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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1868)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LX.XVI. <f itccuticle & Sentinel. HKMIY >K)OHE, A. K. WIIHiHT. PATRICK WALSH, Associate I&lltor. Tl.it MS OF SI IJSCttUPTION. DAILY* On, m Tin*- y . 5 60 1 0 - . - 1 60 yycjr 3 0C V tJ UU«TA, GA s W Kl>> 'idDAT MOBWH. OCTOBER 21. Ladies’ Almanacs.—Quinn has seme very pretty almanacs for ladies'— Dcm/rr ' •/'», Prank luAu's, and Apjjleton s for 1869. They are useful and ornamental. Millinery and Dress Makcno.— Mines. Segin have just returned from New Pork and announce the opening of new .Millinery, Dress Making, etc. Give them a call. _ Pocket-Books. Memorandum Hooks. Guinn, at the Literary Depot, has just re ceived a supply of very neat pocket-books, ; memorandum books, pen holders, etc. Also tite late Fashion Magazines—Mad* ante Demurest’s for November. i WakiiinoiuN Hotel. —The Washing ton Motel, Wilke .county, Ga., is at pres ent kept by Mre. Fitzpatrirk & Son, a very estimable lady, a polite and courteous young gentleman, everything neat and orderly, a table laden with the be t the market affords and all other necessary ac commodations. Those who may visit the pleasant and beautiful town of Washing ton, will find comfortable quarters and be abundantly satisfied at this hotel A Good Hotel.— Tho old Lanier 1 louse of Macon- > hotel well knrPvn to travellers for ome ycais past, has been renovated, refitted ami opened for the travelling public by that Prince of Southern caterers H. W. Colin rand his sons,for longyears the popu lar proprietor of tin* Mclntosh House atfflic Indian Springs. Those who call at the Lanier during Collier’s administration, will have no cause to regret their selection of a resting place. We unhesitatingly recom mend the Lanier to the patronage of the travelling public. MtiSM'AL I’uitJ.ICATIONH- —Wo are iri cinl»r,< <1 to llio publisher, Mr. J. L. Peters, "f New Pork, for copies of the October number of his musical periodicals, the Musical Review, Glee Jlirr and Parlor Companion.. Tho first is devoted to piano music and musical information generally, whilo tho other two are devoted to music lor mixed voices, flute and violin, with piano accompaniments a <l lib. Tho price of tho 11 now is $2 per annum; that of the (Ur, Wv< and Parlor Companion $3 per annum each. Tim numbers before us arc in keeping with tho high character of publications which should havo a place in every family where music holds sway. Mii.UNKHY.—Mrs. McKinnon offers to the ladies of Augusta a beautiful and well selected stock of Millinery Goods, at her old stand, from which she has not re moved, us might have been inferred by a recent notice in this journal. Shu is still at tin well known store, where she hopes to see her friends and the public generally, as she has everything in the Millinery lino of the prettiest and best to show them. Mrs. McKinnon is so well nnd so favor ably known to the ladies of our city, that die requires no especial praise to attract a large custom. We have, therefore, only to call attention to her largo and beautiful stock of goods, and to advise our lady renders not to overlook her establishment while making their Fall and Winter selec tion.,. She is determined to pi, aso them io quality, quantity and price. In; france Agency.— in looking about Insurance Companies, the public need uot trouble themselves much to find them. There arc Agencies iu this city for several, which w> can highly recommend. Among these in that of Major Wm. E. Evans, who has been so long in tho business that lie lus found out. several of tho best compa nion, and can offer tho strongest induce ments for public patronage. One of our must respected citizens, wo take pleasure in commending his Agency to the public, and advising a trial of his Companies. They are old and reliable, and their terms are as good as can he obtuinod anywhere. B.v-t, Bali.. -The following match game between two young Huso Hall Clubs of this city, was played on Monday last: iHotroi'ulltun. O R F Hicks, c 3 2 .1 Kuppold, p 33 I ( Slotl'el, i b 3 1 II Nichols, 2 b 2 2 M Routet, a b a 2 it Paul, ss 6 1 -Stlilbs, If 5 1 Moore, c f 2 a Mack, r 1 10 27 15 Atlantic. O U .1 Met 'aim, c 3 -1 .1 Kirkpatrick,p 1 L J Davis, I base 2 (>■ A lloubet, 2 h a 0 cDwpiio.ob a r> C Heard, ss 1 I It Dennis, ll -l f-j t. Smmions, o f t> ■!; F 1 looker, r f 11 Ist, 2d, ad, Ith, uthi 6th, 7th, Bih, Pth. A. a 0 ti (i 5 7 6 3 3—39. M a 3 0 2 0 6 1 0 o—l 6. Umpire—Stulbs. Scorers—Fargo and Farr. Tin Banner gv tuis Booth. —This cx -I'cnt exponent of Southern Literature and Southern S vitiment is edited by llov. A J. Ryan, author of tho Southern l’o in entitled “The Conquered Bauncr,-” “Sword of Hubert E. Loo,’’ “Prayer of tho South,” etc. Avery interesting and pleasantly writ ten story—“ Tho Earls of Southerland”— from tho pen of a talented lady of Georgia, is now being published in The Banner. This journal is published at Augusta, Gs., by L. T. Blouie & Cos., nt $3 per auu'jui,-or I.oD fornix months, invariably in advance. Tho people of the South should give it an earn a aud liberal sup port. We are requested to announce that back numbers of tho Banner, containing “The Earls of Southerland,” <jan bo sup plied. The story is a charming one, lining one of the most interesting and pleasing wc have ever read. Dry Hoods.—Oar August* merchants are determined that in the way of Dry Hoods, at least, our city shall not bo beat. We took a look in at our friends, Gray & Turley, a day or two since, and their large and varied stock of goods really bewildered us. They have just everything that a first class hoiiM >•' that kind can keep, and they just' 1! them at prices to suit the times. They have, in the way ot Fall and Winter g,- l „ an almost endless variety, both as to t|J liitv. color, and style. Their store is always more or less crowded, and the gentlemanly end obliging clerks arc kept constantly busy waiting on the ladies aud others'who have found out the in ducements offered at this establishment. Messrs. Hray & Turley have, iu addition to their brilliant display of dress goods, very heavy stocks of domestics, blankets, •ds for gentlemen’s wear, hosiery, gloves, and handkerchiefs, together with all the l.ttle knick-knacks usually kept in a dry gi' ds 'tore. Their shawl department, too, i- particularly well supplied, and, in fact, u~ we have already .said, they have a really handsome stock of goods—such a stock as will suit all tastes and all purses, and will induce these who purchase once to pur chase of them again. To the ladies, par ticularly. who are looking for something new, useful, and beautiful, we say, don’t neglect to give Messrs. Hray Sc Turley a call. You can't help being suited and satisfied, it you do ; and you will regret it il you do not. To country dealers, especial ly, we say go and examine Messrs. Gray \ I urley s stock. Vou will eertaiuly be suited. And to the public' generally, we commend Messrs. Hray & Turley aud their exteusivc stock of goods. The Indian Trouble* in the West. The Indian troubles on our Western frontier are increasing daily. Their depre dations upon the property and their re peated attacks upon the armed soldiery of the United States show that they mean war—war similar to that which the Serni noles waged in Florida and which baffled the skill and defied the power of the whole ; armed force of the General Government for a long number of years. ! Gen. Sherman has already discovered — ! what the hammocks arid everglades of ' Florida taught Scott, and Harney, and ! Taylor—that thc.-e Indian outbreaks can i only be crushed by the appearance and use ; of an overwhelming force of armed troops, i and hence ho writes to the authorities at : Washington for more troops to aid in sub- J ! doing these red skinned warriors of the j I woods. lie is said to complain bitterly of j j the tedious delay in sending him reinforce- j ; merits and says that unless he is promptly i furnished with more troops there will be a wide spread and disastrous series ofcon- Uiets with tho discontented-tribes. Not only does General .Sherman appeal ( to Grant for troops, but the people on the j frontier through the officers of the civil j governments there, arc calling for protec- ' tion from the tomahawk of the ruthless i and barbarous savage. These calls for troops cannot, it is said, be filled because of tho requirements in tho Southern States for troops to preserve tho peace between the white and black races, aud to protect the carpet-bagger and bureau officials in their plans to alienate and sow discord be- j tween the two races. White men and white women are butch ! ere.d on the plains, the brains of tender I infants, and the clotted scalps of infirm I old men mark the path of the pamted j savage, who roams unmolested upon our | Western frontier, because tho “General of the armies” thinks it more important to have Federal bayonets guard Southern ballot-boxes than it is to protect white j men and white women in their new homes ! in the West. While Sherman clamors for troops and is refused, General Torqucmada Meade, the militarysatrip of all the Southeast of Mississippi, is furnished with a .sufficient force to garrison all the small towns in this and other States. It makes no difference whether Col. Forsyth and his brave com mand be murdered and scalped by hostile savages—it is the fate of war- -but peacea ble white poople in Georgia must be made to feel the power of the Federal Govern ment, must be taught that they have no rights save those minced out to them by satrap Torquomada and his subalterns. Why arc not the soldiers which Meade’s late order cantons upon the peaceable white people of the State ordered to re port at once to Gen. Hherman, for the re lief of our people in the West ? Why arc not tho thousands of If. S. soldiers now quartered in different parts of the South, under the instructions of Radical officials to stir up strife and promote discord, sent to the relief of their imperiled comrades on the plains ? Gan tho white people of America toler ate longer a policy which leaves whiic wo men and ohildron at tho morey of cruel and barbarous savages, in order that the Rad ical “party may control Southern ballot boxes and manipulate the Southern vote for Grant and Colfax ? The blood of the hundreds of innocent nnd unoffending whites murdered by painted savages gleam ing in feathers and war-paint, stains the banner of Radicalism, and cries out trump ct-tongucd for a swill and .-ure retribution. The cries of our exposed li outiormen for prolnction and support, cannot be hushed by the noisy babbling of such red mouthed Jacobins ns Bullock, Browulow and llced, about the danger of carpet-baggers and scalawags. The white people of tho United States demand that relief be sent at once to their harassed and overpowered friends on the plains. Will President Johnson re quire tho “General of all the armies” to comply with the people’s demands? Crangle vs. Blodgett. It will he remembered that during the session of the Chicago Radical Convention, Blodgett was arrested and hold to hail at the instance of a Carpet-bagger named Crangle, in an action on the ease for inju ries done to Crangle in Augusta, in 1861. Blodgett gave security and was released from arrest. On Thursday lant, the case was called for trial in Chicago, and, after the evidence was submitted, tho jury re turned a verdict in favor of tho Plaintiff for fifty thousand dollars as damages. A motion was made in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the damages were ex cessive, and the Radical judge sustained it. 'Che ease will have to be fried again. Robert J. Walker on the Finances. On account of the great authority of Mr. Walker in what respects Government finances, the National Intelligencer takes great pleasure in laying before the public an extract of a let ter from him addressed to a citizen of the city of Philadelphia. It is as follows: “Extract from a letter dated Washington, October 6, 1868, from Hon. Robert J. *Walker , late Secretary of the Treasury , to a friend in Philadelphia : “In reply to your inquiry, I would say, that the table of the public debt of the United States at various periods, referred to in the Rational Intelligencer of yester day .morning, is accurate in all respects, having been taken from the books of the Uuited States Treasury. You ask me if it is a fact that the annual expenditures of the Government havo been increased, as therein stated, over forty-six millions of dollars ($46,056,559) by an augmentation to that extent, of the yearly interest in currency, of the public debt since 30th April, 1865. I answer, that it is an in disputable fact and, I will add, that from a careful consideration of the condition of the Treasury, it is clear, that this annual interest wiil go on increasing. It is pos sible teat there may be a small reduction ot the public debt last month, but this reduction, if made, will be in debts bearing mainly no interest, or in war claims withheld, whilst the debt bearing coin interest will be augmented. “That there is an increased yearly ex penditure, exceeding forty-six millions of dollars since April 30, 1865, to meet the augmented interest (as currency) of the public debt, fs certain. This is the true , test of our financial condition, aud, to me, i it seems certain, that nothing but a total change ot policy will save us from national j bankruptcy. This change of policy must! be based upon a vast decrease of our an- ; nual expenditures, as recommended in my ' financial letter of November last. We ! must abolish the Freed men’s Bureau ; we i must recall the army from the South, and i reduce it to a moderate peace establish- i • moot. We must terminate there the j joint rule ot the negro and the bayonet! (and, slavery and secession having been , I torever abandoned), permit the Southern | ; States, in obedience to the Federal Con- | . stitution. to govern themselves as before j | the rebellion- The fact of this vast in ! crease of the annual interest of the public i debt is not a disputed question. It rests . on transcript from the books of the Treas -1 ury, and cannot be denied. This item of i expenditures for the increased annual in- I terest of the public debt is nearly equal to double the entire yearly' expenditures of Mr. Polk's administration before the Mexican war. and nearly equal to its sub sequent aunual expenditures, including the war, and heavy payments for the principal and iuterest of the public debt. But even if we take the 30th of November last, the date of the last annual report ot the Secretary of the Treasury, wo find the increased annual interest, as currency, of the public debt, $26,574,320 from the 30th of November last (1867) to the 31st of August, 1868, being an augmentation at the rate of three millions of dollars a mouth, or thirty-six millions of dollars a ! year. At this rate of increased annual expenditure for interest only on the 30th of November, 1869, a little over a year, ibis single item of yearly disbursements would reach seventy-two millions of dollars. It is clear, then, that the Radical policy leads rapidly and eertainly to national bankruptcy, and that nothing can save us but a change of men and measures.” The luteflifftitcer adds: “ W T e have heretofore stated that Mr. Walter, with all his experienced ability upon the sub' ject of Government finances, has expressed bis reliance in the main upon the official facts, figures and views of Mr. Delmar as to the receipts and expenditures for the term that has elapsed since the termination \ of the war; but not content with this i much o! service to the country by aiding i to give light to the people upon the wretch- | ed and deplorable condition of the finances I under the rule of the Rump Congress, | heat the request of parties in New York, l has been instrumental in procuring the j publication of the table prepared at the | office of Mr. Delmar, Statistician of the Department, the salient points of which 1 are presented in the above letter. The I whole table appeared in the Intelligencer ! of Tuesday morning, and with it an edi torial article showing its leading points in a more full manner than appears in tho I above letter of Mi. Walker to his friend j in Philadelphia. The statistics in question I were gotten up with the full knowledge and j consentof Secretary McCulloch. And here ! let usstatc that the remarks accompanying ! the monthly Treasury statement for Sep- j teuiber are not from Mr. McCulloch at i all, but are the volunteered effusions of a knot of Radical clerks, who seek to cloak j the desperate condition of the finances ! from the gaze of the people. The table j prepared at the instance of Mr. Walker is | now before the country, as well as his statements of its leading points. If the Democratic press does its duty in laying them before the country, aud the Demo cratic orators do theirs also, in discussing its subject matter at the hustings, the Radical prospect of success will be utterly destroyed. “Mr. Walker’s facts, figures, and argu ments will riot be questioned even by Rad icals, for they have exhausted encomiums upon him for those great efforts at a pe riod of almost pitch darkness concerning the finances during the rebellion, when he succeeded by the intense fire of his nature in driving through Congress the necessary measures for continuing the war to a suc cessful termination. Subsequently, as agent of the Government, he visited Eu rope, and succeeded in making a market for Government bonds there, and of estab lishing our credit on a firm basis. These acts of supreme service to tho country were worthy of his great fame as Secretary of the Treasury under Mr. Polk, when he not only piloted with entire success the financial ship, but championed with unsur passed skill, force, and effect, the cause of practical lice trade, by which the rate per cent, of revenue was reduood to the low figure of twenty-six per cent. It were joy ful, indeed, were there hope that such an other bright day in our history will ever come.” The Out-look. The great fear of the Southern people is that if General Grant shall bo elected President, the negro Governments set up in the Southern States will be perpetuated —that the odious disfranchisement of the whites will be continued and that negro supremacy will be secured for all time to come. These results, disastrous and alarming as they certainly must be to the white people of (lie South, may follow the success of the Radical party and be fast ened by them upon the Southern States, but in the very nature of things they can not long continue as the fixed relations of the two races. No amount of Radical Legislation can | raise tho African race to superiority or j even to equality with the whites—either physical, mental, moral, religious or po I iitioal. The lossw r—s* iuivv j years of Congressional legislation, teach j us, wo admit, that Radical Jaco- j bins when inflamed by wild and j malignant hatred to the South, and excited j by love of place and power, can and will go \ far in their efforts, will stickle at no eon- ! scientious scruples of conscience or falter j at no obligations of official oaths to con' tinuo and perpetuate their schemes for the dishonor and degradation of the white people of tho South. With a Radical President and a Radical majority in both Houses of Congress, these revolutionary Jacobins can, and doubtless will go to the most extreme and bitter lengths, to secure the success and perpetuation of their Reconstruction schemes. But then, there is a limit even to the excesses and outrages of these Jacobins beyond which they cannot proceed. While they may with impunity trample under foot the dearest rights of freemen—rights guaranteed by a written Constitution—while they may open ly and defiantly violate tho plainest provis ions of the organic laws —while they may degrade and pollute the ballot-box, the ines timable weapon of freemen, and the pal ladium of their liberties-while they may strike down the entire industrial and commercial prosperity of the South —yet, thank God, they cannot repeal the laws of nature or nullify the edicts of Jehovah. The right and power of the white race to rule and govern this continent is not derived alone from human laws and enact ments. The irresistible decree of an All wise Creator has stamped the Caucasian as the ruling race of the world. Con stitutions may totter and States bo destroyed, human rights ignored, laws defied, public sentiment violated and a common humanity outraged by the Butlers and Greeleys, and Wadcsaud Sumners,and Binghams and Kellys, but tho laws of nature and of nature’s God, they can never repeal or destroy. High over the din and babble of these treacherous plot ters against liberty and the rights of man, rises the voice of Him who sits upon the storm and guides the whrilwlnd, proclaim ing. in tones which caunot be mistaken or ignored, that “this is a white man’s • country.” The inequality attempted to be forced upon the people of the South by the ope rations of the so-called Reconstruction acts can only be enforced and continued by force. The theory of the United States Government, that all just governments derive their power from the consent- of ! the governed, must yield to the old explod j ed theory of the monarchists of the “divine ! rights,” and which, even now, is being l stabbed to death in its first and greatest | stronghold by the warm blooded Repubh ! cans of Castile. Mr. Hill siwkc truly in his letter the other day, to the New York Times, when he said the Southern people will “practi cally disregard these Reconstruction meas ures, it matters not it ho may be elected and order to the contrary.” Self-preservation is the first law of nature. This is as true of natious as it is acknowledged to be of in dividuals. The good of society ; the peace of the country; the safety of our people; the prosperity of our varied industrial pursuits ; the vitality of our institutions, and the purity of our raee demand, that the inferiority attempted to be fastened upon us by these wicked Reconstruction meas ures, shall continue no longer than we hare the power to prevent. \V e are now appealing to the good sense of the North ! ern people for redress through the peace | ful agencies of the ballot-box: if we fail here, we must seek elsewhere for the ! remedies which our innate sense of right I teaches every white man reside somewhere, and which can be, by proper appliances, i made to subserve the interests of dethrone ' ed justice and right. In securing our right to govern and con trol in all our domestic institutions and regulations it is not necessary, neither is it contemplated, to resort to force against the authority of the United States. We have tried that and failed. We could not hope for better success in another attempt. Resides, if such an attempt was practicable it would be inexpedient. I The State of Georgia is now a state in AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, (868 I the Union, so admitted and recognized by j the Radicals themselves. Asa state, act* . mg entirely within the sphere of its legiti ! mate power, and in complete subordination jto the constitutional authority of the j Federal Government Georgia may and i will set aside and dethrone this African ; supremacy, fixed upon us by the Military Bib. Asa State of the Union, free from , the dictation or restraints of the Federal Government, she will undertake to exer cise the same exclusive control of her in ternal policy as is claimed aud exercised ! by the States of Massachusetts and Ohio. ! Georgia will, as Ohio, and Michigan, . and Kansas have lately done, deter mine for herself the qualifications of , the elective franchise. She will fix and determine who shall be eligible to hold office-under her government, and if, in the exercise of these rights, the revolutionary , Jacobins at Washington shall, in violation | of the Constitution of the United States ; ; and tho rights of the State, interpose the j ! strong arm of Federal power to prevent, 1 | her people will make no war on the Foderal ' ; authority—will submit to the strong arm I I of power—but just so long as that power is present and tangible. We will offer no resistance to the introduction in our bor ders of armed troops—we shall make no op position to their being continued amongst I us—we shall not attempt to interfere in the armed interpretation and 'enforcement j of the laws—wc shall acquiesce, for the time, in all the unconstitU'. tional and illegal legislation of Con gress looking to a permanent enforce' rnent of the carpet-bag government. Wc shall bide our time. In the Providence of God it will come. We can and will wait for our deliverance. Other States have been similarly oppressed. Hungary wait ed, in patience and fortitude, and her de liverance finally came. We shall invoke for our people the same degree of patience and forbearance and manly submission to overwhelming wrongs which has made tho name of Poland and Hungary and the Netherlands dear to every lover of freedom in the civilized world. But the spirit of freemen will continue to live and grow and burn within our bosoms with an increased and increasing fervor. The fires of liberty may be smother ed for a time, but with the first oppor tunity which offers they will break forth in all their heat and brilliancy. As long as the prostrate form of the goddess of liberty is kept beneath tho iron heel of tho mail clad soldier of tyranny, not a sigh or groan, or remonstrance will escape her lips, but let that force be removed and she will instantly rise and reassert her empire. Let us not be misunderstood. We coun sel no armed resistance to the attempt, if it should be made by Congress, to fix and continue the carpet-bag State governments uponus. Weclaimtliat,asapeopleofaState in the Union of equal States, wo have the same right to change, alter, modify and establish our infernal polity which is ac corded to other States. If this right is forcibly withheld from us by the Federal Government we must submit—but submit no longer than the force is.eontinued. God knows that the people of the South desire peace. That they yearn for quiet and repose. That they pray daily for a restored Union—a Union as of' yore, of heart, of intent, of equal rights, of kind ness, of charity and brotherly lcvc. Above all earthly blessings would such a Union be cherished and preserved. We believe, the Southern people believe,, that Mr. Seymour and the Democratic party of the North are the true exponents because we believe this, that the white people of the South, with almost entire unanimity, support them. Gem Grant is not personally near so objectionable to the . South as the party whose standard bear er he has, in a moment of weakness, con' sented to become. There are many things in Gen. Grant’s conduct toward the South since the close of the war, which commands our admiration and gratitude. Left to himself—to the full control of his own feelings and judgment—we believe that ho would continue to show kindness and magnamity toward the Southern people. But he is the acknowledged head and lead er of a party whose policy is undisguised hostility to the South, and a fixed deter mination to scruple at no violation of the Constitution in currying out their plans. This party of Gen. Grant’s, we fear, will control his administration if he should be elected. It is this fear which drives from his support, aud causes many anxious feel ings, to a lame number of the people of the United States, North and South. It is this fear which oppresses us as we write and which to-day tills our entire Southern land with unrest, and care, and anxiety. Alabama. The canvass in this State promises to be a very warm and active one. The regis tration act passed by the Legislature last week, gives but little time for this most important preliminary to voting in Novem ber. The act provides that uo one shall vote in November who has not previously been duly registered. Registration and its manifold details are left to the rnanage-- ment and discretion of a Chief Registrar for the State, who has the power to ap point Commissioners of Registration in the several counties. 'The State Registrar has acted with commendable promptness, and has already made his appointments in the different counties, and by this time Regis tration is progressing. The Democrats are fully alive to the importance of prompt action, and show great vigor in urging the people to Regis ter early. The indications arc that the State will go for Seymour and Blair, by a large majority. One Shall be Taken and the Other Left- Two persons, one a discharged 1‘ ederal soldier and the other a negro, were recent ly tried and convicted in a Virginia court for a most outragoou.- crime, and sentenced to be hung on Friday last. On the day of the execution, the military Governor of the State, one Welles, an intense Radical, sent a commutation of' the sentence in the case of the negro to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for life. The white man was hung. Both were equally guilty. There were no extenuating circumstances in one ease which did not apply with equal force to the other. Yet the negro's lii'e is saved— the white Union soldier s life is sacri jiced. This is a fair sample of Radical jus tice and fair dealing. When the drop fell which ushered the poor white man into the presence of his Maker, a negro convict who was in a cell near by, was heard to exclaim : “There’s another d —n Y'ankcc gone.” Welles, the so-called Governor of Virginia, is an officer i in the United States army and a Northern . man. He selects as the fittest subject of I his clemency the negro in preference to the j Union soldier. Suppose a Democratic j Governor had been in office and had select- I ed the white instead of the black man for Executive clemency, what a roar the Radi cals would have put up against the par tiality of such an act. Yet, we find not a j word of remonstrance or condemnation against Governor Welles' negro partiality. Bryant Speaketh.—The “trooly loil” had a meeting at the City Hall on Monday evening last, with closed doors. Bryant spoke a piece, which was rather Conserva tive for this illustrious carpet-bagger, and didn’t please his colored brethren even muchly. What’s “thedifficulty ?” Does he really believe that “it is right for the intelligence of the State to govern ?” Does he believe that he has any of it ? Who knows ? Arrival of United States Troops. One company of United States troops, to be stationed at this post, in pursuance of General Meade’s Order No. 28, arrived in our city Wednesday morning. Be of Good Cheer. t The probable results of the elections on Tuesday last in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, in favor of the Radical party, in creases tbeioSu&atWs of every trne-heart : ed Southern man *0 !*• vigilant and active in his exertions to carry . s he lately excluded States in solid phalanx for Democracy. The strengthpf the Southern States in the Electoral College amounts to iK» less than seventy VOTES. All of. these, save three from * Florida, can,, by proper and vigorous efforts on the part of our friends, be secured for Seymour and Blair. The Legislature of Florida, at late session, denied the people of that State the priv ilege of voting for electors, and declared that the .vote of the State sbould be cast by their own body. By this, means alone will Seymour be deprived of* the vote of that State. | In Georgia, particularly, wc- urge our j friends not so abate their zeal and activity. | We must kecpXleorgia true to the great | principles of constitutional liberty. Come | wlpß may, the Empire State of the South ! must stand shoulder to shoulder with the ! great Empire State of the Enion in de fence of the "Constitution cf the j United, States.* and _ the-, reserved rights of each * State. .As New York stands high aud dry above the great tide of Radicalism at the North, : with undisturbed composure meeting -and | breasting the storm of Jacobin fury, and proudly defying the raging elements around her, so leyJcorgia stand, out boldy now, as a groat.beacon light of Democracy in the ; South, diffusing light and warmth, -and hope to our oppressed Southern sisters. Let us show to thoJSorthero and West-, cm Jacobins that we yet stand serene and unblanched in the face of their tremendous efforts to destroy the Government. Lot us show to the people of the whole Union that,come what may,we shall never become false to the teachings of patriot sires—that we shall never give our consent to the over throw of the great system of constitutional republican government founded by the fathers of seventy-six. Should Grant be elected, all is not lost, provided, wc do not now bend to the storm, and permit the State to lapse back into Radicalism. The people of Georgia must determine, once for all, that they will control the affairs of tho State—that they will be vigilant and per sistent in their efforts to keep down the miserable crew of oafpet-baggers and scala wags which infest some portions of the Slate, and that all appliances known in honorable warfare will be steadily and firmly exercised for the preservation of the State from Radical misrule. This is a great work—one which should challenge'"the ap proval and active co-operation of every true son of the Commonwealth. We fear that many of our friends will give way to feelings of despondence and fear. This would be extremely injudicious ; nay, almost criminal folly. The people of Georgia are blessed with a generous and fertile soil, a mild and genial climate, rich aud varied mineral resources, magnificent forests of the most valuable timber, with churches, and schools, and colleges, with a Code of just and equal laws, and, in the maiu, with a fair and honest jhdieiary. With such a heritage as this they cannot afford to yield the governing power to ir responsible carpet-baggers, dishonest scala wags and ignorant negroes. 'There is,no time for complaint and despondency now. Close up the ranksandpush boldly forward at the bugle call of liberty to the great conflict at the ballot-box on thg third of’ November next. Guilee In a Rampage. A Louisiana negro fluey-1 M-ma-rd Is a v-nnSress from- fnac ottjje. candidate for OOILO . . . , ' _ t .ms, winch he <l^st^tlutga , throughout tho District, lie makcif some homo thrusts at his white Radical friends and cautions his .colored brethren to “see that their race is not sold - out by a few trading, treacherous white Republicans in Louisiana as the;/ have" been in Georgia." He claims, that as the negroes furnish nearly all the Radical votes, they are en titled to at least two Representatives in Congress, and thinks that “ if men arc still to be debarred from halls -of Congress, or even the White House on Account of the color of their faces, then Reconstruction and Republicanism are lamentable failures." Menard and his race in Louisiana will very soon find out that the only use which white Radicals have for them' is to secure their votes for their own selfish and dis honest purposes. The colored .people of Georgia have already made this discovery, and the treachery of the white Radi cals here toward their .black allies causes the Louisiana would-be member of Congress to suspect them there. The ne groes of Georgia called the late State Con vention. They elected more than three fourths of the members of that body. Yet the Convention, by a vote of more than ten to one,struck out of the proposed Constitution a provision allowing negroes to hold office. Upon this motion to strike out, made by a white scalawag elected by the negroes of Newton county, only twelve members out of a Convention of 169 voted to give the negro the right to hold office. It is curious to observe, further, in this connection, that the negroes haw since nominated for Congress six'of the men who voted against their right to hold office and have elected five of them, including the creature called Prince, from this Dis trict. That they have elected a Governor (so-called), Secretary of State, Comptroller General and United States Senator, and have by their votes confirmed the nomina tion of a Judge of the Supreme Court and two Judges of tiie Superior Courts, ail of r whom voted against giving the right. L> hold office to the negroes. Well may the Louisiana ebony aspirants for Congressional power, characterize these pretended friends-of the negroes in Geor gia as “ treacherous traders for black votes. ” In view of these facta, the Hypothetical failure of the Reconstruction Acts put by Menard, becomes -a fixed £acfe Uegroee have been deprived iu Georgia of the right to hold office, hy the votes, too, of the “treacherous”' white Radicals. Negroes will be denied the right to seats in the halls of Congress by the white Radicals if they ever present them serves for ad mission. No Negro will ever, while this globe continues to revolve-oo its axis 7 be permitted to fill the office of Governor over the white people of the South, or of President of the United States. This the true white people ofThe country will pre vent at all hazards and to the last ex tremity. Menard, and all other black, aspirant for office may just as well recognize this fact at once. No class of white people, either at the North or South, will ever submit to negro rulers. If the black thirst for office is so strong that it must be gratified, we advise the aspirants to emi grate to Liberia, or establish a colony of their own on our Western frontier. This is a white man’s Government, made by white men, for white men, and will be con trolled by white men. The Paschall House Drawing.—A dispatch from St. Louis, of the 9th. says ; i The great event of the day was the Pas- ■ chall House drawing, which took place in the arena, and occupied six hours time. I It is not known at present who are the , holders of the winning tickets. The fol lowing are the numbers that drew the highest prizes : 55,792, Paschall House, valued at $280,000'; 71,530, residence in Memphis, valued at $60,000 ; 60,064, j residence in Jefferson City, Missouri, valued at $16,000 ; 92,755, residence on ; Chestnut street, St. Louis, valued at $13,000; 11,094, residence on Eighth street, valued at $15,000 ; 35,367, resi dence on Morgan street, valued at $15,000; | 1,629, residence on Eighth street, valued j at $15,000 ; 43,100, residence on Choteau ‘ Avenue, valued at SIO,OOO ; 03,343, resi j denee on Morgan street, valued at $15,000, 81,437, residence on Choteau Avenue, j ‘ valued at $9,000. ! DEMOCRATIC MEETIXG IN MADISON. ! Speeches from Major Gumming, General Du Bose, Colonel Billups, Gen. Wright 1 and Col, Clarke —Torchlight Procession | at Night—Hundreds of Banners and Transparencies—Judge Foster for Sey~ motir and Blair— The Prospect, &c. , do. Madison, Ga., October 10,1565. The inclemency of the weather prevent, ed as large an attendance at the Mass MeetiCj bore to-day as had been expect ed. The morning opened with a cold northeast wind, driving in fitful gusts a chilling drizzling rain, which, at times, , threatened a storm, but a little kfter neon ! the temperature became milder though j the misty rain continued until long after I nightfall. About 11 o’clock the crowd, which had : increased during the morning until it j reached seven or eight hundred people, ! repaired to the stand, which had been i erected in a grove near the Railroad, and | about half a mile from the public square, j Here the meeting was called to order by Col. j Joel A. Billups, Chairman of the Morgan • County Democratic Club, who, in a few ; appropriate remarks, introduced the first 1 speaker, Major Cumming, of your city, to ! the audience. Itis not my purpose to attempt to give you an outline or even the substance of Major C.’s remarks. He spoke for more than an hour and a half and the earnest attention and marked approval of his audience showed that they highly appre ciated his earnest and eloquent defence of the Democratic party, and his scathing and conclusive exposition of the revolu tionary tenets and teachings of the Radical J acobins. General Dubose followed Major Cumming in a bold, manly and convincing speech, in which ho added new laurels to his already brilliant reputation as an eloquent and fearless defender of the true faith. At the conclusion of General Dubose's speech tho gallant and favorite son of old Morgan, Col. J. A. Phillips was called out and made one of his soul stirring, earnest appeals in behalf of Seymour and Blair and the success of the National Democratic party. At two o’clock dinner was announced, and the crowd then repaired to the ample and well filled tables in a neighboring grove, where a splendid barbecue had been prepared by the Committoo of Arrange ments. Although the Radicals bad been industriously circulating reports all the morning among the colored people that the dinner was “ pizened ,” and that the whites had misused some of the blacks who attended the speaking (and which was an arrant falsehood), a large number of colored people of both sexes flocked around the tables and enjoyed their dinner with considerable gusto. This old story of '''pizeneddinner" has played out; no one, not even tho most credulous and ignorant of the blacks believe it, yet the miserable white sneaks and scalawags never let an opportunity pass that they do not reiterate it in the hope that it will deter the colored people from attending Democratic meet ings. After dinner the crowd was addressed by Gen. A. It. Wright, of your place, in a speech of about an hour, after which the meeting adjourned with the announcement that there would bo fireworks on the Square and a torchlight procession at night, and a speech from Col. Clarke, of Atlanta. In accordance with the announcement previously made, a procession was formed on the Square about seven o’clock and, with blazing torches and hundreds of ap propriate and beautiful transparencies, marched through the principal streets of the village, calling upon the prominent citizens el the town for speeches. In re sponse to those calls Col. McHenry made, from the piazza of his residence, a neat aud appropriate address, acknowledging the compliment paid him and urging his friends to vigilance and activity in the pending canvass. Judge-N. Green Foster, who has 'here- | tefore been regarded as a supporter of ’crowS flfttmiMfd out by a visit of the ’ kisthouse, and in response to tlieir’VoeiF crous cheers for Foster! Foster ! 1 ap peared in acknowledgment of tho- oomph- j ment and bid them God speed, and a glorious success for Seymour and Blair. "Tis.said here that Judge Foster’s portion has not been doubtfuksinco the assemblage of the New York Convention. As soon.as the platform and the candidates of the Demoeratic party were announced, Judge Foster gave them his hearty endorsement and cheerful support. After traversing the principal streets of the town, the procession returned to the square in front of the hotel, where a large crowd had already assembled, to hear the address of the eloquent young champion of Democracy from Atlanta, Col. Clark. The Colonel spoke from the balcony of the hotel, and for more than an hour poured hot shot, thick and fast, intolthe citadel of Radicalism. His speech was well received and he made a fine impression here among the intelligent Democracy of Morgan. I cannot say that there is the same do gree of zeal and fixed determination to win in the pending canvass exhibted here as I havo seen iu other portions of the State and of this District. Yet our friends are hopeful—nay sanguine—oftheir ability to give a largely increased vote over the April election. There is not the same con fidence manifested in their ability to con trol tho black vote as our friends in other parts of the District express. Yet, I think, from what I witnessed here to-day, that very many of the colored people will vote the Democratic ticket. One thing connected with this meeting to day caused me much surprise. The ladies did not attend the meeting or appear upon the square at night. There were but two white females at the speaking, and 1 learn that they came all the way from Jasper county. I do not know why they failed to turn out —I only note tho fact. Perhaps this apparent indifference of the Morgan ladies to the issues involved in this canvass explains the lack of zeal and enthusiasm amoug the gentlemen. The weather, perhaps, prevented some from turning out, but their entire absence must, I think, be accounted for in some other way. W. OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. Death of th< Hon. Howell Cobb—lion. B. 11. Hill’s Letters to the Northern Press— What the Herald says—Disgust in the. North at Reconstruction—No ! .Acquiescence th South’s Hope—The Episcopal Triennial Conte ition " Con tuition" a Dirty Worel — The Army Register' for 1868. *Ne\v York, October 10, 1 8/>B. Rlitars Chronicle t£ Sentinel: —Tlie death of Hoh. flowell Cobb, in this city yesterday, is a sad event. Just prior to the fatal attack he' was in conversation with Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, now here in attendance on the Triennial Epis copal Convention, and had just been speak ing of the religious matters involved in that assemblage, when he was stricken down, the bolt striking him so suddenly that he had no power of speech left to say a parting word. The physicians an nounce the immediate cause of his death as compression of the brain. The morn ing papers unite in lengthy notice of the deceased statesman. The Tribune, how ever, it is to be regretted, making the event the test of a cowardly assault upon the South. The World says that Mr. Cobb “was a man of great natural abfiity, polished by long ex perience in the urs imperandi, and that in his death there departs from Ameri can history a thorough type of the prompt, vigorous, fiery, far-seeing, and most unflinching race of Southern statesmen, whose influence, has been so marked in the annals of the United States.” It is understood the remains I will be conveyed to Georgia to-night. There is reason to believe that though Mr. Cobb’s demise was so sudden, the opera ting causes have been for some time back at work, be having been of late complain ' ing of headache and oppression of the : chest. Os his record it is unnecessary to speak, since from the attainment of his majority, in which year he was a Presi dential elector, his history has been part ; and parcel of that of his native State. Hon. B. H. Hill will, it is understood, leave for Georgia about the first of next week. The gratitude of the Southern Eeople is richly due Mr. H. for his efforts ere in their behalf. The great trouble that the South has to labor under is the constant and all but universal misrepre sentation to which it is exposed in the North, and this misrepresentation Mr. Hill has done much to correct. Only this morning two letters, which I send you, appeared in the Herald and Timex re spectively. The great argument in them, i as in the other letters which have appear ed in the Tribune, is that the Southern people will never consent to the negroized governments forced upon them at the point _ of the bajmnet, and that, so far from insuring peace Grant’s election will be but the beginning of a further era of anarchy, bloodshed and turmoil, the South j desiring peace, but the nature of Recon struction being such as inevitably to force ! trouble. These utterances have been re j eeived here with marked interest, and by i ; the fact of their publication in Radical or : ; semi Radical journals, have reached a very : large mass of Northern readers. Judged j by all the means at my disposal, means ; that are, perhaps, full, adequate to a cor rect judgment, Mr. Hill’s course hero has | been admirably sensible, straightforward, and courageous. In speaking of the letter j from him which it publishes this morning, ' the Herald says, editorially, that Mr. Hill l declares “That the creation oftheSouthern State governments of IS6S, under the | bayonet, Was revolution, and that their existence will be continued revolution. This i : is true; nor liar, toe any idea that those governments based upon white disfranchise- i ments anei universal negro suffrage can ! eery long exist ; but it is the province of i wisdom to consider the best remedy. ” j The sentence I have put in italic marks a growing sentiment iu the North. It is beginning already to have its effect on the canvass, and, indeed, is so wide spread that, last night, when trying to bolster up Grant, Henry Ward Beecher labored greatly to show his audience that the bayonet governments were not j necessarily doomed to fail. This : i will, doubtless, be good news to you, i and the best of it is that it is not a mere hypothesis but a living and growing belief, j You of the Southern press can help its ' growth by double shotting your guns upon the iniquity, by exposing the infamous i character and motives of its champions, ! and by steadfastly refusing the least ac quiescence in its legality, propriety, or permanence. Even in current conversa tion, and in the wording and head lines of newspaper astioics, there is much to be done by persistently aud on ail occasions adding some epithet to any form of these ! pretended governments which will convey the standing declaration of their absolute illegality, as the bogus Governor, the re constructed Legislature, the pretended Chief Justice, the carpet-bag Constitution and so on and so on. Words go a great ways, Tho one single word h'foyqT was worth several divisions oi troops to the North in the late contest, and in this great fight for Constitutional government it is time the South used those verbal weapons so abundantly presented to her i grasp- Even the Legisla'uro of Georgia, j Democratic as it is, is not, be it romem- \ bered, the genuine and lawful Legjsla- ! turo, nor can it be admitted to be | such without admitting the legality aud j genuineness of negro suffrage, which un derlies the system which produced it. It is a pretended legislature, therefore, and only to be regarded as an instrumentality for good, since by a happy oh a ace it is for, and not against, the whites. The gentle men of that body, if truly desirous of a white man’s government in Georgia, must admit the force of this and see that it is not meant aa a reflection upon tljem, but a precautionary disclaimer of any legality I in the scheme of usurpation anu violence they have happily been able, in this single instance to avert. On Wednesday morning last, the 7th instant, the Triennial Convention of the Episcopal Convention in the United States began its session by divine worship in Trinity Church in this city, the best speci men of an English Cathedral in this coun try, the opening sermon being by Bishop Lee, of Delaware, who was quite severe on Ritualism. The Convention consists of the House of Bishops, one from each State, but Nov/ York which has two, and the House of Clerical and Lay Delegates, forty dioceses being represented by four clergymen and four laymen each, the former body lacking two of its com pliment , and the latter, consisting of 320 members, being fall, (ju the second day’s session, the committees were announced, the following gentlemen from Georgia being among the committeemen : On the stale of the Church, tho most import ant committee, Rev. .Samuel Benedict; On unfinished business, Rev. W.H.Clarke; On-qJs&ioeSf JJcy,W. 0. Williams; Qn same day, Rev. Mr. Clark, of Georgia, introduced a memorial to have the meaning of certain words in the canons defined, such as “synod” and “convention. Ye sterday there was/i grand debate on the genera! subject matter of Rev. Mr. Clark’s memorial, which is an application from the diocese of Georgia to have the term “convention” in the canons of the church changed to “council.” One mem ber said that the word convention, by the prostitution of it to evil assemblages, was a “dirty word” and so, tojudge from the stench imparted to it. by those scoundrel sanhedrims held under the Reconstruction acts, it is; others, however, said it. was not a dirty word in itself, and as it was in the canons, they could uot see the necessity of a change. Dr. Littlejohn said Maine had made the change ; so had Virginia, and Georgia was memoralizing to the same end. Mr. Stevenson, of Kentucky, said Minnesota aud Alabama used the word “council” and Nebraska, then seeking ad mission for its diocese, was seeking it under that name. Rev. Mr. Adams said the word convent ion was used for all sorts of assemblages; there were Dentists’ Conventions and Spiritualists’ Conventions, and Baptist Conventions, and Protestant Episcopal Conventions (laughter); “there are Conventions of all classes, sorts and sizes. The word is a dirty word—polluted and defiled.” it had given trouble iu the West. People rushed to a Convention as a matter of right. (Had the Reverend gen tleiueu seen the jail-bird Conventions the writer saw last winter from the Mississippi to the Chattahoochee, he would uot have deemed them such attractive gatherings— accursed synagogues of Satan that they are). He rejoiced that Virginia said "council" instead of “Convention,” and so the debate went on, till the vote was taken and then Georgia’s plea fur a sweeter smelling word than Convention went down by 53 to 7. With tho final results of the Convention you shall be duly acquainted in my next. In the new Army Register, just out, I find some of those shoulder-strapped worthies so extensively and unfavorably known in connection . with the satrapies. One noticeable thing about them in this j official list is that the high sounding titles they had in the South are mere brevets, the real rank being much below the windy pretension. Thus hindquarters Pope is only a brigadier in the regulars, as is the I ease with granny O- 0. Howard, of the ! National Poor House. Drum, Meade’s right hand man, is only j Lieutenant-Colonel, though by brevet a Major General. Win. McKee Dunn, the grand vizier of Meade and Pope before him, is a Colonel in the regulars, but not a fighting Colonel, only a Colonel in that ! sweet savored “buroauof military justice,” which hanged .Mrs. Surratt, and is pre- ; sided over now, as then, by the worthy j Jo. Holt. No wonder the figures always, came out right in Georgia when one of j Jo. Holt’s officials had ’em in charge. The only wonder is that we didn’t have ; three Conventions called, instead of one, 1 and a half a dozen nigger constitutions “duly” ratified. Military justice is a great thing, fine thing, noble thing; it can’t exactly whip a man when he is on his feet and armed, but once get him to give up his sword and how brave it is. C. C. Sibley is Colonel of the 16th U. S. Infantry, Brigadier by brevet. Huger, who was “detailed” by Meade as Gov ernor of Georgia, is Colonel of the 33d Infantry. Nelson A. Miles, who distin guished himself by charging upon Mr. Davis in his Fortress Monroe cell, is Colonel of a nigger regiment, the 40th In fantry. Sickles is Colonel of the 42d In fantry, and Wager Swayne, whom the people of Alabama know. Colonel of the 45th. There are ten regiments of' cavalry in the regular service, forty-five of in fantry, and five of artillery. Four of the infantry regiments are made up of ne groes. The present force of the army is 52,022, but as the law stands the President can, at pleasure, increase it, so that if Grant were elected he could, by a wipe of his pen, five minutes after inauguration, swell the army to 80,622, by adding 1,400 cavalry, 3,800 artillery, and 22,500 infantry. Let us have peace. The two most marked events of the week in the business world arc the de creased supply of Flour—7o,ooo bbls less — as compared with the same period last year and this with a much finer crop; pro ducers holding back for a price, and the I decline in gold. To th : s latter eircum i stance a belief that the balance of trade is j destined to change before the close of the j year in favor of the United States, has contribhted in part, and in part, also, the | knowledge that, on the Ist of next month : $24,000,000 interest on the 1862 and 1864 . United States bonds will_ be thrown into ; the channels of trade. The current im pression is that the cotton crop will reach two and a half million of bales. The World the other morning had an*elaborate article on Southern industrial prospects, especially in Georgia, that has attracted | much attention, as showing the tine field | there is in the South for investment, wait j ing investment in particular. * Tyrone Powers. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVII. NO. 42. j I From the A. Y. Saturday, October MIA, 1368.3 The South. j iGter from Hon. B. 11. Hill—lßs Views on the 1 oltiical Sttuatioti—Sentiments oj the Southern Democrats. To the Editors of the N. Y. Times: I have read frequent allusions, in the Republican press, to my visit North, but your issue yesterday, in the leader con cerning “Mr. Adams and the Columbia Committee, ’ ’ refers to me with statements so incorrect, and in a spirit so unexpected ly bitter, that feel under obligations to ask the insertion of this reply : L I did not come North to make speeches It is very difficult at the South i le “ ru true feelings and views of the Northern people, as I find it impossible at the North to learn the true feelings and views of the Southern people. So great an interest do I feel in the result of th> pending contest, and so much will the character of this result depend on the motives and sentiments of the Northern votem who must determine it. that I de termined, at my own instance and on iny own expenses, to come North to ascertain, \ as acuratcly as 1 could, these motives and sentiments. I have made no offer of my services, as you intimate, to Democratic “committeemen,” and therefore such offer i as you state, “has not been declined.” 1 did .state in Georgia, and have stated here, that if 1 could get audiences of Re publicans—oj' old Whigs with whom, in the days of Clay and Webster, I so cordi ally acted—J would make speeches. But these men seem to utter nothing but growls at my very appearance in a North ern climate. I have had many invitations i from Democrats to speak, hut I havo do- ; clined them. : 2. I have not seen the statement to which ' you ailude from the Southern press. If ; they have rejoiced at my visit to the North, and have anticipated the results you men j tion, 1 have no doubt it was with no intent j to exalt my personal powers as a speaker, but simply because the representations made of mv speeches to the Northern people they knew to be untrue, and that, it I made speeches here, the Northern people would be enabled to know for them selves they were untrue. T have often i seen my utterances at tho South so changed, cut up, and differently put together here, ' as to represent me before the Northern people as saying directly the reverse of what. I did say. It seems to be a system adopted here to keep the people of tho two I sections from understanding each other, j that they may continue to hate each other.’ | Language which I have employed at the i South as applicable to men who wore cn- I gaged jn tho hypocritical work of seeming ; | to accept the policy of Reconstruction, 1 with a known intent of repudiating it after accomplishing certain personal ends, and who were promoting hatred between the two races at the South, is uniformly re ported at the North as applied to Union men. I denounce criminals and hyyo crites, and straightway am reported as denouncing good loyal Union men ! It would be but natural if the Southern ! press, who know me, aud the motive, I temper and spirit of my humble utterances, j should express gratification that the j Northern people should havo an oppor- | tunity of hearing lor themselves. 3. I shall return home “amortified if not a wiser man.” Mortified only because 1 find in the North a bitter, systematic, adroit • and persistent misrepresentation of the ! temper, desires and views of the Sou;hern whites far exceeding my anticipations. I ! have stood in the fight, and been the tar get of this kind of warfare before. It was practiced by many Secessionists in iB6O. The people of the South will comprehend my meaning when I say that the plan of misrepresentation is practiced here with a shrewdness, a persistence, and in a manner to excite distrust and sectional hate to an extent uukuown in the South in tho most intemperate days of secession. The very same means which wore employed in 1860 at the South to induce that people to leave the Union, are now employed at the North, with more skill and less candor, to keep them from coming back to the Union. The South did have cause of complaint against the North, for their internal affairs , had been persistently intermeddled with, hits uesiredto ulfcTuicdfile with the inter nal affairs of the North. Tho South con cedes to the North what tho North denies to the South—the right to regulate the franchise, each State For itself. You speak of me as a “wild Southern ex tremist.” “A political extremist!” My I whole life is directly the oontrary. I doty 1 you to fiud, iu all my utterances against tho Reconstruction measures, a single sen timent of hostility to tho Union or the Constitution, or of unkindness to the negro, j Directly the reverse pervades everything 1 wrote, spoke or felt, and any report to ! the contrary is false. I declare now that one of my chief ob jections to the Reconstruction measures is that they violate the Constitution, and 1 do personally know that some of the worst original Disunionists at the South are supporting those measures because they believe that the disunion they continue, and the sectional bitterness and alienation they breed and keep alive, constitute tho only remaining hope of final disintegration of tho States. My chief objection to the i Chicago platform is the fact that, in my j opinion, it is the most unconstitutional, disunion document ever adopted in Amer- ; iea, because it concedes to the Northern | States what it denies to the Southern States —the great right to regulate the ■ franchise each State for itself —and thereby destroys the equality ot the States, which is the very oorncr-stono of the Union. I tell you, on this basis the Union can never be maintained, except it may be “pinned together by bayonets.” I shall go home “mortified,” not because Gen. Grant may be elected, but because, if elected, he will he carried into office on a wild current of sectional distrust and hate, and on a dis union platform of unequal States. I shall go home a “wiser” man, because, though often told, I never before believed the Northern masses were the victims of such distrust and fear of the Southern people as that they would deliberately vote the Southern States to inequality in the Union and to social anarchy in their internal af fairs. You commend the letter of Mr. Adams to the Columbia Committee. So do 1. Since that letter was written Mr. Adams has proceeded to the South. I commend to your consideration his speech at Greens boro, N. C. He said: “He had learned more of the Southern people, their feelings and their sentiments during the last two days than he could have Teamed during his lifetime in Massachusetts. He was astonished at the condition of the Southern | people. lie was pleased to know of the amicable, relations between the blacks and i the whites, and that no animosity existed j between them.” This is all true, and this j happy state of things would exist every where in the South, if the negro, naturally i docile, was not deluded and excited against I the whites by strangers and renegades, who I wisli to use him to get office. The llecon ' struction policy of Congress has bred these i creatures, and they will continue and in | crease until these* measures arc abandoned. You persist in saying the .Southern ; people will not acceot the results of the war. Mr. Adams intimated, in his letter, that this belief- was the trouble at the i North. He is learning the truth now. I, commend to you his speech at Salisbury, [ n. o. . . ; “Among other things, he said the dis- j position of the North .was kindly toward j the South, butthey demanded the con- : cession on our part of all the legitimate rc- j suits of the war. He then asked Col. ! Cowan and Gov. Vance, who were on the i stand, to state cxplicity if their people ac cepted in good faith : First, the abolition of slavery forever; second, the overthrow ; of the doctrine of secession ; third, the i settlement and kindly welcome of North ern people here ; fourth, the guaranteeing j of all his just rights to the negro and the; cultivation of friendly relations with him by the whites. The questions were an- j swered emphatically iu the affirmative by ; those gentlemen, and ratified by the en- j tire audience, to whom the vote was put on each question. Great harmony and enthusiasm prevailed. All the people j expressed astonishment on hearing from Mr. Adams the amount of misunderstand ng which exists in *hc Northern mind in regard to the real purposes and intentions ; of the Southern people.” Now, Sir, Col. Cowan and Gov. Vance ! answered truly and the people responded l in good faith. And this is the sentiment all over the South. At first these yore I some prejudices, bdt now the people every where recognize the fact that the negro is a free citizen, and the good of the whites and the peace of society will be promoted by making him an educated, good citizen if it be possible. But it is not possible uu der the Reconstruction measures. It is not possible with the negroes in the bauds, of carpet-baggers and low whites, and while still ignorant, having his mind in flated with ideas of political power, and his heart filled with hatred to the white race. Therefore, we-say, take away the Reconstruction maasuresaud their Irood of evil doers, and amicable relations will universally prevail as Mr. Adams saw them at Salisbury. I have often said, and now repeat and beg you to note, that the South lias never rejected any proposition of settlement, or j of restoration, or of reconstruction, whetli ) er proposed by the army, or by the l‘rcsi ; dent, or by Congress, except such as wore j not results of the war, and which would | have dishonored the South, and not bene' sited the North nor strengthened the Union. The first thing rejected by the South was the proposed Amendment !' ourteen. She rejected this solely because it disfranchised nearly all the best men in the South, including life-time Union men before the war. If Congress had submit' 1 the other provisions separately, aud as | a totality they would have been accepted. I -'be rejects the subsequent reconstruction i I'b'* l because she canuot live under it. \\ e prospered after emancipation until this plan was forced on the South by the oayoaets. Since that time lands have been steadily declining in price, distrust is constantly increasing, and riots and out rages are multiplying. The people of the South are not struggling for a party, but tor life. They will be compelled, in u, •< fence of social and industrial existence, to practically disregard these Reconstruction measures, it matters not who maybe elect ed and ordered to the contrary. \Vo are hogging for Northern emigrants and Northern capital. We have the finest country on carta for both. But neither wnl comcyrhde these Reconstruction meas ures remains, and we cannot blame them. i would that a thousand such men as i'lr. Adams would go South. If the -Northern people will not hear Southern speakers, Southern people are glad to hear Northern speakers who go with an honest desire, not to inflame the negroes, but to speak the truth aud encourage ali races as does Mr. Adams. Abuse us less and visit us moro, and there will soon be neither the will to abuse, uor a feeling of distrust. lam assured here by many uioit that Gen Grant, as President, will disregard the (. hieago platform and see to it that equal justice shall bo done the Southern States and people, and that the Radicals arc" really afraid of him, and vote for him oniv from necessity. Some tell me ho will lie better for the South than Mr. Seymour. Jms may all prove true. But.he certain ly stands on a wrong platform and is sup ported by wrong influences. ~ bho South has no animosity toward (tenoral Grant, She cares nothing for •nen. Rut the whites of the South never nave, and never will, because they never can, consent to the Reconstruction meas ures, nor to the Governments formed by them. To consent to those is to consent to her own immolation and ruin. Others far away may not so believe, hut we so know. If the Northern people arc determined to enforce these measures, and in a spirit oi distrust and fear, not to say of hatrrd and malice, toward the Southern people, tneri secession lias made good its case, and the Northern people are determined to write the judgment and pay the cost. Yours, very truly, „ „ B. H. Him.. New iork, October 9, ISGB. BY TELEGRAPH. fM'LO AL P'HFATOII TO THE OHC9NIOLR & BKHTINEL. election returns. From Pennsylvania. Washington, October 14, noon. -Scat tering returns indicate Covodo’s defeat. Tire Philadelphia Press estimates the Re publican majority at 18, non. From Ohio. Washington, October 14, noon.—ln Nineteen Congressional Districts the Re publicans have twelve, the Democrats five; two doubtful. Eggleston, Gibson, Win aus and Ashley are probably defeated. From Nebraska. Washington, October 14, noon.-The reports from Nebraska indicate a Repub lican majority of 3,000. Legislature strong ly Republican. J ndiana silont. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. ■ ’lection iteturns. :1; i odor, Democrat* is elected in ihe Ist 1 lists id by 200 majority. 1 NtiiANA -The{State ticket is close. buL 1 inker’s flection is conceded. The 3hi Congressional District is doubtful. Kerr and Niblack are elected. The rest of the sjdf-.gatron is Radical. i nxNsvLVANiA —-Tin- /Vr.s* estimates the Republican majority at 18,000. Mobil, Until ocrat, carrier the 3d District by tin major itv. Coyodo, in the 21st District, is proba bly defeated. Reading— Tim Democrats einry the sth District, also the city by a majority ranging from nil to 3,318. The City Council is largely Republican; Nebraska—Returns indicate 2, 0(h) Re publican majority, with the Legislature strongly Republican. The following estimates are made up from tho latest figures: Congressmen front Pennsylvania- Ist District, Randall, Democrat, majority •i,l'd. 2nd District, O’Neil, Republican, majority 3,412. 3d District, Moilatt Democrat, 21. 4th District, Dolly, Repub lican, majority 2,208. sth District, Read ing, Democratic, majority 400. Oth District, Stiies, Democrat. 7th District, Townsend, Republican. Bth District, Getz, Democrat. 9lh District, Dickey, Republican, loth District, Cake, Republican. 11th District, VanAukon, Democrat. 12th District, Woodward, Democrat. 13th District, Mercur, Republican. 14th District, Packer, Republican. 15th District, Holdeman, Democrat, ltitli District, Cos-na, Repub lican. 17th District, Morrill, Republican. 18th District, Armstrong, Republican, lllth District, Schofield, Republican. 20th District, Gilfillan, Republican. 21st Dis trict, doubtful. 22nd District, Nogley, Ropubiieau. 23rd District, Phelp, Repub lican. 21th District, Donloy, Republican. Total Republican 15 ; Democrat 8. Demo cratic gain of two, with one District doubt ful. Oh io—Congressmen Ist District,Strader, | Democrat. 2<l District, Stevenson, Re publican. 3d District, Schenck,- Repubii ! can. 4th District, Lawrence, Republican. sth District, Mungou, Democrat. (s(h, I Smith, Republican. 7th, Thomas, Demo | crat. Bth, Beatty, Republican, iitli Dis \ trict, Gibson, Republican. 10th District,' I Iloag, Democrat. 11th District, Wilson, I Republican, 12th District, Van Trump, j Democrat. 13th District, Morgan, Demo i crat. 14th District, Welker, Republican. 1 15th District, Moore, Republican. 10th I District, Bingham, Republican. 171 h Dis- I trict, Ambler, Republican. 18lh', Upson, I Republican. 19th, Gurliehl, Republican. ; Total Republican 13; Democrat 0. Demo- I eratic gain of 3. j Congressmen from Indiana.—lst Dis i trict, Niblack, Democrat. 2d District, ; Kerr, Democrat. 3d District, Lamb, Ro j publican. 4th District, Julian,' Republi ' can. sth District, Coburn, Republican, j oth District, Carter, Republican. 7tii Dis | trict, Orth, Republican. Btli District, I Pratt Republican. 9th District, Shanks, j Republican. 10th District, Williams, Re publican. 11th District, Packard, ltSpub j lioan. Total, Republicans 0; Democrats 2. I Republicans -elect their entire State \ ticket in Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and i Pennsylvania. ; Indianatoms, October 11, p. in.—ln ! diana—Thirty-seven counties show a ! Democratic gain of nearly 7,000; unheard j from forty-one. Tho Demourats claim tiio I State by 1,000. The Republicans claim it i tty 2,400. * Tiio Third District is still doubt - ; fail One v jiLAKjq* October M, p. in.— Omo Democratic Congressmen elected in tiio First, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth; Republicans get the balance. Dayton-, (Ohio) October 11, p. m. — Schenck beats Vallaniligliam 000. Wash ington ltcpublican estimates as follows : Ohio 22,000, Indiana 3,500, and Nebraska 2.000. From Spam. Washington, October fl, noon, -'(‘lie following summary is gleaned from sever al sources: Madrid, October 1-1, noon.—The Junta has seized the Jesuits’ property in Spain and abolished the order. * From Washington. Washi noton, October 11, p. m,—The Provisional Government of Spain yester day, by telegTaph, recognized Gonias, Spanish Minister at Washington, to the extent of directing him to com municate to tiiis Government their gratitude for its prompt recognition. Seward addressed Minister Hale a tele grain, reading : “Reciprocate, in the 1 're's ident’s name, the salutations of the Pro visionid Government.” Raining steadily and Northern dis patches come iir slowly. The Government communicated, by the Spanish Minister hero, the tender of the best-wishes of the United States for the peace, prosperity and happiness of Spain under the present and definitive Govern ments. Rosecrans is liore waiting final in structions. , Revenue to-day one hundred and ufty live thousand dollars. Commercial Convention. Norvoi.k, October 1-1, P- I Com mercial Convention organized bv the elec tion of Hon. G. W. Roiling as President. A number of Vice Presidents, Secretaries ! rt nd Committees were also appointed. , Twenty-live hundred delegates tiro present ! !lo( j much interest is felt m their delibera tions. _ From Savannah. ! Savannah, October 14, p. m.—The j steamer San Salvador arrived this moru ing, with the remains of the Hon. Howell ! Cobb, which were met by the Mayor and j Aldeimen, members of lho bar and eitr | zens, and escorted to the Central ! Rail Road Itepot, where a social train carried the remains to' Athens, Ga. Flags a * ' flying at Intlt/nast,
