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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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lIENIO MOORE,
A. It. WHIGHT.
H\TKI('K WAI.MII. Associate Editor.
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Emigration.
We give place to i letter from a well
known Georgian, now a resident of Balti
more, on the subject of Emigration. The
letter will well repay attentive perusal. It
is upon a subject which should engage the
attention ot our citizens as well as the
Legislature, and is the more reliable be
cause the views are the result of investi
gation, arising from personal interest as a
land owner in the State, although the au
thor is now a citizen of Maryland. The
letter was not intended for publication, but
arose in a private correspondence with one
of the Editors of this journal, and wo crave !
the author’s indulgence for the liberty we I
have taken, in our desire to subserve pub" j
lie interests.
Tiie Old Lady’s .New Error.—Old
Lady Bard, of the Atlanta New Error,
makes another new error. It isn’t fair to
throw all the responsibilities of a journal
on to one of its conductor; and if the old
lady doesn’t quit his errors in this regard,
out of this department he will be barred.
Butter Store.—Messrs. Titrnan &
Whitlock have opened a store at the cor
ner of Ellis and Campbell streets, where
they offer for sale a tine stock of Goshen
butter, and factory cheese, allow prices to
uit the trade. Givo them a call and gel.
a supply. _
Amende Houokaiile.—We bog leave
to make riie proper amende to our cotem
porary of the Madison Auditor for a false
charge made against that journal a lew
days since, and assure him that at the
time we fully believed tho truth of what
wi wrote. Convinced now of our error
we “take it all hack.”
Sellinu Off. —Mr. W. 0 Jones is of
fering his splendid stock of Dry Goods at
considerably less than cost. Here is an
opportunity of getting the very best bar
gains in tho way of fancy and staple dry
goods, and we advise our lady readers to
avail thorn selves of it, ami go to tho polls
early; uo, we mean to Mr. Jones' store,
early, an his offer will not continue in force
long.
The Election ok Tuesday.—We read
in the Chronicle if Sentinel that we must
vote early, vote late, rote all day, keep a
voting, vote for Seymour and Blair, the
people's candidates, the Democratic leaders,
who were to deliver the country from its
evils ami restore the AmericanEagle to its
lofty position, and the American Uonstitu
ton to its pristine purity. We read, we
pondered, wo reflected. We went to the
polls early, but we didn’t vote as early as
we expected, fifteen thousand people— j
to ire or less -had also read the Chronicle I
<V Sentinel, and went there to vote early. |
They got t here before wo did. They must |
have set up all night. (Our printers did,
we know.) They were there at the polls in j
plat nous, sections, companies, battalions, |
regiments, brigades, divisions, and army \
corps—the hoys in gray, the boys in blue,
and die black hoys—all united on the broad ;
platform (that is, the Monument street j
crossing) of political equality and manhood
suffrage,or suffering,to speak more correct
ly. Wo got in the crowd. The Chronielc
& Sentinel had told them not to crowd us
at tho polls; hut they forgot that part of it.
They crowded us; and we began to think
that there would bo another rase of Sir
John Franklin, lost at the North Pole.
Wo couldn’t hardly find ourself at one
time ; though wo thought that somebody
ought to be fiuod for creating such a pres
sure on an unhappy Seymour and Blair
voter. We wished that“J. N.-thoimuiortal
J.N.”—were there to “lift tho pressure
hut our risk was vain; J. N. came not
again. And so the pressure continued,
witli an occasional run, but no panic. Eel
lows tried all sortsof dodgos tododge in,hut
there were no artful dodgers artful enough
to run the blockado. They cried out:
“mako way for a sick man.” But as every
man was bogiuitig to feel sick, with “hope
deferred,” there was no telling also
that particular individual was. Then they
hallooed out that some man was killed.
We thought ut ouo time that it was us ;
hut were very happy to find it was not.
Finding tho movement too slow, we
thought that, if we could not see more
(positively the last appearance but three
of this capital goak !) wo could, at least,
mend our gait, so we changed front, by an
csohelon movement to the right, and got
close to the iron gate. Our gait was not
meuded much, but the iron gato,we found,
also needed me tiding much. (Aud here,
par jniranthes —that’s French for adding
a few words in brackets, we also observe
that our liiend I’at Sharkey has returned
iu.-a in time to get the job, we hope.) This
position we held for several hours,apparent
ly against thousands, standing there like
Thermopylae at the Pass of Leonidas,
determined to vote for Seymour and Blair,
or perish in the insane at tempt. At length,
when our breakfast was broken into several
fragments, our inwards jam and our bones
jelly, Heaven preserve us! we said,
and made a charge. Little man that we
are, reader, our situation was frightful in
tho extreme. Every one of Seymour and
Blair’s voters, aud half of Grant and Pole
cat's Badical scalawags were against us!
What had we done to turn them against
us? Wc did not know. We stuck to our
post, the granite post by the gate—the
iron seemed piercing our soul —one leg was
transformi and into a crossbow with an iron
rail for a shaft, while our elbow was bent
enough to put a brick in the soberest
man’s hat. We were actually a “member
of the press!” We eou'do't stand it. We
protested against it, but all in vain. We
made a desperate charge, and tearing our
selt away from the crowd of anxious suffer
ers, we f< Hid ourself in the embrace of
Bill King and sixteen other Deputy
Sheriffs, all clasping us around the neck
aud body at the same time, with such
affection as one seldom sees in a Deputy
Sheriff, except when he has the pleasant
task of p iling a rope around a criminal's
neck. Wc returned the embrace as
cheerfully and nff ■ctionately as we could,
and, with a .! >aerate effort, “swing
ing around the circle,” we reached !
a place of safety—a place of air—heir ap- |
parent to the ballot-box, though with a
hair breadth’s escape from the rude con
flict through which we had passed. We j
got to the haven of hope, and deposited •
our little paper for the Nation’s choice— i
Seymour aud Blair, 987 strong ! Then. ;
the victory achieved, we stopped to count
up our losses. They were as follows:
Killed, 0 ; wounded, 6 ; fainted 4 ; mi s
ing, 0; scared half to death, 25 ; crushed
in body, but not in spirit, 75; bats smash
ed, 12; amount of corn ground by per
sistent millers, 7 bushels; bones broken or
out of joint, 56.
After a careful survey of tho field, wo
think that we are entitled to an office for
our patriotism, no matter who’s elected.
We did our duty—we tried to vote early,
to vote late, to vote all day— we suoceeded
in voting for Seymour and Blair.
Our experience was tLe experience of
hundreds. That's our excuse for giviug it.
Tub Riot on Tuesday.—Up toa o’clock
p. in. Tuesday everything seemed to be
progressing quietly and peaceably at the
polls in this city, with the exception of one
ior two personal disputes, which were
stopped without any serious trouble. In
j most of these the Military Mayor, who
was said to be intoxicated, was a prominent
actor.
About 3 o’clock p. m. a Radical negro
named Daniel, who was formerly employed
about this office, made some insulting re
marks to a gentleman who was standing
by the Greene street gate of the City Hall.
The latter replied to him, whereupon
Daniel drew his pistol; At the same time the
white man drew his, and fired at the negro,
who dodged theshot, and ran for his life.
This excited the crowd, some of whom
drew their pistols and commenced firing.
A mulatto named Carroll Dent, who was
endeavoring to get away from the fracas,
was shot in the back and killed. Two
other negroes and one white man were
slightly wounded. The excitement now
became intense, an l a bloody riot ap
peared imminent.
Major St. Ongc, in command of the
Federal troops, here came out into
Greene street and drew hi.-, men up in line,
ready for action. Several prominent citi
zens were soon in consultation with him,
and by their united efforts quiet was re
stored. Guards were then stationed
around the polls,and the excitement seem
ed about to subside, when Mr. Albert G.
Ruffin, the Radical Sheriff, went to arrest a
young man for carrying concealed weapons.
He called upon the military to make the
arrest, hut tb y refused, as it was not in
their province. The Sheriff then under
took to make tho arrest, which created
another excitement, in the course of which
a pistol was fired, and Mr. Ruffin was oh
served to turn very pale. Dr. Hearing
went up to him arid commenced to ex
amine him, Ruffin saying not a word. In
a few seconds, he fell hack and. with a few
gasps, expired. It was found, then, that
he had received a wound in the back from
a pistol shot, fired by an unknown person,
which caused his death.
After this, better counsels prevailed,
und the crowd retired from the polls.
Several of our citizens volunteered their
services to Maj. St. Onge, who accepted
them, and disposed of them us patrols
with his troops.
The whole affair was unfortunate, as,
with a little discretion and forbearance, it
might have been preveuted.
Sheriff Iluffiu had acted very fairly in
the morning in the appointment of Judges,
Challengers, and Deputy Sheriffs; but he
was incompetent for the position which he
held, and in his uncalled for interference
with white citizens, and the over zealous
discharge of his duty, lost his life.
The conduct of the Mayor, it is said, had
already excited the people, and prepared
them for the disturbance which subse
quently occurred.
We, in common with all good citizens,
regret this occurrence, as in the early part
of the day everything was progressing so
quietly, and there was no cause for the
killiug of tho unfortunate men who lost
heir lives. While giving praise to Maj.
St. Ongc and the troops under his com
mand, we must deplore ihc troubles
which rendered the presence of armed men
at the polls necessary.
Financial Reconstruction.
Our Western exchanges are loud in
their complaints of “ want of currency”
and the consequent depression in the mar- j
ketsof the farmer’s produce and the gen- !
oral depression of trade. This “complaint” I
has prevailed so 1 ng at the South as to
become chronic. The West grumbles be- >
cause it ha.,,. „ u _ ..
cent, per aunum for money; when the i
ruling price in New York is six per cent, i
We of the South have learned to treat
twenty-four per cent, as “customary”—
whenever currency can bo obtained. But
we are learning how to treat thecomplaint.
Our farmers have been taught, by bitter
experience, to keep out of debt and are
becoming experts in barter; the conse
quence is that they are not dis
turbed by " financial panics ” and
“money crises,” and insignificant taxable
incomes. The Southern farmer who has
weathered tho financial “cyclones” which
have swept over this section for tho past
three years, is not disturbed by a New
York stock panic. He owes nothing. lie
I is not compelled to sell his cottou at an
| “artificial stock panic” price, and is prac
tising a rigid economy, which we are sure
j will now command the commendation of
j our Northern friends as frankly as their
i prodigality in former years elicited con
i damnation.
The New Yoik Herald speculates upon
the causes of tho late panic, and reviews the
“policy of the Secretary of the Treasury,
as endorsed by Congress,” a policy it asserts
to have originated with a “Boston clique”
of “five percent, brotherhood.” We are
not curious as to “the causes” of the panic
or tbo characteristics of the “policy.’ ,
But wc chronicle, for the benefit of the
Herald aud all who are disposed to extend
their researches, some of the effects of the
“present policy” in this section.
The agricultural class, free from debt, |
seeing a financial panic in the great money
market of the country, at a time when the
volume of currency is greater than ever
before in the history of the country, prefer
a currency which isindepeudeut of all Gov
ernments, and is recognized by all nations.
Farmiug operations are curtailed —not ex
tended—because the farmers cannot obtain
currency except at extravagant rates of
interest, and fear the hazard of a debt
contracted in a fluctuating currency, which
can be so easily manipulated. Wheat, !
corn, cotton are permitted to remain in :
the storehouse until the price tempts or
an imperative want demands its sale.
Farmers do not travel, deny themselves of j
many of those articles that heretofore have
been considered necessaries. We have |
never seen among the farmers of this sec
tion such rigid economy, such persistent
determination to supply their wants
from that which is produced or fabricated
upon the farm itself.
The “expansion,” or “contraction”
| policy which the Herald discusses is likely
to be the prominent issue in the Con
gress which has just been elected. We
reprint, therefore, for the benefit of our
! readers, a portion of the Herald's article,
! as reflecting a large mass of the people
1 of the North belonging to both political
! parties :
“Tbe contraction policy which Secretary
MeOuUooh inaugurated in 1-05, and which
has ever since been sustained by Congress,
maugre a little buncombe to the contrary, :
lias been the real primary cause of all our
financial troubles, particularly the great
Wall-street lock-up. The JHouse of Rep
resentatives, on the ISthday of December,
1865, passed a resolution endorsing the
Saugradoian policy of our financial Dr.
McCulloch by the decisive vote of 144 to 6;
absent and not voting 32. Ever since that
dale both Houses of Congress have, with a
persistency worthy of a better cause, fully
sustained hint iu every measure recom
mended. Clearly recognizings circulat
ing medium as the lifeblood of the na
tion, aud as Dr. Sangrado attempted to
n store his patients by withdrawing their
lifeblood, so our financial Son grades in
the Treasury Department and Congress
have for the past three years attempted
the extraordinary task of financial recoil- i
struction by withdrawing from the chan
nels of trade that circulation which is ab
solutely necessary to sustain the life of
every business enterprise in the country.
During the last three years es the rebel
j lion money was plenty enough. We had
no panics or lock-ups. There was money
enough afiout in the channels of trade to
! transact the legitimate business of the
i country without too much dependence on
I Wall-street. At the close of the rebellion
1 there was in circulation among twenty
i four million people in the twenty-five
loyal States paper money as follows :
I United States notes (green
'■ backs) $433,100 a69
j fractional currency 26,344,742
! National bank notes 300,06,000
i Compound (convertible into
i greenbacks) 217,024,100
Scrip loan (convertible into
greenbacks) 107*148.713 I
Certificates (convertible in
to green backs)- 85,083,000 !
Treasury five per cent.
(convertible) into green-;
backs) 32,538,901
j Treasury notes past due
(convertible into greeu
i backs) 1,503,020
Bank notes past due (con
vertible into greenbacks) 78,867,575 ,
|
Tout $1,281,678,680 j
This amonntof money, it must be re
i membered, supplied the business require- j
rnents of twenty-five loyal States only,
being at the rate of about fifty-four dollars
(>er head for the population, the Southern
States being at that time entirely without
money. The close of the war extended
the channels o r trade into the elven South
ern States among twelve millions of peo
ple whose only currency- had just thei
been entirely destroyed. Thegoverument
having very properly undertaken to reg
ulate the issue of currency, what, then,
was its duty under the circumstances? It
having bt-on found by years’ experience
that thirteen hundred million dollars cir
culation was not too much for twenty-five
millions of our population, what should
have been done when that population was
suddenly increased by the close of the
I war to thirty-six, and by emigration, <fcc.,
to forty millions ? Surely the conversion
; the Boating debt into greenbacks, in
| stead of gold-bearing bonds, in amount
| sufficient to meet the business require
ments in States just then newly opened to
[ trade was the only proper measure to
! adopt. The opposite course was, however,
marked out by “a Boston cl qu»” and
finally adopted by the government. Dr.
Sangrado McCulloch accordingly in his
report to, and endorsed by tho Thirty
ninth Congress, recommended “A curtail
ment of the currency to the amount re
quired by legitimate and healthful trade.” i
What that “healthful” amount might be 1
our financial Sungrados have not as yet
informed us. Whether it is thirty-five
dollars per head, as in Trance, twenty
eight dollars, as in England, or the per
capita allowance of the United States—
iiity-four dollars in 1865 and twelve dollars
in 1808—they do not deign to say. They
clearly intend to draw- every dollar pos
sible from the channels of trade and brim
all legitimate enterprise as well as illegi- j
timate speculation to the feet of the live !
per cent per month brotherhood.
the Uitia contraction policy having been
at the close ol the rebellion thus sprung i
upon tiie country and adopted without j
discussion or examination, the laws car- i
ryiug it out were readily pushed through. I
The acts authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to call iu and burn up four mil
lion dollars of greenbacks per mouth, to
sell gold for greenbacks and fund short
obligations into bonds at high rate of in
terest instead of greenbacks, are examples
of the class. Some of the most objection
able Lave boon repealed, but the others re
main in force, and the note-shaving policy
of the Government remains unchanged to
this day, as tho great Wall street lock-up
abundantly demonstrates. The real trou
ble is that the country Is now sudering j
from contraction of currency and enor- i
mous taxation. There is now only about i
five hundrrd million dollars iu circula
tion among our forty million people—not
hail as much as in 18135 and not one-fourtli ;
enough to transact the legitimate business !
of the country at the present time, to sav i
nothing of the imperative demands of the .
tax-gatheiers.
Government Reports of tho (Tops
Throughout the Country.
The Department of Agriculture has is
sued reports of tho condition of the crops
in October.
Wheat.— lt says the full promise of tho
early summer has not been realized in
wheat. The increase of area over that of
last year, in its effect upon aggregate pro
duction, is nearly neutralized by small
diminution in some of the principal wheat
growing States, in yield per acre, so that
the increase in total quantity, as shown by
October returns, is scarcely more than three
per cent, and that is obtained maiuly from
the Pacific coast. The averages from Oc
tober appear to show a decrease in pro
duction in Maine, New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and lexas, the latter having only
half a crop. The other States indicate an
increase. In most of those States east of
the Mississippi very slight; in Minnesota
thirteen per cent; lowa six per cent; Mis
souri eight per cent; Nebraska thirteen
per cent; Kansas twenty-three, and Cali
fornia twenty-five ner cent. Many nlaees
mumererfb parts oi tntr oinratrx»- fopcraSfii 8
ly in Maryland and Wisconsin, report a
disappointment in the yield of grain in
threshing.
The amount of old wheat on hand is
somewhat less than usual throughout the
countiy with the exception of the cotton
States which have a higher average than
last year. This remark will not apply to
Texas where the graneries are uniformly
empty. The quantity left over in Wiscon
sin is relatively somewhat lower than iu
tho neighboring States.
Oats.— The oat crop is light in the
Eastern, Middle and Southern Atlantic
States; there is not a full average in
Michigan, Wisconsin and lowa. In the
other States the product is above the
average, the largest increase being 21 per
cent, in Nebraska. In Wisconsin the de
ficiency is 9 per cent.
Corn. —Considerable injury, from frost,
to the corn crop, is reported in Northern
Indiana, Illinois, lowa and the more
northern latitudes. In some portions of
lowa an estimate of two fifths of soft corn
is made. From southern Indiana, south
ern Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsjl
vunia, come complaints of immaturity, in
consequence of wet weather, and few ac
counts of injury from drouth are received.
No general or very severe drought has
been reported. The total product will not
be what was hoped in the early season,
but somewhat larger in quantity than last
year, which was a season peculiarly ad
verse to corn production.
Cotton. —The area of cotton is some- .
what less than last year. Its culture has j
been better, and the preparation for plant- j
ing more complete, and labor more regular
and reliable, as a general rule. Early in
the season the promise was fine. Serious !
losses have of late been incurred, however,
principally frern depredations of the cotton
caterpillar or army worm, which have i
proved more general and severe in Georgia
than elsewhere, very troublesome in por
tions of Alabama and Mississippi, and
somewhat prevalent in the Carolinas and
in Arkansas. Heavy rains in Tennessee
and the Southwest have caused anxiety,
hut done less damage than was expected.
| Returns indicate a smaller erop possibly
by fifteen or twenty per cent, than last
year. But a complete estkiate will not be
made till the crop is ga'hered.
Sugar.— Returns from Louisiana indi
cate an increase of twenty-'wo per cent, in
the sugar cane.
Sorghum. —Sorghum has been more
successful than last year.
Potatoes. —ln Southern New England,
New Jersey, Delaware, the Gulf States
and California, potatoes are reported a full
average crop, with a deficiency of ten per
cent in New York and Pennsylvania;
from three to seven per cent, in the South
ern Atlantic States and Tennessee ; twenty
per ccut. in Illinois; ten per cent, in
lowa ; eleven per cent, in Indiana ; fifteen
per cent in Ohio ; sixteen per cent in
Michigan, and a greater or less reduction
in other Western States.
Beeves. —The stock of beeves in prep
aration for market is larger than last
year, West and South of New Jersey, ex
cept in Indiana and Illinois, which States
constitute an important beef producing
section. The deficiency in Illinois is placed
at two per cent.; in Indiana at five percent
The condition of the fattening cattle is
almost universally of a superior character,
giving promise of better and larger meat
supplies than usual.
Peas, Ac. —Peas and beans will be
nearly an average crop. Buckwheat is
very generally deficient. Connecticut, New
Jersey, Minnesota, California, and some of
the Southern States furnish favorable ex
ceptions.
McCallistku House, Athens, Ga.—
This house, convenient to the depot and
business portion of Athens, offers good ac
commodations to regular or transient cus
tomers. A polite, pleasant and agreeable
family, with ample provision for the com
fort of their guests, we are assured that
those who give them a call will be satis
fied.
AUGUSTA, GA,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER li, 1868
Returns or Richmond County.
AUGUSTA.
City Hall. Repub. Dem. Blank.
Box No. 1 376 1,731 1
“ 2 1,366 13 5
41 1,385 4
Totals 3,128 1,748 6
BEL-AIR*
Seymour and Blair 501
Grant and Colfax 2
Total 506
POOR house.
Seymour and Blair 127
Grant and Colfax
bridge.
Seymour and Blair 195
i Grant and Colfax
TARVER'S.
' Seymour and Blair 179
j Grant and Colfax....
TOTAL VOTE IX COUNTY.
i Grant and Colfax 3,129
j Seymour and Biair 2,753
Radical majority 376
Elections by Yail.
County. Precinct. Dem. ltad.
Warren Warrenton 750 182
Hancock Sparta 558 59
Lincoln Goshen *258 000
Wilkes Washington 587 85
Burke .*5lO 00
Walton Social Circle 191 00
Columbia.... No. Seven 142 00
“ Applmg *2lB 00
“ Raytown *241 00
Warren Adkins and Au-
bern 122 7
Taliaferro... .Crawford ville *169 00
“ Raytown *llß 00
Chatham *2325 00
Emanuel 49th District.... *73 00
Oglcthorpe-Laxingtoa 501 95
Maj rities denoted by an asterisk (*).
NEWTON COUNTY.
Covington—Democratic majority 250.
1,500 votes polled. Conyers—Democratic
majority 400.
DEKALB COUNTY.
Stone Mountain —Democratic vote 248;
Radical vote 27. Decatur—Seymour 3G5;
Grant 145.
TROUP COUNTY.
Hogansville, 2 o’clock Tuesday—Sey
mour 126; Grant 22. Wes; Point—Sey"
mour 2G3; Grant 49.
545 at this precinct.
SUMTER COUNTY.
Americus—About 1,100 votes polled.
Indications strongly Democratic.
DOUGHERTY COUNTY.
Albany—Glorious tidings to the Democ
racy of Pulton; Dougherty largely Demo
cratic.
Latest- —Dougherty redeemed ; 200
Democratic majority.
SPALDING COUNTY.
Griffin, November 3.—Grant 848;
Seymour 736. The county wiil give a ma
jority for Seymour.
Later— Bear Creek precinct gives Sey
mour 160. Grant nothing.
Later. —Notwithstanding a large negro
vote from adjoining counties, Spalding will
give 75 to 100 majority for Seymour and
Blair.
CATOOSA COUNTY.
Ringgold, November 3.— Three pre
cincts give Seymour 249 majority.
MACON COUNTY.
This county gives one hundred majority
for Seymour.
Election in Georgia.
Augusta, November 4, 1868.—Tbe fol
lowing are the official returns received.at
this otlico :
Don. Maj RcvtXb. Maj. .
Moore* 6.-0 TTomas. ..
Sumter 1.011 15i.1v/in.. . |o
Brooks 1,115 K.bb *" ',21
Lowndes . v',9 Qre'rre imd
Decatur 210 K chrnouti ■/*“• 3,6 '
Newton Uoi Putnam. 306
i'ike 78 2*335
Houston .1 f 06
Butter....* 6‘Jl
Whittled. 2 5
r -hb 1,0 1
F.ovd.: ÜBG
Munc (See.’ #0 -
Ofcattahijbchee. K>s I
Unrrb
Uuriou 5 -10 |
ToL'l Dem H4C54 I
Repub 2,285
Democratic maj...11,7c9 |
Forrest Brands Kilpatrick as a Liar and
Poltroon.
Wo take the following letter of General
Forrest from the Memphis Avalanche of
the 29th ;
Memphis, October 28, 1868.
11. K. Shadcle/ord, Esq., New Ilaven,
Connecticut :
Sir: —The false and mendacious repre
sentation of me, made by General Judson
Kilpatrick, of New Haven, on the 20th
instant, to which you call my attention, is
not the first in which he has indulged since
his appearance on the hustings in this can
vass. 1 understand he freely employed
his criminal capacity for ribald invention
in all of the speeches he has made since
his return to this country, and that I have
been the objective point of many of his un
principled and indecent libels. The North
ern masses have been so prone to misun
derstand any appearance that I have made
in the present campaign that 1 have been
content, heretofore, to forego any notice of
General Kilpatrick’s inventions with refer
ence to myself, and to trust that some
future and more auspicious time would af
ford me an opportunity of stripping the
imposter and of exposing him, the base
counterfeit he is, to the contempt of all
just and fair-minded people. My forbear
ance, however, is construed by him as a
license to additional and more slanderous
detraction, and I am constrained to notice
his New Haven speech, as it appeared in
the Register, of October 21, 1868. In that
speech he is reported as saying that '‘For
rest had nailed negroes to fences, set fire to
\ the fencesandburnedths negroes to death.”
I This charge is but the natural offspring
! of Kilpatrick’s common and merited fame
as an unnrincipled and easy liar. It is
; enough for me to say, in which I feel I
will be believed and sustained by every
chivalric officer and soldier of the Federal
army, that what he has said of me in the :
speech referred to is the culmination of j
slanderous falsehood, rendered the more j
odious that it is deliberately forged for es- j
feet upon the unthinkng and too confiding
portion ot the people of the North, whose
votes he intends to steal by such crimi
nal and disreputable invention. All such
reports, whether emanating from this
creature Kilpatrick, or from any one else,
which tend in any way to create the.im
pression that I conducted my humble part
in the war upon any other than the strict
est principles of civilized warfare, are ut
terly untrue, and are the corrupt and
feculent fictions of designing and rascally’
slanderers. I am not prone to obtrude
matters of this kind upon the public no
tice, and would have been glad to have
met Kilpatrick and settled this affair in a
less public and more emphatic manner ;
and if if should happen that this note
should meet fciseye, and he should make
it the provocation of any additional display
of words, any one who may hear him is at
liberty to assure him that I am ready to
meet him in any way that he may choose,
and whilst I am averse to personal conflict
I should much preler to gratify any wish
he may cherish in that way to bemg the
further subject of his unmanly defamation
and unsoldierlike misrepresentation.
I think the public will justify me in
denouncing, as I now do. General Judson
Kilpatrick as a blackguard,_ a liar, a
] scoundrel and poltroon. If he is the heroic
figure he would have the Northern people
believe him, my friend. General Basil W.
Duke, at Louisville, Kentucky, is au
; thorized to receive on my behalf any com
munication he may choose to make.
Respectfully, N. B. Forrest.
Polltcsse.
The New Orleans Picayune gets off the
following upon the conflict of Law Officers
in the Crescent City ;
The present complication of police mat
ters was forcibly illustrated yesterday by
the attempted arrest of an inebriated in
dividual, rejoicing in the name of Charley
Adams,
“You are my prisoner,” said the officer,
gently tapping him on the shoulder.
“Who are you ?” gluttered Charley.
“A policeman, as you can see.
“Metropolitan or city ?”
“Metropolitan.”
“lam sorry to disappoint you. hut I
don’t belong to your party. 1 belong to
the other party.
“That won’t do.
“Why?”
“Because you are my prisoner !
“See here, Mr. Metropolitan, I don’t
belong to your party. S,nd for a city po
! licemao and I'm your man; but I've too
, much regard for my character to be seen
keeping company with a ‘Metropolitan. ”
out NEW TORE CORRESPONDENCE.
j Election of Grout What Can he Do?—
Military Government Better than Nig
! gtr Government The Radicals will
\ *eventually Income. Disgusted Grant
\ Powerless —Congress Supreme—Demo-
I ants will gain in (tie next Congress —
Grant's Eta tesnia n shio and Grammar
| —His haa heart—He will not receive a
| Popular Majority, etc , etc.
* _
New Torr, October 28, 1868.
* Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
j Before this secs print the Presidential I
[ election of IS6B will, doubtless, have been {
j decided, and decided, bs signs now go, in !
J favor of Grant. But what of that*?* Grant j
j isn't the unicer.-a; the sun doesn’t rise j
| and set in him ; the South was full of j
j brave men and beautiful women before he
I was born and will live in glory long after
he is dead and gone. Who is he, this
butcher of the Wilderness, that at the very
mention of his name, men who are now
battling for liberty, should throw down
their arms,- cry -pcceHr, and bow down
their necks like cattle-todhe yoke ? What
can he do mere than’Congress has already
done? But he will proclaim martial law !
Let him proclaim and be to him. The
South has stotd martial law before, and
oao stand it again. Military government
is ,a bad thing, to be sure, but nigger
government is worse. Military govern
ment is cheaper than nigger government,
pleasanter than nigger-- government, safer
than niggej’ government, and if this is the
he can do why we .rather gain than
lose’ by his proivunchmieuto. Let him
send it along. A good dose of military
government will kill off tbe carpet-bag
business, and, if it last long enough, wili
get the nigger out of the notion of voting.
About the time this happens, it will be
found that the support of an immense army
of occupation in the South will be too heavy
to he borne, and the upshot of the matter
will be that “God’s people” will “cuss”
she nigger (fna the military both into
heaps, and say, in effect, we have tried
every other plan, now let us try the plan of
letting those stiff-necked rebels alone to
manage things in their own way, always
provided they stay in the Union, pay their
taxes, and keep the public peace. Don’t
you suppose we could do this? Os course
we could. It is the only rational solution
of the Southern problem, and though they
were to elect fifty Grants, one at tiie tail
end of the other, to this complexion must
they come at last.
Furthermore, if Grant be elected he
can’t make a Jaw. Congress is the law
making power. But he will approve their
acts? Well, what if he does? We will
be no worse off than we are now. To have
an act approved by the President or to
pass it over his head amounts to the same
thing in the cud. It’s an act all the same,
and the only difference'is in the technical
manner whereby it became such. More
over if Grant be President his hands will
be tied as fully as are those ot' Presi
dent Johnson. The Tenure-of- Office
Act and the Military Act are laws
that bind tbe Executive office and
not this or that particular incumbent of
that office. Congress won’t, repeal them
out of complaisance to Ulyas. If ho goes
along all right, he won’t feel thorn, butif he
attempts to Johnsohize an ’em, why there
they are binding .upon him as they arc on
A. J. I mention these things to show
that the Presidential office is now al
most a mere nonentity and the simple
substitution therein of Grant for Johnson
is no reason why we should, fear that the
world is .coming to .an end. (Jongress is
the real- enemy and Oongress has already
done its worst. In the next House the
Radicals will be heavily shorn of their
power. VYe have already gained eight
Democratic members, and the chances are
.that we will gain some ten or twelve nporc
in the Northern States. Twenty off the-
Radical ranks and twenty on the Demo
cratic side of the House, makes a dis.
foresee of forty, you she, agaihst the
saints. (R the carpet-bag and scalawag
delegations I make no account, having an
idea, that tho political life of those fellows
will uot be a long one; but even giving tbe
Radicals credit for that spawn, the pro
portions.of power iu the next House wiil
show so considerable a as will de
prive “God's ■sic’’ *.‘-,1 ,'atal two
*YYII ll ini? a re> villGtO upuA. — r,
bis obstinate ; ilcnce, jt. ’N‘ argued by some.
that his mind-ii ust be of a comprehensive
and statesmanlike grasp, on wliioh princi
ple an owl would- be the* wisest of birds,
whereas the truth is that it is the cheer
ful little canary that fills thp. whole day
long with his music that has’the largest
amount of brain in proportion to his size,
of all the leathered tribe. Grant a states
man ! Grant a great political leader
This cold, slow-blooded, stolid butcher a
second champion, who needs but the
chance to witch,the world alike with Lis
soldiering and his statecraft! Why the
man don’t oven know what sex a govern
ment is. Sheridan sent him a cock-and
bull story one day in January, 1857, to the
effect that the Old Boy was loose in Texas,
and this is what Ulyss replied:—'“ Believ
ing it to be the proviuee and duty of every
good government to afford protection to
the fives, liberty, and property of her
citizens, I would recommend the declara-
tion of martial law in Texas to secure
these ends.” Here you see he calls a
“good government” a.s he, so that we are
indebted to his wonderful sagacity for the
deduction that “tho best government that
tho world ever saw’’ is of the feminine
gender. Hooray for Statesman Grant!
The next evidence of his wisdom is where
he officially advises Stanton that in his
(Grant’s) op'nion the provisions of “the
Civil Rights Bill” cannot be properly en
forced without a military order. Now if you
have ever put your nose inside a legislative
assembly, you must know 0! reader,
that whereas a “hill” is a proposed law,
or in other words no law at all, but merely
something which somebody want3 to . be
come law, an “act” is a law that has been
duly passed. So primary a fact in legisla
tion this man, whom it is "sought to make
the Chief Magistrate of the country, was
so ignorant of as-to lead him into the
error of designation above given, where,
while really meaning the Civil Rights Act,
he gets.it bill If he Lad meant the tiring
was a mere usurpation, as it was, then
his technology would be correct, but as he
was in dead earnest about it, I can fancy
some of your readers, Messrs. Editors, |
punningly say that this is a true Dili on. an |
indictment of' culpable ignorance against
Ulyss.
But so much for, Kis sense; now for.a,
little story about this man’s heart. The
authority is that of an ey e-wit ness, whorelat
jeuit to r.e. During the Wilderness cam-
I paign Grant had sent bis men in, pushing
! them up on Lee’s works, as though they
were made of tarts and cheesecakes. Tiifi
i guns began to roar, anu, taking a comfort
| able camp chair at the rear, Grapt lit his
j segar and began to smoke with as much
| evident relish as though at each Yoiley
1 some brave man’s son! was not departing
j from tho body. -< Now and then an aid rode
up'to make report „ and at intervals an
j order would be sent to some disengaged
I commander to “take his men in.” For
j -two hours the hideous- uproar prevailed;
i for two hours the Yankee troops charged
! and charged against the hosts of the Con
federacy; then the fire began to slacken ;
l then fell off more and more . then, ceased
| and, beaten and discomfitted; having lost
in the two hours two thousand men shot ■
dead and over three thousand wounded, the
“boys in blue” withdrew. Calling for his
horse,Gen. Grant mounted with theeareiess
exclamation, “Well, we’il have to try it
| again, aud, without a word for. his blecd-
I ing army, callously rode off smoking his
j segar. And yet to-day they bow down and
I worship him as a god. Faugh! it would
; seem as if there must yet linger some smell
1 of clotted blood about such tame as this.
The results of the eiectiou you will re-
I ecive so fully by telegraph that it is not
worth while to now forecast them- The
verdict will soon be known, and there is
! but one observation to make upon it, to- j
wit: that if in favor of Grant it will '
not speak the voice of a majority of
; the lawful voters of the United States. .
I The Radicals never have elected a Presi- '
1 dent save Ly a minority popular vote, and
! if they now elect Grant hiscasewUl not he '
'an exception to the general rule. Without
i test-oaths, disfranchisement, and negro j
| suffrage, they could not poll within a mil
| lion and a half of a genuine majority vote,
and, whether victorious or defeated, it
! must alike be our duty to sweep these har
j ba: isms away. Tyrone Powers.
Macon k Brunswick Road.— There
are 800 hands at work on the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad, and in twenty days
more there will be 2,000; The work will be
finished in a year. —Macon Telegraph.
Muscogee Road.—The Muscogee Rail
road yesterday was regularly transferred to
the purchaser, the Southwestern Railroad
company. The price paid was 90c on the
dollar. We suppose the present employees
will be retained. —Columbus Enquirer.
California is preparing to have a grand
race between eleven Newfoundland dogs.
1 From the Union and Adver:is<T, October 20.
! Manly and Patriotic Words
TO
The American People.
—
The Jew* nnd Gen. Grant.
We have been permitted by Mr. Gug
genheim to publish the following letter
j from B. F Peixotto, Esq , of New York,
! Past Grand Saar of the Order cf Berai
| Berith, and one of the representative j
i Israelites of the United States. It was
through his instrumentality that Mr. j
Moses owed his elevation as President of '
the Order in New York.
No man in America is more widely known
| among his people, or has done more to ad
| vance their moral, social and intellectual
! welfare. He held the position of Grand
Saar for four successive yearly terms, and
during this time visited nearly all the
principal cities of the country, and ad
dressed his coreligionists, evoking
everywhere the utmost esteem and
enthusiasm. By his exertions the Order
of Berai Berith was lifted up from forty to
over one hundred lodges, and since his
retirement from office he has labored as
siduously as editor of the Berai Berith de
partment of the New York Jewish Messen
ger. It is after him that the Ceixotto
Library and Literary Society of Zerubabel
Lodge No. 53 of this city is named. Few
men are better prepared to express the
sentiments ot American Israelites :
New York, Oct. 15, 1868.
My Dear Sir : Your letter, inquiring
whether I had observed the communica
tion cf Adolph Moses, published in the
New York Times, and whether such rep
resentative men among Israelities as Hon.
Judge Cardoza, Hon. F. B. Hart, Hon.
G. N. Herman, Hon. Judge Rosendale or
myself intended to let this publication,
with its accompanying editorial flourish of
a “change of base” on the part of the
Jews, pass in silence, has been received
and duly considered.
In reply, I must frankly confess that my
first impulse was to treat Mr. Moses’ po
litical apostaey with the silent contempt it
unquestionably merited. It seemed to mo
that any notice that might be takenjof the
“florid effusion” ofso impressible a gentle
man as Mr. Moses would tend only to
heighten the political effect which thojour
nals in the interest of Gen. Grant were de
sirous of making of his “ conversion,"
while to pass in silence his reprehensible
conduct would be to consign the writer and
his production to that oblivion which his
co religionists and reflecting men of all
parties would be very certain to do upon a
moment’s reflection.
Your letter and note from Supervisor
Herman, and the receipt of other letters
from prominent Israelites in various sec
tions, protesting that the views set forth
by Mr. Moses were calculated to place Is
raelites in a false light, that accusations of
cowardice, cupidity, lust, for office, power
or money, would be laid to their charge,
and that the old time prejudice, revived
with increased odium, has changed my
previous opinion, and I am now free to
express to you my sentiments, and, as he
has sought a public tribunal, to try Mr.
Moses by his own choice of jurors.
Let mo at the outset say that neither of
the gentlemen named by you have changed
their views respecting Gen. Grant, nor to
the best of my belief and knowledge of
Jewish character, will any eleventh hour
repentance have the effect of changing the
sentiments of Israelites respecting the
course to be pursued with reference to the
impendiog election.
Israelites, like other sensible people,
fully comprehend the nature of “political
dodges,” and are neither to be deceived,
decoyed nor imposed upon by empty pro
fessions in the face of six years previous
opportunity which Gen. Grant has had to
recant and do justice to an outraged peo
ple.
His infamous Order No. 11, banishing
“Jews as a class” from his department, was
issued December, 1862. He has had six
long years to retract and acknowledge his
injustice, and yet not until the eve of a
great political struggle wherein he is chiefly
concerned, for distinction, has he had the
manhood to confess before the world his
wrong to an inoffensive,honorable,valuable
and worthy class ot his fellow citizens, and
even now he writes, enjoining silence upon
the flattered recipient of his “distinguished
consideration” as to publication, knowing
fall well this very admonition would be
-turnedffo his advantage as npt desiring to
Court publicly the votes of Jews 1 ' On the
ICiltCI rtl tire V7HU/ap;U
hostility to .General Grant and stating
distinctly and uuequivoeally the
grounds upon which his hostility
was predicated. Here is what he
said: “A traditional ill-will has beeu writ
ten upon the pages of American history by
an American General, who stigmatised our
people eu masse as ‘a class ot miscreants,
fit only to bo summarily expelled from a
military district within the compass of
twenty-four hours.’ No ‘complicated mili
tary responsibilities’ can excuse even the
embryo thought which could indelibly
stamp an entire people with shame and re
proach.” Again he said: “Gen. Grant,
now a candidate for the highest honors in
the land, has added his bayonet thrust to
the kicks and cuffs of former times, and
has perforated our good name in a manner
which at onee evoked a couutcrmand by
his superior, Abraha m Lincoln. A Demo
cratic Congressman (Hon. George H. Pen
dleton) tried the question before a Con
gressional tribunal, and a Republican Con
gress stifled a judgment.” And still again:
“Our ancestors fought this issue before
us. We, ourselves, daily protest, All up
petitions, write scathing articles for the
press, enlist the sympathies of liberal gov
ernments, and, in fact, use every engine to
wipe away ancient errors. Protestations
and appeals have done immense good, but
will not cure Radical inherited prejudices.
Free institutions furnish us a terrible
weapon, which moves us to leave the de
fensive, whereby wc can influence masses
who would otherwise be deaf to appeals. I
mean the ballot. Backed up by a great
and powerful organization, whose selfish
motive may gradually be metamorphosed
into a righteous conviction, we have one
more weapon furnished us to fight an er
ror which chills our best intentions and
eclipses, lbr us the bright luminary, the
sun of liberty radiating the face of the
nineteenth century.”
These were just and truthful sentiments
representing the “voice of Israel,’’ and
were cver.i where received by Israelites as
correctly stating the position in which they
were compelled to stand from the unwise,
injudicious and fool hardy nomination of
General Grant by the Chicago Convention.
And as if to nut the case still more clearly,
he concluded his admirable letter by show
ing that in voting against or declining to
vote for Gen. Grant, Israelites were not in
stigated by hatred, revenge or ignoble pas
sion, but by that just and righteous prin
ciple recognized by lovers of liberty and re
ligious toleration in every clime, and as
much shared by Christian as by Jew. But
here are his own words : j
“I am with you, heart and soul, in di- j
reeling the fight to be fought in our capa- j
city as American citizens, and preventing i
! our indignation from placing us in a false j
j light by giving the question, a denomina
tional coloring. This we can do—for Gen. '
Grant, in insulting the Jews, has violated
a principle guaranteed by the chart of pur j
liberties ; and for this we can oppose him, ,
and not for insulting the Jews, or any
body else. In other words, we ignore the
' particular instance, and fight him for the
violation of a general principle. I might
argue with some Radicals who, when Mr.
Lincoln was assassinated, declared it to be
a providential arrangement—justice tem
pered with mercy, to be succeeded by an
iron will and a rigid executioner. I might
! say lam glad that this order has been
issued, and that Gen. Grant is a candi
date, and that, in the providential ar- 1
rangement of things, the anvil will re
ceive as much justice as the hammer. '
An ancient error, when viewed ly the glare
of 100,000 Democratic torches, borne
Ly voters of the Jewish persuasion, is apt to
call forth a more candid examination, and
may perhaps evoke results which thousands
of years of empty protestations could not
accomplish. The” ballot is a powerful ar
gument, and moves upon large masses,
it were time that this reviling of our race
en masse should cease; it is unworthy of
the American people, which prides itself
as a nation of liberality and progress. Let
i the question be thoroughly debated, and
let tbe century learn the amenities of
peace and the demand of truth from the
red lettered obliquity of a military order.''
Scarce a month elapses, and 10l Mr.
Moses is metamorphosed into a supporter
lof Q en , Grant! “Can such things be, and
■ overcome us like a summer cloud, without
our special wonder ? ’ , , ,
Does this sudden and unwarranted change
bode a similar movement on the part ofthe
Jewish people? Aou might as well ask
if the conduct of the New x ork It arid wiu
change a single vote on the part of the
brave, indomitable and patriotic Democra
cy who bear the standard of the Constitu
tion andUnion. With the same detestation,
with the same profound and intense rnor
fication, mingled with loathing and dis
gust, a3 the Democratic party will view
the cowardly course of .the World, Israel
ites every where will regard the conduct of
■ Adolph Moses. Not a single vote will be
; lost to Horatio .Seymour in the one in-
stance by those who honestly accepted
; the platform and the man of the Democrat
ic National Convention; nor will one
honesty Jewish vote the more be given to
Gen. Grant
We Israelites are a “peculiar people”
still,_ in that, while we are ever ready to
forgive a personal or individual injury, and
to do “a kindness even to any enemy,” as
j commanded in our Sacred Torah, no power
; on earth can ever obliterate the memory
| of crimes committed in our name against
| the eternal principles of justice and hu-
I inanity. General Grant’s order (No. 11)
! was such a crime. Ostensibly levelled
against a once ''poor and despised" race, it
directly struck at tho very root of those
principles of “civil and religious” liberty,
upon whioh the corner stone of the Consti
tution of the United States was planted.
The Republican party in CoDgress were
asked to reprove the violator, while yet
continuing him in command They abso
lutely refused.
lo the petition of Israelites they turned
a deaf ear. By their nomination of Grant
at Chicago they insultingly reaffirmed all
he had said in his infamous order, and
which, though revoked by his superior
officer, he Ulysses S. Grant, had never ret
canted. Nor has he to this hour sought to
explain, to express regret for, or to atone
by an apology at once honorable to himself
and righteously due to the “people” he had
so grossly outraged.
''By their acts ye shall judge them;"
and so we Israelites, not as Israelites in
name, but as Israelites truly representing
the principle of divine mercy, justice and
liberty,as American citizens, loyal, patriotic
and devoted ‘*to the death” to the pres*
crvation of our great Magna Charta —
the Constitution, and those inestimable and
priceless blessings which flow from its due
operation, have judged Gen. Grant and
the Republican party, and the verdict is,
“found wanting.” Jews are not to be
paltered with in “a double sense;” the
poor negro will yet experience what it
means thus to be dealt with by those who
have stolen the livery of heaven to serve
their own base and mercenary ends. The
profession of virtue does not constitute the
virtuous man, and the hour will surely
come which shall prove the hypocrisy, cun
ning and fraud by which, in the name of
suffrage, social equality and law, the Re
publican party seek to perpetuate their
power.
As it is foreign to an Israelite to be dis
mayed by defeat, to be disheartened by
treachery, or to yield up his manhood,
even were the “threats of power,” or the
prospect of conquest ten times more lower
ing than in this moment they are, so I
would bid every gallant American citizen,
be he Jew or Gentile, but especially my
people, who more intimately know me, to
be of good cheer, to rally to the standard of
the Democratic party, which has ever
sheltered the oppressed and vindicated the
rights of all men “under the law,” and to
fight the good tight with brave hearts and
undaunted courage, and victory may yet
light upon our banners. But should it be
otherwise, should the Radical paity tri
umph, we can yet have the consciousness
of knowing, through every vicissitude of
the future, that we, in the hour of trial,
“did our duty.”
Work, while it is to-day, for the night
corneth wherein no man can work.”
Ever faithfully and fraternally yours,
Benj. F. Peixotto.
Wm. Guggenheim, Esq., Rochester, N. Y.
Immigration.
Baltimore November 1, 1868.
Messrs. Editors .’—Knowing the deep
interest that the people of my native State
take in establishing an improved system of
agriculture, and in the introduction of
skilled white labor,.l beg the use and influ
ence of the Chronicle Hi Sentinel to exhibit
the efforts that are now being made in this,
my adopted State, in furtherance of these
objects. I know of no more effective mode
of accomplishing my purpose than by sub
mitting the following text of the act of the
Legislature of Maryland “To Organize
and Regulate the Department of Labor
and Agriculture pursuant to the 30th
Article of the Constitution
Section i. Be enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, 1 hat the Superin
tendent of Labor and Agriculture, shall
prepare and il stribute or cause to be pre
pared and distributed both at home and
tdry unuerSuthoOug l>( tue agr.cuuurui,
mineral, manufacturing, and general com
mercial resources of the State of Maryland;
and shall keep, always open to inspection
in his office, reliable exhibits, with the
j terms annexed ofsuoh property in Mary
[ land as the owners thereof may disire to
l have registered in said office, as ior rent or
i sale.
Sec. 2. And be it enaeted, That it shall
not be lawful for any other agent, runner,
or solicitor to visit vessels arriving with
immigrants on board "for any purpose
whatever, until such immigrants have
been seen and properly instructed by the
said Superintendi nt of Labor and Agri
culture, or by one of his clerks or agents
expressly charged with that duty.
Sec. 3.* And be it enacted, That” any per
son or persons violating the last preceding
section, shall bo liable, on conviction in
any court of Law in this State having
competent jurisdiction, to a lino of not
less than fifty dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not
less than thirty days nor more than sixty
days at the discretion of the Court, said
fine to go to the State.
Sec- 4. And be it enacted, That said
Superintendent may, if ho shall deem it
advantageous, cause to be printed a small
map of Marylaud, showing the County
lines, livers, railroids, and other chief
routes of communication, and also the
position and names of its principal towns,
and upon the margin and hack of said
map he shall cause to be printed a concise
description of the resources of the State,
its climate, soils, and the value of its pro
ductions, and any other advantages cal
culated to attract permanent settlers from
Europe, or any part of the United States,
and the said descriptive maps shall be
printed in such languages as the said
Superintendent may direct.
Sec. 5. And be enacted, That the said
Superintendent he and he is hereby au
thorized to employ two intelligent agents,
who shall speak the languages of the peo
ple among whom they are to labor, whose
duty it shall be to judiciously distribute
the maps and other information sent to
tliern by said Superintendent, and who
shall exert themselves by personal inter
course with the people, and in such ways
as the Superintendent may direct, in ad
| vising and aiding useful and industrious
persons to emigrate to Maryland ; one of
laid agents shail have hisofficein Bremen,
and the other in Liverpool; they shall he
subject to the orders or the Superintendent
and shall he discharged by him whenever
iu his judgment they have ceased to be
useful agents of his department.
Sec. (1. And ue it enacted, That said Su
perintendent of Labor and Agriculture
shall, and he is hereby required to keepiu
ids office a book, in which he shall cause
to bo registered the names and places of
1 residence of such citizens of Maryland as
may desire to obtain t.ie assistance of his
department in procuring Kuropean, or
other white laborers, together with the
number and description of laborers re
quired, and also the nature of the employ
ment and the rate of wages, and other ne
cessary information ; and tbe said Super
intendent shall transmit from time to
time to his agents in Europe a list oi-sucb
registered demands for labor, and also of
such lands as may be registered in his
office as for rent or sale agreeably to the
provisions of the iirst section of this Act,
and the said Superintendent at home and
his agents abroad, shall invite the atten
tion of immigrants to the offers extended
by our citizens, and when necessary shall
furnish written directions to all applicants
for employment, or lauds, to such places
within the State as may be selected by
them.
Sec. 7. And he it enacted, That when
ever any citizen of Maryland may desire
i to send to the said agent in Bremen or
S Liverpool a special requisition for labor
ers or artisans of any description, and
said citizen shall desire to advance the
1 money necessary for their transportation,
! the amount to be afterward deducted from
i their wages, or on any other stipulated
! terms, he shall enter into obligations with
j tbe said Superintendent, and in the form
; to be prescribed by him and kept in his
office, and the said Superintendent is
1 hereby authorized to contract with any
ship-owner or company engaged in the
passenger trade between Baltimore and
any European port, for the transportation
at a fixed rate, of all such immigrants as
his agent may desire to send to Maryland
■ in compliance with such special contracts
as are desired in this Section.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the Com
missionerof Iramigrationappointed under
an Act, passed February Bth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, and the Immi
grant Agent appointed by an Act, passed
March 21st, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven, are hereby authorized and required i
to transfer to the Superintendent of Labor
and Agriculture of this State all papers, j
; documents, maps, records,iand other public >
property appertaining to their said offices, j
; and take his receipt for the same, which |
shall be fitled among the other vouchers of :
said Commissioner and Agent in the office ;
i cf the State Comptroller.
Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the said I
Superintendent shall keep an accurate ac- \
■ count of all moneys expended by him un- |
der the provisions of this Act, and make a j
full statement of the same in his regular
I report to the General Assembly.
Sec. 10. And be it enacted. That when
the Superintendent of Labor and Agricul
ture shall be prepared to execute the duties
enjoined by this Act, he shall give public
notice of the same, in at least one newspa
per in every county of this State, and in
the City of Baltimore, and he may append
thereto a copy of suc-h forms and rules as
he may adopt for the transaction of the
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVII. NO. 45.
business of this division of his depart
ment. 1
Sec. 11. Anti be it enacted, That the
State inspectors of agricultural products
and fertilizers, shall render to the Superin
tendent of Labor and Agriculture in the
forms and according io tho regulations
prescribed by him, such monthly reports
of the receipts and expenditures, and of
the work and business of their offices, as
be may prescribe.
Sec. 12. And be it enacted. That the Su- j
perintendent of Labor and Agriculture
shall issue from time to time necessary j
and proper regulations, to secure economy
and efficiency in the inspection service of '
the State. These regulations not incon- ■
sistent with law shall hive the force ol
law, and be duly respected and obeyed.
Skc. 13. And be it enacted, That all
quarterly accounts, and vouchers < f re
ceipts and expenditures required by law
to be rendered by State inspectors to the
Comptroller, shall be promptly and punc
tually transmitted by them to the Super
intendent of Labor and Agriculture, which
he shall carefully examine, and audit and
transmit to tho Comptroller for final set
tlement.
Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That the
Superintendent of Labor and Agriculture
make from lime to time such personal in
spections, of the Tobacco Warehouses and
all other buildings used for inspection and
storage purposes by the Stale, as may be
useful to a proper supervision thereof i
and the proper enforcement of the laws !
and regulations, to secure economy and
efficiency in the inspection service ; no
expenditures or contracts for expenditure
for repairs, or improvements in the ware
houses or for any work except the ordi
nary work of inspection, cooperage, con
ditioning, repacking, receiving and issuing
tobacco, shall be made except with his
approval and according to his specific in
structions. *
Sec. 15. And be it enacted, That he shall
have the like charge and supervision of
all the other public buildings of the State,
and the like direction of all expenditures
for their preservation aud repair.
Sec. 16. And be it enacted. That for tho
purpose of inquiring into the undeveloped
resources of tho wealth of the State, with
in the limits of the Chesapeake Hay and its
tributaries, the Superintendent of Labor
and Agriculture may, with the concur
rence of his co-commissioners of the State
Oyster Police Force, require tho com
manding officer of said force to make such
inquiries and examinations as will tend
to develop the oyster fisheries, and pre
serve them as a permanent source of
revenue to the State ; and the said com
manding officer shall frequently report
the result of his investigations to the said
Superin tendon t.
Your readers will perceive that the first
step regarded as essential is that-detailed,
accurate information concerning the agri
cultural, mineral, manufacturing and
other resources of the State should be
displayed to emigrants. This is where
Georgia, indeed the whole South, has
been, and is now, particularly deficient.
The Northern people have always been
alive to this, impelled both by the im
mediate profits growing out of the trans
portation of emigrants and the traffick
necessarily resulting from new wants of
new homes and the enhancement of the
value ol lands by the developement of
their resources. Underlying this, states
men and. leading minds cultivate these
ideas among the masses to postpono the
direct issues between capita! and labor,
which every intelligent mind foresees has
to be met in the future for the first time
in a purely Democratic government.
I do not urge, Messrs. Editors, the adop
tion of a policy which will attempt to turn
a tithe of the emigrants which now laud
upon our shores Southward. I know too
well that the peace and prosperity and
good order of a State as well as its popula
tion has certain proportions of bread pro
ducts beyond which it would be unsafe to
encourage population. But then even
thousands of emigrants now coming to this
country, possessed both of intelligence and
means, who would be an acquisition to the
State as citizens, develop its resources and
contribute vastly to her progress and pros
perity, and that these are just what Geor
gia needs—agriculturists and mechanics—
well trained and thoroughly skilled, who
would improve and diversify labor aDd
quadruple in power and wealth the dear
old commonwealth. But these men know
nothing of Georgia ; they know nothing of
the thousands of acres of fertile lauds
now in wild forests that are well
adapted to the growth of corn and the
vino—nothing of the immense water power
which is now unused and unimproved.
Some of them, as Scotchmen are readily,
others, as Germans, are more difficult of
approach. But all of them can be reached
by a systematic effort, at no very great
cost, displaying, by maps and plots and
7KC.' ' l ife great trug-W'TJnd; ny'wnim-mmn- -
grants are deterrred from your section, is
the negro. But the belt north of your city
is free from this apprehension, and but
slight intercourse will dispel the prejudice
in relation to Southern portions.
There has been a meeting of all the emi
grant societies in this city. 1 refer you to
the proceedings. Arrangements have
been made to transport all emigrants at
the lowest possible rates. Maryland will
co-operate heartily in establishing a depot
at this point, and do much in a pecuniary
way. Tennessee is also moving. I have
met recently at the headquarters of the
Bureau for Maryland, an agent of some
150 families from Switzerland, who told
me that he had just purchased 40,000
acres of land on the Cumberland moun
tains in Middle Tennessee, and that he
was then in treaty with the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad for their transportation.
I have heen looking to my individual
interest in this matter, and have sent for
ten German families. I propose to locate
them on my plantation in Hancock county,
leasing to each head of the families twenty
five acres of land, for five years for nothing,
and to sell it to them at the expiration for
$lO 00 per acre, stipulating that they
shall live upon it for eight years from the
date of the purchase.
I find that the impression abroad is that
Georgia is a tropical, malarious, low, flat
country, in which nobody “but blood
thirsty negroes and alligators and snakes
live.”
Can you not induce the Legislature to
move in this matter ? Our people must
awake up to our situation. Nothing cid
or will redeem and develop our good old
State but a rapid influx of skilled white
labor.
I call upon you, as public journalists, to
put this ball in motion. Let Seymour,
and Grant, and Scalawags, and Carpet-
Baggers alone, and turn the public atten
tion to the material interests and to the
development ot our good, noble old State,
and this is the only way to do it—by emi
gration. Yours, truly,
Muscogee.
Our Travelling Correspondence.
On the Wing, October 30th, -18G8,
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The whistle blows and soon, to the chat
ter of wheels and thunder of the train, we
are dashing through the hills, aud over
the streams and valleys of the Macon and
Augusta ltoad. Our drowsy feelings
(from rising at early morn) are soon dis
sipated by the presence of our jovial and
lively old frienu, Conductor Black, who,
by his honesty, courtesy and kindness, has
won the favor and esteem of all who knew
him.
Again the whistle peals forth, and the i
train halts at ‘ Sunshine,’’ a place render
ed famous in the religious world as the
residence of Bishop Pierce.
This venerable servant of “the Most
High” steps aboard, bound for fields of:
labor in the far West. Our intercourse j
was pleasant and profitable. Like all great ,
and good men, the Bishop is as plain and
simple as a child. Free from bigotry and j
bombast, meek in disposition, kind and j
affable in his manners, winning and im- j
pressive in his social sphere, as well as in |
his matchloss pulpit eloquence, may he j
long live an honor to the church, and a
blessing to the world 1
Arrived at Athens, with little time to
miDglc with the people, only in a business
way. From place to place, from centre to j
circumference, was the character of roy
sojourn. Business first, and social pleas
ure next; the former faithfully atu-nded
to, leaves little room for the latter. Woik
hard all day and preach at night—the one
an imperative necessity, the other an in
expressible pleasure. I _ shall long re
member the many expressions of kindness
received.
The Professors in the State University
are very polite and courteous gentlemen,
of vast intellectual attainments, and doubt
less in every respect amply qualified for
their high and responsible positions. I
regret losing the circular presented me,
, from which I hoped to gather items of im
-1 portanee to the public. I learned, how-
I ever, that the University now numbers
i eleven working officers and two hundred
I and seventy students, of whom one hun
-1 dred and sixty-seven are on the Campus
1 Roil, and one hundred and three at the
! High School. The authorities propose to
I offer extraordinary attractions in the Jan-
uary term.
Three new professors are to be elected,
viz : one of Rhetoric and Oratory, one of
Modern Languages, and an Assistant Pro
fessor of Ancient Languages.
The advantages of an optional coarse
wherein a candidate can select a thorough
course of practical, useful study, will be
fully presented. The prospects ot the
University for usefulness and success were
never so bright. ...
The fund for the maintenance ot dis-
j abled soldiers has been secured, and the
j annual installment of SB,OOO due by the
! State, has been acknowledged and rogu
! larly paid by Gov. Bullock, who deserves
the thanks of the friends of the cause of
liberal education for the promptitude with
which he has met this claim.
In addition to the literary advantages of
Athens, her streets present quite a lively
business air.
A considerable quantity of cotton and
grain was on the market, eggs, chickens
and apples in abundance. For the latter,
Athens takes the lead of any place in
Georgia. Traveller.
j Spec ial dispute}, to the Cincinnati Znquircr.
The Cuban Insurrection.
Washixgtox, Oct. 27.—Some interest
ing facts concerning the insurrection
which has just been frustrated in Cuba
have been made public here. It was not
a demonstration of loyalty to the Spanish
C’neen, or toward a republican form of
government under Spanish rule, but a
st roke for the independence of Cuba. Tho
conspiracy was concocted with u view to
the conspirators availing themselves of
the advantage of the troubles in the weth
er country, which it was argued would
engage and embarrass the opposing forces
that no force eou and be spared therefrom to
roduce tho Cubans.
Tho conspiracy was concocted months
ago, and negotiations had beeu made in
this country for iron-cladsaud small arms,
and a portion of the latter had already
been furnished to the insurgents. A
Creole, who had served with distinction in
the Spanish army, was the leader.
State Jfews.
The racing at Chattahooeboe track, Co
lumbus, commenced on Friday with a
large attendance.
One Stringfollow, of Alabama, has boon
arrested as the assassin of Mr. Fagan.
There will be a grand Democratic rally
and torchlight procession in Columbus to
night.
The Radicals are running a negro,named
Tarver, for Columbus.
Tho counsel for the Columbus prisoners
are endeavoring to get hold of the peri mod
witnesses, but without success.
Bullock has sent a squad of soldiers with
sixty rounds of ammunition to Monticelio,
Jasper county, to remain till after tho elec
tion.
The Hoard of Directors of tho Savannah
drill!li it North Alabama Road, held a
meeting in Macon the oilier dav with en
cournging results.
It is understood that tho Oglethorpe Col
lege, Milledgovillo, is to bo merged with
one of similar character in North Caro
lina.
A kerosine explosion took place in At
lanta a few days since, wounding, serious
ly, several persons standing near.
There is a gentlemau living near Athens
who has made twenty-three bales of cotton
from eight acres of land this season.
The Quitman Banner prophesies three
hundred majority in Brooks county for
Seymour; tirant will not get a single White
vote.
A large Democratic meeting was hold in
Savannah on Friday. Many colored peo
ple were present. It was addressed hv 11.
S. Fitch and others.
Seven Georgians received a dual fit
charge from bankruptcy, in the United
States District Court at Savannah, on Fri
day.
Robert Laehlison, of (lie Savannah
foundry, was presented with ainaguibceiit
cane by liis employees a few days since.
The steamer New Jackson, laden with
four hundred and ninety-four ba'es of cot
ton, sunk in the Flint river a short time
ago.
Capt. P. W. Ilonlihau and a company of
U. S. soldiers, furnished with hospital and
surgeon stores, have beeu sent to Thomas
ville to remain till after the election.
The negro stump speaker Walker, over
whose death the Radicals raise such a
howl, turns out to be a “confidence” thief
from Savannah.
The Radical moetiug at Dalton, which
tho mulatto Bard from Atlanta address
ed, was “large and enthusiastic.” A pro
cession ot one negro with the flag went
through the streets.
Judge Erskine decides that the payment
of a debt, due a Northern creditor at tho
time of the war, to the Confederate Gov
ernment, is no discharge from it.
It is the general opinion among tho
planters of Southwest Georgia, Alabama
and Florida that the cotton crop there will
not give a half yield this year.
lion. Thomas Hardeman, Jr., and Geo.
Coleman, colored, addressed a large au
dience of both whites and blacks in Macon
a lew days since.
A telegraphic dispatch lias beeu received
hero announcing the completion ami open
ing of tho Selma, Romo and Dalton It ii'-
i o’aU.
A nima rcrm-mTrt mearnon nr Macon nn rant
Friday night.
David Ahderson, of Gwinnett county,
has a corn-sheller of hia own invention,
with winch he can shell thirteen bushels
of corn in fifteen minutes.
The membershipof the Georgia Masonic
Mutual Life Insurance Company now
reaches thirty-six hundred, und is con
stantly increasing.
The City Couucil of Macon have ap
pointed a Committee to make tiie necessa
ry arrangements to have an annual State
Fair in that city.
Lieut. Col. T. W. Sweeney, formerly
Commandant of this post, ami latterly of
Atlanta, has been transferred to the com
mand of Columbus.
Col. J. A. Stewart, of Rome, by invita
tion of tho Democratic Central Committee
of Floyd county, has issued a timely and
a lie appeal to the negroes of tire State.
General Slews.
“Gov.” Bullock is in Washington city.
Revenue for the lust fiscal year is SSD,-
000, GOO.
Grant has issued an order forbidding
military interference with the elections.
Seward has made a speech approving
the President’s policy, and condemning
tho Radicals.
Evarts denies having given any opinion
relative to double distilled whiskey.
Tue horse, John Stewart, has trotted 29
miles on the Riversido Park, Boston, iu 59
minutes 23 seconds.
Butler’s motion to dismiss the suit
against him as a breach of his Congres
sional privilege, has been denied.
Judge Minzer, of Ohio, has been arrested
for issuing fraudulent naturalization pa
pers.
Another accident on the Hudson River
road occurred on the 28tli, hut one man
hurt.
Tho Union Pacific Road is progressing at
the rate of eight miles per day.
Tho Archbishop of Canterbury died on
tbe 28th, aged 76 years.
It is believed that Queen Isabella of
Spain will abdicate in favor cf l)ou Carlos.
Whalen, the alleged assassin of McGee,
will get anew trial.
Tho Dowager Dutchess of Sutherland
died in London on last Thursday.
Gen. Forrest is out in a card denounc
ing Kilpatrick as a liar aud coward.
The Liberals are confident of a ma
jority on the assembling of the next Par
liament.
j The uext English Cabinet will have
I Gladstone for Premier, and Russell, For
! eign Minister.
A boiler explosion on the Louisville A
Nashville Road killed six men last week.
Queen Isabella of Spain and her suite
j are expected in Paris on tbe 6Lh of No
| vember.
The Republican City Council of Phila
delphia is trying to take away all power
from tbe Democratic Mayor.
Hon. George 11. Pendleton has recovered
from bis illness and is again on the stump.
The “true war Democrats,” under the
load of Blair and Hancock, and Kosucrans,
are to hold a meeting soon.
Horace Greeley declines in a card the
Radical nomination for Congress iu the
Fifth New York District.
Tho irrepressible “Jeemes Pipes” ha
returned from China, and is lecturing on
that Kingdom.
Geo. Francis Train is to run as an inde
pendent candidate for Congress from Now
York.
At the city election in Baltimore on the
2'sth, the regular Democratic nominees
were elected in every ward.
Tbe New York papers pronounce Miss
Kellogg’s first reception iu that city not a
success but a triumph.
The Spanish Provisional Government
has decided to reinforce Cuba and save the
“Pearl of the Antilles.”
The Indians removed a rail from the
Pacific Road, on Tuesday, throwing the
cars from the track aud killing the fireman.
Five noted desperadoes were hung at
Gilmore, Nebraska, on tbe 2d by a vigi
lance committee. “Let us have Peac-.”
The case of G. B. Lamar of Savannah,
against Charles Dana for false imprison
ment, has been tried in New York. De
cision reserved.
Superintendent Kennedy, of tho New'
York police, orders all persons arrested
for illegal voting to be taken before the U,
S. instead of the State courts.
Total registration in New York city up
to the second shows one hundred and six
ty-nine thousand voters.
Judge Read, in the Pennsylvania court
of Nisi Ib-ius, orders that no more aliens
be naturalized in that court.
! It now turn** out that scalawag Con-
I gressman Hinds’ death was the result ol
i a female, not a political, difficulty.
Bank returns show that Georgia has a
i larger banking capital ($5,750,000; than
an v other Southern State, Virginia ex
'■ cep ted ; who has $9,050,000.
i Twen'y-live hundred tickets w r ere sold
I in Washington on Tuesday to Govern
; nient clerks returning home to vote.
! Warrants fer $23,750,000 were issued
j from the Treasury Department, on Tues-
I day, to pay interest ou the “5-20’s.”