The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1867, Page 4

GEORGIA. SPEGIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. i The Arrival ef General Po) Headanar- -Beutlmenis ; Po April 01867. It tg now well avertained that General Pope will make hie headquarters of the Third Military district in this city, a house having been already rented for him to live in, and he is expected here this week. On his first ar- rival in this city he made promise to remove bid hoad- quarters to this place to the deputation of citizens that ‘waited upon him to extend to him the welcome of the olty, and to request his reaidence.among them during the time he held command of the district, The city of sory, where the General hag ended to stop, base Telightras climate in tho +2 ee. summer the climate is 1, the ris bad and innu- merabio mésquitoea infest the alr. The climate of At- Janta, on the contrary, is delightfa! in the summer for so southern ® iativade, the water je exosliont, and the population partakes much more of a Northern character tban that of more Southern cities. The General, there- fore, will not oaly find a warm and hearty welcome from the people, but will feel himself not go much » stranger. The character of our military ruler is very generally discussed both tn public and in private. He ts generally regarded as a soldier of the strictest sort, fashioned after the West Point models; but he is considered to be a mild and humane maa, and a gentleman in all bis bearings. While necessarily he will be in the discharge of his off- cial duties stern and eacompromising, in his social rela- tions with those by whom he will be earrounded, it ts believed that he willbe affable and conciliatory. The city iteelf anticipates that it will bethe gainer by his Tealdence in it, Atlanta will occupy’ for the time a pro- minent position in the eyes of the whole country ; it will ‘be visited by persons who desire tosee what was the most vital point to the late confederacy, and as property and capital will be felt te be entirely secure from the boginning of the military reign, tt is expected that busi- ness will flourish and money be more abundant The sun of prosperity it is hoped ie already rising that shal! enliven this people with its benignant rays, If Atlanta ig destined to be the city that ite friends think it will become, if in five years from this time its population is to be doubled and be fifty thousand, then thore is no city tn the South that, at the present time, offers so good an inducement for the investment of Northorn capital. During the terrible ordeal of tho laat six months of prostration of business, want and suffer- ing, through which the people have passed and which has by no means ended, every shift had to be resorted to to obtain money to keep off starvation. The poor fared better in this Tespect than the rich; for their. simple wants were kept abundantly supplied from the nume- rous charities of Northern friends; but a very largo Class of persons could not come in for the enjoyment of such charities, and they have peen al! the time in great need. The consequence was that real estate, consivutig not only of vacant lows: on which the parties owning were unable to rebuild, houses unfinished afd atrea <dompie-<d. Dut also of family resldenses hee been thrust on Demers & de sold at any ¥Zic9, Such is sull the extent at # "10 present time. Though there ts not quire, so o¥""a of Ubis kind of pro- erty on sale’ now as eben : foal "0 rae ii . been, prices ne ten. In looking 8% ‘he state of this country from the Southern staa?,ooint there is much for endouragement, At the close “of the war, as it is well known, the people Of the St" » were strongly possessed. of a feeling of real love tor (he institution of slavery, Four-Qfths of the =tatal” » property of the State consisted af slaves. In nd- SP" .on, it wag ly thought that violence and blood ‘whed would the sudden disrupture of the ties of master and slave, When, therefore, the war had ended ‘and the emaneipation proclamation of Prosident Lincoln had been made of practical effect, many of tho people ‘who outwardly consented to.the prociamation. inwardly be that some way would be found to break the force of the edict, and that they would in reality, if notia pame, hol “sve the same er over their formor glaves as they once held. fow held to a different opinion. But new powers came to break the spell ot delusion. The negroes. themselves were co-workers with the government in maintaining the freedom, t and complete, which had been won for thom -by tho Unitea States arms, It. takes time to change the opinions and habits of society. Occasionally we sttif see among us thoge who, If you will listen to them, wit! wax warm ip the defence slavery as a moral, social and political blessing, defonce of the spirit of the catreueeaale apirit of that instrument. letver remains, with but fow ‘seem to) he Per ten ene warm. con: the ) necessarily arises why attempt to revive doad ‘but have been noticed how slowly the public position of giving the rizhts. The time ed ee in 1D al have also gome to place ~ test gd te on the blacks a2 an clement of political inthe State Meetings have been held persons of both colors, which have.beea orators both white and city as others in the State the negroes easomble ‘by theprstvos if they choose (a thing they Were Dot allawes 10 do bafore the war) and. counsel and it formeir own interosts, If they choose, which d, sometimes, thev invite some white man or men fp whom they have confidence to be present to instrivet them on political matters aod toll them how they ought to voto. When the northern orators come down, as it hhag beon announced they will, to address the negroes on politi®al topios and to g've thom advice as to how thoy Qught to vote, they will find themselves confronted by Southern who much better understand the negro eharacter, and who will make as fair promises to the @ons of Ethiopia, as ever the whiler skinned resi- dente of the hyberborean regions can make, Buch a contest is not dreaded here. It can be bat of shcra duration as the one party will be on his own grounds and ‘an take the thing letsurely, while the other will necessarily be unstation- ary, and unfitted for pro‘racted effort. The controversy must, in the end, stand ou its own merits, and urgroes and white men will soon learn to vote in accordance with what they understand to be their own interesis as eonnnected with the living issues of the day. But little building is going on in the city at the pre- sent time. The business houses of the place are of the ‘most substantial character, many of them being covered with slate of a native origin. Among other minerals Georgia ia of slate in quantities which, though Rot fully. ascertained and but imperfectly explored, Promises to equal, if it does not eutirexy surpass the slate of any other State. Capital, however, is needed for ite dev it, as it is also needed for the deveiop- ment of other mineral interests. Public expectation is kept constant!; Anticspation of the coming eventa. on tiptoe in the 'b® orders of the C= bet rn ed interpretation of the law regu- Dg qualifications for registration, tho convention, are all alters ia which the public feel the decpest iutercst, The Military Bill. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle of the 5th instant says “the spirit of conciliation and desire to work out @moothly and harmoniously the demands of the Con- greesional military reconstruction, which characterized the orders of General Schofield in Virginia, are charac- teriatios of the order of General Popo;’’ and after quoting and commending the various items in the General's frst order calls upon the citizens for unity and harmony of action, and deprecating supineness and indifference, it “has little fear but that, lightening tbo labors of the General, it will end in mutual good and general satis- faotion.”” The Atlanta Daily Opinion denounces the statements made by the partisan press in Georgia that the people ‘mind om i obst ray the, pabiie Stevens’ plan meee by General Pepe. . (ggued an order notifying all con- eorned that the laws of Pray onenh ba against whipping shall 1. ONDRR— NO, 28, ARTERS Post aver, AvGOETA, Gk April O 1807,” It Feported to ms bai the Mayor ana City ‘Coun! General Order No, 1, issued gomery, Ain. 1, ison Wo man that the on u Pablio offlcers ob aueren NEW YORK HERALD, honorable to his heart :— In response to a call M*ges Hodge took the floor, He spok. in a manners *rnest, sinorre and impressive. He Tam 4p “hlearnt man, pot used to speaking; but I know whe’ | feol and think, I was born in ‘Ai & Southern bora man and expect to die ‘Dace a siave, had to obsy & master. ow and must obey the laws of the country. ill fooling agatnst the white man because I was ones a slave. 1 by me bocause Iam free. So far as | know and have I Gnd no bad fecling between ua When I wasasiave re, whieh are aa creditable to bis bP shigence as they are | ready with the cup of Lethe: With tres upturning and the white man bas no ill feeling towards | nervous and restive SATURDAY, pin ge tears, in consoling accents ha renlied:— ‘Jon our party! Stand on our (radical) pla!form."” ‘The die was cast. Governor Orr was to slip the leash, tear asunder the democratic bonds, and at a single leap Piace himself within speaking distance of the much Twas | coveted constitutional majority; an acrobatic feat that I am atreedman | might have dauoted a Hanion, but which. proved a mere Thave no | bagatelio e Orr, Th the more experienced vaulter Governor train was laid. The was during the entire first part of the interesting exercises of evening. But, thanks to his good or evil star (it is too 1 was not abused. Since I have been free no one | soon yet to determine which), all restrietions were re- has tried to wrong me ip any way. I have lived in this town six years, and I nover had cause to complain of any one. I find that my straigh are wy bestones, I know that a man that acts right will have respect. The colored man that boliey Hitely will meet politeness, and stvany bare << Phave lived here six years, and expect die here. I dm willing to live hero among my white friends, and I believe the: me to stay here. I believe this, and I judge fromthe way, 1 am treated. I speak forgnyself, for I know vy own feelings. I am willing to trust my white frienas—! «now them. | am a gseraye rea the m of thy heart—yes, from the Sean com enarrec ote, ass this towe and this coun! 4 welfare of'tay white frionds and tay colored treads, Ye all live bere, and expect to live here. I know we cad get slong | ‘a kind and friendly manner, and be « help one other, and halove we will. When J live amon; trustthem. I trust Ignow. I give my ti feelings. I speak for myself. I wish my colored 3 to and my white friends to prosper. 1 wish vi to grow yet more and have a largo business. I VIRGINIA. A Way to Increase Southern Distress, ‘Sonthern papers are complaining that the introduction of politica into thetr communities at this time bas a ten- dency to distract the atttention of Iaborers, and to cause them to leave the fields uncultivated to engage in the excitements of the hustings. The Richmond Times, April 11, observes in this connection:— Untit now the farm laborers of the Southern States were unaffected by political campaigna. No matter how great the excitement and how long continued, they re- mained their work, and field operations went on vast as usual. Now employers and employed, whitea and | tellectual merchants, who constituted the main blacks, will,qwe prosume, alike becoms politicians. If speakers come on from the North to unite with the white agitators in our cities and make a general canvass of the State, going from county to county and precinct to pro- cluct, to get up an election interest among the negroes, we can expect nothing short of a universal interruption of labor and general demoralization among the laborers. At the most critical periods of farming, when, perhaps, the whole success of the year depends upon prompt and unintermitting work, the laboring forces will be summoned to attend political mectings. Should this moved and the portly gubernatorial frame expanded and once more drew a long anfa free breath. Of the test steps | dinner, the material feast, we do not propose to It was given at the Charleston Hotel and ‘was-one of 18 bandsomest ever given this city, where great din- nérs Are Aether few nor far betwoen, If we were to confine our labors purely to a faithful chronicle of tho speeches, set and imprompta, public and pri: these dinner parties give b rth to, your readers would have a fair insight into the ‘public opinion of South Carolina,” and likewise also be led into the secret how a great deal of this public opinion is manufactured. eo politcal - shalt eter bile or mek or less private, all have a custom of annually het ee ae, by Dh eae g an these dinners ro usnally inv! }@ magnates and State. “The city of Charleston,” is always Povsdv far al sagponded to in ones more or less pathetic by the who generally draws forth most recesses of bis heart,” &o., typed. “The State of South “(first regular toast,” but it was so this ever Renegrivee en Cap ‘The toast was read, = 0 band layed “1 applause: all was hush Pia with took ferent’ ‘Vast assem- blage gazed upon Father Orr, rising from his seat, and ready to recount seven last years of his political adventures. We must de him the eee: howover, to say, that he exercised. in the selection and the handling of was not 80 indisorcet as to tel! the whole truth. In: it would have done go, nearly rixty minutes being consumed in the recital of that modicum found time at the 5 The time was well choson and the occasion to give delat to anything his Excellency might deem fi to say. his elde eat the commander of the Second Mihi General D. E. Sickles, with his entire staf; Scott and his staff; representatives, moro- over, from tie any and the civil service, to say nothing of that assemblage of distinguished and hi; 4 ly the company. You have doubtless published the Gov- ernor’s. feat, and a mere reference to It will suffice. How he could have accomplished it without that tune dranght from the cup of Lethe, handed him on Sun- day night by bis radical friend, the doctor, we cannot bmg | conceive. At every step the ghoats of his former ac- | have reached meas to the prospect the | APRIL 13, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. ount, are hourly trying to estrange this nnfortunate i those lane have ever ceen tts trucat friends. The meetmg last night, we understand, mumbered four hundred and thirteen adult males, ALABAMA. Interviow With Mator General Pape. (Correspondence Maoon (Ga ) Telegraph ie Mowrooweny, Ala , April PA 1867, General Pope has arrived, a” has already issued his first general order, which doubtless the tolegraph con- veyed to you. Hi been recoived with great Tho officials and some of the most prominent | have called upon him, and he receives visitors affably and politely, and with little formality. Tncompaty with a friond Tcalled tipon him, He was entirely alone, received us very politely, anil conversed very freely and unrestrainedly for half or three-quarters ofan hour, Heisa appar-ntly, forty-five years old, about five feet eight i high, of free habit, weighing perhaps one perce i si ‘magi one pein’ fn seventy pounds, with abandsome, pleasant face, 5 ae eee manners. He was dressed entirely his whole bearing Indicates Rake " Hy wick oP iota retin mont tnd cuitiva- tion. On my expressing the hope that he would visit and make the ‘acquaintance of her citizens, he VIEWS OF EMINENT SOUTHERNERS. The Army, the Bench. the Bar—A Second Letter from General Longstreet—Letters from ex-Judgo John A. Campbell and Chris- tian Roselius, of Louisiana. (From the New Orleans Times, April 7.] RNERAL LONGSTREET’S 4 rs New Orwzans, April 6, 1867. ‘To rae Eprror or raz New Ogteass Tites:— blication of my letter many questions Since your pul jo letter ny aes tions, votes and specches must have arisen and threat- |*future and our duties at this crisis. My former letter ened to choke his utterance. He spoke of controlling the vote, as though he had been e: ‘all bis life in that particular species of the com: jor’s bust- ness; while yet without that n-penthe ho could not but canvassing bo carried to the extent we have reason to | have recollected that a few weeks or months ago he was fear, the logs of labor and production will exceed an; thing ever dreamed of. There will be unparalleled si fering among both whites and blacks, for they are alil dependent upon steady, continuous industry for means of subsistence. NORTH CAROLINA. Recommended to the South. ar mouth shut,” is the advice of the Wil- ‘Keep . minge6n, N. C., Journal to the Southern people, It says | who defiled his rol ‘hore is a great deal of wisdom in a closed and silent mouth’—Southern ladies take notico—and positively dectares ‘Yt doos no good to attempt to kick against the pricks; tions of national policy with a hostile and overwhelm- mn, ing majority against us; tt but adds fuel to the flame. | between Mr, a In this dilemma would | Carolina, Let us keep our mouths shut." it not be woll for our Southern friends to study the moana whereby they may be cnabled to “keep their Jaws going?” ‘ SOUTH CAROLINA. + In South Carolina. ing herself at the half-way house on the broad turapike ofa ‘with its cont and, as he leading to the inviting flelds of diluted radicalism. The pein ba herrer ‘We will letters on “Public Opinion in South Carolina” recently | such conversions, Since fi published in the Haaarp seem to havo been the imme- § y4- Orr: it is. not there is no earthly use in arguing ques- | sad end in which tardy justicg at last overtoo! opposed to granting negroes the right of suffrage. Still, pe dy with Ba eee, yous nerves ae Me bie mere ity in political vaulting, he managed rone the part of his task with a commendable dogree of success. But it was otherwise when he took the start for the great leap. We watched him closely; we saw the jor of his manly limbs. On his usually tmpassive we conld read ——eN, akin to the emotions that must have passed through the mind of one of his great prototypes in the Castlereagh, Marts of Londonderry, the high prcst juis of Londonderry, the hij by the betrayal of his Bon Tie Wo thought furthermore we could read an anxiour foubt as his Exoollency was approaching in rapid strides the brink of the fearful gulf, about the further analozy be- tween the Irish peer, ennobled for his infamy, 76 v4 im. is to be hoped this mral, or if we may be allowot the os tic suicide, will close the parallel of Ireland, and Mr. Orr, of South ‘To gay that this public apostacy was as surprise to , must needs itgelf to the mind of every one who heard or his speech. It is true wo have condemned the democratic party avd urged the ne- coasity of our peopte keeping aloof from it and its old leaders, But whey we did so we little thought of doing anythin towards influencing his Excellency to treat the public to a new exhibition of his f« tmalliarity with political gymnastics. We fear lay ourselves Hable to the charge of a want diate cause of these most astounding political demon } but do not like tt strations. Yo the writer, however, there was no sar. | of confidence’ Shee prise, as the city has been full for. come days of emall ag tere = om fry politicians, nervously anxious, “like greyhounds "ait “teh distra the slip, straining upon the start,” which te gat ee entermnee Sone aor be made at the annual banquet of the when he received that piece of of Trade Inst evening. But wo : AY. idl go eats roceed to recount the ongeee gan a aves | ‘wy General D. Bickloa He was listoned political dinner fx to unravel that | interest, and was interrupted. by loud Podhitical mancouvring which had'been | of Many throed. a week. before in the private parlors of quent spe in have doubtless pablished the h in fall the wallticat Aub th Mints Hoase, 2 long ere this reaches you it 1s needlose to descant upon ‘The portly Weathorly, late ‘‘commissioner” or minister | it hae In our next we may perbaps tell you aboat plenipotentiary from our State Sonate to—well, toany other political dinners. This must guifioe for Lo-day, and everybody he might find in Washington willing to jeeting of Freedmen. Histon to him—who in Decomber went to the capital and yen ee x freed: rgetown, returned to Columbia with about the same increase of Nom, it ft A RN, BARE: 9 ai information, as if he had read a late copy of the Herat; Resolved, That we adopt the platform of the Union the amiable Mullins, who claimed promotion, reported, to the rank of Brigadier Goneral, ©. 8. A., for capturing the badly scared Ely, (M. C.,) after the battle of Bull Run; Trescott, the political savant of the News, who expects ‘to control the negro vote’ by rhetorical flourishes in that paper, making appeals to the boclouded Intellect of Africa on such inspiring themes as St Mi- chael’s new chime of bells. But Africa may probably not soe it in this Nght. And last, though not least, his excellency, Governor James L. Orr, who, for fifteen years past has been characterized as ‘the leader of the national democracy in South Carolina,’* who for two years has, to use his own words, “ struggled to settle the political difficulties of the country,” by a variety of dem. ocratic prescriptions, all of whict# upon trial, ha proved lamentably ludicrous failures. This quartette of politicians bave been at somo pains to do something—not perhaps so much for their conn. try as forthe purpose of finding something by which their rapidly falling political fortunes might perchance receive a timely prop. It took about a week to decide upon a plan, and it finally came to this, that Orr, who had enjoyed the highest honors of the great democratic party, was to make a bolt and join Senator Campbell's side, which had shown @ decided strength by clectt: this “mere lawyer” to the United States Senate at the Inst session by # vote of four to one, As you may sup- the and burly form of the Governor wriggled tremulousty to be forced on this anti-democratic plat. form four months after it had been successfully erected and in working order. Wo cannot wonder at the Govor- nor's Pesos for, in the face of his past record, this little: mote bill was a very Alp, His great prominence fn the South Carolina Convention of 1865, which ho raled by his influence, where he did not have tho saguoity (and it seemed to require bat little) to eeo that it was | republican party of South Carolina, Resol That we appreciate and acquiesce in the courso of the champions of liberty and equal rights who constituted the Thirty-ninth Congross, and by the pas- gage ot the reconstruction bill established equality before the law. We, therefore, pledge ourselves to sustain the principles enunciated by thom. Resolved, That while we, the colored portion of this orgautzation, are most grateful to our deliverers, par. ticularly for our manhood—enfranchisement—we, never- theless, ontertain no feet of hostility, malignity nor revenge toward any, but willing to meet even those who may have been our enemies uvon the biican ade and extend to them the right hand of fellow- ship. Speeches were made by several colored persons, Colonel Ben Allston and others, MISSISSIPPI. Important Proclamation by Governor Hum. phreys. (From the Jackson Ce) Siarions April 6.) i XRCUTIVE OFFICE, Jacusox, Miss., April 6, 1867. Whereas much painful anxiety and apprehonsion ox- ists in the public mind, resulting from the passage of the Military bill by Congress, and the general.order of Gen- eral Ord in assuming command of the ‘Military district of Mississippi and Arkansas;” and whereas, in some in- the regular administration of the State govern- ment has been unsettled to such an extent as to cause some of the officers of the State to suspend the functions of their offices, and many citizens are hesitating while others refuse to pay their taxes, upon the assumed ground that the tax collectors are’ not ‘competent offl- ** and therefore are not authorized to receipt for the same; and as other evils and ies may argo From, the uncertainty that exists as to the a the emanetpation of the negro meant his full and entire | Sr'the Stare in Ure recat ena encore and citizens freedom, which needs must be followed by its logical results, civil and political equality with the white man. But the Governor was too obtuse to ive that the sweoping power of Northern public opinion, which bad made the negro free, would also see to it that. the freedmen of the South should xt least enjoy the saine rights which are conceded to the colored people at the North—such, for instance, as the right to be repre- sented, to hold an equal status in the courts of justice, the right to leatify and to be governed by the same laws and system of judicature az the white man, And he was furthermore too blind to see—a democratic film doubt- Jess obscuring his mental vision—that at least qualified oe would be @ proper claim to be respected 18, All these things should have suggested themselves to @ wise and far-seoing statesman; and public policy re- gies that the men in political powor in the Ruato ould have not only seen the approaching Inevitable necessity, but have been prepared to accept it with com- ire, Without the humiliation of compulsion. But his ‘xcallency “could not see it? The up to him as @ leader, followed him i the constitution, by insisting most strenuously that basis ot tation in South Carolina should henco- forth wee im ed the white popuiation, “If,” said Governor Orr, ‘the negro could no longer be represented as property, he should nog rise to the political dig- nity of population.’ Bat he was to be taxed. Popu. larization,” th on Governor Orr's lexicon {edition 1866), meant taxation without and as !f even this were not enongb, an lees, ignod f 1860, which he deomed nocessary th constitution down the gullets of hia con- Bat we have adverted to the “ negro code” one of our previous letiers, and will therefore 80 more at this time of this pet scheme of our gov- ot bv that tar say ori bi tena business: history to got over, id be bolt yrer took General Couch in the face again after that hal entry, ‘arm in arm,” “South Carolina and bias wi aes scars iy 0 tions, the full fruition of the sa thie ‘back than last Hl afeilei further i by the | for the maintenance gation, looking sad ty thele po tition! hetptesmnoas present sitnation ; therefore I deem if proper to make known that the act of Congress, com- monly called the ‘Military bill,” recognizes the civil ex- isting government of the Siatc, It is true it is declared to be provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United 81 at any time to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same. But until a change is made in accordance with the provisions of this law, I hereby give notice to the civil officers of tho State that (heir relations ana sibilities to the constitution of the United States, tothe State of Missis- stppi and to the poople remain unchanged, and they will be held toa strict accountability for the performance of their in carrying out the provisions of the Jawa, fall and ample peta seen Sinsone of teleen aor all ol of inhabitant 6 State, Botn ne th white and black, in all of their rights of pe property, liberty and religion. And arther adviso and admonish all good citizens and inhabitants to sustain the civil officers in maintaining tho poace, order and security of society. and indulgently with each other, to devote themselves to pursuits of industry, and to the production of those necessaries of life for which they are now so dependent upon the markets of other States, and to offer no resist. ee to any steps that may be taken in the reconstruc. Lon of the State by the military authority of the United States, except ‘fag may be authorized by the courta, under the constitution of the United States. Military Fre Selva ae Pee ‘unjar in Miasii The “ill ~ og lestppi. itary makes no ‘ision for the su of th * provi wath ty tas aoe ment, Taxes must be colli the civil to Support it and to pay its debta, and whonever any changes are either in the civil officers or the red tad cae of them, timely ty will doubtless be promulgated. . HUMPHI fy the Governor: py syst": © A. Brovamen, Seoretary of State, appointment former fo seemed to be to give General Ord, shortly cl ore, @ reception , and to appuint a dolegation to recoive him. The white speakers at the mecting wore Mr. Frank Parsons (of the firm of Parsons PS 3 be were two. or certainl oxpreteed y oir ite was intended to meet all questions, and was as much in detail as a mere soldier should venture, in a field entirely now to bim. Ihave no inclination, however, to avoid duties or Sp greta | whatever may bo the form in sh they are presented. vipat to citempe at this time a general discussion of the merita and demerits of ali matter that is thought to be material to the subject which absorbs our interest would require more time and labor than are at my disposal, Besides, such discussion would leave us just where our armies surrendered. I must ask, therefore,that those who are inclined to consider my views wil) excuse the “blantness of a soldier.’” ‘Tho surrender of the Confederate armies in 1865 in- volved :— 1. The surrender of the claim tw thé right of secces- — The surrender of the former polifical relations of the nogro. ‘Tho surrender of the Southers Confederacy. There issues expired upon the folds last occupied by the Confederate armies. There they should have been buriod. Tho soldier prefers to bavo the sod that receives him when he falls cover his/remains. The political questions of the war should hgve been buried the fields that marked their end. Our most cherished objects of this earth, biood of our biood, life of our life, if not duly deposited as ordained by an all-wiso Providence, become offensive; So must it be with this dead matter. If the last fateral rites of the Southern Confederacy have no} Deen performed, lot us, with due solemnity, propel to the discharge of that painful duty, and let ps deposit in the samo gravo the avony of our gi that ‘we may the ry prepare ourselves for a, return to the daties of this life. It may be woll to remark that our effortsat resonates ‘4 tion will be vain unless we embark in theenterprise wi the sincerity of purpose which will command success, Great deeds are not accomplished by the cold support of pproval; they must be bulit of “sterner aan we must aj ourselves with diligence and with uuniled resolution if we hope to lift the darkness that threatens our futare and secure a comfortable issue It is now too late to go back to look after our under the law and the constitution. It 1s of no Cay le gg rh e20 aw or unl Wo know that they are », and that the only available Jaw is martial law, and the only right, power. The more we seek for law, when there is no ‘the greater will be our confusion. Law, at beat, i: which to recover lost ious; to possossi: mpt them under doubtfal laws and against power is futile. resistance Some think that the question of is admis- sible in {deciding our course of action. But this is a grave error, even if we had the power to resist, and Teasonable hope of aw resistance. For when le resort to the viol of war, they should be Prepared to show to the world just cause of war. What canse can we claim, un) we say that we did not know what we wore fighting for 'n the war just ended? Our duty ves itaelf Into two very simple proposi- tions, viz.: relieve ourselves from our present embar- ments by returning to our allegiance in faith, to tho general government, under the process laid down by Congress, or seek protection under some foreign govera- ment. Those who determiue to remain should spoed the work of reconstruction, and put our people in a condi- tion to make their own laws and choose their own officers for their execution. 1am one of the particularly disfranchised, for I have been informed from the highest autborty that I am one of those who will be the last to recelve amnesty. I re- gard thia as one of the results that bolong to the hazards ‘of revolution og T were 2 ae cause of complaint than those who have javes. Be ee | rament is a failure, an are lated. If there tsa fa‘lure, the fault ts with the je, not with the government. A lunatic the most magnificent edifice, but it can only by the most skillful artist, Tam gratified to be able to hand you a Hon, John A. Campbell. Ho kindly permits me to use “ letter 1 ag pleasure. ino, one! ae am sir, very respectfu most _obed! servant JAMES LNNGSTREET. JUDGR CAMPBRIL’S LETTRR, New April 5, 1867. Gewena1—I have received your note relative to the condition in which the B yew States bave been placed by the enactment of the military bills, and have pinion ‘on the ‘subject’. ty ‘opinion as 10 the proper jon on iy 6 pro} course to be adopted by the citizens of the Southern States coincides with yours. ‘The military bills have become operative as laws in ten States. President, after exhausting his consti- of juion, is now performing his exe- rebuilt fire without dishonor or discredit among those whose of our population have shown a magna- Acapability for self-secrifico under ‘must at some time or another events in tho proper spirit does not imply a surrender of theso great qualities, Our oe. need not surrender as those without hope. o shall sooking for yee institutions, from asserting ® that all disparaging conditions to union be removed. our time with confidence that God will | With the Negroes—Prespects ef Both Par- shame ohne. tie Nanaviuis, April 8, 1867. Apart from the necessarily grave aspect of the sur- roundings ina State where rebels and Unionists are to be found in every locality, and where reconstruction is in progress, the political situ&tion in Tennessee just now presents a really amusing complexion. Just.think of sito THE WTEQMATIORAL REGATTA. The 2outhern States have pasaed through an ordeal of | Preparations t6 Receive the American Yackt= Tr> contents of the sabjoned letter, forwarded to Hamilton Morton, Kaq., Socretary of the New York Yacht Ciub, gives interesting facts in reference to the in- ternational regattas in which the rowing clubs of the United States are invited to participate:— Socrmrr ov rae Panrsan Recarra “ i ey if littl rp ry Acting as the re) and preaentetereat ten cence anelpies, their thanks for your exertions in expressing enterprise, I remal ost servant ¥ remains Sr U"FLEURER the conservative press at last aroused to the daty of be- ‘This letter, relating only to the rowing matches which the fact, and the paramount question affecting the pub- | and which will invite the owners of American yachts to lic mind here now is, which of the two political parties | visit the Old World, each aboard his craft. Several of writing the conservatives have outbid their opponents; from being, par excellence, the friends of a “ white man's enamored with “ our colored fellow citizens,” and are showering the most fulsome praise on the ‘integrity, independence and intelligence” of the poor darkies. The returns for all this are very meagre and unsatis- factory indeed, as I will proceed to show, foreign yachtmén, and-doubtiess the next mail will bring the official statement of the preparations being government,” they have at a single bound become | made to weloome the representative sallore and fast yachts of the New World. PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YACHT HENRIETTA. Brady has just taken a very excellent photograph from an English engraving of the yacht Henrietta as that Acconservative State Convention meets in this city.on | vessel appeared crossing the Atlantic. The pictureas@ the 16th instant for the purpose of nominating a candi- work of art possesses a great deal of merit, but lacks date to run against Brownlow for the Governorship, and | finish in one or two particulars. The yacht is repre- to take such other action as the situation may suggest. | sented with all her canvas but the square sail set, and Conventions were held in the diferent counties last | this latter being furied, gives a very charming contrast to week in order to appoint delegates to the gubernatorial | the swelling sails, The hull is admirable, the linea convention. The meeting for this county was held in and symmetry of f proportions have been nicely the Court House here last Monday, and to this every | shown, and every object on deck is plainly discern} ody, black and white, were Invited. Both colors did | ble. The water is true tothe life, and almost trans attend in large numbers; white and colored speakers | parent in the photograph, and the clouds are delicately mado epeeches in the interest of the party, and resolu- drawn. The light and shade throughout the entire work tions recognizing the colored people on a full political | have been skilfully preserved, and altogether it {s one of equality with the whites were adopted. Colored dele- gates to the State Convention would have been appointed there and then, but the names of suftabio parties were not forthcoming. So the negroes were instructed to hold a convention of their own and do up that job in their own way. To this end a call was tssued for a colored the best pictures of the yacht that hasas yet been taken, THE GREAT EASTERN. The excitement attending the opening of this monster vessel to the inspection of the public haa in no wag abated since Thursday. Yesterday morning at an carly conservative meeting to convene on the following Satur- hour, the street in front of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office day (day before yesterday) and signed by eight or ten freedmen. The day arrived, and anxious to witness the proceedings of a colored conservative Convention, I was on hand at the a eae crowd had assembled at the Court not nents by snatching from them the colored vote. At tism, got up and nominated a chairman, and regularly” put the question. He was greeted by a shower of noos; or were subsequent efforts in nominating others more successful. Joe eat down, bewildered and am Hg looked sheepish and crestfalien, and so did scores of sympathizing whites, while the radicals present of tho same color began to cackle audibly, The situation was now assuming a ludicrous phase, painfully so to som white it wo richly enjoyed i ‘others, Falling to effect an organization in the rogular way, Willi took the chair himself, and amid somo confusio! plained the objects of the meeting, after which he inv er Voorhees to take the stand and address the promptly came forward, and ‘with the cheers of the Joe and the secretary, once Williams, the sat immediately on cach @f the speaker, and each of ‘those officials taking hold ofa skirt of Voorhees’ coat commenced to pull vigorously in order to put aston to 1aky speaker, by some mote ego ie is hold and tambied heels over head backward, ipressatiog the roar of @ pair of tattered pantaloons to the audience, and throwing aloft anch a pair of shoes as was never ‘seen on the same ment of the andience knew no bounds, ind even the sympathizing whites, who had come to witneas a great. conservative triamph, had to chime in with tho general ees subsided, and simultaneous: started nearly the whole colored crowd and wuarcked Out of the mesting, olin Joo Willia brother Mason and a the this was very well, and should have been quite satisfactory to the radicals; but just as Williams was on the point of ve the resolntions, a large number of those who had left the hall, mstigated by # few uni cipled white Radicals, came tramping back, and endeay- “Brod by hoots and yells to prevent resolutions being read, The white conservatives present were malignant, oats the situation was “becoming somewhat serious when Mr. Lawrence, of the Freedmen's Bureau, mounted a chair, and, addreseing himself to the turbu- soon After wait- few other dominant majority of the freedmen endeavor forcible means to choke down the feeble minority who differ with them, It is but justice to say that in this particular instance they were controlled by a squad of scheming white scoundrels who would oa dis. grace to any faction or on earth. to them- selves, it is not likely that the ‘would have guilty of the outrage. The resolutions were , but could hardly be considered adopted, as aye except one white man. Abont a dozen of delegates were ga to the State convention, bat as they are nearly all radicals (a colored conservative is considered tho capacty designated. Out of'a voting colored port a color \- lation of rer two thousand in Nashville 1 ata well satisfied there not fifty who will vote the conservative tie Sy te fed tags es aaah ri % in os wi bate rac Tah and far bet the conservative v wi attract a le ni lored Almost instinctively Recororet the party who not only gave also enfranchised him. But as the ate) Brownlow at be reeneet, ee oe n sent to Con: the mem! of which ‘are will be overwhelmingly radical, be ex with i; p of it 2 A 3 5. E Es i i i i gs ; -% 3 5 « gS ng z | é § i possessing the bai: M tie ng, lance of 7 “sais ta t x7 pout throughout the State exciting. —— Convention in Athons—Enthuel- low and Congress, &o. = | i i p | | i a was blockaded by an anxious crowd in search of passes, many of whom left the premises disappointed. Not colored people but also of white redioals and | tin Bordus, made trips every hour between pier No. «3 Mayor Fiomman, Collector: the. Court, who io the Andre lision with one of the wore Dean mond, in endeavoring a y of ladies and gentlemen, ran acroas Soh NP RAPE Se etree oe je ahe will be open to the publi the Hu: Van Vechten Rednor, has just village of Lansingburg, two miles above this city, om tal Police by force, upon the discovery that and connection with not only the; — taken into custody, but with the army’ of the West. Redner was pardoned Prison by President Lincola, where he had sentenced for this crime against the ry. Within a day or two Samuel Weil and Sigisi Moses have been taken Into custody at re, the Vaited detectives whilo in tho Yory act of a of counterfeit money from xpress Company. BAMA SR Ata Wile Gage wrk |THE nam gu gugerearrns. Progress of the Officers In Forreting Out the Counterfelters—Additional Arrests, &e. ror, April 12, 1867. Although bat little of the operations of the accredited officers of the law relative to the searching ana exhaust before. Just now the mern- | ing raid still boing made upon the counterfeiters of this “' and other States has come to the surface within the past few days, nevertheless the work goes on, and greater jo'lification. | At last, aftor some more persuasion, Voor- | than ever is the consternation among the operators af the porsistent efforts of the United States Marshals an@ their deputies in their determination to break up this ‘kies, witn @ considerable number of whites, to finish | unlawful business, rei ses. These gentlemen seem to b? penetrating the hamlet and palace alike of all these dangerous mon, and they are certainly unearthing an immense amount of spunous rin- | money, and tools wherewith it ig made. The govern- ment have now determined to absolutely break up the naturally | widespread, successful and equally dangerous system of gounterfeiting vogue, in all Practices, and for this purpose alone was deliberately the ational currency now ita forms, appliances and extends from West Troy, opposite this city to the Far ‘West, and has been 80 organized that the officers are now indisputably familiar with the proofs relied upon to con- vict every man whom they arrest. In addition to thie & genera! Inspection of the express discovered that they have unwittingly been for a long pated common carriers of the nefarious currency, ls to had from time to ti tha: of companies, who have on- sce been arrested In the sm! it of the was z United 3 33 Pittebu tJ FH On examination t! arrest was skilfully iG i i é A i is ; ii i A despatch from Nashville, Apri! 10, states that an | morning the residence of a Mr. Gulael, Benson street, ithmense repablican convention assombied at Athens, | Melrose, was broken Into by burglars and robbed of @ Tenn, om the 0th. More than two thousand voters | valuable gold hin gy = eta geal gpara wero in attendance. The whole colored population of a tr we re was a We country was out, A groat many discharged soldiorg | 2COUtwtoog, having "been, ig the family foe in blue and mounted, headed the procession, | several The numerous cases of @ W7,.tts Ruoxvitw-estored band. Speeches were | similar which have of late become so forace Colonel Brownlow and W. 4. | frequent tn this papers have rally ere . The of the occasion was by A. twos deal of talk concerning necessity of Secor se nieay oveiaes nen | tratebecmemine means ha tei sladat ans tion of @ detachment of metropolitan polica, taatenip, junction. rom the Nashville Apri! 9, NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, Ane be consulted » in Loca pred ALBANY, April 12, Leer, I on me Court of The Rxooutive Committee of the State Agricultural * °