The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1867, Page 5

THE SOUTH. lerrespond- 7 ports of the Special ents of the Herald. bange of Public Sentimeyt in Virginia. HE RECENT RIOT IN TENNESSEE, a pe AD PROSPECTS OF LOUISIANA. "VIRGINIA, nap BO SPECIAS TELEGRAM =TO THE HERALD. é etal Orde r from Cieneral Schoficld—An Fix- ted Pr/.ze Fight—A Writ of Errer Issued Chief, Justice Chase. ‘Ricamonp, Va,, July 18, 1807, ) 9:30 o'clock P.M. § fol swing order has beon printed tor ikevance by ¥ chofleld : — GEXBRAL ORDERS NO. 423, Heasrqvantans Fines Shiurtary Disrnzey, } if or Vinurxia, Ricumonp, Va., July 22, 1867. § 1 Hays, “Major Yitth rullery, rued trom temporary yin the Fourth Military di-trivt, 1s horeby assigned bo command of the sub-ut-trict and the post of Monroe, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel George i captain Eleventh United States infaniry, relleyed by General Hays from the com. Of the gub-disfrict of ort Monroe, will hits duties ax acting assistant inspector gene- Brevet Colonel H. A. Dupont, Capiaia Filth United ites artiilery, on being relieved by Goueral Hays from mand of the post of Fort Monroe, will resume com- of his battery at Richmond. Va. y command of Brigadier and Lrevet Major General J. M. SCHOFIBLD, United States Army. F, Quauriy, Aseistant Adjutant General. match haa beon arranged here between Billy White Bam McGlae to fight for a purse of $1,200, on the ith of September next, betwoen this city and Norfoik. fhite 19 backed by Richmond and McGlade by Norfolk. Chief Justice Chaso has issued a writ of error in the fizcation cases of McVeigh and Bruin, of Fairfax ty, Va They will come up for hearing at the Oo- term of the Circuit Court, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. rdiunvy Change of Politicn! Sentiment Virginia—An Lnevitablo Revolution—The mario Mecting—Reselution Passed at isa County Meetlng—iHunnicatt’s Aver- mm te New Acquaintances—Negro Lawicss~ he Black Majority in Rich:nond--Re- rt Untrue of Negroes Being Appointed on Rhe Police, Ricuwoxp, July 11, 1867. observer of politics in Virginia ean fail to be atrack the extraordinary revolution of ideaa which a few mooths have initiated and set in motion among elagses variously termed passivists, reactions! obstructioniv!s, and who, antorior to the brief space Mime mentioned, #0 fervently entreatod to be let 1 Prominent beforo all the recent expression of 4 political convictions ia the meeting in Albomarie, quondam ultra secoasionists vied with each other prefessions of attachment to the republican party, formed with solemn reeolve a determination to link fortunes to those of the trio who with 60 pantomine of patriotism magnanimously ly in Richmond) waived their potty di‘ferences, Joined band in hand for tho honor, glory and proit Tepublican party—the three political graces, Botts, oint and Hunnicutt, That Albomarle should’ take ‘Yead im this very decided rovolution—thia plucking y the roots of old grafted associatione, prejudices Principles should doubtless excite astonishmont one end of the Old Dominion tothe other, Albe- with the largest but two counties of a slave popu- in Virgin'a before the war, where fourteon thou- made the divine institution a valuable privi- and where, if ever secession was desirable, there pye grounds to base a protexton, Yet hero the te of surrender bas been sounded—the first kindly of greéting have been spoken to the stalking rr of radicaliam, and from here dates the reyo- which is now underway throughout Virginia, out old Jandmarks and overiurnieg many a hed idol, the heels of the Albemarle coalition comes the from Louisa county, from Buckingham, and from wfleld that the whites, otherwise the conserva- have been holding meetings and adopting resvlu- ws which, ifthey mean anything, mean the razing of the time honored fabric of Democracy and the A on its #ite of the great modern templo of Rad- mM, at Which the people of Virginia are invited to hip for alltime to come, To show the absence of j ex: ration on this 6 ibject, tue following resolution ‘Bt Louisa Court House amply proves the exis- of the revolution to which I refer, if it does not dow a deluge in the bargain. Resolved, Believing ‘gg tnaroldable the oonnection of of the southern States with one or ihe other of teal organ e mation, and regarding the D pariy of the United States’ as the only yurty ‘enn restore tho Union and give peace, seourity ead wiih that pargy, by voting {if permitted tot x oti, emitted todo #0) fo ‘candidates for ‘Prewilent und Vico-Presideet” and by in the election 49 the Senate and House of Represesi- wee, wen Virgin! titled to repreeeutation | Congress of the T 8 Seater oe heater y cl ‘nion thresh all the vicissitudes of our Inte civil etrngcle, Temerk one thing,” said an ex-Confederate soldier “that these feliows who are so cager to join the cale were the first te run ou! of the Unioa te save i! mfr * 2ome extent the soldier was true; bot lam to think thore men who, by their exit from the drew #0 many with them, wiil, by the natural jn- ce of birth and position they exert down hera, draw Ay after them into the ranks of the radicals. Hua) however, repels the anxious advances of thes 5 Be p commyees c : mi wishes to re le wanis no one togajole and manag the ne. ‘Pat himself: for the nogross are a powor’and may oo Governor of Virginia, to which he objection, instance were wanting of the lawless spirit which predualiy manifesting itself among ! must say only Gt class of freedmen, the occurrence of last iy at the Petersburg depot affurds ample evidence. d convict, lo; tried and sentenced to five imprisonment in Fong seme was takon by a of nagrmes out of the hands of the Sheriff, 8 manacies and sot bauble, and the oiticors detailed to execit 105 a nadless and pestiferous sot, ‘overwhelming imajority the biacks eontrived tn this has not alone exe:ted suspicion, but ive alarm. What is to prevent the election of councilmen and other mrnicipal officers of the b ‘ ve, will take place ia the irge ligt of biack votors for non-resitence, re- iatering nnd other fraudniant dodges which ope in their simplicity imagined were 1 and wiatement that blacks have been appointed on the ie entirely prematirs. ‘That they wilt bs ap. | 4 In the lapse of timo ls provablo, but this foreing | Byok equality —this share and #ha: jemand— | ly sow tho seeds for cat much “talked of aud I | inevitable war of ta Wrthoville=Politioal Partics Or- lam Radionls In the Ascendant—Hx- te Vote the Republican Theket. Wrernavice, Va., July 11, 1847, files !o this ection is the all absorbing te as | jon advances the mors Intoase is the interest ffedied ia the questions involved in recon: are organizing and preparing for the a tes Thus far tuo radicals are decidediy in the dant—that ascendancy will be much more marked election approaches, Tho black vote will be cast for the Hunnicutt wing of tho radical party; 40 that will be a majority of the white vote, Th Majority in the Old Dominion will pot be twenty-fve thousand. That party will carry evory fressional district and three-fourths of the members 0 Stale Convention and Lagisiature, That may Smprovable to those who ars ‘unacquainted with rae sate of public opinion, but it ts neverthe- rue, radicals of Virginia have adopted as their policy & a of free schools and the abolishing of poll taxes, taxing lands to support ‘schools, build roads (he State government, landed proprietors 0 tmprove: or" ein wea apd oak down the landed ariatooracy. in. ‘i not only just of itself, but popular with ieaigeertiny eat Liat gt TENNESSEE. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALQ, The Late Riot in Franklin~Seme New Facts— Whe it was Caused By and How it was Caused= Radicals Charge Conservatives with In jz it, and Vice Verea=Bad Pros- Pects for the State Under Brewalow’s Ru! Nasuvaiia, July 7, 1867. ‘The telegraph bag already flashed you the news of a bloody riot at Frenklin, in this State, between the whites and blacks, resulting in the killing and wounding of “hout thirty, A mumber of persona who were eye-wit- nesses of the disturbances from beginning to end have arrived in the city to-day, and from them 1 have gleaned fall particulars, which I hereby transmit, My inform- ants are made up of tiacks and whites, radicals and rebele; and as their slatements gonerslly correspond, eaceptin one important particular, the appended ac- count may be relied upon as correct. On Saturday (yesterday) Joba Trimble, radical candt- dato for Congress fa this district, together with a couple of Legislative candidates, had an appointment to speak in Franklin, which is eighteen milee from Nashville, on the Tenneseeo and Alabama Railroad. Tbe day was fine, andalarge crowd, the great majority of whom were negroes, turved ont to hear the speaking. Everything passed off quietly durmg tho delivery of the epecches, there belag no interraption except that prompted by ‘The speaking over, tha colored Loval League, ng abort elghty-Ave men, paraded through the styeets to the sound of nimrtial music, A namber of those in the procession were armed with shot guns and musiets, white the officers bad drawn swords, which they flourished In regular military styfe. Tt is stated that the conduot of the League as they marched and counter- marched throngh the streets, while not directly provoca- tive of a riot, vas euch as to trritate and inflame the minds who compose over nine-tenths of the Tho irritation and ani- not likely to be atlayed by witnessing a number of placards which were carried scession, Among the mottoes wore the Remember Fort Pillow when you cast your yoio;)’ and this other, “Radicals build our eehool houses; rebels burn them down,’”? J. can hardly be said that there was anything really riotous in all this; bat when 13 borne in mind the ine flamed state of the pablic mind in Ternessor and what insignificant tr'flos bring about bloodshed, it will be con ceded that the negroes acted very injudicionsiy, to say the least, Row: they are mostly dependent for sup- port on white rebols, and, if for no other reason than that of policy, the colored people should endea- yor to cuitivato fmendly relations with their em- ployers. Tr enght to bo stated, — however, that they are drilled end encouraed to acta of Indiscro- vd Jawlemsuess by white radicals, who perpetually nto the nezro mind, through thy agency of secret societios and joyal leagues, that tho lands of rebels will be confiscated and turned over in convenient lots to the to of the State, About five o'clock in the evening Joo Williams ar- rived in town, on his way to Nashvil'o from Spring Hill, where he had been making @ conservative speech, Joe wavery noted colored man having acquired hi- noto~ risty and repatation from his exposure of Brownlow, and the pungent and carnost specehes he is continually ma- King in the interost of the conservative party, While passing throng Franklin in a buggy be was stopped by @ number of persons—white and biack—among thom ral members of the Loyal League, who portuned bim to deliver a speech, Joe con sented, and commenced his address about six o'clock, steps of the Court House, While engaged 1 corons!y dissecting Brownlow’s pro-slavery. rocord, aud about tho middle of his speech, a 10 radical named Bliss approached a colored é¢rammer and whispered something in his ear, Immediately ths drums commoncod a reg lar clatter, when the leaguers, amidst a great deal of confusion and noise, started to leave. Tho racket and unseemly noise was kept up fcr enmo time, at last compelling Willams to desist from flashing bis harauguo, This I have gleaned from Wil liam’ own lips, By this time tho rebels were indignant and fast becoming exaepeyated. One of them, an ex- Colonel named House, approached Biiss and accused him of inciting tha negroes to break up the meeting, at tho famo time remindiug him that tho radical speakers were not molested, Bliss retorted by denying the accusation, which had the effect of eliciting offensive epithets from doth, Houso at lust striking the other in the face Biss at once retired with the negroes, remarkinz that ha wouid be revenged, The procession then formed and moved south of the town somo two or three hundred yards At this timo, eigit o'clock, there was a good deal of excitomont on both sides, and as some of the reboig were evidently arnmng, annmbor of prominent citizens interested themselves to preserve tho peace and prevont bicodshed, Several radical gentlemen, among them Mr. Elliott, candidste for the State Senate, repairsd to where the procession was, and urged ths negroes to dis- band and co home, Vhey-had arranged for a torchlizht procession, but wore prevailed upon to desist, So they formed again tn line and marched up towards the Square, with the pu », it is stated, of there disband ing. Asthe head of the column reached the square, whero a considerable number of rebels and colored men were congregated, 9 shot was fired, but whether by the rebels or by @ man in the procession is just now the subject of bitter dispute, In less than three seconds a general volley waa fired by eacn side, resulting in the wounding of Li hao nw nogroes and eight whites, A Whito man named Cody, a livery stable keoper, was willed outright. fhe fring did not last haif a minute; but from the preparation and promptitude manifested by both sides, it is quito apparent that a fight was not unexpected. Rebol witnesses aad mo colored men who were siauding on the squars aver positively that the firet shot camo from tho procession, while the rad’ positively anvert that they wero first As @ military investigation is now going ig quite probable that the real truth in this particu- i) One of the '8, who attended 1 of them, and who gives it as his opinion that fatally wounded. A company of reguiar troops left here to-day for the acene of tho riot. The situation in Tennessee at the present time is as bad scan well be imagined, nor is there any prospect of an \nprovement until the present State government is sub- it tuted by @ miliary one, as in the other Southern taLes. cal negroes just fired upon, on, it la ALABAMA. * “iy CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.’ The Mobile Repnbdlicans—Divisions Among ‘Them—Nadical Leaguers—General Swayno’n Political Movements—The Mobile Commen Council~DiMeulty to Get a Municipal Gove ernment—General History of Republicanism io Alabama, Mostcomery, Ala, July 8, 1867. The republican party in Mobile is composed of sevoral factionc, cach striving for the ascendancy, and hostile to the ether wings or factions of the party, The first at- tempt at regular party organization after the passage of the Sherman Military bill, was by two Northern lawyers named Harrington and Turner, who, havieg conatitujed themselves tho special legal aud political guides of the blacks, organized a Walon League. It may bo here stated that there two mon figured in the courts In jobile recently for participating tm obtaining money fy'om the freedmen under faize pretences, on which oc- cation come disclosures were made damaging to their rep ttation. Into this league only a few white mon came beca we of 8 prejulice against the colored membors. 14 wa 3 determined to form another league for the benent of aligquasi repovlicans whose prajadises against color were \ stronger than their principles This move was pas sed by the leading black and white moa of the party °, Dut a white leagoe was organized by such mon aa the ty 70 Brombergs (mnasle dealors), William Hunter, Gustavus y Horton aud others, of the republican party, who, the vs °gr09s #97, preach them long sermons about their rights, bat bave in no practical manner benefit. ed them poh Ueally or othorwise, The orgenization of the two jeacue § Was the cause of distrust io the minds Ap ‘ople, They arguod that the soundnoss of the profession * Of principles in the men who woald not recognize thn @ politically, even ia secret council, wan to be douls In this, they said, they could only + dangerous gyirit of hostitity to their race wich they bad been fighting against in their for} ere. in true men who hat man. fully fou, jnctien being made in the party hed beon loadiy cy Netred and proscribed by cer- in Membors of the w vite lexgue, They argued fur. ther, “chat those men whe ol openiy in accord. ano Wiid thoir political pra “@sslone wore e@fish ant de- wigting, and wore aliatmg atin NE mana of she colored vote to advanos their own and yet mold what they believed the tho public, Odium of acting openty thoso proforvions of equal polit lal rights and equatity to all mon, without distinction of color. Auother leagos was ostablishey’ by Abort GriTin, editor of tho Valionatice (» repabis a weekly paper), This was a simoM-puro diack Jeagne’) And Griffin, it to esid, beloved he could manage the dlacke and w! ly completely ooutrot the reput; ‘ican party im Mobile, an evfort in whieh he bas almost fu, "ly succeeded. Griffin is a forciole epoaker and a good writ ‘%) Sad pos wesess consiforabie politival tact, The My Sigomory Sen'inel (vepublicaa) says Griffin was @ Kan*a9 Jay- hawker, but of this I know nothing. He ie th’ most ultra radical (n (he State, and {9 styled the Marat oy the republican party, [is paper was started ag “ihe de men’s organ,’ bui he claims that {t abandoned ite olas) characiér as toon as Congress proclaimed political equality for the colored race, ‘Still another loagus was goiten up by J. A. Eastborn ® Justice of the parce, an “old style’ sort of gontle. maa—Dr. R. Miller, abd others, This is an out and ont White man’s league, and seems to ve a sort of balance Wheel afleir, started with @ view of reconciling discor- SQ) slemenig in the gorerg) ping and kepwon the. Ser eke Eas bake a a prospect, Gri ton and Turner or! and Pa nh i geno LOUISIANA, Doves, ed an in slegod by the ousazvative or wo called RESPONDENCE OF THE e ive rebel to atir up aii between the whit: d SPEDIAL. CORMESPONBEREE OF SHE WERALD. t ser- vants, and in many instances dependents; “that in the event of the threatened discharge of the colored people from their places of employment throaghout the State Decacae of their unwillinguess to become the political tools of their employers, we will, as loyal citizens, unitediy and persisteutly invoke the presence of a are the enemies of thoir late slaves and present Standing army for our protect‘on and for the secarity of all loyal citizene: and we will, as a part ational republican party, make the condition of our Pens thus persecuted known to the Congress of the mited States, coupled with such demand for further legislation, looking to the punishment of treason, as the necessities of the end may demand, even to the coniis- cation of roperty of the guilty.’? declared that Pie o thar undeniable right to hold office, sit om jure ride on to ‘all public conveyances, to ‘sit at public tables, and in public places of amussment,”? A short time after the holding of this convention, the “treet car rots o¢- curred in Mobile, which came very noar resulting in considerable lous of life. It is possible that the presopes of ine military only prevented great excesaes from being committed. The ili feeling eugenderod by this riot cul- minated in the Kelley riot, tho removal of Mayor a scon followed, and a complete revolu- thon m the city government, In the appointment of delegates tothe tate Republican Stato Conyontion held in this city, Grifin e»mpletely outgeneralled tho other wings or fictions of the league or party In Mobile, and secures a delegation entirely in his (Grifin’s) interes'# and bimseif at's head. Griftin’s Joague is completely controlied im tue interests of C eral Swayne, In this, I believe, all authorities coi even Grifla himeelf, ‘The Harrington and Turaer league ris partly in tho interests of Geveral Swayne; 80 12 the Horton and Bromberg !oagne; and iho Eas(burn league, an independent organization, is yory @ tive, keepingya sharp lookout for numoor one, b to eLact tho rive of tail to anybody's kite for a co eration, When Gonoral Swayne undertook to reconstruct tho city government of Mobile it is believed that ho little imagined the Herculean task bo‘ore him. It seems at firer, m order to “temper wd to the shorn Ianib,’? ho adopted the policy of pandering to the consersaive element—so the radicals cootend—and selected ae Mayor Withers’ successor Mr Gus.avus Ilorton, a very m ld- mannered, moderate sort of man, an? appointed as membe's of the two city boards some citizons who did not belong to any organization, for the purpose of making it apparent that the selection? wero fa.r and not party movements; though I beticve that it is weil Known that most of the lirst appointees were inactive or quiet mombers of the republican party, and somo of thein mombora of the league. Tho republican party Is in a considerable minority in Movile, ani the conrorva- tivo or rebel element’ became quite indignant at the woconstruction of the municipal goverameut by military anthority ant tho attempt, a3 they termed it, to piace it u der full headway on the radical trac ‘Tho force of public opinion and the ridicut» and y et of tho press induced many of General <wayne’s appoiatecs to resign, Vacancies were flied, but in most « the apprintoes would not face (ho inusic, Mr, \ aJow and a merchant of dis'iuetion and integrity, a member of Eastburn’s tea ue aad a Councilinan of tho ‘old board, was reappointed by General Swayne, but do. clined to serv>; and General Swayne at once wrote to him from Montgomery aco*ptiug his rosivnation and in- forming kim sont tho vacanoy won'd be immediatly hued by selection from,among “that large ciass of citizens who have hersto‘ore been donied tho right of 6 iMfrage and par- ticipation in. municipal affairs, bat whose patriotiam would prevont them from following his (Jones') ex- ample”? General Swayne went to Mobile to carry out this programine, but bis party advisers gathered arovnd him and convinoed him that thero was a very inflamn- mab'o forcign pypuiation in Mobile—par icalarly tho Irish—who wero bitterly preju liced and bostilo towards tho blacks, and if the pol cy indicated 1n tho letter to Sones was carried out there was imminent danger of fur- ther riot and bloodshed, ant more resignations by thoze who had consented to serve on the municivat boards. Severil of the most prominent of the ovlured men were anmmoned beforo the recoustraction council, the di- lemma was exp'ained to them, and a lewer was written to Goneral Swayne, and gigned by fourteen col- red men, who. on behalf of tho cotored poopie of the city, gratefuty acknowledged his recognition of their rights as citizens by the offor to fill from their membors the vacancy in the counci} made by Mr. Jones’ refusal, but respectfully declining, for the reason, among others, that “they dosired to show to their white fellow-citizens that they waive their ciaim as a clase whenovor it is evident to them thai the cause of poace, the well-being of the community of which they aro no small part, make the doing of this the better part.” This letter'was signed by L. 8. Borry, Fret Vice Prest- to Repnoltcan Stato Convention, held in |. B, Avery (colored rogister of voters), Allen J. A. S.ewart, P, F. Poysick, and others, Upon the recommendation of these colored citiz ns, Mr, Gideon M, Parker was appointed to Ol the vacanc; Commenting on thisletter, the Movile Advertzter and Register (anti reconstruction), said:—"*The colored black men have exh bited a groat deal more poli ical and pri- ‘vate sense and more of public virtne and pereonal dis- cretion than the whito black men. Lhe colored men who wrote to General Swayne j dged wicely when they saw that there was nothing to be ga ne? by them in the dan- gerous use which that pol:tical intriga rt designed to put them to. They saw that they were the cat’s-paws in the monkey's bands to pull the che-tnuts outof the fire, and that, jie it might suit General Swayne’s gamo, nothing but dixcomfort, disquiet and burnt in, wore in store for them. They wisely, therefure, declined to rinit General Swayne, for his own and his party’s nefit, to thrust them iatea false and ridiculous posi- tion.”? ” Other resignations followd, and it seemed impoaribie to get a quorum of the two Boards. Alter the pubsica- tion of Aitorney General Stanbery’s eco ond opinion, Dr. R. Miller, who had been chosen President of tho Board of Aldermen, resigned, for tho reasou that ho waa eon. vincod that tno new municipal le-iatataro was an illegal body, avd believing there was no authority for its ap- pointment Subsequeatly Mr, J. R, Eastburn was se- lected as President of the Board of Aldermen, But many of the milttary appointees seomed relucant to proceed with the business entrusted to them as city fathers The two Boards met timo after time ani adjonrned for the want ofaqicrum. It is not much to bo woudered at that timid men faltered when the current of pubhe opin'on was so strong against tnom and the anti-recon- struction press ontinually lashing them, calling them c. Vide the following from a late number of Tribuv:— amount of It {s, the gentlemen compostag the MIIiia hole, mea of con They know th responsibility attached to wearpats moneys seized by the military and put into U y be postponed ; but is not in the slightest degree lessened by the fact that the day of retribution is put of, The longer Mr, Horton is perm.tted to retain hfs usurped seat the worse it will be for him in tne end, tvery tine that le ¢ proznant with a lawsuit, and the longer he sits w the geater the number ‘of sults he secures to afford bh occtipation in hia old age. In the last State Levisiature, among the members who voted squarely in favor of rati ying the conetiin- tional amendment was Captain Join Graat, of Mobile, well known ns the owner of Grant's Pass, a man of con- siderable wealth, aboat sixty years of age, and alleged to havo been both loyal and disloyal to the United States and the Southern confederacy, as the tide of war took a favorable torn one way or the other, Ho pro. rented the city authorities of Mobile with a breech-joad- won of his own invention in 1st “to be used fence of the city against its evemies.”” This gan |. in a flood of champagne and dle-in-ihe- tory, as tho “Grant Gun" This famous gun wa Lied onty onc, and then, like a Huadibras gan, it k.lled a number of mon behind it, and, as the confed- eracy was ecarco of fighting materia! and couseripts failed to come up to the scratch promptly, it was uot deomed safe to experiment farther with this woaderful pieco of dest the fortunes of the Confed- erates became deeperate, and they wero losing growed daily, thoy eay Captain Grant showod signs of disioyaity to their cause, and they compelied him to leave Mo bile and seek safety in the Union iines, Cw Grant wasan active participant in and reporiel the Teeolutions adopted atthe fusion moeting in Mobile over which Judge Busteed presided, and made a speech, for which offence Judge Busteed was ret on and iguom'- niourly ejscied from the Iate Montgomery Republican Convention, while Captain Graut sat in hie seat oo a delezat ‘that bod rayed in fineciotea, This same Captai nt was appvinted a member of the City Council of Mobile by General Swayne, but bo, too, ha been selzed with fear and trembling or a ft of mad ness, and violently demanded bis pass Fe tad serions doubie wheth intment by miiitary authority was legal and would authorize the voting appropriations of city funds to carry on tite erty gov ornmont, therefore be threw up his hand. His wil drawal wil probably be followed by other timid mom- bers, who fear tho legality of a military appoigtnent may bo tevted hereafter, and it seems dific the City Boards will be finally eat! . It ig quite probabio that martial Inw will be proclaimed again, and seprem y authority will taco the piace of a municipal organization, mainly controlled vy milary authority, but spurned and denounced as illegal by many e'tize “ bu ‘01 addrogsed an appeal to ayne, setting fur d justlos in the § control of taen who and who constitute which Congross de« in giving full protes- fom jength that thoy courts, which are still 1 ays relarod to give thera juatic part of tho Stto organizations, clered to be ert! toa to all claares, They Cir Rights bil fo a mors mockery and dead lower, and forcibly point out the dolay ia bri its under its provisions In tho United States On account of thoir polit patronage, and tion they havo in many instauces io stressed in many been deprived of employment and ways, The extreme dutnese and lack of means to pro- vide for their faailios make it their imperative duty to Ask for such of their 1ghts as come Within the power of their iemfora, To this ond they ark for the appointmont Of one have colored mon oa the police force of Mobile, would prove ® great blessing in their hour of need aud distress hey say they aro not allowed avy of the rights of cliizeushl, to pay taxer, Thay think the polloy of ro of thelr leaders of paudoring to ® conservat! element at the expense cr the rights and privileges of tha colored people unwise and un nd nak for immediate military aid in obtaining ft ‘ights and redress of ri cen, This appeal is yb S. Berry, Alien Ft inder, John A. Stewark, Physick and otuera, it will be obsorved that these are th? #ame men wio signed the letter to Goneral Swayue, dvcilning position la’ the Munieipal Board of Mobile, ft x? Mobdile—city and county—the or of males etwas °D the agen of twonty aud one handred; accordia: {0 the 6°U808 Of 1868, Wao, whites, 13,202; bladke, 6,21 Rien '@ goon thet the white vovers ought bo oul- number thd Slacks more then iwe 10 ona, Po The voung lation of Montgomery he ~f five is to two fehlten, go that ty ‘Bee thei ths" PODWcan Hoked Wi) Gerry this Political Plotting Counter-Piot 1 etary & Bilibustering Design went Ag! e Levee Question in Polltics—New Orleans City Inatitutions=Whiskey Frauds. New Onreans, July 10, 1807. ‘The refusal of the President to remove General sheri- dan from command in this district, end the failure of that funetionary to take tue hint—even after the man- ufacturo of a telegram, which was never heard of at the telograph office, to the effect that Goneral Lovell 8. Rous- seau had been appointed to supersede the testy, positive little Hiberaian bero—have marred and spoiled one of the most adroltly managed plots which have ever beep evolved in the noddles of conservative politicians to get possession of the exocniive department of Louisiana. A ‘week or more since the confidential advisers of Governor Welle, who won what collegians would call the degree of “Ex’’ by vain and rather covert attempts to embarrass the workings of the Reconstruction act im this military district, were most significant of a grand coup d¥iat ow Vair, and did not Leaitate to predict that iu lees than a weok the ex-Governor would be in quiet possession of his former execntive functions, with Sheridan and Pisn- dors, whom conservatives only acknowledged as acting Governor, avd the whois caravan of radical camels and dromedaries packed off ant en te for the North, Through the ewamps of Mississippi, forlorn aod mosquito bitten, in imagination, the ex-Governor aud his ox-minions saw the caravan winding dejectodly, while bimsolf and friends, emancipated, redesmed and disenthrailed, as the stuttering Curvan expresses it, con- cocted plans for further operations under the nodding mungnolias-—treos a9 hoary with blossoms ag to seem themselves gigantic blosxoms—of the old Sonthweet State; and, though the vision was a pardonable fantasy on tho part of the ex-ofilcials, what ceams atranges! of all is that certain United States officialy of high diguity eave countenance to the plot and lout their naines, re- serving thotr right of convenient denial if the scheme should miscarry, to the bringing about of a successfel ending In the fifth act, Honce the electrio battery was permitted to shoot over 4he wires tho report that the President had hooa aphod to removi dan Immediately, which was not the fact tho fact that the electric battory waa suay ant hon to repair the damago effected by the unfortunate shot a day or two after, with which reqneat the battery very three courteously compiled, In the plot there wero points, and the points ware as fol 1, Gonoral Sheritan, ‘who, by tho wa tive to be trified with, was to be super av, Who was to bap ad yp until, through choer gratitude, he permitted tho ate of the disyrict 10 bo sed; and it was ca that, the val orablo point of a sol lior being his v a fow fulsome biogrannies of the gallant venors 4a sedative to cauao the lion to he him 2. Ex-Governor Wolls was to fssue a proclamation rein. stating himself and his friends au declaring the atminta- tration of Governor Piauders {itegal-—-the prociamation tobe interlanted with high sounding phrases t usurpation and with higher soneding phrases fro Attorney General S*anbery’s opinion, which Inst wou it was calculated, no eqnivalont to say’ng to tho Pre dont, 4 you gad wo might and wo hay done it—hi otbing ia the worl to their logical deduction the principles you b down.” This, it was supposed, would bo sufficient to secure the non-interference of tho Preaideut, and, per- haps, eli:it from bim a nod of approval. 3, If necessary General Reusaean was to be induced to appoint to office th» old functionaries, thus etopping tho months of the radicals and giving national color io th> transaction, and matters were to move on 13 of yore, the commandant of the district playing Panza unto the Quixotic dons of conservatism, or simply Wamba the Jester to the gallant and reinstated Robin Hoods of Lovis- lana politics, Quivotic, romantic and even fatu:tous as this campaign may appear, there is not a shadow of a dount that it was intended ant concocted in’ good faith, and mi have been successful had tho President sot his 0) soal upon it by the removal of General Sheridan, who stood betwoen the plotters and the working out of their plot and was tho impregnable Atlanta which intervened Detween them and thesea, Tho report was first pro- mulgated by the ex-Governor’s confidential advisers, was steadily insisted upon by his confidante, Jone 28 having been fixed upon as the great day of tho coup d’éta/, and was not withdrawn until it had been tively ascertained that the President would not !nter- fore, Then remarkable was the anxiety to correct a fnise impression, and sneciais were cujoled and besought almost with tears to contradict the report, In short, froin journalists to jobbers in politics, all eet about tho task of making their peace with the powors that be, while the powers that be wont on the even tenor of their way without tho slightest rogard for threatened proclama- tions; and thus # plot, which might have amounted to something had the wind been favorable, lost the name of action, and was consigned by ite projectors to obii- vion more profonnd tha reigns over the bones of those who sleep in the oft-quoted tom) of tho Capul ‘Thus ended ous of the many echemes of po bagtering which have been conescted in th! polities for some monthe, The mountain ba the mouce was brovght forth, and proved to be nothing moro than one of th» most oriinary little mice tha! wore evor ded in the or rathor tha ex-@ ies! fea! fi of himseif end friends gra tho whole question of taking nt assuming bis fractiona had r the broken !oveas of tho Mis peoplo settled quiatiy into the to bea permanent insiiti'ion and best of. To day tho distriet in dan’s onder exteniing t further notice, particulariy en from tho suecoptibi ® gion on tha part of the Gencral nud tr te the at bat niqualy aa od as a rtuel sitar to Genoral Grant asking for inttractions. It is computed a quarters that, carrying out the opinion of A Goneral Stanbery, not leas amenable to military comm: cour in this district—a namber which would o sing!e commission thirty years in trial, ness with ordipary rapidity, if kept in se: day in tho year; and thas it ia c ily no remedy against the ta pornaist and the menaing of tho phraao ‘Troad Y is iMastrated a ing of the position taken in bis late sandr registry retur macadamizod road to perjury and frau in the fuiness aud extont of tts si nee, If onwe po nil {8 opened to the led classes by tie e@ngrafting upon the action of ibe law in this district of the opinion of Attorney Gener.! Stanvery, from the ible exient of them, trial by uilitary commission is no remedy against frand perjury, aud the Registrar is utterly at the morey of tho constructed, end thers can be practical no exclusion of names whatsoever from the books, Meantime no expite't orders have been though ordors are daily expected; sud as the ©: of the pariod under t Majority for biacks..66.....se00s oes 288 —That the Orleans parieh, therefore, wader tho presont pajority on the day of tion alinite of not the le ration into ita platform of th following—vi2, rebuilding of propriatio aad foaering of tho eugar Intorest—-will x an ascondaicy Which will be permanent until these issuos avo been extiav in fact, the people of t United states mast invest movey Inthe oath by Con- gressional appropriation before a great deal crn be expected in the way of the South fa the burden of the national debt ally true of tho tract of country ) Appi through the broken condition of the Inveos hithervo protected (he best cotton and sug al inun these grest stap the inandated tracts, 1880 the following round numbers are found to the productive value of the parishes now inund: Jiadie to inundation, sv far as the sugar interest iv con- corned :— ping grown proiit By roferenoa to the stat Quautity produced, hegsheade, 600,000 Guaatity produced, pounds, +600,099,000 ‘akvo ab ten conts per pound, $60,000,000 The cnitivatton of sugar alao incidentally and through the process of manufacture yields an average of seroniy grlica® Of molasses to the hogel tho enormous quantity of tbirty-iive miilior Of molasses, mostly from the inundated parishes, Tho prevent minimum valuation of tuiolasses being si Coute por gallon the following table of aggregate vai tion is produced aa the rellavle estimate of the inciden- tal tut oe jaaatity fh gallon 35,000,000 inimum valuation $21,000, 000 of which are Urse represents the mone. tary the sugar int at the lowert ostimate possible, and demonetrates the vast loss which will thie Yoar result to tho exporiable macerial of the country Porongh the nogiect to cause the levees of tho Missia: sSopl to be rebuilt at the proper timo: Va. vation of suger crop. Valuyon of mol pre. cont {Ul OR sugar & taolansen it ae) nd aud permit the Hottentots to walk over j AROTETTIPLE /EAUET clamation of thas tradtd 10 Treamury, Sa kg eg aantity of sugar in pou ona ® . fntertal rovene tax on aggtogais anni, one cent per pound, Quantity of molasees. Interual revenue tax, at three cent: Total amount eeeed ‘The sugar mtorest of the submerg value as well to tho United Stal retelc treasury aa to the trade and exporis of the United States, ought to furnish suflicient and indeed fmperative roasons why the levee Of the Missiseipp! should be immediately repaired or re- ouilt and the lasting reclamation of these vast inun- dated tracts effected, since, putting together both valu: tions, there arises the enormous ageregate of seventy- seven millions and ity thousand dollans, Nor ts this al! That portion ef Louisiana overflowed ja 1865 and 1560 Is—the greater portion of it at least—as well adapted to tho production of rica as to the produc- tion of sugar, and, the cult'vation ef the foywer being loss expensive end attended with far tase outlay for posnow it may bo eafely predioted that tho rice in- arest would, were tho inundated parisljos reciained, aporosiinats ip value & that of sugar Froin the moutts of ibe fied vivér, Horth oho thousand mites, the soil !3 éinitiénily adapted to tha growing of rice on both banks of the Mississippi, at a mean Width of three ilies on either gido, giving an area of about six thousand equare mile, Tie samo area, however, is most eiivcntly adapted to the raising of eotion, being who'ly of allav'al formation and very productive, and yiekls réadity at the | rats of ope bale per acre throughout neacly tis whole , easily ascartainable, Allowing of ‘the tracts uniiitable, a te r 3,072,009 acres, rawanl, i} ntity of tals staple which might be produced, | ! } i a toa vrop ch the tract. | OF mated ta Loutslana, subje I portion of tL joundat is in part, aa oxtimate ¥ 490 pons ation of the inv Numboe of poands ad lands aro vay Market value..... 20. Internal revenue tax thore per pond... 6 AG0.2:24 » alone, tharefor, vos, the logs (9 the i $50,000,000 09, this qnaction 13 of the above figures, tion of capital, v whon erpltal was ¢ and, as the question haa now become a p: is worth the while to cai- culate the intorent 4 ng. Anciber topic 0 est is the report of the Graud Jury concern cont state of city mstita- r lions, the nutaber of in of which are ag flows: — semale, Total, arieh Prison. — EF Workho 0 Boys’ Hours rls’ House of 88 Hospital =_ —. e Asylum. 62 Convent af the Good 5} . nh Perera ees 105 105 Aeytum of tao Immacui Couception ... - 70 70 Boy.’ Asyium 85 — 385 Widows? As sage es 65 65 St. Anna’s Femate Asylam — 40 St. Eliabeth’s Asylum... — 10 169 St, Vincont’s Orptian Asy- iui... Se 168 N, Orleans Femalo Orphan Asylum... := 230 230 Protestant Orphan Ajyiom 35 90 125 the Inmates being dos Bi building iteel? boing old, dilapidated, rotten, mild uncomfortable and uawholesome. In general matiors, sinco the yeomniention of the de. cree that Genera) Sheridan would not be removed, tl into something ike quietade, and’ t ler the order of oxtensivn, is going on cl Of Mnancial 7 eapeciatly 1 1 of whiskey andl tobace # there is no ent—it beng a matter of every day comment ou the sireet that, of the one hundrod thousand barrely of manufactured in this district every six moaths, n not more than ten thousand barrels is tho inieroxi aid. Meantime large quantit to Havana and othor poin d imported. (he daty at the Custom House be- ngly loss than the tax on manufactured, ent sold as jie com | THE ANGLO-INDIAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY. have received a prospectus of this company, eth the for which it has beon formed, 1 fy to establish ia London a direct telegraph subsequent extensions to The necessity tore rapid trans:uission of messages from London may Las been felt for somo time past by the antilo community of Great Britaio, and in some moasure by the Iarge tmporters of the United States. Under the present rule telegrapbic commanication with India in most unsatisfactory, commercial dospatchos usually occupying several daya in transmission, when, under a well organized system, the averaye time for a Auatral) meseage to pass frou Bombay to London would not oxeted six hours, To remedy existing evils, tho “Anglo-Indiaa Telegraph Company” (limited) has been incorporated under “The panies — wi of 18¢2 of the British Parliament. Among the ora are CO, OF. Stewart, eq., Charman pany (cable of the Anglo-American Telegraph ¢ Sie Daniel Goocb, M r F K. ©. B,, late Lienter ick =Halilday, ernor of Bengal; Phinp Raweon, sir Macdonald Stephenson, and other’ promi- nent Engilehinen, Tho engineers are ~ir Charles Bright, M. P., and Latimer Clark. the otas states that “the direct route from 2 will, itis antielpated, be in actual work any by enieret Construction and and laying a thor. «9,659 navticst iniies in'length) from Sacer to Bombay, ineluting stat botldings, jastramonts and all expences, for th 100,000 is to be ret essial comp'etion of the whole the con‘rietsnm is to be paid mm) ia debant vm of the entire 4 order, to ihe eort. The eotivo of next year, or at co.opany watil th of the work; £95,000 o in shares of this company, and £9 Sho contract provides fe to Bombay, in ny » company have obtained from 9 exclusive 180, for forty-one raph from Suga’ to Mostica, in for a lease from the Bi ¢ Maite and Aloxaud a terin of forty two yon for twan 1 for al option of pirche 90 Alexendria, Cairo aud will pase betvreon Modiea aud , of the Mediterranean Extension Compan til the company have continued | pondoat line from Sicily by a submarine cable to Tripolt. Tho share capita! of the sompany i £1,000,000, in ooh, Tt is expucted that the rave. il yield a divi i per annum upon £1,900,000, whic pated will cover nil the opprations of the company now proposed between nize Partles dosiring shares are ox. F Dorr | pected to deposit £1 per share on application, which will bo revarmed without deducuon if two-thirds of the capl- bo not snbvribed and allotted, Applications for sbaroa must be addrossed to the directors after pryment fo the bankers of tha daporit of £1 per el The bankers in Engiond are Moesers, Darciay, Beren, Tritton, Tyeils & Oo, 64 Lombard sitect, Londoa, and in India the Chartered Mercantile Bauk of India, Loudoe and China Tho temporary offices of the company are located at 26 Olt Broad sirest, London, B. C. THE METROPOLITAN REVENUE BOARD, This Board held amosting yesterday, and among other burlness transacted passed a resolution to the following offect:—That Mr, Orville T, Gilmore be appointed a clerk to this Board, for the purpose of examining reports of mapectors of places examined and seisures recom- monded, and to collect evidence on which seizures made, sod for Dg afidavits, with a view to cause tho arrest of offenders against tho law, Tue following seizures wore also announced:—As 21 Crosby street, an ee wagon and horse and three iri of Ue for alleged Aifi- fraudient deal Wo kg avedo oun for Ube Ton of tag okies § adams, 145 street, ony manlehatog hte pangs is Er eta a a 1nd tauaoes whieh wee stored 50 tho } able balls have bea ix } from all ge | guasie who cha 5 OUR PASINONABLE WATERING PLACES. SARATOGA SPRINGS. SPECIAL CORNESPONDENCE OF THE HESALD. The Improvements at the prings—Summes Company=The Races, Sawatooa Srnines, July 14, 1667. It ig a great privii eajoyed by the citizens of the Exapire City to escape from the heat and dust of crowded i, and after a pleasant voyage upon the Hadsom river palaces, and but one hour's ride on ihe rail, to flad thewselves happily located for tha soaton at the beautiful villege of Saratoga Springs, which, without disparagement of other resorts, may be fet down as the most dolighiful summer bome on thecont'nent. One seareely spends a day here until tho javigoreting effects ave apparcat; and a sojourn of a fost- night, with the aid of ihe unequatiod mineral waters nabing forth from many fountains, 1s suMlent to mate thie Verlest hypochondriac think well of hisaself, Improvement scems the order of the day. The lota nade vacant by tho many destructive fires which have urred here during tho last threo years, are rapidiy covered with new and elcgint hotel¢ business heuses, The new Columbian Hotel which has beea built since last ecason om the 1 1 dirty.cs oa Broadway, between those magnificent the Clarendon aad the Uniog, is aa oxeeliend is in suecessful operation. The now six was incomplete last season, is now ican Hotel has been thoronghly re~ wo, Id SOMO Fespeots, romodoiled, soi (ato De, Beechor’s Femato inatt Q aging from the rattling of om- (the day aud the stirriog atraing of musicriaging m its piazsas in the even+ its avcommmodatioas ard appreciated, fhe vew Con- solag 9D ON the site of the old honse of Md ie S the beat hotel build * ‘or improvenizat which deserves nioniton ia tha ase hy the nthorities of sume haif a dose agines, which are in tho hands of 2 of firemen, who can now did defiane Arecent fire, whi 2 sud Columbian hotels, y demonstrating the wi both the Arowned oF improt te Visitor: are alveady very numerous, and the fashions piaazas, vated, Ball ro. prowenades and parks avo ablazo with gui and many a young bean has already lost | changed it fora better one. Tho euict | to bo to render theraely¢ to eusruunding biessing- na, and others they ane- «ie antlotpns © to. com= oa present and plea tue latter the racos (¥ 1 of Augast and contin 4 most prominent, Oa the iy to be opened by Strakosoh. steods aro already assem? Q yf them are expected that beon built at the course, althon iumodalions were very extensive, Course seems to be the ground upon whie’ tb ions meet to contend for fame and prize efal at the West and South during the past and spring will be here to measnie qualities with tora of Se aveus, Paterson and Morden; and the Deantiful course, over Which tho Guest racing hag taken place for several years, will be the scone of rtill more citing struggles mat buy a winuing pool or two, just to meet expenses and pay for the i coine morning Visitor in the Empire City, b tial bere, CORNWALL ON THE HUDSON. Thoze suce SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. A Large Number of Visitors and a Plenen Time~A Ball and Its Success. CouNWALL ON Tie Hupsox, July 14, 1867. In the absence of a regular correspondent, permit me to give a few notes of what is going on at Cornwall. As we have some three or four thousand strangers among us we claim a gbort space in the columns of tho HERALD, to let the outsidera know that the present season promiecs: to be the most lively and satisfactory. that we bave ever enjoyed. The principal houses have returned to the old prices—$10 and $12 per week, with good fare, splendia drives, a bountiful supply of choice fruit, not to mention the genuive Orange county batt: milk, &, Some enterprising gentlemen are prepar- ing & new half mile track that promises to excel anything of the kind in this county, and thore are @ number of fine horses in training, DO re will bs some good sport in a sbort time. two base bail clubs iu our place—the Idlewilds and Spring Valers—tbat have done some good batting the lant , tho Idiowllds winning every matob, A We have some twenty large boarding houses, besides almost every perman‘nt resident takes more or less boarders and mauy visitors. There are many very fine turnouts, Mr, Nathan, of Twenty-third street, New York, now occupying the noted Pilewild resitonce of tho late N, P, Willis, bas two splendid teams. Mr. Hoff has ono very fazt. Rov, Mr, C-—— promises to bring ono that will eclipse all of our fast ones. Last evening there was a grand ae of the fasbionalies at the Doavtiful residence of C, H. Ring, Linden Park, where. there tea most delightful aud delignted company this season, This was the second of a@ series of entor- tsinments gotten wp by the guests of tho house, ausistol by the landlord and his lady. A gentleman joct returned from Saratoga says that our bop far excesded the one given thero a few eveniugs since ab tree dollars per tiocet; walle ours was given freo of Xpense, except to a few guest of the howe, The exionsive grovnda were olegantly filuminaled with Chinese lanterns, and th) large dining room ever looked mors splendid, with its gay assemblage from the Powelton House, Ni Roes', Smith's, (no Clareh- don and other 9 music was ivreished by Professor arnekvel, of the Newburg ‘Musical lugtitot It that could ba domred. ‘The refresiments to the ladies tho sanagore, Meosra. Bongal!, Mol! Wright and Middi tow, did all in thoir power to make it @ success, aud wel) they sud coaded. LAKE MAHOPAC. SPECIAL CORRESPONDEWCE OF THE HERALD. Cool Wenther—Namerous Arrivals—The Op ing Hop—Boeating on the Lake—Mandsome Tuarnows. Lane Manorac, July 15, 1867, ‘The season Las been ro:markably cool vo far, and the ako sc¢ms quite deserted whom compared with former years, Tho arrivals last week wors quite numerons, ‘aud the peason may bo said to have fairly commenced, although the Tuompsom Hotel 1s the only une that is fui, fbe opsping hops came off on Saturday evening at the Gregory aud Thompson Houses, the music being under the direction of Bornstein, who led in person at the latter, They were a decided success, The Misses tk—e, A—th—y, Yaw—tt, D—ta and Mire, W'N—1 peared to grea: » age at the fhompeon, a9 also M es B—n, —n at the Gregory Hours, thom-eives, one could judge sireing that were wailed acrose Great American Gleo Cinb gave selections, Mra, j—! sang the Ayo Maria with deeited success, and charmed the many dt bo pr sent at the time. ‘ihe road is well patronized, and the handsome turn- outs are at numerons ay ever. Miases Low and Gliman 4 the honors with their four-in-bat y be seen in her cosy little pony wi ar Onised @ now ensation shortly, oF Twill keep you thoroughly posted, to bo enjoying by the musical the water. Tho some of their choi ing THE STADCING OF THOMAS COSGROVE. Hts AntesMortem Statement and Sabseqnent D Coronor Gamble yesterday morning proceeded to Ninth svoone, near Sixty-second street, and took the ante- mortem statement of Ihomas Cosgrove, the man who war dangerously stabbed in the abdomen last Friday night during @ quarrel with Philp Mopalan, as pre viously reported in the Herato, Congrove, who was in a dying condition at the time of making bis statement, soomed sensible of hix appronch- ing diseolution, but was able to give a cloar and connect: ed account of the circumstances which resulted im the stabbing. Soon after the Coroner left tho house Com xpired, and notice of his death was immodiately i ora’ office in Centra streot, version of tho allair ae given by deceased :— STATRIRNT OF COSGROVE, On Friday night, 12h July, about eleven o'clock, in tmy own house, Philip Monahan came if my own and we bad rome words about some two days’ ‘rages that Monaban claimed I owed him ; I agreed to pay him, whea bd immodiately demanded the money; bat jim to come op the next might and | would pay bim; he ho would not come every might, and immediately bed me in the right ae T then struck Monabad U and knocked himdown; he away, aud hailooed watca aud murder, and Monabas ind i have not heard of him anes; never had with him before; he had worked for me for C ‘was taken, and corroborated in relation tothe manner of recoiving bis wo shen submitted to the jury, whe band The cane the follow: