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-EKIiOR CEASES TO BE DAXGEI10US WHEN KEASON IS LEFT FKEE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XVIII.
ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 4,1866.
NUMBER 26.
UMl# Jutflligcuffr.
IM BL18UED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
Proprietor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, July 4, 1866.
The minority KeronMtrcirllon Heport.
W e commenced the publication of this impor
tant public document on yesterday, und finish it
to-day. The space occupied by it in our columns
could not have been devoted to a more impor
tant and interesting State paper, on the subject
matter of which the whole South, nay, the
whole Union, is deeply interested. It is said to
l*e the production of the Hon. Reverdy John
son’s pen, and history will award to it the praise
of being an unanswerable argument against the
assumptions of Mr. Fessenden's majority.report,
and a complete refutation of the alleged sound
ness of that document. The day is not far dis
tant, we predict, when the several States of the
Union, North and South, will, through over
whelming majorities of their people, concede
that this minority report is a complete extin
guisher of the majority’s, in all that pertains to
the true nature of our government, and the status
now ol the Southern States to it. We commend
the reading and the preservation of this impor
tant document to our people. In these times of
trial to, and attempted degradation of the South,
it is gratifying to sec that there still exist in the
Senate of the United States, men and statesmen
whose regard lor truth and justice has not been
perverted, but who still stand firm in the main-
Lainance of those fundamental principles which,
“ as with a pen of iron, and the point a diamond"
are written in the Constitution.
Tlir State Corn lor the Soldiers’ Families
and the DeMtllute Poor.
We learn that up to this time the State’s sup
plies ol corn from purchases made in St. Louis,
have reached Chattanoooga quite slowly, only
about 45,000 bushels have been received. Never
theless, Colonel P. Thweatt, the State’s dis
tributing agent, by judiciously dividing out and
apportioning the com received at that point, lias
been enabled, with remarkable promptitude, to
ship one month’s supply to every county in tlie
Slate that has reported beneficiaries. We learn,
also, that it was Colonel Thweatt’s hope before,
or by this time, to ship two month’s additional
supply to each county in the State, but the corn
lias reached Chattanooga so slowly that be fears
now to ship more than one month’s supply as
his second instalment, lest he may not get round
in time for the following monthly supply. He
has hopes, however, that the corn will hereafter
be received more freely at Chattanooga from the
West, and, if so, he will ship larger quantities at.
one time to the several counties.
Colonel Thweatt is not responsible, it is due to
him to say, for the purchase of the corn in any
way. It is purchased by the State's agent, at St.
Louis, shipped to him at Chattanooga, and those
interested in its distribution may feel perfectly
satisfied that if they do not get their supplies as
fast as they may need them, it will not be bis
fault, as we learn the corn is not detained at
Chattanooga one day, but is immediately for
warded to the counties for their suffering poor.
The New York Tribune on the Trial of
JelferNon ■>»vis.
In ft late number ot the New York Tribune
we notice the following paragraph:
“ We welcome the news from Fortress Monroe
of the assignment ot spacious and comfortable
apartments lor the housekeeping of Mr. and Mrs.
Davis, Bv-and-by, the farce will have become
too glaring, and then he will be let go. What is
the use of persisting in a cheat whereby no
body is cheated V Mr. Davis is not to be tried—at
all events, not with intent or expectation of con
victing him—then why is he longer subsisted at
public cost? Let us have an end of the sham ! ”
It was only a few days previous to the appear
ance of the loregoing extract from the columns
of the Tribune- that the whole country was ex
cited by the announcement of Mr. Greeley’s ap
plication at Washington for the release ot Mr.
Davis, oUering'himself as one of the captive’s
securities for appearance at court. Now we hear
him affirming that “ Mr. Davis is not to be tried,”
and beseeching that an end be put to “the sham."
What we shall next see from dree ley's pen, “de
ponent saith not,” but lie would not wonder if
the “ constitutional amendment” were pronounc
ed “ a sham " also, before the “ dog star rages.”
Decidedly Tool on the part of Sirs. Bennett.
This lady, the “better half" of Mr. James
Gordon Bennett, of the New York llerald, re
cently addressed the following letter to the edi
tor of the New York Tribune :
Sik : I saw an article in vour paper last Friday,
stating that 1 asked the Senate to confirm Mr.
Fleurot’s nomination, and on that account lie was
not appointed. Now, sir, permit me to say that
I never in my life asked the government of the
United States for anything for my own family,
much less for Mr. Fleurof, who is only an ac
quaintance, like many others.
I have borne, with calmness, the most fearful
abuses and calumnies; but I think now it is time
to put a stop to them. 1 do not trouble myself
about politics or politicians, or editors, or any
such unkind, unfeeiiug people ; yet, 1 have suf
fered greatly by them.
What have 1 done against you editors, mana
gers, etc., that I should be hunted down like a
wild deer, on account of your feelings toward
the Herald? Abuse the editor if you like ; per
haps he deserves it; but mv aim lias ever been
to calm and pacify all violent feelings. You
will oblige me bv publishing these few lines,
lours respectfully,
Henrietta A. Bennett.
Fort Washington, June 21, 1866.
The “ perhaps lie (Mr. Benuett) deserves it"
is decidedly cool. Mrs. B., is no flatterer: what
is more to her credit, she lets her dear Jam< s tight
bis own battles; sensible woman!
It is in contemplation to build up a manufac
turing town at Cellar Shoals, Georgia, to be called
Steadman, in honor of its founder, The water
power is immense.
We notice the foregoing paragraph “going the
rounds" ot newspaperdom. To the statement
we will add that the gentleman alluded to, Mr.
E. Steadman, is one ot Georgia's most worthy
and enterprising citizens—one who knows no
such word as “ fair in any enterprise which he
undertakes. Would that every section of our
State could number ten such men where they
may perhaps number only one—then we would
soon see Georgia's vast resources developed, and
her match onward to prosperity insured !
A Foreign Appointment.
A Northern telegram states that the nomina
tion of Provisional Governor Johnson, of Geor- \
gia. as Minister to Bogota, it is said, will be l'ol- j
lowed this week by that ol two other Provision
al Governors to important positions. It is not
probable that they w ill be confirmed by the Sen- j
ate, as Holden cannot take the test oath, and it
is doubtful alkHit Johnson.
New -Hall Line to Dahlouega.
We learn tiiai that regular tri-weekly mail be
tween Atlanta and Dahlonega will commence j
running on Monday next. T. D. Irish A Co., of
tills city, being the contractors. They will put
fine new teams and coaches on the line, sons to :
give ample accommodations to the traveling pub- i
lie. A large amount of new and improved mu- 1
ohiuery is about to be put in operation at Dahlon- j
ega, and the prospect for remunerative returns j
from the mines arc said to very fine.
The Kadleal Programme.
The following clear exposition of tLe radical
programme, is lrom the Washington City Na-
! tioual TrdrUigeneer. That paper in calling atten
tion to it premises by saying: “The growing
, popular dissatisfaction with the evasive and de
ceptive recommendations of the star-chamber
i committee lias induced the adoption of a change
' of programme by the Congressional party. It
: had become evident that the proposed amend
ments to the Constitution, forced through Con-
■ gross solely under the despotic dictation of the
| Radical revolutionary leaders, would be rejected
j by more than enough of the States to insure
| their failure. This would render nugatory the
| proposed additional legislation. It had also be-
j gun to be even more than suspected that in the
coining Congressional elections the people of
the loyal States would administer a terrible re
buke tot he Congressional party, for attempting
to palter with them in a double sense, by pre
tending to devise means lor the restoration ot
the Union, while really concocting measures for
its permanent dissolution. These are some of
the reasons for the recent delay in carrying out
the programme of the star-chamber committee.
The leaders, who have been guided hitherto sole
ly by their intense hate ol the President and his
policy, have begun now to take counsel ol their
tears.’’ Hence, the programme, which our ob
servant Washington City cotemporary thus ex
poses:
“ The further prosecution of their schemes in
Congress is to be temporarily suspended. Mean
while, Tennessee is to be made to ratify the con
stitutional amendments. With this endorse
ment of a Southern State, these wily leaders
hope to save their project in the Northern States.
To accomplish this end, nothing will be left un
done that is in tlie power of desperate and un
scrupulous men. The assistance of Governor
Brownlow and the rump Legislature of Tennes
see is confidently counted upon. The active aid
of some Tennessee Representatives, who have
lately become enthusiastic couverts to extremist
radicalism, has been probably promised. To se
cure their seats in Congress, these men appear to
be willing to embrace any faith and advocate
any proposition, however wrongful and reckless,
or humiliating and degrading to the people they
pretend to represent. To carry out this new
programme money will not be spared, and no
artifice or appliance that can be devised will be
left untried. It is the last card of the Congres
sional party. It will be played with consummate
dexterity and desperation.”
Governor Brownlow has not been slow in play
ing the part assigned him in the programme.—
Ills haste has indeed been indecent. Stimulated
by his vindictive spirit and hatred of all who
took part for tlie South in the late “rebellion,”
and by his own mad ambition, he lias called upon
the Tennessee rump Legislature to assemble and
ratify the proposed amendment, in advance of
any other Governor, radical as most of them are
in the Northern and Western States. The man
ner in which he stands up to the “last card of
the Congressional party,” would induce one who
did not know the man to believe that of the
“money" which “will not be spared” to attain the
ends of the radicals, he had received a fair pro
portion ; but money now is with Brownlow a
secondary consideration. It, ill fact, requires
none to influence him to take his place in the
programme, and do his share of the odious work
assigned him. Hence Tennessee, through its
rump Legislature, and not by the voice of her
patriotic conservative majority, will first respond
to the radical call, and disfranchise the great
body of her people. We doubt much, however,
the success of the radical programme. We no
tice “signs" that indicate its rejection where we
did not anticipate it. We are certain too that
the proposed amendment would not be ratified,
il the people of the several States were permit
ted to pass judgment upon it at the polls, ere it
be submitted to their several Legislatures. We
venture to go further and say, that if left to the
people of the Northern States only, we feel confi
dent that the amendment would not be adopted
by one half of them. We notice this in the press
and in all their public meetings. The “signs"
cheer us in our labors, and we are hopeful that
ere many “moons shall wax and wane" we can
safely predict that Northern radical supremacy
will soon come to an end.
Death of Him. (jiltner.
The many friends of this highly esteemed lady
—Mrs. Eliza Frances Gilmer—widow of the
late Governor George II. Gilmer of Georgia,
will mourn to learn that she died, on the 21st
instant, at the residence of Dr. G. W. Harris, in
Goochland count}-, Virginia, in the seventieth
year of her age. Mrs. Gilmer was a most exem
plary lady in all the relations of life, accomplis-
ed, kind, and charitable. She has numerous
friends in Georgia, but, wo believe, no relatives.
She was a true type of the Southern lady, and
illustrated their virtues during a long life of pros
perity. Her maiden name was Grattan, a Vir
ginian by birth, but for many loug years, and
until recently, a resident of Lexington, Ogle
thorpe county, in this State.
The Crops in Vans Valley.
The Rome Commercial says: We paid a visit
to Cave Spring last Saturday, and wc can safely
say that we have never seen a finer prospect for
corn, wheat, oats and cotton, than was presented
to our view in Vans Valley. We would also
state, that tlie crops are in fine condition—no
grass pereeptable except one field, and herculean
efforts were being made to master Gen. Green in
that. The cotton looks fine, and should the Fall
be a late one, we can safely count on a good crop,
so far as Vans Valley is concerned. We would
also state, that nearly all the land from Rome to
Cave Spring is under cultivation. If other por
tions ot the South are making as good headway j
as Floyd, the West may look for some other
market at which to dispose ofits surplus the next
year. Our people are determined to be indepen
dent. at least in the bread line.
Wheat In Dade County.
The Chattanooga Uni;. J- American of the
26th instant, says: We conversed wills a gentle
man, yesterday, just from Dade county. Georgia,
a citizen of Trenton, who informed us that the
wheat crop in that county is nearly harvested,
and that the yield is much, better than lor several
veais. It is estimated that some farms will aver
age thirty bushels to the acre. The corn crop
also looks promising.
Well done for the “State of Dade ! "
Wliat’K Trumps.
There are so mauy cards to play.
So many ways to choose.
In love aiid politics and war.
That forwardinsr our views.
W ith ladies fair and statesmen wise.
Or men of lesser bumps.
Before we had our strongest suits.
Ti.- well to know what's trumps.
Once, worshipping at beauty's shrine,
I knelt in bondage sweet,’
And breathed my vows with eagerness,
And offered at her feet
My soul, well stored with Cupid's wealth—
A love cemented lump :
A king of diamonds won the trick.
My heart was not a trump.
Raving to see my rival win
Upon single rub.
As lie had played the deuce with me,
1 followed with a club
Two days \yithin a station-honsa.
Reflecting on my sin.
I found as others may have done.
Chibs very seldom win.
Grown wise by sad experience,
I ceased to deal with maids,
I shuffled youthful follies off
And turned up Jack of Spades.
And still I find, as dust is scarce.
And smaller grow the lnmps,
That though the spade's an honest card,
-It is not always trnmps.
Bin in the wor’d of outside show.
Where Mammon rules the throng.
To ease the little joints of life.
And smoothly pass along :
To find an antidote for care.
And stern misfortune's bumps.
One card is very sure to win—
Diamonds arc always trumps.
«
How Hr. Keith Managed.
“ Man's work is from sun to sun, but woman's
work is never done,” quoted Mrs. Keith.
She had just finished her work for the evening,
everything was sided, and she was just taking up
her sewing, when Mr. Keith upset a vinegar bot
tle and a howl of gravy in the kitchen cupboard,
rumaging after a knife which was in his pocket
all the time.
Mrs. Keith relinquished her idea of a little sea
son of quiet, and went out to set matters in order
again. Mr. Keith followed to oversee her—a hab
it which some people have.
“ I wish you would try to be a little more care
ful, Henry. You do not realize how mauy things
I have to see to.
“ Humph!” said Mr. Keith, sitting down in a
basket of freshly ironed clothes; “I never would
complain of such a trifle as that! If I didn’t
know I should think all tlie women were in slav
ery- .. j.
You
Hon. Robert Toombs.
The Milledgeville Federal Union says it has ■
“no doubt many of General Toombs' triends will j
be glad to hear of his health and present place j
of residence. We have been informed on relia- ,
bio authority that be is living in London and was j
in good health a few weeks ago." Mrs. Toombs
“expects to join him in London in a few weeks." ’
Gen. Howard pretends to have received in- ‘
formation lrom different points in North and ■
South Carolina, to the effect that outrages on !
freed men by ex-rebels are of daily occurrence. I
Planters, now thin the negro i« no longer valu
ed in dollars aud cents, do not hesitate to shoot j
him down on the slightest provocation. The j
murderers, when arrested, in the majority of*
eases, are held to bail on their own recogniz- :
auees, but the grand juries generally- fail to”find •
innict ments agiust them, and the result is that !
they go scot free.
And you would be correct, Henry,
haven't tlie faintest idea—”
“ Nonsense, Mary! Why, I could do your
yvork and three times as much more, and then
get all through at ten o’clock !’’
“ Could you, indeed ?”
“ To be sure, if you would ouly give me the
chance of it.”
“ You shall have it,” said Sirs. Keitli quietly.
“ I have long wanted to visit my aunt Susan. I
will do so noyv, and you may keep house. I shall
have to cook up something—”
“ As if 1 couldn’t cook ! You yvill do nothing
of the kind, Mary. I shall live like a prince, and
you shall see how nice I yvill keep everything.
You will hardly know the house yvlien you re
turn.”
“ I dare say,” remarked Airs. Keith, “ but when
can I go ?”
“ To-morrow, if you like.”
“ And are you sure that you can manage ?”
“ Sure !” What a look he gave her. “ Y'ou
shall see.’’
Airs. Keith laughed a little to herself when her
husband left her at the depot, and turned his
steps homeward to clear the breakfast things and
prepare dinner. Siie only wished she could be
there invisible, and see him manage.
“ Let me see,” soloquized Keith, entering the
kitchen, “ I’ll wash the dishes first, aud I’ll put
on one of Alary’s dresses to keep me clean.”
He fastened it around his yvaistwith a pin, roll
ed up his sleeves, and looked about him. The
fire was out, but after much trouble he succeeded
in re-kindling it; and then began to wash tlie
dishes.
He took them to tlie sink, plugged up the spout
and put them to soak iu a pail of cold yvater.
“ There, they’re washed,” said he to himself;
“ now for something to wipe them on. I’ll take
the table-cloth. Such a fuss as women do
make about work. Why, I could wash all the
dishes in the neighborhood in half a day. This
steyv pan smells of grease, I wonder what is the
matter with it ? There I’ve got some smut ou my
hand ! There it goes ou the China saucer, deuce
take it! 1 wish there was no smut.! Hillo, there’s
one plate gone to smash ! Oil! there goes the
cream pitcher! And I have stepped into that
pntatoe disli that I set on the floor to dry, and
that’s gone to the shades ! never mind, accidents
will happen. I guess I’ll trim the lamps next,
mother always trimmed the lamp in the morn
ing. Confound’em, how black the chimneys are.”
Thus conversing with himself, Air. Keith put
the chimneys into the basin and cogitated a mo
ment. He had heard it said that boiling water
was cleansing. So lie seal ed the chimney, aud
the result was about a hundred different pieces
to each chimney.
“Good gracious!” he cried, “ wlio’d have
thought it! There’s somebody at the door. It
can’t be anybody I care for, so early as this.”
A small boy presented Limself, eyeing Keith
with ill-suppressed mirth.
“Be you mistress of the house ?”
“Yes—that is, I am the master !” said Air.
Keitli yvith dignity, “what can I do for you ?”
“Nothing, 1 guess. Alarm sent me over to see
if you—that is—if the mistress of the house
yvould take care of the baby yvliile she goes shop
ping.”
“No!” thundered Keith, “I’ve other fish to
fry.”
Tlie boy put bis thumb to his nose, and Air.
Keitli, aiter ; slamming tlie door—as men are apt
to do yvlien out ot temper—returned to the
kitchen. The fire yvas out and the room deci
dedly smoky.”
“I'll go down in the cellar and bring up some
coal,” said he, and started briskly down the
stall's. (>n the second step he put his foot through
rip in his dress skirt—stumbled and fell to the
bottom ot' the cellar—smashing a basket of eggs,
and knockiug over a shelf loaded with pans of
milk.
"Deuce take it!” exclaimed lie, scrambling to
his feet and rubbing his head, “how do the wo-
meu manage with these long dresses? I shall
break my neck with this set."
The fire made again. Mr. Keith bethought him
of dinner. He looked at his time-piece; it was
one o'clock. Almost time for callers. What
should he have tor dinner? He had heard his
yvile say that a rice pudding and boiled potatoes
and broiled steak.
He filled the basin with rice, stirred in a little
sugar, dropped in an egg, and set the vessel into
the oven. The potatoes he washed in soapsuds
that they certainly might be clean, and put them
into the teakettle that they might boil quicker.
The steam was frizzling in the frying-pan, and
lie yvas proceeding to set the table when the bell
rang.
lie caught up the pan from the fire—to keep it
from burning—and made haste to the frontdoor.
Then he remembered it yvould not be just the
thing to go to the front door with a frying-pan in
his hand, so he deposited it on the parlor sofa,
and answered the ring.
Airs. Aludge was on tlie steps, dressed in her
best.
■'Y'es. I dare say. stammered Keith, “my wife
is absent, and I am playing Bridget. Walk in.”
Airs. Aludge sailed imo the parlor, which was
darkened to exclude the sun, and yvithout stop
ping to look at her seat, sunk into the frying pan
on the sofa.
“Jupiter!” cried Air. Keith, "you have done it
now!"
Airs. Aludge sprang up. tlie grease dripping
from the silk on the earjiet. Her laee grew dark.
She was tempted to say something cutting, but
managed to control herself; bowed haughtily,
aud swept out of the house.
Keith returned to the kitchen a little crest
fallen, for Airs. Aludge was a lady before whom
he desired to appear particularly' well.
There yvas a tremendous cracking in the oven.
He thought of his pudding and looked iu. The
burnt rice had hopped all over the oven; the
basin had melted apart, and the pudding was not
done. lie shut the door upon the ruins in dis
gust, and looked after his potatoes, ouly to find
them boiled to a jelly.
And just as he made the discovery there was
a sharp peal at the door bell.
“C reatioa ! there's that abominable bid! again.
I wish folks w ould stay at home. Til lock all
the doors and cut all the bell-yvires after to-day."
At the door he found Air. and Airs. Fidget and
their children.
Aly dear Air. Keith, how do you do ?" cried
Airs. Fidget. “We were in town, and thought
we’d just step in to dinner. Where is Airs. Keith?”
"She’s gone away,” said Keith, ruefully, won-
dering what he should feed them on. “Walk in,
do: I am housekeeper to-day.
“Y'es, so I should judge. But of course you
make a splendid one. I remember you used to
be telling Airs. Keith and myself hoyv very easy
housekeeping must he. It must be mere play
to you. Don’t put yourself out, I beg. - ’
“Pitt myself out, indeed !” cried Keith, retreat
ing to the kitchen. “Good gracious, what shall
1 do ! I'd give a hundred dollars if Alary was
only here. Where shall I begin ?’’
| He drew out the table and set it yvithout any
cloth: then took off tlie plates and put on a cloth,
i and the very one he had yviped the dishes on.—
The task completed, he put on some more pota-
j toes and some more steak—burned the steak to a
j cinder—took off his potatoes yvlien he did his
i meat, and put all upon the Jable. There was a
! loaf of baker’s bread in the cupboard; he parad-
j ed that and called his guests to dinner.
1 A quisical smile spread over Airs. Fidget’s face
! at the sight of the repast. Keith was in a cold
| perspiration.
“Ma, my plate's all greasy, and so’s my knife.
I can’t eat on dirty dishes.” cried little Johnny
Fidget.
“And my fork is wet all over yvith water that’s
dropping off the table cloth; and my tater ain’t
halt biled,’’ cried little Jane Fidget.
A sliglit'noise in the kitchen drew the atten
tion of Air. Keith.
“Jupiter,” cried he, “if Mrs. O’Flaherty’s doj
aiu’t making oft with my afcnk!”
He jumped from the table Ibid started in hot pur
suit. The dog made the best of it; Keith’s un
accustomed attire yvas a saj drawback, and he
made but little headway. -
“Kill him ! ” he yelled to the crowd that join
ed in the pursuit; “I’ll give fifteen dollars for
his hide.”
Airs. O’Flaberty herself appeared on the scene
yvith a skillet of hot w T ater.
“Tech him if yer dare.!” she cried. “I’ll
break the bones in ever}’ mother's son of yees.
Stand from forninst or ye’ll rue the day.”
Keith took a step forward, stepped on his skirt
aud pitched head first into a wine cellar, where
half dozen men were playing cards.
“The devil in petticoats,” exclaimed one game
ster, and the place emptied quicker than a yvink.
The police picked up Air. Keith, considerably
bruised, aud carried him home. His company
had taken their departure, and somebody, not
having the fear of the law upon them, hail en
tered and stolen a hundred dollars worth of pro
perty. -
Mr. Keith sent the following note to his wife
by the evening mail:
Dear Mary : Come home; I give up beat. A
good deal to do. I confess myself incompetent
to manage. Come home, and you shall have a
uew silk dress and a daughter of Erin to divide
your labors. Yours, disconsolately,
II. Keith.
European News.
THE yVAR IN GERMANY.
i New Y'ork, June 24.—The steamship Ger
mania, from Southampton, 12th, arrived here
this evening.
j France.—Iai France says with reference to
j the pending European crisis, that it the Emperor
j does not directly make known his resolutions by
j a communication the great bodies of State, it may
■ be considered certain that M. Rouher will be au-
■ thorized to make a declaration to the French
! chamber.
i The same journal contradicts the rumors of
French military prepartions. It says: We be
lieve the rumors ot au expected Imperial mes
sage, and the issue of a new loan to be unfound
ed, and adds, should M. Rouher be questioned on
the policy of the government, he yvill probably
repeat the declaration.
Austria.—A telegram from Vienna, of June
9th, says the Emperor lias addressed an autograph
From the Boston Post. | “Thaddeus, tbe Cynic.”
Patriotism vs. Party. , The following well drawn picture of Tiiad-
The judicious and moderate course being pur-. DEUS Stevens is from the pen of a Washington
sued bv President Johnson in opposition to the .. „ , , e ,, „ . n ,
fanatical war now waged against him by a ma- j Clt r correspondent of the Boston Post:
jority of Congress, cannot but command the re
spect of ail classes of people in every section of
From the St. Louis Republican.
Letter from a “Disbanded Fenian.”
St. Louis City, Shubekbs, June 9.
AIb. Editor—Alavoumeen, it’s mesilf that
feels imposed upon and used up intirely. It’s
not in the heart of a man to traverse the earth
for eight and twenty years without sarious mis
fortune, to be kicked to death by a jackars at
and never complain of it. Bad luck to the man
that persuaded me with his blarney from my
precious ould home, witli lots o’ good living an’
lashuns o’ whiskey, to shoot a Canucks in the
big British sheep pasture up North o’ the lakes.
Bad luck to him, I say, an’ if I live a hundred
years I w r on’t. risk my life wid such nonsense
again. I’ll die first. .
You see, yer mightiness, the case was in this
wise. About four years ago one Michael O’Fla
herty (that’s the son of ould Alistlier O’Flaherty,
an’ “ Alike ” yve used to call him yvlien he yvas a
mere speck ot a darling, from the bogs o’ Bally-
ragget, he comes to me, an’ says he, “Fennegan,
do you want to join the Daymans?” “What
that ? ” sayd I. “ A great military organization,”
says he. “ Does it fight for the stars an’ stripes
an’ aigle of liberty ? ” says' I. “ The devil a bit”
says lie. Thin it was that jie put the tip of his
forefinger to the pobjgofAiis nose and winked
yvid bntlitfjyes tin T meant something
to distkroy the Government, the best the sun
ever shone on, for I once heard a man say so in
a speech. My blood commenced a rolin’ an’
a jumpin’ and. I thought of dear old Erin far out
iu the sea. So, to punish him for insultin’ me, I
tossed a shamrock at his head, an’ I belaive lie
remembers it. The shamrock was a brick, yer
awfnlness.
After a yvliile Tim comes to me again, an’ he
tells me the Faynians is a body of men who are
goin’ to flog the British an’ release, ould Ireland
lrom tyrannical rule. I yvas glad of that, an’ I
tould him I’d join on that very evening. Then
we shook hands and took a shuffle, O’Flaherty
an’ me.
That very night I win't iuto the Faynians tooth
an’ toe-nails an’ all my ould clothes. Night an’
day we drilled an’ worked to learn how to shoot
down the inemy. The officers drilled us, aud
the shpeakers bored us, au’ yve all felt merry, for
they said yve would take Canada an’ thin the
blessed ould Island yvould be a free once again.
Och, Mavonrneen, wasn’t I gallant?
I drilled till I thonght of fatigue.I would fail.
I shpent a whole week in the ranks with a musket
Lamin’ a step for the Canada ball.
That’s yvhat I used to sing, an’ a short time
ago, when two thousand of us (hairin’the eigh
teen hundred, who had to turn back for to saw
some wood before they could go) started for the
Canada border, which is a very troublesome
piece of American embroidery. I felt glorious,
Misther Editor, an’ my,heart went pity-Fat. But
I went to the front,’an’ bedad it’s a yvonder I
didn’t shtay there. The commander said yve
would come out vieforious, but 'the miracle was
that yve came out at all. The red-coats yvere all
around us, an’ the Americans wouldn’t let re
cruits pass over to us, because may be they
couldn’t pay ferryage. Funds yvas mighty low,
yer graciousness, for it cost- a great deal to run
the Faynian organization four years, an’ the trea
sury had the Sweeney. Reinforcements couldn’t
get transportation, you see. If they had fallen
iuto British hands' they would have got trans
portation tor life. So, when, we saw that we
couldn’t get help, we left Fort Erie, an’ gave it
up to the British again, the spalpeens. We could
not hould a place like that. It yvasn’t our fort.
Next day I was mushtered out. Faith, it’s a
wonder I wasn’t peppered out. I got my dis
charge, without a mouthful o’ rations, back pay
or bounty. Aly musket has not been discharged
yet. I could neither get any back pay, nor any
body to pay my way back, so I had to walk
over an’ loot my own bills. But I'm full o’ pa
triotism as ever, an’ I long for the day that is to
shorten the bondage of Erin, dear Erin, the land
' my birth. (That’s poet ry.)
But I won’t go to Canada again. It’s a mighty
fine country it is, aud a good place to take, but
it don’t pay. Aly Colleen Bawn an’ the two
Childers may wake to’ dreams o’ future bliss an’
prosperity, for their husband an’ father has un
soldiered himself an’ will hereafther leave Can
ada in peace and barreness. It’s at home I am,
an’ I’ve commenced Wearin’ off the Green.—
With a heart firm in the cause, an’ a body that
means to keep out of it till the prospect brightens,
I am, Alistlier Editor, .
Tim. Finnegan, T. C. (Tail Centre.)
The Need for Reconstruction.—It has been
well said, that there is no limit to the madness
of fanaticism. This axiom is being illustrated
every day in the Northern section of the country.
Nor is Philadelphia exempt from affording
practical examples of its truth.
The occasion of Air. W. B. Reed, appearing
on behalf of Mr. Davis, has aroused the wTath
and denunciation of this class of political parti
sans.
The Fourteenth Ward of the Common Council,
of the city of “brotherly love,” is represented by
an individual of the name of Hancock, one of
the followers of Air. Stevens and Ids vagaries.
The ensuing scene will show that there are
other sections besides the South which stand
sadlv in need of reconstruction. Such senti
ments are but the legitimate fruits of the teach
ings of that party which seeks to keep alive lor
their own aggrandizement sectional strife aud
agitation.—Charleston Courier.
Air. Hancock—I icont go down into htU and
break tlie ashes of the grave to teach the attor
ney who would go South to defend Jeff. Davis
the contempt in which the people of the eitv
hold him. I would have William B. Reed
there, that every flapping shred of flag may
remind of the shrouds of his murdered victims.
Air. Hetzel— : I move to include Afr. Thaddeus
Stevens =
Air. Hancock—Well, I only say that with
Thaddens Stevens I am heart and hand. [Ap-
pluse.} I belong to hds band. There is only one
thing left in the land doit, and that is the flag;
and I trust that we will ever hallow a day that
shows us how despotism was broken up. Such
an unhallowed idea as Jefferson Davis being
pardoned is preposterous, and ought not to lie
entertained. If I would see -a traitor going to
Heaven, gre^U Hod I I would go the;other way.
letter to Prince Callordo, approving the report
of the committee for the control of the public
debt, and expressing satisfaction at the order
which has been affected in the public debt de
partment.
The passport system has again been introduced
along the frontier.
Tlie Vienna Press announces that the day for
the next extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet
is not yet fixed.
The Press says the Emperor of Austria has
started for the headquarters of the Army of the
North.
It is expected that the taxes will not be col
lected in some parts of the empire, and that other
concession w'll be made.
Prussia.- The Minister of the Interior has
been deputed by the King to reply to the ad
dresses in favor of peace. The minister says the
King, in his reply, reluctantly perceives in these
addresses an absence of the devotion which
characterizes the Brestua address, and repeats
the assurances with which his majesty replied
to it as a fitting answer to all the addresses. Tlie
King adds: The minister expects, in view of
growing dangers, the unconditional devotion of
his people. In tlie sitting of the federal diet of
June 6, the Prussian representatives repudiated
the imputation that it was the intention of Prus
sia to annex the Dutchies by force, and that Aus
tria, by her declaration of June 1, had violated
all the engagements concluded hetweeu Austria
and Prussia. Prussia was disposed toward peace,
settling questions of the Dutchies, as well as the
Federal Reform, bv a German Parliament, but,
he continued, the Jbiet was incompetent to deal
with those questions. Austria could not con
voke the Holstein States except by violating the
Gastein convention. The Austrian representa
tion denied that Austria had violated the fore
going treaties.
The proposal of tlie Alilitary Committee of the
Diet, that Alayence should be occupied by Bava
rian, and Rostardt by Barden troops, as well as
that a division of the federal reserve should be
stationed in both fortresses, was unanimously
adopted.
A telegram from Alunich says the popular feel
ing against Prussia increases. The ultra party is
desirous that Bavaria shall take part with Aus
tria against Prussia. Concessions are being made
by the military relative to military arrange
ments. The ministry maintain the policy of de
claring against the power that shall first begin
war. The Government supports the plan that
in case the Prussian proposal for the reform of
the Federal Diet, should miscarry, a German
Parliament should be assembled, from which
Prussia and Austria would be excluded.
Count Alensdorn has sent a note to Count Na-
sayle, protesting against the entry of the Prus
sians into Holstein, declaring this step to be a
violation of the GasteiD convention.
The government has received information that
the Prussians have occupied Bromstadt, Horst
and Itzehue, and will immediately occupy Utuck-
stodt and Elinsnerr, near Altoona. Geu. Most-
enuflel has arrived at lzehue.
Baron Scheclplsim, as the President of the new
government for the Duchies, lias issued a procla
mation, stating that General Alostenuffel will
proceed against any act which Prussia may regard
as illegal, either on the part of the former gov
ernment of Holstein or the Estate about to
meet. The opening of the Holstein estate is ex
pected with tlie greatest anxiety. Tlie Prussians
will not permit them to meet in any part of Hol
stein, and General Alostenuffel will take the ne-
nessary steps to this effect. The question is if
Austria will oppose, by arms, the measures taken
by Prussia to prevent the meeting of the Estates.
A Telegram from Rostadt, of June 10, says:
The Prussian troops quitted the fortress to-day.
The Austrians have already received orders to
leave. The entrance of the Baden troops is
daily expected.
A dispatch lrom Reuosburg, of June 10, says:
General Alosteuffel has issued a proclamation to
the Ilolstciners. He says that he recognizes the
orderly conduct of the Holsteiners upon the en
try of the Prussians. He orders that all politi
cal societies shall be broken up, and suspends the
publication of all political newspapers unprovid
ed with a legal authorization until such authori
ty be granted. The Holstein government grant
ed by the Austrians is dissolved. The proclama
tion adds that the King of Prussia intends to
Convoke the Schleswig-Holstein Estate.
Italy.—In the Chamber of Deputies the first
article of the bill for the suppression of all reli
gious botlies throughout Italy, was unanimously
adopted.
Spain.—In the debate on the budget of the
Minister of war in the Cortes, Marshal O’Don-
nel expressed an apprehension that 1866 would
not pass without Spain having to defend her ter
ritory.
the french in MEXICO.
Washington, June 24.—A letter dated Paris,
June 7th, received in this city, says that the stea
mer which is about to leave St. Nazarine for
Afexico, will carry out an autograph letter from
the Emperor Napoleon to Maximilian. Accord
ing to what is said to me, the first of the two sov
ereigns demands that Mexican custom houses
shall be placed under French administration as
a guarantee for the Mexican loans and converted
into three per cents. It is also stated that in de
fault of the acceptance of the proposition by the
Alexican Government, the French will be imme
diately recalled. If, on the contrary, an arrange
ment shall be made between the two allied Gov
ernments, the terms announced for the departure
of the troops will be maintained.
FROM ENGLAND.
New York, June 24.—By the steamship Ger
mania, we have the following items of English
news:
The Times says the marriage of the Princess
Alaiy, of Cambridge, will be solemnized at Kew
on Tuesday, tlie 12th.
The Times, of Alonday, says the consideration
of the reform bill in the committee will be re
sumed this evening, and the first section coming
on for discussion is that which deals with the
qualifications of voters in boroughs. The House
of Commons will be asked to enfranchise all oc
cupants of any premises of the clear annual value
of £7 or upwards, and an opinion seems to have
arisen that no serious attempt will be made to
oppose the proposition.
Look to the School Books.—We advise
our democratic friends, says the Cincinnati En
quirer, to look closely to the kind of school books
that are put in the hands of their children. As
a specimen of its necessity, read the following
from the New Y'ork correspondent of a Georgia
exchange:
" But the most noticieable publications that are
brought out are those designed entirely for chil
dren. Through these a big crop of hate and per-
sscution for “ rebels ”. is being planted, precisely
as Abolitionism was sowed thirty years ago. I
remember then finding Abolitionism in my school
books. One of my little boys got a prize at school
the other day; it was a book entitled The Soldier
Boy.
The frontispiece contains an atrocious libel, in
representing a Confederate soldier attempting the
life of a Federal soldier who had given him a
drink of water. It narrates, with approval, all
sorts of outrages perpetrated by “ The Soldier
Boy” and his friends upon “ Southern sympath
izers ” or “ traitors.” The book, in short, is an
abominable tirade against the South; aud yet it
is permitted to be distributed to the school chil :
dren in this most conservative quarter of the
North. There is no instruction in it, only a
spirit of malice against the South and the Cop
perheads. _
The Attorney General of the United States
has recently given the following opinion : “Let
ters on file' with the heads of departments are
privileged communications unless their publi
cation has been authorized ; no copies should be
re-copied except at private request, and the
production of the originals cannot be compelled
in suit between individuals. It has been ruled
that such communications can not be made the
foundation of an action for libel. Then I think
the Union. With him. are his Cabinet, all the
members of the Supreme Judicial Court, save
one—and all the leading Generals and naval offi
cers who acquired an enviable reputation in tlie
recent war lor the Union.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact in this con
test is, that tlie policy pursued by Air. Johnson is
precisely that marked out and' adopted by Mr.
Lincoln, and the one which he would unques
tionably have pursued had he lived to carry it
into execution ; this fact is well established, not
only by Air. Lincoln’s own words and acts, but is
attested to by those members of Air. Johnson’s
Cabinet who'were most iu Air. Lincoln’s confi
dence during his entire administration ; were this
otherwise, would not the Halls of Congress rin
with denunciation of Air. Johnson for having de
serted the policy of Air. Lincoln ? But we hear
but little reference to Air. Lincoln’s views in Con
gress, and when referred to, it is by the friends of
the President, to show that Air. Johnson is sim
ply endeavoring to carry out the intentions of
his predecessor.
Who does not remember that Air. Lincoln firm
ly announced in his letter to Horace Greeley that
the purpose of the war was “to restore the Union.’’
If the Union could be restored without slavery it
would please him better than to have it restored
with slavery, but in either event he was for the
restoration of the Union.
Through an amendment of the Constitution of
the United States, accepted by the Southern
States, the institution of slavery is at an end in
this country, and yet the Union is not restored.
The jubilee’s which have been held throughout
the North on account of this event, accepted as
it is by the Southern people, are strangely incon
sistent with the idea that the Southern States, as
States, with the same rights, powers, obligations
and duties, as all other States, are not competent,
or have not the power, to give binding force to
acts of legislation, as at present, constituted.—
Surely there can be no higher act of State legis
lation than to vote on an amendment of the Con
stitution of the United States, for this sovereign
function is not exercised by the people of the
States through their Legislatures in changing or
amending their own Constitutions, but that great
act is done by special Conventions of the people
called for the purpose.
Could it have been supposed in 1863 that if the
war could cease by the surrender of the oppo
nents of the Union in the South, and the adop
tion of an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States abolishing slavery, that such acts
would have f ully restored the Southern States to
their places iu the Union ? But now new and
continually increasing demands on the people of
both sections are being made by Congress. With
the abolition of slavery it was hoped find believ
ed that the efforts for the welfare of the black
race in our Union would give place to attempts
to advance the prosperity and power of our own;
but what do we now hear ? “ Justice to the ne
gro,” cries Wendell Phillips; “ Justice to the ne
gro,” echo Alessrs. Sumner and Stevens, and this
watchword is passed from mouth to mouth un
til some of the human people of the North seem
really to believe that instead of the war being
fought for the negro, as they have always claim
ed, instead of the negro having received any ben
efit from its results, lie is plunged into deeper
misery than he was formerly iu. “ Justice to the
negro.” AVas’slavery a sin and crime against
him and his race ? They are slaves no longer.
Had he the rights of family or the freedom of ac
tion ? He lias them now. Had he legal and civ
il rights under the State governments in which
he lived ? They have conferred them upon him
now. Is this justice or injustice? We cannot
see what class of our people have been benefit
ed by the rivers of blood and millions of treas
ure expended, if not the negro.
But for seven long months Congress has,
through its joint committee of fifteen, sought ev
ery pretext to frame a possible excuse for delay
in the admission of the Southern members of
Congress to seats which, according to the Con
stitution, they are unquestionably entitled, until
the contest is narrowed down to the simple ques
tion whethei the negro and yellow races shall
have equal political as they now have equal civil
rights under our General Government. Congress
assuming the affirmative side of this momentous
question, goes behind it and says to the people,
unless you amend the Constitution of the Union
to extend this great political right, the Union
shall not be restored so long as we hold the pow
er to prevent it. If the President oppose it we
will checkmate and take from him those consti-
tioual powers aud privileges granted him, as we
have taken representation away from the States,
and if the Supreme Court pronounce our acts un
constitutional and void, would reduce their num
ber until all its power shall alone rest in the
hands of its Chief Justice, who is ready to exe
cute our will.
Odr system erf General Government is made of
three departments—executive, legislative, and
judicial—each independent in its sphere, each ex
isting only through the Constitution, which de
fines and limits their power. Iu harmonious and
vigorous action they form the most perfect govern
ment of the earth; in its attempts to aggregate
power and to usurp to itself the functions of the
other two departments of the Government, the
legislative branch cannot fail to bring upon itself
the i ndigriation of an outraged and long suffering
people. The sovereign people are above and
behind them; they are satisfied with the glorious
Union and the Constitution handed down to
them by Washington, Hamilton and Madison.
Freemen, capable of self-government, are not
made in a day or a year; the toils and sacrifices
of centuries, the blood and sweat of millions of
dead, we to-day enjoy, and our representatives
treat the priceless heritage to which we are heirs
in trust, as if, forsooth, it was one, if lost, easily
regained. *• - -
If Chinese, Japanese, Negroes, Slaves, Coolies,
or Freedmen, are all, at once, and without pre
paration, to take part in the government of our
broad country, holding that balance of power,
perhaps, which will control her destiny, let the
question go to the whole people, and allow a full
and free discussion of the subject before them,
and let their votes decide.
Let us in Alassachusetts begin on the return to
barbarism by the repeal of our laws making it
necessary for a citizen to read and write and pay
a poll tax before be can vote.
In this contest the President is right in pursu
ing Air. Lincoln’s policy; he is right in adhering
to the strict letter of the Constitution; he is right
in demanding the restoration of the Union be
fore these great questions are forced upon the
people of either section. He never feared traitors
North or South, and does not now ; he has an
abiding faith in the American people ; he does
not mean they shall be defrauded if he can help
it; the mess of pottage offered him cannot tempt
him to sell Ills birthright, or sacrifice the interest
or honor of his country ; the cry of party sounds
feebly compared with the voice of patriotism;
lie has the immortal example of Andrew Jack-
son before him as a guide to his feet; that good
and brave old man, like him, was badgered and
opposed by the whole moneyed power of the
country, but neither the howling winds of faction
nor the allurements of wealth and power could
turn him from the plain path of duty; surely he
had his reward in the confidence and support of
a generous people, in whose hearts he is still en
shrined as the preserver of their Constitution.—
So Mr. Johnson may look to the day not far dis
tant, when “the sober second thought” of a
Christian people, worthy to be free, will hail him
as the restorer of our powerful and once more
harmonious and happy Union.
Old Thad.” as all Washington, and especial
ly the House of Representatives have eome to
call Mr. Stevens, of Pensylvania, is manifestly
upon his “last legs.” For a fortnight past a
brief half hour would average the length of the
daily sitting in Congress of Stevens, and for a
day or two he has been absent altogether. “The
ruling passion is strong in death,” however, and
they tell me that “Old Thad.” denies an audience
to no one, either under his own root or during
the tiresome visits he makes at the Capitol. The
passage in both Houses of the Reconstructive
Constitutional Amendment seems to have been
the crowning point in the old man’s aims, and
once accomplished, to have left him exhausted
and prostrate so far as physique is concerned ;
the mind, however, was never clearer or more
tenacious in its grasp, and is on the alert every
where. There is not a day goes by that the rad
ical ranks are not reviewed cither by squads,
plantoons, or in full force, aud every man of that
disciplined corps will aver that Commander
Stevens was never more determined or exacting
than now. Aside from the noticeable and in
creased feebleness ot “ Old Thad.,” there is also
a marked change in temperament. There is an
apparent loss of much of the self-control that
has kept the Republican party in such harmoni
ous action the last Winter. 'Now, you cannot
remain five minutes in conversation with the
chief without hearing as many caustic utterances
applied to all things animate or otherwise that
do not bow the head to the rule of Stevens. A
bitter raillery infects every sentence, not in re
probation of political opponents particularly, but
in derisive anger against every providential dis
pensation, or associate, or circumstance of what
ever character that have tended to mar or delay
the consummation of any one of the projects
which he has incepted. Of course, long ago, the
vocabulary of invective was exhausted in denun
ciation of the President, and now, with a lack
of discrimination not at all characteristic, “ Old
Thad.” never tires in pointing to the low degree
and humble offices from which Andrew Johnson
emerged into public life, and from the “ Goose,”
the needle and shears of the Tennessee tailor
draws an inexhaustible fund of puns and witti
cism that are retailed among the Radical Brother
hood, with the keenest delight. So easily does
the wicked old jester find means to disport with
the lambs of the flock. Nor does the immaculate
Sumner escape the lash and sting of “ Old
Tliad.’s” tongue. Overstepping humbug, and
commending himself to the endorsement of all
clear visioned men, Stevens roundly asserts that
“ Sumner is a fool, sir, with whom no one can
converse without the aid of a dictionary, and in
whose oracular chaff it is idle to look for even
the classical pair of mustard seed.”
All of these cuts and slashes are given vent
with a certain glib grimness of speech that inde
libly impress the hearer with an approximate
idea of “Old Thad.’s” bitterness of spirit and
sarcastic measure of both friend and fee. Soon
to die, depend upon it, Thaddeus Stevens has
turned cynic and scoffer of all human attributes,
and will sneer and curse to an end which he be
lieves is not far distant.
Freedmen and the Supreme Court.—I
heard to-day of an interesting case agrued before
the Supreme Court, now in session, at its pre
sent term. The case involves the right of freed
men to a legacy left them under a will, at a time
while they were yet slaves. The law of North
Carolina declared all emancipation of slaves by
will, to be “null and void.” By the general
law, or by the “Common Law” of the slave-
holding States, a slave was incapable of taking,
by bequest or otherwise, or of making any con
tract of any sort. In the case in question the
slaves were emancipated by the will of a man
who died in 1864, and a legacy was also left
them thereby. They have sued the executor
for the legacy. It was, I understand, contended
Messrs. Edttors: The quotations of secureties
in our honored sister State, Georgia, show that
she is recuperating rapidly. Georgia Railroad
aud Central Railroad bonds are at par; Georgia
Railroad stock 85; Central Railroad stock 97;
City Augusta bonds, 90; old Georgia sixes, 87;
Georgia and Central Railroad Bank bills, 98, &c.
We are glad to notice this rapid financial improve
ment, and trust our own State will soon show the
same prosperous condition. An Obsever.
YVe clip tlie foregoing from the Charleston
News, of the 26th inst. Commenting upon it,
that paper says:
“ An Observer,” in our issue of this morning,
quotes the present market value of certain Rail
road and Corporation Securities in Georgia, and
considers them evidence of the able management
of such enterprises in our sister State, while at
the same time he desires to learn if our own im
provements and securities of the same kind will
be able to show as flattering a condition.
At present there are many causes to prevent
the bonds and stocks issued in this State from
ranking as high as those of Georgia; and, among
others, we would mention that, having a greater
extent of fertile land, and a more rapid increase
of population, her railroads have met with a larg
er amount of business and have been better sup
ported. With the exception of the Hamburg
Branch of the South Crrolina road, most of our
roads have no profitable connecting roads, or are
in such an incomplete condition as to work to
great disadvantage. The city of Augusta was in
the most flourishing condition during the entire
war, and has been doing a very profitable busi
ness since. Savannah also suffered but little, and
since the war, in consequence of the advantages
enjoyed by the navigation of the Savannah riv
er, her commerce has been most flourishing.
Charleston was largely destroyed by fire, thou
sands of her buildings were damaged by shells,
and her communications with the interior hav
ing been destroyed, her business passed almost
entirely into the hands of her neighbors. It will
take time and energy to rectify these evils, but
we hope our public men and those occupying
positions of responsibility will be found equal to
the emergency.
We do not wish to be understood, however, as
attributing all our shortcomings in the manage
ment of business affairs to circumstances which
were beyond our control. A little additional
energy and determination would, no doubt,
much assist our onward progress; and if we do
not speedily exert such qualities, there are busi
ness communities near us which will profit at
our expense. Our railroads should be managed
quite as much for the public benefit as for private
profit, and a more enlarged spirit will have to
characterize their future policy if they wish to
attain success.
Yankee! vs, Jews.
We copy the following from the Richmond
Times-.
The Jews in old time, when King John and
other savage and needy sovereings used to draw
their teeth if they did not lend (in other words
give) money when it was needed, were consid
ered a very valuable people. Civilization and
Progress, in course of time, rendered it safe for
a Jew’s teeth and gold to be possessed by the
same individual, and at the South they have
been always a useful and worthy people. To
the Federal soldiers at City Point, in the late
disgraceful riot at that place, belong the honor
ana glory of reviving the customs of the middle
ages (when King John was a borrower,) which
tolerated every species of wrong and indignity
to a harmless race, now scattered as a nation
having no place which they can call a home,
and no country of their own.
We are not the special champion of the Jews
or of the Jewish character, but we see nothing
in their behavior, here or eleswhere, which Jus
tifies United States soldiers in imitating the
rapacious Kings and Barons of the middle ages
in their robberies and persecutions of this tra
duced and absued people. Nor have we heard
it alleged in defense of the action of the riotous
soldiers at City Point, that they were then and
there serving the cause of religion and Christi
anity by their conduct. But this, as a mitiga
ting view, will doubtless be presented and urged
in Congress by that pious statesman, Stevens,
and other aevoat Radicals, should this matter
ever come np for discussion.
The experience of the Israelites at City Point,
however, will be without value to them. They
doubtless now possess a realizing sense of the
truth of the old adage that “men often go
a-wooling and get fleeced.” And, as they went
down the river to make “much monish” out of
the belligerent Cuffees, they probably now per
ceive that nobody but Freedmen’s Bureau men
and Alassachusetts persons will be permitted to
do so unmolested. „
Our lsraelitish friends must read carefully the
reports of Generals Steedman and Fullerton,
and they will find that they have no right to
trespass upon the domain of Chaplain Fitz and
hie New England associates. Outsiders are sot
permitted to rush in and clip and shear the black
lambs. Perhaps a Massachusetts Israelite, with
a certificate from Frederick. Douglass, might
stand some chance, but we think we have heard
in the argument in behalf of the freedmen, that i that there are few, if any, of the scattered tribes
they were in fact free in 1864, by the force and J of Lsrael in the New England States. For this
effect of President Lincoln’s emancipation proc- i curious fact we have heard many plausible rea-
lamatron, which went into oneration on January I sons assigned.
1st, 1863;: Hon. Asa Biggs and Mr. Peebles, of i “T* 7 .
Northampton, argued the case for the freedmen, j The Government Is prepanng to proceed
and Mr! Conigland; of Halifax, for the execu- against delinquent and defaulting Postmasters,
tor. No intimation whatever lias been given in the lately rebellious btates. The total amount
as to what will be the decision of the court. It ! of this class of indebtedness is about $300,000,
is very probable that Obief. Justice Chase will ol which $100,000 has been paiu^ on. demand^
the head of a department is bound not to pro- have a say in it before it is ended,—Ii rieigh, Cor- . and nearly the same amount put m process ot
duce a paper on file in this office.” I respondence Pet. Index. 1 collection. .
