The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1867, Page 4

4 ‘THE SOUTH. Reports of the Special Correspond- ents of the Herald, Failures of Crops and General Alarm at the Political Prospect. Progress in Africanizing the South. & Gleam of Hops from the Recent Worthern Blections. from Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Reports Mississippi. VIRGINIA, 1 Conflict—itow the Amnesty Regarded=One_ E dred wfranchised by IieNegro Sue Herald Commission- Th premacy Averted—The ers in the South—The Colored People—What They Desive-tiow They Regard the Cone bad Ricaaonn, Va., Sept. 14, 1867. Political affairs, a8 important events develope thom- solves, begin to look dively, The interesting corre- gpondenco pablished in the Hexato of Friday from ‘Washington, creaies quite a stir in political circles here, and awakens a stronger interest than ever in the na- tional issues now pending between the Executive and legislative branches of the governmont, The Amuesty proclamation assumes the gravest and most vitalim- portance to ali ciasses here, whether franchised or Wisfranchised, and, should it go into effect, us it is earnestly hoped it will, one hun- @red thousand of the most influential per Bonus now disfranchised in the South will have a ‘voice in the political destinies of the nation. The argu- ‘ments here in referencs to the probable issue are as varied fs the predilections and sentimeats of the incongruous qmas3 who now wake up the Southera body politic, and which might be said to resemble, in a striking manner, the colors in “Joseph's coat,’ if the sublimest dark ebony and the purest Circassian white, with a mixture of all intermediate shades, were s 3 in that re- Markable garment, Should the President order the reopening of ths registration offices with a view to the enrolment of the amuostied class as voters, 1t is impos. gible to conjecture wat the result hero will be, One thing is Oxe certain— that unless some such policy hb will be doomed to the ro supremacy, while the of the population hero Saxon race from such ular sympathy with ¥, Who assert that the ban’ a wholesale pardon f some bund 4s or perhaps thousands, 9 18 8 political signiticance in it Whatever. , While the individuals aro pardoned, they ho right to vote, more than did ‘those oned, or those amnostied by the President when it was contended general, removed all disabilities and exempied S relieved from the necessity of even taking ath Tho President's programm? is endorsed utional, and is sirictiy upheld in discussion, as ng the nation from re ud the Lorrors of negro supremacy ; oual Reconstraction acts, ‘military sveau, and all other con- up in an astitudo of forcible bility of sucit a desirable set- ance to the tlement of the n It is deemed io by the parties most interested in the pending cyuilict that they have no op. Portunity of expressing their views, or of voting upon Questions which so vitally affect them, ‘The pross hero is the ouly medium by whick they can reach the popu- lace at the North, and that is in an exceedingly liinited way, aud as ofien misrepresents them aa otherwise. However, affairs may terminate the poople here will now watch with intense and feverish excitement every new development in tbo inexplicable muddle and un- fortunate contest which involves the future welfare or degr toa of the white race on this continent. Should negro supremacy Prevail, its inevitable consequences will be chaos, anarcay, standing armies, and probably a ‘war of races, It cannot be contended the colored popu- Jation desire any such prerogative. They acknowledge their infertority both as to numbers, education and ability, and aro content to mingle in political matters without aspiring to coutrol them. ‘The white man who ute hims vn social equality with thom, stoops neath th ces hime If in a position to which ho i# not ont Tuey look upon such a man with eurpicion, aad evidently regard him as dishonest in his intentions, They look to the white maa for in- struction as (o their duties im regard to voting and the general oxercise of their new rights, but are often led asiray by agitators and political adven- Here, tor instance, nicutt succeeded in com- ly deludin. them, but their eyes have lately beon opened to his political’ uachinations, and he is now dis- trusted and regarded oy tuem asa bad man, who cares more for Lis own persona: tuterests than any love he has for them, Jn many districts, even in Virginia, they have been ied so iar as to enterta’n tho idea of sending colored to Congress; though it must be said such a proceeding 1 wih but lite favor among them. In & fow words, tuo uegroes do not aspire to the position that the radicai party would place them in, They do not wish to be cevaied t> such @ giddy height, thor fall from which would resnit in thetr annibilation as a poli+ tical body, aud tneir probable extermination as a race. Their Voie is an tmportant balance of power, to gain which tho radicals wil disturb the peace and harmony Of the South, provous its restoration, shacklo the indus. , trial aud con J interests both North aud South, and probably inaugurate a war of races, Whenever the Worst passions of the vogroos have not appealed to they have aiwaya evinced a friendly disposit.oa toward the people anoug wom (hey reside, aad have ever had political sayacity enough to thwart’ the designs of ad. Yenturers who wisuod to uso them for ahelr own political en Result of the California and Maine Elec- tons—Great Reaction in the Sonth=Exuber- ant Aspect of Aflairs—-The Female Influs ence=Kestoration of the Democracy E pected=—The Amnesty a Democratic Card= Political Prospecita=The White Mau’s Party im the Ascendaucy=War of Races. Ricawono, Va, Sopt, 12, 1867, Since the Califoraia and Maive electifus have do. veloped the fact tha! a reaction is rapidly taking place in the Northera tne people here begin to exhibit @ Warm and livoly interest io all matters pertaining to the political (uture of the country. The old “do nothing” or “passivisi’ policy is aban- doned, with the prospective demise of the party whose reign inaugurated it, and more tho slumbering but Powerful euersies Df the domocracy are awakened into now life; sta resh with a vigor and enorg y that brooks no opposiion, sees no defeat, and with a resolve to assume that stay in the political destinies of the Country which ts claimod almost as ite right by heritage, The effect of the news is amazing im the extreme, and the observer 1s puzzled to know with what extraordinary rapidity, as if by electricity, the change has taken place @0 visiblo in the general aspect here. Gloom ond de- Pression have given placo to brightor prospects and lighter spirits; faces on tho siroot wear a happy expres. sion not seen before siuce tho halcyon “days of 1861, when the poopie anticipated @ glorious future; discus. sion and general clas assumes a more animated and warm nature on toe corners around the public placos, Jy at the bulictin boards, where the “glad az eneral hilarity, and ats, bankers’ and ng of crowded atre h perfectiy bow: that be im st. Though politicians, on; their liege in this te- hey are able and rol adfairs to 7 subservient to th: the youtufui can re or female favors, which posed to their indispu Such an individe and auch a supposition having pow caught th it Hike wild@re, that ery antagopistic Clomeui is swept from indomitable march. Salifornia, oo the Pacific, and the bleak, grim shores of Maine, Wasted by tho waters of the Atlantic—aro, with it of a total revulsion of public fer to manifest itself almost em: vominact party wh: bas ruled with so highs the restora:ion of the constitution in all ite vigor, eed tue repeal of all uaconstitutional legislation by the uw Thirty-ninth aud Fortieth Conzresses, are tho expected | Tesulis consequent upon this popular reacuon, The Presideat's ammeaty prociawaiion 1s loc a3 a well-timed and severe bit though it has no legal effect w cis are in force, 14 1s, nevertheless, under the powers couferre: Geet by the constitution. It believed Wipe out all offences committed and enumerated, ‘and places the recipient precisely wher he would have stocd had he never committed any offenc all, The question is now argued—can Congress, by its own lawe, While confesse. ng outside tbe constitution, defeat the objecis of to President while acting clearly within the limits of his constitutional powers? In aay cage no @tiect will be realized from {tat prosent; but tt thought that the question above will be one of the main Issues at (uo North in the coming olections, and will be ‘a strong card ia the hands of the democrats against the publicans. vee question of a “white man’s party” has been con- sidorably agitated fn this State, and, from the rash and extreme course adopted by the self-constituted radical leaders here, with prospects of marked success. fhe lat of August Couvention, while itentirely exciuded and proscribed the whites (WhO Were anxious to co-operate witu the radical party), also drove from its ranks a large conservative eloment of the blacks, which showed coi ely thal the Laction controlied by Hunnicutt (e: vely known as a “man of bad moral cuaracter"?) could not carry everthing their own way, Tiais action makes it almost imperative to torm two parties, of which will be led by Hunnicutt aud the other by \—the former radical, the latter conservati rox nm the | rick: of the cities tm this State, parttcut: those which were besieged. The buildings of Rigas, which were bat- tered and tora during the continuance of the war ond burned at itstermiaation, are now of a finer order than ever before. Those left sianding by the comflict have uc- cessarily under:one thorongh ir and painting; the “burut district has been completely rebuilt, and wiil com- pare favorably with any city of my acquaintance, Fre:lo- which the Virginians used to call the only ae —— in erent decenee sian time im- orial contain just about six thousand in- habit “tinished’’ by the rel and for long periods shelied by both armiea, It pas already much reouperated, and growii again to- ward its traditional six tho Norfolk is in fine order and doing a good business; the truck trade is Very extensive, aud the fruits and berries fill all the ve that cau be brought to the wharves, Nor- folk is making arrangements for the oyster trade this season that she hes ever enjoy, Lynech- ‘burg, the town from which I write, was not materially | damaged by the war, and is doing, as ehe has always done, a fluor business in tobacco than any other town of like proportions in the country—the fame of her chew- ing and smoking brands is world wide—and she is, per- | haps, more active now than at any previous porlod. Petersburg is makiog large profits from and cot- | ton, But, upon the whole, the little town of Danvii by far the most thrifty and active I have seen in the | State. It is situated in the midst of one of the finest | tobacco growing regions in the world, and since the war it bas not been abio to build factor fast enough for the constautly increasing manufactare. It isdesiiaed in to be a piace of large importance and an, Both witl build on the black vote, which onsequently be weakened, Pierpoint having all th e republicans at bis back, Meantime, a white mai with good nominations, springs into exista ing, in solid phalanx, an undivided white vote “of assuredly one hundred thousand, with all the rebel negro clement, by no means smali—say probably tweaty-tive thousand—which carries Virginia witout tho slightest doubt; and this example wili thon be followed dy al the Soucbern States. But, even al and repubdiican vote to be united, tue whites would still carry the State by, at’ the very least, twenty thousand majority. This white man’s party will scarcsly be organized unless forced by the biack man’s party, already mi sballed for the campaign, and, it ia said, armed and drilied, Such parties, based upon distinction of color, would bo likely to inaugurate a war of races, and tho white people here will only be bandod together politl- caily to avert the threatened negro supremacy now being enforced upon them, Splendid Land in Virginin—Condition and Prospects of the Negroes—Mistake of the North—The Negro Not Understood—Politica— Condition of the Cities. Lrxcusvra, Va, Sept. 9, 1867. In sweeping through such magnificeat counties as Fauquier, Culpepper, Orange, Alvemarle, &0., one of the most striking features toa stranger is the vast ex- tent of splendid land in a state of complete neglect and abandonment, given over to woods, whose luxurianco testify to the vigor of the grouad, Grand fields of the richest low ground and hillside stretch for miles, appar- ently sacred from the touch of the plough for years— lands which, in days gone by, were pointed to with agri- cultural pride, as they yielded an annual harvest of princely riches in cereals and tobacco, The owners of these estates in those times worked from thirty to fifty slavea, the half of which they aro now unable toem- ploy, hence the weeds and neglect, A majority of these farmers are not only willing but anxious to sell a part or all their lands, The consequence, is that the market is gorged with as fing soil as any upon the continent, and lands which a few years ago could not have been bought atany price can now scarcely find a bidder, What an opportunity for Northern capital! During my brief trip I have endeavored to form an exact idea of the-real condition and prospects of the colored race, and I have learned more than I can put in tho mits of this leiter. The Noribern mind, beyond doubt, has avery mistaken fdea of what the negro in tue South actually is; the mass of radicals have not the remotest conception of the people to whom tuey propose to give the balance of national power, The negro is too much flattered by the North and too much abused and underraicd by the South, The people belonging to the extreme party of the North aro wrong, fatally wrong, in asserting that this thick-headed specimen of humanity, so recently emerged from the ignorance and abject sub- ordination of slavery, ia already Otted for and entitled to high political trusts, and the men of tho South do him injuatico by not giving bim credit for what intelli- gence he possossos, for his undoubted eagerness for edu- cat on and iniellectual improvement, and for that simple, culld-like dh jon tothe home oi bis master amid ail the temptations of the jate torrific strife, which presents a spectacle of constancy with gcai ‘an equa! in the history of tho world, The absolute ignorance of the mass of this poople is astonishing to ouo who bas not secu it, As yet their heads are as thick as wood and their political eyes so bind that they can be led by any who take hold of them; bat their good nature and of heart merit the admiration of all who lo disposition. I bave heard many complaints in ie sections from gentlemen of respeciability of tue falli off in the quantity of work done by a negro since t! acquisition of freedom; but observation and carefal cn ad have induced me to believe tuat this is not as bad as represented, and that tho labor of those os who work at all will compare favorably with that of any other agricultural class, There was recently a great ex- citement in some of the counties neighboring this city 1m consequence of a widely extended ruwor that the ne~ grocs were being secretly armed and orgauized. I find all this to bo utterly untrue, There can be no question that this race is rapidly Sore ks in numbers, If my re- collection is correct, General Howard shows by bis re- port that the decrease among the blacks since emanci- pation is upwards of 1,300,000, and what I have soen aud heard in Virginia fully contirms the report. Under the old régime, however severe it may have been, they had the necessary clothing, food aud sheiter furnished them and their children by their masters; they had no thought for the physical essentials of lite tion, it was tho highest interest of the master to havo nurtured into healthy aatarity the offspring of the slaves. Now itis vastly different; the colored poopie have flocked from the country districts, where they were born and raised, to the idle reveiry and dissipation of the cities and towns; they -are crow’ed out of employment, saffer fur food and clothing, become diseased, and in consequence, as I tam relfably informed, the num. ber of births -have wonderfully decreased. Add to this the fact that the care acd trouble of the children are now as a genoral thing throwa upon er, Just relieved from thoughtiess slavery, aud least a slight reason for tue horribie extent of infanticide that bas been developed In the last tew years. Iam told by gentiomen of the bighest veracity Mm the cities turough which I have been, that this re- vollting crimo hag reached astounding proporti is one fact in regard to this race which at once the atieation of one who goes atnong them—their abso- luie itching for politics; they see:n, amid thoir new franciises, to love it; and ir one allows them in conver- sation tue bent of their minds, they will talk about religion and politics alone, in a very crud» atyle, it is true. And there is another fact equally as remarkablo— the number of fluent negro speakers who were 80 re- cently in bondage. Numbers of these men have bee! irregularly canvassing the State for the past year, ming- ling sermons and political barangues in the same breath, some Conservative and many extremely radi style of pumbers of them reach ao eloquence which is of a wild and peculiar order. Speaking of the colored poople, the late cot Richmond had a most fortunate and pected effect upon many of them. That coavention was pro- Jected with a view to harmonizing the two wings ‘of tae republican party in the State, and socuring the weight of their union to the extreme radicals. All looked prom. ising up to the very day of tts mooting; but b-fore that day Was passed {t was apparent to all that the breach would be wider than even before, Hunnicatt, who is complete master of @ majority of the negroes moad, as convention day approached, became sive for bis supremacy, and made a desperate and vory rash move to preserve It, Not only were both white and biack conservatives crowded out, but a multitade of col- ored delegates frem the counties were excluded. Th while Hunnicutt enjoyed tho brief glory of dominating the convention, he lost much powor tn the counties, Where many ioduential men of buth colors, and formerly of extreme tendencies, have come oat boldly for con- servative repablicanism, as have mi in Richmond, = were disgusted wilh she selfish game of Hannicut 0. 1 observe that it is quite diMcult to elicit a positive expression of opinion upon the leading political topics of the day from men of property and position, Tais may be due with many to the fact that they have tarned their attention rare to their material interests; with othors I think it owing to pure sullenness, which has much of bidden revenge in it, Stil others, amid the present shifting state of affairs, desiro not to commit themselves, Jt may be said, however, that a very large majority earnestly dost advent o yoy and honest reunion, but there seoms a prevalent despair of accomplizhing this at any reasonable period tn tue future, Men freely expres# themselves in a general upon this subject, aud their despoudoncy bas begotten an evident willingness to #e@ any disaster befall the coun- try calculated to break tho rule of the radicals or lighten their own bdurdena J¢ is surprising to think how sanguine, in regard to some things, are the natures of these Southerners, and with what tenacity they cling to somo of their ideas. Daring the rebellion, from its beginning to its end, they looked to “reaction” as thelr salvation, and they expected this von and an ex- plosion in the currency of the Nort ie to Bas they still bug this delusion with strong hope, They tai about revenue developments, which can be called noth. ing but repudiation, tn one form or another, ag the co: ing event of the day. I find few wao wi is @ thing that ought to ba, bat they point to itas a erent that of necessity will be, and they freely predict it as the forerunner of happ! Yith the most of . Many ly Woll posted on revenue matters jn regard to the hi of the country, They fF opinions, to the political issues in rogard tion of the debt now being made in the What, and to spirit of a — of the press and p ‘a those Siates This conrictios a, efor xtended than T bad su; ing! ad hi strong impulse from Freie jet recently written by J. Harmer Giimor, Jr., of Richmond, in waich the sabject is treated at length and with docided ability. I fear the idea is go rapidly growing as to bave an injarious eect on the business arrangements of many. Who ig to be the next Governor is beng actively can- vaseed. Hunnicutt feolors out sod Pierpotat stumping the State with great ene Tho late co ‘ventiot given the lat Mach strength, but deep apprehensions are expressed lost the former be elected and Brownlowism inaugorated in Virginia, Thave been wost agreeably surprised at the conditiog GEORGIA, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Failure in Crops~Bad Prospects. Monrrgsizr, Ga., Sept. 10, 1367. What must the poor farmers of this State do? Last Year, at the very season for making cotton, it rained for forty days, and we lost all. This year the rams com- menced on the 16th of June, and they haye been con- tinuous since. The forward cotton that have opencd, have sprouts half an inch long—ruined, The pods are generally rotien one third way of the stalks AS a mat- ter of course, the li orton will all shed. Worse than all, the corn on the stalk 13 rotting, so that our prospects are fearfully bad. Aad as if to mako matters worse, we are tobe Africanized | ALABAMA, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Situation in Alabama—Ruin and Desola- tion Staring Planters fu the Face—Dema- gogueism With Negroes=<The Political Prospect. is Movnr Maias, Montgomery County, Ala. Bopt. 6, 1867. »} Persons from the.North, travelling in the South, skip- ping from one commander’s post to another, along railroad apd steamboat routes, aro never more deceived than when taking the unmistakable hum of disaffection there to be the goneral temper of the people of the country, The peculiar excitants there—such as the in- termingling of heterogenous elements; the Union soldier, tidy amd provokingly ‘‘degagé’’ in his import- ance, and the seedy rebel proléaire; the advent and transit of news of all descriptions; orders fulminating from head to low quariers, keeping the population on highways in a constant nozative condition; theso all evidence symptoms of refractoriness and want of docility which an observer, fresh from abroad, might easily mistake to be otherwise than local, and which, in his loyal zeal, he may think ought to be put down. But what @ contrast tbe country presents a few miles inland’ An almost unbroken calm—not Arcadian— but that of disappointment, humility and sorrow. The planter—ruin at his door, struggling to entrap’ ever-waniog fortune, bis hopes of success, based upon doubtful calculations, alternately brightening and ebbing, according to the buoyancy of his spirits—has lost all the attributes of acitizen, No political news over so start- ling can rouse him from his lethargy. Confiscation has long lost its terror; for in reality he no longer isthe de facto proprietor, but only the steward or occupant, by virtue of tho universal bankruptcy, which impedes tho sale of property by the sheriff, leaving bim a glimmer- ing hope of ultimate redemption, Absence of Post offices and want of communication with the outer world Bave narrowed down the expansion of his mind, and the news he digests are only those of a local character. What is the removal of Stanton to him, or the great national interests at Walrussia, or Congress, or poor Andy Johnson, or Pope's wholesale suspension of officers of a whole county, or the set of laws for the more efficient government of these parts, when fthe boli and army worms are threatening his crops—his very vitals? Out- side his home, his Igy word Pleasures are gone, His pperiogs, Bisnis, or hunting parties prove failures, 2 in quarrels, Legal contentions, the deser- of negroes trom one and their engagement by ther have sapped their mutual good feilow-feeling aud enthroned distrust instead. The demagogism as practised with the nogro is really suggestive of tho times. What between the Bureau and the planter there will be toft of his good q ios time willshow. Both tend unwittingly to undermine bis usefulness in thelr respective ways; the former in its ready bostowal of unduo attenti to irrelevant and petty complaints, thus feeding his vanity aad furni ing him excuses to leave work and to go to town; latter in his anxiety to retain him over indulges, broal ing di all discipline, It must bea very worthless case should he dismiss him. His wish fora horse to ride to church, or for his employer's gun or anything reason will be gratified. cues for his beveit have become a feature, planters endeavor to eclipse each other in these. Everything is resorted to to foster pop- wiarity with nim, Already he demands half of crop, half of Saturday and an extra patc! dhe gets it. With all this, be kilis bis empio; * and the fearful havoc he has m: ami ‘turn to the benefit of some other section than this. To establish evidence of guils*among a race so clanish and $0 universally thievish 1s next to impossible, Not long ago, a neighbor of mine, seoing his mules that he knew wero well fi losing flesh from day to day, sus- pecting something wrong, ordered his overseor to watch at night by their feed’ trough. Ho di and not very long after a negro made his appearances, who gathered Up as much corn out of the trough as he could carry in his arms. The overseer halted him, but on his refusing to stop fired, and the shot, aimed at rag- dom inthe dark, panotratei his heart.’ The overseer was acquitted, but inthe minds of tne freedmen ‘poor Jessy’? died a martyr. Thoejfreedman has a natural = remind you of, Tho proverbial hospitality of the South has becom: myth. The familiar ‘‘nalloo’’ at his gate and tho pri ing home to him of the customary argumenta ad homi- mem are of the things that throw consternation into be besos Q He may yield, but = ‘bad grace and til concealed humor, The cause of this is his inability of retaining sorvants about his house afier nightfall; the scantiness of his larder, the exposition of which he dreads, and a peculiar shyness of strangers, which has taken possession of him since his dethronement. The spectacle the two sections present are really curious, Psychologically considered, what a contrast in their mental stadia! The one active, vigilant, distrust fal of seif for tear of losing an adv: exhibien, mental tension painful to eerie a wi the ot Apathetic—an unsirung bow that has spent its elasticity ‘end its last arrow—botn aboormalition The genius of discord having bsen engendered with the constitution, and the maguitude of its baaeful, per- nicious tafluence growing with its age, the coming of a crisis—a probiem of cause and effect—has been @ fhat. ter of computation with men of politics long ago, To lay, thea, the accretive national blunder of three genera- tions solely at the door of @ prostrate poopie is a crying wrong. However, it is over now, and the paroxysm of the patient allayed. Tho honor of resuacitating his vi- tality is yours, but don’t do it by extinguishing his last spark of/inierest in the national concern. Cohosion of nations and tho instincts of patriotism must be sought in selfisy moans, The famous heroism of the threo hundred Spartans wat but tho supreme ofoct of thoir laws. Its abstract beauties wo leave to tho poets. Phe unrestrained passion aud the ungovernable violence of contemporaries aro but so much barking at the moon The laws of nature are immutable, aud tho wise only heed them. MISSISSIPPI, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Labor Question=The Negroes Utterly Werthless as Free Laborers<Coolies Im. atively Demanded=How Freedom At. fects Crope—Cotton Culture Rapidly Fail. ing=Aid from the North Required. domino & Binns Covsty, Miss. dope 3, 1897 } Having soon a fow days ago the announcement of the Ubdeiling of @ ship bringing coolies into the port of New Orleans, La, by the Caited States governmont, makes me feel the necessity of saying something about the importance of this labor, if we expect to raise cotton in this country fn future In the first place, | must give you my experience, and some of the difficulties, triais and troubles I have had to contend with, a8 & cotton planter for the past two years; which troubles are common to every practical cottom planter in this land. T camo back to my plan. tation in November, 1805, full of faith, and hops, and energy, and possessed of ampie means to carry my business through, having the best of fooling towards (he freodman, knowing that those who wore my former os had full confidence ip my Integrity and good faith towards them, Iwas received with much joy by them, and felt that there was no such word as fail, When I bogan my work I paid my hands monthly such wages a8 were agreod on botween us, On the payment of the first instalment they found they had means enough, and would work no more wnlll their money was gous, I then tried the pian of paying thom one bel of Shoir earnings moathiy, with mo beiter suc. NEW YORK HERAL, TUESUAY, SEPTEMBRE 17, 1867TRIPLE SHEET. cers. They pronounced labor slavery, and felt that, as free men, they must live as I did, without manual labor or drudgery. I tried te convince them of the importance of earning and saving money, but found them as thrift. loss as lazy; and, after two years of closo and energetic ention, using all my skit on bet ses -and productive cotton land as we have ia the South—working this year for a share in the crop—I teel certain that Ole ton crop cannot be raised without a more effective laboring class, and without this the cotton crop in three years will not be counted by as mang bandred thousand baies as we formerly counted by millions. If New Eag- land, which now seems to legislate for the whole Union, wishes to have the raw at bome to sup- ply her factories it would be policy for her to supply us with coohes instead of driving th ay from our country. Wo are not decreas! quantity but deteriorating in quality. poor culture that our fleids got produces a miserably trifing sia) and while the British East Indies, with their coolie labor, are con- uy increasing and improving their cotton we are ing in every way. I know that freedmen will not do, but believe it absolutely necessary to have the dark colored race to labor in our chmate, apd if Great Britain and other enlightened nations of the earth make uso of this element pray way should not we be allowed the same privilege and save this section, so favored by nature, from overwhelming ruin, If the freedman cannot bask in the sun and get his “food and raiment’ without labor in this unfortunate country pray send him back to bis native land, whero God and nature miended he should remain, where te can subsist on fruits aud reptiles, and needs no clothing to protect him from shams, and where he can make the wilderness how! with his heathenish woranip. We want th: negrees away from this laud aud we will have in their siead a fragal, industrious population, who will restore us toa great prosperity and rebuild our war- beaten and desola‘e lands, Tue best iaborer we now have performs but one-half the amount of labor he should accomplish, and does that in 89 poor a manner ag only to effect half culture, He is so unsteray and uncer. tain a3 often to be absent when most needut. I was told by a Northern lessee that he used four buudred differant freedmen in raisiog a crop of forty baies, year before last, and this happens in a jand where, if every laborer was a good and faith‘ul worker, not oue lial of tho fields could b9 cultivated. There 1s much excitement about the cotton worm, I have spots of cotton in my fields now .where the land has been worked that worms cap do no harm, and I believe if we had our fields cultivated as in former times the worm would be unheard of, I have received the premium for the first bale of cotton sent to market from this State for the crop of 1867. T have not been injared by worms; the season has been most favorable. My neighbors and others, who have seen my crop, pronounce it splendid, and yet if | gather one-half as much to the acre as was tho average in “days of yore’’ I shall be more than graiified, and this 4s the condition of all these splendid crops you hear of in the South. I have no ili feeling tow the freed- man; but he has been tried and proven a failure and must ‘move on." Ho bas long been a source of conten- tion and has created a world of strife between the sec- tions, and is at this time the cause of bitterness botween Let bim be taken away and in his stead give us the laborer the British planter uses; give us the cuolies by the ship I that we may raise the best and Cheapest cotton in the world. Give ua good labor and we will have prosperity. Our national wounds will be healed. Give us supremacy in our Iéading stapies and we will holp you to pay your great national debt. Give us ooolie labor and a tair chance and we will contro! the cotton markets of tho world, and have axain & government of United States, and you will have no Southera paupors to andcluthe. You have but to remove this obnoxious law and give us a little lift with your capital to make this a great and bapoy country, Give us coolies and we can pay you a large cot- ton tax, Give them to us as they ure now getting them in British Gutana, to which place they are taking iwelve suip loads from Calcutta, aud still want more. It you do not want to import cotton give us eflecuve labor; give it to asquickly that we may yet save our planta- tows ‘rom going back into a stato of nature, and rescue our agricultural interest from ruin Labor is the Alad- din’s lamp the possession of which will bring blessing, and with our climate and soil, knowiedg experience and resolution, we will work out «great futuro for thig im poverished and ruined land. Satisfaction at the*Herald’s Position—A Cry Against Negro Saffrage—The Whites Des- pairing of Succor—Respectable Northerners in the Soath Disgasted with the Prospect. _ Yazoo City, Sept. 4, 1867. Your paper has taken a position which commends it to overy patriot throughout the land, There is an at- tempt in this State by a few white men from the North, ‘by the aid of the black race, to ostracize all the men of wealth and intelligence of the State. The negroes are #0 ignorant that they believe the Southern people intend to put them back into slavery should they ever once more get into power. The country has been doluged with tracts, which have been scattered in every nook and corner of our State, Do the sensible people of tho North really know what 1s being doc in the South to carry the electtons? The whole negro popalation ts being now thoroughly Instructed and drilled to revolu- the State, We have but one hope, and that is more moderate part of the North will come to our The republican party, by means of the immense of yee Freedmen’s Bureau, are instilling lacks habits of idieness which are ating the country to relapse back into & Btalé of natui \ere- ever you go, a desert waste meets your gaze, The wolves, foxes and deer now roam without fear where wore once splendid estates; ruinsof magnificent dweil- gs and gin houses meet your where were once rift and plenty. Sambo then basked in the sunshine, as bappy as the day was long. I have recently travelled forty miles through a portion of this State. yng this road in former years 1 had often been ; but how terrible.the change! I met but one buman being in this long ride, and not eed of water on the jou tf — be Fd ae - nye» . The ne- groes go to the cities and villages, where they are pro- tected by General Howard’s swarms of Bureau agenis. You men of the North who fought to re- Store the constitution over all the States, can- not you arise and come to our assistance? 1 do not believe you battled to degrade the whites of the South and to place an ignorant and degraded race over them. It cannot but bring ruin upon the whole country. If the elections f°, for the principles of Ste Sumoer this fall I shall givo up, and so mill the whole Southern people. Wecan do nothing. We arein the hands of the Bureau agenta, who are liko the locusts of Exypt—their presence filis the land. Toey make fre- quent trips to the various plantations through the coun- try; they are bailed asthe parest beings upon earth. Let the educated and respectable Northern mon who have lived among us speak, Thoy aro all disgusted and tying to getaway, We are bound band and foot, and to the noble efforts which your paper is putting forih every day wo feel under ten thousand obligations, A. G, GALE, Madison Station, Miss, A Radical Meeting=—Mean Whites Influencing the Negroes=They Come Armed with Guns, Pistole and Clubs—Auother Wail Against Negro Supremncy- Noxvunce County, Miss., Sept. 10, 1867. AS your paper takes cognizance of all matters in evory department of interest to your readers and of any importance to the country, and as the negro question seems io have elicited your special attention recently, permit me to give you @ synoptical account of a meeting held im this county on Saturday last, A meeting was callod through the Macon Beacon for a mass meeting of the citizens by the conservative republican party, and signed by three negroes and three white men, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the general conv tion of tho radical party to be hold at Jackson, Miss. It was announced that if the negroes did not attend ‘istration tickets would bs void, consequently tions were depopulated, and the village of fall to overilowin After. they bad dier, noted for his worthlessness got up in a iar crowd = of freedmen and announced it “all who wanted Iand and mules would foliow him.”” He drew the crowd of course, and having assombled in grove, having marched there with (ve negroes armed with guns frst, then those with pistols, and the rear brought up with clubs, &c, So soon as assembied pickets pat out, and this saddier made thom a speech, promising them Jand and males of their former masters’, and thea took up’ subscription to pay his expenses and the two negroes appointed with him, Over $600 was raised for this purpose, Tho conservative radicals had the wind taken from their sails, and had not over thirty attendants. If the whites had been thus armed military restric. tions would have beon immediately placed upon them. The promises of thes? designing men, the deception practised upon the negro, totally disqualifies him as @ peaceable citizen or Iaborer. Under these Promises he becomes !nsubordinate and idle, and those who reside among negroes can see no solution of this —— except in civil disruption, and perhaps blood- shed. It is more the fault of the mean whites than the blacks, and nothing but a change of action at the North can prevent ultimate ruin to one race or the other at the South. I state myo leaving commonts to you. Your rocent views of negro suffrage are highly en- jorsed, and with those living in the South are felt to be just and right. The South doos not wish to oppress or defraai the negro, but they deny bis competency to become a statesman, & lawyer or doctor in his present ignorant condition. But we do prefer to send him to Congress to the white trash, who can secure his vote by practising oa his cre- dulity and ignorance, as the lesser evil of the “ PROGRESS OF THE PACIFIC RAILWAY. Sr. Lovrs, Sept. 16, 1867. The United States Railroad Commissioners, after in- cas another section of twonty-five miles of sh angas Pacific Railway, revarned here yesterday an leave for Omaha to-day, to inspect thirty-five miles of railway Just Completed on the Union Paciilo Road, MURDER TRIAL AT GREENFIELD, MASS. Srnixorrmiy, Mass., Sept. 16, 1867. Tho trial of Simeon K. Pock, for the murder of Mra Maria Choney, at Griswaldville, a fow months eo] at creaned to day, before wd R uw ye Court ‘hief Justies Bige! m Siding. The defenso will berlnsanity. A GANG OF BURGLAAS BROKEN UP. PortLaxp, Me., Sept 16, 1867. gang of burglars which has been ee im this rom Portland as far east aa jor broken up and the parties connected ie nee Ee to be a man named Joan White, of St Jobn, New Branswick, but lately from New York, boys. Considerable of the swien receives THE ALLEGED INTERNAL REVENUB FRAUDS. ee Arrival ef Collector Callicott—He Appears Be- fore United States Commissioner Newton and Gives Bail in the Sum of $50,000—His Reply to the Churges Preferred Against Him—Depaty Collector Andrews Acting as Collector of the Third District. Mr. T, ©. Callicott, who was relieved from his duties as Collector of the Third district, arrived in Brooklyn yes- terday morning, and immodiately repaired to the office in Court street, near Joralemon. The fact that Mr, Cal- licott had been suspended, that Deputy Collector Audrews had been appointed to perform the duties of Collector in bis place, was published in the Henaup of yosterday, and although it was pretty gonerally ex- Pected that he would be suspended, the announce- ment created considerable ‘talk’ among revo- nue officials, politicians and others, Mr. Callicott states that the affidavits on the part of the gov- eroment, a8 sent by District Attorney Tracy, did not arrive im Washington untii Saturday, and that (oom- paratively) shortly after their receipt he (Mr, C.) was suspended. Fearing that action would be too hastily taken with regard to his case, Mr. Callicott addressed @ letter to the President, of which the following is copy:— ‘Wasmixcrow, Sept. 14, 1867. To the Prestpeyt or tag Uxitep States :— Sin—I respectfully ask that you will not sign an order for my suspension {fh office without first hearing my de- feuce, The charzos agaiast me are false and malicious, and will be 80 proved upon a investigation. I bog that you will not_do me tho injustice to condemn me unheard, Respeotfull: ta CALLIcoT?, Collector Third district, Shortly after this, Mr, Caliicott received an order of suspeusion, of which the folowing is a copy:— Treasury DsPARTMENT, } Orrice or Internat Revexve, Wasninaroy, Sept. 14, 1867. Srr—In accordance with the provisions of the act passed March 2, 1887, regutating the teauro of certain civil o‘licers, the President has this day suspended you from office until sach time as the charges preferred against you may bave been considered by the Senate, or until such order shall be revoked, in caso the President shall become satisfied that the suspension was mede on insuificient grounds As the same charges wiich have been preferred against you are also preferred against Mr. John 8. Allen, your senior deputy, tho Secretary of the Treasury, in ac- Coraance with the provisions of section 40 of the act of June 30, 1864, as amended by the act of March 8, 1865, has directed your depu' Willlam 8. An- drews, to pertorm the duties of Collector until some n shall have been designated or appointed to the office as provided by the act Orst above referred to. You wiil therefore deliver into the possession of Deputy Collector Andrew all the lists and papers in your pos- session relating to the office of Collector, to be held by him until some other porson shall be duly qualified to receive them Respectfully, JAMES HARLAND, Acting Commissioner, T. C. Cauticorr, Esq., Collector's Otlice, Third district, Brooklyn, N. Y. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE COMMISSIONER NEWTON YESTERDAY. After remainiog in the office an hour or 80 yesterday morning, Mr. Callicott appeared before United States Commissioner Newton at his office in the United States Court Building in Montague street, where he gare bail in the sum of $50,000 to appear on the day tho examination of tho case is set down for, Mossra, Mackay and Lux became his bondsmen. Mr. Androws, who hasbeen appofated to perform the duties of Collector, is an actor by profession, aud has been connected with tho office for some time past. He received all the papers, &c., appertaining to tue office, yesterday, and will formally enter upon his duties to- day. Mr. J..8. Allen, who was also relieved from duty as deputy collector, remained about the o‘lice, and is now awaiting an invest:gation of his case, Mr. Lewis Fancher, alloged to have beon engaged with Cunningham and others in the same matters (aspre- viously reported in the Heraup) appeared before the Commissioner during the day, and requested that the ex- amination in his case should be postponed. Mr. Newton complied with his wish and set it down for the 23th inst. ‘The case of Cunningham has been adjourned until the 25th inst., at his own request, MB: CALLICOTI'S REPLY TO THE CHARGES PREFERRED AGAINST BIM, PN At the time the charges wero preferred against him in the affidavits of United States District Attorney Tracy and otbers, Mr. Callicott prepared a reply, and transmit- ted the same to the Metropolitan Revenue Board, As the case is one of great importance and interest, and in justice to the suspended official himself, the public would like to hear both stories, and accordingly the Heratp to-day publishes the document, which will be found below:— ~ RD matter of ba charge against me he ailldavit of the Hon. B. F. Tracy, United States Attorney for the Eastern district of New York, and sought to be sustained by the affidavits of John dies, |. assistant of said United States Attorney, ~~ & revenue inspéctor asngned to duty under said United States Attorney, aud Fletcher, Esq., who swears that ‘‘he is, and for many years last past has been, the superintendent of Joho iison’s distillery’? (all which said affidavits wore read to me before your honorable Board on the 28th day of ert 1867), I submit the following reply :— je charge, affects eo faras it mo as the Collector of the Third district ‘of New York is, that I “combined, con- federated and agreed to cheat and defraud the United States”, and in pursuance of euch conspiracy, :com- mitted three specific. wrongful acts:—viz., First, that I accepted and approved a bond for the transportation of two hundred barrels of spirits from the bonded ware- house class ‘‘A” of said Wilaon’s, knowing the said bond to be false and fraudulent. Second, that I con- nived atand permitted the fraudulent removal of two hundred andeleven other barrels of spirits from said warehouse without requiring auy bond or socurity what- evor. Third, that I fraudulenily procured the release of twenty-one barrels ot spirits from seizure by officers of sald United States Attorney. T have analyzed me divided the charge into three dis- tinet specification ‘or the more Couvenjent examination ot your honoradie , aud Lafirm and declare that the same, 80 far as it relates tome, is wholly unirve. First, as 60 the first specification ; the bond referred to was executed in duo form, and the sureties thereon justiged (oa form 83) before Deputy Collector Joha 3, Allen. Asa farther issuing the permit thereon I sab- P. Breed, the Revenue In- spector, then assigned by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and since employed by th» Metropolitan Reve- nue Board for the duty of examining and reporting on the sufficiency of such bonds, and said ii tor the same with his certificate endorsed thereon that he had examined the same and found the sureties sufficient. I deny thatyI accepted or ap- proved the said bond, with knowledge that it was taise and fraudulent, but on the contrary, aver, as the facts above stated show, that I had official feason to believe waste toe soead specification, I ted e on, T never granted a par- mit or an order for the removal of said two hundred and eleven barrels of.spir ts, or in any way, directly or indi- rectly, authorized, directed or consented to the wrong- aly aitompiod proot of tats porto ‘of te charge, it tion 0 contained in the affidavit of said Robert Fletcher, who swears that be saw such a permit bearing my signature; ‘Dut it will be observed that be also swoars in the same affidavit that he ‘did not read the same.” His ee to the contents of a paper which he adnits he never shows such reckless disregard of the obli, of an oath, that bis evidence is scarcely wortuy of notice. Desir. ing, however, to meet these allegations futly, I not only solemnly deny that any permit or order for the removal of two hundred and eleven barrels of spirits from said Wilson's warehouse was ever signed or issued by me, ani I refer the Board to the annexed affidavit of William De Veau, who testifies that “within his own positive knowl no permit bas been ied from the office of,the Collector's district, New Yor®, for transpor- tation from the warehouse of John Wilson, ex that for two hundred barrels [een May 18 (bond dated May 7), husetis, on which R. H. Hand js principal.” . De Veaa is the bond clerk having charge of the bonded acoount In my office, and best moans of knowledge on this subject. ' The juracy of Fletcher's affidavit is fur- ifidavit (hereto annexed) of Wm, R. inspector of the Sectetary of the Treasury), a3 follows:—¥Fiotcher swears that one Canaingham was present at the inspection of gaid two hundred and eleven barrels by Bachus; that one A. J. Phillips was there, a9 assistant of said Bachus, that * said Cunaingham took the account of said spirits from said Backus in ‘© the same inserted in said it,’ You read'og Mr. Bachus’ afidavit that no person Backus (a general order to will Ond 01 named Cunningham was present at such inspection; Backus, bat was that Phillips was not thore to assist there working for Fletcher; that tht tion returns was not taken by Ou! given by Backus to the storekeeper; that he (Uackus) Ww any order or permit from Collector for or relative to said two hundred and olevea barre! Spirits, aud ‘never heard ef such order or permit until he read the aMfdavit Fietch. Mr. Bochus farther swoers that after be had Inspection of said two hundred and eleven barrels, Fletcher requested hi ot to make any return thereof to the Collector's office; aod that when Fletcher ascertained that the re- said inspection bad been duly fled, he mani- fested much concern and exclaimed: My God | what’ be that for?" fects show’ that I was not privy to tho fraudu- lent removal of the spirits, else why should Fletcher manifest alarm whon he learned that the inspection re- turns were put on flgin mv office? These roturns, as stated in Mr. Tracy's a@davit, have been carefully pro- served. The affidavit of Backas proves that the person who endeavored to procure the suppression of these evi- donces of the inspection was the said Robert Fietcher, whose statements are tho basis of thi one eleven barrels, Is @ further indication of Fietcher’s participation ia the fraudulent removal, show- age as it now eooms to me, that he intended to imove two lols, of two hundred barrels oach, under the one permit given upon the Hand bon Mr. bo eppositior oa I owas o to the a loged is a several rrosyous” impremsing, "He. ere great stone ‘upon my having fomoved William C, ‘the for. f i ? 4 iy gE gs & E iB z E E i 5 eve a 43 district, id on was personally unknown 1 ned upon inquii as & Ca in’ the war, was distiaguished was honorably discharged from service; Robinson did not live in Brooklyn, but resided in the State of Conuecticut, and I removed him solely because he was a noa-resident. Having a] asad Jamnen Diiiogs {t respectable and trustworthy ci of Brooklyi Su; igor of the Second ward, in the Third tion district, and who was highly recomme ant Tw feet 5 signed bim to the warehouse of which Cai was keeper because it was near to Mr, dence and most convenient for him, and 1 trapsferred Captain Dayton to the Wilson warehouse because I did not wish to discharge from employment @ map whose military record wa: so good, ‘Tho tact that he had por. ied his life to defend the goverument seemed to mé ‘The dest evidenoe that be would not engago in defraud- ing it; and what I told Mr. Tracy when he afterw expressed some doubts in regard to bim was that be would remain there only a day two, but that if Mr, Tracy’s scspicions were verifled hy any proof, he (Captain Dayton) should nof- remain there a single day, Mr. Tracy knows that I reason to be cautious in acting upon his mere suspicion, in tho fact that there was st least oue persou io the employ of the Collector's office, against whom he had expressed to me @ similar suspicion, and yet he afters wards called upon me and withdrew the imputation. Another circumstance relied upon to sustain the cha: that I participated in the alleged conspiracy ia, that ordered the seizure of Wilson 8 wareuouse, Mr, Tracy says he became satigfed that I held possession of tne game for tho mere purpose of preventing sali Fletomer, the agent of said Wilson, (rom disclosing what he knew in regard to the purchase aud removal of sald spirits, This unjust inference is refuted by the alfidavit of Gen eral Hillyer, the United S.ates Revenue Agent, who testh fies that the seizure was” requosied bm, and without any suggestion on my part, In further evidence on this point I refer to two I from General Hillyer, dated respectively May 25 June ll. The sezure was made May 25, and the prot perty was taken by the United States Marshal from th¢ custody of the keeper appointed by Deputy Coliectos Stagg, 00 process instituted by the District Attorney Jun¢ 8, 80 that only fourteen days had elapsed between ‘elzure (on request of General Hillyer), and the ance of said seizure by the District Attornoy. lt proved by General Hillyer that from and after the date ‘of the seizure I repeatedly asked bim Lo furnish prool go that no unnecessary delyy should ensue, Iam fore at @ loss to understand why Mr. Tracy swears h¢ “became satistied’’ (before the expiration of the twen! daya provided by section twenty-five of the act of “arch 2, 1867) thas said warehouse Was held by me with fraudulent intent. $4 As to the third specification:—I deny that I frauda. lently procured the release of twenty-one or any othel number of’barrels of spirits from seizure by tue gui nates of the District Atworney. This allegation is no the affivavit of John J, Allen, Assistant Distri toruey, sworn Jaly 15, nearly two months after versationsin the detail o which it maimly consisim Every one knows how difficult it is to repeat a conversa’ tion accurately even a day afier itg occurrence, aud it therefore, not surprising ‘bat Mr. J. J. Ailen’s wv: of bis several conversations with mo, written so long afterwat inaccurate in many respects, Mr. Atle says I “talked in a smooth manner.” If by this phrase is meant that | spoke courteously, it is true; but if it implied that I did ao for corrupt motives, it is false. will not undertake to swear to the preciso language o} our conversation so long ago, but will give the real sub; stance of it, When Mr. Allen and Mr. Cunniocham called together at my office, om the afternon of the 250m of May, Cunningvam stated that tho horses and catts seized, with the barrels of spirits, beiong’d to 8 triend of his, and theretoro felt an interest in their releaso. Mr, Alien said be was told that the spirits were being re moved from Wilson's warehouse by my order, and thaf he bad called to ascertain if that were the fact I plied that I nad some days previously granted a perm! to transport two hundred barrols of spirits from Wilson's, in bond, to Massachusetts, and had since, im pur-nance of instructions from the Commissioners of In ternal Reveaue, ordered a!i the spirits Im class, ‘A’ warehouses to be removed to warehouses cla:s “B;" that Capiain Dayton, the storekeeper, was directed superintend both these removals, aud that, therefore, he were the oificer in charge of the seized spirits, was no doubt they wore ail right. I said £ could not tel positively whether the twenty-one barrels were movi undor the permit for transportation or under the for tranafer until I saw Captain Dayton; that I wi send for him and ascertain for sir. Allen's Information it ho desired it, or would let him know as soon as Dayton’s report was made, Messrs, Alien and Cuommgham then j; and Mr. Allen testifies that imme diately afier Jeaving my office be met and was iniro! duced to Captain Dayton, who, he says, exhibited to bim an order for tue removai of two hundred barrels of spirtua from Wiison’s warenouse toa class B warehouse. It is iui possible for me, nut having been nt at the inter. view, to tell what paper Capiain ton showed t¢ Allen, but it is most probabie tbat it was the order ad- dressed by me to Dayton, a copy of which is hereto an- nexed, dated May 23. This order was the only oxe issued ‘by me on that subject. and it does not mention two dred barreis or any other specific quantity of spirits, eas Pt on Dayton mxe= him to come to my fhm, the wrath would have beén Tmin-tistely ascertal As it was, I sent for Dayton repeatedly, by Hotes {0 the Post Office and by messengers, but he did-not my office for some time afterward, when,be informed m, aty-one barrels Which the Pes} 200 ii permitted for transportation it in bond to as I subsequently informed Mr, Allen. The effort of Mr. J. J. Allen’s aMidavit is to msinuate that made no steers to see Dayton, and that I procrastinat and endeavored to evade giving the required information The affidavits of Charles Tappan and ‘Win, P. De Venu, herewith submitted, repel this unfounded tm utation, and prove that what I said to Mr. Allen at tho time wad true and in good faith. The small fling or inuendo thad my statement that my chief clerk was absent at s funeral was a mere pretext for delay, is also disproved by the affidavit of Mr. Tappan, who testifies that he was so absent. In wer to that part of Mr. J, J, Allon’s ing my. firs: granting and then revoking houses In to Am | ingpe-t the at pleasure, I have to state that pevoked that order usé “pon reflection it seemed te . mo most proper aod expedient (and I statea so at the time) that a deputy collector should accompany Inspector Cocheu, or any other inspector, on his visits to the bonded warehouses at any time to make it certain that no frand could be perpetrated. The davit of James E, Robbins, herewith nted, shows that Mr. Alle concurred in opinion that such additional precaution waa just and right. Tho object of Mr. Cocheu's application for permission to explore the bonded warchouses was not stated to mo; but, on the contrary, when asked be replied that he had no’ particular but mereiy “wished to test She question," as he heard that the collectors generally were insisti under the law, the o-nded warehouses in’ ther spective districts were under their exclusive control Tt was not until some days afterwards that I leat from Mr. Tracy himvelf that the reai object of a! Cochea’s request was to search for spirits from Wison's warehouse. Had Cochou informed me of this, all new cCoasary permission and asssiance would bave bees romptly roodered, Tue aftidavit of Inspector EB, ling shows that he had every facility affurded to nin when he applied under proper authorivy for permission to visit and inspect the condition and conteats of the bonded warehouses in the Third district. Mr. ‘made mT in jon of the District A and the question of prosecution rested with him, must be apparent to the Board that the District Aw toraey could not Legge | have expected me to pis his, functions. Tho alleged fraudulent bond i. Hand was delivered to District. Attorney Tracy for prose- cution on the 9th day of July Inst, as aj from the receipt therefor now exhibited in the Board, which re ceipt was first doubted by Mr. Tracy, but whem shows was admitted to becorrect. This d_ was not trans mi and could not ope be so trasmitt until after diligent effort bad beon made to fi iy belonging to the obligors to disirain uj under section twenty-three of the act of March 2, Teor? thus reviewed and refuted the charge preferred against me in the severa) aildavits uted by Mr, A sabmnit the case with entire conidence, beilev! even the accuser should now be conrinced injurious suspicions, surtnises and imputations o in tHose affidavits concornin, baseless, and | reep ctfully trom your hi Board such action as wil) fuliy exonerate me, . ©, CALLICOTT, Collector Third district, New York. Broomirs, Se it i ae on State of New York, Ci County of New York, sr.— T, C, Callicott being ouy rn, de} says that the foregoing statement his own knowledge, exce} ‘on information and belief, and as to these matiors ve believes them to be tru T. C, CALLICOIT. Subscribed and sworn this 4th day of mbor, 1867, before me, Guorer D. Kaxioce, Notary Public. Nothing now in regard to the case Bow remains to De stated, excupt the fact that District Attorvey Yracy had written on to Washi Fequesting that a tional counsel may be employed to conduct the cxami- nation, ag he himself 1s « W mm the case, sou af it might hardly be proper that be suould act buih # Prosecutor and witness. Tracy that Metropolitan Revenue Boar, Pho Metropolitan Re Board had uo restion pee terday, Colonel Messmore baving beeu called to Warb- ington om business connected with the lato develop. ments in Brookiya, He will return on fhuraday. The new regulations with regard to the bonding o tobacco have created no little excitem among heavy eaters In “the woed,"’ and the rovonus office was yee socoey Sesion with tobacco men, who were lodging new bonds in the department, in accordance with tbe latest orders from headquarters, tRIZORES, There have beon no seizures in this city since Sater 2 when tho following were made: — ive barrels molasses rum, found in a covered wagoe {n South street, branded “rectified,” and purporting 4 have been stored at No. 38 Broadway. tol