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WiuT^SOUTHKRN
HUMILIATED AND AFRICANMED BE
ADA1IT-TKD ?
Tho only inducement held out by Gover
nor Brown for ttebase and ready Emission
of the South to the unconstitutional and
ruinous tyranny Outlie Radicals,is thus Ma.ed:
.. tVe now have the assurance of C ougress
in the o1 ' this bH *' Uiis shaU set-
tle the question of our admission. \\o stall
never set better terms. Let us comply with
them, and be ready to be represented in the
next Congress as soon as possible."
On tnis point we take issue with the
Ex-Governoi. It is one of fact, and if
wc can show that Congress lias made no such
pledge, bit whole argument, even were it
otherwise sound, must fall to tlio ground. It
after all the sacrifices ot pride, honor, inter
est, we are still to be kept out ot the Union
and deprived of a voice in the selection of
our rulers, or if we are to be admitted to the
Union only as Radical States, ready and will
ing and pledged to do the bidding of our
masters, which is ten thousand times worst
than no admission at all, then arc we as a
people embarking in an experiment of self-
immolation and debasement, without tven
the hope of reward for our treachery.
In support of our position it might be held
sufficient, by all reasoning men, to point to
the manifest settled policy of the Radical?,
all of which tends to one particular object,
the retention ot power in their own hands.
If they admit us as Southern States with
Southern sympathies, that object is defeated,
and they never will do it voluntarily. But
we have stronger proofs. Wo have the sol
emn declaration of the great leader of the
party, Air. Thaddeus Stevens, made Inst week
in the Houso in the discussion of Sherman'
bill, that he “would consent to no measures
which pledge Congress to admit 8outhe
Representatives on any contingency.” What
more can the Southern people need to con
vince them of the fallacy of the assurauce
given by Gov. Brown in the paragraph we
have quoted.
But wo haw own stronger tv-tinumy >t»!l
We maintain that the bill itself, as it passed
both houses of Congress, repels, in its express
provisions, all hopes ot admission, even should
the South comply with every requirement
that it contains, and even cover herself over
in Radical filth and pollution. On this point,
in preference to anything we could write, wc
copy aud endorse the views of that saga
cious and conservative journal, the Baltimore
Sun, which we defy any man to answer. It
says:
“But the question is, does it hold out the
most distant prospect of the restoration of
the Southern States? A calm examination
of the bill, nnd of the motives and declara
tions of those who passed it, compel a nega
tivo response. It does not mean, and none
otita manipulators understood it to mean,
that the Southern States nre to be admitted
under its provisions between this time nnd
the next Presidential election. It is the fixed
purpose of those in power to exclude the
Southern States from any participation in
that election, and the bill is a device so trans
parent that no intelligent man ought to be
deceived in that particular. The evidence is
complete upon the face of the bill itself. We
pointed out some days ago, when The 'bill
went down from the Senate, that the fifth
section clearly contemplates that the people
of the several States, in the constitutions they
may frame, shall exclude from the elective
franchise those who had participated in the
rebellion. This means, of course, the white
population to an indefinite extent, with ex
ceptions not now to be estimated. But as
suming that those States shall adopt consti
tutions of that sort nnd shall accept tlio con
stitutional amendment, still the fifth section
goes on to provide that tM Congress may qf-
jirm or disapprove of their State constitutions^
may reject and deny them representation in
Congress. Would thcro have been this ex
press reservation to Congress of the power to
reject, after a literal compliance with every
exacted condition, if it had not been the pur
pose to reject f A different intention would
have expressed itself in an unqualified pledge
to admit upon compliance with tbeterms im
posed. However, to remove all doubt as to
what was expected of the States in the struc
ture of their constitutions, and to insure its
execution, the proviso was ndded ; in the
Houso of Representatives, on motion of Mr.
Wilson, of Iowa,‘that all those disqualified
from holding office by the constitutional
amendment shall be dcbnrrcd from taking
part in tho Stnto conventions or toting f r
members thereof.' This commentary is not
only a full exposition of the meaning of tho
fifth section, but it is the assertion, meant for
ulterior use, of the absolute power of Con
gress over the whole question ot the elective
franchise within those States.
“But that still was not enough. The final
amendment cf Mr. Shellabarger declares that
until the people of those States shall bo ad
mitted to representation in Congress ‘any
civil governments that may exist therein,'
(which of course includes all those constitu
tions they may form under this military bill,
as well as the present governments), ‘shall
be deemed provisional only, and shall le in
all respects subject to the paramount authority
of the Un ited States at any time to oddish. mod-
c mirol or supersede the some; nnd in nil
vy>
cloctions to any office under sucJi provisional
governments, all persons shall be entitled to
vote, and none others, who are entitled to
vote under dio provisions of the 5th section :
nnd no person shall be eligible to any office
under such provisional government who
would be disqualified from holding office
under the provisions of the third article of
the constitutional amendment.’ Congress,
then, reserves the right at any time to abolish,
modify, cos trol or sujxuscde the State govern
ments which may be initiated. If parliamen
tary language has any moaning,this is a pledge
of continued exclusion, and the bill maybe
searched in vain for any distinct prop iso ot
restoration to any State of the South. It has
been said that with all their professed zeal in
favor of negro suffrage and confidence in the
loyalty of their votes, the Congressional
majority, nay their very high priests, fear that
the negroes will not become the enemies of
the whites of the South, nnd if entrusted
with the ballot would not exert it for the
perpetuation of the power of the present
dominant party. Therefore it seems the mat
ter is to bo placed beyond all peradventure,
and the structure of the Southern States de
layed until the. next Presidential election shall
have passed over, uud, of course, beyond that
time as much longer as the exigencies of
power may require.
“Meantime, m Imt uiay occur : The mili
tary satraps and their dependents, scattered
through the Southern States, will have ac
quired a legal residence, qualifying them to
take office under the new order of things.
Other adventurers, migrating from the great
republican hive in search of the prizes of
political power which the bayonet will re
serve for them under the provisions of this
bill, will have multiplied, and acquired a le
gal residence. Under these influences and
combinations, to complete which will more
than consume the interval between this time
and the next Presidential election, such an
order qf things may be brought about as will
induce some future Congress to introduce
now States, with new populations, into the
Union. To call this bill, then, a measure
which tends to the restoration of the Union,
or which holds out a hope of restoration, is
to miscall opposites—to liken destruction to
creation, injustice to justice, tyranny to right,
proscription and persecution to brotherly
love.”
Another writer very forcibly says:
“Those who are excluded from holding
office by tlie Constitutional Amendment can
not, by the bill, vote for delegates to a con
vention to form a new Constitution, which
may be got up “by the people" in tho provin
cialized States. Of course there can be no
authentic call for a convention by the people.
This phraseology is used to prevent a Consti
tutional Convention. Besides, the limitations
of power by Congress over a Constitution, if
made, are simply expedients to keep, upon
one pretense or another, the Southern Statos
out of the Union.”
Thus goes to the winds the shallow pretext
upon which is sent forth this extraordinary
proposition to the people of Georgia. We
exhort our countrymen to discard it as un
worthy of a gallant, if conquered, people; to
slum it as they would the gales from the
deadly upas tree, for it is freighted with
chains lor themsclvesandanarcbyandbloody
revolution for their children. It is an appeal
to the basest passions of their Dature, fear and
cupidity, against the noblest emotions tbat
can animate the human soul—honor, patriot
ism, self-respect.
A VOICE FROM THE PEOPLE.
The following letter, commendatory of the
course of this journal, and from one whose
good opinion is worth having, is duly appre
ciated, and we give it to our readers as the
expression of an intelligent, honest Southern
mind, uninfluenced by sordid or cowardly
motives. The writer will please pardon the
liberty we take:
, Ga., Feb. 24,1867.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Scene In tho Senate.
Washington, Feb. 28.—During the debate
to-day Sumner accused Secretary McCulloch
of falsehood in the statement of his inability
to secure Revenue officers South able to take
the oath. Sherman personally retorted that
Sumner’s language was neither parliamentary
nor gentlemanly, but false. Mr. Chandler
echoed Mr. Sumner’s charge in epithets which
were characterized by Mr. Fessenden ns foul-
moutli abuse. The scene grew out of an
amendment striking out the pay of Southern
officers.
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Congressional.
Messrs. Sneed and Boyl-in:
Gentlemen—In limes of extraordinary
danger, when the sentinel on the watch-tower
displays unusual vigilance and discretion, a
sense of duty and gratitude should impel
those whose interest he so faithfully guards
to manifest some appreciation of his services.
An intense feeling of this kind prompts this
note to you.
I have been for many months past a silent
but not indifferent observer of the manly
position of your paper on the great question
of reconstruction, and ot your firm and dig
nified defiance of a malignant and fanatical
Congress. But your promptness in properly
characterizing and rebuking the late mon
strous iniquity ot that body, has filled me to
overflowing with gratitude. The more so
since there are evidences o! faltering and in
timidation among oar own people—even our
leaders. You have correctly : emarbed, that
our greatest danger in this crisis is not in the
action of the Federal Congress, but in the
possibility that our people, wearied by dis
appointed hopes, tearing yet greater hard
ships, or under tho influence of far baser mo
tires, may prove inconstant, and accept the
degrading and infamous terms offered them,
Let us answer emphatically, never! never!/
If the people of the North have determined
to make savages of themselves, no selfrim
posed degradation on our part will prevent
it. Overpowered, helpless, prostrate, we must
wear with meekness the yoke they place on
our necks until it becomes intolerable; but
before we consent to become their agents or
tools in riveting our fetters and adjusting the
brand of infamy, let us accept tho halter or
the guillotine! Shall wesacrifice everything
that is noble in sentiment nnd tear away
every lofty emotion of our souls for a little
imaginary ease or material interest ?
Judos had positive promise of, and did ac
tually receive the “thirty pieces of silver"
for which ho sold his master. But what is
to be our reward for the perfidious act we
are invited to perform ? It is tho uncertain
qualified promise of the pitiable priv
ilege (?) of being represented in Congress—
by whom ? By persons who can take the
test oathi By the most loatbsomo and des
picable creatures within our borders ? By per
sons tbe best of whom are by far less entitled
to our confidence than the negroes or the sol
dier who honestly wore the Federal uniform?
Shall we. to obtain this prise, place tbe halter
around the necks, and the gag to the mouths
of the noblest and best of our land ? The
blood is chilled in contemplating such an
outrage.
Having never held any office, State or Fed
eral, before the war (except a seat in the
Convention which passed the ordinance of
Secession, requiring no oath,) nor any in
tbe Confederacy, save a military ono of not
sufficiently high grade, I am not among the
classes proscribed by this iniquitous bill; but
sooner than exercise a privilege purchased by
the sacrifice of our chosen leaders, I will
crfully place my head on the block.
This letter is not intended for publication,
else I should have conformed to the printer’s
rule. I simply intend by this to grasp you
armly by the hand, and bid you onward in
the glorious work of preserving Southern
honor. A fearful struggle is just before us—
struggle in which our enemy is to be, not
the Rump Cosgress.uot the Northern people,
but the despicable place-seeker, the timid
1 man, the weak-kneed, quacking capitnl-
and the sordid natures of every name in
our midst, who will rush to and fro among
people, seeking to carry consternation
under the frantic motto—“ Snore qui pent ”
SENATE.
Washington, Feb. 28.—A bill auttiorizin
the construction of a bridge over the Missouri
at Fort Levenworth, was referred to the
Military Committee.
The Educational Department bill passed,
and goes to the President-
Tlie Committee on Foreign Relations were
discharged from the consideration of the
bill to take soundings for a cable line to
France.
A bill allowing officers ol the Aliantono-
mah to receive presents from Russia passed.
The Postmaster General was ordered to
report whether contractor A. G. Carter, of
Staunton. Ya., could take the oath.
The bill temporarily increasing the com
pensation of army officers passed.
The civil appropriation bill was resumed,
and tbe question was on paying unqualified
agents in tho South. Mr. Cliandlefc asserted
Daniel Vorbees was McCulloch’s secret agent.
Air. Hendricks interrupted Mr. Chandler,
asserting that the statement was untrue. An
amendment was adopted paying the Treasury
officers up to August, I860. Bill passed.
Senate then took recess.
HOUSE.
Air. Raymond introduced anti-Canada
Confederation resolutions. Referred to Com
mittee on Foreign Relations.
The Indian Appropriation bill was referred
to Committee on Conference.
The Committee on Foreign Relations will
not report on Mexican affairs now.
At half-past two Air. Morrill said ho would
make a last effort for the tariff. He moved
a suspension of tbe rules so as to bring the
matter before the nouse. Half dozen efforts
were made, failing in every case to obtain the
required two-thirds.
House then took recess.
North Carolina Legislature.
Rai.eigii, Feb. 8.—A resolution has been
introduced in the House of Commons declar
ing North Carolina’s acceptance of the Con
gressional reconstruction plan. It created
much excitement and animated discussion,
and was finally referred to the Committee on
Federal Relations.
General News.
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 28.—The Degro
who is charged with violating a little girl
will probably be hanged to-night
Lexington, Feb. 27.—A son of Chief Jus
tice Robertson was found dead from intem
perate exposure.
l-ff~ The remains of tiie late R. R. Cuyler,
Es<^, having been brought here from Macon,
where his death occurred about two years
nee, were yesterday interred in Laurel
rove Cemetery, with appropriate obsequies.
The funeral exercises were somewhat of a
private character, or a large concourse of
i/.ens would, doubtless, have participated,
respect to the memory of so prominent a
i/.en.—Sac. Herald, 27th ult.
J-ff The Boston blacksmiths, in shoeing
T-ses that are used on the pavement, place a
cushion of rubber between tho shoe and the
horse's hoof, with good results. The phiios-
phy is, that the yielding of the rubber tends
o diminish the jar, which destroys the horse’s
legs.
Death of Prof. DeBow.
Washington, Feb. 28—J. B. D. DeBow, ed
itor of DeBow’s Review, died to-day, aged
forty-seven years.
From Washington.
Washington, Alarch 1.—The Senate re
jected the amendment abolishing the adver
tisement tax.
The Senate votes on the Colorado veto
to-day. It is confidently stated that the
Tenure of Office bill is dead.
Intense anxiety prevails with reference to
the veto message on the Military bill. A long
Cabinet consultation resulted in some altera
tions, thus causing delay. The Executive
attaches immense importance to the docu
ment
The President has issued his proclamation
declaring Nebraska a State of the Union.
J. B. Waltham has been confirmed Post
master at Lynchburg. There were about
sixty rejections.
Congressional News.
TU ECOLORADO BILL DEFEATED*BY THE VETO,
COTTON TAX FIXED AT TWO CENT8.
SENATE.
Washington, Alarch 1.—The President’i
veto of tho Colorado bill was considered, and*
the vote on the passing of the bill notwith
standing stood, yeas 29, nays 19, namely
Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan, Davis, Dixon, Doo
little, Edmunds, Fessenden, Foster, Grimes,
Harris, Hendricks, Johnson,AIcDougnll, Alor-
gan, Nesmith, Norton, Patterson and Sauls-
bury.
The Tax bill was resumed. The motion
removing the'eotton tax was lost by a tie
vote. The Senate finally fixed the tax at two
cents. The Senate amendments to tho bill
arc generally unimportant.
HOUSE.
The House went into committee of [the
whole on the Deficiency bill. It involves
eleven and a half millions. The details elic
ited a heated debate. A provision was adopt
ed allowing nothing on claims to partici
pants in tbe rebellion. An appropriation for
the White House was rejected. An amend
ment was offered appropriating fifty thous
and to Liberia. A proposition to withhold it
until white men were allowed to vote in Li
beria created much mirth.
The whole matter was postponed. The
proceedings arc very dilatory. All appropri
ations for improvements on streets were lost.
Latest rrom ’’lexica.
W A s it i x o T o n, Alarch 1.—Advices have
been received stating that communication
between Yem Cruz and the City of Alexico
has been interrupted. It is reported that the
Imperialists ure dismayed, and that the Lib
erals are holding all the important lines.
Subscription from “The Hub.”
Boston, Alarch 1.—The sum of sixteen
thousand dollars has been subscribed by the
citizens in aid of the destitute peoplo of the
South.
Cotigrexslonal News.
PASSAGE OF THE BANK'S BILL—VETO MES
SAGE ON TIIE MILITARY BILL.
SENATE.
Washington, Alarch 2.—The Bankrupt
bill was taken up, passed and now goe3 to
the President.
The Committee on Foreign'Affairs reported
adversely on a resolution to protect tho rights
of Americans in Alexico and the enforcement
ot the claims arising oat of American invest
ments in Mexican bonds.
The report of the Conference Committee
in favor of retiring the compound interest
nctes was odoptecL It provides for an issue
of three per cent, loan certificates, of which
fifty millions only shall be outstanding.
The President’s veto of the Tenure of Office
bill was read, and the bill passed, notwith
standing, by a vole of 35 to 11.
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The proceedings were net generally inter
esting until two o’clock, when the message
of the President vetoing the Military bill was
received. The galleries were jammed.
THE VETO MESSAGE.
The President says, in effect, that he has
examined the bill to provide more efficient
governments in the rebel States, with the
care which its transcendent importance awa
kens. He is unable to assent to it The rea
sons for his refusal are so grave, that he hopes
a statement of them will influence patriotic
and enlightened men. The bill places ten
States under military rulers. He combats
the preamble. His information shows that
the people are united, and have reorganized
their governments on the basis of peace. The
face of the bill shows its object not to be
peace. After the States adopt measures no
toriously objectionable, representation will
be allowed without reference to security of
life or property. The preamble’s excuse for
the bill, is admitted by the bill to be false.—
Military rule is established, not for
the prevention of crime, but for the enforce
ment of the adoption of odious laws. The
measure, in its character and scope, has an
object without precedent or authority. It is
palpably in conflict with the Constilution,
and destructive of blood-bought liberty.
The power given to a Brigadier General is
that of an absolute monarch. His will is
law. He determines the rights of person and
property, disposes of lands and goods within
his district, and makes his own criminal
code. Everything is criminal which he de
nominates crime. Every person is guilty
whom he condemns. He. keeps no record,
need make no report, can break up courts,
and make Judga and jurors criminals. His j , peettlation sad CIportg . The. market opened linn
military court fa of his own making, of ofli- j to-day. Sales of 10,000 hales middling upland at
cers from among his subordinates. Instead I l 3 ?6d: Orleans 13)«d.
London. Alarch 1.—Consols 91; Bonds 73J$.,
London, Alarch 1—Evening.—Consols closed at 91.
Bonds 73)4
Liverpool Alarch 1—Evcninc."Cotton closed firm;
middling uplands 1356; middling Orleans 1376* Sales
10.000 baloe,
London, Alarch 2, Noon.—Consols 91; Bonds 7314.
Liverpool. March 2, Noon.—Cotton opens firm:
sales will reach »,00>> talcs; middling uplands 1356<H
Orleans 137CJ.
Breadstuff's concrally unchanged.
Latest Market* l»y Telegraph.
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
New York, IVb. VS, Noon.—Stocks tending down.
Five-twenties'152 coupons 111)4; money 0a7; exchange
00 days 8'rf, sight do 9)4. . Cold 13954. ha* been up to
New Y'ork, Feb. 23.—Flour dull and drooping; wheat
quiet ami heavy: corn quiet aud steady; park steady
—new mess $20.95; lard steady, in lcirrels 12a13 1 i'c;
whisky steady; peas dull; cotton firmer ot31)ia"2c for
middling uplands; freights dull.
New Y'ork, Feb. 2S.~Cotton active and advanced
!~nlc; sales to-day, >09 boles ut 31J.ja.12.
Flour declined 5c. Wheat dull. Corn active: mixed
western do. SI 07J4. Pork active, mess do. $21. Pro
visions quiet and steady. Whisky dull. Sugar firm,
fair demand. Cotton to Liverpool per sail, 54: per
steamer. %. Stocks very dull; Gold 13976.
New York. March 1—Noon.—Tho stock market is
depressed. Five-twenties, *62 coupons, lllalllVA
Aloney ti; Exchange CO days’, 8%; at Sight, 956. Gold
139)6.
New Y'ork, Alarch 1—Noon—Flour oalOc lower.
Wheat dull end drooping. Corn dull aud heavy.
Pork firmer; now mess $21 20- Lnrd dull; barrels 12a.
12)4. Whisky quiet. Peas quiet. Cotton quiet and
firm nt 81)4 for middling uplands. Freights quiet.
New Y’ork, March 1—p. M.—Cotton firm. Sale*
3,500 bales at 31)4a32. Flour dull and declined, from
10al5. Wheat dull and declining. Com declining;
mixed western $107- Provisions quiet and dull-
Whisky in fair demand at 32n33. Sugar steady. Cof
fee firm. Freights firm-
New York, Alarch 1, p. m.—Stocks active; Govern
ment securities totally unchanged. Gold 139)4.—
Money C.
New Y’ork, Alarch 2.—Flour lower. Wheat dull
and drooping. Com la2c lower. Pork shade firmer;
now mess $2130. Lard heavy and drooping: barrels
12al3)4c. Whisky quiet. Peas quiet. Cotton dull at
31J4c for middling uplands. Freights dull.
New Y’ork, March 2.—Stocks dull and steady-
Five-twenties. ’02 coupons, 11076; Aloney 6; Ex
change, 60 days, 856; at Sight 9)4; Gold 13854.
New Y’ork, Fob. 8.—Cotton dull and easier, under
largo receipts. Sales COO bales at 31)4. Flour dull
and unchanged. Wheat dull and drooping. Com
closed firmer at $105al09, for mixed Western. Pork
firmer at $21a21)4for new mess. Spirits Turpentine
71a73. Itosin $4)4a9. Groceries quiet. Freights un
changed.
Baltimore, Feb. 28.—Cable advices have unsettled
the cotton market.
Bio coffee firm. Sugar firm. Com active; yellow
do, 97a98. Provisions steady. Mess Pork $21SJ.
Baltimore, Alarch 1.—Cotton firmer; middling up
lands 31c. Coffee steady. Sugar quiet; stock scarce.
Flour quiet. Corn active and higher; white 97c to
$1. Provisions unchanged, except bulk meats, which
declined 5-16. Whisky S215.
Wilmington, Feb. 28.—Cotton firm; middling up
lands, 38.
Charleston, March L—Cotton active, Middlings
quoted 30)6c.
Avgusta, Feb. 28.—Cotton—holders demand an ad
vance, but buyers hold off.
Cincinnati, Feb. 28.—Cotton flat; .middling up
lands, 28.
Flour unchanged. Wheat firmer. Cera steady.—
Oats firm. Whisky firm; held at $26. Balk meats,
good demand. Mess Pork firm and quiet.
New Orleans, Feb. 28.—Cotton higher; sales 6 ,(300
bale*; low middlings 30a30)4; receipts 256'
Sugar, molasses and tobacco unchanged. Flour,
superfine, $1125; Cora $102a$112a$l 15. Pork nom
inal, $2150. '
Mobile, Feb. 28.—Middling Uplands, 29; sales to
day, 2000 bales; rccepts, 960.
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FOREIGN AIARKETS.
London, Feb. 28, Noon.—Consols 91; bonds 73.
Liverpool, Feb 28, Noon.—Cotton opens firmer and
more active. There is a speculative and manufactu
ring enquiry. Estimated sates 10,000 bales. Middling
uplands 13)4d. Breadstuffs quiet; com firm; provis
ions unchanged.
London, Feb. 28—Evening.—Consols 90)4. Bonds
73)4.
Liverpool, Feb.28—Evening.—Cotton closed fairly
active. Sales 12,000 bales; prices advanced )4d.
Middling Uplands 13%d.
Frankfort, Feb,28.—U- S- Bonds7656-
Liverpool, March I—Noon.—Tlio Brokers’ circu'
lar reports the sales for the week at 53,005; 10,000 for
General News.
New York, Alarch 1.—George Wagner,
convicted of the murder of his wife, was hung
to-day.
Halifax, Alarch 1.—The steamship Asia
has arrived.
Albany,N. Y., Alarch 1.—Governor Fen
ton has ordered Captain Olney’s discharge,
on the ground that the crime charged in the
requisition did not justify extradition,'thus
avoiding the political question involved.
Charleston’, Alarch 1.—The negro, Horace
Greeley, was hung to-day; he confessed his
uilt.
Foreign News—By Cable.
Lx don, March 1.—Tho Confederation
bill has been read twice.
Artcmus Ward is dangerously sick at
Southampton; his recovery is improbable.
Venice, Alarch 1.—Garibaldi's son has
gone to C’:tndia to help the Cretans against
the Turks.
Havre, Alarch 1.
has arrived.
of mitigating larsbness, the single rule in
such courts wotlri divide the responsibility,
making it nr .« cruel and unjust. Several
provisions dictated by humanity, and intro
duced into tho till to fvstru\n officers, are in
operative. Eacfi officer may define cruelty
according to his own temper. Gag, lash, ball
and chain fie within his choice.
The military commander, under the provis
ions of the bill, may condemn to dcatli with
out trial, thus avoiding the Exe :utive sanc
tion. The authority given that officef amounts
to absolute despotism, aggravated by the
power to delegate despotism to his subordi-
nates, the bill declaring that lie shall “punish
or cause to be punished.” This power has
been denied to English Kings for five hun
dred years. In all that time, people speaking
the English language have borne no such ser
vitude. It reduces the population of ten
States, regardless of sex, color, or condition,
and strangers within their limits, to abject,
degrading slavery.
It may be answered that officers are just
and humane. Doubtless they are equally so
with other classes, but the history of the
world is written in vain, if it fails to show
the danger ot unrestrained authority. It is,
almost invariably, tyrannical when the ruler
is a stranger appointed by an unfriendly
power. It was tried in Hungary and
Poland, resulting in sufferings thnt
aroused the sympathy of the world. In Ire
land, though tempered by tho principles of
English law, it begat indignantly denounced
cruelties. The French Convention, arming
deputies with similar jjowers, sent them to
the departments, and massacres, murders and
atrocities followed. An irresponsible deputy
never yields what the law does not extort. —
Have we the power to establish and carry
such a measure into execution ? Certainly
not, deriving authority from the Constitution
or acknowledging its limitations.
The remainder of the message consists in
elaborate constitutional arguments, eni'
bracing copious extracts.
Tho Speaker ruled that two-thirds could
suspend the rules, thus rendering fillibuster-
ing out of the question. The bill then
passed V;' a \ gtti 135 jeas to 47 nays.
E-lnglaud mul the United States.
Foreign News by Cable.
Paris, March 3.—Dispatches received from
Vera Cruz state that communication with
the capital has been interrupted, preventing
the transmission of Maximilian's dispatches.
St. Petersburg, Alarch 2.—The Czar has
urged the Porte to cede the Island of Candia
to the Greeks.
The Cental System,
St. Louis, Alarch 2.—The cental system in
the measurement of grain went into operation
here yesterday.
General Mews.
New York, Alarch 2.—The shipments of
specie to-day, $050,000.
San Francisco, Alarch 2.—Ross Browne
reports rich mineral resources and ■worthless
agriculture in Lower California.
Colorado.—The Radicals of the Senate,
finding their strength already ample for all
sion of Colorado as a State to fall under the
veto. The Territory has, according to the
official census, but twenty-.seven thousand in
habitants—less than several counties in Geor
gia—and as it was not necessary to have
more votes against the South, the Northern
The steamship Arago I States concluded not to have more against
themselves.
The following is the fall text of the speech
of Earl Derby, at the opening of Par
liament, so, far ^3 relates to the United
States;
Shortly after the accession of the present
government to office, the United States Gov
ernment addressed a dispatch to the foreign
office, recapitulating the grounds of complaint
which they stated they had before offered for
the consideration of the office. In answer to
that, my noble relative thought it necessary
to enter, not acrimoniously, hut particularly,
into a discussion of the various points raised.
And I would state distinctly that there was
one question pressed upon us, as jt was pressed
upon the noble Earl opposite, to which we
thought we could come to a compromise or
settlement. That was as to the right of this
country to decide at what time and under
w.iat circumstances we should recognize the
belligerent rights ot the Confederates.
In the first place the questions of recog
nizing belligerent rights is inherent in an in
dependent power; in the next place a re
cognition of belligerent rights should not
precede but follow a declaration of blockade
by the United States; to blockade is essen
tially the exercise of a belligerent right, and
when a blockade was declared between, the
two parties there were two courses open to
her Alajesty’s Government—to refuse to re
cognize the validity of the blockade on the
ground that there was no belligerent; or on
the other hand, to recognize the belligerent
rights of the two parties. And I think the
noble earl now truly said that between the
alternatives he selected that which was most
friendly to the United States when he recog
nized that which was a most imperfect block
ade, although by taking this course he found
himself under the necessity of recognizing
correlative obligations. [Hear, hear.]
But I cannot think this a point Upon which
tho United States Government lays much
stress, because we saw very lately that upon
tho introduction of the new Alinister from
France at Washington a declaration was offi
cially made that alter the evacuation of Afex-
ico by the French there would no loDger re
main between the two countries a single
question to lead to a ground for difference or
complaint. Now, the government of the
Emperor of the French and the late govern
ment of her Alnjesty pursued a precisely
identical course with reference to belligerent
rights nnd the recent blockade; aud surely,
if there is no ground of complaint between
the United States and France with reference
to the latter’s conduct in connection with the
blockade of the Southern ports, there can be
no'ground of complaint against her Alajesty’s
government in retercnce to the same matter.
But my lords, I will say this—if tho United
States admit the principle of arbitration, if
they can point out the precise questions which
they desire to hare submitted to the arbiter,
and the grounds upon which they seek for
redress and compensation, we shall be quite
ready to meet them in a friendly spirit to
discuss the points upon which arbitration is
sought, and, it wc can find an impartial arbi
ter, to refer to his decision the question at
issue. [Hear, hear.] Such arc the points
which we have submitted to the United States
Government. It remains to be seen whether
they can be brought to a satisfactory conclu
purposes, have allowed the bill for the admis- sl ? n - I Artist Gicy may, for there arc no coun
tries between which friendly relations are
more entirely for the interests of both than
this country and the great republic the other
side of the Atlantic. [Hear, hear. Nothing
could be more suicidal than a war between
the two countries; nothing more destructive
of their best interests; and, at the same time,
there are no two countries which have it in
their power to be more useful to one another.
[Hear, hear.]
Letter from Hie Went.
Saltillo, Lee Co., Afiss. Feb. 28.
Editors Telegraph: This county, oce of the
most productive in North Afississippi, owes
its formation to an act of the State Legisla
ture which met in December last. Both on
account of the unanimous Southern feelin"of
its citizens, and its natural fertility docs it
j seem worthy the name given it; that of the
illustrious commander of the Army of Virgi
nia. Embracing tbe best portions of the
counties of Pontotoc and Itawamba, adjacent
to the line of tho Afobile aDd Ohio Railroad,
its limits contain much rich soil barely opened
to market before the war by the completion
of the Railroad. As yet the county seat has
not been permanently located. This place, to
be remembered by travelers at the dinner
hour as having a good hotel, the Lee House
bears the honor temporarily.
In a few days an election will be held in
which the question of the seat will be settled.
In the meantime Tupelo, Verona and Saltillo,
all rivals, are stirring to present each more
solid claims than the other.
The enterprising citizens of Saltillo linve
as an inducement, subscribed ten thousand
dollars towards the erection of the Court
House in their midst.
Several Georgians have made their appear
ance here, whose success among the people
is sufficient to warrant the belief that there
will be room and a welcome for many more.
It was my privilege, a short time since, to
have traversed in every direction the fa
mous battle field of Shiloh, and to have
gathered a number of mementoes of tUut
terrific struggle. Privilege it may have been,
certainly not much of a pleasure, a3 the
whole tour was performed in a driving
rain.
The plan ot battle can be more readily
comprehended in this instance than in most
others, there having been no complicated
manoeuvres executed.
Tbe flanks of the Federal troops securely
protected on their right and left respectively,
by Owl and Lick creeks, offered no point of
attack. Our movement, therefore, necessa
rily consisted of a steady advance northward,
until we struck the Federal lines near Shiloh
Church, distant from Pittsburg Landing, on
the Tennessee River, about three miles. Then
ensued that oft described scene, in which the
Federals were driven back to their “last
ditch.” At the moment with them the most
critical, their lines had been so contracted as
to admit of both wings resting upon the river,
while their centre occupied the works, still
standing, but a half mile from the Landing.
The intervening space was filled with panic-
stricken men, huddled together for protec
tion under the high blufls.
Shiloh Church, a rude log structure at best,
is now a thing of the past, since the greater
part of its timbers haye been carried off by
the curious, in the way of splinters. Only
the ground sills remain, with perhaps a log or
two more, sawed into sections and ready for
transportation. Where the logs are to be
carried, is the question.
The vicinity still bears the marks of the
severe contest, in the gashes made by the shot
and shell upon the surrounding trees, dcca-
sionally such relics as belt plates, epaulettes,
fragments of gun carriages, &c., may yet be
picked up. As for the debris common to a
camp—cast-off clothing and tin cans of all
sizes—the ground is thickly screwed with
them on all sides.
Those who five near point out the tree un
der whfch that noble hero, General Albert
Sidney Johnston, was laid to breathe his last.
It is an oak, standing in front of the house of
Mansfield George, a short distance from the
Purdy road.
Pittsburg Landing, which derives its name
from Pitser Tucker, its orginal proprietor, has
lost its civil appearance entirely, if such it
ever had. It is now exclusively occupied by
a garrison of United States Regulars, and a
force of laborers, under charge of Captain
Abbott, employed in laying off, upon the
river brink, a “National Cemetery,” In the
centre of the grounds, as already prepared,
space has been left for a monument upon
which are to be inscribed the names,of all
those interred.
It is expected that in the Cemetery there
will be four thousand graves.
Tlic Laic Gov. Broun, or (,
mid the Military Ujjj
From the Cbarii-ston Merc .rv ]
In our yesterday’s paper, we hdI.r »
letter «t Governor Brown on \i
bill.JjHv passed by tho Con- ^'S
Unit# Suites, now in the handsoftl, 'i' 1 *
dent, l'or his Approval o ■ veto. \.. ‘ e * >r di.
to Governor Brown's reasoning/ 0 a °**tr
leave to ask tbe perusal bv our rea 'i
article from the Washington Natior?^
ligencer, which will be foundin onr«I,i Ib! *-
The National Intelligencer very ; u , !*■**
acterizes this bill as a bill of'outhnvrv ■
the Southern people. Propriety ** 3,: 7*
even a respectable follv, would hai»!r ^
to Governor Brown to wait until
law, before he advised the
-iopt its
became
ern people to
President has not yet acted on
Congress may have ip act upon j ta l®
lastly, the Supreme Court of
Stales, the appointed arbiter of th e p
tiou, to protect and vindicate ths ? itD '
secures, is still in existence, with it, 8i
wide open, to deter nine whethpr“ Portafc
not utterly void. This epurT ^
term hied the only two easel wW*
it, against the destructives. It p f , Pr**
void military commissions, and ,| a , cIu ri
in the United States Courts. Tob^* 0 ^
ent with its own decisions it _ ® C , 0B *®-
that the Southern States are‘b.. • 1?e
the Union of the United States and*
fore, not amenable to territorhw;’
the military act null and void !Ki
nor Brown cannot wait. He is i„ i, . '
be famous! haste to
If it be said that the Radicals wifi al)oljl> ,
he independence of the Judiciary
United States, we answer—very well' tv- S
will bring home to the people of the \’5
the centralized iH-.vpoti.-m exiv 4 ,-„ ue Ao ™ 1
South. The independence of tbe'jum 1 -^
of the United States is as ^
rights and liberties as to
down, and the great instrument '.iroS;*
the Constitution to protect it from either
islattve or Executive usurpations i fif
ished. They will impeach the
Better still! The more furiously
down the hill of tyranny and usnrp-ahT
sooner they will reach the bottom
chance for dividing the Radical nan;!T
their fierce extremities. 1 ■< 3 oy
In his course however, Governor Brown is
consistent with himself. When tbe l r
ended, he issued a proclamation contend
the Mature of Georgia together ia onkr
that the State might repeal her ordinance of
secession. The military authorities of the
United States seized Governor Brown ami
sent him, God knows where, ia the Norti
into a prison. After awhile it was run. nj
that he was let out; and he immediately so-
peared in print in Georgia, urging a promp;
compliance, in all the requirements then pro.
posed to the Southern States, in order tbatwe
might better our condition, and get into tb
Union. The people of Georgia followed
Governor Brown's advice—but did they
the fruits he held out to them for their en
joyment? They abolished slavery, and dis
graced themselves by a voluntary repudiatict
of their debts—but where is the Union uc
power Governor Brown declared these sscri-
i fices were to obtain ?
Having thus once ventured to intrude
counsel on the State, which proved a shallow
vanity, one would suppose he would haw
some modesty in the future—Some distrust of
his divining capacity—and would leave ott
ers hereafter to direct the course of the State.
Not so. Governor Brown repeat* himself |
and here he is again, counseling tbe State,
under the most momentous issues which eis
hung over a people, to fall down and cmbract
terms which stand unparalleled in hkq
for their humiliation, their debasement, tba
despair. And this counsel is given withoa
the least reliable assurance that it will ei.
the exactions of the Radicals in Congits.
Even if the certain privilege of entering C»
gress was given by a distinct vote in De
gress, it would be of very uncertain execs
tion. He asserts that if the Southern State
bad adopfed.the constitutional amendma!
proposed by Congress, the Southern StM
would- have been admitted into the Uiia
and to representation in Congress.
Tho fact directly the contrary
proved on the records of Congress. It«
proposed in that body, at the form' Mm:
the amendments, that if the Souther i State
adopted them they should be admitted into
the Uniou, and the proposal was rijeettd:
and in the light of the proceedings of Con
gress at its present session, it is mamba
that any man could express such an opinion.
Congress did not then, and does not now, in
tend to admit the Southern States into tbe
Union of the United States, beiorc tie next
Presidential election. If wc were toa^rec
to every condition the "Military hill requires,
what is there to prevent Congress £iom con
fiscating all property in the South sad keep
ing us Territories until it is accomplished!
And this is exactly- what wc have a right to
presume they would do, if wc were to accept
of the terms of the Military bill. Negro suff
rage, not keeping us out of the Presidential
election, they would try confiscation of onr
Tho destruction of private property must ( property. In the desperate game of exaction
ive been irreat between Shiloh nnrl Pnpinth on their part, and concession oh ours, whtt
chance can we have of circumventing then
have been great between Shiloh and Corinth,
a space of twenty miles, to judge from the
number of houses rebuilt since the war.
Upon the battle-field not a house escaped de
molition.
It is pleasing to note the growing interest
taken in education throughout the country.
Everywhere seats of learning are once more
becoming well patronized.
The University of Alississippi at Oxford
has now a full attendance of students, in
number at least two hundred and fifty.
Among the members of its Faculty, of which
Rev. Dr. Waddell, a son of the well known
educator of so many of the prominent men of
the South, is the head, there are to be found
several gentlemen who “ have done the State
some service.”
Gen. Sears, once in command of a brigade
in the Army of Tennessee, occupies the chair
of Alathematics; Gen. Shoup, tbat of Physics
and Civil Engineering, and Col. L. Q. C.
Lamar that of Law.
Judge Longstreet, tho distinguished author
of the Georgia Scenes, is also living in Ox
ford, but is no longer connected with the
University, over which he formerly presided.
Time has dealt gently with him, silvering his
hair and somewhat enfeebling his frame it is
true, but nevertheless leaving him in his
seventy-seventh year in the enjoyment of all
natural faculties. He has prepared a revised
edition of the “ Georgia Scenes ” for the
press, containing much new and interesting
matter. _ This he at one time thought of
publishing himself, but now wishes to dis
pose of the copyright for its publication else
where.
Vigorous preparations are being made for
tho coming crop, and work, even with the
freedmen, goes briskly on.
The weather has been so Spring-like for a
few days past as to have caused both buds
and blooms to make their appearance.—
Though pleasant now, old iarmers shake
their heads and predict a fruitless year.
Vnr.
The New York Tribune says, “If we
could stop the stream of calumnious fabrica
tion which ever sets in all directions from
Washington City, and whereby our corres- J
policy of ruling the United States by kerpK
us out of its elections ?
The bill presents the alternative of military
rule, or submission to the terms it contain
What this will be, depends almost entirely®
the President of the United States; and**
know that all his sympathies are jrit-b tia ■■
will not, in all probability, be worse than
bave endured. In some papers'fre sce.it im*
t.ioned that the governments and ihstitntiow
of the States will continue just as they OT
since the President is given all power, ana
there is no prohibition of tlio State Govern
ments. Be this, however, as it may
our judgment any military rigor—any coeKW
submission to any terms, is preferable w
voluntary debasement and .iafamyG 11 ^.
permanent, ^irretrievable ruin, the Son®
States will incur by adopting the. tc® 5 '
this bill. If forced upon us, there 35 J. 0 ? 0
recuperation from the very spirit wbicli
jects them ; but if embraced by our-vhes.
will lose all self-esteem and all charKtff
people, and sink down into hope!;
ority, contempt and ruin. But to take s _^
a doom before we have exhausted ab**j>
sources the Constitution affords to ehtel®
from its evils, will prove us to be f ,Vt '
and imbecile as degraded. ,
Governor Brown appears to us to b-'/ G,
frightened rabbit in a prairie on
rushes into the flames which fogUten it-
Intekesting from Washington.— v ■;
cial dispatch, of date the 20th nit., to
Richmond Examinor, says:
The President’s veto will be the abl*^ p.
ument which has ever emanated from ,
ccutive Department of the Governing-- .
will annihilate the brigadier bill on
of law, justice and policy. But Congl**
nevertheless pas3 it at once. j
There are hundreds of Southern ,
Washington, among them a large j
Virginians, who take the greatest i3 tf ‘ l
the great controversy. ^ , s; j
A confiscation bill has been preparc-*.^^,
is being handed around among
Itwill.be presented early next sens'
will command more voces than vou 1
possible in a Christian country. , e( j.
Reverdy Johnson's vote was tin' ’ n 'J ,
pression of despair. He considers - J -
liberty fearfully, if not fatally, wounc.
The Impeachm ent.—The ' • - 1 -■ =
Leader sav s that it is rumored that tbe -
pondents arc often imposed upon, it would I ciary Committee have struck a new.
subtract much from the bitterness of life.”—
The same paper declares that “it seems quite
unreasonable and harsh that men who are to
day hearty Unionists—who love the Republic
and its flag, and are ready to fight for the in
tegrity of the one and the honor of the other
—should be denied a voice in the Government
because they were rebels years ago.” So it
must seem to every honest man.
the impeachment question, which *■
causing quite a flutter in high pl- lCc ^
portant developments arc said to h-o
made in a foreign country.
lunch' eiS fft ,
a lady, who has an. excellent ;
Its AIeanixg.—Owing to
Lave learned that Tombola is an
end means “a raffle—lottery-turn
Me.
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