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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1867)
Jiot Surprise*!. The statement made in to-day a pa per by our correspondent Paisano, though it ex ji . es an outrageous fraud upon the purity of the ballot-box. will hardly cause surprise to many of our readers. Since the shame ful and illeeal conduct of the managers the election farce, in receiving all votes present- 1 without reference to the regis try lists, we have lelt satisfied that there was nothing too low or fradulent to be re sorted to if ncces-ary to carry out the Radical plans. Don't Employ Them. The position which wc assumed in this paper, on Sunday morning last, was taken after mature deliberation and a careful survey of the whole surroundings. We advised the Southern people to refuse employment, support, aid or patronage to those DCgroes who have arrayed them selves in a position of hostility to the Southern whites. There is no power tin der the suß, not even the mig'hty warrior whose saddle hangs upon the Radical stump in Atlanta, which can compel the white capital of the South to give support to its direst enemies, But leaving out of view the possibility of any such attempt being made, we insist that the safety of the white race demands that, as the negroes have combined against them, they should agree among themselves not to employ, in the future, any one who is known to be hostile to them. This is no new idea. The same princi- j pie ha governed capital in its dealings with labor in every State in the civilized ! world. This has been more marked and • stringent in those countries where the peo- j pie have been permitted to have a voice in i th’. seh .tien .f thei-n'wsaad law-iEak'-*- '. jtig t fo.e thi .tabli-ihm.in of the Gov ernment of the United States the pc’pic ®rol which, through the ball.it, fajfer hie in monarchical England, wucre the nailot i was i!" trusted to a couipaiativcly small class, it w- s found necessary for the pro- j tection of capital that its owners should, in the selection of their laborers, give em ployment to those alone who were known not to he hostile to it, how much more obligatory is it now upon the people of the South when, by the fraudulent manipula tion! of the Registration boards:, a large body of ignorant and debauched negroes, late slaves, are given the ascendancy even in the construction of the organic km ? This rule of giving employment to those only who are known to be friendly, is but an amplification of' the first great law of nature —higher than all human laws — t fiat of self-protection. Even in the better days of the Republic, when our people were divided into parties upon mere questions of expediency and civil adminis tration, it is well known that Democrats gave no employment to Whigs, or Whigs to Democrats. This principle was acted upon in the distribution of the highest offices of the Government. A Whig ad ministration appointed no Democrats to office; a Democratic Legislature or com inunity elected no Whigs. T his is the rule now which is being enforced with the ex tremist rigidity by the .Military Command er in this district. lias not General Pope, by the exercise of the arbitrary power given him by the Radical Congress, already declared that, .as far as the Press of this State depended upon the legal advertisements of the State fur its support, it should be starved out, unless it would support the infamous laws which ho crone among us to drive down our throats! Have not the statute laws of the State been violated which require county officers to advertise in the papers published in their respective coun ties, or in the absence of them, in those papers having the largest circulation in their counties? Did not General Pope’s order expressly state that the Conservative Press of the State was deprived of this patronage because they would not degrade their columns and abandon their convic tions of right by a sujiport of the Recon struction Bills? In our own city, do we not see the same inexorable rule oil-ostracism put in prac tice by the Mayor and Council who rule the lice people of Augusta by warrant from General Pope? Is it not a notorious fact that this military Council have re moved from office nearly every man in the employment of the city who would not take position in favor of a Convention? Does not the great farce now in progress here (a thing too mean and corrupt to be dignified with tho name of election) show that nine-tenths of the white votes cast have been those of employees of our military Council? At the North—throughout the whole country—there is not nil office or employ ment in any State, county or municipal control which is not held by the support ers of the ruling party. The success of part;/ there prompts such action. Here the safety of the people demands it. We aie fully aware of the fact that the course which we advise, to be productive of the greatest amount of good, should be adopted by the entire white population of the State. But if all our people will not agree to it, let those who believe it right act independent ly and for themselves in this matter. There nr .. least three hundred register ed negroes employed by the merchants of the city about their stores as porters, run ners, Ac. There are as many more who are menial servants in the families of the white people. Then there is a large number of draymen, hucksters, mechanics, Ac., amounting to at least four hundred. All of these would be compelled to leave | the city it the patronage and support of | the decent white people was withdrawn I trout them. \\ e believe that nineteen- j twentieths of these people, under the sedi- ! tious manipulations of Bryant, aud Beard, I and llichardson, are the mortal foes j ot the white race. Shall wo keep them among us ! Shall we pay them to 4 stay here and govern us! These ques- j tious the good people of Augusta must | answer tor themselves. Our earnest ad vice is to treat kindly and deal fairly with those who have shown, by their conduct, that they are uot under the control the i Radical leaders. Give them employment, ! and aid them in their efforts to elevat ! themselves in the scale of virtue aud intel- , licence. Contribute liberally for the ad vama ment of morality and learning among | them. Defend them from oppression, protect them from persecution, and aid 'hem in the vindication of all their rights, i *■ 1 should endeavor to cultivate with tl m feelings of mutual respect and eon- j sidcration. But those who have placed themselves in a hostile attitude to our wel fare and safety should be cut adrift at once. The California Election. —Califor- nia. in a square contest, has gone Demo- j '■'ratio by over three thousand majority. Greene County.— First day —five hun dred and titty votes polled. | l IERCE County. —First day — One hun dred and twenty-four votes polled. * UATToouA County.—First day-two j hundred and severity-four votes polled. 1 a .i At Eitso County. —Four hundred and eighty votes polled up to six P. M. Wednesday. Floyd County.—Up to 3P. 31. Wednesday nine hundred and eighty i votes polled. Cass County"~u p t 0 10 A M . j Wednesday seven hundred and ten votes’ polled. Richmond County.-Four hundred and j fifty one votes were polled here jester- : day. Jm-EitsoN County.— Four hundred and ■ fifty votes were polled in Jefierson Tees- ’ day—all blacks except one white man, and all for Convention. Warren County.— Nine hundred votes were polled in up to Wednesday six p. m. —all negroes—except two whites—Joe Adkins (candidate for Convention), and Ins smi-in-law who, we arc informed, did not feel at liberty to vote against his daddy - in-law. Tiic Convention— Suffrage. Our attention has been called to a para graph which appeared in the mulatto Republican on the 30th ult., in which that mongrel sheet clearly indicates that the Radicals will, if successful in the election for a Convention, frame a Constitution restricting the right of suffrage to those :i ' 6 do not tl-.iuk the intimation of the mulatto organ worth not; ting, hut for fear some unreflecting p : may he mi.- en it, we b ve consent 1 to depart in this »n --’ta- from our'well-considered determina tion : o notice anything which appears in its filthy columns. The mulatto says: .. , amestly urge upon all who ever , , ,. c , 0 rei- the elective franchise in 1 Jm - mi. not to throw away the only op- j i,.,Vanity left them for securing the rights | ~j ..titizeo in a republican government. ’ | We have heard similar threats from I other sources. We learn that the leaders j of the Radical party in the State have | urged timid Conservatives to vote now or they would hereafter be debarred that privilege. We have ourselves heard Con vention!-ts urge the same views to justify ' thcmselVc s in voting for the Convention j swindle. We know that many people in the State are unci ,-r the impre.-sion that the Radicals will, ih the Constitution which they may frame, restrict the suffrage upon the question of ratification, to those only who have voted in this election. We have not thought it necessary to refute such a I wild and untenable position. We know i that the Convention cannot go beyond the [ disfranchisement already effected by the j Sherman Bills. The sth section of the i original law declares that the State “ Con- I “ titutions shall provide that the elective "inchiti*: shall be on . 1 by ail such 1 persons -a have the quohfixations herein ritai’ju Joi election o: aelegates. 1 jh -i- an express declaration that the ! C<nt«tituJou vu be framed by the Conv<j@F r a shall r- t dEfranobh-j any who are, by ■ S. Bills, emitted to vote for j delegates. We know that one of the candidates for the Convention from this city has said that lie was opposed to permitting any man to vote who had been an active participant in the secession movement. The petty malignity of this vindictive aspirant for negro votes and scalawag sup port, is hedged in by the law under which he proposes to misrepresent the free peo ple of this city and district. We believe that the great majority of the scalawags in the State would be not only willing but delighted with a qualification of suffrage which would disfranchise the worth, the intelligence, the virtue and respectability of the State. The vipers dare not do it. Intelligent Suffragans. The recent election in Virginia, where the Conservatives attempted to defeat the Convention by a straight out vote against it, shows that, as here, the negroes were banded together in a solid mass, and in every county of the State voted against the Conservative ticket. They even went further, and voted against respectable Republicans—those who had been con sistent opponents of the war throughout the entire conflict, and who came out early in the canvass in favor of reconstruction under the Military Bills, whenever there was a mean white or thievish negro run ning against them. In Albemarle, Alex ander Rives, an early and consistent Re publican, was defeated by a negro and a Yankee emissary. Mr. Rives did not re ceive a dozen negro votes in a county where the black vote was several thousand. In Mecklenburg county a negro who cannot read or tci ile, anil who has keen convicted Jive times in the courts/or steal ing, was elected over a respectable Union man. In Richmond the notorious vilain I lunnicutt, the corrupt Underwood, and an ig. ant, contemptible creature named Morrissey, with two negroes, were elected. The respectable Northern men who have settled in Richmond since the war refused to vote for these creatures. There, as here, the most outrageous Irauda were perpetrated in the conduct of the elections. In Richmond the Presi dent of the Registration Board, one Rose, on the last day of the election, declared that “he didn’t care a d—n for all the white people in Richmond ; noiuc of lfis friends had bet on a majority of so much, and lie intended they should win.” We do not know how much the Rads have bet on the election here, or on what number their bet: are made, but, judging from the activity manifested by a few pimps of the little tomtit , who runs the machine here, we should judge that very considerable stakes were in jeopardy. The Postal Service. In the November number of The Land ice Love we find the following caustic reflec tions upon the postal service in the South, and which contains beneath the rich vein of satire which pervades it, a great deal of timely t ruth. The editor says: Spite of our warning against it, some subscribers will persist in sending the loyal greenbacks by mail. After a while comes the inevitable letter, “Sir, some four weeks ago, 1 sent you subscription by mail, and have not heard from you since.” Registration, which once served only to point out to the thief where the money was, is now said to be safe. Postoffice orders and checks can usually be obtained. Why then will people persist in tempting these loyal men ? We have made a note, however, in our memorandum book, that on the Gth of October, a letter with greenbacks on board, did actually run the blockade from Claiborne, Alabama, and reached our office in safety. This want of vigilance on the part of the loyal officials is altogether un worthy of their party. Having been supplied by the Depart ment wit h some spurious bills to be used as decoys, we tried sending them from various points. The letters passed to and fro with unbroken seals. A truly loyal man can tell by the odor through the fold of a letter the character of a bill. When the fragrance of the loyal greenback is wanting, the letter is never disturbed. If our friends will persist in sending greenbacks, we lippe > that they will get them deodorized in some | way! For as the loyal Falstaff knew the | true l’ritiee by instinct, so do the loyal j officials know the true currency, by the I good savor thereof. West Virginia.—The election return - j so far received from West Virginia show 1 large Democratic gains, and the probability that the State has gone against the Radi cals. The Wheeling Register says that, “in spite of a corrupt Executive, and the infamous registration system, our State is rapidly passing through a process of re detupti n from Radical rule.” Daring the war and since its chase this has been re garded as one of the strongholds of llaui caiism. The defeat of that party now is j another evidence that the people of the j whole country repudiate the revolutionary i and corrupt rule of the present Bump j Congress. The vote of the twelve counties in Ohio j known as the Western Reserve, the old | Abolition strong’-bid, was -4,916 more than in 1866; the Republicans gained 37 and: the Democrats 4,' 9. The Republican: majority was 24,833 in 1 SCO, and 19,961 j this year. The Northern men in cur midst have shown by their conduct that they are with us and or us- We extend them a hearty welcome, as does our correspondent • Ise wliere to-dav. — Fredericksburg Xetcs. How would you like to have a few Bryants and Richardsons and Princes? We can supply you as many on that line as your wauls may require. The class you speak of have not got as far South as Augusta yet. The Savannah and Charleston Railroad. —it affords us sincere pleasure, savs the Charleston Courier, to chronicle a further extension of this railroad and the prospect of its early completion. The cars are now run to Coosawkatchie, carrying passengers and freight, at which point j there has been constructed a permanent, . substantial bridge over the river, enabling transportation to besately and expeditious ; i.v effected to Gillisonville. Grahamvillc and Purysburg, and the adjacent country. The City Council of M illedgeville, in bchaifof the citizens of that place, have tendered to the Macon A Augusta Rail road laud enough near the line of the road to build machine shop, and other necessary buildings. Coburn and McCook are to fight u i February next. Senator Brownlow. The recently elected Senator from Ten nessee, the notorious William G. Brown low, is receiving just now very general notice from the press of the country. The New York World, in commenting upon his past and present conduct and position, says : “Brownlow’s surprising run of luck is ~ui< different from that of the military mci. who emerged from obscurity during the war. He has shown no kind ofability which lie was not known to possess before. xY venomous tongue and scurrilous pen are his only weapons, and he was as skillful in handling these ten years ago as he is to day. He was a small fire-engine spouting gutter-water, and ho merely turned the hose and direct -d toe stream upon dis- ferent obj-- lie has risen to authority by sheer vituperation, which is his only talent. Nobody can point to any act by which he has either served the country, or evinced any elevation of character. How is it that uiea like Brownlow and Hunni cutt have become men of consideration who aspire successfully to the highest posi tions of public trust ? Hunnieutt has the best chances for the United States Senate | of any man in Virginia, when the recon ! structud government goes into operation ; i and men of the like stamp will probably ! lie elected from the other Southern States. ] A whole Senate of these sons of vitriol ! would be a Pandemonium in ali save the j intellectual ability which the devils, though blasted by God’s avenging thunder, did not lose by their fall. “There is nigh authority for testing the goodness of a tree by the quality of its fruit. Men do not gather grapes of thorns, figs of a bramble-bush, nor statesmen from ■ ■ in wbiel i jit ll fr ih from brutalizing servitude hold the balance of; power. Everything pfcd-ic- after its j kind . i'-te • ,u-l Hunnieutt are the j nif - .1 negro voting. i>ut vtmu must be j the grade of intelligenoe ;n constituencii with whom such’graceless desperadoes pas- j for stalesrnen ? V otiug is not an eud ; it is only a means. In determining who shall be voters it will not do to lose sight of the only rational end of voting, which is to commit public affairs to men competent to manage them. A rule of suffrage which brings into the most responsible positions men who excite no other emotion than wonder how they eould get so misplaced, jis a bad rule. Large negro constituencies j are a novelty in our polities, and the elec- I tion to the Senate of such an empty ribald | old bruiser as. Brownlow is also a novelty, j These twin novelties arc related counter parts ; a jockey wouid call them a match ; an artist pendents ; a political philosopher | would more correctly describe the. relation as that of cause and consequence. Ten nessee is the first State in which the experiment of a controlling negro constitu ency has been tried ; and as the first fruits of the new system, Tennessee has elected the most notorious lampooner and blackguard in the country Governor, and i now United States Senator. The raging sea of French sans-culotlism never heard I of anything moro contemptible ; the mob j ot Paris in the craziest days of the Revolu tion was not a more unfit depository of political power than arc the Southern negroes. A crop of Brownlows and Huu nicutts is no better than a crop ofßobes pierres; wilh Robespierre’s power they would rival his atrocities. “The whole region of statesmanship is a I terra incognita to such ribald bullying ! demagogues as Brownlow and Hunnieutt. What plummet thcncausound the fathom less depth of negro igorance which looks upr n them as great men ? It may bo stated arithmetically thus : Asa qualified Senator is to Brownlow, so is a white con stituency to a constituency of newly eman cipated negroes. It is a long leap down ward in either case.” Visit to Ex-Fuesipent Buchanan.— During the visit of the Philadelphia fire men to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last week, they pai i their respects to ex-Pre.sident Buchanan, at Wheatland. They were cordially received and invited to the hos pitalities of his house. Two of the com panies presented him with a beautiful | badge each, thus making him an honorary member of both. The. 'Pliiladeh'hin -A-r --cuni says: Avery pleasant, interchange, as familiar as though an aged father was talking to his children, took place, in which Mr. Bu chanan said of the past, that in looking over the names of the members of Con gress when he tfas first elected to that body, hut one remains beside himself, and that person is Mr. Andrew Stewart, of Fayette county. Os the companions of hia youthful days, lie (Mr. Buchanan) was the only one left, and that now he looks more to the past than the future. “You are the rising generation, gentlemen, and the stability of the country must depend upon you. If you will only exhibit the wisdom of those who lived in the earlier days of the republic, you will have reason to thank God for it. One pfttus gentlemen present asked Mr. Buchanan bis age. to which the sage re plied ; “I am 'U my year. I was 76 years old on the IF** 1 ol |ast April,” Upon parting, Mr. li’mbanan puopk each visitor by the hand, and a reverential hope that God would blesS them all. [communicated.] Wilkes County. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: Votes cast in Washington, Ga., up to 7 o’clock Oet 31st, 1867 : Whites 3, Negroes 1,133, all tor Convention. Total registered negro voters, 1,349 “ “ white voters, 597 Negro votes thrown out 89. Number of negroes who say they do not intend to vote, and if forced will call upon their white friends for help ( and they will get help when it is needed now and hereafter), 127. King Johnny may add as many two days’ of grace as he pleases, but he has now the same figures he will have at the expiration of his grace days. 0. 1 ] Washington, Wilkes County, \ October 31, 1867. j I Editors Chronicle <0 Sentinel: l was in error in my report of the number ' of votes polled at this place yesterday, the I correct number at the close of the polls i to-day was 1,133, and for the credit of the | county, I regret to say the editor of the Mulatto Republican did have to share the 1 honor* of voting with two others of like complexion, as two other men with white skins voted to-day; but both of them, like the editor, are office holders under King John: can’t say how far this little thing influenced them— they know. The order to extend the time of holding the election reached here to-day, and it is said also a private order to the faithful to “go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in and a friend from the country informed me that on his way to town he overtook a squad of negroes who told him they had not intended voting at all, but had been notified that unless they diu they would be arrested and imprisoned either in jail or in the Penitentiary. These infamous tricksters must have I become alarmed at the “masterly inactivity of the respectable people of the State.” Wilkes. A More Radical Basis Demanded.— Forney, the United States Senate's Secre tary, says that the Republicans of Penn sylvania. though beaten, are not disheart ened, and will reorganize on a more radical | basis. Ah yes, “a more Radical basis" is I the thing that’s now needed by the Radi j cal-. Their whole mistake, it seems, has ; consisted in too great tt. admixture ofcon- I servavlsm. They must hereafter take their 1 radicalise straight and undiluted. A ; grinding military despotism, crushing debt , and taxation, negro equality in the North i and negro despotism in the South, the j Constitution openly and avowedly ignored | and defied, two departments of the Got i ernment flouted and kicked aside as un . worthy of notice, the will of Congress pro : claimed to be the whole Government, and the most chocking corruption pervading every branch ot the public service—none ol these things nor ali of them constitute radicalism enough to win by. The Radicals must fled or invent a radicalism deeper down than these to reeover what they have | lost. How deep they intend digging we I cannot conjecture. Their spades, hoes ' and pickaxes are no doubt all ready, and they will hardly be likely to stop Before i they strike China to the utter amazement lof the pigtail race.— Louisville (Ay.) ! Courier. More DiaLOLLSM 1— The gin house of j Col, W. C. Bray, soar this city, was j destroyed by fixe oc Thursday night last, and an the cotton in it, about sixty bales, was destroyed. It is almost certain that this was the work of aa incendiary, and I that someone of the freedmec on the I place perpetrated the diabolical act. It ! is a heavy loss on Col. Bray, and should | be a warning to planters to gin up and : ship as fast as their cotton is picked.— ’ Albany Xeics, 29th. Pope’s Menagerie Closed. The great fame has ended. The grand 1 Radical humbug lias been exploded. The pretended expression of the popular will ha s been obtained. The negroes of Georgia have aligned themselves in solid phalanx against the whites and cast their first bal lots against the white race with whom, under the Providence of God, they are | compelled toiive,and upon whom they have ! must,in the future as in the past, solely rely ! for support and protection. In this, their first attempt at self-government, they have | shown themselves utterly incompetent to ' think or act for themselves. They have 1 given unmistakable evidence of their abject subserviency to the low, contempti . we'Yankee emissaries who have, since the ; war, crawled into the back doors of their cabins and poisoned their minds with mon strous lies and despicable slanders against their former masters. They have giveu their ear and confidence to the mean white scalawags who, before the war, were, in many instances, their most cruel and ex acting taskmasters, and a large number of whom made their living by cheating and swindling the poorslave. They have permit ted the infamous managers of the corrupt and tyrannical Loyal League to drive them to the polls like herds of swine are driven to the slaughter. They have allowed the scalawags and Y T ankee emissaries to place in their hands such tickets as these Radi cal pimps chose to seleet for them, and j they have voted them without question or i complaint. Iu hundreds of instances, i under the advice and directions of black hearted scoundrels ot both races, these poor, ignorant blacks have voted twice, and even three times. Whenever a peaceable, quiet black man has been found, who, from friendship to bis old white friends, or ft »m a conscwnsness of hi • owo ttn-.v irthi- • nc.ii. vote, L-.i r-e.iine r-way from the | polls he has been down, hectored, j browbeaten,abused, threaten.d, and fin-;'-, forc 'd to go to the rolls and deposit a ballot which be could not read, for men whom he had never heard of, and on a question which he had not the slightest conception of. Tens cf thousands of ig norant, stupid blacks iu the State of Georgia have voted the last week whose intellects are so weak, whose understand ing so low as to be unable to comprehend even the object for which they were driven iu herds to the polls. Many be lieved that suffrage meant something to eat, or to drink, or to wear. Numbers believed that the little bits of paper which were placed in their hands was a title to forty acres of land and a mule, while hundreds were too stupid and ignorant and indifferent to attempt to understand the character of their action. This is negro suffrage as it has been exemplified in the past week’sballottings in this State. The marked feature in the week’s per formances have been the extension of the time for voting, land tho force which has been used to compel the negroes to vote. There is no question of the fact that had General Pope acted fairly in the manage ment of tho elections the Convention would have been defeated. The frauds which have been perpetrated under one oflii.s orders extending the time of voting have been of such a character as to shock the intelligence and morality of the State. In this place, alone, hundreds of negroes have been permitted to vote who had never registered—hundreds have been brought from across the river in Carolina to be voted, and scores have been permit ted to vote who lived in the adjoining counties of Burke and Columbia, and who also doubtless voted in their own counties. The houses cf our people huve been enter ed by the tools and pimps of the ruling Radicals here, and their servants driven from them and compelled to go to the ballot-boxes. We hear of a number of instances in which actual intimidation, amounting to actual force, was used against b’laek per sons who did not wish to vote. In one place in this city, the negroes in the em ployment of one of our citizen’s were no tified that if the;/ did not vote they should not live here. In another case, the house of a white citizen was entered ... colored servants notified that if not vote, they woiucvbc oeai io lit /•. have heard of scores of such era ss of violence threatened to the black if they failed to vote. But the mighty swindle is over. Gen. Pope has carried his point. The Conven tion will be held. A Constitution will be submitted to the people. Let the Conserv atives bide their time. The darkest hour j of the night is just before day. The white people will take warning from the past and be prepared for the next contest. We will not be caught without an organization; we will not bo divided on any issue as to the true policy, when the Constitution is submitted for ratification. A Dictator Preferred. “The way before us is cloudy and per plexing. and the situation is felt by the thoughtful to bo one which may lead to enormous, and what, live years ago, would have beon thought impossible, changes. Men do not claim so confidently as they once did, that the emancipation of the black race is certain to assure the per manent freedom of tho white. We ail, of course, strive to hope for the best—hope to passthrough all our troubles by peaceful and equitable means ; but » contrary ex perience may come upon us when least expected. Tho elections prove the exist ence of a determined feeling against a policy which however, felt to be essential to the salvation of a powerful party, holding in its hands extraordinary opportunities and powers. From this dilemma none can tell what may be evolved; but unless we read tho signs ot the time® am} meas ure the antagonisms of races very itmor rectiy, the nation at large, should such an alternative he forced upon it, would sooner submit to a Dictator than to a million in the PERSONS OF BLACK MEN.” The reckless and revolutionary cliques ot Southern white men who are now en deavoring to get control of the Stftte through the power of the blacks, would do well to consider attentively the declarations made in the above extract taken from the Round Table, *a weekly literary Republi can paper published in New fork. When the Round Table spoke the Geor gia elections had not taken place. The result here the past week will confirm that journal in its opinion that the white peojde of the South are taking no part or lot in the reconstruction swindle. Jt will see ::s the Radical programme is developed in its several stages, that the object of that party is to place the Southern white people under the long heel of the African. We agree with it, that the white people of the United States would infinitely pre fer a single Dictator of white blood than j to permit the negroes in the South to take control of the Government. No Proscription. Since the order of General Pope for bidding State aud county officials to pub lish legal notices in the Conservative press the Radicals have harped long and loud against the coarse of the great body of the white people of the State who have de termined not to patronize or deal with Radicals wherever and whenever they could avoid it. The three or four Radical presses pub lished within our borders have, by turns, entreated and badgered our people against this course. The head and front of the Radical party in this State Gen. Pope has. we learn from the Atlanta Intelli gencer, issued an order removing from office one of the oldest and awst efficient of the Police of that city, because, in reply to a question how he had voted, he stated he had voted the white mans ticket. For this the mighty Pope issued his royal ukase depriving him of his baton. Oh ! vengeance how sweet thou art 1 The Southern Reconstruction Bills in a Financial Point of View.— The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald telegraphs that the appro priation made by Congress at the extra session in J air l&ot to defray the expenses of reconstruction in the military districts ! has ail been expended, and a deficiency of several thousand dollars exists which will have to be provided for at the next session. | The cost of reconstruction thus far ia the : several districts is ascertained to be ap- j proximately as follows: First District, ! General SchAfieid commanding, $190,OOo ; j Second District, General Sickles command- 1 iag, $249,000 ; Third District, General : Pope commanding. $175,900; Fourth Dig- 1 triet. General Ordcommanding, $400,000 ; ■ Fifth District, General Sheridan command- j ing, $350,0W. Xcgro Supremacy It there bad been the tightest doubt ! lingering in the minus of tie, Northern people as to the ultimate rsSTls which wouid follow a reorganization of the Southern states upon the torus of Con groij, as declared in the reconsruetion bills ot the last session, the Virgiii- elections have dispeiled all uncertainty in relation to this question. It is now clearly shown that any reorganization of the Southern States which may be efiteted under the provisions of the military bills, will be ac complished by the negroet aided by a few mean whites. The Sotlhern States are bound to become subjeA to negro rule, brought about by the injultice and iniquity oi the Sherman-Shellabjrger Bi. if re- | organization under these bills is forced j upon them. The people of the Northern States al ready see this result, an! hence we find their press and leading statesmen loudly protesting against the suicilal policy which seeks to fasten upon the South govern ments whose foundations are based on negro supremacy. The great body of the Northern people have been assured by the Radical leaders that the white race in the South would accept the Congressional plan of reconstruction, and tha: they would unite with the blacks in framiuganew their organic law. The elections in Louisiana and Alabama produced tie first doubt up on the Northern mind of tie truth of these declarations. In those Stites a few white people did co-operate with :hc huge mass of ignorant blacks in the Rudeal programme. In Y irginia the recent elections show that the blacks were compactly organized against the white race, anl that in almost every election district the meanest, most ignorant and corruptin'”’ v'-e selected for the Convention again i. b rate but decent ! Republicans. The N cm people—the I moderate men there— at the malignity j of ess!" anl arc W of race wU’ah 1 would strike down . ' * man as Alexan der Rives, and ;.et his place a stolid, stupid, illiterate and uebaachod negro will, if not checked, lead to a total subversion of our form of Government. They see also that tho success of the negro party in this preliminary contest wil encourage them to further and more oppressive and relent less legislation against the whites, which in the end must lead to a war of races. The white people of the North are not prepared for such a solution of our national difficulties. They begin to see that peace and quiet and harmony c»n only be restored between the two parties by the adoption of a kind and conciliatory course toward the South. They do n«t intend to have the white people of the South placed under the rule and subject to She control of tlie ignorant and untutored blacks. They see in such a supremacy of the African race an imminent danger to taeir own section. • Their leading papers havoilready raised the alarm, and the recent elections at the North show that the white people of this country will not tolerate negro rule. The New York Herald, whose editor is widely notorious for his shrewdness in catching the earliest indications of a com ing change in popular sentiment, clearly foreshadowed the results of the Ohio and Pennsylvania elections, when he cut adrift a few months since from the Radical par ty, with which he had been acting since 1860. That paper sees now another revo lution in the popular sentiment on the negro question, and has taken strong grounds against negro rule in the South. In its issue of tho 29th October, it says: “Iu the States of Alabama, Virginia and . Louisiana, as we have shown, the blacks carry over ouc-fourth of the represen tation at the State Convention, while one hundred and seventy-nine white Radicals —nearly two-thirds of the whole number of delegates—hound on the barbarians. Four millions of negroes, in all, now assail the stability of the Government. They arc armed with the vote —the weapon that Congress, by unwise legislation, has put into their hands. This vote will give them such a power as will yet make the nation reel. In common with ignorance, wherev er found in the world’s history, the negro will seek a division of property, for he lias ’' !>» yi.t no idea ho., property is acquired. ...' fanciful ioCas OI his ivil' j rind pi ’(’•;• in a brain already gone mad in | too rapid an elevation. Let his ignorance force a measure to the surface, despite the common sense of the country in oppo sition, and what can prevent its becom ing a law? That these are no idle specu lations the late election returns too well show. Strange anomaly! We were never willing that the Southern whites should legislate for the North, but are willing that the lase Southern slave, repre senting the most concentrated element of barbaric ignorance on the whole Western Continent, should shape our future.— There are two courses to choose—European civilization and African barbarism. The Radicals have apparently chosen the latter, and by their action they now absolutely force the white civilized element of the South to appeal to that first law of nature, self-preservation. How well the whole South appreciates this is best shown by tha numerous extracts which wo arc con stantly publishing from the Conservative Southern papers, which calmly calculate the force of the coming black invasion.— They sec the approach of a war of caste, in which, after an exhaustive and terrific struggle, the black will disappear and the white be left nothing lut a remnant of its present number. * * * * * Negroes, by voting for any measure in a mass, immediately draw a distinction in race that forces the whites, for their own protection, to also band as a unit. This is the point of revolution to which we are rapidly marching. Itis shown mathemati cf,!y by the elections, and indicates a war of ea gitt, ttijjssg it is wisely, checked by the North. The North, tjten, to the rescue! We saved tho nationality mice from the attack of the master, but we have to save | it now from the more dreaded attack of tha fpnuer slave.” Suffrage tis Virginia—Who are Elected. —Take out Messrs. Southall, of Albemarle*, Lewis, of Stafford -, My.izcy, ofCulpcper; Marye, Gravatt, and Hunter, of Spotsylvania district, and two or three from ut}}nr districts, says the Dispatch, there is hardly § docent man elected to the Convention from that part of Virginia east of the Biue Ridge. Merit capa bility seemed to be things that were to be I shunned by the newly enfranchised in making Uml? selections. Learning, expe rience, integrity, good standing in society were in their eyes disreputable, and altogether unsuitable for a member of the Convention ; so they hunted for men who had none of these, ftod they found them. Never sinco bodies poUtij were known, and laws framed for their govern ment, has there been selected a body of men so utterly devoid of character and capacity as those who have been returned to the Convetition ip Virginia by the Radi cals. black and white. More Good News.— The telegraph jteilp us, says the Richmond Dispatch, that the Democrats gained largely in We- - Irgin ia at the elections on Thursday, The , current is running all in one direction, so far as white men are concerned. The con trary results here are owing to a disturb ing cause —an element not belonging to the ballot-box—in 3 word, to the negro. But the end is not yot. These favorable re sults in the North and West foretoken a ! day of peace and prosperity even for us. ■ We are of the same race with those who rule this country, and onr cries for help must fall upon sympathizing oars. 'fhe negro has made a fool of himself. He has. ; in spite of all efforts to appease him. : shown that he regards the white man as j his enemy. It is the instinct of his nature, j Many of the Catholic priests and other | clergy of New Orleans have died of the yellow feyei this summer. The New Or- j leans Timer speaks ccihuskstically of the 1 zeal they show in fulfilling the painful duties imposed upon them in ministering to the spiritual wants of the sick and j dying. The clipper schooner Moses BramhaU : arrived at Charleston on Saturday, having made the run from New York in sixty-five ; hours. [COMMUNICATED. ] Messrs. Editors: As it is next to im possible that the " Local” oi any daily paper can possess the powers of übiquity, but is even alike infallible, pari httmano genere, I beg leave, most respectfully, to give you a short incident, which you may publish or not at discretion : Avery poor but, no doubt, a very honest, citizen of Augusta, applied to the Mayor of this city for relief, in the way of the inner man. The latter informed him that he did not issue rations, etc., for anybody, and could do nothing for him ; but, on learning that he was a citizen, but couid not vote on account of not having registered, he nevertheless supplied him with a ticket—Radical, of course—and, on his placing it in the ballot box, he gave him the two dollars which the man had asked for to purchase supplies for his j family. This is a plain statement of facts which ! can be substantiated by good men in this city. Verily, Messrs. Editors, “Qucm valientperdere dii, etc. Yours, Paisano. [COMMUNICATED. 1 Gibson, Ga., Oct. 291 b, ISG7. Editors Chronicle <£ Sentinel : Dear Sirs : The election at Gibson on the 29th went ofi' very quiet. The vote is as follows: Whites '. 6 Blacks 95 Whole vote cast 101 Most of the votes have been east. I think the vote will not exceed 150 in the county. Yours, with resnect, J. F. U. 1 COMMUNICATED. ] Washington, October 30, 1567. Chronicle k Sentinel : As the second day’s acting in the great election farce is over, I thought I would let you knowhow the thing is being done in the old county of Wilkes. At an early hour yesterday morning the poor deluded negroes came pouring into town by hun dreds, On arriving at the Cburt-house they were directed to go down to the Railroad Depot where a man, with a white skin, would furnish c, • iili a printed ticket; thus armed with a Radical ticket, they ] would join into line doubie'tile and march : back to the Court-House in squads of from twen>\ n< one hundred, and deposit their votes. Malty were surprised and disap pointed tolind this was all they had to do. S inn? cam.) prepared to remain tureo days, believing they had to vote each day. At the closing bf thc polls this p. in., there had been a little over one thousand three hundred votes polled. lam proud to say there was but one man with a white skin among the number, and he is no less a personage than the editor of the “ Mulatto liepublican’’ of .your city. He is also one ot the candidates on the Radical ticket in this District. Os course the entire vete cast was for Convention—and David G. Dotting can have all tiie honor of being the only man, with a white skin in the county oi Wilkes, who felt it to be his duty to vote oil this occasion. The course in dicated by your paper lias been uni versally approved and adopted by our peo ple as the best and only one compatible with self-respect. They have taken no part in the contemptible farce. Wilkes. From the Pew York Times. The Trial of ilr. Davis. It seems probable that Jefferson Davis will actually be tried for treason; and, as the time draws near, it is impossible not to feel some misgivings as to the results and effect of that proceeding. It is very "~.y to say, as the whole country has been raying for the last two years, that treason is the highest of crimes and ought to be punished; but one instinctively feels, after all, that this little argument, conclusive as it seems, docs not dispose of the whole ease. Davis is not to be tried simply as an individual. His own punishment for his own crime is not the sole object, or the main object sought to be accomplished. It is the rebellion that is to ho put on trial in his person. It is the principleon which the rebellion rested—the States that entered into it —the great community involved in its guilt, which are to be arraigned before the judicial tribunals of the nation ; and the object of that arraignment is to procure a solemn decision on the ease which is to settle the law for all time to come, and leave no room hereafter for the claim that any State has a right to secede. But do we intend to admit, by resorting to such a tribunal fora decision, that there is any doubt on this point now? If a trial is wanted, it must be wanted so decide something which is doubtful. It cannot be to affirm something which is decided already. If Davis is put upon his trial, that very act assumes that his guilt is still ; open to doubt—that the question is unde cided—nay, on the assumption that atrial i is required, ho is, in the presumption of j the law, innocent, until the trial is ended j and his guilt is proved. i ■ Do we mean by this trial what the trial itseit thus of necessity implies ? Do we I presume—do we admit, for > m nuuut, that I David id innocent v ferire not regard it i as little less than treason to doubt his | guilt? If Davis has not been guilty of | treason —if secession was a right: —what ! has been the history of this nation for the last six years but the most awful and tremendous revelry of crime the sun <ever shone upon? If he is tried, he may be acquitted. Unless the trial becomes itself a greater crime than the alleged offence— unless what pretends to be a solemn ap peal to absolute and supreme abstract jus tice, is turned into a paltry and contempti ble trick—we are bound to admit that this man may go forth from the bai relieved of all stain of guilt, ‘ carrying the sanction of the judicial tribunals of the nation for the whole tremendous transaction of which he was the recognized and respon sible head. This nation certainly does not consciously intend to pave the way for such a result. We do not admit that a shadow of doubt rests on the question of Davis’ guilt. We do not admit that the right or wrong cf secession is open to argument or that it awaits a decision at the hands of any tribunal on the face of the earth. And the reason is, because the whole question has been decided alreadv—decid ed by the highest of all earthly tribunals, and beyond all possibility of reversal or appeal. Nations know no higher law than the law of force—no higher tribunal than the field of battle. Constitutions and laws, faenatos and Courts, have value and lbrce only as means of avoiding that final arbitrament and only while they suc ceed in Substituting other modes of judg ment lor its stern decrees, Hut when w r ar is called in to settle disputes, it holds no divided court. It takes jurisdiction of the whole case. It does not allow its decision to be called in question, nor are its judg ments open .to rcviewal and reversal L'avis and the rebellion appealed to the sword to decide their contest with the nation ; and the answer to that appeal will stand as the verdict in the case—as the law of the land—no matter what Courts or States, or Congresses may say to the con- S trary, until arms, in another appeal to I force, may reverse it. It is not possible 1 ■ that a trial in a civil Court should add a ! j featacr’s weight to the dignity or the so j iemnity of tlie decision that has been al ready reached. The danger is that it will ! dotr act from it;—it must do that, if it docs anything at all. To submit a question ver which four years of war have ken i "’aged, for which two million men haye j j■■ '-p unoer arms and naif a million have i taiu down their lives, which has imposed U U? U i lO I,atlQ,i biwjeps of debt which I wiJ affect the wealth unii v/clfare of hun ; dreds of millions yet unborn, and' which ■ } has changed the political, industrial and i j ? oula * institutions of a continent and made I 1 its mars, deep and indelible, on the history 1 of 4,3 human race -to submit such a ! | question tv tty solemn judgment of a jury ! ! °. f 4 elve «*cn. to 4 drayra without dis- j unction of race or color, nut one of whom i | may Lave ever seen a law book or a book ! I of any sort, who may be presided over by ! t.vjtiye Underwood, and whose verdict is 1 i l “ mem, tl.: - whole current of our nation- j j al history, it it has any weight or any j • P ieat l ! , n S uafever is a proceeding too ! I creamy farcical to he regarded with entire i j We think it is to be deeply ’ j regretted u ,u oqr Government has not j i been a.jic to devise mens of saving * , us from if. The forthcoming trial is very likely to do us damage and discredit. We see no way !in which it can possibly do us good. If Davis should be convicted, he will not be punished: no one believes for a moment that no will be cither executed or iinprir oued. His conviction would not deepen the impression of the guilt cf the rekllion or he public mind in the least decree; in- T. I, the that its guilt is allowed to be solemnly called in question will infallibly weaken the public sense of its enormity, and cause it to k regarded'as a subject on which opinions may justly differ. ' If he should be acquitted, as he may be, the consequences, especially on public senti ment in the Southern States, would be still more injurious. And considering the chaincus*’ calibre of the priding Dis met Judge, the moav es gonstitutiug the jury and the prevailing temper of the par 1 ties who have_ control of the whole pro- ■ oceding, there is reason to fear that stops ! ffi . a y to taken to procure a conviction which j •vill reflect more lasting -Tlsyjrace and inflict | deeper injury on our whole political system J than even an acquirtal would involve. 5 The matter has keome so complicated ; Dy the long delays aud irresolute action al ready had. that its solution now is a matter j of no small difficulty. Bur. we believe the j country would feel relieved if the whole j proceeding could be dismissed. The rekb 1 lion has ken tried and conjoined; and there is neither necessity for anew trial nor pliability af any greater punishment, ttian it has already rec. ; i«d. The Bureau, at-Columbus, has turned over to the authorities of Muscogee county . fifty paupers, for whose support white j men, many of whom art not allowed to I vote, are to k taxed. I Interesting Correspondence. The following correspondence between Generals Grant aud Thomas in relation to the recent municipal election in Nashville, wiil bo read with interest. It will be seen that the attempt made by General Thomas in his correspondence with M ayor Brown (heretofore published in this paper) that his conduct was in accordance with the views of Gen. Grant was not true. On the 22d of September Gov. Brown low wrote to Gen. Cooper, commanding State Guards, as follows : “ Sir —You will bring to Nashville im mediately all the troops, infantry and cavalry, you can command, to enable you to protect the Judtres and Clerks appoint ed by the Commissioner of Registration, and to enforce the franchise law." If needs be, eall on Major Gen. George 11. Thomas for additional troops to enable you to keep the peace and enforce the law.” This was telegraphed to the headquar ters of the army by Gen. Thomas. On the morning of the 25th inst., he received the following cipher telegram from the General-in-Chief: Washington, D. u., Sept. 24—3:30 p. m. To Major-Gen. George 11. Thomas: The Mayor, City Attorney and President of the Common Council of Nashville ex press great fear of a collision at the time of the charter election on the 2Sth. Go to Nashville to-morrow and remain until after election to preserve peace. If you think more troops necesslry for that purpose, order them there from the most convenient point in your command. The military cannot set up to be the judge as to which set of oleetiou Judges have the right to control, but must confine their ac tion to putting down hostile mobs. Lis hoped, however, that by seeing the Gov ernor and city officials here referred to, your presence and advice may prevent dis turbance. Please keep me advised of the condition of affairs. (Signed) U. S. Grant, Gen’l. To which General Thomas replied in the following cipher telegram : i/juisvilt.e, Ky., Sept, 25, ISC7. Gen. U. S. Grant , Washington. D 6. Your cipher u legram, of 3:30 P. M. j yesterday, received. I forwarded you yes- j fertuiv a pro, ,uuUou of the Governor, j the Chief Magistrate of the State, pro claiming any other election than that held ; under the franchise law illegal, ar.d direct- ! ing General Cooper to lake measures at once to preserve the peace and protect the Judges of election in the discharge of their duties. Also, a proclamation by the Mayor of the City of Nashville, taking adverse grounds to the Governor, and ordering an extra police force to be organized to pre serve the peace and to protect the Judges of election appointed by the City Council to hold the election for city officers under the charter for your information and in struction. In the endorsement I .‘expressed the be lief that, under instructions from the War Department, I should becompelled to take sides with the Governor, he being the chief civil officer of the State, and having proclaimed the law governing elections in the State, should he call upon me for aid, as expressed in that endorsement, I should have used the troops to aid the civil au thorities to enforce the franchise lav; and preserve peace at the election, had I not received your telegram of 3:30 P, M. yes terday. I start for Nashville this afternoon, and will do what I can to preserve the peace. Please instruct me whether lam to sus tain the Governor or the Mayor. (Signed) Geo. 11. Thomas, Major General. General Thomas then proceeds to state that lie proceeded to Nashville by the 3 o’clock tram on that cDy, reaching Nash ville at midnight ; and relates what took place between himself and the Governor and the Mayor of that city, the result of which is indicated in the following cipher telegram to the General-in-Chief : Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 26, 1867. To Gen. U. S. Grant, Washington, 1) O.: If both parties persist in holding their election, there will be great danger of col lision. In such contingency, am Ito inter fere and allow both eleotion.% to go on, or arc my duties simply to prevent mobs from aiding either party? (Signed) George H. Thomas. Major-General U. S. A. General Grant replied in cipher as fol lows : To Maj-Gen. George 11. Thomas: I neither instruct to sustain the Gov ernor nor Mayor, but to prevent sonflict. The Governor is the only authority that can legally demand the aid of" the United States troops, and that must be by procla mation declaring invasion or insurrection exists beyond the control of other means at his hands. It is hoped your presence and good judgment and advice will prevent conflict. (Signed) U. S. Grant, General. Na.-ia .lee. f: Bept.26 — 3n. tu .iiat,-, l Gr • ficA'diri .-'A -' Gov. B.owuhr.v is in Knoxville. Have seen his instructions to Gen. Cooper not to permit the city authorities to bold their election. The Mayor i determined to hold an _ election in_ defiance of the State authorities. A collision is inevitable. If I command the peace my action will be a practical decision against State authority and against the franchise law. I cannot preserve the peace without interfering in case of collision. (Signed) Geo 11. Thomas, Major-General U. S. A. Gen. G rant replied as follows : Washington, D. C., Sept. 26—4 p. m. To Maj. Gen. Geo. 11. Thomas : You are to prevent conflict. If the Ex ecutive of the State issues his proclama tion declaring insurrection or invasion to exist, too formidable to be put down by force at his own command and calls upon the United States to aid him, then aid will have to be given. Your mission is to preserve the peace and not to take sides in political differences until called out in.ac cordance with the law. You are to prevent mobs from aiding, either party. If called upon legally to interfere your duty is plain. (Signed) U. S. Grant, General. About 10 p. m. Gen. Thomas received the following from the General-in-Chief: Washington, D. 0., Sept. 26 —9 p. m. Major j Gen. Geo. 11. Thomas: I will sent! you further instructions to morrow. Nothing is clearer, however, than that the military cannot be made use of to defeat the Executive of a State in enforcing the laws of the State. You are not to prevent the legal State force from the execution of its orders. (Signed) TJ. S. Grant, General. On the 27th of September Gen. Grant addressed Gen. Thomas as follows : •. Until afternoon I can give you no furth er instructions than you have already had. Report by telegraph immediately on re ceipt of this the nature of the difficulty in Nashville, and your view of the best way to meet it. U. S. Grant, General. Gen. Thomas says: “As my telegram of j 1 A. M. had given the information desired, no o:her answer was made to this. No further instructions as intimated in that ever reached me.” The additional documents are numerous, j including the correspondence between Gen. | Thomas and the Mayor of Nashville. Stewart County.— A letter to the editors, dated Lumpkin, 2 o’clock, p. m., 29th, represents the election as progress ing quietly and very lew whites having anything to do with it. There were three candidates, one white and two black, all Radicals, and no oppemion.— Macon Id. e learn from Mr. Ross, Ordinary of Jones county, tiiat the number of votes polled in Jones county on Tuesday was 608. Not a single white vote was cast. Two of the candidates were clerks and kept the count of the votes.— Macon Tel. Vv ell Done, Twiggs ! —We have in formation as to the result of Tuesday’s vote in this county. Five hundred and fifteen votes were cigst —only five of which wereby white mem Three against, and two for Convention. We hope to have the pleasure of recording many more such gratifying evidences of unanimity in the I good o}d “Black Belt’’ against Rope’s j swindle. —Journal <f Af< Taylor County. —This county docs well. Up to iopr o'clock yesterday after noon, tour hundred and fifty votes had been dropped into Pope’s ballot-box at Butler —only eight of which were by rnen heretofore supposed to be white.— Journal & Messenger. I Quarterly Report oe tiie National Bane*, ETC., etc.—l Washington, Oct. 29..—The following to the quarterly abstract report of the national banks of the United ; State- to Oct. Ist : Resources over drafts, 1 $60,903,844,95V ; United States bonds deposited to secure circulation, $338,135,- ! 150; 'UnitedStltc. k nj» ajd securities deposited to secure deposit, $39,211,450; United States bonds and securities on hand $42,173,150; other stocks, bonds and mortgages, $21,375,403 92; due 1 from national banks, $95,103,219 91; due 1 from other b ur; ks and bankers, $8,366,- ! too iZ ; banking houses and Other real estate,' furniture uuZ fijtnrrja, $20,559,- j 850 34 ; current expenses, $5,295,788 jU premiums, s—, i49, iu.j ; check? fiTfd other cash items, $f 34,392,580 58 ; bills : of national banks, $1,831,693 ; bills of other banks, $333,219 ; spexie $lO 228 - 851 12; fractional currency and’ leeal tender notes, $100,431,537 83 • coni -5568,084 20 ; total, 5.1,490,031,128 oi. Liabilities : capita' stok, $419,568,415; surplus lund $66.- i'-’sV. 6 '.’ * u r°divided profits, $3,356,- i ,J i circulating notes outstanding, national, $293,461,196; do. do. State’ ! UU J .’7_ ol ! individual deposits, $537,- \ ■l-9.oai 68; United States deposits,- $23 - Mi 815 71 [ deposits of United States Disbursing Officers $4,637,264 02. due to national banks, $93,058,788 05; -due other banka and bankers, $13,926,914 58 ; total. $1,495,033,128 84. From the Columbus Hun. I’ay Money IVages. Editors Sun: The labor question is paramount in importance. General starvation seems likely to supersede uni versal suffrage; but it cannot be doctored so readily as political illness. An exhaustive article for one of our reviews on the subject would be profitable, but in a newspaper, out of place and un satisfactory, from lack of space. 1 pro pose simply to make a few statements without adducing proof. An examination of the labor system of the world, as ex hibited in the writings of Loudon, Babbage. Wado and other authors, will confirm these statements. Ist. The metazer system, which is the “joint system or copartnership arrange ment, is an evidence of the very low agri cultural condition of the country where it obtains, and is a bar to any improvement. Roland, Portugal, the poorest districts of t ranee, illustrate its failure. 2d. Where agriculture is most profitable, the universal rule is to pay money wages, which keeps labor and capital distinct. England, Scotland, Belgium, Austria and Prussia, are familiar instances of its splendid success. 3d. Workmen cannot force wages up nor employers force them down by com binations, but if let alone wages will find their level. 4th. The employer, that is capital, must take the risk, whether wages be paid in money or in kind. He plans, risks, manages. If his plans do not succeed, he alone is accountable, and alone pays the penalty of his miscalculations. It you admit the labor to share in the profits, lie can assume but a very small share of the risk. It is a principle of part nership that neither law nor reason recog nizes, in fact is at variance with common sense. sth. The “joint crop plan” has already failed with the negro, after two years trial— thereby demonstrating the truth that what the whole world has long since settled is cot exceptional in our free negro labor. The hired laborer does cheerfully any job to which he is assigned, while your •HO Uof ' planting, tilliug and harvesting ; waters i your cotton hales, appropriates corn and j j potatoes, peas, pigs," and other small grain 1 I and absolutely refuses to do work upon j fencing and farm buildings, but f'.s not j j tc commit waste everywhere. The negro partner got, in 1365, one- 1 tenth, in 1566, one-quarter, in istVj, one third, for 1868 he demands one-lialf. How long his native modesty will prevent him from claiming the other half depends upon his white partner. I conclude by requesting an examination of two plantations, with resident owners, under the two systems of paying laborers. It wih settle the matter in favor of money wages. For the next year, if you have your corn made on hand you can pay sixty dollars wages and board lurnislied, for first-class laborers. It you have corn aud meat to buy, you cannot afford to pay forty dol lars. l’ay money wages. Alabama. Ano(her Convert. The Central Georgian, published at Sandersvillc, and heretofore an advocate of Convention, now pronounces against it. The proceedings of a nigger and scalawag meeting at Sandersville on Monday, have opened the editor’s eyes, and like an honest man h| hastens to put himself right. He say's that the meeting was composed ex clusively of negroes and three white Radicals, hailin ; from Maine, Massachu setts, and Ireland, originally (aud not very long ago either), but now residing, two in Augusta, and one in MUledgeville—the former outside the district! The names of those vermin are Prince, Richardson and Supple, who, with three negroes, were nominated for the Convention. One of these insolent adventurers declared that there was only one man “loyal” enough to go to the Convention to be found in the whole district! The editor concludes his article with the following manly words. We congratulate him upon his deliverance, and heartily welcome him to the ranks of the defenders of the true faith Journal & Messenger. We h avo advocated a Convention be cause we hoped that everything would be conducted upon fair and equitable princi ples, and thought it the shortest road to peace, prosperity and stability of govern ment. We never did believe it a Consti tutional measure, were only in favor ot it as a matter of policy and general interest. It is now clear as a sunbeam that the whites of the South can have no showing. We are disgusted with the proceedings of the powers that be, so far at least as this district is concerned, and suppose what happens in one place may happen in oth ers. We wish it distinctly understood that we cannot and will not endorse any mea sure that carries on its face so much unfair political negro preferment. We belong to ! the white race, and while wc are willing I that the nevro should have everv right hits, we a < degrade on: selves and race to m-.ke uvini- ! i goes ui a:: inferior e: . • Is there a white man in the 20:;, Pis ! trict who can by his vole ndor - : .• 1 | imported ticker ? One of these candidates i pon—to our oncte eupwb Court . which is now in stately ruins, and said “thejiame is the greatest verdict the war ever rendered.” The whole tenor of all the speeches, seemed to have, as the prime object, the stirring up of strife between the races and widen the breach as far as possible. If we are white men, in the name of God let us act as such. The line of demarkation has been closely and un inistakeably drawn. We accept the posi tion, and “live or die, sink or swim,” we are with our race. Heard From, —The “Sentinel on the Watchtower” (five stories high), has been heard from at last. He spoke on Monday night, in Atlanta, to a mixed mob of ignorant blacks and knavish whites —his first utterance since his allies in Ohio and Pennsylyania were so hand somely beaten. The Intelligencer says he announced that he “belonged to no party," but “was for reconstruction under the Sherman Bill.” Those who favored that policy in the States above mentioned, called themselves Radicals, and gloried in the name. Joseph need not trouble him self at all, hereafter, to make any state ment of this character. The people of Georgia, whom he has insulted so long, and whose necks he would put under the gizard foot of the brutal African, know where to find him. They have not for gotten Judas Iscariot, nor how to spell traitor.— Journal & Messenger. Meeting op Cotton and Woolen Factors. — Philadelphia, Oct. 23. —At a meeting of the cotton and woolen manu facturers held to-night, in reference to petitioning Congress for a reduction on the 5 per cent, tax, the following resolution was passed : Resolved , That the Manufacturer’s Union of Philadelphia ask their members of Congress to use all honorable means to remove all taxation from the labor and industry of the country, such industry re quiring to be protected from the cheaper labor and capital of Europe. * The resolution was referred to the Lx eculvo Committee, with instructions to open a correspondence with manufacturers throughout the country in regard to es tablishing a fixed tax on cotton, the same as the trade bill in Liverpool. White Men to Black Negro Boots.— }V hat the j'reedinen of the South expect, is evinced in a speech made by a colored leader of those who have squatted on farms abandoned during the war, near Norfolk, Virginia, and from which the Government is now seeking to remove them. They refuse to go, and claim the lands by right of conquest. The Radicals justify them in their refusal. Here is a speech made by “Uncle Dick,” one of the leaders : “The Indians were the first owners of this land. The whites took it from them by force; and we blacks took it from the whites by force. They have no right to it, and they shall not hayc it. We fought for it aud we are going to jeecp it. We don’t care for thO' President or the Preedmen’s I bureau. Wc have suffered long enough— ! let the whites suffer now. The time was when the white man said : ‘John, black my hoots 1’ and John had to doit. But the times have changed, and I hope to see the day when I can say to a white man, ‘John black my boots! and he will have to do it, I will never be satisfied until tlie white man is forced to serve the black man, as we were once forced to serve them. If they do not litre that let them go away \V e do not intend to allow sccesh or Yan xees to drive us oil this land, because it is ours. e fought tor it, and we will fight now to defend it.” That is it. If the schemes of the Radi cals are to succeed, white men „re to be the servants 'of the negroes. White lalor ers, how do you like the idea ?— Detroit. Tree Press. ■■ ■’ In ten days, Kansas will vote on the question of giving the suff rage to negroes and women. It there is any Northern State which will vote for black suffrage, I Kansas is undoubtedly that State. Her whole 1; tory has been peculiar. Many events commencing wiili LcrSrSt existence tend?;’ to ret)doj; her not only Radical W P for Radicalism, jjtffl we shall not be much surprised to find that even she rejects black voting. Uansas may and not improbably will go for biacK suffrage, but it is vqry certain that she is not yet ready to go for female suffrage. It she shall go tor the former, she will be pretty sure of taking several years to decide as to the propriety of ele vating her ladies to a level with her nig gers.—Louisville Journal, The North Georgia l 'onferenee, M. E. Church South, will commence its aunual session m Augusta, on the 27th of Novem ber. This will be the first Conference held since the division of the State into two conferences. Bishop Pierce will pre side over its deliberations. Judge Mason Against Negro Suf frage.— Hen. Charles Mason, (he Radical nominee lor Judge of the Court of Ai>- peals, is at Deihi, Delaware county, hold ing court. In conversing with several of om citizens about the recent election in Pennsylvania and Ohio, he said- “When a party places a black man above a white man, when black men are put into the jury box, when they make black uien judges, the people will not submit It k too repugnant to the people and the party that adopts such measures is sure to bo defeated. This doctrine can never suc Tkese opinions were expressed openly and our correspondent offers to give the au thority should it be denied. Since the Ohio and Pennsylvania elec tions, there a good many politicians upon the anxious seat. Mr. Mason is one of the first complete converts. — Albany ( V I.) Argus. a v Death s Doings.— lt is our painful duty to announce the loss of two valuable and esteemed citizens of this vicinity. Mr. V\ . h. Du Bose died at his residence in Linwood, on Saturday night last, after an illness of a few days. He was a native of »\ ukes county, in this State, and had been planting in this section for many Y ears - ,p e was a brother-in-law of Gen. Kooert Toombs, and was greatly esteemed as a gentleman and citizen of solid worth. His age was about 55. Col. Sam C. Benton died, after a brief illness, on Monday morning, at his place near fort Mitchell, in Alabama. For rorty-five years Col. Benton had been identified with the history of this portion oi Georgia and the neighboring portion of Alabama, aud had secured for himself, by his uprightness as a man, friends, who will grieve to hear of his death. Col. Benton was about i0 years of age. [ Columbia Sun, 29th. The Rulers of tiie Couxtrv. —A very clever negro bey worked in one of our most respectable commission houses the past summer. Some months since ho went to Milledgeville, in the employ of T. J. 1 tl railroad, lesterdav evening his former employers, surprised to see him in their store, inquired the why and wherefor he was m Atlanta ; whereupt u he said that the “head negro” oi Lffiilwin couuty imurmedhim lb,, ~*yu since “tiiaf, having registered in Fulton county, uiiless he name to Atlanta i voted, the Union League would s< nd him to the Penitentiary 1” This boy was receiving $1 per day—all of which he looses for at least a week, together with his rail road expenses, unless the same be paid out of the Radical fund. — Atlanta Intelli gencer. Rump Reconstruction. —Russell, one of the largest and most important counties in the State of Alabama, is to be repre sented in the Convention, by a “carpet bag” disciple of New England, unknown to any of his constituents, and from whose garments the smell of sour cheese and rotten onions is not yet removed. Talbot county, in Georgia, a county noted for its population and worth and intelligence, is to enjoy a similar disgrace by having the interest of its people confided to a buck mulatto, imported from Washington City. Columbus Sun. The New York Tribune's special Louis ville correspondent sent an infamous letter to that paper on the ISth inst. It is as full of lies as it is of words. The writer says, “the dying Governor,” meaning Helm, bequeaths liis mantle to an ex-Colo nel of the rebel army,” meaning Stevenson. What excuse has the villain for writing, or what apology has the Tribune for publish ing, that Governor Stevenson was ever in the “rebel army?” How do these Radical slanderers produce their lies? Do they, as viviparous animals, bring them forth aliveAOr, as oviparous ones, hatch them from eggs?— Louisville Journal. Talbot County.— Staunch old Talbot repudiates the Sherman swindle most em phatically. Up to 12 o'clock yesterday, 950 votes had been polled at Talbotton— only one white man voting, lie is well known in the county as the hero of an episode in the late war, when Joe Brown’s militia officers were mustering their forces to stop Sherman’s march to the sea. They tound him under a fodder stack, and from thence he was hauled, legs foremost. Wo congratulate him upon being in accord with Joe, now, at any rate. — Jour. kMcss. Suffrage. —One of the newly enfran chised, with basket, in hand, applied early on Tuesday morning last to Lieut. Camp- I bell at the Q. M. Department for his suf frage. The Lieutenant could not see it in that light, but directed him to the Court House.— Rome Commercial. Will Figures Lie?— Poor Jonco Hooper, in referring to a Radical about Huntsville, Alabama, by the name of Fig ures, contended that the popular proverb “figures don’t lie” was a fallacy. Wc are inclined to get on J.mte’s platform. Old ’' 1 oft! M . 1 ' the best op; -etunity of knowing, says that, one million ana a juas ;•'••• oi negroes have die : since ‘heir eam-ipation. Tie Military • evormus, on the contrary, ; have increased them b , gistration from 1 ten to fifty per cem There is a lie out between old Snivey, the military Governors and the figures.— Columbus Sun. Riot in Taylor County.— The first fruits of Radical reconstruction, fraud and violence in this election, ripened yesterday morning in Taylor county. A gang of ne groes who proclaimed that the); were tired of wvaiting for “the forty acres and a mule,” marched in a body to a country store in that county, and helped themselves, com pletely cleairing it out. Our informant stated (hat Capt. Mills, commanding at Columbus, had been telegraphed by the Federal officer at Butler for troops to pro ceed to the scene of the disturbance. We were unable to learn further particulars.— Jour. & Mess. Frost. —Jack Frost paid hisfirst annual visit to these regions on Tuesday night last.— Rome Commercial. Abraham Shepherd, for thirty years clerk of Fluvanna, one of the jmrest, most sensible, and most universally beloved men we ever knew, is beaten for the Con vention in Fluvanna by a negro unable to read or write. The blacks out-registered the whites in Fluvanna by a small majority. This is Reconstruction. This is Union as it is. How long, O Lord, how long ? Charlottesville Chronicle. When Artemus Ward lay on his death bed at {Southampton, he turned to a friend by his bed-side, and murmured : “What have I done that I should die so young ? I never was guilty of a burglary, or ever committed the minor offence of killing a publisher or even a newspaper man.” Ash Chambliss and Jack Goggans, two “manhoods,” had a “little unpleasant ness” in Monroe county Sunday night, which resulted in Goggans’ skull being split open with an axe. The editor of the Air Line Eagle, pub lished at Gainesville, Hall county, has been deer iiunting, and brought home as his share of the spoil, a fine buck, weigh ing one hundred and sixty-five pounds. One fortunate individual in this city got about $1,300 from the lottery on Saturday last.— Atlanta New Era. The Albany News learns that a vast deal of cotton from tmuthern and sou*hwestern Georgia is being rejected by Savannah buyers ns mixed packed. The slightest i handful of stained or tradiy cotton in a j bale, if discovered, will reduce the priee of j Middling two to five cents per pound, j Cotton from Florida.— The Charles -1 ton Mercury says, the following are ex tracts from letters received by a mercantile house in this city, from Jacksonville, Fia. : “You may rely upon it that more than five thousand hales of Long Cotton will he shipped from Florida this year; this opinion is confirmed by Dr. W., who is just from the interior, and who has taken some trouble to inform himself.” “I am satisfied that there will not be a third of a crop made in our State this year. Some of my neighbors who planted for one hundred hales will not make twenty. What they Want. —Thcrßadicalswant negro suffrage as a moans of helping their party. That is all. They do act, as a party, demand it as a right legitimately belonging to the colored people. The key to the whole thing is given in this one seatence from the New York Tribune : “If the blacks are not enfranchised V'allandigham could beat Gen. Grant for President. ” That is the rub. The white people—the intelligent masses—are against them. They must have an element which they can control, and which is sufficiently powerful to put down the opposition of the people. That clement is to be found in the ignorant freedmen of the South, who vote from prejudice and without any knowledge of the influence of party politics upon the country— Detroit Free Press. Wc haveheardo£scvei‘alsn.all lotsofcorp being sold here lately at r seventy-five cents per bushel. Detail n6n-produeer3 at once supply themselves at these figurc-3.— Parly Cos. News , Toth. In both France and England tlie Legis latures are summoned to meet at an un usual time, the one on the 19th and the other on the 18th of November. The Pittsburg Commercial pretends to j think the election in Philadelphia “a draw game. “(h wo <u«.. . and the Rads the blanks.— LouisviUc Journal. An English volunteer rifle corps, exer cising in a field, were put to flight by a cow, all except one man, who dropped on his knee, and “prepared to receive cav alry.” Carlyle has evolved another political article, which he calls “Bull in the whale’s Belly.” Democracy is the whale, and England is the Jonah, and Carlyle describes the manner of digestion. Biougham, at ninety, bequeaths “his most important death-bed legacy” in a protest against “electoral corruption.” Tlie modern broom sweeps too close for the old Brougham,
