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(Tlje ®fmln (ffoiistitutiMiAst. BY STOCKTON K CO. _ Ol'R TKHMN The folln»lug »r» th» rales of Subscription and Advertising ia lb. I'nnrnvtiMuu.t: Wxsklv—it Months 91 00 0 Months 3 00 Kisglr Onpl**—lo cants Advertise men « Inserted in lbs Weekly at • >_** Squire fur each insertion. To ireomatwlate our patron* ara will receive tr. p;a«nl pri-luc©: such M Baron, lord, Biiti.r, Klour au4 Uml. it lb* Market veins, and It ran ba Nut to u* by Express at our ex pense. From lb. Nashville Dally Prase and Tima*. 001. Slat. C HAMP FURGUMON. particulars or Tim Rirmos. ms words on tiib scaffold. SCENES, INCIDENT*, KTO. iinaxixoor tut axacmoK Th* arr*th*r fur some lima p*«t haa bran rloudjr. noronipiniad l>r frrou.nl rain* and mud, but ysstrr'Uy dawn'd clear and bright, and » Hear aun U'amrd cheerfully from aklaa that towarad no longer, dispensing the warm aun - abloa everywhere. a* il th* vrrj inarnata alr manu were glowing with exultation near tha approaching rail from Ilf* of tbal (iioriU* chief, who*, murder*, outrages and crualtie* had made tha 11*111. of Champ Purguaon a by* word of rrpoach lo human nituro. muons or a axrnitvß. On Wadnaaday night -umnre ware current on lb* • tract il.nt a n-priaae had nrriaed, and war la lb* hinds of Ilia military authorities Though incorrect, roaey friand* of lha con domuad mm warn looking for such a raapita. Th* p*|ioni in Ilia man had bean dispatched to Waahington by * tru.ty mcMenger, and alrong hope* were entertained that ■ power hlghrr than Qcn. Stonemsn would delay tha execu tion. Criminal a* tha man waa, ha had ad herent* to III* fortune, who wore ready to spare neither iffoit nor expense to secure hi* release Bet* were made veatarday at earlou* odds, wme a* high ua four to one, that Champ Furguion would not be hung. tui 1 Pironxn ik ai* ran. 'What were his thought*, lo the slleuc* and loarlineM of bis cell, a* life dying boar* ad atoaiahid him of his doom, none can **rr know hut that ere which penelrala* th* sacret* of all heart*. What emotion* stirred up the profound.-*' depths of bis guilty eoul; what Ibnrs startled him intn apprehension ; wbat re gret* sprang up in hi* mind over a life jrosii tuted lo blood ; what remorse broke dmo the barrier* to tepeutanoe ; what elaW* of b|p sit runion naread him to fortitude and to a calm Ulterior ; what motires goaded him to a 000- fraaion—these are matter* of mere conjecture. But, ax he was only flesh and blood, with pas sion*, propensities, appetites, aspirations and lor* of lire like other men’*, though perrerted 10 bate liars lie must hare suffered beyond words lo tell. Cod lias nol made the man who can guiltily approach tna rerg* of eternity, and g*x* down Into an Ignomlnlona grere without emotion that convulses lha eery soul, eren though a strong will enforoed external composure—a calm rye and an nnquiTeriog lip. Profound feellngi Indeed mbit has* itirred within this noted criminal, to ha.a dragged from him a mnfeetion of hi* guilt. Almost up to lha-moment, howerer. of bie execution, hi* outward appearance waa that of a man who feared not death Hi* eye wa»-steady, hi* roice was unfaltering, hi* step* were Arm, his feature* di plsyid no einution, nor did hit manner in nor way indicate the throe* of in ternal emotion* struggling for maatary. Evi dently he hid nerved himself lo die game. his utmaviKW with mswirsasn »acohtre. On Wad in day his ramily ware wiih him part of the dir. A redeeming feature of the guer rilla'l char.i'ur was the iuteoae affectioo he bore his wile uud daughter. In hi* demeanor towards them all lit* leroclou* iostioct* gave way to a tendc-rnes* that was almoat womanly. During hit trial, the greatest deprivation seem —l lo he the abac no* of his lored ones. Their lom ‘orl and Hi ir wellkre appeared to by al ", -Miriuosl In hi* mind. Separation from 4 , • *' 1 «ource of consUMit |>»in I[o bid IhJm fart-well w." *• « re * tort lri *‘ 10 M * f°r . , .nm eight o’clock un kastarday raor-ring, ft >, ," 0 , he tc .ff o ld, til lie was taken from his at. jn, wi f„ lat hi* family were again with him. by hi* aide, with her arms aroun **rlh— spending with him th* last hour* on . Hut, a* wu siw him thus, he appeared oa. than moat men w mid have Iren when partin,. from home "1 go on a distant journey. Be yond an unnatural fitnh ou hi* face, and a tri fling droop of the eyes, He looked as we used to aee him lu lha court room la tha day* of hi* trial. WITH III* SPIRITUAL AUVIaKRS We learn that Champ Furguson did nol originally seek the presence of a spiritual ad vi*cr. He had isculiar views of religion, lo which lie held with all 'he tenacity of hischar icier. IVrhaps he feared the softening Influ ence* of religiuus ennudation In breaking down hi* fortitude. Whatevor hit motive*, be was at length visited hy Dr. Ooodlet, and after wards. in the absence of that minister, hr Her. Mr. Iluniing, of the first Preebytcrian Church, who frequently prayed with and talk ed lo him. To this minister he expressed himself as ready, and even anxious to die.— Without being able to give a reaeon for the feeling, ho expressed hin self a* having a hope in his heart that all would he right. He Mid he had given no thought to these things until recently. He jdned with apparent fervency in Ihn religious eserciee* in kit behalf, hot ex hibited few ligns of emotion. D waa difficult toe-certain whether he hud i-.ny reasmahe ground* to hope for forgivene** iu the world to cum » orraiu* th* wall*. On reaching the |>onitenti*ry early yexterdey morning, we found detachment* from the 11th United State* Colored Infantry on doty be fore the entrance, under command of 001. Kn ni*. with Cipl L>vi Patchin a* officer of the day. an-1 Lieutenant W. Bears a* officer of the guard. A large crowd of men aod boy* were on the gr mnd, s'- king entrance withont paate*. Celored sentries were pacing the walls which iirround the yard where th* execution wu to take place. tub corns. Knterng the gate wo found tha hearse, con taining a stained poplar c (fin, ordered by the Government from Mr. Cornelias, to receive the remains "f Champ Fnrxuaon. He bad desired for himself a c ffiu made of cherry, and doubt leu hi* wishes would have boon complied with in *0 email * matter, but th* order had been filled b fore hie tviehe* wore known The burial cme was not pretending, hut gotten up in mu:b kup-r style than that usually awanled to crim-ilrs It was removed from the hearse at twenty minute* past ten o'clock, and con veyed to the inner yard, where It waa deposit ed in front of the gallows, and the lid re moved WITIHR TH* TARD. Fn’eri ig, through a low portal, into the pier* of exsjtition. we found a numt>*r of spec Utira already present, sod * detachment of the loth K-rrulsr* on duty, surrounding the *c*f fuid, with Oaptt'n and Brevet Major J. Kline and UeutenaiT Patrick Houliaha aa officer* of th* guard. Perso** were eonstantly arriving until th* uumbav swelled lo about thre* hun dred. TH* UALLOW* This wu a rode stricture, which bad beua prtTtoasly uaad, anJ waa tha mm* m ever, ex- cept the irtrodactiou of anew cton haaa. It wu erected on Thu red ay, and is the common apright go'.Uws, with a platform about eight hut square, oontaining a drop some four wet equate. Up a fcon tags of all aieps the cow - damned mao wu to mouat to hi* fleam. Th • rope 'or uae OB the ocauion wu a lour strand Mini la hemp, lb# atreugth of which had been previ >ualy treted with a two huadred pound weight. At twewty-firr minute* to eleven o’rlo. k. the rep* wu adjusted to th* rtiqr Cthd from the center of the cross beam, wi ping a fall of some two feet. vim re ni* ecu.. The prisoner wu couflued in cell No. 1, at the end of th* penitentiary, opposite to the gal lows, and about one hundred and fifty yard* dislatit. A suggestion having been made that perhaps Kurguson had some final statement to make. 00l Mutter kindly permitted the re port!-' ato visit him. Arriving at th* door of hi* te l lb* inqaiiy tat m dr whether he hud any thing further to My. He vn lilting on hi* bunk with hia wife\hy Ins side, her arm around hit urck.. His* lace wu somewhat flushed, and hi* eye* had a alight droopirqr look. i>nt be a roe# without emotion, and Mid' In a firm, lull round voice, “ I have nothing to My.” no then uked permission for hia wile to get aome thing* of hia “after all i* over,*’ a request which wu granted. He rpoke of thi* milt'r a* if b* were only going on a short jour ney to return agdn soon, or as if he were ask ing a favor in reference to some other peraon. Here lie recugniial Mr Roger*, the reporter of the I) spatch, who h*d dene hire several acts of kindm-u during hi* trial, and invited him into the n 11, wh re the prisoner made a confession which he placed exclusively in the hand* of the reporter for publication It i* understood that Forguioi acknowledged the justness ot Lis a* itence, and acknowledged himself guilty upon nil except five of the specifications. It will I e recollected that he wu Dot convicted upon 1 lies*. The roporlera then returned to the place of execu .ion TITROCBON OK Til It SCAPPOLD. At twenty miatitoi past eleven o'clock the prisoner appeared under guard, aud mounted the g'llowu, with el bowk anl hands pinioned, and accompanied by Captain Dyketnao, I‘oat I’rovoAt Marshal, 001. Shafier, Commandant of the P at, and hi* apiriltul adviser, Itep. Mr. Bunting, of the First Presbyterian Church.—- He walked without aanistauce. apparently withont fur, wltlt erect body end Heady walk. He di I not seem to alirink hack alright of th* icaffiil I or th* coffin, which he pa«ccd with outward eompoaure aud ascended the steps fronting tlio gallows, to the platform, where he took hi* petition upon the drop, of his own aaoord. PUKOUSox'a rKitsoNAi. appearanok. Furgurson is. a powerfully framed man, six feel one and a quarter inches high, aod weigh ing aliout one hundred and sixty pounds Ilia muscular organisation is finally developed and rounded off like a prise fighter's. His physical build, with a large full cheat, indica ted gieat strong h and endurance of body, with vary unusual energy of character He carried himself quite erect, and he was dressed with scrupulous neatness, in black cloth frock coat, "fill rest and pant# of the same mate rial. imd black gloves and new gaiters. I'hia neatro as of the prisoner has always been one of his peculiarities, and was a noticeable fea ture of hia cbaract r during hia trial. RKADI.NO TUB .SKNTENCK. Col Shatter then proceeded to read lo the prisoner the charges and specifications upon which he waa tried, and the sentence of the court as approved hy Gen. Sioueman. Tins occupied about twenty-three minute*. During tho reading Furgtiaon scorned quite impetient, aa if he thought the proceeding entirely tinne ceasarr. He looked amorg the aiwctators, nodding recognition lo a mail in his shirt sleeve <. who was surveying the scene from a seat ou the tap of the penitentiary Ho also nodded composedly to others In the crowd. 1.. nMf imnAiient at tlie reading, ho sev eral t ines turned on his loca and heels, changed his position, held Ids head up towards the sky. and then fixed hia eves on tho plat form. Once in a while he noodoa or shook his head st the conclusion of tho reading of a apecifi tation. When the case of Klara Hud dleatun waa mentioued. lie aaid in a firm voice: *1 can tell it hotter than that.’’ When Col. Shatter read as follows: “to all whirh the ac cnaed pleads not guilty,” ho replied, “But I don't now.” At the conclusion of the readme of the sen tence, Col Shatter remarked to the prisoner: •'ln ncoordance with this sentence, I am now going to have you executed.'' Furgttson bowe I hi* head, snd rejoiuod : “Very well." -v. Ur. Hunting then made an appropriate B 1 the coneluaion of which Furguson prayer, 'nutelly towards the minister, as if bowed pro. -nk him, uttering some inaudi intonding to ta ble words. «gc coni'-CT. HIS RKMARI3 . . ... . ■d anything to any He waa ,hen asked if he bu -nuan. H- ro before proceeding with the exec '» at all. plied - “ Nothing to say particular.. -u here No, don’t think I have.” The noose v Rut pi iced araund hia neck, and then, for the - time, he displayed signs of emotion. His face flatbed tan deep scsnlet, the perspiration broke forth pr fujely from his face, and his lipt closed with a cnnvuliive quiver. The re alixation of bis awful tttuatioD ae-med to have flash*' over his mind in all it* fullne?#, over powering hi* fortitude. Colonel Shutter wiped the aweai awav, and the prisoner gradually recovered hit equanimity, lie expressed bim t'dfmuch opposed to having an vthing placed over b's eyre when a '.imidkerchtcf was called for. Then he .volor.teered the statement :“ I don’t know aome things in those specifica tions, tiut I don’t deny anything I ever done.” For a moment or tiro he s»omed to be repress ing an impulse to make fuller rem rks After a brief pause he m Idrd, “ I want to be lent to my fnmilr; I dor ’t want 10 le buried on tbia aoil.” After another pause, lie continued, in an exeited tone : “ Don’t give me to the doo tors; I don’t wat ,t to be cut up here. ’ Colo nel Shifter ang vered : “ Yon ahan’t, Mr. Furgnraon." A short silence followed, when the prisoner age in spoke : “ ! want to be pot in that thing.” pointing to his coffio, “and taken lo Whi'e conntv, where I can have m * family around me. If I had only had roy way, I wonldn’t have been here. Whenever yon are ready, I am done. My last request is to hes.mt away with my wife ” The white ea p was then drawn over hi* faee. Hi* l**t word* were : “ O Lord 1 have mercy on n*e, I pruy tbee!” thi Rxtcmon. A* it* ntternl the lasi word, at seven men minute* to *.we! ve o'clock, detective Banville, atone blow of a hatchet, levered the rape which aurmined Ibe drop, and the body fell tome two feet with * heavy ihub. He died eaav. there beirg no death struggle, aa is of ten tb •ca «e. Twiee b» alirhtly shrogeed bis ihouli'err . and aoon the desperate guerrilla, whose crimes and cruelties o*d made his name a terror, hung a corps*, an ! the guilty ipirit »is ushered into that eternity at whose taresholi I the wicked shrink hack aghast.— Whether beentered that new life* repentant man ir a question between bij God alone and him. Tne grave ha* closed over hia Tic**, let ill forgo the wrongs ha haa perpetrated ; for tbs plow w that knew him shall know him no moro fa rever. TB! MEDICAL SXAMISATIO*. As t he drop fell. Brevet. 001. Robert Pleteb '.f, u. S Vom., Aast Surgeon J. E. McGirr, U. S t .’oil , ascended the platform. Tb# first esamtnation of th* body took plae* thlrtee s minute* after the fall of the drop.— Nnrias m Storrv opened Forget on * coat vast, fnd applied bis aar is b|i cheat. * AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 186^ heart was still haattog NwHWy. Fi»* ■tvs csbasqtavwtlv. Mat sad todiMiac: »ar mure pf the toart are* but.4, il*e here*mg fast rxtiact Is fear aad a half m tan tea more life waa utterly gone. The Beck waa ant broken by the Ml, bat the rope had cuapMslt imbedded itself!* Ih fount part of tbe neck, the knot having alipped to the roar Ooo*4doi*hle extravasation of blood oe cll reed from tbe nostrils, as exhibited oa tbe cap which sover and tbe head m OLoamo scbki. Al twenlv-four sad a half minutes part twelve tbe body wiaa cat down, la accordance with tbe oniii ions of the attendoat surgeoat. tbe im mediate reuse ot death was cerebral apoplexy, from strangulation, tbe fall not Iwiag soffirivmt to break the leek. It la probable that he saf fered little or none, for. though life w*» ant extinct for aome time, yet aeoMtion ceased tbe moment tbe body dropped The remains were placed in the coffin, tbe lid wm screwed down, and tbe spectators dispersed sd. [From the Louisville Sunday Journal ! Bill Arp's Last. HIS I.KTTRR TO AXTCMUS WARD. Mr. Aritmw ITand, Skmeman —SWr ■ The reeaun I writ* to you In pertikler. are bekane you are about the onlv man I know in all “God s country" so-oafW: For sum eevcral works I hav been wanlin tn **y sumthiu- For sum several years we reba, aa-cuUerf. but now late of Mid county deceased hsv been tryin mlty hard ta do rtimthin We didn't quite do it, and now it* verv painful, I a* uro you, ta dry up fill of a sudden and make out like we waao’t lhar. My friend. I want to say sumthin. 1 suppose there ia no law again thinkin. hut thinkin ilont help me. It dont let down mr thermometer I must explode tnvaelf generally *0 as ta feel bettor. You aee I’m trying to harmonise. I’m tryin to soften down my feelin* I’m endrev oring to aiibjngato myself to the level of aur rotindin circnmstances, m-mtlrd. But l can’t do it until I art allowed to say sumthin, I want ta qnsrrol with sum body and then make friends I aint no giant-killer ; I alr.t no Nor wegian bar. I aint no boar-ennstrikter, but I’ll bo hornawagglcd if the talkin and the writin and tbe elanderin has got to bo all done on one ride any longer. Some of yeer folks have got to dry tip or turn our folss loose. It’s a blamed outrage, Mgwflad Aint -your editors got nutbin else to do but to pec* st u*. snd squib at us, and crow over na? Ia every man what kan write a paragraf to con sider us se bars in a cage, and be always a jobbin at ua to hoar na growl T Now you see, my friend, that'* what's disharmonious, and do you jrst toll era, one and all, e plnribus unum. so called, that if they dont atop it at once or turn ua loose to say wbat we please, why we reba. *0 called, have unanimously and jointly and severally resolved to—to—to— think very hard of it—if pot harder. That’s the way to talk it. I aint a gwiue to commit Tnvaelf. I know when to pnt on the brakes. I aint agwic.e to say oH I think like Mr. Etheridge, or Mr. Adderig. so-called. Nary time. No, sur. Bnt I’ll jest Ml you Artemna, snd yon m»y tell It to your show: If we aint allowed to express our sentiments we can take it out in hafts; and halin rune heavy in mt family, shore. I hated a man ao once that all the hair cum out of my head, aod the man drowned himgelf in a hbg waller that night. I kould do it agin, hut you see I’m tryin to harmonise, to acquiesce, to hckuai calm and screen Now I suppose that poetikally apoakin, "In Dixie's fall, We Binned all." But talkin the wav I see it, a big feller and a little feller, so called, got into a file, and they font and font and font a long time, and every body all round kep hollering hands off, but kep holpiu the big feller until finallv the little feller caved in and hollered emif. He made a bully file 1 leit you. Seiah wtii, what did the big feller do? Take him by the hand and help him up, and brush the dirt off hi* clothes? Nary time! No. enr! Bet ho kicked him arter he waa down and throwd mud on him. and drug him about and rubbed asnd in hia eye*, snd now he's gwine about hontin up hi* poor little property. Wants to konfiikat* it, m-aillad Blame mv jaket if it aint enuff to make your head swim Rut I'm a good Union man—so called. I ain't agwine to site no more. I ahan'l vo’e for the next war. I ain’t no gun-ilia I’ve done tuk the oath, and Urn gwine 10 keefi it; but a* for roy Iwin auhjoogated, and humilvated. as Mr. Chase say*, it ain’t so—nsry time. I aint ashamed of nothin, neither, aint repentin, atm axin for no one horse, short winded pardon.— Nobody needn’t be playin prei-t around roe I aint got no twenty thousand dollars. Wish I had ; I’d give it to these poor wider* *Dd orflna. I'd fatten roy own nnmeroua and in toreatin offspring in about two roioits snd s half. They shouldent eat root* snd drink hraneh water no longer. Poor, unfortunate things I to cum into this anbloonarv world st ■ichaltme. There's four or five of 'ora that never saw a airktia nor a monkey show—never had a pocket knife, nor a piece of cheese, nor •sin. There's Bull Run Arp, and Harper’s are, * rp, and Ohikshominy Arp, that never Ferry a ''•ren in a spell in iiook. I tell you, seed toe pi.. -rp |he poorest people on the my friend, we - -,,,j w - are poor and proud, face of tbe earth— ’• v , gelah ! and the whole We roads a bn'Jy fig- . prou ,i of it It American nation onghtto -- «po n they think shows what Amerikins can a -. 1 PHn’t our they lire imposed on—“ »" called bule tax four fathers site. bleed and die about a j t t on tea. wheo Dot one in a thonoan drank - Bek an a they sukseeded w*«ent it glory f ltui if they bwient I suppose it would have been ; treason, and they would hsve been bowin and sera pin round King George for pardon Bo it goes, Artemna, and to my mind, if the whole thing waa stewed down it would make about , half a pint of humbug. Wc hsd good men, : great men, Christian men. who thought wc was 1 right, and many of ’em have gone to the un diskovered country, and have got a pardon aa 1 is a pardon. When I die. I’m roity wtlltn to risk myself under the shadow of their wings, whether the climate ba hot or cold. So mote it be- Selab I 1 Well, maybe Ive said epnfl Ball dont | fvel eaav yit. I’m a good Union min w-nm and shure. I’ve had my breeches died Wu*, and I’ve bot a Uue bucket, and I very often feel K»e, and about twice in a while, I go to the doggery aod git Hue, and then I look up th» »enUe»n heaven* *nd nos th* rnemn trX of the Bfcta-Mtod nr- i doing roy duridest to harmonise, and th "kl could -uLed If it waaept fur euro thing. When , . »v.tfcf Vouard going round tho nue is IrlT aUlder. why riab: -u, fora few minita, I h*ta lbe J“ ky tioo. JwwkPt bow roy Wo«vi b*cft. i istitattoo wbat was l»nd-l down ta us hy tho heavenly ki.qrdom of pat over im with powd«r mod be! 9 niw, the devil 1 Ai. t r-boteof Afnky h.. cane to town. w,unen and children, «and ; SS. JSSifSS <w?i r“ «uv livio on roaattn earn and freedom, wmj nary idee that the winter will ram v , cmpbt oii and M’.U costa asoney- year* old. are whinm arwind about 1 mAolo kaw'.idga Tb* truth 1 soabodya badly foolsd about oy* bixasss Bum body has dntansfl tbe Mtol bn ttts ksre rr, and don't know wbat to do wit.? Mix. He's I jead tiuowa taasawn AM tier. *-i i bv be S hurt aawwbodT T-roe v.igs*ra will | have to go back to the ptawtoGoa* and work | I oink ago ato ampswri aary ear «T >ffik aad when yea bear anybody at a\ pw tfl Vto '■its a be.” as osiwd I poMy. I abakgot aotbix an copper; myself ca. We foal oarselro# oat ot everything exorpt Aidm and lead, aod I ou pavrse the hat are in he tamed over to tbe aecroe* fcv gmveysvds Weil my trirad. 1 dealt west aarit lain t ambiikius aa I used to was. Too ail bare got your show* aod monkeys aad ririman aod brass hand* and organ*, and oaa (day ea tbe petrbtyam aod tbe harp of a tboomwd atriogs. and an on, bat I've a*hr got one favor Max of you. I want ensf povr-Vr to kill a big yatlev strum-tail deg that prowl* rouads my prem ises al ntgbk Fo* Hewer. I west' tbia any thinc Uue or block or multauer. WBi you send it? Are you and your foak* m ffiteeroi of me and ore fnaka that you went lit a* bare any amynudmn ? Are the squirt* and crows and black raococa* to eat up oar poor litt'e own patch**? Are the wild turkeys to gobble all round ua 'with wpouitv? If a mad-dog takes tbe hidertoby, ia lb* whole com munity to run itself to dreth to got out -of tbe way? I golly lit look* like your pepol hod tuk tho rebelfoby for good, and waa never gwine to git over it. See here, my foetid, vou must tend me a little pawder and a ticket tn your show, and me ami you will harmonise, scriin * , With these few remarks I think I foeTbeUer, snd hope I haict made nobody fitin mad, tor I'm net on that Kn* at this time. lam Uoolj your friend—all present or Accounted for-' , Btii Arp, jeteM P. S —Old man Harris wanted to bur my fiddle the other day wiih tAiofederik money He said it would be gonl agin. He says that dim Funderbuk toM him that Warren 1 * Jack had seed a man who had just cum from Vir gin nr, and he sed a man told hi* cousin Man dy that In had whipp'd 'em afu. Old Har ris says that a feller by the name of Mock G Million ia coming over with a million of men. But nevertheless, notwithstanding, somehow or somehow else, I'm dsboui about the mon ey. If you was me, Arterous would yon make the fiddle trade? B. A. Waahington Correspondence N. T. Xawx Pretldrnt Johnson and Mr. Data. Washisotor, Oct. It 1855 —lt in with feelings of the moot profound salisforttc that I am able to inform the readers of the New* that President Johnson baa determined ta par don Jefferson Davis, and, it may bo. oven With out a trial, although that point ia nob muled vet. Nor ia it at all unlikely that in n abort time Mr. Davis will be released from confine ment on the more terms that Mr. Stephen* baa been, and then afterward pardoned. It h poo sihle. but very unlittelr now, that be my be brought to trial ia a civil court lor treason. — But if wo. and even if convictod. he will be pardoned. This is certain as the decree* of fata. Ido not derive this information from what the President mid yesterday to the South Carolina delegation, although tho fees can be safely implied from those remarks. Oa that oocwsioo the President was directly applied ta for the pardon of Jefferson Davi* by a oommU tee appointed for that purpose by th* State oonventkm of South Carolina; and oa that point, here is what Mr, Johnson arid : WHAT THR PRXSIOK.VT Sate. "All cannot be pardoned at once. Tbe bu uiness must be proceeded with gradually, and an effort must be made to execute the law. I want to do what i* best and jitit. and to show a proper degree of jtutnanity on the part of the government. If treosoo baa been committed, there ought to bo some test lo determine tbe power of the government to punish the crime. Tbe laws having been violated and an attempt made upon the life of the nation, there ought to bes risdieatice of the giorerement end Hie constitution, even if the pardoning power were exercised t hereafter If treason lout been com mitted it ought to be determined by tho high est tribunal, and tho fact declared, eren if clemency should come afterward. I assure you, gentlemen, no disposition exists for per secution, or a thirst for blood.” wa. pavii oocut rot ax costictbo or trbamr This language ia plain rnough, and needs no commentary. Bury and harassed aa he h-a been daring the last fire month*, the presi dent ha- had time for reflection upon this mo mentous ftihjeet, and those are the results of his reflection* Thev do honor at oace to hia bead and to hi* heart. The highest tribunal is the euprrme court, or one of the United ritateo district courts, and the president aay* that if Mr Davis is brought to trial, it must be before the highest tribunal But haa trea. son been committed? Mr Johnson does not sav so He sava twice. ’‘lf treason haa been committed.'’ The fact is, if Jefferson Dat’d were to be tried fer treason in the nu preme enurt. or hi fore any high civil tribunal, be would be acquitted. Every lawyer who wl'l examine the whole subjret in all i's relations, must come to thi* conclusion. Whatever hia offense was, it was not treason, nor .can It be proved to be treason. The chief of a bdiger ent power cannot he gnilty of treason. If the rebellion had remained within the line of a mere insurrection, and if any of the insurgents had fallen into our hands, ther would have been traitors and might have been hung as traitors Bat She rebellion psssed fir beyond the limit* of an insurrection It berame a arar of van proportions, in which the comhatents I on either side became, by the law* of nations, i invested with equal rights ai belligerents. Our I government itself acknowledged lbe Ooafede aa a briigevent power by exchanging ca -i*. It is by tbe principles of inlerna priaon. im our treatment of Mr. Davis tional law thorn priopiplea de mon le regalai. of war, and must be Clare that he is apr be uied , ur lrea . treated as such, acd ca. non. PR WILL KtTHKR HE ACQTTtTTXD OR PABtKWKP. Nothing in more probable, thereto.'"- * lbalPre*..leot Johnson, after gtvtng tbe au jecl deliberate consideration, ha* come to the above rooc uamo. Tbs only question w, there fore, whether it is belter to have Mr. Davis brought to trial for treason. «>th tbe certainty that b.- would be acquitted by the higheat tribunal, or to pardon him without a trial. Mr. Johuaon wants to do what is beet and just: best for the honor of th* country, and to Mr Davia. In the meantime, the It and* of the latter gentleman may real aasutred that the president will not be deterred by any bluster on Lite part of the radicals fiom carrying not hia cor rictiona of duty on thin and every other subject. . „ Tbe interview at tbe white house on Friday afternoon, between tbe president and th* South Carolina delegation, wa* of the moot pleasant and agreeable nature The prtaideni caused tbe gentlemen -to ba seated and addressed theta in the tone aod manner of great polite neaa and ooortovy. The president * remark! were informal and conversational aod touched i upon other subjects than that alluded to above. 1 The delegation withdrew greatlr pleased with I the interview, and impressed with the belief that t‘ a otaact of tbeiv million womd ta auc oaaaful. The corporators of the National Aeylom for Sold ere and Sailor* met at W*A'iigtoo on » *d neaday A quorum waa not present, but ea one rou'd hardiy ta secured at any Ume, those on tot spot adopted • rew duta* app-W.ijg * coanroitte* to memoreliie C/rmnmUd a stated ! apprcptiaUOb ia aid of toe projoet BY TELEGRAPH, Americans and the Chinese. The President in Conversation. Important and Hopeful Statement The Fenians and Canadians. N. Carolina and the Rebel Deb t Knotty Questions in Mississippi. Henry Ward Beecher’s Sermon. Important Foreign Intelligence. Conflicting Reports from Mexico. Miscellaneous Interesting News. From New V ork. Oar Future Relations with China. New York, tVtober 33.—Tho approaching change in our relations with China ta discussed with wrawtress in th© Kugtish press. The Shanghai correspondent of the Loudon Times st*>.«v that hitherto American national repcv—Malivee have been treated wiih ill con cealed dislike, and in some instances with con tempt. He attributes this feet mainly to tbe absence of an American deet in the Chinese waters, aud partly to the habit of uakiug coo auis out of missioiiariee. Now that our fleet ia oa the road to China, extraordinary changes are anticipated in the mutual diplomatic rela lions of the two co-ituriea_The Times recapit ulates whether the first introduction of Ameri cans will be of a hostile character. The Amer ican cii tou Bnrgivterre. for whom restoration haa taon imperatively demanded by th© United States Consul, is believed to hav© be«u either starred or executed. The London Post believes thatlia tbe future English com mere,i with the Chinese in China will ba considerably affected by American rivalry. THE PRESIDENT ON RECONSTRUCTION. New York, OcU33.—Tho substance of Pres ident Johnson's remarks on the subject of reconstruction in the Southern States, during a recent private interview with him, is given, with the President’s approval, by Major George L. Stearns, of Massachusetts, the President, in reply to the remark that tbe Democrats claimed that be hsd gone over to them, inti mated that the Democratic party bed discovered thg.t be was ia advance of it, and that it waa now trying to seem up to his standard, and he hoped it would succeed in so doing. He re-* enunciated bis doctrine, that notwithstanding the*-cession of certain State*, they were never ont of the Unioh—bnt by their rebellious oonrse they h and forfeited their civil govern ment, to reconstruct the machinery of which, aa sooa aa poaaible, he considers the chief duty of the time. This he lays cannot be done in n moment, but such greaand happy; progress is being made in it. that the results ‘ sometimes appear to him like a dream. Hedid not expect . to forever deprive of their former civil rights, even a majority of those who were excluded in the amnesty proclamation, but he intended that they should aue for paron,, and thus rea lime the enormity of their crimes. He is in faTor of allowing those negroes who served in the army, those who can read aud writ. , aud thos who ere possessed of certain qualiuemtiona, to role, but does not think it political, or that he has a right to force three conditions ou the white people or tbe South, t' ougli be believes they will, ere long, concede this privilege to Ike fraedmen. The President also favors basing represen tioo upon the cum ber of qualified voters instead or on the pop ulation, as al present. . FENIAN EXCITEMENT IN CANADA. New York, Oet 33 —The Herald’s Toronto correspondent earn, the members of the Pro vincial Government, and their eupoorlers in OXnad.-t, are in a state of great agitation in regard to the Fenian movement. A Fenian organisation has been known to exist there for tour yearn, hut has occasioned but little concern until the occurrence of recent events. England, Ireland, and tbe Canadian Govern ment have, It is said, organized and distributed throughout the province a force of spies. Great activity ia reported to prev il lu military af fair* : changes in the disposition Os troopa are being mado. garrisons strengthened in regions where the Irish predominate, and an investiga tion of the loyally of the officers and soldiera Instituted. Anna are being distributed for the uae of citizens known to oppose Fenian de signs Custom authorities ore nervous over the recent large ituixirtation of ammunition, which is believed will ultimately find its way into the hands of the Fenians. Toe present movement in Ireland ia merely a ruse, aud will be a grand design when Eagland has thrown into Ireland the troops, the order id this country shall seize Canada, and declare it an independent State, and place it under protec tion of the United States. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. New York. Oct. 23 — The Tribune says Hon. J. L A'iison has been elected by the Misais mppi Legislature to the United States Senate for tlx long term. The Times' special save Gen. Grant haß re rommi-nded the muster out of all Major and Brig. Generals in the volunteer service except those disabled in the service. Generals Grant, Thomas and itsncock, and other leading generals, are in favor of increas ing the regular army eo aa to number 75,000 men. Secretary Blanton favors the plan. George Ashmun, of Maa-achusetts, Charles T. Sherman, of Ohio, Springer Hartaugh, of Pennayivania, Jessee L Williams, of Indiana, end Thomas J. Carter, of Illinois, hsve been appeiuted Director! of the Union Pacific Rail road. TUK EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. New Yosk, Oct. 23 —A dispatch from J. A. Dooabct President of the Ban Francisco Cham ber rs Cjmmerce, to A. A. Law, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, aaye the earthquake shock on the Bih inat. was very alight, doing no damage of moment, and there haa been no interruption of business. HENRY WARD BKKCHER'S SERMON ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. Nxw York, Oct. 23 —Henry Ward Beecher yesterday delivered a sermon, in which he gave in hia unqualified endorsement of President Johnson and his reconstruction policy ; urged forbesrsnee and kindness toward the 8 >ulh , insisting they must regulate negro suffrage for themselves : discount* nanoed any interference, aod claimed wo must have confidence in the loyal -professions of the Southerner! and that their *eU-re*pect ir.u-t not be offended. He also pots forth kind words tor Gin. Lee. FROM MISSISSIPPI. New York, Oct. 23 —The Herald’s Jackaou, Ifuwireippi, correspondent, presents an unfa vorable state of affaire. Tho -*>t»fce Legi*i* lure * which fact Iwt Mon day, baa aim* difficult work b-.fore it, the I worm of which >», probably, the revocation ot State ordinances, which were In a ahocking condition. ’ , . Tbe debt of the Commonwealth i* targe, 1 aod though many of the people favored a I second resort to repudiation, it ta thought that • • ' i •*! La tr ■\ v/yfl g ' . t sIM jjjj v»q 2 ■ •! Slat* s ns S’ate Printer ’ ;avors it. These arc only ta-.i tics which this Legislature will with. 18 As industry generally throughout the State has been paralysed by the war, there la • great lack of the native energy necessary to resas citate a better condition of thing*. - Some preciical bnt cruel jokes are being perpetra ted on the Mississippi negroes, with the story that on Christmas day the Government intends to gire each one of them a tract of land, and hence many of them refhse to enter into con tracts with tbe planters for a period extending beyond that time. FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Nkw Yorx, Oet. 23.—The Herald's Raleigh correspondent Mya of the North Carolina Con vention : A singular announcement was made by the Chairman io the effect that after diligent search, be waa unable to procure a national flag to hoist over the Capitol, aod had to send to New York for one. The timely receipt of a telegram from Presi dent Johnson, saying that North Carolina should at once repudiate every dollar of indebt edness contracted to assist the rebellion, and prevented tbe staying off by secession ot mem bers a vote on the ordinance completely ignor ing that debt, as they had their plans already laid for tbe pnrpose, but upon reading the President's dispatch, the ordinance was token tipatid passed amid great cheering and enthu siasm, their being but a few dissenting votes. The proposed amendment to submit to a role of the people was not adopted. The ordinance which was not passed for the organisation in tome of the counties of a mili tary force to suppress outlawry, has. it is understood, the approval of the national mili tary authorities. Resolutions were adopted requesting the President to restore to tbe people of North Car olina all their old constitutional rights, and remove the military and transfer the powers to the civil authorities. FROM NEW ORLEANS. New Oslsirs, Oct. 21.—The steamers Gen. Meade and Cleopatra, from Boston ; Mariposa, from New York, and Alabama, from Liverpool, hive arrived. Cotton dull; sales of 500 bales at 53a56c. Exchange improved J»|c, 1 - > In the Mississippi Senate resolo tions, aimed at Governor Sharkey aod restricting the rights and privileges of the freedmen to what the etatnte laws granted freedmeu before tbe war, wm laid on the table bv a large majority. Governor Hamilton officially denies a state ment necessary to accompany petitions for par don requiring his endorsement. Gen. Gregory, Commissioner of Texas freed men, isnued a circular on the lith. Copies of the emancipation proclamation are liberally circulated. Officers of the bureau, to adjudi cate case* betteen freedmen or between freed men snd whites, where Btste judicial offionrs, by reason of old codes fail to do freedmen Im partial justices, are appointed. The oircular enjoins the freedmen to make contracts with employers. They mast work ; Idleness will not be tolerated : contract* must be kept. All officers of the bureau and citizens generally are requested tinlissipate any idea entertained by freedmen that many points of land are to be divided nmong them by Christmas. Gen. Fullerton, assistant commissioner of Lonimana, has also issued an address to the freedmen. substantially aa above. Col. Kirby, a prominent citizen of Texas, and related to Kirby Smith. wr*s killed by for mer employer at Hempstead. Several leading merchants of Houston are projecting » cotton factory. FROM MEXICO. Nkw York, Oct. 23 —Official documents from Mexican ’agents of the Government of the Republic of Mexico are published this morn ing, strongly protesting against the Imperial invasion of that country and warning citizens of the United States, as well as of other coun tries, against the validity of tbe grauts made to them by Maximilian, of railroad and tele graph mining and other internal improvements monopolies. Nkw York, Oct 23.—Tho steamer Liberty brings Havana dates to the 18th. Mexican advices from Vera Cruz to ike 15th had been received at Havana. Maximilian bad issued a proclamation dateif the 2d inst., offi cially announcing the departure of Juarez from Mexican territory, and saying that the oause whioh Juarez had sustained with so much valor and constancy had it last succumbed, not only to tbe national will, bu t according to the same law that tbia leader invented in support of his title, and that even tbe Brejmide had degen erated. ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA—IMPORT ANT CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. ADAMS AND KARL RUSSELL. Fartiixii Point. Oct. 23.—The Hibernia, from Liverpool on the 12tb, and Londonderry, arrived off this point 10-dav, with five days later news. A correspondence between Mr. Adams,, the American Minister, and Eirl Russell, in regard lo tbe responsibility of E iglaud for the ravages committed upon American commerce by rebel pimtos fitted up In England, bad taken place. Karl Russell repudiates all responsibility, and refuses all arbitration. Tbo papers generally comment on tho cor respondence. The Timescan hardly doubt tbal the proposal for a commission will ultimately be accepted and says it would be the best, if not the only solution, and the candid and friendly tone of the argument between Earl Ruasell and Mr. Adams justify that expecta tion. Other journals hope for an amicable rotation. Loxnos, Oct. 13.—A meeting #f lbe Atlan tic Telegraph Company has authorized an in crease of capital by’T 50,000 shares of £5 each. The Hibernia brings information of the loss of the American ship Ragle Fiiithxb Foist, Oct. 23.—The steamship Hibernia, from Liverpool the 11th, arrived off the point, en route for Quebec, at 0 o’clock Ibil morning, and was boarded hy tile news boat of the Associated Press, and the following summary of news, which is five day* later, was obtained: The Hibernia has forty-seven cabin and three huudred and twenty-aeven steerage pas sengers. Tho stoamahip Helvetia left Liverpool for New York simultaneously with the Hibernia and Kangnroo. LIVERPOOL MARKET BY THE HIBERNIA Livfrcooi, Oct 13—The sales of cotton for the week are 112,000 balea, which opened up ward, but became fiat, and closed with an advance of jd. on American, middling Orleans 25}, on Friday marketa closed upward, with sales of 200 balea. Breedatufls quiet, pro visions steady, Consols 88}»J. Bullion in bank of England deer ruling £447,000; 620 s OSaC'J; Erie 50s}; Illinois Central 83s} Li'sepool, October 12—The Liverpool cot ton market opened dull aod declined }a}d: but at the clone waa active and buoyant, and the decline fully recovered. The sales for four days amount to 43,000 bales; 14 000 to specu lators Tbe advices from Manchester are not ao (tvorable. Market quiet and closed firm. o ; ’'«.--NO. 24. K&HBpool, tia Londonbsrt, Oct. 13.—Tha market broker’s circular reports the the week, footing up 112,000 baea, .i.OOO U> speculators, and 12.000 to The market opened firm, with au tendency, hut subsequently txcame HEHpy Jd on American and |d on India and The quotations are.as fol nows: Orleans fair 26Jd; middling 24Jd; [Mobile middling 24Jd; uplands fair CSd; mid dlings l'be sales to-day were 20,000, .bales, including 16,000 to speculators and ex porters, the market closing with upward ten dency and trifling advance. The stock in port is estimated at 202,000. RAILROAD COLLISION—LOSS OF*LIFE. N»w Haves, 0:t. 23.—The Journaßdr to day says : Last night a construction train on the N. Y. A N. Haven Railroad came in col lision with a milk train on the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. Two passenger cars of the latter truia were smashed, and both engines demolished. A hatter from Bethel named Harlbut was killed. Mr. Parsons, conductor of the milk train was badly hurt, and the. engineer, Hyman, who was on the milk trgjn, was injured, but not dangerously, Mr. Willi, track superintendent at, New Haven, Hebran Douglass, Mr. Daily, John Darlan and some others; in all, estimated by some 30, and by some 16,'injured. Anecdotes or Gems. Pliny tells of the misfortunes of Nonios, who was p oscribed bv Mark Antony for the sale of bis famous opal, but who, sooner than surrender his treasure, Tallied at jt'lO.OuO of our money, went into voluntary exile. The story told by the saute writer of C eopa'ra's wager with the trium vir, th it she would spend upon a single dinner a sum equivalent to £1,000,000, is better known. The Queen was accustomed to wear in her ears two p 'aris. and when her lover ridiculed the bsnquit tli.it bad b en prepared as ton expensive, •be threw one of these Into a vessel of the strong est vinegar, dissolved it. and drank it (iff. The other was to have followed, but the umpire, by deolsnug that Antony had already lost the wnger,preserved it; and afterward, on the con quest of Egvpt, it was sawn in two, to make pendants for tho ears of Venus in the Pantheon. Mr. King reproduces this story to discredit it, essurlng us no acid the human stomach can en dure is capable of entire y diseolflng a pearl, even after long maceration. The why Quetjn, he surmises, swallowed the pearl in some more ■greeable potation than vinegar, and,.in order to f;sln her wager, invented the Action of Its disco, utfon, secure of its ultimate recovery. But there wee another pearl of unrivalled magnltnde, to which a more romantic tale attaches. This was the gem obtained by a dtver at the prloe of his Ufa, for the Haesanian king Peruses. Bo prised was it by the monarch that It oobnpied hie thoughts even In death. In the supreme moment of his fate, when about to perish in the pitfall Into which he had been entrapped by the feigned retreat of tho enemy, he p'ucked from his right ear this glory of his reign and burled it before him InkAthe abyss, deriving comfort even then from hUTThg cheated the foe of what would have been considered the most glorious trophy of their victory. In later times when the diamond bad'supplant ed the pearl In pnblle estimation, we have the wy of that known aa the Sancy, the history of which, generally confounded with that of Charts* the Bold, Is here correetly given. This famous stone was once sent bv its owner, Bigaeur de Sancy, to Henry IV, who wanted to ratre A loan on It. The servant to whom It* transmission was entrusted was beset by robbers and mordered.— His master, however, recovered the oorpse, and oonnting upon the expedients of hie faithful en voy, opened It and had the satlefaction of dincov ering therein hie lost treasure. Bnnauarte mar be said to have founded his fortunes upon a diamond, for after the eighteenth Hrumatre, it was by pledging the nelebratod "regent" he procured the fundi Indispensable for the consolidation of hts power. The Under of this stone, a slave, Is said to have concoaled It in a gash made for its reception in the eaif of hi* leg, an I then to have escaped to Madras. Here he fell In with an English skipper, who, by the promise of Undine a purchaser in considers!ion of receiving a inolotv of what was to be realised, lured him on bund ship, and there disposed of his claims by pitching him Into the sea. It after ward oame into the possession of Gov. Pitt, to whom, however, it inuat have been a source of fearful anxiety, since we read be never made known betorohan 1 the day of hie oomitlg in town, nor slept twice consecutively in the same house until 1717, when he disposed of bis harass ing pot session to the regent Orleans. Tub Okatitudb on a Don.-A valuable, well-trained, but savage setter dog, says the Philadelphia Press, was locked up in the count ing boose at the coal oil fire on Dickinson street wharf on Sunday afternoon. The sea of roaring flames had extended all over the area occupied by the oil. The counting house, a framn building at the northwest corner, soon ignited from the excesaive-heat. The roof and the two sides nearest thep conflagration of the oil Ignited, and the dog howled piteously, as thongh fully aware of the Impending danger. The members of the flhilfler Hose Company, having secured a plug near the oountiog house, wero ready to put the water on. A member forced the door open, and the dog, al ready subjected to a heat of sortral hundred degrees, sprang into the open sir. Having regained bis liberty, bo exhibited his gratitude by lick ing the hands of his rescuer, and fond ly running around him, evinced various signs of joy. The dog was an entire stranger to the fireman, and tinder other circumstances would have made an attack upon him. The animat seemed desirous to stay by him, and not permit any person to approach him. A rope was An ally pieced around the neck of the canine, and he whs led away from the terrible, exciting scenes incident to the great fire. Arbkst or Generai, Ortega i*Nsw Toax —An interesting case in connection with Mexi can matters, and growing out of the Mexican emigration excitement of last spring, was yes terday before Jude Moncrief, of the Superior Court in this city, at chambers, General Ortega, who is Chief Jusllco of tho Supreme Court of Mexico and Vice President of the Republic,and who, by the expiration of tho term of President Juan-1 will become President next month, ar rived in this country in April lost, where be has since remained, principally in this eity. Some days ago lie was arrested and admitted to hail iu tho sum of seven thousand dollars, on tho complaint of Colonel William H. Allen, who figured in connection with the recruiting and emigration movement, and who alleges ihat he was employed by the General to super intend the whole matter, on the promise that all expenses would be paid. Now, Allen statee, after lie has recruited a jiarge number of men for M'xico, and incurred debts amounting to nearly eeveo thousand dollars, General Ortega refuses to cash the bills or to have anything to do with the recruits. The action yesterday was ou a motion to show cause why the order of arrest should not be vacated. The General’s response to Allen’s allegations is a complete denial. He says that he never gave the latter the slightest authority for engaging in this business, which was commenced before be h«d ever seen Allen, and which he characterised as foolish and calculated to lead only to failure. Ho also states that be was shooked when he learned that it wee in progress, and that he believes the present proceedings are designed merely to extort money .from him. The case ht« been adjourned over to the 2Tth instant.— Mew York Herald, lbth. Tax Fenians.—At the Fenian convention, iu Philadelphia Tuesday, Patrick J. Wheeler, a prominent Irisb-American journalist, made his appearance, having just returned from a tour in Ireland, during which he was connected with Irish Fenians and informed himself of their plans. He reports their organisation aa powerful, and under skillful leaders. The ■ umber present has been increased by delega tions ftom the West, and a delegation (torn California it expected. Financial matters are being perfected, and subscription* to the iota wilt eoou begin.