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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1868)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. (Tluonicte & Sentinel. n HNitV MOOJtI2* A. It. Will OUT. I'ATRK k WAI.sH, Associate Editor. TlillJlS Ot M list ItU'TION. oiiLt. -:nf mor.-j, • <1 as T’' a Os War IS OS •traonttM .. ' .'...if..'. 1 0 1 60 > W" 00 A I I.L'HTA. «.A : ■VKitYKsltAl MQitM OCTOBER 11. GLi.lett Ginned Cotton.—We learn that cotton ginned by theGallett gin was sold Monday at 26 cents. Southern Cultivator.—The October number of’ this valuable Southern agricul tural monthly has been received, and pre sents, as usual, a very attractive table of eoiitents. Peterson’s Magazine. —We arc in debted to Mr. Quinn, of the Literary Depot, for a copy of I'tasyis Maguziw for November. It ha:, all the latest fash ions, and several interesting literary arti cles. The Constitutionalist.—We uninten tionally omitted to notice the enlargement of our neighbor, which took place on Sun day morning last. Wo are pleased to note this evidence of our contemporary’s suc cess, and wish it a long continuance of the same. Shooting Scrape.—There was a shoot ing .-crape in the vicinity of the Georgia Depot last night, but wo did not learn the particulars, further than one of the parties wu slightly wounded in the head, and that the other was arrested and taken to the police office, where he gave bail for his future appearance. The Maryland Farmer.—The Octo ber number of this popular agricultural monthly baa been received. It contains, as usual, many valuable articles on sub jects appertaining to tho farm and house hold. The Funner is published by S. Sands Mills & Cos., Baltimore, Mil., at $1 50 per annurn in advance. New York M eruantii.e Journal.-This valuable journal has just entered upon its sixth annual volume, and has been enlarg ed, improved ami changed from a four to an eight page paper. It is published weekly by thoNew York Mercantile Journal Cos., No. 350 Pearl street, Franklin Square, New York, at $5 per annum in advance. Merchants and dealers will find it what we have stylcil it, a valuable journal. Early Winter—The New Orleans J‘ian/iuir says: “Our exchanges from the lied River regym chronicled over a week ago the setting in of winter. Flocks of geese were passim; over Jefferson on the 15th and 17th ofSeptember, which is said to be the earliest* migration observed there. Tho change hero must be regarded, we suppose, as only a passing cold snap.” Southern Review.—This valuablo publication is a Conservative quarterly, edited with commendable ability, and is entitled to the support of the reading and reflecting people of tho South as well as the Conservative people of tho North. The subscription price is $5 per auuum ; and specimen Copies will be sent free by mail to any address for sixty cents each. Address Bledsoe & Brown, Baltimore, Maryland. Never Jest with Firearms.—A ter rible oceurren -i:in Poughkoepsio, the other day, is another awful warning against the silly and dangerous o' aelioo of “fooling” with firearms. A young man pointing, as he believed, his empty pistol at a pet cat in his sister's arms, shot her through the heart, and destroyed his own happiness and that of his father and mother for life. Never point firearms (whether loaded or empty) in the direction of any person, un.« less you intend to kill him. Tut: Summerville Academy. —We have;heretofore called attention to this in stitution of learning. It is situated in one of the healthiest and pleasantest locations in this section of Georgia, and is under the charge ol the accomplished daughters of Rev. 0. W. Howard, of Kingston, Ga. Parents and guardians who arc looking for a really good school to which to send their children or wards, would do well to try this Academy. Resides the advantages already enumerated, the terms are mod erate, and the facilities for a tirst class odu cation, unsurpassed. New Music. —We are indebted to the publisher, C. M. Tremaine, of 481 Broad way, New York, for tho following pieces of new sheet music : 1. Logan’s Gathering, poetry and music by .las. G. Clarke —a sort of campaign song, with a lithographic title page, dedi cated to and with a portrait of the Com mander of the G. A. 11. 2. The Face that Ever Wears a Smile : Ballad composed by 11. P. Hanks—dedi cated to Mrs. Annie Taylor—a pretty lit tle song, pleasing words and charming melody. ;>. You Have Stolen My Heart: Ballad, composed by G. F. Shattuek —dedicated to Mrs. M. C. Black, Yorkville, N. Y. This is a nice little morooau, lively and pleasing. C LOTH I Nil —Pit E PARE FOR WINTER.— It is the hart of prudence, and of wisdom,too, to provide ior the future —to secure protection against the burning blasts of Summer and the chilling blasts of Winter. It will not always do to wait until the ne cessity arrives before providing for it; for “procrastinationis the tliiof of time,” and the thief of a great deal of personal safety and comfort. It were well, therefore, to be always prepared for emergencies as well as for certainties. Now one of the cer tainties is the’ approach of Winter. The cool mornings and evenings of the present season are the sure indications of that; and to provide for it is one of the necessities. Well, the next question is, how to do so? Why, go to Kenny & Gray and got you a uico suit of warm Fall or Winter clothing. Don’t wait until the cold weather is upon you;but go now. “Standnot upon the order of your going, hut go at once, gentlemen,” and provide yourselves. You will find there a- undid assortment of all sorts of ready-made clothing, besides a splendid lot of cloths, oassimeres, aud other Fall and Win: •: goods, with competent and ex ponent 1 nilors to take your measure and make them up into tho nicest lining and most • t«H 'noble suits desirable. There you wii. a;.- find all kinds of gentlemen’s furnishing b . such as shirts, cravats, h&ndkerehi- :’s, etc . etc , a !J 0 f which can be ha-3 very low I t cash. Mr. Gray has been North and selected his own goods with a view to suit this market particularly, and our citizens aud country dialers should be sure to give this house a calk They will hardly fail to get suited. (iHAiV VS IN liE FkEEDMEX s BUREAU. —Lieut. M. 8. Whelan, of the Frecdmen's Bureau for Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln •and Wilkes ’counties, has been relieved from duty here and ordered to Dalton, Ga. Col. P. J. O’Rourke, an officer of Gen. Meade’s staff during the war, is or dered here in Lieut. Whelan’s place. The Lieutenant will carry the good wishes of numerous friends secured here. Savannah, Griffin and North A 1-ahama Railroad.— The Griffin Star learns from a private source that, at the railroad meeting in Newuan, on the Ist instant, Wm. M. Wadley, of the Central Railroad, was elected President, and Messrs. Grace aud Smith, of Coweta; Cump, of Campbell ; Judge Whitaker, of Fayette, and Chapman, of Spalding, were elected directors. # Another Letter from lion. B. 11. Hilt. We pubiish, this morning, another letter from lion. B. 11. Hill in reference to the Reconstruction measures generally and to the Camilla riot particularly. Mr. Hill's efforts to enlighten the Radi calsand Puritans as to the true condition of affairs in the South and the political senti ments of our people, are highly praise worthy and patriotic.. But the subscribers of the Tribune, and others of the Radical fanatical ilk, are so blinded by passion, prejudice and hate, that no arguments, however convincing and unanswerable, will have any effect in converting them from the error of their ways. Protestations of our loyalty to the Constitution and our sincere desire for constitutional reconstruc tion are like throwing pearls before swine. The utterance of one word of five letters throws the Puritans and fanatics of the North into a fearful, vindictive passion—" Rebel” makes these miser- 1 able dupes of passion and prejudice, ; foam arid froth at the mouth like very demons. So long as these people con tinue in this temper and frame of mind it is, we fear, a useless waste of labor and time for our representative men to write letters on the South and the infamy of Radical Reconstruction. The antidote for Radicalism, and ail the other isms which afflict the South, must come from the : North and the West, and the reprosenta- ! tive men of those sections. The Tribune has the courtesy and seem ing liberality to cheerfully publish Mr, Hill’s letter, but at the same time devotes to it an article of nearly a column and a half, admitting nothing, but distorting, re-as serting and maliciously falsifying the posi tion of Mr. Hill and the Southern people, whom it represents as willing and eager for another war. Cuba. As the revolutionists in Spain have been partially successful in carrying out their programme, it is not improbable that the Cubans may now attempt, to carry out their long cherished dreams of independ ence and subsequent annexation to “the best government the world ever saw.” Look out for your spoons, jewelry and other valuables if you come within the reach of the Yankee Butlers. “ Let us have Peace.” The “Loyal soldiers and sailors” of the Radical stripe had a convention in Phila delphia Thursday last. Pope, Kilpatrick, McNeil, Barnuin and others, equally notorious and disreputable, arc among the “loyal soldiers” under whoso auspices tho affair was managed. Pope, McNeil and Butler are “loyal” but such gallant soldiers as McClellan, Blair, Ewing and a host of others, equally gal lant and brave, arc disloyal because they want a restoration of the Union in accord.- anoo with the Constitution—and yet Gen. Grant says “Ictus have peace.” Baltimore and the South. Wc are gratified to learn that the mer chants of Georgia and the South arc com mencing to trade with the merchants of Baltimore in preference to those of Northern cities. This is the true policy. The people of Baltimore are identified with us in policy and feeling, and we should give the merchants of that city the prefer ence. The Baltimore Sun says: “Trade with tho South ha3 revived considerably during the past low weeks. The city is at present being visited by quite a number of business men from that quarter, who, it is understood, find no difficulty in having their wants supplied in the way of purchasing fall and winter supplies. The steamers to Savannah, Charleston," Wil mington and nearer ports are carrying out ■full cargoes of assorted merchandize, and return laden with the valuable products of the soil. On the whole, the trade between Baltimore and Southern cities is more lively at present than it has been for many years. ’ ’ The Presidential Election. Tho World deduces a few interesting facts from the recent election in Maine, which are briefly stated. In 1860, the last election at which a large vote was polled in this State, the result was as follows : Chamberlain (llep.) ; 09,037 Pillsbury (Dem.) 41,947 Republican majority 27,090 Whence it is evident that: 1. The Radical majority of 27,090 in 1800 has in 1808 been reduced to 19,900, a gain of 7,730 for the Democrats. 2. While tho increase in the Democratic vote in 1808 over that of 1800 is 14,350, that of the Radicals is less than half that number, being only (S(6'2o. 3. The percentage of increase of the vote of each party in 1808 over that of 1800, is as follows: Democratic, 344 per cent.; Radical a little less than 91 per cent. 4. The same ratio of increase will give us, in October, Ohio by over 50,000 major ity; Indiana by over 20,000 majority, and ! Pennsylvania by over 90,000 majority, and i in November will elect Iloratifi Seymour j President by an overwhelming majority in ; the Electoral College. What (>on. lflalr Thinks of the l’rospect. Gen. Frank P. Blair passed through \ Washington on Thursday last, ai route to ! Bedford, Fa., where he was to address the ! people. The General was just from his | Western tour, and was in fine spirits. In a conversation with the editor of the Hrpress, he expressed no doubt whatever about the result of the elections, not only j in October but in November. “No man,” ! says the Express, “has a’ better right to kuow than himself. He has been in In diana, Ohio, and Penusylvauia, is fresll from among the people, with whom he has talked, as also with the leading men of our party in those States, aud everything he saw and heard inspires him with the fullest j confidence in the election of our national ticket. This statement of General Blair fully corroborates all that we have recently. said, on this subject in these columns, which, as we stated, was based upon the best in formation from all quarters of the country. Os the result in Missouri (and who knows better about it than himself?) he does not entertain even the shadow of a doubt. Its vote will be cast for Seymour and Blair certain!” The Savannah Republican. Wc congratulate Colonel Sneed in get ting possession of his old paper, the Re publican, and welcome him again into the editorial brotherhood, the harness of which sets so gracefully upon him. Col. Sneed is an experienced, pointed and vigorous writer, and the Hi public' t, under hjs management, will, we sincerely hope t prove a great success. The Democratic party ran the country into debt during the four years of James Buchanan’s administration one huu tlred aruljifty thousand dollars i very sing]* toetk. The Republican party, in three years, has largely reduced the debt And yet Democracy asks the purse strings ! Radioed paper. The Cleveland Plain Dealer hits the above hard. It says : The Republican party during four years of rule ran the country into debt about fourteen millions of dollars every single mek, being two millions of dollars every day. Tne present indebted ness isover $2.600,0000,00 During Buchauan’s adminis tration about 50,000,000 Excess $2,420,000,000 Let us have peace. Radical Frauds.— Hon. J. S. Black, ;n a speech made a few days since at York, Pennsylvania, said: “I cannot speak with perfect accuracy, but I believe I am within reasonable bounds when I tell yon that a thousand millions would not cover the frauds committed since the elose of the war.” tlorions Yews from Yew York. Half a million of people assembled in New. York city to attend a Democratic meeting, and a torch-light procession ten miles long ! ! Gjneral McClellan endorses Seymdfir and Blair! This is glorious news for the people of the South. It proves conclusively that the people of New York are fully alive to the vital interests at stake in the approaching election, and that they are determined at all hazards to hurl the Radicals from power, restore the South to the Union, and thereby* secure peace and prosperity for the whole coun try. borernor Joe Brown on The Rampage. Governor Joe Brown, of Georgia, Radi cal, writes now that the “flag” is in dan ger, the election of Grant and Colfax is the “only security” against “scenes of carnage,’' and thut the Southern leaders are ready to “precipitate the issue”—all of ! which is “important, if true.” In 1866, 1 during secession times, Governor Brown kindly telegraphed to Mr. Toombs, in this city, that “Fort Pulaski was in danger,” and, behold, only a few hours elapsed be fore h> had “precipitated the Issue” by seizinc it for the rebels, and hauling down the U. S. flag. We hope the present alarming announcement will not be follow ed by any similar demonstrations on bis part; but rio man who has ever seen the corners of his mouth would trust him out of his sight. Considering that he took the ground, on the stump, that negroeft were not eligible to office under the Georgia Constitution, it is certainly a very curious coincidence that the negroes should so soon be expelled by a Legislature so thoroughly Radical that it was ready to confirm this fellow Brown for Supreme Court Judge. We advise Mr. Greeley to keep an eye on him, and we do not wonder that at the Chicago Convention the hisses and ap plause for this distinguished secessionist were about balanced.— National Intelli gencer, The Intelligencer is in error in its asser tion ihat tho Georgia Legislature is Radi cal. It is very true that Joe Brown work ed it to advantage in securing his confirma tion as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. How he did, wo do not pre cisely know; but this we do know, that if it had to be done over again Joe Brown would not be confirmed. For the informa tion of the Intelligencer we state that the Georgia Legislature is Democratic. Brand Radical Fizzle at Philadelphia. The Radicals, according to their own statements, had fifteen thousand men in precession at Philadelphia last Friday. This is put down as a grand, overpowering display of tlm old soldiers in favor of Grant and Coifax. This Soldiers and Sailors’ Convention, so-called, was com posed of men from all sections of the coun try, and in a city where there are nearly a million of inhabitants. It was presided over by the notorious John W. Forney, who never smelt gunpowder on the battle field, and very likely this is the case of two-thirds of the men in the procession. The Radicals put this demonstration down as something superb, and as eclips ing anything of the kind during the cam paign. But they forget that it was only a few days since that there was a Demo cratic Convention at Indianapolis which numbered sixty thousand, where there were more White Boys in Blue than “Boys in Blue” at Philadelphia, so that the Philadelphia Radical Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention, as compared with the demonstration at Indianapolis, turns out to be"what is denominated io vulgar pir lauce, “a grand fizzle.” One of our prominent citizens, recently arrived from a visit to Philadelphia, repre sents the enthusiasm for Seymour and Blair as something unexampled in the Ifistory of the country. There is no doubt whatever about a glorious Democratic vic tory in the city, and very little, if any, as to Seymour and Blair sweeping the Key stone State, so that the old saying will again be verified in November —“ as goes Pennsylvania so goes the Union. ’' The Tribune and General Howard. General Howard, Couimander-in-Chief of the Freedmen’s Bureau, referring to tho condition of affairs in the South, says : “There is this amount of freedom in the “South, that an officer of,the Government, “the head of the hated Freedmen’s Bu “roau, could pass through all the South “and be treated with civility, even while “expressing many uupalatablc truths.” The New York Tribune on tho other hand says : “The South is breaking out into ‘a new “rebellion,’ There is ‘proscription of “free speech.’ The “negroes are hunted “down with dogs.” There “is less freedom “in the South than there was during the “war or before the war 1” Here is a flat contradiction, and as ’General Howard has better opportunities of knowing the true condition of affairs in the South than Mr. Horace Greeley, we take it for granted that his statement is correct; or as the World puts it : “In the graceful language of the same Tribune “is it not evident that in this mat ter "somebody lies, wickedly, villainously lies ?” “Is it General Howard? Is it the Tribune ?” Poor Little Florida. The Radical Governor of Florida is a carpet-bagger who bails from the State of Wisconsin, aud has, since the war, acted as a United States mail agent. To show how little identified he is with tho people for whom he is now acting as Chief Magis trate, his family have continued to reside : n the spot they claim as his home and theirs. T’ sc are the creatures that the Radi cal ;.arty insist shall occupy the high places in our State Governuients--earpet-baggcrs, who are alien in feeling,interest, residence, and association. No reconstruction, with such corruption for its foundation, can restore the Union and bring peace to the country. The people of the North and West are now finding it out,aud they insist on a change, and it is coming. , Radical Extravagance. The following, from the New York Jour nal of Commerce, the leading independent commercial journal of the country, is worthy the closest attention of every man, irrespective of party, who has the least interest in the prosperity of the country. If this state of things is to continue much longer, there is no necessity of discussing the kind of money in which the 5-20 bonds are to be paid, for with two years more of Radical rule repudiation is inevitable: THE CURRENT YEAR. A few days ago wc called attention to the fact that while the partisan orators on either side were disputing as to which could promise most of relief to tax-payers, the Treasury teas in imminent danger of bankruptcy. * * In fact we do not see how it is possible, with the strictest econ omy in the Departments, unaided by an early aud thorough reform in legislation, to avoid the breakers now lying directly before us. The authorized expenses for the current fiscal year, including remains of old appropriations which have not lapsed evceed five hundred and fifty millions. We think a very moderate estimate of the sum actually called for will be considerably in excess of four hundred millions, and we do act sec how it can fall below four hundred and fifty millions. We understand that the estimates of experts at the Treasury Department carry it up to four hundred and seventy-five millions, but we wish to be within a safe limit- We cannot figure the receipts under existing laws as high as three hundred and fifty millions. We do not think a safe estimate will give them more than three hundred and twenty-five millions. The Treasury experts place them at three hundred and twenty-one millions. Here ice must hat' a deficit in the current year, as ux showAl the other day, of OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOL LARS, and it is more likely to be ONE HUN DRED and forty millions than a less amount. * * Ihe Secretary has author ity a nib r the act 0/1566 to Uarow iqum the Issue of bonds, and a rdmposition of the heavy taxes removed by Congress for po litical effect, will onee more bring the bul- AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, IS6S ance on the right side. But there is no j poetry in the situation, and we intend that j it shall not be our fault if the people do not understand it. Hurrahing for party will not fill the Treasury. Promises of immediate relief to burdened tax-payers are all for buncombe, and cannot be kept. The wheel is setting heavily in the rut of debt, and only sturdy shoulders can give it an onward motion. More Rebel Outrages! This paragraph appeared in yesterday’s Tribune instead of a fresh list of three hun dred more negro martyrs massacred in Ca milla. The italics are our own : “By telegraph and mail there coine to us variediilustrations ot the power with which the spirit of rebellion still works in the peo ple of Texas. The lawlessness and turbu lence which have long been life there begin to appear in more marked manner also in other Southern States■ An assassination in Memphis, the lynching of a negro in Ar kansas, and a conflict at GoUlsboro, are among the fresh pieces hi old news from the South this morning.” The “assassination in Memphis” was the murder of the rebel General Hindman. The “conflict at Goldsboro” was an attack made by negro troops on other negroes who attended a Democratic meeting. The “lynching of a negro in Arkansas” was the hanging by a mob of “a negro named Lee Morrison, who had killed several per sons,” and whom the Sheriff with a posse attempted to arrest. “When the Sheriff’s posse knocked at his cabin door, Morrison fired, killing the Sheriff.” He afterward made a desperate resistance to his captors, and, after ‘''severely wounding three colored men, ’ escaped to the woods. He was re taken by the mob and “lynched.” The facts in these cases are given as we give them here in the news coluuis of tho Tribune. In its editorial columns they are made, as you see, to do duty in the work of “firing the Northern heart” by “rebel outrages.”— New York World. Splendid Yews from Ohio. Our advices from the Fifteenth Con gressional District arc most cheerful. Mr. Follett is the Democratic candidate, and will surely be elected over Moore, tho Radical nominee. In 18G4, this district' was carried by the Radicals by 2,061 ma jority. This year it will go Democratic certain, and by at least 500 majority. The Sixteenth District is alive to tho importance of the campaign. Estess, the Democratic candidate, will defeat Bing ham by from 500 to 800 majority. In 1866, Bingham’s majority was 1,422, but the Democrats carried the district last fall by 210 votes, and have gained a good deal since. Morgan, who runs against Cooper (Radical) in the Thirteenth District, will carry that District by over 2,000 majority. We carried this District in 1866 by 271 votes, and last year by over 1,700. Ac counts of the most reliable characteisijfroin the other districts show that the Demo cratic party is gaining ground in all, and the indications all lead to the conclusion that we shall carry the State on the 13th by ten thousand votes, and that Grant will fall far behind the Congressional vote.— Evening Express. The (Ecumenical Council. —The Pope has announced to the non-Catholic religious denominations the convocation of an (Ecumenical Council, and has invited them, on this occasion, to return to the Church. The dispatch does not state whether the Bishops ot tho non-Catholic Churches will be invited to attend the Council, but it had previously been stated in leading Roman Catholic papers of Europe that the Bishops of the Eastern Churches whose ordination is regarded in Rome, had been invited, and that a num ber of the Greek Bishops of Turkey would accept the invitation. —sircar—— The South American Earthquakes. —Tho awful destruction of human life by the recent earthquake in Ecuador exceeds anything ever yet recorded from such con vulsions. At Ibarra out of 16,000 inhabit ants, 13,000 were destroyed. In Otovalo 7000 out of 10,000 perished. In the Can tons containing in 1867 65,564, and em bracing the two cities above mentioned, 43,000 people were killed. In Peru the destruction of human life was much less, but in both countries property was all but annihilated. The very face of nature was torn to pieces. How the Carpet-Baggers Love the Negroes!—ln a few words the Selma Times shows how much the carpet-baggers love the negroes. It says: How the carpet-baggers do love the poor negro! Here is Morse, Radical Attorney Gener al for the State of Alabama, and Radical candidate for the State at large on the Grant and Colfax electoral ticket, who beat a negro almost to di atli and then rubbed salt in his wounds ! Here is Crowe, Radical candidate for the State at large on the Grant and Colfax electoral ticket, who murdered three or four negroes in Mississippi! Here is Harrington, Radical member of the Legislature, Radical Speaker of the Radical House of Representatives, who stole and sold into slavery a whole ship load of the free negroes of Alabama ! To be sure, how the carpet-baggers do love the poor negro ! Affairs in Old Virginia.—Letters lo the Richmond Dispatch give unfavorable accounts of agricultural operations this year. A large portion of the tobacco crop will be lostfrom bad tillage, and this main ly upon . the larger portions, where the proprietors have, according to the O. S., left the negroes to manage for themselves. In Louisa county many of the hands had withdrawn from farm labor to gather sumac, which they were shipping in large quantities, as much as 160,00 b pounds in one day. A hand could gather 200 pounds a day, which, when dried, was worth one dollar per hundred. The Dis patch says Richmond is going ahead very rapidly, and a very bright future is open ing to that city. Cheering News from Pennsylvania. —Cheering news continues to come to us from every section of the commonwealth. The Democracy are thoroughly aroused in every precinct, and hundreds of Republi cans who never before acted with us are rushing to our standard. The same energy now displayed by the friends of the Union and the Constitution if kept up until the day of battle, will give us the State by twenty thousand majority. Philadelphia Age. Base Ball.— The following is the result of a Match Game of Base Bail, played be tween the Empire and Keystone Clubs of Augusta, for a Base Ball, October oth: Rpj jfonr Chib. KafircQMb, uiTi. ~~ O ic L 1. J Feagmn, O j 6 5 - 1. Rhodes, <J in; l 2 2. Clayton, 3 B 15 11 2. li.’.ev, P Is|l i 2 3. J. huckley, P jb2{lr H. Calvin. 3 I>’ 14-0 j 1 4. c. Hookey. FS J S 2 i 4. Parr,2 1> 15 11 .V Si. Morris, IB 0 0 5. Clarkson. IB I•j 0; 1 6. C. Otdharr.. L ¥ j i li 0 *>. Parr, L F 4 j 1 1 7. >. W. McCarty,C t\3 li *2,1 S. Garv.n, C F I2jl ; 1 5. - Keyno.ds, h. Ij4] l| :' M Tur.vr, Hi’ |i!l ; 2 Total, 27 2o”s| J Total. 27 10 12 Innings, 12345675)9 Keystone Buns, 2 2 1 0 1 6 0 4 I—2 Empire Runs, 2 1 0 2 0 1 1 2 I—lo. Umpire—Cock. . Titere was also a sociable game played by tne C-übs. Postoffice Notice. —The following communication is of general interest: Postoffice, } Antioch, Troup County, Ga., • i- Octobero, 1668. j Chronicle &. Sentinel: I desire to state, lor the benefit of your business men and all concerned, that ali letters directed to Antioch, Ga., inevitably come to this of fice- There is but one Antioch Postoffice in this State. Communications intended to go to Antioch be pot, Georgia Railroad, should be directed to Stephens, Ga.,other wise they come here, and the regulations of the Department compel me to send them to the Dead-Letter Office. The last mail from this office carried over fifty letters to the Dead-Letter Office, which, it is likely, were intended for Stephens. By noticing the above and acting upon its suggestions, parties may save themselves much annoyance an? myself not a little trouble. All the Augusta papers are requested to copy the above. Henry 11. Cary, P. M. A Yoble Letter from Gen. Rosecrans. In reply to an invitation to address the late Mass Meeting at Indianapolis, Gen eral Rosecrans wrote the following manly letter. The pledge which the General gives of his “honor and life” for the good faith and devotion of the Southern people to the principles of the Constitution, and their willingness to support the Govern ment of the United States, administered in accordance with its provisions, will never be forfeited by any act of ours, if the Northern people will take the General’s advice and “ restore the people of the Southern States to hopeful, cheerful, SELF- Government. . This is all that is necessary to be done. Let us have the same rights; accord to us the same privileges; extend to us the same protection; restore to us our right to equal and just representation in the Federal Government.; permit us to manage our internal affairs in the same way and to the same extent as Massachusetts and Ohio are permitted; recognize our right—the right claimed and exercised by every Northern State to regulate for ourselves the qualifications for electors—do this and ipso facto the Union is restored. And not only a Union in law but a union of senti ment, of brotherly love and national pride. In the name of the Southern people, we thapk General fiSsccraus (for this noble expression of hij confidence in our integri ty, honor and good faith, and we assure him that if his counsels shall prevail with the North, and our right of self-govern ment receive their sanction, we shall prove to the world that he fias not misconceived our Luo character and sentiments: St Martins, Brown Couuty, 0., ) September 21, 1868. j Gen. John Love, Indianapolis , Indiana ’■ General : Indispensable duties preveut me from attending the gathering of offi cers and soldiers at Indianapolis, to which your letter iuvited me on the 28d inst. But beyond the great gratification I should experience in meeting so many of my old companions-in-arms, and mingling our memories of the pa3t with'resolutions of future efforts and sacrifices for the honor of the land and flag we love, my presence there would accomplish more than a simple statement of my views on the chief issues which now agitate the country. I believe our free institutions and high' est material interests are in grave peril. I shall, therefore, perform a solemn and re sponsible duty to my fellow-soldiers and countrymen, who love this nation more than party, by stating what I think the most vital issues before the public in the approaching Presidential election. Above all other expenses—expenditures, taxation, bonds, “greenbacks,” or any thing else—stands that of restoring the people of the Southern States to hopeful, cheerful self-government, Restore them this, and as certainly as day follows the sun our political stability will be assured; our financial prosperity will speedily follow ; the value of prop erty in the South will increase ; our pub lic securities will go to a premium ; our greenbacks will become par ; coin and cur rency accounts, with all their evil3 and com plications, will disappear from the books of our business men. Believing with all my soul that the pres ervation of our Government from despot ic changes, and all those inestimable bless ings depend upon this restoration of the Southern people to wholesome, cheerful self-government, I am equally certain that it can be done, and dare pledge my honor and life for them that they will give and observe all proper guarantees to renounce secession, slavery, and their dependent issues ; to protect, educate, and elevate the freedmen to the exercise of all the franchise they enjoy in Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois ; and faithfully to perform all the duties incumbent on them as good citizens under tho * Constitution and laws of the United States. And what more could bo asked af them, or what greater results could pitriotism desire for the country than depend upon this is'ae ? Not even the prosecutionVf the war challenged a more thorough nmunciation of party preferences and personal dislikes on the altar of our country than does the attainment of this great good. The desolate and ruined South, the op pressed taxpayers of the West and North, generosity, mercy, love of country, "appre hensions of evils to come, every motive that ought to move the hearts of true and noble men, appeal to us to say by our votes we will stop that hopeless, folly of attempting to govern the Southern States by what we call “loyal blacks,” and give the people, under just guarantees, the right peacefully and legally to proceed to reorganize their own government within the Union. With such convictions, I hold the man who would not express and act upon them a traitor to himself and his country, and despise the partisan who would find fault with any steps he might take to bring about so great a good to tho na tion. Recommending my convictions, and the reasons lor them, to the judgment of my fellow-soldiers and countrymen, I remain very truly, yours, W. S. Rosecrans. Yew Books, Little Women, or Meci, Joe, Bctli and Amy. By Louisa M. Alcott, illustrated by May Alcott, Boston: Roberts Brothers. IS6B. This is a very charming little book, writ ten by a lady who knows how to please her readers; and it is printed in a very neat and handsome style of typography, pretty and substantial binding; and illustrated with several appropriate engravings. The following preface will perhaps give a little insight into this very interesting little book: “Go then, my little Book, and show to all That entertain, and bid theo welcome shall, What thou dost keep close shut up iu thy breast; Aud wish what thou dost show them may bo blest To them for good, may make them choose to be Pilgrims better by far than theo or mo. Tell them of Mercy ; she is one who early hath her pilgrimage begun. Yes, let young damsels learn of her to prize Tho world which is to come, and so be wise ; For little tripping maids may follow God Along the ways which saintly feet have trod.” [Adapted from John Banyan. A Book About Boys : By A. R. Hope, author of a “Book About Dominies.” Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1868. We have here a very neatly printed and taking little book. Some idea of its char acter may be gleaned from its table of con tents : 1, The Subject Introduced and Do fined; 2, The Amusements of Boys; 3 The Troubles of Boys, with the sad story of the Babes in the Wood, and some ac count of the Battle of the School Books; 4; The Troubles of Boys—continued ; 5, The Friendships of Boys; 6, The Religion and Morality of Boys ; 7, The Philosopby of Boys; 8, The Manners of Boys, with some reflections on the Grundy Family ; 9, Peculiar Boys; 10, Oi Typannnoi as they are, and as they should be; 11, Booksfor Boys; 12, Boys in Books; 13, Boys at Home; 14,. Ragged Boys. The author has got up, altogether, a very readable and instructive book, and the enterprising publishers have added the attractions of good typography and hand some binding. W e are indebted to Messrs. Roberts Brothers for a copy of each of these volumes. Pamphlet.— Fire and Inland Marine Losses, Paid by the Underwriters’ Agen cy of New York : 1864 to 1867. We have received a pamphlet bearing this title, and containing a list of the va rious amounts paid, for losses within the years named, in the several States. It is a very neatly printed little book. The editor of the Danbury (Conn.) Tunes, until this year Radical, says the General of the army and Radical candi date for the Presidency, has “lived in smoke and will end in smoke,” while his name m politics has not added one convert to the cause he has seen fit to shoulder. A Kentuckian calculates that he has chewed 1525 pounds of tobacco in the last forty years. OUR ATLAYTA (ORSESPOYDEYCE. Atlanta, October 4,1863. Messrs. Editors: This Legislature, like all its predecessors, is crowding its most important business into the last hours of the expiring session. Bills of any great importance, which have lain slum bering in the hands or pockets of commit tee men, are being’brought up disposed of in a very summary manner—“do pass” or “do not pass” endorsed upon the back of a biil settles it doom. Each House disposes of about fifty bills per day—discussion is out of the question—much as a member may have nursed some pet scheme, he finds himself, at this the last chance, non plussed and the stunning announcement, “the bill is lost,” is the last of his dar ling. An unusual number of Mining, Manu facturing, and Insurance Companies have been, chartered. If the mineral and min ing resources of Georgia are not developed, it will not be for the want of liberal fran chises. In every one of these Hydraulic, Hose, Mining Companies’ charters, rivers and creeks are allowed to be diverted from their channels,and the water to be conduct ed by flumes, aqueducts, or canals through or over any intervening lands—it is cer taiuly very liberal to allow A to drain B’s mill pond dry—to legalize tho destruction of C’slot of land byD. The proposition to allow foreign capi tal invested in manufactures in this State to go untaxed for three years has been defeated in every phase in which it has been intro duced. It was looked upon with mistrust, and its advocates were not exactly sure of the correctness of the policy. It was as serted that a letter was in the possession of some member from tho Messrs. Sprague of Rhode Island, to the effect that were such a bill passed, that they would, at once, invest several millions of dollars in Georgia in manufactures. But members are unwilling to vote for such bills—acting, no doubt, upon the ancient adage, “ TimcoDanaosnumeractferentes.” The House has worked up all its own and all of the Senate’s business. If the Legislature does not adjourn to-morrow it is the fault of the Republican Senate. Dr. Blount is here, and brings most doleful accounts of his treatment by the people of Southwest Georgia. If all ac counts be true, he has been courting mar tyrdom for some time, and has lived to see the realization of his hopes, lie is en titled to a fat office--a first class appoint ment—for all bis trials und tribulations in the cause of Radicalism. The only valid reason for the Legislature remaining in session longer is the cv : deut intention to garrison the State, particular ly Soutwestern Georgia, withUnited States troops. Some members think it best to remain here till doomsday, than have such a dire calamity visit any portion of our State. Notwithstanding the very decided inten tion to adjourn, you needj not be as tonished if the session should yet be pro longed *to the Presidential eloction, or that a recess should be had, the re-assembling to be left to a committee. The Legisla ture certainly has a precedent in the late so-called Congress of'the United States. Constitution. POLITICAL. PENNSYLVANIA. Senator Doolittle Addresses a Monster Mass Meeting in Heading. Special Dispatch to the Mcvi York World. Reading, Penn., October L— Probably in no State of the Union are the Republi cans so extremely dissatisfied with both the Radical nominations and platform as in the “Old Keystone.” In our city we can count converts to Democracy by the scores, and at the meeting this evening Senator Doolittle spoke to an audience, fully one half of whom were Republicans*!!)) to a few months-since. The able speaker made an effective address, fully convincing every one present of the extreme danger the Republic is in, and the necessity of Grant’s defeat in November. Mayor Hoffman in Pittsburg—His Address to the Citizens —Enthusiasm of the, Peo ple-Certainty of Success in November. Pittsburg, Penn., October 1. —Mayor Hoffman arrived this morning, and was escorted to the St. Charles Hotel by an en thusiastic crowd. He was called on during the day by prominent men of both parties. He made a speech to-night from the foot of Fifth Avenue to an assemblage estimat ed to number 10,000. He said he once felt doubts of Pennsylvania, but since he cross ed the borders of the State he was assured it would go Democratic by an immense majority. He spoke an hour and a half in the rain. He said he had no objection to any rain but Radical reign. He- was fol lowed by Mr. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, in an eloquent address of an hour’s duration, which was enthusiastically Received by the crowd standing in the rain. Great prepa rations are being made to receive Pendle ton. There will be a great'convention on Monday next, judging from the demon strations made this week. The Republican vote in Alleghany county will be wonder fully decreased at the November election. Movements of General Blair, Bedford, Penn, October I.—General Blair arrived here this evening, and will address a meeting to-night. Grand Demonstration in the Old Tenth Legion — Two Miles of Democrats in Pro cession. Easton, September 30,1868. —Without exception, the largest and most imposing political demonstration that ever was held in Eastern Pennsylvania took place in this town last evening, under the auspices of the Central Democratic Club, and crowds of Democratic people came from all parts of the surrounding country. There were at least ten thousand men on horseback in procession, and five thousand on foot, with a dozen bands and drum corps, hundreds of banners and transparencies, a cannon and a huge bell on a platform, ringing out the death-knell of Radicalism. There was also a Freedmen’s Bureau erected on wheels, with a dozen lazy negroes lounging around, followed by a delegation of carpet baggers dressed in true Yankee style. Part of the procession, which was at least two miles in length, consisted of thirty seven young ladies, each with a flag in her hand. Hon Montgomery Biair and Gen. W. W. H. Davis addressed at least two thousand people while the procession was moving. The parade did not end until twelve o’clock at night. The meeting had a fine effect, and will show its good results in October and November in the largest Democratic majority this old county has ever given. We shall give three thousand five hundred majority in North ampton —a gain of five hundred on last year. In the adjoining county of Carbon, seven hundred Democrats have been naturalized—more than our entire majority last year. The Democrats are satisfied that they will carry the State by from fif teen thousand to twenty thousand ma jority. OHIO. Immense Meeting in Zanesville—Speeches of Hon Ilenry Stanhcry and General Morgan. Zanesville, Sept. _ 28. The largest hall meeting-ever held in this city has just adiousned. The meeting was called by the Democratic Central Committee, to be addressed by General Morgan. At an early hour the crowd began to assemble in the hall. By seven o’clock the hall was fiiied to overflowing. The meeting was opened by calling Colonel William Ball to the chair, after which a capital song was sung by Mr. Fred. Streets, a prominent Democrat of this city. The General was then introduced and made a telling and ef fective speech of over two hours in length, lie was frequently interrupted by the wildest enthusiasm during the delivery of his speech. Hon. Henry .Stanbery, who had unex pectedly arrived in the city, entered the hall, when the entire audience arose to their feet, and gave vent to the most un bounded enthusiasm. The cheering con tinued full ten minutes, every man en deavoring to cheer louuer than his neigh bor. After the conclusion of the General ’ s Speech, Mr. Stanbery was introduced, and delivered a speech some_ twenty or thirty minutes in length, during which he was frequently interrupted by tremendous cheering. Put another feather in the Democratic cap for Muskingum, and mark it six hundred majority for Seymour, Blair and General Morgan. Large Democratic Meeting at Columbus. Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Columbus, September 29,- 186s.—The Democratic meeting to-night at the west front of the State house is by far the largest assemblage of people of the campaign, in tact, it is conceded to be the largest political gathering ever wit nessed in the State house square. The demonstration by the White Boys in Blue has been grand—beyond the power of human language to describe. The boys in this city number now nearly one thou- sand honorably discharged Union soldiers of the late war, and they are out in force, with music, banners, torches, and lanterns, receiving the commendations of even the Republicans. Amid the thundering of cannon and he enthusiastic shouts of the countless multitudes that had assembled at the place of meeting, they marched into the State-house square with military precision, under command of their accomplished chief officer, Colonel Morrow, and took their position on the ground. John G. Thomp son then read the list of officers of the meeting, and introduced Colonel Baber as president. The Colonel came forward and said : Fellow-Citizen : Thanking you for the honor which you have conferred on me, I have tho pleasure of introducing to you a native son of Ohio, who bears a historic name, the lustre of which he has fully maintained in the war for the Union. The Union and the Constitution, for which he and his distinguished brother-in-law, General Sherman, with thousands of your brave soldier boys have fought, are again put in jeopardy by Congressional usurpers and conspirators, whom he will handle without gloves, as he did the rebels when in arms. I now present to you Major Gen eral Thomas Ewing, of Kansas. General Ewing was received with the wildest shouts and enthusiasm, which last ed for nearly ten minutes. He spoke for nearly two hours, making a most powerful and effective speech, riveting the atten tion of all who could hear him, and carry ing conviction to every mind. The meeting at the west front of the State House was closed with an eloquent and stirring speech from Hon. Archibald Mayo, of this city. While this immense meeting was in progress, as many of our German voters as could get into the State-street Theatre were listening to the eloquent utterances of Emil Roth, of Wisconsin, who spoke to them in their own language most ably and effectively. Major lleinhard, of the Westbote, presided over this meeting. Altogether, this has been a great occa sion for the Democracy of the capital city of Ohio. There is no longer any doubt about Franklfn county giving over three thousand majority for the Democratic State and national tickets. INDIANA. Immense Democratic Meeting in llushvillc —25,000 Persons Present. Rusiiville,lnd. , September 29,1868. A grand mass meeting was held here to day. _ Twenty-five thousand white people were in attendance. Twenty-four large, fine wagons, filled with young ladies, one thousand uniformed “White Boys," and Seymour Guards on horseback, and one thousand wagons and buggies, formed a grand procession, headed by two brass bands, and inarched to Beckncr’s Grove. The procession was an hour and a half passing a given point, and as the procecs ion marched, the atmosphere was fairly rent with deafening cheers for Seymour and Blair. The crowd was addressed in an eloquent and able manner by Hons. D. S. Gooding, M. M. Ray, and J ohn S. Reid. Unbounded enthusiasm prevailed. A bomb shell was thrown in the Radical camp by Thomas Colton, of Union Town ship, Shelby county, and twenty-five of his neighbors, heretofore Radicals, who cStne out and marched in the procession, and declared themselves for Seymour and Blair. The people at home repudiate their misrepresentative, George Julian. Large Meeting at Logansport. Logansport, Ind., September 30, 1868.—The demonstration here to-night by the White Boys in Blue and the work iDgmen was the finest and most imposing that has ever taken place in this county. Over six hundred workingmen—White Boys in Blue and horsemen in uniform— were in the procession. The display was entirely impromptu, and was witnessed by hundreds of citizens of both parties. As the procession marched past the Radical headquarters, the epithets of “traitors,” “rebels,” and “copperheads,” were plentifully indulged in by prominent Radicals; and so indecent and unbecoming were the Radical insults that a leading member of the party volunteered his ser vices in rebuking his indecent and unman nerly brethren. > No demonstration of the campaign his had so good an effect upon the people as the one ol to-day ; and the soldierly bear ing and gentlemanly deportment of the members of the various organizations eli cited the greatest applause from the people in the streets. Put down Cass county as good for six hundred majority for Hendricks and the State ticket. The Fall Trade. The New York World says: Few, if any, seasons of the past will com pare with the present in the amount of trade that has been carried on in New York. Business with wholesale merchants commenced somewhat kter than usual, but that was a circnmstance more ad vantageous to the buyer than detrimental to the seller. Owing to the spring trade of the year having been unusually late and rather light, orders were held over, and, in general, stocks wore not fully mado up until after the usual period for the com mencement of the fall trade. The en couraging reports of the healthy condition of the crops in all sections of the country gave promise of abrisk trade, and although late, the merchants all succeeded in bring ing their stocks up to the demand, but it is probable that at the close of the season a much smaller quantity of goods will be on hand than an3' similar period for several years past. Not only is trade this year exceedingly brisk, but it is financially sound. The bankrupt laws in the South have swept away very many of the small speculative and unprincipled traders who, on the strength of wholesale promises, used to obtain credit when they had neither immediate nor prospective means of pay ment, and the South to-day labors under less liabilities than it has done for many years. The crops of corn, cotton and rico have been good and well sceured. The principal buyers from the South arc old established firms whose credit is good, while the smaller traders, or such of them as buy in this market, are buying for cash; very few indeed are asking for credit. Those whose means rendered such a course •necessary, preferred waiting until the crops could be realized, and will then buy in home markets. The amount shipped to the Southern markets is, however, greater this year than it has been since the com mencement of the war. In the West crops show an increase of at least 25 percent., and the prospects for a lively trade arc very promising. The number of buyers is larger this season than usual. They are, howevei*, very careful and show no disposition to be speculative, but there hs more detail in business ob servable than in previous years. Pur chases for the West are being made on short time, and credit there is generally good, though it was never so closely scru tinized as now, the good results of which are noticeable in the increased confidence of our merchants, and the general health fulness and improvement in all branches of business. In dry goods business is very brisk, prices declining downward in aii domestic cotton goods. Foreign cloths and woolens are in fair demand and prices firm. The same will apply to domestic woolens. Silk goodsofall descriptions have advanced in price from thirty to forty per cent. Imported manufactured silks are in good demand, but the supply is limited ; the raw material is higher at present than it has been for the past forty years. In fancy goods and notions trade is very active, showing an increase of at least twenty-five per cent, on last fall. Stocks, with the larger houses, are very heavy and varied, and prices rule from 5 to 12 per cent, lower. In hats and caps, an important branch of New York trade, there is a larger in crease in sales; prices are low but firm. There is but little chaDge in the prices of ordinary furs, but trade is good. The sup ply of beavers is very limited, and they are, consequently, somewhat higher. In clothing, the trade has been unusually brisk, but owing to manufactures not hav ing commenced making up their fall stocks until late (last spring’s trade having been very late), the demand will be greater than the supply, and it is estimated that there is not a clothing stock in New York to meet the fall demand. Already there is a great scarcity of medium grades of business suits, on which there appears to have been an extraordinary run this season. Manu facturers are anticipating a heavy trade next spring, and are already making exten sive preparations to meet it. The boot and shoe trade is lively ; prices are good and well sustained. The carpet trade has made no material advancement, but prices are firm and stocks somewhat low. The demand for fine foreign goods and laces is very brisk, and the quantity of superior grades sold exceeds that of almost any season. In other trades no material changes | have taken place, but in all branches, ex- j cepting one or two, the improvement has ' been so marked that it needs not a prophet j to tell that the lessening of the enormous i NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVII. NO. 41. taxation under which the people labor, and a more economical administration of the Government, will bring with it a re turn to that plenty for which the country was, until quite recently, proverbial. A lard From the Hon. B, H. Hill of Georgia. To the Editor of. The Tribune. Sir : Thanking you for your liberality in opening your columns heretofore to my communication. allow me space to add some further facts touching the Camilla riot. I have read all that appeared in the Tribune,' and have waited for additional information myself from tho State that I might be sure of correctness in what I write L The chief information upon which Major Howard’s first letter was based,and upon which Bullock based his message to the Legislature, and upon which your cor respondent from Albany seems to rely, was derived lrom the statements of a notori ously bad negro, who had served a term in the penitentiary, and whom 50Q witnesses, black and white, would discredit on oath in a court of justice. 2. I have been planting several years jn that region. lam there habitually. It is one of my homes in the State. 1 have never seen or known of, or, before I read it in your paper, heard of a bloodhound in that country. lam assured,and do believe, there is not one in that whole region ; and I do not believe there is a dog there of any kind trained to track either a black or white man. 3. I knew, personally, Judge Vasonand the gentlemen who acted with him in in vestigating this matter, and whose report throws all the blame on Pierce and Mur phy. I know also some of the witnesses who gave their evidence under oath. We have no more reliable citizens in our State. Judge Vasonisan old Whig and Union man ; was long Judge of ono of our Superior Courts; is a Christian gentleman of fine education and most exemplary char acter and elevated mind, and whom any Northern jury would believe without doubt or hesitation. 4. The letters of your correspondent, at least the statements they make, are originated by some persons, for the ex press purpose of inflaming the Northern mind and influencing the elections pending. 5. You think it straDge that so many negroes were killed, and so few whites in jured. To me this is not strange. The negroes were slaughtered, as they will al ways be, under the circumstances. Their white leaders escaped, as they intended be forehand to escape. If the people of tho North will not be moved by tho wroogs and dangers to the whites of the South, I beg them to rescue the poor negroes from sure destruction, by repudiating these Re construction measures, and thereby remove the inducements offered to carpet baggers and renegades to breedstrife and hate, that they may get office. 6. Is it not singular that so many Northern people will persist in believing with implicit confidence the wild state ments of frightened convict negroes, and of bad white men; who abandon white society to use the negro for selfish ends, and of anonymous writers, summarily set aside the most solemn statements under oath of our best white people, and the as surances of the whole white race of the South, as mere attempts to "whitewash rebel outrages V” Strangers and renegades of the most original secession stamp, are inciting negroes to acts which lead to their slaughter, in order to make dupes of educa ted, refined Northern whitesj that these strangers, and worst secessionists, may get the offices for their loyalty ! These are the only fruits which the Reconstruction measures have produced, or can produce at the South. Ought such measures to be “maintained and perpetuated ?” The attempt to weaken the facts I state (if so intended) by a little personal ridicule ot myself is, in view of tho issue, scarcely pardonable, but is pardoned. Your kind ness in permitting me to be heard through your columns in behalf of our people will, with me and them, excuse any criticism your sense of propriety may permit. But do.even me justice. On this s abject, 1. The version of the Atlanta speech from which you quote I never saw before ; but allowing its substantial correctness, does it, properly understood, show vio lence ? It only proposed social ostracism for tho Southern men who would vote to destroy the equality of their States, and to fix the degradation of their own and our families. 1 had in view such consequences as this Camilla riot. Is it violence to say that a man who will, through negroes as his tools, endanger my property, my life, and my family, shall not eat at my table or sleep under my roof ? Even Orator Puff was never so illogical. 2. The Forsythe speech, from which you quote in your issue of yesterday, I never saw as printed. I never in my life, on any occasion, either felt or used the language you quote toward or of “Union men.” I doubtless may have used such language toward inciters to riot and bloodshed in the South, but toward no other. You quote ini in parallel columns with the colored man Turner. Allow me to thank you for allowing me to be equal with the negro in The Tribune. It is a privilege which is denied me by the Reconstruction measures. Hie Tribune is more liberal than tho policy te seeks to “maintain and perpetuate.” It is impossible for the Northern people to eonceivo how adroitly and yet how ef fectually our utterances in the South arc distorted hero, and how completely our meaning is often reversed, and the applica tion of our words changed. I find a wide-spread idea at the North that the election of Gen. Grant will insure peace and quiet at the South. This re sult the South will desire, hut it is not possible if Gen. Grant, as President, shall “maintain and perpetuate” the Recon struction measures. The fault does not lie in the temper of the Southern whites, as is represented at the North, but it lies in the character of tho Reconstruction policy and in its logical workings. These measures breed a dirty class of office-seek ers at the hands of negroes, who in turn breed Camilla riots. Our best white peo ple are now doing all in their power to prevent these results in hope of early relief in the Presidential election. We do not regard the governments forced under these Reconstruction, measures as yet legally established* In our opinion the American people, in this election, are to ex press their will on that question. If Gen. Grant shall be elected the carpet-baggers and negro instigators will feel sustained and en couraged. • Our white people will feel abandoned by the Noith, and, I fear, will become hopeless and desperate. I turn from the picture of results. When you blame men for not keeping quiet and cool in a fire, then blame the Southern whites for results in that ease. People of the North save us now! On the other hand, the election of Seymour will be accented as a decision by the American people that these governments are not established; the few whites who now support them from | policy will abandon them ; all inducement j to organize negroes as voters will be at an j end ; the people will be encouraged, hope j ful; good governments for all colors will return, and peace will be assured, and uni versal and instantaneous. Ido know that all our industrial arrangements are affect ed by this contingency. If Mr. Seymour is elected, plantations now idle are to be worked, factories built, and capital invest ed, and at fair, good prices. If Gen. Grant shall be elected, bargains are to j be rescinded, and none will feature, * ex ! cept such as are compelled for a living, and have no other resource. I firmly believe it will cost the Federal Government two hundred millions per annum to keep the peace under these re constructed governments, and then the peace will not, because it cannot, be kept under them. But will the destruction of local peace and property be all ? I fear not, and be lieve not. Sir, let the deep sincerity of my convic tions crave your indulgence for a few ad ditional sentences. I am entitled to an audience from your readers, and through your assistance. I allude to the incident following in no spirit of reproach, hut in entire kindness, and only to illustrate my point and my motive- I have seen the explanation of the Tribune, and recognize its force viewed from the standpoint of the Tribune, but our people did not then so understand it. On the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, nearly all the old Whig leaders of the South joined the De mocracy. This left the Whigs or Ameri cans in a decided minority. It was then I felt it to be my duty to change the pur pose of my life and enter polities. It was my lot to engage with all my humble powers, from 1855 to 1861, in a vain effort to arrest the tide of secession that was sweeping the South,as I thought, into revolution. Late in the winter of 1860, more earnest than ever before, I warned our people that war, on the most unequal terms, must follow secession. On one of these occasions a distinguished se cession gentleman replied to my war warn ings by reading extracts from prominent Northern Republicans, and with special emphasis from the columns of the Tribune to the effect that if the people of the South desired to secede they had a right to do so. aud would be allowed to do so in peace. He then alluded to me as one born and raised in the South, and yet was endeavoring o frighten our people from their rights by [ threats of war, while Northern Freesoilers, who had been esteemed the cnomies of the South, were conceding our rights and as suring its peaceful exercise. Now, my good sir, what could I have rejoined ? Here are the very words I did rejoin: “I care not what Mr. Greeeley and Mr. Wade, or any other Republican, or all Re publicans together have said or may say to the contrary. More to be relied on than all these, I plant myself on the inflexible laws of human nature and the unvarying teachings of human experience, and warn you this day, that no government half as great as this Union, can bo dismembered, and in passion, except through blood. You had as well expect the fierce lightning to rend the air and make no thunder in its track, as to expect peace to follow the throes of dissolving government. I pass by the puerile taunts at my devotion to the best interests of the people among whom I was born and reared, and trust my vindi cation to the realities of the future, which I deprecate and would avert, and again tell you that dissolve this Union, and war will come. Ido n<jt say it ought to come. I cannot tell when, nor how, nor between whom it will come. But it will come, and it will bo to you a most unequal, fierce, vindictive and dcsolatimj war.” Since the passage of these fatal Recon struction measures by Congress, 1 have done all in my power to arrest the tide at the North which is trampling on all the guarantees of liberty in ten States of the li nion, and which is destroying the Consti tution for all of the Union. I find now a bitterness at the North and a feeling. of distrust toward the South far more irrational and unprovoked than L ever witnessed in the days of Secession struggles at the South. If the North in 1800 had done half as much to allay the fears of the South as the Southern whites arc now doing to inspire confidence and good will at the North, those of us who were in the midst of the unequal struggle would have been enabled to prevent seces sion. But I find the same fatal delusion ' prevailing here with the architects of the Constitution’s overthrow that prevailed with the secessionists of tile South in 1860. It is said, let us maintain and perpetuate measures which originated outside of tho Constitution, and which have been or may be established by force, and toe. shall have peace! The will of the people, your lead ers write, is the higher law, and Constitu tions will Lend and break before this unsta ble arbiter without disturbing the peace of the nation ! Sir, do not charge me, as did the Seces sionists, with a desire to alarm or an intent to threaten. But. I cannot sec the Consti tution—the grandest production of human effort for the security of human freedom— hopelessly toppled to its foundations by a maniac storm of passion and hate, and utter no protest or warning against the ruthless act. I tell you these Reconstruc tion measures of Congress cannot be main tained and perpetuated without destroy ing the Constitution. The Constitution cannot be destroyedfin peace. Wake your people from this fatal delusion before it is too late. 1 cannot tell when or how or between whom war will come. But it will come. iThc nation’s “blood will flow when the nation’s Constititution is stabbed. Freedom will die when this freedom’s life is destroyed.” And as tho shadow is greater than the substance, so will the war which willfollow the attempt to destroy, the Constitution be fiercer than that which fol lowed the attempt to dissolve the Union. But this much I know: A united. North will not again wage battle against a divided South. Repeated pledges of “rights, dignity, and equality preserved unimpaired,” will not again induce armies to disband, and States to become helpless. Magnanimity in loyal destroyers of Con stitutions will not again be expected. The holy traditions of common struggles will not again weaken revolution; nor will even the adhering properties of common blood and. race, under the dominion of fanaticism again be trusted. I defy you to point mo to a single respect able white man of the South who said, or will now say, he approves these Recon structions measures of Congress as either Constitutional, right, or just. The very men there who accept them, do so with the known intention of repudiating them as soon as they get back in tho Union, and have their disabilities removed. I point you to millions in the North, who bate these measures. How long can govern ments founded on such measures last if How long ought they to last? They are outside of the Constitution ; they libel the Declaration of Independence ; they nega tive every pledge made to induco surren der; they outrage blood; they subject the men, women, and children of ten States to daily scenes of riot and decaying industry, and nightly forebodings of pillage and rape; they organize semi-savages, under pro tection of bayonets, into armed political bands, that strangers, knaves, and vaga bonds may be chosen to fill the scats once occupied by Madison, Lowndes, and Ber rien, and be called tho representatives of a people whom they thus insult, endanger, and enrage. Can such measures work peace ? Arc these guarantees against dis turbance ? Come what may, the people of the South will never vitalize these goveruj ments with their consent. It is not the want of that consent that breaks the peace. The evils which break the peace arc in the governments themselves—their nature, origin, and workings. These evils would not bo removed if this consent were given, but would only be strengthened and made permanent and destructive. I defy you to show me a single condition of restoration, or of reconstruction, prepar ed by the army, or by the President, or by Congress, which the South rejected, and which being rejected damaged the North, or which, if accepted, would not have dis honored the South. Do not, I beseech you, drive the South ern people to utter desperation. Remem bering your promises before all faith is hopelessly destroyed. Return to the Con stitution before your wanderings from its boundaries aro forever irretraceable, lie store your currency and your bonds to gold value, and the Union to good will, by allowing to the Southern States, over their internal affairs, the same power, under the same Constitution, which is allowed to and exercised by the Northern States. llow is it courageous to oppress the South ODly because you can ( But I warn you, the same Government cannot admin ister foro■ at the South/a ml freedom at the North. The time has dSme when emphati cally the country must be all free or aU slave. Ten millions of white people—Americans —wearied with repeated offers of Union ; exhausted with protestations of good faith and security ; voiceless with vain pleadings for peace; hopeless of the redemption of pledges ; impoverished with insatiate ex actions; sick with fruitless concessions to malignity; distracted because they will not consent to dishonor; despised because they will not be inferiors; oppressed because they will not agree to be ruled by slaves; maligned as rebels because they will not submit to pillage by negroes led on by strangers, and driven by a terrible experi ence to the final conviction that in them selves alone is their protection—such a peo ple, though deserted by all mankind, arc not POWERLESS. Yours, very truly, B. H. Hill. Chant/t House, New York, Sept. 20, 1868. Whose Child ?—Xenia, Illinois. — I wish that, through your paper, the fol lowing facts may be circulated : There is living in this county a man who has in bis possession a little girl, about six j or seven years of age, blue eyed, rather sandy hair, which was stolen by a Union soldier during the last year of the war, somewhere in the South. He brought her North to this State, and his wife died (he not having any children), the girl fell into the hands of another person, who wishes her proper parents to have her. Now, this fellow says he got her while on picket in Chattanooga, -Tennessee ; we are not inclined to believe him, as he tells differnl stories about it. The impression is, he did not take the child to relieve her from suffering, but he stole itirom her parents, who, perhaps, think the child dead. Now, sir, if you will give this a place in your paper, it might be the means of relieving the hearts of some good and affectionate parents. The child is here,and don’t know her name in full, only recollects that they called her Lucy Ann. She said her pa went off with a company of men who had guns. Her rna was away from home with her, and she was out playing, when a soldier picked her up and brought her off, promising to take her back. lam ever ready and will ing to answer all inquiries which may be made. Thomas M. Cox. An Early Winter.— There is no doubt of our having an early and a severe win ter, one of the “old-fashioned” seasons which, after ail, arc the healthiest and the best. Heavy frosts have already appeared in) various parts of the country. Even in the South they arc having what they call cold weather, and arc anticipating a spoedy freeze. —Athens (Tenn.) Post, 2d inst. Ex-Governor William F. Johnson, of Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, formerly a Radical of the strongest kind, has come out strongly for Seymour and Blair. lie made a Democratic speech in Pittsburg a few nights since.
