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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1868)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. iCluonulc & s'cntincl. lIK>WV MOOIME, A. H. WKIGHT. PAT KICK yv A ]>ll, Associste Editor* T,:ini- of i-ciiscKlFTiON. DAILY. . i 60 . ........ 1000 1 0 , ... " ....;...; iso AVGDHTA. GA: \\ KIj.VKSDAI iKiKNiX*. JI VE 24. Grand Democratic 'nass Meeting. Notion is hereby given that there will be a Grand Democratic Mas# Meeting at Atlanta, on the 23<1 day of July next. The moot distinguished orator# from all part? of the Union will be invited, liberal arrangements will be made with the Rail road Companies, and a demonstration will then be made that will speak in thunder tones the determined purposed of Georgia to shake of all Radical domination, and to array herself on the side of Democracy and the Constitution. Further particulars will be published shortly. J. F. Alexander, Chr’rn Dtin. Kx. Com. Fulton Cos. Democratic) ipcr# please copy. Goiikv'n Lady's Rook.—VVeare indebt ed toMr. Geo. A. Oates for the July num ber of Godeifs Lady* Hook. It is re plete with subjects of interest to the ladies. A Misnomer.—A man named Legget Quick is in jail in Sonth Carolina on the char.:" of murder. He didn't leg it quick enough to avoid being arrested. Lowandk’s Brazilian Chill's.—This institution was in Charleston last week. It is highly praised by the papers of that city. The clown married a Charleston girl a day or two since. Funny mail! Nor Strong Enough.—A cable dis patch says that Prussia is strengthening the Colongne fortifications. Perhaps it would he a good idea to “strengthen” some oftiie Cologne itself. Much of it that is sold is very weak. The Chase meeting at Philadelphia ap pointed a Committee of one hundred, head' 1 by Charles L. II alpine, to urge Mr. Chase’s nomination at New York. — Ex- 1 change. Are these “Charles Halpine’s warriors bold and true.” And, reader, can he put ’em through ? A i!i:i minF.nConfederate Soldier. — .1. A. Wilson, of Scrivcn county, Georgia, a member of the G3d Regiment, Mercer’s Brigade, Walker’s Division of the Western army, who was taken a prisoner at Kenno saw Mountain in 1864, passed through this city yesterday on his way from Elmira, N. Y., to his home, lie was in straitened circumstances and also suffering from dis ease contracted while in prison. Wo are glad to loam that he was kindly treated and assisted by the citizens and railway officials at this point. The Pen Lucy Institute, near Bal timore. —This Institute is situated some three miles from the city of Baltimore, Md., and is under the charge of Colonel Richard M. Johnston, of Georgia, Princi pal. During the term just closed he had forty scholars, quito a number of whom wore formerly his Georgia pupils. A cor respondent writes to us in the highest terms of Col. Johnston, and informs us that the next term will opeu on the Ist of Septem ber next, before which time those who de sire to enter their sons should make appli cation. At tl ie midsummer exhibition of this j Institute, which took place Juno 3rd, wo ! (ind the names of the following Georgians j who took part in the exercises: John W Lewis, Bartow county; Robert I Walton, Augusta; James II Ilunter, Sa vannah ; Millard Gamble, Augusta; John B Wiley, Macon; Richard W Adams, | Savannah—lst prime medal—V Maxey Markoe, of Baltimore, taking the second, also a medal ; Walter G Charlton, Savan- j nah ; George W Wylly, Savannah; Wm A Broughton, Madison; WmG Stephens, Crawfordsvillc ; Roger L Gamble, Augus ta; Wm P Hunter, Savannah; Theodore S Hothwell, Augusta ; George H Elliott, Savannah. Tub N ext Sectional Controversy.— A writer in the New York 'Times prospects j politically in this wise : Among other subjects yet to be opened i for discussion is the Radical difference in j the material interests in the West and j Hast. The South, as a section, is too weak i to make a further sectional fight. It must j join one of the two great sections. The j war will be of capital against numbers. The West will represent the latter. It will demand legislation favorable to open ing the West and East India trade, by way of the Illinois and the Mississippi. The East will not like (bis. The West will wish to esoape'the duties imposed on its foreign consumption. It will insist, per haps, that the Eastern bondholders shall accept exactly the same currency in pay ment of the federal bonds that was paid in for the purchase of the bonds. \\ hen the numbers of the West are arrayed on these and similar questions, it is not im possible that the principles of numerical rule which have been affirmed in ad our latter legislation may be applied to Sena torial representatives. Why indeed should the Federal Senate be organized on the basis of an extinct statehood? Why should not the Federal Senate, as the State Senates, be based on an enlarged ratio of numbers? If each constituency of 100,IKK) is entitled to a member of Congress why should not each constituency of 500,000 be represented by a Senator? ibis would appear a simple and a just rule, especially under the new dispensation. \\ e need uot perhaps anticipate such sectional troubles, but they seem inevitable. The South having been extinguished as an equal and independent section, finds itself more in accord with the West, and wiil file in uudor its banner. The gratuitous intolerance and prolonged persecutions ot the Fast cannot be forgotten, and upon a collision, even upon a comparison of interests be tween that and the Western section,' there can be no doubt as to the action of the South. Farm 1 Ramjets.—ln looking over the Charleston Mercury of Monday our atten tion was attracted by an article giving au account of farm products in and around Charleston. Previous to the war small farms were cultivated, but to no very con sidorabh- extent and chiefly forborne con sumption. Since the war, however, the number arms and the number of per sons engaged in raising vegetables have greatly increased so that there is a some what lucrative trade carried on in this branch of business between Charleston and the Northern cities. Some idea of it can be formed from the foot that, on last Satur day, the New York and Baltimore steamers took out a total of 4,577 packages, or bar rels and boxes, the value ot which the Mercury estimates at the snug little sum of S27,4tit! forone shipment, or S5-I.'.ft per •week for garden products shipped to New York and Baltimore lrish potatoes, green ; as, beans, cucumbers, squashes, tomatoes, etc. e are site to seven wo k- in advance ot the North, which, during that time, gives our formers a mo nopoly,and,consequently, highly remunera tive prices. With judicious management garden products cannot fail to pay well. The Mercury informs us that there are about one hundred and fifty small forms scattered around the main land and islands in sight of Charleston. Augusta is in close connection with Savannah and Charleston, and we see no reason in the world why some of our friends in this vicinity could not find a good and profitable market for their early pro ducts in Northern cities. The matter is worthy of serious consideration. It it is so profitable to farmers near Charleston, it would also prove remunerative, although perhaps not so largely, to the farmers in and around Augusta. Removal of Meade. “General Meade arrived here to-day. General Grant being absent at West Point, General Meade has gone to Pniladelpbia on a brief leave of absence. A rumor is current that the President vyill order Gen. Meade to remain in Philadelphia in charge of that Military Division, and will assign General Rosseaa to the Third Mili tary District.” The above paragraph, which we clip from the Washington correspondence of the New York Inbuilt, conveys intelli gence which, if true, will send a thrill of joy through every patriotic heart in the States of Georgia, Alabama and Florida. There is so much of' hope, of gratifica tion, anu of encouragement for the people of the Third Military District (so-called), involved iu the removal of General Meade, that we are afraid to indulge in too san guine expectations from the action of the President in this regard. That Mr. John son committed a great blunder in sending General Meade here as the successor of General Pope has been long since quite apparent. That he should seize the earliest fatting occasion to remove him is the uuanimous opinion of Conservatives everywhere. The unmitigated tyrannj’ of General Meade, in his recent dealings with the Greene county (Ala.) prisoners, and still more recently his arrest and incarcera tion in loathesome dungeons of the citizens of Columbus, furnish conclusive reasons for his immediate removal. Mr. Johnson should be also warned by General Meade’s conduct in regard to the recent elections in this State, that he is not a fit or proper person to be intrusted with the control and management of the ap proaehing Presidential election. If Gen. Meade is continued in command in this District there will he no necessity for going through with the form* of an election here. A great deal of trouble, and labor, and strife, and crime and corruption can be saved by permitting General Meade to select the electors for Grant, or east the nine votes of the Stale himself for his friend and chieftain. We have again and again urged the re moval of General Meade, and we hope that the Tribune is not mistaken in the statement that at last the President is about to act. The New lork World Advocating Radi calism. We have been favored lately, says the National Intelligencer, with a very large amount of matter from the New York World on the subject of what the Con servative Convention at New York should or should not say ; what it should do and what omit. These dessertations are pre mised in a very oracular strain, hut we are for from regarding them as valuable contri butions to human thought. So far as they are Democratic ideas, they are hut the reaffirmations of what has been often and better expressed before, even by the World itseif; arid so far as they are Republican or Radical, which, we regret to say, they are in large measure, they are but the feeble uttorances of a neophyte and half ashamed convert, and lack the breadth, vigor, earnestness, and ability of a full blown saint in that church. We are not certain that we should deem these articles worthy of reference, if it were not that the World is not unfifeque'ntly quoted as an expouuntofOonservaiiveopinion. That it often maintains Democratic or Conserva tive sentiments, and that it affects to speak by authority, is quite true ; but that it is an orthodox exponent of Conservative doctrine we emphatically deny. Time and time again it has advanced propositions offensive to the convictions of the Conserva tive masses, and made admissions eagerly seized upon by the enemy, such as would have been conceded by no steadfast and loyal Conservative organ. Even when it has urged not without a certain sort of ability, Con servative views, it has done it in a manner which seemed to lack earnestness, and in dicated that without much difficulty they could have argued quite as well on the one side as the other. Hence its utter failure to guide and mould public opinion, to which function it so ambitiously aspires. In order to convince others, a man must begin by himself believing. The people will follow no shifting or uncertain stand ard-bearer. They cannot be made to right about-face every week or so by any editorial caprice, even of those whom they trust, and they do a much larger part of their own thinking than is commonly supposed. And thus it is that papers like the World , which jump about here and there, and think they are accomplishing wonders, are really no more than the fly which under took to start the carriage and horses which had halted for a rest. “At last we move,” said the fly; but really the fly had nothing to do with it. The question of delay or progress was not affected one moment by its most active exertions. And so the j World moves while the people stand farm. The World, like a free lancer, fights sometimes on one side and then on the other. No prudent general ever puts such j a force down oti his muster-roll without j making provision for possible desertions. ' Indeed, fairly considered, the World is not j so much a Democratic journal as the New j York Herald, which makes no pretence of that sort. Since the Reconstruction acts were passed the Herald has devoted itself with unrivalled ability to the work of ex posing their enormities and the outrage of fastening Africanized governments on the South. The World followed on the same track with unequal steps, and a much in i’errior order of ability. There was more argument, more ideas, and more force in a single number of the Herald last autumn than in a tile of the World for a whole month. And yet, when the Herald under takes to offer suggestions to the Conserva tives, it is an outsider. It holds itself free and uncommitted to join any party it pleases. We might say much more on this poiut, of the authority of the World to speak ex cuthedra on the subject of a platform, but we forbear. It is no part of our purpose to notice its suggestions otherwise than briefly, nor, after what we have said, is it necessary. If we examine the history of Radicalism for the past two or three years, we shall find that after setting out with the proposition that suffrage belonged to the States, that negro suffrage was inexpedient and unwise, that the Radical leaders, find ing at length that a different policy was es sential to their interests, proceeded to declare void the Southern State govern ments they had already formally recogniz ed, and thereupon founded Africanized governments, based upon universal negro suffrage and sweeping disfranchisement of the white population. These governments and constitutions were set np by the sword, under the orders of Congress; they were endured simply because the white popula tion were powerless and disarmed; they were acts of Congressional tyranny, and rest upon power alone. By power, and military power alone, they stand. Under the Constitution of the land they are utter ly void and of no validity. Had the matter been adjudicated by the Supreme Court in the case of McArdle, all, even the Padieals. concede that that tribunal would have declared these acts to be void. Whenever they are so tested judicially, they are cer tain to be so declared. The Conservatives have steadily insisted that these acts of atrocity and tyranny have no binding force, and that it is for the white population of each State to say whether or no it will al low negro suffrage. If there be a distinctive feature in the present pb'iitieal struggle—an issue that is prominent above all others—it is the claim of the Radicals that all these infamous acts shall stand as final and complete ; that ne gro suffrage shall be.maintained at the South, no matter what the whites may say about the matter ; that what is done is done, and cannot be undone. The negro may be -hut out from the polls in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan ; but from the Potomac to the Ri > Grande he is to have full swing. If there be a difference between this position and that of the World, it is cer tainly not enough to agitate the country for in a Presidential canvass. If Radical ideas, doctrines, and acts are to be carried out in the Government, then it is simply fair that the work should be committed to Republican hands. The position of the World is that the issue oi negro suffrage '■ in the South is to be determined, not by i the Constitution or the wishes of the white ! population, hut by the negroized govern ments thcmselves.eontrolled by negroes,and shaekled by test-oaths binding the voter to swear to accept negro suffrage. Outside | of the machinery set up by the bayonet I and aided by fraud, says the World, the whites must not look, and therefore the case is compared to extension of the Itallot to white voters in. England who are tax jiayers. We imagine the Southern people would mueh prefer honest and out- spoken Radicalism to such jeering mockery as this ; but we proceed- The conclusion of the World, therefore, is that negro suf frage is a fixed fact, and that the South has only two alternatives—one to “per suade the negroes to “vote against their ! own right to vote,’ the otherto persuade : them to use that right for the advantage I of the community.” And this is the end of the World s argu ! ments against negro suffrage!_ What a I light does it riot throw on the sincerity of -its past protestations? A recommenda tion for the adoption of impartial suffrage is another proposition of the World to the National Convention —which would come with excellent grace from Mr. Sumner or Mr. Thad. Stevens. There are many other | Republicans who, like the World, have held to different sides of the question at | different times. What is the motive for all this tergiver sation and abandonment? Is it the idea : that there eau be no expediency which j does not start out with an abandonment of .principle? Our ideas of expediency are 1 those of Jackson —that “the right is al ways expedient.” Isita desire to be sen sational, and an idea that this is only to be attained by startling propositions, and extravagant, unexpectedattitudes? Such, from a paragraph of this journal of yester ; day, would seem to he partly, at least, the l purpose. W r e are told in the idiom of the j spiritualists that the Democratic party is | to be governed by “natural affinity,” and j “incline to nominations which place it in | immediate relation with the breathing, | palpitating earnest future.” Warmed up | by such phraseology, we are led to expect j something, nfcou’se, whiciwpiwsse# the or [ dinary feats of acrobat and magician. I “The chr’ odiis (rather a hard name for i the Democratic party) which they had looked upon as a dead, inert lump, has suddenly burst into winged locomotion, and mounts with gay colors into the friend ly sunshine." W r e have seen all sorts of phraseology employed to gild and varnish over political apostacy. but never such fine writing or enthusiastic sentiments before. Despite all such mechanical tricks, the black appears ! beneath ; the gaudy hues put on so “gay ly” are but the stolen tinsel of Radicalism; the “sunshine” will prove to be but the chilling frost of contempt of all honest men of both parties; the “winged locomo tion” will he brought to a dead stop when it eneouutcrs the true, firm, and incorrupt ible delegates of the Conservative phal anx at Now York. We admit the force and aptness of the World's simile only so far as it is applied to itself. Exultant at this unexpected aid from the World , the Tribune exclaims : “The ad versary is recoiling—push on the column.” Mr. Greeley ought to know hotter. So ex perienced a soldier should not mistake the goings to and fro of parties possessing the countersign of both armies for an advance or retreat of the great host with which he has to contend. An Error. Our informant had a conversation with Governor H. V. Johnson, on Friday last, and the Governor declared his conviction that the nomination of Chase is the only course to insure success beyond a peradven ture. — Macon Telegraph. We aro authorized by Governor John son to state that the gentleman who re ported the above to the Macon Telegraph totally misunderstood his position. Gov. Johnson said, or intended to be understood to say, that the salvation of the Govern ment depended upon the defeat of the Rad ical candidate for the Presidency, and that if the nomination of Chase were indispen sably necessary for that purpose, he would cheerfully support him, if nominated by the Convention. Augusta—Her Present anil Future. It has been the subject of remark and surprise by those who have visited our city recently, that she shows none of the signs of improvement and progress which characterize,in so remarkable a degree,the history of our sister cities, Savannah, Atlanta, and Macon,for the last few years. To strangers visiting here, Augusta pre sents the same, or very nearly the same, condition of things which existed before the war, so far as the physical appear ance of the city is concerned, while the stagnation, if not actual decline, in her commercial prosperity has produced a tram of reflection, and led to conclusions anything but flattering to our pride or to our interests. We shall not attempt, in this article, to prove that these criticisms are unjust to the city, or unfair in their reflections upon our people. We an. prepared to admit, with becoming frankness, that the city does not exhibit the outward signs of prosperity aud activity which are to be daily witnessed in Atlanta, Savannah, and other cities in the State since the war, and we might even go further and confess that our trade has not been as large as it should have been, nor our success as complete as we have had it in our power to make it by the development and adoption of a sagacious, iarsighted, and wise policy in regard to our interior and coastwise com munications. While admitting a lamenta ble failure on the part of the community, collectively,to appreciate the danger which threatens our future prosperity, and make the proper efforts to escape from their results, truth and candor compels ns to declare that, as a class, our merchants have shown as much enterprise aud fore cast —have exhibited as much of energy and industry—have shown as large and i comprehensive views, and given evidence of as much probity of character and com- inercial promptness and activity as at any time in the past when the Augusta mer chants have maintained and sustained a character in the commercial world without stain or repr'oach. The causes which have led to this unfor tunate pause in our prosperity are, it seems to us, apparent to the most superS i eial observer. They are not to be found in I our physical or geographical situation. The location of Augusta as a business mart is inferior to none in the South. Kat- I urally and geographically her situation is ! such as to command a large and lucrative trade. These natural advantages have I been increased, enlarged and extended by a system of artificial communications, both with the interior and the seaboard, which [ in the past have been amply sufficient to foster her trade and protect her interests. But that there has been a lamentable fall ing off in energy, enterprise and public spirit among those to whom, by common consent, public matters have been hereto fore confided, is painfully proven by events occurring daily around us. The trade of Augusta is almost entirely dependent upon her railway communica tions. Early in the history of these mod ern aids to travel and commerce, Augusta took a leading part in their conception and establishment, as a means of extending her trade and increasing her wealth. These early efforts were commensurate with the importance of the objects in view, and the j results to be obtained. The inception, pro gress, and ultimate completion of that b reat work by which the rich trade of the i upper Chattahoochee, the Tennessee and the Alabama rivers were directed from former channels and poured into our lap, increasing our wealth and enlarging our trade, is a proud trophy won by the wis dom and energy and perseverance of the men of those times. W hen this road was completed to Atlanta, with a branch to Athens, it was thought by the wisest of the men of those days that the prosperity of the city was forever secured and her com mercial importance established. Bat the history of the Railroad locomotive in this country has been one of unceas ing activity and progress. No sooner is one line completed than the wants of another are developed. To build one road in any portion of the South, has been to ! hasten the necessity for another. These wonderful developments of human skill and wisdom are stretching their Briarian arms into every portion of the country. There is no such thing as completeness in the railway system of any portion of the United States, and more especially is this ; true of the South. The town,or city, or State which lies with folded arms, resting its fu- I ture success and prosperity upon what it has already accomplished, is doomed to a j speedy and certain retrograde from its ! present condition. The spirit of the age is progress:—Pro- i gress among communities as well as indi viduals. It is this lack of the spirit of progress among our leading citizens which has produced and is continuing to produce the condition of affairs here which has led to the conclusion that wc, too,are retro grading. Our leading men seem content to lie leisurely upon their ours and watch for the floodtide of trade and travel which, a few years past, flowed with a strong and unbroken current on the Geor giaßailroad,bearing upon its bosom the rich trophies of the fertile fields of Middle, Eastern and Northeastern Georgia. There seems to be either a total ignorance of the effects which recent railroad eiftensions on the West and East of us must inevit ably produce upon our trade, or, what is worse still,a stoical indifference as to those now very apparent results. We know that there has arisen among us a class of men who, not sufficiently active, energetic and enterprising to meet the efforts which are being made to flank and cut off our communications East as well as West, openly declare that our loca tion forbids a successful competition with other more favored points. Wc believe that it was formally declared, in a set speech delivered by the head of one of our largest corporations to his stockholders at a meeting in this city last year,that “the lo cation of the Central Railroad was better than that of the Georgia Road, ” and that, therefore,it was very imprudent to attempt to compete with that road iu the race for trade and travel. Now while we deny that the proposition is true,we insist that those who believe it should thereby be urged to in creased efforts to overcome this inequality. Like the Roman mother who, in sending her son to the field in defence of his country’s honor,met thecomplaint that his sword was too short with the noble advice “add a step to it.” Our Railroad men who believe that our roads are “too short” should “add a step” by sending the iron horse snorting through hills and valleys which lie in the way of the new routes by which our “inferior location” may he made to subserve the public good. We insist that something must be done to checkmate the vigorous and, we may say, in view of their vastness and import ance, the herculean efforts which are being made by the Central Railroad to cut off our trade from the West and the no less wonderful attempts to destroy our importance as an outlet through which the great tide of Northern and Southern travel has heretofore been poured, enlarging our trade and increasing our capital. Within afew days past Savannah has made a grab at our Alabama trade by a consolidation of the Muscogee with the Southwestern Road, the latter being already under the absolute control of the great Cen tral monopoly. We hear that, not content with securing the control of this link in the chain which leads from Savannah to Montgomery, already a large amount of the stock of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad has passed into the Central and Savannah interests, and we may rea sonably expect that by the time the fall trade opens the latter city will have such au ascendancy in the management of that road as to be able to establish a fatally discriminating tariff of freights and fares against Augusta. Nor is this ail. By the most astonish ing energy and forethought Savannah is pushing her great line from Griffin to Decatur, Ala. By the cempletion of this line a large amount of the trade of the j Tennessee and Mississippi Valleys, which j now seek a market here over the Western : and Atlantic and the Georgia Road, will be cut off, and taken over this cheap and i shorter route to Savannah. But, unfortunately', our troubles in this I flanking business do not end with the i efforts and plans of Savannah and the j Central Railroad. We have many an tagonists West and East of us. In Alaba- | ma the city of Montgomery is making | vigorous efforts for the completion of the j Road from that place to Dalton in this i State via Jacksonville and Rome. This j line is already completed to Jacksonville, ; and in a state of very great forwardness to : Rome. In less than twenty-four months the whole, line will be completed to Dalton. A mere glance at the map 1 will show the probable effects of the i completion of this line upon the prosperity of this city, unless proper efforts are made to neutralize and offset them. The tale of our troubles and danger cannot be closed even here. Northeastern Georgia, having been co long and wrongfully neg lected in the development of our railway system, has at last become clamorous for relief. The justice of this claim is ad mitted by all right-minded men. Having for years plead in vain with Augusta for i help to develop their rich and fertile section, her people have at last turned their eyes to Atlanta. The Air Line Read will be built, and that very speedily, unless ! the Georgia Railroad and the people of xYugusta come up promptly to the per formance of a duty which, for years, has rested upon them, of pushing the Athens branch up to Clayton and thence to Knox ville. Should we fail to make this ex tension, the completion of the Air Line Road will drive the last nail in the coffin which contains the future welfare and I prosperity of Augusta. We have extended this article to great jer limits than we expected. Our inten tion to-day was merely to direct attention | to the dangers which threaten us and at -1 tempt to excite in our people a true sense of the present situation. In another article we shall attempt to show how we may, with the means at our command, limited as we know they are, counteract the iniury which is likely to be sustained | by our trade in consequence of the plans and enterprises which we have enumerated. Fearful Crime.—The Savannah papers of Tuesday contain an account of a fear- j ful crime committed in that city Monday j evening. A white man named Patrick \ Higgins, while under the influence of ; liquor, shot his wife in four places and then j attempted to kill himself. The unfortunate j woman was alive Monday night, but no j hopes were entertained of her recovery. Higgins is in jail. The published account in both papers is positively too indecent for the Police Gazette. Cottox Gins.- The attention of cotton planters, and others interested, is invited to the advertisement of Messrs. J. D. and 11. T. Hammack, of Crawfordville, Ga.. which will be found in another column. These gentlemen are native Georgians, and have been engaged in the manufacture of gins for twenty years, which fact alone attests the superioi quality of their gins. They offer easy terms, and warrant every gin sold by them. The Messrs. Hammack are well known as reliable and energetic i men, and should receive a liberal patronage and encouragement from our people, bee : advertisement. Butler’s silence in regard to the Grant nomination is attracting great attention from the Radical tress, -they hope he will take an early opportunity ot giving in his adhesion to the nominees, and protest j mildly against his persistency in distracting -1 the attention of Congress from its legiti mate business, by continuing the post-mor tem examination of impeachment. Even the New York Tones calls lor a speech t from him, in order “to put all these doubts and imputations at rest. Yv e cannot 1 conceive \vhat be is up to, but »uow it to ibe mischief. Like the cobra, the quieter he is the more deadly. Butler will cost more to watch than he will prove worth to I the party. We wish them joy at the t prospect. — S. O. Tunes. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1868 Specini Correspondence of the Chrcnicle & Sentinel. Washington, D. C., June 11, IS6B. Dear Chronicle <£ Sentinel: As “ coming events cast their shadows - before them,” I will here furnish your | readers with what purports to be an out line of the National Democratic platform, to be adopted at New York next month. As all great leading party measures seem to have their emanation from this great central focus now-a-days, so with this platform of principles for the Na tional Democratic Party, and which is being pretty thoroughly canvassed as the time draws near for the meeting of the National Convention. Indeed, I may say that this subject is engrossing the atten tion of the Democratic members of Con gress and the leading members of the party of the Capitol, to the exclusion even of a consideration of the gross and high handed frauds and assassinations of the Radical negro party, which were perpe trated recently upon the municipal gov ernment of the city and some of her unoffending citizens. The subject is one ol deep interest to the whole country, and the platform of principles, as well as the men to stand upon it, are among those questions which absorb no small interest just at this par ticular juncture. This platform is terse and free from ambiguity, and whoever D chosen to stand upon it as the chief standard-bearer of the Democracy will, doubtless, be* a man of “principles.” Whether this man be Hendricks, Han cock, Chase, Johnson, Pendleton or Sey mour, three weeks more will teli the tale. But to the platform. ijf * * Metropolitan. THE 'NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM FOR 1868. “Times change and men often change with them, but principles never.” Whereas, In an humble acknowledg ment to the Supreme Being for His pro tecting care vouchsafed to us as a people and to the Federal arms in the late strug gle for the preservation of the Union and the life of the nation : And Whereas, We, the Democratic party, in National Convention assembled, do proclaim and declare, as the foundation of our superstructure, that the perpetua tion of the Federal Union, as the palla dium of our civil and religious liberties, is the only sure bulwark of our American Independence : Be it therefore Resolved, That the Democratic party place implicit confidence and trust iu the intelligence, the patriotism, and the dis criminating justice ol' the enlightened population ot all the States of all the Union—North, South, East and West. Resolved, therefore, That, entertaining these views, we the Delegates assembled in general Convention in the city of New York, on this fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred aud sixty-eight, coming together in a spirit of concord from all the States of the Union, and in a recognition of, and devotion to, the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and 1799 ; and, with a steadfast faith in a free representative government, and appealing to the people for the rectitude of our intentions, do now renew, most cordially, our former relations with our Democratic brothers and friends of the Southern States (now under the ban of social and political proscription by their personal and political enemies, aud the implacable enemy of the Federal Constitu tion and free government everywhere— the so-called Congress of the United States) : be it therefore Resolved, 1. That the Federal Govern ment is one of limited power, derived sole ly from the Constitution; and the grants of power made therein should be strictly con strued by the legislative, executive and ju dicial departments of the government; and that it is a subversion of the Constitution, an unwarranted presumption, a dangerous usurpation of power, and the destruction of the liberties of the people, to legislate “outside ” of that Constitution. Such we regard the Congressional acts of Reconstruc tion. Resolved, 2. That, recognizing the valid ity of our national debt, we, the Demo cratic party, iu Convention assembled, do pledge ourselves to the faithful perform ance of every constitutional obligation in the payment of the public debt, both to foreign and domestic creditors; and to this end, we would enforce upon every branch j of the Government the most rigid economy j in conducting our public and that no more revenue should be raised by taxa ! tion upon the people than is required to defray the expenses of the Government, pay the interest on the public debt, and for | the gradual but certain extinction of that I debt; and, as far as possible, to lighten the j burthens of taxation upon the people, in the extinguishment of this debt, we would apply the income from a well regulated and discriminating tariff, and the proceeds | of the public lands. Resolved, 3. That a National Bank is a national calamity, and that a rigid economy in the management of the affairs of the j Government require a return to a specie | basis at the earliest practicable moment, as the surest means of relieving the bur thens of the people, and restoring a steady and healthy commercial prosperity to the whole country. That Congress, having no constitutional power to charter j such - bank, has transcended its powers ; and experience has proven that the insti - tution has been one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, and Las proven, alike, dangerous to our Republican institutions and the liberties of our people, ! as it has placed the business of the coun try within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the law and the will of the people; and that the Demo cratic doctrines and legislation on this ques | tion in the past, as a financial measure of the Government, have now demonstrated j to the candid and practical men of all par ties their soundness, safety and utility. Resolved, 4th. That, re-affirming the libe ! ral principles embodied by Jefferson in the i Declaration of Independence, and sanc ! tioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty under a wise ad > ministration of the fundamental law, and I the asylum of the oppressed of all nations !of whatever cast or color; and recognizing the changed condition of' the domestic in stitutions of our sister Southern States, and by which we abide in good faith, and recognizing their perfect equality in the Union, would leave the question of suffrage to the control of the people of the several States respectively and not to Congress. Resolved , sth. That, in view of the mal legislation of the majority of the Thirty ninth and Fortieth Congresses, a high and sacred duty is devolved, with increased re sponsibility, upon the Democratic party of this country, as the party of the Union, to uphold and maintain the rights of every State, and thereby the Union of the States as they existed before the late j war, and as they still continued at ! its close, invested with all the rights, j privileges and immunities of the several State ; and to sustain and advance among us constitutional liberty, by resist ing all monopolies aud unconstitutional j legislation, whereby the governments of sovereign States are overthrown, and a 1 military despotism erected in their stead, j where ignorance and crime are at a premium, and intelligence and virtue at a discount ; we will, by a vigilant and con stant adherence to those principles and compromises of the Constitution, which are broad enough and strong enough to | embrace and uphold the Union as it \ emanated from the hands of our fathers, and the Union as it should be and will be if left to the will of the people in the full j expansion of their energies, in the develop- : ments of the progressive greatness of this : country. _ j Resolved, 6. That, recognizing with gratitude (without any disparagement to the bravery and patriotism of the South ern soldier), we acknowledge the great, ! valuable, and unwearied services of our Union soldiers and seamen* in the late war \ of insurrection, in preserving the 0 nion of the States, maintaining the Constitution and perpetuating the blessings of liberty. Resolved, 7. That the Democratic party of the Union recognize, with a deep sense ' of gratitude, the great and valuable services ‘ to the country and the truth of history, by those Senators who, as a high court of impeachment, in the late trial of Andrew 1 -Johnson, President of the United States, “for high crimes and misdemeanors,” of which he was not proven guilty, and which were preferred against him by his personal and political enemies in a of partisan malignancy, voted “not guilty we, therefore, tender them and the council for the defence, as we do, also the Chief Justice who presided over the Court with impartiality and great ability, our un feigned thanks. Shipment of Vegetables, Ac.—Large quantities of early spring vegetables —peas, cucumbers, Ac. —besides watermelons, all in most excellent condition and of delicious flavor, are being shipped North by every steamer. On Saturday last the Dictator brought a considerable number of crates of different kinds of vegetables from Florida and discharged them on the Thames, which vessel sailed in the afternoon for New York. Over one hundred barrels of early potatoes were brought the same day on a sloop from along the coast and im mediately shipped North.— Savannah Re publican. [COMMUNICATED.] Principles of the Radical Republican Party of Sereamersville Enunciated. Equal, civil and political rights to all except white men South and niggers North. Equalization of taxation so far as put ting it on laboring classes is concerned. Government economy advocated outside of public officials. Protection of American citizens abroad— not at home. The declaration of independence the true foundation of Radical- Republico- Democratico government. . Repudiation denounced except of honest private debts. Ist. That the Government is national, Federal —sovereignty resting exclusively in the people, whose behests must be obeyed except when in conflict with the views of the Reconstruction Committee of Congress ; or “anomalously” expressed as by New Jersey and Ohio on the 14th Ar ticle. 2d. That the terms “disloyal,” “dis union,” “rebel,” “traitor,” are just, conciliatory, gentle tpithets to be applied to all persons or prints, questioning or dissenting from the edicts of the grand ex ponents of the National Republican party. 4th. We congratulate the country on the assured success of the reconstruction policy of Congress, after four years of labor, toil, and “extra constitutional” procedures—and(we confidently hope, after after a little more adjustment of the con tests of private “rings,” and the riveting of our party hold, to present a Union with guarantees of equal political rights to all, ! except white natives at the South and niggers in the Northern loyal States, res cuing the States lately in rebellion from an “anarchy” which has given birth to crimes in number and atrocity, only equalled by the roll furnished by the clergy of the con templated “establishment.” sth. The guarantee of Congress of equal suffrage to all men at the South who voted with the Radical Republican organization, was demanded by every consideration of safety to our sinking cause, justice to our j endangered positions, and gratitude to our j unscrupulous supporters; while the cordial j concession of the exploded States Rights heresy of loyal States controlling their in ternal affairs, was a master stroke of policy demanded by the results of recent elections in said States, the truthful consistency of which must elicit the commendation of all lovers of “progress and new ideas.” Gth. “We denounce all forms of repu diation as a national crime,” except in cases of fair, honest, private contracts between citizens ; such we hold should be unqualifiedly repudiated ; and we hold all who gainsay the justice and consistency of this declaration as disloil, disunionists, rebels, traitors to the Radical Republican party aud of consequence to the Govern ment. 7th. It is due to the nation that taxa tion should be equalized, care being taken to protect the lordly manufacturer, and impositions placed upon the products of the laborer. Bth. The National debt should be re deemed in letter and spirit, greenbacks being held a legal-tender to soldier and labor, gold to the bond-holder. 9th. The Government of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy. To this end we advo cate hordes of military officers in every village, town, and liamlet, with fine equip age, and costly retinue ; .legions of Bureau Agents and bummers; multiplicity of trials with attendant expenses ; general disbursements involving an annual expend iture of two hundred and fifty millions, instead of the sixty or eighty required be fore the era of progress was inaugurated. 10th. We hold that the President was justly impeached, and doubt not that the investigations of that most fit and incor ruptible “Scenting Committee” will bring to light corrupt combinations amongst the Democrats to shield the culprit, and to prevent our two Bens from “running the machine.” 11th. Naturalized citizens must be pro tected, and must not be liable to arrest and imprisonment for acts or words spoken in this country ; natives must take their chances. 12th. Wc cordial I '' encourage the efforts of all people abroad to disturb the Union, and cast off' the burthens of govern ment not in accordance with their will. 13. Foreign emigration must be encour aged. We cannot too strongly denounce the old dogmas which required a period of probation and other qualifications for the exercise ot suffrage, holding that a freeman must necessarily be an elector. 14th. In the promised union of Church and State, we cannot too highly commend the sagacity which discovered this fusion, as a great element in a strong government, and we extol the discretion which ignored the Israelites, Catholics, and other “small fry sects,” in the selection of the hier- archy. „ 15th. The thanks of a grateful people are due to those irreproachable statesmen and patriots, Stevens, Bingham, Logan, Bout well, and especially Butler, for their per sistent, honorable and fearless assaults upon those fossil institutions, the Judiciary, Executive and Senate. Despite of the calumnies heaped upon his stainless head, and the low insinuations of the disunion press that he is treacherously and effectu ally selling the party as he sold the Democracy, we recognize in him the spirit of Webster, Clay and Jackson, and bid him God-speed in fereting out corrup tions, in imprisoning American citizens for not telling how they spend their money, in seizing private telegrams and communica tions, in striking down Judiciaries, Execu tives, Senates, helpless women and all ob stacles in the way of “the Party of Pro gress,” “New ideas” and “New men,” nothing doubting, that in unbottling him self, he will “bottle up” someboby. 16th. With regret we notice intimations that the Corruption Committee will be immediately discharged. We trust that the success of their developments will warn our friends not to be duped into this step by designing, corrupt copperheads. On motion of Gen. Ike Manipulator the following resolutions were-unanimously adopted : Resolved , We highly commend the spirit of magnanimity and forbearance with which the men who have served in the rebellion, but now frankly and freely swear and co-operate with us in our every design without reference to conscientious scruples, or “stickings of small splinters i of the Constitution in their kidneys,” in j reconstructing the Southern States upon a | basis of giving us the unlimited control | over them, are received back into the com -1 munion of the Radical Republican party, and we favor the removal of disqualifica tions and restrictions imposed upon the late rebels in the same measure as their spirit for facile swearing and expertness at small political jobs will direct, and as may be consistent with the safety of our revolu ; tionary objects. Resolved, We recognize the great prin j ciples laid down in the immortal Deelara j tion of Independence as the true founda' : tion of Democratic government, provided white men at the South and niggers and j foreigners at the North are excluded from ! their operation. | Resolved, We cannot too emphatically I denounce those secret political organiza* I tions of the disloyalist and disunionist i known as the Democratic party,Democratic legions, and Ku Klux, &c., while we com' j mend to the earnest support and protect ! tion of the truly loil, those purely chari table and benevolent and Christian organi j zations (consorts of the party of moral | progress, peace, new ideas and new men), I the Methodist Conference North, the i American Temperance Association, the American Loyal Union League, and espe cially and above all the Grand Army of the Republic. Resolved, That the citizens of Sore am ersville smell a mouse in the recent nullifi cation movements of the Senate. Where are the Impeachment Managers, and the Corruption Committee ? COMMUNICATED. Paintings. The patronage of the fine arts in a com munity famishes indisputable evidence of social refinement. They are the gentlest “humanities,” qualifying our under na ture and cultivating a love for the beauti ful and true. Poetry, painting, music and architecture are common blessings. A noble mansion, a neat cottage, a taste ful garden, or even a graceful vine is a common blessing, and the man who builds the one or cultivates the other confers a benefit upon the public generally. But taste in exteriors demands something for the bare walls within. Paintings meet this demand alike for the mansion and the cottage. Besides the relief which they give to the effect of dead walls they are our best furniture. Other moveables lose their fashion and with it their power to please, but, as nature is always the same, paintings, which are true to nature, never offend the eye. The most old-fashioned costume, becoming historical, uniformly pleases in a picture. There is a greater difference in the pecuniary value of paint ings as works of art than can possibly exist in articles of furniture. Yet the cost of a family group which should be faithful in personal likeness in fact, would not be greater than the cost of a grand piano, fifty years hence what of the respective [ values of the group and the instrument? The ! one has become useless lumber, its liarmo ; nies extinct. Before the other a son or a | daughter recalls the scene depicted and with it a thousand memories ol the past ) ; which sweep over the chords of the soul with a power that no musical instrument | can excite. Permit me, Mr. Editor, to eommend j our artists to the patronage of the public and to enter a protest against costly fur niture under bare walls. Richmond C. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette. The Omnibus Rill —Spicy Debate in the House—The Bill Passed—Will the President Veto it ?—The Bill to Parti tion Texas—Financial Extravagance of the Radicals—A Deficiency of Twenty five Millions of Dollars in the Office of the Paymaster General—Tremendous Deficiency in the Estimated Receipts of the. Treasury Department—A Heavy De ficiency in the Postoffice Department. Washington, June 12, ISGS.— The de bate in the House of Representatives to day on the admission of the Southern States, known as the Omnibus bill, was spicy, interesting and suggestive. Bing ham sprung the bill upon the House unex pectedly, and Paine, of Wisconsin, was the first to assail the amendment of the Senate, which includes the State of Florida. He attempted to show that the Constitution was not such as Congress should approve, as it created 800 officers, with an aggregate of salaries of nearly SBOO,OOO per annum. He was unwilling to saddle the people of Florida in their present despoiled and em barrassed condition with such a tax. Again he complained that nearly the whole of these officers were to be appointed by the Governor, the people having a voice only in the selection of Governor, Lieuten ant Governor, Legislature and County Constables. Butler contended that the Constitution was eminently Republican in form, because it was modeled alter the old Constitution of Massachusetts, with the principles of free suffrage engrafted there on. Farnsworth (Republican), of Illinois, assailed it because it was the work of car pet-baggers, through violence and under the protection of bayonets. Hulburd (Radical), of New York explained that it was necessary to give the Governor the power of appointing all the officers to pre vent rebels from securing certain local in fluence—as there were counties in which the “loyal” element were in .the minority. Bingham followed with an appeal to his party to admit Florida as necessary to secure an adoption of the 14th amendment to the Federal Constitution. To this, Brooks (Democrat), of New York, replied that he admitted the audacity which j prompted the gentleman to admit the only purpose they had in including Florida in the bill, and agreed that they might admit Florida and the other Southern States with any Constitutions they pleased; the time was not far distant wherpthey would find all those States with Democratic Rep resentatives on the floor of Congress, as the great law of nature would prevail, and the white man would use the negro ele ment against the reckless party now in power. Bingham alluded to the President as the “apostate” at the White House. Brooks protested against such language, as impeachment was over. “No,” said Bingham, “it is not over ; itisyettobe brought before another tribunal.” Brooks, pointing to heaven, replied, “It will smell terribly before it reaches that Court”—al luding to a caricature now sold upon the streets here, styled the “Smelling Com mittee,” in which impeachment is repre sented as the carcass of a horse, with the managers gathered around it holding their noses. Bingham evidently felt the allu sion amid the laughter of the House. Brooks’ speech was listened to with much interest by both sides of the House. After a protracted debate the bill was finally passed admitting North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Ala bama and Florida to representation in Congress, as States of the Union, after the Legislature of each State shall have ratified the 14th amendment to the Federal Con stitution. The bill goes to the President this afternoon for his signature, and there is much diversity of opinion as to what the action of the President will be. He dis approves of the terms and restrictions im posed on these States, and believes them unconstitutional, and consequently void. He is exceedingly anxious to have these States again represented in Congress, and freely expresses the opinion that when once there, the States will be able to pro tect themselves. It is, therefore, thought the President will allow the bill to become a law. The bill proposing to divide Texas into three States meets with a decided opposi tion in the Radical ranks, on the ground that these new States would be likely to send Democratic and not Radical Senators to Congress. Stevens will continue to press the bill, but there is no probability that it will be passed at the present ses sion, although there is a large lobby of Texas Radicals here urging immediate action, so that all of the truly loyal may have some office. The economical management of the Fed eral finances by the dominant party is like ly still to be further exposed' The deficiency in the Paymaster General’s office of $25,- 000,000 is attracting no little attention. Congress endeavored to secure popularity by voting large bounties to. the soldiers, and at the same time avoid the charge of profligacy by not appropriating the neces" sary funds with which to pay the bounties. Hence this enormous deficiency in the War Department. Then the Internal Revenue Department._will fall just $35,000,000 below what Commissioner Rollins estimated, and this fact, it Ls believed, induced the Com missioner’s unexpected resignation. The insulting letter to the Secretary of the Treasury has been returned to Rollins with a note from Mr. McCulloch that its state ments are untrue. The great deficiency in the Department is the key to the resigna tion. To ail this will soon be added a fear ful deficiency in the Postoffice Department, the accounts of which have not been balanc ed since the 31st of December last. Let all the facts and figures come before the peo ple, and the dominant party will not re ceive much credit on the score of economy. E. The Omnibus Bill—Democrats Warned — What the Prognostics Mean—The Stock Jobbers at Work to Disrupt the Demo cratic Party—What the Consequences of a Rotten Presidential Candidate will be—The Omnibus Bill to be Vetoed — The Modified Tax Bill —Probable Ad journment of Congress—Possible Cabi net Changes—-lion. Reverdy Johnson Nominated Minister to England, &c. Washington, June 12, 1868. —Recent events, particularly the curious vote upon the Omnibus Bill, warn Democrats of im minent danger. The prognostics by no means point to the nomination of Chase by the Fourth of July Convention- They mean nothing more nor less than the slaughter of Pendleton, Pierce, Seymour, Hendricks, and in short every tried states man of the party whose name of itself would constitute a synonym of constitu tional principles. It is thought here that the Democracy must demand either a platform or a man! If we must put up with someone of doubtful principles (judging from his antecedents) he must be placed distinctly upon declarations of sen~ \ timent admitting of no double meaning, and his feet and hands nailed to the post i bearing the Democratic flag. The Chief Justice is not at all in the j way. It is not to be disguised, hawever, nor ought it to be withheld from the public, that the stock dealers in New York have seized upon his dubious position as favorable not only to a disruption of the Radical organization, but in their opinion capable of being used as a wedge to rive asunder the present solidarity of the Demo cratic party. If the projected schemes, by the aid of the recusants upon the Omni bus bill, shall force upon the anti-Radicais ; diluted principles and a rotten candidate, | the serious question will arise whether the mass of patriotic voters of the country can 'be brought to the polls. And, pray, for what purpose? The gravamen of the cur ; rent movement places the life of the South | and the liberty of every truly loyal citizen at the mercy of Congress. With the ac knowledged validity of the Constitutional Amendment, in whose hands will rest the I fate of the intellect of the South? Mani i festly in those of Sumner, Butler and Stevens. Is it to be supposed for a rno ; ment that men, borne down by intolerable : oppression, will not seek safety where it 1 can assuredly be found, namely, at the j hands of those to whose tender care their : destinies will have been committed by i their pretended friends? And is it not j very clear that those statesmen of the ! North, together with the incorruptible men they lead, who have linked their desti i nies indissolubly with the oppressed, may not feel that they work to no patriotic end , by actively engaging in a contest that offers no more distinctive landmark than can be found in the ninth division of a split hair? ! But I find I am indulging in argument ! not at all my province. It may, however, i be truly enough said that the view here presented is that of a Senator in Congress whose words I have taken down verbatim, lif I have not given h : s meaning in sub | stance. NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 25. It is learned, upon authority, that the 1 Arkansas and Omnibus Bills will be vetoed by the President pro forma. Os course I they will be passed by the requisite vote, j I learn that the sections of the elaborate bill of Mr. Sehtnck modifying the existing ! tax laws in respect to tobacco, whiskey | and stamps, will be embodied in a separate i bill and finally become operative. Congress will probably adjourn on the 15tli proximo. In the meantime, Mr. Stewart’s bill legal izing the usurpations of Bowen and the negro municipal authorities of lYashing ton will become a law, although it is plain ly ex post facto. Also the bill continuing the Freedmen’s Bureau. It is observable that not a single public measure has been perfected by the present Congress except those tor the benefit of our “colored breth ren,” if the appropriation acts be except ed, aud nine-tenths of the money thus pro vided outside of the interest of the debt incurred in their behalf have relation di rectly or indirectly to those interesting specimens of humanity. I despair of the whites of the country ever waking up to a realization of their subordinate condition. It has heretofore been stated upon good authority that extensive, but politically un important, changes will take place in the Cabinet. If it shall become certain that Congress will adjourn at the time now thought probably there will be no im mediate change except in the Treasury. The letter of Mr. Rollins settles the ques tion of Mr. McCuiloch’s withdrawal, at the same time makes impossible that he (Rollins) can be provided for in another direction. It is positively known that he resigned at the instance of the Radical leaders. He was plainly told that in his present position bo embarrassed them. His manifesto shows not only an unjustifiable petulance, but a disposition to create schisms, the result of which may lead to important developments. Mr. McCulloch has addressed to him a letter of rebuke, which presages his immediate dismissal. [REPORTED SPECIALLY FOR THE MACON TELEGRAPH. Minutes of Decisions of the Supreme Court—June Term-1868 Milledgeville, June 12, 1868. Francis Wilkes vs. Sherrod Phillips—Mo tion to reinstate a dismissed suit in equity. Harris, J.—This suit was begun in 1851, and after a decree for Complainant, was continued on appeal from term to term by consent during the recent war, and afterward by reason of the fact that the counsel of the Plaintiff, who was the sole Solicitor of Complainant, was Judge from 1863 until the Spring of 1867, during all of which period Defendant made no effort or sought to have the case tried. The Solicitor of complainant was repre sented by other counsel at the October term, 1867, who sought to have the case continued for various reasons assigned by them. This was refused and complaiuant was ordered to proceed to trial or discon tinue. We think this was not a proper exercise of the large discretion of the Judge, and with which we very reluctantly interfere. The_ Court below, under the peculiar* and equitable circumstances attending the ap plication to continue, should have placed this very old case under a rule for trial at the next term, aud thereby the end of justice would have been advanced. We reverse his judgment and direct the cause to be reinstated. Taylor vs. Pitman, Ex. ot Hargrove. Harris, J.—The judgment below, in favor of Defendant in error, is erroneous in the amount of damages allowed. The entire Bench concurs in considering them as excessive, and on this ground re verses the judgment. As to the right of the Executor to main tain this suit in trover for the stock of cat tle in Worth, the Judges differ in opinion. Judge vVarncr thinks that, as the defend ant below disclaimed title from the moment of the purchase of the cattle, the Plaintiff was entitled to recover. Judge Walker, having formed no decided opinion on that question, declined to consider it. Judge Harris held that, as Hargrove sent the purchase money to Taylor “to help him,” as he had promised—Taylor having married his niece—with direction to buy a stock of cattle for his family, and having uniformly disclaimed title, saying | to all who conversed with him, they were Taylor’s; and never having had possession, or exercised any dominion over the cattle, no title remained iu the estate of 11a) grove which could be asserted by suit at the in stance of the Executor. Judgment below reversed. Alexander liied, Plaintiff in Error, vs. Florence Reid by her next friend ; Flor ence Reid, by her next friend, vs. Alex ander Reid. Harris, J. —The Defendant in error in the first stated case filed her bill alleging a trust in certaiu property iu Alexander Reid, created by a receipt given by him to Benj. Keaton, her grandfather. A demur er was interposed and overruled. Judge Walker and myself affirm the judgment below on demurrer. Judge Warner dissents, as he thinks no trustor interest was created by the receipt in favor of complainant. Judge Walker sustains decision below on the admissions of demur er ot the allegations of the bill, and declines the expression of any opinion as to the title arising on the receipt, and that this should be referred to a jury for decision- Judge Harris entei'taius the opinion that there is an ambiguity in the receipt, which must be interpreted by the paper referred to in it, and if that does not explain it, that it may be explained under the Code by parol testimony, and that having been explained by the testimony of Keaton who gave the property and penned the receipt, it is the duty of the Court to give the effect intended by it, as the paroltesiimony does not add to or vary the substance of the receipt. In reference to the bill of exceptions, founded upon the refusal of the Judge be low to take possession of the property i from the custody of Alexander Ileid and place it in the hands of a receiver, there being conflicting testimony below as to his alleged mismanagement and unfitness for the trust, we will not interfere with the ex ercise of a discretion which does not seem to have been abused and therefore affirm i his judgment. I Rich’dlloe, cas. ejector, vs. J no. Doe, ex. dem. Geo. Buchanan. Harris, J.—The lot of land in con troversy was granted l, to Temperance Robinson’s illegitimates.” Plaintiff below relied on a copy, grant and deed from Charles Robertson, and proof that he was the only illegitimate child of Temperance Robinsoil. Defendant claimed through a deed made by the husband of Temperance Robinson, and sought by testimony of the Secretary of'State and Surveyor General, to show that from the land books in their offices, the lot of land was drawn by “Temperance Robinson, illegitimate.” This testimony was repelled, the Court below holding that if the grant of the State issued originally to a person who was not the fortunate drawer in the lottery, it must be corrected by a proceeding instituted for that pur pose as the Code directs, and that it can not be done collaterally in an ejectment suit. We find no error in any of the rulings stated in the bill of exceptions, and accord ingly affirm the judgment. James Wilson vs. W. G. Reese, for the use of W. A. Hawkins. Harris, J.—This was a case of a pos sessory warrant at the instance of Reese, issued from the County Court. Its judg ment was in favor of Wilson. On certio rari that judgment was reversed in the Superior Court. The testimony in the record is clear that Reese never parted with the possession of the corn, fodder and pota | toes at any time, and that Wilson’s posses j sion was illegal. The Judge did right in l reversing the judgment of County Court and ordering restitution of possession to Reese. Judgment affirmed. A European telegram has been publish : ed in the papers of June 8, stating that his j Holiness the Pope has sent an agent to j this country to enlist troops for his army. | It is proper to say that tne authorities at Rome are not to tic held responsible for the | inconsiderate and imprudent acts of a fe w | individuals in Europe, whose zeal for their own interests betrays them into tho gross est blunders iu behalf of the Pontifical cause. We are assured, by those who should have knowledge, that no agent has been sent to this country by the Pope for the above mentioned purpose. Some in quiry may have been made by some as to the propriety or legality of such a purpose; but is asserted as certain that any over tures of this kind would be discounte nanced, and even resisted by the Catholic I bishops of the United States as a violation 1 of our neutrality laws, and if circnmstanccs 1 require it, they will no doubt openly ex ; press their disapprobation of and oppposi tion to such a movement. —Rational In telligencer. In the newly elected Senate of North Carolina, there are thirty-eight Republi cans and twelve Conservatives; in the House eighty Republicans and forty Con servatives. Unhappy State! The Cotton Trade, TUB NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP COTTON MANUFACTURERS AND PLANTERS. Boston, June 10. —The gentlemen com prising the government of tbe Association, wkieh is intended to embrace all the lead ing manufacturers and producers of cotton in the United States, and which was form ed in New York a few weeks since nnder the title es the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers and Planters, held their first business meeting in this city to day. About 40 gentlemen from different cities in the Union were present. The Hon. A. A. Lawrence, of Boston, Presi dent of the Association, occupied the chair. The meeting was held to devise measures for mutual protection agamst hostile legislation, and for the purpose of giving direction and character to the future development of the great interest repre sented. President Lawrence made a short open ing address, in the course of which he stated that the production of cotton cloth increased 76 per cent, between 1850 and 1860, making it iu the latter year 46J yards for each iudividual in the United States; thus giving to each individual for use 11 yards more in 1860 than in ISSO, and nearly as much as the whole annual consumption of domestic cotton goods of each person in 1839. There were now in .the country 6,400,000 spindles, which cost $25 each, or $160,000,000. To this sum should be added the capital invested in shopsfor making cotton machinery, and all that was employed in producing the sup plies of the mills, about $20,000,000 more, making $260,000,000 in all. Seven years ago, he said, we manufactured only one seventh of the cotton produced in the United States, and now we manufactured one-third. Whenever they begun to ex port goods as they did in 1860, the manu facturers would require much more. The estimated number of spindles had pro- duced during the past winter 3j skeins (averaging 24 to the pound), per day, or 16,000 bales of cotton of 460 pounds, per week, at which rate 832,000 bales would be produced in one year. The vitality shown by this great manufacturing interest during the past seven years has been strik ing. If they had been told that the price of raw material would advance from 12 cents a pound in 1851 to $l9O in 1864, and would then fall to 40 cents iu 1865, or to 15i cents iu 1867, they would have fore told the ruin of all engaged in it. Yet the failures had been few because, very fortu nately, the profits came first, and gave the strength needed to bear the heavy losses afterward. He urged them, in closing, to push forward this organization. They would promise manufacturers information which would enable them to extend their business with diminished risk, and to cot ton-growers they could guarantee an in creased supply of capital and improved machines for cultivating and cleaning their crops. x\fter admitting a few new mem bers and electing six new directors, Mr. George L. Ward, of Boston, called atten tion to the subject of tare on cotton, and this matter was discussed. SECOND DAY. Boston, June 11. —The Association re assembled at 11 a. m., President Lawrence in the Chair. The Committee on Tare reported resolutions' requesting manufac turers and others interested in each State to petition the Legislatures of their several States for the enactment of laws requiring the allowance of tare on all cotton sold in their States, and that the members of the Government in each State be requested to effect and give direction to the movement. The Committee also recommended that a Committee of Ten be selected from various parts of the country to prepare a full report on the subject, and to consider in connection therewith the best mode of marking cotton to trace eases of fraud where poorcotton is substituted for a good article. During the consideration of this report, Mr. Nourse, of Boston, said that in Geor gia, Alabama, and he believed in all the other cotton States, it is a crime to pack cotton “ falsely.” In Georgia, Alabama, and in other States, poor cotton had been substituted for good by a process of mix ing in the warehouses. It was known everywhere that this had been done in Sa vannah, Mobile and New Orleans. The M anufacturers in the North are swindled ’ey this means, and do not receive the cotton they purchase. The report was accepted. Mr. Stimpson, of Massachu setts, who has receutly returned from Ala bama, where he has been raising cotton, said that many Northerners tailed in securing a profitable crop last year, because they went to Alabama and plant ed on their own account, instead of taking practical planters into partnership with them. Other planters did not do well last year, because they were obliged to sell their crops at a low price as soon as they gathered it, in order to pay their debts. Mr. Garsed, of Philadelphia, advocated the introduction of better machinery in the South for preparing eotton for the manu facturers. Messrs. Barlett, of Texas, Callender, of West Virginia, S. Baldwin, of Maryland, W. H. Baldwin,of Maryland, and Nourse, of Massachussetts, advocated the resolu tion and the introduction of improved and more simple machinery for the use of farm ers. The General Committee on Tare, pro vided for in the report of yesterday’s Com mittee on the same subject, was appointed and is composed of the following named gentlemen: E. A. Straw,New Hamphire; Augustine Haines, Maine; A. S. Hum phries, Mississippi; George Brodie, Ar kansas; R. S. Chilton, Georgia; Daniel i Pratt, Alabama; David Calender, Virginia; Dennis B. Kelley, Pennsylvania; Charles C. Taber, New York; B. Deford, Mary land; Samuel Baohelder, Massachussetts; Charles Nichols, Rhode Island; John Sla ter, Connecticut. The President congratulated the' Con vention on the harmony that had charac terized its proceedings, coming as they did from sections supposed to be in direct an tagonism, and declared the meeting ad journed, subject to the call of the Execu tive Committee. Pools upon the result of the Democratic Presidential nomination are advertised for sale in Columbus, Ohio. Illinois imported enough lumber last year to build a three board fence round the world. A lady in London advertises that she will pay SSOO a year for the board of her poodle while she travels, provided it is in the family of a medical gentleman where there are no children. A look of King Theodorous’ hair is on exhibition in a shop window in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Yellow fever is still raging with great violence at Lima, Peru—some two hun dred deaths occurring daily. No one is a voter in Liberia unless of African descent, and even then he must also own some real estate. McCoolo and Coburn are in the same cell, sharing it with a black burglar and a white horse thief; passing the time play ing cards. Chase’s Philadelphia friends have ap pointed a committee of one hundred men to electioneer for him at the New York Convention. Tribute of Respect. Augusta, Oa, June 15, 18C& At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Augusta Mutual lx>an Association, the following preamble and resolutions were passed: Whereas, In the providence of God our r&spected and worthy Treasurer, Frederick C. Barber, has been taken from our midst. After a protracted and trying illness of many months, which he bore ! with unshaken fortitude Vmd resignation, he expired surrounded by those be loved, • painlessly sinking “Calmly as to a night’s repose Like flowers at set of sun,’’ To say we deeply deplore the sad event would but feebly express our feelings. The true tribute to the private virtues and public worth of our imparted friend are the tears which dropped upon his bier, the sorrow which filled the many hearts in our community. Asa friend he was alwavs true anti gen erous ; as a citizen public spirited, and loosing no opportunity of aiding in what ever tended to the public good; and as an officer of our Association prompt and | efficient in the discharge of every duty. : But he i3 gone, and, as a token of the high regard entertained for him by this Asso ciation, . . he it resolved, That, recognizing as we do the justice and mercy of God in all things, we cannot but grieve at the loss of our friend aud officer, whose eminent business qualifications, attention to the interest of our Association and social <m»iities, have endeared him to each one of’ us and enshrined his memory in our I hearts. ; Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt | sympathies to his afflicted iainily with tho | prayer that the God of the widow and j fatherless may guide and protect them ! Resolved, That a page of our Record Book be dedicated to his memory. Resolved , That the Secretary is hereby instructed to furnish his family with a copy of these resolutions, and that they be published in the eity papers. A. C. DeCottes, President. J. A. Brenner, Secretary,
