The Weekly Loyal Georgian, 1867-08-24

From the Elberton (Ga.) Gazette.] ' The Style of the Times. | From the style of some of our | writers and speakers we should imag imagine - ine imagine ourselves living in the latter half of the year 1861, when the Confederacy seemed to be an established govern government, - ment, government, and the only great political prob problems - lems problems before the people of the South were whether peace would come in two months or six, and what rizht we should deigu to allow to the defeated North. Northern dictation, Northern influence, 1 Northern politics, Northern emissaries and Northern fanaticism are phrases that garnish the compositions of our hotspurs now as freely as when the stars and bars were waving in sight of the capitol at Washington ; when Unienism was exiled from Tennessee, and a prison | and a halter were the fate to which we 1 doomed Brownlow and Andrew John- | son it we could catch them ; when we were gravely discussing whether a Yan Yankee - kee Yankee or European shoufa ever be allowed to live in the South, and whether we should ever permit the States north of the Ohio to enjoy the inestimable bene benefits - fits benefits of an alliance with our wealthy, our invincible, our proud Confederacy. Those were pleasant daysin Southern l camps, when a triumphal march home homeward, - ward, homeward, and the plaudits of a gratetul people were expected soon te reward the soldiers' toils and sufferings. South Southern - ern Southern homes, too, were happy in the anti anticipation - cipation anticipation of & speedy greeting to the victorious " boys in gray." The high spirit of the coun'ry, mantling into a haughty ambitiox&\ the breasts of our Southern statesmen, elated them with the assurance that they would command the South, and that the South would soon 1 command the continent. | History, yes, and our own sad memo memories, - ries, memories, tell us that these bright visions were '"the stuff that dreams are made of;7 that each succeeding year dark darkened - ened darkened the prospect, and finally our good goodly - ly goodly Confederacy was blotted out from among the uations, and its gallant sur surviving - viving surviving champions came home, not in triumphal procession, but in straggling squads and with sorrowful mien, from the field of defeat. Political depression is the inevitable result of military defeat in such o war, and accordingly we have been, and still are, deeply depressed. Our eonquerors offer us relief, bitter, indeed, in some particulars, but clogged with fewer havd conditions than are usnally impesed on' conquered men. Yet, with an audacity to which the world hardly affords a parallel, some of our people are erying out, "do nothing that our conquerors desire. Resist them in peace as fiercely as you fought them in war. Act, and 'demand that they should act, on the rule that we have always been right, and they have always been wrofg. Reject all their propositions hecause they arc theirs. Spite them if you cannot fight them, Keep up with the ballot the quarrel that we lost in arms, And if this quarrel woes far enough to kindle war again, so much the better." s 1 languagre 1 agyveeabic o pride 380 ég'p".«.: 5 F'% T SRR R ou¥ surrender sincere 7 When we gave up our swords, did we also give up our cause? Are we in the same position as if we had couquered? Is our adherence to the Union a hollow pre pretence? - tence? pretence? Do we mean to draw our swords again in the same cause, as 'soon as we gain strength encugh to do 50 under favorable auspices? Are we preparing again to send forth our young men to battle and to death? Do we wish to gather another harvest of cripples, widows, and orphans, from the fertile field ol war? These are questions that we ought seriously to ask ourselves, and our language and conduct should conform to the answer that honest hearts give. - . Matters at Washingtou. From New York Tiufl¥s, Aug. 13.] Mr. Johnson is vindicating his repu reputation - tation reputation for obstinacy. Ie has resolved to rid the government of all who refuse ' to support his policy, and has begun with Mr. Stanton. Warnings - and re remonstrances - monstrances remonstrances have been disregarded, The danger of doing that which exhib its the Executive in an attitude of im implacable - placable implacable hostility to Congress is un unheeded. - heeded. unheeded. e insists upon his right to throw down the gauntlet, and must take the consequences. How long other members of the Cabinet can afiord to share the odium which attaches to Mr. Johnson's pre preseut - seut preseut course, is a problem which their friends find difliculty in solving. To sympathize with . the principles pro professed - fessed professed by the President, and to con concede - cede concede the propriety of the views on which his policy has until recent recently - ly recently been supposed to rest, is one thing. | To divide with him the rcspmlsibilily' of a gratuitous and unprofitable war | upon the measures of Congress - to take issue with the Republican party on the fandamental points of its policy, aml identify themselves with the enemies of that party and of the Union - is another and totally different thing. The latter, | however, is undoubtedly the position ' which every Cabinet officer must hold | who, actively or impliedly, makes him-- | self in any manner a party to the pur purpose - pose purpose manifested in the suspension of Mr. Stanton. Are Mr. Randall and Mr. Seward prepared to encounter this responsibility 7 Are they willing to be | suspected of purlicis)atiou in a course which aims at the decapitation of tried servants and champions of the Union to gratity the malignity of Mr. Johnson, and give cffect to the suggestions of the Jerry Blacks from whom he now seeks counsel 2 These inguiries are echoed by thousauds who, amid the conflict of the last few months, have never lost faith in the Unionism of these depart departmentgl - mentgl departmentgl chiefs. Meanwhile Gen. Grant admimsters the affairs of the War Department. An attempt will be made to iuvest the cir circumstance - cumstance circumstance «ith a signilicance wholly unwarranted. Through many channels 1t wili be asserted that Gen. Grant's compliance with the call indicates bis approval of Mr. Stanton's removal, and consequently of the policy which exacts that proceeding. On this head,. fortu fortunately, - nately, fortunately, there is no rapm for misrepre misrepresentation. - sentation. misrepresentation. Gen. Grant has vot allowed his habitual reticence to leave the country in doubt as to his position on the great occasion of difference between Congress and the Executive. He sup supports - ports supports the plan of Congress, and is | favor of its prompt and vigorons eun eunforcement. - forcement. eunforcement. 'The Copperhead counselors ' of Mr. Johunson will derive no smecor | from Gien. Grant. Tlis acceptance of

latest sensation of the day, "all in the evening Newsor Telegram, only a cent." Myn'ads of signs invite the public to the great marble stores which rear their stately fronts along Broadway, or to the less pretending, but scarcely less busy, marts of Chat= ham street and the Bowery. Let us take a car for the Central Park, and, as we go, survey the map of busy life slpread out on every side. The cars of the principal lines start from the vicinity of the City Hall Park. Leav Leaving - ing Leaving the new lerald building, of marble, on the right, and the Astor House, of granite, on the left, we proceed out Chatham street and the Bowery to the Fourth Avenue. The walks teem with wares of every kind, in which furni furniture, - ture, furniture, carpets, and ready-made clothing, predominate. Soda water, apple, cigar, and news stands, also do mucin abound, and the three golden balls of the pawn broker tell where starving pov poverty - erty poverty may pawn the last relic of better days for money to keep body and soul together, until, pcrcgmnce, employ employment, - ment, employment, or some turn in the run of fuci, will bring relief, From the City Hall, or more properly from the Battery, a half a mile below the point from which we started to Thir Thirteenth - teenth Thirteenth street, the streets and avenues cross cach other at very irregular angles. At Union Square - a ueat little public park - we enter the Fourth avenue, and proceeded in an air line to the Central Park, which extends from Fifty-ninth street to the extreme out-skirts of the city, at One THundred and Fiftyfilth street, to the neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil creek and Harlem river. These streets extend entirely across the city, a distance varying from two to three miles in length, and are fast filling up with fine residences and commanding busi business - ness business blocks. - The Central Park contains = about 850 acres, The land was originally a wild, rocky, aud unsightly swamp, in inhabited - habited inhabited by a few squatters, and many frogs and mosquitoes. Under the skilful care of the Commissioners in charge of the Park, the swamp has been drained, and its vast area is now teem teeming - ing teeming with picturesque beauty, and crowned with the charms of the most artistic landscape gardening. Itisa grand pic picture, - ture, picture, in which the artist has used trees, rocks, flowers, lakes and lawns as the colors which gild the whole with re - resplendent splendent resplendent loveliness. The principal entrance to the Park is at I'ilth Avenue and Dilty-ninth street. Leaving the Mall we pursue a walk to the left, where the irregular and rocky shores of' the lake are secen, and the shady arbaors invitec us to rest a moment and watch the swans gliding over its glassy surface, and - the boats as they are rowed from point to point by sturdy oarsmen, The Mall isa straight avenue, a quarter of a mile in two hundred feet wide, bordered® by clms on -gither side, and leading to the Terrace, which is the mxcipglx architectural sttucture of the park P ataiy di, and com cominterwoven - interwoven cominterwoven with twining evergreens. Here the Green, Music Stand, Terrace, and principal lake, may be seen, with many of the serpentine walks that con consitute - situte consitute the "Ramble."" A gracelul bridge spans a narrow passage across the lake near the Terrace, and commands some of the finest views in the Park. The "Ramble" is the most ingenious, as well as most attractive feature of the Park. | Penetrating the most rough and rocky | portions, all the niytural advantages of the spot have been used to produce the most inleresting and varied landscape | scenery, The visitor, in pursuing it's' labyrinthean defiles, is invited through smiling lawns, bedecked with shrubs and | flowers, and made musical by singing birds, more than eighty varieties of which have already made their bomes amid theseleafy solitudes. Little wind. ing paths lead ount to romantic | nooks, overlooking the lake, where congenial groups linger to enjoy the freshness of the air, the fragrance of the flowers, the murmurs of the foun fountains, - tains, fountains, and the last blended harmonies of light and shade. Most of the attrac- | tions of the lower park are due to the art of the landscape gardener; but in the upper portion nature has been lavish of her charms. Bold hills break out from alluring valleys, and river, lake, caseade, and forest solitude, crown the sombre aspects of the scene. Turning aside from the Ramble, we look out on the smooth waters of the Croton Reservoir. We are here sur surrounded - rounded surrounded by a rich growth of Evergreen, and a recent writer has aptly suggested that this portion of the park be called the Evergreen Drive. Stretching away to the right, at Ninety-seventh street, is a beautitul meadow, surrounded by mas massive - sive massive forest trees, grouped in such care careful - ful careful order as to give the effect of great extent, and a most pleasing perspective. Here again the birds are at home, and these forest wilds, though surrounded by teeming multitudes, are vocal with anthems of praise to the genius of the landscape gardencr, Nestling amid these artificial solitudes is a tiny lake, whose waters gladden the eye as the forest trees are mirrored in its erystal depths. As we proceed to the border of the Park the frowning DPalisades of the Hudson swell away in the northwest, while the busy borders of Manhattan Manhattanville - ville Manhattanville nestle along the opposite shore. Away in the distance gleam the waters of lmng Island Sound, dotted with white winged vessels; and still heyond the green slopes of Long Island itself are seen. The flocks of sheep grazing on the green hili sides, under the vigi vigilant - lant vigilant eye of the quaint old shepherd ; the buffaloes tethered on the lawn; the birds caroling their native songs in the artificial forest shades ; the merry 'groups of young people, sporting on the spacious play grounds: the ecar ecarriages - riages ecarriages rolling along the smooth drives, ':xmf throngs of pedestrians loitering along the walks - all r.uresefxt a picture "which, once seen, will linger in the 'memory as a source of pleasure while 'memory lasts, ~ From the anuualieport of the Park (ommissioners, just published, T ob observe - serve observe that the tota! cost of the Park has been a little over $10,000,000. The total length of the carriage roads in the Park is about ten miles ; of the bridle 'road, five and a half miles, and of ' walks twenty six miles. Nearty eight hundred aniwals, reptiles, etc, are con confined - fined confined within its limits. Seven thousand ' loads of manure have been added to the coil durimg the year; 17,708 trees, and

318 M, +have been planted. Sev Sevral - ral Sevral rustic bridges, fountains, and frbors of the most attractive character Bave been added, and 250 workmen are ftill busy adding to the aftractions of e place. A great zoological garden # to be constructed ; and a grand play douse for children, with games and ®ys. and even fresh milk for those Wt tender age, is projected. And @il these attractions are free to all, and Hay be reached from the remotest por- Jon of the city, fire or six miles dis- Wni, forsix cents, Refreshments may % had in the Park, but it is designed 4 exclude all general traffickers, and feserve the flace, as free as possible, Hom all gainful pursuits. It is to be the #reat People's Park, and as such now pfobably surpasses eversthing of the Hind in the world. As evening -draws its lengthening mdows over the scene, we procved rriedly to the point of exit, and MER as we came, catching a view of & owery by gas light, which is worth A pe km'» ! 3 Lhe weatheér is rainy, A few mer mer¢hatits - ¢hatits mer¢hatits from the South and West are coming in, but trade has not fairly Xne& There is no change in finan finan-1 - -1 finan-1 affairs. Money is abundant at 4a5 er cent. on government securities and ixed collaterals, Government secu securities - rities securities are active and steady, and coin is more abundant. A. The Bowery by Gas Liyht - The Old "?-',01087':/- - The FExcise Law- - The he Police, Business, Elc. { e New York, Aug. 15,767, ~dn my last I left the reader at the Bowery, as Saturday night was draw drawing - ing drawing its sombre curtains over the busy pulsations of life in the great metrop metropofls, - ofls, metropofls, Amid the glare of gas lights and the rattling of cars, the motley crowds pursue their way ; mechanics, with their wives and without their wikes, shopping or chatting at the cogners and in the heer saloons ; work workinz - inz workinz girls, whose hearts are light as they distribute the well carned wages of'the week in the stores and shops - shopssome some shopssome for a new dress or bonnet, and some for articles needed by the dear ores at home; careworn women tug tugging - ging tugging along with their market baskets, h:g;py now in expectancy of a good Sunday dinner, and hundreds, hard featurcd and rough, to whom Sunday is mo more than any other day, and who loiter about with no settled home or business - now in the station house or the tombs, and now at some cheap lodging house. Here is the Atlantic Garden, an immense beer saloon, with seats and tables for several thousand pérsons ; and a music stand and im immepse - mepse immepse organ, where Orpheus contends Gambrinus for sway over the aemial throng. Next door Thespis holds ganrt.in the old Bowery, where oA 1 () O 1 3 v . " 1 the pit and galleries, affording to the curious observer a more interesting picture of life than can be gathered from those in front of the foot lights. The low cellars and danee houses which formerly abounded :n this part of the eity have recently heen the objeet of speeial vigilance from the police, and we abandon the idea of making any subterranean ohservations, The mueh abused Exeise law has greatly changed the Sunday aspect of the city, The saloons and cellars where revellers held their orgies, are all ¢losed, and suburban purlieus now reap the harvest of ruin formerly gar garnered - nered garnered in their reeking precinets in the city. lixcursions are announced to Rockaway, Keyport, the Fishing Banks, Glen Cove, Newburg, Newark, and down the Sound, while myriads of thirsty souls throng the ferries, and pursue their revels in IToboken, Williamsburg, Jersey City, and nnmerous other out of town localities, So that, while the friends of the excise law boast that Sunday arrests in the city have dimin diminished - ished diminished one half under its salutary influ influence, - ence, influence, it is believed that drunkeuness and Sabbath breaking have been in increased - creased increased under the statutory rigors which have closed the city rum holes, The city papers are constantly harp harping - ing harping on the shortcomings of the police, and the sanitary commission ; bhut New York reveals to the senses of the stran stranger - ger stranger few evidences of £lth,and the police arc most polite and gentlemanly. 1 have noticed with admiration their uniform courtesy in giving directions to strangers, and their carc and gallantry in protecting ladies and children from the dangers of the streets. They are certainly a finc looking body of men, and dressed in uniforms of blue. with Panama hats or blue caps, and white gloves, they make a handsome appear appearance, - ance, appearance, Complaints of the dulluess of busi business - ness business is widespread, and thousands are out of employment. The placards that strike the eye at every turn, offering stores, parts of stores, rooms, basements, and lofts "to let," are significant that the wheels of business are not running smoothly. ~ The prevailing folly of living beyond the income, seeks relief in letting apartments, taking-a few boarders, or abandoning the city for a home in the suburbs, and hence the multiplicity of placards, observable 'at every turn, and quite as numerous in Fifth Avenue, and other fashionable streets, as clsewhere. The truth is, the war opened many casy ways for making money, and thousands assumed_a of life under a shoddy prosperity that they cannot maintain, now that the reign of shoddy is over. : Wholesale trade is especially dull, and the fall business, usually active at this time, has not opened. 'A few merchants are here from Texas, 'and here and there one f{(')m the other Southern districts.. The fine crop accounts give. promise of a Jarge Southern demand for goods, an:l those in the Southern trade are confi confident - dent confident of 2 good business afier aw:lulg. There is no material change in finan financial - cial financial affairs. Mouey continues distress - distressiil.gly iil.gly distressiil.gly casy ; and I will illustmte.thls expres<ion in the n?m;\rk ol an eminent bankér, who, on being appealed to for charity, replied: * Madame, | am sorvy I ¢annot help you ; but my means are all Iying idle. 1 cannot loan my money, 'and having no income, 1 cannot con contribute - tribute contribute to your wants," So money that is unproductive is not really always wealth, . A.

WEEKLY LOYAL GEORGIAX, J. E. BRYANT, - =« Editor. THOS. . BEARD, - Agent. D~ Office, in the rcar of the Globe Hotel corner of Jackson and Ellis streets. . TERMS: One Year, o e - N 2 00 Nix Memnths, - =« =~ 1235 Three Months, = = 75 ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED ON LIBERAL TERMS. ADDRESS, "LOYAL G EORGT AN," KEY BOX 169, AUGUSTA, GA. 5ATURDAY...............AUGU5T 24, 1867. State Central Committee, Union Republican Party. Hon, FOSTER BLODGETT, of Augusta, Chairman. Calonel J. E. BRYANT, of Augusta, Acleng Secretary. First Districl. - Col. A. W. Stone, Col. F, 8. Hazeltine, Jaines M. Sinuns, of Savannah, and T. G. Campbell, of Mclntosh county. Necond District. - W. H. Noble, of Ran Randolph - dolph Randolph county; Robert Alexander, Clay county. Third District. - G W, Ashburn, Oliver Saunders and Hampton Benton, Columbus. Fourth District - ll. M. Turner, Macon ; Gieo. Wallace, Milledgeville. Fifth District. - Col. John Bowles, Col. J. E. Bryant, W. J. White, 8. W. Beaird Augusta. Sioth District. - Madison Davis, Athens. Screnth District. - ~Wm. Markbam, At Atlanta; - lanta; Atlanta; BB M Sheibley, Rome: Ephraim Rucker, Marietta; Willimin Higginbothaw, Rome. Platform Union Republican Party, Adopted at Atlanta July 4th. Whereas, we, humbly acknowledging our dependence on an overruling Provi Providence, - dence, Providence, who shapes the destinies of men and nations, thank Almighty God for having, throngh agencies and instrumen instrumentalitics - talitics instrumentalitics in Flis wisdom sclected, preserved our Government when its decpest founda foundations - tions foundations were Dbeing shaken by the mighty upheavings of the recent rebellion. And Whereas, the loyal men of Georgia desire the carliest practicable scttlement of the disturbed condition of the country: and whercas, we believe that the establishment of justice is essential to enduring peace, that patriotism should be cxalted as a virtue, and that it is the duty of the State to cherish all its people; and whereas, those who assert these prineiples are called Republicans, throughout the Unicn. Therefore, Resolved, Ist. That we adopt the name of the Union Republican party of Georgia, and declare ourselves in alliance with the National Republican party of the Union, and for the unconditional support of the Union of thesc States. Resolved, 2d.. That we pledge our hearty auméort to the reconstruetion measures of the Congress of the United States. That it is the duty of the State to educate all her children, and to that end, we rccommend the cstablish cstablishcan - can cstablishcan Party is identified in its history and by 'its essential principles with the rights, the interests and the dignity of laT)or, and is in sympnth{ with the toil toiling - ing toiling massesof society ; and that the work workine - ine workine men of Georgia will receive at its hands every encouragement and nssis nssistance - tance nssistance that may be necessary 1o protect their full rights;and, thatin the mainten maintenance - ance maintenance of the position taken and the princi principles - ples principles we have this day avowed, we cordially invite the co-operation of all citizens, without regard to their political antecedents. Lesoloed, 5. 'That the Union Republi Republican - can Republican Party of the State of Georgia ll'k:dlf'm itself to maintain the frecand legal rights of all men, and we will abide by the preseribed terms of restoration, in clect clecting - ing clecting to office those men only who can comply, in all respects, with the require requirements - ments requirements of the Acts of Congress, and who prefer the Government of the United States to any other that could be framed. Resoleed, That we avail ourselves of this epportunity of expresssing our high admiration and esteem for RI:Ij. Gen. John Pope, Commanding this District, and of cordially endorsing his wise, patriotic and statesmanlike administra administration - tion administration of the Reconstruction Laws, with assurances on our part, that he shall, at all times, have the encouragement and support of the Union Republican Party of Georgia, in his further endea endeavors - vors endeavors to institute a loyaland legal govern government - ment government for our beloved State. Resvlved, That the thanks of this Con Convention - vention Convention be tendered to Mr. AW, Tenny, of New York, and that we request him to furnish us with a copy of his able, cloguent and patriotic speech, for publi publication. - cation. publication. Constitution for Republican Clubs. We call the attention of our Repub Republican - lican Republican leaders to the following Consti Constitution, - tution, Constitution, which will be a good one for them to adopt in organiziug Repnbli Repnblican - can Repnblican Clubs : ARTICLE 1. zeME. This Clul shall be known as the Union Republican Club of - - - - - - - , (name of' town,) county of - - - - - State of ARTICLE IL This Club is organized for the purposc of advancing the interests of the Union Republican party in this State and through throughout - out throughout the nation. It will strive to clevate Jabor, educate thv ignorant, and sustain the cause of universal justice. ARTICLE HIL OFFICERS, The ofticers of this Club shall be a President, two Viee-Presidents, a Secre Secretary, - tary, Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Exccutive Com Committee - mittee Committee of five members. The above named oflicers shall be elected at the first meeting in Januapy and July in each year, and they shall hold over until their suc successors - cessors successors are duly elected and qualified. ARTICLE IV. DUTIES OF OFFICERs. The oMcers of this Club shall ycrl'ul'm the duties required of similar officers by ordinary parliamentary usage. The Exe Executive - cutive Executive Committee shall prepare business for the meetings of the Club and make such arrangements as shall sccure a kood attendance, They shall also make_ such cflorts s may be in their power to make the meetings interesting and profitable. ARTICLE V., QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS. The only qualifications necessary to he hecome - come hecome a member of this ¢club, should be a t':l expressed de deq - q deq 5 O ¢ Princi ' the Union Republican party. O e ARTICLE VI. REVENUE. The expenses of (this Club shall be e frayed by voluntary.contributions fromn among the members and others, |

everybody 1s not gone to that metropo metropolis - lis metropolis of gaiety, everybody is anxious to gO, to escape the heat and mosquitoes, which are most iutolerable and griev grievous - ous grievous to be endured. What with races, athletic sports of a band of Indians - Indiansgotten gotten Indiansgotten up, regardless of cxpense for the oceasion - hurdle matches, prize fights, and other diablerie, the masses will be amused. I failed to fulfill my purpose to hear . W. B, of Plymouth Church, Brook Brooklyn, - lyn, Brooklyn, on Sunday, that divine having gcone into the country, where he is luxuriating on:(g;ring chickens, and finishing "Nor - for the. Ledger. H. G., of the Tribune, is writing an autobiography for that weekly, which is expected to create quite a sensation. With all his quaint moral and social ideas, H. G. is a practical philosopher, whose career is full of interest and imstruction, and it will do the young people no harm to read an account of his rise and progress. A very remarkable book has recently been published by a Boston house, the author of which is Dr. Marcy, a nephew of the late Gov. Marcy - the object ot which is to show that all the sects, save Catholicism, lead to irreligion; and that - the widening influence of that church is to save the country from Puritan destruction and desolation. e says that, now that the civil war is over, he is sure that Purifanism will com combine - bine combine to open a crusade upon that church, which is the only bar to infidelity, atheism, spiritua{ism, and all their horrible results, Whatever of truth or assumption there may be in the book, it is readable as '"the product of a Yankee, using Roman Catholic lore to assail the Puri Puritans - tans Puritans in their religious households and homes." Here is a jew d'esprit which will afford relief o thé heat of the dog days. It is of the inevitable chignon, the carliest definition of which, given by a writer in the 17th century, is - the "chyune, or chyne picce of the neck - neckalso, also, neckalso, a kuott or curve in a piece of tymber." Anotherreference to the same subject occurs in Mundus Muliebras, in 1690 "Behind the noddle every baggage Wears bundle chene." - in English, cab cabbage. - bage. cabbage. Everybody fecls relief that the clec clection - tion clection in Tennessce passed off quietly, and all eyes are turncd in auxious suspense toward the other States of the South, where the work of reorga reorganization - nization reorganization is in progress. The course of those who, like B, 1. Hill and Gov. Perry, are opposing reconstruction, is generally deplored by the Capservatives of both parties here, who fecl that it must result in concenirating the ele elements - ments elements of bitteruesf"?nd estrangement. A few like it, beeause they affect to ; ¢ that it will end in a permanent disfrauchisement of Hill and Ei:,!rieuds," if not in the confiscation of their m : T H-J are attracting wide attention here. . Theatrical circles are interested in the injunction case of John Lester Wal. lock vs. Barney Williams and J. W, Ilorence, for surreptitiously obtaining a version of the new play of "Caste," which Wallack c¢laims as his property. Mr., Florence maintains, before the court, that he has a right to wrire from memory an uncopyrighted play, and that the protection of the court could only extend to the possessor of the manuscript, which Wallack was not. The case will be decided to-day, mean meantime - time meantime the papers teem with severe stric strictures - tures strictures on Williams and Florence, for violating comity and good faith, in using the property of a brother actor. "Caste" is a sensational English come comedy, - dy, comedy, recently brought out in London, which Mr. Florence has written out from having seen it played, and is now running it with great success at the Broadway theatre. A large number of literary and theatrical celebrities were at the court room to hear the result of the injunction, Nothing new in financial circles, money easy at four and five per cent; securities and gold stcady. Weather hot as blazes. Ay Streel Scenes - -Broudway - Bowcry - Central Davk - Wealher, cle. New York, August 13, Perhaps nothing I can write from this busy Babel will be more accepta acceptable - ble acceptable to your readers than glimpses of the street scenes, which strike the eye of the obscrver at every turn. Kntering Broadway at the Park, which is the focal point for a large number of strect railvoads and stage lines, the novice from the sandy avenues of your quict city is completely stunned by the con confased - fased confased jargon of sounds and scenes that greet eye and ear. Cars sweeping along the various tracks, and omnibuses plying up and down DBroadway - on whose sacred soil the cars have not yet been allowed to intrade - carts, car carriages, - riages, carriages, and vehicles of every description crowding the streets, and often coming to a dead lock, threeor four abreast ; motley throngs of pedestrians sweeping in great surges up and down the walks - some picking their way across t.he street, avoiding here the Scylla of rattling cars, and therethe Charybdis of rattling wagons - and all hurrying on - -on- - thp Lord knows where. Let us survey this moving mass for a moment from the bridge, which crosses Br(wad\yay at the foot of the City Hall Park, just below the converging pointof the great swarm around us. Up and down Broadway, "and up and down Fulton, toward Fulton Ferry on the one hand, and Jersey City on the other, and out through the busy Bowery the great throngs Sur_suc their way ; while the myriad devices of trade greet the eye at every turn. - Ilere at our feet the pimyp of the cheap [ jewelry emporium invites the passer to look at the splendid stock "which is being worked off to close out a con concern'' - cern'' concern'' in the basement hard by, There the auctioneer dispenses ''shocking sacrifices" to the credulous crowds. Fruit stands, news stalls, and tables, where knicknacks of every kind are ' sold, cumber the walks; anon the ' boothlacks are seen importuning every ' passer for '"'a shine, hoss - only five | cents :"" and here a swarm of news news| - | news| hoys reconnt, in sheill accents, the

_-.__._.__._.'_;'._-__*_-:m the duties of Secretary is temporary and formal, aud will neither blind him to the mischief breeding tendencies of the . President's action nor impair the efficacy ,of the backing he gives to Sheridan, | Pope and othew objects of Exeeutive | hostility. : Other attempts will probably be heard of designed to damage Mr. Stanton's departmental reyutatwn, and produce an iu\t{)rcssion that the sus. proceeds from other than po- | itical causes. But thismancuvre will avail Mr. Johnson nothing. It is too late to push this or any similar pre pretence - tence pretence ;: for the faet stands out sharp and clear that Mr. Johnson found no fault with Mr. Stanton until the posi positive - tive positive adhesion of the latter to the policy of Congress brought down upon him the vengeance of his superior. No amount of ingenuity on the part of the {President or his friends will hide or alter the complexion of the aet of yesterday, ox of the programme into 'which it enters. Mr. Stanton is re-. }moved,_not for maladministration, or | corrurtmn, or any wrong doing of any ' sort, but solely and simply as a pun punishment - ishment punishment of his sturdy Unionism, and his unyielding amtagonism to the pro prorebel - rebel prorebel Blicy of the President. Nor will the disclosure of a pretended plot, in which the perjurer, Conover, figures conspicuausly, divert public attention from the renewal of strife which Mr. Johnson is precipitating, or cnable him to arouse sympath{ as the victim of conspirators. The Attorney General, we thinky would not have suffered himeell 1o give even the sem semblance - blance semblance of sanction to the trumpery story l which his Assistant, Mr, Binckley has 'paraded so ineffectually. It is not | unlikely that Mr. Ashley, in his zeal for impeachment, held intercourse with Conover and others equally destitute of character ; but Gen. Butler, with all his clasticity of conseience, is too shrewd a lawyer to place himself at the mercy of a convicted scoundrel whose oaths are uot more trustworthy than his testimony. Ashley and Batler, Binckley and Cong Congver - what - ver - what Congver - what have these names to do with - Mr. Johnson's mad crusade ufuinst Congress and the oflicers, civil and wilitary, who support its measur®s ef reconstruction ? The : azitates the couutry is not whether Mr, Ashley is choice in his confidences, or Mr. Butler scrupulous in hn,w.u&e el sies, but whether Mr. Johusen is or is not abusing the trust repesed in hiw, and perverting the power he wields to purposes inimical to peace and a' restored Union, It is in its relation to this question that the suspension of Mr, Stanton possesses significance and peril. i il it e T A B. H. Hill, of Georgia. '* - Ex-Governor: Brown, -of Georgia, says the Richmond replying 1o the windy nations of ex-Senator * 18. H. 11, of the , dgainst . G gt % reconstructiou. .He charges him with secession after having been elected as a Union man, being induced thereto by a promise of an election to the Provisional Congress. While the Con~ vention was in session Mr. Hill, then 'ra member both of the Convention and iof the Provisional Congress, made a speech to the people, in which he said : "The North would not fight. There would be no war. Bat if the North should be so foolish as to go into the contest, there never was a people on carth so well prepared for it as we were. 3L should be an agyressive war. The war should Ue carried tnto Africa ; { and when the eities of the North were | laid in ashes, ahd the country devastated and laid waste, then we should find that the people of the North were the ones l to ask for terms and sue for peace." He pictured the rising glory of the new Confederacy, and went on to say that, while this became more compact and secure, disintegration would - come as sure as fate upon the old Union, and they would seek entrance into this. And he very graciously added that * if they came /Zuomble enouyh, as ' hewers of wood and drawcrs of water," they might come," [t strikes us that oue who was so fuuch mistaken in his opinions then, and go far wrong in hiz predictions, might properly be wmore distrustful of himself, of the fallibility of his opin opinions - ions opinions and the wisdom of his couusels uow ! We remember very well that when the Confederate Scuate held its sessions in this city, this Georgia Boanerges was considered its wordiest, windiest and least influcntial member. A descrip description - tion description of him by Wigfall, which will not bear repetition in print, defined with striking aptuess the lack of force with the coutinual desire to attempt, thats | I kept him all the time fumbling at ques questions - tions questions before the Senate. The only way in which be could have served the Con Confederacy - federacy Confederacy then was with a musket - musketwhich which musketwhich he never earried. The only way in which he could benefit the South now would be by sileuce, of which he | seems incapable. i R - The number of large fires throagh throaghout - out throaghout the United States, daring July, at which the loss was over $£20,000 or upward, was 37, and the aggregate loss was $3,325,000. In Juune, the total loss by fire was $1,750,000. During the seven months of 18367 that have passed by, the total value of the pro prov - v prov s aurati a 3 beer !pelt) lost by conflagration has heen P $25,730,000. L | b ] - lt is said that the Indians on the } Plains have an ingenious way of setting | fire to houses with their arrows. They t wrap with a rag some powder on the | heads of their arrows, and on the tip- of { their arrow head place a perctisgion ! cap. When the arrow strikes the object ' to be fired the cap is exploded, and the | powder and rag ignited. The rag burng long enough to set combustibles with | which it may come in contact on fire,

} From the Augusta National Republican.) 1 ' The Chronicle and Sentinel. : Lexixeroy, Ga., August 16th, - | Editor National Republican: l ¢ Dear Sig: - l am azain called upon | to trespass upon your kindness, in | replying to a personal attack of the { Chronicle and Sentinel of the 'F3th'inst., ' being well satisfied that that newspaper ; would not have the manliness to publish . my letter, asit has failed so far to add | i "*still another" to the several replies to ], its first slanderous article by the publi publi' - ' publi' cation of my first letter. 1 have no ~means of knowing which of the editors 'of that paper wrote the article in fques&inn - wbelher it was the big Ex | General, and big Ex Governor "East of . the Oconee'' - the little namesake of St. | Pawrick, or one Moore - nor does it mach matter. Whichever it way be, | heis perfestly welcome to the eclat he | has gained by the chaste lapguage he uses, and shows conclusively that he is more familiar with the vocabulary of | disreputable assuciations, and the Ilauguage of indecency than that uf' ' wentlemen ! | . Inwmy other reply to the first onslaught made upon me by the Chronicle & Sen Sen[tim-1,l - [tim-1,l Sen[tim-1,l endeavored to sustain the char char| - | char| actér of a gentleman, and I am perfeetly !williug to have the comparison ma.del g between us, by gentlemen, of hoth | | attacks and rejoinders; but I am not - willing, nor do I think any other gentle. ' | man would be willing, to submit to the farbitrament of A. R. Wright, Heury i Moore, or Patrick Walsh, as to what » docs or does nol constitute a gentleman ~ - taking their editorials as evidence of their capacity to determioe the question. | Personalities are not to wmy taste, Mr, | Editor; and I owe an apology to you and your readers for their indulgence Lon the present occasion, 1 hold it to | be the strongest evidence of a weak cause - an untenable position - a low mind - a dernier resorl, and a fecling of a vicious nature - whenever personal personal| - | personal| ities, such as were indulged in by the writer of the article of the 13th instant, ~are used without cause, and without the ' shadow of an exeuse. My pursuits in %lifc had nothing to do with my letter, ! nor with the slanders it was written to Crefute. Why did they not publish the {letter? Why did they not ey toremove, iifthcy could, the brapd 1 fastened on | them ? Why stoop to the lowest school | boy weapons? Was thatmanly 7 Was | that chivalrons? Was the physic too ' potent in that letter ? i edged sword, and hence the failure (to publish my letter, with the grand | lourish of "still another." Hence the ' beautiful and chaste language of their article ! These would-be leaders of | public sentiment having "boxed the compass" in regard to Registration, bitterly opposed at one time to Recon Reconstruction - struction Reconstruction of the Government, then Cagain shouling and puiling and ecoax ecoaxing - ing ecoaxing and threatening to zet everyhody | to register, now blatant with brave - words, then softly cooing and wooing like doves, now "words {ull of sound cand fury, signifying nothing," then crepenting and "chewing the cud" of i bitter fancies" - failing at every point ! to raise a muss, not yet quite whipped Fencugh (hut no doubt will be in time), | they resort to the last ditch of a lost - personalitics, personal abuse, {and vitaperation! But "I still live," fand lintend to live as long as 1T am Lallowed to Dy lh('}',\hknr of all the tcarth, determined o use the hest of my humble ability to cepose and op oppose - pose oppose the schemes of the Hotspurs of the South who are trying, by all possi possihle - hle possihle miecans, to continue their war upon the Union of the States, and who are throwing every impediment in the wiay of a reconstruction of the Federal CGlovernment, Yours, respectfully, F. J. Rosixson. - Tennessee. ' I was in Nashville on the day of the election, and visited in succession each of the places where voting was going jon. The colored people had been advised by their friends to vote as early as possible, and at about nine o'clock they were out in full force. They were dressed in their best clothes - dressed, i in fact, as well as the white gentlemen around them, but they evidently looked upon the affair neither as an idle pas pastime - time pastime nor a holiday. It was with them & deeply significant and solemn occasion when they were called upon to prove ! their title to citizenship at the ballot | ' box, as they had before shown lheir' ~manhood on the field of battle. i . Forming in column with their certifi certificates - cates certificates and tickets in hand, they stretched ' solidly for some distance from the ballot box into the street, Each new arrival, he came up, wade no attempt to precede or crowd those who arrived earlier, but quietly took his place in the rear of the column, and patiently "awaited his turn. Some.of them remained thus for three hours, in the sun, advancing inch by ineh toward the box, into which feil contin continually - ually continually their quie* buj potent ballots. { | There was no boisterousness among | (them ; no lond talking: scarce a | whisper; each countemance looked . grave as death; it was, indeed, for 'them a scolemn task; for they ' were acting in defiance of those who had threatened them with proseription "and starvation in case they persevered ; "and all around them they saw the seowls and frowns of those who had the power, ' at least for a time, to throw them out of 'employmeut, and deprive thel.r wives "and children of bread. But still these ! solid columns, holding in their hands ~what were at once the evidences of their freedom and the instruments wherewith 'to perpetuate it, moved slowly, deter determinedly, - minedly, determinedly, unitedly, and sublimely en. - Cor. Cin, Gazelle, A,

| Northern Letters. National Finances - The President and Secretary Stanton - Trade, Eic. Correspondence of the National Republican. | New York, August 9. The monthly statement of the public debt, for the month ending on the first instant, contains several points worthy of attention, The greenback carrency has been contracted nearly four mil millions; - lions; millions; and since June, twenty twe milions of compound notes have been converted or redeemed, and sixty mil millions - lions millions of seven-thirties ; while the public debt has been diminished over a hundred and twenty milliouns during the year ; the debt bearing coin interest has been incrcased over four hundred and thirty six millions. In other words, while the people are receiving the lawful money of the country, the coin interest is so increased as to require a large surplus of gold to meet this regularly accruing claim of the bondholders. The coin iu the Treasury amounts to over a hundred and two. millions in gold, and over seventy two millions in greenbacks ; and this is so much dead capital lying as a constant temptation to extravagant legislation. The MHerald urges, with much point, that this sum would buy up enough five twenties enough to cut down the coin interest to twelve mil millions - lions millions a year, while, under careful management, the current receipts of the Treasury would meet all the de de'mands - 'mands de'mands upon it, from month to month. There is a clamorous sentiment, coming up from all classes and conditions, for 'a more cconomical administration of | the government. The issue between the President and | Secretary Stanton is just now a topic of' general interest. The laconic version of the correspondence said to have passed between the President and his Secretary - in which the former says that grave eonsiderations of public duty impel him to ask the latter to resign, and the latter replies that like conside considerations - rations considerations forbid that he should comply 'with the request, leaves the public in a state of anxious solicitude for the next turn of the imbroglio. The Herald says the only course left to the President, if he -would maintain the dignity of his office and his own self-respeet, is to suspend the refractory Secretary, and recognize some other person in the discharge of his *N, duties. ' ; Lo The Worid maintaing thai m; Yonere ' re TR e the unquestioned right to remove Mr. Stanton, because he was not one of Johnson's appointees. i The 7imes declares this a quibble, and says that virtually, and in a consti constitutional - tutional constitutional sense, the President reappointed Mr. Stanton, when he became Presi President, - dent, President, and hence the clause of the tenure of oftice bill, which forbids him from removing members of the Cabinet appointed by him, does apply to Mr. Stanton, and he cannot remove him without the sanction of the Senate, The terald evidently holds the same view, hence its suggestion ** to suspend the refractory Secretary," The Post says that to remove Stanton or Sheridan or Pope, is to strengthen and encourage the enemies of the coun country, - try, country, and calls on the President to beware how he "purposely, and with insane obtusity stands between the country and peace; and if he persists in his efforts to defeat the laws, Con gress, as soon as it meets, will have to impeach and remove him. The remo removal - val removal of Stanton will make a new martyr for the next Presidential arena. The Tribune is silent on the subject, being influenced, it is intimated, by recol recollections - lections recollections of personal grievances at the hands of the Sceretary. There would seem to be little doubtthat Stanton's position will be vacated - yet, who can fathom the sensational rumors from Washington. Itis rumored that Grant is to be called to fill Stanton's place ; but the astute smoker is believed to be too smart to identify himself in any way with anybody's family broils. His acceptance of the position would be a tacit endorsement of the President, which he has studiously avoided. "Mum, is the word, with Gen., Grant." A wise man controlleth his speech, ete. Trade has not yet fairly opeued. There are a few purchasers here from the West and from Texag, creating some demand for domestic goods, the prices of which - especially for bleached sheet sheetings - are - ings - are sheetings - are firm and advancing. Drills have fallen off, owing to large stocks. Gray printing cloths, long so popular, are dull and irregular. The fall styles of ginghams and delaincs have not yet made their appearance. Shawls of American manufacturc are fast drive ing the coarser articles from abroad out of the market. Woollen goods are and in active demand. Foreign importations coutinwe light, giving some hope that we may be able, after awhile, to balance accounts with our trans-Atlantic neighbors without sacri sacrificing - ficing sacrificing the national securities. Rich dress silks and fancy goods have had a heavy rum at retail, from the fash.on fash.onables, - ables, fash.onables, who have gone to cut a dash at Saratoga and along shore; and the displays of gorgeous extravagance are said to be unusually stunning. | The annual meeting of the Saratoga iAssnciminn is now in session, and i