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THE WEEKLY 00B8TITUTI0NALTST
Superior Cot'Kß.—The court luct at half
past eight o’clock, Tuesday, his Honor Judge
licesc, of the Oconee Circuit, presiding.
Judge Gould presented the report of the
committee appointed by the members of the
Bar, held during the recent session of the City
Court, with respect to the decease of John
Harvie Hull, Esq.' and moved that the report
be spread upon the minutes of the court.
Solicitor General J. P. C. Whitehead seconded
the motion, and delivered a graceful and elo
quent eulogy upon his deceased triend and
brother practitioner, which was, in substance,
as follows:
May it please your ITonor, in rising to Bec
loud the motion of Judge Gould to'have the
report of the committee spread upou the min
utes of this Court, I cannot refrain from add
ing my mite ol tribute to the memory of our
departed friend and brother, John Harvie
Hull. Perhaps no member of this bar wa# on
terms of greater intimacy with the deceased
thin myself. I have kuownhim long—l loved
him well, and his demise has stirred within
uie emotions of grief of the profoundest char
acter.
Cnpt. Hull, as wc all know, was unusually
graced with those of head
and heart which rendered him at once the
agreeable companion and the chosen friend.
And while such would be the nature of the
tribute due from the general acquaintance,
how well do wc know, who knew him inti
mately, the generosity, the charity, the chival
ry of his character. Sordid selfishucss and
venomous malignity were strangers to his na
ture.
Asa friend ;ah ! sir, how can I speak of him
in that capacity—since its very thought causes
run pain, while I am happy to say, at the same
time, affords me solace. Duriug my connec
tion with the University of Georgia, our com
mon Alma Mater—days “ marked with a white
stone ”by every alumnus—the hospitality en
joyed beneath the roof of the noble sire of this
worthy son and the companionship of my
friend form the brightest and happiest associa
tion of this bright and happy period. But
’twas as the devoted patriot and gallant soldier
that I loved him most. During our late unsuc
cessful but just and holy struggle for independ
ence, I was on terms not only of social but
official intimacy with him ol the closest char
acter. And notwithstanding the vicissitudes
and trials of the camp,whether in bivouac or on
the march—whether as the shurer of his blanket
or in the hour of batt’c as the admiring friend
of my brave comrade I ever found him honor
able, just and true.
But he is gone, and the “ place which once
knew him shall know him no more forever,”
as the vacant chair within this bar and the
aching void in ray heart so surely attest. But
though gone, he has bequeathed us a legacy by
a life characterized with the most admirable at
tributes, both intellectual and social, that will
remain fresh in our memories until we too
shall find our lasting resting places, and'which
must and will be victorious even over the si
lence of the grave.
“ Leave* have their time to fall,
And flower* to wither at the north wind’s breath,
And star* to set I but all;
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh I death.”
His Honor granted the motion, and ordered
the proceedings recorded.
| The proceedings, it will be retaembered, ap
peared in these columns a few days since.]
Several common law cases were disposed of
by jury verdicts. Several appeals were taken
by couscnt and, will be contested when that
docket is called.
The most important matter was the decree of
the court iu the following bill:
Jacob Davis, guanfiun of Solomon Cohen,
lunatic vs. George A. Weeks, et. al— ln equity
in Ricbtnoud Superior Court.
This was a bill filed by the guardian of Cohen,
a lunatic, for direction as to the distribution ol
Cohen’s estate among his creditors—the estate
being insolvent. The bill alleged that at the
time of the appointment of Davis as guardian,
certain suits were pendiug in the Superior
Court and City Court against Cohen, that sever
al of the suits were prosecuted to judgment
against Davis as guardian; and that the holders
of these judgments insisted that they were en
titled to priority in the distribution of Cohen’s
estate. The other creditors who had uot such,
claimed that as the judgments were uot obtain
ed at the time of the appointment of Davis as
guardian, thf judgment creditors could only
share equally with those who had uot obtained
judgment, the bill prayed that a decree
might be had distributing the assets so that the
guardian might not incur any liability. The
court held that auditors could not obtain a
priority by prosecuting suits, commenced
against Cohen, to judgment against the guar
dian and that the auditors should all be paid
pro rata from the assets, except those who had
obtained judgment prior to the appointment
of the guardian.
Pickpocket Arrested.—A young man
named Charles Welsh was arrested Tuesday in
the act of pickiug the pocket of a one-armed
ex-Coufederate soldier in the crowd at Day &
Inman’s auction store. Welsh was taken be
fore Judge Me Laws and after a preliminary
examination committed to jail. It is believed
that Welsh is one of a regularly organized
gang. He was watched very closely on Friday
night at Masonic Hall by a couple of amateur
detectives.
Politicians, Take Notice.—John D. Smith,
Esq., Sheriff of this county, notifies ajl persous
who contemplate holding political meetings iu
his bailiwick, that he must of the
time and place, iu order that he may be there,
in conformity with orders from General John
D. Pope, commaud'ng the Third Military Dis
trict of the United States This, it is plainly
to be seen, guarantees the right of the people to
meet together and discuss the policy to be pur
sued in this great and gloriously free country.
We regret to lcaru, says the Atlauta Intelli
gencer, that Judge Erskiue, of the United
States District Court for this State, is detained
at the North owiug to the illness-of a member
of his family. It is his purpose, if possible, to
hold the Court o! Bankruptcy iu this city by
theSoth instant, at which time the Registers in
Bankruptcy nominated by the Chief Justice
will probably be approved and commissioned.
The Bankruptcy Court will be opened at
Savannah for the Southern District, shortly
after the scssiou in the Northern District.
Baltimore and Charleston. Messrs.
Courtenay and Trenholm advertise the “ Fal
con” aud “ Sea Gull” as composing a line be
tween these two dltics. Produce of all descrip
tion will be taken at very low rates, full infor
mation of which can be gathered from the
agents iu Charleston.
Meal.—We learn that Messrs. Geo. T. Jack
son aud Cos. are selling at wholesaler white
bolted meal for $1 60 per bushel, cleaned grits
for f 1 85. The retail price is ten cents per
bushel higher.
The Lottery.—An understanding has been
arrived at by the managers of the Masonic Or
phans’ Home Lottery and the municipal au
thorities, and the sale of tickets has been re
sumed. See advertisement.
Our Hew York Correspondence.
NE’at York, June 6.
M e have a philosopher in this city, who has
reviewed through the daily press the prophe
cies respecting the weather, which used to
gi aee the cheap almanacs, and was considered
in them a precious bit of humbuggery. The
prophecies of this philosopher are somewhat
Bunebyish at times—they are seldom so direct
and positive as those of bis predecessors, the
almanac makers, but he can claim to have
made one or two “hits.” For instance, the
other day, he told os that, for nineteen hours
from a given moment, there would be no
rain ; and, incredible as the propheey seemed,
in of the deluge we have suffered for two
months, it was actually realized.
.Attaching little importance to the claims of
this person, that the weather may be accurately
predicted on philosophic principles, but inclin
ing to the opinion that all observing persons
are equally weather-wise, still the great im
portance of the subject to all persons iu agri
cultural pursuits has led me to give more than
usual thought to it, through which I have
reached some conclusions that may be worth
noting. It may be premised that, in the main
features, the weather on the Atlantic coast,
from Florida to New Foundland, is much the
same, differing only in degree. This vast ex
tent of latitude is under the direct influence
of the Gulf stream, and the rules and observa
tions that apply toor.c portion of the coast, are
applicable, in modified degaees, to all others.
It has beeu observed that the weather “sets”
for the year in December, January, &e.; that,
eommeucing with June, the weather for the
fast six mouths will be the opposite to the
first—that, last December and January, having
been very boisterous and cold (January re
markably so, the “January thaw” being entire
ly omitted,) therefore, June and July will be
extremely hot and dry ; that February, having
been unreasonably mild, August will be un
reasonably cold and wet, with danger of frost
in the more Northern and threaten
ing damage to cotton; September being mod
erately fine, and the two later fall months all
that could be desired for the ripening and se
curing of crops. In brief, that the coming
season will not be materially different from
the last half of 1866, except that the heat and
drought ol June and July promises to be less
severe, aud the storms of August rather more
damaging. I take it that, under these circum
stances, the prospects for corn and other grain
in the South are more favorable, and of cotton,
rather less so than last year. And this amounts
to the prediction of cheaper food and steadier
prices for cotton, unless, indeed, a much great
er area is planted to that crop, and the grain
crops of the Northwest suffer from a recur
rer.ee of the storms which so seriously injured
their quality last August.
MORE “SUBJUGATION.”
The subjugation of the Radicals by Horace
Greeley occasions many a Bmile, when no word
reveals the thought. Note the proceedings of
the Republican catfPbs, preliminary to the
assembling of the Constitutional Convention.
Horace Greeley moved this. Horace Greeley
moved that. He named all the officers of the
convention. He named the standing commit
tee. He was driver and big dog under the
wagon. This, after a serious proposition to
read him out of the party, illustrates more
forcibly than any mere rhetoric, how much
service the Northern Democrats might have
done to humanity and liberty, had they resisted
Lincoln’s war in 1861; and still later, how
much Johnson and Seward might lighten the
burdens of the South if thev would do and
dare according to their declarations. Is it
possible that history will record that the South
having trusted Butler, and Stanton, and Shep
ley, aud Dix, and Dickinson in 1860, were most
foully betrayed, and nearly ruined ; and having
trusted Johnson, and Seward, and Weed, aud
Raymond, and Doolittle in 1866, were left
naked to their enemies, at last found vigilant
championship and effective protection in Herace
Greeley, the editor of the chief Abolition daily
press—that only in bis “puerile humanitari
anism ” could be found the courage and vigor
to declare and maintain the rights of the South
ern people as a Christian community ?
Apropos, let me ask you to make place for a
morceau from a Tribune of last week, fespecting
the starving prisoners. I will wager a small
sum that when Secretary Stanton read it he
roared as he would if a red hot icon had been
applied to bis flesh. The blistering satire of
the following has rarely been equalled :
“ A correspondent, wh6 thinks we possess
4 plain, common sense,’ asks us a string ol ques
tions, whereof the gist is as follows :
“‘ls not Jeffersou Davis reponsible for tiie
fiendish atrocities, by which our soldiers in
Southern prison pens were maimed, broken
down and murdered ? Is not Robert E. Lee,
who was Geueral-in-Chief, responsible also for
the same terrible crime ?’ ”
“ .4»siper.—We do not know. It certainly
seems to us that a Committee of Congress
ought to have inquired into the whole matter
of the treatment ot prisoners of war long since.
It also seems that the 4 Bureau of Military Jus
tice,’ whereof the Hon. Jacob Holt is the head
(under the general direction of Secretary Stan
ton), ought long since to have probed this mat
ter to the core, and had somebody indicted, as
suming that anybody is guilty beyond those
who are now dead. .We once prompted a reso
lution of inquiry in Congress, intended to
draw out the material facts in the premises;
bat nothing came of it.
“ Now, then, if our correspondent knows the
facts to be as he supposes, il is his business to
see that the necessary legal proceedings are in
stituted. We suppose the 'day of arbitrary ar
rests and 4 little bells ’ to be over, so that, men
arc no longer to be condemned and punished
by arbitrary edict or mob vengeance. W?*be
lieve it would uot be difficult to convict and
punish any oue who shall be fairly proved
guilty of wanton cruelty to prisoners of war.
Then let us have no more idle words, but
hurry up the necessary information aud indict
ments.” - .
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The statement of the public debt for the Ist
ot Juue, has beeu coddled up so as to represent
an apparent decrease in the aggregate of about
five millions. It makes some queer revelations,
iu view Qf Mr. McCulloch’s late Boston letter
If he were “ short of gold aud stocks,” he could
not have more powerfully contributed to a de
cline. It was suspicion of this, justified bv the
finaueial history of the past two years, that in
duced me tft write a word of cautiou last week.
Mr. McCulloch not ouly “ contracted” over
six millions in . May, but he locked up thirty
uiue millions iu currency, making forty-five
million in all, and he has added more than
fifteen millions to the volume of gold on the
market. The rate of discount has advanced on
these extraordinary manipulations from sto 7
per cent. But for the very great extent to
which the products of the country have been
marketed, the crops of cotton, wool and bread
stuffs having nearly all been passed to cousmnp
tion, Mr. McCulloch wrould have witnessed a
nice little panic, and those in his secrets would
have made large sums of money. It Is propos
ed to reduce the balances in the treasury in
paying off compound interest notes, and seven
thirties which fall due, but “it is” very plain
that he contemplates further contractions to the
extent of fnlly twenty millions, and I feel oblig
ed to renew my caution against operations lor
a rise, at least during the coming two months.
Mr. MuCulloch is one ot bankers,
who find it impossible to take iu an idea of
the relations that his duties have to the public.
Where he a bank officer or a private bauker, his
course would be correct; but as chief of the
Federal treasury, bis course excites wide-spread
dissatisfaction. If he be honest, he is very
unfortunate in doing many things that look
dishonest.
YANKEE MORALS ON A RAID.
New York City has a sufficincy of mere vul
gar crimes—murder, robbery, burglary, and for
gery—such as have from time immemorial, il
lustrated the depravity of poor human nature ;
but to find what baseness the human form is
capable of, one must invade the rural districts,
where Radicalism has little to dispute its com
plete supremacy. The tragedy at Albany, in
volving the death of a leading member of the
Constitutional Convention that has just as
sembled there, is a case in point A prominent
Radical goes to the war to “ fight for the
Union,” and another prominei t Radical, a per
sonal friend, whom the family of the soldier
was to regard as friend, embraces the op
portunity to attempt to debauch the wife and
family, raped her ! All this in .the intensely
Radical county of Ouondaga ; and by a man
who has received high political honors.* It does
not seem possible that such a crime could be
committed any where else. The hot-beds of
the depravity which leads to sueh crime are the.
new-fangled colleges which have sprain up
throughout the North, at which the attendance
ot males and females indiscriminately is per
mltted. It is mainly through these*’that the
sense of the relations of the sexes, is reduced to
about the level of that practiced among the ue
groes. The Oberliu College in Ohio, the Lima
College in Western New' York, are leading in
stitutions of this character. They have aptly
been described as a 44 cross between a lunatic
asylum and a brothel.” The amount of mis
chief they work is beyond computation. I have
recOTtly been made acquainted with some of
their inside workings, aud of the 44 careers ol
many of their graduates.” The recital was
simply sickening, aud the Albany tragedy has
recalled it to my mind with unpleasant fresh
ness. By the way, the ruffian Lindslcy, who
whipped his little boy to death for stubborn
ness in saying his prayers, has had anew trial,
and got off with a fine of $250!
THE EXPLOSION OP THE IMPEACHMENT PRO
GRAMME.
The refusal of the Judiciary Committee to
report in favor of the impeachment of the Pres
ident has made scarcely a ripple beyond the
inner political circles. It is felt that after what
Mr. Johnson has submitted to, in the past few
months, at the hands of the Radical majority iu
Congress renders any further degradation of
him so unnecessary to Radical purposes that it
would likely to excite sympathy in his behalf.
The man who calmly allows himself to be kick
ed and spit upon, lest greater calamity over
take him, wheu he has ample power to defend
himself, is wqrse than dead to all honorable
miuds. Mr. Johnson is President of the United
States but in name ; he is practically* but a
figure-head upon which the Radicals may dis
charge their filth.
DICK BUSTEED AND HI3 VAGARIES.
The vagaries of Dick Busteed, the Uuited
States District Judge for Alabama, some ac
count of which has ftjaehed us, excite a smile,
but occasion no surprise. Dick was lortnerly
a pressman in the office of the Commercial Ad
vertiser. He picked up a smattering of law—
aud with a good stock of 44 cheek” and a 44 gift
of gab,” set up as a lawyer—taking a grade
scarcely above that of a 44 Tombs shyster.” He
attained some notoriety through systematic
puffing in the Sunday papers, for whose uoticcs
he paid five dollars each. He attempted the
office of Brigadier General, and one of the
Sunday newspapers, which jie had paid so many
five dollars for puffs, was so uugrateful as to pub
lish an amusing travesty, from which it appear
ed that a reermiting officer palmed off two or
three companies upop Busteed as a whole
regiment, by adroit countermarching and
changing of front! His military career soon
ended ; but being at the tail of the clique
known as 44 Lincoln’s beats,” with Forney at
the head, he was renominated as District Judge
for Alabama. It was universally denounced as
a shameful appointment. Bnt from a vehement
champion of.the South he had become a violent
Radical and his confirmation by the Senate
was accomplished. The people of Alabama
are to be pitied.
THE POLICE.
People are enjoying a little practical joke
that is being played off oa the police. There is
no question that we have an admirable police
organization ; but it has been flattered and
petted too much, and it had begun to put on
airs. One of the force shot a noted desperado,
and was promoted and rewarded, when straight
way other members of the force were seized
with a passion to 44 do something notable.”
The consequence was that various acts of petty
tyranny, and the police Jjiavc become a subject
for caricature in the comic* papers, and the daily
Dress filled with complaints against them.
Many of these complaints are whimsical
enough, so that the public, while sympathizing
with the well meant efforts of the police, are
enjoying a quiet laugh at their expense.
Willoughby.
Gov. Perry.
The admirable letter of ex-Provisioual Gov
ernor B. F. Perry, of South Carolina, comes in
good time to arrest the downward tendency of
Southern statesmanship. There is undeniable
“ despondency ” in the Southern heart, but ut
terances like this will go for to re-assure it.
We were too surely verging upon that degener
ccy so vividly depicted by Cowper :
“ But the age of virtuous politics is past,
And we are deep in that of eold pretence.
Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere,
And we too wise to trust them.”
No man in the whole South has been more
thoroughly identified with the Union party of
the South in all its struggles, since 1830, than
B. F. Perr£ Nine-tenths of all the old, tried,
consistent leading Union men, from the days
of Gen. Jackson to secession, agree
with him. Nine-tenths of the people hold up
their manacled hands in mule applause of his
noble sentiments. There is scarcely a man this
side of Washington City, who ever read Horace
that does not fold that letter in his heart, whis
pering, as he does so.
“ Juetum et tenacem propositi vhrnn
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida.”
I am more and more convinced that the
will calmly— not defiantly, sorrowfully;,
but firmly, resolutely, despairingly perhaps,
but finally and ever—reject the Military Bill
Then comes the “tug of war ” with you in the
North. The “ North is to be reconstructed.”—
You 11 unreconstructed Coppeftieads” are des
tined to feci the wrongs you now see your dis
tant countrymen subjected to. Is not that the
moaning of Sumner’s bill to regulate your suf
frage ? Does not Wilson’s bill mean the same
thing? Is Senator Dixon mistakeu about it?
Read his manly, p itriotic speech in response to
his welcome iu Hartford. Is this not plainly
set down in Sumner’s letter to the Reverent
Tilton ? “ Act ol Congress ” can do it, in “ a
happy mom; ut” of forgetfulness of States
Rights and constitutional prohibitions; and it
must be doue to meet the exigencies of the
coming “ Presidential election !” That is all!
— the spoils must be had, per fas aut nefus. —
Look to it! The ruin hangs like a noised ava
lanche on its dissolving mountain crag. One
blast of the party bugle will shake it loose !
The South will uot vote at all, and you will
vote, if at all, with the bayonet at vour throat,
you “ unreconstructed Copperheads ”
Warwick.
Speech of Gov. Orr.—At the earnest solici
tation of many friends, his Excellency Gov.
James L. Orr consented to address the people
of Anderson District, on last Monday, m the
Court House, upon the political condition of
the couutry.
After reviewing the various plans presented
since the war tor the reconstruction of the
Government, he earnestly insisted upon the ac
ceptance, by the people of South Carolina, of
toe plan of reconstruction now proposed, as
the only ineaus of preventing the .administra
tion of the affairs of this country from passing
into the hands exclusively of the ignorant, and
consequently the barbarian aud the tyrant, and
as the only hope of making this couutry
even tolerable. He showed, from the cen
sus of IS6O, the great preponderance of
colored over white voters in the State, aud
our utter inability to defeat a convention, or to
protect ourselves whenever we make an issue
directly with the colored people. According
no rwin ceu , sns 1860, U appears that there are
60,000 colored voters in the State, while there
w hite voters ; leaving a majority
of JO,OOO colored voters. It is true, perhaps,
that there are not as many colored men in
Sonth Carolina now as in 1860, but it is almost
sure that the proportionate decrease ha 6 been
much greater with the white than with the col
m tiie State i since tlje commencement
kov. Orr insisted npon the
ot most cordial and kind rela
two races in the South, and
thc formation of no alliance with the two great
political parties of the nation.
[Anderson Intelligencer. ■
William Jordan, for thirty years the editor ol
the London Literary Gazette, in an autobio
graphical work lately published, savs that
Hood’s “ Song of the Shirt ” was begun and so
far proceeded with under the title of “ Tale of
a Shirt, befor.e the ludicrous equivoque struck
the intense mind of the author.
(From the Baltimore Gazette.
The Pacific fiailroad.
ITS MORAL.
The great Pacific Railroad, of which so much
has been heard of late years, is now being
pushed on with an energy that bids fair to
insure its completion at the dale fixed by the
company, which is the year 1870. Among the
grand aud startling achievements which science
and capital have combined to perform of late
years, the present undertaking is one of the
most interesting and gigantic. * It was thought
to be a very wonderful thing to run the Balti
more and Ohio Railway over the Allegbanies,
but we afterwards saw heavy trains crossing
rivers on bridges simp’y suspended from the
banks, and are expecting the day when they
will run under the Alps instead of over them,
and perhaps ply between France and England
far down below the fretful waves of the British
Channel. But the Pacific Railroad, the con
necting link between New York and San Fran
cisco, passes through some nineteen hundred
miles of au almost unbroken wilderness, and
scales innumerable ranges of the Rocky Moun
tains and the Sierra Nevada. It is already in
operation between Omaha and a point -three
hundred miles* westward of that city, and it
will be completed beyond Fort Laramie by the
first of next September. Steadily and swiftly it
is striding onward rail by rail through the do
mains of the red man, the bear and the bison,
and these recede into the further wilds —
doomed races which may have ceased to exist
ou this continent before this eventful century
shall have fully run its course. What a wide
field is opened for thoughtful contemplation as
we dwell upon the rapid disappearance from
the earth of the races of men and animals whose
progenitors have occupied this land for thou
sands of years belore Columbus discovered it,
aud before the Mayflower planted the seeds of
the greed and fanaticism which lfave brought
couutless woes upou its inhabitants; as we
think of the wondrous changes which like
magic will transform the face of nature—for
many of the very men who are now carry
ing on this work amid primeval forests aud
over uncultivated plains will live to pass
over the line and look, as they ride, at thriv
ing villages and peaceful farms scattered at
short intervals between the Mississippi and
the Pacific. But if it be satisfactory to reflect
upon the magnitude and value of the magni
ficent region that is to be so rapidly thrown
open to the American people, and upon
the development and material prosperity
which may await it, it is a difficult matter to
venture upon any conjectures concerning its
political future. It is perfectly clear to us that
this country can no longer be governed under
our old Constitution as now interpreted. As
a confederation of ‘independent, sovereign
States we might, with some few modifications
of our former system, have gone on in tolera
ble harmony for years to come. Asa consoli
dated empire we cannot get along with Repub
lican institutions. In so largS a territory con
flicting sectional interests ot a violent charac
ter and on a stupendous scale will constantly
manifest themselves. With these Congress
will be constantly meddling, and as they will
all have their vehement representatives and ad
vocates on the floor, that body will mostjy fail
to reconcile them, and it will always embitter
growing enmities. The attempt to maintain in
this country the political system under which
wc lived before the war will inevitably fail.
The Government will be compelled to organ
ize permanently in the North and West the
crushing despotism it has set up in the South,
or else this generation will live either to see
the United States resolved into several nations
or to witness repudiation and more civil war.
The Pacific Railroad gives the country practi
cal possession of a maguificent domain, which
is soon to teem with a thriving population
and to grow powerful in wealth and resources,
but whether good or evil is to result from its
development, remains to be seen.
A Letter from B. F. Butler—He Advocates
Confiscation.
The following letter from Dr. B. F. Butler
was read to a mass meeting of negroes held iu
Washington City, on Thursday night :
Washington, June 5.
Wm. H. Chase , Esq , Chairman of the Radical
Republican Committee of the City of Washing
ton :
Sir—While acknowledging the receipt of
your courteoui invitation to attend a meeting
of my Republican fellow-citizens of the District
to celebrate the glorious victory achieved on
Monday last, I am. grieved to be obliged to say
that engagements of the most pressing charac
ter prevent my availing myself of the intended
honor.
******
Specially is your action timely and important
at the present "moment, because even now the
Executive is preparing to hinder the true ope
ration of the beneficent acts of Congress for
the reconstruction of the South declaring
that the provisional governments, illegally
established by himself, without warrant of law,
in usurpation of Executive power, are the
supreme law of the land, vesting in the officers
ot such governments (late iebels) the conduct
of the civil administration in the insurgent
States. Already has an authoritive opinion of
his law officer been promulgated, which le
stores to political power almost all those en
gaged iu the rebellion, whom Congress deemed
It necessary, for the safety of the Republic, to
disfranchise for their attempted overthrow of
the Government, thus evading the law aud
thwarting aud overruling the wise orders of
the Generals in command, regulating the regis
tration of loyal men ouly as voters.
In a few days, unless checked by the near ap
proach of the meeting of Congress, an Execu
tive order will be promulgated, proclaiming
that the military reconstruction act docs uot
give to the commanding officers of the districts
any right or power to interfere with the civil
government of these States. If that be so,*ft
follows that the removal of the red-handed
Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans, by Sheridan ;
the suppression of the riot fostering city gov
ernment of Mobile by Pope, and the" wise and
much needed legislative orders of Sickles', re
ducing South Carolina to live under a govern
ment of law, are illegal and void. It must fol
low as a logical sequence, now that the fear of
immediate impeachment seems to be removed,
that the gallant Sheridan will he superseded to
give place to some officer supposed to be more
pliant to the will of the Administration.
And to what end ? That the present organi
zation ol the governments of these States may
remain intact, to perpetuate a landed aristoc
racy fatal to the advance of the cause of liberty
and equal rights. Is it not a self-evident politi
cal truth that where the land is owned in large
tracts by the employer, to be tilled by the em
ployed, there can be no just and true field lor
tbe exercise of republican citizenship. And it
is one of the pressing exigencies of the coun
try, as the very basis of reconstruction, that
some plan must be devised by which the lands
of the Sonfti'may be divided among those who
shall occapy them and till tham.
With regrets at not being able to be with you
to elaborate these suggestions 1 have made,
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
your ob’t serv’t, Benj. F. Butler.
New' York Gossip—The Lady in Central
Park.— New York, June 3.—Any frequenter of
the Central Park will hardly have failed to notice
a peculiar turnout, with spirited horse, driven
by a lady, who always is seen reclining lazily
back in the open carriage—so far back as to be
almost in a recumbent position—holding a rein
in each hand with great nonchalance, her boot
ed feet protruding very prominently and very
far apart, presenting a picture on the whole
more striking than elegant, and winning the
fixed regards of all idlers or tie maSculiuegen
der. The lady is the wife of and military gentle
man high in rank, and is well known in society
chiefly by her eccentricities and brusqueric arid
her reckless manner of launching the shafts of
scand%l at her fair neighbors. Sue has traveled
all over the United States, sojourned in Texas
and mingled iu various scenes of adventure in
the Southwest; hence, perhaps, her abruptness,
that is often rudeness, and her barbaric disre
gard oi the feelings of others. Had she beauty,
she plight emulate the fast fame of another
fashionable dame, now residing in Paris, whose
husband has come to seek a “limited divorce”
on the allegation that his spouse will have her
fattier and mother to live with her!
A New Letter by Artemus Ward.
Iu the “Savage Club Papers” is given the
following letter, by Artemus Ward, which wc
believe has never been printed in America. It
is worth printing, on this account He says:
I was sitting in the bar, quietly smokin. a fru
gal pipe, when two middle-aged and stern
lookin fepiales, and a yong aud pretty female,
suddenly entered the room. They were accom
panied bv two umbrellas and a iiegro gentle
man. 44 Do you feel for the down-trodden ?”
said one of the females, a thin-taced and sharp
voiced person in green spectacles. 44 Do I feel
for it ?” anserd the lan’lord iu a puzzled voice—
-44 Do 1 feel for it ?” 44 Yes; for the oppressed,
the beuited ?” 44 Inasmuch ns to which ?” said
the lan’lord. “You see this "man?” said the
female, pinling her utnbreUer at the negro gen
tleman. “Yes, maria, I see him.” “Yes!”
said the female, raisin her voice to a exceedin
!»!'’k,» llc * I ’vr U y oa him, and he’s vour bro
ther! ‘ No, I’m darned if he is!”'said the
lau lord, hastily retreatin to his beer casks.
44 And yours!” shouted the excited female, ad
dressin me, “he is also your brother.” 44 No
I thiuk uot, marm,” I pleasantly replied, 44 the
nearest we come to that color in ourlamily was
iu the case of my brother John. He had the
janders for sev’ral years, but they finally left
him. lam happy to state that, at the present
time, he hasn’t a solitary jauder.” 44 Look at
this man !” screamed the temsrie. 1 looked at
him. He was an able-bodied, well-dressed, cora
lortable-lookin negro. He looked as though he
might heave three or four good meals a day into
him without a murmur. 44 Look at that down
trodden man !” cried the female. “ Who trod
ou him?” I inquired. “Villins! despots!”
44 Well,” said the lan’lord, 44 why don’t you go
to the villiusabout it ? Why do you come here,
telliu us niggers is our brothers, and brandishin
your umbrellers round like a lot of lunyties ?
You’re wuss than the sperit-rapper!” “Have
you,” said middle-aged female No. 2, who wafl
a quieter sort of person, “have yon uo senti
ment—-no poetry in your soul—no love for the
beautiful? Dost"nevei*go into the green fields
to cull the beautiful flowers?” “1 not Only
never dost,” said the lan’lord, in an angry voice,
“but I’ll bet you five pound you can’t bring a
man as dares say I durst.” “The little birds,”
continued the female, “dost not love to gaze
onto them ?” “I would I were a bird, that I
might fly to thou!” I humorously sung, cast
ing a sweet glance-at the pretty young woman.
“Don’t you look in that way at my dawter,”
said female No. 1 in a violent voice; “you’re old
enough to be her father.” 44 ’Twas an innocent
look dear madam,” I softly said. “You behold
in me an emblem of innocence and purity. In
tack, I start for Rome by the first train to
morrer, to sit as a model to a celebrated artist
who is about to sculp a statue to be called
Sweet Innocence. Do you s’pose a sculptor
would send for me for that purpose onless he
know’d I was cverflowin with innocence?
Don’t make a error about me,” “It is my
opiniyn,” said the leadin female, “that you’re«a
scoffer and a wretch ! Your mind is in a wusser
beclouded state than the poor negroes we are
seekin to aid. You are a groper in the dark
cellar of sin. O sinful man!
There is a sparkling fount,
Come O come and dnnk.
No : you will not come and drink.” 44 Yes he
will,” said the landlord, “if you’ll treat. Jest
try him.” 44 As for you,” said the enraged
female to the lan’lord, “you’re a degraded bein,
too low and wulgar to talk to.” 44 This is the
sparklin fount for me, dear sister !” cried the
lan’lord, drawin an drinkin a mug of beer.
Havin uttered which goak, he gave a low rura
blin larf, and relapsed into silence. “My colerd
fren’,” I said to the negro kindly, 44 what is it
all about ?” He said they was tryin to raise
money to send missionaries to the Southern
States in America to preach to the vast numbers
of negroes recently made free there. He 6aid
they were without the gospel. They were
without tracts. I said, 44 My fren, this is a
serious matter. I admire you for tryin to help
the race to which you belong, aud far be it
from me to say anything agin carryin the gospel
among the blacks of the South. Let the gos
pel go to them by all means. But I h&ppen to
individooally know that there are some thou
sands of liberated blacks in the South who
are starviu. I don’t blame any body for
this, but it is a very sad fact. Some are
really floo ill to work, some can’t get work
to do, and others are too foolish to sec any ne
cessity for workin. I was down there last win
ter, and I observed that this class had plenty of
preaebtu for their souls, but skurce any vittles
for their stummux. Now, if it is proposed to
send flour and bacon along with the gospel, the
idea is really a excellent one. If on the t’other
hand it is proposed to send preachin alone, all
I can say is thqt it’s a hard case for the niggers.
It you expect a coloured persoa to get deeply
interested in a tract when his slummuck is
empty, you expect too much.” I gave the ne
gro as much as 1 could afford, and the kind
hearted lan’lord did the same.’ I said, 44 Fare
well, my coloured fren. I wish you well, cer
tainly. You are now as free as the eagle. Be
like him and soar. But don’t attempt to con
vert a Ethiopian person while his sttunmuck
yearns for vittles. And you, ladies—l hope
you are ready to help the poor and unfortunate
at home as you seem to help the poor and un
fortunate abroad.” When they had gone the
lan’lord said, “Come into the garden, Ward.”
And we went and culled some carrots for din
ner.
[From the New York World.
A Sad Case.
There is really something diabolical in the
astuteness ol Senator Sumner. Ilis hatred of
Secretary Seward is no secret, but uo intensity
of hatred can excuse a professed philanthropist
for trifling with the life* and happiness of one
human being, no matter how humble, in his
eagerness to chastise the arrogance of another
human being, no matter how exalted in station.
Determined to defeat Secretary Seward’s
triumph over the sale of Walrussia by the Czar
to the United States, Senator Sumner hit upon
the horrible expedient of first inditiug a gigan
tic speech in lavor of, the purchase and then
causing that speech to be translated into Rus
sian and forwarded to St. Petersburg.
) Upon receiving the‘first copy in Russian of
this speech, which was brought to him by seven
pack-mules, Prince Gortscbakofl' at once
adopted the course which Sumner had calculat
ed upon his taking; “Worthless as Wal
russia is to us,” exclaimed the Russian pre
mier, “and convenient as it is to receive
even millions of dollars, even though a
large per centage thereof be paid in old
monitors, I will hot complete the transac
tion under suqji a penalty as reading this
speech.” The speech was at once returned to
Minister Clay, and the bargain for Walrnssia
broken off. Senator Sumner has achieved his
purpose; but the wretched instrument of his
cunning, the unfortunate man who had been
compelled to tqinslate his speech, now lies in
a condition, from which, if he ever recovers, it
will be with the entire loss of his reason. He
babbles not of “green fields,” but of “Walrus
sia,” and “isothermal lines,” and then sudden
ly relapses into absolute imbecility, giving no
sign of life save an incessant mechanical mo
tion of his hand frpm left to right, as in tbe
of inditing innumerable pages of manu
script. The people of Massachusetts have al
ready justly incurred a vast deal of reproach
by their scandalous condonation of the crimes
ol men like Sereno Howe, and of the peccadil
loes of men like Banks. If they manifest a
■ iKe indifference to this. last aj»d most cruel act
of their chief Senator, they will merit outlaw
ry from the family of civilized States.
Here and There.—An Indiana correspond
ent of the New York Times writes:
Judge Lynch, to our disgrace be it said, is at
present doing a most extensive business in In
diana. Sixteen cases of mob law have been
recorded during the past two months, and there
are prospects of further accessions to this num
ber.
Kelly got up a disturbance in Mobile, and
forthwith the civil government was done away
with. The government of New Orleans was re
moved because there had been a riot—that of
Selma, we suppose, because there might be a
riot. But in Indiana, a Republican State, there
were sixteen cases of mob law in two months.
Are there no Sheridans or Swaynes for Indi
ana ?—Selma Messenger.
Criminal Execution.—The unfortunate
man, S. D. Hodge, was executed yesterday, be
tween the hours of eleven and one.
[Columbia Phoenix, Bth.
[From the Selma Time*.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.
On the 21st of March last, a villain and scoun
drel, calling himself R. F. Naff, having sold a
portion of his wife’s property, amounting to
several hundred dollars, which he feloniously
pocketed, abandoned her, since which time
nothing has been heard of him, except that he
took the stage at Blue Mountain, the present
terminus of the Alabama and Tennessee Rail
road, going in the direction of Rome, 6a.
The public, especially females and the Masonic
Fraternity, are hereby cautioned against this
demon in human form, inasmuch as, beyond a
doubt, be has two living wives, both of whom
are without reprpach, aud whom he has shame
fully and wickedly abandoned in great poverty
and destitution. lie claimed, too, to be a
member of thfe 44 Mystic Tie,” said he was mado
a Mason in Constantine Lodge No. 120, in Mis
souri, is quite bright, and usually wears a
breastpin composed of a square and compass
enclosed within a circle; said that he was born
and raised in Missouri; was an engineer on
the Missippi river for many years, and during
the late war was a captain in General Marma
duke's command. While in this section he
conducted a steam saw mill, aud seemed par
ticularly fond of that occupation.
Iu addition to the above, 1 subjoin an ex
tract from a letter of the Rev. J. M. P. Hicker
son, P. E., Clarkcsville District, Arkansas Con
ference, received a few days ago :
Dover, Pope Cos., Ark., April 25, 1867.
*' * # #
“ I was once acquainted with one Captain R.
* ‘ ol?’ 0r giving the sound as in safe.
“,lhis gentleman came to Smithville, Arkan-
Missouri, In the winter or spring of
1868—was a Confederate captain in Gen. Mar
maduke’s command. He claimed to be a wid
ower, and in the summer of 1863 was married
to Mrs. , an estimable widow lady ot that
place.* After the surrender, he sold his wife’s
property, except her household goods, borrow
ed several hundred dollars from James R.
Barnes, a merchant of Smithville, aud started
to Memphis to lay in supplies for himself and
other families, who sent money by him. He
remained about Memphis for several weeks, and
sent for his family, stating that he had bought
an interest in a steam saw mill near that city.
His family went to him. His creditors, and
those who had sent money by him for supplies,
attached what little property was left, aud sold
it, but got very little towards their claims on
him.
44 About the Inst days of June, 1866, he sold
off his property near Memphis, as he Baid, with
a view to remove to Smithville again; he Bold
the mill, and having collected all the money for
property—mill and all, including his partner’s
interest—he started to Memphis, about the first
of July, with all the money to deposit in bank,
until he conld get ready to start to Smithville,
since which time he has not been heard of.
4i T was in Memphis a few days after this oc
currence, and was assured by business men gen
erally, that there could be no doubt that he nad
been robbed of bis money and that of his part
ner’s., say several thousand dollars, and mur
dered and his body thrown into the Mississippi
•river. His wife and friends were of this opin
ion. She remained there in sadness and pover
ty and grief for several months, and by Masonic
charity was taken back to Smithville. where she
now resides in deep poverty and destitution,
in the belief that Capt. Naff was murdered last
July.”
It will thus, at a glance, appear that this is
the same villain whom I have mentioned as
having absconded, and who, while here, deceiv
ed innocent and unsuspecting females, robbing
and plandering the widow and orphan, ana
who will, doubtless, in other places attempt a
repetition of bis cowardly and base design.
Naff is a man about 40 years of age, stout and
square built, height about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches,
very broad across the shoulders, large head and
full round face, and weighs about 190 or 200
pounds ; hair originally black, but now inclin
ed to be grey, wears a grey gOatee, has pene
trating grey or blue eyes, is quite affable aud
agreeable in bis manners, is fond of jokes, and
at times is quite lively and communicative as
.to his adventures in the war and os engineer on
the Mississippi river, and seems to be well
acquainted about Meinpnis and St. Louis.
The San Antonio Express says : “On the
11th ult., as Mr. Gooch and a number of his
neighbors were driving abont 1,000 head of*
cattle in the head waters of the Concho, to de
liver them to Contractor Adams, of New Mexi
co, to supply the Indian reservation of Fort
Sumner, they were attacked by a party of
eighty Southern Camanches of Kickapoos, ail
the cattle captured arid one man killed. The
body of the latter was afterward? found, skin
ned down to the waist, and the head complete
ly severed; the supposition being that he was
skinned before death, as these fiendish deeds
are only inflicaed for torture. Another herd of
the same size was taken the same day, twelve
miles west of the head waters of the Concho,
aud a third lot taken near Horse Head Cross
ing, on the Pecos, about sixteen miles from
Fort Stockton. Troops have been sent in pur
suit from Camp Verde; no results yet known.
General Edward Hatch starts from here im
mediately, with four companies of the 9th cav
alry, to be stationed in the vicinity of Fort
Stockton. A permanent camp, consisting of
troops of the 4tli cavalry, is ordered to the
headwaters of the main Concho. This is deem
ed sufficient to guard against such wholesale
depredations in the future.” The same paper
says that two men were attacked near Bandern,
and one of them, named Grier, was severely
wounded. Four companies of the 9th cavalry
left their camp at the head of San v Pedro
Springs, a few days siuce, for Fort Davis.
We are sorry to observe that in their South
ern tours, so far, the Republican orators have
omitted to touch or speak at Napoleon, Natch
ez, Vicksburg, Jackson, and other places ol the
saiqe stamp. Doubtless the towns-along the
river and in the interior of Mississippi are not
the pleasantest in which to try the experiment
of free 6peeeh,, but for that very reason they
are the places where we want and ought to
hold Republican meetings.
[ Philadelphia Press.
This extract from one of D. D. Forney’s
“ two papers, both daily,” tells its own story.
Kelley returned to Washington last week and
reported that he had been favorably received
everywhere at the South excepting at Mobile.
The Press is anxious to have him try Natchez,
and a few “ Other places of the same stamp,”
where a riot, or at least a row, could easily be
created. “For that very reason,” says the
Press, “ they are the places where we want and
ought to hold Republican meetings.” This
fnlly discloses the. animus of tbe Radical ad
venturers who have been perambulating the
Sonthern States, but the pressing “ want ” now
for a riot “in the interior of Mississippi ” is a
confession that no capital can be made from the .
recent attempt at Mobile. — N. Y. World.
A Warning— Over the river, in our good
sister State of Georgia, there are traveling
through the country men who pretend to have
authority from the Government for selling land
scrip to the colored people. They inform their
i iguorant victims that the Government will in *
few days confiscate the lands of Southern white
men and give them to the former slaves. From
one to five dollars is charged for these certifi
cates, and that obtained the scoundrels go on
!in their w ork of fraud and stealing. It may be
1 well to give our colored people a timely warn
, ing against these scrip peddlers. Although we
I have not yet beard of any of them amongst
the freedmen in this section, it cannot*be amiss
to spread their character in advance of their
footsteps. —Abbeville Netet.
Murder in Donaldsvilltb.— We are inform
ed that a young man named Pitts was brutally
murdered near Donaldsville, in this District,
on Tuesday of last week. An inqnestwas held
on the body, and the facts elicited by an exami
nation of those-with whom Mr. Pitts was work
ing? were such as to cause the Immediate arrest
of a negro man who was employed in the
vicinity where the murder was committed. He
was brought to this place on the following day,
and committed to jail. Since his imprisonment
we learn he has made a confession of hia guilt.
[Abbeville Banner.
An imbecile daughter of a drunkard named
Murray died at Worcester, Mass., on Sunday,
alone, from neglect and want, in giving birth
to a child, which had been begotten by a young
maivin that city who had taken advantage ot
hermfirmity and then deserted her.