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
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