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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1868)
G'limtulc & Sentinel. Vmi\k.«da\ mornim.. Jig 10 - j National llemiM raltr Convention. Rooms Central Kx. Committee, 1 of the Democratic Party of Georgia, r Macon, Ga., June 4, 1868. j Arrangcm'’-.*! have been made by which delegates and viators from Georgia to the National Der a ocratic Convention, to meet in New York on the Ith day of July next> can go and rctatm lor one fare, either via Lynchburg or via Louisville. Fare from Atlanta by either route to New \ ork is $37. The fare going will be required. Free return tickets must be procured from John B. l’eck, Master of Transportation W. A A. K. H., Atlanta. E. G. Caban iss, Chm'n Cen. Ex. Com. Democratic and Conservative papers in this State will please copy. South Carolina Immigration. While the people of Georgia have done little or nothing during the past year to encourage immigration, our fellow-citizens of South Carolina have gone to work in earnest. It is true they have not done much, but they have made a beginning. We make the following extracts from a letter to the New York 'lime*, dated Co lumbia, May 28: IMMIGRATION. The Legislature of this State established, over a year ago, a Bureau of Immigra tion for the purpose of encouraging and conducting the immigration of settlers from Europe—mostly from Germany, Ire land and Sweden —to this State. Ibe Report of the Commissioner of that Bu reau for the year 1807 has recently been published, from which it appears that agents had been operating in the countries above sjiecified \ several circulars and pamphlets have been published aud dis tributed; addresses delivered iri many pan , f the 1 tate, uud a commendable de gree of energy and address displayed by the parties engaged. But the results have bei u small —248 persons have come into the State, during the year 1807, through this bureau, and the cost of the opera tion has been, for tbo same period, $7,0(17 22. There have been a good many private agencies for the supply of foreign labor; ami these have operated to divert from the Government channels many immigrants, who are, of course, not reported by the Bureau. A GERMAN t'OLONY. In the district in which Columbia is situated—Richland—there is a small settle ment of German lanu-laborers. It is called Germantown, and is located 25 miles east of this city, upon the Waterco River. The beginning was made the first of last No vember, under the management of Mr. Hermann Leiding, a native of Germany and a resident of Charleston. The start was made with four lamilies,and negro labor was hired to do some kinds of farm work. W ith twelve laborers they have put in lor the present year’serop, with abundant promise of good yields, over 200 acres, as follows ; SO acres in small grains (wheat, oats and rye), 70 acres in corn, 35 acres in cow peas, 15 acres in cotton, il acres in pota toes (Irish and sweet). These items go to inform the foreigner as to what our upland soil usually grows. It is the inten tion of Mr. Leiding to maze this anucleus, to which he hopes by its success in a few years to attract to it as many laborers as can possibly be accommodated. Similar movements are afoot—one in Pickens Dis trict. uud one in its inoipiency iu Newberry. Immigration is the weapon with which the Caucasian proposes to contest the rulership of the country with the Africans. The contest cannot last many years ; and the darker and inferior race must go to the wall. This point has already had its negroes in some parts of the State ; especially within twenty miles of this Germantown. In these localities negroes arc joining political leagues with the whites, seeing that co operation with the whites is the only chance for the existence of the blacks. Leg islation need not attempt to interfere with this law of races. Election In South Carolina. Tho election for county officers in South Carolina came otf on Wednesday. in Charleston there was considerable excitement, growing out of the overbearing and insulting conduct of tho negroes to ward tho whites, but no serious collision. The negro-scalawag candidate, E. W. M. Mackey, a Charleston renegade, is elected Sheriff, over Capt. 0. B. Sigwald, a gal lant ex Confederate. Tho following paragraphs from tho Lins election outrage was conducted : Tin-: Ballot-Box or Ward No. 2. W. N. Tall, onoof tho managers of election in Ward 2, live* in a house us ill-lainc in Ciueoti street, and there he kept the ballot box on Tuesday night. This same fellow threatened to stull tho box if necessary, and of course ho had ample opportunity. Voting Country Negroes. —ln Ward 2 yonU'rday somo llfly negroes from the country wore allowed lo vote on affidavit. Os course they voted for the Hadical can didates, and probably they votod the same ticket at at least one poll in the country on Tuesday. Wan t: Vote Rejected.--The vote of a white man was refused in Ward t yester day, because ho was not registered there, although he offered an affidavit that he bad not voted else a here, and the man agers acknowledged they had allowed such votes on a previous occasion. Mon l,.ur in the Country.— Joseph Green, a black man who baa been working bard tor Nigwald in the late election, went up to Black Oak on Monday to take care ot the interests of his favorite candi date. The Union Leaguers told the ne groes that Green had been hired to tool them into voting themselves Into slavery, and the consequence was that he had to leave post liaslo. Straining at a Gnat and Swallow ing a Camel.- -The military authorities indulge their puritanical proclivities at every election, by closing the tmr-roouis anil injuring the business of men who pay a heavy license lee ; vot yesterday they permitted the Radical candidate to keep a barrel of whiskey at the corner of King anil Viunier hoist streets, and to dispense it so liberally to his supporters that a crowd of several hundred intoxicated ne groes blocked the thoroughfare in the ai'teruooou, and, by their noise and ob scene languuge, disturbed the peace, and prevented laities from walking in that neighborhood. Delegates to the national Democratic Convention. The following is a list ot'delegates to the Democratic Convention, to assemble at New Yorkjon the 4th of - July, to nominate a candidate for President aud Vice-Presi dent. We are informed that arrangements will be made to carry the delegates and others going, on a special train. As soon a> the plan becomes definite we will give notice.— IntcMgencer. DELEGATES AT LARGE. A. H. Chappell, Columbus; B. 11. Hill, Athens. 11. Pitch, Savannah ; John B. Gor don, Atlanta. DISTRICT DELEGATES. Ist. W. T. Thompson, Savannah ; P. C. Pendleton. Valdosta. Arthur llood, Cuthbert; B. G Lockett, Albany. 3d. Hugh Buchanan, Newuan ; John L. Mustian, Columbus. 4th. Win. A. Reid, Macon ; Cm. Pee ples, Gritlin. sth A. R, Wright, Augusta; E. J. Pottle, Warrenton. Oth. Col. Phil. R. Simmons, Gaines ville ; Col. Win. P. Price, Dahbnega. 7th. J. D. \\ addell, Cedartown ; Lewis Turnlin, Cartersville. Flarida is to come into the Union, with a Governor /row Buconrtn, a Congress man from Pennsylvania, United States Senators lrom the Eastern and Western States, and a local Legislature made up of negroes audearpet-bag men, selected “from all the world and the rest of mankind." Great is the reign of carpet bags, and brilliant the Congressional system of Re construct iou. They who leave their coun try tor their country's good, banishedand expelled men, turn up the law makers of the South, officers of the State, and Sena tors and Representatives in Congress.— A. I*. Express. The Sinking Ship.— Dion Platt, a well-known \\ estern politician, reads him self out of the Radical faction, on account of measures leading to internal dissensions, lie admits the honesty of the recreant Senators, but ihiuks they made a political blunder in belonging to the Radical organ ization at ali. Mr. Platt concludes with a graceful admission that the Radical party is dead beyond resurrection, and consoles himself with the reflection that there is no use in being lachrymose over the lost lac teal. I can stand it if the rest can” lion. John A. Matson, of Indiana, an old line \V big, and latterly a Republican, is also denouncing the mad schemes of the I\ ashington Radicals. The milky way—the course of the milk man. The March or Russian Supremacy In Asia. Queen’s Hotel, London, May 30. Telegrams dated in Bombay, British India, on Monday, the 25th instant, have just come to hand by way of Alaxandria and Malta, reporting that the Russian army, which has been steadily advancing in Cen tral Asia for some time past under com mand of Major General Romanoffsky, bad reached the ancient and populous city of Bokhara, which appears to have been the objective point of their march from the border of the imperial territory on the way toward Southern Asia. The Bokharian troops met them at the base of their ramparts and from behind their twelve fortihed gates and precipitated a fight. A bloody battle ensued. The j Russians were victorious, and captured i Bokhara. The Bokharian army was com : mantled by the Khan in person, who was j killed either in the field or in some of the ! narrow streets which intersect the citv. 1 Russian interests are jubilant, and Rus sians and their friends point out the per sistency of their commanders and soldiers from the commencement of their operations j in Chinese Turkistan, during the native revolt in Yar-Kand, acouple of years since, to the present, when they will be enabled to threaten the whole northwestern border of British India toward Affaghanistan by holding Bokhara. The facts are pointed out that by judicious combinations of his troops and rapid marches, performed under the most intense heat, General llomanoff sky was enabled to fight the battle of Ird jar, on the banks of the Jaxartes, or Syr Daria, on the 20th of May, 1866 ; that he defeated the Bokharians, after a bloody ! engagement, and opened the way to a I series of Russian victories which have | established the military power of the em j pire iu the entire country north of the : Jaxartes from the “Celestial Mountains” I to Lake Aral, and places a Christian force I in the heart ofTouran. ; At Irdjar the Russian Cossacks met the I Bokharian cavalry and routed them. The | Emir of Bokhara directed the fire of 21 i guns of heavy calibre on Romanoffsky s artillery, but the Russian general, report- I ing liis reply, said : “Not a shot of ours missed its aim.” The result of the fight of Irdjar led to the fall of the Bokharian fortress of Nau. The 31st of May, 1866, the Bokharians ; and Russians fought a terrific battle before j the oity of Khodjent with artillery and j infantry, then the Bokharians were again beaten, lietreating to the city, they closed j the gate? and barricaded the streets at all i points. On the sth of June, 1866, the | Russians stormed Khodjent at many points, i having cannonaded it with 18 guns and 2 ) mortars during four days, and entered it. j They were met bravely, and the ground contested foot to foot in the streets and alleyways, but Romanoffsky obtained the victory and city. This result separated Bokhara from Khokan. Taehkend was taken by the Russians on the 25th of August, and from this point they have gone on to the conquest of Bok- | hara itself. The news of this, the latest Russian victory in Central Asia, has pro duced a very decided sensation in London, it being regarded as a complete offset on the part of the Czar to the recent gain of England’s ally, Shere Ali Khan, in Kan dahar, as affecting the issue of the grand question of future supremacy in Asia. The progress of the Russians iu Central Asia is one of tho greatest occurrences in ; the recent history of Asia. Gradually and j steadily they have advanced southward, enlarging their territory at the expense of the larger neighboring countries, and wholly absorbing the weak ones. During the last few * years it has been, in particular, the gradual annexation of Turkistan or Independent Tartary which lias attracted public attention. Turk 1.-. tan was a large division of Central A-- : u, bounded on the north by Asiatic llur -.a, and on the south by Afghanistan and British India. Its area was estimated at nearly 800,000 square miles. It con sisted of a number of independent States or khamates, of which Khiva, in the north west, Khokand, in the northeast, and Bokhara, in the south, were the most im portant. The first attack of the Russians was directed against Khiva, the whole of which has now for several years been in their possession. The subjection of Kho kand was completed in 1865. In the same year the Russian province ol Turk istan was organized, completing the incor [ poration of the conquered territory with | Russia. A war against Bokhara has since i that time been going on, has ended in the j i.'iiijuest of Bokhara and the death of its ! ruler. Thus all the important States of what was formerly Independent Tartary, are held by Russia- Ri conseauenoa of the war. Russia be- Brittsh India. Only a few miles now separate tho two groat empires, and this small barrier may, of course, be removed at the pleasure of either government. The Russian Government is hastening the construction of a railroad which will con nect the new province with St. Petersburg. As tho Caspian Sea constitutes the entire western frontier of Turkistan, she can at any time convey there a large army by steamboat. And as regards the future, it is almost certain that the population of Turkistan will be absorbed by the Russian nationality. That England is without such advantages, was but a few years ago clear ly shown by the Sepoy insurrection. If, therefore, a war between Russia and Eng land should be avoided for many years to oome, the strength of the Russians cannot fail to boa menace to British powel' in the East. A Voice from the Chief Apostle. Wendell Phillips Denounces the Chicago Ticket, and iSays it Cannot Carry the North. At the meeting oi the Radical aborigines on Wednesday in New York city, Mr. Phillips thus delivered himself: We have been defeated —defeated at Chicago. The warning of all this is that the Radical element of the Republican party is weak. It has been decided at ! Washington that the White House must l not be checkmated. We are informed that the Republican party feels its own weak ness. The radicalism of the party has been divided. Johnson has divided it. The strength of the party is opposed to giving the negro the right of suffrage— universal suffrage. The Chicago resolu tions indicate the speedy readmission of the ten Rebel States. The necessities of the Grant campaign require it. The plat j form of Grant sustains the demands of t hese States. The Radical dement of the Northern States is not strong enough to dect Grant, but it is compelled to bring in these ten States to enableit to doso. This is a confession of weakness. The Lincoln par ty of to-day does not dare go into the field to follow Grant in the field. What a i confession of weakness ! and what does it mean ? Bringing hack the Rebel States means that within five or seven years j there will stand up in Congress men elected j from those Rebel States that will exercise the same power and influence they possess ed before they had the right to go there, i Itt order to elect Grant the Republican ! party have got to have the votes of these j negroes in the Rebel States while their : enthusiasm is at. the boiling point. But an empty bag cannot long stand. The | Radical element of the party, then, dares ; not go into an election without the vote of the negro. But it did not dare to put its , foot down at Chicago and declare to give : universal suffrage to the negro. [Cries of “shame."] The Republicans feel as if they talk well of Grant, and have con ! fidenee in Colfax, although these men have the support of the seven Republicans who voted against impeachment. When you look upon that Chicago platform and marry it to the facts as they really are. it is self-evident that it is patched up simply to try to elect General Grant, and the Republican party surrenders the black into the hands of white leaders ! the Rebel States. For the sake of securing a party triumph this is to be done. The Republicans surrender the [ consciences of the next seven years. Grant is pledged to nothing, and he is in the hands ot a party that dares not impeach Johnson, or read out Fessenden, Trum bull or Ross. It is the duty of the Abo litionists to hold up the dominant party to remorseless criticism until it mends its ' ways. Massachusetts has always been the central point of this negro question. It gave birth to the managers of impeach ment and to the counsel for the impeach ed. Massachusetts will watch the negn.. j until he achieves final success. For the preseut the General has conquered. The I laws of trade, inexorable in their nature, | will eat up Ross and Fessenden, and the I other recreant Senators, while the White House will crush Grant to its purposes. There is a power at work which will send the seven Senators to the regions of the Pendletons and Yallandighams. There may be a third party, to put Chase into j the I residential chair. Chase has sold his soui tor the succession ; but may Heaven j help those men who have disgraced them selves and are waiting for their pay! There is not Radicalism enough in the nation to do the proper work of the coun try. There is not faith enough in the people. The patriotism of the Republi can party, was chilled by the Whig party : and it therefore inherits a constitutional weakness on that account. Every page of the archives of the war shows Grant to be no friend of the negro. The record of Grant's career is a damning impeachment against his soldiership. The Express Agent In Albion, Sew Tort. We learn from the New York papers that R. B. Bullock, agent for the Southern Express Company, and reputed Governor elect of the negroes and scalawags of this portion of District No. 3, essayed to make a speech at Albion in that State last. Fri day. Poor Bullock was in bad luck again, and forgot his speech after the delivery of a few short common place sentences, fixed up for him by Joe Brown, and retired in confusion amid the cheer*! of hb Radical friends. Before collapsing, he did make out to say that “the election of Grant and ) Colfax will make the Southern States as 1 free as the Empire State of the Union.” I What a wonderful prediction? What wisdom and learning does this Express I Agent possess? What a pity his great talents have been so long hid “under a bushel.” When shall we see his “likes” | again ? Poor firant. Just before the close of the Impeach ment trial, Forney, in his “ two papers both daily,” made the following predic tion ; “Should the Senate of the United States fail to convict Andrew Johnson on the ac cusations of the House, not an electoral vote, with the exception of the vote of West Virginia, Missouri, and Tennessee, will be given to General Grant in the Southeastern States next November.” Well, the impeachment failed—the “Senate failed to convict,” and if Forney is to be believed, not a single electoral vote will be given to General Grant in the Southeastern States next November, ex cept West Virginia, Missouri and Tennes see. Having been deprived by the action of the Senate from receiving the votes of i the Southeastern States, let us see what ■ his chances are further North. I Thad. Stevens, the ablest and boldest ; leader of the Radical party, announced to : his party pending the impeachment fiasco, that “if the President was not convicted I the Radical party would carry but two j Northern States—Vermont and Massa chusetts. According to this estimate of his own friends, Grant will receive only the votes of Vermont, Massachusetts, Missouri, West Virginia and Tennessee—casting in the Electoral College only forty-three votes. This, then, is his strength in the loyal States. If he should receive the vote of all the unreconstructed States (of which there is not the slightest chance), he would fall short of an election by 47 votes. Truly a bad showing for the great Ulysses. Generals Schofield and Stoncman. J udging from the tone of the Washing ton telegrams to Northern papers, the Radicals are chuckling over the great blunder which they say the President committed in nominating Gen. Schofield as Secretary of War. They boastfully proclaim that Schofield is under the complete influence of Grant — will manage the patronage and ap pointments and “orders” of that office to promote Grant’s election, and that he will in all matters concerning the administra tion of the War Office be guided and counseled by Grant. It is claimed, also, that the appointment of Stonemau to the command of Virginia in place of Schofield is but another Radi cal card which will be used to advance the interest of that party and promote the election of Grant and Colfax. We should not be surprised if these “ru mors” have something more of truth for their foundation than most of those which emanate from the Federal Capitol. Mr. Johnson has been, to say the least of it, very unfortunate in his selection of milita ry commanders for the Southern States. Six out of nine of them have proved to be the veriest tools of the Radical Jacobins — Hancock, Gillem aud Schofield being the cnly officers sent to the South who did not lend themselves to the Radical conspira tors at Washington. Radical Iteconstrnctlou. We print below a couple of sections of the negro Constitution which was adopted by the Arkansas Constitutional State Con vention. It will be seen, from this extract, that all the white people in that State will be compelled either to emigrate or starve LC. |A >1 J* vrtTjgx mi G rAv v_- *.c.V oU. Fixi » „ evru. to representation under it. The oath referred to as prescribed for Electors is to the effect that the affiant has never engaged in rebellion against the United States or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof—in other words, a harsh edition of tho infamous test or iron clad oath of the 39th Congress: Sec. 1. No person in the State of Ar kansas, without having previously taken the oath prescribed lor electors in the Con stitution of the State, shall engage in any of the lines of business heroin enumerated, viz; practice law, practice medicine, preach the gospel, teach school, act as steamboat captain, as pilot, as engineer, as mate, edit or publish a paper, run a ferryboat, keep a toll-bridge, keep a saloon or restau raut, keep a billiard saloon,act as auctioneer, as a mail contractor, do no mercantile busi ness, shall not carry arms, shall not keep a stallion. Sec. 2. Any person violating section one hereof, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in tho penitentiary not less than two or more thau ten years. Another Fenian Raid.— The Cana dians, in anticipation of another Fenian raid this summer, are making preparations to give them a warm reception. While we are warm friends of Ireland, and wish to see Ireland and Irishmen free and pros perous, we sincerely deplore the disorgan ized and criminal efforts being made to invade Canada. There is not a ghost of a chance for success. The invasion can only result in failure, and the slaughter of per haps a few hundred brave but deluded Irishmen. This Fenian movement into Canada is criminal, because it is suicidal defeat and slaughter await its inception. It is, therefore, a duty which this Gov ernment owes to humanity to stop this contemplated invasion by the prompt ar rest of the leaders and the seizure of what ever war material the Fenians have secret ed near the Canadian borders. The following dispatches indicate that the Canadians are really apprehensive of an invasion : Ottawa, June 2, IS6S.—The military preparations for the anticipated Fenian raid are very complete. Field brigades have been formed in the various districts, composed of regulars and volunteers, hav ing attached to each a battery of field artil lety and a troop of cavalry, under officers | chosen front the line. Each brigade can , act independently, or they may be brought | together as circuinstances shall require. Tents and field stores of all kinds are : ready for use, and the troops could take | the field at a moment’s notice, fully equip ' ped for service. The duties of the quarter ; master general and commissariat depart ments will be performed by imperial offi | cers. There will be a considerable reserve of regulars and volunteers Should the brigades already formed not be sufficient to meet the emergency. The regulars and volunteers are now armed with Snider and Enfield breach-loaders, and there is an abundant supply of ammunition on hand at all the necessary points. The volun teers are to receive fifty cents per day, in addition to free rations, when in active service. In addition to the preparations for the service on land, gunboats are now stationed at Prescott, Kingston, Toronto, I Fort Erie and St. Clair, manned by sailors , of the Royal Navy and supplied with Arm strong guns. Toronto, June2,lß6B. —Thefieldbrigade, I composed of regulars and volunteers, in ! Toronto, has been placed in a high state of j efficiency. Staffoffieers in charge of camp j equipage, forage, stoies aud all other : requisites have been appointed and the de- i tails for prompt action, in the case that the i service of the brigade should be required, I are ail arranged. Four guns of the Royal Artillery station- ! ed here left this morning tor Prescott. A 1 strong guard from the 29th regiment has ! been placed over the drill shed and the i new jail. N eyvspaper Consolidation. —T It e North Georgia Republican, published at Dalton, has been merged into the North Georgia Citizen, published in the same place, under the joint management of the former proprietors, both of whom are prac tical printers. The Citizen is a fine eight column week ly. Its mechanical execution will bear favorable comparison with any paper in the State, and the initial number bears un mistakable evidence of decided ability in the editorial conduct of the paper. We wish the new proprietors all the success that their journal so richly deserves. The London Tomahawk says: “There is now so little to separate the distance be tween London and Paris, that the reckless ness of the Imperial Court is finding its way across the Channel, and adultery is king on the boulevards.’’ More Witnesses Examined by the Im pes.chment Managers. The Washington correspondent of the Herald, trader date June 2d, says: The Impeachment Investigating Com mittee resumed its labors this morning. Among the witnesses examined were Col. Cooper, General Alonzo Whitney Adams, Cornelius Wendell, and Webster, of New A ork. General Adams is the person who was supposed, from Weed’s testimony, to have made the proposal to purchase Sena tors Tor a certain amount. Adams denied this story entirely in his testimony to-day. ba| l made no such proposal to weed or any one else, and that he had newer been introduced to Weed by Collect or Smythe, and bad never seen those two gentlemen together. Mr. Butler asked Mr. Adams whether he had written to Smythe on the subject of purchasing Senators. General Adams answered—“No, sir.” Q. “Didyon notask him (Smythe) to forward thirty thousand dollars to you, or write to Smythe demand ing thirty thousand dollars with which to purchase Senators, or for the use of Sena tors in accordance with agreement, and afterward complain that it had not been done?” General Adams denied all this, and said no such thing as mentioned had ever occurred. Cornelias Wendell was then examined I as to his knowledge of the charge of buy- i ing Senators. Among other things he was , ““8 knew one General Adams. He said he knew one who stopped at the > National Hotel. He (Wendell) was then ; asked whether he ever received General j Adams at his housi. He answered that he I had. Q. “What for?” Witness said he I (Adams) offered to sell him an interest in I a patent fora meter safe; witness replied as he did not understand that he would not purchase. He was then asked if this j Adams had ever suggested to him the ice? ; of raising money to purchase Senators, He : said he had not. The same witness was then examined on other ooints, but tho i Managers failed to elicit* anything that 1 would go to show oorruption or to show a ' plan to purchase Senators. Mr. Cooper was then examined as to certain money drafts made on Baltimore about the time of tho impeachment vote. 1 His evidence shows that the drafts had no connection with the subject under inquiry. Webster, in his testimony yesterday, was badgered pretty severely by Butler) One of the questions asked by Butler was as to how he (Webster) knew the President would be acquitted, to which Webster answered, “Well, General, I don’t reallv know, but I suppose it was much the same way as you knew how impeach ment would result when you telegraphed to New Hampshire that conviction was certain ; that Wade and prosperity would come in with the apple-blossoms.” This sally from Webster was badly relished by Butler. Injurious reports have heretofore been made as to the antecedents of General Adams, one representing that he had been in both the Confederate and Federal service and while in the latter had beeu dismissed by court martial. This is an error. This General Adams was tried by court martial, like thousands of other officers, but honorably acquitted, aud soon after promoted and remained iu tho service until July, 1865. The Senate Omnibus Bill. We present below the Bill reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the admission, upon certain conditions, of five of the unreconstructed Southern States : An act to admit the States of North Caro lina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida to representation in Con gress. Whereas the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida have, in pursuance of the provis ions of an act entitled “an act lor the more efficient government of the rebel States,” passed March secoud, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the acts supple mentary thereto, framed Constitutions of State governments which are republican in form, and have adopted said Constitutions by large majorities of tho votes cast at the elections held for the ratification or re jection of tho same : therefore Resolved, &c.. That each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida shall bo entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as a State ofthe Union when tho Legislature of such States shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Thirty ninth Congress, and known as article four teen, upon the following fundamental con ditions : That there shall never be In such State any denial or abridgement of the elective franchise to any person by reason or on account of race or color, excepting Indians not taxed ; and the State of Geor gia shall only be entitled and admitted to representation upon the furthor funda mental condition : that tho first and third subdivisions of section seventeen of the fifth article of the Constitution of said State, except the proviso to the first sub division, shall be null and void, and that the General Assembly of said State by solemn public act shall declare the assent of the State to tho foregoing fundamental condition. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That if the day fixed for the meeting of the Legis lature of either of said States by the Con stitution thereofsliall have passed or have so nearly arrived before the passage of this act that, in the opinion of tho Govornor elect, there shall not be time for the Legis lature to assemble at the time fixed by the Constitution of such State, such Legisla ture may be convened within thirty days after the passage of this act by the Gov ernor elect of such State, at k% ike p f tleorguq wlie ii’ P hie President ofthe United States shall oili cially proclaim the due ratification by its Legislature of article fourteen of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the Thirty ninth Congress, aud as to the State of Geor gia, when he shall proclaim in addition the assent of said State to (he fundamental condition hereinbefore imposed upon the same ; and it is hereby made the duty of the President, within ton days after re ceiving official information ofthe ratifica tion of said amendment by the Legisla ture of either of said States, to issue a proclamation announcing that fact. The Wall Street Furore—The Specula tive Fever, etc. It is agreed, on all hands, that Wall street never has seen so exciting a time as at present, so far as speculation in Government Securities is concerned. The Express financial reports keep the reader well posted, from hour to hour, almost, during the day,—but as the views of other writers are interesting, we quote from the Express June 2d. \ Times, money article .] “We have never been called upon to re port anything equal in magnitude of transactions and in buoyancy of prices, to the present movement. It was thought by careful operators, last week, that prices had gone high enough for 5 20’s and 10- 40’s for even an easy 4 per cent, money market, considering the contingencies to which the supply of and rates for money are continually subject, without much defer ence to the season of the year in Wall street. But to day anew lease seems to have been taken on this speculation. The money market ruled 4@5 percent, to the brokers, with exceptions on large sums placed upon the security of the public funds at 4 per cent. This extreme cheapness of money, coupled with the anxiety manifested by lenders to employ their balances, subject to call, is a tempta tion to speculation in the funds which may possibly result, if not in mischief, at least in a serious reaction, should any thing occur to give better employment to money. We throw out this caution with out really apprehending any immediate cause of reaction. stock speculations and speculators. One or two of our neighbors have, of late, been peculiarly unfortunate in singling out and attacking special corporations whose stocks are actively dealt in on the Exchange. They may have aiarmed for the moment a few timid people among the bona fide Stockholders, but the result thus j far is that their bearish- friends, whose j short sales they designed to help, have no reason to thank them for their service, i Thus, for example, Fort Wayne was to go j from 104@105 per cent down to 90 or less- j It has gone up to 115@U6 percent. \ Pacific Mail was not only to go down to j 85 or 80, but to follow the fate of the old Collins Line. It has gone up from 88 to 95@96 per cent, and sold last week under a scare of the bearish party as high as 98 j 1 per cent. THE ABUNDANCE OF MONEY. Herald Financial Article . There is no probability ot any other than an abundant supply of loanable funds at this centre until the end of August, when the usual flow of currency westward to move the crops will set in. It is this ex treme case aud the prospect of its con tinuance which is one of the principal causes stimulating the rise in United States stocks at present, for the banks, finding themselves unable to fully employ their funds in call loans, are large buyers, and the same is also the case with other corporations as well as private individuals. A comparison of the statement of the as sociated banks of this city for the week ending on Saturday last, with that for the corresponding week in each of the three previous years shows the following changes: June 1, 1867. May 30, IS6B. Loans. §252,791,514 1nc.....515,385,976 Specie 14,617,060 Inc 3,244,028 Circulation... 33,747,039 Inc 398,567 Deposits 190,386,143 Inc 14,360,821 Legal-tend.... 58,459,827 Inc 7,173,926 June 2, 1866. Mav 30, 1863. Loans §250,959,022 1nc..1.517,218,468 Specie 21,858,093 Dec.... 3,997,005 Circulation... 26,241,225 Lag 7,901.381 Deposits 198,127,289 Inc 6,619,675 Legal-tend.... 69,178,992 Dec.... 3,545,239 June 3, 1865. May 30, 1868. Loans §210,416,543 Inc.. .'.557,760,947 Specie 21,346,493 Dec.... 3,485,405 Circulation... 5,323,082 Inc— 28,822,524 Deposits 186,935,680 Inc. ... 17,810,284 Legal-tend.... 51,065,440 Inc— 11568,313 A GOVERNMENT “STOCK POOL.” World Financial Article. All the dealers are surprised at the small quantity of Governments on the market, and if any speculative movement should be made, it is difficult to fix any limit to prices. The lage “stock pool” to which we alloded as having sold out last week and bought again, began selling and realizing agaio on Saturday and closed everything this morn ing, but after they had closed out the great advance of the day took place. Some of the pool began selling short on their own account this morning, and have had some trouble in making arrangements for their deliveries to-morrow. Weunderstand that the majority of the “stock pool” is in favor of forming a “boar party,” to keep company with Philadelphia and Boston, who are heavily short of the whole market. Sale or ihe Smet’s Library la New York, i From the Ji Ten- York Tribune. The sale of the late Mr. A. A. Smet’s ' library, which occurred last week at Messrs, j Leavitt, Strebeigh & Co.’s salesroom, Clin- j ton Hall, Astor-plaee, is worthy of notice. The catalogue is an octave volume of more , than three hundred pages, embrac- ' ing about two thousand five hundred j lots, and this was perhaps the most ex tensive collection of books ever sold by auction in this city. Mr. Smets was a man of we.ilth, accumulated by years of up right and diligent application to business, and from early manhood a resident of Sa vannah, where, with affluence, he acquired for himself the reputation of an honorable and useful citizen. From a boy he had a thirst for books, and, when quite a youth, while his means were extremely slender, he began his collection. His love for | books, and especially rare ones, had al ' ways been so decided, that he had never ! felt much interest in the ordinary pleas | ures of young men, preferring to expend ! his early savings in a different way. By this means he had been saved from ex- j pensive and injurious indulgences, and from the formation of bad habits, while an entertainment of another kind, inno cent, rational and useful, was provided for his gratification. Under the influence of i such a taste, books, instead of balls, the atricals and dinners, had been the objects l of his choice, and absorbed all his spare earning and time. Referring to his taste for books, Mr. Smets has himself said ; “The care of a large family, and the duties demanded by an extensive concern, did not so completely absorb my time that I could not spend part of it in my library. Let my troubles be ever so great, I could there cast them all aside. Every one has his hobby. Books has been emphatically mine. Though it never entered into my head to make such a valuable collection as I now have, I ever ardently desired to procure whatever works or literary curiosi ties I found referred to in the course of my readings. I cannot express my de light on the opening of every new parcel. Thus my library has gradually increased, until lam quite surprised to find myself called upon by every stranger ol note visiting this city.” Mr. Smet’s great passion was for early printed books and manuscripts, and of this portion of his library he printed in 1857, a “Catalogue Raisonnee,” a book of about 150 pages, for his own pleasure and that of his friends. This Catalogue com menced with an Egyptian Papyrus 3,000 years old, and so on with numerous speci mens down through the thirteenth, four teenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Last week these books were all sold by auction, and we print below the prices of a few of the most noteworthy: Breydenbach Saincte’s I‘erigrinations, S4O; Bartolozzy, 82 prints, $34; Bucha nan’s Marie Queene of Scottes, S2O; Cat lin’s Indian Portfolio, $35 ; David’s Anti quites d’Hereulanum, $29 75; Dibdin’s Spenceriana, SBB 50; Dibdin’s Tour, ssl; Dibdin’s Decameron, S7B; Dibdin’s An tiquities, $62 ; Duplessi’s Berteaux, $22; Napoleon’s Egypt, $253; Collection es 182 small engravings, ssl; Kernes Les Pre sentes, Paris 1508, $62 50; John Bochas, s4l; Hogarth’s Works, $54; Hogg’s 209 Days, $45; Hore Beata Virginis, Paris 1505, SSO; Hore Beate Virginis, size inches, $1000; Ilore Beate Marie Virginis, size 2}xoJ inches, $52 50 ; Horoe in Lau dem, Paris 1545, $57 50; Humphrey’s Middle Ages, $39; Kendall’s War United States and Mexico, $55; Lodge’s Portraits, 4 inches, $236; Hale & McKinney’s Indian Portfolios, $67 50; Guillaume de Louis and Jean de Meung, S2OO ; Le Roman de la Rose, German xManuscript, fifteenth century, S4O; Roman Missal, on vellum, size 51x4 inches, $75 ; Roman Missal, on vellum, size 9ix4f inches, $150; Roman Missal, on vellum, size svß inches, $lB5 ; Missal, on vellum, fifteenth century, 5x7 inches, $250; Officium Beater Maria Vir ginis, size 2£x3i inches, $55; Rabbanus Macabeorum Libriduo, $34; Cybole- Sainete Meditacion, size 7xlo inches $125; Mayer Views in Egypt, folio, $105; Mey rick’s Armor, 2 volumes, $49 50; Mirour for Magestreates of Cyties, $25; Naylor’s Coronation of George IV., $33; Nurem berg Chronicle, $37 50 ; Polycbronicon, printed by Caxton, $250; Scott Abbotts ford Waverley, $114; Sabastianus Brant, Stultivera Navis, sl7; Sylvestre Palaeo graphy, 4 volumes, $120; Spencer’s P™u Tl»Binii.llniik SSO: David the de Wade, size 5x7 inches, $l3O ; Audu bon’s Birds, 7 volumes, SIOB 50 ; Audu bon’s Quadrupids, 2 volumes SIBO. A Political Funeral. The Autopsy of the Radical Party — Os What it Did, and by Whom it is to be Buried. A Washington correspondent of more than usual sagacity, gives the following view of the situation of the Radical party : Sufficient time has now elapsed since the Chicago Convention to speak of the ef fect of the nominations made there, and the political prospect as viewed from this central point. The ticket has fallen flat and produced no impression whatever. There are vari ous reasons for this fact, but the main one is the identification of General Grant with the Radical wing of the party, and his full acceptance of ail their policy, including impeachment, which ho advocated openly and even violently, as is well known here, and as General Logan and Mr. Judd, of Illinois, emphatically declared at Chicago. General Grant went over to the Radicals and abandoned his previous conservative tendencies last October, at which time Washburne came to Washington to ar range the programme, and General Raw lings was sent West to mako a speech re vealing his chief’s conversion to the doctrines ofThad Stevensandthe “Mount ain.” Ever since that time he has been losing ground, and now is even weaker than the I party, because it Is admitted that he brings no outside strength and excites no interior enthusiasm, while old and straight-laced Republicans will bolt his nomination as an abandonment of principle. It is absurd to suppose that Colfax adds i a particle of influence to the concern. Any ward politician would be equally strong, . and he is of the same dimensions of a ward politician, only raised in the country. There are tens of thousands of the same ! class and genus scattered over the Union, : many of whom are vastly superior to | the individual whose smirking mediocrity occupies the chair once filled by Henry Clay. The Radicals relied upon the success of impeachment as their last and only hope of carrying the Presidential election. That defeated, they substantially admit the game to be lost. Their plan was for Stanton to organize the whole South into a compact Radical column, to declare mar tial law in Kentucky and Maryland under some fabricated pretext, in order to ex clude their votes, and then by coercion and corruption to secure enough of the East and West to count themselves into power. This scheme required the aid of Wade to make it a success. With John son in the White House it falls to the ground, and with it all the hopes of the revolutionists. Disguise it as they may, the Wade men are intensely indignant, and will do little | to help the ticket. Their chief has given j no such indorsement as is pretended by the i Radical organs. On the contrary, he | swears like “our army in Flanders,” and says that he was sold out. It is notorious that the Southern delegates, who were pledged to him, were bought by the New York jobbers at various rates, and many of th’m as cheap as rheir hotel bills. This open bargain and sale is now urged here as a reason against the admission of those States by many extremists, and if their votes were not counted upon in November, they would not be allowed to come in at all. It is now conceded by leading and com petent Radicals that Pennsylvania is lost by a large majority—first, because of che failure of impeachment; second, because the convention did not expressly and by name excommunicate the seven Senators who secured acquittal; and, thirdly, be cause of the insulting and intentional omis sion of any reference to protection or “home industry,” That State is now de manding an increase of the tariff, and the foremost politicians have written here, that without it there is no use of attempt ing a canvass. But as Congress has no idea of touching the tariff, finance or any other large question at this session, Pennsylvania is gone “hook and line.” A post mortem examination of the re mains of the late Radical party will be held at the Capitol this evening, when meas ures wi!i_ be taken for the interment. Wade, Wilson, Fenton, Hamlin, Stanton, and Curtin are announced as pall-bearers! together with Grant and Colfax as chief mourners. A Detroit paper has the following : “One of the Cincinnati newspaper men makes one suit answer for the changes of the year. He gets a suit of thick clothing as cold weather comes on, and by the time hot weather arrives, it is worn sufficiently thin reserve for thin clothes. When he wears them out, then he don’t wear them out any more—that is to say, he wears them out until they are so much worn out that he had rather not go out than wear them out any more —then he gets another suit. FROM WASHINGTON. Cortrspomiaioee/ Ite Baltimore Gazelle. The 1 ote of Thanhs to Stanton — Senato- ( rial Criticisms on his Course— Hiss V7n- j nie Ream Again — The Trial of Hr. ; Davis — A Bill to Tax Government I Bonds Voted Down. Washington, June 1, IS6S. —The Sen- I ate, after a protracted discussion, passed the joint resolution voting the thanks of Congress to Edwin M. Stanton, late Sec retary of War. This may prove to be a sop of comfort to the contumacious War Minister for having “stuek’' when ordered to do so by Senator Sumner, but he might well exclaim “save me from my friends,’ - j in view ot the discussion which the resolu- j tion provoked. Senators Hendricks and i Buckalew reviewed the course which had ! been pursued by Stanton, and for which Congress was called on to give him a vote of thanks, arid they made it plain that the resolution was but a political trick, and j was so understood by its author. They S showed that all Stanton had a right to ex j pect was the charity of silence, and in this j view several Republican Senators did not hesitate to concur. Henderson, of Mis souri, who has established a character for honesty and independence well worthy the successor of “Oid Bullion,” rasped the friends of the resolution by inquiring why it was the thirty five impe-mhers had to have a vote every day to stiffeu them up —why they kept up such a whistling as they passed the graveyard. On the con firmation of General Schofield they had lugged in without precedent a preamble declaring Stanton still Secretary ol War, and immediately on the heels of that comes a resolution of thauks also without prece dent. Henderson was very emphatic in words, but his manner, during the debate to-day, was the telling part of his speech. The resolution will no doubt be put through the House under the operation of the pre vious question, which cuts off all debate, but it will not be sufficiently potent to arrest the verdict of the whole country on his contumacious and disgraceful conduct in attempting to hold a Cabinet office after his Executive Chief had requested .him to vacate. The resolution of thanks is a po litical trick intended to bridge over the odium which attaches, to the whole Itadi cal party in consequence of Stanton’s having “stuck” until he was smoked out and forced to “relinquish” the War De partment. The time has been when to receive a vote of thanks from Congress was esteemed a high compliment, but now it is a compliment of a most questionable character- .So it formerly was with “brevets” in the military service, but after Stanton had all the mules in the ser vice breveted horses, a brevet ceased to bo regarded as complimentary. Undtr the rules of the House of Repre sentatives the first business in order every Monday are resolutions, which are sub mitted in the order in which the several States are called. Uusually these resolu tions are of little interest, and frequently most frivolous. To-day, however, many of them were significant and important, as the regular Congressional proceedings will show. Ihe letter of Miss Viune Ream, protest ing against the Radical outrage perpetra ted on her, will be read with interest. Although this letter and the resolution of General Morgan accompanying it were laid on the table, yet a number of the Radicals privately denounced'the outrage as being without excuse or palliation. They had not the manliness to character ize the action ol'Butler as it deserved on the floor, saying it would be of no use, as Butler and the rest of them were wild and would not listen to reason. Eidridge’s resolution shared the same fate. This resolution declared that the House never meant to clothe the managers with power to examine into the private papers and business, of witnesses. But the richest proposition was one authorizing the Secre tary of War to employ Bingham and Butler to prosecute Jeff'. Davis. This is understood to be an indirect way of com pensating this pair of managers for their labor in endeavoring to convict President Johnson. Butler thinks as Bingham succeeded in hanging an innocent woman be should have a chance at Davis, and Bingham returns the compliment by de claring that Butler’s style of oratory would be more effective before a negro jury in Richmond than it proved to be before the Senate of the United States. It is to be presumed, however, that the Attorney General’s office will attend to the employ ment of counsel, should additional counsel be deemed necessary. All legislation from this time till the close of the session will be controlled by politics and be made subservient to party purposes. A resolution was offered to-day directing the Committee of Ways and Means to bring in a bill taxing Govern ment bonds. This resolution was offered on the one side and accepted on the other as a political movement —and the Radicals voted it down. The speech of Scheuck, of Ohio, on the new Tax bill to-day was for the purpose of testing the House on the au/istiou. hf adiourmuetU.. and Mr. Schenck wished ,to be heard '"on his bill in advance; If the bill ,is to bo taken up and considered with a view to its passage, the session must run into August. If an early adjournment is to pe had " this bill must go over till next session. It con tains 350 pages of printed matter, and the chairman of the committee says would re quire a week of the session to read it through. The House committee appointed to in vestigate the controversy between Don nelly and Wasliburue have agreed upon a report which is particularly severe upon Grant’s political guardian. The baseness of Washburno is painted in strong colors. Ihe Washington Election—The Whites Victorious—The Committee of Man agers Smothering Damning Facts — The Case of Woolley—The New Secre tary of War—General Adams—The Whiskey Tax. Washington, June 1, 1868.—The re sult of the election now progressing in this city seems to be considered by both par ties as of the greatest importance. The Radicals especially announce this morning officially that if the negroes allow them selves to be beaten here, they will be held accountable for the disastrous defeat which must necessarily follow ia November next throughout the country. Viewing the matter in this serious aspect, it is a sub ject of congratulation that, at this hour (6 o’clock), it is very generally conceded that the Democracy have swept the city, j electing their candidate for Mayor and ' securing a majority in the Councils. It ! has been a grievous ordeal, indeed, ! through which our citizens have passed. | It was hard to submit to the humiliation j inflicted upon them by Congress, and many refused utterly to degrade themselves by entering into a personal political strug gle with their former slaves and present menials—but the oLject was considered of sufficient consequence to demand the sac rifice. It is to be hoped that this will be the last occasion on which a similar degra dation will be tolerated. A negro, I learn, has been elected in the First ward a mem ber of the Board of Aldermen. It remains to be seen whether his presence will be permitted in the Chamber. A fair con struction of the infamous acts of Congress j themselves would, it is thought, exclude i him. This election shows very clearly that ! Sambo is becoming tired of his new mas- I tors. i It has transpired that the object of the , : Radicals in the House in rejecting all j propositions to permit their opponents ; representation in the “Committee of Man- ! lagers/’ is simply to smother the most j damning facts against prominent members • of their own party. Rumors are afloat all i over the city of the existence 1 of corruption j in the very matter before them, but wit- I nesses who say they can substantiate it j (such as General Steadman,) are not al lowed to testify. The secret conclave is 1 earning for their party, in this way, a’per- j sonal obloquy that will attach to them i long after they shall have ceased to exist j as a political organization. Woolley’s j counsel, it is understood, have failed as i yet, to procure a writ of habeas corpus. It j is surmised that whenever he shall con- j elude to auswer any and all questions pro- 1 posed to him, and notify Butler of his ; willingness to do so, his further examination \ will he waived. This will cap the climax, 1 and be a peculiarly fitting deuoument j of the delectable farce called “Impeach- I merit.” The Express learns that pursuant to ad journment the Republican Senators held a caucus to-day for the purpose of selecting a candidate for the office of Secretary of the I Senate, vice Forney resigned. During the ; caucus the name of Mr. Creswell was with j drawn, and without agreeing upon any particular candidate. The House “Committee of Managers” had General Adams under examination this morning. This is the person who it is supposed started the project of buying up certain Senators who finally voted for con viction. His testimony has not transpired, whatever sensational writers may say to the contrary. f {Mr. Schenek, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, in his explanation of the new tax bill to-day, stated that he j was in favor of reducing the tax on whiskey j to seventy-five cents per gallon. Ihe iui- I pres3ion in outside circles is. that a reduc tion to this amount wili be made during the j present session of Congress. During the week ending to-day there has been received from the Printiug Bureau of ' the Treasury Department £419,500 in frac I tional currency. The shipments for the same period have been: United States i Assistant Treasury at New York, sloo,yoO, 1 United States Assistant Treasurer at Phila delphia, $200,000; National Banks, etc., $280,500. Total, $580,500 The Treasurer of the United States holds j in trust at this date, in Government secu rities for circulating notes of National Banks, $341,472,400; as securities for de posits for public moneys with banks, S3B -i 289,950. Total $379,782,350. National Bank currency issued during ' the week, $199,520; total issue to date, $303,010 046. From this is to be deducted for mutilated bills returned, $17,693,242, and for notes ot insolvent banks redeemed and burned by the United States Treas urer, $522,204 ; leaving in actual circula tion at this date, $299,794,600. The shipments for the week have been : To National Banks and others, $68,900. ’lhe amount of fractional currency de stroyed during the week, $335,100. X. lYom the Savantiah jftepuMican. June 4th. Extensive Fire lesterday Morning. About half-past three o’clock yesterday morning the large double brick building, at the upper end of the range, fronting on the river, between Jefferson and Mont gomery streets, was discovered to be on fire. The firemen, having put their engines into position, commenced work, and several heavy streams of water were thrown into the building. The water dripped through the upper floors, and fell upon some lime stoi ed on the ground floor, and combustion was the natural result, and speedily the buitdiug was on fire above and below. It burned stubbornly for upward ot two hours, defying the efforts of the firemen to extinguish it, but finally yielded to their indomitable energy and perseverance. — About half-past five o’clock the fire was mainly extinguished, but. the lime on the first floor continued to burn, and neces sitated the keeping of an engine on the spot during the latter portion of the day yesterday. The origin of the fire is not known. As stated above, it broke out in the cotton picking establishment in the third story, and may have been caused by the presence of friction matches in the cotton, or spon taneous combustion. The building was owned by two parties. The western half was the property of E. W. Woodruff, of Trenton, New Jersey, represented here by Messrs. Duncan & Johnston. It was valued at four thousand five hundred dollars, and insured for three thousand dollars. The other half belonged to Hill Gowdy, Esq , and was also valued at four thousand five hundred dollars, and insured for three thousand dollars in the Continental Insurance Company of New York. The building was a very old one, and was pretty thoroughly destroyed, so far as its interior arrangements are con cerned. The total value of the structure was nine thousand dollars ; as the walls remain intact the loss will probably amount to about six thousand dollars, which is the amount of insurance upon it. In the west room of the ground floor Messrs Richardson & Barnard had stored eight hundred and fifty barrels of Rock land lime, part of which was saved in a damaged condition. It was valued at thirteen hundred dollars, and there was no insurance. The adjoinining apartment was used as a United States bonded warehouse, in which one hundred and sixty bales of India bag ging, the property of OctavusCoben, Esq., were stored. It was worth fifty dollars per bale. A survey will be held to) deter mine the loss. The bagging was insured to its full value iu the Royal Insurance Company. The whole of the second floor was occu pied by Lovell & Lattiuiore, for the pur pose of storage. They bad a large stock of stoves, &c., packed away there, valued at eight thousand dollars, upon which there was an insurance of three thousand dollars in the Southern Insurance Trust Company. The stoves were removed yesterday in a tolerable state of preservation, the princi pal damage having been caused by water. The west room on the third floor was occupied by Frank Lloyd (colored) as a cot ton picking and junk establishment. His stock was totally .destroyed, and was valued at six hundred upon which there was no insurance. The adjoining apartment was occupied by Henry Ledlie, dealer in hides, wool, &c. lie had a stock of wool, dear skins and merchandize, valued at several hun dred dollars, which was totally destroyed. It was insured for five hundred dollars in the Home Insurance Company, of New Haven. The total loss will probably amount to over twelve thousand dollars, upon which there is a total insurance of ten thousand three hundred and dlars. From the New York Express, June 1. Wail Street—Money Market, Etc. The financial writers al! dwell upon the extraordinary activity in the market for American Bonds—and in so far, all hands appear to be on the Bull side—but the most of them, in their dissertations on the railway market, appear to be in the Bear interest. The spirit of most of their articles is, that the prices of these latter are always much too high, and that the outside public here cannot safely lower them. This, in the cant phrase of the street, is what is called “operating for a fall.” The fact, however, that prices are going up would seem to indicate a marked difference of opinion among the gentlemen of the quill and the gentlemen of “the street.” xriuune Jioncy Artiom. The enormous conversions of 7.30’s for the past week has prevented the issue of the coupons 0f'1867 as fast as the demand of investors required, and dealers who have converted notes and sold the bonds find themselves short and are active bor rowers. Saturday's business was the heaviest ever done in Wall street, and the demaud continues to increase every day, and much higher prices are predicted by the large operators. State bonds were firm but dull. The railway market was steady on the Western shares. Michigan Southern was strong aDd advanced in the face of the market, and Was strong at the close. The short interest in the stock is very heavy, and has been largely increased within a few days, and the late mysterious war on Fort W ayne bids fair to be surpassed by the movements of this stock, and perhaps on a firmer basis. The street have been per sistently told that the stock was worthless, and may find themselves as much misled as they were in the movements of Fort Wayne, which has advanced 14 per cent, on very moderate transactions. Uerald'B Money Article. The speculative operations in the gold room are almost entirely on account of the brokers themselves, who, having no com missions to pay, are content with a profit of per cent ou their transactions, and while the bearish element is held in check by the large outward drain of specie there is little disposition shown to specu late for a rise in the absence of disturbing causes. The premium is at present governed more by commercial than politi cal causes, arid the indications are against any material change in either direction. DRY ROT. Wold'B Money Article. The financial platform of the Republican party at Chicago being pronounced against further inflation has tended to increase the stagnation in Wall street speculations, in spite of all the efforts of the cliques. The stock market has been for some months in the position of a merchant with a well assorted and valuable stock of' goods, but no customers. The result in both cases is the same, either to hold stock or force sales by a sacrifice which will tempt capi talists to invest. As regards the non-di vidend paying railway shares, and those involved in litigation, the present market prices are considered far above their value, and that they have been pushed and held there by the efforts of powerful cliques. Whether this view is correct or not is not of practical importance. The public think they are too high and refrain from buying. Wall street speculators, who also think they are too high, refrain from selling them short, because they think the cliques have the power to advance the prices still higher whenever they please- Money lenders are afraid the cliques will not be enabled to unload the public this' summer, and that in the fall they may I become the forced owners of the collaterals j they hold, owing to the failures of the ; cliques. Hence their distrust of the future \ and their urgency that the cliques shall j sell all possible before August. Many of the brokers are refusing all business ex- | cepting that in Government bonds, State j stocks and other first-class dividend-pay- ! iug securities. The ‘dry' rot’ makes its 1 appearance as suddenly and with less I warning than the panic and crisis of form- i er years. ‘Cheap money’ is no guarantee J against this ‘dry rot. ’ ’ Terrible Railroad Accident.— Re j .markable Escape of Passengers and all on Board. —A terrible accident oc ! curred to the down mail and passenger i train on the Wilmington & Weldon Rail i road, Sunday night about 11 o'clock, i one mile South of Whitaker’s Station. I While’ proceeding along on schedule time, -and when just over an embankment some | twenty feet high, the encineer observed that a rail was misplaced on the track. He immediately blew his whistle and shut down the eDgine, but could not cheek its soeed sufficiently to prevent the accident. The engine and tender, second and third class cars, and ladies’ coach were tumbled down the embankment and literally smashed. The sleeping car alone remained on the track, and to this the ladies’ coach was held by the coupling pins, and greater damage prevented. The engine was turn ed wheels in the a;r, and is seriously dam aged. The engineer, Mr. John Hewlett, escaped without injury, how, it is un ! known. Captain Geo. Morrison, the con ductor, was in the second class car, and also escaped unhurt. The passengers and : tram hands also escaped as by a mirao’e. ' no serious injury having been sustained i by any one. On the whole, the escape of | all on board is the most miraculous thing on record. A corps of mechanics and laborers were sent up yesterday, to repair the damage, but have not yet succeeded in clearing the track. The mail and passengers arrived on time yesterday, a transfer having been effected at the scene of the accident, trains connecting at this point. By to-night the track will be cleared. The removal of the rail which caused the accident was evi dently the work of some malicious scoun drel. The passengers express a deep sense of the kindness and attention re ceived from Captain Morrison.— Wilming ton Journal, June 2 • . To the Democrats and Conservatives of the State or Georgia. Rooms Central Executive Commit- ) of the Democratic Party of > Ga., Macon, June 4, 1868.) fellow Citizens: Ihe Central Executive Committee, appointed by order of the late Conservative Convention at Macon, was empowered to call Conventions of the Conservative party of Georgia as often as the same may be necessary. By virtue of that authority the Committee hare called a Convention of the Democrats and Conservatives of this State to be held in the city of Atlanta on the 22d day of next July. The object of the Convention will be merely to ratify the nominations of candidates for President and Vice-Presi dent of the United States, which may be made by the National Democratic Convention at New York, and to nomi nate an electoral ticket lor the State of Georgia. Such being the object, the State Convention, as a matter of course, must be after, and not before, the nomina tions at New York. There was no speeial reason or necessity for calling a Slate Con vention to meet before those nominations are made—and if it had been done, a Con vention after the New York nominations being a necessity, there would be two Con ventions in a short time of each other, when one can be made to answer the pur pose of both. The Convention, besides ratifying the nomination which may be made at New York, and selecting an electoral ticket for this State, will be expected to adopt such measures as may be neeessary for the more perfect organization of the Demo cratic and Conservative party. The coming Presidential election prom ises to be more fiercely eontested.than any election of the kind which has occurred in this country. The issue of the contest will be of immense consequence to the South ern States. The question involved will be whether all power shall be consolidated iu Congress without check or restraint, or whether the limititations to power, pre scribed by the Constitution, shall be pre served. The Radical party will seek to perpetuate the unlimited power which they now wield—the Democrats and Con servatives to restrain the Government within the limits prescribed by the Consti tution. Let us prepare for this contest—let us meet in Convention, inthc city of Atlanta, on the 22d day of next July, and eousult together, and by contributions of material aid and otherwise, devise means to assist in saving the constitutional rights of the States from the vortex of consolidation, and ourselves from its attendant despotism. E. 0. Cabaniss, Chairman Central Executive Committee, Democratic Party. 6*3? "Democrat ic and Conservative papers, in this State, will please copy. “Mack’s” Lament for Wade. —— sturdy old ben to have no cakes “and ale” nor white house strawber ries. Washington, May 30. —The sad fate of sturdy old Ben carries with it as its sequel a striking illustration of the un certainty of human hopes and the transi tory character of human friendships. Let us hope that one so eminent for his piety, and so meek and devotional in all his ways, was not unprepared for such misfortunes, but that that Christian fortitude, seasoned with Pagan swearing, which has borne him through previous trials and tribula tions, has enabled him to bear up under his latest and, in all probability, last politi cal affliction. Still, one cannot help re membering how great has been the fall of sturdy old Ben, and all within a month. A little month ago, and who so great as sturdy old Ben ! To-day, who so little? Talking of Cabinets and polities of adminis tration a few weeks ago ; beset with callers and congratulators) besieged with advisers and friends, warned oftheKu-Klux Klans, and prayed for by all Christian denomi nations. Where be his friends now, his politics, his Cabinets? Yea, where the Ku-Klux to interpose a blunderbuss be tween him and a green old age? As I muse on this melancholy theme, I reflect that three weeks ago to-day a friend of sturdy old Ben, walking through the Executive Mansion grounds, spoke to a gardener hoeing out a strawberry patch, and told him the fruit would be in an excellent state of ripe ness for sturdy old Ben, who hates butter, but loves strawberries. The strawberries are ripe to-day, but not for sturdy old Ben. They tickle the palate of the “great criminal at the White House,” and mix in juleps for his grim-visaged son in-law. If sturdy old Ben wants strawber ries, he must hie him to a confectioner’s -■» —,— Q - i--__ a-. ,\j, mein. Tuen, too, I rceollect the pomological prediction of Mr. Apple Blossom Butler—how pros perity, Ben Wade and the blossoms were to come together. The blossoms are here. The trees are full of them, and as if the trees couldn’t hold them all the Congres sional nose has been mustered into the ser vice, probably to remind Mr. Butler more forcibly by everyday contact of the non fulfillment of bis prophecy. But where is sturdy old Ben, and where is “prosperity?” Go ask the “seven traitors,” and the “rec reant Chief Justice.” I should probably never have been led into these sombre reflections, but tor a little incident I witnessed half an hour ago. Sturdy old Ben came booming up the ave nue sidewalk at his customary pace. As ho passed along I heard a couple of gen tlemen, whom I knew to have been Radi cal impeachers, and as a consequence, Rad ical office-seekers a month ago, allude to bis presence. “There goes old Ben Wade,” said one. “He bod and,” said the other; “he’s played out.” Since the days of poor Timon of Athens, there have been no such “trencher friends,” assturdy old Ben’s. I commend the perusal of that Shakspearin tragedy as eminently appropriate to sturdy old Ben in the light of recent events. Mack. Disgraceful Conduct of an Army Officer.—Lieutenant Colonel J. Madi son Cutts, Washington, was, it will be re membered, during the latter part of the war, while his rank was that of captain, court-martialed, found guilty, and dismiss ed the service for indecent conduct, % climbing up a chair and looking into a lady’s room at the Burnet House, Cincin nati, while she was undressing. Through the influence of bis friends he was finally restored to the army, and subsequently promoted to a brevet lieutenant coloncy; he was lately on duty in Louisiana, and in April he was court-martialed for getting drunk, exposing himself at his camp in an almost naked condition, and cruelly beat ing and kicking private soldiers and non commissioned officers. The court-martial, of which Major-Gen era Beckwith was President, found him guilty od all the charges, and sentenced him to suspension from rank and half pay proper for nine months with confinement to the limits of the post headquarters for the same period. Gen. Buchanan, com manding the District, approved the find lr)lZ and sentence, and reprimanded the Court for not making the latter more ! severe. A week later, Colonel Cutts was agaiu court-martialed for arresting and de taining in close confinement, otic Dr. Peterson, a loyal and respectable citizen of Philadelphia, on business in Bouisiaua : for grossly abusing him, tying his arms, threatening him with violence and horse whipping, also for great disrespect to Lis superior officer, and for getting drunk and exposing himself in a neariy nude condi tion to a company of ladies and gentlemen in the cabin of a boat on which lie was a passenger. A late private letter from New Orleans says it is reported there that the court sentenced him to be di.-ini-ed from the army, and that the papers in the j case have been forwarded to the President | for his action.— Exchange. Death of an Editor.— The Courricr ! j tuts Gnu of New York announces th? d e ß(h of M. Andre Lheritier, editor-iu chtcf of that paper, at the early age of twenty-eight. Statesmanship and letters sustain a heavy loss in his demise. The Courner, in the hands of M. Lheritier during the last four years, has, in our judgment, been one of the ablest, if not the ablest, journal published in this country. Since the Chicago pedestal picture ail the Lucifer boys of Washington dog Grant’s steps as he smokes in obedience to the Convention request to “match him.” A great deal has been said about Butler accepting segars of certain men, and he has certainly shown lately that he likes Th’ Weed. The command of the Dis'rict of Vir ginia has been given to Gen. Stoneman, a good Conservative. George Francis Train will not run for President this time. He proposes to crush the crumbling throne of “ perfidious Albion” first. A battle has been fought with the In dians at Paradise \ alley, Northeastern California. The savages were defeated with heavy loss. Sullivan aad Pigott, the Dublin editors imprisoned for seditious articles, have been released from jail on a writ of' error. The conscience fund has been augment ed by the reception at the Treasury De partment of two SI,OOO 7.30 notes, sent anonymously from New York. Forney, who is so anxious for Woolley to account for $25,000 belonging to himself, would think it hard if he had to account for $40,000 of which he defraud and the Government. The Germans of nan Francisco have re ceived an acknowledgement of six thou ~a,'jd,.Jo,l.ia,rn 10 K° l<] by them for the relief of the sufferers in Berlin State Items. ffl" A li ,a n y °a -nru- W6ek two nc 2 loe «. JS ea an< | M dliam Henderson, bad a diftcu ty terminating in the former shoot ing the latter in the leg, which has since been amputated. wi m v e M in */, tbc J stockholders in the W ills \ alley Railroad was held in the town Os Chattanooga on Saturday of last week, elected Prudent 60 01 Aiabama ’ Was Wc are pteased to learn, says the South ern Hatc/unnn, that hundreds of men who had been inveigled by corrupt scoundrels joining the Union Leagues in tb6 Northern counties, are now leaving them in large numbers. The Atlanta Opera House, situated on Marietta street in Atlanta, was sold at pub lic auction Tuesday, to a Mr. C. C. King, for $33,000. Its cost was over $65,000. The Supreme Court of the State is now in session at Millcdgeville with all the Jus tices present. The Pataula Circuit was finished on the first day. It is thought that the remaining business wil not engage Court for more than three weeks longer. Ames’ Circus and Menagerie lost one of its young Boa-constrictors while in the town of Griffin. After the Circus had gone away some ot the little Griffinites found it and had a small snake show on their owu account. We are pleased to learn from the Albany Jones that the rebuilding of the burnt dis in that town will soon commence, ihe buildings are to he of brick and fire proof, and will, when tini.-hed, add much to the good appearance of the place. A negro woman was found dead in a wood near the African Church in Dahlon ega, on last Tuesday eveuing. An inquest was held over her and the jury rendered a verdict that the deceased came to her death from disease caused by exposure and want of food. On Tuesday morning a respectable white woman, from the country, arrived in Columbus, and being entirely ignorant of the city, a negro man offered to conduct her to the city, but instead of doing so led her into an unfrequented place and there robbed and ravished her. On Tuesday afternoon, Messrs. Bedell, Chipley, Rukscey, Grimes and a negro named Nelson, were arrested by the mili tary authorities by order of Gon. Meade, and without even being told the charges against them were hurried off under a guard of soldiers to Atlanta, Within the last month between fifteen and twenty gentlemen have been dragged from their homes and sent off under a guard of bayonets, ignorant of what crimes are charged against them. Harvest Begun.—The Rome Courier of yesterday says ; “The planters in this county will commence harvesting this week. The indications are that the yield will not be large, in proportion to the breadth of laud sown, but of excellent quality. The price in this market will open at probably two dollars a bushel, but the expectation is that it will soon decline. We would agaiu suggest that parties will subserve their own interests by getting their wheat into market as soon as practi cable. ’ ’ During a recent thunder storm which passed over Atlanta three houses were struck by lightning. Rev. Dr. Loviek Pierce, the oldest Methodist clergyman in the South, is on a lecturing tour iu Southwestern Georgia. Bishop Beckwith, the Episcopal Bishop of this Diocese, is on a professional visit to Araericus. Major A. J. Maxwell, Chief Engineer of the South Georgia and Florida Railroad, has published a report showing the great value of this euterprise to the State. The Elbcrton Academy was burned on last Saturday night. The citizens offer a reward of one thousand dollars for the de tection of the incendiary. A gentleman named Smith, an old and respectable citizen of Griffin, committed suicide on Wednesday by cutting his throat with a razor. His head was almost severed from his body. The renegade scalawags down in Albauy propose holding a huge ratification meeting there shortly. The Argus suggests that while they are at it, they can also ratify the acquittal, by aßopublican Senate, of'President Johnson. Yet more arrests. In Columbus, on Wednesday afternoon last, fifteen more ar rests were made by the military authorities. All were negroes with the exception of one white woman, and had been in the service of the gentlemen who have been charged with Ashburn’s assassination. A duel was fought at Screven’s Ferry, near Savannah, between two negroes on Wednesday morning. The weapons agreed upon were double-barreled shot guns, one barrel loaded with sixteen buckshot, the time was 9 A. M., and the distance 16 paces. At the first fire the challenger re ceived eight shot in his person and died in a few hours from the loss of blood. The Mountain Signal says “that the investigation in thu contested election case of Janies W. Landrum and Mr. Richardson, oftitis Senatorial District, has not yet been made known, hut from ail the evidence that we had an apportunity of listening to we are assured that a most corrupt fraud will be proven on the Dawsonville office seeker, and that Mr. Laudrum will gait! his seat in the Legislature. General Summary. *1 he Russians in Central Asia have de feated the Rolikarians and taken their capital city. Scuttles was not startled to bear that the storm that left St. Louis, night betore last, was unavoidably detained at Sey mour. Scuttles has traveled. The ceremony .of decontimg the soldiers' graves was performed at ioledu Tuesday evemug by Forsyth Post No. 46 G. A. R., assisted by a large concourse of citizens. The old Mormon Hall at Nauvoo, Hi was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Tu bal 1 was a very large oue, and was built by the Icarian Communionists for a din ing room. Train announces his intention of “drop ping down on the New York Convention hke a thunderbolt on a June-hug.” George Francis is under instruction to go for Geo Francis. A celebrated Italian writer says that be robbed himself of the hours of sleep that be might enlighten the world with his pen. Ine pilfered slumber gets into his productions. The Chicago Tribune is about to erect a on the corner of Dearborn and Madison streets, on a lot seveuty-two by one hundred and twu.ty-one icet. The edifice will Le four stories high, and en tirely fire-proof! The cost is estimated at $175,000. The Sunday School parade in Brooklyn, last luesday, was the grandest ever seen on this continent. Nearly 25,000 children, representing 142 different schools, parti cipated m the exercises. Andre L’ Heriteu, the editor of that lead -lilg i? uc,il P a P e r in America, the 6 ounier aes htats Unis, died in New York last Wednesday, of consumption. He was but twenty-eight years of ago. General Grant and Speaker Colfax will, it is announced, start about the first of' July for Colorado. They expect to be j gone for two months. The trip is solely for recuperation of health. young lady named Crenshaw, white crossing White river, Ark., at Arnold’s ferry on the 18th, was kicked overboard oy a horse. She was immediately rescu- and lrom the water, but died from the kick in a tew hours. Stephen Van Rensselaer died in Albany this week, aged eighty. He was the fifth lineal descendant of the first “Patroon” to whom the English Government gave a largo grant of land on the Hudson. A Southern Railroad records the tra-ic particulars attending the death of Mr. T Katt. he decease of Thomas is a com mon occurrence at the North. “Do your like Owen Meredith ?” asked the poet of his rural friend. “I don’t like owin Meredith or any otLer,” was the re ply. We find recorded in a Western paper the marriage of Samuel Mann and Sarah rrice. lhat Mann is more lucky than most men, having got his Price. Considering the ill success of a certain I drama, the announcement, “Last Nights ! of Lost” would be more appropriate A' ii ' read “Last Nights of LaT” I A Hartford f„ *r >•<•-.- saw par ents preparing I'm c . oei. ■< -rot - , to take him with them. lit- was told time he was too little, and must wait till he should grow bigger. “ Well,” returned | he, 1 ‘you’d better take me now, for when I get bigger I mav not want to go.” Peoria, (111.) papers state that thestonn on the 26th was the severest tornado they have experienced since 1858. Chimneys were biown down, some houses were un roofed, and some were prostrated entirely. Fortunately no lives. were lost. Articles of association of the Muncio and Cincinnati Railroad were filed in the Secretary of State’s office, at Indianapolis, Tuesday morning. This road will ba built from Muncie to Hagerstown, Indiana, connecting there with the Whitewater I Valley Railroad to Cincinnati. Robert Bonner tells the New York Board of Health that he has been obliged to abandon Ills country seat in West Mor risana, which he had bought to “please his wife, and left to save his life,” became the board hail not acted so as to put an end to the unhealthiness of the neighbor hood, caused by a stagnant pond in ,ho vicinity. • °.c e °L the shar Pest political caricatures is the dying impeachment gladiator.”' Ben. Butler lies prostrate in the arena, with his broken sword and a most demor alized countenance—whikt President J ohnson is seen retiring with a heavy spoou over his shoulder, with which he has braiu * ed the hero of Big Bethel.
