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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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LIOXSIXTIIE PATH.
We copy elsewhere, Irom the Now York
_ World, some remarks on one of tlie difficuK
- York city polled ajm«»t as many I tics to be encountered'by the Northern Radi
W' xhe i»»t election a# the entire State of | cals in upsetting the Slate governmentaiand
.only.four thousand le*
L, t lius*it s __
"j. governor Fenton, of New York, com
file in a MW-mill’ .
<' ,, I j, a ve been better tot his country
L staid there,
r It is again 9tated tl » at Jam 9 a Stephens
\ lean in New York within » few
^ ft ]| possibility of liis teaching
i commence a revolution is past.
mercury went down to one da
ta ' n \; zero in the Chicago therraome-
V l U><' J:!u . v morning; and at Madison,
,, the mercury stood at seven de-
Ljowsrro.
v ,n^*» ano IltwKtKfvaiK Line.—Wc
'' , m the Savannah papers, that the
1 r elite*- $. Hardee has resumed her
:vm» that city and Iluwkinsville.
attempting.. to ettaMish • othors against
the will of the people. Their -force cannot
hdl to be appreciated; indeed, when we take
a survey of the whole field', we cannot see
how thnt party can carry out their schemes
oi vengeance against • the Southern people
without involving our whole political system
iii confusion, that will be inextricable. It is
a very easy thing to talk about and to threat*
cn the subversion of State governments, but
a very different thing to put such a project
into practical operation. The Radicals will
find difficulties at every step. of their pro
gress-difficulties that not even Yankee in
genuity can overcome, and wc feel sure that
iti the end they will give up the job and find
themselves in disgrace for attempting it. They
are very stroqg, apparently now, but not
strong enough to be able to make a blunder
with impunity. A failure in any of their pet
schemes of revenge, either through an over
ruling of the co-ordinate branches of the. gov
ernment, or their failure from inherent folly
and impracticability, will doom them to early
destruction as a party.' No political organiza
tion can last when it is made apparent to the
people, either that they arc governed by un
patriotic motives, or that they are too igno
rant or too reckless to comprehend and re
aped the fundamental law of the land. We
predict that the counsels of the Railicals, in
every important particular, if attempted to
bo carried out, will, in one way or another,
ignominiously fail. This is a country gov
erned by law, and wc live in an age when the
tyranny of a majority over a minority, much
loss of a minority over a majority, cannot
be maintained for any considerable period
The very instincts of mankind are opposed
to palpable'injustice and wrong. There are
none in this enlightened day to uphold the
Servile doctrine that one portion of the hu
man race arc born booted and spurred to ride
rough shod over the rest. The people of this
country, since the establishment of their in
dependence of the British yoke, have been
known as freemen, and there is no power on
earth that can rightfully bring them under a
yoke again, much less a minority of their
countrymen not a whit better or more power
ful than those who are sought to be made the
victims of tyranny. The whole world must ac
knowledge this great truth sooner or later,
and it will cycl penetrate the rhinoceros
bides of those wild beasts in human form
who can see nothing in the people of the
South hut objects of prey. No man or party
is wholly independent. There is a civilized
world to sit in judgment upon their actions
and test them by the rule of right, as well
as a sure avenger of outrage and wrong.
Then let the South stand unmoved in her
present dignified and righteous position. If
she will, but maintain her rights with the
lawful weapons at her command, and banish
nil unworthy fears, she has but little of harm
to apprehend. And in this connection, we
would caution our people against lending a
willing and credulous ear to those teachers of
the public, who are ever croaking of evil to
come, and reflect the future ot the country
from their own cowardly hearts—men who
would deliberately goto work to prepare the
minds of a free people for acquiescence in op
pression, and who, themselves, are destitute
of the spirit and manliness to raise aloft the
standard of truth and justice and demand, in
the name of the Great Eternal, that it be re
spected as sacred. Such men have no busi
ness in positious to direct public sentiment
in times like these, and God help the people
who listen to their craven counsel^. The faith
ful leader on whatever theater, whether in
the ediotrial chair or the public councils, will
find his highest duty in exhorting his coun
trymen to guard well every avenue of attack
upon their liberties, and to resist the enemy,
come in what form he may, with all the
means that God and their fellow countrymen
have placed in their hands. At least, such is
our own view of duty, and we are resolved
to give it a practical illustration in these
columns so long as wc shall have the power
to indite their language and dictate their
spirit. When this resolve shall have failed
us, we' shall be ready to retire, as no longer
worthy to counsel our down-trodden country
men. >
To the Graduate* and Honorary
members of the I*lii Kappa Soci
ety, University or Georgia.
In occ irduucc with a resolution passed at
a late meeting of this Society, we have been
appointed a committee for the purpose of so
liciting from you, contributions of books and
money with which to replenish our wasted
library.
At the close of our late struggle for inde
pendence, when the Federal forces occupied
the town of Athens, our Library Hall was
used as a military office by them, and the
main Hall converted into a place of revelry
and riotous amusement. In this way we
necessarily sustained an almost irreparable
loss. Many of our most valuable books were
scattered and lost, and the Hall was other
wise greatly abused.
We would therefore most earnestly appeal
to you for relief, in order that our beloved
Society may recover at once from those in
juries.!
Wc appeal to your liberality, to your love
for the University and the Society, and to the
interest which every true Southern heart
should feel in home education; and we arc
sure that these motives and considerations
will prompt you to lend us kind and gener
ous a ; d.
If then, you will assist us in reviving the in
terests ot our Society, wc will gratefully re
ceive all contributions of books and money.
Communications and shipments may.be ad
dressed to either of the undersigned at their
respective cities, as is most convenient.
Yours, very respcctjully, Ac,
P. W. Meldrim, Savannah;
J. H. Casey, Augusta;
Julius L. Brown, Atlanta;
W. B. Bonnell, Macon;
II. W. Grady, Athens;
W. Barnwell, Athens.
All the papers throughout the South favor
able ta the cause of education will please
copy.
Athens, Ga., December, 1866.
ggT" The publication of the official corres
pondence relating to the capture of Surratt
has elicited inquiries as to the whereabouts of j
the witness Weichman. who is put torwnrd
In a new light. In the statement of the con
versations held with Surratt, the witnesses
Kta£ eTen >f conceded to be evidence, add their belief that Weichman the princi-
in the indictment to lmve bean I P»1 witness in the conspiracy trial, was one
1 — of the principal conspirators. He lately re
signed bis office in Washingtcn and wont to
Philadelphia.
..-, i- v .ninth Saturday hist.
v ., Committee on Federal Relations
. , Carolina General Assembly have
, i; fivor of a resolution inviting the
., .,! i a National Convention. There
..pect that this measure will rc-
tii'tion of the State.
,;'i*vi!te Journal says the render-
, decision of the Supreme Court in
. ■, :iie tot oath i;t evidently staved off
u i! influence*. The object i* to give
• : Judge Grier, who is extremely ill, to
; ; he out ot the way the vile oath
i;N r for Slaves.—The ‘loyal”
f daws in Tenr-eswe are being paid
( ;.anilrwl dollars for all of their late
i. >’ ( rc<l into the military service.—
; ,t. ir y „f War has recently appointed
. ni.iing board whose duly it is to in-
ill claims of the kind referred to,
ort to Washington the result of their
.. ; uis. Messrs. ZeilinACo., adver-
r extensive stock of Drugs and Fancy
... together with a large variety of
npropriate .to the season and genoral-
ii-asbt after by the young. The “Spiral
is a beautiful and splendid firework,
• ir.g in brilliancy almost any chemical
■ M.own. Wo should feel some appre-
. it tor its effects upon the eye, if gazed
tn Readily. ; ’
>uu of a Good and Useful Citizen.—
• jut Ii from New York announces the
of Ibat. E. M. Bruce, of Kentucky, of
,»■ f the he art. Mr. Bruce.was a pronii-
Headier of the Confederate Congress,
the fall of the'Southern cause, has
tiisgigsd largely in mercantile pursuits.
:-nt Southern Hotel; in New York, was
-Ud under bis auspices, and the com-
r.i.l hm-c of which he-was the bead, lias
■ r-i iations in almost every part ol the
.—»«■ *
kite w Europe.—An interesting arti-
subject, from the Richmond Dis
tal, itldoubtlsss written by John Mitch-
,r .> been closely watching European
■ ’.he last year, will be found on our
. It does not present a very cheerful
• f political matters across the Atlantic,
the whole world seems to be out of
now, und Republicanism in as bad a
' .bon is anything else. The people will
- right in lime, though it is much to be
“ "«1 that such a resort as war should be
;:y anywhere in this enlightened age of
rvorlj.
hnoLpn Macon College.—We take
i: pleasure in calling public attention to
usouncement of this institution. Ran-
Miicon, like most of our Southern
\ vm prostrated by the war, but it has
' ‘a from the dust and again set out in its
v -u ff usefulness. With a complete reor-
uafion of its faculty, it once more opens
ikaQs to the public, not forgetting the
“•h as it offers to educate students for the
and the necessitous who wire dis-
W in the war, free of charge. We hope
** ildi venerable institution rapidly re-
*3 :t» place among the leading colleges ol
'with.
ire Trial of Jeff. Davis.—It is report-
■•ut Attorney General Staoburv has dccid-
upon the trial of Jeff. Davis at Richmond
P* ,ime during the spring of 1867. John
Witt, recently captured in Egypt, and now
« way to this country, will probably’ be
icd upon the witness staid at the Davis
“■ I 1 ' 9 complicity with the conspirators
'ring him a valuable witness in regard
; 3f part played by the arch traitor in the
■u-mation scheme.—Forney's Chronicle.
-’t hint come on and take the stand. Mr.
J * ltts nothing to fear from a thousand
'•its, nor front any number of witnesses
fc *J bribe to swear away the life of an
nnin. His trial, thank God 1 is to be
r "»Court of Low, and not a Military
vision.
*** Southerx Cultivator fob Decem-
^ ft ’»rged to Forty-eight Pages, contains
‘ lowing interesting articles: Farm work
^taler; Agricultural Implements and
■■‘Cmt; New Process for Dissolving
' “*'• Chiuc.’e Tea in North Carolina; Rice
Poisiide Number of lbs. of Cotton
' Acre: The Dawn of Day in Southern
'Attire; No Profit in Cultivating Poor
Guano; Pastures and Forage Crops;
•s; Economical Farming; Sea Island
r Gardening vs. Farming; The Garden:
of Vegetables; Mexican Pea; The
' r Garden; The Orchard; How to
J 1 ”*; Grapes, Brinly Plows; Guinea
- F>0, “1 for-Chickens; Curing Meat;
L ‘0 Cook and Make Sausages; The Dead
L. Portrait, (Poetry,); Mrs. Buckstcr;
L. ' Burney to Heaven; besides Edito-
kj.’. ■'i *c. The 25tli Volume commences
G/h 1SG7. Now is the time to subscribe!
r kTt: m ' * S ' Atbens i ® n - f* 00
Conovkr.—Conover’s counsel are
imping upon the uncertainties of the
E_i contend that his evidence ■* ^
kjjP * point “ material to the i c -e,”
ky * 1M «s been to convict him < t per-
'* l Judge Holt had no autl- .ity to
*n tne indictment to have besn
l\',“ *• evidence “ in the inquiry pend-
-Wc re-
bnto kn r ''' u - M. IIaktix, Esq.
b^ 0UnCe ricath of this estimable
-Lir.:‘.' aluri laj ln>t. Mr. lartin was a
Death of Dr. MaGeiiee.—^Weare pained
—j ....... „ to hear of the death of this prominent and
ftSS2S!?« < broker of '.his city, and 1 undul citizen of Georgia. Dr. McGehec was
l V ‘td? I* 1 Jews Prcsidi-at of the Farm-, one of the most practical and tmecessfulfarm-
|eCcu 0 f^” ,# URSBank, and ir*m tlteoigan- <’rs in the countrv. He was also a scholar,
r-bjij j,, “ was President ol
r South l“ neral place j,
V U| Church.—Charleston
Company,
that insti-
took place y e.-terday at
Mercery,
era in the country,
a gentleman of refinement and intelligence,
und one of the most agreeable conversation:;- •
lists wo ever met with. He died at his resi
dence in Houston county, after a brief lllncsf,
[Fed. Union.
rrom tU»,Vew York World.], , rp
Praelical Oifllt-ultic^ of tlie Tcrri-
torhtl sicliumc.
A newspaper article &ui exhibit no more
than detached glimp- s of so large a subject;
but the specimens we offer tvtll suffice to
show that .Congress has umdertaken a task for
which no ingenuity is sufficient.
One of the first effects of degrading the
States into Territories would be to shatter
and demolish the judicial system of the
United States as established therein. We
hope to make this very clear, hut the argu
ment will require the fixed attention of the
reader. It is necessary to p: emise that the
judiciul system of the United States has no
application to the Territories. Chief-Jus
tice Marshall {American Insurance Company
v. Canter. 1 Peters, 549,) speaking of Terri
torial courts, thus expounded their charac
ter These courts are not constitutional courts
"in which the judicial power conferred Iry the
“Constitutionon the general government can he
“deposited. They are incapable of receiving
“it. They are legislative courts created in
“virtue of the general right of soverignty
“which exists in the government. *. * *
“The jurisdiction with which they are invested
“is not a part of that judicial power which is
“conferred in the third article of the Constitu
tion, hut is conferred by Congress,
“in the execution of those general powers
“which that body possesses over tlie
“Territories of the United States.”
All the judges of the regular judiciary hold
during good behavior; but tlie Territorial
judges for only four years. The United States
circuit and district courts can be held only in
States, the two systems beingventirely distinct
and inconsistcLt. The consequence, then, of
reducing States to a Territorial condition,
would be to demolish all the judicial courts
within those States, and introduce u judicial
chaos. The effect would be a denial of jus
tice to all Northern citizens, in the courts of
the United States, against debtors and other
persons with whom they may hare business
relations in tlie South. An'inhabitant of a
Teoritory has no rt.ruling in any of the U. S.
Court*.: ■ The Supreme Court has decided
(The Corporation of New Orleans vs. Winter
et. td.—l Wheaton, 91.) that “the fact that
the plaintiff is a citizen of a Territory, and
the defendant of a State, does not enable tlie
courts of the .United States to take jurisdic
tion.” The Constitution confers jurisdiction
in suits “ between citizens of different States,"
inhabitants of Territories not being included
in this designation. It therefore appears that
not only would the courts of the United States
be abolished in the States degraded into Ter
ritories, but they would be without jurisdic
tion over the 'inhabitants, even if they could
continue to cxibt. -
A point of tlie first consequence in this
connection, is, that this very Congress, so re
cently as its last session, repeatedly recog
nized the continued existence of the South
ern States, as States, by several Jaws it pass
ed relating to the judiciary. It is necessary
.to bear in mind that the circuit and district
courts of the United States can have no ex
istence in Territories, but only in States.—
Iu the light of this incontrovertible truth,
read the following act of the session :
Chap. CCX.—An Act to fix the Number of
Jndges of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States, and to change certain Judicial
Circuits.
. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That no vacancy in the
office of associate justice of the Supreme
Court shall be filled by appointment until the
number of associate justice shall be reduced
to six; anil thereafter the said Supreme
Court shall consist of a chief-justice of the
United States and six associate justices, any
four of whom shall be a quorum ; and the
said court shall hold one term annually at
the seat of government, and such adjourned
ot special terms as it may find necessary for
jtlic despatch of business.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
first and second circuits shall remain as now
constituted; thnt the districts of Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, and Delaware shall con
stitute the third circuit; that the district of
Maryland, West Virginia, Viginia, Forth Car
olina, and South Carolina shall constitute the
fourth circuit; that the districts of Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississppi, Louisiana and
Texas shall constitute the fifth circuit; that
the districts of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky,
and Tennessee shall constitute the sixth cir
cuit ; that the districts of Indiana, Illinois,
and Wisconsin shall constitute the seventh
circuit; that the districts of Minnesota,
Iowa. Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas shall
continue the eighth circuit; and the dis
trict of Calfornia, Oregon, and Nevada shall
constitute the ninth circuit.
Approved, July 23, 1866.
It will be seen that every one of the ten ex
cluded States is here mentioned by name and
ccognized as a State in the Union, since it
is only in States in the Union that these
courts can be held. Congress has, therefore,
estopped itself from denying their statehood
now. If they have lost their standing as
States, it must have been either by their acts
of secession, or by the completion of our con
quest in the surrender of the Confederate ar
mies ; certainly by nothing that has taken
place since the passage ot the above recited
act of Congress. But by that act Congress
virtually declared that, in spite of the acts of
secession, and in spite of the surrender they
were, at its date, States in the Union. The
act prescribing the time for holding the cir
cuit courts in Virginia implies a similar ad
mission. The famous Civil Rights bill is
full of such admissions, inasmuch as the cir
cuit and district courts of the United States
are the pivots on which the whole legal ma
chinery turus for its execution.
Another consideration of the fiist magni
tude involved in this controversy respects the
corporate property and pecuniary obligations
of the deposed States. The public buildings,
records, and other property, will cease to be
long to the States when they become extinct,
and will, of necessity, accrue to the conqueror.
In pursuance of the same principle, the Uni
ted States will assume dll the Southeon State
debts. It is an established principle ot public
law that the conqueror becomes liable for all
the just pecuniary obligations of a conquered
State. This follows from the fact that the
conquered State, by losing its sovereignty,
loses its contj-ol over the property of the citi
zens, and with it all ability to satisfy the just
demands of public creditors. If it be said
that the property of the Territories may be
held for tlie debts of the defunct States, the
assertion discredits the intelligence ot him
who makes it. For how will the taxes to pay
the State debts be collected ? It must be leg
islatures, or by the authority of Congress.
No other is possible. But Territorial legis-
latures.there will be none, for the simple rea
son that the people will refuse to recognize
the act constituting the Territorial Govern
ments, and will refuse to choose any Legisla
tures under it. And even if they were to
choose Legislatures, they would refuse to tax
their constituents to pay debts which had
legally devolved upon the Federal Govern
ment. But what, it may be asked, shall pre
vent Congress from imposing taxes on the
property of each Territory to pay the debt
incurred when it was a State ! The Const!
union of the United States prevents, by com
pletely forbidding it. We copy its language:
‘•AH duties, imposts and excises shall be
uniform throughout the United States. ”
“No capitation,or other direct tax shall be
laid unless in proportion to the census or en
umeration hereinbefore directed to betaken.”
The bulk of Southern property consisting
in land and the improvement* upon it, tlie
public debts of the States would necessarily
lie met, if paid by themselves, chiefly by
taxes cn real estate. But Congress is forbid
den to lay any tax on real estate, or direct
tax of any kind, except by distributing it
over the whole country in proportion to the
census. The inevitable consequence of tlie
Territorial scheme would be the assumption
of the Southern State debt by the Federal
Government, and their payment by taxes up
on the whole people.
Another consequence would lie the relief of
the Southern people from all taxes for the
support of local officers, whose salaries would
be paid out of the Federal treasury, as in
the case of the other Territories, Nothing
is more certain than that the people would
refuse all voluntary participation in the
Territorial government. There would, there
fore, be no Territorial legislatures, nor any
local officers of any kind, only such
as were appointed frem Washington. The
consequence would be. that the people of the
United States would not only_be burdened
witl^frie Southern State debts, in addition to
theM^vn, but with the whole expense of
maintaining internal order in the South. The
difficulty and friction resulting from tlie re
fusal ot the people to co-operate in the Terri-
tonal goveirmeuts, would quadruple the ex
pense as well as transfer it.
Without pursuing this subject through its
wide ramifications, the points we have touch
ed upon should convince Congre«s that they
have embarked in an undertaking of which
they will have abundant reason to repent.
Warlike Aspect of Europe.
[From tho Richmond Dispatch.] .
All Europe is preparing with most anxious
haste for war. Judicious o iservers, indeed,
have always considered the peace patched up
this year between Austria and Prussia, after
their small war of a week, as a mere tempo
rary truce; and all tho Powers, great and
small, evidently regard it in that light and no
other. Prussia, by her rapid march, long prc :
pared beforehand, and by the accidental su
periority of her infantry arms, has had her
advantage, but was afraid to follow it up;
and scarcely had the King returned to Ber
lin when he and his able Minister announced
to the Prussian Chambers that he was only at
tho beginning of his great task—the reor
ganization of Germany. In the meantime.
Austria, which is not half so much weakened
or humbled now as she was sixty years ago
by the French, and which is the Power
in all Europe that has the greatest capac
ity of recuperation after defeat, is making
extraordinary efforts both to consolidate her
heterogeneous empire and rc-org&nize her
army. That army next year will number
800,000 men; officers and men being both an
imated by tlie eager desire to wipe away the
disgrace of Badoira. But this time the con
test will not bo between Prussia and Austria
alone. Russia is getting ready; she also has
defeats to avenge, and her interests in Ger
many and on the Baltic to advance. The
Imperial Government is even deigning to re
lax the rigor of its administration in Poland,
that the Empire may he strengthened on that
weak side. As to France, all tho world knows
that she is diligently perfecting the re-organ
ization of her armyj and arming it with im
proved breech-loading guns, whether those of
Chassepot or those of Bonin matters not—
either ot them being superior to thu Prussian
arm—and the Emperor, it is said, lias in
vented a new field-piece—a breech
loading four-pounder—capable of going
everywhere that cavalry can go, and rend
cringthe whole cavalry force ot the Em
pire a species of flying artillery. More
over, it is in anticipation of a general war in
Europe, and not in consequence of Mr. Se
ward’s notes, that the French army is to be
withdrawn from Mexico. France cannot af
ford to take care of two continents at once;
and the French nation, which never loved the
Mexican expedition, is now so heartily sick
of it, and so earnestly desires to see those
veteran troops at home again before tbe im
pending life and death struggle in Europe,
that not all the power and popularity ot the
Emperor can longer oppose the general will.
People at this side the Atlantic are apt to
i-nagiue that the perpetuation of that Mexi
can Empire is a point of honor with the
French nation, and that to abandon it will be
to them a bitter humiliation. Notliingcould
be more erroneous: they have lost sight of
Mexico altogether in presence of the tremen
dous events they see approaching neater
home, and will certainly illuminate their cities
when their soldiers return. They all feel that
their army must be well in hand and prac
ticed in its Chassepot manual before the day
when it will have marching orders lor the
Rhine.
But how will the Powers be arrayed for the
grand struggle! Who will be allies of
whom ? The Baron De Beust, one of the
most skilful of diplomatists, is busy in trying
to bring Austria and Franco to an under
standing—and this may be very possible,
now that Italy is clear of Austria, and even
on friendly terms with her late foe. It was
the interest of Italy alone that restrained
France from declaring against Prussia ia this
year’s war; and as between Prussia and Aus
tria, the sympathies of all Frenchmen were
warmly with the latter. Now, a league of
France, Austria and Italy (together withBpain,
which scarcely counts,) would be an array ot
the Catholic Powers ot southern Europe; and
against such an alliance on what coukl Prus
sia rely ? First, and chiefly, on Russia. Rus
sia nurses a deep grudge against Au^ria; not
only for the course taken by the latter in
the Crimean difficulty, but still more for
the liberal concessions she has made to the
Poles in her Polish province of Galicia. It
does not suit Russia that the unhappy Poles
of her Poland should 8ee on their borders the
spectacle of a portion of their own nation
comparatively free and prosperous under
Austrian rule. Against France it is needles,
to say that the Czar cherishes the memories
of Sebastopol. By the last telegraphic news,
also, it seems as if Russia already wero pre
paring herself for the great anii-Catholic
crusade by the side of Prussia—fer the Czar
has put au end to all the relations between
his Empire and the Pope. If Russia, how
ever, should ally herself with Prussia.it will
not be gratis. There are large accounts open
between those two powers, relatiig to Din-
mark, the Baltic sea, and certain principal
ities of Germany which are specially connec
ted with the Russian imperial family—all
those accounts must be settled in favor of the
Czar.
As for England, she can scarcely be said to
be counted any more than Spain. It is now a
maxim with her statesmen tlat she has no
business with continental wars or treaties,
even war that she has stirred up (as the Dan
ish war), and treaties which she is bound to
see executed, as one of the contracting par
ties. England’s mission is to sit at home and
spin. Yet Bnsland also is making all the
preparation she can, knowing that she may
be forced into the melee whether she wills it
or not; and it is for this the English Govern
ment is making such formidable demonstra
tions and uttering such savage threats against
an insurrection in Ireland which has not tak
en place. Not a single blow has been struck;
but as it is well known that an organization
exists in Ireland for the deliverance of that is
land, and as foolish boasts and threats
have been uttered about its. immediate
purposes, they have resolved in London
to make a great show of crushing that,
and “stamping it out” in the place,
in order that they may not be embarrassed
by troubles in Ireland at a moment when all
tbeir energies may be called lor in a differ
ent quarter. Another point which England
must absolutely arrange before engaging in
any war whatsoever is revision of the neu
trality laws. She dares not give nor accept
any provocation from any nation, leaving in
full force the precedent she herself set during
the American contest. Cruisers could
steam out of New York or Boston as easily
as out of Liverpool; and once at mb, they
can hoist a French or Austrian flag as well as
a Confederate one.
Not to speak of tbe “ Eastern Question,”
a question which is still and always pressing
for solution, and which involves war in Asia
and Africa, as well ns in Europe—independ
ently of this portentous question, all signs
indicate a general war. For the time, it may
be next year possibly, but more probably the
year after. France desires to get through
with her Exposition first; but the movements
of others may render even this impossible.
Murdered “Bureau Agents’’ Wanted.
—A liberal reward will be paid by tlie Recon
struction Committee of Congress tor “ mur
dered agents of tlie Frecdmen’s Bureau,” as
well as “ insulted ” school manna. As soon
as Congress adjourned the demand for “ atro
cities ” and “outrages ” subsided; but it has
been revived with a vengeance during tbe
last ten days.—Richmond Times.
The Presentation Ceremony in the
Elouso of Representative#.
At the close ot the session ot the General
Assembly, the Clerks of the House presented
to their chief, Colonel James D. Waddell, a
magnificent watch and chain, as a testimonial
of their, regard for that gentleman. This
took place in the chamber of the House. The
following is the address of Colonel John B,
Estes, Assistant Clerk, and Chairman of the
Committee of Presentation:
Colonel Waddell :
These mutual friends of you and me, my
associates, your subordinate clerks, have se
lected me as their unworthy representative,
in their name, to present to you this simple
memorial as a slight testimonial of that uni
form courtesy, manly deportment, unfeigned
kindness, and patient toleration which have
ever marked yout conduct towards every
member of our corps.
It were useless for me to recur to the causes
which induced this honorable body to select
you as the standard bearer of the clercical
department of the House of Representatives.
Your name bad already become the propeity
of Georgians; your deeds were rehearsed
with true State pride. When the tocsin of
war was sounded, your glittering blade leap
ed from its scabbard, and with the foremost
of the brave you rushed to the field of glory,
and, where the tide of battle ragr d thickest,
proudly illustrated the chivalry of Georgia.
Conspicuous among the bright pages which
will grace the history of our struggle , will be
those which record your deeds ot uoiile dur
fog.
These considerations, Sir, as well a:
the recollection that you are no degen
erate son of a noble ancestry, might well
serve to induce this body of Georgians
to select you for the post you hare so ably
filled. How acceptable your services have
been, this honorable body will testify; but,
sir, we, your associates, demand the right, of
expressing, in some feeble degree, our high
admiration of the life, character and virtues
of one whom we esteem so much.
For two consecutive sessions we have met,
afiaternal band. Not a thorn lias pricked
the hand that plucked the rose ot pleasure;
not a ripple has arisen on the placid face ot
friendship’s limpid stream. These thoughts
deepen the regret that, in so short a time
t iis corp3 will be parted, perhaps fmo/er,
Ere yet again the brilliant Day-god shall kiss
the western hills, and lay him down beneath
the golden flood, this body will have been
scattered like leaves before the autumn blast.
Some will be hastening to the sunny plains
of Southern Georgia, while others hie them
to tlieir mountain homes. Though distance
rise between us, the elastic cord of friendship
will still connect our hearts.
And, sir, when you have returned to the
society of her whom you have learned to love
and adore, say to her that she may enjoy your
love, but >ve claim some part in your triend
ship. We will never forget tbe cordial grasp
of your hand, the beaming of your counte
nance, the melody of your words. Be your
lot prosperity, or engulphed in adversity,
you may rest assured that there are those
whose solicitude lor your welfare and happi
ness is sacond only tS that for their own.
This is but a watcb, but when you shall
look upon its face may you be reminded that
with time it’s mission ceases; that'as it ticks
in unison with vour noble heart, it may warn
you and us that when time shall cease to be
measured and the cycles of eternity roll their
ample rounds, you, with us, may be gathered
to brighter fields than these.
Sir, I have done. Words cannot portray
feelings! Now, in behalf of my comrades
and friends,
“ Thi* simple gift (to your charge commit,
And with it take th> ir hearts who tender it.”
COLONEL WADDEL’S RESPONSE.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Clerical
Corps
I have uo words to express my acknowl
edgments. With the profoundest gratitude,
I accept the beautiful watch.
The compliment implied in the magnificent
present comes home to my heart with subdu
ing emphasis and force. There it will be
garnered up until that heart pulsates no more.
We met Here a year since, most of us,stran
gere; we shall part, all of us, friends.
I shall ever acknowledge, with pride and
pleasure, the value ot your services. Upon
those services, rendered so cheerfully, so
faithfully, so energetically, so intelligently,
common caudor compels me to confess in this
presence, have mainly depended the efficien
cy and popularity of the* corps. I shall al
ways remembet with the liveliest satisfaction
your uniform kindness anil civility.
Warmer hearted, more generous, truer men
were never the coadjutors of a public officer.
No matter what the future may have in store
for me, no matter where the whim of destiny
may drive me, no matter what may be the
late of our distracted country—should exile
become more tolerable than oppression, and
I be forced to seek a grave in the land of the
stranger, there, the recollection of our unal
loyed, pleasant and agreeable association
here, personal and official, will form a grate
ful oasis in memory’s waste. In bidding you
good-bye, I can but venture to express the
hope, howsoever dark, starless, rayless, the
present hour be, that we may all meet again,
when clearer skies shall beam above us and
brighter prospects cheer us.
God bless you, gentlemen, each and all,
now and evermore 1
Sentenced to the Penitentiary.—Jas.
Jordan, formerly a clerk in the Montgomery
Postoffice, was sentenced yesterday to 21
years’ confinement in tho State Penitentiary,
by the United States District Court, for pur
loining valuable letters in tbe postoifice. We
understand the prisoner will be seut forth
with to Wetumpka.—Montg. Mail, 15th.
£3^“Gen. Heningsen is now making a liv
ing by distilling whisky in Richmond. If
there were ever a soldier of fortune horn to
bad luck, Heningsen is tbe man. ne has been
on the losing side in no less than four wars—
the Carlist war in Spain, the Hungarian war,
tho Nicaraguan war, and the late war in this
country.’
1ST The Washington Star of the 13th inst.
says the report that pardon will be offered to
John H. Surratt, on condition that he will
testify against others, is untrue. Any testi
mony given by him must be voluntary on
bi3 part, end with tbe understanding that be
does not thereby save his neck.
Singular Visit to Mr. Davis.
* J. N.” at Fortress Monroe—Ilis Reception by Mr.
*■ ■ >’Davia—Conversation, etc:
An Actress Commits Sticide.—Boston,
Dec.—Mrs. Julia Tlioman, formerly Miss Julia
Pelby, a well-known actress, committed
suicide at her residence in Cambridge on Sat
urday night by taking laudanum. She had
recently returned from professional engage
ments in California.
J?g r Tt is said that Mr. Seward’s nineteen-
tliousand-dollar-in-gold dispatch by t h e
Atlantic cable to the American Minister in
Paris, was known in London as soon as it was
known to Mr. Bigelow himself.
The cable must be a leaky concern.
Radical Estimate of a Radical,—A
Radical Washington correspondent of the
Leavenworth Times charges Senator Pome
roy, of Kansas, with feathering his ne3t to
tbe tunc of $217,000 in ceitain railroad grants
by government, and adds, “he would not be-
ieve him (Pomeroy) under oath.”
Trains will probably be running from
Maine to California in three years.
Gardening for Ladds.—Make up your
berl early in the morning; sew buttons on
your husband’s shirt; do not rake up griev
ances; protect th« young and tender branches
of your family; plant a smile of good temper
in your face, anil carefully root out all angry
feelings, and expect a good crop ot happiness.
Satannah Synagogue.—The congrega
tion of the Bnai Berith Jacob have purchased
a plat of ground in the “burnt district,” and
are having the plans drawn lor a handsome
Synagogue, -which will be built at an early
day.
Our-readers, says the Nashvillo Union, are
famitjar, from frequent nptice in the-Southern
press,‘.with the initials J. Ni, who has been
going about the country for some time. Tbe
person to whom they belong is J-.-N. Free,
formerly of Tiffin, Ohio, ne is about forty
years of age, tall and erect, with a powerful
frame. He wears long hair, has a pieicing
eye, but over all is cast the peculiar look and
acting of a monomaniac. Ten years agoMr.
Free was a thriving business mati. He was
considered a man of more than ordinary lite
rary attainments, possessing a strong intellect
and considerable talent. About the year 1855
be was doing business in California; and,
brooding over extensive losses on sea and
land, that followed in qnick succession, he
became demented. Since that time, in an
inoffensive wav, he has wandered up and
down in the Union, and to and fro in it—
When the war broke out, J. N. imagined that
on him fell the whole pressure'of the miscon
ceived struggle. He held that the North and
South were both right and wrong—right froiu
their own stand-points, Iput wrong from each
other’s. This he denominated his theory,
and has ever since been striving to solve its
mystery, and lift trom it the veil, that the
public might see. When no one comes out
to hear him at his appointed meetings, he is
in the habit of applying to the sheriff, and
demanding that be shall be incarcerated and
martyred, if necessary, for the truth.
He has recently had an interview with
Mr. Davis at Fortress Monroe, a report of
which is thus given. We publish it as show
ing the exalted bearing of the prisoner, even
in the presence of a political monomaniac.—
It is as follows :
He made application at the gate this morn
ing, and was admitted within its portals.—
He announced himself as a citizen of Ohio,
wishing to look at the fort, expecting to act
the philosopher in the presence of Davis.
After a moment’s stroll on the rampart be
observed Mr. Davis and lady on the porch of
Carroll Hal), the former quietly smoking his
cigar, in deep conversation. J. N. tints ob
served; Are there any restrictions placed up
on visitors who have the privilege of visiting
the fort ?
Sir Davis replied—There arc none; the
guards are removed.
With that J. N. ascended the steps, and
offering his hand again observed—They call
me J. N., the philosopher. I suppose I have
the pleasure of conversing with the “Hon.”
Jefferson Davis, President of the late Con
federacy? V
Davis, bowing, observed—That is my
name.
J. N.—r am truly glad to see you; having
stood neutral in the late war, viewing it from
all stand-points; having bad an interview
with tlie lamented President Lincoln, in Sep
tember, 1864; General Robert E. Lee, in July,
1865; I bad a desire to Converse with you, in
order to know your candid views respecting
myjthcory of reconciliation between tbe North
and South, which I have promulgated not
only since the commencement of the late war
but hold up to the present time, as truth
cannot change by the power of arms.
Davis replied—I ani truly glad to see you;
walk in; (Mrs. Davis observed at tbe same
time, Step into tlie parlor.) Please excuse
me from presenting my views; I will hear
you with pleasure. I have been so misrepre
sented by the journalists of the country, and
my true position so misunderstood while rep
resenting the sentiments of the Southern peo
ple, that I will refrain from speaking, and
listen to your position as a philosopher. Of
course you take truth as your basis, and thus
look at tho matter in an unprejudiced light.
J. N.—To do justice to the positions held
by both belligerent parties during the war, I
think I appear before you unbiased by preju
dice or affected in the least by the misappre
hension which has caused the North to view
you in the light of a criminal, while you at
present are looking at it from a Southern
stand-point. For they have claimed, aud do
now, that you were, the leader of a rebellion
which had for its object the destruction of
the best government ever framed by mortal
man, wiien you, from your own view, as far
as I could understand your true motive, as
the representative of the Southern people,
and as their executive of tlie late Confedera
cy for lour years, were repelling an invasion
and defending your shores, based on tbeidia
that a State hail a right to secede.
Davis—That is the way we understood it,
and do now. Ihave not changed. I was the
representative of the people, called there by
tbeir will.
J. N.—The North do not understand it in
the same light, hence you can plainly see that
I was compelled in justice to truth to pro
nounce the war a misapprehension on both
sides, tlicSoutlr misapprehending the North
in seceding when they did, tjp; North misap
prehending the South by not taking their
view of secession; and thus the war pro
gressed with a veil of prejudice enshrouding
both, which caused each to consider the other
wrong. Correct the misapprehension that
now exists by each igaoring tho other’s po
sition, and there may yet be a reconciliation
effected, and not until then. These are my
views. I may be in error, but I think I am
right.
Davis—The position appears truthful and
philosophical; go on, I wish to hear your
theory.
J. N.—I trust I have your entire sympathy;
my position is a peculiar one, differing from
the established ideas of tho people of the
South. The truth is what I am determined
to promulgate ; and to relieve the press of
the North and those who sympathized with
me, during the late war, I appeared before
them in tho light of a criminal, doing pen
ance on the altar of prejudice, in order thus
to assume all the responsibility on myself.—
Here are the instruments of torture [J. N.
handing his manacles to Davis, who smilingly
said, “They are not as large as those pre
sented to me.”] with which I have entered
twenty-six dungeon cells. I could not have
presented truth "without this sacrifice, nad
In ot stood neutral, I would have now no
theory, and it is truly a great source of grat
ification to me to present the same principles
in the North that I do in the South.
As you are aware, probably, I have traveled
over nine States in the South since the war
so that the soldiers in either army, when they
hear me, can unite in the common bonds of
friendship and tully sympathize with the
other, for they were truly both patriots to
their idea of truth. The soldiers that fought
under the Confederate flag revered Washing
ton fully as much as those under the Federal
flag. Both armies honored the spot where
liis ashes repose, the former claiming Wash
in.ton because he established this govern
ment on the principles that they were con
tending for—the right of self-governjBtait;
the latter ignoring this position, claimed that
the former were destroying the government
which he in his wisdom had founded. This,
you will see, is a paradox, both right and
both wrong. Both right, because each was
right from their view; both wrong, because
each considered the oilier wrong. Thus pal
riotism impelled both to act as they did. each
conscientious in their notions, praying for the
success of their arms and appealing to heaven
tc witness the justice ol their own cause.
Davis—They both, uo doubt, were sincere
in their motives and patriotic in their views.
Oh! what a grand thing truth is; but how
hard it is for us poor mortals to love it as we
should. I know ot but one who did, and
that was the Saviour, who died for us all.—
Iu Him there was mo guile, and lie offered
his life on tlie cross for truth and for our
thus reconcile their prejudices, no more than
the solder*of the South, it appeal*, car. be
reconciled by addressing them ns rebels ? The
reconciliation most com n from the basis from
which each bad reasoned. I bad two gallant
brothers--Mai. J. W. Free aud Col. W. II.
Free—in the Federal army, belonging to the
thirty-first Ohio regiment. One led ono of
the most heroic charges while capturing a
battery on the bloody field of Cbicamauga,
where he wa3 mortally wounded ; tho other,
with musket in hand, leading his regiment
on tho rugged heights of Resaca, exposed
himself with a fearlessness never before ex
celled. I wish no one to address them,
the war now being over, only in tho light of
patriots, for it is iu that light they answered
to the call of their country*
Davis.—Justice should be d. no to both
views, and the motives of both fully consid
ered. I wish this done in the strictest sense
of the word.
J. N.—That is all I wish; I believe if all
understood it as I do. the veil which now
enshrouds the people will be removed. I will
do anything to eil'cct it; freely accept your
pence, or, if my death would establish tlie
principles which I have advocated,. I would
offer my life on the alter of my country.
You afonowa criminal, through a misap
prehension of your true position. If the
.South had triumped over tbe North, it would
have been charged upon the pure anil patriot
ic Lincoln that he was the Executive of a
government that sent forth an invading army
for the desolation of the South.
I am truly pleased I have your sympathies,
and wherever I present my theory I will say
you accord with me.
At that moment an officer of the garrison
entered the parlor where this - conversation
was transpiring, and observed: “I will be
compelled, under the peculiar circumstances
ot the case, to ask you not to prolong your
interview for the present.”
J. N., smilingly shaking hands with Mr.
and Mrs. Davis, at the same time thank-
log the officer . for the courteous manner he
had treated him, shortly afterward, left the
fort. The above conversation between the
immortal J. N. and Davis is almost, verbatim
et literatim. It is stated that during the con
versation Mrs. Davis, deeming the stranger
an escapeddunatic, and fearing evil designs,
dispatched a messenger to the residence of
Dr. Cooper, the post- sUrgeon, who called for
the services of the above mententioned offi
cer to invite tbe immortal J. N. out ot tbe
fort. ■ * >
A New Cure for Cholera.
The Paris correspondent of tlie Jfew York
Times writes under date 27th ult^ '
Just at the close of the cholera epidemic in
Paris, an interesting experiment was tried by
Dr. Lorain, ono of the physicians of the Hos
pital St> Antoine, in the Faubourg St. An
toine. As is well known to tbe profession,
tho blood in cholera becomes thick; or, to
spiak more correctly, loses its watery parti-
cle*. and does not circulate in the capillary
system. Under this state of tilings the pa
tient grows blue and cold and falls rapidly
into collapse. Dr. Lorain thought that when
a patient was found in this fatal condition it
would be a good thing tc fojcct water into
his Ycins so as to thin the blood again and
enable it to circulate fo all parts of the body,
lie first tried the experiment oa animals and
found it did uot kill thetn. He then took the
first collapsed case which came into the hos"-
pital, which happened to be a young man
with no other bodily ailment than the disease
in question. When he wa3 cold, insensible
nd cadaver ic—in a word, within, an hour or
two of his death—Dr. Loraiu called his hos
pital colleagues together, told them what he
wanted to do, and asked them their opinion
as to the possibility of curing the man -by
other remedies. With one accord they de
clared the patient beyond hope oi relief, and
that the Doctor’s conscience might be at case
in the tria! of tlie experiment he proposed.—
He then, with the usual precautions against
the intermission of air, injected into the veins
at the fold of the‘arm about twelve ounces of
water, at a temperature of 104 deg. Fahren
heit. Tlie man soon, grew warmer, his pulse
became perceptible, lie showed unmistakable
signs of returning life, and, in tact, sixteen
hours alter the operation, in the morning,-bo
sat up in bed and asked for a drink. Ho
went on improving, passed through the
phases of an ordinary convalescence from
cholera, and got well 1
Two Examples.
Two notable examples ofgenerou3 forbear
ance and magnanimity have recently been set
by two of the- most despotic nations on the
earth, Turkey aud Russia. It will be recol
lected that shortly alter the suppression of
the insurrection iu Crete, news came to us
that the Sublime Porte bad extended a gene
ral amnesty to all concerned iu the “rebel
lion.” This leniency took all Christendom
by surprise, because the Turks have cot been
in tlie habit of dealing with revolted provin
ces in that way.
Tbeothcr instance of mercy and humanity
in an unexpected quarter is furnished • us by
the Czar, who has just mode extensive concesj
sions to ttie Poles, remitting “exceptional im
posts, taxes aud monopolies,” and restoring
to the landholders vast- estates which had
been forfeited by the participation of their
owners in the last “rebellion" against the im
perial authority.
As the Government t>f the United States is
a warm friend and admirer of that of Russia,
it is hoped that this example of humanity
'ard justice will not be ■vyitliout effect upon
our Republican despots. * It is rather a strik
ing commentary upon the boasted civiliza
tion, virtue anu Christianity of the Yankees,
that we should find them clinging to meas
ures of persecution and confiscation which
even the Russians and Turks, those semi-civ
ilized nations of Europe, are becoming
ashamed of. Perhaps, to example, the Czar
and the Sublime Porte may add precept, and
address a joint note to tho Puritan Congress
remonstrating against their adherence to the
code of barbarism.—Rich. Times.
Almost a Duel Between Southerners.
The usual dullness of the Capital was dis
turbed this evening by reports ot a contem
plated duel between two Mississippians, one
loyal and tbe other alleged to be otherwise.
Tbe facts are these: Judge Able, who holds
an official position iu Mississippi, met Dr.
Sidney, of the same State, in Capitol square,
this afternoon. The Doctor remurkid to a
friend who was with him that as lie had once
fought him a duel, he did uot wish to notice
him. The Judge, however, came up and ad
dressed the Doctor as followsYou arc a
renegade Southerner. What are you doing
here?” The response was a knock-down
blow. A challenge front Judge Able fol
lowed. They were to tight with rifles on
Virginia shore to-day at noon, but the matter
was subsequently amicably a Tanged,-and no
fight come off, much to the disappointment of
friends on both sides. Judge Able is a John
son man, and Dr. Sidney is a Southern Radi
cal. Sidney was in the Mississippi Legisla
ture, and voted against the ordinance of se
cession. Ilis second, in the contemplated
duel, was Colonel Fish, of Louisiana; that of
Judge Able, Col. Wentworth.
[ Wash. Cor. H. V. Kxpre**.
Beginning of Disintegration.—The side
bar discussion in the Senate on the 14th in
stant, between Messrs. Sumner and Wade, is
reported in Washington as the most signifi
cant i isemsion of the session. Those Sena
tors stood lacing each other for several min
utes, Mr. Wade contending that Congress
was honorably bound to consider the consti
tutional amendment, if adopted by the South
ern S'ate.-, as conclusive of their right to rep
resentation ; Mr. Sumner as earnestly denying
thac (here was any such agreement or under
standing. Mr. Wade said he should stand
by bis bargain, when Mr, Sumner, waving
liis hand at Mr. Wade,said : “There, sir—we
part company.”
J. N.—Are you aware, Mr. Davis, that no
man could address the gallant soldiers of the
Death of a Politician.—Francis Gailn-
lier, a well known Maiylaad politicia : and
North in the light of invaders, as the South j stump speaker, died in Baltimore on Monday
considered them fully from your view, and of consumption, aged 51.