The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1867, Page 8

5 - “THE SOUTH. Reports of the Spe 1 Correspond- ents of the Herald, The RKeeent Political Fusion im Virginia. Rebel Soldiers in Favar of Confiscation. Politics and Crops in Tenne: Georgia. THE BADICAL PARTY IN ALABAMA, VIRGIN SPEGIAL CORAESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Cry for Registration—How it in Re- warded—Rank and File of the Rebel Sol- diers in Faver of Confiscation—How They Feei Towards the Stay-at-Home Secesi— Discovery of the Alleged Perpetrator of a Very Mysterious Murder. Ricumonp, Va, June 16, 1867. Tho greavery beginning to ascend from all the papers > the State, and intended as a forcible, tuough monosy!- Yabic admonition, ts, “Register, register.” The merits of the Sherman bill, the impeachment of the President, tho right-abou!-face movement of General Longstreet, are all forgotten in the momentous importance of registration. Bofore the question of registering assumed ite present tangible shape quite a numbor here were accustomed to sneer at the whole thing aud laugh at the thought of Doig troubled by such a bore as registration, But within tho past fow weeks, since the issuance of General scho- @eld’s order, and since the awakened attention of the Press hae been directed to the matter, the indifferentists @re becoming wervous, and the General’s order is being Yooked over more carefully than it was when first issued, The conservatives, when talked to a short time since as the possibility of the radicals carrying the State, invariably sconted the notion, but since the egglomeration of the republican factions an ominous wbeasivess is manifesting itseif among them, and whea- ever they reluctantly admit that the radicals may win the race, it is only with the understanding that a large mummber of conservatives may refuse to register, That all of those not disfranchised will go and record their Bames is not by any means Mkely. Men in this com- monity whom i know bave been so punished in the loss of everything prized most dear by the dieastrous rebcl- Mon ar not to care, in their own words, ‘‘a continental damp what becomes of the government.” 1am not so anguine ws a good many hero that all the whites, with the exception of the few that follow Hunnicutt, will cust ‘their votes one way—conservative, of course. On the contrary, 1 am of opinion that a number even of Con- federate soidiers will vote with the radicals, It may artic your Northern readere to hear that the theory of ©enfiscation finds favor with no inconsiderable portion Of the rank and file of the late revel armies. A Jittle wefiection will, however, induce the conclusion Shat nothing unnatural exists in the poor feilows, whe were lured into the rebellion and fought hervieatiy for four years to sustain a slave- Roiding arisiocracy, feeling incensed at Gnding their self. feb insigaiors enjoying fortune while they theinselves Struggle bard with poverty. A broken down ex-captain eof artillery in Lee’s army, who staked and lost his for- Vane in the rebellion, remarked to me, as ne pointed out weverai large newly burlt tobacco warehouses in this city, owned by men who made fortunes during the rebellion, bat ever handled a musket therein:—‘“If Thad Brevens wonid only confiscate the property of such meD—and they are the ones who urged the rebellion on, ‘Svat they might profit from it—he could get 100,000 Con- federate soldiers to support him.”’ The poor Confede- vate soldicr bas no love for such men; he will raise his hat 3 reverence and admiration for those who were his Jeadore on the field of battle; but the politician, tho Womb-proof aristocrat, the home-make-money- Whie-you-can set of feliows are looked upon with a feeling akin to Joathing by every true @oldier of the South, It is this same feefing which Promises in its expression at the polis to upset @ompletely the calculations of cunservative politicians. ‘The ex-rebel soldiers will vote for any respectable wadical rather than for a resurrected politician of the @onser vative stripe who bid behind the shicld of a civii ‘@ffico or & newspaper while the fight was proceeding. A few months longer, and the great question as to what party wii rule Virginia may be sately surmised. Io the latier end of February last the body of an un- Bnown female was discoverod lying ina piece of wood bout four miles from here, at a place called Drinker’s farw. Her dress was neat and her appearance youthful end attractive On examination it was found, from marke upon ber person, that she had been the victim of crac! murder. Tne remains were taken in charge by She authorities and an investigation commenced. The event created a Sensation at the time, by reason of ‘She fact that a number of witnesses swore to her boing @uch one of four persons who were missing in different ocalitios One of those for whom she was mistaken furued up in Norfolk, though every acquainiarnce of bers, inciading her mother, identified her as tne dec , even to the mbbons and earrings sho wore. Many persons were arrested, but all wiimately discharged, and ihe remains, which Dad been disinierred three times, were finally consigned to the grave. Justice Wade, however, determined to unravel ihe inystery at any cost of time or trouble. He ‘wrote to every township in the State and inquired if any feuale was missing corresponding to the description of ‘the deceased. After some delay he received information from Caroline county that a James Peter Phillips mar- ried # Miss Anne Pitts, in the year 1865, in tat county; Wat they lived together ior some tite, when Phillips Jeft to go to Richmond; thas his wife sus quently fol- lowed him, but that she was never heard irom personally #ince, though the hosband wrote irequeutly to say she ‘was doing well, Tho description of the deceased cor- Fesponded accurately with that of Mies Ritts Acting on Wie information the authorities proceeded to Drinker’s fart, saw Phillips, aud mquired of bim where hie wife was; he cenied having any aod igcored all knowledge of tie woman above mentioned — He was takeu, how- e and to ever, into « ou Thursday last, and ‘awaits @xamination at the county court till Tuesday or Wednesday. The evidence agaiust him forme the most delicate and ingenious web of circum- Stantial testimony that waa ever presented tp @ jury ; but Mt is doubtful if it is strong enough to insure a convic- tion. Phillips is eson of the former Sheriff of Henrico eounty, ly connected, and of mild, unassuming Ee je was stopping at the farm of a Mr. George irper When the body was found in the vicinity, and it Yes Allerwards remarked be abecnted bimeelt for two ye after that event, The most remarkabie thing con- mected with the deceased was a puncture in the temple, ‘the only sign of a bullet having entered the head, but no Gissection could discover the nce of lead or the Marks of exit; yet nothing else could be detected on tBe head or ry of producing death—no marks of biood, though a struggle must bave ensu She ground gave evidence, and in one of the |i Bends ‘a buch of withered leaves was found tghtly , && though she sought some missile of defouce, Investigation promiees to be of much interest, nehised and Disfranchised—Grand blican Mass Meeting—Distingulshed Oratore to be Present. Rucamorp, Va, 17, 1867, Viewing the political situation in Virginia from an im- partial of outside standpoint, 11 at once becomes apparent ‘Wat any attempt at an analyzation of parties, of to form any covelusion as to the future destiny of the State, in @oneideration of the present demoralized condition of Society, would be labor in vain, The old party denomi- Bations, Whig, democrat, &c., which existed previous to ‘the war, are obsolete in Virginia, and the factions once © powerful no longer exist ine political sense, The struggle, with all ite passions, prejudices and impulses, Gestroyed the antagonisms and animosities between these ‘Organizations and merged them into one, forgetting past @ifferences, and bg but one aim and ope end to accom- Binee the close of the rebellion there has been no ef- Gort at reorganization on the part of the remnants of Shese almost defunct political bodies, nor have the peo. ple been yet in a condition to adopt any principles or platforme suitable to their own ideas, Even at this day there can scaresly be said to be @ political party in the Btate—excepting the nucleus of a repudlican ene—for it ceecnuat TaRAEIibor anes eae Organization and imily of action, thetr work ts by Shaseesnenminaenines Ve In the cities and owns succeeded ip reeds @ majority of ‘We blacks, with 9 slight of whiten Confit Intereste and (he ever: political horizon may any time undd the work in Virginie} the At present may be taid to have @ republican ten. im the Mate: jm {ko citleg thew exp radiawdy; bud eo the whites, from frequent and repeated disappointments, | @s to the extent and value of the slave tr: ae NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JONE 20, 16B7-TRIPLE SHBET, aro cautions how they commit themselves, ‘The recent fusion of the whites, represented by Botts the seif-constituied leadership of Hunnicutt, gives to the republican portion of the community in Virginia what they h@fetofore lacked—dignity, which will be of vast service in building a republican party in the State with unconditionally aristocratic in their notions and ideas of respoctability and gentility as the blacks, and it has lat- terly become a matier of serious attention among ther to commingle in the common cause of repubjctnism gentiemen whose names bad been familiar to them coupled with respect and good standing in society. ‘This essential ingredient to their political organizations and bodies has now been supplied, and they are e774). nentiy sanga'ne of success. ammieutt, to whom ‘they instruction a8 tq their privileges, duties rights, was wanting in every particular, according to the negro \dea, whreh in euch a is un- doubtedly the true one, and in consequence was gradually becoming m bad odor among them as their representative before the nation at large, ‘Phis diffculty has now been amicably and nicely smoothed over; aud While Hunnicutt will in the future, as he has in the past, make himself prominent in politics, yet in the nogro mind he will henceforward take a’ socondary placa, without ever probably being put forward as a candidate to represent them in a responsible position, To the present the whites as a body have made no move towards political orgavization, though among thea there is a strong under current that tends ima national direction. They cam be said to be republican in senti- ment, but unwilling t unite with the radicals, and are aware that if arrayed against that now ruling clique action on their part would defeat the object of restora. tion, subject them to continued military rule, coufisea- tion end ail uther attending evils. They are demorali by the press of the State, which, with a blindvees that is criminal, urges them to register and voto, but to vote conservatively, which means to follow Lheir.old leaders and adopt the advice of the peace siemocrats of tho North, These suicidal doctrines aro repudiated by the mas of the prope, though obstinately and persistently advocated by @ moribund press. To express the most ardent hope and wish of the peo- ple of Virginia asa neans of restoringdthem to their former positions in the Union and placing them on the 4 road to nappiness and prosperity, would be to say: Give us Grant for the next Presideucy, who alone, of all others, cay beal the wounds of our afflicted country, and can svar supremely over all the intrigues and machina- tions of petty parties, cliques, demagogues and politi- cians of ali orders and classes, ois embodies the hearttelt wishes of the masses of the Southern people. Reconsiruction bas been a tardy process, Johnson's plan totally failed, the constitutional amendment was in conseqtience a failure; the mililary hag us fauits and may fail; all other projects ot a similar natare may fail; but ‘bere is a sure remedy that will restore the country to health, vigor, energy, and, above ail, unity. Were the Soutnorn people assured that Grant would 60 the popitiar candidate at the North, as he js at the South, and that he would accept the Presidency, reconstruction would be an easy task, Now that registration has commenced in this State, and its practical effects can be the better looked at, I fod the Military bill to be woetully defective in some of the classes it disfranchised, and just as much so in others who are enfranchised. Previous to the war Virginia, above all the States, was re:narkable for ber love of the Union and her fidelity to the national government, and a3 a result of this the most tried, respectable aud trust- worthy citizens were elected to office. In all the counties in the State the magistrates who flied oilices previous to the war were for the most part true and consistent Union mea, wasy of whom to:k no active part in it, and if so not more than that of the majority of the rauk and fie of tae rebel army, These men, who could now ren- der valuabie aid in the cause of reconstruction, are dis- franchised because they took the oath to s.pport tho const tution of the United States. Tis class in Virginia will probably number over twenty-five bundred men, a majority of whom are good and thorough republicans, aud whose influence, by their disfranchisement as well as their votes, ‘is lost to that enterprising but stupid party, or rather its blockhead rep- resentaiives in Congress On the. otver band, without any discernment whatever, Or the exercise of a proper discrimimation, the Military Dill bestows the franchise upon an immense number of petty, biatant, intriguing and mischievous demagogues and politicians, who instituted rebellion, held bomb-proot positions under the rebel government, and who now are the principal obstructions tw the policy of Congress— impeding reconstruction and nursing a hatred to the na- foual lag and the pational government It is a matter to be regrettet by the country at large that Congress could not mect before registration im the several dis- tricts is compieted, in order to amend ‘and reconstruct the Military Pl, us it needs it vastly, Toe soil of the Old Dominion is again about to be tn. vaded by new and effulgent radical lights, hailing from both extremes of the country, with a representative from a Western border “tate, as a bond of unity between them. On Saturday, Juce 22, « grand republican mass meeting, Without disuinc:ion of color, will be held at Fairfax Court House, at ten o’clock in the mormaz, which will be addressed by Mr. Lorenzo Sherwood, of Texas, Colonel C. E. Moss, of Missouri, and L. Edwin Dudley, of Massachusetts, A call has been issued the Central Committee, addressed to the republicans of the State, to atiend, and it i# supposed the distinguished orators ‘will bave a large, sympathetic and attentive audience, The Richmond Whig Gone Over to ths Radi- cale—Chance forthe Radicals—What They Might Secure by Less Vituperation awd More Charity—Reatstration Commenced. Ricumonp, Va, June 17, 1867. This morning the Richmond Whig left its uncomfort- able midway position between radicalism and conserva- tism and went boldly over to the former. Its course for some time past has beon wayward and undefiued, as if unsatisfed with Its own party, yet reluctant to embrace any other, but sti! seeking affiliation with whomsoever was scif-reliant enough to throw off the impassi ve torpor of conservatism and strike out a path of actign in the great work of reconstruction, The Whig, thogh old fash- foned in some respects, is a daring innovator whore political exigencies demand a change of tacticn A passivist after the war, it very soon saw what pacswity was calowated to lead to, and, suddenly changing its base, began a vigorous and telling onslangbt on passivists with the effect of demolishing such @ party, if it ever bad a tangible existence, It has now gone im for reconstruction, in company with Botts, Hunnicutt & Co, The name of the company i#, of course, pradentiy omitted; and In a long, anxious and elaborate article, the Wh‘g, at first stag- gered at the fusion of the trio of republican factions, eventually professes that its love for ropublicanism is so great that it could hardly withhold ite vote and its sup- port from “intelligent, liberal and patriotic’’ representa- tives of its doctrines. This 1 decided for the Whig. It means nothing more nor less than that it intends to act with the republieans, who, if they have souse, will alter their piatform of the 17th of Apri, where tt is simply offensive without being strong; and the inevitable result will be that Virginia, in the words of Wilson, will go radical, trom the sea to the mountuins. Very skilful management on the radical side achieve this result, A little less overbearing dictation and & more — moderate —_ expression of what Congress requires would gain to the party thou- sands of wavering consorvatives, If charity and civility were impressed into the service of republican propa- gandism, what appeared visionary in Wilson's expres- sion, that Virginia would yet be the most radical Stato in the Union, I am sanguine enough to believe might be realived, These Virginians are still proud and sensitive fo their bumiliation; it smarts them to bear radical orators threaten coniiscation and the sword on an utter!; Prostrate foe; it shocks their notions of ordinary cour. age and manhood to hear mon from the North come down here, and, not content with threatening the terrors of the Apocatypse on the South if Caffee is not well and amply provided for, tarn around to revile the memory of the Confederate dead. The radicals must do better than this to carry out Senator Wilson's wishes, The registration of voters commenced to-day in Mon- roe ward in this city, it was altogethor a spiritiess affair, neither whites nor blacks evincing that di of interest in the erent it might be natural to antici- pate. The ward isa lous one; but, being on the outskirts of the city, the proceedings going on were not generally known. Three black cnal were present, bursting with the importance of the duties entrusted to them. « Mistah, whar yoa from?’ aired one of ‘he carkey chal of an individual with soft felt bat and long coat—a boy of the town, in fact “Sing Sing,” was the answer. I knows of,” remarked the darkey; and then, as if thoughtfully comparing sounds, he exciaimed, “1 know Hong Kong, whar de tea comes from, but dat ain't ‘round yere”’ A laugh resulted; and thos, with occasional cachination thi the day, the board con- tinued to register 185 whites and 144 Diacks, Interesting Statisticeo-The Negro Trade in before the war, According to that gentleman’s + and Governor Pierpoint, with the radical blacks, under | trade averaged in Virginia bofore 2 millions of dollars annually, * high as eighteen willions, v little, if anything, short three-fourths of this“ gentlemen of character, reputation and ability as its | and though itso representatives, There is no people so absolutely and | beneilis Were” wyorinetoss diffused through overy busi- ness ChADY 4, and contributed im various forms to in- Of twelve per cent. «rade was carried on in Richmond, #erations were confined to a few, its Aatement, the slave the war about fifteen ao beheved it reached as hile the profits upon it was More than ‘1050 ''4@ wealth and prosperity of the city. ToZ@pendent of the profits by the actual sale of slaves, ‘We7ge sums wore realized from hiring them. Families ‘who before the war wero accustomed to hire three or | four servants, now manage with one or two, their ina- | bility to hire more being a result in pagt of the depres- feel themselves deepiy indebted for enlightenmémt and | sion occasioned by the loss of the slave trade. In the matter of clothing, shoes, hats and the other necessary articles of dress, a material falling off bas re- sulted from the loss of this trade, It was customary always to furnish the nogroes new clothing either before or aftr sale, and birers were obliged to give their ser- vants at the end of the year a suit of clothes each, with the other appendages of dress, shoes, hats, stiri, &o. ‘The annual outlay in this form was immense. Now it hardly reaches five per cont of what it was, the negroes being compelled, from want of means, to wear their old cluthes as long as they can be kept together or buy the cast off clothing of their former masters. consumption of food there is a considerable diminution among the negroes, Beforo they wasted as much as they eat; now they can scarcely get a suiltctency, and tbat of tho plawest and worst kind. Tobacco manufacturers who, before the war, wero compelled to hire hands for the whole year, now hire them by the day or week, and that And even at only doriug the manefacturing season, these intervals tho rates of living, detucting allowances for food and clothing, are pro ra’a helow what they were formerly, The loss of the slave trade in Virginia, with the con- tinnal drawbacks in the torms indicated, fall little if any- thing below twenty millions annoaliy. ing off in the staple productions of the State is included in the contingent losses, the amount will reach the cnor- mons figure of forty mil ‘The tobacco trade of Virginia before the war amounted annuaily to about fifteen millions, and the flour trade to about eight millions. The trade in these staples now one-half these amounts. These produc- re destined to increase with the increase of labor from abroad; bat the slave trade is a dead loss, jo up or offzet save by some extra- neous means, such az manufacturing or some other pew enterprises that must peeds be of slow growth. have, then, tn this sudden extinction of a trade, yielding twenty millions annually, a satisfactory solntion of the depreseed condition of trade and the terrible financial embarrassment which prevails in Richmond, doubt that thousands who aro affected by the general prostration will learn for the first time from this expose They will icarn, too, bow slow will bas to await the tull hat must encounter the petition, backed by the wealih and skt!! of the powerful North. Virginia's benefit from siavery consisted in raising slaves for the murkot. loss will result to ber from thotr labor, for that supply ata cheaper rate, The !oss of the slav marketable commodity is a dead loss which she cannot It is impossible to repair it unless by a slow precess of improved indusiry, the benoiits from which will enure to some generation to ‘come, 1am informed by a gentleman whose connection with public affairs in Virginia for the last thirty-five years has enabled bim to form a pret} financial affairs of the State, that tho agerezate lous of Virginia by the war, including the loss of slaves, &c., is searcely reach tions, however, repair. which cannot be the true cause of it, be the reenperative progress which development of new enterprises hazards of a vigorous ions or more. And if the fail- correct estimate of the five hundred millions, besides a third of her territory, which is now comprised ia West Virginia, She lost by the Confederate government in cash loaned fifteen mhi- lions, including four millions, the amount of her school fund, which she had been zealously guarding and treas- Ske paid all her own soldiers up to the lst of July, 1861, and advanced to the Confederate government out of her funds raised by poe sie It wold ine uring up for years. every available dollar she could command, deed have been a short war if Virgi from it, She bad at one time in the field a force of one hundred and thirty-pine thoneand men, of which at least fifty thowsand had fallen in battle or died from other causes, Tt will thus be perceived that the O1d Dominion suffered her share by the war, Genera’ Lougstroct has written to a friend here deny- ing that he has allied himself to tl that alt his remarks in the letter which gave rise to this presumption was designed solely to influence the people had kept aloof Tadicala. He says of New Orleans to conform to the terms of the recon- struction bill, and bring on an early adjustment of the difficulties now pending. It te anticipated that flour will bo down to seven dol- lars a barrel in this city by the let of October. wheat crop in Virginia surpasses anything known here for many years. Dr, Craven, the author of Davie’ prison life, is now in this city, and ba he the Ballard Hotel, Ex-Senator R. principally to farming, ‘understand, {n polucai James A. Seddon, ex-rebel aud tegmi from thi ine ai |, or Hunter is leading a quiet, retired life at his home, in Essex county, H» devotes himself 4 manifests no intorest, as 1 rs. 1 Secretary of War, rect'nes fagi in Goochland county, some shitty miles is ciLv, attending to his flocks and ov Operations on his beantifu! farm. He was bere some weeks aco at a méeting of the James River Canal Compaay, in wh. looks about as 4s out of the political ring, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA. SPECIAL COR! RESPOMDENCE OF THE HERALD. A Jaunt Throngh Tennessee—Neotes by the Way on the Promise of the Harvest—The Puddie of Tennessee Polittcs=Reconstrac- ton in thwestern Georgin—The Crops. A jaunt of fifteen hours through a half hilly and half rolling country, and baving measured the diagonal width of Tennessee, the traveller emerges from the mountains into the more level lands of upper Georgia, and alighis at the hittle village of Dalton. every acre of it bistoric ground—and along the whole length of ratlroad which terminates at Dalton, the green grace and foliage of spring have obliterated the footsteps of the vast armies which surged to and fro di Darzox, Ga., Jane 15, 1867, ‘Through East Tennessoe— last two years of the war, leaving Gelds and valleys desolate, and gathering up every living thing, from pigs to Save in dilapidated fences and occasional buildings, stil! standing like skeletons to poultry, by way of forage, attest the work of warfare, not a vestige, except hasty earthworks, has been left to recount to the imaginative tourist the story of what has been, towns along the route are what they were before seces- tion assumed the positive phase of rebellion. From the eastern boundary of Tencessee, néar Bris- tol, making & jeunt parailel with the mountans, the most noticeable feature ts the extensive fields of corn, sometimes approximating to scores of acres, Knoxville and the and skirted with woodlands, which, as far as the utmost verge of the horizov, cover the ribs of the mountains Tho wheat crop of East Tennessce is just being harvested, and bas not for the past ten years yielded as loxuri- antly as this season. In Virginia, the weevil having made its appearance, there is, in some parts cf the State, '¥ | and more expecially the eastern counties, @ prospect of a rather limited crop; but no sooner has one crossed the mountains than thie evil disappears, and the anticipa- tion of a full crop and an abundant harvest takes tho place of doubt and anxiety as to the winter, these valleys the corn is just springing up, and jhas not im any case attained a sufficient growth to admit of any speculation as tothe crop. More has been plantet Along than during any previous year since 1856, but whether ‘more will be harvested must remain a question until the season is further advanced, as a period of dull, cool weather in tho latter part of Jane would utterly ruin the prospect of a luxuriant crop, Of the negroes in East Tennessee there fs little to be “Dar’s no sich place as | written, so far as any essential altoration in their modes of life and general physical condition has been effected ite of the past three years, In this part of ° the country slavery has been, from the beginning, Virginia Before the War=The Tebacce and | occu Flour Trades—The N: One Time in the Field. Ricawoxp, Va, June 17, 1867, If ninety out of every hundred of the business men of | Jess epparent than Richmond were to-day asked what was the largest trade in Virginia before the war, they would answer, the to- bacco trade, and the flour trade next, They would not think of mentioning the negro trade as firet in impor- tance, and yet it was, The loss of that trade has done more to eause the prevailing depression in business in this city than any other result that the war has pro- duced. 1 have taken pains to ascertain the loss caused by the discontinuance of the slave trade, and I have no doubt it will astonish thousaads here who might be pre. sumed to be well informed upon the sabject, when they Having become rich from the profits of the they would fain now seek ® social position they were heretofore excluded, by casting ‘their past connection with is 1 found one Bowever, who was met 60 sensitive ang be Rindly fernieped me all the infyrmation Ap beg in this part of the country negrocs have pled rather the position of servants than of abject ber of Men which | slaves, and the transition from serfdom to emancipation having been less violent, the revolation wrought by their admission to the privileges of citizensbip has been Emerson There, of th pokes wee, candidate, bas com mping tour astern nessee, wh: however, bas beon attended with but indifferent oores the eastern part of the State being overwhelmin; radical, and most deen driven into Northern ne never FA é Z iy ii of the inal ‘Georgia returned. The during pecesstonists beving the war vd Virginia In the We Ihave no No The king 4_Kanawha is a large stockholder, er as ill, as ever. He Ho, too, ing the repute, ing made some strictures yd the policy of Governor low’s administration, parson thun- ders, Super hi as filowss “Through bis dirty organ, John Baxter, a man of bigh blood an \—God save the ive opened hiedire on me last month, after the style of 8 Prophet and to the following tune:— ‘oresectt the blighting eatects ef GSvannor teen's softy afen ofery taker the State, I have for two years, and ut and trouble to r, end arouse the danger of thelr ‘aliuation: ‘but, ‘from a gombination of with Dat Gary litle See “‘And for the next two years, ‘and st considere>!y ex- to pyar ander fant eilanies ‘& sense ere Carolina impostor 1 ifeanwltie ore are a fow but alan pone ye Man : th +4 ya me. talk privately to Occasionally mis- take their men, and whi ther malice in the ears of I have five Of these base scoundrels and 0 soon as I can get leisure have a tittle and their will come next. “June 12, 1867. ‘WG. BROWNLOW.” If after this the enemies of the Governor will persist in prating they must be to take the conse- quences, The Executive has, no with aristoc- pew acd cannet abide blooded stock for any conside ration. But warm though the canvass is, so far as partiran journalum and mercurial oratory are concerned, the people in general attond quictly to their business, and seem to care very litle for stump oratory or barangues on either side, the eubstantial citizens being far more intent upon making a good crop than upon ministering to the whims of either Mr, Brownlow or Mr, E:heridg. Little knots, numbering sometimes a hundred, and oftenct not more than adozen or a score, gather at different its by way of a body guard to the several speakers, it gencralty the issues have been mede, and all the sul- | exes baranguing possible will hardly make the dif- ference of a hundred votes throughout the State, In fact it is conceded every where by the soi-disant conservatives that Brownlow will be elected and that the canvass 1s a mere matter of ceremony, though it is declared that . Etheridge isa strong man and will defeat the radicals if any conservative can, The radicals are conducting the canvass upon the plain ixsue of negro suffrage without substantial limita- tion, coupled with the exclusion of ex-confederates from the polls, and with all the appliances at their command, will probably carry the State by a majority of at least forty thousand, thouch it ia very generally maintained by the conservatives that by @ judicious conduct of the canvass @ majority may bo secured in the Legislature and conservative Senators re-elected to the United States Senate, The radicals claim the full ticket for Congress, and having sot aside the registration in the doubiful dis- tricts, as in that of Mr. E, Cooper, there is no doubt of their Congressional success, An agitation has been set on foot in Momphis, and preparations are now being made to act upon it, which Promises to assume some importance and, possibly, to result in armed collision. Considerable dissatisfaction having resulted from the organization of what is termed Brownlow’s militia, a project for counter organization has been started by the consorvatives, by the enroiling of all such in a regular mii 'y organization to be known as the Civic Guard. This guard, say its organiz- {a to be subject to the control of the officers of the law whenever they can bo trusted—in sbort, whenever they happen to be anti-Brownlow—and is avowedly in- tended simply a3 a guardian of the public peace, or, in plainer English, as an offset to the militia oranizacion as effected under the existing statute, It ia difficuit to be- eve that gny real organization will be effected, though agents are canvassing fr it, aud vory likely the aitempt will be made, only to be quashed, if made, by the strong arm of the loyal militia. The foliowing, which I cut from a leading conservative journal in West Tenues- foreshadows temperately though unequivocally the purposes of the organization and the elements which are to be sifted from the genera) mass as material out of which to form it;— Let there be no mystery, no secrecy. It is not nceded, Let the ranks of the Civic Guard be open to all respectable Let the Seon ened be koown, ‘stequire rompt ce signals agreed on, ase Bist the country and the csuntey the city. Ob-y the !awa us they are untiFthey are repealed; but resist all uniawfal op- ression. " Tn north orn Georgia, the point from which 1 write, and somewhat turther in the interior, the people scom as yet to be hardiy aware that the confederacy is a lost with reasoning ratuer pointed than legal ‘6 and di-contont are rife as elements of discord to a greater extent than in any other State, with the possible exception of South Carolina. In gome of thd small towns about hore it would not be ye ge having beiong- ed to my ‘man, of whom a holy horror is still held, so bitter have been the feelings eogondeied by his campaign from Atlanta to the sea; and most seditious sentiments are openly expressed—though it is not until ove arrives inthe vcinity of Rome that this rebellious sullenness takes the phase of more positive demonstrations. There is no hearty LLC® of situation here, and is not likely to be except by course of rather caustic treatment, The people ask on'y to be let aione and permitted to manage the nogroés in their own way, without the interference of the agonts of the Freedimen’s Bureau, the conditions being that nobody shall talk poli- tice to the sables or insinuate to them freedom ‘™means anything more than excmption from being sold at the highest market price Meantime the gables work qui- euy on tho plantations, without any obtrasive as- sertion of ther rights, though they grin knowingly whon the quondam master curses &e radicala, itd tray ing a lingering exultation over the tmportanc: of the Plantor’s avathemas. Th> fact is, there is not ancgro with whom I have conversed who is not at heart a radi- cal, and will pot acknowledge it to any New Yorker, having Oret aseured bimsolf of the soundness of his man, Secret meetings are held, and, in fact, every cabin is the ters of a political or- ganization. Besides, every negro is at heart ‘an advocate of confiscation. je reasons simply enough that, baving worked hard without compensation, he is tiled to compenration from his former master’s © tates, in default of other remun jon ; and ons may talk with a hundred negroes in a day#withont ehclting anything beyond the preceding in relation to the sub- Than the wheat crop about here, which is just now beiog harvested, nothing conld be more abundant, The heads are entirely full and {ree from rust, and the crop, ‘im general, is perfectly hy tse For many years the wheat crop in the neighborhood of Dalton has not promised go ausprciousiy, and it is difficult to under- stand how, with a harvest so abundant, there can be any great deal of su‘fering in Northern Georgia during the winter of 1867 Tt fg stated that the price bere will be about two doliars a bushel, though the exceeding scarcity of Of transporiatioa in conji bouniifulnoss of the in crup, will probably somewhat reauce the figure. ALABAMA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The President of the Republican vention= Sketch of his je and Services—Alabama Polition=Judge Bustecd’s Politica! Suicide Order trom Gencral Swayne—A State Law Naullitied, Moxtaomery, Ala, Juno 14, 1867, Among tho most distinguished of the representative men im this State in the work of reconstruction, is William H. Smith, of Randolph county, President of the late Republican State Convention held in this city, and Superintendent of Registration for this State. Mr. &. Is, I believe, a native of Georgia, and about forty-seven years of age, or probably a little older, He is a remark- ably honest looking man, about six feet bigh, promi- nent, intellectual forehead, dark hair and eyes, and a face which in any crowd would unmistakably poiot him oatas a man of mark, integrity and great decision of character, ir. Smith isa lawyer, and justly occupiesa high rank in the profession. He represented Randolph county with distinguished ability in the lower house of the State Legislatare at the session of 1857-'68, Mr. Smith was an elector for Douglas and Johnson in the Presidential campaign of 1860, and advocated that ticket with energy and ability, At that time he was an ardent pro-slavery man, and when secession was agitated he argued against the formation of a Southern confederacy, on the ground that slavery could only prove lasting and remunerative in the Union, and ‘that secession would result in froedom to the negro and great pecuniary loss to the Southern people, From this it ts clear that he was @ steadfast Union man in 1861, and opposed secession by every means in his power, In 1862, when the war fecling was at its height, 80 persistent was Mr, Smith in his adherence to the cause of the State, seeking personal safety within the Union lines, Tt 1s eald that Mr. Smnith assisted tm raising and organ. izing, in 1963, the First regiment of Alabama cavalry, from loyal refugees and citizens from this State, This regiment was organized and mustered into service at the It is not the Conventi have disc could have been selected who the duties of the jae meetings before Selection of Judge Smith as the presiding officer. too much to affirm that no member Position with more uniform courtesy, dignity, ability and tmpartiallty than Judge Smith, ‘It may not be improper to state that Judze Busteed was a duly acereditea delerate to the Convention from Lowndes county, but, failing to be made its President, he desired to bave the courtesy extended geen being invited to a soat in that body. “proved an apple of discord, and crooked, angry dis- cussion,” and was rejected; consequently mis friends did not desire that hig name should appear a3 a dele- gate, and it was omitted Jud: Busteed’s ‘God save the republic” letter to the President of the Convention was ia bad taste, and conceived in a bitter, malignant stab at hia best spirit, It was a deliberate insult and friends, the conservatives, and too clumsily hoodwink the radicals or republicans. negroes had, been taught ia the tten up to rther, the that Poor league Ricuard was a diseased member of the republican party, and must be emasculated. And when it is asked, “Who killed Cock Robin?” it is that slain in the house of while vainly attompting to ride two: horses. ‘1 head and front of answered he was his -suppoved friends, the is offending is that ho presided over an anti-republican fusion meeting of both races at Mobile, and that he was in aifiliation with the so-called rebels or conservatives throughout the Siate, who tended to send him to the United Statos Senate. TI tu- his latter statement is true, as after the Mobile fusion meet- ing referred to the threo leading papers 10 Mobile—the Advertiser and Register, the Times, and the Tribune—came out boldly and unequivocally in support of his cluims for the enatorship; but I have been far enough behind the scones to know that it was not on account of apy love they had for Richard Busteod, but becanse they wished to uge him to: defeat what’ they termed worse men, to build up a conservative party, 80 as to control the Stato government and vanquish the radicals, and because, too, they could manage him, and make bun strumental in getting prominent Alabamiang relieved from political disabilities. They have dropped him now when they see he fs nding two horses, and “there none so poor as to do him reverence." aro It is conceded that Genera! Swayne is a political aspi- rant, having his eyes fixed on a seat in the Senate. Judge Bustee@, fearing that General 8, would get the start of him tn the race, recently meddied rather offi- ciously with some business which it is said is entirely under the management of the Bureau; where- upon Goneral Swayne became very wrathy, and a bitter feud existe between them. Mr, Griffin, editor of the Mobiie Nationalist (radical republican) appointed by Chief Justice Chase as Rogister in the k~ Taptcy for the Mobile district, but Judge Busteed refused to confirm the appointment ‘and Mr. G. was left out fo the cold, Grxlin to be revenged; and when Judge B. wrote So here was a chance for Messrs. Swayne and his celebrated ‘God save the republic” letter they saw that the lion was dead, and they did not hesitate to kick majesty’s remaina his Several suits are pending against Judge Busted in the Cirenit Court of this county, over which Mr. George Goldthwaite (a Northern man by birth) presides, involv- ing charges of malt moneys and corrupt abuse of the office oz re. ain causes i be A doe about the 24th of tui @ parties bringing thea tg ar Judge 8. F. Ri inane wate Kayes Hisar) p24 C. sempie, & & Troy, waite, who are a e most of the ontgotisry bere ‘tn advance bcfore the propar into a statement of the all is understood that Judge cause bofore Judge Goldthwaite. facts of these causes, justeed will plead his own feyance in office, conversion of jinent members an investigation tripanal I do not feel authorized to go it One of the greatest necessities ot the South at this time is practical education for ite men, a number of whom, unaccustomed to any kind of ee are without fortane and without it. Men educated elsewhere to practical parsuits emicrate to the South and readily procure situations as engineers, and mechanics. The ith cannot Bul ore Stora to tose the driven abroad, in sadn the We of's ven some cases, fe of a loafer at home, fit As far as can be observed the Southern are bet- ter eatiefied with military rule than could have beou ticipated at first; but it cannot be denied that there are many grievous complaints of justice and misrule, which tend to alienate the people. In some districts they have no right of appeal from the sentence of a military commission, even to the federal couris. to some extent, accustoms them to separate systems ‘Thi and to a military administration. Amid conflicting author!- and title of the milnary districts vary in most im) it respects, portant’ ‘one, it has been d.cided that fiduciaries who invested become extremely un- courts in some of tne the money of their wards in Confederate securities are bound for tho loss. In another tho aflirmed. rendered aga'nst an acting under reverse has been In one Southern State judgment bas been orders for property destroyed for a miliiary object, responsi bee: while no suca ak tmposed on others, In usurps and exercises the power ings in a court of a State, issaing an injunction agai in a suit onanote ina Proceedings court upon which partial payment had been made, Me bas Ly another a federal judgo to stay proceed- These are a few instances of the uvsottied state of affairs at the South. tion will aot come South, or that her citizens, i ‘ongeral venom” of coutiscation, are leaving the co Is 1¢ surprising tnat capital and immigra- caring the try? The people wish this state of arbitrary discretion ud Suspense terminatea. It is contended by some good Union men that it is probable that the Pres dent wishes the country to see how impossible it ts to administer the whole affairs of distant States by act of Congress and general orders, If this p ruies which prevail. How fur It may de wise for ( aveount fer tue various ‘on- gress to educate a whole people to military government is a question for that body avd their consiiiuents. The politicians North and Souch are becoming so obuoxions to the people that many declare that they prefer rough, stern candor of a military order to the stadied the do- ception of # political piatform. Yet these military dis- triets may form a primary sc kool of desyoriem. dictworsof Rome came bowe from the pro accumutated weal: ail and fai hfat followers, aad culy 5 the pes with yer= formed at Rome what tuey had rehewrsed ia Gaol or Hispania, In the meanti outhera press is pewing to the people to r ‘gister and-vote, and coli ap. ver themselves from the bodiug of this uncertain anarchy. They perish for want of lawful patriotism, and will wel- come the restoration of the right of sell-government, matter from what bands or under what conditions they may receive it. ‘The speech of Mr. Stevens in favor of confiscation obtaining a wide circulation among the poor whites of the South, and it is believ being distri! broadcast the feagne, In addition its have sent South to tend to the distribution of this famous coufiscation mani- is freedmen and od that it is at festo, and to organize the political movement thus in- augurated. The leading object for which these dation 161 working is the consol of the negro and men are Poor white votes in the South against the mass of the white The promise of free farms by con {fiscat ae stated to be the main agency by which aitained. It is the earnest desire of the great body of the whi! y toa this is to be to reatore and maintain good relations between the South and the Union. dl als i es William F. Mabedy, called upon Justice Hogan, at the Tombs, and expressed a desire to enter a complaint against Simon Jackson, clerk in the clothing store of Mr. Selner, 310 Bowery, for stealing from him the sum : li i a Es a4 F 5g i ; 4 E i ! sa i E i of A sgEee 5 i ia 8 & 3 i 8 i i FE 3 = i E ¥ 3 e= b=} = 3 at H 3 $35 t, and pi agote $196, but did not pay for the goods Bt the time; him the name of William Seymour, .and told bi send the 1s to 611 Washington street receive his pay; I told him the reason money ; n I purchased the Property stolen was in my room, in Washington in a bureau drawer; another young map, whose | name I do not know occupied the room with me; ] I did not have the key of the burean drawer or that of the room from six o’ a4 M. to bine P. Mj; I got the $300 from my brother, who is now in Quebec; I receged 18 leg Anentey 5 I received $400 and spent $90 of It; I counted my money on Tuesday morning and after going te my washerwo- man’s went to Jackson’s; he said I could not fool himy he called the officers in and then I made the charge; m business was a private coachman at No, 810 State Troy, New York, with Mr. Andrew Jackson; I was years in his employ at $30 a month; I came to New York two months ago; I loft his employ 3let of Aprib last; I was known to Mr. Jackson as Mahedy; my brother sent ms money from Troy; he sent it in fives and tens; I received it through the 3 1 pald ten cents postage; I never received apy other money from. my brother; I received it last Tuesday week ; T it in @ post office near the Metropolitan Hotel; I have not the letter; 1 burnt it; I paid postage to a man behind the- desk; the directions were William Francis Mohedy, New Yor; I have not received a letter before for six months I wrote a letter to my brother informing ol my address; I went to four or five post for tho letter; it waga month andabalf ago when I wrote to my brother; I was then boarding in First aves nue, with a person named John Murphy, a cooper; whén I wrote to my brother I paid seven cents for pemage stamps for one letter directed Troy, New York; Mr. Jac! son paid me two hundred and five dollare on the 5 EE of April for work; {left Troy on May 4, and came to New York city, and stopped in First avenue three 3 ot then went to a place on Thirty-fourth si No, 444). stopped there three days; I then went to Hu and stopped at 175 State street, with Mr. Moran, for five- 408 sixth avenue: days; I then came here and sto} for two weeks; I then went to rphy’s; I have been there or five days; I worked in Thirty-fourth street on a bailad- ing since I loft Jackson ; I was an assistant not know the man’s name I worked for; I I never Hexbiod a8 Sn ees I Si ame statements relative reception money ey that I did yesbrany in court to Justice Hogan 4g Washi street I am Lory Finer oie: He of Seymour; Cold th officer that I lived at No, 444, Taiety-f rth 3 the reason T that 088 Telatio® there; stamps on the “ee y) ol Pine 4 in envelope sent to my brother and motes; 1. notes on eal the land notes were on Charice bad to gu b ge Woite ot tha tecaty-eigten pecch ea ‘wes Pte Petter a gssceaarnd his by Mr Billa, roquesliog him to. come, aad. pay fer ihe ‘and take them away. store PP Tag je next day, “ ¢«r ere: Pees i) Tn order to learn if the and statement of Steymour was true, Sige open officer Lacey to notify the several with whem the complainant avers ho has court to day and give evidence in tle case, meantime Sarees a, Che Haveg of Detention awaiting the Both Mr. Jackson avd Mr. Ellis tg it was the intention of ‘mour, alias Francis, Mabody, ta Getraud them ote ef thele goods, "4 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Atreart to Darnaup tae Fourtm Navona Bank.— Yesterday afternoon, John Brown, a man twenty-six years of ace, living at No. 26 East 101st street, called as the Fourth National Bank and presented to Mr. Samuel Conover, Paymg Teller of that institution, a check for $4,155, purporting to have been drawn by Mesera @ 8, Sloane & Co., of 46 Broad sirect, to thegorder of P, Hay- den, and demanded it, . Conover immediate! discovered the. check to ree <4 a forgery, quested Brown to wait @ few moments, bus, oooming i alarmed, he shpped oat of the and ran off, ‘ by the Paying Teller, who overtook and caught him ia | | Cedar street, near William, The fugitive forger was handed over to the custody of officer Kerrins, of the First precinct, and subsequently taken before Justi Hogan, at the Tombs, where Mr. Conover ay made an affidavit against bim. Mr. Christian S Sloane, of 46 Broad street, deposed that the signature of C. 8 Sloane & Co, to the check was false, fraudulent and foi Was not gned by any member of his firm or by authority; that bis firm keep an account in the oe apr Bank, and < the check exactly cor with the checks used by his Grm in every lar, and that a blank check corresponding im nuanber. (13,008) to the one stown {a missing from bis check book ; the person to whose order the check ts drawn his (Sloane’s) firm are in the habit of doing business with, - le sayshe and has Brown was committed for examination, by a relation the charge: is a ‘“genorel deater”’ nothing to say ip joy against him. A short time before rown made his a the bank another man ae proseated to Mx, Conover a check fora jng the signature of Messrs. G. & Sioane & the cash on it, Mr. Conover carey, cae cm Bin eat ond tae on totally unfit for use, Justice . ve bailto answer before AtLeond Farse Preraxce Case. —Charles Simon, 177 Madison street, charged Ludwig Fraube with having come to his place of business and by means of false Tepresentations obtained goods to the amount of upon credit of sixty oy Justice Mansfield, on bm held the accused to answer in the A Tatton ms Troveie.—Martin Frey, a German tailor, ‘was arraigned before Justice Mansfield yesterday, on a. charge made against bim by Scyryak Brunner, No. 62 Norfolk street. It is alleged that Frey went into the store in which complainant is emp! and obtained eight unmade coats, of the value of and, having failed to retarn the same, he was and chai with stealing them, The accused was held for examination, + + Tam Attxoap Aportion Case,—An examination in tho case of Mrs, Mary Van Buskirk, who ‘with procuring an abortion on the person of a German, girl, whose name is set down in the complaint as Pau- commonced yesterday before Justice Mansfie! rt + a eet atvormet som ies Pease estes envelope. Tae ceamteaes will be continued rs _ Attacen Lancury oF Crormsa axp Jewniry,—Mary Ann Tierney, @ domestic servant employed at No, 66 Pane ae anny SALES OF REAL ESTATE YESTERDAY. By A. J, Blecoker, John MN,