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THE MORNING NEWS.
Saturday's. Dispatches.
Foreign News.
Paris, November 28.—The Paris Patrie
says there is a large faction in Spain favora
ble to five years triumvirate.
Madrid, November 28.—Olozoga has gone
to Paris.
There been many republican dem
onstrations throughout Spain within the past
few days.
Florence, November 28.—There has been
a serious outbreak at Bologna—new troubles
are feared. The troubles originated from
the refusal of the peasants to pay taxes. Two
killed and seven badly wounded.
The Porte bus sent reinforcements to Bul
garia to qnell disorders.
London, November 28.—Disraeli declined
a Peerage. His wife has been created Vis
countess Beaconfields.
Vienna, November 28.—An American ves
sel, with arms for AVallachians, passed up
the Dunube lately.
Berlin, November 28.—The deputies from
Schleswig have beeu denied seats in the Diet
until they swear allegiance.
Pabis, November 28.—The Monileur loses
its official character New Year's. The Mon-
ittur Official De L' Empire will then appear.
Lillie, the editor of the Progress, was fined
five hundred francs and one month’s impris
onment for publishing subscription lists to
the Bouden monument.
FKOHCHAKLESTOS.
The Rate Municipal Election Declared
Void—Arrival i*f Emigrant:.
Charleston, November 29.—The contested
municipal election case, after a trial, of two
weeks, was concluded last night by the elec-,
tion being declared irregular and void, by a
vote of 12 yeas and 3 nays. This decision
was rendered by the present Council, of which
a large majority are Republicans. The effect
will be to continne in power the present City
Government until a new election is ordered
by the Legislature. — — ?_
The Bremen hark Gauss, with three hun
dred German emigrants, arrived to-day. She
had a rongh voyage, with eight deaths on the
passage, mostly children.
From Washington.
Washington, November 28, Noon—It is
stated that .the monthly debt statement will
6bow a heavy increase, probably eleven mil
lions, while the currency in the Treasury con
tinues low.
The Metropolitan Police Board has reported
unfavorably on over one hundred applications
to retail liquor. The organization of the
Sons of Temperance, by resolutions, urge the
board to stand firm, while those disappointed
in securing licenses threaten to join the op
position in securing a prohibitory law by Con-
Sir John Tonny, the new Governor of the
dominion of Canada, has arrived at Ottawa.
Washington, November 28, P. M.—Hon.
F. McMillen presented a petition from the
citizens of Virginia to Gen. Grant, against the
extension of the Stay laws beyond January 1st,
18(19. Gen Grant expressed himself favorably,
but desired to consult Schofield before acting.
Stoneman, it is understood, opposes further
extension, and advises those who cannot pay
debts to take the bankrupt act and start
afresh.
Gen. Grant’s petitioners represent that the
further extension of the Stay laws involves the
credit of the State, and will prevent the pay
ment of interest on the State debt
The State Department urges travellers, in
view of the disturbed condition of foreign
countries, to carry passports. They cost five
dollars, and are only given to citizens.
The import duties from the sixteenth to
twenty-first inclusive, is a half million dollars.
Gen. Grant will attend the wedding of Major
Benjamin to the daughter of Governor Fish,
December 8th, and on the same evening the
reception by Mrs. Marshall O’Koberjs, given
in honor of the President elect.
It is stated that at these two re-unions the
President elect will see the creme de la creme
of Gotham’s society.
The following paragraph in the Herald's
version of General Bousseau’s report does
not appear in the copy at General Grant’s
headquarters:
“ Of this stripe were some of the members
of the Republican Campaign Committee. In
a consultation at my headquarters, at which
Dr. Southworth, a controlling member of the
committee, took part, at which consultation
I myself was not present, but one of my staff
officers was, it was contended by some of the
republicans present that the negroes should
be advised not to go to the polls, the idea be
ing that if they did go they would be slaugh
tered. Southworth replied that his commit
tee would advise the negroes to vote; adding:
■Let them he slaughtered; the mote there are
killed the better it will be for our party.’
“ This spirit, I am sorry to say, but too
often controls the action and conduct of many
who assume to act in the name and in the hi*
terest of the Government of the United
States, and who use the cloak of loyalty as a
cover for their misdeeds—I have founcLthat
men of this description, though willing to
see the blood of othera.shed at a distance,
conceal themselves with marvellous alacrity
and skill at the approach of any real or fan
cied danger. Southworth, who wanted the
negroes slaughtered at the polls, is a shining
example of this kind, and was actually in
hiding, at my headquarters, at the time he
made the remark I have quoted.”
Washington, November 28.—The Herald
publishes the following special dispatch: “In
a conversation a few days ago with General
Grant, he expressed his impression that t
result of the late election has quieted down
the state of feeling throughout the country,
had produced a condition of sober and con
tented acquiescence in the declared will of
the majority, and an improved tone in the
political as well as in other relations of life
that will soon be made manifest. When he
made use of the expression “let us have
peace,” he sincerely meant it, and he appre
hended no trouble in any section of the.coun
try under his administration, while at the
tame time the rights of all classes and of all
communities shall be protected and pre
served. Referring to the fourteeenth amend
ment, he said Kentucky and Maryland would
suffer a loss of representation after the nest
census, if they refuse to allow negro suffh
in accordance with the provisions of that
amendment ” It will be a bitter pill to them
(observed the General laughing), bnt theyll
have to stand.it
Tire Test Oath, in Lonisinna.
New Orleans, November 28.—In the Uni
ted States District Court yesterday the Dis
trict Attorney informed the Court that Chief
for jurors, and moved that the same rule he
adopted for the United States Court of Lonis-
mna. Judge Durell ordered the oath admin
istered as required before: the war.
From Florida,
Tallahassee, November 28.—In the Su
preme Court to-day* a motion to strike out
four points as'irrelevant and impertinent was
granted. A motion by Gleason’s counsel to
quash proceeding was then taken up and ar
gued until dark.
, Outrages by the Arkansas Radicals.
Memphis, November 28.—The AppeaTs Ar
kansas correspondent says, that on the 10th
a body of two hnndredjmen claiming to be a
military force, entered the town of Centre
Point, Seviere county, and arrested- all the
inhabitants, marched them into an open field
From Richmond.
Richmond, November 28.—Dr. Arthur E.
Pettallas, Superintendent of the Easton Lu
natic Asylum at Williamsburg, committed
suicide at three o’clock this morning by
leaping from a window of the Asylum and
dashing his brains out on the bricks below.
The deceased was distinguished as a physi
cian and former professor in a medical college
here. His mind has been unsettled for some
time past.
The Richmond Circuit Court to-day gave
j udgment against the city for $15,000 worth
of whiskey destroyed by order of the City
Council on the night of the evacuation in
1865. About 3,000 barrels were destroyed
that night, for all of which the city will have
to pay.
The Daily Hew Nation, a Republican paper
here, announces that owing to unexampled
proscription, it will not be published again.
Gen. W. C. Wyckham was elected President
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
Tlie New Orleans Races.
New Orleans, November 28.—-There was a
large attendance at the opening race over the
Matarie course to-day. The first race was
for a stake for all ages—dash of one mile and
a half, and to carry one hundred pounds.
Purse $400. There were three entries. “Bis
marck” beat Warwick’s chesnut horse “Tran
sit” by Bleakwild and Tom Green. Time,
2:45—2:47.
The post stake—three mile heats—$2,500.
Entrance: Alabama enters “Bayonet;" Mis
souri enters “Sundown;” Louisiana enters
Gilroy.
Bayonet was the winner. Time, 6:20—
6:14—6:24*.
Bayonet 1 2 1
Gilroy 2 1 1
The weather was fine, cool and bracing,
but the track was very heavy.
Prominent turfmen were present from all
sections. Betting was all one way, Bayonet
being the favorite; Sundown selling second.
Sunday’s Dispatches.
Arrival of Troops In Augusta.
Augusta, November 28.—Gen. T. W. Swee
ney, with two companies of the Sixteenth In
fantry, arrived this morning, and will remain
till after the municipal election, which takes
place next Wednesday.
The Cuban Revolution.
Havana, November 29.—The first battal
ion of volunteers, 800 strong, leaves to-mor
row for the seat of war. It is reported that
vessels had burned the plantation of Colonel
Costa, commanding ihe battalion of volun
teers. It is also reported that General
Cespedes, of the Revolutionists, had three
men executed who were caught robbing and
burning. Cespedes, previous to the attack
and repulse at Mansanillo, recommended
that the women and children should leave
town. The confidence of the people and the
Captain General in the speedy termination of
war is increasing. Another battalion of
volunteers will march to Halquin during the
coming week.
Naw Orleans, November 29.—The papers
pnblish acommunication dated Havana, 25th,
signed “Antonio Lucre, Secretary,” pur
porting to be from. the Representatives of
the Provisional Republican Government
of Cuba established in the town of Bogomo,
refuting the reports circulated in reference to
revolutionary movements in Cuba. They say
that propositions for delay or to lay down
their arms on condition that the Captain
General guaranteeing certain reforms, were
scornfully and unhesitatingly rejected by the
revolutionary chiefs, and that they are not
fighting for reform but for independence.
They conclude: “We are fully informed of
everything going on, and particularly well in
formed as to the plans of the revolutionary
leaders with whom we are in communication,
and beg to assert most positively that so far
from being disposed to lay down our arms, we
are about to strike a blow that will echo on the
Continent. We will lay down onr arms when
Spain shall hare recognized our indepen
dence, and not before, notwithstanding Span
ish assertions and rumors to the contrary.
‘(By order of the Revolutionary Junta, now
in session in the city of Havana, the 25th
day of November, 1868.”
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, November 29.—Judge Coo-
ley, of the Sixth. District Court, yesterday
ordered the quo warranto, sued out by R. E.
Diamond, Chief of Police appointed by the
Mayor, against the Metropolitan Police Su
perintendent, to be sustained, and ordered
Superintendent Cain, of the Metropolitan
Police, not to interfere with Diamond in the
discharge of his duties as Chief of Police.
In his opinion, Judge Cooley states that
the Metropolitan Police law does not deprive
the municipal authorities of the power to
establish a police force, and that it is optional
with the city to accept the Metropolitan Po
lice law,“which is unconstitutional in many
vesDects; among others, in making the Lieu
tenant Governor President of the Police
Board, the constitution prohibiting one man
from holding two offices.
It is reported that a new. trial will be
m Lieutenant Governor Dunn, acting as Presi
dent of the Metropolitan Police Board, has
taken out an injunction restraining Diamond
from exercising the functions of Chief of
Police. This injunction rs still before the
Kith District Court
Jacob Barker received his final discharge
in bankruptcy yesterday morning.
Tire Fenians.
Philadelphia, November 28.—Gen. John
O’Neil was unanimously elected President of
the Fenian Brotherhood. The delegates have
every confidence in him.
and placed a guard over them, and then pro
ceeded to sack the town, after which they
left The next day the citizens of the adjoin
ing county flocked into town; meetings were
held to express -the sentiments of the people
in regard to the outrage. While the meeting
was progressing the same men dashed into
town and opened indiscriminate fire upon the
assembly, shooting a number and arresting
three of the oldest and best citizens, named
Heister, Anderson and Gilbert. They car
ried them to a field and shot them. The
band is still in possession of the town.
Eight companies of the 29th infantry left
en route for the Texas frontier.
OUR FLORIDA CORRESPONDENCE.
t n ov, 25, 1868.
Elitors Morning News:
The Supreme Court of-toe State convened
yesterday. Gleason obeyed the order of the
Court, issued on last Thursday, and approved
by counsel, to show cause why a writ of quo
warranto should not be issued against him.
His counsel, however, asked that the case be
postponed, on the ground that sufficient time
had not been allowed in which to consult
proper authority, &c., whereupon the Court
adjourned the case until to-day,
How remarkable! Six days not time
enough for a man to show cause why a writ
of quo warranto should not issue! Absurd. It
does not require the gift of prophecy or any
very great degree of political sagacity to un
derstand why this postponement was asked
for. The case will be put off from day to day,
as intimated in my last, by argument and
otherwise, until the Legislature,assembles, in
Jannary, when the Court itself will be “im
peached.” This is absolutely necessary to
Gleason’s success,, for lie knows that if the
case were pronounced upon, it must be de
cided against him. He had not, and no one
knows it better than himself, been a resident
in the State three years when he qualified,
and the Constitution requires this.
It is asserted as a positive fact that Gleason
■will have the case aTgued before the Court,
his counsel taking the ground that the Con
stitutional provision rr—
[From theRichmondDispatch.]. .* cl
Stephens vs. Bledsoe—The Right of Se
cession. v
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, has for years oc
cupied a singularposition in the estimation of
the Southern public. His speeches made
just before the late war commenced, his ab
stinence from such participation in the prose-
ention-of that war as had been expected from
him, and, more than , all, we suspect, the
manner in which Northern papers ore in the
habit of speaking of him, induced a doubt as
to whether he really believed the Southern
States had a right to secede from, the .Union.
No man could give .a good reason for doubt-
! ng Mr. Stephen’s devotion to his own section.
,e it was who, in 1850, when few men would
have dared to deliver such language in such a
‘ e, uttered in Washington city the start-’’
„ imprecation, “Let the curses of the eter
nal God rest upon the traitor who will not
standby his own 1 section:” Whilst still a'
leading Whig member of Congress, however,
he seemed much inclined towards acting with
the uncompromising Democrat*' from lus sec
tion. His fidelity to bis party, was then in
the same sort of- doubt which afterwords ap
peared to surround his position as a champion
of the doctrines of the rights of the States
It - was doubtless.: a prajuditosgainsi.him
imbibed during the war tliaacauaed ProfieSf
sor Bledsoe, the able nditoi£<of the Balti
more Quarterly. Review, ’ to criticise Mr.
Stephen’s “Constitutional View of the
Late War” in a captious and unfriendly
manner. In the October No. of that
quarterly he took the distinguished Georgian
to task, and charged him with various of
fences. The public has reason to thahk Pro
fessor Bledsoe for this review; for it has call
ed Mr. Stephens ont in a long letter which
appears in the Baltimore Statesman of lost
week, in which he defines his position in the
most equivocal language, and clears up every
doubt as to the opinions he holds (and has
alway held) in reference to the rights of the
States. He shows that his book is consistent
with his previous record as a statesman, in
cluding in this latter, of course, his celebra
ted speech of I860 before the Legislature of
Georgia in denounciation of the proposal to
secede from the Union. He demonstrates
that whilst this speech was directed against
the policy of secession, it clearly admitted the
right of secession; that whilst it denied (os
well it might) the right of the Legislature of
Georgia to pass an ordinance of secession, it
pointed to the people themselves, speaking
through tt convention, as having the right to
pass such an ordinance. He-shows that he
never, as charged by his reviewers, con
founded the right of secession with the
right of revolution, and that the error
of the reviewer resulted from a care
less perusal or inexcusable misapprehen
sion of the language employed inhis book. He
admits that he did not and does not believe in
any “constitutional" right of a State to secede;
but in a right super-constitutional—an inhe
rent indefeasible, sovereign right, of which the
framers of the Constitution never dreamed of
divesting the States, and for the exercise of
which they therefore made no provision. He
quotes the following extract from his book on
this point:
In his letter Mr. Stephens says:
“It was not by virtue of the Constitution
that this right [of secession] was to be exer
cised, but by virtue of that sovereignty of the
State by which the constitutional compact
was entered into.”
“These are the principles in which I was
educated. From the time that I entered
public life, and even before, I held the same,
as the records cau abundantly establish.”
We agree with Mr. Stephens, as it seems to
siring three years
residence in the State to be able to qualify as
Governor and Lieutenant Governor did not
go into effect until after the present officers
were elected, and only applies to those here
after to be chosen. This plea, we opine, will
afford him but poor refuge; for it is quite
clear that the office of Lieutenant Governor
did not exist under the provisional govern
ment, organized by the Reconstruction laws,
and was only created by the new Constitu
tion itself, which prescribed the qualifications
of said office, and was voted upon at the same
time that the officers were elected. Of course,
then, no person is eligible to the office of
Lieutenant Governor who cannot comply with
the provisions of the Constitution which
creates the office. This is untenable ground,
and will avail him nothing. The Court meets
to-day, bnt nothing will be decided.
The object, Messrs. Editors, of this whole
“impeachment” business can be readily di
vined. At best, it is but a grab for spoils.
Reed has not proven the pliant party tool
that was expected by his supporters. Ho
possesses some firmness;—has exercised it to
a limited extent, and put his veto upon cer
tain measures, which is the cause of the rum
pus in the Radical camp. These measures
bore fraud upon their very-face, and were
designed to fiirther_enrieh the Radical cor
morants at the expense of our people, who
are already taxed to death and well nigh ex
hausted in resources. The Constitution fixes
the pay of members of the Legislature at $509
per annum, besides mileage to and from the
capital. At the first session which met under
the Constitution, the members drew their full
year's pay and mileage; but at the extra ses
sion, convened a short time after, they en
deavored to vote themselves on additional
sum of $5 per diem and 10 cents mileage.
The. Governor, however, vetoed this bill,
which caused much manoeuvring and great
dissatisfaction among his’ heretofore ardent
supporters. This, together with other more
weighty matters, (a part of which we shall pre
sently allude to) determined them upon “im
peachment” as the best and most summary
manner in which to dispose^ of a man who
lipH given evidence of his intention not to
countenance such bold and flagrant frauds.
It is said that Gleason’s bitterness towards
Reed is chiefly owing to the fact that the
Governor’ would not abet some of his
foul schemes to swindle .the Treasury
of his adopted State. Gleason, on a
recent visit to Washington, desired to dispose
of certain State bonds and Convention scrip
(as it is called) at.au enormous discount—
something like twenty-five cents in the dol
lar for scrip, and seventy cents for bonds;
but Reed strenuously opposed it, and would
not submit to such an outrage upon the peo-
pie. This opposition to his pet scneme caused
Gleason to “boil over" with indignation, and
when he returned, the “impeachment" trick
was mooted. If this be true, if it is a fact
that Reed, for whose honesty and integrity
we would not have wagered-much for various
reasons, did really oppose a-scheme, the con
summation of which would have swindled the
State ont of thousands of dollars, he deserves,
and will doubtless receive’ the approbation t
and applause of all good citizens; for honest
Radicals are as “scarce as hen’s tsetn, and
when found, deserve to be brought into
prominence and held Up to public praise.
It seems at first glance a little strange that
men can be so lost to all sense of shame and
descend to such a depth of infamy as to be
guilty of such disreputable acts as has char-
acterized Radical rule in Florida; but when
we consider that these men have been edu
cated inn bad. political school—in a sqhooJ,
the doctrines of which are, that political vir
tue is the mere coquetry of political prosti-.
tution; that every patriot has hispnee; that
Government can do earned on only by means
of corruption, andihatthe State is giyen as a
prey to the so-called statesmen, it does not
seem so strange after alL . What a mockery
to say of such men, “Amor palna: dual! ■ but
how appropriate in the language of the
daughter of Arbilan, who reigned to Damas
cus, applied to her cousin;
‘‘Bavage in manners, slave to drink and dice,
None bnt himself could be bis paragon in vicel”
Everything is quiet and dull in this city.
Gleason has appointed an Attorney General
for his Cabinet, and we now have two Gov
ernors two Secretaries of State, and two At*
tomeys-General—certainly a sufficient num
ber of officers to preserve the public peace,
In my next I may-say a word or two about
the “scalawags” of our State—those men
who have deserted their country in her hour
of need, and who, of all others, deserve the
most condemnation.
us almost every other candid man must, that
“there was no balance of power established
between the North and the South, as sections,
in the Constitution." Our sectional com
plaints on that score were unfounded.
Mr. Stephens shows that the Review was
as Unfortunate in itB reference to Thucydides
ns in its criticisms upon his own consistency.
He is fortified on every side.
Having been censured for reproducing the
Declaration of Independence in his book, he
gives excellent reasons for having done so.
Among them, that the title, as it appears in
Elliott's Debates, is as follows:
“Now, as to toe right fulness of the State’s
thus resuming her sovereign powers. In
doing it she seceded from the Union, to which,
in the language of Mr. Jefferson as well as
.General Washington, she had acceded as a
sovereign State. She repealed her ordinance
by which she ratified and agreed to the Con-
‘ stitution and became a party to the compact
under it She declared herself no longer
bound by that compact, and dissolved her
alliance with‘the other parties to it The
Constitution of the United States and the
laws passed in pursuance of it were no lon
ger the supreme law of the people of Geor
gia, any more than the treaty with France
was the supreme law of both countries, after
its abrogation in 1798 by the same rightful
authority which bad made it in the begin
ning. In answer to your question, whether
she could do this without a breach of her
solemn obligations under the compact, I give
this foil and direct answer: She had a perfect
right to do so, subject to no authority bnt
the.great moral law which governs the inter
course between Independent Sovereign Pow
ers, Peoples, or Nations. Her action was
subject to the authority of that law, and none
other. * * * Under the circumstances,
and the facts of this cose therefore, the legal
- as well as the moral right, on the part of
Georgia, according to the laws of nations
and nature, to_ declare herself uo longer
bound by the compact, and to withdraw from
the Union under .it, was perfect and com
plete. These principles are too incontesti-
bly established to be qnestioned, much less
denied, in'the forum of reason and justice.”
“In Congress, July. 4th, 1776.—The Unan
imous Declaration of the Thirteen United States
of America. "
It was no Declaration of National Indepen
dence, says Mr. Stephens, “or the indepen
dence of a nation, bnt the independence of
separate States.”
Mr. Stephens shows that it was not Noah
Webster, as the reviewer supposed, but Mr.
Jefferson that first suggested the idea of es
tablishing such a Federal Government as was
afterwards established.
In a word, as Mr. Hill, of Georgia, demol
ished in tarn Greeley, Raymond, and Ben
nett, of the New York press, Mr. Stephens,
keeping up the reputation of his State for
skillful writers in the shape of prominent
statesmen, ents all the ground from under
Professor Bledsoe, leaving him not an inch
upon which to stand.; We are confident that
every Southern man who reads it will be
pleased with his letter. It shows that his
hook was written with the utfnost care and
the most scrupulous regard for the truth, and
removes every, doubt os to his position upon
the question of the rights of the States.
H. ap;
Mesa, agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, was
arrested in this city, by Deputy Sheriff Lump
kin, last Thursday. ’ *
He was arrested, as we are informed, on a
bench warrant, issued by Judgo J. R. Parrott,
based .on a true bill found by the gfand jury
of Whitfield Superior Court at its last session.
The facts of the case are reported to as as
follows:
Some two years since Capt De la Mesa as
sumed possession of a plantation in Whitfield
county, belonging to a gentleman living in
Savannah, claiming that it belonged to the
class of “abandoned lands.” Under threats
of the “ military,” he prevented the owner’s
agent from interfering, and the tenants—who
were in possession under contracts from the
owner—to pay their stipulated rents to him
self. The matter has been suffered to rur
thus long for the reason that there has been
no court in that county hitherto to correct it.
Capt. de la Mesa was released on bail of
five hundred dollars—W. H. Webb being his
security.—Rome Courier.
Heavy Foeoerx in Baltimore.—Mr. Der*
rick W. Keyser, for eight or ten years a park-
ner in the house of Messrs. John Sharkey &
Co., a well known china and queensware firm,
has forged a .number of promissory noteB
upon the Bank of Commerce, by means of
which he obtained a considerable amonn* of
money. He has run off. Mr. Sharkey has
surrendered all the stock, &c., to pay the
debta.
From AVashington*
{Special Cornesi ondence of the Baltimore Gazette-]
. Washington, November 25,1868.—Leading
Radical ir embers of Congress are gradually
dropping a. The main point with those who
have asy« arrived seems to.be the control of
the Treas ry, War and Interior Departments.
So far as t :e Senate is concerned, (or .for that
matter the House,) no trouble is anticipated
in regard to the rest. The;State Department
never was worth much* in dollars and cents,.
and it is supposed ihat Hr. Sumner, WendelL
Phillips and T ueodore Tilton will be suffered
to control too; appointment upon giving a]
receipt in .'all to dace. The pilfering in. : lie.
General ..E’stp3ice is rather too slow and in
too small lot; for this fast age, and it is
thought this .place will be accorded without
l cavil to Forney or Greeley, whichever may
obtain, a rnajP'.ify of . Senators. In this, light
“yap.bet”:.on Greeley. The Navy Depart
ment has been played out, in respect to the
almighty dollar, ana as for the. post of Attor
ney General, it is looked upon as a nonentity
—nobody paying the slightest attention to
the “opinions” of th'.t functionary, no matter
how much “money may be in them,” or what
legal point in other matters may be involved.
They are “merely advisory,” as the Executive
has decided, and the “advice” is never taken,
even after being solicited.
Not so, however, with the remaining posi
tions. Claim* (good and bad) to the amount
of thousands of millions of dollars are staff
ed away in the pigeon-holes of the War De
partment. In the initial , hands of an expert
fine pickings are at stake here, and be snre
that the struggle in this behalf will not be
terminated without s'iring up angry passions.
General Cameron (now on the spot) has the
best chance, so far, for this conspicuous post;
but it wouldn’t do yet to risk money on him.
The Interior is also a very important Depart
ment in a pecuniary point of view. To say
nothing of minor matters, the overhauling of
that gigantic monopoly, the Pacific Railroad,
opens ap fine prospects for investment by
enterprising gentlemen. The oxygen and hy
drogen are already hanging in clonds over
the whole track, and only require a spark of
electricity. You will shorty hear thunder
and see an avalanche!
But the Eldorado is the Treasury. The
ignusfatuus which Sir Walter Raleigh sought
to discover in his day in the Western Hemis
phere is now to be found as a reality in the
Colonede Building on Fifteenth street
There is plenty of money (real money) there.
Besides, the institution stretches its arms and
fingers into every nook and comer of tha
country; has exclusion supervision of the col
lection of every dollar of the pnblic revenue,
external and -'internal, and is necessarily
brong’.t into collision, or It may be into har
monious action with all the “rings,” tobacco,
whiskey, and what not from Dan to Bershe-
ba. You .had “better believe,” therefore, that
the controversy for such a post will be no wo
man’s work or child’s play.
—-“Mon
Who know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,”
will be the competitors. Patriots will en
gage in the struggle who have cut and slash
ed, and burned, with fire and sword for their
country—who have never wavered in the
canse of their colored brethren—and whose
characters, pure and white as the sheet I
write upon, are stainless of any, the least,
hankering after.filthy lucre.”
Numberless gentlemen, altogether coming
up to these indispensable requirements, are
prominently spoken of; but I intend to bet
my money on Schenck. Besides the required
accomplishments and virtues referred to, he
happens to have the decisive advantage of
serving not only his country, but his party,
as Chairman of the Radical Central Commit
tee in the late transcendently important po
litical contest, and to have so managed his
high office os to bring to the support of his
chief certain ricketty Democratic newspapers
in a twinkling after the election was over.
Again, it has heretofore been the custom of
parties to reward such important services by
a choice spot. Rut what clinches the nail is
that General: Schenck was Chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee during the
whole session (tons far) of the immortal For
tieth Congress, andmuBt needs have our fi
nances “ at his fingers’ ends,” as the say
ing is.
r am not unmindful that Senator Morgan,
of New York, was the coadjutor of General
Schenck in the discharge of his late effective
service—so c appointed, perhaps, on the Ja
panese prudential principle of dual monetary
agents. But there are other Cabinet spots.
Aud the country has yet to hear of his mili
tary exploits or of his eminent financial abil
ities. Let -him pat np, therefore, with the
Navy Department in case Fenton unseats him
which I Larn is likely to he the case.
I have tour given you “betting news,” so
that if any of your readers are inclined to
enter into thi.3 gambling business, they may
proceed with their eyes open. I am sorry I
havejlo other kind to-day. X.
Minister Wsilibnmp.
Mr. Washbubne writes a letter justifying
hi* conduct in running away and leaving his
friends in the hands of Lopez. It is dated at
Buenos Ayres. He says:
“My diplomatic powers had been surren
dered, and I could not resume them. I had
no longer honse, nor home, nor protection.
I could have surrendered my family, unpro
tected, and put them on the Paraguayan
steamer the Rio Ana, and could have given
myself np to the ruffians who had seized the
members of my legation and been carried
into captivity, where I could tell no tales, and
could not advise my Government and the
world of the atrocities and barbarities of
Christmas hud New Yea
To have thus surrendered myself, instead
of hastening to a point where I could com
municate with my Government, and do ail
in my power to rescue my unfortunate friends
from the clutches of a wild beast at ihe
earliest moment, I should have been justly
censured by the whole civilized world. I
therefore embarked on the Wasp, and we
hastened down the river.
“I am remaining here to see what can be
done to save the persons seized by Lopez.
No effort of mine lias been or will tie spared
to rescue the unfortunate men who were tom
from me under circumstances of such pecu
liar atrocity. For them I kept myself in the
S ower and endured the hostility of the worst
ring man; for them I most cheerfully sacri
ficed health, comfort, and fortune, and en
dured persecution aud insult I did all that
was in my power to do. My house was crowd
ed with fugitives, and I shared with them all
I had and in all the horrors of the situation. ,
All parted from me with the deepest feelings ’
of gratitude. Had the Wasp been at Asun
cion when Bliss and Masterton were seized
by an overpowering force, and dragged away
from me while on my way to the steamer, X
am certain that Captain Kirkland would havo
promptly responded to my request and opened
on the town, but as you arc aware, JL>opez
had kept her below the fortifications, a league
below Asuncion, in order to have me at a dis
advantage. Of course, in the street with
my wife and child, I could offer no resistance
to that outrage upon my flag.”
Tire Iron-ClAd Qatli—Decision of Chief
’ " Justice Chase. ’’
Richmond, November 25.—Chief Justice
Chase decided this morning that the iron-clad
oath should not be administered to grand ju
rymen, as it rather hindered the ends of jus
tice. A new grand jury was then summoned
under this , decision, and will only take the
oath to support the Constitution of the United
States.
the order op the chief justice in relation
tO oaths—his remarks on revenue frauds.
. Richmond, November 25.—Chief Justice
Chase in his order (to-day dispensing with the
test oath for Grand Jurors explained that it
was the additional oath prescribed by Con
gress which is to he taken, unless the Court,
in its discretion, directs otherwise. He added:
“ Scruples at hiking it, expressed by some of
the Grand Jurors known to be among those
best qualified for the responsible duties of
their position, have induced us to inquire
whether the public interests now demand
that the taking of it he required. And we
are satisfied that while toe matters affirmed
in it are cause of challenge in particular
cases, the' ends, of justice will be hindered
and defeated ‘rather than promoted and se
conded by directing it to be administered,
unless some special occasion shall demand it.
No socb.special occasion now exists,-and in
asmuch as the required number of Grand Ju
rors have not yet been sworn he discharged,'
and toe Marshal will summon another Grand
Jury in the. usual manner.”
In his charge to the Grand Jniy he spoke
as fellows of revenue frauds : “ We admonish
you, gentlemen, to exercise your utmost vigi
lance on toe subject. Frauds on the revenue
are an evil which the land cries ont upon,
and frauds upon the revenue are frands upon
the whole body of tax-payers, and no one
who eats, 'drinks, wear* clothing,. or is shel
tered under any roof however humble, now
escapes taxation. Whatever toe dishonest
avoid paying their worthier fellow-citizens
must make up.. Investigate thoroughly,
therefore, and spare nobody, least of all those
in the highest and most responsible positions.
Those who are worthy will welcome inquiry,
which must turn to their praise.”
Row Near Covington.—From a gentleman
who has just returned from Newton county,
we learn that a serious row occurred near Cov
ington, on Tuesday last. From onr informant,
we gather the following:
It seems that a crowd of negroes, armed, were
prowling around the country, stealing, when
the presiding Judge, Green, ordered their
arrest. The Sheriff’, with a Bailiff and two or
three others, went after them, when his party
was attacked by toe negroes, and the Bailiff’s
head, split open with an axe, in the hands of
•a negro. The negro was instantly killed, and
the Sheriff and his party compelled to run.
The Judge ordered the Sheriff’ to summon a
posse and go after them, and on yesterday he
succeeded in arresting quite a number of
these desperadoes.
As court is now in session, we trust the
guilty parties may have a trial, and get the
rail benefit of toe law.—Oriffin Star 27th.
■*-
Russia proposes, we hearfrom 'Washington,
to learn railroading from us, and then build a
railroad from China across Asia to St Peters
burg, to keep us from monopolizing to*
Chinese trade.—Tribune,. ... ~
The Indian War—A Heavy Force in Pur
suit or me Hostile Indians.
A letter dated Fort Hays, the 15th instant,
says that toe entire force in the field against
the Indians is Governor Crawford’s (of Kan
sas) cavalry, 1,500 strong; seven companies
of the fifth cavalry, eleven companies of the
seventh cavalry, lour companies of the tenth
cavalry, one company of the thirtieth in
fantry, (colored,) and one company of the
third infantry, (Forsyth’s scouts)—amount
ing in all to about 3,000 men. There is part
of a regiment at Fort Wallace—probably a
reserve—and quite a force coming from the
Southwest to join Gen. Sully’s command,
now moving sonth toward the Arkansas and
Canadian rivers. It is reported that quite a .
large nnmber of the Indians will also join the
expedition.
The principal hostile tribes are the Arapa-
hocs, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches and a
mixed, outlawed band called Deg Soldiers.
Among the latter are many white desperadoes.
The Dog Soldiers are now scattered about the
head waters of the streams north of Smoky
Hill, and will probably remain north of the
railroad all winter. The other four tribes are
south of the Arkansas river, where they will
build their lodges for the winter. They can
muster 3,000 to 5,000 warriors, all armed
with carbines aud revolvers, in addition to
their arrows and knives, and are well supplied
with ammunition.
’ Gen. Sheridan will command the expedi
tion in person. The plan is to attack the
Indians in their winter quarters, destroy
their lodges and everything they have, take
away their arms, and force all those that
escape slanphter to live on reservations be
low the Arkansas. The destination of the
expedition will probably be Sand Plains,
south of the Arkansas, making that point a
base of supplies. General Sheridan has a
large supply of extra horses, and the best out
fit that lias ever taken toe field on the plains.
If he can prevent the Indians from breaking
np into small hands and coming north, he
can give them a very severe punishment; but
if they elude him after the first attack, and
reach the railroad in raiding parties, they can
do immense damage, as there will be but a
small force along the route to protect it.
Gen. Sheridan left Fort Hayes on the 15th,
and will overtake his force near Walnut
creek. He will theu move to the Indian
conntry, bnt will not commence active opera
tions for three or four weeks.
Brutal Affair in New York. New York,
November 25.—Felix Larkin, toe backer of
O’Baldwin, went into Campbell’s oyster sa
loon, at the corner of Hudson and Canal
streets, this morning and got into on alterca
tion with the proprietor, who stabbed him re
peatedly, and afterwards clubbed him, frac
turing his skull. Larkin died almost instant
ly. Campbell was arrested, and states that
he acted in self defense. Four persons were
injured with pistols, knives and clubs. David
C. O’Day and John Burns, of this city, and
John McClown, of Philadelphia, who were
mixed up in the melee, were all more or less
injured. All of the parties were arrested,
and Larkin died before reaching the station-
house. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
The Alabama Negotiations. — Secretary
Seward presented at the Cabinet meeting on
Tuesday dispatches received by mail from
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, Minister to England.
The details of the negotiations for settlement
of the Alabama claims were included in this
communication. The details of the corres
pondence have not publicly transpired, hut it
is known that the results of the negotiations
do not quite come up to the expectation of
the administration, the basis of the proposed
agreement being somewhat different from
what the President and Secretary Seward had
been led to suppose they were.—National In
telligencer.
New York Nominations.—The Tammany
Charter Convention has nominated A Oakey
Hall for mayor and Richard O’Gorman for
corporation counsel.
The Mozart Convention has also nominated
A Oakey Hall, but substituted George Shea
for corporation counsel. The Constitutional
Union party has nominated General Andrew
W. Greene for mayor and Richard O’Gorman
for corporation counsel.
The Republican Convention has nominated
Col. Fred. A Coukling for mayor and Chas.
P. Shaw for corporation counsel
A Schenectady Genius.—A saloon-keeper
of Schenectady, who has been greatly annoy
ed by persons who sit abont in chairs to sleep
off toe effects of bad whiskey, has caught
and tamed a number of rate, and trained
them to run across-the floor. A sitter wakes
up and sees the rats running, and calls atten
tion to the fact, when he is told that there
are no rats there. This frightens the man,
who thinks he has got the tremens, and he
quickly disappears from the scene.
A clergyman called on a poor parishioner,
-whom he fonnd bitterly lamenting the loss
of an only son, a boy of about four or five
years old. In the hope of consoling the al-
ffiicted woman, he remarked to her that “one
so young could not have committed any very
grevions sin; and that, no doubt, the child
had gone to heaven.” “Ah, sir,” said the
simple-hearted creature, “but Tommy was so
shy—and they are all strangerf there.’1
The Whiskey Tax.—Mr. Everts’ opinion is
published in full, to which allusion was made
recently. He thinks that the distiller has a
right to bring his low wine np to “proof’ by
several operations without paring tax on it as
first produced, even if a tank "is used, “doub
ling’ being a necessary process.
During the recent Erie contest, a New
York bank, whose capital does not exceed
three quarters of a million, certified a check
for eight millions.
PRESENTS.
■- ■
I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INVITE MY OLD
CUSTOMERS. Patron., and the public ceserauy.
■ ratfouB, «*AAA .
to call and examine my Stock of
FRENCH CONFECTIONERY,
Chryitallzed and Glazed;
FRUITS. CREAM, JELLV,
Fruits and Bonbons, Chocolate, Cordials, fa-
TOYS, FAYCY GOODS, &c.,
Fine Wax, Bisk, Chin* Robber DOLLS and DOLL
HEADS;
' Fine TEA SETS: FURNITURE, eeteor single; ■
WORK BOXES; TOBACCO BOXES; TOILET SETS;
Fine Motto CUPSnndSAUCERS, MUGS, VASES, Ac.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;
MECHANICAL TOYS, DRUMS.
DOLL CARRIAGES, GOAT WAOONS,
SULKIES, Ac.
FERE WORKS,
Wholesale and Retail,
ier with the usual variet - of BASKETS, BETI«
and FANCY BOXES.
The whole comprises an assortment ol the choicest
and most desirable GOODS to he found to the rnarfmt;
well adapted to meet the warn of att who msy mvoc
me with their patronage.
R. M. HUNT,
Cor. Whitaker and State Sts.. Savannah. Ga.
nov26-lm
LUGT COBB INSTITUTE,
The tax on a gold watch worth one hun
dred dollars is one dollar; the tax on one
hundred dollars worth of tea is at least twen
ty-five dollars. \Yho pays the taxes ?
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
BEY. FERDINAND JACOBS, A M.,
TT'ORMERLY PRINCIPAL OP A HIGH SCHOOL
r for yonng Ladies., in Charleston, ft C.;
quently President of the Lawreneeidlto Female Co*-
tute, 't will be opened by him for the reception aZ
Pupils, MONDAY, January m 1868.
Accomplished and approved Teachers in all Depart
ments, have been engaged. _
For Circulars, address John H- Nkwtoit, Esq..
ident of the Board ot Trustees, Athens, Go.; of, Bmt.
Ferdinand Jacobs, (till Jan. 1) BerzeUa, Q*.i Biter
that; at Athens.
ALMAYACS
GEORGIA
c
ON THE GRIER PLAN.
T IE UNDERSIGNED ARE NOW REAlJY TO FILL
orders for the above Almanacs.
Price, per single Gross - ~ ??
Per Gross for Five Groaa or more - 3
Per Gross for Ten Grose or more ----- 8 W
Parties ordering ten gross or more, can get an im
print and one full page of advertising without extra
charge. -
A few select advertisements win be token. Foe
tjwma addr.v.3 J. W. BURKE &-CO.,
Macon, Georgia.
MAGAZINES FOR DECEMBER.*
-r ESIdE’S LADY’S MAGAZINE FOB DECEMBER;
I j Godey’a Lad;' Book for December.
Demorest’s Monthly for December,
Peterson’s Lady’s Magazine for December,
Le Bon Ton tor December.
Le Petit Meselger for December,
Lady's Friend for December,
Harper’s Monthly for*December,
Atlantic Monthly for December,
Putnam’s Monthly far December,
Ballou's Monthly for December.
The Land We Lots for December.
The Old Onard for December,
The Eclectic May for December,
The Galax; for December,
The Catholic World for December,
Leslie’s Pleasant Honrs for December,
Onr Young Folks for December,
Lippincott's Msy for December,
Every 8stnrday (monthly part) for November,
Westminster Review (quarterly),
Edinburgh Review (quarterly).
For Sale at
ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOT,
nov2G Bull street, next to Pout Office.
PERSONAL.
A YOUNG MAN, twenty-three years old, i
medium supply of “common sense*' re _
ly solicits a few correspondents from among the , *fkSr
sex** of Georgia, and South Carolina. Object, to, snd
why not:
My fisrt is seen both on and under a table,
Mv second is a ffytn
My third is the root of all evil
My whole is one of the “United States.**
Address
GAB OLIVIER, ESQRR
New Orleans, La.
nov!6-eodlw
WINCHESTER
REPEATING RIFLES
FIRING TWO SHOT'S A SECOND
As a Repeater,
AND TWENTY SHOTS A 1HNUTB
As a Single Breech-Loader.
POWERFUL, ACCURATE AND WONDER
FULLY EFFECTIVE WEAPONS, carrying IS
charges, which can bo fired to nine seconds, are now
readv for the market. are for sale Lv all the re
sponsible Gun Dealers throughout the country. For
full information aend for circulars and pamphlets to the
WINCHESTER REPEATING AEtMS CO,.
sepl8—TWSm New Haven, Conn.
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE. )
Savassah, November 17th, 1868. j
I AM INSTRUCTED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF T3X
Committee on Streets and Lanes to notify all per
sons whose pavements are in bad order that they mast
be repaired lorthwith. In default, the Ordinance will
be enforced. THOMAS a WAYNE,
npvl7-12t City ArarabpJ.
TO MACHINISTS AND BLACKSMITHS.
UST LANDING PEE BRIG FLORA 1L HURL-
■pra .
J BURT, the best Broad Top Bituminous COAL,
for Smithing purposes.
Also, on hand, several varieties of best Anthracite
Coal, for Honse purposes. Terms cash.
mov2*-6t GRANTHAM L TAGGART.
Day Board $6 Per Week.
Board and Lodging $7 Per Week.
G ood board can be obtained at the
above rates within five minutes walk of the Peak
Office. Apply at THIS OFFICE ocli-tf
A No. 1 Plantation
y^YING FOURTEEN MILES
for
Sale,
, BELOW BAEi-
BRIDGE Georgia, containing 1.217 acres. 830
cleared and under fence; qniteproductive and herd thy;
good water and a fine saw and grist mill, and tdlkiads
of timber and a few cabinB end cribs.
For particulars, inquire of . « - i :
R. H. BUTLER, Agent,
O— Tallahassee. Fla.
Fine Brick Residence for Sale.
every room; also, a good well of water in the yard aud
water in stable. Furniture will be sold with the
house if desired. Furniture all new and in perfect,
order. Sold for no fault, but the owner is about leav
ing the State. Address Box 159 for particulars.
nov21-6t ' "
For Rent for a Term of Years,
IJIHAT VALUABLE RICE PLANTATION
ON THE
ndrer i.oo*
r.Yalambroeia.c _
AopsYUce Land, on the beat pitch of tiderwiih a £l2&
Dwelling, Out Budding# and Negro Hoaaea, an& &
Thresher, that can be put in order at a moderate coat.
Th*; lands have been cultivated th# last two years.
There are also 300 acres up land, ail cleared. Apply to
ROB. HABERSHAM £ GO-
nov21-3taw2w ■
FOR
~|~^OT NO. 2a WASHINGTON WARD, BETWEEN
Congress and Sh Jnlien streets. Apply to
HENRY BRYAN,
nov!8-tf
101 Bay street.