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laid upon tfio tftble, and this motion
prevailed—yonrs 58, nays 20. Snb-
• sequ'cutly, on tlie same day, in pre
senting resolutions on the subject by
the Legislature of Mississippi, Mr.
Orr, of that State, offered resolutions
instructing the Judiciary Committee
to report a bill repealing the act of
the last Congress suspending tho writ
of habeas corpus. On motion of Mr.
Singleton, from the same State, Mr.
On’s resolution was laid on the ta
ble.
We hope that this agitation, like
the habeas corpus, will now be sus
pended, until the proper time comes
to attend to questions absorbed in
tho one great issue that includes every
right of the citizen.”
Loss in Generals.—“Our loss in
Generals, since the commencement of
the long fight with Grant, is nineteen
* —seven killed, ten wounded, and-two
captured. The names of tho killed
are Stuart, Jenkins, Stafford, Jones,
Julius Daniel, Gordon of Noitli Car
olina, and Perrirf, of South Carolina.
The New York Herald of (he I3th
has the following list of Giant’s losses
in Generals, since the recent battles
commenced :
Killer-Major General James E.
Wadsworth; Major General Sodg*
wick; Brigadier General Hayes; Gen
eral Webb; General Taylor ; Gener
al Bailey.
Wounded—General Josh T. Owens
(since doad); Genoral T. G. Steven
son; General James C. Rice (dead) ;
General Getty; General Talbott,
in bowels; General Rcbinson, in leg.
Captured—General Seymour; Gen
eral Shaler; General Neal.
Recapitulation—Killed, 5 ; wound
ed, G; captuied 3. Total. J5.”
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Eati nton, May 23, 186 4.
Mr. Clisby : Mr. James B. Mostly,
living nine miles Northwest of Eaton -
ton, arrested three of the escaped offi
cers of tho United States army, at 10
o’clock, P. M., last Saturday, and
brought them' down to town yester
day morning. They are probably by
this time safely lodged with their com
rades within the walls of the camp at
Macon, Mr. M. had gone to bod, and
one of Lis negroes came and waked
him up, telling him that there wero
three men in tlm woods just above his
house, who reported themselves to him
as ynnkee prisoners, and asked him for
something to eat. Mr. M directed
his hoy to get all of his negroes up,and
^.ell them to surround the prisoners with
such weapons as could bo procured,
when he would go up to arrest them.
This, tho negroes promptly did ; one
arming hinself with a club, ono with
an old sword, one with a stone, etc.
Mr M. approached thorn with his gun,
and had no trouble in taking thorn.
They appeared to bo quite intelligent,
and were named respectively Smyth,
Heniihun, and Clifford—all Lieuten
ants in the 16th United Slates Infant
Bishop Elliott’s Sbrmon,- Board-
man advertises tho great sermon of
Bishop Elliott, lately delivered in Ma
con, for sale in quantity. Bishop Ell
iot is not merely a loarncd and elo
quent divine, he is a statesman. His
broad, comprehensive mind grasps the
present struggle in all its grand polit
ical aspects, and handles it with won
derftil clearness, brevity, and force. In
no paper of equal length upon tho
war, have we seen so many weighty
considerations presented with such
overwhelming force, it ought to be
circulated among the people, to rouse
them up to a correct appreciation of
tlie stupendous responsibilites devolv
ed tipou. fbis generation, and tho im
portance of acting well our part—of
meeting every emergency with the
calm earnestness, dauntless resolution,
and vigorous action of men who see
that the fate of tho American conti
nent— of civil liberty it.stiff, and the
future'of generations unborn, hang up
on their counsels and their conduct.
Macon Telegraph.
“Elizur Wright, of Boston, says iu
a letter to a paper called the Auglo-
African : *
‘It is in view of the poverty of
white intellect, as exhibited in this
war, as a general rule, from tho presi
dent. downward, that I should rejoice
to see some colored man, Frederick
Douglass, for Example, placed in the
presidential chair.’
This unhappy white man further
says in the letter :
‘1 have often passed for a black
man, where I Jmve been known only
by my writings. Tins 1 ulways con
sidered rather complimentary to my
moral character, and of late years 1
have como to consider it a compliment
to mv intellectual calibre, also.
“The ensuing anecdote of Charles
Lamb lias never appeared in any Eng
lish sketches or anecdotes of his life,
but it is pronouced to b6 entirely an?
thentic :
‘At a dinner-table, ono evening, a
sea faring guest was describing h ter»
rifle naval engagement, of which he
was 5 ppctatov, on board a British man-
of-war, ‘While I was watching tho
effects of the galling fire upon the
ir.asts and rigging,’ said he, ‘there
came a cannon trail, which took off both
logs from a poor sailor who was in the
shroud?. Ho fell toward tho deck,
but at tkat moment another cannon
ball whizzed over us, which, strange
to say, took off both fiis arms, which
fell upon deck, while the poor fellow s
limbless trunk was carried overboard.
“ ‘II< javelin!’ exclaimed Lamb*,
‘didn’t you save him !’
“ ‘No,’ replied tho naval Munchau
sen ; die couldn’t swim, of course, and
lie sank before assistance could bo
rendered him.'
“ ‘ft was a sad, sad loss!' said
Lamb, musingly ; ‘if ho could have
been picked up, what an ornanunl to
society he might have become !’
San Francisco, May 11.—“The
Democratic State Convention, now in
session in this city, passed resolutions
declaring the war is conducted for
abolition purposes, and to revolution
ize the government; urging the Na
tional Democratic Convention to pledge
the party to tho restoration of poaco
upon just and honorable terms.
Au effort was made to condemn the
war tor any other purposes, but failed
for reasons of policy only. Ex-Gov
ernor , Bigler, Waller, and Dowuer
have been elected delegates to tho
Chicago Convention.”
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