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Newspaper Page Textsoutjmn: Ijrralo, D N MARTIN Editor Affrriv, Oil., may 10, :«««. **T> f **«» *» i*il«Kllrr thaw the S»vor*!.~ The I lif.i ill oils Fornt-jr. This •• lb* Dun who left lL# II 7mA ■uytnu f'nian sci AH returned to IVnniylvtuii, and taking "‘I vantage of hi* preMige —beii g then a tru.tr. 1 Dsurucrat, and a ia#i-tJicit d«vrl«»|wd traitor —- managed by Ida alining appeals, Lacked lay no mean talent#, to push lliat oM blunderer, Buchan aa on the I'emoeratic party. *• ita nominee for the Presidency—-coniravy to their known prefer enee for Ua Pieree, or for Judge Doughi* then nnfallrn and unsuspected. Old I Inch a foil opera' ted to the frail of Douglas, and with them Ml the Democratic party of the country as a unit. *1 he as combined, though not the efficient enueea of the late war, were among the moat prominent onca that excited and precipitated that direful taaue on the country. To, Forney, more, perhaps; than any other man |a entitled the honor. gwtdrd by the instinct of prea cieot m«swne»». of fighting the match, that lired the train, that led to the ritine, that lay tinder the house, (the Cunatilutioi ) our tathera built, lie is worse than Jndaa ; for tile latter Was, it would aeem. a chosen wicked instrument, to bring about a pre determined good result, while l'orney wea a wicked instrument, doubtless rhoaen and pet apart by the wickedest being in the universe —the lievil—to bring about the wickedest result that disgrace* the annuls of wdekedncaa. Any further Ventilation of this detested character, if sought for, may lie found in the subjoined . alt set. taken Irom the Kiclimuud Exitmiut r. Malic* D fully incfirci rntr.l in Jolm \\\ Forn«*y* Hi« vilf pen u the only full r\pou«>i»t «»f nil u»< liar itnMrnrpd. ||<> inn* vrh|ff(ul ns u viper arul «« frrocioti* nn a Nothing is fr»n I,tu4 for him o nay or lo tin m the pursuit 4*f whom l»»? think* lie can viliify nntl injure without exporting biuiHclf to mcritcij obnntifu’iiient. Kiiti rnclirt) !>«• l»in<l an 4jd*ci uptiloti* (.'<>ii£t e**. It* pour* tlir v mli of hi* wrath ope n th* man u lomi lit* ilhip# to < nil ** hi* Aycidaitr j. ” Theclerical actrvaut of th at*, that bojy encourag*** anti incite* liim to n *o )*iic* aim) vituptTatio.l »*f the kiml th* Chief of th* country. The IVi-m --«D»it treat* him an.l hi* n**Aiilt* with rontnv f*t lie will not waaUi arvtinu.iiiion on a•• <h-ad duck.” Uul tha ppirit that «»r»c* niiifviatc«| that * «i«*nt| by a political iiu-lt-mpMcliooi*, now hni k* hi “Sumner'# dog " How tit a name i* thi*!- Dog* delight to bulk and Ml*, aim! «o does Kornr\ hut any of lit* onnine htv*«l is superior to him in fidelity. Treachery doth** hrm u* a garrm-nl; it surround* him a* an At no*pl»cr« of hi* own. Though hr *hnk* now dutifully at Sumner'h lit***!*, ready to howl and hark, nnnp and mail, a* hi* tna?t*r hid*— let thr Senator from MiiKAA<*liu#f‘l t* beware that the lioutul ilofa not turn upon him and rand him yet !'*•*«”** ing all the meaner qualities ol a d**g, he is wanting hi all tlioah liiglr «r point* that mak* a due a creator*' to he limit tl At th* command, d<»uhtle»*. of hi* new master, ht ha* now turned hi* howls .tgninpl the* help! raw priooutT at For tree* Monro*, Greeley. a life-long Kudieal, can forgive the imputc«l otfence* of Jef ferson Davis, and plead ** ti iiinpet-toi.guod againat the deep damnation of hi* taking off;" but Forney, who wa* but yeatenduy n Ihmocrat, can w<>t he appeased by anytliiiVg but blood. ll** waiiU Mr. l>«via tried by Judge Underwood, which i* all the aarpe ns fmndiiig the victim at ouc* to the hangman. Why have the Wee lu*f»r<« Hu* tragedy f Let the execution (if it mu.st he) toike pla«*e first, and then Underwood's trial could a* a very diverting after-pieee. Hut, after ull, of tho two man—Davis and Forney--th* probability is tlmt Forney will rrncli the gallows first, w ithout a hope of Fxeeuti vu * leniency. Illuming h Muck. A Coi Juv« «oiro*pnndrnt of the New Yi rk /•„>» chatajr, includes among his notices ol Confederate emigrant*, the following: " Judge Oldham.'formerly Chief Justice of T**x - as, baa turned ph«»togmpher, and i* in bui*ine*a in this city. '1 he Judge hits also turned author, and is engaged upon the la*t sheets of a work en titled •* A lliotory ofn Journey ft out Uiehtnond t«> the HioCtai de, fn»m March *.ttt to June 2tl. I . or tha Lam Pay* of the Confedernt* State*.” 'lhi-* book will entiae n commotion a* Soon a* j and will douhth<«* involve it* author in some hall dozen lights. 'The Judge iuhtitules an imjnu v into tj[ie causes that led to the overthrow «.f the Confedeniev. ami trace* them t«» the inco nptfrun/ ami vW//Wares of Mr. Davis, mid the con-upturn which, if not connived at, was suffered to exist uniebuked in all department* * f government, lie is unsparing in hi* expose, which hi* position as member of the Confederate Senate gave him am ple opportunities of making. 11a lushe* certain Cabinet minister* and '"General officers severely uud does not *par« l’icsident Johnson or Federal commanders." “’lhe cry is still, J hey come. ” Another brave jru-knJ stalk* fori li to howl nt and inoult the suged lion. Who is this all-potent Parthian, whose quiver full of arrows is to be so soon emptied,—and pell mell otrnage, death, and destruction, nro lobe dealt ou friend and foe, on JeHcrson Davis, and Andrew Johnson, on Confederate Generals, and Federal General*! The North and South must huah their qua relinks immediately. Conservative* and Radicals must shake hands ; —» pen the pri on doors, and let every available man be aimed ■•»/. a pie, to meet the forthcoming terrible Onslaught of this mighty Boiobastea Furmeo. “OH lhim" —This brings to mind a certain adored individual of the same name and proclivi tics, that figured somewhat extensively just after Uie flood, instead of helping to re-eonstruet a then ruined worM, a* did his brother*. .‘-’liein and saphet, be was laughing over and Mailing forth the mishaps of hit father, the righteous but overtaken The ancient Old Ham, for hi* impudent meanness, was cursed only in his sou Canaan ; the modern “ Old /lam,” may catch hit curse, in pro pria no vicarious shoulders of *..n or friend to receive, il ia hoped, the merited casti gallon. 0 Mvrttonirr Cknkral Co.vmtx. k.—Tl.is body, has Weil ill sea-ion several weeks at New Orleans, has adjourned, and by (bis time, most of the members have returned to their respective homos. » The following are amo.-g the most prominent measures, in the way of changes, enacted by the Conference. They have abrogated the probation system, which reifnircasix months' trial for those-trim sswk admission to the Church, and substituted a eonfes sion of fui'li ; hare made classnicetiiig* a gather iug which every one can enjoy as a privilege, but regard it no longer as a test of membership; have adopted monthly church meetings; hove remov ed from the discipline sll stipulated amounts as to the prenchcrs's salary, lewv iug the-whole subject to the congregation whom he serves ; have removed nil restrictions from the pastorate term, and a minis ter is appohitftd for one ysar only, but may bo retainer? for four successive years, if he is faithful and the interest afthe Work demand it; hare in» troduced "fay- delegation to fbs general Confer ence;* and have made four additional bishops, three of the ten—Soule. Andrew, and Early—be ing placed on the r«tifed or “amaritba ” let. ••The name is yet to Isa submitted to the (Jen. ernl Conferences Tyr tWlff!cation, ft three fourths* of the members of these bodies sustain the action of tha (Jeneial Coiiferenee the name will lie ' Kpis eopal Methodist Chuieli,’ ifjjot, it will umaiu the M. E. Church, South.” <*r#at Itiot in .flruipfeis. A great not recently occurred in Memphis, I’esßcna#, e#fiifr.«|cii*g on May day and contin uing fur tmo er tlrr. day#, at #j cl!« longer or •hotter, with interval* greater or smaller l»etw*aii them. It *osnm*»*need in the afternoon of th»- |*t instant, in th- eoutliern j-.irt «»| the citv, «»rig •nali* g. it appears, in a fight between the city' jndlee uud A *«|«iad of di**harge«| eoh»re«| (udijier*. On Ih* morning of lii* 2nd. nUut two hours before day li*ht ( the nr-groeu veent to fort l*i« keiir g. d*> uittiiding arm* ami ammunition. They w*rer»* fused, and left. Shortly sfter daylight they ap jxared at the fort aga*n repeating their demand, when the eonunamUnt «*f the fort called out the ttVKtpa. and tin. atened to pm* them come dose# of grape allot,* At this they left. Doting the forenoon *,.f the 2nd. th* fighting be gnu niT’iin, on South street, mar (*amwy, and Aon. tinued alt morning, themgroe* beii g diiven V*’ VOnd th* limit* of th* town. The nundwr of lie groes killed i* estimated at fro n thutecr. to fiftceu One whit* man was killed, and twenty were wounded. In th* m**an time, th** Ma\«*r hud call«**i out a po*s* e*>mUatus of two humlml men Th* crowd ga'.heied at the gun store of IL nrv Fula* me this morning. wb?cli wug at th* time closed, demanding it to he open*-d, a« they ai-hed to pro*-ore aims; and upon a r* fu*al drove in a panuel and cleaicd the store of nil the pi*!oU and guns. The negroes thi* morning carried with them the Ida* k tlag. which they waved defiantly at the citizen*. It vru* supposed to he a piece of black muslin. The following appears in the M*-mphis cvcnir g Isrihjrr of the 2nd instant: “A gentleman, who redd** in the ronntrv. some twenty live mil*-* fr*mi tin* eily, discovered, on night before ltv*t. (Apt il SlAlh) that several of Ins negro employees had d****it»-d Idm. Tracing them to lid* nty, lie found one thi* morning in it dying rendition, from a wound he r**« **iv**<i in the tiv'ltt la*t night.. The in pm has niiee died. 'lll** negro stated that th- trouble l»-t night wn* pre meditated; tluit lo* nnd his companions enme down to a *i*t in il ami that it euiue on prelim finely. T*» night, lie *aid. the plan was to attnek iheeily. nnd rob all the jcwcliy stores ami other houses." A w hit* mrwi nr.ined H, C. P* nnis was shot dead to-day In Crnter alley, by someone yet at large. It in said that he was talking to a n< gro ahnlit the liot, am! whs misunderstood by another white man, who «lclih«rat«ly shot the dce»-a*e*l. Di.rmg th* riot, to day four negro tenement* Were fired and totally destroyed. The fighting erased lit 12 M. to-dnv. During this day (2i and in*f.,) rumors were rife to tliecfTcet, that nt n glit the timnen **f the city in tended burning every negro shanty in .NiggerviMe, a settlement o? negroes just outside of the corpora lion, w est of the city, of nearly a mile njuare. I’niHunnt f*» the rumors, tin* work of deitruction commenced at night on the part of the w hites.— I lie result was that there w ere burned by the mob, about thirty tenements, churches, nn*l school houses, owned «*r occupied l y the negroes. Ten negroes were killed during the night ; Im.t ijuiet was restored before morning, the m groes having nearly all M«d to the wood*. On the morning of the 3rd, the negroes who had fled the right before, commenced coming in to the city. An estimate made at 2, I*. M. of thi* day. i to the effect that there Imd been some five whitu persons uud ll.ii ty ii* groes killed during Ihcnielcc Tiik Din kri.ni i. Huiwkkn tiii m.—Tl.c following cold rust e«l pictuns ot the man and the Yankee, photographed from a 1 >nikie stnnd'point, we commend to our reader* for it* graphic fideli ity. Kiehelieu (or Hillw'er, for him) “a\* that “ she pen is mightier than th* sword;" In the subjoined orally-draw n picture, it i* fairly proved that “the lip thick though it he—is mightier than the pen : ’’ “Now white folk*, I *sc guine to tell you de dilTerenco ’tween a S*vuthe|-n mini an’ *fe Yankee. W.P, de Southern man h* stop at de hotel ; he n x tor a room, he get de key ; lie say. “ Her* Jim. take my valise.” W hen he g«-l in de room, he sw\, "Jim, you Id a i kya*< al bru*h my coat, and b* ot* and be ill n lit rry.” Wl»il** I’se (loin dat be wash hisself, comb hi* bar, and take a drink, and when I give 111111 *b» b«N>t* he hand me de dollar. When *le \ ankee *t(*p at de hotel he sav, “ Mr. Johnioli, please brush my boot a--Mr. Johnson, please t«» carry di* note to Mr. Smith at tie railnuid depot— Mr. Johnson, 1 guess 111 !mve t«> titmble you to biing me u pitcher of water—Mr Johnson, please carry dis no ssuge tt> tit* teb graph office Mr Johi.Hiin, I guess I ought to have a cigar—run down uud get a live cent one.” I cum back, and spec, oh course, he gib me alrtMit two dollars, but stead of gi\ in’ me tie money, he ux me to take u sent, and tell him ’I out mv graiulfadtler my grand mudder, my brudder ami my sister, a* tl iny e<*u#in. and my **le massii, and h*»w much F*e makin, nml ht*w usu l is. und nil si *h nonsense, nml den after a while lie say, “Well Mr. Johnson. I guess I’ll have to gib vu a dim* a for* 1 leave hi re.” Now, white folk* tint's de difference ’tween de Soutl ern man and tie Yankee, uud it’s every word tint. Tui:kat or W vu.—Wilkes’ Spirit ol the Times closes an editorial article, in a recent number, on the conflict between I’resiJetit Jolmeou and tile Radical majority in Congress, with the followii g significant tlir. nt: “ If no adjustment shall lie made, nml tho Bros ident, ignoring Co'i'gre-s, shall press on tbe t--ue which wo have foreshadow*tl. ,r gin him t earn ing that the mueketH lehiih note he.nrj in honored rtr.ir in every toon, hold Xerth of the Potomac oinu soon he hurriedly un.htng. .lo t a murmur pass throughout the land which may break into the rv.te oj buttle trj'orr this yar has close t." Here is a threat of war coming almost. *.r rath ' edra. Suppose they do come to arm* among them selves f The Son'll must necessarily tie pulled into it—and being pulled and counter [lulled —a little volitional agency on our part will result tha* some the meanest portion of the Freedmen and the whites—will be vohntari'y pulled into the ranks of lhe Had cal*, while some—the best por tion of the same two classes—will a* voluntarily be pulled to the President's *ide. If the contest however, shall seem to bo another husband and wile tight, the true Southron, a>going from bitter experience, should he very chary of being (mile.l into it nt all—voluntarily or involuntarily ; for tlie intorterer in family quarrels, iuvut iably come* out second bi St. Xerbnai tut. “ A Second \\ vsniNoTox.”—-A poetaster signing himself •• lia J'opuli ” —(it should have been \ asset pr >t. rest nihil) has pel polluted some dozen or mote stanzas of poultry, in the Nashville lie* kl v (Jairtte, of April lulls, beaded •• Our President. 1 ' in which the latter (our President) is culled a “ Second Washington.” \\ e ne not objecting to any laudations therein bestowed upon the President. We would merely warn the President, however, to lank out; for it singularly happens, that the noted individual r ho lei med Jefferson Davis •• A Second Washington of America," was. at that very time, the worst cue my he (Davis) hud on the continent. Tax Schoolmaster Abroad.—One of our Atlan ta exchanges—local guardian, by the way, “of the quire well of English mnletiled,’’—reproduces or origiualesin it* colu—ns, the follow : ng paragraph ’ “Marriages are note frequent after the r./ui nojret : .that is during the mouths of June and l>. ctmbcr.'^J Election l{rfiirn«. (>tTn is! rcierot of the vote in this (SpwJ*l_ ing)county at th*- lal* *le*ti«.u (May 2nd ) For County Judge. For Solicitor I*r*‘* inet. UoysUm. Nunnally. Ilr*iw.*i. D<»>a! Di it! in . .lAt» ... lh?J I*o. . I VI 52 51 ... . 21 Mt Zion .11 10 IV . . D» lane Creek ll .. 7 h 11 Africa 25.. 1 21 5 Cubit.# 29 ... a v.... v:r Third 13 4 12 3 T0ta1.........279 271 300 226 The following are tha names of ftuc*.e#«ful candidates, in this Slate, as far aw beard from ; ]*. H. \\ Little, Judge ; X. If. Da**, Solicitor. Itultt. —J. 11. Lyon, Judge; 11. Hendrick, Solicitor. Chatham. —Lev; S. llusiel, Judge ; John O. Ferrtl. Solii ilor. (I*aitahooi’het'. N. W. fvarrard, Ju»lge; Alexander l arlev, S >licib*r. Clay oi. — 11. Holliday Judge; Crawford. — O. 1* 1 ulvethouse. Judge; John W. Simmotia, Solicitor. CuwtUh —VVm. M. Sjurks, Judge; Allan I>. Freeman, Solicitor. Chfmkff. .).V. Freeman, Judge; Ja*. N. Field, Solicitor. Jhcatur. — il. <i. Craw ford, Judge ; I >anie! Mid •’ill. Sr.lic.itor, Ihtfdty. —S. Rogers Judge; J. Armwtong, So! icitor. Fulton. — D!uford Smith, Judge } (seo. S. Flioiiia#, Solicitor. Harris. — Wiliam I. Hudson, Judge; J. M. Mushy, Solicitor. Htnry.— S. C\ McDaniel, Judge ; Andrew Sloan, Solicitor. Jasper. —J. W. Hurney, Judge; F. Jordan Jr, Solicitor. Lee. — Wm. Newsome, Judge; 11. J War ren, Solicitor. Macon. — B. ftreene, Judge; \V. A. Ilob iiison. Solicitor. Monroe. —T. O. Jacob, Judge ;t M uscot/cc. — X. S. Howard, Judge ; A. Iv. Lamar, Solicitor. Hike. — K 11* Haa.tncl, Judge ; Hrannan, Solicitor. Richmond. —Wm. 11. Me Laws, Judge ; J. I). lie II v, Soncitor. Schley. —Seaborn Montgomery, Jiulffft ; Spnldin</. —Jh*. S. Boynton, Judge i l’itt M. 1 Frown Solicitor. Sumter. —J. A. Anslev, Jmlfjp ; Terrell. — Kev. \V. J. I’arks, Ju'lge ;TV in. Sjmne«»r, Solicitor. 7'rou/u —I>. (J. Ferrell, Jmlge; J. A. Speer, Solicitor. The Question Settled. —Gen. Wa.le lUmpton l.as recently written a letter to lion. IJevetdy Jol.naon, L T . S. Senate, deny itiii tlint he gave any orders to bum Coiutn Ida, S. C.— as has been asserted hv General Sherman. In the letter lie requests -‘that Congress may take prompt ami efficient measures to investigate the matter fully.”— Ihe Senate would Itot diseuss the lette.— neither haw it referred, nor were willing h»r it to lie on the table. This action of tl e Senate proves plainly that they think their pet General to he in a close place. — Mr. Johnson withdrew the letter of General Hampton. The question, “ who burnt Cos liimliirt}-’ we consider now as easily an swered as the one Who burnt Atlanta?” Gen. Hampton’s letter, and the Senate’s proceedings thereon, we publish in another portion of out columns. I’eqi EAiiiKD fiiom Sii.e to Son.”— John Hell I.rownlow, of the Knoxville Whig lineal chip of the obi lie-block—and J. \Y. Patterson, of the Knoxville Commercial . have had a fight. The former publishes a card, in which lie.claims to have caned the pitter, while the latter roundly retorts that the former did no such thing. According to our authority the Atlanta Kea be' sidei i t ier signs of bravery, there was a- a cussb ,’ but no i.100.1 or bruises.” If the said “ ! iieal chip” did the “ cussin” il w ould be refreshing lo know whether il were, if pos' sible, anew ringing on that pol.te accom plishment, or just w hat ho learned as cate chumen in the school of the old he one. “ Train up » child in the way he should (not) go, and when he is old he will not de part lrom it." lljstoi r Kki’eats Itself.— Satan, it is said, drew oil'one-third of Heaven’s host; I.rownlow has succeeded in drawing o(F just about one-third of Tennessee. Now, if •lie last-named arch sinner will carry out the paria'le!, and just take his third to the Northern part ©"the United States, as Sa tan did his to the Northern pad of Heaven, wo that are left behind, will try to bear it becomingly—trusting to do so “ w ith such sublimity. That all shall cry, w hat magnanimity!" Johnson Takes a £>sand. The following is what some one—professing to know—re ports of President views touching Uie Jl~ nalc of tho Reconstruction Committee : —“ Tbe I’resident was very emphatic in Ills opposition to the committee's report and declared himself against all conditions pre cedent to tbe admission of loval rtqiresentp lives from the Southern States in the shape of amendments lo the Constitution and the passage of laws. lie insisted that under the Constitution no State could be deprived of its equal suffrage in tbe Senate, and that Senators and Representatives ought at once to be admitted into the repiesentalive hous es as prescribed by the taw aud the Consti tution. “ ! L> wns for a strict adherence to the Con - stitutTon as it is. and remarked Uiat, having sustained ourselves under it during a terrible rebellion, be thought the Government could ho restored without resort to amendments; tnd remarked, in general terms, that if the organic law is to be changed at all, it should be at a lime when all the States and all tho people can participate in the altera.ion. Fennikst Thing on Kec«:d.— Some of the Northern journals seem to be seriously indignant at the bombardment of Valparaiso by the Spanish Floe’, ami the destruction therefrom of twenty million dollars worth of property —and are even saying that the U. S. Government onght to protest against a repetition of such wanton barbarity. “The faults of our neighbors with freedom we blame, But tax r.ot onrsthves, though we practice the borne.'' better front General M ade Hamp ton. Mr. Johnson rervl the following letter from General Wade .Hampton, on the sub ject of Columbia, South Carolina: Will. Woods, Mas, April 21, 1806. To Hon. Ih eerily Johnson, L. S. Senate .* S;k : A few days v.o I saw in the pub lished proceedings of Congress that a peti tion from Ueujau.in Itawles, of Ca.lu.nl.ta, S. C., asking compensation for the destruc tion of Ins house by the federal army, in February, 18G5, bad been presented to the Senate, accompanied by a letter from Major General Sherman. In.this letter General Sherman uses the following language : "The ! citizens of Columbia set fire to thousands ot bales of cotton rolled out into the streets.: and which were burning before we entered Columbia. I wot- ;n the city as as a o’cl.K k, and I «aw tke-e fires, and that efforts were inan» to extinguish them, but a high strong wind kept 'l.ein alive. “ I gave no orders for the burning of vour citv, but, on the contrary, the confla gration resulted from the great imprudence of rutting The d-otTdn bales, w hereby the contents were spread to the wind, so that it became an imposs bilily to arrest them. I saw in your Columbia newspaper the printed order of General \\ ade Hampton, that on the approach of the Yankee army all the cotton should thus be burned, and from what I saw mvself I have no hesita tion in saying that he was the cause of the destruction of your city.” This same charge, made against me by Genera^Sherman, having been brought be fore the Senate of the l ailed States, I am naturally most solicitous to vindicate my self before the same tribunal. Hut my State lias no representative in that body. — Those win. should bi her Constitutional re presentatives and exponents there are de barred the right of entrance into those halls. There are none who have the sight to speak for the South, none to participate in the legislation which g-*vetus her, none to im pose the taxes she is railed upon to pay, and none to vindicate her sons from mis representation, injustice or slander. Under these circumstances I appeal to you in the confident hope that you will use every effort to see that justice is done in this'inatter. I deny emphatically that any cotton was fired in Columbia by my older. 1 deny that the citizens “set fire to thousands of bales rolled out into the streets.” I deny that any cotton was on fire when tie Feder al troops entcre.l the city. 1 most respectfully ask of Congress to ap point a committee charge*! with the duty of ascertaining and reporting all (life facts con nected with the destruction of Columbia, and thus fixing upon the author of the enor mous crime the infamy he so richly de serves. lam willing to submit the ease to any honest tribunal. Hefore any such I [.ledge myself to prove that I gave a posi tive order, by direction of Genet a! Heatire g .rd, that no cotton should bo fired ; that not one bale was fired when General Sher man's troops look possession of the c-itv ; that he promised protection to the citv, and that in spite of his solemn promi-e lie buri ed the citv to tbe ground, deliberately, systematically and atroccous!v. I therefore most earnestly request that Congress may take [ tempt and efficient measures to investigate the matter folly,— Not on ly is this due to themselves and t" the re put a’, hum of the Unite I States army, but also to justice and to truth. li listing that you will pardon me for ad dressing you, 1 am very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Wade Uampto.v. Mr. Sherman said he could not allow this charge of this most impudent rebel, against the whole army, to be entered upon the minutes without some answer. The charge of Gen. Sherman in relation to the burning of Columbia, was in an official report, and was fn 11 v sustained hv reports from other ofil ors. Gen.-Sherman did not charge that. Wade Hampton gave a.i explicit order on the subject, but simply that his previous or der in lelation to the burning of Cotton, etc., led to that result. Mr. Sherman read from variors official reports to confirm the charge against (Jen. Hampton. Mr. Fessenden objected to tbe practice of taking up the time of the Senate in reading letters addressed, not. to the' Senate, but to individual Scna'ois, and especially oil mat i lets pertaining to private controvers es be tween persons not members of the Senate. Mr. Johnson moved the reference of Gen era! Hampton’s letter to the Committee on Military Affairs, or he was willing to have it lie on the table. Mr. Fesienden hoped that it wouM not be referred or ordered to lie on tbe table, but that the Senate would refuse to receive it. Mr. Coun-ss said that a man who would attempt <o de-stri.v the Government of the l listed States would certainly not hesitate to burn a citv. He Imped the letter of Wade II ampton would not bo received or considered at all bv tile Senate. Mr. Johnson then withdiew the letter of General Hampton. Appointments ok Methodist Hisnors. — Bishop Pierce will attend the following Con ferences : Arkansas, at S uircv, Sept. 26th ; ! Little Uock, Arkadelphia, Oct. 10; North Carolina, at Fayetteville, Nov. 7 ; Virginia, at Norfolk, Nov. 21 ; Baltimore, at Balti more City, March, ISG7. Bishop 1 Liggett will atltnd West Vir gmia, at Parkersburg, Sept. 5; Kentucky, at Winchester, Sept. 19th; Louisville, at Li./ahei i.lo.vii, 0. t. .1; St. Louis, at Lexing ton, <>ct. JI; Missouri, at Richmond, Oct. 17. _1 Bishop McTyeire will attend Ilolsfon, nt Ashville. North Carolina, Oct. 10; Tennes see, at Huntsville, Alabama, Oct. 24 ; Geor gia, at Ainerieus, November 28 ; Florida,' at Quincy, l*ec. Id. Bishop Wightinan will attend South Car olina, at Marion, Nov. 7th; Montgomery, at Jacksonville, Pec. sth ; Mobile at Fnter- j prise, Miss. Nov. 21st. Bishop J a.ne will attend Memphis, at Jackson, 1 tnnessee, on Nov. % l4th ; Mississip-i 1”, at N'aUdie.% Nov. Bth ; Loui*Ona. at Ba ton Rouge, Pec. 12th. Bishop Karanaugh will attend Pacific! Conference, at Petroleum, Cahfornia ; Col umbia, place not fixed. Bishop Marvin will attend Indian Mission, at Bloomfield; lexas, at Galveston ; Fast 1 I exas, at Marshal. ; \\ esl Texas, at Seguin ; Northwest Texas, at Waxahalchie. Bishops Soule, Andrew, mid Early, are without regular work. The following from Praper*’ last work, “ Civil Policy in America,” shows the Eastern origin of much that is useful auJ 1 admirable: “In times of which history lias failed trr preserve any account, that Continent ( must have been-the-scene of prodigious ac tivity. In il were fiist developed those fun d .mental inventions and discoveries which really lie at the basis of tho progress of the human race —the subjugation of domestic snirnals, tho management of fire, the expres sion of thought by writing. We are apt to overlook bow much man must have done, how much he must have added to lrs natu ral powers, in pre-historic times. \\ e for get how many contributors lo our own com fort are of oriental origin. Their common ness hides them from our view. If the Fiuropean wishes to know how much be owes the Asiatic, be lias only to glance st an hour of bis daily life Tbe which summons him from his bed in the morning, was the invention of tho East, as also were clepsydras and sun-dials The praver for the daily bread, that be lias said from infancy, first rose from the side of a Syrian Mountain. Tho linens ami cottons with which he clothes himself, though they may be very fine, are inferior to those th»- havq been made from time immemorial in the looms of India. The silk was stolen by some missionaries, for his benefit, from Chi na. lie couhl not buy better steel than that with which lie shaves himself, in the citv of Damascus, where it was first invented. The coffee he expects at breakfast, was first grown by the Arabians, and the natives of Upper India prepared the sugar with which be sweetens it. A school-boy can tel! the mewing of the Sanscrit words, xnccharn canda. If his tastes are light and he pre fers tea, the virtues of that excellent leaf were first pointed out l.v the industtious Chinese. They also taught him how to make and use the cun and saucer in which to sen e it. His breakfast tray wa- lacquer ed in Japan. There is a tradition that leavened bread was first made of the waters of the Ganges. The egg he is breaking, was laid by a fowl whose ancestors were fiist domesticated b) ' the Malaccans, unless she may have been— though that will not alter the case—a mod ern Shanghai. If there are preserves and fruits in let him remember with thankfulness that Persia gave him the cher ry, the peach, tbe p’um. If in any of these [deasant preparation*, he detects the flavor of alcohol. Id it remind him that that sub stance was first distilled by the Arabians, who I a.e set him the prai-eworthv examp e which it will be to his benefit to follow ; of abstaining from its use. When he talks about collee and alcohol lie is using Arabic words. A thousand years before it had cc cured to him to enact laws of restriction in yhe use of intoxicating drinks, the Prophet of Mecca did the same tiling, and what is more to the purpose, has compelled to this day all Asia au<! Africa to obey then-. We gratify our taste for personal orna ments in the way the Orientals have taught us—in the pearls, rubies, sapphires, dia monds. Os pul lie amusements, it is the same. The most magnificent fire-works are stdl to be seen in India and China; and a regarils the pastimes of private life, Europe ha-ptoduced no invention that cat) rival the game of chess. We have no hydraulic construction* as great as the Chinese Canal, no tortification as extens \ e as the C incse Wall; we have no artesian wells that can at all appioac h in de| th some of theirs. We have not \el te sorted to the practice of obtaining coal-gas from the interior of the earth ; they have borings for that purpose more than 3,000 feet deep,” \Ye rhallence the Comparison. Gen Hoed can t he of the full blooded chivalry. J Ile has refused to receive money raised for hhn 'by subscription. It is the first instance we have [ever seen tecorded of a “Southern uentleman ” too proud or too s-ls reliant to accept filthy lucre, come from w hat eource it may. —Albany Kerning Jour mil. Then yon are extremely ignorant of cotempora rv history—-that’s all. 110 >d has only done what Lee did a dozen times, whut Ileauregard did, what Mngrmler did, what Longstrcet did, and what no Federal General has done. The Albany Journal made a most unforlnnate mistake in calling attention to this matter. It suggests a comparison between the representative men and chief officers of the two armies, which is not discreditable to the South. When KobeiJ K. Lee was receiving four him dred and one dollars per month in Confeder.it* money, nt n time when that sum would not pur ehnse a half barrel of (lour, ’he wri't-r ol tins par .•graph moved, in the Legislature of Virginia, to present him, in . iew of his actual necessities, with a hundred t housand dollars, lie would not receive it. A member of the Legislature, in view of the General's known unwillingness to accept presents ol anv sort, proposed lo accomplish indirectly, what it was in possible to achieve directly. Gen. Lee was for several month* in the employment directly of the State of Virginia, and received his pay for that service in Coufedervte money. It was proposed to pay him lor that duty jn gold, deducting t he gold value of the Confederate money he received. A resolution tn that effect was communicated to him. He immediately replied that he had given a receipt in full to tbe State of Virginia, did not consider himself entitled lo further eoni pensalion, and, therefore, respectfully declined the sum tendered. At that lime General Lee and his stnff were destitute of the commonest necessaries of life, and frequently without food. Ail will remember, likewise, bow- vainly the people of Richmond endeavored to force the pres ent of a residence, in that city, on General Lee, at a time when his family were fugitives fioin their beautiful home. The money was subscribed and tbe house selected, when the General wrote a peremptory letter of refusal, respectfully, but in language that, left no room for doubt, declining the gilt. \ et., nt that time, bis family was occu pying one of tbe humblest residence* on Leigh Street. It is not neces-ary to enlarge upon the con trast between these acts and the course of Gen. GranL who has accepted, since ibe w-ac or e lifiodred and seven-five thousand dollars worth of presents, camaaes, horses, books and what not. tfo much for the fling at chivalrv. % Whatever else may be said of Southern Gener als, the charge of being mercenary, does not lie _ ngainkt them. The noble response of Magruder to the people of Texas, who contributed a hand some purse to procure him a line plantation du ring the war, was the impulse an.l utterance of the universal spirit of the Southern Soldiers. “ No, gentlemen, when I espoused the cause of the South, 1 embraced poverty, aud willingly ac cept it,” Such, also, was the conduct of Mr. Davis, who, shortly alter his arrival in Richmond, was present ed by tha citizens of our capital with the nrmn lion which he occupied .luring the war. He de clined respectfully but positively, to receive it on any other terms than being permitted to pay rent for it at the usual per eentage of cost for which such properly is routed. And Mr. Davis's salary per annum was not equal to General Grant's wag * per month. if tbe contrast thus presented between distin gill sired men on opposing sides of the late war, is not creditable to our Northern brethren, let them remember that wt did nut provoke it— Petert- i burg Express? TELEO-RAPHIC. NKVV YORK COITON AND GOLD MARKET Special Diapatcf.es to the Daily New Era. WashiSoTon. B.—Cotton ia New York is quiet at 341095 eents. PRIVATE TELEGRAM FROM LOLTsvVHYr Louisville, Kr, May 6, 1805 A, K. Sea go, Eug, Atlanta, Ga. Bacon has advanced one cent. Pi sides 19c. Lard 23c. tßf Gald, 129. Warrek Mitchell & Cos, NEWS AND FACTS. The XTcst Virginia has turned over to the ft of Virginia the stat.ee of Washington, stul f.om Lexington. ’ *® The Congressional Bank Committee have J,,.:. to report against the creation of any more Naii o , ** Banks. * ** A fire broke out in Mobile on April 80tli whl l> destroyed twenty tenement houses. ’ * Congress proposes lo confiscate the public land of Texas, and pure 1 them out among the negro*. It will be recollected that Texas, at the annex*, tion, did not cede her labels to the General GoG en.meut. ■ C. C. day, lately released from imprisonment it I Fortress Monroe, arrived at Huntsville \| a the 27th ult. ’ " Sumner, aim!i% (o eomp'iment the Mechanic,ef the North, sav*. they contributed toward* the gaii: ing of the victory over the South, alniott u» m uch ai tlic freedmen. Confiscation proceedings in the United states District C-urt at Jacksonville, Florida, have been stopped by an order fium I’resident J. hnson. A|| the property of Confederates now in the possession ' Ol the Government authorities, w ill be immediately re itoi ed. " * lienry S. Fitch, of Savannah, has been confirmed cy the Senate us Attorney for Georgia. D. T. Yulce was elected President of the Flori da Railroad, on tbe, 21st of April. “The Hermitage,” Gen. Jackson’s estate hi* been offered by Tennessee to Ibe United States conditional upon a branch of the West Tuint Academy being located thereon. The largest aqueduct in the world, is Croton, in New York, which is 4Sj miles lung, and cost {l2. OW.9WL The Senate has cor.firmed Le vis D. Campbell as- Minister to the Republic of Mexico. Tbe Atlanta Medical College commenced It, summer course ot lectures on last Monday (May The Senate has passed a bill from ti.c Conference Committee establishing telegraphic communica tion with Cuba. Gov. Pattor: of Alabama has issued a proclama tion co operating with the President in recom mending Thursday the 17th day of May as a day of fustn.g, humiliation, and prayer, in view of tb# fast approaching Asiatic Cholera. Ex Senator Wigfall, of Texas, is in London, having reached there some time in March of tin* year. D ekers declined n recent invitation to read be fore Victoria, on tbe ground Hint lie would not go as a [terfoi mer-where he was not recti. ed a. a gentleman. ; Over a million of emigrants have arrived tn this i country since last September. Aroma ok Coffee. —The berries ofeof toe, once toasted, lose every hour somewhat of their aroma, in consequence of the influ j cnee of the oxygen of tbe air, which, owing to the porousness of tlie roaste I berries, can leisily pencil ate. Tins pernicious clianoe may best be avoided by strewing- over tbe berries—when the roasting is completed, arid while tbe vessel in which il lias been ilo i*, is .-till hot—s une powdered white nr brow n sugar (half an ounce to the pound of cotfee is t efficient ) The snoar melts im mediate!)-, and by well slinking or laming the loaMer quickly, it spreads over all the b *rries, and “ives each one a fine gbtz , in» pervions to the atmo-piieie. They th er: have a shining nppearan -e, as though covered with Varnish, and they, in consequence, lose their smell entirely, w hich, however, return* in a high and -gree as soon as they are ground. All i this operation, they are to he shake'i out rapidly from the roaster and spread ou a cold plate of iron, so that thev may cool as soon as possible. If the hot berries are allowed to letnSin heaped together thev be gin to sweat, and when the quantity is large, the heating process by the influence of air increases to such a degree that at las. they take fire spontaneously. The roasted and gl i7.ed berries should be kept in a dry plan*', because the covering of sugar attracts mois ture. — Baron Liebig. WaatNext?—.Schools to Use Books Prescribed by Law.— In the Superior Court of BaKiinore, on Satindav, the coun sel for the State Board of Education applied tor a writ of mandamus, directed to ‘,Le School Commissioners of Baltimore city, to show cause, oil or befoie Saturday, May stb, why they should not use in the public schools of Baltimore, the text-books pre scribe.l by the State Board of Education, iu accordance with the act of Assembly estab lishing a uniform sys'ern of public school education in this State.— Sun. Dial’s light. Then pass a law- requiring the children to le fed upon codfish or pork and beans, and you’ll have a real New Kng and tree school, system.-— llich. Dispatch. Then pass a law compelling them to pri - nounce “nothing” “narthing,” and to ad<>| t’ the nasal twang of a Massachusetts Yankee nr far as practicable. Let’s have the entire swine or uoue.— Jour, rt J [ess. Tiik Bcunixo or Columbia, South Caroms*. — lhe Charleston South Carolinian, in referring t» G».i. Sherman's recent letter ou the burning »f Columbia, nays : “Gen Sherman, we pereeive. persist* in the as sertion, that the city or Columbia was destroyed by order of Wade Hampton. Hampton joins is sue upon tbe fact. The own* probavdi rests upon General Sherman. He must produce the order* of Hampton nnd substantiate the charge. Unless he can show that Humpton contrived, even whit* he, Sherman, was in full possession of Columbia for more than twelve hours, to introduce firs thousand of his Confederates, clothe them in Fed eral uniforms, and keep them busy, with torch and combustibles, flying from bouse to house, in the presence of five thousand all Lis asseverations must be in vnig.” “Old Aunt Biddy Lundy”—a negro**, or rather “of mixed Indian and negro descent,” —died lately near Macon, this State, at tho advanced age of one hundred and twelve yeats. To her latest moments —so says a correspondent of tho Macon Journal and Messenger —“ with much emphasis she de clared tiiat the‘good for nothing Quakers’ —the Messers. Broad Brims— ‘ with their thee and t/reu were the instigators of thi* war.’ ” IS~ Drs. Mean# and Mann, of tin Georgia del egation, at tli3 General Coofercncv, holding ia Neir Orleans, who were quite sick scrae time »gt>* had so far recovered on the 18th ultimo, as to able to Lake their *#«ts in tbe Conference room* The Georgia Baptist Convention, recently held in Macon, adopted a resolution disapproving of dancing, eard placing for amusement, atten dance on circuses ami thee Ires, and the drinking of pii ituovi liquors.