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**J1 AKING TREASON ODIOUS.” IfrklE TWENTY-SIXTH IN EATONTOX-
seems to be a favorite theory," as well j Mu. Editoh: Thursday, the 20tli instaox,
cal occupation, of a majority of the j was a day long to be remembered by the cit-
so-cnllecl Congress and a rity large portion I izens of Eatonton and Putnam county,
of the Northern press and people. “Make! The ladies of our town, in response to tl
treason odious !” is the cry, and they seem to j happy
think their mission on earth cannot be fulfill-1 Columbu
cd and their graves entered In peace until j dictates of tlicir own hearts, incited th
\ From the N- Y. Daily News.
| The Schleswig-Holstein .Huddle.
As we stated some time ago, in referring
to the interchange of notes between the Gov
ernment- of Prussia and Austria upon the
16 /subjects at issue between those powers, it is
1 . , . .a • • 1 . , 1 <»n1r Mticn r\ t /lie.
uggestion of their patriotic si-ters of b)] a in that the original and only cause ot dis-
us, Georgia, and in obedience to the ilputc is sedulously to be kept in the back-
coc,. j (ground, and that a pretext, foreign to the
quarrel, is to be made use ot by the party
v low as the true reason lor
Amendment of the Habeas Corpus.
The bill amendatory of the habeas corpus'
act, passed by the United States House and
Senate, provides that any search, seizure, ar- j
rest or imprisonment made, or other trespass- 1
es, or wrongs done or committed, or any act
done or omitted to be done, during said re
bellion, by any officer or person under and j
by virtue of any order, written or verbal,
general or special, issued by the President or j
-ecrctary of War, or by any military officer
' the work shall have been iully accomplished, munity to meet with them at the Cemetery in f (r ;v: n! i fv 8 g re t blow » ,uc ..... . .. ...
Well, how do these patriots propose to go this place, to witness the decoration with <j (111 , Iut .7ie ng hostilities. The military situa-! Virimref 11 rfi-trirt^r ^'i-mm^avitliin'
•»n» lS I ‘ oOK,Sa ^•“Tj’ey ' about it ? They have but one plan, a
G* 11 . criflln but instead of issuing . . . .. . ,. , ,
. .t" in Gnmn, . , „q. „ . “ is to punish, disfranchise and degrai
il^.. ,h« editors of the “Star express, * ... A..., ...
and that
degrade every
tb° editor ol t ** c '^. r . a !man in the Sonth who took an active part
P*..^itio_ns to it lor regutn i for the late Confederate Govemifient, either in
the council or the field. This sweeping ukase
would embrace ninety-nine hundredths of the
Southern people, and make nearly the entire
population of the South the powerless subjects,
for a whole generation, of their Northern
masters. Suppose the proscription be con
fined to the limits laid down by that gener
ous conclave, the New York delegation; wc
shall bave every prominent man in every
Southern community—the intelligence, the
respectability, the moral influence—cxclud-
—
Kf.w.—The citizens of Sumter
So“*® ca ii c d on to say by tbeir votes to-
fe** |ii e y assent to a sale of the
** u#rc around the Court-honse in
.■ ^ The argument for the sale is that
wil1 P fty th0 C0Unty out of debt *
. following are the gross receipts
? .filing of tho three leading daily pa-
1^' . \f- m nbi3 for the first quarter of tho
Test Oath.—The importance of this
^ n to the South, has induced us to pub-
reports pro and am of tlie House Ju-
• - Committee, the first of which will be
A on the first page. Mr. Rogers’ report,
1. 7 ihfof the minority, will appear to-mor-
I* * lt throws a flood of light on the sub-
|j^
GjuSD junv Charged to make Prk-
I wkest* or TnE Military.—The Charles-
I New* contains the charge of a South
Ilia. Judge to the Grand Jury, in which
instructs them that the military officers
Vain the jurisdiction of his court who have
* a interfering with the civil authorities in
L administration of the law must not be
| overlooked.
gr VTe sec it stated that William Crofts,
Uicftaitive slave who, it will he recollected,
-ru' d from his owner in Macon about 15
vjsissgolothc free States, and afterward*
I qmredextensively among the negro sympa-
thiieis in England, has established a large
school at Wbyhah, Africa, and that the King
of Dahomey has testified his appreciation of
bis north by sending him a present of six
Liberal.—Wc learn from the Augusta
J 'onstitntionalist that the National Express
^ Transportation Company, through its
fcperintendent, W. T. J. O. Woodward, has
io!unteered to transport, free of all cost, the
in hundred barrels of flour, meal and bacon
contributed by the Ladies’ Southern Relief
Society of Baltimore for the benefit of the
destitute poor of Georgia.
"CnATTASOooA American Union.”—This
j, one of the neatest dailies that comes to
our office, and we are pleased to say that Mr.
$. P. Ivins, who lias licen Ion^ and bonora-
Mr connected with the Tennessee press, has
when charge of its editorial columns and con
ducts the paper with much spirit and ability.
Should East Tennessee set up for itself, we
suggest to our brother of the Union the j>ro-
priety of annexing the Chattanooga corner to
Georgia. Would be glad to hear from him
on tlie subject.
gfThc Brownlow faction in East Tenn
essee seem determined to make that portion
of the State a desert waste. The Bristol news
of the 27th, speaking of the upsettled state
of society in that section, says:
-Wc learn from reliable parties near Jonca-
lioro’, that quite an unfortunate state of af
fairs exists In Washington county. A large
number of those who sympathized with the
South in the late war, are being whipped and
maltreated, and that a still larger number arc
receiving orders to leave the country, being
notified that if they do not comply they will
suffer the penalty of death.
gT The Methodist Episcopal Church
lor the past twenty years, says the St Louis
fiepuklican, owned and occupied a church
building tn Lagrange, Mo. Tlie Northern
branch of the society had none, but had been
kindly granted the use of the Southern so
ciety’s building. After borrowing the keys
for ionic time, while the town was in posses
sion of a company />t Radical militia, they
borrowed them once more, this time putting
them in their pious pockets, and keeping the
rightful owners out, through military intiini-
datioD. They have consequently had to re
sort to a lawsuit to regain possession. This
Bay not lie “pious perjury,” but it looks very
like stealing in the name of virtue.
A Handsome Paper.—We have before us
* specimen number of the “The Watchman,
• weekly journal of Literature, Politics, Re
gion and News,” which wait started a few
*edu ago *in the city of New York. Rev.
Charles P. Deas, a well known and distin
flashed divine of North Carolina, is the chief
tditorjand Rev. A L. Hamilton, business man
*?*r. The “Watchman” is a very handsome
•beet of eight pages, and its- columns evince
utility and good judgment. Though erai
nently religious, it has no sectarian taint, its
fl«nd object being to present the truth on all
lueitiona of public interest. In full syrnpa-
•bj with the South, we commend it to the
Southern people as an excellent family jour
nal.
Mr. Hamilton, who is traveling through
Georgia to further tho interests of the paper
ia now on a visit to our city, and we com
tocml both him and his work to the friendly
consideration of our people.
Our venerable contemporary of the
Journal and Messenger has the following in
relation to a circumstance on which wc com-
oented some days ago. We bad not previ-
°«*ly heard of the facts :
CoRmcTioN.—We see a telegraphic des
patch published in Atlanta, and copied into
other papers, that an attempt has been made
to assassinate the Senior Editor of this paper
by firing into his dwelling. The statement is
uot altogether correct—therefore we brie8y
flve the facts. At an eaily hour in the night,
aged lady residing in our family, went in-
t0 * front room, and passed a window with a
**°dle in her hand. A musket was fired i.t
the window, which missed her, pro! ably one
or riro feet, ahd went through toe next walk
We have no special renson to : appose that
Were intended ns the target, but it wan a
tcckleaa piece of devilishness on the part of
th® black soldiers that were to leave next
looming.
We bave had some information since and
•'gut on the matter, from a neighbor who saw
th*k'un tired. There were three or four
•ack soldiers, some seventy or eighty ynrds
“?m the house. When the light passed the
indow one of them fired at it. Another xc-
®*r«ed that it waa “a pretty good .-hot—
Jo. t again." These ar" all the facta in the
:***> ai 'd nothing more than wc had reason to
^pactfrom ‘the devil's own’ nmltheirownfs,
cd from all participation in the affairs of gov
ernment. Ignorance, vice, and pusilanimity
w'ould boid full sway, and what a delectable
country we should have under their reign!
But suppose the scheme should be car
ried out, what good effect can it have
upon the public welfare ? We suppose
those pseudo reformers at least pretend
to be influenced by sound policy and patri
otic considerations; if not they are mere
political charlatans and ruthless disturbers
of the public peace. Would it promote the
welfare, stability, peace and harmony of the
government to have several millions of the
most intelligent and influential citizens depriv
ed of all political liberty and governed by laws
which they took no part in making,and by an
official corps of which they can never form
a part ? Laying aside nil objections to the
introduction ot such a principle into a gov
ernment of tlie people—one founded alone iu
their consent-wliat would be the moral in
fluence of such treatment towards millions of
citizens ? Would it “make treason odious,”
or would it implant treason as a religious
sentiment in tlie heart of every victim of such
a tyranny ? Would the subjects of such pro
scription be the friends or tlie enemies of the
government ? Would people accustomed to
be free, love their enemies and lick the
hand that smote them, or would their bo
soms swell with eternal rage and hate toward
the authors of their degradation and ruin?—
Would they cluster around the constitution
and government of their fathers with filial
affection, or would they agonize under a
sense of wrong and pray God for tho day of
deliverance and tlie utter destruction of tbeir
persecutors? Let every man at the North
with a soul in his hotly answerthese questions
for himself.
What, then, is the policy, where tho patriot
ism of this system ot proscription that some
would pursue toward a brave and gallant peo
ple ? Who can point it out ? Do their worst,
and in what respect has “treason” become
“odious” ? What they call “treason” is already
odipus enough at tlie North. It cannot be
that they are after influencing the sentiments
of their own people. The Soptli, then, can
ho their only missionary ground, and will
they do it there ? IFe think treason a very
d ifferent thing. Twelve millions of peo
ple in arms for independence and lib
erty, arc no traitors in the eye of either
God or the law. Their act may have
been one of folly, but never of guilt—
The South has the authority of many of your
leading presses and statesmen for saying that
it was lawful; but lawful or not, it was the
treason of Adams and of Hancock, of Frank
lin, of Henry, of Jefferson, and of the im
mortal Washington. All these lived and
died in tho same faith. And arc we to be
called op to makesueA “treason odious”? Is
tho South to brand as a traitor and criminal
her noble chieftain, Jefferson Davis, who,
in all that constitutes honor, patriotism, states-
manship,,intellect, and genuine hcroisrii, has
no peer in all your tribe? Shall we write high
on the scroll of infamy the name of Robert
E. Lee, whose wonderful military exploits and
whoso greatness and goodness are the subject
of the world's admiration and the object of the
world’s phaise i Shall we assemble around
that sacred spot, tho grave of Stonewall
Jackson, and write traitor upon tho tomb of
& man whose gcn^is has electrified the uni
verse, whose piety was without a blemish, and
whose brilliant deeds are without a parallel
m ancient or modern times I Is this what
American born men would have us to do ?—
When all sense ot pride, honor and manhood,
all regard for troth and principle, shall have
departed from our people—when we shall be
prepared to become tho slaves they would
have us to be—then shall we be ready for the
sacrifice; but not till then.
But away with these flimsy pretexts of South
ern infidelity to the Union, of the necessity of
disfranchisement for the public safety. The
men who plead them are hypocrites, and arc
unworthy to he named in the same connection
with fair and honorable dealing. As the
President recently said, they arc not the men
who fought for the Union, but who paid oth
ers with their money to do the fighting,
whilst they reposed in soft places, distant
from the battle-field and secure from harm.—
They can persecute the defenseless, hut
have never yet shown the spirit to meet a
foe in the open field. They can burn
witches, but have never yet had
courage to encounter men. Such are
tlie men who would trample on the pros
trate forms of a people whom, unaided and in
equal fight, tbeir whole race combined were
unable to compete with in the field. Had the
ports of the North been closed as were ours
daring the late war, thus shutting ofi sup
plies and reinforcements from abroad, the
tables would have been turned, and Jefferson
Davis would have dictated terms of peace
from the monument on Bunker Hill. e
are then, at least entitled to the considera
tion due’a brave and honorable foe, and not
to the fate of traitors and slaves.
The Jews.—The Jewish Messenger main
tains that the proper name of its people isThc
Jews. It justifies the opposition to a proposed
change of the name ot the “Jews’ Hospital,
in this city, and insists that the sectarianism
involved in the name is not an obstacle to the
popularity or usefulness of the institution.
The Congregation Emanuel have given to
their pastor, Dr Adier, a Passover present of
$10,000 in treasury notes.
The Hebrew Leader announces the retire
ment of its editor, J. P. Solomon, on account
of increasing professional engagements. It . — .
opposes “Jewish emigration to America, ex- tation is perfectly legal,
eept incase of skilled artisans or practical
agriculturalists,’’ and adds :
“Those whose lives lia\c been spent in stu
dy and have no visible means of obtaining a
livelihood, are not wanted here. They are
looked upon as drones, and had better stay
flowers of tlie graves of our beloved soldiers.
Our people, ever ready to do honor to the
memory of the gallant defenders of their
country's rights, promptly assembled at the
hour designated, and witnensed with deep
emotions of pride and pleas-ire the modest
and very appropriate tribute of respect and
affection lor their gallent dead.
At the request of tlie ladies, Col. R. B.
Nisbct proposed for them the following pre
amble and resolutions for the consideration of
the meeting; which, -ayion motion, were
adopted and directed to be published in the
Daily Telegraph:
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
Having met to-day, at the request of the
ladies of Colnmbus, Ga., to decorate with
flowers the graves of our revered soldiers, we
are forcibly struck with the beauty and pro
priety of tho ceremony—and deem it fit and
jroper to take some steps to make ihis tri
bute of respect and nffectior to the memory
of those who sacrificed their Ives for us—an
annual festival.
Hcoolted, That wc, the ladies of Eatonton,
inviting the whole community to unite with
us, pledge ourselves, together with our chil
dren, to meet on tlie 26th of April, each year,
to keep the anniversary of this day, and mark
and protect from decay the graves of our sol
diers, and to decorate them with these beau
tiful offerings of our God.
Hetohed, That wc call upon the ladies of
tho South to join with us in this resolution to
perpetuate and keep in remembrance this
tacred anniversary.
After reading the resolutions Col. Nisbet
proceed to make a few remarks, which were
chaste, appropriate and eloquent, and reflect
ed honor upon the head and heart of one
whose blood bad been died freely in the de
fense of his country’s rights.
He alluded in glowing terms to the noble
and commendable spirit which enthused the
breasts of our soldiers and, caused them to
rush.with streaming banners to the call of
tbeir country for defense. He spoke of the
hardships they endured, the many dangers to
which they were exposed, and of the hopes
which animated them in the midst of it all,
that soon their country would be free and in
dependent, and they return to their homes to
bless the ministering angels who had done so
much to alienate their sufferings.
But this glowing picture was deeply shaded
by his very affecting allusions to the results—
±o us—of the battles at McDowell, Sharps-
burg, Chancelorsville, and many other bloody
fields where some of those who are buried
here yielded up their precious lives a wither
ing sacrifice upon the altar of their country.
The recurrence to these sad scenes, stirred up
the latent emotions of our hearts, and many
tears were shed around the graves of ourl
lamented heroes.
■ The remarks of the Colonel were peculiarly
felicitous in alluding to the generous spirit
of affection and respect which prompted the
noble women of the South—made too poor
by the results of the war to erect mausoleums
of marble or of brass to the memory of their
honored dead—to erect in their own pure
hearts living monuments of affection and es
teem, and by bringing annually
“Flowers, sweet flowers o’er their bier to shed
A crown ror the brow of the early dead.”
IVe were particularly pleased, Mr. Editor,
with that resolution of the ladies which makes
this an annual celebration. Weheartilv com
mend it to the ladies of the entire South, and
as each recurring Spring season shall return
to smile upon and beautify the earth, so may
our noble, generous, troe-liearted women—
accompanied by their friends—revisit the
graves of our beloved soldiers, rebuild the
dilapidated earth-mounds which mark the
places of their remains, and decoraje them
with flowers, sweet flowers.
“Bring'flowcr* to deck each patriot grave,
And bless the Tern.il sod,
Where sleep those fallen ones, whose deeds
Are written with their God;
Place the white stone above each held—
The sacred spot enclose,
That no invading step may break
| The night of their repose."
A Friend to the Soldiers.
Eatonton, April 27, I860.
Hasty Meal Taking.—The lawyer who
stuck upon his office door, “Gone to dinner;
will be back in ten minutes,” might ns well
have added, “I am killing myself by bolting
my food, und then trying to digest it over
my papers; at forty-five I shall either be a
broken down invalid or a lunatic, but, in the
meantime, I am very much at your service.”
There is also a ghastly humor about that
other story of the host in a New England city,
who asked hisgucst, at a raid day dinner, it
“he. would mind eating his pie in the street
as they walked along.” Inhere is a moral in
this which fast business people should heed.
Bolting down food, anaconda fashion, may
give ono a little more present time for busi
ness, but it will take away from life about as
many yeara as the number ot days saved for
working by the rushing policy of meal taking.
Monument to Douglas—Oration by Mr,
Seward.—Secretary Seward has accepted the
invitation to deliver an address on the occa
sion of laying tho corner-stone of the monu
ment to be erected over the grave of Stephen
A. Douglas. The ceremony will take place
some time in May or June.
In a letter to the Trustees, Mr. Seward thus
writes:
“I mav inform yon that I should consider it
an agreeable duty to accept this invitation,
which does not exaggerate the regard in
which I hold the memory of Stephen A.
Douglas. The last of his days in Washing
ton, were spent in consultation with Presi
dent Lincoln and myself in organizing the re
sistance to disunion.”
Negro Troops Going North.—Wc learn
from the Bulletin that about three hundred
men belonging to the 60th U. S. C. Cavalry
passed up the Mississippi Inst week, bound
North. They were mustered out at Duval's
Bluff, where they embarked. Over two
hundred belonging to the same regiment, em
barked at Memphis for the same destination.
The North is the place for them. Haying
been demoralized, they are no longer fit to
remain South.
£gf~There are on cnrtli 1,000,000,000 in
habitants. Of these about 33,339.383 die
every year, 91,824 die every day, 7,7S9 every
hour, and GO every minute. The losses arc
balanced by an equal number of births.
Attorney General, on tlie question
referred to him by the Secretary of the State
as to whether the exportation of arms by wav
of tlie frontier to Mexico was in conformity
with the laws, has decided that such expor-
.ion in Germany is still, to all appearances,
subject to reciprocal charges on the. part of
[Austria and Prussia, conveying^ allegations
Irom either that the other is arming, and de
manding to know wherefore. To these alle
gations each replies that the threatening atti-
ttile of the other compels a due preparation
for attack.
an the meantime, the only, reason for all
tins wrangling, and from which springs this
lautun! bail feeling, has not, as yet, entered
;«s a ruling cause into tlie quarrel. The com
plete possession efthe Duchies of Schleswig-
Holstein supplies this reason, so. carefully
avoided by the two powers, and is at the
bottom of the whole controversy.
When, two venrs ago, Prussia went to war
with Denmark for the emancipation of the
Ducliv of Holstein on the plea that this latter
belonged of right to the family of German
States, Austria joined her in enforcing the
claim. The question of lawful succession
to the authority of the Duchies never hav
ing been decided, their territory has re
mained, since the Dano-Prnssran war, in
provisional military possession of Austria
and Prussia, ns the spoils of war. Thus
Holstein accrued to the former and Schleswig
to the latter. In this partnership of posses
sion Prussia lias shown herself the more grasp
ing. Having resolved to annex the two
Duchies in due form to her dominions, she
offered Austria several millions of pounds
sterling for Holstein, doubtless thinking that
the offer would be accepted and that the
whole Sclileswig-Holstsin question, which
has become a sort of a political Jarndyce and
Jarndyce, would at last bo comfortably set
tled to the satisfaction of all concerned. But
this offer Austria rejected, probably because
she was alarmed at the ambitious projects of
Prussia, and gave her former ally to under
stand that the legitimate claimant to the
Dachies must be found, and that, iu cose any
trouble should accrue in that quest, the whole
matter must be referred to the Diet of the Ger
man States. By this act Austria belied her
former conrse, and afforded Herr Bismark
the opportunity—which he took in his mani
festo addressed to the other Courts of the Ger
manic Confederation—of accusing Austria of
duplicity and bad faith.
At this point, then, rested the affair when
each Power suddenly discovered that tho
other was making undue military prepara
tions and was arming rapidly. The Austrian
brigade of occupation in Holstein being at
the mercy of Prussia, Austria massed men in
propinquity to the Silesian frontier of Prus
sia, os a set-off to the military advantage pos
sessed by the latter in the case of a sudden
commencement of hostilities. Naturally
enough, Prussia was not slow to adoptsimilar
measures on her part; and now when Austria
demands to know wheretore these prepara
tions, Prussia simply replies that her course
was dictated by the' threatening movements
of her antagonist So stands the quarrel at
present between the two. Of course, this
doubtful condition of affairs cannot last long.
In what complicated drama of war an open
ing of hostilities at present would result,
however, it seems impossible to say.
where tliev are. Young men of talent and
education, who can be Israelites and still live
. ouuuiciruwHBi, up to tlie requirements of tlie age, would ulti-
1,1 pi iced them here to outrage the feelings ! nutelv succeed; but work, labor, toil, must be
1 °nr people. ' , the lot of those who conic here."
t-if The married are longer lived than the
single. Tall men live longer than short ones.
Women have more chances of life previous to
the age of fifty years, but fewer after than
men.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
It seems next to impossible to get the troth
from Mexico. Northern journals and their
correspondents seem resolved lo put Maxi
milian out of the country, on paper at least,
and but little we hear through that channel
is worthy of credit. Of recent operations in
Chihuahua, contradictoiy accounts appear.—
We copy both and leave the reader to judge
for himself.
PRESS DESPATCH FROM WASHINGTON, APR. 26.
Senor Romdro has received official news
from El Paso del Norte the 30th ult., with
the official reports of several important vic
tories over the Imperial forces. The city of
Chihnahua was captured by storm by the
Liberal forces, under Gen. Terazas, Governor
of the State, on the 25th of March, after an
obstinate resistance of the garrison, of whom
a large number were mr.de prisoners, and the
entire material of war fell into the hands of
the Liberals.
■ The city of Hidalgo Del Pasal was also
captured by assault on the 22d of the same
month by the Liberal forces under Col. Vas-
quez, who, it is said, routed entirely the Im
perial garrison of the place. The occupa
tion of the city of Chihuahua, and the victo
ry of Hidalgo, has restored to the possession
of the Liberal authorities the whole of the
State of Chihuahua, and has opened the way
for the National Government again to take
up its march towards the ancient capital of
the Republic. President Juarez was to leave
-Ei Passo for the city of Chihuahua in a few
days. In the State of Chihuahua, Governor
Viezca and Colonels Treorine and Narattjo
having united their forces, gained an impor
tant victory on the 1st ult., at Santa Isabel,
over a considerable force of Imperialists of
the Foreign Legion, the greater portion of
whom were either killed or made prisoners,
the commander, a French officer, being
among the former.
ACCOUNTS OF SAME AFFAIR VIA SAN FRANCISCO
AND VERA CRUZ.
San Francisco, Wednesday, April 25.—
The patriotic Mexicans yesterday celebrated
the splendid victories said to have achieved
over the French at Presidio and Sebastian.—
Col. Raig, who commanded the French at
Presidio, gives an official account of the bat
tle, in which he states his small expeditionary
force was attacked by 3200 Liberals, who were
repulsed after four hours’ hard fighting, with
a loss of two pieces of artillery, 300 killed and
200 wounded.
The Imperial loss to 10 killed and 67
wounded. The Imperialists were unwilling
to remain longer where the putrefaction of a
hundred corpses would breed a pestilence,
and opened the way to Mazatlan, bringing in
all the wounded. .
A Durango letter of March 19, states
that the French had abandoned Chihuahua In
two columns, one moring to Monterey, and
the other to San Luis PotosL Durango if to
be garrisoned by Imperial Mexicans under
Mejia.
Vera Cruz, April 6.—Col. Dupring defeat
ed De Jesus de Largasi in Taroaulipas recent
ly. Commandant Bellot was about fortify
ing Chihuahua, and would then start on an
expedition.
The Imperial cause is prosperous in Clii-
huliun. Idianillet has secured for them the
Districts of Abasco and Guerrero. Molas
had pronounced for the Empire, and had
taken possoasion in its name and garrisoned
with Indians. The defense of Parras with
70 Imperialists against 1,500 is highly com
mended.
TnE Bcrdell Murder.—Boston, April 20.
—The Newbury port Herald publishes a state
ment of Charles W. Golden, in jail there on
charge of burglary, in which lie, claims to
have been very intimate with Mrs. Cunning
ham and her family, and knew all about the
projected murder ot Dr. Burdell in Bond
street several years ago. He says, among
other things, that Mrs. Cunningham offered
him $25,000 and her daughter Augusta in
marriage if he would murder Dr. Burtlcll, by
whoso death Mrs. Cunningham would get
$100,000. Ife declined the job, but took
Augusta to the theatre, returned with her to
Bond street, and slept in the house that
night, knowing before he Went to bed that
the murder had been committed. The con
fession looks sensational, but may be true.
The Murderer of the Deering Family Con
victed.
the department, district or place
which such seizure, search, arrest j
or imprisonment was made, done or com-.
mitted, or any acts were done or omitted to ’
be done by the person or officer to whom the
order is addressed or for whom it was in
tended, or by any other person aiding or as-
sisting him therein, shall be held, and are
hereby declared to come within the purview
of the act of which this is amendatory, and
within the purview of the fourth, fifth and
sixth sections of said act of March 3d, 1SG3,
for all the purposes of defense, transfer, ap
peal, error or limitation provided therein,
but no such order shall be a defense to any
suit or action for any act done or omitted to
be done after the passage of this act, nor for
any act done with malice, cruelty or unneces-1
sary severity. It further prorides that the
right of removal from State courts to circuit
courts may be exercised as well after the ap
pearance of the defendant, and the filing of
his plea, oral any time subsequent to that at,
which an appearance is entered, or before tlie :
impnnneling of a jury; and it further pro
vides that a State court shall, notwithstand
ing the performance of all things required for
the removal of the case to the circuit court
aforesaid, proceed farther in said cause or
prosecution before said certificate is produced,
and then, in that case, all such further pro
ceedings shall be yoid and of no effect, and
all parties, judges, officers and other persons
thenceforth proceeding thereunder or by color
thereof shall be liable in damages therefor to
the party examined.
Tennessee.
Never was a State outraged and tyrannized
aver by an ambitions and vindictive mob,
tiian our sister State of Tennessee. Indeed,
a* stated by a 3rempbis cotemporary, even
tie forme ot Republicanism have been abol-
idied, and the entire people of a great State
brought into absolute subjugation to a fac
tion that has, by accident, got possession of
the government. The “Memphis Bulletin”
draws the following picture:
There is not a monarch enthroned in the
.old world clothed with greater power, over
the lives, libeaties and fortunes of his subjects,
than that with whigli Brownlow is invested
by latest enactments of the General Assembly.
It is provided that none may vote save those
approved by agents of his choice. Nothing,
in iatt, is wanting to the perfection of an ab-
solute autocracy save armed bands to enforce
its edicts.
The question naturally arises, in view of the
character of the man, and also his de
moniac passions, the spirit of bloodthirsti
ness which impels him in all public acts, in
view of his utter incapacity lor all tasks of
wise government, whether we should not ask
the intervention of Federal power to restore
and “guaranty” to Tennessee a government
Republican in its forms as well as in names of
offices through which a despotism compels
obedience. 'There are none who would not
prefer the domination of a brave soldier and
great commander, like .Gen. Thomas, to the
autocracy of a madman like Brownlow.—
Hence, we hear it on all hands, that petitions
should be forwarded to "Washington, defining
the fhets of our condition and askingthe Pres
ident to begin de novo the process of restora
tion in Tennessee.
Fenians Going Home---They Cannot Ite»
cover their Arms—-Orders to take the
^ Back Track—The Whole Affaiir a.
Wretched Fizzle.
Special Despatch to the New York Herald.
Eastport, Me., Thursday, Apr. 26.
Threo hundred Fenians left here to-day,
homeward bound, finding that there was no
chance to get back the arms which were seiz
ed by the United authorities; and it was nev
er intended to put the whole force of the or
ganization into this nffair, orders were receiv
ed from headquarters for all to return to their
homes.
The announcement of tho fact created in
tense excitement among the Fenians. They
held private meeting among themselves, ami
vowed they would never return without a
fight; but when it was shown to them by
their leaders hero that there was not the
faintest hope of making even a successful
raid upon any point with the few arms they
had procured from their schooner during her
detention, the majority became somewhat re
signed, although they bitterly complain of
what they openly called ftlic perfidity and
mismanagement of some gentlemen here, re
garding whom there is a wide difference of
opinion.
The affair lias turned out a miserable faeeo;
ridiculous, did jt not bring with it so many
sad consequences. Hundreds of fine young
fellows left their homes, threw up their situ
ations, gave up every thing, to join, heart and
soul in this movement, and it was truly a
melancholy sight to see them leave by the
boat to-day.
The majority are utterly rained not know
ing where to go after they arrived at their
destination, the funds not being sufficient to
do more than to pay their passage back again.
They cried bitterly like children on leaving.
No more.
Philadelphia. April 28.—Probst, the
murderer of the Deering family, wa3 convict-
Ki ar HON Day —Remember that the elec-1 £ °f murder in the first degree to-day. The
Election Court adjourned till Tuesday, when he will
tion for County Judge and solicitor, will be ( sen t tuC( . ( ^ The. jurors were out of Court
held to-morrow, Wednesday, 2nd day of May. i thirty minutes.
Pen Picture of Jefferson Davis by n Master
Artist.
Below is a pen picture of the great “rebel
chief,” which all who read it will say
drawn with the touch of a master;
“He (Jeff.) was a close student, a chivalric
opponent, a steadfast friend, a gentleman in
all his relations, and in his own family singu
larly kind and genial. Although undoubted
ly the head and heart of the Southern rebel
lion, he went into it reluctantly, as all who
heard his last speech in the Senate will re
member, when with broken accent and tear
ful eyes lie bade farewell at once to that body
and to all true greatness. Jefferson Davis
was blessed with may accomplishments. He
was alike a soldier and a statesman. No
public man of my acquaintance was more de
voted to scientific pursuits, and more familiar
with the abstruse teachings of political phil
osophy. No branch of human knowledge
seemed to be unworthy of his investiga
tions.”
The above is certainly fine—and who, read
er, do you suppose wrote it ? If you are a
Radical, you will say it was some Vallandig
hamer. Not so. The writer was no other
than John W. Forney, and was printed in
his own Washington Cbronicle. He penned
it at a time when depravity had not yet taken
entire possesiion of him.—Aralanehe.
Rents and HorsEs in New York.—As
wc approach nearer and nearer to the first of
Mav, there seems to be more and more houses
in different parts of the city to let. All the
villages and localities around appear also to
be inviting people to leave the city, by offer
ing houses at quite reasonable rents. The
public have got quite over tlie excitement
about house-room, which a couple of months
ago threatenedtorisetothe height of a panic.
Such rents as were demanded then are hard
ly spoken of anywhere now. In fact, bad
property holders adhered to them, the busi
ness of the city would have been vastly dam
aged, and ten’s of thousands of people would
have left New York on the 1st of May.—_Y!
F. Times.
The Growing Wheat Crop.—-We are
gratified to learn through parties living above
tltid point, that the promise of a fair wheat
crop is better than was anticipated some time
a^o. The people are industriously at work
in every direction, and with favorable sea
sons, there is reason to believe that there will
net only he enough raised in East Tennessee
this ye Ir to supply the wants of the people,
but some to spare.— Chattanooga Union 28th.
The Approaching (I) Trial of Ex-Fresi- |
dent Davis.
Tlie Washington correspondent of the !
Philadelphia Ledger of the 19th says:
Just as the Judiciary Committee of the !
House were about to report in favor of bring
ing Jefferson Davis and C. C. Clay before a
military tribunal, the President ordered the 1
release of the latter, much to the surprise of
every member of the committee. The evi- i
denco which the committee have, and upon 1
which they intended to have Davis and Clay j
arraigned for trial is well known to tlie Presi
dent..
* ♦ * * * * *
Speaking pf Stnnburry’s appointment to the
Supreme Bench, tho President expressed tlie
hope that the Senate would act favorably
upon the nomination, ns a United States Court
for tlie trial of Davis could then be opened
at Nashville.
Judge Stanberry appointed trom Kentucky,
in which State he resides. Tlie President
added this important statement: “Should the-
Senate decline to confirm the appointment, I
shall direct the Attorney General to arrange
for the trial in Virginia.”
We begin to suspect that about tlie time
tlie Fenians lick John Bull and liberate Ire
land, Mr. Davis will be brought to trial and
conviction before a civil court of the United
States. In his person, the principles of pop
ular self-government, of State Rights and
the Constitution of the United States itself,
would be put on trial. The wise and patri
otic fathers who founded the Government of
the United States on the basis of these
principles, would be summoned from the
mysterious realms where the ghosts of
statesmen and heroes dwell to testify wheth
er, in the light of the historical works of
their hands, Jefferson Davis was a patriot
or a traitor. Their voices, x unless tlie dead
falsify in words the actions of the living, cau
speak but in one way. They, are unanimous
ly on record in the proceedings of the con
vention, wherein they shaped and built up
the fabric of the Constitution, tliat¥it was
never designed nor expected that the Govern
ment created by tlie States for tlie general
good, for spocifle purposes, and with limited
powers should become the absolute master,
of its creators. We are told that tlie sword
has settled all this. Practically, yes. But
when Jeff. Davis began that career which
Radicals denounce as treason, the sword had
not uttered its decree. He must he tried on
the law and the fact that governed
at the time of the overt net, and on
that, the martyrs and the prophets,
the sages and the patriots of the first revolu
tionary era will unanimously pronounce from
their graves that Jefferson Davis never sinned
against the Constitution of the United States,
and was no traitor to its Government. We
know that for holding to these undeniable
trutlis, Radicals denounce us as “unrepentant
and unconstructcd rebels.” Let them howl!
Meanwhile, they have held Mr. Davis a pris
oner for a whole year, and have not dared to
put him on fair trial of the issue betwixt
him and them. They were willing enough
to see him dragged before a Military Com
mission of their own packing. But they
were, and arc, afraid of an open and ex
haustive argument on the question be
fore an incorruptible judge and a jury of the
prisoner's peers. But the trial betwixt Mr.
Davis and those who have overturned the
Constitution of the country in order to de
clare him a traitor* has yet to come off. It
will be before the grand inquest of the na
tion. The people will pronounce the ver
dict, and posterity will record the judgment.
The principles of the fathers of the Re
public are not dead. They live and will as
sert themselves. The whole effort of the
Radical party is to keep them immured in
dungeons and buried in bloody graves. But
there is an elasticity and recuperative energy
in the spirit of freedom in the race of our
blood which, though broken into a thousand
fragments, will arise from the earth to dispute
and grapple with the oppressor. For our
part, we believe in the resurrection of the
political principles of ’98, and in the re-en
thronement of the Constitution as it was
written and committed to our safe-keeping
by our ancestors. ' And as wo are told that
“ devils believe and tremble,” we doubt not
that the Radicals share tliefaith.and the fears
of their prototypes. Hence, their insane en
ergy to annihilate the Constitution and cap
ture the country, before tho people can be
appealed to, and the voices of the represen
tatives of eleven banished States can be heard
in the councils of the nation.—Mobile Reg. «C
Adt ‘ Av.
Habeas Corpus and the Militnry.
Tho Habeas Corpus is having a rough time
of it about now. It is up one day and down
the next, it being now on top of the military
and them at tho bottom It seems to us
that it ought to be permanently at one place
or the otb,er, as it must be or cease to protect
the rights of the citizens. For some days
past the good old writ seemed to be in the
ascendent, but our mails of yesterday put it
again below par. A few extracts will ex
hibit the status.
The Nashville Press and Times of the
30th says:
The Secretary of War, in a telegram to
General Thomas, of the 27th instant, informs
the General that the President, of the United
States fully sustains him in his course in the
case of Isliam Henderson, and directs that
the latter be not turned over to the civil au
thorities, but that he be tried by Court Mar
tial. •
To which add the following despatches:
Raleigh, N. C., April 28.—Judge Fowler
issued an attachment to-day for the arrest of
Gen. Huger, for refusing to resognizc a writ
of habeas corpus, issued in favor of Major
Gee, now on trial before a military commis
sion. General Huger refused to be arrested,
and so the matter will stand till the case can
be laid before the President.
New Orleans. April 28.—General Canby
was before the United States Circuit Court
to-day. for contempt in preventing the exe
cution of a writ of sequestration obtained by
the Treasurer against five hundred bales of
cotton. The case was fully agreed upon by
the bar present, and decision reserved. Judge
Durcll says lie might as well close court at
once if its writs are disregarded, and remark
ed that it would be unavailing so long as
bayonets bristled in the court room. Cotton
agents are still sueing for habeas corpus, but
are refused.
TnE Traitor, Tiiad. Stevens.—The Phil
adelphia Mercury thus pays its respects to
Tiiad. Stevens and Carl Scliurz:
“And who is Mr. Stevens ? Not a Pennsyl-
vaninn, thank God, but a Yankee intruder
into this State, wliosc reputed wife is a ne
gro, and whose children are muiattoes! And
who is Carl Sclmrz ? A wretched adventurer,
who, a traitor to his native land, fled hither
lor refine, kept a lager beer saloon in this
city, and failing in that, has lived ever since
on’the government that has rescued him
from the penalty of treason and the obscu
rity of a scullion."
The Cholera.—New York, April 29th.—
There have been thirteen new cases of cholera
submitted to the hospital ship, and five new
deaths have occurred, leaving sixteen cases
still in hospital. The cases among the adults
are of a mild character, while those among
the children are severe and will probably
prove fatal.
Sloops of war Saratoga and Portsmouth, by
orders from Washington, have been sent to
the lower quarantine, to he used as hospital
ships.
Emigration to Kansas.—The Lawrence
Tribune estimates that 200 families per week
are emigrating to Kansas, bringing with them
an average of $1,000 to each family, which,
if it should continue at this rate for only
three months, would add to the circulating
medium of the State the sum of two millions
of dollars.
Knights Templar.—The Grand Com
rnnndery of Knights Templar foir the State
of Georgia commenced its Grand Annual
Conclave in tlie Asylum of Georgia Com-
madcry No. 1, in this city on Monday night
::t oil'll; o’clock, I.’iirl t- Emiw-nt Grand
Commander William Tracy G mid presiding,
and closed its labors yesterday.
The following arc tho officers for the ensu
ing Masonic year:
Sir-William Tracy Gould, Right Eminent
Grand Commander, Augr stu.
Sir Aden Sherod Cut i Very Eminent Dep
uty Grand Commander, Americas.
Sir William Wade Boyd. Eminent Grand
General iasimo, Atlanta.
Sir James Monroe Bivin, Eminent Grand
Captain General, Columbus.
Rc-y. Sir Francis R: Gonlding. Eminent
Grand Prelate, Macon.
Sir George Obear, Eminent Grand Senior
Warden, .Macon.
Sir Benjamin Bythwood Russell, Eminent
Grand Junior Warden, Augusta.
Sir Joseph Eastburn Wells, Eminent Grand
Treasurer, .Macon.
Sir Charles Rudd Armstrong, Eminent
Grand Recorder, Macon.
Sir Thomas Whitty Chandler, Eminent
Grand Standard Bearer, Atlanta.
Sir William. Henry Griswold, Eminent
Grand Sword Bearer, Col ambus.
Sir Christopher Francis Lewis, Eminent
Grand Warden, Augusta.—Chron & Sen.
Mr. Peabody’s Letter to Queen Victo
ria.—Mr. Peabody lias sent the following re
ply to the Queen’s letter, through Earl Rus
sell, dated April 3d:
Madam : I feel sensibly my inability to ex
press in adequate terms, tlie gratification with
which I have read the letter which your Ma
jesty has done me the high honor of trans
mitting by the haads ot Earl Russell, on the
occasion which lnvs attracted your Majesty’s
attention, of setting apart a portion of my
property to ameliorate the condition, and
augment the comforts, of the poor of Lon
don.
I have been actuated by a deep sense of
gratitude to God, who has blessed me with
prosperity, and of attachment to this great
country, where, under your Jlajoaty’s Uf-nign
rule, I have received so much personal kind
ness ancl enjoyed so many years of happi
ness.
Next to the approval of my own conscience
I shall always prize the assurance which your
letter conveys to tue of tlie approbation of the
Queen of England, whoso whole life has at
tested that her exalted station has in no de
gree diminished her sympathy with t .e hum
blest of her subjects.
The portrait which your Majesty is gra
ciously pleased to bestow on me I shall valuo
as the most precious heirloom that I can
leave in the land of my birth, where, togeth
er with the letter which your Majest y lias ad
dressed to me, it will ever bo regarded as.ev
idence of the kindly feeling of the Queen of
the United Kingdom toward a citizen of th*
United States.
An Inhuman Outrage-»Six Persons Starved'
to Death.
Special Despatch to the Louisville Courier.
Memphis, April 27.—I have reliable infor
mation of one of the most inhuman acts of a
negro woman yet known. Last fall a woman
with five small children, from six months of
age to six years, with an old grandmother,
blind and deaf, of ninety, came tathe farm of
a Mr. Welch, in Pontotoc county, Mississip
pi, find engaged to work at $10 per month.
About three weeks ago it was noticed that
she did not come out to work, and when be
ing questioned, she complained of being
sick. Another day passed, when Mr. Welch
found her missing from the plantation, when
he instituted a search and found the stair
door which leads up into a dark, narrow
room, heavily barricaded and locked.
After some difficulty he opened the door
with an ax and ascended. Tlie woman and
two children were lying against the door
dead. Another child was at the head of the
stairs, dead also. The other two were just
alive and in an advanced state of starvation.
The oldest of the latter two has since died.
The other, a boy, it i3 thought cannot sur
vive.
This black wretch was found three miles from
Jackson, Miss., with her paramour, a negro
woman, who had been strolling around Mr.
Welch’s plantation with her. Her reason for
this inhumane action was, that she did not
like to work so hard to support the old wo
man and the brats. Site was carried back to
Pontotoc county, where she will be tried.
Big Tliinss of America.
The greatest cataract in the world i* tho
Falls of Niagara.
The greatest cave in tho world is tho Mam
moth Cave in Kentucky.
The greatest river in the world is the Mis
sissippi—4,100 miles in length.
The largest valley in the world is tho Val
ley of the Mississippi, containing 500,000
square miles.
The greatest natural bridge in the world
is that over Cedar Creek in Virginia.
The greatest mass of solid iron in the world
is the Iron Mountain ot Missouri—350 feet
high and two miles in circuit.
The longest railroad in the world is the
Central Railroad of Illinois—370 miles long, -
and which cost $15,000,000.
The greatest number of mile3 of railroad
in proportion to its surface, of any country
in the world, is in Massachusetts, which has
over one mile to every square mile of its
area.
Tlie largest aqueduct in the world is the
Cioton, in New York, which is 40 1-2 miles
long, and cost $12,5000,000.
Hen Peculiarities.—A. J. Spencer, Esq.,
the well-known dancing teacher, writes to
the Hartford Courant as follows from Middle-
town :
Ed. Courant: I saw in to-day’s Courant a
piece about a Danbury hen laying in the
house. I must tell you about some liens of the
Bantam breed that my little girl has bad lor a
number of years past. She bad oue hen that
layed in a work basket that stood on a sewing
machine—laid 10 eggs and hatched 9 chick
ens when setting. .My wife would put the
basket any where about the room, and the
lien was just os well suited. Another hen of
the same kind, always went and ate with two
hogs, out of the trough, and r.t night would
always roost on one or the other of the hogs,
and would stay day and night in the pen;
and after the hogs were butchered in the fall,
she would not go with tho other hens, but
staid in the hog-pen about a month, aud died.
A little rooster of tlie same kind has roosted
all the past winter on my liorse, and would
not roost anywhere else. What I write you
is just as it happened. I thought it might
be a curiositv to you and uianv others.
A Mother’* Appeal.—Mrs. Christiana
Maund, of Talbotton, Ga., desires to know
the whereabouts of her son, Wm. B. Maund,
of Co. A, 4th Georgia Volunteers. He was
last seen alive on the 19th of September, 1864,
in. the streets of Wincnester, Va., while Gen.
Early was retreating from Gen. Sheridan.—
Artillery firing was going on at the time,
and he refused to retreat. Since that time the
mother has heard nothing of him. The press
of the South will confer a great favor upon a
bereaved mother by publishing this notice as
! thereby she may hear something of the fate of
her son.
.Mail reports from Utah state that the
“Saints” arc taking every measure possible to
drive out the “Gentiles” from their midst.—
Eight men has been assassinated within a day
or two previous to the Oth ins :., while the edi
tor of the Yidette. with all other Gentiles,
have been notified to quit the country or faro
worse. Placards are posted up in Salt Lake
Git v notifiying all Gentiles to leave immedi
ately.
A Frenchman says that the way to
counteract the sting of an insect is to rub the
wound with ear wax.
ireT’Bulwer, the novelist, in a letter to a
gentleman of Boston, savs: “I have closed
my career as a writer of fiction. lam gloomy
and unhappy. I have exhausted the powers
of life, chasing pie ssure where it is not to he
found.”