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covered with shame and your Very chil
dren will disown you. (Abplause.) Come
join the Patriot’s League. Our only pledge
is to support the Constitution—love its
friends and hate its enemies, and proclaim
our love and hatred at 110011-day and from
the house-tops. Wave' yourselves now, or
he forever lost to decent society and your
own self-respect. All the brave and true
men even at the North, respect me this
day more than they do you. The very
Radicals will use, hut even they will de
spise, the .Southern man who becomes
their sycophant.
My colored friends, will you receive a
word of admonition ? Os all the people
you Will most need the protection of the
law. You will most suffer by anarchy
and usurpation. Do you beiieve that the
man who is faithless to the Constitution of
the.country will be faithful toyou?lfa
man will take an oath to support the Con
stitution and then violate it, can you rely
upon his keeping any promise to you ? No;
I tell you such people are friends to noth
ing but their own interest. They are be
trayers of the Constitution to keep them
selves in office; they desire to use you to
help them to get office, (applause) and
they will betray you whenever they tind it
to their interest to do so.
They tell you they are your friends. It
is false; they are your very worst enemies.
They tell you they set you free. It is
false. These vile creatures who come
among you and put themselves on a level
with you.uever went with thearmy except
to steal spoons, jewelry, and gold watches.
(Great applause.) They are too low to be
brave. They are dirty spawn, cast out
from decent society, who come down here
and seek to use you to further their own
base purposes.
They promise you lands, and teach you
to hate the Southern people, whom you
have known always and who never de
ceived you. Are you foolish enough to
believe you can get another mail’s land
for nothing, and that the white people
will give up their ‘laud, without resis
tance?
If you get up strife between your race
and the white race do you not know you
must perish ?• You are now ten to one the
weaker race. You will grow weaker every
day. You can have no safety but in the
Constitution and no peace except by cul
tivating relations of kindness with those
who are fixed here, who need your services,
and who are willing to protect you.
The same experiment which is. now be
ing attempted with you by these Northern
knaves who seek your votes, was attempt
ed by similar people in France for the ne
groes in Hayti. They passed laws to give
the negroes political equality—abolished
all distinctions of color—and what was the
result? There was first a war of classes;
then a war between the whites on one
side and the blacks and mulattoeson the
other. Then there was a war between the
blacks and mulattoes, and neither white,
black nor mulatto have seen peace or
prosperity in Hayti since.
These men intend your extermination. —
Home of them are writing books in favor
of your extermination, and I .have myself
heard some of thefh avow that you ought
to he exterminated or driven from the
country. These are the same people whose
fathers found the I udians here. They de
clared the earth was the Lord’s aud be
longed to his saints, aud that they were
his saints. Then they killed and drove off
the poor Indian and took his lands. If
you do not make and keep friends of the
Southern people, your fate is tiiat of the
Indians! Woe to your race! You well
know your race is not prepared to vote. —
Why do you care to do what you dont un
derstand? Improve yourselves. Learn to
read and to write; be industrious ; lay up
your means; acquire homes; live in peace
with your neighbors; and drive off, as
you would a serpent, the miserable, dirty
adventurers who come among you, and
who, being too low to be received into
white society, seek to foment among you
hatred for tlie decent portion of the white
race. You can always know a gentleman,
whether from the North or,the South, and
all such respect and esteem —for such will
not deceive you. Do not desire to vote
until you are qualified to vote, and then
look for the right to be given, not injja
manner that violates the Constitution, but
in accordance with it. and through your
own Slate Governments. 1 feel more
deeply for you than I do for the white
race. White people ought to know better
than to disregard the laws and expect any
good. But you do not know the laws;
you do not understand deceivers.
J am willing, anxious to welcome among
us good and true men from the North who
come to help build up our country, and
add to its prosperity. I wish they would
come on and come in multitudes. They
will find us friends. Hut when I see the
low dingy creatures—hatched from the
venomous eggs of treason —coming here as
mere adventurers to get office through ne
gro votes —to ride into power on the de
luded negro’s shoulders—and creeping into
secret leagues with negroes and a few ren
egade (Southern whites, and talking llip
pantly about disfranchising the wisest and
best men of the land, because they know
it is the only possible chance for knaves
and fools like themselves to get place, I
can but feel ashamed that such monsters
are to be considered as belonging to the
human species. I warn you, my colored
friends, if you would be respectable in so
ciety, or prosperous in your purse, or de
cent in your own feelings, to avoid all
such people. They will hug you and call
you friend, and talk about your friends,
Hut they will puli you down to degrada
tion, to sorrow, to poverty, and to shame.
They have white skins but black hearts,
and will ruin your characters if you asso
ciate with them. They are creatures born
of political accidency, and treasonable con
spiracy, aud are the enemies of all good
governments and of all decent people.—
(Applause.)
And now, my friends of all races, of all
colors, of all nations, of all sexes, of all
ages—let us resolve to stand by our Con
stitution, and surrender it to no enemy.—
This is our country. Let us resolve that
we will never be driven from it, nor ostra
cised in it.
I’reiitlt'eaiisi.
General Schenck, of Ohio, who is so
active in Congress against Kentucky,
figured badly in the wutr. Probably lie
thought iiis men needed seasoning, and so
he got them first mustered and then pep
pered.
A Georgia paper calls confiscation That!.
Steven’s daughter. There is no question
as to the legitimacy of that child.
[ Detroit Free Press,
Look out, Thad. The negroes are in
full chase of your daughter.
The radical Editor of the New Orleans
Republican says, “we ore satisfied with
hell.” It is well that every chap should
be satisfied with hisown home.
The Radicals are doing their utmost to
change the American Eagle to a kite or a
buzzard.
Senator Chandler wishes that blood
should be let in tiie South. If he wishes
his own let, let him let.
The fiercest of all the Jacobin speakers in
Virginia is the Rev. Mr. Hunnicutt.
The Rev. Hunnicut asks, “Do you intend
to exterminate the negro?” O, no, Hunny.
Senator Chandler doesn’t care how much
ruin lie works. He is fond of ruin—espe
cially “blue ruin.”
Every Tennessee radical that meets Mr.
Ethridge on the stump limps for a week
afterwards.
Gen. Sickles drives only black horses.
He goes for the aristocracy of color.
Tiie negroes should charitably and gra
ciously and eoudescendifigly bear in mind
that the white men are white by no fault
of their own.
Rrownlow says he sleeps with a quiet
conscience. Then iiis conscience has a
dirty bedfellow.
The Radicals say they are gaining
ground in the South. Polite terms for
laud stealing. [Prentice.
A Caledonian paper, in an obituary of a
young lady, who died lately, closed by
Maying, “ She had an amiable temper, and
was uncommonly fond of ice-cream and
other deiecacies.” [Boston Post.
A young “greeny” was inveigled into
filling his skin with mean whiskey in
Savannah, on Tuesday, by several ‘‘nice
young men”, and while in that condition
was robbed of SiioO and a gold watch. One
of the parties was arrested. '
A young fellow from Louisiana, lost
SIO,OOO at “Pharaoh” last week in Chicago
and then tried to “suicide” by drowniim’
but was pulled out. He then bought two
bottle* of wine, and a revolver, and going
to his hotel locked tin- door and wrote to a
friend lie had killed himself. Friend
rushed to the scene; found him dead
drunk on the floor.
Mrs. Swisshelm says there is a little
“sculptress” at Washington who “is as
lavish ill the display of her own bust as
that of ber Congressmen patrons.”
President’s Veto Message.
Washington, July 10th.
To the House of .Representatives of the
United States: I return herewith the bill
entitled “All aotsupplementary to*an act
entitled, an act to provide for tlm more
efficient government of the Rebel States,
passed on the 2d day of-March, 1807, and
the act supplementary thereto, passed on
the 23d day of March, ,1807.” i will state
as briefly as possible some of the reasons
which prevents me from giving it my
approval.
This is one ofaseries of measures passed
by Congress during the last lour months
on the subject of reconstruction. The
message returning the act of the 2nd of
March last, gives at length my objections
to the passage of that bill; they apply
equally well to tiie bill now before me, and
I am content to refer to them, and reiterate
my conviction that they are sound and
unanswerable. There are some points
peculiar to this bill, which I will proceed
at once to take into consideration. The
first section purports to declare the true
intent and meaning, in some particulars;
of the two prior acts on the subject. It is
declared that the intent of these acts was,
first, that the existing governments of the
ten Rebel States were not legal govern
ments; and second, that thereafter said
governments were to be continued subject
in all respects to the military commanders
of the respective districts and to. the para
mount authority of Congress. Congress
may, by a declaratory act, fix upon a prior
act a construction altogether at variance
with its apparent meaning, and from the
time, at least, when said construction is
fixed, the original act will be construed to
mean exactly what it is stated to mean by
the declaratory statute. There wili be then
from the time this bill may become a law,
no doubt, no question as to the relation in
which the existing governments in those
States, called in tiie original act the pro
visional governments, stand towards the
United States. As their relations stood
before the declaratory acts these govern
ments, it is true, were made subject to
absolute military authority in many im
portant respects, but not in all the lan-.
guage of the act. Being subject to the
military authority of the United States, as
hereinafter prescribed by the sixth section
of the of the original acts, the governments
were made in all respect subject to the
paramount authority of the United States.
Now, by tiie declaratory act, it appears
that Congress did not by tiie original act
intend to limit the military authority to
any particular subjects therein prescribed,
but meant to make it universal. Thus,over
all these United States this military gov
ernment is now declared to have unlimited
authority. It is no longer confined to the
preservation of the public peace, the ad
ministration of criminal laws, tiie restora
tion of voters and tiie superintendence of
elections, but in all respects is asserted to
be paramount to the existing civil govern
ments. It is impossible to conceive any
state of society more intolerable than this,
aud yet, it is to this condition that twelve
million of American citizens are reduced
by the Congress of tiie United States. —
Over every foot of the immense territory
occupied by these American citizens, tiie
constitution of tiie United States theoret
ically is in fuli operation. It binds ail the
people there, and should protect them. —
Yet, they are denied everyone ofitssacred
guarantees. And of what avail will it be
to any one of tiie Southern people when
arrested by a file of soldiers to ask the
cause of arrest, or the production of tiie
warrant ? What avail to ask for tiie priv
ilege of bail when in military custody,
whilst it knows no such thing as bail? Os
what avail to demand a trial Uv jury, pres
ence of witnesses,a copy of the indictment,
the privilege of counsel, or the greater
privilege, tiie writ of habeas corpus? The
veto of tiie original bill of the 2d of March
was based on two distinct grounds. The
interference of Congress in duties strictly
pertaining to the reserved powers of the
States, and the establishment of military
tribunals for the trial of citizens in time of
peace. The impartial reader of that mes
sage will understand all it contains with
respect to military despotism and martial
law, has reference especially to the power,
however conferred, of the district com
manders to displace the criminal courts
and assume jurisdiction to try and punish
by military boards. The act now before
me not only declares tiiat the intent was to
comer not only such military authority,
but to confer unlimited authority over all
the other courts of the State, and over all
officers of the executive
and judicial.
Not content with the general govern
ment of Congress, the 2d section of the bill
especially gives to each military com
mander power to suspend or relieve from
ofticeor from performance of official duties
and exercise of official powers in any officer
or person holding, or professing to hold or
exert a civil or military office in such dis
trict under any power of elective appoint
ment or derived from, or granted by, or
claimed under any so-called State or gov
ernment thereof, orany municipal or other
division thereof, a power that hitherto all
the departments of the Federal govern
ment, acting in concert or separately,have
not dared to exercise, is here attempted to
be conferred on a subordinate military
officer. To him, as a military officer of the
Federal government, is given the power,
suported by a sufficient military force
to remove every civil officer of the
United States. What next? The district
commander who lias thus displaced the
civil officers is authorized to fill tiie vacan
cy by the detail of an officer or a soldier of
the army, or by tiie appointment of some
otherperson. This military officer, whether
an officer or a soldier, is to perform tiie
duties of such offieeror person so suspended
or removed. In other words, an offieeror
soldier of the army is transferred into a
civil officer, lie may lie made a Governor,
a Legislator or a Judge. However unlit .he
may deem himself for such civil duties, he
must obey the order. Theoflicer, if detailed,
must go on tiie supreme bench of the State
with the same prompt obedience as if de
tailed to act in a court martial. The
soldier, if detailed to act as a Justice
of the Peace, must obey as quickly as if
detailed for picket duty. What is the char
acter of such military-civil offices? This
bill declares that he shall perform the du
ties of the civil office to which he is de
tailed ; if is clear, however, that he does
not lose iiis position in the military sendee;
he is stil! an officer or soldier ; he is still
subject to the rules and regulations which
govern tiie army, and must yield due
respect and obedience toward his superiors.
The clear intent of this section is tiiat the
officer or soldier detailed to fill a civil of
fice, must execute its duties according to
tiie laws of the State. If he is appointed a
Governor of a State, he must execute tiie
'duties as provided for by the laws of that
State, and for the ' time being his
military character is to lie suspended, and
in his new civil capacity, if lie is appointed
a State Treasurer, he must at once assume
custody and disbursement of the funds of
tiie State, and perform these duties pre
scribed according to tiie laws of the State,
for he is entrusted with other official duty,
or other official power. If holding the
office of Treasurer, ami is entrusted with
funds, it happens that lie is required by
the State laws to enter into bond, with
security, and take an oath of office; yet,
from the beginning of tiie bill to the end,
there is no provision for any bond or oath
of office, or for any single qualification
required tinder the Slate law, such as
residence or citizenship. The only oath i&
that provided for in the ninth section, by
the terms of which every one detailed or
appointed to any civil office in the State is
required to take an oath of office prescribed
by law for officers •of the United States.—
Thus, an officer of the army of the United
States detailed to fill a civil office in one
of these States, gives no official bond and
takes unofficial oatli for the performance
of his new duties, but, as a civil officer of
the State, only takes the same oath which
he had already taken as a military officer
of tiie United States. He is at least a mil
itary officer performing civil duty, and the
authority under which he acts is Federal
authority only, and the inevitable result
is, that the Federal government, by the
agency ofitsown officers, in effect assumes
tiie civil government of the State.
A singular contradiction is hero appa
rent- Congress declares the local state
governments to he Illegal governments,
and then provides that .these illegal gov
ernments shall b< carried on by Fed
eral otlioers who are to perform the very
duties imposed on its own officers by this
illegal State authority. It certainly would
be a novel spectacle if Congress should
attempt to carry on a legal State govern
ment by the agency of its own officers ; it is
vet more st.range''that (‘ongross attempts to
sustain and carry on an illegal State gov
ernment by some hederal agency.
In this connection, I must, call attention
to the tenth and eleventh sections of the
bills which provide that none of the offi
cers or ap|x>iutocs of those military com
manders shall he hound in his action by
an opinion of a civil officer of the I nited
States, that all the provisions of the act
shall he construed literally, to theend that
that’all intents thereof may he fully and
perfectly carried out. It seems that ('on
gross supposed this bill might require
construction, and they therefore applied
this rule. But where is the construction
to come from? Certainly no one can be
in want of construction more than a
soldier or an officer detai led for civil service,
perhaps the most important in the State,
with tiie duties of which he is altogether
unfamiliar; and this bill says lie shall not
lie bound in his action by the opinion of
any civil officer of the United States. The
duties of the officer are altogether civil,
1 but when lie asks for information, he can
only ask the opinion of another military
officer, who, perhaps, understands as little
of iiis ditties as lie does himself, and as Vo
lus action lie is answerable to the military
authority, and the military authority
alone. Strictly speaking, no opinion of
any civil officer other than a Judge liaft a
binding force. They might very well say,
even when their action is in conflict tvith
the Supreme Court of the United Slates,
“that court is composed of civil officers of
the United States, and we are not bound
to conform oilr action to any opinion oJ‘
any such.authority.” This bill, and tin
‘ acts to which it is supplemental, are all
founded upon the assumption that these ten
communities are not States and their gov
ernments are not legal. Throughout the
legislation on this subject, they are called
Rebel States, aud in this particular they are
denominated so-called States and the vice
of illegality is declared to pervade all of
them. The obligations of consistency
bind a legislative body as well as the
individals who compose it. It is now too
late to say these ten communities are not
States. Declarations to tiie contrary made
in these three acts are contradicted again
and again by the repeated acts of legisla
tion by Congress from the year 1801 to the
year 1807. During that period while the
States were in actual rebellion, and after
tiiat rebellion was brought to a close, they
were again and again recognized asStates of
tiie l uion. Representatives have been
appointed to them ; they have been divided
into judicial districts for the holding of
District and Circuit Courts of the United
States, as States of the Union only can be
districted. The last act on this subject was
passed July 22d, 1860, by which every one
ol the fifteen States was arranged into
districts, and they have been called by
Congress only to act through their Legi.--
iatures upon the last two amendments to
the constitution of the-United States as
States. • They have ratified one amend
ment which required the votes of twenty
seven of tiie States composing the Union.
When tiie requisite twenty-seven votes
were given in l'avpr of tiiat amendment,
seven of which votes were given by seven
of these Slates, it was proclaimed to be a
part of the constitution of the United
States, and slavery was declared no longer
to exist within the United States or any
place subject to their jurisdiction.
If these seven States were not legal
States of the Union, it follows as an in
evitable consequence that in some States
slavery yet exists. It does not exist in
these seven States, for they have abolished
it, and tiiat, too, in their own Slate consti
tutions ; Kentucky not having done so, it
could still remain in that State. But, in
truth, if this assumption that these States
have no legal State governments be true,
then tiie abolition of slavery by these ille
gal governments binds nooue, for Congress
denies to these States the power to abolish
slavery by denying to them the power to
elect a legal State Legislature, or frame a
constitution for any purpose, even for such
a purpose as the abolition of slavery. As
to the other constitutional amendments
having reference to suffrage, it happens
that these States have not accepted it. The
consequence is, it has never been pro
claimed or understood, even by Congress,
to be a part of tiie constitution of tiie
United States. The Senate of the United
States lias repeatedly given its sanction to
theappointmentbf J udgesand district attor
neys for every one of these States; yet, if
they are not legal States, not one ot these
Judges is authorized to hold a court. So
too iiuve both Houses passed appropria
tion bills, to pay all these Judges, attorneys
aud officers of tiie United States, for exer
cising their functions in these Slates.
Again, in the machinery of the internal
revenue laws, all these States are described
not as territories, but as States. The same
may lie said as to judicial recognition.—
The Supreme Court of the United States
lias never failed to recognize these ten
communities as legal States of the Union.
The cases in that court upon upjieal and
writ of error have not been dismissed on
any idea of cessation of jurisdiction. They
were carefully continued from term to
term, until the rebellion was entirely sub
dued, and peace established. They were
called for argument and consideration, as
if no insurrection hud intervened. New
cases, occurring since tiie rebellion, have
come from these States before that court,
by writ of error and appeal, and even by
original suit. These cases are entertained
by that tribunal, in tiie exercise of ac
knowledged jurisdiction, which could not
attach to them if they bad come from any
political body other than a State of tiie
Union. Finally, in tiie allotment of their
circuits made by tiie Judges at tiie Decem
ber term, 1860, every one of these States is
jnit ou the same footing of legality with
all other States. Virginia and North Caro
lina lining a part of the fourth circuit, are
allotted to the Chief J ustice ; South Caro
lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mis
sissippi constitute the fifth circuit, and are
allotted to the late Justice Wayne; Louis
iana, Arkansas and Texas are allotted to
the sixtli circuit, in which is a vacancy on
the bench. The Chief Justice in theexer
cise of his duty has recently held a Circuit
Court iu North Carolina. If North Caro
lina is not a State of tiie Union, tho Chief
Justice had no authority to hold a court
there, and every judgment and decree de
livered by him in that court was coram
non judice, and void.
‘Another ground on which the recon
struction acts are attempted to be sustained
is this, that these ten States are conquered
territories; that the constitutional relation
in which they stood as States towards tiie
Federal government, prior to tiie rebellion,
has given place to anew relation, tiiat is,
their territory is conquered territory and
their citizens conquered people, and in
this new relation Congress can govern them
by military power. It is a title acquired by
war. It applies only to territory,or for goods
ormovablethingsregularlycaptured in war
called booty; or, if taken by individual
soldiers, plunder. There is not a foot of
land in any one of these ten States which
the United States holds by conquest,
only such lauds as did not belong to either
of these States or to any individual owner.
I mean such lands as did belong to the
pretended government called the Confed
erate States. These lands we may claim
to hold by conquest. As to all other lands
or territory, whether belonging to States
or individuals, the Fedeial government
lias now 110 more title or right to it than
it had before the rebellion. Our own forts,
arsenals, navy yajds, custom houses and
other Federal property, situated in these
States, we now hold, not by the title of
conquest, but by an old title acquired by
purchase or condemnation for public use,
with compensation to former owners.—
We have not conquered these places, but
si m ply re possessed them. If we requi re more
sites for forts, custom houses or other pub
lic use, we must acquire the title to them
by purchase or possession in the regular
mode. At this moment the United States,
in the acquisition of sites for national cem
eteries in these States, acquires the title in
the same way that the Federal courts sit
in court-houses owned or leased by the
United States, not in the court-houses of
the States, the United States pay eacli of
the States pay each of the States for the
use of its jails. Finally, the United States
levies its direct taxes and its internal rev
enue upon the property in tiiese States,
including tiie productions of tiie lauds
within their territorial limits, not by way
of contribution in the character of a con
queror, but in the regular way of taxation,
under tiie same laws which apply to all
the other States of the Union. During
the rebellion and since, tiie title of each of
these States to the lands and public build
ings owned by. them has never been dis
tun ed, and not a foot of it inis ever been
acquired by tiie United States, even under
a title ol confiscation, and not a foot has
ever been taxed under Federal law.
In conclusion, I must respectfully call
the attention of Congress to the considera
tion of one more question arising under
this hill. It vests in the military com
manders, subject only to the approval of
the General of the army of the United
States, an unlimited power to remove from
office any civil or military officer in each
of these ten States ; and further power,
subject to the same approval, to detail or
appoint any military officer or soldier of
the United States to perform the duties of
the officer so removed, and fill ail vacan
cies occurring in these States by death,
resignation or otherwise. The military
appointee thus requited to perform the
duties of a civil officer according to the
laws of tiie State, and as such required to
take the oath., is for the time being a civil
officer. What is his character? is lie a
civil officer of the State or 06 the United
States? Where is the Federal power tin
der our Constitution which authorizes his
appointment by any Federal officer? If,
however, he is to lie considered a civil of
ficer of tiie United States, as his appoint
ment and oath wqi*' l s f em to
where is his author'^ ol- llls APl’ (,int, ’®“ ‘.
By the Constitute 1 l l ? e P° w « r V, f £ WtjfcSf
ment of all offices of tiie United States,
civil or militarA where not provided for,
in the Constiti/mn, »» vested in the Presi
dent, by and vith the advice and consent
of tiie Senate, witli this exception, that.
Congress may, by law, vest the appoint
ment of such inferior officers as they nutv
think proper, in the President alone, in
tiie courts of law, or in the heads of de
partments*; but’in this bill those who ate
considered as officers within the meaning
of the constitution are not provided for by ‘
appointment of the President alone, by pie
courts of law or by the heads ot denffljt- .
ments, but vests the appointment#™* J
subordinate officer. So ii we
question and li.x (lie character ot the
tai'v appointee either way, this
<>f the bill i-> equally opposed to the
stitulion. the caste 4 U- A
pointed (s#Pffbrm ;the office ofTjPgJnTt
tlnW States, aud as such to admin
ister the proper laws of tiie State. Where
is the authority to be found in tiie consti
tution for vesting in a military or an ex
ecutive officer strict judicial functions to
lie exercised under the State law? It lias
been again decided by the Supreme Court
ol‘the United States that acts of Congress
which have attempted to vest executive
powers in the judicial courts or judges of
tiie United States are not warranted by the
Constitution. If Congress cannot clothe a
judge with merely executive duties, how
can they clothe an officer or soldier of the
army with judicial powers over citizens of
the United States who are not in the mili
tary or naval service? So, too, it has been
repeatedly decided that Congress can not
require a State officer, executive or judi
cial, to perform any duty enjoined on him
by a law of the United States, nor confer
power on an executive officer of the Unites
States to perform sucli duties iu a State.—
If Congress could not vest in a Judge of
one of these States judicial authority un
der the United States, by directenactment,
how can it accomplish tiie same tiling
indirectly, by removing a State Judge and
putting an officer of the United States iu
his place? To me, these considerations
are conclusive of the uucoustitutionality
of this part of the bill before me, and I
earnestly commend their consideration to
the deli cerate judgment of Congress.
Within a period .ess than a year, the
legislation of Congress inis attempted to
strip the Executive department of tiie
Government of some of its essential
powers. The constitution and the oath
provided in it, devolves on the President
the power and duty to see that tiie
laws are faithfully executed. The consti
tution, in order to carry out this power,
gives him choice of the agents, and
makes them subject to his control and
supervision; but in the execution of these
laws, tiie constitutional obligation upon
tiie President remains ; but the power to
exercise that constitutional duty is ef
fectually taken away. The military com
mander is, as to the power of appointment,
made to take the place of tiie President,
and tiie General of the army the place of
the Senate, and any attempt on the part
of the President to assert his constitutional
power may, under pretence of law, be met
by official insubordination, which is to
he feared. These military officers, looking
to tiie authority given by the laws rather
than to the letter of the constitution, will
recognise no authority but by tbe Com
mander of tiie district or the General of
tiie army.
if these men had nootherobjections than
this to the proposed legislation, it would
be sufficient. Whilst I hold the chief exec
utive authority of the United States ;
whilst the obligation rests upon me to
see tiiat all the laws are faithfully execut
ed, 1 can never willingly surrender that
trust, or the powers given for its execution;
I can never give my assent to be made re
sponsible for the faithful execution of tbe
law, ami at the same time surrender tiiat
trust and the powers which accompany ilv
to any other executive officer, high or low,
or to any number of executive officers. If
these trusts, vested by the Consti
tution in the President, are to he taken
from him and vested iu a subordinate of
ficer, the responsibility will lie with Con
gress in clothing tiie subordinates with
unconstitutional power, and with tiie offi
cer who assumes its exercise.
This interferrence with the constitu
tional authority of the Executive depart
ment is an evil that will inevitably sap
the foundations of our Federal system,but
it is not the worst evil of tiiis legislation.
II is a great public wrong to take from the
President j towers conferred upon him
alone by the Constitution ; but the wrong
is more flagrant and more dangerous when
the powers so taken from the President are
conferred on subordinate executive officers,
and especially upon military officers.—
Over nearly one-third of the States of the
Union, military power, regulated by no
fixed law, rules supreme. Each one of the
five district commanders, though not
chosen by the people, are responsible to
them, and exercise at this hour more execu
tive power, military and civil, than tiie
people have ;bcen willing to confer on
tiie head of the Executive department.
'They cannot, according to tiie forms of
the Constitution, repeal these laws;
they can not remove* or control this vile
despotism. The remedy is, nevertheless,
in their hands. It is to he found in
tbe ballot. It is a sure one if not con
trolled by fraud, and awed by arbitrary
power, or, from apathy on tiieir part, too
long delayed.
With abiding confidence iu their pat
riotism, wisdom and integrity, I am still
hopeful of the future, and tiiat in tiie end
the rod of despotism will be broken ; the
armed heel of power be lifted from tbe
necks of the people, and the principles of
a violated Constitution bo preserved.
[Signed] Anukkw Johnson.
Washington, D. 0., J ifly Iff, 1867.
Resident Agent- for the Journal and
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IBaCON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1867.
Veto Message. Else
our readers will find this document,
publish it as part of the history of the
ll but with the conviction expressed
1 a former occasion, that brave words
rtt ßp|nnly result in our being lashed with
fury over the shoulders of the man
them. Action would better
the crisis, if it is too late for that,
JhHml'-. name let us alone, that we may
peace.
-\\* i liadvellentl.v4»tted,
morning, to call aUeumn, as
requested by our Talbotton eotemporary,
to the fact that a meeting will be held in
tha f place on the 27tli inst., next Saturday,
to select suitable persons to visit Honduras
and make a report.
Why Not ?—The Atlanta Opinion says
“One of the Macon papers wants Mr.
Hill to speak in that city. Mr. Hill will
not do it.”
Whence do you derive your information,
that you speak so positively ? Per “ grape
vine ” telegraph up the backstairs of Gen.
Pope’s office, or from Mr. Hill himself? —
We “pause for a reply.”
Hon. A. H. Stephens. —We earnestly
trustthat this distinguished Georgian will,
as it is reported, give, at an early day, his
countrymen the benefit of his views upon
the political status of the .South, and their
rights and duties at this supreme hour of
peril.
We can, in advance, safely cheer to the
echo what he will advise, for we know
that his true heart beats with the same
noble rhythm that has ever kept its pulsa
tions in exquisite accord with the cause of
Liberty. Put we wish to read it, and in
reading to feel, as we know we will, for
the time, a breath of the fresh, free air of
the past —to forget chains and slavery, and
he, once more, what our “rebel” grand
father fought to make us—a freeman.
Mr. Stephens will sadly disappoint
thousands of anxious hearts, if he docs
not make his views public.
A Reminiscence.
We tender our thanks to the Hon. W. E.
Robinson, at present a representative in
the lower house of Congress from the
Brooklyn (N. Y.) district, for a copy of his
speech, delivered in that body on the 12th
instant.
YVe liave read it with great gratification,
and from its manly utterances, liave drawn
fresh faith ill the steadfast determination
of the staunch Democracy of the North,
to tight to the last the malignant desjiot
isrn whose yoke is galling tiie neck of every
honest man in the land.
Our faitli and hope are very strong that
they will, in the end, he successful. If we
did not believe tHits, the present, and the
outlook just before us, would be uneudura-
I Lie. When that day does come, the shout
j of victory will ring, as of yore, from Maine
(Bo Texas, and if our counsels can prevail,
lit will not only be the hour of justice, but
lof tv ngeance, too.
In the same issue of the Ciiobe, that con
tains this sfleech, we find the atrocious
diatrilie of that man, whom the Mationat
Intelligencer, in a recent article, has gib
beted to eternal disgrace, beside Ids proto
type, Barere, of infamous memory. We
liave read that speech also, and one pas
sage in it has revived a reminiscence of
tiie past that we desire to put on record.—
The extract is as follows, the reader bear
ing in mind that Logan, in using tiie word
“they”, is referring to the Democratic
members:
They seem bo have forgotten the scenes
and events that mark the historical epoch
through which we have so recently passed,
and they seem to have totally forgotten
that these pet southern brethren of theirs,
when they did occupy seats on this floor,
gave us practical illustrations of dignity in
debate that made of this Hall a "bear gar
den,” and much more attractive to lovers
of gladiatorial sports and patrons of the
“fancy” than, they could liave been to the
wise, prudent, sedate, and good citizen. —
When bowio-knives bristled from their
orea-ts, revolvers filled all their pockets,
and clubs were substituted among them
for canes; when they spoke to a northern
legislator in these Halls with a scowl on
their brows, threats on their lips, and fin -
gers on triggers.
The writer of ttiis article was resident in
Washington City in 1839 and ’6O, and
while there, witnessed many of the stormy
scenes that marked the prolonged ballot
ing that finally terminated in the election
of Bennington, as Speaker of the House.—
In the wide range tiie daily debate took,
a prominent subject was the relations of
Judge Douglas to the Administration, and
to the Black Republican par ty. He was
charged with intriguing with certain
prominent members of that organization,
for nomination as their candidate for the
Presidency. Mr. Kellogg, of Illinois, now
Collector of Customs at New Orleans, was
foremost in making this charge, and in
denouncing all partiesto the proposed coa
lition. Logan took up the gauntlet for
Douglas, and demanded more specific
charges jtlian Judge Kellogg had seen fit to
make. He lost his temper at last, as such
savages generally do, and in replying to
Kellogg,'said lie (Logan),lead made such a
charge of bargain and sale once while in
the Illinois Legislature against a fellow
member,“and when the proof wasdemaud
ed did not sneak, like a whipped spaniel."
As the words were uttered ;ivellogg sprang
to his feet, and putting Ids hand in his
pocket, as if to draw a weapon, started
toward Logan. The latter stooped down,
and picking up his overcoat from his seat,
drew therefrom and brandished a large
size navy revolver. He did not level it,
hutheldjit in his hand, for in a u ent,
almost, members gathered around, and
the parties were seized by their respective
friends.
We submit that the Illinois Escobedo is
the last man in the world to use the taunts
set forth in the above extract. Sneers
about “ bowie knives, revolvers, and
clubs, ' do not become one who was proved
thus publicly to have made it a daily
practice, not only to carry, but draw, upon
the slightest provocation, weapons which
he would have the public believe were pe
culiar to his former “ pet Southern breth
ren.”
J. W. Burke & Co.—Read the adver
tisement oi new books just received by
this firm. It embraces a list that will suit
any taste—all fresh from the publishers’
shelves.
Messrs. B. & Cos. also, have the monthly
part for June, of “Every .Saturday,” and
Hurd & J laugh ton’s reprint of that sq.ark
ling monthly for July, “London Society.”
Wo have been reading both for months,
and do not hesitate to pronounce them the
very best magazines within reach of the
Southern reader. “Every Saturday,” re
ceived and read, weekly, furnishes just
exactly the quantity and quality of litera
ry cream that a man of refined tastes has
leisure and appetite for. It has no politics
in it, and why our people gorge themselves
with the nauseating trash and poison of
“Harper” and the “Atlantic”, is past un
derstanding. Let them and their like, lie
and rot on the publishers’ shelves. There
is no place for them down there.
A Connecticut shepherd whose claims
to distinction are that he poisoned his
wife and subsequently preached Itadical
ism, lias escaped from the Lynchburg
jail.
Brevities.
No more rations to negroes in Tennessee
after August Ist —election day. After Cuff
votes the Radical ticket, he can “go
hung.”
Registration in Gwinnett county will
stand about these figures: Whites, 1,600;
blacks, 275.
Fulton county registration complete,ex
cept sth ward in Atlanta. The Intelligen
cer thinks tire blacks will have a small
majority in tiie county.
Captain Bridgewater, a notorious des
perado, was shot and killed at Stanford,
Ky., on tiie 19tli instant. Sixteen halls
were lodged in his body.
A man in Cincinnatigaves4oofora Ken
tucky cow, the other day. She was half-
Alderuey.
Colonel Jesse Forrest shot an Italian
named Barroni, through the hand in Mem
phis, on Friday. Barroni hud snapped a
cap at Forrest’s head.
One of Brownlow’s “perlice pups” in
Memphis, on tiie same day, shot r* 1 a
“pretty waiter girl.” She had been “sa>
ing” his wife.
J n Elbert county, registration shows t
majority for the whites of 209.
The Washington people have had Bry
ant lately. The Gazette thinks, though,
that lie didn’t do much mischief. We
tender our congratulations ou their getting
off so lightly.
The British government lias appropri
ated 00,000 pounds sterling to purchase
billiard tables at the different barracks in
her possessions for the use of army oflicers.
Wiisou, iu his Richmond speech, suid
Congress had “placed the South in the
hands of 600,000 black men.” He ought
to have said in the hands of aiaiut 300
“mean whites,” whose hearts are blacker
than a negro’s hide. Bayonets are only
the instruments of their despotism.
The public debt is increasing at the rate
of *24,000,000 a month. Cheap enough
for the experiment of making white men
slaves, and changing an American,into an
African government.
The New York Nation says old John
Adams once remarked to (Sparks, the his
torian, while looking at Washington’s
portrait, “That old wooden-liead got his
reputation by holding his tongue.”
The Rock Island (111.) Argus says there
is a lot of stolen Southern property to he
found in that city and county—most of it
iu the hands of “very fine professors of
religion.” What fat pickings the Devil
will have out of those sortof "professors”
some day !
Ex-President Davis attended the Theatre
Royal, in Montreal, on the 18th inst. He
was recognized by the audience, who rose
and cheered him loudly. The baud also
played Dixie. God bless John Bull, say
we.
The boats on the Hudson river have
fine sport now-a-days, racing. One started
last week with extra coal, pitch, etc., to
beat lit r rival, and large sums were bet by
the employees on the result.
Gen. Hindman—not General to hurt,
though—ha« sold out to the enemies of his
country. They’ll whitewash him soon,
so that he will not know himself.
Since the establishment of the seat of
govi rnment at Washington City, over one
hundred newspapers have been started and
died out, in that city.
Tiie Memphis papers tell some astonish
ing things about tiie doings of the Missis
sippi-river earthworks at Fort Randolph
and Fort Pillow, built in 1861, and 300
yards from the shore, which liave disap
peared. A plan ter last week deposited $5,-
000 worth of supplies on its hanks, and had
not gone half a mile when the country
behind Jiiui disappeared with all his
stores.’
In Columbia eouuty, registration stands
as follows: Whites, 600; blacks, 1,806.
Three “bricks” of gold from Montana
have been recently sent to Bt. Louis, by
an ex-typo of that city. They are worth
a trifle over $25,000.
The Committee of the Jacobin club for
distributing incendiary document* tli rough
the South, and arraying the negroes
against the whites, report that $17,000 liave
been raised forthat devil's work, two-thirds
of which wascontributed by Jacobin mem
bers of Congress.
On Thursday evening last, a generator
used in the drug store of Jacob Lippman,
at Savannah, to charge the soda fountain,
exploded, blowing*off the left thumb, cut
ting several other fingers badly, and severe
ly wounding tiie leg of the negro j>orter in
the store. Too muclt gas in it, caused tiie
accident.
One hundred and fifty-five barrels of
Cincinnati whiskey were imported into
Robertson eouuty, Tennessee, one day last
week, to make the “genuine” stuff out of.
Two prisoners in charge of the Sheriff of
Marion comity, Tenn., jumped from the
train on the Nashville & Chattanooga R.
R., on Tuesday last, and escaped. The
train was running at the rate of 14 miles an
hour. As they struck ou their heads in
jumping, it is presumable they were “new
ish.”
Rice Puckett killed Dr. Witt, a dentist,
atGaylesville, Ala.,’on the 16th, for sedu
cing his sister.
The degree of L. L. D. was conferred
upon Dr. H. V. M. Miller, at the last meet
ing of the Board of Trustrees of Emory
College.
The Radicals don’t allow deserters to
vote and hold office at the North. At the
South, they don’t allow anybody else to
hold office, at least.
The editor of the Atlanta Era says mon
ey is worth two and a half per cent a
mouth, in that city, because Georgia is out
of the Union. YY’liy not offer the fact that
whiskey is twenty-live cents a drink as a
reason for trying to crawl back as you wish
to do ?
The Era of yesterday says Judge Loch*
raue “is expected to reply to” Mr. Hill’s
speech. Probably, But he is uot “ex
pected” to answer it.
John L. Scott, of Maysville, Ky., has
sold bis (teach crop this year for $14,000. —
The orchard contains 50 acres, and cost, at
the start, $4,000.
Subscribers to the “ Lincoln Monument
Fund” in New York are inquiring where
their money has gone? Into Radical doc
uments for the South.
Anotheh Thhv ok the Screw. — In
the IntrHigcncj rof yesterday, we find the
following order. The “faithful” are get
ting ravenous, anil if officials wont talk
they must be made to, on paper, and thus
lose their heads:
General Orders, No. 41.
The attention of all Hoards of Registra
tion in this- District is called to Orders, No.
10, from these headquarters, prohibiting
civil officers from using any influence
whatever to deter or dissuade the people
from taking an active part in reconstruct
ing their State government, under the act
ot Congress of March 2d, 1807, and the acts
supplementary thereto.
Boards of registration are hereby in
structed to inquire into this subject and
rejHirtat once the uames of any civil
officers who have been guilty of any in
fraction of this order or who may violate
it hereafter.
By command of Brevet Major general
Hope. (j. lc. Sanderson,
Capt. 33d U. S. Inf’y A A. A. A. G.
Paris and Continental Correspondence.
Paris, July 5,1867.
Editors Journal <fc Messenger :
The long-looked for solemnity, the
crowning of the edifice, or distribution of
prizes to thelucky exhibitors of the Champ
de Mars, took place on Monday, the first
of July, notwithstanding the rumored re
port of the execution of Maximilian,which
reached Paris ou Sunday, the 37th. This
report was the cause of the Comte and
Comtesse de Flaude, who had come to
Paris for the express pur|S)se, not being
present at the ceremony. Never, ut any
epoch of history, lias such a catastrophe
dosed a reign so brief and so crowded with
tragic events. The news of an Emperor
shot coming to trouble the thoughts of an
other Emjieror, called upon to preside at
oneof the grandest ceremonies that has,
perhaps, ever taken place. There were,
perhaps, other thoughts, harrowing for the
Emperor of the French and his Empress;
the thoughts of a young and charming
Princess—the Empress Carlotta—driven
out of her mind by grits, and shut up in
he splendid prison of Miramon.
The great solemnity of the year proved a
, wonderful success. The magnificent cor
tege out of doors, where the Emperor and
Empress of tiie French, the whole Impe
rial Court decked out in their finest, the
Sultan and his numerous suite, carried
along on the magnificent gala carriages,
drawn by eight horses, passed by tiie tens
of thousands, who had been watting for
luiurs in the grand avenue of the Champs-
Elysies, in order to witness this gorgeous
pageant. The weather was delightful,
and as a gentle breeze tempered the ardent
heat of the sun, the general public outside
were well repaid for their patient waiting,
by the splendor of the double oortege from
the Tuileries and from the Elysie, now
the residence of the Sultan.
Ad el Assiz, who was accompanied by
bis son, Youssouf Tzyedean Elfendi, a lmy
of ten years of age; Mahommed Mournd
Effetidi, his nephew, presumptive heir to
the throne of Turkey, and A ltd el Hamid
Effetidi. His majesty’s nephews seemed
much gratified by the cordial manner in
which he was received by the people of
Paris.'
Whilst the ceremony was going on in
side, the Parisians outside amused them
selves as well as they could, by lolling on
the grass plats, very much to the annoy
ance of the Champs Elysies’ gardeners,
who several times threatened to drive
away the vile populace with their water
ing hose, hut these threats were not car
ried into execution, as a few unpleasant
stones which from time to time fell at the
feet of the angry gardeners, warned them
not to trifle with the Frenchman, who, if
provoked, soon turns joviality into ire.
Those who have visited Paris know the
tnerchand de lo>s and the merchund de
plaisiis; both these worthies drove a thriv
ing trade on Monday, as it was hungry
and thirsty work waiting for two hours in
the sun and dust, until the ceremony in
side the building came to an end.
Tiie speech pronounced by the Emperor
was received with very great applause.—
It was some time before the excitement
subsided, but when it did, the-distribution
of recompenses .commenced, and lasted
about half uu hour. As each fortunate
exhibitor was named, he ascended tho
steps to the platform, and received from
tho Emperor the medal to which ho was
entitled. The Abbe Teeche, of the Roman
Observatory was loudly cheered, when he
went up the steps, as was Mous. Lcssejis,
who it is known first had the idea of unit
ing the Mediterranean with the Red
sea.
But tiie greatest applause of all, was
given to the Emperor himself, when his
name was called out for the gold medal
for workmen’s buildings; ami then arose
a dilemma iu tiie minds of many, who
asked themselves who was to give his re
ward to the distributor himself?
However, the difficulty was got over in
the most graceful manner imaginable, for
the Prince Imperial quitted his place, and,
as President of the Exhibition commis
sion, came round and presented the Em
peror with the reward so justly merited.
The young Prince acquitted himself with
a charming simplicity of manner, and the
whole multitude applauded him loudly.
When the persons belonging to each group
had received their rewards, they passed
round, banner in front, and placed them
selves opposite their trophy.
The sight outside, at the departure, was
also most striking, as opposite to the
building were drawn up tho troops, wait
ing fwr the word to form the Imperial
escort. Other troops were posted ail
around, and beyond was the dark fringe of
the general mass of hjk-ctutors composing
tiie public. Nothing could exceed tho
effect of the court equipages as they drove
up, one after the other, to take up the
guests. When the gala coaches came
round, a buzz of admiration burst from
the crowd.
A sight of much novelty for the Paris
ians, was tiie Lord Mayor of London and
his (Sheriff's in their civic costumes, which
call to mind those of the middle ages.
Tiie Parisian gamin , ever ready fur a
joke, did not let this opportunity go by
and many a bon mot was made at tho ex
pense of the London Aldermen and their.
flowing gowns.
THE FOURTH OF JULY IN PARIS.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence of the United
States, a banquet was held at the grand
Hotel Boulevard des Capucines.
Several of America’s most celebrated
orators were present, and a most admirable
meeting took place.
ARRIVAL OF MR. BANCROFT IN PAltlS.
Mr. Bancroft., the American minister at
Berlin, has arrived in Paris, and is at
present residing at the Hotel Bristol.
HT. LAZAIIKK.
High Rent.—Two years ago when busi
ness, after a prostration of five years, begnn
to revive, everything brought high prices.
Then there v, as a shadow of excuse for
the very high rent demanded and received
in expectation of extraordinary business
prosperity. It is hardly necessary to say
that tiie high expectations formed by mer
chants and business nlen havo not boon
realized. In Louisville, a city which has
a! most doubled its population in five years,
a majority of the merchants, in a respect
ful card to landlords, sot forth their inabil
ity to pay for another year, as high rents
as fertile past two years. In Columbus,
Georgia, theexampieof the Louisville mer
chants has been followed, and for the same
reason—falling off iu trade and a loss in
business. The same cry is head in all cities,
North, South, East, and West. Business
Is not what was expected, and to continue
to pay the same high rates of rent will
involve all in loss. No wonder that three
Building and Loan Associations in this
city are on the highway to success. Will
our landlords never learn wisdom?
The Sidewalks, in several of our most
prominent thoroughfares, are undergoing
“reconstruction.” If this inqiortant work
he pushed forward, Alderman Grier will
have paved liis way to municipal fame.
True.— Cultivate only the animal «»•
ture of a man, and you make of him a
ferocious brute; cultivate his intellect his
aloue, and you may make of him a demon;
cultivate his moral nature with bis other
faculties, and you render him a true man,
made in God’s image.
•‘We see ,” said Swift iu oue oflij*
most sarcastic moods, ’’what God thinks
of riches by the people he gives them to. ”
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fßy the New YurK Associated Press.|
Washington Itoms.
Washington, July 22. —Tt was Sena
tor Tipton who objected to Greeley’s con
firmation as Minister to Austria. No
inducement, he said, could cause him to
support a halier of Jeff Davis.
The Treasury holds one hundred and
seventeen millions: in treasure, whereof
twenty-one millions aro gold certificates.
Internal revenue, $965,000.
Vera Cruz advices via New Y ork say
tied, Maximilian’s body is coming then;
for delivery to the Austrian consul.
The "Tribune’ considers Greeley’s nom
ination a joke on the part of So waul.
J. Tomery, of Team, on trial here for
stealing valuable papers from a quarter
master, was honorably discharged.
Surratt.
Washington, July 82.—Rev. Charles
Boucher, with whom Hurratt was con
cealed in Canada, was ou the stand.—
Evidence showing that ho knew nothing
of his mother's danger was ruled out, on
motion of the pro—out ion. Father Botid.-
er's testimony la damaging regarding Dr.
McMillan for truthfulness. Boucher put
him out of Ids house for impertinence
when ho remonstrated with him about the
wrong of filmrtioh.
Defenoo closed, and prosecution com
menced rebutting. Hope to close the
evidence in two days.
ttepObttcauf«w».,
Washington, July 22.- The circular
recently issued by the Republican < "n
--grosslonsl Committee says, they have the
names hf twenty thousand Southern loyal
meu, to whom “ documents” arc regularly
sent. The report says, " only money is
needed to carry the Southern Staten at the
elections provided for by Congress.’
political.
Richmond, July 22.—Montgomery Blair
B|>oko at I lock-Alum Springs, on Saturday.
He severely denounced tho radicals. Os
President Johnson he said, that in* had
defeated the conservative party by retain
ing IBs enemies in office. He would advise
him now to get rid of the spies around him,
and .make Gen. Grant, who lie believed
was a just man, temjsrrary Secretary <>t
War. A telegram to the‘Dispatch* says
! about three hundred porsons worepri-««il;
among them, Gon. Joe Johnston.
’ Gov. Picrpont tqsike at Halifax C. 11.,
to-day, to about three thousand persons.
He was followed by both white ami block
speakers.
The ‘YY’hig’ has accounts of a meeting in
Charlotte county, at which Col. Henry, a
Confederate eoloqcl of infantry, presided.
Delegates were appointed to tire republican
contention.
A, republican meeting has also liceu held
in Amelia.
Ue(titril(|n».
Wilmington, July 22.—People of this
State not yet received definite information
in regard to registration. Great apathy
exists.
Savannah, July 22.—Registration lias
been dosed In this city until August.
Total whites, 2,259 —total blacks, 3,032.
Registration for Chatham and Effing
ham counties : whites 262—blacks l,7h>.
General \mn.
Memphis, July 22. An incendiary
fire at Navy Yard destroyed, among other
things, three hundred bales of cotton.—
Loss, slon, 000.
Washington, July 22.—A dispatch
from General A. J. Smith announce* the
»afe arrival of the train, at Fort Harkey,
with Bishop Laury, the Priests, and the
Sisters of Charity who were reported
massacred.
New Orleans, July 22.—Weather very
sultry. Daily showers. Thermometer,
yu. The weekly report shows nine it.,a!(is
from cholera—only t wo from yellow fever.
!V«x]e«.
Nkw OltfjEAdtt. July -2.—Have nus
week's later dates from Mexico—no im
portance.
The Brownsville ' RanChero’ doubts the
report of an army of observation under
Cortina*. Ik,publishes an extract Imm a
letter raid to have been written by Esco
bedo to Gomes, directing him by all means
in his power to make lliecountry Mexican,
and as all property In the handsof foreign
ers was acquired by Mexican misfortunes,
lie should take it, and havo power to limit
them from the country. He says, “My
motto Is, death to all strtyigers. There is
no danger of tho Yankees interfering with
us so long a* the Southern Slates are kept
out of tho Union, and, besides, tho black
men would side with us, and may at any
time pronounce against the whites. Be
fore we got through with foreigners the
Y an keen will think wo are iu earnest, and
tho time will come when their notables
will ho begging for their own heads instead
of for Austrians.”
I p to the 13th, Marquez had not been
found. Home adherents supposed lie was
secreted in the house of the British Minis
ter.
Dias ordered the capture of foreign repre
sentative* who do uot recognize the Liber
al government.
Seven hundred Austrian prisoners were
sent to Puebla. Twelve more Generals
were shot at Queretaro.
Juares Issued an order convening aCon
grees to elect a President.
The Russian eoimul at Vera Cruz was
conducting negotiations with the Liberals
for tho release of Austrian prisoner*.
Santa Anna was still alive at Gam peachy,
lil* captors awaiting Instructions from the
Liberal government. It wa* thought he
would undoubtedly be phot.
I'orelfH
TURKWY.
Washington, July 21.— Latest official
1 accounts received at the Greek Legation,
give terrible accounts of Turkish cruelties
at Crete. The Orellana Inflicted severe
punishment on one of Omar Pasha's spies.
Omar, In retaliation, crucified a Grecian
Priest, In order, say the dispatches, to
satiate his revenge, and to cast odium on
the Christian religion from which Omar
had apostatised—ho haring been born a
Christian. He next besieged a cavern in
whleh Greek women atid children had
taken refuge, closing its mouth, and
leaving them to die of starvation. The
dispatches state that the Turkish govern
mentdeeljneylelding to the remonstrances
of the European powers, regarding Omar
Pasha's conduct.
THE WTRDKROF MAXIMILIAN.
London, July the House of
Lords, Karl Maximil
ian's execution,flHßt shared iu the
feelings of all their Lordships with regard
to this unnecessary, cruel and barbarous
murder, which must have excited sorrow
iu every country—a murder, which, l:u
from producing any beneficial efleet,
would only add to the miseries of Mexico. *
lie declined stating the Government’s
intention. Lord Stanford said he should
press the resolution.
The ‘Qwl’ says that no intervention of
European powers will occur in consequence
of Maximilian’s execution.
Paris, July 21.—1n the Corps Legisdalii,
Theirs said the Mexican expedition had
been without good results to France, and
the prestige of her greatness was lost iu
America and compromised In Europe.
Jules Favre said the French troops should
have brought Maximilian away; tins
would have saved Franco from the stain
of blood which will rest upon her.