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THE FEDERAL UNION,
(Corneiof Hancockand Wilkinsonstreets.)
OPPOSITE TnECOEBTHOEHE.
BOCGHTOIT, IVISBET A CO., State Printer*.
Tuesday Morning, April 3, 1GGG.
“Applicants for Pardon.”—We invite at
tention to the Card of Gov. Jenkins, in this paper,
in reference to the appointment of an Agent at
Washington City, to represent the interests of the
citizens of Georgia at the National Capital, in re
ference to pardons-
Chronicle & SettiiHrl,
Messrs- Heury Moore and A. R. Wright,
have purchased this paper, and Mr.
Morse retires. S. A. Atkinson Esq., will
have charge of the News and Commercial
departments, assisted by Mr. M. V. Cal
vin. We wish the new parties pleasant j
gales and a prosperous voyage over thej
uncertain sea of Newspanerclom.
measures.”
very interesting
“Wrights and
We publish to-day a
and suggestive article on the above very
common-place subject. To all men it has
a significance. Especially sc to every bu
siness man. Let no one be deterred by
its length, from an attentive perusal of it.
It is not for Sunday reading, only There
is not a day in the week but that it may
be real with profit, by all classes of rea
ders.
unanimous Con-
A nerd war to make
grc«n.
The Radical Party in the U. S. Congress wilj
live in history as the Party that introduced an
easy plan for making a nnit of Congress. They
have discovered that it takes two-thirds of the
Senate and House of Representatives to control
the Executive branch of the fSovernment, and not
having the numerical strength to accomplish their
object, they Juive adopted the plan of ousting their
opponents. A' r eady Mr. Voorhees has been sent
home. Senator Stockton has iollowed, and Mr.
Brooks of New York is the next name on the Slate
for banishment. Every defeated candidate of the
Radical party for the House or the Senate, has
only to contest the seat of the Democratic mem
ber, and the door will be opened to him. The Ja
cobins may go too far in this poiicy. They can
not always be in the majority, aud when the tide
of popular opinion turns against them, they will
discover that they have established a dangerous
precedent, which, if followed, will be but a just
retribution for their past lawless and reckless leg
islation.
Tiie “Sham Snout” Nation.—New England
has been celebrated since the landing of the Pil
grim fathers, as the home of cunning and hypoc
risy. The wooden nutmeg has bad its day, aud a
new idea has been hatched cut of the brains of
the cute Yankees a\%ay up in Maiue.
The New Brunswick authorities, it scorns, have
been greatly troubled by Bears, and a reward of
Three dollars was offered for every Bear’s snout,
which was brought in. The Indians became ex
pert in killing the Beasts, and in making money.
The Yankees discovered this fact, and at once set
their brains to work to turn ‘‘an honeot penny”
for themselves. They manufactured India-rubber
and gutta-percha sham snouts, and went up amoDg
the Indians to barter. They sold a great many to
the unsuspecting red-men, “very cheap for cash,”
and leaped quite a harvest out o, the speculation
Verily the Yankee can’t be beat at “notions.”
WHAT SH9ELV Ol'R YOVNO UEM BO?
Since the close of the War, we have
noticed our young wen closely, to see
what they intended to do for a sup
port. Nine out of ten go to clerking
in Mercantile houses. The other tenth
would tread the same path if there was
a -way open to them. They are mis
taken. The Store-room, the Banker’s
office, the Doctor's office, and the
Lawyer’s office, are no longer the
stepping-stone to wealth. The Me
chanic Arts have, heretofore, been
avoided, for two reasons: first, because
it was considered beneath the dignity
of an educated young man to enter
auy other business than that of the so-
called Learned Professions. All this
is changed. The country is poor in
a pecuniary point of view, but it is
rich in Merchants and Professional
men. Our Colleges must change their
departments. Our young men must
be taught the various branches of the
Mechanic Arts. If they do not, the
Yankees will step in, drive them eith
er from the country, or into the chan
nels of hard labor. We need Engi
neers, Mechanics of every description.
We must furnish them, or get out of
the way, and let more energetic and
sensible men take the places of our
own sons. Agriculture, Law, Medi
cine, the Pulpit, will not supply the
desideratum. Let our High Schools
and Colleges take a hint from the
troubles of the times, and do something
to remedy present wants
To Tax Correctors.—The new
Tax Act puts a tax of $25 on each
exhibition of a circus company. We
see that one is advertised to show at
neveral places in this State. Let the
Tax Collector be pn Rand.
I THE COIMIil SION OF THE H HOLE
.HATTER.
Senator Doolittle, in a speech the
other day in New Haven, Conn., told
his audience that more than a million
of negroes had perished since the war
commenced, and of these, not more
than fifty thousand had died in battle
and of wounds received in battle. The
other nine hundred and fifty thousand
had perished by disease and suffering
consequent upon the change in their
condition brought about by the war.
He further stated, he had no doubt
that when the next census was taken
in 1S70, it would be found that two-
fifths of the whole black population
had perished. Great and startling as
these statements are, we believe they
are still below the truth. These are
the trophies of abolitionism ! These
are the facts which they must meet
before the world! These are the re
sults of all their boasted philanthropy!
And by these they will be judged by
posterity'. But these are not all. The
great majority of the negroeB that yet
live, are draging out a miserable exis
tence of poverty and distress, and by
hundreds and thousands fast hastening
to the grave to which the abolitionists
have doomed them. These pretended
friends of the negro found more than
four millions of them, comfortable,
contented and happy, and increasing
in numbers faster than auy other peas
antry on the face of the earth. But
this scene of happiuess and content
ment distressed them, and they deter
mined to break it up cost what it
might, and they have succeeded. But
in doing this, they have sacrificed the
lives of more than a million of negroes,
and doomed must of the survivors to a
lingering death of suffering, poverty
and disease. This is one of the most
fatal blunders recorded in history.—
The perpetrators of this can not plead
ignorance, for they were warned, by
those who knew the negro well, of the
consequences. What could have been
expected if four millions of children
under twelve years of age were taken
from their natural guardians and turn
ed loose upon the world ? Negroes
are nothing but grown up children.
Pay of Judges, Solicitous, &c.,
for 1865.—A week or two ago, we
published a notice from the State
Treasurer that the Governor was now
ready to pay the salaries of Judges,
Solicitors and other State officers for
the political year 1S65. The political
year 1865 commenced the 1st of No
vember, 1864, and ended the 1st of
November, 1865. But there is one
thing these officers had better keep in
view, viz:
The 12th paragraph of the S9th
section of the Code, provides that, the
State Trearurer “shall not pay any ap
propriation due and not called for, within
six months, after the expiration of the po
litical year, for which it is appropria
ted, hut it reverts to the general fund
in the Treasury.”
The six mmths, after the political
year 1865, expires on the 1st of' May.
Persons, therefore, having salary due
them for the political year’ 1865, had
better draw the same before that time,
else it will “revert to the general fund
in the Treasury” and cannot be drawn
out except by a new appropriation by
the Legislature.
——
Veto of the Civil Rights Bill.—We
publish a telegraphic synopsis of President- John
son’s Veto of tlie Civil Rights Bill. In our next
we will give this important document, in full. The
New York Hearld speaking of the Veto Message,
says, ‘"under the searching analysis of Andrew
Johnson, (the Civil Rights Hill J appears a hun
dred times worse than the rejected Freedmen’s
Bureau experiment, and nothing less than a bill
of unconstitutional abominations, from beginning
to end.” The New York Times also suppoits the
veto. The Tribune, of course, howls.
Ouu Cities.—It is a notable f«ct that our
cities and towns arc all increasing in population.
This is in part due to the influx of negroes who
prefer to take the chances of earning a support in
the cities and towns, to hard labor on the farms
and plantations. But the white population is in
creasing also. This is mainly due to the sudden
change in our labor system. Thousands who here
tofore lived in the country have rented out tbeii
farms to their former overseers, aud moved to town
for security as well as relief from the troubles
which have resulted from the emancipation of
their former slaves. Many farmers are also en
gaged in mercantile pursuits in the cities, who
have farms rented out in the country. Unless
immigration sets in towards the country, the cities
will continue to increase rapidly in population.
From the Lonisviile Democrat, 22<J.
A^nsiinRtios of Lincols.
A Prisoner in the County Jail Confesses to
he the. Author—His Confession—He
Afterwards Attempt* Suicide. ■
On the 12th of last month Sterling King
was presented before the police court upon
the charge of having stolen; a horse and
buggy from the proprietors of a livery sta
ble in Cincinnati. The proof was clear
against him, and he was committed to jail
to await a requisition from the Governor
of Ohio. He is charged with having sto
len several horses from the neighborhood
of Porkopolis.
King, after his committal to jail, made
a statement, of wbat might be called a
confession, of a most horrible crime, viz :
that of th| murder of the President of the
United States. King states that he was
the man who killed President Lincoln. He
says that he entered the theatre as any
other person, purchasing a ticket. At the
appointed time he entered the private box
in Ford's tlioatre, Washington, where
Mr. Lincoln was, and ho shot him with a
•single-barrel pistol, which he let fall at the
time he leaped from the box. He gives
as his object for using a single-barrel pis
tol that he was compelled to leave it be
hind him, and if it had been a revolver
those in the box might have used it
against him. He further says that after
he shot the President and leaped from the
box he passed by several persons, but one
of whom he knenV, Miss Laura Keene, and
she did not know him. According to his
statement, J. Wilkes Booth, whom it is
said was the murderer of Lincoln, was in
the rear of the theatre awaiting with hor
ses. From the vicinity of Ford’s theatre,
be states that he went tp the residence of
SecFhtavy Seward, and, after forcing an
entrance, he made an attack upon the
Secretary himBclf, cutting him in the
throat with a bowie kntfe. He says that
after young Seward was knocked down,
the old man begged not to be murdered,
and that he struck the blow to silence him.
His only regret seems to bo that he did
not kill the Secretary, lie says that the
statement published in tho papers, that
there were two persons in the afl'air, is
false,*as he is the man who shot the Presi
dent and made the attack upou Secretary
Seward. He says that there was another
person in the affair who has not yet been
apprehended, who was to have killed
Stanton, but he failed to fulfill his pledge.
In regard to Booth, he says that Booth
had nothing to do with the killing, with
the exception of assisting him to make bis
escape from the city of Washington. He
gives in his written statement, which is
now in the hands of the militar}% the route
he pursued after leaving Washington. 11 e
says that the man killed in the barn, aud
who is said to have been Booth, is a priso
ner who escaped from the Ohio prison.
He claims to have, in company with
Booth, went from Washington to Canada,
and from thence to the islaud of Cuba.
He states that his object in returning to
the United States was for the purpote of
releasing Jeff'. Davis, the President of
the Confederate States.
In regard to Mrs. Surratt, who was exe
cuted as one of the conspirators, he says
that she knew nothing of the conspiracy.
The parties who planned the affair, three
of whom have never been heard of, met
regularly at the house of Mrs. Surrat, but
knew nothing of their designs.—He says
that he was stopping at the hon.se of Mrs.
Surratt some ten or twelve days previous
to the execution of the plot.
We give the above statement of King
without vouching for the truth of the same,
though there are some plausible circum
stances connected with his statement, and
it would appear that he had some counec-
tion with or knowledge of the plot. His
confession has been sent to Washington to
be acted upon by the President.
There arc two prisoners now in the jail,
Llewellyn and Grimes, who say that
they know something of the affair, and it
may be that this tale has been concocted
for the purpose of getting the three releas
ed from tho charges now against them, and
have them turned over to the military au
thorities.
King is a man who, during the war, fig
ured in both armies, being convicted by a
military commission in each and sentenced
to death. At the time he made his escape
from Covington he was under sentence ot
death as a guerilla and spy. lie gave as
an object for making the confession that
his name would be published as arrested
for horse stealing, and as thero were those
in Washington who knew him he would be
sent for.
The above statement was made to Gen
eral Jeff. C. Davis and Watkins at the
jail Tuesday, after having been related to
two or three of the prisoners and policeman
Bligh. Finding that his statement was
likely to get him into a very serious diffi
culty, Kiug determined to put, an end to
his miserable existence. He asked the
privilege of having a small penknife, which
was granted him. With this he opened
the veins of his left arm, and would have
bled to death, had it not been that the at
tempt was discovered by his cell-mate and
an alarm given. We yesterday paid a
visit to King in his cell, and found him too
low to speak. The alarm in regard to his
attempt to commit suicide was given about
4 o’clock in the morning, after he had bled
for several hours.
We will inform our readers of any ac
tion that may he taken in the case.
We would call the attention of those
who wish to make a good investment to
Mr. Hugh ’lreanor’s advertisement in our
present issue. We understand that his
Mill site on town creek is an excellent
situation not only for mills hut for facto
ries. The water power being .very great
and permanent.
Don't riant Western Corn.—An Alabama con
temporary says, we are advised by one of onr
county farmers, and a very reliable gentleman,
that, the corn received here in sacks from abroad,
will not suit for planting purposes in this country;
he has giveu it a trial and speaks advisably on
the subject. “To be forewarned is to be fore-
anted,’'
From the Cbronicle &. Sentinel.
Colored i'»nrrnli«a in Grargia.
The circular of It. T. Kent, Secretary
of the Council, of the Sth inst., calling a
meeting of that body, taken in connection
with the significant comment of the “Loy
al Georgian,” shows clearly that the ru
mors which reach us from Washington, to
the effect that the radicals are seekiug to
transfer the State Governments of the
South from the while to the colored race,
is not with some foundation. Capt. Bry
ant, it is true, disavows such a scheme, and
asserts that the object of calling the Coun
cil is merely to take steps to secure “an
ageut in Washington who Bbonld take
charge of the interests of the freedmen of
the State.” Capt. Bryant is doubtless
sincere, and is acting in good faith upon the
line which he suppose* will accomplish the
best results for the freedmen; but that he
will find himself deceived, we venture to
predict. The circular of Kent, which evi
dently receives the sanction of Capt. Bry
ant, is fraught with mischief, and mischief
only, however well designed.
Why involve the colored people, at this
critical juncture of their history, in the
turmoil and excitement of politics ?
Why sow among them the seeds of discon
tent l Why enlist them in a career that
is sure, in the end, to inaugurate a war be
tween the races 1 Why stimulate them
to tho vain effort to hasten and precipi
tate events which man cannot control ?
Better, far better, for the present*, to culti
vate among them the spirit of contentment
and of fidelity to their contracts for labor.
Far better point their thoughts and efforts
to their social aud domestic elevation, by
engaging in enterprises which looks to the
education of their children and the promo
tion of Christian morality. Without this,
even their freedom will prove a curse.
This is paramount. What is representa
tion worth to them in their present condi
tion of ignorance 1 What would the bal
lot be worth f Incapable of using it
wisely and discreetly, they, would, per
haps, wield it to 6nit the purposes of dema
gogues and to their own injury as well as
to the injury of society.
Besides, what need have they for an
agent in Washipgton ? Have they not
Sumner and Chase and Wilson and Ste
vens, and a countless throng of misguided
friends, who seem to think and talk and
dream of nothing but the welfare of the
colored people ? They have these agents
—zealous, untiring and blatant. They
clamor against negro taxation without
representation, but do actually disfran
chise eleven States of the Union by deny
ing them all participation in the Govern
ment. Are not such friends and agents as
these sufficient ?
These remarks are prompted by no un
kind feelings to the colored people. It is
because we wish them well that we thus
speak. We wish to see them happy, con
tented, industrious, honest aud faithful to
tbeir obligations. We wish to see them
advancing in all the elements of Christian
civilization. Let them become enlisted in
the arena of politics, and their progress will
be greatly retarded if not entirely stopped.
Let them become dissatisfied with their
condition, and induced to cherish the vain
and delusive hope of political and social
equality with the white race—let them do
this, and they will at once take leave of
industry and enterprise, and waste their
energies in pursuit of a phantom.
If it is true, as Capt. Bryant says, that
it is not designed to secure representation
in Congress, we respectfully suggest that
tho accomplishment of his avowed purpose
will be of no earthly value to the colored
race. Is it expected to send on a colored
man as the agent ? Hardly. Weshrewd-
ly suspect that, in the end, this contribu
tion of money will be conveniently pocket
ed by spine white-skinned friend of the
dear negro, who, from the most philanthro
pic and disinterested motives in the world,
will reluctantly consent to make the per
sonal sacrifice to reside in Washington as
their chosen agent and friend.
But what good can either a white or
black agent accomplish ? Is not the
President already the just aud enlightened
friend of the negro people ? Can such an
ageut, as it is proposed to send, stimulate
his zeal ?—can ho animate to greater ex
ertions the \\ ilsous and Sumners aud
Stevens’ ?
We suggest again, that, however lauda
ble the design of Capt. Bryant, and how
ever earnestly he might desire to set mete
and bonds to the movement which possibly
has its origin in Washington, he will not
be able to limit or guide it. The excite
ment which it may engender will be as
unmanageable as raging fire, and like ra
ging fire will consume, and consume only,
leaving no bud, or bloom, or fruit in its
track.
“Pat do you love your country ? “Yes,
yer honor.” ‘‘What’s the best thing
about ould Ireland, Pat V* “The whiskey,
yer honor.” “Ah I see, Pat, with all her
faults you love her still.”
Important to Xj. S. Pensioners.—Attor
ney General Speed has given an opinion
sustaining the original action of tho Com
missioner of Pensions as to the rights of
pensioners restored to the rolls of the
Southern agencies on proof of continued
loyalty throughout the rebellion. All pen
sioners thus restored will now receive
their pensions from the date of their last
payment on the former certificates, with
out interruption.
tar Irish Linens! Linneu Diaper! Table Liueus
Linens of nil descriptions at JOSEPH & FASS.
UF* Just received at Joseph & Fa.se' a beautiful lot
of 8flk THniiooe.
Planters, Plant more Com.—The recent
“tumble” in the prices of cotton, comes,
says an exchange, in good time to warn
the great hosts of Southern people, who
are so madly bepding all their energies to
the production of that staple, to the al
most entire exclusion of all others, against
tho folly of a course which all experience
proves to be suicidal. We thought, at ono
time, that the prices of cotton were bound
to hold up within the neighborhood of
present figures for two or three years to
come. But the production has been, and
continues to be, so greatly stimulated
throughout all the ends of the earth, that
we begin to doubt. When the crop of the
world for 1806 is estimated by some of the
shrewdest cotton merchants both in Eng
land and America, at 6,000,000 bales, it is
time for every one to begin to doubt; and
especially is it time for the planters of the
South to revise their calculations of “four
or five acres of cotton to one of corn,” and
“pitch” their crops on a different and
more grain growing scale.
That the hard lessons of economy and
industrial independence, which the last
three years of the war were supposed to
have so deeply included, should have been
so soon forgotten, is almost incredible.
Gould the planters be entirely certain of
fifty cents per pound for their cotton,
every year for the next five, it would still
be their true policy to raise a full supply
grain. And it would still be their true
policy to invest their every surplus dol
lar iu the establishment of manufactures
of all kinds in their midst.
U* Large assortment of Lawns, Organdies &c.,
Ac. at BISCHOF h MONHRIMEB.
The Fenian Finery Abroad.
The seriousness o£pthe Fenian conspi
racy is not oqiy acknowledged, but asser
ted’ by-thtf Kpglishu papers, The London
Times of the 28th of February says :
“There is no county, however loyal, no
eity, however prosperous, no district, how
ever divided between native ahd imported
races, where we may not expect to hear
of ‘head centers,’ secret drilling, and the
manufacture of arms.’
Again the Times says “the conspiracy
is every where,’ and that:
“To the English apprehension the pres
ence of the conspiracy in the army, and
the discovery of a score of soldiers ac-
tually engaged in it, is by far the worst
part of the business, and has a very ugly
aspect.”
How “ugly” this is may be judged
from the fact that a very large portion
of the English army is composed of Irish
men.
The whole available military force of
England is being poured into the country.
Within a few weeks there have arrived
among us the 69th and 64th Regiments,
the 2d battallion of the 60th Rifles and
S3d Regiment, the 75th and 02d Regi
ments, (Highlanders,) the 2d battalion of
the 3d Buffs and Queeu’s Regiments, the
Dragoon Guards, the 13th Hussars, and
the 1st battallion of the Coldstream
Guards, besides strong detachments of the
Royal Artillery, with Armstrong and
Whitworth guns ad libitum. In all, we
have some 48 regiments in Ireland, making
up, in round numbers about 40.000 men.—
The advent ot these large military rein
forcements, most of whom have arrived
in Dublin, lias created an unusual amount
of bustle and traffic in onr streets. The
quays are blocked up with long lines of
red coats, and the rattle of the artillery
wagons and the rattle of hoofs from the
cavalry, goes on almost incessently day
and night.
The Dublin News Letter, of February
26, says :
“From every quarter we learn that the
beneficial effect of suspension of the ha
beas corpus act has quickly made itself
apparent in the precipitate retreat of the
American colonels and captains who were
to have acted as the leaders of the pro
jected rising, and also in tire quiet and
subdued behavior of a portion of the in
habitants of the towns, who were previ
ously disposed.”
It is confessed, indeed, boldly proclaim
ed, by O’Mahony and others, that the
Fenian organization ia Ireland claimed to
number three hundred thousand men—
are officered b) men who have seen ac
tive service in the American war. A cor
respondent in the New York News, wri
ting from Dublin by the last steamer,
say s^
"No stranger, particularly no American,
is safe for an hour in Ireland now. Above
all, to have served in the America® army,
to have worn the United States uniform,
to have served in one or the other of the
American armies during the late wars, is
a sure and speedy passport to the interior
of one of Her Majesty’s jails. There is
more to be said on this subject than I can
find time to write now, but I am mistaken
in my estimate of the American people if
they contentedly tolerate the treatment
which a number of their countrymen are
receiving in this country at present.—
There are now in Montjoy prison more
than fifty American citizens, including
three United States Generals and a host
of minor officers. These men have been
arrested without a particle of evidence
against them.”
Ludicrous Scene in a Church.—An aged
clergyman speaking of the solemnity at
tached to the ministerial office, said that
during the whole term of forty years that
that he had officiated therein, his gravity
had never been but once disturbed in the
pulpit. On that occasion he noticed a
man directly in front of him, leaning over
the railing of the gallery, with something
in his hand, which he afterwards discover
ed to be a huge chew of tobacco, just taken
from his mouth. Directly below sat a
man fast asleep. With his head back and
mouth wide open. The man in the gallery
was intently engaged in raising and low
ering his hand, taking an exact observa
tion, till at last having got it right, he let
fall his quid, and it went plump into the
mouth of the sleeper below ! The whole
scene was so indiscribably ludicrous, that
for the first and last time in the pulpit, an
involuntary smile forced itself upon the
countenance of the preacher.
Singular Suicide.—The French pa
pers contain a long accourtt of the latest
method of suicide, as practiced by a M.
Couveux at Naples. He was a prey to
two fixed ideas—to lead a lifo of chastity
and to die without suffering pain. For
the former purpose he took effectual meas
ures, and to carry out the latter he guil
lotined himself. He erected a handsome
guillotine in the doorway which opened
from his parlor to his bedroom, and loaded
the sliding axe with 132 pounds of lead.
After having tried experiments on several
animals, be prepared everything for the
final accomplishment of his design. Dres
sing up his machine and himself with great
care, he set a light on a chair near by,
placed himself in position looking up to
wards the knife, pulled the cord, and set
tled to his perfect satisfaction the mooted
question whether seek a death is painful
or not. No one but a Frenchman, and a
crazy one at that, could have gone about
the work with such a care for the details,
even placing a pillow in the proper po
sition for the Lead to fall back on when
separated from the body.
Paymal mt Oouvy I.*nn by the Smihera
Eipren Cmpuy.
New York, March 14.
The Southern Express Company, which
rnns in counection with the Adams Ex
press Compay, paid, yesterday, through
its President, $200,000 to the First Na
tional Bank of Memphis for money lost
on the W. R. Garter, which exploded near
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The money was received by the Adams
Express Company at 8t. Louis, and hand
ed over to the Southern Express Company
at Cairo, by whom it was shipped on board
tho steamer W. K. Carter, which arrived
at Memphis daring the night, and not
making sufficient stay to deliver the mon
ey, it was carried past that city, rendering
the company liable for the lost.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Veto of the Civil Rights Bill—Ejection
of Senator Stockton.
Washington, March 27.—The Presi
dent transmitted to the Senate to-day hia
veto message of the Civil Rights bill the
various provisions of which are subjected
to a rigid examination, and the reasons
for disapproval given in detail.
The President says the bill intervenes
between capital and labor, and attempts
to settle questions of political economy
through the agency of numerous officials
whose interest it will be to foment discord
between the races; for as the breach
widens their employment will continue,
and when it is closed their occupation will
be gone.
The bill also touches on the rights of
the States, and would have a centralizing
tendency. 8
The President freely recognizes the ob
ligation to protect the freedmen, and will
cheerfully co-operate with Congress i n
any measure necessary for the purpose
which accords with the provisions of the
Federal Constitution.
The Senate to-day unseated Mr. Stock-
ton (Democrat), of New Jersey, by a ma
jority of one. The present Legislature
is Republican, and will therefore elect a
mau in their own party in his place.
In the House, a report was made by the
Reconstruction Committee covering the
evidence of General Lee. who says, so far
as he knows, the desire of the people of
the South is for the restoration of civil
government, and they look upon the poli
cy of the President as the one which
would most clearly and surely re establish
it.
——
The Vetoed Bill—The “Civil Rights”
bill, which the President has vetoed, pro
vides : 1st. That all persons, irrespective
of color or condition, born in the United
States, shall be considered as citizens
thereof, except Indians not taxed, and
persons subject to foreigu powers. 2d.
That such citizsns shall have the sam9
rights to make and enforce contracts, to
sue and be sued, to iuherit. purchase, lease,
sell and convey real and personal property,
and to full and equal benefits of all laws
for the security of person and property,
as are enjoyed by other citizens. 3d.
That any person depriving any citizen of
any of the rights enumerated in the bill
shall be punished by fine and imprison
ment, 4th. That a final approval in any
case that may arise under this bill may
be taken to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
New York Jri-
; 'concerning the
7he Fashions.—The
bane has the following
spring modes :
Suits will be worn this spring as much
as ever. That is, dress, cloak and bonnet
of the same color, if not of the same ma
terial. It is a quiet, lady like and useful
fashion, adapting one set of garments for
the street, and preserving all others from
its defilements. The 6bort petticoats and
looped frocks are still the mode.
For the house almost all dresses are cut
gored. While hoops are popular no other
method insures graceful folds to the dra
per y, and it is economical as well.
Flounces are again fashionable, one
deep one being considered most stylish.—
Skirts in tnnic form, very long behind,
are much worn, and the premeditated ex
travagance of double skirts threatens to
be popular. Round waists are much more
worn than points, the belt matching the
trimming in hue. Fanciful jackets for
neglige, of velvet, silk, or alpacas, very
jaunty and pretty, have the most secure
hold on fashionable protection.
Sleeves are still very small, shaped at
the elbow, and permitting only the nar
rowest nndersleeve. Narrow collars, and
deep cuffs in linen, and deeply pointed col
lars in lace, are the rule.
♦ — I
The New Hampshire Election.—We
give the vote of all but a few small towns
at the late election and a nearly complete
list of the representatives chosen. It will
be seen that the vote is very large—being
about 65,000—about 35,050 for Smith and
30,000 for Sinclair. The democrats have
added abotat 2,400 to their last year’s vote
and the radicals about 900 to theirs.
Smyth’s majority is less than 4,600, while
it wa9 6,070 last year, making a democrat
ic net gain of fully 1500.
But let it be borne m mind that this is
the gain upon the Governor’s vote of last
year. The soldiers in the field did not
vote for Governor then, but have done so
at borne this year; and they did vote last
year in the field for members of Congress.
Thorefore to show the real gain of the de
mocracy in this election, the vote should
be compared with that of the members of
Congress. The majority against us on
that vote was 7,968, and their majority
agam3t us now is4,600, and the real demo
cratic net gain is therefore full 3,350.
The democrats have elected 113 repre
sentatives so far as beard from, and the
radicals 206. If the towns not heard from
have chosen men of like character as last
year, the House will stand 120 democrats
to 206 republicans; republican majority
86. Last year the House stood, demo
crats 114, republicans 214; republican ma
jority 100; democratic net gain in the
House 14.—N. H. Patriot, 21st.
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From the Home Journal.
FIRST LOTE.
Her cup of life is full of joy.
And tier heart is thrilling so
The beaker shakes in her trembling hand
Till its sweet drops overflow.
AH day she walks as in a trance,
And the thought she does not speak—
The thought she fain would hide in her heart,
Burns out in her tell tale cheek.
And often out of her dreams at night
Bbe wakes to consciousness,
When the spell of happy slumbers breaks
With its great excess ot bliss.
She is almost burdened with the wealth
Of a joy so great and good,
That she cannot keep it to herself,
Nor toll it if she would.
’Tie strange that this should come to her,
Who all bar life before,
Centent in her quiet household ways,
Ras asked for nothing more.
And stranger, that he in whom the power,
The wonderful magic lay,
Who has changed her world to a paradiie,
Was a man but yesterday.
Proms Cary,