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I CAUSES OI'
IN THE
The Mvnt^nisT Pcu.|n ixo'’llor#B.;£ We
hoc that tiir Louisville pa£Uro »te cni^raliila-
ting the citizen* of that place op-tho prospects
of having the Metlidist Pullshiug House
transferred from Nlfihvillo to Louisville.
Dull Day.—MondayTs 3eicrTT7ed ns a
poojJ? Star - 0nl ^
three uim-idm • ’itution were
ofibirHr “Si’fffl! MRfcA'flHcnfiT
^ hnt^l|p&0i(l n#t got offer
thito.
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ry"Well?*Tfms r«f5?«^o^Ynte
a letter in<l«tsingthc >l^ptil)1iprtp AnVfldaW
for. Governor o'f Connecticut; and it ■ is sakl
thaStho Administration will lend lb power
ful aiii to |hol election of the Democratic nom
inee, cx-Cohgrcssnian English.
IRIUTATION
SOUTH.
The papers inform ns tliat .Mr. McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury, has addressed
circular to a number of leading Kt-publioana
in Congress, urging them to immediate recon
ciliation with the Sduih. The safety of the
finances, ho thinks, depends, in a great meas
ure, npon an' enrty~adjnstincnt of all difler-
rences.
If such Iks the desire of tlio Secretary, it
may not be amiss to offer a few suggestions as
to what has been the chief difficulty in the way,
of harmony and good feeling toward the Gov
m iMfaimrtiwim t ■BWBTT«Bpi«n wincing a
t-if A man named King, under arrest at
Louisville Ky., for theft, has made the strange
confession tint lie, and not Payne, was the
person who attempted the life of Secretary
Seward. Gen. .Tell C. Davis, who temporari
ly. commands in that Department, lias taken
measures to have tlio matter investigated.
Cnoi.r.nA in Key West.—The Chicago
Journal is informed through a private letter
from an army officer,- dated New Orleans,
March 13, that tho cholera has broken out at
Key West Assistant Surgeon Taylor and 10
men were down with it A strict quarantine
is established below New Orleans, and vessels
from Havana and and Key West arc subjec
ted to 21 days quarantine.
pgr Mr. Clement C. Clay, confined at For
tress Monroe, has been given the parole of tlic.
fort By this arrangement lie is allowed at
all hours of tho day, from reveille to sunset,
free range within the limits of tho fort and
unattended by any guard. At night, however,
ho is compelled to remain in tho room in Car-
roll Hall he has recently been occupying, and
under tho continued surveillance of the vigi
lant and sleepless prison patrol.
Gen. Burnside for tiie Ptesident.—The
Boston Post says General Burnside, who was
recently nominated for Governor by the Re
publicans of Rhode Island, sustains the Presi
dent's policy, approves the veto message and
the spcecg, and openly denounces the Disun'
ionists in Congress who war upon the. Presi
dent and oppose Restoration. If elected, it
would place Rhode Island*in the line for An
drew Johnson and tho Union.
If this be tho fact—and the Post makes and
reiterates tho statement—why should the
Democracy of Rhode Island run a candidate ?
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.—The
old friends of this sterling journal will rejoice
to learn that it has passed into new hands.—
In the issuo of Saturday wc have the salutato
ry of Henry Moore and Gcu. A. R Wriglit,
who have become the purchasers and by
whom it will be conducted in future. S. A.
Atkinson and Martin D. Calvin arp the news
and local editors. We congratulate the citi
zens of Augusta on the acquisition of such
inen in one of their leading journals, and we
extend to our new brethren a cordial wel
come to the fraternity. The Chronicle &
Sentinel, in their hands, cannot full to prove
an acceptable newspaper.
The Frkedmen’b Bureau in Virginia.
—Tho Lynchburg Daily News publishes an
importunt order, emanating from the head
of tho Frcedmcn’s Bureau in that State, with
reference to the trial of negroes by the Civil
Courts. The order, in effect, abolishes the
Freedmcn's Court, and hereafter all cases in
volving crimes and punishments not already
in progress of prosecution against negroes
arc to be tried and acted upon by the Civil
Courts of the State.
Why is ittliht such on order bt» not also
been promulgated in Georgia! If there is one
State in the South whose legislation should
secure her jurisdiction over all her citizens,
it is Georgia. Perhaps, though, we shall
have the announcement here in the course of
a fow days. It is needed bad enough.
More Trouble Brewing on tub Rio
Grande.—Tho St. Louis Republican of Tues
day is informed that the order detailing Gen.
Sheridan as a member of the Special Army
Board to meet in St. Louis, reached him in
Now Orleans just as he was preparing to go
on more important service to the Rio Grande
frontier. The troops there arc said to Iks in a
disorderly condition, and feats were entertain
ed in consequence that new complications
might arise between our Government and the
French or Mexicans on tho other side of the
river. Ho deemed it necessary, therefore, to
go thither and regulate affairs in tliat depart
ment so as to maintain order. The Secretary
of War, therefore, did not repeat the order for
Gen. tihermpn’s presence in St. Louis, and the
tho Board will doubtless proceed to business
without him.
Another General for Martyrdom.—
Tho N. Y. World says: Forney has an
nounced General Grant as the Black Repub
lican candidate for the presidency. If that
were al), the matter might be mended; but
it appears that the Lieutenant General has
sanctioned this, to him, unfortunate, partisan
manoeuvre. The Washington Chroniclo
quotes editorially from the Galena (Illinois)
Gazette, an article that leaves no doubt ns to
General Grant's unhappy aspirations. The
Galena Gazette, published at the home of the
general, undoubtedly, ns the Chronicle sug
gests, speaks by authority if not by inspira
tion from the subject of its comments, and,
iu allusion to the presidential contest, it says:
“Thera can be no donbt that he (General
Grant).will at the proper time, respond to
the unanimous voice of his loyul countrymen,
and permit them to rally under his banner,
which will prove no less victorious in peace
than it was in the storm cloud of war."
Gen. Grant would be very falsdto his tame
to allow himself to be put in any such posi
tion. If cl9Cted he would loso what reputa
tion he has; whilst to secure his defeat, the
opposition would only have to seduce him
into making a speech
Mrs. S. Pctigru King’s Readings.
The Washington Qtv Constitutional Union
states thatthisaccompiisbed lady, the daugh
ter of the late James L. Pctigru, ot Charles
ton, S. C., is giving a course of “readings’', in
that city, one of which tho Editor attended.
Dr. Hall, he says, in his usual happy manner,
introduced Sirs. King to the audience, and
eloquently described the noble devotion of
her father, James L. Pctigru, to bis country.
Byron’s “Prisoner of Chillon,” one of the im
mortal poet's boat' productions,- was given
with fine and thrilling effect, producing from
tii:* audience ft long and enthusiastic burst of
applause. Tno next production was selected
from Tom Moores cvcr-mcmorablc letters of
the “Fudge Family in Paris,” in which Mrs.
King fairly convulsed the audience with
laughter, so just was her conception of the
state of sentiment which these • Republican
metnbefB oft Congress may possildy urge in
reply to his circular as a reason why the
Southern States should not bo admitted into
full fellowship. There is no doubt of the ex
istence of the sentiment referred to, to some
extent at least, and wo would here state our
belief that it originates, in great part, from
certain wrongs and irregularities ii the prac
tical administration of his own Department
in tho South, which, however, we feel assur
ed, do not meet his approval. The remedy,
though, is in his hands, and he cannot apply
it too soon.
Some lutve thought that the existence of
the Frcedmen’s Bureau was the great irrita
ting cause. It is true our people regard it as
both unconstitutional and foreign to tho
spirit of our government, and they known
that in its administration they are subjected
to great annoyance, vexation, and loss in
localities where officers of discriminating
minds and fair judgments happen not
to be in charge of the same; yet, inasmuch
as there is a law of the United States
authorizing such on institution, our people,
iu the main, endeavor to work according to
its orders und bear it with patience. Others
have thought that the presence of negro gar
risons was the great cause of trouble. Wc
yield the point that such troops arc an eye
sore and a humiliation to our people, and the
want of proper discipline among them, (a
thing perhaps impossible), and the sentiments
of hostility that have been instilled intotbeir
minds toward ti!c whites, have occasioned no
little lueart-burning, and wo may add blood
boiling; lint even this ourpcopleharc endur
ed without a murmur, resting in the belief
that it is the intention of the.Prcsidenf to re
move the “rock of offense" at the earliest day
practicable.
Wc know our people have yielded in good
faith to the requirements of the Government
—that it is their desire to live in peace and
quiet tho rest of their lives—to be obedient
to the laws and Constitution of our country
—to devote themselves to useful employments
and thereby build up their broken fortunes if
possible, endeavoring to forget the unfortun
ate and heart-rending scenes of the lost five
years.
A > ERG HO CON VUN TION lit Al’GU s '
TA—ABOLITION gCIIEME TO REV
OLUTIONIZE THE STATE.
It has come to light that an organization
exists in this State, with its headquarters
Augusta, that goes under the name of “The
Equal Rights Association.” It is ostensibly
composed of the Negroes of Georgia, but re
cent events go_to show that it is, simply, as
characterized by a contemporary, “a branch
business of Sjtqven^ SUqUItT& (fy-T- Thu qy.
gr *cs are iu the foreground and make all the
moves, but certain wicke.1 Northern men,
representatives of the Radicalfy*tiyd,tarcl£'-
hind the scenes, fix up the documents arlft
pull the wires.*' T
The I&ttWffljrWftW'K-fth
the accompanying editorial - notice, which we
copy from the “Loyal Georgian," reveals the
programme:
Office President Ga. _E.Jff._A, |
Augusta, Ga., March 8th, 1866.
The Council of the Georgia Equal Rights
Association are requested to meet at the of
fice of the “Loyal Georgian,” ra this city on
Wednesday, the 4th April next, at 10 o clock,
A. M., to attend to business of great impor
tance. Those counties which were not repre
sented in the late Convention held in this
city Ore invited to send a friend of equal
ri'dits to represent the county in the Council
*By order of the President:
R: T. Kent, Secretary of the Council.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
Attitude of the Canadians towards the Fenian
Movement—They desire an Independent
Kingdom ; not Annexation to the United
States—The Financial Measures before Con.
gross—Policy of the Secretary of the Treas
ury-—Plot of the Radicals to Defeat it.
Washington, March 20,18GC.
The Fenian's have “simmered -down" since
St. Patrick's Some of them are begin
ning to smell a rat. Some of the Irish ser
vant girls here, who contributed liberally to
tbSfiiifif-Jajbi hesitate' nkref fc denounce
tliw whole thtij/as a swindle ana a
[From the Loyal Georgian, March 17th]
delegate to congress.
There are, as wc have before stated, 500,000
colored persons in this State. Most ot these
have been slaves. They are not only free,
they are citizens; but citizens depriv ed ot
rights granted to other citizens.. They pay
taxes to support the Govern meet and yet they
are allowed no ymcc in choosing the officers
who govern them. This is tyranny; and the
question arises, how shall their condition be
improved? It is the boast of our statesmen
that this is a free Government; thnt the peo
ple rule; that government derives its just
rowers from tlio consent of the governed.—
Nevertheless, it is proposed to. deprive nearly
one-lialf of the citizens of this State of aU
participation in the affairs of a Government
that obliges them to pay taxes for its support.
One-half of the citizens claim the right ot be
ing represented, but deny that right to the
other half. While colored men must feel that
it is wrong to oblige them to pay taxes to sup
port a Government, that denies to them rep
resentation, the practical question arises, what
ctinlt they do ? Shall they remain unrepre
sented, or shall they act themselves and send
a delegate to Congress ?
No sane man will advocate resort to arms.
Every true friend of our colored citizens will
advise them to appeal to the understanding
and better judgment of those in authority.
The President of the United States has
lately shown that he is not ns friendly to
colored men, as we had reason, a. few months
ago, to suppose he was. It.he is honest he
has reasons satisfactoiy to himself for chang
ing hi* policy, and he will change in favor of
the freedmen, if ho is convinced thnt he is
now unjust to them. It is best to try the ex
periment : to send colored men from every
Southern State so as to inform the President
fully in regard to the condition of the colored
people. Many of the Southern States
are now represented in Washington.—
Shall Georgia he represented r Friend* of
In fact, if the Government is administered r ; g hu, U it for you to say. The Geor-
upon the principle of equal justice to all sec- gia Equal Rights Association proposes to send
tions, regardless of the past, affording pro- a Delegate to Congress, as soon as sufficient
tcction to all in their rights of person and mo « e y i3 * rai3e< ? *? do tl,is -
6 1 1 sociations are being formed in the btate. we
property, our people would again love the
Government as they were wont to do iu the
olden time. Looking to the importance of
the finances of the country being kept in
good condition, and the necessity of heavy
taxes in the future, all have desired to see the
property belonging to the Confederate States,
according to the terms of surrender, go into
the hands of the agents of the Treasury.
For nearly a year these Agents have been
employed in this work—much has been col
lected, and, unfortunately, much that did not
belong to the Confederate States taken out of
the country. Wcliave abundant reason to
believe, from evidence collected by the Treas
ury Department, as well as by facts known to
our own people, that the Treasury has not had
much in ifs vaults as it shou 1 1 have had,
and that many individuals Lave become very
rich who were engaged in this work.
We can only express a hope that all of those
guilty of this fraud and theft may be exposed
and made to disgorge tlicir ill-gotten gains.
We are satisfied that all of the property really
belonging to tho United States by the terms
of the surrender lias either been already seiz
ed upon or been spirited away. Why, then,
keep Treasury Agents in this country? As
long as a premium is offered to informers; there
will be found in our midst wretches mean
enough to point out any body’s property as
Government property and tbc agent will sicze
though, doubtless, in many cases, not believing
themselves tliat the case is clear. Yet this costs
the owner of the property a great deal of vexa
tion and what little money he may have in or
der to assert liis rights and regain liis property.
In many cases, however, the rightful owner
loses it altogether, and stands without remedy ?
for he is robbed by men of straw. Wc hope
to sec all such despicable, mean wretches, when
known or even strongly suspected, frowned
upon by all decent people.
However honest and correct the .Treasury
agents may be, there lias been so much wrong
perpetrated by their predecessors that people
will naturally suspect all and in this wise a
good man may hove injustice done him. As long
as men claiming to be clothed with authority
of the Government continue to interfere with
people’s rights of property, so long will our
citizens entertain unkind feelings toward tho
Government, notwithstanding they have the
greatest confidence in the President, and, in
our judgment, love and admire him as their
friend. '. i -
Let Secretary McCulloch then withdraw his
agents, and let the people feel that their prop
erty is secure, that they can bring it to mar
ket without risk, sell it, put their money into
circulation, that trade shall go in its usual
channels, our merchants who owe debts North
prosper and make money sufficient to pay off
those debts, and wc will guarantee that all
other incouvencienccs incident to our unfor
tunate circumstances will bo borno in a proper
spirit The Government has only to afford
the protection due to tho citizen, and recip
rocate our good intentions; do this—and we
know the Chief Executive desires nothing
else—and no ono will have cause to complain
of\lic Southern people. .
urge our friends to labor with zeal, for we as
sure you that the enemies ot equal rights are
not idle, and unless you work now, when you
have the opportunity, you may in a few
months learn that further effort, on your part,
will be useless. Friends in every county in
Georgia, we appeal to you to assist in this
important work. It is for you to say whether
you will be represented in Congress. If you
do not understand how to organize your As
sociations, you can receive all needed infor
mation from tho President of the Georgia
Equal Rights Association.
No one who reads these documents will
question their source. Wc can not give them
to the public without raising a warning voice
to our colored populatipn against the mad
schemes of men who would lead them into
trouble. The project now on hand will re
quire much of their time and money, and yet
it is utterly hopeless. It is got up by men
who have no regard for law or order, and
would carry out tlieir wicked purposes of in
jury and insult to the Southern people, using
the colored population as their tools, even
though they knew it would result in their ruin.
They are wolves in sheep’s clothing,and soon
er or later the fact will appear, though it may
be after infinite harm has been done. Now is
the time to reject these mad counsels.
»e liberation of Ireland, or the conquest
of Ca«aidh,*fhe leaders are living luxuriantly in
New York, ft is no secret here, amoqg those
yrho are well informed on the subject, that
the people of Canada, almost unanimously,
are not only opposed to the Fenians and their
designs, but opposed to annexation to a union
with the United States, on any terms. What
they desire is a peaceable separation from Eng
land, and the formation of an independent
kingdom among themselves, with Prince Al
fred, second son of Queen Victoria, for their
King. Tho movement has been kept very
quiet, but I am satisfied from wliat I have
learned from prominent Canadian gentlemen,
that the design has taken a drop hold of the
breasts of the people of Canada* I am assur
ed that it has the sanction cjffc&bn Victoria.
Let us see now, ifthcFenii*FT»OTLrs will leave
tlieir luxurious quarters in New York, long
enough to frustate it. i)
Public attention, both iii and out of Con
gress, is now concentrated, with deep anxie
ty, upon the financial measures now before
Congress. The recent action of the House up
on the Loan bill, by which it was defeated,
and the impudent, starling, and groundless
attack which a subordinate in the Treasury
Department has bcenallowcd to make upon
the Secretary of the Treasufy, are parts of th
same programme. They arc the results of a
plot agreed upon by the Radical leaders in
Congress, to stop tlio decline in the price of
gold, to prevent the fall of prices, to cause
the price of gold to go up again,
cause the prices of all the necessaries of life
to advance, to keep np high rents and high
prices, and to keep the county Hooded with
additional, frequent, and Targe issues of paper
money.
For months past, Mr. McCulloch has
brought all his vast financial experience, and
has bent all the energies of his mind, to the
task ot devisisg and carrying out a certain
financial policy which should result in a
gradual withdrawal of the paper money now
in circulation, in other words a gradual but
steady contraction of tbc currency, in order
to prepare the way for a return to specie pay
ments. This object Mr. McCullock proposed
to effect by the Loan bill, which was defeated
on Friday by the peculiar tactics of Mr.
Thaddcus Sterens, but which has been recon
sidered, and ii again before the House. By
this bill; Mr. XcCulloch proposes no violent
or sudden measures; nothing which can
cause a panic, on the contrary the effect of
the Loan bill vould be to prevent a panic, or
even a sudden fall in prices. His policy, on
the other hand, provides tor a gradual and
sate retirement of a portion of the vast
volume of currency now in circulation, so
that the banks would be compelled to pre
pare themselves for a return to specie pay
ments within i reasonable time. The ulti
mate effect of this policy, of course, would
be beneficial to the people.
The volume of the currency being reduced,
the value of the paper money remaining in
circulation would be more and more assimi
lated to the value of gold; the paper dollar
would have a much greater purchasing power
than at present; prices of all commodities of
use and necessity would Jail, qpt suddenly
and at once, but gradually; rents would be
come lower; building would tevive; trade
and commerce would receive a rfcw impetus;
and the general prosperity 6f|he country
would be largely enhanced. Tnis does not
suit the radicals in Congress. Their policy
is opposed to all this. Their policy requires
the country to be kejit iu an unhealthy and
unnatural state, financially as well as politi
cally. They cannot bear that the country
shall return to the old order of things, either
in finance or politics.
They dread a restoration of the States.
They dread a restoration of specie payments.
They oppose with all their might, every
measure which leads to the first. • They op
pose with all their might, all measures tjiat
lead to the latter. 3Ir. Tliaddeus Stevens set
himself to work therefore, and defeated the
Loan bill by a resort to parliamentary meas
ures peculiar to himself He did not disdain
however, to call to liis aid the sen-ices of a
jackal 1 in the person of Mr. Freeman Clarke.
This individual, who holds a subordinate po
sition under Mr. McCulloch, in making this
attack upon the Secretary of the Treasury,
places himself in precisely the same position
tliat a raw junior clerk would occupy, who
should come out in a newspaper article, at
tacking the honesty and impeaching the in
oiihn, grfciuglETo LS
, u MUrSi i ——■ ii
Paris and Continental Correspon
dence.
Paris, March 2d, 1SCG.
To the Editor of the Macon Tt legrajih :
Sir :—Tho past week has been n most eventful
one, both os regards matters in general and polit
ical events of the highest interest. I shall mere
ly say a few words en passant of the decree late
ly published in the Monitenr naming the
PRINCE IMPERIAL, PRESIDENT OF TIIE COM
MISSION FOR THE- “UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION,”
in conjunction with the Minister or State, Mr.
Rouher, as acting President Prince Napoleon
had refused to resume liis functions as Fresi
> . . ver i 0 . .... M| (pi
ing to dn this, Princa Napoleon packed up his
traps and went off to Italy.
The importance of this nominstion consists iu
tho fact that Messrs. Rouher and La Valletlchavo
gained a victory over Prince Napoleon, as well
as over a third person, whose restless' ambitiqn
desired most ardently their overthrow. There
is a class of people in the high official regions
who
UNCEASINGLY HUNT AFTER PLACES IN THE
MINISTRY.
M. do Persigny is one ot the most zealous
amongst the above named. Ever since his fa
mous speech in the Senate, of which I spoko to
you in my last letter, Mr. Persigny has dream’t
of nothing else than of re-entering the Ministry,
lie had a devoted partisan in Mr. Bartelle, the
Prefect of Police. Alas! for human ambition
Mr. Bartelle has been superceded in his post by
Mr. Pietri, and thus all the hopes of Mr. Persigny
have fallen to the ground. Mr. Bartelle has
been consoled by tho Emperoi' for his loss of
office, by his being named Senator, which put3
30,000 francs per annum into his pocket
But these incidents, however interesting in
themselves, are but of slight importance in com
parison with.
THE PARLIAMENTARY BATTLE,
which has been waged since Monday last in the 1
Corps Lrgislatif in consequence of the discussion
of the address to the Emperor. Tho opposition
having, a3 usual, occupied itself in presenting
numerous, and it must be added, very unaccept
able amendments to tho address, a select .mem
ber of that body proposed an amendment respect
fully requesting the Emperor to crown tho edi
fice by guaranteeing those liberties, which he
has obstinately refused,
This rupture greatly troubled the majority and
the government itself was dismayed. It was at this
state of matters, that the discussion of the address
was opened
BY A SPEECH OF MR. THIERS,
in which the illustrious orator sought to prove,
that the liberties which France claims, she has a
t ight to exact in virtue of the constitution ol ’98 and
demonstrated the advantages which would accrue
to the country by the possession of that liberty,
which wonld protect her from the danger in which
she might be placed by the errors committed by tho
sovereign.
This speech, though a very studied one, was
deprived of that charm which usually distinguishes
the discourses of Mr. .Thiers; it was devoid of that
brillancy and keen satire, by which the orator
wotrads without seeming to tonch the adversary.
Mr. Thiers was listened to with attention, but his
speech was not productive of any great impression.
The chamber nevertheless gave signs of an ap
proaching storm, which broke forth
IN ALL ITS FURY,
in consequence of a most violent speech made by
Mr. Glass Bizoin, in which he openly attacked the
government in the severest terms. The orator was
frequently interrupted by the majority of the Cham
ber and on being called to order by the President,
Mr. tValouski, the confusion redoubled. Matters
were brought to a climax by a remark of
the Minister of State, who exclaimed,
in reply to Mr. Glass Bizoin: “This is no
longer a discussion ; it ia trifling.” This expres
sion produced a violent storm; the opposition
rose en masse, “A l’ordie, la ministre,” exclaimed,
Gamier Pagez, “you insult the deputies,” cried
Mr. Pelletan. The majority demanded the ad
journment of the setting, which was voted, and
when to separate. Tules Farre exclaimed: “We
separate after having been insulted by the min-
isters/’towhichMr.Rouherlreplied: “We have to
make the government he respected and we will
do our duty.”
This scene in the Corps Legislatif caused a great
deal of excitement in Paris,and it was even report-
d that the entire opposition purposed resigning
their posts. Things have however cooled down,
in appearance at least.
For other days this parliamentary discussion
wonld have provoked a popular demonstration;
but a revolution is now, we may say, impossible
at Paris. Barricades have done their work. The
fiuhion now a days, is for pacific revolution, of
which we have just had an instance.
and will no longer put up with the overbearin
conduct ol the Prussian autocrat. The Danubian
Principalities’ question will for a moment divert
tho attention of the House of IIap3burg from the
unpleasant correspondence, now taking place be
tween \ ienna and Berlin, respecting Sclilcstvi
Holstein. Prussia would like to draw its big
sword and have a slap ot her rival, but sho is too
isolated and cannot reckon upon a friend in Ger
many.
No conflict will take place until a successor to
Prince'Couza has been found.
I will not speak to you of our English neigh
bors, for you know as much about them through
their papers as we do. The Fenian movement is
followed here with much interest—it seems to
can3C as much trouble to the English
Tilt idea of i> deicge.e ,o Coyeae fr» „,c ^J^.*****
negroes of Georgia, or any other Southern c i c rk was kicked into the street?
State, is a wicked fraud and humbug. f It wilj | This attack upon Mr. McCulloch however,
has served tho purpose for which it was in
stigated. The lion of the radicals takes the
dish of scandal, provided for him; displays
I it before the House; turns it over with
no better than a highway robbery to the same the sharp fork ot his sarcasm, and thus gains
never be realized, and the money taken from
their pockets and time taken from their honest
labor in the prosecution of such a design, is
amount Wc hnve tried to be the friend of the
negro in his new and perilous condition,where
so many are ready to impose on his credulity
and seduce him to his ruin. He may regard
when he will sec their wisdom and appreciate
our motive.
A Lusus Natubve.—An exchange says: In
791, a child was bom at Lubcck, named
Henry Hcinneckcn, whose precocity was mi
raculous. At ten months of age, * lie spoke
distinctly, at twelve learnt the Pentateuch by
rote, and at fourteen months was perfectly
acquainted with the Old and New Testaments.
At two years he was familiar with ancient his
tory as the most erudite authors of antiquity.
Sauson and Danville only could compete
with him in geographical knowledge. In
the ancient and modem languages he was
a proficient. This wonderful child was un
fortunately carried off in his fourth year.
post’s humor, -i. King has fairly estab-) ^-*7“Coiton growing this year was unusually
liahod hern il as being one of the best renders j lucrative in Southern Illinois. Jefferson eoun-
now before the puluic, and her graceful and ty produced one half million pounds, (which
ji'i a-ii.g m ’ .-ireth' r witli her pt-r^onul at AVe.-.i re. priei s i.- 45 cents per pound i i<
chsnn*, won for her tbe cstceos and admira- {worth $S$5,000, while some of the counties
tion of all prcsei
below raised four times that amount.
“A Triumph Over the President and his
Policy.”
The Manchester (N. H.) Union, in referring
to a Republican meeting at that city on tlio
night of the election, states facts that bear
out all tliat we predicated on the result. Wc
quote:
Some Republicans still give the President
an intelligent theoretical support, and others,
who will go with hin) in tiie end, were not
quite sure yesterday, whether a vote for Smyth
was not, after all, about as good a Jolinson-
Union vote os one for Sinclair. In vain it was
shown that the President and the Governor
were not loggerheads upon every point at
issue; the phenomenon such a fact implied
was so rare in politics, tliat tho people failed
to appreciate it as an undeniaple reality.—
This, perhaps, is not strange when we con
sider the means employed to foster the delu
sion.
But, as we often said before the election, so
wo now repeat this cheat cannot he perpetu
ated. Already the thin disguise is falling,
and last night, at the Radical jubilee in the
Governor’s Hall, their long suppressed spite
toward President Johnson found energetic
expression. The result was claimed as a
triumph over him and his policy. General
Ilinks said it meant that the Southern States
should avail the pleasure of the Radicals, and
that the President should abide by their prin
ciples ; and another speaker, in tiie voluptu
ousness of his joy, declared that the great
“Union” party with Grant, and perhaps Sher
man, at i s head, could whip Andrew John-
sod, the Copperheads, and the devil. This
was the spirit of the meeting, and it is a fact
that nobody will deny, that the ranker the
abuse of Andrew Johnson, the more hearty
was the applause.
We waive further comment upon the elec
tion, its incidents and its lessons, for the pres
ent With a ycty considerable gain, achieved
by the spontaneous efforts of a limited num
ber, without a particle of outside aid, even
so much as the expression of the hope that
success was attainal He—perhaps we ought to be
satisfied. Very well; we know our election
will never occur under the same circumstances
again. The men who really want to sustain
the President will soon sec that there is but
one way to do it.
A late arrivql from the West Indies re
ports the cholera disappearing from Gauda-
loupe, and it lias not broken out in any of the
adjacent islands.
votes enougli to kill the bill. And ye£ this
attack of Clarke upon the Secretary of the
Treasury is not only unworthy of notice, but
it is beneath contempt. -The ‘only answer
that ought to be made to it, is the imtnedi-
rnent a3 tlio cftttld plague.
As regards Mexico, wc arestiR looking forward
with impatience to see the answer of the Wash
ington Cabinet to the lost French despatches.—.
Wo bear that tho Emperor’s speech has made a
favorable effect in Amerioa.
.. 1 - •• Al > CQNCBBIS ! CPKPXBTS !
Wo arc now enjoying calm and rational amuse
ments, and music, sweet music, charms our ears,
for we have a perfect avalanche of concerts—the
theatres are resting on their oars, ana we can
quote nothing new, to use a commercial phrase.
OCT DOOR AMUSEMENTS.
Though we are still in the midst of winter, as
it is now colder than in the month of December,
the people of fashion are thinking of the races,
and the first of the season took place some days
back at La Marche,, but it was a sorry affair, as it
rained cuts and dogs all day long.
eel tile hi
°fCot
sy of scecsMdn. At a tii c .
they lmd a majority in both branclu s
gress favorable to tlieir policy, and
preme Court >o constituted as to “ivean If '
uial guarantee again-: any cncroaclimenraSl
their constitutional rights, they stirrer.l". ' _
all these ramparts of defense, and maffivno? I
ed into the *orfex of disunion and chil H
If it had been thefr pnipose to deS^ ■
adopt; lme of ] licy mtendedjto defeat.2
the ends they professed to Bare in view
to establish and ccnsojidatp tho now, r < ’ n<1
Republican party, they’ could hot' have
one better adapted to this end. They present
d - themselves before the world
agitators, who ooukbnBVput their ■
^single grfc j^c»a-lfielilhe^ Elgl suttO®
[From the National Intelligencer.]
Political Vecessity for the Organization
of the Constitutional Union Party.
In all popular governments, parties arc a
political necessity. Without party organiza
tion there can be no unity of action among
those who have common purposes. The
principle on which all parties are formed is,
that men who think alike are apt to act alike.
When the community of thought and pur
pose ceases to exist, the party which had
come together on the basis of that, common
sentiment ought to disband, and generally
does disband; because the only legitimate
bond of union has been destroyed.
The history of our country affords many
illustrations of the truth of this proposition.
In England, parties are divided with refer
ence to popular privilege and executive pre
rogative, and have assumed, respectively, the
names ot Whig and Tory. The Whig party
is the champion of the rights of the people,
and the Tory is the staunch defender of the
prerogative of the Crown.
At the commencement of our revolutionary
difficulties with the mother country, the party
which favored the rights of the Colonies, in op
position to power claimed by the British sover
eign, by analogy to the division ot parties in
England, assumed, and, to the close of the
struggle, retained the name of Whig.
After our independence wijls acknowledged
tills party ceased to exist, with the cause which
had called it into being.
Between 1783 and 1789 new parties, repre
senting new ideas, sprung into existence. Tbe
question which then divided the country was
whether the colonies should continue their
separate existence as independent sovereign
ties or tftrm a more intimate union. The ad
vocates of a close union assumed the name of
“Federal,” or Union party, whilst those op
posed to their favorite idea took the name of
Anti-Federalists.” The contest between these
parties was earnest and animated.. It ended
in the adoption of the Federal Constitution,
and shortly afterwards the Anti-Federal ceased
to exist.
After the inauguration of Washington, and
especially during his second term, parties
sprung up representing the different ideas
which were entertained'of the true construc
tion of the Constitution, and of the relative
powers of the Federal and State Governments.
The Federal party claimed a more liberal
construction of the Constitution and larger
powers for the Federal Government than the
rival party, which adopted the name of “Re
publican,” was willing to concede. During
tbe latter years of Washington’s second term
and the administration of the elder Adams
the contest between these parties raged with
great fierceness and violence. The alien and
sedition laws gave color to the idea that the
Federal Government was about to uproot all
the powers which had been reserved to the
States and the people, and to establish a grand
central power which would override the rights
of the States and the liberties of the people.
On these issues parties went before the
country, and the result was the election of
Jefferson, tbc Republican candidate, by a tri
umphant majority. The effect of this elec
tion was to establish on a firm basis the as
cendency of the Republican party, and the
Federal party, having lost its cohesive princi
ple, dissolved and disappeared.
The Republican party held unlimited sway
during the administrations of Jefferson, Mad-
at the hands of the Federal Governm™*. - ,
wen jmwtLHamm. 1 ■ 1 » m
Lawrence all that hnior
■ , „ _ . feeling which 5 ^ m
deeply imbedded in the hearts or the Atacri I
can people. The terrible' conflict of armsI
sued, which, in the fourth year of its continn. I
ance, ended in the overthrow of lha tnilitan- I
power of the South. _ ^ I
The close of the war found the Republican I
party in full possession of power in all th* I
departments of the Government and Oiffijaa, I
representing the angry passions which"lud I
been excited during the conflict. Unmindful I
of the lessons of history, and the teachings of I
Christian charity and common sense, that I
body seems madly bent on mischief: Kot 9
only is every constitutional power invoked to I
minister to their rage against the Southern I
people but finding the prohibitions and limj. I
tations of that instrument obstacles in the
path of vengeance, they are seeking by more
than threescore “amendments to undermine
and overthrow the great-charter of American
liberty.
Fortunately, that Providence which seems
to have guarded and guided the destiny of
our countiy has raised up for the nation a
protector in the person of Andrew Johnson
who unites the calmness and law-abiding
spirit of Madison to the firmness and iron H
will of Jackson. 11
This is now the hope of the country. He
stands like a rock beating back the raging
and Burging waves of fanaticism. He is our
city of refuge—our shield of defense.
The great issue now before the country is,
Shall he be sustained or not?
During the night of the 23d of February, a revo-
ison, and Monroe—a period of twenty-four
our Counsels or not now; but the day will come; jate and ignominious dismissal of tho man
Clarke.
The fate of the Loan bill, even now, u
doubtful. It lias arrayed against it, not only
the power of the radical leaders, but also the
power that the gold gamblers can wield, and
all the influence that can be exerted by mer
chants who have on hand large stocks of
goods for which they have paid exorbitant
prices, and manufacturers who have engaged
in combinations by tho operations of which
they have tripled their profits and dppressed
the people for many months past. The Na
tional Banks, too, with their vast capital, are
all arrayed against Mr. McCulloch's policy.
The.latterj however, meets with the heartyap-
proyal of the President and of every true pa
triot; and it is sincerely to be hoped that* it
will be carried out, by the passage of the loan
bill.
Warwick.
Patrick Henry.—This eminent Virginian
left in his will the following important pas
sage:
‘I have now disposed of all my property
to my family; there is one thing more I wish
I could leave them, and that is the Christian
Religion. If they had that and I had not
given them one shilling, they would be rich;
and if they had not that, and I had given
them all the world, they would be poor.
£±T" Maximillian has issued a decree
granting bounties to all vessels sailing under
the Mexican flagl—eight dollars per ton to
those built in Mexico, four dollars per ton to
those nationalized by Mexican law, ranking
voyages beyond America, and two dollirs per
ton to those making voyages to the United
States, West Indies, South Amcrici and
Central America.
Louis Napoleon, after dinner one
day, proposed the health of tho new Presi
dent of the Imperial Commission for the great
exhibition of 1887, and asked the Prince Im
perial to reply. The child said ho haj been
taken by surprise, and bail not been prepar
ed for his father's toust. The Emperor said
he must at least return thanks. “Well,” said
the Prince, “all that I have got to say b that
I regret being too young to be ol any sirvicc
Fri-iic'i imlr.-iry."
lotion broke out at Bucharest; all parties were of
accord; the army, the magistracy and tho people.
Matters were announced by Prince Couza, whsse
coup d'etat and impolitic system of government
have rendered him odious to the people; being
made prisoner and requested to sign his abdica
tion. The Prince did not require to be forced. He
not only signed bis abdication, but has written a
letter stating that whoever did not submit to tbe
new regime would be a traitor to bis country. It
has been rumored that Prince Couza has been paid
to write this letter, in order to smooth matters
for his successor, and that Russia is not a stranger
to these acts. MRHVVltVHHHVl
Thu Romans have lost no time in oHerring the
vacant crown to the Count* de Flandre, second son
of the lato King of tho Belgians, who has, howev
er, absolutely refused to accept tbc same; and thus
matters remain for tbe present.
When one reflects on the difficulties tliat dipld
macy met with, when endeavoring to find a succes
sor to King Otho, on the throne of Greece, he is
inclined that this time they will have to give tbe
matter up in despair for want of candidates.
Though Bucharest occupies the general attention
at present, Italy exerts a certain interest by the
difficulties, in. which she finds herself on account
of the state of her finances. Largo subscriptions
have Already been commenced in order to cover the
deficit. The city of Turin has set the example by
subscribing a hundred millions. If this example
be followed, Italy, far from having to be pitied,
will excite universal admiration.
MAZZUII ELECTED IN MESSINA.
Tho election of the arch republican will place
Victor Emmanuel in a somewhat awkward posi
tion, and the question is what will be done by
the Italian government, as regards tbe newly
elected member for Messina, who is under sen
tence of death, for having taken part in several
odious conspiracies. The choice of Mazzini shows
the exalted state of public opinion in tbe south
ern part of the kingdom of Italy.
I know that these agitations very often come to
nothing, but there is a great difference between
the ardent Italian populations and the beer
drinking populations which put up with every
thing without a murmur. You know all the hu
miliations that the inhabitants of Prussia have
now to undergo at tho hands of the tyrant Bis-
mark. '
TURN OUT or THE PRUSSIAN DEPUTIES BT ORDER
OP TIIE KING. •• •
The despotic premier, seeing that there was no
chanco of getting tho members of the opposition
to listen to what ho calls reason, thought the
best way to cut the matter short was to send them
all to tho right—about which ho accordingly did
and a few days ago he informed the deputies in
a very cool manner that as they persisted in
thwarting the king in every manner possible, his
majesty would for the future do without them>
and that they might go to their homes. Parlia
ment has been closed and tho different members
of the Prussian chambers have returned to their
I constituents, in t)
years.
During the second term of Mr. Monroe, or
ganizations (I will not call them parties, be
cause they were associated not with reference
to great political principles, but merely to ad
vance the interests of favorite candidates),
were formed to sustain the respective fortunes
of Wm. H. Crawford, Andrew Johnson, John
Q. Adams, and Henry Clay for the Presidency.
All these gentlemen belonged to the Re
publican party, and the difference between
them on fundamental questions was not re
garded as material. „Tiiey represented differ
ent shades of the same general ideas.
The contest resulted in the election of Mr.
Adams by tbc House of Representatives—no
candidate having received a majority in the
electoral colleges.
The administration of Mr. Adams, though
it tvas as pure and unexceptionable as any of
its predecessors, was assailed with extraordi
nary bitterness by the masses of the friends of
his defeated rivals, who assumed the captiva
ting name of “Democratic party,” and putting
forward Andrew Jackson as their candidate,
succeeded in electing him by an overwhelm
ing majority in 1828.
General Jackson came into power in 1829,
and being a man of iron will, as well as of
vigorous mind, bore down all opposition, and
administered the Government with a strong
hand and imperial will. Although professing
to belong to the old Republican school of
politicians, he gathered around him Living
ston, McLane, Taney, Dickinson, and other
shining lights of the old Federal party, and
seemed to have a^ppted their counsels as the
rule of his action.
The old Republicans and State-rights men
were aghast at the boldness and extent of liis
assumptions of power. They feared that the
Government was fast tending to a consolida
ted despotism which would engulf alike tlic
rights of the States and the liberty of the peo-
Pfc- . ' A
Whije the pub W mind was agitated by
these apprehensions, the clarion voice of
Henry Clay rang out from the Senate of
United States an appeal to tho people to rally
under the name of “Whigs” for the restora
tion of the equilibrunt of the Constitution,
which had been disturbed by the weight of
Jackson's popularity.
The response to this appeal was prompt and
energetic, and, in 1840, Harrison was, almost
by acclamation, elected President.
It would answer no uselui purpose to trace
the mutations of parties from 1480 to 18C9.—
The questions which divided them were rather
ministerial than organic, and, as a consequence
of the want of definite lines of demarcation
between them, disintegration, and the shifting
of party relations by prominent individuals,
ensued. This was unmistakable evidence ol'
their gradual decay.
In 1854 the repeal of the Missouri compro
mise and tbe extreme ground taken by the
Demoratic party called into existence the
now “so-called” Republican party.
This issue involves two great questions:
1st. Shall the Union be restored ?
2d. Shall the Constitution be maintained!
The elections are to decide these questions
and it is time that all true patriots should be
gin to organize with reference to them.
All those who maintain the affirmative of
these propositions, ^without respect to old
party relations, or to opinions or collateral
matters, should unite to sustain the President
These are tbe vital issues of tbe day. We
should bury all old differences on questions
that belong to tbe dead past, and organize
and act with reference to tbe living present
To effect this union, we must adopt a name I
significant of the mission of the hew organi- B
zation. It must reflect the aims and purpo- P
8es of the party. These aims are the restore- 3
tion of the Union and the Constitution. I
What name, then, can be more appropriate I
than the “CONSTITUTIONAL’ UNION I
PARTY?”
It embodies the objects and this creed ot I
the party—and it would seem that it should I
commend itself to the judgment of all sober I
and discreet patriots.
I pray you, then, Messrs. Editors, from the I
Capital at Washington, to fling to the breeze I
the banner of the “Constitutional Union I
Party,” significant of its purpose by its name, |
emblazoned with the true but emphatic mot- "
toes of our patriot sires, “The Union, it must
and shall be preserved”—“The Constitution
and the Union, one and inseparable now and
forever”—“The Constitution, the Union, and
the enforcement of the laws.” These are the
cherished words of great and good men; and
who can doubt that if Andrew Jackson, Dan
iel Webster, and Henry Clay were now living,
they would be standing by the side- of An
drew Johnson, sustaining him in his patriotic
efforts to accomplish wliat they had so much
at heart.
Though the mortal men may not be among I
us to cheer us on in the path of duty, their ■
immortal spirits still inspire the heart and
nerve the arm of every true patriot to uphold
the Constitution and the Union !
Names are tilings; they have an efficacy and
a power that are not properly estimated.
If we expect success in a great national
struggle we must adopt no narrow partisan or
sectional platform. We must have one broad
enough and strong enough to embrace all who
agree on the living issues of the day.
You cannot rally men to fight the battle
now impending under the standards and or
ganizations of the past. They are effete—ob
solete. They have no relation to tbe pres
ent. i
It is folly to think that the friends of the
Constitution and tBe Union can be brought to
gether as Whigs olr Democrats, or by any oth
er obsolete party designation.
I regret to see that the Democrats of the
North seem disposed to adhere to tlieir old
jiarty name. If tlieir purpose be to court de
feat, as they did in 1800, they are acting wise
ly. But if they desire victory, they must de
serve it by a patriotic abandonment of old
partymames and prejudices.
Disguise it as wo may, all well informed
men know that democracy as a party name,
is distasteful to the people of tlic South from
its supposed agency in bringing about our
present troubles; and it is distrusted in the
North for its alleged sympathy with disunion
agitators.
We must deal with things as we find them.
Prejudices are facts which must be considered
in the business of life. Whether well or ill-
formed they will exert their influence, and
especially in political contests.
The living issues have nothing to do with
old party questions or party names. They
arc higher and broader than any that have
heretofore divided the countiy.' They affect
not only the administration, but the very ex
istence of the Government.
Wc must rise to the greatness of the occa
sion. Momentous events have broken up and
disbanded party organizations. We must
disband old party designations. We must
forget old party prejudices. We must sacri
fice all these on the altar of our common
country. We must come together as patriots.
Our bond of Union must be a common pur
pose to restore the Union and to vindicate the
Constitution from perversion and from inno
vation.
Let the appeal then go forth to the country
in behalf of the Constitution and the Union.
Tiie appeal will not lie in vain. The fnends
of Henry Clay and of Andrew Jackson, of
Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce, will
alike respond to it.
A policy of Andrew Johnson will give us *
solid ground to stand on in the outset, and
the restoration and preservation of the Union,
and the vindication and maintenance of the
Constitution in the spirit in which our fathers
formed it, will be an enduring bond of fra
ternity in the future. '
Away, then, with Wliiggery and Democracy,
and all the old trumpery of the past. L*
those who'valuc tbe Union and tlic Conststu-
tion as above all price, come together, and,
with united hearts and voices, declare o®
fixed and unalterable purpose to stand by the
“Constitution and the Union.”
YIRGINCS.
S5?”Thc President of one of the Icathn?
Boston banks has just had his salary raised to
$17,000 per year on account of valuable set-
vices.
Ex-President Buchanan is said to
spend most of his time telling stories abo>“
the grandeur of his administration. ProntH’i-’
says" the “old public functionary” is evidently
in'liis aneedotage.
I~£f Major Gen. Franklin has been appp )nI '
cd to the respectable and lucrative positio-
of superintendent of Colt's pistol factory.
A "Man and Brother.”—Is not the ne
gro a man and a brother ?—Neic York Inde
pendent.
He may be your brother or half-broth
er; he is no relation of ours.—Louisville
Journal.
. . . i In consequence of the dissolution of the
meantime protesting against i witiig party, consequent on its defeat in 1S32,
the unco Mutational measures taken by king ^ ft, e divisions of the Democratic party, in
Wilhelm, the First. Count Bismark and liisroyal ; i860 the “so-called Republican party was en-
mn.-ior will no doubt now govern the country in j ableil to achieve an easy victory in the fall of
their own manner; tho poor Prussians are there. ; 1860
Yore condemned to silcnco and to inactivity; they | Instead of submitting calmly to the conse-
will not even have a chance given them to attack quences of their own mismanagement and in-
the Austrians, who arc getting very impudent, ternal dissensions,thc Democratic party ado p
The Duchess of , once besutinu
and replete with wit, was congratulation
herself on her youthful looks, and pretend
ing that she was born at least twenty year:
later than she was, when her daughter, n>° ri '
beautiful than her mother, endeavoring 10
put a stop to her exaggerations by cry to
aloud: ‘>Oh, mamma, do leave at least u 11 ".
mon’hs between our ages.”