The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1867, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘the closing day. It was kept up gntil we had passed the | ia the earlier days of the game, and req ern bank of the Rappahannock, for a long distance above it, | by the Army of thé Poi Hooker, 18 now green in its helds of luxuriant geass and grain, save those loog red lines of sugee: works which stili glare in the sun, | Faoge of bille behind the towa, the scene of Buraside’s | disastrous assaults upon @ slone wall—the most formida- | ble breastwork ia all “the BSouih— Profitiess strategy, clover and corn fivids have taken camps, excepling tue key of the whole position, Marye's Heiguts, where a national cemetery is sha end at the foot of which is the encampment of the one , mon of the Uniwd States Burial Corps, under Captain Green, ‘Tae cemetery covers some twelve acres of ground on the crest and rides of the wil, neatly enclosed in white palings; and here the remains of fourteen tuo:sand Union goidiers aro buried, the kraves tastefully classified, each being marked by a white head and footbard, and a green mound in the ‘Ihes» dead have been gathered from the battieflelds of Fredericksburg, Chancallorsvilic, the ivania Court House; and by the leaned these fieias it is believed etely will contain twenty thousand bodies. Last in dhe jungie and fallen legves of the Wiider- bodies until then undis- opposite the¢own, and oooupied so many months mac under Burmeid® and July, if90 dl-pased, might immensely faotitate while in oustody of three of the militia belonging to Oap- | tain Rickman’s command, ‘fho Captain, in hiswflicial Feport of the affair to the Adjutant General, atates that the deceased, while in company with one of his (Ripk- man's) men, acknowledged that te belonged to @ baad Of bushwhackers, aad that he helped to kit! a couple of Union soldiem: Loarning of the confession, Captain Rickman ordered Brown’s arrest, which was accom- Pliabed on the morning mentioned, While being trane- ferred from bia residence Brown, the report says, started to run, when he was fired upon and killed. Ow the other band, the friends of the deceased atoully inatat that the killing was ® most wanton and atrocious mur- der, perpetrated to fy a lingering revenge on the Part of one or more of the militia. The facts as pow de- veloped certainly point in this direction. The papers this moruing’ contain tne sworn ailidavits of om Ee persons, nearly ‘Was one of the most peaceable citizens county; since | Suburbs of the town, whea there came a burly burly ash W the bur for an apperizti pper and a confuset cmtter ol crockery, then to the upper deck for the post prandial | Promenade and suoking, aud afier that cithor talks on polities or the crops or long night vigila oyer the 1n- | ‘The river being low—the (are, is opposingly high, being twice what it was ‘slow progress. It was very Reports of the Sp ents of the Moraid, tabion, and aiter that ary versus the Civil Aathorities—A ‘nivea and forks and er Cowhided=His Arrest und and Lmprisonment Imposed—He Nerthern Teac Oa the southera | cial Correspoad- | deneral Schofield. Rionmonp, Va., Jono 12, 1867. The civil authorities yesterday, for the first time since General Schofield issued his order placing them in abey ance to tho military, have been caught in an unjust ad- ministration of the tawa, and the commanding officer was forced to oxercise his prerogative, est that may in the future result eeriously to civil ad- tministrators of justice here, I will give the circumstances ‘as they ocourred. They are substa: Nearly two months since a teacher of one of the freed- men's schools here nam:d Hovey had occasion to warn off from the scone of his literary labors a white boy delighted to amuse himself by froquently igtorrupting the studies of Hovey’s sable pupils. Lhé ¥yuth, however, enjoyed the fun too much to desist on a meré warning, aud as his anuoyance became the disagreeable, the more persistent was he in it, until at teugth the worthy Hovey’s patience being ex: hausted, bv administered to the youth of sucd maliciously funny prociivities—a sound drubbing, with the desired effect of reheving himseif of a ouisance. ‘Tho matter here ended for a while, until one evening as Hovey and his sister were Broad street, with no bellicose intentions whatever, they were accosted by the big brother of the troublesomely funny yoush, who, without further cerewony, seized Hovey by the collar, produced a cowhide and vigorously appliod tt over the head aud ears af the unresisting in- r ef fregdmon, much to bis own pain and the cation Of hig gister, who, burning with indigna- tion, witnessed the degradation of ber brother. ‘Two starred geutlemen tost Opportunely made thelr Appearance on Luo scan at the terwination of the affatr, aud arrested both the parties, they were brought before uis Hovor Joseph Mayo, Mayor, who, after hearing the evidence, sent both on for trial ‘Cour, This tribunal, consisting of a bench of six magistrates, yesterday, in ull the dien ty of cise. dud, afer inature doliberavion, sentonced the culprit Hovey to thirty days’ fmprison- ment and a tine of $160 Upon lis arrival at che fait, however, Hovey found a pardon from the Governor a3 1° in anticipation of his order revoked the | some (ime ago—necossitated evident (vat several had takeu passage feeling very un- certain ia their minds whether they would soon be in te bosom of their families or “Tsay, captin,” asked one old follow, whose doubts 0@ the subjeot seemed to dmturb him mere than ie reat, * does you reckoa, with the steamer through all right kon pothing about it,’* will; whiy, blis yer sout, ola man, this ers ahe wants is a good place of the enemy's spend the next week on POLITICS IN VIRGINIA. hundred and tor AS @ matter of inter- wer low ag ’tis, ye'll fovch Tue Ultra Radicals Contretiing | the Republican Party, steamer drawrs 60 little heavy dew mornings. and she can ran cross lots any- fall, LT reckon I'll rust hee, that's the least wise I geotieman, 17 sombre plug of tobacco twisiit teeth, he retired evidently iy course the captain's staioment is overdoing—I am not ‘ing te perpetrate a double mits it—the thing slightly ; built for navigatio: inches of water. Sequence of the oe way here—no ily as follows :— shape of acoffin, Wilaerness and Spot time the gleaners hay Not belonged ry to apy fact for years there had uot boom a bush- band im the county, The father and ‘own made swora statements that he did not belong to bo arms of any kind except & Common squirrel rifle. The tact that the deceased was shot through the head, the ball passing downwards, Id certainly indicate that he was oot running when Deon held, and forboar- ed, until heip eould be 3 military authorities. vil i ¢ LITIA BRUTALITIES IN TENNESSEE, Satpense teem 1 although the word ut there are steamboats this river which draw only ten ‘here was constent sounding in cou- t low stage of water nearly all ‘And line descending fathom depthe, pine stick thrust over tho boat's bow, showing tive feet water in places, and from that extremity close down to the marginal allowance, For twoor three weeks the river will be getting lower, and nual June rise. The snow on the Ozark mountains, aopurce of the river, Is then melted, the rills and rivulets swell to surging streams, and in leaping floods swelling ite turbid waters ‘von the river rises twelve and nt, doluging all the bottom lands, overicaping biufla, and, like the overflows of the Mississippi, destroying thousand in its mad course sweeping at furniture, stock, everything. The destruction of crops 18 liable to be much greater here, in proportion, than on the Mississippi, owing to the rise coming 40 much later, when the crops are in the ground, and besides there aro little or ne lewees here, #0 that the water has unre- jod and the devil regulate everything Mississippi and Arkansas rivers, and they emselvos spite of both,’’ remarked a passet a8 wo were talking over these idiosyncratic river risinga. Tbe observation struck me as a forcibie way of telling the whole story, though a more senten- tous than orthodox styte of statement, ‘Among the groups of talkers on, politics I found ono, the central figure of which was@ young Texan. Ho the war, as I learned through listening to ment, and approached ‘ever seen to my beau there the bones any gucritia band, and shade or bleachi! three men just brought in. teeth in one of tie skulls were atill white and upbrokea, These remains, with those of some heroes here at rest, are amoog the ‘‘upknow. ‘And yet this awful graveyard, from its busy workmen, ve li.@ thus preyontod, 18 the most The town itself, Sharp Letter from General Schofield to Governor Brownlow. re thousand other meetings hat ance urged on all who felt obtained from the United A large mecting was beld in Winchester, Franklin jap ror ger tial speaker aid signed by about a thousand, of thos warded to Pres‘dent Johnson, the geotioman hawing it im Charge passing through here this morning. Appended an extract which will show the burden of the petition. {We have already published the petition. —Ev. In other localities in the State, tioned, ioud complaints are heard of all sorts of outrages Taere is one thing absolutely certain, and that is presence of United States troops is tniversally d here in preference to the militia, When it is borue io AFFAIRS and the signs of choertul feature of Fredericksburg. and 11s suburbs, although its woollen factory and two small cotton factories aud an iron toundry or two have been lately revived, Is ptill the old buindrum, drowsy, colonial towa of one hundred years ago. mother of Washington, were to come from her tomb some moonlight night to examine it, she would proba- bly recognize every house left standing in the place, and every house only half destroyed. But even in Fredericksburg they are having somethin; of a sensation over the work under way by an Englis! a new gold mine broken into near United States region of hills same gold bearing quartz. formation as that of the Char.otte mines in North Carolina and the Dablonega mines of Gvorgia, and with modern machinory it is thought all these tines will pay. fall of gold in other forms which will pay better for he working tban quartz at the rate of $20 Lo the ton, ‘Yhe republicans here—as weli as everywhere else Souti—are the only political party which exhibits any signs of organization and activity, negro, if he knows nothing the Loyal League. peacosdy stopping on comes the an- Dumber 0! speeches. A tong petition, those present, was for- ARKANSAS, pour into the main channol, into a tumultuous sea. fifteen feet in a single VIRGINIA, ‘of aores of crops, and. human habitations, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. Demise of the Richmond Times—Alteration in the ‘Tone of Rickmond Paper: Obliterated—The Negroes on W! day—Registration at Hand— Johuston—Meetings of Republicans. Va., June 9, 1867. The Richmond Times, the outspoken champion of passed out of existence to-day, auction sale took place on Saturday evening, and, after half a dozen bids at a very low figure, it was finally Knocked down t) Mossrs. Cowardin & Ellyson, pro- Drietors of the Dispatch, for $3,200. The demise of this Journal is significant of two facis—the universal depros- sion of businoss in this community and tho altered taste of the people for papers with less of the political and more of the business features about them. though occasionaily violent, had the reputation of being written with superior ability, and those who delighted tn Kgorous and scathiog application of invective to radt- cals abd radicalism sought its columas in preference to {ts more moderate contemporaries, all the Richmond papers has been raoontly undergbing a A homogeneity of political séutimont ts being graduaily arrived at, and in ‘his community of whites, whore no two parties can be ao“aaliy sald to oxlst, any marked Qifference of OpI¥.y on political grounds cau only be termed an Aer aly, A black man’s party and a "8 PA) aro ouch palpable enough, but any the latter among nine tenths of the while 4 of Virginia it is certainly impossible to detect. war has made us ono’ is an expression commonly Pade use of hero and as true as it is suggestive. war has obliterated party lines, and, by the monotonous sameness which characterizes Southern editorials, it is | Com/réres did their work admirably well, evident the newspapers recognize the fact, That one or | down here to bring about a coalition betweon two more Richmond papers should follow the fate of the ‘Kmes would bo a mater of little wonder, @tagnation of irade affects every profession in the city, fad if the much talked of wheat crop fails to answer the favorable predictions expressed about it distressing con- where militia are ata- ‘The following morning Party Lines by. {ho Husting Rappabannock . sto resent, arising por- depredations during tue y, in fact—for other troops Besides, tue con<ervatives insist that the militia, it kept in service until August, will certainly Control tho ciection, if legal means promise to fail im securing Browulow's election, As it ts, tho people of the Stave are ceciainiy in ferment just now, and tho Governor, by his intemperate Ianguags and’ partisan Appeals, is doing his full sare to increaso the animosity aud ill-feoling engendered. . the law, tried this strioiod course, war, the desire—the necessi But the soil is stiit Hovey on.@ more scot tree. ‘This bas eivon rise to the rumor that General Schofield will ssmmarily remove all tuo magistrates of the Hust- ings Court, and will probably cause @ revolution in the tnunicipal officers bere, after the fash Ivis ‘urther stated, in anticipation of such @ military edict, that the magistrates have resolved to res gn, leaving their ofllces to be filled by Geaeral Scho- e thinks propor. The most ignorant Ise, knows where to find pathy and apparent in- difference of the opposition the State will most proba- bly go by default with the republicans in the work of reorganization, unless the split. among the managers at Richmond shall result in a bard shell and soft shell di- vision of the party, Senator Wilson as mediator, how- ever, 1t is believed, will bring about a compromise on the basis of the spoils, making Joha Doe the Governor and Richard Roe and Jobn Sinith United Status Senators and Patriotism —even radical patriotism—tmust have its rewards, like every other profession. him, in the Eleventh the nearest of any porson Ih ideat of & Yexan uu of New Oricans, rang Considerabiy over six feet in height, he stood head and shoulders above his compan. @ costume, would give an admi- man gladiator, the captured poom, or a Rus-aan grenadier. ‘A dark gray suit, nearly new, a tight {elt bat of the new- esi patiern and freshness, boots wuose genteel make made up for their groaser dimensions, a broad network gold chain, modelled atter the style of flashy gotten up woollen suirt, ali the prismatic hues of the rainbow, aud an expansive paper collar constituted bis dreas,’ He evidently felt himself weil dreased, aud counted largely on the influ- ence attaching to this fact to that extent that subse- swaggered turough the The Outrages in East Tennéssee and West Virginia—Brownlow’s Militia Rniding in Vir- ginin—Summary Arrests of Citizens—Peti- tions for Protection from the People—Sharp er from General Schofleld to Governor jons, and, in appropri rable personation of A‘rican prince of Whitti zls Over the Union of the Republican Factions in Virginia—Botts, and Pierpont—The Trio Frater- nizing—Interesting Uoalition—Political Trim. ming—The Platiorm Ricuxonp, Va, June 18, 1867. The radicals are wonderfully elated over their victory of yesterday—a victory inasmuch as Joun Minor Botts aud Governor Pierpont, holding certain views adverse to those of tho oxtrome wing of tho party, surrendered thoir unpalatab.e convictions and wont bodily over to the 60- caited party of progress, The unconditional surrender of Botts, big fogble dofence and gitjms ment of ils projected convehilon, Wi comment than even Governor Pierpont's fratoraization with Hunnicut, to whom bo has boon long bitterly opposed. Senator Wilson and bis eleven Northern Jubilation of the Rad Nasuvirts, Tenn,, June 13, 1967. The frequent occurronce of outrages in Eastera Ten- nossee and the western counties of Virginia havo lately occasioned much discussion, and have been the subjects of complaint to the civil and military authorities in both In this State the causes of grievance have arison from the depredations of the militia forces recently organized by Governor Brownlow, ‘These organizations, made up chiefly of loyal citizsns and nogroes, armed with some authority, and quartered io tho portion of the State where the prevails, have excesses, and havo exercised a terror among the people that domands the int ‘ition of the government. Th pation of numerous citizens of East Tennessee dent, asking protectin Politics Near the Ridge—State of Sentiment Among the Negroes—The Prospects of Reg- istration—The Blacks as a Political Kle- Lynoupura, June 13, 1867. To any one accustomed to the somewhat mediaval air of the old city of Cologne, with its legended cathedrals aud its reminiscences of Gothic ages, its narrow streets and queer Gormanceque buildings, there is something Very naiural and homelike in the quaint gables of an ‘American city like this whence I am writing. suffered little by the war and prosonting no burnt dis- trict—the inevitable consequence of the tread of ene- mies—the Tobacoo City of the Old Dominion.hag altered little in appearance from about here the nogroes seem to be as yet hardly aware that they are free, Im fact dt was not until the surrender of Leo at land of Powhatan the negroes on the plantations in this vicinity began to understand the true situation of affairs, and oven now most of them are working under their over-. se°rs as quietly as though nothing unusual had occurred for the past ten years, Tous far there has been an utter absence of organization in and about this city among the negroes, Not a single republican orator of any note has visited the country, and there are no political gatherings among tho sablos themselves. of course, there are sufficient reasons for this, The in- tereats of the town being mostly conconirated im soveral large tobacco manofactories, in whica the operatives the blacks are reduced to utter lence on the capital of the whites for their daily and, making discretion the better part of on without any serious regard for the political questions of the day, quite aware of their free- dom, but preferring daily bread tion without those sequisites, In Burkeville and the neighborhood, twenty-one miles east of here, the olack population is generally very well miormed as to the state of affairs, and Virginia and Tonnossce. “Who'll marry me while my clothes are new?’ not have surprised mein the least. A most noticeable feature about him was an unwonted profuseness of dark, shaggy hair, which ju:ted out ia a parabolic om under the rim of bis hat, very much like the capiliary adornment of an aduli Albino, kers were a moustache, He seemed conscious of his physical superiority, for he expressed bis v.ews with the most pertect abaudou imagi emas at the genera! government With a like recklessness subdivision of most wanton ie, and hurled his avath- to iée7. In the districts ea tay coneete. i id ressions of the militia, reported in the ‘Washington despatches of yesterday's Herauo, gives a rawn of the condition ot affairs in that «Go in for getting back into the Union, does you?’ he was asking one of the circle about him as I came up, and at the same time raised aloft in gesticuiation his right hand, whose expinsive growth looked like a fail “and you a Southern born’d man at you fight for? 1 specus yer ad—n fool and don’t know what you fit for.’” Hold on, yer talking a leetel too atrong,’’ spoke out addressed; ‘i'm no d—n fool, I'll tet yer know, nor nothing else,’” if you omit nothing else it is all right,” re- 0 ‘Texan, evoking a taugh from the crowd. side as any one else’s, I reckon. T’ll tell you what I dt fur, and then yer can sit me down jer likes, I Gt to kill Yau- t apy live ones rule over make laws fur me to suit their d—d notions, vernment, and 1’m ready to lieve in a southern gi no Yankee government, and m any Thad Stevenses. I tell yer what I'd do if I had ten thousand such men. I'd take a contract to pave h—i with two-thirds of them, and with the rest I'd cord Toxas.”” “Would you su; ‘ise the the republican facuons and recencile the above The general | named warring chieftains to each other, it cannot be do- nied the Protean feat was as skilfully as it was rapidly accomplished, No wondor if, in the excess of his enthu- sequences will surely mark the record of Virginia for | siasm, Senator Wilson last evening found himself indulg- Ing in trequent repetition of an opinion which he ap- peared to confidently entertain, that Virginia at the next election would go uncompromisingly radical, and all the important offices in the State government would fall into the hands of that party. Pierpont, with Hunnicut in the centre, walking arm in arm and amiably conversing, must have arisen before the Senator’s mental eye as he omphatically announced that henceforth Virginia was about to be the most radical Stace in the Union. Botts and Pierpont were hithorto a nuisance to the Simon-pure element of radicalism ; they were unmanageable and obstructive; in fact, much like an obstreperous team of mules in a crowded thorough. fare, offensive to friends and foos alike. Of the two, Pierpont bad infinitely more followers. Far less ego- Ustical than Botts, and much more rationally consisteat in bis views of public affairs, attachment from those of his Hue of thinking, and his opponenis gave him credit for meaning honorably what he expressed. Appomattox—the tism has been in operation in some of State. The loyal these counties, the counties of forces of we Sorte m a pert counts captare, impris.n try residents nia for sloged offences committed durin, loyal iohabitants of Tennessee, of the same character have of loyal Tennesseans, who, by his Excellency the “ into the dominions of General Schofield, deeache pre their property and punished them as they proper. These aggressive acts, law, kept the un the war upon the jummary proceedio: been frequent on tl arrested his sub 867. This being Whitsun Monday, the colored people, crowds of gayly red on the streets, evidently glad of the hol- ere so little money circulates it may be a sub- ject for curious mquiry as to how these colored girls eontrive to dress so well, To-day thoy sewmed to diz- pute the palm for finery with the iair Caucasians, and indeed the generally woll-clad appearance the darkios of both sexes present on holiday occasions cannot fail to strike the stranger favorably, Tho officers of registration are working hard to be in Peadiuess by Friday next to begin the iunportant busi- news of registering voters. The whites have given over all feeling of apathy to this serious duty of the hour, and? may venture to say that none who is not plainly diafranchised will think of indifference in the Gonerai Joseph E. Jobnston is making a few ita Wood, forming another link in the ain of visitors we bave been favored with His business North relates exclusively to matters connected with railroads iu Georgia. The Gen- eral looks in good beaith and speaks with confidence of a hearty and permaneat restoration to a day of jubilee among dressed dusky fe- “Yor as much on. ‘The picture of Botts and for a d—d fool or anything keos, pees ain’t going tor , contrary to all international protected Virginians in constant terror, and anarchy may have been said to prevail uence of euch lawit 1 ft fur an indepondent “fight fur it over ment. Idon’t Peiitions were, , showing tho employed are negroes, constantly su! and il The treceat feosiha ee ferent ee ae a Schofield to in- ese Communications yourself ?’’ inquired one of listeners Arenth Soo nd do it up right, yer may ‘and bacon to daily agita- A _ see it wouldn't come much amiss to he commanded a sincere oid frequent denounce rebellion and talk ed tadical fashion, Figs? Miuitare the Union of bis loyalty after the most siouations of confiscauion have there, as well as in a ero Virginia and North Caroltt judgment, a part of tf Pun awaning Jndaa Underwood 10 spok: To His Excellency W. G. eburch to a numerous assembiage of Dol nesseo, Nashvillo, Tenn ‘was clearly defined, boing the mm whence Stevens, Sumner & Co, branch off into fanaticem, Botts, on the head, tho usual stereotyped radical kind, no | most anomalous relationsuip to th cal himselt, he refused to mingle wit! considered’ tho tag rag and bob tai who in this State alin to progress" ip the North. A reputed (riend he kept himself aloof trom aitending t! sat with evident reluctance on the same jury with them, Though altogether outside the fused the tender invitations of of black sheep controlled by that shepherd, for a conveution, the design of able; but ite realization was rly impracucable, He aimed at eliminatioy from the republican party the exireme aad which now controls for base and selfish ends a great lation of Virginia. Hunnicut is guiding spirit and the mov.ng He nas reaped adequately the labor. Applying eat Ebenezer | haiti The ae na, Programme of reconstruction, and many of them are looking forward to the time when they shall take the place of their former masters as pro- For this reason mostly there considerable disquicwwde and a manifest in- clination to turbuience at Burkeville, while sentiment of the blacks has 1o radical party. h what he probably of republicans Dovel idoa being enuncisted. Hunnicut and several of his supporters held a meeting at thoir headguarters to take measures for the perma- nent organization of a republican cluo. already been held, but thi rs, &e., were appointed, and the ramification of red aa through the State will be fortawith com- nary meetings hi ir meetiogs and not had ime for crys- curdiing ioto The ‘still master except in namo, and the former slave ts test wish of the whi Considering the je of conservatism, be re- lunnicut to enter the fold Uonists Law and Order 11 obsequtous to the in theory and nominally wita which new ideas supplant old ones, and the natural tendency of men to follow in old currents of sentiment, tt cannot be questioned that tue people of this section the new order of things with com- ity of temper—though some part of embarrass in ite ellabarger regi- Schofield’s Opinions—A | which might be commer dangerous element generally accept mendable texibil tuoir anxiety to com action the workiugs men is no doubt attributable to a lingering fear of con- or, uniews these conditions are heartily r perience bas taught them that apathetic indifference is not the best way to reconstruction, and that uniess they take part and re- construct themselves upon the terms prescribed they are likely to be reconstructed, will or nil, upon terms leas pom The most bitte: @ Trado-Twenty M Gross Sales of Negr How This Loss May be Repaired. Ricumonp, Va, June 10, 1867. Richmond is a model city just now of law and order, To the stranger within her gates the military and the Police appear to have nothing to do bat ¢o recline in the with and not to OY the Sherman-sh them day and night, through the medium of his paper, he has croated hose ramilications exten fle is denounced as a man utterly ‘unscrupulous in his mea! ing but there is no deny he has built up # powerful organization—powerful from the very fact of being united and io f gre citizenship—the ballot, It is geration to say that no man fa this country to-day bas such a fatal facility as this Hunmcut in manipulating the negro disposition and turning to account their vory jons. Unable to satisfy such men as this by bis course of action, Boite thought unless took a more decided stand he might be | pale of ali parties; so he surrendered at discretion and gave his victors mach food for rejoicing. Thore is a signilicance im this event which cannot be easily overlooked, The Botis party, thoug! weak, exercised 8 considerable influe complied with. conquered person?”’ and, as he straightened himselt up to his his shoulders, as if he felt himself able to cope, single handed, with the whole United States government, and ‘hen weat on to say, “and what is more, I never will—never can be con- Don't you acknowledge the supreme jurisdiction of tho United States government ?”’ this individual again f big words in that bat is it yer wants to do I look like a 0 tion, he to Tennessee for shade and smoke their pipes. Between Diacks there is, at least upon the sarface, that happy accord which is perhaps to usher in the millennigm, and perhaps not. There are no excitements here—inancial, Even the negro Sunday night prayor meeung in the African church has lost its wonted fire, The people are waiting for the coming harvest, waiting for better times, aud waiting for the registration books to be opened by the military commander of tho denunciaticns to which -lanterns who last ‘hadi political or religious, Brovet Major General U. 8. A., ‘Tho nature of the outrages allt by the constitution, Men of this stamp are legod mitted during the war consists chiefly of horse with apathemas without mercy by their former ers; and but for these, says the original secessionist, the jon’t yer be throwin, thoughts and aspirati way at me," be answered, seizing supplics and conscrij will be seen from the above nizes these as acts of warfare committed recog: authority, and therefore refuses to give up Brownlow has made requi him, It is yet unknown what action the Governor will take in the matter, bat it is supposed in case hefails to prevent a recarrence of similar then exercise his military auch badly been back in the Union six montas or ave had some hand in the moulding of And this consideration, whether sound or otherwise, is one of t .e causes which rate powerfully in causiag the former leaders of pubiic sentiment here to be either tabooed or dis- Mostly all notions of what used to be termed honor have people have begun to look upon reconstraction as @ matter of business in which the best possible bar- gain is the goal to be attained. Itis genoraliy acepted that there can be here no business prosperity and no in- flax of capital from the North uatil ail difficultios bave been adjusted; and, strange to say, this ts the principal thing upon which the Virginiaa antici; They ask simply for an influx of New York capital and New York euterpriso, as ‘aware that, with fixed habite of indoleace, the origiani pulation of Virginia had no: suflicient motivity lett to in lile anew and make @ success of it, in the course of my blacks in and about here I have ments on their part in regard to the apathy which seems genorally to prevail amoug them, though they sagely ob- serve that the crops promise weil, their while to agate until they bave made sure of their stock of wiater provisions, In this city, certain!, i‘ to the fact that the negroes as a rule aro ulteriy depend. ent, they are not likely to become a po! capital, for some years hereafter, and it would be a matter of no surprixe if no efficient publican or,anization should be effected for the comi: 80 powerful is the influence of bread and bacon upon African sentimont. Tho roxistration, in accordance with the the Reconstruction iaw, will begim on the Tn many parts of this county, especially in the neighborhood of Concord, the people seem to entertain most extravagantly incorrect ideas of the operati General Schoticid’s order, and, probably, not balf the qualified voters in that section will present themselves al the registry office, through misapprehension of their ‘true position under the law. will be excluded from the poi will be carried b; into the bands of usual offoris to get Old Deminion, South might | ‘Menotelé uth might Lar Toanssseane ~“ vd ne poles * Don’t you consider yourself a subject of the United States, and bound to obsy its laws?’ was tho quesiion put in a simpler phrase. ow I understand yer,” he “and I answer, I ain't going to hang nobody, nor shoot no- body, | reckon, uniess they ¢ry to snoot me, going to steal nothing, and gets no:bi and I ain't auing to be restorated either. For some considerable time the Texan continued talk. ing in about the strain I have quoted, with a like feedie was talking about, and his him into an error not very General Schofield gives a very flattering report of the political situation in Virginia, He says, as we learn from a responsible source, that the general tono and dis- | These features of confiscation, everlasting commingling position of the public mind throughout the State is all ; that im the approaching active work of reconstruction thore will be no clashing of the two races and no disturbing division of par. as in North Carolina, apprehensions entertained here of a negro party, and no danger of such « party; that in the matter of the re- organization of parties there will bo whites and blacks on both sides; but that for the present the great onject of the people, regardless of party lines, past or present, fa to meet the requirements of Congress and get back that financial confidence, business and enterprise whict oan only be recovered by complete restoration to the General Thomas will with and catering (0 (ue extravagant d ty and rosore order don't pay for, that could be desi policy, found no countenance with Measure recommended the party to ple who at this moment 1 asincre loyaity are endeavoring to fu'til the requirements of Congress, Hunuicut’s p-rty, to these people, is odiow im the extreme; not because it ti Men, but by reason of the tru Jictive abuse and tue stadied atti defiance pursued by it towards the unoffending whites, and for whicu no particle of provocation is offered, The Presents at this moment the group- conception aa to w of the Southern apirit of renew there are no deiciont education—the supposition that joud talking onstitute the basis of incontrovertible ar ards he got to playing poker, and iost somewhat heavily. The last I saw of him be was playing I asked him if he preferred th “Not by a long shot,"’ yy myseif | know lam play man and can't be beat out of any money.’ Bhowing that he bas some common sense, even if it be Of the commonest kind, © Without aliading to the discomforts of sleeping om an Over-crowded Arkansas steamer m; ly fail of completeness. densely crowded and every stateroom taken. My lot was the cabin floor, witu the glare of ps shining fall’ in one’s games of poker in full blast on either almost ceaseless click of glasses at the talking, unintermitted, in every direction. Ican only rive the general result by quoting from King Richard IL. the reply of the Duke of Clarence to the Lioutenant of the Tower when asked why he looked so hoaviiy:— & miserable night, Vabad ristian faithful m. another such a 1 ough ‘tware to buy a world of hay But moraing came, and from the time the cheerful sanlight and opportu outer deck and breathe aa and invigorating, as contraste* SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. dwells at present. Young Texan of Brobdignagian Size and Liliiputiaa $Loyalty—Sleeping Under Dime. culties—Ae Arkansan’s View improving Element of the s tions of Dardanelle oni What They Suffered from the War—Regular Army Soldiers and Falstaf™s Recruits. Danpaxeuie, May 29, 1867, Byron, in his preface to ‘Childe Harold,” declares the stimulus of travel the most powerful of all excitements except ambition. Byron wrote this fresh from his tou of classic Italy, the Mediterranean and Grecian Isles, shrouded with their thousand historical memories, Byron never travelled on the Arkansas river. He would have sung a different song if he had, and the notes of his “Childe” would have been less musical and wild and lacked that tumultuous flood, 6f stirring incidents and exciting descriptions of ‘$cenes and places to rouse his muse to give immortality to bis verse. On the Ar. kansas river everything is the merest rot the prosiest of the prosaic, The continuous sinuosities of the rivor, Share the solf-same striking 5 bayous aD~, bottoms unendingly repeat themselves, and Persons and places are most perplexingly alike, Ex. o"pt the mountains, Z with an honeat political kaleidi ing of Hunnicut, stevens on one platform. The reason I pace the great coniiscator with the rest Is because if matters ever reach & certain point frequently indicated by radical orators those gentiemen who now studious of contiscation will stand abreast ©: homely phrase, thoy alisaii in the one boat, moorings to joi the crew of ex- pir tremists; Botts Jamped on board ia sheer despair, ana and that before this work of Southern reconstruction | Hunnicut nolds the helm tn the waters of this State, conversations with intelligent Yankees as it iw not wortn bee ristown and narrative would ma- ind the steamer On the other hand there are some croakers here of the old Calhoun sohool, who still insist that the Union fs that the shadow of the constitution only remains, has drifted from in the hands of of Siavery and Slave Labor Over South-The Rev ‘and that tho result will bea new form of government, eatige of State rights, and plecing the States as absolutely under the central power as are ents of France or the counties of Englaud. ‘taking away overy vi Fanpentcesncre, Va, June 11, 1867, From Richmond to Fredericksburg the observing traveller will see something more and something worse than the desolations of the war, He will see, though elsowhere it may have escaped his notice, the terrible blight of slavery, turning the land all pale and reducing the farmer toa life and death struggle with the still increasing jangle upon every side, Slavery, slave labor, tobacco aud corn have apparently eaten the life out of the soil in Old Virginia, and yet under Northern culture these seemingly wornout lands are specdily reclaimed. Nor is this blight of slavery confined to Virginia, It extends from the Susquehanna to the Gulf of Mexico. mond were only | Wo see it in crossing over from Ohio into Kentucky; wo see it cropping out in Tennessee, broadly developed in tobacco trade, sir."’ “Very | Georgia, brooding over the lowlands and highlands of South Carolina, withering somo of the richest districts of North Carolina, and consuming the blood ané “the Old Dominion.” dred years of the blight of negro slavery have ‘States, left their marks, compared with which the ruinous to the sum of twenty millions of dollars, and Rich. | work of the war is but « bagatelie, a trifle not worth Reconstruction, then, from tho blasting effects of slavery is the great work now domanded in the South—a revolution as broad and abolition of slavery and slave laver, fis whble 0, Lhave So full wr fear That, ag i ao though @ fad m In this case, of course, ia, and the election ‘irginia passing thereby , Whe are making un- the legislation of Tennesses-ization of Vir+ ginia will of course be the consequence of this apathy, ‘and, in view of the danger, leading journalists are mak- ing most stirring appeals to the people to bestir them~ -0 stay ou the to overlook one very important branch with the contin ich Richmond, under the okt Asking an oli and wel the sources of the before the war, he answered, rather tobacco and wheat, includ: ug else? He could not think of any- froa manufactures of In the 016% jnorning sunlight ite deeper MOTO Yistinctly revesiod. I never saw woods elsewhere jlorious vernal pomp and beauty. river botioms are in a most favorable Promise of @ spiendid crop if to prevent i. Py the Cadron, where thore is a large ‘we reached Portland, whore it looking mon aud neatly the frotts of Northern ing on the sight, only reached after miles of monotonous travel, and discussions of political topics showing all tho varying phases of political faith, and drinking villanous whis- ‘key, made more villanows in its disguised compound- ings, and poker-playing—the ruling passion of the ma- Jority of the passengers—there is very little to stimu. late the senses of the tired traveller to enthusiasm, and much leas excite to enthusiastic description. €y journey ap the ArkaséiS Hvét I resumed two days ago, leaving Lite Rock on the steamer Ozark. When the last whistie sounded and the gang piank was drawn Jn the gan was just setting, It had been warm to sultriness all day, and an air of intense quiet brood. ome wie eat TENNESSEE. colored waiter coming the principal trade of Rich ited ‘tweiliaga, intel SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. women and chi lost, which the Brownlow’s MilitiaeMurders Outrages by iy overlook in count. and Robberice=Com Terrible sStnte of Affal A of Richmond stran, the war the only cash profits derived by Vir- ro slavery was in the raising of negroes ‘Rer annual sales amounted Here two hun- arch and @ steam saw, grist and gin mill. I learned on inquiry, was iately put up by a another Throughout gentleman from New York- of Yankee enterprise. miles farther advanced we plantac‘on of Messrs. Richardson & iemen are trom wwe Norin, aad lave one of the faest as Well as one of the finest plantations on the ‘a spur of the Ozark Te was nan. when iad, notwithstandi that bad been given m4 ansass Naswvmza, Tenn., June 3, 1867. pleasing exhibition Apart from the stirring interest attaching to the poli- tical canvass now being conductéd in Tent & great deal of excitement in portions of ing from reported outrages and murders perpetrated by ow's Militia,” ‘The murder « tamed Brows, in Franklin county, has particularly excited the public mind, and petitions by the score are being forwarded to General ‘Thomas and President Johnson, praying for the removal of the militis and soliciting United States troops in their tend. A slatement of the facts in connection with the Brown marder, as they have now all been brotight to Light, will prove interesting as indicating the foal oF aa @amed burdens from whieh tho disfranchised lass pray to be relieved: — On tho moruing of the 2th ult, Browa was killed mond was the great centre and sottli traffic, According to Judge Underwood lors in this city, most of them living to other partios thero were less it whatever the namber, their house of this | mention! hundred slave trad: Petite Jean mount what is known te day aad profits of over ten would gh Rich: dollars clear gai ‘Thia b Show Gain from the slave trade, This ancient antedilavian town of Fredericksburg looks something like Pompelina relic of a past ago un- earthed and exposed to the light of day, especiali umerous houses damaged by shot and shel! and abandoned; some with one or two sides knocked of, Tagged holes through them, and some with Gnd Windows gone, but Otherwise needing repair to make them babitable. The north. 2 ri Hi 5 | to make a@ duplicate angle with the balls, a | dratton the flexor and extensor muscles, but ii absence of better ones command pretty liberal pate age. ‘his afternoon two gentiomem Were discussing | here the future prospects of (hu State as depending om the completion of different ratiroad schemes already projected, and more extended farwing operations, sure tollow tl uocessful carrying out of these projects. One gave a glowing picture of the beaefits to accrue | from railroads. ‘The other listened patieatly, but evinced occasional skepticism on the subject. 1 was s0 straok with the quaiat culmination of his skepteism, that L will quote his figal words, which, it is unpecossary add, wound up the discussion, T’lt tel you,” said be, * what Arkansas wants, te make her a groat State.” “ Weil, what does sue want?” asked the rairoad ad- vocate, his ears all attention. “She wants a oundred thousand Irishmen to build) railroads.’ “That's 30," broke in r listener. “But I aia’t through yet; sbe wante a bundreg thou, wand negroes to cultivate colton exclusively."’ *Phat's 20, too."” “Bus L ain't through yet; she wants a buadred Po send Germans to cultivate corn and “That's so, too. Germans the world, they could be ake the Rees tarmore ta| juced to buy our lands) and sottle here they would develop the agricultural re-| sources of the country beyond all caiculation.’' “But I ato’t through i abe them wants tw thousand Yankees to swindle th make." ein all out of all they all | “Rot the Yankees," and away went the advocate of railroads and internal improvements. Aside from thie I have not heard politics discussed. As a gemeral thing the people are not overburdened with loyalty. Traces of ¢he war are atill visible im and about the town; in the town in the charred remains of buildings that were burn ed, and about the town in the t amount of ‘that was burned by portions of federal and rebel armies encamped at different times « the vicinity, It will be remembered that a slight || scrimmage occurred here between some of Gonoral Mar-, maduke rivi of the town was burned, but it 19 rapic idly being rebuilt aa has now qufile a smart, fresh look, I met bere Lieatonan French, Company G, Nineteenth United States infant who has just arrived with his company of seventy-i men from Fort Arbuckle. The men marched the whol distance, nearly two hundred miles, and are to be tioned at Dover, a small town fourteen miles baci Norristown, During the war I saw a great many sel. diers, but I have rarely seen any as ill conditioned Scarcely two had caps alike, and their uniiomns generally showed as mixed a miscellany of attire a8 Jai Faistad’s famous recruits at Gad’s Hil, THE FASHIONS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO, in Diplomatic Dis; General Commingli rgeons Fete at the Austrian Embans~ ince Metternich Eclipses the Other Powe! —A Royal Waltz ai of Dynasties, Dia monds and Imperial Fashions—Eugenie’ | Dress and Other Regal Toilete—Excursios, Dresses for the Exhibition—The Japanen Hat and Other New Bounets—Amer Stars at Court. Paris, May 31, 1867. | The fate given on Tuesday fast by the Austrian Em basay to all the majesties and bighnesses in Paria was, 4 every one expected it would be, the greatest event this memorable season. The English Ambassador’ of the preceding week was gorgeous in the extreme, ar® |) those who attended it thought it could not be surpaaser} but Prince de Metternich’s entertainment has outdor everything. given in 1810 to Napolooa I. by Prince Schwarzember The plan was the same, only since the above date d¢ It has been compared to the historical ba @ors have invented so many different ways of maki one hall look like two, by means of prisms, glasses 20 } other optic deceits, they are 60 incomparable at builds up grottoes and cascades, that if unlimited pow:|! in our days is given them, they convert’ a quiet bow into the hanging gardens of Semiramis on the shortel|| at the Austrian embassy, by no less a power than th) Austrian government, is evident {rom the royal prepar’ tions made. The ball room was erected on the continuation of ground floor, leading into the magoificent garden lig! with ‘electric fire of every color; all the statues athed in Bengal light. In the background rose a from which, at a gi on signal, started a cascade, gradually presented the appearance of a volcano thro, ing forth torrents of lava—this was effected by elec raya in the distance, This splendid illumination the lights in all the open halle look almost wan pale.. The chandeliers were immense baskets of flow round which branches held thousands of wax tapers. The ball was opened by the Emperor with the of the Bel the Prince of Prussia with the pies) The ig of he Belgians danced with Metternich, ee After this oMetal quadritle came John Strauss’ ificent. All ranks were b! Em Eugenie wore astraw colored ; It was covered with a it ‘ a large garland of white roses with silver leavot,w; Gtosted the bosom and hung aéwe the front of the afl The Princess of Prussia wore white tulle, with ¥ lilac, She resembles her mother, the Queen of Eng! very much; her bearing 1s very royal, but her shoulders are somewhat high toned in color. The Queen of ihe Beigians was ia gray, trimmed Alenyon lace and black feathers. The Princess of Russia was in tulle and mauvo Her ornaments wére diamond bees, Princess Obeliuski's robe was sea green, coverhd bed roses; and she wore a diadem that is worth rancs, ] Mrs, Renolds was lovely in white acacias, pearl: diamonds, One robe was remarked for its simplicity; it wa thing bat tulle, with a crimson rache round ‘the bo! anda crimson Agrippine, trimmed with snowball the front width, The different styles, cach and equally elegant and rich, would take a volume} seribe. Some of the short costumes that are being mad official excursions to the Exposition on this occasio, 'y. They are mostly mohair or lings’ ription, when not of light checked+ ceptibly striped slik. Two largo sash onda behind, and tho front width is a7, aproy’ ‘The bottom of the sash ends is oy i folds of silk cut on the cross, “nd od with ait) employed between, The frynt raed hd | i ". these are covered with pb all uch as possible on the tip of oue's ,she absurd hats ever seen the Japar “a ee male ing Bee K- the to chignon which jerks and makes it look like anything mene drink on in the tray or platter line, Tue only ono as yet seen to advantage was at the Vincenn yesterday ; was worn by aricaly attired lady are ever j neckties, day and nde. The new Acceasaries inénlé, Coilata, cuffs, belta, gimp and Jewels are piain Tuscan ‘gold by Right The newest earrings are inenamet At the last bail given at the Tuileries it was ol that the finest women were Americans or of Aj extraction. Mra. B.S., of ‘ork, was in a maize robe, over which » haze of tulle hover, looped up by ten roses and glistening fol) mall bouquet on the bosom bioomed among (ii pendants on her neck. Her hair, which is fs ‘was braided 4 Pempire with gold. Miss V. was beautiful American star, as also Mrs. R., who feather pepium over a bouillonne skirt. Steamtoat Race ox tae Hupson River,—A few since the vteamers St, Johu aad Connectic Now York together and got headed up the stream same time, with the Connecticut a Jittle benind. = had beea had as to the relat Y bo believed she the St, Jo heels." The St. Johu sounded the whistle of cha ‘and both boats were immediately pnt to their wor the Palisades, through the old Tappan Zee anc lands, and into Newburg Bay the two boats were si her being abie to take a lead and: turough N Samii large sohooner, t v and when brought to her course she was some waye abead. | is along lane that never turns, and the St. Jot had to cross the river to at ad agai ve i