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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. d'hvcntclc & Sentinel. HK.MtV MOOIUJ, A. It. WHIGIIT. !* ATRII K. \UI>II, tosoriate Editor. TKK9I* OF •»( ««>( ItIPTION. daHy. 0.« n.T.U. tl <B T.tmmniiit Or., jm 1000 WEEKLY. - — MJWta a s«. : BTA. GA : ‘.v gyiia, wyiiin 18. York Says to tin* itadleals, Dlsunlonlsts and Despots. Tl.f re was a grand ratification mass meeting at Cooper Institute, last Thurs day night. In the words of the World > “ it. was one of the grandest succeiees in tlie way of a heartfelt outpouring of the poop! < ver h-u in Mew York City.'# •Speeches were made by lion. Daniel W. Voorhees, Hon. Samuel S. Cox, Mont gomery Blair, James S. Thayer, Joel Parker, James T. Brady, W. S. Babcock, and other ieading Democrats. In view of the great interest mani fested by our people in the result of the New York election, which takes place to-day, w- devote much of our space to | the pceeh of li ;u. D. VV. Voorhees. It is the f rvid, burning outpourings of a heart which pulsates with noble emotions for our suffering condition. He p. ads before the sovereign people of New York f >r the constitutional rights of the South ern people. He asks that the madness which has ruled the hour be stayed, and that the Southern States be not turned over to the stolid ignorance of the Lalf civilized negro. New York will fall into line in the glori ous work of redeeming the whole country from the wreck and ruin of the Radical disunionists and despots who now hold the . uthern people in vassalage. This morning’s sun will set on another gloii-us triumph f.>r the cause of freedom and constitutional liberty. The people of the North will never con sent to make a : econd St. Domingo and Dahomey of flic South. The infamous work of the Radicals, scalawags and Yan kee emissaries wi<l be undone. The white men of the North have declared the recent election farce a .'-‘upendous fraud and an infamous outrage on the boasted prerogative of every Americau citizen.— Men of Georgia bo resolute and firm; the hour of deliverance is drawing nigh: ‘ TUB ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA. “ Another State has been enshrouded with the sombre pall. Georgia, following her sis to I* Southern States—Virginia, Alabama and Louisiana—has been swept into the black Radical vortex. Rrieilj, we may regard the entire ten unrccon strue:i 1 Southern States, with possibly one or two exceptions, as forced by a ■ret and overwhelming revolutionary influence to a common and inevitable fate. They are all going one way. They are all bound to bo governed by blacks, spurred on by worse than blacks—-white v. retches who dare not show their faces in respecta ble white society‘anywhere. “This is the most abominable pie: -bar barism lias assumed since the dawn of civilization. It was all right and proper to put down the rebellion. Ii was all right, perhaps, to emancipate the slaves, although the right to hold them had been acknowledged before. But it is not. right j to make slaves of white men, even though they may have been former masters of | blu-ks. This is but a change in a system I oi bondage that is rendered the more j odious and intolerable because it lias been : inaugurated in an enlightened instead of a dark and uncivilized age. “The Romans, in the heighth of their triumphs, handed the government of con- | “'tfrtr'ri-d Mirglirnw over to the white races! who peopled tlufin —never to negroes. Lt I appears, then, that the Radicals are re- j ceding from the condition of civilization i which marked the era even of the old I Romans. They arc creating black govern- | k nients in the South, which will not only I ■jie.-:rny the industrial interests of that ; B.viii' 1 ! of the country, Jiut overturn all the I pc.-t i Misled safeguards of civilized society r and La Ito utter barbarism ; to implant upon the soil of our own South the civili zation seen in the interior of Africa—hu man slaughter, slavery in its most hideous shape, mental ignorance and Paganism. “Incited bv creatures like Hunnicutt, in Richmond, the blacks in their ignorance are made to believe that not only the ‘day of inbilee' has come, but that of agrarian ism or a common distribution of property also. They are now crazy for the promised spoils, and the acts of outrage daily chron icled, with threats of personal violence, and secret but peremptory orders of ex patriation against, obnox’ous whites, illus trate their infatuated disposition. This the Radical party must be held responsible for. 'IT r a s air in violation of the wise councils of (1 -nereis Grant and Sher man, who have reason to he as competent judges of what is good for the newly en franchised race as all tho Radicals put to gether. “The whole Northern people are appealed to to defeat this atrocious attempt to sur render a large portion of the country to a debased race—an attempt fitly characteriz ed by a Northern Republican print to be one intended to “circumvent tho laws of God.”— New York lit raid. ITiekomkn wiio inn not Vote. —We heard Monday that a numbt r of colored men, working on plantations owned by gentlemen hero, declined to take part in the late bogus election. These men show ed their good sense in not participating iti a contest which is destructive of the best interests of both races. To their credit be it -aid this action was of their voluntary accord. l-'iuv..—Tin fire Sunday night originated in the kitchen of a small dwelling on Greene street, above Kollock. Citizen, No. S, was iir-t on the ground, and the other companies of the department were promptly afterward, so that the fire was eon lined to the kitchen. During the fire a in x of cartridges exploded, which came t ry near wounding two of our old citizens, membe.: ol’ No. S, who were in close prox imity. “The 31 an with the Red Shirt.” — That poor devil of a fanatic, of “Red Shirt" notoriety, who has boon kicking up such a fuss in Italy, is about to have his inglorious career terminated. The French troops have arrived in the Eternal City, and it is safe to presume that if Garibaldi persists in his “onward to R >me," all that will be left of him will "be his tattered and dirty red shirt. AttemptedtiTCiDE. —We heard 'lon-' day of an attempt made by a white man in l>ublin to commit suicide. Being tired of j the world aud its responsibilities and j troubles, he placed a loaded gun to his head. ; tilled the trigger with his foot and blazed away, but, fortunately, with no more serious result than burning his ear a j little from the powder and a slight ooncus- | siou. As Ot-d Institution.— One of the old j establishments of our city is that presided over so successfully by our neighbor J. A. Van Winkle, who is now in receipt of his winter supplies of clothing, boots, shoes, ; hats, etc., comprising a very large, well assorted and excellent stock—all of which he is prepared to dispose of on reasonable 1 terms to his numerous customers, city and ] country. To those who know Mr. Van Winkle (and who does not in this section?) there is no occasion for us to commend him to their attention. Should there be any of our country readers who do not, all" that is necessary for them to do is to call and see him. He is prepared to meet all requirements aud accommodate all. Fire. —At half-past twelve this Tuesday morning a tire broke out in the front part of Mr. Isaac Levy’s grocery store, which was soon extinguished by >ur gallant firemen. The amount of damage has not been learned, but it is feared a portion of the goods were somewhat injured. blorloas sews ! We congratulate our readers on the glorious new.? flashed over the wires last | night. The cause of liberty and eonsti : tutional government has triumphed.— The people of the North, speaking 1 through the ballot-box, have sounded the j death-knell of the infamous party who, ! for the last two years, have insulted and I outraged their constituents and the sacred ; trust reposed in their hands. They have | proclaimed that the Government, as ad ! ministered by Washington and his co temporaries, must and shall be preserved. New York has declared that this is the white man's Government. New Jersey has proclaimed that this is the white man’s Government. Minnesota has proclaimed that this is the white man’s Government. Wisconsin has proclaimed that this is the white man's Government. Even Massachuseits ha3 proclaimed that this is the white man’s Government—and the “hub of the universe”—Boston—has proclaimed that this is the white man’s Government by fifteen hundred majority. The while people of the North, the East and the South have proclaimed it. And what does all this mean ? It means that the white race is to gov ern the American Union. It means that the while people of the South are to govern the South. It means that the receDt elections of Radicals and negroes in the South are a fraud and an outrage, and that the whole infamous farce will be set aside. All hail to the true friends of the Union and the Constitution ! Peace I Peace!! Peace!!! Within the past week there has been some alarm in Washington over the rumors of apprehended negro disturbances in the South. Although not apprehensive of a collision ourselves, yet it is true that the negroes are banded together, and in various places have assumed a menacing attitude toward the whites. Under the vile teachings of emissaries and rene gade whites, the poor deluded negroes eould be influenced to inaugurate the bloody work which would inevitably end in their own destruction. Personal observ ation and information from various parts of Georgia, convince us that the negroes generally are armed, and this is doubtless true as to their status in all the Southern States. Blinded with prejudice against their late masters and the mischievous agrarianism instilled into their minds by white emissaries, tho poor dupes might he foolish enough to ho led into a hellish attempt to take forcible possession of the lands and property of the whites, which would lead to direful consequences. Wo are no alarmists —but as the appre hension of a negro insurrection in the South has been freely circulated and dis cussed throughout the North, it is perhaps best to let our people know how others view the present menacing attitude of the negro in these States. In any event to be forewarned is to be fore-armed. Deploring tho existence of such reports, the Southern people cannot shut their eyes to the fact that the late peaceable negro, under the vile influence of wicked and depraved teachings, has become discontented and j intractable. It may be, too, that his Euto piun dreams may lead him to assume the ( offensive in inaugurating a war of races, j While this would be in accordance with j the wishes of Helper and other notorious j negropliilists of the North, as affording a pretext for exterminating or banishing the race from this country, the white people of the South would regard such a collision as a deplorable calamity—deplorable in its result upon the labor system, and the fearful suffering which it would entail. An insurrection, no matter how thorough in organization aud formidable in num bers, would be but short-lived. The whites of the whole country would unite against the poor negro, were he insane enough to inaugurate a war of races. The result, we suppose, could not for a moment be very doubtful. The white people need the labor of tho negro, and the negro needs the protection and support of the white. Our soil, our climate, our productions, and our interests are so constituted and deversified that the | negro is essential to tho growth and pros- I ferity of the South. In no quarter of the i globe has the African so fair a field to work out his destiny, whatever that may be. Looking back over his history, the negro is noticed only lot his impenetrable ignor ance and jungle barbarity. He stands, by universal decision, . the lowest creature in the scale of humanity. Here, in this fair sunny South, the negro has been made a useful member of the human family, lie has ascended in the scale of civilization | and Christianity under the influence, pro tection and guidance of the white man. Before the law he has the same rights of person apd property. 11 i - destiny is in his i own hands. It he be determined to work ; out that destiny in accordance with the | laws of civilization and good government, he will find in the white people of the South his best friends. But should he resort to the barbaritie* of hi« ancestors, then his doom on the American continent is sealed forevci. We wish the negro well, and it is because he has been faith ful in the past that we desire to see him prosper here. There is room for the | white man and the black, and happiness for each in his proper place. But then | there must be peace. He who counsels I the negro to the contrary is his worst ene | my. Direct Trade.—Gen. H. C. Wayne, of Brunswick, Ga.. writes to a Floridian cor- I respondent that he has been, since the war, engaged in the lumber trade with Europe; that he has sent, th past two seasons, over fifty cargoes to the different ports of Great Britain and the Continent: that his vessels—British. Danish, Nor- \ Ann and Swedish—comes home in bal last, and that, consequently, he has been j solicit*, and by correspondents in England and j 1-ranee to open direct tiade with the ■! South, He expects this year to load thirty vessels tor Europe, and says the j answer he shall give his foreign friends de pends on the encouragement he may hope j to receive, aud that if it is sufficient he will open a house this fall at Savannah. The ' parties abroad who have made the proposi- ! tion for direct trade with the South are oi’ high standing and possess ample means ! of carrying out what they propose. The i main feature of the enterprise, however, i says General Wayne, “is the facility with j which immigrants from Europe may be j introduced directly into the South—the j only way of peopling the South with an in- j i dustrious and respectable population from abroad, for we cannot, in this respect, eom j pete with the West and New York.” The New York Express says of the Southern elections : “White men, being i powerless and downtrodden, remained at ; home. Such a spectacle—and such a scene—in time of p. ace—such a studied j degradation of blood and race—is shocking i to every manly sensibility and every idea af justice and expediency. The time has j couie when every true-minded Northern ! man should persistently resolve to rebuke this frightful injustice. It foreshadows a future, as will be seen by the above, even more dark and disastrous than the civil i war through which wc have just passed.” The Reaction. j Elections were held yesterday in the States of New York, New Jersey, Dela ware, Maryland, Massachusetts, 3lichigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, * Missouri and Nevada. With the excep -1 tion of Maryland and Delaware, all of these States gave Republican majorities in j 1566, but the reaction which set in in Cali | forma, 3laine, Pennsylvania, Ohio and I other States, will, beyond all doubt, ex | tend to the States which held elections | yesterday, and when the returns are in j will show a wonderful gain for the Consti- I tutional Union Party. The following table shows the total num ber of votes cast, and the Radical majori ties, at the elections of last year in the States named, and the increase in the Con servative vote required to insure a Con servative victory: Increase required Sn Conservative Vote to insure a T'Xal vote lvvl. Mjj. Conservative f'ic. HUM. iHi 180S. lory. j Massachusetts 11s,Oil 65,209 33,000 New Jersey 129,499 1,505 800 I New York. '718.844 13,789 7,000 Kansas 27,521 11,210 6,000 i Michigan 163,45* 20,0.18 10,500 ) Minnesota 41,758 10,208 5,500 I Illinois 350,09:1 55,987 28,000 Wisconsin 134,739 23,907 12,000 I Missouri 103,145 21,22!) 11,000 j Nevada 9,163 1,090 550 The great State of New York has be ! yond all doubt, sounded the death-knell of Radicalism. The people of the North will never consent to turn the Government over to the Radical-Negro-Destructive Party. The Southern Recorder at Mil ledgeville for Sale. —We comply, most cheerfully, with the request of our worthy and able Milledgeville cotemporary, the Southern Recorder, in transferring to our columns the following notice, regretting that the admonitions of Time create in its Senior Editor a desire to withdraw from the perplexing cares attendant upon the conduct of a newspaper : After 'forty-eight years of continuous editorial life and labor upon the Recorder, the senior editor wishes to retire, to follow a more quiet life, and one freer from per plexing cares. lie finds himaelf in the evening of his days, willing to relinquish those contests of a political nature better suited to younger men. The junior editor also desires to retire, as his health requires a more active and out-door life, lie would nevertheless re tain his present position, provided he is suited iu a copartner in the business. How it was Done.—The villainy of the Radicals in the late Georgia election is without parallel in history. The follow ing, from the Thomasville Enterprise, is a sample of the frauds practiced in every county of the Statu so far as heard from : “Yesterday a colored man asked us if Captain White, the Agent of the Bureau, could ‘banish him from tho country or nut him back into slavery for not voting?’ We told him no, of course, when he in formed us that tho said White had sent out word to the colored men who had not voted, that ‘they were obliged to vote, and if they did not come to town and vote they would be banished or put back into slavery.’” Military Elections.—The election in Arkansas occurs on November 9th ; in Mississippi, November sth; in Florid a, November 14th, 15th and 16th, in North and South Carolina, November 19th and 20th. The time for the election in Texas has not yet been fixed. mmvatn- letter from Dalton. Dalton, Ga., November 2,1867. Editors Chronicle it Sentinel : (rents—Below please find the vote in thi3 county (Whitfield); though not official, is very near correct: For Convention 1,045; against Conven tion 169. King 642 j , Tminmei r (^on^rvatiyoe. llarbcn 572 ) Walls 570 1 Radicals. Davis 500 j In Murray, the Conservative ticket has run ahead about fifteen votes, and in Gor don county about one hundred and eighty yotes, which compose this district, and in sures three Conservatives to the Conven tion should the thing be held. The Radi cals used every effort In their power; hired horses at the expense of the General Government to bring in everybody that would vote on the subject of Convention, whether for or against was immaterial; imported some “niggers" from Tennessee, who had loft the State and located there, hut came here and voted, but it all proved unavailing. I have not heard how the veto stood in Murray and Gordon counties on Convention, but presume they have gone for it, as the candidates on both sides favored Convention, a strange position for the Conservatives to take, being opposed, as they were, to negro tuffrage. One of the candidates (Trammel); in a speech at Spring Place, told the Radicals to order the ne groes in their Lodges not to vote for him, that ho did not want their votes, hut there wore some few of them who voted the Coti servr.tive ticket. Others desired to do so, but were afraid. The most of them, how ever, went the Radical ticket, and one of the candidates, now that the election is over, declares himself opposed to universal suffrage—after having received tho sup port of poor Hainiio, turns around and de clares himself against him. Surely such tricks as that will open the eyes of the negro so that he will be enabled to see who his best friend is. But lam not surprised at the course of Harbin; he sees the ship ho is sailing in is sinking, and, being an old and cunning rat, is leaving it in ad vance of the rest. The cra’ft they are sailing in has sprung several leaks recently, and if the State of New York, next Tuesday, should happen to give it a broadside to the tune qi twenty thousand votes against it, in six months you won’t hear of a Radical any where in the Southern £:ates, except among the negroes, who will be the last to see th#Sr danger. Very respectfully, S. N. D. Letter from Wilkes. Washington, ga ~ November 4. j Editors ( hroniclc *C' Sentinel : Gentlemen: —Our grace days are over, J and King Johnny lias made the whole amount of eight votes. Ain’t that heavy ? j and they only cost nine dollars and seventy- j Avc cent's apiece: cheap votes that. Out of \ thr eight, one white man, or he used to tea's ; white, and he could not get the galvanized ; thick enough to face the music until about i night on Saturday. Our county now stands, for Convention j 1,141, all nigger; for no Convention nary \ vote. Respectfully, O. j The Election Farce—Letter from Han-1 cock. Sparta, November 4, 1567. Editors Chronicle T Sentinel: Pope's grand farce passed off quietly in j Hancock, and with much credit, be it said of the county, not a white man voted iu it, i nor could there one be found to aid in the j election. Two pilain and oue colored manager I were imported, who endeavored to pro- j cure some white man or boy to ele'k for i them, but every one vowed “we will trover stain our hands with the blood of murder- j ed constitutional liberty as principal or accessory." Twenty-three hundred and i fifty registered in the county; 1,350 voted; 1,150r eg -tered : thus you see we have two ' hundred sensible negroes in the county ; that endured the threats of Pope's emissa- i ries to imprison them for Jive years in ease they failed t vote. We thiuk it a very good record for Han cock, for which we are proud—not one j white man to vote, and two hundred ne- j groes to refuse. I heard of one honest negro that was much incensed that some “Radical nigger" had voted in his name, and was offering j ten dollars reward for his apprehen '.on. j This occurred in many instances, X am in- j formed. An applicant would tender his vote, and | some “smart Digger," who could read j standing by, in case the receivers of the 1 vote could not find the name on his “print- ! ed list," would suggest to the applicant that he registered another name, and be ! sure to suggest one that he saw on the “printed list." Thus, you perceive many! were charged with a vote who never went i to the polls. The one to whom I referred that offered the reward, can prove by his employer he j was hard at work ten miles in the country 1 ~ '* a >' ke is alleged to have voted. Bu: thus it is; what aglorious country is ! our America, “the best Government,” etc. Hancock. Notice. i uo Physicians of the State of Georgia j i are requested in Convention, in 1 Atlanta, at the City Hall, on the 20th day * : of November, Iso,, at nine o’clock in the j morning to organize the State Auxiliary ' Society of the National Medical Associa tion oi the l mted States of America Rv . request of the Medical National tlon - ... I- J- M. Goss, „ : *he President for Georgia. Ihe Constitutionalist will please copy. The London Tones observes that the condition of commercial derangement in England arises entirely from the distrust occasioned by the financial catastrophes of 1 1860. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1867. The Election Farce. Atlanta, November 4, noon. —Addi- tional returns received indicate a majority for Convention of from twelve to fifteen thousand. The regular union nominees are elected in every district reported. From Europe. Florence. November 2, midnight.— Garibaldi is still at Monto Rotonrio, en trenched. He refuses to disarm unless the Italian Cabinet is changed. The King of Italy declares Napoleon’s proposition to allow the Roman Question to be settled by a vote of the Romans. London, November 2.—A farewell din ner has been given to Dickens. Louisa Kellogg made a successful debut. Copenhagen, November 2.—ltis rumor ed that tho United States have bought the Danish West Indian Island for fourteen millions in gold. London, November 4, noon.—The proposition to settle the question by popu lar will of the Romans was not Napoleon’s, but the spontaneous suggestion of Italy, Prussia and France. The Paris Moniteur says: Mousticr sent a note to the French Legation at Florence saying : The Italian advance is a violation of law and the treaty. Napo leon will not approve it by word or silence, and asks an explanation of Italy. Only two French regiments are in Rome. They are continually leaving Toulon. The Papal forces will assume the offensive immediately. London, November 4,3 o’clock. —The vote of the towns in the provinces of Rome is unanimous for Italy. It is now reported that Napoleon re quires Victor Emmanuel to expel Garibaldi, If that is done Napoleon will retire. Berlin, November 4,3 o’clock. —Count Yon Bismarck says, officially to-day, that the Government of Prussia is at present neutral on the Roman question. Paris, November 5, p. rn.—The Moot teur says : There was a Garibaldi battle fight near Tivoli, and three thousand in surgents are either killed, or wounded, or prisoners. Garibaldi, himself, and his son Menotti were captured at Tivoli, and sent to Florence as prisoners of war. Four thousand Garibaldians, while on the march to reinforce theinsureents, were stopped, disarmed and turned back. The greatest agitatiou prevails in Italy. The ultimatum of the Emperor Napo leon is to be answered by or before Thurs day. Serious Bread Riots In England. London, November 5, noon. —A serious bread riot occurred in Exeter yesterday and to-day. Every meat and bread shop in the city have been sacked. At the time of the receipt of the last dispatches incendiary fires were breaking out in different parts of the town. There is much excitement, and the local authorities have petitioned the Government to quell the disorder. Genoa, November 5, noon. —Garibaldi has arrived at Spezza and is a prisoner in the hands of tho Italians. Revenue Decisions. Washington, November 3. —The use of a still by chemists to produce alcoholic spirits makes them liable as distillers. A negotiable .promissory note, made, signed and issued abroad, and payable abroad, may be negotiated by endorsement here without stamps. A guarantee endorsed upon an instru ment, whether at the time of making or subsequently, should be stamped as an agreement. An unsigned memorandum on instru ment of partial payments and endorsed as customary, requires no .stamp. From Washington. Washington, November 3. Kellogg, the American painter, after thirty years’ absence in Europe, has opened a studio here. Tlie announcement that the retrench ment reforms already inaugurated in the War Department by General Grant will amount to five millions of dollars per an num has attracted inquiry respecting the payments at the Treasury on account of the service of the War office from tho first of January last to the 20th ultimo. They are as follows : Pay $25,555,000 ; bounty -$10,500,000; quartermaster’s department $36,024,000; subsistence department $lO,- 947,000; miscellaneous $26,781 000 ; mak ing a grand total of $109,807,000. Washington, November 4, noon. —Gen. Howard writes Forney that his - former statement regarding the decrease of the negro population was iojuulwi ojL.iiarual returns from the rural districts, without allowance for the immense numbers which flocked to the cities. The debt statement will show a little diminution of the aggregate war pay ments during the latter part of October, which was very heavy. Revenue receipts very light, and con version of seven-thirties very heavy'. The World's special says alarming ac counts reach Gen. Grant’s Headquarters from all parts of the South relative to negro troubles. Gen. Grant has ordered the Military Commanders to preserve the peace at all hazards. . A movement is on foot to secure Dr. Mudd’s pardon, on account of his services during, tho prevalence of the fever. Lt. John C. Braine, charged with piracy and murder, in capturing the steaaier Chesapeake during the war, was up in the Supreme Court at Brooklyn on Saturday, on a motion for bail. Braine claims to have held a commissionin the Confederate Navy, but has failed to produce it. The case was adjourned to Yv r ednesday next. Total registration in tho city of New York, 125,000. Last year it amounted to 122,000. Registration inßrooklyn, 54,000 —an in crease ot 6,000 over the vote of last year. Washington, November 4, p. in. —The President has again declined to interfere in certain orders of Pope and Schofield, the law giving him no power to annul or modify orders. Tho revenue receipts to-day two million and sixty-seven thousand dollars. Pope writes Gen. Grant in regard to re monstrances against his district. The ob jection they make to the apportionment of the State is a pretext merely. The real object is to obstruct and, if possible, arrest reconstruction. Gov. Parsons, of Alabama, visited the President to-day. The debt statement will show a decrease of two millions. From Richmond. Richmond, November 3. —Gen. Scho field has issued an order convening the State Convention in this city December 3d. A jury was empanelled yesterday, after great trouble, in Henrico Circuit Court for the trial of James Jeter Phillips, charged with the murder ofhis wife at Drinkliard’s farm, near this city, in February last. Richmond, November 5, p. m. —The following Ordfr has been issued : Headquarters, October 31. 1567. To His Excellency F. 11. Peirpoint, Governor of Virginia: I have received letters from several members of the late Virginia Legisla ture, inquiring whether there will be a session of that body during the coming winter, and raising the question if the House of Delegates do not hold over until their successors are duly elected and quali fied. Without deciding the latter ques-. rion, upon which there seem3 to exist a Tliversity of opinion, I have to request that you wilt inform the members of the late Legislature that the regular session of the Legislature, for the coming winter, will be dispensed with. Very respecfully vour obedient serv’t, " J. M. Schofield. Brevet Maj. Gen. U. S. A. Five companies of United States troops, in Virginia, were to-day ordered to Wash ington, for winter quarters. From Raleigh. Raleigh, November 4, p. m.—The Re publican county nominations on Saturday for the Constitutional Convention resulted as follows: Jas. H. Harris (negro), J. P. Andrews, Rev. Stokes Franklin and Ben ton S. D. Williams, whites. Governor Worth appoints the 2Sth as a day of thanksgiving. From 'Wilmington. Wilmington, November 5, p. m Registration books re-opened to-day. Re sult twenty-three whites and two blacks. The results of the Northern elections are anxiously looked for. The Republicans here are setting split. Another county ticket talked of. Ohio Penitentiary Fired. Columbus, November 3. —An incen diary fired the Ohio Penitentiary. Loss $75,000 dollars. How it Works. Charleston, November 3. —A white , man was arrested yesterday morning, near i this city, under a negro vigilance com * mittee. Those who made the arrest are ' now in custody of the military. From New Orleans. New Orleans, November 4, p. m.— There were seven interments from yellow | fever to-day and eleven yesterday. \ General "'lower, in Order 178, issued to day, revokes that part of Order 176 re , moving Harry T. Hays, Sheriff, and ap pointing Cuthbert Bullitt in his stead— ; Mr. Bullitt huviDg declined the appoint -1 meat. i SPEECH OF ROX. DANIEL W. YWRUEES. Ladies and Gentlemen -—I arise in j vour presence to-night with mingled feel ings of pride and embarrassment. I live in a distant State toward the setting sun. Mountains, rivers, and vast prolific val leys separate my home from yours. Fifty vears ago the dark line of the Western Frontier lay along the banks of the beauti ful Wabash. The light of civilization and prosperity was burning brightly here but its rays were struggling feebly there in the forests and on the wide plains of the West. Now all is changed, and I come to you from the seat of present and future em pire. Thronging millions crowd all the tributaries of the Mississippi. The soil, the mighty soil, that kindly, fertile mother of all national wealth, is the source of Western power. Agriculture, in giant di mensions, stands as the lofty pyramid of our glory. Around it in natural array, but in subordinate proportions, stand the great forms of commerce, merchandise and tho traffic of nations. It is my pride to bo identified, however humbly, with the rapidly swelling central population of the American continent, and to be a follower suid supporter of that -remendous agricul tural interest at whose command cities rise like magic on the coast and plain, railroads stretch away and pulsate like living arteries throughout the earth, and ships, freighted like the argosies of old, swarm on every ocean and fill every sea. And though this vast concourse might well embarrass one of higher and prouder ' pretensions than mine in the public arena, i yet as a representative to some extent at least of this controlling interest and of th% people who possess it, I feel a pride of country- in saluting tho citizens of this grea tcapital of commerce as fellow-citizens of the West—in hailing this queenly em porium of trade, as she sits here by tho sea surpassing in npiondor ancient Tyre or Sidon, with hot- more ’ban imperial robes aboutd.ai' and a tiarv at jjc vcdluti- v.xaiui oil ber-ptutely honfl, ns the legitimate-child," the glorious offspring of that wedded love which since Adam first ate bread in the sweat of his face, has existed between agri cultural toil and the generous bosom of the earth, our mother. A common interest thus links together the city and the farm, the merchant and the husbandman, the ship owner and tho man who, in "plain garb, holds the plow and drives the reaper. With these views, and in this spirit, I shall speak to-ri:Hit of the great over shadowing question on which the Ameri can people have been passing judgment, from the Atlantic to tlia Pacific Ocean, and on which New York is to decide next Tuesday. I shall discuss what is styled Congressional reconstruction of the South —not, however, as a Ssuthern question, but as a national question, to be decided on Northern soil, by Northern men, and in accordance with the local interests of every portion of the North. I appear not as tho attorney of a distant client, but rather to plead with the people of New York in their own behalf. And, if any Southern politician, who is engaged iu soek'ng a miserable alliance with the Radical rule and ruin of his country, should raise his hands and exclaim that I am injuring his prospects and his cause, to him 1 reply, that the Democracy of the North are battling for tho supremacy on this mighty question, without reference to the future of individuals or parties, but because of its national import as a question of free go\ ornrnent, of industrial progress, of agricultural advancement, of commer cial prosperity and of civilization itself in ten States oiAhis Christian country. Fel low-citizens,"two years and a half ago peace came to our bleeding and stricken land. Since then tho drum-beat has not called to battle, nor the en sanguined earth drank the life-blood of the flower of American youth. But ex cept that the cannon no longer opens its murderous mouth, w : blessing has this long period of peace in tho hands of the dominant party brought to our distracted country? Peao# came in with illumina tions and joy, by the light of which the very stars grew pale overhead, because with tlie advent of peace the peoplo were promised a long train of attendant bless ings, chiefaniong.it which, and conspicu ous in its sublimity, was to lie a restored Union—restored on the principles of Con stitutional liberty. Thedeatruetive heresy that States had successfully seceded and were out of the Union, was then unknown to the Northern mind. The Radical party had not yet dared to unfold this perfidious scheme of disunion. The hideous face of the Prophet of Khorassan was yet veiled to his deluded followers. The same men and the same party which now hold that ten States are out of the Union, and that they shall not return except upon tho con dition of negro supremacy, at every stage of the war, from day to day, from year to year—from Sumter to Appomattox—pro claimed to tho American people aud to the listening nations of Europe, that we were engaged in suppressing an insurrection not of States, but of peoplo—that we were enforcing laws and upholding institutions, and not violating or overturning them, and that upon the close of strife the States would stand as they did before—their atti This is a fair statement of the record made by Congress and its allies during the war. It is embraced in the justly celebrated Crittenden resolutions, which were a for mal, solemn promise and appeal to the country and the world. It was enacted into a law when Congress apportioned the Southern States dur ing the war for purposes of representation and received from them members and Senators. When for judicial purposos the entire South, at the same time was dis tricted, and whon for revenue purposes those States were taxed as in the Union under the Constitution, ilio Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln were in open accord with this policy, and -Mr. Lincoln himself acted upon it in his recognition of Louisiana and Nnri.ii Carolina, and in all the various proclamations which he addressed to the country. But why do I recall these well known and familiar facts of history to this reading and highly intelligent audience? I do so in order to properly characterize the present attitudeof a falseand treacher ous party, and by the lightof its broken promises" and repudiated pledges, deter mine its claims to the future confidence of the people, its position to-day, tried by tho standard of its own and -liberate and re iterated committals and declarations of principle, is one of wholesale perfidy and • universal betrayal of publiciy plighted faith. In the history of political parties throughout the world, we search iu vain fora parallel to the audacious and brazen wickedness with which the Radical party has cheated and defrauded the American people out of the just fruits of victory and the hopes which peace inspired. The leaders of this party will stand guilty before the tribunalof truthful histo ry of obtaining the money and the blood of the country under false pretences. By their present policy the soldier at Shiloh and tlie Wilderness gave his iifo in a cause to him then unknown. He was willing to die for the policy of a Constitutional Union of the States as then proclaimed. Could he leave his narrow and nameless bed and revisit the earth, aud the light revisit his rayless and darkened eyes, would lie behold the flag in itsancientsplendor, each star blazing in al l its original beauty and a harmonious and prosperous Union under its protecting folds? Would this blessed vision greet him as the purchase of his pre cious life ? i ask the soldier who escaped death, though perhaps with deep scars, whether he fought for the triumph of the principle of secession? The Union is not restored. States are declared to be out of the Union and in pro cess of r horrible preparation for read mission. What Southern i>ower and courage under the lead of Jefferson Davis failed to do Northern Radicalism under the load of Thaddeua Stevens has done. Leeand Ja -kson,Beauregard and Johnston, led their devoted followers through four years of perpetual carnage in the vain at tempt to wrest one single State from the embrace of tne Federal Government, or tear one single star from the bright em blazonry of our National colors. They surrendered in despair on the enriched and reddened fields of Virginia. Open warfare against the Union was at an end. The.wiley arts, however, of the crafty and ambitious Jacobin immediately followed, and we to-day confro: iissevered Union, and instead of the golden fruits of peace, we are tasting Dead Sea apples till ed with the bitter ashes of disappoint ment. For this wretched condition of public affairs, for this cruel trifling with a generous people’s blood and treasure, for this systematic and cowardly deception and gigantic falsehood, the voice of con demnation is now . Ling against the Radical party, and v. ill continue to arise and swell iu volume ami wrath as the years roll on. It comes from the lips of the liv ing and bursts forth from the tombs of the dead, until the very air is idled with righte ous maledictions against the betrayers of the people. Accusing spirits start from every battle-field tfcshriek into the shrink ing ears of Radical fanaticism, “false, fleeting and perjured.” Time, too, will but deepen this awful verdict. There is no oblivion for such atrocious perfidy. The people were promised bread and have received a stone. They were promised a I Union and have received disunion, and I they have arisen in Judgment. But let us i more closely inspect the pian which a ! Radical Concress has adopted to recon ! struct, as they allege, a dissevered Union, | and let us grasp its revolting details. Let us approach and look the present policy iof Congress fallv in the face. Never be fore in all the wide realms of history did the citizens of a Republic gaze upon such a spectacle in their own midst. In all the .tide of time no other government calling itself free ever before in a period of pro found peace subjected one-third of its ter ritory and eight millions of its inhabitants ' to the absolute control of the bayonet.— | Such appa’ling crimes agaiustcivil liberty 1 aud the hopes of mankind have hither to been solely the handiwork of the | execrated despotisms of the earth.— iln our school books we learned to mourn over the cruel fortunes of Poland, and to flame with indignation against her great barbarial executioner; the funeral and wailing shadow of murdered Hungary convulsed this continent a few short years ago, and made the name of Austria hate ful to the years of the civilized world; the perturbed spirit of Irish Liberty walks the earth at all hours, in all its distant four quarters, addingevery disciple of freedom in everv clime beneath the sun to their train of followers, and pointing to Kngland asthe odious assassin of a people entitled to be free ; but, at our own doors, i under the folds of our own dug, a vast and magnificent portion of the American Re i public lays tin* hour in a condition beside j which Poland and Ireland are 1 the ra* V.an: hollies of happy freemen —it lays there a victim to a needless, vengeful aud remorseless tyranny, beside which the worst tyrannies of the old world are liberal and respectable forms of government. Instead of ten States existing in their original beauty and strength, as our fathers made them, we have incorporated into the same work of the American Re public, five military districts entirely un known to the Constitution, and utterly inconsistent with the first and plainest principles on which our Government was rounded. Not a vestige of civil liberty remains bee oath the shadow ol this stu pendous usurpation. The great muni ments of freedom—those high and ada mantine walls of personal security for whose erection generations have toiled with bloody sweat, have all perished under tlie destructive and treasonable as saults of Congress. The right to the writ of habeas corpus —that resplendent right ot freemen by which the hand of unlawful power can alone be restrained, now lies dead, powerless and despised on the very battle plains where its enjoyment was secured by tho surrender of Cornwallis to Washington. Trial by Jury is a mockery, a delusion, and a snare at Eutaw Springs. The Covvpens and Guilford Court- House. Over the sunken graves of tho Revolution a standing army at the behest of Congress controls elections and dictates the use of the elective franchise at the mouth of the cannon and with levelled muskets. Aye, the Southern sky of the American heavens is shrouded in black. Once it was filled with stars moro radiant and lovely than Arcturus, Orion, or tho Pleiades. Our fathers of immortal memory planted them there. They burned with the light of liberty regulated by law. But they burn no more. Rayless aud quenched they wander iu a dark and trackless void. Tho baleful wrath of Radicalism, coining up thick and poisonous as the “diinest smokeof hell,” has extinguished one-third of tho constellation of American glory. Who will question the fidelity of this pic ture ? Who so bold as to deny that Con gress has overturned every institution of free government in those regions now held by military power ? And who dares to say that lie finds a warrant for this action in the Constitution which an oath requires him to support ? But the stale and mis erable answer to this terrible accusation is that the people of the South have been in rebellion and deserve no better at the hands of victorious power. Does this fact, even if it were so, justify revolution, usurpa tion, broken oaths an J deliberate treason on.the part of Congress ? Admit that the South attempted to revolutionize the Gov ernment and destroy its institutions, does that mitigate the crime of the North in completing what the South labored for in vain ? No ! Nor can this destructive and despotic policy be pursued with impunity to the Norlh itself. While it is only your neighbor who is prostrate by the wayside, bruised and bleeding, tho priest and the levite of Radical vengeance will pass on heedless of his groans. Wiiiie the South alone suffers iu chains, the North may still sleep softly on the bed of its luxurious wealth. But tii,'day is close at hand when the blighting influences of a standingarmy and military power in one section of tho country will spread and be felt over all. Indeed, the day is already now upon us. The public mind of the North is almost fatally accustomed to acts of Fede ral usurpation. We have stood by with folded arms iu a species of astonishod ap athy, while pillar after pillar of the temple of our institutions has been torn away, until I fear, at times, that if the sacred ed ifice itself should fall, we would be content toemerge from the ruins with no present intention of rebuilding its glorious pro portions. A wandering Committeeof Con gress is now travelling at the public ex pense over the face of the country, com missioned to inquire whether ' certain States, some of whom were born with the Revolution, have republican forms of government. The public mind scarcely heeds such a monstrous proceeding. This committee is as lawless in its formation, and with no more legal power to enterupon such a mission than so many Italian Ban ditti, and v. all men know; ‘yet they are at their work at the home and grave of Hen ry Clay and by tbe tomb of Pinckney, preparing to destroy other and more States and subject them to the increasing and insatiate demands of military force. Where is this spreading plague to stop? Where is your quarantine against this scourge? What castle is secure from as sault? Will California next be stormed? Is Pennsylvania secure? More than a year ago Mr. Stevens declared that her form of government was not republican Tlie recent election there doubtless deep ens this, conviction. What is to protect even the Empire State if it is conceded that Congress may inquire into your State gov ernment and enforce its conclusions by tho use of a standing army? Does the statesman see no danger in ail this? Does tho student of history see none ? The tes timony of tlie ages is all in vain if a mili tary government can exist in harmony with free institutions in the bosom of "a republic. Tho voices of warning which etnanato to us from the sepul- uhxuii of vlbttttl c-opiiiliaß in far OiaUint }>'3-■ rioda of space and time, all foretell with fatal prophecy the downfall of American liberiy everywhere, North as well as South, if the principle of the present Congressional policy is uphold and fostered by the American people. This policy gives power, unlimited, absolute power overall sections. Who can thus be trusted? The uniform, unbroken history of the human raco makes answer: “Not the lustful, aspiring heart of man; none but the merciful Jehovah.” And I pray Him to-night to avert the dark calamities now impending over us; and still more, if it be His will that they shall burst upon us, I pray Him to reuew within us the hearts of our ancestors when in the cause of free government they followed Wash ington at Long Island, Trenton, Mon mouth and Yorktown. But there is an other frightful aspect of this Congressional policy yet to consider. I approach it as the great question of the present age. I have shown you the abandonment by the Radical party of all its declared policy dur ing the war. I have shown you the adop tion of a present policy which carries back the government of ten States six hundred years, to a period prior to Magna Charta or any known principle of free government —thus destroying the American Republic in immense portions of its domain and deeply endangering its existence every where. These propositions will not be dis puted by any candid mind, elevated in its view of affairs above the narrow and mo mentary purposes of the hour. I now seek to discuss the motive which has in spired the conduct of the party in power since the coming of peace, and caused it to commit deeds of lawless despotism and open shame. By the act of reconstruction the entire black population of the South has been enfranchised and invested with the power of political control. Nearly the entire white population of the South has been disfranchised and deprived of any voice in controlling the present or shaping the future. Thus about six hundred thousand negro votes are abided to the strength of 'the Radical party, and nearly a million of white votes are stricken out of existence. This is the initial part of the Radical recon struction, and it was doubtless chiefly designed in the beginning as a gigantic partisan scheme to ensure future party triumphs; but it has rapidly arisen far beyond such ordinary dimensions and now confronts us as a question of national wealth, civilization and social philosophy. The recent registration and elections in the South established in the face of the world tire appalling fact that from the waters of the Chesapeake to the mouth of the Brazos, from the tide-waters of Virginia to the far distant plains of Texas, the negro holds dominion and is upheld in that dominion by the Federal army. Where the white race outnumbered tile black in the regis tration, as in Virginia and Georgia, a fraudulent apportionment of the basis of representative changes the majority, and tho barbarian race in ail its repulsive animalforce rises predominant and salutes the North as the undisputed governing ele ment of the rich and inviting regions of all the South, The ancient commonwealth, the honor of the peerless Washington, of the philosophic Jefferson, of Madison, Marshal and Patrick Henry, is now given overt© the African, and her future fortunes are wholly in his hands. The Carolinas bow to the same yoke, and beautiful Ala bama and Louisiana with New Orleans, the natural commercial capital of the valley of the Mississippi, and all the rest are to ! have their destinies shaped hereafter by the brain and enterprise of the negro. By his vote they will be governed, and the nmediate results are plainly visible to even the inost casual observer. The in stinctive separation which God has im planted in diff races for their purity and preservati' is already at work. The races are arrayed against each other throughout the earth. Each one as is natural, votes for its own color; and the negroes are forming .Vigilance Committees to enforce obedience to their opinions and submission to their views. As inevita bly as that harvest follows seed time, so inevitably will the negroes fill the offices in these unhappy States. They are now engaged in framing their new Constitu tions, under which we are to behold the wretched farce of their admission into the Union. State elections will soon follow, and negro Governors will deliver mes sages to negro Legislatures, and together they will assert supreme control over in i terests more vast than those of many of | the leading nations of the world. Recent j plantation slaves will take their seats as j members of Congress, and in committee : and on the floor, give deciding votes on the vital questions of finance, commerce and national progress. Mr. Sumner, a few months ago in open Senate, said he hoped soon to welcome negro Senators as his associates in legislating for the coun try. Well might he anticipate such an event. No power can prevent it under the present organization of the South. Soon the negro will fill the senatorial seats once adorned by Webster and Silas Wright, by Clay and Woodbury. There Is no escape from this loathsome conclu sion to the scheme of reconstruction. These are ite certain and speedy results. Are the people of New York ready for | them ? The biack vote of the South will ! elect twenty Senators. An equal or supe | riorvote in the State of New York elected two. Are vonr interests safe under such legislative influences ? It will send more | than fifty members to the lower House. You send thirty-three. Thus the South ern negro wili possess more than twice j the power which vou yourselves possess ] over your own public affairs. Shall fie. ; also dictate the election of President ? He j holds nearly a hundred electoral votes. This is a fearful balance of power and ! subjects theloftiest positions of tho Govern ment to the domination of the negro. It is the design of the Radical leaders to wield it in the coming contest. Who can look upon this portentous issue without the saddest forebodings ? Are these vast powers safe in the hands of this widely alien aud uncivilized race ? I speak not witn the prejudice of caste. All the works of Deity hud sympathy with me. I would lighten the burden of the oppressed, and help forward the lowly in the race of iite.But does the well-known history of the African race warrant the statesman, the Christian, the philanthropist, in yielding ts him the possession and guardianship of the politi cal, moral, social aud material prosperity, and progress of great aud powerful States? We hear ot" human equality. The ina lienable rights equally belong to all. The right to secure the enjoyment or life, liberty, aud property I would guaranteeto all races. But, with the open-spread map of tlie world before us, who wishes the dusky empire of the negro to rise and overshadow the fairest portions of the Republic? Where are tho testimonials of his capacity for government with which he has ornamented annals of the human race? Where is tho land he has developed and made to bloom by his intelligent enter prise? Where is the nation he has crowned with glory ? Where are the cities he has built ? 'Where is the com merce he has established ? Where are his inventions in behulfof industrial advance ments? Where are his plows, his reapers his steamboats, his railroads and his talk ing cables around the earth? He chal lenges tho supremacy of tho white race throughout one-thirtf of tho boundaries of the Republic, aud tlie Congress of tlie United States awards it to him. Lot the negro islands of tho West Indies proclaim the fate of the South. Withered, blighted and blasted, its resources will speedily Perish. The white man will be driven North, or remain to grapple in the most appalling and sanguinary war of races the world ever saw. The negro, free to follow his native impulses, will soon appear tho primitive barbarian, as we find him wherever the sustaining and civilizing in fluences of the white man has been with- drawn, or have never reached him. Am I told that he lias not had an equal chance with the other races in tho grand career of history, and hence the utter blank where his achievements should have been re corded? He has had all the earth before him where to choose from tiie be ginning. No one has had more.— All fields of action, of wealth and renown have been alike open to him. The same teeming fields which ex cited the toil of other races likewise in vited him to amass agricultural storesand contribute to the granaries of tho world. The rivers and the oceans, the common highways of the earth, have for all the ages since creation invited his ships of commerce, and invited them in vain. Tho same continents which other races now possess were ©pen for him to discover, con quer peoplo and adorn with Christian civilization. But no step forward has he taken, no history has he written. There lies Africa to-day, as dark, forbidding and dense in its barbarism as it was in the twi light inoruing of the world. Even the combined benevolent efforts of ail the civ ilized nations have failed to inspire her with life or motion. Nor does the e cperi men tof Siberia relieve the sombre night which there prevails. A half of a century of attempted self-government, upheld by all the Christian powers of the earth, has borne not a single fruit or developed a single element of national greatness. Is the reason of all this a mystery in the philosophy of God’s creation ? Is the in equality of races anew wonder of thonirte teenth century ? No more than that He who made the sun in its majestic strength and splendor made also tho lesser lfimts which move in their subordinate spheres through tho realms of space. No more than that He who made the lion, made also the creeping mole. No more than that He who made the eagle to scale the blue em pyrean, also made the moping owl to in habit tho darkened grove. Wliilo the •. axon, the ('oltic. the Teutonic races have bounded forward on nil the great avenues of human progress, the African, the Ma lay, the Mongolian and ail the various tribes and kindreds which crowd the suf focated plainsof thealmost illimitable East have slept through thousands of years in a state of torpid lethargy. To us has I sen given dominion ami power because to our race was given the ten talents. Wo have founded empires and engrafted on them tne scienceoffree government. We wrought out Magna Charta, achieved the writ of Habeas Corpus, and accomplished the revolution of 1776. We have carried the cross into the wilderness, the desert, and the far off islands of tbe sea. Wo have poured the sunlightof civiliza tion into tho dark parts of the earth, and caused art, literature and science to flourish like the graces in immortal beauty. These are some oftho achievements of that race which Congross says shall give way to the rule and supremacy of the lowest link in the chain of human being. Does hate in spire this policy as a punishment to the people of. the.iSowtU'/ Smntta, im foiiow citizens, and answer me ? Whoso country is this? Who fought to preserve the Southern States to the Union? Virginia is your State and mine. The Carolinas are ours, and all tho rest. Our country is not divided by sections. It is all ours to pro tect and save from ruin. Can wo permit our most fertile and productive patrimony to be dragged to perdition and the hopeless depths of a horrid barbarim? This is the question for the North to consider. Will wo suffer our country to bo changed into the likeness of Daliomy? Shall this black and stagnant border encircle all our south ern boundaries, whereon shall lie written for every white man and woman “whoever enters this doleful realm leaves hope be hind.” Shall Virginia, our close neighbor, become a Saint Domingo, Georgia a Ja maica, and Louisiana a llayti? This is no mere Southern question. It is local to your interests as well, and is supremely national in all its hearings, I ask the peo ple of Now York to-nighrwhat they will do with these ten States that belong equal ly to you as well as to all other American citizens? Shall their inexhaustible pro ductiveness go to decay"? I might here deal in statistics of their agricultural • wealth before the war. I might show the mighty revenues which, in prosperity, they can contribute to the national cof fers. Can commerce give up the produce of Southern soil? Can our.linuucial con dition afford to let richer mines than those of gold and precious stones lie barren and idle? When the Radical insanity of the hour makes the negro the ruler of the South it strikes a vital blow at trade and commerce, and poisons forever one of the sweetest and most copious fountains of national wealth, liven now what value attaches there to property, and who will send means there for investment to be at the mercy of the African law-maker? The events of the last few weeks have placed a gulf between Northern capital and the inviting and pro lific fields of the South. We stand aghast and recoil with horror from the fearful ap parition which has suddenly arisen in that afflicted region, it seems no longer our country, but given over to the orgies of the savage and the dominion of animal force and brutal lust. Shall we reclaim it?— Shall this priceless heritage remain to us and our children according to the devise of our fathers? Shall it be open to the emigration and enterprise of your posteri ty there to live under the blessings of free government and civilization? These are the great and momentous questions of the day, and they now demand your answer Who can doubt the popular verdict on such an issue? Better for that section of our once happy country that fire trom Heaven had euguipbed it with the cities of the plain than the late with which political madness, ambition and vengeance has overwhelmed it. Reach forth your hands to the rescue next Tues day. Let your voice arise, mingling with the voioe,s of Connecticut, Maine, Cali fornia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, until all the borders of the Republic are filled with tho sound of its deliverance. Ladies and gentlemen, there are other themes which invite discussion, but there are many distinguished gentlemen here to discuss them. I have dwelt upon but one, and that I conceive to be of supreme im portance. The immediate picture to mv eye is enveloped in darkness and uncer tainty. The approaching Congress will n ark an eventful era in American history. One department alone of the Government seeks to withstand the Radical carnival of J destruction. The castie of the .Executive, : though closely besieged, has not yet been | stormed and sacked. The President, in ! the midst of perils and surrounded by ; treachery and deception, has been true to j principle; and upon thelofty ability, purity, I and soundness of his State papers, he will i enter the portals of history as the peer o; die 1 wisest arid truest who ever held his high place before him. If forthis unyielding uc \ votion to the Constitution, this faithful por . formance of duty, Andrew Johnson is to [ be assailed by an infamous impeachment, may the people on whom be has ever relied 1 not desert him in that trying hour. If the moneyed interest of the country, the bond -1 holder and the banker, can risk the con ' vulsions which will follow the displace i inent of the Executive and the inaugura tion of Mr. Wade, so also can the laboring men. This issue is one of the immediate incidents of the Congressional policy of reconstruction and as such let the people pass in condemnation upon it. Citizens of ’ New' York, (in all your dealings with the i results of the dreadful civil war which i trampled w ith the fiery hoof of destruction I the naked aud bleading breast of the South . remember that you are prosperous, happy | and great; and that nothingwill so become ! such a people as the bright jewel of mag ; nanimity. To power belongs the sweet prerogative of mercy. The North is j omnipotent, and in such an hour it is only I mean souls that thirst for vengeance. Take | the South by the hand in her fallen estate, j lift her up and sustain her. Say to her; j “It is true we have warred, but we are | kindred, born of the same mother and we ! will be friends.” Let the Lethean waters i of oblivion wash away all bitter memories. ! The brightest names in history that shine j forever like stars in the clear firmament, j ; are of those w’ho in the hour of triumph ; 1 forgave their prostrate foes. qfflP 1 ?,., ! generous, Pericles was merciful, as I ! ington was magnanimous, and the lustre . 1 fame of j !ri e bum a o r f ,k the a nd&J A N a "are“ne. 1S He ex- | | an inhabitant of the Christ.an heaven. I invoke its presence in all the thoughts purposes, and actions of the estranged j and alienated American people. It pleads NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 45. for a union of love and not of bate and force. It brings with it an inspiration from the regions of perpetual peace. Those who follow its counsels will be known in both worlds as human bon fac tors. The Radical leader of the day has no such counsellor, and draws no suca inspiration. Tiberius and Caligula, Hy der, Ali and Alario, Robespierre and Murat are tlie examples of his conduct: aud hate and revenge, and all tho ruthless furies conspire below to inspire his mo tives. All the mofal influence of the uni verse are at a war with him. Tho virtu ous living aud the sainted dead cry out against his spirit of vengeance. Those wiio fell on the battle-fields from both sections, who now sleep softly side by side in distant graves, appeal from their’ mute and narrows beds to every hearthstone in the laud in favor of mercy, charity and love. Their heroic spirits? that have met on the perpetual plains of immortality, where no strife ever comes, are whisper ing through all tho air, over the moun tains and tho valleys, and up and down the busy rivers and along the shores of the two oceans, saying to the angry and restless hearts of tlieir living countrymen, “Peace, be stUl.” Mr. Voorhees" speech was interrupted and followed .by applause. From George Wilkes' Correspondence Spirit o /the Times The Loose Women at Baden-Bailcn, and Their Status There. The band, whose swell has reached us in the clouds intoxicated the ear with tlie most ravishing execution; while sitting around it in dreamy iangour or promena ding up and down through the sparkling avenues, was an assemblage ot some fifteen hundred to two thousand persons; which comprised, perhaps, a greater number of splendidly dressed women than could bo collected together at any other summer resort in Europe. I say women—for the most brilliant of those wiio sparkled in the throng were not ladies of society, but were of that wondrous class known as the demi monde, whose position may he familiarly conveyed to an American appreciation as that ot society “on the half shell.” These dazzling creatures are the pendants which hang from the necks of an idle, pampered and enormously wealthy aristocracy, who, being indifferent to public opinion, because forgiven for anything they do, actually succeeded in imparting to these women it portion of the toleration and prestige which attaches to themselves. . The demimonde represent, not the affec tions of these men, but only their prodi gality ; aud the result is an exhibition on their part of costliness of toilette which the wealthiest ladies of society sigh in vain to follow. Many a dress trails over these grayel paths which could not have cost less than twenty thousand francs, and a robe which hursts in the morning with all the glory of a fresh petunia, is often forever cast aside at night because touch ed, perhaps, by a passing shower, or blemished by a goblet of champagne ; or, if tlie beauty who has worn it does not fancy the brilliant sheen after a single wearing, it meets with precisely the same fate. The men wiio keep this thing up do not appear to be in tho least appalled by the expense. They seem rather to con sider it to be a necessary concomitant to their position in the.world of fashion. As you look on, one will be pointed out to you as the associate of the Duke of II— — J another as tho attache of the Prince M— ; another as the lady of Mustapha, more familiarly here as the Pasha, because the brother of the Viceroy of Egypt. There are also many ol these glittering witches who are not attached to any one, but who, flourishing on the results of pre vious campaigns, are now poising them selves upon their wings for anew strike. These have conic from Paris, Munich, Berlin, or Vienna, or some other great capital of the Continent, to enjoy the fes tivities of the race-week, and to indulge in tho public gaming which is now only to be enjoyed at the German wells. Baden of late years has become their favorite re sort. At present it is high carnival with them, and the very air itself seems to have been turned loose with butterflies. Old habitues of the place tell me there lias never been a season so brilliant in this way as the present; and they add that, as its gayety has of late been constantly increas ing. the probability is that the fashion and revelry of this year will be increased by tbe next. It seems to me, however, that Baden might ho well content by stop ping where it is, for verily it outruns al ready all that was dreamed of by John Bunyan in Vanity Fair. Among the no table:!, at' this ctttsy-hereyund Wlffi TG&y Be mentioned as having required a quasi historic position in the immortal annals of the age, are famous Cora Pearl. Do Sieges, Soubise, Mrs. Colonel Wyndham, &c., each of them models of audacity and ele gance, and all of whom are so far from shirking observation in consequence of their equivocal position, that they seem to be proud of the distinction it confers. In deed, their position is not at all equivocal, for they are openly recognized and often openly walked with by their noble enter tainers; while the studious attention which reputable ladies devote to tlie observation of tlieir capricious toilettes has, as they know, installed them as the arbiters of fashion. It is difficult for those who have not seen these anomalous creatures to im agine this to be the case, nevertheless it is the case, and hence they feel that in the present artificial condition of society, they have a positive authority and useful mis sion of their own. , I have heard it stated that even the Empress Eugenie is often obliged to follow their lead in the way of exquisite attire, aud, having had my wonder so extremely taxed by looking on, I can very readily believe it. It may be thought tiiat I dwell too largely upon a subject, which is solemn ly ignored by American society, but life at Baden cannot be alluded to without placing the demi. monde in the foreground ; and so long as American ladies aud gentlemen in Europe make Baden their favorite resort after leaving Paris, all of its features are worthy of American report. Indeed, the American ladies here seem to devote more of their attention to the demimonde than to anything else, and so, • also, do the travelling English and the French. Os course ladies do not attempt to vie with them in dress, hut thoy devotedly look on, and learn, with an unfailing instinct, everything about them. It was from American ladies I ascertained the value of | “those creatures’ ” dresses, and acquired I the theory by which they have dragooned \ the world of fashion. Phillips’ Provision Exchange. Cincinnati, November Ist, 1867. Editors Chronicle cb Sentinel: 'I he inactivity which characterized the trade at the date of my last circular con tinues, and the trade is in a lifeless condi tion. Very few orders wore received, and they were chiefly for small amounts; and speculative movements were kept in check by tiie stringency of the money market, and the unsettled feeling regard ing the future. The low stage of water in the river, and tho high rate of freight by rail, cuts us oft'from a large portion of our Southern trade; but advices from above to-day report a rise in the upper rivers,and this will be sufficient to lead to at least a partial resumption of navigation at this point. Hogs.— The receipts were small— r>,%44 for the week—barely sufficient to meet the wants of the butchers, though a few con tract hogs were received. There were two favorable days for killing, and the slaugh terers i m proved this advantageandcleared their pens. The weather has since moder ated, and is now too warm to kill with safety. $5 to §6 50, gross, are the asking prices. Very few contracts have been made, buyers and sellers being too far apart in their views. Green Meats are lower and but little disposition to buy, as there is too much r:.-.k attending the curing at the present temperature. Kales v,ere made Wednes day and Thursday at 7, 10, Ik and 12fo for shoulders, sides aud hams, and to-day are i freely offered at these prices without buyers. Mess Pork declined to §l9 50 for city packed, but this attracted the attention of buyers, and all to be had at this rate was taken ; holders to-day generally’ asking 820, with free buyers at the close at §lO 70. The stock in New Yorkjo-day was 47,450 barrels against 67,797 barrels October Ist. Showing a reduction of 5,317 barrels since October Ist; while the present price is re garded low, but little disposition is mani fested to buy for future delivery. Lard declined to 12ic for city kettled, but holders now ask iemore. Nothingjdo ing in new Lard. Keg neglected at tierce ! pr uni.K Meats— The stock of sides is ex hausted." The few shoulders in market can be bought at t2o, but there seems to be no disposition to bay. Bacon—The stock is light but the desire on the part of packers to close out their remnants has led to concessions and prices were irregular. Shoulders sold as low as 13c for small lots, buthoidorsof moderate ly round lots refuse to sell at present, be lieving that all the Bacon hero will be wanted before new can be made. Clear rib are held at 161, and clear at 17c; Summer cured sugar cured hams 22c canvased and packed* Kxports 2,001 barrels and 525 kegs Lard, 45S hhds, 184 tierces and 95boxes Bulk and Bacon, 738 barrels Pork aud 107,010 lbs loose meat. Imports 79 barrels and 5 kegs Lard, and 6 hhds Bulk and Bacon. Freights eastward unchanged ; to New Orleans, Pork §2 30 per barrel, and 75 per pound freights via rail and rive:. Very respectfully, Geo. W. Phileips, Jr., Provision and Produce Broker. The business doing in Philadelphia is very limited. ' Election Returns, The Election in Massachusetts. Boston, November 5, and in — Keturns indicate tho certain election of Bullock anu State Republican ticket by a hand some majority. LATER. Adams carries Boston by one thousand four hundred and eighty-fire majority. The same gain throughout the State, however, would not elect Adams, but would show a Republican loss of twenty thousand. Washington, November 5, p. m.—Tho Boston Post telegraphs to its correspond ence here as follows ; “Returns come in slowly. Bullock’s majority will be small. Boston gives Adams fifteen hundred ma jority on alargo vote. The Legislature will be liberal. Washington, November 5, p. m. —A re liable Boston dispatch says that the Re publicans acknowledge a loss in Massa chusetts of 43,000. They claim the State by 17,500 majority. Sixth ward gain 157; ninth ward gain 509 ; sixteenth ward gain 605. The Election in New York. New York, November 5, p. in.—A printer named Friel was shot in an election altercation. The election in tho city is progressing quietly. The vote is unprecedentedly heavy. The Democrats are confident of having sixty thousand majority. LATER. In the First Ward tho Democratic loss is 52; in the Fourteenth Ward there is a gain of 45 ; in the Second Ward there is a Democratic gain of 42; in the Fifteenth Ward a gain of 355. New York, November 5, p. m.—Tenth Ward gain eight hundred and seventy-six; Seventh Ward eight hundred and thirty five; Twenty-second Ward gain six hun dred and fifty-three; Nineteenth Ward gain twelve hundred and sixty-three. Washington, November 5, p. m. —We have comprehensive returns from New York which indicate 30,000 Democratic majority. Syracuse Democratic gain 624. Albany Democratic gain 1.000. Troy Democratic gain 1,800. The Tribune just telegraphs giving up the State to the Demo crats by a decided majority. Albany gives a Democratic majority of 1,600, electing tho county ticket for State Senator and three out of four Assemblymen in Cam den county. New York, November 5, n, m.— Twenty-first Ward gain 1,224; Seventeenth Ward gain 1,190 ; Eighteenth Ward gain 1,328; Twelfth Ward rain 205; Third Ward gain 60. Partial Senatorial returns show the election of Tweed, Norton, Creamer, Bradley, and Gerret, all Demo crats; State Democratic probably by a large majority. Washington, November 5, p. m.— The President has dispatches from Court ney, United States District Attorney, giving majority in NewYorkand Brooklyn 70,000; Fourth Ward loss 125; Fifth Ward gain 376; Eighth Ward gain 609; Thirteenth Ward gain 426. New Jersey Legislature undoubtedly Democratic. New York City complete gives 59,815 Democratic majority; Demo cratic gain of over 12,000. Returns from the interior are meagre, though show that the Republican vote is not sufficient to overcome this tremendous majority in the city. Returns from Kings and River counties show no exception to the excep tion to the general rule of heavy Demo cratic gains. Everywhere the State has gone Democratic by at least 20,000. Washington, Novembers, p. m.—Dis patches from Police headquarters, New York, makes the Democratic majority in the city 61,450. Returns trom \Yiseonsin and Minnesota are meagre. It is thought Minnesota has gone Democratic and Wisconsin very close. The Election in Kansas. Washington, November 5, p. m.— The Republicans will carry the Legisla ture by a decreased majority. Tho negro suffrage amendment runs behind the ticket, but will probably be carried. Female suffrage will be lost by several v thousand. The Election in Wiscoisin. Washington, November 5, p. m.— The Election In Maryland. Washington, November 5, p. m.— The whole Democratic ticket will be elected. The Election in New Jersey. Washington, November 5, p. m.— Trenton, Elizabeth City and New Bruns wick have gone Democratic. Returns so far indicate that the Democrats have carried the Legislature. The vote is very large. LATER. New Jersey elects the whole Democratic ticket by five hundred majority. The Case of the Steamer Georgia. Toronto, November 5, p. m.—The case of the steam propeller Georgia was de cided in favor of the United States. From Washington. r Washington, November 5, noon.— The Times' special says it is false about astounding accounts reaching Gen. Grant, and his sending down orders to preserve the peace at all hazards. The Herald's special says Mr. Davis’ trial will be postponed till May, at the request of the prosecution. General Sherman has issued a genera! order to his troops, announcing treaties of peace with certain Indians, and directing cessation of hostilities against them. The President is considering the pardon of James A. Seddon. It is endorsed by •Greeley, Burnside and others. A battalion of Papal Zouazes is to bo recruited in Canada. Washington, November 5, p. m’.—The military authorities, to-day, in accordance with directions from the President, were engaged in preliminaries for disbanding the negro military companies in the Dis trict. One company paraded yesterday all day fully armed. There seems no doubt that the com manders of the military districts will be instructed by General Grets to suppress armed organizations in districts, both black and 'white. The Cabinet continued in session until half-past two. Internal Revenue receipts four hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Alabama Radical Negro Convention. Montgomery, November 5, noon.— The Reconstruction Convention was or ganized to-day. E. W. Peck, an Alabama Union man, was elected President, and Captain Barber, of the Freedmcn’s Bureau, Secretary; Henry Patrick, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Assistant; Moses Avery, of Mobile (negro), Second Assist ant ; If. 11. Craig, of Montgomery, (negro barkeeper). Doorkeeper, beating a white man from North Alabama; John i). Terrill (white), Sergeant at-Arms. An unusual number of minor officials were elected (among them a fireman) to the Convention. Nothing special done .Sixteen negro delegates were in the Con vention, and thirty Northern men and Bureau omcials. There was only one Conservative. The balance are moderate men. Ihe Convention closed with a heated discussion about inviting the city clergy to s«ts. On motion of Speed of I erry, to officiate as Chaplain, Norris of Maine, rose, saying lie wanted no disloyal preachers there. The debate was then stifled. From Charleston. i Charleston, November 5, m __ j odiced registration returns from tfaree ! fourths of the Dis tricts in the State shows i the blacks, _so far, have a majority of j 33,834. Only nine out of thirty-one dia j tricts have white majorities. A large amount of obligations, exceeding half a million in the aggregate, due chiefly ! to Northern creditors, matured at the city j hanks yesterday and were promptly paid. | TiieNext Presidency—Repudiation. : —Upon the important question of the | national debt, Seymour and Pendleton j stand as widely separated as Greeley and Ben. Butler. Seymour, like Greeley, i holds to the redemption of the national debt in coin; Pendleton, like Butler, goes I ibr paying off the bondholders in green j backs. Seymour represents the Belmonts i and other Democratic bondholders of the | East; Pendleton represents the Democratic i masses, if not the masses of both parties, in the West. “Down with the system which gives gold to the bondholder and paper to the workingman,” is_a war cry which will probably be as effective, if tried, as was the cry in 1840 against Martin Van Buren’s Sub-Treasury system, of “ Down with this system which gives gold to the officeholders and bank rags to the people. [Ni Y. Herald , Nov. 2. The Ohio Cashmere Company, with headquarters in Vinton county, has pur chased within the last yearsloo,ooo worth of cashmere goats. The wool i ; worth $ y per pound, •
