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Our U’likliiM'iton Correspondence.
what we have to contend with.
'We had Is ivyr\lliat tho time had arrived
when capital uml labor would bo left free to
take cure of tn^pudyts, and that al ter a dis- | Tbs President's Veto of the Netrro SoSrtgs Bill—
LETTER FROM “WARWICK'.*
. -r A. Jud'on Crane, a' promineut.lnwyer
'^•.ui.v'.l, Ya., died on Thursday night.
, r The death sentence of flic Fenians
evicted at.Swcetahurglwsbccn com-
*‘ ; j twentyyeto#’- imprisonment. ;
. t Von Bots and Girls.—It affords
* urf to ask attention to tho advertise-
■ j of Mr. R- D. Wade, who will re-open
^,nl in this city on tho 14th inst. We
* * him to ho thoroughly qualified as an
. ;1 „ r ot the young, both montally and
’ ; r ;1 :i,i feel snro that all who patronize
“ a ir *o] will bo satisfied with him a9 a
T >N .—The cctton estimates arc now
flowing a totnl product of 1,750,-
.s t .f 403 pounds each. As the actuul
, re a,iw nearly. 500 pounds each, this
i-ulmt to* million and a half of suCh
The estimates are made Up as follows!
, (rofina, 01,000 bales; South Caroli-
•.’ i\ i; Georgia, 205,000 j Florida, 30,-
huy a, 220,000; Mississippi, 270,000;
, 109,000; Texas, 300,000; Arkan-
(0; Tennessrh, 148,000; other States,
At
rlCK U,
5»v--" '"’(II!" . So mono <\f nnr
would like to' kettp posted in the
ik»ir* brunswiek, with which we arc to
sohound in intimate commercial connection
I f *n early day, we would suggest to them
yjij. Orme, editor and proprietor of tho
Courier,*' will be at the Lanier House for
j, T nf two and would be glad to receive tbe
^or such persons as feel disposed to
strike to his paper. Subscriptions can
it wt f>t the clerk’s desk, or at the Telegraph
5ff, u may be most convenient. 4
ACnuvrttn Vetoed.—We leara privately
ajiGhv. Jenkins bos vetoed the bill pnssed
nae tot of the session, to charter tbe “New
.vans. Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad
ir'ia what we have heard of the bill, wc
.yak the Governor has acted wisely in re-
«ng his sanction. The groand of objec
.j M „ we hear, are that it confers an extent of
wr ami privilege dangerous to railroad
isicrtsU generally, and especially to tbe Wes
:tra ami Atlantic Railroad, in fact that it
would be equivalent to admitting the new
company a* partners with tho State in a con
nderaWe portion of that important work.—
Oar legislators cannot be too careful how
they entertain propositions coming from capi
talists from abroad. .
Fit;ts Duki.no 1800,--During December
lien.* were in the United States 00 large fires
a which the aggregate loss of property was
fi,435,000- This Is a greater loss than oc
sr/edinnny month since July, when there
<re 36 (ires and a destruction of property
nlued at $14,705,000. For the year I860 the
lire number of large fires reported wes 501
el the total loss of property $00,410,000, as
spared with 354 largo fires and a loss of
r.vptrty valued at] $43,189.000 during 1805.
Ib losses for I860 by fires in the United
jut* have been greater tlinn for any previ
ajear, the total for the last twelve years
$260,998,000, a yearly average of $23,
ft500. Tbe losses for I860, it wiJl thus be
m, are nearly three times the annual aver-
Rettrx op Gk.n. PiucH.-r-TIie New Or
am Picayune of Friday last says: “We felt
:lv gratified, yesterday, as tbe tall and stal
urt figure of Sterling Price, the great Mis-
• sri General, entered our office. As all our
-riders arc aware, he reached this city on tbe
>t inst., from Mexico, accompanied by three
t his daughters, who arc all stopping at the
St. Charles Hotel. Wo believe that Gen.
Price is now en his way to St. Louis, where
:e will be greeted by ghosts of old friends,
ud warmly. A recent spell of illness has
lucb reduced his weight; yet his eye is as
nr and his complexion as bright as of old,
ud there is a deal of work yet left in Gen.
ruling Price.”
We alio learn from the Picayune, that the
able old veteran 1ms been presented with a
Kgeand valuable tract of land in Texas, by
Aemerchunts of New Orleans, and has also
rea tendered an important commercial
tpney in Europe.
It is reported that Gen. Sheridan informed
fat Price that he would be compelled to
rierm the [Government ot bis arrival, and,
: *t. of course, act under such orders as lie
bould receive, at the same time requesting
-it he would keep him. informed as to his
ntination and movements.
astrous business year, resulting in great part
| from the interference of government in the
business affairs of tbe citizen, we should be
untrammelled hereafter by any such re
straints. Vi e pereinve, however, that one
AfnjqrMosebnch, who does the offices of the
Frecdnien’s Bureau at Columbus, has issued
an order that assumes to take complete con
trol of the relations between the white man
and the negro laborer, and in tlie arbitrary
judgment ot one man to regulate the whole
question, of wages for a community.; Tbe
order requires all contracts between white
men and freedmen, fdr labor, to be submit
ted to and approved by “the Bureau,” else
tfie employers will be required to pay the
freedmen the highest wages paid in that sec
tion ; and the freedmen are informed that
they are “at liberty to leave their employers’
service at any time!”
Now, if this sort of despotism is to be kept
up in tbe South, and all business transactions
with negro laborers to be subject to tbe es
pionage and interference ot government offi
cials, onr people might as well at once give
up all hopes of prosperity in tho future.—
The civil law is proclaimed to bo in force,
the negro is declared afreemnn and entitled
to all the civil rights of the white man, the
constitution holds sacred the obligation of
"■““ridC* -j/wm ’-vejjr citizen, ao»— 1 uoliti-
cnl economy demands tnai i-wr and capital
shall be left psrfeCtlyfreo to make their
own adjustments, and yet we have still a
power amongst us that claims the right to
set aside all these considerations and dictate
the business relations of society.
Can anything be more disheartening to the
planters of tbe South than this! The freed
men have enjoyed nearly the entire proceeds
of their labor tho past year, leaving capital
almost without reward, and yet the iniqui
tous system is still to be kept up. and tbe
planters of the South annoyed and dogged
at every turn by paying government over
seers. The authorities have only to persist in
this hateful and odious policy in order to
throw the negro entirely out of the labor
market and compel Southern planters to sub
stitute white immigrantlabor with which they
can deal in peace.
This interference on tho part of the gov
ernment in the private affairs of the citizen,
is not only opposed to every consideration of
sound policy, bat it finds no excuse in the
present relations of the Southern people to
wards the freedmen. Our people have shown
a disposition, almost universally, to do a fair
part by tbe negro; and were it otherwise, the
latter has a plenary remedy in bis own hands.
If one man will not pay him enough for his
labor, bo is perfectly free to decline the con
tract and engage with another. The open
competition in tbe labor market is sufficient
guard against all imposition. And again
when contracts arc made and the employer
fails to perform his part of the agreement,
we have a cheap and summary process in our
State Courts by which the freedman can
compel him to be just, even to the extent of
being a witness for himself. Whence, then,
the necessity for Federal interposition T—
There is none, and tbe Federal Government
has only to persist in its present unjust and
ruinous course to utterly break down all in
dustry at tbe South. This will be its certain
effect. The suspicion, distrust, ill-will and
interruption created by such a policy, must
inevitably lead our people either to dispense
with the negro altogether, or else to turn the
broad and fertile fields of the South into a
barren waste. If the Freedmen’s Bureau bill
is to be executed in spirit and letter in tbe
face of such results, -then we must make up
our minds, right or wrong, wise or foolish,
to be sacrificed to the Moloch of Fanaticism.
Texas to be Metamorphosed into four Territo
ries—rnc.raons Project of Thai!. Mevens, for
lh-i-troying tbe Government- of the Southern
States—Negro Banality to be Forced upon
Them—The New Navv Yard ior Iron Clad \ e=-
sels.
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THE PRESIDENT’S TOAST.
It seems that in spite of Mr. Ashley’s notion
that all patriotism and national pride over
national achievements, had “played out” in
this country, there were enough found in
Washington on the 8th of January, to con
stitute a reipcctable company and commem
orate the achievement of American arms at
the battle of New Orleans. Among these
ns no less a personage than the President of
the United States, and wc are glad to know
that he was there. It was a very proper ex
ample to set his countrymen in this day of
moral degeneracy, and, w'bat is still better,
he availed himself of the occasion to hold up
the old land marks of Republican liberty, to
expose the enemies of tbe Union, and to an
nouncc in a few brief words the only princi
pies upon which the government of our
fathers could be maintained. Ilis toast
will be found under our telegraphic head
but it is good, and strong, and eloquent
enough t» be repeated iu this place.
“No State,of its own will, lias a right, un
der the Constitution, to renounce its place in
or to withdraw from, the Union ; nor has the
Congress of the United States a constitution
al power to degrade the peoplo of any State
hy reducing them to the condition of a mere
territorial dependency upon the Federal head.
The one is a disruption and dissolution of the
overnment—the other is a consolidation and
exercise of despotic power. The advocates
of either arc, alike, the cnimies of tlie Union,
and of our constitutional iorm of govern
racni.”
Here is a platform, broad and strong enough
for all American citizens to stand upon, and
stand securely. Tuking it for granted that
the last clause was meant to refer to the
government of the United States, as a dis
tinctive existence, *nd not to the theory of
Republican government—which no Southern
secessionist ever made war upon—we approve
and endorse the sentiment, ilany at the South
differ from us on the question of constitution
al disruption, but wc have ever held and open
ly proclaimed the doctrine laid down by the
President, maintaining that no government
could be destroyed except through the *gon
cy of revolution. But we do not propose to
discuss this question, as all are now pledged
to sustain our theory, whatever may have
beeu their individual opinions of our system
in the past. We all, in the South nt least,
now stand on the President’s platform, and
we would be glad to see it engraved on every
door post in the land. It will be a rallying
point for the friends of tree government at
the North, and when the reign ot passion
shall have ceased, its plain, powerful truths
Cannot fail to make their impress ou th« popu
lar miud of the North. The fiag with such a
motto cannot tail to triumph in the end.—
However dark nUd gloomy may be the pros
pect now. the firm adherence of its friends
will parry it successfully through. i
Washington, Jan. 4,1807.
Some of the Northern newspapers are
making a great parade of mystery about the
sailing of Mr. F. W. Seward, in a national
vessel, to tho West Indies. There is no mys
tery about it. and the State Department has
not even sought any concealment of the mat
ter. The whole thing has been perfectly well
known to hundreds of people here. Mr.
Seward has simply been sent to Hayti, to car
ry tbe sum of $50,000 in gold to the gov
ernment of that Island, as an instalment of
tho payment that wc are to make tor a har
bor and naval station in the Bay of Sana
ma.
At tbe meeting of tho Cabinet to-day, the
President read the principal points of his
message vetoing tbe negro suffrage bill for
the district of Columbia. The whole mes
sage is not yet written, but it will be complc
ted to-morrow, and sent to Congress on Mon
day. It is a document of considerable
length; and it is understood that the Presi
dent goes into the whole question of negro
suffrage in all its relations, and makes out a
stronger case against it than has ever been
presented. Tbe document is looked for with
llU»«*aa interest.
Congress rc-asscmbled yesterday after the
vacation for tho ’Christmas holidays, and
went immediately to work. The pro
ceedings, both of yesterday and to-day,
indicate that all the radical measures
are to be carried out unrelentingly. Mr.
Bundy’s joint resolution for making
four territories out ot the Sfafe of Texas, was
referred to the Committee on Territories,
which reference is as good os instructing that
committee to report a bill to carry out the
infamous design of the resolution. I remem
ber perfectly well, when tho debate on the
great compromise measures of 1850 was going
on, that Daniel Webster made a most im
pressive speech in relation to Texas, in which
he proved that the faith of the government
was most solemnly pledged to create four,
additional States out of the limits of Texas,
at such times as the people of Texas should
desire, and to permit the people of those new
States to decide for themselves, at the time
of their admission, whether they wonlt^have
slave labor or not. But the times are sadly
changed. The plighted faith of the govern
ment is nothing thought of now, when it
comes in conflict with Radical views. Mr,
Bundy’s joint resolution stands a good chance
of being adopted.
Gen. Grant is decidedly opposed to any in
crease in the regular army. This fact ap
pears in a letter just published, which be
wrote to the Secretary of War on the 11th
ult.. * , 1 '
Thad<leu3 Stevens has remained here dur
ing the holidays, engaged in drawing up
his new scheme of Congressional reconstruc
tion, and he presented it to tbe House yes
terday. It commences with tho sweeping
wicked and false allegation that “ the eleven
States which lately formed the government
called the Confederate States HAVE FOR
FEITED ALL THEIR RIGHTS UNDER
THE CONSTITUTION, and can be rein
stated in those rights ouly through the action
of Congress.” The bill then provides for
State Conventions to be held, to form new
State Constitutions in each of the Southern
States. Particular provision is made that
all the negroes shall cote, and that negroes
shall also be eligible to be elected as delegates
to these State Conventions. The actual citi
zens of tho Southern States are completely
excluded, by the provisions of the bill, from
all participation in this work of the reorgan
ization of tbe States. The new Constitutioss,
to be formed by these Conventions, are to be
Toted on by blacks and whites alike; but
particular pains are taken by the bill, to ex
elude all tbe real citizens of the South from
any participation in the State governments.
That is to be done entirely by the blacks, and
the white “ loyalists.” The National Intelli
gcncer well says of this infamous measure:
“ Can Radical aadacity and folly go any
further than this ? The House did not scout
or deride the project, but, on the contrary,
listened to the author's explanations with
great gravity. It can hardly be believed
however, that a majority of the House will be
brought to support a measure which is evi
dently intended to subject the Southern
States to the arbitrary and vindictive rule of
Philadelphia, because of the difficulties an cl
dangers which attend navigation in the'Del
aware river. .7th. Tlie best iron-clad vessels
require a depth of water of 20 feet, which
they can have, with 4 feet to spare, at New
London, while the channel in the IV’avnre
river is.nowhere more than 13 feet deep!—
England has now fifteen iron-clad ve^els
that require twenty-six feet of water to float
them: and France has now sixteen vessos of
the same kind. If we ever expect to iope
with those nations, we must not be beliml
them in this respect. In tlie summer of ;.S->2
it took the steamer Wabash two davsandtwo
nights to get out of tho ^1 a ware from Phil
adelphia, and that wjth 'PHliaid of a tow-lbat.
She was obliged to anchoi' , 'seve)'al timci, ou
account of shoal water. From New Loulon
she could have been at sea-in three h«urs.
The iron-sides, recently burned at Lcigue
Island, was four days in getting lrom Piile-
deiphia to the mouth of the Delaware; in
18C2. Finally, the water at New^ London
never freezes. Warwick.
A Centre Shot at “Old Tiiad.”—In the
tlie Hoqse of Representatives, on the 3d inst.,
Mr. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, dealt a blow at
the arch Radical, from which be will fi*d it
difficult to recover. Mr. Eldridge intro
duced the following resolution: , 1 J
Itesolced, That the followingresolutioi,in
troduced into the House ot Representatives
Dec. 4,1862, by Hon. Thadfleus Stevens, ex
presses the conviction and sense of this House,
to wit: Eesolted, That if any person it tho
employment of the United States, in either
the legislative or .the executive branch,
should iiropose to make peace, or sho.uld ac
cept nr ad-rloc the acceptance ot any such
proposition, on any other basis than the integ
rity and entire unity of the United States and
their Territories as they existed at the time of
the rebellion, he will be guilty of a h igh crime'';
and that Bill 543 is clearly in violatbn of
the spirit of said resolution, and tint the
same does in fact assert, or at least admit,
that secessionists and rebels were successful
in the dividing of tho Union, and destroyed
certain States of the United States, ns such
in the Union, degrading them into Taiito-
ries; and that the Hon. Tbaddcus Steveis, in
and by the introduction and advocacy of said
bill, has manifested a mind and heart disloyal
to the Constitution and the Union of the
States as they existed at the time of the re
bellion, and is guilty of the crime specified in
said : resolution, and therefore deserves the
reprobation of this House. ■
Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, objected to the intro
duction of the resolution.
Mr. Eldridge said he did not desire to
press it, os thegeutleman named in the reso
lution was not then in his seat. [Laughter.]
It was laid over.
The Son orXnpolcon I.—A Singular 32d parallel north latitude with the 20th dc-
Slory. j gree of longitude west from Washington.
The search after the relics belonging to the I middle division shall be called the
Duke de Reichstadt, King of Rome, has , Territory of Lincoln, and shall be hounded
ended in the securing of several most inter- j east and west by the Territories of Bravo and
esting souvenirs, to be placed in the Napoleon ] Sabine. The last mentioned throe Torritoric:
gallery of the Louvre. Tho life of this son
STATISTICS OF EMIGRATION.
From the returns of tho New York Com
missioners of Emigration, tho following sta
tistics are token: *
AKntVALS AT CASTLE CAXDEN DCUSO NOVEMBER, 1616.
Ports Clearance.
Livert>ool
Vessels.
...... sa
Passentor*
. 7.CT.-2 ■
London
...... 4
1,035
Glasgow
3
v;:
Havre
..... 3
655
Hamburg
- .. 7
3.410
Bremen
12
4.411
Rotterdam
3
110
Total
Total arrived during 1660...
55
16,260 V
219.820
Total in 1SC5.
181.25S
MiTIXATlOX or PASSIXQSRS—XOVEXBIB, 1806.
states.
Arkansas 7
Missouri
Total
477
Alabama Si
Mexico......
3
of the great Emperor who, according to the
touching epitaph written jay himself for his
own tomb, “was born King of Romo and
died a lieutenant, in the Austrian service,’’
was too short to admit of any very volumin
ous record. Tho souvenirs now brought to
Paris have been wholly furnished by tho well-
remembered danseuse, Fanny Ellsicr, who
lives iu the6trict retirement of a country life
near the Hague, occupied solely in the culti
vation of a certain species of rose, which she
has brought to tho highest perfection. By
the fortune left her by Gentz, added to that
acquired by her own industry and talent, she
is enabled to live tbe easy of a chatelaine;
end while her leisure time is occupied with
the cultivation of flowers, her heart is fully
occupied likewise with the cultivation of all
her tender souvenirs of the Court of Vienna,
snd tbe place she once occupied thereat, with
the full consent and approbation of every
nember of the Imperial family. The story of
the loves of the Due de Reichstadt is abort
ind sad enough. Disgusted with the restraint
♦f the life at court, wounded by the position
10 which his birth had consigned him among
the proud archdukes, his high-born relatives,
ie was wont to steal a way into the country
:o enjoy solitude and the contemplation of
pature, at a little vilhigo near Vienna.
The doctors bad foretold that, unless some
(interest in life were offered to this sensitive,
nervous youth, he must of necessity, sink into
atrophy, and wither away in consumption.
Many and many a hope had been raised of
are to be bounded on the north by the said
Territory of Brazoria, and having the Gulf of
Mexico on the soutn and s uthen^t, aud
bounded south and southeast thereby.
That when any of thesaid Territories have
sufficient population to entitle it to be repre
sented in the Contrivof rbe l nited State-,
(of not less than 125,000 persons.) and shall,
by a Convention duly called for that purpose,
composed of dt leg ites voted for an-.! elect
by tbedoyal male persons of the' age of twen
ty-one years and upwards having resided n
the Territory six months, and who shall not-
have been convicted of any infamous crime,
or who shall not be a lunatic Qr n pauper at
the time he proposes to vote, have adopted
a constitution republican in form, and the
constitutional amendment proposed by the
Thirty-ninth Congress at the first session
thereof, shall be eligible to admission into
the Union, and upon the election of members
of Congress who can duly qualify, shall be
admitted into tlie Union upon an equality
with the other States thereof.
The civil governments of the said. Territo
ries shall assimilate to the same governments
of the other Territories of the Union ; and,
until such governments can be provided for
said Territories the government and laws of
the so-called State of Texas shall remain in
full authority and force.
That all sales or grants of land hereafter
made in the said district of -Texas by the pub
lic authorities thereof to disloyal persons or
enemies of the government of the United
States shall be null and void, and the right of
n <j rstnt«Jf4’eeonrte-eonverU-.d in'-o hcgbuaEffi'
securities payable only to order, which can
not hi- the c:i~o with any of the coupon bonds
of the Government.
in under tlie laws thereof shall not inure to
the benefit of any such person or persons.
Referred to tho committee on Territories.
his forming an attachment which might pre-emptiontoanyofthepubliclandsthere-
throw some interest around his existence, and ~ " i ^
ward off the ennui which was killing him by
inch?s. But tbe conviction that tbe oppor
tunity thus afforded him were but snares of
the ciemy to set a spy over him in his most
utigaxled moments kept him on the watch,
and In never once yielded to the temptation.
But He moment came for him, as it comes
for all
and
From the N. 1). Crescent.
Abolition of States.
Mr. Sumner's bill abolishing State go’vern-
JP . ments in the South is the logical sequence of
ill. He became struck with the grace Uhe radical theory of government, and the
beiuty of his landlady’s niece, a girl fresh on ]y practical plan of positive policy, by
from tin woods, whose picturesque costume which the Republicans can extricate them-
nnd simple manners flattered both kis artis- selves from the embarrassments in which they
tic and moral taste, and lie soon became are ihvolved. Tbe doctrine of a compulsory
deeply glamored.. To this girl tiiey say be Union, and of the absolute right of one sec-
told the whole story of liis life—the tempta- tion of the country to govern the other, leads
tions wlicb had been offered him—the aspi-1 directly to the doctrine of the right of the
rationsJn which he indulged, the hopes he governing section to set aside or abolish such
entertailed. His entire existence underwent State organizations as mav constitute an ob-
achange To one being could he unfold the staclc to tlieir purposes. The right of coerc-
secrets cf his heart, and the restraint which j ing States into the Union has,its correlative
in the right of expelling States from tbe Un
ion. Both, arc deducible from the doctrine
of the unrestricted sovereignty of the central
power. It is’ remarkable, howerer, that
these two phases of the same doctrine are ex
hibited in relation to the same set of States,
and that the party which urged on a bloody
and expensive war for the avowed purpose
of preserving a constitutional Union should
had bqea killing him was overcome at last.
Hut as there must always be a demon at
work ujon the happiness of every mortal
here bdow, so did the satisfaction experi
enced by the young Due tie Reichstadt soon
come to an end.
He who had shunned all gaiety, who had
obstinately refused to attend all courtly^etM,
opera, ball, and play finding his health andHHjmHIHHHHillllHHHl
spirits much improved,must needs, one night I n „w use the power which tliev have'acquired,
be seized with an irresistabiedesirotosee the for the destruction of a constitutional Union,
ballet of “The Diable Boiteux,’ in which the jjj-. Sumner and his sympathisers see very
cacliuca danced by Fanny Ellsicr bad become dearly that as long as tho right oftheSoutii-
tfie aim and object of every’ conversation and I fju States to pass on constitutional ameud-
of all the enthusiasm ot tbejcity. He went i ments is recognized, it is Vain to deny the
alone to the opera r-hp saw tlie dancer come separate State existence of those communities.
forward to the footlights with that swimming p ar ti c ip a tions in the framing of the funda-
stept which had won tke hearts of ell msc— I mental law is the highest act of sovereignty
kind. ^ Ho gazed first in terror, then in doubt that can be exercised by a member of the
then in horror and amazement, and sank I Uni6n, an’d, as long as'such participation is
; slowly down senseless on the floor of the box admitted, the exclusion from Congress of tlie
' where he was placed 1 It was the dancer her- [ representatives of the participating States
British Columbia .1
Canada
California
Connecticut
Central America
Cuba
I'eUwnre
District of Columbia...
Florida
Georfda SB
Illinois .1523
Iowa ■. SS3
Indiana- 190
Kentucky ' 141
Kansas/....-
Louisiana ^ Hi
Massachusetts
Maryland......
Maine - -
Michigan-
...— 54
Minnesota 143
New Hampshire 28
Nova Sootia
New York- ,.... 7,615
New Jersey - COi
Nebraska. 23
North Carolina.. - 8
New Brunswick 10
Oregon 1
Rhode Island- ;... 192
[self on whom his whole heart and soul had
been bestowed. It was to her lie had cojifi-1
led his most secret thoughts. The whole in
trigue oftheheart became revealed at once to I
liis mind. He went back no more to the
must be regarded as an act of unmitigated
and inexcusable tyranny. But the alterna
tives to which the Republicans are driven—
that of legislating States ont of existence by
congressional enactment—is, of. course,
i . . I CUUOLUlCli L —AO, Wl. WUICL, c*
village,but retired again to the little student's gfciu more extraordinary act of despotism.
rpom in the palace still shone as the place
where he died, and could never be persuaded
to behold even once again the traitoress who
Ohio.....—l.oi* | bad so imposed upon liis trusting heart. No
sonth caroii'na 1 one ^ ut himself ever suspected Faanv Elisler
of any base intrigue—the pastorial "comedy
had been played out in good part, and with
South Carolina.....
South America
Texas
Tennessee
Vermont -
Virginia
Wisconsin
Prince Edward’s lsta’d
And, indeed, this destructive process
becomes possible only when the leg
islative branch of tho government
has acquired so preponderating a force
as to giro to its simple decrees the effect of
law, regardless of tlie rights of co-ordinate
departments, and of constitutional limita-
(Ferrilorluiizins the hlttles.
Tin- following is tlio substance, of Mr. A-.lt-
lov’s bill to reduce the States to Territories,
oirtred as n. substitute to Thud. Stevens' bant
ling for tbe same object:
The first section .declares that tlio State
Governments organized in the lately Rebel
States, excluding Tennessee, are not valid,
CorKjfittitibnal Srite Governments, ami that
their acts are void.
The second section authorizes.the organi-
zatiori ot constitutional State Governments
in each of such States—all male citizens over
21 years of age residing therein for six months,
irrespective of race or.former condition' of
st rvitu lei to V t It ctors.
Tlie' third section imposes on electors an
(jatfi; declaring that the person was. outlie
4th .March, 1804, willing to comply with tho
requirements of the President's Proclamation
of Dec. 8, ISO'S; was at alLtimeg,thereafter
opposed to the continuance of the rcbe.lion,
never treated, Federal prisoners otherwise
than as lawful prisoners of war, and will
henceforth bear faith aud allegiance to the
United States Government. ^ It imposes on
the delegates elected to the State Conventions
provisions for an additional oath that they
have never, voluntarily, homo arms against
the United States, and hud never held any
office, civil or military, under tlie Confederate
Government
If the Convention agree to adopt the Con
stitutional Amendment,, it is then to select
five citizens, distinguished' for their loyalty
and fidelity to tlie Constitution and Union,
who are to* act as a Provisional Committee of
Public Safety for the State, until a Constitu
tional State Convention shall assemble aud
■elect'a Proviaiomal Governor. Sixty days’
notice is to be given of the election of del
egates to such Constitutional Convention,
°The fourth section invests such. Convention
with full power and authority to'farm a Con
stitution of State Government, provided, that
such Constitution shall be republican and
not repugnant to the Constitution of tho
United States. And provided further, that
it shall adopt an ordinance 'fdrever irrevoca
ble, without the consent of Congress, declar
ing all persons tree aud equal before the law,
repudiating all debts contracted in aid ofthe
rebellion, providing for the maintenance, of
free, public schools, for the exclusion from
all offices of hopor or profit under the Sta;6’
Government all persons who have held office
under either of the recent revolutionary Gov
ernments, State or Confederate, and recog
nizing in Congress the right to compel tlie
continuance ot the State's relations with tho
United States.
The fifth section makes it Jhe duty of Con- .
gress to determine whether the conditions
have been complied with, and if so, and it
Congress approve tho Constitution and ord
inance adopted,Jthe State is to be declared
entitled to the rights, privileges and im-.
munities and be subject to all the obligations
and liabilities, of a State in the American.
Union, j
Set:. 12—Anthorizes the Provisional Gov-i. [
ernor to organize, arm and eduip suCll mili
tary as he may deem necessary to keep the
peace and enforce the laws and, ordinance*,
whenever forcible resistance js made to his
authority.
Set- 13—Authorizes the Provisional Gov
ernment to proclaim martial law aud suspend
the writ of habeas corpus whenever and
wherever public resistance is made to the ex
ecution ot civil process.
Sec. 14—Authorizes the'divisibn of Texas
into two States.
Sec. 15—Authorizes the Convention to dis
pense, by a two-thirds vote, with that part
ofthe onth of delegates declaring that they
have never held any civil offices under tho
Confederate Government.
Total 17,175
the
Bksacca, Coxfudruatk Ckmutruy.—A*
many of our citizens took an interest in this
place of sepulture and contributed to its
adornment, they will be pleased to read an
interesting description of it, with an account
of the dedicatory e*erci*oa, which w* copy
on our firri page.
small “ torch-and-turpentine” faction
and the yet more ignorant, credulous and
indolent blacks, who are thus to be encour
aged and enabled to revenge themselves upon
the formerly mister race. The plan is care
fully prepared for its apparent object—to
subject tho whites to the blacks. It appeals
strongly to tho cupidity and passions of the
newly emancipated negroes, and secures their
immunity through the protection of the mil
itary power of the Federal Government”
Among the measures which passed the
House at the last session, but which failed
to receive the action of tbe Senate, was
bill for the establishment of a navy
yard and depot for iron-clad vessels,
where they may be laid up in safety in
tinie6 of peace. The construction of these
vessels is so peculiar that a new naval station
of this kind is needed, and if it is not pro-
ided we (hall lose our whole iron-clad na
vy. The bill which passed the House desig
nated League Islaud, 6 miles South ot Phil
adelphia, as the new navy yard. Th# Senato
will not concur in this, and will probably
pa-sa bill as a substitute, designating New
London, in Connecticut, »s the proper loca
tion. The reasons for this arc evident. 1st.
League Island is a low, marshy spot, the soil
of which is so soft and sponger that it will
have to be covered with three feet deep of
gravel before workmen can begin to walk
about upon it. 2d. The Delaware river is
always obstructed by icc two months in ev
ery year. 8d. The water in the channel is
so low as to render navigation for iron ves
sels exceedingly hazardous. 4th. If the ves
sels should, by any mischance take fire, they
would be consumed and totally destroyed, as
the Ironsides was a few weeks ago, while ly
ing at League Island, owing to its inaccessibil
ity from Philadelphia, and the impossibility
of getting water to extinguish the flames.—
Cth. New London possesses all the advantages
that arc required for the phrpose. The ground
is high and solid, and the water deep enough
The Millen Hotel.—Having liad occa
sion recently to pass over the Central Rail
road, we were pleased to see that our old
friend, Bob Gray, the famous landlord of the
Millen Hotel, though burned out and ruined
by the vandal army of Sherman, has proved
irrepressible. He has raised a temporary
shanty near the ruins ef his former hospitable
the entire concurrence of Imperial relatives, tions. It is perfectly plain that the congrcs-
sionnl majority have made up their mind to
act on this assumption. Logically and le
gally a congressional declaration or statute
abolishing State governments would be a
mere brutum fulmen. But it becomes iihpor-
tant and ominious when it expresses the de
termination of the majority party in tbe
dominant section- It is a "real coup, d'etat;
a pronunciamiento against the existing gov
ernment, quite as revolutionary as any mani
festo ever written by the pen and enforced by
the sword of a Mexican military cliiftain.
Should tills bill pass, a very serious prob
lem will be presented—a problem, the solu-
The end of the drama was a bright and glori
ous existence for the dancer, for the Duke
misery, despair, and death 1—Borton rost,
Joint Resolution
FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FOUR
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS
WITHIN THE SO-CALLED
- . STATE OF TEXAS.
OFFERED IN C0NGKESS BY MR. BUNDY.
i go on to propose and to ratify amendments.
But such amendments will, likewise, be pro
posed by the Secretary of State to tbe South
ern States. Not receiving three-fourths of
the Totes of all the States they will be con-
^^■■1 Whercu bv joint resolution, approved,
abode, and is still dispensing the best of fare March' 1, 1845, that district heretofore known ti° n ot which is more difficult than any ever
to the hungry and weary traveler. Homely as the State of Texas was admitted into tlio 1 propounded by Theban spliynx. 1 he osten-
as may appear the exterior, we advise all who Union and wrongfully permitted to retain in «!*» object at . the. Republicans is to reduce
• * * • ’ ... her own right, us to tlie said State, all the tbe number of States so that those which they
pass that way to enter there, for they will unsettlefJ | ands within its limits, tho entire control will suffice to carry any amendment
find an aoundance of creature comforts done territory thereof consisting of 237,000 square to the federal Constitution which they may
up in a style that will not fail to satisfy both { miles, all of which were acquired by the design to make. After adopting the legis-
taste and appetite A few hundred yards common treasure, sacrifice, and blood ot the | lative portion of the programme, they will
n-**- »T' *•' Mrr t sis ttSEs s
handsome hotel, which he hopes to have | cupying the said lands, joined the inhabi-
open in a few weeks, and where every accom-1 tants of other insurrectionary districts in
odation will be provided for his guests. Long waging war against the Government and peo-
n „rni,i frLmH f„it Kv ot the United States, thereby forfeiting sidered rejected, by the executive department.
!Srltr»in ^ & ^ by I all their political rights as citizens of one of I Receiving three-fourths ofthe votes ofthe so-
e>er - 1 ' 1 the States of the Union, destri.vitig the pr-ic- called “loyal ' States, they will be declared
c . n „ .. . „ tieal relations of tbe said State of Texas with adopted by tbe legislative branch. In the
..OUXD Logic. Gov. Curtin, of Pennsyl- the (j overnmen t ofthe United States to the meantime, the “Union” will remain disinteg
vanin, is exceedingly radical in his last an- extent that all territorial rights and posses- rated, and the problem of “reconstruction”
nual message, but he announces ene princi- sions appertaining to, or to be exercised or w iN be as far from solution .as ever,
pie to which we giveafull and liesrty n*Bcnt. enjoyed by, the people of the said State of If the Republicans persist then
n " Texas, became and remain forfeited and lost I in . consummating their purposes they
V_* ' . to them by reason of their own acts of treason will have to get rid of tlie President by im-
If two-thirds of Congress, as now consti- and rebellion, as aforesaid; and peachment, or forcible despotism; or resort
tuted, could lawfully propose those amend- Whereas the people and the public author-1 t0 an insurrection against the executive and
ments, then three-tourths of the States not jjy bave been, and still are, disposing of the I the judiciary. It is stated that Mr. Sumner’s
excluded trom representation in Congress i public lands remaining unsettled therein. I bill will pass. Perhaps so. But what is to
form a sufficient majority to effect their law- rioh only in a reckless and improvident man- come afterwards is the serious part of the bnj
ful adoption. rier, but to persons who have been and are smtss—more serious perhaps to the reigning
This is undoubtedly true. There is just still disloyal to the Government ofthe United P ar ty than to any other portion of the com
as much authority for one act at there is for States, and as rewards for their treason and muuity. At all events, even if this last ex-
tlie other nnd that „„„„ ,ii . c rebellion against the same; and treme of radical tyranny be successful, tho
. \ . r ^ ~ ‘ “I Whereas, the people and public authority device will hereafter return to plague (lie in
remarks the \\ orld, Mr. Curtin will wake up ot dgstnc^ j n defiance of all law, munic- yentors. When it lias been shown that the
some fine morning, and, finding his own ar- ipal and Divine, have and are still commit- simplest way for a party to carry its point in
* ' - - - the way ot altering the Constitution, is to
prohibit opposition States from voting, there
will be nothing to prevent the abolition of
the senatorial representation of New England.
Parties are not apt to forget or to refuse to
avail themselves of the precedents furnished
bv tbc-ir adversaries.
gument by accident turned end for end in ting,everv species of violence and outrage l
liis mind, will discover with what cogency he W9 each other, and more particularly upon
, . . ... . J the Urxon and freedmen within their bor-
has clinched the protests of the Legislatures I t ] C rs- and
of each of the excluded Southern States Whereas, the said district of Texas has
against the legality of the proposal of con- * been, and is now, the resort and refuge of
stitutional amendments which ten States had ! desperate and lawless characters and critni-
no voh e in framing. na, \ so . that thc - ver / n ? mc 4 V' hich u tlla ‘
” 1 country is recognized and named through nil
lands is suggestive of tlie penal colony of tlie
world, the name and history thereof indicat
ing little else than bloodshed, ingratitude, vio
lence and wrong:
Therefore, to the end that thc political
iioivcr and public domain thereof may not
further strengthen the hands and advance
the purposes of those who hitherto have been,
and are now. the most active, untiring, and
OcMCLUEE Circuit.—Hon. Augustus Rees
elected Judge—no opposition.
For Solicitor—James H. Blount received
[OFFICIAL.!.
Important to Purchasers and iIolders
of Government S'kccrities.—The 'rapid
The First Colored Convention In
Texas.
The Bastrop (Texas) Advertiser reports the
proceedings of the first colored Convention
ever held in that State. It says: -
“The convention of colored people at Ba
strop has just terminated, aud as jt ia thc
first of tlie kind ever held,in Texas, we will
furnish the readers of the Advertiser with
snch details as will be' of general interest.—
The processton formed at 10 o’clock at the
residence of Mrs. Fulleyloye, and marched,
thc ladies in front and the men in thc. rear,
on horseback, in double line, extending about
three quarters of a mile in length, headed by
music. Six marshals; mounted, With scarfs,
rosettes, and swords, guided tlie movement.
Thc procession repaired to the spring at the
head of Main street, where a sumptuous bf.rr.
becue was smoking over the coals—bread,
pies, turkeys, chickens, cakes of all varieties,
aud potatoes in abundance, were spread over
tlie table, the citizens contributing to the en
tertainment, and many being present. The
marshals commanded silence, the multitude
gathered around the platform, and Dr. Rich
ard G. Parker, an intelligent colored man,
who has traveled extensively in Europe ami
the United States, addressed the audience iu
a plain, practical Speech, full of wit, and
reaching, at times, a lofty style ot eloquence,
assuring liis friends that wages were higher
in Texas thart in the North, and that their
best friends were the Southern people. He
advis.-d them to let politics alone, and to till
the soil.
“The Lieutenant Governor of the State of
Texas, the Hon. G. W. .Jone3, made some
very intelligent remarks, just such a speech
as the occasion required. His example in
encouraging and counselling the negroes is
worthy of imitation by every intelligent pa
triot who has tlie sagacity to perceive that if
the education of the young and pupilage of
the old, nnd religious control of both sexes
and all ages, is neglected by our own people,
prejudices will never cease, and wild confu
sion rule ■ supreme. Prelacy and priestcraft
will be substituted tor the worship of the true
God, and the Gospel to thc negro will be is
onerous as the taxon cotton. No intoxica
tion, no ardent sjririts, no weapons of any
kind were in the procession or on thc ground.
The utmost harmony prevailed; no blood
shed; no tightingor quarrelling. The females
were elegantly dressed iu plain merino—pur
ple, scarlet and blue, with rosettes and rit-
bonsl
“A memorial and address to the freedmen
in T6xas was read by Jeremiah J. Hamilton,
chief marshal of the day, and Secretary of
the Central Committee.”
in Jones county
Morgan county
Greene county
Wilkinson countv
Putnam county
Baldwin county
183 votes.
90
94
90
20
- 8
conversion at tbe Treasury Department of
1.30 notes into 0.30 bonds is attended with
many difficulties on account ot the numbers
of lost or stolen 7.30 notes sent to the De
partment. Banks and parties dealing in
7.30’s should remember that, although the
coupon bonds of the Government are issued
491
In the above counties there were cast for
the several candidetes, opposed to Mr. Blount,
about 400 votes. Jasper county still to hear
from. Mr. Blount is probably elected, hav
ing a majority ot thc whole vote.
Solicitor General.—We hare received
for a fleet of thc largest vessels to come
directlv up to the wharf. Inexhaustible
quantities of the very best ship-timber grow
in the immediate vicinity. 6th. experienced
sca-captRius from Southern ports greatly
prefer a cargo to New London rather than to
from a
friend the followin
g returns
of this
election,
and believe them
to be correct:
Slnmons.
Bass.
Sneed.
Bibb....
19t
435
5S
Crawford
ais
24
00
Dooly...
79
67
Houston
213
S3
£t
Macon...
• i« . *
198
Twiggs..
74
35
120
787
517
489
Boston Journalism.—Of nine daily news
papers published in Boston in 1843, only
three are now in existence, and of twenty-
eight, magazines there remains the “Missionary
Herald,” “Christian Examiner," and “North
American Review.” Of the weekly presa,
which numbered thirty-five, twelve ouly are
now printed.
malignant foes of liberty and the Union of payable to bearer, so tnat they will pass by
the States, and with a view to thc speedy set- delivery nnd are good, although lost or stolen,
tlement of the entire region of said district when in the hands of a bona fide holder, the
with n loyal and industrious people, and for case is different with the 7.30’s, which arc is-
the purpose of establishing justice, enacting | sued in blank, but with the words “or order;”
and executing laws, maintaining order, and
securing tranquility therein.
Resolved. »fcc., That the said district here
tofore known ns the State of Texas shall be
divided into four territories, with suitable
governments provided therefor re.-jiectivelv,
viz:
The northern division or portion therof
shall be called the Territory of Brazoria, and
shall consist of the said district north of the
32d parallel of north latitude.
The western division or portion thereof
shall be called tb» Territory of Bravo, with ;
the river Bravo as its western boundary, and
shall be bounded on the east by the river
Guadalupe to its intersection with the 30th
parallel of north latitude, and then by a right
line to the intersection ot the 32d parallel of
north latitude with the 24th meridian degree
of longitude west from Washington.
The eastern division shall be called the
Territory of the Fabine, having the river of
that name on its eastern boundary, and shall
be bounded on tlie west by a line drawn from
thc Eouthwest extremities of the Galveston
island at low water, to tlie intersection of the
instead of “or bearer,” imprinted on the face.
So long as a 7.30 note remains thus in blank,
it passes by delivery like a coupon bond ; and
a bona fide purchaser for value can collect
the same notwithstanding it has been lost
or stolen. But in case the holder of tee
7.30 tills the blank space with his
name, the note then becomes his property,
payable to him or order; and lie cannoi
thereafter be deprived ot liis title by anv
lo-=s or larceny ot the note, any more than
the holder ot a cheek or draft payable to bis
order; v.nd this is the law, notwithstanding
his name may have been so skillfully extract
ed by acid or otherwise as to leave no trace
of the name. If the original holder of the
note can prove clearly that his name was
once written upon the" face of the 7.30, his
title is good, notwithstanding the erasure,
and even against nbonafide holder for value, j
and will be recognized by the Treasury De-j
pertinent, and, upon proof of the facts, will j
be Daid to him. j
All persons dealing in Government securi
ties outrlit carefully to hear in mind the fore
going peculiarity of 7.30 notes, which may.
A Deer Jumps Over the Brow of
Lookout Mountain and Becomes Veni
son.—All visitors to Lookout Mountain are
aware that Mr. Linn; the well known photo
graphist on the Peak, lies a tame doe which
is an object of considerable attention on the
p irt of visitors. Yesterday morning, Mr. G.
A. Wood, of tliis city, and a friend from In
diana, Mr. Cowdcn, mgether with Mr. Rog-
erson, of the Lookout Mountain House, were
walking along the road from the hotel lead
ing to tlio point. They had proceeded but a
short distance from the hotel when they din-
covered a wild buck deer coming down the
road from the point. It came within a fetr
rods of the gentlemen, when snddenlr be
coming alarmed started for the edge of tlis
.clitF, and strange to say, jumped over the
edge: After falling about forty feet it landed
on a 1 edge of rocks, with one leg broken.—
to see it jump, ran
nnd looking over;
discovered it running up and down on tbit
narrow ledge, evidently trying to find some
way to escape, but seeing none it took anoth
er leap of about sixty feet and landed awav
down on the side nf the mountain, a short
stistunce above the spring on the side of th«
road. Thc last leap injured it so badly that
it was unable to get awuv;and Mr. Itog’erson,
who :had gone down the road in pursuit,
managed to capture and kill it.
[ Chat. Union, Nor. 25th.
The gentlemen, surprised
to the edge of the cliff,
Over one million dollars was paid last
month to Southern claimants for cot tor. cap
ture.! and confiscated by Union troops during
the war and which was claimed to have been
illegally taken from the owners.