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The student of history viii remember
the condition Of Greece, filed with fac
ton, oppression and wrong when the
wisdom of Scion gave them code of
laws which restored justice and gave
them prosperity. 1t may be that this
passage of history shall substantially
repeat itself in modern times. After
Scion had published his laws" says the
historian, "and engaged the people by
public oath to observe them religioGsly,
at least for the term of one hundred
years, he thought proper to remove from
Athens. = When he returned
again after an absence of ten years, he
found everything liz confusion and dis
order Pisistratus had made himself
master of Athens. The people were
divided into factions. \
AristOn made a motion to give
to Pisistratus and his friends fifty
clubmen for his guards Scion stood up
and opposed him. Scion was now
very old, and, from their fear Of the ty-
rants, had none to second him Yet he
was not afraid to appear in public and to
address the citizens, sometimes upbraid-
ing with cOwardice; sometimes exhorting
them to stand up for their liberty. He
said it would have been much easier to
repress the advance of tyranny and pre-
vent its establishment; but now that it
had grown to such height, it would be
more glorious TO demOlish it. But finding
they gave no attention, he returned to
his own house, took his weapons and
placed them at the street door, in token
of despair, with these words: 81 have
done all in my power to defend my coun-
try and its laws" and with these lines
If fear or folly has your rights betrayed
Let not the charge to righteous heaven be laid
You gave them guards--you raised your tyrants
high.
To impose the heavy yoke that draws the heay-
ing sigh SOLON.
He then publicly washed his hands to
acquit himself of all guilt in the murder
of the laws of his country"
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There is not breathing freeman, white
or black, in any one of the ten Hunre-
constructed" States The process through
which they are going, there registration
and elections are and viii be nothing
but a farce Southern men Of sense and
patriotism and principle see and recog-
nize the fact, and many Of them refuse
to register or have any lot 10 the afro
cious work, whilea few are vigorously adj
yising the people to register and vote
against the whole scheme.
These latter viii accomplish nothing
by their labors. The most they viii be
able to effect will be simply to assume
the attitude Of protestants, while the
work viii 60 on. Congress has had the
entire management of the business, and
nobody, We suppose, has ever doubted
the capacity Of that bOdy--which IS re-
strained by no law rule or principle but
lis own will--to carry its purpose tri
umphantly There is, therefore, no hope
for republican liberty in the South
either in or out Of the Union, until the
power of usurpatiOn and tyranny il
broken throughout the country. Such il
the Southern situation at this moment
and is prospective condition for at leas
a few years to come.
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miscellaneous

COLUMBIA, August 21.-The total num-
Der Of voters registered to-day was fifty
seven, of whom thirty-fve were whites.
CHARLESTON, August 2l.-The number
registered here to-day was 235, of whom
140 were whites.
AUGUSTA, August 21.-General order
No. SO, from Gen. Pope's headquarters,
directs that grand and petit jurors, for the
trial of all cases in this department, be here
after drawn exclusively from the lists Of
registered voters, and with discrimination.
BALTIMORE, August 21-Midnight.-~
Raining hard.
AUGUSTA, August 2l.-Heavy rain all
day.
CHARLESTON, August 2l-Renewed re-
ports Of the appearance Of caterpillars on
Sea Islands. No damage done.
FORTRESS MONROE, Aug 21.-Roanoke
river risen twenty feet, submerging low
grounds and destroying crops. Staunton
river also oyerhowed, causing heavy dam
age TO crops.
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THE MOBILE NEGROES IN TROUBLE
Since the high pressure military recon
structionists have been running the GOV
eminent machine and the colored
Leagues in Alabama; and since too, they
have been turning out white men and
putting negroes in Office, the colored
citizens are inpatient that there are not
offices enough for all The Mobile Reg
lister says
There seems to be serious trouble brew
ing in the colored camp, and great split
is threatened. The whole thing has arisen
from the wide dissatisfaction spread
through the negro ranks by the late APP
pointments made in the police and street
force. Every colored man who has not
been appointed seems to feel himself more
or less aggrieyed. 1t was 10 give expires,
sion to this feeling that the meeting was
called at Holly's Garden on Tuesday last,
and It would probably have been largely
attended, were it not that the churches
offered strong opposition, and that the
negroes were advised from the pulpits last
Sunday not to attend. Owing 70 the very
slim attendance, the meeting was postponed
until Thursday next.
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GEORGIA RADICALTsM.

The Augusta Chronicle has been furn-
ished a copy of the constitution and by.
laws of Radical club at Savannah, Ga,
which prescribes the test for member
ship as follows:
No person who voluntarily, and with a
full knowledge of the Bature and effect of
his act, voted for secession or signed the
ordinance Of secession, in any State pas
sing it, or who has been loud and violent
in his denunciations of the Federal gov
eminent, and of the President and officers
OF the United States, and in praise of jeff.
Davis and the "defunct Confederacy." or
who has been abusive in his acts and IAN
guage toward Union men, on account of
their being Union men, or who has volun-
tarily sought after and accepted office nnder
the Rebel government for any other pur-
pose than to avoid CONSUMPTION, shall be-
come a member of this society, at least
until they "show fruits meet for repent
ance"
Their purpose is to exclude the mass
of the whites and rope in the mass of
the blacks, and thus array the people of
that State into parties based upon race.
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POPE'S PROPOSITION FOR BANIsH.
NgENT
From the National InteIliseneer.

From the National Intelligencer.
Nothing which the unhappy demorali-
cation of the times has evolved for the sad
contemplation of men attached to free gov
eminent, compares, for blushless and I'M
conscious advocacy of power against right,
with the extraordinary effusion of Gen.
Pope. which we publish elsewhere this
morning.
This officer does not seem to have the
least suspicion Of the character of his prin-
ciples or those of the just and loyal man TO
whom he was writing. He addresses the
magnanimous and reasonable Grant in a
connection which shows that he did not
suspect himself of advocating principles
in which his wiser and nobler chief must
feel it a reproach to be thus seemingly
made partner. He, in effect, invites the
latter-on the presumption that they agree
in denying the right of the weak to differ
with the strong in the doctrine that faith
need not be kept with opponents, and in
the expediency Of preventing, contrary to
the will OF Congress, a restoration of the
Union--to unite in project for dispensing
with the government of the United States.
He does not expressly say the government,
nor the constitution, nor the laws of the
Union, but he far more emphatically says
it by the fearful Implication of directly
advising the reputation of every founda
.tion-stone of Its fabric, and even of the
fabric of society ITSELF 1t is the print
tive language of the sword, and we are sure
General Pope himself will shrink, as an
American gentleman, as soon as he recog-
nizes in his sentiments the very same that
shaped the career of the terrible Tartar of
Asia, Genghis Khan, the destroyer, con-
sist SLY, of ten millions Of people, who
wets iliS enemies and would not yield, and
who became his enemies by refusing to be
his subjects. If this dreadful Tartar had
a right to the love of whatsoever he chose
as his adherents, then he had a right to
punish their disaffection; and if it was i'm
possible TO Danish them, or if they refused
to go, he was Obliged to yield his Just rights
OF destroy those who wronged him. We
say General Pope would be shocked, in
common with every modern person not ut
terly bad, if he could see himself identified
in his principles with Genghis Khan. But
we ask, in all candor, what difference Of
principle exists if the former has fairly ex-
pressed himself? The key of the Tartars
crime was in presuming, as one man, to
coerce the sentiment of others. He was
ignorant Of rights. A right without the
power of enforcing itself was not, TO him,
right. If it had the power Of enforcing
itself, it needed not to be right.
These things are but slightly known to
savage life. All literature, all philosophy,
all science, all religion, all polity, all law
in a word, all civilizations one unani-
nous shout of disgust, coming down from
all ages and from every people On earth, at
such doctrine as General Pope proposes
for the cooperation of General Grant.
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is A CONFLICT OF RACES IMMI.
NENTP

WIN
Official returns of the registration in
Louisiana show the total number regis~
tered to be l27, 5SS of which 44,723 are
white and S2,S65 are black. OF the
thirty-eight parishes in the State, the
whites have small maiorities in only ten.
In the parish of Orleans, which includes
the city Of New Orleans, the whites have
a majority of only forty. In the parish
of Concordia there are 1913 white voters
and 20S2 black; in Madison, l47 white
and 1851 black; in St Charles, 1877 white
and 1868 black; and in Tensas, 147
white and 1858 black. The discrepancy
in the other parishes is not so great, but
these facts show conclusively that the
negroes in Louisiana can elect large
majority of the delegates to the conven"
ton to revise the constitution, prepare.
tory to admission into the Union, and
il they do not elect men of their own
race as delegates to the convention, it
will clearly establish the fact that the
white Radicals have them completely
under their control The registration re-
turns from South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, and Florida, show large maiorities of
negro voters in most of the counties
Mississippi will perhaps show like results
So far as there have been received returns
from the registration now in progress in
MI the Southern States, except Lou
isiana, the indications are very conclu>
sive that the negroes will be in sufficient
strength to control the elections in at
least six Of these ten States, and perhaps
one or two more The Richmond En-
quirCr of the 10Th inst has compiled the
returns from forty-twO counties, about
one,half the State, in Twenty-Five of
which the whites have majorities footing
up %, 74l, and the negroes thirteen coun-
ties giving an aggregate majority of
1888. The Enquirer thinks the full re-
turns from the entire State will exhibit
something like similar proportion of the
two races, and that the whites will be
able to save Virginia from falling under
negro domination
Do not these figures, in the light of the
Tennessee election, portend a conflict Of
races That seems almost inevitable,
and the intelligent reader need not be
told what viii be the result Of that con-
fict, as sure as night follows the day.
1t ought to be avoided, and can be if the
negro will not suffer himself to be led by
men who seek only their personal ag.
grandizement The men who are going
over the country establishing loyal
leagues and inducing the negro to Join
these secret oath-bound associations, and
then instructing them that their interests
are opposed to those Of the white people
Of the South, are leading the deluded
black man to a contest based upon color,
which win inevitably result in the
greatest injury to his race. Il is strange
that the more intelligent Of the negroes
do not see and feel that this must be
the logic of events, and that their
efforts should be directed in a channel
that would be beneficial TO the men Of
their own color, instead Of lending assis-
lance to the mad schemers who have risen
up like lean kline to deyour the fairness
Of the land
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TELEGRAPHs have of late been extended
in all parts of the civilized world with
marvellous rapidity. The total length of
the Geographic lines of the world was,
according to a German statistician, at the
beginning of the past year, about $4,000
German 100000 English miles, Of which
II, 325 were in the United States, 6062 in
Germany, 1915 in Russia, 1898 in France,
and 34S4 in Great Britain and Ireland.
The government of Prussia, always in>
tent upon perfecting every department
of civil administration, has just officially
announced that it will extend the tele-
graphic system to every town with popu-
lation of 1900. Thus the Prussians will
have better Geographic facilities than any
other nation of the world.
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UPOE the appointment of sundry we'll
known individuals in Georgia 20 responsi-
Bile Federal and local trusts, the exclama-
ton has been general among those who
knew them we'll: Glow can they take the
iron.elad oath ?" Some of these gentlemen
are about to have an opportunity of an
swering the question for themselves in a
more formal and serious way than they
probably would relish. 1t is said that in
formation has been lodged in the Office of
the United States District Attorney against
eight Of these officials, who, fron rampant
Rebels, have suddenly, in view of an office
with good pay, become transformed into
devoted loyalists. Indictments for perjury,
we learn, are being prepared, and will be
presented to the grand jury at the ap-
preaching term of the court.-MGeoR Ga
Telegraph.
Perjury has become 50 common since
the war as to make the ADMINISTRATION of
an oath in a great many cases little less
than a mOckery The oath which a man
holding Office under the government is
required to take is, a very stringent one,
requiring the party to swear that he has
voluntarily given no aid, countenance,
counsel, or encouragement to persons en-
gagged in armed hostility to the United
States" that he has "-neither sought,
nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise
the functions Of any Office whatever,
under any authority or pretended au~
thority in hostility to the United States;
that he has "not yielded a voluntary
support to any pretended government
authority, power, or constitution within
the United States, hostile or inimical
thereto" There are very few men in the
South who can conscientiously take this
oath, and when, man perjures himself
by taking it, he should be prosecuted.
The manner and the occasions on which
oaths were administered during the war,
and in almost numberless instances since,
has deprived the oath to a great extent of
that sacred character with which it was
associated before the war 1t would be
we'll for the cause Of truth and justice
and for the country, if the District At
torneys in other States than Georgia
would take this matter in hand and make
examples of men who VIGOROUSLY periure
themselves in taking what is known as
f." the iron clad oath"
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THE New York Tribune says it is tired
of the nasty business of publishing af-
fdavits and counter-affidavits from all
sorts of irresponsible adyenturers and
perjurers assailing the characters of pub
lie men, and adds that no one ever be-
lieved the truth Of such charges against
President johnson. What's that2 Not
believe any trumped up story against the
President Why, such belief is a cardi-
nal tenet of the Radical creed Not to
believe that, and that the Southern peo-
pie are yet rebellious, waiting only an
opportunity to spring to arms that a
negro, or a negro church or schoolhouse
could not escape numbering or burning
were it not for the rigor and vigilance o.
Congress; that Jefferson Davis delibe-
rately starved Federal prisoners; that the
mantle ornaments of Southern parlors are
the grinning skulls of Federal soldiers;
that Southern children are being reared
with mental reservations against all true
attachment to the government, and reg
ularly to repeat the ares andacredOes anC
tell over in private the rosary of the Sc
eession faith, is to be utterly heterodox
Such darkened unbeliever could M
more get admission to 'loyal league
in this section, than camel could pass
through the eye of needle For hin
there burns no blue sulphurous flames
and no "loyal brother has a hearty hand
shake in the struggle for acres and Offices
The Tribune is mistaken, and does no
know the height and the depth Of th'
nasty business" 10 which its party il
engaged
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In Chanoerr at Nashville.

State Of Tennessee-0ffice Clerk and Master
Chancery Court at Nashville. April the SOth, 1857
Godfrey NJ. Fogg. Jr., Admir- etc., ct ais. COM
plainants, vs.. Dempsey Weaver, admir-, ETC..
ct ais defendants.
TT APPEARfNGF FROM AFFTDAVITFILEp
in this cause that the defendant, William A.
johnson, is a nonresident Of the State Of Ten.
nessee it is therefore ordered that he enter
his appearance herein before or within the first
three days ofthe nsxtt ofsaid Court to be held
on the FIRST Monday in November next. 1867, and
plead, answer OF demur % cOmplainants' bill or
the same will be taken for confessed as to him
and set for hearing sx parte. and that a copy Of
this order be published for four consecutive weeks
in the Nashville Union and Dispatch.
A eopy-Attest: VI. B. HOWELL,
Clerk and Master.
Godfrey NJ. Fogs. Jr.. sOl'r for compl't.
iuDe6 vat
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lin Chancery at NaahYiIle.

State of Tennessee-Ofice Clerk and Master,
Chaneery Court at Nashville. August Goth, 1867.
B. B. Leake, for the use Of c. Clara Cole, com
plainant, vs.. Randolph Lehman, defendant.
TTAPPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT FILED
Lehman, is a nonresident of the State Of
Tennessee it is therefore ordered that he enter
his appearance herein before or within the first
three days next term Of said court TO bsheld
on the LIST Monday in November next. 1867, and
plead, answer or demur to compliments bill, or
the same will be taken for confessed as to him
and setf0r hearing ex parte, and that a copy Of
weeks in the Nashville Union and Dispatch
A copy-Attest: M. b. HOWELL,
Clerk and Master.
SOl'rs for cOmpIt au22 wit
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Affairs I'm New Orleans.

NRw ORLEANS, August PA resolu-
ton was adopted by both Boards Of Alder
men last night, declaring as their opinion
that the further retention in office Of the
present Comptroller, Surveyor, City Attor-
ney and Coroner will be a disregard Of the
reconstruction acts, and calling upon the
commanding General to remove these
officials.
There were ten death from yellow fever
yesterday. The weatheris cooler and more
pleasant
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SAN FRANCISCO, August 21.-United
States District Attorney Luke, commenced
suit against the owners of the schooner
Sarah, to recover 1914, 800 bond, given for
the expectation of cargo over the Amoor
river, which is alleged illegally and frau
dulently with limited state.
The bark Comet, brings Sandwich Island
news to July %. Eleven thousand pounds
choice Sea Island cotton has been received
from Honolulu. Cultivation same as profit
able and extending. The great volcano is
quito active again
Thirty-four vessels loading at foreign
ports, mostly SEnglish, have arrived.
The ship Barrouesse from Valparaiso.
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MONDAY, sEPTEMBER 2, 1867.
In ChancerY at Nashville.

State Of Tennessee-0fIice Clerk and Master
Chancery Court at Nashville, August 18th. 1867.
John Ham ct ais, compliments. vs.. Samuel
KimbrO ct ais. defendants.
IT APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT FILED
in this cause that the defendants, Caroline
Zachary, B. NJ. Zachary. Louisa White, Ellen
HaFgrave, Thedus Hargrsve, Matilda Hill, -
Hill, Louisa Patterson and AlphOnsO Patterson.
are nOn-residents Of the state Of Tennessee: it
pearance herein before or within the first three
days Of the next term of said Court to be held
on the first Monday in November next, 1867, and
the same will be taken for confessed as to them
and set for hearing eX parte. and that a copy Of
this order be published for four consecutive
weeks in the Nashville Union and Dispatch.
A cOpy-Attest NJ. b. HOWELL
Clerk and Master.
White & Cahal. Sol'rs for compPts. au22 wat
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SwIndIer Caught and Returned

FORTRESS MONROE, August PIC. C.
Flint, formerly clerk in the Gosport
Navy Yard, and proprietor of the Old
Dominion at Norfolk, who absconded year
ago and went to England because of the
commission of fraud amounting to about
$4,000, arrived at Norfolk to-day for trial,
having been arrested in New Orleans.
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Four Persons Drowned.

CHICAGO, August 2l.-A Mr.. Beadles,
with his wife and sister, and child of the
latter, were drowned in the Peeiatonica,
near Rockford, on Saturday last 1t APP
pears that the child went into the water
and got beyond its depth, and the others
persisted in their efforts to save it.
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IHE Selma Times says: "A certain
young gentleman emissary, from yankee
dom, passed through the county of Arson a
short time since, vending tickets or certifi.
Gates to the negroes, which he told them
would entitle each holder to forty acres of
land. He sold large number to the ne
groes along his route at fifty cents each.
The negroes, however, becoming assured
that they had been swindled, pursued the
socundrel, overlook him, made him refund
the money with On additional fifty cents in
each case, and then drew his shirt, when
they proceeded to administer a severe fog
ging upon his back. This done, they al
lowed him to 90 on his way rejoicing"
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CONCORD, N. H, August 21.-Near Mer-
edith village to-day pair of horses, draw
ing a carriage containing ]. ]. Hewes and
family, Of Boston, ran away. Mr.. Hewes
and wife jumped out, receiving slight
bruises The mother Of Mrs. Hewes and
one child were badly hurt, and Annie Con-
ners, the nurse, was killed.
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
Order ffSm Gen. Grant-Seeretasy
BrOWming', etc.

order fFBm ten. SaFant-SecFetas,y
browning, etc.
WASHINGTON, August 21.-Gen. Grant,
as Secretary of War, issued an order to-
day, mastering out of service the additional
Paymasters, to take effect the first Of Octo-
Der. The programme seems to be to dis
pense with all officers not in the regular
army.
The Consul at Brindisi, Italy, reports
the cholera on the decrease.
The Consul at Palermo writes, on the
31st July, that over one hundred towns
and villages in Sicily are infected with
cholera, and the average cases per day for
the past fortnight have been 1000. There
are comparatively few cases in Palermo,
and the disease is on the decline.
Secretary Browning's health is improv-
ing, and his friends expect him to be able
to resume his duties this week.
Col. A S. Meyer, chief signal officer OF
the army, is ordered to Washington to
take charge of the signal corps.