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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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WEDSF.SUAY MOK.VI.YG, OCTOBER3O.
f)r>. Henry Ravknrl, formerly one of
the largest cotton planters in South Caro
lina, died on the 18th instant, aged eighty
years.
COSORE.HBIONAL RAILROAD COMMITTEE.
—The Congressional Railroad Committee
has arrived in Charleston. They leave for
Savannah to day. •
Personal. —The many friends of our
old arid esteemed fellow-citiicn, Mr. John
Rones, will be pleased to learn that he ar
rived in New York Thursday last from
Ireland.
Bihiioi* Lynch. —Right Rev. P. N.
Lynch, Catholic Bishop of Charleston, ar
rived homo Friday from a visit to Rome.
Ho met with a hearty reception from his
congregation, an address being delivered
on the occasion by M. P. O’Connor, Esq.,
to which the Bishop replied.
Sudden Death.—ll. M. Akeroyd,
Esq., died suddenly of congestive chill
Sunday morning at tho Augusta Hotel.
Mr. Akeroyd was an Architect by profes
sion, and no man in tho South stood
higher in that calling. Ho had been a
resident of this city for nearly six months,
and had already built up a prosperous
business. During his brief sojourn he did
much for the improvement of our city,
and has left many warm friends. His
funeral services took place at the Catholic
Church Monday afternoon.
Not True.—Governor Jenkins is in
Washington, endeavoring to get General
Tillson, commanding the sub-District of
Georgia, removed. Cincinnati Gazette,
Oct. With, 186,.
In tho above three lines, copied from the
leading Radical organ in the West, we
find only two falsehoods. Governor Jen
kins is not in Washington seeking the re
moval of General Tillson; nor is General
Tillson in command of the suh-District of
Georgia.
Rn iimoni) Superior Court.—The ad
journed Term of this Court opened Mon
day, Judge Gibson presiding. On account of
tho failure to obtain juries, tho Court was
adjourned to half-past eight o’clock this
morning.
We have often had occasion to remark
how little respect is paid by parties, jurors
and witnesses in this county to the pro
cess of tho courts. In other counties ot
the circuit, none of which have more than
about half the population of Richmond,
juries are organized and ompannelled in a
very few minutes on 'he morning of tho
first day of Court. Here, several hours,
and frequently days, are consumed in ac
complishing whatought to be done in a few
minutes. Courts arc not without remedies
for such indifference to duty, and we think
that a prompt application of the remedy
hero would he productive of good results.
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia.- -The
Columbia Chronicle says;—“We learn that
Mr. W. A. Wright, so long and favorably
kliyw’ti to tho Southern travelling commu
nity as tho proprietor of the American
Hotel in Richmond during the war, has
become the Superintendent, of Nickerson’s
Hotel, undor the auspices of tho veteran
Nickerson, who remains in Augusta in
charge of tho Planters.
“Mr. R. Hamilton, theformer manager,
retires inconsequence of ill health, bearing
with him the good wishes of all with whom
ho has beon brought in contact.
“Mr. Wright has had much experieneein
the management of hotel affairs, is emi
nently popular, and knows how to cater to
tin; publio taste and stomach in tip-top
stylo. Success to him, and tho kindest of
farewells to his predecessor.”
The M (truoroLiTAN Record, —Through
evil and through good report, the
Metropolitan Record has stood square up
for tho South and the rights and liberties
of her pooplo. Before, during and since
tho war, this journal has advocated our
cause with a consistent earnestness and
sterling ability which commands even the
respect of the bittorest enemies of the
South. Actuated by integrity of purpose,
conscious devotion to the cause of truth
and Constitutional government, its editor
and proprietor, Mr. John Mullaly, is
entitled to the thanks of our pooplo and
his journal should receive that substantial
support which it so well deserves. In this
connection we are pleased to state that our
old friend and follow-citizen, Mr. Andrew
Stewart, has forwardod the Record, within
the last few weeks, over fifty subscribers.
This is very well; but we hope Mr.
Stewart will not weary in well doing until
he sends ten times fifty. The Record is
worthy of an immense patronage from our
people.
This Cotton Market. —As anticipated,
in Sunday',' edition, the cotton market
has improved. New York was active and
strong Monday, the sales amounting to
throe thousand bales at 20 cents—an ad
vance of fully half cent on Saturday’s
prices. It tnay be well to remark that this
advance in New York was on Liverpool ad
vices of Saturday, which reported he
market as having closed active at an ad
vance of id, Middling Upland being quot
ed at Sjd, Orleans Sjd. The land lines
connecting wit h the cable being out of or
der Monday, no reports were received
during business hours from Liverpool.
Under the favorable newt from New
York the home market wa> very active,
over eight hundred bales having changed
hands on a basis of 16}@17c for New
York Middling, which shows an advance
of from itihjeon Saturday's prices. The
operations are, however, confined to a few
parties buying on orders. Money is very
scarce and this scarcity checks business ;
but the prevailing prices here are vert
fair when compared with Liverpool and
New York, both of which is now tending
upward.
P. S.—Liverpool advices of Monday
noon, just received, report a firmermarket
than on Saturday, with estimated sales of
sixteen thousand bales. This news will
cause New York to advance at least halt
cent to-day, and will, of course, have a
correspondingly good effect on the home
market It would be advisable for our
planting friends to burry in their crop, and
avail themselves of the present ‘rise in the
luarki'. Delays are dangerous, and
there's no teiiing what a day may bring
forth.’’
Robert Carroll with E. F. Blod
gett & Co.—This popular Shoe and Boot
house have received this day, by Express,
one case of Miles’ A No. 1 hand sewed
Boots; one case of Ladies’ Congress
Gait-TS ; one case of Ladies' Morocco Bus
kins ; one case of Ladies' Serge Buskins;
one case of Ladies' very fine Calf Skin
Walking Boots, one case of Ladies’and
Genu' Toilet Slippers. All the above
goods are from Miles & Son and warrant
ed. *
Mass Meeting of the Democract in
Cleveland. — Cleveland, October 20.
The Democracy held a mass meeting last
night in honor of their recent victories.
Judge Thurman and others made ad
dresses. The Pott buildings and some
private residences were brilliantly iliu
juinated.
Colton -The Duty of Planters.
Complaints are daily made, in our hear
! ing, that planters are not sending foward
i their cotton to meet obligations made
!in the spring and summer with
factors and merchants for supplies to carry
on their planting operations. We hope
that the failure to send their crops to mar
ket promptly this fall is attributable to
other motives than that which is gen
erally given—a disposition to evade a
settlement with their factors. The fall
has been a very favorable one for gather
ing the crop, and we hope that the effort
to save it while the good weather con
tinues has been the main cause why the
crop has not come more freely to market.
But planters should r-member thatwhi'.eit
may be more convenient and profitable to
them to devote their entire time and
labor to housing the crop, that justice to
the merchant, who, at great inconvenience
arid trouble to himself, made these ad
vances, without which no crop would have
been'raised, requires that these obligations
should bo promptly met and settled.
Very few of our merchants had sufficient
means of their own to make advances to
the Planters. They had, in almost every
instance, to borrow the money with which
they accommodated their friends. The
good faith and credit of the merchant —his
promptness in meeting his obligations at
all hazards, enabled him to borrow money
which the Planter couid not, upon his own
credit and responsibility, have obtained.
The credit of a merchant is, in many cases,
his best capital. If the merchant fails to
meet his obligations promptly his credit is
ruined. Planters do not seem to be aware
of tho great necessity for promptness in
meeting their liabilities. They think a day
or a week or even a month will not make
muclyliflference in the settlement of their
debts. But to a merchant tho delay of a
single day often is fatal to his credit and
standing.
We refer to this now with the view of
inducing those planters who have received
advances on tho present crop to send their
ootton to market at once. We are aware
that the low price of cotton materially
affects the ability of many planters to pay
all their debts. But wc insist that those
debts contracted for the purpose and in
raising tho present crop should be paid at
all hazards. Honesty requires it; policy
requires it, and justice requires it.
We have heard it intimated that some
planters justified their conduct in with
holding their crops from the market, on
the ground that they have beon compelled
to pay ruinous rates of interest to their
factors, and that, therefore, they did not
feel bound to take any trouble to pay their
debts. This is simply dishonest. It mat
ters not what tho rate of interest, agreed to
be paid, it can form no excuse for a refusal
to pay promptly. No planter wa3 obliged
to accept their factors’ terms. If they were
exorbitant, they should have sought ac
commodations elsewhere. But having ac
cepted them, having derived a benefit
from the transaction, it would be an out
rageous fraud and a grossly dishonorable
trick to attempt to avoid a prompt settle
ment on such grounds as these. No honest
man would, for a moment, contemplate
such a dishonest proposition.
But there is another reason why plant
ers should send along their crops to market
—at least a sufficient amount to pay their
indebtedness. It by their failure tt> send
their crops to market their factors should,
as many of them will be, put to great dif
ficulty in meeting their obligations made
for the benefit of the planter, the latter
must not expect in the future to be able to
gut any accommodations, however urgent
his necessities may bo. This is, wo know,
one of the lowest motives which should
influence human action. Yet it is a most
potent one. Self-interest will often make
men act when noble motives have failed.
In this case self-interest urges to the same
conclusions which honor, honesty and
good faith impels us to adopt.
We wish our planting friends to under
stand us: we are not in the interest, either
i directly or indirectly, of the merchant.
I On tho contrary, our best interests lie in
j the success and prosperity of the planter.
\ It is because our interests and his own are
so thoroughly identified that we have
spoken so plainly. We are anxious to sus
tain, as we are determined to defend, tho
character of the planter, and shall always
use what little of influence and ability we
may possess in promoting his welfare and
prosperity. It is because of our concern
for his reputation and future success that
tho foregoing article has been written. If
I we have spoken plainly it is because the
i occasion demanded plain words. We
! feel assured that few, if any, of our plant
| ers are dishonestly withholding their crops
' from their factors. Wc have sought to
show them that, from whatever motives
they may act, the consequences of such a
| course will be as fatal to themselves as ruin
! ous to thoir merchants.
The Outbreak In Italy.
Garibaldi, tho troublesome, turbulent
and hotheaded Red Republican of Italy,
; has again commenced an agitation in the
J Italian States, which, according to our
i last accounts from Europe, has already
j culminated in a collision of arms between
l his followers and the Papal forces. This
bold, reckless and, as we believe, utterly
unprincipled agitator, is impelled to the
i revolutionary course he has taken more
I from the love of excitement and thirst for
notoriety, than from any convictions of
virtue, religion, or patriotism. His object
1 is to light the torch of war in Italy in the
j hope that when once kindled into a blaze,
i it will spread until the Great Powers
| of Europe—Prussia and France—are en
. veloped in its flames. In the progress of
such a war Garibaldi, personally, has
| much togain and nothingtolose. Histhirst
' for deeds of blood and his insane craving for
i power and position, would be likely, in
such a contest, to be fully and amply satis
j fled. What does such a man care for the
! slaughter, and expense, and misery, and '
i woe,—forthe tearsof widows and moans of
j orphans, which such a conflict as he is
now attempting to inaugurate would
bring upon the people of his own country
; and those which his madness may bring
into the vortex of war. Garibaldi is
a bold, bad man. A man whose whole life
shows him to be reckless of legal obliga
i tions aud callous to the cries of nature and
jof humanity; an enemy alike to good
I government and the peace, good order
| and quiet of Europe. We believe that
justice to the Italian people demand that
his profitless life should at once be forfeited
to the majesty of the law and the peace
of Italy, which he has recently broken, as
we think, without just cause or provoca
tion.
To what extent his course in the Papal
States may, in the end, involve the great
powers of Europe we are not yet prepared
to say. That France will interfere is now
pretty certain. The Frerch press has
spoken upon this subject and in no doubt
ful tones. The Mo nit ear of Thursday last
declares that “the inhabitants of the city of
Rome and of the Papal Provinces are loyal
to the Pope , and only need assistance to
drive the Italian marauder from the sod.
If France shall interfere it becomes almost
certain that Prussia, under the lead and
perfectly at the control of Bismarck, will
seek t find in such interference an excuse
to authorize her to take part in the fray.
These, in turn, will, doubtless, drag into
the conflict Austria and Russia, and pos
sibly staid old England may be forced from
her neutrality and compelled to enter the
arena of blood.
This is the dark side of the picture.
This is the view which has caused the flut
ter in the money markeU of the old world,
and which will continue to make money
! “tight” until a different solution of the
question is made manifest.
In reviewing the situation the New
York Express of the 18th says:
“The Cable dispatches, published else
where, fully confirm the cxcitiDg reports
current in Wall street, at the close of busi
ness yesterday, and referred to in the Ex
press. France apparently has determined
to draw her sword in defence of the tem
porary supremacy of the Pope, whom the
so-called Party of Action are endeavoring
to upset, ci et armis.
“ This will at once make Garibaldi and
the entire Red Republican interest in
Italy the mortal enemies of Louis Napo
leon ; and if their enmity can stir up the
corresponding element in France—dormant
of late years, but not dead—the Nephew
of hi3 Uncle may get into deeper water
than he anticipates.
“ Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy,
moreover, denies the right ot the French
Emperor thus to interfere, and hence the
landing of the first French regiment on
Roman territory will probably be the signal
of a formal declaration of war between
them.
“ Now, if the contest is to be narrowed
down to but those parties,—Louis Napo
leon on the one hand, and Victor Emman
uel and the Red Shirt gentleman on the
other, it could not be a matter of much
doubt what the ultimate result must be.
French fleets would blockade and starve
out the Garibaidians on the Peninsula,
while French armies would soon make
Sardinia too hot to hold Victor Emmanuel.
The Garibaidians are plucky aud the King
of Italy is a good soldier, but the Emperor
of France has the biggest guns, the most
war ships, the largest armies and the
longest purse,—things that must ultimately
win.
“But, just here, arises the question—
will Prussia, the ally of Italy, iu such a
case, stand neutral and see the latter
ground to power? Will the Protestant
feeling not assert itself in a quarrel turning
upon the temporal supremacy of tho Pope?
and so assert itself as to give Bismarck
his opportunity to clip the wings of his
great rival, by making common cause with
Italy against him ? It mu3t be admitted
that current indications all favor some
such probability, and in that probability
we find sufficient justification of the pre
vailing uneasiness in all the great com
mercial and financial centres in Europe,
as well as the distrust, as to the future,
which.is noticeable here.
“While France is preparing for a mili
tary occupation of Rome, therefore, it
would not be surprising if Prussia, at the
same time, should be getting ready for a
march on Paris—nor that while Garibaldi
and his son are setting all Italy in a blaze,
their revolutionary sympathizers on the
other sides of the Pyrennees should be
coding out of tlieir hiding-places, to ag
gravate the conflagration by way of a
diversion in France. And when it comer,
to that what a terrible drama it will be ?”
Visit or Hon. B. 11. Hill to New York.
“Seymour,” the interesting correspond
ent of the Mobile Register , writes from
New York under date of the 11th:
“Senator B. 11. Hill, of Georgia, left
New York last night for Washington, in
tending to make an early call on the Presi
dent. During his stay in New York, Ms.
Hill visited or was visited by many of our
public men, of both shades of politics, and
all were well pleased to meet him. A few
evenings since he received several gentle
men at the residence of Mr. Mullaly, of
the Metropolitan Record, and conversed
with them for about four hours on the
state of affairs iu Georgia and the condition
of the country generally.
The grave and venerable air which is
commonly associated with Senators does
not belong to Mr. Hill. That he is a man
of great ability and strength of character
needs only a glance to tell you, but he has
none of the “reverend seigneur” aspect.
In personal appearance lie reminds me of
Schuyler Colfax, except that ho is more
earnest and thoughtful looking. I should
judge him to be a man oi about forty-five,
and much better preserved than men of
that age usually are. In manner he is one
of the most polite and agreeable gentlemen
I ever met. His daughter, who accom
panies him, is said to be a young lady of
great beauty o ( ' mind and person, and of
these qualities she 1 certainly inherits a large
share from her father.
Mr. Hill’s mind is a storehouse of consti
tutional law, and his views on all questions
are expressed with a clearness and incisive
ness which are pretty sure to satisfy if
they do not quite convince the listener.
He is still hopeful for the South, but be
lieves her salvation dependson the restora
tion of the Democratic party. Speaking
of her material interests, ho dwelt es
pecially on the difficulties besetting the
cotton planters, and showed by facts and
figures that at the present price of cotton
and the expense cf raising it, it is almost
impossible for planters to make money.
Before leaving New York Mr. Hill
spoke enthusiastically of the glorious Dem
ocratic victories in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
regarding them as harbingers of peace,
union and better days .for the whole
country.” .
The Xcgro as a Citizen.
“Wherever the negro has been tested, as
a slave, as a freedman, as a citizen, as an
omploj'e, as a soldier, as a voter, he has
not failed to comeup to the fullest require
ments of thesejvarious positions.” —New
York Tribune.
Will the Tribune inform its readers
when, in what country, and under what
circumstances, emancipated negro slaves
have “come up to the requirements of a
citizen and a voter?” Will it point to
Jamaica or St. Domingo for its examples
of good “citizenship” and intelligent,
virtuous and patriotic voters ? Or will it
direct our attention to the recent elections
in Louisiana and Alabama, where the
emancipated blacks were driven to the
polls by Radical emissaries, very much as
in former years they were driven by white
masters to their reluctant field labor ? Does
tho accounts from the Alabama elections
which the Tribune man has seeu, aud
which have not been contradicted, inspire
him to make the above statement, which all
previous history proclaims to be false ?
Brownlow’s Last Order.
The vindictive and merciless tyrant who
fills the gubernatorial chair of “ Recon
structed” Tennessee—and whose election
was secured by disfranchising a large ma
jority of the white people of his State and
the enfranchismcnt of the negro —has writ
ten and published a circular addressed to the
minions of Radicalism who compose the
so-called Tennessee Legislature, in which
he informs his dirty crew that his health
has improved sufficiently to enable him
to represent the State in the Senate of the
United States.
This announcement means, and was in
tended so to mean, that his suppliant tools
and slaves in the Legislature shall elect
him to the position he seeks. Maynard
and Stokes, the men who did his dirty
work in the last canvass against Etheridge,
are coolly thrown overboard after they had
been given assurances that if their labors
in behalf of their patron saint should
prove successful they or one of them should
have the coveted seat now filled by Senator
Patterson, the son-in-law of President
J ohnson.
A Candid Confession. —The New
York Times truthfully says:
“There is much less of mere prejudice
against the negro in the South than amo z
certain classes in the Xorth. Even before
the abolition of s avert-, negroes were sure
of better p ersonal treatment from Southern
people than Northern."
The colored men all know this, and yet
we find many of them leaguing with the
Northern Radical emissaries to destroy
the prosperity and abridge the rights of
the Southern white people. The day will
come, and 3t no distant period, when the
scales will fall from the colored people’s
eyes, and then they will cry out, in their
agony, to be saved from the cruelties and
oppressions heaped upon them by their
false teachers, who now drive them to the
execution of their hellish purposes as
“sheep driven to the shambles.’’
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1867.
111-natured Misrepresentation.
“ The Chronicle and Sentinel. —Our
I esteemed contemporary has enlarged his
i proportions, and proclaims a belief that
| he has a ‘ larger circulation than any paper
south ot the Potomac.’ ” — Constitutionalist,
j Oct. 22d.
Will the Constitutionalist be so kind as
to inform us when and where we made the
above statement, which it charges we
have “proclaimed?” We deny having
made it and call for the proof.
We are sorry that our prosperity should
have disturbed the equanimity of our co
temporary, so far as .to have caused
| such an ili-natured misrepresentation of
our allusion to the circulation of the
Chronicle and Sentinel. We regret that
the decided success which has attend
ed our efforts to publish a first-class
journal shouid have given pain or uneasi
ness to our “ veteran” brother across the
street. We trust that when the Constitu
tionalist descends from its stilts and learns
“ Who soars too near the sun, with golden
wings,
Melts them; —to ruin his own foitune
brings,”
that it too may boast of “ a circulation as
large as any paper south of the Potomac
and we assure it that instead of being an
noyed at its success we shall i joice iu its
prosperity.
More Gerrymandering oy Dictator Pope.
Some time since we had occasion to com
pliment dictator Pope—he of Corinth, Ce
dar Mountain and Mannassas notoriety—for
the great art he displayed in so gerrymand
ering the election districts of this State as
to give the negroes a clear majority of
delegates to our State Convention of thirty
nine, while by his own cooked registry re
turns the whites had a majority of two
thousand registered votes in the State
We thought that the skill, cunning and
mendacious contempt for justice and
equality displayed on that occasion enti
tled him to a high rank among the class of
ancient and modern worthies who are
chiefly known to the world through the
depravity of their hearts arid the cruelty of
their deeds—Nero, Caligula, Alva, Robes
pierre, Danton and Osceola—and that im
partial history would assign him a niche in
the tabernacle of despots and tyrants com
mensurate with the talent for oppression
and misrule which his brief career as
satrap of District No. 3 shows him to be
most clearly entitled.
But we find that our feeble lan
guage failed to convey an adequate idea
of the power for wrong and injustice which
this “mighty man of Gath” has since
shown himself to possess. If the angels
wept over the iniquities of his election
order in this State, what will the poor
things do when they witness the outrages
which he has committed upon the white
people of Florida ? Below we give some
details of his gerrymandering scheme in
that State which we clip from the Tallahas
see Floridian. We invoke the careful
perusal by our readers of the following ex
tracts from that paper.
”By the registration returns officially
promulgated, twenty-five out of the thirty
nine counties iu which the State is divided
show clear white majorities. These coun
ties, had a fair interpretation of the law
been pursued, would have elected fully
one-half if not more of tho Convention,
but under Gen. Pope’s skillful gerryman
dering, they will not bo able to elect more
than ten delegates out of the forty-six.
West Florida is composed of tho counties
of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, Wash
ington, Jackson, Holmes, Calhoun and
Franklin. By tying Liberty on to Frank
lin, Gen. Pope makes four' districts, aud
gives to these four districts nine delegates.
The nine counties composing these four
districts contain a white population of IS,-
008 to 9,252 colored. Os registered voters
they show 2,688 whites to 2,458 negroes,
and yetso shamefully has Pope gerryman
dered that section as to give to whites
two delegates in the Convention to seven
blacks, which is an averge of one white
delegate to eve V-y 1,343 white voters Arid’
one negro delegate to every 351 negro
voters—one white delegate to every 9,304 of
tho white population and one negro dele
gate to every 1,322 of the negro population!
Stepping over into Middle Florida, we
find that by crossing the Suwannee river
and adding a county of that name to Ham
ilton, he establishes six election districts,
and gives to them nineteen delegates. Iu
these six districts, the negroes register
7,658 voters, and elect sixteen delegates—
that is, t one delegate to every 478 voters.
The whites register 3,630 voters, and can
elect three delegates—that is, one iu every
I, voters.
East and South of tho Suwannee river,
the gerrymandering is fully as bad. All
that region of country is divided into nine
districts, electing eighteen delegates. By
the registration promulgated, the negroes’
have registered 5,325 voters, and have it in
their power, under Pope’s apportionment,
to elect thirteen of the eighteen—iu other
words, every 409 negroes can elect a dele
gate—while the whites, who have register
ed 4,883 voters, can elect, by no possibility,
more than five —one to every 936 of their
voting strength!
Again—the total number of’ wiiites reg
istered in tho whole State is reported to be
11, —the number of blacks 15,441. In
nine of Gen. Pope’s districts, electing ten
delegates, the whites have clear majorities;
the remaining districts elect thirty-six
delegates and are under the control of tho
blacks. By dividing the 11,151 white vo
ters by 10 (the number of delegates allow
ed them by Gen. Pope), and you have one
delegate to 1,115 voters, while the negroes,
numbering 15,441 voters, elect one delegate
to every 428 voters!
Election Fruits.
Anew Union paper in Atlanta', Ga.,
has just suspended publication. The fruits
of our late elections are being gathered
quickly.— Forney's Fress.
If the dead duck will take another look
he will find “more fruits” which the re-
I cent elections have thrown into the lap of
| the Conservatives. The Atlanta affair
| is quite a picayune concern, at best but a
i miserable sour-crab, of no use to either
j party. .If the Press would like to see the
S real good fruits which arc being gathered
I from “our late elections,” we invite it to
i look to the old “mother of States and
; statesmen,” andseethc change in the Char
lottesville Chronicle and Richmond Whig,
and the general desertion of the Radical
cause in that State by tho respectable
Republicans. Even in Georgia we have
information that changes are going on
daily in favor of the Constitution and the
Union, and against the destructive pro
gramme of the Browns, Bryants and
Blodgetts. These are only some of
“the fruits which are being gath
ered from our late elections.” The No
vember elections in New York and other
Northern States will, wc hope and believe,
show other and far more valuable fruits
for the cause of free government.
Something Curious — Solution of the
Enigma. —An exchange publishes the
following curious enigma which was fur
nished its readers for the benefit of students
in geography. We call the attention of ail
such in this city to the enigma and invite a
solution, which we will cheerfully publish.
It is quite curious and will prove an inter
esting work to unravel it:
I was awakened one morning by a city
in China, which was perched on a fence
near my window. From an adjoining
room I heard a division of Great Britain ;
and I called a river of South America to
make a fire, as I felt a division of South
America.. On going down stairs, I found
that ">ne of the Lakes of Xorth America
had spilled a division of Europe on my
highly prized city of Belgium, while, put
ting on the table my breakfast; consisting
0 f a division of Asia, seasoned with a
city of South America, also a cape of Mas
sachusetts, an Island of Oceanica, a city of
France, stopped with a city of Ireland, and
a basket containing a river of Africa, and
other fruits. I paid a division of Africa
for my breakfast, and then asked one of
the Island of Oceanica for some sugar to
feed an Island of Africa, that was hang
ing in my chamber.
< ‘Suspension OF Judge Aldrich. -Gen
eral Canby has issued an order suspending
Judge Aldrich from the exercise of his
official functions.
Judge Aldrich’s offence consisted in
having refused to violate the laws of the
State which he had sworn to support.
Frost in Alabama.— Says the Mont
gomery Mail, of the 16th
We learn from a gentleman who arrived
on the Mobile train early ye.- terday mom
ing, from Lowndes county, that a good
•dzed frost was clearly perceptive in the
bottoms along the line of the railroad.
.he Reaction In Virginia.
Amon ' the astonishing results of the
late elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
we notice with pleasure the great change
wrought in popular opinion in Virginia.
Previous to these elections, and for many
months past, a considerable portion of the
Press and many of the leading statesmen
of that commonwealth had taken position
in favor of accepting the terms of recon
struction offered in the Shennan-Shel
labarger Bills, not because they approved
them, but because, as they said, a prompt
acceptance of those Bi'ls would be the
only means of preventing further and
more oppressive legislation against the
South. Foremost amongst this number
was that staunch old journal, the Rich
mond Whig, which has for many years
possessed an influence and enjoyed a pat
ronage second to none in the State. The
Whig has been earnest and even urgent in
its appeals to the people to surrender their
convictions of right, accept the Sherman
Bills aud co-operate with the Republican
party as the best ami only chauce to save
the South from the dire extremity of Rad
ical wrath. The Charlottesville Chronicle,
also, one of the most respectable papers in
the §tate, has, perhaps, even gone farther
than the Whig in its efforts to rally the
white people of Virginia to the support
of the Convention prefect. The Chronicle
urged the same reasonstor its course which
influenced the conduct of the Whig. Both
papers placed their advocacy of a Conven
tion solely upon the ground that the Re
publican party was in power in Congress
and that the masses of the Northern peo
ple sustained them in their plans of
reconstruction ;—that the refusal to ac
cept the proffered terms woiid exasperate
the Radical wing of the Republican party
and cause them to advance another step in
their proscriptive policy;—that these ex
treme men were endorsed by the North
ern people and that popukr sentiment at
the North and West woulddrive the more
moderate Republicans to the support of
measures which their judgments did not
approve.
This, it will be recollected, was the cry
raised by Governor Brown in this State,
and which has been feelly echoed by
Chief Justice Warner and Judges Walker,
Underwood and others, in endeavoring to
persuade the people of Georgia to accept
the Reconstruction Bills.
The recent elections at tie North have
shown that these fears of the Conven
ticnists were without just foundation. The
masses there are proven to le in opposition
to the extreme wing of tie Republican
party. The honest yeomanry of Ohio and
Pennsylvania have declared in unmistaka
ble tones, their opposition to negro suf
frage, which is the chief plank in the re
construction measures proposed by Con
gress. The vote in Ohio aud Pennsylvania
shows further that the people of these
great States will not support or endorse
the Radical Congress in any further or
more proscriptive legislation against the
South. The tremendous majority in Ohio
against negro suffrage in that State shows
to every man, not willfully blind, that no
party or organization can retain power in
this countrywho.se leading principle is
universal uffrage.
With these plain and convincing proofs
before them the Whig and the Chronicle
have abandoned their position in favor of
a Convention, and are now cordially co
operating with the orignial opponents of
the measure to procure its defeat.
We notice, also, that the Danville Times
and the Roanoke Times, both heretofore
strong advocates of a Convention, have,
for the same reasons given by the Whig
and chronicle,
on that question, and are now strong in
their opposition to it. The changes
against Convention in Virginia within the
last ten days have been unprecedented in
the political history of that State. Wheth
er the re-action was commenced in time to
save the State from negro domination
remains to b 9 tested by the election which
commenced there yesterday, and which
will close to-night. We have stronghopes
that tho Convention will be defeated.
But, at any rate, we think the indications
of the last few days warrant us in tho
belief that, if the Convention is not abso
lutely defeated, that a majority of the
delegates chosen will be Conservatives.
Turning not? for a moment to our own
State, we ask why those amongst us who
have been iu favor of accepting the Con
vention scheme as the best terms which
could be obtained, should not now, that it is
certain that Congress does not represent the
popular will of the North upon this subjeet )
reverse their determination, and, standing
side by side with their late Virginia friends,
throw their whole .weight and influence
against this Radical outrage. What reasons
can Governor Brown and Judges Warner
and Walker and Bingham and Underwood
and Milner now give for continuing to
support these revolutionary measures of
the Rump Congress? If they were honest
in their original position upon this ques
tion they are in honor bound, now that
their position has been shown to be false,
to abandon it and throw the weight of
their influence against the consummation of
the foul plot to destroy our liberties.
Consistency, self-respect, duty to them
selves and to the people of the State
require that they either abandon their
original ground and give some other reason
I for their continued advocacy of a Conven
tion ; or that, like their Virginia associates,
they should come out boldly and unequivo
cally against it Have they sufficient
honesty and patriotism to accept the latter
and only consistent course? We shall
see.
ScALIWAGS AND NEGROES IN CAUCUS.—
IN e learn that the caucus held in this place
Tuesday, by the scaliwags, Yankee emis
saries and negroes, resulted in the nomi
nation of a mixed ticket for the Conven
tion. It is said that quite an angry dis
cussion occurred in relation to the charac
ter of the delegation, some of the members
Opposing the candidacy of negroes. The
combination party were, however, too
strong for the opponents of negro dele
gates, and a tickc-t representing all the
elements of the Radical party was put in
nomination. NYe indicated in our issue
yesterday this action, and gave a pretty
correct list of the nominees. Ben Conley.
R. B. Bullock, Foster Blodgett, J. E,
Bryant, and J. P. Beard, of this county,
were nominated, and a negro from Glass
cock, and one from Jefferson, whose names
we could not learn. This is hardly a fair
division of the spoils. As nineteen-twen
tieths of tb e Radical votes will he furnished
by the blanks, we think they ought to have
had a larger representation on the ticket.
As it stands the Negroes three, Scaliwags
three, and Yankees one.
Cotton in Milledgeville. —A private
letter, dated Milledgeville, October 12th,
says :
“The low price of e-: u, though ruin
ous to us, will be advantageous in certain
results sure to follow. The demand for
negro labor will not be so great; we will
have to hire for part of' the crop, and let
cotton oe the surplus. I shall pay special
attention to raising stock, plenty of hogs,
corn, rice, small grain, make the plantation
self-sustaining, and t'-.en what I can in
cotton. Then a cotton crop is extra, and
what it brings we can keep in our pockets.
There will be avast change in the planting
system : heavy murmuring to make one
acre bring its bale, land lying out in past
ure, where stock can be raised and fed
plenty of hogs, colts, cattle, sheep, Ac!
This will be my plan, and it is the only
plan to save us.
Action. —The time for action is at
hand. The issue is incendiary and agra
rian Radicalism or Conservatism. The
lines are distinctly drawn. Radicalism is
being driven to the wall in the North, shall
it not be so here ?—Richmond Whig.
Row in ;he Radical Camp.
WARD WELL “CUSSES AND QUITS.”
At a meeting at Hunnicutt’s hall, on
Monday night, Wardwell, who considered
himself badly treated by his friend Huuni
eutt, made a speech, in which he handled
the nominees roughly. He wanted to
know what interest Hunnieutt had in Rich
mond? What was he to represent in
the Convention? Ifhehadauy property
here, or anywhere else, God only knew
where it was. He wanted further to kuow
why Hunnieutt told him privately, that
Washburn was unfit to be nominated for
the Convention, because lie was too Con
servative, and then got up in a public
meeting and urged his claims for the nomi
nation over him, Wardwell ?
He wanted to know what interest Un
derwood had iu Richmond to entitle him
to the nomination? If he had any prop
erty it was in Alexandria, and if the peo
ple there would’nt send him to the Con
vention, whar right had Hunnieutt or any
one else to saddle him on the backs of the
people of Rielun ad ? He wanted no Un
derwoods. There were plenty of Rich
mond men to represent Richmond with
out importing men from abroad. He
wanted to know who Morissey was, and
what interest he had here? llebelieved
he had a barrel of whiskey in a shop some
where in the city; aud that was the extent
of his interest.
Voice—“ You jos talk so ’cause niggers
done stop buying ice and coal lrorn you.”
“No, I don’t,” said Wardwell, and went
on. As to your colored candidates, I be
lieve one of them has some property, and
that property consists of a second-hand
fiddle and belongs to Lewis Lindsay.
He gave the whole party a terrible cas
tigation, and washed his hands of further
intercourse with them.
Ho who was proud to be called the
“right bower of James W. Hunnieutt,”. is
no longer a trump in Ilunnicutt’s hand,
and if he hopes to win his game must look
for a better card to lead than Wardwell.
We would again call attention to the
familiar old proverb.— Enquirer.
The Spanish Insurrection.
CHARGES OF TREACHERY AND COWARDICE
AGAINST GENERAL PRIM.
From le Figaro , Sept. 30.
A meeting of Spanish refugees was late
ly held in Paris to take into consideration
the conduct of General Prim, against
whom charges of treachery and cowardice
in connection with the recent abortive in
surrection in Spain have been very freely
made in some" quarters. The General,
who does not think French soil safe for
him at present, did not attend, but sent
an aid-de-oainp. who offered the following
explanation. General Prim twice entered
Spain. On the first occasion he went to
tho neighborhood of Valencia, where it
had been agreed that he was to light fires
on the tops of several mountains. On two
successive evenings he lit the fires, but the
regiments that were to have risen at the
signal did not appear. The reason was
that the Government, having obtained full
information about the plot, disarmed the
suspected regiments and confined them to
barracks. Prim eseaped with difficulty by
sea. A few days later he crossed the
frontier into Catalonia in the disguise of a
servant carrying luggage. He wandered
about for four days at the utmost personal
risk, for Narvaez would have shot him to
a certainty if he could have caught him.
It was only when he found the insurrection
entirely hopeless that he left the country.
It is not stated whether the meeting was
satisfied with this defence.
[From the La Libcrte, Sept. 30(A. j
MANIFESTO OF GEN. PRIM —HIS VIEWS OF
THE SITUATION.
We have received a manifesto of Gen.
Prim, dated Geneva, the 25th, which sets
forth at considerable length his views in
reference to the situation of Spanish af
fairs. He says tho enemies of liberty
need not expect to sec him pursue a differ
ent course from that which he followed
even at the moment when his hopes were
destroyed. His firmness will not give way
before calumnies, and some day the Span
ish nation and the world will see that
his conduct and that of his small
band of friends was inspired by gener
ous sentiments. After expressing his
admiration for ,the brave men who have
made such heroic efforts to secure liberty
fcl their country, and bis profound regret
that he could not take part in the recent
struggle, he explains how it was that he
and a small body of friends who accompa
nied him found it impossible to effect a
junction with the insurgents of Barcelona
and Tarragona, on account of the great
distance which separated them; andheadds
that they did not consent to lose sight of
their country until their numbers had be
eome'so diminished that it was impossible
to effect the combination and to resist the
forces which were sent against them. In
conclusion, he a be will not consent to
abandon his re - lUimnary efforts for one
day, until governments iu Spain have
ceased to be the executioners oi' their
country and the scandai of civilized Europe.
The President’s Vi-ews on the Politi
cal Situation.— The Washington Re
publican gives an account of an interview
had with the President on Saturday, by a
Conservative Republican, in which the
President freely expressed himself on the
late elections. It says :
His attention was called to an analysis
of tho recent election in Ohio, where two
great parties presented each its ticket.
The people looked at them both discrimi
nately, and took the soldier stand-bearer
(Hayes) of the Republican party—thus
seemingly rebuking the Democrats for
nominating a Vallandingham man like
Thurman, instead of a soldier, and accept
ed and elected the Legislature of the
Democratic and Conservative party, to
prevent the re-election of a Radical like
Mr. Wade, thus repudiating the two ex
tremes in politics, and then at the same
election they buried the disturbing ques
tion of negro equality beneath a majority
of fifty thousand votes. The President
listened to this statement, and said :
“It is a remarkable fact. It is the logic
of events. It is the true lesson of the
election. And what makes the fact still
more remarkable is, that this wonderful
discrimination was made by the people
themselves at the polls, and that these ex
traordinary results were obtained in the
face of the misrepresentations that were
constantly made in the press and upon the
stump, and furthermore, that the govern
ment of the State was in the hands of the
Radicals, and the treasure of their wealthy
men was_ poured out like water toaid them
in carrying the State. The people have
conquered in spite of these appliances,
and have pointed out the right way for
others, disregarding the two dangerous
extremes, and taking the safe, high, Con
servative ground as laid down in the
August Philadelphia Convention of 1806
upon the Constitution, for the preserva
tion of the States, and in favor of pure loy
alty and a united and free country.”
During this conversation, a very brief
synopsis of which wc have given, the
President remarked that he thought the
lesson taught by the people of Ohio, as
indicated above, was correct, and he had
been and should be guided by it. He said
the thousand and one reports set afloat as
to what he was about to do in reorganiz
ing his Cabinet were unauthorized and un
true. Whatever he did in that direction
would be the subject of careful thought,
and for the best interests of the public
good, so far as it was in his power to reach
such a result.
Mr. Lincoln’s Estate. —The Spring
field (Illinois) Journal, of the 9th instant,
publishes the inventory of the estate of
Mr. Lincoln, as filed by Judge Davis, the
administrator, in the office of the Clerk of
the County Court of Sangamon county, in
that State. This official statement must,
we presume, finally clear away all doubts
as to the value of Mr. Lincoln s estate.
The inventory shows that he was pos
sessed of registered bonds and other notes,
public and private, to the amount of
about $85,000, all of which were invested
in United States securities bearing interest.
He also owned real estate in Illinois and
lowa to a small amount. The deposition of
Judge Davis states that Mr. Lincoln died
intestate, and that his family at the time
consisted of Mary Lincoln, his widow, and
Robert T. and Thomas Lincoln, his chil
dren. To the sum already mentioned must
be added $25,000, which was appropriated
by the last Congress on account of Mr.
Lincoln’s salary, making altogether the
total value of the personal estate to be
about one hundred and tea thousand
dollars, to say nothing of the real estate
described above. This publication effect
ually disposes of the statements recently
male that Mr. Lincoln’s family were left
unprovided for :e time of his death.
Tile Working People.— lt is reported
that a reduction ot 10 per cent, in the
wages of some of the Hartford (Connec
ticut) factory has been rendered necessary
by the duJness of business. Similar dull
ness in trade is reported from Great
Britain, and it is stated that no less than
twenty to thirty thousand men connected
with the iron trade on the Clyde have
been thrown out of employment owing to
the successful competition of foreign with
the home manufacture of the British Isles.
SELECTED TELEGRAM.
important railroad tbaxsactios.
THE omo REPUBLICANS CHARGED WITH
TREACHERY.
Special Diepiteh to the Louisville Courier.
fe'r. Louis. October 17. —An important
change in the North Missouri Railroad
was effected this morning by the purchase
of tour million dollars’ worth of its bonds
by a party ot S>t. Louis aud New York
capitalists. Mr. Jas. B. Eads, iu behalf of
hunseif and associates, proposed to pur
chase the whole of the bonds, provided
certain changes were made iu the board
of directors.
Tiiis condition was unanimously consent
ed to by the board, and the proposal ac
cepted, whereupon Captain John J. Roe,
Hon. Barton Bates, Chas. K. Dickenson,
and John G. Copelinwere atODce elected
to fib vacancies created, to enable the com
pany to comply with the conditions of Mr.
Lad’s proposition.
It is reported that a short time ago sl,-
500,000 of the State’s money, on deposit
in the Bank of Commerce, New York,
was paid out to Jay Cooke & Cos., of
Philadelphia, by order of the State Treas
urer. This is a part of the $6,000,000
paid to the State by the Federal Govern
ment and deposited in the Bank of Com
merce for specific purposes. The matter
is attracting some attention in financial
circles.
The Democrat, the Radical organ here,
accuses the Radicals of Ohio of treachery.
It says: Rebels take courage. Honest
Republicans are disappointed. Why?
Because anew treachery not less base and
more successful than that of Mr. Johnson
and his followers has revealed itself. It is
the treachery of Republicans that has
caused the loss in Ohio and the partial
defeat in Pennsylvania.
Special Dispatch to the Louisville Courier.
FROM WASHI.VGTO.Y.
Washington, D. C., Oet. 17.—The
statement of the President’s position and
purposes, sent by his permission, Iras been
telegraphed back, and creates a sensation.
The St. Louis telegram, announcing Sher
man's return to Washington shortly, cor
roborates the President’s declaration.
Conservatives are gratified at the Pres
ident’s determination to stand.
The Radicals are furious, but fearful.
It is not true that the Judiciary Commit
tee will report in favor of impeachment;
they stand 4 for and 5 against. Nor is it
believed the Stevens treasonable cabal can
carry the measure in the face of popular
rebuke, and the President’s determination
to resist. Their success would be de
structive to the interest of the country,
provoke collision, and issue a terrible
accountability. Democrats from all sections
are gratified by the information that
PENDLETON
will be returned Senator from Ohio by an
unanimous vote of the Democrats iu the
Legislature. He would wield a command
ing influence in that body, where his ser
vices would be invaluable to the country as
well as to the Democratic party.
VOORHEES’
points on finance in his speech last night
touched the popular heart and caused
money changers and bond holders to trem
ble. An attempt at interruption during
the speech was drowned by uproarious ap
plause. The masses, evidently from the
demonstration, are with the Ohio Demo
crats on the financial question. The Presi
dent is understood to be opposed to the
present system of unequal taxation.
resignations.
McCulloch certainly resigns on Novem
ber Ist. Rollins, of the Revenue Depart
ment, and Chandler, Assistant Secretary,
retire at the same time. These men are
ultra Radical, and among the most ob
noxious of their class.
REGISTRATION IN TEXAS.
Official information has been received,
that under instructions the registers in
Texas have exercised arbitrary authority,
and rejected all who would not vote the
Radical ticket, adjuging them hostile to
Government. Among the rejected was
Hon. George Hancock, a devoted Union
man during the war. The registration, as
conducted, was a swindle and farce.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
The President has .referred. to the At-.
torne.y General the question whether per
sons appointed to office during the sus
pension of a regular appointee, and who
has executed tho required bonds, has to be
reappointed and again qualified, should
the suspended official die during suspen
sion.
THE MARYLAND MILITIA.
Gen. Duncan, of Baltimore, testified be
fore the Maryland Investigating Commit
tee, that the rebel element preponderated
in some regiments of the militia, but in
general the Union men had a large ms’or
ity. A number of Marylanders are here
watching the proceedings with interest.
From the Philadelphia Age, Oct., 16.
The Radical Fraud at Fort Delaware.
The following important telegram has
been received by Wm. L. Hirst, Esq., of
this city, from General Townsend, in refer
ence to the Fort Delaware eleetion fraud.
The document speaks for itself, and at
present needs no comment:
War Department?, Oet. 15, 1867.
William L. Hirst, Esq.,
211 (South. Sixth street, Philadelphia :
In reply to your letter of October 12, re
ceived yesterday, General Grant directs
me to send you the following copy of tele
gram just received from tho commanding
officer at Fort Delaware:
Fort Delaware, Oct. 14, 1867.
General E. D. Townsend,
Assistant Adjutant General:
I was in Philadelphia when the election
occurred here. Colonel Howard, who was
in command, reports that a citizen pre
sented himself here with a commission
from Governor Geary, under the seal of
Pennsylvania, appointing him to take the
votes of Pennsylvania soldiers at this post.
Colonel Howard told him that he was
under the impression that such an election
was not legal. But as the man had a eom
mision from Governor Geary, ho allowed
him to take the votes. I add, on my own
authority, that I have ascertained that a
large proportion of the men voting had no
vote in the State underanyeircumstanc.es.
It is said only thirty-three (33) vo-es were
polled, while over a hundred (100) were
returned. No officers vvero concerned one
way or other in this election.
(Signed) C. H. Morgan,
Major Fourtii Artillery,
Brevet Brig. General Commanding.
E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adj’t General.
Latest from Italy.
Paris, Oct. Js. It Ls reported that if the
condition of affairs around I’onig should
become critical the Pope will leave the
city and take refuge in Bavaria where lie
has been offered au asylum.
London, Oct. 15—Midnight.—The fol
lowing later dispatches from Itaiy have
been received to-night:
Florence, Oct. 15—Evening.—General
Garibaldi has sent out another address
from Caprera, in which lie earnestly calls
upon the Italian nation to arm.
Turin, Oct. 15—Evening.—Mazzini has
issued a manifesto, in which ho exhorts
the Italian patriots in Rome to rise and
proclaim a Republic.
Florence, Oet. 15—Evening —Later.—
Many people here believe that Gen. I,a
Marmora, whois in command on the Papal
frontier, will order his troopa to eross tho
line and occupy the pontitieal territory,
and possibly maroh on Rome.
Florence, October 18, afternoon.—The
troops of King Viotor Emanuel ate still
guarding the frontier of the States of the
Church, and prevent ali persons who have
the appearance of belonging to the Gari
baldian organization from crossing the
boundary iinc.
London, October 18, midnight.—The
following dispatch has been received from
Florence direct, dated to-night
It is reported that General Garibaldi
has again escaped from Caprera and that
he left the island on board of an American
ship.
The Garibaldians have appeared to the
Western district, between Rome and the
sea. They have taken possession of the
railway running between the city of Rome
and the seaport of Ostia, and torn up the
rails, preventing all communication.
It is still believed here (in Florence)
that the Governments of Italy and France
have a perfect understanding with each
other, and are really acting together in the
treatment of the Roman Question.
Rome.
Florence, October 18, 1867.—Rein
forcements of volunteers, recruited in
France and Spain for the defence of the
Pope, have arrived in the city of Rome.
_ When last heard from General Menotti
Garibaldi, with a considerable force under
his command, had succeeded in reaching
the vieinily of Rome and was still advanc
ing.
Florence, Oct. 18— p. m.—lt is report
ed that the plan for an insurrection with
in the walls of Rome has been exposed,
and that the leaders have been discovered,
arrested and thrown into prison.
France.
Paris, October 18. —It is reported that
the fleet of transports and ironclads at
Toulon has already received orders to sail
for the Roman States; but the actual de
parture of the expedition has not yet been
announced.
Paris, October 18, midnight.—Napoleon
has made an imperative demand upon the
Italian government for the strict observance
NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 43.
on the part of Italy of the convention of
September.
The expedition at Toulon is equipped
and ready to sail to the relief of Rome,
and only waits for the reply of Italy, which
is hourly expected, to the demand cf the
Emperor.
It is believed that the Italian Govern
ment will yield.
THE CHANTILLY RACES.
Paris, October 18. —The autumn races
at Chantilly commenced yesterday.
The prize of the prince of Oonde was
won by Lady Henrietta.
Alabama was the winner of the Chateau
Lafitte prize, and the well known horse
Nemea took the Fay premium. These
were the principal event3 of the day.
Knsinnd.
London, Oet. IS, 1867.—A dinner was
given at Manchester last evening to the
Ministry, at which Earl Derby, Lord
Stanley and all the members of the Cabinet
were present.
In reply to the usual sentiment in honor
of the Administration, the Premier rose
and made a speech, in which he defended
the action of his government on the ques
tion of Reform and refuted some of the
attacks which had been made upon the
representation of the People’s Bill.
Lord Stanley, the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, in response to a highly compli
mentary toast, also addressed the company.
He spoke of the disturbed condition of
Europe; but declared tbat, notwithstand
ing the threatening appearance of affairs,
he still entertained hopes that peace
would be preserved. YV bile reviewing, in
of his remarks, the present re
lations of Great Britain with foreign pow
ers, he alluded to the controversy between
his government and that of the United
States, in regard to the claims for indem
nity arising out of the late war in that
country, ’.the controversy, he said, still
remained open, but England had all along
dealt with America in a friendly temper in
this discussion, and time was already
soothing the irritation which might have
arisen on either side of the Atlantic.
London, October 18. —Admiral Far
raguut yesterday received and entertained
the Lords of the Admiralty on board the
flagship Franklin at Portsmouth.
Liverpool, October 18. —Mr. Camp
bell, of the firm of Campbell &Sons, whose
failure was recently announced, was arrest
ed, and upon examination, has been held
for trial on the charge of defrauding the
National Bank of Liverpool of ten thou
sand pounds sterling.
Denmark.
„ Copenhagen, October IS.—Captain F.
E. de Billc, late Secretary of the Danish
Legation at Paris, has been appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary of Denmark to the United
States of America.
Canada*
Toronto, October 18.—The Ottawa
correspondent of the Toronto Globe says
he has special information confirming the
statement regarding the Fenian arms at
Potsdam. The arms are those seized by
the United States Government in 1860 and
lately restored to the Fenian agents.
About four thousand stand of arms have
arrived at Postdam, and a lot of cavalry
saddles has also arrived there. It is sup
posed that the Fenians will take advan
tage of the elections which areffo come off
in New York shortly, and attempt a raid
when both the political parties least desire
to quarrel with them. The government
authorities of Canada are in full possession
of information as to their movements, and
the necessary measures aud preparations
have been taken.
Toronto, October 18.—The Evening
Telegraph says the government has receiv
ed information regarding the plans of the
Fenian Brotherhood of such importance as
to -warrant the issuance of secret instruc
tions to the commandants of military posts
throughout the province.
Horag and Ulrich, the counterfeiters,
were before the police magistrate again
this morning. The decision is reserved
until Monday.
A number of priests left Montreal to
day on a mission to Florida.
Special Telegram to the \jferald.
Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 11 o’clock P
M.—The Morning Post has (he following
special dispatch from Washington :
Upon the retirement of Dr. Lieber from
tho office of robolrecords lie vrototo Gen
eral Grant, congratulating him upon his
success, and saying that it was rarely that
history had ever devolved upon one man
so many great military responsibilities. lie
felt, it was possible a greater crises was
coming than that which endedat Appomatox
Court House, and he prayed that he might
be strong enough to accept tho responsi
bility. Grant’s letter is said to be the
most radical iic has written. In it lie
says he trusts lie may have strength to
answer any responsibility that may devolve
upon him. No matter ho-.v solemn it may
be, he will not hesitate to accept it if the
country demands it.
the official democratic majority in
THE LATE ELECTION.
Harrisburg, Penn., October 18.— The
correct official majority for Sharswood, the
Democratic candidate for Judge in the
Supreme Court, is 922
Philadelphia, October 18.— Tho Re
publican candidates for Register of Wills,
Clerk of the Orphans’ Court and City
Commissioner, have commenced a contest
in the Court of Common Pieas with the
Democrats that received the certificates of
election. Frauds aro alleged in many
wards. In one precinct the Democratic
olcetion officers are said to have received
one hundred and ninety-3ix votes from
persons who were not on the list of voters.
Similar frauds are charged iu the Sooond,
Fourth, Fifth, Seventeenth and Twenty
fifth wards, more than enough to change
the result.
Maryland.
Baltimore, Oct. 18,1867.—The follow
ing order was passed to-night by the Police
Board of Baltimore. Its object is to pro
hibit the parade of the colored militia and
the Union Leagues entirely:
All parades, processions, or assemblages
ot armed men, within the limits of Balti
more, other than the regularly organized
militia of the State, under their proper
officers, properly and legally authorized,
are hereby prohibited, whether the same
be had by day or by night.
All processions or parades of bodies of
men through the public streets at night,
except of militia as aforesaid, are likewise
forbidden, whether the persons engaged
! therein be ai med or unarmed. All persons,
j other than members of the militia organi
i nation aforesaid, appearing armed in tho
| streets at night, whether singly or together,
; will be arrested.
| The officers and men of the police force
are hereby enjoined to arrest all persons
| who shall be found on the streets in con
■ travention of this order.
! The houses of several persons have been
j searched to-day by the police and arms
taken. The owners of these belonged to
the colored military companies. A num
j her of arrests have been made of parties
alleged to be implicated in the shooting
affair of last night.
Tennessee.
Nashville, October 14. —Resolutions
were introduced in the Legislature to-day
favoring tiie nomination ot General Grant
for President and for tho reduction of the
tax on cotton. A hill was introduced
assuming claims of loyal citizens for
property taken or destroyed during tiie
war.
Governor lirownlow has submitted the !
report of Mr. MoElwel, who was sent to j
Memphis to investigate the condition cf
the Insurance National Bank, that bor- i
rowed the school funds. The report is
unsatisfactory, indicating but small |
chances to recover the balance due, ;
amounting to over $400,000.
Nashville, October 18. —The Metro- j
politan police went on duty to-night.
The Legislature was in session to-day, j
having, adjourned to attend a fair at >
Franklin. The members are delighted
with the courtesy shown them there.
Senator Rogers yesterday offered reso
lutions in the Senate in favor of paying the
bonds with greenbacks. He is one of the |
oldest and a 1 lest Radicals in that body.
John E. Amos, of Georgia, had his i
pocket picked to-day, at Chattanooga de- :
pot, of SI,OOO.
A few days ago a party of men called at
the residence of Mr. Porter, three miles
from Johnsonville, and enticed him off
under pretence of wishing him as a witness
in a trial. After they had gone some dis
tance William Pierce came out of some
bushes and shot him dead. Pierce was
afterward arrested, but made his escape.
The remainder of the party are held for
trial. The difficulty originated in matters
occurring during the war.
The railroads concentrating here arc
trying to agree upon establishing a union
depot. Much interest is felt in the result.
Massachusetts.
Special Telegram to the Hera'l.
Springfeld, October 13,10 o’clock p. m.
—A serious riot, caused by popular oppo
sition to State constabulary, occurred last
night at Westfield, ten miles from this
city. Four constables, led by Deputy
Samuel Chapin, of Springfield, made a
descent about midnight on a faro bank, |
and captured eight gamblers and ail their
implements. A crowd soon gathered, and
was increased to five hundred people by j
ringing of fire bells. The building was j
bombarded with brick backs, and on the j
appearance of the officers with their pris- |
oners all kinds of missiles wero hurled at
Constable Chapin drew his pistol
< L° rdered .. t £ em to disperse; but instead
of doing so they yelled like tigers and
made a rush tor him, using revolvers freely.
The ollioer then lired four times, hitting
one ofithe rioters, named John H. Brooks,
who died in ten minutes. After the firing
the crowd fell back.
The constables did not attempt to hold
the prisoners longer, and finding that
their horses had been stolen, they walked
to this city. They were pursued, however,
arrested on the charge of murder and
thrown into prison.
The affair lias created intense excitement
in Westfield.
Items.
Thomas Garle, an old and respec :ed dry
goods merchant, died in New York Tues
day night of apoplexy.
Several mercantile firms have sus
pended at Philadelphia within the last
two days. Their liabilities are reported at
$200,000.
A verdict giving $15,755 to the plaintiff
was rendered in the Supreme Court of
New lork, Wednesday, in the case of
Elisha Biggs vs. the Evansville and Illi
nois Railroad Company.
Parties interested are hard at work
making up a case to prove the liability of
the Government for the counterfeit 7:3o’s.
The Government will resist the claim to
the utmost.
The prize fight Wednesday morning be
tween Fitzgerald and Dooney, near Clark
fetation, Indiana, thirty miles from Chi
cago, was won by the former on a claim of
foul blow by Dooney, in nineteen rounds.
The fight lasted 42 minutes.
Senator Morgan has obtained consent of
Secretary McCulloch to leave Callicott’s
vacancy in the Brooklyn Revenue District,
unsupplied till that gentleman’s trial took
place. An individual posted in revenue
matters says there are six hundred illicit
distilleries in full operation in that district.
The Republican General Committee of
Jsew lork, on Wednesday evening, adopt
ed resolutions looking to a reunion of the
regular and Radical General Committee
and declaring their determination, as the
old guard, to stand by the country and
party.
A letter from Lcasburg, New Mexico,
dated September 28th. says the Camancho
Indians attacked and killed quite a uum
beg ot Navajos at Basquo Redoudo, the
reservation of the latter. The Camanchcs
claim the reservation as their grounds,
and regard the Navajos as trespassers,
The forthcoming report of the Commis-
Customs for New York it is said
will exhibit a very satisfactory result of tho
preventive and detective service during
the last fiscal yea;'. Considerably over a
million dollars have bfeen added to the
treasury from the seizure and sale of
smuggled goods, while the expenses of the
system have been comparatively small.
~T^ e Connecticut Legislature having con
ditionally appropriated $25,000 for the es
tablishment of a State industrial school for
females, efforts are making in New Haven
to carry the project into execution.
Commodore John Rudd, for more than
fifty years in the United States naval
service, died in Philadelphia 12th inst.
The London Daily News, in a review of
business affairs in England, says it is the
fact that for many years past the trading
profits have rarely been lower than they
are now. Many even of the highest mer
cantile firms, of first class standing and
long established repute, are, as it were
living from hand to mouth.
A letter from Canada, referring to the
approaching session of parliament, says
that among the earliest measures to be in
troduced will be one to re-establish, if
jossible, the Reciprocity Treaty with the
Jmted fetates.
The American Consul at Malta reports
September 20th that the cholera had
broken out there.
Ihe infant child of the Turkish Minister
was yesterday baptized at St. Mathew’s
Church in Washington in the Roman
Catholic faith, the father and several
friends being present.
The Metropolitan Police of Nashville, so
long restrained by an injunction, is about
to go on duty u«fier the new reigp.
Ncgioca am tu bn liberally sandwiched in
the police and lire departments.
It is said the Fund Commissioners of the
State of Missouri have ordered the officers
of the Bank of Commerce, oi(New York,
to apply the Statu fM'flrffftM?? 1
hands to the payment of past Buc coupons
on State bonds, and the Mknce to the
credit of tho State in tho YJank of Com
merce is over $2,000,000.
Registration and naturalization is going
on briskly in New York and in Brooklyn.
, The Government Steamboat Commis
sion is in session in Now York ; it will in
vestigate the Vanderbilt and Dean llich
mond collision.
Six hundred retail druggists, grocers,
and others in Brooklyn were fined fifty
dollars each in New Fork yesterday for
violation of the stamping regulations of
revenue.
The State Department has published a
series of notes, in pamphlet form, on tho
Russian-Ameriean trading posts, which
may prove of interest to those contem
plating a settlement in our new posses
sions.
It is understood the purpose of the visit
of Gen. Beauregard to the President and
Gen. Grant was to have restored to him
certain lauds which he owns near Memphis,
and which are. now occupied by Freed
men’s Bureau officers.
The whiskey dealers continue their fight
against tho Metropolitan Revenue Board.
The Secretary meets their complaints by
pointing to the fact that whiskey is higher
since Messmore’s removal than it was
before.
The Metropolitan Fire Department of
New York has ordered a tax of one thou
sand dollars to be levied on the Chief En
gineer, and proportionate sums on the
employees of the department to defray the
expenses of tho Republican party at the
next State election.
Death of Two Ministers of the
Gospel. —The Rev. and venerable Zede
kiah Watkins and the Rev. Abner W.
Asbill have departed from among us, to
be no more seen on earth. Since our early
youth, their names have been household
words in Edgefield, And they will still
be; for these were men of piety, and good
deeds, and useful lives. —Edgefield (S. C.)
Advertiser.
The Railway Conference, at New York,
recently was quite harmonious and the ac
cord complete between the great Trunk
lines. As to rates of business, the project
of consolidating their earnings was partial
ly discussed, but no result arrived at. The
new administration of the Erie promptly
agreed to raise their passenger fares to
the scale of other trunk lines, and a re
vision of the fares with Western roads is
expected to give the Central and Eric 181
additional to present rate.s on through
business to and from Chicago.
Ohio White Boys in Blue.— This is
the name of a political organization there,
which is made up of soldiers who have
been in service or underfire, but goagainst
equalizing themselves with and fraterniz
ing with the negro. They did not fight,
thoy say, even to free negroes, hut to re
store the Union. Such an organization
ought to be instituted in all the States.
We have about thirty thousand of them
here, in New York and Brooklyn alone.—
N. V Express.
Trade at the South.— There is much
depression in trade circles at the South.
A correspondent at Memphis writes:
“There is much despondency in mercan
tile circles, over the low prices, which will
n otbe sufficient to pay the tax and cost of
producing. Many predict harder times in
the South next year than ever before ex
perienced. There will be little cotton
raised unless Congress removes the tax.
The impression here is that the present
low prices arc caused, to some extent, by
a movement in New York and Liverpool,
to work upon the necessities of the South
ern people.”
First Cofrox by Sail for Liverpool.
—Messrs. Brigham, Holst & Cos., on Sat
urday lust, cleared the British brig Spring,
two hundred and fifty-four tons. Captain
Thompson, for Liverpool, with a cargo
consisting of five hundred and ninety
eight bales of. upland cm ton, weighing
305,798 pounds, valued at $48,463 33, and
.-even bales of sea islands, weighing 1,770
pounds, valued at $708; total weight,
307,508 pounds; total value, $49,171 33.
This is the first direct export of' the staple
this season to Liverpool by sail.— Savh.
Hep.
Digging Potatoes by Machinery.—
A trial of potato diggers took place near
Bishopbriggs, Scotland, last month. One
•onsisted of a broad scoop for opening the
drill, with a revolving grape behind, by
the action of which the potatoes and soil
are thoroughly separated, and thrown to
one side against a netting attached to the
side of the machine. _ Another was on a
similar principle, but with the revolving
grape in a different position, and without
the netting.
Deceased. —Samuel M. Seinmcs, Esq.,
a prominent lawyer of Cumberland, Md.,
died on the 14th inst., aged 57 years. The
deceased was formerly a member of the
Maryland Senate. He was a brother of
Captain Semmes, of the late Confederate
navy.