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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