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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1868)
OLI) SIiRIES, VOL. LX XVI. tfliraniclr & icutincl. iu:\nv moohk, A. 11. WHIOUT. PATRICK HAl>il. Associate Editor. TF.K *l> OF -I I»« K.IFTIOX. DAILY. . , M 00 a oo , 10Wi " w’kkkLt. , ~, 10 .. I so , ;;; . , suo \ I (;IHTA. (.A J IViIDNESDAI BURNING. .11 NE 10. lliAi.in v Sion.—The Selma (Ala.) Mes tenger ay - ; ’‘one house in this city on Monday, .-hipped W 0 sacks of canebrake corn to Mobile.” It says ‘‘last year every dollar in this section was being .sent West for corn ; now we have a surplus, and corn is as low here a.j it is in St. Louis.’’ State Knurrs Alias State Riots.— A party of whites and blacks had a row on the Savannah River Bridge on Sunday last, in which bats flew around loose for awhile, hut “nobody hurt.” It was not a war of races, for there were a mixture of color on both sides; hut apparently a sort of Htate aliair if not an affair of ,State, in w i :li, however,nothing decided was done, as the l'oli :e put a stop to the contest. Scott's Magazine for June. — vY'e have received the June number of this Southern monthly. The publishers have at !a-‘, “caught up.” and the magazine will now appear regularly on or before the first <,t each month. The present number ha: the usual fine variety of able and in* tori tin:' articles, it is published in At lanta, Ga., by Phillips & Crew, at $4 a year. The New Fire Arrangement —The new arrangement in regard to the Fire Department of Augusta, is as follows: The city is divided into two departments or divi o*. culled tin Eastern and the West ern Division. The first embraces all the Fire Districts below Jackson street, and the •'•••■uid all those above Jackson. The fire e jrnpa.nie- are not to go out of their re- 1' "ive divisions unless the general alar . which is twolve strokes of Big Steve, is sounded. Tin; Committee ok Relief—To the pro ." dings of the Democratic meeting held in the Fourth Ward, on Thursday night la -t, and which we publish elsewhere, it will bo observed that a Committee of fiv< citizens was appointed to obtain re lief fi a those turned out of office by the Radii d-. Two other gentlemen were siib-cqu utly added to the Committee, which now consist of the following gentle incn, viz: A. J. Davis, Esq., l)r. M. J. Jones, Messrs. M. J. Dunne, L. J. Ford, Jus. Islor, R W. Whitaker and Thos. Leckic. The Committee will wait on our citizens, to solicit subscriptions in this behalf, and it is Imped will receive a liberal contribu tion. County Court—June Term.— Before Judge McLaws. —This Court convened Monday morning. The following is the list of Grand Jurors: Jno. V r . Tarver, Foreman , Jas. ,S. Simmons, Charles A. Hudson, Wiley B. Griffin, Ephraim E. Schofield, Jas. J. Thomas, Tlico. C. Bridge s J no. Bridges, Edmund Ferrin, Goo. W. Shackleford, Charles S. Butler, Isaac A. Little, and Wm. T Wileless. The following true bills were found : 1. The State vs Nat Hogan, Larceny from the House. 2. The State vs Austin Smith, same. lb The State vs Win. Golphin, same. I. The Stato vs Ruth My*, L’oloo Imprisonment. 5. The Stato vs Wm. Davis, Larceny from the House. 6. The Stato vs Jno. Maher, Assault and Battery. 7. The Stato vs Sailie Hinley, Receiv ing Stolen goods. s. The State vs Reekie Madison, same. Nkw Floi'k. —Those enterprising Au gusta Millers, Messrs. John M. Clark A Cos., have presented us with a beautiful specimen of new flour—of the grade I Double Extra. This is tho first new flour j of the season, and is ground from the crop j of Messrs. Morgan and Campbell, lessees j of the well known plantation of tho late | Win. Eve, Esq. M essrs. M. and C. sowed au area of one hundred and twenty-five acres, with selected “Southern White” i seed. The harvest is not yet complete, I ut is being pushed rapidly with two four 1. >rse Buckeye Reapers. The yield, so far, as g altered, indicates a total production of not hss than sixteen hundred bushels or about thirteen bushels per acre. 'li -<rs. John M- Clark & Cos. made their first shipment of “Augusta Mills Flour of 1868” to New York this day, and expect to increase the shipments to the great metropolis daily. An imi mi I’NFi'imiN.vrK.— It appears" that Fostei Blodgett was not the only un fortunate delegate in attendance on the Chicago Convention. Louisiana sent up a beautiful disciple ol the scalawag fra ternity,in the person ot me \\. G. McCon nell. Ho nas arrested at Chicago for stealing seven hundred ..ud fifty dollars from an old man at Mattoon, Illinois, in 1*65. Firs in the First Distinct. —There was an alarm of tire about one o’clock Mo a- ! day afternoon, occasioned by the burning of some buildings on Reynolds street, below Centre. The tire originated in the eottou shed m ar the corner of Centre street, owned by Mr. Morrison, and was caused by someone lighting a match, the head of which flew off into some loose eottou ou the. floor, and sot tiro to it, the flames communicating to the building before they could be extin guished. This building and the one ad. joining, belonging to Mr. J. V. Colvin, wore entirely consumed. Tho one next below, owned by Mr. John A. Moore, was partly burned. The firemen were prompt ly on the spot, under Chief Platt, but owiug ; ■ the nozzles of No -1 having been stolen there was some delay in getting a stream on the tire as soon as would other wise have been done. Fearing that the tiro might get beyond his control the Chief ordered the general alarm to be given, which ’ ight the engines from the West ern P ' el down to the scene of action, but tin F. .stern Division force had already subdued tho flames before their arrival. Tie sre was no insurance on the property of Messrs. Colvin and Morris,m; we did not learn if there was any on that of Mr. Moore. Goon News from Tennessee, —The Boliver Bulletin of the 23d instant says the growing crops ot corn and eottou throughout that section are very good, indeed l etter than for years. It says that “duriug the past six or eight days excel lent weather has been enjoyed, and the fields, Yttpied by ‘general green’ last week now > kas clean as anew pin. The al most ripened wheat is all that could be desired. Prosperity seems to he prepar ing wreaths for the tiilersot the soil. A correspondent of the Columbia (Teun.) Herald , who has travelled over th larger portion of Maury county, says the wheat is the finest he ever saw, aud there is no indication of rust or smut. The finest field he saw was of tbe celebrat ed Broughton wheat, belonging to Mrs. N. F. Chairs. Other correspondents represent cotton, corn and oats as looking well, considering the unfavorable season. Fruit is oniy tolerably good and plentiful, farmers have plenty, others have scarcely any. Orchards ou low damp ground are badly injured, while all fruit OD dry upland is sound and healthy. I‘endletOb, toast, Hancock. George IL Pendleton, Salmon P. Chase and Winfield Scott Hancock, are the three names before the Democratic party, from which the July Convention i- to select a ! nominee in the coming Presidential catn : paign. Mr. Pendleton has the well estab i fished prestige of a good record. He op posed the war as full of evils to both North and South, as threatening the destruction of the Union and of liberty, as the annihi lation of the Republican Government, and as the first step to the establishment oi military despotism. His whole record shows him to be a noble gentleman, who, while differing as to the principles of the domi nant party, never failed to urge whatever would mitigate the horrorr and sufferings of war: always sustaining appropriations for the soldiers, their wives, and their | widows and orphans. Mr. Chase, originally, we believe, afree- I soil Democrat, was particularly distin j guished during the war for his masterly i management of war finances. Subsequently I occupying difficult and trying positions, his record is signalized by moderation and a firm, immovable adherence to the Constitution and a just, dignified course in the Radical High Court of Impeach ment. General Hancock is a brave and gallant j soldier, as firm and immovable in his fiber ; ty-loving principles as he was brave and j daring in the field. Beneath the viiible current of opinion, : as disclosed by parly roanaguient, and i party tactics, there is a strong feeling and Ia still stronger interest which will exert a | most potent, influence in deciding the of the Presidential campaign; and this is, what will the future financial poliey of the Government be? This question is of such overpowering importance, so vast in ex tent, so thoroughly affecting all classes and all interests, entering into the smallest minutiae of household matters of the poor est as well as the immense transactions of banks, parlors, and the exchange offices of millionaires, it cannot be ignored and will go far in determining the contest. Mr. Pendleton advocates the continuance of the Government issues in their present volumes—substitution of currency-bearing bonds for gold bearing bonds—the aboli tion of National bank currency and free bunking. Mr. Chase is well known as the author of the Nitiiml Bank system, and it is supposed advocates that this system should he sustained and extended. We have seen no exposition of General Hancock’s views upon this subject.so far he stands as non-committal as the Republican platform. THE SHADOW OP THE COMING RANK AND ANTI BANK PARTY. The New York Journal of Commerce, while recognising Mr. Pendleton as “an able man, of high personal character, of clear and well defined views of public poli cy and possessing many elements of pcr sonal popularity, intimates that the nomination of Mr. Pendleton is inexpedi ent, and that his claims should be post pooed to a future day—because “his nom ination would array against him a very heavy interest.” The Journal says, “we do not say that the sixteen hundred Na tional Banks would gladly contribute au assessment of one thousand dollars each to oppose one so decided against their sup posed interests, but wc do say that the emphatic opposition of these organizations, added to the weight of those private in ; terests (gold brokers and bondholders) j that would be arrayed against him would leave him no possible chance for election.” ! This is the first foreshadowing of the I great issue which is to decide the country j in future. i New Factories. We chronicled a few days since the formation of anew stock company in Macon under the name and style of the “Finley Manufacturing Company,” for the purpose of engaging in the manufac ture of woolen and cotton on an extensive scale. I t gives us pleasure to notice that the tendency throughout the State is toward the development of this branch of indus trial pursuits. The Talbotton Gazette announces that Messrs Gorman, Stephenson & Cos. have in contemplation the erection, at an early day, of a cotton factory at their mills on Juniper, situate some three miles south of Geneva, Georgia. The extent of the machinery will be about 10,000 spindles and 30 looms. The Rome Courier announces that Col. Wade L. Cotheren and others have formed a stock company and purchased a site for a eottou factory uear that city. These are moves in the right direction. This is the sort of reconstruction we want—diversified labor. Tho Jews hold as an article of faith in the Talmud that “a hundred guilders invested in trade give a man meat and wine the same invested in farming gives him only cabbage and salt. | Our British and New England cousins say j that while competition gives life to trade, manufacturing is its nursing mother. In days gone by farming would give cabbage, salt and spices. Now-a-days the ! farmer barely obtains a fig or cabbage 1 for his labor, but not without stamp tax. Nor can we forecast thrift for the iSoutii i ern farmer, except it be in the creation of a home market through the agency of j manufactures, and instead of going to ■ Lowell and Manchester, raw material to be fabricated bv laborers supported by , imported breadstuff's, and by every other article of prime necessity obtained from abroad to furnish fabrics for the consumers of the world. A bale of cotton is regula ted as to price and finds its market only in New York and Liverpool, but there is a market for a bale of yarns, or shirtings i or sheetings anywhere in the habitable globe, or with the immense home demand just springing up iu the great W est and along the line of the Pacific Railroad. Democratic Meeting. At a regular meeting of the Democratic Club. 4th Ward, Augusta, Ga.. May 28th, 1868. on motion of Dr. M. J. Jones, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, A auinbr of the city police have recently been discharged from office for voting the Democratic ticket, at the recent election, held in this county for Stale aud county officers, aud for uo other cause; and Whereas, The contemptible act of the Mayor and City Council in thus dischargin'! good and efficient officers (some of them with large families, work being scarce has left them in a destitute condition ; aud Whkkkas, A number of other citizens in tho ward have been offered work by' said Mayor and Council, or their agents, pro vided they would vote the Radical ticket, such citizens, true to principle, refused to vote against the LVmoeraev of the county and the white race, are also in a destitute i condition and are entitled to the sympathy and assistance of the L\ moeraey of the ward: be it I Res dred. That a committee of live be appointed to call on the citizens of the . ward, friendly to the cause of Democracy ! and liunr.*. rdty, and solicit of them a sub scription of noi less thau twenty-live oeuts 1 each lor the purpose of assisting the fami lies of those discharged from office and I those refusing office bv bribery. A. J. Daves, President. | R. W. Whitaker. Secretary. Is Bankruptcy. —We learn from the Atlanta Era that the tollowing persons have received their final discharge in bankruptcy, from the United States Dis triet Court of the Northern District ot 4 Georgia : Cbas. L. Wooten, Isaac Koseu tield, Elijah J. Winn, Wm. 11. Hancock, Winguit H. Turner, Johu W. Schackle ford. Benjamin W. Force, James R. Hales, Perino Brown, Morris Wiseburg, William J. Wooten. Louis Calm, Kate A. Corra, John L. Hamilton, Manus W. Johnson, Atkinson T. Hardin. Nathan R. ! Banner. j Both Houses of Congress agree to Ar -1 k&nsas admission into the Union. lhe Republican Party Dagiicrreotyped b} a Radical and “Loyal” Pen. from the Sew York “Revolution," May 21. Republicans elected Andrew Johnson for party success ; they impeached him for party success: and since the day the sceptre of power came into their hands, they have worked for party success rather than the nation’s life. "While they Lave deceived the people with the cry of constitutional amendment, loyalty, negro suffrage, impeachment, they have shown themselves disloyal to the grand principles of our Government, by their attempts to drag down the Federal , Constitution to their low platform; to force negro suffrage on the South while repudiat ing it in the Northern States ; and after proving the President guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, strangling impeach ment with their own hands. And now the handwriting on the wall warns them that they are “weighed in the balance and found wanting.” The Repub lican party stands to-day with its ranks broken, divided, distracted, blasted, and the sceptre of power has passed from it forever. But this is no cause of sorrow, for the sooner this party is scattered to the four winds of heaven, the sooner will the scales fall from the eyes of the people, and they will see that their leaders have been but blind leaders of the blind. Jeremy Bentham says “the people can- | not be too distrustful of their rulers." j When the American people learn that men ' and parties arc nothing unless based on principle, and that whether under Repub- j lican or Democratic dynasty, we have the ; same results —they will awake to the responsibility of self-government. As we turn over the pages of history, we can see how other nations, groaning ! under taxation, ignorance and poverty) have been deluged, blinded and destroyed, without dreaming that we ourselves are to day the thoughtless victims of selfish and ! crafty ruiers who think only of their own aggrandizement. Just as Rome, with fetes and feasts, with holidays and deadly combats between man and beast,and gladia j torial exhibitions in crowded amphitheatres j turned the people’s thoughts from their own wrongs —so do our rulers to-day, with caucusses, conventions, campaigns, im ! peachment trials and the coarse brutality ! of tbe press and politicians, amuse the i people, degrade the public taste, and \ destroy the virtue of the nation. Unthink ing leaders inflame the North against all rebel dom, and damn every man who dares putin a plea for justice and mercy to the South, with the unmeaning name of “cop perhead.” To rouse the people’s wrath they point them to the bones of their brave sires and sons bleaching on all those Southern plains, forgetting that with their own hands they built that sepulchre where our brave dead now sleep. The chain that held the black boy in the ever glades of Florida and the slave girl in a New Orleans market was fastened around the neck of New England’s sons and daughters. Through our avarice and self ishness the land of orange groves and flowers lies bleeding and desolate to-day. Blame not the South, but our own consti tutions, creeds and codes. But while we ended with the sword a slavery of brute force, and overturned the Southern oligarchy, by cunning legisla tion we have substituted another form of slavery in our new system of finance. In our national debt and taxation, we have placed the whole labor of the country at the mercy of a moneyed aristocracy of hanks, bondholders and laud monopolists. Having just .escaped from the yoke of 400,000 slaveholders, we are about to bow our necks to the yoke of 400,000 bondhold ers. Flushed with conquest, these “High Art Swindlers ” have bought up the nation's virtue and choked our prophets who have dared to speak. Wall Street—the Money and Stock Markets —The lively movement in Gov ernment Bonds —on foreign as well as do mestic account —continues to excite re mark. (Tribune Money Article, May 27/A.) The fact that the Treasury lias reached the point when it has no occasion to sell market was sensitive to the operations of the Treasury. Railway shares are freel) taken by the public at advancing rates. What are called ‘clique stocks,’ and sup posed o be unsaleable at cin great demand, and it begins to be apparent that cheap money and large earnings are more pow erful than cliques in putting up prices. Erie showed more life and was taken freely by strong buyers, as well as by that large class which frequents the street, ready to buy largely when a stock appears ready to be moved,’ the position now assigned to Erie. ( World Honey Article , Jlay 2Un.) The brokers are receiving orders from their customers and from the country to buy Governments “at the marketand the ease and safety with which this busi ness is transacted, in comparison with the usual routine in speculative stocks, is enlisting brokers in favor of tbe change. The domestic demand to-day was enor mous, the transactions of one leading Government broker alone being over $7,- 000,000. The unsettled condition of political affairs in Europe and tho enlargement of the franchise in Great Britain are calcu lated to shake confidence in the national debts of European nations, and to cause investors there to sell the bonds of the European Governments, and to buy those of the United States. The inducements are great to make this exchange, inasmuch as United States bonds are much cheaper thau those of Europe, and pay about double the rate of interest. British cou sols paying three per rent, annual interest are selling at 96} to 96}, against the five twenties six per cent, at 72f in Loudon to day. The five-twenty bonds, nineteen years*to run, compared with consols, are worth 143 21-100 in gold as an investment value.” Tile Three Ben’s with an F.—Three of the most prominent and illustrious lights in the Radical party write their Christain names Benjamin F., viz : Benjamin F. Butler, chief 31auager in the impeachment plot. He stole spoons and bullied women in New Orleans. Benjamin F. Bice, carpet-bag Senator from Arkansas. He stole $5,000 of a cli ent's money in Kentucky, gambled it oft and ran away in the night. Benjamin F. Wade, President of the Senate, and professor of cursing and swearing. He voted to make himselt President of the United States. What a lovely trio of Bens to be sure ' Poor Benjamin Franklin ! It’s lucky for him that he did not live to see his name so disgraced. The Disgraceful Scenes in Con | gress.—The Radicals claim for Schuyler j Colfax that he is the best Speaker Con- j i gress ever had. The New York 11 orld ■ says : “Under his administration of the ! Speakership he has allowed scenes which ; have made our Congress a National shame and a hissing at home and abroad. He has permitted the Farnsworths, Ashleys, Stevenses, Kelleys and others to denounce the President, a co-ordinate branch of the Government, in terms winch would even disgrace a Chicago newspaper. He has permitted Butler to call Bingham a mur derer, which, however true, is not par liamentary, while Bmgham was allowed to go on in the same way. The recent wran gling between Donnelly and Washburne, in the worst style of the lowest brothel, all passed directly uuder the ruling of the Speaker. “The superserviceable zeal he has official ly shown to help the Radical disnnionists crush out freedom of debate in the House is matter of record. This intolerance in the Speaker arises from bigotry in the j man. His mind is narrow, so narrow that he cannot argue at all. His speeches are ; mere statements of opinion, couched in the | bitterest terms, and betraying not the ' least depth of statesmanship nor none of fairness His whole record has only been a record of hate.” Nebhdt’s. —Nebhut’s Hotel at Ber zelia is in a pleasant locality for a summer resort. Convenient to the eity, in a healthy region, with good water, attentive and accommodating attendants, it surely invites patronage. And theu such a ' courteous and energetic landlord, kind and considerate landlady—what more could be 4 wanting? Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. As the principal question which will en ; gage tbe attention of the new Legislature, will be the consideration of the Howard Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and known as article four : teen, a brief inquiry into the scope and extent of that amendment may not be en tirely withoutinterest to the genera! reader. The first section of the proposed article j declares who are citizens of the United States, and provides for the security of their immunities as citizens. The second section declares that repre sentation shall bs apportioned in tbe several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. This section also provides that whenever the right to vote for State or United States officers is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, ex cept for participation in rebellion or other crime, the representation of such State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. It will be observed that, under the provis ions of this section, the several States ! may establish such restrictions upon the elective franchise as they may choose to adopt. They are not pro- : I vented from denying the ballot to negroes. The cnly effect such denial would | have would be to diminish the representa tivesorthe State in the national legisla I ture iu the proportion that the disfran- I chised would bear to the whole number of male inhabitants of the State. A question will arise under the pro visions of this section (provided the 14th ! article shall be ratified by a sufficient num- I her of the States to become a part of the organic law) whether the States which have granted universal suffrage to the negroes by the so-called State Constitutions which have been framedunder the Military Reconstruction Laws of Congress, and which Congress, in the House Omnibus Bill, proposes to ratify with a proviso de claring that no persons allowed to vote by said so-called Constitutions shall ever after be denied or deprived of that right will be allowed to alter or amend their suffrage laws. To be more explicit: If Georgia shall ratify the proposed 14th article of the Constitution and the same shall become a part of the Constitution of the United I States, can any future Convention or Legis lature of the State restrict or limit the | elective franchise as fixed by the Atlanta | Convention, if the omnibus bill passes Con j gress declaring that no one allowed to vote i under the present Constitution shall here after be excluded from voting ? This is a serious question and demands thoughtful and careful examination on the part of those who will be called upon shortly to act upon the ratification of the proposed 14th article. The third section of the proposed amend- ! merit declares that no one shall hold an j office, civil or military, under the State or j United States Government, who, as a ! member of Congress, or as an officer of the i United States, or as a member of any State ! Legislature, or as an executive or judicial j officer of any State, shall have taken an i oath to suppor t the Constitution of the United States and afterward engaged in j insurrection or rebellion against the same, I or gave aid and comfort to the enemies j thereof. It will be observed that the in- ! hibition contained in this section applies to j State as well as national offices. No man | can hold an office in Georgia or under the | United States who falls within the provis- But Congresses _jru : : House, to remove swe/t disability. A pertinent question arises here. Does | the removal of the disabilities fixed by ! this section, by a two-thirds vote of each j House of Congress, enable the party to take j and hold office under the United States j without first taking and subscribing the j oath required of all officers of the United j States, commonly known as the test oath ? I We believe that a removal of the disabili- j ties created by the third section of the | fourteenth article, by a two-thirds vote of j both Houses of Congress, will render a party eligible to hold office under the State government, but that such removal does not make him eligible to hold office under the United States Government unless he first take and subscribe the test or iron clad oath. What benefit, then, will the removal of Joe Brown’s disabilities under the 3rd section of the 14th article be, if he is still required to take the test oath ? It is true that Blodgett, who was one of Brown’s captains in the late war, has taken that oath. It is true that Charles 11. Hopkins, who sought for a seat in the Confederate Congress, has taken that oath ; and it is i said that Potash Farrow has also swallow |ed the iron-clad. But will Joe Brown, with all his faults and crimes and infamies, ; gulp down this degrading oath? We think j not. If, then,Brown is only relieved from | the penalties imposed by the proposed amendment to the Constitution, it is very clear that he cannot take a seat in Con gress or hold any office under the United | States Government as long as the test j oath remains a law of the land. It was, doubtless, this insurmountable difficulty in the pat>h which leads to the ; Senate which has caused Joseph E. to j give another bent to his aspirations, and which causes him to be casting furtive glances at the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court of this State. Joe is not apt to be caught napping. He always keeps a keen eye open to the windward. ! If there was cot trouble in the route to Washington Joe would not now be cast ! ing about for other rewards and honors. | Those credulous individuals who have been led to believe that they could secure i a removal of their disabilities under the j proposed amendment—-that seats in Con- I gress and rich offices in the Revenue De ; partment would be within easy reach —had better begin to ponder seriously on this question. Evidently the Radical leader I Brown is frightened and the smaller fry j are in great danger. St. Leger Grenfell. —The Mobile Register says: “The public was greatly gratified not long since to learn that this gallant English soldier had escaped from his prison at the Dry Tortugas, and in his love of liberty, at the risk of life he had trusted himself to the mercies of a frail boat in an attempt to cross the Florida Straits to Cuba. We have the pleasure of stating that his voyage was made in safety, and that a letter has been received fiom him in Havana, sending his thanks and acknowledgments for kind treatment to some of the army officers at Tortugas, and stating that he was just about to sail for Old England. We do not doubt that every gentleman officer belonging to the garrison of his prison guard rejoices at his escape. What “We" have Done.—Mr Speaker Colfax, in his speech accepting | the nomination for the Tice Presidency, took occasion to praise Grant, abuse the President, and glorify the Radical party. He boasted that “We placed the emanci pated slave on his feet as a man, and put into his right hand the ballot, to protect his manhood and his rights.” Mr. Col fax strangely neglected to state that— 1. While enfranchising 750,000 ignor ant blacks in the South, “we” disfran chised 250,000 intelligent white men, ]n violation of the Constitution. While putting the ballot into the hands of the emancipated slaves ot the South, “we denied the right of suffrage to the free negroe- of the North. ’ 3. “We” have prevented the restora tion of the Union—paraly zed the industry of the South —established military satrapies and destroyed consiruiional government — Cleveland Plain Dealer. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1868 The Death of James Buchanan. The telegraph of yesterday announced the death of James Buchanan, thefifteenth President of the United States. The | deceased, born on the 22d of April, 1791, had just entered his seventy-eighth year. He was of Irish extract, his father, James Buchanan, having emigrated from Donegal, Ireland. A graduate of Dickin son College, he was admitted to the Bar in 1812. He prosecuted his profession with ardor and success until he found himself at the age of forty possessed of means sufficiently ample to enable him to retire from practice. He entered early into politics, becoming a member of the Legis lature of Pennsylvania before he had attained his twenty-third year. In his early career he was a Federalist of the old school, and, although these doctrines gave coloring to a long political fife, which covered more than a half a century, they did not deter him from ardently advocating a vigorous prosecution of the war with Eng land in 1812, nor from volunteering as a private for the defence of Baltimore. In 1820 Mr. Buchanan entered Congress as a Representative of that District ! of. Pennsylvania which included Lan- ! easter his place of residence.— His first notable speech in the House | of Representatives was made in | defence of Wm. H, Crawford, of Georgia, the Secretary of the Treasury, iu support of Federal authority, on a deficiency in the military appropriation. He took I ground early in favor of a tariff for | revenue purposes only, protection being ! incidental —in times past the leading doctrine of the Democratic party —to which party, at a later date, he said he was thoroughly allied, not only by con viction, but from practical knowledge ! derived as an old public functionary. He | was an ardent lover of the Union. “I i confess,” said he (the debate on the | tariff question had become sectional), “ I J confess I never did expect to hear in ; flammatory speeches within these walls, j which should be sacred to the Union. I | never did expect to hear the East coun selling the South to resistance.” In the political campaign of 1828 Mr. Buchanan | took an active part, and upon his return to Congress succeeded Daniel Webster as 1 Chairman of the Judiciary Committed. He was one of the five managers appoint ed by the House of Representatives to eond. ee the impeachment of James L. Peck, Judge of the District Court of the United States, for suspending from his profession and imprisoning Luke E. Law less, a lawyer of St. Louis, for reviewing in a newspaper article the errors of the Judge. In this impeachment case he was associated with Henry R. Storrs, of New York, George McDuffie, of South Carolina, Ambrose Spencer, of New York, and Charles Wickliffe, of Kentucky. In 1831, at the close of his fifth term, Mr. Buchanan was appointed by General Jackson ambassador to Russia. Upon his ! return in 1833, he was elected to the Sen ate and lent a hearty support to General Jackson in the exciting times of the abro gation of the charter of the United States Bank, in the rupture between Gen. (Jackson and Mr. Calhoun, and during the opposi tion of the United States Senate, headed by Mr. Clay, in the endeavor to deprive the President of the power of removal from office without the consent of the Senate. He endeavored to stifle the slavery agita- 1 tion in the bud, which first arose after the | Vienna Congress of the sovereigns of Rus-! sia, Prussia and Austria proclaimed that I negroes touching their soil should be free, whilst two thirds of their own subjects were serfs, and our virtuous British cousins were particularly active in inciting | the scorn of European masses for a repub- ! He was the leading support iu the Senate | of Martin Van Buren during his adminis- | tration, and, pitted against Clay, Webster \ and honest John Davis, of Massachusetts, j became eminent as a debater. With the accession of James K. Polk to the Presidency, he became Secretary of! State, conducting, with marked ability, the i affairs of that department in the Oregon difficulties and during the Mexican war. [ During the administration of Franklin j Pierce, he was made Minister to the court j of St. James and took part in the convoca- j tion of embassadors which was assembled at Ostend, for the purpose of arranging for the purchase of Cuba. In June, 1856, he received the Domination of the Demo cratic party at Cincinnati and was inaugu rated President in March, 1857. The leading features of Mr. Buchanan’s administration are fresh in the minds of every one. The Kansas question—thebe ginning of a civil war, preached by five thousand New England Preachers —early stimulated his exertion to destroy sec tional parties and to restore fraternal feel ing, a line doubtless entered upon with the highest motives and purest intent, but ending in a flattering, vacillating political ! course, which aggravated rather than as- j suaged public excitement and popular j commotion —culminating in a war of gi- j gantic proportions Thurlow Weed Explains.—The New j Commercial contains a card from the edi- ] tor, Thurlow Weed, with reference to his | part in the alleged attempt to corrupt Senators. The following is an extract: In explanation of the propositions made to myself, I have just this to say: Senator Pomeroy either intended to dis pose of three votes, including his own, or he was willing that his friends should use his name to make money; or, as some be lieve, there was a conspiracy between But ler and Pomeroy to implicate the Presi dent, thus obtaining new material for im- | peachment. My reasons for this belief are, that j several months since, Mr. Leggett, an in timate friend of Senator Pomeroy, wanted the appointment of Postmaster at Leaven worth, Kansas. He was supported by Pomeroy, who wrote a letter, which was shown to the Postmaster-Genera!, promis ing his (Pomeroy’s) vote for Presidential confirmation and his influence against im peachment. The Postmaster-General was furnished with a copy of Senator Pomeroy’s letter (copied from the original in his pos session), and Leggett received a postal agency. Some few weeks ago Leggett ap pears before Col. Cooper with a letter from Senator Pomeroy, saying that he would carry out iu good faith any “arrangement” made with Mr. Gaylord, who is Pomeroy’s brother-in-law ; whereupon Leggett and Gaylord undertake for money to obtain the votes of Senators Pomeroy, Nye and Tip ton. I did not believe that Senators Nye and Tipton had authorized this “arrange ment,” nor did I believe that either of them would vote against the conviction of I the President. Bui I did and do believe that Senator Pomeroy baited the hooks with which his friend Leggett and his brother-in-law, Gaylord, fished. Whether they caught anything or not, I am unable to say. Nothing, certainly, from me or with my consent. Thurlow Weed. A New Volume.—That favorite of the little folks, Burke s WteHy, will enter upon anew volume in July, and the publishers promise several marked im provements. As soon as 31 r. Goulding’s \ story- now drawing to a close—is finished, i a thrilling story of Indian life will be com- | menced, the scene laid in Upper Georgia. , We are assured that this story will be ; found full of interest and instruction, i After July, the Weekly will contain 32 1 columns of matter each week, instead of 24, as heretofore; the illustrations will be increased in number, and the editor assures us he has a host of good things in store for his readers. The publishers will send specimen numbers, free of charge, to all who write for them. Now is the time to subscribe. Terms $2 a year. Address J. W. Burke & Cos., publishers, 3lacon, Georgia. False Report.— The report that Mr. •Jerry O’Brien, formerly of the firm of O Brien k Byrne, of this city, was found dead in Atlanta on Sunday last is incorrect. That gentleman is alive and doing well 1 here. Fortieth Congress - Second Session. ' DEBATE ON THE ADMISSION OF ARKANSAS. SENATE. Washington, May 23.—The bill for the admission of Arkansas was then taken up. Mr. Drake said upon examination he was now satisfied that none of these States ; should be admitted to representation until the 14th amendment to the Constitution ! was adopted. He modified his amendment making the final ratification of the amend ment as essential to admission, and that none of these States should ever pass a law abridging the rights of any citizens on ac count of race or color. They were asked to do now what they ought not do, to let in these States one hy one, in advance of its ratification. Twenty-one States had as ; ! yet but ratified this amendment, Ohio and j New Jersey having withdrawn their assent as he,believed they had a perfect right to do in advance of the final ratification. In his j opinion it required twenty-eight States to ratify this amendment, and although some \ Senators might differ with him, the people ! would never be satisfied that it was proper- j ly adopted until it had been favorably 1 acted on by twenty-eight States. He ! would never vote for the admission of a 1 single one of these States until that amendment was ratified. Why this hurry i to get these States back? 'They had j pushed themselves out by war ; we had done without them for seven years and could do without them still. They were steeped to the neck in treason and treach ery, and it was a fearful risk to bring them back now. What do we know about these representatives that they will send here?; T hey have had treacherous men here be- ! fore and will have them again. Mr. Morton was in favor of admitting the States one by one and not in a lump. It was due to the loyal men of Arkansas that it should be admitted at once, it was due to the loyal men of the country. These States were now under the control of rebel officials, and they should have immediate relief. These States could not ratify the constitutional amendment until they were admitted ; all would acknowledge that to | be the case. So that the amendment could not be ratified until they were in the Uuion. Mr. McCreery said as a representative of the State of Kentucky he felt it his duty to raise his voice at this crisis. When he first entered the Senate Chamber he had not expected to take any part for twelve months, but in the rapid course of anarchy which now threatened us, the representa tive who was silent would soon find that he and his State were both voiceless. Mr. C. then reviewed at length the reconstruc tion and financial policy of Congress, draw ing a picture of crime, disaster and ruin as the result. In this city beggars met you at every corner, they were the advance guard of the horde that would soon throng through every highway and byway, and secure a voluntary or involuntary support. The Superintendent of the Kentucky pen itentiary was now gray with apprehension. [Laughter.] Mr. 3IcC. then alluded to the vacant seat of Kentucky’s representa tive in the House, which he said was more eloquent than her gifted repre sentative could ever be. lie denied that Arkansas was ever out of the Union, and asked where was any recog nition of her separate sovereignty? The power in Congress or elsewhere to exclude a State was subversive of our principles of government. Proconsuls were now ruling those people and grinding them down. — The Radical party, once so formidable, is now being shorn of its strength, and will ere long find itself in a hopeless minority. They may enfranchise the blacks and dis franchise the whites, they may consolidate all the powers of the Government in one department, or in one man, but that will only shorten the day. If without law, they inflict pains and penalties on others, they may one day find the same pains and penalties inflicted upon them. If they sow the wind, a voice from above says they shall reap the whirlwind. He would never vote to impose any conditions of admission upon these States. They had the same rights as other States. There was no probability or possibility of the rebellious States attempting to inaugurate another revolution. It was not worth while for him to expose the frauds which had been practised in the registration and voting in Arkansas—that had been sufficiently done in the House. The people of Arkansas were innocent of this Constitution; they Izj w j 1 . Til. Il :l „ 4 of that State, its object to secure black domination over thq white race. General Grant rules these States with the sword. The question being first on the amend ment of Mr. Ferry to strike out all the conditions of admission. • Mr. Sumner hoped, not earnestly, it would not pass. It would be a source of peril. Mr. Ferry advocated his amendment. At 3 p. m., on motion of Mr. Wilson, the Senate went into executive session, and after some time spent therein adjourn ed. Washington, May 29, 1868. —The morning hour having expired, the Chair announced that the bill must go over, and the unfinished business, being the Arkansas bill, would be taken up. Mr. Harlan said Friday (to-dav) had already been set apart for the considera tion of bills from the Committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. Trumbull hoped the Arkansas bill would be taken up, and that the Senate would not adjourn to-day until it was final ly acted upon. Mr. Sumner spoke of the importance of bills relative to the District of Columbia being considered, and hoped the Senate would go on with them. Mr. Wilson hoped the Arkansas bill would be taken up, and after it the bill fir the admission of the six other States, which were now ready to come in. The question of reconstruction was of far great er importance than any other now before Congress, it was due to the loyal people of those States to relieve them from the rebel domination and the rebel officials who now held sway over them. Mr. Morton thought the District of Columbia had had its share, and could wait until reconstruction was disposed of. Mr. Buckalew desired, with unanimous consent, tosubmit aresolutioncallingon the General of the army for a supplementary report relative to affairs in Arkansas. He understood that this document was in the War Department, and that it was very im portant and necessary that the Senate should have it. Mr. Trumbull would like to know what this paper was. They had now before them the Constitution of Arkansas and the record of votes, and what more did they want ? This great question of recon struction had now been before them for three years and should be settled. The Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McCreery) had yesterday in a two hours’ speech de plored the evil effects of military rule, and now let the Senator from Kentucky and all other Senators unite and relieve those States from military rule. They had com plied with all the conditions imposed upon them, and there was no excuse for Con gress in delaying to fulfill its own condi tions. He truly hoped that this bill would not be put over at the suggestion of the Senator for some paper that be wanted, without the Senator stated specifically what he did want. Mr. Buckalew said it was, of course, im possible for him to state precisely the na ture of the paper. The report of General Gillem did not state that the Constitution had been adopted, but merely submitted all the papers which he had received to that date. There were other papers which had since been sent in by General Gillem, and it was these that he wanted. These papers showed the irregularities which had pre vailed in the registration and voting and fraud on the part of the returning officers; from some counties there had been no pre cinct returns, but the whole vote sent in in a mass. Some of these papers were official, and he thought the information contained therein should be laid before the Senate. Mr. Conness could not understand how any Republican member of the Senate could oppose taking up these bills for the admission of the States. He did not think the papers spoken of by the Senator from Pennsylvania would throw any additional light on the subject, at least he did not want any. For one he would frankly say that he wanted these States in the Union because he wanted their votes for the national candidate for President, and he hoped there would be no further opposition on the Republican side of the Chamber. Mr. Ste wart thought if they were going to do anything with these States, it should be done at ODce. The Union men there were becoming paralyzed and dispirited by the delay. The question was then taken on the mo tion of Mr. Harlan to postpone the Ar kansas bill and proceed with District of Columbia business, which was disagreed to. The Chair then laid before the Senate an invitation from the Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, ex tending an invitation to the Senate to visit Mount Vernon on Saturday next. The Arkansas bill was ihen proceeded with, the question being on the amend ment of Mr. Ferry to strike out all the I conditions of admission contained in the I bill. j . Mr. Buckalew then submitted a resolu tion calling on the General of the army for a copy of all papers submitted by General Gillem, relative to affairs in Arkansas ! since the sth instant. I . Mr. Trumbull must object to the con ! sideration of the resolution if it would be I used as any excuse for delay iu acting on | tbe bill. Mr. Buckalew wanted the information, whether it came before or after the bill was passed. Mr. Trumbull withdrew his objection, and the resolution was then adopted. Mr. Edmunds then took tbe floor in op position to the amendment of Mr. Ferry, taking issue with that Senator and main taining the absolute right of Congress to impose conditions of admission upon the States. He concluded by moving that the bill be recommitted with instructions to the committee to provide for the in auguration of the new State Government and the continuance of the military force in aid thereof, and to attach such’condi tions to the bill as would secure the Con stitution of the State from ever being im paired or altered by disloyal hands, aud imposing upon the Legislature the ratifica tion of tbe 14th amendment to the Con stitution as precedent to admission. Mr. Conkling argued that uo such con ditions as those mentioned by the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) had ever been imposed upon any State. The Sena tor from Massaehussetts (Mr. Sumner)had offered amendments imposing conditions when Tennessee was admitted, but tho Senate had refused to adopt them. When Nebraska was admitted both the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Wade) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Howard) had in the strongest language scouted the idea of im posing conditions upon a State,or that they would be binding if they were imposed. It had been said to him privately,let it go, these conditions have no binding effect, and it will not do to send the bill back to the House. Well, he had tried to bring his niind to look at it in this aspect, but found himself unable to do so. Mr. Yates said we were indebted to the conditions imposed by Congress in the or dinance of 1787 tor the five Northwestern flourishing free States. But for that slav ery would have gone into Illinois just as inevitably as it did in Missouri. After considerable further discussion, Mr. Conness moved to take up tho concur rent resolution to provide for the day of adjournment. Mr. Wilson—Why, my dear sir, at the rate wc are going on we will not be able to adjourn by the 4th of December. On motion of Mr. Wilson the Senate then went into Executive session and after ward adjourned. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Octette. Curious Development in the House —Miss Vinnie Ream—lhe Case of Mr. Wool ley—A Masked Battery—Miss Vinnie Ream Again—Threats and Blandish ments — Smashing Her Statuary—A Spicy Time—. Julian, of Indiana, Un earthed—Butler vs. Grant. Washington, May 29, 1868 —This has been another interesting day, and the developments will furnish material for the Presidential campaign which must make great havoc of the Jacobins. It was sur mised yesterday that Miss Vinnie Ream, the young and accomplished female sculp tor, who has had her studio for some months in the basement of the Capitol,had fallen under the displeasure of the blood hounds of the Radical party, but the facts why and wherefore had not transpired. It was even intimated that one of the cells proposed to be fitted up by direction of the “managers” was for her special accom modation. To-day the facts came to light, and in a way to reach and arouse the indig nation of the whole country. The speech of General Morgan, of Ohio, was not only classical and thrilling, but it produced a scene in the Representative Hall not soon to be forgotten. The Committee of “Man agers” had been authorized to pursue their investigations, ostensibly with a view to ferret out some supposed corruption. It was regarded unfair as well as unparlia mentary to refuse the Democrats a repre sentation on the committee, but few, how ever, had suspected the immediate cause of this refusal—few had suspected the cor ruption and infamy which attached to the to day of the transactions of several Radi- j cal members of the House brought the | Jacobins to their feet. The eloquent effort of Mr. Eldridge and the production of legal authorities showing that Colonel Woolley was notin contempt of the House ] passed unheeded. The appeal of Colonel ! Woolley himself to be protected against i the insults and oppression of Butler ex- i cited only a smile upon the iron coun- j tenances on the Radical side of the hall, | but when General Morgan opened his ; masked battery upon them he woke But- | ler up as he has not been woke up since he i discovered the masked battery of the rebels at Big Bethel. General Morgan said he could account for the persistent refusal of the Radicals to allow a Demo crat on this committee. They did not dare to permit it, as the result would be an exposure of themselves, and begged to refer only to a single transaction, among many, which could be proven. A Repub lican member, whom he was pleased to see was then in his seat, had gone to Miss Vinnie Ream and charged her with having attempted to influence Senator Ross to vote for the acquittal of the President; she denied the charge, saying she had never spoken to Senator Ross on the sub ject. The honorable (?) member then de- i manded that she should exercise her influ- ; ence over that Senator to induce him to j vote for conviction. This she also declined j doing, as she was not disposed to mix her- i self up in the matter. The honorable j member then threatened her, saying it ! would be the worse for her, or it would be ! the ruin of her if she refused. She did j refuse and yesterday the threatened pun ishment overtook her. The Radicals or dered her to leave the building, and had j her statuary, finished and unfinished* i thrown out, by which a valuable work was broken to pieces. General Morgan I having completed its narrative, a demand was made on the Democratic side for the name of the memberwho had threatened Miss Ream with Radical vengeance if she did not do their infamous bidding. Mor gan said if the member himself would call for the Dame he would give it promptly, but no man saida word. They hung their i heads in humiliation. Again it was de manded that Morgan should give the i “State.” He said the member alluded to ■ was from the gallant State of Indiana. The scent then became too warm to stop I the chase. A member from Indiana arose i and asued if he was the party alluded to ? Then another and another followed with the same inquiry, until it became evident , the guilty party would soon be caught. Finally the immaculate Julian was forced : to his feet, and, in a tone of refreshing in nocence asked : “Am I the member al ! luded to ?’ ’ With a profound bow, Gen eral Morgan responded : “I referred to , the distinguished gentleman, Mr. Julian, of Indiana, and Miss Vinnie is the witness 1 ready to swear to the facts.” Julian ; seemed to stagger under the blow, and the whole party felt the damniDg exposure. While professing to expose corruption it was crushing to be thus exposed them ] selves. Julian is one of the Jacobin bloodhounds with a keenness of scent , second only to Butler’s. It was perhaps fortunate for the young lady that she was scented out by Julian rather than by Butler, for the sake of her reputation. Butler did her the credit to-day to say ; he did not know her. Such are the proceedings which now char acterize the American Congress upon the eve of a great political contest, and so damaging must be the result to General Grant and his Jacobin supporters that some of the shrewdest Radicals strongly suspect Butler of a purpose to makeaship wreck of Grant's Presidential prospects if possible. He is known to hate Grant with all the intensity of his nature, and would turn upon him at any moment with the venom of the rattlesnake. Many here say that there is no other way to account for the infamous proceedings which Butler is now pressing forward to the great damage of the Radical party. He certainly can never hope to find another lodgment in the Democratic household, although he is now doing them good service. K. The Reconstruction Acts —Shall they be Executed ?—The Radicals Cornered— A Congressional Muddle Radical Dif ferences in the Senate If hat will the Supreme Court do with Reconstruction ? The Case of Mr. Woolley—Cabinet Changes—C rani s Last Speech , Washington, May 29, 1868.—The real question, paramount to all others, is at last, at this point, assuming shape for grave and decisive consideration. The Radicals, in their unbridled career (pre suming upon their large majorities in Congress, unrestrained by the Executive veto which has been very righteously inter posed, and very sincerely it is believed by the country), have passed a series of bills known as the Reconstruction Acts. The momentous question now looming up, is NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 23. whether these laws (as they are called) : shall or can be executed ? The tremen i opus power now placed in the hands of the Conservatives by the inevitable effect of reaction and not by _ fortuitous irrelevant issues, such as the impeachment of the : President (which merely served to unloose j the discordant materials already upon the 1 point of explosion), has enabled them to j place the whole matter squarely before the j country. The Radicals have been cornered. . It was observable, yesterday, by the restive- j 1 nes of Drake and others in the Senate, i that however the vile plotters of anew disruption of the remaining fragments of i the Government may affect to desire the i restoration of the Union, even upon the j iniquitous conditions prescribed by the laws ! referred to, they have determined to “go back”, (quoting their own slang phrase ology iu order to be intelligible all round), upon their own thrice reconstructed system ot Reconstruction 1 The proceedings of to-day are vastly in | structive to the “student of political phil i osophical politics,’ as the erudite Forney ! expressed something like the same ilea a tew days ago. The inquiry naturally arises from whence and why ttiis muddle? No one now-a-days should be personal in any sense, aud all should, moreover, in view of the unlimited personal power of Butler, be very cautious how they express them selves with reference to what august Sena tors may intend to do ; or indeed what they have already done in open day ! It is. nevertheless thought to be safe enough to say from information derivable from trust worthy sources, that the Radicals in the Senate are now divided in respect to “res torations or “reconstruction” upon two vital points, viz : First, whether if the Southern States if now “admitted” are certain of voting the Radical ticket in No vember, and second, whether if (in case then/ are prematurely brought into our Messed Republic) the Supreme Court will not have tunc (before the eighty electoral votes can be made available) to authorita tively declare that all Congress has yet etc complished in this behalf must be taken in a 1 ickwic/cian sense, and in no wise obliga tory m a legal one The discussion in the Senate to-day upon these knotty points io exceedingly refreshing, aud will repay perusal if the peruser will take the trouble inwardly to digest them. .The blunders in this respect of the stu pid party, which, by dint of impudence alone, has thus far lorded it over the coun try, have in their culmination complicated the question of adjournment. It is now quite certain that the virulent Wade men, by advice of their leader, will insist upon retaining their seats until the last moment so that his desperate faction may avail it self of any chapter of accidents. The great feature in the House proceed ings to-day was the further consideration of the case of Mr. Woolley. I refer to the graphic and eloquent description by Mr. Brooks of the quarters assigned this unfortunate gentleman. It seems that Butler (or whoever he was), who drew the resolution adopted yesterday, permanently providing a prison for a present and future victims who have fallen or may fall into the hands ot the managers, knowingly lied in describing its locality. It is below (the ground level considered) and not opposite the office of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, as described in the resolution. In fact, a dungeon ! But what of that ? The superstructure of the Radicals founded upon a gigantic lie,and all the parts should correspond to its appropriate architectu ral order. The calm perusal of the pro ceedings of both Houses of Congress to day may very well be left to the public without comment or paraphrase. There can be no doubt of' contemplated Cabinet changes. The only difficulty is how effect them. Mr. Seward desires to go England, as he indicated six months ago. Would the Senate confirm him? This change depends upon the time of the adjournment of the Senate. Probahly other matters are in the same condition. General Grant was waited upon to-day by a committee of the “Soldiers’ and Sailors’ League.” As his response is a literary curiosity, it is appended, as taken hy one of the most accomplished steno graphers of the age and reported verbatim as delivered: “Gentlemen of the Committee of Soldiers and Sailors —l will say that it was never a desire of mine to boa candidate for any political office. It is a source of gratifies i tion to me to feel that I have the support oi j those who sustained me through the great ! rebellion which we have passed. If I did ! diiJate. 0 ' It was iifef a indtttV'o?'cni^fF n wiJi • me, but I hope, as I have accepted,, that I will have your aid and support, from now until November, as 1 had it during the rebellion.” X. Bankruptcy. — Saturday was the last “day of grace” for voluntary bankrupts, and in consequence a swarm of petitions was sent in : Wm 0 Norrell, Augusta ; John S Davison, attorney. John and A J Setze, same place and same city. Davison & Cos., same place and same attorneys. Th os W Mangham, Macon ; Bokeman and Simmons, attorneys. Hugh Farrier, Fort Gaines; Arthur Hood, attorney. Joseph D Andrews, Americas ; S H Hawkins, attorney. Randall Duckworth, same place and at torney. Richard A Dykes, Dougherty county ; Wright and Warren attorneys. Edwin W Alfriend, Albany ; same at rneys. W I Brantly, Chickasawhatchie ; C B Wooten, attorney. Lawson II Carter, Milford; C Y Goode, attorney. Hamilton H Sutton, Macon county ; Phil Cook, attorney. W P Holley, Albany ; H Morgan, at torney. Nelson B Shutt, Newton ; Hines and Hobbs, attorneys. Jones & Bro., Baker ; John J Hall, attorney. John I) Hoist, Quitman ; Law and Lovell, attorneys. Lawrence M Shafor, Chatham ; E Yulee, attorney. C R Hanleiter, Savannah; A W Stones, attorney. Harlan P Bickford, Savannah ; A W Stones, attorney. Thomas S Bagley, Baldwin; Wm Mc- Kinley, attorney. Ben Mendheim, Augusta ; Hook and Carr, attorneys. Charles B Day, same place and at torneys. Wni S Royall, same place ; F H Miller, attorney. Solomon Cohen, same place ; John S Davison, attorney. Wm J Dumas, Forsyth; E G Cabannis, attorney. John W Hancock, Macon; attorney, per se. Salmon Morris, Warrenton ; John Milledge, attorney. Charles P McCalla, Augusta ; John Milledge, attorney. Chas W Doughty, same place and at torney. Francis Hulman, same place and at torney. Robt Carroll same place and attorney. One poor fellow in his haste to get into bankruptcy sent his petition to this the wrong district. Oa account of this he will have to remain solvent until some kind I friends force him into bankruptcy. In Bankruptcy.— The following peti tions in bankruptcy were received on Sat urday night by the Clerk of the United States District Court, and filed by him within the time alotted by the law for the filling of pe'itions: Isaac Clifton Moses. Columbus; Moses & Garrard, attorneys. Jefferson 11. Briscoe, Columbia county; Jordan E. White, attorney. Noah McGrath, Pulaski county; C. C. Kebley, attorney, Hawkinsville. John L. Houser, Perry county; C. C. Duncan, attorney. George N. Logan, Macon; Lanier and Anderson, attorneys. Four hundred and thirteen petitions were filed from the time of the passage of the bankrupt act up to the first of June, in this (Southern) District of Georgia. Yesterday the Clerk received five peti tions, which came too late to be filed, ex cept under the fifty cents on the dollar clause of the act. One of them was the most important case that had been sent in during the term; the liabilities in it amounting to over one and a half millions of dollars. — Sav. Rep.. 2d. A writer in a late magazine tells a story which he had from the late Major Noah, to the effect that when James Gordon Bennett first applied for work at the office of the old Courier & Enquirer , he was in such distress that the kind-hearted Noah gave him a quarter of a dollar to get a dinner with before beginning to talk with him about his future occupation. After Mr. Bennett had satisfied his hunger, he made a bargain with Major Noah, and went to work. His duties included sweeping out the office in the morning, in addition to his more literary avocations. There are few men in history who, from such small beginnings, have risen to such wealth and power.as Mr. Bennett. State News. j Governor Brownlow writes a letter in winch he says that an editor in this State has been indicted for forgery. | Gn Saturday last the eldest son of Ed. ' Boston, Esq,, of Fayette county, was j thrown from a mule against a tree and in ] stantly killed. A stock company has been formed in • lajon called the “Findly Manufacturing company.’’ They have secured very ex tensive buildings and will do a large busi- I ne.-s. Bishop Beckwith is visiting Thomasville and will confirm a large class of Episcopal ; converts there. A shooting affray occurred in Marshal villc below I‘ort \ alley, in which a white man named Staly killed a negro, Henry W heeler with a pistol. The cabin of a negro named Bullard, a tierce Radical of Dooly county, was con sumed, with his two children in it, bv fire on last Saturday. Reports from Cherokee, Georgia, repre sent the prospects for an abundant wheat crop as very fine. The rust has not injured it much and it will soon be out of danger. One Allen, colored member elect of the Georgia Legislature, was victimized in Macon to the tune of SIOO, by two brother mgs, who came the confidence game on him. i The Macon Telegraph gives an account j ol lour negroes entering the store of a Mr. iragwick and while one of them held him by the throat, G>e others rifled the store and then escapee.. • £ he an(l Jur y of Fulton county has indicted forty persons for murder, fourteen of whom are negroes. , M r - Lanford, of the Savannah Steam il ills, received a beautiful lot ofnew wheat oo G'o 28 th ult., raised on the farm of J. W . McAipin, near that city. The price paid was $3 per bushel. It will be seen by the following notice which appears iu anegro State paper, that the Georgia delegates to the Chicago Con vention afe coming home : “The most extensive thieviug operations are taking place on the various railroads.” We learn from the Semi-Weekly Ji»i plecutc, a Texas paper, that two gentle men from Georgia are in that State making targe purchases of wool for Georgia manU' factories. General News. Telemohic proverb ; ‘•When the man is lire and the woman tow i he devil comes tho coals to blow.’ A secret has been admirably 7 defined as “anything made known to everybody in a whisper.” It is not strange that the carpets in the House had to be taken up after the recent u i ud-throwing. I fc I s cheaper to travel between Boston and clew York than to stay 7 at home, in tnese days of competition. The Sioux chief who is to meet our peace commissioners bears the striking name of Man-afraid-of-his-horscs. Why is the Chicago platform like the latest counterfeit of the National bank cur rency ? Because it was designed to de ceive. It took five columns of the official Paris Momteur to describe the ceremonies of the Prince Impelial receiving his first com munion. “Theodorus, King of is the title of a tragedy in five acts and twelve tableaux, now in rehearsal in tho Chatelet. Paris. Clara Louise Kellogg has dined at Buck ingham Palace with the Duchess of Sumer set, and was escorted to the table by tho Duke of Newcastle. When Bout well first approached Grant to inform him of his nomination Grant asked Boutwell if he had come to take him into the hole in tho sky. The Albany Argus says “the system at Washington is to govern the North by falsehood and the South by force, and to pillage both sections. ’ ’ “We tried for awhile to persuade them that they could do better, but they would not hear us,” says the New York Tribune on Grant’s nomination. Butler entered a Catholic chapel the other day, whereupon tho censer boy said to the priest: “Father, hadn't you better hide the candlesticks?” —Baltimore Sun. shame. A husband eouul he divorced halt a dozen times nut there without notic ing the difference. The Emperor of Russia has a pet dog more favored than the empress. The dog follows his master into the Imperial Coun cil Camber, which is strictly forbidden to the Empress. One of the difficulties in tho way of the marriage of Prince Achille Murat and Princess. Salome is a difference of opinion as to which faith the prospective children shall be baptized in. General McClellan has replied to the proposition of the New York Common Council, tendering him a public reception on his return from Europe. The compli ment is respectfully declined. A child of Lowen Pierce, of Jamaica, Vermont, only four months old, has been for some weeks able to walk, its counte nance and phrenological developments in dicating three times that age. Forney prints an acrostic in one of his two papers, both daily. Being graveled for the final letter ol the Speaker’s name, he finally grinds out the line that “Xerxes ne’er led such ranks to war,” which is probably true, or, if not, so much the worse for Xerxes. Great Storm in Columbia.—A pri vate telegram, received in this city yesterday, from Columbia, says: “A tornado passed over this city about one o’clock to day, unroofing the market building and one end of the freight depot. The new roof of the State House was slightly damaged, arid so also were some twenty or more stores and private houses. The storm was more violent than any known here in years.”— Charleston Mer cury. It is now believed that President Davis’ trial will be again postponed to October next. Wendell Phillips spits upon the Chicago platform, denounces the nominee and repudiates the Republican party generally. McClellan leaves Paris for America about the first of June so as to be here when the National Democratic Convention meets. The commemoration of tho revelation of the commandments was celebrated by the Hebrews in New York on the 27th inst. The amendments proposed by Senator Sherman to the National Currency Act include one allowing an increase of $20,- 000,QUO of currency. McCoolc and Coburn were indicted by the Grand Jury of Dearbon county Satur. day morning and sentenced to forty days imprisonment. The commissioners to the Osage Indians will soon conclude a treaty for their re- D.oval from Southern Kansas to the Indian Territory. An enthusiastic Grant ratification meet ing took place at the capitol at Nashville on the 29th. The ablest speaker was Langstone, the Ohio negro orator. The jury in the Callicott-Allen revenue fraud case at New York, has'returned a verdict of guilty against Callicott and of acquittal of Allen. It is reported that the President has intimated a willingness to accept, within a few days, the resignation tendered some time since by Postmaster General Randall. Gen. Buchanan has appointed another of the lately elected New Orleans Aider men to a vacancy occasioned by resignation, Four of those elected now have seats. Hon. Anson Burlingame and the two chief Mandarins of the Chinese Embassy reviewed the Seventh Regiment of New York, which paraded before them on Thursday last. There is a disposition on the part of a large number of the members of Congress to adjourn about the first of July, in order that they may actively enter on the Presi dential campaign. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Free Trade League, was held in New York on the 26th ; addresses favoring the principle of taxation for revenue only were delivered. A physician of Breslau announces to the Academy of Science in Paris that he has succeeded in illuminating the cavities of the living human body by means or elec tricity so as to render their interior visible to the physician. An officer of the police force of Cleve land and a Prussian by birth speaks five different languages—Prussian, German, French, Bohemian and hmgiish. His beat is on streets inhabited exclusively by Bohe mians, whom no other policeman can un derstand. A man who sent a five gallon keg for whiskev, and was charged by the liquor dealer for six gallons, told the latter that he didn’t care so much about paying for the extra gallon, but regretted the unusual strain upon the keg.
