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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. hvoiticlc & I'cntiucl. lIENIO MOORE, A. It. WHIGHT. H\TKI('K WAI.MII. Associate Editor. TEU t|- Os «UW( RIPTIO\. DAILY. - ... Si 00 „Ul." JSC r m* l»oe WEEKLY 1 </> I I SO 1 3 00 ATJGUHTA. t;A : w'KhxkspaV mubmnr. .’vovkmber"Vi. 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.”
