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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