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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1870)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVII. : mm\t & fcutinel. VuItMNOV rtl'IUMallPTIOI'l. PJLLLY _ „ * .r »r v #• _C )• V** ! V \T.V/.7.V.V.V.V.V.V.m00 TRI-WKBi y. t,* t« no ■' • ' '..w.vy.y. n« f*. m ... ta jo Wfc/Kllf. • 1 M •• f :m ’ • . . s no WEDNESDAY HOKUM, NOYKMBtH 16. The Kfbt-h of the Radical Party. By reference to ocr telegraphic column, it will be .%en that the Blodgett-Tweedy ring of the .Radical party, alter a 1 their fuss and fanfaronade, have been whipped jnto submission. like the King of France, with ten thousand men, they marched up the hill and then marched down again. They met in conrention at Augusta, 1 weedy, the expected protege, was thrown overheard, and Beard, colored, and Fannin, a |Overnment official, oversowed the cal culations and arrangements of Captain- Gcceral Blodgett. Blodgett acd Tweedy swore they would not stand this. It was an invasion of the State rights of the Rad ical party ot Georgia. Blcdgett foamed ar.d fretted, and Tweedy cried out lustily against corruption against Lino and Blod- gett, and his Republican Executive Com mute? declared the nomination null and void, for Beard, colored, and Fannin, offi cial, were not the free choice of the party. By and by, Mr. Attorney-Genera! Alcer man writes two letters to the faithful, pnd tells them he sees no good reason for upsetting the Beard-Fannin nom ination, and that the Government can not stand rebel Radicals and bolters. Straightway Blodgett and Tweedy, and their allies, get eighty miles out of the city of Auyusß, corrupted by Govern ment official-. They menace. They con demn. They swagger with the air of in jured right, and declare that tho colored forces will Gght nobly with Tweedy as a leader, but that they caooot stand official dictation and corruption. But alter all this menace, and condemnation, and swag ger, and virtuous indignation of injured in nocence, they ride the allotted eighty miles —to the innocent land, vclveted with grass and brilliant with roses, the land of primeval innocence— and unanimously renominate the rejected, Beard the colored and Fannin the official—wooiDg gcutlv as flicking doves the arbiters of their destiny, and pcnitcntially seeking nogis of power as re pentant rebels. Alas I for little liph, the victim of .unrequiotod love; and, alas ! for the Confederate Artillery Captain of an cient days, and the Captaiq General of later Radical bigguos. lie has iound his apple tree to be a sweet briar of Greene county- Coming Home to Them. The. Now Yorkers arc witnessing some of the practical effects of tho modern guaranty for Republican governments. They have United States arillery stationed at Central Park, the Bth United States Infantry in Madison Park, and the United States nrarines in readiness at the Battery; while gunboats and monitors occupy eligible positions in the harbor; all to guarantee peace in a State election and a government republican in form. Tho Mayor of the Metropolitan city, io a speech, recently said among other things: “I never expected to soe the time in this Republic, as they are doing now in Ireland, and as they have douo in timo past iu other governments ot Europe, when wo would bo fettered and intimidated in the freright of th : elective franchise by bayonets and satraps. A greater outrage tbao this is about to be—lias been this very day—perpe trated on us. Wo used to read about the outrages iu the Southern States, but that was far aw ay, but now it is brought homo to us. New York is cursed with two places— the farm of Iloraco Greeley and the State farm at Sing Sing. The negro troops have marched up to Usion Square and back again to the Battery to show themselves and to intimidate you. I would have them quartered at Madison Park so that the people could sec them, to seo tha shining light cf heaven gleam upon the bayonets which are to cause the gleam of shame to shoot from an honest man’s eye. I am the ballot candidate against the bayonet and pullet candidate, and I want it written on my tombstone. You have got to fight with tho ballot aid to rebuke tho outrages v.'hiob are about to bo perpetrated on us.” Whether Mr. Mayor Hall’s wish, re specting the inscription on his tomb is complied with or not, the bullet and ballot are now twin companions, and hereafter must and will go together to guarantee a government republican in form, notwith standing the Honorable Mayor never ex pected to see such a ”timo in this Repub lie.” “The Winchester Rifle is now the best law." TUp Production or Alcoholic Spirits In (he United Slates. Tho daily producing capacity of the Uuited States, as shown by returns re ceived at the Revenue Department, is as follows: Gallons Spirits from grain 759377 “ molasses 24903 •• fruit 126271 Total capacity 910551 The following is a table showing the daily production of each State: From Mo- Total States grain lasses Fruit gallons California 16169 14105 30574 Connecticut.... 1-15 4810 6355 Delaware 178 1787 . 1975 Kentucky 9564S 109 V 109605 Ma.yiand 23191 4SI 25832 Massachusetts 957 11593 882 13442 Maine 1212 1212 N Hampshire 148 50 198 New Jersey 3807 11582 15489 Rhode IslaDd 387 3;7 j Illinois „168430 817 169247 | Indiana 3SIOB 4133 42641 ■ Idaho 260 160 j Ohio 123909 1374 125253 Oregon - SO 43 123 New- Mexico... 70 77 447 Nebraska 1837 1837 Wisconsin 10463 10463 Tennessee 15638 ...... 7539 23174 Texas 229 522 751 N Carolina 2263 14939 17202 Virginia 22598 29134 61642 j West Virginia 2751 1591 4342 \ lowa 11074 118 11191 1 Pennsylvania. 67478 1855 1541 70874 Now York 18)822 8443 714" 106412 1 Alabama 8569 1524 10693 10693 Arkansas 398 194 194 592 Missouri 25199 2817 28016 Miehigau 1843 1843 Minnesota 539 530 Mississippi 1482 318 1795 liOuia'ana 17914 1265 ...... 19i79 Georgia 1-7 5"07 63:4 N Carolina 530 1430 1960 Washington Territory.... 458 I£B Kansas 773 773 Montana 140 140 Total 7-9377 -4903 135271 910551 Th : B is the surveyed producing capacity of all distilleries. The actual production will probably average eighty per cent, of be survey. It will be seen by the foregoing table that the distilleries of the United States have a spirit producing capacity every twenty-four hours as follows : from grain, 759,377 gallons; from molasses, 24.903 gallons; from fruit, 126,271 gallons—mak ing a total daily capacity of 910,551 gal lons. Assuming that the ggiin distilleries run one hundred and fifty days each year, there would be a production of 113,906,550 gallons annually ; add to this the 3,835,- 450 gallons molasses capacity, there would be an annual production from those two sources of 117,642,000 gallons. The actual production of fruit spirits is over one mil lion gallons per annum, thus making an actual production annually of 117,642,000 grllone. The consumption of the country is estimated to be about seventy-five mil lion gallons annually, leaving at the lowest estimate a capacity of 43,642,000 gallons' which can only be made available by ex portation. The grain distilleries consume at least 38,635,517 bushels of the sur. plus grain of the country. It wiil be seen also by inspection of the table, the banner States in the distillation of grain are Illinois acd Ohio; of mo lasses, Massachusetts and New York ; and of fruits, Virginia aod California. Tne four States—lllinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania—have the greatest spirit producing capacity for the distillation of grain, amounting to 549,287, in a total capacity of 759,377, or than fivc oevenths of the total production. ! Boston and Philadelphia Com merce. I The table of imports and exports at the j port of Boston, forth? month of Oitober, give a total of $4,546,646 o! imports, and of exports $910,148, of which $70,587 were foreign goods, which have been im ported into this port, and re-exported to I other countries. The chief articles of the imports were dry goods to the value of $877,589; iron and steel, $107,660; hides and skins, $342,788; tin piatss and slabs, $301,679; sugar, $215,835; linseed, $206 697; dyes and drugs, $191,953; hemp, $164,384 ; burlaps, $143,149. Taking this month as a fair exponent of the average, it will be observed that Boston imports (in round numbers) four and ODC-half times as much as she ex ports. For the most part tire imports con sist of raw materials for manufacturing purposes. Turning now to Philadelphia we find that the total va'uo of the exports for the same month was $1,712,752, of which $1,381,250 was petroleum and its pro ducts, leaving only $331,502 for other products and manufactures, the imporls holding about the same proportion to the exports as at Boston. A comparison of the import and export trade of these and other Northern ciries, with those of South ern cities, discloses a condition of affairs just the reverse of what appears by the foregoing statement. The exports are very heavy in proportion, and many times in amount the value of the imports. Tne meaning of all this is that the North does all trade iti importing goods, and Southern productions pay for them. A Domestic Riiiloon Dispatch. A special dispatch from this city to the New York Tribute, under date 4th inst., says: Avery lariro and appreciative audience was assembled at the Court House last evening to hear the opeuimr campaign speech in this State of the Hon. Foster Blodgett, Senator-elect, an 1 Chairman of I the State Republican Central Committee. ! Mr. Blodgett’s appearance was hailed with I rapturous applause, and his opening speech has bad a most happy effect, if one can so judge by th? cordiality with which it was received. Tho assemblage was com posed in part of the opponents of the Re publican party, and the speaker’s fervent appeals to the old Whig and Union ele ments to be true to the principles which formerly actuated them were listened to with rapt attention. In reviewing favor ably tho Administration of Gen. Grant, he said that “it stands forth conspicuously for its economy ; for its faithful collection and return of the public revenue ; for its faithful and rapid payment of the public debt; for its scrupulous adhesion to the great principles of free government, and for itsjudioious foreign policy.” Alto gether the speech will bo the means, no doubt, of attracting a large portion ot the Democratic elements to the Republican standard. Doubtless there was a large and appre ciative audience in attendance on this occasion, but neither the occasion nor the speech were auspicious for tho future pros pects of the Captain General Senator elect. Senator Blodgett suited the Democrats admirably, and doubtless would have one “rapturous applause” if his pluck had not oozed ouf at his lingers end. He opened the campaign vigorously by getting up a Bolters Conventon to overthrow prior nominations,' but he finally found himself under the ban of Attorney General Akerman’s displeasure and ho closed the campaign just as vigorously, like the little boy of the blacksmith shop, who, having taken up Smithey’s newly wrought korse shoo of his own accord, put it down vigor ously without being told to do so. The faot i--, he reviewed Grant’s administration and protested against the dictates of the administration interferring in his baili wick by putting forward candidates other than tkoso of his nomination. Greeley should send for Blodgett to aid him in the conversion of New York Democrats. For a man who reads written speeches, and pays tor the writing of them, his eloquence is overpowering. Nothing like it, in tele graphic aeeounts, in ail the world. He will bring down the house with rapturous applause arid carry his audience with him. Up in a balloon, boys, up in a balloon, Up In a balloon, boys, sailing around the moon. Blodgett’s eloquence is only surpassed by Blodgett’s learning and financial ability. Greeley should import him at once, for the administration Republicans have scorn fully kicked him out cf this, his native district, A man of Blodgett’s distressing modesty, profound learning and scrupulous integrity should seek a metropolitan field where his works and his worth would be appreciated. The Revenue from Stamp Taxes. The stamp tax is the most ingenious of all the forms of taxation ever devised. The specific amount upon any single trans action isgeneraily insignificant, and seldom attracts the attention of the tax-payer, but the frequency with which it is de manded in the infinite number of transao tions of daily life, for the most part char acterized by each separate act of each separate individual, swells the amounttbus extracted from tbe pockets of the people to an extent, in the aggregate, but seldom appreciated eveu by close observers. That portion of the stamp tax which is in the nature of excise, is subtlety distributed among the consumers, as in the case of tbe tariff of imports, although in the first instance paid in gross by the inanu!ac:urer and deale!. During the month of October the fol- ! lowing Revenue stamps -were sold : To bacco stamps, 1f!,982,679, value $2,700 - 592 32; whiskey stampe, 410.900, value $3,083 000 ; beer stamps, 1,600,000, value $520,025, The Supreme Court of the Unit- i e«l States. The Deocmbcr term of the Supreme j Court of the United States will be looked forward to with especial interest by the whole country. There are a number of cases of especial importance set down for bearing at this term. The first involves the constitutionality of the cotton tax law, and will be argued by Judge Curtis and Mr. Evarts against the Government. The : second concerns the constitutionality cf the confiscation acts. This will be con ducted by Messrs. Curtis and Cashing against the United States. The third comes upon a writ ol error from Kentucky, and involves the civil rights bill, the special case being that of a white man tried in a U. S. Court for the murder of a negro. Judge Black appears against the Govern ment, and will hold that it is unconstitu tional to try iu a U- S- Court a citizen of a State for murder when the State Courts are open. Montgomery, November 9.— The re turns have come in meagre, but it is now believed that the Democrats have carried the State —they elect three members of Congress without doubt. Napoleon and His Generals. A Berlin dispatch of the 4th instant in forms U3 that on “Wednesday there were twenty-one Generals acd eigaty-sevan supericr officers with the Emperor Na poleon at Wilheimshohe. Prince Murat and a few other? remained there, acd the rest proceeded to Berlin. The meeting of j the Emperor and Marshal Caffrobert was j very cordial. They embraced and kissed ; each other several times.” M. Thiers characterized the First Na- I poleon as Napok'm le Grand; the last ! Napoleon as Napoleon le Petit. This | caustic antithesis finds justification in the pic ure presented by the dispatch. Na poleon lePelit, surrounded by twenty-one Generals and eighty-seventy superior officers, prisoners ot war, after surren dering upon his own territory two armies, aggregating to two hundred aDd fifty thousand well armed soldiers, kissing his Generals, is not the Napoleon of Auster litz; nor of Jena; nor of Moscow or Waterloo ; nor of Elba, nor St. Helena. The Date Exhibition of the Cot ton States Fair Association. The question has frequently been asked, since the close of our late fair, has the ex hibition proved as successful, financially, as in every other respect ? For the in formation of inquirers we are authorized to state that the fair paid all expenses and ecroro! thousand dollars OVCr. The A:- sedation is a little in debt for improve ments and work on the grounds, but a committee of leading citizens has the mat ter in charge and wiil obtain sufficient ad ditional tuboriptions to the capital stock to place the Association on a firm financial basis. Os the five hundred shares au thorized by the charter, half have not been subscribed, and from the result of the first exhibition, it i3 not risking anything to recommtnd the investment as a good one, pecuniarily. The Carolina Flection. The pickets have duly reported from their picket posts, and the State canvass ers, the court of cassation for Republican uses in tho State of South Carolina have brought their arduous laborrs, al most to a elose, in the consummation of a foregone conclusion. The result reminds us of an anecdote, if we are permitted this Republican enjoyment. Upon the acquisition of New Mexico instructions were published promising our newly ac quired citizens a free expression of opin ion at the ballot-box, and arranging there fur. But private instructions were issued to military commanders looking to results, A subaltern, at a certain post, having no great taste for such management, be thought himself to do. Ha was blessed with a quick-witted Irish Orderly Sergeant, a bold soger boy, handy at everything—from bundling a musket and necking a potatoe, down to wooing a Mexi can damsel with a guitar and an Irish- Sjanifh love song, and singing a jolly roundelay over a bottle of whiskey, or a bowl of t ulque. Call’ ng up this dapper jovial S;rg ant, so full of broad humor, but withal possessed, of a keen eye for the proprieties of life, he addressed him thus : “Sergeant, to-mor ;ow there will be an elec tion at this post. There is a copy of the instructions, which, you may read at your leisure, but the meaning of them is, that there must be a full and fair ballot for all qualified voters, hr it the result must be in accordance with our Republican notions. The company mu st remain all day at the place of balloting , from sunrise to sunset-' See that everyth! ng hproperly arranged.” Ihe clectiqp bel’jg duly consummated, ac cording to the Republican form, and tho Sergeant again at headquarters, the commandant said to him: “Sergeant, how is this ? I see that the election returns show one hundred and ten yeas and forty-one nay3.” “Why, you’se say, sur,” “saidtho Sergeant, respectfully touching his forag ing cap,, “the company must stand to their colors ; so Use juste made corporal Shoots emberg put into the box tackets for tho officers and the guard to save tlirouble, and them made one hundred and tin; an I juste let a few of them Mexiken divils vote out of the proprietus, sur, and then I throw into tho box a few odd tackets for luck and daceucy’ssake like, you know, sur. Am sur, it was the best I could do, sur, to give cm a third, barrio odd cumbers, sur.” It rs just in this way, for luck and da cencv’s sake, like, it strikes us, that Scott’s election returns indicate that he has man aged his picket line batallions according to the -printed reports of his election ser geants. Take a third from a Scott Re publican’s vote, and “barrin odd numbers for luck and daceDcy’s sake,” and you have the vote ot a Reform candidate. The result in the Congressional election is given as follows: FIRST DISTRICT. Dudley, Reform 11,430 Rainey, Radical 20,200 SECOND DISTRICT. DeLarge, colored Republican 16,686 Bowen, white, Republican 16,042 THIRD DISTRICT. Elliott, colored, Republican 20,564 BaeOD, Reform 13,997 FOURTH DISTRICT. Wallace, Republican 16,184 McKissick, Reform 12,206 The official returns given show the total vote to be as follows: FOR GOVERNOR. Siott, Radical 84,475 Carpenter, Reform Republican 50,104 Scott’s majority 34,371 FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. Ransier, Radical 83,998 Butler, Reform Republican 50,441 Ransier’s majority 33,557 This majority, in the case ot both Scott and Ransier, will be reduced about 400 by the action of the board in tho cose of Chesterfield and Spartanburg, and about 2,000 by their action in regard to Charles ton owunty; aod we doubt not will be made to square exactly with the Irish Serpent’s ideas of propriety, for decency’s Make; only this the proportion should be in creased on account of the great danger ; and extreme hazards of the exalted posi tion of picket line commanders—dangers and hazards, by the confession of this high authority, greater by far than those cf the seige and the battle-field. The W icchcster Rifle has been affirmed to be the best law by the Republican vote of South Carolina. To be Avoided. The Bainbridge Argus states that divisi ; ons among the Democrats of Mitchell ; county and the running of independent candidates, we are informed, will probably i insure the success of the Radicals in that county. Divisions, always to bo avoided and condemed, are now unpardonable. It has been repeatedly asserted that there j are Bullock-Democrats enough in the field to give him upon election, a majority in the next General Assembly. Such men as are unwilling to harmonise the action of the party and postpone their claims to effect unanimity, when defeat stares them in the face as consequent upon divided action, cannot be considered cth erwise than as desiring and contributing to the perpetuation of Radical plunder and ; power. SI,OOO Reward is offered by the proprie tor °‘ t>r. Flerce ’s Alt. Ext. or Golden MeUi cal Discovery, for a medicine that will equal it in the cure of ah severe liugerirg Coughs, Liver Complaint or Biliousness, ana all diseases arising from imj>urity of the blood, as Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches anu Boils, Sold by druggists. P amphlet i sent free. Address Dr. R. V. Piei.-ce, Buf l 6*lo, N. y, novß-tuth*si ibhrl AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, IS7O lititV VOnS CUf!RfcSVO>ESCK. LETTER FROM TYRONE PtJVERS. New York, 3d No verier, IS7O. Revenge is not altogethei*a (Jhristian sen timent, but to the unregenerat heart there is something not absolutely inpleasing in the present condition of this jreat city.— New York sent to the war thousands of men and millions of money, Democrats and Republicans vying alii® in their ef forts to cut the South’s thjoat for asserting the doctrine of self government, and now as a reward for thus robbing other people of their liberties, Nev York has lost its own. United States troops to the number of several thousand are concentrated in and about this barber, gun boats lie ready to hack up this military by a naval force, and to pave the way for the bayonet by some little shadow of pretext of civil law, United States Judges, Commissioners, Marshals and Supervisors of election stand ready to arrest, try, convict, and imprison whomsoever the authorities at Washington will. In one word this great city, the me tropolis of the conquering North, the cen tre whence went out the sinews of war to sustain the late crusade against constitu tional liberty, is “reconstructed”—recon structed as fully as any of the unfortu natfi Sffltzxo Os tko CvJUtli, UUb W lID tills difference that said States, poor, hide bound, unprogressive, Bourbon things that they are, fought to the last extrem ity at the very threat of reconstruc tion, while this mighty metropolis, rich in men and money, meekly opens its mouth and swallows the dose as though it rather liked it. And behind New York is the whole North, covered by a handful of soldiery, fed and paid and armed, and kept on foot out of its own substance, and willing to resort to no other counter-irritant than a few maudlin words of reprehension uttered while drunk at a ward meeting overnight and clean for gotten by morning. Instead cf this pal pable use of the bayonet to overawe an election being resented by the North, utterly irrespective of politics, as a crime against what is left of its freedom, the question is treated simply e.s one of party politics, and while the Democrat and the Republican are snarliDg at one another about it in comes the little man of the White House to lay his rod on the backs of both. How the mere election goes, you wiil know very likely before this letter sees print, and I am free to say the signs are that there will be a majority averse to the government at Washington, but a mere vote is not the way to meet an introduction of military force into civil life. This election may be against the users of that force, but the substantial victory is theirs since they establish the precedent of force, and little by little will, so broaden that precedent as to put them selves finally where they may disregard any mere vote, however hostile. Impeach ment and deposition of .the President who so uses the bayonet, trial at common law and imprisonment of the agents who obey him rather than the fundamental principles of constitutional liberty are the only fit answer to such procedures as this city, and through this city the whole North, witnesses, but when the tortoise flies like the eagle and tho cat-fish can sing like the sweet mocking-bird that answer will be made. Among the remarkable features of what is known as “metropolitan journalism,” is the art of “interviewing,” and of this art a city paper now before me affords a pe culiar illustration. A day or so since it appears that an unfortunate German quar reled with his wife, and that good lady ut terly wearing ont his patience by her shrewish demeanor, no resource appeared left the poor wretch but to kill himself, which he accordingly attempted to do. The ball, howovci, instead of instantly putting him beyond the reach of his be loved, merely inflicted a mortal wound, and while the unhappy man lay dying in the hospital he is “interviewed” by an en terprising reporter for the requisite infor mation for a “spicy” paragraph. “Now tell us all about it,” says the enterprising man in effect, “What did your wife say to you; where did you buy the pistol; was it loaded with ball or slug; how do you spell your wife’s maiden name; how many grandfathers did you have; do you feel bad, and if so how much,” &c., &c., in a string of questions as long as the moral law, one eye meanwhile fixed on his note-book, and one on the dying man’s brow. Struggling in the agonies of disso lution, the suicide turns to a friend stand ing by to procure him a release from this torture iu his passing hour, and straight way the enterprising man “interviews” the friend—“name, sir ? Live in the city ? How long yer known him ? Ever attempted suicide before ? Going to die soon, isn’t he?” &e., ks., &e., again, till he is fairly bundled away from the death bed and goes off to villify all con cerned in his paper for not giving him tbe* “facts.” This is “enterprise,” one of tho noblest signs of “our” national progress, a glorious testimony to the acuteness and all-pervasive activity of “our” national intellect, purged and purified from the errors of the past. To haunt those dismal chambers where the self-murderer lies stark with the knife yet in his heart, or the pistol lying close to the gaping wound it has inflicted, to dog the convicted mur derer, from hour to hour, as the gallows draws nigh, to cross-question the unhappy one bereft of innocence, to give the minutest autobiography ot the thief and vagrant, are the glories of “enterprise” like this. Let a word be said of its foul ness and the answer is ready—“the people like to read it,” and so they do. Con temptible as is the mousing reporter, the readers who at once stimulate and peruse his efforts are the real offenders. “We” are a great people, and must have our dish of horrors every day. It is painful to relate that the great American eagle lias not as yet laid one claw on the lion’s snout and the other on his tail and rent that British beast as the owl;rends the mouse. Away far off to the Northwest, across the extremest northern border of Minnesota, lies the Red river country, a British possession variously known otherwise as Winnipeg, Selkirk’s settlement, or Manitoba. Under an act of the British Parliament to bring all the British North American possessions into a colonial confederacy, the authorities of The Dominion,” as this confederacy is culled, sought to supply Manitoba with a local government and a general represen tation in the Confederate, or Dominion, Parliament. Scenting, as they thought, a good chance in this effort to annex Mani toba to the United States and thereby plant the claws of the eagle deep in the lion’s bide, the government at Washington set on foot certain machinations in the Red river country, intended to stir up strife against the Dominion. Hot to put too fine a point upon it, a little reconstruc tion was injected into that peaceful com munity, and divers emissaries put forth tremendous proclamations, and had elec tions and cobbled up a sort of government quite in the style the thing was done South, all going to show that the Manito bians were perfectly' wild and crazy to become a part of the United States.. The British authorities put a 6top to this in a neat way. Certain commissioners, with a body of troops to protect them against the Indians, were sent to Manitoba, the emis saries of the government at Washington ran away, and when these naif dozen or patriots had shown their heels it Was dis covered that the people of Manitoba nad no desire to be taxed out of their eve-teeth by being annexed to the United States at ail. The lion consequently still retains his 1 vitality, and the great American eagle is as mild when touching on his ManitoDa diplomacy as any sucking dove. Unee, it is true, he ruffled his pinions and prepared to do most ferocious things on a report that a British gunboat had hoisted its co,ors m American waters to the north cf Michigan, but as it turned out on an inspection of maps and treaties that said, waters were in reality British, the poor lion was ODce again spared, and the magnanimous bird of froedom his contented himself since with whetting his beak on the pockets of his coantrymen. Tyrone Powers. Tue Alabama State Fair.—To afford those of our citizens who desire an' op portunity of visiting the Alabama State Fair at Montgomery, commencing No vember 15th, arrangements have been made to issue through tickets. Pas sengers ind freights for the Fair will be transporttd for one fare. Arrangements have also been made to issue through tickets fron ah important points, td City Article London Times, OcL'22d. i Tlie War aid the Money Market. Tk# end of the war can hardly arrive I without an adalion being witnessed of at ‘ least £200,000000 sterling to the existing j debts of Euro-ean States. Already more than a quarhr of that sum lias been raised, and Paasia and Bavaria are again seeking supplis, while in the background I there is the htge amouDt to be provided by France in lie shape cf indemnity, and ; abo for the mans of reparation from the 1 ruiQ of the tar, together with the re quirements toistablish a return to specie payments. Ebw will the London money ! market be affeted by these needs ? Ex ; traordinary as the impending operations there isao reason to anticipate any serious disturhnee from them. Germany and France cm both, when peace shall have been coaluded, raise from their own people whatevr they may want; and, as regards Germany, this faculty is even now 10 great that her stocks are issued at a price too high to attract apy capital Iran this country. Os course, if we were to subscribe largely to French loans our ratesof discount would at once be influenced, but just according to the pressure thus iccasionid, such investments would be ctietked and re-sales would be induced. It nay be tfgued, however, that on the conclusun of peace and the resump tion of all the ordimry exchange opera tion?. if money shoi/d be in great demand in France and GrmaDy, specie would forthwith fbw this side to find em ployment at the hifier terms there offered, until the rates of to London market were brought nearly t those of the continent. This would undoptedly be the oase, and hence the quefioa to be considered is whether any suo demand for currency at the continental entres is likely then to be experienced, ffie war over the heavy amounts of cca distributed among the armies would gradually find their way back to the ses of commerce, to gether with mutt of that at present secre ted by the peasntry ; so that the availa ble circulation, istead of becoming more restricted, migh experience a considerable increase. But tb mode of payment ot any indemnity that lay ultimately be exacted from France by Germany is a point for in quiry. Whateertbe amount may be — 40, 60 or 80 miicns—Germany would not be likely to accet it in the form of French rentes. It will lost probably be required in cash, and in peedy instalments. Per haps of the 52 million of bullion held by the Bank of i’race at the beginning of the war, about half lay yet remain, The bal ance of the indmnity would have to be raised by loans, »a terms that would attract the hoards of th&eneral population, or by buying up thoseaoards at a premium by means of ineieaed note issues. In either case the aotive arrency would be increased instead of dim'uished, and although the supplies drawl forth would have to be sent to Berlii, their influence, so far as Europe iriqnt be concerned, would be the sime. Moreover, it may be presumed that much cf the amount sent from Frame toGermany would soon find its way bak » France in discharge of the variou vouchersgiven by tfae German army for requisitions made during the in vasion. Tnder the circumstances a re turn to spoie payments in France could not be loo;cd fir until the nation had ex perienced! lorg period of recovery, and, therefore, the necessity for providing for that oontngeacy need notform part of immediat ctleulations. Toe chief re maining ram of the country would be the meas of supplying the void which must novhave been created in the stocks of all kids cf imported produce; and for this purpse, as well as for the restoration of buildjgs, railways, and other pub -1 c undeiaking?, great efforts will have to be made by the aid of mu nicipal, provincial, and other forms of credit Hetee the drain of gold from the courtry mm be expected to be heavy until tb popuation shall have again re covered their wealth-producing power; but tbire is gnuud to believe that the latent rmoun’s thich can bo drawn forth, judginq from theestimates lotrg current as to the quantities among the French populstiOD, will b/fully equal to the need. As to tho momeitavy effects of our own debts to France, consequent on our large purchases of coton and other produce consigned originaly to French ports, but di verted hither, it ii to be borne in mind that this produce is at available as gold, and that wo have alsohrge holdings of rentes and of various cotinental stocks lately bought and paid or, and which will al ways be useful foroxchauge transactions. Looking at the wble of these considera tions, the appreherion of sudden changes or difficulties in tb money market as a consequence of pece may apparently be dismissed. Letter from Greenesboroh Radical Gongres&mal Meeting in Greenes boro'—Trumphof Bryant and Fannin —Blodgett Bady Sold, <Scc. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: The usuallyquiet little city of Greenes boro’ wa3 to-dy (Saturday) the theatre of a farcical seen. In pursuance of a call for a district nminating convention, issued by the bearded Mogul, State Road Super intendent and ex-Confederate Captain, Blotter Fodget, alias “little perjurer,” rtd chairmans the “State,Central Com mittee,” Douaerty’s hotel piazza was swarming at o early hour this morning with field hails, in broadcloth and a few strange visaed whites, all having ar rived on las night’s cars. Most of tho colored dignitaries seemed bur dened with the responsibilities rest ing upon thm, and talked with much animation, lome gathered in knots, others strode off in pairs, gesticulating earnestly, whe the “little perjurer” and the distinguiaed “Speaker of the House” were closetet in an upper room of the hotel. The bur for the meeting arrived, but little inebation to assemble was mani fested; evidetly something was not work ing right—tbre was a “flaw in the look” somewhere, ud for a long while outsiders were at a losito know the trouble, but it finally leakeacut: Fannin’s friends were in the majory , and determined to stand by him. Bryan had stocked the cards, and Blodgett, MWhorter, et al., —all bitter enemies of Iham —were badly trumped. Finally thy entered the Court House followed by rfew 15th amendments, when tbe entire elegation shut themselves up in one ot the petit juror’s rooms, where they remaind for a wonderfully long time. Blodgett, dring the while, stood in the vestibule of he Court House, anj every few minutes, prominent colored member emerged frot the caucus-room and went to him with At length he caucus entered the court room and seaed themselves, when on mo tion of W. H. Harrison, colored, of Han cock, W. H. McWhorter, of Greene, was called to the Chair, and on assuming the onerous duti® and said high position, spoke as follows: Fellow Cibzers: “I always feel compli mented whei caled upon to preside over a Republican netting. I am not well, and therefore, cama preside with that degree of pleasantmss I otherwise should. But if you are t’ue to yourselves, as I think you will be, tore is a better day for Geor gia and Rerablcanism. Lot there bo no proscription or intolerant feeliDg among you. The oject of this meeting has been explained though the papers.” After thisspeech a colored brother rose and moved that Mr. McWhorter act as Secretary. ?he Chairman corrected him, and informer him that that was his name, and that Xr. Hnngerford was the man. McWhorter Hungerford, of Burke, was then elected Secretary, which took the only remaining vhite man present, with one, or perhaps txo, exceptions. A commitee of five was appointed on credentials, vhich retired, and after a long absence reappeared, when one of their number, da ker than seven loads of char coal, said : ‘‘Mr. Chairman—l have the honor to represent our report. ’ ’ It appeared from said Robert that eight counties-~ Richmond, Burke, Greene, Hancock, Morgan, Liicoln, Oglethorpe and Glass cock—were represented, and to this report on credentials were attached four remark able resolutions, which the Secretary, with the assistant of the author, found great difficulty ii reading, and if reported as read would sound decidedly funny. We would give them to you but they would make this report too lengthy. Harrison (colored) then moved that they go into the nomination of Congressmen by public acclamation, which being agreed to Beard (colored), of Richmond, was entered for the Ehort term, and Fannin, of Morgan for the long term: and, to our surprise, both were unanimously nomi- W hen the caucus emerged from the jury room, Blodgett, knowing that the dog was dead,' disappeared from the vestibule, and has not been seen since. He had called a meetiDg to kill off Fannin, and said meet ing had unanimously endorsed him. Those he had called out to curse had united in praises, and he might feelingly have said: “The best laid plans of mice and men aft gang agle.” "Visitor. Greensboro’, November 5,1870. Texas Cattle.- Dr. Latham contributes to The Omaha i of tho 20th inst., a very interest ing article on cattle-raising in Texa?, from which we make extracts as fellows: i A Texas is truly the cattle-hive of North America. While New Yo-k, with her : 4.000,000 inhabitants and her settlements two and a half centuries old, has 748,000 oxe_n aod stock cattie ; while Pennsylvania, with more than 3,000,000 people, has 721,- 000 cattle; while Ohio, with 3,000,000 people, has 749,000 cattle; while Illinois, with 2,800,000 people, has 567,000 cattle; and while lowa, with 1,200,000 people, has 686,000 cattle, Texas, net forty years of age, and with her 500,000 people, had 2,000,000 head of oxen and other cattle exclusive of cows, in 1867, as shown by the returns ot the CouDty Assessors. In 1870, allowing for the difference between the actual number of cattle owned and the number returned for taxation, there muse be fully 3,000,000 head of beeves and stock cattle. This is exclusive of cows, which, at the same time, are reported at 600.000 head. In 1872 they must number 800,000, making a grand total of 3,800,1.00 head of cattle in Texas. One fourth ot these are beeves, one-fourth are cows, and the other two-fourths are yearlings and two-year-olds. There would, therefore, be 950,000 beeves, 950,000 oowß, and 1,900,- 000 young cattle. There are annually raised and branded 850,000 calves. These cattle are raised on the great plains of Texas, which contain 152,000,000 acres. In the vast regions watered by the Rio Gracde, Nueces, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Colorado, Leon, Brazos, Trinity, Sabit, and Red Rivers, these millions of cattle graze upon almost tropical growths of*vegc tation. They are owned by the ranche meo, who own from 1,000 to 75,000 head each. I will describe one or two of these great ranches, which will represent to your read ers the large ranches of this cattle hive. On the Santa Catrutos River is the ranohe of Colonel Richard King, knewn as the “Santa Catrutos Ranche.” This ranohe consists of nineteen Spanish trigeeus of land, or 84,132 acres. It is watered plen tifully by the Santa Catrutos Iliver ami its tributaries, On this ranche are the im mense number of 65,000 cattle, 10,000 horses, 7,000 sheep, and 8,000 goai-s. One thousand saddle-horses and 300 Mexicans are constantly employed in herding, gathering, and driving this stock. Col. King brands annually 12,000 calves, and sells 10,000 beef cattle yearly, and invests the proceeds in stock cattle, there by adding to his vast herds, in addition to their natural increase. O’Connor’s ranche, 20 miles below Goliad, on the San Antonio River, is another princely estate. He had 40,000 cattle in 1862, branded 11,872 calve?, and was selling from $75,000 to SBO,OOO worth of beef cattle annually. The foundations for this wealth were laid in 1852, wheu he commenced grazing with 1,500 cattle. Ttie Robideaux ranche, on the Gulf, between the mouths of the Rio Grande and the Neucos, owned bv Mr. Kennedy, contains 142,840 acres. It is a fertile peninsula jutting out into the Gulf, and is fenced on three tides by the waters of the Gulf. The other side is fenced by 30 miles of plank fence. Every three miles of this fence has a little ranche for Mexi can herders. In this inclosure there are 30,000 beef cattle alone, betides the other stock- These three are types of the men in the older cattle-srowing region near the Gulf. The frontier counties are all rich in stock. Jack Young, ThrogmortoD, Stevens, Ual lahan, ColemaD, Brown. Torrent, Elrath, Camanehe, Palopinto, Hitt, and Johnson, are all great stock counties. These coun •ties comprise the country drained by the thousands of streams that form tho Rio Grande, Nueces, Guadaloupe, San Anto nio, Colorado, Lsod, Brazos, Trinity, Sa fa ne, and Red Rivers, aad is one cf the best watered regions in ' America. The bluffs and table lands bordering and be tween these streams arc covered with “bunch,” “buffalo,” and “mesquit” grasses. The cattle princes of these coun ties are John Hitt6on, who has 50,000 cat tle; Wm. Hittson, who has 8,000; G. W. Slaughter, 20,000 head; J. C. Lynch. 8.000 head; Geo. Beavers, 6,000; Chas. Rivers, 10,000; James Brown, 15,000; C. J. John son, 8,000; S. E. Jackson, 4,000; Bob Sloan, 12,000 (half Durham stock); An derson Bros., 6,000; Coggins & Parkp, 20,000; Samuel VaughD, 6,000; Martin Childers, 10,000; Cunningham, 8,000; Mauskow, 8,000; Lacy <Sc Coleman, 12,000; John Chisholm, 30,000. John Hittson’s ranelie is in Palo Pinto county, on the Brazos River, where he has 50,000 cattle; he has 300 saddle horsts and 50 herders. He drives about 10,000 head of cattle north annually. Eighteen years ago; he was working from daylight till dark in Rhea county, Ten nessee, a timbered section, feeling trees, cutting, rolling, and burning logs, and clearing the land to raise a little corn and wheat. From experience in the forests of Tennessee he knew that it would take the three score and-ten years cf a natural life to clear away the trees and wear out the stumps, and, not fancying the doom of hard labor for life, he sold his land, and with 60 Texan cows and nine brood mates, turned hi' face toward the setting sun and the grass regions of the Brazos. Less than a score of years have passed, and he has 50,000 head of cattle and as many aores of land. Hittson is about 40 years old, six feet in height, and broad shouldc-red; has an honest, sunburnt face, with a square, firm-set under-jaw, which, as J. looked at it, I thought was shut a little firmer, giving him a more determined look than it would otherwise, but for a dozen or two encounters with the fierce and insatiable Comanchts, who knew Hittson and his old long muzzle loading rifle well, and now know him with his Winchester. I have often wondered what they! thought when they pounced on him with bis new Winchester, and re ceived len shotsir a minute instead of one in five minutes. TYey must have thought the old rifle bewitched. At any rate, they will give him a wide berth, unloss they can creep upon him as the hunter docs tho buf falo bull he does not dare to face. Mr. Hittson is establishing a ranehe on the South Platte, near old Fort Morgan, for use as hi- general northern headquarters. He will winter 5,000 cattle there this yeas and bring 10,000 bead there for sale next reason. John Chisholm, on the Concho River, is another of the cattle raisers and drivers of North-western Texas, who car ries on the business on a princely scale, and whose experience is muon like that ot Hittson. Os the thousands of owners of the 3,800,000 head of cattle in Texas, not 100 commenced with large means. They have built themselves up from small be ginnings, like Hittson and Chisholm. The surplus stock is disposed ol by pack ing, by shipping by steamer to the Gulf States, by driving due north to Abilene, Kansas, and Schuyler, Nb., and by the northwestern route to the Pecos river, where the droves divide, some going to Arizona and California bv the southern route; the greater number, however, keep ing a northern course up the Pecos river to the Arkansas river, crossing at and above Bent’s old fort, and thecee along the east ern ba?e of the mountains, through Colo rado and across the Black Hills, to the Union Pacific Railroad, and oa to the great valleys and markets of Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and the Pacific States. The beeves are selected out before tbe heids leave the Black Hills west. If fat, Pray are at once shipped for Chicago and NiW York; ii thin, they are left in the valleys of Colorado, Wyoming and Ne braska to fatten. The amount of money handled by bankers along the base of the mountains from Chayenne to Trinidad is enormous. I have no data from which to calculate the amount, but it cannot be less than $1,250,000. Every settler who comes into any of these mountain territories, every mine that is opened, every Indian who goes on to reserves and is fed, every soldier who is brought into the country, creates an additional demand for stock i cattle and beef. At astounding as these figures may seem, the tupply has not been nearly adequate to meet _ the demand. Great preparations are making in North western Texas to gather together herds which in numbers have not been heard of before. Abilene has been the great market this year. At that place the receipts of cat:le i have reached the enormous figures of 200,- | 000. The shipments for the month of; September amounted to 60,000 head, or j 3,333 car-loads, or 111 car loads per day, for the great c rn-ueids of lowa, Missouri and Illinois. It is anticipated that the shipments will reach 75,000 in October. ! This great cattle trade at Abilene, which has assumed such gigantic proportions, wa3 initiated in 1867, acd has therefore counted only four seasons. In 1867, 75,- 000 head of stock were received ; in 1868, 125,000; in 1869, 150,000; in 1870, 200,- 000. In 1869, one bank alone in Kansas City handled $300,000 cattle money. The cattle driven acd sold here are from the eastern part of the State, from the Rio Grande to the Red Rivers. At Schuyler, this year, which was an experiment only, 27,000 cattle were sold. The First Na tional Bank at Omaha handled $500,000 in consequence of this cattle business. I am informed by those who know, that 40,- 000 more cattle could have been sold if they had been at Schuyler. Next year it i- hoped the supply will reach 100.000, as the demand for Nebraska, lowa, South- Western Minnesota and Dakota, will cer tainly require that number. Packing is one of the great means of disposing of the cattle of Text i. Allen & Poole, of Galveston, aro packing immense numbers of cattle at Galveston, Tndianofa, and at Shreveport and other places. lam informed that they own more oattlo than any other firm ia the State. This salted beef Sods market in our great Eastern cities, with cur navy and merchant ma rine, and in every beef-buying market of Europe. Refrigerator cars are looked forward anxiously to, to take the place of live shipments as cheaper, Wealthier, and with no loss by ioDg travel without food. It such shipments prove successful, every market east of the Missouri river and west of the Sierra Nevadas will receive beef from Texas. THF MKAIORY OF FEE. A TRIBUTE FROM HIS OLD COMPANIONS IN ARMS. REMARKS OF EX-PRESIDENT DAVIS. A meeting of Confederate officers and soldiers was held in Richmond on Thurs day night in the First Presbyterian Church. The edifice was crowded to over flowing. At 7 o’clock General Bradley T. Johnson called the meeting to order, and upon his motion, Geueral Jubal A. Early was elected temporary chairman. General Early on taking the chair, paid an elo quent tribute to the memory of him whom he described as “the greatest and noblest of men,” General Robert E. Lee. After prayer by Rev. Dr. Mmnegerode, General Bradley T Johnson moved the appoint ment of the usual committees, and the motion was carried. The committee on permanent organization, after a brief re tirement, made a report, recommending the following as the permanent officers of the association : I For President -Jefferson Davis, Vice-Presidents—Major General Fitz hugh Lee, Major General John B. Gordon, Major General Edward Johnson, Major General I. R. Trimble, Brigadier General W. B. Taliaferro, Brigadier General IVm. N. Pendleton, Major General Wm. Smith, Brigadier General H. A. Wise, Brigadier General J. D. Imboden, Colonel Charles Marshall, Colonel Walter 11. Taylor, Col. W. K. Perrine, Colonel Peyton N. Wise, General M. Ransom, Captain Robert Pe gram, General L. L. Lomax, Col. Henry Peyton, Colonel J. M. French, Colonel R. E. Withers, Major Wrn. Berkeley, Colonel William Willis, Colonel William Preston Johnson, Lieutenant Mann Page, Privates William C. Kane, of Louisa county, Vir ginia; Robert Martin, of Faurquier; G. Hough, of Baltimore, and G. Elder, of Maryland, and Sergeant W. Wirt Robin son. Secretaries—Captain E. S. Gregory, Ser geant George L. Christian, Captain C. G. Lawson, Sergeant James P. Cowardin, Captain W. A. Anderson, Private Abner Anderson, Captain S. D. Houston, Capt. George Walker and Major Wm. B. Myers. The report was unanimously adopted amid great applause. REMARKS OF PRESIDENT DAVIS. The Dispatch says: As Mr. Davis arose to walk to the stand every person in the house rose to his feet, and there followed such a storm of applause as seemed to shake the very foundation of the'building, while cheer upon cheer was echoed from the throats of veterans saluting one whom they delighted to honor. Mr. Davis spoke at length, and with his accustomed thrilling, moving eloquence. We shall not attempt to give a full report of his address. He addressed his hearers as “soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy, comrades acd friends.” Mr. Davis said; Assembled on this sad occasion, with hearts oppressed with the grief that follors the loss of him who was our leader on many a bloody battlefield, a pleasing though melan choly spectacle is presented. Hitherto, and in all times, men have beeu honored when successful, but hero is the case of one who, amid disaster, went down to his grave, and those who were his oompanions in misfortune have assembled to honor his memory. It is as much an honor to you who give as to him who receives, for above the vulgar test of merit you show your selves competent to discriminate between him who enjoys and he who deserves sue-' oesa. Robert E. Lee was my associate and friend in the military academy, and we were friends until tho hour of his death. We were associates and friends when he was a soldier and Ia Congressman ; and associates and friends when he led the armieß of the Confederacy and I presided in its Cabinet. We passed through many sad scenes together, but I cannot romem berthat there was ever aught but perfect harmony between us. If ever there was difference of opinion it was dissipated by discussion, and harmony was the result. I repeat, we never disagreed, and I may add that I never in my life saw in hitn the slightest tendency to self-seeking. It was not his to make a record, it was not his to shift blame to other shoulders; but it was his with an eye fixed upon the welfare of his country, never faltering, to folio * the line of duty to the end. HU was the heart that braved every difficulty; his was the n.ind that wrought viotory out of defeat. Ho has been charged with “want of dash.” I wish to say that i never knew Lee to falter to attempt anything that man could dare. An attempt has also been made to throw a cloud upon his character because he left.lhe army of the United S'ates to join in tbe struggle for ihe liberty of his State. Without trench ing at all upon polities, I deem it my duty to say one word in reference to this charge. Virginian born, desoended from a family illustrious in Virginia’s annals, given by Virginia to the service of the United States, he represented her in the Military Academy at West Point. He was not educated by the Federal Govern ment, but by Virginia, for she paid her full share for the support of that insti tution, and was entitled to demand in re turn the services of her sons, Entering the army of the United States, he repre sented Virginia there also, and nobly. On many a bard fought field. Lee wap conspicuous, battling for his native State as much as for the Union. He came from Mexico crowned with hoaors, covered by brevets, and recognized, you-g as be was, as one of the ablest of his country’s soldiers. And to prove that he was estimated then as much, let me tell you that when Lee was a captain of en gineers stationed in Baltimore tbe Cuban Junta in New York selected him to be their leader in tho struggle for the inde pendence of their Dative country. They were anxious to secure his service?, and offered him every tem station that am bition could desire. He thought the matter over, and, I remember, came to Washington to consult me as to what he should do, and when I began to discuss the complications which might arise from his acceptance of the trust, he gently re bukfd me saying that this was not the line upon which he wished ray advise ; the pimple question was, “Whether it was right or not.” He had been educated by the United States, and felt it wrong to ac cept place in the army of a foreign power. Such was his extreme delicacy—such was the nice sense of honor of the gallant gen tleman whose death we deplore. But when Virginia withdrew—the State to whom he owed his first and last allegiance the same nioe sense of honor led him to draw his sword and throw it in the scale for good or for evil. Pardon me for this brief defence of my illustrious friend. When V irginia joined the Confederacy, Robert Lee, the highest officer in the little army of Virginia, came to Richmond, and Dot pausing to inquire what would be his rank in the service of the Confederacy, went to Western Virginia under the belief that he was still an officer of the State. He came back, carrying the heavy weight of defeat and unappreciated by the people whom he served, for they could not know, as I knew, that if hiß plans and orders had been carried out, the result would have been victory rather than defeat. You did not know, lor I would not have known it had he not breathed it in my ear only at my earnest request, and begging that noth ing be said about it. Thß clamor which then arose followed him when he went to South Carolina, so that it became necessary on his going to South Carolina to write a letter to the Governor of that State, tell ing him what manner of man he was. Yet, through all this, with a magnanimi*y rarely equalled, he stood in silenoe, with out defending himself, or allowing others to defend him, for he was unwilling to offend any one who was wearing a sword and striking blows for the Confederacy, Mr. Davis then spoke of the stra ghts to which the Confederacy was reduced, and of the danger to which her capital was ex posed just after the battle of Seven Fines, and told how General Lee had oonoeived NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 4(>. and executed the desperate plan tu turn their flank and rear, which, after seven aays of bloody battle, was crown -d with the protection of Richmond, while the enemy was driven far from the city. The speaker referred also to the circumstances attending General Lee’s crossing thp Poto r} aC i\i ,n< Tv^'- 0 , marc * l into P.mnsylvania. ue (..Ur. LG vis) assumed the responsibility tor that movement. The enemy had long been concentrating his force, and it was evident that it they continued their steady C'mfafti'acy would be over turn on orie Was t 0 drive him to the defence of nis own capital, we being enabled in the meantime to reinforce our shattered army. How wrl! General Lee earned out that dangerous experiment necdMot te told. Richmond was relieved, the Confederacy was relieved, ami timo was obtained, if other things had ftvored, to reiDiorc-3 tbc army. j But, said Mr. Davis, I shall not at tempt to review the military career of onr lallen chieftain. Os the man. how shall I j speak ! He was my friend, and in that* { w oid is induced ail that I could say of any ; man. His moral qualities rose to the height ot his genius. Seif denying—al ways intent upon the one idea of duty self controlled to an extent that many, thought him ooid. His feelings were ready warm, and his heart melted freely at the sight of a wounded soldier or the f'Cory of tho sufferings of the widow and orphan. During tho war he was ever con scious of the inequality of the means at his control ; but it was never liis to com plain or to utter a doubt—it was always nis to do. When in the last campaign he was beleaguered at Petersburg, and pain fully aware of the straights to which we were reduced, lie said : “With my army in the mountains of Virginia I could carry on this war twenty years longer.” His men exhausted and his supplies failing, he was unablo to carry out his plans. Au untoward event caused him to anticipate the movement, and the army of Northern Virginia was overwhelmed. But ia the surrender he anticipated conditions that l#ve not been fulfilled—he expected his army to be respected and his paroled sol diers to be allowed the enjoyments ot life and proper’y. Whether these conditions have been luifilled, let others say. Here he now sleeps in the land he loved so well, and that land is not Virginia only, fur they do injustice to Lie who believe he fought only for Virginia. He was ready to go anywhere, on any service, for the good of his country, and his heart was as broad as the fifteen States struggling for the principles that our forefathers fought for in the Revolution of 1776. lie is sleeping in the same soil with the thou sands who fought under the samo flag, but first offered up their lives. Here the living aro assembled to honor his memory, and there, the skeleton sentinels keep watch over his grave. This citizen! this soldier! this great general I this true patriot! left behind him the crowning glory of a true Christian. His Christianity ennobled him in life, and affords us grounds for the be lief that he is happy beyond the grave. Bat, while we mourn the loss of the great and the true, drop wo also tears of sympathy with her who wa3 his help meet in life—tbo noble woman who, while her husband was in tho field, leading the army of the Confederacy, though an invalid her self, passed tho time in knitting socks for the marching soldiers! A woman fit to be the mother of heroes -and heroes are de scended from her. Mourning with her, we can only offer the consolation ot a Christian. Our loss is not his, but he cow enjoys the rewards of a life well spout and a never wavering trust in 3. risen Sa viour. This day we unite our words of sorrow with those of the good anu the great throughout Christendom, for his fame is gone over the water, his deeds will be remembered; and when the monument we build shall have crumbled into dust, his virtues wiil still live, a high model for the imitation of generations yet unborn. Resolutions were ilicd offered by Colonel C. U. Venable providing for the organiza tion of an association for the purpose of erecting a monument to General Lee at Richmond. Coined Venable spoke in support cf hisresolu ioo, and was seconded by Generals Pres:or:, Gordon and others. In the courseof'liisspeech. Col. Venable related the following incident: At 3 o’clock on the memorable morning us tbe surrender, when our last hope seemed to have forsaken us, General Lee sent me forward to the gallant Gordoe to know whether, he could hold out longer. I will give General Gordon’s reply in his own words: “Tell General Leo that my old corps iu reduced to a frazzle, and un less I am supported by Longstreet heavily I do not think we can do anything more." I returned to General Lee and delivered tho message. He then said, “There is nothing left but to go to General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths.” In the sad and tearful consultation which ensued, one of us remarked, “What will history say of our surrendering if there is any possibility of escape’ Posterity will Dot understand.” “Yes, yes,” he rejoined, “they will not understand our situation ; but that is not the question. The ques tion is whether it is right, and if it is right, I take the responsibility.” The resolutions were unanimously adopt ed, and the Loe Monument Association was organized with the following officers: President —Lieutenant Genera! Jubal A• Early. Secretary— Colonel T. M. R. Ta’cott. Treasurer—Colonel William W. Palmer. Auditor—C. R. Allan. Executive Committee—Walter H. Tay lor, Bradley T. Johnson, Robert Stiles, R. D. Minor, R. H. Maury. The meeting then adjourned. County Nominations in Lincoln County. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: At our county nomination meeting, which was very largely attended, the fol lowing nominations were made : For Representative—H J Lang. For Treasurer—A Johnston. For Clerk —A Johnston. For Sheriff-J W Martin. For Colieotor—A Hearnsbergor. For Receiver-JB Bentley. For Surveyor— J J Pounds. * For Coroner—M B Smalley. The people of Lincoln are an unit for Judge Reese fov S:a;e Senator, 29th district. They approve the nominations for Congress. But for Gen. A. R. Wright’s declination, they would have been well pleased to have tbe uhance of casting their votes for him. But Lincoln will do her duty. LINCOLN. BY TELEGRAPH. TO THE ASSOCIATED PRTSS. THE ELECTIONS. Washington, November 9 —The Con servatives carried the Richmond munici pal election by a small majority The election passed off quietly. Toe Federal troops did not approach the pells. Governor Hoffman’s majority in New York city is fifty thousand The Tribune gives Governor Hoffman 30,000 majority in the State. A private dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla., says two hundred men drove the whites and blacks, including the candidates for Lieu’enant-Governor and Legislature from Lake City. The returns show a decreased Repntilican majority in Florida. Michigan has gone Republican by twenty fire thousand. Sutherland is elected to Congress in the fif'h district. In the fourteenth New York district Perry, Democrat, 'u elected. The Republican majority in Illinois is about twenty thnnßand. Thh Congres sjonal delegation is probably the same as last year. The ienthand twelfth districts are claimed by both parties. Merrick is elected from Maryland, though the Republicans still claim the first and fifth districts doubtful. The probabilities favor a clean Democratic delegation from Maryland. Kentucky gives a clean Democratic dele gation. The majorities are somewhat re duced. The Legislature of New Jersey and four Congressmen are claimed by the Repub licans. There is nothing definite from Arkansas. Conflicts between the Federal and State authorities are repot ted at several points. It rained in Missouri during the after noon. Brown is vastly ahead as far as heard- The thirtieth New York district is a Democratic gain. The fourth New York district elects McMahon, Young Dem ocrat. The eighth elects Brooks, Tam many Democrat. In the ninth distriot Cox beats Greeley one -thousand votes. In the first Missouri Wells is elected by a majority of one thousand. In the sec ond Missouri Finkelinberg.a liberal Repub lican, is re-elected. In the third Missouri, McCormick .Democrat, is re-elected. The Republicans have made heavy gains in Kansas. New Jersey elects a Democrat in the second district, making the Democratic loss one. The second New Jersey district elects Forker by 370 majority. . The Republicans have eight majority i on joint ballot, securing a Federal Senator. I Too fourth New York district elects Ricscvelt instead of McMahon, as before reported. The seventh Virginia district elects Braxton by The sixth Michigan district elects Sutfierland by over eight hundred. Tho first Arkansas district elects Hanks, ar.d third Arkansas elects Edwards. The m-and district Rogers is probably elected. The Dean crats claim heavy gains iu Tennessee. The seventh Tennessee dis trict elects Caidwcll. It in the first Missouri district Wells’ re- election is claimed by 1,500. The fourth Illinois distriot is claimed by Cable, Democrat. In thj second Illinois district the temperance candidate runs Farnsworth olosely—possibly beats him. The sixth Virginia district elects Har ris. In the second Minnesota distriot Averill is elected by 3,000. A close calculation gives the Democrats in yesterday l ? elections and those already hold twenty five Democratic gain. The Democrats in tho next House will be ninety-two, against sixty seven in the present House. This test inc.udes no hermaphrodites. foreign. Lome. November 9.—The Italians have closed the Jesuit College?. Msrmora’s headquarters are at the (Juinnal. London, November 9 —The so r is in tense and it was as dark as midnight at noon to day. Heavy cannonading was heard at Arlon °?.is 1 . turd M Saud Sunda y ftom the direction of 1 hionville. The Piussians are training hawks to capture carrier pigeons from Paris. The Prussians have fortified Montbclaird preliminary to besieging Belfort. London, November 9.-The latest thincso advices say the French have ac cepted atonement from the Chinese for lbe late outrages. London, November 9.—The Tours Government promises a manifesto explain ing the rupture of the armistice in negotia tions. & she Gazette de France demands an im mediate election to end the arbitrary rule of the Provisional Government. Dispatches from Lyons report the col lection of cattle in anticipation of a scige. Tours, November 9.—Triers and L >u ncr have arrived from Paris by a balloon A barricade committee has been or ganized at Lyons. Tho authorities of Lyons have rccen’ly received fifty thou sand Remington rifles. T* l6 Russians are advancing by the V alley of Oucher to occupy Orenzott. There are twenty thousand Germans at Gi.ion with sixty guns. * Roms, Novembef 9.—ltalians seized the Quirmal as State proqierty. London, Novenf%er 9.—The correspon “j®" 1 the Manchester Examiner says that the Parliament of North Germany is summoned to Sirasbourg. The French fleets sighted off the Elbe and other points. Lille November 9—The Department of the Nord has issued a loan for defence PU'r>OSe^. T ÜBS, November 9.—The Government continues to withhold news. The peoplo c n-n r f ar aewg . Military men seem quite confident, m v r Jj lm “ er Prussian prisoners have A ivices from Paris to tho 6th says: Or • m is preserved by stringent measures. • 0 30 “ ve fir e from the forts prevent ihe enemy from establishing aggressive worlcs Iheir works constructed in the night are regularly destroyed during the day. It is said the Tours government contem plate taking plebiscituiii for ratification of their powei. Rochefort resiened in disgust, caused by the people s sneers. Advices from Rime sta’o that tho Je suits are excluded from night schools, lopnlar demonstrations against the Je suits are reported. FROM fcOUISI \NA. New Orleans, November 9. It, {$ stated that tbreo hundred persons are sup posed to be counting the votes of the city I hey receive eight dollars per day. Tho Tim* ,B anys thn reasf> „ t j, e election returns are not counted with promptitude is simply eight dollais per day and an interest in the is ue Tho official returns will bo in, we presume, about Christmas, as the ballot boxes . ln , char K® Principally of Republican officials. No fears are entertained of delay reducing their majorities. The Picayune has specials from Baton IkOugCi lho city is in the hands of Fe oral troops, who are making arrests of white citizens on affidavits of negro rioters. Oa the night ofihe 7th negroes, with arras in their hands and uttering threats of viol no e were quietly sent home, while whites! found without arms, and inoffensive in all particulars, were arrested and placed in close confinement. Yesterday and to-day further arrests were made, several of whom were absent at the time of the riots. Martial law is practically ii*>peratioo United Statos Marshal Packard ha? a telegram regarding the riot on Monday night at Baton Rouge. Supervisors and counters of ballots were attacked by an armed mob, but the ballots were paved. Four are dead and twenty wounded—all Republicans. Marshall Sohoormackcr was wounded. The official candidate for the Legislature was killed More trouble is anticipated. About thirty of the leaders were arrested. [Signed] Henry Schorten, . , ,„ . Deputy Marshal. At base-ball the Atlantics of Bt. Louis, were defeated by the Lees—twenty to twelve. The Republicans will, to-morrow, pub lish a -letter giving a full account of the Baton Rouge riot, which makes it appear to be a premeditated affair, and would, it is predicted, have been much more serious but for the prompt action of Capt. Meyer in moving two companies of the nine teenth infantry to the scene of aotion and restoring order by arresting thirty of the ringleaders. Marshal Packard has directed that tho prisoners be removed from Baton Rouge for security. Trouble is apprehended at Donaldson villo, and two companies of Federal troops, from the Greenville barracks, were sent there to-day on requisition of Governor Warmoutb. The Southern bound passenger train on the Jackson Railroad, due hem at 11 o’clock this morning, ran off at Wesson but was got on and ran off again this evening at three o’clock two miles south of BrookhaveD. Several are reported killed and wounded. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, November 9. Fisher Comraissioner of Patents, has resigned. ’ The Democratic Congressional Commit tee have advices from Illinois that the Democrats gain the fifth and eighth and Probably the twelfth district, and reduce the Republican majority by thirty thou sand. The President has authorized the publi cation of the correspondence which passed between him and ex-Becrctary Cox last August, relative <o the claim of McGarra nan to the quicksilver mines claimed bv the New Idria Company. The President’s letter savs: “As the matter had been taken in hand oy Congress before the incoming of this administration, and as so much fraud is chargei and believed to exist on both sides, I am not willing that mv name should be signed to a patent for either party until Congress has either de cided or declared their ioabilitv to do so I wish you would say to Mr. White, Secre tary for signing patents, not to put my name to that one exce D t on special orders from me through you. Next day Cox wrote a long reply, denying that Congress had assumed a peculiar jurisdiction of the subject, and asserting, for reasons stated, tuat McGarraban stands before the de partment as a fraudulent claimant, who has twice been foiled and condemned in his fraud by the highest court of the na tioD, and whose efforts to procure favor from Congress have also failed.” He con cludes by saying: “For myself, as I am conscious of having only fought fraud with such vigor as I could, I can make no com promise, and if I fail to secure to tbo full est extent your approval of my oourse, I must beg you to relieve me at once from duties which, without your support, I shall utterly fail in.” The President notices the last part of this letter to show that prior _to October, when Cox sent in his resignation, he asked to be relieved from nis office, and hence tho reasons he assigned for his resignation in October were not tho true ones. The President, through the newspapers, but without bis signature, also alludes to that part of Cox’s letter implying that Grant tfonld not support him in carrying out civil reforms. The President refutes this by saying that all persons appointed have to undergo examination as to qualifications the preference of course being giveD, all things beiDg equal, to friends of the ad ministiatioo. He inaugurated the policy of appointing Indian agents from the va rious religious societies, and to this the publie way be assured that he will adhere
