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THE FEDERAL’UNION,
( Cornerof Hancock and Wilkinsonstrctts.)
OPPOSITE THECOl'RT IIOI'NE.
Cor. Perry’s N«uag«.
We publish elsewhere in our paper to
day, a - very important message from Gov-
Perry of South Carolina to the Legisla
ture of that State. In this message are
discussed matters of the greatest impor
tance to the people of Georgia, and as the
views of the President ami Secretary of
State are freely and fully given, in refer
ence to these matters, we need only call
the attention of the reader to the message.
Our State Legislature will be in session in
a few days, and those identical matters
will be brought before it at an early day.
BOUCHTOff, NISBET & CO., State Printers.
Tuesday Morning, November 28, 18G-5,
Sffri'lar, of the Senate.
Without intending to detract from the
merits of any gentleman who may be an
aspirant for this position, W3 may be per
mitted to refer to Col. John B. Weems,
of Washington Ga., as a gallant man,
well qualified and deserving the office.
■A tVole of
Important to Member* of the V.eginlalurc !
The Legislature meets at JO A. M. on Monday
next. The train from Macon airives here at 11 j Small Pox.
A. M. If there is no train on Sunday, members j The newspapers of Athens. Macon and
must como over on Saturday or not be present at j Atlanta are speaking out boldly as to the
the organisation or the two Ilouses. j .. .
j piogress this loathsome disease is making
in their neighborhood. It is time the peo
pie should take this matter promptly in
hand. Already it is spreading surely and
speedily to the* country and small towns.
It is carried about by negroes, who, hav
ing no one to control them, or look after
them when sick, roam about from place to
place with the disease upon them. The
Military and Municipal authorities should
Un- j co,,1 kino their forces and attack the public
each 1 enemy. Half-way measures will not do—
ho must he exterminated. If something
is not done speedily to stop the ravages of
this disease, it -will spread all over the
State.
The (lorrrnor'a Proclamation
Preparation.
Gov. Johnson has issued a Proclamation, in re
ference to the organization of a military police
force, in each county in the State, to which we
would call the attention of our readeis. Gho'.ld
the Genetal Government see proper to permit the
people of Georgia to proceed in organizing the
State in their own mode and manner, as we be
lieve it will, then it becomes with us a question
tion of the first importance—how can we best pro
mote the peace and welfare of the State ?
questionably by organizing companies in
county charged with this duty. There are other
reasons, why this police force should be put, at
once, into active operation, than the one of look
ing after lazy and dishonest negroes: there are
organized bands of thieves all over the State, un
der the direction of white men. For months they
have been at work, principally operating in the
Inrse and mule line. Every paper, almost, tells
a tale of robbery. Horses and mules are stolen
every night, and very few of the thieves are ever
caught; showing the system with which they
work. These hands must be broken up. A well
organized company of fifty or seventy-five men in
each county in the State, will, if they do theirduty,
maintain peace and order, and break up the law
less bands of robbers infesting every neighbor
hood. Let every good citizen lend a helping hand.
Committee on .Finance —The Convention
authorized the Governor to appoint a committee I
to investigate the State Finances, and report to ;
the Legislature. Gov. Jflhnson appointed the fol
lowing gentlemen—Chas. S. Jordon, Esq , of Jas
per county. Judge O. A. Lochraue, of Macon, Ga.
and Col. T f’ Saffold, of Morgan county. The
Commission has been busily engaged during the
past week in this city, and we are informed by
one of the Committee, that it is probable they will
not he able to consummate their work before the
first of nejt year The financial transactions of
the State, for the past four years, have got to be
overhauled, and as the committee are directed to
make a thorough examination, it is not to be ex
pected that they will be able to report the result
of their investigations short of four or five weeks.
llOM. O. A. LOCHRANE.
Messrs. Editors: The distinguished character of
this gentleman hs a jurist, is well known to the people
of Georgia. Commencing the world upon his own
I resources, by his great ability and energy, he rose
| rapidly to distinction at the bar, and was elevated to
j the position of Judge of his circuit about five vears
ago. W ithout invidious distinctions it mav be safely
asserted that he made more character as a Judge du
ring the time he whs upon the bench than any one in
Georgia. Ilia published opinions have shown profound
research, and ability of the highest order.
As there will be two vacancies to fill upon the Su
prente Bench, by the legislature when it meets, the
best interest of the State requires that Judge Loch-
ranc be elected to fill one of them. His ability, his
legal learning, his pleasant manners and gentlemanly
courtesy, eminently qualify him for the position, and
it is not doubted that the legislature will carry out. the
popular wish by calling him to the Supreme Bench.
GREENE.
Repudiation.—We publish in our present
number a very able article on the subject of re
pudiation. It was taken from the editorial col
umns of the Augusta Constitutionalist, and brings
to light many true and important facts. But the
writer might have gone much farther, and made
his statements much stronger, and still had them
all true. We believe when the Convention first
met, fully three-fourths of the members were in
favor of paying the debt. Nothing but (ear of
throwing obstacles in the way of reconstruction,
and of prolonging a military government in Geor
gia, caused even a small majority to vote in favor
of repudiation. A large majority of the Conven
tion and of the people of Georgia were in favor
of paying her honest debts, and they submitted to
the outside pressure, brought to bear upon them,
merely for the sake of peace and civil govern
ment. The people of Georgia represented by her
Convention, could not Lave given any stronger
evidence of their desire to return to the Union
and live in peace, than they did by thus sacrifi
cing the interest of thousands of her citizens and
tarnishing her former character for honesty, at
the request of those in authority at Washington.
President of the Senate and Speaker of
the House.
Messrs. Editors: Allow me through
your columns, to suggest Col. Wm.
Gibson of Richmond, as a suitable
man for President of the Senate, and
Hon. Thomas Hardeman of Bibb, as a
suitable man for Speaker of the House.
I am not, and never have been, a
member of either branch of the Gen
eral Assembly, but having frequently
seen Col. Gibson preside ex-tem in the
Senate, I know he possesses high ad
ministrative ability in that direction.
And no one who has seen Col. Harde
man preside in the House, can doubt
his ability as a presiding officer. -His
impartiality, his urbanity and suavity
of manners, have rendered him espe
cially popular with the members of
the late House of Representatives,
and the in-coming House would do
him an honor, and themselves great
good, by re-electing him.
BALDWIN.
Macon, Ga., Nov. 22d, 1865.
Correspondence lias been instituted with
the Presidents of the various Railroads
throughout the Southern States, request
ing free tickets, or such reduction in their
usual fare as they might see proper to
make for the Delegates to the General
ernment upon the adoption, by the j t’S’lhich'U*, ^“hS'chy
| 14th December next, and a number of
them have been beard from. All that have
THE COMHTETITTIOIVAI. AJIHADMEXT.
It is understood that the Provisional
Governor of Georgia will submit to
the Legislature the views of the Gov-
Legislature, of the amendment to the
Constitution relative to slavery. We
have seen already that the President
has thought proper to retain in ollice
the Provisional Governors of Missis
sippi, South and North Carolina—and
thus it will be in Georgia if the Legis
lature does not promptly adopt the
Constitutional amendment. We pre
sume no man in Georgia expects to
own a negro while he lives—and cer
tainly no one ever expects to get back
the negroes lie once owned—theifcrhv
not adopt the Constitutional amend
ment? The President insists that vve
do so, and as it is a condition prece
dent to the restoration of our rights,
in the Union, the sooner we do it the
better* We know not how soon oth
er requirements may be asked of us;
but as we have “no say” in the mat
ter, we must acquiesce, with the best
possible grace, in manifest destiny,
leaving to God and the consciences of
men the fate which, ultimately, is to
be ours.
— —
Progress of the Central Rail Road.—In
conversation with General Superintendent
Adams, we learn that sixty-one miles of
the road from Savannah are now in opera
tion. The cars are running to station No.
6. Thirty-five miles of the branch from ,
been beard from will give free passage to
such delegates upon their return home, up
on the certificate of the Secrerary of the
Assembly, showing that they are dele
gates.
Delegates are requested to forward their
names to this Committee at once, so that
they may know 'bow many to provide
for.
E. A. NISBET,
.T- ,T. GRESHAM,
E. J. JOHNSON,
J. T. BOIFEULLKT,
CLIFFORD ANDERSON,
• SAM. HUNTER.
. Committee.
L -sTPapers throughout the State will
oblige (lie Presbyterian Church In
tending this notice.
An
York
airy wedding took place in New
on the 8th instant. Dr. John F.
Boynton, of Syracuse, N. Y., and Mary
W. Jenkins, of St. Louis, wore married in
the Central Park balloon, and then took a
tour toward the clouds. After a few
hours sail, a couple of miles above the
earth, the happy pair descended
Junta and concluded to
Augusta are completed, and it is hoped the
whole distance between Augusta and
ayannah (of which twenty-nine miles
now remain to he built) will be finished in
he course of a month. Tho calculation
iol *• lbe wboIe road in operation
tLTin !hl r T iD S- B,lt ‘he P diffcul-
ties in the way of rap id progress are un
precedented and appaling 6
Journal y Messenger,
tc terra
commence the
bread and butter existence of poor mortals
doomed to scratch for a living on this sub
lunary sphere. Any thing for a novelty.
I he next idea will be a marriage at the
bottom of Long Island Sound, off Point
Judith, under the great diving bell, clad
m armor of iron and brass with breathing
tubes and all the rest of the machinery
After the ceremolty a stroll among the
oyster beds, old wrecks, lobster nests, and
other delightful objects of interest will
take place. It is intended, however, that
these ocean-bed festivities shall occur du
ring the shark season, to lend extraordi
nary zest to the affair. No cards will be
issued but all respectable gentlemen and
I ladies who have the diving costume can
attend.
From the Daily Constitutionalist.
Repudiation*
The Georgia Convention,” said some
Northern exchange—name n it remem
bered—a few days since, “has at length
managed to repudiate the war debt," and
hereupon the editor thereof waxes
painfully funny. Now—if he will but
listen to us—we propose to enlighten
our jocund brother upon the subject
of this debt, and to correct some little
misapprehensions of language into
which he has fallen in the extract
above given. And vve begin with, we
assert most positively that the Geo--
gia Convention did not ‘repudiate’ this
debt in any more active sense than
that in which a ball is said to ‘kill’ a
man. The use of a fire arm, the pro
pulsion of powder, the pressure of a
man’s finger, and the sight of a man’s
eye, are all necessarily precedent con
ditions before the bullet speeds upon
the blast with death upon its whirring
wings. The ball kills no one but the
man who sends it does.
And, in the same way, vve will tell
our merry brother that the propulsion
of misunderstood telegrams, the pres
sure of unauthorized threats, and the
fancied sight of an uplifted sword,
passed the ordinance whose adoption
gives him such joy. The Convention
never repudiated at all—it was all
“managed” for it—-just as it was “man
aged” the old French Parliament
should register the arrets of His Invin
cible Majesty, the King. The Conven
tion, you see, brother, was the gun
and a Federal hand pulled the trigger.
But so much for “managed," which is,
indeed, as old Bardoiph hath it of ^‘ac
commodate,”
“A word of exceeding good command."
And now for another slight verba!
unhappiness on our brother’s part.
“The Georgia Convention," is his lan
guage, did so and so. Let us see how
this will stand the test of a little po
litical science and a little plain arith
metic. When we say, in popular
phrase, that the People rule this coun
try, we mean, of course, only this,
that a lawful majority of the voters
do; and in the same way, when vve
say this Legislature does this thing or
that Convention the other, we simply
mean that, in either case, such a ma
jority so act as to make the thing
done the fair and free act of all. Ap
plying these principles, then, we as
sert that in no fair Reuse was there
such a majority at Milledgeville in
favor of repudiation as to render that
act the act of “The Georgia Conven
tion." .
The full number of delegates elect
ed to. this Convention was three hun
dred—the total number on the “repu
diation” vote two hundred and fifty,
of which number one hundred and
seventeen voted nay and one hundred
and thirty-three yea. These yeas it
will thus be seen lacked full eighteen
of being even a bare actual majority
of the Convention, though constitu
ting as we freely admit, a technical—
or so called—majority. But still only
a technical majority and even of that
we have something further to tel! our
brother. No disrespect is meant to
the gentlemen composing it or to the
several constituencies they represent,
but the fact of their actual minority
is a defect not cured either by a gener
al eminence among the delegates them
selves or a political importance of
their respective counties. There are
in this State thirty-seven, out of its
one hundred and thirty-two counties,
that sent to the late Convention three
delegates eacli—being so favored on
account of their superior wealth, pop
ulation and importance—and very near
one-half of the entire negative vote
came from these thirty-seven counties
alone. And furthermore, every sing
le delegation from those intelligent
and powerful districts containing our
chief place—containing Savannah and
Augusta, and Atlanta, Macon and Mil
ledgeville, Marietta, Decatur. La-
Grange, Athens, Warrenton, Cuthbert
Covington and Spayia—voted to a man
against repudiation. Charles J. Jen
kins, a good man and true, who never
dodges an issue, and if we are not fur
ther “managed," is destined to be next
Governor of Georgia, voted against it.
Other men, too, of prominence in.the
State, whose names it is too long to
mention—judges and soldiers and ad
vocates, editors, physicians and plant
ers—went against it to the last.—
Wherever there was wealth, wherever
there was population, wherever there
were railroads and schools and post
offices open and public journals there,
as a rule, the nays came rolling in both
thick and fast and the yeas were few
and far between. From the outlying
and sparsely peopled districts that, by
means of a faulty system, out vote,
three"to one, in legislative halls, ten
times their population and twenty
times their wealth, the nays fell slack
ly and yeas came in until the ordinance
was adopted. But even here be it
marked, even of this factitious major
ity, there were but six'ty odd original
ly in favor of the course ultimately
pursued. A test vote, had at an early
stage of the session, revealed two hun
dred and odd delegates in favor of pay
ing the debt, and it was not until after
a whole week of dexterous manage
ment that fear and misapprehension
and a week despair brought over a
sufficient number to ordain the oppo
site ^ extreme. “ The Georgia Conven
tion," says our flowery brother. Sixty
odd unwilling, and an equal number
of enforced, repudiators, says unrhet-
orical fact. The Convention never
repudiated. A so called majority did,
but in all that constitutes a true pre
ponderance that majority was but a
most undubitable minority—a minori
ty in the wealth, the population, the
intelligence it represented, and a mi
nority—mark it well—even on the
beggarly score of mere numbers alone.
And herewith we bid our brother fare
well, trusting that an increase of
knowledge and a lessening of spite
may keep him from any such heinous
misstatement again.
* Exit an editor and Enter the whole
case upon its merits. When first put
ting pen to paper in this behalf, we
had purposed to stop with an individ
ual, but now that the theme is hot,
propose by the blessing of God, to
give this whole matter one ventila-
taion, should it never receive another.
By machinations, whereon we shall
touch, this State has been held upas
on the one hand, wilfully violating
her mony premises, and on the other,
contumaciously resisting the will of
the Federal Executive. Neither
charge is true—and in this denial the
language of official journals, the de
clarations of delegates, and the word
ing of State papers, willfully bear us
out. Georgia never repudiated, since
duress per m'mas vitiates all pursuant
action, and it was such duress alone
that won over to the original sixty a
sufficient accession to carry that meas
ure. Georgia never resisted the Fed
eral authority either, or even sought
to do so, since if there were any indi
cation of such purpose it is to be found
in her negative vote alone, and those
gentlemen making it up voted—as we
know from a personal presence at Mil
ledgeville—in the full belief that the
Executive telegram was advice that
might he dis regarded, not command
that must be obeyed. The language of
that telegram bears out too, we
thought then and think now, that con
struction, for what is it, to begin with
but an advisory response to a wail for
guidance? “What," says his Excel
lency, the Provisional Governor, in
tones of piteous imploration, curt and
pithy as the cry of one in extremis,
“What should the Convention do?"—
Who could resist so plaintive an ap
peal ? “Send me some word," says his
Excellency, renewing his strain, and
that is just what the President did.
He sent him some word, but was that
word the Word of Command ? We
fancy not, for here is the way in which
each- vital paragraph begins: “The
People of Georgia should not hesitate"—
“It will not do"—“I do not believe"—
“It should at once, etc." Is this the
language of
“A stern command."
Are these the halting tones, the
conditional forms, the recommenda
tory utterances in which Authority
clothes its mandates? Does the same
man speak who telegraphed to Missis
sippi “the people must be trusted”—to
North Carolina that exceptees, “must
obtain pardon” to vote—to Florida
that ratification of the Constitutional
Amendment was “indispensable.?” Most
certainly not, so certainly to our mind
that the very first sentence above
quoted declares his true position.—
“The People of Georgia should not hes
itutc," are his words, but if that is not
the mere language of opinion aloue we
are utterly ignorant of what speech
may mean. Must, says the proverb,
is for the King, but he does not know
Andrew Johnson who thinks he
shrinks from that royal word. Why
should he have done so in this case
had he meant it? Why say should
not and ought not and all that tribe of
weakly phrases when, at a stroke of
his pen, at the breath of his lips, it
could Jiave gone forth to Georgia, Sic
volo, sic jubeo—’tis my good will and
pleasure; do it you must.
Language oftentimes gives insight
to character, and we have long watch
ed President Johnson’s wording to dis
cover, if might be, the'Exeeutive in
ner mind. Like Oliver Cromwell we
have found him in one thing, that no
man can give an order, when he will,
in fewer words of plainer import.—
And again, like the Lord Protector,
he lias seemed to us in this that, when
not disposed to committal, few can
say more and yeL^jn all those many
words, say less. Gvhtness, to support
this last opinion, his long speech to
the disbanding negro regiments at
Washington. It was a perilous time
to speak, and yet who reaped any
comfort from that wonderful oration
The troops were mystified, the radi
cals abstracted, the conservatives non
plussed, and each editor in th) land
put dolefully to scratching his head in
despair of making it out. And wit
ness too, that long interlocutory ad
dress to the South Carolinians who in
terceded for Mr. Davis. Where, out
side of a lawyer’s novel, was ever seen
such evasion of leading questions, such
sonorous, and yet strictly noncommit
tal answers, so much that pleased the
delegates in speaking, and yet when
spoken, made them look, one man at
another, as who should ask—what did
he say ? And just in this verbose, inrel-
ved, Talleyrandic way, where the lan
guage hides the thought, is this re
markable telegram indited. Wonder
fully is it made, meekly was it prayed
for, and when extracted at last, most
grossly misunderstood.
Ah ! but, says some one, Secretary
Seward’s official d&patch makes the
President’s telegram unmistakable.
There is no doubt at all about it after
readingthat; and perhaps, to tell the
truth, there might not be were there
auy such official dispatch as the one
referred to. But if in existence, such
telegram never came under our obser
vation at Milledgeville. We did, in
deed, have an exact transcript of a tel
egram from Mr. Seward in our posses
sion, but that telegram was uot dated
from the “Department of State,” nor
was it stated to be “by order of the
President,” nor was it signed in any
other way than simply “William Sew-
ar.d”—not “Wm. II. Seward, Secre
tary of State,” as all State papers are,
and as certain perversions of the origi
nal text of this document are now in
the public presses declaring it to be.
These facts force the conclusion that
this was indeed no official dispatch
whatsoever, bnt simply a response
vouchsafed by a very able and em
inent politician to a weaker brother
who besought his aid. And yet an
other consideration. “ Your several tel
egrams," says Mr. Seward, “have been
received." Now, “several," as Webster
tells us. means “more than two,” and
from this word it is evident Mr. James
Johnson sent and Mr. William Seward
received, more telegrams on this sub
ject than those sent in to the Georgia
Convention. This so—and who can
doubt it—why were they not submit
ted with the others ? Evidently—is
it not—because such submission would
have evinced facts militating against
the impression sought to be made, and
therefore, -to that extent, endangered
the adoption of a nullifying oidinance?
But enough of this “official” dis
patch—a dispatch so utterly destitute
of all usual authentication that on a
Washington money telegram, so word
ed, not a Treasury agent in the South
would dare to pay over a dollar.
But “We" wanted aid and “We"
got it. Much good may it do “Us"
though we.fancy Wall street shaking
head as it read the news. A few pal
try millions repudiated in Georgia is,
to be sure, no great matter in the vast
scheme of Federal politics, hut the
mustard seed is only a little thing and
yet grows into a mighty tree. Re
pudiation once started who can tell
where it shall stop. One State freed
by force from solemn obligations will
its lead how many shall we say toa sim
ilar releasement by choice. Ah ! that
was a lamentable step, that enforced
repudiation. If to humble us, are we
not now prone in the dust? If to kill
secessjon, was it not buried six months
ago in a bloody grave ? If to help
Federal credit, is repudiation by Fed
eral authority the way to begin ? If
any one thinks so, he may rest assured
there is other talk than this in North
ern bank parlors. There, as with us.
this rough shed tampering is looked
on as an evil omen for our financial
future, and there, too, perhaps, as
with us, it is deemed that what An
drew Johnson did in this matter, he
did just as those weak brethren of ours
did in Convention—under an outside
pressure it was impossible to resist.—
Repudiation, let it be known, is not
our act, and we do not believe it to
be his. The hands are the hands of
Esau, but the voice is Jacob’s.
Sheathe the Sword
Captain HenryAVi, z j 81 ' . ,
sentence of a military 2 -Mv J
thp P-Lf 0r ^ksioJ
approved
by the
th
the
hanged by the neck umilT’- to be I
‘‘And may the Lord have ^ M
his soul!” ^ercy 0)
W« had hoped that the day of',
had entirely passed—that t' IJ;0 °'i
to be made no more orphan* 16 ^ Wer ?l
ows for political offences—tharn " i,! '
bet was not to be raised ar ' 1 le Lril
only in obedience to
there thisl ^'l
jury, after impartial trial * *
court, with the forms of thip e ore *
Law. We thus hoped,.
man fell .from a scaffold, i„ ti . d ' r °-
tal of the Republic, handed h. ap/ *
neck, exclaiming with her j
breath, “I die innocent, but ?^1
holy will be done.” We renewals
hope when a Captain of- “ lie l
band met the
a guerillj
same violent <Uti,
the hands of a Military Comm; • “
: .... J vu ‘llllllSSlOn
in a fair city of the President’s
State. We renew the
when,
again,
, owq
. . l lra yer to-day
the human sacrifum i
be
it to Justice or to Revenge—j 3 t ,
offered within the walls of the Ca *1
tal, bearing the honored name J'j
successful Southern Rebel. c d
Not in reproach do we utter;
prayer We have no disposition
perhaps no right—to criticise the aS
of a sworn court, or the decision oft ,e
high reviewing officer. Neither,
we utter it in any interest of the
oner, whose life is, as all lives are*I
breath, a trifle, a shadow’—a matte,
of a few years or hours of no more
concern to us than are the fallu J
leaves with which Autum is now " '
ing the chill bosom of the earth. Still I
ess do we utter it in any deprecation
that has befallen ourlat!
of the fate
standard.
NEW YORK CITY.
A white woman starved to death in
Wiliamsburgh the other day. Why don’t
the Government feed starving white peo
ple as well as starving negroes ?
A large and enthusiastic meeting in aid
of the Southern people and the American
Union Commission was held at Cooper
Institute, on Monday night. Addresses
were made by Senator Morgan, Gov. Par
sons, of Alabama, Rev. Dr. Thompson,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and Gens.
Meade and Fisk. Senator Morgan pre
sided, and Rev. Dr. Bacon opened the
meeting with prayer. Letters were read
from Secretary Seward and (Jens. Grant
aud Sherman. It is proposed to raise by
subscription a large sum of money for the
destitute peoplo of Alabama.
St. George’s Episcopal church, located
at the corner of Sixteenth street and Ruth
erford place, was totally destroyed by fire
Tuesday afternoon. The edifice was one
of the finest in the city. It was built in
1S48, for the Rev. Dr. Tyng, could accom
modate some two thousand persons, and
was possessed «f a magnificent organ,
valued at ten thousand dollars. The fire
which laid it in ashes was effused, it is
believed, by the carelessness of some tin
ners who were at work on the roof. The
estimated loss amounts to about two bun
died thousand dollars. Dr. Tyng, it is
said, was completely unmanned by the
calamity, and declared that the work of
his life had been vain !
The New York ferries are a big thing,
There are twenty-three lines running,
night and day, leading to tho suburbs of
this migh'y tify, carrying their hundreds
of thousands of passengers daily, beside
any quantity of freight. The Um’on Fer
ry Company, embracing Fulton Wall,
South, Hamilton and Catharine ferries,
pay 5103,000 per year to New York for
their lease. Last year they transported
35,000,000 of people. The Jersey City
and the Hoboken ferries do a heavy busi
ness also. An ordinary ferry-boat costs
850,000 to 870,000. The “Susquehan-
nah” and the “Pavonia,” belonging to
the New Jersey line, cost 890,000'each.
Gotham, in this department as in all oth
ers, heats the world. London boats of
her fine and expensive bridges across the
Thames, bat in point of comfort, luxury
and cheapness onr ferry-boat method of get
ting across our river leaves London a long
ways behind.
“Broken is its staff and shattered,
Aud the valiant hosts are seatiered
Over whom it floated high."
Its memory can neither be honored!
nor dishonored by the deeds or death
of Henry Wirz.* But we utter it J
the name of that day of peace ami
harmony whose blushing dawn strut,
gling through many thick clouds of
passion, prejudice and ignorance, is be
ginning to bless the gaze of iongiJ
men and tearful women, opening up j
to them the prospect of relief, at last
from the terrors of a long, dark and
stormy night. We utter" it in the
name of that magnanimity which is
more honorable to a nation than the
| strength which comes of numbers, or
the power which comes of wealth.-1
We utter it in the name of that law
which is the foundation of liberty—in I
the name of that liberty which is the f
foundation of civil happiness—in the
name of that religion which fulfilled
and abrogated the Law, sweeping from (
the moral code the aphorism of blood,
*‘an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a
tooth.”
Peace brings to the South the sacri
fice of every thing—can it not brine
to the North the sacrifice of revenge?
We have surrendered hundreds, nay,
thousands of millions of dollars worth
of property; can you not surrender a
single drop of blood? Docs the re
construction of this great edifice de
mand so costly a cement ? Must Lib
erty’s pure altars have holocausts? Is
it wise to make martyrs ?
You have determined by sheer force
of numbers that we shall share your
political fortunes—we know it, you
know it, the world knows it, that the
Union now is a Union of force. Un
der the benign policy of the President
and the statesmanship of Congress,
this unnatural bond may he converted
into a tie stronger than hooks of steel.
By the divine alchemy of charity,
these links of rugged, cankering iron,
may be transmuted to a silken cord
that will not gall a prejudice—not
even a memory.
Is it not desirable that this wonder
should be wrought ?
In peace, you want in a thousand
forms, our aid? Is this the wav to
gain it? In war you may need it
more—will vengeance attain it, when
we remember that your enemy ad
vised clemency to us, and you refused
it?
We close our eyes to past memo
ries and open them to see the
glitter of the descending sword a*. ;t
victim falls ! Will this make usfcrget
—or you ?
Surely, surely not.
We invoke the President, in whose
hands this august power lies, to stretch
forth his arm and stay forever this
bloodshed. It requires high con rage,
some self-denial, much magnanimity*
and involves political, perchance p er "
sonal risk. Is not Andrew Johnson
equal to this? .
But if he be not, and the work 0
blood proceeds, the foolish threat oi
Wirz may fail, but. we tremble p
the Republic be forever herea«tf r
haunted by the menacing spectre olI - 1
murdered brotherhood!
Snubbing Gen. Lee.—One of the specia 1
telegrams to tbo Herald reads thus:
Gen. Robert E. Lee is reported to hi
appealed to the War Department W #
weeks sfiica, for permission to keep
few pieces of artillery now at boxing ’
bat belonging to the United States,
the purpose of instructing the young
of the Military School in artillery P
tice. . m . v
The response of the Deparfmen-
be inferred from an officer being e .
from Richmond, a few days since, 0 .
of the ordnance and remove »»
possession