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By & ROSE & Cos.
EVENING EDITION
ssr The Constitution alist of Augus
ta, which for some days have been miss
ing, and which was reported suppressed,
we are pleased to see again among our ex
changes.
FEOM SAVANNAH.
0 the politeness of Mr. Asher
Ayres, wg are in possession of the Savannah
Herald of the 11th, from which we cull the
following local items :
The steamer Gov. Troup, with a largo and
valuable cargo of Government supplies, left
yesterday aiUrnaea few \Jwon. The steam
. er Comet. Capt. Horne* with a valuable cargo
will leave this morning.
[Whether either of these cargoes have yet
arrived at Macon, we have not learned.]
Returning Home.-—A largo number of
oitizens of Savannah, who were in the arm
ies of Lee aud Johnston, and who were pa
roled, arrived in this city yesterday.
In the Second Provost Court, JohD D.
Gould, for wearing the uniform of a Confed
erate officer, contrary to circular orders of
date May Bth, was ordered to be fiued $25,
or be placed in confinement thirty days.
The Herald contains no news of general
interest which has n<*t already beon given ,to
our readers.. Indeed, being in direct com
munication with the North does not seem to
Gnhanoo the ne*s facilities' of the Savannah
Dailies, if we are to judge from the number
before us. *>*
CS*The Atlanta Intelligencer pays the
following merited compliment to our newly
appointed postmaster:
An Excellent Appointment. —The Ma
con papers announce that James H. R.
Washington, Esq., has been appointed by
Gen. Wilson, postmaster at Macon. We
heartily congratulate our sister city upon
its good fortune in thus securing an effi
cient postmaster. We have known Mr.
Washington for several years. A gentle
raan of strict integrity, of practical business
habits, energetic and faithful in the ds
* charge of either private or public duties,
he has long since enjoyed the confidence
of the commufltty in which he resides, and
of many at a distance from it, who have had
the good fortune to form his acquaintance.
We trust, if Mr. W ashirtgton will accept
the position, that his appointment will be
. made permanent when Georgia shall be
recognized again as one of the United
States.
A BemlaUeeuce of Mallory, *>avU’ Sec
retary of the Navy.
The York Herald relates the follow
ing of the antecedents of this persoo :
“Fifteen or eighteen years ago, this Mal
lory was the shipping-news correspondent of
the Herald at Key West. We paid him—
we forget how much ; but it was more than
1 he ever received from the Southern Confed
eracy for hi# services in.the cabinet, for wo
paid him in gooff gold, and the Confederacy
gave him worthless shin plasters.
“Mallory left off writing us letters for
awhile, aud then began again. Shortly af
ter the reopening of his correspondence, we
discovered that he hud been elected United
States Senator from Florida. This was
about 1851. Upon hearing this fact, we
informed him that, in ous opinion, his posi
tion as Senator wa9 imcompatible tybh his
position on the Herald as an intelligent and
independent correspondent, and that, unless
he resigned hi* Senators!]ip, we should be
obliged to dismiss him aud employ some
body else at Key West. The truth is, we
have ..tried* several Congressmen and Sena
tors, aiid fffid that they make very poor
journalists. 'J hey are never cipable enough
nor independent enough for the requirements
of this paper.
“The protection jj|the Herald being thus
withdrawn from him, Mallory went to the
bad ”
The Army and Navy Journal, a
paper conducted with great ability aod
propriety’, says of the treatment Sherman
received from tlie War Department.
“It was the frequently expressed fear
among some.officers that Sherman would
no longer command the Department of the
Mississippi. Perhaps this was a conclu
sion jumped at'too quick|y r . But, certain
ly, the apprehension was not • entirely
groundless and absurd, in one N\ho, read
ing the successive dispatches on the subject
of Sherman’s treaty, found them conveyed,
not in that formal official language winch
custom and respect for position have made
expedient, even when personal qualities do
not call for dignified treatment—but in
phrases which could claim more credit on
the ground of bluntness than of decorum.
The apprehension was not diminished w hen
the reader found an officer, possessing a
less important command than Sherman,
“suggesting,” in a private note, that “orders
be telegraphed through General Thomas
that General Wilson obey no orders from
General Shermanand when this private
note was made public through the country*
official bulletin. But we are happy to find
both the personal and public comphcatioi -
arising from the first treaty at Dirham
Station happily settled and m the way
tMtt ferMilMW ft* *" M«*■**?•
The f Attention Aci.
A BILL, to Suppress Insurrection, to
Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize
-and Confiscate the Property of Rebels
and for other purposes.
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
every person who shall hereafter commit
the crime of treason against the United
States, and shall be adjudged guilty there
of, shall suffer death, and all his slaves, if
any, shall be declared and made-free; or
lie shall be imprisoned for not less than
five years and fined not less than SIO,OOO,
anctyall his slaves, if any, shall he declared
and made free; said fine shall be levied
and collected onany or all of the property,
real and personal, excluding slaves, of
which the said person so convicted was
the owner, at the time of committing the
said .prime, any sale or conveyance to-the
contrary notwithstanding.
See. 2. And be it further enacted, That
if any person shall hereafter incite, set on
foot, assist or engage in any rebellion or
insurrection against the authority of the
United States, or the laws thereof, or shall
give aid or comfort thereto, or shall engage
in or give aid or comfort to any such ex
isting rebellion or insurrection, and bo c n
victed thereof, such person shall be pun
ished by imprisonment for a period not ex
ceeding ten years, by a fine not exceeding
SIO,OOO, and by the liberation of all slaves,
if any he have.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
every person guilty of either of the offences
described in this act shall be forever inca
pable and disqualified to hold any office
under the United States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
this act shall not bo construed in any way
to effect or alter the prosecution., convic
tion or punishment of any persqn or persons
guilty of treason against the United States
before the passage of this act, unless such
person is convicted under this act.
Sec. 5. And be it further i nacted, That
to insure the speedy termination of the
present rebellion, it shall be the duty of the
President of the United States to cause
the seizure of all the estate and property,
moaey, stock, credits and effects of the per
sons hereafter named in tiiis section, and
to apply and use thesame and the proceeds
thereof for the support of the Army of the
United States, that is to say: first, of any
person, hereafter acting as an officer ot
the army and navy of the rebels in arms
against the Government of the United
Stat e; secondly, of any person hereafter
acting as President, Vice-President, mem
ber of Congress, judge of any court, cabi
net officer, foreign minister, commissioner
or consul of the so-caiied Confederate
States of America; thirdly, of any person
acting as Governor of a State, member of
a convention or legislature, or judge of any
court of the so-called Confederate States
of America; fourthly, of any person who,
having held an office of honor, trust or
profit in the United States, shall hereafter
hold an office in the so-called Confederate
States of America; fifthly, of any person
hereafter holding an office or agency under
the government of the so-called Confederate
States of America, or any ftf the several-
States of the said Confederacy or the laws
thereof, whether suyh office or agency be
national, State or municipal in iff charac
ter; provided that the persons thirdly,
fourthly and fifthly above described shall
have accepted their appointment or election
sipce the date of the pretended ordinance
of secession of the State, or shall have
taken an <ath of allegiance to or to support
the Constitution of the so-called Confede
rate States; sixthly, ot any person who,
owning property in any loyal State or Ie»-
ritory of the United States, or in the Dis
trict of Columbia, shall hereafter assist and
give aid and comfort to such rebellion, and
all sales, transfer *>r conveyance of any
such property,shall be null and void; and
it shall be a sufficient any suit
brought by such person for the possession
or the use of sutfii property, or any of it,
to allege and prove that he is one of the
persons described in this section.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
if any person within any State or Territo
ry of United States, other than those
named as aforesaid, after the passage of
this act, being engaged in armed rebellion
against the Government of the United
States, or aiding and abetting such rebel
lion, shall not, within sixty days after pub
lic warning and proclamation duly given ;
and made by the .President of the United j
States, cease to aid, countenance and abet .
such rebellion, and return to his allegiance
to the United States, all the estate and *
property, moneys, stocks aud credits ot such ,
person shall be liable to seizure as aforesaid, I
and it shall be the duty of the'President to
seize and use them as aforesaid, or the
proceeds thereof. And all sales, transleis
or conveyances of any such property alter
the expiration of said sixty days from the
date of such warning or proclamation shall
be null and void. And it snail be a suffi
cient bar to any suit brought by such per- j
son for the possession or the use ot such
property, or any of it, to allege and prove
that he is one ot the persons described in
this section. m. f
’ ffec. 7. And be it further enacted, l nat
to secure the condemnation and sale ot an)
such property, after the same shall have
been seized, so that it may be made availa- j
ble for the purposes aforesaid, proceed- :
ing in rent shall be instituted -ill the >
n ane of the United States in any dis* ,
Wirt court thereof, of to territorial j
Macon, Georgia, Saturday Evening, May 20,1866.
court, or in the[ United States District
Court for the Tftslrict of Columbia, witbiD
which the property above described or any
part thereof may be found, or into which
thesanxe, if moveable, may first be brought;
which proceedings shall conform as nearly
as may be to proceedings in admiralty or
revenue casys; aud if said property, wheth
er real or personal, shall be found to have
belonged tea person engaged in the rebel
lion, or who has given aid or comfort there
to, the same shall be condemned as ene
mies’ property, and become the property
of the United States, and be disposed of
as the court may decree, and the proceeds
thereof paid into the treasury of the Uni
ted States, for the purposes aforesaid.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
all slaves or persons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellion against the govern
ment of the United States, or who shall in
any way give aid or comlort thereto, es
caping from such persons and taking re
fuge within the lines of the army, and all
slaves captured from such persons, or de
serted by them and coming under the con
trol of the government of the United States,
and all slaves ok such persons found or be
ing found within any place occupied by the
forces of the United States, shall be deemed
captives of war, and shall be forever free of
their servitude, and not again held as
slaves.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
no slave escaping into any State, Territory,
or the District of Columbia, from any other
State, shall bo up ; or iu any way
impeded or hinderd of his liberty, except for
crime or some offence against the laws, un
less the person claiming said fugitive shall
first, make oath that the person to whom the
labor or service of such fugitive is alleged
to be due is bis lawful owner, and has not
borne arms against the Uuited States in the
present rebellion, nor in any way given aid
and comfort thereto; and no persons engaged
in the military or naval service of the United
States shall, under my pretence whatever,
assume to decide on the validity of the claim
of any person to tff* service or labor of any
other person, or surrender up any such per
son to the claimant, on paio of being dis
charged from the service.
Sec. 11. And’be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States is author
ized to employ as many persons of African
d* scent as he may ue< *u necessary and pro
per for the supp’ession of this rebellion;
and for this purpose he may organize aud
use them in such manner as he judge
best for *he public * lfar«*.
Se n 12 And be h furt her enacted, That
the President of the United states is hereby
authorized to make provision tor the trans- 1
portation, colonization and settlement, in
some tropical country beyond the limits of
the United States, of such persons of the
African race, made free by the provisions of
the act, as may be willing to emigrate, hav
ing first obtained the consent of the govern
ment of said country to their protection and
settlement within the same, with all the
rights and privileges of freemen,
-Sec. 13. And be it further enacted,
That the President is hereby authorized, at
any time hereafter, by proclamation, to ex
tend to persons who may have participated
in the existing rebellion, in any State or
part there f, pardon and amnesty, with
such exceptions and at such time, and on
such conditi ns as be may deem expedient
for the public welfare. Also, that the Pre
sident shall have power to restore property
seized under the act to any person who
may be found to have been innocent.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted,
That the courts of the United States have
full power to institute proceedings, make
orders and decrees, issue process, and do
all other things necessary to curry this act
into effect.
After the foregoing act bad passed both
Houses, it was sent to the President for
his signature, who, however, disapproved
some features and had prepared a veto
message, when the following resolution was
passed by both Houses, iu order to remove
the President’s objections to the bill:
Resolved, By the Senate and House
of Representatives, &c., that the provisins
of the third clause of the fifth section of an
act to suppress insurrection, to punish
treason and rebellion, and to seize and con
fiscate the property of rebels' and for other
purposes, shall be construed as not to ap
ply to any act or acts done prior to the
passage thereof; nor to include any mem
ber of the State Legislature or J udge of
any State Court, who has not, in accepting
or entering upon his office, taken an oath
to support the Constitution of the so-called
Confederate States of America; nor shall
any punishment or proceedings under said
act be so construed as to work a forfeiture
of the real estate of the offender beyond
his uaturul life.
recent, visitor to Hollywood Ceme
tery, near Richmond, says *.
‘•On a declivity near Monroe’s tomb a sim
ple .black-lettered pine bead-board marks the
place of burial of ‘‘Brigadier General James
L Archer, of Maryland, one ot those rois
cruided sons of our State who were seduced
by the false lights of’secession, and perished
cn the battle-field fighting iff*bad cause.—
Major General J. E. B Stuart, the famous
rebel cavalry leader, who was killed in one
of our raids’-around Richmond, is buried in
a beautiful but secluded part of the grounds.
A plain board with his. name at.d title, the
date of bi» wound and death, marks the spot,
aud the grave wai with flowers te
tbvr* ty frtosd# of Km falter
Gen. Jos. B> Johnston.
The correspondent of the New York
Herald writes thus of an interview he had
with General Johnston at Greensboro’,
North Carolina:
“ After the Union General had conferred
with Gen. Johnston, tfye gentlemen of the
Press were formally presented and intro
duced to the rebel commander, who rose
and received thorn in the most friendly
manner.
During a brief period when the General
was disengaged, I had a private conver
sation with him on subjects pertaining to
the war and the surrender of his army. I
read him the foliowing:
War Department, )
* Washington, April. 24, 1865. $
This department has information that
the President’s *murder was organized iu
Canada, and apperedat Washington.
***##*
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary oi War.
After which I enquired, “ General, do
you think that Mr. Davis bad anything to
do with the assassination ?”
“I do not,” he replied. “ When I told
President Davis that Lincoln had been as
sassinated he was very much grieved in
deed. Ido not—in fact am sure that
President Davi# did not in a*y way coun
tenance the act.
“ General Hampton went away without
being paroled ?”
“ Yes. I understand he was ordered
by the President tt> accompany him.”
General Johnston admitted that one di
vision had gone off with Davis. Wheeler,
it was reported to-day had gone with him.
General Johnston says there was no
immediate necessity for the surrender;
that he could have got away from Sher
man. He said: “But I saw that we
must come up somewhere. We certainly
wou and have to stop at the Mississippi, so I
negotiated as I did with General Sherman,
believing it criminal to prolong a hopeless
war another day. The fate of the Con
federacy was decided in Virginia. When
Lee surrendered there was an end to it..
Had I marched my army away as I might
have done, it was only dragging Sherman
after me, He,would have foraged on the
country, and I would have been conftY? 11 ' 1
to do the same. avo
had to come to some terms at last.
Another c orrespondent of the Herald
writes ae lollows:
“Gen Johnston’s camp was a very plain
one, scarce as respectable as a division
general’s in the Union army. The tents
were old and scattered about without
much regard to regularity. The Gener
al’s was a plain wall tent, not much better
than the rest. In front of this Gen. John
ston and some five or six of ins staff officers
were sitting on the lid of a mess chest, near
them were the remains of a very plain, fer
gal supper. Johnston is a man of about
five feet nine inches in height, rather slight,
but muscularly built frame. From ap
pearance I should take him to be about
fifty. Only that his hair and beard are so
gray you would not think him so old. He
is evidently a man great reflective pow
ers, combined with untiring energy. His
conversation is so natural, dignified and
easy, that you at once feel at your ease,
though at the same time you are conscious
he is reading your thoughts like an open
hook. He possesses much of the refined
ease and elegance of a gentleman, with
the penetration and firmness of a soldier.
A remark was irade upon tho hopeless
ness of the South contending against tho
North, with her vast wealth and unbounded
resources, both in men and means. While
the war has depopulated and devastated the
South, the North was never so flourishing,
nor never had so largp a population.
Said Gen. Johnston, “True enough J yet
we did not fail so h from want of men
and means, as from'mismanagement. Had
we your government, sir, the result might
be quite different.”
He thinks the mass of the people jjll
quietly return to their homes and conform
to the new order of things. He was bitter
on the murder of President Lincoln. “Lin
coln, sir," he said, “was a good maa, and a
conservative man. His death placed in
power a man of radical principles—a South
ern man —a man, I fear of strong predjn
dices, who Will not try to. heal up the wounds
of.the nations.”
. General Johnston spoke in very high
terms of Gen. Sherman’s military ability,
but was very bitter against Jeff. Davis; in
faot attributing the whole failure to his
burgling administration.
An Important Movement.—A Wash
ington dispatch* States that Chief Justice
Chase, accompanied by his daughter Nellie,
Mr. W. P. Mellen, General Supervising
Agent of the Treasury Department, and Mr.
Whitelaw Reid, of Cincinnati, and a number
of newly appointed Treasury agents, left
Washington, May Ist, upon a special steam
er to visit all the cities along the Southern
coast from Norfolk to New Orleans, and
tbeDce proceed up the Mississippi river as
far as Memphis.
Mr. Mellen goes out to arrange the work
ing of the Treasury Department regulations
in reference to trade in the Southern States,
and Judgo Chase to look after the re-organ
ization of the machinery ,of the United
States Courts. They carry with them im
portant proclamation# touch tb# ipwiakeh*
/eat t i ttoif mytlff mm***
Vol. XLUI—No. 56
, 4X* BiU.'ti+tf C Ajrti •*.]
"ffmrlwmbuf
Yesterday th* trial of the gr*at gm.ni
"Besjiebub" took placf tb« provfn P
ground of iba Fort Par \V’.>rki», «ita*ut *nm*
two tr.ib»s ft* j® Wall's on iuc Penn
sylvania fUnruad. It»« weil known, ootb
be re *uu tbn ad, tbit id ordoaticr we have
especially excelled, and the boaried anteri
ority of ibt* Armstrong guu ban been
by that of rbe great army-goo. who** mighty
re Ter brat. >n* in New Yota harbor hare ex
cited the remark and surpiise of the
expeiietoed iuventofHof Europe. The trial
of Wc great army goo was made famous in
the hisionr of warfare, from th# fad that
'here are no iron er stsuocbiy bnilt wooden
walla tlar can successfully resist iu ponder
ous ebots ot more iLta one thousand p ounds.
The grand triai of the twenty inch gun,
which took place at F >rt Hamilton, New
York harbor, last summer, we reported at
the time. 1 hat gjtn measures twenty
feet eigb' inches, aud has a diamrter of bore
of twehfy inches.. The navy-gun ‘lieeiie
bub,” of which we now speak, has the fol
lowing dimensions :
Extreme length—eighteen f.et
Largest diameter—hve feet eight inches.
Largest diameter at muxzle—two feet eight
inches.
Depth of chamber—fourteen feet hra
inobes.
Diameter of bore—twcuty inches.
Weight completed—s£,sls pounds.
( Weight of ball—l.ooo pound*.
This immense gun wan conveyed to the
proving grounds lust week By ineatm of
the admirable machinery provided bv Mr.
Knapp, it required but a brief time to at
range the gun in position for tenting. A
side track of rails was built down t u o n
veuient spot oTyround, which bus a rocky
blufi in front, means of a jiowerful
engine, suitably provided with shutting, the
heaviest guns are speedily placed in \*m
tion for testing. The spot from which the
guns are discharged is less thuu 150 feet
from the rocky bunk into which the solid
metal is discharged. more
position for the testing of guns
been selected, and the mechan]gp te and °
ment for tho i-urpose m $ 6 \. UwU, huh-,”
Th „° f n “J’y V'lt Work* of Mr. C.
* • •*' ' 1864, about four inonlJ,*
the casting of the first named
twenty-inch guu, and is nearly four feet
shorter, b*t a»*> ti**.* L .-»*u m in
tended .o poasess the same relative capa
city- . .
it has been in course of completion near
ly ten rumths, and was placed in position
lor trial hr the first on Thursday. It
was suspended by the trumons, breech and
muzzle, die sling having been constru<*ted
for the special purpose. “Beelzebub was
charged with a first installment of sixty
pounds of powder, and more gently than a
six pounder belched it f< rth again Two
successive charges of the same amount of
powder, the last accompanied by a solid
shot, weighing 1,080 pounds, wera dis
charged. The gun, at each discharge, vi
brated about one-half its length ih its sling,
and was quickly brought to by a corps of
some dozen workmen..
Qn.Fridat, yesterday, the heavier charge*
were tried. • Eighty pound# of the usual
heavy rock powder were thrust into “Beelze
bub's” capacious maw, and the 1,080 pounds
solid shot was sent down to keep it there.—
The manner of loading, it may here be re
marked, i» not so expeditious as may here
after be expected when placed oa shipboard.
Notwithstanding tho great weight of the gun,
rhe size of the charge, aud the magnitude of
the solid shot, the loading of the monster
cannon was accomplished in a brief* r space
than would requiro us to write the account
Three eighty-pound charges were fined, and
as an old salt remarked, “they were beauti
ful to bear.” To a sensitive tympanum, tho
shock of this gun is pleasant, in comparison
with that produced by a nine-inch Dahlgrcn.
A oharge of one hundred pounds waa
next introduced, the sjlid shot scot home,
the percussion arranged, when Mr. Jame#
Knapp pulled the lanyard. The ball atxuok
the stony bank, aud tuns of rock fell into
the eavera, already existing from similar
ponderous blows. This time the guu re
coiled about two-thirds of its length in the
sling, and the concussion scarcely differed
from that experience with the eighty-pound
chargee. A second charge of onn hundred
pounds wag fired, and immediately after iha
recoil, a wrought iron bolt, three inches iu
thickness, suddenly snapped, and the breach
band broke, letting the enormous mass to
the ground as if thy were made of
tinder, the Trail beneath.
This sudden accident brought the test t)
a conclusion, Ciptaiu Yard, United &t*tea
Navy, who superintended tho test, express
ed himself highly gratified with it. The gun
had done its duty ao far as the preliminary
examination was concerned, and the acc*-
dent that brought it t) a termiuatiou before
the final charge was fired—hut one remato
ing to complete if—was regretted by all
preset^*
«... Among those present stthe test were
Captain Kane, of the Navy, Colonel Harris,
of the Ordnance Department; Uaptaia L»y
ford of the Ordnance Department, and oUwr
intelligent citizens..
Tho whole examination wai under tho
superintendence ot Captain Yard, of tb*
United States Navy, asoisted by Mr James
Knapp, of the Fort Put Works, and Colonel
Joseph Kay, foreman of the latter cstabl.su*
rnent. Tho experiment was a aucaeaaiui
(W, to etefy particular, sc tor as regard#
tk# Httim*]* yatolio #1 tfcfgttft