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4 THE SOUTH. Reports of the Special Correspond- ents of the Herald. Stagnation of Business Throughout the Country. The Democrats of Virginia Refuse to Com- bine With Conservatives. AFFAIRS IN SOUTH CAROLI THS POLITICAL CANVASS IN TENNESSEE, REGISTRATION IN LOUISIANA. VIRGINIA, Apvcarance of Lynchburg--Wretched State of the Streets—Tobacco the Motive Power of Everything—Faverable Political Sentiment of the People—Radical Tendencies of the Blacks—Tournament of Knuights—Progress of the Proceedings—Donkey Interlude—The ¥un—Ball and Coronation, &e. Lyxcusore, Va, May 23, 1867. ‘Tho surroundings of Lyncbburg are strikingly pictu- Tesque, Nature has done much to render its situation at once bold and beautitul. River, wood and highland combino with charming effect, and from the broad rent of the James to the far-reaching peaks of the Blue Ridge, the eye is presented with a prospect as varied and extendod as it is complete and attractive. Amid this scene, however, man bas been backward, and it might almost bo said, blind—an ase ply borne out In the dirty, half paved streets, the rugged and dangerous sidewalks, the tumble down, half shingled shanties, and the goneral air of thriftlossness that prevails, Few places have moaner pretonsions to the rank of city than this mart of the fragrant weed—todaceo, which, a8 some philosopbers hold that it has a de. teriorating effect on the human system, may possibly produce an unfavorable action on the healthy growth and cleanly habits of communities, as woll as of indi- viduals, Here, however, tobacco is the motive powor which propels railroads, hotels, consumptive looking drays and wagons, lazy old boats on the “raging canawl,’” swarms of darkeys and hundreds of the reconstructed chiv: Tobacco propels everything but a street sweep- ing machine, a latnplighter, an intelligent corporation, & visibie police force, and a builder, with some design tn portfolio differing from tho traditional log cabin of Arkansas wood chepper. If tobacco had any influence on municipal improve. monts, the tourist and stranger would gladly recogai ius potent presence in a reformation of the glaring ob- struction to pedestrian comfort whieh Lynchburg so amply displays, Little but what is unfavorable can be eaxi of the town; but the inhabitants, by the present \gempor they exhibit on the great national question of reconstruction, redeem entirely the wretchedness of ‘thotr street accommodation. They are a unit in senti- tas tothe determination of performing all that is demanded by Congress, and, to secure the great boou of representation at the national capital, they are adopting 8 course which commends itselt to the attention o: other communities im the State—that of ignoring every species demagoguiem, of suppressing attempts to Tesurrcet jond party issues and defunct party leaders, of studi. aly avoiding to give countenance to any speakers who. attempt to reopen the closing wounds of civil strile, and of intending to nominate no man to convention or to Congress who fails to represent the renewed loyalty of may be said as to the likolinood of the ing @ preference for those’ men as candi- their former military or political leaders, ‘there is no question but that in this, as in other geese, ‘ great change bas como over the Southern mind. Dem- will, under the new stato of thiggs, with monopolies aud aristocratic privileges abolished, compete for tho highest offices in the State om an equal footing with those of higher social standin, In other words, Virginia, ba fled and clevated. is about to boromo as ope of her Northern sisters, with class distinctions abolismed and morit recognized as the only standard of political pre- ferment, The blacks are working io harmony with their white employers, but at the same time preparing them- selves by organization and training totakoa stand with the radicals at the future elections, To say that every black is at heart « radical expresses an axiom the truth of which any disinterested observer must admit, But they are sensible enough to gonceal their real foolings where it is very essential they should. From conversation with several intelligent colored mon in this town I am persuaded the colored folks in Lynchburg have but to be presented with a radical candidate in whom tney can trust to give am undivided support to bis election. “But are there not some conservative black men?!’ I foquired of ag intelligent mulatto map, ‘None at all, sir,” was the repiy. ‘‘Self-interest makes some of our pooplo prociaim themselves conservative; but you will find, if thoy discover you are a radical, that on more radical than you,’’ it is manifest the blacks have got forgouen their years of siavery. At the sane time it is open to dispute 1 thetr so-called friends at the North can in the present instance affect their most material interests #0 powerfully as their former masters. Business here has been very brisk for a short timo past Dry goodsare in great demand, and tobacco keeps the warehouses and factories busy from mora till dewy -day at noon a tournament was held on a beautiful , Surrounded by trees, a few miles from y. The'Karghte, who were all mounted on sleek aud spirited horses, assembled to the number of about twenty, and for haif ao bour kept up an exciting racing practicd to test the mettle of their horses for the ap- Proaching contest. At poon @ number of carriages arrived on the ground, of the course devoted to Stat officers were Among the equestrian spe tato: From the centre of 3 airetched from one upright pole to another a red ‘as suepended, to carry off which on the point of a ender, wooden lance each gahant knight in full career essayed towccompush. At d of a trampet the Koigbts, in red eshirte and slouched hata, ranged themselves in order, while a flutter passed along the ! of ladies, and f love and beacty,”’ seated tn express threw back clustering curls smiled Ler aweetest expression, Tue Knight of Golden Cross wheeiod his restive steed aroand and started at a terrific gallop, but his lance pwrced only the yielding air, and the red ring nang steady touched in mockery of his attempt, The K Ye Rose followed with the stride of trooper and handling his lance with the si Sack. A moment more the red ring disapp pendant positon, and was borne aloft to the delight of the Indies and the admiration of the men. Checking t impetus of his charger Yellow Rose returned, doffed his Diack elt belmet to the “Lady of Love and Beauty and received in returns smile that must have 7 iivalrous bosom deeper than the lanco cou! up jone, In tournamenta of old we read me ith bis cap and beils, as an indispensadi eremonies of the occasion, to divert the high ng excitenent and gpice the tragedy with a touch of farce. In this instance, however, no circus being im town, the thing bad not mm mediated; but f tone’ kindly sent what answered just ‘as Two frolicksome bet most unkempt and negiscted donkeys made their appearance on staring with id astonishment at equine’ prancers and the red their placid observations were soon disturbed by cei of boys, who, with traditional instinct, saw a we for fun, The aaginine visitors wore soon ia ile hands and treated with most undignitied ae~ quaintance. The donkeys, howover, saw ae inuch fan im the joke as the boys, and most unceremoniously Kicked off every two and three in endless succession, ‘The ladies wore in ecstasies. “love and Beauty’ forrot her victorious knight on horseback to gaze a: the sirug- 5 ef another class of aspirants for knighthood, the doni triamphod, and the most amasin; was at an end. The Knight of Srey won & triumph, and other knights with titles Jess romantio having Gone their fast race in the tourna mmblage went joyously bomewarda This evening the coronsiion bail was given in the Norvell House, at which kn ghts and ladies mingled in he thrilling waltz til the cares of supper were an- ‘pounced, which the Lady of Love and Beauty, Mise was crowned with @ floral wreath by the Knight Mosby's the tournament. the the Old Sledge, a former trooper of command. The festivities were continued, aad ell went merry 42 marriage bell, Goneral Leo's iis and Exodus of People from Richm Hard Business Doing. &c. Times and No Actonal ~-sbip D ‘The number of students for the present year in attend. ‘ance at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, of which General Leo is President, is $99, divided among the several States as follows :— oe se 8 6 i 1 1 NEW of the College are making preparations for @ grand ban- quet to be given afier the commoacoment exercises on the night of the 20:n of June, All the efforts of H. Rives Pollard to got up a senea- tion about bis leoiare on “The Chivairy of the South” have proved uttor failures, . flaving obtained permission from General Schofield to detivor this locture, he fixed last night as the time for its delivery at Lynahburg ; but for some reason or other the benighted people of that town refusea to patronize this would-be typs of Southern chivalry, who never shouldered a musket to Sustain the cause which he now superserviceably essays to defend, Qn audience, At eight o'clock’ the locturer appeared upon the stage and announced to empty benches that the lecture would be indefinitely postponed. Wise con- clusion, Since permission was given to deliver this jecture it was announced and postponed half a dozen times from one cause or another. A farcical termination has thue come to what it was thought would result tn fame and fortune to the unlucky adventuror, Pollard’s career here and elsewhere has been one continued suc- cession of trials, tribulation and adversitios, Tho peo- ple could not be induced to patronize any enterprise of his, no matter under what guise it may be presontod, He is played ont In Virginia The exodus of laborers and mechantes from Richmond on account of the dearth of employment has boen very great during the past two or three monthay Clerks and salesmen are also feaving in larze numbers, until the lower class of boarding houses almost wholly de- serted, tenement houses, Now thero is a superfluity of both. Half a dozen of theslargo business houses recently erected on Main. @treot would accommodate nearly all the trade that is done in the city, while the population is diminishing in a ratio that foreboces pression. The question with busi they can moot their obligations, but how they can pro- Lure the necessaries of lifo, How tho interval to better times, of which there is now no prospect, can ve bridged over, is amysiery which fow can solve. The distress and ‘embarrassment is appalling. Richmond at- this time, whon trado should be active, presents the sombre duinosa of a graveyard, Tho sadness and depression of despair seems to have settled’ upon every countenance, and heads of families, aro almost paralyzed by dread apprehensions of extreme want — whieh they poworlvss to avert. Not a cheerfal countenance or s hopeful wort is seen or heard ureo of a month, All looks like # foneral scene, fort ora word to cheor. Nobody ufleving neighbor, aud if a sentiment of ieve the depression, it is not offered, for niversal, and all alike aro victims of sor- This is a sad picture, but be as ne, Tho real facts cannot be over Tho trials of distress and suffering reach tho capacity of the poeple to endure. They are without hope, which might mitigate thelr agony. itry 18 sinking gradually and steadily, like a ship, and the sufferers contemplate their awful doom with very mach the aame feeling of horror that passengors do the juevitabie fate that awaits them in such adiiemma, Yo a superficial observer this pic- ture may seem to be overdrawn, but those intimate with the true state of facts can attest tho truth of what is stated. Scores of emall dealers have had to discontinue business, as well, because of the exactions of unscru- pulous landiords, as the general depression of the times. As proof of the distress existing here, I would state that the-@ are now about two hundred applications to the” Mayor of tuis city for positions in the pol.ce, when not be vacanoy exists, SOUTH CAROLINA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. Stagnation in Business—-The Registration Order—The People Ready to Reconstruct Ex-Governor Perry’s Opposition Not En- dorsed by the Whites, &c. Caancestox, May 21, 1867. If any-city on the Atlantic coast is disagreeably dull in a bisinesa point of view at the present timo this is the place, The merchants bought largely, expecting to meet with ready and profitable sales when the spring trade opened, but 30 far they have been doomed to disappoint- ment. To convince yourself of this fact one has needs pass down Mepting street to seo establishments filled to their utmost capacity with goods, and the doors and win- dows supporting tho listless frames of proprietors and clerks, There ie a universal wail of melancholic sylias dies to grees the inquiries about their proapects, Nor ere theso lugubrious countenances confined (to this section of the city. The bay, which ns always been regarded and is now the great way for the transportation ang reception of agricultural and commercial products—even the merchants of this vicinity are bitterly complaining of dull times; that “eotton igdown; money is tight, and the planters are demoralized on account of the general depression ro- suiting from the uncertainty of political affairs.” I be- Neve that this businsss depression will last the entire summer, and if matters are settled im accordance with the Reconstruction bill there will be a great reaction in the fail and winter, Charleston has hitborto enjoyed her share of commercial importance, Why may she not build up an iucreased roputation in the future? * ‘Since Mr. Wilson's departure gome of the citizens who appended their namos to the card of invitation to the honorable gentleman are sorely pressed by a fear of the public's opinion of their act, I regret to see this isposition on the part of a few ultra secessionists to Cling to. the dead. spo clap-trap for capital, and atill ir must. the turpitade of those who are weak kneod enough to be. influenced by ‘she scheming chicanory of tho former, During the past week General Sicklos has issued Order No. which aunounces the precincts of the milltary post of Coarleston. istration wiil begin ‘on the third Monday in July. This looks like work, and I trust that everybody who in entitled to a voto will be prepared to deposit it on the appointed day and in the appropriate ward, and on the side of a convention to re- organize and remodel the laws of the State ia conso- nance with the requirements that alone will bring her back in the Union. This is cloariy the intention of five- sixths of the white voters, aud the entire colored vote can certainly be depended on to do their part. South Carolina, the leader and propagator of the spirit of se- cession, will follow the besten track of her sister States in the doctrine of recomtruction. Among the promincat citizens of this State none are more opposed to a speedy rettioment of political differ- ences than B. F. Perry, of Greenville district, This gen- tleman your readers all remember as the Provisional Governor appointed by the President immediately after the surrender of tho Confederate armies, Ho now coun- pele nactivity and a negative vote for a convention. Oer- taiuly thore are those who have nothing to lose, and who dobght tn placing obstactes fo the way of honest men bind an oir endeavors, that array them- selves in ooatine Mr. Perry's views If the different cored it is a true, colored. party, m President had sought Incumbent on the principal civil reconstruction of Mr. Perry, except as a poll Granting him | powers clevatiog estimation, be has given him wnda may eafely eay that he can do no hat @ has seen the Iength of bis tether, and the sensibie of this State, only look upon him in the light of # fossil belunging to ® party that did no good, and little injury in bygone days, Many believed that the extension of the pri to ride in the street cars to the colored citizens wou! injore the receipts of the company. I leara that is otuerwiee, and thas these people conduct thomssives with great propriety. Sundi their gala day, It is able sight to see the ‘tended to cach otheron that ‘ ‘and to and from their houses It will striko anyfono that froedem must ova‘e thit clase of human beings, who once walked in ¢ fotters of slavery, It is romored that the commanding officer of this post wil! select one colored registrar to be placed at each Poll. The pames of those appotuted have not been in the public's torinty. Bat I disclosed. that reg! otined, #0 that this is bot a small part of pected to leavo their homes, The weather has lately been warm and sultry, Occa- sionally & shower comes to cool the atmoapher; but It soon relapses into its former state, The Battery on the routh —— the 4 ie the oy blic promenade, It ja regarded as the finest in the South, and when the band of the Sixth infantry discourses their soul-stirring airs to the large concourse of citizenson « Saturday rnoon, I know of uo more delightful spot to while ‘ay an hour. Effect of the &i Hen de OC ot the Failore—Freaks of 1 cial Dects! " tional B itiownl-A Negro - Discharaed from His Employment Because He ts a Member of the Loyal 1, saber Cuantrstow, & C., May 22, 1867, The news of the suspension of Fraser, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpool, will have a depress! fect on this com- munity. The business relations of that firm aro closely interwoven with the house of John Fraser & Co, of this city, The partnership oxisting before the war was dissolved some time ago, but a commercial agency on Doth sides of the water was established in its place, The news came as sudden and unexpected to the mem- bers of the firm here as to the people, Asan evidence of this I may state that the firm offered for negotiation a sterling bill of exchange on the Liverpool house to the number ox- Fraser, Tren- Poop! Bank of this city early in the forenoon, which was dec! the bank officers, {t seoms, having te- ceived the information ahead of the firm. On the re- oolpt of a despatch by the latter an apology was made to the bank, with the nt that the hoase was not aware of the state of alfairs Numerous conjectures and reports are afloat ag to the Cause of the suspension. The true solution of it is no doubt the Béavy tosses sustalied by the drm in their ex- tensive purchases of cotton during the winter and tho great fall in prices since that time; and in addition, the refusal of the Bank of England te afford the Liverpool The leciure did not take piace for want of A vear ago there was a scarcity of business and’ . YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 31. 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. the ection of both firma in coming to the relief of an old friend aud merchant woo had assisted? them in time of embarrassment several years ago ts One of the chicf causes of the proseat difeulty. The report outside was that tbe houses purahased of this friend, a Mr. Metcalf, of Augusta, Ga, some seventy thousand balos on which there had been a toss of fifty dollars a bale, or a total of threo million Ove hundred thousand dollars, The facts, as I gather them from the best authority, are tiat this cotion was taken from Mr. Metcalf at ton penos per pound, and the responsibility equally divided betwoen the two houses, At tea peuce per pound a large margi- nal profit .is left at even the. present rates, Ail the friends of the parties express a confld belief that the suspension will be but a temporary ous, and this is the universally expressed hope of the peaple. Though the firm here will not suspend, still there will be much embarrassment, Thelr efforts to revive and sustain the business inierosts of Gharieston have done much to mitigate the distress existing just after tho war. ‘This intelligence has sorved to divert the public mind from the wonderf chaei’s church tagt Monday evening. The old steeple, which was the mark of tho artillerists during the shelling of the city, but escaped any serious injury, was struck by lightuing and again fortunateiy preserved. Tho steepteman or watchman employed by the city was k: ed down, while @ party of six persons, three ladies and three gen- tHlemen, standing undor Lhe porch from the raia, received the shock in thelr fegs and bora tearing opeu boote, gailers and stockings, singing the legs and even molting the wires of the ladies’ crinolines. All of the party were thrown down by tho shock, and one of the gentlemen fell in the middfe of the street. Tho church sustained some trifling damage. The lightning rod runs inside the edifice, and the fluid geems to have followed its course until 1s reached the door and then to have been attracted in another direction by the large iron hinge, which cansed its force to be expended upon the panelling end cieting around, and finally went underneath the door on the pavoment, where the party mentioned were grouped together. Judgo Munro delivered a decision yesterday adverse to tho State tax on national banks impozed by the act of the {ast General Assembly of this State. The tax was decreed unconstitutional and tho tax collector restrained from lovying or collecting auch tax. Some excitement has been raised among the Union Leagues of this city, composed mostly of colored mon, by the discharge of one of tts prominont members from his employ ment in consequence of his being a member of the Leagne, The merchant who made this movement is no politician; but, on the contrary, entertains a terri- ble dread of politics, ’,A committee of the Union Leagns was depnted to wait upon bim and ascertain his reasons for tho invasion of colored men’s private politicat privi loves, His reply was that he had nothing to do with politics himself, nor wishod to have anybody about Lim who did. The man discharged had been in his employ several years, Such an ect as this only (ends to make tho colored population moro united, ‘Phe Union Leagnes number about twenty-five hundred members in this city. In addition they claim between ono thousand and fifteen handred voters outside their organization who wilt co. operate with them, Should this bs the case they wiil certainty bo ablo to elect their whole ticket at tho next municipal election, and possibly place a black man in the Mayoralty char, with a board of more than haif colored Aldermen, GEORGIA AND ALADASIA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. Atlanta Rising from Her Rulns—Increase of Manutacture Georgin —A ee Beantiful, but Poor—-Awtul Scenes of Desti- tution Among the Whites of the Cotton States—A Pitinble Story from Northern Ala- bama—Universal Demand for Capital and Immigration—Inviting Prospects for Both. AtLanta, Ga, May 21, 1867. War-dovastated Atlanta is rising gloriously from hor ruins, It had been compictely “Shermanizod,"’ as they say here. Nothing but the churches, Odd Fellows’ Hall and a fow dwéllings on the outskirts being loft standing. It is beginning to look like a prosperous city acain. Several fine blooks, two or threo hotela anda number of handsome brick mansions are now com- pleted, , Among the new public buildings is a fine opera ‘house in course of construction on Marictta street, which will cost $90,000. It is being built by accompany. Aftor the destruction of the city during the ‘grand march to the sea,’’ and the impoverishment of the population, one would naturally wondor where the capital camo from to restore it to its present condition, The fact is that the owners of large plantations in the vicinity, swisely perceiving ‘that a better investment of- fered in, houses than in land, sold quanti- tlea of ther ground, and put up buildings in the city (rom whioh they are now drawing good rents, and living apon the income, A good deal of the town, also, was bullt upon credit, for the Atianta people, though almost bankrupted by the devastation, found some who would advance them money. relying upon the prosperity which mast surely come to this great railroad contre before very tong. Tne people are hopoful of the future. Business is reviving with giant strides, and, notwith- standing the poverty prevailing throughout Georgia, Northern Alabama and tho Carolinas, thore is a good deal of country trade stirring hero. The land around is ia richer cultivation than much that T have seon in States nearer the Mississippi, but thore is vast room for improvement and the application of capital. The manufacturing interests of Georgia are also loom- tog up, as evidenced by the fact that since the war eeventy factories have been put up betweon this city and Augusta, which latter, let me add, is the most beautiful country town | have seen anywhere ia y ‘States. Tt eacaped the ravages of war from both friend and foe, ‘and therefore remains ta ite pristine rustic elegance. Some of the planters’ mansions on Greene street are un- Surpassed throughout the South, and would be esteemed no little addition to the beauty of our Now York environs. Bat A has been spared the scourge of the bayonet and the torch, it is not ex- empt from the general penalty of Left Mie! has ‘been inflicted upon the winte race by the of their slaves and the universal depression which followed the 1 have heard many ead stories of destitution in ountry districts, One gentleman, who had been a wner in Cass county, a mountain region of Geor- ed to me that npon his return from the war, r the surropder, be found his once comfortable atill standing where he had left his wife and daughter when he joined the army surrounded by ali the enjov- ments of life; butevery particle of property was swept away by the federal troops, and they were now redaced toafew pounds of corn meal for subsistence. “For three weeks after my return,” said my informant, “we never iaid a tablo or cooked a meal. morning we baked loaf of corn bread, from h each of the family occasionally broke off a piece during the day to satisfy hu , and this was all we had to live om; for there was neither cow, nor chicken, vor pig, nor muie left on the plantation, And yet I was not as poor as many of tho while people in the victuity. They had ab- soluiely nothing but a little herbs and grasses to cat. ‘One poor widow of a Confederate soldier existed, with her family, for several weeks upou an occasional rabbit which the children caught in the woods, They had neither corn nor potatoes to take with it.” But while Lam writing now of the state of affairs imme- diately after the war, lam sorry to any that are not much imy today. All through Georgia, South and North Carolina, the most agonizing destitution exists among the people, more particularly in the mineral and mountainous districts, where, in the ‘vest of tines, the cereal crops were scant. T had an opportunity of learning some details of saf- fering in Alabama while in conversation with Governor Patton, im the Executive Chamber, at Montgomery. He had been reciting to mé terrible condition of the people, and the immediate causes thereof, and while he did 80, his eyes filed again and in with tears, as he said to me “for God's sake tell the people of the North what our condition is, and ‘of them to send their capital and labor here to help us'’ Governor Patton has always been a Union man; and. as ho says, detested “the horesy of non-imtercourse.’’ But three of his sons went to the war like other young men, and two of them never returned, Hoe was President of tue Senate when the ordinance of secession was and he resigned his seat and withdrew from politics entirely, He bad amassed @ fortune as a merchant, and owned many wes, The war and the emanci- pation have swept away both, and he now shares ta a com; ‘tive degree the general poverty of his State, When the war closed he retired to his planta- tion, and worked in the fields with plough hoe, laboring jointly with the oaly son who had been left to him, “Ii such things be doue in the green wood, what shail be done in the dry?" Bat I was saying that some opportunities were offered to learn the sufferings of the people. While with the Governor a gentleman, tall, gaunt and threadbare, entered, 8 face wore an expression of one familiarized with suffering. oe seemed to have been schooled in supplication, and it was easy to perceive that he was no neophyte in the temple of the unsparing Moloch—Want, Ho came (rom the northern counties of Randolph, Tuscaloosa, Bibb and Shelby,/| accredited to the Governor by some benevolent societies, from whom he presented a paper certifying to his mis- sion to crave alme for the ple of those dis- tricts, His name was Rev. W. W. and this was his pitiable ‘When the war was over and the soldiers home to their farms they found lide there to start anew with, Nevertheless, they went willingly to work with such {cilities as they bad at that late season for the first year, Bot the land yielded nothing to requite their labor, A second year they went to work ja, When & drouth came, and the crops all falied, “hy had now neither food nor seed, A few benevolent people formed themselves into a society to obtain seed; but so great was the distrust of this region ever recuperating itaelf that they could not obtain trans- Portation, The men went forth to seek employment, but there is no demand for labor. The women and chil- dren are now pinit home in suspense and long ferred hope, The society endeavored to keep them up with what [itile means they bad, and im order to dite Ponee it with the best economy and where it vitally needed, they divided off the poor into aecerta ning the actual amount of food of’any doseriptl: ? fl in the poasestion of each clasg and the number of days in which life could be sustained upon i, Of the first clags, consisting of nearly two hundred, there was only corn enough to last @ month, and of wing tweire in & famtly—thore was scarcely one who bad than half omen were su ‘on boiled little boe cake was baked each beet nd aie sal ; to most mon, but I confess that at this démouement of the story I had net @ word of condolence to offer that I could trast myseif with the uttorance of, so I walked to the window and looked out upon the fertile fleids and dense green woods that enoircie the city—a landscape that re- called, surely, no picture such as this that had been pre- sented to me—wondering that within a few miles of the capital of the rich, broad State of Alshonaa, we ats cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, wheat and almost limitless mineral resources so terrible a state of things could exist. But it is not resources that the South needs, for they are here ta abundance, but the means to develop them, ‘There is not money enough, nor mixed popula- tion enough, nor, I am afraid, thrift enough to make this fairest portion of our country what it should be, Even before the war this was-quite as true as it is now. Tuose who had property in land enjoyed ease as their grandfathers did, and Jeft to property in labor the tasic of developing or exhausting it, and the latter system was unfortunately adopted under the now acknowledgéd blight of slavery. In all the cotton States the destitation is nearly equally great, In South Carolina, especially. In. almost every town, if you go into the country roads in the morning, you will meet groups of poor white women, most of thom advanced in years, straggtiag into town, some with ‘mall bags of dried fruits under their arm, ‘some with hittle pails containing a few pounds of butter to sell, and some of them, alas! coming empty handed to get rations from the Freedmen’s Bureau, I have said cuough on this point, I trast, to stimulate benevolence at the North, or, what is mueh betver, to lay before capi- talists facts concerning the unworked resources of this splendid country to induo? them, not merely to extend temporary reticf as a work of charity, but to embark in euterprises which wilt ensure matual benefit, and result in lasting prosperity for the South, Its fertile flelds are hot cultivated to one-tenth of their capacity for pro- duction. Its ¢xhaustless water power is running'to the Boa without compelling: machinery 40 execute a thou- send industrial works that would enrich it. Ita gold mines are’ scarcety touched, while its coal and iron still slumber in the soil. Tne magic wand of capital in the band of Northern energy would raise them all, and, “like the gentle dew frem heaven,” would bieas alike him who gives and who receives. TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Daolneas in Memphis—Precartous Condition of Business Mea—The Tournamont—Brown- Jow Calling ont more Militin—The Presbyte- rina Conference, &e,, &e, Mnaems, May 22, 1867. ‘The political canvass betweep Etheridge and Stokes being removed to a moro diftant Geld, a lull, indeed al- most silence, has here taken tho place of the excitement of last week. Even the newspapers experience the ef- fects of the indifference of the great mass of the intelli- gent people of Memphis to politics and political affairs, and have become prosy and dail upon the progress of reconstruction in the “outside” States, An oxcsption to this, perhaps, is the Avalanche, which occasionally lashes the turbid waters intoa foam, but so light that noonday brings forgetfulness of the effort, The cry for “bread! bread{' bas not yet gone up from the streota of this once flourishing city; bat, next thing to it, one hears the regrets of failure, the moan of apprehension, the sorrow over tnisspeat opportunities, aighs for the past and resolves for an industrious future ; which latter, un- fortunately {or the resolvers, can only be induced by the one thing uow wanting to rekindle, Lore as well as elsewhere throughout the South, the fires of a dead in- dustry—money. A year ago those of the people of thia State disfranchised shared wilh their brethren in hope. Even that is fast disappearing and its place being occu- pied by despair. As it bas come to be everyw! throughout the Union, the industrious and the skilful are hero at the mercy of a few money changers, whose success induces many in the samo tine, and 80 encourages consumption without production, Young men, reared in the “lap of lnxury,” cannot’ now think of labor in the fold; as of old, that must be left to the negro; the consequence is, all of our Southern cities and towns are filled with can- didates for clerkships; are filled with canvassers of all kinds aud for ali descriptious of insurance aad assur- ance schemes and lotteries, and with more commission merchants than would suffice to sell out the world and its satellites. Everything and anythivg but work. The country ts deserted for the city by blacks as woll as whites; and members of all the earned professions—the press among them—are elbowed out of business by cheap inexperience, making confusion worss con! and adding to the want of confidence that cach one feclsin the Pr . ‘The health of bone Fra yes J never betier; the con- Begilence ie the medi practitioners are on haif pay. ‘There is much faw, but clients have not the money to pay lawyers are compelled to gobbie their property; but as that only satisfies the cupidity of ‘the profession, the want of m: ious to geli out everybody as everybod: one Mi id ‘hom, bealthy South, country. they vous, who are sowing & distrust between the races which sustains disquiet and perpetuates a state of things which adds to rather than diminishes the ibies embar- Paeritameaatioed or, tan To-day there is a chivalrous jousts of jor even ar ae tebe the whole lation of ¢! “ae Aegean og @ Noliday ag been enjoyed, and the minds been taken from their troubles by even an ep! and obsolete gaine. Fun, frolic and a crowd have been en- into trouble of that nature. and such a contingency is then we shail have the fulfilment of radical proptiecy, ‘with all the awful conseq vences growing out of it, The General Assembly of the Camberiand Presbyterian Church ts still to session, and it is thought wis not ad- Journ until definite action is takem upon the importaat Proposition made by the Old School Presbyterian Courch (South) to unite with that body, whteb it is thought will also make peace with the Caurch North, thus making an aggregaic of Presbyterianism that will give tat form of taith more strength than any Christian vo-ty in the United States, These efforts at reunion are important as indicating the progress of ar ruction more solid aud enduring aay that po icuas cam adoct, Bo mote it be. The Late Kentucky Elections as Explained ia Ke thelr Schemes, &e. Nasuvitta, Tean,, May 24, 1967, In the journey between Louisville and Nashville at the present time, the traveller need not linger on the way. to discover that the season is very backward and unprom- ising for corn and tobacco, and that the growing wheat does not look 90 weil as in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania; nor will he meet with much difficulty in getting an explanation of the late Kentucky election, with its democratic majority of forty-two thousand over the radical Congressional ticket, ‘The radical explanation is that Kentucky is still rebel to the backbone, and is badly in want of a sound thrashing; that she is now where South Carolina was in 1960, intemt upon rebellion for state rights; that her re- turned rebel soldiers have taken control of the State, and terrified the wavering Unioniste into submission, and that Congress wil! probably be calied upon snd compelied to guarantee a republican government to both Kentucky and Maryland. Cortainly we have never seen. anywhere, in time of peace, such a feeling of bitter hoe- tility as that which is sharply defined in Maryland, more abarply in Kentucky, and most vindictively in Tennessee. ‘The democratic oxplanation of the late popular vote of Kontucky is as broad and suggestive as that of the other side, A tobacco planter of that State to-day in Savaen oe — You ask me to explain this 42,000 ie m ta gone By wr. Tt po Ty opp ge atg it down the = party We must stop them in tho ne: roon of they. will abolish tad seguestrett tl ve But you may {t to seosasion, treason or whatever ike, whe bari goose ia ootee in Kentucky, and bear even to New York to go the sune way lo the This may be called a Kentacky copperhead's view of the subject, Betwoen him and the radical the true solu- {ion will be found, Kentucky to-day can hardly realize that slavery is abolished; that ler niggers are scot froe, and that stie is to get nothing for them, In the matter of reconstruction a#he isin rath where South Caroline was before the war; but while at ust, as by common consent, comparative law and order exist m Kentucky, We find the political parties of Tonnessee in a ferocious State of hostility. Governor Brownlow is still fightin, * treasoa and traitors, and the hell hounds of the reb-i lion, and is mustering and arming Lis militia to “keep theso unwashed traitors in order by the strong hand.”’ Etheridge and his party take s grim detight in their un- measured maledictions against ‘the infamous despot- ism, diabolism, corruptfons, blasphemy and apoliations of Browniow and the ruling radicals of cS Mr. Stokes, a radical Congressman, and champion of Brownlow, and Emerson Etheridge, opposition coudidate for Governor, came down with ua in the evening train. They are stumping the State toguther, and seem to ed on as well ag Botts and Tyler when they travelled in same coach and slept under the same bianket. At each of the several stations on the way crowds of the sovereign people were collected, including @ plentiful infusion of lack men, women and children, and at the Nashville depot, there was & gathering of at! colors, intermixed on a footing of equality, as if Andy Johnson himself had come to town. But while Stokes and Eiheridge are as polite to each other as two pugilists practising before the boys, from point to point, between the contesting pare ties, (he white “loyal”? minority in power and the dia- franchised white majority oui of power form a smoth- ered wrath aad spirit of vengeance which will be apt to load to some bloody collisions before this campaign is over. ‘The nogrooa swarm here by thousands, but it is grati- fying to wee that they are nearly all cheerfully at piace and “fat and sleek, bear their honors of the school house, and ballot box, with moderation. fact, they are rather reserved and cautious in thoir mani. festations of triumph over slavery, for they “don’t exactly know what all this fusa among white folks is avout, or how the election 1s going. ey have heard of the affair at Mobile,and they have exaggerated notions of “awful doings by the secesh’’ in other places, and they have their fears that the same things may happen again in Tennessee. On the otber hand, the anti-Brownlow, unrecon- structed and disfrauchised whites of Tennessee deciare their betief that the radical game of Senator Wilson, Keiloy and company, in getting up a negro radical party Soush, i# to increase the embarrassments and delay the work of Southera reconstruction as long as poszible, in order that the excluded States shi be excluded from the coming Presidential! election, ‘es, sir,” remarked one-of these disfranchised whites, an hour ago, in de- dating the subject, ‘their came isto keep out the South till atter the Presidenjia( election, They intend have it ali their own way, and then, unJess you have @ financtal smash up in the North, we may look out for Southern confiscation to relieve the North of the surden. of the national debt. In short. if the violent clashing opinions of Southern political parties and factions go on, from bad to worse a3 we progress southward, as we have found them from Kentucky to Tennessee, we may safely Predict that few, if any, of the outside States will be again inside of Congress ti!l after the Presidential eiection. A Moael Political Discussion in Nashville— Roth Parties with Their Mats Of Betore “Our Colored Friends”—Equal Rights in Teanessee—Pompey in all His Glor:; Nasaviur, Tenn., May 25, 1867. Wendell Phillips ought to have been im Nashville to- day. lt would have been the happiest day of his lite; for he would have sea Pompey reigning as the recog- nized master of the situation in Tennessee, He holds the balance of powor, the disfranchised ex-rebei whites, a large giement cut off by toe State, being completely at his mercy. Hence, im the joint discussion to-day be- tween Emerson Ktheridze, conservative candidate for Governor, and Colonel William Stokes, the champion of Governor Brownlow for a re-diection, the distinguishing feature of the speeches om both sides wasin the plead- togs for the negro vote. This ‘soft sawdering'’ of Sambo exceeded our highest antic:pations, The whole exbibi- tion was intensely laughable and ludicrous; but it waa also intensely interesting and suggestive. The meeting was held at the eastern front of the State Capitel, a beautifal and imposing edifice, on a lofty site, commanding a fine sweep over the city of all the charm- “img country round for miles, including the defensive lines of General Thomas before his terrible recoil upon Hood’sarmy. (he speaciag was opened by Etheridge im a discourse of two hours. Stokes thea followed for two hours in reply; and then each was allowed @ half bour for the summing up of his. re- butting testimeny.. Ouring all these five hours ‘the busiest of the busiest day of the week, thore wasan attentive audience present, ranging from three to five thousand souls—whites, blacks and mulattoes, men women and children, all mingled together va « perfect footing of ‘manhood suffrage’ and equal rights. The blacks held the majority in the proportion of at least two to one. Hundreds of African feminines were among them, and their enjoyment of the fun was prodigious, Occasionally @ little group of white beauties timidly “hove in sight’ from the inner portico, but they soon tacked ship and disappeared, their curiosity being satis- fied in a glance at this startling exhibition of political and social equality and of aigger-worshippers. The two speakers are an ill-assorted pair; but in the Contrast was all the sport of the occasion. Etheridge is & medium sized, stoutly built, vigorous man, still in the prime of tife, with a full head of dark brown hair and a thick beard, slightly sprinkled with gray. Stokes isa tall, raw-boned backwoodsman, some aixty years of age, rough and sunburnt, with a bald head poised on a tong, muscular neck. He commanded a regimeat known as ‘Stokes’ cavalry during the war, aad looks stroag enough for another four years’ siege. Etheridge is an accom- plished orator, with very few superiors on the stump, although, like most men who have some chafing grievance unsétled, he is a remorseless adver. sary, and delights only in the hatchet and scalp however, with the skill of a practised and evidently with some con- tempt the h and untutored style of Stokes. But if Stokes says ‘I done it,” and ‘‘we all seen it,’ and “f don’t want no man to help me out here,’ there is still in his broad jokes and quaint and familiar illustrations, and bush fighting, the very stuif for effective work asa stumper. Ho bas the lungs and the round, ringing voice of a Westera Mothodist preacher, and ra ‘all that he says he ws thoroughiy understood by the mass of his audi “ 2 ped ‘over ten Staten fn orm gem rowan! ' and renegades of esseo stump applause in a series of screams and yells like those from the column of Stonewall Jackson charg- ing down pam flank of McCieliag at Gaines’ We give a few of the more striking passages of this hours’ harangue as sufficient for our put “Bro: lowism. follow citizens, is s public nuisance which bot much longer be ry I decrees, issued in bad Engheh from drivelling tmbecility, are not 10 be endured; nor that moanost of all insolence of a petty despotiam—tvat inaoleace which sdields itseif behind oayonets and in intrenclied camps. Shouts of ‘ Go ahead, Hoo-00! Yew-hoo |") orthern radicalism, despotic as it is, still is merciful and decent compared with the nauseous dose of fen- nesseo Browaolowiem. What is our situation to-day in Tennesses? We are all slaves, We are ail ia the hands of Browniow and his henehmen. dred thonsand disfranchived voters will tell you oaly part our Wretched situation, We have no government in Ten- nesses, i! isa despotic machine. There ts not a le man in the state who dares tu rise and say that he isa free man. (Cries of “Yes, yea.” “No, no.” “Hit him Emerson.) I am not @ caudidate for federal office, I am merely allowed a few days, perhaps, ti!! Angast, to Present my name to a fow men of this State, fo are all ‘At the will of a master, whose very existence depends upon the fact that you are slaves. Our radical rulers and loyal | es talk of equal rights, We demand them, equal rights, my colored fellow citizens, with yourselves, and with every radical, Is tuat too much? No, no.) After a scathing review of the despotic doings of rownlow and his “so-called Legislature,” Mr, Eiheridge came Lyte franchise granted lacks, “They gave you rigit to vote. Whatfor? To help them out” But while they allowed you to assist in pulling the wagon, they did not allow you to ridein it. You were not good enough for that, Now what do we say in our Platform? We say, my a friends, that you are free under the constitution of Tennessee, under the con- stitution of the United States, and entitied to all the And the men hts and privileges of the white man. in stand npon this platform baveas much honor, truth and integrity as of feel pred Lg td are to-day in the camps jeaguea. Those rebel with Brownlow have called you, my colored friends, to their rescue; and I regrot exceed- ingly that they did not let you ran for office, because if hj had we should soon get rid of all the Brownlows Stokes in the State. (Uproarious shoutsa of Iaughtor.) Yes, my colored friends, the last one the filthy tribe of vermin would soon bite the dust if they had only permitted you to ron for office, But we (the conservatives) have been raised with you, and you are too magoanimous to clam are rights and privileges that you are not willing to to others as good as yourselver."’ ‘Thos, pre to looking over and ruobing in the antecedents of was achampion of the divit ee of slavery, the orator deciared that Brownlow loned two horse thieves out of the minority of the whites tn an almost continnous ou'burst of whoops, yelis and explosions of laughter. [a his defence of Brownlow, the Brownlow Legis lature, Congreas and the radical party, and im his showing up of the conservative copperhead or rebel rile party, and of ri and his running away to escape the rebels of Teun: while Brownlow faced it ous ia prison, and in his fac produced to prove that the colored race owe their ib erty and their right to vote to the radical party, toCom gress and to Brownlow, the orator Stokes, in making e Point against Etheridge and his party, would ro ‘Well I think tbat apr om him.” | Yon seg Tam fike Captain T am going to fetch him.’ think we are getting on right well; don’t your” “That's pretty bard, but it can’t be heiped."’ “I have gota bald head, be says. Weill, I would rather have a ‘bald head with somo brains thap a full suit of hair with no brains.” “I am going to the bottom of this” “Don’t you think that squeezes him down like a cotiom screw; but I’ve not done with him yet.” ‘‘My friepd will find that I have learned some new tunes on the a fiddle since we left Clarksville."’ ‘You see, when we've got a job of work to do like this we musta’t stand om ceremony.” ‘‘Zrue as preaching; and he dont deny it “Andy Johnson five thousand loyal men will do.” - “Well, don’t you think that’s a right neat iittlo thing.” “He says that Brownlow is the meanest white mam in God’s world. Well, I say that Brownlow will beat Etheridge for Governor by forty thousand votes, aud if be does that how much meaner will Etheridge se than Brownlow?’ and go on to the end. The speech of Etheridge in short waa the atirring melodrama, while that of Stokes was the broad roaring farce, ‘Tho taak, however, undertaken by Stokes of proving to the blacks hceesful from ine Dogioning. In thelt oxtiaitaiions, ry a joning. iF 1 “That's go, Colonel even have got him thero,”’ “Yea, yes, we'll stick by you;’’ “That's true; “Nebber port the rebela! nebber{ nebber!”? “Give It to him man;’’ ‘Dat’s right, unbutton. your shirt and lay oa;” “The old man sweats, but he's working ;"’ ‘‘True as gos- “He taika like @ prempber ;’” a3 8 oAWp “Can't foolhim;” “Liberty forever,?" &¢., 16 reg’ day baring been concluded with tho oxtra half hour each of Ether- te pata ‘there were louds oalis from hubdreds voices for ‘Williams,’’ ‘‘Williams,’’ -After the apse ‘of some minutes @ universal uproar of shouts, laughter, whirling of hats, caps and handkerchiefs, the hundkor- chiefs by the fomnale “announced the appear- ance of Williams on the stand, There he stood, with bis cart whip in one hand and his cap in the other, the biackest and most perfect type of the Guinea negro te be found this side of Atrica He stood modestly wait- tng for teu minutes the subsidence of the clamor, bat the negroes still kept it up—‘‘Take him down,” “Ge away,’’ “We don’t want you,” “Down with him," uptd Williams was compelled to give it up and withdi ‘The troubie.was that Williams is a conservative is said to be a clever speaker on the couservalivs and the radical niggers ot Nashville wore determined to shut him oif ‘The whole affair was exceedingly amusing and instruc- tive in all its detaits, We have never seco a more orderly crowd, never such an exhibition of harmony between two parties brought together where suct vio lent charges were bandied about betwoen the speakers never such deference to our colored friends, not even im a woman’s rights conventicle. The moral of it all # that our “colored friends ’ in Tennessee hold the balance of power, aud that Etheridge and Stokes hore are oniy playing the game of Wade pton and Senator Wilsoa in South Carolina, How long that staie of things will last it remains to be seen, Tt will hold good porbaps ti ‘attor the election in August. LOUISIANA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. ing to Num ber—General Sheridan the Administra- tton—Slanders an the General—Ne Interfere ence with the Press—Negro Shooting Afray~ Negro Sentenced to be Hung for Rape. &e. «New Oncmana, La., May 22, 1867. The negroes are falling off materially at the cogistey ofMces. On an average two or three blacks, ten daye ago, were registered to one white man. The offices are net re? itt 8§ i Hi i L | the coafederacy, and because when he could not conscieatiously do a0. Nine soldiers of the Sixth United States cavairy beve deen arrested, charged witu having participated ia the 7, ina street car im the Third distri « on Monday evening, Tueir names are wo, Jae. Cauguton, Hi. Banin, Thos. Burns, Dan 5! A, Loricd, Joba Acker, seveu of them were dressed in white coats, one of them, Carlisie, had a revolver hid away in bis boot. They were all brought before the recorder yoeter- day, and were thence seu: back to the commanding off cer of their regiment for trial, The meno are stationed im the Levee Cotton Press (not im the barracks, aa ee- ropeously stated in yest "a edition), and we from Lieutenant Johovon that one of them has tt State's evidence, confessing that he and his comrades were the parties engaged in the afair, and promimng @ fuli disclgsare, Geweral Sheridan's order, forbidding the carrying of firearms by any citizen, bas been cheerfally complied with by all parties. Chief of Police Adams has jastruet ed is subordinates to arrest all who disobey the order, on pain of dismiseal, Today, in another order, relaive to arms and ammunition for be sewage pu o sare that the order of General Shei ‘must be sirictly ea- forced, but shat good, reliable and law abiding citizens who indulge in huating for maiutenance or pleasure, 19 Would not carry arms for base ak The oh: or pormit by spplying to bim. —— i i cludes with “They must be known to good evidence of thelr. peaceable ‘disposition, A negro Lochbein, a 10th of January an appeal was by whict resulted in the judgment of the lower sot aride and the order of a new trial, the case was tried and a verdict of guilty again dored. On the 11th inst. Judge Cazabat the tence of death upon the prisoner, sul sila te approval of th Commanais General of th jst sd e@ papers were warded to General Sheriae ‘by Governor who re turned them with the following endorsement :— . Hinman Quarrans Fiera Mi ay ire | Respectfully returned to it Becelisngy, Yate caretuny nclowed mined of the a Ro a) 0 DOL 8re Ww! , woy the judge should senvenoe ‘the prisoner subject to my suproval: 'p. Ht, SHERIDAN, Major Gonoral U. 8. A. This setties the case, Tbe Governor at once appointed next Saturday week, between the hours of ten and twelve, as the time for the execution. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. ipmen, &en ko. vous, Md., May 29, 1867. ‘The examination of the midshipmen at the Naval Academy ie being conducted as usual in the recitation rooma, The fourth class is about through with thets examinations, and were examined yesterday on bistory, There were no outdoor performances in the programme for the day ; but the examination, in the presence of the on AA hg om = of the ee faculty, ts qaive steam, mec! — and Nilory were the subjects ie the one ‘The examinations of the first and (hint classes have been going, on to-day in the presence of the Board of such officers and invi Dophy ie ie ms of seamanship Those ¢; : ned