The New York Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1868, Page 6

6 net POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. ALABATNA, pao e |SITE ‘The Bill for the State Legislature ty Cast the Electoral Vote Vetoed by the Governere Extracrdinary Scene in tho Senate—The &Scallawags” Getting Disgusted with the Warpet-Baggere—A Radical Threatens to Burm Down Selma. , MonrToowEny, Angust 12, 1868, a ae choose, Presidential electors in imitatien of the old Plan, of Sonth Carolina. %® this connection let me expeuin that Lo South Carolina the constitution of the State auth@rized this method of choosing electors, in addition to which this was done always by a new Logislature elected Just previous to the Presidential eléction on the ingues involved therein, and maayey men! oe representing the will of the people. new pl of the Southern radicals {s thus wholly different from ‘South Carolina, There were not elected ‘on the issues of a Presidential they t represent the choice of the people on the two ‘The intense bitterness cansed by the passage of a | 40 no! a. the candidates presented, wile in Dil authorizing the Legistafure to cast the electoral | Riaorms fad it. oture, as is & matter of great ‘wote of this State, as well as the fact that a large umber of the native white radicals threatened to in- ‘Mucnce the negroes agaMst the party if the bill be- ame a law, 80 alarmed the Governor that he vetoed ‘the measure. It is qtso stated that this course was adopted pursuant to telegraphic despatches from all parts of tne North urging a veto and representing that the efforts of Southern Legislatures to deprive ‘the people from directly voting in the most !mpor- tant election this country has ever held was driving thousands out of the party there. Several despatches | from prominent radical leaders declared that it ‘would be better for every Southern State to be car- ried by the democrats than for such doubtful States i a8 Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Mlinols to be | Jost through the effect produced by the proposed | ‘measure. ‘These representations, tt is said, influenced Gov- ernor Smith to veto the bill, which he did in a very ably and dispasstonately written message, in which be pointed out the wrong designed. As the tele- graph has ere this bronght you a full report of the message, I will not repeat the argument contained init. After it had been read the Senate was the | scene of a most extraordinary debate. Mr. Coon, a | earpet-bagger from Iowa, denounced the Governor d unmeasured terms, declaring that he was leagued ‘with men who designed to get up another war, and | insisting that the bill should pass over the veto. He announced himself ready for any confict that might follow the action of the Legislature, at the same time boasting that there were ninety thousand freed- men in Alabama who were prepared to give the rebels and their allies @ “bellyful of war’ and to assert the right of “loyal? men to govern. The | @peech was one of the most violent and incendiary harangues that has ever been delivered in this Staic. + Mr. Jones, also a radical, but @ native of the Stave | { fone of the class known as “scallawags”), replied to | the speech of Mr. Coon, and his language will do more io demoralize the radicals in this State than anything else could. He informed Mr. Coon that if ‘hat genlemen and his clique started war here the | confict ee last until none of his kind dese- erated the soil of Alabama. He (Jones) was also @ republican, but when carpet- adventurers eommenced to talk about siaught white Ala- bamians he would be found fighting the side misruled ef his own people—those ooremet ant p'e to whom this State and government rightiuliy | longed. He would not longer submit to the threat- | enings and domineering insolence of men who had no interest in the State; men who were squatters upca the country, dependent upon ignorance for their elevation. They were the men who are causing otoriety, represents a portion of the population firteen t ousnnd in the talnority. But if it ts fatrand just for the Southern radicals to deprive the people ‘of these States from voting, why shall not the same policy be pursued in the North? Ohio is a very doubtful State, but her Legislature has a democratic majority in both branches, She casts twenty-one electoral votes, which would be of immense import- ance to the democrats, Why shalt not her Legisla- ture convene, take away the vote from the people and choose the electors upon the Seymonr and Blair ticket in that State? Itigno argument to say that such a course would be an outrage upon republican institutions. What is good for Peter is certainly good enough for Paul. 1 repeat that ail, or nine-tenths, of the stories being circulated in the North of rebel outrages are utterly and unequivocally false. I will not say that those Who report them are “branded Mars and villains,” but it is certain that they have either wofully neglected or never learned the commandments. ‘the Tact is, that if the people of the Southern States now represented in Congress, white and black, were allowed to vote Seymour gud Blair would receive the electoral votes of every one of them by such enormous majorities that even the most fanatic radi- cal negro worshipper would begin to doubt the policy of negro sufrage, Said a radical carpet-bag- ger from Alabama to your correspondent, only yes- terday, and his language is given almost verbat. “You see, my dear sir, it aint a question of right or wrong, it is a question of necessity. Doyou sup- pose we are going to be such d—d fools as to let a vote be taken when we know that the rebeis will carry the State by twenty-tive thousand majority? No, sir, We have control of things now and we in- tend to keep it as long as possible. We don’t intend e lg State of Alabama help elect the copperhead ticket. ‘The speaker is, I believe, a member of the Alabama Le sislatae, at least so | understood hum to ray. He is from somewhere North and isa genuine carpet-bagger. His language tells the story. There is too much good feeling manifested between the whitea and blacks to suit the radicais here. They first took the alarm after the election held in Georgia last spring. Had it not been for the apathy of the whites in Middle and Northern Georgia the democratic ticket would would have been elected by an overwhelming ma- ority, as over fifteen thousand Sn al voted for it. it followed the Mississippi election, where the first organized effort was made to control the negro vote. The result 1s too recent and well known to be refute These occurrences, followed as the; have beet by a general effort to control the colores element, are the causes which have operated to In- fluence the present action of the carpet-bag govern- ments, and it is for the purpose of gixing. an excuse to the Northern people for this virtual disfranchise- ment of entire communities as well as to influence Northern voters that we have a sudden revival of “rebel atrocities,” nine-tenths of which, I reiterate, are manufactured by the correspondents of radical papers and carpet-bag officials, ail pliant tools of the party leaders who have devised this latest plot. In denying these stories your correspondent ts not prompted by any partisan considerations. His vince being merely to give facts, he has given them weakness m the republican ranks of Alabama, for | every colored voter of intelligence was repudiating the carpet-baggers, Whomy4they had now learned, served ouly their own interesis and cared but litle | for those of their constituents, So far as the threais | of the lowa gefitieman were concerned be treated | them with contempt. He felt confident that with a | handful of town boys he could thrash anything Mr. | Coon could bring Against him. And if the struggle ‘Was 2 serious one there were twenty thousand native | Alabamians who would follow his standard in de- fence of their native laud against squatters and car. pet-baggers, { The above but & mere outline of Mr. Jo: speech. eloped the fact that the bitterest 4 amity exists between the native radicals and the | here ts but one demo ate was confined é: in the | fairly, honestly, lioparually. Inasmuch as he denies the stories going the rounds of lawlessness on the part of tue Whites, so does he deny the stories manu- factured by democratic party papers of nero out- rages. The fact is, that éhe two races lave never been on such cordial terms since the close of the war as they now are; and if the miserabie adven urers from the North who are endeavoring to bring about a war of races could only be removed or made to keep silent the happlest result would follow. There are uoruly spirits among both blacks and whites, the excitable nature of the former sometimes causing oat- breaks like the recent one at New Orleans; but, on the whole, there 1s considerably less lawlesness in the South to-day than most persons could e t when the late terribie war is considered. ‘fhe state- ments here matle are the whole truth, and as tuey contain netther ites nor Peeping it is lucky for the inde to repabl ‘The bill is of course dead, | country that there is an peudent paper iike the treme though in a dectded | Heap willing to publish them, cannot obtain the necessary two-thirds vote, | _ ‘The Presidential campaign in Georgia is, so far, But this is not all. Ihe eifect. of tue | Perfectly one-sided, ‘The radicals aro disheartened Gepate of yesterday ‘cannot be mistuken, | ud apathetc. On the other hand, the conservatives It amounts simply to a disintegration of the repubit- | 8Té active, aggressive and confident. To give you can party in Alabama. This morning Mr. Jones pub- lishes a card, in which he says that on yesterday | morning Mr. Coon, in the Governor's ofice, deciared | “that he would not leave here until some measure | was adopted for the protection of those whom he ealled loyal men; that if ey, Union man’s bivod was spilled in Datias he would lay the houses in Dallas | county and the city of Selma in ashes.” For some time past the white native republicans have been greatiy dissatisfied with their party. They Rave witnessed the gross insolence of adventurers to the white citizens of the State, they have become ashamed of the aid they have given to the work of pag ire) and many of them have quietly with- awn from the ranks of the radicals, either to join the democracy or to assume 4 strict neutrality. As @ consequence large numbers of negroes have gone ‘with them, thus not only endangering republican supremacy, but absolutely destroying it. Mr, Joues is evidently one of the few who have remained in the party, hoping thereby to turn it to a moderate course; but fis remarks yesterday tell plainly his dissatisfaction with those who have oppressed the people of “this light and sunny land.” these very carpet-baggers and squatiers whom he #0 vag lf denounced control the republican org.n- Jzation of Alabama, it 1s not dimicult to foresee that he and those who agree with him in sentiment will eventually take sides with the great mass of the peed ee probably before the Presidential election e8 place. In this State, as in every other pact of the South, ‘there has been quite a reaction going on among the carpet bapzers who depend upon thelr colored Uupes who upon their colored dupes seen living bare become so alarmed at the very great probability of the democrats getting into Pg that they are doing their utmost two tocite Negroes who still adhere to them to deeds of violence and bloodshed. he merely gave warning democracy carrying the egro allies would precipitate a confict the country. And just here the situation in South LP hy re ‘with danger. As it now seems certain that the people of Alabama will vote directly for electors it is almost sure that the demcracy will the State. The entre vote will probably reach of which the democrats will poll 75,000 white 80,000 biack, and the radicals 66,000 black and 10,000 white votes, giving the former a Sy of 90,000, You will perceive that two out of ore egtoce will vote the radical ticket. | What, is Ukely to follow a democratic triumph, particularly 1f pany ype Oolfax ony be Y Mr. Coon is ve ae unaided can soppress any- like rebeHion in a short time, but while the eontest continued the acts of au excited mob of semb-barbarians would be horribie. it avails to induige in gloomy The whites of Alabama are bard at ‘work for democratic ticket. Negro conservative clubs are be! everywhere, and from all Beaseal Seong ‘te Even rk ing elu en Grant in 1865 eity—the great be rs of radicalism—you can | evening in pa meet with dozens of col inen who avow an in- | have produ tention of voting with white employers. Six | go it is neve: months ago these very men were foremost in abusing | tion of things. ‘the ex-rebels, It isthe Knowledge of this reaction and the certainty of overthrow staring them in the | perstructure. Let us go to the foun ? toat makes the carpet-baggers so desperately violent and so anxious that tie Legivlature should the electoral vote of Alabama. When with a flourish of beans ed they proclaimed to the ‘world their magnanimity in en/ranchiaing the twen- ty-five or thirty thousand men diefranchised by the reconstruction convention, there was a previous ‘under*tanding that the peopie sionld not be allowed fo vote for Presidential electors, thus making plain te fact that their generosity was all sham. Their nicely laid plan has been signally defeated, and to- e Fadical you meet tells you that “that traitor” (ihe Governor) has given cight votes to sey- mour and Blair and destroyed the republican party of Alabama, POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA. FD ho Now Plot ta Help the Radical Cam. paigu—Systemized Manafacture of “Rebel Awrocities”—Fearfal Murders and Persecu- tens of Union Men on Payer—Great Ac« tivity of the Southera DemovrateLurge Numbers of Negro Democratic Clubs Belug Organized. ATLANTA, Ga, August 10, 1868, Tp my last act letter it was asserted (hat # part of ‘the radical plan for the ponding Presidential carn paign was to spread reports thtowghout tue North of “rebel atrocities’ upon negroes and “Union'’ men. I now repeat the statemept and will further @ay that a part of the plot is that Qese false reports emanate from the carpet bag oificiass of the South. Already we have etories from Louisiaya and Fiorida @fficlally representing the whites in tose States as being engaged in the work of butchery, To my al- most certain knowledge the reports from Florida are gross fabrications. That they may become un- fortunate troths if the Legisiature persists in baking ‘way the vote for Presideut from the people J will not gainsay, for the recent passage of a law locking to the achievement of that end has evoked won- siderable bitterness. The excose that this has to ve Gone or the lives and persons of radical voters will be endangered by an election is too flimsy and trans- parent for belief. It is evident to every intelligent man in Plorida that if an election was held in that State to-day the radicais would be defeated by an overwhelming soajority, ahd it isto prevent this re- #uit thas the LegNiature takes to itself the power to ‘When, therefore, Mr. Coon | thoroughly. tion. It is easy © | the United iz some idea of Low many meetings are being held by then I would state that one speaker, General W. T, Watford, ts announced to address eight meetings at diferent places within the next ten days. In addition Mr. Calrimiss, chairman of the Democratic state Central Corunitiee, announces a ftormidabte number of — “free barbecues,” which are gotten up especially for tue benefit of the colores geet Mr. A. H. Stephens, who supported the adoption of the four- teenth amendment, estimates the democratic majority in this State at twenty thousand. I sliali not be surprised if it doubles these figures, One thing is certain, and it is that this State can be set down as sure for the Blair ticket, The work of o1 zing ‘colored conservative clubs” es throughout the South, and Georgia in particular, with remarkabie vigor and success, Hitherto this city has not enjoyed the novelty of an organized body of ee oe democrats, but at a meet- ing of the Fourth Ward Democratic Club (white) held on Saturday last application was mace by quite a number of prominent cotored men for assistance in organizing a club of darkies. This week some time the organization will be effected and will, it is be- Heved, start with @ force of over two hundred, The propecte are that before the Presidential election m thirty to forty thousand negroes wili be organ- ized and enrolied in the democratic ranks, This re- volation in sentiment among the Diacks is most re- markabie, particularly when we consider that the Tadicals have complete contro! of everything, It 18 something really comical, but I believe the radicals will see nothing very amusing about it. There is a strong probability, growing more and more each day into a certainty, that Sumner, Phillips and the like, in forcing nt sul upon the Southern people have supplied them with a weapon formidable enough to thrash these great radicals and their party SPEECHES OF PROMINENT POLITICIANS. Senator Doolittle. At a democratic meeting held in Chicago last Thursday evening the Hon. J, R. Doolitile spoke as follows:— Fellow citizens—General Grant was called before s committee of Congress to testify in J one year ago, and in his sworn testimony he stat the close of the rebellion there was a very fine feel- ing on the part of the people of the South towards the government of the United States and he further testi Sixongngat ‘the South carry ied to the very sad fuct that now a very different feat ‘the radicals will ve | gtate of feeling exists tow: vert the ment of States as administered by the radical Party. Why is this change? What reason can you give for this ch: im the feelings and sentiments Of the people of the South in 1866, after the rebellion had closed, and in 1867/ Itls@ serious question—a jaestion which comes home to the of every patriotic citizen-——a question which demands an an swer from the judgment of every thinking man. Why this change to the feelings and ideas of the people of the South, as testified to by General aud 18¢7? it wili be my purpose this rt to explain to you the reasona which «i towt chaage of feeling. In order todo that we should goto the founda When you build a house you begin by buiiding the foundation and then making the su- ion in this uestion. Whatare the causes that have produced this state of feeling? Bear in mind that the rebel- hon had closed in 1895, and at the close of tie rebel- Hon there was put in operation one pian of pactiica- tion—the plan of paciiivation or restoration proposed by Mr. Lincoin and sabsequently renewed by Mr. Jounson, a pan of paciication Which was within the provisions of the consttuton and in accordince with that instrument and which was based upon the two fundamental principles—the recogauition of the righta of (he Staves each for themselves and each to fix the Tights of thelr eiectors. And secoudly, upon another fundamental principle iu the proper recenatraction tates of the South, to wit:—That they should ¢ reconstructed upon a white civilized |) . This plan of reconstruction Was proposed as early as Le. cember, 1a Oy, the proclamation of the President of the United States, who was authorized by the con- stitution and by the express enactment of Cougress itself to tender to the people of tie South pardon aud amnesty upon just such terme as he siouid tink proy The President, ta pursuance of (ols constitutional authority, and in pursuance of the express language of this act of Congress itacif, tendered pardon and amuesty to all the people of the South who had been cogaged tn rebeilion, upon eousivea tial tuey should ¢ an vath to support the constitution of the United States, and thereafter to maintain a faithful allegiance to the government aud tue fax. In accordance with this proclamation of the President the people of the State of Tenneases, the people of tae State of Louisiana and the people of Lae State Arkansas had already reorgautzed ther governiuvents and accepted the terms of pardon Oud amnesty which Mr, Linoolu proposed. In March, 1805, before Mr, Lincoln's death, the State of Lousiana presented herself so the Congress of the United States aud demanded that her Senators and Representatives who gad been elected tu uance of this plug of pacification proposed by Mr. Lincoln should be almitted to their seats; and the question arove distinctly in the Cougress of the United States Whether they suouid be adinitted or mot. And when that question arose and came up for discussion (a the Senave Mr. Trumouil, the senator from [linois— @ mon of distinguished ability and apr leader in the republican Rarty—Mr. ‘Trampa stood in the Senate of the United States and urged upon the Sona e to admit the State of Louisiana to her repre- sentation, Mr. Trumbull was sustained by four-Alths Of all the republican members of the Senate, as Well a8 by the democracy in the Senaie, There were at that time—in 1s66—vut five radical Senators on the floor of the Senate, who, when we had the stra to have Louisiana ‘adinitted to her represe Non upon this in of pacification, opposed th adimisston: Suniner, of Massachusetis; Mr. e, of Ohio; Mr. Gratz Brown, of Mia- sourf; Mr. Howard, of M and Mr. Ohandler, of Michigan. I think those were the five radic in the Sgbate. Those five radicals of the Senate, a WEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1803. under the lead of Summer and Wade, were all that could be raised in opposition of the pian of pacifica- tion which had Ly “re Lincoln, with the sancton of his ‘and the sanction of Con- ee. Mr. ‘assassinated in April, 1865 lastg words which Mr, Lincoin uttered in & was mn “the ity of wast foe bt a few ins nD, ut days if on 'tn "which an. the pian ol gt pad Jmpostent question whicu came before pee ‘abinent was vel 0. reconstraction, Mr. Johnson found that ihe es "i had atready been formed. Edwin M, Stanton, tary of War, was the very man who drew it General Grant swears in his testhmor had read it over twice In the Cabinet of Mr, Lincoln before Mr. Lin- coin was assassin: |, and the same plan was put right througb, and—to use the languave of (encral Grant—applied in the proclamation which Mr. Joha- son issued to the State of North Carolina and to the States of the South. Now, this plan of reconsiruction proposed by Mr. Lincoln and ‘ed by Johnson was, wased upon these two fundamental ideas to which T have referred. First of all, that these people in these Southern States ought, by the constitution of these States, to be admitted to the right of guffrave under the reconstruction, provided they accepted of the terms of pardon and amnesty, ‘and took the oath of allegiance which was required by the President, and which he required as one of the conditions of grant- unis pardon and amnesty, This state of transpired during the summer and fall of 15°: in the December of 1865 General Grant, being at the head of the army, was sent to the South by the I’resi- dent for the purpose of examining the condition of things and making his report to the President to be laid before Congress, That report of General Grant I have now in my hand. As [ desire always to build upon a sure foundation, I will ask some Joeman to hold @ light so that T can read the words of eral Grant, General Grant, of date 18th Decem- writing to the President, says:— 1amastisfied that the mass of thinking men of the South accept the present situation of affairs in good fai. The questions which have so far divided the sentiments of (he people of the two sections—slavery and State rights or the right of the States to secede from the Union-they regard as having been settied forever by the highest tribunal man can resort to, T was pleased to learn from the leading men whom I met that they not only accepted the decision arrive! at as final, but now that the smoke of battls fs cleared away tho time’ has come for reflection, and that the decision haa been a fortunate one for the whole country. ‘There fi universal 25 aciuiescence in the authority” of the q gov ernment throughout all portions of the country vise ited by me that the mere presence military force, without “Fagard” of pérsony, ie euificeat to maintaln order, and to give the country the economy re- quired; that the force kept in the interior, where there a Many freedmen, ought alt to be white troops. ‘The reax for this are obvious, without mentioning many of thera. Presence of black troops, Intel labor, oth by their advice and by the furoiahing in their camp of a resort for the freedmen for long distances round, White troops excite no opposition; therefore a small number of them can maintain order m a given district, My observations Jead me to the conclusion that the citizens of the Southern States are anxious to return to self-government within the Union as soon as possible. It is to be regretted that there cannot be a greater commingling at this thme between tho citizens of the two sections, und particularly of those en- trusted with the law-making power. Thave read this statement of General Grant, made in December, 1845, just about two years after Mr. Lincoin had proposed his plan of reconstruction, and six months after the war had closed, to show you the state of the public mind at the South at that time; because at that period the plan of reconstruc- tion which Mr. Lincoln proposed and Mr. John- son had renewed to the States of tie South had been practically carried into effect in all the States of the south, with perhaps the exception of the State of texas, Now, what occurred in December, 1865, when this report of Gencral Grant came into the Senate of the United States, accompanied by a mes- sage from the President congratulating the country upon the good condition of the people of the South, and upon their good disposition toward the govern- mient of the United States—what occurred m the Senate? Mr. Suniner, of Massachusetts, the same man Who lei the little band of radicals in March in resist- ing the admission to representation of the State of Louisiaua—Mr. Sumner rose in his place aud denounced the report of General Grant as a “white- warhing” report and message, and then the war be an. And, ielow citizens, what then ¢ red? ‘ihe jouse of representatives, under the lead of ‘Thud- deus Stevens (who ts now no more, and has gone to his fiual account), and the Senate, under the lead of men like Suinner, resolved that they would trample down this plan of reconstruction, and that they would iuangarate another plan of reconstruction, denominated the Congressional plan. Now, let me be beard afew momenis longer, I stated tie prin- ciples apon which the restoration of the Union was to be properly conducted by Mr. Johnson, in pursu- ance of tue plan which Mr. Lincoin had proposed in December, 1363; but in Deceraber, 1866, under the Jead of Tiaaddeus Stevens and Mr. Sumner, under the lead of these men in Congress, the Congress of the United states determimed to trample down that reconstruction policy begun by Lincoln and Jolnson, and to set up a reconstruction policy of their own, based upon two very different funda- mental principles, I will state these principles con- cisely, and in such @ manner thatituink you will never forget them, They matniain, first, that their reconstruction policy is not under the constitution, but outside the constitution; that the States of the South are outside the coustitution, and have lost their rights under the constitution; that neither the States of tue South nor the people of tie Suuth have any rights which the other States are bound w re- spect in this federal Union, and therefore that the States of the South and the people of the South are to be absolately disposed of at the will of Congress, without any reference to the constitution or the righta which it secures. And the furtuer funda- mental idea in this radical reconstruction policy was that Congress would build up Rew States upon the ruins of the States outside of te constitution, and buse their reconstruction, not upon the civilized White basis, but base that reconstruction upon the ha'f-civilized negro basis. Fellow citizens, that there may be no mistake on this potat, | wish to call to your mind the fact that, in 3b, when Mr. Trumbull urged ihe admission of Louisiana to her right to representation, Mr. Summer proposed then, for the first the, that Louisiana should not be admitted to representation except upon the funda- mental! condition of universal negro sui re. And when the vote was taken in Marca, 185, Mr. Trum- bull and twenty-three other republican Senators voted against Mr. Sumner’s proposition, and Mr. Sumner could only bring to his support, on the night whea the division occurred, four rasiical Senator beside himself, But in 1560, after Nr. Lincolu had died—atler Mr. Johnson became President—aftar General Grant visited the South In December, 1545, and made the report from which I have read as to the condition of people of the South and their disposition towards the government of the United States—Mr. Sumner, Thaddeus stevens, and those who followed them, acquired such an ascendency in both houses of Congress that they succeeded in carrying forward this radical policy; and the radicai reconstruction gpolicy was based upon that idea, and upon that idea alone. There was nothing cise in the reconstruction icy of Mr. Jounson to which they wok exception except that he did not force ne- gro sul ‘upon the people of the South against tho will of the peopie of the South. Now, you have heard & good deat during Lh winter i ment. They impeached President true reason and the only reason why they attempted to tmpench him was that he would nut lead himselt to their project to euforce negro su! Fellow citizens, there is an impeachment now going on and being tried before @ tribunal more the Senate of the United States. There is an iu) tie ment going on before the great American people, and the party that is impeached 1s this radical Congress, Fellow citizens, let us tay our foundations sure. 1 desire to state to you in a little more than au ordt- narily fortnal manner the impeachment that is now golug on against toat radical policy that is now tn existence. Larraign and impeach the radical mem. bers of the present Congrees of high crimes and misdemeanor at the bar of the American people, in the presence of high Heaven and before the civilized worid. Limpeacl it, flirst, asa criine against the laws of natare which A Almighty has stamped upon the race of mankind, because this policy of Congress mpts to force a political, and, conse- quently, @ socialand unnatural equality between the Airican and the Caucasian; between an alien and inferior and an exotic race from the trooics and the higuest type of the human race in the home of the latter in the temperate zone. Secondly—t inmpeach the Tadical policy as a cri ist G.viization f'gell bee cauge {i would, by force. wrench the governmeut out of the hands of the civilized white race tn ten States of (his Union to place i in the hands of the half-civitized African. 'Thirdiy—t Impeach crime againat the constitution, because it amples down the rights of the Stat 0 fix for themseives the qualifications of their own voters, a right with: out which @ State ceases to be a republican State, Fourthly—I impeach it as a@ crime against the constitation and against the national faith, because it annuls the pardon constitutionally granted to hun dred of thousands of the most inteilizeut white men of the South. aud in open and palpable violation of the constitution disfranch'sing them. Fitthly=i tm Peat itasacrime against the existence of ten tates of the Unton and the liberties of eignt millions of Rane because, in express teria, tt aumuls all civil governments by which alone those Itberties ini, be secured, aud places them under an absolute miil- tary despotism. “ Sixthiy—1 bapoach ft as a crime against lumanity, tending to prodace a War of Faces, to the utter destruction of ono or both—« result which connot be prevented except by a large stand ing army, which neither our resgurcea will hear mot our liberties long survive. Seventhiy—I impeach It as an atter abandonment of the purposes for whica the War Was prosecuted, and of the vory idea npon which we fought and mastered the rebellion. t impeact Mt because {t tends to mace false all the promises and pledges taade by the friends of t erament in its feartul strugi'e to put down the revellion, and because It tones to throw the control of the govern: ment into the hands of ii enemies, hohiy=-1 tins peach it for tts destruction of the natioual eredit; tor creating taxation which will result in repudiation unless @ betier policy can be adopted. The first pone Which J now propose to notice is thig:—That if policy of Congress ts a crime inst civilization iteelf, because it secks to take the government of ten republican civilized States out of the hands of their white citizens and piace the control in the hands of the haif-civilized Africans, fellow citizens, Without my teiling yon, ton of these people in their native land. that for six thousand he in the history world none of the tribes of negroes in have ever shown any capacity jor seif-goyern- ment. They havé been among the lowest of the tribes of the races & the family of man, For six thonaand years the hingury of the world. has shown all this, They were Dyneht to this country as ; Slaves, They have veen key! lu dptate of slavery for You of the Africa 200 years, “nd we all heard, the’ land. 1e » Upon evs patios rostrum tune Eo ie wo degrade eg to it... Now what was 1, in and the ree a sie of soaintaining the tepdblican tna Bs Satria aerate sae citizens, But 1 am speaking of the great meas of this people of these ten Statea which Fc siecle tales Go Seaton a governments tl =” * Now, fellow cations, an do you think gh government e Gnitea ‘States whe ized Africans, and allows them not ony % officers and control their State governments, but have them Presidents to goverm you and to 1S 4 Re is one poiot more in this im. peachment upon which | propose to dilate. Iun- of Congress as @ violation of the national feeling in annulli ardon which had been granted both by President Lincoln and Presi- dent Jonnson to the le of the South. First of Preatent with the power of parton. Congress is lent wi power of jon. not clothed with ay, such power at all, and the power which the President has to grant pardon 1s a power which Congress cannot limit nor control. It is an absolute and unqualified power which the opie of the United Staies, by virtue of the consti- tution, have placed in hands of the President and in his hands only. Now, fel ow citizens, not only the cons stitution places tliat power there, but the Congress of the United States have acknowledged the fact that the President did 38 this power. The sed, an act in 1862 in which they authorized the President to grant pardon and amnesty to the people in rebel- Hon, But it 1s said by some that the people of the South, because they encouraged the rebellion, for- feited ail their rights—their oa to property, their right to life, their right to land. As all the people of the Sonth, or the majority of them, were drawn into the rebellion, therefore they have forieited ai) their rights and become mere prisoners im the hands of conquerors. Now, fellow citizens, there are two answers to this. First, no man forfeits any rights under our constitution, for any crime that he has committed, until he has been tried and con- victed. ‘The constitution expressiy provides that no man shall be arrested and brought to trial and subjected to imprisonment or forfelture until he shail first have been indicted before a grand jury. He shall then be tried before a jury of his peera, He shall have counsel to assist him in his defence. He shall be confronted with his accusers, and, untli he has been tried and convicted according to the law, he does not forfeit any rights at all, either in life, land or property or in any respect whatever. Now, then, fellow citizens, here is the first answer to this spe- cious argument which {is so often used by shallow thinkers or shallow writers for the newspaper press. Bear in mind that, in considering these great consti- tutional questions, It is just the same as in consider- ing all great questions of law where A little knowledge is dan; thin Balak deep or taste not the Florian sting; For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, But drinking deeply sobers us again. It is peculiarly trae in this stady of great constitu- tional principles, But I admit that a man who com- mits treason against the laws of the United States may be subject to forfeiture and to death even; but, in order to bring that forfeiture upon him, he must be indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced, and then the law forfeits his property and, it may be, forfeits his life. But, until these forms of law have becn satisfied, the man who telis you that another has for- feited his rights tells you what is not true, what is against the whole history of our ancestors, strag- gling for the rights of Englishmen as they are called, viz., the rights of the common law, the right of trial by ju y, the right of freedom from arrest in person and freedom from seizure and the freedom of their homes; of those great and inherent liberties which we have inherited from our ancestors after a strug- ge of five hundred yeara in England to obtain them. ‘nese are the liberties which our constitution guards and secures; and the man, or lawyer, or statesman, whoever he may be, who stands up to tell you that a man forfelis his right to life, liberty or trial uuder the laws of this free land until he is tried and con- victed knows nothing of the constitution or of the spirit which gives it life. But, fellow citizens, there is another point not less clear which answers all thi specious fallacy. The pardoning power is in the hands of the President, under the constitution, and that department of the governinent which has the power to pardon is the department of the govern- ment which can make peace with the offending citi- zens. The power of the President to pardon extends to all offences committed against the laws of the United States. He may exercise thi- power to par- don immediately after the commission of the offence, before the arrest, and before the trial. He may ex- ercise it at any time between the arrest and the trial { orthe judgment, Or, he may wait for judgment and until sentence is pronounced to exercise the right to pardon after the sentence has been given. His power over that subject is absolutely unlimited; beyond the power of Congress to restrict or control it inany respect whatever. When President Lincoln and President Johnson often proclaimed to the ple of the South that, upon condition that the; would take a certain oath of allegiance, they ‘should receive pardon and amnesty, and the faith of tnis nation was pledged that they should have pardon and amnesty, Congress has no right or power to take itaway. Now, that I may not be misunder- stood, that I may make this point very clear so that every man who hears me may remeinber it, I pro- pose to read to you the words of the Supreme Court respecting this very question, and that wiil be the { (es Whio stand | answer toall these shallow dem: up to talk about the whole cigs e South hav- ing forfeited all their rights, although they have never been tried and although the President of the ttt ltteers which are wrang out of the —taxes upon all our ind , taxes upon our clothing, taxes upon our boa taxes upon all that we seo and all we have in every possible form, taxes from the era- die and taxes to the grave. All these taxes are wrung ont of us for the purpose of payin’ of the interest on our public debt aud aiso pay ng the ex- penses of the army fro. year to year. Now, Low much would that amount toper man, woman and child, day, thlnty to forty milione™t peoples tis stato ay I mi ple; it is safe to say Thee Itcosta us, then, about $1 60 for cvery man, woman and ebild, each and every year. low many le are there in Iilinois? boat two millions; at would cost you, then, three millions annually tn the State of Illinois for your share of keeping this army in the South, of this Freedmen’s Bureau in the South, and for the pr of forcing negro suffrage down the throats of people, when you will not consent to have negro faiiraae, here among your- selves, How nmch are the whole expenses of your State admintstration in Mlnois? I suppose your Whole State expenses of administration In Iilinois would not exceed one million dollars. You robably have paid, fellow citizens of Il- three, four or five times as mach im annual taxation, direct and indirect, for the Pl of forcing negro suffrage down the throats of the white population of the South. Then you have to sustain your own State government for your- selves, Fellow citizens, the election is at hand; it 1s soon to be determined. Upon the one side there is General Grant and Mr. Colfax, who represent the Tadical of the country. Upon the other side stand Seymour, of New York, and Frank Blair, of Missouri—the hero and statesman of Missouri. ey represent a reconstruction policy. Within the constitution, in accordance with the Principles of the constitution, based upon the rights of the States each for itself to regulate the cosenon of suffrage, and also based upon the clvi- ized white population of the South, antii they them- selves shall consent to take into nolition, partner- ship the hatf-civilized African, Upon the other hand, the reconstruction policy represented by Grant and Coliax 1s a reconstruction policy outside the panenee Hen, Dased upon the half-vivilized negro Speeches of John Forsyth and General Cullen M. Battle at Bobile. Ata democratic meeting held at Mobile last Tuos- day evening the Hon. Joha Forsyth, in introducing General Battle, spoke as follows:— Iam to be followed by a gentleman and a soldier whose name is a “household word’ wherever tne remembrance of Southern yalor lives, To us of Mobile he is especially dear, because it was under his leadership and banner that the gallant youth, the flower of our city, marched to “glory and the grave.” On many a bloody field did he maintain the honor of American manhood. [say American, because at this moment, when the brave men of the belligerent armies, who, representing the manhood of the contl- nent, met in opposing ranks in the shock of battle, have under the shadow of a common consti- tution and brotherhood d to shake hands and join shouider to shouider in crushing out the radical rebellion senna Uberty. Itisin keeping with the gentus of the times to gather from the harvest flelds of American blood oniy the fruits of a common glory. It is a matter of rejoicmg and pride tiat throughout the long ee neituer by sea nor on land did the troops of the South do aught or fail in augiit to main- tain the prestige and renown of our common race, but everything to make the true American, wherever he may live, proud of his ancestra! lineage, The brave soldier when the battle is over respects and honors the autagonist whom he lis met face to face in strife, and in this spirit the jen who wore biue and who wore gray now act, I) New York two thousand of the fighting men of the United States army met in convention to sustain and ratify the covenant of peace, fraternity { and restoration put forth as a bow of proinise in the | skies by the National Democratic Convention. They | Scorn the character of those radical ghouls who, afar | of from the smoke and peril of the battle’s raga, | stooped to persecute, insult and trample upon a con- | quered foe after his arms had been grounded; and & vast majority of them now stand with us for Seymour and Blair and the peace, order and free government our fathers established, General C. M. Bartle nobly did his part in the feids of the South, when a holy libation of blood and valor was poured oul to the common renown. At Seven Pines, at Chancellors- vilie, Winchester, Gettysburg, Fisher’s Hill and on scores of fields he led his brave Atabamians where glory was to be won, and his gray coat and dashing sword were ever found nearest’ the flashing of the GENERAL CULLEN M, BATTLE’S SPEECH. General Battle was then introduced and delivered the following address:— No language can express the emotions that swell my bosom. Profoundly do [ thank you for this Mat- tering reception, To the Young Men’s Democratic Club I am indebted for this high honor, But lam not here to teach the people of Mobil: tessona of po- Litical wisdom; rather would I sit at the feet of their illustrious statesmen and meekly receive instructions in the most diticuit of all sciences—the science of government. But, accepting au invitation at once complimentary and gratifying, L have come to meet those endeared to me. by common sufferings and common glories, and in the presence of this immense multitude acknowledge my obligation to them, and in the hatlowed presence of fathers and mot..ers, and wives and children, offer to them the tribute o! heart bounding with gratitude and love. I come to ineet those comrades so and go true, I desired to thank them for the glorious past, to counsel with them of the threatening future, and to abjure them by every consideration that can move a pairiot’s heart and fire a hero’s spirit to pursue such a course of action as will demonstrate to all manklid that the = of ill still survives; that here in this beau. city of the Guif honor’s empire is firm pillared as the eternal hills. Comrades, brothers, year afver United States and the constitution have tendered to them pardon end amnesty upon their com) ‘< with conditions which ee have red and have in good faith fulfilled. Now, remember, the lan- co which I read to you ts not my own age; it is the language of the Supreme Court pro- nounced at Washington. Justice Field read the opinion of the Court ould) be remembered. If there are any young men here I hope they will remember it, as I read it word for wo! Some of shallow demagogues say that the President cannot exercise the power to pardon until o man has been tried and convicted. The court says he may “before any pro- { ceedings are taken, and during their pendeucy, or aiter conviction and peemess. Listen again: ‘The Power of the President not subject to oy ig tive control. Congress has nothing to say about it, or to ; do about it; and, if it undertakes to do anythi about it, it is simply tra down the cons'itu- tion itself. Hear what the cout ony “The Congress can neither hmit the effect of pardon, nor ex- clude from ite exercise any class of offenders. The benign prerogative of mercy reposedin him cannot be frittered away by any legislative restriction.” Such being the case, the inquiry arises as to the effect and operation of the On this point, all the authorities concur. ardon reaches both the punishment ined for the offence and the gait of the . It releases from punishment 1 blots out the existence of guilt, so that, in the eyes of the law, an offender is aa innocent as if he had never committed the orfence, If granted before the conviction it prevents any of the penalties and disabijtties consequent upon conviction from attach- ing. If granted after conyiction it removes the pen- allies and disabilities and restores him to all his civil rights, and makes him, as it were, anew man, and gives@ mew credit and capacity. This is the languaze of the Supreme Court. And when you hear those Spe aed ba tehnee boon that the pow- er to pardon is in <o— and notin the ent, remember what the reme Court says about it. The power to pard for all offences is the power which gives peace, amnesty and restoration of rights to the mass of the people of the Souih. In this pores to pardon is the power of reconciliation. in this power to pardon ig reconstruction, It was in the exercise of this power, ander the constituiion, that Mr. Lincoln began the res- torauion poiley of 1863. After his death, io 1865, Mr. Johnson renewed it to ail the Siatea and people of the South, In pursuance of those terms of amnesty Lucy reorganized their gov- ernments, But when the Co of the United States in 1866 sought to uproot and overturn this constitutional policy, and substitute in ic stead the radical policy, Which deciares {t#elf to be outside the consutition, aid bases itself upon the union of the States and upon @ hall-ctvilized negro basis, they acted in violation not only of the consttation, bat in violation of civilization itself. how much do you Uulak it has cost us annually for the last three Years in consequence of the radieals having over- turned the policy of Mr. Lincoln and Mr, Johnson in reconstruction? Had Johnson's policy been carried Out in 1865, our army, General Grant said, might, eptions, lave been withdrawa from the southern States, In the very re- por: from which I read he 8: Wi need Keep no troops except at tue forts, aud very few are necessary.” ‘Phere were two-thirds if not three-fourths of all che armies which we had in the Southern States that might have beeu witus drawn. The Freedman’s Bureau could have been eutirely abolished. What do you think, feilow citi- wens of Illinola, the army which we have been cot. pelied vo keep in the Southera States in consequence of We ralical reconstruction policy has coat ust Undoubtedly it has cost vs half of our whole army expenses to keep the army in these States in order to eiiorce this ney suilvage, radical reconstruction livy. Why, fellow citizens, do I say this’ Because fre white people of the South were not wiiltag to have negro suilrage forced a them; because, there/sore, it was necessary that an ariny shoud be kept in use South for the purpose of forcing it upon them at the point of the bayonet, and, therefore, ue neceasity of ig | the army there. Why, General Grant told me here in the state of Wisconsin, in August or September, 165, that if Congress underiook to jorce negro sudrage upon the south, as a besis of reconsiraction, 1 would be necessary to keep & standing army there to prevent @ War of races, Therefore the army has been kept there, and the Freedmen's Bureau, for the iast two years hay been @ kind of radical machine for the pagpose of organizing the negrovs tw vote the Tadical hicket, and to elect these “carpet-baggers” to office. The Freedmen’s Bureau, togedier with the army Witich bas been kept there, has probably coat at least half of all our army expenses, and what do you think they have been? Take last year, for in- Stance, I believe it is stated on good authority that the expenses of the War imont have been at the rate of $11,000,000 monthly, or $130,000,000 per year. Why, iellow citizens, halt of thisis to be charged to keeping the army in the South to force this negro suttrage down the throats of an unwilli peopler- Tink of thi wary and more * thi i ewe a These exon ‘ fro arto year we ave to pay from year yoar of the taxes FEE year you bore the Confederate flag through fre and tem} and upon more than two hundred battle flelds covered it with victory. Your imperishable air are intrenched in the ene, fortress of he past, and no power can dim thelr effalgence. Hate, malignity and tyranny are impotent to transform patriots into trailors and heroes into slaves. You, my comrades, and you _ alone, can obliterate the glorious recor’. Will you do it, or shall it remain a petual heritage to your children? What lough your flag went down bathed in woman’s consecrating tears and baptized in the best blood of the natioay This is still your native land, You all did love her once, not without cause. Her mouutains are as gran: her valleys are as fertile aa ever, her daugiters are as fair, her matrons are as virtuous. is she less dear to you because she has opened ler maternal bosom and received to her einbrace the noblest and bravest of her sonst Is she leas your mother because she has been insulted ae dearer, a thousand times dearer, er and her glery. Her fortitude in the midst of her Cesolation attracted the admiration of the world, and now the great demociatic party of the Union throws over her a banner inscribed with the js of constitutional iiberty fo. which she ht, and I ain here to-night to you to to her altar, and let us again pledge to ber Ey come u} our Ii our fortune and our sacred honor, The dem party otfers the most hono terms, it for which yu battled—not de- cause it was the principles upon which the conied- eracy was founded—but the confe adoptea them because they were Proumigated by fatners of American independence and were vindicated b; the war of the Revolution, Under them the Ameri- can colonies advanced to o thelr observance is the last hi stitutional liberty, Not only does at deciare in lavor of that constitution so dear to you, but it most Hons wo totally destructive of your rights and so re 80 p ve of your and 80 Te- posnens to every honorable feeling, are unconstitus onal, nuliand void. * * ®* I wiil not ask you to endorse the platform, for it theorporates the for which you have ever contended. 1 will not you to support Seymour aud Blair, for they are the champions of constitutional liberty, for which you have braved a lrandred ba’tle feids; bat I do ask you to bring into the canvass the high qualities of courage and foriitude that you have se sigoaliszed ip your carcer. tothe front; carry your lors deep into the enemy's lines; ded« your- selves to your country; labor, ita advancemeut in every element of greamess, Labor is the lever that moves the universe. If in the development of matermi wealth the rugved | mountain ol ucis your pata, labor cuts a highway | through its very coutre. and sendiog its shasta to the ds foundations brings up revenues of tron and to subserve its pur Rivers, Jakes aud Oceans are its min eters, At iis touch the barrca heath becomes a vineyard of fruiis, and over hill and dell float (ie golden waves of interminabie hay. vests, Itis tie poor man’s solace, and it becomes the prince better than his crowa. Labor unied with Mechanical skil puts the lundred wheels of well adjusied machinery in motion and sends the Majestic steamship on the trackiess ocean, laden with the richest coutributtoas of commerce. Labor, united wita genius, hae to the republic of let- terd the masterworks of Milton, oe hakes peare; and jabdor, inspired by patriotism and uedi- cated to the sacred cwuse of liberty, Wili restore gov- ernment to its only legitimate ohjeors, the happiuess of the peopie. Bus we are told that sur purposes are revolutionary, Who makes the charge? Usurp- era. Men who liave chi oat republican sysieut into @ military despotism and Are Hsing every engine of oppression to perpetuate thelr power. fellow citizens, we want uo revolution. above all no bloody revolution; bui, if God help us, we will restore the goveroment to ite original position. if God proaper as we will tora back (ie tide of revoludon and sweep the initdet band that rhots In the destruction of constitutional liberty from | the face of the earth, We appeai to the rnnases to | lay aside the weapous of war and come to the ballot box. and by ita decree We are ready to stand. If we triumph at the polls—if tle great maases of the American people vote for Seymour and iiair, and seitle the government on ie principles chunetated in the democratic platform, the irregu ar and revoln. tionary government of the Southern staves must give Way io Tepubitcan constitutional governments, aad this is all we have declared. But if radioais will pro+ Cipitate a revolution—if they deiy popular will, and in contravention of law actempt to mevutain thelr usurpations by foree of arms, the army inust vindicate the national honwr; and if inaddened b, sass tee [Aid ‘and frenzied by an unhailowed re npon the flag of the Union, then may Heaven the heads uncovered ina righteous cause, sieiter oid, enough!" and “damned be he who first cries The ibility Will not rest upon tie wational | democrnoy, but te will feat upon the revolniioniacs i who woul gabvort the government jae, ul hale of party. eace. ry pumeuon B aeuraids peave. We trust | hearts | ierwe Xnget of God, descending srom heave, | Will stamp upon Amencan eoustitubonal liberty the aa bane] | labor assiduously for | seal of Omnipotence, and swear by Him that loveth War shall be no more. But anyihtng, my country- poe {s better than dishonor. Come war and pest! ence, come death in ail its terrible array, rather than suffer the slightest stain of dishonor, | If war Must come in defence of the Union and the con- stitution, patriots of the Norh and of the South will gather around th ensi; republic, aud” panting it"'9n. the, pertions.edes of battle gather around tt to the carntval of death. But we repeat lt; we invoke tne genius of peace to rebuke the mad spirit: of triots of the North and the South, the Rest and the est to unite cvery element of and national glory, and, forgetting past anomistios, carry forward (he American Union tha career of use- fulness and honor unparaileied in the tory of na- tions, Here I had thought to close, but I wish to say to our colored friends who have united their bau- ners with ours that oar swords were not drawn to perpetuate thelr bondage. Our object was higher, nobler, grander, We fought for the pei tuity of constitutional liberty and the right of -govern- ment. We have no purposes hostile to your thier. esis, and we ask you to unite with us In carrying forward the American repubile in ta career of glory to which natnve and nature’s God has destined it, POLITICAL NOTES. An Indianapotis (Ind.) despatch to the Cincinnati Commercial say David Kilgore, of Muncie; M. L.!Bandy, of New- eastie, the Johnson candidate for Congress In the old Fifth district two years ago: Judge Lindsey, éon- tungent democratic elector for the Fighth district; ‘Thomas N, Stiliwell, United Sta:es Minister to Vene- gela anda member of the Thirty-ninth Congress; Jon A. Gordon, of this city, and Robert N. Hudson, of Terre Haute, all of whom wore regarded as firm adherents of President Jotinson’s administration, have taken @ bold stand for Grant and Colfax, and those who have not already done so will shortly take the stump, Rey. Isaac S. Kalloch, late of Massachusetts, but whilom editor of a Kansas paper, announces him- Self asan aspirant for Congress, as the successor of Hon. Sidney Clarke, whom he wishes to see de- feated, The Rhode Island soldiers an‘ sailors have formed a Grant and Colfax club at Providence, with Gen- eral Buroside as chief. There is @ very active democratic campaign in New Orleans. Ten or twelve black and white clubs meet every evening, and mounted and foot parades with banners and transparencies are of nightly oc- currence. The workingmen of Mobile have formed a large democratic club. Three hundred negroes joined the democratic club at a barbecue recently given at Mount Lebanon, Bienville parish, La. It is an astonishing fact that a number of radical journals support the action of the Governor of Ala- bama in vetoing the Electoral Coltege bill. A Leavenworth (Kansas) paper, in its report of the Democratic State Convention at Topeka, says:— “Among the decorations of the hall in which the democrats met was a rebel flag.’” AUSTRALASIA. Our files from Australasia, by way of Panama, dated in Sydney on the 2d and Wellington, New Zea- land, the 8th of July, supply the following news re- port, additional to the signmary publisied in the Higwasp yesterday morning. New South Wales. Our Sydney mail report of July 2 supplies the fol- Jo ting news items;— ‘The Queen’s birthday was kept as a public holf- day. There was @ grand review of the military and volunteers, a levee at Government House, pony races at the Albert cricket ground and the usual amount of railway excursions, picnics and water ties. The number of volunteers at the review was 1,316, Ata meeting of the general committee of the Sailors’ Home picnic—during the holding of which Prince Alfred was shot—held at the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney, it appeared that after payin; all expenses the net profits of the picnic amounte to £477 15s, 2d., which sum was ordered to be paid over to the treasurer of the Sailors’ Home. Prince Alfred’s donation of £50 is to be laid out in books for that institution. Her Majesty’s steamer Challenger, which left Syd- ney for a cruise among the Sou'h Sea islands, took with her as botanist Mr. Willlam R. A. Guilfoyle. ‘The results of Mr. Guilfoyle’s trip cannot but be very Pleasing to scientific botanists, A public meeting in behalf of the London Mis- sionary Society was held in the Congregational church, Redfern. The annual meeting of the founders of and sub- acribers to the Camden College was held in the Con- a church, Pitt street. The Rev. Join West, lent of the Council, occupied the chair. A re- port was brought up and adopted. In a paddock of Mr. Samuel Taylor's estate, on the Murrumbidgee, planted with corn, one grain of the cereal produced a stalk bearing two cobs; the length of these conjoined was twenty-one inches and from them 1,414 grains were taken. His Excellency the Governor, with the Countess of Belmore and suite, were to leave Sydney for @ visit to the Southern districts, A number of whales were seen off the coast at Ulladulla, The Panama mall service bids fair to be increas- ingly important and useful. Including the days of arrival and departure, there are four days in Sydney for replying to correspondence. And in future, now that tho arrangements are completed for direct passages on the Atlantic side, this will probably be he case every month. Victoria. The Meunt Alerander Mail regrots to jearn that ip consequence of the assassination of the Hon. Fesidents o rds of seven years, have been ved of & considerable resource which they relied upon and received from their late brother. Queensland. It ts estimated that there are fifteen hundred South Sea Islanders employed in different parts of Queens- land. Gold_has been discovered about fourteen miles: Gaeeetens, on the Canning Downs bow station. -_ government have decided upon es- tablishing a line of telegraph between aus ceva: = Gympie, a distance of one hundred and seven’ miles, The Markets. Sypwey, July 2.—We have to report a et business in articles of commerce “AUHge the month; indeed sactions have been Do hn tran og limited, arising tn great measure the fact that we always ¢. at this season the year, A Plaga markets tn conse- u more especially long been abundant, Stocks of bnix ale by several late arrivals, but the demand siack and prices are beroly supported. In building matoriaia the only transaction requiring is the saie of lumber ex fevt Stevens, Pnget resulted |, whi ily. In drugs and chemicals there is nothing doing beyond a mere retail trade, and for colza and paint otis there is onty a small demand. Kerosene oi] nas been dealt in to a considerable ex- tent at is, 10d. a is. 11d., but the market, infin. enced by transactions in Melbo silgniy. and holders of favorite brands f for 2a. per gallon. Ofimen's stores are dull, and so are dried fruits of all kinds and fish. rice is @ slow sale at £26, res, sules of that article betng var'ousiy fro £18 to £2 wer ton. Spirita of kinde are firm. Brandy of first quality commands all ful Il rates for dark, but pate is not se mach in request, being ample. ere have been considerable additions to our stock of ruin, but the price has not been affected in consequence, as stocks got very low, and for smal! quantities on the spot fancy were for a time obtained. Geneva ts firm, a standing the shipments reported; and witlskey 13 scarce. Sugars have not been dealt in much at auc- tion, but where sales have taken place a reduction has resulted. We learn that late rates are obtained for se.ected parcels purchased privately, and stocks are not large. In teas there Tras been’ a moderate business doiny at advanced rates, Tobacco Is dull and very littie doing, but good brands maintain their val tHe, At the usnal wool sales there haye been but @ few Jots of Wool catalogued. Scoured realized 18. Sd. fleece, 10d. a iid.; greasy, 6d. a Sd. Sheepskins were In short supply. The following are some of the sales:—Heart in diamond, 9 rene , at Ged, T at 64d.;5 in clrele, 11 at T4d.3 F jeece at 11., and in small i : " ‘ od; 1 handwashed at 3 greasy, Jota shee) rm at do. lambs, ‘at at 10d. fleece, at iid; O, 4 at lid.) Lhandwashed, at 49a. Sheepskins realized ot 10,000 sheepskins at exe 5444. 9 bales sheepskins at Pe anita smalteriot fame price. In the market of tallow and hides we do not note any alterations. Mutton tallow, £4 a £36; good boiling beef, £83 & £53 128, 6d,; inferior, from £29 upward, Hides in request, but at prices yen show aa the decline noticed last week is ikely to continue. Frelgnt for London rules this month as follows: Wool (clean), 344. in full; I), 4d. 8 Ss oll (cocoa nut), 66a, and 5 per cent; ol (perm), 808.5 tallow, 5éa.; bones, hides and horns, ‘ copper, Joe.; Teather, 668. 0 00s.; measurement goods, doa. d Ws.; cotton, 4d. In full,