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WEDNESDAY MOR.MVG, NO7F.MBER6.
When Milo, tlie Roman Cc -u., was
banished to Marseilles, Cicero, his lawyer,
sent him the revised copy of a speech in
bis defence. Milo wrote back : “If
Cicero had spoken what Cicero had
written. Milo would not be eating oysters
at Marseilles. —Augusta C nstilutionalist.
Our Auiflsta contemporary is much
fresher from the schools than we are, and
wo do not intend by authority to impeach
the above ouotation, nor have we time
to search through the books; but our
recollection of the great Homan exile’s
sarcasm is this: “Ah, Cicero, hadst
thou spoken thus of Milo, he would not
niw lie eating the figs of Messina.” We
will at 1 ast venture this version as the
correct one, hut feel too rusty in the
classics to swear to it. —Macon Tel.
Roth wrong. Milo’s remark upon re- [
ceiviug a cojiy of the speech which Cicero
Bad prepared, but, through fear, had
saned to make in his defence, waH: “llow |
fortunate it is that this oration was not >
delivered, for then I should have been i
acquitted, and have never known the
delicious flavor of these Massilian mullets.”
The Charleston News.—The Charles
ton Daily News has passed into new hands,
Messrs. M .Mill an & Morton having sold !
out their interest to Messrs. R. It.
ltiordan, Francis W. Dawson and Henry
Evans. The latter have formed a co
partnership under the name and style of
ltiordan, Dawson & Cos, Messrs. Riordan
ar.d Daw.ion are two of the most ac
complished newspaper men in the country,
being educated to the profession. The
impress of their journalistic skill and
ability is evinced in the changed appearance
of the number of the News before us. \
There is vigor and originality in the
editorials, and tact and vitality in the gen- I
era! make up of the paper. We con- !
gratulate the new firm and wish the News
and it s proprietors a brilliant and successful
career.
The editors conclude their salutatory as
follows:
The now proprietors of the paper will
bend all their energies to the task of giving
fresh interest and vigor to its columns, and i
enlarging, by every means that enterprise
can suggest, the sphere oi'its influence and
usefulness. In the shaping of its past politi
cal course, they have had no part. Their
record, as independent journalists, begins
from to-day. Round to the fortunes of no
clique of impracticable extremists, nor yet
the facile mouth-piece of the timid and |
time serving, tlie News will henceforth \
deal witli public questions as they arise, J
honestly, fearlessly and consistently, with
hut the single aim—to maintain the honor
atnl promote the welfare of the Southern
people.
Du. H. 11. Tucker.—We were pleased
to receive a visit Wednesday from this dis
tinguished and patriotic gentlemen. His
many Irieuds will be pleased to learn that
lie is in vigorous health and fine spirits, j
The Dr. informs us that the University, I
over which he presides {Mercer), is in a
flourishing condition.
Harpers' Razar. — Wo are indebted to
Quinn, the enterprising newsdealer No. 189,
Rroad streot, for the initial number of
this new candidate for popular patronage.
The Baear iafl. weekly journal ®f fashion,
issued, by t,b»-well-known Radical publish
ers, Harper k Bros, and wo doubt not that
South' sh ladies will find in its reading |
matter much to make thorn love the Yan
kees, the Harpers and the balance of man
kind.
Subscription price—$1 00 per year.
Pop t Gerrymandering Bebulted by j
Gen. Grant. j
The National Intelligencer of the 25th '
instant, states that Gen. Pope’s Orde j
fixing and prescribing the Election Districts i
in this State bad been disapproved by \
Gen, Grant, who decided “ that the allot- !
luent of delegates should be made by i
Counties and not by Senatorial Districts ,
but as the day of election was so near at I
hand he did not see how the matter could j
be remedied, but ho telegraphed to Gen.
Pope, asking if it would ho practicable to j
make correction.”
This is a poor excuse to be made by ;
Gen. Grant for his acquiescence in the
illegal order of Pope. If ho was really de
sirons to have a fair expression of tho pop
ular sentiment, and was opposed to the |
unfair gerrymandering of Pope, ho should j
have ordered him to revoke the order 1
bringing on the election on the 29th, and
make anew assignment of delegates by !
counties, as the law plainly directs should j
be done. General Grant’s disapproval i
amounts to nothing. Every sensible man
knew, before Gen. Grant acted in the mat- 1
ter, that Pope’s order was illegal. We
needed no information on that point. We
asked Gen. Grant for a remedy and he
simply tells us wo are right but it is too
late for relief.
“Equality.”
Subjoii lar s ene figures showing what
is meant by Radic: : : “equality.” in the
processed reconst ructieo it is made ncces
ary to elect delegates, and obviously the
way was to divide the total of voting pot .-
lation by the number of delegates to be
chosen and then conform the apportion
ment of electoral districts, as far as prac
ticable, to this quotient. Rut of such is
not the comprehension of the saiuts.
Radical equality means Radical ma
jority, and to insure this majority
the fundamental rule of apportion
ment has been grossly violated in the
Southern States Inflow mentioned, from all
of which there are now full returns. By
the tables given it will bo seen, first,
the number of delegates each race would
be entitled to at the same ratio of repre
.-•entati- a; and, secondly, the existing
assignment at the ratio of inequality resort
ed to in order to give a majority to the
blacks:
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WMUS. Hacks, Total. Ratio.
Virginia ( » 49 105 2,053
iitHirjiia m S3 100 I,ll*
Mississippi 42 oS 100 1,212
Florida 19 27 46 578
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Black. White, i
Whit,*. Bilks. Raii\ Rati-'.*
Virgil i:\ 4(5 59 2,503 1,750
tteorgi.-i ..to 104 1.406 807
Mississippi 30 70 1,705 100 j
Florida 10 36 1,115 42
From those figures some carious facts
appear. In the first place a gerrymander
ing of 'ussissippi and Florida, is a purely
gratuii us rascality, the blacks having a
majority there anyway: and, secondly, it
appears from the whole array that in the
eyes of those who deafen us with this
cuckoo cry of “equality," a white man's j
vote in the South is only from a third to a
half as good as a negro's. To put this 1
exactly, a white man's vote in A ir
ginia i 8 forty sic (46 per cent, less valuable
than a blacks man's ; in Georgia. sixty- j
three v 63) per cent, less ;in Mississippi, j
seventy-one 171) percent. : and in Florida, J
one hundred tuui sixty (160). In other :
words it takes one and a half white m n in
\ irginia to equal a negro ; ,n Georgia one
and three tilths ; in Mississippi, one and
sew--tenths ; and in Florida two and a
halt!
Mow this is a pretty exhibit, isn't it, for
a party that is forever holding up the
absolute equality of all menus something
not to be infringed without mortal sin.
Why, these selfsame gerrymandering Rad
icals were of such tender conscience that'
they could not abide even the old three-
rule of the lathers. They never
rested till they overthrew that rule, tnd in
order to stamp their eternal reprobation of
the inequality it embodied they have now
ordained in the South the same kind of
rule, just thirty-seven percent, the other
way. Equality, equality, what knaveries
are done in thy name ! — N. Y. WorhL
Seriously Dismantled.
Our neighbor across the street in his
reply, yesterday morning, to our previous
charge, that he had dodged the question
; in issue between us, shows so much spleen
I that we fear bis digestive organs are sadly
I out of sorts. We know that the editor of
; the Constitutionalist is an amiable, clever
j gentleman, strongly inclined, however, to
j pflace a very high estimate on the value of
i his own opinions. If it will appease the
I ire of our friend, and tend to soften his
bitterness toward us, we will concede that,
• occasionally, he is right in his exposition
!of legal and constitutional principles. We
cannot say, however, that he has succeeded
in showing that our charge of “dodging”
was incorrect.
We state again, the point in controver
sy, and the only point which the conserva
tive press of the State made against the
Constitutionalist, was, that its construction
of the 3d section of the Supplemental Re
construction Bill was incorrect. It had
declared' its opinion to be, that under the
terms of that section, voters were required
to vote either “for or against a Conven
tion,” or the ballot was void. We denied
this proposition, and straightway it refer
red to Mr. Hill’s Washington letter to this
paper, as an authority in support of the
point it had made on the. 3 d section. We
said, and repeat it, that there is npt a
single allusion, to this point in the whole of
Mr. Hill’s long letter. The Constitutional
ist now charges us with garbling the ex
tract from that letter, upon which it relied
to prove that Mr. Hill coincided with it
on the question as to the validity of bal
lots cast without endorsement.; In our
former article we gave all that we thought
necessary to a full understanding of the
case. To please our neighbor, we repro
duce from its columns the entire extract:
“Let black and white abandon the
illegal attempt to organize a civil govern
ment by fraudulent and unconstitutional
military force, and let no man vote on the
question. But if the negroes will not
receive the counsels of their best friends
and persist in voting, let them vote alone
and let them alone be responsible for the
consequences. ”
If there is anything in this which sus
tains the position of the Constitutionalist
on the issue between us we confess our
inability to perceive it. Long before Mr.
Hill’s Washington letter was written, his
position on the propriety of voting at all
on the Convention question had been
made known to the people of Georgia
through the columns of the Chronicle tfe
Sentinel.
The Constitutionalist also called to its
support the views of the Richmond I \hig
and the Enquirer. Wo had never seen in
the columns of either of these papers
the question raised by the Constitutionalist
as to the legality of ballot'- [which had no
endorsement of “for Convention or
against Convention,” canvassed or dis
cussed, and wo called upon our neighbor to
refer us to the authority upon which it
seemed to rely. In reply to our request he
quotes the following from tho Enquirer :
“It is plain, that voting for or against a
Convention, and voting for delegates to
serve in case a Convention shall be held,
are done by erne, act—expressed by one bal
lot.”
Certainly, that is plain enough. No one
in this State had contended that there
should bo two ballots, on one of which ‘ for
or againita Contention” had to bo written,
and on the other the names of the candi
dates. The Enquirer docs not say—nay,
it does not even hint that all ballots which
are cast, without endorsement are illegal
and void. We say again that this ques
tion, as far as wo observed tho Virginia
canvass, was not raised by any portion of
.{he press of that State. It ej>eir , from.URL
extract produced by tho Constitutionalist
from the Enquirer, that some persons in
Virginia thought that two ballots were re
quired, upon one of which the candidates
names should be written, and on the other
the endorsement “for or against a Conven
tion.’ No such question has been raised
here, and hence wo cannot see the rele
vancy of the testimony which the Constitu
tionalist produces on that point.
In conclusion wo assure our friend that
he is mistaken in supposing that wo wish
ed or intended eithor to impugn his
motives or to degrade his position. Noth
ing in the language which we used can be •
fairly attributable to such a design. We
attacked his position because we thought
lie was wrong. We exposed the fallacy
of bis argument to prevent injury to the
cause which we knew he was like ourselves
earnestly supporting. Our otTence “hath
this extent—no more.”
Another Radical Swindle.
Wc have been reliably informed that
the Radio'd managers of the election in
this city finding it a little troublesome to
1 compare tho names of the negroes who
j presented themselves at the polls with the
j lists of registered voters, determined to
i receive the ballots of all who offered to
j vote without question as to their right to
| vote, or whether they had been registered.
\\ e learn that after this determination
was made known the negroes poured in,
| and in a few hours more than one thousand
ballots were cast.
Every candid man knows that this pre
j tenea of difficulty in comparing each name
presented with the lists furnished by the
| Board of Registration is a mere trick to
enable the Radical managers to admit and
receive the hundreds of illegal votes pre
sented y the Carolina negroes and others.
; who had not registered. It is known that
j there are hundreds of names on the regis
try lists for whom bona fide voters cannot
; bo found. Here we have a reason for the
I illegal action of the managers to-day. We
i have never before known such an open
and bare faced fraud perpetrated upon the
j purity of the ballot box in any portion of
i thi.- wide extended country,
j The announcement is made; tho invita
. tion is given to all who wish to do so to go
forward and vote. If the Conservatives
should attempt to avail themselves of this
'invitation, their ballots w uld be thrown
j out unless their names could be found on
; the Registry Lists. Upon the whole, this
; is in strict accordance with the Radical
programme, and doubtless owes its pater
nity to the cunning and trickery of our
Military Mayor. The Radical managers
have at last thrown off all disguise, and
i openly show that they are determined to
have as many votes cast here as may be
necessary to accomplish their purpose.
This illegal and fraudulent conduct of
the managers, is sought to be paliated by
the statement, that at their leisure they
wi.i compare the names on the ballots with
the registry lists, and if the latter do not
show each voter to have been registered,
that his ballot will be thrown out. Is any
one so siuy as to believe that a single
Radical ticket (and there are none other
j east here), will be thrown out by these
managers? Retribution will as sure as
there is a just God, come for these out
rages upon the dearest rights of the white
people of this country.
Sticks to the Jigger.
Some of our friends in this part of the
State have been weak enough to believe
that Joe Brown had become disgusted
with the shameful and corrupt course of
the leading Radicals in the State, and that
his long silence of late was indicative of a
coming change in the Governor's position.
This hallucination has been dispelled.
, Joe made his appearance at a negro
gathering on Monday night in Atlanta
and was. by invitation, the leading orator
of the occasion, lie swallows, at once, the
negro, Pope's gerrymandering order,
Hulbert, Dunning. Ashbnrn, Bradley and
the whole tribe of Radicals who infest the
State. What a capacious maw our Joe’s
got.
Uall Virginia!
] Under the above heading the Tribune ,
of the 26th, has a double-leaded article of
; nearly a column, devoted to extravagant
| glorifications over the result of the late
j election in Virginia. It is delighted to
note that, in the counties having the
j largest negro population, the
| Radicals are elected, just as though any
sane man ever believed in a different
result, where the masses-of the voters weie
besotted negroes. Greeley rejoices that
the Convention will he, by a large :na
joriiy, extremely Radical, and expresses
the hope that the Rads “ will be moderate
and cautious in tning their triumph so as
not to endanger its popularity.”
White people of Georgia ! it is not too
late even now to strike a blow for intelli
gence, for virtue, for civil liberty, and the
Constitution of the United States. Let
each lover of his race and country deter
mine to day to use his influence so as to
prevent one ballot from being cast for the
Convention, and our good old State may
be saved from the degradation which over
whelms gallant Virginia, the mother of
States and of statesmen.
ASSEMBLING OF SWAYNE’S CONVEN
TION. —We publish elsewhere in the Mail
■ to-day, the order of Gen. Pope calling to
gether the delegates elected to the so-called
Alabama Constitutional Convention. They,
are ordered to meet at the Capitol, in this
city, on Tuesday, sth day of November,
1867. —Montgomery Mail.
The Mobile Advertiser &. Register very
properly says: “We beg to suggest to
our brethren of the press whether there is
any propriety or utility in publishing the
tyrannical orders of Pope and Swayne.
Certainly Done of these orders have the
slightest reference to the good of the peo
ple of the State, and it is equally certain
that the press owes nothing in the way of
comity or courtesy to those two Satraps.
Let Pope depend on his own papers—those
that he is feeding with patronage plunder
ed from the press of the State —for the
publication of his commands. If the
Southern press in the State would follow
this rule strictly, Gen. Pope would find it
somewhat difficult to work his party league
machine. The less we touch or have to do
with S. S. S. bills, and the tools that are
enforcing them, the better for us all.
The Cotton Crop of 1867.—The fol
lowing is a return of the cotton crop for
1867, taken by the Bureau of Statistics.
The returns are from four hundred and
eighty-four divisions, several divisions yet
remaining to hear from, and show that
5,067,025 acres have been planted in cot
ton, and that the estimated yield is 1,568,-
357 bales of four hundred and fifty pounds
each, equal to 1,764,401 bales of four hun
dred pounds each, the latter being the
weight assumed in the census of 1860. The
yield of 1860 was 3,656,086 bales of four
hundred pounds each. It is estimated by
the bureau that the returns yet to come
will not materially alter the above figures.
Gen. Sherman. —A correspondent of
the Philadelphia Morning Post writing
from Hanover, N. 11., says that in a recent
letter from Gen. Sherman, the latter
“ said that under no circumstances would
he make any speeches ; that he did not
desire to occupy the attention of the public,
and would never permit his name to be
used in connection with any office in the
gift of the people. His brother John, he
said, had a taste for politics, but he had
not.”
Commenting upon the loss of the
German vote by the Republicans in the
late elections, the Chicago Times observes i
that, as slavery no longer exists in this
country, the free-tuiokinar Gormans will •:
gradually drift back to the Democratic j
party, which they left because they hated !
slavery. This, the Times contends, they
will do because the Democracy arc with
the Germans in opposition to Sunday
laws and prohibitory liquor laws, and in
advocacy of the largest liberty.
Petersons’ Philadelphia Counter
feit Detector. —This periodical, which
is a regular sate-guard in Banks, offices,
Counting-houses and stores, is issued on
the Ist and 15th of each month, and has
become a necessity to all business men.
Some few people think that a Detector is
not of any use now, as wc have nearly all
National Bank currency. This is a great
mistake, as to-day there are more connter
feits, and broken bank notes in circulation
than there ever was; so you see that
Petersons’ Detector is actually a greater
necessity to all Rankers, Merchants and
Storekeepers, and we would advise all our j
readers to subscribe to it at once.
Terms of subscription to Petersons’
Counterfeit Detector , corrected by Drexel !
& Cos., Bankers, is for monthly issue, (per
annum) $1 50; Semi-monthly (per annum)
$3 00; single numbers, 15 cents. To
agents, $lO a hundred net cash. Sub
scriptions may commence with any month,
and are payable in advance. Address T.
B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
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Lespedeza versus Lespidasa.
Editors Chronicle dt Sentinel:
Gentlemen:
“A rose, by any other name may smell as
sweet,”
Rut, for all purposes, not poetical, it is
best to call it Dy its old-fashioned name —
a rose.
Your excellent journal has contained
several very interesting and instructive
1 articles on “the new plant,” which is rapid
ly spreading over the State. Through in
advertence, the name has, in my opinion,
I been mis-spelled, and the misnomer is in a
fair way of being perpetuated.
I think that the generic name is Lespe
deza —not Lespidasa —and for the follow
ing reasons:
Ist. The genus Lespidasa is not found :
; in Forrey and Gray’s Flora of North)
America, nor in Loudon’s Encyclopedia of \
Plants. Prs. Forrey and Gray are the
| highest authority ou American Botany, i
and Loudon’s Encyclopedia is a standard
! English work on plants from all countries [
of the globe; were there such a genus as
Lespidasa, unless very recent, it would j
have been mentioned by these authors. |
2nd. The Lespedeza does occur in these
l works, and in most elementary treatises on
j botany.
3rd. The description of the genus Lespe
deza applies to “the new plant.” I copy
the most striking part from Forrey and
Gray’s Flora of North America :
'''Lespedeza. sl. Flowers of two kinds,
viz: perfect, although seldom maturing
j fruit; and fertile, but mostly destitute o'?
I stamens and petals: the latter either on
the same few-flowered peduncles, or in
sub-sessile giomerules. * * * * The
fruit in this section is chiefly produced by
the apetalous flowers, which are small and
commonly escape notice until the legumes
are formed.
On examination of the plant now, it
will be found that the one-seeded roundish
pods occur at the axiles of the leaves, in
groups of from two to four, their stems
frequently branching from a common
centra l stem. Intermixed with the pods
near the ends of the branches will be found
: some of the withered purplish flowers, but
| with no seed pods at their basis. Earlier
in the season many flower- were examined
i but in no instance was a seed pod seen con
nected with the flowers. The seeds are
produced by imperfect flowers, which are
inconspicuous, from having no colored
parts.
The genus Lespedeza is not ncic in Geor
. via. I- orrey and Gray describe six species
iin North America. Drs. Elliott and Chap
man and Professor Darby give all these
in the Southern States and probably all in
Georgia : Loudon gives seven species, all
North American, except one from Ind’a
and trom China, and says, the genus was
named by Miehaux. in honor o fLespedes,
a Governor of I iorida, who protected that
t botanist in his botanical researches ’ ’
i , The species Lespedeza Striata 'seems to
be new in Georgia, and is referred by Dr.
Gray to Asia. .
Dr. Chapman calls the genus bush-dover,
a name more applicable to the taller Ameri
can species than to this Asiatic stranger:
but this may serve as a trivial name until
a better is suggested.
Very respectfully,
J. E, Willet, Mercer University.
AUGUSTA, GA., MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1867.
Special Oorretpondevce of the Baltimore Gazette.
From Washington.
| The Retrenchment Committee are “peg
ging away” in attempting to whitewash
: the Treasury Department. The public
I has been given to understand, and I have
f no doubt upon authority of someone of
the committee, that Mr. Clark, the Super
intendent of the Printiog Bureau, has
been or will lie suspended (temporarily at
least). One of the dispatches northward
goes so far as to assign the particular
grounds of the committee's recommenda
tion to that namely : That he re
fused to submit his books to their inspec
tion, and to afford the necessary facilities
for an insight to his operation of flooding
the country with the vile trash called
“fractional currency,” or to explain the
modus operandi of manufacturing to order
any number of 7-30's, &c. Now, I am
authorized to say there is not a word of
trutii in all the statements. The process
is very simple of printing either the bonds
or notes, and it is easily understood, it is
aid. that if anyone could manage to get
inside of the sanctum, and remain but a
few moments, supplied with a small quan
tity of lead, a sac simile might be taken of
the plates, and a verv respectable counter
feit manufactured. Mr. Clark uas never
interposed any difficulty whatever to a full
examination, was at his office this morning,
.eceiving routine orders from the Secre
tary of the Treasury, and acting in all re
spects as if nothing at all unusual was the
matter. This committee must hunt up
some other subject upon whose head to
keep the accumulated weight of Treasury
corruptions.
The committee charged with your affairs
are still engaged in examining witnesses
as to your political and social condition.
The members of this committee have an
understanding that their proceedings are
to be kept secret for the present, and con
sequently no official information is ob
tainable. But the witnesses themselves
in public places blab the substance of
their testimony. In this way it is under
stood that the main complaint is that, as
things now stand, the Radicals are almost
sure of being virtually proscribed from
public office, whereas, if the negroes were
allowed to vote through an act of Congress,
they might possibly be relieved from this
disability. Mayor Chapman and Sebley,
of Frederick, add to this crowning griev
ance a long catalogue of Copperhead mis
demeanors of particularly obnoxious indi
viduals, embracing maltreatment of ne
groes of African descent in our midst,
such as the brick-batting at the corner of
Mulberry and Howard streets, and of a
general indisposition of the whites to
place the negroes upon a footing of social
and political equality. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Cox ,has not yet been examined,
unless he went through that process
to-day. To him, I hear, has been as
signed the heavy business of showing the
inequality of your representative system.
Otherwise this committee will adjourn ou
the 28th to November 13.
The organ of the Secretary of the Treas
ury (the Chronicle of this city) has this
morning a very curious paragraph to the
following effect:
“Secretary McCulloch has decided upon
a policy regarding the manner in which his
Department is represented in the delibera
tions of the Metropolitan Revenue Board
in New York, which, although not de
cidedly complimentary to the honesty of
his subordinate officers, is likely to bo pro
ductive of great increase in the whiskey
revenue. lie proposes that Deputy Com
missioner of Internal Revenue Parnell,
who is now in New York, shall soon be re
lieved by some officer experienced in
revenue matters, who will in turn be re
lieved by another officer of the same char
acter. He hopes by this means to prevent
the formation of whiskey rings, the in
fluence of which lias operated so perni
ciously on the Board in times past.”
I understand that a meeting of the Na
tional Democratic Resident Executive
Committee, formed at Chicago in 1864,
will be held at the Metropolitan Hotel in
this city on the Ist of November. It is
given out that the Radical Presidential
Convention will bo held in Chicago in
June.
During the proceedings of the Supreme
Court of this District yesterday it was de
veloped that the summary dismissal of
Joseph H. Bradley, _Sr., Esq., by Judge
Fisher was not recognized by the Court. It
is probable the case will be formally noticed
hereafter. ——
It would seem there is some truth in
the report that the Southern States are to
be left at the discretionary power of the
District Commanders. It is understood
that neither the President nor Gen. Grant
will interfere except in the way of advice.
It is also an admitted fact that Mr. McCul
loch has thought it necessary to his pres
ent political status to authorize a plump
denial that he intends to imitate the Post
master-General in publicly endorsing the
President’s course.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was attend
ed by all the members. It was quite pro
tracted. It is understood that the delib
erations had reference to subjects other
than political.
The bids for building the new district
jail will be promptly considered by the
Secretary of the Interior, and the award
made in a few days. There are quite a
number of Maryland bidders.
The Star learns that Mr. R. T. Mer
rick is about bringing suits before the
Court here for the restoration of the prop
erty sold under the Confiscation act, in the
name ofDr. Cornelius Boyle and Colonel
H. B. Tyler, and in case of an adverse
decision the cases will be taken to the
Supreme Court of the United States. Mr.
Merrick brought a similar suit in reference
to the confiscated property of Daniel Rad
elife, in Franklin,Row, which was argued
some months since and settled.
preparation for the meeting of con
gress.
Washington, October 25. —Yesterday
the new carpets were laid on the floor of
the Senate Chamber, and the furniture
will soon bo put in its proper place. The
Hall of Representatives is now almost
cleared of desks, chairs, &c., preparatory
to the laying down of the new carpets.
The Supreme Court room is also being
thoroughly refitted, and afi through the
Capitol carpenters, upholsterers and paint
ers are making the requisite repairs in an
ticipation of the reassembling of Congress.
ANOTHER GRANT BY PRESIDENT JUAREZ.
Informal ion has been received hereof
the issuance of anew grant by President
Juarez to Mr. E. Lasere for the opening
of the Tehuantepec route. It is substan
tially the same as that issued October 15,
1866, to Charles Knapp & Cos., but which
collapsed, owing, it is said, to the non
fulfillment of the contract by them.
NATIONAL UNION REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE, j
! Governor Ward, who is here now, says j
| that at the recent meeting in New York, J
I of the Executive Sub-committee of the !
I National Union Republican Committee, ]
| there was some conversation as to the best i
! place for holding the next Convention for j
i the nomination of candidates for the
| Presidency and Vice Presidency, and that j
I Chicago, St. Louis and New York were
! mentioned in that connection, but that no j
] action was taken by the sub-committee, j
| as the determination of that question be-
I longs to the full committee, to assemble i
here in December next.
ADVICES FROM SITKA.
Washington, October 26.
I The Treasury Department has received
dispatches from the steamer Lincoln, sent
;to the new territory. Leaving San Fran
cisco on the 20th of July, she proceeded
| by way of Victoria and Fort Rupert, and
j Vancouver Island to Fort Simpson,
i Three attempts were made to take ob
| servations to fix accurately the boundaries
i between British Columbia and our new
territory, which were, however, unsuccess
ful on account of the rain and fog, although
six days were consumed in the trial. The
vessel then proceeded to Sitka, by way of
Chatham sound and Dixon passage, arriv
ing in the bay on the morning of August
12th. They were still surrounded by a fog
which completely hid the town from view,
so that its exact locality could not be made
out. After the fog had cleared away the
steamer entered the port, and the officers
and men received a cordial reception from
Russian officials. The latter exhibited
every disposition to forward the designs of
i the cruise, and immediately preparations
were unde to proceed with it, going first
to Onnalaska Island. At the date of the
| report it was expected to set oat on the
f 23d of August. Little had been learned
| m the short time that had elapsed since
I their arrival in these waters, but the offi
' cers expressed themselves already satisfied
that the resources of the country in timber
’ and fisheries, have not been overrated.
A MYSTERIOUS TRANSACTION.
Several weeks ago Secretary McCulloch
received from an anonymous source a
package postmarked Urbana. Ohio, con
| taining nineteen thousand dollars, the
larger portion of which was in seven-thirty
bonds. The money was placed to the
credit of the “conscience fund.’’ Re
cently a letter was received from a man in
Wisconsin claiming that he sent the
money to be invested in other securities,
such as the Secretary might think proper
to send, and gave as his reason for lor
warding no communication or signatur
with the money, that he was sick at the
time and not able to write. The officers
of the Treasury are of the opinion that the
letter is. from son* party who saw the
publication that Dqeteen thousand dollars
had been received, jmd thinks that he can
claim the same. ;
- Vl om tkt Courier, II H\.
Spicy PolltlealCorrespondence.
A chatauqua respolican responds to
A PiRXY APPEAL.
The following gerruiue correspondence
will amuse and instruct our readers. Th
Radical Stare committee is begging money
to carry on its wo A of corruption, and
the following is the circular letter sent out
to “the faithful
THE CIRCULAR LETTER.
Republican Campaign, 1867.
Com. Rooms. Metropolitan Hotel, 1
New York, October 7, 1867. J
To J. T. Wilson, Esq., Jamestown, N. Y. :
Dear Sir : Forthe purpose of defraying
the proper and legitimate expenses of the
approaching eleoion, the State Commit
tee are soliei’flg contributions from the
friends of the l übn cause and the bene
ficiaries of the Republican Union party.
The amount wlich we have deemed it
proper to ask you tq contribute to aid in
conducting the campaign is sixty dollars,
which you wiil please remit to Waldo
Hutchins, Esq., No. 40 Wall street, New
York.
In view of the shortness of the canvass,
an early response i| requested.
Yours, very truly,
Hamilton Harris,
Chairman.
Luther Caldwell, Secretary.
THE REPLY.
Jamestown, N. Y., Oct. 15,1867.
My Dear Hamilton— Your affectionate
letter of the 7th was duly received, and in
reply I would say that I am very well,
never was better; lave you heard from
Pennsylvania and Olio ? Have you beard
from them Hamiltdi, and how is your
health? Your friend l * here don’t like it,
and say, quite disgvetedly, that this trad
ing off white votes at the North for nigger
votes at the South “ don’t pay.” Do you
regard it „s a profitable investment, Ham
ilton, and how mud more of the stock do
you want ? It is foi sale very cheap among
the members of tie Union Republican
party in this locality.
But in regard to hatsixty dollars (don’t
you wish you ma* get it) which you so
persuasively expect me to fork over as one
of “ the beneficiaries of the Republican
Union party.” I yill own, Hamilton, that
I have derived many and great benefits
from the party last aforesaid. I don’t deny
it. For instance, they have beneficently
accumulated for me, in common with the
rest of the people if the United States, a
great national debt, which, we all admit, is
a national blessing.
They have replaced the base and cum
brous metalic currency, that used to weigh
a man down and impede locomotion, to say
nothing about wearing holes in his pockets
and disappearing inconveniently in tho lin
ings of his trousers, by light and airy curren
cy that costs but iittle t o manufacture and
nothing to redeem, and which a man can
carry around with ease in large amounts,
if lie can only get it. (Oh, if you could but
get sixty dollars of mine.)
They have granted me the glorious
privilege ofheiping to furnish board and
clothes to my odoriferous brethren of Afri
can descent jn the Southern States, which
blessed privilege, they have wrested from
the hands of their late oppressors. They
have multiplied offices and office-holders,
and raised all their salaries and enriched
contractor and by thus adding to the
wealth of each individual have increased
the aggregate of national treasure.
(Don’tyou see it, Hamilton ? I don’t.)
They have done away with the slow,
solemn and cumbrous forms and ceremo
nies of constitutional and civil law in the
administration of the Government, and
adopted the more expeditious and jovial
ways of military commission.
They have given the odoriferous, &c., as
aforesaid, a chance to vote, sit on juries,
hold office, and do everything but work
and get an honest living—that is, in the
Southern States. (They did go back on
him in Ohio).
Now, ip view of these and countless
other benefits I have received at their
hands, don’t you think you were altogether
too modest ip asking lor only SOO ? I
assure you, Hamilton, if you had asked
for twice or even ten times as much, it
would have been sent just as cheerfully,
and you would have go: it just as soon.
.Please give my love to Waldo, and tell
him when ho gets, this S6O I shall expect
him to spend it all in putting down corrup
tion, as you advertised to do at Syracuse
the other day.
Tell him, also, “in view of the shortness
of the campaign,” not to unnecessarily
fatigue himself by going too often to the
po3toffice after that S6O, for if he will only
wait patiently a few days ho won’t get it.
Adieu! Hamilton. Be virtuous and
you will be hap, /!
The rose is red,
The violet’s blue,
The lily’s pure,
And how are you?
Yours, as ever (just about),
JohnT. Wilson.
Hon. B. H. Hill’s Speech.—Last
Thursday evening itwas“norated” around
town that the Hon, B. H. Hill, having
just returned from a Northern tour, would
address his fellow-cititens atbis residence
after night. A considerable number, we
understand, waited on him, and were ad
dressed at some length. Those who heard
the speech assure us that it was a practical
talk, in reference to the impressions made
by his Northern tour, the presentcondition
and future prospects of the country.
Mr. Hill, in common with everybody
else hero, considers the reaction which has
commenced as an earnest effort on the
part of the masses to save the institutions
of the countryfrom impending ruin, and
believes that, now being aroused, they will
not stop in mid career and leave the work
unaccomplished. lie assured his auditors
that the best informed politicians in New
York count on a majority against the
Radicals of at least 40,000 at the election
in November.
We understand that Mr. Hill advises
the people of Georgia to have nothing
whatever to do with the proposed Conven
tion —to stand entirely aloof from it. He
appealed to those who were giving it their
support, because they heretofore believed
it to be inevitable, to retrace their steps —
as the light which is now dawning in all
sections gives assurance of approaching
relief. —Athens Banner, 23 d.
The State Road Out of Debt.— We
understand that this Road is now in funds,
and will remit, during the present week,
the full baiance due the Government,
amounting to about four hundred thou
sand dollars (400,000).
This will place the Road clear of debt;
so that its future earnings can go to re
plenish the Treasury of the Stare. This
is perhaps the only important rr.ilway in
the South that has been able to liquidate
the full amount of its obligations to the
Government; and when we consider this
important fact in connection with the ad
ditional fact that the Road is now in better
condition, and has a better supply of roil- 1
mg stock than almost any other road !
South of the Potomac, it is no ordinary I
commendation of its efficient management.
When M l Wallace was appointed Su
perintend-. at of this Road he found it in a
very iudiff rent condition ; most of the
bridges were temporary and unsafe affairs;
the rolling stock was scant, and of an in- I
different q: .iity, and the road was greatly
in debt to the Government, Now it is in
superior condition; well supplied with
stock; and is out of debt. No higher
commendation could be pronounced in
favor of the ability and efficiency of that
officer. —Atlanta Opinion , 2bth inst.
“Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar.”—
That wonderful new Ivertisement of
Gray &’1 urley ! Grand in its proportions
as it ought to be for Gray & Turlev ;
gloomy on 3CConnt of the darkly crowded
letters : and peculiar on account of its
i thoroughly comprehensive style. And
I not only with the advertisement, but also
• jfith the actual establishment \ excepting
of course the “gloomy.' Certainly there
i is nothing gloomy ab at the famous store
l of Gray & Turley ! Ou the contrary, ail is
• light, and cheerfulness, and geniality, and
i beauty. Os course no one will deny to
1 Gray & Turley that “grand ;” that part is
j quite a settled fact. And as to the “pecll
- iiarity,” in what does it consist? AVhy
! in the absolute certainty of getting always
i the very newest, finest, most fashionable
1 goods, and the most profoundly advanta
j geous bargains. _
! And vet all f his is nothing new ; our
; people have known it well for at least a
dozen years past Yes, a dozen years ago.
Gray & Turley, by their hofior, honesty
and (strict attention to business, and by
their high character as citizens and mer
chants. established the enviable reputa
tion which they now so securely enjoy.
Yet it may not be amiss to inform their
old friends that they are still at their old
stand, prepared to serve and to satisfy any
class of customers .—Edgefidd Advertiser.
Yellow Fever <kc. at New Orleans.
New Orleans, October 28, p. ni.—
Ten deaths trom_ yellow fever yesterday,
and 16 to-day. No frost, and absentees are
cautioned to remain away for a short time
longer.
The Picayune has the following later
advices confirming the destructive effects
of the late storm upon the Rio Grande:
El Correz of the 12th inst., says the hur
ricane was the most terrible in the memory
of man on this irontier. Perpetual bom
bardment for a year could hardly have
done as unieh damage as happened from
this one night's storm. Twenty-six persons
I were killed at Matamoras. ten killed and
twenty-one wounded at Brownsville; at
Brazos, so far as known, twelve persons
perished. The schooners Ella and Cadosh
were blown i . ashore and only two
houses left at Clarksville, none at Bagdad.
Loss of life at t..e latter is not known.
Ninety of the inhabitants escaped by
going on board a vessel which rode out
the storm, the rest must have perished.
Negro soldiers and their officers at Brazos
are said to have acted infamously— not
only refusing all assistance to struggling
and suffering families, but retired to a
sheltered part of the Island, and the
soldiers returned next day to rob the
wrecked goods under the remains of the
warehouses and dwellings. One of them
shot and killed a citizen who detected him
robbing. Their officers said they could do
nothing to check their brigandism.
From a long list of damages at Browns
ville we extract the following :
King & Kennedy’s warehouse, roof
blown off and building very badly damag
ed; county court-house and jail completed
destroyed, land prisoners Sfat large; tne
entire square between Fort Brown, 14th
levee and Elizabeth streets, was destroyed,
including the Ranchero's office and Ma
sonic Hail ; office of the Conner lias roof
off; residence of Mr. W. J. Stark, corre
spondent New York Herald , was com
pletely destroyed ; Custom House wall is
down ; Presbyterian Church destroyed ;
postoffiee building, roof off; hotel and ele
gant billiard saloon of Miller are almost in
ruins ; iron building of Wilkins, Heye &
Cos., totally destroyed ; Episcopal Church
destroyed; between lOtli and Ist streets,
seven brick and four frame houses were
either totally destroyed or so badly injured
as to be uninhabitable.
In Matamoras 1,500 houses and huts
were blown down and the greatest distress
and want prevails at all points, and appeals
are made for relief.
Out of seven steamers only two can be
repaired.
Phillips’ Provision Exchange.
Cincinnati, October 25th, 1867.
Editors Chroiticle <£ Sentinel:
There has never, perhaps, in the history
of the provision trude, been a duller week
than the past, everything has been at a
perfect stand-still in this market, and bnt
little more doing in others; and, in the
total absence of orders from any quarter,
it were useless to oiler anything at any
price, as there were no buyers. This state
of affairs has led to declines in all articles.
There is neither speculative nor consump
tive demand, yet prices ofall articles now
on hand are lower than new can be made,
unless there be quite a decline in the
price of hogs. There has been about 6,000
hogs cut up to this time, but the weather
has been so unfavorable that it has nearly
all spoiled and can only be made into
grease, thus cutting off ail prospects for
any early new meats. The weather is
still too warm to undertake to cure with
safety, and the experience of early cutters
should deter them from going further
until the settled cold weather sets in ; yet
some has been killed within the past few
days.
Hogs —Receipts from September Ist to
the present date were 32,473, and exports
4,306, most of which have been used by
the butchers. Sales are being made on
the spot at s6@7 for fair to choice. No
contracts for future making.
Grken Meats, for present delivery, are
difficult of sale, but, when sold, bring 7i,
11, and 13Jc for shoulders, sides and hams.
Mess Pork has dragged all the week
with light sales at s2l, but most holders
decline to accept this price, believing it
can’t be made so cheap out of the new’
crop. Yet if forced on the market it would
not sell for over S2O.
Hard is dull and would not bring over
12), though held at 12$. Kegs same. New
Lard sells at about the same though its
quality is nos so good.
Bulk Meats about exhausted. The
shoulders leit are held at 13c. loose.
Bacon dull, but held iirmly at 14, 17i,
and 181 for shoulders, clear i-ib and clear
sides, the stock being very light; no old
hams leiY ■ new Ice cured ....
and packed.
Plate Beef dull at slß@2o.
Dried Beef 17@18, cauvased and pack
ed.
Exports of the week were 4,221 barrels
and 1,354 kegs, nearly all consigned and
none shipped on orders, except Bacon.
Imports 318 barrels and 17 kegs of Lard,
and 149,850 pou is loose bleats. Freight
unchanged.
Very respectfully,
Geo. W. Phillips, Jb.,
Provision and Produce Exchange.
The Tribune's special says the President
to-day referred to the Secretary of War
ad interim, for consideration and report
the petition of citizens of Georgia, men
tioned in the dispatches of Wednesday
morning’s paper, in which complaint is
made that Gen. Pope, in appointing dele
gates for a convention, gives undue advan
tage to tho colored over the white race.
Gen. Grant returns the petition with his
indorsement substantially, that it seems
to him tho allotments should be made by
counties instead of Senatorial districts, as
directed by Gen. Pope, but as the time for
the election (the 29th) is so near at hand
he cannot sec how the matter can be reme
died. He has telegraphed to Gen. Pope,
asking if it is practicable to make the
change sought, and whether it would not
be better to fix representation by counties
instead of by Senatorial districts. The
reply of Gen. Pope is not received. It is
to be observed that Gen. Grant does not
claim the power to direct the district com
mander, and therefore his communication
is merely suggestive.
Secretary McCulloch is considering what
action he shall take in reference to recov
ering the money on the counterfeit 7-30’s.
Demand has been made for reclamation
but the bankers unanimously refuse com,
pliance. The Sub-Treasurer at New York
has written a letter, in which he takes the
f round that the Department can recover.
le says that all business men understand
that he receives these notes merely for trans
mission to Washington. He advances the
money upon them, but they are sent there
at the expense of the holders, who are re
quired to indorse them that they may be
returned if not found correct. It is known
that notes and bonds of this character are
frequently returned for one cause or ano
ther, and there is but one instance in
which a banker demurred to receiving his
note when thus returned.
Curious. —The most psychological point 1
in the recent elections is their effect on the J
minds of certain Congressmen as regards j
the impeachment question. The number j
of gentlemen who have found it necessary
to state that they “are not now and never
have been” committed in favor of im
peachment is something marvellous. The
curious point is that, until recently, these
gentlemen were quite willing to have un
contradicted assertions made just the other
way. They have now discovered that it is
wrong to let the public longer be deceived
by careless reporters.
Impeachment Testimony in the hands
iof the Printers.— The work on the im
j peachment testimony is progressing at the
Government printing office, and twelve or
j thirteen pages are daily put in type. The
whole work will be completed by the last
!of November. Great care is taken not to
let it get out, and as each sheet is read it
jis locked up. No one is allowed to be near
the press upon which it is printed, and the
: compositors engaged in putting it in type
are sworn to secrecy.— Wash. Cor. N. Y.
Herald, Oct. 25.
Eating Cars. —The Wilmington Jour
nal alluding to the eating ears on the Wil-
I mington and Weldon Railroad, says: “Yes,
! and we can assure our friends that one can
| get a very comfortable and good meal,
, while moving on his journey at a most
rapid speed. Good fare, attentive ser
| rants and comfortable quarters may be
j expected in the 'Saloons’ which accom
pany the trains on the Wilmington and
I Weldon Railroad. ”
Murder.—'We learm from the Colum
bus (Miss.) Sentinel that, on Thursday of
last week, Mr. John McDaniel, an old
i citizen, was murdered by some unknown
! person or persons while returning in a
buggy from Columbus to his home near
West Point. IT" was shot from behind,
and his pockets jooed. A negro named
Tom, living on a plantation near the
scene of the murd r, was arrested on sus
picion.
An Amusing Incident.— A very large
and enthusiastic jollification of the Demo
cracy was held in Hamilton, Rutler coun
ty. Ohio, on Saturday. Several thousand
; jubilant Democrats participated. The
first part of the programme was a torch
: light procession, in which were to be no
: ticed ma .y very ingenious transparencies.
The best hit was “Ben Wade and found
! wanting,” which . represented a pair of
i scales with the Ohio Senatonn one endand
a gentleman of African descent other,
i The latter was altogether too heavy for
j the former, and weighed him down, the
\ moral being that the darkey was too heavy
for old Ben in the recent elections.
Humors of the Alabama Election.
HOW THE NEGROES VOTED IN CLARK
COUNTY.
The Mobile Tribune , of the 23d, con
tains the following :
We learn the following from the most
reliable source, and as it shows conclusive
ly how highly the negroes appreciate the
elective franchise, and how much they un
derstand its value and importance, we
publish it. During the recent farce called
an election for convention in this State a
number of negroes came in from the sur
rounding county to Grove Hill, Clark
county, for the purpose of voting. The
Radical sharpers had supplied them
all with tickets, and told them exactly how
to vote. A waggish individual was sitting
a short distance from the window at >* hieh
the votes were deposited, and seeing a
squad of some twenty niggers passing he
called to them and asked them if they
were going to vote. They replied yes.
lie then asked them to let him see their
tickets, when several handed out their bal
lots, on which were printed the names of
the Radical candidates. They had been
told it seems to vote this ticket, and they
would secure a mule and forty acres of
land. The wag_ knowing this told tivni
that each one of the ballots for the above,
i. e. “a mule and forty acres,” but in
quired of them what good they thought
that would do them if they were such
fools as to give them to that little man in the
window, as he would secure them himself.
The negroes they smelt a rat,
stuffed their ballots into their pants and
left, remarking that no “sich looking white
man as dat are fallow waa a going to get
deir certiflkits, ” started for home, fully
satisfied that they were about to be swin
dled. They told their friends about it.
and the consequence was that numbers of
them refused to go near the polls for fear
they would be swindled outof their “certi
ficates.”
Important Meeting of Cotton and
Woolen Manufacturers.
We extract from the Philadelphia
Ledger the following report of an impor
tant meeting of cotton and woolen manu
facturers in that city:
An adjourned meeting of cotton and
woolen manufacturers was held yesterday
afternoon at the Board of Trade room.
Mr. Win. Devine, President of the Asso
ciation, occupied the chair. The Presi
dent stated that the object of the mpeting
was to take into consideration the abolition
or reduction of the five per cent, tax on
cotton. He said the manufacturing in
terest still feel that this tax is an unjust
one, and it was important chat, proper
measures should be taken to have the tax
removed. He hoped proper committees
would be appinted to take the subject in
hand, so that the measure desired could
be properly brought before Congress. Mr.
Devine also stated that this association
was in communication with associations in
other portions of the country.
Mr. Kelley read an an abstract of a
letter from the Rev. Dr. Bellows, of New
York, now in Europe, in reference to the
labor question in Europe, and the neces
sity of protecting the manufacturers in
this country. A paper was also read,
giving the prices of labor in Belgium anil
other counl ries.
Mr. Garsed said we were here to ask
our law-makers to do us simple justice.
Textile manufactures cannot exist in this
country unless they are protected against
the pauper labor of Europe. He could
not imdetstand the policy of Congress pro
tecting manufactures by a tariff, and then
taking more from them by a heavy tax
upon the raw material and upon the articles
manufactured. In Belgium wool-assorters
were paid, a few years ago, 50 cents per
week, and the superintendent of seven sets
obtained $7 per week, while he (Mr. Gar
sed) was paying $2 50 per day to a super
intendent over three sets. Personally he
asked no favors, but it was suicidal for tho
Government to fix a tariff of seventy per
cent, and the demand thirty-three per cent,
internal taxes. There must he a total an
nihilation of the tax upon the industry of
the country, or tho mills will be stopped.
The tax on cotton at present is impolitic
and disastrous, and unless removed great
distress will surely follow. It the manu
facturers could get the machinery to over
come the cheap labor of Europe, Congress
would not be troubled upon the subject,
but wo use the same machinery, while the
price of labor is four-fold.
Mr. A. Campbell contended that the
politicians were euGeavorlug to tnl,-> mere
from the people than they were willing to
give. He thought it would be better for
the manufacturers if every Custom House
was abolished, and excise men discharged,
than it is under the present system of
taxes. The men engaged in producing
should agree not to vote for any man for
office who is willing to tax cue producing
interests for the benefit of the politicians
and other non-producers.
Gen. Patterson stated that there was no
country on the globe.so ground down with
taxes as our own. He asked no favors of
Congress, but simply justice by taking off
the grinding tax upon the industry of the
United States. Tho country is maintain
ing a large number of men to collect taxes,
and a large number of other men devising
means to spend it. Ho would not say the
officers of the government did not perform
their duties honestly, but ho was satisfied
that it took the entire tax of two and a
half cents on cotton to pay the salaries of
the officers appointed to collect it. The
system also draws from industrial pursuits
a large number of men who ought to he
producers. Every article used by laborers
is taxed, and none of them can live com
fortable unless they get large wages. We
must insist upon an economical adminis
tration of the government by the discharge j
of the many loafers who live upon it.
Mr. Blakely said his country could not
go back to the old expenditure of $17,000-
000, because our country has grown and
expenses have increased. He believed the
officers of the Government were as honest
now as in previous years. He thought it
would be better to ask that the five per
cent, tax be abolished than to abolish the
entire system of customs, as had been sug
gested by several of the speakers.
General Patterson was in favor of custom
houses and collectors, but lie thought it
would be better to abolish them altogether,
than for the present grinding taxes to be
continued upon the industry of thecountry.
He said goods could be imported through
New York at one-third the rate fixed upon
by the Government.
M r . Garrett submitted the following:
Resolved , That the Manufacturers’ As
sociation of Philadelphia ask our members
of Congress ip use all honorable means to
remove all taxation on the industry of the
country, where such industry requires to
be protected against the cheaper labor and
capital of Europe. Agreed to.
Mr. Kelley offered a resolution, that the
whole subject be referred to the Executive
Committee, and to take measures to have
removed the five cents on goods and 2)
cents on cotton. Adopted.
A motion was made and agreed to to
take up the subject of fixing the tare on
cotton bales, the same as the trade have in
Liverpool.
Mr. Kelley stated that the tare on cot
ton bales bound with rope amounted to
four and four and a half percent., and
about six per cent, on bales bound with
iron.
Mr. Garsed thought tho manufacturers
should fix upon some regular rate of tare,
and unless this is done the tare will be
increased by the planter. Some of the
bales have cast iron hoops, and in some
instances pieces have got into the picker,
doing great damage.
Mr. Kelley moved to refer the subject
to the Executive Committee, for the pur
pose of having a regular tare fixed on
bales of cotton. Agreed to. Adjourned.
French Opinion of Irish Girls. —
A gallant Gaul, M. Felix Belly, of the
Cmstitutionelle, who has been wandering
through Ireland, has found some things
prettier than even her green valleys and
far-famed lakes :
The most remarkable element, the rich
est, and certainly the most full of life, of
this land so life full, is the population itself.
No European race, that of the Caucasian
excepted, can compete with it in beauty.
The Irish blood is of a purity and dis
tinction, especially among tht females,
which strikes all strangers with astonish
ment. The transparent whiteness of the
skin, the absorbing attraction which is the
attribute of one of a, thousand, is here the ■
general rule. The daughter of the j -or
man, as well as the fine lady, possesses an
opal milky tint, the arms of a statute, the .
foot and hand ot a duchess, and the bear
ing of the queen. In the wretched streets
of the olden quarters of Dublin, the most
ideal thing of the pencil would grow pale
; before the beauty of the children, and in ;
the compact crowd which each daj oe
| cupies Merrion Square there is certainly j
i the most magnificent collection ofhuman
! beings it is possible to meet Blondes
with black eyes, and brunettes with blue,
i are by do means rare. Ihe race is as
‘ strong as it is handsome as vigorous as it ;
iis charming. The girls of Connemara
• with their queenly shoulders and eyes of
j fire, would put to shame at this day those
daughters of the East, from whom they
are said to have descended.
NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 44,
The Policy of the Young Men of the
South.
SPEECH OF EX-GOVERNOR HENRY A. WISE,
OF VIRGINIA.
Special Telegram to the Herald.
Washington, October 16, 1867.—The
Horticultural and Pomoiogieal Society of
Virginia was opened to-night i:i Richmond.
General Wise delivered the address. He
commenced by saying that “never in the
history of nations has revolution been
more sudden, shocking and severing in its
effects than the late conflict of State and
Federal sovereignties in the United States,
in respect to all our relations, political,
social and economical. The Constitution
of federation has boon broken and set at
naught, its compacts have been consoli
dated in the irresponsible and unchecked
power of some, only through most of its
units, and the other State constituencies
or units in the minority have been met
amorphosed into fractions or fragments
of conquered provinces, in which the su
premacy of civil law, civil rights, and civil
jurisdiction has been dethroned bymilitary
domination. The result is, that the
foundations of the whole have been so
shaken and shattered that no repairs only
of the fabric can make it firm and stable
again ; but it must be entirely rebuilt
anew, from corner stone to dome. The
Union as it was does not exist, and States
as they were have been demolished.”
After describing the mode in which the
Union was formed, he said :
“The common government was so plural
in that it had no name in the singular
n'u, ber. Its very name is plural of States
—the United States—not plural of people
in the sense of population. There is a
Maine man, a New Yorker, a Virginian, a
Kentuckian, a North or South Carolinian,
but even the great expounder himself was
never so immodest as to call himself a
United States man. He was a Massachu
setts man, a son of tho eider sister of Vir
ginia, which hailed her cheerily in the
night of the revolution or rebellion against
George the 111, by the grace of God King
of Great Britain, when Virginia and Mas
sachusetts were States in the exercise of
the rights of war, the highest act of sov
ereignty, before the United States even
were. ’ ’
He then spoke of the manner in which
Sargeant S. Prentiss made the two words
“fellow-citizens” embrace and express the
full grandeur and greatness of our country,
and inspire the holy sentiment to preserve,
guard.' perpetuate and defend it, and said:
“Alas! we are no longer fellow-citizens,
no longer citizens. Our own, our native
land, its civil liberty has departed; its
governments, its State and federal, have
been dissolved and changed. Tiiere are no
longer any guarantees of the rights of the
one or checks upon the powers of the other,
and its soil lias been trampled in mire and
filth by the invasion of a fraticidal civil war.
YVhere now its separate State identity ?
Where now internal sovereignty? Where
now equal dignity? Where now self-pro
tecting power or the tegis of constitutional
law ?’ Where now separate State inde
pendence? The wrecks of powers and of
rights point to Congress. Congress has
stationed commandants over districts num
bered by proclamation. They have order
ed the civil to be subordinate and obedient
to the military authority. The conven
tional as well as municipal powers and
capacities of State peoples have been
ignored, and enacted and proclaimed out
of existence. The Executive courts rule
and override the courts of the judiciary.
The benches of justice are suspended by
epaul'-tted commissions, who need no
sheriffs nor sergeants, nor marshals nor
posse comitatus —who drill to order, who
substitute criers and tip staffs with drum
ar.d fife, who serve no civil process, but
note the minute of the proces verbal, and
are armed with gloves of steel to do martial
execution.
“The ifee white people, who were
masters hut yesterday, ate humbled to
become the u ditical slaves of the black
freedmen of to day. The American slaves
of yesterday, the freedmen (not freemen)
of to-dav, are exalted to become the
political black masters of tho white free
men of yesterday. What a chauge in a
single day 1 It was, rather, a night of the
blackest of darkness—of surrender; a sur
render, not of the black man’s chains so
much as of the white man’s natural rights
of race and civil rights of citizenship. It
was a change, not from slavery to liberty
of the one race, but a change of black
slaves into black masters, a change of
ttUluj masters Into white olaycft. Not a
change of the Ethiopian’s color and nature
into white, nor a change of the Caucasian
color and nature into black; not a change
of the races, but a change reversing the
relative conditions of the two races and
merging the rights and relations of both in
an unlimited, unchecked, undefined des
potism. There is no more fellowship in
citizenship. The vase of Union is broken,
not cracked merely. It is broken to
pieces through and throughout, from tip
to base. If held together, it is not in
arniiy and peace, and by compact and
agreement, or by ratification. It is now
pinned by bayonets, bound by brute force,
cemented, not by fraternal affection, not
by common love of country, not by com
radeship of common fate or fortune, or
cause, or sacrifice, or glory, or suffering or
triumph, but by an amalgam of the
coagulated blood of enemies in war, not
yet, in peace, friends.
“This revolution had wrought thorough
and fundamental changes in our social sys
tem and our economy in every branch of j
business, particularly that of the culture of
the land. The lands are all that are left
us. They are the only fountainof our life,
the only source of our supplies. The only
earnest of our renovation is the earth we
live on, and the lands are left desolate and
waste. This land, of every land the pride,
is bereft of its verdure, its bloom, its fruits j
and its flowers, of everything, except its i
ancient renown, its late glory in army, and |
its present honor and pride. The former
laborer* have been enticed from the fields ;
and ate now the pupils of politics, the j
dupes of fanaticism, “hunuy-iuggled” by
the fatal caresses of co-operations, and are
but too certain to be the demoralized vic
tims of the demagogues and whiskey of
elections, and to be decimated by the
diseases of the now licensed vices of their j
race —laziness and lust. These changes ;
demand an absolute change in agriculture, ;
a change from the plantation to the farming
system. This requires anew mode of cul
ture, new laborers, new implements, now
crops, more various, on a smaller scale, j
more contracted and concentrated, requir- ;
ing more skill, more care, and yielding the j
most profit on tho smaller space. Virgin- I
ians, if they would not be driven out from i
their own inheritance, should themselves
do the work of farming for themselves.
They must not call on Hercules, nor freed
men, nor German, nor Swede, nor immi
grants from any clime.”
After speaking of tho favorable geograph
ical position of the State, her soil, climate,
mineral and other resources, he advised
the landholders of the State to give every
encouragement to our own white labor and
the young men of the State to apply
themselves to the study of agriculture as
a science. They would save the real es
tate of their lathers and keep sacred the
altars of their own birth places and homes.
It is far more honorable to do this, he
said, than to skulk into professions by the
back door arid become pettifogging lawyers
and quack doctors, who practice their arts
to rob clients or kill patients, or to seek
places in clerkships, or bv drumming or
running, or standing and waiting at the
beck and call of somebody else’s business.
It is much more respectable and certainly
more independent. He appealed to tho
manly, proud, brave apd strong men of
the State who had neither means nor set
tled pursuit to adopt agriculture as a busi
ness, and concluded his address by an ap
peal to the young men of the State to
labor earner ,y and faithfully, never to de
i spair, and they to-night have the assurance
that better and happier days for them
I were in the near future.
At the celebrated battle of Copenhagen,
’ Nelson, who determined to continue the
fight, but whose attention had been cahod
• to the signs of the commanding officer to
! cease hostilities, placed his hand oyer h:s
i p 0(K l c .y ej and, pretending to look with his
1 blind one, said : “I don’t see it,” and at.
I once ordered a brisk renewal of the engage
ment. It is claimed that the slang phase
| go common thus originated.
Green-room gossip at New York says j
that Edwin Forrest is soon to marry the [
young actress, Miss Lillie, as the play !
bills style her, who has been supporting
him at the Broadway. She is twenty,
and the eminent tragedian is over sixty.
She was left an orphan and Forrest took
her as an infant and reared her. He
adopted her at first as his daughter, but
his and her affections changing in char
acter, he is to make her his wife.,
On the night of the 16th inst., in the
town of Entaw, Greene county, Alabama,
a man by the name of Simon Almont, a
merchant of that place, was killed by
Henry G. Clause, agent of the Freedmen’s
Bureau, at that point. The facts as stated
are that a trifling quarrel arose between
the two men, and that Almont, though
entirely unarmed, advanced upon Clause
| in a threatening manner, when the latter
drew a pistol and shot him.
The Lincoln Scaudal.
From the Lynchburg Virginian:
The Radicals, having damaged Mrs. Lin
coln irreparably, are now engaged in heap
ing what may or not be obloquy on the
grave of her husband. There is in the
West a newspaper edited by a person well
, , I } ot favorably known on both sides of tho
• Atlantic, ol the musical name of Don Platt
He was intimate at the White House and
knew all about it. He is of course eernbiy
shocked at Mrs. Lincoln’s recent conduct
in New York, and thus account for it.
We quote his very words, adding none,"
withholding none, and we especially beg
our readers to note the one point which he
makes against the late President in this :
that if judge Smith was removed from, or
forced to resign the Secretaryship of tho
Interior because he would not connive at
Mr. Lincoln’s fraudulent vouchers, surely
Mrs. Lincoln is not the only one to blame.
But let Radicalism ■ peak for itself. The de.
scription of the Executive Mansion from
1861 to 1565, is certainly what tho news
paper press calls graphic:
iFrom the .Uac-a-ChcekPress, Radical ..]
It was known to the wide circle that
business or social life brought in contact
with the Executive Mansion, that its inte
rior was as gross, vulgar, and corrupt as it
was possible for any house to be and retain
even a semblance of respectability. The
startled public now reads its history in a
forty-thousand dollar wardrobe, made up
of shawls, laces, and diamonds—the gifts
of “dear friends”—how “dear” the poor
public is now realizing in the millions that
[ shameless thieves have stolen and arc yet
.. j|«|p». The saddest part of all this Is
, flnjK»rnajji it casts Mpon the sainted 1
the martyr President. How
Wfs it possible that these gifts from “dear
friends” were paid for in lucrative offices,
given under the signature of Abraham
Lincoln, without that shrewd man being
aware of the infamous character of the
official, and the nature of the bargain that
brought him into office ? This is a surmise
only, but Thurlow Weed seems determined
to bring the business home to the late
President.
Mr. Weed might have added the fact
that this refusal to approve of a bare-faced
swindle cost Mr. Smith his seat in the Cab
inet. Mr. Lincoln, so far sympathizing
with his wife in this extraordinary trans
action. Mrs. Lincoln was not only as un
principled and avaricious as the late sale
indicates, but she was and is exceedingly
ignorant and stupid ; and yet how arc we
to account for the control she exercised
over the domestic life and public affairs of
the lamented I‘resident. We remember
how pained the loyal hearts of the Union
were to learn that in the darkest hour of
our national pride, when our armies wero
paralyzed by imbecility, and our treasury
was being robbed by dishonest agents,
while the artillery of the enemy echoed
through the very halls of the Capitol, a
dancing, drinking entertainment, or ball
was given at the White House. This was
shocking, but it became horrible when the
fact leaked out that, while the noise of
revelry shock tho time-honored mansion,
in one of the uppers chambers a child of
the host and hostess lay dying of the lover,
that had set in and alarmed the family
physician, when the cards of invitation
were being issued. Wo turn away from
the inner life of this White House, that
was indeed a whitened sepulchre, in sor
rowing disjust, and leel ashamed through
ail our being that the curtain was ever
lifted to let light in on its loathsome con
tents.
Social Extravagance—The Home
Circle.—The Journal of Commerce is
readme a lecture to a good many people
who, it is certain, live beyond their means,
and thereby preparing the way to bank
ruptcy and ruin. The editor calls on all
such to moderate, and thinks wives and
daughters could, if they ouly would, make
a’good beginning :
“It rests with the wife and children,
oftentimes,” we are told, “to initiate such
a reform as is needed. The head of the
family cannot find it in his heart to deny
those around him that which he thinks
essential to their comfort, and he will not
ask them to save him. They must move
in the matter themselves. How many of
our lair readers, whose eyes would glisten
with tears at tho bare thought of any
trouble to one so kind to them, have ever
asked themselves in earnest whether they
were not personally responsible for over
taxing the means es their provider '{ It 1
a good time to ask that question now.
Business profits arc not large; financial
affairs are unsettled ; the future is not
altogether radiant with promise; the deep
est purse has been a little drained, and
some of the shallower ones are running
low. If exhausted there may come some
thing worse than insolvency or honest beg
gary. The temptation to fraud and defal
cation is very great in these times, and the
spendthrift stands in the thickest of the
assault. There is a voice mightier than
ours calling to all in the home circle for
their aid in this emergency, and we trust
that many will listen to their profit.”
Fire in Mobile.— Damage from $35,-
000 to $40,000. —The lire last night broke
out at the saw and planing mill of King
& I’urdy, on Canal street, between Clai
borne and franklin streets, and owing to
the combustible nature of the material
exposed to its ravages, rapidly got under
headway and was in a condition to defy
the utmost efiorts of the lire department
when they arrived on the ground shortly
alter the alarm was given.
The damage sustained by Messrs. King
& I’urdy, the owners of the mill, will reach
i at least 250,000 feet ol valuable lumber,
i all their machinery, their buildings, &c.
The ground occupied by them was the
property of Mrs. CclestineEslava, and had
been obtained by them on a long lease.
Kasper Nelins loses about S7OO. Both
Messrs. King & Purdy and Mr. Nelins are
j entirely without insurance. Mr. C. J.
j Leonard loses $2,000 by the destruction
I of his house, SI,OOO on his stock, and
I about S3OO damage sustained by other
i houses, also his property. He is insured
| for about $1,500 with C. W. Dorrance &
j Co- — Register, 25 th inst.
Kentucky. — rlow this celebrat ed racer
came not to win in 7:20 is explained by
the New York Ti hies in this way :
The racing yesterday at Jerome Park
was magnificent. The day was perfectly
beautiful—tho air mild, the attendance
very large, and everything as delightful as
it could possibly bo made. Kentucky
failed to run his four miles in 7:20, hut did
i it in 7:301, and made the fastest two miles
! ever run in this country. He is very
! peculiar in his temper, and requires other
I horses to run with him to keep hint up to
I his work. Three horses were run with him
yesterday, but the rider of the last milo
evidently thought he was bounu to win tho
race, so he kept an eighth of a mile or more
ahead of Kentucky all the time—nearly
out of sight ! What tho object of this
very curious performance was we are quite
at loss to understand. One very obvious
result of it was that Kentucky, finding
himself entirely alone and very tired,
bolted the track. It looked very much a3
if this bad management lost him the race.
Judge Chase and the Trial of Mr'
Davis.— The letter of Chief Justice Chase
to Judge Underwood, in relation to the
trial of Jefferson Davis, the substance of
which was given to the public in Washing
ton correspondence, has appeared in fuß,
and is as follows :
t Washington, October 22. —Dear Judge
Underwood : On reflection I think it best
| that you advise the District Attorney,
Mr. Chandlier, that I wiil join you in
holding court at Richmond on tho 13th of
November, if any important business is to
be transacted. Mr. Chandler, I think,
should notify the counsel for Mr. Jefferson
Davis of this, in order That ho may appear
and take his trial if he sees fit. As his
j bail was taken for his appearance on the
fourth Wednesday of November, he is
j not, it is true, bound to appear earlier ;
i but, as it will be impossible for me to bo
present except during the first week of the
term commencing on the fourth Wednes
day, because of tho term of the Supreulo
Court commencing on the following Mon
day, it may be that Mr. Davis and his
; counsel wiil prefer the trial to take place
jat the earlier period. It is understood
j that they wish that the Chief Justice may
i be present.
j Yours very truly S. P. Chase.
To Hon. J. C. Underwood, District Judge.
! Senator Wade.—We see~lt statc-d
i that Senator Wade does not intend to quit
; public life, butthat he will seek a nomina
! tion for Congress in the district of General
| Garfield. Is this because he cannot live
without office, or because office cannot live
without him '( Mr. Wade has some quali
fications for some j üblic positions. He is
honest, fearless, and straightforward. But
there area good many men in Ohio quite
as able and useful as he in any place of
responsibility. The Cleveland Leader no
tifies him that if he attempts to cbntest
the nomination with General Garfield lie
will get beaten. — N. Y. Times.
An Event Foreshadowed.—The New
York World says : “The whole Radical
party may foresee its fate in the operations
of a woman now in New York trying to
sell her dresses and jewels. In a little
while that party will be driven to sell their
old clothes to eke out a miserable exist
ence. The fate of the individual is the
fate of the party,”