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The Greorgia T^eekly Telegraph-
,;l-:,i|Ki[.V TELEGRAPH.
0r» MILITARY COMMANDER.— AS
uiiirie* have been made of us regarding the
rcmeat* of General Pope, we would state,
. tbo information of the District generally,
tbit 1*® w * s * n Attantf on Sunday en rente for
Montgomery, liis headquarters, and probably
preached the latter place.
(JOYERNOR Jenkins.—The Southern Ra-
I (order, of the let instnnt. says: “Wc see
,),it some « our cotemporaries ore becoming
, little restive ns to tho whereabouts of Gov-
f rnor J., and nre desirous of hearing from
bint. We have heard from him indirectly, and
cMl assure tho anxious inquirers that Gover
nor J. i* not asleep or indifferent to the inter
ns and welfare of the State. lie is calmly,
coolly, and constitutionally surveying the late
»ction of Congress, and our readers mny rest
ysured that when ho speaks it will be like
, statesman, who has fully examined every
ooint, and will advise nothing from mere
J>aliry. Ilia own honor, and the honor of
Georgia. is too dear to him to act the sclicm-
ffi politic! «n or political barlcrer.
••Wliut Governor J. is now doing cannot bo
done in » day or a week. It requires much
thought, legal talent, &c., to see clearly wliat
Bl! st hr done, and how it should be done.—
If the Constitution has any meaning or effect,
Governor J. will know it before ho returns
lorne. We t herclore advise the people of the
State to remain quiet until their Governor
apeak*. He will do so at the proper time.”
OUR MILITARY ADVISERS.
We publish on our first jingo a letter on the
many “situation” from Gen. Longstreet, together
with some comments by the Augusta Con
stitutionalist. The latter wc approve ir
tho main. Gen. Longstreet, though a good
patriot, is purely a military man, and, as he
frankly tells us, views the matter, from
military standpoint” We contend that
that standpoint has been done away with by
the close of the war, and we have no further
use for it Reconstruction is not a work of
arms, but of statesmanship, and when, we
want that sort of work done, or advice about
it, wo go to statesmen and not military
heroes.
This viewing the matter from a military
standpoint, is just the thing the Radicals
have done and wish us to do. It is tlieir only
apology for their outrageous infractions of
the Constitution, their shameless usurpations
of power, and their relentless oppression of
the Southern people. Wc have only to adopt
tlieir idea, as Gen. Longstreet has done, to
justify their whole programme of iniquities
against us.
Upon the question of war or rebellion the
Northern politicians shift their position
from day to day according as it may be ne
cessary in order to carry but their schemes of
power and plunder. We have been held
States of the Union for certain purpose one
day, and conquered provinces for other pur
poses the next. If secession was unlawful
and void, as tho whole North unite in main
taining, then the act of the South was a
%jf~ A Washington correspondent says more insurrection against tho authorities of
Chief Justice Chase has decided that he would I the Federal Government It did not and
make no appointments of Registers under tho could not legally, take the insurrectionary
Bankrupt Law, until after the Supreme Court
had met and made the rules required under
the act.
Assistance tor the South.—The Great
American Tea Company have four large stores
in New York City, besides one in Brooklyn
and another in Williamsburg, and tho man
ngers, with a generosity worthy ot imitation,
have declared their intention to make a dona
tion of the profits made at all their stores on
tho 2d of April, to the relief of the suffering
in the South.
A Cuancr -of Schedule on the Moxt-
oombiix and West Point Railroad.—Trains
leaving Macon at 7:34, a. m., make close con
nections with the Columbus Branch of the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad, which
leave* Coluiphus immediately on the arrival
of the trains from Macon; and trains from
Columbus to Macon, leave Columbus im
mediately on the arrival of trains from
Montgomery, making through trips from
Macon to Montgomery and Mobile to New
Orleans in thirty-six'hours.
gjfMiss Mary J. Richardson lias been
confirmed ad Postmistress , in the city of Al
bany in this State. Miss Mary does not be
long to that order of her sex known as “Wo
man’s Rights,” but wc have no doubt that
she will give strict attention to the rights of
the Gove rumen t and the public. Wc know
our papors will all come up right at Albany
now.
frayTlio Mobile Advertiser soys: “Gen.
Sheridan has signalized himself by becoming
the first of the military commanders to make
a harsh uso of his great powers. It is a bold
bid for tho Radical vote fat tho Presidency.
Hut Gen. Shoridon is a young man, of fine
constitution. There is a future for him, and
we predict ho will live to regret his present
stu P" __ «.
I3T"An ex-federal officer, who employs
fifty negroes on Ills plantation near Selma,
called them together u day or two before the
Radical meeting in that city, some days ngo,
and represented matters to them in such a
light, that they declined attending the meet
ing, but went contentedly to their daily task
of making corn and cotton.
Exactly 6a—The Mobile Register thus
speaks of the aituation: “Surely uo man or
woman of the South, with an independent
sentiment not yet crushed out of his or her
mind, wishes to soy that military subjugation,
upheaving of civil government, deprivation
of the clear right of the State to fix the quali
fications of suffrage, and the disfranchisement
of all who stood by them in a terrible strug-.
States out of the Union, and when the latter
laid down their arms, there was no power any
where to expel them from the Union or to
change their political status as States. Such
power could only exist by the rules of Inter
national Law, which apply only to separate
and independent nations at the close of hos
tilities.
But, whatever may be the views of Gen
eral Longstreet and other Southern com
manders, we submit that they would have
shown far more discretion and good sense,
had they withheld them until their people
could procure a decision of the supreme ju
dicial tribunal of the country upon tho ques
tion whether the laws to which they invite
both submission and acqnicscense are con
stitutional and binding, or not. Their haste
to anticipate the Supreme Court, or rather to
ignore it altogether, we cannot regard as
either respectful or wise.
gle, nre measures acceptable to them, and
that they not only submit to these measures,
but gladly and heartily wish to embraco them,
and to take by tho bund tho party that have
imposed them 1
“Let us, then, not bo in a hurry to surren
der our self-respect and onr duty with our
rights. What wo have to endure, God knows,
is hard cuough, without giving up tho man
hood necessary to enable us to bear it,
“When then Government orders tho con;
vention, Jot us, in compliance with the law,
elect it, but in the monotime keep quiet and
cool, and not lay tho foundations of disunion
among ourselves, surely to result in a South
cru Radical party.”
RKSTonEDL.tNns.-Tho Frcedinen’s Bureau,
at Savannah, has issued an order restoring
their lauds to the following citizens:
Estate of Dr. Adams, Skidaway Island
Estate cfW. R. 8vmons, Skidaway Island.
Estate nfWm. Zeigfer, Skidaway Island.
Estate of John Screven, Brewton Hill.
KsMto ot Luwtou, Ogeechec River.
Estate of W. C. Williams, Ogeecheo River.
Estate of Wm. Patterson, Ogcechce River.
Geo. Screven, Miffliu, Chatham county.
Wm. Habersham, Grove Hill, Chatham
county. . _ ,
John It. Cheyes, Grove Point, Chatham
county. ‘ ,
Miss IT. H. Elliott, New Hope, Chatham
county. _
Heury Dubighon, Jekyl’s Island, Chatham
county.
McAlpin, Burnside lslund, Chatham
county.
M. C. King. ITand Island, Chatham county.
Jacob Walburg, St Catherine's Island,
Liberty county.
Kollock, Oasabaw Island, Bryan county.
Thomas Spaulding, Sapclo Island,McIntosh
county.
A. M. Kenan, Sapclo Island, McIntosh
countv.
Morel. Ossabaw Island, Bryan county.
A. M. McDonald, Ossabaw Island, Bryan
county! , ,
J. H. Couper, St Simons Island, Glynn
countv.
H. 'B. Gould, St Simons Island, Glynn
county.
T. B. King, St Simons Island, Glynn
county.
Janies Posted, St Simons islund, Glynn
County.
A Swindler.-—The Atlanta papers caution
the public against one Haskeil, alias “ Fakir
of Sivn,” who visited that city at the head of
a theatrical troupe, ainl after giving several
of his pirfurmances and becoming liable to
the printing offices, hotels, actors and others,
to the amount of one thousand to fifteen hun
dred dollars, suddenly absconded, leaving the
same unpaid. •
SCENTING TIIE DANGER.
The New York Times, commenting on the
attempt t"o overthrow the government of Ma
ryland, a loyal State, uses the following lan
guage :
“Divested of surplusage, the whole affair is
jn attempt to induce Congress to clothe the
minority of the electors of Maryland with
power to overcomo the will of the majority.
It is an attempt, by the exercise of Federal
authority, to overturn the Constitution of a
State which is not, and never has been, in re
bellion—to force negro suffrage upon a State
whoso right to control its own concerns is as
sacred as that of New York—and to convert
the machinery of the National Government
into tho means of advancing the interests of
the Radical party. It is, in plain terms, an
attempt to revolutionize the relation even of
loyal States to the Government, and to lay the
foundation of a central power, to whoso dic
tation all States must submit, in matters
which the NationalConstitution has intrusted
to their special keeping.”
So, our Republican contemporary of the
Times begins to believe what the Southern
press has been ringing into his ears for
months past, and to scent the despotism that
floats in every breeze that comes from the
South. We have always maintained that
there could not be two governments in this
country—one for the South and another for
the North—and that the overthrow of State
rights and assumption of all power in the
former would b<f speedily followed by a simi
lar exercise of despotism over the latter.—
Maryland comes first in order, and the Radi
cals there are organized for revolution against
the majority, while in Connecticut, too, where
there is no such thing as negro suffrage, the
same party are registering negroes for the
coming election.
It is some comfort to know that while the
South is being oppressed by military govern
ment, the North is not without her troubles,
and even greater than ours, for there the war
is among the people. We wish our Northern
friends a merry time of it. The Times wa9 a
lender in getting up this revolutionary party
—how does it liko its bantling since its claws
and fnngs liavo attained their full growth ?
It is too late for the Times to be talking
about tho “Constitution.” It has already
maintained, over and over against hat the fun
damental law liad been changed in order to
conform to the new state of things brought
about by the war, and one of those things is
the complete supremacy of Congress over the
States and their officers. The “sacred right
of New York to control her own affaire ” lias
been parted with, and the editor of the Times
is one of the men who voted it nway in Con
gress. Tho bills were nimednt the South,
’tis true, bnt every other 8tate is bound to
feel the blow. There are but two remedies:
revolution against oppression, or an immedi
ate expulsion of the Radicals from power
through the Imllot T>ox. The Northern peo
ple must make their election, ot come under
the yoke and be serfs like us at the South.
Its Position Defined.—The Montgomery
Advertiser of the 27tli iust does just wliat
we have been looking for it to do lor several
weeks," It has gone over, heart, soul, body,
boots and breeches, to radicalism. We
thought for a while that its support of the
Sherman bill was merely a stroke of policy,
but wc arc now of the opinion that it lias
been converted from its hitherto conserva
tive and constitutional principles to thoscof
radicalism. Wonder il it now really believes
that “John Brown's body is still marching
on 1" We presume that it does, from its un
pialified endorsement of the resolutions of
the meeting held in 3rontgomery on Jlonday
night Inst.—Eufaula JT&sci
Thurlow Weed’s Salutatory.
The four column introductory address of
Thurlow Weed, on taking charge of the
New York Commercial Advertiser, begins
and closes as follows:
When, in 1802,1 retired from editorial life;
the circumstances which now prompt a re
turn to the duties of journalism were neither
foreseen nor anticipated. The vital questions
now in issue awaken deep emotion, creating
a desire to participate in their discussion.—
The liabit of political communion with the
people, originating enrly, continued through
half a century, and the temptation returns
with every rising sun. The ordeal through
which our country is passing is trying the
fortitude of the people and testing the
strength of the Government. Liko the ocean,
up-heaved by tempests, the country is surg
ing and seething under the influence of ex
cited passion. The strain of angry elements
upon the shivering timbers, groaning masts
and turn canvas of the Ship of State, causes
intense solicitude among the passengers, and
imposes stern duties upon the officers and
crew. Wo are in the second phase of re -
hellion—a phase, in some of its aspects, more
alarming than the first; for the dangers are
insidious and plausible, rather than open and
defiant Then we encountered enemies in the
field. Now wo arc dealing with internal an
imosities and ambitions. * * *
I resume duties from which I had intended
a permanent withdrawal, with great diffi
dence and distrust Though reasonably fa
miliar with journalism when in the harness,
things have several years the start of me now,
and whether, considering the disadvantages
in years, I can catch up with events, and as
sist in giving shape to them, remains to be
seen. While in the field, I had my share of
readers; but two generations have passed
away, and a third is rising to manhood, since
I commenced editorial life. I know that in
all respects the world goes faster, and re
quires wanner blood and fresher thoughts
than were needed before rails and wires, in
vested with attributes supposed to belong
only to omniscient power and wisdom, trifle
an*, toy with time and distance 1 But age, if
moderately benefited by experience and ob
servation, may impart something of interest
and usefulness in the columns of a newspa
per. And inspired with that hope, I am
about to try to do a little good in helping
the people and the country out of theft com
plications—complications unnecessarily ag
gravated by passion and ambition. Wars, in
other times nnd countries, have been succee
ded by pestilence and famine. But we arc
providentially exempted from these visita
tions. The nation’s health and harvests have
been perfect nnd beautiful. Our evils arc
self-created. We are scourging ourselves.
The problem for solution is: How long
will the people permit representatives to prac
tice and speculate upon their confidence and
patriotism ? “Truth is mighty,” and will
ultimately “prevail.” But time is precious.
Every lost day and hour adds feaufully to the
ruin and wrongs that misrule entails upon the
people and country. *
But enough of this. My excuse for indulg
ing in such reminiscences is, that those who
impugn my fidelity to principle may see that
they must present a formidable list of politi
cal delinquencies before they will be able, in
adjusting the account, to find a balance
against me. I was hard at work on the right
but the weak side, against strength and
wrong, years before secret “Loyal Leagues”
or those who manipulate them, were invent
ed—an invention which bodes no good to
the country, for from the time Washington
at the close of the Revolutionary War warned
his countrymen against political “Secret So
cieties,” nothing but mischief and evil has
com® of them. Republicanism is open and
frank; seeking by directness and honesty to
win its way. Those who have sinister and
selfish purposes to accomplish prefer dark
and devious ways.
The journals with which I have heretofore
been connected liavo commended themselves
to the homes and hearts of the people. In se
lections, as in editorials, my study was to
amuse and interest, to instruct and improve.
Of humble origin, my sympathies have been
and are with the laboring classes. Though a
leveler, my desire is to raise the poor up in
stead of bringing the rich down. The future
of the Commercial, therefore, in its general
aspects, will reflect its past, with perhaps, a
single qualification. I have ever held the
opinion, which is still cherished, that while
Capital takes care of itself. Labor needs rea
sonable protection. Tiicni.O'vv Weed.
Gen. Jsongstreet’s ^Letter.
From tho Augusta Constitutionalist.]
Gen. Longstreet lias written a letter to the
New Orleans Times, which will be pro
nounced a curiosity by his friends and ad
mirers. It is not so lengthened an epistle as
that of Gen. Chalmers, neither is it so adroit;
but j,ist as the Chalmers letter is Brown boiled
clown, so the Longstreet missive is Chalmers
in a nut shell. Here it is:
“New Orleans, La., March 18,1S67.
“To the Editor of the Neie Orleans Times:
Funeral of Artemiis Ward.
From the London Star, March 13th.]
The funeral of Mr. Charles Browne, better
known by Ms non tfe plume Artemus Ward
took place on Saturday at Kensal-green
Cemetery, and was numerously attended by
Iiis friends and admirers. The funeral cortege.
which consisted of tho hearse, four mournin
coaches, and many private carriages, con
spicuous among which was that of his Ex
i cellency the American Minister,.started from
I thcresiriencc of Mr. Chnrles Mihrnrd, Prince
“Dear Sir : In vour paper of yesterdnv : road, Haverstock hill, about 1 o'clock in the
- i—- * - in lino». »i.—: i afternoon and soon after 2 o’clock reached
the cemetery, where a large number of gentle
men connected with the drama, fine arts, and
general literature were assembled.- The
following was the order of the procession:
First carriage—Chief mourners: Mr. E. P-
you have expressed a desire to hear the views
of several gentlemen upon the political con
dition of the country. I find my name men
tioned upon your list, and proceed without
hesitation to respond:
'As I have never npplied myself to politics,
I cannot claim to speak to the wise states- i Hingston, one of the executors; Geo. Stevens,
men of the country, who are now devoting j ^ r - Artemus Ward's page; Dr. Croft, one of
their energies to the solution of the problem | deceased’s physicians,
which agitates the public mind. lean only | Second cairiage—The English pall bearers:
speak the plain, honest convictions ot a sol- j ^Ir. Charles Milward, Mr. Andrew Hallidav.
tlier. | Mr. Tom Hood, Mr. J. L. Toole.
“It can hardly be necessary, at this late day [ Third carriage—The American pall-bear-
to enter into a discussion of the matter that crs ; Maj. Charles T. Dix, son of General Dix,
is usually brought up in arguing upon tho 1 United States Minister to France; Mr. Ed.
proposed plan for reconstructing the Gov- i Curtiss, New York; Mr. A. Clmdboume.
* * T 1 T .1 • !• . 1 r* O 1 » ll*n (A t Afn T A A T5
eminent. Indeed, I think many of them are
not pertinent to the question.”
“The striking feature and the one that our
people should keep in view, is that wc are a
conquered people. Recognizing this fact
fairly and squarely, there is but one course
left for wise men to pursue. Accept the terms
that arc offered us by the conquerors! There
can be no discredit to a conquered people for
accepting the conditions offered 1 by their
conquerors. Nor is there any occasion for a
feeling of humiliation. We have made an
honest, and I hope that I might say, a credi
table fight, but we have lost. Let us come
forward, then, and accept the ends involved
in the struggle.”
“Oar people earnestly desire that the con
stitutional governmentshfill be re-established
nnd the only means to accomplish this is to
comply with the requirements of the recent
Congressional legislation.
“ It is said by some that Congress will not
receive us even after we have complied with
California;Mr.Lawrence Barrett, New York.
Fourth carriage—Other personal friends.
Fifth carriage—Mr. Adams, the United
States Minister, with Mr. Benj. Moran, Secre
tary of the American Legation.
The ground at Kensal- green was reached
at a quarter past 2 o’cldck, and there the mini
ber of mourners in the funeral train was in
creased tour-fold, the cemetery gates being
surrounded by well known faces that had
watched the coining of the sad procession.—
Indeed, if all those contributors to the pleas
ure and instruction of society who waited the
arrival of the hearse had followed it instead,
the line must have stretched a mile from end
to end. The chapel was, of course, filled to
the farthest corner before the doors were
closed; and then the crowd, without was
larger than that within. When the church
service had reached that point at which the
priest’s voice mingles with the sound of earth
cast typically on the bier of “man that is
born of a woman,” the coffin of Charles
their conditions. But I can find no sufficient j Browne began to sink into a vault or subter-
reasons for entertaining this proposition fora ' ranean passage, communicating between the
moment. I cannot admit that the represen- ! basement ot the chapel and the contiguous
tatirc men of a great nation could make such j catacombs. The bystanders closing round
a pledge in bad laitb. Admitting, however, j could read, on the unadorned brass plate fixed
that there is such a mental reservation, can j on lid,^this short inscription, sng-
there be any excuse for us in failing to dis-
charge our duty ? Let us accept the terms as
gested by him whose breast it covers:
CHARLES F. BROWNE,
Aged 33 years,
Known to the world as
“Artemus Ward.”
The chaplain, by whom the ritual had
been very feelingly and impressively read
H t then announced that the Americans ancl Eng-
was lull of honor. His services were glorious ; Bsh assembled to pay the last tribute of re
am! his deeds of valor inestimable. As a! to their departed brother would have
we are in duty bound to do, an 1 if there be a
lack of good faith, let it be uppn others.
“ I am. very respectfully,
“ Your obedient servant,
“ James Longstreet.”
Gen. Longstrcet’s record during the war
J-D?" Ristori, on account of sickness, failed
to meet her engagement at' the Nashville
Theatre, whereupon the manager claimed one
thousand dollars damages and finally let her
off with five hundred. Mr. Grace is said to
have characterized the transaction as
tarn robbery."
The Senate have rejected the nomina
tions of General Frank P. Blair, as Minister
of Austria, and General Henry B. Slocum to
lie Naval Officer of the port of New York.
Gheat Excitement in Connecticut.—
Meriden, March 15.—A colored man was to-
dav admitted to register as a freedmna by
the Republican board of registers of this town,
and was declared toi be entitled to vote.—
There is much excitement in consequence.
How to Mitigate the Oppression of
the Sherman Bill.
The Louisville Journal commends to the
Executive and his subordinate commanders
that their participations in the Slicrinan bill
and the oppressions of the same shall be mit
igated as much as possible by the issuance of
some 3uch order as that of General Boyle,
after a year or two’s experience of the multi
farious rascalities incident to tho rule of pro
vost marshals in Kentucky. For instance:
1. A written record of all proceedings
against citizens not in the military service.
3. To prevent unreasonable searches, seiz
ures and arrests, there shall be nono such
but upon probable cause supported by oath
or affirmation, and particularly describing
the place to l>c searched and the persons or
things to be seized.
8. No person shall be compelled to be wit
ness against himself.
4. The accused shall enjoy a speedy and
public trial, he informed of the nature and
cause of the accusation, also of the name of
the accuser and the accuser’s witnesses, with
a written copy of the charges, to be furnished
at least two days before trial.
5. Tho accused shall enjoy the right to^Jic
eonlronted with the witnesses against him ;
to have compulsory process for obtaining
witnesses in his favor ; and to have the assis
tance of counsel for his defence ; and, where
it can be done without strong special reasons
to the contrary, a majority of the commission
for his trial shall be composed of officers who
then are or therefore have been citizens of
the State in which the offence is charged to
have been committed.
6. No thumb screw, gagging, or other per
sonal punishment, besides incarceration (with
proper allowance of food,) nnd hanging, shall
be used by any commission.
It ia not a sufficient objection to this plan
that most of its clauses arc copied from the
Constitution of the United Stat 8. Indeed,
the fact that to exeente the provisions of the
Sherman bill, as the President will feel him
self compelled to do, is itself to subvert by
force the civil authority of ten States, and is
thus to fill out the entire definition of treason
laid down by the United States Supreme
Court in the Bollraan case, lays upon the
President, and the rommandsrs whom he has
selected, a responsibility which they should
be glad of any opportunity to mitigate.
[2V«e York World.
What Does it 3Iean l—No little curiosi
ty has been excited by the fact that parties
in this city arc making industrious search for
nickel pennies of 1858, paying eagerly from
fifteen to thirty per cent, premium for them.
Wc presume there is scarce a grocery, market
stall or fruit stand in the city that has_ not
been visited by these collectors of the coin in
question. Another curious fact has been
elicited by the demand for these pennies, and
that is that the search for them m a quiet
way must have been in progress for years, as
it turns out that they have been almost whol
ly withdrawn fromcirculation. If any one
....... having a quantity of pennies of different
dates "and issues on hand doubt this fact, let
him hunt among the lot for the penny of ’38,
and he will find them nearly as scarce as
liens’ teeth. As the coin is of too recent date
to be In demand as relics for collections, the
great soldier and patriot lie is entitled to a
respectful hearing, but, farther than this, we
do not see that Ins advice need be specially
sound nor his opinion infallibly correct.
It will be observed that the General ac
knowledges that he knows littl^of politics or
statesmanship. We concede tliat he does not,
and give due credit for the assertion that he
looks at the present situation “as a soldier.”
This is precisely the way that its aspect is
most appalling. Our military commanders
see it through the same glasses, and as their
profession reduces them to the straits of the
martinet; their genius for solvitg vexed ques
tions of State is not in the highest degree of
intellectual health or ingenuity.
According to General Longstreet, it is emi
nently the part of wisdom tier a conquered
people to accept the conqueror’s terms, no
matter how degrading or unprofitable. We
differ with him in toto. If those terms touch
the honor of the unfortunate, they should be
spurned. The conqueror mayforce them into
acquiescence, but all the powerof the earth is
impotent to make a man, tenacious of princi
ple, consent to debauchment and endorse the
edict of liis disgrace. The records of history
are full of such examples. By such the Chris
tian church, in the blood of martyrs, grew
vital and destroyed the Pagan oppression.
By such the Hungarians have saved the integ
rity of their race and regained the liberty of
their country. 3Iany a poor private soldier
preferred the hellish torture of a Federal
prison, and many hare died in those charnel
houses, rather than purchase enlargement by
stultification. We believe that those splendid
examples of constancy will read better in fu
ture annals than formal counsels of submis
sion. ....
General Longstreet urges the people to
come forward and “accept the ends involved
in the late struggle.” What were these ends ?
The curious reader can find them in tho reso
lution of Congress, kept as standing matter
for public edification on our fourth page. We
likewise priut as a commentary tlicSherman-
Sbellabarger atrocity. The Union nnd the
Constitution, the avowed ends proposed by
Congress, we are willing to accept; hut we
decline even the invitation of General Long
street to give our voluntary adhesion to the
Supplemental bill. Others may think differ
ently, and the South, hehrkening to incom
petent counsel, may degrade herself and pos
terity, but we can safely put it on record that,
speaking for what mav be tho minority, we
never will yielda deathless principle for the
paltry profits of an uncertain expediency,
which cannot prosper in the cud.
General Longstreet thinks “constitutional
government can be accomplished by comply
ing with the requirements of the recent Con
gressional legislation!!”
We positively refuse to argue that illogical
proposition. It carries its answer with it.
To speak of constitutional government and
recent Congressional legislation in the same
breath, is equal to an assertion that black is
white or chalk is cheese.
General "Longstreet's faith in the pledges of
Radicalism arc creditable to liischivalric na
ture ; but it requires more hardihood than
we have yet experienced, and more credulity
than we have yet found, to share his confidence
and trust. • . , . i
This letter of General Longstreet’s was not
necessary. It may prove pernicious. Its ne
cessity perished with the enactment of the
Supplemental bill, which, by amendment,
mercifully put a barrier to Southern stnltiS-
oation. Any pronounced advice to accept
wliat is not even required is mournful and
unfortunate.
Pahtnf.hsuu‘8 as Affected by the
Wail—Wc find in the Court reports of the
New York papers the trial of a case that in
volved the conttuunncc of partnerships aud
tlieir liabilities dnring onr late war, when the
partners were separated by military lines. Tt
was the case of McStea vs Brawler et al., iu
the Court of Common Picas. The suit was
brought to recover the ilmountof three drafts
drawn by plaintiff upon defendants in 18G1.
The complaint was served on Mr. JIatthcws,
one of the defendants, who left New Orleans
and went to New York about the time of the
commencement of hostilities, and has lived
there ever since; it was sought to make him
liable for his share of the claim. It was con
tended on the part of the defence, that the
“rebellion” was an actual war, such as to an
nul all contracts made between parties re
siding in opposite districts of the belliger
ents, nnd to dissolve all partnership existing
between such parties. The plaintiff showed
that Matthews, although residing in New
York, continued to act as a member of the
firm even after the capture of New Orleans,
and contended that the rule which applies to
foreign wars did not apply to the Southern
rebellion or insurrection. The courtBircctcd
an opporrunity of listening to an address
from one of his own countryman in another
chapel; the building in which the burial ser
vice was read being presently required again
for the purpose to which it is consecrated.
The funeral service being completed
meeting took place in one of the chapels of
the cemetery to hear a funeral oration deliv
ered by 3Ir. Conway, an old and esteemed
friend of the deceased. He said : It had of
ten been remarked that the fountain of laugh
ter was close to that of tears. Comedy was
closely followed by tragedy. In the ground
where they were assembled lay many bril
liant and fine wits, whose memories were in
timately associated with our delights and al
so with our tears for their loss, for their own
sorrows, and, as too often happened, for early
deaths.
How often did it bnjipcn that moralising
on the fate ot the man of infinite jest and
humor must be made as in the play of “Ham
let,” on the skull. And how melancholy was
tho reflection in the present case that when
they were sitting before the friend whom
they had lost, convulsed with laughter at his
brilliant sallies, and delighted with the fine
touches of his humor, he was wasting away
before them, and that the flashes of his eye
were mingled with the same fire that was
consuming his life. There was something in
all this ; but the reflection was still more mel
ancholy that he should die in a strange coun
try, far away from his native land, and far
away from that mother in whose arms he had
longed to expire. Still he had been here sur
rounded by friends, and tended by them with
feelings true and genuine, a fact that he (Mr.
Conway) was sure the countrymen of de
ceased would never forget. That was not the
place to dwell on any. Christian upon his
works. The verdict of the entire literary
world had been given on the subject, and
that verdict placed him in the ranks qf the
finest and most exquisite humorists of his
time,
They all know how fine, how bright, and
how delicate were the sensibilities which were
required to make up a man of fine and genti
ine humor, and the verdict given in both
countries in respect to him would, he was
sure, be confirmed by posterity. In Artemus
Ward there was no meanness, no coarseness,
no vice. He had lived in the public eye from
his youth upwards. He had, been known,
while yet a boy, as editor of a paper in far
Ohio. He had also been known in the same
all the way from New York to San Francisco.
Thus he was a mau who had lived in the pub
lic eye and been criticised during his whole
lifetime, and lie (Mr. Conway) would venture
to affirm that he hod never met with one
whom he had not made his friend, and neve
lost a friend that he had once made. He had
never used his great powers ot humor for that
biting purpose which was implied in the
word sarcasm, but bad all through touched
with the most delicate" humor the follies and
the weaknesses of the age in Which he lived
He liad been a man not only of humor, but a
man of good humor. He had never made an
enemy, nnd there was no man who did not
teel that lie was the better for having known
him
Affectionate and simple ns a child, a fine
fancy and fine intellect, he possessed the
highest elevation of character; and all who
knew him felt that with him had passed
away a fine; genial spirit, as true-a gentle- zens '
man as ever lived. Ever since his landing
in this country he had been taken by the
hand in a feeling of generosity and sym
pathy—sympathy so deep that it was
chiefly owing to it that he had not returned
to his native land when he felt that the cli
mate o‘f tliis country did not agree with him.
Thistyns highly creditable to the republic «>f
letters, and would tend to cement a feeling of
brotherhood between those of the two coun
tries. '
Dr. Spencer Hall, of Bro-wness-on-IVinder-
mere, next addressed a short speech eulogistic
of the merits of the deceased.
The Confiscation of Southern Fabric
LaulEr
The Philadelphia North American, which
now appears as the most rabid advocate for
confiscation, says:
However Republicans may disagree respect
ing 3Ir. Stevens’ confiscation bill, there is one
point in it upon which they ought all to be
able to agree. We allude to the first section,
wherein it is provided that the public lands
of the ten rebellious States shall be confis
cated. This is a matter that has hitherto
escaped the attention of all our public men
except 3Ir. Stevens, and we doubt not that
mJfay who read liis speech will feel surprised
that no one has anticipated him in tliis capi
tal method of making , the Gulf States pay
us, to some extent, tor the injuries they in
flicted upon us during the war. In the case
of Texas, to which he calls especial attention,
there should be no delay whatever in avail-
ourselves of the opportunity to confiscate
the remainder of that public domain which
she reserved to herself at the time of her an
nexation as a guarantee for the payment of
her debt—that very debt that- was subse
quently forced upon us as a national burden
by tho compromise of 1850:
Of all the States concerned" In the late re
bellion, Texas escaped with the least punish
ment. All the attempts made tm carry the
war into her territory proved abortive, and
the long and desperate struggles- in the
Southwest were mainly sustained upon re
sources derived from lien The contraband
trade with Europe through- 3Iexicai was car
ried on by her. The droves ot beeyes upon
which the rebel armies fed were furnished by
heF. And at the close of the war,.after all
the rebel armies elsewhere had surrendered,
the Texan rebellion was still intact. These
people, having felt little or nothing of the
jorrors of the war, have remained-incorrigi
bly disloyal and defiant, and although we
have all recognized that some punishment
ought to be used to bring chcm to their sen
ses, none that was feasible could be thought
of.
It was asserted by those who- profess to
know, that Texas has profited by the war to
such an extent that her population is- now
double what it was in I860. Thither have
gone the very worst rebels from other States,
and especially irom Missouri, Tennessee and
Arkansas.
The State had a large loyal population
when the war broke out, especially among
the Germans of Western Texas, but a fright
ful reign of terror was established to crush
out Unionism, and numberless patriotic citi
zens fell victims to it.
It would, therefore, be nothing more than
right that we should punish this State for her
treason by confiscating her public lauds,.and
the more so because those lands would bo
opened to actual settlers free of cost, under
the operations of the homestead law, which
cannot otherwise be the case. Bythe sup
plement to that law, enacted by the last Con
gress, all the public lands owned by the Na
tional Government in the Gulf States were
thrown open to actual settlers under the act.
It is now proper to resume possession of all
lands held by rebel States, in order to extend
to all such the same provision, so tliat we
may encourage the increase of that indepen
dent class of small landholders which has
been made the crying need of the aristocracy
ridden South.
Mr. Stevens estimates the amount- of lands
that will fall into the hands-of tho Nntional
Government by this provision at two hun
dred millions of acres, an item decidedly
worth considering in these times, and suffi
cient to enable us to create a great element in
the South antagonistic to the plantation aris
tocracy. We cannot refrain from expressing
our regret that this first section of the pend
ing bill cannot be made into a separate act
and passed at once upon its own merits.
The Irish Proclamation.
The following is the proclamation issued
by the Fenians in Ireland, an abstract of
which was given some clays :igo in our Cable
dispatches:
i. n.—rnocT-AMATiox—the iiuhh people to
THE WORLD.
We have suffered centuries of outrage, en
forced poverty and bitter misery. Our rights
aud- liberties have been trampled on by an
a'ien aristocracy, who, treating us as foes,
usurped our lands and drew away from our
unfortunate country all material riches. The
real owners of the soil were removed to make
room tor cattle, and driven across ;the ocean
to seek the means of living and the political
rights denied to them at home, while our
men of thought and action were condemned
to loss of life nnd liberty.
But we never lost the memory and hope
of a national existence. We appealed in vain
to the reason aud sense of just ice .of the dom
inant (sir) powers. Onr mildest remonstran
ces were.met with sneers and contempt. Our
appeals to arms were always unsuccessful.—
To-day, having no honorable alternative left,
we again appeal to force as our last resource.
We accept tho conditions.of tho appeal, man
fully deeming it better to die in the struggle
for freedom than to continue an existence of
utter serfdom. All men ate born with equal
rights ; and, in associating together to pro
tect one another and share public burdens,
justice demands that such associations should
rest upon a basis which maintains equality
(fie) instead of destroying it.
We, therefore, declare that, unable longer
to endure the curse of monarchist (sic) gov
ernment, wo aim at founding a republic,
based on universal suffrage (sic,) which shall
ensure to all the intrinsic value of tlieir labor.
The soil of Ireland, at present in the posses
sion of an oligarchy, belongs to us, the Irish
people, and to us it must be restored. We
declare, also, in favor of absolute liberty of
conscience, and the complete separation of
church and state. Wc appeal to the highest
tribunal for evidence of the justice of our
cause. History bears testimony to the inten
sity of our sufferings; and we declare, in the
face of our brethren, that we intend no war
against the people of England; our war is
against the aristocratic locusts, whether En
glish or Irish, who have eaten the verdure of
our fields—against the aristocratic leeches
who drain alike our blood and theirs.
Republicans of the entire world, our cause is
your cause, our enemy is your enemy. Let
your hearts be with us. As for you, work
men of England, it is not only your hearts
ive wish, but your arras. Remember the star
vation and degradation brought to your fire
sides by the oppression of labor. Remember
tho past, look well to the future, and avenge
yourselves by giving liberty to your children
iu the coming struggle for human freedom.
Herewith we proclaim the Irish Republic.
The Provisional Goveniiment.
Barbarity of the Mexican Liberals.
The New STork Times has some remarks on
the recent brutal and bloody order of Gen.
Escobedo, condemning to death the foreign
soldiers captured in a recent battle with the
Imperialists, that will meet with a hearty re
sponse from the whole Christian world.—
They are appended, as follows:
An Incident was reported from Mexico a few
days since which seems to have excited little at
tention, but which deserves a great deal. We
published, on Thursday last, a military order
signed by Escobedo, one of the Generals of the
Republican Army of Juarez, in which he orders
the “execution oi all foreigners taken prisoners
with arms iu their hands” iu a battle, which had
taken place two days before.
The newspapers announced that this order was
carried out to the letter. One hundred and twen
ty-three men, French by birth, who had enlisted
in the opposing army of Miramon, who had been
taken prisoners, were marched out and executed
in cold blood. “One by one,” says the report,
the prisoners were shot, and each bloody body
was left as it fell for the next victim in. order to
look upon. We are informed that but few of the
doomed victims faltered; and when marched out
for execution most of them saag the Marseliaisu
Hymn.” The bloody monster who ordered this
cowardly butchery, also ordered a grand bail in
honor of theeveut: he invited one hundred and
fifty of the chief ladies of the place, and was sur
prised to find but fifteen present. Whether he
ordered the remaining one hundred and thirty-five
to be executed or not, we are not iuformed.
Nothing more inhuman, more utterly infamous
than this has occurred within the history ol mod-
canacitv in-New York and San Fnsriva anff ern m at It bi .tiuls \\ 11.i in u.k eat*.«■ iii -.., .i> r 111■-
capacity m i\eu _i_orK ana oan r ranctsco. ana fclack , learted monfter , V ho ordered it, the Presi
dent of Mexico, who seems to have given it his
countenance, and the Republican cause which both
profess to serve. It is impossible fior Christians,
or ior meu of humane iustincts, to sympathize
with a cause which tolerates such violations of tho
plainest principles of recognized and honorable
warfare. Our Government owes it to itself, and to
the public sentiment of the civilized world, to pro
test, in the most decisive and peremptory man
ner, against this dishonoring and abhorrent
crime. . ■
The only semblance of excuse given by Escobe
do for his atrocious order is that these ineu were
foreigiers, and that the flag under which limy had
been fighting had been withdrawn from Mexico.
But they had regularly enlisted in the service of
the opposing party. They had a right so to en
list, and were entitled to precisely the same treat
ment as other members ol the army. The Repub
lican Government in Mexico has never denied ilie
right of foreigners to enlist in their service, and
their ranks contain even now a large number of
American and other soldiers ot torcign birth. No
nation lias ever refused to such prisoners the same
rights accorded to those who were their own" elfi
ns. . - -
Moreover, this Mexican bravo was careful not to
proclaim his new and bloody code until liis victims
were safely in his power. He gave them no warn
ing of their fate. They supposed they were light
ing on the same footing as tbeir comrades, and
that they were incurring no greater risks. It was
not until they had been captured—until their arms
hid been taken from- them—until they were ut
terly powerless and unresisting—that he chose to
wreak the foil measure of his inhuman vengeance
upon them.
This makes his act as craven and cowardly as it
treacherous aud brutal.
Monkeys for Picking Cotton.—A communi
cation iu the Galveston News, from a .Texas plan
ter, furnishes evidence that an attempt has abso
lutely been made to teach monkeys to pick coi-
ton. " The writer says he was a coitoo planter Iu
Curiosities of Clocks and IVatcije?.— Georgia in 1S49, but being obliged to visit ttie
Mr E. J. Wood has recently published “Curi-i Island ot Trinidad on business, lie was prevailed
nocks nnd Watches from the E-irli-1 0,1 to purchase some monkeys there, in order to
ositics ol Clocks anti waicms irom me earn , puAe > lhe experlmEnt a3 w their ca p lcit y for labor.
est Tillies,’ a gossipy and readable occount of g e rcilc ]ya(i home with twenty-three of tho-e crea
tures, which cost him, delivered ou the planta
tion, 44300. He gives the following as bis experi-
upon or relating to the subject. The costli- cnee:
” ... J I was mighty well pleased when I. received my
the most famous time-pieces in the world,
illustrated with all sorts of anecdotes bearin;
est watch that was ever made is said to have
been one which was constructed in .1844 for
the Sultan Abdul 3Iedjid, who must have
found it inconvenient, since it was five inches
in diameter, and struck the hours and quar
ters on wires, with a sound resembliug that
of a powerful cathedral clock. It cost twelve
hundred guineas. Another famous watch was
notJd for its smallness. It was inserted in
the top of a pencil case, and though it . was
but three sixteenths ot au inch in diameter,
“a verdict for the plaintiff on the facts, sub- jts dial not only indicated the hours, minutes
vAn4 f/\ aI.m ,lnnieimi rvf tlin Pnilpf on oil tlin Jn'J'.nAnMrln l.nt nlcn llm flflVQ tllP
ject to .the. decision ol .the Court on all the and "seconds, but also the days of the month,
questions of law.” So we infer that a judg- Jt was made in Geneva, and was displayed in
ment is yet to be rendered on some legal; the exhibition of-1851.
points.— Cohunhns Enquirer. .■■i’-' ■ -
- - ' "I pm*31r. B. F. DeBow, brother of the late
accepted theory is that, by somc'aiccident at! Dr. Andrews has engaged Dr. Jubilee statistician, died yesterday morning at Eliza-
the time ot their coinage, these pennies con- Smith as" associate editor of the (Citizen.— both: This was the ^gentleman who was
tain a lar"e percentage of gold, which fact) With a pair of Doctors at tho helm, we think supposed to have died by those who contra-
lias been'discovered by the parties engaged ’the day of Jubilee has now come for that .dieted tlie first announcement ot his brother’s
in "the search. The penny in question will be , paper;—Savannah Advertiser: death.— World, 25th.
remembered as bearing on one face the repre- ** . r , , ,
sentation of a nondescript broken-backed j £gr 1ft. Colfax is the only man except &T The- Mawon -Dorn, Delmomco’s fa
ff e wish. Address to President Wash
ington, and his Reply.
We copy from the Jewish 3Iessenger, of
hew York, which a friend lias handed to us
the annexed patriotic address of the Jews of
Newport to President Washington, on liis
visit to that city in 1790, with the beautiful
reply of the Pater Pa trim:
Hie po.
Phillips, of New York.)
TO TIIE president of the united states.
iSti'y Permit the children of the stock of Abra
ham to approach you with the most cordial affec
tion and esteem for your person and merit, and to
join with our fellow-citizens iu welcoming you to
Newport.
With pleasure we reflect on those, days—those
days of difficulty aud danger—when the God of
Israel, who delivered David from the peril of the'
sword, shielded your head in the day of battle;
and we rejoice to think that the same Spirit who
r,sted in the bosom oi the greatly beloved Daniel,
enabling him to preside over the provinces of the
Babylonish empire, rests and ever will rest upon
you, enabling you to discharge the arduous duties
of chief magistrate oi these States.
Deprived, as we heretofore have been, of the in
valuable rights of tree citizens, we now (with a
deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty Disposer
of all events.: behold a government erected by the
majesty of the people—a government which to
bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no as
sistance, but generally affording to all liberty of
conscience and immunities ol citizenship, deeming
every one, ol whatever nation, tongue or language,
equal parts of the great govenmu ntal machine.—
This so .ample and extensive federal union, whose
base is philanthropy, mutual confidence and public
Virtue, we cannot' bat acknowledge to bo the work
oi" the great God, who ruleth m the armies of
heaven and among the inhabitants ot the earth, do
ing whatever seemeth to Him good.
For all the blessings oi civil and religious liber
ty, which we enjoy under an equal and benign
administration, wc desire to send up onr thanks to
the Ancient of Dai’s, tho great Freserverof men,
beseeching Him that the angel who conducted
our forefathers through tho wilderness into the
promised land may graciously conduct you
through all the difficulties and dangers of tliis
moral life; and when like Joshua, lull of days
aud full of honors,you are gathered to your fathers,
may you be admitted into the Heavenly Paradise,
to partake of the waters of life and the tree ot im
mortality.. *
Done aud signed by order of the Hebrew con
gregation in Newport, Rhode Island.
moses &£:xas, "Warden.
Newport, August 17, 17SXX
WASHINGTON'S REri.T
To thu Hebrew Congregatioa in Newport, (R. I.)
Gentlemen: While I receive with much satis
faction your address, replete with expressions of
affection and esteem, l rejoice in the opportunity
of assuring yoa that I ahull always rctaiu a grate
ful remembrance of the cordial welcome I txpe-
rieuced in my visit to Newport from all classes of
citizens. .
Thu reflection oa the days of difficulty and dan-
,ger which are past is rendered the more sweet
from a consciousness that they arc succeeded by
days ot uncommon prosperity and security. If
we have wisdom to make the best use of the ad
vantages with which we are non' favored, we can
not fail, under the just jdministtation of a good
government, to become a great and a happy peo-
ple-
The citizens of the United States of America
have a right to applaud themselves tor having,
girtn to mankind examples of an enlarged and!
liberal policy—a policy worthy ot imitation. All
possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities '
of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration
Is spoken of as if it was by the indulgence of one
class of people tnat another enjoyed the exercise
Ot their inherent natural rights; for,happily, the
Government ot tho United States, which gives to
bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance,
requires only that they who live under its piotec-
tlon should demean themselves as good citizens in
giving it ou all occasions their effectual support.
It would be inconsistent with the frankness ef
my character not to avow that l am pleased with
your favorable opinion of my administration and
fervent wishes tor my felicity. May the children
of the stock oi Abraham who dwell ia this land
continue U> merit and eDjoy the good will oi the
other inhabitants, whilte every one sliall sit in safe
ty under hi» own vine and tig tre-Sj and there shall
be none to make him afraid.
May the Father of all mercies scatter light and
not darkness in our paths, and make us all, in our
several vocations, useful here, and, in.his own due
time and way, everlastingly hippy!
Georoe Washington.
monkeys. Tlieir arrival turned my plantation
topsy-turvy. For two weeks nothing was done by
whiles or blacks but play with the monkeys. The
overseer got one of the briehtest-looking, and re
mained at his lioose most of the time watching the
monkey’s tricks, and I must confess that my wife,
myself and children were in the same business.—
Seeing this would not pay, I began making prepa
rations to go to work. I had reckoned on one
nezro managing ten monkeys, and five monkeys
picking as much as three negroes.
For the next two weeks, all hands, whites and
blacks, were engaged in the cotton fields, teaching
monkeys. The result' was somewhat different
from my calculations. Instead of one negro man
aging ten monkeys, etc., it took ten negroes to <
manage one monkey, and then the monkey did not j
pick a nouud or ©uuce oi cotton. I became dis
gusted aavoaii my neighbors that would,accept,a
monkoiTand in a bunt a fortnight sold the last eight ;
to a traveling menagerie at five dollars a piece.—
Mv uionkev speculation has thrown me behind six
weeks in cotton picking. The iiext time you go , ... . . .
to Trinidad, l don’t believe I shill want any more tantrice, is exp*:ctea to arrive in tins country
monkeys. ^ I in a few muuths, from Italy.
25?” The New Orleans Picayune saj3:
“The total receipts of Ristori in New Orleans,
us returned to the Internal Revenue Assessor,
were $39,000. Had it not becn.for tlie in
clement weather, Friday and Saturday night
last, it is estimated that they would have
been §45,000.”
£-if~ Tim Lynchburg Republican say*: “It
strikes us thnt the Southern people ought to
be vigorously doing nothing m a political
way at-present, and. everything iu a manu
facturing.and agricultural way.”
"fW* The New York Ljidms' Southern Re
lief Association announces, that tho total re
ceipts to the 20th inst. amount to §30,321 80.
Napoleon managed to extract twelve
millTons in specie from the 3Ie.xican mines,
and got it safely home.
JS?” Mine. La Grange, the celebrated can-
birel' 1 suiinosed to represent the American j Henry Clay who has been honored with thre« nious restaurant-* in New dork, has
cacle — Washington Star. | eloslions to the Speakership. broken up, and the dishes sold out.
eagle.—Washington
22?” O Leary, gazing in astouisinueui upon
and elephint in a meuagerie, asked the j
been ! keeper: “What kind of a baste i* tlv-it idti.n' j
Hiay with bis tail! ” • j
Tlit* ceremonies incident ro the inau
guration <>f the Clay niouniuttst in Louisville
ItiVTO been postponed till tlv,: middle of May.
