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VOL. 3-NO. 138. Tri-Weekly News and Herald, Published on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, AT Sfo. 11l BAY STREET. SAVASSAH, GA. 33y J• PI. Estill. AT SIX DOLLARS PER YEAR, OR SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at lib or ul rates. Th e Daily News and Herald Published at $lO per year, or $1 per month. POSTMASTERS Are authorized to receive subscriptions for the NEWS AND HERALD, Daily and Tri-Weekly, at our ad vertised rates. 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.