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T eegisteatiok.
In the District of Columbia awd in the State
ot I onisiana, registration has been practically
tested and proved a bald an4ghastly farce. It
turns out to be what we have all along supposed
it in inquisitorial machine for securing those
“trustworthy majorities” so pathetically al
luded to by the Congressional Committee-the
manifesto of which is now turning thestomachs
of nearly every wavering journal aflhe South.
We sec no good reason to presume that the
people of Georgia can escape a similar visita
tion and, in order that the experience of others
may' serve the uninitiated, we quote largely from
the National Intelligencer. It says:
We would ask the attention of every honest
of Washington to the carefully prepared
ppnort of the proceedings, yesterday, of the
Board of Registrars, legally styled “judges of
Election ” which is published In* our local col
mans this morning. From this plain, unvar
mahed statement of facts it is too plainly mam
foat that it is the determined and deliberate pur
pose of these registrars to avoid, iu every pos
aihiP wav a proper performance of the duties
imposed upon them by the laws from which
their authority is derived, and to obstruct, and,
if possible, prevent, a fair, just and complete
registration of the qualified whfte voters of the
city Acting openly and defiantly in contraven
tion of the expressed opinion of the Supreme
Court of the District, whose judgment they re
quired and then scornfully repudiated, they have
permitted and encouraged, if not actually or
ganised, the most gigantic frauds upon the
elective franchise ever concocted since the ori
' gin of the Plaqueminc frauds, which have
passed into the debris of the political his
tory of our country. They have adopted
such regulations as will permit, upon his
simple declaration, any ragged contraband
who comes before them to place his name
upon the registry, while they * subject to the
most unlawful and outrageous scrutiny every
white man who offers >to register who is
not recognized as one of the followers of
Radicalism. It is useless now to talk to
such men about rights of citizens.* They know
nothing but party. This intense partizanship
was carried to such an extent yesterday as to
elicit from some of these registrators the ex
pression that one of them was determined not
to allow the name of a white man to be placed
upon the registry. The whole surrounding
country has been raked over for negro votes.
There' is co security that the same contraband
voters have not been registered again and
again in every ward in the city, lt Fs folly to
pretend that there is in Washington a majority
of negro votes. It is well known that there
are not more than three hundred white voters
who will sustain ' the Radical ticket. The
whole programme of these Radical judges of
election is, from beginning to end, a gigantic
fraud, intended to defeat the very purpose of
the laws of Congress under which they are act
ing. These laws were framed to afford pro
tection to qualified voters ; they have been ex
ecuted by these public officers with a wanton
partiality and cxe«rable partizanship that will
invoke not only the penalties of an offended
and defied judicial tribunal, but of every honest
man in Congress, whatever his political or
party proclivities.
Our Washington contemporary may well
have a risiug of the gorge at these .infamous
proceedings ; but when it imagines that the
registrars act without authority and seem to
“ defeat the laws of Congress under which they
are actiug,” we respectfully demur and firmly
believe they are fulfilling the spirit, if not the
letter, of Radical policy as interpreted by Con
gress. We canuot forbear smiling at the
menace that these iniquities “ will invoke not
only the penalties of an offended and defied
judiciary tribunal, but every honest man in
Congress.” We smile because judicial tribu
nals have become used to suubbiug, and 6inee
Judge Grier walked off with the Constitution
in his breeches pockets, they have met with
inevitable contempt. The appeal to honest men
in Congress is as barren as calling spirits from
the vasty deep ; for when the pliant registrars
have the wit to fffrthcr their designs, honesf
Congressmen will have the cleverness to treat
them with the same consideration bestowed by
pious Massachusetts, upon the Rcy. Sereno
Howb. The Intelligencer continues:
“ The proceedings at the City Hall yesterday,
in reference to registration, cannot fail to excite
the disgust and horror of every honest citizen.
The law enacted by Congress expressly for the
protection of the qualified voters of the city,
and to insure to them a free and fair and unob
structed excrcsse of their right to vote, was
openly, flagrantly, sfiamefully abused by the
very men appointed and sworn faithfully to ex
ecute its provisions. The authority derived by
them from it was perverted to the vilest parti
san purposes, and used as a cloak and encour
agement (or the most flagitious and undis
guised frauds ever attempted to be perpetrated
liefbre the eyes of an indigu&nt and outraged
community.
The Radical party managers, in their despera
tion at the result of the previous registration,
threw off all disguise, and opeuly, in the very
presence of the judges, taught their poor, ig
norant negro dupes the falsehoods they were to
utter to secure their registration ; atuMhis infn
maus conduct was approved and aided and
abetted by some ,of the judges themselves.—
JEvcry conceivable artifice was employed to ob
iruct the registration of Conservative voters,
» ? e £ roc6 > fresh from the country, who
then. ™ >C tau Shf again and again the lesson
nn«L;^ Cre t 0 re P eat answer to the simple
to wherc lived, wcie lmrried
to .P 8 * without interrogation, admitted
fw^^K , . cven a . fter they had twiec bc
tv within 6 ** lheir H ttcr 'Knorance of auy loeali
-2 a C y ißlltß WhicU tlM>y could claim
gim'to 0 KM B i° Ck °k contr » ba »da at hand bt- .
who had of- d ®P* rLment clerks,
WaahWtan " ™ K ed a residence in
tfeu by ihc Mi^or», P .^ Shcd £ orward for registra-
Ren»; and even Sr'p*!- Radical Party mar.a
tratiou would be nrL. mt i matln ß tb:vt - the regis
*°r 8bo « it appSS 6 ?! i'Vft uutil * b «ur,
drnm ne s ro an^Radfea\ h t^* he part
drummed up meal voters that coiilri ho
*«" recorded,*e boolS
hundred white 'cnfP Wei- ° at that time
to be registered. ip Vmc waitffig
What was done to a small e,^
• tou has had wholesale applied !“ Wa*hiug
po-called, of Louisiana. The s the Brat e.
poudent of the New York COrres '
from New Orleans, says : “I 0 the *
New Orleans, which includes this
suburbs, there have been registered, up to th
present time, 22,646 voters, of whom 13,573 ar!
negroes and 9,073 are whites. I n 34 other par
ishes sad parts of parishes, from which 1 have
obtained returns, there are registered 16,318
voters, of whom 18,866 are negrdes and 3,482
arc whites. This gives a total of 38,994 voters,
and a majority of 15,884 negroes.”
We can easily comprehend how the people of
vjlpaN/ a better spirit in the remote State of
Louisiana. Georgians may anticipate similar
caprices of vfrc- rqte-* or~nrtn omtnattom ~"ff
two of the supposed co-ordinate branches of
government are reduced to the condition of
oMM Jan*
majesty is* not appreciably felt or understood
by the waters of the distant Mexican gulf. We
cannot more fitly conclude than by quoting the
remarks of the Baltimore Gazette upon the re
sults in Louisiana as forcahadowings of the
wrath to come. The Gazette says :
‘•The voting population of Louisiana in 1860
was-a fraction over fifty thousand, and not one
tenth of those citizens will participate in the
September election. The Tribune claims, and
we have no doubt corf-ectly, that the vast ma
jority of the blacks will vote for and .with the
renegades and interlopers who represent the
Radical party in the South, and it is by no
means improbable that its candidates will have
a majoritj of twenty thousand. The condition
of Louisiana foreshadows what the situation of
several other States will be astir the military
commanders who rule them 6ball have com
pleted their arrangements for securing the as
cendency of the Radical faction. Thus one ol
the events which we predicted just after the
close of the war as an inevitable result of the
triumph of the extremists over the more Con
servative element of the Republican party has
come to pass, and we shall not have long to
wait for the further develop aent of the revo
lutionary policy which is bringing the country
to assured ruin. The next movement is to be
the election of negroes to public office. It is
absurd to suppose that they can be placed upon
a political equality with the whites so far as the
right to vote is concerned and be long precluded
from holdiug office. They may and probably
will vote for awhile for the candidates provided
by the white agitators who now influence them,
but they will soon learn how to make effective
use of their strength," and will presently be
found voting exclusively for men of their own
color. Iu some of the Southern States the black
race naturally outnumbers the white, and in
others enough of the latter will be disfranchis
ed for the purpose of giving a preponderating
influence to the former. In a number of States,
therefore, the old condition of things will be
reversed, and negro judges, legislators and
Congressmen will make and execute laws for
the men of our own blood. Whether the white
population can endure to live in such a-situa
tion, or whether the prosperity of the country
or even its civilization is likely to be maintain
ed under negro rule are questions we think we
can safely reply to. All history answers them
in the negative, and if a different solution awaits
them now it will be because the world and
humau nature have undergone some wonderful
change of which we confess ourselves to be in
ignorance. In no age and in no country have
the negroes ever succeeded in establishing a,
government which was entitled to the slightest
respect or consideration, and we see nothing to
warrant the idea that they can form or admiu
ister one now. When they take possession,
therefdre, of the Gulf States they will, unless
the Federal armies wield over them a more
relentless despotism than they have even as yet
exercised, gradually couvert those States iuto
auother St. Domingo. It is because ol these
convictions that we watch so sadly aud despair
ingly tire' progress of this revolution. The
charge that we are animated by mere preju
dice or by dislike to the black man, we skuli
leave time to refute. We have as little ill-feel
ing against him as the Radicals have love for
him. It is for his good as well as for our owu
that we have opposed the schemes of those who
would now use him, but who would afterwards
exterminate him as ruthlessly as they do the
ludians. Not one in a hundred of the politi
cians of the couutry believe the grounds upou
which the New York Tribune advocates the
Radical policy to he anything but sentimental
nonsense, [or that ‘impartial justice’ and
‘ manhood suffrage ’ are anything more than
party catchwords. The leaders of the extrem
ists want to get possession of the South through
the negro, aud then get possession of the ne
gro. They intend to use or abase him pre
cisely as their interest or convenience may dic
tate, aud after they find that they can make bo
more out of the ruined South, _ they Will not
only no longer strive to prevent the inevitable
war of races, but w.ill be fouud to be the ne
gro’s most vindictive* enemy.”
Can’t Go It.
The Charleston Nines' is evidently becoming
nauseated with the Congressional scheme of
reconstruction. The recent Maufesto and Or
der,-No. 32, are making the Oku party stand
aghast. The News says :
The action of Sheridan, coupled with that of
Pope, Schofield, aud others nearer home, would,
seem to indicate that the Radical policy is tp
be carried out in the reconstruction of the
Southern States—that' the policy Qf the Presi
dent—the policy of justice and humanity—is to
be totally iguored.
Wc have labored in ®ur columns to prove
that our people are not deserving of these harsh
and iniquitous measures—that they arc heartily
in. favor of adopting the inevitable conse
quence of their failure in the war, and that
they are as well disposed to day towards the
Government and the Constitution, as are the
icople of any section of this broad country.—
We have stated that the only sure way of cur
ing the ills ta which the South has been sub
j ected, is to let it alone, politically, and to aid it
by pecuniary mentis—that it Was not wise to
Interfere with its local administration, laws,
and customs.
Bat time has shown that this pofieyis just
what the Radicals will uot have. They are as
determined now, and, we think, even more so,-
as they ever were, to keep up an agitation in
the South between the wegroes and the whites,
and-td array one race against the other in ac
tive unrelenting hostility. This they claim it to
be right to do, and if the poor South evinces a
dislike to it, and attempts, measures to protect
itself from this despotic" interference, the Fed
eral Generals are at hand to enforce a compli
ance with Radical ideswrmid trrcompel onr peo
ple to agree to and practice Radical teachings.
And this is called reconstructing the South !
la * • Mlls precisely what the Czar of Russia
■wnr?s nK ’ in P°fa®d, and the whole ‘civilized
de<mP.^° m Ui ainß °* I* as cruel, tyrannical and
desnote 6 ’ Ju' 3 P°l*cy that of the old feudal
never raTe an< * enlightened people Will
come when tt u t, ed 10 lt “ be tsme will never
in the outllern people wiH acquiesce
they are bei,qf tlc>u humiliation te which
wearing awav 1 h . Time, instead of
will ouly increase 61 ?* Mirage aud wrong,
which the bltterness P* feeling
80 it always has boon ° utra ge has produced,
and so it will ever be w).?i!. e L y sub j ected P eo P le *
mates mankind. uue human nature aui-
u'e.rTtoo much L active interfer
ence. Al all event. . _ military pro-consuls
do pretty mueb as they please, and -evidently
consider Mr. Stasbery and Mr. Johnson Pi
very small account in the Government. For
examnJ,. llier*.
raovals of civil officers and, as long as the
President and Commander-in-Chief issues no
forbidding order, these arbitrary acts are
constructively endorsed hy him and fresh temp
tations offered for further aggression.
ft is currently reported that the President
does not approve o{ tkepe transactions and in
tends to manMest his disapproval by reinstating
certain, officios rudely ejected by Gen. PorE.
We hear that the Executive baud will compel
the restoration of Mayor Withers of Mobile
and his deposed municipal coadjutors, not lo
speak of sundry officers iu other "localities who
have had to give way before that latest phase of
Republican liberty, the shoulder strap and bay
onet.- It is further declared that the President
takes his cue from the law laid down in the
Mississippi injunction case, which holds that
“ the duties of the military governors must
necessarily be performed under the supervision
of the President, as Commander-in-Chief, for
the duty thus imposed on the President is in no
just sense ministerial—it is purely executive
and political.”
From suQh outgivings it would be supposed
that Mr. JohnsoS has no sympathy with such
decapitating Generals, and, as their superior,had
resolved upon countermanding their . orders
and limiting their jurisdiction. So profound a
sensatlou has this supposed policy created,
that the New York Times, while deprecating to
some extent the removals, makes excuse and
implores the President to pause. It says : “We
trust this report is without foundation. —
Even granting General Pope’s action to have
been unduly severe aud arbitrary, it would have
a bad effect to reverse and overrule it. It
would inaugurate a controversy in Mobile and
the South which could have none but bad
effects upon the progress of reconstruction.”
Here, then, we have the Times' coni ess
ion that a wroDg has been committed, and
the bold announcement that reparation should
hot be made because of the “bad effects upon
the progress of reconstruction.” That is a vile
and dishonest policy, and if the “ progress of
reconstruction” is to live and thrive upon
malfeasance, it is a monster to be avoided
rafther than a cherub to be embraced. The
Times continues:
“ For if the Mayor of Mobile is to be re
stored, why not also Mayor Monroe, of New
Orleans ? The question of capability in each
instanpc is in a great degree one ©f opinion,
and the country will probably hold that the
General on the spot is more competent to pro
nounce judgment than the President at Wash
ington.”
Exactly so. Why not ? If Generals PorE
and Swayne, who were absent from Mobile
dftring the so-called riot, the one at Montgom
ery and the other at Atlanta, are more compe
tent judges than the President at Washington,
it requires only an exercise of the Times logic
to demonstrate that Col. Shepherd, post com
mander, is the best judge of all. The report ol
Gen. Pope is directly at variance even with the
report of Gen. Swayne, who acted as a sort of
mild Touquemada in the investigation. Col.
Shepherd differs with both his superiors toto
crelo ; and it Gen. Pope is to be sustained be
cause he was in Georgia, against the President
at Washington, we insist that Col. Shepherd,
tbe raukiug military officer on the spot,
be sustained against them alf. Why should the
President forever give back to bis enemies and
refrain from doing good because of supposed
evil to Radical schemes and manoeuvering ?
He has the Supreme Court to back him and he
is cx-offlcio Commander-in-Chief. We arc loth
to believe that poor Judge Grier has really
carried off the Constitution in his breeehes
pockets. We do not readily admit that the
President fc a mere man of straw in the mili
tary and civic departments of this great “ re
public.” We positively decline to credit the
belief that those Old Men of the Sea, the Judi
ciary Committee, ride him with a perpetual
and inexorable straddle, aud yet, in these days
of darkuess aud anarchy, what are we uot to
apprehend when the aforesaid old greybeards
fear that the President will not interfere, as re
ported, for in that case they declare that his im
peachment is insured. ,
Obder in Reference To Free Discussion.
.—Attention is invited to the .important order
below in reference to the freedom of speech,
and the freedom of the press in this military
district :
fomciAL.]
Headquarters Third Military District, )
Atlanta, Ga., June 3, 1867, j
[General Orders, No. 28.)
I. The interference of the Post Commander
at Mobile, with a newspaper of that city, is un
authorized and entirely disapproved. He will
at once undo whatever actlou he has taken.
11. It is the duty of the military authorities
in this district to secure to the people the Tit
most freedom of speech and of the press con
sistent with law ; uot to restrict either.
No satisfactory execution of the late acts of
Congress is practicable unless this freedom is
secured and its exercise protected by the usual
legal means.
Til. No officer or soldier m this command
will hereafter interfere with newspapers or
speakers on any pretext whatever.
If disturbance, is feared from these sources
the necessary precautions to preserve the peace
will Ue taken in the manner and through the
agencies, prescribed in General Orders, No. 25,
from these headquarters.
IV. Treasonable utterances are not the legiti
mate exfercise of freedom of discussion, but
eveu iu such,cases whatoyCr action is taken
must be by direct orders from these headquar
ters, and not'by any subordinate authority. **
By command of Brevet Major General .John
Pope.' G. K. Sanderson,
Capt. 33d U. Si Infantry A.'A. A. Gen.
This is the compliment the Pall Mall Gar
zette gives to the Peabody portrait of the
Queen: *
Here is one picture which it Is, really melan
choly to think of. The aecod\it of the large
enamel portrait of herself which the Queen pre
sented to Ms. Peabody must be fresh in every
one’s memory. 4 The original miniature paint
ing> by Mr. Tilt, is here exhibited, and we can
only grieve that so lamentable a specimen of
English art and so ludicirojisja.caricature of the
Queen herself should be 6eut across the Atlan
tic to be enshrined in a room all by itself. Her
Majesty is made to look like a fat, red-faced,
cross school girl of eighteen, lookingrather old
for her age. Let us hope that Mr. Peabody is
a gentleman very easily pleased in the way
of piclmes.
V PROGRESS. • V
Gen. Sickles’ recent order takes anew de
parture and administers a powerful dose to test
the capacity of Governor Orr’s digestive appa
ratus. The papers are the Board ol
Trade objurgatory, city stodcdeclines, Sickles,
Jthe cruel medicineman, stands Ann and com
pels tbe swallowing ot his decoction., This
mighty man of physic has nnifta boid nfiovdin
science. At first, it was CJgggglf that the
Radical party would be satisfiecPwfth political
equality tor tbe negro,.>Sl.SjgS.a^i2L*2!l 0 -J!-
boi-Ihit beyond the Conservative Republicans
an 4 kreata groujdTJdr 'US 1 * I *-. Tlie
d a : i?ii[i ai fin' ‘ le °l a °“"-"°*
evilly for that once gallant StafVand something
of this kind was -necessary to arouse the men—
the women, thank God ! had never fallen iuto
torpor. We see signs of such awakening and
trust that they will broaden into full daylight.
The time has never been when servility or
fawning could benefit us. -The lack ol pluck
has been our ruin since Leß’s surrender, and
every gradation of humility has been the pro
vocative Qf fresh exaction. It is not human,
nature or Yankee nature to resist the tempta
tion to kick while cordial invitations arc ex
tended to the official boot ; and when an “ emi
nent politician and former secessionist ” fer
vidly defended the lawless interferences of Gen.
Sickles in the columns ©f the National Intelli
gencer i when the so-called Governor of the Stale
played constant toady to his pro-consular direc
tor; when Carolinians have stated in our hearing
that “ Sickles is the best Governor we ever
had,” when a Dead Sea sluggishness brooded
over the State at large, We do not marvel that
this pvaise-bespattered commander should fancy
himself a son of Jupiter aud assume the nod
of divinity. Let Sickles contiuue bis patent
pills. They are heeded. He is opening the
eyes of the timid and enlightening the dreamers
of Congressional finality. A little more ©f this
kind of practice and Dr. Sickles will disgust
his patients and force white men to combine
""for the preservation of their race! Gen. Hamp
ton’s good intentions have gone into the wind.
Beverly Nash has deserted to the enemy and
left his white allies in the lurch. Slowly and
surely lt is being revealed to all men that noth
ing is to be hoped from deluded negroes and
Conservative Radicals, military or civil. The
Caucasian race must combine for security. The
mean whites are welcome to their black affilia
tions and those who lock shields for honor and
character can well afford to yield them the
spoils of an uncertain present trusting to the
revenges ofa not distant and inevitable future.
THE PEBILS OP OBATOBY.
At Chapel Hill, North Carolina, President
Johnson is reported to have said :
“ When we depart from the Constitution our
institutions will relatively suffer. A govern
ment which has no power to enforce the laws
fails ; its great object and public rights are all
at sea.”
From the construction of this sentence, it
would appear that though we are in danger of
drifting away from that venerable document,
popularly supposed to be concealed at this mo
ment as a nest egg in Jndge Grier’s breeches
pockets, we have not, up to date, taken ase
rions departure. Alas and alas ! has the Exec
utive turned his back upon memory aud for
gotten that the sword has found its way to the
bowels of the Constitution, while the few
parchment shreds remaining have served to
line the unmentionables of a frightened Justice. - '
The President’s sentence would read more
correctly thus qualified : “ When we departed
from the Constitution our institutions relatively
suffered.” As two coordinate branches of what
was supposed to constitute a republican form
of government have “no power to enforce the
laws,” the government itself not only has failed
and gone to sea, but is actually swamped.
Gen. Sickles, of Order No. 32 notoriety,
said, on the same occasion:
“ In Che difficult and, as he might 6ay, ar
duous duties he had to discharge, he had had
the aid and encouragement, and had been sus
tained by the opinion, countenance and co
operation of a vast majority of. the citizens of
the Carolinas.”
We think the great Daniel has come to a
wrong judgment. But, if he labor under no
delusion, tin! people of the have
been enchanted by some magician of the fairy
tales and rest under a spell not specially delight
ful in the present or worthy of their glorious
past. * .
I. OFFICERS. .
is broadly hinted
sided intend? to
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ind by squyuari
iiuperlaJUfii of
\ finding tbe.un
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4>ort & eveut
s or the T’resi-
A “Humble and Submissive Spirit.”—
Chauncey Burr thus writes in the last num
ber of the Old Guard:
A Southern man, or rather a Northern man
long time residing in the South, writes us that
he is “ satisfied the only thing *hich can save
the South is a bumble- and submissive spirit.”
Alas, what stupidity! No oppressed people
was ever yet saved by a “humble and submis
sive spirit.” Manhood and pluck are the ouly
things that ever saved a people from oppres
sion. We arc reminded of a story, told by
Livy, of the Prirernates, who had been sub
dued by the Romans. Their city was taken by
Plautias, the consul, after tlidir leader, Vitri
vius, and great numbers of their Senate aud
people had been killed. Being reduced to a
low condition, they sent ambassadors to Rome
to desire peace; and when a 'Senator asked
them wfiat punishment they deserved, qpe
of them answered : “, Tfte same which they de
serve who think themselves worthy of liberty:'
The consul then demanded tohat kind of peace
might be expected from them if the punishment
should be. remitted. The Ambassador answered:
“ If the terms yon give be good , the peace will be
observed by us faithfully and perpetually; if bad,
it will soon be brokenP Though the least gen
erous were offended at this brave answer, the
most sagacious portion of the Senate said it
was worthy of a man and a free man, well
knowing that no people would long consent to
be oppressed, and acknowledged that “ they
only were fit to be made Romans who thought
nothing valuable but liberty." Those who think
that a cringing and submissive spirit will ever
be a remedy for the South, have neither read
history, nor understand the character of the
Mongrel party. There will ever be.found
weights of humiliation and indignity for all the
humility and submission the South can put on.
Touching Incident. —The Lynchburg Vir
ginian relates the following touching incident:
A gentleman who was on his way Sunday
evening last to visit the grave of a younger
brother who died in the Confederate service,
discovered, just as he reached the gate of the
cemetery, three former servants ‘of the family
approaching the grave with flow era and ever
greens in their hands. Keeping out of their
view, he watched them until they reached the
grave, when one of them climbed over the iron
railing, took the flowers and evergreens from
bis companions and “laid them tenderly on the
grave of his former young master.
BY TELEGRAPH."'
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
ex * rrtfr—
From Washington,
f | ' )N ASHIHOTON, June 2.
Tbe rule? and forms Ot bankruptcy have been
delayed by repeated alterations, offer which the
Justices have been consulted by mail, it is now
stated they will be issued about the 10th instaut.
Washington, June 3.
Th« erSbtTon irpTOgressrag truwtry. -
The Judiciary Committee is investigating the
circumstances connected with the pardon ot
the Alabama lawyer, Gayle, who offered a mil
lion for Lincoln’s assassination.
Judiciary Committee adjourned to 261 h J one
h There will'be an early reassembling for a pur
pose of reporting to Congress, should it as
semble in July. A final vote to impeach the
President was lost by a veto of four to five—
Ayes—Boutwell, Thomas, Williams aud Law
rence—Nays—Wilson, Woolbridge, Eldridge,
Marshall and Churchill.
A resolution declaring the President had
committed acts worthy of condemnation of the
people wag passed by a vote of 7 to 2, Nays—
Eldridge and Marshall. On first vote of ceu
sure, Boutwell and Thomas voted negatively,
1 ut fiually changed vote.
Internal Revenue receipts to-day, $1,800,000
Washington, June 4.
The Navy Department has advices from the
Asiatic Squadron- The health is good. There
have been no piracies in the Chinese seas since
September. The death of Capt. John P. Bank
head, at Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, is
confirmed. The deceased was a son of the
late Gen. James Bankhead, of South Caroliua.
The West Point Board of Visitors are or,
ganized. Rev. Fraucis Vinton, of New York,
is President, and E. H. Angomar, of Louisiana,
Secretary.
The Radicals have carried the city by 2,200
majority, and have a majority in the City
Council.
Mr. Davis will reside, during the summer, at
Niagara, a beautiful little village, one of the
oldest in Canada, on Lake Outario. A fine
residence has been fitted up for his accommo
dation.
On account of unexpectedly large receipts ot
a miscellaneous character from Internal Re
venue, toward the close of last month and
small requisitions from other departments, the
debt statement for May will show not only
very large currency balance but considerable
reduction of debt. Internal Revenue to-day
million tweutj*five thousand. The monthly
debt statement will be published to-morrow.
Attorney Gen. Stanbury has returned lrom
New York.
Sheridan’s actions of yesterday have produced
profound sensation iu political circles —its con
fidently expected the President will, on his
return from Raleigh, take the reins. (About
time.)
It is stated Durant has declined the Govern
orship of Louisiana.
Attorney General Stanbery is in receipt of
many letters, with questions regarding particu
lar points—answers to which, in his opinion,
he cannot lawfully give, bjut there are assurance
that the supplemental opinion, based upon ab
stracts from State laws, will be prepared and
and promulgated in ample time to meet the is
sues. . .
Alexander Delmar, Director of the Statistical
Bureau iu the Treasury Department, has been
elected an honorary member of the French Sta
tistical Bureau.
Advices from Col. Parker, a member of Gen.
Grant’s staff’, who went West to investigate the
Fort Kearney massacre, corroborates the re
ports of Indian hostilities.
It is stated unofficially that Sherman will take
the field immediately.
The New York Constitutional Convention or
ganized with Wm. A. Wheeler as President.
Judges Sing, of Missouri, and Fazer, of Ten
nessee, have been impeached by their respective
Btate Senates.
Washington, June 5.
Thomas J. Durant has, by telegraph to Gen.
Sheridan, absolutely deeliued the Governorship
of Louisiana.
The debt bearing coin interest has increased
$61,441,000. The currency bearing interest has
decreased $41,423,000. The matured debt not
presented bas decreased $2,219,000; bearing no
interest, has increased $368,000. Decrease ol
coin in the Treasury, $15,492,000. Increase of
currency, $38,827,000. Total decrease of debt,
$5,170,000.
Internal Revenue receipts to-day, $67,000.
McCulloch has issued a circular regarding
locked safety-valves, authorizing the use ol
cither ol five, namely: America, Robiuson,
Farrar, Mason, MeMurehey, subject to the usual
inspection regarding workmanship aud quality
Os material.
It is officially announced that the Treasurer
is prepared to redeem interest notes as they
shall mature by paypaent of principal and In
terest on presentation to the Treasury or other
assistant Treasuries at New York, Philadelphia
or Boston.
Washington, June 6.
The revenue cutter Lincoln, stationed on the
Pacific, has been ordered !o prepare for a
permanent cruise off Russian-Amerlca, to
look after the revenue—the Russian authori
ties haviug authorized its . agents to admit
Amercian shipments, properly manifested.—
Six members of coast surveys aud two men as
signed from Smithsonian Institute, have been
permanently attached to the Lincoln for the
purpose of obtaining general information re
garding the country.
Revenue receipts to-day, §623,000.
Admiral Farragut had an attack of vertigo
yesterday. He is here, arranging to take com
mand of the Medileraueau squadron.
It is stated that Bchofteld’s registration order
meets with Stantou’» approval. Grant forwarded
a copy of same to Did for direction; not offi
cially, however.
Sheridan telegraphs as follows to General
Grant, regarding the progress of registration in
Louisiana: . -
New Orleans, June 4.
Gen. Grant, commanding armies of United
States:
1 have returns of registration from most of
the parishes of this State, also the reports df
the officers supervising and can report to you
the greatest sueeess and the best of feeling ex
isting among the peopfe.
P. -H. Shirid'An,
Major Geucrul.
Washington, June 8.
Bcnj. F. Fltmdcrs, whom Sheridan has ap
pointed Governor of Louisiana, arrived there
twenty years ago from New Hampshire, and
commenced his career as clerk in the Charity
Hospital; was Secretary to Mayor Crossman,
an ardent Know Nothing; Secretary of the Ope
lousas Railroad. Ho was violently opposed to
co-operation during the incipiency of the re
bellion. He has been Federal Treasury Agent
for several vears past.
Sheridan "appears to be unsupported here.—
His prompt action defeats the pkus ol
schemers and shocks tbs Conservatives. Some
changes of district commanders are certain.
The July meeting of Congress is now con
sidered almost probable. „•
Mayor Withers has returned from New \ork.
He will communicate with the President on
Monday. _ . ;
Grant has returned from 'Vest Point.
General Johnston was at the War Department
yesterday lookingafter the interest of his road—
his first visit since 1861, when he vacated the
Quartermaster Generalship.
The Treasury will redoem and destroy twen
ty million dollars of compound interest uotes
next* week*
The State" Department is officially informed
of the commutation of the sentences of the
Irish-Atnerican Fenians.
The Treasury holds $340,000,000 security for
the National Bank circulation; $99,000,000 for
deposits of public money ; National Bank cir
culation, $206,000,000; fractional currency,
$691 000.
Revenae receipts to-day, $565,000; for the
week, $5,450,000; tiseal year, to date, $252,000,-
000.
The Postmaster General returned this morn
ing ; the President this evening.
The President received the first intimation of
Wells’removal through the newspapers. The
President considers these removals unauthor
ized by the law..
Frbm Chappell Hill.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON—SPEECHES, ETC.
Chappell Hill, N.C., )
via Raleioh, N- C.,* June 6. . $
The Presidential party arrived here this after,
noon, and were welcomed by the President
(Dr. Swain) of the University, who, in H*.
course of his reufhrks,*said that iu the republic
of letters there should be ho parties; and paid
a high compliment to the honesty, integrity aud
administrative ability of tbe Executive.
President Johnson returned thanks for this
swiwfcststtoo-of friendship* not ouly lrom the
faculty and scholars of the University, but the
large concodrse ot friends here present. He
would be false to the State of his birth were he
to. m ito* demonstration was ,»ot peculiarly
gratifying tonfm.
No matter wh«t advantages might be con
ferred by institutions of learning and kiud
friends, a man to succeed must rely qpou him
self— apdtr his owu energies. He was reflect
ing while walking along the road aud couvers
ing \\i U. a cavalryman, that forty-one jear? ago
he walked over this same ground alone, fthd he
was going to say almost ptmuiless, with
money enough to pay expenses,
could uot boast, #s many who uow heard him,
of learning, and although he left his native State
for no crime, but to seek his fortune elsewhere,
he could say mall the warmest of his heart that
he was still proud ot old North Carolina ami
loved her still. In returning among his friends
'he claimed no honor but an earnest effort to
perform hts duty. His object had beeu to sus
tain the institutions of free goveruiueut. He
had laid down as a fundamental tcuct, that merit
aloue, in the broad sense of the term, should
constitute the distinction iu society, and that
when we undertake to perform our duty wc
should have a good conscience. He had always
made the public good his aim anil the Constitu
tion ot the country his guide. He was for sus
, turning flic Constitution, made by onr fathers
and cemented by their blood in its integrity.
When we depart from the Constitution our in
stitutions will relatively suffer.
The Government which has no power to en
force the laws, fails of its great object, and pub
lic rights are all at sea. He trusted one of the
leading studies of this University would be
the principles of the Constitution and free
Government, He loved his couutry and re
garded the Constitution as the palladium of our
safety and our liberties', and by it in the future,
as in the past, he intended to stand. Our prin
ciples of Government were, if properly under
stood, sufficiently expsansive to embrace uot
only all the States of this Union, but the entire
civilized world. He had been invited to Chap
pell Hill and would to morrow be proud to
witness the University Commencement.
In conclusion, the Piesidcut encouraged the
pupils of the Institute, who were here attentive
listeners, to works of usefulness, reminding
them that tbe paths of honor were open to all.
The President was frequently interrupted by
applause, aud an instrumental baud performed
several patriotic airs.
Dr. Swain, the President of the University,
in a few appropriate remarks, called out Secre
tary Seward, who made a short, but patriotic
speech, exhortiug his hearers to forget the dis
agreeable events of the past and bend all their
energies consolidate to the public good. At the
present time there was an eclipse passing over
our constellation, and from tbe Southern Jimb.
Do not believe with the savage that an eclipse
can obliterate the constellation, lt is a princi
ple of the American people to extend our con
stellation, not tearing that some ot the stars
may drop from heaven. Give me your South
ern support, and when wc come to Chappell
Hill again wc will show you that our consolida
tion is not only complete, but embraces the
stars of the Southern Cross.
The Secretary was repeatedly interrupted by
applause.
Postmaster Gen. Randall made a few remarks
in response to a call, say ing,among other things,
he could not assent to the correctness of the
remark ot the President of the institution tha t
the President of the United Btatcs came to his
native State like the prodigal eon. The Presi
dent never was a prodigal from his father’s
estate. [Laughter.] The State gave him noth
ing and his father was poor. He went out
almost penniless and came back with plenty and
loaded with distinction. The propelling spirit
stopping at nothing where duty calls, led'him
to hi 6 present position.
Generai Sickles, after the applause and music
ceased, was introduced. He said he had no re
sponsibility iu the enactment of the measures
which he, as commandant iu the Carolina?,
was uoW carrying out. It was a pleasing duty
to bear testimony in presence.of his chief as he
had elsewhere, that in the difficult, and as he
might say, arduous duties he had to discharge,
he had the aid and encouragement and had
been sustained by the opinion, countenance aud
co-operation of a vast majority of the citizens of
the Carolinas, and he could add, no people ot
whom he had read, and among whom he lived,
could bear themselves with more honor, dig
nity, and order, than they had exhibited under
the peculiar circumslauces.
The ceremony of reception here closed.
The commencement exercises at the Univer
sity will take place to-morrow.
Chapel Hill, June 6
The Presidential party to-day attended the
Commencement Exercises at the University.
They were escorted hither by a procession, in
cluding the scholars and officers of the Institu
tion, and the Governor of North Carolina.
Before the war the average number of pupils
was five hundred, but now it is not more than
one hundred.
A ball, given to-night to the Graduating Class,
was attended by ’ a portion <ff the Presidential
party.
The President aud his friends leave here on
Fridaj*, aud will return to Washington Saturday
afteruoQu.
Raleigh, N. C., June 7.
The University Exercises are over at Chapel
Hill. The Presidential party left there this
morning on the return trip. Everywhere they
are met with marked hospitality and respect,
but the public demonstrations calm, com
pared to those North on reception occasions—
Every one expresses themselves pleased with
the excursion. Major Gen. Stekles and stall and
Gov. Worth accompanied the party back to
Raleigh. *
Petersburg, June 7.
The President and party arrived here at seven
this eveuing on the return to Washington,
having been escorted thither from Jarratt’s de
pot, thirty miles from Petersburg, by Mayor
Collier and a committee of the City Council.—
The Mayor renewed the tender of hospitalities
formally offered by the municipal authorities.—
The President, while grateful for the manifesta
tion of kindDcss, regretted bis public engage
ments compelled him to decline the desired so
journ for a day, as business required his imme
diate return to Washington. The large con
course at the hotel received the party
peated cheers, and the President, having wi
culled for, made a few remarks, in which
he had trfed to discharge his duty faithfully.—
He had made conscientious conviction his cour
age, public good bis aim, the Constitution his
guide, and by these he would stand. He ex
pressed his gratitude for this reception, aud
the hope that when he agaiu came here it
would be under more favorable circumstances,
with the country whole aud peace and prosper
ity everywhere prevailing. He was heartily
cheered.
Secretary Seward, iu. respouse to calls,
merely remarked that they had beard from the
President exactly.wbat he would say were he to
make a speech.
Postmaster General Randall Wa3 required to
speak, and he briefly admonished all to forget
the strile of the past and to unite for the future
in all the country’s pro&perty.
As the party remained an hour iu Petersburg
they were handsomely eutertained with supper,
and were the recipients of marked attention.
The party will remain at Richmond to-night
and leave for Washington ou Saturday morn
ing. t
—
From Boston.
Boston, June 8.
The large workhouse iu Charlestown, known
as Rucker’s bonded warehouse, fell to > tnc
ground with a terrible crash yesterday alttr
noon. Three men who were at work in the
building at the time were severely injured. . «