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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. .