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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
d'hvcntclc & Sentinel.
HK.MtV MOOIUJ,
A. It. WHIGIIT.
!* ATRII K. \UI>II, tosoriate Editor.
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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, •