack,
Hcfior, Long and Denton, ora portion of
them, established a warehouse at Nos. 290
and 291 West street. New York. The
warehouse was established in the name of
Henry Dong, was bonded,and an Inspect
or of Customs was duly appointed. The
inspector, however, proved, it is alleged,
to have boon in confederation with the
company. The plan of operation was to
abstract brandy and other liquors from
the casks and barrels in the warehouse,
and HU the casks with water, and to take
cut the segars from the boxes aud fill the
boxes with shavings, earth, &c. The
goods thus abstracted by steal th were as
secretly carried away "and disposed of
without one cent of duty having been paid
upon them. These alleged frauds have
reached to many th ousand dollars, but the
business lias been broken up, tho guilty
parties are in custody, and, as before
stated, measures have been adopted to
recover the losses.
THE LOUISIANA ELECTION.
There is considerable anxiety here in
official circles about the Louisiana elec
tion, which takes place to-morrow. Dele
gations oi Radicals and Conservatives from
New Orleans have been here for tho past
two days besieging the President and Gen.
Grant to instruct General Mower to post
! pone it. They have not, however, met
; with any sticoe though they have urged
j various oiras, airiungothers tho prevalence
-of the yellow fever. Both the President
j and General Grant have replied to them
, that tiiey do not know of any good reason
: why it should he postponed, nor are they
i aware of any good purpose to be accom
plished by a postponement. Besides,
General Grant ad vised the President that
it was now too Iqtc to think of changing the
arrangement already made; notification
having been given throughout the State
that the election would take place to-mor
row, it could not be postponed, General
Grant thinks, at this late hour, without
creating great confusion and disappoint
ment among the people of Louisiana. The
President takes the same view of the mat
ter, and the election will therefore takc
place as already arranged.
THE HABEAS CORPUS DISOBEYED BY ORDER
OF GENERAL SCHOFIELD IN RICHMOND.
A writ of habeas eryrpus issued by Judge
Meredith, of the Circuit of Richmond, was
disobeyed by order of General Schofield
under the following circumstances :—A
youth, sixteen years of age, who was en
listed in the "army in Georgia, in 1866,
against the wishes of his parents,'petition
ed to be brought before Judge Meredith,
under a writ cf/xd>eas corpus, in order
that fie aught obtain his discharge from
thy army. The petition was granted and
the petitioner brought before the Judge.
The hearing of the case was continued for
a week at the instance of the representa
tives of the Government, and when the
time e,rri ved for the examination tho fol
lowing communication, instead of the
body of the petitioner, was presented to tho
Judge
Office or tiii. Commandant of Libby )
Prison, Richmond, Sept. 26, H j 7. j
To the Judge of the Circuit Court of the City
of Richmond :—
I have the honor to inform you that I am
ordered by tho Major General command
ing this Military District not to obey a writ
of habeas corpus in the case of William
James Keebter, served on me by tho Cir
cuit Court of the city of Richmond.
Very respectfully, your obedient ser
vant, J. Kennington,
First Lieutenant Eleventh Infantry, brevet
Captain United States Army.
VISITQF A MARYLAND DELEGATION TO THE
PRESIDENT.
A committee, consisting of about twen
ty-five citizens of Prince George county,
Md., waited on the President with a copy
] ot t lie resolutions adopted at the Bladens
ourg meeting on Saturday last. In pre
senting the resolutions Mr. Browning, the
chairman, made a short speech, to: which
the President responded, thanking the
committee tor the compliment paid him,
and eiprossing the hope that our present
political difficulties will soon be adjusted
on the basis of the Constitution.
DISINTEGRATION OF UNION LEAUUES IN
VIRGINIA.
Information from the rural districts of
Virginia represent thatthe Union Leagues
formed by the Radical negropholists are
disintegrating. White men who joined for
fear of confiscation are becoming ashamed
of the company iu which they find them
selves, and the negroes begin to see that
they are to be the tools ot designing men
ami nothing more.
TUB CASE OP DR. BLACKBURN—REFUSAL OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO RECEIVE
HIS OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
The following letter was dispatched
to-day:
Department of State, )
Washington, September 25, 18(57. j
Z>. Thurston, Esq., V. 8. Consul, Toronto,
Canada: ,
Sir—Your dispatch of the 17th of Sep
tember, Xo. 223, has been received, with an
accompaniment, which is an affidavit con
taining an oath of allegiance, subscribed
by S. P. Blackburn and verified by your
self. I remit that paper to your care, with
permission to restore it to the affiant. I
assume that the paper was made and de
livered to you with a view to its being
filed in this Department, under provisions
of the President’s proclamation of pardon
issued on the 7tu of Seutcmber instant.
The affiant is understood to be the person
who is called Doctor Blackburn. Nothing
is known by this Department concerning
him as having directlv or indirectly par
ticipated in the late rebellion. All that is
known is taat lie lies under the charge of
felony, in this, that he conceived and put
into execution, within a foreign jurisdic
tion, a plot to disseminate contagion and
pestilence in this and oilier cities of tho
United States, by clandestinely trans
mitting for an unsuspicious market masses
of infected clothing taken lrom the corpses
of persons who had died of tiio yellow
fever in the tropics. It is not easy to un
derstand how an offence of that character
which is a detestable crime against man
kind, can be supposed, even by the felon
himself, to be entitled to be regarded as an
act of insurrection, rebellion or civil war.
The President’s proclamation offers no
immunity in this case.
I am, sir, your ob’t serv’t,
Wm. 11. Seward.
VIRGINIA POLITICS.
Charles 11. Porter, a Norfolk Radical
arrived in Richmond, Va., this morning
from a stumping tour iu the Piedmont
District, under the auspices of tho Con
gressional Republican Committee. Ho
reports that he found the negro vote pretty
equally divided between the white wing
and the Hunnicutt-negro wing of tho
Republican party.
Washington CorrespomU nee Boston Post, September 55.
SALE OF GOVERNMENT GOLD.
Secretary McCulloch’s currency funds
are short, and to meet tho daily demands
upon the Treasury another sale of "■old
will be made. Up to Saturday ovenim
last nine millions hail been sold during
the present month. Only thirty-live miU
lions of currency are now on deposit in
cluding the amounts in the various na
tional banks; of this, twenty-five millions
cannot bo drawn out under existing laws
This leaves Mr. McCulloch only ten mil
lions oi available funds to meet the current
demands. This necessitates a sale of a
portion of tho one hundred and seven
millions of gold now on hand, and I have*
good reason to believe that twenty mil
lions will be thrown upon the market this
week.
From Europe—By Cable.
11 uly.
Florenoe, Wednesday September 25, a.
o' became known here that
uaribaidi had been arrested and imprison
ed in the fortress of Alessandria, his par
tizans in this city were greatly exasperated,
and appearing in tho streets in crowds,
made a turbulent demonstration of sympa
thy for their leader. These manifestations
hnally developed into a riot, but the dis
turbance, though threatening, was sup
pressed by the prompt action and firmness
of tho Government.
Ail the volunteers of Garibaldi who had
gathered at various points on the Roman
frontier have been compelled to disperse
and retire by their.alum troops.
King Victor Emanuel has issued another
proclamation, in which he says that the
faith of the Government, pledged in its
treaties with foreign powers, exacted of it
tho painful duty of arresting Garibaldi, the
acknowledged leader of a movement in ui
reet violation of those treaties.
Florence, Wednesday, September 25,
noon. It is said that the Italian Govern
ment has offered to send Garibaldi to his
home in Caprcra, and relieve him of all
restraint, if he will give his parole not to
engage in further hostilities against the
Roman States.
Paris, Wednesday, September 25.
Tim Monday, and all the journals of an
official or semi-official character, this
morning praise the decision and firmness
of the King of Italy in preventing the
lawless invasion of Rome and maintaining
the faith of the treaty obligations, and say
that the conduct of the Italian Govern
ment in the matter affords another strong
guarantee for the peace of Europe.
Florence, Thursday, Sept. 20, a. m.
Attempts have since been made to renew
tlhe disturbances which occurred in this
city on the news of Garibaldi’s arrest; but
they all proved abortive. The Govern
ment, without resorting to the regular
troops, called out the National Guards and,
with their assistance, checked all out
breaks before they became formidable.
Florence, Thursday, Sept. 20, evening.
—Several men have been arrested here
by the police for participation in the recent
scenes of violence and disorder.
The city is now quiet. Reports from
all parts of Italy show that the condition
of the country is tranquil.
Great Britain.
London, Wednesday,, Sept. 25 —even
ing.—lntelligence has been received from
Dover Castle of shell a nature as to lead
to the fears of an attack on that place by
the benians. Arms have been sent down
to the garrison, and precautions have been
taken to prevent any such mad attempts.
Manchester, Wednesday, Sept. 25.
The special Commission for the trial of the
rioters will meet here in the month of
December.
London, Wednesday, Sept. 25. — The
session of the Pan-Anglican Synod at
Lambeth commenced yesterday morning
at J 1 o’clock. After prayers and Holy
Commission, Bishop Whitchou.se, of Illi
nois, ascended tho pulpit and preached the
opening sermon of the Conference. The
remainder of the day was occupied in lay
ing out the business and arranging the
general rules for the deliberation of the
Synod.
London, Wednesday, September 25,
evening.—The Newmarket races continued
to-day.
Knight of the Garter won tlie New-
I market Biennial, and Beauty the Handi
i cap sweepstakes. Owen Glyndwr won
| the Newmarket St. Loger, beating Troca
>lero and Ihfpia, who came in respective-
Ijy second and third, No other horses ran
in this race.
i London, Thursday, September 20.
Another trial of the Hodman gun was
made at Shoeburyness yesterday, by the
British naval and military officers. On
this occasion attention was particularly
directed to the quality of the powder
used and the strength of the charge. In
one ease the Rodman gun was loaded with
<jne hundred pounds of American service
great that the projectile passed entirely
through an eight-inch iron-plated target,
placed at a distance of seventy yards from
the gun. This tafgct is the one which
has been used a long time for these experi
ments, and has withstood some of the.
i severest tests.
| To-day was the third day of the ivew
| market races.
The Queen’s Plate was WQn by Lalcs-
I man.
I The Triennial Stakes were taken by
Uncos.
Glasgow, Thursday, September 20.
The firm of Walter & Hamilton, of this
city, has stopped payment. The liabilities
of the firm are believed to be small.
Bpain.
Madrid, Thursday September 26.—The
report that the Spanish Government had
recalled its fleet from the Pacific Ocean is
positively denied.
Belgium.
Brussels, Thursday September 26 —A
dispute has arisen between King Leopold,
of Belgium, and the Emperor of Austria
m regard to the settlement of the estate of
the late Emperor Maximilian.
The Canvass in Ohio.— Ohio is all
alive with excitement. A Democratic
meeting was held in Mansfield on the 20th,
15,000 people were present. At
.'jiuersburg, on the 24th, Judge Thurman
and Mr. Peudleton addressed 20,000 Demo
crats ; one of the largest demonstrations
of the campaign. At Bryan, on the 24th,
Mr. Leßlond addressed a gathering of
15,000 Democrats. As at these places, so
throughout the State, the Democrats are
meeting in vast numbers to protest against
Radical misrule and defeat negro suffrage.
The German Democrats, too, are holding
meetings in every part of the State, and
some of the most effective speakers in th<j
\Yest are enlisted in their behajf.