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Chronicle & Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY HOMING. JI'LY 1.
Sharp and Quick.
lu another column will he found the
proclamation of li. If Bullock, so-called
Governor of Georgia, convening the Legis
lature on the 4th day of July next, at
noon.
The object of this indecent haste is too
apparent to -need exposure. Like his
great master in artifice, chicanery and
fraud, Bullock works “sharp and quick."
Two Senators are to Ik; elected ; the 1 4th
article of the Constitution, known as the
Howard Amendment, is to be acted upon;
the complexion of the Legislature is un
certain, hence it is absolutely necessary
that the time for the convocation of the
legislature shall be so short as to prevent
the notice reaching the Democratic mem
bers, so that when the Radicals get to
gether on the 4th, they will have things all
their own way.
We have reason to believe that notice of
this call has been previously given to most
or all of the Radical members, and that
tbe proclamation was written out by
Bullock and left here before he went to
Washington, in order that it might be
published as soon as the Omnibus bill
became a law. The Democracy have a
wiley and most unscrupulous foe to deal
with, and it will require the utmost
vigilance to defeat them.
The Character or the Southern Dele- j
gates to the National Convention.
We are not surprised to learn that the
Northern and Western Democracy are
somewhat distrustful as to the character of
the Southern delegates to the New York
Convention, and the influence which they i
may exert there in shaping the action of
that body, both in the selection of the can
didates and the framing of the platform,
'fhe true Democracy fear that the men who
may control the action of the Southern
delegates are mere adventurers in the
South whose highest aims will be to secure
for themselves a goodly portion of the
Government pap in consideration for such
service as they may render in securing the
nomination of the candidate. We have
received letters from the North and West
in which the writers very freely express
their views and fears upon this subject.
They sav that they have witnessed, with
alarm and abhorrence, the selection by the
Southern Radicals of a class of delegates
to represent them in the late Chicago Con
vention, who arc confessedly mere adven
turers who have poured into the South
since the war, intent only upon plunder
and personal aggrandisement. That these
men were without character, standing or
position in die North, and could never
have ri.-en to positions of trustor honor
there. That such men are too corrupt
and ignorant to be entrusted with power,
and their active participation either in the
caucus of party, or in the counsels of the
country, will be fraught with danger to
the Republic.
They say further, that while they dis
trust the class of tnon just alluded to, they
have no definite information which assures
them that, suffering as the South does
from the blighting effects of the war, and
the still more humiliating and apparently
hopeless condition into which we have
been plunged by the infamous legislation
of the Radicals wo have not bestowed
our confidence and entrusted our interests
to some extent, at least, to the class of
harpies who are swarming around us, in
the forlorn hope, born of despair, that by
some possibility, unexplained and unex
plainable, these ereatures may be able to
control some interest or exert some influ
ence in the Convention whieli might not be
accorded to delegates from the manor born.
When we examine the list of delegates
from the Southern States to the late
Chicago Convention, and see to what, ex
tent tin; Northern carpet-bag influence
predominated there, we say that weare not
.surprised that our Northern and Western
friends should exhibit some fears in relation
to t,hc personnel of the Southern delegates
to New York ; and our surprise is mot
lessoned by the statement, which we see
going the rounds of the Northern papers,
that General B. Steadman, as leader
of the Southern delegates, will call them
together in New York and lay before them
such views as will be most expedient for
them to adopt, and that the Southern
men, actiug under his advice, will vote as
a unit, both in framing the platform and in
selecting the candidates.
Now, while wo make no objection to
General Btoadman, either as a Democrat
or a gentleman of ability and experience,
we insist that the rob which the papers
say ho is to play, us delegate from
Louisiana, is not in accordance with our
views of propriety and fitness. Wo have
no doubt but that the General earnestly
desires the success of the Democratic party
and that he will, as he doubtless has already
done, lend all his influence and devote all
his ability towards securing a Democratic
triumph, but we earnestly protest that he
is not the accepted leader of Southern
1 lemocracy.
()u this subject wo desire further to say
that so far as wo have observed the list of
Delegates to New York from the several
Southern States, we are pleased to find the
names generally of those gentlemen
who have heretofore been honored and
distinguished citizens of their respective
States. With very few the j
delegates are Southern citizens of iong
landing. When, as has been the casein j
two or three States, gentlemen have been |
selected who have moved to the South '
since the war, we are glad to know that j
that they are thoroughly identified with \
the South as permanent citizens of her j
soil. They have been among us long S
enough to know the temper and feelings of i
our people, and are too much of gentlemen
themselves to attempt to represent their j
views other than truly aud faithfully in !
the Convention. We assure our Northern
friends that the very few Delegates who
are comparatively of recent introduction in \
the South, will bo found to be men who !
occupied honorable positions both in
society and politics iu the States from
which they came, and that in all the ele
ments of the true gentlemen, they will
compare favorably with the best elements
in the Convention, and do honor, both
to the States of their nativity and of their
adoption.
We have been led to this course of re
marks by the reception of several letters
U]kuj the subject from esteemed friends in
the North aud West. We give below ex
tracts from a letter just received from
Ohio, in which it will be seen the writer
and others iu his vicinity are somewhat
perplexed on this point. He says: "I
should not be treating you with entire
frankness if I did not say that many of our
friends—devoted friends of the South
and her people—have had some fears
that, in the midst of the depressing scenes
around them—with so many of their
leaders disfranchised—so many of the old
residents impoverished, and such an in
flux of new comers, unworthy and unprin
cipled and venal men might get into the
delegations and totally misrepresent the
.sontiment of Conservatives at home.”
As tar as the delegation from Georgia
is concerned we are happy to say that the
entire delegation is such that neither our
friends abroad or the people at home
need entertain auy fears as to their conduct
in New York. They arc true Georgians,
and true Constitutional Democrats. The
interest of the Suite.and of the entire
country will be perfectly safe in their
•hands.
Southern Governors. Governor
hillock, ot Georgia, is from New York ;
Governor Clayton, ot Arkansas, is from
1 Vnntylvunia ; Governor llood, of Florida,
is from H isconsin ; Governor Warmouth,
of Louisiana, is from Illinois; Governor
heotti of South Carolina, is from Pennsyl
vania and Ohio- All carpet-baggers. The
Governor (B. i>. Eggleston), proposed for
Mississippi, is from Ohio; Governor Wells,
to Ijo voted tor in Virginia, is from Michi
gan.
Quinn’s.— We are indebted to Quinn,
of the late) ary Dc[>ot, for laic illustrated
papers, lie has all the latest."j
An Important Railroad Rill In the
Senate.
In the Senate, on Thursday, Mr. Pome
roy presented a “bill for completing a
direct and continuous line of railroad from
Washington to Mobile and other points
south, and creating a post route from
Washington to Mobile and New Orleans,
thereby securing a more certain, speedy
and economical transportation of the Uni
ted States mails, military stores and mu
nitions of war. The first section is as
follows:
That there be. and hereby is, granted to
the I ieorgia and South Carolina Air-line
Railroad Company Itonds of the United
States to the amount of six millions of
dollars to aid in the construction of the
road of said company between Atlanta,
Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, or
such other terminus as may be determined
by tbe management of said company; and
to the Alexandria and Fredericksburg
Railway Company bonds of the United
States to the amount of one million of dol
lars to aid in the completion of its road
from Alexandria; Virginia, to a point oi
junction with the Richmond, Fredericks
burg and Potomac railroad at or near the
city oi Fredericksburg, Virginia, said
bonds to mature in thirty years from their
date, bearing interest at six per centum
per anftuin, payable semi-annually in the
city of New York.
The second section provides. that the
said companies, before receiving these
bonds, shall execute their own first mort
gage to an equal amount, and no more, of
the United States bonds granted them, to
mature in thirty years, with interest at
six per cent, per annum, payable semi
annually in New York, said bonds to be
secured by a deed of trust to two trustees
oi' each road, one of whom shall be ap
pointed by the Secretary - of the Treasury
and the other by the company : said deeds
of trust to be approved by the Attorney
General, aud to vest a valid first lien in
the United States as security for the
bonds.
The third section provides that the cost :
of said toads over and above the amount |
of United States bonds granted shall be
provided by said companies; and that
when twenty miles of either road shall
have been properly constructed, the Sec
retary of the Treasury shall deliver such
portion of bonds as the distance of twenty
miles will Lear to the whole length of each
road respectively, and shall receive from
said companies a like amount of their
first mortgage bonds.
The fourth section provides that the
Georgia and South Carolina Air-Line Rail
road Company shall complete their line of
road from Charlotte to Atlanta within
three years from the passage of this act;
and the said Alexandria and Fredericks
burg Railway Company shall complete its
line of road within eighteen months from
the passage of this act, and if not so com
pleted, the said roads, or either of them,
shall stand forfeited to the United States,
to be di-posed of as Congress may direct;
and also provides for the payment of in
terest on the bonds, &c.
The fifth section provides for the pay
ment of interest, forfeiture in case of
non-payment, &c., and the sixth section
provides that the said Georgia and South
Carolina Air-Line Railroad, and the said
Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway,
when completed, together with the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potamoc rail
road, the Piedmont railroad, the North
Carolina railroad, the Atlanta and West
Point railroad, the West Point and Mont
gomery railroad, the Montgomery and
Mobile railroad, and the Washington,
Alexandria and Georgetown railroad shall
be a general post route and military road
from Wa iiington city to Mobile.
The lii! was referred to the Committee
on the Pacific Railroad.
'1 his road will be of great value to the
public, though its influence upon the
general raihaod system of the State will
be decidedly injurious. Its effects upon
the trade and commercial property of
Augusta, and upon the traffic and travel
of the Georgia Railroad, can be neutral
ized by the completion of the Columbia
aud Augusta, and Augusta and Macon
Roads, and the prompt and energetic in
auguration of the Northeastern railroad
project.
If the people of Augusta are not too
torpid to be moved with anything but fire,
it seems that the Radical Congress are
disposed to try a live coal upon their
backs. We hope that this action will
have the effect of driving them to some
exertions to preserve tho prestige of this
beautiful city.
We congratulate the people of North
eastern Georgia upon the flattering pros
pects which the completion of the Air Lino
Road holds out to that neglected section.
We think, however, that we see the cat
in the meal tub. The political complexion
of the present Legislature is very uncer
tain. Two Senators are to be elected.
South and Northeastern Georgia must be
bought. The Air Line project fulfills the
conditions of a good trade. The bill for its
aid is offered by an extreme Radical. It
has been referred to the Committee on the
Pacific Railroad! It may be destined to
lie under the table of the Committee,
never to bo resurrected.
But at any rate, the introduction of the
matter into Congress will give it such
notice as will insure its completion in a few
years at most. Let Augusta bo warned in
lime, and put forth all her energies, not
to defeat the Air Line road, but to make
up by other connections what she is bound
to lose by the completion of the Air Line.
We shall return again to this subject.
The National Democratic Convention.
Two weeks from this time the National
Democratic Convention will be iu full work
ing order in the great commercial centre of
the continent. “The fourth day of July”
will have been past, and a Sabbath will
have followed, which might well be utilized
as was the one of the Revolutionary period,
at the suggestion of Dr. Franklin, for
most serious and solemn consideration of
public affairs. *
The time seems short between this and
the date of the meeting of the Convention;
but with the momentary flashings of views
front one extreme of the country to anoth
er, days are as weeks or as months afore
time. There is abundance of time for the
public judgment to settle down upon the
imperative expediency of making a nomina
tion, military or otherwise, that shall ensure
more than that party vote, which is proba
bly a miuority of the whole vote of the
land.
It is a striking fact that at this most
exigent moment in our history a President
ial nominating convention is for the first
time to be held at the point where centres
pulsations of the whole commercial system
of the continent May we not, therefore,
indulge the hope, that at that coueentrated
point of all that relates to our material
affairs there may evolve a force that shall
send the vital current of political strength
with a bounding aud accelerated velocity
to the extremest bounds of the nation?*
Yea, may not a vibrating tremor affect the
opinions of Christendom, so as to evoke a
reaching sympathetic movement that shall
inspire all American hearts with new emo- ;
tions of enthusiasm aud encouragement to
sublime and godlike action.
In so far as the great city of New York
represents the nation above all other cities,
and in so tar as she is “ a city set upon a
hill,” which shiueth out to all the earth,
a stern duty arises on her part, on so
grand an occasion, to act in a dignified,
j udicious and liberal manner. If her pub
lic opinion aud influence be not as wise as
great, and as calm as thoughtful, then
will it be matter for the profound sorrow of
patriots iu all after time that a secluded
spot most favorable to counsel had not
been preferred to one where the popular
sentiment is as strong as the ground-swell
of the sea itself.
At a time like this, when the people
hunger and thirst for the annunciation of a
name for the Presidential office that in
itself shall seem to be a portent of success,
a synonym of triumph, and an inspiration
of right, it will not do for a lot or parcel of
politicians to be wasting moments that are
truly precious, in the regard that all minds
in the nation are instinel with anxious
earnestness ; by huckstering and chaffer
ing, bargaining and selling, tricking and
dodging, scheming and shuffling, pulling
aud hauling, with all other kindred arts
known to base partisan demagogues.
The people will sicken at heart if their
high patriotic promptings do not have
lull aud prompt development at the New
York Convention.
After the needed prefatory period for
consideration, let votes be taken and a
high name be heralded out to the country
as if by the thunder gun of heaven ; a
name that shall stir the moral element of
American citizenship, and challenge an un
exampled support of the people. Let dele
gates remember that there are millions
upon millions of their white brothers in
the Southern States that are now under
abhorrent and hateful negro rule. To en
force this, glittering sabres flash above
their heads, and the bayonets of a relucting
soldiery, under stern and inexorable orders
of superior military satraps, are at their
throats. Is this a fancy picture ? Did
not General Garfield say at the date of the
passage of the first Reconstruction Act,
that it “pin the bayonet at the throat of the
South/ ' Since then have we not had
two or three worse acts, which have more
strongly riveted the bolts of white bondage
in the South ? And do wo not constantly
hear of their having put upon their limbs
—the whites of the South —all and several
of the manacles and chains and other tor
tures that tyranny habitually imposes upon
its unresisting victim ? If Grant, during
a time of profound peace, speaks oi' men
whom he would imprison and journals that
he would suppress, what fate different
from that now visited upon the Sou’ll may
not be anticipated by the people of the
North, should he be successful in the elec
tion ?
The vital question, indeed, is, whether
or not the white people of the entire coun
try are, after the 4th of March next, to be
free or to be slave —whether or not the
military despotism that pervades the
South is to be extended to the North —
whether or not a black, shoreless, aod tur
bid sea of despotic rule is to engulf the
land, and sink in dark and bloody night
the very name of freedom I This is the
sole, all-pervading, all-absorbing, excited,
passionate thought of white men wherever
in the nation shines the sun of a beneficent
God. The people, one and all, want to
get clear of their chains, and the worse
bonds that are too clearly and fearfully
seen in the shadowy future. They desire a
result in the election that shall make thus
much sure, so that at the ides of Novem
ber they may cry out: “Behold the
tyrant prostrate in the dust, and Rome
again is free.”
The delegates at New York, represent
ing such an intense public feeling, should j
be actuated as were the sons of the plough I
that stemmed serried valor at Lexington ; \
that threw the tea overboard in Boston j
harbor, and who opposed their bare bo- 1
soms to British bullets in the city that sits
at the foot of the height where Charles
town was burned, and where Warren fell.
Delegates at the New Y'ork Convention
should remember as intensely as do the
people that the tyranny aad wrong, and
cruelty that Great Britain enforced upon
the people of the Northern provinces bore
no earthly comparison to the disgusting
negro rule now pushed on by bayonets
upon the white people of the South.
Referring to the atrocities of Great Brit
ain upon the people of New England at
that period, Patrick Henry, representing
that chivalrous sentiment of the South
which took no thought, when their breth
ren were in danger and in suffering, of
i their own more favorable treatment by the
! mother country, sounded out bold and
I clear the first war notes: “Our chains are
: forged. Their clanking may be beard on
j the plains of Boston. The next gale that
i sweeps from the North will bring to our
ears the clash of resounding arms. Is life
so dear or peace so sweet as to be pur
chased at the price of chains aud slavery?”
The delegates of the Convention at New
York must, if they would rescue the
country by a peaceful solution from present
or impending woes, promptly, speedily,
without any delay, and without any denial,
make a nomination that shall thrill the
hearts of men like a trumpet’s tone,
“When the long line comes gleaming on.,’
Hr dfr % Hr
W e are thus earnest as to the selection
of a man in whom arc combined the ele
ments that can assuredly secure success,
because the issue of freeing ten millions of
whites of the South from the thrall of
hated negro supremacy is transcendently
the greaiest'that can, by any possibility,
engage or excite the minds ot true and just
men. They are, or are to bo, by Congres
sional act, under the yoke of the negro.
Not only are they to bo made to crouch to
blacks, but the latter, by acting as a unit
in ten States of the South, to say nothing
of tho Border ones, where negroes are so
numerous, may possibly, as things are,
come into the halls of Congress, or into
tho electoral college, and acting in unison
with the class States of New England, and
three or four others, control the politics of
the country. Once in power in all parts
and places of executive trust, what shall
prevent their domination in the North in
all respects that may suit their imagina
tions or passions? The great evil of their
supremacy being once upon us, a multi
tude of others, as general negro suffrage,
with proscription of whites at the*
North, pnight follow. It is in view
of the woes that arc menaced to the Bor
der States, and that yet may befall the
North, that we feel that Southern dele
gates should act as freely in the Con
vention as any others. If there are those
in the Convention from the North who,
looking into the future, have such grave
apprehensions as to themselves as to make
it with them a first and last thought to put
the issue of white freedom in the South high
above all other merely material ones, then
they should certainly be aided in their
great and just endeavor with all the power
that the South can exert by its voice and
its votes.
We do not subscribe for a moment to
the idea that Southern delegates should
not act like any others. To do otherwise
is to destroy their power for that useful
ness which, to pretermit, may precipitate
sad fatalities in public affairs for all com
ing time. Northern Democratic delegates
do not even suggest anywhere or in any
manner that Southern ones representing a
grand constituency, indeed, a tremendous
element of power aud pride to any party—
eight or ten millions—or tho almost entire
white race of the now prescribe# States of
tho South, shall not bo their peers. If
delegates of the South are now intense
sufferers from Jacobin wrong, and outrage,
and cruelty, their counsels are needed in
respect to what menaces in the future all
the people who arc now so keenly appro
hensivo as to their lives and property,
with all and singular of other rights and
privileges belonging to American citizen
ship. An imperiled people demand that
the Southern delegates shall do their duty
to the whole land by taking such part in
public affairs as it is in their power to as
sume National Intelligencer.
The New BUI Regulating the Wills key
Tobacco, and Bank Taxes.
The bill reported by the Ways and
Means Committee is entitled “An act to
change and more effectually secure the col
lection of the internal taxes on distilled
spirits, tobacco, and the tax on banks.”
The tax is reduced to sixty cents per gal
lon on distilled spirits, and the following
are the proposed rates on tobacco and snuff,
which shall be manufactured and sold, or
removed for consumption or use : On snuff
manufactured from tobacco, or any substi
tute for tobacco, ground, dry, damp,
pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all de
scriptions, when prepared for use, a tax of
thirty-two cents per pound; and snuff
flour, when sold or removed for use or
consumption, shall be taxed as snuff, and
shall be put up in packages and stamped
in the same manner as snuff; on all chew
ing tobacco, fine cut, plug, or twist; on
all smoking tobacco, not made exclusively
of stems; on all tobacco twisted by hand,
or reduced from the leafinto a condition to
be corsumed, or otherwise prepared with
out the use of any machiue or instrument,
aud without *being pressed or sweetened,
and on all other kinds of manufactured to
bacco not herein otherwise provided for, a
tax of thirty-two cents per pound;
on all fine cut shorts, the refuse of
fine cut chewing tobacco, which can be
passed through a riddle of sixteen meshes
to the square inch, and on all refuse scraps
and sweepings of tobacco a tax of sixteen
cents per pound. The tax on segars is to
continue the same as at present. The bill
provides that there shall be a tax of one
twelfth of one per cent, each mouth upon
the average amouut of the deposits of
money subject to payment by check or
draft, or represented by certificates of de
posit or otherwise, whether payable on de
mand or some future day with any person,
bank, association, company, or corpora
tion engaged in the business of banking,
and a tax of one-twenty-fourth of one per
cent, each month upon the capital of any
bank, association, company or corporation,
and on the capital employed by any person
in the business of banking beyond the
average amount invested in United States
bonds, and a tax of one-sixth of one per
cent, each month upon the average amount
of circulation issued by any bank, associa
tion, corporation, company, or person, in
cluding as circulation all certified checks
and all notes and other obligations circula
ted or intended to circulate or to be used
as money, but not including that in the
vault of the bank, or redeemed and on
deposit for said bank, and also three per
cent, on Government deposits.
The bill contains substantially all the
machinery contained in the former bill for
the collection of the tax and to guard
against frauds.
Nineteen Negroes Drowned.—From
a gentleman who reached our city yester
day we learned the particulars, as far as
could be gathered up to the time of his
departure, of the drowning of nineteen
negroes.
On Sunday last a party of twenty-five
negroes, many of them under the influence
of liquor, started from the Burgess' Mill,
on the Satilla River, in a small sail-boat,
to attend a meeting at Jeffersonton. On
the way the boat, through the mismanage
ment of those who were sailing it, cap
sized, and nineteen of the party were
drowned. The others saved themselves
by clinging to the boat until help arrived.
Os those drowned eleven were men, the
rest women and children. Everything was
done to recover the bodies, and up to two
o’clock Wednesday afternoon eleven bodies
had been found.—’ Savannah News, June
26th.
Mr. W. A. Ballard, a member elect to
the Legislature from Walton eounty, hav
ing been published as a Radical by the
Atlanta Era , declares that he is not now,
nor ever was a member of that party, but
that he Will act aud vote with the Democ
racy.
On Wednesday night last a band of
armed negroes went to the house of a Mr.
Brown, in Screven county, for the purpose
of carrying off. by force, a girl hired there.
A row ensued, in whieh'one of the negroes
fired at Mr. Brown, who returned the fire,
killing one of the party, wounding another
and putting the rest to flight.
The Peaceable Condition of the South.
Wuh the undoubted causes for irrita
tion and excitement which exist in the un
reconstructed States it is a marvel how
the Southern people keep so quiet and
peaceable. Born with a love of freedom
at once deep and ineradicable, and inherit
ing a repugnance to military oppression
which the war of the Revolution devel
oped and nurtured, we have seen them
sitting quietly down for the past three
years and peaceably submitting to the yoke
of the conqueror. Government changes
their military dictators with all the facility
of a prestidigitateur, simply a “ Hi, pres
to I” being all that is required to displace
a Sheridan and install a Hancock; it
smashes down a Sickles and up springs a
Canby; it upsets a Pope and out pops a
Meade; and the people, save a few sput
terings in some of the newspapers, are
scarcely heard to murmur. Their civil
officers are removed as easily as a Bergen
farmer would cut down his drumheads in
the fall. Tne military regulators change
at pleasure all local officers—the mayors,
sheriffs, aldermen, judges, and even the
juries, peppering the boxes of the latter
occasionally with a sprinkling of blacks,
thus savoring justice with a spice that
must be extremely agreeable to any decent
white mans taste. In short, the military
authority in the South is absolute penetra
ting social as well as public life aud every
branch of society. Yet there is no trouble.
The Southern people do not complain
loudly. They are the most obedient
people in the world, and there is no more
peaceable country on the face of the globe
than the South. Still, these people are
called rebels and ex-rebels, and the Radi-
cals hold them up as monsters unsuitable
for political consideration and even unfit
for Christian burial. They even dispute
their right to bestrew the graves of their
fallen warriors with the garlands of re
membrance and love. But any one who
visits the South at this time and examines
for himself will find that those who fought
the fiercest in their fight against each other
—from the North and from the South —
are now the warmest friends, and all busi
ness enterprises undertaken in an honest
and trustworthy spirit by Northern “boysin
blue” are cordially welcomed and encour
aged by Southern “ boys in gray.” It is
the miserable, whining, hypocritical “car
pet-bagger,” who creeps into the South
like a thief at midnight into a dwelling,
steals all he can lay his hands on, poisons
i the minds of a credulous people, and then
| crawls away, leaving in the trail of his
! pestiferous presence to mark jthe path he
has taken, who is now working the greatest
evil to the Southern country. It is time the
incubus was raised from that fair land and
her people allowed again to enjoy that
liberty which their revolutionary fathers
fought to attain, and which has been
chastened and refined, and rendered more
appreciable by the terrible ordeal they
have recently passed through.— N. Y.
Herald.
Out of Thine Own Mouth, <fec.
Tho Republican Party was born in 1856,
met in Grand Convention twelve' years
since and made the following Platform,
which we commend to the attention of the
honest men of the party :
“Resolved , That while the Constitution
of the United States was ordained and es
tablished by the people in order to form a
more perfect union, establish justice, in
sure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defence, and secure the blessings
of liberty, and contains ample provisions
for the protection of the life, liberty, and
property of every citizen, the dearest con
stitutional rights of the people of Kansas
have been fraudulently and violently taken
from them—their territory has been invad
ed by an armed force—spurious and pro-,
tended legislative, judicial, and executive
officers have been set over them, by whose
usurped authority, sustained by the mili
tary power of the Government, tyrannical
and unconstitutional laws have been enact
ed and enforced—the rights of the people
to keep and bear arms have been infringed
—test oaths of an extraordinary and en
tangling nature have been imposed, as a
condition of exercising the right of suffrage
and holding office—the right of an accused
person to a speedy and public trial by an
impartial jury has been denied—the right
of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects against unreas
onable searches and seizures has been vio-
lated—they have been deprived of life,
liberty and property without due process
of law—that the freedom of speech and of
the press has been abridged—the right to
choose their representatives has been made
of no effect—murders, robberies, and ar
sons have been iustigated and encouraged,
and the offenders have been allowed to go
unpunished—that all these things have
been done with the knowledge, sanction,
and procurement of the present adminis
tration, and that for this high crime
against the Constitution, the Union and
humanity, we arraign the President, his
advisers, agents, supporters, apologists,
and accessories, either before or after the
facts, before the country and before the
world, and that it is our fixed purpose to bring
the actual perpetrators of these atrocious
outrages, and their accomplices, to a sure
and condign punishment hereafter.”
Here is an exact picture of the South
under the Radical rule of Military Gov
enrnent and Freedmcn’s Bureaus. Every
word said in regard to the Kansas of 1856
applies to Virginia and all the States in
1868. There, the Military Power is supe
rior to the Civil Power. There, Freed
men’s Bureaus and Military Satraps take
the place of State and Municipal Govern
ment. There, the negro is placed above
tho white man. There, 250,000 white
citizens are disfranchised, and 715,000
negroes given the ballot. There, in the
precise terms of the above Resolution, the
Constitution is daily violated, and has
been for the last thousand days, which is
not the time since the surrender of Lee by
more than two hundred days. In the
better days of the Republic one hour's de
liberate violation of the great principles of
Constitutional liberty would have ardused
the People like the blast of a trumpet.—
New York Express.
Well Put.—The New Y T ork Courier
gives utterance, in the following pointed
remarks, to certain truths, which we of the
South know to be so from the sad lessons
taught by military despotism and Radical
misrule :
Peace I Peace ! —General Grant in his
letter of acceptance says, “Let us have
peace.” Certainly—by all means. Why
don’t we ? We don’t ask for the military
satrap and Freedtuen’s Bureau despotism.
Instead of them—let us have peace. We
don’t ask to have two millions of whites
disfranchised that five hundred thousand
blacks may rule. Let us have peace. We
don't ask to have New England rule the
whole country, at the cost of no matter
what expense of money or blood. Let us
have _ peace. We don’t ask for a large
standing army, that home guard political
Major Generals may wear two stars on
their shoulders. Lotus have peace. We
don’t ask to have the national faith,
pledged to our brave foes at Lee’s sur
render, turned into a base and cowardly
lie. Let us have peace- We don’t ask
for Jacobinism, Red Republicanism, and a I
saturnalia of stealing and debauchery. :
Let us have peace. We don’t ask a sec j
tional faction to seize the whole power of j
the Republic and to use it to rule or ruin. |
Let us have peace. We don’t ask for new j
and accumulated taxes; a monthly increas- i
ing public debt ; a Congress of imbecile, j
one-idea, raving lunatics ; a depreciated i
currency; a destroyed marine ; a perishing i
commerce ; a stagnant trade ; languishing i
manufactures ; public officers, seven- j
eighths of whom their own Congressmen
say are thieves, and a universal deteriora
tion of public morals and private happi
ness. We ask for none of these things.
They are war. War to the knife. War
to the household and the hearth. War to
body and soul. We ask to have them
cease and vanish forever. We ask for
peace, and we thank the General for lend
ing us that word. Peace! Peace !!
Peace ! !!
General Hampton at Lexington
Va. —At the annual dinner of the Alumni
of W ashingtoa College, Virginia, on
Thursday last, the fourth regular toast
was:
“ The fallen heroes of the war ! Noble
men ! the story of their martyrdom adds
fresh lustre to a motto too often sneered
at, ‘’Dulce et decorum est pro *patria
moriV ”
General Echols said he would call on to
respond to that toast the man whom our
fallen heroes would call on if they could
speak—Gen. Wade Hampton.
Gen. Hampton said that he was proud
to think that our fallen braves would be
willing to accept votive offerings from him.
Alluding most touchingly to our martyred
dead, he said that our grief should be
tempered as we remember that they fell
when they thought they would not fall in
vain—that they fell in the bright hope
that success would crown our efforts. But
he did not believe they had fallen in vain
—the cause tor which Jackson and Stuart
fell cannot be in vain, but in some form
would yet triumph. He proposed the
“ Lost Cause,” for which our heroes fe!L
This was drank silently and solemnly by
all.
—
Public Documents.—We are indebted
to Hon. Win, Mungen for valuable public
documents.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
i.srsciAl, COEEZfrjKDXISCI OF Tils CESOXICLS A SZSTIXSI..
New Yohk, June 23, 1868.
Dear Chronicle: —
The great human tide setting toward
this city swells hour by hour, coming
chiefly iro&i the YY est. Asa consequence,
board and room rent have advanced won'
derfully in price under the increased and
increasing demand for accommodation.
The Georgia delegation have been well
provided for, through the agency of Col.
James Gardner, of your city, at the re-
quest of Judge Cabiness, the Chairman of
your State Executive Committee. The
rooms have been engaged at the Chandler
House, a large new Hotel located just
opposite the new Tammany Hall, and
“run ’ under the supervision of Dr. Dun
can, of South Carolina, whose character as
“mine tost” has been established long
since at the Mills House of Charleston,
and at the Planters’ in Augusta. The
representatives from Connecticut—the
grand banner State of Democracy—the
first to stem the tide of Radicalism, will
have their headquarters at the same
Hotel. Connecticut has fairly won, and
will present, her claims for either the tem
porary or permanent Chairman of the
Convention. The probabilities ar3 that
the temporary Chairman will be accorded
her, ana thus enable her to shape at the
outset idle course of the proceedings. Under
such circumstances there will be a con
test for the permanent Chairman or
President. Such Western delegations
as have arrived are greatly excited
by the prevalent rumor that the
bonded interest and the National Bank
interest have raised a large sum for
the purpose of controlling within the lines
of both the Republican and the Democratic
parties the election of such Congressmen
as will serve their interests. A large sum
is alleged to be in the hands of tho leaders
of a ring in this city, nominally Democrats,
and by some sort of courtesy, so
styled ; but, really, if what is sail
of them be true, political Ishmaelities
and free-booters. It .is openly charged
that a certain prominent official and
professional wire-puller controls the man
ner of disbursing this sum and, in ad
dition thereto, levies a tax or black mail,
amounting to one-third of their yearly
salary, upon all of his underlings. It is
also asserted that the services of a certain
number of delegates have been secured
for co-operation. The matter is thus to
be manipulated so far as the Con
vention is concerned; support is to
be solicited from Southern delegates by
appeals to principle, in taking extreme
ground in framing tbe platform, and in
advocating extreme men as the officers of
tbe Convention, not only without a show
of concession, but with a menace of a
separate organization- Such rumors have
produced much feeling among Western
men, which finds vent in utterances con
sistent with the feeling engendered, but
not at all of a conciliatory character. You
will notice that the New Y'ork Herald al
ready charges that “unreconstructed ante
deluvian leaders of the South are here
actively at work” to effect a disruption,
such as that which made memorable the
last Convention held in Charleston. Now
this charge of the Herald is without foun
dation, so far as the South is concerned,
despite the fact that the Herald finds in a
forced construction of a recent editorial of
the Charleston Mercury , sufficient grounds
to give color to the charge. “The seces
sion element of the South is” not as the
Herald asserts “on the ground.” But the
valiant secession Ben Butler’s of Democ
racy are on the ground and are active ;
but they will fail in their endeavors signal
ly. The effort is being made to make the
vote of the South decisive, both as to the
nominees and the issues to be presented.
Under these circumstances it should be
urged upon all Southern delegations
as the dictate of prudence and sound
policy, that they should abstain from
all participation in the proceedings
of the Convention until all conflicting
issues have been adjusted, and only par
ticipate so far as to give a cordial ratifica
tion of the nominees selected. Such a
course will easily avoid the trap so adroit
ly set, andjat the same time blow up a nice
little mine from which the Radicals expect
to draw effective political thunder. The
Pendleton men say that the battle has
to be fought at the North—that even if a
fair ballot could be obtained in the South-
ern States —that vote could not decide the
contest in the coming election, but that
there is not the slightest probability that
a fair ballot can be had, as it will be under
the control aud management of the Rad
ical Congress, through the beaurea sys
tem which is shortly to assume tho name
and form and functions of Slato Govern
ments : that as Southern voters will not
elect, therefore they should not, at
such a juncture, assist in making nomina
tions, butithat those should bo left to those
who will make the fight, and who alone can
best estimate their requirements. Such a
course will not be displeasing to Chase
men out of New York. They aver that
without the aid of tho South Pendle
ton will fail of tho requisite two-thirds,
and the Convention will, for the sake of the
harmony of the party and with a certainty
not only of success at the polls, during the
impending election, but of breaking down
the Radical party for all time to coine, act
through the expresssed will of the North
ern delegates alone.
Western men say that tho Chase move
ment originated with and is pressed by
Horatio Seymour, ofNew York, who de
sires the nomination, notwithstanding
his declarations, and expects to receive it as
a compromise candidate acceptable to
all parties. Be this as it may, Mr. Sey
mour will fail of Western support, because,
in a late speech, he spoke harshly of the
West. There appears to be an antagonism
existing between the adherents ofSeymour
and those of Pendleton ; why this should
be, has been only answered by the sug
gestion of rival aspirations. The propriety
and policy of giving to Pennsylvania the
nomination of Vice President continues to
be discussed and grows in favor. The in
dications point to Hancock and Packer as
the most prominent, nevertheless the name
of John Quincy Adams is mentioned with
marked good feeling, and T. 11. Seymour,
of Connecticut, with considerable en-
cliusiasm. But the opinions of the Pennsyl
vania delegation will go far towards
determining who shall be the candidate,
notwithstanding the partisan activity ex
hibited in favor of particular candidates,
great and unvarying confidence is expressed
in relation to success at the polls. In a
group of four this morning, one favoring
Pendleton, another Chase, another Andrew
Johnson and another Hancock, each in turn
asserted that the fight would be won if
the name of his favorite should be selected,
and the assertion of each received the un
qualified assent of all. An enthusiastic
Western editor coming up and learning
what had been said, roared out, “we
can whip them with Bny body.” The course
of the 39th and 40th Congresses has re
constructed the Democratic party if it has
not reconstructed the Union, and the
glorious old party is stronger and purer to
day than ever before, for it has been freed
from the incubus of all Butler
Democracy. By the way, there
is a good, story current about Butler.
On a late occasion “Old Skewball. S. S.,
U. S. A., ” took occasion to unfold his stra
tagem in securing testimony in the \Vooley
investigation, to be used as a “splendid
campaign document, ” to a fellow-Repub
lican. After the revelation had been
made, Butler inquired of his companion
if he had not heard him pronounced a fool?
The member of the House, to whom the
question was addressed, answered, “No!
I have never heard you called precisely a
fool, but I have heard you called a
spooney!"
There is some hope that anew com
mandant will be sent to the Fifth Military
District. It is generally believed that
General Rosseau, who desires to be re
lieved ot his Sitka Governorship,
will take the place of the satrap
wh' now rules your State. Such a
change will put anew face on things in
Georgia, as Rosseau is said to be a man
of brains and not likely to be ruled by a
Radical Judge Advocate General, nor a
turncoat “brought up in the Calhoun
School,” nurtured in the theory and
practice of secession, and unsuccessful war,
and developing like a mushroom into ram
pant Radicalism. Those who know Ros
seau say that he will think for himself,
and will be far from devolving that duty
upon Radical subalterns and new light
Radical secessionists.
Meade’s friends here say in his justifi
cation, that the Columbus arrests were
made in pursuance of orders received from
i Washington, which orders were based upon
1 representations ot U. S. detectives, now
l under the control of certain officials in your
; State. This is possible—but not probable.
But it is difficult to believe, in the face of
| testimony adduced at the coroner’s inquest,
that any such information could have im
plicated so large a number of respectable
.citizens, and still more difficult to justify
the incarceration of citizens in Fort Pu-
I laski, without giving them the slightest op
portunity for defence. It looks very much
! like a military order in time of war. Pun
ishment upon suspicion and before exam
ination of a community for the offence
of one or two unknown individuals,
is not calculated to add much renown to
the name of Pope's successor. This pro
ceeding is after the style of the ‘Austrian
Haynau. It is the shadow Jof coming
events.
Georgia State seven per cent, bonds sold
at 99 on Saturday. This is the opening
of anew volume in Georgia’s financial
history. Georg lx Plains,
Two negroes, near Mrs. Bell’s Mill, in
Putnam county, on last Wednesday, were
scuffling for the possession of a shot gtm;
while in the melee the gun was discharged
killing one of them instantly.
[COMMUNICATED. ]
Principle and Policy.
Editors Chronicle cfc Sentinel : —It is
proposed by sdtae members of the Demo
cratic party to nominate Mr. Chase as its
standard-bearer during the nest Presiden
tial campaign, under the belief that it will
be the best policy. And why? Merely
because Mr. Chase observed his oath dur
ing the great farce of impeachment ? I
acknowledge that it was something akin to
a miracle to find among the Radical party
one man with at least a small bit of principle,
but that is no reason why he should be
come the Democratic candidate. Should
good and true men who have always been
with us, be cast overboard in order to
favor an apostate ? No ! let principle pre
vail with our party or it is dead altogether,
for certainly not the smallest vestige of it
remains with the negro-loving power that
now rules the country. Chase may be a
good man, but he has hitherto been against
the Democratic party, and only when he
found that his own colleagues had rejected
him, did he offer to fraternize with our
party. Disappointed in his ambitious
projects in oue way, he hopes to gratify
them in another and also to revenge him
self upon his pseudo friends. Mr. Chase
may be playing a very pretty game in his
own estimation, but his wiles will hardly
impose upon the great National Demo
cratic Convention, which, on the Fourth of
July nest, is to assemble in the Metropo
lis of the Republic, to declare which man
of the many millions in these United
States is a Iff representative ol that great
party which was co-eval with the Nation ;
which defends Constitutional Liberty,
and which declares against the predomi
nance of any but the civil power. Do Mr.
Chase’s antecedents show that he has
been a friend to the principles of the Demo»
cracy? Does his present position arise
from anything but pique and disappointed
ambition? No! Mr. Chase is not the
man for Northern, Southern or Western
Democrats. This must be a square fight
between Liberty and Despotism, Principle
and Hypocrisy, Military and Civil. Han'
cock is a good Democrat, and resolute in
principle, but he is a military man. That
will be one of our important issues—“mil
itary or civil”—therefore he is, or ought
to be, ineligible. Chase may carry with
him part of the Radical party ; but is not
any man that would change his political
tactics so quickly, devoid of political
principle? Therefore he is, or ought to
be, ineligible. Here looms up before
the eyes of the American people, how
ever, one form on which Nature has
imprinted the stamp of a nobleman ;
whoso political career cannot be question
ed ; whose principles are known ; and
who is adored by his party, particularly by
that branch of it in the West,. Having
thus premised, 1 hardly think it necessary
for me to state that 1 refer to Mr. Pendle
ton. Hunt the world over, and the Dem
ocracy could not find a more worthy rep
resentative. On him all eyes turn ; on
his election, in a great measure, depends
the salvation of the country ; and his good
or evil success will settle the question,
whether the military satrapal or the con
stitutional civil authority shall rule.
Our Delegates to the National
Democratic Convention. — The state
ment contained in some of the Northern
journals that there will be two delegates
from this State claiming seats in the Na
tional Democratic Convention, is errone
ous, and lias arisen from the fact that
only one-half of the delegation, as it now
stands, was appointed by the State Con
vention which assembled in April. After
the adjournment of that Convention a
notification was received from the Chair
man of the National Democratic Executive
Committee, that each State would be en
titled to a delegation twice as large as the
number of its representatives in Congress,
so the additional delegates were appointed
by the June Convention. There will,
therefore, be only ono delegation from this
State, composed of the following gentle
men (the two vacancies from the Fourth
District to be filled by the State Executive
Committee):
For the State at Large —Hon B F Per
ry, lion James Chesnut, General Wade
Hampton and Hon James B Campbell.
Alternates —Judge JA Inglis, Judge A
P Aldrich, Hon C M Furman and Chan
cellor J P Carroll.
First Congressional District —Col W S
Mullins, Hon J L Manning. Alternates —
Gen J B Kershaw and Hon R Dozier.
Second District—Hon Carlos Tracy and
Hon Clias H Simonton. Alternates— Jno
Hanckel, Esq., and Col 118 Rhett, Jr.
Third District— Gen John S Preston,
Gen M W Gary. Alternates — Gen M L
Bonham, Hon AP Frederick.
Fourth District —Hon Armisted Burt,
- ———. Alternates —Hon W D Simpson,
—. — Char. Courier.
Fatal Affray at Fernandina.—We
learn from Captain La Rose, of the steamer
Lizzie Baker, of a fatal affray which took
place upon the wharf at Fernandina just
before the steamer loffc, in vrhich two meu,
named Pepper and Vaughan, were the par>
ticipants, the former of whom was instant
ly killed, and the latter mortally wounded.
Pepper fired upon Vaughan, both of them
being on the wharf, and within ten steps
of each other. Pepper’s first shot did not
take effect. Vaughan drew his revolver
and fired, striking Pepper in the side.
Pepper fired again, striking Vaughan also
in the side, the latter returning the fire
with four shots, each one of which struck
Pepper, who fell and almost immediately
expired. Vaughan was carried off mortal
ly wounded. Captain La Rose informs us
that there were over one hundred persons
on the wharf at the time, but fortunately
no one was hurt, excepting the parties
immediately engaged in the duel. We
believe both of them are connected with
the hotel at Fernandina. Pepper hails
from Charleston, S. C. The parties had
previously had a quarrel about a handker
chief, and mooting on the wharf renewed
it, causing the above fatal result, — Savh.
News & Her. , 24t7i.
The Peabody Fund.—The trustees of
the Peabody Education Fund closed their
deliberations in New York on Wednesday.
The object of this meeting has been chiefly
to listen to the semi-annual report of the
general agent, Rev. Dr. Sears, of Virginia,
and to make appropriations for the next
six months. Dr. Sears’ report is highly
satisfactory, as showing the earnest desire
of the Southern people to co-operate with
the trustees, and the progress of the system
of education which has been devised, and
is being actively carried out under the joint
direction of the school superintendents of
the Southern States and of the general
agent. Dr. Sears has been for the last
six months travelling through the States of
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
and Tennessee, conferring with leading
gentlemen upon the objects of this mag
nificent donation, and addressing the peo
ple of the principal towns and cities upon
the subject of free school education. He
has everywhere been received with the ut
most kindness and cordiality. In Memphis
and other leading cities of the South be
has been tendered the hospitalities of the
respective cities, and the prospect is very
encouraging for the establishment of a
thorough system of free schools and normal
schools among the States above mentioned.
About $75,000 have been definitely appro
priated by the trustees for the ensuing six
months, and about $78,000 in addition
have been appropriated conditionally upon
the raising of money, in co-operation, by
the various communities where aid is thus
given, the Board granting aid, varying ac
cording to circumstances, from one-third
to two-thirds of the amount necessary to
sustain the respective schools. Particular
attention has been given to the founding of
normal schools and the commencement of
a system of free school education. Dr.
Sears reports the entire people of the South
as enthusiastic in their gratitude to Mr.
Peabody and the appreciation of his gift.
Resolutions of condolence with tbe fami
ly ot the late Hon. W. C. Rives, of Vir
ginia, and expressing the trustees’ sense
of the loss sustained by his death, were
passed, and the Board adjourned to meet
in Baltimore on the third Thursday of
January, 1869. —New York World, , 18f/t.
The New York Evening Post as
sails the Tenure-of-Office bill, the Radical
war upon tbe judiciary, the hostility to the
Executive branch of Goveanment, and ad
vocates the sacredness of the constitutional
forms and relations of the several divisions
of the General Government as paramount
to any special and temporary end. It
says;
The Tenure-of-Office act, or the law
which regulates the number of Judges on
the Supreme Bench, in order to secure a
majority of them to a pfrty, is as real,
though not so formidable, an attack upon
our institutions as secession itself.
Telegraphic Communication with
Savannah Direct.—Under the energetic
supervision ot Manager O’Keefe anew
telegraphic cable has just been laid across
the Ashley River. When the Charleston
and Savannah Railroad was built the com
pany refused to allow the telegraphic the
right of way across the New Bridge with
out paying a heavy sum. This was de
clined and the Ashley cable was then
originaed. From that time to the present
at least seven cables have been laid, but
have never proved serviceable longer than
a few months. The one now laid is, in
many respects, superior to its predecessors,
and it is hoped that it will prove of more
permanent value. —Charleston News.
A letter from Upson county say- that
the crops there are not very good ; the
wheat remarkably poor —not a half crop
will bo made ; oats very sorry and badly
rusted : corn small and needing rain ; the
cotton also small but growing nicely. The
health of the county is generally good,
there being but little sickness.
Railway Enterprises.
ATLANTA AND AUGUSTA.
(From me Atlanta ,Vcw Era.)
The Augusta Chronicle it Sentinel of the
17th, contains an article on “Augusta—
Her Present and Future, 7 ’ of unusual
length and more than ordinary interest
and ability. It should be calculated to
arouse our sister city to renewed ex
ertion—to a revival of that spirit of onergv
and enterprise, which, more than a third
of a centuary ago, conceived and prosecu
ted to construction the Georgia Railway,
and caused her to encourage, in every way
in her power, the extension of railway lines
from this city to the Gulf and to the Mis
sissippi. The article suggest the hope,
however, that Augusta Is at last awaking
to a realizing sense of the fuct that she
must be up and doing, or else, by the
superior foresight and enterprise of her
sister cities, she will soon sutler isola
tion and sink into decay.
After quoting at considerable length
from our article the Era proceeds as fol
lows :
While the Chronicle's article may be
flattering to our self-pride, and indicates
an apprehension that the Sceptre is about
to depart, if it has not already “departed
from Judah,” it should not lull us into a
fatal security. The energy and enterprise
ot Augusta “is not dead, but sleepeth”—
her capital is not exhausted, but is gather
ing strength by repose. If she moves, she
will do so w-itli Herculean power and with
Colossal strides, and extend her Briarean
arms to remote localities in all directions ;
and the article in question is calculated, if
anything can do so, to arouse her to a
repetition of her former enterprising and
aggressive policy. Her journals will bo
required to present but one or two articles
as able as that we extract from, to secure a
respose which, if equal toiler energy and
capital, may prove formidably dangerous
to the interests of Atlanta.
It is, therefore, time for Atlanta to adopt
some prompt and eflicieut measures look
ing to the building ol the Georgia West
ern Railway in the direction of Decatur,
Ala., and of the Georgia Air Line Railway
to Anderson, S. C. She can and should
delay no longer. Her own position as the
Capital of the State, the natural market
and the outlet of Northeastern Georgia,
and the grand centre of the Southern rail
way system—the just but long neglected
claims of that section of the State, so rich
in agricultural productions and mineral
wealth—and the late encouraging legis
lation of Congress in promoting a
continuous neariy air-line rail communi
cation bettveen Washington and Mobile,
all combine to determine her to an imme
diate and energetic prosecution of the Air-
Line railway, in particular, and oil . her
own account, and to co-operate with Au
gusta in eoustrucliyg the road to Decatur,
Ala. Both roads are of vital importance
to Atlanta—the Air-Line especially so.
If Atlanta does not act, and that soou,
Savannah will build the road from Griffin
to Decatur and deprive her of the vast
trade of the immensely rich and develop
ing country between Atlanta and Decatur,
outlie ono hand—while Augusta will steal
away from us the nearer and even more
valuable trade ready to be poured into our
lap from the exhaustless wealth ot the
mountains and valleys of Northeastern
Georgia. Let Atlanta gird her loins for
the race set before her, and move forward
to the accomplishment of her high mis
sion of leading the cities of the South in
the grand progressive inarch inspired by
the spirit of the age.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of ihc Baltimore Gazette.
Chief Justice Chase and the Democratic
Nomination Again — Mr. McCulloch —
He Wishes to Retain Office to Test his
Financial Theory — Mr. McCulloch to
Talce Charge of a London Banking
House—A Fashionable Wedding—The
Additional Currency—Reduction of the
Whiskey Tax—Schenck and Logan
Quarrelling Over the Spoils.
Washington, June 23, 1868, —The au
thoritative contradiction of the terms upon
which Chief Justice Chase would accept the
Democratic nomination must not be un
derstood as applying to the platform of
Judge Chase, as published in this corre
spondence, which was published by his
authority, as the manuscript now in the
possession of your correspondent will show,
but the contradiction has reference to an
other statementsaid to have boon furnished
by the Secretary of the Chief Justice, who
denies the fact, and wno demanded of the
correspondent telegraphing it his authority
for the statement. The correspondent
said he had received the statement from
a member of Congress, with a pledge not
to divulge his name. The Secretary says
the whole statement, so far as his know
ledge goes, is a pure fabrication.
The unscrupulous attacks which have
been made on Secretary McCulloch will not
hasten but rather retard his resignation.
It had been the wish of this distinguished
official to continue in office long enough,
even through this and the next adminis
tration, to develop and test liis financial
policy. He had every confidence himself
in its efficiency, and be-lieved, if properly
carried out, would prove to bo all he had
claimed for it. Hence a very natural wish
to continue at the head of the Department
and carry out this policy in vindication of
his own reputation as a financier, as well
as for the benefit of the public credit.
Circumstances, however, have since
changed, and Mr. McCulloch has been
gradually perfecting his arrangements for
operations on a very different, theatre. Mr.
McCulloch goes to London to take charge
of a banking house soon to open in that
city by Messrs, Jay Cooke & Cos., and his
purpose was to retire from his present
position soon after th% adjournment of
Congress, and such is'believed to be still
his purpose, unless it be changed by the
assaults made upon him. When his ar
rangements are completed he will surren
der his present commission, and not be
fore, unless otherwise requested by the
President himself. Such is understood
among Mr. McCulloch’s friends to be 1 is
true position, notwithstanding all which
has bcen'said and written upon the sub
ject.
Our fashionable circles have been in
a stir to-day over a wedding in high
life. At one o’clock this afternoon
St. Matthew’s Church was filled with an
anxious crowd to witness the nuptials of
Col. Jas. F. Russell, of Macon, Ga., with
Miss Fannie, the only daughter of Co
lumbus Alexander, Esq., of this city.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Father White. The lovely young bride
was richly dressed in white satin, with a
veil of rare beauty, which swept the floor.
The bridesmaids were Miss Lulie Libbey,
Miss Mattie Mix and Miss Nannie Thom
as. At the conclusion of the ceremony
the party repaired to the elegant residence
of the bride’s father, where their friends
were hospitably entertained until the hap
py couple took their departure for Canada
and the Lakes.
The Commissioner of the Currency has
received notice of a number of banking
institutions now being organized in dif
ferent sections of the country, with a view
to claiming a participation in any addition
al amount of national currency which Con
gress may authorize. The Commissioner
looks with favor on all such movements in
the Southern States, where he contem
plates sending this additional currency if
authorized, but he will reject all applica
tions or claims which may be set up by
Northern or Eastern parties.
The reduction of the whiskey tax to fifty
cents per gallon gives great satisfaction to
tbe Western distillers now congregated in
this city. Rumors are afloat that a diffi
culty has occurred betvyeen Schenck and
Logan, the latter charging that Schenck
has not made a fair divide of the profits
arising from theif connection with the
whiskey “ring.” E.
The Arkansas Representatives take tlicir
Seals Their Credentials Senator
Trumbull in a Dilemma —Stevens De
signing New Articles of Impeachment —
A New Smelling Committee to he Or
ganized with Covode as Chairman —
Presidential Nominations Condition
of Senator Grimes , &c., &c.
Washington, June 23,1868. —It would
seem that the dominant majority in the
two Houses of Congress cannot move a
peg without knocking their shins against
some sharp obstacle of their own precious
contrivance. The so-called Representa
tives from the State of Arkansas present
ed themselves this morning in both bodies,
with their credentials. In the House the
important documents were referred to a
committee for report, at the earnest de
mand of Horace Maynard. There must,
therefore, be some doubt about the Radi
calism of one or more of the “Representa
tives.” The “Senators” were, however,
swallowed, but not without wry faces. It
seems their “credentials” were by no
means in form. They express on their
faces that the elections took place under
the act of 1866, and they are not certified
by the Governor under the seal of the
State, as required by law. It was amusing
enough to listen to the attempts of Mr.
Trumbull to avoid the counter difficulties
which beset him on every side. He ad
mitted that the present candidates for
seats were elected before Arkansas was a
State at all, and invoked the precedents of
the admission of Senators elected from new
States while the latter were in a Territorial
condition. But all the precedents oc
curred before Congress undertook to reg
ulate the law, mode and manner of the
election of Senators, and *aid “law” pre
scribes exactly the “manner” in which
such “credentials” shall be certified, which
was glaringly violated in these cases. This,
however, was a smail matter. Mr. Trum
bull argued that all that was required was
that the Senate (that is, the Radi
cals) should be satisfied that the par
ties were duly elected, the statute not
withstanding, as it was evident that the
latter had no validity (in this respect at
least), Congress having mo power wltatever
to enforce theprovision. But the cream of
the joke lay in this, that whereas Arkansas
was not a State until yesterday, she was
simply a Territory—her Senators were to i
bo received upon the footing of those elect- ;
ed by States prior to their admission into ;
the L nion. In such cases new Senators, i
accotdiug to the terms of the law, are to:
be assigned to classes (by lot) specifically
prescribed, in order that one-third of the j
body shall be biennially These I
“Senators” have been elected for designated
terms—one ending in March, 1871, and the
other in March, 1873. Here was a poser.
1 he classes in which Senators of the State
of Arkansas were fixed at her original ad
mission were adhered to by the present
bogus Legislature. The new Senators had
been elected for uuexpired terms. The ad
justment made prior to the war continued
throughout the contest and still exists.
But the State was dead according to Mr.
Trumbull’s logic. The dilemma is there
fore sought to be avoided agreeably tc legal
authority as follows :
“A woman having p operty,
Married a man with none,
The question was (he being dead),
If that she had was gone ?
“Ruled—That her right during ooverture
Suspended did remain,
Living her husband, but him dead,
It doth revive again.”
There is a report credited in certain
circles that the venerable Thad. Stevens
(now that the requisite number of Senators
has been obtained) intends to propose new
articles of impeachment, predicated upon
some very recent and outrageous usurpa
tions of power on the parr, of the Presi
dent. Congress lias lately by law taken
from him nearly all his fclerks, and it may
be that he has employed others (or per
haps the same) at his own expense (paid
out of his paltry salary). This is about
the only “usurpation” he has been guilty
of since his acquittal. Poor man ! He
has not been left power sufficient to per
form his routine official duties! The ob
ject ofStevens is, however, merely to organ
ize another Committee of Investigation,
through which the country is to bo flooded
with slanders and lies at the expense of
the Government. Washburne has been
unsuccessful in obtaining campaign mftney
at the North, aud hence this movement.
It is rumored that Mr. Covode is to be
made chairman of the committee—Butler
being held to be incompetent for so
weighty a business, though abundantly
willing to undertake it.
It is a fact, indeed, that the Committee
on Mines and Mining have employed a
negro clerk. He was this morning at
work, I learn, folding, enveloping and
sending away electioneering documents.—
Not only is this so, but tic has a ttegro
messenger to wait upon him at $1,200 per
annum, with 20 per cent, added by resolu
tion of Congress.
The President transmitted to-day to the
Senate, among others, the nomination of
Edwin O. Perron to the Chief Justiceship
of the Supreme Court of Utah.
It is understood that the Committee on
the Judiciary will report favorably upon
the nomination of W. M. Evarts as Attor
ney General, although there is decided op :
position to his confirmation on the part of
some Seuators. The indications are that
the vote upon his confirmation will boa
close one, with the chances somewhat
against it.
This afternoon about three o’clock the
debate closed in the House on the section
of the Tax bill which fixed the tax on
whiskey. The first vote was on an amend
ment to fix the tax at forty cents. It was
defeated by a vote of 34 yeas to 70 nays.
Another at twenty-five cents shared the
same fate. Propositions and amendments
to fix the tax at various figures from twen
ty to forty-five cents were all voted down.
Finally, by a vote of 87 yeas to 37 nays,
the House in Committee of the Whole
agreed to fix the tax at fifty cents per gal
lon.
The Star learns that advices received at
Washington from Senator Grimes, of'
lowa, say that his recovery is now impos
sible. Ilis memory is rapidly failing, and
his mind is becoming so weak that he com
plains of not being able to think.
In the Senate, Mr. Sumner, from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom
had been teferred the hill passed by the
House of Representatives on the 20th of
April last, concerning the rights of Ameri
can citizens in foreign States, reported
back the same, with an amendment to
section 3, to the effect that whenever it
shall be made known to the President that
any citizen of the United States has been
arrested and is detained by any foreign
Government in contravention of the intent
and purposes of this act, upon the allega
tion that naturalization in the United
States does not operaie to absolve his alle
giance to his native sovereign; or if any
citizen shall have been arrested and de
tained, whose release upon demand shall
have been very unreasonably delayed or
refused, it shall be the duty of the Presi
dent forthwith to report to Congress all
the circumstances attending any such
arrest and detention, and any proceedings
tor the release of the citizen so arre-ted
and detained, that Congress may take
prompt action to secure every citizen of
the United States his just rights. X.
Murder in Irwin County.
TWO YOUNG MEN KILLED BY A NEGRO !
Escape of the Murderer!
From the Savannah Republican. *
By a gentleman from that locality, we
learn that on Saturday night last a diead
ful tragedy occurred in Irwin county, about
five miles from Bowen’s station, by which
a family lost two sons by the murderous
hand of a negro. The names of the young
men were William and Daniel Luke, sons
of Mr. James Luke. The name of the
murderer is Joshua Williams.
The dreads ul deed was not discovered
until Sunday morning, when the bodies of
the two young men were found lying in
front of the house in which Williams
lived. One of them had been shot in the
breast, and there was a hole right t (trough
his body ; the other had the entire hack
part of his head blown off. Near them
lay a largo dog, also dead. The sight was
a horrible and sickening one.
By interrogating the negroes, it was as
certained that Williams had stated to
some of them that lie had shot these
ycrung men, assigning no reason whatever
for the deed. lie had left the neighbor
hood before the discovery of the murder,
and could not be found, although search
was made diligently in every direction.
Whv he killed the men is not known.
Williams was a negro of very bad char
acter. For some time past depredations
have been committed upon the plantations
in the vicinity, and suspicion pointed to
ward Williams as the guilty party. It is
surmised that these young men went to
his house to look for stolen goods; that
the dog attacked them and was shot; that
Williams then shot and killed them. These
are more surmises, but, as no reason can
be given forthe murderous deed, they are
probably correct.
The murdered persons were young men
of from eighteen to twenty years of age.
They were sons of a very respectable
planter, and their wanton murder has
created great sorrow and indignation in
the community. The citizens there have
offered two hundred dollars reward for the
apprehension of Williams, the .murderer,
and we hope he may speedily be caught and
punished for his crime. He is a negro,
with a large mouth ; is very tall, standing
about six feet two or throe inches, and is
about twenty-five years of age. and r
A coroner’s inquest was held over the
remains on Sunday, but no facts were
elicited, save that Williams had ac
knowledged having shot the men.
Carpet Bag Legislators.—The New
Orleans Picayune describes one Coleman,
a Radical delegate to the Texas Conven
tion, against whom the grand jury of Rusk
eounty have found a true bill for horse
stealing,- and he is also under arrest for
bigamy. And in the Choctaw (Ala.)
Herald , honorable mention is made of
one Fierce Burton, of the peripatetic pa
triot persuasion, who was a member of
the registration board for Marengo county,
and was elected by the negroes as their
representative in the Legislature, and
then returned to his home in Massachu
setts. He writes from that remote quar
ter of the globe to a gentleman in Ma
rengo on business, and incidentally states
that he will not return to Alabama unless
the Legislature is convened, when he wiil
hasten from Massachusetts to Mont
gomery, to represent the “trooly loil” and
receive his per diem. He evidently has
an eye to business, and in the pursuit
thereof is not willing to allow the grass to
grow under his feet. —Charleston Courier.
An Outrage Committed Near the
City, on the Thunderbolt Road.—We
are informed that one or two evenings
ago, a young gentleman of this city took a
lady friend out to ride on the Thunderbolt
Shell road. It was not until after dusk
some time, when they started to return.
On the way back, the horse was moving
along very leisurely, and when about two
miles from the city, they passed two ne
groes, who walked close to the carriage.
They wore very suspicious looking, but the
young man thought of no danger, and
having anticipated none at starting, was
unarmed. Scarce had they passed the
negroes when each of them blew a shrill
whistle, and directly three others jumped
from some bushes alongside the road.
Two of them caught hold of the horse,
while the third levelled a gun at the party
in the carriage. The horse, a restive ani
mal, frightened at the sudden appearance
of the men, and the manner in which be
had been caught, broke away from the
men and started efi on a run, and carried
the lady and gentleman out of danger. To
thus stop peaceful parties upon the public
highway is an outrage, no matter what the
intent. In this instance there is no room
to doubt but that some criminal act was
intended —robbery, outrage, perhaps mur
der. if vagabond negroes are to scour tbe
country, and waylay people upomthe roads
and thoroughfares leading to the city, per
sons had better go prepared to meet them.
— Sack. Rep.
Some workmen in Macon, a few days
ago, while engaged in digging a trench,
exhumed a human skeleton in a fairdegree
of preservation. The story goes that the
remains are those of a man who disap
peared fifteen years ago, and was supposed
to have been murdered.
Gratuitous Advice.— The New York
Times says that President “Johnson’s
claim on the Democratic party is stronger
than that of any other man who has been
named in connection with the office.
And we think it not at all unlikely that
his name would be stronger with the
people than three-fourths of those that arc
most loudly talked about.”
The Times is very kind to give the
Democratic party so much gratuitous
advice as it does ; but we can assure our
New York cotemporary that the party is
quite competent to take care of itself, and
will undoubtedly make such nominations
as wiil be “strong enough with the peo
ple ' to secure a Democratic triumph.
The Times would, no doubt, like to see as
weak a man as possible put up —that is,
one as weak as Grant —but it will have to
be disappointed. A stroDg man and a
strong platform will be placed before the
country, and must and will triumph.
Warm.— .There was a very heavy rain
early Saturday morning, but the weather
was quite warm during the day.
State News.
The steamer Swan has laid up at Sa
vannah for repairs.
Several cotton blooms from the planta
tions of Major Brantley and Bryant Wat
kins, Esq., were exhibited in Sandersvilie
on the 17th.
Heavy aud much needed rains have
fallen all through the middle section of
the State, greatly benefiting the corn and
cotton crops.
A man by the name of Seagrist, a native
of Georgia, was shot and killed by a Mr.
Clowscr, in Virginia last week for criminal
intercourse with dowser's wife.
A good illustration of the beneficial in
fluences of the Radicals with the negroes,
is to be found in the proceedings of the
Superior Court in Savannah. Os fifteen
felony cases tried, all were negroes save one
A live foreign nobleman is on a visit P>
our State. In the Savannah papers of the
25th, wo notice the arrival at the Pulaski
House of the Marquis of Tallyrand l’eri
gord.
As soon as it was known in Atlanta that
Mr. Chipley's father had petitioned for his
release, the young* man was again placed
in close confinement.
The cut worm has made its appearance
in Muscogee county. It has attacked the
young cotton, and the present cold nights
only make it more destructive.
The Randolph Male Academy was al
most totally destroyed by tire a lew nights
since. A night or two afterward, the resi
dence of Col. Jones was fired. None of
the incendiaries have been arrested-
Mr. M. Barschall, one of the oldest resi
dents of Columbus died in that city on last
Sunday. lie was a man of considerable
wealth and greatly esteemed by the com
munity.
The Federal officers in Columbus indig
nantly deny the truth of the negro affi
davits lately published about their mis
conduct, but if a negroc’s testimony is as
good as Southern gentleman’s, it certainly
is as good as a Yankee officers’.
Messrs. Cliff Grimes and Robert Daniel,
two of the Columbus prisoners, after being
incarcerated for more than two mont.is in
the dungeons of Fort Pulaski and Atlanta,
have been released on bond.
“From the sublime to the ridiculous
there is hut a step.” On the heels of the
impeachment of the President by the Rad
icals, we have the impeachment of the
Deputy Marshal, of Columbus, by the
Democrats. Both officials acquitted by
one vote.
A singular freak of nature has occurred in
Muscogee county. Within the shuck which
contained adiminative ear of corn, in tas
sel, appeared two singular growths more
resembling ears of wheat than anything
else. Each grain is perfectly formed.
The excitement created in Richmond by
the conviction of some of the “ Whiskey
Ring,” has extended as far as Savannah,
where it is believed the same game is
going on. Chief Justice Chase is to pay
a visit to the latter city in a short time.
Late on last Sunday afternoon a negro
boy, fatigued from over exertion at loaf
ing about the streets of Savannah, lay
down on the Central Railroad track to take
a nap, but, while enjoying his snooze, the
cow-catcher of a train rudely interrupted
his nap by throwing him about fifty feet
and cutting his leg off.
We take pleasure in announcing that
“Sharp and Quick” Hulbert, Chief of
Registration for this State, and the infa
mous too) of a more infamous party, has
at last been decapitated by Torqucmada
Meade. This news comes too late to alter
the late election, but may make a change
in the next.
The rutnored removal of Gunuial Meade
which is going the rounds of the press,
the Atlanta Intelligencer thinks is a
canard, and that there will be no change
made in the command of this Department
except at Gen. Meade’s own request.
Two negroes employed in blasting a well
in the Western suburbs of Atlanta, on the
24th, were dreadfully mangled by the pre
mature explosion of the charge. One of
them is terribly wounded and cannot live,
the other will escape with tho loss of liis
right arm.
Day before yesterday six prisoners were
escorted into Atlanta, Ga., by a squad of
cavalry. They were brought from Hall
county, and were confined in McPherson
Barracks. They were arrested for burn
ing a man’s house in that county who had
informed on them for stealing.
A military commission will sit in Atlanta
next week to try the men known as the
“Columbus prisoners,” who are at present
confined in that city. With Joe Brown
as prosecutor, and a drum-head tribunal
to interpret the law, they will stand but a
slim chance we are afraid.
On Thursday last a heavy hail storm
passed over a section of Putnam county,
doing considerable damage- to the cotton
crop. Several fields were stripped entirely
of leaves and nothing left but the stalks.
The Convention of Sabbath Schools be
longing to the Central Association of Geor
gia will meet in Eatonton on Friday of
next week, and will probably continue in
session for several days.
_ A lady in Wayne county, Georgia, gave
birth, on last week, to three children—all
boys— at one time. They weigh twenty
four pounds in the aggregate. If we had
a few more ladies like this one the State
would soon be relieved from negro dom
ination.
New wheat is being received at Rome
earlier than usual this year. Two thou
sand bushels were received there last
week. _ The general desire of planters is
to get in their crops as soon as possible in
order to get the benefit of the present high
prices.
The citizens of Fulton county propose
to hold a grand mass meeting in Atlanta
shortly. Several distinguished speakers
are expected to address the assembly, and
the Democratic Central Executive Com
mittee is requested to .take the matter un
der consideration.
The following named lawyers are en
gaged to defend the Columbus prisoners,
whose trial takes place on Monday: lion.
A. 11. Stephens, Crawford and Ingraham,
Moses (& Garrard, Smith and Alexander,
and Mr. Waddell, of Columbus; Hon.
Wm. Dougheity of Atlanta; and Hon.
IL W. Hilliard, of Augusta.
It is said that an agreement ha- been
concluded between the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad and the South Georgia and
Florida Railroad, which will insure the
early completion of the line from Thomas
ville to Albany.
Anew weekly paper has been started in
Brunswick, under the name of the Bruns
wick Banner. Hitherto ali newspaper
efforts in that place have been unsuccess
ful, but we hope this one Will have better
luck.
A preliminary meeting was held by the
colored citizens of ThomasviUe, a fbw days
since, to take into consideration the per
iii ame tit organization o- L a colored conserva
tive club. Ihe meeting was largely attend
ed and very harmonious.
I he Macon Telegraph publishes a state
ment showing that when the military is
removed, so that fraudulent voters can b;
detected, the registry w'.d «how -i
Democratic majority of . uv ;;
thousand voters.
A meeting will be held in Dawson on
the 4th of next July to take into considera
tion the building o! a large cotton manu
factory near that place. The water site
chosen is one of the best in the State, and
every facility is offered for its construc
tion.
Col. Lee H. Jordan, of Bibb county,
and Mrs. General P. 11. Colquitt, of
Thomas county, were married in Macon
last week. Col. Jordan is one of the
wealthiest men in the State. The bridal
party are going on an European tour.
The editor of the Macon Telegraph has
seen a bunch of red clover from tbe farm
of Col. D. E. Blount, of Jones county, in
this State. It was four feet high and an
average samplo of a field of several acres.
It will yield more than two tons to the
acre.
A negro ruffian, formerly the property
of Col. T. R. Bloom, attempted to violate
the person of a Miss Railly, on the Colum
bus read, six miles from Macon, on Thurs
day afternoon last. The inhuman wretch
was arrested and confined in jail.
On Sunday afternoon last, while a party
ot twoDty-five negroes were going from
BirgeV Mill to Jefferson, on the Satilla
river, to attend a meeting, their boat was
aceidentaily capsized and nineteen of tbe
number drowned. Tn the party were seven
or eight women and children.
