The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1867.—TRIPLE.. SHEET. THE SOUTH. Interesting Letters of Herald Correspondents. CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE. SCENES AND INCIDENTS. RECONSTRUCTION PROGRESSING. de. &e. de. VIRGINIA. Proceedings of the Republican State Cenven- to be derived from exclusive support New Nation, The resolution fell to the A oumber of other resolutions on the of organ- ization were submitted aud in sume ved, On motion the convention final! an invi- reads—Opposition to the Scheme—Comple- tien ef Connecting Link Betweon Two authorities of South Carolina in the collection of of tnstruetion from Docume goer corey Oven Air Mass Meeting, &c., d&c. Ricamonp, Va,, April 18, 1867, ‘The Radical convention which organized yesterday met aguin to-day im the African church, the attendance @f delegates and others being very numerous, Mr. Hawxhurst, of Alexandria, presided. The colored men asserted more prominence in the proceedings of the con- vention than on the previous day. The speeches wero Of a most desultory and serio-comic character. Some of the delegates, evidently as little acquainted with politics and parliamentary rales as with the geography of Rus- sian America, made such amusing addresses that even if no political end was attained by the convention the general enjoyment realized must have had a healthy effect. Confiscating the property of the late rebels was hailed by a majority of the colored men with applause. Suggestions to that effect emanated chiefly from a fow Managing white men. Some of the more sensible and intelligent colored delegates expressed themselves in a temperate and rational way against the desire for con- fiscation, They were willing to take whatever Congress might feel satisfied to give tuem, but wero averse to the clamor of some of their brethren for a distribution of Southern lands. There is no question but the radical party here will receive a fresh impetus from this Con- vention. They are numerically weak, but the organiza tion is marked by discipline and persistence of active exertion in propagating its theories that no surprise need: be felt if they make a tangible impression on the Proceedings of the forthcoming general Convention. The foliowing resolutions were unanimously adopted Resolved, That anthems of eternal praise and thank: ing be offered to Almighty God for the deliverance and pres- ervation of our nation from destraction, for ju for a Congress of Christian patriots who stand a between the threatened liberties of the peop! wicked designs of a treacherous Executive. Resolved, That in the apostacy and outgoing of Andrew Johnson, the fallen Luciter of the nineteenth century, the # Moses, we have revealed to us the true Moses of equal rights for all men, the God given Moses to lead us up out of this our political Egypt, preserve our liberties, protect loyal men and punish traitors. ved, That we believe that the safety and perpetuity of our inatitutions depend on the intelligenge and virtue of the people; and, in order to promote education by a system Of free scllools, we are in favor of the contiscation of lands— all over one hundred to two hundred acres each—of those men who are persistent rebels, selling it ata low price in small ‘parcels, for the diffusion of knowledge and promul- ‘gation of truth among the people, that loyalty may be re. warded, treason be made odious, aad thut every loyal citi: zen may have a homestead. Resolved, That the democracy of the North. havivg always deen the willing tools of the slave propagandists of the South, holding up the hands of traitors and apologizing for treasou, they have evinced willingness to return the freed- men to slavery, and so earnestly offered thelr services to elevate the late rebels to power, and Ly their opposition to all measures of justice and humanity earned the hearty con- tempt of every lover of freedom in the South, ‘ Along snd at times acrimonious debate ensued as to whom they were indebted for the origin and inspiration of the Sherman Reconstruction act, Thaddeus Stevens, the mention of whose name was the signal for applause, was declared to be the man of all others to whom the colored race should give the credit of suggesting and by his efforts succeeding in effecting the passage of the bill. * It was finally determined to call the act the Stevens- Shellabarger act, rejecting the name of Sherman as less @ntitled to recognition, Mr. Wilson, a colored delegate from Norfolk, proposed & reeolution wherein treason and traitors were denounced laws and uuiwark nd the int being that a pre' tion question at rest, inbemg deemed impolitic and poeeng oe Sod the prospects of the party to allow it to go forth to the peo ‘Mr. Wilson, in explanation, said he was misunder- gtood ; he had fought in the federal army, in the bloody ht of Port Hudson and Olustee; but he was incapable offering such a base resolution as to rob the poor widows and orphans of the Confederate |, but he would confiscate the pro; of rich rebels, The question of confiscation was, unluckily for the harmony of the Convention, reopened by some other injudicious delegate, and a good deal of noisy harangue, in which the authority of the Chair wag ignored for a time, followed ill the afternoon recess. Over a dozen of the delegates were on their feet together, and much disorder wailed for @ short time. It was evident there were two parties in the Convention that might be termed the confiscation and the anti-confiscation ‘ties, Very Little more controversy of the nature indulged in might have had the effect of breaking up the proceedings. During the receva, however, private conferences were held and a more politic course of action determined rights of app the of rebels be ng one of them—heo would have it by violence at the point of the sword. Thissentiment he afterwards retracted at the request of another deli In the afternoon several very intel! colored men, who bad not hitherto mado addresses of much force and eloquence ina debate that ensued on the fol- lowing extraordinary resolutions, offered by Mr. Wilson (colored), of Norfolk:—= at the confiscation act, passed by Congress in ‘wise, and. judicious ueasure: iat te look 1 rebellion as the blackest of crimes, and Resolved, Tuly, 1362, is w traitors should be punished. pon treason al that rebels and Resolved, That the course pursued, by Andrew Johnson since he accidentally reached the Presidential chair, by the Assassination of the late lamented Lincoln, has convinced the American peopie and tue world of his tinfltness for the high position, and his impeachment and removal by Con- a8 an act of jus- ‘8 Would be hailed by civilized mankind fice worthy of all praise. Mr. Fields Cook, a delegate from Richmond, in a dig- nified and tem; way, said there was much in the proceedings of the Convention he condemned. The ‘Wrong course was being taken in introducing resolutions ‘and speecties {avoring coniiscation and other extreme measures, If they wanted to alionate the white peo- ple of Virginia, and lose. the fruits they might reason- ably expect to reap trom combined jitical action with thei former masters, they were course. There were seventy the State, but it would require iifty thousand white voters along with that number to secure a majority. Where were these white voters to come from, if they persisted in widening the breach between themselves and their Southern bors ? ‘Mr. Vornelius (colored), of Richmond, sup- ported the resolutions, and in a rather ingenious fashion ‘om to prove the logical morality of confiscation. If Congress could take away from the rebels their prop- in slaves it oa be equally consistent to contis. erty | cale ite), the proposed candid, ‘Mayor under tho bee regime made a vigorous won oar ir. Hi vor es believed to ‘emanated youn the attention and acl many of tuo col pe § Pape particnlas ‘They sald there’ in the State of as good Union principles ae Mr. it's, and wey ‘Weratagebio a nenalye one of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and gevonteen ox-officers of volunteers, Most of these have been ordered to dis- tricts remote from Richmond. Nearly all have taken their departure for the stations to which they are assigned. The following is the form Of appointment as registrar, issued by General Schotield :— ‘Sm:—You are here! registering officer for the wthstrict, comiy'ot and of the Board of for the ——— district of that. county. Immediately on receipt hereof please to communicate to these headquarters, through the Assistant Adjutant Ge.eral, your acceptance or non-acceptance. Return the oath herewith enclosed properly filled up, sub- scribed and attested. Tho oath alluded to is that prescribed by act of July, 1862, commonly called the “‘iron-clad oath,”” When the form and oath are duly accepted and subscribed to as directed, tho officer is then furnished with instructions as follows :— Sir—You will at once proceed to the county designated in your letter of appointment, herewith enciosed, and establish yourself at the county seat, or at such other place within said county as you may, on examination and inquiry, find more central or conventent of access, On reaching your station, you will report to these head- quarters your post office address, and thereafter, every change thereof. Enclosed you will find a list of persons recommended for registering officers of the county to which you have been assigned. You will, as soon as possible, ascertain and report to these head- quarters as to the fitness of these persons for the position to which they are recommended, and will, besides, forward the names of such other deserv- ing loyal citizens a8 you may, on proper inquiry and examination, deem qualified tor registering officers of the several districts of that county. From these per- sons you will select to be recommended by you for appointment of registering officer gt large for the county, in connection with yourself. ° The county of is divided mto magisterial districts, for each of which a registering oflicer is to be appointed with the least possible ay. Registering officers must be selected from persons who have always been loyal to the United States; must be of high character; of sound, impartial inden, and as far as possible should have the contidence of all classes of citizens. They are re- quired to take the oath prescribed by act of July 2, 1862, a copy of wnich is enciosed for your use. It is desirable that tho registering officer for each district be a resident of the district for which he is appointed. Rogistering officers will be sel from the following ciasses of Persons and in the order named :— 1.—Ex-officers who have received honorable discharge from the United States service. 2.—Loyal citizens of the county or city for which they are selected. 3.—Any other loyal citizens possessing tho necessary qualifications." The passage of the bill consolidating the Virginia State Tattroads, intelligence of which you have already re- ceived, has produced infinitely more excitement among @ certain Class here than all the political schemes devised by Congress for reconstructing the South. The Virginia and Tennessee’ road, from which the chief opposition to consolidation heap bappens to be in a compara- tively flourishing condition, while the other roads with which it is now amalgamated have a very shaky finan- cial reputation. Tne stockholders in the Virginia and Tennessee feel at such a stroke of legisiation as deprives them from controlling their own actual prop- erty, and links them under a new ment to a of effete and almost bankrupt corporations, It ta anded to mae 2 091 to the courts to test the Fogg we the 44 bn oa aro entertained legislated monopoly imately ‘To-morrow com] connection will be effected be- tween the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomase Rail- road and the Richmond and Petersburg line, the con- necting link, which has been some time in operation, having beon successfully tunnelled and bridged in a circuitour route across the city. SOUTH CAROLINA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. aper in Columbia— ele Men Denounces Northera Adventurers—Cir- cular from General Sickles, &c. Cuanuestox, 8. C., April 14, 1867. ‘The daily South Oarolinian, published at Columbia, 3. C., has been sold by Mr. F.G, De Fontaine, and is to be changed to The Freedman’s Journal, devoted to the ad- vancement of the interests and education of the colored race, {t is said thatthe capital for the purchase of the paper has been mainiy raised with the assistance of General Wade Hampton, who will be one of the chiof contributors to its columns. The general management of this new organ, ‘it is understood, will be under the control of Beverley Nash, the leader of the conservative colored men of Columbia, The arrival here of a Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms from ‘Washington for the purpose of summoning the mem- bers of the house of Fraser, Trenholm & Co., before the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Rep- resentatives, occasioned a good deal of curiosity and no little alarm. It now appears that the object in view is to obtain somo information regarding the interest and relations of certain high officials at Washington in pro- curing pardons, and bas no reference to the blockade running business of the firm, as stated in a telegraphic despatch. ‘The Leader, a weekly paper owned and published in this city by a company of colored citizens, is out In an editorial this week, warning the colored men against the large number of Northern adventurers and office-seekers now in the South. It says ‘They wilt only stand by us 80 long as they can use us, and when they have no more axes to grind they will cast us aside, Defunct outcasts in the North, with not enough brains to give them prominence in that section of the country, they hasten South among the ‘poor ignorant freedmen,’ as they style them, to direct them in their ‘duties to the republican party,’ and thus place them- selves in tront as the representative men of the colored people, These men will hold their caucuses and cai! in acortain class of colored men, who they know do not represent the masses of the colored people, and whom they can use as stepping stones to power with a show of consistency, yet with deep intent to subserve their own selfish purposes. These same men, as if the colored men of the South are devoid of common sense, are con- stantly urging them not to place a certain class on their tcket, but to give place to those ‘tried triends of long standing,’ yet they never hiot at the necos- sity and propriety of placing on their tickets men of their own complexion, reared am them, who have ‘an interest in common with tl is to ote the well being and and the whole country. people of the South havi obtained moral virtues or their intellectual divines of doubtful piety have and have been more intent dn proselyting ular ‘church’ than contributing to the instruction and welfare of the estal urches of their own, gre, their own affairs, these would-be leaders denounced and them. When they established a paper of their own they denounced that and ——_ [Reese hae waren ase cheniomeaetede sascniees tF i prepari jaagul Measures eet caesar tee a aes direction of the ‘poor negroes’ , they had asked and had consented to serve. On the committee they claimed that the white man should the questions as an the words. thi Wo, di t a duty to po ih Ghivaner?. We warn out peep whe from the intérior asc fryer tebeh veh «sole sherk on te loomed it to w aw oe rt yy ot the civil Parla, but has issued the following A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Important Order From Goneral Sickles, Or- ganizing a Military Court, Cuam.usron, April 19, 1867. ‘The following was issued yesterday :— a1, y District, 8, C., april 18, 1867. I. It having become apparent that justice to cannot be obtained in the civil courts within the military poy of Aiken, 8. C., consisting of Edgefield and ae presiding, to- P. Doherty, ifth United States cavalry, and A. Ramsay, Est, of be district, 8. C., associates, The court.shall have jumsdiction of any case to which s person of color is a party, except murder, arson and ra) Sentences imposing fines exceeding one hun- dred ($100) doliars, or imprisonment exceeding two months, will not be executed until approved at these headquarters. The court will care:ully observe the re- quirements of General Order 10, current series, from these headquarters. IIL Tho provost court may upon application of any pee. of color, sued or prosecuted in any eivil court in igefield or Barnwell district, order the transfer of such case Wo the provost court. IV. The proceedings of the court in each case will be forwarded to the post cOmmander for revision and ap- proval; appeals to these headquarters from the decision of the post commander will not be considered unless accompanied by printed arguments of the parties or their counsel. V. The compensation of the civilian judge or judges willbe four doilarsa day; the court muy employ a clerk at a compensation not exceeding three doilars a day and purchase oreo All the expenses of tie court must be paid out of the funds accruing from fines and costs paid by parties tried before it. VI. At the end of each month a return of all fines and expenditures, with vouchers, will be made by the court to the post commander and by him forwarded to these headquarters. VIL So much of General Orders No. 102, Department of the South, 24, 30, 38, 49, 55, 59 and 68, D ‘tment of South Carolina, series of 1865, General Ordors Nos. 7 and 37, Department of South Carolina, and Cireular No. 2, Department of the South, serics of 1866, as does not conflict with this order is still im force. By command of Major General D E. SICKLES, Airs pris Capt. 38th U, S. Infantry, A. D, C. and How Gen. Sickles’ Order No. 101s Received. [From the Columbian (8. 0.) wie yur The order brit & measure of reliei to debtors throughout the they will hail with joy. Sundry efforts had been made to effect the samg object by our state legislation, but the Court of Errors pro- nounced stay iaws of any kind unconstitutional. Under the impoverished condition of this State, the large amount of debt and interest accruing, the order comes to us in time to save property and set ali who are disposed to recuperate earnestly to work and to make all they can to save the suffering people of the State. [From the Wilmington (N. C. 5 ‘eel lapamees last been ese whieh oil ety the interference of the courts with the question of constitu- tionality. The Legislature and the Convention have been surpassed in their measures for the relief of the people by a Daniel tately come to ent. This order ‘will be hailed with much satisfaction by debtors and will ‘be decried with much violence by creditors. In the nature of things it could not please both classes, {From the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal. the elements of a caanciel tot a fepadl. yw why tho punishment of burglary should of life are becoming much be |, but laws in favor enl of late years. It is rather a new way to legis- late. it we will have to get used to thet ee whole we do not regret the publication of this order, and hope it may ov oc widespread benefit to ihe people GEORGIA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Political Feeling and Sentiments in the South. ern Sections of Alabama and Georgia—A New Class of Southern Citizens Springing Up-The Causes of the Fabian. Policy ia ‘These States—The Last of the ‘ Fire-Eat- tug” Elements—Clearing ef the Southern Stage—A View Behind the Scenes—Poverty of the People Lack of Spirit Among the Plantors—Fine tical Prospects, &c. Savannan, Ga., April 15, 1867. As you move towards the Guif southward, and then eastward towards this city, in a tour through Alabama and Georgia, it grows plainly apparent that you are pro- gressing into a region where money has once been very plentiful, even if it be so no longer, and where the cuiti- vation of mind which wealth can always assure has once prevailed. But, beautiful as the scene may be, as perfectly as the verdure may decorate the old homesteads or conceal tho graves and blood of the slain, and fair as may appear the fields and groves of the grand plantations of the olden time, it will not be long before we discover that wo are wandering amid ruins, ‘and that all the beauty of nature or the palatial grand- ness of the aristocratic mansions is but a mask for those ills and sorrows that are the more poignant from their concealment, But few of the plantations are fully worked—not that the freedmen cannot be obtained, or will not work assiduously when laboring for them selves, but because the masters of these vast lands are themsetves unused to controlling a large business ot any kind. They have no tact, no goneraiship, no idea of economy, and unless some smart nogro comes to the aid of bis former master, and takes control of his affairs, disentangling him from the complications and difficulties into which he has fallen through ignorance, tho plantation soon shows indications of rain, is only partly cultivated, and finally fails altogether, when the helpless owner finds nothing left him to do but to coolly await bis fate, ‘There are many of these unhappy men jn the South, but they are rapidly growing less in number. They are the old men one meets on his journey through the lower section of Alabama and Georgia; the silver-haired men who are always to be geen seated under the shady porches of the grand mansions. These are the sad wrecks of the past—the ast of the Ce race. But fow, indeed, of these are left; the last, the observant traveller remarks, are tottering from feast io a sate of comparative want le greaually them off; but in their place new elemed political and social, are being raised to bod lo thas, despive the efforts = fresh and young and fav of politicians to the contrary, we will soon have & more homogeneous oneral tastes and tical predi+ Jections than was over dreamed of im the narrow phi- Joso) of political quacks, So this vast Southern stage wheroon we tmve lately msg ty eet ly er aes heroic usiness, heavy} villaii Mand e coved of petmtoot tone comedians inthe h ‘his stage whereon we have given ‘tafaa immense iH ‘cast’ outlay’’ the most of is now cleared for a new sis of perormanes “yrapa” politicians and others, which have seamed and disig- ‘ured this vast stage, are ems ane rd sure bap bee, mach aang in the consummation of See acce See SET tenets cm wholly subdued class, which forms im truth the body of yhe small and scat popu. Iation of the South, was willing’ for ge reconatructon by the . 13 auy measures that Congress — tm dictated. They prefetred peace to and hee whee had felt the power of the government evils attended the marching of hosti the country. Therefore it is not to be they were opposed to turmoil and political One planter with whom I conversed in the course of ay trip through Southern Georgia stated that at first he had been in favor of abject submission to ment, because bo expected nothing loas for the ireeadee was @ private soldier in the phan & Of almost absolure eexfiiom, bet heard others raising up their voices Lad rights © Conquered, he took fresh courage demands Lutterly, however, he had last. ‘was falling back on the constitut amend- Georgia was going to wes * announced Piomatie or ioe fi i 7 i : i BEF : = i i rf i t H i fi é z a i ts Hi Hi Hy i i A Hi if i i } i f £ 5 j & i : J y BE E ett Ff 3 Hy fi i j A ee 4 5 i li if rT i! i £33 d 3 i i i ia ui i A] i ie ; i 322 S rape pd a new and harmonious connection the States of the Union, alth they were of the opinion that Congress should be inded thas it is going beyond, in its official rulings, both the line of decency and of justice. Several of these gentlemen were residents of Mont- gomery, while the others owned and resided on planta- tions situated in a radius Sa thirty miles about the city, in one of fertile cotton re- ag pa pment future preapect ‘a as wel as ie future ol the South, they were willing to make a sacrifice of the leading men of their own section, to throw out of the scale their natural and olden time in order that ple of Alabama would bold them to it, for it had been to accept everything proposed, and the sentiment of the people of tie State was unani- mous for it, Similar sentiments obtain in and around Union Springs, and in other sections where the local Press is nobly and fearlessly doing its duty in explaini to the poopie the true condition of political affairs, the necessity of their acquiescence with the decrees of ‘Congress ; but off toward the Eastern border of the State, toward Eufaula, and along the line ot the Chattahoochee, one frequently meeis wita rabid advocates of the ‘mas. terly inactivity’ policy. The sensible counsel of the late rebel leaders and of others not so prominent, but a. powerful in possess ing the respect of the peopie, bas silenced the ultra ones, or toned down their denunciations, until we find bar- mony of sentiment and political order rapidly resolving itself from discord and chaos of social elements. Not- withstanding the rabid vaporings that occasionally tind expression fh the Northern press, the Ne of the North may be sure that the States 0” Georgia and at least, are ripe for re- construction, and that their people are withal emi- mently loyal to the principles of union and for uncomplaining submission to the lawa, siost of them mourn for the old constitution, and protest mildly against ite violation, but these expressions are sadly exaggerated in print, or, even though accurately set forth, the written do not bear the exact shade of meaning that is conveyed by the spoken words of the same general purport. tion in expressing the opinion tase aitbougl tho graves ing graves of the South are still fresh, and the lod ‘stains on her soil cannot be effaced for years to come, tue general of her people ig toward political harmony with Ald for the Starving People Arriving—The Negroes Requesting Feed trom Their Boston ee oe Artawra, April 15, 1867. The people of Georgia are laid under lasting obliga- tions to their brethren of the North for the truly large ‘and timely donations of corn of which they have been the recipients, There wore other donations, including money, but these have not been to such an extent as to require comment. The corn has come into the State n large quantities, having their origin in all parts of the North, from St. Louis to New York, and perhaps Boston. These donations have often como in the nature of a surprise to the parties to whom they were sent. The mining districts have been in the greatest need and have received the most. The cotton regions have to a great extunt taken care of themecives, to the neglect, however, of their debte, The donations referred to, being generally restricted by the donors to paupers or persons in extreme destitution, have not accomplished the good they would have done hada greater latitude ‘doen allowed in their distribution. To ‘illustrate:— uarries lie, and which are being now partially work: the negroes a few days ago, pd four Neeaned in bd ber, had @ public meoting, at which, after the recital by resolution of their need, expressing their approbation of the treatment they had received from their late vy, his Honor the Mayor of Boston, for a supply of pro- visions to be sent as a special donation to tien During Jast week the negroes also held a public meet- ing in this city, which was addressed by severat radical both from their own midst and from the North, to induce the negroes to vote the radical ticket, to stand by their friends who had been instrumental in freeing them. ALABAMA. Political Sentiment ia Alabama—Difference Between the Northern aad Southern Sec- tlons of the State—The People Wish to be Let Alone—Aversion te Political Argu- Ee Boravza, Ala, Aprit 16, 1967, Close as is their resemblance in manners of life, in the hardships to be endured, and in the adoption of the political dictum which has brought all the present ruin, suffering and disorder on and among the people of the South, the residents in the northern regions of Georgia and Alabama have plain pointe of difference in manners, and even in intensity or bent of political belief. In a trip one cannot easily tell where he has crossed the line from Georgia to Alabama. There are the same lofty moun- tains, clad in leafless forests of a dusty, faded gray color, like a well worn rebel uniform; the same rough roads, splashing mountain streams and the identical log huts, and mud chimneys that we But the bute are tess numerous, the asort of mild idiocy. In Georgia men are only stupid from local disadvantages, and withal show natural im some degree, however mean their position in ; but tm Alabama we meet men who are purely physical—who hunt, eat, drink and sleep from mero ‘men who appreciate the political position of ‘afthirs after the style of an over-matctod pugiltst, who, “hidving been soundly beaten by his sttonger antagonist, Counsels the giving upto him of the stake money and I northern Alabamians in conversation on the Ld of he will at once express ‘with a0y measures that will make the Stabe powers! it the reetsiag been | if, you ask him if the So tends poy he will answer ‘that Pp ey Saat, ‘during the war, and that singe phe* bas of course she must agree to anything, and the ‘account for their correspondence tn ‘This country might be made to blossom like formed men as did a gentleman and ape sbriving villages son a with whom I conversed on the care ner olen banks, _ oe Nedge and they were better abie peat ob ane per give wey to good and te and find the true "pasb duty than | siaatial farm ouses, Serge manufsciories 80 tee wilds, amid eee tnd. wee ak meters, | ot qenmah.wosith Ah vet Mar Poly 0 were sy God,” and that 4 mrtiuos give their orowning glory to tbis scene source came to dull and uat minds a prosperous ‘This is no re appreciation of the course to | sieetch. uiges BO . e Sonane ie in order to assure the future of their | such a and result. field is country. This gentleman, as you. will did | The-work is-et band. It only requires the proper worl Hs wanton pai soo Hower and aant is Sp and resosascuan wil ana angers 0 enna leet. “es, to appreciate or ng whowe eyes be gladdened at the sight of ii eet, the bare realities of ph compieten, The northern section of differs from South A great 1t to get off the steamer, and Carolina and Georgia in that it has really no'political dis- | the delicious fpeimines 6 ‘There is no general intriguing, no pa geeniors, bard and ap a government; bat juiescence in bie swearing and tobacco smoke, dictated by ‘the powers is the rule. } find. oneself whirled rapidly over the street region is more wild, yet more congenial | hotel, with of w quiet -room to oneself, to' ° who finds more |. sud soap have not used before you, clbo Tudeness and fare, , | Foom at table, s whose width bears some ° ye) of able | pay ae petra pred . l i F : i : i if zr § i & iu abe i Fal it . i f E Hg i t i E i i z i i yEF a : - Ee jE at if i d ; i | : i é f ; if z j i i i ou stop at a planter's residence over ospil received; you have accorded to a Pred bat s the table ps are si with some sp young 7, Bome bitter dame, or some youth, lately trom the fiery in his hatred of the conquerors—each and all of whom keep up a constant fire of bints and insinuations on you, until you long for the morning t come when ou may leave, and rid yourself of the annoyance entirely, Bad ‘as the hotels of the South are, one takes refuge them with delight, to escape the misery of a dwelling with these discontented pianters and their flerce from milking bis mother’s keows, ts cute in making oun, and juris right eout what be thinks. Perhap they don’t look for quite this, but ep certainty are no, sharp in their diagnosis of Northern ir. All gb families. crowd seemed to know my hack companions. As I have said it is very diffcultto draw thg planters “Well, Major,” called out ont are too late for of the Southern sections of these States into anytuing | convention; we missed you mightily.” *tand you, Colonel,” called out another to the secon: like a political argument, They hold their tongues most firmly in the presence of jorthern man, and one leaving the hack, “why want decidedly averse to betraying their political sentiments thar; you lost good office ure by kee} aa we 27 \ in open conversation, although they never fail to show ‘Well, I reckon I’m in time anyhow for the confisc in their quiet, genteel manner that they have no love for | tion,” the latter replied, ‘or teacher of a Freedmen' ‘ankees of whatever quality. One old gentleman at | school.’’ “Now don’t none. ob you say nothin’ to me,”’ exclaim the third one, as he waddied from the hack; whose lantation, in the vicinity of Selma, I stopped, le of egress forced upon him an account of rotundity said that tne a slo tators would keop quiet. ‘That,’ said the old man, re of form. “Uncle Job Seely’s old n! “two can’t hope for, but at any rate all the South wants ger Bill went as my proxy, and I’m ‘cept voting 0} now is to be let alone, and her people to be allowed to whistle le rope sides, his head was clear as June bi “But he voted on a May morning."” in and make money out of their crops, with the view cee ve ne right on our question,” remarked 0 of recuperating their war-wasted energies and resuming their old state of prosperity. We intend to hold the radicals to their word in this matter of reconstruction, and then we will sve if they are honest, and nothing fur- ther will be demandedof us. Our public men are per- fectly willing to make the sacrifice They will allow themselves to be disfranchised tor the sake of the people. ‘This is our only course, but I do not think it will avail us, for the radicals will not act fairly.” ‘This gendeman also informed me that the planters found great difficulty in cultivating their plantations, owing to the difficulty experienced in providing food for the numerous hands employed tor that purpose. of the planters, he said, Mmortgaged their crops in order to furnish corn tor the subsistence of the work- men. In Moatgomery, however, on mentioning this statement to a merchant of that city, he replied, **Non- sense; those old fellows down there have piles of money Hed ad pollially safe they”‘will prods fest was an ly safe they wi juca it was the same way just on the conclusion of the war when they thought that the government was going to take everything from them. ‘hey then set up a great howl the crowd. “What was that?” asked one man of Jack Fi fa | mould. ‘ about baving no money, but after a ti when they | laughter. Straws though these are, they show whi found that ailaire were goipg on smoothly, ‘and that | way the wind blows. I have talked. with several on the army officers were pretty nice fellows and not in- | subject of the late State Union Convention, taku clined to steal as a general ne Sherman’s‘bum- | pains to get ito conversation with those mers,’ they produced ol ‘and greenbacks and | tho most vaunted secesh sympathies as everything was lovely. Now they fear that a political | as the disciples that Southern senseless, ap lution is om the and as usual conceal their thetio apothegm, | ‘ly don’ bother ‘my ‘oad abo money and cry out impecuniosity for fear that they may, national affairs at all ; I'm just going tolet things ‘by somo chance, be victimized.” their course.” These are two extremes. Tho fir ‘How irue this view of the matter is I cannot say, but | assert positively that the Convention was ao represen! these are the prevailing ideas of the merchants of | tion of the State; that it was ames parte affs Montgomery on the subject. But be it as it may, the | that the delegates were made of em farmers of Alabama and Georgia do not suffer from bun- | whose extent of centralizes ger, for more substantial meais cannot be found elee- | ambition Lochried daernedinprene = + ret wholly where than at their well faraished boards, and moreover | effort to man’ ‘out of the neg] cient promise for the future to giveier io even the most gieomy of the railers against radical rapacit ARKANSAS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. the People Think—Sketches of Little Rock and Governor Murphy, &c. now, very. cg Roy om 7 Tir Hoce, April 18, amr, | tutta? ty "Soventions verybeuy ees Away from Arkansas Post in the steamer Centralia, | it has Congress behind it}; that it hi ‘and at the end of two days, amid a deuse perspective of Lae ao urate oa bayonets ee smoke stacks and steamers, and levees and warehouses | jopaity, equality, justice ening er entire vs ‘ and white painted dwellings, I saw before me the church | under ¢be influence of that. dogged, obstinate pride steeples of Little Rock, the towers of St. John’s College, | Prevalent through uth, and working so disastrou: the State House cupola, with the Stars and Stripes float- ing proudly above it, and to the left of the town, rising in clear, bold outline, the old United States Arsenal, and now, in triumph waving over it, as in days ante bellum, the national bunting. My journey took me through Sunday, and Sunday travelling on the Arkansas river is not enshrouded, I am sorry to say, by those sacred and } }, uarters. Regarding his line of conduct as Mi solemn observances of the day characterizing the style - Zariend aA. very frank and Soy grey of spending the Sabbath kept up by the six- | Poblished offlsiat order, announcing his assumption teen thousand passengers of the Mayflower—a | Pommand, This progra ‘of ratner the romp h fact, by the way, as to numbers, that may seem | order, he intends tocarry out fully. Uiviboficers, highly figurative, but mathematically demonstrated from the statements of those claiming des@at from that noble Puritan land. It is trae that in the present case an army chaplain happened to be on board, and that he Praeger ‘shall vigcheamty peahene, % gp happened to feel it his duty to hold religious exercises, | complaint Ni with prompt Sina tamed but the majority of the passengers did not happen to | investigation facts ordered. lstrati care about listening to him, In ‘the social” there | of voters, rindi pero beh ower fet heading the polls, ax would be card playing; one of tho table waiters would | convention shall be called for framing’ new constit play tho violin on the upper deck, and) many*would | tion, be intends that the utmost care ‘shall be taken listen to him; and some actresses who were on board would stay in the pilot house, and would sing songs not | to vote and desiring to do 80. see probed ia th found in orthodox hymn books. All the windings of the | only one place of registry and me rivor failed to reveal a single church spire or any person | eh coun Rete es ene wearing a church-going or church-coming-home look. At | tatorial power, but will do faithfully as tai the various landings the bustle, confusion and swearing | down in the Congressional enactment establishin | in taking off and getting of freight were the antipodes mnskorna comprowiasy ita eee, of Sabbatarian quiet; and 80, too, as we approached | mon, both and black, aid’ give his heany and left the Isndings, the whizzing, ear-plercing ‘Won kad co-operation te jioeieare woking to the shreks of the steamers whistle, and jambling Cah ang dit aetee oon H ding-dong of ite deep soanding boll, And then | course since he has been in has boon 90 d: the crowds of ong, lean men, with long, shaggy hair, that of the aceomplished = gee and course homespun sod homemade garments that | $2 melted DF couneus mle ed od had seen long service, standing about, smoking their Fenlhy Pty who cou i long stemmed pipes, or chewing tobacco, as thouch they ore doing it on @ wager, gave forth no gleam of z ! E my E j tr from their sallow, dazed countenances. The only in- command 5 Smith, of ) Gloations, in fast, save the poorly appreciated effort of mA yd Se tn eas the chaplain, I oaw in my whole Sunday's travel of ob | fr” .teRat conng see this pies werving the day as @ Gay of fest, wore the negroes, | It is believed to the dil seated in groupe along the river banks, end they were cnatee of Oe, uP Testing n thorough appreciation of the day, bodies and oa ‘meorving Spfane be bonne ‘souls in perfect harmony. The millenaiam may be sp. | to AC fg proaching, but the coming event casts as yet no hopeful | nitalty ed A+y shadow along the Arkansas river, or the busy steam- conn ee oer officers r oats that give it bustling life, of the poker-playing pas- | iniuing c Colonel Pace, quarte sengers, whose only praying is preying on one another, ig ‘Lieutenant Tm wiylen, commisary | and highest hope to “seo a blind” and win, Subsisvence. In the Staye there are now two full Bat little that/1# attractive is to be seen along the Ar « Meats and one Datiery, the, Maswwontt snd Twent, Kansas river, Like angol’s visite are the villages—fow and | sighth United Sates r Nvoat Ghapanles’ of", far between, Solitary cabins and small patches of oultt- and states esto ers vated land are scattered in the intervening spaces, and wild woods, which from the backward season are as leading towns dechments bare of foliage a8 the forest wastes bordoting the Dead | cotrentor each, oe Sea, make up the rest of the picture. It is not a picture |. re nae ne me 2 poopie | The poet who ne nates ae this plac In the love of ‘but must with these triple top Holds communion with her visible torms, very g be og be it kno would fina here nothing to rouse his fancy, no mountains fen ane tne & ghey OF crags, or gorges, to give inspiration and vigor to his verse; no gutgling streams breaking in melting murmurs il i on his ear to soothe his spirit or soften hie melody. But is ‘ba ‘enterprise artiats and poets are not wanted here, It {a no place for Nathera oriakaotcn “ote east them. st is the place for practical, sturdy, sinewy, self: aaa Steroid erin aaeenul men are man. the largest in tow | i its samatod ‘and self-sustaining men, be See (Se meer ee