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^ Z^S. 8. Howard, Esq., was elect*
^ County Court, nncl A. R.
^ Jus. s. BoynHon, elected
‘ *'Tn'a P> u HLBrown^Solicitor.
Chattanooga Union says that a
& T « friean presides in the freedmen’s
, 'ninrt in Memphis, Tenn.
I‘ ' j: , .,1 enough, bat there are equally
Pfltinc, «“* mttch worse » men hold '
nl4C a iu our unhappy sister State.
^gap** 05
. irEi-Senator Wigfall, of Texas, who
? Jn escaping from the South on the
‘ of the rebellion, has been the sub-
WLly surmises and inquiries. A Lon
^‘Vjpondeat of a Boston paper states
3 Su reached the English capital somo
", in March.
P , .That the Radical press denounce
^jent as a drunkard, a usurper and a
. r in o» e breath, and in the next hold up
-■-era editors who protest against the op-
tive measures of the Radical Congress as
1 to the Government!
. f#MB Visitor.—The rain yesterday,
. (rtl «as a blearing to planters in this
R” f the State. The heavy storm ten
*f u ‘‘ i, ca t down the young cotton and
l!*J*o run together the surface of the
■S that serious apprehensions have been
t & the crops. We hope everything will
L fresh start under yesterday’s rain.
I Good Lssso.n.—Henry Campbell, a freed-
rU tried in Montgomery, Monday last,
kfriolatins a written contract entered into
j his employer, found gnilty, fined fifty
Llirs, awl committed to jail in default of
As our County Courts will be or-
Juifd in a few days, we Bhall have the means
Georgia of enforcing a compliance with
rt n C u. The negro should be taught Chat
hile the Courts are open for his protection,
,(to ojien for his punishmesit
yhe hte conflagration at Detroit, de-
L'riBj. | steamer and the passenger and
l-iicht depots of the Detroit and Milwaukie
was caused by the explosion of a
Lj,; of naptha on board the steamer, which
L lying at the depot unloading. The total
is estimated at $300,000. A lamentable
: of life occurred on the boat. The Tri
e gives the names of twenty-eight deck
2 d.N firemen and porters, supposed to be
nd or drowned.
I The Gee Tmal to Proceed, but no Sen-
Ijsce to be Passed.—We learn from a
Islington despatch of the 29tb ult, that
t President has directed the Military Com-
paioo to proceed with the trial of Major
•r. inasmueh as the Commission had corn-
weed proceedings before the peace procla-
ation was issued. The President, however,
L-tracts the Military Court not ito pass sen
net in the case, but to 6cnd the full record
t the proceedings in the trial, when it shall
(concluded, to Washington, to enable the
| .eminent to act understandingly in the
hole matter.
ADDRESSES to the colored pop.
ULaTION.
We observed yesterday, here and there on
the streets, a poster announcing that Capt.
E ryant, President of the Equal Rights Asso
ciation, and a Rev. Mr. Eberheart, who has
some agency for Northern educational insti
tutions, exactly what we forgot, would ad
dress the colored citizens of Macon to-day.
The poster purports to have been issued “by
order” of Lewis Smith, the reverend colored
gentleman, whom the negroes elected as their
“delegate to Congress,” as some of them said,
a few weeks ago, and who is charged with
' lieing the leader in the late attempt to rescue
the woman poisoner from the sheriff of Jones
county, and is now under bonds to answer.
We know but little of the speakers for the
occasion, our only information concerning
them being what we have been able to gather
from the Augusta papers, in which their
names have occasionally figured conspicuous*
ly and in no respect to their advantage. We
would not bo guilty of even a seeming act of
inhospitality to strangers, but it is due to this
community, black os well as white, to make a
remark or two on the object of their visit at
the present time.
We take it for granted that Captain Bryant
and his associate come to advocate the claims
of the “ Equal Rights Association,” of which
the fonner is the official head in this State.
This being the object, wo have a word to say
on the character of his mission. Whence the
necessity for agitating the question of equal
rights before the colored people of Geor
gia ? The Legislature of our State has sol
emnly recognized all their civil rights,
and placed them on an .equal footing
with the whites in person and property
and before the courts. The negro vindicates
his legal rights in the same tribunal with his
former master, and each is amenable to the
same punishment for the same offense. It is
very clear, therefore, as the civil rights of the
colored population are fully protected by law,
that they need no further protection at the
bauds of Capt Bryant or his association. If
he comes to agitate on that question, he in
sults the people of Georgia and libels their
State in the implication cither that the latter
has refused justice to the negro, or that the
former will refuse to execute their own laws.
We will do those gfintlemen the justice to
say that we do not believe they have any
such object as that
Pi v.NAM County. May 3, InOG.
Rusticus again? C'ou-in Joe once more!—;
Darn it, tboc country Cousins won’t stay
squelched, squelch ’em as often ns you may.
A hen-scratclicd manuscript, n mean cigar, a
tight boot, sorghum syrup under my shirt
sleeve, a “grandmother’s blearing” on every
finger—anything! but deliver me from my
country Cousins and all their kith and kin.
Well, Messrs. Editors I’ve just stepped in-
hopc I don’t intrude—but I've come as acorn-
ruittee from Putnam, to git nt the truth of prayer:
By the Governor ot Alabama—-A
Proclamation.
Whereas, it is seriously apprehended that
the Asiatic Cholera, in its dreadful progress,
will ere long, reach our shores, and assume in
the United States an epidemic form :.
And whereas, in anticipation ot tills dire
ful calamity, the President of the United
States has published a proclamation, recom
mending that Thursday, the 17th day of
Hry, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and
I sixtv-six, he oliscrved throughout the United
I States, as a day of fasting, humilistipn and
TELEGRAPHIC
DISPATCHES TO TIIK
SOCIATED PKKSS.
I.ookout .Mountain and its Hotel.
The following description of Lookout;
Mountain and its new Hotel, from the Chat- ]
tanooga “American Union,” will bo read with
CONGRESSIONAL. 1 intcn -‘ #t:
... . , Tin: Mountain.—We paid a visit to this
M ashington, Ma\ .j. 1 he Senate to-Guy t Historic locality yesterday, and confess that
passed a bill from theCommitteeofConfercnce; we had but a faint idea of the magnitude of |
establishing telegraphic communication with ! the place. A pleasant walk of two miles from ;
Cuba; it now awaits tile Pn-ident's signa- M 1 ’’_ base, up_a good road, a sharp turn !<• t::e
[From Pc:• r.-l ur _•
IVe Challenge tin
General Hood can't b-
chivalrfr. Her el used to
Va. Daily Index
Comparison.
if the full-blooded
receiv • moil v rai--
of contrivances to continue the chain of con
sequences, certainly to be commiserated, &c.,
&c.
We got the news from Jasper. Now we
Putnam folks don’t “set much store by” the
rumors we git from Jasper, owing to the way
they treated us in Confederate times ; they
was always a sending ot us news in ad
vance of the latest daily paper, crying “wolf!
wolf 1” until when the wolfeome shore enough
wo wero all sittin at Carter & Harvey’s cor
ner a wliitlin of sticks, and thought Sher
man’s cavalry, infantry, artillery, pontoon
trains and ail, was nothing but Joe Brown’s
Militia, a fallin back on the Big Shanty, to
sharpen their pikes, rake up ammunition,
hear an address from Joe, and prepare to get
ready to stop Sherman at the Chattahoochee.
Therefore, I say, we didn’t much believe as
how it was so; but Col. W. came down from
court, and said that the whole “kit and bilin”
of’em up there, were out huntin “wild hogs”
to have a barbacue in honor of the occasion.
This sorter flustrsted us, and so we called a
meeting, and thavc sent me over a joint
committee, with instructions to inquire into
the voracity of the said rumor. So, if you
will just “give me a showin,” and fix up the
papers, I will go. Wo know you editors
know all things; never caught you in a lie,
except occasionally in your Sunday’s issue,
There caiTbo but one remaining motive, I which is excusable, “ewing to circumstances
And whereas, it is eminently proper, at
stated periods, lor our whole people to unite
in public acknowledgement of their depen
dence upon an All-wise and a Merciful God,
imploring His protecting care, anil humbly
seeking His blessing:
And whereas, it is specially incumbent up
on us at the present time to invoke Divine
interposition to spare us from^ that terrible
scourge the Asiatic Cholera, which is already
reported to havo made, its appearance on the
American Continent;
Now, therefore, I, R. M. Patton, Governor
I of the State of Alabama, do issue this my
proclamation, recommending that on the said
day, to wit: Thursday, May 17, A. D. 1806,
some rumors we’ve been a gittin of up our
way. Heard say Mr. Johnson had sent Grant
to Europe, put Sherman in command, stuck
Union bayonets to the “Rump” of “Congress,”
turned Butler out with the dry cattle, intro
duced the cholera into Knew England, start
ed a' commercial panic, was running the mer-
chinc under full steam, down grade, the brake-
man drunk, nitro-glycerinc torpedoes under
every cross tie, life insurance companies all
busted, Seward deliquvm animi, combustion,
| That TnET Say op it.—We .phblish on
r first page editorials from the New York
> ami IVorid on the reporfcof'tbe Recon
notion Committee. As is generally known
(Times is the organ of the Conservative
bnWicans, and the World the representa-
)ve of the Northern Democrats. (Both arti
s ire strongly written, and will fully repay
; trouble ot a perusal.
pVe are willing to allow sensible Northern
i to argue the proposition of the Com-
fttre in our columns, but a 'Southern editor
f 9 consults his own sclf-rospcct and the
he owes .his fellow-countrymen, by
iag the degrading offer with scornful si-
ItF* The Tallahassee Sentinel thus grace-
f-J Warns thanks to those ladies of Macon.
' kve labored so assiduously to procure
I aunes of Confederate soldiers who died
| rhis city. As the list originally appeared
|wr columns it is unnecessary to repeat the
from Florida.—Eds. Telegraph.
,w»ida Soldiers.—After great labor and
not research, the ladies of Macon have
*ed«l in deciphering the names of about
P Confederate soldiers, buried in the dif-
F* woetcriea near that city.
r r furnishing this list, the noble ladies of
In- placed the whole community un-
r obligations. It gives to many a weary,
lumng heart, information long and vainly
concerning the loved and lost—Tci-
“Miss Barber’s Wecekly.”
®* number of this new applicant for
'tur favor has reached our office. It
M«tly printed quarto of a size suitable for
1 9 » 4n d got up with considerable taste,
|- N »1 white paper. Its reading matter is
N and
composed mostly of such as is suit-
► - t family reading. The terms of sub-
iP'inn ire $3 per annum, sent to the ad-
r C. W. Barber, Ncwnan, Ga. In
[conclusion of a gracefully written Saluta-
F|*® e editor says:
te?in there is a literaiy “Weekly”
Ir U DU< k- t ' ft seek admission into
m vainf
F jet again, in the years that are
t *,1 * We ». f® our capacity of editress,
f, 1 ° mc d to seats beneath your roof-
/ourhospitable firesides. We
A,, a- u grateful for the fsvor
r kin i au< once moro would presume upon
kiii B ,5 eS8, Op** 1 your doors freely to us:
R'*s* rf wi Meood “ d not wil ’
I »n,„1° nther “ Relief Fair.
I P c ,n £> 8a J s the Baltimore Gazette,
t , uUve Committee of Ladies, held
r«7, ttssomof $108,000 was appro-
he following SWes.
I' “gmia,
F“«h Carolina,
Carolina,
I'Habanaa,
lAttanias,
l^siana,
yhad.
$20,000
10,000
15,000
10,000
10,000
15,000
4,000
6,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
Ituri?! 11400 three ladies was appointed
I t J G t '*° d: ‘ 9tr fhution for each State
l in " .i will be publlaheil in a fsw
addition to the appropriations
$50,000 will remain as a reserv-
i °f the Executive Com-
F “Hotmcnt to such States
L-'iltofUmVft'iri 10 ? !let ' ),LV . ial
'■•t.iintliut its aggregate
^Fj-tbnn ^ C , L>S than one Jiundnsd
f Ti.- t utii-. 1 \.
r <u exAMd $«,000.
and that is to poison the minds of the negro
population with the universal suffrage no-
tionj of Sumner and Stevens, and the rest of
the radicals of Congress, men who arc the
enemies of the Southern people and wish to
enforce negro political equality for the double
purpose of our degradation and their own
ascendancy in the government of the country.
Such doctrines preached at the South are fa
tal to the peace ofsociety as it stands. They
tend to breed strife aad contention among
races that honestly desire to live harmonious-*,
ly and work mutually for each other’s good.
They arc both resulting to the white people
and prejudicial to their interest, whilst to the
blacks they are the beginning of extermina
tion.
Honestly viewing the matter in this light,
and sincerely desirous of the welfare of the
colored population of the Southern States,
we must express our regret that these Nor
thern emissaries continue to interfere in the
domestic and political relations of our people.
It is one serious difficulty in the way
of hurmony and industrial recuperation. Wc
are all sincerely engaged in doing the
best possible both for ourselves and the blacks,
and have only to be let alone by intermed-
dlers and miscliief-makcrs in order to work
harmoniously and to the advantage of both.
We have no objection to the education of
the negro, and would rather aid in the good
work than oppose it; but in carrying it for
ward let the efforts of the Northern people
not go beyond education, as it has been known
to do in many cases. They may send mil'
lions for that legitimate end if they choose,
though wc cannot help regarding that phi
lanthropy as misplaced and spurious, which
overlooks the starving bodies in order to im
prove the ignorant jaiinda.
Finally, wc would say to Capt Bryant
and his reverend coofgfctor: if you have
been forced to your present occupation in;
order to gain the means of a livelihood, say 1
so frankly, and then the world will ot least j
know what moral estimate to put upon your j
labors; if it be a matter of philanthropy or
patriotism, wc advise you to go back to the
North and seek out some honest employment
that will benefit and not injure your country
—that will add to your own honor and
wealth, without distracting and impoverish
ing your neighbors.
« Tribute of Ros ect.
At a meeting of the Physicians of Macon,
on the occasion of the death of Dr. Benja
min A. WniTB. the following preamble and
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Whereat, an All-wise Providence has re
moved by death from our profession one of
its .moat valued members, we foci that in the
death of .this distinguished man our profes
sion has sustained a great loss, the country a
good citizen, and his family its main protec
tor and friend, {Dr. White was no ordinary
man, endowed as he was by nature with a
strong and vigorous intellect, which was well
cultivated by a classical education, made him
eminent as a Physician, polished and refined
as a gentleman and Christian. He was a man
distinguished for all the social qualities
which adorn and mark the character of
the good and wise.
Betolted, That we deeply feel his loss and
will seek to imitate his example by doing as
he did: manifest our kindness and true friend
ship 1 to the members of our profession.
Jietolred, That we sympathize with the
family and relatives of Dr. White, anil beg
them, with us, to bear this interposition ot
Divine Providence with Christian patience
and submission.
Joel Branham,
James 3Iercek Green,
J. IL Boon,
» D. W. Hammond,
Committee.
News! News! News!—We frequently
step into the News Depot of Patrick & Ha
vens, and find enough there to tempt our
news appetite and literary appetite, immense-
Various kinds of attractive books and
periodicals; papers, both weekly anil daily,
illustrated and comic; magazines of fashions,
and “notions” of various sorts, arc there.
Step in any time, day or night, and you will
find Mr. Patrick ready to serve you up a lit
erary dish mo.-t politely, no sells his papers ,
and magazines cheaply, aad keeps constantly
the latest numbers on hand, so that one can
lean the Iasi item of news on the rounds.
Give them an early call nnd satisfy yonr- j
Mir. He fills orders from a distance by mail
or Express, also.
over which you have no control:” but gincr-
ally, and especially during the war, we found
you prime truth tellers. But before I go, I
wish yon’d talk to them Jasper folks; they
hadn’t ought to do it—its onrcasonable.—-
There is some talk of raising a subscription
in Putnam to buy $5 00 worth of Southern
Recorders for ’em, and having it sent up onct
a month. Bat if it fails, and it is monstrous
apt to do it, owing to the scarcity of green
backs, I hope you will talk to ’em with tears
in your eyes about that blzness.
But before I go, there’s another rumor—
(George Wardwell told mo to look on the
bulletin-board nnd see about it)—word come
as how you had another riot in Macon, but
that Mr. Neville was too sheared to say any
thing about it. Word come as how a free
nigger brought Mr. Jones—a wire-grass man
—up to Macon to persecute him for wages
due next Christmas. Jones proved himself
innocent, but was found guilty by the court,
and sentenced to five days’ ball and chain—
whereupon Jones got tight, bought a cent’s
worth of rancid pumpkin-pie, apple butter,
and rotten codfish, and kcrslusbcd it all into
one of the drawers of the Bureau—thereupon
the “only loyal citizens” of Macon took a
umbrage thorat, and raised a row-ot, headed
by a Sumner-coloured gentleman, (that means
black, black as “Hell-ebonis nigger,” as the
Eatonton Docks call that pisinoos yerb), who
squelched Jones very bad. Don’t tell Mr.
Sumner how onsocial I am with his name, be
cause they say that sometimes the Devil cn-
tercth into him, and when ho hath entered
in, he drieth out, sorter singing like, “O !!!
my soul Brooks, no control,” Ac. And when
he’s in that hnmor lje might cane a fellow.—
So “lie low and chaw polk root,” as the corn-
feds used to say when minnic balls took to
whistlin’: But before I go, I forgot to tell
you, the “Eatonton Burlesque Opera Troups”
is “nightly exhibiting to crowded houses.”
Don’t ask’em over your way, for they are
just fools enough to come, and besides you
might bust your grinning musdle if they did*
Don't know but what they might come if the
price of gaslights should fall; and if you
Macon folks should ever get ready to patron
ize home industry of that persuasion. Them
Troupes is gentlemen, Messrs. Editors, ncnc
of yer Campbcls, Peels and Wests, bat nice
boys, shore. They don’t know I’m naratin
’em about—if they did they’d sqnclch me.—
Tm doing it on my own hook. I just want
you to know—amongst Lee’s boys thar is
genus of all sorts and sizes. Would’nt be
surprised if some of them got to preaching
bye-and-bye. Why, sirs, the election for
Mayor and Alderman of the city of Eatonton,
come off lately, and who do yon think got
elected? Father Trippe? nary time! Geo.
Wardwell ? no! Well, who did get elected?
why, sic, a whole squad of Lee’s boys, hardly
done sucking. And, thinks I, that’s a pretty
come off—sending babes to mill—making
the wolves guard the sheep. But, bless my
soul if they did’ntgo to work filling gullies,
fining us country folks for tying to the trees!
Why, they eome to my district, they fined
Mr. R. R—d for spreading himself too much
on the side walk, and would’nt take his ex
cose that he was too young to know better.
I am afraid they will fine me for being ‘too
’ big for my breeches. If they dq, durned if I
don’t secede and jine Jasper. Dinged if they
didn’t fine themselves for being and Opera
Troupe, and in & spirit of loyalty, appropri
ate the money to mend the Ilnrcau drawer,
which got broke in Macon. Don’t know
what they will do next—word aint come.—
But I do know that they are good for any
thing.
Before I go—about the freedmen—they
are still at work, filling gullies, ploughing up
rotten cotton seed, running after the fence
rails washed away, and getting one-fifth of
what they yearn at it. Wc are organizing a
Great Southern Saving's Association, which
will go into operation when huckleberries get
ripe—capital, $5,000,000—twenty-five cents
paid in. The object of this Association is to
hire all the freedmen of this county to pick
huckleberries down in Dooly—giving the la
borers one-half of what they make after ex
pends are paid. It was gotten up to encour
age free In'or. Well, goodbye, but-before-I-
go, have you any of them old yaller exemp
tion papers—I want one of the blanks, as the
next g*de that sweeps from the North may
bring 10 our ears the slash ot resounding
arms, and then “wave Munich all your ban
ner- wave, and charge with all yer cavalry
But I don’t know.
R. Putnam.
all secular business be suspended; ahd that
it be solemnly observed throughout the State
of Alabama as a day of special fasting humil
iation and prayer, and that the ministers of
the various religious denominations will hold
religious services in their respective houses of
public worship.
It is also recommended that, while we hun-
bly acknowledge our helplessness and depen
dence upon a Great and Good Providence, anil
while wc ahold patiently and uncomplainingly
submit to the decrees ot an Omnipotent^ Cre
ator, even though they bring affliction and
pestilence upon us, wc should nevertheless
realize that there is much which we are not
only permitted but actually required to do.—
It becomes us therefore, to employ every
means within our reach which may be reason
ably supposed to keep the threatened plague
from onr doors. Accordingly, I carncsly ap
peal to the people of Alabama, of every class,
to adopt without delay, all possible precaution
in the way of hcalthfblnrss of food, cleanli
ness of person, and cleanliness of localities,
which human experience tells us, arc prere
quisites, of good health anil, to some extent,
at least preventive ot epidemic disease. It
is observed that the authorities of New York,
and other densely populated cities and towns
in the North havo required the occupants of
basements and cellars to remove to more
healthy localities. This is a wise regulation,
anil may be very properly applied to cities
and towns in Alabama, anil elsewhere in the
South. In many towns, numerous colored
people arc yet to be found unemployed dur
ing the day, and crowded together at night
in damp cellars, and uncomfortable huts. In
such cases, I regard it as the duty of all well
regulated communities to look to the comfort
nnd safety of the freedmen, anil others simi
larly situated, and require them to femove to
the country, where thev will find, not only
ready employment on ianns at remunerative
prices, but more security far health, includ
ing comfortable houses to live in.
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand, and
caused the Great Seal of the
State to be affixed, at the city
of Montgomery, this first day
[L.S.] of May, A. D. one thousand
eight hundred and sixtv-six,
. and of the Independence of
the United States of America
the ninetieth.
R. 31. PATTON.
By the Governor.
Alber^ Elmore, Scc’y. of State.
tnre.
The House passed the Senate bill to admit
Colorado as a State.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
York, May 3.—Cotton is firm
at
New
34c.
Gold, 127 7-8. ,
3IRS. DAVIS AT FORTRESS 3IONROE.
Fortress 3Ionroe, 3Iay 8.—3Irs. Jeffer
son Davis arrived this morning direct from
3Iontreal, on a visit to her husband.
Proclamation op Fast.—Tho Governor
of Alabama has issued a proclamation setting
apart Thursday, the 17th day of3Iay, instant,
to be observed as a day of fasting, humilia
tion, and prayer for Divine interposition to
spare us from that terrible scourge, the Asi
atic Cholera. The Governor alludes to a
similar proclamation published by the Presi
dent, though the latter has failed to meet our
notice.
e.t !()•• mm by siil.sonp.H'n. It i- the first in
stance we have ever seen recorded of a
“Southern gentleman” too proud or too ,-clf-
reliant to accept filthy lucre, come from what
source it may.—Albany Evening Journal.
Then you arc extremely ignorant of the co
right. past the fountain spring, a slipp ry as-1 temporary history—that’s all. Hood has only
cent below the peak, a scramble through the I done wlmt Let: did a dozen tinu -. what
fissures, (although there is an easier way,) and Beauregard did, what Magruder did, what
wc found ourself on the summit, near the Loogstreet did, and what no Federai Gcnc-
Picturc Gallery. Walking thence along a ral has done.
beautiful road,down two miles further we came riie/AIbany JourAl madj a most unfortu-
to the Hotel, which made us hold nat0 mistake in calling attention to this mat-
inr breath in utter astonishment.— It suggests a comparison between the
FR03I AVASHINGTON.
AVashington, 3Iay. 4.—Henry S. Fitch, of
Savannah, was confirmed by the Senate to
day as United States Attorney for Georgia.
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, was con
firmed as Minister to the Republic ot Mexico.
The committee appointed by the Texas
Convention have formally delivered a copy of
the ordinances passed by that body to the and capacious fautcui!s,tete a tetes,sofas,c'hairs
From the point where we stood, we saw
a little village situated in a perfect paradise
of flower gardens, huge shade tree-, fount
ains, miniature hills, meandering paths anil
picturesque old rocks. On every hand the
brilliant white cottages, scarcely visible in
the beautiful foliage and flowers, with the
cool crystal water dancing anil sparkling
from many springs and fountains appear
soothing and refreshing to the senses. The
approach to the Hotel is through a long aven
ue of trees, with a nicely gravelled promi-
nade in front surrounded fiy gardens. Three
tiers of porticoes surround all the buildings,
with lattice work, some of which is covered
with vines on the sides most exposed to the
sun. Entering the first building, on the right
is tho sitting room, fitted up with cool hang
ings, soft carpets and cushions, anil inviting
sofas, easy chairs, etc.
On the left is the office, in the rear of which
stands the bar, with several other rooms ad
joining, such as wash rooms, waiting rooms,
reading and smoking rooms. Up stairs is the
billiard room containing ten excellent tables,
and other apparatus for similar amusements.
The telegraph office Is also on this floor. The
story above contains single rooms for transient
lodgers, all neatly furnished. In the main
building the elegance of the appartmonts is
a very striking feature. Soft Brussels and
Turkdy carpets receive your feet embracingiy
President. In reply, the President expressed
the hope that jTexas, together with all the
other States recently in rebellion, would soon
be restored to tlieir normal condition, and
that tlieir citizens would be admitted to a
full participation in the blessings and protcc
tion of the Union.
The proceedings of the Senate to-day were
unimporthnt.
The House passed the bill establishing the
grade of General in the army, to which Gen.
Grant will undoubtedly be appointed.
“LITTLE 31ASSACHUSETTS.”
Cincinnati, 3Iay 4.—A convention, called
to consider the propriety of organizing a sep
arate State government for East Tennessee,
met at Knoxville yesterday. The President
of the Convention was authorized to appoint
a Committee to bring tho resolutions of the
body before the State Legislature, now in
session.
THE
The “Reconstruction” Bills.
The following is the test of the two bills
reported by the Reconstruction Committee
along with their constitutional amendment
The substance appeared in these columns
some days ago:
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE RESTORATION OF
THE STATES LATELY IN REBELLION TO THEIR
FULL POLITICAL RIGHTS.
Whereas, It is expedient that the States
lately in insurrection should at tho earliest
day consistent with the future peace and
safety ot the Union be restored to full par
ticipation in all political rights; and whereas
the Congress did, by joint resolution, propose
for ratification to the Legislatures of the sev
eral States, as an amendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States, an article in the
following words, to wit, (the constitutional
article here inserted), now therefore,
Be it enacted, Ac., That whenever the
above recited amendment shall hare become a
part of the Constitution, and any State lately
in insurrection shall have ratified the same,
and shall have modified its constitution and
laws in conformity therewith, tho Senators
and Representatives from such State, iffound
duly elected and qualified, may. after having
taken the required oaths of office, be admitted
into Congress.
Second. And bo it further enacted, That
when any State lately in insurrection shall
have ratified the foregoing proposed amend
ment to the Constitution, any part of the di
rect tux, under act of August 5,1861, which
may remain due nnd unpaid in such State,
may be assumed anti paid by such State, and
the payment thereof, upon proper assurances
from such State, to be given to the Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States, may be
postponed for a period not exceeding ten
yearn from and after the passage of this act.
A BILL DECLARING CERTAIN PERSONS INELIGI
BLE TO OFFICE UNDER THE GOVERNMENT
OF THE UNITED STATES.
Be it enacted, &c., That no person shall "be
eligible to any office under the government
of the United States who is included in any
of the following cases, viz:
First. The President and Vice President of
the Confederate States of America, so-called,
and the heads of departments thereof.
Second. Those who in other countries aeted
as agents of the Confederate States of Ameri
ca, so called.
Third. Heads of Departments of tho Uni
ted States, officers of the Army and Navv of
tho United States, and all persons educated
in the 3Iilitary or Naval Academies of the
United States, Judges of the Courts of the
United States, and members of either House
of tho Thirty-Six Congress of the United
States, who gave aid or comfort to the late
rebellion.
Fourth. Those who acted as officers of the
Confederate States of America, so-called,
above the grade of colonel in the army or
master in the navy, or any one who, as Gov
ernor of cither of the so-called Confederate
States, gave aid and comfort to the late re
bellion.
Fifth. Those who have treated officers or
soldiers or sailors of the army or navy of the
United States, captured during tho late war,
otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war.
PRESIDENT AND GENERAL
CANBY.
New Orleans, 3Iay 4.—Tlte President
has ordered General Canby not to interfere
with the United States Courts, and also to
make a full report of his action, in his late
conflict with that tribunal. Tho Court was
rc-opened yesterday.
From Texas and North Mexico.
TOE GREAT FLOOD IN RED RIVER.
I3IPORTANT JUDICIAL DECISION.
New Orleans, 3Iay 5.—The troops re
cently sent to Texas are acting very badly.—
Drunken rows and fights arc constantly oc
curring at Galveston.
Business at 3Iatamoras' is dull. The Aus
trian troops are dissatisfied on account of in
adequate pay, and forced loans are driving
the merchants away.
Red River planters say the cotton seed are
universally rotten A devastating overflow
is feared; Red River is higher than ever be
fore known.
Judge Duplante has decided that notes
payable in Confederate money are worthless,
and also mortgages given for Confederate
money daring the war.
lace curtains, chevres vases, cabinet, pictures,
books and all the paraphernalia of drawing
rooms, i&cluding pianos, guitars, violins anil
other musical instruments in profusion, made
us feel as though with a pair of slippers on
representative men and chief officers of the
two armies, which is not discreditable to the
South.
When Robert E. Lee was receiving four
hundred and one dollars per month in Con
federate money, at a time when that sum
would not purchase a half barrel of flour, the
writer of this paragraph moved, iu the Leg
islature of Virginia, to present him, in view
of his actual* necessities, with a hundred
thousand dollars. He would not receive it
A member of the Legislature, in view of the
General’s known unwillingness to accept
presents of any sort, proposed to accomplish
indirectly what it was impossible to achieve
directly. Gen. Lee was for several months in
the employment directly of the State of Vir
ginia, and received his pay for that service in
Confederate money. It was proposed to pay
him for the duty in gold, deducting the gold
value of the Confederate money he received.
A resolution to that effect was passed and
communicated to him. He immediately re
plied that he had given a receipt in full to
the State of Virginia, did not consider him
self entitled to further compensation, and.
therefore, respectfully declined the sum ten
dered. ,l
At that time General Lee anil his staff were
destitute of the commonest necessities of life,,
and frequently without animal food.
All will remember, likewise, how vainly thq
people of Richmond endeavored to force a
present of a residence, In that city, on Gene
ral Lee, at a time when Ins iiimily were fugi
tives from tlieir beautiful home. The money
was subscrilx’d and the house .-elected, when
the General wrote a peremptory letter of re-
ourfeet, a cigar in our mouth a young lady j fusal, respectfully, but in language 1. t left
seated at the piano, we could while away sev
eral centuries in the drawing room alone.—
Smaller parlors are fitted up in various parts
of the house for the accommodation of those
engaging suits of rooms. The bed rooms con ;
tain much better furniture than is found in
the generality of hotels, spring mattrasscs in
every room, the other arrangements arc com
plete,-several large windows are in each apart
ment, and there is no appearance whatever
ot crowding together. The bridal chamber
is resplendent in lioncy-moon luxuries, and
draped in white.
On the first floor, the culinary department
indicates cleanliness and system, one of the
principles of the house. A tip-top French
pastry Cook superintends, and. as we had
gastronomic evidence of his ability, we can
salely vouch for the excellence ot his manage
ment. The lar^c, cool dining hull is entered
from the conservatory, a highly polished
floor is dotted with small extension tables,
covered with imnmcculate linen and reeherehe
dining apparatus, silver forks, spoons and
napkin rings.
The bills of fare show the bett the market af
fords. Ladies’ and gentlemen’s bathing rooms,
with hot nnd cold water fixtures, area few
yards on the right of the main building, the
ice bouse, spring houses, dairies, carpenter’s
and gardener’s houses are in accordance with
the rest. The two buildings, containing the
guests’ department, and the offices, &c., are
disconnected, so that no noise or confusion
on the arrival or departure of travelers is
heard.
There is a lovely view of the surround
ing country for hundreds of miles, from the
observatory and promenade, battle fields,
towns, mountains, rivers, lakes, etc., spread
out in eveiy direction. Lulah Lake is a short
drive from the hotel, and possesses all the ad
vantages of pure water, coolness,' pebbly bot
tom, and rich scenery of any Eastern water
ing
no room for doubt, declining the gift. Yet*
at that time, his family were occupying one
of the humblest residences on Leigh street.
It is not necessary to enlarge upon the con
trast between these acts and the course of
Gen. Grant, who has accepted, since the. war •
closed, one hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars’ worth ot presents, carriages, horses,
books and wliat not. So much for the fling
at chivalry.
Whatever else may be said of Southern
Generals, the charge ot being mercenary docs .
not lie against them. The noble response of.
Magruder to the people of Texas, who con
tributed a handsome purse to procure him a •
fine plantation during the war, was tho im
pulse anil utterance of the universal spirit of
the Southern soldiers:
“No, gentlemen, when I espoused the cause
of the Smith, I embraced poverty, and will
ingly accepted it.”
Such, also, was the- conduct of 3Ir. Davis,
who, shortly' after his arrival in Richmond,
was presented by the generous citizens of our
capiial with the mansion which he occupied,
during the war. He declined* respectfully
but positively, to receive it on any other terms
than being permitted to pay rent for it nt the
usual per centage of cost for which such pro
perty is rented. And Mr. Davis’ salary per
annum was not equal to Gen. Grant’s - wages
per mouth.
If the contrast thus presented between dis
tinguished men on the opposing sides of the -
late war is not creditable to our Northern
brethren, let them remember that we dill not
provoke it.
SCRAPS.
Important Decisions as to Income and
Licenses.—The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue on Friday last promulguted the fol
lowing decisions;
All expenses for insurance upon property,
and all actual losses in business may be de
ducted from the gross income of the year.—
But loses sustained after December 31,1865,
cannot reduce tbc income for the year. Los
ses incurred in the prosecution of business
may be deducted from gains in another but
not from those portions of income derived
from fixed investments, such as bonds, mort
gages, rents, and tho like. Assessors should
also be careful not to allow the deduction ot
the_ amounts.claimed to have been lost in
business, when in reality they should be re
garded as investments or expenditures, ns
when merchants expend money in farming
or gardening for recreation or adornment
father than pecuniary profit
Persons traveling about the country as the
agents ot manufacturers or dealers, seekinc
orders for goods as agents of one person or
tirm? -only, such us salaried clerks or men
hired by the mouth, should not be required
to take licences as commercial brokers.
All parts of de. i.-ion No. 159 inconsistent
herewith are hereby revoked.
NEW YORK 3IARKETS—GOLD SHIP
MENTS.
New York, 3Iay 4*—Cotton to-day is firm
at 34ca35c.
Gold, 127 5-8.
New York, 3Iay 5.—Cotton firm; sales,
1,000 bales at 34ca35c.
Gold, 126 34.
The shipments of gold to Europe to-day
was over a million dollars.
EAST TENNESSEE CONVENTION.
Knoxville, Slay 5.—The East Tennessee
Convention has adopted resolutions petition
ing the Legislature for an act allowing East
Tennessee a separate State government, with
only four dissenting votes. The body has ad
journed tine die.
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LATEST LIVERPOOL 3IARKETS.
COTTON ADVANCED.
New York, May 6.—Liverpool advices to
tho 27th ult. have been received. The sales
of cotton for the week amounted to 96,( 00
bales, of which 10,000 were taken on specula
tion and 24,000 for export. The market had
advanced l-2d. a Id. on the week’s operations,
closing quiet and easier. 31iddling Orleans
quoted at 15 34d.
Consols, 86 7-8 a 87. Five-Twenties, 70 a
7014. l
PRETENDED CESSION OF LOWER
CALIFORNIA TO A3IERICAN CAPI
TALISTS.
Washington, May C.—A negotiation of
considerable magnitude' has just been conclu
ded here with the 3Iexican Minister, which
involves the cession to certain leading Amer
ican capitalists of nearly the entire peninsula
of Lower California.
HEAVY BANK FAILURE IN WASHING
TON.
Washington, 31ay 0.—The failure of (he
31erchants’ National Bank of this city, which
took place on Friday, is the cause of consid
erable excitement. Several citizens of Wash
ington are heavy losers, and the loss of the
Government is estimated at about six hundred
thousand dollars.
Ada Isaacs 3Icnkcn has purchased an ele
gant mansion in tho neighborhood of Central
Park, and styles it “Bleak House.”
Wc hear that several influential and weal
thy colored citizens, refused admission to the
Boston Theatre, after having purchased tick
ets, are taking measures to test their rights
by legal process, undergthc recent anti-pro
hibition law of the State. Hotel keepers will
watch for the result also with interest.
There is a negro in Philadelphia, whose
feet measure twen(y-one inches in length. It
is supposed they will be used as tbe next
“Republican” platform.
Booth’s—Wilke’s—photograph sells large 1 -
ly among tbe ladic, in Paris.
The production of gold in California is’now T
large, and more enterprize is exhibited in mi
ning business than has been for a long time
previous.
Dickens declined a recent invitation to read
before Victoria on the ground that he would
not go as a performer where lie was not re
ceived as a gentleman.
The largest distillery on the continent has
been opened at Louisville; under the name of
the Kentucky Bourbon Company. It is own
ed by New York, Boston nnd Louisville cap
italists, and has capacity for distilling over a
million gallons of whiskey per year, besides
grinding an extensive quantity of wheat.
Over a million of emigrants have arrived
in this country since last September.
Renan’s “Life of Jesus” was solemnly burnt
in the streets by the priests of Rome.
To Clean Silk.—White silk is best clean
ed by dissolving cured soap in water as hot
as the hand can bear, and passinsr the silk
through aud through, handling it gently, and
rubbing any spots till they disappear. The
silk should then be rinsed in lukewarm water,
and stretched by pins to diy. Flowerec:
white silk is best cleaned by bread crums
rubbed on by the hands. Black silk is best
cleaned by some ox gall, put into boiling wa
ter. The silk should be laid out on a table,
and both sides sponged with the gall liquor,
then rinsed with clear water. A very little
gum orabic or gelantine may be ilissolveil in
water, and passed over the wrong side of the
silk, which should then be stretched out on
pins to dry. Colored silks are cleaned with
so much risk that it is better to send them to
a scourer.
Savankaii Advkrtisiisients.—The atten
tion of 31erchants anil Planters is invited to
tlio advertisements ot a number of Savannah
houses, to be found in this issue. They are
all well-established firms of the highest re
spectability, and will give satisfaction to their
patrons. As the Central Railroad will be
open in the course of a very few weeks, we
hope to see Savannah regain her legitimate
trade, which, .-incc the elo-e of the war, has
been diverted to Nashville, Louisville and
Cincinnati.
TnE Devils !—Tho Cincinnati Gazette,
speaking of tho Southern people, says :
And if, by the necessities of war, their
cities and plantations should lie waste, her
people exterminated, anil heaps of smoulder
ing ruins mark the course of our armies
there would not go out, front one loyal breast
in this whole land, a sigh of regret. Their
calamities furnish cause for unmixed joy and
unbounded enthusiasm.
. W The Sfinatc of Tennessee—a thing
like unto which the world lias never vet seen
—passed a resolution a few days since request
ing the President of the United States to
have Jefferson Davis “tried and hung."' In
this suape the resolutions were transmitted to
tho House, one member ot which timidly pro
posed an amendment not to havo 31r. Davis
hung until after conviction. This was a very
foolish amendment, since if 3Ir. Davis is to
be “triedand hung,” it matters very little
which should take place first, the trial or the
hanging. This is a very fair specimen of the
at* satan-hip manifested in the present Lw-
laiure of Tennessee. Shade of Lucifer !—
'Atlanta Era.
It is a sad truth, and one to be lieeil-
that the women who to-ilay ordain the,
prevailing mode in Paris, are not the women I
whom it is sweet or wise to imitate.
FROM WJUBRYCE & CO. COTTON CIRCULAR.
Net Yoke. Friday Evening, April 27,1800.
Oar last Circular was iseueJ on the 2Cth instant, and
since then we arc in receipt of Liverpool advices to the
evening of the 14th hi-t. We have to note a very seri
j ous decline in tho. pri o ot cotton, amounting to three
pence to tljree pence half penny per pound. The causes
which have led to the decline have been indicated in
our previous circulars, viz: excessive receipts both in
Liverpool and at our own ports, uncertainty regarding
the amount yet to come forward, and the beVigerent at- .
titude of two of the great powers of Europe. The last
two steamers which have sailed for Europe hare car
ried advices favorable to higher prices, and will tend
to check the panic which is raging in Liverpool.
Our market has been dull for tho week, and prices
have tended steadily downwards where sales have beon
forced. The views of holders have been uniformly
above those of buyers,hence business has been restrict
ed, as holders found support and encouragement in the
advices from the South received by mail and te'egraph.
Tho Uis issippi has broken through the levees in many
places, and flooded the newly-sown lands, and thus seri
ous y damaged the crop prospects in that section. Tho
news from Alabama, Georgia and Carolina continues of
the same tenor regarding the non germination of the
seed, and the migratory desires of the freedmen. Since
the unfortunate passage, of the 6ivil Rights Bill the
freedmen in many sections are reported as still less to
be depended upon than before, their ignorance suppos
ing the bill to be the one they have so earnestly antici
pated, conferring upon them the liberty of laziness, and
reducing the white citizens t<A the negro level. The-
willful misconstruction by interested parties of a me a
sure like ibis, ill-advised as at best it is, will not only
reduce the crop below U» even low probably low lim
its, but throws obstacles in the way ot reconstruction of
a far moro serious character.
Its committee have reported to the Honse of Repre
sentatives the hill containing the proposed five-ncr.ttar
o„ cotton in sut h a form that wo regret i» say ...ere is
bat little hope of its not passing. Wc give the bill as
reported:
“On and after the 1st day of July, 1866, in lieu of the
duties on manufactured cotton, there ehall be paid by
the producer, owner, or holder upon all cotton pro
duced within tbe United States, and upon which no
taxes have been paid, a tax of flve cents a pound. Up
on article.• manutactured exclusively from cotton, when
exported, there shall be allowed as a drawback an
amount equal to the internal tax which sigUl have been
assessed and paid upon such articles in their flnishod-
condition, and iu addition thereto, a drawback or allow
ance of as many cen'B per pound upon the pound of
cotton, clotb. yarn, or other articles manufactured, ex
clusively to the same extent as on raw cotton.”
The covetous grasp of tbe Radical hand is manifest
in this new form of the bill; as first proposed, thp bur
den of the tax fell on the foreign and domestic manu
facturer; as amended, it fiills on tho producer. Not
only ie the tax placed entirely on the producer, but the
domestic manufacturer is relieved of any tax on lus
manufactures. Injustice stops not here, bnt the bill
provides that wren the manufactured goods aroex
ported the manufacturer may convert to his own ad
vantage the heavy tax paid by the producer. This bill
has not yet become a law, and moat sincerely do wo
hope that the Conservative vote will be so swelled by
the votes of those whom a sense of justice can move as
to enable the Radical phalanx to be pierced, and defeat
the bill in its present form, and thus not render the In
ternal Revenue system of the UnitedStates an example
of the concentration of taxation, but of its equitable
distribution.
If this trill becomes » law it will-cause a quick de
mand from exporters to get their cotton on the other
side, and the advantage of the prompt payment of the
present tax need not bo mentioned.
We remain your friends,
V WM. BRYCE i CO.
Value <f Cotton in New York, April 27,1866, entirely
nominal.
azcBtrie, exports, ec.
Rec. at New Orleans, week ending April fM.. 7,239 bales
Mobile •• “ « 25.. 4.137 -
Charleston “ “ 20.. 1.006 “
Savannah " *• “SO.. 7,057 “
Galveston “ “ “ 22.. S23 *
Florida - “ “ 26.. 1-500 “
New York, by Rail, •• “ 27.. 1,837 “ ,
Total.
23,496
Exp.frcmN.OrIoai:J,weekenilingA] riltt, S3.0.0
Mobile •-. “ - —■
Charleston “ “ 1
Savannah * “ ‘
Galveston “ “
New York •• “
Total
a New Orleans,?Apnl SO.
Savannah, U)
t '.jrleston, 2j
'■io l! •• _ 23
New York". 27. .'
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American C ::«: ■ :
rpov.
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Gold, l-JS 7