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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1868)
- - - 'j " ' OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. ’■ rvMM tanmem m t-^gma^sK—mm— (i'hronitlc A irnttucl. iIENBV MOOK E, A. It. WItIGIIT. PATRICK Associate Editor. TKHU s OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. On. «» Tb .,,. 5 60 ... 1000 ' WEEKLY. • . ~, 1 Oft ;..V 1 60 , y,v s «o A L(i CBTA . GA t \t KM> KnDA V MORN i-A(«. NOVEMBER 4. Cow Killing.—We learn that some fine milch cows have been killed recently on the Southern beunderics of the city. Owners of cows should look after their animals; and also after the killers. If the latter are caught, they should be severely dealt with, as their crime is an outrage which cannot be tolerated or leniently dealt with. Fire at Union Point. —The Hotel at Union Point, the property of J. 15. Hart, Esq., was entirely consumed by fire yester day morning, The fire commenced at about 2a. at. About half of the furniture was saved. We learn that there was no insurance upon either the Hotel or furni ture. The Hotel, heretofore, has been kept insured until about two months since for $7,000 ; but upon the expiration of the policy, at that time, the proprietor de clined to renew it. The lire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Loss $15,000. Hlli.y fob Poverty Riixje.— Poverty Hidgo may be a very appropriate name for the locality in Clark county, 2j miles from Athens, but it’s some on piue trees, ns for instance, observe the following: Mr. Richard Hoggs, a few days ago, cut a pine tree on his land, from which ho made 11 shingle blocks, IS inches wide; loss, ]0 foot at the butt, got two sills, one 20 feet and the other 40 feet long, all heart, and 10 inches square, each; and made 1$ cordH of good light-wood, all from the same tree. Fracas.—There was a cutting scrape between a couple of white men, in the vicinity of Reynolds and Mclntosh streets, Monday afternoon. One of them, a citi zen of Columbia county, was very danger ously cut in four or five places. We learn that lhe affair was the winding up of an old grudgo between the contending parties. The American Agriculturist.— Ibis is a valuable agricultural journal, de voted to the farm, the garden, and the household. It is published monthly by Orange Judd & Cos., No. 245 Broadway, New York, at the low price of $1 50 per annum in advance. The November num ber has been received, and contains a large amount of instructive ami interesting read ing. Tiie Southern Journal of Music.— This is a Southern musical publication of great merit, and, therefore, worthy of Southern patronage. The September and October number contains a good amount of interesting reading and a quantity of excellent sheet music. Prieo SI.OO per annum, in advance. Subscribe lor it.— Published in Louisville, Ky., by Win. McCarrell. Bane Hall Match. —The students of M ereer and Emory Colleges engaged in a friendly match game of “Base Ball” on Saturday last at Grcenesboro. The Mer cer boys heat their antagonists—scoring fifty two, while their opponents’ score was thirty-seven. It is understood that “a re turn” game will take plaeo at no distant •lay. Advances on Cotton. —Special atten tion is called to the card of Mr. Henry Bryan, (late of the firm of Bryan, Cartridge & C 0.,) commission merchant and broker, Savannah, (da., who otters favorable in ducements to planters and others who desire to ship cotton to New York and Livi rpool. Mr. Bryan offers to make ad* vatiees to the amount of half the consign ment and to hold the cotton for any rea sonable length of time. All who may avail themselves of this proposition will be thus enabled to hold for a better market. Keep Away.—Wo think that the best policy lor Democrats to pursue in regard to Radical meetings is to keep away from them. The speakers almost invariably say something to insult tho Democrats in order to get up a difficulty so that they may telegraph to tho North, “Another Hebei Outrage” and thus make capital for their party by misrepresenting our unhap py section. Therefore, the best thing that can be done in this regard is to keep away and let them severely alone. Edwards’ House, Sparta, Ga.— Those who may have occasion to visit the pleasant and beautiful little town of Sparta, and commingle with her high-toned, intel ligent and scientific' people, will find a pleasant retreat at tho Edwards' House. This is one of the finest Hotels in any town of the State, in keeping with the re finement of the place, and all its provisions for the accommodation of the public re flect great credit upon the taste of friend Cothran. Call at the Edwards House. Runaway-Sad Accident. —As Mr. J. B. Moore and a young lady were riding out in a buggy about 10 o'clock Monday morning, a vehicle driven by a negro,struck th" buggy frightening the horse, which ran away. Mr. Moore endeavored to shield the young lady with one arm, which ren dered lum powerless to stop the horse with the other. The frightened animal dashed around the corner of Ellis and Jackson streets, toward tho stables, throwing Mr. Moore and the young lady out. Tho gen tleman fell upon the culvert, at the corner, striking bis head so violently as to fracture and to render his recovery very improbable. Medical aid was immediately called in and every assistance rendered to the unfortu nate young man. He is from Halifax county, Virginia, is engaged in the tobacco trade, and is well known in this city. The young lady fortunately received but very little injury. Misrepresented.— Men’s motives,ho* - ever pure and good, are frequently misun derstood and misrepresented. It docs not follow that because any citizen addresses a mcetity f colored people that he is in sympatic with the Radical party. On the contrary, such men as Hon. B. H. Hill, Mr. 11. llussell, Hon. 11. V. Johnson, and Major l. I\ Girardcy, and others who have the confidence of the community— white and black —have addressed these people, and have done much good, and can do much good by setting forth such facts and arguments before them. We offer this proposition simply to correct any wrong impression which might go out into the community on the subject; and to urge upon all Democrats the propriety of en lightening the negroes on their true politi cal condition and relations whenever the opportunity fairly presents itself. Fatal Accident. —We regret to learn that Mrs. Sharkey, wife of Mr. P. Sharkey, of this city, was accidentally shot Wednes day night, while handling a pistol, the wound producing death. Her husband is absent from the city, hut has been notified of this sad occurrence. Since writing the foregoing, wq learn that Mrs. Sharkey and her oldes* daughter were exhibiting the pistol for sale, when it was accidentally discharged, as stated, the hall taking effect in the region of the heart. The Coroner held an inquest on the body of the deceased, and a verdict was render ed in accordance with the facts elicited. Mrs. Sharkey leaves two children to mourn her sad and untimely loss. Bollock’* Illegal Attempt to Interfere wUh the Election Law* of the State. We have purposely avoided comment upon the recent extraordinary proclama tion of the so-called Governor of Georgia, in relation to the election precincts and ballot-boxes which he proposes to estab lish. We knew that neither by the old jaw, or the menagerie Constitution, did he have the slightest authority for such an in terference with our election laws. We feared that the recent Legislature had taken some action which might authorize this improper and partisan proclamation. We have now before us a compilation of all the public acts passed by that body, and after careful examination, we are unable to find any warrant for, or justification of, his ‘‘revolutionary, illegal and void” proc lamation. Bullock doubtless issued this proclama tion with a view to invalidate the whole election in this State, and (five a Radical Congress grounds for setting aside entirely our electoral vote. He knows, and his whole parly knows, that the Democratic electoral Ticket will receive a very large majority of the votes cast in this State, and hence this attempt to cheat and de fraud the people by directing the elections to be held in a manner which is clearly and unmistakeably in violation of the laws of the State. He knew that Congress would throw out the vote of Georgia if it were shown that the elections were not held in conformity to the laws of the State, and that his power to repeal or modify the ex isting law would not be recognized by that body. This, we believe, was the main reason for the promulgation of his illegal proclamation. Doutlesa another reason which operated upon his mind was the hope, that by having three election boxes at the county sites the Loyal Leagues would be able to bring to those boxes all the negro voters, when the influence and tyranny, and force, and fear of these insurrectionary societies would be sufficient to control the large body of the negro votes. Never in the history of the State has such an open and unblushing attempt been made by a high officer of the Govern ment to violate the laws. Never was official action so clearly and entirely with out lawful warrant or authority. It re mains to be seen whether the Sheriffs in the different counties will dare to violate the laws of the land which they have sworn to obey, in obedience to this unlaw ful mandate. Every officer or other per son who attempts to open more than one box or place of voting at each Court House or county site, will he guilty of a high crime or misdemeanor, and should be promptly arrested, indicted, tried, con victed and punished, for such attempt to interfere with the purity of the ballot box, in defiance of the plain provisions of the law of the State. We tell these officers that Bullock has no more right to interfere in the matter of election precincts and ballot-boxes than Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, J. E. Bryant or any other irresponsible carpet-bagger. We tell them that by the laws of the State, only the Inferior Court (now the Ordinary Court) at a regular term, can change, alter or establish election precincts, and llu.il no power short of Legislative enact ment can authorize or legalize the opening of more than one. ballot-box at. the county sites. Let those officers in the different coun ties, who are disposed to do their duty fully and not violate the laws, consult their local Attorneys upon this subject before they act, if they fear to take our opinion as tho law of the case. There is not, we venture to say, a single respectable lawyer in the State who will not agree with us in relation to tlie invalidity of Bullock’s or der. If, however, some of Bullock’s carpet bag, or worse still, scalawag Sheriffs, shall attempt to open more than one box at the respective Court Houses, we advise and urge our friends to have all Democratic votes deposited in the one regular box or voting place heretofore established by law and custom. Be vigilant in preventing a Democratic ballot from finding its way into the illegal boxes. Then let the superin tendents refuse to count or touch iu any manner the ballots, tally sheets, and lists of voters, which may have been received and kept at the illegal boxes. When the Su perintendents of the several precincts in the county meet the next morning to con solidate and count tho whole county vote, they should refuse to touch, count, or rec ognize, the tally sheets aud ballots cast at tho illegal boxes. In this way we can pre serve the purity of the ballot-box,conform to the spirit and letter of our election laws and prevent the loss of the State’s vote for Seymour and Blair. Wc urge our friends, also, to have firm, decided, but prudent men at those illegal boxes, if any are opened, provided with full lists of all those who have paid their State and county taxes,and challenge every person who attempts to vote whose name does not appear on the list as having given in and paid all taxes which have been required of him and which he has had an opportunity of paying. Dearest and Best Is out in a five column communication, printed in the Atlanta Intelligencer , deny ing the charges made against him through the columns of the LaGrange Reporter, by Jas. H. Martin, of the seduction of Mar tin’s wife in 1864. Joseph introduces the certificates of several respectable gentlemen, who have examined the original letters furnished by Martin to the Reporter, all of whom cer tify that they do not believe the hand writing to be that of Joe. Unfortunately for the immaculate Joseph, however, he introduces and retails so much of his his tory in connection with the frail Fanny as to throw strong suspicion upon his motives aud conduct, independent of what is con tained in the letters which he contends are spurious. (iov. Seymour on Tnrijuemada Meade. In his late splendid speeeh at Rochester Mr. Seymour alluded, in scathing terms, to the laterevolutionary and illegal attempt of General Meade to interfere with the civil Government of this State, and depict ed in strong and glowing colors the danger which beset the country when military satraps undertake to rule “independent of any conscientious scruples about violating tho technicalities of the law.” Mr. Seymour s condemnation is a severe rebuke to the few Democratic papers iu this State which sustained and approved Meade s course in violating the laws of the lancL To these we earnestly commend a careful perusal of this Northern Democrat s views upon the sanctity of the laws and the illegality of Meade's decrees. Hats and Caps. —Messrs. Cohen A Go. have opened a very handsome stock of hats and caps of all the latest and most fashionable styles at his establishment No. ; 184 Broad street, next door below the Telegraph office. Messrs. Cohen have been long engaged in this business, and 1 understand thoroughly the wants of the | community in regard to the right kind of a head covering. Hence they have made a capital selection, in laying iu their Fall and Winter supplies, which embrace all styles and all qualities, for men and for | boys, and at prices to suit the times. They have also a fine lot of furs and muffs for Ladies’ wear? for sale low. Taking then these facts into considera ! tion, a good stock, a large supply to select ’ from, a good quality, and low prices, we do not hesitate to advise our readers to give Messrs. Cohen & Cos. a call, when making their hat purchases, whether for individual wear or for country trade. They will be pleased to exhibit their stock and to offer the most liberal inducements to their friends and patrons. Give them a call. Another Radical Falsehood. Judge Edwards Pierrepont, once con sidered a responsible and honest man, made a speech in New York city the other night, in which he seemed to vie with Forney in his efforts to traduce, malign and falsify the position of the Southern people. Among other things, he said : “The Georgia Democratic Convention declared: “There might once have been a necessity for the Rebels of Georgia to submit to the military authorities, but there is none now. The Democratic chivalry of the North are marching to our rescue. ’ ’ Now, Judge Peirrepont ought to have known, and doubtless did know, that “the Georgia Democratic Convention" never made this doclaration, or anything like it- The writer of this paragraph was a mem ber of both, and all the Democratic State Conventions which have been held here since the war, and states most distinctly that no such declaration was made by those Convention* or any one of the several hun dred members of which they were com posed. The utterance and publication of such falsehoods as these, is made with the sole view to inflame the Northern mind against the people of the South, in order that the Radicals may carry the impend ing election. We had hoped that Judge Pierrepont was a man of too much honesty and truthfulness to have lent himself to such base and wicked perversions of truth and common honesty. The Wall Street Excitement—The Con spiracy to Make Money Scarce. The New York Express says the city journals, without a single exception, de nounce each of the City Banks as they be lieve to be leading the conspiracy to pro duce - a panic in the money market by lock ing u p greenbacks in order to promote the schemes of the stock gamblers. The other banks- —that is, the honest, fair dealing banks l tot in the conspiracy—are also call ed upon to use their reserves, as they can legally and o, and thus checkmate a conspira cy that i 3 embarrassing commercial as well asfiuaneial operation's far and near. World. Mm y Article. The co irts and public sentiment which justified the banks in suspending specie payments in the crisis of 185 7 on a critical occasion like the present, wou'd also hold them equally harmless from penalties ow ing to transgressing the letter of ‘he iaw. Are our bank managers equal to the emergency? or must our commercial and financial interests submit tamely to be rid den over rough-shod by rich, influential, and unscrupulous stock-gamblers. Tribune Money Article. The banks assisting in the conspiracy to lock up currency, have brought upon themselves the well deserved credit the operation deserves. The facility with which bank managers are entangled in speculative movements on the street does not speak well for their financial manage ment. Sun Money Article. We arc happy to believe that several banks which were approached on the sub ject ou Monday (by the speculators) de clined to participate in the disgraceful dodge, and politely requested the specula tive depositors to close their accounts, although some of them had been very profitable. The managers find that they will lose all their commercial depositors if they allow a few speculators to control the capita! of their banks, and thus produce distress to business men who rely upon tho banks for accommodation. Indeed, it is not safe for any merchant to keep his ac count with any bank known to favor such schemes. But the true remedy is in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, lie must discard his ideas'of redundancy of currency when he knows that for weeks and months it has been difficult for the New York banks to supply the demand, arising from increased activity in business; when he knows that his own balance being so low invites the scheming stock specula tors to withdraw the greenbacks from the street, derange business, destroy Govern ment credit, and produce distrust in all circles. If Mr. McCulloch should adver tise to morrow that he will loan ten mil lions of Legal-Tenders at 7 per cent. —with Governments as collateral—for sixty days, and pursue that policy during any artificial demand for money, ease would follow, Governments would advance, and he would not lose one million of currency. Even should he lose the whole of it, it would all be returned within ten days. The hanks are rich in every item which makes up their assets, except legal-ten ders. They have to-day over sixty millions of reserve, yet the withdrawal of a mil lions disturbs our whole monetary system. Let us have a change. Secretary McCul loch has the right to use legal-tenders to the amount of seventy-five millions for the purpose indicated, but if he shonld prefer not to do it, but supply the demands ou him from the banks under a presentation of certificates this week, he would be obliged, under his arrangement, for selling gold, to flood the market with Govern ment bonds at any price they would bring. Times. Tho Stock Boards yesterday very judi ciously resolved that all dealings between the sessions of the several Boards hence forward shall be confined to the Long Room, so-called, in the New York Stock Exchange Building, on Broad street, and that tho business of each day shall he closed at 5 o’clock P. M. The movement, we believe, originated with the members of the Open Board of Brokers, and was promptly concurred in by the members of the New York Stock Exchange. Fruit-Distilled Brandy Exempt from Internal Tax. The following is the text of the order issued by Commissioner Rollins in rela tion to the exemption of brandy distilled from fruits : “Treasury Department, ] “Office Internal Revenue, j “Washington, October 12, 1868. ) “In accordance with the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, rendered on the 10th instant, distillers of brandy from apftles, peaches, or grapes, exclusively, are hereby, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, exempt ed from so much of the provisions of sec tion 59 of the act of July 20, 1868, as im poses a special tax of S4OO upon distillers producing 100 barrels or less of distilled spirits, and of $4 per barrel for every bar rel in excess of 100 barrels. This exemp tion is additional to the exemptions hereto lore specified in series 4, No. 7, and asses sors and collectors will govern themselves accordingly. “E. A. Rollins, Commissioner. “Approved. “Hugh McCulloch, “Secretary of the Treasury.” The exemption in series 4, No. 7, is as follows : “ Distillers of brandy from apples, peaches, or grapes, exclusively, are subject to the same taxes and rates of tax as other distillers. They must register their stills, give the notice and file the bond required j of other distillers, but are exempted from the additional requirements Imposed upon other distiller* who are not the owners of j the fee of the distillery premises, and will 4iot be required to furnish the plan required | by section 9. The survey must be made ! as required by section 10. They will be held subject to all the requirements of the law as to the assessment, collection or as sessment of the tax due, and providing for the keeping of books, and for returns, ex . cept that instead of making returns tri monthly they will make returns on form 15 on the first day of each and every month | or within five days thereafter, and the tax on the spirits distilled by them during the period embraced in their returns must be paid at the time of making their returns, j When stamps shall be provided they must be affixed as provided in other cases,and the tax-paid stamp must be affixed by the gauger before the spirits are removed from | the distillery; and until stamps are fur nished the spirits must be inspected and ; branded or marked, as in other cases, be fore the same are removed from the dis j tillerv. “They will not be required to provide a bonded warehouse, nor to remove the : spirits produced by them from the distil ; lery to a bonded warehouse, nor to erect : receiving cisterns in the distillery. They will bo exempt from any penalty for non compliance with any of the provisions of | section 17; and also the provisions of sec tion 22, in relation to suspending work; nor will they be subject to the per diein capacity tax imposed by section 13 after ; the distillery is closed for the season.” Dr. Livingstone, at last accounts from South Africa, was said to be within a week’s march of Zanzibar. A policeman shot and killed a soldier in Ijouisville Monday evening, while attempt ing to arrest him. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOYEMBI SR 4, 1868. Book Notices. * ’ New Extravaganza, Alaska ; a , spectacular Extravaganza in Rhino, Rus “■ o Rhyme and two acts. By Q. Z., l ’ished for the author. New York, p u j Hale & Sons, 16 Murray street: We have rece ‘ fr° m Mr. George A. Oates, of thi/' 1 cit y- a °°py of this little publication. L' “ from the ? en of a Geor ‘ gian ; and is, as u' s name ™P orts - a s Pf tacular extravagant a > or burlesque on the purchase of the AlasY a Territory by Mr. Seward. It is very mu' c}l “ « Burton’s Pocahontas, an * c <4 uall y « wel ] written, full of pungent jP'-Xtms, ant goo hits at the follies of the tin'e s - '* e ™ lax it would take well if propefh 1 ' ut Rpoa the stage- As it is, it is very aia.us'Dg- It is also very neatly print©l. The Meeting Tuesday Night. --It hav ing been announced that Judge Ca. - ieton, DemocraticElectorfor the State of Induiaa, would address the Democracy at tbs City Hall Tuesday night, the Courf; Room was packed to hear him. The meeting was or ganized by ca lling Mr. E. H. Rogers to the Chair, and requesting H. Ci ay Foster to act as Secreta r y. Mr. Rogers Üben in" troduced Judge Carleton, who adu. messed the audience iu a happy and fell \iVms speech of about an hour. He said that though he had read and heard much of G-eorgia, this was the first time he had ever been within her borders, and he was most Agreeably surprised. lie had been taught to believe by Northern Radicals that the people of Georgia w'tre still rebellious and only panted for anot heir opportunity to break out in open hostility to the Government, but he was most happy to find that they were peaceable and law-abiding. Os course he did cot believe these 6tories, but such and othsr stories were told —for instance that Geor gians were armed to the teeth, continually swaggering about or hiding behind every black jack watching their chance to blow out the brains of every Northern man who happened to pass. In i c act, he was warned that he would never bo allowed to leave the State, but would be assassina ted. He came on a venture, ami he only wished that every Radical in the .North would do as he had done, and th. ty would be constrained to adopt the lang nage of Cmsar, Vcni! Vidi! Vici! “I came, I saw, I conquered 1” I conquered my'preju dices. He spoke of having strayed 1 , into the City Hall yard last Saturday night to hear Akerm an speak, and related some amus ing scene's that he witnessed. He had hoard that A. was an old citizen of this State, but said th«t a citizen who would vote the Radica ticket, or act with that party was worthy of a place .'n the regions of Pluto. He said the Radicals here claimed that they were the negro J s friend; but he knew that the Radicals of tl'c North were their worst enemies, and if a negro wanted to satisfy himself of this sac ‘ him take a trip to Indiana or any on' l2l ' Northern State. He would find himself disfranchised and his treatment much worse than he had ever experienced or i dreamed of in Georgia or the South. Th; it several of these States had recently votod by heavy majorities, against allowing the negro to vote, and their best and truest plan was to stick to their old mas ters ; ind friends. He gave a glowing account of the fig.lt made by the Democracy in his State. Four years ago]the R adicals carried the State by twen cy-four thot isand majority ; two*years ago tha t majority was reduced to fourteen thousand five hun dreii ; and at the recent State election, witir TkoTnas Hendricks as our standard bcai'er, the Radicals had elected their Governor by less than otic tLouaand —tnus snowing that the nomoc racy bad gained thirteen th ousand five hundrt :d; and on next Tuesday this ma jority would be swept away and Indiana cast he r vote for Seymour and Blair. Recently he had stepped for trie first time on the sacred soil of Virginia, where the Potomac forms a confluence with the Susquehanna; and as he stood and looked across the broad bosom of the t’otomae, there stood in majestic grandeur - Maryland Heights. But where he stood was the spot so often trod by Washington and Jef ferson, ami as he surveyed t,he beautiful scenery around him, he tho ught of Vir ginia—Virginia, the mother of States and of statesmen, and ho could mot believe that the people of the North wovfid ever consent that this g raEd old State should bo en slaved ! His speech had the happiest effect and was frequently interrupted by the most enthusiastic cheering. He was followed by Hon. B. H. Hill and General Wright i a eloquent and stir ring speeches, who charged the J udge with many n lessages. to the good old De mocracy of Indiana e.nd the West. But we have not the time or the space to make more than a passing illusion to them. The meeting broke up quietly, everybody be ing pleased with what, they had heard. [ C* .IJIMUNICATED, j 'Georgia Lands. Mountain Grove, BathCo.,Va. 1 October 19th, 1863. j Editors ( ihrowicle, & Sentinel: Sirs : Knowing several persons with families \ cho desire to settle in your State I address you .this note to solicit informa tion in regard t o the character of the lands in the v icinity of your city—say within five or siix miles, the prices asked for im proved places ha vingeomfortabie buildings, orchards, Ac., on them, and tho number of acres, likewise the nature and products of the soil ? Wh at they rent for and any other information pertinent to tho sub ject ? Tho parties allua cd to are Virginians. Should you be u lable from any cau so to comply with my ret luest, will you do me the favor to hand ti lis to some reliabl c land agent or other gentb :man who may bo will ing to answer the in quiries ? Direct to me at “Mountain Grovr, Bath Cos., Va„”and much oblige, Respectfully, &c., W. T. W. Taliaferro. Note by Editors We have no per i sonal acquaintance with the author of the above communication, but his references are such as to warrant us in com mending him to the attention of all who have lands in the vicinity of Augusta for sale. The I questions contained in Mr. Taliaferro’s : jetter forcibly brings to view a field for ! enterprise, now unoccupied, which in our ! judgment might be made a source of great i profit to such as will develop it and be of ; great benefit to the community, viz: a well regulated land office. Compressing Cotton lv the Inte rior—lts Effect upon the Commer cial Interests of Savannah.— Charles E. Boardiaan, Civil Engineer, and recent ly foreman of the Neptune Iron Works, in the city of New l r ork, ha\ ing erected and put in running order two hydraulic, togle joint combination cotton presses, for Major N. C. Jones, at Dillon's Wharf, left this city last night for Aiqgusta, Georgia, for the purpose of ereeti ng in that citv two more of these improt -ed presses for Major Jones. From thence j he will proceed to Macon and Columbi is, Georgia,. Montgo mery, Alabama, V icksburg, Mississippi, and Shrevesport, L ouisiana, for the pur pose of erecting at each one of those points one or more of the se powerful presses. It will be observed t 1 aai all the above points are on the throng h line of railroad from the Pacific to tire Atlantic ocean, termi nating at Savai mah, and that the com pression of cotton will increase the capa city of the railrc ad cars for its reception 33 percent., then ;by greatly increasing the facilities for, ar id at the same time dimin ishing the cost of transportation from those points to this c ity, and also effectually se curing the sta pie from the depredations of cotton thieve? t , who everywhere infest the railroad depo 4s and cotton warehouses, which hi esti mated to average some three pounds per bale.— Savannah Republican 19th. The Indisma Legislature stands: Senate, 31 Republicans to 19 Democrats ; House, 55 Repub,'i> Jans to 43 Democrats. Money In New York. The telegraph announces that the money panic in the city of New York “is greater than ever” and that the Banks have “suspended all discount operations under the pressure.” The extracts heretofore published from the New Yfirk journals generally attribute the panic to the in fluence of a money ring formed to control the stock market. It is a singular spectacle, however, to say the least of it, which is presented to the country, of a money panic in the great money centre of the country at a time when gold and silver is not recognized as a circulating medium but only “as a commodity”—something to be bought and sold—“speeie payments”— long since suspended and a paper currency of more than eight hundred millions made legal-tenders, and redeemable in kind— flooding the great Northern markets. This is a financial phenomenon rarely wit nessed. It looks very much like a Radi cal electioneering dodge to force elections and get cheap cotton, but it exhibits trie marvellous power that can be wielded by those wfio control the paper currency o-f the country—creating a panic when a panic is wanted. The Cotton Trade. Wc invite a careful perusal of the subjoined circular of Messrs. Robert (Lockhart at:d Dempster, -Cotton Brokers, of Liverpool. All interests in this section arc greatly dependent upon the Cotton Trade- Gr&t Britain is our chief cus tomer, The views and opinions which pre vail in her chief market, Liverpool, has always influenced greatly, if not controlled our local markets, iu the past. Under the new system of labor, which obtains amongst us, this influence has been ex tended, -regelating in a great degree not only the area e.hich vUli be planted, but the price of laV- This circular will be found worthy off ° attentive parpoa , for the carefully review of the past year, with its fluctuation prices, anu also as presenting the data ?t»on which prevailing opinions are based : Liverpool,, October 2, IS6S.—The event ful history oi the past season’s business lias been so strongly impressed upon the minds of those engaged in the trade, by its unexpected and exceptional circuin wUinces, by the great and rapid fluctuations in values, and by the extremes of depres sion and coniidence that have followed each other in quick succession, that we deem it unnecessary to adhere to our usual custom of prefacing our remarks upon the new season’s business with a detailed ac count of the market during tho preceding twelve months. Tho season opens some what earlier than of late years, but with the usual uncertainty as to the extent of th.e American crop, and with even more th an ordinary perplexity as to the course which prices'may be expected to pursue wl) en the business of the year has fairly con imenced. At the same time, however, thei 'e is, rightly or wrongly, a consider able under-current of confidence among merchants and oonsume-s that a drop to .the range sf prices current last November and December is this year impossible. This coniidence appears to be grounded mainly upon the experience of the past season, which is belie pod to have estab lished several important facts, some of which wore before looked upon as proba ble, others as doubtful, but all ‘ending to give confidence in the ultimate eotorso ol prices. We have learned, for instance, what many mused to believe before, th.to even with the stimulus of extremely high prices, and with a favorable season, the .available labor in the Southern States of America is yet unequal to the cultivation of a crop of morethan two and a half to two and three quarter million bales, and that at the range of prices current before the -war, cotton planting would have, to a great extent, to be abandoned. We have had the opinion confirmed that the im mense gap in the stocks of yarns arid goods caused by .tlie war has been only partially filled, ind that the spinning and manufacturing power of the world, as well as the consumptxm of goods, have largely increased during the last sight years, and we haye leamedalso that at low or mod erate prices a strong and healthy demand so." the staple, fully equal to any probable supply during Ue next few yoars, _ must be expected, butthat when prices rise to the neighborhood of lOd, per pound or oyer trade boginsto t'arror becames-spne uiative to an'uiucalthy degree. These and other minor considerations, the re sults chiefly ox reoont experience, give, as we have already remarked, a feeling of confidence in the future which, although not stronger than at the same period last yepr, is founded upon a much wider knowledge of facts than was then possible. But .'l.“ the expectations of last year were so sigiially' defeat©! by unforeseen circum stances we propose, with |the new light which we now" possess, to state, in a few seutendes, what consider to be the posi tion and prosper .’-3 °f lb® trade lor tlie present as compared witb the past season. The present stocks w. American and English por(s, and at sea U’ r Dreat Britain, as eomparod with last year,. a ve as follows : 180,?. 1867. Stock in the American... ports 50,0ik 1 Go, 000 Stock in Liverpool. 424,180 795,68c 1 Stock in London 72,81S 10c‘,18 l Cotton at Sea for Great Britain 581,000 333,000 Total 1,127.99S 1,299,560 showing a deficiency at the present date of 171,862 bales. The stocks in English spin ners’ hands are believed to be about the same as last year, while tho stocks in the hands of American spinners are probably somewhat less. This makes but little dif ference, however, in the total, aud we may say with confidence that the visible supply in manufacturers’ hands in the ports and at sea is less than at the same period of last year by about two to three weeks’ con sumption. Setting against this, however, the fact that the American crop is nearly a month earlier, and that there is no yellow fever in the Mexican Gulf to retard ship ments, we may reasonably conclude that the deficiency in the present supply will be made up by the 31st of December. Refer ring to the purchases of spinners and ex porters from 3d of October to 31st Decem ber last year, we find that during tho whoie of that interval there was a very active demand, the returns in tho Brokers’ Cir cular being as follows: Bales Bales, perweek. Taken by the trade from 3d October to 31st De cember, 1867 —12 weeks. ..694,430 57,000 Actual exports from 3d October to 31st Decem ber, 1867—12 weeks 364,573 30,000 87,000 which shows a total withdrawal from the supply of this port alone of 87,000 bales per week. With the higherrange of prices current this year, and the much larger quantity of East India Cotton at sea for Havre direct, we can hardly reckon upon a larger demand than this for the remain der of the year, and we therefore feel war ranted in concluding that unless prices in the iuterval fall so low as to bring about a repetition of tho excitement of last Spring, we may expect to end the year with at least as large a stock , as we .had on the 31st December, 1857. What then are the chances for prices falling sufficient ly low to induce a largely increased trade demand ? it is agreed on all hands, and all past experience shows, that for some time after the new crop begins t,o arrive freely at the American port3, prices here must be mainly ruled by the prices cur rent on the other side of the Atlantic ; which in their turn are ruled by the na ture of the season, the stateof the weather, the disposition of the negroes, and the ability of the planters and merchants to keep the crop from being unduly pressed upon the market as it arrives in the ports. So far, tho season has been on the whole propitious, although an over supply of rain appears to have done considerable damage in some localities ; and tfce gen eral feeling here, and, so far as we have been able to ascertain in America, un doubtedly is that at least as large a crop as last year's will be made. The duration of favorable picking weather and'the period of killing frost are circumstances which cannot be taken into present calculations, but will exert considerable influence upon prices as the season advances. The ne groes, up to the latest dates, were work ing extremely well. There remains only the question as to the ability or disposi tion of planters and factors to hold back any considerable portion of the crop as it arrives at the Southern markets. From the ruinously low prices ruling up to the period when the great bulk of the last crop had passed out of the planters’ hands, and the serious failure of the crops in the western Cotton States, it is clear that the monetary position of the planters cannot have improved. So doubt, the advances from factors have been much less this year than last, and to that extent planters are more independent ; but we have not j heard it stated by any Southern authority | that the Southern planters are in a better i position than they were twelve months i ago; while it is certain that the bulk of 1 the crop will be handled by the very men who made the poorest crops, and con sequently the greatest losses, last year, viz : the planters in the States bordering upon the Mississippi river and in Texas. Another circumstance will, we think, also influence materially the transmission of the crop—even at prices under the pres ent rage—and that is the lowness of the cost of production this year as compared with last From very careful inquiries made among the factors and planters in the Atlantic States during the months from October to January last, we were led to the conclusion that with negroes’ wages averaging about S2O per month, heavy in terest upon advances from food purchased at high prices in the North western States and a large expenditure iu fertilizers, the Upland crop cost the plant er upon on average about 20 cents per lb.; adding 2 cents for internal revel me tax, expenses to shipping port, and further expenses and loss of weight, <£e., to Liv erpool, the cost per lb. would aver age lasi year fully 10Jd per pound. This ; roar the negroes’ wages have iu few cases e xceed ed $lO per month; while in many districts they have been as low - as SB, or ev en $6. Advances from factors have been s) nailer in amount, food has been cheaper , ac and to a greater extent of home growth; end in the rich bottom lands, which this .’' rear will give us the bulk of the crop, fert Oizers are uot required, and have not L’ een used. Under these favoring circumstances we do not think we shall be accused of under-esti mating the cost of the crop if we put it down as averaging about 1 5 cents jxer pound on plantations wher e there has been a fair yield. This year the internal revenue tax has been aboli filed, which, with the various petty expenses attending it, may be put down as a saving of 2J cents to 3 cents per pound , and would make the average cost of the crop laid down in Liverpool about 24 cents td 25 cents, or about SJd sterling per pound. If such be the case, with demand and supply tolerably evenly balanced, ive should, in ordinary circu mstauees, look for a decline of prices to about Bfd lb; with planters and factors in a needy con dition, such a decline would seem still more probable; aud indued, taking into consideration all the surrounding circum - stances, we would not be surprised to see prices steadily decline to a point a little below- the cost of production. The facilities afforded to American holders by the Atlantic table, for disposing of their stocks “to arrive” in this market, have a tendency to depress prices rapidly iu a failing market, as well as to raise them rapidly in an improving market; while the anxiety exhibited by many merchants on both sides of the Atl antic to embark iu joint account operations whenever the smallest margin of pro it seems attainable, and the rapidly extending system of ex tracting orders from weak and unwilling speculators, for the sake of making a small and uncertain commission, are likely to tell unfavorably upon this market, when such shipments begin to arriye in quan tity. We are disposed, therefore, to think that while we are assured of a supply fully equal to that of last year, for the next three months the necessities of planters in America will oblige them to push forward their crop, so long as they can realize 29 cents per lb at the ports. In regard to the prospects of supply from other countries, reports are greatly favora ble. The Egyptian crop promises to be large as compared with last year (some re ports say 400,009 against 250,000 bales), and the quality also promises to bo fine. From Brazil the reports are extremely favorable, and the handsome prices ob tained lor the last crop havo no doubt stimulated ' ptaafers to grow as much as possible this year. Tbs East India crop, recently planted, has suffered in some dis tricts by unusually heavy rains ; bqt dj;r 'ug the’past law weeks complaints on this liea - ' have become much less frequent, and a? much of the iivst Grop was sold when price? Wore at their highest point we are disposed to think that the yield next year will be Ou th® who o, we consider that, should the American crop exceed that of last year by 190,000 to 200,000 bales, the supply for le>2? Will probably exceed the supply of 1808 by 300,000 to 400,000 bales, which is equal to an extra supply of 6,000 to 8,000 bales per week for the w r ants of the world. Coming now to the more complicated question of demand, we find various consid erations of more than ordinary difficulty awaiting us at the outset. It is undeniable that during tho first four months of this year, when the excitement in the various cottonandgoods markets was at its height, much of the business done was purely spec ulative. Prices ofyarns and goods fell to the pre-war level, and merchants in Manches ter conceived that time only was necessary to ensure a large profit on investments. Buying immediately commenced, and was continued until producers found them selves under contract for some mouths ahead, and the consumption ran up to about 55,000 bales per week in Great Britain alone. It would be wrong, how ever, to suppose that all the goods repre sented by that enormous demand for the raw material went directly into consump tion. , . . The home trade during this period con tinued quldt' but steady; the American demand throughout the year has been small; tlie Continental demand has at no period of the year been heavy, aud the youth American demand has been, and still is, limited by the Paraguayan war. The bulk of the extra production found its way to India in the shape pt’ consign ments ; much of it remained in Manches ter Warehouses and served at various times to keepiu check the upward move ment in prices ; and some of it, made in anticipation of Spring orders aud uulit for Summer requirements, is still jn makers’ hands. The result has been a glut of goods in the Indian markets, with lower prices ruling for many weeks in Calcutta and Bombay than in Manchester, a loug continuance of unprofitable trade amongst tho manufacturers, and a decline oi ueariy ad. per pound in this market at tlie very period wlien stocks of cotton were unusually light and the new Ameri can supply three or four months distant. Close observation by competent authori ties has shown clearly that bona fide buy ing for consumption, ou tho part of spin ners, ceased to bo excessive wheu prices got over lid. per pound for Middling Up lands, and that the large business over that range was mainly speculative. We therefore consider that as the extreme de pression of November and December last year was caused by poverty and contin ued pressure to sell “to arrive" the crop of the Southern States of America, so the ex treme prices of April and May last were the result more of a violent speculation than of a legitimate demand for cutton goods at the then ruling prices. This year, however, we are disposed to take a more favorable view of the ultimate course of matters, for various reasons. In the n.-3t place, Providence has been pleased to bless our country with a bountiful har vest, th? increased production of wheat in this country f as compared with last year, being estimated at 6,00#,000 quarters, rep resenting twelve ‘o fourteen millions pounds sterling, and trio effects oi this im portant increase are already discernible in an improving tendency in various branches of trade and iu all influx oi bul lion to tho Bank of England. The Continent of Europe, with the ex ception of the Spanish Peninsula, has likewise produced large crops of grain, and the wine-growing countries boast of an unprecedented vintage. The North Ameri can Continent has also secured good har vests, and in South America there are symptoms of the Brazilian war being near its close. During the past week or two, also, steps appear to have been taken by the French and Prussian Governments toward a reduction of their armaments. There must still be a large demand for Cotton products from the Eastern markets and now channels of enterprise will be opened out by a general improvement in business. All these facts seem to lead to the conclusion that there will be sufficient confidence engendered both in this coun try and in America to prevent such a de cline in prices during the next three months as was witnessed last year. After predicting unfavorably of our home trade for nearly three years past.it gives us great pleasure to be able to state our convictions that this vear we snail see at least a turn iu the tide. Our experience of the great coal, iron and hardware industries of this country and of the Continent of Europe, already affords indication of improvement in these important staples. Employment more general, and trade is brisker than at any period during the past two years, while the growing intelligence and com plete trade organizations of the work peo ple lead us to think that the profits of an improved trade will be more largely shar ed by the great consuming class than to any former period. To summarise: With an early crop of cotton in America, equal to or a little in excess of last year's, we look for free re ceipts, free shipments, and a gradual de cline in prices in the fore part of the sea son; later on we look for increased arrivals from Egypt and Brazil, and fully average shipments from Bombay. On the other hand, we look for considerable improve ment in legitimate demand, which will probably save us .alike from ruinous de pression and demoralizing excitement. The average price of the year, we think, will leave a good, or perhaps even a hapd some profit to the cotton planter, and will stimulate him to increased exertions in years to come. Kobt. Lockhart & Dempster. P. S.—October 3.—Since the above went to press, very unfavorable accounts of the weather in the Southern States, and conse quent damage to the crops, have come to hand. The immediate result has been an advance of nearly id per lb in prices yes terday and to-day. Should these unfavor able accounts continue, they will furnish additional reason why very low prices should not be expected this year. University High School.—The pub lic will be gratified to learn that the University High School, attached to Franklin University at Athens, is now in a flourishing condition. The list of students numbers one hundred and sixteen. Up ward of thirty counties in our State are represented in this institution, besides these there are representatives from four other Southern States. The exercises of the fall term of this in stitution have commenced with the most S flattering prospects. Chancellor Lipscomb j of the University, devotes two afternoons i of each week to the pupils of the High I School. One to religious services, the j other to familiar lectures on the art of Thinking as adapted to students, and to i kindred topics. These lectures are so simplihed and illustrated as to be easily comprehended by the youngest pupil. The students are delighted and fully ap preciate the fact, that they enjoy privileges allotted to but few of our schools. The CARi'Er-BAOOER.-The influx of car pet-baggers has become so great in Wash ington city, that to protect themselves, the City Passenger Railway Companies have been compelled to charge, five cents per bag.— Fact !— Green Goggles. OUR NEW I ORK CORRESPOXDKJfCE. The Change o.f Front Fiasco—lt has three Chapters—First, Chase vs. Seymour- Second, Adams for Vice President- Third, That Bad Boy Blair—Money at the Bottom of the Row—The Northern Capitalists ’ Platform—Live debts die South—Grant's Election is not Peace- Democracy must Squelch Fossil Leaders —Crucify a Carpet-bagger by Carpet-lag Law—The Southern Press-Episcopal Convention—Bishop Beck-icith—Sport on Gold — Markets. New York, October 22, ISGS. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel ; It will doubtless interest you to have an account of the late movements of the World, from its inception up to date. Some few days prior to the election in Penn sylvania, Indiana and Ohio it is stated that a proposition was made by some original Chase men in this city to the Enquirer managers in Cincinnati and the backers of the Washington National Intelligencer to bring a concerted pressure to "bear upon the Democratic party in favor of the with drawal of Seymour and the substitution in his stead of Chase. At this time the mat ter of the Vice Presidency was not put into definite shape, since the result in Indiana and Pennsylvania was not deemed certain to be adverse to the Democracy even by the best informed politicians, but, as the probabilities were thought to be against us so much of a plan as contemplate and a move against Seymour in the event of defeat was agreed on. The defeat came. The World opened the ball. The Enquirer and In' telligencer put out feelers en suite. The fierce cry that came up from the Dem ocratic masses dealt a staggering blow at the further pursuance of the original plan. It had been thought that at the first stin^ of defeat the party - would be so depressed as to bo ready to take Chase in hopes to win. Instead of that the fierce Democ racy sent forth such a shout of defiance as showed they still merited their ancient name of the Untcrrified. Every utterance on the subject of the proposition to change front was instantly telegraphed hero. The unanimous voice of tho West, the all but unanimous voice of the South—for lam sorry (o say that the Democratic Commit tee of South Carolina and Georgia sent up sneaking little notes of alarm—was for a renewed contest and undiminished fire. This uproar hroke iuto the movement. The Enquirer subsided, the Intelligencer gentlyslided back to the old stand, and then in the next plan of the World, came the second chapter. It was all of a sudden discovered that Chase was “no good,” that Seymour, after all, was the best can didate but that it was the second on the ticket, Frank Blair, that was doing all the harm. 2ofo r e this con clusion was arrived at 1 may say that Seymour was sounded and refused to withdraw, except at the HSigjstakeable voice of the party. Blair said ditto, Chaso had been approached and found willing. John Quincy Adams, who had heard a little bird whisper in his oars to come back, while ho was down among you naughty rebels telling you to be good boys and koep your faces clean, had arrived in this city, and, like Barkis, was also willin,’ the idea being that ho wa3 to take Frank’s placfe. What was to be done ? Two full tickets, one actual and one proposed, were on the hands of the promoters of the move. Evidently anew ticket, on the principle of the great English drink, ‘arf and ‘arf, half old and half new, must be made up out of the two. Overboard went Chase, therefore. Seymour was found to bo fixed, and the effort subsided, as a good way to got out of the dilemma, into an at tempt to eliminate Blair. The second stage °f the manoeuvre was a dead set at him. l>ut Junkie was a bad boy and wouldn’t get off, consequently that good boy, Johnnie, couldn’t get on. No en treaty, argument, or persuasion could work the change. Then came Chapter three. Seymour must take the stump. The first idea was that be was to speak in this city, to help Hoffman, the Mayor, wfio is now the Democratic candidate for Governor. But, as though fate had de termined to. spite the cbango-Qr-frontors at every turn, Seymour wouldn’t speak here, but determined, if he spoke at all, to speak where he could do the most good for the Presidential canvass, and not for a mere Goveynprihip. Before this letter roaches you you will have his first address. The best results arc hoped for from his elo quence, and as the North is very nearly divided, it is by no means impossible that bis luminous oppositions of the real issue may win the day. But there yet remains to say something as to the motive prompting the \eitc fiasco. According to one account heavy sums were staged oq Seymour, and the proposition to remove him was made in order to save the betters from loss, as would have been the case, by the substitution of another candidate. This is but puerile, how ever. And their account is that the move prompted by a desire to beat Grant at all hazards, and if a straight out Democrat could not be elect ed to got Chase. Os this every one is at liberty to believe as much us ho desires. The third explanation is that the bond holding interest did the work ; that the Rothschilds arc at the bottom of it; that it was seen by the olosenoss of the voto that a very little thing might give Seymour the election after all, and that, at all hazards, a panic must be produced among his sup porters- Still, a fourth account is that it was all an advertising dodge of the World's, a means of being talked about, and brought nrominently into notice as the basis of future business operations. Something of this may bo true, but, on the whole, I am very near satisfied that the bond theory is correct. The moneyed men of the North are fighting for the debt, and on that issue they hang together with a tenacity that is beyond comparison. Save the debt and the South might sink into the bowels of the earth, and each trace of constitutional liberty sink with her, for all that they would care. A sentence that fell by chance under my eye, some time since, tells the whole story of the canvass in its Northern point of view—that, to subserve their interests, the capitalists of the United Btates are seeking “to ease the country down into the ruts of despotism. ’ ’ I beg you to believe that this is the exact truth. If we are beaten it will be by money. The masses of the North are restive under the debt. Unit of them are stung into temporary j oblivion qf thip burden by the furious cry 1 of rebel j rebel ! rebel! Andersonville ! Belle Lie! Fort Sumter! slavery! Wilkes Booth ! and so on. The other half are persecuted by every appliance .that unlim ited capital has in the armory ’of oppres sion or seduction. Same times, as I note the workings of this mighty engine, I am tempted to wonder that any of the sons of toil are found to vote the Democratic tick et, and have thought that not sufficient credit was given them for so persistent an ad herence to the Constitution as they exhibit. It may be well imagined that if Grant is elected his election will decide nothing. The vote will be too close to carry any moral weight with it, and then there will be so powerful a body of Democratic mem bers in the House as will put a severe curb on Radical malevolence. The fight will have to be fought oyer again, and the first step is to re-organize the leader ship of the Democratic party. In the party itself is to be found the majority of lawful voters of the United States, and all that is needed to secure Its first ascendancy to this power is sagacious and reliable generalship. The canvass is to be pressed with re newed vigor. To hack up Seymour in his tour the Committee is putting every politi cal appliance into operation with an energy that, had it been resorted to earlier, would have given us substantial victory to day. Still, even now, there is a chance. I heard an impenitent “rebel” sum up the Southern situation very quaintly the other day by saying : “The egg is too bad to | spoil; kill the carpet-baggers.” Time enough for that. “Let us have peace” from now till election at least. I speak from headquarters when saying a most desperate effort is now making by the Northern Democracy. A little intermit tence in the pleasing pursuit of obliterating the trooly loil would be of immense ser vice by way of helping the good work on. A word to the wise is sufficient, and it is necessary to say no more. One thing could be done, however, that, if done de cently and in order, would have a whole some effect. Under the Jay-bird Consti tution of Georgia, there are doubtless I laws against vagrancy, embodying the ; general idea that those without means of 1 honest livelihood are subject to arrest and i punishment. Some of those scoundrels who now infest the South as journeyincn | law-makers have no visible means of sup i port. Most of ’em are in Government | employ, as Bureau officials, Revenue i men, or otherwise, but it would not be 1 hard to find some who are not thus pro tected, and against such it would be a good idea to put the vagrant laws in force. Once arrest one of these fellows, try, convict, and punish him as a vagrant, strictly according to carpet-bag law, and the effect North would be very NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVII. NO. 44. fine. The suggestion is respectfully com mended. No violence, mind, not so much as a trooly loii hair must be touched, but merely treat a carpet-bagger to a dose of carpet-bag law. If he should be one of bett° reW Wb ° made tllC law so mucll tlio Tho tone of the Southern press in the late_ political imbroglio is worthy of ali praise. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, and so in days of dark ness and trouble the true spirit of liberty ! is seen. With scarcely an exception the ! papers of the South have displayed in their leading editorials of late a good sense, ! high spirit, and unabated devotion to con- i stitutional principles that go beyond my ' power to commend. Long may it be that in this wwi-ridden land there yet remains 1 a press “unawed by influence and unbribeii by gain. . Tl \ e Episcopal Convention is still in ses sion here, but las done little of gener il interest save to virtually re-affirm the ! sentence of the ecclesiastical court of hi- i diocese against the Rev. Mr, Tvng bv ■, vote of 99 to 92. ’ jng ' Dy J , £ hc . n^ xt . General Convention is to be held in Baltimore, in 1871, the sessions being triennial. Last Sunday Bishon Beckwith, of tbie diocese of Georgia preached in the Church of the Holy S a ’ viour from Ephesians 11. 12. At the con clusion of his remarks, a collection was taken up in behait of tho Georgia Female Orphan Asylum, the receipts bein- over $2,000. The Episcopalians have been quite liberal, it is understood, in their do nations to Southern charitable institutions and the revelations made by some of the Southern members at the Convention of the manner in which “God’s people” de stroyed Churches during the war have at tracted considerabl 3 attention. A singular occtirrence in tho financial world lends force to the not unfrequent statement that there is something rotten in the monetary Denmark. A Wall street firm drew a chock for s‘>is. °°p in gold on one of the most substantial banks, as was thought, in this city. On presentation, the bank officers said it wasn t good. One of the members ot the farm then went to the bank, said it was good, and they would certify it. On this the truth came out. The bank did not have that much gold, nor could it com mand it. _ Ihe matter was finally settled by $168,000 in speeie then, and the balance s£>o,ooo, thereafter. There has been much talk over the circumstance. Anoth er thing to be noted is that nobody knows how much the debt is. Only the recorded debt is given in the monthly statements and some say there are at least $4 000 1 000,000 of outstanding liabilities,’ war claims, eta Cut this down one-half and it is awful; cut it down eyen seventy-five per cent, and yet it is dreadful to think of su sh an accession to tho present load Markets generally are at sea. The ex port of cotton frenp January Ito date as oorn payed with like period last year, ’has fallen off over 130,000 bales. Cotton de mands here is less active. In petroleum ( and coffee somebody seems bent on a “corner,” 81,000 mats of Java, all in the country, going to a Boston firm, and one transaction ir> petroleum swallowing up 8,000,000 gollons. Tyrone Powers. [COMMUNICATED.] Proclamation No. 1, Whereas in the new Codo of Georgia, which became the Laws of Georgia Jan uary 1, 1868, are to be found the following provisions: “ There must be three Super intendents and one must be either a Jus tice of the Inferior Court or a Justice of the Peace, except in a certain contingency hereinafter to be set forth.” “Such elec tions shall be held at the Court Houses of the respective counties and at the several election precincts of the ociuuties.” “If by 10 A. M. on the day of election there is no proper officer present to hold the election or there is one and he refuses, three free holders may superintend the election.” “ There shall be kept by the Superintend ents or by three clerks under their ap pointment, three lists of voters.” “The Superintendents to consolidate the vote of the county must consist of ail those who officiated at the oounty site or a majority of them, &c.” “The Sheriff shall attend at the place of holding an election at the county site.” See Irwin’s Coda, Sections 1,309, 1,312, 1.314, 1,315, 397. Where as also, in the Constitution of 1865 is an express provision adopting and confirming all of said provisions. Whereas, also, the Bogus Convention which met at Atlanta in 1868 did in its Constitution confirm said provisions. Whereas no Legislative body since said provisions WOTG adopted has modified or repealed the same. Whereas the plain meaning of these different pro visions has been confirmed by constant usage, and only three Superintendents at the Court House iu each oounty have ever held any election and only one place of voting has ever been allowed. Whereas the laws of the land as found in the Code must regulate the place and manner of holding elections and not the proclama tion of a real or bogus Governor. Whereas the Proclamation of one Rufus B« Bullock, the bogus Governor of the State of Georgia, in direct violation of the provis ions of said Code, actually requires that there shall be nine Superintendents to hold the election at the Court House, and three different places at the Court House for carrying on the election. Whereas, the plain object of said bogus Governor in his_ illegal and foolish Proclamation is to vitiate the next election, so that the vote of Georgia shall not be counted. Whereas, said Bullock, bogus Governor aforesaid, has by this and other Proclamations shown a contempt of the laws of the State, and is by his various empty and silly proclamations binding nobody , aping the proceedings and conduct of the military satraps who have heen ruling this State. These are, there fore, to warn and notify all the officers of the State, and all who may take part in holding the next election to disregard the aforesaid foolish and illegal Proclamation of said Bullock, respeoting the place and mode of holding the election, and faithful ly to obey and execute the provisions of the Code above set forth and prove them selves good and law-abiding citizens worthy of the State of Georgia. “Constitution and Law” . Governing the State of Georgia. October 24th, 1868. The Surratt Case.— Perhaps the darkest crime against the moral sense of the people and the Constitution of the country which the Radical party in power has committed since the beginning of its reign, wa* the conviction upon false evi dence and the hanging of Mrs. Surratt. The judicial, nay the injudicious, murder of that woman by a military court, put a blot, ineradicable and shameful, on a page of our national annals which ought to have been illuminated by the record of a noble Justice, done to one of the most slandered and unfortunate of human creatures by a great-hearted government in a passionate time. What manner of example was this for a government to set which existed to represent the magnanimity as well as to guide the fortunes of the nation? What kind of a Party was that which hounded on the government it and an assassin had dftated, to allow the Constitution to be overridden by martial law, the judicial ermine to be superseded by shoulder straps, and a Woman—symbol among Christians of something sacred and reserved for mercy and from hangmen—to be_ strung up at the end of a rope in satisfaction of a vengeful popular lust. That this base, brutal thing was done before the blood-shot eyes of an excited people, their children and children’s children will read, and know that Mrs. Surratt was as i.nnooont of the crime of which she was accused as an in fant in the womb. Evidence is piling up to prove her innocence, and to show by what art she was “convicted.” A corre spondent furnishes us with some statements which throw additional light upon this matter to-day. The truth at last will be found to lie what the World asserted at the time—that the military commission which pretended to try Mrs, Surratt, and condemned her to a death which was an insuit from the republic’s high piaoes to every woman in it, was beat from the first on murdering her, willy nitty, guilty or not guilty, because she, in tho language of that most crazy-headed of Judge-Advocates, Judge Bingham, was a “d —and rebel! ’ — World. Had Her There.— An old, deformed negro woman was passing along Fourth street,yesterday afternoon. A fashionable Miss,troubled considerably with the “Gre cian bend,’’turnedaround and looked after the poor old, negro woman, and was rath er disposed to make fun of her deformity. The old negro woman stopped and looked at her a minute or two, and very truthfully remarked : “Lor, Miss, you needn’t be pokin’ fun at me, kase the Lor’ a’ mighty nose vou’se a bigger curiosity to look at dan I is.” The young lady “humped” herself. —Louisville Journal. The mill owners of Fall River, Massa chusetts, have decided to return to the eleven hour system, after having tried the ten hour plan. Mr. Fawcett, of Chicago, owner of the stallion Bashaw, Jr., has authorized his Eastern agent to challenge any stallion on the continent to a race for from $5,0(J0 to SIO,OOO aside. OUK TKAYKLLINti CORRESPONDENT. ! , On the Wing, October 23, 1868. . Editors Chronicle dc Sentinel: ■ | I cannot give all the incidents in my travels, and must be limited in the number and length of my contributions, least I may weary your readers. Quite a number | took the train at Union Point, mostly | bound for the court at Lexington. The ; I’ulpit, and the Press, the Bench and Bar, i the widows and orphans (through insur j anceageuts) were all represented on hoard, | and soon comfortably quartered at the 1 quiet little town of Lexington. I stopped with our Irieud Lowe, who by the way ! knows how to keep a good hotel. Pleas : ant and polite in his manners, devoted to i the comfort of his guests, rich and bounti tul in his supplies for the inner man, and no pains spared upon the outer —all seem j Pleased, and left abundantly satisfied. I The court opened for business on Tuesday i tuonnng, Judge Andrews presiding, i Messrs. Dili, Toombs, Stephens, Pottle ! and several other distinguished gentlemen ot the bar were present. In the charge of his Honor to the Grand Jury there were one or two facts worthy of note. . stated that in the propor tion of murders were about four to the million of inhabitants. In Rome about the same, and in other enlightened govern ments of Europe there was no material variation from these figures. But how was it in Georgia ? In Georgia the pro portion was about four or five hundred to the million. What an alarming state of society! This violence and bloodshed must oo arrested, by a rigid enforcement of law, or we are ruined. I fear the declarations of the J udge arc too true, and without a rcibrmation univer sal insecurity to life and property will ex ist, and the history of lawless Mexico will be repeated in this country. • tru "l l kore is more of virtue and intelligence in Georgia than Mexico ever dreamed of, and ail we want is that it should be brought into requisition in the vindication of law. So long as the enforce ment of fundamental laws, vital in the security of life, and the good of society, is entrusted to men who are in sympathy with crime, and who have to sliuilio them selves to keep out of the Penitentiary, so long will perversions and evasions of justice with violence and bloodshed, prevail. To my mind it is an incongruity the most ab surd, that it takes the wisest men in the State to make laws, and the most ignorant and trifling are chosen to enforee them. If i mistake not, the last Legislature made a Seep in the right direction, by passing an act providing that jurors for tho trial of criminal cases should be selected from the most intelligent and law-abiding citizens. Let this he done, and then will the law be made a terror to evil doers, and its atro cious violations begin to abate. It may be said, to the credit of Ogle thorpe county, that there was not a crimi nal case on docket, The people seem to be at peace among themselves, and houest iy laboring to repair their broken fortunes, and restore prosperity and happiness to the country. Traveller. JOUN QUINCY ADAMS AT HOME. SPEECH AT WEYMOUTH. He ReviewslL's Southern Visit—AGraph ic Vindication of the Rights of South erners—A Sound Summum Bonum— * ‘‘Let Ijs Be Friends. ’ ’ Weymouth, Oct. 22, 1868.—The' Pres ident amid the most vociferous cheering, introduced Mr. John Quincy Adams, who spoko as follows : SPEECH OP MR. ADAMS. Mr. President, my Friends and Neighrors : You must not expect me to make a speech, for I have none to make— —in fact I have got none made—but as I look around me and sec many friendly and familar faces, it occurs to mo that after all I should like to say a few words in an off hand and friendly way as one neighbor talks to another about the experience I have had in the course of the last two or three weeks. As you all know I have made a little trip to the South during that time. I wished to see what a reconstructed I 'late was, and I went to South Carolina for that purpose. I have come back with this conviction, though I do not know how the other conservative citizens of the Union may feel about it. I never intend to stop, to relax for one moment in the heartiest, most earnest and most honest efforts I can make to remove all such “blessings” as reconstruction from the necks of every one of my fellow-citizens. (Loud applause.) The issue in this cam paign to me is simply this and nothing more. Reconstruction, as you know, is the Radical Constitution. It is the only Constitution now in ten States of the Union, and what is it? It is simply this— the rule of the military and nothing else. In order that it may not jar too much upon the nerves of a Republican people to see eight millions of their fellow-citizens held down by the bayonet, they have brought in a great mass of three or four mil lions of poor, ignorant, degraded black mon, and set them up in a row, as it wero, across the Southern States, and because they thinx you cannot see tho bayonet be hind them, they say, ‘ That is a republican form of government.” How republican? What is this republican form of govern ment? Why look at the condition of those States. Suppose that almost all the voters in this Commonwealth should sud denly be deprived of the franchise and in their place it was bestowed upon a set of men who were entirely ignorant of the value and responsibility of the voting power, who knew nothing about any of the prin ciples in regard to which they were voting. Suppose such a class of men were to be put over you, of course you would not like it; you would feel uncomfortable and dis agree, and you would not suffer their rule if you could help it. Yet this is precisely the condition in which South Caroliua is to-day. She is governed by a set of men who, it the people were left to themselves, would have no more chance of holding the offioes of your gqyernment they now hold ! than I should of being elected King of | Great Britain in place of Queen Victoria, j if I were to go to England to-morrow. (Laughter.) And these officials having no I hold upon the esteem of the people, as i they call them down there in their expres ; aive, t though slightly inelegant language, | “scalawags” and “carpet-baggers” can | not command any of their respect and con fidence. The consequence of this is that they have to be supported in their places by the bayonets of the United States I soldiers.. And as there are not United t States soldiers enough at tho South to keep the people entirely “contented,” nor enough to make the government thorough ly “Democratic,” so every day or two they are calling for more soldiers in order to support those thoroughly “Democratic” and “Republican’’ governments, and j that is reconstruction ! My Southern | Democratic friends down there greeted me j in a way which I shall never forget to my | dyiug day. The kindness, the warmth, tho consideration, the order which they showed in welcoming any Northerner, especially from Massachusetts, who would go down there and say to them a kind word—who would not treat them like boys, and call them rebels, traitors, mis erable rascals or villians—went torny heart. They asked me to say to my fellow citizens at the North that they fought you in the war, they believed that they were riglit; that they fought you as hard as they Gould; and when the war was done they frankly abandoned what they had fought i'or. They said we had whipped them ; we had con quered what we demanded during the war, and they were ready to give it up. They would fight no longer, and all they asked was friendship and kindness. What they deserved from us at the North was mercy, the hand of kindness, good fellowship and brotherly love. (Loud applause.) They want no more contest, no more bloodshed they want merely to shake hands, saying— we fought, and now the fight is done let'us be friends. That is thefeeling of the mass of the whole people I met at the South. I saw no unkindness, no sort of feeling ra dicating unkindness toward any of the people ot the North. That they i liay be treated in decency and kindness they do ask, and that is what I pray of every one of you to labor for. (Applause.) It is the thing, it seems to xsxe* that we need here at the North as much as they need it at the South. AH that they ask and all that the Democratic party at the North seek to accomplish is that we maybe al lowed to come together once more in peace and amity, that this incubus of Reconstruc tion may be taken off the people ; that these soldiors may be taken away from be tween us, and that we—all of us—oueo more may feel—North as well as South, white man as well as black man—the benefits of a union under the old system of govern - inent. The Jesuits. —We have a strong sym- P, a . th , y , for , the Jesuits. Every rascal thinks he has a diviae right to seize their pile, and will be doing a work of piety to Southerners, they are political Pariahs and outcasts. The world is against them. Wo have an idea that the Jesuits were about the only decent, well-behaved people m Spain, but King Prim has got their money, as many a ras cal has taken it before. —Macon Telegraph:
