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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1868)
' .''' . ? v OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. Cktomcle & Jcntittd. HliNllV MOO 11 Si A., 11. WIUGHT. PATRIC K WAIS**, Associate ECltor. TBttJIA OF -I BHCKinm on ~ - #1 « t. n . 9 00 . 10 vO ( '„ l ..10 t , l ;.., 130 ! »• 8 M ACCJIJKTA. <<A : IXK.BUI If©! *>* (~ MAT n. Religious Miltings.—A very interest. ing meeting has been going on at Si. John's and St. James Episcopal Metho dist Churches during the past three or four weeks. Last week it was held at St. James'Church, and this weak it will be resumed at 'it. John's. Several have joined the Church. Processor Hut's Band.—The vete ran mu- iciari, Prole -or Hett, is still pre , pared to furnish music for pie-nies. private ; parties, and all other amnseui'off and en tertainments. It is well known that the i Professor furnishes ehoieo urufo, and, j Iri.m his 1opi? re.-; knee and willingness to , help out all cl ni-t'ik ent&rtainmjnts, he is entitled to and w-d-i •*-<irsrir»#e of consid eration at th handp of all our people. We hope he will not he forgotten by his old friends. Homkthi.no New. —We were shown, i Monday, at the well-known store of l)r. j W. II Tutt, the latest and most complete patent of a soda water apparatus which, for handsomeness of design, beauty of j finish and eoinpleteoess ot meehanism, : mfpu es anything of ih, et ever brought 1 into i hia city before. * It is from the celebrated manufactory of Puller, and is arranged so as to contain | Bu<la, Kissengcn, Congress and Vichy waters in the same fountain; is also sup- j plied with the choicest and purest syrups. ; Th >-e who wi h to know more about the i matter shouM cal! and see for themselves. ( Anniversary of the Augusta Bible Society. The anniversary meeting of the Augusta Bible Society was held at the (Lei ii Street Baptist Church on Sunday ovctiini' last. In a edition to tho religious services ad dres e» appropriate to the occasion were delivered by Uev. Mr. Wright, Dr. D. Ford, and Judge Hook. The report of tho Board was read by Rev. Mr. Lamar, of the Christian Chapel, and was an able and interesting document. It will he published on Sunday morning next. The meeting was a very interesting one, and Very satisfactory to tho members and friends ol' the Society. Tiie Opera. —Miss McCulloch was re ceived most rapturously in the Barber of Seville lust night, by a crowded house, com posed of the most fashionable and elegant people of Augusta and its surrouuding Country, Never has a young artist, ap pearing for the first time, been so hand somely complimented. She received thun det of applause both in her chaste and spirited rendition of the “w»a voce p/oco fa,” the great trial piece of pi inn i donna, and in her pure and beautiful, simple bal lad style for tho “Last Ilose of Summer.” Miss McCulloch is now, for the first time, proving to the people of Augusta that the people of Charleston aodSavan*- nah, in their remarkable demonstrations, were not led astray by partiality. Os the other members of this splendid combination it is unnecessary for us to say any thing complimentary, as they are already familiar to tins people of the South. There is the famous Susini, whom to look at on the stage is sufficient to provuk laughter from tho Aminadab Sleek, to getlier with Signors Beyo, Orlandtnt and Locate Hi. Important To Young 31 in. —The Com mercial Schoollloornot Mr. J. Alma l’elot lms been moved to tho rooms of his day school on Jackson street. Wo desire to di- ! root especial attention to tho advantages ! presented by tho course of instruction afford- j cd by this school. For over thirty years Mr. ; Helot lms been a to-iaher. Having himself i received a thorough education, and com j hi mug the theoretical and practical for so I long a time, there is noone more qualified to ! discharge the important and arduous duties | .•f a teacher. In his day school for boys ; and girl*, the usual classical, mathematical 1 and English branches are taught. l-’or i-'ii years preceding tho war, Mr. Pelot was'professor of Writing and Book- Keeping in Ae High School of Charleston. Many young tuen who received instructions from him are now tilling situations in every branch of business. Mr. Pelot is still prepared to afford tho same or , similar advantages t* the young men of our city ; ud thus prepare them for business. Mr. Pelot is also prepared to execute public and private tyriting, plaiu and ornamental, embracing luv stylo that can j l>e executed with the per, in the highest ! perfection. For further particulars we j refer the reader to Mr. Pelot, who will be found at his residence on Jackson street. Bv.vere Hail Storm.—A severe hail storm passed over this city on luesday afternoon between 41 and 5 o'clock. The rain was tho heaviest that has fallen in some time, Hooding the streets iu a very short apace of time, while the fall of hail was incessant for several minutes. The thunder and lightning was also very severe and considerable wind accompanied the storm. Fashions for Jink. — We have re oeived from Mr. Quinn, newsdealer, Godty s Lady's Book and Ltdie's Lady s Magazine tor J une. They are embellished with handsome fashion plates and en gv .vings. and will be found to eontaiu much that is especially interesting to the ladies. The Oldest Inhabitant. '—That well-known and reliable gentleman the ■‘oldest inhabitant,” remembers nothing . %e his day, iu the way of rain and hail storm at this season of the year, so ex ceedingly severe as the one which visited j this Tuesday aficruo.m. The street ar.-fv : compelled to stop running fora time, and some of our young gentlemen 1 uimcci themselves by boating on Broad , street and getting dipped by way of va riety. Speaking of rainstorms a gentleman from itc ei unity said to a friend tbat it rained so bard up the road, that birds aud amm soi the smaller specie' were killed; mint the heavy pressure. Our rain was some, but it dldu't come up to that! Th. 0 lobe Hotel gutter was struck by ligbuniu, but bo seriou' injury that we could fit ar ot was done. iv.. of the street bridge* were washed up t; r.i the Mouth side of Broad stteet, at thi 11 ; i red Elbert, and carried by the force of the water to the op; osite side of the street, where they now ho. We> also understand that so (Treat was the depth of water along the line of the Georgia Kali re ad. that a horse was drown ed in tho public road between here and Ben vita. Southern Goods in .New York.— iirtitcn Sheetings and Shillings—May 15, 186 K—-4-4 Augusta, 17e; Ido 14ic; 4 4 \i arm! A, J7e; 4 4 Biue Rvige 14c; 4-4 Eutpiri A, 12jc; 4-4 Grauitevil.e Standard, 17; dei fc E, 16ie, ; do Hie Mbieelgcville U»na burgs 2tta; Santee do Use; Miiledgc vffl. Kerseys 27fc. VriHs -Augusta ifife; Grauiteviile 16*c for Standard. Inbtmoas. ! When the representatives of a people, j into whose keeping is committed their . right* and liberties, become so infamously’ i lost to all Beta-0 of honor and truth as to | violate their solemn oath iff office for party j purposes and ends, then such men have ; sank into the lowest depths of human de : pravity. They are criminals—-murderers i of their country's liberty- traitors and por- I jurers before God and man. The reader ! will have no difficulty in making the ’ application to the dominant party id i Congress. But this is not all the infamy which these men have earned for ; themselves. Not content with rioting in evii-doing, so fanatical aud fiendish have they become that they seek to drag others down into the same Radical sink of iniqui ty. Because some men did not fail down and worship the Radical idol and throw all principles of truth and religion at its feet, these perjurers and traitors now cry out against them for discharging theirduties in accordance with their conscience and oath of office. The leading papers and men of this Rad ical party speak of the responsibility of an oath as if it were a more idle breath—and here we produce the evidence, showing that no obligations, no mutter how binding or sacred, arc to be regarded when party purposes are to be subserved. THE INFAMY OF HORACE GREELEY, “The intolerance of religionists is pro- t verbial. »S ’txtartnas torture and burn Party spirit, if the age permitted, wmdd' commit the same excesses. 'Jhe rancor of pa sty now is little Ins than fiendish. A difference of opinion in the Republican party subjects tho and; eerier to pro- ; Kcription and persecution. Already the national organ of the Republican party, | in anticipation ot the pu -Mbdity that tome : Republican Senator may not think the { evidence against the [’resident strong I enough to convict him, dooms (hat Seri- j atpr to 'infamy.' Away, say s the Tribune, with all 'cant about the responsibility of an oath.' “Aud, yet, how much more deserving of I punishment and ‘infamy’ i-> the editor of the Tribune himself than either the President ; ora conscientious Senator? Lid he not, ' by his reckless and persistent defence oi accession, bring on rebellion and war ? In j the darkest days ot that war dtseourage ! the army and the people by clamoring for ; ‘peace upon the best attainable terms?’ J And even within the last month, while | illicit whiskey manufacturers and dealers I have corrupted an army of revenue of- 1 hears, and paralyzed Congress, did he not ! write a letter asking for the confirmation of the candidate of the ‘whiskey ring’ as 1 commissioner ? Did he not, in 1861, after Mr. Lincoln was renominated, write secret letters urging a Hank movement with a view to defeat, hts election?— New York Cos in mercial Ad vertiser. The National Intel! iyeneer, in comment- ' ing ou the infamy of Greeley, makes the following remarks ; “The general public respect is greatly ! desired by politicians, and it is usually accorded eveu to extreme partisans, where | it is not felt that there that real blackness of heart that takes close hold upon appa rent criminal intent and disposition. It is in this very view that Mr. Greeley, of the j New York Tribune, has maintained place in his own party, while opposing, as was j supposed upon principle, some of their measures, and not from asense of that mer oenarincss which, for a sufficient considera tion, would have presented to the world j another example in villainy ol' a Judas, Benedict Arnold, or any of the whole pack of purchased traitors and assassins of character that history records. An un doubted public opinion of two-thirds of the j white people of the United States, if not I of the world, puts Mr. Greeley in the j category of the latter. Moot men umci3*- t despise him tor hia multitudinous acts ol I late that have plunged him into the pro- I foundost depths of political infamy. “That we have in the above dealt iu no ! especial severity of expression as to Greeley, there is entire evidence in the following disgraceful dispatch to the Now i York Irtbune, which is evidently tho ! work of his hand at this point, where he i now is;” “Trumbull, Fessenden, and Grimes, | ‘poor Grimes,’ were more conspicuous than ; ever before. The infamous notoriety which tiiey had obtained made every stranger ask ; to have them pointed out to him. They \ sat alone in their seats. Nobody who had j the least regard for his reputation ventured \ near them Can one touch pitch and not \ be defiled f seemed to be the unanimous sentiment. Grimes , curled himself upon his seat, as mean, repulsive and noxious as a hedge hog in the cage of a travelling me nagerie; and so they sat, the target of j scoff's, white five hundred lorgnettes were \ scanning their faces for some indication in j their facial lines of the deep, dark treachery of their hearts. Trumbull smiled, flow ; different his look from that of the light, fresh boy—his son it may be —whom he caressed. Fessenden busied himsilf with i his correspond! nee. Indignant Nnc Eng- ‘ landers asked, What has New England done that she should have such a representa tive i “At 11:39 precisely the gavel of the) President pro ten i. called the Senate to j order. Every Senator was in his seat, i The silence was almost painful. After a fervent prayer, in which a devout few j joined, the Chief Justice ascended the rostrum, and opened the Court by direct ing the Sergeant-at-arms to make procla- i raation. The journal of yesterday’s secret session, a dull, dry record of motion and j votes, was read. It contained none of the , burning words of Morton or Wilson. It • gave little evidence of the treachery of 1 rum bull, the falsehood of Fessenden, or the par- i ty tr.ason of Grimes.” Death of Dr. J. T. Paterson.— ln the Savannah News & Herald of Monday, we find the following particulars of the death of Dr el. T. Paterson, who, previous to aud during tho war, was a resident of this i city, where he was engaged at different times as a lithographer of Confederate money and general printer. About one o'clock Saturday it was ru-1 mored that Dr. J. L\ Paterson had com- I nutted suicide by taking laudanum at his I room in the Pavilion House. Ou making inquiries at the proper ; sources, we learned that Dr. Paterson had died a few minutes before twelve o’clock. The night before he came in about eleven o'clock, apparently in a very nervous con dition. aud laid down with his clothes on. Between twelve and two o’clock he arose and took three or four drinks of spirits. His wife, who was lying on tho loutige, being aroused by some movement or re mark of the Doctor, asked him what he had taken. His reply was “laudanum.” t She then asked him how much he had taken, to which he replied, “forty drops.” “Is net that a large dose?’’ said she. 1 “No.” he replied, “not for a man iu my j condition.” This remark quieted his wife, and after sonic further conversation both j went to sleep. About eight o’clock in the ■ morning the proprietor of the hotel came in and asked the Doctor some questions, to which he made answer.-, but nbue of them very rational. lie did not get up then, but laid on the bed aud sunk into a deep sleep, breathing very heavily. About eleven o’clock his wife became alarmed at his sleeping so long and breathing so | heavily, and tried to awake him to eon j setousness Failing iu this, she sene for Dr. J. D. Fish, the attendant physician, who arrived about half past eleven o'clock. He found the patient in an insensible con dition, with all the indication' which follow the takii.a of laudanum. Remedies were found useless, and a tew minutes after the Doctor's arrival the soul of James X. Pat- erson winged its flight to another world. It is supposed by many that the deceased ! committed suicide, and there were many 1 rumors afloat ou the streets relative to the , causes which prompted him to end his earthly existence, bat we sre not advised that any of them have a just foundation. It i' the opinion of Dr. Fish that the de ceased did not intend to commit suicide, that he had been drinking and was I nervous, and finding that he could not i sleep, had resource to laudanum, a bottle of which was always kept iu the sideboard; that unwittingly he either took more than j he intended, or thought that the quantity taken would only pri luce the repose which he stood in need oil The Doctor states that : he attended the deceased two or three days previous, aud had several converttious witti him, aud saw nothing either in his . conduct or conversation to indicate that he , was at all depressed, orthat he in the least meditated Lining himself , The deceased is a Scotchman by birth, i very intelligent, and at the time of his death was thirty-six years of age. Several years previous to the war he came to Bos ton, Massachusetts, and engaged in his profession of dentistry. There he married, and also there his wife died, after which ' he removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he worked as a dentist for some time, and then moved to Augusta, Geor gia, where he worked at his profession. While there he married his present wife. At the breaking out of the war he went to Richmond, Ya., and, we learn, was lor a time a surgeon in the €. S. A. During the latter part of the war he was employ ed in Richmond, Va , and Columbia, S. 0., lithographing Confederate money. After the close of the war, some time iu the fail of 1865, he removed to this city. '■ He had been carrying on an extensive lumber business for some time past, hav ing his mills at Darien and his office here. Ilis remains were taken to Augusta yes terday by the Central Railroad, where they wiil tie interred in a lot of the family in the cemetery there. Liverpool Cotton Market. —The following report is from the weekly market report of Watts k Cos., for the week end ing May Ist : In our issue of Friday, 24tli ultimo, we reported the market as closing firm at : i 12jd to 12; and j'or Middling Uplands and Orteafis. On Saturday the tenor of tiie American at vices led to quite an active speculative demand, and cotton to arrive ■ improved about | t, whilst cotton on the i spot, which was relatively cheapest, ad- i vanned fully id. Ou Holiday the news J from nil quarters was reyarded as favora ble. The light reoeipp- at the American po; t : were cuniinneJ, Vi/. : J yr.lo bases foi ihe week ending 241 h instant—improved quotations from New York—news of the successful termination of the Abyssinian war, and apparently positive confirmation of the disarmament, or rather of the re duction of the armed forces of principal Continental powers. The result was, tho market opened with a strong speculative demand, at an advance of id io Jd on Saturday’s prices. This advance brought out a large number of sellers, especially of cotton on shipboard, in port. It will be borne in mind tire imports last week were excessively large, aud that a very largo proportion had been purchased to arrive, and by sellirg from quay (delivered in warehouse) theseller obviated the neces sity ol negotiating for paymeutof his pur chases. This, together "with the lieavy shipments from American ports—39,ooo bales for week ending 24th instant, against 32,000 the week before—gave a downard turn to the market, and as tiie imports have since been large, from day to-daj prices have continued to decline notwith standing reports that receipts at the American ports, for the week ending to day, point to rather less than last week. Our quotations, as given above, are almost :nominal , for notwithstanding the business of the week, as sbowu.hy mu tables, has been liberal, the actual sales ou the spot have been extremely small, both tiie trade and exporters having sup plied themselves out of parcels purchased to arrive. As compared with our last re port, our present quotations show an improvement of id iri Surats and Brazil, id i» Egyptian, and American unchanged, iu Cotton to arrive a small business lias been done since Monday last, and tiie elfish quotations are for distant ship ments, A nerican, basis of middling, ship named, Uplands 12$d, Mobile 12£ and Or leans 134d, Aineriean from quay Id lower than on spot. Oomrawutiee, fair new merchants, March-April sailing lOd. The sales of the week, ending last even ing, sum up 80,170 bales, of which 62,010 were to the trade, 11,140 declared for ex- port, and 23,320 ou- speculation. Export ers, it wiil be noticed, continue to* buy very sparingly, the actual exports for tiie past six months having averaged only 9,242 bah s, nor cun we expect much im provement until we have a belter supply of Sural-s. The general position oi the market is but little changed since our lust report. The imparts of the week have been large, say 06,390 bales, and we have a further iti crease in the stock of-39,930 bates, which is now only 290,840,ba1es less than last year ; whereas last week the deficit in stock was 339,810 bales. Yet taking into account the cot Lou reported at sea, the ap parent deficit now, as compared with last year, is 522,840 bales, against 522,810 as par our last report, American advices. —Tho recent rapid falling off in the receipts at the American ports has apparently demonstrated that from now until the close of the season (31st August) the receipts will not vary mate rially from last year, and hence, without some notable change, weeanno expect them to have much inrtueueo.on this mar net. rora lew weeusV ) runic, mn. e»ce, the shipments from the American ports will L>e watched with more than usual interest, and will exert a more marked influence on prices. On the 20th of March lust the stock in the American ports was repr i ted at 311,000 to 350,000 bales, against 686,000 at the same date last year, and yet, since that, date—six weeks—the exports to this country and tho continent have averaged 4,3*00 bales per week more than last year; hut now that thestocKS are re duced to so low a point, and the American markets continue relatively dearer than this, an eariy abrupt falling elf iu ship ments is confidently expected. Advices in references to the crop prospects the present season now begin to attract eon si de ra b 1 e a t ten lion. At Manchester trade has, during the past week, been very quiet, particularly the market for cloths, the stock of which is accumulating and prices relatively lower than the present cost ol the raw material. Asa consequence short time is iu same instances being resorted to, aud will no doubt gradually extend. From New York, advices to last evening quote middling Uplands 32ic, with gold at 1391. Our private telegrams reports stocks at American ports, 24th instant, 221,000 bales, against 410,000 last year. Havre stock 2-lili iustant 33,000 bales, against 77,000 last year. London stock last evening 45,520 bales, against 47,920 last year. From Bombay telegrams to 23rd instant quote fair new Dhollerah equal to 9Jd to Old sold here. The Eleventh Impeachment Article. That tho reader may be enabled to form his opinion of the vote taken in the 1m- j peachment Court Saturday, we annex the Eleventh Article, which was the subject ; matter of the Senate’s action : ARTICLE XI. That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his office, and in disregard j of the Constitution and laws of the United States did heretofore, to-wit: on the 18th i day of August, 1866, at the city of Wash- j ington, and District of Columbia, by pub- j lie speech declare and affirm in substance, j that the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the i United States was not a Congress of the ) United States authorized by the Constitu tion to exercise legislative power under the same ; but, on the contrary, was a t Congress ofouiy part of the States, there by denying and intending to deny that the 1 legislation of said Congress was valid or j obligatory upon him, tie said Andrew Johnson, except in so far as he saw lit to j approve the same, and also thereby de nying and intending to deny the power of the said Thirty-Ninth Congress to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and, in pursuance of said i declaration, the said Andrew Johnson, j President of the United Stales, afterward, j l to-wit: on the 21st day of February, 1868, at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, did unlawfully and in di.-re- 1 gard of the requirements of the Constitu tion, that he should take care that the Saws be faithfully executed, attempt to prevent the execution of an act entitled an . “An act regulating the tenure of certain j civil offices,” passed March 2d, 1867, by j unlawfully devising and eontriviug and at ' tempting to devise and contrive means by ! which he should prevent Edwin M. Stan ton from forthwith resuming the functions of the office of Secretary for the Depart; meat of War notwithstanding the refusal of the Senate to concur in the suspension theretofore made by said Andrew Johnson, j of said Edwin M. Stanton from said office of Secretary for the Department of War, and also by further unlawfully devising and contriving and attempting to devise and contrive means then and there to pre vent the execution of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June ■ 30. l x 6B and for other purposes,” approv ed March 2, 1867. and also to prevent the execution of an act entitled “An act to provide lor the more efficient government ot therel el States,” passed March 2,1867; whereby the said Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United States, did then, to wit: ' on the 21st day of February. IS6B, at the city of Washington, commit and was guilty of a high rut'demeanor in office. Hon. John B. Henderson.—Thin gen tleman was the recipient oi a dispatch yes terday trotu his “friends’ iD St. Louis, to which he returned the answer given be low. They need no commentary ; "St. Lol ls, May 13, 1368. ‘ 'Sou. John B. Henderson : “There is intense excitement here. Meeting callied tor to-morrow night. Can your friends hope that you will vote for the eleventh article ? If so ail ■will be welL “E. W. Fox.” ANSWER. “If. If. Fox , St Louis, Mo.: “Say to my friends that I am sworn to do impartial justice according to law and the evidence, and I will try to do it, 'ike an honest man. J. B. Hendehson. The delegates to the Chicago Conven tion from California are instructed to vote for U. S. Grant for President; at liberty ou the question ol Vice President. ! The Latest Sensation from Washington. The attention of our readers was doubt less arrested by the telegram from Wash ington, in yesterday 's Chronicle k Sentinel , announcing that Cabinet changes were in j contemplation which would tend to heal ! the breach now existing between Congress and the President. The latter, it was sta ; ted, would cease obstructing Reconstruc tion, because the march of events had ren ' dered further opposition useless and futile, and because the material interests of the South require immediate representation. V\ e did not attach the least importance i to these statements, because they bore in P a rt their own refutation upon their face, and further because we have received so much of the sensational from Washington of late, that we very naturally concluded that this was merely one of the thousand rumors which have been flying around the Capital ever since the impeachment busi ness was commenced in good earnest. The following special to the New York \ limes seems to give some plausibility to ! the story, and we insert it that our readers may judge for themselves how much of probability there may be in these startling ! statements. VVe cun hardly believe that Governor j Pratt, Mr. Yoorhees and President John- ■ son have had atty definite understanding Ufopo t-tus ■ oitKnr do we b^-isvc that Mr. Chase hits determined to break off entirely his allegiance to the Republi can party. It is true that he has opposed and still opposes many of* the extreme and violent measures of his party; that he has been, from the first, opposed to the folly of impeachment, but we have had as yet no authoritative indication from him that he was prepared in any event to make a final separation from the Republican party. We can very well imagine that the President, after having been so shamefully abandoned by the prominent leaders, and most of the influential Northern Demo cratic journals, in bis late contest with the revolutionary cabal in Congress, should be in a frame of mind which might induce him to seek an alliance with those persons who have stood by him in his hour of ad versity and trial. He is, however, a gen tleman of too much good sense, has too clear a perception of the situation, to allow himself to become entangled with an alliauce which gives no greater promise of success than that which is now unfolded in the columns of tho Times. vYe believe that Grant will be nomina ted to-day by the Jacobins assembled at Chicago, and that he will be run upon a platform in which the great questions now at issue before tho country will be adroitly avoided or ignored. We shall hear noth ing of the great doctrine of universal negro suffrage, nor the hardly less important questions of finance and tariff, but the country will be asked to give -its suffrage to Grant upon the strength alone of his personal service rendered in crushing out the rebellion (so-called). We may be mistaken but we believe that Chase and Fessenden, and Grimes, Norton, and Hen derson will rally to his support if he is run upon such a platform. The Times' article is as follows : A THIRD POLITICAL PARTY PROPOSED. “The most astounding political intrigue ever known to the politics of this country is now on foot among prominent politicians and office-holders in this city and elsewhere. The chief movers in it are Andrew John son, President of the United States, after acquittal, and Chief Justice Chase. The object is the formation of a third party, and the defeat of Gen. Grant if nominat ed at Chicago. On Tuesday last Ex-Gay. IVntt, of Maryland, said . that acquittal ■ WCtna.ivik/r., «,..i c.g .1— ... .... the country wouid be astonished by an en tire change of Cabinet. It lias since tran spired that the President, has agreed, to send in a ucw Cabinet of- Republicans, immediately after acquittal, and Jo adopt and strictly carry out the Reconstruction measures of Congress. Senator Hender son last night stated this agreement to be a fact,and it is believed by shrewd judges to be one of the principal elements where by sufficient strength and power may be given to Mr. Chase’s party to make it formidable, aud throw the President ial election into the House of Repre sentatives, if not to elect its candidate before the people. This movement expects to be able to defeat General Grant by ar raying itself against the extreme Radical element in the Republican party, which, it is believed, will be his main support. The proposition that the President shall abandon his opposition to Congress is in tended to neutralize the power of that body long enough to make inroads upon it iin favor or this movement. When the Ad ministration is fully reorganized, its power and patronage will be used to enhance Mr. ; Chase’s prospects. It is not believed he would accept a Democratic nomination, ! but the fact that Mr. Yoorhees and many ; other prominent Democrats openly advo ; cate his nomination, is conclusive that a strong Democratic support is at his com mand. Mr. Chase is unreserved in his ex pressions of contempt for General Grant as a political leader, and lor the impeach ment movement, and bewails what he terras the tendency ot the party to take up with small men, and says the party has surrendered to Gen. Grant, His influence has been exerted from the beginning to defeat the impeachment, and he is believed to have done more than any other man to secure the acquittal of Mr. Johnson. Hence the latter is willing, if acquitted, to reward Mr. Chase by throw ing the influence of the administration in his favor. The discovery of this intrigue has startled the political metropolis to its very centre. All eyes are anxiously turned on the Chicago Convention. The in triguers hope for the nomination ot Wade as Vice President, which they claim will place Grant on such an extreme Radical basis as to afford additional capital for the now combination. These are the develop ments which are in everybody’s mouth to day, to the exclusion almost of even the verdict. Those who choose can take these statements cum gramo salts. But they are based on the facts and names men tioned above, and have an absolute foun dation. One thing is certain, the Chief Justice is still a candidate for tho Presi dency; any one who doubts this deserves a straight jacket.” (communicated. ] ‘•Opposed to Church Union.” Messrs. Editors : In the Chronicle k Sentinel of the loth inst, you introduce a letter from Rev. J. E. Evans in reference to , the union of all Protestant Churches with the editorial remark “We have reason to believe that the latter days of most j eloquent and beloved head of the Eniseo j pal Church in Georgia, the lamented Biffi- : op Elliott, were earnestly devoted to the ef fort of bringing about a union both in spirit and in »ome,of all the 1 ranches of the Protestant Church in the South, and we are glad to find his distinguished successor has taken up the good work so soon after his induction to the position so worthily and efficiently held by his lamented prede cessor It is true, as I learn, that Bishop Elliott was anxious for a union of the Episcopal and Methodist Church South and may be of all the other Protestant Churches. A* to a union of the Episcopal and Methodist Churches he was quite liberal in his views, declaring bis willingness, so I am informed, to accept whatever was effi dent arid valuable,and reject allth at might be found objectionable in each. In this spirit he a'ked that we accept of a reordination of our Bishops and a modi fied ritual and he on his part would leeog nize the validity of our other ordinations and adopt our itinerancy—the remaining differences to be adjusted in the same spirit. This, you will perceive, is quite a differ ent proposition from that submitted by bis successor. According to the letter of Rev. Mr. Evans. Bishop Beckwith pro poses that all other Protestant Churches ; shall renounce and abandon their organi : zations, and come over to the Episcopal Church. We apprehend that no other bratic-h of the Chris Lain Church would ac cept a union on these terms. When werefleet that tbe Methodist church in this State numbers about 75,000 coal man! mts. and Church oniy about 2,000 i1 hiWnot the precis? figures i. the proposition of the Bishop,so for as the i Methodist Church alone is concerned, i must appear rather singular. ! The real issue, Messrs. Editors, is not a ; «it ton of all Protestant Churches on terms i of mutual agreement, but their absorption by the Episcopal Church. We are,hi other words, asked to abandcraour churches and go over to that Church—to repudiate our AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 186S i doctrines, ordinations and form of service, ’ and accept theirs. -jMf The Catholicity ofthis scheme we fail ' to perceive. Begging your indulgence for this tres i pass ou your columns, I am yours, respectfully, Akminyc* Wright. May 18th, 1863. ** While we admit, with pleasure, the above 1 coma unication from our esteemed corre spondent, we must beg to remind him and j others, that the Chronicle Sentinel is a : purely secular journal, We cannot afford, I therefore, to permit the use of its columns ! for the purposes of sectarian discussion. I As public journalists it is our duty, as it j is our pleasure, to lay before our readers ; items of news occurring in the political, scientific, and religious world. Asa mere item of news we published the card of the Rev. Mr. Evans. The expression of our . hope for a union of all the Christian Churc-bs of the land, was not made in a partisan spirit, and we are sorry if such a construction has been placed on our re marks. — Eds. C. cb S. To ('orrespoiidents. We have received a lengthy and well written letter from a lady correspondent at \\ ashingfon, Ga. We entirely agree with many of the views of or rdair correspond- j ent, but the great length of her letter, and j the pressure upon Hur cojumns, at this; time, prevent our publishing it. We hope, in a short time, to be able to give at least j parts of the letter an insertion. We would remind our. Burke correspond ent that it is a rule of this from | which we never depart, to require pay ment for all notices and communications of a personal character, and which can ben efit no one but the writer. Our friend will perceive the propriety of this rule and i that under its operation we cannot publish j his letter. We again remind our friends that in ! writing for this paper they must use but | one side of the sheet —we eannot publish articles or communications which are writ ten on both sides of the paper. The State Convention. We are giad to find the suggestion for a State Democratic Convention is eliciting a hearty response from the Democratic press. The Atlanta Intelligencer, the Rome Courier, LaGrange Reporter and Columbus Sun have responded in favor of the call, and we take pleasure in laying before our readers the following response from that sterling aud effective journal the Albany News. The News speaks for a section of country which covered itself with glory in the late canvass, and its Editor does not go out of his way to cast an insulting inuendo agamst the white people of Eastern Georgia. We commend this extract to the careful perusal of the Macon press ; W T e cordially endorse the proposition for a Convention, and urge its assembling, at Atlanta the day preceding the convening of the Legislature. There are potent reasons in favor of that time, but which we withhold for prudential considerations. It is not only vastly important to organize perfectly and compactly, the Democratic party of the State, but to fix its policy and shape its programme. Some changes are absolutely necessary, which can only be effected by a Convention, and, unlike our Macon cotemporary, we do see “special occasion for hot haste in the matter.” Delay uuder the present regime will pro duce stagnation, and lead us again to de feat. The party will stand it no longer, and we but reiterate the sentiment of thousands, when we appeal to the Com mittee to call a State Convention to meet at the place where the Legislature shall bo convened, the day previous to its assem bling- j. v- The Legislature. --~~ We have not attempted to publish a .complete list of the members of the Legis lature with tlioir correct classification, because the returns are so incomplete and conflicting as to leave the personnel of that body still in considerable doubt. We have examined and compared the lists as published in several of our ex changes, and, with the best lights before us, we have been brough t to the conclusion that the Senate is still uncertain. We count twenty-one Democrats, nineteen Radical?!, and four doubtful. In the House we count eighty-three Democrats, seventy nine Radicals, and eleven doubtful. Os the eleven doubtful we believo that more i than half—say six—will act and vote with i the Democrats. A full House would con sist of one hundred and seventy-five mem ! bers. Telfair and Irwin having failed to j hold an election will reduce the number to ; one hundred ur.d seventy-three. If wo are correct in our elassification_the Demo -1 crats will have a majority in the House of live, and on joint ballot of one , admitting that tiie four doubts ul Senators all go with the Radicals. If half of the doubtful Senators should vote with the Democrats it will give them a majority of three on joint ballot. We believe that the Demo cratic majority will be at least seven on a joint ballot. At any rate, the members I are very closely balanced, and we antici l pate a lively contest over the “loaves and I fishes. ’ ’ i Rooms Central Ex. Committee, } i Nat. Democratic Party of Georgia, > Macon, Ga., May 20, 1868. J The members of the above Committee ! are requested to meet at the Lanier House, in the city of Macon, on Thursday, the 28th lust., at 3 o’clock p, m. E. G. Cabaniss, Cham’n Cen. Derm Ex. Com. Democratic papers.requested to copy. County Court. —This Court was en- j gaged yesterday in the trial of a kidnap- , ping case, the parties being all negroes, 1 and the kidnapped a child - A great deal of interest was manifested in the ease, and the Court was crowded during the trial, j Southern Stocks in New York.— j New York, May 15: FIRST BOARD. 1 24000 Tenn 6’s now 661 ; 10000...d0.. 7 66 j ; 3000 Virginia Sfi's ex c0up........53 9000 Missouri 6’s 90* 5000 do 2d cal! 90£ ! 8000 N., Car S 6’s ex coup ...66 SECOND BOARD. 2500 North Car S 6’s new 64J 65000.....d0 65 I 3000 Missouri S 6’s 90 \ Pic-Nics. —The Pic-nics of the Episcopal : Sunday Schools on Tuesday, and of the Asbury Methodist Sunday School yester day, were very pleasant affairs, and ail who had the good fortune to be present on ; either occasion enjoyed themselves very much. We regret, however, that we were unable to accept the very pressing invita ■ tion to attend the latter ; and oar friends ' who sent it may rest assured that it was ; from no lack of good will to go that we were not with them in their happy festival. ; They will, however, accept our thanks and good wishes for many returns of this joy- ; ous season. Haloyondale, Ga., May is, 1868. Editors Chronicle <£' Sentinel, Augusta, Georgia : Gents Asa bit of news from Scriven I write you, desiring you to give the fol lowing a place in your valuable paper, that others may see and do likewise : A meeting of the practicing physicians of Scriven county, was held at Syivania on Saturday, the 18th inst , for the pur pose of taking into consideration and adopting sa*h measures as will cause de linquent patrons to liquidate their former claim.' and protect the Faculty from furth er imposition. Alter some discussion they agreed to issue an address to their patrons, setting forth their grievances, and pledging therii'eives one to another not to render medical aid to any one who refuses to set tle their medical accounts under plea of protec:ion from' the Relief Law. Also the appointment of a committee to mem orialize the next Legislature to grant the i Faculty of the Btate relief in the premises. M. D. [communicated. ] Messrs. Editors: Iu these times of corrup tion, when men have almost lost confidence in their feliow-men, it is gratifying to find some who retain the manhood of other days, and a freedom of thought, and an honor not to be purchased. Our immacu late Council, with “Spooney's Pet” its leader in all vi'lainies, has s°en fit to dis ■; charge men from the employment of the | c'ty for the very disloyal offence of having i spurned the clique of knaves that desired ; them to barter their integrity for the I spoils of office —discharged for the unpar donable and disloyal act of refusing to ex- I ereise, at the dictation of and in the man ner prescribed by the “pet impeachment witness,” that noble heritage of freemen, the ballot-box. These tneu had too much self-respect, too much loyalty to Georgia’s interest, too much, reverence for her fame to bow the neck to the puppets of power, and. if necessary, were willing to face penury and want rather than purchase ; comfort at such a price. It is the right of ! our citizens to know who the men are that have thus spit upon the power that en deavored to control them. The following ! are their names; j George Tankersley, James Doolittle, ‘ Samuel MeCook, T. L. Howard, F. L. Bradford, Thos. Callahan, John Hurley, Phil. Weigle, | Allen Morris, Thomas Lyons. J. M. Bouyer, W. Bridewell, | John Shields, Dan. Buckley, ' Chapley Smalley, I’ McNally, : Frank Frazier, Richard Hayes. | All of these are, I am informed, well tried men. George Tankersley has been on the Police for twenty-two years, and has been noted for tho faithful discharge of his duty. It is the duty of all our citizens who cherish honor to see that those men shall not suffer for their efforts to save the honor and dignity of Georgia. Democrat. The “liouquered Provinces”—Debate In the House. Washington, May 14, 1868. —The House at half-past one o’clock proceeded to the consideration of the bill to admit the States North of Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, to repre sentation in Congress. Mr. Pruyn addressed the House in op position to the bill. He reminded the House that tho theory which was origin ated by Mr. Stevens, and expressed in this bill, as to the Southern States beiug con quered provinces, had been received with strong disapprobation by President Lin coln’s cabinet. It was in fact a direct censure on Mr. Lincoln. The ten minutes granted to Mr. Pruyn expired before he was able to present his argument. Mr. Brooks then took the floor on the same side. He remarked that the repre sentatives of the revolutionary measures John Hurley, Allen Morris, of the House were not in their seats, but were, as he was informed, assembled else where in the basement of the Capitol con cocting measures for a future impeachment of the Executive, and for the final over throw of that branch of the government. [Here Mr. Brooks noticed that Mr. Stcv ; ens was occupying a seat at the clerk’s ; desk. 1 The other revolutionary members of the junta were, however, he said, else- I where plotting, leaving the gentleman i from Pennsylvania to attend to his meas ure. That gentleman, ho said, was the master spirit and controller, not only of the legislation of the House, but more or less of the country. Whatever measures that gentleman seriously proposed were quite sure, sooner or iater, to become the law of the country. If the impeachment scheme .-eemed likely to be a failure the only pros pect of its success was understood to be ou the eleventh article, framed by the gentle man from Pennsylvania; and if the meas ure should fail the gentleman (Btevens) would never sleep day or night until he obtained some other means of forcing 1 articles of impeachment through tho j House. It was to insure successin the I Senate by having twenty additional Sena | tors there that this bill was being forced j through. Hence five States were grouped in one bill, and five constitutions all mud j died together, which he was sure no mem- I ber of the House had read through From ; the best computation he had been able to ! make there were over 250,000 white rp Y 1 , a ' suffrage, and compelled to pay. taxes ! without having tho light of representation. | Talking of the “carpet-baggers,” he said, ! that there were hanging around the Capitol i rwo Yankee delegations from the State of i Florida, who had not. been long enough from their own State to have got rid of their nasal twang. Mr. Stevens (Pa.) remarked that Florida was not embraced in the bill be-, fore the House, and that he agreed with the gentleman from New York in what he said about Florida. He added that he was determined to agree with the gentleman, but that he did not like to let him know it beforehand, i Mr. Brooks said he was happy to have ! the indorsement of the gentleman from 1 Pennsylvania, but their Yankee friends ; were not limited to the little State of ■ Florida. They had turned up in Georgia, | Alabama, South Carolina and elsewhere, i Os the two men applying to be admitted 1 as Senators from Arkansas, one was from | Cattaraugus county, New York, and the others front Pennsylvania. Both wore | squatters, both were carpet-baggers, i Messrs. Paine and Bingham followed in advocacy of the bill, the latter, however, i criticising some of its features. Mr. Woodbridge moved to amend the bill by striking out the word “Alabama,” wherever it occurs, on the ground that a majority of the voters of Alabama had not voted in favor of the Constitution as provided in the Reconstruction law. Mr. Benjamin moved to amend by strik ingoutofthe first section tkeclause prohib- I iting the change in the Constitution, and ! inserting instead of it the words: “That i the Constitution of said States shall never | be amended or changed so as to discrim ! ioate in favor of or against any citizen or j class of citizens in the United States, in reference to the right to vote, who are now entitled to vote by said Constitutions.” Mr. Bingham said he would accept that as a substitute for his own amendment. Mr. Baum ask leave to offer the follow ing amendment: “And it is hereby made the duty of the President, within ten ten days after re ceiving official information of the ratifica tion of said amendment by the Legislature of either of said States, to issue a procla mation announcing that fact.” Mr, Stevens—l agree to that; it is part I of the bill now. The question was taken on Mr. Wood | bridge’s amendment to strike out Alabama, . and it was rejected—yeas 60, nays 74. i Mr. Stevens closed the debate, and de nounced the course of the other side in discussing himself rather than the measure, | saying that for ten years no man 03 that | side of the House has risen on any import ant question but that a person on entering j the gallery would think that he was on trial j for some offence He especially condemn j ed this course on the part of the gentleman : from New York (Mr. Brooks), and assured gentlemen that he did not take their re marks as flattering to himself, but as in tended to disgrace other members of the House. He asked if the gentleman sup- posed this excessive, unneessary and unjustifiable praise of one individual is so to excite the ambition, or rather the envy, of the rest of the members, as to induce them to forget the arts, the low arts of low cunning, of low argument, not of low gen- 1 | tlemen, but of gentlemen who use low I language. j Mr. Stevens then remarked upon the inconsistency of censuring the Republican ! party for keeping these States out of the i 1 Union, and yet opposing their admission, j \ But there is, he said, a great complaint ! that the negro is to be let in to govern, j Ho thought the gentleman from New York j had been asleep, and invited him to wake I up and look at the changes which have taken place. He will find, he said, no bondage within this fair land which God I made tree and which man madd slave, and ; which again God has made free through the agency of the infernal regions in war, in bloodshed, and which I trust the Al mighty ruler will never again permit to be j made slaves. In other words, I trust that ! he will never permit the Democratic party to gain the ascendancy ; for just as sure as it does the same spirit of despotism which 1 disgraced this nation for centuries will I again riot, for it is rank in their breasts toward every colored man whom they call their inferior, and who would yet be in \ ferior to them if' they could wield the lash 1 over his back. I therefore say at once that 1 I have no apology to offer for the admis sion that we intend that these men shall have a right to compete in intellect, in science, in religion, with the gentleman from New York and his constituents of the Five Points, with myself and the honest yeomanry around me, and with all the people of the nation, and let him who is the most worthy, who climbs highest on the ladder of merit, of science, of in -1 tc-lieet, of morality, be the ruler ac cording to law ot all his other sluggard neighbors no matter what may be their color, no matter what may be their pre tensions. No matter who they are, whether they are men of nobility, or whether they are men of common rank, i indulge no longer that vain idea that any • man of sufficient age and intellect is to be striefcen out -of the Governorship, the rul ing of this country. Never again, I trust, i never again, 1 believe, will that infamous 1 day be, for which the gentleman from New i York so ardently prays. Mr. Stevens then j went on to explain the bill. Iu the course ; of his remarks he said, those gentlemen of | the Democratic party are fearful that i some of those Senators would be admitted ! before we ousted the first military despot |of that region. There is not much danger now, and that may afford to let us in. They know, I suppose, whether that gen tleman is to remain longer in the White House or not; Ido not. But, at any rate, we can admit no Senators in time to oper ate on that question. Mr. Stevens spoke in a tone of voice and with a clearness and distinctness of emphasis, whieh made him perfectly audible throughout the chamber. When he resumed his seat the House pro ceeded to vote on the bill and amendments. The first vote was on the amendment offer ed by Mr. Stevens yesterday, in reference to debts due to loyal men. The amend ment was agreed to—yeas 78, nays SU. The next question was on the amend ment offered to-day by Mr. Benjamin, and accepted by Mr. Bingham as a substitute for his own. It was agreed to without the yeas and nays. The next question was the amendment offered by Mr. Brooks, that all citizens of the United States in those States shall be entitled to equal rights of suffrage. It was rejected without the yeas and nays. The bill was then passed—-yeas 108, nays 35. It is as follows ; A Bill to admit the. States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama io representation in Congress. Whereas, The people of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama have, in pursuance of the provis ions of an act entitled, “An act for tho more efficient government of the rebel States,” passed March 2, 1867, and the acts supplementary thereto, framed con stitutions of State government which are republican in form, and have adopted said constitutions by large majorities of the votes cast at the elections held for the ratification or rejection of the same; there fore — Be it enacted, That the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Geor gia aud Alabama shall be entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as States of the Union, when the Legislatures of said States, respectively, shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and known as the fourteenth, upon the following fundamen tal conditions: That the Constitution of said States shall never be amended or changed so as to dis criminate in favor of, or against any citi zeu, or class of citizens of the United States in their right to vote, who are now entitled to vote by said constitutions respectively, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted ; and no person shall ever be held to service or labor, as a punishment for crime in said States, except by public officers charged with the custody of Convicts by the laws thereof; and that so much of the 17th sec tion of the sth article of the Constitution ot the Slate of Georgia as gives authority to Legislatures of courts to repudiate debts contracted prior to the first day of June, 1865, and similar provisions in all the other of the constitutions mentioned in this bill, shall be null and void, as against all men who were loyal during the whole time of the rebellion, and who, during that time, supported the Union ; and they shall have the same rights in the courts and elsewhere, as if no rebellion had ever existed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the day fixed for the meeting of the legis- j lature of either of said States, by the Con- I stitution thereof, shall have passed before j the passage of this act, such legislature may be convened within thirty days after the ) assage of this act by the President of the Convention which framed the Consti tution of such States. Skc. 3. And be it further enacted, That the first section of this act shall take effect when the President of the United States shall officially proclaim the due ratification by the legislatures of said States respect ix article fourteen of the amendments and it is hereby made the duty of the Presi- i dent within ten days after receiving official j information of the ratification of said j amendment by the legislature of either of | said States to issue a proclamation an j nouncing the fact. Is she President Bound to Execute an Unconstitutional J.aw ?—An Unpub lished Letter of Jefferson’s. From the. New York World, May l{». By the civility and public spirit of the possessor, we are furnished with a trans cript of the following letter of President Jefferson, written in the first year of his administration. It is superscribed “Free. “Th. Jefferson, “Edward Livingston, Esq., “Mayor of “.New York.” Mr. Livingston was, at that time, United States District Attorney at New York as well as Mayor of the city. The pertinent bearing of the letter on the impeachment of President Johnson will be manifest on perusal: “Washington, Nov. 1, 1801. “ Dear Sir : I some days ago received a letter from Messrs. Denniston & Ghetham, of the most friendly kind, asking the gen eral grounds on which the nolL prosequi in the Duane’s case ought to be presented to the public, which they proposed to do. You are sensible I must avoid committing myself in that channel of justification, and that were I to do it in this case, I might be called on by other printers in other cases where it might be inexpedient to say any thing. Yet, to so civil an application, I cannot reconcile myself to the incivility of giving no answer. I have thought, there fore, of laying your friendship under con tribution, and asking you to take the trouble of seeing them and of saying to them, that the question being in the line of the law, I had desired you to give them the explanation necessary. My text of explanation would be this: The President is to have the laws executed. He may order an offence then to be prosecuted. If he sees a prosecution put into a train which is not lawful he may order it to be discon tinued and put into legal train. 1 found a prosecution going on against Duane for an offence against the Senate, founded on the Sedition act. 1 affirm that act to be no law because in opposition to the Consli stitution, and 1 shall treat it as a nullity wherever it comes in the way of my func tions. 1 therefore directed that prosecution to be discontinued and anew one to be com menced, founded on whatsoever other lain might beta existence against the offence. This was done, and the Grand Jury, find ing no other law against it, declined doing anything under the bid. There appears to i me to be no weak part in any of these posi- I tions or inferences. There is, however, in the application to you to trouble yourself with the question. For this 1 owe apology, i and build it on your goodness and friend ship. Health and happiness cum caeterii votis. “Th. Jefferson. “Edward Livingston, Esq. General Hancock.—Hancock’s star is still in the ascendant, and grows brighter i and brighter with every day. His chances j for the Presidential nomination are steadily j improving, and there is now little doubt that he is the strongest candidate in the j field. The Democracy of Pennsylvania 1 will give him thoir undivided support at the polls should he he the choice of the convention, and if Grant, as is now con ceded, is to be the Radical candidate, then let these two chieftains be pitted one against each other, and try for the cham pionship. We have no doubt as to what the result wouid be. — Evening (Phila. ) Herald. Bankruptcy.—The following petitions were filed Saturday : James Stewart, of Savannah, filed ape- I tition for bankruptcy. Captain Geo. A. Mercer, Attorney. Albert l’eliner, of Savannah, and Gotts halk Brown, of Chatham, petitioned for discharges from bankruptcy. We are informed that Mr. Brown paid all his debts in Confederate money, but a \ suit having been brought ignoring the j payment, he was forced to go into bank ' ruptcy. He now petitions for a discharge. —Savannah Eews & Herald , 1 ith. The Radical Convention of the 7th Con | gressional District of Biinois nominated S the Hon. S. M. Ciilfom for Congress, i Charles H. Porter, of Norfolk, formerly of i New York, was nominated for Congress 1 from the Richmond (Va.) District by Radicals. It is rumored that some heavy men of Boston propose to form a company, and construct a railway line from that city _to i Sackett’s Harnor, as the means of making Boston a great shipping port for the grain and produce of the *Vest. A formidable insurrection is in progress at Port-au Prince. The whole qpuntry, with the exception of Gonaives, Jacmel and the Cape are in arms against the agi tator, Sal nave. NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 21. Philips’ Provision Exchange. Cincinnati, May 15, 186$. j Editors Chronicle & Sentinel j Dear Sirs : Our provision market has 1 been quiet the greater part of tho week i and prices have declined materially on , most articles, but the strength in feeling has not yet been lost except with weak holders,or those who are obliged to realize. Buyers have been hammering the market to their utmost ability, with a view of go ing in, and tho idea is a correct one for fu ture profits, but at the close it was found that the stocks were too strongly held to make much impression, and the prices of to-dav are higher than a few days ago, and stuff much ditlicult to buy at present prices. The market closed firm at my quotations below. Mess Pork —ls in good demand at $27 75, but generally held at |2B cash, with buyers, at this figure, buyers’ option this month, country 25@56c less according to quality. Rumps—Are played out and none to be had. $25 would be paid for Scalawags. Extra Prime P.,rk at $25 with a stock of about 1,500 bbis. | Lard—Has been in moderate demand, except at a very low price ; 18Je is freely offere. , but it can’t be held under 18Jcaud not much at that. Notwithstanding tho de cline in Liverpool, lower grades and Greases are iu such light supply quota tions are only nomiua). * Bulk Meats—Are in better demand at 12f, 144,151, and 16c, all loose, for Shoul ders, Sides, C. K. and Clear Sides but gen erally held at the close,lc higher; no Hams offering. Bacon—At the decline has been iu fair inquiry for future delivery but has been touched lightly this week, buyers prefer ring to bold Bulk instead of Bacon. I quote shoulders 13ic, Sides 151, Clear Rib 16* and Clear 16£c packed with buyers,but generally held at over these figures, with indifferent sellers ; C. C. Hams 191® 204 c, Plain 17J@lSic. Plate Beef—ln bettor supply at 823 tor choice ; Beef Hams 19® 19*0. Tallow—Scarce. Stearine—Held at Lard prices, but dull. Exports—Of the week were, 1,277 bbis and 595 kegs Lard, 386 hhds and 711 tierces Bulk and Bacon, 1,778 bbis Pork and 91,000 lbs Bulk meats. Imports—7l bbis, 110 kegs Lard;s29 bbis Pork and 59,230 pounds loose meats. Freights—Are still irregular to all points East and South. Very respectfully, Geo. W. Philips, Jr., Provision and Produce Broker. Translated from the U Toilet for the Tribune. The Vashtons. Now that the different styles of Spring fashions are known, it is well to consider all particulars, and to state what advan tage may be drawn trcni one costume or another, and in which way this or that ancient style can be improvedupon. Lace, especially, creates more excitement than anything else. It is used as skirt, for dresses, and as trimming, and there will be many toilets made of that material for watering-places. I have heard the remark that these toilets must be pretty expensive, and wish to observe, therefore, that it is not absolutely necessary to use Chantilly lace, and that any pretty fancy lace will he perfectly admissible, and will not be more expensive than other toilets. You meet with tunics and polonaises made entirely of black lace, worn in a very original manner on dresses of blue, maize, corn-colored or Metteruich-green silk. The tunic may be allowed to hang down in its full Jengih, or looped up at the sides by rosettes of ribbon, corresponding with the shade of the skirt. The tunic ends in a corselet on the waist, forming a point on the back, and cut square in front. If it is intended for an evening toilet, the waist is cut very low and bor dered by a row of small plaits. Asa walking dress, toilet will look very hand some with a mantilla bonnet, made all of laoc, crossing over the chest. This style reminds us of the Andalusian costumes, and the artistic richness of the Renaissance. This is what can be made of a lace tunic. Let us see now what may be made of a Chantilly or any other description of lace shawl. Point lace is not worn any more this year. It would impart to tiie toilet a vulgar appearance, not corresponding with the generally adopted fancy cos- j tumes. Still, as people do not very wil- I lingiy give up a fine, rich point-lace, it, can I be used in the following manner, so as to appear at once new and graceful ; The j whole point-laoe is spread in all its width, | and sever^orjjight.large hollow folds form- : if.’-Llik puffing, resembling, on a large scale, the plaited drapery of corselet. Th* point, thus diminished, is on the back , nothing but a small mantelet ending iu a point and having folds on the shoulders ; which extend over the chest to the belt, j where the shawl is crossed and from where it falls back over both front seams like one j of the varieties of the Marie Antoinette style. A bunch of black satin ribbons fastens the folds behind, all along the back, halfway down the waist. There so noth ing more becoming than this style, whieh, after all, costs but a little work and some knots of ribbon. There is another way of wearing dresses with lace—flounces. A simple oblong fichu, cut round below, in front and behind in the material. This fichu, which goes about ten centimetres below the belt, is bordered by a broad lace flounce, and is in size equal to an ordiuary clock. The same lace is formed in a flounce, fastened by folds of two fingers in I width, and goes all around the dress in the shape of a tunic at the sides. A round bait fastens it to the waist, aud gives the garment the appearance of a tight-fitting cassock, half lace and half material. I have seen this style on light lilac silk, look ing very rich and exceedingly graceful ; the very long skirt was altogether without trimmings. A toilet of gray taffeta de serves likewise to be mentioned. It had nothing but satin folds for ornament, de scribing in front a real square apron, reaching down to within is centimeters from the bottom of the skirt. The man telet was bordered with the same folds, cut round behind, went a little below the waist, and crossed in front with the square flaps falling down over the skirt; the up per part was ornamented by a large knot behind,-its form putting you somewhat in mind of a hood. 1 may as well add that this mantelet might be replaced by a fichu Marie Antoinette , knotted behind, and bordered all round by a much-plaited flounce, 10 centimeters in width. Southern Baptist Convention. The Southern Baptists have just been holding their annual convention at Balti more. In the course of the proceedings an interesting discussion arose on the freed men question. The Rev. Dr. 8. H. Ford, of Tennessee, said: “The Catholics in the South and West are making determined efforts to draw within their fold the freed men. Colored Christian brothers and sis ters of charity have been organized. To day there are in Rome fifty negroes being educated for the priesthood, who are only held back until prejudices are more smooth - ed away, when, in the vestments of popery, 1 they will be dispatched to proselytize the j Southern freedmen. The Baptists must j be up and doing. We propose to scatter j Baptist literature. We propose to unite i the whole country under this Convention, j to cany into a grand success this effort. j Our literature must be Southern, which j means that all that reflects on our fathers’ I deeds as treason must be kept out. All ] that tends to sow discord between North 1 or South, must be eliminated ; it must be strictly confined to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” A day or two later, a committee to which the subject had bwSft referred, reported. The preamble and resolutions declare that the Southern Baptist Conven ! tion is a permanent institution, and that in view of its enlarged fields of usefulness and necessity for sustaining it is now more I imperative than ever before. The second resolution declares it to be the duty of the Church to advance the religious instruc tion of the colored race in our midst. The ’ third resolution declares that the Christian colony on the coast of Africa is both practicable and useful, and that this Con vention will, at an early day, organize bands of converted freedmen, and assist them to settle at the colony and aid in tbe conversion of the heathen. The commit tee reports that it approves the first and ; second resolutions, and recommends their , adoption by the Convention. The third ! resolution is declared to'involve too much j expense, and its success depends upon too many contingencies to be adopted at pres -1 ent, and the committee recommends its | reference to the Foreign Mission Board for ' its earnestconsideration. Dr. Winkler stated incidentally that he was responsible for all the extreme senti ments contained iu a report made at the sesf ion of the convention atSavannah.just before the war, and of which Dr. Fuller had borne all the odium in the North dur ing the war. Rev. Dr. Burroughs, of Virginia, also took occasion to deny most emphatically the statements circulated in the North as to his having insulted prisoners in the Libby prison. The only insults he gave were about $4,000, all the money he 1 had. The seal fishery of Newfoundland is ; proving quite successful this spring, five of the steamers having returned at latest mail dates with a total of 65,000 seals,and : left to prosecute a second trip. Several sailing vessels have proved equally success ful. A lady in New York has offered the 1 reward of fifteen dollars for a lost handker i hies. State Items. i A freight train ran oft the track on the I Georgia Railroad on Tuesday, causing a detention of the passenger train for six hours. No one injured. Win. A. Fort, of Rome, Ga., is about completing arrangements to hire one hun dred colored convicts from the State prison to work upon the Alabama and Dalton rail way. The Journal <fc Messenger says, that the testimony from nearly every county in the State shows that tro*i one-third to one fourth less cotton has been planted this year than last. The murderer Anderson, a thief named Haynes and anottier Penitentiary convict name unknown, who were on their way to the State Prison in Mi ledgeville, escaped from the guards in charge of them, near Athens on Monday last and are still at large. We learn that a company of Federal cavalry has been operating in the upper portion of Elbert county, ahi Sherman’s “Bummers. ’ Sent* there to confiscate illicit distilleries, they have beaten and abused white ladies, shot at uieti, and robbed corn cribs, and moat houses, in the most ap proved style taught during ti e late war. General Grant has instructed General Meade that the oath prescribed by the Reconstruction acts to be taken by ail per sons “elected or appointed” to office in the “so-called .States” of the South is not to be takeu by those elected under any new Constitution, which may be adopted,unless the Constitution itself so provides. The fine mill property and noble water sites in \ anc’s \ alley, two miles from Cave spring, have been purchased by a company of gentlemen, Messrs. Cothran, Dent, Harper and Baker. They intend to erect flouring mills, and build a large factory on the shoals adjacent to the rail road. On Sunday last the new Catholic church erected in Brunswick was dedicated by Bishop Verot of this Diocese,and thededi cation sermon delivered by the llev. Abram J. Ryan of tbiscity. Quite a large number of the prominent citizens of Sa vannah went down on steamers to witness the oeremonies. On Friday morning about 12 o’clock a crowd of negroes, some twenty in number, in the luxury of a free tight at a Rice mil! in Savannah. The conflict lasted for soffit time and one of the negroes stab bed another one in the abdomen with a large knife, inflicting, it is thought, a mor tal wound. Joe Brown’s Militia General, in the late “unpleasantness," H. K McKay, has been appointed by the negroes and scala wags to represent them in the approach ing Chicago Convention. He has already left for that city, and we predict ill prove a fit representative of his faction. His reward for his valuable services to the negro party in the late election is, we hear, to be a seat on the State Supreme Bench. We understand that a mistake has here tofore been made in locating the geographi cal position of Georgia. Jhe vulgar and obsolete ideas that have been put iuto the school books and inculcated in the minds of our youth, are now completely done away with. We publish for the information of a greatmany of our people, who are still struggling in the darkness of ignorance, that the geographical limits of this State are comprised between College Hill and the Ocmulgeo river in the county of Bibb ; that the Democratic party comprised in those bounds is the only one in the State; and the only two Democratic papers in these regions are run by the Sir Oracles of the Journal (fe Messenger and Telegraph. General Nummary. People who are shocked at the billings gate of Congressmen Donnelly and Wash burue, will please reflect that these gentle men were only vindicating their characters in their own way.— Detroit Post. Colfax is parliamentary law unto liimj self. On Saturday he ruled Brooks out of order because he spoke of Billingsgate, and on Monday he held his tongue while Spalding directly' accused a member of “Bil lingsgate abuse.” ffewArkjjitat the city have, increased wonderfully of late. Two or three persons daily jump from the many bridges spinning the Thames and end their sorrows in ils waters. A Convention of the “National Manu facturers’ Association ’ is to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, on May 27th, to delib erate with reference to the interests of American manufacturers. Delegations are expected from all parts of the country. Last year, in France, a reward of about one dollar a hundred pounds was offered for the carcasses of June bugs, which have multiplied greatly aud have become very destructive. Over eight hundred thousand pounds were delivered to the authorities. In England, a newspaper has at length discovered the line dividing a distinction from a difference. It says that “a little dif ference frequently makes many enemies;” while a “little distinction attracts hosts of friends to the per u on on whom it is con ferred. ’ ’ The ship canal between the Mediter ranean and Red Sea is nearly finished. Ditto the fresh wafer canal from Cairo to Tunisan, on the line of the marine canal. The engineers found traces of the canal which Necho Second dug between the two seas in the seventh century before Christ. The following delegates to the Chicago Convention were elected for Mississippi at large; A. C. Fisk, James Lynch, Jefferson L. Wofford, Thomas L. White. A young lady with blue gaiters, blue dress, blue sacque, blue lace collar, blue hat, blue feather, blue parasol, blue fan, blue kid gloves, blue stockings, blue eyes, and turquoise bracelets, necklace and ear-rings, attracted attention the other day on one of the Jersey City ferryboats. Gold closed yesterday at 130 S- Steubenvilie, Ohio, is ornamenting its suburbs with artificial lakes. A resolution making naturalized citizens eligible to the Presidency, has been intro duced into Congress. The Mississippi Radical Negro Conven tion has adjourned subject to the call of a of five. A large party ot distinguished gentle men from New York, including Mayos Hoffman and Senator Bradley, are on a visit to Richmond, Va. The President is reported to have prom iged Henderson, that in case of his acquit tal he would change his Cabinet so as to have it all Republican, and try to harmon ize with Congress. The tone of the English press is decided ly favorable to the acquittal of the Pre-i --dent, and commendatory of the impar tiality and fairness of Congress. One of the ablest citizens of Washington City, Col. B. W Randolph, died there on Friday last. He had been connected with the Treasury Department ever since. 1808 and for twenty years was chief clerk in it. George Francis Train has been released from tbe debtors’ prison of Dublin, arid has delivered a lecture in Manchester. His audience was very slim and there was no excitement whatever. It is said that Randall, oi Pennsylvania, who received a sound caning from Gen. Hamilton, of Texas, a few days since, is a perfect stranger to Hamilton, who never saw him before, and the cause of the insult from Randall is perfectly unaccount able. The Spanish Government has extended I till the 31st of December the decree allow i ing the introduction, f'reeof'duty, of cereals 1 iuto Spain and the Balearic Islands. Straw | and hay are also to be admitted upon the j same terms. One hundred and thirty-eight delegates to the Chicago Republican Convention, | among whom are fifty-seven editors, passed through Buffalo on Sunday en route for j Chicago. ! The Quartermaster’s department at ! Nashville will be wound up next week. : It was worth SIOO,QoO per annum to the City of Rocks. j „ Joe Coburn, who is to fight Mike Mc- Coole on the 27th of May, has goue into training quarters at Laconia Springs, near Covington, Ky. ! Hon. A. 11. Ward, Esq., ex-memler of t Congress from the Paris (Ky.) dis [ triet, was marriel a few days since to Mias ; Helen Lair, of Harrison county. Russia is cchelonwhg on the line of the I Pruth, so celebrated in the hiotory of the complications in the East, a corps oi 40,000 ' horse. Behind these regiments ot the ; advanced guard are doubtless ranged 300 000 infantry, ready to renew at the first signal from St. Petersburg the re doubtable adventure of 1354. Turkey, anxious about this display of forces, is ; massing, in her turn, a nucleus of troops 1 of 35,000 men in the environs of Sehumla. Queer things happens nowadays; and . one of the queerest is the spectacle of our i friend Mr. George Wilkes on the floor of the Senate, betting SIOO to S2O on the i conviction of Andy Johnson, with another | friend of ours. Mr. Theodore Tilton, staod j ing by and officiating as stakeholder.—A'.
