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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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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.
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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.
