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rOT.UME XXI-
ROME, GA„ FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 29, 1867,
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tion at an early day. Let every one
ho can possibly spare two, ten or
wenty dollars per month, from his in
sme,invest in the Association, and
trill, ire are assured, have no cause
regret it.
Uncertainty of the Mails,
All business men, and especially
newspaper publishers, are now exceed
ingly annoyed by the frequent failures
of mailed matter to reach its destina
tion. This probably arises from two
causes—incompetency and carelessness
on the part of the Postmasters—espe
cially those of countryJtowns and small
places—and we do not see how it .is
likely , to be obviated tunder , existing
laws.
If the Postoffice Department would,
for a moment, call to mind, the great
difficulty they experienced before, the
war, ia getting officers in small towns
and country places, who would faithful,
ly discharge the duties of Posmasters—
they will readily perceive that now—
when about nineteen-twentieths of .the
men are disqualified by the Test Oath—,
it. is'(nekt to impossible to find, among
t^e^emainder suitable , njeg^ who are
willing to discharge these important;
but unremunerative duties. It is no*
torious that throughout ten States there
are only here and there good men, who
can take the Test Oath, and not one in
fifty of even these, are so located or cir
cumstanced that it would suit the con-
yenience of the public, and their own,
for them to be Postmasters.
In Rome, we are happy to state, there
is an efficient Postmaster, who thor
oughly understands his business, and
does all in his power to keep the mails
straight that pass through hU office.—
He informs us that almost dialy letters
are returned to his office that he has
sent out on {their proper routes, and
sometimes the same letters are return
ed three or four times. In a single
mail, from Jacksonville, Alabama, not
long since, ten letters, all directed to
offices in that county—but without hav
ing the name of the county on the ad
dress—were brought to Rome. He
states that more or less letters, nearly
every day, are brought back after he
has once properly sent them down on
that route. Now, we happen to be ac
quainted with the Postmaster at Jack
sonville, and know him to be a compe-
tent, good man; but his other business
engagements are such that he is obliged
to entrust the Postoffice principally to a
Clerk, who, it seems, fails to appreciate
the importance of his duties.
We have said this much because there
is a great complaint in regard to the ir
regularity of the mails, and to show
that one, even good Postmaster, cannot
do everything, in a system so compli
cated, and where all must perform well
their parte in order to constitute one
perfect, harmonious whole. We hope
the necessary steps will betaken to cor
rect these abuses. If a man accepts an
office, he ought to faithfull discharge
its duties, though it may nat be remu*
nerative.
Stand Fieu.—The Charleston Merc
ury; in a' review' of the Veto Message of
the Military Bill; gives the following
sound arid-patriotic counsel:
“During the war, we did not loose
character as a brave and gallant peopto:
Rut now comes the severest test of rill
—the test of adyersiljy—the test of for r
titude under oppression. Job prayed 1
in his distress, that he might be able
to preserve his “integrity ” Will we
preserve our integrity—by being faith,
ful to the Constitution 1 —faithful to the
great principles of free government our
fathers bequeathed to us—faithful to
all the substantial and preinanent in
terests of the country—faithful to each
other Jin this time of tyranny? The
object of this bill is to drive us, by the
evils it] puts over us, to destroy our
selves. Our enemies paean by this bill
to drive out the white race from the
Southern States; and this will he its
effect. Let 1 us riot '^ield oursel ves to such
a' policy; but sta'nclitig Jast to Our corin'
try—standing fast by the great princi
ples for which we have fought—standr
ing fast by our vital and deafest inter
ests—do nothing further to degrade
ourselves; but, relying on the justice of
our cause, and on him who rules the
afiairs of nations, seek protection and
redress in all the ways the Constitution
affords—uninfluenced by fear or ignor
ant apprehensions.
, There is bu Urine thing Ivan ted, to
make President Johnson occupy th.e
grandest position in the world—his im
peachment by ‘Congress. For this, if
he prays, he ought to pray day and
night; and our interests will not be
inconsistent with his glory Jr
Mew Advertisements.
Corx os Credit.—L. C. Johnson
fern corn at half cash and cash credit
e also calls on his credit.tors to pay up
Auction to Day by Watters Al
ii & Cc.
Kanos Tuned by an experienced
skman.
Wholesale Druggist.—Dr,' N. A
■It, Charleston, invites^trade. Dr. F.
a Dannelly, lata of Georgians with
«e Courts Mot to be Interfered with,
Jubge Wood of the Florence, Ala.,' tives in the Legislature
The Supplemental Military Bill.
It will be seen that this bill, which
we published in our telegraphic col
umns yestreday, says the Chronicle &
Sentinel, authorizes the military com
manders in the several districts to cause
a registration of all the voters in each
State not-disfranchised by the original
bill, on or before the 1st of-September
next. Thirty days after the registra
tion is completed the military com*
mander i3 authorized and required to
order’an election for members of a
State Convention. In this State such
convention will be composed of the
same number of delegates from each
country as they now have representa*
feuit and Judge Haralson of the
untsville Circuit both refused to hold
on account of the passage of the
terman bill. Thereupon some Law-
r5 of Huntsville telegraphed to the
homey General of the United States
^received from him a dispatch
Wing that the operations ef the
fferent Courts would not be interfer-
4 with or suspended.
A Rare Opportunity,
gentleman, who is a manufacturer
'eed Instruments, and thoroughly
Tainted with the mechanical forma-
1,11 of Melodeons, Parlor Organs and
snos i is now in Rome, and oilers to
'■sand repair any of these instru-
“• This is a rare chance, and per-
3 aving any of these instruments,
3 lun ing or repairing, had better
Pw at once.
Squire at Veal & Williamson 1
!»<£• Hills. Seeadv.
i’s, or at
Kelie
kndu o l F ! 0R THE South.—The Mary-
*to 1 ate ’ on l ^ e 12th, by a vote of
J0nnor P * ss . ed a hill appropriating
'nth ° r lble re ^ e f °f the suffering
Cons
!r »ativ. ^ Tlvi r Convention.—The con-
egislatnro f m ^ e V 3 the Tennessee
ention t 1 r e , 1 ^ ued a ca K for. a con
' a8 hvilte ° , ^ e ^ d ' n the city of
367 ’ft m . the 36th day of April,
tnof. d, minate a candidate for Gov-
( ts 6 reco S n tze among the sie-
C9TTQN is
tUoh tax n f'\ Sated that th* ‘ hew
half . cents,
:n3ber next! U 01<eTtum “ntil Sep-
The Convention can be defeated by
a majority of the voters; by placing
upon their ballots “against a Conven*
tion.” But if the Convention Is held,
and agree npon a Constitution
instrument must be submitted to the
people for approval or disapproval.
These are the main features of the
bill, and under its provisions, the peo
ple of Georgia will be called upon at no
distant day to act in the premises.
What that action will be, we are not
prepared to say. This much, however,
we will venture to suggest—that if such
registration is ordered, every white
citizens of the State who is not disfran
chised should be certain to register.—
Nothing can be lost by such a course
while it will enable the white cleinent
to control the whole affair.
According to .the tax returns of the
last year, there were in the State 87,-
909 white male adults over 21 ; years of
age andjunder 60, and 65,000 blacks cf
the same age .This gives to the whites a
majority in the States of 21,000. From
the 86,909 whites are to be deducted
the number disfranchised by the Sher
man Bill. We have no accurate in
formation on this point, but we think
that it scarcely exceeds the number of
blacks who have left the S.tate during
the past fall and winter. - If we are cor
rect in this surmise, then the relative
strength of the two races is about,that
shown in last year’s tax returns, j At
any rate, the whites hatrea large major
ity. and can , with the aid of stiph black
voteB as they can surely control, give
such true direction and shape to the
Convention as shall he deemed advisa-
ble and best.
Death oft a Constitutional Republic
and Birth of a Kingdom.
The people of the South have had
their attention for some time past so
pairifully directed to the dying throes
of an old Constitutional Republic
erected by our forefathers, that they
have scarcely noticed the birth of a new
kingdom upon the Continent rit North
America.
The passage by the House of _ Com
mons the bill for the conl’ederatiori of
the British Frovinceson this continent,
creates a new and powerful kingdom
out of a number of distinct and feeble
provinces. The new kingdom will, in
due season, become a great power, and
the dream of annexing Canada and oth
er discontented British provinces to the
United States is forever at an end. In
deed, the new Kingdom will begin bus
iness modestly, peacefully and prosper
ously, at the very moment 1 that martial
law will take the place ot civil and po
litical liberty in the ten States of the
late Union. .
The creation of this new kingdom,
out of a number of distinct provinces,
was the work of an hour.' It is the con-
sumation of three or four year’s labor of
the leading statesmen of British Amer
ica. It has been secured without force,
and like the original confederation of
the States of this Union, by the con
sent of each Province. Indeed, we
believe that New Fouridland and Prince
Edward’s Island have not yet seen the
wisdom of casting thei? lot with the oth-
provirices; but the act leaves the door
open for their admission into the new
kingdom whenever they feel disposed
to enter. The agitation which has re
sulted in this consolidation of many
distinct provinces into a kingao was,
for a long time, vehemently opposed,
the “Maritime Provinces” objecting to
a Union, being especially opposed to it
For more than a year, the one subject
of controversy was “confederation. —
Both Upper and Lower Canada remain
ed, as they had done throughout, steady
to that purpose; and, as the subject be
came better understood, local fears
were appeased, narrow views were ar
gued down, and, with the exceptions
which we have named, all the provinces
eventually acquiesced in the proposed
^The representive department of the
new Kinedom is limited tosix Senators
and seventy-two members. The Con
stitution of the kingdom, like that
which once prevailed in this country, at
onceenumerates and divides the pow •
ers which are giTeh to the general gov
ernment, as Well as those which a^ere-
8 ° Ch served to’ the separate provinces. While,
however,* the subjects of local authority
How to Beach the Supreme Court.
The New York Sunday News thinks
there is a constitutional way of reach
ing the Military Rule bill, and points
it out thus through the agency of
the Supreme Court:
1:-By the writ of quo warranto.
2. By the writ of prohibition.
3: By the writ of habeas corpus.
4: By the writ of certiorari,
it' The common law writ of quo war
ranto ; is in the nature of a writ of
right of the sovereign against persons
who claim or usurp any office, fran
chise, liberty or privilege belonging to
the sovereign, to inquire by what » au-
thpiity they support their claim, or or
der that its right may: Be determined.—
(Selwyn't Wisi Prius.)
Now, as the people are the sovereign
in this country, the proceedings tinder
this Writ can properly be had in the
name Of the people of' the United
States, by the Attorney General against
the President (who, as the chief execu
tive,is-required to administer the new
law) and those acting under his au
thority by virtue of the act of Congress.
Proceedings'can-also be commenced in
the name of the’peoAlb Of any one ‘of
the affected States,- by the' Attorney
Grineral of such State, against any per
son who claims or attempts to usurp
the now existing Stale Government
2. The writ of prohibition is issued
to forbid or-prohibit a court or party, to
whom it is directed, from proceedings
in a suit or matter depending before
such court, upon -the suggestion that
the Cognizance of such suit or matter
does not belong to it.
The proceeding by prohibition can
be taken by any person whose right to
life, liberty or property,'is being tried
or adjudicated upon by any martial
proceedings whatever (3 Term, 382; 2
Cowper, 427:3 East, 472.)
3. By habeas corpus, by the powers
of which any petsou who is restrained
of his liberty, under color of martial
law. egn.have his Case brought before
and reviewed by the justices of the Su
preme Court.
,4. The-writ of certiorari would com
pel a military tribunal to give a certi
fied record, of any of its proceedings, in
which the life, liberty or property of a
citizqn might be imperiled, tj the Su
preme Court, in order that the whole
matter can be reviewed and passed up
on by that court. •
The proceedings Under the two first
mentioned writs are regulated in the
United States Courts by the common
law practice, as it is used in the Court
of King’s Bench in England; and the
writs a‘e empowered to be issued by
the United States judiciary law of 17-
80, which-enacts that all the- before
mentioned courts (in which is includ
ed-the Supreme Court of the Uoited
States) shall have power to issue writs
of scire facias habeas corpus, and all other
writs not specially p -ovided for by stat
ute," which may-be necessary for the ex
erciser of their respective jurisdictions
and agreeable to the principles and
usages of Jaws.” (Brightly’s U. S. Dig.
and authorities tnerein cited.)
The threats of the rad'eals that the
Supreme Coart will be “reconstructed”
in the event of a decision that is un
favorable to them, should have no ter
rors to those who fill our highest judi
cial stations, .whose imperative duty it
is that they should obey their oaths of
office, and shall be ’true to the great
charier of our liberties, which is their
ouiy guidance.
are severally enumerated, jt is expressly
' ‘the Parliament of the
provided that 1 “tha farnamem, oi tuc
kingdom” shall rulem all matters not
assigned exclusively to the local Legis
latures. Practically, the Central Par
liament is to be supreme, except as_ to
strictly local matters reserved to the
constituent provinces
The people of the State of Maine are
very belligerent about the advent of
this new kingdom, but the English pa
pers treat their discourteous greetings
with great contempt.—Richmond Times
The Trial of Mr. Davis.—A_ Wash*
irigton letter states that Chief Justice
Ch g ase was called on a few evenings sme
and intimate friend residing
bv an old and intimate
- Dy . «During the course, of
longer the trial of Davis was delayed
therietter it would be for the prisoner.
He also remarked that legislation has
as vet done nothing to prepare the
as yet Sat,,;,, 'court and
that the Military bill l
contained the objections he had here
tofore advanced against holding
court for the arraignment of the priso
ner. ;
w3A_The representative from the
newState of Nebraska jas swornin
when only two or three days were left
of the last Congress. By this was ena
bled to draw $3,000 for mileage ^and
$5,000 for pay for tne year. Pretty
good pay, this:
Egf- '/Gentlemen, will pleasq leave
their tobacco at the door, ’ is the polite
Columbus,- Ohio.'
Sensible,
The Sel ma Messenger says we we don’t
volunteer advice in this case. It h'ts
been asked times innumerable sirice
the Sherman Military Bill became a
law. . Our advice is:
1. To farmers—plant corn. There
may be no market, within our reach
for cotton next fall arid winter, and, if
there is a market, the currency may be
worthless. Moreover, cotton will in
vite confiscation, for those who would
prosecute us to the bitter end, crush
us beneath the iron heel of power, op
press us to the death, are, of all others,
those who would be tempted by well
filled gin houses. Corn and meat 'will
not be half so alluring—there is a plen
ty of both in the North.' With bread
and meat, whatever comes, we will have
the means of sustaining life. We can’t
eat cotton. Be quiet, peaceable, pru-
deri t, just in all dealings with negroes,
dud—plant corn!
2. To merchants arid business men—
contract liabilities, lessen credits, re
duce stocks, quit dealing in the “luxu
ries," «nd keep a good conscience.
’3'. ; To lawyers—do not encourage liti-
S tion, council 1 compromises, explain
e laws, and urge obedience to them a
a duty, and, as politicians, be moderate,
conservative aridfirm. s
• 4. 'To all men 1 —be calm, patient, law-
abiding, lemperate in expression,
promptly render under Csezar the
things that are Cmzar’s, frown down the
disorderly, the violent, the ’ rash and
reckless, and leave the consequences
with God. - -
He wasn’t a Negro.
The miro whose hands were bound
behind him and tied to a cannon wheel
—whose head was made immovable by
cords fastening to the same wheel—
whose mouth was gagged with a bayo
net, turned cross-wiseaqd bound to the
back of the neck so tightly as to extort
from the agonized sufferer the most
heart-reriding moans and expressions
of pain; the man who was thus punish
ed on Wednesday was not a negro. If
it had been a negro, Tallahasse would
have ebbed and flowed with a dark
wave of excitement beyond anything
even that is witnessed when a police
man attempts the arrest of a rascally
little darkey for criminal misbehavior.
If it had only been a negro thus pub
licly punished for a greater crime, what
a shout of holy" horror would have
gODe up from the negrophobistamoagst
us ! How would telegraphic wires and
ponderous mail have groaned beneath
the weight of the horrid news until it
Cached the ears of the countless negro
worshipers in the “God and morality”
region ! What teeming columns—
What long, dark chapters of horrors in
the Radical newspapers from “our spe
cial correspondents in Ta lahassee 1”—
What ghostly sensational pictures in
'''Harper’s Journal cf Civilization!” What
magnificent sensation is spoiled by the
statement that it was only a “white
man.”—a poor, drunken, ungovernable
soldier of the 7th United States Infan
try. Milder punishment having failed
to subdue him, his officers Were com
pelled to resoi t to what, to us, seemed
almost eqiial to the agonies of crucifix
ion itself. No criticism, whatever, of
the action of the officers who ordered
the punishment is meant by this com
ment. But, as we listened to the agon
izing groans of the matt, gagged with
a bayonet across his mouth—his head
fastened tightly and immovably—and
his bands bound to a cannon wheel be
hind him—we could not help wonder
ing lhat we should have lived so long
among, cruel “slave owners” without
ever having witnessed, in all our lives
before, a punishment like this. Nor
could we help wondering what would
become of Florida if ever an ungovern
able negro should be publicly subjected
to a punishment like this, by an edict
of a civil tribunal.—Tallahassee, Fla.,
Sentinel.
From Congress.
SENATE.
■ Washington, March 2CL—A petition
from Oi: io women for suffrage, was re
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
A- bill prohibiting Federal diplomats
from wearing uniforms unauthorized by
Congress; was passed.
The Territorial" Committeb reported
favorable on the bill for the admission
df Colorado.
The Senate then ‘discilsSeil Indian
affairs UntiVits adjournment.
HOUSE.
Tfie tiommittee on Foreign Relations
wete instructed to report means for the
releash of Rev. John McMahon, sen
tenced to imprisonment fol* life in Can
ada. Also to report means for enforc
ing claims of citizens of the United
St ates against Great Britaiii; ponding
in 1858. and accorded* since.
A resolution instructing the Com
mittee oh Piiblib Lands to report as to
the expediency df providing for future
bonds granted the Southerri States in
1856, to Complete certain railroads, was
offered and postponed.
A resolution instructing the Com
mittee on Rules to consider the pro
priety of constituting a standing Com
mittee on Labor. Was adopted.-.
The House then went into Commit
tee on tbe million relief bill, and ad
journed without action.
Government Advertising:
Washington, March 20.—-Tbe folloW-
ing papers have been selected to pub
lish tbe laws and treaties : New Na
tion, Richmond. (Hunnicutt, editor;)
Raleigh Standard, and Henderson Pio-
ner, in North Carolina; Savannah Re
publican and Augusta Loyal Standard,
in Georgia; Mobile National and Hunts
ville Advocate, in Alabama; Fort Smith
New Era, in Arkansas; Austin Intelli
gencer. in Texas. It is semi officially
announced that the remaining selec
tions will be made Irom the same class
of Journals.
Southern Treasury Agents.
Washington, March 20.—An attempt
was made to-day to introduce a bill to
pay Southern Treasury Agents who
could take the oath. Mr. Butler ob
jected:
Rarey and the Jackasses.
John Rarey, the home tamer, while
he was in Rome, was terribly annoyed,
a3 strangers always are, by indescriba
ble braving of the Jackasses, which,
coming to the market early in the morn
ing with vegetables, always improve
the hour when strangers are enjoying
the half-dozing delight which immedi
ately precedes the pain of getting up,
to bray with especial vehemence, sing
ly and in chorus. No one who has not
suffered it Can appreciate the brick-bat,
saw-filing effect of it on thesrtongest
nerves. Rarey could not stand it, and
he swore he wouldn’t. He watched
the aWful little beaats with a profession
al keenness sharpened by personal pain
to see if there was any practical way to
stop their braying without cutting their
throats, but almost resolved to do that
if there was no other remedy. He soon
noticed that tbe anitrial invariably
straightened his tail out as stiff as a po
ker when |he eructiou Commenced, and
he darted with the tapidi y of genius
to the conclusion that as the tail and
the bray went together, the bray
could’nt go without the tail; so he de-
termioed to hold the tail down. He
tied a number of the lava paving stones
to stoutstrings with slip-knots on the
ends, and, while the owners were en-
joyin^-their ‘cafe latta’ at some neigh
boring ‘cafe,’ he slipped the noose over
the unsuspicious tails, and retired to
watch the result. In a few minutes an
especially noisy jackass was seen to
opm his mouth, and gasp convulsively.
He stood gaping for three or four sec
onds. He wheezed, and i he lava block
swung sullenly at h : s heels as he strain^
ed to lift his tailjout to the brayicg lev
el. But no sound came. He looked
plaintively around at his companions as
if to ask them what ailed him. His
tins shook, and he dropped the arti
choke leaves he had been munching, as
the idea entered his superstitious fancy
that the devil had somehow got out of
tbe hogs into him. Another tried, but
an inarticulate grunt was all he could
reach. They had all tried a chorus
which had only the same morning rat
tled and crushed through every street
and lane, but In vain. There was si
lence that day in the ‘Stranger’s quar
ter,’ and rejoicing in every piazzo from
the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza
d’Espagna.
Election m North. Carolina.
Newbern, March 21.—-Major John
Hughes; the Southern .candidate, has
been elected to the State Senate unani
mously. The negroes voted.
N. Y. Market. . ...
New York, March ^kTCotloR
beavy, and declined a half,to one cent.
Sales ef 1,800 bales at 33J to 32, Flour
—State and Western, advanced five,
to ten cents; Southern .firm. Corn
heavy: and declined one to two cents.
Mixed Wescern $1 17 to $1 lfi. Mess
Pork firm. Groceries quiet: Freights
quiet.
New York, March 21.—Stdfcks exci
ted. Five twenties of of 1892, coupons,
109}. Gold l34|.
Corn for the South.
The following is an extract from ».
dispatch dated Fortress Mdnroe, the
I2thinst:
Unusually large shipment! of grain,
and especially corn, have lately
made from Norfolk to Savannah,
Charleston and other Soiitherfi ports.—-
Tbe aggregate amount has already been
enormous, and the,sbipments^till con
tinue iti as large quantities. The large
fleet of vessels, corn loaded, which . has
sailed from here, aftor beiog detained
in Hampton Roads pti account of thp
weatbbh win.it is thought, occasion £
fall in the market on their arrival, but
the riierbhants at Norfolk are daily
chartering vessels and leading them
with ali dispatch. These shipment*
hdve been made principally on specu
lation, and the great difference m the
pi-ice in corn North arid South has af
forded wide margin for profits.
Fractional Currency.
Washington, March 20.—Gen. Spin
ner receites letters from the South in
quiring when short currency will cease
to be valuable. He fears people are
imposed upon, and gives assurance that
all issues of fractional currency will be
redeemed.
Gen. Sheriddn Issues an Order at
New Orleans.
New Orleans. March 20.—Gen. Sher
idan issued an order in which he says
that there will be no general removals
from office, unless circumstances re-
Will Georgians Execute the Law!
This question is best answered by the
United States District Attorney, Hen
ry S. Fitch, Esq., wbo. in taking leave
of tbe Grand Jury at Atlanta last week
reported to have addressed the Court
as follori! :
May it please the Cotirt; before the.
Grand Jury is formally discharged Ide :
sire, with your Honor’s permission, to
return to the members of the panel my
sincere thanks, as an officer of the Gov
ernment and of this Court, for their in
telligent fidelity to the interests of the
Republic, and their prompt enforce
ment of its laws. It is gratifying W my
self, and no doubt equally so to . yonr
Honor, especially at this critical period,
to record the fact that the Grafad In
quest for the Northern District Of Geor
gia have not only faithfully, blit earn :
estly vindicated, irrespective of per
sons, places, or political opinion, the
sanctity of their official oath* and the
peace arid dignity of the U. S. It is
a cheering prophecy of friture P r0S P«r
ity, a happy recognition of tnb truth
that the Constitution is not I'ke wn
quire it; and that it is desirable, dur
ing the process of reorganization, to
change as little as possible the machi
nery of the Provisional. Government:
Arab’s tent, intended oril^ fof fi night’*
shelter—but in perpetuity like the
Pyramids, at once the mondment qf
our fathers and the protection Of our
[From the Troy Messenger,]
Rumored Change in the Cabinet.
The Hon. John B. Haskins,; of New
York, who hadao interview with the
President on-the-8th- ultimo, .is confi
dent that an early change in the Cabi
net will be made. He thinks the new
Cabinet will stand as follows : Secre
tory nf State, Charles Francis Adams;
Secretary of the Treasury. Hugh .Mc
Culloch;'Secretary of War Gen. Meade;
Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Farra-
gutt, Secretary of the In terior, W.iUiam
Aikin; Attorney-General, A.exander H.
Stevens; 'Postmaster-General, Horace
Greeley.
’ jfjjjs * I J^baciTmen?.—The Cincinnati
Qm^erpial;(radical) says: ^
“The lame presentation made by the
committee having the malter
peach ment in charge,
.co^aT-i"
5£“ro .nd if il do« ,o there mil be
adjourn, However complete-
and delicacy:’
It is tbe duty of every citizen and
every good one will do so—to obey the
laws of his country- To love them is
quite a different thing. We are truly
sorry that all our laws are not of achar-
actertobe loved as well as oboyed; but
human nature cannot be changed; it
will rebel in thought, if not in action,
when grievous burdens are heaped upon
it. But our duty is to obey the laws,
and this let us do with a cheerful face
if not a cheerful mind. While doing
so, however, we should not adopt, by
action of our own, anything having a
tendency to disparage our honor be
fore the World. We need not expect to
gain the lespect or good will of the
North by such action. No; the people
of that section would despise *us the
more for our truculency. But, let U3
calmly, honestly obey such laws as are
meted out to us, without murmur or
complaint,-and if we are to be dishon
ored, let it be cone by the bands of
others—not our own. Let it not be
said by our conquerors, “you have, in
your zeal - to appease the wrath and
^vert the vengeance of an offended sec
tion, debased yourselves;” or by our
rising posterity, “our fathers disgraced
us." No; let .us suffer any and all
things which may be put upon u* ere
we do this. Let. us grope our way
through the darkness of despotisril as
best we can. until this triadness and
hate of the North are dethroned by a
returning sense of justice.and good Will)
or until our weary and oppressed lives
sbrillfind peace and quietin the friend:
ly grave. Let us do nothing ofieiisire
towards our government:
•Congressional Proceedings.
Washington, March 21.—The Senate
the bill exempting wrapping paper triade
from feed’ahd cornstalks from internal
revenue, was passed.
An amendment taxing scrip issued
by any National Bank, State, munici
pality or corporation, adopted.
The bill suspending payment for en<
listed slaves, passed.
After executive session the Senate
adjobrned.
In the House the Senate resolution
to send evidence to the Senate affecting
two Senators in connection with the
New York Custom House, passed.
The Senators alluded to are supposed
to be Messrs. Doolittle and Patterson.
The House went into Committee of
tbe Whole Oh the Million Relief bill. _
Butler again opposed the bill i n vio
lent terms. The debate took a
wide tatige, With a severe passage be
tween Butler and Bingham.
Mr. Bingham said he repelled with
scorn utterances affecting his integri
ty and honor from any man, whether
he be the hero of Fort Fisher taken, or
Fort Fisher riot taken. Mr. Bingham
proceeded in his denunciations’midst
roars of laughter, and some exciter
meat.
Batler rose to reply, bat the commit
tee rose. He appealed for an opportu
nity t> answer. . Mr. Eldridge hoped
tbe House would bottle rip the gentle
man from Massachusetts.
Unanimous conseftt being given, But
ler proceeded^dtfferidiug himself for vot
ing for Davis. He did the best he conld
during the war, but the only victim of
the gentlemari’s (Bingham) prowess
that we (Batler J knew of, vyas an inno
cent woman hung on the scaffold. But
ler alluded to Mrs. Surratt, .in whose
prosecution Bingham was ah active
manager.
The committee rose, and without
vote, the House adjourned.
childreri. .
After the sad memories of the pass
few years, the very spectacle of a Uni-
.-j J. :Tn>V td ihauire
ted States Grand Jury, td inquire into
offences against the laws df the Repub
lic, is not a figurative,’ blit practical
illustration of th> dove returning over
the weary waste Of waters td the shel
ter of the ark: . .' . -f ! • ■
The pleasure Wbicn I fedl ati irresi*-.
fele impulse to express, is not entire
ly unselfish. As a citizen of the Re
public and a resident of Georgia, I. fe«
a personal interest in the lesurrection
of a spirit of loyalty and devotion to
thatGovernment which alone has here
tofore, or can hereafter, by a wise ad
ministration of its laws, give protection
to the rights and interests of every man
who claims the honor of being an
American citizen.
From Washington
Washington, March 21.—Begistfa
tion is progressing. The number of
negroes are largely in the majority.—
The whites are taking but little inter
est. . ■
The President has signed the bill
appropriating fifteen thousand dollars
for the relief of the indigent blacks in
the District of Columbia.
Nomination at .Louisville.
Louisville; March 21.—The Union
ists have nominated Col. W m. A. Bui-
lett, for Congress.
Steamer Snagged on .the Alabama
River.
Montgomery, March 21.'—The steam
er Coquette was snagged to-day. The
boat and. cargo are d total loss. No
lives lost.
j General Sickles id Charleston:
Charleston. • MaZdh 21;—General
Sickles arrived to-day, and was received
with a palate of. thirteen guns.
Gunpowder Explosion
Sa* Francisco, March . 21 i - j -Twc(
hundred thousand pounds of powder
exploded in Hong Kong harbor, kill
ing forty persons, destroying several
vessels, and shaking the ■ tritvn like an
earthquake.
Important to Travel en.
As a matter of genefil interest and.
importance, we copy an artilce below,
from the Chattanooga Wnion of yester
day, tbe 20th inst:
We are informed fry Mr, Frazier,
Special Agent ot tne Post Office De
partment, that the Nashville & Chatta 2
nooga railroad company .have entered
into a contract with Col. E. K. Byrd,
for the use of the steamers Cherokee
and Mary Byrd in trarisfering freights,
passengers ami mail on that road. Af
terto-morrow the trains will run frond
this point to Shellmound, where tbe
passengers and mail wjill be transferred i
to boats and taken id Bridgeport, wherri ,
another train will be in feadineS* to
take them'to Nashville: Iti abdtit five
days, or the first of next' week, the
track will be in running order to the
river this side of BridgpOrt, arid the ,
steamers will transfer the' passengers)
while barges Will be prepared upoii
which the loaded, bars efin be taken
around the island and afcroSs the river:
After that tiirie no'detention df freight*)
mails,'or triivel will occur. In order
to makd rip the tiirie lost by tbe trait*:
for. no Stop will be made for dinner
along the ro$d, but passengers will be
enabled to obtain meals and refresh
ments on board the boats, white being
transferred.
The railroad coiripariy do not expect
to be able to repair the bridge over tbe
Tennessee at Bridgeport; for; perhaps,
a month to come. ’ ,.
They have ordered frdih Chicago the '
new spans for the bridge necessary to
replace those carried away, and have
also made arrangements td procure
rock for building tbe piers.
New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanoo
ga Railroad.—The Mobile Advertiser is
gratified to learn from (Japt. J. N.
Courtenay, of the above company, that
the last of many difficulties iri securing
the fight of way and location aiong^the
entire route has beeti successfully over
come. A few days siil'e be closed for
tli6 company the pUrCliuse of tbe Wills
Valley Railroad, a line of eighty-four
miles, having its. present terminus at
•Gadsden, arid forming a necessary link
tin the direct and' great trunk road
from Mobile to Chattanooga. This
road will be put in hand at once for
reconstruction, and it is designed to
complete it by the first of July, 1868: