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One Fare Tor all Vlilton.
Mr. Isaac Lct>-, Ticket Agent of the
Atlantic Coast Line R lways tux Wil
mington and Weldon, informs us that all
visitors will be passed over this line for
one tare going to and returning from New
York. This arrangement goes into effect
Saturday next, June 20th, and continues
until July 20th. Tickets can be obtained at.
the Union Depot in this city, from Mr.
C. F. Lewis for $32 for the round trip.
Passengers by Wilmington and Weldon
have the choice of three routes, via Anna
mcssic, Richmond and Washington, and
the Old Bay Line.
Col. Cole informs us that all visitors to
New York will be passed over the Georgia
Railroad for half fare, and that persons in
Atlanta or on the line of the Road.whomay
wish to visit New York will be sold round
tickets for one fare. The Georgia Road
was among the first to extend this privilege
to all visitors and its officers used their in
fluence to make the general arrangement
in which all roads have now acquiesced.
Home few days ago we directed the at
tention of our Savannah and Charleston
cotemporaries to the propositions of the
steamship lines from their respective cities
to pass Delegates only for one fare. There
are many who would prefer a trip by
steamer to New York at this season but
who cannot afford to pay full fare and will,
therefore, go by rail. If, therefore, the
Steamship Agents at Savannah and
Charleston will include all who may wish
to visit New York in this arrangement,
many persons will avail themselves of their
liberality. Our Savannah and Charleston
exchanges will be doing the travelling
public a service by directing the attention
of Agents to our suggestion to pass all
visitors to and from New York for one fare.
Torqueinada Meade.
< )ur Satrap has raised a storm about his
throne, which is likely to shatterit to pieces,
and transport him to the more congenial
home of, “My Dear Mr. Forney.” He
came among the Southern people with an
honorable record, but he was soon contam
inated by his wicked associations, for no
man can escape contamination who allows
himself to be influenced by the class of so
called loyalists that compose the Radical
Scalawag carpet-bag party. The outrage
ous arrest of respectable citizens of Co
lumbus, their imprisonment, and the in
quisitorial process of procuring evidence
from servants in the employ of tho accus
ed are facts which have found their way
North, and meet with universal condemna
tion from all respectable papers and men
of all shades of opinion. Even Republicans
do not hesitate to denounce these outrages
in strong terms. General Meade comes in
fur his share of the condemnation which
so justly attaches to him, for authorizing
his understrappers to make these arrests.
It would be a fitting climax to this dis
graceful conduct of his, and an act of sheer
justice to the people of Georgia, Florida
and Alabama, if President Johnson should
relieve him forthwith, and send hero an
officer who will not suffer himself to be
inveigled into the meshes of this corrupt
Radical party,. Our people can hope for
no justice so long as General Meade re
tains command. If we are to have a fair
vote during tho approaching election ; if
these States are to be saved for the Demo
cratic party ; if we are to have our rights
of person and property ; in fine, if the
people of these States are not to
he left entirely at the mercy of tho adven
turers, apostates and ignorant creatures
who constitute this “loyal party,” then
President Johnson owes it to his own
sense of justice, to his oath of office, to
the injured and outraged citizens of these
.States to remove, without delay, tho pres
ent Military Commander.
The Baltimore Gazette of the 16th has
tho following editorial comments upon the
Columbus arrests, and the conduct of
Gen. Meade:
“ If General Meade’s Judge Advocates
fail to convict all the prisoners who may
tie tried bofore his military commissions
it is simply because they do not in all
eases desire tho accused to bo found guilty.
When they wisli to punish it must lie very
easy to do so, for the victims are tried
after a fashion which is a mockery to jus
iico and a disgrace to tho civili/.utiou of
the ago. Escape under such a system is
almost impossible, A trial is now going
on in Georgia which illustrates the brutal
and tyrannous character of these tribu
nals. A white brute uitmed Ashburn wuh
some months since murdered in Colum
>ms in tiie house of a notorious and aban
doned negress. A number of very re "
speetable young men belonging to a Con
servative dub were arrested by tho mili
tary and charged witli having been par
ties to the crime. K.very decent citizen of
Columbus was fully satistied that these
young men were wholly innocent. They
wore not permitted to hear tho evidence
on which they were hold, or to know the
names of the parties at whose instigation
they were arrested. Had they been con
fronted with their accusers they might have
been aide to have shown at once the
falsity of the charges against them, and
have satisfied the military authorities of
tiie justice of releasing them, lint they
have under such circumstances as we have
narrated been rigorously confined, denied
til communication with their friends, and
allowed only soldiers' rations. The busi
ness of getting up evidence is now being
energetically prosecuted. Over thirty ne
groes, men, women and children, have
been arrested as witnesses. They were
mostly employed about tho housos of the
gentlemen who are in custody.
“If such a trial as this had been ventur
ed on only a few years ago the wholeeouu
try would have been in a revolution. If
such a one were to take place in Kurope it
wouai be seized upon here as the text for
a hundred diatribes upon foreign despots
and their oppressed and suffering subjects.
Hut at the North, “the centre of civiliwa
tionand moral Ideas,” the people aeceplr
very generally, this new mode of trying
men lor their lives, so long as itis|not prac
ticed in that section. Congress approves
of this gross violation of the fundamental
rights of tho citizen and the vital princi
ples of the Constitution. Even the Presi
dent tails to rebuke these outrages, and
permits General Meade to lord it over.the
South in his own way. The North is sow
ing the wind, and as it sows so will it one
day reap."
The World’s Thimble-Rigging.
The New Y’ork World of Monday con
tains a remarkable article. It will be re
membered that it was only a few days
since it came out for ,Mr Chase as the
candidate of the Democratic party for
President, taking ground at the same time
lor negro suffrage as it now exists iu the
South; arguing that, inasmuch as the
question had been decided by Congress, it
would be injudicious for the Democratic
party to make any direct issue against it
during the coming campaign. This defec
tion very naturally excited distrust, and
he suggestions of the World were de
nounced by the entire Democratic press.
Whatever influence the World may have
wielded in the party heretofore it can have
very little hereafter. In the following ar
ticle it has taken the back track, and, with
Ui c utmost nonchalance, proclaims that the
Democratic party never had acy serious
intention of making Mr. Chase their
standard-bearer. On the whole, it is the
coolest piece of political thimble-rigging
imaginable, and would do credit to the
“ Little Villain” of the limes.
THE WORLD ON CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE AS
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
Tito following remarkable article forms
the leading editorial of the New York
World of Monday last:
“ It is creditable to the manliness and in
tegrity of this distinguished statesman
that the recent proposal of some precipi
tate Democrat* atm sensational journals
to nominate him for the Presidency, has
not caused him to swervg from the priuei
p les he has always held, uor to practice the
l«;.'st concealment respoe.tingthe persistent
firn.'nees with which he adheres to ihern.
Therv’has never been any likelihood that
he wol’W receive the Democratic nomina
tion ; bu ’ 'he political gossin on that sub
ject retuKTed it proper that he should
make it evident to ail the world that his
impartial be.'' rin S during the impeach
ment trial was not the artifice of a dema
gogue, who, having I**° disappointed of
a nomination by his own party, stood
ready to receive the te/Mer of one from ms
political opponents. In ~ he impeachment
trial, he dm his dutv with BUC “ dignity,
fairness and independence, as merit recog
nition by the Democratic party,'
constancy and publicity with wU . , ,
maintains his political opinions slioun '
accepted by Republicans as a proof tba 1
the Chief J ustice was influenced by no |
unworthy motives.
“\\ ith theopinious which Mr. Chaaeoou
tiuues to hold,.he is by far too sagacious
■.uid clear sighted a politician to suppose
that the Democratic party can have auv
serious thought of mating him its candi
date for President. While the party is
compelled to recognize the existence of
many unwelcome facts which it cannot
leverse, it has not chanced, and cannot
change its principles. The fact that the
negroes will vote in the coming President
ial election is a fact which the Democratic
party recognizes only on compulsou,
while Chief-Justice Chase regards it with
more than complacency, with more than
satisfaction, with the joy which attends I
the fulfillment of a long cherished hope.
What ho has so ardently desired, the
Democratic party has strenuouly resisted
and indignantly denounced. The Demo- j
cratic party may be unable to revoke what i
has been done, but they certainly are not I
going to endorse it, as they would virtual
ly do by nominating a man who makes
it the corner-stone of his political creel.
There is a great difference between sub
mitting to the inevitable from sheer ina
bility to withstand it and placing our
selves under the guidance of a man who
has aided in bringing the evil upon ns.
We should be glad to see Chief-Justice
Chase follow Mr. Blair and Senator Doo
little into the Democratic party ; but as
he regards negro suffrage as a blessing in
stead of an atrocious though perhaps irre
trievable blunder, we do not see how he
and the Democratic party can have any
bond of fellowship. We did not object to
a parley ; bat it was certain from the be
ginning that the mountain would not go
to Mahomet, and it appears that Mahomet
will not come to the mountain, which,
steadfast as the Chief-Justice is, would
have been much the easier miracle.”
The Southern Delegates in the Hew
York Convention-— V hat Shall They
Do ?
We believe that the general impression
in the South is that our delegates should
not vote in the nomination of a candidate
until the Northern delegates have agreed
upon the man, and then to ratify their se
lection ; or, in case the delegates from the
North should be unable to agree, it has
been suggested that the Southern dele
gates might decide the question by their
votes.
There are some serious objections to
either of thesejpropositions, leaving out of
view our right and duty to vote if we take
seats in the Convention, and if, further,
we shall be permitted to vote for electors.
The Convention will be composed of dele
gates representing 247 electors from the
Northern States, leaving out the three
from Colorado not yet admitted, and dele
gates representing 70 electors from the
j South. Now, if the Southern delegates
arc not to vote , and the two-thirds rule
heretofore established shall be adhered to,
it will be seen that no one can be nominated,
unless he gets 211 votes, or very near the
unanimous vote of the Northern States.
Now, either the two-thirds rule must be
modified so as to require two-thirds only of
tho ballots cast or the Southern States will
be compelled and ought to be, to vote, rather
than require of the nominee that degree of
strength amounting almost to acclamation,
which has never been thought necessary
heretofore. The enforcement of the two
thirds rule under such circumsiances, will
always and inevitably defeat tho popular
choice, and fasten upon the party a man
whose chiefest merit must be that he was
too little known to excite antagonism.
If the rule be so modified as to require
! only two-thirds of the votes cast, then
there may be, indeed we believe thero will
be, some propriety in the Southern dele
gates holding aloof and compelling our
Northern friends to agree among them-
I selves upon some man who is strong
j enough to get two-thirds of their own
votes. Having secured two thirds of the
| ballots cast or one hundred and sixty-five
| votes for their candidate, then the seventy
| votes from the South can be thrown solidly
; for him, which will make the vote he re
| eeives twenty-four more than two-thirds .of
j the whole number cast.
If this course be adopted- and wc hope
it will be—much trouble and difficulty may
ho avoided and harmony secured in the
deliberations of the Convention.
The other proposition which we wish to
notice, is that which has been generally
conceded, and, we think, without due re
| flection, as the best course for the South
ern delegates in case the Northern dele
gates cannot agree among themselves —
that we should in the last moment, and to
secure a selection, join in the ballotting by
concentrating upon the strongest candidate,
and thus secure to him the requisite two-
I thirds majority.
To this we have this objection: It
' would weaken the candidate thus selected
| in our own party, and subject tho nominee
| to the charge of having secured his nomi
nation by the votes of unreconstructed
rebels. This would be urged with great
force by the Radicals and would drive
many timid men from the support of our
candidate. Any imputation of having
been chiefly instrumental in securing
the selection us the candidate which can be
fairly made against the Southern delegates,
must to some extent weaken tho nominee.
This we must avoid. We can avoid it,
first, by refusing to vote until the North
ern delegates have agreed among them
selves; and, second, by going in on the first
ballot, and each delegate or each State
voting for the man of its choice, upon
equal terms with tho Northern delegates.
If we were certain that the excluded
States would be permitted to cast their
votes in the electoral college, wo should
prefer the latter course. But as there is
much uncertainty upon this point, we
are brought to the conclusion that, upon
the whole, the best policy will be to abstain
from taking any part in the contest more
thau aN mere lookers on and well wishers.
Pendleton and Packer.
It is conceded by both parties that the
States of Ohio and Pennsylvania will be
the chief battle ground in the approaching
election. The candidate who is able to
carry those two States will be pretty sure
of au election. The elections in both last
fall gave strong indications of their going
Democratic in the Presidential canvass.—
The Radicals fear this result, and hence
will make desperate efforts to regain their
lost prestige in both.
In this view, it becomes a matter of some
moment to the Democracy that in selecting
their candidates an eye should be directed
to lm-al influences in these States. We
believe, that to make the success of the
party perfectly sure, one of the candidates
j to be nominated in New York should be
| taken from Pennsylvania.
If Hancock receives the nomination for
! President then some strong man in the
| West, say Hendricks or Doolittle, should
j bo run on the ticket with ! im.
If the candidate for President should be
i selected from some other State, and we
| believe he will, then our true policy indi-
I cates the selection of the Vice-President
| from tho Keystone State.
In examining the field there, we find
I the names of two gentlemen suggested,
| either of whom would be quite acceptable
; to the people of the whole country. Judge
Woodward is a thorough, staunch and
pronounced Democrat of the true State
rights school. He is popular not only in
his own State but throughout the Middle
and Eastern States. He was defeated by
j Curtain for Governor in 1863, and his
i defeat was due mainly to the false charges
which were brought against him of being
opposed to the support of the Union sol
diery, and the unfortunate invasion of
| that State by the Confederate army dur-
J ing the campaign. These charges would
b« again, perhaps with less force, urged
against Judge Woodward, and, as it is
very important that the Democracy should
; present candidates who would not require
to be defended during the canvass.it would
perhaps upon the whole not be prudent
■ to select Mr. Woodward.
The other gentleman whose name has
been mentioned from this State is Gov
ernor Packer. We iueline to the opinion
that the nomination of this gentleman as
second on the tieket would greatly strength
; en and increase the Democratic vote in
his State, and make it almost absolutely
: certain for the Democrats. Governor
j Racker is a strong man beyond the limits
of his own State, and would especially
give weight to the tieket in the States im
mediately joining Pennsylvania.
D we then would make assurance doubly
1 sure, let the New Y’ork Convention select
' the tieket from Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Give us Pendleton and Packer, and Rad
i ’oalism will be routed “horse, foot and
dragoons.” In insisting as we do upon
the nomination of Gov. Packer, we yield
our personal proference for Mr. Adams
for tu e Ba * ie w bat conceive the host
interests . of lhe P ar O.
©tir Sew i better.
The letter of our New i’prk correspon
dent, which we print this Rioniing, will be
iound exceedingly interesting. His oppor- |
tunities for securing correct iutonuabocare ;
such as to enable him to forecast, with j
much certainty,the chain of coming politi- i
cal events.
Florida Reconstructed!!
The Tallahassee Floridian of June 16th
is before us, containing the official pro
ceedings of a number of adventurers from
abroad, mean resident whites.and ignorant
negroes, claiming to constitAe the Legis
lature of the State and to represent the
interests of 'he wealth and respectability
of Florida without even waiting for the ;
sanction of the Radical Congress, and in
opposition to the orders of General Meade. ,
This hungry, thieving set of rascals meet i
together and take entire possession of the !
machinery of the State. And yet General
Meade suffers his orders to be disobeyed
and the trust reposed in him to be violated
and the people of a whole State placed at
the mercy of a pack of wretch* s whose
sole purpose is to rob the State and grow
rich out of the money wruDg from the peo
ple. The following is an extract from the
proceedings:
Executive Mansion, )
Tallahassee, June 9th, 1868. j
To Hon. W. W. Moore,
Speaker of the Assembly:
I have the honor to trausmit herewith
copies of telegrams, with endorsement,
furnished me by Col. Flint, commanding
j this military post.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Harrison Reed.
[a true copy.]
June 8, 1868.
Brig. Gen. R. C. Brum,
Assistant Adjutant General,
3rd Mil. IHst. Atlanta, Ga. :
The Governor and members of the Legis
lature elect are here. They desire that the
oath be administered tothe Governor, and
that the Legislature assemble lor business.
Shall this be permitted? Full instructions
for rav guidance requested at once.
(Signed) F. F. Flint,
Lieut. Col. 7th Infantry, Corn’g.
Official:
F. M. H.. Kendrick,
Lieut. 7th U. S. Infantry,
Post Adjutant.
Atlanta, June 8,1868.
To Col. F. F. Flint, U. S. A. :
Telegram of this date relative to Gov
ernor and members of Legislature re
ceived.
Commanding General will not recognize
the Governor and legislature elected at
recent election, until further advice by
Congress.
You will not permit the action stated in
your telegram.
R. C. Drum.
Official :
F. M. 11. Kendrick,
Lieut. 7th U. S. Infantry, Post Adj’t.
Received at Tallahassseo Juno 8, 6 p. m.
But Col. Flint did permit the action
and made no effort to prevent it. The
Radical Legislature is in session making
laws (?) for the people. The Constitution
al amendment has been adopted, and car
pet-baggers elected to the United States
Senate. As the entire swindle is in the
interest of Radicalism, and doubtless in
stigated and encouraged Ly some of the
prominent saints at Washington,Jhe fraud
will be recognized as legal, and Florida and
her Yaukee delegation will be white-washed
and sand-witched into Congress between
the representatives from Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. Had the Legisla
ture of Florida been Democratic instead of
Radical General Meade would not have
hesitated a moment to dissolve the Legis
lature did it attempt to meet and transact
business in she face of an order positively
prohibiting its convening and subsequent
action. The point of the bayonet would
have solved the vexed question. Inas
much, however, as General Meade has
suffered himself to be used by the Radicals,
and, in addition, to become an active par
tizan, we are not surprised at anything
he may do or suffer to bo done in the in
terest of his party. There seems to be no
alternative but to grin and bear it.
[srSCIAL CORKEfr PON DUN CJE OF THE CHRONICLE & BXSTHfIX.]
New York, June 17th, 1868.
Bear Chronicle: —lf railroad travel
will furnish an index for industry among
the people, then the people of Georgia,
South and North Carolina must be at hard
work in the fields. They are certainly not
travelling. Nor did I find them at the
stations. I fear, however, it should he re
garded rather as index of poverty. The
only exception to my observation was to
be found at Goldsboro’ —and here the
class which constituted the exception were
clad in blue coats and wore “colored”
faces. The railroad companies are trying
to compensate for their loss in travel by
making passenger trains express freights—
with what success the annual reports only
will show the public. Tho trip, however,
was pleasant. The genial good humor of
two distinguished Presbyterian divines gave
life to our small company by sallies of wit
and humor. One of the reverend gentle
men is connected with Oglethorpe Uni
versity, and made known a fact worthy of
wider dissemination thau that given by a
single religious organ, which is, that Uni
versity gives room rent and tuition free
to ail maimed Confederates. This is high
ly creditable to the Trustees of this Uni
versity. Every College in the State, of
every denomination, has opened its doors to
these unfortunates. But while this move
is in the right direction it is neither suf
ficient to meet public wants, nor to ensure
the success of Southern institutions for
learning. The Trustees have been for
years looking for support and encourage
ment to the wealthy classes, generally
with but indifferent success. If they
would succeed, let them look to the poor
and people of moderate means. Every
boy educated from these classes will not
only feel grateful for the benefits received,
but will engage actively in after life in ad
vancing the welfare of the institution, and
take pride in its history and development.
The institution becomes to him, in truth,
an Alma Mater. This has been the policy
and practice which has developed schools
and Colleges in New England. Nearly all
their leading men have been educated
from these classes. The rich there, as
with us, look abroad for greater advantages
with like results. Their children are
trained with manners, customs and habits
unsuited to the people among whom they
are to live, and lacking the influence of
i companionship even when meritorious,
j labor under these disadvantages, only to
J find their education useless in bringing
| them forward in life.
The Annamesic route to New Y’ork is ex
ceedingly pleasant and the trip a short one.
The traveller leaving Augusta on Monday
morning six o’clock, reaches New York
on Wednesday at one P. M., fifty-five
hours. The “ Lady of the Lake" conveys
the traveller across the Chesapeake, af
fording a rest lor eight hours with splendid
accommodations and sumptuous fare, that
delicious seafood of shellfish and scalefish,
j oysters, soft shell crabb, trout the like
which a landlocked landlubber craves.
At Crisfield the converging lines of rail
road pour into a single channel tho great
■ human currents, which finally debouch at
New York. But even on these main lines
the ears were by no means crowded, and
! posters at the stations announcing that
commutation tickets at greatly reduced
rates if bought in a certain quantity could
be had at the Superintendents’ offices, gave
evidence of a desire on the part of the
railroad companies to stimulate local
travel.
New l’ork appears dull for New York
with a million souls. New Yorkers say
that the good time is just at hand, all that
is wanting is a summer’s sun to ripen the
j golden grain and the snowy cotton, and
the defeat of the Radical party this fall.
New York is for Wade; her chief objection
to Graut is his representative character,
i not as an individual , Grant is in favor of
National banks, and so much of State
rights as will establish confidence and i
revive trade, would suit just as well as any
one else. The “people,” they say, want
peace; that is, the New Y'ork people want
trade. Now and again, in a quiet
• way, it is admitted that not one
| merchat in one hundred has paid expenses
: during the past year, while the income tax
i lists are like mortuary reports. New Y’ork
merchants say that Chase is the only man
that can save the country and New York
j trade. That while Grant is the exponent
] of war, Chase is prominent in those quali- i
j ties which lit him for a peace President.
; It is said that while Belmont and the
i Democratic Committee here like Democ- j
j i acy. they like bonds and national banks
| better, and, therefore, go for a “C’onserva- j
tive Democracy. It is also asserted free- j
j ly that very large sums have been raised
here in the Chase interest, and with a view :
:to secure Chase's nomination. Belmont j
expended forty-six thousand dollars to se
eure a New l’ork delegation, but without j
! success. Pendleton’s friends are very j
sanguine, but feel anxious about a jealousv
which is supposed to exist in the breast of ;
Seymour. They affirm confidently that
Pendleton will Le nominated with no great i
■ struggle; that the West is a unit for him, i
: and the only difference between Chase and
Pendleton is, whether we shall Lave a <
greenback currency or national bank cur
■ rency, and that Chase proposes to resume |
j specie payments by new loans and the \
withdrawal of greenbacks, substituting I
natid.ial currencT, w^c Pendleton pro- j
poses to extinguish the na,. Ana * currency ;
and gradually bring greenbacks to pi'
Hancock s friends are sanguine, expecting
chat be will be acceptable as a compromise
candidate. His name is also spoken of
for \ ice President with either Chase or
Pendleton. Hcndrieksof Indiana, also pur
sue a similar policy as that which charac
terises the conduct of Hancock’s friend-
1 here is a movement here to bring out
Charles) O Conor, but I have yet to learn
that it looks farther than his nomination
in the contingency of prolonged conflict
with a lair possibility of his nomination as
\ ice President. Each of the different
candidates have their headquarters and
their friends canvassing the views of each
new comer. There is, however, no bitter
ness, no feeling. Every one says the Con
vention will be harmonious and that the
nominee will bring out the full strength of
the party. Chase’s friends, however,
claim that he can not only defeat Grant
but will destroy utterly the Radical party.
It ls conceded that he will bring to bear
a large money influence. His relations
with manufacturers who support the Re
publican party chiefly for fear lest Democ
racy should injure their interest by pros
pective free trade, and all that could be
desired. It is conceded, also, that his
nomination would create no enthusiasm.
The contest at the outset evidently will be
between Pendleton and Chase.
Gold has gone up despite the dullness of
trade and the large disbursements that
have been made for interest by the Gov
ernment, and in the face of July payments,
united States bonds have advanced with
an active demand ; also real estate here.
J-his is accounted for by the plethora of
money lying idle. Large sales of United
States bonds have been made and the
money invested in real estate. The de
mand for United States bonds is from
abroad and is expected to increase. It is
estimated that two hundred thousand
Germans will seek a residence in the new
world and they will be of such as have
means—-the poorer classes being too poor
to leave Fatherland. Already this emigra
tion is pushing toward Chicago and St.
Louis. Chicagoans style New York the
Chicago of the East and this touches the
pride of Gotham. Georgia Plains.
Georgia Reconstruction a Probable Fail
ure.
Anew difficulty arises in regard to the
restoration of Georgia under the provis
oes of the Omnibus Reconstruction Bill
ust passed by Congress. The troublesome
clause in that bill is found in the following
paragraph of the Ist section of the late bill,
and in the following words :
“And the State of Georgia shall only be
“entitled and admitted to representation
“upon the further fundamental condition
“that the first and third sub-divisions of
“section seventeen of the fifth article of the
“Constitution of said State, except the pro
“viso to the first sub division, shall be
“null and void, and that the General As
sembly of said State by solemn public
“act shall declare the assent of the State
“to the foregoing fundamental condition.
By this it will be seen that the Legisla
ture is required to take action which
amends in a very important particular the
Constitution framed at Atlanta, and sub
sequently ratified by the negroes, carpet
baggers and scalawags. Tho Constitution
itself points out the way in which amend
ments may be proposed and passed, and
by thus directing the manner in which this
is to be done, they exclude the possibility
of accomplishing it by aDy other mode.
The new Constitution of the State which
all the members of the Legislature are sworn
to support, declares that instrument may be
amended by a two-thirds vote of two suc
cessive Legislatures, and then submitted to
a vote of the people for ratification.
Now it is very clear that if the amend
ments proposed by Congress are to be
acted upon in accordance with the pro
visions of the Constitution itself, that
many months must elapse before the fun
damental conditions required by Congress
can be complied with. We have no idea
that the Washington Jacobins intended
any such results. Their legislation upon
this point has been characterized with
the same want of forethought and ordinary
legislative sagacity which has been so
conclusively proven in the necessity which
has compelled, them to be continually
amending and perfecting their whole
scheme of Reconstruction. Having thrown
away the Constitution of the United
States, tho only chart which could have
kept them from the breakers which in
evitably beset the path of those who at
tempt to travel outside of the plain
directions of that instrument, they find
themselves in danger of being wrecked in
their calculations upon every vital point
which arises in their attempt to carry out
their revolutionary designs.
Neither can it be claimed that, as the
Xlth article of the new constitution yields
to Congress the power and right “to ac
cept the same with any qualifications or
conditions” which they see fit to impose,
that, therefore, this amendment required
by Congress is complete in itself without
further action on the part of the people of
Georgia. Even if Congress had tho right
to alter, change, or modify the organic law
of a State, which we, nevertheless, most
emphatically deny, it is very clear that it
has not attempted to take such action in this
case. Congress requires the people of the
State, through the solemn act of their
Legislature, to make a change in the organic
law. The mode pointed out in that or
ganic law for the control and direction of
the Legislature in making such change
must be fully complied with. A com
pliance with the plain provision of the
Constitution involves the concurrent action
of a two-th : rds majority of two successive
Legislatures, duly elected by the people,
according to the forms prescribed by the
Constitution, and then a ratification of
such action by a popular vote of the peo
ple.
We believe that there will not be any
difference of opinion among lawyers and
statesmen upon this point. What the
Legislature may do in the matter, com
posed in a great part as it is by negroes and
ignorant carpet-baggers, whoare even more
ignorant than the negroes themselves, we
shall not pretend to surmise. They are
capable of doing anything wrong, illegal or
oppressive, and are, we verily x believe, in
capable of understanding or duly appre
ciating the important and vital issue raised
| by this crude legislation of Congress.
There arc some honest and very intelli
gent gentlemen elected to the House of tho
Legislature, but whether they
majority of that body we are unable to
| assert. Upon the whole Coegress had bet
ter pass an explanatory supplemental Om
nibus bill, and relieve, if they can, their
Radical friends from the dilemma which
the original Omnibus places them in.
The GeorgiaOutragcs
Some days ago we published a state
ment of facts in connection with the ar
rest, imprisonment, and proposed trial by
military commission of certain citizens
Georgia and the means employed to pro
cure and extort from ignorant and helpless
treedmen the testimony upon which to
take away in cold blood the lives of the
persons accused. The testimony we pub
lished revealed deeds done by the military
authorities equal in their atrocity and dia
bolical malignity to the most infamous
judicial assassinations recorded in history.
The statement left nothing to be added in
order to excite the indignation of every
honest man of any party. The question
rose above party, and appealed to that
sense of truth, justice, and humanity
which we have a right to expect from the
masses of our fellow men, regardless of
political bias. And in this connection we
repel with scorn the suggestion that the
life of him who fell is esteemed of no account,
by reason of his political action. If he
was murdered, as there is reason to be
lieve he was, and the authors of the act
can be ascertained by the ordinary and
legitimate modes of judicial investigation,
they deserve whatever punishment the
law inflicts. But that furnishes no reason
why men entirely respectable in their an
tecedents, of orderly character, and promi- ;
nent before the community, should be in
carcerated upon mere suspicion, cut _off
from access to friends or counsel, and the ]
witnesses subjected to intimidation, j
threats, starvation, and solitary confine- j
ment, in order to induce them to criminate
those whom they have already declared to •
be innocent, so far as they know, of all par- ;
tisipation in this crime- Such unusual ■
proceedings on the part of the prosecutors *
supply the very strongest presumption |
that the accused are innocent, and fur
nishes ineontestihle evidence that the bad |
mas thin abusing their power have mur
4*r in their kv*fU
v “* able U> say that many
We are glad to ftewtfcii
intelligent, candid, and influent. _
cans who have been made acquainted with
these transactions repudiate and denounce
them indignantly, as wanting in every ele
ment oljustice. We warn these bad men
conducting these proceedings, that for
every drop ofinnocent blood they may shed,
for every one of their dastardly acts of
cruelty, whether upon whites or blackss
they will be held sternly accountable by an
outraged public opinion. They may de
pend upon it that each one of them will
be held to a just retribution.
; ,We now call upon our readers to note as
a part of this horrible transaction, the affi
davit we append, of John Wells, freedman.
One of those gentlemen who attest this
affidavit is personally known to us as a
gentleman of high integrity, humanity, and
moderation of character. Wells was one
of the freedmen sought to be used as a
witness against the arrested parties. In
vain did he protest that he knew nothing
against them whatever. He was carried
off to Fort Pulaski, robbed of the money
on his person b\ these parties who thus
disgrace the national uniform—robbed of
his clothing, and pnt into a cell by himself,
six feet by four. Here, after various
modes and devices t oproduce terror, he is
finally taken to a room to have his head
shaved, a cannon trained upon him, and he
told to prepare for immediate death.
U nder these trying circumstances he refers
to his duty as a citizen and member of the
Church, and refuses to perjure himself by
swearing away the lives of innocent men.
And then, in defiance of all law or right,
after his release, he is put to work—to
prevent him, we suppose, from having ac
cess to the public, and an opportunity to
narrate the foul cruelties to which he had
been subjected.
It is proper to state that the individual,
one James F. Johnson, lending his coun
tenance to these proceedings, was, we
hear, an unsuccessful applicant for the
position of counsel to the prisoners, with a
large fee.
'1 he treatment shown to this witness was
extended to others. It will be seen that a
denial of proper and necessary food was
one of the means employed to fabricate
this testimony.
A part of this affidavit throws some
on these extraordinary proceedings.
We read of “two detectives from Wash
ington,” by whom these poo’r negroes were
thus subjected to duress and a species of
torture in order to induce them to swear
away life. Who were the parties by whom
these infamous aqj! shameless creatures
were obtained from Washington,jßd thus
employed,does not appear; but
to say that under such vile agencies no
man’s life is safe for one moment, whether
in Georgia or anywhere else. We do not
credit that any Washington City detectives
were engaged in this work; we cannot
credit that any of our recognized detec
tives would have been willing to participate
in this outrage.
And now shall this intolerable shame and
infamy, this cruel and cold preparation for
a series of military murders and assas
sinations, be permitted to proceed? We
appeal confidently to every man in the land
of every party, who is not himself a mur
derer and an assassin, to every one who
has in his bosom those noble instincts of
justice and humanity which lift man above
the brute. We call upon each one of these
to place himself in the position of these
unfortunate gentlemen, and to consider
how safe he would regard his life or repu
tation if it were struck at by snch informal
agencies. Let every man do as he would
be done by in this matter, and these deeds
will be brought to a stop, and their authors
punished. And what punishment could
be too great for a people to visit upon the
officials who have thus disgraced their
character as officers? Who hereafter will
take the hand of any of tho men who have
thus deliberately planned fur a murder ?
They deserve, not merely to have stripped
from their shoulders the uniform they
have disgraced and dishonored, but to be
marked by the brand proper to the crime
of Cain. Honest men everywhere cannot
but loathe them, and human nature will
blush to own that they wear the form of
man.
But, let all remember that in this mat
ter time presses. We may not delay action,
i lest we share the guilt of those now halt
ing on the threshold of this foul crime.
Let those murderers —for such they are in
heart, intent, and the natural conse
quences of their acts— be taugh’ that there
is a sentiment in this land which they
have defied at their own peril.— National
Intelligencer.
STATEMENT OF JOHN WELLS, FREEDMAN,
MADE JUNE 11, 1868, AT COLUMBUS, GA.
I was taken with the other prisoners ar
rested at tho same time with myself to
Fort Pulaski. Wo were all stripped and
examined for weapons and money. All
money was taken from the prisoners, and
lias not yet been returned, so far as I know;
nor has the clothing been given hack to
them. Each prisoner was put into a cell
by himself; the cells are four by six leet,
with a very narrow opening above for ven
tilation ; one vacant cell was left between
those occupied by prisoners, so that no
two prisoners occupied adjoining cells.
Soon after our arrival persons apparently
in authority inquired in the hearing of
witness whether “the x - azors” were ready
to shave the heads of prisoners. Being
answered affirmatively, witness was blind
folded and taken off to another part of the
fort; his head was lathered ; two men
held him, while* others standing around
prepared to shave his head, and spoke of
what was to be done. They drew his head
back, and in an effort to put himself in a
more comfortable position, the bandage
was pushed from his eyes, when witness
discovered ho was in a casemate or other
large room, and that a cannon had boon
trained upon him, and that a man seemed
to be in the act of firing it directly at him.
Witness was very much alarmed; sup
posed they wero about to kill him, and
begged for a little time to make a state
ment, and meet his fate. They replied
that thero was hut little time then, but
they would give liinff fifteen minutes.
Witness stated all he knew of the occur
rences on tho night of Ashburn’s murder ;
where he was at various hoursof tho night;
how and when and where he heard of the
killing ; and affirmed most positively his
own innocence, and his entire ignorance
of any fact or circumstance going to im
plicate others. He spoke of his own pre
vious character as a citizen and member
of tho church, saying he had told them the
truth; that he could not utter a falsehood
to implicate innocent persons; and that
if for this they still persisted in taking his
life, they must do it.
Witness was finally taken back to his
cell, was left there for some days longer—
during which he was repeatedly interro
gated—and was finally permitted to walk
out, and, at length, was allowed tho free
dom of the fort. This privilege was grant
ed as he was informed, because the parties
examining him believed he was innocent,
and knew nothing against others. Witness
was put to work about the fort.
The persons who blindfolded witness,
and interrogated him, lie understood, were
detectives, perhaps officers in the detec
tive force.
John Stapler, another prisoner, witness
learned, wasput through the same process
as himself. One of the detectives subse
quently said to witness that Stapler had
told two tales, which contradicted each
other. He (Staplei) was finally put into
the “sweat-box,” and kept there from
Saturday morning until Sunday night.
Does not know whether the answers
finally extorted from him were satisfac
tory to the inquisitors or not. Heard,
however, that Stapler stuck to the last tale
he told, which, witness was informed, re
ferred to Barber, another prisoner, and
amounted to but little.
Witness was told that if he divulged
anything he saw or heard while at Fort
Pulaski they would put him in there for
five years. There was some lumber at
the fort, which, tho prisoners of the garri
son told witness, had been brought there
to erect a gallows to hang the prisoners
from Columbus.
Ex-Provisional Governor James John
son, the present Collector of the port of
Savannah, visited the fort while the pris
oners were there. Heard him ask Barker
who killed Ashburn ; said be (Johnson)
knew every one of the damned rascals,
and so did he (Barker). He denounced
Dudley, Chipley and Dr. Ivirkscey, and
other prisoners, as damned scoundrels
and assassins, and said they were the lead
ers of it. Johnson was very violent and
denunciatory. Barker made no reply that
witness, who was standing above, could
hear.
It was reported at the fort that Alex.
Stanford, an emigrant to Liberia from Co
lumbus, while detained two -weeks in
Savannah, waiting for the ship to sail,
made several visits to Jas. Johnson, and
for the sake of money, was induced to
make statements, the object of which was j
to implicate others; and it was said many, j
if not all, the recent arrests had been made i
in consequence of his pretended displo- ,
sures. Heard Johnson talking to Stephens j
the same day lie talked with Barker, but !
some work was going on in the neighbor- j
hood, and could not distinguish what was j
said.
The white prisoners, at least Daniel and I
Betez, were taken off and examined also,
but what was said and done witness did j
not learn.
A soldier prisoner, or one who appeared ;
to be such, told witness that the authori- j
ties into tided- to hang five or si* of the j
principal prisoners, and send the others j
to prison for ten or twelve years.
For nine days witness had no meat to j
eat, and supposes the other prisoners I
fared no better. His breakfast consisted j
of bread and coffee without sugar; his |
dinner was rice soup. Sapper same as j
breakfast, After the nine days meat was i
given to prisoners.
Some of the soldiers of the garrison were !
kind, others were not. Os the latter class j
were two who used to gather up the food I
for prisoners and throw it to them as if ]
they had been dogs.
When the prisoners were taken to At- :
4tta from Fort Pulaski, witness was j
brought along with them, though ia a i
separate car, as far as Macon, when he w-as ;
told he could return to his home in Co- I
lumbus.
The two and electives, who seemed to |
have chief control in the examination of
prisoners, said they had come from Wash
ington.
Prisoners had no bedding or blankets.
Witness: John Wells.
P. W. Alexander.
E. T. Shepherd.
Wm. Kino.
John McKexdree.
The Nation’s Wards.— The Radical
Bump insist that the negroes are intelli
gent enough to vote and hold office and
govern the white people of the South,
and yet in the teeth of this Congress in
sists that fife people shall be taxed to con-
Preedaefi's Bureau in existence
tinue - ' - bo used no doubt as a
for another year, to— . ■*-■> inter
huge electioneering machine in tm-
est of Grant and the Kadical party,
Crops in Richmond and Burke.
Mcßean, Ga., June 18, 1868.
Editors Chronicle <s■ Sentinel: I see in
your paper a request that planters give a
statement of crop prospects. We are now
suffering for rain badly. Further down in
Burke the corn is twisting up. Up to
this time corn is looking very fine, but if
this drought continues a few days, the
early corn will be cut short.
Cotton is small, but these last hot dry
days have changed its sickly hue to a dark
green. The planters are killing grass and
weeds successfully. '1 here is a much larger
crop planted this than last year. Cotton
one third less than last year. I rode into
Burke last week 4 miles, and saw but one
cotton field, the rest in corn.
The Field of Gettysburg.
Beautiful Sceneri/ —The Order of Battle
—Selection of the Field—Confederate
Valor—Remains of the Dead—List of
the Fallen Braves of Georgia Buried
Upon the Field.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Gettysburg, June 9,186 S.—This has
been one of the saddest and most suggest
ive days-in my whole history. I have
spent it in surveying the battle grounds at
this place, where, in the month of July,
1863, two mighty armies met in deadly
conflict, and for three long and bloody days
contended with heroic obstinacy and valor
for the splendid prize of victory. The line
of battle was about eight miles in length,
and from various points of elevation the
whole field of strife was visible to the nak
ed The position which Gen. Lee
selected for his headquarters commands
the whole range of hills aud valleys on
which the contending columns moved to
glory or the grave.
In the entire circle of our travels through
the North and South we have never beheld
a more magnificent and lovely landscape
than is here presented to the view. The
green meadows stretch away to the utmost
limits of the human vision; the rich wheat
fields spread out on every side with luxu
riant growth and livingbeauty; a cluster of
noble hills is crowned with solemn groves
and smiling orchards; occasional crystal
streams sparkle in the mellow sunshine,
and then the whole wonderous panorama is
enclosed by a wide circle of mountains of
varied hues and surpassing grandeur. It
seems like a desecration of nature to have
converted this charming plain of Ceres in
to an altar of sacrifice to Mars.
The Confederate line assumed a circu
lar shape, and was a very long one, whilst
the Federal forces were massed in a much
smaller space and in a much stronger posi
tion. Lee was the attacking party from
first to last in this protracted and disas
trous conflict. At sundry times and in
divers manners, he moved his majestic
columns over a wide extended plain, in the
face of the murderous fire of the enemy,
and his flanking movements were executed
with the utmost celerity and boldness, but
failed, simply because it is not given to hu
man strength and skill to compass such
heights as his men assaulted, when crown
ed with cannon and raining down ceaseless
showers of leaden hail. When our great
Captain found the position of his foe to be
impregnable, he withdrew his troops in an
orderly manner, and retired slowly and
safely from the scene of conflict. No un
prejudiced historian can award to General
Meade the honors of the victory of Gettys
burg, because his antagonist held the posi
tion until he got ready tcrelinguish it, and
then retreated across the Potomac to renew
hostilities on his own native soil. The
sublime bearing which the Southern troops
displayed on this hard fought field chal
lenged the highest admiration of their en
emies. The citizens here frankly admit
that the Federal dead which fell in this
fight exceed in number the killed of the
Confederates. I have met with no un
biased man in this town who does not
cheerfully concede the superiority of Lee’s
generalship over that of his adversary on
this grand theatre of carnage and death,
but the universal testimony is that the
great error the former committed was in
not following up the fruits of the first day’s
victory, and when he failed to do this, in
not moving to the right in the direction of
Washington, and thus compelling Meade
to abandon his strong entrenchments to
seeure the safety of the Capitol. All the
people with whom I have conversed bear
witness to the general good conduct of our
officers and men in their march through
this country. They spurned to invade the
sanctities of home or to violate the rights
of the sex, and the sanctuaries of the liv
ing God were preserved by them with a
sacred jealousy and honor.
In point of fact, Meade did not plan the
battle of Gettysburg, and, therefore, can
claim no honor for superior skill in this
particular. He had selected the Pipe
Creek hills (which are about fifteen or
twenty miles south of the town) as the
theatre for the grand conflict. Howard
is awarded the credit of choosing the field
upon which the battle was fought. But
the most intelligent observers in this lo
cality do not hesitate to say that no Gen
eral deserves the glory of planning this
battle; for the troops themselves, in a
somewhat disorderly retreat after the first
day’s battle, fell back to the heights with
out any order from the officers, and for
tified themselves strongly to meet the suc
ceeding assaults of the gallant Confed
erates.
My heart has been saddened and my
eyes moistened at the spectacle of the
bones of our brave brothers bleaching on
these bright hills, and partially buried in
these fertile valleys. They are continually
upturned by the rude ploughshare, and
are profanely exposed on the surface of
the soil. Some of the humane citizens
there proposed to gather up the remains
of our dead and to have them decently in
terred in some suitable locality, but the
authorities of Pennsylvania interposed an
interdict on the movement, and even
threatened, as I have been informed, with
severe punishment the moverj in the mat
ter. Such is my information whether true
or false. There are many Confederate
graves there designated by a black board
erected at the head of the sleeper, and with
his name and company written upon it,
but these graves are destined soon to be
obliterated under the operations of agri
cultural pursuits.
We would here take the liberty of urg
ing their families and friends to secure
and compensate some suitable agent or
agents to visit this place as soon as practi
cable to gather up all this sacred dust and
carry it home and lay it softly in the bosom
of its native soil to sleep in the circle of
departed kindred till the great rising nay.
This, we are sure, is a feasible enterprise,
and should be immediately inaugurated.
Dr. O’Neal, of Gettysburg, has kindly
prepared and published a record of our
dead, and has accurately described the j
particular locality in which each one is ly
ing. I herewith subjoin a list of the !
names he has furnished me for the benefit i
of all interested par ties :
LIST OF GEORGIANS BURIED ON THE FIELD
AT GETTYSBURG.
J W Law, 4th reg’t.ij M Wright, 44th
Lt Col Winn, 4th; regt,
regt, John Brown, 12th
EA W ard, 60th regt, regt,
W F Nash, 9th regr, JIM Boring, 4th regt,
W F Brown, 15th Hangman, Ga
regt, * _ ! Cav,
Capt J W Atkins, »V M Patterson, Bth
53d regt, regt,
Wm Biggers, T L Guery, Sump-
M E Hoggs, Bth regt, ter’s Ga Battery,
A A McGeary, 9th Mai P Bremen, 61st
regt, regt,
Belcher, 11th W Young, 61st regt,
regt, Coi Jones, Columbia,
WW r Mathes, Bth Ga,
regt, ,J R Crosby, 16th
I C Eago, Bth regt, j regt,
T W Clements, Bth iJD Reid, 16th regt,
rogt, W B Elrod, 16th
T Klmor, 7th regt, regt,
Jas Crampton, Bth W P Hubbard, 18th
regL regt,
H Sparks, 17th.regt, J W McGinnis, 53d
D D Mann, 17 th regt, j regt,
J J Marnell, 57th WB Butler, 4th regt,
regt, Corp Wells, Ga,
i Sergt JMBisnaugh, J C Jordan, 15th
Bth regt, regt,
EWClyett, Bth regt, T H Lauren, 24th
iE R Tate, 15th regt,: regt,
j Lt C A Potter, llthlLt C A Bailey, JQth
1 regt, regt,
S Richardson, 11th J B Forrester, 24th
! regt, regt,
John Laaghlin, 15th E T Johnston, Bth
i regt. | regt,
J C McCallar, 11th C L Walker, 26th
regt, regt,
S S Sparks, s'ahregt, W K Braceweil, 49th
A L Short, 1 “th regt, regt,
Lt S H Echols, Bth Richard Jawlt, 51st
regt, regt,
JW P, 11th regt, J S Haden, 13th
J C Dickson, 15th regt,
regt, Jas Corns, Bth regt,
SergtJ COliver, 11th J B Willing, 38th
| regt, regt,
Sergt E P Sharp, W L Brewer, 51st
11th regt v regt,
Corp W A King, Bth J Hodges, 3d regt,
regt,_ C Gregory, 3d regt,
GW Harrison, lith'D H Moncrief, 3d
regt, regt,
Lt A M Parker, 11th S W S, 3d regt,
regt, J A Dance, 3d regt,
John Mills, 9th regt, H H Young, 2d regt,
T L Lyday, 9th regt, T Deaton, 2d Ga Bat,
J D Gordon, SthiM Lewis, 22d regt,
regt, J R Gibson, 22d regt,
Sergt S B Sheus, Jos Powell, 38th regt,
59th regt, J Branch, 61st regt,
W M Weaver, Bth Frank Botts, 61st
regt, i regt,
W M Lewis, lltljj Clinton Bachaler, j
regt, i 61st regt,
Lt W H 11, loth iJ N Scarboro, 61st I
regt, i regt,
Col J Wasden, 22dlLt Wood,. 38th regt,
regt, Lt 0 C Brooks, |ia |
T Ware, loth regt, 'Legion,
Lt Col J C Mounger, Lt T R Barrett, Ga j
Bth regt, ' Legion,' I
R W Dyas, Sump-iLt J Howze, Ga Leg, t
Ur's Ga pattery, |Lt Woods 60th regt, \
M Keane 27ih regt, LT A Reeves,' i.fih I
o Geljes, 12th regt,| regt, 1
FBOJI WASHINGTON
Correspondence Jlattimore Gaxcttc.
Washington, June 15, 1868.—The
guano managers are CQdjtxvoring to create
an impression that their late investigations
have resulted in developing a case of brib -
cry- His being whispered around that a
draft tor a large amount has been traced to
the possession of a Senator, but no one
outside of the committee is disposed to be
lieve it. It is also rumored that a second
draft is traced to the hands of a Senator
who voted for convictiou. The report of
the managers is promised in a few days
and speculations will then cease.
Some of the transactions of General
Butler while in command at New Orleans
are being exhumed, and depositions taken
in the case of Kearney vs. Butler, a copy
of which has been received here by the
Butler investigation committee. In May,
1862, when Confederate money was cur
rent in New Orleans, by permission of
Gen. Butler, his brother Colonel Butler,
agreed to purchase a large amount of naval
stores from Kearney, payable in Con
federate money. The next day General
Butler issued a proclamation prohibiting
the circulation of Confederate money,
which at once declined to nominal value.
Col. Butler soon after demanded delivery
of the naval stores and offered Confederate
money. Kearney declined, whereupon
General Butler arrested him, and threat
ened to send him to Fort Jackson and con
fine him with ball and chain it he did not
deliver up the goods. Kearney made
delivery and now sues for §IO,OOO.
__ Logan’s resolution for the removal of the
Capitol, based on wholesale slander of the
District, is a subject of ridicule among
members of Congress.
Congressman Boutwell to-day ventured
to give the status of the several Democratic
candidates for the Presidential nomination
as viewed from a Radical stand-point.
Pendleton, he said, was entitled to the
nomination; but would be easily beaten
under the cry of copperhead. Chase’s
sympathies, he said, were all with the
Radicals, and should the Democrats elect
him they would be sadly disappointed in
his policy. Johnson had been seduced
from the Radicals by the whiskey-drink
ing Democracy and would mak;e no run.
As to Hancock, he said, we admit his in
tellectual calibre, but he has no experience
as a statesman and would be an unfortu
nate selection. He was particularly severe
on Hancock, and ridiculed the idea ot his
heading the Democratic ticket. Os Hen
dricks he spoke in flattering terms, both
personally and as a party leader. Bout- j
well then recurred to Grant and said :
“Grant is all tight on Reconstruction, but
he does not know the Radicals. He does
not know where they are hastening him.”
lie spoke confidently of Grant’s election.
Clark, the Superintendent of the Cur
rency Printing Bureau, has not resigned,
although he expresses a wish to do so.
The extraordinary conduct of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means to-day has
excited a strong suspicion that members of
that committee have' a secret purpose in
urging a further consideration of Schcnck’s
mammoth Tax Bill. Never before in the
history of our Congressional legislation has
a committee openly resorted to filibuster
ing for the purpose of forcing its conclu
sions upon the House. The internal
Revenue Tax bill had been prepared and
reported to th% House. The labor of the
committee had been gone through with—
its duty performed. It was then for the
House to determine how far the report
should bo considered—not the committee —
nevertheless when by a decided vote to day
the House expressed a wish to lay aside
the bill, the members of the committee
acting under the lead of Mr. Schcnck,
commenced what is termed in Congress
filibustering, with a view to prevent action
adverse to a present consideration of the
bill. The cause of this extraordinary fac
tiousness is believed to be an opposition on
the part of Mr. Sehenck and his friends to
any reduction in the tax on distilled spirits.
While they arc thus opposed to the re
duction they admit that it will be seriously
damaging to General Grant in the Presi
dential canvass for the Radical Congress
to adjourn leaving the tax on whiskey
as it exists at present. Some of
the leaders say it will lose Grant every
Western State, and hence the struggle to
have a short bill brought in to cover only
whiskey and tobacco. Schcnck and the
opponents of reduction say that they can
pass the general bill, but that
should they fail, their efforts to do so will
be appreciated by the Western voters.
Iu other words it was the purpose to pre
vent any reduction in the present tax on
distilled spirits, and then endeavor to ex
cuse it on the ground that an honeit effort
was defeated by a combination of the
Democrats with a minority of tfye Radical
side. This purpose, however, failed them,
and the committee has been instructed to
bring in another bill curtailed of its gigan
tic proportions and providing only for the
immediate necessities of the Revenue De- '
partment. Congress will be thus enabled
to adjourn by the middle of July, and will
only await the organization of the South
ern States. If these States afford evidence
of being truly “loyal,” that is, if the show
that their electorial votes will be cast for
Grant, they will be promptly admitted to
representation, and Congress will adjourn.
Ifjany of these States should fail to give
satisfactory evidence of “loyalty” they yvill
as certainly be rejected.
Pendleton.
(Correspondence of the New York Herald.
Interview with the lion. George 11. Pen
dleton—Pen Portrait of the Western Dem
ocratic Leader.
Cincinnati, June 6, 1868.—“Mr. Pen
diet on ?”
“That’s my name, sir. Walk in. Take
a seat.”
The inquiry was mine. The response
was that of Mr. George 11. Pendleton,
Democratic candidate lor the Vice Presi
dency in 1864 and an aspirant for the
Democratic nomination for President at
the New York Convention next month.
He was seated at his desk and had sus
pended writing a letter to answer the in
quiry which I addressed him from the
threshold of his law office, a plainly but
substantially furnished apartment, about
twelve by twelve in size, situated in a
Jauncey court of six chambers on Third
street, in this oity. Waving me to the
proffered seat with a genial smile which
made me feel at home with him, on the
instant he wished to know what he could
do for me. The brief interval which had
elapsed to this moment was sufficient to
give an opportunity of perceiving that he
is a man of about forty-two years of age
and possessed of a manner which readily
I accounts for his personal popularity. His
j face seems not at all strange; it was even
; familiar, though i had never seen him be
i sere. The person who makes his acquaint
j ance hereafter will recognize the truth of
j this observation; his face is one of the
j kind that haunts the mind with the im
| pression that it has been somewhere seen
j before, though for what reason the specta
j tor will be at 4 less to conceive. In height
Mr. pendloton is a little above the medi
um, the excess being unnoticeable from a
slight tendency to embonpoint , Not that
he is stout or portly. The best descrip
tion of him would be to say that he isvery
hearty, with a full, robust figure. Ho is
proportionately well built,and by tbe ladies
woqld be deemed a handsome man; dark
(though not black) hair covers a large,
finely formed head; mustache and whiskers ■
worn in the prevailing style (the latter
sightly sprinkled with gray, both inclined
to be curly, and with a fineness and silki
ness indicative of elegance of tempera- ;
ment), surround a face which seems to
perpetually wear the winning smile above
referred to. A suit of black and dark
blue completes the piaturo of the candidate j
wham the West is pressing so strenuously j
for the Democratic nomination.
Despite the public notoriety which Mr.
! Pendloton has achieved, hois steadily and
| earnestly devoted to the business of his
i profession, and it is a wonder how he has
j contrived 'o get time from flis private du
! tigs tq transact the public business which
; has made him so famous in the West. lie
j resides in the country outside the city of
i Cincinnati, comiDg in every morfiiug to his
| office and desk, where, or in court, he It
■ bars industriously all day until the hour
for his return to nis suburban home. No
doubt a great deal of' his success is due to
the efforts of his friends, whose number is
legion, and whom he has united to himself
by the peculiar magnetism of his charac
| ter. Whst he has been quick to conceive
in polities they have been as quick to exe
cute in his interest. They are bound to
him by a tie which it would seem impossi
ble to sever. Their devotion to him is of'
the warmest kind, and he has become their
leader without any apparent effort on his
part. The details of any _ policy of his
origination they have delighted to carry
out) The understanding between man and
party is of the most halmonious kind. I
1 give these particulars concerning Mr. Pen
j dleton because be is not known at the East,
i and especially as be w»U doubtless prove
! one of the most prominent candidates it)
j the Convention of July 4.
I made known my business without any
circumlocution. The smile of interest j
changed to one of surprise. That a per- j
son should travel nearly nine hundred miles '■
to hold a conversation with him was some- !
thing a little out of the routine of matters
coming within the range of his daily ob
servation. Had I been a politician even :
from New York to make a bargain regard- |
ing the nomination it would have been
surprising enough, particularly as the
: object might he attained just as well by
letter. He had no objection—none what
j ever, he said —to talk with me upon
political topics, hut “did I want to print :
the conversation ?” 1 explained that *
| such was tqy wish, as the natural sequence !
of the interview and as a part of the hu-i- |
ness which bad brought me to see hint, i
Had Mr. Pendleton been a tortoise 1 |
have no doubt that, at this moment, he
w'onlj base ycndeioq iiiuts..ii vuialiy in- j
visible to’ lie excepting his shell. As he is :
not a tortoise such a piece of zoological |
; strategy was impossible. He did sorne
tmng approaching to it in the human way,
however. The smile ot welcome, which
; had changed to one of surprise as I told
! nl - r mission, had now changed to one of
I startled apprehension.
Asa friend, sir, 1 shall be happy to
converse freely with you 0 n any and all
political subjects, but I will not do so for
the sake of having it printed. These con
versations between correspondents and
V6ry r ‘diculous—very
And move him from this determination
1 could not. It was in vain that I plied
every argument I was capable of. He
was unalterable iu his decision.
“No, sir, I could not think of it. Such
a thing would do no good. Not that I
have anything to conceal. My sentiments
are well known. There is nothing I have
to conceal. I will tell you everything in a
private way, if you promise not to print
it.”
Os course such a promise was out of
the question. Not despairing yet, I exert
ed e7ery artifice within my capacity and
employed every weapon in my reportorial
storehouse to induce a change of his de
cision. It was of no avail.
“ I nave no objection to telling you all I
think, he continued, “ but Ido not wish
to have a conversation with three or four
hundred thousand readers of the Herald
before breakfast,”
The old smile came back to his face and
the conversation turned upon the weather
or some oilier equally interesting and im
portant topic. This record of the inter
view, while serving to show Mr. Pendle
ton’s sensitiveness and his deep-rooted
conviction of the ridiculousness of holding
a conversation on political subjects tor the
benefit of the community, will also illus
trate the difficulties uuder which a corre
spondent sometimes labors, and will con
vince the reader that a correspondent’s
duties are not always couleur de rose.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
Washington, June 16, 1868.—Pauline
Bonaparte, long after she had been styled
a Princess of the Empire, upon being mar
ried to the Prince Borghese, exultingly de
clared that she now felt herself to be a
real Princess indeed! The Senators by
courtesy in Congress from the bogus States
of Nevada and Nebraska, brought into the
Senate purely to subserve the purpose of
overcoming the Presidential veto, with all
their brazen impudence, cannot conceal
their misgivings as to the reality of their
official existence. Those hailing from the
“reconstructed” States, who are thus
early ou the spot, ready to be sworn in and
tr vote per contract, evidently entertain
still stronger doubts when endeavoring to
reconcile their low personal and legislative
unity. “I cannot realize,” said one of
these worthies this morning, “the sudden
ness of my elevation,” and travestying
Burns, he continued : “The levelling ge
nius of modern civilization found me at the
plough ; I should have been proud three
years ago to have been honored with an
appointment of County Constable in my
native diggings. But the said ‘genius’
inspired me with the notion of seeking my
fortune iu tke American Indies. I started,
after the war, with a single carpet-bag,
stuffed, however, to the very lock with
gingerbread and onions; and through the
patronage of the Freedmeu’s Bureau, here
I am, an elected Senator in Congress from
a sovereign Southern State! It seems to
me like a bit of romance of tLe Sylvanus
Cobb order; but 1 don’t see that I should
be so modest as to refuse the gifts which,
as it were, Providence has rained down
upon enterprising geniuses.” “I must
say, however,” he continued, amusingly,
“that the place of Overseer of the Poor in
my native town would have appeared to
me more real, substantial and profitable
(could 1 have had hopes in that direction)
than my present position, which seems to
be of the airy structure of Aladdin’s pal
ace. ’ ’
This man has, plainly enough, a confus
ed idea of the spiritualism of his.statue.
He does not seem, however, to be aware
that the present real representatives of
States in the Senate hold their places by
quite as insecure a tenure as do Nye,
Stewart, Tipton, Thayer or himself. At
the gait things are progressing, if the Radi
cals succeed next November, in a very
little while instead of a couple of sections,
the country will bo rent into a thousand
fragments, with dual (if no more), military
despots over each. Everything looks to a
“Guelph and Ghibelline,” or a Kilkenny
Cat contest, or a central despotism.. The
Radicals themselves admit that they can
not much longer deceive the public by sheer
hypocrisy—that the form of the Govern
ment must be made to correspond with
the new order of things. In other words,
that a feigned respect for the Constitution
is in the way aud must lead to anarchy !
What think you of King Hiram, Prince
■ Colfax, Duke Wade, Marquis Butler, and
Count Logau ? It elected to the Presi
dency, Grant must, per force, assume
kingly prerogatives, to prevent universal
anarchy ! Tlie Radicals, like Robespierre,
have at last been forced to show their
hands—and, it is hoped, will moot with a
similar fate.
There is decidedly a better feeling with
in the past few days in Democratic circles,
doubt is now entertained of success
with the right sort of a oandidate. By
no kind of figuring can it bo made to ap
pear that the aggregate vote oan be in
creased by a policy which looks to a loss of
thousands of Democrats in the vain at
tempt to propitiate hundreds of fence men.
Pendleton stock above par to-day. The de
feat of Sclienek’s bill is vastly important
in this connection,
About a week ago you were informed
that Rollins would resign, that this course
was dictated by a Radical ootorie ; that it
was stipulated that he should have a
foreign mission and in consideration of
which Wisewell was to be confirmed.
Butler, Chandler and such like, were some
of the contracting parties. The foolish
letter of Rollins spoiled the arrangement.
The object of the latter was to enable Mc-
Culloch to keep his position by a little
piece of by-pl iv. Whether the move
ment will result in the retention of the
latter remains to he seen. The Intelligen
cer seems to think that the ruse will be
successful. There is less talk of Cabinet
changes lately,
H is reported that the Committee of
Ways and Means will incorporate in the
new hill one or two of the administration
clauses of the old bill with special reference
to the whiskey and tobacco tax. The
Senators generally approve qf the post
ponement of the bill originally reported.
It is probable that pending the prepara
tion of the Tax hill in the committee the
! tariff men will endeavor to call up for oon
j sideration the bill introduced a few days
! ago by General Morehead.
I I hear a rumor that the name of General
Martin McMahon, of New York, will be
! sent to the Senate fbr confirmation as Min
ister tq Mexico,
Prance and Italy have really been in a
diplomatic correspondence about Italian
organ grinders in Paris. Some have already
been sent Lack and the rest uru to be dealt
with in like manner,
The custom ok allowing the bride to en
joy a monopoly of the wedding presents
was not adhered to at a recent fashionable
wedding in St. Louis. The groom was
substantially rememberod in a special
douceur, the donor of which was the
bride’s mother. In a silver uru or pitcher
was a plain-looking bit of paper, which
was found to be, by those who had the 1
curio-ity to examine it, a check in his
favor for $25.000. What a model rp.qtua
in-law.
The annual “Derby prophets” in Eng
land were, as usual, nowhere this year.
; Five of the leading sporting papers of Lon
don predicted that the favorite, Lady
; Elizabeth, would carry off the honors of
| the day, while only one, the s£ra,
placed Biue Gown, theactuq( sinner first.
The joke of the muttqrL, that Lady Eliza
beth is so far Behind in the race that the
1 judges did not even place her.
The Aboriginal Australian Cricketers
I have played their first match in England,
and suffered a disastrous defeat. Their
j opponents were an Eleven taken from
! the Surrey Club, who scored 222 in one
: inning to 215 scored byfhe Australians in
two innings.
The Rev. Dr. George R. Noyes, a v*eil
known biblical scholar, and <or the last
! twenty-eight year- a Professor in the
Divinity school connected with Howard
L Diversity, died on June 3d, in his 71st
, year.
A casket of jewels, the property of a
lady of rank, was lately sold at auction in
London for upwards of £19,000.^
An “expiatory church” to the xqetnory
of.Maximilian is building at Vienna.—
Trieste has raised twenty thousand florins
to eroet a qmni.iqent to the same unfortu
naje BriqefL
The Cincinnati Commercial says Mr. B.
F. Butler has a faculty of exciting public
disgust such as few men possess.
A special train passed through Columbus
on Monday which came direct from Savan
nah and was en route to Mobile. On it
were President vVadley, of the C. It. R. •
President Holt, of the S. W. R. R Gen!
Howell Cobb, Hon. Thos. Hardeman and
others.
A negro was imprisoned in Quitman
county fur horse stealing and was chained
by the jailor because the jail was insecure
Maj. Cochrane, (J. S. A , ordered the
jailor s arrest an 1 took him to Eufaia and
placed him in jail. The offense was in j
chaining a negro. If he had been a white ;
man nothing would have been said.
The military coinmistiou, appointed by
Torquemadit Meade, are still engaged in
mvcniigating'the petition sent to General
Meade praying for the removal of the city ,
officials of Savannah. Only one mantas
acknowledged that he signed K
The greatest up the Union and i
Haeifh ivillmd over the Rocky moun- j
(aitis—hiifeet to the mile—is no steeper j
rliati the grade on the Boston and Albany j
Railroad between Pittsfield and Hinsdale. •
State News.
fright at having a dog attack he?’ h gL
Colonel Edward P. Watkins = „
nent citizen of Coweta county, died on°iast
baturday of a pulmonary complaint
Between Torquemada Mea<b> i •
minions, Columbus will soon be detoim
lated. A large number of arrestewerc
made again on Tuesday. The parties arc
not toid the charges against them
Hon. Ben. H. Hill declared on 'Monday
last in a conversation with the editor of the
Macon Telegraph , t hat the Southern dele
gations would have but little to do with
nominating the Presidential candidate.”
A negro named Wesley Bibb, a waiter in
ByiDgton’s Hotel, in Macon, fell from the
dining-room window of that building on
Tuesday last, and was killed almost instant
ly by the fall.
We learn from the Press & Messenger
that a colored Conservative Club will be
formed shortly in Eatonton, designed to
organize against the encroachments of the
Radical party.
The negro sentenced so be hung on Fri
day last, at Montecillo for murder, was not
executed, owing to an order from General
Meade for his retention in jail until alter
the Legislature meets.
Ihe case ot John E. Hayes against
Charles H. Hopkins, Jr., for assault with
intent to kill, was before the Savannah
Superior Court on Tuesday, but continued
on account of the absence of one of the
principal witnesses.
The Depot at Butler, Taylor county, was
burned on Sunday last Forty bales of cot
ton, fifteen bales of osnaburgs, fifty casks
of bacon and several car loads of corn were
destroyed at a loss of over $40,000.
We learn from the Rome Courier that a
large number of emigrants from Virginia
and Tennessee, mostly farmers, are settling
in Cherokee county, Georgia. Let all
come who will and drive out the negroes.
The Columbus prisoners, in Atlanta,
who were recently released from close con
finement, have been returned to solitary
confinement in dungeons. This is thought
to be the work of the detectives of Torque
mada Meade.
General Summary.
The trains on the Mobile & Ohio Rail
road are again stopped by strikers.
The first cotton bloom was received in
Memphis on Saturday from Tipton county.
Two companies of Fenians were muster
ed into the service on Tuesday night in
Nashville.
A Federal soldier was poisoned iu a
house of prostitution in Nashville on Sun
day. /
Fifteen hundred singers are expeeted at
the German Saeugerfest in Chicago.
Chicago claims an increase of forty-one
thousand in population within the last
eighteen months.
The New England Anti-slavery Society
has pronounced against Grant.
There is a large amount of emigration to
the Western counties of Minnesota.
Santa Anna has agents at Brownsville,
Texas, preparing for a raid into Mexico
from that point.
The Union Pacific Railroad is now com
pleted to the six hundredth mile-post west
of Omaha.
Brigham \ouog has the contract to
grade the Union Pacific Railroad from the
head of Echo Canon to Salt Lake, and has
begun work.
At St. Joseph’s Church, New York, on
the 11th instant, the Archbishop confirmed
and administered the holy sacrament to
over eight hundred girls aud boys.
Election returns now complete from
thirty-one districts in South Carolina, in
dicate that the Radicals have carried fif
teen and the Democrats sixteen districts.
The Lancaster (Penn.) Herald has “the
authority of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens for
stating that the tax on whiskey will be re
duced by the present Congress from two
dollars per gallon to seventy five cents.”
Day before yesterday the steamer
Daniel Drew ran from Yonkers ta New
York, a distance of fourteen and a half
miles, in thirty-four minutes and forty
five seconds. Fastest time oti record.
By a case just adjudicated in Chicago,
it has been decided that a telegraph com
pany is responsible in damages for an
error in the transmission of a telegram,
whether tho message is repeated or not.
One act of the Methodist Episcopal Con
vention at Chicago was to rescind a vote
ot censure passed in 1856 upon two mem
bers of the body for attending an anti
slavery prayer meeting.
A man named Dill, Senator elect from
the Kershaw district, South Carolina, was
murdered in his own house, a few nights
since. A negro man sitting in the same
room was also killed.
, On Saturday night the President offered
tne office of Attorney General to Mr.
Everts, ofNew York.
It is thought that Montgomery Blair
will be appointed to succeed Reverdy
Johnson in tho Senate.
The banks ot Chili obtained permission
from the Government to issue notes to tho
amount of $5,340,000.
An election at Mound City, Illinois, held
Saturday, resulted in the triumph of the
entire Democratic ticket, a gain of about
100 votes.
Adjutant General Thomas has been, at
his own request, sent Soutli to finish his
examination and report upon cemeteries
for Union soldiers.
The Chilian governmant has finally dis
posed of ail the steamers purchased in the
United States as useless, at a loss of sever
al hundred thousand dollars.
Secretary Seward, with soma members
Oi ni3 family and friends, arrived at
Auburn, New York, Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Seward is in excellent health.
Reports aro prevalent of a scheme for
the secession of Northern Mexican States.
Foreigners give gloomy descriptions of the
condition of the country.
A Sorosis was organized in Chicago
Friday. Mrs. M. A Livermore, formerly
of the Sanitary Commission, Ruth Hall
and other leading ladies are members.
Georgo Bowman, a druggist, committed
suicide in St. Rouis on Saturday. He re
cently married a ballet girl at the Varie
ties, and was arrested tor arson. The
cause of the suicide was melancholy.
A call is issued for a convention of col
ored representatives of the Border States
in Baltimore, on the 4th of August, tor the
purpose of the organization of the colored
people of those States to agitate the ques
tion of equal rights.
The amount ot fractional Currency print
ed last week was $457,000; one and two
dollar notes, $234,000. The shipments of
the former were $424,625, and of United
States notes $197,124. The amount of
National Bank currency destroyed was
$508,300.
The National Intelligencer of the 15th
| instant publishes a lengthy editorial, argu
: ing the necessity of the removal of Secre
tary McCulloch at once, and setting forth
j the grievances the friends of the adminis-
I tration urge againt McCulloch.
Mrs. Southworth, the novelist, headed
j a party of women wi»o called upon the
Committee on the District of Columbia on
i the 13th inst. to ask that women be grant
ed the suffrage privilege. The Committee
promised due consideration of their tne
j morial and remarks in favor thereof,
j. The editor of the Columbus (Ga.) Sun
\ is iq Washington urging a speedy trial of
j the parties arrested ou the charge ofcom
| pficity in the murder of Ashburn some
l titne since. He declares that they
are denied a trial, and are not permitted
| interviews with their counsel.
A dispatch from Montreal states that
J officers of the United States Army are
said to be on the frontier, between Rouse’.-
Point and Ogdensburg, with instructions
from Gen. Grant to ascertain the correct
ness of the report of Fenian arms being
| secreted there. A battery of Royal Ar
tillerv is to Re «mt from Montreal to Isle
au Notr, in Richelieu river.
Senator Fessenden has received a letter,
signed by thirty prominent citizens of
Boston, sinned by Governor Bullock, en
dorsing his course on impeaehmont, and
tendering him a public dinner. 110 re
plies, thanking them fur the honor, but
declining the invitation ob aocouut of en
gagements.
A vary de.,;; lytivc fire occurred at Mar
qUotSf, Michigan, on j j'- 1 »v ’ . ,hl, the
11th inst. Over one Luuo: ' ; buildings ia
the business part of the town were con
sumed. The loss is over one million
dollars. Insurance small.
she Massachusetts delegates to the
Democratic National Convention organized
on tfio 12th inst. by appointing J. G. Ab
bott Chairman. A motion that if a
majority were in favor of any particular
candidate the voio should be east as a unit,
was tabled.
The Orphan Girls' Home at Newton
Center, Mass., was destroyed by fire Sun
day while the inmates were at Chureb. A
barn belonging to the establishment was
also destroyed. The fire is supposed to
j have been the work of an incendary. Loss
j not ascertained.
j The cultivation us tlu> sugar beet is rap
j idly becoming aa important interest in ll
i Jinois. Diving the past week, the “Au
j rora Beet Sugar Company” have pur
; chased four huudred and eighty-five acres
of land, at a cost of thirty-three thousand
dollars, near Montgomery, for the purpose
of entering upon their operations.
The Melik) Tribune, of th<* 13th in
’ dulges in a little serious talk. Ifir the bene
fit of the Mobile Register. A pointed
1 allusion is made to the course pursued by
F. W. Kellogg, Collector of Internal
Kovouuc 'ikito pla.ee, ia first worming
himsplf into the confidence of the South
I ern people and then joining the ranks of
heir “implacable enemies, - ’
