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every style, neatly and promptly done.
The President’s Inaugural.— The editor
of Harper’s Weekly (Mr. George W. Curtis,)
himself a politician of no small prominence,
thus speaks of President Lincoln’s address
to the’ nation- on the occasion of taking the
oath of office for the second time. There
are few'loyal* men but will join heartily
in the sentiments here expressed: .
The'inaugural address of the President is
characteristically simple and solemn. He
neither speculates; nor prophesies, nor senti
mentalizes. Four years have revealed to
every mind the* ghastly truth that the Gov
ernment of the United States is st.uggling in
a death-grapple with’ slavery; and as anew
epoch of the Government opens in civil war,
the Chief Magistrate states the vital point of
the contest, and invokes God’s blessing upon
the effort of the country to linish its work in
triumph. With a certain grand and quaint
Vigor; unprecedented in modern politics, the
President says; “Fondly do we hope, fer
vently do we pray, that this mighty scourge
of war may soon pass away. Yet, if God
wills that it continue until all the wealth
piled by the bondman’s two hundred and
fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk,'
and until every drop of blood drawn with
the lash shall be paid with another drawn
with the sword, as was said three thousand
years ago, so, still it must be said : ‘The
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous
altogether.’ ”
We are especially glad that the inaugural
does not as the New York Tribune wishes it
did, “appeal to the rebels for a cessation of
hostilities as pleadingly as its prototype [the
first inaugural] urged forbearance from be
ginning them.” bueh.a tone should have
neither been politic nor bumaue. When the
President speaks of “the progress of our
arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, ”
every man is reminded of the peace-history
of the last year, and of the terms which liave
been constantly repeated, and which are per
fectly well known to the rebels and to the
world. Those terms are unconditional sub
mission to the laws of the United States.
We are equally glad that the President in
dulges in no observations upon Mexico,
Engltmd, France, and things in general. He
was taking the oath to continue the work in
which his conduct has so satisfied the coun
try that he is continued in his office by gen
eral assent. With a fine sense of propriety
he says, in the gravest and most impressive
way, that he accepts the trust and prays for
strength to do his duty. And all true Ameri
can hearts say, Amen!
Vice-President Johnson.— And now, con
cerning the Vice-President and the humiliat
ing spectacle which on thit day he furnished
to the world, shall we speak or keep silent ?
Perhaps there exists some good reason why
the sad truth should be suppressed, but no
such reason have we yet discerned. We can
not, therefore, join with our three neighbors,
the the Tribune, the Times, and the Evening
Post, in pardoning with silence the great dis
grace which Andrew Johnsou inflicted that
day upon his country. Had the tables been
turned, and a similar offense been committed
by George H. Pendleton, we can hardly be
lieve that these journals would have laid
their fingers on their lips in a hush of criti
cism.
As for ourselves, we trust that we are
habitually slow to speak ill of public men,
eveu of such as deserve dispraise; and cer
tainly, among the many journals which have
aforetime been hearty in their kind words of
Andrew Johnson, none have been heartier
than this sheet; but if such an appearance as
he presented during his inauguration is to
pass without public rebuke, in these and in
other newspaper columa, then there no longer
remains to the press any duty of impartial
criticism of men in official stations. Once or
twice, we have felt it our duty to speak
against the excessive use of intoxicating
liquors by some of our public men. It may
be asked—what is the duty of a public jour
nal in such cases ? It seems to us plaiu.
. We hold that if a public man is drunken
in a private company he is not amenable to
comment in the newspapers ; but if he be
drunken when acting his part on a pnblic
occasion, his offense is against the public,
and should never be shielded from just pun
ishment of public censure. In the Senate
chamber, on the 4th of March, in presence
of the Senate, of the House, of the Cabinet,
of the Supreme Court, of the diplomatic
corps, of the newspaper press, of a gallery
ot ladies, and (during part of-the time,) of
the President of the United States—and on
ao occasion ta be forever historical—the Vice
President elect presented himself to take his
solemn oath of office in a state of intoxica
tion. Not in angar but in sorrow do we
chronicle this fact, which we have no just
right to suppress.
A few weeks ago, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives was commanded
by a vote of that body to administer a pub
lic reprimand to a member who had com
mitted a similar offense with less conspicu
ous shame. If a member of Congress is to
be punished for such an act, shall the Presi
dent of the Senate remain unpunished ? Os
course, the Senate will choose its own meth
od of reaching the case ; a method which,
we trust, will be kind, moderate and just.—
Hut, meanwhile, it is the plain duty of
Mr. Johnson either to apologize for his con
duct or to resign his office. In the name of
an insulted people, we are compelled to de
mand that so great an affront to the dignity
of the republic shall be made to bear a fit
penalty, atonement and warning.— N. Y. In
“yencUm.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1865.
An Important Confiscation Case.— The
Supreme Court of the United States, previous
to its adjournment, indorsed a decision in the
case of the United States, appellants, against
Seventy-two bales of Cotton—Elizabeth Al
exander, claimant, on appeal from the United
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict of Illinois, which had awarded restitu
tion of the said cotton.
As it involved many interesting interna
tional and municipal questions in the law of
prizes, perhaps no case has been decided in
this country of more importance, in respect
to the principles and number of interests af
fected by it.
In the Spring of 1864, Gen. Banks’ expedi
tion went into the Bed River country, the
result of which is well known. According to
the order of Gen. Hnlleck, appointing Gen.
Banks to the command of the Department of
the Gulf, one object was to release the cotton
and sugar in that part of Louisiana, so that
they might find a market. The naval authori
ties, acting without orders from Gen. Banks,
seized vast amounts of cotton on land, and
carried it to Cairo, 111., where they had it
labeled as “prize of war.” For the most part,
it was owned by private citizens of Louisiana,
in no wise connected with the rebel Govern
ment. It was seised during the period our
army w r as.in possession of the Red. River
country.
The argument on behalf of the Attorney-
General, of the Government, and of Charles
Eames, of the City of Washington, for the
captors, who based upon six points, in sub
stance, as follows:
1. It at the time the cotton was captured,
the place was the enemy's country, then the
commercial property of the inhabitants,
without regard to personal loyalty or disloy
alty, was, if found on the high seas liable to
to capture and condemnation as prize ot
war.
2. But, in the case assumed of the “ene
my character” of the country through which
Red River lows, then such commercial pro
perty is, a fortiori, lawful prize, if captured
afloat on Red River by the navy.
3. But if, wholly contrary to our view,
Red River was, in the sense of prize law at
the time of the capture, merely an internal
navigable river of the United States, then
the right of capture of the enemy’s commer
cial property found afloat on our internal
navigable rivers, was elaar and unquestiona
ble, and that property, so captured, is lawful
prize of war.
4. If, at the time of capture, this cotton
was the enemy’s commercial property, and if
captured in the enemy’s country by naval
forces engaged in belligerent operations,then
the capture, though made on land, was law
ful, and the property was a lawful prize of
war.
5. At the time of this capture the whole
region of Louisiana was made the enemy’s
country, and the property was the enemy’s
commercial property, and the capture was
lawfully made, and the property is condemn
able as “prize of war,”
6. The “enemy character” of the country
is the controlling fact in this cause, and this
fact is supported by the action of the Govern
ment : hence the conclusion that the decree
of the court below should be reversed and the
property condemned as “pnze of war.”
Wm. M. Springer, Esq., of Springfield, Il
linois, also counsel for the claimant, submit
ted the following points:
1. Private property on land, is not liable to
capture and condemnation as prize of war.
2., To constitute a lawful prize the property
must be engaged in an illegal traffic, and
taken on the high seas, jure belli, out of the
hands of the enemy.
1. That private property in an enemy’s
country, is now, as a general rule of war, ex
empt from seizure or confiscation, and that
the facts in this case show that this cotton
does not fall within any of the exceptions to
this general rule.
4 The District Courts of the United States
sitting in Admiralty,have no prize jurisdiction
in cases of seizure of Jfciperty on land; but
such courts may try the question of prize or
no prize, and must award restitution, if the
capture were lawful.
5. The proof having shown that the cap
tors marked, when they seized this cotton,
some of it with the letters “C. T. A.,’’we
contend that this act was a fraud upon the
claimant and upon the court, and was, of it
self, sufficient to deprive the captors of a
prize interest, even it the capture had other
wise been lawful-
6. When the United States take possession
in this war, of any rebel district, they ac
quire no new title, but merely indicate that
which previously existed, aud are to do only
what is necessary for that purpose.
7. The amnesty oath of allegiance, taken
by the claimant in this case, removes from
her all legal disabilities growing out of the
war, is a full pardon for all political offences,
and secures a restoration of all rights of pro
perty. except as tQ slaves, and except in pro
ty cases, where the rights of thira parties
shall have intervened. 4
8. As a mere question of policy, if there
were no other questions involved, this court
Bhould not recognize the right of land cap
tures by naval forces.
The Supreme Court, though reversing the
decree of the Court below, thought the pro
perty should have been turned over to the
Treasury officers as captured or abandoned
property, under the act of March 12, 1863.
This act provides that two years after the
war, loyal citizens may establish their claims
for restitution before the Court of Claims..
A New Fashion—Brazilian Beetles an®
Humming-Bird Flowers. —lu England and
France the newest thing in the fashionable
world are breast and scarf pin§ and ear rings
made out of the bright green and golden
beetles from Brazil; and the feather flowers
made from the bright plumaged birds from
the tropics and from the peculiarly brilliant
humming-birds found near Rio Janeiro,
Bahia, and on the Amazon. The latter are
most beautiful ornament*, and, like the
tasteful feather-flowers of Rio Janeiro, are
either worn in bonnets or in garlands. The
effect of the humming-bird wreaths at night
is most wonderful and brilliant, seeming as if
the head was adorned with the richest opals.
We have heard that Mrs. Agassiz recently
received from Rio Janeiro a wreath of flow
ers made from the breasts of the ruby-topaz
humming-birds, and it required no less than
fifty-six of these winged jewels for this pur
pose.
WILI AND WILINIK.
When the charming ballet Giselle was in
full vogue, we were all very familiar with
Sclavonic spirits called “Wilis,” and were
taught to believe that they were the ghosts
of young ladies crossed in love, who had
found in the tomb not an anodyne, but a
stimulus to the ill-humor, natural under the
circumstances, and displayed their hatred of
the woild in general by tearing to pieces
every mortal man who came within their
reach.
Very kind-hearted Wilis have been known
to heal the wounds they have inflicted, and
the result of the operation is a ; singular be
iug called a “Wilinik.” The Wilmik is an
ordinary mortal, who, having been wounded
and healed by a Wili, receives from her a
root, the possession of which guards him
agaiust all deceit, aud secures him a progeny
of brave sons and lovely daughters. Assur
edly the root does not eujoy a sinecure. Let
us look out for a Servian tale or two, in
which the Wili plays a part.
There was a certain king who had two
sons, one just, the other unjust. "When he
died, the unjust son said to his brother, “We
can not agree, so take the horse and'these
three hundred pieces of gold, making togeth
er your share in our paternal inheritance, and
likewise take yourself off.” Whether this
particular act was unjust or not we cannot
say, as we had not an opportunity ot looking
over the deceased monarch’s accounts ; but
we suspect all was not quite fair and above
board, inasmuch as the uujust brother avow
edly chose “Honesty is the worst poiiey” as
the ruliug maxim of his life. Knaves in
general try to conceal their idiosyncrasies,
but there was no liypocrasy in our unjust
man of Servia. He coolly, and even ostenta
tiously .said, “I am a rouge, not from any na
tural weakness, but because it is my delibe
rate conviction that roguery is superior to its
opposite.”
The righteous brother, whom, for brevity’s
sake, we will call “Justus,” had not proceed
ed far, when he accidentally encountered the
unrighteous one, whom we will call “Injus
tus,”andwko saluted him with one oi his
usual panegyrics of dishonesty. “Well,”
said Justus, “I’ll bet you a hundred gold
pieces jliat, in spite of your oft-repeated and
somewhat wearisome assertions, honesty is
the best policy after all.” “Done,” said ‘the
other ; and they then agreed to abide by the
decision of the first person they met. As it
turned out, a more partial arbiter could not
have been selected, for the first person they
met was the Evil One himlblf, disguised as a
monk, and he, of course, was strongly of
opinion that wrong is far better than right.
•Two other similar wagers, similarly decided,
consumed the rest of poor Justus’s little
fortune, and his horse went with it; but so
firm was bis conviction of . the superiority of
virtue, that lie now offered to stake his eyes
on the soundness of his views. Emboldened
by his previous successes, In jugtus, without
further ado, or seeking any further arbiter,
cut out bottyjf Justus's eyes, and th*a Ap
pealed to Justus himself whether the very
fact of his blindness did not of itself prove
the worthlessness of right. The martyr to
justice still affirmed without Intending a pun,
that “he did not see it,” and instructed his
victorious brother to give him a vessel of
water wherewith to moisten his lips aud
wash his wounds, and to place him under a
fir-tree that grew by a certain spring. Injus
tus, who, after all, was not without his good
points, granted this very modest request, and
poor Justus, as in the night-time he sat alone
by the spring, heard the Wilis come to bathe
in the waters, and then heard one of them
say.
She’s very ill, is the king’s poor daughter,
To such a pas3 has her malady brought her ;
But if she could only bathe in this water,
She’d get very well,
As 1 can tell,
And all who are deaf, or dumb, or blind.
In these same wnters a cure may find.
The cock crew, the Wilis vanished, and
Justus, creeping on all fours to the spring
arid washing his eyes with the waters, found
that the last of the Will’s assertions was,
at least, correct, for he saw as well as ever.
Nor did he fail to make good use of his sight;
he replenished his vessel from the magic
stream, and, taking it to the daughter of the
king referred to by the Wili, restored her to
a condition of robust health. That the prin
cess was given to him for a wife, with half
the kingdom for her dowry followed as a
matter of course. '
Though news did not travel fast in those
days, the great prosperity of Jest us became
known, in course of time, to his iniquitous
brother, who at once shrewdly inferred that
it must be a very fine thing to lose one’s sight
and sit under the fir-tree. So he cut out his
own eyes, took the station formerly occupied
by his brother, and presently, like him, heard
the Wilis come to bathe:
There’s no doubt
At all about
This fact, that someone overheard
What I of these line waters said
How they would heal the royal maid—
Yes, cv’ry word.
We'll look around ns, for I vow
1 think there’s someone list’ning now.
cried the Wili, whose information had proved
so useful to Justus. And the search, which
immediately began, terminated in the cap
ture of the hapless listener, who was no
sooner caught than he was torn into four
pieces. *
Once Upon a time a certain man had a
dream. He thought that a child, white as
snow and with wings on its shoulders* stood
before him and said: “Climb up the highest
mountain of which thou hast knowledge, and
thou wilt find on the summit thereof a lofty
fir tree. Beneath this thou wilt perceive a
jagged rock, out of which water is running
like tears. Dig beneath the rock as many
feet as it Is high, and thou wilt come to a
round vessel with a golden cover, ailed with
coins. When thou hast removed the cover,
cast it down and leave it, but the coins thou
mayst bear away. Still, mind that thou tell
est no one of what thou hast done; or evil
may befall thee.”
This was pleasant, and apparently profita
ble, information, and the man had no sooner
received it than hej?roceeded to a spot that
answered to the c)®d‘s description, and be
gan to dig with all his might and main.—
When, however, he had struck the third
blow with his pickaxe, he heard a voice A3
of a child, which seemed to proceed from
beneath the ground, and imperatiyely com-
manded him to desist. So mueh was lie
touched that he at once fell down and «ank
into a deep sleep, during which he saw again
the child of his dream, who said, in a stem
voice; “Why didst thou commence thy la
bor without crossing thyself as a pious Chris
tian ? Had I not been bv, a grievous ill
would have befaiien thee. Therefore, now,
when thou aiisetb, cross thyself as is meet,
and resume they work iu a good spirit.”
Strange to say, when the man awoke, he
found himself not on the spot where sleep
had overtaken him, but in a sunny garden,
full of the most beautiful flowers. Never
theless he resumed his digging, having first
crossed himself, in compliance with the
child’s command. While he was shoveling
up the earth a light as of sunbeams flashed
into his eyes, aud he perceived a dragon
asleep on the vessel that contained the trea
sure. Thrice did he entreat the monster to
depart, but the dragon, waking at the third
summons, flatly refused to stir. “The trea
-sure,” quoth he, “is neither thine nor mine;
but if thou, wilt tell me how many streams
spring from this rock I will leave the place,
and thou mayest then do as thon wilt.”
The required enumeration proved no easy
job, and the man, after going from spring to
spring, becameV) weary and perplexed that
he leaned his head against a tall tree out of
pure exhaustion. While he was thus re (los
ing he heard a rustling overhead, and, look
ing upward, saw a Wili tmd a Wilinik en
gaged in hot debate. The Wilinik wanted
to Know something which the Wili, who wap
manifestly uneasy, was loth to communicate,
and at last the latter cried out: “As sure as
there are seventy aud seven springs in this
mountain I know nothing about it,” So
saying, the Wili flew away, but the Wilinik,
perceiving the man, told him he might now
take the treasure without impediment,which,
noticing that the dragon had fled, the man
did.
The Wilis once manifested a remarkable
creative talent. On a broiling summer's
day they fashioned a young ; damsel out of
some snow which they found at the bottom
of a bottomless pit, and no sooner was their
work accomplished than the figure was ani
mated by tho wind, nurtured by the dew,
clothed with leaves by the wood, and decked
with the choicest flowers by the meadow.
This wonderful girl, who will remind some
of the readers of the antique Atlanta, issued
a proclamation declaring that she would be
come the bride of the first youth who could
catch her in a horse-race. Tho first gentle
men iu the world, including the Emperor’s
Sou, eagerly responded to the summons; and
when they were all on the race-course ready
to start, the damsel took her place in the
midst of them, not on horseback, but stand
ing on her feet, aud thus spoke: “Yonder,
against the winning post, I have set up a
golden apple. The first who takes it shall
be my husbadd, but if I reach it before any
of you, a sudden death will at once come
.upon you all. Think, therefore, what you
are about,”
The aspirants did think, and they thought
it very unlikely that a girl on foot would
prove an overmatch for men on horseback,
for they were not aware that the snow maid
en had little wings under her shoulders.—
But they toon fouud that their thoughts had
been too hasty, for when they were about
halt way on the course they saw their fair
antagonist gaining ahead. Still they did not
lose courage, but, clapping spurs to their
steeds, overtook the girl, who at once pulled
a hair from her head and flung it to the
ground- A forest immediately sprang up,
in which the rideis were lost, but by dmt m
perseverance they overcame even that diffi
culty, and making their way through the
trees, were again on the track of the nimble
maiden, who shed a tear, which immediately
expanded into a foaming torrent and drown
ed the whole party, with the single excep
tion of the Emperor’s son, whose horse swam
upon the water. Perceiving that the snow
maiden was again far ahead, he thrice im
plored her, in the name of the Deity, to pro
ceed no further. She stood still accordingly,
apd placing her on his horse, he swam with
her to dry land, and proceeded with her
homeward through a mountainous district.
When, however, he had reached the highest
ummit she was gone.
An ambitious youth once made the singu
lar vow that he would wed no one but a
maiden of imperial race, and as, with all his
visionary propensities, ho was of a thorough
ly practical disposition, be went boldly up
to the emperor and asked the hand of his
daughter iu marriage. Now the emperor, as
it happened, was of somewhat timi i temper
ament, aud though au emphatic “No” was
on the tip of his tongue, he preferred to ut
ter his refusal in a more < circumlocutionary
manner. He therefore said:
“I shall only be too happy to give you my
daughter if—if— ’’
“Yes ?” asked the youth.
“If in the course of, say a week, you will
procure me—first, a white horse without
speck that has never known bridle.”
“Secondly V’ inquired the youth,
“Secondly, a sorrel horse with a black
head that has never been mounted. Thirdly,
a black horse with a white head and white
feet that has never been shod.”
“Well,” said the youth, “horses are to
be got, though a week is a short
time.” '
. “Stop, I have not finished,” proceeded the
emperor. “Besides the three horses, you
must bring as much gold as they all three
can carry as a present to my empress. On
these conditionss, and no other, I grant you
my daughter’s hand.
The youth having thanked the. emperor
much more heartily than he deserved, took
his leave in no cheerful mood; but fortu
nately the imperial maiden had overheard all
the conversation, and had, moreover, seen
the petitioner, who appeared to her the hand
somest man in the world. Therefore he was
soon comforted by a letter, which the young
]gdy sent him by the bands of a confidential
servant, and which commanded him to come
to her secretly on the following morning if he
desired a successful issue to his suit.
While the youth remained awake through
the night, reflecting on his good fortune, the
maiden, likewise awake, occupied herselt in
stealing from her father a magic knife which
she gave to her adorer when he came accord
ing to appointment, and they both vowed
eternal love and fidelity. She then directed
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him to take a horse which belonged to her
and to ride with all speed to the Wilis’ wood,
where he would find a certain tripcipitaf hill,
and after that a meadow bright with pearls,
with horses of the most various colors graz
ing upon it. From these horses he was to
choose three of the desired colors, and if they
proved restive and unwilling to be caught, he
was to draw out the. knife so that toe sun
might shine upon it, and thus light up all the
meadow ; when all the animals would come
to him of their own accord. The horses se
cured, he was to proceed to the middle of
the meadow, where he would find a cypress
tree, with a root of brass, boughs oi silver,
and leaves of gold. ll From tho root, cut with
the magic knife, a torrent of gold coin would
fcsue, which would fully enable him to com
ply with the emperor’s terms.
These minute directions were strictly fol
lowed, and tho success of the adventurer
was complete. Nay, so greatly wls the king
struck with admiration when he saw tho
horses arrive laden with the golden treasure,
that he could not help asking the suitor what
to required in tho shape of dowry ?• “Give
me the princess herself and the knife," said
the gallant youth, and I will ask no more."
So the princess and the knife were given,
and all parties were satisfied.
The Romance of a Romance.— Tea years
ago Dumas published a long story in the
feuilletons of a politioal journal. The heroine
was represented as a consumptive person who
had reached the second stage of the disease
—cold sweats, coughs, irritability, fits of wild
gaiety Alternating with deep melancholy, and
poetic hallucinations.* The entire diagnosis
of phthisis was traced with that golden
pen which is so ably wielded by the skillful
hand of the great novelist.
One morning, as he was engaged in putting
the finishing touches to bis work, a great per
sonage from the court of Louia Philippe was
announced, M. le Marquis de —-.
“Monsieur," said tho Marquis,***have you
finished your great romance ?’’
“Entirely.’’
“And what becomes of the heroine
finally ?’’
“You would sip the froth from the new
wine, or rather, after the Arab fashion, you
would commence reading at the end,"
“I can give a much more serious reason,”
said the visitor, “as a justification of my
curiosity."
“Ah, well! my poor consumptive dies In
the last chapter.”
“You must cure her,’’ add the lord,"
“But the plot is all constructed.”
“But you must change it.”
“But the denouement is thrilling."
• “You must find another.”
Dumas looked at his interlocutor with as
tonishment.
“Why do you wish me to effect the cure of
a mere creature of my imagination?”
“Because my only daughter experiences
the same symptoms which you have describ
ed. She has the same disease as your heroine,
and if your yopftg girl dies, the reason of my
poor child, who traces her own history hi
each morning's journal, will be irretrievably
blasted.” '
The celebrated novelist pressed the fkther’s
hand.
He retouched the conclusion of his ro
mance, and the heroine was miraculously
cured.
Five years afterwards Dumas met in the
saloon of M. de Montavilet a beautiful wo
man, glowing in all thet splendor of Rubens.
This charming was the daughter of
the Marquis, then married.
“She had four children," said the father,
in presenting her.
“And my book four editions,” replied the
novelist!
The Sherman and Hampton Correspon
dence.—Gen. Sherman has written another
letter. Like all the productions of his pen, it
is terse, pointed, and incisive. He notifies
Gen. Wade Hampton that the mnrder of hie
foraging parties must cease, or it wfll be sum
marily avenged by the killing of man for
man. He insists on his right to forage, but
expresses his willingness to abandon it if the
authorities will furnish his supplies. The
letter concludes with his regret for the bitter
ness engendered by the war, bat chargee it
on the guilty authors of the rebellion. It is
the calm, firm protest of a determined yet
beilrvolent leader, who means to protect bie
men against assassination.
On the other hand. General Hampton’s re
ply is full of mson, and v e regre* to say,
falsehood. lie thr at n3 a fierce retaliation,
denies that Sherman's foragers are killed, in
one breath, and in the next bitterly proclaims
the wish that the natives would shoot them
like wild beasts- He charges Bbermap with
firing upon a defenceless city, with burning
it to the ground, with firing houses,-outrag
ing women, &c. Now, the rebel correspon
dents exonerate Sherman from all blame in
regard to the the first two charges, and wa
have but little doubt that the latter are grosa
exaggerations, and that when the wrongs
are perpetrated, it is due to the sneaking as
sassins who lurk about the premises which
are the scene of violence.
An Incident of* Inauguration Dat. —One
incident of inauguration day attracted much
attention. As the clouds rolled away from
the heavens and the sun burst forth, there
appeared, shining With unusual brilliancy,
the planet Venus. It was at once noticed,
and the word calling the attention of the
multitude to it passed rapidly from mouth to
moqth; till before long the entire mass were
gazing at the unwonted spectacle. The omen
was hailed with joy, and the cry “the star of
Eeace! the star of peace !” burst from many
ps. May the omen be a true one!
A Bull from Gknbral Lee Among Hamp
ton’s Horses. —ln his report of Hampton’s
alleged victory of the 10th, General Lee say*
that he “attacked General Kilpatrick at day
light this morning, and drove him from the
camp, taking his guns, wagons, many
horses,” &c.; and then he says that “the
guns and wagons could not be brought off
tor want of horses.” This is the old story
of the Arkansas lawyer and the iron pet: —
“May it please the Court, I submit, in de
fence of my client, first, that when ahe,bor
rowed the pot in question it wss broken;
secondly, that when she returned the pot it
was sound; and thirdly, that she never had
that pot.”— N U Y. ffemM.
