Georgia Historic Newspapers

    OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
Uiuouiclc & irntiucl.
111: IN 11 V M ( »<»RE,
A. 11. WItTGIIT.
PATRICK W »I.sll, Associate Editor.
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New Shop and New Toots.— Messrs.
Jluse & Neal are prepared to AH all orders
for every kind of plantation and mining
machinery, such as steam engine.?, saw,
grist and sugar mills, agricultural imple
ments, iron and wood-working machinery,
etc., at the Georgia Foundry and Machine
Works. Attention is directed to their ad
vertisement. We recommend thorn to all
in i red of any machinery in their line.
Description- of Tortola. —Tortola,
which a dispatch by the Cuba cable an
nounces has been sub,uerged, with a lo>s
of ten thousand persons, says the New
York World , is one of the Virgin Islands,
West Indies, belonging to Great "Britain,
situated between Virgin Gorda and St.
John’s. The length of the island is 12
miles, and its breadth 4 miles. It consists
mostly of a range of hills rising to 1,600
feet in elevation, and in its north part
.-jiUnen The island
is very unhealthy to Europeans. Tortola
has its Governor, Council arid l. dative
Assembly. It became a British posses, ion
in 1666.
Always true to Principle.— When
the Radical party met in National Conven
tion in Chicago, in 1860, and nominated
Abraham Lincoln for President, it passed
this resolution .
it esolyed, That the rn&intenanceinefoftte
of the rights of the -States, and especially
the rights of each State to order and con
trol its own domestic institutions according
to its own judgment exclusively, is essen
tial to that balance of power on which the
perfection and endurance of our political
in i'll depends.
A majority of the people thought they
wer- honest in this declaration, gave that
party limit confidence— Lincoln was
elected. In the passage of the so-called
Reconstruction Act, the Radical Congress
repudiate i the faun avowed in this resolu
tion, and now the people have repudiated
the Radical party. The masses act Ip n
cstly, and are always true to principle, if
they arc fairly presented to the under
standing. —Free Frcjts.
It is announced in a dispatch from
AVa him ton to the Nashville Press &
Tim*a, U he practice which has pre
vailed with certain parties, of using for
private purposes, envelopes stamped with
ire signature of Government officials is >
bo terminated by the application of legal
penalties against offenders accordingly.’
i’ii olumbus Enquirer observes: ‘We
are glad to hear this, for it is our opinion
hat great fr aud has been practiced on the !
Government in this mutter. Wo have re
ceived several communications, sent us
iroui places in Georgia by Radical emis
saries, enclosed in envelopes containing the
/ o' simile signatures of Members of Con
gress. One or two of them are still in our
possession. It certainly must be a fraud
on the Government for Members of Con
gress to give numbers of such envelopes to
private individuals, thus extending the
franking privilege indefinitely.”
Ohio to re Brought Under the Con
trol, or Cor cress.- An evening AYash
irrgtou paper states that Representative
Ashley has prepared, and will offer on the
fir st day of the session of Congress, a bill
designed to prevent the Ohio Legislature
from redistricting the State. It provides
that a State shall only be redistrictod every
ten years after the taking "of the census.
Tiro object of this bill is to prevent the
Democrats of that State front so changing
the Congressional districts as to elect next
year two-thirds of the Congressmen.
The United States Senate.— The
term of twenty-ono United States Sena
tors will expire on the 4th of March, 1869,
of whom fourteen are Re publicans and
seven Democratic ; but it is scarcely pos
sible for the Democrats to break tue two
thirds powe. of the Republicans in that
body during the existence of the 41st Con
gress. They have, however, gained one
in Ohio and another in California, but
have lost one in Tennessee, Governor
Br ow alow having been elected over Mr.
Patterson. The Ohio and California Sena
tors have not yet been chosen.
Tho Atlanta Intelligencer understands
that preparations are making in tlrat, city
to entertain the colored delegates during
the session of tho Convention. Does our
rebellious brother editor mean to say that
sejKintte houses will be provided Sward
ing the white and black Radicals? IV
they, while engaged in the work of framing
a constitution that is to abolish all distinc
tions of race or color, mean to keep up
those distinctions iir their intercourse with
one another ?—Columbus Enquirer.
W by, yes, by all means. Our Columbus
brother does not suppose that the scala
wags and nasal twangs are going to dine
at the same table and sleep in the same
bod with the colored delegates. Although
the white Radicals admit the black Radi
cals to bo men and brothers, they are not
yet prepared to nestle with them under the
same blanket.
A Point of the President’s Mes
sa r..—lt is understood the President will
devote a e msiderable portiou of his mes
sage to the questions of tiuairee and the
collection of the revenue. He has in his
possession evidence to show that upward
of one hundred millions ot revenue from
whiskey alone have been lost to the
Government during the last year by the
inefficiency and corruption of officials in
the collect ion of the revenue, and a very
large amount has been lost on tobacco from
the same cause. It is the determination
of the President to correct these abuses,
and prevent these frauds and to do so, the
present system ot collection will have to be
changed, a- will, also, many of the offi ;s
charged with this duty.
Gi" vAii Grant. —The New York
>< '■ ‘E-: r “positive affirmativeknow
ledge of General Grant’s views on the
poht'.eal condition ot’ the country,” saying:
"in the absence of such knowledge of
;ke opinions of the General, Lieuten
ant General Sherman stands forward as
the most distinguished soldier whose sen
timents are known, and known to be in
harmony with the present ideas of the
people. It is time, therefore, that General
Grant eawe out. Let him develop his
lines, that people may know where he is.’
“Will Know the Reason Why?”—
The Philadelphia -L/e, at the conclusion
of an article condemning the policy of the
Radical leaders who are disposed to ignore
the people's election in Pennsylvania, and
with the satanic Stevens of old, to proclaim
to the faithful —“treat the election as if it
had not been held,” says truly, “that fifty
thousand Democrats in Philadelphia icill
know the reason why the duly elected
officers shall not take their seats in the
offices to which the people have elected
them. “Yes, says the Pittsburg Post, and
three hundred thousand men in Pennsyl
vania will want to know the “reason why,”
and a very good reason it will have to be
that keeps them out. For it is not merely
Democrats; we do cot believe that fifty
thou -andmen, out of -is hundred thousand
voters can be found to favor this out
rageous sys- cm » f rej udiating elections
just whenever they hr ppen to go against a
party in power. We say that the great
body of the people “will know the reason
why.” The very thought of denying the
fair results of elections show the demoraliz
ing influence of Congressional example.’’
The Radical Programme.
Old Thad. is marching on, marching cn
to—we don’t much care where. One day
the telegraph informs us that he is dvinc
the next he is cutting out work for the
Radical ramp. He appears to be oblivious
to the voice of the Northern people as ex
pressed in the recent elections, and ignores
the stubborn fact that the seal of condem
nation has been stamped upon the scheme’
of Radical-negro supremacy. The North
ern states have repudiated the mischiev-i
ous doctrines of the Radical party and de
nounced the Congressional plan of Recon
struction. But Mr. Stevens seems not de
ferred by the voice-of the people, and urges
the speedy reconstruction of the Southern
States upon the negro supremacy pro
gramme. He thinks that if these States are
engineered into Congress at its present ses
sion. the Radicals will elect the next Presi
dent and hold the Government for fifty
years to come.
Alluding to this Radical programme the
New I ork Express very pertinently asks
now what does all thi. mean ? and answers
the-question in this way^
"It means that tire Jacobins, having
now no hope of electing a President by
white men s vote.-, intend to fallback upon
the newly enfranchised negroes.
“j_t means that th^-Rolten Boroughs of’|
tire five military districts are to be so err- I
giuecred, as to counterbalance the North- [
cm and --stern ‘reaction,’ and enable j
the Radicals thereby to elect a President.
‘ 'ln this way the negro, manipulated by i
the rump Congress
balance of power—he will be the Arbiter !
in, if not the Dicta:or of, the next Presi- ]
dential election.
“We have no comment to make at pres
ent, upon this cheerful prospect, if any
were needed. We simply invite the at
tention of the white men of the North and
West to the corr.spiracy that i: thus mar ur
irrg by the Jacobin faction to keep posses
sion of the Government—a conspiracy
which, we may rely upon it, they will
push through, if they think they can do
so with safety to themselves.”
Hut the white men of the North and
the West will never submit to this mon
strous subversion of (he true principles of
this G overrrment. These are the men who
fought for the maintenance of the Consti
tution and the preservation of the Union,
and, should the Radicals persist in their
efforts to destroy the Government, it will
not take them long to dispose of the rump
Congress and the destructive schemes of
the Radical party. There is danger in the
experiment of giving the negro the balance
of power—danger to the people of the
North as well as the South—danger to
Government and the best, interests of the
whole country. The white men who have
spoken in the late elections will see to ir
that the re-organization of the Southern
States on the basis of the Military Recon
struction Bills will never be consummated.
If perchance the farce be carried through
fraud and corruption, the foul work
and infamous outrage on the Southern
people will be repudiated and quick
ly undone by the people of the North
ern States, lladical-negro supremacy
■ will never be acquiesced in by the white
men of the North and the West. It is
destructive of the spirit of our institutions
and the nature of this Government. God
and Nature have stamped the negro as
inferior, and this inferiority can never be
wiped out through any human agency.
The descendants of Ham were made to be
governed and not to govern, and so long
as the negro continues to be black and
have wool in place of hair so long will this
superiority of the white man continue.
The Radical Jacobins can never remove
the distinction ordained by the Creator of
our being.
Liberality of fits Majesty King John.
The Atlanta Opinion learns that “Gen.
Dope has directed Treasurer Jones to dis
burse from the State Treasury, during the
ensuing year, to the several benevolent in
stitutions of tho State, amounts equal to
the appropriations made last year by the
Legislature. This will enable the unfor
naji.es to bo provided for. Hie taxes tiow
being collected, with ether incomes of the
State, will supply the means.”
Tho Columbus Enquirer asks if there is
any clause of the Reconstruction Acts
which authorizes Gen. Pope tiff take con
trol of the Treasury of the State and its
benevolent institutions? Why, yes, every
clause in that precious .instrument author
izes John Pope to take possession of and
dispose of the three States in his District
—the people and everything belonging to
tho people. John Pope is tho State. He
is neither responsible to the President,
Congress, nor the people. He is supreme
and can run the machine, and does run it
ns he pleases. But all things in this world
of ours come to an end, ami John Pope
will come to an end one of these days, and
then will come the day of reckoning.
Hostility to Rotten Radicalism.
Tho Mational Intelligencer, reviewing
the elements of hostility to Radicalism
which finite J to produce the glorious re- |
suits in the re cent elections, concludes with !
the following suggestions, which are worthy
of attentive consideration:
“It is worth while that forms of issue
should be changed from one simply and
solely against the common enemy—the
wolves that have been at our doors, and are !
stii! howling in full pack near them—to j
new ones of our own making ? Is thefre
any good conscience or sound policy in the
idea that now, wheu- the victory of ibis
year is, in effect, only a half winning of the ■
Presidential contest, that the shades of
difference between the elements that have
united to triumph over rotten Radicalism
should bo brought into discussion, when '
such shades of difference• can have no:
other reference than to sta!* and effete
points about men, and none to living issues
upon principles, policy or just measures? ,
Shall no: the elements that have been
united in hostility to Radicalism since its 1
inception in its worst forms, during the
war, continue to be united to the common
end of its utter destruction another year ?
The situation amounts to this. The Radi
cals are still in power. They have usurped
the Government. Let them take all the
responsibilities. We are right, and safe :
upon the platform of eternal hi-; lity 10
every form of rotten Radicalism. Wherever,
whenever, and however it obtrudes itself,
train all guns against it. Do this in therump
(’orgross. Do this in the Legislatures of
sions at political meetings. Do this by the
pres?. Do this by ceuvc- -a:ion, by cor
respondence, and. indeed, ad other proper
methods, ways and means.
Let the motto be principles and meas
ures. For these let thoughts of mere men
be postponed for a six mouth. Then let a
national convention, called in the manner
and form that then, not new. may appear
to be most politic, and composed of such
delegates as may be then, uot now, sent up
fresh from the ranks of the people, deter
mine who shall be the standard-bearer of
the Democrats, Conservatives, people,
“Copperheads.” “Rebels” and “disloyal
ists,'’ who, united, have broken the power
ot rotten Radicalism the present year.
There is now no man. nor set of men, that
arc authorized to set up names or creeds,
or make any form of i- ue, except those
that shall come from battling against rot
ten Radicalism. I pon that platform of
policy we can all stand safely. and
’ riutupb most assuredly in the elections.
If we come short of this, all may be lost.
Let the Radicals, then, go on in all their
pride of usurped power and place. Let
them act upon their high responsibilities
in respect to all national affairs.
Let the Conservative-, or Democrats, or
“Rebel-. or or “dis
and act together, as in the late campaign.
At the appointed time the serried host
will move to glorious victory. When that
day shall arrive, and not until then, will
the responsibilities of government pas
frem Radical hands, and be lodged with
die national party, whose statesmen will in
even that triumphant hour have to seek
the salvation ot’our common country with
tear and trembling.
Mayor of New York. —There are now
three regularly nominated candidates for
Mayor of New York citv. The Tammanr
Democrats have nominated the Hon. John
T. Hoffman, the present incumbent : the
Mozart Democrats have placed in the field
the Hon. Fernando Wood, and the Repub
licans have nominated the Hon. Win. A.
Darling.
The Georgia Conservative Convention.
The Conservative Press or Georgia are
now an unit in urging upon the people the
paramount importance of a speedy or
ganization, in all parts of the State, for
i the purpose of debating the Radical
; negro supremacy programme. We have
■ heretofore given this movement our
i hearty approval. It ia a duty which every
i true Georgian owes to himself, liis family
and his State to aid in the good work.
There is no possibility of a chance that,
the mongrel Convention can or will
j frame a constitution which will
ioe acceptable to the people.
| Its work will ho done in accordance with
j the infamously unjust and tyrannical pro
visions of the Military Reconstruction
Bids. Upon this point there ean and
[ there should be no longer any doubts.
The mis named Reconstruction Convention
: now in session at Montgomery is the pi
| oneer in this tinkering, whitewashing work
of Radical destruction. The ultra proscrip
tive and agrarian tendencies which have
so far characterized the proceedings of
that body, leave no room to doubt what
will be the nature and character of the
work ot .ts twin-sister in iniquity—the
Radical-Negro Convention which is soon
to assemble in Georgia. As this Constitu
tion of Alabama is framed by the Radicals
of that .State so will the .Cpusfhr.tioa of
Georgia be framed by the Radicals of .UiiiL
Slate. The J
%sac simile of the
TwTUnlt is evident, therefore, that the
work of the Radical Convention which is to
meet iu Georgia cannot ba acceptable to
the people—because the Constitution
which it will frame will be wholly in the
interest of the negro, and destructive of
the rights and liberties of our people.
Taking it for granted, therefore, that
the white people of Georgia cannot ap
prove of the work of the Radical Conven
tion, it is their duty to set to work at once
to defeat this Constitution by reject
ing it when presented for ratification.
This can only be done by thorough
and systematic organization throughout
the State. Already the citizens of other
counties are moving. Meetings are being
called for the purpose of sending delegates
to the Conservative Convention which is to
meet at Macon on the sth of December.
It will never do to have this Convention
result in failure. In its deliberations and
the line of policy adopted rest the
only hope of saving Georgia from.
the deep disgrace which threatens her,
Can the State be saved? We say
yes, emphatically, if the people do
their duty—and that duty is to organize
at once, and without delay. Let the old,
respectable, wise and able men of-Georgia
meet in council, and perfect a plan of cam
paign against tho enemy, and we feel con
fident the Radical-Negro Constitution will
be defeated. But this cannot he done by
inaction. The people must move in the
matter with a hearty good will. Therefore,
let every county in the State send its
ablest and best men to the Convention.
Tilings In Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette, writes:
It has leaked out that' up to the Spring
of 1866, and long after tho issue had been
made between the President and Congress,
General Grant was decidedly with the
former, and that his change of base was
accounted for by him in a manner that no
true friend of his (though he be a political
opponent) would desire to see published at
all, much less made a special object of
public curiosity.
Some excitement prevails in consequence
of reports, originating in a New York
paper, that Forney, the proprietor of
“two newspapers, both daily,” has failed
pecuniarily. .1 have been finable to Trace'
these reports to any reliable source. It is
very apparent, however, that one of his
“dailies,” the Chronicle, , of this city, is in
a very dilapidated eoudition.
The other day, during a lull in a session
of the Cabinet, the Postmaster General
twitted General Grant with Ben. Wade’s
complaint of his reticence —that he could
act him to talk of nothing but horses.
The Genetal replied to Randall that he
usually talked of matters which ha under
stood. Addng: “And I know more about
horses than Wade does about polities—for
he has shown himself in that way to ba the
d —dest fool in America.” This is an
anecdote which shows that the Ohio Sena
tor, in the General’s opinion, is behind the
titans in not seeing which way the wind is
now blowing, and from what quarter the
Radicals must seek a standard bearer.
The signs indicate that General Thomas
Ewing will finally be nominated to the
Senate for the Secretaryship of War. The
President, l learn, remains firm in his de
termination to regard his power as ample
to remove Stanton, and under no circum
stances will he be permitted to resume the
position from which ho has been ejected.
Interesting to Executors and Trustees.
The following letter has been addressed
by the Internal Revenue Commissioner,
Rollins, to Assessor Frazier, of the First
District of Pennsylvania:
Treasury Dep., Office of In. Rev., 1
Washingt November 9. j
Sir : The small amount of succession
and legacy taxes received from your dis
trict, makes it necessary to bring the
matter to your special notice.
The press ot work in making the annual
assessment having passed, immediate and
special attention should be given to tho
assessment of these taxes.
You will urge your assistant assessors to
greater vigilance, jand will instruct them to
call upou clerks, registers and other
officers having the custody of probate
records and upon officers having charge of
tho registers of deaths within their re
spective districts, and examine such
records to ascertain the liability of legatees,
distributees and successors interested in
the estates of persons deceased. They
should also examine records of deeds to
learn if any Teal estate'lias been conveyed
without valuable and adequate *on-idcra
tion.
If an assistant assessor has been ct-pe
eiallv designated for assessing succession
and legacy taxes in your District, or in any
particular p.ortion thereof (Act of March
2, 1867, section 6, page 5 of compilation),
you will instruct those not so designated to
report to him all matters which may come
to their k r iwledgo relative *0 any assess
ment to be made by him, and where there
has been no such designations, to proceed
■'■t once to unk-.* the assessment themselves.
A copy 1. Form 96 should De delivered
or sent to ad persons liable to either suc
cessive or legacy taxes. You wiil, of
course, understand ; bat the limitation of
fiueen months for re-assesSment does not
apply ta the ease of a succession or legacy
ot which no return has ever been made
but tnat the tax may be assessed at any
time while the lien subsists.
Fains should be taken to acquaint exec
utors, administrators, trustees, &e., of
their personal liability for legacy taxes,
and that it is not only their legal duty but
for their own private interest and protec
tion to pay legacy taxes, and the succes
sion taxes under the section 138. upon
each sum before it is paid over to the lega
tee, distributee, or successor.
All persons, so far as may be. should be
informed that succession tax is a first
charge on the interest of the successor,
and of ail persons claiming in his right, in
all the real estate ia respect whereof such
duty is assessed, and that such estate is
liable ta seizure and sale even in the hands
of a bona fide purchaser.
It is believed taat the difficulty of mak
ing -ale of real estate known to be thus
haoie. wiil uo much toward securing for
the government large amounts which are
now lost by reason of the ignorance of the
people uoon this point, and the neglect of
L Signed] E. A. Rollins,
T __ Commissioner.
Jc j l! ; N Frazier, Assessor First Dis
\ allav-ighjuj Demonstration in
'liita. There was a large Vallandigham
demonstration by th* Democracy at Tror,
GAo, in Monday last, with bonfires,
music and speeches. His speech, in which
heueaoune: ! tfc Radicals and the Nation
al Bank-, was loudly applauded, and the
nomination of “Vallandigham for Pre-i
--dem, made by someone in the crowd
was received with wild demonstrations ed
delight. J. F. McKinnev, of Califonf -*
made a speech, in which he gl tied To
hear that triad. Stevens had been convert
cu it or to t*.v -Democratic doctrine ot re
pudiation as to the gold-pay bond-.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1867.
Reconstrnelion to be Reconstructed.
'ince the signal defeat of negro suffrage
I by the people of the Northern States, the
! Republican journals have been at sea
, without rudder or compass. At first
; laboring strenuously to explain away the
defeat of their pet scheme, on the ground
of local or side issues, the more candid,
honest and sensible of these papers now
admit that the weight of Ouffee broke
down the prestige of the Radicals, and
lost the victory to the Republican party.
The New York limes is among the first to
attribute the Democratic successes to- the
real cause —the people of the North will
never submit to give the balance of power
into the hands of the negro, who has no
idea of -the duties and responsibilities
which the exercise of franchise confers.
The Times hal now hit upon anew
wrinkle, which is no more nor less than to
“reconstruct the reconstruction” which
is now taking place in the Southern
States. That the people of the
Northern, Middle and Western States
will quietly submit to giving the negro the
supreme power in the Southern States,
we do not believe. Blindei, perhaps, by
prejudice and the passions engendered by
thq war, the white people of the North at
first desired to humiliate the Southern
people by giving the ballot into the hands
of the ignorant negro, but these passions
subsiding those people nowflsp fktt iftfrr
bo carried
out the inevitable results will be humiliation
'.to the Anglo-Saxon race, and destructive
aike of the best interests of both sections
and the spirit of republican government.
W e find, in the Richmond Whig,, some
comments and extracts from the New
York Tim-s, headed “Reconstruction to
be Reconstructed,” which we reproduce
here. It says:
“The New 'York Ti mes is ia a fog upon
the reconstruction question, and day after
day blunders about in its efforts to reach a
point from whence it can obtain a clear
view of the political field. It begins at
last to see daylight. It refers to the fact
that most of tho Republican journals,
since the elections, declare themselves in
favor of 1 impartial suffrage ’ in the
Southern States, and that this view is
taken by those that were most extreme
before the elections, and clamored for uni
versal suffrage. Tho Times says it is true
that the Reconstruction Act requires the
Southern States to reorganize their gov
ernments upon the basis of universal suf
frage, but argues that ‘the settled judg
ment’ of the Republican party does not
demand or approve that every negro in the
South over twenty-one years or age shall
have a vote. It says this was ‘was forced
upon them against their better judg
ment, against their deliberate decision
in caucus, by a coalition of the Demo
crats and the Radicals who joined their
strength to enforce the position that either
no negroes should vote, or else that all
should vote, ’ii.e Republican party, in
Congress, according to the Times, was
thus driven to this alternative—and as a
matter of necessity and not of choice it
decided in favor of universal suffrage.
“The Times scouts for itself and its
party the idea that suffrage is a right to be
exercised without regard to qualifications,
and illustrates it by reference to the fact
that every foreigner who comes here to
live must boa resident for five years
before he can vote. It says the action of
Congress has placed the Republican party
in a i’alse position, and committed them to
principles they do not hold. The Times
thus expresses itself:
“ ‘lf the question were free from side
issues, it would be easily and promptly
settled. If it were simply this—‘are the i
negroes of the South, as a body, qualified
to take part in the reorganization of the
Southern State governments? is it wise
or safe to leave them to decide what
principles shall be embodied in the State
what shalUbo-ri o-fowM;awl.
powers of the State governments, and
what shall be the securities for life and
property under them?’—there are not ten
men out of a thousand in the Republican
party who would not say ‘no.’ Nobody
believes they are. How should they be ?
The great mass of them have been kept
in the most stolid ignorance all their lives;
they can neither read nor write; they
have heard nothing of politics and know
nothing of the simplest facts of our history
or our Government; they have neither the
capacity to form opinions nor the material
to form them from ; and, as a matter of
necessity, as weli as of fact, they will be
and are simply tools in the hands of party
leaders and wire-pullers on the one side or
the other. Circumstances just now throw
them into the hands of the Republicans.
The weight of their votes can and will be
thrown into the Republican scale. And
it i3 this fact which leads the Republicans
to accept for them the principles of uni
versal suffrage, and which, we may add,
leads the Democrats to oppose it.’ ”
“But _ the difficulty is that universal
suffrage is t he essence of the Reconstruction
Act, and the journal from which we quote
does not see how that act can now be
changed, since any change would arrest
the whole progress of ‘Reconstruction.’
Rut the Times finds a remedy as follows:
“ ‘We do not think it would be wise to
attempt to change the Reconstruction Act
in this particular now. la the first place,
it cannot be done ; and in politics nothing
is wise which is impossible. Moreover, it
would arrest the whole progress of recon
struction, and involve fresh conflicts, com
plicatiom and delays in a matter where de
lay is of itself one of the worst things that
can happen. But the Reconstruction Act
reserves to Congress the whole business of
revising the Constitution that may be sent
up from the States for its approval. If
tiiey contain provisions which Congress
dees not approve, it can strike them out
and send them back for revision and
amendment. This seems to us a power
which C> mgress should exercise freely'and
boldly ; and it may so exercise it in regard
to suffrage as to make the Southern Con
stitutions conform to what is the real
sentiment and purpose of the Republican
party upon this subject. It can substitute
impartial suffrage for universal suffrage.
It can forbid the State governments from
making color alone a ground of dis
franchisement, without compelling them to
admit ignorance, stolidity and incapacity
to the ballot box. it can permit them to
prescribe such qualification for the suffrage
as they may deem expedient, insisting
only that whatever qualifications may be
prescribed shall apply to all inhabitants of
the State alike, without regard to race or
color.
“ ‘By some such action as this it seems
to us the rights of the negroes at the
South may be protected, without putting
in peri any interest or principle which the
Republican party has at heart.’ ”
“Nothing bett • illustrates the blindness
and incapacity of the Congressional leaders
than this whole reconstruction scheme.
They did, it seems, what they did not
want to do, and what tiiey now cannot
undo without a clear back down, and with
out confessing their utter and absolute
incapacity as legislators. The Times,
always adroit and full of resources, sug
gests a mode of escape from the disagreea
ble dilemma, but even that is awkward
and unsatisfactory. It is in effect that
although Congress has required in the Re
con-tructiou Acts that the Southern States
shall embody the principle of universal
(negro) suffrage in their Constitution, that
wh_:i those Constitutions are' framed in
accord rnce with this requirement , and are
sent u'i for the approval of Congress, that
body, under its reserved power, shall erase
what it reguired —‘universal suffrage,’
and substitute ‘impartial suffrage’ for it.
This is Republican statesmanship!”
Colored Labor in tils Socth. —The
planters of Sumter, Ala., have held a
meeting and adopted a set of rules to regu
late the employment of freedmen. After
debate they agreed to give $lO a month
to first-class field hands, $S to second
class and $6 to third-class. Also, to're
quire ten hours’ work in the day between
April Ist and October Ist, and nine hours
work during the rest of the year.
Wisconsin. —The Milwaukie (Wiscon
sin) Republican says: “The Democrats
have gained four members of the State
Senate —Bragg in the Fon du Lac District,
Hotchkiss in the Sheboygan District, Lan
der in the Fox Lake District, and Habieh
in the Madison. The Senate will therefore
stand, 15 Democrats to 18 Republicans.
In the last assembly the Republicans had
4S majority. This is a gain to the Demo
erats'-f 15 members throughout the State.”
“Black stockings of all colors are ad
vertised in an Irish paper.
Tlie Aspects of Trade.
The following artile from the New
i York World is one witch treats upon a
! subject of so much substantial importance
jto our own people, thal we transfer it en
! tire to our columns :
In spite of many Ihwbacks, says the
World, the state of trade assumes a more
: favorable aspect; aneft is agreeable to
know that an examination of the subject
develops many believing that
the improvement has many supports of
more thau transient -influence. One of
these undoubtedly is tie relief of the pub
lic mind from appreiknsions of various
revolutionary schemes which have been
! threatened for more thin a year past. The
| extraordinary fall that las occurred in the
i priees of leaning staple, during the past
| two years, has so far reduced production
and importation, or stimulated consump
tion, that ihere need bone fear now enter
! tained of a further deqiioe, even should
i the value of the currency be increased.
- The follow.ug is a comparison of prices
I November 12 :
, 1866. 1867.
! Gold, per cfcnt ..$ 147 $1 39
Gotten, Middling Upland,
„ 51 19
! bheelings, Standard, yd. 33 141
; Shirtings. Wamsutta, yd 474 22$
! Prints, Prime Madded,
- 25 12§
M. i/eLaines, y:i... t 31 17
kiour, Extra State, bbt... 825 10 00
\\ heat, No. 1, Spring,
tjusbdL 2 27
'Oafs,’bushel 61 77
Pork, Mess, bbl 32 25 20 85
Beef, Extra Mess, bbls... 17 00 21 00
Lard, Prime, lb 28 ]3J
Bacon, Cumberland, tb... 19J 12
Butter, Prime State, 1b... 50~ 42
Cheese, Prime Factory, lb 19 15
Coffee, Prime Rio, fl> 30 24
Sugar, Good Refiuing, lb. 13* 12
Molasses, Prime Musco- -
vndo, gallon i 80 53
Rosin, Common, bbl 738 338
Spirits Turpentine, gal... 116 54
Linseed Oil, gal 150 107
Petroleum, Standard
White, in bond, gal 62 29
Iron, Scotch Pig, ton 53 00 39 00
Copper, American Ingot,
Lead, lb io4 9
Rabins, La. r. box 500 410
Mackerel, No. 1, bbl 17 75 16 00
Hides, B. A., dry, 1b..; 32 28
Leather, Hemlock, B. A.
ft> 39 39
Hemp, Mani.ia, ib 19 17
Gunny Cloth, yd 26 20
Tallow, ft) 14f llf
Wool, Prime Fleece, 1b... 65 50“
The above comparison will serve a
doui T purpose., it will illustrate the
sever- losses which have resulted to the
business community l’tom tho doubts and
fears of the two past years. There is a
decline in every great eta; : , except bread
stuffs, of from 5 to GO per cent —and
generally from 25 to 51) per cent., enough
to ruin, as it has ruined, scores of the
oldest and wealthiest houses. That the
great dullness iri trade, which has forced
prices down has been in a measure the
result ol tho failure of the crops during
two successive years, an corresponding
high prices of food, is uo Irubtedly true ;
but the chief difficulty has been the uncer
tainty caused by the efforts of the Radi
cals to overturn the declared policy of the
Administration to proceed gradually but
steadily toward a resumption of specie
payments. Trade can endure anything
better than doubt and uncertainty, anu
these have clone theif work.
.The efforts to unsettle the public finances
will probably be renewed at the session of
Congress, now nea at hand. But fortu
nately general trade is beyond the reach of
Congressional tinkering. The inevitable
laws of supply and demand begin once more
to assert themselves. Our country Con
sumes avast quantity of good? in tho dull
est times, and such is the relation of the
premium on gold to prices of Merchandize
that a decline of ten or fifteen per cent in
the former would not be generally felt in
the latter.
Such a revival of trade as now seems to
have set in will of course divert money
from speculative channels. Men who
have r •;■■foUatifo .business on hand do not
frvq'mat jL'oad uAc. They neither
speculate in gold nor stocks ; ana, there
fore, gold and stocks may be expected to
decline if the currency is not tampered
with. The return of money from gold
and Stock speculation to the more legiti
mate channels of manufacture and com
merce wiil make employment more plenty,
and thus another stimulus given to busi
ness. Let us hope, therefore, as business
seems to have reached the bottom of the hill
and begem again to ascend, that Congress
will leave business men to the even tenor
of their way, with no .disturbing influences
such as radical changes in the financial
policy of the Federal Government would in
evitably give rise to.
Death of an Estimable Citizen.— lt
is with sorrow that we are called on to
chronicle the death of an estimable citizen
m the demise of Mr. Edward F. Kinchley,
which sad event took place at his residence
at seven 0 clock Monday evening. For
•some years his health had been impaired,
but not so much so as to prevent him
from attending to ordinary business, al
though at times lie suffered considerably.
The last time the writer saw him was Sun
day week, when he appeared to be in usual
health and spirits. On the evening of
that day the deceased was taken with
chill. Tuesday week he undertook to dis
charge his customary duties but vtas com
pelled to return to his home, where he
died, as previously stated, of pneumonia.
It is true a saying that the good die too
soon—and never was this truer than ia
the ease of the lamented deceased who, in
all the relations of life —as son, husband,
father, friend and citizen—discharged its
various obligations and duties in a most
exemplary manner. His whole life has
been characterized by honesty of purpose
and the strictest integrity of character.
Meekest and even retiring in demeanor, Le
was esteemed and respected by this com
munity lor his industry, integrity and
worth. Few private citizens have died
more regretted than the late Edward F*
Kinchley. Expressions of sympathy cannot
assuage the poignancy of the sorrowful
visitation which lias befallen his stricken
family. The widow aad the orphan can
alone receive that peace and spiritual con
solation from Him who is a father to the
fatherless.
Death of Anothks Distinguished
Astronomer.— The English papers an
nounce the death of Lor 1 Wrottesley, a
distinguished astronomer. President of the
Royal Astronomical Society in 1841, and
of the Royal Society in 1554. He was
born at Wrottesley Ha’ll, Staffordshire,.
August 5, 1795, and consequently was in
his sixty-ninth year at the time of his
death. His life has been devoted very
much to astronomical studies, particularly
to the study of the fixed stars. He had
two private obst .atories, and in them
spent much of his time. In 1839 he com
pleted his catalogue of the right ascension
of 131S stars, and received the gold medal
of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The Rice Crop.— The Georgetown
Times of the 14th says: “Many planters
we have conversed with are sadly disap
pointed at the yield of their crops—in
many eases not realizing one-half of their
expectations—there being an abundance of
light grains, the result of the unpropitious
season and the depredations of the birds.
The grain crop of the district is certainly
inadequate to feed the population, and we
fear disastrous results to the poor during
ti e long and dreary winter before us.
Y wily, we have endured much, enough to
sicken the heart and envelop us in the
darkness of despair. But stern necessity
compels us to hope on, hope ever, and not
to admit that there is such a word as
fail. ’ ’
Col. Doster, of Autauga.— We were '
pleased to have a visit day before yester
day from Col. C. 8. G. Doster, of Au
tauga, who, satisfied as to their ulterior
Radical purposes, has left the so-calied
Republican party, and is now a strong
Conservative. Col. Dorter has great in
fluence in Autauga aad will doubtless i
bri r -g large numbers out of the Radical
rank.-,' and convince them of the ruin :
which will be brought upon the State by j
ratifyi ..g the action of the menagerie at
the CapuoL —Montgomery Mail. 1
United States Conrts for Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
DISTRICT COURT.
HON. JOHN ERSKINE, JUDGE, PRESIDING.
November 16, 1867.—Ex-Gov. Brown,
; counsel for Foster Blodgett, filed an affi-
I davit, sworn ta by said Blodgett, in open
court, tending to prove that he (Blodgett)
. had some months ago received information
' from Colonel Fitch, District Attorney, that
i a charge _ of perjury would be preferred
against him before the grand jury at the
1 present term of the Court, that Colonel
; Fitch promised to allow his (Blodgett’s)
: witnesses ta go before the grandjury ; and
! also, that he had been informed and be-
I fierce that Colonel Fitch was siek in the
, city of New York when the Court met;
and, therefore, he considered it doubtful
whether his case could be brought before
i the present grand jury.
The object of this affidavit was stated by
j counsel to be, to show that .'there was a
■ charge against Mr. Blodgett low pending
before the grand jury, and also to show
why he did not challenge said jurors before
they were sworn.
Colonel Fitch, District Attorney, then
resumed his argument in opposition
ta the motion of ex-Governor Brown
as counsel, ta be permitted to chal
lenge certain members of the grand jury
on the ground that they had been engaged
in the late rebellion, in tho course of which
he read numerous authorities in support
of the proposition that an individual mem
ber of the grand jury cannot be challenged
after he has been sworn, except fora cause
which has arisen since he was sworn.
(* “ c*rj-,UUiCuu UI vv*oTlt? 1 rlbCn,
that the Act of Congress of the 17th of
June, 1862, was not passed exclusively for
the protection of the Government, but for
the protection of every citizen of the Gov
ernment, and therefore the right of chal
lenge is not confined to the legal repre
sentative of the Government, and in sup
port ot this construction of the statute he
referred to the settled policy of the Gov
ernment, giving the accused a decided
advantage over the Government, in the
right ta challenge the jurors by whom he
is to be tried. He also showed that he
had made his motion to challenge the
jurors at the earliest moment when it
cculd bo made after Mr. Blodgett had
notice that his case was pending before
the grand jury, and before they had found
a bill—no final action having yet been had
on His case.
After the conclusion of the argument of
ex-Governov Brown, the Court granted
the petition of Mr. Blodgett, and ruled
that the right of challenge under the first
section of the Act of Congress, belonged
as well to the accused as to the Govern
ment, and applied as well to grand jurors
as ta petit jurors, and is possessed by
every person against whom a criminal
charge may be preferred, and that Mr.
Blodgett having moved to challenge the
jurors at the earliest time when be could
be heard by the Court, he has a right to
be heard.
Ti o Court then informed the grand
jurors that when any one of them was
challenged, the oath prescribed in the
second section of the Act of Congress of
the 17th of June, 1862, would be read to
him, and if he did not choose to take it,
b ; should retivi from the jury box.
i The names of the jurors objected to were
then called, and the oath read ta them by
t: • Clerk of the Court, whereupon all the
jo, -rs challenged, with the exception ol
Martin Duggin an John S. Sturtevant,
declined to take the oath, and retired from
the. jury box.
The United States Marshal was then
directed to summon thirty-six additional
grand jurors from the body of the District
ta appear in Court at twelve o’clock, M.,
on Monday next, to which hour the Court
adjourned.— Savh. Repub., 18t/t.
The Royal Bank of Liverpool—lts Man
agement and Failure.
From the London Times (<city article ) Oct. 23.
The history of this bank is remarkable.
It was established in May, 1830, with
shares of £I,OOO each, and a paid np capi
tal of £600,000, which was at' the* time
larger than the capital of any analogue es
tablishment in Liverpool.
In the following year the groat panic
occurred from the suspcnsioa of the three
American houses of Wildes, Wilson aud
Wiggins, and although this was a period
:P£Mtrfiaie.triaJ, the shares a few years
afterwafcrattanrea a premium' equal to
seventy per cent, on the amount paid up.
The railway panic of 1847 followed, and
on the 18th of October in that year the
Royal Bank stopped, among a number of
banks and firms that were failing on every
sale. The difficulty on that occasion was
reported to have been caused by advances
of reckless amounts to a few individuals,
an uncovered total of nearly Haifa million
having, it is stated, been granted to a
single firm. At that date the number of
shareholders was about two hundred and
sixty, and extraordinary efforts were at
once made for a resuscitation.
Tin -sc were successful, and within six
weeks a meeting was held, at which it was
announced that the bank would reopen on
the following day, the Ist of December.
To inspire perfect confidence for the future,
an entire reorganization had been adopted,
and it will now bo an important question
whether the peculiar conditions then
framed, with the view of preventing a re
currence of mismanagement, have from
ts. :t time to the present been faithfully
fulfilled. The new deed of settlement
stipulated that the £I,OOO shares should
be converted into smaller ones in order to
enlarge the constituency, and that new
capital should be raised by preference
shares of £IOO each fully paid up, bearing
seven per cent, interest, with right to half
profitsSbcyond.
Meanwhile only five per cent, was to be
paid to original shareholders until a reserve
fund should have been created to the
amount of £IOO,OOO, and it was further
provided that the paid up capital only, and
not the deposits or other funds, should be
employed by advances on open account;
also that no advance should he made be
yond £22,000 without security, and that
the highest advance on any security what
ever should be £50,000. The snares of
the bank were not to ho accepted as secu
rity, the directors were to have no voice on
advances to parties connected with them
either by relationship of business, and the
paid directors and managers were not to
have any advances whatever. The two
paid directors were to receive £I,OOO per
annum each, and were to constitute, along
with the manager, a permanent committee,
two be : ng a quorum, to determine upon
advances, or the opening of accounts, and
no advances were to be made against the
veto of any one of them. The contempla
ted reserve fund of £IOO,OOO has for some
time been attained.
The nominal quotations of the shares
shortly before the present stoppage were
£9 3s. 4d(a>lo for tiie ordinary, with £lO
paid, and £IOO Is. 2d(i4101 Is. 2d. for the
preference. Last year stood at a much
higher point. The existing paid up capital
is £550,000, and the number of sharehold
er-is ahuut 150, of which about one-fifth
are widows or unmarried ladies; but as
the general list"contains names of wealthy
im ;■■■•bants and others, and the liability is
unlimited, there can be no doubt that all
the creditors will he paid in full.
It is reported the rhe assets are of a
favorable character, but in many cases the
fact ot the suspension having become un
avoidable in the manhood restrictions in
thedeed ofarrangement, iurnishesanother
illustration of the folly of expecting that
security can be imparted to any business
by a multitude of written rules.
John Pope.—Pope, asourreaders know,
has put the great State of Georgia—the
Empire Stale of the South—into the politi
cal keeping of an ignorant, brutal horde of
negroes and a ring of white demagogues
stiil more defcasedi The press of the State
are not, thank Heaven, silent under this
monstrous outrage. The frauds, chicanery
and meannes:- by which it was accomplish
ed arc denounced with becoming spirit,
and with a candor that ought to quicken
manhood’s pulses even in John Pope. He
is handled without gloves; it would be
only moral cowardice to denounce the foul
wrong and let the wrong-doer go unwhipped
of justice. For the present this is all that
is allowed the white men of Georgia. But
how long the mean aud malignant but
despised tool of Radicalism, who now lords i
over the State, will allow them the liberty
of the press remains to he seen. Other |
district commanders we wot of—now dead, !
or still in the flesh, and competing with j
Rarnum—had the. resolute, the defiant
courage of their convictions. It is true, ]
they prostituted their high positions to
party. But as their opinions possessed j
them wholly, so were they unselfish, brave i
and magnanimous. As for John Pope!— i
those who know him 'jest _ would be' the 1
most astounded at his showing either man
hood or magnanimity. He is a Gascon
without the virility of the Gascon; with
the instincts of the mercenary and the
mean ambition of the pliant, fawning ;
too! of power. What he has done is but
in keeping with the —shall we say?—man,
and what he may do will be but a matter
of the rcost temporary interest.— N. O.
Picayune.
The Czar Alexander is writing a book.
It will be bound in Russia.
The Colton Trade.
The United States Economist says: “It
is not to be concealed that those best ac
quainted with the cotton trade of the
United States are becoming dubious as to
whether our planters can hold the ground
in competing with the growers of other
countries. When planters could grow
cotton at six cents per pound, it was
generally conceded that we had a virtual
monopoly of the cotton trade. We then
supplied England with three-fourths of
her importations of cotton, and there was
no tendency on the part of other countries
to dispute onr ascendancy. Our cotton
was a much better staple than that of
India, and was marketed in much better
condition, and the eastern product was
used only for the very commonest pur
poses. But now all is changed. The ex
treme scarcity, of American cotton has
necessitated the Lancashire spinners and
manufacturers to adapt their machinery to
the India staple, so that it is now found to
be available for many purposes to which
formerly it had never been applied. Tho
advanced price has caused greater atten
tion to be paid to the culture and packing
of the eastern staple; while tho handsome
profits realized by growers and factors have
induced a much larger area to be planted,
and have in every way consolidated and
strengthened the cotton trade of India.
At the same time, the opening of railroad
communication with the cotton region has
placed the planting districts in more direct
communication with the capital and enter
prise of the cotton ports. India is thus
not only in . a position to grow cotton as
cheaply aa aver, but has the moUvy and
means .for increasing ajy. .
There is naturally anesTfotmftatlan'fTaffe
ly augmenting the crop in what country
until it is ascertained what is likely to be
the supply from the United States.
In the event of an average crop being
raised hero, the price of the staple would
be reduced to a figure which would involve
heavy losses to the growers and tho mer
chants in India; and this must be regarded
as the reason why the cotton crop of the
last two years has not been increased to
the extent which might have been expect
ed from the high profits realized upon its
culture. Should it appear to the cotton
traders of India that the American crop is
likely to be permanently .reduced, there
would undoubtedly be a prompt increase
in the India supply ; but until the proba
bilities upon that question are more defi
finitely developed, the India supply is
likely to bo regulated with caution.
Weston’s Walk Against Time. •
details of the match.
From the Boston Chronicle.
So many questions have been asked
about Weston, and about the conditions of
his race against time, between Portland
and Chicago, that we publish the details
thereof for the Benefit of our readers ; and
as the match will bo “town talk” for some
days longer, we advise all to cut this out
and preserve it. The details are as fol
lows : -v
Edward Payson Weston, the young
pedestrian, who created somewhat of a
sensation in 1861 by walking from Boston
to Washington against time, averaging
fifty-one miles for ten consecutive daj T s,
has been pitted against his old antagonist
to walk from Portland, Me., to Chicago,
111., a distance of 1,200 miles, in twenty
six days, for the sum of SIO,OOO a side
George K. Goodwin backs the pedestrian,
T F. Wilcox risking his money on
Weston’s failure. The articles of agree
ment provide that Weston is to perform
bin arduous labor in thirty days, without
walking between midnight otr Saturday
and midnight on Sunday; ho is ta walk
one hundred consecutive miles inside of 24
consecutive hours as a part of the feat,
Weston being privileged ta make five
trials, on such days as he may select, pro
vided ho fails in his first attempt. He
will be accompanied by two sworn wit
nesses for each side; who are to follow
him in a wagon, and are each to make a
statement under oath as to his progress,
and the stakes ($20,000, less $1,200
already up as forfeit), are ta be handed to
the winner at Chicago as soon as the result
is ascertained.
On this trip Weston will pass through
parts of ten different States, and more
than three hundred cities and towns. In a
private letter he says : “The cMc'uTation
for each day’s travel is made on the sup
position that I do not fail ta make one
hundred miles in the walk from Attle
boro to East Hartford. Failing in this,
however, I have four other trials, which
I shall make at intervals of five days. In
18611 made an average of fifty-one miles
per day, for ten consecutive days, in the
worst season of the year for walking—Feb
ruary and March. On this trip my average
will be but forty-seven miles, and the feat
is to be performed during the pleasantest
part of the year. I have tried nine dif
ferent times to walk one hundred miles in
thirty-four hours, but have never succeed
ed. On one trial I came within two miles
of it. I think I can accomplish the feat
after a week’s practice, and if I am suc
cessful on the fourth day of the trip, I
would not give ten cents ta be insured’the
victory.”
Should Weston fail on each trial to make
one hundred consecutive miles in twenty
four hours, his backer forfeits six-tenths
of the stake, whether the whole distance
be accomplished or not.
A special dispatch to the Courier, dated
Rome, N. Y., 7 p. m., says:
_ Weston, the pedestrian, arrived here
this afternoon, and will remain either in
the city or vicinity until Monday, when he
resumes his march. He passed liion,
German Flats, at shortly before noon, and
stopped to dine at Utica at 3 o’clock.
Large crowds of people from all quarters
flocked to see him, and impeded his pro
gress in some places. He is in good health
and spirits. One of the party hinted that
he would not be likely to make the one
hundred miles in twenty-four hours, inti
mating that he could make more money by
not doing it. The belief is prevalent here
that Weston is in league wita one or more
parties who have staked large sums of
money against his accomplishing the one
hundred mile feat, and that ho will receive
more money by failing in it than he would
otherwise. One rumor is that John.Mor
risey has made a bet of' SIOO,OOO that Wes
ton would not. do it, and that he is to give
Weston $20,000 in order that he may win
$80,000.. There are strong evidences that
he might have made the one hundredmiles
either in the first or second trial if h v had
been so disposed. He will oaaay a third
trial the middle "of next week it is stated.
[Rome is abqqt half way between Albany
and Buffalo, and 5204 miles from Portland,
tho whole distance, being 1226 miles.
It will be interesting to-the “walk fan
ciers’ to learn that a young man named
Payne determined to outdo Weston, has
started on a walking tour from New York
to San Francisco, a distance of 3,000 miles,
which he intends to accomplish in 150 days.
He had reached Somerville, N. J., when
last heard from. ]
Comical Fasshion Repost.—A New
York fashion correspondent of the Pitts
burg Gazette gets off the following :
_ Eyes continue to be worn, one on each
side of the nose, and immediately under
the brows. There has been some talk of
substituting a simple orb, of increased
size and brilliancy, in jthe centre of the
brow ; but after all our achievements in
lightning speed, the world move- slowly,
and the idea of change in the number of
eyes to be worn has not been favorably re
ceived, notwithstanding its many advan
tages ; but the color is varied to suit the
occasion, and just now the prevailing tint
is green—a fine sea green. This shade
can be best acquired in Baden-Baden, by
contemplation of the delicious toilettes of
the demimonde, but may be obtained in
Paris, Saratoga, or in Broadway ; black,
blue and gray, are still worn iu the home
circle, and are found very becoming in the
nursery, at the family tea table, and social
evening gatherings.
Noses maintain their position on
the centre of the face. The Grecian or
acquiiine is generally preferred, but snubs
have held their plaoo3 on very pretty
faces, in defiance of a most determined op
position, and at present writing are look
ing up. Avery pretty article of the Gre
cian type is now furnished by Goodyear,
and it is not improbable that, in time, all
other varieties may disappear.
Lips are midway between the nose and
the point of the chin and are a pate pink.
The coral variety is no longer tolerated,
except in girls not yet come out.
Teeth somewhat larger and of a blueish
tint, to correspond with the complexion,
which must be a dead white or magenta
red.
Ears are worn, one on each side of the
head, with the hair all carried up so as to
give them a peculiar appearance of alert
ness. There is some prospect of having
them pointed, as the mistress of the Grand
Duke ofD has a _ pet _ rabbit which is
very much admired in European Court
circles.
Mis3 Margaret Stone died in Harrisburg
last Sunday at the age of one hundred and
twelve.
NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 47.
The Georgia Conservative Convention .
THE ERROR OF INACTIVITY.
South Carolina has already held a Con
vention, composed of the conservative
and, we may add, the patriotic white ele
ment of that State, now threatened with
subjection to negro and Radical rule. Vir
ginia, the “Mother of States,” is moving
in the same direction, and will hold a
similar Convention on the 11th proximo.
Georgia, it is now understood, will do the
same. The Conservative Press of our
State were never more united upon any
political movement than they are upon
this. The error of inactivity must no
longer prevail. The race inhabiting
the State, from the seaboard to the moun
tains ; from the Savannah to the Chatta
hoochee ; from centre to circumference,
embracing every acre of laud within
its wide limits, must remain no
longer inactive spectators of the iron chain
that is being forged to bind them to negro
and Radical rule. They must unite to re
sist the monstrous outrage—unite to resist
in such lawful manner as may be deemed
advisable after deliberation in Convention.
The errors of the past are naught but
warnings for the future, if they teach, or are
designed to teach, any useful lesson. Had
there been any organization, any under
standing, between the opposers of the
Sherman-Shellabarger Military Bills iu
habiting the tliflW&at sections of our SUfe,
the result, hi all probability, “would have
been different. But there was none. In
action was the policy in some sections,
while fatal action prevailed in others. We
must prepare now for tho final struggle.
The mongrel, concern that will soon as
semble in this city will make a Constitu
tion for Georgia. Viewed in its most
favorable aspect, that constitution no one
having any regard for truth, will attempt
to deny, will embrace every provision of the
military recon,s' ruction enactments of Con
gress. These of themselves will fasten upon
the Btatenegro supremacy and Radical rule.
How much further t he mongrelcoucorn will
go remains to be seen. That it will at
tempt still further to degrade the white
race of the South ; to cajole to its support
some of them, while it will despoil others ;
is evident from the lights before us, and
we must prepare, when it is presented to
the people of the State for ratification, by
united action to prevent its ratification.
Hence the necessity for the proposed Con
vention to meet in Macon on the sth day
of December next. We trust that every
county in the State will be represented in
that Convention by a delegation composed
of good and true men, whose manhood
and whoso blood have suffered no degen
eracy ; who still assert the supremacy of
the white race and maintain, what is true,
that this is a white man’s Government,
and must remain so, or the home of their
lathers and their own home, can no longer
be their dwelling places on earth.
Let, then, the several counties in the
State proceed at once to hold primary
meetings and nominate delegates ta the
proposed Conservative Convention ! The
sooner this is done, the better. The error
of inactivity must not be repeated. Says
a Virginia cotemporary, writing on the
same subject: “Errors are never entirely
powerful unless they become the rule ot
conduct, and the error we committed in
that case (the case of the Convention elec
tion in Virginia) may be turned to good
account, if it teach us by it's facts to avoid
its repetition.” And so say we; let us
profit by experience, and pulling ail togeth
er make one more effort to save the State
from negro domination and Radical rule 1
. Atlanta Intelligencer ,
The Cotton Tax,
The New York Commercial Advertiser
—a Republican paper which failed to
protest against the passage ot the cotton
tax thus exposes its folly and iniquity
and demands its repeal :
In 1859-60. England imported a total of
2,670,000 bales, of which only 700,000
were from other countries than the United
States. Last year the imports of Ameri
can cotton ir, England were 1.160,000 balei,
and from other countries 2,580,000 bales.
Thus we see that in Great Britain—the
lofcton eirrh-o-of Foe wor’nl—our exports hi
six years fell off from eighty per cent, to
about thirty-one per cent. As the English
priees now control all other markets, we
are, to a certain extent, at the meroy of
the foreign consumers, and the idea of
making them pay this tax depends entirely
upon our ability to compete with tho
Indian stapia. How we can successfully
do so is one of the questions that must bo
answered by Congress.
As matters now stand tho oottOn tax
operates as a bounty to tho foreign pro
ducers, and is regarded in that light upan
the other side of the Atlantic. Since the
commencement of our civil war the Gov
ernment and capitalists of England have
been unremitting in their efforts to obtatm
cotton from other countries, and the r«-
sijlts so far have been only too successful.
VVe have lost ffic control of the cotton
market, and if we ever regain it the
prompt repeal of tho tax must be a pre
liminary step,
The hardship of the tax upon producers
is more apparent from the ftict that the
amount, large as it is, is by no means the
only burden. The expenses of weighing,
marking and “tagging” this cotton must
be paid by the planters. Before they can
sea their crops they must obtain a revenue
officer from a distance, olten of a hundred
miles on remote plantations, at an expense
of from $lO to sl4 a day and “keep.”
Then tho lees are 25 cents for weighing
and 25 cents for a “tag” for each bale. Gs
course the planters ride to hunt up the
revenue officers, and must incsr additions!
expenses, besides lost time in thebnsy sea
sons. All these items must be added te
the two and a half cents a poemd tax, and
cotton removed from districts without the
revenue agent’s “tag” is liablo to eonfie
eation.
Tho cotton tax, at present prices,
amounts to more than one-filth of the
value ni the staple. A similar tax on corn
would amount to 80 cents a bushel.
Imagine a Northern farmer running fifty
or a hundred miles for a revenue officer to
tax, his wheat, potatoes qj hay, before he
could remove them to tho nearest market.
Yet this is what Congress exacts from the
Southern planter and freedmen. Newly
aao fourth ol the value ot the principal
staple is taken for taxes. No industry ht
tire world could stand such a burden, avd
i; it is not repealed, it requires no prophnt
to foretell the utte” ruin of our chief article
of export, with a loss ta tho white and
biack population of the South, only inferi
or to the terrible losses by the war.
Rumors of Intended Removals.— The
Atlanta Opinion, semi-official, says on this
subject:
| i A rumor is in circulation that it has
j iieen decided to lernove many officials in
! the State, from Governor down, and it is
also stated that certain ■gont emcn have
certainly been selected to fill certain posi
tions. Ail this, report has it, is to occur
on or before the meeting of the Stale Con
| vention.
it is all humbug! From the moderation
which has characterised the actions of the
military authorities in this District thus
far, we judge there will be no “proscrip
tion for opinion’s sake.” It is true that an
army of provisional civil officials, working
so accord with the delegates elect to the
State Convention, would greatly contribute
to advance the cause of Reconstruction.
This many have expected. But thus far
the Commanding General has refused to
displace officers, except for cause shown of
malfeasance or outrageous conduct in
office. We cannot fjee why he has deter
mined to change the rule ; therefore do not
nelieve it has been so determined. The
whole story is a device to create prejudice,
we believe. Heretofore the decapitation
of a head has been made known to the
party first: so, we opine, it will be here
after.
Cable Tolls Reduced. —Aforeign dis
patch says: “All the details of the new
tariff of the Atlantic cable having been
settled, we are enabled to announce the
following modifications, to go into effect on
the Ist of December proximo, viz: Tolls
between the city of New York and any
place in Great Britain or Ireland on mes
sages often words, not exceeding fifty let
ters in all, $25; each word after the first
ten, $2 50. The address, date and signa
ture, to the extent of five words, twenty
five letters in all, free of charge. No extra
charge will be made for messages in code
consisting of plain words, but messages in
cipher, that is to say, messages in numerals
or in letters of the alphabet, not having
any known dictionary words or names of
places, ships, persons, etc., are to be
charged for the first ten words, $25, and
each additional cipher, $2 50. Tolls be
tween New York city and points west and j
south tiiereof, will be charged in addition
to the above.”
The Tornado at St. Thomas.
The following account of the storm that
visited St. Thomas Island, in the West
Indies, on the 29th ult.', is given by Dr.
Stephen Hasbrougli, surgeon to the steam
ship Miramon, which reached New York
on Sunday:
On reaching the Island of St. Thomas,
on the morning of the 30th. we found that
on the day previous, October 29th, the
Island had been visited by a hurricane
which, in its terrific effects, certainly re
mains unprecedented within the memory
of any living man. The storm lasted
about "four hours, and appeared to grow
out of a stiff nortwest wind, which changed
round to the cast about 11 o’clock in the
morning, from which time, for four mortal
hours, lasted a scene which it would be
vain to attempt to describe.
Several districts in the town (St.
Thomas) were totally destroyed. The
storm raged with such violence that large
trees wero torn up by their roots and
swept away. . Houses were lifted bodily
from tneir foundations and dashed to
pieces against the earth. Huge ships and
steamers were hurled together, their
frames instantly breaking into fragments
and sinking. Some fifty or sixty vessels,
of all sizes, were either sunk or dismasted
and driven ashore. Thousands of the
residents of the Island are wandering
about homeless and penniless, besides the
large numbers who instantly perished.
The amount of suffering, confusion and
excitement beggars description. There is
no attempt at trade or transacting agy
M >—
raoMnng
their friends and relations.
On the morning ofthe eventful day the
old steamer Conway was to be put to sea,
but there being indications of a heavy
wind, the passengers prevailed upon the
Captain to transfer them to the Rhone, a
new and excellent steamer owned by the
same company. Both vessels then put to
sea, and were still in sight of land when the
cyclone came on. The Rhone was dashed
upon Peter’s Island, her boiler burst, and
all except twelve or fifteen souls perished.
Meanwhile the condemned Conway had
proceeded as far as Tort olas Islands, upon
the shores of which she was thrown, but
all on board were saved.
Harbormaster Stciuburg, ofSt. Thomas,
was lost while nobly striving to rescue a
drowning crew. He had succeeded in
landing one boat load and was boldly push
ing out for another when his boat was
capsized aud both were instantly swallow
ed by the sea. The steamer Columbian
reached the port at 11 o’clock in the morn
ing, and went down at 2 in the afternoon.
Several vessels arriving during the fol
lowing night also went ashore, as the
lighthouse had been shattered by the
storm of the previous day, and all guides
liar the mariner swept away. The cargo
of the Columbian was valued at lrom one
to two millions of dollars.
All the wharves of the town are one
mass of rums, the fort and barracks are
gone, the lighthouse destroyed. About
three persons were buried under the ruins,
quite a large number of bodies having
been picked up along the harbor. The loss
both ashore and among the shipping is
equally large.
As we took our departure from the isl
and, nothing had been heard from the
cyclone on the other islands, except one
report from Tortolas, which say3 the town
i* in ruins and many of the inhabitants
killed. The hurricane came from the cast,
and seems to have taken a narrow path.
The Miramon was ninety miles out when
it occurred, and experienced only a stiff
breeze.
A Terrible Hurricane—Flood, etc.
—New York, November 15. —The llcraid’s
Havana special says : Advices from Porto
Rico to the 7th instant have been received.
A terrible hurricane had visited the north
eastern portion of the Island, destroying
all the crops. Two hundred lives were
lost, and four thousand families are desti
tute. Provisions were to be landed duty
free for two months.
Tortulla, one of the small British West
India Islands, between Virgin Mary and
St. Johns, containing an area of forty
eight square miles, has been completed
submerged by the flood following upon the
great gale of the 7ch and it is re
ported that several lives have
been lost. Subscriptions have" heeli
opened in Havana for the relief of the
sufferers of St.- Thomas.
The loss of the steamship company at
St. Thomas will amount to $12,000,000.
Some five hundred bodies remaining un
buried have been buried on the island.
Hews has been received here from the
republic of Hayti up to the 2d instant.
The nows is important, as it shows the
cause of Genera! Montez, now confined in
a dungeon at Cape Ilaytian, has beeome
universally popular, probably owing to the
reaction in sentiment, caused by the recent
riotous proceedings at Port an Prince
against the members of the House of
Assembly when demanding of the govern
ment its reasons for keeping him confined
unconstitutionally, and without the benefit
of a trial or qourt martial. They have
been ordered to report instantly for his
trial on the accusation of- Havin, who
headed a revolt. The leading Geffrardists
have been expelled from the republic.
Advices from Venezuela to the 25th ult.,
have been received. The rebellion had
been quelled, and the insurgents pardoned.
Anew Cabinet had been formed.
A Fatal Family Affray.—On Mon
day last, at Blandville, Kentucky, T. I).
Campbell shot and fatally wounded A. J.
Warden and also Warden’s daughter, a
young lady about eighteen. Warden and
Campbell are brothers-in-law. The cause
of the trouble is supposed to .be the im
proper conduct of Campbell toward War
den’s family. Warden had threatened to
kill Campbell.
' They met iust on the edge of the village,
when Campbell halted and ordered War
den not to approach him. Warden kept
approaching, and Campbell, after hacking
about twenty feet, fired a revolver, hitting
Warden in the mouth. The hall was ex
tracted from the back part of the neck.
When Warden fell, his daoghter came
to him, and taking her father’s pistol,
commenced advancing upon Campbell. He
warned her not to do so, and kept try
ing to act away. She fired at him, when
he fired at her, cutting her ear. She soon
followed, and Campbell retreated two hun
dred yards, when he fired, hitting her in
the bowels, inflicting a mortal wound.
Campbell gave himself up and is now in
jail. There is no hope of either of the
wounded parties recovering. Campbell
was formerly Sheriff of that county. War
den is the present Circnit Clerk.
Scarcity of Grain— Sow Wheat.—
We fear that the great scarcity of corn
and wheat in this State does not sufficient
ly impress itself upon the minds of our
people. Ihe cotton and tobacco crop made
in the State will afford but little surplus
cash with which to buy bread and meat.
In some counties, we learn, it is thought
that the breadstuff's made will last longer
than April or May.
It is, therefore, of the first importance,
that a large crop of wheat should be sown.
We hope our planters have already attend
ed to this—but they cannot put in too
much wheat.
Care should also he taken for preserva
tion of the sweet potato crop, this winter.
The crop is a large one, and, if properly
husbanded, may go far to relieve the lack
of bread. Fall or winter planting of an
early crop of Irish potatoes should be at
tended to. — Raleigh, Sentinel.
Hard on Gen. Pope’s Advertising
Organs. —Shameless hypocrites! Vi)#
herd that vc are. Accept goods from the
robber and basely boast of your possessioa
of others’ property. You are not a»d
never can be the legitimate official oTgana
of any county in Georgia, and yet you
keep this standing libel at the mast-head
of your dirty sheets. “Official,” indeed;
ye3, you are tho official tools of an “official*
robber, and the lying, whining, fawning,
pliant sycophants of power, and the truea
ling, sniveling, driveling pensioners on
fraud and petty tyranny.
You filch from honest men their rights—
the very bread and meat from their wiv**
and children, and then insult the country
with blatant plaudits of the theft. Away
with you; the language has no synonym
for your baseness; the Bible no saving
grace for your hell-mortgaged souis. Go
walk the earth with Ahasuerus, and with
him live on till the end comes—
Weary, worn, wrung and riven,
By hell deserted audl'rom heaven driven.
Albany ( Ga.) New*.
Soap and Cologne Water. —It is be
lieved that the Georgia Mongrel Menagerie
will assemble in Atlanta. Before the
dirty thing can be presentable, it will be
necessary to put the members thereof
through a general scrubbing, scouring
and washing, the work to be completed by
perfuming them. This will require a vast
outlay of soap and cologne. Persons de
siring to contract for furnishing the mate
rial may apply to Mr. V. A. Gaskill,—.
LaGranye Reporter,