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Newspaper Page Text■ sapr WE FLOWERS COLLLUiiiS RAGLAND & WYNNE, Proprietors. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1866. VOL. XXXVIII.—NO. 44. WEEKLY ENQUIRER. •lOHN II. MARTIN, - - Efiiietr COLUMBUS: THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13, I860. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : One Year (in advance) $4.00 .Six Months (in advance) $2.00 The Northern Elections. It appears that the Congressional e’ee- lions in the four Slates that voted lust week resulted, in the aggregata, precisely nccording to the divisi u of parlies in the «?ent Congress. The Conservatives llepitseritat.yes in Pennsylvania, and gain onu j n ^cb of the States of Ohio and Indiana, while in Iowa there ia JiO change. The tuck of the KndicuU in. lifisa elec tions has heen rather surprising. In lose tv.,. Important to Cottou Planters. .Mr. James T. Plewellen Informs us tbat hr. !•::« in his possession the opinion of one <.*’ the able t lawyers in New York ci'y, m?o the t pinions of able ia«?y^5 in thi S-Jite, that there is no legal fouxtati the demand upon planters to income tax cotton produced any previous year. These legal gentl men express the opinion that tho require ment should not be complied with. Air. -Flewellen, therefore, requests all planters in Lhi3 section of the Slate, and of th * adjacent counties in Al&bafua, who have heen required to return tv* the Asses* sora .of the United States Revenue, as income lor the year 1865, any cotton or other produce raised by them previous to gaid year 1865, to call at his office over the ■j store of LI. C. -Mitchell & Co. in this^city. As ihu time is near at hand for the cudiec- of the mcoirte.tax,. it is important to What Butler Said about the Exchange From New Orleans and Mexico. , . More of the Impeachment "X' r-nOTVAV4 Oct. 13.—It is rumor* r - The World proceeds to answ the po- Pennsylvania they bra , rami'* action. " . ‘JO or 18 000 in a vu!- •• \ .. — j**r ity of 16 GOO < half a million. That is a mj>jiU*^y**{y* ty or tV»rw• livv_v<$_£ *o < Ics'tJ tb< HfJ. i«*•. is _• eighteen of the twenty -fp:S C< I:> Ohio and Indiana ifteTr-f jorilies do not exceed fifty \ thousand, and they ek’d iwenty-lmV >f the thirty Congressmen. A i . re even distribution of t|ie vole < f the two.parties would have made the representation from these State-.- rund about 32 Radicals to 2*2 Conservatives, instead of 42 to 12. It is evidgnl that the Radicals have the most perfect party organization, and know best where their greatest exertions are needed and can bo most successfully 'employed. A strong popular opposition is rendered unavailing for tho serious hampering of Lb»*ir strength, where they cun so expend ii as to euiry nearly ali of the Congressional districts. The Baltimore Election. Tho telegraph failed to advise u= of the reaii.tof the Baltimore municipal election, held on the 10ill inst. The conservatives made no serious contest after it was de termined to limit the voting to the regis tration lirt of iast year, and the radical ticket obtained nearly all the votes. It is said, however, that tho conservatives will endeavor to have the election set aside by judicial decision. They claim that the registration of 1865 does not contain moTe than one-sixth of the voting population of the city, and that on a full vote they can heat the radicals four to one. Not content even with the disfranchising of the great body of liio voters, tho radical rulers, disregarding the cue torn that gives one election judge to the party in tin* minority or out of power, appointed all the judges for each precinct from their own party, and employed a largo number of extra | policemen to prevent anv on A-Wrjfrsxis*? U'.cl»re<J lierse^jg jranrfi-, c iScer for^nfliW sible for the starvation of our prisoners at l Belle Isle and Andersen vi 11 r®iu*ing j to exchange soldiers becriufftJtBofebetsdidJ- There not recognize the negroes in oufcjPorvice afij^r°he to regular soldier?.. r was one reporL tha r Cortina hud Monterey to he,-. Escobedo, aim revino to defend that city again?’. negro should not be exchanged. Whatever I might have thought it-b«‘S( l to have done, I am only here to-day to j Sp/uiM^btb,. r.>* U i8ville‘L.'omocra:.j sm.v that I did not do i„. The dut • - •/’ <r.'Lout <'ci. 13.—TwY.) of the Radi- j r Exobunge put in J ca ‘i r^i^nr.* officers in tnvi Cby been arre-ted 'Yor 4«ifurin£ to re " Commission ov tin/ids. have a ti ex chan ido "an arrangement t ; < fi man for ni.\: , ; naniei persons eniiUuti A 1 VOil^. i wmBuwt'r.,! •• v |, Br ,. ;n , refill,!- rfgKlration e of its rules of proceedings: .“The person impeached shall then be chIl.-ii to appear and answer the articles of impeachment exhibited against* him. If he appears, or any person for him,the ap pearance shh 11 be received, stating partic ularly if by himself, or if by agent or at torney; naming the person appearing, jir*«l the capacity in which he appears. If he does not appear, either personally, or by agent or attorney, the same sha.l be recorded ” Gun. Butler is wholly wrong in his law. Irstead of the Pre?id*nt being taken into cu.*iody and imprisoned, it depends on his C. •-.’Co wiieiher he will appear before the ■Court*at all If he appears, he is - just as •i»' appear by attorney as In person. • J « jge Story, in h-s e*»n rm iitanes on * Constitu ion, describes at length the ofiialiiies observed in trials for imp.-ach- nenl. And the World cites the follow- psssage as corroborating tbe inferen 0f , soldier who served in the Union army ; N• w Vork.^Her name is.ilrs. ElizabelU r’ stmen. I <j„ 4 <._ n t on - a widow, v/e presume, a- tuyit. of the “strong minded’’ are either. Tpinatersor widows, married ladies having other things than politics to engage their attHntiirn. She declares herself for rirgro suffrage, and is of cour-e partial to the rest of the negro. The Eighth District i3 the one represented by the able and patriotic Brooks until he was unjustly turned out by a base radical dodge, and which will ugain elect him, whether the radicals run again.-t him a man or a woman, a white man or a negro. The Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, desiring to afford-the members of the General Assembly an opportunity to examine into the condition of said Road, has directed that they be pft-s-r.1 over the same free of churge until the lir?t day of January next. A special election was held in Mem* phis, Tenn., on Saturday last, for two members of the Legislature. Messrs. Able and Coleman,the conservative nom inees, were elected by large majorities over their opponents, two of whom were supported us radicals and got an insignifi cant vote, and another as an independent, who ran pretty well. At the same lime the municipal election was hell. W. O. Lolland, the conservative nominee, whs elected Mayor by a majority of 634 over all others. All the balance of the regu lar conservative ticket was elected. S i ox i fic a nt, if Tuue.—A n e ws pa per correspondent stab s that orders have been issued at Washington for the erection of barracks for thirty thousand troops around uucr oi extra | .i «fr< rn vo ir «- 1 l “ e c,t ^* ^ here to-day, and who had Chen ju-t es C'-.^re t iromthc Libby. I told him ho proposed t>* get our negro soldiers out of rebel hands. We had 00,000 or thereabout of their prisoners. They had 30.000 of ours, or thereabout. I don’t give too exact num bers, >.s I quote from memory; but these are the approximate numbers. I proposed to go on and exchange with the rebels, man for man, officer for officer, until 1 got 30,000 of our men, and then I would siiil have had 30,000 of theirs letl in my hands. And then I proposed to tw;=l these 30,000 until 1 got the negroes out of the rebels. (Applause.) I made this anraiigement with the Confederal*.* Commissioner. This was on the 1st of April, before we commenced to move on Li.at campaign of 1864, from the Rapid Ann to the James, around Richmond. At that time the Lieutenant General visited my headquarters, and I toid him what I bad dune, lie gave me certain verbal di rections. What they were I shall not say, because I have his instructions in writing. But 1 sent my proposition for exchange to the Government of thf* United States. It was re; rred to the Lieutenant General.— He ordered me not to give the Confede rates another man in exchange 1 telegraphed back to him in these words: “Your order shall be obeyed,^ut I as* sumo you do m l mean to intertero with tho exchange of the sick and wounded?” lie replied : “Take ali the sick and wounded.you can get, but don’t give them another man.” You can see that even with sick and wounded men this system would soon cause all exchanges to *to*>. # It did •Hop. It stopped right therein April, 18G4. and was not resumed until August, 1861, when Mr. Ould, the rebel C ’inmissioner, again wrote me : v “ We will exchange man for man, officer for officer,” and saying nothing about colored troops. I laid this dispatch before the Lieutenant General. liis answer, in writing, was substantially: “If you give tbe rebels the 30,000 men whom w«» hold, it will insure the defeat of General Sherman and eri* danger our safely hero around Richmond. Imt those on the registration list of lS'o. j TO- New Orleans Crescent, in speaking | ‘ J YVYlrL’te (Ltn’mi^-ioiv''-if ’..That Blind indeed must be a party that can j ti ;<i su S ar production of Louisiana, 1 they should stop a.l further idlers of ex- cxpfccttoreluin power in this .country by j -ay.*: “We have no heart to indulge in j change.^ disfranchising or defrauding tbe pe**pl ' 1 "" «»——***«•*» * Sav ,K * ,iri General Butler, in a speech made at Hamilton, Ohio, the other day, defended p-.mcdf from tLe charge that ho caused the suffering of tho Union prisoners at Andersonviiic and elsewhere, by refusing to make an exchange, and threw t'.ie blame on Geueral Grant. Butler said that the United States held 00,000 Confederate prisoners, and the Confederates held only 30,000 Union prisoners; that his plan was to go on exchanging man for man until he had gotten back all the Union priso ners, and then to “twist” the 30.0C0 remaining Confederate prisoners until ho “got the negroes out of tho rebels.” We don’t know certainly what he meant by “twisting” the Confederate prisoners, but tho term sounds very much like some of the torturing devices of the Spanish Inquisition, that wo used to lead about. lion. W. T. Wofford, Representative elect of the 7th Congressional District of Georgia, has resigned that unpromising position, and Gov. Jenkins has ordered a special election to be held in the several counties of the District on tho 28th of November to designate another expectant of a seat in Congre*®. A dispatch from New Orleans, of the 10th, says that the general estimate now made in that city, of this year’s cotton crop, is less than a million of bales. The last Newnan Herald states that large numbers of negroes arc leaving that part of Georgia, ostensibly for Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, allured away by tempting offers of high wages. It says that about two hundred—men, women and children—have been induced to leave Coweta county within the last rix weeks. The Mozart Democracy of New York city have nominated James Brooks for Congress in the 8:b, and Fernando Wood in the 0th district. The other wing of the Democracy have not j T et made nomina tions in these districts. It is not a time ii.Ani to split. Radical victories are too easily gained, now-a-days, for that. A correspondent of tho New York lleraUly writing nom Franklin, Macon county, N. C., say* that the gold mine at (vrtes, in that region, is undoubtedly the richest surface mine in the world, and that a company chartered by tho State, with a capita) of S-300,000, has been organized to work it. bout the policy of this course; 1 offer r.o criticism of it whatever; I say only that, whether it be a aood or h had policy, it was not. mine, and that my part in it was wholly in obedience to or ders from my commanding officer, the Lieu te nan frGenei «I. remark of Sut Lovingood (cotton factor I . Aft-.r further considerations ad- 7 1 «iresseu to Democrats, General Butler was chant), when speak- | forced to slop short in his speech by the T j another is Taylor Li. w, brother of ii.»n. 1 v Henry T. Bow. tho Radical member of Congress from tbe Second District. He was refused registration because he was charged with disloyalty. The friends ol Irish and universal lib erty are notified that on Monday evening, the 15.h in**!., grand bail wi l be given, in honor of J tines Stephens, in this city, at Verandah Hall. It is e-timated that the total number of deaths from cholera in this city during the months of August and September was about 3500. The receipts of gold from Idaho con tinue to be heavy. A number of miners arrived at St. Joseph yesterday,having in lUeif possession $100,000. A \V*oitd or Caution.—We have been advised that individuals, representing themselves as agents—but what kind of agents we know not—are traversing the counties of upper Georgia faking testimo ny in regard to claims of so cal led Union men who represent themselves as having b«'t*n loyal to the United States during the war, in order to prosecute them before the Court of Claim* or Departments in Wash ing’. n. These agents, wo are informed, deal in politics—arc Radicals—and they represent that, if the policy of the Presi dent f.»r Southern restoration prevails, no loyal Union man during the war will re** cover damages for his property destroyed by either army ; but, if the Radicals suc ceed, all will r. cover the same. This is simply a Radical humbug, and wo warn our people against it. The loyal Union man during the war is as likely to get pay for his property destroyed by either the Federal or Confederate army from tho Conservative as from the Radical parly- no matter which party may be in power, the result to him will be the same. But the loyalty of the claimant, in either event, must be r stabiished beyond a doubt. Testimony pro and con will be taken, before any claim will be determined. Mere cx parte proceedings will not deter mine the claimant’s right to compensation for destroyed property. Tbe Government will see to this, no matter who dincts it, the representations of the so called Radi cal agents to the contrary notwithstanding. The authorities at Washington will be advised of these wholesale proceedings in our Stale.—Atlanta Intell. remarks on the subject. Instead of being large exporters of sugar and molasses, we are now heavy importers of these arti cles.” There is more truth than poetry in the j Com miss ing of the great increase of tl ture in India: “Them feller? is got us on the cotton question, lessen we kin get a brunch of the freed men’s buro started in thar seckshun. Hits all our salvation at this stage of the game, an’ the only way tochoko’era off an’spile their competi tion.” Ur:fortunately for us, Great Britain tried something like tho “Buro” scheme in Ja maica a number of years ago, and its re sult ihero has been a warning that will prevent its repetition in India. In John Bull’s case, his own people at borne would be tiie sufferers by any such tomfoolery as a “Buro” experiment in India; while in our case tho Yankee radicals can look with as unfeeling indifference upon the de struction of the cotton culture as the old woman did upon the writhings of the eel? she whs skinning. The city of Philadelphia, at the recent election, polled the enormous number of 103,022 votes, divided as follows: Geary, Rep., 54,208; Clyrner, Dem., 48,817. Sev eral of tbe counties voted over twenty thousand each. Oid Mr. Grant, father of tbe General, made a speech in Cincinnati on the even ing previous to the election, in which he advocated the radical ticket, sustained the policy of Congress, and ridiculed the idea that any respectable number of Republi cans were Johnson men. & This is lather surprising, in view of his previous decla rations, and of his Into acceptance of an office as a friend of the Administration. A dispatch from Washington, of the 12th, says: “It has been decided by tbe Acting Comptroller of the Currency that mutilated currency must be redeemed by tho redemption agencies of National banks at commercial centers, so long as no reasonable doubt exists as to the iden- * tity of thp.* notes presented. When the notes arc so baniy mutilated as to make the value or identity difficult to determine the case should bo referred to the bank by which they were issued.” This explodes a previous report that such mutilated issues would not be recog nized or redeemed. fact 5 hut liie time for tho train to leave had come. lie vvns heartily cheered as he left, and was again escorted through tho town by the B >ys in Blue and other citizens. Address of the Southern Loyalists. New York. October 13.—A Herald’s St. Louisspeciai says : The Southern Loy alists prepared an address this morning to tho people of the United States, before leaving Springfield. They urged the peo ple to insict, in behalf of true loyalists, on further conditions precedent to the admis sion of the into rebel States than those enunciated in the constitutional amend ment, because the present State Govern ments of the South are not legal bodies, and therefore cannot legally ratify tbe amendment. They plead tuut the people insist their representatives shall, at the next session, declare the present organiza tions in the South illegal, and proceed to organize governments based upon the principles of impartial loyal suffrage. A committee of seven were appointed to keep tne subject before the people until the final decision of the reconstruction question by Congress. The committee consists of Col. Moss, of Missouri: Prov. Gov. Hamilton, of Texas; Bingham, of Alabama; (Trillin, of Texas; Rucker, of Virginia; Eaton, of Tennessee; and Ran dolph, r.f Louisiana. Tae Loyalists’ de* puta.ion is now dissolved everywhere.— Their principles for impartial suffrage have been enthusiastically received even in the supposed strongholds of conserva tism in Indiana and Illinois* Everywhere they have received the most cordial diences. The Difficulty at Fernandixa.— The Savannah yews of Monday thus re fers to the anticipated conflict at Fernan- dina, Fla., concerning which we copied an article of tbe JSews the other day : “The apprehended difficulty at Fernan- dina, of which we riade brief mention in our issue of Saturday, we are glad to state, did not occur, tho question at issue hav ing been amicably settled to the satisfac- j tion of all parties concerned. A number of citizens, owners of property prior to j the Government sale, have had tbe same | restored to them ^ ^ ^ Manufacturing Adv^ n - taqes at Marine Disastf.rs.—The following TDK South.-—1 he Charlesto. Rews are reported by the Savannah paper? of ! s P eu ^ s hopefully of tho spirit of t,.t er _ It appears doubtful whether one of the radical candidates for Congress in Iowa has yet made his election sure, and his radical friends charge that he is defeated (if defeated ut all) by false Democratic reports of his death, put out just before the day of election. If he did not get votes enough, this plea will no doubt avail in tho^ext Congress to give hirn the scat, liis nnau i s Hubbard, and he had over five thousand majority at the Con gressional election in Monday: British brig Union, from Matanzas to Fernandlna, struck on Nassau bar, but k pt afloat by pumping and throwing b«l- prise developing in that State in regard manufactures. It says the “middle anJ upper sections of the Stale are covered with unsurpassed manufacturing sites, Gov. Geary Congratulates Him self.—A Philadelphia dispatch of the 10th inst. .-ays : Forney’s Press publishes a speech made by Gen. Geary, in honor of the Radical victory in Pennsylvania, in which he says: “It permanently establishes these facts: That tho Government of the Uni ted States is vested in the American peo pie and their Representatives in Congress assembled, and not in a corrupt Execu tive; that cruel and revengeful traitors, defeated in battle, shall not be restored to citizenship to rule the country they at tempted to destroy; that when our lore- fathers declared men capable of self-gov eminent, they expell&d the heresy of hu man slavery, and pledged equal political rights to all their successors ; that hereaf ter citizens represented in the State and national legislatures must be clothed with the rights of citizenship; that all the agencies of the Government, civil and military, must be perseveringly and sternly exercised to protect,vindicate and, if needs be, avenge our oppressed broth ers in the South against the savage perse cutions of rebels, who are still so imperti nent and defiant that even A. Johnson fears to pardon them. Having fortified these great truths against ail future dan gers, it is for us of Pennsylvania to main tain the forward position we Lave so proudly and gloriously assumed. The Atlantic Cable Company* New York, Oct 11.—Tne Atlantic Telegraph Company held a special meet ing on the 27th of September, in London. The directors submitted a report asking the sanction of the stockholders to apply to Parliament for power to increase the nominal capital to £5,000.000 sterling, in cluding the existing capital. It is stated that if they excluded all exceptional days when the cable could not work at all, llm average earnings would be £960 sterl per day. A Virginia View of the Constitu tional Amendment.—Tho Petersburg Index, of Wednesday, says: In the event that the elections hold or aitempt'wiil, a -one-, bo mude t*> pi ty a bluff’ game, snd to intimidate the South ern States into the adoption of tho consti tutional amendment. Self styled friends will whisper that it is better to yield this one time, as it all the concessions we made last year had not taught their own lesson-. To all this bluster and the suggestions of the tempter, let us oppose a good con science, a quiet discharge of the duties o. life, and a firm, unwavering resolve to do nothing that is mean, cowardly arid dis graceful. There need be no fear of the adoption of this amendment. If all the Northern States were to be temporarily led astray by passion and excitement, the Southern Scales, simply by a policy of judg^Chase’s case “If he (the person impeached) does not appear, or 83* attorney, his default is re corded, and the Senate may proceed ex parte to the trial of the impeachment. If he does appear in person or by attorney, his appearance is recorded.” There have been, in all, four cases of impeachment, since the beginning of our Government, namely, that of William Blount, lf-9; John Pickering, 1S03; Sam’l Chase, 1&A<; and James II. Peck, in 1831. 'The law governing such trials, us stated by Judge Story, is founded . n the prece dents furnished by those four cases. The argument of General Butler in support of '•he position of Wendell Phillips, that the, President must necessarily bo suspended from office during the trial, falls to the ground in the face of this uniform usage. But, even if the exploded assumption of Bu ler were correct, tho taking of the President into temporary custody would not operate as a suspension from office. If he should be totally disabled for six weeks by typhus fever, we suppo-e no body is absurd enough to say that he would cease to be President during his illness, and that the President of the Sen ate would be inducted into the executive chair. The Government would, in that case, be administered by tLs heads of de partments, and papers requiring the President’s name would remain unsigned until his recovery. That his office could not be filled by another person during his transient disability may be shown by a concluding analogy. Suppose Chief Justice Chase should be impeached, would his office be vacant dining his trial? If so, the President could send to the Senate a nomination to fill the vacancy. The Ledger’s False Sensational Dis patch. Philadelphia, Oct. 10 —The Ledger has received the following important dis patch : - Washington, Oct. 10.—The President has just sent iri to Lire Attorney General the following questions, and requested that a response to them be returned in writing: First—Is the present Congress, compos ed of members fiom Northern Slates alone, Vacb a Congr^s as the constitution requires, or is it an illegal and unconstitu tional assemblage? Second—Would existing circumstances justify the President in senair.g his next annual message t<> an illegal and un on- siitutii.mil assemblage, pretending to be t-L'* Congrpss of the United States? Third—Does that clause in section five, h n rsi _ ':ath House judgir 4^kthA elec^Ti returns and qualifications W its own^embers, give to the present Con gress the right to exclude the members from en States, or to impose dishonorable or un-onsti ulional terms on their ndmis sion ? Fourth—Does the President’s oath of office require him to enforce these provis ions of the constitution, which give to each State an equal right of representation in Congress?—Article 1, Sections 2 and 3, and Article 5, last clause. Fifth—Wiiat steps do the constitution and his oath of office require the President to take in order to secure the assemblage ^ w of n constitutional Congress? defeat* 7 the Upon the reply that may be made by of the cuiiJL hi fi4>£*ted reinforcement, ...asterly inactivity, , -, - amendment until tho balance of the j l T V e A torne y General to the above, tbe Northern States shall, like Oregon, ex- j resident, the^e is reason to believe, is ptinge the ratifications hastily given under I determined to take his stand. Ine ques- passion and exci Important Decision.—A decision w«* recently made by the Judge of the Supe rior Court of Sumter county, in this State, which will attract attention. A negro was arraigned on an indictment for rape, when his counsel raoveu t<> dismiss the proceed* ings on the ground that the party charged had already been arraigned, tried and punished by a military or provost court, the crime having been committed upon the person of a white woman, and the punishment inflicted bali and chain for three months. The Judge decided that the plea could not avail the prisoner uri' less it should be shown that he belonged either to the army or nav’3’ of the United States. The Court proceeded with the trial, which resulted in the conviction of the accused party, who was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment in the Peni tentiary.—Sav. News. The Cathedral at New York to re Rebuilt.—An informal meeting of the trustees of St. Patrick’s Cathedral was held in this city yesterday afternoon to take into consideration the. loss of that edifice by fire. The Very Right Rev. William Starrs, Vicar General of the Catholic diocese, was present, having left Baltimore, where he was alttending the Plenary Council ( f the Roman Catholic Church, oh receiving intelligence cf the fire. He brought with him the views of the Rev. Archbishop McCloskeyin regard to the calamity. It was the general wish of the trustees that a new building should be erected on the same site as the old one, and to be after the same plan of architec ture,'and this desire wiii be presented in a more formal and definite shape at the next meeting of the trustees.—A. i’ World. Invitation to the Pope.—The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger writes: There is good reas#v for believing at the Grand ProViRCial OotTB^i^-of the Roman Catholic.Ghu'ch, which is about to assemble in Baltimore, an effort wi! 1 be made to extern? a formal invitation to the Pope to make the United States his home; in the ever* of suer* a turn in political affair? in Haly as would render his longer stay in Rome undesirable. It i- no secret that the highest ecclesiastical authority in this diooese is favorable to tho proposition, and bis views, no doubt, will influence others. Crops in Oglethorpe County.—The Bureau Agent in this county writes a? fol lows : I never before saw such a crop in ny country. Some farmers will scarcely make the seed which they planted in the spring. Most of the freedmen were working for a share irithe crop, and of course they will make fittle or nothing. li virgin this county is mersgener- tions put to the Attorney General are all the more important when taken in con*- flection with the bold utterances of the President at tho Fifth Avenue Ilotol, declaring that the present was only an assumed Congress, arid not the Congress the constitution calls for; also when taken in connection with similar declarations, though less pointed, which fell from his lips prior to his return to the capital. From these utterances it is clear that the .Executive has fully made up his own mind that the Thirty-Ninth Congress was not a legal body. lie now asks the opin ion of the Attorney General upon the grave and momentous subject, and when that is given he will govern himself ac cordingly. It is not difficult to fore- shudow what the response of Mr. Stan- berry will be, and that he will chime in fully with the opinions of the Executive as already expressed there seem? to be no doubt. Constitutional Alliance. Tne following is from the Richmond Examiner of a late date: An alliance or compact has been formed by iarge numbers of political parties in Netf York, under the above name—the term constitutional implying devotion and obedience to the Constitution of tho Uni ted States without alteration or amend ment; the word alliance meaning a union or league between political parties who may unite under the restoration policy of President Johnson. The constitution of the ‘‘Alliance” is read 10 each applicant after taking the foilowing oatb, from which the general meaning of the organi zation may be inferred—the oath must be t.iken by members over two crossed sworda: “1 solemnly swear in the presence of a juTt God to preserve, uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of the United Flutes, the President of the United States the constitutional and rightful exponents Jf the law. I also solemnly swear that I will, when called upon by the lawful Arcs ot the commands of tho Hines of the Triatgles, and will peril life, suffer imprisonment,’ loss of property, and every discomfort, to preserve liberty and justice, and to up* hold and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Presidentof the United States, and the constitutional and rightful exponents of the law.” Although scarcely a week has elapsed since the above plan of organization was perfected, yet already three organizations are in existence in New York. Letters huve been addressed to conspicuous poli ticians in various parts of New York and other States, detailing the proposed plan of organization, and this correspondence resulted in the formation of two “Alli» ances,” ono in Troy and the other in Buf falo, and from the enthusiasm with which the movement has been hailed, we infer that it is very likely soon to extend throughout the United States. Mexico. From the Mobile Tribune, 16th. They are having a deligfitfui time in the northern portion, especially, ot the coun try above .named. Tbn*e h.nds of rob- beis, who, countenanced for some un known reason by the people . f ihe United States, have seiz’d upon Mu tumor a? and other places, and Lave already begun quarrelling and cutting throats «iyc?r the spoils. Canales, the tel low that com manded the force that captured MaUtuo- rus, once finding himself in possession of that place, declined acknowledging (.M ex- ican fashion) the authority by which he made the capture, jiad has set up for Lirr.- selt. Canales, to secure his power, seems to have made several arrests, among them one Gen. Tapia, probably an adherent of Juarez—at any rate a rival robber. It seems, too, that scroe American reinforce^ ments had been engaged to garrRon the c, ty. AY e learn from tho Brownsville Courier that on the 21st ult. these, to tho number ot 150, took possession cf the plaza, and then proceeded *t > tho jail for the purpefe of liberating Tapia. Failing i:i their effort to breulc in, being disap pointed, in the meantime, in the arrival of .-v ain, III- .viican garrison becoming aroused, the lilibusttro beat a retreat, took possession of a Mexi can gunboat and crossed the river, after having sustained but little loss. The fili- b-jfjcr fiasco had hardly got cold, when a 9SPrHin<>joso wormed his way out of one of Canales' dungeons, issued a prommeia- mento, drew sonic soldiers together, and begun a tight, which was kept up in the streets and from house tops for several hour.-; Hinojoso, in the end, deeming it best to cross the river. Some nipn were killed in this affair, and a lew were shot by Canales after Us termination. . We have given these particulars of an every-day occurrence in Liberal Mexican life to show what a God-forsnken set the United States have adopted as their pro teges in Mexico. The desire manifested to turn the country over to them can only be compared to Satan’s attempt on the Garden of Eden, only the Devil had the better excuse—he wanted tho property for his own use. Chinese Pirates.—Tho Hong Kong papers give a full account of a recent cap ture and burning of twenty-two pirate junks by a couple of British gunboats which sailed from Hong Kong, July l*2th, for Hainan island, and discovered tho pi rates in a small inlet. Tho place is de scribed as a beautiful spot, covered wjth a luxuriant tropical vegetation, and usually affording a safe retreat. The junks each mounted about ten large guns, and showed light without hesitation. Tho gunboats advanced to within short range, and were occasionally struck, though most of the bails from the pirate junks passed over them. The canonading went on for about two hours, when a new turn was given to the course of events by means of a landing party from tho gunboats. About foity- five men were quietly put or. shore, and under cover of the jungle made their way round to tho part of the creek where the pirate vessels were lying, without being observed until they came close to tho junks. From those lying close along shore the pirates immediately fled, scul ling in their sampans or swimming ashore to the opposite side of the creek, and gradually, as the landing parly took pos session ot the junks along shore, and by means of boats began to hoard thoso which were anchored out it* the creek,the pirates gave up,and even from the vessels lying furthest out, the crew slipped over the sides and disappeared without the as sistance of sampans. A number of pirates were made prison ers,but being mostly wounded and in need of medical attention, were allowed to es- i.capc. The junks were nil buri;t,not.wiih*- standing some of them contained valuable cargoes. It is thought that the severe punishment thus inflicted, and the organi zation of a court at Hong Kong for the suppression of piracy, (tho admiral of th station being chief justice) will l, avo a most salutary effect. The Gold Region of Georgia.— VVe yesterday saw tho result of tho washing of about one pound of dirt from a lot of land in Lumpkin county, No. 97, adjoining White county,the yield from which is the most astonishing wo have yet witnessed. We are not much of an adept in tbe art of washing or saving gold,and rely upon the opinion of our townsman, Judge C. H. Strong, who exhibited to us the result of the “panning operation,” and who thinks that the ore or dirt will yield, at the least, five hundred dollars per ton. The sam ple tested was from a vein averaging ?ix feet in breadth, and it is believed that the whole extent of the vein will yield a per centage equally large. We understand that this property is now owned by a Mr. Jordan, of New York, who has lately purchased it, and who will at once com mence operations with the most approved macninery. The above is only another illustration of the vast wealth hidden in tho moun tains of our State. Northern capital is beginning to wake up on the subject, and the day is not distant when all that region will echo with the sound of busy machin ery extracting the precious metal. Truly money is power; had our poor depleted peoplo the means to operate these valua ble mines, foreign capital would have to pay high for the privilege; as it is, our people are selling such property f«»r a mere tithe of its real value. We heard a v/ei) informed gentleman say, a few days ago, that when Col. Bride's mills were put in motion, and the results made known, it would add $10,000 000 to the present value of such property nlroudy discovered and being opened. And yet the field of discovery is but touched. When wo consider that the gold h.-jL stretches more than one hundred miles across our State, from northeast to sout IT - west, we believe that it is destined to be come the El Dorado of tho Atlantic slopes.—Atlanta Intelligencer. The Storm. Baltimore, Oct. 12.—The loss of the mall bridge at Ilchestcr will not delay tho regular freight or passenger trains after to-morrow. Tho storm has been confined to the vicinity of Baltimore, ami has been principally along the Patapsco River. There is no rise in the Potomac. The entire line west of thirty miles from Baltimore is in perfect order, and east of this, including the repairing of the bridge, and will be ready to resume the regular A Terrific Storm. Washington, Oct. 11 —Prof. Ilenry, of Ho Smithsonian Institute, says the amount «»f m n which fell from yesterday morning at 9 o’clock 10 this morning at the same hour, was somewhat more than five inches, being the greatest quantity that has fallen wuhin a similar period for a long time. Considerable damage to property is reported along the line of the Potomac and. the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, as well as-in this city and George town. The storm has continued sinco yesterday with but brief interval. Baltimore, Oct. 12—Tbe rain has con tinued lo-drfy almost without intermission, and is still falling. A heavy easterly wind Accounts agreejh night and this forenoon was* y* II irrible Indian Outrages. Special to the Louisville Courier.) St. Louis, Oct. 11.—Capt. Barlow, of Gen. Gherman's staff', arrived yesterday from Fort Dodge,where he saw two white giris, named Day, ono seventeen and the other thiiteeu years old, who had been ransomed from the Kiowa Indians. The giris say on the 27th of August tho Kiowa Indians attacked their home at Northviile,Texas, and killed, scalped and burned their father .and mother. A sister, eight 3 ears old, they carried into captivi ty, and Lrctried her erneliy and in the rnost revolting manner. On arriving at the Indian camp, the cAptives were knocked senseless with prevails. Accounts agree quan-. 'clubs repeatedly, and ravished by tbe tity of water \vhi«j.«y. ti uids, and were treated in this manner ’•He.' \lor tr five times every day. ^ riorg s \ On hearing of their condition tbe com manding officer at Fort Dodxe noLhaving sufficient loree to rescue them’ effected their ransom, and will send them to their ordinary. A number of damS and DrnVg on tho Patapsco were destroyed. Tho extensive, dam at Eiysvillo was swept off, and tho flood coining against the turnpike bridge at Eliicott’s Mills destro3 7 ed it. 1 ho. wrecks finally accumulated at a heavy stone bridge at Chester, on the Bal- rimirre nrid Ohio Railroad, thirteen miles from .Baltimore, which gave way to the tremendous pressure. This br Octagons, respond to and obey the% and freight trains within twenty- ands of tbe Dines of the Triatgles. ^ * Wfi - vjs n ransomin' for $1700, pay able in to thq tort. T daughter wer Indians agrted in a few days ! They wer and could not’ ings much Ion ’onskl-’-.vl the < n 1^. T.miI stood out against all former floods? •All other bridges on the road are safe. A large force of workmen have commenced repairs, and irrins will run as usual to morrow. Considerable destruction of live stock is reported. Dead sheep, hogs, cows and horses are strewn along the banks of the river. Baltimore, Oct. 11—The bodies of the unfortunate family drowned in the j and daughter are flood on Gwynn’s Falls, by the sweeping away of their house, about one mile from this city, have all been found except the mother und ono Child. Three of the children were found near together at the foot of Riddle street. The body cf the father was di-covered in another locality. His name is Dudley. There are other reports of loss of life, but nothing definite has been ascertained. friends in T**xas a? soon as they recover from their terribln sufferings. " While in the Indian camp an officer was s^nt to arrange ransom, and saw i tho cap-ivL.' kt!. • 4. three times ' nd wiH be sent to their home r g The Helena (Montana) Rep that Gen. *Sheridnn’s dispatch fr ^ Laramie to Gen. Grant was false, an a h was criminally negligent of duty in send ing it. The Powder river road to Montana is infested by Indians, who are daily com mitting the most fearful depredations. For a distance of seventy miles, between Powder river and Fort Laramie, thero is A Herald’s special of the thh snys the hardly a mile that has not its newly made "* A - 1 * l ' ■' 1 graves to tell of a recent murder. Fifty Toronto Assizes opened their ses? yesterday, t’inef Justice Wilson deliv ered a message to the grand jury, in which lie refers to the Fenian prisoners. He paid a tribute to the devotion of the Irish people to their native land, and re viewed the origin and progress of the Fe nian Brotherhood in America. He said many of the prisoners were reckless, wild young men of the class so frequent in tho cities of the United States,and denounced severely the course of tho United Elates Government in not quelling the conspira cy when its expanse was so widely pub lished through tiio public press. It is ! nen were killed in six days. Parties are compelled to light against ten times their numbers of savages, and no one is safe unless traveling in a train of one hundred or more. The Indian* are upon the war path in force, and with their sabres, revolvers and rifles, obtained from the treaty council at Laramie. There are only two hundred and fifty mounted men at Fort Reno. The Indians know this,and are with bold* ness stealing stock by wholesale, burning trains and murdering emigrants. One man, j Freed with thirty-seven ar rows, had Lis hands and feet cut off and his body terribly mangled. Three men, descending the Missouri river, were cap tured, killed and scalped by the Indians. Their names were Robbins, of Me., Wor- don, of Minn., and P. \Y r . Queke, un known. St. Louis,Oct. 11.—The latest Montana advices report forty miners out ot a party of snvcnlv-five, in the Green river dig gings, killed by the Cheyenne Indians. The remainder were driven away. The minors on Wind river were also driven off supposed tho trial of the Fenians will commence on Thursday. The Paris correspondent of the Inde pendence Beige, alluding to the presumed understanding between Russia and the United States, say?: All our agents in tho Easu, whatever their position, are nearly unanimous in speaking of the general fermentation manifested at different points of the Otto man Empire; an agitation which contin ually increases, and which may bo consid- , ifvt creil ns thn prelude lo the Eastern question | by'The JSioux In’dinusi and compelled t abc*ut to open. 1 ho last report current j to the nearest fort for protection, which, however, 1 do not guarantco-is j Large numbers of Idaho and Montana that a * reiiCti war in K ate has been sent to : m j ners have arrived at Salt Lake to spend Candia. It would appeal* that some ti«i- w j n t 0 r. ings had readied 1 aris of an agreement , New and very rich mines have recently established between the L nited btates and been discovered in Montana and Colo- Kusiia for the solution of the Lantern ; question ; and, doubtless, it is to this pre- : * turned and very inopportune interference An Indian War Threatened in New of America in European affairs that the 1 Mexico* phrase of the circular relative to the j Nbw York, Oct. 12.—The Herald’s understanding between these two Powers j Washington special says*: makes almsion. ^ t 9 Intelligence from New Mexico indicates New York, October. 12 —'i juuoer- an outbreak among the Indians, which, if plan's-imutoetfttlafrn the follow.afr-Howi^not arrested ones,, will, lead to a very of foreign news: TheOpiniune Nationaie, Prince Napo- lopn’s organ, has an article urging the ne cessity of a confederation on the part of England, Austria, Prussia, Italy und Spain, so &s to form a power capable of driving Russia back into Asia, and at tho same time convincing the United States of the propriety of attending to the mat ter of colonizing the continent of Ameri ca. Austria is sorely troubled in her for eign relations, the Russian-American alli ance, the Gandian revolution, the Mexican question, and news from Mexico, with the reports from Germany ail tending to tho dbquietof her rulers and people. Apprehended Difficulty at Fer- NANDiNA.— We lt:arn from a reliable source thut a serious difficulty was appre hended at Fernandina, on Wednesday last, in consequence of a threatened at tempt by the sheriff to eject several pei- sons from houses which they had pur- savfigft and devastating war, and cause an expenditure of many millions of dollars. It appeal *> the Indians are in a starving condition, game having entirely disap peared from the country. They are com pelled to kill the stock of the settlers or starve to death. By doing thi© they come in collision with tho settlers. Already blood has been shed, and an intensely bitter feeling on the part of tho Indians is manifested. If hostilities are fairly com menced, all the bands will be involved, and together they can muster between four unci five thousand warriors. Troops have been sent into tho country, and several volunteer companies have been organized. Orders have been given to issue rations to the starving Indians, with the understand ing that they will be stopped immediately upon the commission of any depredations. A Railway Train Stopped and Robbed ! Only a few days since v/e recorded the robbery of the express car of a train in chasoti from the Government, about three i Indiana, and already another equally years ago, the right ot redemption having daring and successful robbery must be expired. 1 he owners contended that their ■ related. Y esterday the pavmaster’s train property was exclusively their own. not • on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad recognizing the authority of the sheriff in was thrown off’ the track and capsized the matter, and threatened resistance by about one ar.d a half mile? north of Bristow force of arms to any effort on the part of j station, and six miles from Bowling Green. the sheriff’ to eject them. Tho military were ordered to hold themselves in readi ness to prevent any breach of the peace. We shall probably learn further in a few days.—Savannah News. 13th Butler, the Radical Leader.— The National Intelligencer truly says: Tho immense demonstration of Gen. Butler’3 popularity, as manifested on Iris arrival at the Pittsburg Soldier?’ Conven tion, with the cries of “Our next Presi dent,” is calculated to alarm those gentle men of the Radical persuasion who in dulge in dreams of the White II«*uso. It is u&eless to deny that Gen. Butler is the coming man in the Radical rank's. All the military men of the party are completely eclipsed by him, and their stars pale their ineffectual fires before the ascending luminary of the day. Advices from the Rio Grande to the4th report that Col. Guoroga, Imperial, had routed the Liberal forces between Saltillo and San Luis. Escobado was expecting to be driven out cf Montere3% on which Vidaurri, tin* old Governor, and General Mejia were advancing. Canales, who ac knowledges Ortega ms President, was yet in possession of Matamoras, though two attempts by the Juarists, one under Gen. Johr —‘ ‘ • • Hi . S. FOJ-, . , . iost had been made to.expel hir J 1... 1. ~ ♦ 1 Luckily no ono on the train was killed, though conductor Church was badly hurt. The paymaster, much stunned and con* fused by thejshock, had hardly time to re* cover himself when he found a pi-tol in close proximity to his head, and was com pelled to lead the way to his office in the car. Here Lis safe was broken open and some $10,000 or $15,000 taken therefrom, 'i’iie robbers then secured all the valuables on tho persons of the attaches and made their escape. In tho melee, however, the paymaster managed to dispose of a largo part of the treasure he had in charge, in such manner as to save it from the grasp of the robbers. There were three men, the chief of whom was a largo and pow erfully built man, about thirty years old, of fair complexion naturally, but browned by exposure. lie wore no board but a heavy moustache, and was dressed in light colored pants and a black cloth coat. The second was a man of medium heigbj aquiline nose, no beard, blue je and black coat. Thetbirdj^ colored pants and a blue/fj We are informed tbj pany offer a reward of ture of theso robbers,! all the money that maji The injury done ‘ r ‘ J — did nM zj ay .'? d thd £ The scoufifiMil 8 p. m lu=t overboard. Arrived tat Savannah fur and bow much morn strikingly advanta- repair* geous would it be for us, instead of ex- Steamer De Suto, from Cardenas for porting, tay this year 140,000 bales of cot- Baltimore, in ballast, bilged in a heavy '• on ’ worth, perhaps, §15,000,000 in gold, sea and abandoned. Crew taken off by if we coold sendabroad^themanufactured British brig Union. Brig Susan Voorhies, from Mobile to Boston, badly injured and put into port of Fernandina in distress. There were aiso at Fernandina bark Havola, from Matanzas to Turks Island, multiplied forms of industry.” and three other vessels, dismantled by the I K»le- ...... The Louisville Journal, speaking of the Kadical party, says: “Tho passions I In California a Chinaman cannot testify that now inflame it will devour it.” i against a white man or a negro. Cortinas was advancing to make tbe third _ one. I the track and attached Forced loans bad been made by the w hich they displaced it Liberals in Matamoras, since Mejia left, I cou iotive, and without to tho extent of $700,000. Most of tin Mexicans of means had fled from Mata' ^Wiio owns the land of this Territory Brigham Young, tho Church, the city, or the United States?” It says: “Thousands and thousands of acres are claimed by the Church and by Brigham, without any shadow of a title.” It comes down on Brigham in this style: “When a Prophet of the Lord attempts to fence in and claim a Territory, ono cannot help being con vinced that the motive comes from some other source than Heaven, and when lie proclaims from the Bowery that be will send to hell across lots’ any who interfere with land he claims, we want him to weigh well his words and their influence.’ The Atlanta Era. says of tho Atlanta opera house: . . The rapid progress being made in the erection of this building is beyond prece dent, and the directors are determined that tho citizens of Atlanta shall have a jolly New Year’s night in witnessing a grand theatrical performance. We are informed that a splendid stock company has already been engaged by the manager, who will open the establishment as above. Nkw York, October 10.—The Inde pendent bas the following announcement: itev. Henry Ward Beecher, we are au thorized to say, will speak either in Ply mouth Church or the Academy ot Music, Brooklyn, on some evening of next week, making an argument and appeal Irom his own ground in favor of the Republican party in the pending election He will al“o speak afterward in other places in the State in support of the Republican candi dates. . * r Specie prices in Tf’xas—Wheat one dollar per bushel, Corn fifty cents tier bushel. Beef twelve dollars per head, and Fork live cents perjjound. The Murder at Calhoun. — Wo stated in a paragraph somo days ago that Mr Echols, a highly respectable citizen of Calhoun, had been murdered by a party of East Tonnesseans. The perpetrator of the atrocious deed was apprehended by Col. Young, near Calhoun, on Thursday last, while endeavoring to make his es cape He had in his possession the horse he had taken from tho boy, itnd admits having killed Mr. Echols by a pistol shot The other men—one a Capt. Duff, an exi Federal officer—have not been heard from since the unfortunate ailair. _ Our inform ant, however, staled that, it is believed they had no connection with the murder. [Afianfa Intell., 14<A their purpose of upsettia been effected. _ A person who was on tho tra^ that he saw ono of the robbers en. hotel at Cavo City and buy a cigar the evening before the robbery. [Louisville Courier, 12/A. Cotton Tax Unconstitutional.— Since tho dea:h of Daniel Webster, it is pretty generailv conceded that Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, is Ihe soundest constitutional lawyer in America. Being so regarded, tho following letter from him possesses more than ordinary interest at the present juncture. It is in reply to a letter of Hon. Charles L Scott, of Wilcox countj', Alabama, containing these inter rogatories : In your opinion, is tho act of Congress imposing a three cents tax on cotton con stitutional? And would the Supremo Court of the United States so decide in tho event the question was carried before it for adjudication ? REPLY. New Yor.K, Sept. 20, 1800. Dear Sir: Your note of the od is re ceived hero. The question you have put to me I have heretofore considered. My opinion is that the tax of three cents, im posed by the act of Congress you refer to, is unconstitutional, and 1 believe the Court will so decide. Very respectfully. Your obsdient servant, Reyerdy Johnson. We learn from the Wilcox (Camden) Times that the cotton planters of that county are concerting measures to have the question tested in the bupromo Court. [Aug. Constitutionalist. Population 7T CnATTANoooA.-The population of Chattanooga b e ajcertamed.) The following is the result: W httea 0,b70, blacks o,380. Total, Id,- ’ 1 • i V

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Weekly Columbus enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1861-1873, October 23, 1866, Image 1