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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
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*- ^ estimated that the receipts of
I- ,,'tl,®Southern ports will amount
^117,000,000 in gold.
| ' France denies the rumor of an in-
I ^ , Niiw tion of the Mexican throne l>y
... v call tor a meeting of the citizens of
^ Wednesday night, to make ar-
j,rt5" • • t | (e cc ] e t,ration of the Fourth
fl’f®"proved n failure. The (Black) Re-
d J “;, t insists on trying the thing over.
*.it’Governor Morton, of Indiana, has rc-
/ciixn extra session of the Legisla-
ft*' ‘ nt [f v the Obstruction Committee’s
P^tionsl amendment, so-called. Well
^ fir him. __
•tf* The American squadron in Europe-
^ r . view of the cxisiing warlike
l * 5 *V.. lt j ( >ns in that quarter, is to be re-cn-
i One gnnboat has already been order-
", i nit squadron. Several other vessels
-.1 f cunt to the same destination as soon
’ .Vv can be fitted out for sea.
rJ to an Eurron.—The funeral of
- Mr. Seaton, in Washington, was at-
'. j ]lY , ne of the largest funeral proccs-
• ^fverjeen in that city. The pall bearers
Vfcrcuvy Reward, Judge Wayne, of the
I l( Court, the Prussian Minister, several
7 tll f ei-Mayors of Washington, &c.
, J0PJ j S Tennessee.—A letter dated
-u-Vsten, Tenn., 20th inst., and addressed
. oiti.-c mvs : “We are about through
I nth cutting wheat in this country, and the
I i, tolerably good; we will make about
[.thirds of a erop. Oats are very fine;
com tho looks very well. If the seasons con-
. f there will be an abundance of corn
I auk here.”
CocuKTiox.—We are bappv to believe that
ttvoe misinformed in regard to the death
„f a former amiable resident of our city.—
gigtt our announcement of that event, upon
~L: deemed good authority, letters have
!*a received from her by her father, afford-
I ,, u we hope, information so late as to fur-
I-iilu satisfactory contradiction to the sad
THE
SEA. ISLANDS AND THE NEGROES ! InfPtWinn- I 0 *# or At-... DnU ! ,ueanin "' in spelling young gentleman wrote
The Senate amendment to the Frecdmcn’s Jntm ‘ ,t,D S LCttCTlrOia MW. UaTl>. | ‘ ; o.nc that “all sml. as destred might draw
Bureau bill of the House, providing for the i Adventure* of (be Family from the '"'j \vent! ^cccnlpauied by General Mercer,
sale to negroes in fee simple of such sea- j
islands as the Government sold for taxes after
driving off the owners, and bought in for its
own use, is nothing more nor less than high
way robbery. It is an exercise of power
against every principle of right. If these
lands were abandoned by tlieir owners and
their families on the approach of the Federal
army, it was an act of necessity and not of
choice. To have remained would have sub
jected them to every species of indignity and
outrage, if net to imprisonment and death.—
They fled their homes before a cruel and re
lentless foe, and for this they are to be singled
out from amongst the people of the South ns
the special victims of the Government, and
all that lias been left them by the ravages of
war—their homes, devastated as they are—
wrested fr6m them and divided out among
the negroes at a dollar and a quarter per
acre.
We call upon the President to interfere,
and, if lie can, save our suffering countrymen
from this great wrong. They Are no worse
than the rest of us, and there is no rational
ground lor such a distinction. The Govern
ment should at least allow them to redeem
their lands by paying the taxes now which
they had no opportunity of paying in the
past, and, in fact, knew nothing about. A
great nation should at least be just toward
its own people.
Incarceration of Mr. Davis
up to Date.
, of Savannah. Need I say. that General
! did liimself justice, and verified my precon-
I ceived opinion of him in our interview, in
The following letter will he rend with in-I w'irich he told me" he “guessed I could not
terest, ns giving a most graphic view of what! telegraph to Washington, write to the heads
the prisoners wife and family had to endure I
from his quitting them on hoard the Clyde, j j co J d „ ot wr5te t() mv friends, “except
in Hampton Roids, down to the day of its j through the Provost Marshal’s officer;” and
date, certain parts reflecting upon individuals! that I was permitted to pay my expenses,
byname I have taken lihertv to strike out, 'mtmnst remain in tlic limits of Savannah.
.. . . ... , * . With manv thanks for the large liberty
but the remainder of the letter is as written | accor( i ed ' - -■
to Dr. Craven
Mill'View, near Augusta, Ga., (
October 10, 1865. (
\jT Thursday afternoon a terrific hurri-
(ttt pastel over Augusta, destroying much
property in its course. Scores of trees were
proofed, the roofing of the Waynesboro’
railroad Depot was blown off, the Govern-
.utit Press Warehouse was completely de-
Baiishetl, several cotton sheds blown down,
:«o nr three horses killed, and a number of
I pewnsinjured— among them Mr.L. B. Da-
. a Broad street merchant, it is feared fa (
[ally. __ •
What a Casino Mav Do.—The Chicago
Journal says Rev. Mr. Grinnell, M. C. from
Iowa, would have lieen renominated if the
sms of the assault upon him by Gen. Rosseau
ml reached home before the convention was
held. Whereupon, says the Rochester Ex-
I press, (rep.)
-If a caning would secure a renomination,
Gen. Roseau's efforts would he in a great dc.
maud among anxious members of Congress.”
giT* Mr. James Eagan, of Lexington.
Niuth Carolina, whose re-arrest by the mili
tary authorities of that State after he had
tin discharged by Mr. Justice Nctoon we
I made the subject of a brief comment some
•says ago, has been released by order of the
President. We trust that this is a final dis-
ritinn of the matter, not« nly as to Mr. Ea-
nn, but os to all other persons similarly sit-
oied, and that henceforth the decisions of
tin Conrts will be respected and obeyed by
ti< military authorities.
Ruts.—The Nashville Banner says one of
I the largest property holders of that city has
^edited his tenants with twenty-five percent.
Auction in the rent agreed on at the first of
Jew. He is a good Christian, and his ex
aple should have a wholesome influence
: P° n °tber property holders. The present
ate of rent is utterly unreasonable. It is
utortionate in the extreme. It is grinding
ike very fife out of the unlucky tenants, and
i* exerting a most injurious influence up-
® prosperity ol the city. Let there be
| * general reduction of rents.
" ntrx did it Occur.—In the report of
Pwwdings of the House of Representatives
»filled Monday last, we percicve that
Perbam offered a preamble and reso-
iUon reciting outrages committed on citizens
‘ '^ ne in the State of Georgia, and request-
[ -?the President to inform the House wlieth-
0 ! ** e personal rights of citizens of the United
v "* !w *re sufficiently protected in the States
in rebellion.”
_^e have not beard of these outrages down
way and would be glad to be informed,
^e people, and all other people, who be-
“ 1Tt fifemtelves, are free from barm in this
^e. *> far as we knew or bel’eve.
* DE Legislatures and toe Constitu-
Amendment.—It is stated that Gov.
^* an will not call on extra session of the
■^jUnd Legislature to ratify the constitu-
' lu * *®endraent A despatch from "VVash-
ays also that it is rumored in that
'••J that the Governors of at least two or
Western States will not conveno their
.7*''^gwlaturc* for the purpose of ratifying
*a*ndment. The friends of the adminis-
w* fully satisfied that it will not be
l P°n by the necessary number of States
^ btfofe the fall elections. It is also con
. “Wlvery doubtful whether a quorum of
eonessee Legislature can be got together
- summer
s ' ,Hop Qcjktard and the Negro.—The
* °P of Tennessee, who served through the
^war as Confederate Chaplain, has inan-
^*d a movement in regard to the freed-
tY 0U 8Lt to convince even the most
'. ’J-dicetf » n< j purblind Radical that the
^'1 h intend> t0 ^°J ust * c ® to t * ie bla< A race,
“fet it U no idle boast when onr people
themselves the “best friends” of their
'Jwdavos.
Quintanl, in his annual address to
^ '°ee*ean Convention, recommends the
’>*«# f * Jror ' 8 ' on to b® made for the educa-
•j, °, ! ,lc blackt. He goes even farther
* 11P ‘ He recommends that, after a
, t ^<n the fruits of education begin to
themselves, a number of the more
^“fient young freedmen shall be selected
for *he ministry. The idea,
ia to give the colored people a fair
if »iv or B w fi*e and establish, as a branch
‘W • oUc Apostolic Chnrch” «nH
a Church of their
crs and preachers.
and aux-
own, with their
The Protective Tariff, which it was
the aim of Mr. Morrill, the Chairmau of the
Committee on Ways and Means, to continue,
with unimportant changes, has, says the Na
tional Intelligencer, been abandoned, nnd
a prohibitory tariff adopted in its stead. A
tariff for revenue the present tariff was not.
It was simply a plan to protect Pennsylvania
and New England interests. The tariff about
to be reported is to be prohibitory. It is nil
open nnd avowed declaration for a Japanese
policy. Import nothing. Export nothing.
That is the policy which lias been aimed at
for some, and one now about to be accom
plished. It is the only policy which is con
sistent with tlie Radical plan for a permanent
paper currency of a thousand millions. The
superabundant and irredeemable paper mo
ney wbicb the Radicals have imposed upon
the country of course discourages production
and enhances the cost of nil products of labor
so far that they cannot be exported. Noth
ing short of prohibition can sustain the do
mestic products, whether of manufactures or
raw materials, against foreign competition.—
That is now conceded on all sides, and there
fore the wool growers and wool nianufnctu
rers, the iron and copper and lead and zinc
miners, nnd the manufacturers of these ma
terials, have united to demand of Mr. Morrill
prohibitory duties.
The adoption of the proposed tariff puts an
end to the export of cotton; for everybody
who knows tlie course of that trade knows
that tbc return for cotton must be in Euro
pean goods; so tbc South will be debarred
from an export trade without the aid of Mr.
Stevens's export duty. The gold interest on
the public debt con no longer be paid, for
there will be no imports upon which gold
will be paid for duties. But Mr. Stevens in
dicated a remedy for this some time ago; that
is—pay the interest in paper.
The Radical policy is now complete, and
is consistent, in all its parts—political, finan
cial and commercial.
In speaking thus earnestly and indignantly
concerning the newly proposed tariff bill, it
should be understood that we feel that the
bill is framed in that intention which, in ef
fect, looks to prohibition.
Congress.—It is difficult not to squirm
and even to cry aloud, when one is trodden
upon; but we are inclined to tlie opinion that
Southern editors, ourselves among tlie num
ber, have given too much importance to the
present conclave of usurpers and conspirators
at Washington who style themselves “the
Congress of tlie United States.” It would
not be a bad plan to ignore the concern alto
gether in future, and content ourselves with
resisting its unconstitutional and infamous
laws in the courts. Protest, argument, en
treaty, all fall unheeded upon tbc cars of bad
men who arc resolved to destroy the liberties
of their countrymen for the sole purpose of
perpetuating their own power. It is a waste
of breath and ink. Let them go on in their
iniquitous and revolutionary course; if let
alone it will not be long before they will be
brought up standing, and hung up by the
rope of their own making. Let us look after
our households, our schools, our farms, our
counting rooms and onr offices, and leave it
to Time to vindicate onr rights and punish
our oppressors. Its retributions are sure if
slow, and It is a great moral law of the uni'
verse that iniquity cannot long triumph when
public opinion is free.
Declined.—We regret that we are unable,
without serious inconvenience, to comply
with the request of certain of our subscribers
in Baker county by transferring to our col
umns a long account of Brazil. With our
limited space we can only spare that amount
of room for documents of the first importance
and of general interest
For the same reason, we arc also compelled
to decline a manuscript of twenty-four pages
of foolscap—a public address—that has been
forwarded to us from Bay Springs. Addres
ses of the sort are generally published in
pamphlet form, and when they appear in
newspapers are always paid for as advertise
ments. The composition alone, in this case,
to say nothing of t lie space required to tlie
exclusion of the current news of the day,
would cost us from twenty to thirty dollars,
and we have no idea that the committee at
Bay Springs would wish to put ns to any such
expense.
Storm in Northern Ohio—Great De
struction of Sheep—Thousands Per
ished.—The recent severe storm on the lake
shore and the cold weather succeeding it,
have made sad havoc among the newly shear
ed sheep in Northern Ohio. The Cleveland
Herald is informed that three thousand have
died in the townships of Independence and
BucksviUe. A Huron county gentleman es
timates that <2,000 have died in that county
sibce tlie storm. Mr. Charles Fitch, living
near Olmstead Falls, lost 40, and his neigh
bors alse lost heavily. Several hundred have
died in North Royalston, Cuyahoga county,
Ohio. Three farmers in Brunswick, Medina
county, lost respectively 100, 00 and 80, and
so on through a large number of counties.
Muscogee Railroad.—By reference to the
advertisement of the Superintendent, it will
be seen that the passenger train on this road
will hereafter run at night instead of in the
day, so as to connect with the day trains to
anti from Macon on the other roads. The
exact hours of departure and arrival will be
seen from the schedule.
first having
by application for them to this Government,
’in tliis condition I remained for many
Colonel John J. Craten, Chief Met lieu l Officer, j weeks, until, fortunately for me. General
For tree* Monroe, Itr.: j Birge relieved liim—who had it not in his
Mr Dear Colonel—'Though you remain l l*>wer, however, to remove the restrictions
irrevocably dumb, I am sure you hear mg, and i an J’ fnrtlier than to toko the detectives away,
in addressing you I feel as if writing to one j °* whom I beard, but did not see. But Gen.
ot ray oldest and most reliable friend*. Ev- Birge permitted me to " _ U !'! C< -_
My two nephews joined me here about a
month ago, and desired to take me borne with
them, but finding that the length of my teth
er only permitted me to browse “in Georgia,’’
they stayed two days and were then forced
to go home to tlieir families. My baby bar-
grown fat and rosy as the “Glory of France”
—a rose which Mr. Davis recollects near tlie
gate of our home. Under the kind treat
ment I have receiv ed, the fine Country air,
(five miles from Augusta.) and the privaoy, I
have also grown much better; can sleep and
eat, and begin to feel alive again with the
frosty air, and loving words and letters,
which meet me here, as in Savannah.
„ _ Air. George Schley is my host, and never
so graciously, I bowed .myself out, bad a child in her "father’s home a warmer
ig declined to get soldiers’ rations welcome. I am at no expense, and entirely
gladly welcome. The little baby eats hom
iny and drinks fresli milk;
reaty Between Scr.n>w.
Vapoleon in Regard v*
ery letter from my husband comes freighted
with good wishes for you, and thanks for all
your kindness to him in his hours of anguish
and solitude. Can you doubt that my pray
ers for you, nnd appreciation of your good
ness, have been even greater than bis, for I
could do nothing but pray ? Mr. Davis sent
me carte de ritite of your dear Anna, whose
sweet face my dear baby knows, and has
been taught to kiss as her father’s friend.—
The baby sends lier a little fan and a few
white flowers, made in Augusta. I hope she
may like them. Mr. Davis writes me that slie
lias gone to the Moravian school, near East
ern, where, I trust, our niece may have tlie
pleasure of seeing her.
I nra rendered very anxious by the erysipe
las with my suffering husband. He com
plains—in answer to entreaties for an account
of liis condition without concealment—of
loss of sleep. I dread paralysis for him, his
nerves having been so highly strung for years
without relief. If you can, dear Doctor Cra
ven, do entreat, and perhaps you may prevail
upon, the authorities to let him sleep with
out a light He is too feeble to escape, and
could not bear a light in liis room when in
good health. Tbc sequel of these attacks
has always been an attack of amaurosis, and
in one of them lie lost liis eye. It first came
on with an attack of acute neuralgia, but it is
useless for me to begin to tcli you of bis con
stitution. You must have seen pretty well
its peculiarities, in the long nnd kind watches
you have kept with him.
I had hoped to relieve his mind by a full
letter of personal narrative, but that letter
has not been received.
When be was taken from me on tlie ship,
the provost guard and some women detec
tives came on Ixiard, and after the women
searched our persons, the men searched our
baggage. v
Either they or the soldiers standing around
took everything they fancied, nnd some
things so large that I did not see how their
conduct could escape the eye of tlie guard,
and of the officer who superintended the
search. They then told my servants they
could go ashore, if they did not desire to go
to Hnvannah. The husband of my negro
nurse forced her to go, and the white* girl left
from an unwillingness to be exposed to a
Southern climate. 1 entreated to be permit
ted to debark at Charleston, as mv sister.
Miss Howell still continued to be ill, and I
feared to return on tbc ship with a drunken
purser, who bad previously required Colonel
Pritchard’s authority to keep him in order;
and going back, Mrs. Clay, my sister nnd my
self, would be the only women on the ship ;
but this was refused’ Acting as my own
chambermaid and nurse, and tbe nurse also
of my sister and Airs. Clay, who were both
ill. we started for Savannah. We bad a
fearful gale, in which the upper decks once
or twice dipped water, and no one could
walk ; but as I felt os wretched as could be, I
did not tear tbe future.
God protected ns from the fury of tbe ele
ments ; but the soldiers now began to open
and rob our trunks again. The crew, how
ever, gave us some protection, and one of the
officers in the engine room gave up his cabin
and locked everything we had left up in it—
The lieutenant ot the 14th Maine, Mr. Grant,
though a plain man, had the heart ot a gen
tleman, and took care of us with the greatest
assiduity. Some of the soldiers and crew
helped me to nurse, and saved me many an
hour of wakefulnesss and fatigue. My little
daughter Maggie was quite like an old
woman; she took her sister early every morn
ing—for the nights were so rough I could not
sleep, because it was necessary to hold tbe
infant to avoid bruising it—and with tbe as
sistance of our faithful servant, Robert, who
held her still while she held her sister, she
nursed her long enough for me to rest. Lit
tle Jeff, and I did the housekeeping; it was a
fair division of the labor, and not unpleasant,
it displayed the good heart of my children.
At the harbor ol Charleston the sick began
to improve. "We procured ice and milk; and
the day’s rest, which the ship at aochorgave
them, improved them very much.
Arrived at Savannah, we trudged up to the
hotel quito in emigrant fashion. Margaret
with the baby, and Robert with the baggage;
I, with Billy and Jeff, and Maggie in quite an
old fashioned manner, keeping all straight
and acting as parcel carrier, for we could not
procure any carriage and must walk until we
reached the Pulaski House, where, after a day
and night, we procured comfortable rooms.—
The inn keeper was a kind man, and felt for
my unfortunate condition. He therefore did
everything in his power to make us comforta
ble. A funny incident happened tlie day I
arrived there.
A black waiter, upon answering my bell,
and being told to call my man-servant Rob
ert, replied very impertinently that “if be
should see Robert he would give tlie order,
but did not expect to sec him.” When Rob
ert beard it, he waited till all the black ser
vants had assembled at dinner, and then re
marked that he should bate to believe there
was a colored man so low os to insult a dis
tressed woman, but if so, though a peaceable
man, he should whip tha first who did so.— cision
The guilty man began to excuse himself, c * slon -
whereupon Robert said—“Oh, it was you,
was it ? Well you do look mean enough for
that or anything else.” From that time all
the greatest assiduity could do was done for
me, first from esprit do corps, and then from
kind feeling.
The people of Savannah treated me with
the greatest tenderness. Had I been a sister
long absent and just returned to tbeir home.
I could have received no more tender wcl
come. Houses were thrown open to me. any
thing and everything was mine. My children
had not mnch more than a change of clothing
after all the parties who had us in charge hacl
done lightening our baggage, so they liad
gave the baby dresses, and the other little
ones encugh to change until I could buy or
make more.
Unfortunately for me, General , who,
hear, was “not to the manor born,” was in
command of the district at the time. I asked
permission to sec him, and as I was so unwell
that I could not speak above my breath with
a cold, and suffered from fever constantly—
the result of exposure from on the ship—I
wrote to beg that he would come and see me,
for his aide hod told me the night before that
I could not be permitted to leave Savannah,
and having been robbed of nearly all my
means I could not afford to stay at tbc hotel;
and besides, as soon as I reached the hotel the
detectives were placed to watch both me and
my visitors, so I did not feel at liberty, thus
accompanied, to go to private bouses.
General ’s aide whose animus was pro
bablv irreproachable, but whose orthography
was veiy bad, was directed to tell me that,
except under very extraordinary circumstan
ces, he did not go out of his office, and ‘1111
such.” (which I afterwards found to mean
myself.) “as desired to sec him would call at
his office.” To which I answered that I
thought mv illness and my circumstances
con-titutcd’an extraordinary case; but that I
was sorry to have asked anything which he
“felt called upon so curtly to refuse,” and
requested to be informed what hour would
please liim on tbe following day, ami I would
do myself the honor to call upon him.—
Whereupon, tbe same unfortunate, wcll-
to whom I pleased, and appeared anxious, in
the true spirit of a gentlemen, to offer all the
courtesies he consistently could.
My baby caught the whooping-cough, and
was ill almost unto death lor some days with
the fever which precedes the cough, and then
she slowly declined. I did what I could to
give her fresh air, but the heat was so intense,
the insects so annoying, and two rooms such
close quarters, that she and I suffered much
more than I hope you or yours will ever know
by experience.
*Mv most acute agony arose from the pub
lication and republication in tlie Savannah
Republican of the shackling scene in Mr. Da
vis’ caseinate, which to think of* stops my
heart's vibration. It was piteous to hear the
little children pray at their grace, “Hint tire
Lord would give father something which he
could cat, and keep liim strong, and briug
him back to us with good senses, to bis little
children for Christ’s sake;” and nearly every
day during tbc hardest, bitterest of his im
prisonment. our little child, Maggie, had to
quit tbe table to dry her tears after this
grace, which was of her own composition.
I believe doctor, I should have lost my sen
ses if these severities bad been persevered in, [
for I could neither cat nor sleep for a jeek;,
but opiates, and the information of the,
change effected by your advice, relieved me; i
and I have thanked God nightly for vour
i—..... i l lui. « *
grows in grace
and weight; talks a little, and being more
gentle than little Jeff’s friend, Airs. --—, is a
great pet with all. The difficulty is to accept
all the invitations I get, or to refuse them
rather, the whole Southern country teeming
with homes the doors of which open wide to
receive me; and people are so loving, talk
with such streaming eyes and open voices of
him who is so precious to them and to me,
that I cannot realize I do not know them in
timately. Air. Davis should dismiss all /ears
for me. Money is urged upon me—every
thing. I only suffer lor him, I do not meet a
young man who fails to put liijnsclf at my
disposal to go anywhere for ufe. *1 cannot
pay a doctor’s hill or buy of an apothecary.
“All these things arc added unto me.”
If I have written you too long a letter, my
dear sir, it is because I have not collected my
facts, blit sought “quid serihum, not quern ad
tnodein." Please give your good wife as
much gratitude as she will receive from me;
ami I cannot permit you to measure it for
yourself. Aly children shall riso up and call
her blessed. Alav God show her and hers
that mercy which you have been the means of
bringing to my poor husband, and you will
he blessed indeed. This is the constant pray
er of your grateful friend.
Vahina Davis.
FOREIGN.
A Faint Gleam of Hope.
From the London Times, June U
It* any gleam appears on the dark horizon,
Chief Justice Chase. ; Reported tier
When the fugitive slave law was on its pas-1 ry Seward i
sage in the United States Senate, in 1850—I Mexico. ,
Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from tlie State of New York June 26. It is stated by x.
Ohio, made desperate efforts to defeat it. He prominent Senator in Washington, that Sr-c-
sounded tlie alnrni throughout the ^orth and j retary Seward has concluded a secret trejto*
West, that the provisions ot the bill were in i with Napoleon, bv which the United Stater
direct conflict With the sacred rights of the | jg debarred 1 from interfering with the ibokc-
States. guaranteed by the Constitution, and in I nient of foreign troops now supporting Mu-
one of his speeches made in the Senate itnilian. After the withdrawal of the French,
against the bill, be warned tbc Senate that Maximilian, it is understood, will offer Wm-
tbc passage of such a measure would lead to ] sc lf as a candidate for the Presidency of Ihc
the establishment ot a “great central consoli- j Mexican Republic. Having secured that pc-
dated Federal Government,” which would i rition, he is to take advantage of any emaS
destroy tlie rights of the States, and the Jib- j revolution, of which Mexico affords so many,
erty ol the people. and declare himself Emperor, thereby fiaak-
The great doctrine of State Rights was j ing tlie Monroe doctrine, and having a firmer
then the key-stone of the temple ot American Imperial throne than at present. It is probe-
liberty, and he urged with all his power that! hie that th Senate will solicit infomiatireu
this great principle should never be surren-1 from Air. S ward concerning this little game,
dered. The United States Government then
had no right to coerce a sovereign State.—
Now the States have no rights, in the opinion
of this great jurist, except such as are granted
by the “great central consolidated Federal
Government.” Then Senator Chase “knew of
no remedy in the case of tne refusal of a
State, to perform its stipulations.” Now Chief
Justice Chase can find neither in the Consti
tution of tbe United States, or out of it, any
right of the States t o question, much less re
sist the action of the “great central consoli
dated Federal Government.” In IS jO, Sena
tor Chase said:
“Sir, this is a bill for the overthrow of
State Rights. It is a bill to establish a great
central consolidated Federal Government.—
Sir, there was once a 8enator from South
Carolina on this floor too clear sighted not to
perceive thnt the enactment of a Fugitive
Re-establisjimEnt of Slavery.—Chica
go. June 20.—The memorial to Congras
printed in pamphlet form of David Quinn,«T
this city, advising lie re-establishment of
negro slavery, has just appeared before the
public. It presents the subject under a view
in which it lias not. perhaps, hitherto lien
presented. It holds that men are dividediaio
species, and have different natures, and that
the negro finds his civil liberty in his slavery,
and that the white man undergoes a change
which makes slavery essential; that the Franck,
in Canada and Spaniards in Alexico have de
generated, and thnt the native people of the
Northern United States are now three inches
less around the chest than the Europeaaa.—
The author brings torward many historical
and scientific facts in support of his argu
ment.
brave humanity. It is easier to fight with a it is to be found in the temper and behaviour
revolver than to repent unplcnsrut tnltlis to
a hostile and untrammelled power in tfie full
indulgence of its cruel instincts. All honor
to tlie brave man who fearlessly did sr>.
Though I ate, slept and lived in my room,
rarely or never going out in the day, and only
walking out late at night with Robert for
protection, I could not keep my little ones so
closely confined. Little Jeff anil Billy went
out on tlm streets to play, and tiere J eff was
constantly told that lie was nch; that his
father had -stoleu eight millioas,” etc. Billy
was taught to sing, *\Ve’ll liarg Jeff Davis on
a sour apple tree,’ by giving him a reward
when he did so; and lie undo such good
friends witli the soldiers thst the poor child
seemed to forget a greut deal of regard for
of the l'i ussian nnd other German popula
tions. The King of Prussia and his Minister
may well hesitate when they see what misery
they have caused and what a spirit may soon
be roused. Tlie conscription presses with
tremendous severity on the Prussian people.
The country, though richer and more indus
trious than formerly, has not increased in
population to a degree which will admit of
such enormous gatherings of men. The army
which is actually in the field is said to amount
to 880,000 lighting men, with 55,000 accesso
ries. There are 111,000 depot troops and
120,000 of the first band of the Landwher In
garrisons. In times of enthusiasm like 1818
these calls for flesh and blood may be an
swered without unwillingness, but’ a war
his father. The little thing finally told me. to please a .Minister, or even to gain a
one day, “You thinks l’se somebody; so is j sea-coast and a fine harbor, must not make
you; so is father. I am a Yankee every time.” ; too great demands. The requirements of
The rough soldiers, doubtless, meant to be
kind, but such things wounded me to the
quick. They took him off and made him
snatch apples off the stalls if Robert lost sight
of him for a moment.
Finally, two women from Maine contempla
ted whipping him because they found out
that lie was his father’s son ; but “a man
more wise did them surprise,” and took him
off just in time to avoid a very painful scene
to them as well as to me. These things went
on in the street—I refer only to the street
teachings—though these women were, with
the other, dishonorable exceptions to the la
dies in the house, until Captain was or
dered to Savannah on duty. He brought
with him a person who I heard was bis wife,
As I never went into the parlor I did not see
her, but my little son Jeff went accidently
into tbe room one day, and interrupted a con
versation she was indulging herself in with
with one of tlie negro waiters, in which she
was laying down “tho proper policy to be
pursued toward Air. Davis.”
The servant, having been brought up by a
lady, felt very uncomfortable, and said, “Alad-
em, there is his son.” She called little Jeff
up to her and told him his father was a
rogue, a liar and assassion, and that means
a murderer, boy; I hope he may be tied to a
stake and burned a little bit at a time with
lightwood knots. God forbid you should
grow up a comfort to your mother. Semcm-
Ikt that you can never be a gentleman while
this country lasts. Your father will soon be
banged, but that death is too quick.
The negro retired mortified and sent my
nurse to call little Jeff: and so, with tig little
face purple with mortification, nnd w«t with
tears from his streaming eyes, he cairn up to
me, leaving the pious and’ patriotic ltdy to
find another audience as congenial to her
tastes as the first had been.
I commended Jeff's gentlemanly conduct
in making no reply; cautioned him against
ever persecuting or distressing a woman, or
friend, if it took that shape; und made ap
plication for permission the next day to go
away to Augusta, was refused, and then pre
pared tlie children to go where they would
not sec such indignantly patriotic and pathet
ic females. Nothing, however, but the dread
of intruding into a secret and sacred giief
prevented my writing poor Captain
the State have now been beyond all
bounds. A population of less than nineteen
millions is expected to support au army of
more than half a million of men on active
service. To make up the number, the clerk
is taken from the counting-house, the trades
man from his shop, und the peasant from tbc
field. Women are everywhere performing
more than their usual share of the hard and
coarse work of the world. An act of hostil
ity on tlie part of Austria, such as the entrance
of Alarshal Benedek into Prussian territory,
might make the people forget these hardships
in hatred of the enemy, but at present the
discontent is chiefly with their own Govern
ment. Not until tho enemy has struck a blow
will the King have a really zealous and war
like army. As long as peace is preserved
there is the possibility that this disposition of
the Prussian people may have some influence
upon tlie Ministerial policy. The Aliddlc
States, which have not yet given up hopes of
reconciliation, are, no doubt, encouraged by
this disinclination for war to persevere m their
efforts. Tlieir own limited power, however,
and the cumbrous machinery of the Confede
ration, are likely to interpose great obstacles
to effective action
sympathetic note, and condole with him upon
the dispensation of Providence under which
in the person of his wife, he groaned.
Hourly scenes of violence were going on in
the street, and not reported, between the
whites and blacks, and I felt that tbe chil
dren’s lives were not safe. During General
-’s regime, a negro sentinel leveled his
gun at my little daughter to shoot her, for
calling him “uncle.” I could mourn with
hope if my children lived, but whit was to
become of me if I was deprived ot' them i—
So I sent them off with many pnyers and
tears, but confident of the wisdom if the de-
On the ship I understood a man was very
abusive in their hearing, of Air. Da*is, when
my faithful servant Robert enquiicd with
great interest, “Then you tell me lam your
equal ? You put me alongside of you in
everything ?” The man said “Certainly.”—
“Then,” said Robert, “take this frem yonr
equal,’’and knocked him down. The captain
was appealed to, and upon hearing of the
case justified Robert, and required an apology
of the levelled leveller.
Little Jeff is now at the endowed grammar-
school, near Montreal, in charge of a Airs.
Morris, who has the care of ten little boys of
good family, some of them Southern boys,
and is happy, so he writes me. Mrs. Morris
superintends his clothes and person, and
teaches him his lessons. She was chosen by
the faculty of the college for her high charac
ter. Maggie is at the Convent of the Sacred
Heart, in the same place where Gee. "William
Preston’s little girls are, and very kind they
are to her. A man is always present with the
small girls, who are separated from the large
girls. Little Billy is his grand-mother’s one
pet and idol, always with her, and in pretty
good health. I have sent their dear father
a picture of Alaggie’s school, and a little scrib
bled letter from his big boy to me.
As soon os the dear children were gone, I
hoped with my little weak baby (jou sec I
am very honest with you) to make my escape
out of this country to them; but when, upon
coming to Augusta—which Gen. Steadman
gave me leave to do immediately upon his
accession to'command, through tlie veiy kind
intercession of Gen. Brannen, who succeeded
Gen. Birge—I was informed by a gentleman
who said he had been told so authoritatively,
that “ if I ever quitted the country, under auy
pos.-ible object, I would—no matter what be
fell Air. Davis—never be allowed to return.”
I abandoned the intention. As might makes
right in my case, and as my sister's health had
failed rapidly in the South, and as she is a
girt of rare judgment and good feeling, I sent
ler with my nephew to >cw York, To route
for Canada, to take care of my devoted moth
er, who is now too old and delicate to be left
alone.
TnE POLICY OF THE NEUTRAL POWERS IN THE
APPROACHING WAR.
Fit ra the Independence Beige, Jane'7.
If war breaks out what will be the attitude
of the neutral powers ? At Vienna the pco
pic flatter themselves that Russia will be with
Austria against Prussia. That the St. Peters
burg cabinet bos seen with the same displeas
ure, as the rest of Europe, the ambitious and
conquering feeling of the Count Bismark is
all the more easy to understand, because the
extension of a Prussian maritime state iu the
Baltic, and tlie possession by Germany of tlie
two Duchies of the Elbe, might interfere
with the development of Russia’s own navy,
and deprive her some day of tho keys
of the North Sea, still entrusted to the cn
fcebled but neutral hands of Denmark,
But absorbed as she is by her internal trans
formation, connected by friendship with the
Prussian Court, and with but little sympathy
for that of Vienna, it is to be presumed that
Russia will not interfere iu the struggle ex
cept at the last extremity. It is possible that
England and France will observe the same,
witli this difference, however, that France,
vexed, and with justice, by tbe failure of her
lost pacific attempts, uud morally obliged to
sustain Italy, should she be threatened in re
gard to the results of tbe campaign of 1859,
might be more quickly led to join in the con
flict than the other two powers. Already
people say in Paris that directly tbe first shot
is fired, whether in Italy or beyond the Rhine,
the Moniteur will announce the formation ol’
two corps of oliservation upon the eastern
frontier of the Empire.
For TnE Curious.—Mr. Thomas Spain, of
the firm of Jos. Tooke & Co., proprietors of
the Hawkinavillc Novelty Works, at this
place, has banded us a curiosity in the way
of a grape shot, being one of several lately
found near the mill of these gentlemen, about
one mile from here, over the river. There is
nothing remarkable about the grape shot
themselves. They are like those now used,
except that they are not quite so smoothly
finished. But they were found imbedded in
trees, at a depth of from five to ten inches—
some near the roots and others several feet up
the tree. They havi annoyed both those fell
ing the tree and those sawing it up; blunting
the axes coming in contact with them and in
juring the saw—one shot having broken five
teeth out of the saw ere it could be stopped.
The question arises, how did they get
there ? None of our oldest citizens seem to
be able to throw any light on the subject.—
They say that Col. Blackshear and General
Jackson both passed through this section in
pursuit of the Indians, but they have no re
membrance of any battle having been fought
in this vicinity. We arc also informed that
General Jackson disbanded his troops in
this locality. If this be the cose, it may
be possible that these shots were fired
in honor of disbandment; or they may
have been fired, during the artillery
practice, gone through with here, while rest-
ing. preparatory to going after the Indians.
It is said that the Indians were on this side
of the river at that time. So it is an open
question, unlikely to be solved,unless by con
jecture. Now is the time for some of our
contemporaries to display their knowledge of
history and geography.
Up to this time, some fifteen or twenty
shot have been discovered. They prove quite
troublesome to the wood choppers and saw
yers at work on the trees.—Utuch.isc iUe Dis
patch.
Slave Act was utterly irreconcilable with that
theory of State Rights which he, in common The Cattle Plague—Importation
with South Carolina’s greatest statesmen, pro- Infected Bones.—The United States Com-
fessed to believe in.” j ler Agent at Bevrout, Syria, forwards to tbe
Again, in the same debate, Senator Chase i Department of State a letter from the United
said: {States Consul at Sidon informing him that
“I have certainly answered the Senator, j the merchants in th*t city were" collector
very distinctly and candidly—I said that I ] throughout tbe country bones of animals tc
knew of no remedy in case of the refusal ot I send to Europe and other countries; and is
a State to perform its stipulations.” consideration of the fact that the cattle dia-
This last sentence covers the whole ground
upon which the action of the Southern States
was taken, in their attempt to establish an in
dependent Government. Afassachusetts and
all the New England States, during the last
war with Great Britian, had taken the same
ground. Indeed, Massachusetts was the first
State to take direct, positive action in favor
of this doctrine of State Rights. When tlie
South asserted the same right, we were brand
ed as traitors by Chase and those pinks of
Alassuchusetts statesmen, Sumner and Wilson.
Was Chase right in 1850? If so he is wrong
now. Who will answer?—Chron. «£• ,<en.
The Presbyterian (O. S.) General As
8EM1H.Y.—There was a great question before
this Assembly. The Louisville Presbytery
had issued a "Declaration and Testimony”
against tlie arts of tlie previous Assembly
making political opinions a condition of union
with the Church. For this act its commis
sioners to the Assembly were excluded from
the first, without trial. A resolution was of
fered by a committee appointed to investi
gate the case, dissolving the Louisville Pres
bytery, and authorizing the Radical members
to constitute anew one in sympathy with the
Assembly. After much discussion, during
which one member, the Rev. Air. Ferguson,
was expelled for a letter he wrote animadvert
ing on one ff the speakers, the committee’s
report was laid on the table, and a resolution
offered by Dr. Gurley, which would include
mnuy outside the Louisville Presbytery who
subscribe to its sentiments, was adopted in
its stead, by a vote of 198 to 38.
This substitute condemns the declaration
and testimony asa slander against the church,
schismatical in its character, and its adop
tion by any church court is declared an act
of rebellion against the authority of the Gen
eral Assembly. It summons all tlie signers of'
the declaration and all the members of the
Presbytery who voted for it to appear before
the next General Assembly to answer for
their conduct, and prohibits them from sit
ting as members ot any church court higher
than session, until their cases are decided; it
dissolves any Presbytery that disregards tins
action of the Assembly, and vests all presby-
tcrial authority in such ministers anil cltieieuf
such presbytery as adhere to the action
of tlie Assembly. On motion of Dr.
Alonfort, those mepibers excluded under this
substitute were allowed to retain their seats
in the Assembly until its adjournment.
ease raged for some time in the districts I
about, the Consul thinks it more than prsba^
ble that among these collections the bones of
infected cattle are also gathered; and at
sending them they, would consequently cany
the disease to tbe country to which they zr
exported. A copy of the above was seat tc
Surgeon-General Barnes. He cxp;\-ud ttc
opinion that the importation of bones ofcaft-
tlc which have died with the rinderpest of
other infections is calculated to spread i&»
disease, and should be prohibited. This oosm-
munication will bo sent to the House Ooos-
luittcc ou Commerce for consideration aa
there is now no law to prevent the importa
tion of hones.
AIekting of Ikdignants—A Whisky
Strike Threatened.—The Columbus Sax.
complains that drinks are as high now with,
icc at three cents, as they were last summor
with ice at fifteen. By way of warning to the
“deadfalls” it records the following:
At an informal meeting of a number of ax
bibers held on the streets yesterday, it wan
determined that, if the cost of drinks was aat
lessened, they would “strike,” buy drink abler
and ice by the wholesale, and cease visiting
the bars. The high tariff by retail dcalcrxof
cobblers and juleps, articles so essential U
comfort, was denounced as a nuisance ant
imposition, and it was universally agreed that,
if the sellers did not come to terms, a paper
was to be circulated to secure signatures of
“strikers.” One learned gentleman observed
he did not drink himself, but would sign ok
principle. Whisky should be governed lib
erally as well as ice cream, .iacd _n.drink
shouldn’t cost more than fifteen cents.
As public c’uroniclers we give the proceed
ings and reasons of the aggrieved.
Tlie Proposed National Union Con -
vention.
The Columbus Enquirer thinks the South
ought to be represented in the convention
called at Philadelphia, in August, by the
“National Union Club” of Washington We
annex its remarks upon the subject which
are worthy of reflection:
In the first place, the call is made by lead
ers of the Republican party—supporters of
Lincoln and Jclinson in the late Presidential
election—and undoubtedly lias the approba
tion and concurrence of the President.
In the second place, this movement, follow
ing immediately after the adoption by Con
gress of tbe pending Constitutional Amend
ment, proves that that measure has not united
the Republican or Union party, but that the
conservative portion of them now regard the
breach as irreparable and are preparing for
an active campaign in opposition to tbe radi
cal plan of reconstruction. This inspires re
newed and strengthened hope that the amend
rnent will be defeated.
In the third place, this strong and influen
tial portion of the Republican party recog
nize the Southern States as in the Union for
all purposes of legislation or pnrty associa
tion, and invite the Southern people to unite
with them in organizing a conservative na
tional party.
In the fourth place, tlie principles which
the call announces, ns those by which the or
ganization is to be bound together, are high
ly conservative, aiming at the preservation of
the rights of the States and the arrest of Fed
eral aggression upon those rights.
Again—the holding of the Convention is
endorsed by leading Democrats, and there is
a hope that it may prove tlie incipient pro
cess of a union of all the conservative par
ties of the country lor the defeat of the pow
erful radical organization that threatens the
total subversion of the constitution and of
the system of government which it was de
signed to uphold.
We are of the opinion that the Southern
States and people ought to send delegates to
this convention. If it should disappoint our
hopes and expectations, our delegates can
withdraw, or “secede,” without incurring the
g ains and penalties of “rebellion.” But we
ave faith in the assurance that it will not
disappoint any reasonable hopes. Its stand
point of opposition to further encroachment
on State rights is a guarantee of this. Its
opposition to the Constitutional Amendment
is a practical test of its fidelity to this princi
ple, which there can be no mistaking. Let
us embrace this opportunity to strengthen
the hands of a providing national organiza
tion that recognizes our rights to equal par
ticipation in tne Union.
_ The idea of building a seventy thou
sand dollar Opera House in Atlanta seems cu
rious, but it is said a company is being formed
there for that purpose. There is no city in
the world that is suffering more for a costly
Opera House than Atlanta. It is impossible
to see how she can get along six months long
er without one.—Mobile Adv.
fgy^AIajor James F. Alilligan, the well
known Chief of the Signal Corps of General
Lee’s army of Northern Virginia, has been
offered a similar position in the Imperial
army of Austria by the Emperor Francis
Joseph.
Released.—The Newbem Times ol" the
20th says, E. S. Fitz, former Superintendent
of Freedmen over the Trent, who was put
under arrest several days ago for alleged mis
demeanor in his office as such, has received a
notice from General Howard, releasing him
from such arrest, and notilying him that
there has been no charge preferred against
him whatever.
|5?” Thad. Stevens is an old bachelor.—
Exchange. '
There is a “colored lady” at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, who will fight you on that
question “until your eye-licls cease to wag.” i
—Mobile Adc.
Radical Piety Illustrated.—In a dm-
cussion last Thursday, in the Common Coun
cil of Philadelphia, a member. by.:thc nameef
Hancock is thus reported:
“Air. Hancock—I tcould go-dean, into fuli
nnd break the ashes of the grave to teach tbe
attnrncp who u--“>-l pn Sqijth tt\ rt<-VinirV
Davis the contempt in which the people «f
the city hold him. I would have William'S..
Read there, that every flapping shred of flag
may remind him of tbe shrouds of his ronr-
dercd victims.
“Mr. Hetzcl—I move to include Air. Thatt-
dcus Stevens.
“ Air. Hancock—Well, I only say that with
Thaddeus Stevens I am heart and hand. [Ap
plause.] I belong to his band. There is ozrfjr
one thing left in the land now, and thatisthic;
flag; and I trust that we will ever hallow -a
day that shows us how despotism was brofaew
up. Such au unhallowed idea as Jeff. Davis
being pardoned is preposterous, and ought
not to be entertained. If I would see a trai
tor going to Heaven, great God ! I would gr
the other way.”
He “would go the other way,™ and,-wc
dare say, in eo doing would take tbe most di
rect route home.
Henderson Discharged.—Air. Isliam Hen
derson, of Louisville, having been arretted
upon a charge of defrauding tbc Government
of large sums of money, in certain mule con
tracts, was taken to Nashville and arraignaC
before a general court-martial, and his trial
proceeded for some two weeks or-more. Be
fore appearing, however, he was re-arresUr.
by the military—having been previously ox-
rested and forfeited his recognizance. He
then applied for a writ of habeas corpus, re
turnable before Judge Ballard. of the United
States District Court for the District of Ken--
tucky. The writ was granted, but Gen. Jet
C. Davis, under instructions from Gen.
Thomas, refused to comply with its anjoue-
tions, and Mr. Henderson was taken back tc
Nashville and put upon trial. In the mean
time the facts-werc brought to tbe attention
of tlie President, who directed that the writ
should be obeyed, and that the body «of tb*
prisoner should be brought before the Judge,
and tbe case* disposed ot under the civil lax.
This was done and Henderson has been din-
charged.
Georgia Stocks and Bonds.—We clip tke
following from the Charleston Courier:
Messrs. Editors:—The quotations of securi
ties in our honored sister State, Georgia, 6how
that she is recuperating rapidly. Georgia
Railroad and Central Railroad bonds are at
par; Georgia Railroad stock, 85; Central Rail
road Bank stock, 97; City of Augusta bonds,
90; old Georgia sixes, 87; Georgia and Cen
tral Railroad Bank bills, 98; &c. Ts are
glad to notice this rapid financial improve
ment, and trust our own State will soon show
the same prosperous condition.
An Observer.
Confederate Dead at Resaca.—We are
pleased to learn from the following note,
handed to us yesterday, that tlie ladies o£
Alacon are responding promptly to the ap
peal ot their sisters at Resaca for aid in caring
for the Confederate dead in the vicinity mi
that place:.
To the Editors of the Macon Daily Telegraph:
Please acknowledge in your morning paper
the receipt of $235, collected by Aliss Lizxar
AI. Ells and myself from the citizens of Alacon
for the interment of the Confederate dead at
Resaca, which has this day been remitted.
AIrs. .8. S. Pox.
June 28th, 1866.
There is wisdom, as well as wit, it.
tlie following remark of josh Billings:
I always advise short sermons, especial?
on a hot Sunday. If a minister kan’t stike.
ile in forty minutes’ borini;, he haz eithergre
a poor gimlet, or clscheis borin’ in the rory.
place.’
|g*A drunken man in Chicago, I’, re
cently swallowed arsenic enough to jk sac
two or three sober men. went to lied, I. .u ’
good night’s rest, and woke up all l it;'..: aa
the morning. Whilst eating breakfast br
was taken suddenly ilk and died in less * -u*
two hours.