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r ori!UO\8 OF MR. COLFAX.
As Mr. Colfax will be elected Speak
er of the next Federal House of Rep
resentatives, his opinions, upon impor
tant questions affecting the Southern
people, have a semi-official weight,
and w-e give them below, as addressed
to a crowd in Washington who honor
ed him with xi serenade.
“The Constitution, which seems
framed for every emergency, gives to
each house the exclusive right to judge
of the qualifications of the election re
turn ot its members, and I apprehend
they will exercise that right. Con
gress having passed no law on recon
struction, President Johnson prescrib
ed certain action for these States
which he deemed indispensable to
their restoration to their former'rela
tions to the government, which T think
[eminently wise and patriotic. First:
That their conventions should declare
, . . i the various ordinances of secession
s.on, will doubtless be required to adopt | nu]] . md void _ uot as some have done,
THE FEDERAL UNION,
( Corne.ro f Hancock and Wilkin son at reels.)
OPPOSITE TIIECOVRTnOOE.
BtCCHTOX, SiSBKT & CO., State Printers.
Tuesday Morning, December 5, 1865.
The Awrvdmml lo flic .\nlir.nnl C'onwtilit.
lieu.
The Legislature of Georgia now in see
the amendment to the Constitution of the
United States abolishing slavery. The
following dispatch of President Johnson,
Oct. 2Nth, to Gov. Perry, not only gives
us the views of tire President as to the
merely repealing them—but absoluhe-
Iv without force and effect. Second :
That their legislatures should ratify
the Constitutional Amendment abol
ishing slavery, that this cause of dis-
necessity .of adopting the amendment, but jsension and rebellion might he utterly
it furnishes the opinion of the President extirpated. Third: That they shall
as to the effect which such action will have I formally repudiate the rebel debt
on the State and Nation. [though by its terms it will be a long
4, T> .. . n | while before it falls due, as it was
“To JJ. F. Perry, Provisional Governor : , , ,. r . \
A , . . l„„„ payable six months after the recoeni-
1 our last two dispatches have been le• *., ?
ceived and the pardons suggested have j tion of The Confedeiacy b} the I mtcd
been ordered. j States. [Cheers.] This reminds me
I hope that your Legislature will have of an old friend in Indiana who said
no hesitation in adopting the amendment he liked to owe his notes payable ten
to the Constitution of the United States Jj aV s after convenience. [Laughter
abolishing slavery It will set ani exam- L nd c) .j es 0 f ..Good, good.”! Hut
plojbat will no doubt^bo followed by otb-1 th?re ,, re ot |, cr tfrms ° n w ^ ich> j
j think, there is no division among the
cheerful loyalty, not by such speeches
as are so common, that they submit
ted the issue to the arbitrament of war
—but that they arc williug to stand
by and light for the flag of the coun
try agaiust all its enemies at home or
abroad. The danger now is in too
COMMUNICATED.
( OL. JOUK B. WEENS. %
This gentleman, who served so efficient
ly as Assistant Secretary of the Senate
in the long Session of '55 and ’56 is a
candidate fu*’ Secretary of the Senate.—
He entered the Military service of the
mud, precipitation. Let us rather Confederacy i„ May -6t. He was twice
make haste slowly and we can then I w „„ ndeJ j„ tbe battles around llichmond,
hope that the foundations of our Gov- ... v ,, , ,. .
1 , , ... , , which so disabled him as to render bun
erument, when thus reconstructed on i
the basis of indisputable loyalty, w ill
be as eternal as the stars.”
— ——mm ■ *
Supreme Court Judges.—There are
unfit for field service and he was detailed
I as commandant of Conscripts for < he State
i of Georgia. So efficiently did lie per-
j form the delicate and onerous duties of
two Judges to he elected by the present j this position, that the Secretary of War
Legislature, and we have heard the names j tendered him the position permanently;
of Judge Nishet, Judge Warner, Judge i hut preferring to share the dangers of the
Iverson Harris, Judge Lochrane and Judge | field with his former comrades in arms, he
It. fl. Clark suggested for the position, j rejoined his Regiment and was again
It is said by some, that Judge Lyon will ! wounded at the battle of Gcttys-
not he a candidate for re-election ; but we j burg. He hears his honorable scars with
have not seen or heard anything directly J becoming modesty, and if elected to the
from Judge L. confirming the report. i Secretaryship of the Senate, lie will make
As to Judge Nishet, and Judge Warner, a faithful and efficient officer. 1). |
both are known to he in feeble health, and
Trn* Resources op the South.—No
country has such resources as tho?e which
the Southern States, have within them
selves. In their area nearly all the pro
ductions necessary lor the subsistence of
man, or that enter into commerce, are
found. The best flour comes from the
wheat fields of Virginia, and other parts
of the South. It is the best and greatest
tobacco growing region in the world.—
The Gulf Stream and a suitable soil make'
it the only country where the long staple
cotton can he grown. Corn will grow
luxuriantly and yield abundantly, with
little labor, and in many places by scratch
ing the earth. The sugar cane rises and
swells to an enormous size, full of juice,
from the teeming soil of Louisiana ; and
where is there any rice found like that of
South Carolina and Georgia. Look, too, at
the grazing lands, the fine stock, and the
wool of ’he South. How valuable, too,
are the forests of oak, or pine and other
timber which our ship builders appreciate
so much. The mountains are full of the
finest iren, coal, copper and gold. Fruits
of every description grow abundantly.—
Nowhere, perhaps do the peach, melon,
i grape, pear and pineapple thrive better or
with as little trouble. In fact, the pro
would, doubtless, refuse the appointment. [ ; 8S f e 'f ! ductions of the South are so varied and
the following notice in a North I valuable that
If these gentlemen could he induced to | Carolina paper
have the office, then by all means call ! “In consequence of the repudiation by
them to if. If they will not, then our i the representatives of the people of North
townsman Judge Harris, and either of the j Uarolina of their fairly and honestly con-
above named gentlemen would be accept- ! * rac / et l I * n< l children have been
...I | made losers to the extent of ninety-four
able to the people. j (04.000) tlioi,..nd dollar,, in bond, Jlhor-
Escaped.—The Macon Telegraph says l OhaA.e ami'll ’ll gton,
* t J | Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad. This
Hon. Robert J oombs lias eluded Ins pur- j compels me to offer myself as an instruct-
sners, and has left the port of New Or- ress in French, music on the piano, and siu"-
lcaus, for Foreign parts,
had a long dodge of it, if it
bo has just got ont of the country.
Our U. S. Senators.—We have heard
t 01 rxew v»r- ; ‘css iu r/enen, music on the piano, and sins'-
Mr. Tcombs ; "J?’ ; ,t l , he re8idcncc of ni y father, Ur. A.
be true that ! eorner of Second and j Tben> if
From the New l'oik Tribune.
Thr Praliin of AdTcrliaiug.
er States, and place South Carolina in a
most favorable attitude before the nation.
I trust in God that it will be done. The
nation and State will then he left tree aud[the Declaration
untrammeled to take that course which
sound policy, wisdom and humanity sug
gest.
[Signed] Andrew Johnson,
President ofllic United States.”
the names of the following gentlemen, J To the Editor of the Netc York Triln
Now let us see how the Constitution of
oyal men of the Union. First: That
1 Independence must
| bo recognized as the law of the land,
and every man, alien and native,
white and black, protected in tbe in
alienable and God-given rights of ‘life,
iberty and the pursuit *of happiness.’
Lincoln, in that Emancipation
lil
Mr.
the United States provides for amend-1Proclamation, which is the proudest
ments to that instrument, and what the j wreath in Ins chaplet of fame,—
proposed amendment is.
ARTICLE V.
The congress whenever two thirds of
hoth houses deem it necessary shall pro
pose amendments to this constitution
on the application
[Cheers.] not only gave freedom to
the slave, but declared that the Gov
ernment would maintain that * free-
jdom. [Applause.] We cannot aban-
> r jdon them and leave them defenseless
if the Legislatures of | tit the mercy of their former owners.—
two thirds of the several states, shall call [They must be protected in their rights
a convention for proposing amendments, j of person and property, and these free-
whicli in either case shall he valid to all j,
intents amt purposes as part of this con- j
♦dilution when ratified Ly' the Legislatures I
of three fourths of the several States, or j
by conventions in three fourths thereof, . ,w w 0
as the one or the other mode of ratification trill them freemen, not freedmen. The
suggested for U. S. Senators from Geor- !
gia : Hon. Joseph K. Brown, Hon. II. V.
Johnson, lion. Jamc-s Johnson, Hon. A. H !
Stephens, Hon. William Doughcrtv, Hon. 1
Joshua Ilill.
The Old Sinner.—Old Browulow says
“the War ended two years too soon; and
though the rebels got whipped, they uid
uot get whipped enough.”
we cannot enumerate them
all within the limits of this article.
Now, all that is wanted to make our
sunny land wealthy and prosperous, is to
have these immense resources developed.
Every one should do all in his power to
accomplish this desired object. If it can
not he done by one kind of labor it can
by another. If the freedmen will .not
work, the white emigraut will. Let us
give the former a fair trial, offer them eve
ry reasonable and encouraging induce-
tiiat can he asked or expected-—
nothing can he done with them,
let us impoit white labor at once from
Europe. There is no time to dally or
temporise. Soon it will he time to com
mence preparing for the next crop. The
emergency is a great one. It affects our
that the late snow storm
tractive to stock, some trainsT^ iU ’
many animals that lar Ku ‘* ln S &o
freight will have to he stored a ’i ot
route during this winter. * * a,0n o ,j )(;
In Iowa there is a general revi ,
interest on the subject of railroad Va of
roads are being extended and ^
projected with unusual energy. w
About 10,000 barrels Western
have been received <■> hr.: se*
week s time over a single road. n
The disputed title of the United s
Hotel property. Saratoga has been f -
disposed of so that there is no , n ,
rebuilding. Stac!
A bale of cotton at the Central
South bridge, was opened a few <] a ..
and found to contain four shells, one 1
ed, and weighing fifty pounds’i n tV* 1 '
gregate. 1 a 6'
San Antonio Express says an mm
lelled drought prevails in that secii,. "
Texas. Medina River iu the nionnta' .'
is dry for many miles, a thing never r
fore known. Stock are dying all il, , '
Western Texas, and the livers # ru |
low. San Antonio River is a foot i.u '
than ever known.
The Ban j or Maine Whig reports t-„.
mercury to have been at zero on Suudj"!
y
e to
-Mills,
November 12, and the Kendusko
River
Sir :—In a discussion to dav about the ! future. Let us be prepared for it. Those
profits of advertising, one of the parties
stated that Hembold is paying the r J ri-
hunc $10,000 per year for advertising. Is
it true that any druggist can afford To pay
! such a sum for advertising]
A Boston Druggist.
Boston, November 11, 1865.
ho succeed in raising large crops the
coming year, will he amply repaid tor all
the pecuniary losses suffered during the
war.
[ Chron. iy Sentinel.
REPLY.
_ It is a matter that concerns a
This wicked old man will, in the course j druggist” and all business meu, and we | rated from her husband during the early
Freaks ok Fortune.—A lady of Rich
mond of the highest respectability and
| affluence before the war, by one of the
Boston | vicissitudes of dame fortune become sepa-
nen must have the right to sue iti the
courts of justice for all just claims,
ami to testify also, so as to have secu
rity against outrage and wrong. 1
may he proposed by the congress.
last phrase
might have answered be-
The amendment is proposed by congress j fore their freedom was fully secured,
should be regarded now as
[Loud and
in the following resolution
but they
Rewired, By the Senate and House of:| f reeme n of the Republic.
enthusiastic cheers.] Second: The
amendments of their State Constitu-
Iiepresentatives of the United States of
America in Jongress Assembled, (two
thirds of hoth houses concurring.) That. ..
the following articles he proposed to tlie;^ i01 ^ s "Inch have betri adopted by
legislatures of the several States, as an j many of their State Conventions so
of
count
feret
then the Devil lias been misrepresented,
that's all.
Thr .liuriMliurut lo •!»«- F«-d«-i-iil ('oimlilniiun.
On this subject the Journal A Messen
ger thus speaks t
We hope the Legislature will pass tho
column in the. Daily Tribune. Bonner
once paid us $3,000 for one. insertion of
an advertisement, of the Ledger. He
knew that bv jtidichmsly advertising he
could insure a fortune. The old prejudice
j among druggists and physicians against
| advertising is dying out, and they, as well
, .j • j r j - . j others, see that the cheapest mode
amem'inent the fret week of the on, whereby they can make themselves and
ami we bop. also it w.II lake an early op- : tbeir medicine known to the public is bv
portnnity to establish the legal stains of |« wise and liberal svstem of advertising
the treed negro, giving ample protection I Hemlmld ,i.:„ *»'
the Constitution of the j reluctantly, under the pressure of dis
)atch
amendment to
United States, which when ratified h)
three fourths of «aid legislature shall he
valid to all intents and purposes as a
part of the said constitution, namely :
ARTICLE XIII.
SECTION 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servi
tude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted shall exist within the United
States or any place subject to their juris
diction.
.section 2. o
Congress shall have power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
Approved, February 1, 1S65.
Mr. Seward in his dispatch to Gov.
Perry said, “The objection, t which you
(Gov. Perry) mention, to the last clause
of the constitutional amendment, is re
garded as querulous and unreasonable, be
cause that clause is really restraining in
, e* from the President and Secre
tary of State, should be ratified by a
i majority ot the people. We all kiiow
that but a very small portion of their
voters participated in the election of
tbe delegates to these conventions,
and nearly, it not all, tbe conventions
have declared them in force without
any ratification by the people. When
this crisis has passed, can they not turn
round and say that these were adopt
ed under duress by delegates elected
by a meagre vote under Provisional
! Governors and military authorities,and
(never ratified by a popular vote ; and
could they not turn over the anti-Le-
j compton argument against us, and in-
I feist, as we did, that a constitution not
ratified by the people may have effect,
but no moral effect whatever. Third :
I he President can on all occasions in
sist that they should elect Congress-
ample protect
for all his rights. Nothing, it is true, that
they cau possibly do will stop the mouths
of predetermined cavillers and villifiers of
the South. The ultra-Republicans do not
mean to he satisfied. They do not mean
to give up the negro as a j olitieal hobby
horse, because by their own confession they
[have no other, and will be dismounted and
powerless .as soon as he is off the course.— f rnm ,u - i , . •7 ':”;""“
it , #-ii ,i i |. . p ; trom ttie president, having visited all the
But still, there may be soineglimmerings of c. nt ~ c i of L • , h ,,, e
i ~ e , oiatcs lately m rebellion, exc°Dt I
reason and common sense yet left in the am i \ t i.„ n ‘l c ,, , , f -texas
, , . J . ■ anu vvrKansas. Gu the whole lip mnniiu
country upon the subject, anu to that we f at , n rakl,.nf*i. 0 , r.- <• . ue re P 0r,s
,i I,-/*. . ! tar oraoJj ol tlieeonditionofafiairsthroureii-
must make our appeal, having first cleared i nnt ,).„ <-.,,,1. i ■ .. . l ° u
i*. ,* . ! ° . . out l, *e ooutb. Jn places tbe condition of
onr skirt, of nil rational ground nl oojec- j Ihe ft ee,I me „ i„ s„cl, that the bureau JUt
non and f,nlt-hndiug. Let na. therefore. I be abo |: sbed , olher seclion> ,
put every man, white and black, upon the o K ° regarus it
broad platform of universal and impartial ! ?? neC S?“^ t0 its operation-
[ Hembold discovered this fact, and takes
advantage of it.
Editor ok the Tribune.
* •
Freed men's Bureau—Maj. Gen. How-
ard, superintendent of the freedmen’s
bureau, returned to Washington on the
18th from his tour of inspection through
out the Southern States, under instructions
its effects, instead df enlarging the power men who could take the onth prescrib-
o f Congress.” Here wg have an impor- ed in the Act of 1 StiX, hut in defiance of
tant opinion from a high officer of the this, and insulting tbe President of the
Government, which, if worth anything, country, they have, in a*large majori-
will he put on record, perhaps iucorpora- ty of instances, voted down merciiess-
; ly, Union men who could take the
j oath, and elected those who boasted
that they could not, and would feel
(disgraced if they could. Without
mentioning names, one gentleman,
elected in Alabama by a large majori
ty, declared in his address to the peo
ple, before the election, that the iron
pen of history would record the Eman
cipation Act as the most monstrous
deed of cruelty that ever darkened the
annals ol any nation—and another one
who avowed that he gavu all possible
aid and comfort to the rebellion, de
nounced the Congress of 1802 as guil
ty in enacting such an oath. [A voice
—put them on probation.] The South
is filled vvitli men who cannot take the
oath. It declares, “I have not volun
tarily taken part in the rebellion.”—
Every conscript in the Southern army
cun take that oath because lie was
forced into the ranks by their conscrip
tion act, and every man who stayed gt
home and ret used to accept a civil or
military office could take that oath;
hut these were not the choice ol the
States lately in rebellion. Fourth:
bile it must he expected that a mi
nority of these States will cherish for
years, perhaps, their feelings of dis
loyalty, the county has a right to ex
pect r * ia t before their members are ad
mitted to a share in tbe government
of this country a clear-majority of the
people of each of these States should
IS've evidence of their earnest and
ted into tho act of our State Legislature
adopting the proposed Constitutional
amendment.
It is clearly the duty of the Legislature
now in session to adopt tLis amendment
at the earliest possible day. Georgia
stands in a better attitude towards the
Government at Washington than South
Carolina does, for Georgia repudiated her
War debt, which South Carolina had not
done then, or bince, we believe. The
President says to South Carolina, in ease
her Legislature adopts the amendment to
the Federal Constitution, “The Nation
and State will then be left free and untram-
meled to take that course whieh sound
policy, wdsdom and humanity suggest.”
Mark the language—“free and untrammel-
ed.” If Georgia will be left “free and
untrammeled” provided ber Legislature
Trill adopt tbe constitutional amendment,
then bj all means let the Legislature pass
it at once, and rostoie to our afflicted and
suffering people tho blessings of civil Gov
ernment. Lot us trust the President.—
He said he was willing to trust us. Per
haps the President has already made
known his opinions and wishes to Provis
>onai G ov> Johnson, in regard to this and
kindred questions. These wo shall kuow
in a few day B . B ut We tb j n jj tbe L e „j g .
lature should bav e no hesitation in adopt
ing the constitutional amendment, and
thus pave the way for the inauguration of
the civil government in Georgiy
justice, and then in the way of self defense
and self-interest, require that every man
shall stand in his lot and do his duty as an
industrious member of society. Pass rigid
laws against vagrancy—give prompt and
efficient remedies for breach of contract—
change thejurisdiction of your magistrates,
your justices of the peace—increase the
emoluments and the respectability of the
office, so that men of standing and ca
pacity will desiieit, and provide for a rigid
system of patrol, so that the entire State
may Le cleared of vagrants and idlers.—
This General Assembly' Las a great deal
to do, and we hope they will go at it
resolutely, independently', intelligently
and industriously'.
— — ♦ —•- -
“J’iie Child's Delight.”—We haya received
the first number of this interesting Child’s paper.
It is lull of pleasing and instructive matter for
children. It is published monthly in Macon, (Ja..
by S. Hoykin, at $1,00 a year. We call the at
tention of parents and Sabbath School teachers to
it. It is non-denominational in its charactw and
suited to all the schools. It is the only Child’s
paper published iu the State.
——
iar we invite tbe attention of Merchants and
Planters to the Card of J R Wilder, Factor and
General Commission Merchant, and Forwarding
Agent. Savannah, Ga. Mr. Wilder is well known
here and elsewhere as one of the best business
men in the State. He has been doing busiuess in
Savannah 30^ears, and bears a reputation with
out k stain. He is also agent of the Atlantic
Coast Mail Steamship Company.
Telegraph.—Messrs Claylaud and Dum-
hie hav e sold out the ^lacon Telegraph
to IVm. A. Reid & Co. The paper xvill
be Edited by S. Boykiu Esq., formerly
of tbo Index, and James R. Sneed Esq.
formerly of tbe Savannah Republican.
(/•Hrasr'a iUesaag*-.
M c received a copy of this document
at toe late an hour to furnish our subscri
bers with it the present week. It is. very
brief. It will appear in our next issue.
———
EdP* M e bare not yet been able to fill
out our fist of Senators and Representa
tives. owing to tbe fact that Official re
turns trom several -couuties have not y r et
been received.
He will make a report forthwith to the
president.
Mad Items.—The celebrated gym
nast, .Leslie, who lias out-Bbondmed
Biondin Niagara Falls, has added a
new leaf to his laurels. On Saturday
evening last, he gave us a wonderful
FOREIGN NEWS.
Tbe cholera Las disappeared entirely
from Barcelona, Spain.
There is a great activity in French dock
yards, aud the Emperor has given orders
for the construction of several iron clads.
I
exhibition of indomitable pluck and
nerve, in his daring aerial feats. The
feariess manner in which he spratig
from the car of Prof. Low’s balloon,
during a detached ascension at an al
titude of two thousand feet, and dang
led at the end of a forty foot rope at
tached to the car, has never been
equaled. As the balloon ascended
higher and higher, he attempted feats
all the more daring and reckless. Mr.
Leslie is a man of quiet manners, and
very gentlemanly in appearance and
bearing. As we have no desire to see
so plucky a man become a sacrifice to
his own daring, we advise him to nev
er attempt again so foolhardy an un-
dei taking as that of Saturday evening
last. Let him rest on his laurels, at
least until some one as daring as him
self has surpassed his marvelous feat.
[Field, Turf Sf Farm.
— i— +
A. A etc Remedy for Neuralgia.—
Dr. Caminiti, of Messina, appears to
have discovered a valuable remedy for
certain neuralgic pains. A lady, a
patient of his, had long been suffering
bom trifacial neuralgia ; she could not
bear to look at luminous objects, her
eyes, were continually watering, and
she was .in constant pain. Blisters,
preparations of belladonna, hydroch
lorate of morphine, friction with the
tincture of aconite, pills of acetate of
morphine and camphor, subcarbonate
of iron, &c., had been employed with
but partial success/or none whatever.
At length Dr. Caminiti, attributing
the obstinacy of the affection to the
variations of temperature so frequent
in Sicily, lift upon the plan of cover
ing all the pa in fill parts with a coat
ing of collodion -contaioieg hyroch-
lorato of morphine in the proportion
of 30 gras, of the former to one of the
later. The attempt was perfectly
successful; the relief was instaneous
and permanent, and tbe coating fell oft’
of itself in the course of a’dav or two.
years she
the mel -
that he
ecaine
reduced in eircrnistances, and at tbe time
when the Federal troops occupied the city
she was compelled to dispose of her costly
and elegant furniture. This she did,
piece by piece, until the last object which
served to bind her to her former indepen-
dence*liad been sold ; and she began to
despair. Only a few days ago she receiv
ed a letter from a gentlemen residing in
Mississippi, iu which she was informed
that her husband had lately died, leaving
a fortune of over sixty thousand dollars,
of which she was the only heir. A check
for one thousand dollax-s accompanied the
letter for her immediate wants, and she
immediately' took her departure for the
place where her unexpected fortune await
ed her. It appears that her husband hav
ing enlisted in the army, was discharged
ou account of illness, and owing to the
unsettled state of the country, preferred
to remain in the extreme South until the
close of the war. While there he be
came eugaged in various speculations, and
made a large amount of money, intending
to rejein his family as soon as peace was
declared. He invested his funds in cotton,
and had just disposed of it when death
closed his career. He had written many
letters to his wife, but strange to say, none
of them reached her; tLe above letter
being the first information she had been
able to obtain as to his fate.— llichmond
Times.
five,
ar»
NEWS SU.UMABV.
A New York correspondent says that
there are $40,000,000 unclaimed denosits
in the Savings Bank of that city.
Bayard Taylor has brought home trom
Europe the seed of the real Latakia to
bacco, which he planted, and this year he
raised a few plants, probably the first ever
grown in tli^i country. It is a distinct
species, with a pale yellow blossom and
a broad valvety leaf. Next year ho will
distribute the seed.
Immense quantities of cotton and naval
stores are now blocking up the wharves ot
Wilmington, awaiting shipment to New
York aud other points. Twenty-five hun
dred barrels of turpentine arrived here in
one day.
Seed wheat is selling at two dollars per
bushel in Nashville. A very large amount
of wheat has been planted in that State
during the present autumn.
The Cubans are expecting a new cap
tain general next month, in the person of
General Lersundi.
Thomas J. Carver, a bonded agent of
the Treasury Department, has been tried
by Court Martial at Mobile, Alabama, and
found guilty of altering the marks on cot :
ton bales, thereby enabling private persons
to claim what had been the property of
tbe Confederate government and conse
quently belonged to tbe United State*—
He was sentenced to pay a fine of $90,-
000, and to be imprisoned in the Nashville
Penitentiary for one year.
Adams ie Co’s Express company has
loaded $2 000,000 of its accumulated capi
tal to soM ial of the Southern Railroads,
and has thus enabled them to resume ope
rations.
Crime in St. Louis is on the increase.
Two meu were recently killed in an en
counter with highway robbers. The Col
lector Messenger of the United States
Savings Association, having $35,000 on
bis persoD, was knocked down on one of
tbe most frequented streets, and the mon
ey seised. 'Ihe Collector fired his rerol-
vet at^tho retreating robbers, who dropped
the money aud escaped. Tho bankiug
house of Messrs. BenoiU was also robLed
of $7,000, aud uo clue has beeu had to the
robbers.
The apple crop of. 3Iicbigan was maiu-
ly bought np by the speculators at $3 per
barrel. r
Persons from tbe Western plains report
covered with ice to its month.
The merchants of New Orleans p r ,
to establish a steam packet line Leu,.,. ,
that port and Texas.
A letter from Champaign, 111, says tl„,
price of corn rules so low that some of it
will go into the stoves for fuel,
A foreign vessel, loaded with German
emigrants, arrived at New Oi leans a ten-
days ago, the first for several years.
The lumbermen of Maine are rejoice!
by the fact that the snow is already fif.
teen inches deep in the Aroostook woods
A year ago Mr. E. B. Beckly, of Chi-
cago, fell into a pit on the corner of s
street, and sustained such .severe ininrie*
as to disable him for life, lie imuHu i
a claim against the city for damages in the
sum of fifty thousand dollars, and t ! v
case was tried before a jury in the Circuit
Court of the United States, who Wednes
day, returned a verdict of fourteen tI Hnls ]
ami dollars against the city.
A deplorable state of affairs exists in
some parts of Virginia, according to tho
Richmond Times, many of the inhabitants
being compelled to flee to the, city, to es
cape bands of robbers who roam "through'
the country.
The reports of tbe Greenland v ,ha!,,
fishery are of the most satisfactory char,
acter. Several of the vessels previouslv
reported “clean,” are now stated to
caught fish, and some of the shin
nearly full.
The Nashville Tenn., Dispatch m,
there is a prospect now that Liberia will
receive heavy accessions to its population
from the Southern .States.
Additional favorable advices from the
Russia-American oveiland telegraph ex
pedition, have been received at San Fran-
sisco.
The town of St. Pierre, Nova Scotia,
was destroyed by fire November 5th—los.4
'four millions of francs. One hundred
and twenty houses were burned.
The pork packing season has not yet
commenced either in Cincinnati or Chi
cago.
# The Chilian ship Albarto recently ar
rived. at Honolulu with two hundred and
fifty coolies from China, for plantations
and farms, being the first practical result
of the systeminatic steps taken by the
Sandwich Island Government to supply
the demand for labor. Another cargo was
expected soon. The contracts with these
coolies are made for five years, at a rate
of 84 a month, and 82 bonus on Chinese
New Year, making the yearly wages $50.
Chief Justice Ames, of the Supreme
Court of Rhode Island, has resigned.
1 he French Canadians are holding a
convention in New York, to further their
interests in this country and Canada.
Mr. Norman Wizard, of New York, has
been experimenting on the boiiers of ihe
St. John, and asserts in a letter to the
Commercial that his theory' that the ex
plosion was caused by tbe unequal expau-
sion ot the boiler plates, between the part'
above and below the surface of tho, water. ■
at the time of the explosion, which surface
might be at the ordinary water line, orhv.v
er, when there was a deficiency of water,
or higher, when the water was foaming,
has been triumphantly confirmed, and the
boilers of the St. John will be immediate
ly supplied with a self acting device to
equalize the temperature of the Boilers.
TREASURY MATTERS.
(len. S. E. Spinner, Treasurer of the
United States, lias issued a supplement to
the regulations respecting the semi-anniial
return and payment cjf duties by the na
tional hanking associations. If,* says the
numerous eriors made by the recently or
ganized banks in estimating the semi
annual duty causes the supposition that
the regulations respecting tho statements
furnished by the Treasurer arc not read or
understood by the officers making 'h f>
estimates.
r I he method of making the statement
contained in the regulations is regularly
correct, and the books in the Treasurer's
office are so made as to admit of their re
cord in no other method. There m' ! -j
therefore he no alteration of the printed
portion of the form by interlining, erasure,
or otherwise. Statements will ho returne*
to batiks for correction, until they are made
to conform to the method contained i n *‘ ie
regular form.
Confederate Bullion.—Washington. N° v -
breaking up of Lee’s army *2ie in
moud, aud had about $47,000 in g-old, nf
longing to the rebel government in
possession. After leaving Richmond.
Hath, under ordors from Taylor and Gib'
bon, buried about $20,«00 of the amcnut
near the Dan river in North Carolina,
which they subsequently dug up and s P el ”'
freely in and about Richmond. lhofa cts
becoming known to the government, U° a
and Taylor, about two weeks since,
arrested in Richmond and brought to t n
city aud placed in the edd Capital pn» 01 ’'
It is supposed that nearly all the mou e „
has beeu spent by him, hut the g° ver ” t
inent has succeeded in obtaining
$4,000 of it. The prrioners are s
to wait further developements,