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fFrom the Louisville Democrat.}
GESIi JOHN 11. MORGAN.
After the burial of the remains of this gallant, dis
tinguished and loved Kentuckian in the cemetery at
Lexington, Ed. Colgan, Esq., of this city, one of his
brave followers lo the bitter end,wrote to a messmate,
the sharer in all his campaigns, trials and dangers—
a letter descriptive of the funereal scene. This
elicited the following beautiful response. It i3 the
sad but true utterance oi' a Louisiana soldier, express
ed in the language of true poetry:
THEY GATHERED THERE.
BY HAROGOLD.
They gathered there, the mighty crowd,
To gaz ; upon the patriot dead;
Each head uiicovered, silent bowed
To tho invisible power dread
Th*t from their midst had once removed,
The chieftain, friend and brother loved 1
And all alike their reverence gavo
A tribute just to honored worth;
Each heart was humbled in the grave
With his that had returned to earth.
They gathered there, this pquadron old,
Hcmce two score ot that valiant baud
That once were led by Morgan bold,
Now lifelecs laid by death’s grim hand:
Tho’ dead, imperishable liis name,
As any on the roll of fame.
Those noble few again had met,
Alas, to mourn their chieftain slain,
And o’er his ashes to regret
Those scenes of strife on hill plain.
They gathered there, earth’d angels pure,
W ith Learls of symp ithy and woe,
In life their zeal bid him endure,
In death their tears in sorrow flow;
Flowed from thß fount of sadness deep,
That Morgan slept his last long sleep;
And as they mingle with the lew
Stili left of that old squadron brave,
Their presence seems the path to strew
With evergreens round Morgan’s grave.
BCANDAhOUS.
We tarn ihe author of the following doggerel over
to Ihe mercies of the ladies. We make no appolo
gies for him, as he has neither youth nor age to re*
commen him to clemency. We have reason to be*
lieve tnat this act of his was the result of mature de
liberation. Hear what he has to sa-:
As along the street I blundered,
Much I marvelled, much I wondered,
Seeing sights and things that mortal
Never saw or dreamed before;
On the pavement oamo a rapping
As of footfall!) gently tapping,
And I heard a muslin—flapping,
Which my eye would fain explore,
• 4, 'Tiß some female/’ then T muttered—
I had seen the thing before—
tiqs
u,dh ibis female sweeping by*-*. -.-**
' Fun:.OI she shenideftauce to sjjy me,
-SU'l delay I stepped into a
Friendly, waiting open door;
Thencelsaw the lovely maiden
Belug from some distant Aideu—
All psrf tuned and dry goods i 'ii leu,
Fass me and go ou before.
■Naught hid I to do but follow
and note down the things she wore—
‘Twas a mystery to explore.
a)
And I found—by close inspection—
That her haughty, upper section,
Something chance had called a bonnet, *’
On its pericranium wore;
And her breast was heaving slowly,
‘Neath a garmeut fashioned low !y,
And I knew the movement wholly.
I had never seen heiore;
For I knew ‘twas "patent heavers”
That this rudient maiden wove,
Only those and nothing more.
And her cheeks were full and rosy—
-11 c >t,d tell you, inter nos, a
Secret that a druggist told me
Os the color that she woro—
Yet lier cheeks were very pleasing,
JBut her look at me was freezing,
And she showed a sign of sneezing,
As she swept along before;
And she sneezed a pair of “pumpers”
Out at least a yard before
Only this and nothing more.
Then I noticed an uncertain
Hfiing of the muslin curtain,
'That her feet had deftly hidden
From my errant eyes before;
With each lift came a desire
That ’twould iiit a little higher,
And at last it did aspire
Higher than I'd s- en before;
Aud I knew it was a “tutor”
That this saintly maiden wore;
Just a “filter”—notutug more.
tank,the tilting and the rocking
•Up and down the splendid stocaing
liai lewd by a bluish rilbor.
That £ chanced to see she wore,
Showed me —‘twas a sight for weeping,
That a p lir of calves were creeping
Out of place, as she was weeping
Like a etataiy queen befoie:
Calves that she had lately purchased
From a fancy dry goods store.
Patent calves—and not much more.
And the fluttering and the flapping
Os this maiden’s gaudy trapping
Showed me sights that never mortal
Eye had dared to see before;
Sights revealed by evey lifting
Os the folds of muslin drifting
Round her, which the winds were shifting
Eye-ward, higher, more and more;
Sights that unto mortal vision
Sever were revealed before,
Nameless here forever more.
and while thus here rigging fluttered,
Much I wondered, and 1 muttered:
“And you call this thing a woman
That is trouncing on before;
SHe the brazon doll of fashion,
Wrapped in oue tremendous passion;
Sunken from her noble station,
To the thing that goes before;
- Oh! that every motal vision
Should such mystery explore.’’
This I muttered—nothing more.
And the thought came o’er me gushing,
“Whore has gone tbe art of mushing
That we loved in wife or maiden
In the saintly days of yore ?”
Call me, if you will, uncivil,
While I name her “thing of evil,”
And I wish the very devil
Had the toggery she wore,
And again she wore arrayed In
Dresses like her mottier wore,
Vanished now forever more.
Human Victims of the Cattle Plague,—
The cattle plague is raging fiercely in Green
bush, N. Y., and its ravages are not confined
to dumb animals. The Tioy Times relates
the following:
In this locality its fatal results have not
been confined to cattle alone. Abram Smith
skinned one of tbe cows that died. His
bands and arms were somewhat senuched
by berry bushes, and in Ibis manner the
poisonous matter or virus was inoculated
into his arm. The limb began to swell and
pain him very much. He consulted a phy
sician, but his condition grew worse, and on
Saturday resulted in his death.
A sister of the deceased, who attended hint
in bis last illness, kissed him after his death,
and was also infeeti and by the disease. This
morning she was lying very low, and it is
thought cannot recover. Another man,
named Ostrander, was subsequently affected
in the same manner, but is still alive. That
the death of Smith was the result of the in
fection there is no doobt.
Cotton. —The weather is still unfavorable to
this crop, aud we fear it will be cut short in
this county. The caterpillar is by no means
general, and on many farms has not even been
seen; but there is ample time,'and if the
weather continues damp and cloudy, the insect
will spread over the entire county and destroy
the whole crop. —Tallahassee Floridian, 18 thf
RADICAL, ALARM AN D DESPERATION.
The New York Tribune, in the course of
an editorial rally which indicates the editor’s
apprehensions of defeat says: “We must not
be beaten.” Tbe Radicals are beginning to
renlize their position, which is very mnch
like that of a man who having hold of an
enraged bull by tbe horns, is unable to “hold
his holt,” and is afraid to let go. The Radi
cal party, having by deception and falsehood
obtained possession of the government, have
resorted to every species of usurpation and
lawlessness lo perpetuate their power. And
now, as they can no loDger shut their eyes to
the rising storm of popular reprobation and
indignation, conscious of their own in
famy, they fear the fierce retribution of a
wronged, betrayed and outraged people.
Well may the false philosopher and higher
law prophet of the New York Tribune, who
sowed the wind that bred tho rising hurri
cane, in terror of the doom that awaits him
and his followers, exclaim, “We must not
be beaten !" We wonder not at their mad
desperation; for their success is hopeless, and
defeat is fearful retribution and despair.
WHAT IT COSTS THK PEUPLK TO
SUPPORT CAUPKT-BAGGEIts. .
The difference in the cost of administering
the Constitutional Government of Florida,
and that inaugurated by the carpet-baggers
and scalawags, is shown, in two items—the
Executive and Judiciary Departments—by the
editor of the Monticello Gazette. The total
amount of salaries of the officers of the Ex
ecutive and Judicial Departments, lor the
year 1865 was $34,900. The salaries of the
officers and judges of the same departments,
under the carpet-bag constitution, amount to
$69,000. By which it will be seen that the
people of Florida pay a bonus of $34,100
per annum for the privilege of being mis
governed, degraded, outraged and plum
dered by negroes, carpet-baggers and
scalawags.
If such is the amount to which the little
State of Florida is robbed in only two
branches of her State Government, what will
be the amount of which our own State will
be plundered with such unscrupulous and
unprincipled men as Bullock, Browu and
linlbert controlling her Exexnlive, Judicial
and Financial affairs.
What an Array of Talent and Charac
ter!—The following carpet-baggers and
sclawags comprise the Republican Execu
tive Committee of Georgia : C. H. Hopkius,
Jobu Murphy, J H. Caldwell, John Harris,
J. E- Bryant, J. A. Wimpy, Sam. Bard, J. F.
Long and J. T. Costin.
Names to be remembered. For the honor
of the race, be it said, not a negro among
them.
Important Decision. —Secretary Brown
ing has decided that an ‘‘indefinite postpone
ment” by the Senate of a bill which has
(Wsied the House Was not a final disposition
of the matter by Congress, but only a post
ponement of it until the next session. This
decision is given in the McGarrah case, and
involves the title to the new Idria quicksilver
mine of California, valued at a million and a
S&jjKi of dollars, in which Boston capitalists
lire largely interested. These mines are
claimed by the Bank ot California, the stock
holders of which (theßrrrous) are foreigners
and cannot acquire titlo under the raining
laws of the United States,
Grant is an early riser, it is said. Yes,
and he is rising all the time. —New Era.
Yes, like the guyaacutus, he rises twenty
and falls forty feet.— Constitution.
To be sure, and like the monkey climbing
tbe pole, tbe higher he rises the more he
shows his—coat-tail.
Gov. Smith, of Alabama, who vetoed the
bill authorizing the Legislature to cheat the
people out of a vote for President, is a Re
publican, but not a “carpet-bagger.” He
was born in Alabama, and hence the abuse
that is now heaped upon him by the Radi
cals.
List of Georgia Nominati ns not Con
firmed BY THE UnIIEO STATES SENATE
David A. Johnson, Postmaster, Griffin ;
George W. Summers, Postmaster, Augusta ;
James C. Seha, Postmaster, Milledgeville ;
Lloyd D. Waddell, Assessor lulernal Rev
enue, Ist District.
A late North Carolina paper notes the
fact that the steamer Terry, from New York,
had just landed at Wilmington a number of
suspicious-looking boxes marked “Sharp’s
carbines.” Are these for Holden’s “loil”
lambs ? And what is the worth of a recon
struction which can only be upheld by car
bines and cannon ?
Heard From. —Tho Sumter Republican
says :
Some time ago we noticed the sudden dis
appearance of Mr. Jesse Harrell, Sheriff of
Webster county, and stated that fears were
entertained by his friends that he had been
murdered, as it was known he always car
ried a large amount of money about his per
son. The following extract from a letter
written by a resident ot Webster county will
throw some light upon the sudden disap
pearance of Mr. H. :
“Mr. Jesse Harrell has left for parts un
known. He has taken with him all his mo
ney, left his wife without aoy means to live
on, and what is worse than all, he has taken
the daughter of one of the best citizens of
Webster county, Mr. A. P. Lowery. This
man Harrell was a member of Marshall
Lodge, No. 188, F. A. M., and also a mem
ber of the Baptist Church.”
The man Bradley, having had for him a
certain urgency upon leaving the Legisla
ture, will now, it is said, be a caudidtvto fpr
Congress. Well, he may be pronounced “a
gemman ob fust rate debilities, and equal to
de. obcasion dat call him out.” Come on,
Bradley, you can beat Clift if you are a felon.
But we shall warn the colored people to keep
their wives aud daughters at home when
you come about. We are not sure but that
it the issue is between you and Clift that you
wilt command the white vote, for they will
soon find out that you are the smartest man
ot the two, though yon are, by the judgment
of a New York court, a felon, convicted of
crime. Valdosta Tunes.
A preacher not long since discoursing to
the boys in a New Hampshire State Reform
School upon the fact that the good were iT
spected while tbe bad were shunned, at
tempted to illustrate by saying, “Now, boys,
when I walk on the street I speak to-some
and not to others; what now makes tho
dificrence ?” supposing, of course, they
would say, “Because some are good and
some bad;” but he was much Astonished to
hear one little fellow sing out, “Because some
are rich and some are poor. ”
Hulbert tells the negroes who beseige
him with applications for places on the State
Roi and, that there is “no room for niggers—
ph my of carpet-baggers to run the ma
chini,” »
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1868.
THE GEORGIA BOOHS LKGISI.ATCRE.
In the Senate, on Thursday, Hon. A.
Candler, Senator from the Thirty-fourth Dis
trict, presented a memorial, signed by a
large number of the citizens of Savannah, in
reference to certain bills now before the
Legislature regulating municipal elections,
whioh was referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
The Senate then went into Executive ses
sion, when the following nominations were
confirmed: Wm. Gibson, of Augusta, to be
Judge of the Middle Judicial Circuit, and J.
D. Pope, of Fulton county, to be Judge of
the Coweta Circuit.
In the House the little scalawag Bryant
moved the reconsideration of the bill passed
on Wednesday reorganizing the municipal
government of Augusta, and made .a disgust
ing and impudent harangue, in Which he
abused in uumeasured terms those Republi
can members who voted in favor of the bill.
Mr. Shumate administered to the miserable
little Skowheganite a most scathing rebuke,
after whioh the vote on the motion to recon
sider was taken and defeated by a vote of 66
ayes to 79 nays.
Among the batch of new bills introduced
were the following;
Mr. Osgood, of Chatham, a bill to incor
porate the Pulaski Fire and Marine Insur
ance Company.
Mr. Osgood, of Chatham, a bill requiring
the Governor to appoint County Commis
sioners of Chatham county.
Mr. Ford, of Bartow, a bill to incorporate
the Etowah River and Gold Mine Manufac
turing Company.
A bill to extend aid to the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad Company. Also,
A bill to give landlords and merchants
liens on crops of tenants and creditors.
In the House on Wednesday Mr. O’Neal,
of Lownds, offered the following resolution,
which was adapted :
Resolved, That tbe State Treasurer be re
quested to pay to the President of the Board
of Trustees of Bowden College the amount
that may be due from May Ist, 1868, lo July
Ist, 1868, after the same shall be properly
audited.
His express-agency’s appointments not yet
being all oonflrmed, Mr. Lester is still un
seated.
KEGRO-RAOICAL “WAYS AND MEANS"
The Negro-Radical carpet bag aud scala
wag vagabonds and plunderers who com
pose the so-called Legislature of South
Carolina, having destroyed the credit of that
once proud State, have been in a fearful
straight recently for money to pay their per
diem. The telegraph has already announced
that the body had passed a bil 1 auth oi iziug the
bogus Governor to seize the assets of the
Bank of the State in defiance of the law,
the decisions of the courts aud the rights of
foreign creditors and the bill-holders. The
discovery of these assets are a god send to
the vandals and robbers, who, it would
seem, are determined to plunder the State
and peopl» of everything they tan lay
their hands on. At a Radical pow
wow held in Charleston on Tuesday
night night last, R. H. Cain, a ring-leader
of the thieving clan, boasted that South
Carolina had not only the assets of the Bank
of the State, but held sundry mortgages on
various property, both iu Charleston and
elsewhere. He said that this would be
speedily looked into, and all of such secu
rities, both in this country and in Europe—
amounting to millions —would bo sold, and
money obtained to pay the Legislature. The
intimation was given that the State w’as by
no means bankrupt, that the Democrats
knew where the money was concealed, but
that the Republicans would stir the matter
up with a long pole, aud would unearth the
hidden treasure.
Alas for poor Carolina ! She is indeed
iu the hands of the Philistines !
IHE COTTON PRUSFEOT IN SOUTH*
tVESTEES OEUHGU.
[correspondence of the news and herald. J
Quitman, Ga., August 20th, 1868.
Editors News and Herald :
Seeing you invite information as to the
crops, we have concluded to give you, as
near as we can, the status of cottou in our sec
tion of country.
In the first place, there is at least twenty
per cent, less area planted than in 1867, and
last year there was used twenty tons of commer
cial manures to one this year ; consequently we
must expect a less yield, with a like season,
than in 3867. But the season has been much
more unpropitious than last year,and we cannot
think cotton now has half the fruit on it that
it had last August. We say to our planting
friends that they may be assured that Florida
and Southwest Geoigia will not make more
than one-half as much cotton as was made iq
the same section in 1867. We hope the News
and Herald may be able to keep us advised
as to this great staple and its prospects through
out the country, that we may know, this time,
if possible, when to sell.
Twelve months ago-we had been educated to
believe India was going to envelop the whole
world in cotton, but so soon as the crop had
passed from our hands we were forced to leal
ize that the strongest proofs are often the most
deceptive. Capricious commodity ! when we
owned you, you were worth eight and nine
cents, but in a few weeks after you changed
your domicil you were quick sales at thirty
cents. Southern planter, your tuition has been
costly, and for that reason you should the more
profit thereby. Very respectfully,
Planter.
[communicated.]
Savannah, Ga., August 21, 1868.
Joseph E. Brown, Scalawag and Ex-Governor
of Georgia :
Sir— On or about the 25th day of July,
,18G4, you issued a proclamation as Governor
of Geoigia, ordering all aliens residing in
this State to take up arms and repair to the
city of Atlanta within ten days from the date
of your proclamation, or leave the State
never to return, and all aliens failing to
comply with conditions of said proclamation
would be dealt with according to the laws of
nations. I not knowing what that penalty
was, wrote you for information, and failing
to receive any reply, I complied with the
orders contained in your proclamation,
severing my business and domestio relations
in this city, on a very short notice, where I
bad been located for years, and which en
tailed a loss to me of at least five thousand
dollars in gold. Ido hereby notify you, J.
E. Brown, that at the next term of the Uni
ted States Court I shall enter an action
against you for the recovery of the above
amount. I am, most respeotfully,
A Subject of Her Bbitanic Majesty.
The King of Siam has twenty-nine sons
and thiriy-three daughters by thirty-five
wives.
The Herald’s Last Somersault—lt Aban
dons Grant anti the Radicals.
The signs of the times are too plain to be
misunderstood by the Now York Herald, afed
it is backing and filling preparatory to a
pluuge into the clear waters of Detuooracy,
In its issue of Saturday last it says:
Iu tho North the vote against the Repub
licans will be very heavy. Men know how
lar Democratic misrule would go, and what
direction it would take, and they do not
know the limit of Radical madness. Judg
ing it by the past, they find it difficult to
conceive that the Republican fury ban any
defiuite limit. Hitherto it has hesitated nt
nothing, has pushed recklessly on wherever
hounded by ambitious leaders, and rather
than be dragged where* such a party would
go the people will take the chauce of revolu
tion with the Democrats. Republicanism,
In fuel, is driven to a point at which it is
desperate. For two it has stood upon
the defensive beforo ts c people. the
popular jealousy of its tendencies mien less
clearly shown it would have pushed 'on to
the extremity of confiscation and proscrip
tion ; for its leaders felt that these were ne
cessary parts of its policy, that these alone
could give it safe possession of what it had
already won. Without confiscation the re
sults of negro suffrage will slip through its
fingers. Without proscription the Southern
States canuot be kept from the natural lead
ers of the Southern people. The Republican
party of the tuture, therefore, will be ready
for any desperation, convinced from its past
that tbe greatest dangor is in standing still.
There is, then, greater reason than ever why
it should be kopt from power, and this the
people evidently feel. Last year the gains
against the Republican party on Oongr&J
sional votes had wiped out its former major
ities and established an equality, aud, con
stantly increasing, the gains will now make
the balance on the other side. Such a change
as we have seen in Oregon, and half such
majorities as Kentucky has given, will pre
sent a total to astonish and confound politi
cal philosophers.
In another article it is still more severe
upon the Radicals. We quote:
Can any other party iDfiict upon us evils
worse than those we now suffer as the couse
queuce of Radical misrule? Reconstruction
by a system of legislation that deliberately
forges calamity for a whole people, and pre
pares the social ruin of ten States to secure
power to a coterie of politicians—this is the
political crime that stamps the Radical fac
tion as utterly damnable before the people.
Men inquire what tho faction would stop at
that would purchase such an end by such
means, and they know that it will not stop
at anything sacred in the law, and wilt
respect the rights of the people in the North
as little as ii has dono in tha South. Does
the name of Grant furnish any guarantee
for the future of the Radicals? The people
are not ready to believe it. Grant is politi
cally only a promise and a possibility. Re
spectable men arc not willing to doubt his
honesty or his upright purpose; but these do
not always qualify for success in such a
strife as he mu3t control to save the people
from his party. He may prove capable; he
may not, and it i3 a time when the people
oaunot Irust their future to such a chance.
Therefore the doom of Radicalism seems lo
be burned into tho popular brain.
The case of the PVesiffeuCy. therefore,
fudged t>y the main t.-cia, ecKins to siauu
thus: The history ©f the Radical parly is
such that the people will not trust it again
on any terms, and this conviction threatens
to give tiie North to ihe Democrats. If,
however, this fails, there is a possibility’ that
Grant may be beaten by loiing the whole
South through the defection of the negroes,
who will go over to the Democrats, partly
led by the natural influences of association
and partly by resentment for the relinquish
ment by the Radicals of that measure that
was from the first regarded as necessary to
sustain their political opposition to their
former masters.
Arms for the South—A Pretext for u New
Session of Congress.
The Governors of the Southern Stales, it
appears, are sorely disappointed because
General Schofield has decided that there is
no law to justify the issue ot arms to the
Southern militia. There is, we suppose, no
doubt in the mind of any one as to what the
Southern Governors want the arms for. It
is to control the election against the will of
the people by the operation of an armed
militia. The Southern white people do not
require any coercion. They are remarkably
poaceablo and well behaved. In fact, they
have on several recent occasions refused to
he brought into collision with the blacks,
although the Radical mischief-makers tried
that game at Raleigh and elsewhere. Even
the violence of some of the public huratigues
has been toned down to moderation of late,
and there is an evident disposition on-the
part of the South to conduct the approach
ing election quietly, but firmly, against the
Radicals. The people oi the South have
nothing to gain by disturbing the peace, aud
they are beginning to understand that fact.
To commit acts of violence would be to play
into the hands of their enemies and perecu
tors, and this is tha very thing which the
carpet-bag Goyeiuors are most anxious to
accomplish.
There may be another reason why the
Governors are so urgent about arming tbe
militia, and tbat is to bring about an early
silting of Congress in September. It seems
that they liuve made a united appeal to Con
gress lor that purpose, in order to supply
such legislation as Secretary Schofield says
does not now exist with regard to arming the
militia. This may be a mere pretext to get
Congress together, because there is no ne
cessity for an early session, as old Thad.
Stevens admitted in his last moments. This
movement of the Radical Governors of the
South, theiefore, may be regarded as a mere
party dodge lor electioneering purposes.
The Ridicals who speculated confidently
upon the support of the Southern negroes,
may, perhaps, be pardoned for tbeir present
bitter disappointment at finding things going
the other way ; but that is no reason why
they should be encouraged iu provoking vio
lence and bloodshed by party ends. We
know enough ol Radical policy at the South
to distrust these men when they raise the cry
of “wolf.” It is pretty evident now that the
majority of the Southern people, white and
black, mean to go against Radicalism, and
the tree expression of the people’s will should
not be interfered with by military force upon
any pretence whatever. —New York Herald,
August 17.
The New York World from the- latest
data received, makes the following estimate
of this year's crops of the leading staples, as
compared with the yield of 1867:
Crop of 1867. Crop of 1868.
Cotton, bales 2,200,000 2,400,000
Whoat, bush 225,0(10> 0 275,000.000
Corn, bast, 1,100,010,000 1,400,000,000
Oats, bust 280.000,000 310,000,000
Rye, bush 22.000,000 35,000,u00
Barley, bush 24,U«i,ytW 25,600,000
Tobacco, libds f 175,000
The New York Tribune . —erday com
plimented the New Zealanders on their
“mixed government,’’ and in announcing
that tha Maoris—whom we take to be colored
gentlemen—will have representatives in the
next Legislature, rejoices in the fact that
“no one in that country seems to have
thought of raising the cry of ‘a white man’s
government.’” If the Radicals can only
succeed in bringing the standard of Ameri
can intelligence up to the blissful condition
of the New Zealanders, how happy they
will be ! — Age.
Little Susie, looking at some pictures of
winged angels, exclaimed: “Mamma, I don’t
want to be angel.” “Why not, my dear ?”
“Humph, leave off all my pretty clothes and
wear fedder, like a hen !
[From tbe Atlanta Intelligencer.]
Republican Convention.
This Convention assembled yesterday, Mr.
fills, of Newton, in the chair, and Mr.
iebly Secretary. Sixty-two counties repre
sented.
A long discussion and great confusion en
sued on the right that certain men wished
to usurp to represent counties that- had no
delegates. T. P. Saffold, Hopkins, O'Neal
and Campbell took part in the discussion.
The question was at last settled, that no one
had a right to represent a county but dele
gates duly appointed.
f NOMINATION OF ELECTORS.
Hopkins, of Chatham, put in nomination
for Electors lor the Stale at large 11. P Far
row and Dawson A. Walker. Bryant was
opposed to their nomination.
B. Conley nominated Dr. J. E. Blount.
O’Neal seconded this nomination.
The vote was then put for one of the Elec
tors. and 11. I J . Farrow was unanimously
elected for the State at largo.
Objections were then made by lie negroes
that Blount had voted for General Gordon,
aud run as an independent candidate for
Congress aod defeated the regular nominee.
W. T. Walker (negro) nominated Foster
Blodgett. Blodgett declined in iavnr of J.
E Blount.
Blount denied positively that he voted for
Gordon; said he declined to run for Con
gress—was in favor of Major Whilely.
Here the House was in great contusion,
several negroes assaulted the position of
Blount iu the last race, and amid the confu
sion Blount’s chances grow mortal dim, and
at last flmkered out.
A uce«?t-'A man arose to a point of order.
(Still
party sard T.a Was a political prophet, and
If this state of feeling continued ihe Repub
lican party would be beaten by fifty thousand
voles.
Brvant wanted a committee. Several were
opposed to this.
Griffin, of Houston, said he was tor the
success of his party, and nominated Amos
T. Akerman.
Hopkins, of Chatham, charged that Akcr
inau was deadly opposed to the negro, aud
that he would not support him.
Bryant and Higbee arose, indignant, and
denounced Ihe charge, Bird said he was the
very best friend of the colored man, and
would raise his voice for them at the risk of
his life.
Hopkins went on to arraign Akerman for
his ill-will to the colored race.
Griffin was for the black man ; for if there
were any meu in his county but black men
who were for Grant and Colfax he did not
know them.
Wallace (negro) said Akerman made the
best suffrage speech m the Convention.
Costiu (negro) said the same.
Sovoral negroes thus spoke up for Aker
man, and ho was unanimously elected for
the State at large.
The confusion was again great in the hall.
Appeals were made frequently by the Chair
for order, aud at last tne President frankly
admitted that he could not maintain order,
ft was then proposed that the delegates taka
a rece.-s to nominate Electors for the Dis
tricts, which was carried. After a few mo
ments of juggling, the following ticket was
nominated and unanimously elected:
First District—A. A. Wilbur, Elector; E.
E. Howard, Alternate.
Second District—E. it. Harden, Elector:
Pi- Allurnate.
Third District—E R. Higbee, Elector; Dr.
J. It. Thomas, Alternate.
Fourth District—Dr. Whitehead, Elector;
Henry Glover, Alternate.
Fifth District—J. E. Bryant, Elector; Dr.
F. J. Robinson, Alternate.
Sixth District—John S. Fain, Elector; I. S.
Clements, Alternate.
Seventh District—W. W. Boyd, Elector;
Frank Kirby, Alternate.
We left Caldwell speaking, and every man
in the house talking.
From tbe Now York Express.
Planning for Another Civil War.
Tfie Radical leaders will inaugurate anew
civil war if they dare. They have establish
ed a secret military organization, (the
“Grand Array of the Republic”) which is
banded by an offh, and eutirely under the
control of political leaders. Tuey have re
solved upon arrniDg the negroes in the South
ern States, and a bill looking to that end
passed the house of Congress. They have
passed, and are still engaged in enacting
militia laws, in the Southern States, that
give the control of the State troops, to con
sist principally of negroes, to carpet-baggers,
agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau and other
adherents and tools of their party. This is
the machinery by which they hope to carry
through anew revolution, and to this end
they are exciting ill blood between the
whites of the South anil their negro and car
pet-bag masters. To this end, they disfran
chised 250,000 whites, including the most
intelligent and influential. To this end,
they impose upon the people of the South,
by force, not atone negro suffrage, but negro
Legislatures, executive officers, and judges,
and when they put whites into office, tiiey
select men of the worst characters, and most
odious to the majority of the whites.
To this eud, they have organized negroes
into secret leagues, iu order to combine them
against the whites. To this end, they stir
up the negroes to riot and incite‘them to
blood shed, by incendiary appeals to their
most brutal passions. To this end, their bo
gus legislatures are engaged in usurping the
rights of the people, enfranchised as well as
disfranchised, by declaring themselves au
thorized to cast "the electoral votes of their
State for President aud Vice President. The
people of this country will not tolerate out
rages like these, and which are perpetrated
in order to invite resistance. When this
comes, they expect to declare martial law,
and to take forcible possession of the Gov
ernment for an indefinite period, to prevent
the inauguration of Seymour.
In view of this, there is but one remedy,
aud that is to make the Democratic majorities
so overwhelming in the North and West,
that the contemplated Radical irauds iu the
South will have no effect upon the result.
Forewarned, forearmed. The extraordi
nary spectacle on the 10th instant, in the
Legislature of Alabama, the last threatening
words of carpet-bag intruders to old resi
dents of the State—though the latter voted
for the Republican party—ought to teach us
of the. North the real dauger which exists
from the Congressional mode ot Reconstruc
tion, and the necessity which exists for its
overthrow.
The Burthen of Taxation. —The New
York Herald is showing that the American
people to-day are taxed heavier than any
other nation iu the whole world. The editor
says :
We have estimated that taxation by the
Federal Government alone, independent of
State, county and municipal laxes, amounts
to fully sl4 a head —man, woman and child
—for the. whole population. Take the case
of a laboring man, with a family of five or
six children, and it will be seen that he pays
about $lot) a year, which on an average
would be about a seveuth or eighth of his
earnings. Yes, the whole working popula
tion pay in one way or another this enor
mous and proportionate amount ol their hard
earned money. Nearly oue day’s labor out
of tbe week the year round goes to the sup
port of the Federal Government. The local
taxes imposed by the States, coumies and
municipalities amount probably to nearly as
much, for in tho end, directly or indirectly,
all taxation comes out oi labor. Why, in
the city of New York we are taxed over
$23,000,000 a year -as much as was raised
and expended by the United Stßtes Govi rn
ment thirty years ago.
The freight business ou the Georgia rail
road, just now, is very heavy. On Saturday
sixty-six cars heavily loaded left Atlanta for
Augusta, and on Monday four trains le/t At
-1 lanta for the same point.
LKTTKH OK ACCEPTANCE FROII HON.
T. ill. NORWOOD, OP SAVANNAH.
(From the Macon Telegraph.]
Savannah, August 15, 1868.
Messrs. A. H. Colquitt, C. Peeples, and
others, Committee:
Gents. —Engagements which could not be
postponed have hitherto prevented a reply
to your communication of tbe 27th ult., in
forming me of my nomination as an Alter
nate Elector for the State at large, in sup
port of the nominees of the National Demo
cratic Party in the pending Presidential
election.
Being willing to do all in my power to rr
storo,to our people their lost heritage, I
accept the nomination and wili give to Sey
mour aud Blair my zealous support.
Once more, and, perhaps, for the last time,
the people of the United States are called on
to express their choice of rulers. With the
Radicals triumphant, if society is governed
by fixed laws, the days of the Republic will
be numbered. If the Democrats succeed,
we will take anew lease of life. What
patriot does not tremble as lie contemplates
the strait to which his country is reduced ?
Peace and freedom, or war and despotism
thereafter, are the issues on which we are to
pass.
Both parties, the Democratic aud Radical,
claim to be for peace. But they differ as
widely as the heavens are above the earth as
lo the means they will employ to secure
peace, and, also, as to the kind ot peace to
beseemed. The Democrats desire, and say
they intend to have that peace which be
longs to every citizen and every Slate in ac
cordance with the express guarantees of the
Federal Constitution. The liudical party,
which has long ago admitted through ns
Chief, Thad. Stephens, that all its legislation
affecting the ten Southern Stales unrepre
sented iu Congress, is outside of the Consti
tution, desires aud intends to have peace by
holding those ten States in tho situation im
posed upfin them by such unconstitutional
legislation.
We all desire peace. But which of these
parlies is more likely to berag peace to this
distracted people ? Reversing the proposi
tion, which one is sure to bring on war ? Let
history answer.
Does history show an instance of oivil war
where alt citizens obeyed tho municipal
compact? How, with respect for, aud obe
dience of law, can war arise? Civil war has
only been, and will only be, where, through
ambition, or avarice, or fanaticism, one class
or section has invaded, or shall iuvade, tho
rights of another class or section. Here is
the true cause of the late war between the
North and South. No lair-minded man in
the North will deny t hat tho right of property
of the Southern people had beun invaded
long before hostilities commenced. Anil by
whom? By the very meu who are now, as
the Radical party, endeavoring to destroy
the Republic.
But wo need not resort to tho history of
any other Government to see how surely a
departure from constitutional landmarks will
result in war or despotism. The Govern
ment of the United States, for over seventy
years, was in the hands of patties who, while
differing at times on points of policy, in no
instance violated palpably and openly any
constitutional guaranty. BTRICI’ CON
STRUCTION was the motto of ihe one,
while the other, if it transgressed the spirit,
iu clauses of donbuuL .construction, never
violated the plain letter of our National
Charter.
Bat what can we say the of new lights—the
Reformers—the moral-idea party—the
champions ol Christian progress ? What has
it not done of wickedness that could be ac
complished ? To recite its crimes would re
quire a volume, aud to portray their atrocity
is beyond the power of words. The keenest
satire, the bitterest sarcasm, tho finest wit,
and the richest fancy could add nothing to
the loathing and horror which tho simplest
narration ot the facts produces in the mind
and heart of every true lover of constitution,
at freedom.
For nearly eight years they have violated
both the spirit and letter of the Constitution.
In 1860 they elected a President who went
iuto office as the representative ot a minority,
by over 800,000 vote?. That minority, against
the will of the majority- waged war. In
1864 the same minority, (there being eleven
States unrepresented) again elected a Presi
dent by throwing its troops lroin States
largely Republican into States of doubtful
majority, aud voting them early and often.
That minority from the close ot the war has
been rapidly growing less, aud yet it has
ruled with a lawlessness and a desperation
which have increased in an inverse ratio to
its decline in strength, and tho improbability
of its retaining power. No one saw, so soon
as the Radical party, the handwriting on the
wall. The feast had run long and high, and
that people was drunk with the blood of the
innocent. Aud when the handwriting ap
peared, which was at the close ot the war,
they immediately set to work to devise ways
and means to retain their ill-gotten gains.
To follow np tbe logical sequence of their
positiou maintained during the war, that the
Southern States could not secode and never
were out of the Union, would be certain de
struction to their hopes; as the admission of
the Bouthern Congressmen must overcome
lhat| minority, and hurl them from power.
To admit our right to secode was a judg
ment against their own conduct in waging
war. And just here they reached the strait
between CUarybdia and Hcylla. Desperation
seized upon them aud they at ouoe put into
operation asyßtem of legislation—not of laws,
as it was illegal—which, considering tho
genius of our Constitution, their pious pre
tensions and boasted enlightenment our help
less, ruined condition, and our entire sub
mission to the verdict of the sword, for
deliberate, malicious atrocity, has no parallel
in all history. What have they not done ?
They havo wrought all the evils within their
power, and attempted all which the- basest
passions coulij suggest. They have torn down
every pillar supporting that magnificent
temple erected by our common fathers, save
one and that may soon lolloy. State sov
ereignty, the free exercise of religious opin
ion, freedom of speech, the right to keep
aud boar arms, security against unreasonable
searches and seizures, the right of private
property, personal liberty, trial by jury, the
writ of habeas corpus, the reserved Slate right
to say who may vote, representation in Con
gress, the independence and coequal powers
of the Federal Judiciary and Executive, aud
the equality of each State in the Uuion, have,
one by one, in rapid succession, and in the
last three years of peace, been ruthlessly de
stroyed. ifiuch is the peace Gen. Grant de
sires ns to have!
There remains but one pillar of
safety. It is the elective franchise. This
riotous minority has but lately attempted its
destruction, but shrunk back alarmed by
the hoarse voice of the multitude. But, to
give the deed the semblance of our own act,
they arc now striving to effect it through
onr State Legislatures, which are but their
servile creatures. Blinded by fanaticism,
the benighted negro is bowing himself be
neath this lone pillar, and the temple quiv
ers to its dome. Tbat gone, then will come
the fail, the crash, flic rains, aud, in time,
the lizzard, the ivy aud the owl.
Some well-meaning persons think they
have found a remedy for all these evils in
our late so-called “admi-ision into the
Union.” Be not deceived. It is a cheat and
a mockery. It was done through fear, not
favor. This lawless minority dared not en
ter the Presidential cauipaigu without some
apparent success iu theii plan of reconstruc
tion. This “admission” is but a tub thrown
to the whale. We have but changed mas
ters. The bayonet is removed, for the time,
until the Presidential election, if Grant goes
into power, and iu its stead is placed over us
a horde of foreign emmissaries, still more
dangerous and odious. We weru held down
by the bayonet until wc were manacled aud
fettered, and have been turned over, thus
bound, to an ignorant NEGROURAUY.
Os the Senators and Representatives re
turned to Congress from the seven States so
admitted, there arc but one Senator, the
Hon. H. V. M. Miller, of Georgia, and three
PRICE. 5 CEISTS.
Representatives, Young, Tift and Christy,
also of Georgia, who have one thought, or
desire, or emotion, in sympathy with eight
millions of white freemen ! This is the ad
mission we are expected to rejoice at. It is
not admission! )Vo are “pinned to the
Union with bayonets.”
But the elective frauchise remains for tha
present. Seymour and Blair are the expo
nents of constitutional freedom, and the
leaders of that noble host who are marching
for our deliverance. Grant and Colfax head
the army of destroyers—the anarchists, the
authors of our present degradation aud the
advocates of negro equality,
or the othor we must serve, tqid the
hour has come when every mau must and
will do his duty. Those who havo must
give, aud that freely, whether it be of sub
stance, intellectual power or moral influence,
to assist iu diffusing light and knowledge
among our people. The peony withheld,
the work neglected, the fit word unspoken
now, while it is yet day, will, if we • fail, be
compounded aud exacted in pounds, and tra
vails, and lamentations, in the darkness of
the night to come.
I remain, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
T. M. Norwood,
By Telegraph.
FROM WSHINGTON.
Important Circular from the War De
partment.
Washington, August 21.—A letter issued
from the War Department includes the follow
ing extract from the army appropriation bill
passed at the last session of Congress: “Be
it enacted, That all militia forces now organ
ized or in service in either of the States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi and Texas,
be forthwith disbunded, and that the further
organization, arming or calling into service tha
said militia forces, or any part thereof, is here
by prohibited, under any circumstances what
ever, until the same shall be authorized by
Congress.” The publication of this extract is
intended as an explanation ol’ the refusal of
Secretary Schofield to furnish arms to tha
militia of the Southern States on applications
of the Governors, and for the information of
the officers of the army now on duty in thei
South.
There are over four thousand vacant of
fioes under the new tax bill.
The receipts from the customs from tb»
10th to the 15th of August amount to over
three and a half millions of dollars.
There was a Tall cabinet to day, except
Mr. Welles and Mr. Randall.
General McMahon, Paraguayan Minister,
leaves next week.
Alluding to the militia in the Southern
States, the New York Times says, editorially:
“The case is made a good deal plainer by
the extract from the law which the Secretary
of War introduces into his order by one of
those unfortunate blunders which have
marred the progress of reconstruction at al
most eveiy stage.
The South is literally’ without a militia.
Not only have the local governments no
arms for their use, but the supplying of arm*
by the War Depaitment is iollmJJeu by a
clause which, passed under different circum
stances, is yet nnrepealed. Congress there
fore, iu its haste to adjourn, did more than
neglect the distribution of arms, which a
measure brought forward at a late day right
fully contemplated. It left on the stututa
book a provision which restrains the War
Department from arming the militia, what
ever the emergency. To this extent the re
constructed States are powerless. Their
authorities are paralyzed by an order which
nothing less than the action of Congress can
Hot aside.’’
Tire Radical Party in Alabama doing
to tile Dogs,
Montgomery, August 21. —Hon. W. B,
Jones, Elector for Grant in the Fourth Con
gressional District of this State, has taken
the stump for Seymour and Biair, aud pub
lishes the following:
Demapolis, Ala., August 19, 1868.
Thus. C. Glasscock, Chairman Republican Execu
tive Committee, Montgomery Ala :
I respeottully doclino to serve as Elector
for Grant and Colfax in the Fourth Congres
sional District. W. 1L Jones.
Hon. Thomas Mastersou, Representa
tive for Laurence county, has also abandoned
Grant, and declared his intention to support
Seymour and Blair.
The following card is published in tha
Radical organ of this city:
In consequence of the want of patronage
sufficient to meet the daily expenses of tha
office, I am compelled to suspend the publi
cation of the State Sentinel. Since the re
establishment of the paper in this city, going
on two years, I have sustained the publica
tion of the paper from my own private
means. This 1 cannot do any longer. I
must abandon the business, and go into
some pursuit that will at least furnish suffi
cient income to meet the outlay.
John Habdy.
General News.
Green Brier, White Sulpher Springs,
August 21.—General Robert E. Lee arrived
heru last night, and was received with great
enthusiasm. Gov. Pickens, GoV. Letcher,
Ex-Secretary of tho Interior Stuart, Gen.
Echols, Gen. J. R. Anderson, and Hon.
Linton Stephens are among the late arrivals.
Secrelray Browning has engaged a cottage
and will arrive on Saturday. Hon. Alex. H.
Stephens and Gens. Ewell and Longrtreet will
arrive lo morrow night. A large number of
Railroad Officials and Directors are here.
Gen G. T. Beauregard, President of the
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern
Railway’, Col. Fontaine, President of the
Virginia Central, 001. Buford, President of
iho Richmond and Danville Railroad and
Capt. Zouis Simmer, agent of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, are here discussing rail
road matters. Gen. Rosecrans, Minister ta
Mexico, is at the Rockbridge Alum Springs,
and lias secured a cottage here, and will ar
rive to-night. It is pretty generally under
stood that the meeting of General Lee and
General Rosecrans has in it matters of great
importance to the country. General Rose
crans was outspoken on the cars in regard to
his mission.
A grand masquerade ball will be given on
Thursday next in honor of the distinguished
visitors.
Tlic Defeat, of the Brazilians by the Al
lies Continued.
London, August 21.—Regular dispatches
confirm the reports of the Brazilian disaster
before Luniaita and Graw Chaco. The de
feat gives a great impetus to the peace party.
Cattle Uuamniini Kxtabllehed in tho
\V eel.
Chicago, August 21. — Cattle quarantines
have been established here.
Meeting; of Tobacco ikulcrs.
New York, August 21. —At a meeting ot
tbe tobacco manulacturers, resolutions were
adopted that no tobacco can be inspected ex
cept lor manufacture of the same, and that
the breaking of packages by dealers and ped
dlers, for sale to retailers, is clearly illegal.
The meeting bad official advice that the ten
per cent, discount allowed on other stamps
would he refused on tobacco stamps.
The Alexandria and Washington Rail;
l-oad Lfiinbrogilo.
Washington, August 20. — The Alexandria
and Washington Railroad matter is unde
cided. Theembrogliodoes not interfere with
the regular and prompt connections on tho
air line to and from U*e South ami Southwest
via the Alexandria and Grange Road.
|«'rom ililibiiia.
Atlanta, August 21.—Tlie bill in the
House to exempt from taxation foreign
capital invested in the manufacture of woolen
aud cotton goods and other fibrous material
for a term of five years, was defeated.
