The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1868, Page 8

8 ‘POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. DEMOCRATIC RALLY AT QUEENS COUNTY, Organization of the “Queens County Seymour and Blair Central Campaign Clab”—-Speeches by Scott RK. Sherwood and Others, ‘The democratic and conservative electors of Queens, Zong island, assembled last Wednesday evening at Lane’s Hotel to organize for a vigorous prosecution ‘@f the canvass, A large audience was in attendance, nd an organization perfected amid great enthu- Siasm, the following gentlemen being elected officers the ensuing year:—President, Scott R, Sherwood; fice Presidents, P. P. Kissam,'T. H. Bogart, David ‘etchum; Secretaries, Benjamin Lane, James ©. Bora: Seg John 8, Creed; Treasurer, Williain H. antat-Arms, J. B, Raynor; Executive mmmittee, Scott Sherwood, ex officio; J, F. Mey- men, Gilbert Cyged, J. C. Hendrickson, Benjamin Bverett, George Parpenter, rn Spon, taking the chair Mr, Sherwood thanked his @udience for their unexpected compliment, and @welt at length upon the inconsistencies and usur- \thons in our national radical legislation of the past ur years, Mr. Sherwood’s speech was received Wroaghout with great enthusiasm, and at its con- @lusion three cheers were given for the newiy formed @ub and its President, ‘The meeting adjourned at a late hour after the Peeper pl) od) bylaws had been namerously signed ‘by the denfScrata Of Queens and vicinity. MAINE. THE CAMPAIGN IN The Contest Growing Warm—An Estimate of the Probable Result—The Radicals Not Likely to Gain Any~The Probable Majority 18,000 to 20,000—The Vote of the Laboring tevcrnaieaal PORTLAND, Sept. 9, 1863. On my return to the metropolis of the State alter @ week’s absence I find the republicans and demo- q@mais with their lamps trimmed and awaiting the eoming of the 14th ptember that is to decide be- tween them. I must confess that the republicans in ‘Whe canvass so far have displayed superior strategy ‘and energy and are more thoroughly organized for Monday next than are their opponents. The conser- have thrown into vatives the contest con- Sideradle spirit, but they have had to carry dead weights through with them, and M successful in largely reducing the radical majority of 1866, which was 27,690, they will as:onish themselves, At this writing the contest is very hot, and the conservatives promise that Maine shall not speak as did Vermont, The republicans and demo- rats agree that a very large vote wiil be polled. The following figures, giving the vote for some years, will show the compiexion of parties in the 4653—Fremont Pillinore Buchanan Total vote. Republican maj 9860—Lincolt Doug! Breekin Bei... Total vote. Republican m ¥664—Lincoin, McClellan... Total vote. Repuviican majority. . ¥606—Chamberlain Pulsbury (Governor) Total vote.. Republican inajorit ; 7 —Chamberlain (Governor) ilsburry (Governor) ..... Total vote? Republican majority Notwithstanding that the ocr in nearly aM the towns a large number of voters off the list @n this city nearly tive hundred) and some two thou- gand voters among the fishermen at sea, all agree ‘that they will poll over 50,000 votes, The fairest calculation based on the canvass shows that the vote polled wiil be about as follows:— Republican . 70,000 to 75,000 Democrati - 60,000 to 11,818 Total vote cast... +++ 120,000 to 128,000 ‘This would give the repunlicans a clear majority of 90,000, or less than any year recently in which na- Wenal questions entered into the contest. Unies the republicans get over 20,000 majority, and this is ‘the highest figure any of them claim, they will not ob- tain a victory. The vote of last y when only 103,106 votes were polled, and national questions did Bot enter Into the canvass, cannot be taken asa test of strength. The fair contrast will be between the voles of 1864, where Lincoln's majority was 91,122, and the vote of next Mond: Uniess they i 21,000 majority they will have no cause to re- ice. The democrats claim tuat the majority will be Rot over 18,000. Looking at past votes and giving the republicans the bencit of the largest majority they claim, the prospect looks quite cheering for the eouservatives holding their own if they do not make Bamall gain. From my knowledge of the sentiments that ani- mute the laboring masses, I feel sanguine that the Fepublicans will be disappointed in the vote of the laboring classes. All the tndications are that hun- whom they count to swell their majority or Seymour. Mr. Heywood, president of the Massachusetts Labor League, has addressed the Working masses and done an immense work in prose yting voters, Last n ght he addres 5 este age at the City Hall, and advanced able arguments in favor of the conservative cause, As Soon as the democratic canvass of the State is com- plete | shall be better abie to indicate the present re- galt, Meanwhile you may safely set the radical ma- Jerity down at 18,000 to 20,000, which will be @ slight Vietory for the democrats. THE CANVASS IN THE SOUTH, Well Report of General Robert Toombs’ Oedar Town Speech—The “Oracle of the South” Has Spoken“ The Noblest Roman of Them All” Arrnigns General Grant for Want of Verncity and Various Crimes and Misdemeanors—A Grand View of the Po- Mtical Situation by a Southern Luminary, At the democratic mass meeting in Cedar Town, Polk county, Ga., on the 25th August last, the Presi- @ent, Mr. W. F. Janes, introduced General Toombs 88 follows:— MR. JANES’ INTRODUCTION. It gives me infinite pleasure to present the noblest Roman of them all—one whose fame fills both hem!- ge, who adorned the highest civil stations, who in the lost cause, who followed its hearse to the ve, who preferred exile to oppression when the trailed in defeat and became an exile in fore! ls. But he at length retarns to the home of jers—MeGregor is on his native heath, with lips, ‘rank God! unsealed, and he will now speak for self, as in better days when you and I were free. have the Donor to present General Toombs. ~~ SPEECH OF MR, TOOMBS, General Toombs said:— LADIFS AND GENTLEMEN—T have come with plea- gure at your bidding to take counsel with you on this Ovcasion concerning the public safety and the pre- rvation Of public liberty, In discharging my hum- part on tile Interestihg occasion, | would imitate great Athenian orator who never addressed an assembly of his countrymen without first calling ma the gods of his country and imploring of them he might utter no word which might bring re- = upon the cause of truth or detriment | that his country, J feel to-day prouder of the people Of my native State than I have dove at any other pe- #00 of my life. I have seen them under all the vicissi- ‘Sudes ordinarily incident to men and nations, from the brightest prospects down to the lowest depths of Misfortune and misery; but to-day they exhibit @ moral grandeur for which I bow with ham) Mhankfuiness to the Great Dispenser human affairs, who inspired them with ao fortitude and heroism equal to the perils which @fr- Found them. You have felt all the woes, all the bit terness winch triumphant wrong could infict upon jou. ‘The government of your choice has been overs own, thousands of your fathers, husbands, broth. rs und sons have perished in its defence; your land been ravaged, your property destroyed, your Wives and daugaters insulted, you have been’ strip P01 of the commonest rights Of freemen, subjected fo) r years to an insolent and brutal milttary deepotism Which has crowned its own Infamy and filled the Cae of your wrongs by an atteinpt hitherto un- HOWN in the avails Of National crime, to make your Giaves your masters, Yet | tind amid all these crush. ing calamities, throughout all of our borders, the fixed purpose, the unconquerable will, never to ‘sur Bender the tualien: rights of men, and old men, iddie aged men, young men, lovely matrons and jooming m everywhere gathering together to cheer, to animate, to Uless those who sill plead. 10F Fight and justice and still worship at the altar of truth. (Great cheering.) Who can witness these @oenes and doubt the power, the immort @ivinity 01 truth? Who cau doubt but Me That freedom’s battle once begun, aibes by bleeding sire to son, yh battied oft ia ever wou ? - to urge you to gird ou your armor, to do your duty in this great conflict, not with the aword, I would that the sword might be sheathe forever and that liberty inight never need eo danse ons un ally and defender, 1 prefer peace. | want ace; 1 want rest, Nearly sixty winters have shed thelr snows upon my head; neariy thirty @f these yeurs have been spent in the public Fervice batting against these same enemies of the rights of the people, of the States and of the prim « of the constitution of i787, Tecan, theretore pathy say with General Grant, “Let us have Ates! he but “holds the word of romine to tue ear and breaks it to the nope.” Peace ho the Child either of Wrong, Or Of Oppression, oF NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. of Sespottsm. These are the works of the wicked, and Holy Wris teaches us that they shall have no EAE, Is pear! of great price to nations and to nen can only be found in the principles of justice. All the good men of this couniry seek it, ardently desire It. The two great political parties offer It to them. Let us go and scaret for it—seareh for it in the conduct, the acts, the declared principics and tn the characters of the candidates of these organiza- lions which aivide the people of the United States, Those who call themselves the Union republican y met at Chicago during last May and placed eral Grant and Mr. Colfax before the country as their candidates and the exponents of their princi- ples. General Grant has obtained @ wide-spread reputation as a soldier, none whatever as a states- man, His administration ef the Congressional despotism established from the Potomac to the Rio Grande was weak und wicked to the last He openly avowed and acted upon the principle of carrymg out the secret wishes of his party in Congress, even against their plainly declared purposes in the acts of reconstruction, While acknowledging that these acts left the people of the States, suoject to be revon- structed, free to accept or reject the proposed inea- sure, Under his instructions his satraps proscribed newspapers, dismissed civil officers, arrested citizens Sor excercising this express privilege as “inpedi- ments” to reconstruction, thereby making the ‘exer- cise of a legal right, conceded by himself, a crime punishadle at the pleasure af his military commis- sions. He accepted the conjidential position of Sec- retary of War from the President, had his veracity directly ‘mpeached by jive of his colleagues avd at- tempted to support his veracity by pleading his own treachery. His letter accepting the Chicago nomina- tion closes for the present, at least, his political his- wry. He declares his adherence to this extraordi- nary manifesto until he or the public change their opinions, He does not even affect the slightest sense of obligation to the constitution; the will of the peo- ple ts his professed polar star, which, by his own in- terpretation, means the will of the revolutionary Sac- ton which seek to use his military reputation to perpe'uate their own power and subvert the constitution, Let us try him and iits coil- league by the standard which they have chosen and accepted, This Chicago platform is a model of audacity, of falsehood and of a suamele?s contempt for popular intelligence. Even the few sound generalities and historical truths which it contains were inserted with a fraudulent intent and appropriated to the Wicked purpose of covering up the plunder of the people and concealing tue fatal wounds intlicted on the constitution, it devounces “all forms of repudiation as a national crime,’ simply to put countless millions in the pockets of “money changers,” to which they are not law/ully and rightfully entitled, It angounces equal taxa- tion a8 a sound and pure principle, and relieves fifteen hundred millions of the property of these same “money changers’ of ali taxes whatever. It demands the “strictest economy in the administra- tion of the government,” whilst its framers have expended nearly five hundred millions per annum since the close of the war without lesscning the pubiic debt to the amount of a single postage stamp, and with the effrontery which would do honor to the heroes of Newgate, denounces “the corruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson,” whom they have stripped of all power, and, therefore, of all responsibility for the administration of public affairs. it declares sympathy “with all oppressed people struggiing for liberty,"’ except the victims of the per- Adious tyranny of its own architects, It invites im- migration and pledges protection to emigrants against all kings, potentates or powefs, except their worst enemies, the radical party, which demands of all emigrants the unconditional support of despotism on this side of the Atlantic as the price of Lee | them from it on the other. It offers amnesty anc pardon and peace, “admission into the communion of loyal people’ to ali who will join in a conspiracy against the constitution, and none otuers., 1t 1auds the principles of the Deciaration of independeuce, which its advocates for seven years, both in peace aud war, have been struggling io overthrow. It votes “special honor (not gold) to brave soldiers and seamen,” pays for their bivod in depreciated government paper, with which the lame and the halt, the widow and the orphaa may er gold, to be paid in taxes to be voted specially to bondholders. The true soldier always honors “a foeman wortuy of is steel; the Confederate soldiers who did their own duty in the late war would not willingly ee one pledge of the United States to her own soldiers vio~ lated, one right withheld; nor would they pluck one laurel from toe brow of a single soidier, Wliether na- tive or foreign, who fought them in the late war; besides other and nobier reasous, whatever glory they may have deserved will not be lessened by enco- minus upon their adversaries, Finally, this pintform congratulates “the country upon the assured success of the reconstruction policy of Congress as evinced by the adoption of a majority of the States late! rebellion of constitutious securing eynal civii and political rights to all; piedges the radical party to maintain equal suffrage in all these “late rebel States,”’ but expressiy declaring that “the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properiy belongs to these States.” “Tis polley of reconsir endorsed by the icavo Convention, makes up a clear and final issue between military despots and coustitational government. It leaves no place for compromises; neither party can give quarter, “Vee victis” must be Inscribed upon the banners of the contesting hosts. It Was meet and proper that the enunciation of the success of this policy should be clothed in ‘aaguage of open, shameless falsehood, It is not true that a majority of the States lately in rebellion, or any one of them, have adopted cousti- Lutions securing equal civil or’ political rights to ail, or any otier constitutions Whatever, There was not asingle act from the beginning to the consumima- tion of these atrocities which had the voluntary assent of the people of eituer of these States. The Wivle scheme, in all of the parts and by all tts ma- chinery, Was concocted and adopted with the sole view of defeating the popular will. You know, fellow citizens, that there was nota native white man in the State who gave public utter- ance to a slagle word of approval of any of its pro- visions. One of tts prominent features, the four- teenth constitutional amendment, had been nearly unanimously rejected by the Legislature of Georgia. Even those Who advocated Its adoption relied upon infamy of the radical party rather than upon tie ite of the scheme to accomplish thavend. Ex- Governor Brown, its leading supporter, commended it to your acceptance solely upon this ground. It was the custom of ancient heathens to worship rep- tiles, crocodiles and demons, to whom they would sacrifice even wives and clilldren to propitiate their wrath and to arrest their ferocity, 1¢ was upon this Principle that you were urged to lay your honor and your manhood at the feet of your enémies, You were told by this emissary of these usurpers that if you did not accept these ter your lands would be confiscated, your wives ‘end our children would become houseless and homeless wanderers and outcasts, and that these radical monsters, infuriated by your stubborn devotion to liberty, would invent new instruments of torture and new and still more diabolical punish- ments to conquer your firmness. These appeals to your fears were scornfully rejected, the tempter aud the temptation were trampled under your feet. Other means were resorted to in order to manufac- ture an apparent assent of the people. Twenty thousand of you, all of you who had even held the office of justice of the peace, were already disfran- chised by this “policy.” The ignorant biacks were enfranchised, were fed, drencued, debauched by government ofictals with public pap, and then edu- cated into the belief that a radical vote meant “forty acres of land and a mule; and lest even some of these ignorant people might detect these trauds, under the ge of protecting them against viole! they marched them to the polls with ed bayonets, to give their free consent to the policy of reconstruction, Yet even this was not enough. A pian of legislative spollation, called relief, was incorporated in the so-called constitution which offered to the un- fortunate a free discharge from ail of their debi and thus increased to some extent the umber of the votes for reconstruction. The military satraps, Pope and Meade, aided by their chief, have faith- fully labored to compass this iniquity. They com- pel over. civil officer in the State to remain ‘silent, support “the policy,” or quit his office; they com- — all re go to advocate it on pain of being jeprived of all legal advertisements {n the State; openly hegroes, criminals and ad: in insulting and robbing the honest peo- ple of the Commonwealth, in order to make the existi tate of things unendurable; and when ail this ed to accdmpiish their nefarious purposes, Pope, in organizing the Convention, aud Meare, in orgat — the legislative and executive depart- ments of the I government of Georgia, shamefully alded abetted the fraudulent regis- trars throughout State, and shereby put upon you a defeated convention, @ defeated Governor and a fraudulent majority in the Legislature, Ail these facta are well Known to the thousands of men and women who are before me thisday. Yet this Chicago Convention hag the audacity to ‘say that te State of Georgia has done this wicked thing. We already had @ government when these intruders were put upon us ie people had assembled | convention at the call of the ident and with the free and open acquiescence of Congresa. They had made & constitution in conformity with the require. ments of the feaeral Roy, ronment; it had been ac- quiescbd in by the people. They asked for no change— they wanted Lone—no human being seemed to desire any change except the radical 3 but they found that they had no friends in that government and hence they determined to make @ government 0! thelr own and call it ours, Now we simply ask them to acknowledge their own bantling and not put its paternity upon us. Rut this Convention with intre- pid audacity uttered another stupendous falsehood, of Which the very constitutions of five of the States which they dragged into the Union and their own con- stitational amendmenteonvict them. It affirms that these consututions “secured equal civil and political rights to all.” Shame, where is thy blush? In many of these States thousands of white men are disfran- chised; in all of them thousands are prohibited from holding oifice elther by the State constitutions or by the fourteenth amendment or by both. ‘The adoption of this amendment 1s of itself a datouing proof of the revotuttonary purposes of the radicals, The reconstruction acts require that aone of the States to which they are made applicable should be admitted into the Union until they had severally adopted this amendment, The constitation says that no amendment shall be made to itself Without the assent of three-fourths of the States; none but States can vote upon the subject, yet the radicals havé deciared that their military provisional governments shall vote to alter the constitution before they shall be admitted into the Union, This pretended amendment is itself diraveo with the intent to destroy the equality of the States, while seeming to apply the same rule to all. ‘The States which did not hoid slaves before the war had bat few negroes among them, most of them but erfough to elect a aingie representative to the Legis- lature, nowe Of them enough to gain an additional member ie ‘a kowe of chp Sousmern ; Slave holding States of more than thirt; commend tuese men aud their principles to the ceptance of each and a! of you. It my peaceful struggle waich you may ever have an op- portunity ty conceal their own revglutionary designs. eas) ° desperat v New York, New Jersey, Pennsyivani: ware, 3 hay “Thanes are flylog’’ from their standard. termined attitade of the peopie of the North in these is strained to produce a collision be their chief spokesman, omnipotent power of fear and avarice over the hearts and conduct of all white men, goverment port ail. party lost nothing but some favorite leader or some Javorite policy, aud perhaps only fora time by defeat. ‘The same measure of protection, of justice would be Meeted out alike to ali. and received the same But no man betore me prehension at either the succe: Georgia to be cast : searching with perfect sincerity into their platforms and addresses aud speeches and weighing their conduct in the even scales of justica 1 have not found one reason why an honest man among you should now support them, 5 should now support them. good men have heretofore supported them, and I Wish now to snow all such good ineu that they should no longer do #0, Old Union mea, Union men be- fore the war, were found aimong their supporters. the principles of the constitution, Cam liberty would vp safer ugder States the nezroes were the most numerous, and in al! of them formed a substantial part of the popu- | Jation. While uuder this amendment the exclusion of the negroes from the right of si re would not cost New England a single vote in Congress, or a singie electoral vote, it would deprive Georgia of one-half of her members and é) and tne late mei bers in Congress. ‘This vile and dastardly fraud is well worthy of the whole statesman- ship of ther Yet, even on these terms, terms prescribed b, now declare that t! ig These covenant breakers not only disregard their compacts with others, but refuse toabide by th when made wholy by themselves. This amoun's to the declared purpose to administer the same consti- tution, the same fundamental law, differently in «if- ferent parts of the United States. And this simply means that the radicals do not intend to regard the constitution at all whenever the late rebel States are concerned, though they may be in Union, Iam not in the least surprised at its avowal. Inseosi- bility to shame is the last stage of public as wel! a3 private proiigacy; this point tm radicals have reached, such are the candidates, the principles aud the practices of the radical party; such their claims upon your confidence and support. They sud: vert all of the ancient landmarks of liber they ignore the corner stone of all rep lican institutions—that all just powers of government must be “derived the consent of governed.” The pretended government of this si was erected fey by despotic power; it ts the o spring of military despotism; brute was its architect and is its 80.e cement, This policy is as wicked as it is foolish; it can never pbtain the atfec- tions of a single freeman, This 1s not the road to the iuman heart. The peed Ruler f the Universe, in whom we all Ilve and move and have our being, in dealing with his own creatures, the wayward aud sinful children of men, condescends to win them back to the paths of virtue in the language of atfoc tionate treaty:—"My son, give me thy heart,” is His invitation to His peace. Force hag robbed you of your birthright; it has filled your cqurts of justice with its venal, corrupt and ignorant Nstruments; it has filled your executive and legislative departinents with ignorant, brutal paupers and criminals, white and biack, who feel no part of the burdens they im- pose on you, reckless of the publio Welfare, inteat only on public plunder, These are the legitimate e success of the Congresdonal policy of reconstruction in Georgia, Let us tira from this ew York on the 4th of July ast there as- t ed the representatives of the denocracy of tie United States, including in its organizition the rep- resentatives of thousands of patriots who had not hitherto co-operated with them 1n pélitical action. At the same time and place there assenbled another convention of soldiers and sailors whdgerved tn the late war, in the army and navy of the United States. ‘These patriots also put forth a declaration of princi- ples—a declaration which awakened 4 thrill of joy in every freeman’s bosom, from the lakes to the Gulf—from ovean to ocean, It read all those reat prc tee and safeguards of pefsonal liberty, for which our British ancestors struggled, fought and bied, from Runnymede to the revolution of 1638, aud which were brought over to te New World by our fatiers and planted in the constitution of the United States; Magna Charta, trial by jury, indepen- dent judiciary, the subordination @f ‘the mili- to the civil authority, ie freedom of speech and of the press, edom from arbitrary searches, seizures and arrests. 1t puts the seal of condemnation upon the principles and policy of the radicals and deciares “the Recon- struction acts of Congress, 80 called, esnearpations, ‘anconstiutional, revolutionary and void.” These great principles having been unanimoasly adopted the Coavention, with the same unanimity, nomi- mour and Blair as candidates for the Pre- gidency and Vice Presidency, whose emment ability, integrity and fidelity to these principles furnish ample security that they will be honestly carried out wien the people of the United States have ratified t ese nominations by their election, Georgians, be the'l: to rly. The and me with rountry; th make im behaif of public radical party fulsely charges stile designs against the peace ree is made aaist us but to Who is Not you whose fortunes are ot for u ot but theirs. Connecticut, Ohio, Dela- aryiand, Kentucky, California’ and Oregon, ready declared against them, every where the ‘The de- yours, ons and many others drove them from their orite policy of negro suffrage in the North, and npelled them to fail back, for the present ac least, from tieir raid on the taxpayers whom they sought tw plunder for the bondnolder: remaiming political capital is se negro remaining war cry is, be upon ye." Forrest and Cobb and Toombs,” at the South, the South itis, “help, help us, Under the populated South, with the 8 troops Who fouglit so nobly in the war,” armed and equipped and ke loyaity, the radi and thelr sole fonai hate and the North their only “wake up, the rebels “Hear the slogan of Hampton oa in uffee, or we sink !"” impoverished, de- e “brave colored supremacy. At fear of the unaru ping “watch and ward? over her ‘ais of the North ave organizing arming hundreds jrand armies of the republic, of thousands of loyal militia “trom snowy white to sooty.” All over the South their notes of prepara. tions, their calla to arms are heard every nerve een the blacks and the whites in order to create a necessity or pre- tence for Grant’s peacemaker—martial law. But a few days ayo, mass meeting, said to number several hundred blacks and. a score or two of their keepers, met at Atlanta, Ex-Gov- ernor Rrown, Bullock’s Chief Justice, was He stil believes in the He openly ‘ares that biood and arson, at least, shall inau- gurate the triumph of the democratic party and its principles, He advises his party to go to the polls arme 1 suppose to overave and intimidate and ossiviy to supply with bullets any detictency in bal- fot He tells them that four millions of people never gave up the ballot (whenever exercised, whether rightfully or wrongtuly acquired) withou blood. ‘This false and revolutionary utterance was for no other purpose thau to produce a war of races, He knows it was faise, for he ts not ignorant of his- tory; certainly not iguorant of radical rule over his own country stuce the overthrow of the Confederate government. He knows the history of radical in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the other (late) “rebel States.” He knows it Was revolutionary, for the old constitution left the whole question of suf- frage to be regulated by the States, and the four- teenth amendment does expressiy affirm the same right. the ne; of a plain constitutional power. In the same address he declared to the blacks that the houses, vill towns and cities of this State were their secu against the exercise of this rightfai power. ‘Therefore it was a deliberate effort to excite 4 to resist by force the exercise by socieiy ties You have chaffed the spirtt of this valiiant leader, Under threats of confiscation of your lands and your few remaininy infiteted your consent to submit your fundamental law: Mongrel convention of ignorant and vicious Africans and forced General Grant to hold one without consent. he demanded your consent to the adoption of the thing called @ constitution, which stripy the inteiligence, the virtue, the patriotism and the pro- perty of the country of proposed government and sought to oaths never to change its most infamous provisions, This you refused and thereoy forced the r and military commanders to commit larities” in dealing with the lists of voters and the ballot box in securing @ majority for the constitu. tion, for Bullock at branciies of the Legislature. Tusal to he sufictentiy alarmed to surrender your honor and your country, with your enemy greatly aguravated by your refusal to rewara his treachery to you and apostacy to his principles by giving him @ seat in the Senate of the United States he comes again, but not in peace. movables, and “unnumbered woes to be y these fearful monsiers,” he Gomanaea a ‘and ‘our wandering criminais. You refused, Next, under the same terrible tion in the ind them by all just partici great “ \- da “working majority” in both ludignant at your re- He comes with banner, brand and bow, As leader meets his deadly foe. He comes with ninety thousand dusky incendiaries, armed with the torch, to punish and put down this rebeillon against the radicals, @ peace, claimed by the French revolutionists in the reign of terror so raciiy described by a French poet, give you a free tran He comes to conquer The propagandists adopt the policy pro- will Jon of one coupiet:— 0, lovely age, when loving Senatora vote, Lot ua Le brethren, of we will cut your tiroat, If you will only join the robber clan they will be content, they will accept no securities from you for their own safety ex crimes. Will you accept the terma? (Loud and uni- versal cries of Never, never.") No, | know you will et your participation in their not. Houor forbids it, patriotism forbids it, liberty forbids it, your past glory, your present suiferi the future hopes of you aud your posterity, all, forbid ib—God forbids it. Bettor be whore the ensangnined Spartans atill aro free, Tn their own proud charnel. Therimopyiee. Fellow citizens of Georgia, this is not a party con- test. Hitherto in all party coniicts we all that the fundamental principles of the government— the constitution—was sacred, We ail felt that whether the one party or the other succeeded the country Was sa) . Corruption in either the Legisia- Executive or Judicial Departments was sup- iby none, was condemned and punished by Rach party knew and felt that the defeated tive, We bore the same burdens “nefits from the government. ‘an look without fear and ap> or defeat of the radl- cal faction, Their conduct has masked them asene- miles to society. I feel that toleration of them is treason to mankind. 1 Want the yore of every honest man in ‘ainst them, and afver diligently Mark my words, Iknow that honest say, You were Union men because you were attached to You opposed se- because you thought your rights and public the vid government than under an; that might come out of the of revolution. though I differed with can respect your opinions sincerely ent . If ‘ou stood by the old constitution because you loved its principles you must opj the radi for over- throwing them. Your plate is with the democratic party. ‘There are to be found men who Itke you op- posed secession and fought under the old and constitution who are to-day embodied to defend thein at the potls, who resist the radicals because they are trying to overthrow them and establish a military despotism, Come and stand with them, If you hate the secessionists then hate them still, If ‘ou hate me for beginning the struggle for liberty do t still, if you please, Make my name infamous for- ever if you can and will it; but save yourself, save liberty, save the constitution, save, oh, save your country! ‘There is another and still larger class of my coun- trymen who have co-operated with the radicals in the late election to a partial extent, who were called reconstructionists, Among them were Union men and secessionists, their present position having no relation to their antecedents. Atnong them I recog nize true, brave and honest men; men who detest the principles and practices of the radical faction ag much as any of us; men who earnestly and honest! seck relief from their despotism, ‘Tilese men vote for a constitution which they loathed, with men whom they despised, because they said and believed that they could better defeat their nefarious schemes in the Union than out of it. They were willing to ac- cep" their policy as the best means of overthrowing their principles, With all such I wholly differed, but I would grapple them to my bosom with hooks of steel. ‘They were patriots earnestly laboring for the com- mon cause, but | opposed them. I would “touch not, taste not, handle not the unclean thing.” They did evil that good might come, in my judgment, but 1 know how weak, how fallible we all are, Perhaps the result prove their wisdom and my folly, but whether good or evil shali befai us | honor their mo- tives and claim their brotherhood, To-day we have arrived at @ point where these diiferences of the past are buried, to-day we are together, therefore letevery honest reconstructionist give me ‘the right hand of fellowship.” (‘Tremendous cheering and wild entia- siasm in the audience.) Thank you gentlemen, 1 have not mistaken you, this is peace between us. ‘Tiere was another and still ore numerous class of our fellow citizens who were constrained agaist their free will to lend a seeming support to these vil- itias. That was the debtor class, ‘Ihousands of our best men were pecuniarily ruined by the result of the witr—men ol large estates, whose chiet weaith lay in their slaves, Many of them were not invoived in aebt at all inconvenient, taking their estates into the account, They heid large and valuable tracts of land and numerous slaves of great pecuniary value; their debts were small as compared with their estates; they were surrounded with all the comforts, the ele- gancies, the luxuries of life. The spoiler came, He robbed them of their slaves, their stock, their house- hold comforts, the very ornaments of their persons; desolated their flelds and left them with nothing but ther lands and their debts. In their desolation the tempter came, not in the shape of an enemy, but a8 an old and trusted friend, born in South Carolina, in Calhoun’s district, four times Governor of Georgia, and whispered in their ears, though we are demons we will be your saviours. ‘The negroes have no debts, no home, no principle, no statesmansiip, They care nothing for ‘their ob- ligations of contracts ” nor for the constitution wiich protects them. The Northern adventurers who have poisoned them never had credit enough anywhere to fear a constable. We who have joined them find that success will compensate us ior all losses. We offer you a new era. The past, especially past debts, shall die with the confederacy. fe are the brazen serpent—look upon us and live! It was thus the tempter came, There were equities ai the bottom which he neither saw nor Sap He saw only despair and poverty. e@ saw good and brave men who had stood by the right, by calamities which they did all in their power to avert, reduced to the last extremity of misery, dependant wives, children and friends around them; the creditors at the door threatening to turn thein out of their ancestral hulls, houseless and , homeless, with every sun setting upon a change, and every day dawhing upoa new miseries. in this condition Governor Brown promised them relief, They felt that there Was equity in equalizing losses as far a3 possible, ‘They felt that those who from accidents of war and thé nature of their property had escaped destruction should share something of the general ruin, They drew from nature the lesson thai, as society rightfully claimed of ali of its mem- bers “their lives and roperties, it was bound to give protection. They were help- tess because of the lost cause, and yielded, as they supposed, to the great law of seif-preservation. There was equity here—there was justice here. I pity and respect the tempted, but abhor and curse the temptor. Governor Brown knew that his crude and fraudulent scheme of relief was @ cheat and a swindie, He knew that the eonstitution of the United States stood like @ lion in fhe path of his project of delusion and folly; but he also knew it migat answer for one election, and he resolved to betray those whom he could not benetit, and joined in the shout of ‘Rah for Builock and reliet)? ‘The result Was that his friends in Congress, not unex- } «lly to him, struck out relief and left them Bul- lock aad negro supremacy, One would have throes ou I supposed that suci a man would then have hid his head in shame, Not at all, He issues @ ew address and promises his dupes that he will concoct new schemes for their re- lief and put men on the Supreme Court bench base enough to support them. ‘The express advensurer Joined in the fraud and he put him and one McCay wo do the dirty work, hoping that they might keep up the fraud and deception until after the Presiden- tial election. The utter treachery of Brown in this waole matter of relief is demonstrated by a single statement. He everywhere contended that the re- construction acts were valid; that the constitution had no force in Georgia; that under those acts the military government was the sole and lawful ruler of Georgia; that a single general order from Meade, adopting the constitution provision of relief, would hay: extinguished every debt embraced in the s0- cailed consutation. If he had wanted the relief he prevented, the remedy was in his hands, the order was not issued and the friends of relief were cheated. Now, my relief friends, why should you support the radicals’ Are you willing to be cheated again? Will you not rather trust the wisdom, the justice and the good faith of your fellow citizens *to the manner born’ who are common sufferers with you, who sympathize with ne and demand a wise and just system of relief which will protect poor and honest creditors as well as poor and honest debtors? You know that there are both classes, who have been uiade se by the fortunes of war. Come, join the party of honest and true men, who will do ail that cau be done for you and themselves, and “Be these juggling knaves no more believed Who faiter in a double sense, Who hold the word of promise to ear And break it to the hope.”* Iknow you will come. I see your indignant bo- soms heaving with vengeance against those who have tramicked in your misfortunes and mocked your calamities, Come, join those who have honest sympathy with your calamities and will make honest to relieve them. Brown offers you but one shelter from the ‘pitiless storm,” that is corrupt judges. He proposes to sell his conscience for votes. Trust him not even in his crimes; he has betrayed his natural and foster mother. “More bitter far than aserpent’s tooth ia to have a thankless child.’ He 1s false to nature. He went to Chicago. What more can | say to commend this wretch to your detestation? He has fatigued public indignation; it is no longer equal to his crimes. Ignobie villain, buoyant solely from corruption, he only rises as he rots, Fellow citizens, | aim wearied with this loathsome record of radical crimes. I have pulled off a few strips from the bark of this tic upas tree, I leave a Herculean task to my distinguished friends who are to follow me, to probe it to the heart and lay it bare to your detestation. To whom else shali | address myself? Not to the Democrats, for they do not even need the word “onward.” Not to the ladies, for they are already 80 far above the men that it I could lift them to @ highey circle in the re- gious of patriotism I should suow ourselves un- worthy of them. Ishalldo no such thing; we love them too well even to send them to Paradise, Our oid ancestor, Adam refused to stay in Paradise with- out Eve, He was areal manand no sham. He ac- cepted the curse of his Maker rather than forfeit the smiles of Eve, This was the first case of “all for Jove and the world weil lost.” Right nobly has his eeseendnats 2 all ages vindicated the tion of jain. Some men have acted well in the drama of life, many died for the truth, many have laid down their lives without flinching on the gallows and the block for liberty and law, mm more have fallen in the “imminent and deadly breach’? for the glory and safety of their “native heather,’ but it was a Car- thagenian woman, more herotc than Cato, the great enemy of her country, who, after @ three years’ siege, after Carthage was reduced from three hun- dred thousand to sixty thousand inhabitants, after the outer wall was battered down, after the inner ‘Wall was ruined, after the fires of the enemy were enveloping the last refuge of the besieged, afier the men had despaired and ratsed the white fag, who reproached her husband for his cowardice, siew her own children aud leaped into the dames of her burn- ing city. Men, uuiwate her courage, THE CAMPAIGN IN O10, ena Speech of Judge Allen G,. Thurman. Judge Thurman delivered a speech at a democratic meeting in Sandusky on the 7th lust., ia which he made the following reference to the NATIONAL BANKS. Put of all the contrivances to give one section of the country an advantage over the other the national bank system is the most cunningly devised ond the most effective. You know that this system was created by act of Congress, and to make way for it Congress taxed the State banks out of existence, Under the State bank system h State regulated for itself the amount of bank notes its banks should issue, regulating the amount of the wants of tts own people, But under this national bank system the federal government furnishes the notes to the banks organized under it, giving to each bank $90 in notes for every $100 in government bonds it deposits with the Treasurer of the United States, The consequence is that the section of the country that Lgids the most bonds can have the most banks, consequently {he most money, But, ae 1 have snown you, the Basten States hold by far the greatest number of the bonds, and what is the consequence? I will state tt from this oficial re- rt of the Comptrotier of the Currency which | hold iy my hand, transmitted by the Secretary of the ‘Treasury to the opening of its session last winter. In this rey ig @ table with this cap- tion:—'The following tabie will exhibit the number of coan Bete the amount of and circulation, ta each and Tormitory,”? ‘this table It ap- | Alabama, Misstssipp | the census of 1860, was3,i35.283; of the six pears that the six Nay England States have an | actual circulation of $14,800,629. ‘The six great Northwetern States—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wi and lowa—have an ac- 335. tual circulation of $43,; . st acco and rice States of ‘The six great cotton, the South—North Carolpa, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansgas—haye an actual. by prth- | of the six Southern States, ‘These elghteen States increase in population in very dierent ratios, thelincrease in the West and South being much greder than in New England, Making a proper allowdece for the increase since 1860, their present populgion is, in round numbers, about as follows:— The six New England St ++ 3,500,000 circulation of $2,256,125 ‘The population of thepix New England S$ at 4,944,572. ‘The six Northwestern 10,009,000 The six Southern States. 5,590,000 ttt beeeeee 19,000,000 From this tt appears tigt the national bank crcu. lation in the six New Engand States is at the rate of $29 80 for each man, wogan and child; in the six Northwestern Siates $4 $1; in the six Soutiern States forty-one cents. So the effect of she natpnal bank system is to give to the six New England States over six time, as much money per hea astt gives to the six Nor he Western States, and overseventy-two times as much as it gives to the six gre@ southern States, Or, if | you take the number of ters as tue basis of com- parison you will find thafit gives to each New Eng. land voter about $180, to eact Northwestern voter ou $29 and to each Southern voter less than you had your oyn bank system you regn- lated the amount of yr bank circulation your- selves, according to yourpwn necessities; but now if you need more mong than you have you must borrow of New England, ind all the interest you pay leaves the State and is anpther drain in addition to to those Thave before mentioned. Now I pat it to any man, “Should this (nequality exist’? You can- not get even with New Angiund by starting new na- tional banks, for the acts of Congress limit the aggre- gate amount of their cirjulation, and that limit has been already reached. fut the way to redress this wrong 1s plain. Compel the banks to withdraw their circulation and supply |ts place with greenbacks. There will then be the me amount of money in the country as now, bit you will have your fair share of it, As matte now stand you have no such chance, And whyshould not this be done? ‘The bank notes are no beter than greenbacks, for they are redeemable in| greenbacks. {f you pre- sentone of them to the bank for redemption the bank pays you not gold ror silver, but greenbacks, and the law compels you to take them. Then why not have the greenbacks ai once instead of the bank notes, and thus apt an a to the monstrous mo- nopoly that the tern States, and especially New England States, enjoy undjr the national bank sys- tem? No man can give a good reason why this should not be done, and were the bonds deposited by the banks to secure thdr circulation paid off in greenbacks, as they ought to be, you would save by that operation eighteen or twenty millions interest that you now pay every year upon these bonds. And the banks being compelled to withdraw their circulation its place could be supplied with green- backs, and thus an end te put to this outrageous inequality introduced by tifs Lationa! bank avstem. And, finally, if you then beeded State bauks you could have them and reguate their circulation ac- cording to your wauts. Letter from Robert T. Lincoln. CHICAGO, AUGUST 17, 1868, DEAR Str—Your letter of the 13th inst., enclosing @ slip from @ newspaper in which it is stated that T am “heartily for Seymour/’ &c., and requesting @ word from me on the subjegt, is received. You tell me that the report has been somewhat extensively circulated in the East. I had heard such a@rumor two days ago, bat _— it no attention, thinking it deserved none; put in reply to your letter T have to say that there is po truth whatever in the paragraph. Although not nyw taking an active part in the political campaign I feel sure that there is no one who more earnestly desires the success of Gen- eral Grant and the reoub.ican party than myself. You may make such use of thig note as you may deem proper. { am, sir, si trulf yours, OBERT T. LINCOLN, POLITICAL VOTES. What's become of Wendell ?hillips? A new democratic reading of an old line:—Ti radical motto—“We'll fight i out on this lyin’, if it takes all Sumner.” A democratic paper says Judge Jeremiah S. Black has entered the canvass in behatf of Se, Blair and made a telling speech at York, Pa., last week. A “tolling” speech would have been the bet- ter term, for many such would prove the death knell of any party. “We want peace,” said a newly married radical to his bride. “Wouldn't you prefer a kiss, my dear?’ she blushingiy replied. : : ‘The Raleigh Standard (radical) has an electioncer- ing article containing no less than fourteea para- graphs beginning “Bear it in mind.” Where there ‘are so many bears tn mind there certainly must be something bruin’. Some radicals attempted to rob the watermelon patch of the democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois, but the dogs got after them and they speedily vamosed, Was tis a second edition of the expul- sion from the garden of Eden? A North Carolina paper heads a political column “North Carolina in a Nutshell.” That is nothing strange, for North Carolina, as well as many other Southern States, has long been famous: for its Ker- nels, and some of them have been pretty hard nuts, too. The democrats and conservatives of the First North Carolina Congressional district met in Plymouth on the Sth instant, and David A. Barnes, lately one of the judges of the Superior Court, was nominated as their candidate for Congress, Zid Joiner, a colored man, of Nash, N. C., gives notice of a@ colored democratic barbacue at Spring Hope, in that county, in October. Go ahead, Zid! ‘The spirit of North Carolina applejack answers, “I’se @ gwine, mas’r.”” Base ball matches are fast becoming the crack thing in some parts of the South, There has been 80 much base bawling of a certain kind in that sec- tion lately that a change cannot help being for the better. Governor Bullock, of Georgia, has decided that legislation is necessary to legalize elections in that State the present year for the next (Forty-tirst) Con- gress. The Georgia democrats are in great tribulation about an intelligent colored individual named All-fired Algernon Algesiras Bradley. Better put him at the head of @ first class restaurant, @ la Downing, and thereby shut up his mouth for all time. The Raleigh Standard heads a radical meet- ing “Grant and Colfax in Pitt,” whereupon the Wilmington Star quaintly avers that they will find themselves about the ist of November in a pit so deep, politically, that ‘the hand of resurrection will never reach them.” The Wilmington (N. C.) Star states that after a re- cent political gathering four young men and one iady were baptized in the Neuse, In the Northmen and women generally go into the noose singly; but there is no knowing what may not be done these high old political times in the Old North State, ‘The health of Governor Worth, of North Carolina, is improving. The South cannot afford to lose any men of any worth in these troublous times, The Washington Chronicle “pauses to drop & sym- Pathetic tear for Solicitor Binckiey.’’ The recent in- vestigation has therefore resulted in one good thing— it has caused the C/uwonicle to pause a moment in ite mad radical career. President Johnson ts reported to be again consult. ing spirits in the White House—a Boston medium having recently been handed in, This matter of “consulting spirits’ bas unfortunately been too often the practice of some of our prominent men, A snake has been found in a watermelon out West. What was found in Horatio Seymour's mammoth melon? Perhaps you could see-seed | It is stated that Hoffman had a magnificent recep- tion in Buffalo, Did anybody stuff his hat? ‘The Pennsylvania Democratic Executive Committee have published an addres# spattered all over with “Whys!? Will they be changed to whines in Novem- ber? . POLITICAL DISTURBANCE IN-NEW HAVEN, CONN, Attack Upon a Procession of Boys in Blue. From the New Haven Journal (radtcal) Sept. 10.) st evening, soon afver seven o’ctock, the first company of the Boys in Blue of this city moved frow their headquarters, and eee in procession tothe number of about one hundred, proceeded in peaceable march, headed by a drum corps through Grand street on their way to Fair H tend a meeting at Hemingway's Hall, on the east side, where @ company of Boys in Blue was to be organized, Upon reaching live street they were received with hootings, groans and furt- ous yells by a crowd of democratic roughs, who Attacked the rear of the column and wrenched the torches from some of the company. They pur- Sued their march till near the Catholic church, when @ terrible onset was made on the proces. sion, and brickbats, stones and other missiles were huried furiousiy into the peaceable and inotiensive procession. Several were immediately knocked senseless, and the whole column was thrown into confuswn: the torebes were wrested from the hands of many of the men. and & fee | of violence bloodshed was inaugal Hart, near whose residence the worst of the was made, appeared promptly on the aod bis snenence and authority to quiet confusiog and calm the angry mob, He was partially succesge ful, and about fiity of the Boys in Blue to get out of the méiée and reach Fair Haven, We are Unable to state the entire casualties, but so far ap we have learned they are these:— William Bradbury, Jr., of 452 State street, was bya sone 809 lus head was cut open, making ugly woun George Gray, son of William Gray, No. 15 Gilber® street, received a compound fracture of the skull from @ brickbat, and was, it is feared, fatatly injureds He was taken hoine inscnsible. An elderly man, name not ascertained, was struc by a missile, or weapon of sume kind, and received a severe cut on the head, J. Peck, @ young iman, was also struck and hig hand split open, A youth, name unknown at present writing, Wap struck on the left jaw. which was badly broken, Many otuers rece.ved less serious injuries. Toat the attack was entirely unprovoked is, W8 believe, undeniable; that it was premeditated pears to be proven {roi the tact that man” of the missiles were thrown, a8 We are credibly informed, from the windows of houses along the line of march. and especially at the scene of the flercest atiack, ‘The portion of the company that reached False Haven pluckily returned by che same route at elevea: o’clock las! even'ng and were not molested. Halt» in, in front of (his office they gave us three cheers, which courtesy we proudly acknowledge. THE ASHBURY PRISONERS, Report of Genenal Meade on the Trea® ment of Prisoners Charged With the Marder of Ashburn, In Columbus, Gaw Inhuman Treatment Admitted, Bit the National Intelligencer, September 10.} jajor General Meade has made a report of his a tion and that of the military oficers under him ta the matter of the arrest and manuer of treatment prisoners charged with complicity in the murder Ashburn, in Columbus, Ga., who was killed Ip @ brothel on the 30th day of March, c It will be recollected that some of the parties tht arrested have published a statement of the crueltie! and inhuman treatment they were subjected to wnil under arrest, and that Reed, one of the detectiv employed by General Meade and General Grant “work up the case” has also recently made an affle davit to the facts, which show that certain parsons* among the prisoners were subjected to barbarous treatment under authority claimed to have been fer ceived from the military commander, A ‘As a vindication of himself against these allegie tions General Meade has asked and received aus thority to publish an account of his doings. It apy pears that the murder of Ashburn, who had been @ Inember of the Georgia Constitutional Convention, caused a great deal of exciiement, which ultimat assumed the form of a political controversy. It wi charged that General Meade and some of bis subory dinates entered into the pursuit and trial of the leged murderers in part for the gratification of p: sans and to make political capital. : The report, including exhibits, is quite vol nous, but the great bulk of it is made up of coptes orders for arrest and returns of oilicers thereon, ~ ‘The report shows that the civil authorities at lumbus had undertaken to ferret out and bring to trial the persons tiat killed Ashburn, and that the military commander, whose headquarters were that place, at tirst commended the action of the ci) oiticers, but afterwards recommended that the tary take the case in hand. Thereupon Major eral Meade ordered a military commission to such parties as might be arrested and charged the crime. A number of arrests were made, upon the sny tion of various parties, but especiaily upon the di rection of two detectives, Whiteley and kKeed, wha were employed by the advice of General Grant, and at the request of General Meade. | ‘The oMicer in charge of Fort Pulaski certifies, offf cially, that these detectives ‘came to the fort with the prisoners in charge, with orders to have sole control of them; consequently I assum no authority, except to keep them secure- ly.” To aiscover whether two colored are | Wells and Stapiar, were ih possession 0! information material to the case, the oicer says “the detectives thought proper to operate somewhat: upon their feeiings.”” This operating upon the feel- ings consisted 1m lathering their heads, preparatory to shaving them; blinfolding tife prisoners and place ing them in @ caseinate of the fort; there the band- age was taken oif and before the prisoners’ vi there stood a soldier ready to fire off a cannon whic! was pointed at the accused. While these threaten< ing operations were going on the detectives endeavored to force the prisoners to make some disclosures about the murder, but in vain, for protested they knew pong the Rilling. Th were then placed in “sweat boxes,” descrived as closet in the walls of the fort a little wider than prisoner's body, the door closing within three of his breast, and the only air admitted being tl a few auger holes in the door. Here they were in the belief that they were to be kept there days, unless sooner they should disclose important cts. They were allowed to remain here thirty hours, during which time they were nearly sufig: cated, and again questioned, but with no success 4 it is shown, also, that’ none of the arrested—some twenty odd—were permitted to cone sult counsel or converse with anybody, and tha tcy were thrown into and incarcerated within the prisons indiscriminately, The prisoners, who wi confined for a long time and rwards alec without trial, describe their cells as being some by seven feet; others two feet ten inches wide, dar] and no ventilation; that they had bad food, &c. f Upon the matter of the size of cells the report ing, cludes a letter of one of the prisoners to the tary ofiicer in charge, setting forth that cella been reduced from six to two feet; that they scarcely breathe in them, &c., &c. This letter, wit others of like character, was forwarded to the Ooms manding General, who shortly after gave instruc» tions that “if these prisoners will give bonds no§ to attempt to pee or to hold intercourse with any persons but such as are authorized by the come mander of the sub-district of Georgta, the prisoners: can be removed to the officers’ quarters and be made as comfortable as is consistent with their being under proper surveillance.” eke Another charge of the released prisoners is thal they were arrested without affidavit, or warrant, o charge, and were not permitted to confer with coun sel or friends, a The report upon this point shows that in the instance, and for some days, the order was that th prisoners be not permitted to converse with any per- son whatever, but that at a later period they wap, ailowed to confer with eounsel. * The report shows, further, that after the had been made—namely, on the 30th of June See atebarition ecg Wamaang — Secor retary of War that upon lea’ n he wi of opinion that civil prisoners might and should turned over to the civil authorities upon the sion of the State; but the developments of the burn murder case has led this opinton, and thinks that all military commissions pending wh ba wo is fps ge pacar ed out by mi author and asks — ty matter. - a ‘our days prior to the foregoing commun! namely, 26th of June, General Meade sent to the retary of War the following communication:—. “I deem it of the utmost importrnce, not onl: the ends of justice, but for my personal vindicati that the Ashburn murderers should be tried by tary commission, and I have accor ly ord the trial for Monday next. Before going North retained ex-Governor Joseph Brown as coun forthe government. Ideem his services of importance, not only for his legal for the influence his position in the State w: —~ proseontion. He bas tocar, acti ui absence, bu on my asking What is fee would be he replied $3,000, "1 x did not feel authorized to pay such an amount the sanction of superior authority. He expres his willingness to withdraw and not to comm any information he had obtained.” o General Meade then advises the employment Governor Brown, 1n view of the importance of case and the fear that defendants would hire h and concludes by saying the evidence ts of the tho positive kind aid leaves no ground to doubt the conviction of the principal acters. © x_n eeine dN MILITARY NOTES, The Tenth Connecticut Volunteers will hold thelr nual reunion cn the 23d instant, The occasion prot ises to be very interesting and one worthy the bi men who bore their colors 80 gallantly dtring late war, The regiment will assemble at Savin RO House in the evening to discuss old army matters and partake of a dinner, awa’ The Fifty-sixth Brooklyn regiment, National Colonel J. Q. Adams, went on an excursion to Gl Cove yesterday in the steamer George Washingtot The men did not carry their muskets, wearing 0} their waist bells, and were, consequently, prep: to Sod the pleasures of the dance to weir conteut. It appears that a good deal of ill feeling exist company G, of the kighth regiment, National Gu: State of New York, tu consequence of the action the Colonel in reducing birst Sergeant Hore to ranks, Sergeant Hore complains that he was duced for writing @ letter to Colonel Oarr asking his Warrant as non-commissioned officer, which Cot tained some uncalled-for reflections on officers in the examining board, although he sul mitted it to his captain and first lieutenant, who ape proved of it and consented to its transmittal. Colonel Basserman’s regiment of Connecticut mith tia are in camp at New Hayen. ‘Phe military exercisea thus far have been very iateresting, aad will no doubt prove of great value to the regiment. Frid Will be the great day, aud if the weatner is fine tho sands of people will be present to witness the mage q@uvres, Companies C and D, Bighth regiment N. G. 8. % Y., were drilled last night at their armory, ov Centre Market. The former company was instructs ed in squad drill aud the latter in the maaual 9} arms. Both companies at careful training. 0 The State militia of New Hampsuire were brigad and put into camp at Concord on the 8th inst. Th brigade consists of the First regiment, Colonel Wms H. Maxwell, with a light battery attached; the Second regiment, Colonel 0. W, Kollins, and the Second light battery, commanded by Captain P, Davis. The vrigade furnishes ite own rations, grand review took place on Wednesday, at whid he So are of New Hampshire and the Adjutan' cone of (ay by were present, ‘Ihe encampmen comman 2 Canmore y | S, Paerpone