The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1867, Page 4

4 THE SOUTH. the eyes of the country are turned towards the North State, and the great interest 1s concentrated hore, This ts not so much on account of the intrinsic merit of the elections, as compared with Virginia, or, in fact, any of the other Southern States, but because hero the result is more than doubtful, The elements are differontly constituted—that is, the whites and the blacks— for the contest ‘pn the South,+ through the teachings of radical orators and political pariahs, bas become one of caste, not of politits, a strife for the mas. tery between races—the one to obtain the ascendancy and supremacy over the other, the jatter to meiotaia what is their satura! right by heritage and by ali tho laws of humanity and civilization, The results of this con- test are of the gravest import, Nearly all the other Southern States bi rendered themsel Reports of the Special Correspon ents of the Herald, Antagonism of Whites and Blacks in. Virginia. The Politicat Prospect in North Carelina, Carolina redeem herself, and prociatm, as did Ohio, that this is yet. white man’s country, Barbarism and ignor- ance are In the fleld against civilization and intetli- gevee, One of the other must pre sian, or the African will have to be This i® the inevitable resuis fat South Carolina Redicals Preparing ot ft for Office. decree has been brought about is and incendiarism of the radical tended loyaity, but more pro VIRGINIA. sonal and political aggrandizeme ‘The campaign is fairly opened and tho struggle will be fierce im the mn fhe univeista of the Siate, whose ioyalty is proverbial, the thoroughly reconsiructed @x-rebels, the brethren of the white men of O ito, Penn- sylvania and resolved to contest to the last ditch the supremacy of white men ta North Carolina. The feeling is intense, stimulaced’ as it is by the ignominious defeat of tne chivalry of Virginia, and as the time of the clection approaches the ex increases, and no effort will be spared to sa’ Carolina from the domination of the African, ‘The radical leaders, 100, are in the fleld, their forces aod bringing into action all the art vices of Hupnicutt in Virginia. the ‘iosai le aod secret oath-bound associations are the channels through which radicalism expects to be msured in North Carolina, The superstitious and ignorant A.rican will be trammetied and bound hand and foot to vote the radical ticket, and neither threats nor promises will be spared to secure negro triumph im this Stave. Persona! vio- tence, and probably death, at the vands of negro regu- lators, should he fail to vote radically, und prom.ses of a farm, when it is confiscated, are the modes by which the ignorant negro will be forced to vote radicaily—the oon- tract being sealed with an oath on tio part of the tntellt SPECIAL CORRESPOMDENCE OF THE HERALD, Magnificent Scenery in the Tobacco Region= Diiapidated Condicion of Planters’? Resi dences—Ruinovs nad Gloomy Aspect Af. fairs—Antagoniniic Keeling Between the Races—Fearfal Anticipations — Murderous Prociivities of the Blacks—Reign of Terror— Salvation of the Whites=Views of a Planter= The Soil—Prodncia. Loxensera County, Va, Nov. 8, 1967, , This is one of the southwestern counties of Virginia, and probably one of the greatest producors of the staple, tobacco, for which the state is so famous, A ride on horseback through |t unfolds to the eye of the eques- trian ono of the most beautiful undulating countries that !t has ever the good fortune of’ any traveller to witness, Leaving the line of the Richmond and Dan- ville railroad, which rans in a southwesterly ‘direction, at Keysville, in Charlotte county, a short distance tra- versed, and you are in this coun Proceeding then by the public road leading directly south, a continued Panorama of unsurpassed jandecapes meets the view; the woods, as you reach any eminence, seeming to be piled tn banks of autumnal and many tinted verdure, from the deep evergreen to the golden colored dying leaves, with all tho other hues of nature at this season of the year intermixed, presenting a scene of loveliness to the city bound mortal long to be remembered. The Glear, open and fallow lands—lying along the roadside, on the hillslopes or liming the banks of a clear creek, too, prevent a charming appearance—clothed tn crops of clover, green shoots of tobacco end the newly peeping heat, of which quite a crop isin the ground. Occa- pally glimpses of a handsome oid in the foreground, rrounded by a belt of woods with cleared patches on the hills beyond, aud the masses of beautifully tinted woods streicling away (o the horizon, can be obtained, that perfectly enchants the iover of nature, Along this of radicalism as practised south of Mason and Dixon's line, and such the programme of the radical leaders, who are persisient in their efforts to change the orthodox white supremacy of the couutry, and establish a govern- ment that shall be controlied by a barbaric African race. Civilization 18 to be made subservient to barbarism, and Anglo-Saxons are to do reverence to Africans, Jere, however, it can safely be estimated, that out of indorse the verdict of Obio and Pennsylvania, and es- tablish beyond doubt that white mon intend to rule in North Carolia, Thirty thous: registered white jority will vote in sold phalanx for conservat delecates, though not agaiust a convention, as a e portion of the people are favor of holding conven- tion, with a view to adopt a white man's constitution in- conformity with the reconstruction acts, guaranteeing civil and political rights to the megro, and asking admit- tance to the Union on such constitution, Tis is briéfly the policy of the honest people of the North State, and sbould it be unsuccessful in restoring the State former position In the Union, the people will then hat the conscionsuess of having nobly done their duty by ustry and their race, Negro su- Toad, too, at intervals, handsome and comfortable resi- | Premacy been averted, and of the whole dences ‘are found,’ with ali the tobacco barns, | Of tne ately rebellious elevon States North corn houses, stables and laborers’ quarters, | Carolina will aione be so independently ag tosay, military rule always betore African domination, Like Virginia, this State is infested with ‘ret negro military organizations, who perform their evnlutions at midnight, ‘These sable ro-rults of radicalism are re- ported to bo armed, turbulent in thelr conduct, and have, like the Virgion committees, threat ened many citizens, sp g, alarm and terror in their Near Wilmington two bands of denoting (he planter and farmer, formerly $0 prosperous and happy, but now siruggiivg merely for life, In many instances these former Virginia homes are deserted, ‘the owners having either abantoned them voluntarily, or being forced to do so by creditors, who themselves re unable c1iber to til the soil or dispose of these en- cumbered estates to advantaye In some cases the pacer windows, tattered doors and shutters and | immediate vicinity. roken chimney tops of a former probably aucestrat | African desperadoes bave been overating ina manner residence, call up sad rpfections tn the mind of the | that has caused the military commandant of the post visitor, The barns that used to be,weli filled at this | there to iseue an order forbidding such assemblages This interference with them called forth the warmest indignation from @ neighboring band, without the pale of the Wiimiugton officer, who now threaten to invado his territory and parade as much as they please, whether he likes itor no. This, however, will scarcely be done, in view of the preseuce of numerous boys in Season of the year with tobacco, the corn houses that creaked {voi Toof top to floor with tue golden eared Brain and beautiful wheat, and the cabins that once Sheltered the confiding and contented darkey, under tne careful gunrdianstip of an apxious master, are now de- @erted, desolated and failin, ain, Where even signs Of animation prosent themselves about these houses litte | Due, who are averse to such proceedings. was doicg, the dispiri farmer being without the A petition to the President for the pardon of Wiliam means to employ labor; apd even wore he liberally sup- | J- Tolar, Thomas Powers and David Watkins was re- lied in this way at hig command is unreila- | cently circulated in this city, receiving numerous sig- Bie, aud no coulidence exisis between employer and | natures, They are all citizens of Fayetteville, who employ. s, the former slave. | bave been tried by a military commission for the mur- ner, clin: der of a negro named Archie Bebee, who committed a d and almost rape upon the person of a Miss Massie White. It is not and from the toil of his » from the soil that luouce, his ancestors. pensrte negroes. who in bis most pressing /o 4 mand prowl about the country, mectings, and ip every in oyer's interest, to conspire rers against him, the od Lo drag Out his exist 8 wife and ciuldren, rented 80 weil, been, but the impression is afloat that the accused are under sentence of death. The offence being of so aggra- vated a nature, and the lady being highly respectabi alone accounts for this timely efort to secure rresiden- tial clemency, the greatest interest is evinced in their impending doom, It ia hoped the application will be favorably acted upon. A correspondent of tho Sentinel here seuds that paper graph in relation to the veritable Marshal Ney. ‘he writer has been perambatating avout the Stace, aad. ina eection aboundine in croeks, makes the following dis- covery, which [ give for what it 1s worth:—‘“In the cbyrchyard of ono of these creek churches, | believe it 1 Third creek, Lonce stood beside the grave of a man who hved apd died asserting that he was the verita! Marsha! Ney. His own account was that he was sen- tenced to death, but that, througn the interference of friends at court, the execution was asham. Le was put an unsettied aving become es who now place vo place, like w bands being against every 1 againet them. The feeling by no means pleasant; a dist it miles ey are constantly in rder, and always on he torch of the to the coast, thence to America, and that interior for privacy. Certain It ta, they martial figure, a tine French scholar. He in Rowan, aud always mamtained that be was tne Marsbat Ney.”? @ sought the he wase t school os u's band Diack inc ‘totes and cattle from the mi the Great Mogul at Ri to gable individu aot het tgs Hor Intionary Argument—Secensio: forebot ake ap Some nignt aad lool ; e it jon Defined=The Congressional and Presi- } oll ~ SIC hmRmDnIeraEd. he dential Polley Deaenaced as Woveluttonary military t wit 90 many ter- vice. Fors as (! ber of mysterious and Rauwion, N. C., Now. 1, 1867, atroc fod all skill and every Tf the prople of Virgina exhibited an earnestness and red The nearest tailitary son gph . warmth of feeling in their late political contest with the biacks, they are outdone in this respect by the honest Union loving ‘tar heels’ of North Carolina. The coming canvass bas opened with a vim and vigor which show that parcies are zealoas, as woll ag enthusiastic, The conservatives of Virgina have cuffered an ignomivioas defeat at the hands of the radical blacks, Louisiana and Alabama are also under the control of the African, and is {# now almost ro- duced to a certaimy that Soath Carolina, Georzia, nc twenty-five miles, aud lesree of the blacks onee be- ‘i cusy in their present ox- goowy and sa? enougn, st and most borrible could arrive. verdrawa, of the finest a, and such iy the reign y tCnerant radical orators, , organtzers, and Tow and tod all of whieh baw been sanctt- ns, oat so distinetivy dedined the the roster the only hope of Mississippi and Flerida wil! follow in their caigranon, Let taem come from | wake, and, like Tennessee, be pinced at merey tous ios of vadveal Maseschaserts, | o¢ infamous potitical gamesters and tyrants like Browa- bo wh te, and Without regard | Tow and Hoanicatt, This doom the white people hero igiously inelia have detertained to avert at all hazards, and if t! Thie ie tier ebin th eee easy menaen ey | ergy now eviuced by the grent majority of whites in oan be rev aos aod eoarcay, | the State is any criterion, there is every probability One plants me over bie wagie talow | bes. che work of his own ne of the fivest in the lies neglected, apd to expenditure be mad are becoming ove: that North Caroline will yet remain a waite man’s home and country, On Saturday pight the conservatives held a meeting in this city, which was tmrgoly attended by both the building betng fled to overflowing, many not being blacks seemed to take great interest in the proceodings. ‘The meeting being cated to order, Mr, Bledsoe, @ iead- ing citizen, took the chair and expiamed its object, de- Oning conservatism tm a manner thas even the sable portion of the audience could mot object to, Calis were then made for Judge Merrimon, a distinguished and respected member of the bar ¢, ho arose and was vociferousiy cheered He vonded by thanking the audience for the bouor they bad done bim; he was pot @ parienn, and did not ro~ gard the movement as @ aan one; if such he would da of it, fegarced thie as a sponta- me of to save the goveramen : Was ig tmminent peril, to resiore constitatt liberty and the Union, and to that revolutionary spirit now a@imoss an epidemicin the country, The | Judge sad the people were fast becoming | oppression, apd «ere too readliy @nocumbing to ihe | clamor of revolmionista; the terms ‘febeis'’ | “traitors bad been so constant ied to them that mn one of the best tobacco When the war clovet | as liberally as er ‘oliiting my cautracts Mterpris® waprot- & week ata timo I weariy lvet ove | oto ¥ to attend a politic: xpd \mpiored them, their tabor mig 4 rolactantiy 4 was number. d quar ro Ye r th his bo} : ¢@ iaeile in the manuer of ebingles, and finished on tt ordinary dwollings. Tmemarked to bim it wa ty there Innds should should remaiu uncnit.vat excellent dv ee | Thov bad rights thoneh, aod —_— whieh they must wnocet pier. | cofend, The political history of the country between To wirch be rep? ig: Dat T om hepless | 1820 and I86L were reviewed, and the without capital. Nogroes aro rtinowy and one of showed — that aball pevor ive {mn thee houses, When white ‘nmi. | at ine hotlom of every national bpm toat ovcarred ants sy are Welcome vere, aud T wil © 18 iat Spe, unt at jemeth war was forced npon ihe nem cor able and S#ip (hem by every oe Tie bad always been @ Uotom wan, but under ower; Hus vill then they must romain ue ‘ ven weeds mu , his frm’? fn d of could sanction. ant he bad This fully expres «of ail the farmer (as am unfortanate revolauonsry bua this seotion of ¥ ya fully SBOWS the Cuda oad | " Aetridie siratis to 8 ata now redacea by | 4 ie! fw that mistaken causa, and ox- Phe Congresional p re action as prictised in 1 (ror alt dishonorable mouves, An tn- Oe Sourn. wiation of the character and slates of the The dncis of this seovton ore as manifold, perhaps, forol poveraments+was thea emtered tnt fs ine Mer portion ¥ ary. ThE soil aned that either was pot al feof 8 randy loan, ava he mould extremely | | loloe dering oF epee the war, Secession Hlure gave } aud the Judge } io rebellion wore Lidity to the acis of the war, ink Lhe official acts of bho Staves . except such as observed the Adapind to tebac: no kwheat f © vit be at dantiy soporiod t ho place petilution as their goto aud the tawe of the United Maduccment to tbo epreue: Sta ader that constitu: Tie said tho secession Weautife) nus Bow nagivato! section oF Virginia | Movewent was a rebeli od that {ts supporters pereruaises and part ants ere loqail: sand | able i | ‘ment for treason, but thet ie sanid do | an NORTH CAROLINA, | constitution nd that ther had iahte. wader the i | copatitutio rich they could gut be deprived, - oe De) DATY Measures, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD | "Phe speaker tupported thie in | ing thet overy man b t io the Appronchiag lees | {ii tue taking OF 8 Effects of tho Defeat im | and that trial by o jgation und e or Africun Supremacy—The Condition nod Prospect» of the Oyvposing Kiementh=Negro Military Organbeations—Vetition for Presidential Glomency—M wre! Ney- i Hacer, N, O., Oot, 92, 1997. revolutionary in ite Of the President wae speaker's attomtiog, authorized by the coastiiation ex subject that The national Rxecutive had oxet formiy % 4 Constitution, an alt great acd mag rmonte would hay done, A full pare % Jatoly robetlious people, and ABS RAR ea pone te 5 Bow teat ime soniert in Vinginia haw bese decid, | har vsitens ss vee forme Fights wed immune ee WH dengtr vinx to (be conservatives the whitee— (if vob: wu lal cever Cursed this great country, Toe ing—some of them wilfully—sur- | ‘sto African supremacy, it will be a | matter of the warmest congratulation should North | all the Southern States, ono at least will be enabled to | matter in wha: direction one turas, situated | would sink into utter mmsignificance aremarkable communication, in which occurs a para- | who ipio a coffin; but, instead 0% being Duried, he was takem | Virginia, The negroes here know thi on, he said, was & blander, a fatal | situation,” to ‘organize under the act.” ed Ute power Ie eons | | Jade contended that no mag of teal ability could | Say (hat alter ibis pardon any other brauch of the go¥- Tom at bad the right to disfranchie, impose puuish- MEDL OF confiscate ther Provarty, Any attemp.s to Perpetrate such a ila ran upou & free people vader the protection of | sitation were revolu- | Yogary, and deserved ine couceumaiion of the people |} ba the most ivdizasat manuer. The audience were then | old 1m a warm sirain they Were ao longer “rebels” or | “traitors,” por could toey be dsfrancui-ed or punished by anybody except for subsequent vio.acious of the law, ‘The next phase in the speaker's argumeut was, if any- ‘hing. more singular thaa (he foregoins, and was swe What asounding to big hearers. He said, aiirtbuting Bothiag impropor to the Presidemt, the reconstruction Polley of that person was as rewuluuouary as was the Pohey of the preseat Congres Tt was iho sectied cone Viction of the sveaker that the oly con Luutoaal plaa tH @ setiloment Of the national difficuilies could ed at was the terms proposed in (.@ articles of nston's surrender toGeneral sherman in this , 1865, He sud these two great mon, of military gensus, had bit upoa the ouly Wise, Constitutional plan to solve the uatioual dillicul~ ties, and no man of wisdom would doudt tha: fact, Had At plan eeu accepied the Umea would bave been 1o- Stored aad the flag of our common country would have been as ineradicaily fixed in the hearts of (he paopie South 5 in those of ‘he Nort. Bus alas! said tue Judge, ts was 4 alopied, tne President had d-ciared tho war a ao veb revolution was still wa, The people crave constitution and Uniou, and to tis end must all our energies be bent. He tb the tocain of consil~ tutional liderty was sounded by tue people, and believed they were determined w save the Union, and it was tho opinion of tue speaker reaction would go on until tri ump was compieie, The Judge thougnt, with foad. Stevens, that the present ‘ongressioual pian of rocon- struction was unconstitutiona!, but he advised all those uofracchiged to register aud vote aud go for a con- vention AbUMs juncture the speaker's strenzth became ax- hau-ted, and he was forced t» Cunciude Lis <pecc!, only haif deivered, Tuo meeting then oroke up, the Lour being very late. A Glance at North Carelina=The Crpe Fear Section=The Change of Aspect—Desolated PlantationsPho Inprovements in the River Coun ies=The General Materint Condition= The Political Situation jscation by State Legisiation—Whites Aroused and Ac- tive—The Praspect=Local Potties, Woeivoron, N.C, Nov, 2, 1867. The aepect horeabontsis very greatly changd. Once the eye of the vistor was greeted, from the wharves, with a stretch of well culiivaied rice tields, which for gent voter. Such are the free and independent doctrines | miles up and down the river on both sides prosented a smiling ‘andscape, and one upon which it was very pleas- ant to dwell, Now, however, ail in the immediate vicini- ty of Wilmington ts & vast ploture ofa terrible deso- lation, The devastation which was wrought by the war did not pass by hore and leave this district of coun - try unscathed; for the deep scars are observable, no Plantations aban- doned by their owners because of a lack of trained labor, are going to waste, and there s:ems to bea dark pall of rain hanging over fields that once were radiant with the rich produce whioh sprang from the prolific sotl. The agriculiural interests of New Hanover and Bruns- wick, formerly so impor:ant, are utterly prostrated, and the contribution to the commerce of this city, formerly Ns | drawn Crom this source, (s entirely lost It ia not won dertul, therefore, that trade is duller than it was wont to be, and that business, once so flourishing, stagnates. But for the fortuna'e devoiopment of other resources iu this immediate section of the country, Wilmington @ commercial centre, and its population coutd not be sustained. Such, luckily, i nos the case, for while hand of desolation fell heavily upon the region hereabouts, in the counties of Biaden, Cumberland, Robeson, Richmond and Anson there is manifesed a greater activity, a loftier enter- prise and a more general and protitable perset nce and indasiry than ever before, andas a Soaneauence those counties, onco reckoned among the poorest in the State, are sending to market great quantities of produce, and aro in a verv considerable dogree taking the place, by their contributions of rosin, turpentine, timber, lumber and cotton, of the rice growers the jower Cape + &3 supporters of the trade of Wilmington, When the several works of internal improvement projected for the especial reticf of Wilmington are completed, the loss, which is now so keenly felt, can be afforded, and the anticipations which have been entertained ot @ great. future, may be possi- biv realized. But these works, especially the Charlotte Ratlroad, are not likely to be tuished until the political situation grows more promising, for Nortbera capital will be needed to perfect these sue: and there is no chance of obtaining assistance of toat kind while the present foeling of uncertainty as to tho poiiticai future contimues, It is well kuown here that the negroes are shown what the Oinding of tho military commission bas | bent upon the incorporation of confiscation provisions in the constitatioa if they can conirol the Convention, which will possibly be called. and shat they will so leg- Isiace as to imposes the whole burden of taxation on the land owners, relieving polla and personal wpe, ofany je to carry their menaces into executioa are exerting a decidedly depressing effect; but, while such is the dase, these apprehensions are inducing many whites, concluded not to register, to change their minds, and the «majority, already so large, wil probably be, on this account, vory heavily increased. Perhaps as Many as fifteen thousand white votos will be brought out which otherwise would a} rave been secured, Even the extreme violence of hatred with which the nevroos regard the other race is xoing to produce a good resalt. A survey of the field induces tho belief that there very littie danger of a similar dispiay of negro organiza~ tion and white distmezration as that Wu ocourred in they are bn nn tho canvass wi @ parties are all respected aitizens, and | assessment, and fears that. they may be in the wivorty, and will not enter up: the same enthusiasm that their race have eviuced in other States: and, bes des, they are not steongly united, the diff rences in the republican. ral being of sucha marked character as to forbid the entertainment of an expeciation that they can be reconciled. Oo the other hand, the whites are aroused and are working with an earnestness never paralleled, evincing an untiring and atubborn purpose to make a bold and powerful battle for the coutrol of the State. Mang of the nowsps of the white voting stength, and, tn sitivn shal be madi are in the majorily, im this way hoping to deter vention by preventing a full polling of the which would be the Inevitable result of an excited can- vase. Vory generally this course will be pursued, and in this coun'y especially, where the whites are out- numbered two to one, While im those counties where the nero vote preponderates no eifurt wili be mad very differant policy will be pursued elsewhere, and t election will be decidedly exciting. Where the strength of the parties 1s nearly baianced the stubbornest contest that has occurred for many yours will assurediy be made, As the days appoivied approach the lover of Anxiety {ucreases, and the Beopte snow thelr deep feit interest m the result. From the best information which 1 bave been able to get 1 think that there will be no Convention, and if there is thas {i witl be controlled by the conservatives, There is in the feid in this county but one set of can- didates—they are the nominees of the radical party, The tiewet is headed by ‘General Joseph C Ab bolt, and besides bim bas on it the name of 3. 8, Ashley, a Boston schoo! teacher, and Goorge Madson, & Begro. This will moat probably be the successul ticket, as there will hardly be any opposition, Genoral Abbott is afanaticof the Hunnicutt strive, as is Ashiey, who has ‘ati the malicnity but none of the intelligence or native force of the Virginia agitator, while the negro, iabson, is & Very respectavie and moderate man, superor in many to ether of his colleagues, New Hanover county used to be represented by the re are urging a full registration that races, | Stranges, the Persons, the Ashes, the Cowans, the Halts, the McClummys and other distinguished meu; but negro supremacy has accomplished a revolution in the what bas been will be no an i underwoor; bis enclosed, fenceress elds, and lis ve to gain an entranée, The whites present were not | social sad potitical stasus, an ses are rapidly falling into | oniy enthusiagie, bat, 1 might bs said, excived. and the } More forever, Sic transit gloria mundi vily of the — prospect SOUTH CAROLINA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Coming Electtou FarcemHew the Recon- Leas Fiving—Prespects in South Carolina. Cuanceston, 8. ©., Nov. 3, 1867, ‘The ball has opened. The megroes have carried Loulriana, Atabama, Georgia and Virginia, and they wiil certainly carry South Carolina, Thero ws some chance, familiar with | the papers toil us, of a fair ight for tho supremacy io North Carolina, bat I doubt ti. greater apatfy on the subject of reconstruction among There Js, I bolieve, a boy Degan to beliewe they had pap ay righta, | the white people of the Second Milltary District than anywhere else. When the Congressional act passed, fest March, thore was approbension and dismay, espe- pertisans and revolutionists were | cially when the act wag read with the President's voto mossage as a commentary, Still, the people (I mean the white people), were generally disposed to ‘‘accopt the They set to work tomudy out is complex mechanism, to calculate ° paid a glowing tribute to the men how many were disiranchised by its provisions; and many of the foremost citizens, either in public meetings or through the vebicie of the press, signified their acquiescence, and exborted their fellow citizens te con- Ciliate the ‘colored element,” and thus endeavor to work @ peaceful rortoration of the State, Mamy there were who had been in favor of the adoption of the | Howard amendment, bui who, not finding public opinion | ripe for it, refrained from waking known theit views on this subject, These and others favored erganitation under the Reconstraction act, Active moasores were, of couree, expected on the part of the radical wecrophilists here and elsewhere, and the most gea‘ous endeavors to prejudice the negroes Against the Southern whites; but siill we thought that | the military power would interpret the acts of Congress | mot to the advaniace of the whites, but at least fairly | and without prejudice In this, however, we were mach | mastaten, and wise Were We also In the expecta. ton of a convery Wve widdle party. The failure of the latter, however, |x perhaps due to the former. Congtor*, 84 Is we!| known, passed three separate acta } Of recoustruction, avd ihe provisions of each successive | enaccnent ard more «tringent, #0 far ax the “late rebela’” aro conceraod, than (he one preceding, Nor ie tals ali, | The private interpretation ven to these laws of Con- gress by the several miiiia y commanders in every | | instapee went beyond the law tiseif. As there has been cousideraole metnod ia these strained toterpretations, and more coucert .naa could be expected from accident, we are led to inquire whence the iospiration came, Who con-wued the acts? Was it General Grant or sone Congressional juvia?—Br, BScheack’s cow for instance—or the Jurttcmary Commitee, or individual Senators; or dif tu Cominanders borrow from each other? Whoever 13 responsible for the construction of the Reconstruction acts, tiey were in uo Biugte insiance toatl know Of “coustraed Hberally It were easy to «ubstantiate this statement by «iving a list of “general orders,’ Dut this i pot the time to re~ view the admintraiion of our lato commander Gea- era! Sickles has passed from the stage of action. No | interest attaches to uismam>or bis dveds [may, how ever, give you, ere iouy, for the truth of history, an | examivation iuie his public acs, ag well as an iuqury into some of the reasons why he was so sigua/ly uo- popular during tho entire od of his sojourn with us. To this unequal aod ‘itiberat construction of the acts wdue, in a large measure, the present unhappy and altogether abnormal siate of aifairs in the South, All of us who caloulae! the number of disiranchised 1136 spring soon found that we bad reckoned without our host—the Pisitic: Commander being toe said ho-& Citizeas were refused registration on every conéeivable Kind of pucrite pretext, for whieh no shadow sould be found in the acts o( Congress, Thus, I know of a case | wunel Ur ion maa in one of the upper districis of te, Woo had beaa toyal al through the war, re er i registration becaiso he aad a son in tu rat army, ‘There sero ma caes of this kind years ago was sioner of cross roads or of the poor, public school board, could ob be allo register. More flagrant iujustice than all of however, was the ruling of General Sickles that no foreigner Cou.d register sho, alter having become nata- ralized, volunteer-d imto the Confederate service, uniess he was naturaitzed over agua. [a short, every prevext was resor the way of the white citizens, aod every facinty afforded the nezroes at the registration boards, Great influence was excrted through the Union League to impress tue negroes with the importance of registration, At these secret mest- ings designing agitators had the whole field to them- selves, Tae ignorant, credulous and excitable negro here was the subject of promise,cajolery ond threat, “If you go to the registration board and tie pulls you will get your forty acres; If you do not, imprisoument, fine," and what not, There was no one to culusay ali thi+,aod the ne:roes had the additional tncentive of an awured immuaity from ati the consequeno:s of tue idiencas iuei- deat to bis new found political career. General Orders No, 65 of General Siekies assured him that any oue who attempted to “discourage’’ him trom registration should be punished severeiy by the military power. With such a clause as a text we can readily see wos a& liberal construction the gealots aud designing partisans who manage the poppet work of the League would be be hkely so put upon th = The uence hay been that negroes every where teft the plantations and beuvted the registration precincts by days and weeks, sae arms, creating disturbances, and neglecting all ir allotted tasks, to the detriment of she tatenests of their employers, and ail this they did with perfect impanity, encouraged, therefore, to proceed to greater lengi pext time. That the wirepuilers caused any of these Negroes to register several times at diferent precincts, ‘so as effectually to kill off any possibls wuite majoriiy, there can beno doubdt, And thie was ovmparativery easy of accomplisument, Few of the negroes had names; in large cited but few of them were known to the “chaliengers "'—sup} any such bad been posted to preserve the parity of the ballo. It was wot 0, The negroes were rarcly challenged whether they were fifteen or twenty-one; whether they lived ia the election district or not; whether they had registered elsewhere or nos. All these were questions on which the registrars thought best not tobe toocurious. We, imber of ni regts- er resided in the city, even when iis population was much larger than it is at | tong * And all Wham iaxpedie te would Bow appear to veen tn vain, for is no opposition. The white pag is not entered, and the sable ouls runs over the course and carries off the stakes, perhaps Our radical friends have slightly overdone their work. They bave killed of the “rebel element"? eo effectually that they are beginning to get alarmed at their too easy victory. There was in this city ample material fora reapectable conservative party of both whites and blacks. But by the manceuvring of the extremists these have been paralyzed or disgusted, and now, as by genorai concert, all desist from any further participation tn the matter. ing, the United States Marshal of this State, one of the first wh ua actively engaged to organize the re- publican party in this oty and State, bas long vainly dreamed of a covciliat Policy that is to unite whites and biacks aud ¢ari State for the conservatives. Atarecent convention held ia Columbia—what for I know not—some conservative resolutions of Mr. Epplag were voted down; and since then | believe even he ts disenchanted of his hallucimation abogt the immeuse in- ficence he was going to exert, both at the head and the Yail of his party, among ¢ne magnates in Wasbington | and with Pompey, Quash and Cssar on the plantations. There are very few waite people in this radical ring. The negroes have learned to distrust them, aa they well might, when they could not but see what stuff the; were nade of. There is scarcely a single he white man, of elther past or prosent respectability, be- longing to the in this State, or to the republican pay . The Freeimen’s Bureau agents—Whitemore, iiabary aphenn or two others—are the leaders of suis business. ~ Collector A. G. , and Mr. Frederick A, Sawyer, Collector of Internal Revenue, both aspiranis for offic, are understood to co-operate with the party, but have touched the uncioan thing bat daintily thus far, and many of their colored brethren entertain grave doubts in revard to them. ‘‘Are they sound on the goose? If so, why did they not identify themselves with us trom the fires?” Now, as to tne colored leaders hereabout, Foremost ie FL, Cardoza, a brown wulatto, a Presbycerian preacher, since the close of the war a teacher of freed- men tn this city. He is a native of Charleston—bdorn free, however—ovtained ,the elements of his education in a school kept by two young gentlemen of this ci at a tune when your radical (riends jasist on believing tt was a capital offegce to teach a negro to read. He went North about the ave of seventeen, and subsequently to Europe, where he finisned his education at 6 Atleast so goes the story. I cannot say whether it is true or not. He {s certainiv a man of some clevernoss; bal, as the hi among the poets, bis faculties aud at- tainments rece! factitious appreciation by reason of his being 8 colored man. A white man of the same taleat and education would attract no attention what- ever. But by virtue of his color he will certainly go to Congress—i, 4, “if reconstruction goes through.” There ure several other negross here, nativ id Nerth- ‘ern, more or less glib of tonguo, and more or jess looxed up to in consequence The nominations for the Vouveation bave been made in caucus, and five out of the nue nominees are colored. To the creait of Genera! Scott, Assistayt Commissioner of the Freedmon’s Bureau, be it said that he has, as far as I can see, carefully stained from all interference with politics, not even coun ancing these rosie A with Lis presevee. He has, moreover, decapitated Woittemore and Kaudolph (a Whice and @ colored Methodist preacher, who wore olficers of the Bureay), for being politicians over zealous ‘There has been no organization, nor even effort at such, anywhere in the State among whites. 1 soe, how- ever, by the papers (hat a Conservative Convention is to meet fo Colanrbia on the 6tu inst. ; whether or not any. tuing wil come of it, however, it would not be easy to say. [tear itis too late (or anything else save the ut- terance of a so.emn protest to the whole scheme of Congressional reconstruction, and still more to the unequal method ta which i bas Deen carried oui. the radicals have po orgen ia South Carolina There are two negro papers published here, it is true, tie Lead-r, & poor, miserabie rag, edited (sic) by a preacher of tue African Mecbodiat ciuroh, Mr. Catn, all tne work dove on 1 by negroes, The other is the Adrncate, the organ of the Metnodist Episcopal charch mission here. The fatier recently obtained office! recogaiuon trom “ir, Macpherson, and had the printing of the United States laws awarded toit, even though it is only » week- ly paper, aud of very email circulation. The other paper is pot yet nominated; gone “toyal’’ enovgh. Either the rads have been unadie to get the money vecessary for a paper, or e18e they have concluded (aod no with- out roason) that it was wpnecessary— that (he -olored majority was tov secure here to need such aid. The pew | yoiers however, being ra; “oducated’’ by means of haraugues. For this or some kindred irpose, @ hall was reaied te cently (Chase Hall) wntch’ was to have been inaugur ated by a lecture from the itlustrious Gilbert Pilievury, the great bigh priest of the Usion League, in private ‘nown as the su of the Colored Orphan ylum, @ Freedroen’s Bureau office. The theme of the lecture was ‘Man as @ Biave und ava Citizen,” At the inted, Wednesday a was dsomed Mee Pasa a was wo IP ‘wan not permitted to lecture, because ihe lessor ob; ‘The hail bad been rented asa library and reading room, a clause im the lease ly stipulated that it wae to be used for any polit cal purpose, This the lersor was compelled to insert, as tis lease contained a yiunilar Provision; the reason of it, [ believe, because usidg any part of the building for political meetings would vittate the insurance policy, The colored audience ani Hers Prevent were very indix- tetly to the “Miltary Hall,” « mons ol, aed tnere Ie peeches, AX aspeciinen both of ame place on th Mr. David Barrow w 4 MR. CHALQEAN AND GisTLEMKN =] come to-night to bear @ leciure from Mr, Pillsbury, aad did not know there was to be a meeting of ints Kiva; you have, there fore, taken me ‘atively by surprise, At the same tirae Thave no doubt that every wan presemt tnust feel the importance of these times, aud must feeb his sou! stirred by the soloma covsequences that may rewalt from our Aotion both Lo ourselves and to our posterny ; and Tre- Joico that co many men com to our meotings 80 ef'oa, and menifest thai interest tn thea that they gugnt to dv Tis one of the most bopeful signa of sie Lime, | | and ono of tho best evidences that we cap give thar we | do appreciate the priviloges givem Us, and Intend to vse | them to our advantege, Ihave Weard it often salt that | the excitement aitondine American oleciious is one of | ibe + Daneful features of a democratic pov mont; vot T think it io quite de eomtrary, for the taterest showa m such matters is ‘of the bes signs of (hy in- telligenco of the peo; Tt shows that they talon: to | act like intelligent and to can@ass and strictly ox. amine the identions of those whe come towar' | r. 1 pity that goversment hero | cel no interest 1m potities, leoving i handfal to. tor them jus The incercss suown in there rist | of the South hows thar | t tollowing == he chai to a as they please, tera by the colored they intend to look after their Interests Mew ivoe, aad mers | o attended to by their representatives | uader whieD WO Mowe te nigat are portance in the map vad ot, aur ena. | porne to ou: descendants, e cornet, cpotating tose to 8 OobT | see tin uy emt » ibiler a, for generations to Gore, 10 that os ‘nearly as: much more by the moat, As is weil know and ( OC C219 Prive dutvag the wi | Guierer « trekaags, Hisre urcty | was was, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET, pode dy thy 9 we hold in our band. |, Der- haps, the oy ghas We have viberto been Pg in this governuont, We lave looked — a Political movements: we have watched en doo bless with: eagerness, but without any right, to take parc'in thom. But beaold, all strange dispensations of Providence, brown, a8.t were, to be a balancing wheel in ment, and by our actions we will decermine whether that geal aod glorious republican party, tat secured (or us the beneiits that we now @ojoy aad bas built up for, us auch @ glorious future—se are to de- termine to-nigut, pernsrr oY our aviion wheier that party — abail opt) «im pamwer and \ ot ee destinies of this ‘couatry pn Moment. and fix anew tue arnment, so that for a centur; ik aii doty ali the oats of our evemics, It soews as it every thiog Das happened just atthe right time, We soo now ina maonerae dark cloud rising—the democracs, our old enemies, are gaining gradual s'reagtu—our Ss indeed tous in times of who have secured for us our rights in now f 1M our power to secure these rights fo ir by coming to€heir rescue, while they are Dating witu the hordes of demooracy, and to su-taim them by our acton, But, on the over to look at that battle, to keep aside, to let the hands dial of our gierionn future be placed vackward, 1s (aml I have no joubt tht ere the Congress adjourng that is now to meet, all the southern Staies will be reprosen.ed. They wilt present Constitutions to that Congress that will meet its approval. Mon will go forth to that Congress ected by our siffrage, and they will strengthon tha ands of the repubiican party, and from offe ed of this frivnd- who have’ been trytog dang fas couutry other that party will triumph, and will comirol the destinios of this nation, plause) Our enemies and our pretendea im the South are now moaning over our uoanimity; It was mot what they expected. They thought they could divide us and, 80 creating 8 division, could xpoil all our hopes. But the las: few days have disappointed them, and lo, tucy seud up now a wail of moaning; 1 18 too late for them. They have reckoned without their post, and we are determined to use like men what has been given us in our need. Woen vorinating mentor the coming convention, I have no doubt that the colored men of this city will look to therr great int-resis; ask themselves wio are the best men to represent us; who aro the men pos- sessing Intelligence, character and influence, who will go tort to that Convention and be faithful to our interests; who will not only feel a sense of duty, but ulso tave the Intelligence to watch and faithfully guard our interests, Let no petty joalousies, let no mean envies, animate our bosoms at this momentous crisis, Let us rise above thie and look into the far future. And if we do, our children’s cuildren will rise up and cali us blessed" (loud and tong coptiqued applause.) In my uoxt I shad have more to say in regard to these maiters, FORTRESS MONROE. SPECIAL COARESPONBENCE OF THE HERALD. Portress—Din- Duty Here Before the War—The Eugineors’ and Ordannce Departments and Whar is Forramss Moxrox, Nov. 4, 1867, Fortrées Monroe is on s peninsula, A narrow neck of land gaves it being an island, Beyond this neck of land, extending to the dividing line between government ter- ritory and that owned by private parties, aro several acres used eg a cemetery. It is a pleasant grove of cedarand pine, aed holly and spice bush, and myrtle and ollnging ivy and grapevino—a peaceful burial ground sbeitered and shaded and still, and mear the per- petual anthem of the sea, and through the sweet sum- mer months vocal with songs of mocking birds, Large numbers are buried here, including alike Union and rebel soldiers, and at every few paces one stumbles on headstones marked ‘“unknown"—that saddest of all the sad records of the war. Old Point Com- fort, the peninsular point owned by the govern- ment, embraces about two hundred and fifty acres, of which some seventy aro occupied by the fort, and this 1s the largest fert in this country. Its necessity ‘was made evideat in the war of 1812, although it was seven years later before Congress, through the urgent entreaties of President Monroe, from whom the fort takes its name, could be induced to make the necessary appro- Priation for ite construction. An elaborate description of ‘the plan of the fort is needless at this late day, and, doside this, I have a suspicion that were I to attempt it ‘the result would be a paintully bewilderod juxtaposition of bastions and embrasuros, parapet and moat, maio entrance and postera gate, drawbridyes and casemates, ‘magazines and barracks, and a host of other terms of equatiy technical and unintelligible chgracter. It is enough to know that tho seeming irregularity to the Biranger’s eye of its construction is the symbolization of regularity itself; that to the multiplicity of diverse engles marking its outlive there jurks and lingers, and to the iniiated, looms up to view the deepest pro- fundity of engineering skill; that in the pattern and calibre of the guns, those iron watchdogs look- fog from parapet and through embrasures, is revealed a vast oxpenditure of warlike erudition, that in the manner of mounting them the science of gunning has been drawn upon to the fullest oxtent. All this of times before the war. But the late war taught new lessons in the matter of forts. Monitors, iron-clads and rams have revolutionized the whole system of fortification defences, Ideas that once were sound and tenable ars old fogyish nm slow, lumbering stage coach had to give way to t! steam locomotive, as the pony expross lad to yield to the telegraph, 0 our forts to-day aro not the impregna- ble things they were, and, to keep pace with the pro- we spiritof the age, have got to be differently and their power and eficiency for defence strengthened and intensitied. As Vortrons Monroe stands, and in the interim of con. cluding experiments looking to alterations and improv moats in keeping with the more a: ed teachines of ¢ day, it is an interesting pines to | hrough, au dilton to augmenting new ideas of the diguity our government as the re; itivary admits the whiling® 0 Nour or two very pleasantly and instructively. The bridge crossing the mout at the main entrance, gray granite walls confronting you, the bavoueted soldiers Keeping given guard at the portal, aud an officer in red sack, bug epawlettes and claaging sword, to bo ionide the en- tance aod expiained cited for passes, give preliminary token o Inside there abundant ad indications of this botag # miliary p prevalence of yellow over ery other color, the exceeding and almost paintal pre- sion Of (he brick aud gravelied Walky, aod the military exactitude of every nd Uoorstey and porch and pular. The very elu 8 100k Like fies of soldiers and the sections Of easeusates divided platoons in the full panopiy of reguiatioe aniform. Toe large plaza ta the contre, the sceue, as one soon learns, of the drills and dross parades, amartial air, the irees, even at this weason, at full dress appearance, and the hage com- mon circling tue parapet seems the grimest of sentinels, With bated breath almost, thinking how thin ts the par- tition Detweon iife aad death, and now quickly a spark of fire tight sunder it, one passes (he magazine, and then there are pyramid-d p tos of cannon balls and ail the arrangements for heating solid ehot to add to the goueral wariike pictara f: takes no grout stretch of the nmagination to make tt a war pictore mdeed. to summon to the guns these toidiers now co idly strotiing about their Varracks, to cal) forih the officers from their car- easemaies and to fill the air with shouts of com- mand aud (he thuedering roar of canuon. But anch a war Rect bar never been presented here, and what the Imagination so easily conjures wp as possibly real ts Bot Very likely Boun to prove a reality. Looking int One cagerneut is substantially eeeing all the others, as they are ali.alike, except the furniture, which varies ac- to the taste of the divers occupants and ther different degrees of solvency. Each casemate bas two rooms, one fren! ard the ovher back, the former tw four by fiiteen aud a half feet tn fifteen and a bat! feet square, There are arched door. ways, wroved ¢ an alcove two and a half feet by eight foe In the front room there Isa pleasant grate and two windows, bus the back one, the wails and ceilines of which are ail built of stone, has no grate, and the Light is admitted Through an embrasure in the outer wali looking gown o: the or and embrasure beipe designed to ontingency oi such Ttogether they are badly dGiswal aod dark aad all who cam possibiy avord the commanding officer aod xumating bim i ran aut dwelling houses, c nd for ut ctor of the place, services being ever required, onstructed, ill arranyed, ry S chapel and «si or wen are a library and biiiard room=—more probably, if iese features i hucry oy these, a also the arie © worksng nl for years 9 waier—and on ne eam eng BO ) fresh, ae fame as sgh Wheh fresh woter | with the same of ¢ ® pa womens to take 4 for convorting aatt on naval stevuer., pplied to the gacri. end great ofder and nat T prevailing characteristics, The hospital, ead lauodty arrangements are Tory perleck f ther is aay ideal in the soldior’s !ife, it is to be ound here. Hut ot sions what one sees tnede the fort prosouts Heel to the victor, Mtrauling along these walks, throug. (news Cavemates and barracks, aad among ‘hese dicnster cannouand tnto this anctea! chapel and tlorary aot billiard rorm, cid scenes and faces fit defore o tue din epadownelping to make up the panorama the past, fi wa here General Robert BE. Lee orougtt Div Young beige, whem he (eit item hover to weer (he rhoalder: rapsaf a Second Lieutenant im the Unwed Staves acmy. Conerale BM and “yee a bo Minced wovel, im thane da waen to fight tie tor, the Guia’ wae erteeined the highest ago ty wad bor of an es soldier, did duty vers tnd #9 die Gewernt tbe chief ow todiam and Banaras toa, before oo ¢ brave Geners! Yo), dgmnent characterizes tho style of | at Spotteyivenia, fighting for the Gag he so faitofally served, ae es ealiant Generai whe bowly tought Aauetam. Hore, served General Ord, the hero of Fort Harrison aad present commander of the Fourth Muitary District; General Ayres, of Fifth Si revown; Genera! Dyer, présent Ohiet of Ordnance of the United States army: Geveral Ramsey, General Haskill aud @ host of 7 A heroes of the war. Iu this are also called to vind Generals De Russe, Bankhead, Crane, Eustace, Stone, Aruoid, Dimick and Roberts, who helped to make up tue past bistory of the fort, as well as Gea. erais Wool, Dix and Wutler, who io turo held commaud hero during the rebellion. Jeif Davis, Clement C, Clay and Joba Mitchel are assocrated with the iate hi of the fort, and are vory few visliors whg do not sock to look into- the casemates they occupied and bear away ‘ome souvouirs of their sojurn here as State panies covstitule the preseat garrison, companies A aad , Fith United States arllery, company E, T'wenty- first United States infantry, and company D, Twenty- ginth United States infantry. The following are the officers on aly om Brevet Brigadier Genera! Wm. Hays, Commandant Brevet Colonel G. &. Cooper, Post surgeon. Brevet Lieut Col, H, W. James, Post Quartermaster, Lieatenant James Curry, Yost Commissary. Lieut, EW, Stone, Post Adjutant aud AA A. G, B W. T. Randoif, Co, A, Fifth U.S artillery, Lieut. B, Roberts, Co, A, Fitth U, 3. artiti Liout, T. W. Adams. Cu. A, Filth U. 8. artillery, Brevet Maj, B, F. Rittenhouse, Co, Fi 8. art Lieut. J, & Wilson, Co, A, Filth wR. art liery. Lieut. 0 E. Wood, Co, A, Fifth U. 8. artillery. me yo Col. H. L. Chipman, Co, A, Tweuty-omth Lieut. 8. W. Shepherd, Co. E, Twenty-first U, 8. ink And now I wilt hurry to other topics outside tne ‘ort and connected with it, My stroli through the tort T cannot oonclude, however, without the general obser- vation, aud such as any visitor would be forcibly im- pressed iuto making, tat 1t is pleasant to see aud know that everything is trim and clean and in good order; that the officers are polite as weil as efficient, that the soldiers are welt dressed, well disciplined, cheerful and healthy, and that the fort, even in its present condijon and though built tn accordance with the ideasof avarly half a century ago, hasio it yet @ good deai of resist- ‘ance and defensive streagth. Tae engineer's department {s essentially separate from the fort, Atl the Duiidiugs are outside aud sv, too, are the officers’ quarters and their oj sons §=The buld- ings themselves, all colored with the iuevitabe yeilow wash, and their large size and the poaderous doors of Some of .hem and huge bars before tue windows, sug- gest the intention and capacity for a good deal of work as weil as specially safe custodian-hip of the govera- meu! property eptrusted to this department. But for the most part they look as gioomy as prisons, and im none of them is there any great show of activity, ry is owing to the fact that almost the entire energy and ‘ndusiry of the department is at present confined to the Rij 8, or Forts Wool, the proper military de-iznatioa, whore, from a depth of fourteen fee: pe.ow low water, 18 being erected a most magaificens tribute to on ing skill. Ube Rip Raps cover fourteen acres of ground; And though the siyie of its final oompletion will m doubt have to vary 8 good deal from the original plan, to keep pace permanent the late w difficult and complicated Robie, evident and signed and destined to be under the original plan. The officers connected with this department are Breves Brigadier General Henry Brewerton, brevet Brigadier General J.B, Reese and Captain C, B. Phillipa, The first is one of the oldest and most accomplished i= neer officers inthe service, and thoaxh pr or om a retired list still keeps himeelf in active barnces. To other officers are young men, full of vim and energy, and thetr deiaiiment here evinces the trust placed in their capacity and Tne neat yellow dwellings an@ cottages borderiog the beach fn front of the fort are oo- cupiea by these officers, Another diatiactive feature of the fort is the branch of the Ordnance Department established here. Con- nected witb this department ts a I machine where gun carriages are the princi; things manufac- tured. A trifle over a hundred men are only employed here now, some thirty baving been discharged last week. There ts said to be no goveroment machine: ehop in the country #here the work is better done than here, officers in ot of this department are Brevet Colonel tT. G. Bayior, Brevet Captain M. L. Poiand, Captain Wm — orduance storekeeper, and Lieutenant H. OG, iiftord. Visitors coming to the fort rarely trouble thomesives with looking tnrough the vast piles of butidings used ag quartermaster and commissary storehouses, and bardiy give more sban a glance at the immense and neatly kept storenouses of Captain Livers, military storekeeper; and the carpenter shop and blacksmith sp for governmems work, aud stable for government horses, elicit even leas attention, but they are all importaus parts of che mill- tary establishment here, and refluct auike dus credit to the goverament and speciai credit to those cies them respectively In Charge. Scarcely any one ever thiuks of gone to see ive military prison, so admirabiy kept by jor Putnam, and yet it is weil worth a visit, alinouga 8 mile from the post, in the vicinity of the old Uhesa- peake Hospital—and what images and thoughts of the past does this old Chesapeake ~eminary building and gis et thon ° es inmeart Fd eee are standing, evoke! Near ws where lie buried some six Vousand soldiers ‘of the wan, The flue granite monument, the corner stone of which was but recentiy laid with such impressive ceremony, te rapidly approaching completion—a monument to per- petuate glorious patriotism and deserved honor to oar glorious vational defenders. Fortress Mooroe is strictly a military post, and aside from this there is very little of ioterest 10 attract visitors. Before the war this waa quite a watering piace, and the large hotel there was filled during the With guests who, aside from enjoying breeze, had abun port ip the five ing abounding A very smail though hots! on the wharf is the substitute here now for tue palatial Hygiea of past history, and its two billiard ‘tables and bar, an opposition bar across ihe way, one a joweiter’s shop and book and newsp: are now tora down, and very soon all the rewnaining un- aighily edifices that mar the beauty of the beach wiil be removed. Andweterring to these reiics of tae war sug- gests some Of the scenes in ibe great war drama en- acted here, It was here the splendid Army of the Poto- mac, under Genera! BicCleilan, landed a: the commence mont of Peninsula cam R; 1 was from her Jed General Burnside’s expedition to the North ine coast; it was from were sailed the two expe didons against Fort Fisher; it was im sight of here the rebel ram Merrimac assalied our naval fleet, destroying the Congress and Cuuibertand, aod it was ia these waters President Lincoln mes the rebel commis- sioners to talk over terms of peace. In those days the harbor was filed with transporte, aud milltoue of doliars worth of army supplies constantly crowded the abua- dant storehouses thon scattered all about But ibis bustle of ness !g over now. Everything is fast @ubsiding into the old beaten track u regufacions of red tapeism, There is ¢orme at the wharf in tho arrival and departure of steamboats touching here, and occasional extra excitement in tue basy moving adout aud biowtn; steam of the govern- ment tug siationed here; sowetimes a naval steamer comes in and stays several or a pleasant party on @ pleasure yacht let go anchor throw life invo the dull jace, and not unfrequentiy a large fleet of weather- od vessels seek sheiter in the roads from the storm, though holding iittle or no communication with the shore, for they are off as suddenly as they come; and this is the sum total of outwardly exciting events, And thus it te Iikely to remain, TERRIBLE AND FATAL CASE OF BUANING. A Clergyman’s Wife Burned to Denth. From the Pittsburg Chronicle, Nov. 4.) A terribie case of intel ourning occurred on Frida ovening at Turtie Creek, om tue Peuosyivania Ra road, It a 3 that Mrs. Pollock, wile of tae Rev. David H. Pollock, of Turtle Creek, feeling chilly, atood Waite standing with ber near the grate. back to the tire the skirt of her dress ignited, aed in an instant she was enveloped in flames tier soreams stiracted the servant girl, who immediatel: threw a ducket of water over the buraing womas, Tan ous after enother ouckesful. Mrs, Poliock followed ber, and thie fanned the flames inio renewed life. More water was over her, but made little i Some neighbors ran to ver and pullea off what little clothing sttil remained on her person, bat before ibie was accompl.shed she was territly burned about the limbs and back. Physicians were summoned immedi- ately, and e' ing po-atble done for the reitef of the suffering woman. she suttered bat little pain. but her injuries were at once pronounced fatal, Y¢ te as seen she could not live unit! eve in o’olock in he expired, absent at tue time of the accident, Mr. Pollock was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Ki: kpateik, of Westmoreland county, and sister of Mr.QJohn M. pairick, of ibis cliy, She was only about \weaty-sik years of age, THE ARMY. J yLAckD ON Tie RETIRED List. Brevet Major Theodore Yates, Caytato Thirty-fres United States iafeniry, has been placed on tho iist of the retired officers of that class tn which the disability results from long and faithial servioo of some \njury {noidental thereto Ja retired with the full rank of colonel. Brevet Major W.G. Egerion, Captain Twenty-ninth United States infantry, bas wholly retired from the ser- vice with one year's pay nui allowances, A id The following resignat. have been accepted Lieutenant John ¥. steplienson, Se: enieooth States jofaniry, November 1, 1367, Firs Lieutenant Tweatieth United states infantry, Now 7: Second Lieutenant Frank H. Palmer, United states infantry, October 49, 1567. TRANEPE OF TROUT, One company of fofantey from Yorktowi from Libby Prison and thrte from Lynchburg hare beea ordered so Washington for winter qaartora, The ive panies will be formed taro battalions, which will be jer the command of Major Buelh asthe RD, A special order has been tssued from the War Depart. A tT. King, to the Medical Thrector, Deparsment of Dakota; Daaiel Weisel, to the commanding oMesr of Fort “ellewe Maryiand; PG A. Cleary, to Modical Director, Yepariiment of the Cumberiand; WH B Micuirt, & the uperiatendeat ¥ Woat Point, KN. Y., tomporenty; Jove bh Randall, . K. see Geet fort Gee rgeon of principal reorutting Fors Cei New