The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1872, Page 4

4 NEW ORLEANS, The Threatened Conflict Between State and Federal Power. Warmoth the Prince of Car- pet-Baggers. Graphic Picture of the Situation by Our Special Correspondent. THE ISSUE OF BECONSTRUCTION. ‘Warmoth the Pizarro of the South and Autocrat of Louisiana. NORTHERN SCALLAWAGS IN CLOVER. \A' Terrible Story of Robbery, Outrage and Wrong. Ss DINo Public Spirit or Hon- zy esty Anywhere. \A Second Class Carpet-Bagger with ‘ His Backbone in His Legs. ‘ OLLECTOR CASEY AND HIS GANG. Frisky, Pert and Learned * Quadroons as Legislators. Apathy and Indolence of the \ Native Whites. The Turning Point in the Career : of Warmoth Arrived. Yrears of Riot and Bloodshed in New ; Orleans and a Coup d’Etat. ‘Wnpleasant Predicament of Army Officers. New ORLEANS, Dec. 1, 1872. In almost every Southern State there is some one question of such prevailing moment that the |politics of the State is of vastly more consequence ‘than its relation to the nation. In Virginia there is the grea! question as to what part of the enormous State debt must be borne by Avest Virginia. confronted with repudiation under different forms, mnd in Georgia a portion of the extravagant out- Jay of Bullock and Kimball has been already re- fused credit. Fiorida is possessed by the shab- Diest of the carpet-baggers; and Wnited States Senate does not contain two men so generally useless as old Mr. Gilbert—who is a New (Tork merchant, reposing there upon his honors— Bad Osborne, the ‘active Senator,” whom nobody ever accused of having any public cares on his puind. Osborne is just now racing up people rough the State under the terrors of the En- jorcement act. In Alabama, which is the most Vanier of the States where the carpet-baggers have prevailed, there isa grave question of two Jegialatures refusing to afiliate, while the body ‘which the Governor calls illegal is master of the Capitol edifice. In Arkansas two men claim to be Covernor elect, Brooks by the original oMicial ac- count and Baxter according to some patchwork made subsequent to the receipt of the returns, But in Louisiana a condition of things prevails which really threatens to lead to such terrible hos- Ailities as to turn the attention of the country at Yast to the anomalous and utterly indefensible condition of many of these reconstructed States. THE SITUATION IN LOUISIANA. Ihave spent some days in Louisiana, and have ‘had the company of some of its most eminent cit- Iwens, both on my way into the State and for weveral days since. I had interviews with the Goy- ernor, Governor-clect, Mayor, Congressman at Large and many of the !awyers and politicians, Go- Ing to the South in the interest of its people as ‘well as of the country at large, and endeavoring to forget all the political past, 1 think lam able to form some estimate of what exists in Louisiana, Blthough I can propose no remedy. Louisiana possesses the richest city of the South, nnd, being the seat of cultivation o! all three great Kouthero staples—cotion, sugar and rice—was early set upon by the carpet-vaggers as affording the easiest and best spoil. It possessed a flexible pnd, at the same time, an untutorable population, composed of French, generally of low descent, of pome Spanish, some Mexicans and nearly ali the forms of Saxons of commingled blood, so that many of the mulattoes were nearly white and had sharp jacutties, with a general worthlessness of character underneath, It is said, and with a@ cer- fuin degree of truth, that Lovisia as THE ABLEST BODTES OF NEGROES, Intellectually, to be found in the South, put it may also be said that these negroes, from their adul- terous origin aud mixture of African, Saxon bloods, constitute the most w y and un- reliable population in the Southern States. The South Carolinian negro is, g rally speaking, a big fleld hand, belonging to the Baptist or Metho- dist Church, and there are some ascertainable traits of character about him; but the frisky, pert and even learned Louisianian, quadroon or octo- roon, contains within himself the faculties of a politician and the insincerity of a Mexican. LOUISIANA’S CARPET-BAGGERS. It may be from this superiority of the yellow population in Louisiana that the high type of carpet-baggers were deterred from entering the btate, and instead of these a set of inferior ones, with merely business qualities, stepped ahead and took charge of reconstruction. Many of the South- ern carpet-baggers are mere boys, and in Lonisiona the boy element predominates. Warmoth, who hag attracted more attention than any carpet- Dagger in the South, is only thirty years old; and Bheridan, who has filled the most important omice | tn all the South, so far as its revenues are con- cerned, {8 about thirty-two, The latter is now Congressman at Large, according to Warmoth's ac- fount, ‘These carpet-baggers are about half-and- Ball in origin, many being Western men, and pearly as many Eastern men. 1 may better relate the story of these adventurers after I lave out- Lined the story of New Oricans, which is also the story of Louisiana after the federals occupied it, 1! TH STORY OF NEW ORLEANS UNDER BUTLER, Ben Butler was the first military commander of Wew Orleans, and while many dishonest things were done in his period at the game time repose, wigwor and security were the characteristics of But- ers administration, It was impossible to have jaith in Butler's general character, vecause tt was iways (oo brilliant, piquant and surprising to im. reas Pecple ag the sincere Leliavior ofa NEW }'¥YORK ‘HERALD, SATU en4a high-minded man. Butler had a fine sort of despotic justice in muck that be did, and while, he bung @ gambier—anot 9 much for tearing down the American fag as for lying about it, saying that he did it, and gaining & sort “of police notoriety in the act—he gis0 mado the violent merchants of the city feed their own people, whom they had betrayed into the war, and be pool-poohed with a splendid want of ceremony the loreign Con- suts who were glutting themselves and their coua- trymen upon the common misfortunes of North and South, Many Southern men in New Orleana will tell you to-day that though Batier might have been a rascal, still he was a success. GENERAL BANKS’ ADMINISTRATION. After Butler came the smooth, diguified and polished General Banks, a man without evil in his nature or atrength in his purpose, Banks endeav- ored to restore civil order and citizen loyalty to Lonistana by good treatment, but ‘ho felt into the not understand the principles of freedom aor adopt even a business patriotism for the sake of their own prosperity. During his time the oMcers of the army and navy became generally demoralized and cotton stealing undertaid most of the military, campaigns emanating (rom New Orleans, Cotton, which had been declared to be king, got to be THK KING CORRUPTER OF REBEL AND FEDERAL. Bankers and business men, generals, and some Say even admirals, projected vast campaigns for no other purpose than to pick up cotton and acquire fortunes. The era of cerruption here, which remains to thia day, began ta the weakness of Banks’ administration. It may be said with truthtuiness that Diogenes, with his lamp, could, now scarcely discover an honest man in New Or- leans of any influence, so far as politics goes. Not even South Carolina affords so vast @ ee ot promiscuous bribery and corruption a8 the South- ero metropolis, But, alter our late experience in New York city, perhaps, we have uo right to reproach the Cresent City. ‘THE BEGINNING OF WoRSR. Banks endeavored to organize. civil government in’ Louisiana under Michael Hahn as Governor. Hahn was a man of simple origin, unimposing manners and a cheap grade of mind. He was auc- ceeded by Madison Wells, whom General Sheridan. removed to make way for Joshua Baker as ruler of the State. The reconstruction acts of Congress went into operation untimely here as throughout the South, and the contest took place within the republican party for the domination of the Stato, Ail the prospects seemed to be in tavor of F. E, Dumas, a rich creole, of negro biood, Who had been superbly educated and was richand ambitions. Ho spent a great deal of money, according to common report, and, had the negroes ralited to his bong ely he would have been nominated in the radical Con- vention. But a small conclave of northern men, working with desperate energy —as only the North- ern carpet-bagger can work—had resolved upon making HENRY 0. WARMOTH GOVERNOR, This conclave was chiely composed of War- moth himself, M. A. Southworth and J. 1. Sypher, Southworth was a man trom New York State, of business experience, with a precise, heavy mind and power, and with those reserve forces and re- sources which secure success after more brilliant, men have exhausted themselves. Underneath all, he is generally believed to have been periectly un- scrupulous and to have set up Warmoth asa figure- head while he should be the organizing man behind the throne, taking the profits and dispensing the honors, This man has been to Louisiana what Kimball was to Georgia, Litticfield and Swepson to North Carolina, and the State Treasurer to South Carolina. He is now in apparent retirement. Sypher was a Pennsylvania oficer in the federal army, with fair capacity a3 a public speaker, some courage and a good deal of commercial and political vigor. These three men put their time, money, slecp, promises and everything into the work of carryiny the State uuder reconstruction, and they bea’ Dumas aiter a terrible fight, and with Warmoth as their candidate, swept Louisiana agaiast Tallia- ferro, THE LOUISIANA PIZARRO, Warmoth was a sort of Pizarro, equally obsoure in origin, audacious in action and successful in conclusions. He was a Western boy, with some business habits and love of money, acquired in doing the menial work of a printing office, but his aspirations were abdve the common, and we find him at the side of General McCiernand when the war began, learning politics from that evorlast- ing politician whom Grant numbered with his other conquests at Vicksburg. McClernand was forever talking politics to the soldiers and arranging the democratic party for an easy domi- nation at the close of the war, and Warmoth has North Carolina and Georgia are | perhaps the | Latin and «the reputation of having helped him out by writing some Of his despatches and letters and fully sbar- | ing all his designs of supremacy. Warmoth ob- tained an office in New Orleans, where he used thrift and consulted with everybody, so as to ascer- tain the situation, and about the time he went into reconstruction politics he had put by @ great deal more money than people ordinarily make by hon- est means With the same chances. There was a | freshness, vigor and stature about the fellow which gave him soine ascendency in vulgar minds, PICTURE OF THE Hux KITE. To look upon he is very tall, long-legged and straight, with broad shoulders and a shallow chest, and on his long neck he wi which keeps him rather stiMy receives some ornament from a remarkably long and pretty mustache, which comes down over his lean chops, while his eye is like @ portent, iull of a | sort of sallow light, and he understands its power and makes ft fame out on smatt occasions, to the great terror ofthe old rebels, who think that when he gives it a dramatic fash vengeance is imme- | diately about to come to the front. Few things | show the stupidity of the average Southerner in | Matters of common sense more than this super- stitious consideration for Warmoth’s eye- flashing. [ have been in the man's presence two or three times, aud I admitted that he was a magnetic tyrant, pert and audacious | young man; but as to any depths of character which le may have, they seemed to me to exist no more than in some of your New York ward politicians, who were great people during the reign of Tweed and mere gutter snipes after Tweed tumbled, THE REALLY ABLE QUALITY IN WARMOTA | is his money-saving propensity, which alone gives | him contidence, like a fortification, and a sense of | Worldly security which the merely penniless ad- | Yenturer could bever know. Through all the mu | tions, adventures and escapadcs of his administra. tion he has held fast to the great governing princi. ple of thrift; and ajthough be loves a fine-looking Wwomau, no matter whose property she may be, he has been seldom known to sacrifice his savings for either his pleasures or his ambition. When Warmoth had carried the State Southworth stood behind him and fixed up the Legislature to have the Jaws ina judiciOus condition for money- making. Mr. Sypher, who bad no inclination that Way, got elected to Congress, where he has been a very resper le member, and in Louisiana he has some jand and raises crops, THE Under warmoth ‘3 government two things have grown from little beginnings to be the rule; the Legislature has been made thoroughly corrupt—so much so that the great business of life iu Louisiana is to be elected to a seat tn that infamous body, and at the last election there were above one thousand candidates tor the position, | Again, the utterly unsecrupnions political char- acter of Warmoth has been shown in the fact that he fies from prit and from party to party, y y other disposition than to retain his supremacy. At the present time he is playing the desperate game of fighting the Courts of bis own State, the Courts of the United States, the administration at Washington, and risking the possibilities of a ter- ribie riot in order to make one step turther and descend irom his reckless enjoyment of power to be a dignified Senator of the United States for six years. 1) Louisiana could get rid of the man by paying this penalty she would at least have dis. pensed with one extraordivary nuisance, THE CHARACTER OF WARMOTH. Warmoth has been shown in the Courts of Louis- a—if one cared to go 80 far to find out what is so jpable—to be a man interested tn all sorts of legislato-commercial operations, and a thorough error of reposing trust in a type of men who could, convert to the modern principle of making Legisia- | tures vote out profitable projects by corrupting them. The newspaper press has been made the mere vehicle to delend his designs and share with | him in the plunder of tne public. His patronage has been enormous, and at one time incladed the Custom House as well as the State offices, the police, and even the laboring forces. According to general rumor and belief, he las fatien into the babit of making a public officer write out a resignation and give it to bim before the said oMlcer can take his place. one of the Senators of the Cnited States; for War- Moth's supposition is that a man who would buy the honor in that Way Would be a little too vain to This is averred as to | have the fact come out tvat he had resigned before | he was appointed. There rent about him in Louis ‘e many anedotes cur- na, most of which are untrue, but they always meet with a laugh, which | shows that the spirit of the story is adn is stated, for instance, that when the & of Russia came to New Orleans he said “Governor, they tell me you have as m } as my father. “Your father? Hell! said Warmoi to the tale, “your father’s power ts no: | stance to mine," THE SHOE PINCHES HERE, Warmoth was placed in power by military an Ity before bis term had properly begun, and aft had occupied it some tine the great riot broke a in New Orieans, where about Gfty people, nearly negroes, were kil by the mob. Tne radical Legislature determined to stop this sort of thing by giving vast execative and repressory power to | the Chief Magistrate, and they made him by law the tyrant that he is, They gave him power to | make vacancies by removal and to fill them by his will, They also gave him power to select regisirars of election, and mow that he is using their own constitution tu their pr dice they cry loudly to the people and government o' | the United States to come to their help, wher itted. It nd Duke power half of these miserable scamps intended the same inju r their former oppressors. Warmoth is e man than he oaturafiy would have son of these mighty opportunities, which would tempt body, and eapectatly & HO powera conferred c | | | Him in the most audactous and ext manner. It ta quetaionable whether he and his friends lave not even used the power of tife and death. TH OND ORDERS 1, 1 was told a story Of one felfow who had resolved to kilt the Governor, but the dgttanis friends kept watch over him, and before he could carry out tua he ‘drew @ weapon upon 4some- body else, and was immediately shot dead Srieans, "this map,, OY general siiniaaion,” I rieans, m Ti , per etly spas of it, andthe same is expected occur. has audacity a8 a upon man practises bluff at poker, and it has so uniform. ly succeeded that he does not understand the limit of human success, en ad been given the power of registration he selected for the majority Of hia registrare A SEY OF DESPERATE FELLOWS, of whom one Sloancker was a specimen. This ‘sloancker bad been a police telegraph operator at eiphia, and came to New Orleans pretty broken up. Warmoth appointed him @ Roptalrar and he immediately went to work to refurn himser to tne “stave | Senate. | in- deed, @ num! of Warmoth's registrara entet themselves dircetiy Into the Loginavute of the State, and there they have continued to feed and fatten ever since and spread the contagion of thelr ‘rapacious natures among the habitants, or 8, hegroes and all other hali-breeda aud cay- pet-baggers assembled in that body. THE DKBY OF THE STATR and city sonetner amounts to about fity million doliars, @ in New Orteans, by a refinement of cruelty, property is assessed even beyond its vuiue, beCause the asscasor gets his pay in proportion to the amount he assesses, Hence, $6.0n $100 is the tax, and taxes are higher in many cases than rentsin that city. Whatever the ground can pro- duce or the river bring or bear away is levied upon by the cormorants who have gained Louisiana in the name of freedom and debauched the entire pew elements of voters there. Most of tue offices are occupied by A FILTHY-LOOKING SKT OF SHOULDER-HITTERI and fortune seekers—imcou Of no socialinclinations— and ‘almost every Court contains the negro and the white sitting together in ill-conceated contempt of each other, adininistering justice upon persous scarcely worse than themselves, When sume for- tunate wight gets a fat thing he is tevied upon by the administration and made to disgorge tie portion of his filchings. One of the men connected with Warmoth’s former politioal organ suid to me :— “Our paper hag been charged with making a vast amount of money out of the oMcial printing, &c, That amount was over-estimated. We did over $150,000 nominatly, but for that we were obliged to take State scrip worth only dlty cents on the dol- far.’" In all the Southern States, a8 in Louisiana, county aud State BcrlR are manipulated against the real producing citizen, 80 that the politician and his iriend can pay their taxes in scrip while the 8 Cannot get the scrip to pay their taxcs with must put their hands in their purses. JOBBERY UNDER THE RULE OF RECONSTRUCTION. It would be unnecessary, considering the value of your space, for me to enumerate the sort of jobs wich have been studied out, conceived and per- petrated upon the common public under this hor- rible rule of reconstruction in Louisiana. The business of mending the levees alone has been a diabolical scheme of rapacity. A slaughter house owned by a private company has been set up near the city and a franchise given to it to control all the butchers in New Orleans, and this has brought stly lawsuit between the butchers and the hag actually got to be argued beiore the United States Supreme Court, under the fourteenth amendment, on the ground that this sort of corpo- ration abridges the privileges of citizens, ‘THE EVIL OF THE THING. T have no desire to be unjust to Mr. Warmoth or to his enemies, but the trouble with the South bas uniformly been that no Northern man went there to understand it, bat mainly to carp upon the wretchedness of the country or to do or get some- thing for his own advantage. The mistake, in a social point of view, about what 18 called carpet- baggery is this—that none but unworthy men would attempt, under the conditions of society in the South, to usurp the great offices there, a3 strangers, while educated citizens of the South who should have seen the inevitable and under- atood it for the sake of their people, lay back in ap- athy and even abet these unworthy invaders, in order to make reconstruction a scandal and secure the old condition Genatet whe: a oy, nee nog ong hero, jis Gengrals who cold march coolly wise b ates llcke chumps arcotten the alpen, diaries of the carpet-baggers or of the more miser- able carpers aud cayillers at all that is and is to be in the ‘Southern country. Nothing would have pleased Northerners 80 muck as to see the better men of the South sincerely at work in their ownin- terests, and if these States are now eit aad mortified and indignant, it is pecause we have sent out of the North some of our meancat spect- mens to rule the South, and the Southern public men have not neutralized them with honest and manly endeavors to meet the situation and save their commonweaiths, Horace Greeley now lies in bis grave a martyr to the beliefin an ideal South—something worthy for a man to lose his ia- Nuence for if he coutd have saved it. WARMOTH'S LAST CARD. Mr. Warmoth, of Louisiana, is almost without excuse in one respect. He was a Governor betore he had attained the age of thirty, unmarried, and he could at Jeast have lived gach a lite as would have saved him irom mere street scandal. He is still unmarried, utterly consumed with his ambi- tious projects, perfectly in love with his own character, risiny now to heights of elation which are as unlovely as the infrequent periods whcn he has been known to see his weak- ness and to shed tears in the presence of strangers, He has considerable property and is independent of the world, and is playing, with diminishing chances, his deaperate gaine; and, surrounded by refuse people who carry pistols and by the lowest classes of the original south, with a tew imported scoundrels to bear them out, he expects, if over- thrown by the Courts, to shock the Norta with a personal coilision, which it is one of the purposes ot this letter to anticipate for the sake of a thou- sand human lives, each one of which is perhaps more entitled to be saved than his own. have been unsparing in my treatment of Governor Warmoth and his party I do not mean to be any niilder in dealing with what is called THR CUSTOM HOUSE WING of the republican party in Louisiana. The weak- ness of their position lies in General Grant, who has appointed a weak, showy and good-natured brother-in-law to be Collector of the port of New Orleans, the best office in the South, and this man clouds the vision of the Executive upon Louisiana affairs and gives atone of supremacy to the Cus- tom House party out of proportion with its real in- fluence with the President. _ Under a former col- lector, Warmoth had the run of the Custom House, and an order from him would secure one’s dismis- Under the ment dynasty the Custom House has attempted to rule ihe offices of the State of Louisiana, and thus begun @ contest between an unscrupulous Governor and an impertinent set of United States officers, which the great bulk of the American people take no interest in, It is a scandal that the Custem House in any seaport should face about from its legal employment to trouble the interior and seek torule the ‘State. Moreover, these Custom House chaps are carpet-baggers just a8 much as Warmoth and his crew, and, in fact, Warmoth represents at the present time ten whites of Louisiana to one for whom the Custom House is representative. MR. CASEY, COLLECTOR OF THE PORT. sal or appointment, of New Orleans, is of no possible account in any | discussion of the situation except that, like all weak people, lie meddles about and fusses around and gets in the way and makes apparent compli- cations where none exist. A tourist going through the South almost wishes that Congress would create a set of offices in some distant place espe- cially for the President’s relations, so that they might be well taken care of and do nobody else any harm. The real master of the Custom House party is & B. PACKARD. He is a large, mutish, billious man, who instigated and leads the fight on Warmoth on behalf of the Custom House, which the peopie of Louisiana to be fightin; under a jeadership own, This fellow used the great unsightly Custom House building as the place to carry out a coup d'état by convening the Republican Convention to meet there and then Alling the building with police and ruManly mar- shals and holding the doors of the Convention closed until such an organization could be made as would beat Warmoth in his party. The public mind ali over the country saw the inconsistency and indelicacy of the Custom House and the Mar- shal undertaking to do this sort of thing, and, from that day to this, many of the better people of Lou- isiana have had an unnatural sympathy with their tyrant instead of with the unauthorized people who attempted to replace him. THE SURVEYOR OF THE PORT, Charies Dillingbam is the son of an old Governor of Vermont and the brother-in-law of United States Senator Carpenter, and he also is a weak blunderbuss, as el to go of at one end as the other, and more likely to burst. 3. A. Stockdal Collector of Internal Revenue at New Orleans, is aiso President of the National Republican Printin, | the society's affairs, having gone to reside in Eng- | land—Mr. Prince will hereafter act in his place; Company, a company which has attempted to start | anew money-making oficial paper against War- moth. While Packard is the ablest of these men in gth of character and resources the whole of them may be said to be a set of drivelling igno- ramuses, and their feebleness gives a certain im- ortance to the superficial splendor of young ‘armoth, so that many boys and young people going by Insensibly sympathize with the lad. Be- | tween the two ci Southern armics, GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET, whom Jefferson Dayis believed to be the ablest r he had, goes in a vacillating way, by the side of Warmoth, now yonder assisting Packard; and, on the whole, there pre- vals awful spectacle of the general want of qualifications in an average Southern imps the great held marshat of the rT. tom House clique put up against War- ‘the moth’s candidate a person by the name of Kel- loge, Iinois carpet-bagger, who has been occu- vying an obscure position in the United States Sen- ate for several years past. This man ts & sort of compromise between a cross-roads trader and a country lawyer, with Weakness of purpose thrown in to give him some identity. His backbone, if it ties anywhere, isin hia legs, ani neither courage of a moral physical character, 30 jar Under Warmoth's inery he has been declared beaten for Gover- nor of the State, and he uow resumes the fight in the United States Courts, whic Warmoth nas been Airing OW the whole quiver of Nis State authority to ak up the ition, aud the contest would be amusing One were it aot for the iact that it ecm iy lewd divecty t @ collision where any- _—_—_—_—_— body may pertah but the wretched projectors of this stupid business. This, letter, is already #0 long that letter 13 al 90 long can only say that ‘aver Ki hcretin Bhy War- ‘na, had been ‘ed defeated tor controversy arose aa to 5 a thy rt tae, nit id —s named three persongas returning officers, and two of these were ‘ais nanfied Deodtibe they had been candidates inthe election, Ope of the pomaining: officers was the Secretary of State, and Warmot! used his despotic power to remove this man as Secretary of State and appoint another man, who thus became a memberof the Returning Board. SUMMARX PROCEEDING IN COURT, The rome wee ele A falda used a law e pi ture, which he bad not, up to this time, signed, to get rid of the State Judges, who bothered him abont the returns, The Old Judge endeavored to take nis seat upon the bench, when about two hun- drea of Warmoth’s rougha k him up and chucked him over the heads of the crowd into the street, and the new Judges immediately began to deal out such juatice a3 was possible in such a State. Then the Kellogg party carried the case up to the Circuit Court, this court tinkered with it, while meantime Warmoth has called the Legislature together & month bdetore its regular seaaion to ratify his acts and send him to the Senate. In the Senate of the United Statea Warmoth would be no worse thun some men already there, and he would cease to ‘ennoy society tn the State where he has carpet- bugged. As Congress has been in the habit of do- ing everything that it chooses, and decreeing that no legal government exists im this State or that, it might be well if they would undertake reconstruction Over again trom the beginning in Louisiana and give this people a probation and rest from pinnder. To ascertain the relative amount of right in the present situation 1s simply to select ai rotten e The republican party in its motiey character has made a constitution and laws obnoxious to freedom, and the accident under these laws ig Warmoth, who has Bourbon- ized himseit, and is now suppotted by the respect- able elements which for years refused to let him pass accross their thresholds. This is the charac- ter of Southern ! DISORETION AND DISCRIMINATION. It refused to throw good influences around the Governor while he. was still young, wistful, im- pressible id, perhaps, honest; but alter he has been de! obese the excesses of hia own party and the throes of a revolution have thrown him into the opposition, this apathetic element sud- denly rises, backs himup’ and makes him a hero. The real curae of Louisiana is the character o1 the men who go toits State Legislature. There War- moth got his extraordinary powers, Ifthe people could ‘turn out, under the motley condition of Louisiana society, and ELRCT A GOOD LEGISLATURE, the laws which now give Warmoth his bad supre- macy would be repealed; but, alas! in all the Southern States there is a vast clement of socicty taken up with the immediate wants of its new con- dition, TM unacquainted with the meaning of the words public credit, public opinion and public spirit,and which votes something into its pocket and the mouths of its family, while, meantime, the great principles which should anima’ common- wealth are put aside tobe aoe for by the tew who must¢-stand afar off and suffer. A military officer at the garrison told me that if and ali his fellow Oflicers were disgustea ‘he work they had to do in Louisiana, Said ‘If we are ordered to fire upon a crowd, and rder should be illegal at law, we are liable to be tried tor murder, and if we do not fire—even if we question the authority—we may be court mar- tiated for disobedience of orders.” If this subject is of sufficient interest I have pieaty of materials to resume it. ‘HORSE NOTES. George E. Perrin’s two-year colt Topgallant, by Peacemaker, dam by Biggart’s Rattler, is brown, without white, and of due size. In October he showed great speed, trotting a quarter in forty- two seconds, The trotting mare Lady Gay Spanker died last week of influenza. She was the property of G. H. Bailey, of Portland, Mc., and at the time of her death was in foal to Fearnought, The yearling colt Cadet, by Fearnought, dam Juuet, by Young Morrill, died last week of influ- enza. The colt was the property of Colonel Russell, of Miiton, Mass. The horse Billy Burton, formerly owned by Com- modore Vanderbilt, 1s down with the dropsy at the stables oi his owner, W. W. Stearns, at Elizabeth, N.J R.G, Radway's mare Belle has been very sick with the prevailing horse disease, but is now recovering. She is very fast, Mr. Dean Sage recently purchased, at Stony Ford, ® yearling colt by Messenger Duroc, dam Lucy Almack. F. H. Ellis, of Philadelphia, the owner of the trot- ting mare Nettie, has bought two colts out of the dam of Nettie from R. F. Galloway, of Sufferns, N. Y. One of the colts was sired by Hambletonian, tho other by Happy Medium. : R. Steel, of Cedar Hill Stud, Philadelphia, has bought the dam of Nettie. H. P, McGrath’s promising two-year-old colt, Tom Bowling, is suffering from epizootic. A four day’s running meeting over the Pacific Race Track, at Alameda, will commence January 1. On the first day a four mile heat race will come off between Thad. Stevens and Phi. Sheridan tor $2,500 a side, 100 Ibs. each. The winner will be en- tered in the $20,000 four mile heat race at New Orleans, which will take piace in the Spring. Phil. Sheridan is a bay horse, 5 years old, got by Noriolk, dam Bonnie Bell, Py, Belmont; second dam Liz Givens, by imported Langford ; third dam Charlotte Pace, by Sir Archy. Thad. Stevens isa chestnut hors», 7 years old, got by Langiord, son of Belmont, dam Mary Chilton, by imported Glencoe; second dum by American Kclipse; third dam Queen Mary, by Bertrand. The bay trotting mare Jennie was foaled in May, 1865. Sh: was bred by James Ball (then and now living three mile northwest of Zanesville, Ohio). She was got by Red Eagle (he by Gray Eagle, dam by Woodpecker) ; her dam was the bay mare Topsy Reamy, by Pataskala (he by Boston, dam by Indus- try); grandam the gray mare Dolly Campbell, by Gray Oscar (grandson “pected idl at-gran- dam the gray mare Lady Gray, by Tuckahoe; great- great-grandam the brown mare Nellie Day, tull of Messenger blood, brought from New Jersey. In the four days of the Spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Ciub sixteen races will be run, to which the club will contribute, in money adde to the stakes and in purses, no less than $10,000. The Preakness Stakes, for three-year-olds, called after the establishment of Mr. Sanford, near Pater- son, is & mile and alf, and will have $1,000 added. The Handt Stake, for four-year-olds, mile heats, will '@ $500 added. And on the same day there will be a purse of $700, three miles, for all ages. The Chesapeake Stakes, a mile and a quarter, for three-year-old fillies, will have $500 added. There will be $800 for mile heats, three in five, fur all ages, and $600 for two miles and a half. To the Pimhco Stakes, two mile heats, for all ages, $1,000 is to be added, and for the four-mile dash a purse of $1,200 will be given. And there will be a grand Steeplechase Post Stakes two miles and a halt over a fair hunting country, to which the club will add $1,200. AMERIOAN BIBLE SOCIETY. The stated meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the Bible House, Astor place, on Thurs- day, the 5th inst., at half-past three o'clock P. M., Mr. Norman White, Vice President, in the chair, assisted by Mr. A. Robertson Walsh. Rev, George | paragement. RDAY; DECEMBER: 7; 1872:-TRIPLE SHEET, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. idhdaile—ieleiieemseet ‘Tae Sts OF BeADKS" 18 @ forthcoming Bnguaa book on gardening. “THE SkAROK roR A PooLisner" is a aniting Manual published in London for te benefit of would-be authors, ‘Miss FANNIE Marragwa (‘Marguerite &, Aymar'’) is engaged in writing a novel, the scene of wuich is laid partly in New York city and partly in one of our fashionable watering places. SrriontLy Miss Avcorr, in her new yolume of “Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag,” takes three american la- dies over Europe, and gives us an amusing mediey of anecdote, adventure and criticism, “REPUBLICAN SUPERSTITIONS,” by Mr. Moncure D: Conway, will be publighedin.@ few days : + IN THE AUTUMN, OF 1842, Mr, Dickens, began and ended his book the ‘American Notes,” of which Mr. Forster prints the original introductory chap: ter, suppressed tm 'thé publidation, for what ap- Pear to us to be here ag eisewhere in the suppres- sons advised by Mr. Forster very insufficient, rea- sons. The chapter runs as follows:— INTRODUCTORY—AND NBORSSARY TO HR READ. Ihave placed the foregoing title at the bead of this page because I challenge and deny the right of any person to pass jud; nt-om this book, Or to arrive at any reasonable conclusion in reference to Mod rere aya io, ae the trouble of becoming is not aeatistioal. Tigures oy renin have a America's devoted head, already been heaped yj almost a4 lavishly as figures of speech have been ‘ave. {odi, piled above Shakespear: It comprehends ra) aa taik concerni! viduals and no violation of the social confidences of private life. The veryprevatent practice of kid- nap) live ladies and gentlemen, forcing them into cabinets and Inbetling and ticketing them, whether they will or no, for the gratification of the idle and the curious, is not to my taste. Therefore 1 have avoided tt.; it has not a grain of any political ingredient in its whole composition. » Neither does it contain, nor have I intended that it should contain, any lengthened and minute ac- count of my personal reception in. the United States; not because I am, or ever was, insensible to that spontaneous effusion of affection: and weneroalty of heart, in @ most affectionate and generous-hearted but because I conceive that it would ill become me to flonrish matter necessarily involving 80 much of my own praises in the eyes of my unhappy readers, ‘This book is simply what it claims to be—a record of the impressions | received from day to day, dur- ing my hasty travels in America, and sometimes (but not always) of the conclusions to whic and after-reflection on them, have led me; a seription of the country I passed through; of the institutions I visited; of the kind of people among whom I journeyed, and of the manners and cus- toms that caine within my observation. Very many works having just the same and range, have been already published, but I think that these two volumes stand in need of no ORY. on that account. The interest of such productions, if they have any, lies in the varying impressions made by the same novel things on diferent minds; and not ye Geers or Chae gpl ea can scarcely be suppose norant of the hazard trun in rie of America at all. I know perfectly well that there isin that country a nu- merous Class of well-intentioned persons prone to be dissatisfied with all accounts of the pablic whose citizens they are which are not couched in terms of exalted and extravagant praise. I know perfectly well that there is in America as in most other places laid down in maps of the great world @ numerous class Of persons so tenderly and deli- cately constituted that they cannot bear the truth im any form. And I do not need the giit of prophe- cy to discern afar off that they who will be aptest- to detect malice, ill-will and all uncharitableness in these pages, and to'show beyond any doubt that they are perfectly inconsistent with that grateful and enduring recollection which I profess to enter- tain ot the welcome I found awaiting me. beyond the Atlantic, will be certain native journalists, ve- racious and gentlemanly, who were at great pains to prove to me, on all occasions during my stay there, that the aforesaid welcome was utterly worthless. But, venturing to dissent even from these high authorities, I formed my own opinion of its value in the outset, and retain it to this hour; and in as- serting (asI invariably did on all public occasions) my liberty and: freedom of speech while I was among the Americahs, and in maintaining it at home, I believe that I best show my sense of the high worth of that welcome, and of the honorable singleness Of purpose with which it was extenaed Ray Tem gest £2 ay, in the friends who croWded round me in ‘merica, ola readers, over- grateful and over-partial perhaps, to whom I hy happily been the means of furnishing pleasate i! entertainment; not a vulgar herd who would fat- ter and cajole a stranger into turning with closed eyes from all the blemishes of the nation, and into chanting its praises with the discrimination ofa street ballad-singer. From first to last | saw, in those hospitable hands, a home-made wreath of laurel; and not an iron muzzle disguised beneath a flower or two. ‘Therefore I take—and hold myself not only jns- tifed in taking, but bound to take—the plain course of seine, what I think, and noting what I saw; and as itis not my custom to exalt what in my judgment are foibles and abuses at home, so I have no intention of softening down or giozing over those that I have observed abroad, If this book should fall into the hands of any sen- sitive American who cannot bear to be told that the working of the institutions of his country is far from perfect; that in spite of the advantage she has over all other nations in the elastic iresh- ness and vigor of her youth, she is far trom being a model for the earth to copy, and that even in those pictures of the national manners with which he quarrels most there is still (after the lapse of several years, each of which may be tairly sup- posed to have had its stride in improvement) much that is just and true at this hour, let him lay it down now, for I shall not please him. 01 the in- telligent, reflecting and educated among his countrymen [ have no fear, for 1 have ample reason to believe, alter many delightful conversations not easily to be forgotten, that there are very few topics (if any) on which their sentiments differ materially irom mine, Imay be asked—‘If you have been im any respect disappointed in America, and are assured belore- nand that the expression of your disappointment will give offence to any class, why do you write at ally’? My answer si) that I went there expecting greater things than I found, and resoived, as far as im me ly, to do justice to the country at the ex- pense of any—in view—mistaken or prejudiced statements that might have been made to its dis- Coming home with a corrected and sobered judgment, I consider myselt no less bound to do justice to what, according to my best means of judgment, I found 'to be the truth. Against this broad estimate o! the Americans in 1841 itis interesting to set an estimate of them, formed many years subsequently, and after many experiences of them in Continental parts, in Janu- | ary, 1868—his last famous visit to the States. Writ- ing from Philadelphia he says:— I see great changes for the better, socially. Po- litically, no. England governed by the Marylebone vestry and the penny papers, aud Eng!and as she would be after years of such governing, is what I make of that. Socially the change in Manners is remarkable. There is much greater politeness and forbearance in all ways. * On the other hand, there are still provincial oddities bitin ied aia ical, agd the newspapers are constantl. préss- pbs ahs iF ama ent at “Mr. Dickens’ ex- rdordinary compostire.”” They seem to take it ill that [don’t stagger on to the platform overpowered by the spectacle before me, and the national great- ness. They are ail so accustomed to do public things with @ flourish of trumpets that the notion of my coming in to read without somebody first M, Tuthill, of Michigan, read from the 119th Psalm and offered prayer. Five new auxiliaries were recognized, of which two are in North Carolina, two in Texas and one in Alabama, Communications were received from Rev. 8. R. Riggs, missionary to the Dakota Indians, giving @ lively description of the joy of that people at the receipt of Scriptures in their language; from Mr, George H. Prince, of St. Petersburg, with information of a change in the agency in that city, Mr. Muir, who has hereto‘ore attended to from Samuel A. Purdie, Matamoras, tn regard to Bible distribution in Mexico, which is encourag- ing; from Per Paimquist, Isq., Stockholm, in re- lation to the work in Sweden; letters from Rev. Dr. Martin and others Pekin, stating the com- pletion of the Old Testament in the Mandarin collogutal, by Rev. Dr. Schereschewsky, and ask- | ing for ands to print it, which were granted; from | Rey. Dr. Brown and others, Yokohama, sending | a copy of the Gospel by Mark in the Japanese ting that the other three Gospels are | nd asking funds to print them, | ral and from Rev. George H. Nobbs, Norfolk Island, 8. P., chaplain to the portion of | the mutineers of the Bounty, who had removed from Pticairn’s Island, giving an account of their situation, and in regard to their need of the Bible. Grants of books were made to the Missionary Society of Protestant Episco Church, for Africa; to the Seamen's Frien ety; to Pennsylvania Colonization Society for Freedmen going to Africa: to American Sunday School Union; to Eastern Branch of National Asylum for disabled soldiers; to the Virginia Bible Society for the Avingdon Dis- trict Comlerence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, West Virginia; to the Missionary Society of the | United Brethren in Christ, for Africa; to the Ameri- can and Foreign Christian Union, tor Mexico; to Colored Orphan Asylum, New York; to Friends’ | Bible Committee, St. Albans, Me.; and to descen- dante of mutineers of the Bounty on Nortolk Island. The whole number of volumes granted 1s 4,999, in- cluding three volumes in raised letters for the blind, besides others to the amount of $655, ‘The Board also voted to print at the Bible Tonse the books of Proverbs aud Kzekiel in the Zulu lan- gage, for (he Zulu Mission fn Africa. Memorial papers were adopted in reference to ue Cd OF bi. J, Woolsey aud Marshal 3% awe! i | up and delivering an “oration”? about me, and fying down again and leading me in, is 30 very unaccountable to them that sometimes they have no idea until I open my lips that it can possibly be Charles Dickens. THE Meeting of the German Central Reform a tion—Reminiseences of and Angry Roference to the Late Campaig: ‘The Central Committee of the German reform organizations, organized during the reform cam- paign of last year, Oswald Ottendorler presiding, held @ meeting at the Beethoven Maennerchor Hall last night, when Marcus Otterburg, on behalf of the Executive Committee and of the Committee of Organization, submitted a plan of reorganization for 1873, providing that primary elections be held by the several district organizations on the 6th of January next, and that the delegates to the Central Committee ve elected on the 13th of next month. Mr. Theo, Glaubensklee proposed that the Central Committee be adjourned sine die and that the delegates of the Central Committee be instructed to recommend their several district organizations to dissolve, with a view of reorgan- | lzing on @ broader basis of national reform, on the | ground tnat by past experience it had been shown that tne organization woald exercise no signal influence if its operations are, 93 heretofore, con- fined to reform measures in municipal affairs. Mr. OSWALD OTTENDORFER Speke in Opposition to the proposition, stating that tl pacers ion to ad- journ sine die only was in order at the proper time, bat that the proposition to dissolve the organiza- ton was Dot in the constitutional powers of the delegates of the Central Committee, who were elected as the representatives of the several dis- trict organizations, ‘The proposition of Mr. Glaubensklee was declared out of order, and the report ol the Executive Com- mittee im reference to @ reorganization was adopted, ng Dr. Kessier introduced resolutions pre the adoption of measures to effect an extended re- organization, which, alter some discussion, in the course of which, in @ rather angry manner, the al- leged misconduct and alleged treacheries of som oi the members of the organigation were relert 40, were adopted, 0 THE ‘STEAMBHIP- GUATEMALA. History of Her Wreek- by the vors of the Disaster: . = soows Passengers and Others of the Saved 4t Panama— Incidents of the Casualty, the Shock and After Scenes—Rush for the Boate—The the Coast—-Connting the Low of Life—Experionces in the Coast Villages—A Striet —Inves- tigation To Be Had. ian New York Survi-: PANAMa,’Now. 2% The snrvivors of the wrecked mail ste: Guatemala arrived ta this city by the Bt. Salvador on the 23d inst, * From lengthy communications with the officers ud a number of the crew L learn that the accident took plack about a quarter) past’ fve|A.\M ép the 15th October, The veagel had been lor caag steam all night and the captain's ona lea him to suppose that he was at least aix miles om shore, whea 4 : ~THB, STRIKING OF THE. SHIP . undeceived him, None of those harrowing scenes which usually accompany shipwreck ocourred, an@ shat they did not was due to the presence of mima and firmness of the commander of the vessel, Cap- tain A. T. Douglass. Immediately that she struck he gave orders to the engineér to, go’ astermat, tus speed, but it almost immediately became clear thas the engines could never move licr from wi she was. BEVERY BREAKER lifted her up and dashed her down again with great force, and fn about ten minutes alter! her boilers moved out of place and broke all the tubes. The captain then, seeing that the hold was rapidly filling and that she was driving further gm among the breakers, gave orders to open the bilge injections, go as) to fill her entirely, allow ber to ‘settle down and thus prevent her driving. He them wet to work to get THE BOATS LOWERED, and at first some dozen persons or more got inte the long boat while hanging to the davits, and bad it not been for the resolution of the captain all ‘would have been drowned, He ordered them, out of the boat. Not one stirred at his order. He them took the next best step, and seizing one ey the neck, being a very powerful man, and Lifting him clean out of the boat flung tum on the deck of the sbip. The rest then followed, and from that moment the most praiseworthy order was observa- bie and discipline strictly maintained, One by one the boats were lowered and» passed to the atern, although only bya miracle were they preserved from being dashed to pieces, and wlien’ they were all safely afloat to the number of five the captain placed his three officers and the purser in charge of four of them, taking command of the Aft ‘bim- self, In forty minutes after the vessel “struck she had divided in two parts—her engines had gone through her bottom, and every soul on board had been safely placed in the boats. The captain was, the last to leave the ship, and directly he did sohe Steered In for the entrance to the bar to see it it would be possible to effect alandiug. This proved impossible, and he therefore gave tue tour boats orders to follow, ey PK a Sano ee or Leaks ont a ie eeping cloae ore, in order revens al norther taking hold of them and driving the boata out to sea. Alter they been thas coasting slong about nine hours the parser asked permis- sion-to be allowed to beach ‘his ‘load because bus men (seven) were exhausted and the boat w: filling. The captain gave him |edit teilag himat the same tiaae gat ke pellare ds all w Jose suelr hives. ¢ first line of breakers she cap- sized, but six 3 Re Wen Buceeeded in getting ashore without injury. Not so the purser and tne cook. These two men were struck by the boat when she capsized, and had it not been tor their com- anions they would have drowned. They were, owever, at length got out aud after a while © brought to, ‘The boats outside seeing this capsize and after- wards the two figures stretched out on the beach, concluded that the experiment was too dangerous a one to be attempted and they continued on their course, On the following day a SEVERE NORTHER came up and the bouts got separated, ‘The tain and second mate's boats effected landinj and although capsized no lives were lost. bat the third otiicer did not reach shore until the third day, and then at a few miles from the wreck, 80 that pieces of her could be seen where they had been thrown up by the sea. The first oficer’s boat, which contained fifteen’ Persona in all, has not been heard of; aad there ia every probability that she was driven out tosea and swamped, or tha} those on boara have perished by the more terrible death ofhunger and thirst. .No provisions or water were putin the boats, the first because the store room was to pleces by the concussion ol the first shock, aad ae because the cisterns and tubes were roken, Those who reached the shore had then A WEARY TIME before them, for the country where they lande@ they found barren and inhospitable to the last de- gree, The Captain’s party were the first to reach a village, and ail their money was at once ex- hausted in the purchase of miserable food, for which they were charged exorbitant prices. After seven hours’ struggling with the head man of the yillees the Captain succeeded in getting horses for himself and the purser, and then, accompanied by some of the villagers, he started back to search along the beach for traces of his companions. He was fortunate enough to arrive in time at the second mate’s party, allof whom had been three days without iood and had laid down ex- hausted and without hope of succor. THE OTHER TWO BOATS arrived in succession, and though all had suffere@ great hardships they were fortuuate in not having lost.any of their number. A PRELIMINARY RXAMINATION was held in Tehuantepec; but its results are not generally known here. it is reported, however, that the Captain admits she was out of her course, but asserts that this was due: to the eur nts and disobedience of his orders; and it is 8: hat some of the witnesses declared that the officer of the watch saw the land and the breakers some balt hour before the ship was run into them. All who were on boara are loud in praise of the conduct of the Captain, as well as that of the first officer, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Bartholomew, the chiefengineer. The latter was a man far past middle life, and his conduct is sata to have been beyond praise. Coolly and calmly © obeying orders and assisting wherever ible, he Com- yet retused at first to leave the ship until after tne captain, and it is said the latter only succeeded ia getting him off by claiming as a right, as the youngest of the two, to remain until the last. Besides Mr. Smith and Mr. Bartholomew, there were ten of the crew and three Chinamen in the missing boat. Captain Douglas goes to New York by tnis steamer. THE WRECK é was sold in Tehuantepec for account of the undee- writers and brought $50. THE MEN IN THE MISSING BOAT. The following is a list of the persons in the missing boat from the Guatemala, viz. :— Vicente Echegurem, of Manzanillo, passenger; T. J. Smith, chief ofMcer; Mr. Bartholomew, chiet engineer; R, Wilson, quartermaster; Jack, termaster; Robert Thomson, second cook; Man- cino Verdua, oiler; Frank, seaman; Miguel Garcia, seaman; Manuel, ship’s mess boy; Salvador Gon- zalez, porter; Mortimer Lipman, waiter; three Chinamen, Fifteen all told. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A HERALD special correspondent in Lima, Peru, dating on November 13, reports the United States steamer Tuscarora, from Valparaiso, arrived tm Callao on the 9th inst. All well on board, Naval Orders. Lieutenants Joseph G. Eaton, John T. Sullivam and Frederick Collins have been ordered to special duty in the Darien expedition. Paymaster Ed. ward Foster has been ordered as tna visions and clothing at the Norfolk heving Paymaster Walmough. J.ieutenant, mander John J. Reed has been detached fro Portsmouth and placed on waiting orders, AN IMPORTANT LAWSUIT DECIDED, Boston, Dec. 6, 187% The cage of the Merchants’ Nationat Bank of Memphis, Tenn., vs. The National Bank of Com- merce of Boston, which occupied the United States Circuit Court several days, has resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs for $14,50023. ‘The sait wan brought to recover damages for negligence on the the part of the defendants, in giving up to the coa- signees the biilsof lading of @ lot of cotton upon the acceptance by the cousignees of a tuirty daya’ draft drawn against the shipment and attached to the bills of lading, and sent on to the defendaat bank for coliection, ‘The plaintitts contended that it was the duty of ¢ ank to keep the collateral until the draft was wid, and that by re ot giving up the bills of iadiug the plaints Tost thee security, the consignees having failed belore tae, wxpicataen of balrty days alter @¢ e