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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1866)
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST New York Letter. • New Yobk, Jan. 10th. We have two bits of intelligence to-day, which illustrates perfectly the duplicity of the State Department respecting the Mexican im broglio.. There is, in the first place, a message to Congress from the President, in which wo are placed in the attitude of bullying France in the most clap-trap style, which mnst be satisfactory to the “friends of Republican lib. erty on the American continent.’’ The next is, the significant item that Jnarez, the Mexi can.“ President,” has fled his country, and is enjoying the hospitalities of the Texans at St. An onio. Not that anybody in particular will care for the result. A few demagogues will undertake to make a point against Mr. Seward for sitting quietly and seeing*the Mexican Re public strangled ; but nobody else will care a fig about it. The extraordinary part of the whole affair, is the fact that he has felt it neces sary to pursue his policy with very much the same tactics that a gambler fleeces his yietim. He has made a pretence of hostility to his confederates. He has, rather, allowed himself to be put in Buchan attitude. I am enabled to say, with perfect assurance of accuracy, that Mr. Seward’s ocean excursion has nothing to do with the Mexican affair. His Radical friends assert that he has departed In order to escape his shatein the “irrepressible conflict” that is raging in Washington; but the truth is, that it is for his health and that of his family. A. NSW PARTY. The unwillingness of President Johnson to place himself before the country as a Democrat, and to call around him his former poli'ical associates, together with the almost hopeless disorganization and demoralization of the De mocratic party, haYB led to the suggestion that anew party be organized, to be called the Liberal party. No party has ever opposed a successful war in this country and survived it. Therefore, the Democratic party of the North has no future. There is another fact which indicates the necessity of anew party. The Irish are gravitating in our large cieies to the Republicans. They cannot stand the blandishment of power, and the Democratic leaders have no patronage to dispense. Then, again, there are thousands of the Republican party who are longing for an opportunity to escape from its folds, to whom the Democratic party'is something hateful. These Republi cans are the most just of that party, and would be especially quick to larmonize with the South in checking the boundless extravagance and onerous taxation which is a part of the “philanthropy” ofThad. Stephens & Oo.— There is especial need of an effort to scuere the country from the jackals of the Treasury who now have possession. Anew party, with anew name, would enable President Johnson to assume his true position, and bring the patriotism and decency of the coun try up to his support. Precisely what direction may be given to practical measures, as regards the proposed new party, itnot easy to predict. I can only say that the present positions of parties gives the conservatives much uneasiness. BUSINESS MATTERS. The decline in gold below 140, long predict ed, eeems at last to have taken “ the street" by surprise. It. has been especial’y disastrous to the speculation in cotton, which market opened so buoyantly with the new year. The decline is fully two .cents, the market closing dull at 60 cents. The market for cotton goods has followed the course’of raw cotton, opening brisk and closing flat. It is not probable that gold will again rise above 140. I have it from the government broker, that the National Treasury will be a heavy seller at that p-ice, and, with fifty millions at its command, it will be able to prevent the rise. The tone of busi ness circles is decidedly averse to granting the Secretary of the Treasury the power proposed in Mr. Morrill’s bill. He will be hampered and tied up so that his "contracting” power will be slow of development. But I would not advise anybody to operate on the idea that gold is again going above 140. THE REGULAR ARMY. The proposition to increase the regular army to eighty thousand men finds no favor outside of army circles. Its cost would be greater than the entire government before the war. But in the absence of the Southern members, it may pass. It will have one good effect. It will cause public attention to be attracted to the reckless expenditures of the Radicals. FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. Evening dress of straw colored silk, the skirt trimmed with four flounces of Brussels lace of medium width. The corsage is trimmed in a similar style, but the lace much narrower, and arranged as a berthe cape, with the trimming of the sleeves failing a little below it. , Walking dress of claret colored brocade silk made plain and full, and a sacque of velvet of the same shade, with heavy ornaments at the back and front. The favor,te materials for walking costumes are merinos and cashmeres. The first are very fine and soft, falling back to the figure almost like mouseline. Plain colors are most in favor, and, most of all, anew rich hue of dark brown. Other styles embrace greens, bines, crimsons, corn color, purples and scarlets. The same colors and shades are in cashmere at less cost. A short, loose sacque, of white merino, trimmed with ornaments of white silk, lined with a pale rose color, the edge finished with a heavy white silk cord, is among the novelties, A Honi'on collar, of "p-nlor shape,” is worn with the basque, and is vety pretty. Momma dress of drab wool de laioe, with a bright sctriet bordering extending up the front, deen pockets, bordered like tbe skirt, iigbt sleeves. linen collar and cuffs. Dinner dress of steel colored poplin, plainly gored in front, trimmed with black velvet but tons np the entire front; coat sleeve, with black lace epaulettes, made in three box pleats. A narrow band of the poplin r ning through the centre makes it very stylish. There are several styles of trimming for the heavy dress goods now worn, viz: box quilling of merino, with narrow velvet ribbon in the centre.. Another and more expensive is of velvet, one'iach wide, the shade of the dress, and checked at the bottom and. top of the sleeve; the skirt being trimmed in the same manner, with the check put on in the middle of the breadth, half way up the skirt. There is little change in the shape or style of the bonnets. There is a novelty in the spring skirts. The latest style has a double gore, which gives much elegance to the hanging j,of the dress skirt, and is indispensable when the dress is made with a trail. Anew close-fittihg basquejis just out, and is very pretty. It is not unlike the style of those worn ten years ago. The front is rounded, and is worn for a waist; trimmed with a velvet ribbon the same shade as the basque, pnt on in box pleats. The basque buttons tightly to tbe throat, and for common wear may be the same color as the Bkirt; for evening, the colors should differ, as to complexion and taste. There is also anew sleeve, resembling some what the old fashioned, “mutton leg;” for, after all, most of onr new fashions are old ones re viewed. Steel, gilt, or crystal ornaments are much worn. There are full se of steel ornaments, embracing long ear-rings, breastpin, comb, and slides for the belt They are very effective and pretty. Long ear.rings, of filagree gold or sil ver, the same as were worn twenty-five years ago, are again in fashion. Belt buckles are of gold, silver, shell and pearl. The mink fur is so fashionable that it brings twice as much as ermine. The facility with which ermine may be imitated with rabbit skins is doubtless the cause of its decadence as a fashionable fur. Willoughby. Fires in Memphis.—Two fires in Memphis, on Monday and Tuesday last, destroyed the Memphis steam bakery of J. W. Hurlbut k Cos., Qermania Hall, a large boarding house, Jas. B. Freedman’s dry goods store, and Fox b Williams’ store. Loss about $30,000. The Fl< rda Times, of the 28th nit., says it is currently reported that the military authorities of Lake City have discovered a heavy cotton fraud seriously implicating some person or per sons high in authority; but that action is with, held on account of their position. Nrw Telegraph Lire.—The Southern Ex press Company has completed its new telegraph line from this city to Atlanta, and the wire is now in working order. Success to tbe enter prising managers of the Southern Express Com pany. The Test Oath. —Mr. Lincoln’s Attorney General, Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri, pub lishes a letter in tbe Missouri Republican, in which be. gives bis opinion of the odious Con-, gressioual test oath. He says ; Test oaths, odious, oppressive, and cowardly always, are always the resort of desperate parties who (as violent as timidity can make them) seize upon this method to weaken their adversaries, whom they are afraid to meet in fair and open controversv. It was of frequent occurrence during the French revolution and one remarkable instance has been preserved for our instruction by the great historian of that epocift The two legislative councils—The Ancients and the Five Hundred—imputing to their adversaries the crime of Royalism, hoped by an adroit trick to pet riH of their presence in the councils, and their influence with t>e peo ple. And so, in the forced name of Republi canism, then decreed that -ill the members of the councils should, on a certain dav, take an oath of Hatred to Royalty. The opposition (quite as good Republicans, in fact, as their bvpocritical oppressors) resisted, as best they eou'd, complained aid protested—but they took 'he oath—for they had no notion of deserting their place in the government, and thus 1 aving their unprincipled adversaries, unreiisted to work out. their wicked will in the mis govern ment of the country. And the philosophic his torian dismisses the subject with this brief remark: “This formality of an oath, so fre qnently employed by parties, never could he considered as a guarantee; it has never been anything hut an annoyance of the conquerors, who have taken delight in forcing the conquered to perjure themselves.” Justice—that was the craft policy of the French Revolutionary Radicals—and our revo ludonary Radicals do hut follow theirexample. And we may indulge the hope that the reign of our Radicals will be made as brief as that of their great examples, and by the same cause— their follies and their crimes Your friend, Edward Batib. A State with Five United Stateb Sena tojjs Eleot.— Louisana has no less than five United Statefi Senators elect, though none of them have yet heen admitted to se«t« Th* first two elected lest y ar were Charles Smith and R. K. Cutler. Af'er a while it wa« an nounced that Michael Hahn had been elected and he has frequently-been referred to hy the New Orleans papers as a Senator elect from that State. How Mike came to be pilp/t on the top of Charles, we don’t know, but we do know that tbe Washington Globe, now before ns. has the name of Charles Smith as United States Senator from Louisiana on its official list of Senators A few weeks ago, the Louisiana Legislature elected two more Senators, Messrs Randal Hunt and Henry Boyce. The State haa, con sequently. five Senators elect. The sugar bowl of,'the Union doesn’t intend to bo unrepresent ed. though we fear she has sometimes been misrepresented at the national capital.—Lenin ville Journal. From Nbw York New York, Jan. 11 Theeaptain of the ship Neptune hag been held to hail fortrid in this sum o' te thousand dollars at 'be Marine Court, on comr laintof eight of the passengers and crew, for alleged ornel treatment ou the recent passage from Liverpool Th» schooner Texas from N >rwirh for Vir ginia. was total)ally log'at Vcod bay, Long Lland, on Saturday. The -rew were saved. The notnrinns connterM'pr. Roberts, es caned fr>m the jail in Brooklyn at boob yester day. From the Chicago Tiroes, Dec. 28. Scandal in Chicago—Midnight Revels of the F. F.C. An elderly gentleman, roobning in Reynold’s block, for tbe past few nights had had his peace and rrpose broken to such an extent by the sounds of conviviality which greeted his ears from an adjoining room, that at an early hour on Wednesday morning, having found it impossible to sleep, dressed himself and sallied fi.rth in quest of a policeman. Such an offieialhe found on the street below, whither fe bad been attracted by the noise of singingjand laughter which was distinctly audible on the street as proceeding from a room in the third story Tie old gentleman laid his troubles before the vigilant watchman of the night, whose call for his comrades was quickly responded to by offi cers Buckley and McCabe. Guided by the sounds from above, the party ascended to the third floor, and proceeded to the room in ques tion. Mingled male and female voices were hggrd on the inside chanting, in harmonious ooioert: We’ll all drink stone blind, Johnnie, fill up the bowl I The sound of boisterous laughter joised in with tbe chorus, and to some improvised mu sic the heal and toe were heard to keep time till tbe ceiling shook in tremulous joy. The clanking of glasses, the elaah of bottles, revel ry and merriment filled up the vacant spaces, and showed that the scene in tbe interior was a happy one. The guardians of municipal law and order tapped on the door. Instantly all became still as death. Then they raised their voices and demanded admission. Some Jone from the inside asked what was wanted. The response from the aggressive party was that they desired to be admitted. “ Are you policemen?” “Yes.” “Then we’ll see you d—d first.” “Very well,” responded one of the officers, “ yon can go with us to the armory now, or wait till the morning, when every one can see you. Yon pays your money, and yon takes your choice.” “ Go to h—l," was uttered by one valorous individual on the ipside, while a chorus of feminine voices chimed in with such expres sions as “ You unmanly brutes,” and “ Impu dent villians, to be meddling with other peo ple’s private affairs.” The blockade was then taken np around the citadel of pleasnre by of ficers Buckley, Shippey and McCabe, who disposed themselves on the floor to await, with a patience that never tried an -old Job, the re duction of the seige. The old gentleman whose rest had been disturbed, then betook himself to his bed, but not to sleep, for the merriment thus abruptly interrupted was again renewed, and the shouts and laughter of tbe jovial bac - chanal ran higher than ever. Exhaustion af ter a time succeeded their orgies, when the be seiged betook themselves to repose. The offi cers then betook themselves to a reconnoitre of the bower of Eden. One of them aaplied his eye to tbe key-hole, bnt it did not command a range or the entire room, and it gave them no information of the manner in which the inte rior was disposed, nor af whom composed. Over the door was a transom, with a pane of glass in it, A pedestal wasimprovised by the broad back of Shippey, on which officer McCabe quickly mounted and peered through the win dow into the interior. The revelers had either purposely left the gas turned full on, or else had become so stupefied by their numerous potations that they bad become totally obli vious that ttr'e was gas in the room at all, for tbe whole interior was bright as day. To the astonished gaze of the policeman were revealed an inexhaustible quantity of champagne bot tles. glasses, plate, Ac., all strewed around the apartment in infxtricable confusion. There was but one bed in the room, and what he saw was too revolting to be described. The officer reported to his comrades what he had seen, and the three sat themselves down upon the floor outside to await further devel opments. They waited long and patiently. The first faint streaks of dawn appeared in the east, and it gradually grew lighter and lighter. Six o’clock cme, and then seven, but still everything remained quiet in the beseiged room. Finally, about eight o’clock, the noise of some one srirring was heard by the poliesmon from theoutßide. Soon the whole party were awake and commenced to mako their toilets. Presently someone came to the door and opened it. The watchful officers immediately sprang to the door, which they held open «nd effected an entrance. The whole party 'ookod considerably non-ptussfd and confused. And well they might, for the male portion com prised members of good standing in Chicago. Some of them had virtuous wives shivering on their home couches that cold night. AH aro what is termed “respectable.” The whole p rtv were invited to take np their beds and walk—to the armory. They proceeded through the open street, following the officers with a hang dog expression of countenance, casting anxious glances around as if they feared to meet some acquaintance who would thus be come informed of their vagaries. They were arraigned at the bar of the Police Court yesterday morning, where they gave the following assumed names: Thomas Hines, Adam Mclntosh, John Mur ray, Andrew Murphy, William Andrews, Min nie Taylor, Nellie Davis, Jennie Miller, Ella Frost, and Lucy St. Clair. They did not attempt to deny the complaint made against them, and the justice invited them to deposit S2O each and costs for tbe night’s r*vt l One of the men generously counted nut $2lO «s the amount of the bill against, the party, and they were liberated. Cotton PaepurTS er run Wosli,- I The follow ing table rpr tenting the receipts of cotton at L'Torr nt'l fu imr ike and 1865, baa been ear fu y made tip fr m h« most anthentie es iraat-s and circulars. It presents an instruct jve exhibit of the progress of cotton cnltarc in f *eicn c-mnties, and of the efie«rs which bare been pa'ace-i br the late war in this department of indns >y md enterprise —ls 0 Picayune Receipt! «/ O 'tton mt Liverpool from lit Janua rs, 1865, U the 15 tk Dee mher, 1885. 18 6. 1864. Bves. Biles. F'Om tb“ United States 899,399 193,868 F'om South Am ricau, mainly Br si' 330,607 203,414 Prom riouin American, mainly Pern 68 998 27 059 From Kg'p- 3tn.899 J 34 410 Fr >m St,vrna and Greece 76,454 56 815 i-romChf-M ad Jtnau.„ 125 859 310,790 From M id id *nd B n at 152 537 166 161 F-om A r i<« 6 476 1 6«9 From ('drcat) <> fas 1ndie'....912,161 995 413 From Wj •In ‘id Ha*'i f La pu»jr , Demerara, etc,, etc. 34 970 27,874 2 413 599 2,* , 03 fi f| 3 ‘bock 15th Den. 1r65l r 65 3is 090 ■Pock 15th 1964 487 220 The R v T’os .T Fisher, an eminent divine 1 of Keptncky, d : ed on the 1 l'h instant, from wounds received in an assault on Monday evening. Rev A. H. H Born, a distinguished and well known Presbyterian minister, died at Winches ter, Ya., a few days ago. White slavery in Massachusetts. There is a general movement to secure a re duction of the legal day for labor to eight hours, and the Massachusetts Legislature ap pointed a committee to investigate the subject. Reading a report of the doings of this commis sion in a Boston paper, we find this curious passage : A discussion here arose among the commis sioners as to whether tbe testimony of the patties from Fall River should be heard, since they had desir-d that their names should not appear. It was finally decided that they Bhonld be heard The witnesses were two men from Full River, operatives in a factory. Before giving their testimony they asked the reporters to Suppress their names, as their employers would throw them out of employmeut if they knew they had been before the commission. One of them said : “ We work eleven hours a day ; have worked twenty years in tbe old country, and eiogt years here; had worked harder in the last eight years than in the other twenty ; he ha 9 to walk from twenty to twenty-seven miles a day, attend.ng the spinning-jack.— Till within three months he had to work all the noon hard, cleaning un, and had to get bites at intervals from his dinner kettle; now, this cleaning work was only done on Satur - day. The operatives have to work harder here than in England. If a reduction of the hours of labor implied a reduction of wages he would still go for it heart and soul. The machinery had to be oiled before starting up, in addition to the eleven hrnrs. In some of the mills in Fall River, little children were worked eleven hours a day, and the law which prohibits it was not en forced ; persons have gone to parents to get children from school to work in the mill; old Mr. Robeson, now dead, would not allow such a thing in bis mill." . The other gentleman then said : “ I am a spinner havo no education, and am sorry for it; he had two little boys, one seven years and the other nine, who work in the mills, getting $2 30 a wdek, working seventy hours; wanted the hours of labor shortened, so that he could send his boys to school; his condition here as a factory operative was harder here than in England.” The last two witnesses stated that men who had been prominent in movements for fair wages had been discharged when the other operatives had been re-employed, and traveling from place to place could get no work ; when they did get it it was only for a few days, when they were discharged, without any apparent cause, unless from some secret understanding among the owners of the mills. This is Massachusetts—“glorious, ftee, Re publican Massachusetts,” where tin y “ shriek for freedom’’ from January to December! And these are Massachusetts freemen—citizens of the Commonwealth, where Phillips 'lives and lectures, where Garrison continually bewails the wrongs of the poor African—where Whit tier sings sweetly of Liberty—where orators and poetp and preachers have for a quarter of a century dwelt eloqneutlv upon the “terrors of slavery.’’ Why has it never occurred to them to say a word for the poor people who toil in their factories, and are so nearly slaves that they dare not allow their employers to know that they have said a word or made an effort for the alleviation of their own condition? The negro is free, now; their standard subject for declamation has been abolished—tbe “ piatation lords” are proßtrate—now let thorn give their attention to the lords of the cotton mills.—New Haven Register. A tin pedlar who, when at homo, attends Cheever’s ebureh (?>, writes an Interesting and diverting letter for the New York Tribune from Richmond, under da'e of the Ist Instant He is very abusive of those United States officers, whom he styles of “ the Ord-Patrick stripe,” and es Lieutenant Rush, Fourth Pennsylvania artille ry. whom he states General G'bbon designs to remove. We rather imagine Gibbon is of “ the Ord-Patrick atripe” himself, and if the Tribune’s tin-pedlar goes to paying him compliments, he will have him tied up by the thumbs on Popular Lawn in very ehort time. The Tribane man at tends chnrch in Petersburg for the purpose of worshipping God, and there he seen a sight that thrills his soul With horror, curdles his blood and makes bis hair stind on end. It is a matter that at onoe should be called to the attention of the War Department, and 'he garrison and the Frrod men’s Bureau at Pete rburg ha instantly rein forced. Here is what this terrible and d'sciimin at'ng and nervoui fellow Saw at church. He says: " I have noticed that the ‘ red, white and red’ pigeon feathers, a cocknda worn by secession sympathizer* in 1860, is again comine info gener al n'-e In Petersburg, in one church where I attended service. I c unted five in the hats of young misses smnng the audio' ce ” It is very p'ain, ea Mr. Tin-pedlar says, that snob facts argue volume' for retainin'r.the Freed men’s Bureau and spreading is influ -nee. It is equally evident that Mr. Tin-rPedlar is working very hard for his hoard <>nd clothe*, and fears that unless he is particularly savage at w >rda in reference to the Vi’gir'ians. and extravagant in laudation of Freedman’" Bnr -su, the Tri bune will discharge h ! m and he will ro longer be allowed to sleep in the bac' khch'-nof the men’s Bureau, and eat cod-fl h at the * xpenso of the United Slates. Os course he must- earn a living, and if he can get it by abtiring. officers of the United States Armv, who are gentlemen ad by going to church- and countng the pigeon feathers in the girls’ ha’s, we must no* begrudge the poor devil his livelihood. He is an ‘ hon' st man, that gains h’s bread by the sweat of his brow.” and if he did dot do ibis, he might do something worse, and land in s me of pen!- 1 tential retirement and safekeeping. No doubt his letters entertain many an old woman andcongro Rationalist preacher in the interior of N w York! and the amall New Engl ind villages. We really 1 think th • Freedman’s Korean should take ca o of this intelligent correspondent of the Tribute, and allow him libeial compen»etlon for making the boots of the well dreaeed officials " ter 'true.” [Richmond Times. Y/lp* of Corfkbeeats Oubbjtuct.—The gis’atnre of North Carolina having appointed a joint select committee to determine and report upon the proper rate of gold as eunpa*ei wi h Confederate eummy during the war, the som mittee made the following report; • The joint seleot committee to whom was re f -rred a resolution on the scale of depreciation of Con federate currency, state that they have had the itme under care’ul oonsidera’ion. and, after ma ture deliberation, ask leave to submit tbe follow ing report: The Confederate price* of Honey from May let, 1881, to May Ist, 1866. Months. 1861. 1882. 1963 1864. 1866 January $1 20 83 "0 s2l 00 350 00 February... 130 3'o 21 00 60 00 March 160 409 23 00 60 00 April 160 500 50 00 100 00 May $1 10 150 609 19 00 June 110 169 650 18 00 July 110 150 900 21 0 > .. Au u t 110 150 14 00 23 09 , S ptr-mb>-r.. 110 209 14 "0 25 00 Oc'r.be* 112 200 14 00 76 00 November.. 116 250 15 00 30 1 0 December . 129 250 20 00 D*c 1"* * > 10 h 3.6 co Dec. MHI to 20th 42 00 Dec. 20th to 30tb 49 00 Th » scale inelud s the entire mon'h, from the first to the last dly ex'" p* 'h“ m Ti'h of Hecem b»r. ri /tiie n hundeed and -fjgty four, which i* divided into three parts on aeooant of its rapid depreciation C. L. Harris" for the Committee. ■Written for the C mstitptionallit. All that is Left. The yeara sweep by with a gladsome shout, And I drift down with the fl twrog tide Alone, for I claim no other bride But her, who sleeps in the cold without. Ip this casket, blazing with dimends rare, And lined with purest mother of pearl, Is all that is left of my sweet dead girl— A bracelet made of her soft brown hair. Into my world-worn heart she shed The light of a love that can never die. For I know in the realms above the sky The love of earth has survived the dead. And dreamy glances from sweet bine eyes, And kisses from llp3 a-glow with love, And warm embraces are waiting above, If so we shall meet beyond the skies. If— it i* only a chance, yen know, For I am a sinner, and she is a saint, A glorified angel, free from taint, And pure as the white of untrodden snow. She wa* the joy of my life and heart, And I died with her—if that may be, And the man that you daily hear and see Has neither In life aor in lore a part. For beneath the flash of these diamonds rare. And lying on purest mother of pearl, Is all that ia left of my sweet dead girl— A bracelet made of her soft brown hair. L’lncoknue; From the Montgomery Mail, Jan. 1,3, 1866; Ex common i ca ted. The military and executive power of the Uni ted States of America, the third power of the civilized world, having suspended the functions of the Bishop of Alabama and commanded him to desist from naving souls uniil permission to that effect might be granted by military offi cers, tbe said Bishop, in violation of the pro hibitory order, and in disregard of the fact that his Episcopal functions had ceased to exist, and that in the exercise of them, until be might be absolved, he would be a heretic and usurper did, on last Sunday, in the city of New Orleans with malice aforethought, and without that “remorse of conscience” which attaches t* “a corrupt mind” which has failed in “diabolical scherafs,” proceed to confirm and did aotually confirm and receive into the church of God ninety odd deluded mortals, who were ign o rant, probably, that the said Bishop was a sus pended Bishop, and totally unqualified, by tbe Constitution of the United States and the arti cles of war to receive even an infant into the fold of tbe faithful. It was publloly understood that the eonfir matioo would take place in Christ Church, and at the hour of service, an officer of the United States army made bis appearance near the chan cel of that church, with the intention (se the New Orleans papers state) of preventing the Bishop from imposing his bogus ring and rob< t upon a congregation which was loyal to the Saviour of mankind, and the Constitution of the United States. By a flank movement, which was in keeping with the “cunning devices” of a “corrupt mind,” and the “diabolical schemes” of a "disloyal spirit,” the confirmation took place at Trinity Church, and not at Christ Church, at which former place the ninety deluded applicants for fellowship with God, were actually, un in stitutionally, received into the church, in de fiance and contempt of the government of tha United States, while the police officer of the army sat in Christ Church for two mortal hour • with his eye rivetted upon the vestry door) through which the expected impostor and ex communicated heretic never came. We protest against this flank movement by which those nnfortn«ate novitiates were re ceived into the church, and the military power of that disappointed officer evaded We protest against it, because the Oonstltn* lion of the United States, being the paramount law of the land, any law or ordinance of any State or chureh to the contrary notwithstand ing, am! the military order su3peodiag the Bishop, deriving its authority undoubtedly from the Constitution, and being effective as a special order until notice ofits revocation was received hy that excommunicated heretic, we contend that the ninety persons of New Or leans are not, constitutionally, member* of the church It is evident, how uncertain their fu ture state will be. if their eyes are not opened to the fact that the lega ! ity of their member ship may be tested. When the archangel blows his trnmpet, and the shepp are separated from the goats in that better world, it is plain that Attorney General Speed and Judge Advc • cate Holt w'll make the point that the order of General Thomas p'acsd them in a territorial condition, and hence that they are not in ' heaven constitutionally. If this point is not raised it will be because those gentlemen are not present. We recommend to the actually communica ted, but constitutionally excommunicated ninety, to sing that good old hymn : “ Lo I on a narrow neck of land, ’Twixt two divided g»a» we stand.” A magnificent cotton swindle, by which Judge Walker, formerly reading clerk of the National House of Representatives, Judge Hughes, of this State, and certain partiea in New York were swindled out of twenty thou ra and dollars, has just leaked out. The swindle w s concocted by an ex-rebel c Monel, named Jem in T. B. Allen, of Paris, Illinois, another young man of that place being his confederate, end was eonsummated fn Bt. Louis last week. Allen’s confederate professed to own fifteen hundred bales of cotton on Red river, which he sold to Walker, receiving $20,000 ; to get get the balance when the cotton was delivered on the river bank. It is s1«o alleged that tbere was a plot to murder Walker, and thns porsesa themselves of the hundred end eighty thousand dollars which he was known to have.* The pot was confided »to a gambler of Paris, named Whitsett, who Wowed it. Allen and his confederate are still a’ large.— xohangei Nsw Lins or Steamship* to Baltimore.- As will be noticed tv onr advertising column* 1 , Messrs, Willis k Ohlshoim are the sgenis of a new line of steamships to Baltimore, which will commence running bv leaving this city on the 20'.h instant After New York, there Is no city on the coast that presents fairer prospects for a successful steam line than Baltimore. Being one of the largos': grocery markets in tbe coun try connected with the great West by a noble railway; enjoying almost a mnnnpo'y of the trade which paws over that noble bodv of wa s bay—and the streams which flow in'o it; possessing a population that is en terprising generous, and disposed to favor the 8 uth, she has all 'he elements of future great ness. and will, in the time o come b« only second 'O New York Our young fellow citi zens who hare accepted the agency r.f these ships are acive, enterprising business men. in whose hands tbe line will carUi r 'v be managed to the best advantage.— Chat Mens.
