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4 THE SOUTH. Reports of the Special Correspond- ents of the Herald, Progress of Reconstruction in South Carolina. Rebel Sentiments in Alabama and Mississippi. Effect of Mr. Stanbery’s Opinion in Louisiana. AFFAIRS IN ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. SOUTH CAROLINA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Crops in South CaroHnn=-General Sickles and the President—Petition of (' zens to ain Him—Political Movemente— Republican Meeting to be Hetd=The Recent — CHaRLEstox, June 24, 1867, Just now the weather and the crops are the greatest Gudjecta of interest. The heavy rains for several days past, it 15 feared, will be a serious drawback if not posi- tive injury to cotton, The previous dry, warm days aud nights, bad brought the plants toa healthy condition. and some had already come out in bloom, Should It clear up soon, however, a little oxtra labor will bring the plants out all right again, The abundant supply of vegetables and carly fraits has afforded fortunate relief to much of the wido-spread distress and threatened starvation throughout the State. The brisk business 10 fruits and vegetables sent to New York and Charleston has also been of good service to tho city, The yield of early Irish potatoes has been uncommonly large and fine, They retail here at ten cents per quart measure. Peaches and watermelons are also coming in freely, the former seliing at Gfteen and twenty cents @ dozen, the latter at twenty-tive cents ® melon, Genoral Scott, Assistant Commissioner of the Freod. men’s Bureau, is gradually diminishing the number of government rations issued in the country, and thinks the Prospect good for a still greater reduction than is now being made, The esteem in which General Scott is held by nearly all classes, for the fair and impartial manner in which be bas discharged his duties, and his efforts among the freedmen, have no doubt led to the report that he would be the candidate for Congress from this district. The General, however, does not claim to be a citizen of nd I am informed by some of his most intimate friends that he has been applied to to run as a candidate for Congress tor Toledo, Obio, the General's mative place, Strange as it may appear, the publication at this late day of Attorney General Stanbery's opinion as to the wer and actiona of the district commanders is regarded re as peculiarly ill. ed and unfortunate, Most of General Sickles’ measures have met popular approval, end the public mind bad become settled into a cheerful, ready acquiescence with bis ordera It was h by ail that President Jobnson would attempt no more coup: or DO more conflicts with Congress. It is believed that General Sickles will resign, but no thought is enter. tained that his resignation will be accepted. Already ® memorial numerousiy signed by the most prominent eiuzens has been forwarded to Washington, praying for his retention. At the opening of the June term of the Court of Gen- eral Sessions, on Monday, 17th inst, the radical friends of the nowly enfravchised citizens ‘endeavored to stop proceedings until a new jury list was made and the jury drawn in accordance with General Sickles’ order re- quiring the names of ali taxpaying citizens, irrespective color, to be piaced in the lista. Lhe difficulty, which at the Mme created some excitement, was, however, amicably setiled, as will appear by the following letter of Judge Moses to General Sickles: — ‘Major Genera) Daiet. E. S101 United States Army:— Guyarai—Fhe sheriff has submitted to me a letter to him from General Clitz, of th jeave respectfully to bring to your attention the difficulties which exist in regard to the observance of par: h 2, of ir Order No. $2, so far as relates to the present ‘erm of the court in Charles Under the laws in South Carolina. providing for the dr. fand empanelling of juries, it i¢ required that they be drawn at the preceding ierm to sit for the term next, and they must be drawn by the clerk an of the presiding judge ; should the latte: caune, be prev riff in the presence by indisposition or ted from atten the two other & magistrate, may draw the ju your Order was a ge presorited by law. @2nnot be ordered until the last diy of the term. and then t that und’ sposed cases remain om the dock. view, therefore. of prevent ng any obatruc. tice, which other wise must jow me to suggest that the court at this tm the jurors already summoned. [ will pas: Such orders at an early day of the session as will provide for & jury in conformity with your order for nest term Yours, very respecifully, J. MOSES. Heapquanters, Seconp Mititany District, Coaxtesrox, 8. C., Jane 1%, 1st. f ‘The ciroumstances set forth in the’ communication of Judge Moses show that it has been impracticable to revise the jury lists In compliance with General Urder No. $2 in Ume for the present term of this court, Paragraph 2, of General Order No. 82. ta, therefore, sus- ded in its application to the present term of the Court Bomnmon Pleas ead General Sessions for the city of Charlee: ton, and the jurors for said term may be empanelled as erotofore provided by law. By command of Major General VANIEL K, SICKLES. J. W. Crovs, Captain Thirty-elghth infaniry, a. A. A. General. General Scott bas 1 the following circular to oM- cers and agents of the Froedmen’s Bareau and to ciel. zens goneraliy, in referouce to the registration of freed. men:— im the ev 7 with tl ministration of corrcv rm Hmangvanrens, Assistaxt COMMISSIONER, Buneav or RErvGRes, | KEADMEN AND ABANDONED LanDs, ‘CuARLestoN, 5. C., June 19, 1857. The attention of officers and agents of this Bureau ts hereby called to the provisions of section two of the act of Congress 4 “An act to continue in force and to amend Dlish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and Fefugees, and Jor other purposes.” This section makes it the duty of officers and agente of the to use judiciously every means at thelr d sposal for disseminating such iuformation among the freedmen as will enable them, and, as far as possible, Induce them, to themeolves 0: ail rights and privileges euterred upoa them by the late act of Congress entitied “An act to provide for the more efficient goverument of the rebel State," aud the act supplementary the eto mercise of the privilege, a8 well as duty, of registra. tion, by ali freedmea properiy qualided, is of the first im- portance. Oficers of the Bureau will, therefore, at all times, advise and encourage such registration. For this purpose the various assemblages of te {reedmen shouid be take Vantage of; but, 11 1s especially cautioned that such 1 be aot encou: except ai such time and places not materially inierfere with the labors of the people and the ouluira‘ion of the crops, The efforte of designing persons, on the ono part, to im- the registration of the treedmen, aa well as of buch as judicious advice would rrine unwarrantable ‘on their part of future assistance from t! it, thereby encouraging idleness and neglect of the ci as far as possible by personal counse! 1. Itts hoped by the Assistant Commissioner that all citizens will see the linporwnce of the freed people properly informed upon all sunjecte relating io inelr en [rasobisement, and w officers tht act pe, influence aud of freedmen is to be held at The Fi and m them, ft Trench, som? prominent citizens, among them, ig reported, Lieutenaut Governor W. D Porter, Wisiiam Whaley, apd others Tho piace of mecting is on ine A Great mass meeting Green Poud, about tuirty miies from the city. meeting is to be addressed by General Scott, dine of the Charieston and Savannah Ra. ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Midland Alabama and Mississippi— bery’s Opiaion—The Crops. Jaoxsox, Miaa., Jane 23, 1867. From northern Georgia—where nobody seems to be aware that the war is over, and that certain issues which have been debated with the arguments of loud mouthed afUllory and the pointed logic of bayoneta are now @ettiod—the traveller passes, by way of Sherman’s cam- paigning ground, into the midiand counties of Alabama, the incorrigible, and lands, after a jaunt of twelve tedi. ous hours, at Montgomery. As one moves southward, sometimes through intermmable swamp lands, haunted with the fumes of miasma and the imps of fever, aad sometimes crawling past plantations at the rate of a dozen miles per hour, the foliage becomes more and more dense; deep jungles of tangled and seemingly im- penetrable undergrowth droop over drowsy and stagnant lakelota, and tall forests of magoolias, Hike hanging flower gardens, load the breezeless atmosphere with odors whose sweetness, from fie very intensity, is sickening and op- Preastve, antil at last every tree, bearded with hoary moss, looks ike # harper hoar tn ofd days whon harpors wore whiskers in full, or a Draid of old, or # gray Whiskered Bedouin who permis his beard to grow at full length because there are no barbers in “Araby the Diest,"” Everywhere the soil manifests a fecundity um known in more bleak and northora latitudes, and when unsubdued by the hand of toil springs up in fantastic and goblin growth, somewhat as an Arab's fancy weaves webs of fairy tales, or spins whole skeins of tangled and impossible romance, With its wonderful fecundity, the first question a Yankeo would be likely to ask himsouf, in passing through the midland counties of the Gulf States, would be the query that a people could be pro- prietors of @ country of such vast capability and latent resources, and make so little of it in the way of real wealth ; for the trath is, in making journey through central Alabama and Mississippi, 0a@ Seema to be whirliog at railroad speed through a land where nobody is aware that it is lator in the history of the world than the fifteenth cen 'ury. ‘The people in the provinelal counties here have heard of the emancipation proclamation—though they still insist that one Alabaméan or Mississipian can easily worst five Yankeos, and, like Falstaff with his men in bick- ram, they persist in fighting over ana over again their Quixotic confederate battles, insisting that Yankees are but windmills in war, and that though the knights of swamp and plantation have been outnumbered they are not defeated, Wore it not a matter of serious consce quence it would be amusing—the way the trae secos sionist labors to demonstrate that what is is not, and that what is not, is. Ask him point blink whether he is wilting to accept the issue, and he answers in the affirmative quickly enongh—addine, however, that as to admitting that the negro is his social equal he is just as far from itas ever. Nor is it possible to convince him that citizenship, with its equal rights before the law, is one thing, and soc‘al equality q1ite another, Among the more sensible and influential classes in Virginia and North Carolina something like a dim comprehen- sion of the issues involved in the admission of the negro to the right of suffrage is manifested; but in Alabama and Missis«ippi seventy-five per cent of the whole white popalation are just as little resigned to the new order of things as they were or would have been in 1860, Considerable sulieneas and apathy prevail, and but that there might be danger in omitting to bo regis. tered, not three percent of the white population here would take the slightest part in the administration of public affairs, The thread of argument venerally adopt- ed, is that the Yankees bave dove their worst, that their negroes have been taken from them without compensa- tion and made their political equals, and that unless a general system of confisca'ion and division is adopted, nothing more to humiliate them can be done than has been done already. It is that dread of confiscation. like Hamlet's dread of something alter death, that causes some little anxtety to reconstruct to be manifested by the true Mississipnian; and, deliver him from this ever present dancer, and nothing would prevent him from embarrassing evory measure of the government to the unnost, The Mississipp! secessionist 1s quiet bec: the dread of confiscation haunts bim, but not becat like the Virginian, he has had enough of tt and profe: to “shake hands and be friends"’ Nothing is more common than to agcuge the government most bitterly of a want of magnanimity towards them. ‘We are conquered,” saya the Mississippi secessionist, “and now give us our constitutional rights and we will be satisfied,’ which means, being interproted, since we can- not get out of the Union we will satay in it, provided wo are guaranteed all the rizhts which belonged to us before we forfeited them by trying to gt out. I have heard this argument in substance over and over again; though no secessionist ever admits that he has a intention of rebelling a second time, And, since the promulgation of Attorney General Stanbery opinion, so far as talk is concerned, all parties have suddenly become remarkably audacions, Whereas, for- merly, the complaint was that the military commanders in the several departments wera invested with arbitrary and despotic powers, it is now gravely contended that thev have no powers at all, and aro all liable to be calied to account under the |i cretion im removal, and expecta among the more sanguine of the immediate removal of Sheridan, who is, to the Southern perception, th ee oe cg the on ressional ow pry jority e ple hore woul to see Sheridan Poremoved, or his order modified even at risk of a July meoting of Congross—argueing generally, as they argue, that some- thing might possibly be gained in the scramble of a re- newed quarrel betwoen Congress and the Executive, though many of the better informed agree that they have nothing to expect from a special sesmon of Con- gters, except more stringent and unequivocal codes of Teconstruction, including probably the ivem of confisca- tion and division, either general or special. Officials oon by military authority gonerally sit uneasily in their seats, owing to the opinion of Mr. to the effect that their sitting at al! is illegal, and, in many cases, resignations are being sent in. In fact, if thore ever has been any quiet subm'ssion on the part of the ie here, that feeling of submission has been utterly issipated by recent events, and general demora'ization has taken the place of comparative acquiesence and oo- Operation. The rationale of the matter ts simply, A month ago the milltary authorities were unquestionably obeyed. because none dared to risk the question of their legal right to demand and enforce obedience; but no none are 80 as to render shoulder-atrap men an outward reverence, and pers»nal discontent has followed upon the heels of comparative quiet and resienat'on. ‘There is no mistaking the import of this ral ex- ultation over the opinion of Mr. Stanbery. If Sheridan ‘and Pope are removed, the removal w ted interpre: as a concession; if any displaced officials are reinstated the rebel element will have gained a triumph, and un- less the Attorney General's opinions are immediately nullified there can be no quiet admrnistration of affairs under the military authority, The result is easily ap. prehended, The reconstruction of the South, so far as it Telates to the sentiments of the people in General Pope’s department, bas been retarded six months by the dis quietude occasioned by the opinion of the President's legal adviser, and there is no remedy except in more stringent measures, perhaps, than are included within the scope of the present programme. Wore there no apprehension of this and of a special session of it is quite possible that the authorities might be set at defiance by the more rampant, and a 1 sear system of civil di jnaug! Certainly re is every dis- position on the part of the people here to embarrass the workings of the military government to any admissible extent, and that ext-nt is only to be limited by the limit of legal impunity, The business of ion has begun and is ing slowly, the general proportion of negroes to whites being about three to one. It is generally admitted, even by the most sanguine conservatives that the radicals— and every negro is a radicai—will carry every one of the Gulf states, sweeping the whole territory from Georgia to fexas, and that there 1s no sound discretion in en- deavoring to prevent it except by fraud or violence, both of which are dangerous aod impracticable. With the result of the elections, therefore, the opinions promul- gated can make no practical difference. In fact, the general sentiment is that nothing can be effected by op- position or by iusisting upon Mr, Stanbery’s interpreta- tion save tumalt and conflicts of jurisdiction, without any substantial alteration in the general results; and most of the agitation is from sheer desperation and il! nature, and not from any hope of modifying appreciably or more than temporarily the rigidity of military rule, Than the prospects crops for this season nothing could be more promising, both as regards the staples of wheat and corn, of which both Alabama and Mississippi have planted unusual quantities, and as re- gards the staple of cotton, of which less has been planted than in 1866; and I bave heard dozens of planters in this vicinity gravely contend that by raising a groat deal of corn and wheat and little cotton, it was possible to embarrasy the finances of the North, and, perhaps, by trading little, except in the way of domestic barter, to contribute to bring about the panic for which all seces- sionists are patiently hoping and waiting. At present the condition of affairs here is rather anomalous in point of business organizations. Money is scarce, and yet prices are far in advance of the Now York market, though {t must be admitied that deslers here aro not over particular about the genuineness ot tho currency they recerve, and coanterfeit fractional currency is tne rale rather than the excepti Nobody refuses a Ofty cent stamp because it happens to be counterfeit, and no- body hesitates to it for same reason: and this ts especially true of the smaller towns along the route, One pays twenty-five cents for a cigar in Mississtppl, which might be bought of any itinerant vendor on Ci! Hall square for three cents, and @ bad bargai of lemons two are bought for twenty-five cents, a other smal! matters, one may ruin bimseif financially by endeavoring to provide himself respectably with soap, toothbrushes and other necessary articles of toilet. One may pay a dollar and a balf fora breakfast of corn ‘bread and bacon, with coffee, and get all in infinitesi- mal quantities; and as to Southern rairoads, it seems to be a rule to take fares of less than five dollars for any bn ll over a of of a pig and at ‘sequent jolt from the track are daily oocurrevess, and in one case, on the Southside road, all hands, myself ‘among the rest, were tipped off the track and the car arterly Rearasslgh ahh tiv unk cone be om 4 assigned for it, ex @ track was rough car simply jolted of. Nobody was more than bruised, and after some considerable sacré-ing, & second train was made up, aod the poor, beartsick passengers were again swinging uneasily across deep gorges, every one of which pegs & possible ox- oe to Dante’s ‘‘Inferno."’ On the evening of June 8,1 spent another six bours in a Mississippi swamp for no other reason than that a siray cow had taken into her bead to make a fight against the train which was crawl- ing along at the rate of ten miles per hour and shriek- ing at small intervals, Aboard the train there was not even @ jack screw, and so, paseengers alternately assist ing and swearing, trees were cut down and transfered from the swamp to the scene of accident, and, after three hours of prying, the train was again eouen upon the ratis and, at snail's pace, the engine dragged on its burden of discontented freight, And thas, after a tedious oH sleepy, perspiring and morose, ali hands were set down in the morning at Jack- son, whence I write. LOUISIANA, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. in the Crescent City=—Secea. Letter=Not Matter, Bat Manner—Breakers in the Way ot Reconstruction—Louisiana Politics and Rebel Specalations. New Onteavs, Jane 25, 1967. Seditious feeling seome to have been stirred up anew by the recent letter of General Sheridan to General Grant, animadvorting upon the order of the President and asking for instruction, and no ordinary degree of bitterness of discussion prevails in circles from loungers at the corner to more aristocratio loungers at first class hotels, Officeholders under the United States are gener- ally jubilant over the independence of the commandant -of the department and condema the opinions of Attorney General Stanbery, in radical parlance the minioa of Mr, a NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1867.—TRIP Johnson, in no measured terms, predicting a July session of Congress and an interpretation of the inw by that body which cannot be mistaken, If not a removal of the Executive; while g-nerally the or'ginal sece:sioniats Tegard the affairas@ reopemng of the reconstruction con troversy, in which, amid (he general scrambte, something may or may not be gained by them in the way of conces- son from the one party or the other; and to gain that something—the point of getting back into the Union with some vestige of political power in their hands—they are willing that the business of reconstraction should be delayed indefinitely. The apathy to which the more bitter had betaken themselves, has for the nonce dis1p- peared, and the question whether the people of the South will not sustain the President rather than that restoration should be further postponed is anxiouely debated, eome arguing thas the North bas had quite énough both of campaigning and diplomady, and that it is possible, by a Fabian policy, in which e“erything is left undone, to worry the North into an admission of the Southern States unon terms of their own diota:ion. Confiscation they profess to regard asa legal impossi- bility, a contravention of the constitution arid a policy in the exercise of which the people would on no condi. tions back up the enacted statutes of the legislative body, Sill, the fear of attempted confiscation, like the ghost of Von Kusien, haunts their uneasy stumbers, and that which they profes to regard aga mere grasshopper in the brain of Thad Stevens, constitues nearly the sole reason why the agitators of the Crescent City are as quiet and subducd in their murmurings as they really are, roaring ‘unto each other as gently as the player of the Hon in the ‘Mid Summer Nieht’s Dream.” With the single exception of the Timer, the New Or- leans papers are ominously reticent, so far as any opinions upon the subject are concerned, though, being the official organ of the city, that paper must of course bo counted as a very accurate exponent of the genera sentiment, The Times of this morning, however, treats the subject in a style of ground and lofty syntax, censur- ing the General with most rhetorical severity, and leav- ing no syHozism of Whately, and no linguistic device of Blair and Quackenbos uaemployed, by way of wedding the loftiest mdtgnation to the loftiest and most Macauloyan diction, After complimenting General Shoridan on the brilliancy of his military caress, by way of carrying out the Longinian principle of effective con- trast, the writer proceeds with a sermonoid which might easily have been the offapring of a poet-prandial reverie of tho great growler, the Boswell ridden Dr Johneon The article concludes by advising a Mexicanization of the United States, Whatever may have been the acts of General Sheri- dan as commander of this military department, whether he may have deen indiscreet in word or deed, the cause of reconstruction would suffer by his removal and even by the modification of his orders, either of which woald be Interpreted as a certain concession on the part of the government to the factions clamor and discontent of the opposition. The New Orleans secessionist makes no ob- Jection so far as the remé of Governor Wells is con- cerned, or at least professes to make no objection And hore is interpolated a subtle distinction—a dis'inction without a difference, perhaps—between the manner and the matter of Sheri 's administration. Pretendedly it ig not to the substance of his acts that the objec'ion is made, but to the form into which that substance is rounded. Asa certain old Enelish rhymester describes the sermonizing of English clergymen, the orders, it ts insisted, are good, but the syntax and graramar of the General offensive, and it is asserted that he manages, With disjointed akilt, ‘The matter well, the manner fil; And, what seems paridox at first, He acts the best and writes the worst. hat General Sheri- je to the peopl taboved. Further than thia, to assume that secessionists are constitutionally gentlemen and must be treated with exceeding gentlemanly delicacy, no objector ventures— for the reason, perhaps, that to venture further would be to unmask himself and expose the real motive for ali this ciamor and hizh sounding nonsense about being treated with less of bluntness and more of Parisian flavor. “General Sheridan,” said a prominent secessionist to me yesterday, “is not received in‘o society in New Or- Jeans and counted the lion xpecied to be, an’ hence. his dissatisfaction and the sourness .and severity of his measures.” And this, so far as conversation is con- cerned, is the utmost that can be extracted, thongh there is not the shadow of a doubt that the real ground of all objection is the fact that the General cannot be trifled with, tampered with or hoodwinked, and sternly persists in quashing every move of the disloyal or — semi-loyal, matter how ski me ia how ‘many lions’ skins the feast, Temoval at this time, unless he should be succeeded by a radical of stamp most prenonce, would be regarded by al! parties here as a triumph of rebel influence over the adminis. tration, and would sow the seeds of a heavier crop of discontent than any future commandant ought to be compelled to harvest; and than it nothing could be more politic at the present juncture, when Attorney General Stanbery is everywhere quoted as the true knight of Testoration upon the rebel-conservative platform, and though rather Quixotic in hts tilt against the windmill of pee Bary ayeeproro is ati! borne on by the storm of Shou! ud {ts to victory, or more likely to defeat, Id there be no session of in July—as prominent secessionists insist upon predicting that there will—the work of reconstruction upon the Congressional plan will at once cease to be even ‘ated with by the greater number of the people squabbles ut the legality of this order or of that will have taken the place of submission before the 1st of August; and if anything ts to be done it must be done quickly and with sufficient emphasis to be unm sta- Kable in {ts meaning. Meantime the friends of recon- stroction on the ical basie are thongh waiting hopefully on the motion of affairs at Washing- ton, ‘‘L'é/at c'est moi." sneera the cronker at the street corners, quoting the words of the Grand Monarque, XIV., in allusion to the commanding general's letter; and thereupon follows a travesty of Sheridan's expostulation, like the following, which I heard a dozen times ‘ted with slight variation of verbinc My registrarion ;” ‘my district I regret that 1 shat! have to differ from the President ;" ‘he is not to be ‘rusie :” “this jadgment is wrong; “Iam right.” Of this itic, sometimes covert and sarcastic, often open and bo'd, are the comments upon the position taken by the General commanding this military district upon the President's tel ym requesting the registration to be kept open until date of August 1; and this refrain of iar feel. ing the Times takes and frames into rhetoric this morn. ing, only reproducing, however, the gossip of the street corners and of the loungers at rebellious St. James. The radical, on the other hand. maintain that General Sheri- dan 1s acting under a law of Congress, with which neither the President nor Attorney General Yianbery right to interfere, and over which neither ha: petent control or jurisdiction; and thns stands tion at present, and, in fact, until Congressional au- thority shail have pronoucced upoa it emphatically; afler which a season of quiet may bs expected, though meantime the cauldron botis and the public pulse beats foverously, danger of sedition and riot bubbles up anew, andthe ship of reconstruction, half-wrested from its moorings, shudders uneasily with every shifting of the wind of popular feeling and sentiment, only ; and their registrars have little business oxcept to insert thumbs carefully fo their mouths and look askance with an ex] jon of uputterable wisdom—though from every journal rises the rerrain in emali “caps” at the head of the editorial column:—‘“Not to register and ‘vote is to vote against the South;’ and croakers with unusual felicity of grimace roll their eyes very carefully up into the tops of their beads, and moan feebly the three sad sylables: ‘Register! The registration of whites fs, however, notwithstanding the general apathy, gaining in proportion to that of the blacks who, for the most part, have already regiete: and it is beginning to be very generally conceded that, if Mr. Staubery’s opinion is carried out to the letter Louisiana will give a moderate rebel.conservative majority at the coming election, granting that Congress should have no special Juiy sea- sion, and materially modify the programme, an event hich, pretendedly at “i re conservatives regard ramor that Senator Sherman ‘sees noth te yet to warrant an extra see y pon a calculation of mombers unable or un- willing to attend, doubts are expressed as to the gottiug together of « quorum. ARKANSAS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Horseback Trip inte Northwestern Arkans eae—Rich Pr Sunset View on Boston Greve Bai Towns, Wholesale Hanging and Fert My intention was to have taken the stage ranving here from Fort Smith, but the very billy, rough and stony road to be travelled ovor, the painful likelihood of the ricketty stage coach used for the conveyance of passen- ordeal of ruts and rocks and severe shaking to which it ts exposed ; the fact that this mode of travel necessitates an ail night's wearlsome journey over the moun- tains—really the most picturesque part of the jour. ney—besides giving but little opportunity to make inquiries as to poimts of interest om the road; and last though not least, any flank movement deing desirable to compass avoidance of the heat ‘and dust, and loss of sleep, and closeness, and con- stant collidings with one’s follow passengers, incidental to stage coach riding on & summer's day and night through @ mountainous country, determined meto make the journey on horseback. And #0, mounted on a spirited, but Meet, sure-footed and commenmdably tracts. ble steed, Il essayed the trip, Like the solitary horse. man of James’ novets, I had {t all my own way, now putting? spurs to my horse, and with the wild speed of Mazeppa galloping through mossy dolls, across swift running streams over gentle slopes; now stopping to take @ view of some beautiful landscape in which mingled mountain scenery, grain Qelds ruoling with growing wheat and corn and cotton, farm houses sot round with barns and orchards, the wayside brook dancing over its pebbiy bed, and epark- ling im the sunbeams; expansive groves of deepest emerald, and {ar distant saiing clouds; now letting my horse graze while I picked wild stras berries, growing in profusion by the roadside, and now tarking with travetlers I meton the way or farmers at whove houses 1 stopped for rest and refreshment of myself and horse, of scenes of the war, giving to this locality a special interest, and a history whose tragic legends will never fade from the memory of Joval Arkansans, Leaving tho Arkansas river at Van Buren, the ragged character of the road at once shows itself, There ts one continuous succession of hill, How General Blunt to his march from the Prairie Grove battle field to the cap- ture gf Van Buren, ever advanced with the rapidity Accredited to him, seemed a wonder, and it was @ Wonder that reached the height of the marvellous as we entered the moaoptain ravines beyond, traversed by his swiftiy moving cokimn. Eight miles travel through a broken country, and onty rare patches of cultivated ground and dwellings attached, but the chimneys of buildings burned during the war, to be seen at frequent infervals on either side the road, brought me to Dripping Springs, It derives its name from water dripping over the head of a gulch through which a creek runs. This was the head- quarters of a Texan regiment left to guard the outposts when Genera! Biunt came throuch bere; but so awift and auddeo, like a wolfon the fold, came down bis cohorts of cavu'ry, all gleaming with sabres and blue, that nearly all were taken prisoners, A negro, with two yoke of oxen and a load of wood, on his way to town had halted here for a drink. He was a very old darky, with very gray hair, a face very wrinkled and very poorly ciad. This is a common enough description of a common old darky. What particularly strack me as uncommon was the expression of sanctity, overshadowing Ike a pall his dusky features—an ox- pression so immobile, sterm and solemn, that had I been thinking of laughing negroes my thoughts at sight of bim must bave instantly reverted to weeping willows or Niobe dissolving im tears, As it was, something struck me that he was an original, and I thought I would draw him out, which I did, though with diderent results from what I anticipated, Where are you going, my friend,” I asked. “To heaben, I’se sure;’ and as he made this reply he rofied up his eyes in a manner indoecribably solomn and evincing fullest belief in what he said. “Then, as I am going in the othor direction from you,” T replied, “1 suppose Tam going to the other place "” “0 Lord, no, I hopes not,” he answered. “Fact I’m gwine to Van Buren to sell dat ar’ wood, but I “wone to heabea, too, and I tinks mo’ of dat than T does of de wood, I’se full of beaben dis mornin’, and I tinks of noth o’ else.” ” I suggested. «]Us a good subject to think of happens vou are #o full of tt?” “1 tell you, Twas in de corn feld, and I had a ‘pression on de head. It came ali of asadden. It came right dar,"’ and ne took off his hat and piacod his band on top of his bead, “and it strack me Hke a big beetle, and 1 fell down, and I saw a great circie o1 light all "bout me. I'd been beavy, but as I got up I felt Hight as a feduJer, and | bas felt ligut ever since, and 1 kunowe I's gWwine to Heaben sure,” 3 “Your conversion was like that of St Paul,” I re- marked, “‘Zactly singular to it, ‘cept St Paul was on horse- back aud I wa: driving a horse plowing, and he was a white man, and because of his learning’ became an ex- pired writer, which I isn’t; but the Lord consists me the same, and presorves me as he did Daniel from the venomous beasts of the forests, and serve him, for if I doan’t I knows I'li hay penatals of hell for ever, without a drop of water like dat ‘ar,’ and he pointed to the water dripping over the Fock, “to cool my tongk."” A conversation protracted to considerable length failed to draw out this ancient darky on other topics with any approach to intelligible succesa, The centrifugal forces of bis mind were in abnormal working order, and from all other subjects he won'd fly off likea tangent. I afterwards learned that this monomania of miraculous couversions had been his ruling theme and hobby for years, but that he is harmless and very trusty for all that My portraiture of him and his conversation I and the bianders reguiting from the failare m accuracy of his verbal leven ce pra seman wide, at one end of which is adam made by a scribing an inclined plane from witha front of cipitous front the water, now that the leaps in a furious flood—-a miniature fall of picturesque beauty, the water as clear as crystal, descénding ‘n one unbroken sheet, and its roar, which oan be heard some distance away, seeming a faint, far away echo of the falls ‘There was an irresis‘ible inclination to lin- & few fragments of the ruins now remaining. Near by run also the old chimneys of the mi dwelling, that kewise bad fallen a victim to war's dovastations. I tarried here fully am hour without a single soul passing on the road. The forencon bours had glided by so swiftly Iwas surprised to Gnd that it was pas: dinner Ume—that ms, noon, the democratic dinner hour in this country. Riding op, I turned in year. or the halves of a split Jog, with lege fastened in the bot- cod. her, comprised the table, and the dotestic manufacture aod service. 1 found the man of the hougs old but intelligent to a degree I bad not looked for. “Ie it true,” he asked, ‘that General Hindman bas gone over to the radicals?” “He epoke at a late meeting in Helena,’ I replied, “at bree Begroes participated, if that's any argumont in 0 case. “So I have heard. There is no faith in that man. He thinks he knows the winning side, and be has gove over to it His sole object is his own political advance- ment. He had better keep out of this section of the country, or he will be shot, sure Tiere area good many who have accounts to settie with him.’’ “Why so?” ‘ “He shot down, with his own hands, as good and true soldiers as were in the Confederate army, for what he called desertion. When the army got in tbe neighbor- hood of their homes soidiers would steal away, because he would not let them go otherwise, to see their famliies and get aome blankets or trifies wanted, and when they came back he had them shot down like dogs. He had a son of mine shot, as good, noble and pure a boy ‘as ever lived,”’ and the tears slowly cou! down his checks as he said this, while bis wife, who bad been listening, hid her pale, wrinkled face in bor hands, and sobbed violently fora few momen's at this paiuful re- vival of the memory of ber dead boy, “Vengeance is mine, salt! the Lord,’’ resumed the old man, “and to bim I leave the measure of punishment to be meted out vee tal i" f by this conversation and jore painful ae scene of at than perbaps by all the barbaric craelties of the war I had witnessed in my experiences with the army, I shortly resumed my journey. The land w more and more sterile, and the habitations and Cultivated places more rare as I approached the foot of Boston mountain, fifteen miles further on, around whose distant blue summit rifts of misty suushine and gold vapors had gathered and Sagered | aliday., The ascent this mountain is three miles. J reached the summit as ‘tho sun was aoout an hour high, and stayed till the san went down, enjoying the most magnificent vie extending ip every direction. Mount Rhigi may bo: of her incom ly good views of the rising there certainly are few sanset views finer than from tue summit of mountain, Here, away ‘rom tl din avd heat aod scramble and vice and convention- alities of the city; bere, far above the low bottom lands, where misma and scatters its powonous vapors; here, where there ie wealth of scenery of un- endiog and untiring beauty; here, where the sum: days are longest and the nights coolest; here, w! from the deep shadows of rocks gurgle forth the purest springs; ere ihe very moon and stars thelt mighipanysteniee--here 1s felt aod attaired that their mighty’ m; ore attain higher Joy nf existenos—that joy forever, the offspring of the beautiful, shadow strews Tea ma: 109 o'er tie mows With n mer eo ae it anew The las, wilt ovelieat Radiant with fireflies was the darkening night, and the alr was deliciously cool, and its stiliness only broken by the rustling breeze and the plaintive notes of the whip- poorwill, as, descending the mountains on this side, I came to Evansville, of at least what remains of the ancient village of it name. Here I succeeded in finding a sopping place for the night, This was at a log shanty, ‘ite duplicate of the one where I obtained my dinner, A man, his wife and five children consti- tuted the inmates It ‘co heaped a Koay pie 11 ag @ rustic retreat, having but two rooms, and these very smali, I ate from the same kind of puncheon id bad before me for supper the inevit- able corn bread, coffee and fried bacon. “Have you lived here long?’ I inquired of the man of ing prepared. He was a golute-a ing map, without educa- a‘ourtously eayer look of intelligence In his deep dar eyes, city? Born fo rertied, “about three afore the war, I reckon. Then the war cam T was con- sori pted, and they burned the house down, and my wife and children went to Van Buren til I come arter ‘em and * back hero." you fought on the Southern sido?" was a Southern fights maa, and am still, one of the dod darnedest Southern rights men, I reckon, you ever soed."” “How sot” “| wanted the South to have her rights, and if she had had her rights what do you think they'd beea?”” “Oan't imagine." “They'd half of ‘om been hong; and, damn ’om, that's ‘what the haif of ‘em desarved "' “Weil, from what you say I'll have to set you down for a good Union man, I see." “| sot myself down for that at bat they wouldn't Jot me stay sot. It was a musket aod servin’ under Tom Hi ’ wader and I LE SHEET. Mv anpper, ench as it was (and J felt no disposition to complain, knowing it was the best they had fm the house), and talk on pol with my host. who keeps Dimseif pretty well posted on current events throneh chats w th passen-ers passing through in the stage, as hé afterwards confes-e1, and subsequent smoking of my pipe. in which he and his wite both joined me after Mll- ing their pipes from my tobacco, gave me an agreeable, not to aay exhilgrating pleasure; but after I went to bed, whitch I did early and which I’ had to share with two totally grown up boys, to get any sleep—there was the rub, ‘Tis sweet to listen as the nicht winds creep From leaf to leat; ‘Tis sweet to hear the watch dog's honest bark ; "Tis avert to be awakened by the lark, Or lulled by falling waters: aweet the hum Of bens, the voice of girls, the aovg of birds, ‘The lisp of children, and their jiest words. Growling dogs, a squaliing baby, grunting pigs, restioas hens and a constant clanging choras of cowbells possess no substance or shadow even of saccharine spirituality, and jf this incongruong admixture of dissonant sounds bas in it wy ‘nz of soothingly narcotic tendency, it ought to visible to the naked eve; for there is no closing either eye under the influence of such a sleep- banishing chaos of sounds. In the morning, which seemed an indescribably long time coming, but which wags most welcome when it did come, I was not long in loarning that the town of Evansville had been burned during the war, and thats log_huts pat up since comprise the present settlemont. The rond here runs on the dividing line between Arkansas and the Indian Territory. On on not on the other. is, on the Indian side. My own opinion is, that If the specimen I tasted is the kind gen- orally sold snch villanous stuff ought not to be allowed tobe sold anywhere, Getting clear of the mountain, the change in the country was more apparent, and it grew more marked, Finely cultivated tracts of De- gan to show themselves, large orchards loomed up to view, abundant. laborers were in the fields and enter- Prise and thritt were evident on every ide till I reached Cane Hil! eighteen miles beyond. I had been told this was the garden of Arkansas, and as seeing fk believing, I now hel'eve I, This Cane Hill cousists of a succession or grouping of hills which are little more than sharply de- fined undulating ground, and originally were covered with cane, but now, except where cultivated, grows the finest imaginable timber, composed principally of black alnut, sugar maple, locust, oak and panpin. It covers an area of come seven miles in length, and from threo to five miles wide, Ihe soil is what is called the chocolate or mniatto soll, and possessas all the feriitizing qualities of the best bottom iand, several fine streams run through it. The e of the White river is here, as also of the I'lino's and a tributary of the Arkansas river. start from near the same place, and run in opposite di- rections. Sprincs of unsurpassed clearness and co'dn' are abundant. The apple, peach and pear orchards are 4 marvel, and so are the graperies, It is thickly setiled, and most of the land is under high cultivation. The people are Intelligent, having been accusiomed to good schools before the war, aud having some now, But there are few acctions throughout the State that tasted more bit- terly the fruits of th: war, All the farm houses were destroyed The old chimneys and gate posts are all that remain. Two gate posts, near Kidd’s mill, were pointed out to me where somo twenty men are said to have been hung doting the war, Dutchtown, which was occu- pied by German sottlers, and which is reached before Cane Hill, was utterly destroyed, and in the lat- ter town, the village formerly of this name, the only bulidings epared were the boarding bouse formerly attached to Cane Hill College and a church, and their Ppreservat‘on was due to their being occupied as hospitals. Most of this work of destruction was committed by Colonet Jennison, commanding the Fifteenth Kansas in- fantry, who, for this wholesale demolition of property of rebels and Union people al ke and free banging on both sides, was dismissed the service, New log and frame shanties have taken the place of the old framo hou: bat it will not be long before fine farm houses aro built again, and abundant schools and churches are in thriving condition. A steam sawmill hag already been built, which is the initiatory step in this direction. A school 18 now kept in the old college penrting house, which is largely attended, the teachor being Mr. Buchanan, son of the clergyman, who still preaches in the chure nearby. I got into conversation with this clergyman, who declares himself a constitutional Union man. I found before I got through that he is about as good a rebel as one will meet tn a day’s travel, although he persistently denies the soft impeachment, “Did you remain here during the war?’ I inquired, “Yes, sir; I stayed through it all. “Were vou molested any?” “T should say I was; I had my fect burned to make me tell where my money was, and 1 havn’t fully got over ‘t yet.’” “Who burned your feet, rebels or Union men ?"’ “fhey were not our own men or Union men either. They wore a ret of des; the werat set of villains leled interest. Prairie Grove battle ground, ten miles further on and eight mijes from scene of one of the severest contests fought in the State—shows litte now of the conflict, A small white house, which was between a portion of the contending armies, is still standing, and completely riddied with shot’ and shell, looking very much like the Dunkard chorch on the field of Antie- tam. An orchard, where was the thickest of the fight, is badly cut up; and there are abundant trees all about showing the scathing marks of shell in the limbs torn from them and deep indentations in their solid and mas- sive trunks. The history ofthis battle has been written, but there is a single incident connected with it that Colo- net commanding the “econd Arkansas infan- it the of the war, but at this time Major pe gi cavalry regiment, whom I have met, telis me bas never 4 pero in print:—The ammuoi- tion of the federal forces was gotting very low, and must be had from Rhea’s Mills, where the supply train was, Ton ambulances were started with the am- munition to faa us. A protest was made against this unwarlike procedure, It was stated that the ambu- i i Ozart Ipstitute, the latter a mile out of town. and being eed as a hospital, wore theonly public re ge But the place is rapidly Mi 1@ people liv. ing bere are of the right kind of go-ahead ma- terial, and the country ail at bas in ft the element of strength and success. A new paper, called the Fayetteville 7imer, and in the conserv. ative interest, bas jost started, and efforts are being made to bring into the field a competition republican paver, — Politicaily, the town is believed to be about evenly divided. Party strife does not ran very high, aud I have found politics leas talked bere than in any town of the size I have been in the State, I heard one lon, not because I like it, ter of policy, Wait till we get back into the Unton, and then look out; for we will then make the for fly.” That this is the general idea of the rebel ele- ment I do not believe, Most of them I am satisfled have accepted the situation in faith and are anxious and doing their pest to get the State back into the Union. Fayetteville will always fill an important niche in the Wt of the late war as regards this State. All about here the armies were encamped, aud frequent the clash o arms and shedding of blood. It was here that rebel loyal Arkansas regiments first met in battle, Gen. Cobell bad alway: been saying that Union troops raised in the State would not Aight, On April 18, 1863, with a force numbering three to one of the loyal troops, he bad a chance to test what truth there was in his declaration, The loyal troops whipped bim unmercifelly, and set bim to running at such speed that he did not stop till be reached the Arkanaas river. Thave referred to tuis part of the State as the garden of Arkansy, and so it undoubtedly ia No finer frait, apples, pears and peaches are raised anywhere than in ashingron, Carroll, Newton and Madison counties. The peach crop indicates slight damage by frost, but will do well, and the by my and pears never promised betier. Fine wheat crops, that will compare favorably with the cr in California and Pennsylvania, are raised here, snd there is & splendia of a good harvest, Wheat, corn and fruit are it staples, The corn, though backward, Jooks well jut little cotton ia raised, and most of the farmers do their own work, and negro labor is not much employed. The poverty and gloom by the war are ly disappearing. Health. increasing healthy litical sentiment out their good work. Se! 8 supported iption are being established im noarly every loyal troops were section of the State, Such a people may than tn a be ted. Libert, and prosperity are their rightfat fanername, Civitieation, intelligence, woeersees and have long centred here, and fora long time in the futare amid this hardy, industrious, people will be their grand radiating point, TEXAS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Annulment of a State Law. ~ Sax Aytonto, Jane 20, 1867, The following is the petition of citizens of this place requesting that the Union judges elected forthe two Judioal districts be roinstated in their offices, and that their circuits he restored. It will be remembered that the petition was granted by General Sheridan « short time ago:— rr Saw Axtontn, Texas, March 28, 1867, Major General P. H. Suxaivan, commanding },)/itary Die oe Louisiana and Texas; headquarters, Now Urieas, Sta—The undersigned citizens of the city of Sam An tonio, Texas, beg leave to cali your attention tos great il, whieh the je of this portion of state Dow evil, w! ‘peo portion of our maton ou in consequence of the partial aod Of ouf last Legisiature, abd most reepoct(ullg aak Of YOu to remedy & evil. Prior to the rebellion there were two. ial districts in Western Texas, known as the Fourth and Eleventh. The former was composed of the counties of aoe Bianco, Cys Kerr and Kendall, aad the latter bel ron tue pooph tb ~X srinete were auusganned thon the je of these di for their loyaity to the government of the United Sunes and in consequence they were greatly uted ani siffered much. The Cor by Governor Hamilton, under the direotion of the Prosident, in the Z constitution framed and sul to the 19 for thoir adoption, did pot pretend % change thege judicial dis. trietes but the Com ‘on the last day of its ses. sion, when many of ite hea passed a separace ordinance the Legislature at its first session, or at any tind thereafier, to redistrict the State, #0 as to equalize and apportion the labor of the s-veral As we stated, this ordinance did not form part of the viganic law, and Union men supposed at the time it was iptended as a@ protext to legislate out of office all persons elected who mixht be opposed to the principles of secession, The constitution expreasly de clares that judges shall be elected by the qualified voters of the district, and that they shall hold thele oflices for and during the term of eight years, At the first election in June last Thomas H. striblin, & promiaent aod well kuown Union man, was looted Judge of the Fourth Judicial district, over a very proml- nent and active rebol, by about eight hundred majonty. W. P. Bacog, avotber prominent Union and who had served in the Union army, was elected Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district with only sixteen disMenting Votes, and that over an active rebel, who has since re- ceived an official appointment of importance under the present State government. The Legisiature at its last session, under the of apportioning and equaliging the labor of the.di Judges, partitioned and divi out these and two other districts, which bad ‘among ‘the sugrounding judges, who were lately active rebela and are now notorious rebel not ope Union judge was avowed argument used in the Legisiature in support of oe Co aa ey proceeding was to get rid of the rad cal judges. This county of Bexar was added to the Fourteenth Ju- dictal district, of which B, F, Neal is the District member of the State rebellion, and was an active particpator in the rebellion. He 1s, therefore, not eligible to the office under the Mil bill, The counties of Comal and Gillespie, Kerr and Kendall, of the Fourth; M Uvalde, Frio, Manerick, Kinney and lere Kighteenth; Presidio and El Paso, of Eleventh, ‘and two other counties were all included in one district, and called the Fourth; and the Judge of the Eighteenth, N. Noonan, was by legisiative enactment made Jud; of this district, The county of Blanco, of the Fou was added to the Judicial district John Ireland, a well known rebel symvathizer, and remarkable for hostility to the government of the United Judge Noonan was originally a Union man, and in hig sympathies for the rebel cause has never been v! and is belioved now to be Union in his feelings and seme timents, and is a very good man. The only office held by Judge Noonan before the rebellion, was that of nota ry public, and he was Judge of the Eighteenth distriot during the rebelliou, It is impossible, however, for bi to diecharge the duties of district judge over a county more than seven hundred miles in extent, from the county of El Paso to Comal. By this n:farious“act of the ture more then three thousand voters were dis! hised im the Fourth Judic’al district, and they placed undes the jurisdiction of two other Judges, in both of whose districts together there were not more than two-thirds the number of voters This county (Bexar) alone has a population very nearly as large as both Judicial districts. This, by far the largest commercial c.ty in the interior of Texas, is tef, without a judge to grant a conservative writ, without travelling @ Week's journey to procure the order; and all this has been inflicted upon us because of the elec- tion of Union jndges. Now we, the undersigned loyal citizens of this city, ask of you to remedy this evil, and if, under the provisional government, judges aro to be maintained, as we suppose from your order they will be, we bog that the Jud cial districts be restored to the condition in which they were at the beginning of the rebellion and as they continued up to the time of the action of the last Legislature. We ask that Judge Thomas HM Stribiing be restored to the Fourth Judicial district, and W. P. Bacon, of El Paso, to the Eleventh, to which they were respectively elected by such large Union majorities in Jane last. They are both true Union men, able and competent. Judge Stribling held the office of district judge for a time under the con. federacy, until forced to leave the coon on neonate of his Union sentiments; but he nover held any poait Brior to the rebellion as a public functionary, except alderman of this citv. Judge Bacon took no part in the rebellion. OF course woshould also rejoice to see the othor two judges elected last June and Jegislated out of office on sccouat of their Union sentiments, rev stored, but as we have no direct interest im the matter, we leave it to yourown judgment. AH of bt ibe eg gin ricki gotten 5 a ig Gross, Bork, F. Schenck, August is &. Hertzberg, L, 1wonski, E, Pentenrieder, Bennett, R, Wuling, M. Slocum, Wm. W. Gam bie, 5. P. Gambia, D. Bell, W. B. Moore, Craristopa Rhodsua, Juis. Dressl, J. A. Pashal, E. Degener, Jao. O, French, A. Dittmar, Payton Smythe, J. J, Thorntea, Alex. Russy, C. Aeron Sami, Beit 0 5 Heavquaersns, Firra New Orizans, La, Respeotfally referred to Brevet bean Naeem Attorney General Stanbery’s Opinion. The Southern papers generally receive the late opinion of the Attorney General on the reconstruction question ‘with favor, but there are some striking exceptions, For Instance, the Atlanta (Ga.) New Era, which has never ‘been accused of Northern radicalism, says:— ‘ Setnncenih bene enmes ieee gs Cooler apm Notes on the Situation. Ex-United States Senator Hill is daily continuing hie “Notes on the Situation” in the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Number eight is the latest effusion which has reached us, The Notes have so far beon made up of columns of querulous complaints of the action of Congress and the Northern people towards the South. Not a single statesmanlike view has been enunciated, ore word of advice given to his “‘sufforing countrymen,"’ We should think the South had read enough of this diluted trash respecting constitutional and State rights, Is Senstor Hill aware that there bas been @ revolutionary waria the United States? Reconstruction and Registration. {From the Columbia (&. C.) Phosniz., AN, important. And the isnapen ta men Oh, shades 0 ‘be men the reconstruction acts or any of our read- the acts referred jetermined to have tice at this time, are oppeeed toa convention and ali that, let them remember that they cap. ‘yous convention onicss registered = They Fn evel forts BFS mt pre om their opinion on subject, that i Tete auty of all, wi may be their to a next in the the next vote, under nds of the the utmost im common since the wi (From the Raleigh (8. ©.) Sentinel.) ‘DeTY. ‘oun , What should be the course of our people? If the Reconstruction acts of ( are not materially changed or modined by entitied to voie, should by all means reziser as @ voter. He should put imal in. poston to help the and promows ite welfare, tt ible. In eoetont be should gote, but oniy for honest, good men, em lly to the people in every county of the Stati in all cases of olection, where there is any prospect the Of the conservative men to an honest, true conservative candidate in any , the next best vote for an true man,