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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
(fHoniKt Ooltfhlii o. rlfcivuplr.
£gp“It is in contemplation to build a new
and costly Executive mnnsion on the high
grounds cast of the cepitol, nnd turn the
"White House into a tire-proof building fo
the State Department
*^*Gens. Stecdman and Fullerton will
remain in Augusta a week for the purpose of
preparing a report in reference to th j con
duct of the Bureau and the condition of the
reedmen in South Carolina,'Florida md the
Sea Islands.
'Mr. Seward is the object of unmeasur-
cd abuse by those who latdv delighted to hail
him their leader. Forney’s'Press, ir. some
comments, makes an allusion to Payne’s dag
ger in a way which being freely translated
means, ‘‘sorry it didn’t kill him. ’
ggTTlie Hew York Times notices, that the
Presklent of the United States is th-s only
person -a member of Congress- can abuse and
vilify, without getting out of order and in-
ctrring the rebuke |from the speaker.
The .Times might have-added ftbat the Ex
ecutive is the only department that a South
ern editor can abuse without bring regarded
as-disloyal to the government.
g^The Vicksburg HcraM says that the
affair of honor between Major Thomas Wal
too and Captain Harold Bellamy, of Sunflower
county, which was to have taken-place on the
19tb, was prevented by the arrest of Captain
Bellamy. Both these gentlemen were well
known in tlio .Virginia army. Major Walton
distinguished himself on several occassions on
the staff of General Longstreet: while Captain
Bellamy commanded a company in the 48th
Mississippi regiment, of Harris’ Brigade.
Tbk Cotton Supply.—The Washington
correspondent N. Y. Times writes from Wash
ington, that it has been represented to the
Committee of Ways and Means by leading
cotton manufacturers, likely to be well in
formed, .that the supply of good cotton suit
able for American consumption is so small
that it k not at all improbable but that we
shall be obliged to resort to a reimportation
of the article before September next.
Persons Lost on the Steamer Oak.—
The following are the names of persons who
were either burnt to death or drowned in the
disaster to the steamer “Oak,” off Wilming
ton Island : All colored persons except the
first named.
George E. Atwell, Second Engineer; A.
Campbell, Pilot; Alex. Martin, JamesJiatlian,
Henry Merrill .and Buller, deck hands;
Wm. Fleming, :Stcward; A. De Lyon, Cabin
Boy, and a negro girl, deck passenger, name
unknown.
Gen. Tnos. H. Rosser.—'This gentleman,
whose intelligent and gallant service for the
South reflected such honor upon cur arms,
will, says the Montgomery Mail, take charge
of the National Express Company from the
Rio Grande to Montgomery. Gen. Rosser
will make his head-quarters at New Orleans.
We learn from him that Gen. Joseph E. John
son will remain President of the Express, hav
ing declined the Presidency of the Alabama
•aJ Tennessee River Railroad, lately offered
him. Gen. Johnston will probably reside at
Baltimore.
district attorney fitch- j
NEW RULE OF CONSTITUTIONAL!
CONSTRUCTION ANNOUNCED.
A very interesting aijgument is now pro-
gre-'ing before tin- United States Dis-triet
Court at Savannah, upon the constitutional
ity of the Congressional Teat-Oath. In the
speech of Mr. Fitch, the Northern gentleman
who was recently appointed United States
District Attorney lor Georgia, we find the
following extraordinary and nm* significant
announcement:
“The war hat fettled, and settled foreter, one
vital principle affecting the entire jurispru
dence «f the country, and which the judiciary
WILL HE COMPELLED to consider, tie:
that the spirit, if not the letter of the Consti-
tution confers upon Congress far greater jtow-
ert than hate hitherto been conceded by the
Courts, and that from that standjmnt the Acts
of Congress MUST hereafter le construed. ”
Coming from an officer of the Government,
and promulgated in a speech prepared with
great care and deliberation, this doctrine may
very justly arrest the attention of the people
of this country. It is emphatically announced
that this Government is no longer what it
was—that the fundamental law, as designed
by its framers and interpreted by the greatest
statesmen and jurists of our country, is no
longer a rule for our government—that the
Judiciary is not to be independent and de
clare the law according to established author
ity, and their conscientious opinions of its
meaning and intent, but in accordance with
the opinions of a political party—in fine, that
the compact of union entered into by sov-
erign States and carefully framed for their
individual jprotection as well as the general
welfare, is to be construed hereafter, not ac
cording to its clear meaning nnd intent, but
in conformity to the usurpations of the party
in power amidst the throes of a revolution!
This is a startling doctrine, come fronY
whence it may. Even monarchial England,
throughout the civil wars of centuries, has
preserved sacred her fundamental law and
the rules for its interpretation. We are here
told, however, that our Government; without
a change of constitution, has 'undergone
materia! change in substance; that we arc no
longer to have the Union as it tcat, but the
Union as "bayonets, not law, have made it. It
this is not a step toward a complete overthrow
of free institutions iu this country and the
substitution of military despotism, then we
are incapable of forming an opinion of the
tendency and inevitable effects of such a doc
trine.
All thj pcoplo of this country have a vital
interest in crushing this monstrous doctrine
in the bud. We are sure it receives no coun
tenance from the Executive head of the Union,
and it is to be hoped that the Judiciary, whom
it proposes to fetter and degrade as the mere
menials of party, will promptly brand it with
the condemnation that it deserves.
TIic Bankrupt Rill.
SUMMARY OF ITS PROVISIONS
[From the Baltimore Sun.]
The Effect Here of u European
War.
With the sudden realization on this side of
he water of the imminence of a European
war, we note a disposition in some quarters,
even where a pretension is made to the _sub-
servence of financial interests, to felicitate
the community with the idea that no great
damage can result to affairs here in cause-1 ruptcy.
qucncc of such a war. Indeed the theory is , The 2d seetbn gives the United States
put forth that advantageous results would j Circuit Courts jeneral superintendence nnd
The following is a summary of the Bank
rupt law as passed by the House of Represen
tatives :
The 1st section constitutes the District
Court* of the United States Courts of Bank-
enurc to us from the insecurity of capital
on the other side, turning it in this direction
for investment in United States bonds and
other of our securities, we being at peace,
while the nations there are engaged in
wasteful war. To whatever extent this might
probably be ultimately, it is very sure that
it could only he realized at a remote period.
It is not safe or reasonable, therefore, to
make any calculations of the sort. On the
contrary, as the inevitable offset of war is
the diversion of the capital and resources of
the countries which are to so engage from the
legitimate operations of peaceful and pro
ductive pursuits, it is impossible that war
can take place in Europe without liaving
its bad effects in all quarters of the commer
cial world. When, with a view to prepara
tion fpr the coming change, the current and
volume of credits are interfered with in the
centers nearest the scene of strife, the par
ties affected are impelled to draw on wliat-e tice is then to [>e given to the creditors to
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Personal.—Among the prominent legal
gentlemen now in our city, in attendance on
the Superior Court, wo may mention the
names of Hon. B. II. Hill, Hon. R. 1\ Trippc,
Hon. A. IL Kenan and Col. P. W. Alexander,
and perhaps others whom we have not hap
pened, to meet. We were also pleased with
a visit yesterday from Col. Tliwcatt, Georgia’s
famous Comptroller General, for many years
post, who is about entering on the benevolent
mission of distributing bread among the suffer
ing poor of our State, under the Act of the
late Legislature. He informs us that enough
corn has been secured to supply all the needy
with rations for three months—an item of
news that will gladden the hearts of many.
The European War.
The Boston Post suggests that when we
speculate about a general European war, we
must not lose sight for a moment of the fact
that Napoleon is still the master mind in the
politics of the Continent. Long since he
proposed a new Congress of the different
powers, but was met with replies that ex
pressed little besides indifference. His ulte
rior object was then, without doubt, to abro
gate in form—as it had already done in fact—
the Vienna platform of 1815. But failing
entirely in this scheme, it is easy to sec how
he has availed himself of the disagreement
between Prussia and Austria for the sake of
inflaming it to a state of positive hostilities
and afterwards played upon the national sen
timent of Italy, so as to arouse in Austria a
natural resentment at the provocations of Vic
tor Emanuel. He means, very clearly, to get
all Europe by the cars, and then step for
ward—this time with better hopes of sue
cess—with his plan for d Congress of all the
powers.
That must furnish the explanation of the
Emperor's present complacency, while Eu
rope is rushing with such precipitancy, to
arms. And wo reason, therefore, that war,
however imminent, need not be counted on
till it comes. The show of it we regard rath
as a bold piece of diplomacy, which may or
may not overshoot the mark at which it is
imed. The Napoleon hand is under it, di-
ecting every movement.
The Attempted Assassination op Count
Bismark.—The Berlin Volkszietung mentions
that Herr Lewald received a letter from Karl
Blind, of London, requesting him to obtain
permission from the proper authorities that
his step-son may be interred with becoming
respect, aud at the same time asking for a
lock of his hair. Both requests were readily
complied with. A letter which Cohen-Blind
,had written to his step-father was detained
'at the post office by means ot the telegraph
after the attempt on Von Bismark. In it he
expressed his unalterable resolution to kill
Bismark, whom he regards os the greatest
enemy of Germany. He argues that his death
is necessary for the safety and unity of Ger
many. He says he has no accomplices, and
is prepared to risk his own life. The Kreuz
Zcitung says: “It washy the will of God that
Herr Von Bismark was saved from being
E icrced with the bullets.” Others say that
e had on a coat of mail.
letter from count bismark.
Berlin, Thursday, May 10.—After having
been preserved on the 7tli of this month, by
the grace of God, from a grave danger, nu
merous congratulations and affecting proof of
sympathy nnd good-will have been address
ed to me from Berlin itself, by personal vis
its. and from all parts of the country by tele
grams and letters, I had hoped to be able to
express my gratitude diiectly to each indi
vidual. but I have been convinced, to my deep
regret, that the urgency of my official duties
will not allow me to do so. I have therefore
the honor to express, by this public declara
tion, my sincere and heartfelt gratitude to all
those who have cheered me by proofs of their
sympathy, nnd to whom I have not yet been
to reply personally. Bismark.
ever resources they may have. Bank ac
commodations becoming limited, and the
rates of interest rising, debtors are called on
to pay, sccuries are thrown upon the market,
and each and all deem it wise to gather tlieir
strength to themselves. What is owing to one
people from another is likely to bo culled for.
The call is extended from one financial cen
ter,to another. Germany calls on France, and
France on England, and all, in such an in
stance as the present, on the United States as
far possible. Hence our bonds are sent home,
and all manner of balances which may be due
to Europe from the United States will be
sought to lie made available on the, other
side. Whatever those on that side can find
a market for here they will also be forcing
upon us to purchase, even at a sacrifice. Should
a war of any magnitude go on, foreign
goods may become abundantly cheap among
us. Gold now 1 goes abroad largely—many
millions per week—under the mere apprehen
sion of the great combat; but it k not to be
presumed that the drain would long continue
at such a rate, yet it is always the case that
the tendency of gold is in the direction where
money is most needed, ns long as there is any
thing possible with which to command it—
With tlie continental nations at war, they
will, as always heretofore at such periods, be
borrowing in immense sums to carry on tlieir
operations, just as we did to cany on ours in
our late civil strife. No matter at what price,
the demands of the Moloch of War must be
met The credit of the combatants is willing
ly suffered to depreciate, and they incur obli
gations at what is ordinarily considered ruin
ous sacrifice. Already on the continent the
national banks of Italy and Austria liave been
virtually released by their governments from
specie payments. This is the end of their
immediate anxieties; and the example will
probably soon be followed by Berlin.
What may be the ultimate depreciation of
their public funds no one can estimate, but
probably it will not be greatly aggravated at
present, even by actual war. We .cannot
abandon the hope, however, that this may
yet be averted. In Paris, the panic may in
crease, but so far as England is concerned, it
has probably seen its worst, as there it grew
largely out of the want of money to sustain
the great speculations, .especially the long
continued one in cotton, though the crisis
was, doubtless, precipitated by the threaten
ed outbreak of war. The chief immediate
harm likely to come to the United States
from this in by the non-payment in full of
cotton exchange. It is well remarked, how
ever, that this market is now the best one
for sale of securities and of American produce,
which is not in abundant supply, and until
gold is a good deal higher there will be no
lack of European sellers. Tbo return of our
produce and stocks is now n paying business,
and it is idle to suppose that it will not be
prosecuted with vigor.
jurisdiction of al cases and questions arising
under the act
Sections 3 to 7, inclusive, relate to the ad
ministration ol the law in courts of bank
ruptcy.
Sections 8, 0 and 10 refer to appeals and
practice.
The lltli seefon provides that if any per
son residing wiliin the jurisdiction of the
United States, owing debts over chrec hund
red dollars, shill apply by petition to the
Judge of his Jidicial District, setting out his
inability to pay his debts in full, and his wil
lingness to surcneler his estate for tlie bene
fit of his crediors—the filing of such peti
tion shall he m act of bankruptcy, and such
petition shall he adjudged a bankrupt. A
warrant shall tlcu be issued by the Judge eli
rceting the mirshal of the district to take
possession of the estate and keep the same
until the appoittment of an assignee. No-
liold a meeting and choose one or more as
signees.
Sections 12 to 18, inclusive, define, in great
detail, tie dueties of assignees.
Sectichs' 19 to 24, inclusive, relate to debts
and proef of claims.
Sectim 25 provides for tlie sale of perish
able projerty. ,
Sectim 20 provides for the examination of
bankrupts before the Court, and exempts
them froir liability to arrest during : the pen
dency of the proceedings in bankruptcy in
civil actions.
Sectiol 27 relates to the distribution of the
bankrupts estate. All creditors Whose debts
are duWproved and allowed are to be en
titled te share in tlie bankrupt property pro
rats, wthout any priority or preference
whatever, except that wages due from him
to anyoperative, clerk or house servant to an
amomt not exceeding fifty dollars, for labor
performed within six months next preceding
the adjudication or bankruptcy shaft be en
titled tqpriority, and shall be first paid in full.
In the irder fpr a dividend the. following
claims a*c to be entitled to priority or pre
ference ind to be first paid in fqll in the
following order: .
1. Fee, costs and expenses of suits, and
for the cistoely ot property.
2. Alldebts due to the United States, and
aft taxd and assessments under the laws
thereof.
Puri* Fashions——From Ee Follet,
Each spring the Parisian aristocracy intro
duce some fashion which is reserved for them
selves alone. That for the present season is
one for which every woman of taste has an
innate tendency; it is the preference given to
white, either for home or ball diess. The
great care and numberless expenses connect
ed with such a toilette make it a luxury for
the rich only when adopted for home or
morning dress: at the same time it is gen
erally a proof of elegance and good taste.—
These morning dresses are no longer called
peignoirs, although they are a costume neglige.
Tlint which constitutes their rcclierchc ele
gance is their apparent simplicity. No par-
venue would be satisfied with a simple white
dress trimmed only with a ruche of tlie same,
or narrow tucks on the skirt. She might
have a splendid peignoir embroidered in gold
and elaborately trimmed; but a dress so
simple would not be her taste. One must
have it from the cradle, it can never be merely
learned. These white dresses, which will be
so fashionable, are composed of a long skirt
of percale, and a short casaque of the same;
the casaque not fitting, but showing the
figure. Some arc trimmed with tlie narrow
ruche already spoken of, forming a small
grecque, and fastened on with a colored cot
ton. Others have an insertion, with a guip
ure at each edge; and again, others are made
in large scallops, trimmed either with a fancy
braid, all white, or white and colored. The
taste for white is not new; it has always been
adopted by the grand rnonde. We might, in
proof of this, go liack to the time of the
Romans, when tlie dress of white wool was
that of the patrician lady.
Another marked preference in tlie same
circle is that for white and black, white and
lilac, or gray and white. These form the
walking dresses of those who wear white at
home. Indeed, now that the dress and jack
et must match, one has not much choice ot
of color, ns anything very striking or bright
is by no means suitable for such a style of
toilette. Wc still find striped or plain ma
terials are more generally in favor than any
other, they arc so decidedly the most suitable
for skirts on the bias. Indeed stripes cut thus
produce a pretty effect, forming into points
where they join. Many dresses are made quite
plain. When trimming'is. used bands of
taffetas on the bias are frequently employed.
Clunv guipure, also, and small round mother
of pearl buttons arc very fashionable, especial
ly on the “Princcsse” make of dress, which
will, without doubt, predominate through
the summer.
As the warmer weather approaches it ap-
E ears that the casaque, formed simply by
asqiies fastened on to a waistband, will be
adopted. It is more convenient for the pres
ent make of dress than the former fashion of
having no body to the dress under the out-of-
doors jacket, which was so frequently the re-
A Pneumatic Despatch.
From the Louisville Journal.]
The London Times gives an account of a
ceremony which recently took place in the
British metropolis of much scientific and pub
lic interest. This was the onening of the first
portion of the pneumatic tube which is to j happen in case the train stuck fan it
connect the General Post-office with the ter-; p 0 j ut on j ts journey. A carriage w; - /
minus of the Northwestern railway, through ; ng i y - scotched,” 'or 1 istened ~ii * U( |,
ono reminiscence connected with an’
stage in the history of this very p-,
dispatch did certainly present itself .-
ward moments. The incident was as
Various experiments having been t:i.
the tube and its power of suction,
(T
officials at last determined to see wb
i Oft
o bo.sent, anti wineu I that it could not move, and then the" n r *‘-
relations formed lie of the engine was exerted to tlie utmost t?
w system of commit- carriage in question was intended for m*
which postal matter is to bo sent, and which
is destined, if tlie expect
realized to open up a new ;
nication throughout not only the English : „ erS) ant i famished accordingly Bt'ibT
metropolis but all the great cities of Europe j c ,n C of the cushions, the othere, and
and America. It is a sign that the world is :
tlie woria is - a p the movables which the carriage com- 1
still moving. We have condensed and nr- ed< werc whirled through the tube and S
Omfi of fliA nfluii* rtnrl flirt -f/wnn _ i .
3. Alldebts due to the State in which the; 8< >urce of ladies When the heat was too great
prooecdugs in bankruptcy are pending, and! to admit of the double vestment. Of course
all tuxes and assessments made under the | ^cso b . a fl ues m , ust be ’ vc!l «“*>“* flt cd
laws of stch State. j tlie waist in such a manner that they do not
4. Wajes dne to any operative, clerk or j a PP car separate,
house servant to an amount not exceeding
The “Right Way.”
XIoiv it Circulates—Good Joke on
the President.
Rising Youno Georgians. — The two
young gentlemen referred to in such compli
mentary terms in the following paragraph,
taken from the Galveston News, arc natives
of Georgia, having been born, reared and ed-
ucated in tho town of Washington, Wilkes
county. We knew them well and feci proud
of tlieir success:
Wo were honored with a visit yesterday by
lion. A. IT. Willie, candidate for the Supreme
Bench. The Henderson Times says, Major
Willie was elected District Attorney for the
Washington District, at the early age of 22,
and bore himself hnndsomcly in his conflicts
with one of the ablest bars of tho State.—
Afterwards lie discharged for the most part
the duties of Attorney General, while his
brother, James Willie, was the incumbent of
that office. Tho Times adds that ho “is a
gentleman of unexceptionable moral charac
ter, has a fine discriminating mind, is deeply
anil thoroughly versed in the science of law,
is a close and untiring student, and would be
an ornament to the uench which lias been
adorned by such men as Hemphill, "Wheeler
and Limpscombe.”
A Slander.—It is asserted by the Nation
al Intelligencer that the editor of tlie AVash-
ington Chronicle i Forney is thecditor-in-chiel",
but we don t know whether he is meant or
not), receives his colored acquaintances at his
residence, nnd gives them the best tlie mar
ket affords. The Intelligencer is generally
regarded as an honorable, upright, journal,
but it is possible, nevertheless, that this state
ment i* a mere Copperhead attempt, to injure
the character of the pegroes.—MobileItcgiitcr.
SUICIDE OF A SUPPOSED SON OF NAPOLEON I.
One Ernest Graf, a valet de place, drowned
himself recently at Dresden. He was sup
posed to have been a son of Napoleon L and
tlie late beautiful and famous Countess Kiel-
mansegge. His claims to illustrious patron
age were at one time strongly supported by
the Saxon Court, but never recognized by
Napoleon III. In features and person he was
the exact image of bis putative father.
AUSTRIAN FEELING TOWARD PRUSSIA.
From the Vienna Ncue FreioPre* se.
This same Prussia, the satellite of Russia
during tlie Eastern war, which during the
war in Italy exchanged fisticuffs with the cnc-
raies of Austria—this legitimist Prussia 1 which
takes its crown from off God’s altar—which,
with a view of subjugating Germany and
transforming Austria into a secondary Sclavo-
Maygar State—makes a league with Italy
which would lay German territory and Ger
man honor at the mercy of the foreigner—this
6ome Prussia presents herself before tho Fed
eral Diet and expresses astonishment that
Austria and Saxony should think themselves
menaced by her policy.
Docs this Prussia which has twice declared
that she would overrun Saxony with her
troops expect to be believed when heaping
lie upon’lie, slie affirms before Germany and
Europe that the security of Berlin is compro
mised by tho policy and military preparations
of Herr von Bucst ?
Nay, more, Herr von Bismark, whoso in
trigues have entangled King William in an
alliance with Victor Emmanuel—this avowed
promoter of a traitorous and felonious policy
toward Germany, who has made rapine, pil
lage and violence his programme, has the
audacity in the face of the Federal Diet, to
identify his policy with the rights of the Ger
man nation, aud to accuse tlie other Govern
ments of Germany with refusing to pay due
consideration to the most modest demands of
that same Germany.
There is no means of wheedling this ene
my. Every concession would only augment
his covetousness nnd his arrogance. Prussia
wishes for war. Very good. Then she shaft
have it, and we have but one desire on tlie
subject. It is this, that if the cannon once
roars, nnd thc fortune of war should once fa
vor Austria and ln:r German allies, the sword
shall not be sheathed till it shaft bo put for-
iv. r out ol the power of Pru.-.-ia to trouble
any more the peace of Germany by her crimi
nal ambition, and her traitorous alliances with
the stranger.
SriT" Speaking of a young man who is in
the habit of serenading the ladies of that city
the local of the Selma Messenger says: “For
having heard him declare, in tuneful strains,
to cacli of six young ladies in one evening,
that die was “all the world” to him, we can
safely endorse him as the most “harmonious”
lyre, of our acquaintance.
frfcF” When a man shall hereafter bor.st
that lie is an American citizen (and but few
Caua dans will henceforth muke that boast.)
it will not bo known whether lie is a white
man or a negro, Indian "or Hottentot, baboon
or monkey.—IUc\mond Examiner.
“Mack,” the Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnntti Commercial tells a story
about the President and a severe test upon
his good humor, which will do to relate.
The “Right Way” is asmallsewen-by-nine
sheet, sadly misnamed, and devoted primarily
to the abuse of Andrew Johnson, and second
arily to the advocacy of the Summerian mode
of reconstruction. Lew. Campbell happened
to pick up a copy ot it a month ago, which
was peculiarly “rich” in vituperation and
scandal. He took it to the White House,
and, in the course of an interview with his
Excellency, drew it from liis pocket, with the
remark, “Now. Mr. President, I’m going to
test your different mental and moral qualities.
Let mo see liow you are as to philosophy.”
Campbell then read au article entitled
“Andrew Johnson and Thomas Paine,” writ
ten after the manner of Plutarch’s “Compari
son,” and designed to show that Paine was a
very estimable man compared with Johnson.
The President listened to it attentively.
“How do you like that ?” said Campbell.
“Well, it’s not bad,” said Andrew, good-
humoredly.
“Now,” said Campbell, “I want to test
your patriotism.” And he read an article
showing that as between Andrew Johnson
and Benedict Arnold there was a large balance
in favor of the latter in the matter of love of
country.
“How do you like that ?” said Campbell.
“Oil, it will do. This is a free country,
you know,” smilingly replied the President.
“Well, now prepare for a test of your fidel
ity,” said Campbell, and proceeded to read
an article entitled “Judas Iscariot and An
drew Johnson,” to the effect that the betrayal
of his Master by the former was as nothing
compared with the betrayal of liis party by
the latter.
“What do you think of that Mr. Presi
dent r*
Well, I guess my shoulders are broad
. 'Hough to >-t a ml it," replied hi* Excellency,
not at all moved to displeasure.
“Now, here comes the climax,” said Camp
bell, and began to read a double-leaded edi
torial to the effect that the Right Way would
be circulated through the agency of the
$50, for labor performed within six months
next preceding tht first publication of the no
tice of proceedings in bankruptcy.
5. All debts dus to any person who, by.ithe
laws of the Unite! States, "arc or may be en
titled tc a priority or preference in like man
ner as if this acl had not been passed. Al
ways pioviiled tiat nothing contained in the
act'sbal interfere with the assessment and
collection of taxes by the United States or
any Stite.
Secton 29 an! the five following sections
relate to the bankruptcy discharge and its
effects. If it shall appear to tlie Court that
The Prison Treatment of .Jeffer
son Davis.
The New York World insists upon the evi
dence of Post Surgeon Cooper, as set forth in
liis report, that the treatment'of Jefferson
Davis as a prisoner, has been disgraceful to
the Government. We quote:
“The report cannot be read by any honor
able and right-minded American, no matter
what his sectional feelings or his political
opinions may be, without a sickening sensa
tion of shame for his country, and a burning
™ InfeZ-r Tn ifl" 311 of indignation against the persons who
his drty under alis act, and that he is enti-1 have 1)rostl ? uted tIl( ! lr official position to m-
tled mder the provisions thereof to receive a
dischtrge, the C«!urt shall grant him a dis
chnrgj from aft his duties except as therein
after provided, and shall give him a certifi
cate tlereof under the seal of the Court.
Section 35 declares preferences and fraudu
lent conwysnecs void.
Sectio*l"§0, 37 and 38 relate to the bank
ruptcy of fartnerships and corporations, and
to dates arahppositions.
Sections 42, inclusive, provide for the
case of invluntfiry bankruptcy ; a departure
from the sane, avoiding the lervice of legal
process, retoval or concealment of proper
ty, fraudulnt assignment of property, arrest
and detentiin for debt for a period of seven
days confessbn of judgment, or suspension of
payment of ommercial paper for fourteen
days, shaft bedeemed an act of bankruptcy.
Section 43 jrovides for the superseding of
the bankrupt proceedings by arrangement
Section44 povidcs penalties against bank
rupts for concalment of property, falsifying
books or paper, fraudulent assignment or
conveyance of property, spending in gaming,
permitting a fictitious debt to be proven
against him, oltaining on credit fraudulent
ly within threemonths of the commencement
of the procecdbgs in bankruptcy; these are
to be deemed nisdemeanors, and punished by
imprisonment, vitli or without hard labor,
for a term not eiceeding three years.
Sections 45 and 4G provide penalties
against officers administering the law.
Section 47 regilates fees and costs.
Section 48 regilates stamp duties on peti
tions, warrants, pc.
Sections 49 ant 50 define the meaning of
terms and compilations of time.
Section 51 and last, enacts that this act
shall commence aid take effect, as to the ap
pointment of the Officers created hereby, and
the promulgationbf rules and general orders,
from and after the date of its adproval; pro
vided that no petifon or other proceeding
under this net shallbe filed, received or com-
menebd before the it day of Novembe, 1866.
Colonel C. A. Id. I.niimr.
The remains of this gallant gentleman,
who fell in defense of our city in April, 1865,
have been disinterred, and will be forwarded
to-day to his forner home, Savannah, for
burial, in charge )f L. G. Bowers, whose
guest ho was at tho time he was killed.
For more than twelve months, the place that
marked his grave ir our Cemetery has been
adorned with floral tributes by those who
enjoyed his friendslib in life, and who cher
ished the memory of the unselfish devotion
which characterized iis death. "Whilst they
would have delighted to have had him rest
near the scene of his $orious end, they yield
to the desires of the widowed and fatherless
ones to gather near their hearthstones all that
is left of him once so dear to them.
. | The I ircuin*t:uuv* uttouling lii- fall liavr
" an from | established a claim upon he grateful remem
brance and respect of our,people which this
General Howard.
“How do you like that Mr. President 1” in
quired Campbell. ■
The President laughed, looked hi3 Ohio
friend in the eye, and said : “Well, now, I
don’t mind the other things, but doesn’t it
strike you that tho Howard part is a little too
steep f”
Campbell said it really did occur to him in
that light. Tlie President finally took tho
paper and made some note3 on the margin of
the order of General Howard—since which
time it is supposed the Freedmcn’s Bureau
hasn’t been instrumental in circulating the
“Right Way” to a very great extent.
£5?” The General Assembly of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church, which met at
Owensboro, Kentucky, on last Thursday
week, adjourned on last Saturday evening.
The proceodinge were eminently satisfactory,
resulting in the entire restoration of the uni
ty of the church upon a conservative basis.
There were over one hundred nnd fifty dele
gates in attendance, Rev. Dr. Beard, of Leb-
mon, presiding, nnd John Frizzell, Esq., of
Winchester, acting as Secretary. Tennessee
was represented by forty two ministers, near
ly twice as many as were present from any
other State.
The GeorgiaConvetion.-*-Co1. Iloustcun,
President ot the Pensacola and Georgia Road,
left this morming for Savannah with tho view
of making final arrangements for tlie comple
tion of the Georgia connection. Little or no
doubt exists ol’his ability to procure the iron
necessary to close the gap.—Tal. Floridian,
•29th.
humble notice is intendedm part to acknow
ledge. Tho approach of Wilson’s column
found him a casual visitor lb our town, and
in receipt of a dispatch amouncing that his
wile and children had just been driven from
house and home by the Feleral authorities
at Savannah. Stifling the piomptings of na
tural affection, and rejecting the importuni
ties of friends, he declared lis intention of
sharing the fate which threatened our com
munity. Attaching himself to the staff of the
General Commanding, he served during the
memorable Sunday, and fell at night at the
thrcslihold of the bridge leading to the city.
The impulsivo bravery which adorned his
life was sustained to the last. His imploring
appeals to our retreating troops to rally
against the advancing cavalry, invited the
shot which terminated his life and added
his name to the honored scroll of Confederate
dead.
If, in tho future, a monument shall be rais-
eel here to commemorate the virtues and ser
vices of those who died in our defense, a pe
culiar and melancholy interest will attach to
it, by reason of the fact that on its column
will be inscribed the name of the last man
who fell in the last organized struggle for
Southern independence.— Col. Sun, 1 at.
The question is now pending before
the Supreme Court whether property captur
ed belonging to insurgents shoulel be forfeit
ed for the benefit of tbe captors. $23,000,000
flict upon the American name an ineffaceable
brand of disgrace by the wanton and wicked
torture of an invalid lying a helpless prisoner
in the strongest fortress of the Union.
The refusal, by express military orders, of
common courtesies and simplest decencies ot
life to a man who for four years wielded the
resources of eleven belligerent States against
the whole powerof the Union, while it would
be unspeakably disgraceful to tbe authorities
perpetrating it, might be of very little con
sequence either to the health or the spirit of
the captive at whom it was aimed.
A man of strong anel self-sustaining charac
ter might be annoyed, indeed, at finding him
self in the hands of persacutor3 so paltry, but
they would scarcely be able to disturb his
digestion or his sleep. The American peo
ple—should these stories prove to be tree—
will have a serious account to settle with the
functionaries who coaid thus misrepresent anel
belittled tliem in tbo eyes of Christendom anel
of history.
Thaddeus Stevens could shock the moral
sense of mankind by elemanelum the “peni
tentiary of heft” for millions of his fellow-
countrymen ; but even Thaddeus Stevens, we
prefer to think, would shrink from condens
ing that vast and inclusive anathema into the
practical, downright torture of a single hu
man being. "When Lafayette was suffering
tbe extremes of cruelty in the Austrian dun
geons of Olmultz, Edmund Burke, transpor
ted by a blind rage against tbe French Revo
lution, could respond to an appeal in behalf
of the injureel and liigli-souled victim by ex
claiming in his place in Parliament: “I would
not debase my humanity by supporting an
application iu behalf of such a homed ruffi
an 1” But it is for a moment to bo supposed
that the most fanatical member of tbe Amer
ican Congress, which assumes to itself a spe
cial philanthropy and sits in the year 1866,
can be found to imitate the savage bigotry
of an exasperated British royalist in the year
94.
The Philosophy of Living.
IRRITATION TJIE ENEMY OF LONGEVITY.
But few men die of age. Almost all die of
disappointment, passional, mental, or bodily
toil, or of accident. The passions kill men
sometimes, even suddenly. The common ex
pression, “choked with passion,” has little
exaggeration in it; tor even though not sud
denly fatal, strong jiassions shorten life.—
Strong bodied men often die young—weak
men live longer than tho strong, for strong
men use their strength, and the weak hare
none to use. The latter take care of them
selves, the former do not As it is with the
body, so it is with the mind and temper.—
The strong are apt to break, or, like a candle,
to “ run;” the weak bum out.
The inferior in animals, which live, in gen
eral, regular and temporate lives, have gener
ally their prescribed term of years. The
horse lives about twenty-five years; the ox
fifteen or twenty; the dog ten or twelve; the
lion, we are told, about twenty; tlie rabbit
eight. The duration of life in all these bear
a similar proportion to tlie time the animal
takes to grow its full size. But man, of all
the animals, is one that seldom comes up to
his average. Ho ought to live a hundred
years, according to this physiological law ;
but instead of that he scarcely reaches, on the
average, four times his growing period ; the
cat six times; and the rabbit even eight
times the standard of measurement.
Tho reason for all this is obvious. Man is
not only the most irregular and tlie most in
temperate, but the most laborious and hard
working of all animals. He is also the most
irritable of animals; and there is reason to
believe—though we cannot tell what an ani
mal secretly feels—that, more than any other
animal, man cherishes wrath to keep it warm,
and consumes himself with the fire of secret
reflections. Besieles this, man is the only
animnl that make3 a wide departure from
those laws of nature which control life. He
akes on unnatural and health destroying
habits, carrying them to the verge of the
grave, and clinging to them with a tenacity
which yields not even to his better judgment.
The lower order of animals never do this.—
Instinct is their guide, and the superior dura
tion of life they enjoy is jiroof of the folly of
man.
fff An exchange paper ha3 an article
headed “Probable Complexion of the next
Presidential Election."’ If the Radicals are
, _ , I permitted to have their way, we will come to
worth of snch property is claimed by mi.- j speculate a few yearshencc upon the probable
itary and naval officers. complexion of the next President.
ranged the long and graphic account tlie
Times gives of the whole affair for the infor
mation of the readers of the Journal, and
doubt not they will be as much interested in
it as we have been.
A short line was laid down experimentally
at Battersea, two or three years ago, and af
terwards transferred to Seymour street, where
it has been and is now doing duty in tlie con
veyance of mails between Euston square sta
tion and the northwestern district post office
in Evcrshoult street A short passenger line
on the same principle was also constructed at
the Crystal Palace. The present, however,
is-the first practical application of the process
on anything like a largo scale, and the results
are certainly encouraging. The distance from
Euston to Holbom is exactly one mile and
three-quarters; the second portion of the
line, running on at right angles to the gener
al post office, will be an additional mile in
length, and of this further portion one-half
has been laid; so that the completion of the
Company’s undertaking may be looked for at
no distant day. The opportunity affordeelof
seeing the line in actual working order drew
together a number of gentlemen whose names
are familiar in the scientific and commercial
world.
Looked at from the street, one woulet never
imagine tliat the interior of the premises con
tains so much that is well worth seeing.—
Entering from tho level of Holborn, the visi
tor passes along a corridor through a doorway,
and emerges upon a gallery of considerable
size, from which he looks down on a brick
floor, supporting lines ol rails, much as he
might do from a railway platform ■ down on
to the line, but from a' greater elevation.—
Underneath the coerielor by whienhe lias just
entered he sees some mechanical appliances,
suggestive partly of an engine-room, and
partly of a pointsman’s gallery outside a rail
way station; and below the level, again, on
which the white-jacketed engineer in charge
is standing, and supporting the platform on
which both he and these mechanical appli
ances rest, are a couple of openings, looking
like black polished modern chimney-pieces
with the grates withdrawn. These are the
mouths of the pneumatic tubes, of which one
communicates with the North "Western Rail
way;, tlie other, idle at present, will soon lie
drawing in and delivering supplies from and
to the postal headquarters in London.
The hour appointed for the experiment to
begin was half-past 1 o’clock, and shortly af
ter the hour a sudden snap, anel a sighing,
rushing sound, like that which often heralds
the beginning of a storm, announced that the
machinery was set in motion. The snapping
sound proved on examination to have pro
ceeded from the closing of iron doors a little
way within the shallow of what has been
compared to a fire-place, and these doors
met, not evenly, but at an angle like that of
a broad arrow, the point projecting outward,
so as to resist the atmospheric pressure.—
Some minutes passed before anything further
was visible or audible; for, though with a
moderate amount of pressure, the pneumatic
train is propelled at a speed of twenty-five
miles an hour, from seven to eight minutes
are required for the trans it from Euston
Square to Holborn. At last the close atten
tion bestowed by tlie engineer upon his vari
ous signals and guages were rewarded by a
telegraphic tinkling, indicative of the fact
that the greater portion of the journey had
been accomplished.'
A second and third signal followed at no
great intervals, and almost immediately upon
the last of these the door flew open, as doors
useel to do in the days anterior to the French
Revolution, when monarchs or great person
ages were about to appear, and in rolled sol
emnly four dwarfish iron wagons, weighing
with their contents some ten tons in the ag
gregate. The manner in which these doors
open, as if by magic, to admit the string of
carriages coming apparently from the bowels
of the earth, is one of the most interesting
features in the entire process. To render it
intelligible, it must be premised that the air
in the tube is alternately exhausted and con
densed, according to the direction in which
the train is going, and that the shaft commu
nicating with the stationary engine which
generates the blast, or causes*the suction, en
ters the lube about 100 feet from its mouth
There is, therefore, a body—technically speak
ing, a “cushion”—of air, 100 feet in leugtb,
behind the draught pipe, which renders
material service in arresting the progress
of the advancing train, and which
would, in fact, bring it to a dead
stop within the tube if the doors were
suffered to remain closed. A spring-lever,
however, underlies the rails at a short dis
tance up the tube, and this, when pressed by
the weight of the, train, withdraws the bolt
that keeps the doors in their places, and suf
fers them to be blown open. Although, how
ever, they fly apart with a violence that is re
ally alarming, they create no sound and sus
tain no injury themselves, owing to the tact
when fully open they arc received into air-
chambers. Air, therefore, in one and the
same movement, is made to exhibit the force
of a giant and the softness of a glove. As
regards the carriages, it cannot be truthfully
said that they are ornamental in their char
acter. In shape they are like a capital D
turned over on its straight side and mounted
upon wheels; either end of .the carriage has
a raised hood or flange, shaped so as to cor
respond with the interior of the tube, the
dimensions of which are four feet in
height by four feet six inches in width.—
Yesterday they were laden, or bal
lasted, with shingles filled into sacks, but
their ordinary freight is expected to be, in the
first instance, letter bags, then probably
railway parcels, certain descriptions of mark
et produce, and ultimately, it may be, gener
al merchandise. Alter the train had made
some successful passages to and fro several
of the party expressed a strong desire to pass
through the tube themselves. They were
warned that the line was “not constructed
with a view to passenger traffic,” and they
might find the way “a little rough.” The
spirit of adventure, however, is high in the
heart even of the middle aged Englishman,
and each of the wagons hail soon ;is inany
occupants as it could comfortably accommo
date in tbe recumbent posture enforced by
circumstances. Tarpaulin coverings were ob
tained for one or two of the carnages, but
the greater number of the excursionists had to
get themselves in as best they could among the
bagsofshingles,takingcare to keep their heads
well below the edge of the carriage,lest, as an
American gentleman present was credited
with saying, “they might get their hair brush
ed by machinery.” The first sensation at
starting, and still more so upon arriving, was
certainly not agreeable. For about a quarter
of a minute in each case there was a pressure
upon the ears suggestive of diving-bell expe
rience, a suction like that with which one is
elrawn under a wave, and a cold draught of
wind upon his eyes, hating almost the effect
of falling water; but once "fairly within the
tube these sensations were got rid of, or left
behind, anil the motion had little more posi
tive discomfort about it than would be attend
ant on riding on a “lorry"’ over the worst bal
lasted line in England. It was a curioussen-
sation to be flying along through the earth,
feet foremost,_ in utter darkness, for the best
part of ten minutes, which, in such a place,
seemed half an hour, knowing that to the
right and left of you there were gas-pipes,
ered at the other end, the force exerted W
such that nails keeping down the carpet t "
extracted. As the only “movables” yesterik
were human Irodies, the moral of the stc!!
was not pleasant to draw; and at sharp $
ners, which did present themselves at i Dte '
vals, one recalleel the popular heresies abo*|
“the gracefully winding curves ot Engfaf
roads” contrasted with “the hideously strain
and ilusty avenues of France.” The?
within the tube was by no means foul or djj
agreeable; here and there a strong flavor J
rest was encountered, but this was.J
plained by the fact, that, as the tube y
to be laid in lengths through various soil
and encountered in the process a large
of unfavorable weather, the corrosion on
surface of the iron could not be
wholly-to disappear until cleared 'ainq h
the friction of constantly passing and’ ^
passing trains. On the arrival of the tj
cursionists at the upper or Euston-sqtv-
extremity of the line, they quitted tU
places for a few moments to inspect
smaller tube, which communicates with tL
Eversholt street district post-office, &
then returned by the way that they y
come to Holborn. No doubt remained '
the mind of any person who made 4
double transit as to the facilities which f-i
system, if a sufficient number of static*;
can be incorporated with it, is calculated tj
afford, not only to the postal service, hut tj
the requirements ot the general public. Toe
scheme of the company,"who, it seems, ri
scss under their act powers to lay dor,
pneumatic tubes at any points within 4
jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board tt
Works, is to construct similar lines beteteej
the 10 eiistrict post-offices and the general p® 1
office, and between the different railway tel
mini and goods depots in London, connectii,|
with these lines the six principal London me|
kets and other important points. For tb«J
purposes it is calculated that some 35 miles c;|
tubing and a capital of £1,250,000 would >|
required, the cost per.mile roughly estimate. |
being from £30,000 to £35,000. The t : l
pencliture of the company hitherto has bee
probably £150,000, which would be largtlj
in excess of this supposed average, but*4
sum mentioned includes the cost of pn.
liminary experiments and also of seeking fe
two Acts of Parliament The company a-
pcct that great profits will eventually accra
to them from the carriage of goods, the prim
cost of which according to their system, woulc
not exceed Id per ton per mile in London
while every merchant knows that he bn
to pay Is, or perhaps Is 3d, for the same weigb
and distance. On tlie other hand, however
it must be borne in mind that the intern;
upon the heavy preliminary outlay cannot te
lost sight of by tlie company in regulatics
their tariff of charges; and, further, that tin
merchant can send his gooels where he pies
es at present rates, whereas the company ca
only deposit them at certain well fined sta
tions In the postal subsidy which the comps?
enjoy or will hereafter enjoy, they have oh
great clement of strength. If they succeec
in relieving the leading thoroughfares to as;
appreciable extent from their present glut
traffic they will not only reap the reward c
tlieir spirited enterprise, but will entitle that-
selves to the gratitude of the public.
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Whitewashing the Negro.—The pew
liar friends of the negro have, at this appro
priatc season of the year, a vast amount tt
tchitetcashing to do in order to make the rioa
murders, arsons, rapes and other crimes cos
mitted by their black pets present a decent
appearance. They had not finished puttk
the last coat of varnish upon the Norfoli
tragedy before they were called upon to sup
port and sustain the Memphis disturbances
Sambo is crowding his friends, and is libel; p,
to do so, but they are doing tlieir best for ".linl ,£
and will ultimately give a beautiful rose-cokHB'
to aft his acts however violative of the lw
of God and man. St.
Wc will admit as many of these gentlcmc 100
as parties defendant, along with negroes, h I „
desire their names to appear upon the record
Wc desire that alt who wish it should ban
their interests represented in the trial whid I in
is now progressing before tbe law of publi bo
opinion. And what is more, we intend tiff | r0i
they shaft be parties to the cause whetbc
they will or not. Those men and that ptut^W
which by their teachings have driven the t»j
groes to their folly shall now endorse tfaec] no;
and take the consequence of that endorsemffi ^
Nothing gives us more exquisite delight tbtKff*
to see this white-washing going on ; beers■
we want to see the parties performing it fn2jB°*J r
committed .to the negroes, in order tiiattbeiHGL
may share the odium, and be buried beo« ,; cot!
it beyond tlie hope of resurrection. ^
We propose to give these fellows an abc-BB“
dance of rope, as we are confident in the W 00
lief that when they shall have betrayed bo- dn
whites and blacks, they will either, like Jt> thei
das, hang themselves, or, like Probst, be htutfj ^
cd by the sheriff. Dip in your brushes, get
tlcmen, and go at it again. Continue to projtJHV
that the negro is always right and the wl-t-RH*
man always wrong, and we shaft get you eif Wh
actly where we can dispose of you after atria 4 be i
Do not be shy about it; come into court a:
make yourself a party, we want to tiy tbOB:
cause. We desire to see whether you can r& I 11
ly prove black white. That is the issue, »*l pnt
wc shall beat you on the trial of it.—tht
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