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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1868)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. ifiu'ouiclc & jrntiucl. IIKMtV JIOOHE, A.. It. WBKinT. PATRICK WAI.NH, Associate Editor. , K *!'. <H -I il~< UIPTION. On- , «j * yaa .... toac «„ .., h . 1 ' ' 10 ■ 1 ai'm sta, r.Ai ftBPMK'gBAT • •)> >;■.< .11 Ig 17. Baptism.—' There were 45 negroes bap tis'd in the Savannah Rivur, near Mar bury Street, on Sunday last. Sunday How.— Wc understand that a man named Ileffernau, who keeps a house of bad repute on Barker's old place, oppo ■sit- DeLai/lo had his throat cut Sunday by a uian named Murphy, whom H. had a-vaulted. We heard none of the particu lars. Drowned. —A colored boy, in the em ploy of Mr. I.eon Guerin, of the French .'top. of this cby, whilccoiuing to town on the Sand Hills tar on Sunday night la t. iuiiipcd from the ear while it was cio.-ling the canal midge, struck on the railing of the bridge, leil in the canal and was drowned. Si fkkior Court. -The regular term of thi court commenced on Monday, Judge <iil' on presiding. Owing to the absence of many of the members of the Bar at Milledgeville, in attendance on the Su preme Court, very little business was transacted. 1 in: cases in which absent counsel arc interested are “ passed'’ until | their return. ‘'An amendment striking out the -ord Int>-afti r was lost, and the hill was passed by tln Senate yesterday.’’- TeL Dispatch ('nncji i nsiuna! / ’roualings. M e reckon the Radicals would he glad il there was no ‘'hereafter;” but it sno u-' they can’t s'rikc out that. A Panov Sion.- Parties passing the Hlobi Hotel will c a fancy sign, lately crorn and tli< re, indicative of the bathing I’.iivuics aflorded by Mr. J. Reiiz, whose baiLr -hop and bathing saloon is in the <»loho Hotel building. The sign is very attractive, and so arc the oozy chairs, hath 1 tubs, anil other paraphernalia ofthocstab- ■ lishmont. An Augusta Engine for Union j Se i nit. At,a. Tho enginoof Citizen No. j has been sold to the town of Union | Spline, Ala., to which place it was! shipped Monday. Thu Union Springs boys oan now have the tun of “running wid der merslicen and w-; piv.-ume that the (Jitizon will get hold of a steamer ere long. li k Cream. —As this is the season for making and eating ieo cream, we give the. following recipe which we find in an exchange: b i. Cream. —Take I quart of milk, and o.ihi it, very little ; beat, tbo yolk of 4 eggs to froth, and stir in slowly, add 4 pound of .-.ugar. Flavor as you like it, and freeze. Os course, larger quantitiesin proportion. *»•- The Printers’ Piu Niu. The Print ers are making extensive preparations for their Pic Nic on the 4lh of July next. Father llyan, of the Manner of the Smith , j is going to deliver the address on the ocea- 1 t inn, and tho boys are going to have a good i time generally. The readers of the city papers must, therefore, overlook all typo- ; graphical errors in the meantime, as the printers won’t bo “composed” until they get through with the Pic Nic. Important Correspondence. —Wc take pleasure in laying before our readers the following highly interesting and im portant letter purporting to be from the Uadieal candidate for the Presidency. We feel highly flfit torod by the honor conferred upon us, and so lot the gallant candidate speak liir himself, merely asking our read era, as one of G rant’s constituents onuoo kuit his amanuensis to write at the close of , ■i letter, “Please 'souse do writiu.” It. ra til's Letter to Snooks. isniNOTON Cm , I). G., June 7, '6B. lit Dear RnoOks : It is with un- 1 i pleasura that 1 inform you of my i filiation for the Presidency of the j ited States, which office it is generally 1 ’ tin/, (excuse the joke, my dour boy ; ■ hut, you know, that was what elected the ; “ !at lamented,'’ whose abc-ility con sisied in his dry jokes; and so I will run on ihe joke platform. If, however, I should not be elected that will be what Helper calls "N jo.|ue" to our party —eh, I my hoy? But that is too serious to joke j about; so let us to business)—generally granted -(you perceive 1 like to write uiy name and see it in print, my dear boy)— generally granted that I will lie elected, provided 1 can get votes enough—which will, of course, depend in a great measure upon the way the thing is worked. — My object in writing to you is to secure your intlueuce in my behalf in your State. You see, my boy, 1 state thi- fact to you candidly. We want every State that wo can t uo use in diguising that fact; and as the local column of the Chronicle \ Sr t tint I has more influence than any other paper inGcorgia, 1 want you to do all you can tor me. 1 will give you the points frei|iiontly so that you can write pointed articles ; and throw as much spirit into them as possible. I have been throwing as much into myself as 1 could hold lately ; and some wicked and malicious Copper heads have accused me of being intoxicated. As Wade says, my boy, "its all a d—d lie. It was nothing but the intoxication of gratification (whew ! what do you think of those words ? Aint they huge ? l?ut this is an extraordinary canvass, dear boy, and we must use extraordinary exertions, as well as extraordinary words, eh ?) at ray nomination that staggered uic a little and made me stagger some. 1 have effected a capital arrangement here. 1 have bottled Butler up to do the principal lying for the campaign. He will tv principal Steward of the “lying-in Hospital. Isn't that good? Though he can li 'ut as well as in : while Wade will do the s .rearing. He says that he has been weigh i in that balance and never found warning, hence he will wade in at once, lie will not contribut‘d anything to the Ckrf .(• Ant inti, however, as I am weii aware that your editors are all moral men, and your readers very averse to swear ing.*W ado says wo had better leave that to the Radical papers. 1 fear that, after the eleeii n, they will have enough of that to do. But let that pass. 1 will not bore you with a long letter to day, as 1 have another to write, though I don't think that two letters a day will be too much to write, do you? 1 will drop a hint or two here for your first article. Abode to my equestrian performances freely, come tin horse as much as possi b.i—ay that 1 am horsetilu to rebellion, Copperhcadism, white suffrage, the He brews, and all that sort of thing; but don t say that lam as-tute. The infernal Do moeracy would lay the emphasis on the first siliyble and ruin everything. Deny the statement that I had more men in Virginia than Lee had; also that there was any liorsc du combat about it. That’s nothingbut a cruel juke of the Copper heads ; but say that I/ee had a superior army to mine—that will be a little evasion, but the truth, you know my dear boy, and go "fight it oot on that line, it it takes all Summer. So n-' more at present from your affec tionate friend and adviser. Hiram Ulysses Snooks Grant. President of the U. S. ( i e to be). Grant’s Popularity. There can be no question but that the Radicals adopted Grant as their candidate purely upon the ground of his availability. It was thought that his services duringthc war were of such a distinguished and useful character as to draw to him the support of many Northern and Western men who would support no other man on a strict Radical platform. Grant’s name was to be a tower of strength to the War Democrats, and his army record would secure to him the almost unani mous vote of the officers and soldiers. 1 Lose were the calculations of the wire worker.- and leading spirits, of the Jaco bin party. That they have been deceived, and that they are destined to be further deceived in their estimate of his strength, the recent elections in Oregon, where the Democrats have carried the State by over two thousand majority, seem most clearly to prove. Since the Oregon election, wc have the returns from the Washington municipal election last week, where Grant has lived for three years past, which show a large Democratic gain and tho election of a Democratic Mayor and a majority of the Couneilmen. By fraud and violence the Radical candidate received the certificate of election, but all honest people know that a majority oflegal votes was given to WaJJach. By reference to our telegraphic columns it will be seen that the Democrats have carried the municipal election in Galena, Illinois, Grunt’s own home , by 250 majority. Looking further west we find that the Democrats have also carried Racine in Wisconsin. These straws show very clearly the way tho popular current is setting, and by the first of November next, we should not be surprised if all the Northern States except Vermont and Maine, and possibly Michi gan, should fall into line with the great Democratic party. Trouble Brewing In Washington. The tone of the dispatches from Wash' ington are of such a character as to cause serious apprehension for the of that Radical ridden city. Tho indications are that force will be resorted to by both par ties—the one to obtain possession of the city government and the other to continue their lawful possession. In the present excited condition of the public mind a spark kindled at Washington may cause the immediate blazing of revolutionary fires throughout the country. In addition to tho excitement, growing out of the recent elections, it seems that Beast Butler is adding fuel to the flames by the revolutionary conduct of his investi gating committee. Wc have long thought that the inevita ble tendency ol the Radical programme, was a resort to force in che final settlement of tho vexed questions at issue between the people and the Washington Jacobins. We shall not be surprised to hear, at any .moment, that the people are arming for their protection, and that burioades are erected in the streets of Washington- The Jacobffts have already turned the Capitol into a /inutile, and made the liberty of the citizen dependent upon the will of such Robespierres as Butler and Bingham and Logan. Tlio near approach of tho Presidential election, with the almost positive certainty of Radical defeat, may influence tho peo ple to bear yet a little longer the yoke of their galling oppression. It is upon the conservative and law abiding people of the country that we rely to prevent a reign of terror breaking out shortly at the national Capital. In the meantime the South can odlj' hope and pray that tho cause of the just may ultimately prevail. County Court—Before Judge Mu- Laws. —The following cases were disposed of in this Court Monday: 1. The State vs. Harry Cardwell —sim- ple larceny; sentenced to three weeks on the chain gang, or a fine of $45 and costs. The State vs. Thos. Worlds—simple larceny; sentenced to four months in the chain gang ami costs. An Error. —Even newspapers will sometimes make mistakes, and so wc did on Sunday morning last. We very un ceremoniously killed off an old friend, Tony Hill, without to much as asking him, “ by your leave, sir ?” It was not Mr. A. D. Hill, but Mr. Lucius Hills, upon whom the Coroner’s inquest was held. He lived entirely alone, and the verdict of the jury was “that he came to his death from want of attention caused by himself.” We are sure that Tony, when lie dis covers our error, will, in the exuberance of his joy that it was an error, freely for givo the little paragraph which put such an abrupt termination to his existence. Richmond County Superior Court- Judge Gibson Presiding.—This Court met on Monday morning. The following is tho list of Grand Jurors sworn in : Charles Estes, Geo. 11. Sibley, Berrien Ratchols, Jeremiah O'Brien, John B. Badger, Abraham M. Benson, Wm. D. Bowen, Arman F. Bignon, James W. Meredith, Daniel T. A. Wolf, Hugh Dempsey, Jas. A. Gray, John It. Coffin, John I’. Foster, Wm. B. Baggett, Win. 11. Doughty, Juo. W. Smith, Win. C. Jones. The following cases were tried : 1. Charles Moran vs. Francis E. Tim mons ; verdict for plaintiff. 2. Chas. A. l’latt vs. Mary E. Webster; settled. 3. Henry M. Scott vs. Ga. It. R. Bkg. Cos. ; settled. 4. C. A. Piatt vs. Louis Delaigle; de fendant's death suggested. 5. Henry M. Scott vs. Ga. lt.lt. Bkg. Cos.; settled. 6. Abram Jones, Executor of Nathan Benton, deceased, vs. Moses M. Holstein ; dismissed. 7. M. Hyams & Cos. vs. Thomas J. Hudson, complaint and bail ; verdict for plaintiff. 8. Geo. It. Walton vs. Twiggs anlW. Rhoden ; verdict for plaintiff. 9. Ariemus Gould vs. Thomas S. Miller; verdict for plaintiff. 10. Augusta Orphan Asylum vs. Thos. S. Miller; verdict for plaintiff. 11. Stephen Walton vs. Wm. G. Wliid by; verdict for plaintiff. 12. \\ ilkjnsou \ Fargo tw. Samuel D. Linton, survivor; ease appealed by con sent. 13. Mary Ann Gropes vs. George H. Myers—petition to establish lost papers; notes established. 14. Chv«. J. Jenkins, Executor, and Julia A. Camming, Executrix, vs. John J. Fioodway; dismissed. Mr. Eugene T. V erdery, after a very creditable examination, was admitted to the Bar. A ease involving the boundary lines of some city bats was goiug on when our reporter left the Court Room. That’s the Talk. —The irrepressible Wendell Phillips was out again on Friday, in another speech, at Boston. He* said : We will have the baliot lor the negro by agitation, soon. A voice—How do you propose to do it ? Mr. Phillips—l propose to do it just as Christianity occupied the throne of the Caesars. (Loud cheers.) I propose to do it by telliug men just what Goa tells me. I will do it by doing what the temperance societies, which arc as hide bound as the churches, dare not an d mine a Repub lican candidate for the l\estdtncy —the most popular man in America, wlto cannot stand up before a glass of liquor without falling down. [Great silence, succeeded by applause.] 1 will do it by opposing the Republican party when it bids me "be silent about negro sugfrage North . it will tun tour party. Be siieut about General Grant’s drinking, it will hurt his chances .” I reply, God bids me speak what you bid me forbear, t will speak, aud let the dead bury their dead, whether they bury him in the. While House or not. Tbe Only Way to Peace. General Grant, in his letter accepting the Chicago nomination, says: “Lotus have peace.” Waiving the question whether putting in office a professional man of war is the surest road to peace —a Radical morning journal sees fit to record its conviction that— “ There never can be peace in a country while the people have wrongs for which they demand redress.’’ True, every word of it. There are, for example, a good many millions of white men—our own kith and kin—in tea States of the Union, who have wrongs which the Radical party persistently refuse to re dress; and so long as the refusal is per sisted in, we agree with the writer in ques tion “ there can never be peace.” The way to peace lies through Justice and the Constitution. This Radical party has not been, and is not, travelling in that direction. Hence General Grant, when ever he says, “Let us have peace,” while acting as the standard-bearer of that party, is either deceiving himself or seeking to deceive Others. From this conclusion he cannot possibly escape. The Republican Radical party is a Civil War party. It never let the country have peace, and it never will. It may be said to owe its existence to-day to the slaughter of half a million of men, and to the Army and Navy contracts which grew out of that slaughter, along with the twenty-five hundred millions of debt, which is its legacy. Ihe country has never had a moment’s peace since it came into power, and peace will he unknown until the people drive it from existence. The man, or the men, who are to-day governing ten States of this Union, by bayonets, at a time when, and in places where resistance to the laws is unknown, cannot be credited with sincerity when they say “Let us have peace.” Until this Radical-Republican party came to the surface, the nation had peace and harmony, with their conoomicants, prosperity, thrift, contentment. That happy era will return to us again, when that sectional, civil war party are driven from power and place, as we trust they will be next November. Then we shall have Peace, but never till then.— New York Express. Practical Reconstruction. The theory upon which Congress has hitherto acted is, that no legal State gov. ernments existed in the Southern States, and that said States can only be entitled to represention by act of Congress. Accordingly, by act of March 2, 1867, the conditions upon which the Southern States are to be entitled to representation are formally set forth. By that act it is provided that after the new constitutions to bo adopted by said States shall be submitted to Congress, “and Congress shall have approved the same, ’ and all the conditions required of said States are performed in reference to universal suffrage and other matters speci fied, said States “shall be declared” en titled to representation. By the supplemental Reconstruction act of March 23, 1807, the new constitutions of the Southern States are to be submitted to Congress for their approval, and if the provisions of the Reconstruction acts are complied with, and tho “constitutions are approved by Congress,” the said States shall bo declared entitled to representa .ioti.” These Reconstruction acts both require the action of Congress as a legislative body, and their approval of the constitu tions as a “Congress,” and the declaration by Congress as a Congress, that the said States are entitled to representation. It is a familiar principle of law that Congress can perform no legislative act as Congress except by bill or resolution, re quiring a majority in each Houso, and the approval of' the President; or, in case of his veto, a two-thirds vote of both Houses overruling the veto. This by the express requirement of the Constitution. The only exception to this rule is in ease of ad journments, or in regard to some matter within the peculiar sphere of such House, affecting itself alone, as, for instance, in regard to its own rule's, or the preserva tion of order, or the disbursement of its contingent fund. The proposition to admit representa tives from the Southern States by the con current resolution of the two Houses, without submitting the resolution to the President for his approval, is, therefore, an obvious abandonment of the theory and express provisions of the Reconstruc tion laws. The President’s theory all along has been that representation from the South ern .States might be admitted by each House, by virtue of the Constitutional provision that each House is the judge of the qualifications and elections of its own members. Congress has repudiated this theory in their Reconstruction laws, and required a legislative act by the Congress, as a Con gress, which necessitates the joint action of both Houses and the President’s ap proval, or a two-thirds vote overruling such vote. It is, no doubt, competent for such House, acting separately, to admit certain persons to their seats as members from the Southern States ; but that is accord ing to the President’s theory of constitu tional law, and directly in the face of the provisions of the Reconstruction laws. It remains to be seen whether Congress is going back on its cherished theory of constitutional law in regard to the admis sion of representation from the Southern States, in direct violation of their famous Reconstruction laws. One of the notable articles of impeach ment charges as a crime that the President has opposed these Reconstruction laws, and now Congress meditates their entire sub version on the most essential point. The concurrent resolution of the two Houses admitting representation, will amount to nothing as a legislative act of Congress. Any efficacy which may be imputed to it will be as the separate action of each House on the President’s theory that each House is the judge of the elec tion, &c., of its members. But suppose the new Senators admitted, a more startling obstacle arises. The Chief Justice has the entire power in his hands, in so far as impeachment is concerned. He has only to retire from the Senate as a body illegally constituted for present im peachment purposes, and in violation of the Reconstruction acts of Congress, and the principles of eternal justice. Thus the impeachment trial would be at an end. Then it may be said impeachment of the Chief Justice follows. Very well, be it so. Go a step further, and suppose him remov ed. Then there is a final end to impeach ment of the President, because impeach ment of the President cannot go on without a Chief Justice to preside ; and where is he to come from ? He is not likely to fall from the skies, and the President will not send in a nomination of any one who will rule differently irotn Chief Justice Chase. So the impeaehers are suddenly brought up standing attempting the impossible; according to the cant aud impressive phrase, "they will be at the end of their row. ’ ’ It may be asked : Will the Chief Justice dare to act this grand role ? It is fully believed that he will dare to do his dutv. Impeachment, therefore, has a stormy future before it. To go back is awkward; to subside is humiliating; to advance is impossible. The strain upon the machin ery of government, the convulsions in the Republican party, aud the many startling events to grow out of the further prosecu tion of the impeachment business, render coming events of the deepest interest. We are curious, therefore, to see the new phases the question may take. In the meantime, the President seems likely to do what Mr. Sumner proposed very un necessarily to Mr. Stanton —to "stick."— National Intelligencer. \\ hitew ashing Bowes. —We under stand, from good Radical authority, that C. C. Bowen, member of Congress," D. H. Chamberlain, Attorney General, General I. J. Moses, Jr., and R. C. DeLarge, member ol the Legislature, have gone to Washington to endeavor to counteract in fluences now at work in that city to exclude the first named from his antici pated place in Congress. The same authority states that this Whitewashing Committee is armed with strong letters of endorsement from the Governor elect, the United States District Attorney, and other high Republican officials.—Charles ton Mercury. Vermont may have a very witty man in Saxe, but Massachusetts has a Whittier The Presidency—Mr. Pendleton. The friends of the several gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in con nection with the Democratic nomination for the Presidency,are daily becoming more zealous in urging their claims upon that party. The very near approach of the nominating Convention is giving, just now, renewed stimulus to the efforts which are being made to influence the public mind in favor of this or that candidate. So far as we have observed, with very few excep tions, the claims and services of the differ ent candidates have been set forth in lan guage and temper aptly befitting the occa sion, the office and the men. No harsh personalities—no reflection upon past opinions—no censures for previous short comings and no acrimonious allusions to recent affiliations have been indulged in to any very great extent by the friends of either candidate. This is all proper and highly commendable. We can speak of the peculiar fitness and availability of our friends without bespattering with mud and slime the choice of others. It is by no means certain who will re ceive the nomination, and any unjust par tizan allusions made now or charges pro mulgated against either of the candidates might make his future support rather un comfortable and perhaps inconsistent. To say that this or that man has no strength— that he is not the choice of that State and will not receive its vote—that his past record makes it impossible or improper for this or that wing of the party to support him, that one man’s war record is such thatthoSouthwon'tsupporthim, while the other’s record is such that the North cannot touch him,that one section will not support any one whose financial views are in opposition to the payment of the principal ol the 5-20 s in gold, while in another no one will be supported who does not enter tain such views—-this we say is all wrong, and we trust that the Democratic press and speakers wiil not permit themselves,as the contest grows warm, to indulge in any such words of crimination and recrimina tion. While we deprecate anything like intem perate or unfair criticisms upon the past or present conduct and motives of any of the distinguished gentlemen named in this connection, we can see no good reason why the Press and the people should not give expression to their preferences. Neither can we discover any good reason why the Southern people particularly should be mum on this question, as some of our Southern contemporaries have suggested. Whether the Southern votes are to be counted in the electoral college or not, the people of the South are deeply interested in the issue—peyhaps more so than their brethren of the North or West. While we are perfectly willing that the delegates of the loyal States may select the candi date, we prefer that in that selection, all other things being equal , they nominate a candidate who is generally acceptable to our people. The Democrats of the South will sup port any man nominated by the New York Convention. We hesitate not to say in advance that they will acquiesce in any platform which may be adopted there, even by the Northern delegates alone; because no man can receive the nomina tion of that Convention, and no platform can be constructed by it, which will not be immeasurably nearer to the Southern idea of true Democracy than the candidate and platform of the Radical party. While admitting this much for the Southern Democracy, it would be untrue to go further anil state that they Uvo no choice. We believe that every Demo crat in the South has a choice—an ex pressed choice. Among such distinguished aames Pendleton, Hancock, Adams, Seymour, Blair, Chase and Hendricks, it would be impossible not to have some division of sentiment. Such divisions, however, are not of such a character as to produce any serious chisms amongst us. We have already expressed our own preference for Mr. Pendleton. This pref erence is based both upon principle and availability. We believe him to be the strongest-man of any party in the West, and that the Middle and Eastern De mocracy would rally to his support with a great deal of zeal and enthusiasm. The only reason which we have seen urged why his nomination might not be popular in the Middle and Eastern States is that his views in regard to the finances of the country are supposed to be in opposition to the in terests of those .sections. To this there are two sufficient answers. First, Mr. P’s. views have been misrepresented. When they are fully explained and made known it will be seen that there is no real antago nism between him and the gentlemen who are supposed to be more popular in the East. Second, admitting that some of Mr. P’s. financial opinions may not be in accord with a certain class of Democrats in the Middle and Eastern States, such difference could not possibly injure him in the approaching canvass.be cause the lead ing lights of the Republican party —Sher- man, Butler, Stevens, and others—occupy the same or perhaps more extreme views on those very issues. Further than this, the Chicago platform itself speaks with very uncertain sound upon this question. We believe that Mr. Pendleton is the first choice of nine-tenths of the Georgia Democracy. M T e have recently received let j ters and conversed with leading gentlemen j living in tho several sections of the State who all agree that the nomination of Mr. P. would give more general satisfaction and arouse more enthusiasm among our people than that of any other man. In connection with Mr. Pendleton the names most frequently mentioned as the second on the ticket are those of Adams and Hancock. Either of these gentlemen would be enthusiastically accepted at the South as the candidate for the Vice- Presidency. Our own choice is Pendleton and Adams. The name of the latter would stir up throughout the whole country, and particularly in the New England States, memories long since buried with the glorious old Whig party, when Webster and Winthrop, and Evans, and Uhrate, aud Adams, aud Everett were brilliant leaders, who led it in scores of well-coDtest ed victories over the old Democracy. The very name of Adams, descended as he is through a long line of illustrious ancestors, from one of the brightest intellects and purest patriots of colonial times, will arouse an enthusiasm and excite a fervor among the old Whig families which has not been witnessed since the days of "Tippe canoe and. Tyler, too." We take pleasure, in this connection, in transferring to our columns the following judicious and well-timed remarks of our contemporary of the Constitutionalist in reply to the Macon Journal & Messenger. Wc are glad to know that our own views arc- so strongly fortified and endorsed by our neighbor. Like him, we wish no war over this matter among ourselves. We merely wish to give expression to our own professions, and, as wc think, of a large majority of the Democrats of the State. The Constitutionalist says: “We do not wish to commit the State or the delegates. We are not arrogant enough to presume that our influence is so weighty. But in the exercise of profes sional duty, and long after several of our contemporaries had hoisted the names of favorite parties at the mast-head, we spoke what we believed to be the voice ot Geor gia, more especially as Georgia bas the Bullock’s share of "expediency," and mourns unceasingly for a temporary deser tion of principle. The choice of the New York Convention will, perforce, be the choice of the South; but while that choice AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE L 7, 1868 I is still open to debate, we avow our pref -1 erence for the Man of the Constitution rather than the Man of the Bayonet or the Soiler of the Ermine. We are bold enough j to believe that not only is Mr. Pendleton 1 the choice of Georgia, but likewise the ; choice of all men in the United States who ; hate the oppression of the Sword and the unequal despotism of the Tax-Gatherer. If a better man can be found, may the laurel be his ; but biding the time ami the ! man, we endorse Mr. Pendleton as Best, | Purest and Most Available. The choice : of Georgia may possibly go in a different ; direction; but we will, at least, pay our : State the compliment of believing other : wise.” The Omnibus Bill. The name of Chief Justice Chase is given as the authority for the rumor now afloat in Washington to the effect that the President will not interpose his veto against the Omnibus Reconstruction Bill. Os course we do not pretend to deny but that the opportunities of Mr. Chase for ascertaining the views of the President are better than ours. Yet we hesitate not in declaring our belief that Mr. John son will assuredly fix his veto against the admission of any of the excluded States under the pretended authority of the Re construction laws so-called. A due regard for his own consistency and self-respect, impels him to continued | warfare against the revolutionary action of : the Radical Jacobins. The security of the South and the safety of the nation, alike, demand that he continue to interpose his | constitutional prerogatives against all the j illegal acts of the Rump Congress. A Radical Whiskey Thief In Trouble. T. C. Callicot, the friend of honest Horace Greeley, has been convicted of de frauding the Government of immense | sums, while holding an important office in the Revenue Department, and sentenced to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars and imprisonment in the New York Penitentiary for two years. This man Callicot was a great favorite with the Greeley wing of the Radical party and, through their influence, secured his appointment in tho Treasury Depart ment. He is very well known in the South, and particularly in Charleston and this place, as one of the.most corrupt and op pressive of the horde of Treasury agents alias thieves who overrun the South just after the close of the war. A pronounced Radical—placed in office by Radical influence?; and supported in his thieving operations by leading Radical politicians—the attempt is made to fix a stain upon Mr. Johnson’s administration on account of his exposure and conviction. “Oh, shame, where is thy blush !” Butler’s Investigation Committee. Our dispatches from Washington indi cates that after all, Butler’s smelling Com mittee will fail to unearth anything in the slightest degree impugning the character of Senators who voted in favor of Mr. Johnson’s acquittal. It seems that Woolley was only one of the numerous lobbyists of the whiskey ring, in which saintly organization it is said that Butier has a large interest, and that the funds traced to his possession were placed there by his employers to pur chase the votes of Butler and his Radical friends in favor of the continuation of the two dollar whiskey tax, The higher the tax the more money is to be made by evading the law. So the smelling Com mittees’ investigation ends in smoke--or rather whiskey! Mcmyiiis r reign is, A writer in the Charleston Mercury, whilst defending Col. Sam Tate and Major Wicks, his successor as President of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, says: Railroads, like other corporations, are expected to pursue that policy which they suppose most conducive to their own in terests. This would have been the duty of Colonel Beirne if he had been elected President of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, without reference to the Atlantic outlet of the freight passing over it. This was the policy of Colonel Tate, whose sagacity and energy has made him so conspicuous among the Railroad managers of the country ; and it will, doubtless, be the policy of Major Wicks, his successor. Eut the intimation that the last named gentlemen have been or will be influenced by any special hostility to Charleston is simply absurd. Freights from Memphis to Charleston now find their way to the great commercial centres of the world by the route to Norfolk, instead of Charles ton, because they can do it economically. At the commencement of the present busi ness season, President Tate addressed a letter to the presiding officers of the rail roads between Chattanooga and Charles ton, proposing a through rate of freight between Memphis and New York, which would send it by way of Charleston. His proposition was to establish such a rate as would enable him to compete with the agents of the Kentucky and Ohio route, and the Illinois route, in the carrying trade between the Western and Eastern cities, and after paying tbe charges of the steam ships between Charleston and New York, the railroads should divide the remainder pro rata between them. It was proposed, also, that the rates between Memphis and Charleston should be on the pro rata ba sis, thus giving our city the advantage on its direct shipments to Europe. A satis factory arrangement having been made with the steamships, these propositions were acceded to, and for a few weeks Col. Tate was enabled to compete successfully with his rivals, and a large preponderance of the cotton forwarded from Memphis to the Eastern cities passed through Charles ton. But at a moment’s notice the New York steamships refused to carry any more cotton, unless at double the rates formerly agreed upon, and as a compliance with this demand would make the railroad service i utterly unremuDerative, the entire arrange ment was broken up, and tho trade from I Memphis reverted to its former channels, except a small amount which passed over j the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroads. And this was not strange, when much of the trade from Atlanta, Marietta and i other points in our sister State of Georgia, j took the same direction. The Mercury will.see. by this statement, how unfounded are its charges that Colonel Tate is, or has been, inimical to Charles ton, and with how much more propriety they might have been directed at parties nearer home. But it may be, and proba bly was, a necessity on the part of the steamships to increase their rates, as it would be on the part of the railroads if cotton’and other produce had to be carried on the passenger trains. Those luxurious floating palaces for passengers cannot be expected to furnish an economical medium for the transportation of bulky freights, and this suggests a reform and remedy— the establishment of a line of propellers, calculated especially for the prompt and economical transportation of freight but with accommodations for passengers who would be satisfied with substantial but not expensive fare, and ot these there should be but ODe class. The propellers could easily make the distance between New York and Charleston in sixty hours; a fast freight line betweeu Charleston and Memphis deliver its goods in forty hours, and allowing ten hours for transfer in Charleston, the time necessarily occupied between Memphis and New York need not exceed one hundred and ten hours, or say four and a half days. This would be, by long odds, the quickest, and might be the most economical, route between New York and Memphis, an! would be still further improved upon the construction of the proposed railroad from Atlanta to De catur, by which the distance will be les sened some eighty miles. The African “voters" in the South stand thus: Alabama 104,518 N. Carolina.... 73,932 Arkansas 20,566|8. Carolina 80,550 Florida 16,089.1 exas..... 40,497 Georgia So, 16s' Virgin La 105,832 Louisiana 84,4361 Mississippi — 80,360] Total 715,918 The World puts the significant question: When pay day comes may not these African voters object to the payment of the public debt ? Are they to be trusted? A Boston dispatch says Weston failed to accomplish one hundred miles in twen ty-three hours. He made only ninety and a half miles in twenty-two hours and fifty two minutes. Notes at the Capitol. The Senate was not over full yesterday, either on the floor or in the galleries. The leading topic was the bill to admit the Africanized States of North Carolina and Georgia. On this we found Mr. Trumbull delivering a sort of perfunctory speech, the object of which was transparent enough. He was trying to atone for one manly and upright vote by a policy of atrocious cruelty and humiliation upon the Southern whites, hoping thus to conciliate the ultraists who now swear vengeance against him. Mr. Trumbull cuts a sorry figure in this sort of expiatory business. He explained that the repudiation clauses in the Georgia Constitution, by which the rights of Northern creditors are sacri ficed, were stricken out, and by a solemn fundamental act of the Legislature the assent of the State is to be given to this Vnangeinthe Constitution. Now, as a lawyer, Mr. Trumbull knows full well such legislative act would be brutum fulmen ; but it is part of his game to throw dust in the eyes of the people, Mr. Wilson moved to insert Alabama, and argued that the vote had been taken at a bad season, &c. There were forty-four per cent of the registered voters who voted for the Constitution, and only thirty-eight in Arkansas. As these were made up chiefly of negroes, and one-third of the whites were disfranchised, these figures do not speak well for the matter of a popular sanction. Mr. Drake wanted to choke off a speech from Mr. Sherman until the conference committee could report. But Mr. Sher man being full, would not be choked off, and proceeded with his customary power of face to deliver a course and insolent tirade against the whites. Mr. Sherman falsely pretended that there would have been a majority for the constitution, but for intimidation; but he said nothing of his own complicity in the outrage of ordering an election to be held under bayonets, and of the terrors of the oath-bound loyal leaguers, by which the negroes were en masse coerced. It ap peared that the people who were to be disfranchised and made serfs to the negro had been so unreasonable and unnatural as to refuse to associate with the carpet baggers, or (horror of horrors!) to buy goods of them. Mr. Sherman wanted to know if all the trouble and expense was to be thrown away, and went on in a dema gogical and highly inflammatory style to inquire what they “cared for the rebel ele ment,” and said that “every man who had served in the rebel army was opposed to this constitution.” But this was nothing to the luminous and logical declaration, that to reject the constitution “would ban ish tens of thousands who did not dare to go back to Alabama while the government is in rebel hands.” From Sherman to Stewart the transi tion is easy and natural. Mr. Stewart was for admitting Alabama; had “investi gated” the matter, and favored us with the progress of his mind. Warming up, he began to imagine himself a Senator on a large scale, and undertook to speak for the Democrats of Alabama—a pretence exposed promptly by an ironical inter rogatory from Mr. Saulsbury. After an abusive tirade against the South, came Mr. Frelinghuysen, unctious and brief, who, not believing that two-thirds of the Senate could be found ready to admit Alabama, thought they had better have a separate bill. Mr. Howard, of Michigan, generally ultra, but always logical and forcible, denied that good faith required the ad mission of Alabama. He cited the law, and insisted on following it fairly to its conclusions. He desired to see a govern ment founded on the principle of a majority, and wanted more time to examine into the special circumstances of this case. Mr. Howard appeared to be nearly restored to his usual health, and is regular in his attendance at the Senate. Mr. Buckalew spoke briefly and forcibly in opposition to the whole system of re construction legislation. He showed how the time for the election had been ex tended to five days, thus leading to large nnm*n tranrta. and vet General Mende bod reported that the instrument was defeated, and given his opinion that “it was not ex pedient to admit Alabamaunder the pres ent Constitution.” Mr. Buckalew char acterized all the registration, &<;., as mere form—a shanty to give the affair the color and impress of a popular sanction. Mr. Conkling objected to including Alabama, and defended the original pro vision requiring a majority of the regis tered votes, suggesting that this might yet be found the wisest course. Mr. Hendricks then followed, with a keen, well put, and cogent exposure of the trickery and sophisms by which this reconstruction procedure was sought to be maintained. Mr. Hendricks showed how military violence and authority had been employed to carry the election, and ridiculed the idea of setting aside an elec tion on account of the weather. Mr. Morton, of Indiana, seemed to con sider himself bound to follow his colleague, but utterly failed to meet his position. Next came a vulgar tirade against the white population from Mr. Wilson, full of impudent misstatements. He read a letter from one of his friends in the South, who said “he considered his life to be worthless" —a remark some would consider applicable to nine-tenths of his carpet bag allies and recruits. Mr. Yates briefly endorsed the views of Senator Howard, reserving, however, his liberty of action in respect to Alabama. Mr. Doolittle then made what was per haps the most interesting speech of the day. He expressed the belief that if the white population of the South were wrong fully compelled to have negro suffrage, they would be able to control the negro vote, and instanced as a case in point the “black belt” of Georgia, a district where 7,000 negro majority had been overcome. I Mr. Doolittle denounced this conferring of i suffrage and power on these semi-bar- j barians of the South, and declared that the i disfranchisement of those pardoned by | Presidents Lincoln and Johnson was a violation of the plighted faith of the na- \ tion. He referred to the recent votes in Ohio, Michigan and Oregon, and said this was only a sprinkling compared with the great shower which was to follow. The party identified with this here sy would be trampled in pieces as soon as the election 1 shall come. Mr. Doolittle then quoted Lincoln, Jefferson and Douglas against ne gro suffrage and political equality, his citations producing a good deal of disquiet among Republican Senators. Mr. Sumner, never happier than when he brings his great mind to a point, made an issue as to Governor Perry’s record, who will be quite surprised to find himself as fierce a revolu tionist as was Mr. Sumner himself when he instigated a rebellion against the fugitive slave law. Mr. Pomeroy rose, not to read any letters, with business and practical suggestions for a trade, but to make light of differences of races, remark ing ingenuously and modestly that “there was a slight difference between himself and Mr. Doolittle.” The prompt assent of Mr. Doolittle to this proposition made a laugh, of course. Mr. Sherman did not rise ; but, as stocks were dull, this does not surprise us. Mr. Stewart, however, rose, and magnified himself as much as if he had been a high dignitary of the Ku Klux Kian. He soon disarmed all terror by the recital of a stump speech, which would go off though the premises were founded on misapprehension. The debate was concluded by Mr. Conk ling, who showed up with effective sar casm the offensive dogmatism of Mr. Wil son, who had said, arrogantly, that the provisions requiring a majority of all the registered voters was something so out rageous that it could not be defended in I the chamber or elsewhere. Mr Conkling had sent for the record, and first showed that Wilson had voted for the bill, and then for thi3 identical proposition as a separate provision. This exposure wa3 complete and overwhelming, losing noth ing by the good natured way in which it was made. And then the Senate goes into executive session, and we leave the building with j such noble memories. Think of it all—a grand bastile built up in ten days, and one captive already secured, to say nothing of ■ dispatches overhauled, private letters and ! what not! And then there is the magnifi -1 oent victory won over Miss Ream—see, leading the van, the hero of Big Bethel.and Port Fisher; next the pugnacious, loqua cious Bingham—a knight of some experi enee in warfare on the sex, according to ■ Butler; General Schenck, still harping on ' ienna ; and how many more besides this sheet of paper will not suffice to tell. 1 ‘Ad vance brave army, don’t kick up a row.” | _ There sas a severe frost in some coun ties of New York on the night of the 29th uit., but not severe enough to injure grow ing crops. The prospect is good for both ( grain and fruit. A call has been issued for a National Convention of Conservative soldiers and sailors, by the National Executive Com mittee appointed by the Convention of , September, 1800, to meet at New York, on the 4th of July. The National Democratic Convention. PREPARATIONS TO RECEIVE THE MEMBERS. From the Sew Tori World. . Great preparations are now being made in this city for the purpose of accommo dating the numerous delegations who are to be present in New York during the first week in July, from all parts of the ITnion, to take part in the deliberations which are to result in the nomination of the next President and Vice President of the United States on a Democratic national platform. Tammany Hall will accommodate an im mense assemblage within its capacious walls, but as it is calculated that each delegate will be accompanied, on an aver age, by at least ten friends or backers, it will be necessary to find quarters in other places for this immense concourse, when the labors of each day’s session are con cluded. IrviDg Hall has been engaged by the State Central Committee of Pennsyl vania for the convenience of the delegation from the Keystone State, and Masonic Hall will furnish sleeping quarters for the entire Pendleton escort, which is to number over five hundred men. The walls of the Academy of Music will once again resound, as in days of yore, to the eloquence of Democratic orators ; and it is also believed that tho Circus building in the vicinity will be engaged for the accommodation of outside Southern delegations. The Ever ett House will furnish board and lodging to two hundred and fifty delegates, and their friends from Maryland and other border States. The Hancock men will congregate at the Astor House in large numbers, and negotiations are now going on with the proprietors of this house, and delegations from Illinois and Connecticut. The Connecticut men have a desire to secure the ladies’ ordinary for a caucus room to meet in. Five hundred delegates and their friends are expected at the Astor House. Accommodations have been made ready at the St. Nicholas Hotel for twelve hundred persons, who are expected to be present at the Convention. The Chase men and supporters of Gov. English, of Connecticut, will be found at this hotel principally. At the Southern and New York hotels preparationson a grand scale are being perfected for delegates from the border and Southern States, and the denizens of these hostelries will once more behold the faces of staunch Southern Democrats. r Jhe Everett House is negotiating with the Vermont delegation, and it is probable that the Green Mountain boys will be found here in large numbers. The Pendleton men will aggregate themselves at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The irrepressible, in defatigable, and nover-to-be beaten Colonel Woolley, of Cincinnati, who had the honor of kicking Butler some weeks since in Washington, and who is now enduring imprisonment for the country’s sake, has secured rooms for the W r est Virginia dele gation at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The New York State delegation, numbering sixty-five persons, marshalled by Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, will stop at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, as will also twenty-six delegates from Indiana, headed by their chairman, Lafayette Devlin. The Illinois delegation of thirty persons, under the charge of Storer, of the Chicago Times, and the Ohio delegation of forty-two persons, with their gallant chairman, General G. W. MeCooke, will also occupy quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Committee and caucus rooms have been engaged at all the hotels named from the Ist day of July un til the close of the Convention, which will begin its session on the 4th of July. It will cost each delegate about seven dollars a day to live in this city during the Con vention, including the necessary trifling expenses of the barbers’ and bootblacks" fees, and car fare. Many leading states men and politicians have engaged rooms at the different hotels from the 20th and 25 th of June until the close of the Con vention, in order to have time to perfect their manipulations and organization of the country delegations. The admirers of Charles Francis Adams, from Massachu setts, New Hampsnire and Vermont, will repose their aching limbs at the Clarendon Hotel. Tammany Hall will be fully ready by the 25ih of Juno, and the inaugural, or dedicatory ceremonies will be, as de scribed below, of the most imposing description ever beheld in New York of a political nature; MEETING OF THE SACHEMS OF THE TAM -1 I . A meeting of the Sachems of the Tam many Society was held yesterday at the office of Mayor Hoffman, for the purpose of making arrangements in reference to the decoration of the hew hall, and in prepar ing the regalias of the order. Arrange ments were made in reference to the 4th of J uly decorations of the main hall of the Tammany Building, and Judge Albert Car doza was selected to read the Declaration of Independence on that day. The inter nal decorations of the hall will be of an unique and tasteful character, and the committee have under advisement a num ber of plans for that purpose. The com mittee on conference with the National Democratic Committee in regard to the place where the National Convention shall be held have not yet, through their Chairman, Hon. William M. Tweed, re ported; but it is understood that the National Convention will assemble immedi ately ai ter the inaugural ceremonies of Tam many Building shall be completed, in the main hall of that edifice. The members of the Tammany Society will appear in full regalia, and the building will be dedicated amid imposing ceremonies. It being suf ficiently understood that Tammany Hall will be the place wherein the National Con vention will meet, the friends of the differ ent delegations are securing eligible loca tions in the vicinity to quarter themselves. Arrangements have been made whereby the Pendleton escort from Cincinnati will be accommodated at Masonic Hall, and negotiations are pending, on the part of representatives from the Eastern States, to secure Irving Hall tor the accommoda tion of the friends of the Eastern dele gations; while arrangements are being made to secure the Academy of Music for a series of monster public de monstrations during the evenings while the Convention shall be in session. SPECIAL TRAIN FROM CHICAGO. The Chicago Times says: The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Com pany, with their accustomed liberality, will send a special through-train to New York, leaving Chicago on Tuesday, June 30, at about five o’clock p. m., for the accommo dation of delegates to the National Demo cratic Convention. Such delegates from Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska will be carried free , both going and returning, and will be furnished with tickets for the purpose by W. C. Cleland, Esq., at the office of the company, No. 05, Clark street. No special train will be made up for the return trip, the tickets being good on any regular train. FROM WASHTXGTOJf. Special Correspondence oj the Baltimore Gazette. The Democratic Platform — The New York World's Suggestions Repudiated—The Democratic On) to he a White Mans Government —Inflammatory Harangues at Washington—Riotous Proceedings — Excitement of the Citizens—Democratic Caucus at Philadelphia. Washington, June 4, 1868. —The sub ject of the national platform for the Democ racy in the next Presidential election is now exciting much interesting discussion among party leaders here, most of whom repu diate the ideas expressed in the colnmns of the New York World. The Democratic politicians here insist that the platform resolutions shall be few and very brief, as the living issue 3 between the parties have been reduced down to the single proposi tion whether or not this is a white man’s Government. On this proposition let the fight be made, and let this single issue stand out in bold relief. There are any number of minor issues which can be set tled in future, but the result of the ap proaching Presidential contest must and will determine whether or not this once proud Republic is to be placed under negro control. The Radicals will exert them selves to raise and combat side issnes of an unimportant character, but the policy of the Conservatives will be to hold them squarely tolheir platform—negro suprema cy in the South, in the North State rights. If they can do so let their speakers defend this single proposition. If the ne groes of the South are to constitute the dominant party there they will hold the balance of power between the parties at the North and thus rule the whole coun try. How they will rule has been shown during their carnival of blood here. The ignorant blacks are not to blame for the riot and bloodshed occasioned by the in flammatory harangues of such men as those who have lately addressed them in this city. The greater wonder is that more and greater outrages have not been perpe trated. That the Intelligencer office would have been attacked there seems to be no doubt had not the carpet-baggers been too cowardly to risk their own carcasses in the vicinity of that office. It was well under stood that office would be defended, and a wholesome fear fell upon the white Jaco bins who were stimulating and prompting the negroes to deeds of violence and out rage. Last night serious apprehensions were felt for the safety of the city, and the military were under arms. Such is the NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 24. government in minature which the Radi cal platform propose for this country, and the leading man of the Democratic party will go into the New York Convention to insist on joining issue on this question and making a square fight upon it before the American people. Questions of currency, taxation, bounties, foreign policy, Ac., are all secondary and comparatively trivial. Errors in these may be corrected and their injurious resultsj cannot be of long dura' tion. But the question whether this is a white man’s Government is the vital one, and should not be clogged with the debris of by-gone abstractions. There is not ou ly a feeling of confidence among the Demo- ! crats of their entire and complete success i in the next Presidential contest, but a very large number of the Radicals do not hesi tate to say that they will be beaten if their opponents are wise. Let the fire be con centric drive the Jacobins from power, and then the Government can be brought back within its Constitutional limits. It is rumored here that a meeting of a I large number of leading Democrats will be held in Philadelphia about the 20th I instant, but for what purpose has not transpired. The several railroad companies between vY asbington and New York have formed a union for the purpose of securing better and more complete arrangements for travel >md transportation between these cities, lo this end YY r . Prescott Smith, Esq., of your city, so well known in railroad man agement, has been chosen tho general superintendent with his heidquartors in this city. This will be good news to tho travelling community. Mr. Smith’s hosts of friends here will be rejoiced to welcome him to Washington. Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette The House of Representatives Rebuked— The New 'Tax, Bill —A Protracted Sum mer Session Anticipated—ihe New In ternal Revenue Department - Maryland State Convention-—lhe Preferences for Pendleton—General Hancock Acquiring Prominence as a Presidential Candi date-Chief Justice Chase and his Friends. Washington, June 5, IS6S. The ac tion of the Senate in adjourning over one day as a mark of respect to the memory of ex-President Buchanan has produced con siderable ill-feeling on the part of certain Radical leaders in the House of Repre sentatives, who charge that the action of the Senate is a direct rebuke attempted to be administered to the House, which not only refused to adjourn, but also rejected the resolution of Judge Woodward offered in honor of Buchanan’s memory. The Jacobins deny that their conduct is thus to be indirectly censured with impunity by their own partisans in the other end of che Capitol, and are growling around like certain animals with over-heated heads The refusal of the House to adopt prompt.' ly Judge Woodward’s resolution is now regarded by the leaders a great political mistake- and one which is likely to tell severely upon the interests of their Preai dential candidate. They feel this, and hence are sensitive to the just rebuke of' the Senate, whether intended as such or not. The head strong determination of Mr Schenck to press upon the House at this session the passage of the Internal Reve nue Tax law is regarded hereby many of his own party, and particularly by Radical Senators, as a piece of selfish folly. Schenck is the father of the bill, and tie would breathe the breath of life into his overgrown and monstrous offspring if pos sible. In this his purpose is fully under stood to be selfilaudation. Had any other member reported the bill, he (Schenck) would have been the first to denounce the attempt to force such a bill through at the present session. Radical Senators say the members of the House may devote as much time to the consideration of the bill now as they please, but that it will not be acted on in the Senate. Thus it would appear that the House is u-elessly engag ed in runuing the present session through the summer months—as the prospect is a poor one for an adjournment before the middle of August. Mr. Schenck’s bill is receiving serious opposition from quarters least expected, for he had calculated upon the vindictive feelings of his partisans toward President Johnson, supposing they would eagerly seize the opportunity to strip the Execu tive suit turtner ot omciai patronage by making the Internal Revenue Bureau a separate and independent department of' the Government, and by legislating into it as its official head, the present ultra-Radi cal official, Commissioner Rollins. Mr. Schenck and his committee seem to have lost sight of the Senate’s participation in the business when they propose creating a new department of the Government, and then legislating into that department an officer to conduct the affairs thereof. The refusal of the State Convention of Maryland to instruct her delegates to the New York nominating Convention pro duces great satisfaction among the national Democrats here, whoappear determined to sink all personal preferences in the choice of a candidate for the Presidency. So far as personal preferences have been ex pressed they have been very decidedly in favor of Mr. Pendleton. Senator Hen dricks has been looming up during the past few days, but the friend of Hancock assert that he will be the nominee on the third ballot. Pennsylvanians here say that Hancock can carry the Keystone State by fifty thousand majority. The Democratic Association of the District held a meeting last night and elected the following dele gates to the New York Convention : J. G. Berret, J. D. Hoover, F. A. Folson, Dr. Allen, Esau Pickerill and B. F. Swarts. These delegates are not instructed, aud their purpose will be to secure the strong est candidate, regardless of personal preferences. The friends of Chief Justice Chase will, in the meantime, meet in Phila delphia and adopt such measures as will secure harmonious co operation with the Democracy, believing with the Judge that “the time has come for all lovers of the country to band together against the Jaco bins.” Correspondence Between Secretary Mc- Culloch and Mobile Lawyers, The following correspondence has pass ed between Secretary McCulloch and the firm of Raphael & O. J. Semtnes, at torneys-at-law in Mobile, Ala. A man named Marks, it appears, has been en gaged for some time past in selling lottery tickets at the Custom House in Mobile, he being employed as a Custom House offi cial, and has been selling these tickets, it is alleged, with the sanction of the Col lector ofCustoms. Marks having consult ed the Semtnes firm as to his amenability to the State laws of Alabama in selling lottery tickets in a building belonging to the United States, standing on land ceded to the national government, was advised by the latter to continue the sale, as the State laws had no jurisdiction over the ceded lands. Marks, however, was arrest ed and the Semtnes firm was retained by him as counsel. To defend the accused it was found necessary that a copy of the deed of cession to the United States from the State of Alabama should be filed, and this could only be obtained from the Treas ury Department. The following letter was accordingly addressed to Mr. McCul loch : Mobile, Ala., May 20, 1868. Honorable Secretary of the Treasury : Sir—Enclosed please find affidavit of Mr. Marks, who is selling lottery tickets in the United States Custom House, we advising him that he could not be dis turbed by the laws of the State of Alabama if the ground on which the building stands has been ceded to the United States. Can we obtain a copy of the deed of cession from your office ? Very respectfully, your ob’t li. A O. J. Semmes. To this letter the Secretary of the Treasury replied as follows: Washington, D. 0., May 26, 1868. Gentlemen—Yours of the 20th inst. is received. In reply I have to say that it is not the practice of the Department to furnish evidence to protect parties from the consequences of crimes committed against the laws of any State in which public property under its charge may be located. Your request cannot, therefore, be granted. Very respectfully, B. McCulloch, Sec’ry of the Treasury. The Semmes’ have again written to the Secretary in reply to his letter, taking a highly dignified and pompous stand, addressing the Secretary in very disre spectful terms; asserting that all docu ments and public papers on file in any de partment of the Government should be held at the command of any citizen who may desire to inspect them or take copies therefrom, without let or hindrance from the public officer who may have temporary control over them, and concluding by making a peremptory demand for the paper in question. A New York dispatch says that Gen. McClellan has written a letter favoring the nomination of Mr. Chase by the Demo crats, and expressing an unwillingness to be a candidate himself. Columbia, South Carolina, was visited by a destructive tornado on the 30th ult. The roofs of the State House, the inarket house, railroad depot and other buildings, were torn off or badly damaged, and a number of small houses, together with fences, sheds, etc., were completely demol ished. State Items. On Thursday last a one story house in 1 Atlanta, belonging to a Mr. Murphy, was struck by lightning. The freight busiuess of the Georgia j Railroad is very good this season —the I shipments of provisions being larger than i they have been for years, i TT A fire engine belonging to the • United States has been carried to Atlanta ■ t°r the protection of the Government bar j racks there. 1 n * n Atlanta is, “where is. I bullock. The city is flooded with Radi j pal office seekers who wish positions from his Excellency. That glorious bulwark of the Democra cy, Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, passed through Atlanta Monday on his way to Milledgeville. He is in fine health aud spirits. The State press are asking, will Bradley be allowed to take his seat in the State Senate? We see no reason,if Caldwell the aoortionist can enter that body and the perjurer Blodgett go to Congress, why he cannot. The only difference between them is that Bradley has expiated his offence in the Peuitentiary while the other two have not —as yet. There was a rencontre on Saturday after noon in the city of Savannah between Mr. j Isaac Russell and “Col. ” H. S. McDowell, I r pl' ut cd editor of a negro paper called I :he xreedmen’s Banner. The difficulty was occasioned by an abusive editorial in tnat paper, resulting in the gallant “Colo nei getting his face slapped and writing a disclaimer of the article. Thieves and incendiaries are at work in boutnern Georgia. On last Sunday night a band of unknown men robbed the prem ises occupied by Mr. Charles Arnold in the lower part of Brooks county, aud after ward set fire to and completely destroyed the building. No lives were lost. General hews. Two bushels of rats were found in the vat ol a brewery recently seized by the Revenue officers in Philadelphia. • '! 1C handsomest bouses in lowa is built at tort Dodge, entirely of gypsum. It is found durable as well as elegant. Locomotives with six driving wheels are in use on the Pacific Railroad, and sonjc are ordered with ten driving wheels. Light kid gloves with a monogram on the back, are the latest agony of the young and fast bloods in New York. Cactus plants fifty leot high, that grow up like a segar aud bear delicious fruit, have been discovered in Arizona. The cable to be laid from the Southern point of Florida to Cuba, has been com pleted and will be laid this summer. An English paper says that the Emperor of France “has neither shut nor opened the doors of J anus but keeps them always on the jar.” A Danish commissioner is an route for Washington, to treat with the United States for the sale of the remaining Danish possessions in the West Indies. The latest telegraphic news from Hayti, is to the effect that the rebel Salnave has been assassinated by his own troops. A young white man recently tried to kill his mother, in New York city, because she would not allow him to marry a negro ser vant girl. There is a story in Washington that the Secretary of the Treasury has in hisemploy, as a special agent in Europe, General John C. Breckinridge. It is stated that the City Council of Washington will give the certificate of election to Given, the Democratic candi date for Mayor, in consequence of the frauds perpetrated by the Radicals. Great excitement is said to prevail in Honduras aud Nicaragua on account of the renewal of British pretensions to the ownership of the Masquo territory. A man named George Leßrune fell to the pavement from the third story of the Jefferson House, in Dubuque, lowa, last week, receiving mortal injuries. In Toledo, on Friday, a butcher’s dog sprang upon Mr. Daniel Roshong, an aged gentleman, seizing him by the lips, and tearing the flesh in a shocking manner. o<aulou, Jr., having resigned his position in the War Department, has opetied a law office in Washington, having been admitted to the bar about a year ago. Over §2,000 worth of silk thread was stolen from the establishment of Jaquith & Reed in Rochester, last week. An em ployee named Rider is under arrest as the robber. A return just published shows that the quantity of proof spirits distilled in the United Kingdom and Ireland, during the year ending the 31st of December last, was 23,323,915 gallons. The duty paid amounted to £11,382,594 5s 7u. Three men in Rochester got into a terri ble row on Sunday morning, and teeth, as well as feet and fists, did service. One of the party had his nose bitten off, and another lost a piece of flesh from an arm through the same agency. A lad named Max Schuler was drowned in the Chicago river on Saturday. No one was ever known to escape with life after falling into that stream. Its rank and villainous compound is certain death. Even fish and snakes cannot live in it. A Troy papercvidenced its enterprise on Saturday by printing a full account of Brown’s execution at Hudson, written and put in type hours before the man was hung 1 This is an attempt to beat death and the gallows, to cheat time and distance lightning. Last Friday a terrible storm passed over that section of Ohio traversed by the Eastern portion of the Cleveland and Pitts burg Railroad. Trees wore torn to pieces by lightning, and barns were consumed by fire, together with considerable quantities of grain. Hart L. Stewart, of Chicago, was exam ined before Justice S.turtevant, of that city, about two weeks since, on the charge of perjury in connection with his divorce suit, and on Thursday last he was taken before the Grand Jury, which failed to indict him, the charge not being sub stantiated. It is rumored that Evarts or Groesbeck will be nominated by the President for Attorney General. It is thought more probable he will not send in another nomi nation, but leave the office iu charge of Secretary Browning. General Schofield is the youngest man who has ever held the position of Secretary of War ; he is barely thirty-seven years old. The New York Herald's Montreal special reasserts that a Fenian raid on Canada is certain by the Ist ot July. The authorities are ready for the emergency. An attack is menaced on Prescott and Cornwall to cut the canals. Advices from Abyssinia state that civil war and anarchy reign throughout the country. The native chiefs have collected formidable forces and are warring upon the new dynasty of Gobayzz. A furious battle took place on the 26th of April; tho army of the new King being defeated, i It is positively asserted that evidence will be forthcoming which will convict Senator Pomeroy of avowed readiness to sell his own vote, and three others for ac quittal, for ten thousand dollars each. On Wednesday last during the thunder I storm, Miss Sarah Fritts, of Meigs county, , Tenn., whilst dropping corn in a field, | was killed by lightning. Senator Grimes has given to the public j library of Burlington, lowa, §5,000, and :to the Grinnell College SO,OOO, and pro -1 poses to make an endowment to Dartmouth ; College, in New Hampshire, sufficient to 1 educate continuously three young men 1 from his native county for all time to , come. Ilelmbold, of Buchu fame, returns an income of $50,000. The Paris Rothschild has made $2,000,- 000 by recent operations on the Bourse. McCoole’s sister sold her property in order to bet $15,000 on her brother. A French play at the New Orleans Academy is called, “Da Mise en Accusa \ tion ” or Ben Weighed and lound wanting. It is said that none of the North Caro lina Congressmen elect pays a cent of taxes. Annie Palmer, a native of New Bedford, Conn , died recently at Polk City, lowa, at the patriarchal age of 104. A wagon race between Bashaw and Jim Rocky came off at Chicago, on the 4th inst., the former winning the second, third and fourth heats. Time —2:30, 2:34 and 2:31J. The Empire Democratic Club, of New York, has reorganized, with Isaiah Ilyn ders, as President, ltynders has declated in favor of Chase for the Democratic nom inee. At Reynolds City, Montana, the other day, a man named Gordon was fatally stabbed by one Ballou. The latter was captured and hanged by the citizens. Iu Akron, Ohio, on the 4th instant, a little sou of George H. Bien, two years and a half old, died from suffocation, caused by a bean lodging in the windwipe.
