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fYKBNEdBAI MOBJIHG. OCTOBER
The Sow York told Pool.
The late sudden collapse of the gold
market has set the “ring’’ by the ears.
Fisk, the Barnum of the Gold Room, and
the “Admiral" of the Btosk Market, the
bold, daring, round, plump, debonaire ,
operator, alarmed for the safety of his
“belly, vith good, fat,capon lined” peach
es. So long as things went smoothly,
Fisk let out darkness. He gave verbal or
der* for millions. Fisk’s word, without “a
margin,” was all sufficient. Fisk knew.
Fisk was in the secrets of the Treasury
Department; and Fisk’s verbal orders were
obeyed and his purchases made through
“responsible houses,” “members of first
class standing” in the Gold Room aDd at
the Gold Exchange Bank.
But the “fear ofhell is the hangman’s
whip.” The sudden collapse in the geld
market, a collapse that sent hundreds of
“responsible houses” of the Gold Room
and “members of first-class standing” at
the Gold Exchange Bank to the wall,
smashing credits for the paper operators,
and “margin carvers” and robbing poor
outside dupes, stirs Wall street from its
great depths. A storm of such fury and
violence’arises that.the knees of the indotni
(able Fisk quake. He will no longercon
tinue to let out darkness. The vision of a
lamp-post with a jolly figure of an Admi
ral of the Btock Room, and of the,Gold
Room, and of the Opera House, flits be
fore bis eyes. There should be honor
among thieves. F;sk will let out light,
some light. lie was only making a “go,”
was “on the make.” All his interest was
in the game as played. One Corbin,
the brother-in-law of the President of
the United States, was the great
strategist. It was Corbin that could con
trol the President. It was Corbin that
could manipulate the Secretary of the
Treasury. It was Corbin that oould “tip
the wink.” Corbin was a newspaper man
and a Congressional lobby jobber. He
knew how to manipulate the administra
tion and to manipulate public opinion, and
the opinion of influential individuals. The
Secretary of the Treasury, with his good
honest Boston soul, full of lofty aims and
general beuevoleuoe for the unfortunate
bondholders of the country, and inspired
by the singleness of purpose that this un
fortunate class, both foreign and domestic,
should have gold justice, done then fox
their greenback faith, could not stoop to
the arena of the Bulls and Bears of Wall
street. It was not part of the
business of the Treasury Department
of the United States to take a hand with
gold gamblers. The Hon- Secretary cared
nothing about Greenbacks. They were for
the people. It would be highly improper
to buy Greenbacks, when every dollar was
needed to move the crops of farmers.
And besides, it was beneath the dignity
of the Government to interfere in the
paltry games of gold gamblers, and be so
declared, in all rectitude of purpose,
opedy in Wall Street, The Bulls and
the Bears might hug and gore each other
to their life’s blood, llis duty was to take
care of the credit of the Government,
work Government bonds to par in gold,
and leave the greenbacks to move the
crops of farmers at whatever valuo the
farmers might choose toreoeive them.
Everything, therefore, worked propitious
ly. Corbin, tbo brother-in-law of the
President of the United States, said so,
and Boutwoll, the Secretary of the Treas
ury, had said there should be a free fight.
Fi&ls and Corbin define the rules, and the
“game” pro-sods and the “Pool” is made
up. ' First, “forty millions” representing
gold interests in tho market ; second, of
oourso tho representative of tho gold, is
currency, fit the current quotations for
the premium on gold. Small bills
bccorao scarce. Tho New York Banks
“to preserve their integrity” pay out
“for the country” only large bills, bills
of the denomination of one hundred, and
five hundred and one thousand dollars.
Now York Brokers are also delighted-
There is not eurreucy enough to move tho
crops. Small bills of the denominations of
five, ten and twenty dollars command a
premium of two and one-half to five pe r
cent. Gold is imported from Europe. The
poor farmer, whether he grows wheat or
cotton, having only a few bags or bales,
must pay for the scarcity of curreney by
a reduction in the price of his wheat and
cotton. The priqe of gold goes up, the
rato of interest goes up to fabulous prices,
alarm spreads, curreney booomes scarce
and gold scarcer. Five hundred millions
of gold is sold in New York, while all the
gold in that city saleable outside of the
Government vaults is in amount only
seventeen or eighteen millions. And Fisk
and Corbin play the “game.”’ The goal
is two hundred premium for gold. But
this crushes tho merchants, jobbers and
importers. The duties and prime cost
of foreign goods have to be paid in gold.
With gold advancing with groat strides,
each minute, these merchants and jobbers
cannot put a price upon their goods
that will save them from loss ; and
the merchant jobbers and importers who
pay the gold revenues into the Custom
House upon the tariff of duties upon for
eign goods, which enables the Secretary
of tho Treasury to pay the gold interest on
tho bonds held by his pet bondholders,
raise a howl which reaches the ear of the
Honorable Secretary of the Treasury, and
ho condescendingly enters the arena of the
“bulls and bears” to keep his friends, the
merchant jobbers and importers, who
furnish tho gold for his Treasury, from loss
and bankruptcy. With the air of great
benevolence, as if saving the people from
becoming a prey to merciless sharks, tho
Honorable Secretary of the Treasury punc
tures the paper bubble by an offer to sell
four millions of gold in a market where
transactions sum up over five hundred
millions.
This is the tale of the Corbin-Fisk
‘‘Fool.”
Now wo ask, wbat reliance cau be placed
upon a tinaneial system which can be made
to fluctuate by the second ? What trust
can be given to ;> policy which, ignoring
the great wants of the people, is open :o the
control of sharks and sharpers of
Fiakes & Corbins, Wall street brokers
and swindlers ; what faith given to “cur
rency” which is left to take care of itself,
while every nerve and sinew in the land
is strained to pay the taxes, to pay the
gold interest on bouds due years hence,
which disturbs the value of wages to the
mechanic, of bread and meat to the day
laborer, and of the hard-earned toil for a
year to the farmer?
Verily, sooner or later, Mr. Boutwell
will learn that there can be no sound sys
tem ts finance except it be based upon a
sound system of agriculture, instead of
Government manipuiationsand Wall street
speculations; and that the best friends to
Justice and national faith are the farm
ers and mechanics of the land, who require
a_ stable standard of value, and not the
rich bondholder who lives at ease upon his
gold interest, and by speculation upon the
wants of honest labor. Sooner or later
Mr. Boutwcl’i will find out that a stable
currency i» the best basis for national faith;
that the best friends to national credit are
citizens interested in the Government, and
the best holder of Government bonds is
the American citiieo, and not the foreign
bondh ddef, and that the key to national
faith and national credit is the circulating
medium. Let this be repudiated by farm
ers and mechanics as unstable, and away
goes, as a Wall street bubble, bonds and
legal-tender notes, and faith and credit.
Juk Rural Carolinian.— Messrs.
Schr- iner & Sons have laid upon our table
the first number of the Rural Carolinian.
This i* a m. w agricultural monthly, which
presents itseh' 4s a candidate for public fa
vor, under the editorial management of
1). 11. Jacques, issuing trom 'be press of
the well known firm of Walker, Evans *
Cogswell, Charleston, S. C. T° bis modest
salutatory the editor, speaking to." bimself
and the publi-here, takes for his gtn>*
motto, I'roiluse quam eonspid , and asks,
offering the present number as an earnest
of the future, to bs judged by work than
profession. The Rural Carolinian is an
illustrated magaxine, gotten up in the
highest styis of the art, “devoted to agri
culture, horticulture and the industrial
arts generally. Among the contributors
we noticoDr. Jos. LeConte, Gen. M. G
M. Hammond, Rev. J. 8. Boines and D.
Wyatt Aiken, Esq. Terms, $2 per an- 1
nam, payable in advance.
Foreign Immigration In Gcrmanj.
A commnuioatien from George W. Les
ter (Domosti* Commissioner; to the At
lanta Constitution , announces the arrival
of Col. Weil, Foreign Commissioner of
Immigration of the State, and that he has
selected Bremen “as headquarters for the
present.” “The Commissioner finds a
predjudico prevailing against the country
and people of the South, resulting from
the studied and persistent teaching of the
enemies of our section—that the German
people are afraid of our ciimate, and have
been led to believe, from Northern jour
nals, that the South is no place for a happy
home or a prosperous life,” and that the
German Press has “caught the infection
and are set against us,” while all over Ger
many agents of Railroad and Land Com
panies are to be found, who “make it a
special business to viiify and traduce the
Southern States and people.” Commis
sioner Weil hopes to remove this prejudice
by the dissemmination of true information
by intercourse and by authentic documents,
and by the establishment of a steamship
line to Savannah. Our commissioner wilj
find, we think, upon further investigation,
that the vilification of the South is part
and parcel of a speculation in which the
German press, the German Agents, the
steamship companies, German bankers, and
Ameriean exchange brokers, Castle Garden
commissioners, railroad companies, land
companies and town-lot speculators, house
builders and lumber dealers, and store
keepers and house-furnishing contract
ors, are all ioterested,thoroughly organized
and bound by the tie3 of large profits.
They prepare the mind of the emigrant,
and take fall aud complete coutiol of him
until he is landed “upon the most desira-
ble spot in America as anew home.”
So long as great profits are to be derived
by this combination, just so long will the
vilification continue, and every nation
pour emigrants for the North and
Northwest. His authentic documents
will apt avail mpeh. It would be far more
effective to procure the services of some
German Auerbach to write and publish “a
Yillo on the Savanuah” as a sequel to the
“Villa on the Rhine,” than to waste time
and money in the dissemination of “au_
thenticState documents.” The steamship
line to Savannah assured of a return cargo
of cotton and opening direct trade, if accom
plished, will be productive of some good, as
well for the people of the State as for the
benevolent design of our enthusiastic hut
chagrined Commissioner. It is this, and
this only, that gives us the slightest hope
that the “Bureau of Immigration” for the
State of Georgia will ever achieve anything
for the good of the State. But it is only a
hope.
The Southern Commercial Convention
at Louisville.
We have no great faith in Conventions
as effeoling immediate tangible results.
Such assemblages, as organized bodies,
in the main, are productive, usually,
of much gasconade, or, at best, a great
deal of “Buncombe,” with now and
again some sterling thought, elaborately
and critically wrought, which takes root
and becomes established by action. But not
withstanding these “Buncombe” explo
sions, there is an unseen and silent influence
which grows out of such gatherings which
is pot m' sometimes for good and some
times for evil. In the ease of the Conven
tion which affords a title to this article, we
neither expect that it will build the Paaifla
Railroad nor decide the acceptable point as
a Federal capital for our extended empire
and new era, nor make Norfolk nor Port
Royal nor New Orleans our great Com
mercial entrepot, nor do much to alleviate
the burthens of taxation, nor alleviate the
evils of partisan Legislation. We have
not the slightest idea that it will make
gold go either up or down; or that it will
influenco Mr. Secretary Boutwell in the
slightest, to regard ilie Government’s de
mand notes past due and under protest,
so far as public opinion can effect such an
object without the intervention of tho
customary notarial seal, as an object of
concern for higher than Government Bonds
duo two or five or twenty years hence.
But we do anticipate much from the com
ing together of enlightened men from all
parts of the Union. We do expect much
from the intercourse of such men—from
the interchange of ideas, fronfthb knowl
edge which, in private, men from one sec
tion will imparl to those of another. Such
assemblages make the seed-time for -cat
tering thoughts like the sower, to germinate,
grow and fructify hereafter. Ideas will
be disseminated. Views will be present
ed from different stand-points, from centre
and circumference, from mountains and
seaboards, from tho oentres of wealth and
power and from tho subjects constraint
and burthens. Each and eveij delegate will
learn something of the wants of the
other section, will see how far and
wherein there is conflict and coinci
dence ; and will learo the common ground
upon which all maj r rest as common to all
and tor all. The great West will iearn
the views and purposes of the South, and
the South will hear tho sontiments of the
West, free and unbiased, either by politi
cal trammels or by the warp of sectionalism;
and the North and East and tho West and
the South will iutermingle, and men from
each latitude and each longitude of our
•xtended area will interchange and ex
change honest opinions and present the
wants and grievances and essential de
mands to each other.
It is, therefore, with no little satisfaction
that in the outset of this so-called South
ern Convention that we see men noted for
th6ir virtue and their intelligence, assem
bled by the voice of the } eople, and fresh
from the people. And it is with no less satis
faction that we have seen that Ex President
Fillmore was made President, and there
fore the exponent of the Convention—
not because we may or may not endorse
this or that of his political opinions, or
differ from them, but because he has been
a mau bold enough in the past to
do right, because it was right regard
less of consequences —as covenanted
justice. ’The times demand an honest
man, an honest and faithful admin
irtration; and not sham Republicanism.
As the Government is now and has been
conducted in past years fer nearly a de
cade, it is administered in the interest of
a faction, and for the benefit of rings and
office holders. Military satraps, and vaga
bond adventurers andcorruptofficials, rule
and pollute; and destroy all faith in true
Republicanism, and corrupt and oppress
and debauch the people. Moneychangers
arc the High priests in authority. Money
has become the representative of virtue,
and tho sole passport to power. Legisla
tive Halls are turned into brokers'
marts, aud Legislation is determined
by the brokers ner cent. A govern
ment thus organized cannot stand.
It wi!! be swept as by a whirlwind from
exist- If the people become de
bauched, there results but anarchy or
despotism.
It (s with profound satisfaction, there
fors. that we witness assemblages fresh
from the people, from the North and the
South, and from the East and the West,
gash, red together—“from all parts of the
U.h.M.” No matter that the object of
such an assembly ’‘bo to consult as to the
bt-t means of developing the commercial
and manufacturing interests of the coun
try. Aa honest and faithful government
is a pre-requisite ; and must command th e
first and highest consideration, whether or
not such consideration finds immediate
expression in spoken or written words, or
in ultimate action.
Canadian Stock. —We notice the ar
rival of some fine Canadian stock by way of
steamer to Richmond,thence by rail, reach
ing our city by the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Raiiroad. This stock
has been imported by Cos!, Cloud from
Canada. The lot contains some fine
mils, on* “ ,d to be *«? fast. We are in
formed that 0051 of transportation
from Montreal to New'i ork is from
New York to Augusta $.Vr p£r head,
time from Montreal to New York fifteen
hours; from New Tork to Augusta four
days. Parties in charge and interested in
form us that the above route is the safest
and cheapest they have ever tried, the !
stock coming in better order and the gross I
expenses less- i
The brand Jury of Warren County on
(lie Prevailing Lawlessness and Its
Causes.
The Grand Inquest of the Superior
Court of the Middle Circuit for the county
of Warren have spoken boldly and honest
ly concerning the lawlessness which pre
vails. It was no hindrance that the Judge
upon the bench was a Republican; nor did
this fact tempt them to forget the usuai
courtesies due to a high official of the Law,
and in the present instance to the virtues
of the citizen in whom the judicial trust
has been reposed. Nor did the presence
of armed soldiers, nor th'e novel position
of acivil court in this “sweet lanfi of lib
erty,” surrounded by bayonets, embar
rass or deter them from a frank, fearless,
conscientious discharge of their duty. The
Grand Jury of Warren county has spoken
nobly and truthfully. We quote this Pre
sentment as a truthful expression of the
feelings and sentiments of the people of
Georgia. The Grand Jury of Warren
county say:
We would do injustice to our feelings
were we to pass over the condition of onr
country in silence. We deeply deplore the
lawlessness that pervades our common
country. .We attribute this, in part,.to the
effects of the.late war. Bat while the lovers
of order and good government have done
all in their power to arrest the tide of de
moralization that is sweeping over our land,
it has been infested by a set of beings con
sisting of renegade whites, lawless negroes
and contemptible carpet-baggers calling
themselves m -c, who Lave done all in their
power to nproot the very foundations of
civil and religious government, that they
might thereby place themselves in power.
We here solemnly arraign the Execu
tive of the State at the bar of an impartial
public, for a large part of the lawlessness
and murderer with which our State has
been eursed. He has pardoned and turn
ed loose in our midst, a set of desperadoes
and murderer.; in many instances to return
to the same locality and commit again the
same crimes for which they were first in
carcerated; and often has he, when a crim
inal has been found guilty, and sentence
passed by the judge, either commuted the
sentence or entirely liberated the guilty
party. The knowledge of these facts has,
in some instances, caused an outraged peo
ple to take the law into their own hands,
while it has, in other cases, thrown obsta
cles in the way of the execution of the law,
jurors thinking it useless to convict, be
lieving that the undue exercise of the par
doning power would be extended to the
guilty and condemned party. Anoth
er cause of the uncertainties of the law
may be attributed to the presence
of a military force in our midst to overawe
and intimidate the civil authorities of the
land, thereby furnishing wicked men with
the power to wreak their vengenee on
unoffending citizens without authority of
law. While we do not complain of the
military in our midst, as a body, and
would, in the name of liberty, the Consti
tution, and_the memory of our revolution
ary Fathers, protest against the stationing
of military forces in our midst in time of
peace. And we believe that, were the
people left to themselves, all the evils with
which we are afflicted, would soon be
healed, and that order and good govern
ment would be restored—that the laws
would be executed—crime would be pun
ished, and the bow of peace would soon
span our country from tue lakes of tho
North to the snowy cotton fields of the
.South.
We pledge ourselves as a b idy to do all
we can.to have the laws faithfully and im
partially executed. And we would call
upon every lover of his family, his country,
his race aud his God, to throw his influence
and the weight of his character on the
side of law and order.
Letter from Greenesboro.
The “Georgia Association" of the Baptist
Church —Action as to Mercer University
—Arrest of a Highway Robber—Negro
“KwKbux
Greenesboro, Oct. 11, 1809.
Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel:
The convocation of tho “Georgia Asso
ciation” of the Baptist Church of this
State has been the occasion of great inter
est, imparting new life aud vigor to our vil
lage, usually so quiet and free from bustle
anil activity.
The economy of the Baptist Church
piaces the power in the individual church
es. The polity of this Christian denomi
nation is a simple confederation. The in
dividual church is the source of power, in
each of which members decide by the form
of ballot all matters brought before them
of a local nature according to conscience
and perception. Ecclesiastical power,
therefore, radiates upward from the
churches, or from an association of church
es, in which Laymen are the co-equals of
the Ministry, and not downward from the
clergy. The churches select delegates who,
when convened, organize themselves as
representatives into an “Association.”
Associations cover a specific area
according to proximity and conve
nience. To these are specially com
mitted “Church extension” and Missionary
efforts aud kindred subjects. In Sum, the
Association selects delegates who organize
the “Convention”-.,0f the whole Church
and form the highest eecleasiastieal body
known and recognized by this denomina
tion.
The “Georgia Association/’ which as
sembled in this village on the o h inst., is
said to be the oldest organization in the
State, having been first formed, as its
name imports, in honor of the State, after
the fashion of that day indicates. It is
also said to be the larges* and most in
fluential of such organizations in ecclesias
tical divisions —numbering about forty
thno Churches. Its territorial jurisdiction
does not coincide with our political divis
ions, but may be sufficiently defined by
indicating that area of the State which,
for th« most part, lies along and east ot
the Georgia Railroad and reaching south
ward from Athens and Grecnesboro Dearly
to Augusta. The delegates to this Asso
ciation numbered about one hundred and
twenty. Besides these there are nearly
dou leas many “visitors” in attendance.
This influx, of course, taxed to tho utmost
the capacity of the village for accommoda
tion. But the tax was completely and
cheerfully met with royal hospitality, in
which all contributed. The Methodist,
Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Roman Cath
olic, Israelites, believers of all shades,
opened their doors wide, and everything
availab’e, public and private, was made to
serve for hopitable entertainment, without
stint and without price.
P. 11. Mell, of Franklin College,
prettied as Moderator of the Association
and the Lev. J. H. Calloway, of Wilkes,
as stated clerk. The great point of inter
est to the secular world was the action of
the Association upon the question of the
removal of Mercer University from Pea
field to Atlanta or Marietta. The i oltcy
and propriety for such a removal has been
Seriously agitated lor a long while, the
chief grounds being the inaccessibility of
the present location, and the increased
patronage and influence which would be
derived by a location at i more central
point or upoD an established thoroughiare.
The action of the Association was very de
cided, almost unanimous, in opposition to
such a removal. A tide bar, it was ad
mitted that some action should be taken,
to remove the alleged ground of objection
to the locality of Penfield, it being inacces
sible by rail, and so tar as expression
found decided utterance, it was in favor of
establishing a horse railroad from Pen
field to the point nsoet Coovc-oient on
the Trunk {Line of the Georgia Road,
between Union Point and Greenseboro,
and the establishing thereat a station to
be called “University Station;” but if
oc-operation could be obtained, to carry
the same to Grecnesboro, Union Point or
Woodville. the amount of aid tendered i
determining the terminus.
Greeoesboro is still greatly agitated by
the destruction of the Presbyterian Church
by fire. There seems to be but a single
opinion, which is, that this wanton act
was the deliberate work of an incendiary,
having no other motive than that of petty
revenge, and this has stirred all classes of
society to the very foundation. There
have been some circumstances discovered
which leads to the belief that the perpe
trator will yet be discovered. The Church
Js to b« rebuilt
Recently there has been arrested in the
adjoining county a desperado, who has for
some time been the terror of this and ad
jacent oounties as a burglar and high
wayman, and also one or two members of
! a negro band, calling itself “Ku-klucks,”
j the leader of whom, it is supposed, comes
1 from your city. Some of these parties
'•'onißs State’s evidence, which fact
have uvv . > -~.nae of the hope of
forbids details, H.
further development
Immigration.— An immense Irish Im
migration Convention has been in session
in ot. Louis. An “Irish Immigrant Aid
Association” was formed, to be incorpo
rated. Its chief object is to aid Irish
Immigrants to become landholders. Its
. capital stoex is to be *2,000,000, at *5 per
share. Any State is entitled to a director I
that has 500 shares.
£petlal Correspondence of tie Chron
icle A Sentinel.
LETTER FROM LOUISVILLE-
Bullock's Train of Kimballs Sleeping
Coaches—Expenses ail paid by IF. & A.
R- R. Governor and Governess
Aboard — Georgia Delegation—Head
quarters at Galt House. - - Gaskill Chair
man and H. H’. Hilliard Vice of Dele
gations— Organization of the Convention
—President Fillmore—Convention no
longer Southern , Out National— 1 Fire-
Eiting Alabamian Southern Pacific
Road— Taxation—Hospitality of Louis
vdlians—Bullock and Chronicle <fc
SerUineL
Louisville, Oct. 12tb, 1869.
Editors] Chronicle & Sentinel:
1 our correspondent, together with sever- j
al other Georgians, arrived in this city on
last Monday afternoon for tho purpose of
attending the Ootmnarcisl Convention,
about which so much has been said and
written recently. The larger number of
the Georgia Delegation arrived here on
Sunday, having come through from At
lanta on an almost luxurious special train,
which was tendered by Bullock for tbp oc
casion. Everything on it was, of course,
gotten up in a magnificent m&ussr. Sleep
ing coaches were taken by Kimbail from
other trains and put at the service of the
Delegates; the eatiDg bills of the entire
party were footed when ver it stopped,
and, to crown the affair, Bullock and his
lady lent their presence and accompanied
the delegation to this city. It is but fair
to say, however, that some of the Geor
gians refused to be the guests of his Bo
vinity, while others came without knowing
that the latter was on the train until it was
too late. Many of the gentlemen who were
on the train, too, do not seem to like the
way in which their eating bids were settled,
but found it useless, they say, to tender
payment, as the reply everywhere was
“it has all been settled.” The impression
prevails that the affair was merely another
trick gotten up by Bullock for the purpose
of ingratiating himself with the Delega
tion, and putting himself forward s.s tho
representative of the State, which he dis
graces by his presence.
The deb gation from your State is stop
ping at the Galt House, in this o’’ty—said
to be one of the finest hotels in the Union.
The delegates are about sixty in number,
and come from every section of the S. ate.
Among others there are,Hon- A. H. Chap
pel of Columbus; Thos. Hardeman, o
Macon; D. A. Vason, of Albany; V. A
Gaskill of Atlanta, and P. M. B. Young
of the Seventh District. The elegant read
ing room of the hotel has been engaged as
the “Georgia Headquarters,” and all ofthe
delegation have been made comfortable as
possible. On Monday afternoon it was
feared by some that, in accordance with his
programme, Bullock would endeavor to
have himself elected Chairman ot the dele
gation; fortunately, it proved to be a false
alarm—his Bovinity was Dot quite
“cheekey” enough for that, with all his
impudence. On this morning the delega
tion met to elect officers, and Bollock was
put in nomination for Chairman by D. A.
V ason,|of Albany. So soon as the nomi
nation was made the nominee rose and
withdrew his name, on tho ground that he
wished to assist and not lead the delegation.
The fact is, he knew that ho would not
have received halfa dozen votes, and with
drew to save himself the mortification of
being beaten. Messrs. 11. W. Hilliard,
V. A. Gaskill and Tiios. Hardeman were
then nominated, and Mr. Gaskill proved
the winner. Mr. Hilliard was elected
Vice Chairman; Mr. Hardeman Vice
President of the Convention from Georgia;
aud Mr. B. C. Yancey was put on the Con
vention Business Committee.
At 11 o’clock this morning the delegates
to the Convention, several hundred in
number, assembled at tho Louisville Ope
ra House, where the body was called to
order by ex-Gov. Charles Anderson, of
Kentucky, tho President of the Memphis
Convention. The address of welcome was
delivered by Governor Steveuson, of tiiis
State. It was a short but very appropriate
address, and would have been much hotter
received than it was had it not been for the
exceeding bad taste he displayed in his al
lusion to Norfolk as the choice of himself
and the choice of Kentucky as the port
from which to have direct intercourse be
tween Europe and the South.
Ex-President Fillmore was introduced to
the Convention by Gen. G. W. Chilton,
and elected President of the body. The
speech made by the ex-President, in ac
cepting the honor, you will receive by the
Louisville papers (despite his request to
the reporters not to publish it), and I
shall not give it here. While it was in
very good taste, and the sentiments irre
proachable, it is but fair fair to say that it
did not equal the expectations of the au
dience, which was led to expect something
far different, on account of the previous
reputation pf the speaker. Mr. Fillmore
is a well preserved, portly old gentleman,
apparently about seventy years of age.
llis face is remarkably free from the harsh
furrows of Time, and bears a most benev
olent and winning expression. Though so
little affected personally by his weight of
years, it is easy to see that mentally he is
no longer the same Fiilmore who occupied
so many years ago the Presidential Chair.
However, people are Dot disposed to be
critical with men of his rank, and the
speech was received with the applause
usual on such occasions.
During the day—though there has beeD
two sessions of the Convention—nothing
has been done except organize, and even
that business has hardly been perfected.
Composed of delegates from almost every
State in the Union, it can no longer be
termed a Southwestern, or Southern, but
rather a National Commercial Convention,
and Ifear that it will prove a difficult task to
harmonize the many antagonistic interests
represented in the body. To-day’s session,
if reported correctly, will strengthen what
Ihave just written. During its two ses
sions it has been most turbulent and dis
orderly, and if the evil is not remedied no
business can be transacted. On the most
trivial motions speakers were alternately
cheered or hissed, and the greatest
confusion existed. On one occasion —in a
discussion about the Memphis Convention
Committees holding over—a delegate from
Alabama, after haviag some words with
General G. W. Chilton, of Kentucky, on
the subject, ended the discussion by giving
the latter his name and State, should he
desire satisfaction. To-night, it is said,
that Chilton will send a challenge to the
fire-eating Alabamian, though the friends
of the former are endeavoring to restrain
him from pushing the quarrel farther.
The great struggle, and the principal
question in tho Convention, will be on the
location of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The delegations from Virginia, Kentucky
and Kansas will earnestly advocate its be
ing built to Norfolk. From Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, and other Southern
States will come strong opposition to this
scheme, and. I hope, will secure its defeat.
Each of the Southern States has, of course,
its own favorite route for this all-import
ant Railway, but rather than see Norfolk
win the day, I think the friends of Charles
ton, Port Royal, Savannah, Brunswick,
Mobile and New Orleans will forget their
mutual animosity and combine against the
common enemy. Their plan, as so far
ioreshadowed, will be to sink the claims of
their respective ports, and demand that
the road shall be built to some point in
Texas not lower than the thirty-second
parallel of latitude—and there let the
main trunk stop, and from it let minor
line* radiate to the different ports men
tioned. The plan is a good one, but
whether it will be successful remains to be
yet proven. A good deal of feeling is dis
played by the different delegations on this
subject, and lively times are antiepated
when it is brought before the Ccnvientinn
for discussion.
Another subject, which will be very
prominent, is that of the system of taxation
now in operation in nearly ail the
Southern States, and which it? opponent?
claim is rapidly undermining and will
speedily destroy whatever of commercial
prosperity is left to our section. In epposi
tion to this system. Mr. Hilliard, of Au
gusta, it is said, will deliver a carefully
prepared and very elaborate speech.
The citizens of Louisville are exceed
ingly hospitable, and the delegates ex
perience nothing but kindness at their
hands. A large concert will be given
them on to morrow night, and cn Friday
night a mammoth banquet will wind up
the affair in a most magnificent manner.
Bn lock is playing the agreeable to the
Georgia delegates, and leaves nothing un
done to prove to them that he is not the
monster which the “Ku-Klux paper,” as
he is pleased to term the Chronicle &
Sentinel, would make them believe.
He took three or four ol the delegation
out riding in a pbaet on this afternoon,
aod, afterward, brought Goo. W. H.
Halieck, of the Federal army, to the room
of the delegation and introduced to the
Boy in Blue all the Georgians who desired
the honor of his acquaintance. Colonel
M. J. O'Brien is here representing your
Congressional District in the Convention.
H. G. W.
He att Verdict Against the Geor
gia Railroad.— Georg* M. Thomas, of
DeKalb county, brought an action several
1 years ago : n the Superior Court agamst
the Georgia Railroad Company for break
ing his arm by the careless running of one
of their hand cars, by his fellow-servants.
■ On the trial before the petit jury, they
gave him a verdict for S6OO damages.
1 The defendant appealed, but plaintiff s
j counsel moved to dismiss the appeal on
j several grounds. The Court refused to
J: «misß the appeal but dismissed the case.
. Ui _ carried up to the Supreme
The ease**- ' - --'•versed the decis-
CoLHhen that bony,. ' ‘
ion of the Court below. The case . .
re-instated, was tried on Tuesday in J)e- j
Kalb Superior Court, whan plaintiff ob- ;
tained a verdiot for $2,700 against the !
Road. Hill & Candler, for plaintiff, Glenn j
& Son for defendant. —Atlanta Constitu
tion,
Special Correspondence thronide A
Sentinel.
LETTER PRVM LOUISVILLE
-Urn-
Organization of thi National Commercial
Convention—Topes for diicussion — The
policy of the Secretary of the Treasury —
The removal of he Gapital to the centre
of Territory and population—Re
spect to the memeryof President Pierce —,
Queer system of Representation—South
Carolina having no delegates Georgia
lends her a few -Convention no Hum
bug—Delegates eernest men and earnest
workers— Ballad in the role of Oily
Gammon—Fireciting dies out —Grand
Concert to be guen Georgians in for
Music.
LouisvilmE, October 13, 1869.
Editors Chronicled; Sentinel;
The tccond diy’i session of tho Southern
Commercial, orNational Commercial, Con
vention, as it is now termed, is over, and
nothing has ye! Deen accomplished save
the permanent S-gaDization of the body.
This orcanizatioi, however, has been no
easy work on acmsnt of the large number
of States refreeeated here and the huge
size of the delegations which ome from
some of then; and the Convention is,
perhaps, estSed to praise for having been
able to give slape to the unwieldy assem
blage within fie time mentioned. To-day,
as I have aboie written, the machinery of
the body was perfected and on to-morrow
it is hoped tha it will be able to commence,
energetically aid systematically, the great
work which ha caused its assemblage in
thi3 city.
Twenty-eigh Vice-Presidents—one from
each State reptsented in the Convention
—have been eleted; the same number of
Secretaries eh^en; a regular order of
business been fijpd on; and thirteen Com
mittees appoined to prepare matierfor
consideration. The committees are as fol
lows and are imposed of one delegate
from each State On the Southern Pacific
Railroad; on Railroads generally; on
Direct Trade with Europe; on Emigra
tion ; on Finatce tnd Banting; on Manu
factures and Mining; on the Mississippi
Levees and Improvements; on the Ten
nessee Rivertnd Improvements; on ltiver
Navigation aid Canals;'on Agriculture ;
on Waterlim Communication betweea the
Mississippi liver aDd the Atlantic Ocean;
on the retmval of obstructions from the
Mississippi on tho present system of
Taxation. On all these Committees of
oourse Geoigia isrepesented.
After tin organization of the Conven
tion the Sates were called in alphabetical
order, and i good many resolutions were
introduced, which were retd and referred
without coament to appropriate Commit
tees to be riported upon. The resolutions
were mtrodiced by delegates from every
section of tie Unian, and on nearly every
conceivable subjeet. One resolution en
dorsed the scheme recently inaugurated
by running a line of ocean steamers di
rectly betwten the port of New York and
the harbors of the orient. This, of course,
emanated fern the New York delegation.
Another rcolutioa denounced the bond
buyinggold-selling policy of Grant’s Sec
retary of thi Treasury, as one calculated
to ruin theinances of the country. This
came also hom New Yoik. Per contra
in a few ninutes afterward a delegate
} from the Wist took up the cudgels in de
fence of the idministration, and offered a
resolution endorsing Barnwell's operations
as much as the first had condemned them.
Col. E. W. Colo, formerly of Augusta, but
now of Nashville, introduced a resolution
that the new trunk ofthe Southern Pacific
Railroai be located from San Diego, in
California, o some point in Texas not
situated lowa- than the thirty-second par
allel of latitide. This was done in ac
cordance witl the plan, the formation of
which I adviied you in my letter of the
12th instant. This plan, it will be remem
bered, was toprerent any bad feeling in the
different Stats delegations on the subject,
by not runniig the line directly to any
port on the Soutlern seaboard but letting
its Eastern lerminus be in Texas, from
whence lines miglt radiate to all the rival
harbors. It Is stll thought, however,that
a hard fight will ko made ou this Southern
Pacific Railroad question by Virginia and
her Southern allies and the other States on
the South Allantic coast. The Virginia
and Kentucky delegation's are wording
vigorously ami pusistently aud seem de
termined to leavi no means unemployed
which will tend toward securing the victory
for Norfolk and Norfolk alone.
In opposition ti Colonel Cole’s scheme
a resolution was iitrodueed declaring that
the main trunk should be laid from the
Pacific to the Mississippi river and have
its Eastern terminus at Cairo on that
stream. \
Another resolution favored the establish
ment of direct tnde between the South
west and Europs by means of lines of
steamships running from the ports of Nor
folk, Charleston, Savannah snd Mobile to
Liverpool. Others provide that Congress
be petitioned to reduce the present oner
ous and unjast internal revenue tax on
manufactured tobacco ; to reduce the im
port duty on machinery intended for the
spinning of raw ootton ; and to entirely
abolish the duty on railroad iron and ma
terial used in shipbuilding.
In accordance with the recent movement
inaugurated in tin Western States for the
purpoie of removihg the national capital
from Washington to some point in the
West, a resolution was offered favoring
the; transfer of the seat of government to
some city nearer the centre of population
AND WAS GREETED WIXU GREAT APPLAUSE.
Ot her resolutions were also introduced but
tho above embrace all those of any import
ance. At three o’clock the Convention
adjourned out of respect to the memory of
ex-Preeident Pierce.
The session oi to-dsy Las been
more orderly and quiot than the one on
yesterday, though as yet it is btiil too noisy
and large to traustet business as speedily
as might be desired. The spectator, how
ever, ean plainly see that order is gradual
ly arising out of chaos aud on to-morrow
and Friday I think the business of the
Convention will be dispatched in the best
manner.
The managers of the Convention, how
ever, in their desire to make the body a
“National” Convention, have inaugurated
a very queer system of representation for
some of the States. For instance ; South
Carolina, from some reason unknown to
your correspondent, refused or neglected
to appoint delegates' to renreEcnt that
State in the Convnrtion. In order to
remedy this state of affairs it has been
determined that South Carolina shall not
not be excluded, and at the time I write
the “Palmetto State” has a full delegation
and is represented on every Committee.
This desirable end has been brought out
by means of colonizisg from other States.
In this respect Georgia ha* been very
liberal to her sister State aod the Caro
linians wjjl find themselves represented by
some of our best met. Some other States
have but one delegate and he does duty
for the whole Stale. It must not be
thought, however, from this that the Con
vention is a humbug or a failure, or that
maDy States are represented in it by these
delegates of straw. On the contrary it is
conceded by every one to be a grand and
complete success. But few States are un
represented and, with some exceptions,
their delegates are alt men of great busi
ness ability and experience who have earn
estly at heart the advancement of the
material interest and the development of
the industrial resources of every section of
the country. Delegates from all parts of
the country—Northern and Western Re
publicans and Southern Democrats—min
gle freely aod harmoniously together and,
though they may differ in politics, unite in
efforis to adopt measures for tho benefit
and improvement of their common country.
Bullock is still here doing the agreeable
to the delegates and spending pl*nty of
greenbacks—l wonder if any more Ex
ecutive warrants have been cashed lately.
The difficulty between General George
W. Chilton, of Kentucky, and Mr. Alex
ander MeKinstree, of Mobile, alluded to
in former letters and dispatches, has been
suppressed without resort to the “field of
honor,” which lies so invitingly on the
other side of the river from this city. At
least we hear nothing more of it and I
think no Wood will be spilt.
A grand Concert is given to-night to the
delegates at Weisiger Hall, at which Geor
gia will be strongly represented.
H. G. W.
[communicated. ]
Lectures on Jerusalem.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
It is with sincere delight that I read the
announcement, is your issue of the 14th
instant, of the intended visit of Rev. R. A.
Holland, of Baltimore, to our city. This
community is certainly indebted to the
gentlemen forming the Committee for the
opportunity of hearing one who, [in point
of pulpit eloquence and oratory,‘glittering
with illiant imagery, is not surpassed by
aDy speaker in the country.
It may not be amiss to state that, al
though a Kentuckian by birth, the people
of Georgia have the next claim upon him,
having given him a refuge in their hearts
and homes from the common enemy after
j Bragg’s retreat from Kentucky. He cast
| his fortunes with the now “Lost Cause,”
in the face of the threat of disinheritance
! by the "Union” father, and not until the
-lose of the war did he return to his native
*. " he w&3 called to Balti-
State. '-"dor of hie
more, where, by the sp.— '
genius, he still sheds lustre upon the j
Southern Church and Southern so
cjety. Asa representative man ot
the South, no wo< dcr that bis ad
dress before the graduating class of
General Lae’s College evoked the unfriend
ly criticism of the Northern Press. The
York World repeated the oH slander
against .Southern sentiment by charging
him with a desire to degrade labor, be
cause he dared, in this materialistic age,
te proclaim to the young men before him,
that our manhood was more nobly illustra
ted by the attainment of the highest
possible intellectual and moral excellence,
than by the pursuit and possession of the
almighty dollar.
I entertain no doubt that the lectures
to be delivered by him will prove an
intellectual ovation, and hope that our
citizens will show their appreciation by
their presence in strong numbers. The
lecturer and his mission ought to be suffi
cient to enlist public interest. C.
The Commercial Convention.
Reception of Ex-President Fillmore.
GOVERNOR STEVENSON’S ADDRESS.
President grant’s message, etc.
Ex President Fillmore was received after
his arrival by tbe municipal authorities of
Louisville. The following are the com
plimentary speeches on the occasion, taken
from the Courier & Journal:
THE WELCOMING SPEECH.
The address of welcome was delivered
by F. T. Fox, Jr,, of the City Council.
At the time he commenced speaking there
was some confusion incident to the press
ing forward of the crowd to catch all that
should pass, hut when this subsided the
speaker could be heard very distinctly. The
greeting was very cordial, and seemed to
be fully appreciated by Mr. Fillmore. Mr.
Fox said :
ADDRESS OF MR. FOX.
Sir; Upon me has fallen the pleasing
duty of offering you, through her me
tropolis, the greeting of the Common
wealth of Kentucky, and ot extending to
you the hospitality and liberty of the city
of Louisville. And now in her name, and
by her authority, I welcome you to her
hospitality, and extend to you her freedom,
llemembering that in every position of
life, from tbe lowest to the very highest
known to the American people, your career
has been illustrative of law and of order,
and that your dignified retirement from
public life has been devoted solely to the
culture of the arts of peace; mindful, also,
that in all your official litis your profound
intellect has thoroughly understood and
frankly acknowledged the checks and bal
ances of our peculiar government, and that
your great heart has embraced in its pat
riotic love every section and every sec
tion's interest of this country, which, even
now, in its early youth, well-nigh demands
a world for its home. Remembering these
things, the city ot'Louisville, and, through
her, the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
honor themselves in honoring you. We
love and admire you as the last of that
regime in our country’s history which be
gan with Washington and ended with
your honored and illustrious successor,
whose death wo mourn to-day.
Whatever fears the least sanguine of us
may have entertained regarding this im
portant movement, which to-morrow will
take the form and complexion ot a great
commercial convention, your presence has
dissipated them ail. If your presence is
auspicious to it, your sanction gives it the
fiat of fate. Lasting benefits to our en
tire country, we fondly hope, wili flow
from it, as waters from the rock of Horeb
when struck by the “potent rod of Am
ram’sson.” This convention is the mis
sion of commerce, and the influence of com
merce is benefit to ail and peace with all.
Again I bid you welcome to the freedom
and hospitalities of the city of Louisville'
Unworthy as they are, they are the heart
felt tokens of an homage which we do
now and always wiil pay you.
Citizens of Louisville and of Kentucky :
Permit me to introduce to you the
guest of the city of Louisville, Millard
Fillmore, the hero of law, of order and of
peace—of peace universal to our entire
country.
A burst of applause followed upon the
introduction, and as Mr. Fillmore was
about to respond, another rather emphatic
demonstration of popular sentiment greet
cd him. Mr. Fillmore spoke as follows :
REPLY OF MR. FILLMORE.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen of Louis
ville ; This reception is ari honor and a
pleasure which 1 had no reason to expect.
Were Ia candidate for some high political
office, or did I come with the prestige of
political power, I might account for this
assembly here to-day. Nearly twenty
years have elapsed since I have taken part
in political matters. 1 belong to no party,
but 1 do belong to my country (applause),
and I cannot express to you the gratifica
tion I feel to-day at seeing in prospect a
deliberative body, gathered from every
State in the Union—the Union restored—
that patriotic and glorious Uuion which
has been endangered, but I trust not lost
(applause).
Fifteen years ago I visited your city for
the first and last time. Had I been
placed in it to-day unawares, I could not
have recognized it. True, here is
the grand old river flowing along its edge;
here is the great natural obstruction of'the
falls, which has placed it with the great,
commercial cities of the country, but now.
when I «ee your splendid houses and your
beautiful streets, all seems t* be changed.
It would seem as though magic had passed
over it. How could you be so prosperous
through all the vicissitudes of tbe past ten
years, is unaccountable, but I congratulate
you on your good fortuue and your
prosperity. Kentucky, if there b« a State
in the Union, except that which gave me
birth, is the State, of all others, I have
learned to honor. [Applause.]
I knew your illoustrous citizen who did
honor to his State, as he did to all the
Union, and who now sleeps within her
borders. I rmed not say that I allude to
Henry Clay. [Applause.] He was my
early, last, devoted friend, and I was his ;
and I can never revert to his memory
without reverence aDd respect.
I beg your pardon, gentlemon, I came
here with no prepared address. The time
has long past since I have attempted such
a thing. I came here simply to thank you
for this unexpected reception and honor,
and to express the hope that you may con
tinue to be prosperous, and that our coun
try may be one and united forever. [Ap
plause.] Pardon mo, therefore, for not
adding to this address, and for contenting
myself with simply thanking you for this
honor. [Applause.]
GOVERNOR STEVENSON’S ADDRESS.
When the Convention assembled Govern*
or Stevenson delivered the following
address of welcome:
' The scene presented by the assembly
before which I now stand is grand ; I
might say touchiDgly impressive.
So many honored and noble common
wealths in enlightened and fraternal con
sultation upon the soil of Kentucky. Such
a mighty host of representative men ; dis
tinguished for their virtue, wisdom and
practical experience coming together from
different States of the American Confede
racy, to deliberate upon, and to discuss
great problems of policy bearing on the
material and commercial prosperity of the
whole country. No motive for political
supremacy has drawn you here; you
struggle for no ignoble, selfish ends. Seek
ing no aggrandisement upon land or sea of
one section at the hurt of another, we meet
to devise new schemes; to inaugurate
moro active measures; to ■ nlist large capi
tals, and inspire new energy in every sec
tion of our broad domain, for the develop
ment of industrial resources.
You came from your distant homes to
interchange opinions with us, and to take
counsel one with another as to the best
measures for increasing our national pros
perity.
There is joy in your coming. It stirs
oar blood and warms cur hearts. The
very spectacle is electrifying. We feel that
the genius of patriotism hovers over us,
that the spirit of our Revolutionary Fath
ers, now sainted, are whispering in our
God speed and onwaid !
We, then, receive you, brethren of the
Commercial Convention, with gladness
In the name of the people of Kentucky,
from the Rig Sandy to the Mississippi,and
from the Ohio to Cumberland Gap, I oor
dially greet you. Ali hail your presence
among us. We are thankful for being per
mitted to know you, to sec you face to face.
Welcome to Kentucky 1 Welcome to
this enterprising metropolis of our own
commonwealth. Welcome, thrice wel
come to our homes and to our hearts !
We meet when the energy of the world
is active in multiplied agencies, and still
grander in its results. The past ages
have beheld nothing like it. Both in the
new world aud in the old, the achieve
ments of genius, and the triumphs of hu
man will, and heroic endurance, astound
us with their matchless success. Human
foresight falters at the grandeur of the
schemes in progreas, which have crowned
our past fleeting decade. Man's faith
falters at what is to be accomplished id
that next that wili follow, if the mercy of
Providence permits His people to see the
close. The Atlantic ocean has ceased to
be longer an obstacle to instantaneous
communication between Europe and
America. More than one submarine cable
unites America wick England and France
The prices current in Liverpool are ex
changed in a moment with those of New
York and New Orleans, and official dis
patches pass hourly between the diplomats
of London, Paris and Washington. The
cneering stceptic who persistently predict
ed the failure of the Atlantic submarine
telegraph, must prepare himself to soon
behold others on Dew and improved prin
ciples, which shall connect America by
electric wires with the whole civilised
world.
The lofty Alps, impassible barriers for
- nenturies, to direct commercial
communication, to the power and
will of man. Mount Cenis has been
pierced, and is being tunneled, and the
whistle of the locomotive will soon rever
berate, amidit its perpetual snows. Ere to
morrow’s sun has reached its meridian,
the world may learn that the greatest and
grandest enterprise is a glorious success.
At that hour, upon the distant shores of
the Mediterranean, the crowßed heads of
Europe, in all their glitteriag pageantry,
will constitute a part of the mighty throng
who then and there assemble to witness
and commemorate the completion ofa ship
canal across the Isthmus of Suez.
What a science ; what a work ; what a
triumph 1 What human calculation shall
estimate the influence of the inaugurative
of such an achievement upon the commerce
of the world -Bombay, Madras and Cal
cutta, brought iuto immediate commercial
transit with London and Liverpool. Ships
laden with the wealth of the indies, and
the manufactures of the Western world,
passiug from sea to sea over an arid desert
of sand, ninety miles across, by means ofa
canal, twenty-tour feet deep, and varying
from one hundred to three hundred feet in
width. But great as must be the results
of this mighty work on the commerce of
the world, other and greater results may
follow. It may hasten another and holier
union. The follower of Mahomet and
those of Je6us Christ must now be brought
into close contact,
Ties, human in interest, wiil bind them
together, commerce and missions have al
ways been eo agents in tho spread of civ
ilization, and in social and commercial ad
vancement have aided each other. The
merchants of Malfi, by their traffic, first
opened the path for Christians to Jeru
salem. Who will dare say that this com
mercial pathway between the East and
the West, may not become God’s instru
ment for supplanting the Koran with His
own Bible, aud for such an achievement,
the world will bow to Ferdinand De Les
sups, whose genius, skill and endurance,
triumphs alike over the monsoon, tree
floods of the Red Sea and nature herself,
as it were.
Our own country presents signs that art,
cheering of industrial and commercial pro
gress. A prediction of that prophetic in
tellect of one of the great triumvirate of
American statesmen, all of whom have
passed away, made before an assembly in
1845, has been fulfilled. The Pacific and
Atlantic oceans, which alike wash our
shores, are united by a continuous railway
across the American continent. Its suc
cess as a highway of commerce necessitates
anothsr through the West aud South on
an ample scale at an early day. It is your
mission to see that this be not postponed ;
that active measures bo taken lor its early
commencement and hasty completion.
We must have direct trade with Europe
to the youth and West. Norfolk, with her
unequalled harbor, must, and will be ere
long, the terminus ofsuch a transit. To
day a convention is assembled in Utrecht
to determine at what port in America the
line of steamers [the Flushing line is meant
—B. A. E | from Holland shall terminate.
The measures proposed and acted on in
this Convention do not pertain exclusively
to tho South and West. The whole country
is interested in the commercial, mining,
manufacturing and industrial interests of
all its porta. We want capital from the
E*st to stimulate the industrial enterprises
in tbe South.
Gov. Stevenson’* address was concluded
amid tumultuous and prolonged applause.
The band lent its loudest notes to the oc
casion. When the music had ended, Col.
Blanton Duncan nominated for Chairman
of the Convention ex-President Millard
Fillmore. The very nomination brought
down the house again in thunders of ap
plause, and the nomination was by accli
mation, loud and full, confirmed.
Fillmore, being introduced, made a brief
response:
He said thathe appeared without prep
aration, and that even if he had prepared
any remarks, they should be suppressed,
as Col. Duncan had said all that need be
said. He thanked the Convention for the
honor conferred. He said that he hoped
it would work harmoniously, not allowing
any sectional feeling to do harm. He loved
the entire country, and venerated the Con-
Etitmion of the United States, framed in
a convention like this at which he wa°
present, over which Gen. Washington pre
sided, soon after the Revolution:
The following dispatch was read at the
conclusion of Mr. Fillmore’s remarks:
GEN. grant’s MESSAGE.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 12, 1869.
To Blanton Duncan , Chairman : Your
dispatch inviting my presrnce at the Com
mercial Convention, in Louisville, as hon
orary member, is received. I regret my
inability to be present. The objects of the
convention, however, I heartily endorse.
Everything calculated to iucresse the com
merce of the country, and especially eve
rything landing to bring the citizens of our
country together in interest and friendship,
tend to allayment of sectional prejudice
and bad feeling, I heartily endorse.
Eugenic’s Clothes.
ENOUGH TO SET THE LADIES CRAZY.
From Farit Correspondence N. T. World.
When the Empress p»ssed through the
room in whioh her twelve dresses wore ex
hibited, she was magically arrested by
their beauty aud the tasteful manner in
which they were displayed. Each mate
rial has been placed, folded, hang, creased
and waved in its mo6t advantageous vos
itiou aud light, by artists in the difficult
science of ornamenting shop windows, and
this is almost one of the lino arts cultivat
ed nowadays, to allure and insure tempta
tion. She approached the stands and con
gratulated the decorator, while expressing
also her thanks to the assembled silk man
ufacturers.
The following is tho order in which the
dresses are classed by the city of Lyon?,
the fir»t mentioned bring the richest :
The first dress, a white poult with bou
quets of flowers in which no less than six
ty hues are blended, and all so harmoni
ously that not one is conspicuous. The
flowers are so light that they seem to wave
at every passing breath, and it is averred
that this leathery lightness and richness
has never yet been attained.
f fie second, a cerise satin, strewn with
white and cerise rosos, the latter paler
than the ground of the material. This is
called camaieu, and the style of tone upon
the tone will prevail in rich materials
next Winter.
The third, a white gros grain, without
brilliancy, called “matt,” (ivory-like) on
which are brocade satin rosas. The flow
ers are high in relief, and appear to stand
out ready for some jewelled fingers to cull.
The Empress gave her preference to this
one.
The fourth, anew material, both supple
and strong, and like the cloth of gold much
employed in the middle ages. It is called
“supreme cloth.” It is gray, having sat
in gray s'ripes on a gray ground. When
lying down it is simply a sheet of varied
twilight, but when held up there is a
changeable shimmer all over, approaching
silver gray.
The fifth, a plain satin ; dark sapphire
shade. This splendid material, too, when
held up has a thousand hues, varying from
one gamut in the sapphire order to another.
It is entirely new.
The sixth, an aqua-marine poult, called
Eau de Leman muslin. The word muslin
applied to a poult derives its origin from
the transparent reflection of the white on
the pale green.
Ihe seventh, a peach-colored velvet, a
color not vet attempted for this cortly ma
terial. When moved in the hand, it has
ail the down of'the peach on it «.nd within
the soft folds.
The eighth, a obambery gauze with blue
satin stripes. The white stripe between
each alternate lilac one is brocaded with a
pompadour bouquet, the lilac stripe is
brocaded with a white flower and green
fuliage.
The ninth, a Louis XV pink material
camaieu—that is, pink on f ink.
The tenth, a Campsgna robe, that is of
the shade of the Pouiperion vases, which
are ornamsDted with black Assyrian figures; {
it is neither brickdust nor red.
The New Baby-A Boy’s Soliloquy.
“Yes. there’s another of’em up stairs
now! I knowed it; cause pa told me I must
be quiet and sit down in the corner with ray
book, and musn’t play ball, nor ass Willie
Smart to come in and help me put my new
puzzle together. Then there’s across nurse
who is always scolding mo for getting in
in her way, no difference where i get. Be
sides Mies Gadall was here to-day, and she
took me on her knee, and patted me oo the
back just like cook does when I’m choking,
and said my nose was another degree out
of joint, but I know better, for this is the
third time she has told me so, and it’s no
more out of joint now than it ever wa3.
She’s a hateful goggled-eyed old maid—
that’s what she is.
“I saw it too. It’s got a little round, red
head without any hair, with great deep
wrinkles instead of eyes, and when it cries
it opens its mouth as wide as though it
meant to swallow itself. Pa helped me up
on the side of the bed and told me ki-a my
dear, pretty little sister; and when I
wouldn’t and called it a horrid, ugly little
thing, he said I was a naughty little boy,
aud then nurse shook me,.and said I’d ought
to be ashamed. I didn’t get to kiss my ma
at all—l knew better than to try it; for
once.whe.i another baby came,l climbed on
the bed, and putting my arms around her
neck, hugged and kissed her, but ail the
time I had my knee right on the baby’s
head,so I was whipped and put in my crib
without any sapper, because I did not
know it was there.
“Little Jennie thinks it’s Dice to have a
new sister, but then she was the baby be
fore, and don’t know anything about it. I
can remember, long long ago, ma used to
call me her “sweet little darling,” and pa
dandled me on his foot, and said I was a
fine fellow, and Aunt Susan declared I was
a “perfectjittle angel;” but then Tom came,
and all my toy* were- given to him, ’cause
he was the baby, and I was cuffed ami
scolded by everybody, ’cept grandma, and
she s good td me jet, tho* there’s been two
new ones since. ▼
I wonder where all the babies come
tiom—mia savs the Lord sends them. I
wish He yvouldu’t send any more to our
house, wove got more than enough r.ow. It
might be nice for them if they could stay
little always, but they have to groifr big
aftCra wh'la, and then thev ain’t no better
off than the rest of the folks. I rather
think if I was a baby I’d ask the Lord Dot
to send me where I’dgrow any bigger, and
then I’d haTO nothing to do hut to lay on
my l ack and chew my toes, and have folks
sac I was the “dailiogest cunninge-ff lit
tle creaturo they ever laid eyes on.’* That’s
the way babies are always treated, and it’s
a deal better than being tel l one is a gobd
far nothing, mischievous hub raseal. or a
troublesome, careless b rj— that it is.”
AGR'CULT URE.
Letter from Jefferson.
Cotton. Small Crops, Guanos Scarcity
of Labor—TVial of an Intelligence
Office—Augusta, Louisville, Albany &
Gulf Railroad-
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
You a3k for information from allsections
in relation to the crop prospects. I am
sorry that I can furnish you no favorable
accounts from this locality. During
August and September we had fifty-five
days of continued dry weather. The peas,
potatoes and turnip crop wiil be almost a
total failure—perhaps two-thirds of the
quantity of corn needed will be made, and
about one-half crop of cotton. M ore than
double the quantity of guanos evsr used
were expended on this crop, and of course
corresponding profits were anticipated.
But in spite of tho very unfavorable sea
sons, fertilizers have paid somsthing.
Nearly all the cotton is n;w odor, and
farmers generally are up with their pick
ing. The large majority of planters will
have gathered their crops by the first of
November, hut sow will have to go into
their Sells alter the middle ot November,
and many au unfortunate one will have
gathered, ginned aud soi l their cotton and
spent tho proceeds by tho first of Docem
ber.
There is a continued increasing demand
for laborers in this sectioo. From what
source the supply can be had, I cannot
conjecture. It is true there is in Savan
nah sd Intelljgeres office, presided over
by T J. Garter. It professes its ability to
supply our wants when colled upon. But
I have iried it, and have enough of i'.
Duriug the present year it has sent me as
many as seventesu laborers—l agreeing
to advance their fees ayd transportation,
they promising to work at remunerative
wages for the balance ot the year, they re
funding the money paid in getting them to
me if they leave my service before the
end of the year. Six of this number w ere
white, the remaining eleven colored not
one of these laborers are now in my em
ployment, only three remaining long
enough to refund their fees and transpor
tation (and two of this number were hou-o
servants), three were 30 utterly worthless
that to get rid ot them I was willing to
lwetho money advanced for them. The
remaining eleven, though ordered and sent
as competent field hvnih," exhibited their
thorough ignorance of all plantation .work,
expressed their surprise and indignation
at being required to work in the field, and
absconded as soon as they were furnished
rations.
I have paid over an hundred dollars in
money for my experience, and now em
brace this opportunity to warn farmers
against patronizing this institution.
It is a complete take in—its only object is
to get its fees—being perfectly indifferent
as to what kind of laborers it furnishes.
Judging from the specimens sent me. oven
if they eould be induced pj compelled to
remain in your employment, they would
prove perfect nuisances, for they are skilled
and highly educated in ail the vices ard
rascalities of ihe city. Idle and vicious,
they furnish examples most pernicious sod
destructive of all plantation order sqJ dis
cipline. There are several other farmers,
whose names I might mention, who have
patronized this institution, and whose ex
perience tallies with my own.
We are under obligations to yon for your
praiseworthy efforts in attempting to
arouse our people to the importance of
building a railroad from Augusta to Al
hasy. If it should not pay a handsome
per erst on the money invested, even this
eught not to deter farmer? from embark
ing in tbe enterprise. Tho convenience
and enhanced value of land from having a
railroad in reaching distance, should alone
prompt u» tp give it our entire support.
Ev*n in this county there ere numbers of
large planters who have to haul their pro
duce and fertilizers from twenty to thirty
milc3. A plantation in iivo miles ofa
railroad is worth double as much as one
fifteen miles away. But few capitalists
care to invest their money in lands thus
cat off from railroad facilities. There are
thousands of acres along this contemplated
line now almost valueless, which will com- I
maud fortunes if your project succeeds. I
will “God Hpced you” in your exertions,
and hope that every planter in this section
will join you in haud, in heart, and with
* heir purses. Truly, yours,
J. H. Wilkins.
Bellcmonte, Jefferson Cos , Oct. 9, 1869.
CoHeii on a Gold Basis.
1o the,Editor of the AT 0. Tines :
We have paid tribute to the North loDg
enough. The Tccetit scandalous transac
tions in the Gold Room in New York
should admonish us that the time is at
hand when we should tike prompt action
to protect ourselves against the machina
tions of the organized hands of unprinci
pled speculators aud gamblers who, by
Means of their rings and •ombinations,
ooi,trol the exchanges o! the country, and
have now the power to depress or enhance
the value of our products to suit their own
purposes.
The cotton fields of the Siuth arc as
gold wings to the North. Without them
New York would soon be drained of every
dollar of coin she now ontrols. I merely
refer tojthis to show that the South has the
power, if'properly used, to throw off this
vassalago and aisert her commercial inde
pendence. The question will beasked how
•no this be -ioertained? 1 answer that it
can be done by selling our cotton and
other produc; for gold—not upon the basis
of gold as has be»n heretofore suggested,
but for actual gold, which will enablem? to
e*tab!ish a currency in the South of uni
fbrm value— gold or its immediate repre
sentative.
Objections may be urged that this sys
tem would complicate transactions between
debtor and creditor, particularly of their
present indebtedness to each other. I
think I can show very clearly that such
would not bo the re.-ult. We all know that
nearly every transaction in the South is
now based on what is called currency, a: and
the debts thus far contracted are due and
payable in that currency, or upon tkat
basis. Now,) cw is this now plan to work?
Simply thus: As ston as tve commence
selling cotton for cold, nearly all other
produce and merchandize will be sold in
the same way, and the system will enter
into all the ramifications of trade, from
the retail dealer to the merchant who sells
his millions. The factor will open now
accounts with the planter in gold, ar.d the
old balances, either debt or credit, wjli be
adjusted between the parties either in the
present currency, or in reference to its
value in gold. All purchases of supplies
made by the factor for account of the
planter will be made in gold, and his whole
account hereafter kept in that way. 'ibis
will not prevent him from drawing on his
merchant payable id greenbacks, or what,
is now called currency; the merchant will
purchase them, charging him with the
cost in gold. It will only be necessary,
in drawing drafts, to state whether they
are to be paid in United State currency or
gold. Where contracts are made on time,
the contracting, parties can stipulate for
gold or greenbacks, as they please, for I
presume no one will deny that a mao cifi
bind himself for the payment of gold as he
can for the performance of any oilier con
tract. I think what I have just stated
wili remove the objection of complication
iu account*.
Now, under the proposed system, all ex
change must be bought and sold for coin ;
and, ir this connection, I woald remark
that our banks, with the exception < f one,
have proved their entire solvency End good
faith, as well as the efficiency of their
management under trying circumstances,
and have the full confidence of the public
will enable them, if they deem it ex
pedient, to issue certificates of deposits
I jayable to the ..bearer in goid in various
I dfcooaiina’ioas from five" to 5?-„ bus died
[ doliars. These certificates will circulate
and be sought after in the country, be
cause they are the evidence of the safe
keeping of the coin in the vaults of the
bank, and will be easy of transmission.
Our banks will be enabled to fake all le
gitimate exchange drawn against actual
shipments, and can prevent the violent
fluctuationsdwhich are now so common, by
bringijg gold from New York, which can
be done at about one-hatfof one per cent,
by railroad. Let New Orleans inaugurate
this movement, and it will be speedily
followed by every city in the trouth.
I am aware that iti* very difficult in this
city to procure concert of aotion atnoDg
our merchants, but this is a matter of
such vital importance to all, that I trust
they will give it their serious con ode ra
tion, and that we will also have the hearty
co-operation of the planting community.
From Vie Xcuhviile Union and American. j
Cotton Mifnufaciures In the Bomb.
The Augusta Factory has declared a j
quarterly dividend of five per cent., and
the Graniteville Manufacturing Company
a dividend of ten dollars a share. These
faots show whatootton manufacturing will
do in the South. It is the most profitable
hrs neb of industry it. wi L-h t ... ~
embark The manufacturing es e tton in
the Couth is bound (’become !,v fie and
extensive. Tbe surplus profits Rising
from the production of the raw material
will tedessarily be invested to a large ex
tent in manufactories. First, because no
other mVestment will pay go handsome a
profat, and second, because there will be
nothing else to invest their surplus
‘pa l I “ borers £ uU ld he. multi
-1 lied by the mere force of capital as
was the case in the days of slavery, large
amounts of each year’s profits would be
invested m labor and lands for increased
production. But this is not the case now.
\\ e have a burned supply of labor No
amount of production, no extent of price
will enable planters now t 0 in rease the
area ot their crops. The snplus profits
cannot he idle. Cotton nianulacturing is
the nearest approach, to their life-long
vocations, and to this new hrarchof indus
try the greater portion of their money will
be ci.ccted. In less than ten years all the
emton grown in the South will be required
to keep the looms and spindles of the Ame
runin miilerstn operation. The South williu
jhat,tme require f r her own mills a mil
lion bales, and perhaps much more. We
are in our infancy cow in this branch of
industry, and yet we find that the £,n
sumptten ot cotton the past year in the
Southern States reached 173,203 hale?,
whim that of the North was 821,924 hales
ihe increased consumption of the North
ern mills last year overthat of the previous
year was omy 22,107 hales, notwithstand
ing tho demand tor cotton fabrics is in
creasing in a greater ratio :han the pro
duction of the raw material. The indica
tions are that the South will show a much
larger increase in consumption than tho
Aorta, and but a lew years hence this sec
tion will not be dependent upon the North
tor its cotton fabrics.
An Appenl for tbe Remove! ot the Con
-1 derate Dead at (j t,'ysbu
By correspondence and other means it
has been brought to the special atUmiou
ot the Hollywood Memorial Association of
Richmond that over three thousand Con
's lerato soldiers are buried on and near the
battle-field of Gettysburg.
David Wills, Ejq., President of the Na
tional Cemetery Company, says in a letter
to Gc-ncrci Fitzhugh Lee: “There has
never been aDy action by the Board ot
Managers of the Soldiers’ National Ceme
tery Company hero in reference to the dis
position of the Southern dead lying on this
battle-field. Neither is there any action
contemplated. The charter cf the As-o
ciatton provides only for the interment of
the remains of those who 101 l in defence of
the Union.
"There shiuid be something done with
the remains of tho Southern soidiers.
there are about 600 marked graves, aud
those are last becoming obliterated. Their
names might be preserved, and the re
uains gathered together into a cemetery
or burying ground, if any one would take
the matter in hand.”
Their trusted chief, General R. E. Lee,
whom they followed, aud fighting under
whose leadership they fell, approves the
plan of removing the:r bodies to our own
soil.
The Hal lywood Memorial Association
have the disposition to undertake this
work, but do not possess the ability unle-s
gSnerouJy aided by friends throughout
the South. They offer ample grounds in
their cemetery, and also the uiu of their
association to prosecute the work, should
it be found practicable to remove the
bodies to Richmond.
To accomplish this purpose, meaus must
lie raised by the earnest efforts of the sur
vivors of tho Confederate army, the
mothers, and ..isters, and fathers, and
brothers, and friends of the slain. Every
Southern State has representatives at Get
tysburg. Will no_r active men and women,
in every city, and town, aud county, at
once volunteer to collect and send contribu
tions ?
In this way we may gather those
“Who bore the flag et'our nation’s trust,
Aud fell iu tho cause, though lost, still
just ;
Gather thecorpses stiewn
O’er many a battle plain,
From many a grave that lies so lone,
Without a name atvl without a stone,
Gather the Southern slain.”
Mrs. Geo. \V. Randolph,
Mrs. R. E. Lee,
Mrs. J. L M. Curry.
Communications and remittances may
be seat to Mrs. G. W. Randolph, Rich
mond, Va.
EUROPE.
j Ihe Thunderer on the Fenian Amnesty and
American Finances.
London, October 12. —The Times, in
an editors! on theFcpian amnesty meeting,
say?: “The Crown is iuvited to pardon
rebels who do not pretend to be penitent,
nut beoause conspiracy is crushed, but be
cause it is still formidable enough to rally
sympathizers. No one doubts the right of
government to suppress with vigor out
rages against law and order. Had the
forbearance of the Crown been invoked in
a becoming tone, with a recognition of its
rights to protect peaceable aud loyal citi
zens, amnesty might be a message of peace-
At present we see no presumption that it
would be received in that spirit by tho
defiianders. Wtiile it must operate as a
discouragement to those who helped to
crush the Fenian outbreak, there can be no
greater injustice or more impolitic step
than such an act, if Ireland is still Fenian
at heart or hostile to union. We believe
the majori.y of the Irish would rejoice at
the supines-ion of Fenianism, and that
some who s'gngd the amnesty petitions
would be thankful if the petitions would be
rejected.”
The Times has aa editoral to day on fi
nancial matters in the United States. The
writer says; “There may be circumstances
in the financial position of (he United
States authorizing bo glaring a departure
from the sound rules of pubic economy;
hut it is difficult to deny that the mere
struggle of gamble.g,by an act 'of govern
ment, is magnified into an event of national
importance. If Mr.[Boutwell had persever
ed, more money would Lave changed
hands, more fortunes been nindeor marred,
ot her brokers gone mad, absconded Or com
mitted suicide, and the threat against Fisk
might have been executed. It is not easy
to decide whether this wiil he for good or
evil. It might have allayed the spe relative
fever, sobered the gambling mrdaess,
weaned some hepless dupes ff-no the ex
change, rid i; of somearrant rogues. The
lesson wiil not be altogether lost. Had the
lesson gone on to the end it might have
been more impressive and its | rceepts en
hanced by higher cost.”
| Our Jon Office.—The Chronicle A
j Sentinel Job Office is now prepared to
execute every manner of printing from
| visiting aud business cards to pamphlets
! and books. With ample material and firet
! class workmen, satisfaction is guaranteed
to all at New Yotk prices. If oiir work
j does not come up to contract we make no
! charge. With this understanding our
business men can have no excuso to Send
their job work North when it can be done
*. i l, ociß. difcwtf
Kershaw’s Patent Cotipn Willow.
—lt may not be known to our readers that
one cf the old citizens of .Fayetteville, Mr.
Jobs Kershaw, who was '■ r nearly twenty
years connected with Blount’- Clock Fac
tory in this it; tvo, fcaai-.jerrly patent.id an
invention that premi-et to L ; of great ad
vantage to cotton mauufart i c,». We re
fer to nerehaw’s Patent Cos t-.a Willow,
which is a machine intended lor opening
and preparing cotton, as it is troughtte
the factories ic its original hi! and state, for
carding and weaving. The capacity of this
willow is ooe halo of cotton every forty-five
minutes. It will open the cotton, thorough
ly and with perfect ease, and requires less
power than any willow now in use; and lor
the quality aud quantity of tho work it
will perform, it Las no equal; and it doe.-,
its work without injuring the staple of the
cotton.
H. G. Hall, Esq., Superintendent of
the Beaver Creek Factory, near this place
—an experienced machinist and manufac
turer, and himself an inventor—speaks
in very high terms of Mr. Kershaw’s im
provement. One of these willows is in
operation at Beaver Creek Factory, where
Mr. Kershaw is prepared to make them
and Ins Wooi Carding Machines. We are
glad that our townsman Ir.a the honor of
being the orgir at< r of such a benefit to the
cotton manufacturing iutereat; and, know
tog bis mer.i andabhity, we take pleasure
in commending him and his invention to
the public —Fayetteville lIT. C.) Eaale
Oct. ith, 1809. _
Robinson Crusoe's Island. —The
! Id red <■}' J'Vtt F- - —id z, about f;ur
fittotired miles lien: il*.- <: ;•;it of Cbiih is
the seat now of a Gorman colony- Lvt
Winter the Inland was ceded ty tho Chil
ian Government to a company of Germans,
led by Robert Wehrman, a Saxon en
gineer. He and his society have now
taken possession of the island and purpose
to make it their home. They number
some sixty or seventy individuals, and
have taken with them cows and other cat
tle, swine, fowls, and ad kinds of agricul
tural implements, with boats and fishing
apparatus, and tools for the various me
chanical trades It is Said that Wehrman
left Germany eleven year-: ago, and, after
passing some time iu England, .was en
gaged on railways in South Amc-ricu.
While there he conceived the idea that he
has now carried into effect. This is a rep
etition on a larger scale of the experiment
of Pitcairn’s Island, without, of course,
the criminal preface that stained the his
tory of the crew of the Bounty. The
world will watch the career of this little
colony with deeply interested eyes ; for,
apart from th j curiosity and sympathy nat
urally attracted by the experiment itself,
no more engaging spot could have been
chosen in which to make it than that
which is cherished in so many hearts as
Robinson Crusoe’s Island.