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A ‘•ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”Jefferson. VOLUME XVIII. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6,1866. NUMBER 23. lilfehli) Jntrllitprcr. PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY JARED IRWIN WHITAKER, I*roj>rletor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Wednesday, June 6, 1866. Vlic Death or (General Winfield Srotl. The annouucement by telegraph of the death of this distinguished military chief lias not taken the country by surprise, notwithstanding its sud denness. Alive as it were to-dav, and dead to morrow, still the latter event was not unexpected, for he had lived to an age remarkable among men, especially among those who, like himself, had seen so much of hard service, as well in the field as in the transaction of otlieial business at tached to the high station lie had reached in the course of his eventful life. While the North owes to him so much, the South will not forget that he was once their pride and boast, “ native and to t he manor born,” ami that when he could not co-operate with her, he was willing for the " wayward sisters" embraced within its bounds to “ depart in peace." Full of years, and full of honors, the gallant old chief has gone to his long home—that home where the “ weary are at rest.” And thus passetli, however exalted, or however humble, men away, “to that bourne from whence” none ever return. Alas, that the “ evil they have done liveth long after them,” and that “ the good is oft interred with their bones ! ” But, peace to ilie asli°s of the departed veteran ! History will do justice to his memory. Prentice and tlie “Dead Duck.” One of the best hits given Forney, the “Dead Duck” and Occasional of the “Philadelphia Press" is embraced in the following from the pen of Prentice of the Louisville Journal. Writ i»S of Forney he says: “The ‘Dead Duck’ of the Philadelphia Pnxs talks Rbout the South’s having ‘raised her puny arm against the Union.’ Puny say you, oh de funct aquatic bird ? Puny do you call that arm which defied and resisted the mighty power of the Federal Government almost live years, won many brilliant victories, and struck down nearly half a million of our best men upon the battle field ' It wasn’t puny, whatever else it may have been.” The brilliant victories won, and the half mil lion of men struck down upon the battle fields in their efforts to overpower and subdue the South by the armies thereof, give flat contradic tion to Forney’s declaration. That a "puny" eflort should require four years and millions of men to subdue, is not creditable to the conqueror in the conflict. Forney, as he is in the habit of doing, in thus underrating the valor and resist ance of the South in the late conflict, has done injustice to the North and its armies. Whatever else they may have been, neither was the attempt made l>y' the South to achieve her independence, a puny one, nor was that of the North to subdue her other than a powerful, a mighty one. His tory will give Contradiction to whatever Forney writes on the character and conduct of the late war. The Failure of Sir HI or toil Peto’s Loudon Hankins House. When ttirqner, s of the fnllurerot this LcCdoti banking house first reached us, we expressed the apprehension that it would aflect largely some of the Ruilroad Companies anil mercantile houses of the West and North. We were not mistaken, it seems, in our apprehensions. It is well known, says an exchange, that Sir Morton Peto was neatly interested in the Atlantic A Great West ern Railway, and in consequence of this failure >lie Western extensions of this road are much jeopardized, possibly to such an extent as to pre vent their being completed for some time to come. Hir Morton Pcto’s visit to this country last fall was mainly to look after this interest and devise ways and means to meet the then impend ing storm w liich has proved so disastrous to him. lie was then much embarrassed in his endeavors 1.) procure funds to sustain the credit of the road, submitting to rates as high ns 24 per cent per month tor temporary loans, and had obtained extensions to the amount of over a million and a half sterling. Another exchange says that the failure of Peto A Betts is very heavy. The liabilities are put down at £4,000,000. Sir Morton Peto says that nearly a month ago an accountant estimated that there would be £1,000,000 surplus on the estate. Alas, that these estimates are so fallacious! How can an accountant tell the value of Peto A Betts’ securities? This is rather an absurd finale to Sir M. Peto’s grand American tour, and it makes the Trunk shareholders feel rather uncomforta ble. And this is the end of the Loudon banker’s grand tour, and the ovations paid him, in the North and West only a few months ago. But who, if the statement be true that he was then borrowing and submitting to rates as high as 2J per cent, per month, could expect any other re sult V The finale is indeed an absurd one, and doubtless “makes many others besides the Trunk shareholders feel uncomfortable." The Freedmeu** Court Discontinued In Nashville. The Nashville Dispatch, referring to an order issued by direction ot Brevet Major General Fisk, abolishing the Freedmen’s Court in that city, says: “ The freedmen’s court lias been discontinued. This was a tribunal unknown to our jurispru dence. and however fairly and impartially it might have been administered, it was not calcu lated to give satisfaction. The Legislature might long since have given force to the negro testi mony law, and thus have rid the people ot these freedmen’s courts. The negro will now find no impediment to obtaining his rights before the courts of this State, but he will have to learn jin important fact, that these courts are very dit- terent from that to which he has been aeeus- t uned to appeal for a redress of real or fancied grievances. lie will find that these courts are not the mere registry of the prejudices of the judge, but are conducted upon the great princi ples which underlie the jurispiudence of the couutry. The negro need-have no tears that he will not be protected in all his rights as fully under our civil courts as under that anomaly known as the freedmen’s court.” The following is the order referred to in the foregoing • Bvr.E -c Refugees, Fb'dsi'x and Abandoned Lands , States or Kentucky and Tennessee. Ass t Conxissioner's Office, Nashville, May 26. 1 John Lawrence. Judge of Freedmen's Court. Superin tendent for Davidson county, Tennessee: Sir. 1 am directed by the Assistant Commis sioner, Brevet Major General Clinton B. Fisk, to intorm you that, under the provisions of the Dill which has just passed the Legislature of this State, and has at once become 'a law. defining the term “ persons of color," and “ declaring the rights of such persons,” you will at once discon tinue the Freedmen’s Court in this city, turn over all cases to the civil tribunals, and will call upon ihc county and city authorities to provide for the colored paupers, sick, etc., in accordance with the express provisions of this bill. I am, sir. very respectfully, your obedient servant. H. S. Brown, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General It is rumored that the King of Italy will him self be the commander-in-chief ot the Italian armv. with General de la Marmona as chief of staff. The National Bankrupt Hill. Commenting upon the passage of this hill by the House of Representatives of the present Con gress, the Washington City correspondent of the Richmond Examiner says: For the Southern States, lately dislurlied iu their business arramrements by war, Ac., this bill is a Godsend, and it is so acknowledged by many of tlie business and legal men of the South, who have corresponded with Mr. .Tenckos on the sub ject. The Bankrupt laws of ’91 and of '41 were either partisan projects or temporary expedients to relieve debtors. Of course they were repealed as soon as their object was answered. But this is intended as a permanent system governing, in time to come, the relations between debtor and creditor, in a uniform, and beneficient, and en lightened manner. The celebrated William Lowndes, of South Carolina, one of the ablest and purest of all the statesmen of his period, while he was in Congress, and at the head of the Committee of Ways and Means, elaborated a Bankrupt system, under the Constitution, which for that day, was excellent; but it was not adopt ed. A distinguished lawyer of Pennsylvania, John Sergeant, proposed a law for the same pur pose, but that failed. The unexecuted powers of the Constitution, one of which this Bankrupt Dill carries out, are ample for all the purposes of an American Union. This law. iu relation to creditor and debtor, is one of these unexecuted, and most beneficial powers. The creditor interest of the Northern commer cial States have demanded this law, and not the debtor interest. At the South, it may be that the debtor interest is not opposed to it. Mer chants everywhere will find their interests pro moted by a law which will generally adjust or compromise cases of debt and bankruptcy’ so that both parties, creditor and debtor, can be free and untrammelled. Among letters from the South, received and considered by tlie committee, were some from well known and most respected men, who ex pressed the opinion that this Bankrupt bill will do more for the South than anything that this republican Congress, or the Federal Executive could possibly do for them. What they most want, they say, is to be free from their debts, and enabled to begin again. The creditors will find t heir advantage also in wiping out and beginning anew. Tlius, the prince of dry goods dealers, Stewart, of New York, writes to the committee that a million and a half is due him from the South, and that he desires that the debt be wiped out iu such manner that his debtors can come and deal with him again. If such are to be the effects of this bankrupt bill.Jil will prove certainly beneficial to the South ern debtor but not more so than to the Northern bankrupt. Noth withstanding, however, the loss es sustained by the South, we feel almost con fident, that its commercial indebtedness—that leading to bankruptcy—is not greater than that of the North—that the “ Godsend,” in the pas sage of a Bankrupt Act, will be as well to the Northern, as it is esteemed by the Examiner's correspondent, to be to the Southern debtor. The experience of the past is a lesson not easily for gotten. The corruption and fraud attending the execution of the Bankrupt Act of 1341 are writ ten in the nation's liistorv, and make very black The Financial Panic Snbaldins In don. Southern Baptist Convention at Hassell* vllle, Kentucky. The London Times of the 16th instant states that the financial panic continues to abate, and tbe indications increase that, although many dif ficulties must yet be looked for, the effects of the shook will be less general and disastrous than on former occasions. Many, even, of the embar rassments that may yet have to be chronicled could, it is believed, with moderate assistance lie entirely averted. One reason for this corn paratively satisfactory condition consists in the fact that the crisis has come after three or four years of real trading prosperity, when the coun try was inherently more wealthy than at any previous date; while another favorable circum stance has been, that threatenings of a continen tal war on the one hand, and the salutary opera tion of our currency system on the other, have for months past tended to arrest the mad career of the speculative public, and to cause many of the additional schemes, to which they would otherwise have been committed, to prove abor tive. The Times is doubtless light. Great Britain has indeed had “ four years of real trading pros- w perity.” She has let no opportunity slip of em- isting against teaching the blacks. I . , . , . i ,n see no degradation m it. bracing every advantage that presented itself bv pages upon u Cotton. A writer in De Bom's Review says that “Cotton is grown, as will be see n by reference to the map, in China, Japan, a part of Australia, Bunnali, East India, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, in nearly all the explored parts of Africa, in Madagascar, the West Indies, North and South America, between the 40th de gree of North and a corresponding parallel of Sputh.JfUiti' and iu mnstogf Ikojsfcind-s of the world, which lie in tlie temperate and torrid zones.” Commenting upon the foregoing, the Paris (Tennessee) Intelligencer, estimating the quantity of cotton grown in East India and China alone at IS,000,000 bales, says, “ it is thus evident that the Southern States grow but a small quantity of the cotton worn bj’ the twelve hundred millions of human beings who inhabit the earth. Never theless, our fibre is larger and every way supe rior to that grown almost anywhere else. Hence it is worth more. Our planters command very remunerative prices. But we should gently sug gest that they should not run mad about cotton, and neglect the cereals aud other substantial, as it ilia}’ take the profits ot the cotton crop to supply the necessaries of existence.” The same journal predicts that there will be a greater reduction in the price of cotton for the following reasons: 1st. There is a greater breadth planted in the United States than was anticipated a few months ago. 2nd. There is abetter prospect that the labor can be relied on than existed at the beginning of the year. dj. The late exhorbitant prices were the result of tbe cotton famine in this country brought on by the war. 4th. The change in the machinery iu Europe to work the Surat Cotton will diminish the de mand for our cotton. 5th. During the blockade of Southern ports, while the war was going on, the cotton produc- 1 iug countries were stimulated to increase this production for export to the European markets. 6th. Within the last five years a very large area in other countries lias been reduced to cultivation for the production ot the staple ; and that area is still widening. Tth. The cotton of the Southern States consti tutes a very small part of the gross amount, pro duced annually throughout the world. The annual yield of the whole world is esti mated at the enormous sum of three hundred millions of bale*. These figures of our Tennessee eotemporary will be startling to the cotton growers of the South. We confess they are to us, and we should like to know from wluit statistics they are deriv ed. Three hundred millions ot bales grown! Prodigious ! Hilliard* aud Butler. “ Sumter,” the New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier relates tbe following, in which a natural propensity of General Benjamin F. Butler, the” Hero of New Orleans,” so-called, is again “illustrated;’’we mean liis propensity to run from whence danger threatens: Lovers of the game of billiards crowded to Cooper Institute last evening to witness the tenth match for the American championship and $1000. The champion. John Deery, of Washington, has has held the master's cue for six months, during which time he has defeated two claimants tor the honor. Last night liis antagonist was Joseph Dion, of Montreal. The battle ended in the de feat of the champion, who must now relinquish his title to the skillful Canadian. A funny cir cumstance connected with the exhibition is no ticed by the Daily World. General B. F. Butler was present and seated near the reporters. At one time there was a disturbance among tbe sport ing men and every symptom of a fight. To the amusement of the lookers on, the hero of New Orleans crabbed his hat and instantaneously “ske daddled.” —♦ »■ Confirmed by tbe Senate. We notice in a telegraphic dispatch, the con firmation, recently, by the United States Senate, of the appointment made by the President of Mr. W. H. Watson, as the Revenue Assessor for this, the 4th collection district, of Georgia — Mr. Watson has been discharging, in a most courteous and efficient manner, the duties ot this office ever since its creation here, and we are pleased to notice this confirmation by the Senate of his appointment. Information Wanted.—The Savannah Ad vertiser publishes the following notice, with a request to the press to copy: e learn that the body of Captain Livingston, of one of tlie Alabama regiments, wlicT was wounded at Gettysburg and died in Baltimore, was embalmed aiid placed in a vault in that city, to await the claim of his friends. Captain L. was at one time editor of a paper in Alabama. Further information as to his death can be ob tained at tliis office. reason of the four years ot war in America, to improve her trade, extend her commerce, and protect her manufacturing interests. The war in the United States was to her an event to profit by. The longer it held out, tlie better for her. In truth, it terminated too soon for her interests. Had it continued years longer, the better for her. Wliat though another million of men had been slain, little would she have cared for that; her commerce would have been more flourishing; her trade would have been more extended; her manufacturing interests still better protected; and the financial disasters which she has just ex perienced would hardly ha\o created the brief panic it did. Well does the London Times rea son when it says: After the panic of 1847, a long period was ex perienced during which half-finished railways and other public works had to be abandoned, and persons w T ere ruined who might otherwise have partly retrieved their posilton. On the present occasion there is no reason to apprehend that anything of this sort to a serious extent will be witnessed. Again, in the succeeding panic— that of 1857—it was found that for a year or two a large number of the most active firms in Glas gow, Liverpool, London, and elsewhere, had ab solutely for a long period been shipping goods at a reckless sacrifice, for the sole purposed having the pretext of an extensive business to enable them to draw accommodation bills. In that way an actual commercial loss of tens of millions was incurred. On the present occasion there has been no very serious squandering of national wealth,Panel the ruin encountered has been main ly from a fall in the prices of securities which were previously calculated to be symbols of wealth the}’ did not actually represent. In this way it lyis been estimated at least one hundred and thirty millions sterling have disappeared, even since tlie commencement of the current year, but it is simply from the dissipation ot pre posterous valuations,.and not from the destruc tion or loss of anything positive. Even of this at least half, or perhaps two-thirds, will be re covered with the return ot confidence, since its enormous amount, is chiefly due to the fact that every enterprise and every security in the king- iom, including the English funds, and all the best - reign stocks, have been beaten down by the .isappearance of the fictitious premiums of a number -of inferior concerns. The prospect, therefore, Is much less discouraging than .might be suppose^, and i| may be honedwftat although tlie age is probably far 'distant when morality and intelligence will be sufficiently diffused to prevent altogether the repetition ol such crises, each succeeding case of the kind will show some advancement in the power of self-control. Tlie general consequences of the panic of 1857 were for less disastrous than those of 1847, and there is good ground to trust that on the present occa sion we shall show a further stride in our ability to briug these periods of mania within the influ ence of corrective processes. Four years of war have taught the two section of the UnitedSfates, North and South, a valua ble lesson in regard to the policy or statesmanship of Great Britian. While it professes to he for the advancement of commerce and civilization, it is only for the advancement of British com merce and British interests, civilization and peace in Christendom being, with her, tlie last consider ation. She looks upon war waged by all other nations in which she is not involved—and she will uot be involved in any if she can help it— as beneficial to her, aud she governs herselt and her diplomacy accordingly. The iour years of war in America, the Times now boasts, have enabled her to overcome this last financial panic. Pos sibly she will profit by the threatened continent al war now agitating all Europe. Her position, iu that event, is already declared to be one of neutrality between the contending powers. We opine, however, this will hardly be permitted If it be, she will doubtless improve upon it, and, in the event of another financial panic, will be able to subdue it with as much ease as she has done the recent one in London. Verily, Great Britian is a trump among the nations of tlie earth, and however much we may dislike her cold- hearted selfishness, her statesmanship is for her own interests, not equalled by any other nation or power on either continent. But for him who rules oyer France, and who watches every move ment of Victoria’s ministry, Great Britian would lord it over every other European power with as much imperiousness as she doe? over any of her provinces in India or America. The following correspondence of the Louisville Courier touching the Southern Baptist Conven tion, recently in session at Russellville, Kentucky, embracing as it does some mdliicftl questions, and referring as it does also to some of the reverend gentlemen ot that denomination, well known, and highly esteemed in Georgia and the South, we lay liefore our readers thinking it will be ac ceptable to many of them: [Special Dispatch to the Loniiville Courier.] RrssELLvmce, Ky., May 25. In the Convention to-day Dr. Tichenor, of Ala bama, submitted a report and address upon the subject of affording religious'ihstruction to the colored population of the South; the encourage ment of day schools among them, and the edu cation of the colored teachers by the Baptist pastors. 'V This report elicited somedir&ussion, but it was the unanimous sentiment of th s Convention that the former masters of the slav^ftvere their proper instructors, and that Baptists fobove all others should actively and energetically exert them selves in tbe matter. s' Messrs. McIntosh, of Alah^r* and Poindexter, of Virginia, alluded to the absurd prejudice ex- x Tjievcould Paris Correspondence of ths New York Herald. French Living Criticised by • Live Cosmo* Hie—Room i'or People who Keep a Ho- Amoug the many plans and projects which the approaching grand exhibition has brought out for the accommodation of strangers, one of the most useful is one just decided upon by the finance committee of the exhibition—the erec tion of a building in the park for an “ Interna tional Club.” This is intended to be confined entirely to exhibitors, and in the large reading room it is intended to have journals from all parts of the world; waiters who speak all lan guages will be employed to serve meals to the members, each of whom will have his box iu Secretary McCulloch’* Speecb. Mr. McCulloch’s speech to the serenaders on Wednesday night, is worthy of a fuller mention than the synopsis which was all we had room for on yesterday. He thus defined his position : My position, gentlemen, in reference to the issues which are now engaging the public atten tion is not, I apprehend, misunderstood by you. [Cheers.] I took occasion, last fell, among my old friends iu Indiana, to define my position, and since that time I have seen no occasion to change, much less than to abandon it. [Applause.] I will say, therefore, as I suppose I must say some thing on this occasion, that the general policy of the President in reference to the Southern States and the people recently in arms against the Fed- Napoleon at Anxerrc. The Emperor Napoleon's visit to the town which gave him his first election as representa tive, has been remarkable by the speech he deliv ered. We give below the address of welcome of the Mayor to the Emperor and the Empress, and Napoleon’s speech in answer: which his lettere wifi be deposited The club eral Government, has commended itself to my wnica ms letters_will De deposited, lne club f deliberate 1uc1 ’ n t roheer*! And The Southern Cnltiuator. The June number of this most excellent prac tical and scientific monthly, published at Athens, Georgia, by W. N. White, and edited by D. Red mond and tbe publisher, lias been received at this office. Wo lay before our readers the contents of the number for this month, which we are certain will interest, at least the farming and scientific por tion of our readers. The low price at which this valuable monthly is furnished to subscribers, ought to insure for it the largest circulation of any similar journal published in the South, to- Dr. Crawford, of Georgetown College, spoke of tlie laws formerly existing in Georgia, prohib iting even owners to teach tligjj’slaves. He and his children had violated that law, tor it was a law against God. The report was adopted without opposition. A preamble and resolution defining the opin ion of the Convention upon the subject of relig ious liberty was introduced by A. P. Williams, of Missouri. It re asserts the great cardinal and fundamental principles of Baptist faith which have ever been in antagonism to persecution for conscience sake. This declaration of opinion gave rise to a discus sion of very general interest. The Missouri dele gates were opposed to any personal allusion to themselves or the persecution they have under gone and are now suffering. But the Conven tion prefers to express its sympathy with its Mis souri brethren, aucl its detestation of the despot ism that prevails there. Stirring speeches were made by Dr. Fuller, ot Baltimore, and Dr. Bur rows, of Richmond. Dr. Fuller gave his personal experience in the midst of civil war, and how lie had obeyed the laws of tbe United States not for patriotism, but for religion—having stated this to the authorities at Washington when he was threatened with im prisonment. Dr. F. spoke with his peculiar pow er and emphasis, and witli of manner, cogency of logic, and chasteness of rhetoric that are so natural to him. Dr. Burrows, of RichmomkiMated that he had nothing to repent of what lie lmd said, thought, or clone during tlie past five years; and that to no man living would he ever .Nfake acknowledge ments, or ask pardon of any but the Lord of all. Prof Boyce, of South Carolina, who was for mouths after liis State seceded, a warm Unionist, but afterwards a statt officer,.--spoke eloquently and forcibly upon tbe subject of soul liberty. It was, lie said, Bible doctrine^ well as Baptist doctrine, and should be re-asserted and reinstated by the Convention. Dr. Jeter, of Virginia, spokt? with power and point, as did Mr. Poindexter. Their discussion gave occasion to tlie most spirited debates of the session, and there was evidently much feeling on the important question of military and civil in terference with religious affairs. The Convention will not adjourn before to morrow evening. The types this morning make a glaring error in tlie amount contributed for the domestic mission at the meeting on Wednes day night. The sum was six hundred and sixty dollars. ~A The General Associa^g-^^en-^tckv Baptists met til j ^ Lii^BlfcpnjC'rument. The ruin di- large doregruten was prcsui.. urfl a„- every section ot the State. J. S. Colonial, ot Ohio countv, was elected Moderator, and W. Pope Yeaman, of Covington, Clerk. The report of the corresponding secretary ex hibits the receipts of Kentucky to be §8,000 du ring the past year for benevolent purposes. A vote was taken upon the place for holding tlie next annual meeting. ' Henderson, Millers- burg, New Liberty, Owensboro and Louisville were the contending candidates. The vote stood, Henderson 74, Louisville 41. Dr. Crawford, of Georgetown, was chosen to preach the next introductory sermon, and H. McDonald alternate. e Rev. G. Lorimer was appointed chairman of the Committee in Relation with the Colored People; and Rev. Ii. M. Dudley chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Constitution. To-night Rev. G. C. Lorimer preached the in troductory sermon before a crowded audience. rooms are to remain open until eleven o’clock in the evening. I think it a little strange that some of your shrewd American landlords, who, whatever else they may he lacking in, certainly “can keep a hotel,” have not conceived the idea of establish ing—during the exhibition year, after which it would necessarily become one of the fixed and most popular institutions in Paris—a hotel kept upon the liberal American plan. I do not mean by this that it should necessarily be conducted upon the old system of charging so much a day for room aud meals, (although it would proba bly be well to combine the American and Eu ropean systems in this matter, giving guests their choice,) but that the little swindles to which deliberate judgment. [Cheers.] And although it has been violently, and iu some instances vin dictively assailed, I have an abiding conviction that it will be approved by the people when they shall be allowed to pass judgment upon it at the ballot box. [Loud cheers.] This plan is fairly stated in the platform of the club which many of you represent. I need not say, therefore, in re gard to that platform, any more than that I sub scribe to all its doctrines fully and without re serve. [Cheers.] I suppose, gentlemen, that none of us expected that, at the close of the war in which much bad blood had been excited and more good blood had been shed, we should have bright skies and clear seas. 1 take it for granted that most of us expected that at the close of the guests are subjected in European hotels should F'T 1C > nru \ P er ’ be abolished, and the benefits of American ho- rr f v* . 1 ' would take time to bring tels introduced mto P ro P er subjugation. But although we an- There certainly never was a wider field for en- ffidStatS,’ i P f * thC terprise in hotel keeping than in Paris. Here in ? t d ™ lld J a e ^ hat f e 7, er the capital of.tl.c P wof,<l,.i„ a city turnip | jS*. nearly two millions in population, there are really but two hotels—the Grand and the Hotel du Louvre—of modem construction. The others, like tlie Meurice, the Bristol, the Windsor and the Mirabeau, are still kept in the same old buildings that they were before the age of rail roads, and when English “ milords ” descended at them from post-chaises, muddy and dirty with the travel from Calais or Boulogne. The two hotels referred to, though new and well con ducted, lack in many things the comforts which are now’ considered necessiries with you. The rooms do not contain gas nor water, and the wa ter is carried up in pails in limited .quantities.— The sitting-room and chambers contain no grates, and guests are not allowed to bum coal, upon the pretext that it injures the gilding and paint, but iu reality to enable the proprietors to get from five to ten francs a day out of each guest who has a wood fire iu his room. Then the sys tem ot charging is an annoying one. In these two hotels the prices of rooms vary according to the floor upon which they are situated. An un initiated visitor, upon being informed that the price of his room for a day is six francs, would for settlement, the discussion of which would be likely to agitate the country, shake it, perhaps, from center to circumference. But we knew also that the people had not been wanting in any previous emergency, and we had confidence that they would be prepared to cope with and settle satisfactorily any question that might he pre sented in the future. [Applause.] That faith is with us now. It is strong with us to-night. We have faith in the people. And we have faith in that good Providence which, having led this nat ion through the red sea of bat tle, is not likely to desert it now that the dread fill passage has been accomplished. The Presi dent of the United States, gentlemen, stands be fore the country in no doubtful attitude. His voice gave utterance to no uncertain language when it denounced treason at the outbreak of the rebellion in the Senate of the United States. [Cheers.] He showed no faltering fidelity when, counting everything else as mere dust in the bal ance in comparison with the Union and the Con stitution, lie went back to Tennessee to fight treason and secession iu their strongholds, and SPEECH OF THE MAYOR. Sire—Fifty-one years since the Emperor Na poleon I. wa*s received in this town with such proofs ot devotedness aud joy that lie retained a vivid recollection of them, which he expressed on his death-bed in the most affecting terms, as recorded in the Memorial de Sainte Helene. Your Majesty has just heard the same enthusiastic ac clamations, the same cries from the depths ot the heart of a population whose devotedness to the Emperor, as your Majesty well knows, lias no more been found wanting in days of trial and adversity tlian in those of prosperity and triumph. Let the Emperor, therefore, permit me to present to him the keys of this faithful town, in which the sacred fire of attachment to the Empire has always been kept burning even in the darkest times. Madame—Come and receive the ardent bless ings of our population, who venerate, admire and love you; and, as their reward, deigmto tell the young Prince Imperial that, like his great uncle and his father, he may ever rely on The affection of his old and loyal town of Auxerre. The Emperor replied in the following ADDRESS. I am happy to see that the reminiscences of the First Empire have not been effaced from your memory. Be certain, that on my side, I have in herited the sentiments of the head of my family for the energetic and patriotic populations who supported the Emperer in good as in evil fortune. I have, moreover, a debt of gratitude to pay to the department of tlie Yonne. It was one of the first to give me its suffrages in 1848, because it knew, like the majority of the French nation, that its interests score mine, and that I detested, like it, those treaties of 1815 which some parties of this day wish to make the sole basis of our foreign policy. I thank you for your sentiments. In the midst of you I breathe at ease, for it is among the labo rious populatious of the towns and rural districts I find the tri that true genius of France. cal. If a better policy can be presented—one price. When lie receives his bill, however, he learns his mistake. In addition the price charged for room there is a charge of from one or two francs a day for “ serviceand if tlie guest only stops one night lie is charged one franc in the bill for a candle with which to light himself to bed. Now this would not be so annoying were he informed that the price of his room would be more in consonance with the principles of the government, better calculated to preserve the su premacy of Federal authority while it trenches not on^the reserved and legitimate lights of the States, more just, humane, better fitted to bind the people of this country in a common brother hood, at the same time that it places just con li’av^^e^r^endered’hiln’ftuy al] Vhe n ‘‘’se^^ice l ' , ’ | is no7!aii U !n’th^’unHelf’fl^nles^ho SW. *?•»« - is?-1 ir ss ssz ter policy be presented, he must be false to him wit: only $2 pc-r year, §1 for six, and fifty cents for three months. It would be cheap at treble the price: AGRICIT-TURAL. Work for the Mouth. Cotton-Picking Machiue. Deep Culture. Agricultural Papers, Unculti- Chnfas as a Field Crop. rated Lauds, etc. The Crops—Insects on Cattle Plague in 1745. Grapes. How to Get the Cholera. Model Farming. Cattle Pla'gue. Sugar from Sonrhum. Wonderful. Crops—Freedmen. A New Silk Worm. Grasses which hare Stood New Complaint- the Test. North Carolina.. Rotary Spader. Fertility of Louisiana. Bermuda Grass. Manuring. &c.. He. I Livp Fencr«. rDi TOEIAL. j Business Notices. The Crops. i Exchanges. Books and Exchnuscs. j Now is the time to Sub- The Cotton Tax. i scribe. Hor.TTrrxruTLAL. | The Kitchen Garden. Flower Garden. 1 Culture ot Vegetables. A Good Garden. Fruit. Latest Children's Mania. HOUSEHOLD ECOXOZtfT. Getting up a Breakfast. Recipe?. \ Paste that will Keep. i THE xiEESTDE. Weep! Weep! A Domestic Sell. More than She Bargained Cc Ydn't Fool Her. for. Latest Communications and A Smart Boy. ^Notices. 1 here i; a movement on foot in Paris for the purpose of placing at the principal crossings a refuge for pedestrians. The Parisians intend to improve upon the same system already estab lished in London by raising a huge candelabra with five lights in the centre of each refuge as an additional adornment to their metropolis. Special Dispatch toltiie New York News. Tlie Trial of Jefferson Davis Postponed. Washington, May 25,1866. There is no more probability of the speedy trial of Jeff. Davis now than there was two or three months ago. Indeed, the opposition to hav ing him tried in the civil courts is so great some times it seems that the wliolf project of having him so tried will have to be abandoned. The Chief Justice, the Attorney General and the Radical leaders generally, aie at the bottom of this opposition, which is founded on the well- known fact that a civil trial would result in the full acquittal of tlie prisoner.'' Every possible obstacle, therefore, lias been put in tlie way of such a trial, and tlie Attorney General has now decided to postpone il until the next December term of the court. The Radi cals freely express tlie most blood-thirsty vin dictiveness toward Mr. Davis, and do not hesitate to express the desire that he should die in prison rather than be tried and acquitted. The House Judiciary Committee are so silly as to continue their efforts to have Mr. Davis tried before a mil itary tribunal as an active accomplice in the as sassination of Mr. Lincoln, and they authorized the statement to be made only yesterday that they had full proof of his guilt. It is reported that Mr. Davis is to be released on parole, in ac cordance with the request of Mrs. Davis. It is the opinion of the highest medical authority that a few weeks more confinement w’ould terminate his life. MR. SEWARD THANKED FOR .REPRESSING FENI- ANI3M. Sir Frederick Bruce has conveyed to Mr. Sew ard the thanks ot himself and liis Government for the efficient manner in which our Govern ment repressed the late Fenian demonstration against Canada. He expresses himself as being satisfied that all danger is now’ over; but inti mates that the British Government j|s now fully prepared to repel all such attempts, either against Canada or Ireland. SANTA ANNA TO BE PRESENTED TO THE PRESI DENT. It is reported that the difficulties between Santa Anna and Senor Romero have been .adjusted by the good offices of Mr. Seward. Santa Anna will soon be presented to the President by Sir. Seward. In the meantime his officers who are here express themselves as perfectly satisfied with the progress which their scheme is making. The information in regard to the condition of affairs in Mexico, contained in my last dispatch, is from authentic sources, aud may be relied ou as correct in every particular. The European members of the diplomatic corps here are, Itbe- iieve, unanimous in the opinion that a European w ar is by no means certain, aud that the peace of Europe'may yet be preserved. It is admitted on all bands, however, that the issue rests entirely with the Emperor Napoleon. Dreid. The Hoop Skirt and Baptism.—At Detroit last week, a rather amusing scene took plaee during the baptism of a young lady, by the pas tor ofthe Tabernacle. The minister requested her to assume the dress peculiar to such occa sions, but she declined to take off her hooped skirt; the minister told her of the inconvenience that would result from her obstinacy, but like a true female she persisted; but when she came to descend into the bath the inflated skirt touched the water, and rose up around her like a balloon. Her head was lost to the congregation ; she was swallowed up in the swelling skirt. The minis ter then tried to force her down into the bath, but she was kept above the surface by the floating properties of crinoline, and was buoyed up so successfully that it was not until after many at tempts to submerge the lady that the minister succeeded in baptising the fair one. Finally, it was effected, to the relief of the minister and se riously inclined audience, who could not keep from chuckling in their sleeves, and laughing in their pocket-handkerchiefs. Ten Thousand persons in New York make their living in the rag business, which amounts i annually to §9,000,000. waiters or chambermaids, who are employed at very low wages, and depend principally upon the gifts of guests. In tlie cafes and eating rooms ot these hotels, too, the guests, alter paying exorbitant prices for everything, are expected to give pourboires to the waiters, who here receive no pay from the house. In these places as in all cafes in Paris, every thing is done upon a microscopic plan, every thing being ridiculously small but the charges.— entleman takes his seat, fiyl instance* in the seif, false to his record, and must, in fact, cease to be Andrew Johnson, if he does not adhere to his policy, and sink or swim with it. [Cheers.] It is pretty good evidence, after all, gentlemen, of the correctness of his policy, that Congress, after liavjng been in session nearly six long, weary,-months, has been unable to present one which they can agree upon as a substitute.— [Chefers and laughter.] It was once said, I think cafi of the GrancTKotet and c&ls t&ETi 'gfoss of \ of £ J in } cer ? t,ic - c ?“ st |* °i„„ | tutional tinkers were the most to be depreciated. the best brandy. After a considerable delay and circumlocution the waiter brings him upon a silver platter, a decanter of water, a little decan ter of brandy, and a glass about the size of an ordinary thimble. The decanter containing the liquor is numbered from top to bottom like a medical drinking glass, and the little glass just holds the range between two numbers on the de canter. When tlie refreshment is taken, the waiter examines tlie decanter and charges for tlie number of drinks taken, at the rate ot fifteen sous the glass, or “thimble full,” which amounts to about thirty dollars a gallon. In addition to this he expects two sous for his services. If su gar is called for, that is charged for; if a lemon is called for, that is charged, and extravagantly; if bitters are called for, that is charged for, and if ice water is used that is charged for. These are the customs which prevail in all the hotels and cafes in Paris. Now, it seems to me that a smart American landlord, w’ho would in troduce gas and hot and cold water into every room in his house; who would permit his guests in winter to have good coal tires at reasonable rates; who would charge so much a day for a room, including service and lights; who* would [Cheers.] If the old man could rise from his grave, wliat would he say to the present Con gress, in which every third man, at least, is a constitutional tinker? [Cheers aud laughter.]— But they are not wise enough to amend that rand old instrument, the work of our patriot fathers, of the founders of the Republic, the glory of the United States, and the admiration of the world. [Cheers.] Continuing, he declared that it was not the President’s fault, but that of Congress, that a sec tion basing representation upon the number of voters was not included in the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery; and if the course of the President was not approved by the people, why was it there was no opposition to it until the “ Jupiter Tonans” of Congress met. In conclusion, he said : I have desired and hoped for the continuation of this great Union party with which I have been ever identified—[cheers]—but if its leader can present nothing better than the programme of the committee I am greatly apprehensive that its days will be numbered. [Cheers.] I trust, fellow-citizens, that this will not be the case; Dav li’is servant! and cut off all abou that . k d^ard itg hostility and its attempt to pay ms _er\ ants ana cut on an pou/ooires apout con t inue oiienatinn hptwppn thp tirn apetinne <vf hi3 hotel, would immediately and always have his house full. Eutopeans chafe terribly uhder all these little swindles and annoyances; but they are the custom, and there seems to them no way of getting rid ot them. In connection with the hotel, hair-dressing and bathing-rooms, such as you have in New York, where a man could have a comfortable bath and a shave, and know how much he is to pay for them, would have been a valuable and important feature. In Paris, where one goes to a bathing-house (and they are, with few exceptions, all dirty and dilapidated,) he first buys a bath ticket; a servant shows him to a room and takes his ticket; the tub is usually too short, and when in it the customer finds that there is neither soap nor towels furnished him; the door of the bath-room is locked and the key on the outside, and if he wants soap and towels he must ring for them; these are charged for, and when he is through with his bath he must ring again and fee the waiter before he can get out. A Lucky Bat-maker. The Russian peasant who saved the life of the Czar is a signal instance of the embarrassing po sition of a man upon whom honors are thrust.— It appears that he is wholly uneducated, and therefore unfit for the cultivated society into which his lot is now cast through the gratitude of Alexander. General Todleben, the defender of Sebastopol, has undertaken the rask of impart ing the needed instruction. The name of this lucky person is the terrible one of Joseph Kommissaroff-Kostromski. His patent of nobility lias been published, and a correspondent writes of him that “he is abso lutely a martyr to public feeling, and has no doubt many a time wished himself back at hat making.” Not content, with giving him ovations at the theatres, poor Kommissaroff lias had to eat and drink with all sorts and conditions of men, from the artizan to the prince. At a dinner given by tlie nobles of St. Petersburg to the deputies from Moscow and other places who have come with addresses to the Emperor, Kommissaroff sat next to Court Orloff Davydoff, who was in the chair. There was the unfortunate Kommissaroff going through his second dinner that day, dressed for the first time in the stuffy uniform of a nobleman, and wiping his honest hot face with the trusty right hand tiiat shoved Karakosoff’s elbow. His health was drunk amidst cheers that might be compared to the roar of artillery, and he return ed thanks in words that did not reacli either his neighbors or the reporters, on account of the enthusiastic uproar which his presence created. How Mrs. Kommissaroff passes her time is not so well known, for her husband’s popularity is but little reflected on her. She appears, how ever, by his side in a photograph, which meets with an immense sale in the streets of the capital. But of course she will come in for some of the good things that are lavished on her husband.— Moscow sends him a goid sword of honor, the Emperor gives him a pension, the inhabitants of St. Petersburg a house, and the nobles of every province are soliciting tlie honor of inscribing his name in their genealogical registers. The Em peror of Austria has sent him the Commander’s Cross of the Franz Joseph Order.—New York Evening Post. Deaths in Houston.—We are pained to hear a report that the Hon. John M. Giles died re cently at his residence in Perry, ot a wound re ceived from the horn of a cow, which subse quently gangrened and proved incurable. Mr. Giles was a distinguished lawyer and most esti mable gentleman. We also learn with much regret of the death of John H. Powers, of the same county, a brother of the late Hon. A. P. Powers, of this county, and well known to our citizens generally.—Macon Journal & Messenger. continue alienation between the two sections of the country, and that it will embrace those prin ciples which look to harmony, to restoration, and to peace. If it should do this, it will still continue to be tlie great and controlling party of the country, and cover itself with imperishable glory. It it does not, its days are numbered, and the epitaph that will be writtten on it will be, “ It knew how to prosecute the war with vigor, but it lacked the wisdom to avail itself of tlie benefits of victory. [Applause and three cheers for Sec retary McCulloch.] A Political Reminiscence. Speaking of the Hon. Bedford Brown, of North Carolina, who was recently examined by the “Reconstruction Committee,” the New Orleans Picayune says that his age must be more than threescore and ten, and tells the following story relative to his first election to the Senate of the United States: There is a curious political anecdote told of liis first election to the Senate, which was a matter of accident. Mr. Brown was a member of tlie Legislature from Caswell county, we think, at the time when the two Houses were balloting for a successor to John Branch, who had received the appointment of Secretary of the Navy from Gen. Jackson. The local parties of North Car olina were very much mixed up between Feder alist and Republican, East and West, Jackson and Adams, and had not crystalized into the forms of party which subsequently obtained and ruled so long. The contest for Senator was among four or five prominent public men, and the balloting was protracted. Mr. Brown was not considered as a candidate, in fact, although he received a few scatering votes. At last, wearied of the contest, there was an informal agreement made by which all leading men in nomination should be withdrawn, and a new man, Mr. John Owen, acceptable to a great ma jority, should be nominated and elected. The arrangement was not quite made when it was suggested to have, in the mean time, another ballot, to which the votes would be scattered, as usual, and the final ballot be then held under this arangement. Members proceeded accord ingly to vote at random. By the rnei est accident, there being no concert at all*, the members threw away their votes, as they thought, on a candidate without chance, and a large number put Mr. Brown’s name on the ticket, nere another curious incident determined the election. The town of Newbem was then a borough town in the county of Craven, and had its separate repre sentation. Mr. Gaston, one of the ablest men North Carolina ever produced, represented New- bern. Alfred Stanly, son of Hon. John Stanly, was representative from Craven county. Be tween the famlies of Gaston and Stanly, there was an old feud which had descended to the younger branches after the elder had forgotten it. While this ballot was going on, Mr. Gaston, a venerable gentleman, whose seat was near that of young Stanly, folding his own ballot said to his neigLbor, “Alfred, vote blank.” Not to be dictated to by a Gaston, Stanly put the name of Bedford Brown on his ballot, because Brown happened to catch his eye, being seated in the Speaker’s chair. On counting the ballots, Bedford Brown was elected Senator by a ma jority of one vote, as much to his own surprise as that of a majority of those who voted for him. There was a good deal of grumbling, and we think some a tempts to revise the vote, but all failed, and Sir. Brown took his seat to make himself a useful aud diligent member, and to become so popular that on the expiration of that term he was re-elected by a large vote. He was succeeded in 1841 by Mr. Graham. There are in New York city 40,000 vagrant children, the offspring of crime, vice and pauper ism. THE EFFECT IN PARIS. [Paris (May 8) Correspondence of London Times.; Tlie words spoken by the Emperor on Sunday in his speech to the Mayor of Auxerre will have reached you by the telegraph before this. Wliat the telegraph will not tell you is the effect pro duced by those words in Paris. How they will be interpreted in England I do not know, but it would be difficult indeed to exaggerate the dis may, and, I must add, the indignation they have roused here. That indignation was yesterday so strong as to throw the most cautious, the most timid, off their guard. People who have been ruined, people who are desperately struggling to escape the ruin which is hanging over them, and people who toil now yielded a large belief to tlie pacific intentions of the government, and did not scan too nicely what appeared ambiguous in them, are in consternation. It is in re [fly to M. Tiiiers’ speech, and to the enthusiastic reception it met with in the legislative body, that the Em peror trumpets to tlie world his detestation of “those treaties of 1815, which it is desired to now make tlie basis of our foreign policy.” These words strike upon the ear like tlie first notes of defiance to Europe. They are the revenge taken upon tlie commercial, the bourgeois classes, whose hopes of peace are so cruelly dissipated. Railroad Connection* with tbe South. It is manifestly the interest of Nashville to ex tend her railroad connections with the South. It is desirable to have railroads connecting this city with the North West, but we must look to the South for that trade which will build up our city. Situated as Nashville is, our business men must seek customers South of us. It is, there fore, of the utmost importance that we have lines of railroad Teaching through tire South, which will constitute great thoroughfares for commerce. If we can get these lines radiating from Nash ville, we need give ourselves but Tittle concern iu regard to lines connecting us witli the North and West, as they will surely be built by the men whose interests are to be subserved by meeting here the lines coming hither from the South. We need now a link which will connect us with Pen sacola and Mobile, and that link is to be found in what is called tlie Montgomeiy and Nashville railroad, extending trom Montgomeiy to Deca tur, Alabama. Nashville is greatly interested in building that road, and if possible, should aid in its construction. Witli that road built we would have a direct line to one of tlie finest harbors in America, while we would draw trade from the richest portions of coun try through which the line passed. That line would be of immensely more advantage to Nashville than any road we could build North of ns. This, with the Nashville & Chattanooga and Northwestern roads already built, and the prospective construction of the road from Nashville to Knoxville, would make Nashville a great railroad centre, and draw hither a very valuable trade. Let any citizen of Nashville reflect upon this matter, and he wiii at once see that it is of the greatest importance to Nashville that the road from Decatur to Mont gomery, Alabama, shall be built. It is suscepti ble of the clearest demonstration that this line would be second in importance to no other cen tering here. Let our business men look to it, and encourage the construction of such roads in the South as are calculated to bring trade to this direction, and they will soon see that they have done more to advance the interests of Nashville than by aiding in tlie construction of roads North of us.' Let us endeavor to have ever}’ possible railroad built in the direction from which we shall draw trade, and in this way we shall make Nashville an important commercial point, as well as a railroad centre.—Nashville Dispatch. L'nlon of tlie Old and New School Preiby* terian Churches. The St. Louis correspondent of the Louisville Courier reports the following proceedings in the New School Presbyterian General Assembly on tlie 2Gth instant. At tlie afternoon session a committee was re ceived from the Old School Assembly, bearing a communication relative to a re-union of the two branches. Dr. Gurley introduced the subject in a long speech devoted to a review of the points of agreement between the two branches. He said he would let tlie points of agreement remain buried. He spoke eloquently, and referred to the harmony between tlie New School and the large number ot tlie Old School on slavery, and believed there never would be any future differ ence on this topic. When he read tlie resolutions, looking to a union, tlie Assembly applauded vehemently. Judge Clarke, of the Old School, also address ed tlie Assembly on the same subject. Tlie Moderator, Professor Hopkins, responded in a tone of fraternal regard for the Old School, and said he had prayed to God the way to a un ion may be smoothed and made easy. Subsequently the Committee on Church Policy presented a report on tlie suggestion made by several Presbyteries throughout the country for re-union of the two branches. They recom mended the passage of resolutions tendering to the other Assembly heartfelt love and sympathy, and a cordial greeting of love and fellowship, ex pressing a hope that this greeting may be re ceived in the spirit in which it was tendered; also, to appoint a committee of fifteen, consisting of nine ministers and six elders, to confer in the manner suggested by the Old School Assembly, with reference to re-union. The report was adopted. It wa3 suggested that this was an important committee, and should be selected with care. On motion, a committee was appointed to nomi nate the committee of fifteen. The Moderator appointed on the nominating committee Messrs. Knox, Halfield, Hogabess, ministers, and Messrs. John H. Foote and Judge Williams, elders. It was also resolved that all ministers and churches be enjoined to avoid any disagreement which may hinder such re-union. A Decent Nigger Newspaper.—The Mo bile Nationalist, a nigger journal, owned and edited by niggers, has a sensible nigger corre spondent at New Orleans, who is not in love with the bureau. He says: “A thousand limes better would it be for the colored man were it abolished, for instead of being a safeguard or protection for the freedmen, it is only a place in which freedmen’s rights are bartered away; it serves only to engender bitterness and hatred in the hearts of the very people with whom he ex pects to live, die and be buried. * * * The sooner it is out of the way the better for all parties concerned.” We always knew that tli* better class of negroes objected to the bureau a* strongly as the whites, and we are glad to per ceive that their opinions are getting mto print in a way that can throw no doubt over their genu- 1 ineness.