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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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AVGDHTA. GA:
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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,
