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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1869)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. CMtvoniclc &’f cntittcl. A i <; i :hta, A : i iimili ietiiiJit may rax oeimiEifi bus. Decoration of the Soldier** Grave**. Immense < r-jutl In Attendance. THE SPEECHES, ETC , ETC. Monday, tlic 26th April, and the fourth anniver-aryof the surrender of the armies of the Confederate States of Am' rica.aud the i nslavctnent of a nation— was observed in this city, as it lias ever been for the past three years, in a solemn an 1 most appropriate manner. Nearly a month ay; > there appeared in the CllßONl ci.e&Sentinel an account .of too ladies of this city visiting the Cemetery for the purpose of plan ing grass and flower seeds upon the graves of the Confederate sol dier*, in order that hy the time the twen ty -ix'harrived the warm suns and vernal showers would have caused the flowers and grass to put forth, and thus assist, in no small degree, in the decoration of the sepulchre's of the fallen heroes- In this, however, the fair jat riot* were destined to he disappointed. The long drought ex perienced recently had the effect of de stroying the 'germs of the seed, and the graves yesterday remained as hare as -if they hud never been planted. Nothing daunted, howt \ -r, the ladies again went to work and determined to supply by artificial, what they had failed to accomplish by natural, means. At an early hour, then, on yesterday morning, phaetons, buggies and other vehicles were in requisition, in which drives were taken to the many b- autiful gardens which surround our city where an abundance of floral treasures were gathered. The gardens, too, in the city w re stripped of their fragrant beauties, and it would be safe to assert that at the tune of the pre-cut writing there is not an available flower in this city, outside of the walls of the cemetery. During the whole of the morning lily fingers were busily en gaged in arranging these into crosses, garlands and bouquets, so that by the time evening arrived sverything was in readiness for the celebration. AT THE CEMETERY. At about tiiree o’clock in the afternoon every store on Broad street, with a few ex cept ions, were closed, as has hitherto been the oustoin on this sacred day, and the in habitants of tho city repaired, in max#?, to (he t A-metery. Carriages,buggies and street cars, loaded with living freight, dashed along the thoroughfares, while ou tho pavements rushed u.<stream of human be ings of all ages and both saxes, all hurry ing to the same destination. By four j o’clock the Cemetery was thronged, de pile the fact that many, fearful of a storm, i had placed their offerings on the graves j and returned as soon as possible, and the j streets of tho City of the Dead were filled as they never are but onoo during the year. Maids and matrons, sires and sons, the lofty and the lowly for none were too high or too humble to pour out | their heart’s blood in defence of the j South —nll,l 1 , all came to pay ho in- J ago to the fallen braves. Beautiful flowers were borne by women not loss lovely and | soon were spread as a carpet o’er the plot i of ground—alas ! by far two large—where | so many young and gallant soldiers sleep the sleep that knows no waking. The men seemed to feel that they had no right to share in the toil —for the women are now the guardians of the memories of the Lost Cause—but stood by and watched and ad mired the ladies in their labor of love. Tho graves were all dressed in a beautiful man- i nor, and on many of them the decorations proved that much taste and labor had been expended. This was especially the ease with two or three mounds on whose bead- ! hoards was inscribed the simple word “Unknown;’’ for while, of course, all the I graves were beautifully decorated, still, un fortunately there are many aipongst us whoso darling’s bodies have never been recovered, and whoso Pones now bleach upon some unknown hill-side of the Old Dominion ortho West; to these tho tomb of the “unknown” must ever be pcouliirly an object of interest, and on these, yesterday, were lavished thousands of beautiful flowers, wrought into number less wreaths and crosses. THE SPEECHES. At five o’clock, when the holy labor was ended, the concourse of people assembled around a platform where the orator of the Day, Col. If. D. I). Twiggs was, by re quest of theLidles’ Memorial Association, to deliver an address suitable to the occa sion. Col Twiggs was introduced to the audience by .li,o. 8. Davison, in tho fol lowing speech: mr Davidson's speech- To day, hmeath these clouds, which seem scarcely able to restrain their sym pathizing teats, wc have gathered here'to do honor to our dead, Uvor this broad utui beautiful land of ours, rich in its varied resoure -s. fertile fields and populous cities, the Angel ol Peace is resting, with her white wings touching the uttermost limit ol our boundaries. And as she gazes upon us iu loving sympathy, she beholds a hun.au sea, whose waters, if not in calm n pose*, arc ou'y stirred by the settling of tho waves roused by a denar ted storm, ll is (o tho heroes who went dowu b 'Death the fury of that ;t inu wettow pay hornago. With those flower-’, sweet with (he odors of Spring time, lovely as the women who -catter them, pure ns the cause for which these gallant spiri'.s died, we strew their gvavt . Ami every rose bud is a recollee lion. every flower a memory, every garland ame 'set ii of what they were, aud are, and sga 1 o r be, i\cu when time begins to triable with dt cay. Our sacred, la mented dead I Pericles, the eminent Athenian, has told us "it is a duty to revere the memory of tho dead; and when they die in defence of country, to do them none titan usual honor.” Who does not know that he was right? The highest, best, noblest sacrifice man is ever permit and to make, is when he pours out liis life b'o 1 upon the altar of Liberty iu vindica te n o- liis country's honor or the advance ment o! his country's gloiy Heroic ac tion ever strikes us with admiration, e\e tes our sympathy, commands our love. And when we remember these heroes here—the pain they suffered, the tr'.aU they bore, the dangers thoy dared in defence of that banner which now, with an versed and drapery furled, lies l-ut'O the daring men who followed it . - irts are filled with that syrn p-.ti • love which must grow brighter am! Her, purer and purer, through th*’ * • waid sweep of all coming time. Ti * :r deeds, with us, are indissolubly e-■- i with all that is true and noble, puu .! i g >J . they form a part of the hi-ie-v ith -e who were once our cne mii >. .."'u ”ii one day bee on.’t ac pride of tho wl. A.::.ev.ean people. They cannot, will not. u; W iu ii the Us? arch which sup net - ti,,- G-v rccu-nt has been hr. k n; *h” '-‘A -ton- crumbled to decay : the last star el it- glory ixpired; even then, if human Leaits shad anywhere iiat, or human tongues hjfl anywneie ; ’ll of high, glorious, hereto action, tbose hearts shall recall the name, and those i npucs proclaim the praise of the Con federate Soldier. **H« is n«>t dead wbOHJ glorioU> .mud ldfu i:lnue uu high ; To live in hearts we leave behind J$ not to die !” j.'vory one ot those flower-strewed graves is as the jewel print ot the feet of imuior talitj; each resting place a monument more enduring than brass, more lasting than marble, and even the perfume watted from these 1« '.-of decorated eiay is borne up ward Is tbs- Angels ol liberty, until the ruslieg ul their wings is hushed on the eternal lulls ofOod. Death to those he - rocs in the cause for which they fought, was a welcome as sky and stars to prison ed men. and though to day the mother whispering to her babe may not tell whe®? the father sleeps, the plighted maiden, the resting-place of her lover brave, yet above them an epitaph is written—born tram the inspiration ol a grateful people; inscribed bv the thousand memories ot their during atmd- pure as the naked Heavens, sweet as the silver voice of victory, proud as the trophies of a conqueror: glorious as the celestial walks, and that epitaph— there skei'X a Southern soldier. To the bands of lovely woman has been confided the trust of perpetuating this eberishpd memory. Under her touch, man’s roughness and fierceness are soften ed, by her love his courage and pride are moderated and subdued, refined by her presence, elevated by her association, ex alted by her affection, it is proper she should become the custodian of his valor and the guardian of his heroic deeds. Lit by her deep love’s truth, her eyes watched his departure ; strong in affection’s strength, she sustained him in danger and suffering ; andjproud in her adherence to remembers his manhood and his glory. With us to day there are no hones bleaching upon the hid sides, uncovered by the plowshare, scattered by vandal hands; but, gathered together in one holy sepul chre, they rest beneath the eternal re quiem of the ,e mourning pine trees and the whispering of the evening winds, as they bear their story to the forests away. How much we lave them, can be seen in this universal outpouring of oui people to do them honor. Id yonder city the hum of industry is hushed, the store of the merchant is closed, the counting room is empty, the streets are still, and the city of the living is silent while we gather iu “the city of the dead.” Let us always love them thus ; cherish the memory of their noble deeds, and never cease to remember through all the changes and vicissitudes of our natural as wc-il as political existence, that, “Though right trampled ho counted as wrong, j And that pass for right, which is evil, victorious; Here, when virtue is feeble and villainy strong, ’Tis the cause, not the fate of a cause that is glorious.” And with these ohjeetsin view, of which I have thus been requested to speak, and as a part of the ceremonies of this solemn occasion, I take pleasure in introducing to you one who, with eloquence appropriate to the subject, and in “words that burn” like their noble deeds, will tell of the sacred cause for which they fought; the heroism they displayed, and the duty wo owe their memories throughout al coming time. I introduce to you, ladies and gen tlemen, Col. 11. D. D. Twiggs. At the cinclusion of these remarks, Col. Twiggs arose and spoke as follows : SPEECH OP COE. 11. D. D TWIGGS. We have assembled together this beautiful April day, my friends, to do honor to our dead ; our Confederate dead. True we bow before no time honored shrine, the custom we commemorate is almost as fresh and new, as the garlands which surround us. No herald proclaims its advent by the flourish of trumpets ! No marshal music floats upon the solemn air ! N’o flaunting banners are flung to the evening breeze I The thunder of ar- j iillery falls not upon the ear of the aged sire to toll him of the day. No gala sounds greet the widow and orphan. A j weeping land bereaved of her children, [ needs no record to keep alive the memo ries of a glorious past, no bidding to do reverence at a nation’s grave. This day four years ago anew star in the galaxy of nations went out, the tattered banner of sit*miHion freemen, baptized in (ho blood ‘ of heroes, was furled upon its broken staff forever. Ail that is left of the lost cause are the memories of the gallant dead who sleep around u«. That for which they fought has perished, and they quietly sleep beneath the sod they died to defend. “They have fought their lest tight, Tuey have won their last battle. No sound can awake them toglory again.” ! Throughout this broad land, from the ; Potomac to tho it in Grande, this day is honored and revered, the hum of business ceases everywhere, and a grateful peoplo solemnly and touchingly () ay tribute to the honored dead. Thousands of fair hands have been engaged in weav ing bright chaplets to deck the gravos of spartan men, who, in the majesty of true manhood, laid down their lives a willing sacrifice upon tho altar of their country. How hallowed, then, this day 1 How solemn its duties! How touching this tribute! “It is meet that beauty and virtue should strew flowers upon the green mounds which hide such high resolve.” Every grave, however lowly the soldier boy who fills its narrow bed, or how ex alted the warrior chieftain sleeps in death, has received this dav a fresh tribute of immortals, fashioned by the fair hands of beauty. “Bring, then, your laurels, lilies, roses, Bind them into sweetest posies, Strew them where In death reposes, The dear, precious dust. Os our braves, the trueand knightly, O’er eaeh hallow ed grave tread lightly, ’Tis a sacred trust Thus to scatter flowers above Lowly graves of those we love.” No belted knight e’er buckled on his armor in a higher, holier, nobler cause than that they died to defend, the memory of which we live to honor, revere and per petuate. We were a prosperous, a happy, a united people. A bountiful Providence had lavished its gifts upon us. Nature surrounded us by lovely homes and smil ing fields. The temperate zone of the earth, blooming with Nature’s rarest fruits , and choicest flowers, with a soil un equalled upon the lace of the globe,yielding perrennial treasures to the hand of mao, and containing vast mines of mineral wealth within its bright bosom. Above a 1 : , a noble manhood, sons ot gallant sires who be queathed God’s brightest gifts, chivalrous honor, undying patriotism, and Christian virtue. Marked by an individuality capti vating to the traveller, characterized by a unity indicative of that bond of noble charity, and generous hospitality, which distinguished them from all the world be side. A glorious, a noble, a heroic race. One iu their history and traditions.sublime in their suffering and peerl ss in their heroism. Dwelling here upon the bosom of this beautiful land—at peace with themselves and all mankind ; nothing tended to dis turb their repose, until an insolent people, bloated with power, invaded the sanctuary of her honor. ’Twas then tbather aveng ing sword leapt from its scabbard, and an outraged people,true to the aneestra) cour age of this sunny land, made no 1 compro mise between honor and ruin. Standing alone and friendless among the nations of the earth, she bore the shock of war and, lifting her young and trusting heart to the God of battles, she joined in a dark and dubious strife. No voice of sympathy spurred her on to action,but with high and sublime intrepidity she formed a horrid battle front, and when the blackening bil lows us invasion poured upon her from every quarter of the habitable globe, with calm and dauntless mien she died beside the flashing of herguus. We aic not here to-day my friends to deal in crimination or recrimination. \\ e areuot here to enu merate countless wrongs familiar to you all; upon a solemn day like this, heart-burning and passion should not rule the hour. Let even the quick-beating of manly hearts stirred by.better memories, be stilled, as we >t \nd here in this Oily of the Dead : but while we bow submissively to the mysterious dispensations of a Divine Provi dence, let us proclaim the justice of our cause, and let it not be with faltering tongue, trembling accent, or doubtful language. Let it be thundered boldly from the house tops and in high places. And let the undying scorn of a brave people greet the modern Judas who ha betrayed his native laud, the shameless charlatan who has fed aud fattened upon his country’s ruin. Trust him not fair woman; his heart is craven, his naturo grovelling, and manly honor has no abid ing place witbir, bis bosont. God pity the poor wretch, who licks the band that smites him, and on bended and repentant knee, sells h ; s fair birthright for a mess ot pottage. Let us hurl back the vile slander embodied in the word traitor. No Oon , federate -oldier fills a traitor's grave: thank God, they were ever true to their honor and the Constitution of their fathers. Thev died ;o preserve that liberty which Georg * U ashiagton fought to maintain, that yi*»r””ts heritage handed down by Madison, Henry, Rut-lodge, Adams aud Fmckuey. They clung with pr.de afld de votion to the old flag, as .ong as it was the representative ettibie u ot liberty and prm ciple. Tint banuer of the stars and ' stripes has stirred the South ern heart with a» much reverence and emotion as did the fiery cross of Vi-th Alpines Clansman rouse the impetuous enthusiasm of the Scottish Chieftain oa his native heath. Wh eu it waived triumphant over the hosts of Cornwallis, at Yorktown. it stirred the Southern heart wi;h exultant pride. When Jackson hire its conquering stars to victory at New Orleans, it was tailed with , acclamations of gratitude and thanks giving. We remembered it with enthu siastic pride Hid, Saratoga and Monmouth- But wt-en it waived in ’6l at the head of invading hosts, we knew it not. It eeased to be our banner when its staff was planted upon the ruins of a broken covenant. Stern fate has made it still our flag, and when the Constitution of our fathers is exhumed from its hiding place and the dust of party tyranny shaken from iis page.-, we will honor it again. But while wo remember this let no craven heart fear to and > homage to the memory of another, the one under which the boys in grev fought, the banner of the red, white and blue. It also marched with them to victory it Manassas and Fredericksburg It fl iated in triumph over the swamps of the Chiekahominy. It waived its con quering bars arniist the smoke of battle at Spotsvlvania, the Wilderness, Gettys burg. Charleston, Petersburg and Shiloh. It was the flag of Stonewall -Jackson, Sidney Johnston, Polk, Cleburne, Walker and Hill. Can we ever f>rget the memories it revives ? Never ! Lit not, then, my friends the traditions of a gallant people die. We owe it to the memory of the sub blimest struggle on history’s pages— the memory of the gallant dead who sleep around us, the honor of our insulted wnaieo. to revere and per petuate it. The stern messengers of death may consign heroes to an untimely grave, but the great and glorious princif Is for which they fought will not die with them, but wiil live forever. “This shall resist the empire ot decay-, When time is o’er and worlds have passed away; Cold in the dust tho perished heart rnav lie. But tb it which warmed it ouce can never die. ’ Justice is not, therefore, measured by triumph or defeat. The fiery and untamed Cossack subdued enlightened Hungary, and the barbarous Russian holds in dur ance vile the land of Sobieski. We have not. therefore, fought in vain. No cause was ever lost which leaves behind it such glorious memories, or handed down to pos terity such unsullied honor, chivalrous courage and undying patriotism. While a nation mourns her dead eternal justice will one day assert the immortal principles for whi h they died and “death is even swallowed up in victory.” True, the myitle and the laurel deck not the brow ofthe living, but they crown with victory the foreheads of the dead. The hero of Shiloh, who sleeps in the Lone Star State, beyond the turbid waters of the Mississippi, found victory in the dying hour. The Warrior-Priest, whose remains find an honored sepulchre beside the placid waters of the Savannah, caught its glad shout as his spirit took its flight. The last hours of that sombre chieftain, tho noblest Captain of our mar tial host, were soothed by an unfaltering trust in the ultimate triumph of our cause. A proud smile lighted up his placid face as he murmured in low accents “Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees.” He has crossed the dark river, and bis martial spirit is at rest beneath the trees of eternal life. A voiceless herald proc aims victory from every nameless grave which contains the ashes of our gallant dead. While their life blood was ebbing fast, and the waves of eternity were dashing in their ears, bright visions of their sunny land floated before their dimmed sight, and loud paeans of victory ealmed the agony ofthe dying hour. “ The dying boy its music caught, I do not die in vain ho thought, Freedom by death and blood aro bought For Dixie. Sleep on young soldier with thy dream. Well didst thou die with that bright gleam Os hope to shed its parting beam For Dixie. But, my friends, they have gone from us forever, the strife has ended, we have doffed the gray, laid down our arms, and Southern honor, unsullied in defeat as well as triumph, is pledged to accept the issue. Wo will do it aod in good faith, but bayo nets cannot conquer theheait. No prison bounds can trammel the affections ; that allegiance will “accept no issue, or future that will not accept the past.” Let us, then, ever commemorate this day, and uever cease to cherish the sacred memories ! if calls forth. Let us enroll this tribute j among tho time-honored customs of our land; it embodies a noble design, and should ever boas settled and certain a recurrence i as the birth-day of Washington, or the : Declaration of Independence. Noble woman sets us the example—her voice is always heard —her influencealwaysfeltin the eon- I summation of all that is good and glorious. Her hands have assumed the grateful ta*k, and it cannot fail. To them we may safely commit the memories of the past. Some writer has beautifully remarked that womanly character, power and influence, are facts in the economy of Providence just as tnueh as light, beat and gravitation in Nature. We believe it; the history of the world has proved it. Seek to unravel the web of past ages, and wateh how the golden thread of her influence is inter woven with every portion of the strangely wrought fabric? Wo cannot withdraw it without destruction to the whole. Here it gleams faintly through the darkness, or shines with a bold radiance; there it is dim aod cloudy, but through all its changes we see and recognize its,mighty tracery. Our cause would not have lived an hour with out her influence. She sustained us in defeat and rejoiced with us in victory, and the manifestations of her handiwork to-day are the outbreathings of an interest, which from woman, is always the mute oracle of success. My friends, our sad task is ended, and though no marble shaft or gilded shrine mark the lowly resting places of tho boys in grey. remember, They do not die who iu their deeds sur vive Koshrioed forever in the hearts of men; Not battle triumph nor tho rude eanuon roar, From their calm sleep can ever wake them more. Dulce el decorum cst pro patria mori Hallowed the dust wheresloep the brave.” A Law Breaker In High Position. There seems to be no limit to the official, insolence and usurpation of power on the part of the individual who writes himself provisional Governor of Georgia. Puffed up with the sudden notoriety he has ob tained through the votes of ignorant | blacks and venal whites, he aspires to be sob Dictator throughout the limits of the commonwealth. Not content with the performance of his official duties as regu ; lated and defined by law, aod which are limited and confined within very narrow and definite limits, he assumes the powers which rightly belong to the other two co : ordinate branches of the Government— the Legislative and the Judicial. Bound by his oath of office to have the laws faithfully [ executed , he impudently asserts bis right i to make the laws in certain cases, and then tl rims and exercises tho power of constru ing and judicially expounding those laws. : Restrained by no law save his own narrow and bigotrd will, he is at once a charlatan, usurper, and au umuitiuaied ijraui. The Legislate of the State, at its last session, passed an act authorizing and re quiring an election to be held ia the dif ferent counties of the State fir one Justice of the Peace in each district. These elections were duly held, and the returns thereof properly made to the j Executive office. Thereupon, it became the duty of the Executive to issu i commis sions to the persons who were returned by the managers of elections as “duly elect ed.'’ This plain, simple and positive duty he has failed and refused to perform, and. instead thereat, has issued and seat to each of the persons thus ret trued as elect ed (or at least to such as were known to lie opposed t) the political faith of the so ealleJ Governor) a circular containing sun dry illegal, impertinent and scandalous in terrogatories, and requiring of them and each of them a definite reply. Thus he makes the issuing of the commission de peud entirely upon the answer which may be made to his illegal questions. These interrogatories are as follows : Did you, previous to the year ISGI, hold au office and take an official oath to sup port the Constitution of the United States; It so, what office did you hold ? Did you hold an office uuder the Confed erate or State Government during the war; if so, what office? Have you, since you took the oath afore said, to support the Constitution of the i United S ates, given any 7 aid or comfort to the enemies thereof ? We learn that commissions have “been, and are still withheld, from those officials ' duly elected," who have refused to answer these impertinent and illegal questions. The Governor ol the State, so-called, is thus, by bis own act. openly and notoriously brought before the people as a violator of the lav. - which he has sworn to >ee duly ex. cute-d. We trust that few. if any, of the elected Magistrates have so tar forgotten the duty whch they owe to their constituent'and their own self-respect, as to give any an swer to these interrogatories. They should af refuse to answer them. Let the re sponsibility for the destruction of this im portant branch of our Judicial system rest where it properly belong'—on the headot K. H. Bullock. ’ The Sow minister to St. James. 1 The London Times, in commenting upon ; the recent nomination of Mr. Motley as the successor of Mr. Johnson at the Court of St James, makes a ju.-t and very pal pable “hit" at the composition ofthelladi eal party in this country, which has fired the indignat'on of the truthful Forney and the no less virtuous Greeley. The Times i says: Air. Motley is a zealous member of j “ the Republican party, with all its i “ opinions, sympathies, and prejudices. " He may be called a cultivated Radical. “ Though education and a refined taste “ may prevent him from identifying him “ sell'with the more extreme section of his “ party, his political views are not veijy “ different from theirs.” This remark of the Great “Thunderer” shows that intelligent foreigners have dis covered at last, what from the first was very apparent in this country—that the Radical party is composed mainly of the odds and ends—the broken down hacks and dishonored hangers-on of the two old and respectable parties of this country. That while the issues involved in the prose cution ofthe war drew many good men into its rank- many of them have never openly aligued themselves with or espoused warm ly the principles ofthe party.and that they have become more and more disgusted with the ignorance, corruption and bad charac ter of those who aspire to be its leaders and control its destinies. The Times thinks that it may be possible for a gentleman of refined and cultivated taste to associate in some degree with the Radical party, but that it would be quite impossible for such an one to identify himself with the more extreme section ofthe organization. Our British neighbor draws it rather mildly, we think, in making this sort of qualification, yet he has succeeded in making the rotten carcass of Radicalism quake and tremble under the directness and power of his blows. We on this side ofthe water know full well that such men as Fessenden, Trum bull, Sherman, Anthony, Fish, Chase, Ferry, Sprague and a host of other equally intelligent and respectable gentlemen are heartily sick of their association with such creatures as Butler, Kelly, Ashley, Schurz, Schenck, Sickles, and a host of lesser lights who now run the Radical machine. Oil and water will not mix. Honesty, intelli gence and virtue cannot long be held sub ject to or mixed with ignorance and fraud, and corruption. The end is near at band of Radical fraud and Radical misrule. Views of Senator Sprague. Frotn a long account of an interview with Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, which appears in the New York Herald we make the following extract : “People say, Governor, that they do not comprehend exactly what you are driving at. Some insinuate that you arc biuding f'or the Presidency ; others that you want to cut loose from your party, and still j more state, in downright terms, that you j are crazy.” “Hold on!” exclaimed the Governor ; | ‘‘let me answer the last charge. Yes—l | am crazy—crazy, as every reformer has been since tho beginning of the world. Because I refuse to follow in the ruts of that sot calling itself the Senate of the United States, the city is raised at once, ‘Oh! Sprague is crazy.’ I will let them know before long exactly how crazy 1 am. I am not bidding for the Presidency either. If it were offered to mo to-mor row, I should only take it on conditions of being at liberty, to kick out of the White House every office-seeker that dare come into it. Not a man should be appointed under me to office because ho was this j man’s friend or that man’s supporter, j I would have an incorruptible board of j examiners for every office under the government, and no man should be ap pointed unless he showed the proper capa city to fill it. I would disregard party al together, and put only the best men in the nation in places of trust; but as I know such a condition of things can never be attained,the Presidency is not my ambition. Neither am I about to cut loose from my party and attach myself to the Democrat ic. Both as parties are rotton ; but I in tend to build up a ■ new party, in which politics will have little to do. My party will have for its one grand principle the reform of our finances, the rendering of money cheap, the reduction of taxation, the elevation of the working classes, the protection of labor, the improvement of our cotton, agricultural, commercial and manufacturing interests —in short, the making of this country really great, strong, and prosperous. All your talk about tho nigger s -ffrage, States rights, women’s rights, rebels and so forth, is only fit for these old grannies in Congress. Where is our shipping at this moment? Who of those men pestering our ears all the time about reconstruction, rebels, niggers, &c., lias ever lifted his viice in favor of the broken down commerce that was once our pride and glory ? I tell you, sir. these inen would drive this country headlong to the dev lin their greed for power. This country to-day is intrinsically weaker than any other on the face of the globe, not ex cepting Mexico. Now. let me explain; but first let me enlighten you upon the purpose of the speech, the opening one ot the late series I made in the Senate. It was neces sary I should draw the attention of the people to Congress'to invite greater atten tion to the speech 1 made upon the finances and the bill offered in connection there with. I began by skirmishing, my objec tive point being the Treasury—the great national curse. My scheme was no hur riedly considered affair. For three years I have devoted my mind exclusively to this subject, aod you will find, if am mad, there was some method in my madness, after all. You saw how that first speech awakened a thrill of interest throughout the nation. There is some of the evidence, (pointipgto the bundle of letters..) Now, if I had made my proposition, any preparation of the public mind, it might have gone the way of all like propositions. I hold that tho Treasury jis the root of our present evils. ! Forty millions of dollar-, wo will say, are received there this month. This money ' comes out of tho pockets of the people. One man whose taxes :-ro large has per j haps to borrow the money at a high rate j | of interest to pay his indebtedness to the I Government. The money goes into the t Tr<xtcurp, „n,I lir>« thorn hoarded un.for a j month or six weeks without producing a particle of benefit to the Government or i thepeople. Twenty millioos of that amount, we will say, are paid out by the Govern ment, and twenty millions remain. The market in New York, where the capital of the country is centralized, is declared I scarce. When money is scarce those who ; have the least put their stocks on the mar ket at a low rata to induce purchasers and procure to carry on their business. There is always in New York a class of speculators who buy up all such stocks and wait for the fa vorable time —next month, we will say— when the Treasury, in place of $20,000,- 000, pays out 5C0,000.000. Then money becomes abundant, and these stocks are rushed in upon the market, and the gam blers make their harvest. You see there is no equilibrium heie. Our money mar ket is all the time fluctuating, influenced by the vast, overgrown corporation, the National Treasury. Then, again, all kinds of stocks are affected in this way. I can | go into the market in New York any day S fa my business, and the process that ob tains there smash by my superior force of capital the small dealers that venture com I petition with me. The whole country is j affected by this. Money is entirely too dear. The cotton planters at the South pay almost twenty five per cent, for the capital to work their plantations. Eng- j land is the chief market for cotton, but she is every year extending her purchases in India and Egypt, and finally, by mani pulating the markets, she will damage f our cotton interests at the South irrretriev ably. Agricultural interests suffer in the ; same manner from this dearness of money England will, after a while, buy less of our agricultural staples. Capital is too dear, ! the cost of transportation too high, the taxes too many and too crushing for our farmers. Same way with the manufactur ing interests. Twenty years ago our firm in Rhode Island was one among twenty little ones ; now we have the whole field to ourselves ; but then we crushed out the others and are now engaged fighting the big fellows ; until finally new England will have nothing but a small aggregation of enormous monopolies, wielding a power dangerous to the State and to the liberties and happiness of the people. Bat think of all that money that goes into the Treasury being committed to the charge of a boy, formerly a secretary ot mine, whereas in Europe the most responsible men in the i community are invariably selected for the AUGUSTA, GrA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1869. duty of receiving and looking after the public fund-. The Treasury, above all things, should be jealously guarded, and all its incomes and expenditures scrutin ized with exceeding care. Sore ot the Pardoning Business or Bullock. A gentleman of this city who was re cently in attendance at Franklin Superior Court gives us some intelligence in relation to Bullock’s pardoning business which, notwithstanding the Express Agent’s previous exploits in this line, is really difficult to believe. His st itement to us is, that some time since a Radical, an! former Bureau agent in that county, was charged with tho larcrny of a gun, for which he was ai rest ed and gave bond for liis Court. During the recant session of the Court a true bill was found by the Grand Jury against him, and he was brought to the bar of the Court for trial, when he coolly drew from his pocket and handed to the State’s attorney a free and full pardon from the so-callei Governor Bul lock. Os course, all furfher proceedings in his ■ case were stoppel and the thief was set at liberty During the Court a true bill was also found and returned by i'\e Grand Jury against a white charged with the beating to death ol a negro. The ac cused was duly arraigned, when lo ! he also produced a full parlor, from Bullock, and was also discharged. Wo have never known ait instance be fore in the whole course of our reading where a Governor has interposed tho par doning power to shield a criminal previous to the making of a “,egal aecuiatiou by a Grand Jury,” and prior to conviction by “a jury of his peers.” As wehave said, if our information was not Jirect and positive, wc should hardly be able to be lieve these reports. How long wiil the people submit to these open and defiant violations of law by his Expn-sselency wo are not prepared to say. The laws pro vide a remedy for their infractions. While high official position should, in our opin ion, always protect the officers from prose cution in doubtful, or even it trivial eases, yet the dignity and efficiency and purity of the Executive office deuands that its occupant should bo held t) a rigid respon sibility for such heinous offences against the laws and against society. Impeach ment is tho remedy, and we believe that very soon a deeply outraged people will demand its enforcement unless a chang e for the batter should take place in the Executive office in Atlanta. Opposition (o the 15th Amendment. The recent meeting of the people of all parties in Chicago to prote .t against the adoption of tho loth Amendment has ex cited the ire of the gentle Philosopher of the New York Tribune, and ho devotes a whole column of his paper ti an attempt to answer the thirty odd resolutions passed by that meeting. That Democrats, State rights men and sticklers for the Constitution should have been found in the meeting causes Greeley no surprise whatever. But the presence there in large numbers of the most intelli gent,patriotic and virtuous of the Western Republicans has disgruntled the sore head ed negropholist to such an extent that words fail him in his at:einpt to hurl suit able anathemas against these “false and treacherous friends.” The truth is, the Cbieago meeting is nothing more than a straw —a mere ripple on tho wave in comparison to the groat .storm of popular indignation and fury which is quintly but surely gathering throughout the entire length and breadth of the land against this unconstitutional, unjust and revolutionary measure. It was a Western man who give utterance to the thought—“this is a white man’s govern ment,’’and tho white men of tho West are to-day as earnestly devoted to the great truth which it contains as was its distin guished and honored author. Neither tho exigencies of party, the predjucies of moon struck fanatics or tho timorous appeals of a weak and undecided Chief Magistrate will be permitted to set up in this country a balance of political power in the weak, imbecile and vicious black race. Northern white men like ne gro rule no more than Southern whites. While many of them were weak and cruel enough to wish their Southern friends put temporarily under African rule no con siderable number of them wiil ever tolerate such a condition of things in their own State. The Chicago meeting shows very clearly that public opinion will cry aloud against this disgraceful scheme, even though by so doing the great Radical par ty is split to atoms. Prejudice Gives In ! The New York Tribune is rejoiced to be able t j chronicle the fact that two of the hotels io that city have finally overcome the unjust and unreasonable prejudice against color, and now receive as guestsi on equal terms in every respect-, persons of the “African persuasion.” Those “new idea” hotels are tho Metropolitan and tho Everett House. The proprietors of these two boarding houses, of course, expect to make a good thing of their full concessions to Radical mode3 of thought and living. They, of course, exp\et that their houses will now be crowded at all seasons by the negro lov ing Yankees and Hoosiers who visit New York for trade or pleasure. Indeed the inducement# which they afford to all Radiealdom for free,fair and perfect equal ity with th.* “emotional blacks” must secure for their houses an enormous amount of business. Greeley himself wiil, doubtless, dine frequently at the “Metropolitan” and sip his tea at the “Everett” now that he can enjoy the pleasure of a social hob nob with Cuffy, and indulge in a little pleasur able flirtation with Dinah at the tibles of those hitherto respect ible houses. And then what a fair opportunity is offered to the young “bloods” of New York who are of Radical families and in dulge Radical proclivities ? The splendid parlors of the “Metropolitan”,will afford them ample opportunity for flirting with the buxom wenches of the superior class, ands urnish rare occasions for the display of their “Court manners” before the ad miring gazes of the ebony hued daughters of Africa. Os course, neither respectable Northern and "Western men and women, or gentle men from the South are expected to sojourn even for a day at the “Everett” or “Metropolitan.” Another Fight Proposed to “Little Bbody.” The telegraph announces that Francks W.Goddard’lats Captain Ist Rhode Island regiment, has pronounced Sprague a liar calumniator and poltroon. Who is Francis W. Goddard and what does he want to adveitise ? This is very naughty language to be telegraphed all the way from the iand of “Steady habits; but we suppose it is to be “Constitutional.’ Bat Phew ! how fiery t ese New England people are gettirg I Nobody hurt yet. The Imperialist. The third number of this weekly is be fore us, ol date April 24th. In this num ber, the editors take oc ;asion to correct the misinterpretation of some ol its compeers of the press, in the following article : OCR TRUE POSITION. Do not let us be misunderstood : if pure Republicanism were any longer a possi bility in Ameriea —if for halt a century it had not been an empty mockery, we would unhesitatingly favor it as moist likely t“ insure the preservation of freedom and good order. So long as a Republic is pos sible. a Republic is best; because it is best suited to the crude and undeveloped con dition of the race. But it is a singular truth that an Imperial form of govern ment, while it y, aud will be the inevitable result of the highest possible Christian civilization, is also the one best calculated to deal with the social cankers and diseases which result from such a position as ours. Having artived ac this conclusion, it be came us, as true patriots and loving our country well, to attempt by discussion and 'ong consultation to so prepare for the coming change, that as much as possible of the ancient evil may be eliminated from the new order of things. Nothing is good in itself, and the best medicines are capable of employment as poisons. Any man can see today the poison that lurks in Democracy aud Re publicanism, and were it weak to deny that a similar poison may be developed,and has been developed, in autocracy. The former could have been avoided if proper measures had been taken in time, but it is now too late, and the Empire has become, under some forms, inevitable ; but we have still an opportunity so to shape our national movement, that we may give the world the spectacle of the grandest politi cal achievement in all its annals—an Em pire, the soul of which is Freedom, and its foundation Peace. We trust, there fore, that none will bo so malicious as to accuse us of any designs upon the liberties which we are really striving to restore and secure. We are looking forward to good and economical government; the abolition of corruption ; the protection of industry ; the security of life, liberty, and property ; the sure punishment of crime ; to national respectability and good credit ; in fact, to all that is included in the grand words— Pease, Safety, Honor. It will be seen that the Imperialist as sumes that pure Republicanism is no longer a possibil ty iu America,and that an Imperial form of government is inevitable. But who is to be the Emperor ? Will it be Grant or Sumner, or some gray-eyed man? We who essayed the Republican ism of Confederation and maintain the in - violability of the Constitution,having failed, now live in military provinces, and have been schooled in Imperialism in its worst form. We have learned how laws are expounded and enforced by the dictum of an epaulette and by the power of the bayonet. We know what trial by Military Commissions means. We have learned how property of peaceable, law-abiding citizens, aged, and of the highest respectability, may, without the slightest pretext,be seized for “the good of the government, upon suspicion, upon affidavits of uoknown parties, and,without the slightest pretext or justification, hur ried beyond the reach of the lawful owner. We know the value of a tost oath as a shield to cover plunder. We who live “outside of the Constitution,” under no recognized organic law, know how the ballot can and has been manipulated and the ballot-box guarded by bayonets, made to subserve the demands of “general or ders ” But has “the great Northern heart,” “the great heart of the nation,” learned these things ? In the South all that is necossaty and essential in and for tho transition to an Imperial form of Government has been prepared by a Republican Congress. Republican France prepared the machinery for the Imperial Corsican. Has an Ameri can Congress prepared all (he machinery requisite lor the coining American Em peror ? One of Grant’s Appointees Detect ■ ed in Stealing.—The telegraph , a few days ago, gave notice of this fact. This morning, we notice in the Philadelphia Telegraph the following account ofit : “For a long time past a gentleman well known in this city—a man ol means, of culture, ot refinement —has been in the habit of pilfering various small articles from one of the largest and bast patronized of our wholesale and retail grocery stores. The firm, though fully aware of the thefts bore with them, hardly knowing what course, under the circumstances, to pur sue. At length, however, patience at a end, they brought the matter to a cul mination on Saturday last by having the gentlemanly thief arrested in the street. He was conducted back to the store, and there compelled to disgorge the articles ho had but a few minutes previously stolen. These consisted of a box of segars and divers other trivial things, such as he had been accustomed to take. “He then offered to pay a sum of money equivalent to the value of the articles he had stolen for two years past, ou condition of being let up softly. The firm accepted his proposition, when ho paid up SSOO. The matter is now amicably settled, and all parties are satisfied. “The kleptomaniac is a member of a large and celebrated political organization in this city, besides being connected with several socioties. Through the influence of certain well known politicians, his fast friends, ho lately received an appointment from President Grant, as Consul to one of the European ports. It is understood that since the disclosure of his “peculiarity,” his appointment will bo withdrawn, and his resignation sent in to the organizations of which he is a member.” Losing Faith. —The New York Times is losing faith in President Grant’s (Inau gural) promises of reform, and would like to know what means the removal of the “vigilant and vigorous” Assessor Webster, who, we are told, has been “very sum marily ejected from office without the as signment of any reason and under the pressureof some unknown influence.” The editor says : “The expectation which was general at the outset of the Administration, and wa3 prompted by th ■ Presiden ts declarations on the subject, that faithful andj efficient officers would not be disturbed, no matter to what party they belonged, but especially if they were Republican l -, has been grievously disappointed. Some of the best men in the service, both at home and abroad, whose record is* unimpeachable and wtiose politicial orthodoxy is unques tioned, have been summarily removed and forced to give place to inferior bat more clamorous applicants. In truth, the old style of making appointments, by accept ing the pressure and dictation of politicians as the controlling influence, has been ad hered to pretty closely. The sweeping re forms, so loudly promised and so eagerly expected , seem to have been indefinitely postponed.” General Sickles. —It is encouraging to see that personal character is still ap preciated at its true worth by somebody at the North. The Evening Post —a Radical journal —demonstrates the fact in the sol ing paragraph ; There seems to boa conspiracy in certain quarters to t ilk General Sickles into no tice as a candidate for the place of Minister to Spain. When Sickles was sent to England as Mr. Buchanan’s Secretary of Legation, the appointment was deemed a discreditable one. and it will be a worse mistake to assign him a higher and more responsible post. Ii he has done, as is claimed lor him, the country any service in the late civil war, vote him a sword and a pension, and let him go ; but do notcon -1 for on such a man any place of honor or trust. It would be better to give him the salary of a foreign Minister and keep him at home. As long as there is a respectable man to be had for the place—and there are scores upon scores to be had for the asking —let not such a man as General Sickles i be sent abroad as a se'ect sample ol our countrymen. Disgusted with Grant.—The Cincin nati Catholic Telegraph , which has ad hered to Grant hitherto, has at length become disgusted with his style of ‘dis tributing the office?, and in its last issue prints (he following : “ Grant has gratified his personal, pri vate iil will, growing out of jealousy in war times, toward Gen. Rosecrans, by nominat ing Nelson, of Indiana, to succeed him in I the Mexican Ministry. Grant, by his nepotism and favoritism- is making friends 1 of persons whose friends&ip will be worth ; lass in his hour of need, and losing the | friendship of persons necessary to his ad | ministration.” 1 It is rather singular that the only promi nent Catholic holding office under the Government by appointment of the Presi dent, was removed as soon as Grant got a chance at him. Dr Harris tells us that nine hundred horses in New York city died of glanders last year. Train has deliverd his 'seventy-fifth lecture of the course of six hundred in I tuccession.” Letter from Sylvtuila.. Sylvania, Ga., April 26, 1869. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: Sirs:—You have perhaps heard that our Court was changed to Searbon. I will inform you that Judge Schley has revoked his order, and it stands at Sylvania. It is true that our courts are held under dis advantageous circumstances, a lawyer’s office being the only house which the Ordinary could rent for the purpose of a temporary Court House. Motion was made some time ago in the Chronicle & Sentinel that the Ordinary would make efforts to rebuild the Court House, which promise he has kept, and did let to the lowest bidder the outer w rk of a Court House (as carpenters say, the hull), in lenuing to let out the finish of the interior next year. Daniel Parker, Esq , is the undertaker and contractor at the price of $3,500,’ and the work is to be done by the sth October next. Mr. P. is an energetic and indefatigable man, aud is pushing the work ahead. The Ordinary has drawn his order on his minutes, directing and requir ing the Tax Collector to add one hundred per ceDtum on the State tax of the county this year for the express purpose of meet ing the debt for this building. It is be lieved that a building, after the plan sub mitted, will bo larger and better than our old Court House, it being 42x50 feet, with the court room in the second story, and a passage and six rooms below, something like the Burke Court House. There are many cases on the old dockets to be dis posed of at the next term, but very little new business, onlv ten or twelve cases re turned. This is the lightest docket for(ap pearance term that I have ever known. The morals of our county is good. I an ticipate fewer bills in the criminal court •than at any previous term. I hear of but very few infractions of law, and they are confined mostly to negroes. A few days ago Col. Singelton had the misfortune to lose bis dwelling by fire, very great loss; most of the furniture was saved. The fire was communicated to the building by ac cident. Our farmers have been very busy in planting cotton for the week past. The corn looks bad, owing to the recent cold weather ; it is thought that no material injury will result to that crop on this ac count in the main, as corn made backward for such causes generally bears heavier and purer grain. Respectfully, R. D. S. To the Press ana People of Georgia. Knowing the anxiety which you have felt for the welfare of our State, and the welcome with which any intelligence con cerning our future would be received. I have thought it my duty to state, briefly, what I suppose would be important or in teresting to you. The story of Governbr Bullock’s appeal to Congress to subvert the Government of our State, together with the means used by himself and his official and unofficial co laborers, to effect bis purpose, would be a long, sad, and humiliating story which it is now unnecessary to repeat. Suffice it to say, that we have been pursued by an energetic, persistent, and devilish malignity which can only be rationally accounted for by the most selfish and evil motives. Nor is it necessary to relate the long and interesting story of the means, or instru meiitaffies in the band of Providence, by which we have escaped, as if by. miracle, from the calamities which were prepared for us in the Bullock-Butler Bill. With the single weapon of Truth, wielded by friends in and out of Congress, we have defeated the conspirators against our peace, our prosperity and our remaining liberties. But our enemies are again at work, pre paring, by personal efforts and printed documents, for another assault, through Congress at its next session, upon the life of our State. In a t amphlet, now being circulated, entitled “The Status of Georgia —Letter to Hon. John B. Dickey, Senator 41st Senatorial District, upon the status of Georgia, by Hou. Henry P. Farrow,” the refuted slanders of Governor Bullock are repeated, reasons are given for the non action of Congress at its late session, and assurance is given that Congress will re construct Georgia at its next session. He denounces General Meade an I all who disagree with the views of Governor Bul lock, who is lauded for the “firm, de cided, and bold stand t aken and main tained” by him. I do not mention these facts for present comment, but to warn the people of Geor-, gia.and to suggest the policy which Ithink’ ought to govern us. My own opinion of Gov. Bullock and those who are co-operat ing with him for the destruction ofthe Constitutional State Government -which they have sworn to support, is, that they are moral,if not legal,traitors to the State, and it does not lessen their moral guilt, that, instead of using personal violence, they seek, by false pretexts and false testi mony, to accomplish their objects by a law of Congress, from which there could be no appeal. How, it may be asked, should sucht Governor and such men be treated by the people whom they have sought to betray? I answer — Treat them with silent observa tion; there is no alternative which would not he worse. They will doubtless hope to excite disturbance and vio'enee which can be used as pretexts to accomplish their purpose. It will be our duty not only as good citizens, but to defeat the purpose of our enemies, to see that the laws are strict ly observed aod enforced, maintaining, in all things, a position of conscious rectitude and a pati nt endurance of evils for which there is do present remedy. Evils are sometimes permitted t 0 correct or prevent still greater evils. But as God is true, so justice, with its compensations, will, in good time, prevail. I bel'eve that the counsels of our ene mies will come to naught. The back-bone of their project is already broken. Many of their oncin'nends in Congress have been enlightened as to their character, motives, and purposes, and will not, even for parti san purposes, aid them. Among these, I am happy to say, is FreSidant Grant, who holds that Georgia has complied with the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, and is entitled to the same rights as other States of the Union; Representatives Bingham, Schenck, Jeuks, Poland, and other Re publicans, and the entire Democratic party. Whil-t mentioning these evidences of hope and confidence, we should not forget how popular majorities are sometimes swayed by circumst inces, and that a two-thirds majority iu Congress is practically omnip otent lam satisfied that in this rests the onl/ hope of our enemies. There is now really but one disturbing element between us and a majority of Con gress—the riaht of olored meu to hold office under our Constitutiou and laws. It was represented, and generally believed, that the Legislature acted in viHful viola tion of law in declaring them ineligible. The upiuiuu aud uf Judge Suliley, in the case ofthe State vs. White, which was printed in the National Inteligencer , and distributed in Congress, modified, and in some ins’aoces changed, the prevalent opinion of the action of the legislature. That cass will he decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia in June. The decision will settle the law on that subject. • The pe iple of'Georgia will abide by it, Congress will, in my opinion, be satisfied of its jus tice, will admit the State to representation, and thus will end our Federal troubles. I take this opportunity to publicly re turn my thanks to the one hundred and eight gentlemen—judges ofthe Supreme. Superior and Ordinary Courts, Mayors of cities, and others—who, in answer to my circular, furnished the testimony relative to the condition of affairs in Georgia, which silenced the false witness and slan ders of our enemies, and destroyed one of the chief arguments upon which they had relied for the accomplishment of their pur poses. In the trials and sacrifices of war, and in the higher , moral and mental trials and sacrifices of their subsequent efforts for peace, the people of’Georgia have illustra ted the highest type of Christian Civiliza tion and heroic fortitude. Nutwithstand ing the afflictions which they have suffered, the provocations to disorder which they have received, and the discourage ments by which they are surrounded, if we compare the present condition of affairs with the past, there has j never been a time when all classes of our people were more kindly disposed, when the laws were better observed, when life, liberty and property were more secure, or when the entire energies of the people were more persistently devoted to product ive industry. No people have been more blessed by Nature’s bounties than the people of Georgia—situation, climate, soil, produc tions, mineral resources, manufacturing power—these—if we can have assured peace and security for the future—with such a people, and with the aid of capital and population which will flow in to share the rich rewards of industry, the future glory and greatness of our State can scarce ly be conceived. Our purposes and action will, in a great degree, determine our future. Let us strive to prove worthy of the blessings which we seek. Very respectfully your ob’t serv’t, Nelson Tin:. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. IS ! OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENCE* On the Wing, April 24, 1369. Editors Chronicle Sentinel: At Union Point I learned, through I)r. Speer, a discovery had been made which created considerable excitement, particu larly in the minds of the negroes. On emptying a bag of guano a human hand was discovered in the contents, which, from all appearances, was evidently that of a colored person. How in the world this hand got there, was the all-absorbing question. A negro man, on looking at it, remarked : “Well, Gemrnen, confound my skin, if I got any more use for de ’Yan kees ;’ da saunt live niggers here to make cotton, and to make cotton for denselves, and da can’t send no mor.e live niggers, now da got to sendin dead niggers here to make cotton. I’s got no more to do wid dem certin, dat I aint.” We travelled on to Lexington with heavy clouds overhead, and every indication that the long dry spell would soon be broken by refreshing showers. The C .urt organized and dismissed for the evening, and we all retired to refresh for the labors of the coming day. We yielded to the kind embraces of balmy sleep, only to be broken by a furious roar of the Heavenly elements. The lightings flash ed, and thunders roared, and tho rain storm descended, but we felt secure, and hoped to rest in ease and quiet. But 10, the spell of our hoped joys must be broken. A legal brother became very restless, whether from the fear of the wild com motion without, or pains within, was not at first to be determined. The former might yield to kind admonition, but the latter require of us exposure to the terri ble siage, neither pleasant or profitable. There were no groans or expressions of pain, but evident symptoms of distress. The brother could endure no longer, but leaped from the bed, ignited a match, applied it to the candle, and harried over the room in search of his hat. And here the secret eked out. The brother had bought him a hat a few days before, and whether, from the intuitions of a dream or freak of immagination, he concluded it was raining in his new hat, and could give no further sleep to his eyelids until it was made secure. Indeed the brother was uot to he blamed, for a fine looking man de serves a fme looking hat. Among the gentlemen of the bar present who participated more or less in the busi ness of the Court were Messrs. Toombs, Reese and Dubose, of Wilkes; Hill, Lump kiD, Hillyer, Cobh, Thurmond and Harde man. of Athens; McDaniel, of Monroe; Lewis, of Green; Nash and Mathis, of Madison; Stephens, of Hancock; Acker man and Edwards, of Elberton; Mathews, Reid, Johnson and Hardaman of Lexing ton, and several others whose names 1 did not learn. On Tuesday, Gen. Toombs made a very able argument before the court and jury, in opposition to the relief measures of the last Legislature, as confirmed hy a de cision of the Supreme Court. This speech should be in print, and read by every man, that a check may bo put to the wholesale injustice ti creditors. In the heat ofthe stirm of arguments that, he poured forth, he asked where did these principles ol equality, “so-called,” come from ? They did not couie front Heaven; for everything from that upper and better world was pure, holy and good. They did not come from Earth, for all the Governments of the civilized world main tained tho obligations of men as sacred and binding, and enforced them hy well regulated codes of law. Where, then, did they come from ? They came from Hell! It seems that the security on a note given in 1859 wanted to be relieved of his obligation to pay it on the ground that the principal had gone into bankruptcy, but the jury rendered a verdict making him pay every dollar of the claim, amounting to about $5,000. It is true, it looks hard, but I have no idea that the creditors will require hall the amount decided on by the jury. * The two young men charged with the robbery, near Union Point, often thousand dollars, came Wore the Court, confessed their guilt, and were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. Oglethorpe and surrounding couutios were pretty well represented, and I have rarely witnessed more interest among a people in the proceedings of a court. This county is in an easy and comfort able condition. Nearly all old claims have been adjusted, debtors aod creditors have compromised on an average basis of fifty cents in tho dollar, and will not trouble the courts and put themselves to immense cost for litigation in this business in the future. Both parties have acted magnanimously. Where each are disposed to be honorable and considerate, adjustments can easily be effected. The wheat in Oglethorpe and surround ing counties is reported in fine condition, and the prospect flattering for more than an ordinary yield. The farmers have propor tioned their crops with a view to raising an ample supply of Corn,and one or two more good cotton crops at ruling prices will set the country all right again. J udge Andrews thinks I am so faithful in my attendance upon his courts that he must admit me to the bar. But while I am willing to be present at the courts-, I don’t wish to participate in its business, least I should become like the follow who said he had been on the jury so much that he could’nt help stealing to save his iife. I have always desired a little smattering of legal knowledge, but from what the Judge told me ot a certain charaotor, don’t know whether I ought to seek for it or not. He stated that a man broke open a house for the purpose of robbing it, and on enter ing found nothing but law books, and said he was d—d thief enough already without any law books. As many severe jokes as are told on lawyers, there are some of them very clever tcllows, and I have CDjoyed myself finely with them. Tne Judge and myself accepted an invi tation to dine with the Hon. Joseph Echols, who resides at the splendid residence once the home of Governor Gilmer. Nature and art have contributed to make this all that could be desired of an earthly home. The orchard, the garden, yard and grove, all clothed in verdant green, interspersed with flowers, presenting an air of set-one loveliless, which charmed even the little birds, that filled the air with strains of sweetest musio. The table, in keeping with ail the sur roundings, was the highest of good taste, and commanded the admiration of all. The dignity aDd grace, soft and genial maimers of our kind friends won a hold upon our hearts, which will he fondly cherished. My thanks are also due ti Dr. Willing hata and his excellent family for their hospitality and kindness. Such luxuries and social pleasures form oases in the traveller’s life, truly refreshing and grate fu! to recollect. Our friend, Rowe, of the Hotel at Lex ington, displayed his usual euergy and in dustry to accommodate his guests, and I believe all were abundantly satisfied. Traveller. Letter from Jefferson Gouuly. CROPS, weather, ftC. Louisville, April 26, 1869. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: Gentlemen : Seeing reports of the crops from various sections of the State, hut none from this county, I have con eluded to post you iD regard to our condi tion. The planters are all busily engaged preparing their land and planting cotton; a very few have finished planting, hat the larger patt are not more than half through, while some I have heard of only began to plant the past week. The wet weather early in the Spring and the late dry spell have very materially retarded planting operations. Last Tuesday we had a fine rain, but more is needed now. So far as I am able to judge, I do not think any larger crop of cotton is being planted this year than was last, if, indeed, it is as large; but the land has been generally much better prepared than I have ever known it before—two horse and sub-soil plows beiDg no variety—while double the amount of fertilizers are being used, so that, admit ting a smaller area to be planted, good seasons added to the careful preparation of the land, and the increased quantity of fertilizers, will doubtless make the yield fully equal to that of ’6B. Corn is up, has been replanted, aod is now being plowed, and looks very well, considering the cold weather to which it has been subjected. Small grain looks well, and promises a fair yield; hut, I re gret to say, that less than an average crop has been planted. The murder of Dr. Ayer is still the “nine days wonder’’of our community, and the general sentiment is, that as he has been killed, Providence or the Devil (which ever made the selection) ciuld Dot have made a more fortunate choice for the i | community than the negro Wilson, who i did the deed. I have known Wilson since he was a child, and never knew a more abandoned villain for his ago. 1 lis former master has often said he would be hung, and the prospect is very fair now of his prophecy, being soon fulfilled. Since his commitment, it has been discovered that he tried to get two other negroes who lia ed on the same place with him to join nim in killing and robbing a horse-drover, who was stopping this Spring with his (Wil son’s) employer, telling them the drover had money, and that was a much easier way to get it than working in the cotton field. He would have assassinated any one else, white or black, if he had thought they had money, just as soon as he did Ayer, but an inscrutable Providence selected Ayer as the victim, and to this dispensa tion we bow with most perfect resignation. I see the Bull-ox's Secretary, through the assistance of Forney and Greeley, are try ing very hard to work this up into a Ku klux outrage, but if the above-named edi tors will only read the evidence which you have published, they will abandon the at tempt if they have one particle of moral or political honesty in them. Wilson’s own race here does not believe any such thing, in proof of which is the fact that nearly all the witnesses against him are negroes, the prosecutor is a negro, and the foremost one in the chase when he ran from the offioer was a negro, and it was the negroes who wanted him hung on the spot. Now, if there was the least reason for even a sus picion that the deed was done by the Ku klux, do Messrs. Forney and Greeley be lieve the negroes, who are here on the spot and familiar with ail the evidence in the case, would be so anxious to offer up one of their own race an innocent victim to the bloody Ku-klux? The game may succeed at the North, where they are willing to believe anything except the truth that is told of the South. The healt hos our county is •unusually good, and our people are exhibiting more cheerfulness, hope and energy than I have noticed since the surrender. Yours, truly, N. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette. The Aggressive Policy of the Administra tion—The Drift of Events—France and England well Informed—Acquisition of Cuba Means War with France, England and Spain—A Naval Collision Appre hended —Looking Forward to the Irish Vote The Porter-Borie Department- Senator Sprague and his Opponents— Plucky Talk. Washington, April 25, 1869.—1 t has been several times intimated in this cor respondence that the main feature of the political policy of the present administra tion would bo the acquisitiqn of adjacent territory, without limit and regardless of consequence. It was predicted that the absorption of British North America would finally be attempted to be made the bjsis of the settlement of our difficulties with England, and that the immediate an nexation of Cuba would be sought to be brought about by direct and indirect aid to the insurrectionists in that Island. Recent int elligence from Paris and London by cable indicates that the Governments of France and England have been heretofore bet ter informed as to the drift of events on this side of the Atlantic than the mass of the American people, or than even those whose political positions and great finan cial interests would seem to have placed them in the way of obtaining a clue to the real purposes of General Grant and his particular advisers, which are now , how ever, no secret anywhere. The country need be in no further doubt upon another and very important, point, namely : that we cannot acquire either the “New Dominion” or the “Queen of the Antilles” without a brush of considerable magnitude with Great Britain, France and Spain. Besides, pretty definite informa tion to this effect , made known to the pub lic generally through European dispat chos, I have specific facts enabling me to say that our Government is not only aware of the threatened belligerent attitude of those • Powers, in the event of a persistence in the proposed policy of this Government, but has taken action by certain naval or ders, which is meaningless under any hypo pothesis than other apprehensions "of not very remote naval collision! “Let, the War come ! What can these Powers do with the United States ! What damage can they inflict! They might possibly force us to use the sponge freely, even to the extent of wiping out our present in debtedness. They might destroy our com merce. Would not this be a positive natural advantage ? Do we export any appreciable amount except bonds and gold? Do we import anything but luxuries, wbieh may very well be dispensed with ? And, in the meantime, what would become of the commerce of those truculent Mon archies, now “hanging upon the verge of dissolution from intestine oommotions ? At any rate the Republican party will secure the Irish vote, which will be worth at least a few hundred millions of dollars in 1872. Such is the argument of the friends of the administration. A spirited Democratic cotemporary of this morning takes a somewhat different viow of “the situation.” It says: “After the lapse of four years of peace, during which they have utterly failed in their pretended efforts at reconstruction, they see that they have only Irelandized the South. A,nd what do they do to throw dust into the eyes of our overtaxed peo ple ? They furiously demand the payment of the 1 Alabama claims.’ They are even ready to go to war and seize the Canadas for collateral security. They propose to annex Cuba, in order to assist the Repub lican cause in Spain, and obtain some more Radical negro votes. ’ ’ The Navy Department, from the fore going and other causes, has been of late a point of intense interest. I understand the responsibility is duly appreciated by its head or heads (whichever you please). It is rumored that Admiral Porter is de cidedly of opinion that one Captain is enough for any one ship, whatever her size, and is by no means disposed to dis charge the duties of a mere “officer of the deck.” It is further said the venerable Borie threatens resignation. I do not credit the latter report. If General Grant could only review his decision that no man should occupy two distinct positions under the Government at the same time, Borie might resign, and the Admiral might be assigned to the quarter deck of the Navy Department in sole command. It could not be expected that he would be willing to throw up his rank iri the naval service and thereby go ahead of Stewart in’ self-sacrifice! Grant cannot do without him. He must therefore remain witli some nominal Secretary, and with whom could he “get along so well” as with the present amiable Head of the Department ? For similar reasons lam inclined to doubt the rumored appointment of Gen. Sickles to the Spanish Mission. The “General” was recently “retired” upon full pay for life. Will he give this up for an ephemeral Embassy that may not, and probabiy will not,last six months? And the President’s determinations, we all know, are as inex orable and lasting as the laws of the Modes and Persians I The little game eoek of Rhode Island iB doing a wonderful business in the way of “cutting the combs” of his antagonists. I He did not, however, commence personali ties. “Brown and Ives,” now so famous, might forever have remained in blissful ob | scurity it this map Friday, the President , pro teni. of the Senate, had not overstep j ped the proprieties of newspaper discus ; sion. lam glad to learn, from a modern ' Lewis Jenkins, who has recently “inter viewed” with the lively little Senator, that no two-penny quarrel with “Brown and Ives,” or with the whole “caboodle” of his Rhode Island enemies, set him upon his present course. This Jenkins reports Mr. Sprazue to have said : “I have no fondness for a long life, and l hawe no particular ties to bind me here, but I intend to live long enough to get my plan through or, at least, understood be fore the people. It is right, it is certain to prevail. I had do vanity in proposing j it. 1 have studied it out. and have corne ! to it alone, but I tried to have others than ; I propose it. I talked it over to -Members jof Congress. I saturated committees with it. 1 tried to influence all the Cabinet with I it. I strove to get it through the head of the President, but he is a gone case, and the politicians own him. What did Pen : counter? Argument? Answer? No, but personal abuse and ridicule, and a I family war upon my business. Then I re ' torted, and showed that 1 put Anthony himself into the Senate; that I paid the 1 requ's te taxes of SIO,OOO,_ which were necessary to elect Burnside Governor. He stancs to-day on my pocket-book. Anthony is a managing fellow, indeed. He thus seems to have rdached the Senate through the broccbe- pocket of Mr. Sprague, aDd reached the chair ol that august body by defaming his benefactor. The avowal of Senator Sprague, that he had 'no fondness tor a long life” has reference to the public threats ol ttc hrag adocia. Abbott. The following plucky talk is folly sufficient to paralize l he very gizzard of the North Carolina carpet-bag ger : “I intend to be diverted by no personal quarrel ftoip bringing qiy plan before the
