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THE ITALIAN QUESTION.
Our Paris correspondent gives a gloomy ac
count of the Pope’s temporal affairs. The in
tention of*the Emperor Napoleon to with
draw his garrison from the Eternal City seems
to be on the point of accomplishment, leaving
Purs the Ninth to the tender merciesof Victor
Emanuel whose great idea of Italian unity
centres At Rome. That the Sardinians, having
humbled Sicily, would lay their mailed hand
upon the States of the Church, thus unprotected,
we do not doubt. But, we very much doubt
the probability of an utter abandonment of the
Pope by his imperial protector or Catholic
Europeat large. Outsiders are very apt to
imagine that the peoples of Italy are homogene
ous and hence, in an abnormal condition when
subdivided into different governments, Such,
however, is not the case, either in descent or
language. The upper tier of the peninsula is
of Gothic mixture; the lower of Greek. Their
animosities, traditional and modern, are as pro
nounced as the idioms of their tongue are diver
gent. Political cryatalization is not natu
ral to them, and any-effort to combine the
antagonisms of race language and idiosyncrasies
may meet with difficulties a trifle too stubborn
even for the phlegm of the Sardinian King. We
opine that Protestant civilization would over
reach itself, if any monarch succeed in deposing
the Pope from his temporal throne and shack
ling him to that of a civic domination. The
tremendous spiritual power of the Pontiff would
remain and, being dependent upon some King
or Emperor for his very bread, a corrupt car
dinal might by state-craft be adorned with the
triple crown and forced to use his authority to
disturb the peace of the world. In his present
condition of independence, the Pope is inno
cuous ; the dependent of any monarch, he is
fruitful of harm. His present dominions were
guaranteed him, centuries ago, by the most
solemn pledges and, if wrested away, the pots*
tate so offending becomes a royal robber in the
face of the universe.
Is his temporal power in danger ? Unques
tionably it is, but not in the desperate strait de
picted by our correspondent.
We propose to show that our position is the
correct one, by reference to documents quite as
recent as any consulted by our correspondent.
A convention between France and Italy,
through which the evacuation of Rome by the
troops of the empire was brought about, is al
ready a subject of controversy between the two
powers. Italy conceives that the Pope has been
purposely left in the lurch in order to be su
perseded by the Sardinian King. But the inscru
table Emperor puts the damper upon any such
dream by declaring in his speech to the Cham
bers t hat the “ maintenance of the temporal power
is indispensable ; and Italy must obligate herself
to acknowledge the patrimony of St. Peter and,
defend it, if need be, against assault." Upon
such a guarantee, the French troops will receive
marching orders ; failing to accord such a guar
antee, France remains.
John Mitohel, now at Paris, writing to the
New York News, takes precisely this ground,
and predicts that Victor Emanuel has under
taken something above his persimmon. It ap
pears that Catholic Europe is outraged at the
haughty assumption of the Sardinian monarch,
and not only protests against his interference
with the Pope, but will forcibly impede him.
Mr. Mitchel writes:
In the meantime, the Pope is preparing his
army. M. Kouher, Minister of State, said yes
terday in the French Senate, that the Papal
force, now under the orders of Merode, amounts
to twelve thousand men, recruited in Switzer
land, in Belgium, in Germany, besides in Spain
and France; and that in addition, a battalion ol
one thousand two hundred men is to be imme
diately organized in France for the Papal ser
vice. “This battalion, says the Minister, will
be organized and disciplined at Antibes; from
whence it will be transported to Civitu Vecchia
in ships of the Imperial navy; and will he there
handed over to the Government of the Holv
Father.” There is nothing to prevent Spain, if
so minded, to lend the Pope one of her battal
ions also, or a dozen of them; and in short
Catholic Europe, for all the high and mighty
pretensions of Victor Emanuel, is likely to con
cern Itself with this matter ; and I think it may
he predicted witli some certainty that the dis
tinguished party of travelers who have started
from Turin, bound for Rome, will rest at Flor
ence for a good while. Just now they are put
ting up with temporary accommodations, and
lodging their various departments in private and
public buildings in a provisional sort of way, as
our Confederate Government did at Richmond ;
but they will make themselves at home there
longer than they think.
We have thus quoted from our late compatriot
because he is a Protestant; and further, for the
solid reason that few men are so enlightened
upon the subject, of Continenal politics. We
gather from his vaticinations that the Pope has
still the mastery of the situation, and will con
tinue to give his benediction from the high altar,
if life be spared, without let or hindrance, for
years to come. N
HIGH TESTIMONY IN BEHALF OF THE
SOUTH.
When, says the Richmond Whig , the Senate of
Virginia was about to adjourn, a unanimous
Vote of thanks and approbation was tendered to
Lieutenant Governor Cowper, the presiding
officer of that body, who responded in a hand
some speech, which was published in our col
umns yesterday. From that speech we cull the
following:
“And I believe solemnly that, of all the citi
zens ot the United States, the people of the
Southern States arc decidedly the most
thoroughly loyal to that Constitution. And
these are the sentiments of the Chief Magistrate
of the nation— nay, I know it—and they are the
sentiments of the best part of his Cabinet, who
arc now, to-day, standing, supporting and en
couraging the Executive in the position he has
taken.
These are net the words of what is called “a
rebel. ’ They are the words of an original and
consistent Union man, who opposed secession
lroiu first to last; and who, for his fidelity to
the Union cause, was elected by the Unionists,
under the Alexandria Constitution, to the high
position lie now fills. This testimony to the
loyalty of the Southern people deserves there
fore to be written in letters of gold. To reach
this conviction Mr. Cowpek had to conquer
prejudice, and to divest himself of that partisan
resentment and rancor which so many are en
slaved by. When one of whom it may almost
l\° sa id he came “to mock,” “remains to pray”
who came with distrust—more indeed than
distrust—with the conviction that the South
was the nest of treason, after an experience
among us, in the capital of Virginia, in the Sen
ate oi Virginia, where treason could not conceal
itself, if it existed, says— “lbelieve solemnly that
of all the citizens of the United States, the people
of the Southern Slates are decidedly the most
loyal to that Constitution" —the whole country
should give heed to him.
What a contrast does the Lieutenant Gover
nor of Virginia present to those few factionists
in the State, who, in their lust for office, would
degrade the mother that bore them into a mere
territorial appendage !
LOADING DOWNTHEMAILS.
The National Intelligencer avers that the mails
are tormented with vast numbers of inflamma
tory documents, by which legitimate matter is
disarranged and discommoded. It may be
somewhat arrogant for us to clamor against
this sort of capering, seeing that we ought to
thank heaven for any scraps of privilege, but
we cannot avoid letting the public into a secret
over which our ingenuity has been cudgeled for
many weeks. If postal deficiencies should
transpire or continue, we beg that the victims
keep their wrath bottled up for the Radicals,
and not expend it against the unfortunate Post
Masters. Incendiary speeches, calculated to
prove the President an “ inebriate,” “ copper
head,” “traitor” and “conspirator,” choke the
channels of the mail. It our facilities are cur
tailed by such trash, we are punished beyond
endurance, since it is a waste of labor for
Messrs. Stevens & Co. to send their diabolism
in this direction. Certain Jacobinical docu
ments have been sent to this office. We used
them l'or domestic purposes, having carried a
duplex elliptic unto our cook in one of them ;
the other met an unknown fate. We may
iurlher remark, in passing, that one of the
aforesaid papers came from a notorious ex-
Louisiana politician, accidentally heaved up to
the surface—the other from a screaming Bloom
er female, recently ejected from the Quartermas
ter’s Department for abusing the President like
a Loudon fishwife.
The principal of the Howard Public School,
at Nashville, Tenn., administered more than one
hundred lashes on the person of a white child,
for some trivial offense, a lew days since. The
monster should be burnt at the stake for his in
humanity. What a howl would come up front
the Abolition camp if the victim had been
black instead of white; but, as it is, the matter
et okes very little sympathy, and the perpetra
tor oi the outrage goes unpunished.
In the late civil war, 220 battles were fought.
In Virginia 80, Tennessee 87, Missouri 37, Geor
gia 12, South Carolina 16, North Carolina 11,
Alabama 7, Florida 5, Kentucky 14, the Indian
Territory and New Mexico, one each. There
were also seventeen naval engagements.
There are one hundred and ninety-one in
ternal revenue collection districts in the United
States.
Political Matters—The Conspiracy Against the
President—The Radical's Programme—Sym
pathy from-the South—Present State Govern
ments to be Ignored and the President's Plan
of Reconstruction a Failure — The Fenian Ex
citement—Commercial and Financial Affairs
The Markets.
New York, March 5.
The aspect-of political affairs is more serene
on the surface, but never in a greater ferment
beneath. It is as if some volcano, after a brief
eruption, should cease to belch forth fire and
smoke only to resume its work with prolonged
energy.
The conspiracy to unseat President Johnson
has gone so far as consultation as to who shall
be liis temporary successor. A prominent gen
tleman of this State, (now in private life,) a
personal friend of Secretary Seward, but an
intense negro-suffrage Radical, has been named
in this connection. It is mistake, I think, to
say that the President of the Senate, Mr. L. S.
Foster, of Connecticut, would succeed to the
Presidency in case Mr. Johnson were displaced.
The law, as I understand it, is, that the Cabinet
would name the temporary President, and or
der an election “ as early as practicable,” which
would not be, of course, till 1868.
The attempt to restore harmony between the
President and the Radicals has been earnestly
made on the part of the conservative Republi
cans. But the most that has been accomplished
is an abstenencc, for the moment, from denun
ciation. But this is not general. The New
York and Chicago Tribunes , and some half
dozen other leading Radical journals, continue
their abuse of Johnson in much grosser terms
than they ever applied to Jeff. Davis.
The South may as well understand that the
Radicals expect to receive great aid from several
Southern men. John Minor Botts, Horace
Maynard, Kenneth Raynor, Parson Brownlow,
and probably your late. “ Provisional Govern
or, Johnson,” are among those most relied
upon, to proclaim that President Johnson’s
policy is destructive to “ loyalty” at the South,
and that the only safety to Union men there is
in the Radical policy. There is another danger
to the South : the want of moral courage in the
conservative Republicans. The Radicals will
yet ride them with whip and spur. One fart
will illustrate : The Brooklyn Union organ of
the shoddy Republicans of the “ Heights,
came out strongly in favor of the veto, but
has since been whipped, and is denouncing
Johnson with the zeal of tyro ; and Mr. Ray
mond, of the Times , it will he observed, now
generally votes with the Radicals. It will be
remembered that many of these same conserve
tives urged the Crittenden Compromise as a
measure of pacification due the South; and,
when it was refused, nevertheless supported
the war against her.
Among the measures which arc projected is
one to ignore the present State governments of
the South, promote a movement of the “loy
al ” men therein to form new State govern
ments, and admit the Representatives sent from
these mushroom organizations as the true Rep
resentatives of the reconstructed Southern
States. This may seem preposterous, but I
should not be surprised to see Senators of this
sort admitted, to give Sumner and Wade their
former two-third power, so that they may over
tide all vetos. It is claimed that the admission
of Michigan and one or two other States,
which found their State governments without
an “ enabling act,” so-called, afford a precedent
for the proposed action, the first experiment in
which will probably be in Louisiana and South
Carolina.
The Tennessee delegation to Congress is to
be admitted immediately. It is about half
Radical.
THE FENIANS.
The great impulse which has been given to
the Fenian movement, iu the past few days, has
led to renewed discussion of its scope and pros
pects. It is regarded as sufficiently powerful
and promising, to enter into the calculation of
the future of exchanges, and has undoubtedly
had something to do with the recent sharp de
cline in gold. John Bull gets heartily laughed
at for his fright, and not one word of sympathy
Yet the most intelligent Irishmen admit there is
no hope for the. movement, unless England can
be embroiled in war with some of her powerful
neighbors. It is pretended that they have some
hopes from Louis Nnpolean. Oue of their ora
tor’s yesterday proposed as a sentiment, the
health of the “four great Head Centres : Emper
or Napoleon, President Johnson, the O’Mahony,
and Stephens.” This will perhaps indicate the
drift of their expectations.
TRADE MATTERS.
We have had a severe panic in dry goods,
especially low and medium dress goods of
foreign importation. Domestic cotton goods
have also declined heavily, and this afternoon
Merrimac Prints are selling at 21 a 22c., as to
mark, by the leading jobbers. It is clear that
the second class dry goods jobbers will have a
severe trial to get through the coming year. A
firm cannot do business in New York now
short of an expense of fifty thousand dollars per
annum, and this will not be so easily made on
falling markets.
The sharp advance in Breadstuff's, which was
noted last week, has been checked by the de
cline in gold ; but prices are a good deal higher
than when gold was 145. Provisions of all
kinds, except fresh meats for the city trade, arc
now rather tending downward.
The late decline in gold has very much agi
tated Wall street.. The prevailing impression is,
that the Secretary of the Treasury, seeing that
the “bull party” in Congress were preventing
action on the loan bill, on the supposition that,
such action will support the premium, deter
mined to show them the contrary, and by a
vigorous use! of the funding power, set work to
“smash things.” He could easily put gold to
120, but having exacted by a decline of four per
cent, the promise of early action, he is quiescent
to-day and gold is steady.
WII.LOIHiHHV.
| COMMUNICATED.]
The Municipal Election.
As the candidates for Mayor and Council, at the
approaching city election, are now arrayed be
fore the people, I trust it will not be taken amiss
if 1 offer a suggestion in reference to the cam
paign about to commence. I feel that I can
justly do this, as I am personally friendly to
both of the candidates for Mayor, and to most
of the candidates for Council. Hitherto most
of our municipal contests have been raiher dis
tinguished for acrimony and abuse than for rea
son and argument; that candidate was the best
man whose friends could “ throw the most dirt.”
It is time that this thing should cease. It is time
that the ignorant supporters of candidates should
understand that by such a course of conduct
they arc not only lowering themselves in the
estimation of intelligent people, but they are in
juring the very men whoso cause they advocate.
Let every man before the community stand or
fall upon his own merits, and of those merits we
can judge for ourselves. The course generally
pursued is one calculated to disgust the people
with all of the aspirants lor office, and it is to.
be hoped that this election will inaugurate a
better state of affairs in this respect. Let us
frown down anything that savors of personality
and abuse, atul strive rather to elevate the
character of our city rather than to detract from
it.. Old Citizen.
An Illustrious Fenian.—A New York cor
respondent of the Chicago Times tells us that
“ Mr. Charles O’Conor, the. eminent lawyer of
that city, has been for some time past enter
taining The O’Conor Don, member of the Eng
lish parliameat for Roscommon Bounty, Ireland,
and the present head of the family. His father,
the late Don, was for many years perhaps the
most respected, and personally influential mem
bor in the House of Commons, and universally
beloved, equally in England as in Ireland, for
his many gentle and noble qualities. He was a
perfect specimen of the old school of Irish gen
tleman. In appdarancc Mr. Charles O’Conor is
said to hear a remarkable rasemblauie to him.
In Mr. James T. Brady and Mr. Richard O’Gor
man, the new corporation counsel, who were
present. The O’Couor Don was enabled to see
on this side of the Atlantic as splendid types of
the old race, brilliant in intellect, noble in feel
ing, as the world could produce.”
New York, March 10. —The New Haven
freight train left this city at hall-past eight last
evening, and was waiting at Harlem bridge for
the Albany and Troy express to puss, the boiler
of the locomotive exploded, shattering the en
gine and everything connected with it, and kill
ing the fireman and dangerously wounding the
engineer. The Albany and Troy express train
was delayed an hour and a half, and the Boston
express about half an hour by the accident.
Twenty distilleries were seized in this city
yesterday by several officers, on charge of the
proprietors defrauding the Government by
omitting to pay the impost duty levied on
whisky by the ihternal revenue law. Charges
against the parties will probably be investigated
to-day.
New York, March immense Fenian
meeting was held at the wloqper Institute last
evening. Stirring speeches* were made by
Messrs. O’Rafferty, Meany, Collins, Train and
others. The Fenian excitement shows no
abatement this moaning.
Critical Condition of Affairs at the Capital-
Uneasiness of the People—The Tennesse Dele
gatiign to be Admitted— Trumbull's Bill —
Southern Representation—Politics in Connecti
cut—Necessity for a New Parly—New Hamp
shire Republicans—A New Wrinkle—Murder
in Washington — Insecurity of Life and Prop
erty—Canadian Reciprocity Treaty.
* 1 Washington,' March 6th, 1866.
The Radical organ of this city, admits “that
at no period either before, during or since the
rebellion, has there been so general an uneasi
ness" than at the present moment.” There is
no doubt about this uneasiness in the public
mind. The greatest apprehension exists, in all
business circles. Every body seems to feel that
matters are in a critical condition. The mer
chants are curtailing their business as much as
possible, and all business men are getting ready
for a storm.
The Tennessee delegation will be admitted
now very soon. From wbat I can learn certain
conditions will be required of Tennessee, with
a view of keeping the present Union element
in power. Several of the delegation will act
with the Radicals. So, therefore, J>y admitting
Tennessee the Radicals will make a great show
of moderation, and yet manage not to lose any
power in Congress.
Senator Trumbull’s bill to secure every body
in their civil rights, will he passed through the
House without much longer delay. If the
President 6igns it, so much will be gained for
the freedmen. If the President vetoes it, then
so much capital will be secured for the Radi
cals. So that in any point of view, J,he bill is
likely to be pressed to an early decision.
It is said the Committee on Reconstruction
will recommend the passage of a general en
abling act for the admission of the seceded
States after Tennessee, requiring them, as a con
dition precedent, to repeal all laws deseriminat
ing against the blacks.
There is a strong desire on the part of sbme
of the Radical Senators to submit a plan of re
construction, which will appear to be founded
in great moderation, and 3'et which the Presi
dent cannot accept. Every step that is now
taken is on calculation to influence the ap
proaching elections North.
In Connecticut, the Democratic leadersper
sist in keeping up their party organization.
This is considered a fatal mistake. A new party
should have been formed to save the country from
the Radicals. In this new party, which would
have no past sins to answer for, every man of
conservative opinions could enrol himself.
Those w'hose, judgment is to be appreciated in
these matters, think that the Radical party can
not be broken down at this time by its old an
tagonist, the Democracy. What is needed is a
new party, that every body can join, without
being inconsistent with past pledges, prejudices,
or associations. The Radicals have control of
the Republican organization, as is evident from
the action of the State Legislatures on the Presi
dent’s veto. If no other parly but the Demo
cratic party is to struggle with the Republican
party, party discipline will hold on to the great
mass of the Republicans. But if a new party
were in the field, the conservative Republicans
would feel more at liberty to rally under a new
standard, where the profession of faith was
more conjenial to their ideas.
One of the singular manifestations of the
times is the call made by the Executive Com
mittee of the Republican party of New Hamp
shire, on the clerks in the departments here
from that State, for an assessment of one and a
half per cent, on their salaries, to carry on the
tions in New Hampshire against the President.
A very respectable young man, named Balso,
was killed a few days since on a form just out
side of Washington, by two negro burglars.
The complaints from other parts of the District
of Columbia are very great of the outrages of
the negroes. So many negroes have been con
gregated here within the last few years‘that un
less stringent measures are taken to preserve
order and enforce the laws, it will become quite
unsafe to live in the country near here. But
such is the furor for negroes that there is very
little likelihood of this Congress passing any
new laws to prevent the negros from commit
ting outrages. If the negroes were to rob and
murder a few of the Radical Congressmen it
might open the eyes of the rest to the necessity
of protecting society against the outrages of
these black bandits. If things continue to im
prove as they have for the last three months,
we will have it delightful condition of things in
this country.
The termination of the Canadian Reciprocity
Treaty, it is thought, will bring on trouble about
our fishermen. Under the treaty they were
allowed to fish near the shores and to land on
the shores, but these privileges will be very
greatly curtailed. The fishermen will be con
stantly trying to take advantages, and the au
thorities will watch them, because, by being
down on the fishermen, they hope to create a
demand for a reciprocity treaty in the United
States. The reason why the Northern people
got rid of the reciprocity treaty, was that it
tolerated a certain degree of free trade, and the
public opinion of the South sets now so strong
in favor of the protective policy, that nothing
at variance with tliis policy is allowed to stand.
Legislative Extravagance.—The Macon
Journal $ Messenger thus discourses on legisla
tive extravagance at Milledgevillc:
“A friend who was in Milledgevillc a day or
two sends us the following memorandum,
which will serve the turn quite as well as onr
own words to the same effect. Surely not a
line need be written upon the inexcusable fault
of extravagance, at a time when the people are
so impoverished':
“You can serve Georgia by calling attention
to the extravagant appropriations of the House
of Representatives. They remind one of the
old times of the Confederacy when money (so
called) was worth one hundred and sixty for
one. Members of the Legislature have received
for the past five or six years six dollars per day'
and mileage. Now while the State government
is running on borrowed money, and the people
are bankrupt, the members vote themselves nine
dollars per day and mileage. Clerks used to re
ceive seven dollars per day and no mileage. Now
members vote the clerks twelve dollars per day
and mileage. The Chief Clerk of the House
and Secretary of the Senate are each voted
twelve, dollars and mileage, and $750 additional
compensation for two and a half months ser
vice. The journalizing and assistant clerks arc
voted twelve dollars, and SSOO additional com
pensation. Members will get for seventy-five
or eighty days’ service from S7OO to $l,lOO each.
“There was another matter on foot which
may produce much trouble and litigation, as it
is nothing more nor less than repudiation of
private contracts. It is a proposition to author
ize parties to come in and reduce a note given
before the war for gold, when the owner failed
to return it for taxation as specie, in Confeder
ate times. That is to say, if he returned such a
note for SI,OOO in 1864, at SI,OOO in Confederate
money, it shall now he valued at what Confed
erate money then was worth—say four cents on
the dollar, or forty dollars greenbacks for the
SI,OOO note. The excuse for this is, that the law
required him to return it at its value in Confed
erate notes, and that ho should he held to the
valuation he then placed upon in returning it
for taxation. This is a cunning scheme to es
cape pecuniary responsibility.”
Commenting on the foregoing our Macon co
temporary adds: “ Let legislators see th.it such
schemes as this, and unjustifiable extravagance
do not escape notice from a vigilant press.”
Answer to “Wise” QuestiotA.— Henry
A. Wise lias been writing to Fernando Wood,
of New York, on sundry political matters, and
in about the middle of the letter, as published,
we find these questions: “ Can you inform me’
then, why, the war having ceased, peace has
not been proclaimed ? Why civil jurisdiction
has not been allowed ?” &c. These are perti
nent questions ; but Mr. Wise has not display
ed much wisdom in going to Air. Wood for
answers. He should have procured a full re
sponse by looking around him at home. There
is no room for doubt that peace would have
been proclaimed long ago if the Southern Stales
had not been afflicted by fiery orators and
newspaper editors, and other uneasy spirits •
who keep up agitation, abuse (lie Government
that, has been, so lenient with them, ami thus
help to keep society there in an unsettled :uid
turbulent condition. They aye the men, for the
most part, who stir up the bad blood, the con
tention, tlie strife, the violence, the riotous de
monstrations which give occasion* for the pres
ence of the military, and those are the occur
rences thjit have held back the well-known de
sire of the President to proclaim peace and re
store the Southern States entirely to the juris
diction of their civil tribunals. Some recently
reported speeches of Mr. Wise himself, said to
have been made in the Richmond courts and
the wild ravings of the Richmond Examitier
may he cited as examples oi'. the agitations wc
refer to, and that have exercised a potent in
fluencein keeping the Southern States under
military rule. When they take away these rea
sons for withholding the proclamation of peace
M Cy iv '. l:lst ™ tt ,c day ( oi' that proclamation! ,
Mr. Wise would do better to ask advice and in- .
formation from Alexander Stephens than from
Fernando Wood. Philadelphia Ledger.
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From the New York Herald, of the 7tl»ve
extract the following-:
Washington, Marchi
COMMUNICATIONS FROM PRESIDENT JOHI >N
TO CONGRESS IN RELATION TO THE pi C VI
SIONAL GOVERNMENT OF TIIE RN
STATES.
The following message was received hi he
House to-day:
To the House of Representatives : j i
In answer to the resolution of the Hoijsiof
Representations of the 12th of January last»e
questing information in regard to the provi
sional governments of certain States, I tD|s
mit a report from the Secretary of State |o
whom the resolution was referred.
ANDREW JOHNSOf.
Washington, D. C., March 6,1866.
i
To the President:
The Secretary of State, to whom was relergd
the resolution of the House of Rcprcsentathis
of the 12th of January last requesting the Pev
ident, if not deemed by him incompatible qth
the public interests, to communicate to Ae
House copies of all messages, proelamatiips
and other documents issued by the Proviti <aal
Governors of any States that may have lieu
proclaimed at any time to be in rebellion, o fell
acts, ordinances, resolutions and proceedagfof
conventions or of legislatures held in e|ek
States under the authority or at the call ol aid
Provisional Governors; of all returns of (lec
tions for members of such conventions ani leg
islatures, together with the qualifications f (Hir
ed for voters at such elections and for milters
when elected ; together with such othertnfor
mation concerning the public action olsuch
States, tending to throw light upon their politi
cal condition, as maybe in his possession and
to communicate further copies of all prolima
mations issued by the President or his infeicdi
ate predecessor relating to the sulijdrt wither
issued by him directly or through the Secfetarv
of State, and thepapers'aeeompanying the une,
has the honor to state that a copy or origi Hi of
all the voluminous papers called for by ts : rc
soltition have been, with report from tlii de
partment, of this date, laid before the Pres but,
to enable him to answer a similar resolutl n of
the Senate. As these papers will imdoul -dh
be printed for the use of the Senate, it iic pre
sumed to l*e unnecessary to have anotheiropy
made to enable the President to answer tl* res
olution of the House of Representatives. {
Respeetfullv submitted,
William H. Sewajd.
In a similar communication sent to the 8 Eiate
Mr. Seward says:
It will appear that all the persons appe ited
Provisional Governors were required to ake
the oath prescribed by act of Congress, e repl
W. W. Holden, appointed Provisional Gov air.r
of North Carolina. The omission of tli • re
quirement in his ease is believed to have teen
entirely accidental. He, however, took tlid mi
nes tv oath in-escribed in the President's procla
mation of May 29, 1865. There is no rocorc in
this department of the oaths which were taien
by the several Provisional Governors.
In a supplementary report of the President,
he says:
It now appears that the foregoing report was
prepared in this office on the 2d of January by
the acting Secretary of State, William Hunter.
The delay of transmitting it was due to the fact
that it was held for revision by the undersigned
(Secretary Seward). But neither the prepara
tion of tiic report nor the passage of the first
resolution of the Senate became known to the
Secretary of State until they were brought to
his knowledge after the passage of the Senate’s
second resolution.
The papers accompanying the President’s
message embrace dispatches, proclamations and
communications, many of them heretofore pub
lished, relative to the restoration of the govern
mentof North Carolina, from Mavj29, 1805, to
January 23,1866; of Mississippi, from June 12,
1865, to December 4, 1865 (the latter communi
cating the rejection of the constitutional amend
ment by the Mississippi Legislature) ; of Geor
gia. from October 17, 1865, to December 28,
1865; of Texas, December 9, 1865, frpm Pro
visional Governor Hamilton, promising to lay
before the Legislature the constitutional amend
ment prohibiting slavery; of Alabama, from
June 21 to December 20,1805; of South Carolina,
from to December 10,1865; of Florida,
from July 14 to December 30,1865.
Among the South Carolina dispatches is one
of November 6, from Secretary Seward to Gov
ernor Perry, declaring that the President is not
satisfied with the action of the convention and
Legislature, and that adequate ordinances were
necessary declaring all insurrectionary action
was unlawful and void ah initio, aud that an ob
jection to the last clause of the constitutional
amendment was querulous ; that an acceptance
of the amendment was necessary to restoration.
On November 9 the Secretary telegraphed
again that, the early adoption of the amendment
was deemed important by the President, who
regretted that neither the convention nor the
Legislature had pronounced the State obliga
tions for the rebel debt null and void, and that
the State seemed to decline acceptation of the
amendment to the United States Constitution.
On November 20 the Secretary again urges
the President’s request to repudiate the rebel
debt. On the same day Governor Perry de
clared tin- State had passed the constitutional
amendment, aud hoped the doors of Congress
would be open to the members from South Ca
rolina. On November 27 lie telegraphs that the
convention lias adjourned, and therefore could
take no action relative to the rebel debts.
On December 10 Governor Perry announces
that the government of South Carolina is com
plete and the people loyal, and asks for a fulfil
ment of the promise to withdraw the United
States troops.
THE REWARDS FOR THE ASSASSINATION CON
SPIRATORS.
The President, in response to a call of the
House for information relative to the distribu
tion of rewards for the arrest of the assassins of
President Lincoln, gives a statement from the
Secretary of War, stating that the reward has
been postponed from time to time so that all
claimants may be heard and justice done.
I NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE.
The Senate to-d;iy confirmed (he following
t nominations as postmasters:
‘ George F. Marlow, Selma, .Ala.; John S. Pe
j terrnan, Mill on, Pa.; Emerson E. Meek, Ma
, rysville, Cal.; Andrew Sagendorf, Denver, Col
orado ; Jcssee Sehriever, Tiffin, Ohio ; James L.
• McDowell, Leavenworth, Kansas. Also, W. N.
J. Godwin to be Naval Officer at Norfolk, A r a.;
i Wm. D. Bard to be Collector of Internal Reve
nue for the third district of Georgia.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
THE STEVENS TOKE BEGINNING TO CHAFE—A
VOICE FROM TIIE BUSINESS CENTERS OF THE
NORTH, AC.
Washington, March 7, 1860.—1 am enabled
to state with great certainty that there is an ele
ment in the House which is considerable in
numbers, that is exceedingly restive under the
yoke of the tyrant Stevens. The remarks of
Mr. Blaine, of Maine, on the West Point Acade
my bill, are a sign from Northern business cen
ters. Complaints of I lie action of Congress
reach members in loud and deep tones.
Many feel that t he groundwork and the frame
work of the platform oi the Stevens cabal are
fatally wrong. A considerable portion of the
Republican party in Maine are hostile to it. It
- is understood that Mr. Conkiing, of New York,
is already sick of his part In ringing in the Radi
cal platform upon the body of the resolution
for admission of Representatives from Tennes
see. It will be opposed by some Republicans.
Some think the delusive and cheating resolu
tion of the Reconstruction Committee concern
ing Tennessee will not pass, because it contains
no provision for negro suffrage. For that, reason
Radicals mavnot vote for it; and the Democrats
and Conservatives certainly will not,, since that
it contains all the Radical ideas to which they
are opposed. For the same reason the Presi
dent would veto it.
The rumor which lias prevailed of a gather
ing of Senators elect from excluded States of
the South gained some credence from the re
marks made by Senator Davis, of Kentucky, in
the Senate, last Friday. Several of those Sena
tors arc now here, and it appears that Mr. A.
11. Stephens, of Georgia, are on
their way. That there will be any formal meet
• ing for political purposes of these gentlemen,
or that they have been called together as a pub
lic body by the President, is probably incor
rect.
For some days another rumor has been cur
rent of a compromise of conflicting views be
tween the President and the Republican major
ity of Congress, whereby the latter will save
the offices and yield the Tennessee point. Un
der this plan everything after the admission of
Tennessee would be left as it is until Congress
shall meet at the next regular session. The ar
my would remain in the 'Southern States, mar
tial law would continue, and the Frecd’men’s
Bureau besides.
But there is a doubt whether the people will
bfc willing that Congress should adjourn, leav
ing the country in its present uncertain and ag
itated condition.
FRED DOUGLASS I.ISTENING TO SUMNER.
The negro orator, Fred Douglass, occupied a
prominent seat in the ladies’ galleries to-day
during the delivery of Mr. Sumner’s speech.—
Just in front of Fred set three dames, who in
dustriously plied their needles and as assidu
ously listened while Mr. Sumner read his
lengthy effort.
THE EVIDENCE SUBMITTED BY TIIE RECON
STRUCTION COMMITTEE.
In the House of Representatives yesterday,
Mr. Boutwell, from the Committee bn Recon
struction, reported a large mass of evidence
(so-called) in the ease of Arkansas, Mississippi,
Georgia, Alabama, Ac.
Major General G. H. Thomas says that while
the people of Alabama are anxious to have, that
State rest Os ed to her position in the Union,
they are nbt personally friendly to Union men,
and have a bitter feeling of hostility to them.—
If the Federal troops were- withdrawn, Union
men could not have justice done them, and un
less they have very warm personal friends they
could not live in the State.
General Grierson, the cavalry raider of the
Southwest, testified that the great majority of
the people whom lie met. in Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Tennessee, did not think that
they had done anything wrong by their connec
tion with the rebellion, their only regret being
that, they had not the meens to carry out their
designs. He believes that there is now an or
ganization existing throughout the South for
the renewal of the rebellion.
General Charles H. Howard (a brother of Ma
jor General Howard) says the feeling of a ma
jority of the people" of South Carolina is not
friendly to the Government of the United
States.
Miss Clara Barton testifies that the people in
the late rebellious Staten have no respect for the
Government of the United States.
Colonel Clapp says that he has knowledge of
thirty counties in North Carolina, and believed
the secessionists had no inclination to oppose
the Government by open war, but they had no
love for the Government and only submit by
necessity.
Colonel Brooke, Provost Marshal General of
Alabama, said there was a great deal of dis
loyal tvin that State.
. Mr. W. D. Snow, United States Seuator elect ,
from Arkansas, was nnable to say whether it
would bo safe to withdraw the military, but he j
thought if it were done order would be pre
served.
The most of the evidence adduced by the
committee is to the same effect. I
* SJSNATE.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
* Marcs 8.
The Senate met at 3 o’clock.
HOUSE BILLS ON 3d READING.
Bill to incorporate the Colmhbus Manufac
turing Company. Passed. The corporation is
to exist for 50 years.
Bill to incorporate the American Insurance
and Industrial Agency. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the chartered Long Branch
Hydraulic Hose Mining Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Little River Mining
Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Franklin Mining and
Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Gate City Car and Ma
chine Works. Passed.
Bill to increase the foes of clerk of Supreme
Court aud county officers. Passed.
Billtoauthorize the Inferior Courts of*tlie
several counties to levy and collect an extra
tax for the benefit of indigent soldiers of the
late Confederate army, and die indigent fami
lies of deceased soldiers. Tax not to exceed 100
per cent, on the State tax. Passed.
Bill to change the time of holding the Supe
rior Courts of Lee county. Passed.
Bill for the relief of administrators, guardiaus,
<fec. Passed. It relieves 6uch from any liabili
ties for having taken Confederate bonds.
Bill to change the line between Laurens and
Wilkinson. Lost.
Bill to define the liabilities of vendue masters.
Lost.
Bill to allow executors to resign their trusts.
Lost.
Bill to allow Justices Court at Gleuuiore,
Ware county. Lost.
Bill to alter section 648 of the Code. Lost.
Bill to alter the mode of (paving the solicitor
of Eastern Circuit. Lost.
Bill to limit the time when companies char
tered by this Legislature must organize. Lost.
Bill to fix the Ices at ordinaries. Passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
March 8.
The House re-asscmbled at 2 o’clock.
BILLS ON 3l> READING.
Bill to regulate the labor of convicts upon
public works, and to define the powers of the In
ferior Courts and the Governor in regard to the
same. Passed.
Bill for the relief of George Cox, of Whitfield
county. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Chattahoochee Mann
acturing Company. Passed.
• f° incorporate the Mechanics’ Savings
Bank of Augusta. Passed,
Bill to prescribe the marital relation between
freedmen. Passed. «
Bill to define tile duty of tax receivers. Lost.
Bill to exonerate sheriffs and other collecting
officers from liabilities in certain cases. Passed.
Bill to alter and amend sections 1585, 594 and
602, and repeal section 588 of the ('qdo. Lost.
Bill to regulate administration of estates of
deceased persons. Lost.
Bill creating liens upon growing crops. Lost.
Leave of absence granted Mr. Spear the bal
lanee of the session.
NIGHT SESSION.
The House met at 7 o’clock.
The hill to amend the charter of the c-ity of
Macon was passed.
Bill to allow the redemption of real estate
sold under execution, in two years. Passed.
Bill to organize and establish an orphan’s
house in the State. Passed.
Bill to add an additional clause to the 2531
section of the Code. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Columbus Manufac
turing Company. Passed..
Bill to prescribe and regulate the relation of
parent, and child among persons of color. —
Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Savings Bank of Au
gusta. Passed.
Bill to amend the 1350 section of the Code.
Passed.
Bill to reduce the bonds of officers of certain
counties. Lost.
Bill to define the rights of persons owning
landings on rivers. Lost.
Senate bill to require persons "exempt from
jury duty to serve as tales jurors. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Fulton Medical Col
lege. Passed.
Mr. Moses introduced a bill to authorize the
ordinary of Newton county to issue letters of ad
ministration to L. A. Watley, a non-resident.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
March 9.
The Senate met at 9 1-3 o’clock, a. in., pur
suant to adjournment.
| Prayer by Rev. S. E. Brooks.
, Tlie journal was read and approved.
Mr. Thornton moved to reconsider the bill,
lost on yesterday, to make vendue masters re
sponsible for property sold by them. The mo
tion prevailed.
5 BILLS ON Tllino READING.
I Bill to incorporate the Southern Savings
Bank and Association. Passed.
I Reconsidered bill to incorporate the La
i grange Savings Bank. Passed.
Reconsidered bill to change the line between
■ Lee and Terrell counties. Passed.
I Reconsidered trill to make vendne masters
responsible for property sold by them. Pass
; ed.
Bill to incorporate the Southern Bank of
America. Passed.
I Bill to increase the liabilities of express
companies. Lost.
Bill to give trustees’ courts jurisdiction in
cases of larceny, where the theft was not more
tb.an of S2O. Lost.
Bill to alter section 1G29 of the Code. Pass
r ed -
Bill to extend the charter of the Central
Railroad and Canal Company. Passed,
j Bill to incorporate the Steam Cotton Mill
Company. Passed.
The bill to vest the State’s land near Macon
in the corporate authorities of said city being
;■ the special order, was taken up, and was under
discussion at the time of closing this report,
AFTERNOON HESS TON’.
The Senate met at the hour of 3 o’clock.
The bill to vest in the city authorities of Ma
con certain lands of the State — being the un
finished business—was taken up, and, after eon
-1 siderable discussion, was lost. Yeas, 13;navs,
15.
The bill to incorporate the Planter’s Loan
and Banking Association was taken up and
passed.
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
March 1).
The House met at 0, a. in.
Prayer by (lie chaplain.
The journal of the preceding day was read
and approved.
A resolution was adopted in relation to the
! appointment of a committee to select a site for
the penitentiary.
The bill for the relief of the banks was indef
initely postponed.
Bill to encourage, immigration. Passed.
House adjourned.
HOUSE.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House met at 3 o’clock, and took up
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill lo extend the limits of Thomasville.—
Passed.
Bill to donate the Okefenokce swamp lands
to the Georgia Orphans’ Home. Passed.
Bill accepting for the State donation of land
from the United States to States and Territories.
Passed.
Bill to authorize transfer of criminal eases in
Inferior Courts to the County Courts. Passed.
Bill to define and reiflilate court contracts in
the County Courts. Passed.
Bill to authorize married women to deposit
money in Savings Banks. Passed.
Bill to prevent the consumption of grain by
distilleries. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Georgia Land and
Lumber Company. Passed.
Adjourned, to meet at 9 o’clock to-morrow
morning.
HOUSE.
March 10.
The House met at 9 o’clock, pursuant to ad
journment.
Prayer l>y the chaplain.
The journal of the preceding day was read
and approved.
The bill to amend the charter of Thomasville
was reconsidered.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill for the relief of L. A. Whatley, admin
istrator. Passed.
Bill limiting the charges of express com
panies. Passed.
Bill to extend the corporate limits of Thom
asville (reconsidered.) Passed.
The liomested bill reported by a conference
committee was passed.
Bill to require freedmen to have certificates
of employment. Lost.
Bill to authorize ordinaries to issue letters
testamentary in certain cases. Lost.
Bill to allow freedmen equality in giving in
testimony. Lost.
Bill to repeal section 285 of the Code.—
Passed.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
March 10.
The Senate mot at half-past nine o’clock, a m
Prayer by the Rev. S. E. Brooks, of the Bap
tist Church.
The journal of the preceding day was read
and approved.
On motion of Mr. Butler, 100 copies of the
report of the committee appointed by the Pro
visional Governor to investigate the financial
condition of the State during the war, were or
dered to tie printed for the me of the Senate. -
The bill incorporating the Augusta Savings
Bank was passed.
nOUSK BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to enable judges of the Superior and In
ferior Courts to fill certain vacancies. Passed.
•Bill to amend sect ion 3988 of the Code.—
Passed.
Bill to define the liabilities of executors, Ac
Passed.
Bill to amend section 4424 of the Code.—
Passed.
Bill to legalize the appointment of L. J. B.
Fairehilds as county treasurer of Chatham 1
county. Passed.
Bill for the relief of .Jasper J. Owen. Passed.
Bill for the relief of Dickerson Taliaferro.—
Passed. «
Bill requiring cost to be paid in certain oases.
Passed.
Bill to make valid certain acts of notaries
pnblie. Passed.
Bill to amend section 3004 of the Code.—
Lost.
The Senate resolution in relation to the ap
pointment of a committee of competent lawyers
to examine and report on a digest of Supreme
Court decisions in course of preparation by A.
O. Bacon, Esq., was passed.
The Senate was in session at the time of clos
ing this report.
Sunday, the 4th, there was a row at St. Louis
between a party of white men and negroes.
%
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— : — |
New York, March B.—The World's Wash- *
ington special says : The Senate Judieiary Com- J
mittee yesterday considered at length the bill 1
reorganizing the judiciary of the United States.
It will be completed at the next meeting and i
reported at once to the Senate. It Is the- inten- <
tlon of the committee to urge the matter to ft ;
speedy adoption.
NeW York, March —The Commercial’s 1
special says : The trial of Detective Baker j
come up to-day, ou two indictments, ehargtng
him with a felonious aesaulfc on Mrs. Cobb, but '
was postponed until the 26th.
York, March 8.-~New Orleans advices
state that General Scott is still there, and not at
Pen*acola as reported.
It is reported that Gen. Steedmon was to suc
ceed Gen. Canby.
Recruiting for the Liberal army of Mexico is
going on at New Orleans.
The President’s veto of the Freedmen’s Bu
reau bill arrested the contemplated emigration
of large numbers of Texans to foreign coun
tries,
Freedmen’s affairs in Texas were favorable.
Goods arc selling at Houston at 25 per cent,
below the invoice price.
Tlie report ol' the abrogation of. the decree
making Matamoras a free port, is erroneous.—
The decree makes duties payable at Matomoras
instead of the interior.
New York, March B. —The Fenians assem
bled in mass meeting last evening ii* Brooklyn,
and-ftdopted resolutions requesting tlie confer
ring of belligerent rights on the Irish Republic
by the United States Government.
Washington, March B.—The Fenians held
an immense mass meeting in Washington to
night.
New York, March B.—Tlie steamer Jura,
from Liverpool 24th, via Queenstown 25th Feb
ruary, arrived this morning, with three day’s
later netvs.
London, Feb. 25.—Further arrests of Fenians
were made yesterday. A box of grenades and
Orsini shells have been seized in Dublin.
A revolut ion lias broken out in Romania.—
Prince Causin was taken prisoner by the army
find forced to sign Ills abdication. The LegitP
laturc unanimously proclaimed the Count of
Flanders Hospodar amidst general satisfaction.
Much excitement prevails in the neighboring
principalities.
New York, March B.—Late Mexican advices
state that the Belgian troops refused to fight
under the imperial General Mcndes, who shot
Ortega, not coring if Belgian prisoners be shot
in retaliation. Brazinda wanted to have every
fifth of the offenders shot, but the Empress in
terposed in their behalf. Tlie Belgians say they
are willing to go home in disgrace, but won’t
fight nnder Mendes. Bazine is said to have in
timated there must be war with the United
States.
Heavy detachments of troops have been sent
to Queretera and San Lonis Patosi.
Cincinnati, March 7.—Samuel Covert, who
has been on trial at Lebanon, Ohio, for the mur
der of rhe Roose family, at Deerfield, in Decem
ber, 1864, was this morning found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
Albany, March 7. —The Hour mill of W. If.
Rogers, in the town of Chili, eight miles from
Rochester, was totally destroyed by fire last
night. Cause, accident. Loss, twelve thousand
dollars. Insured for eight thousand dollars.
New York, MarchS. —The District Attorney
of King’s county has notified his determination,
to appeal to the Court of Appeals, in Albany,
from the decision of the Supreme Court, which
lately set aside the judgment of the Oyer and
Terminer in the case of Pellicer and Gonzales,
and has notified the respective counsels that lie
will move causes for argument on the 4tli Tues
day of this month.
Titusville, Pa., March B.—a destructive
fire broke out, last evening, in tlie stable of J.
V. Kidd, on Franklin street, aud spread witli
great fury east to Arch, and South to Water
street, dstroying he entire block, fifteen build
ings in number, among which was the ware
house. The buildings consisted of clothing,
grocery, shoe stores and livery stables. Loss
estimated at .*IOO,OOO. Insured for less than
125,000.
Montreal, March B.—Great excitement pre
vails lipre. The morning papers state that last
night orders were received by the military au
thorities to call out 10,000 volunteers within
twenty-four hours. Guards have been placed
at*all of the armories, and everything placed in
a state of defense for any emergency that may
arise.
New York, March B. — The grand jury have
found another indictment against McKinna and
Rogers, for complicity in the violation of the
neutrality laws in fitting out and equipping the
Meteor. Bail was given by cacli defendant, in
tlie sum of 850,000.
New York, March 9.—'The Tribune's Wash
ington special speaks of Mr. Peterson, whose
, residence opposite Ford’s Theatre was forever
an object of reverence by the American people,
from the accidental circumstance of its shelter
ing the dying form of President Lincoln, on the
14th of April last. He has finally received from
, tlie Treasury Department, the amount of his bill
charged for tlie trilling damage done to his bed
linen and furniture. Among the items charged
in the bill was $l5O for injury done his carpet;
t 850 for personal services ; $2 for gas, and a
large number of similar charges, amounting to
$298 50. Tlie modest and patriotic Peterson
* also rendered another charge for loss of time
for several weeks after the assassination, in ex-
C hibiting the room in which the President died.
The validity of this latter-claim couldnot be ful
-3 ly realized by the Secretary of War, who order
ed it to be disallowed.
, A Washington special says: A gentleman
IS brought to the. Treasury yesterday a large bun
dle of partially burned Treasury notes for re
demption. They were given to one of the lady
clerks to separate and paste on sheets, so ns to
j determine their total value. The lady succeeded
in reproducing nearly §2,000 more than the
j anxious owner had been able to do, who evinced
his appreciation of her skillful dissection by the
! presentation of §IOO.
r The Tribune’s Washington special says : The
’ Commissioner of Customs yesterday received
highly encouraging reports relative to the sup
pression of smuggling on tin- Canada frontier.
Large seizures were recently made, and mea
sures are now being taken by custom officers
to prevent the anticipated increase of smuggling
■ after the termination of the reciprocity treaty,
which, it is believed by the Commissioner, will
be sufficient to preclude the possibility of its
i renewal to any great extent.
The Herald’s Washington special says : Tliir
! teen mail routes were opened yesterday in
Virginia and Maryland.
The fractional currency issued yesterday
reached nearly §90,000.
Washington, March 9.—A delegation from
the State of Kentucky has presented to Presi
dent Johnson the proceedings of a mass meet
ing held at Frankfort, endorsing his veto mes
-1 sage. Mr. Dawson read a.i address, in the
course of which lie said the presence of the.
■ agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Kentucky
■ tended to produce demoralization and dissatis
faction among (lie negroes, and annoyance and
inconvenience to the. white citizens, and was
productive of no good results. The people of
Kentucky and the Jaws of the State, if left to
themselves, will secure the negro in all iiis
rights of person and property. There are
more, cases of wrongs by negroes upon white
persons in tiie State, which go unpunished by
the civil authorities, than of wrongs of whites
upon blacks. Il« would not disguise the fact
that there has been, and there, is still, some im
patience and dissatisfaction felt by the people
at wliat they regard as unkind suspicions and
discriminations against them upon the part of
the Government which they sustained through
out the late terribleconflict, at such sacrifices as
only they and those similarly situated can
know.
The President brieflly responded, tendering
to those whom the delegation represented and
to the State of Kentucky his unfeigned thanks
for the kind expressions and manifestations of
confidence in him, personally, and an endorse
ment of the policy which shall tontrol his ad
ministration.
It was peculiarly gratifying to receive these
assurances at this particular time. He trusted
that the result ivould show that the confidence
tints reposed was not misplaced, and that it.
would never become a matter ot regret upon
the part of those who gave expression thereto.
The result is regarded as a most critical juncture
iq the attairs of the nation, scarcely less so than
when an armed and organized force sought to
overthrow the Government, and to cause a dis
ruption of the Government by armed combi
nation and military force, and attempt to revo
lutionize and undermine.it by a disregard and
destruction of tiie safeguards thrown around
the liberties of the people in the Constitution.
Our stand has been taken ; our course is marked
out; we shall take no steps backward ; no ad
ditional guarantee of our purposes in this re
gard can he given than has already been furnish
ed ; in the future, as in the past, we shall en
deavor in good faith to make the administration
of the attairs of Government conform to the
Constitution in its letter and spirit. Therein is
the only guarantee to the liberties of the people.
It is hoped tiiat. by an adherence to this rule, to
remedy ere long all the irregulariUcsnndanuoy
anees to which tiie people have been subjected.
Again do we assure you that these demonstra
tions of confidence and assurances of support
on the part of the people are exceedingly cheer
ing to me ; that we are grateful for and proper
ly appreciate them, and that our most earnest
wish is to discharge the trust confided upon us
as to merit, them.
Washington, March 9.—A committee of the
Maryland Legislature,headed by Speaker Frazer,
bad an interview with the President yesterday,
to presei\t the resolutions adopted by the Leg
islature indorsing his policy for tiie reconstruc
tion of the Union.
Tiie President made.a brief reply, referring to
and reiterating his previous declaration in regard
to reconstruction, and said he had only to tbauk
them for the encouragement given by the rcso
' lutions, and hoped his future acts would show
this confidence had not been misplaced, and
that the passers of the. resolutions arc not mis
taken in their approval, lie said it is not nc
cesary for me to state the principles 1 have
adopted for my guidance; they are understood,
and there can be no mistake as to the position I
occupy. Persons that act upon principles and
understand the principles they act upon, canuot
disagree, and must act together, and whatever
their stand-point in acting upon such princi
ples, they, however involuntarily, sometimes
will approach each other ; and tiie converse of
this proposition is also true, that whenever they
disagree upon principles they cotnmcncea dixer
gent course. The most gratifying thought to
hie is that I have acted upon principle. Ever
since my earliest entrance into public life, there
has always been with me some fundamental
Idea regarding the natnre of this Union, and I
have never departed from it; and it as also
gratifying to me, after the ordeal through
which we have passed, that through the Chaotic
state of the public minds, this,idea still lived,
and that these principles are again enunciated,
that there is still an appreciation of them, and
around and about which there seems to arfse a
crystaiization and formation of men that will in
the future sustain the country and the princi
ples on which it lives.
Washington, March 9.—Gen. Augur, com
manding the department of Washington, has
issued a general order, saying to all, that to pre
vent litigation concerning lands and other pro
perty, confiscated by the authorities of the
United States Government during the recent
rebellion, that he is directed that no person
spgNTS. .: T I
State or The t
Federal Government in relation to s I | - tnm
ty will alone be regarded. ' f~wf^z!xJ§
New York,. March 9—The
special states that Gen. Hitchcock wa*r knocked
down by a runaway horse in the street to-day,
and seriously bruised, but uot injured seriously.
The Pbst's special says: The Ways and Means
Committee have been engaged all day In consid- 1
erlng the proposition to levy a tax on cotton. 1
The recommendation of the Revenue Commit
tee in favor of the tax is likely to be adopted.
New York, March 9.—lntense excitement
prevails in Fenian circles in this city to-day. It
is thought undoubtedly a demonstration will 1
shortly be made against Canada by Gen. Sweeny.
He says he has already large stores, arms and ,
munitions, with transportation at his command.
A special states that it understands that the
Government has ordered out the militia, to be
stationed at Ogdensburg, to prevent raids from
the United States. All Boris of exaggerated
rumors prevail.
The following pastoral, from Archbishop
Cullen, was read in all the Dublin churches on
the Bth:
“This brotherhood or society of Fenians, so
fyr from promoting the interests of the country,
only tend to aggravate Its evils, checking busi
ness, increasing poverty, and placing everything
into the hands of Orangemen, as appears from
the rejoicings of their press, and giving strength
to all our enemies.
“In America, indeed, some Head Centers and
leaders of the Fenians are enriched by taxes
levied on the simplicity and good faith of our
countrymen, and have been raised to a position
in which they can live splendidly and clothe
themselves with the state and pomp of a mock
court.
“But how different the casein Ireland. Here
those who have let themselves be duped by
agents of the Brotherhood have been leit with
out employment, and many of them reduced to
the greatest difficulties, and even destitute.
Buoyed up for a while by foolish hopes and
fallacious promises, they have been used as
mere tools to excite popular feeling in favor of
an organization in America, persuading our
poor countrymen that great events and wonder
till revolutionary movements were impending
in Ireland, and thus inducing tliym to part more
freely with their money.”
New Y*kk, March o.—The Boston Herald
has a long account of the discovery ol the mur
derer of the two children Isabella N. and John
Joyce in Bassey’s Woods, Westßoxbury,outlie
21t'k of June, 18(15. He was found to be a con
vict in the State Prison, who had been seut
there for a burglary .committed in Worcester
county, shortly after the murder. His strange
conduct when arrested led the officers! to think
he was a hardened criminal, and his subsequent
boasting of large deeds performed by himself,
together with some of his unguarded expres
sions, gave the clue, which, being followed by
two Worcester county officers, lias fastened the
murder alluded to almost undeniably upon him
self. His parted confessions, with the corrob
orative evidene’ leave no doubt on the minds
of the officers of hi« guilt. Ilis sou brio net is
Scratch Gravel. His right name is Charles
Aaron Dodge. He is a native of Massachusetts,
but has been a rover for fourteen years, being
noW twenty-seven years of age. lie confesses
to have hunted Indians in Florida; that be was
sent to prison for life, for murder, in South
Carolina; was pardoned, entered tlie rebel ser
vice, was captured on Morgan’s raid to Ohio
and Indiana, paroled, afterward enlisted in a
Massachusetts regiment, deserted, joined the
navy and served on several gunboats.
New York, March 9.—Tlie Times publishes
the operations of the Revenue Agency of the
Internal Revenue Department in this city dur
ing tlie past year, of which Mr. Alex. N. Lewis
is r cliief. The article states that owing to
. frauds occurring up to the period when this
office was established, in October, 18(14, not
' more than one-third of the revenue due the
Government had been either assessed or col
lected in the cities of New York or Brooklyn.
There was collected during the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1804, §10,784,208 48. This office
’ commenced its labors in October, 1804, and its
i inspectors were set to work tracing and con
victing those who were withholding money duc
tile Government, informing tax payers of their
duties under the law, and urging strict com
-1 plianee therewith. Tlie increased’ returns for
the year ending June 30, 1805, are due in a
1 groat measure to the labors of this ofilcc. The
l . frauds discovered by local agents of the bureau
1 are of fearful proportion.' The Government
’’ was cheated by all classes, and not unfrequently
by men loudest in protestations of loyalty.—
3 An example is cited of result of an investiga
-1 tion into the monthly returns of a large house
a engaged in the stock and gold brokerage busi
:: ness, which shows a deficiency in tlie returns
i of over S44,CCO. By direct application to a
local agency there has been turned over to the
Government taxes otherwise withheld to the
e amount of §BOO,OOO.
r Montreal, March 9.—A call for 100,000 men
of the Canadian militia, for active duty, which
was made late on Wednesday evening,was enthu
e siastically responded to, and early on Tliurs
i day moruiug news was received from all parts
I of tlie country that their quotas were ready for
1 active service at a moment’s notice. There
I seems to be no doubt that three or four times
,; the number could be had in a day’s notice.—
a The whole volunteer force of this city paraded
o last evening. Strong guards are posted at all
a the armories, and patrols kept moving through
c the city all night. Every preparation is made
- to guard against any Fenian surprise.
[• Toronto, C. W., March- 9.—The response,
" yesterday, to the call for volunteers, from all
’■ parts of the country, was very enthusiastic. A\
much greater number offered than was rc-
II quired. The Globe, of to-day, lias a report that
" the plot of tlie Fenians is for a body of them
- to cross over to Canada and fake part in the
1' public procession on St. Patriek’s day, who
? will disturb the peace and distract attention,
1 while armed Fenian bands will make raids on
the border.
( , New York, March 9. —An assembly of sport
ing mcu, numbering two hundred, gathered at
0 the Home House hist night, upon the occasion
j of the closing tor the entries for the purse of
, sered by Mr. Chroeheron, the proprietor of the
Fashion Course, to be trotted tor during the
ensuing spring and summer season. The most
' importannt purses tilled were as follows: A
purse of SBOO, mile heats, best three in five, un
der the saddle, for horses that have never trot
j ted better than 3:28. Entries, Fenian Chief, for
, merly Black Flarry; Dan Mace and Stark. A
purse, same as No. 0, but for SSOO, and in har
ness. Entries—Vanderbilt, Stonewall Jackson
, and Dan Rice. Third entry, same as No. 5, to
wagons; entries, Panic, Stonewall Jackson and
Dan Rice.
New York, March 9.—A heavy westerly gale
i has prevailed several days along the Hudson,
accompanied by a freezing atmosphere, strength
ening the ice which was greatly weakened by
- the previous mild weather, and retarding the
opening of navigation considerably. Last night
■ the ice evt a hole into the hull of the ferryboat
r Air Line, which plies between Tivola and Saug
erties, while the vessel was lying at her wharf
I at the latter place, causing her to sink,
i New York, March 9.—Lieutenant General
t Grant, accompanied by General Comstock, Col.
> Parker, Bodeau Hudson and Majors Webster
i and Brinneman, United States army, arrived at
i the Metropolitan last evening. After dining the
' General took the night train for Washington.
i
Latest News from Europe.
" From the New York Sim, oftlic Bth lust., we
I obtain the following:
f The Inman steamer City of New York, from
- Queenstown on the 23d of February, lias ar
i rived at this port.
i The Daily News makes the announcement
that Generals Grant and Sherman will visit En
; gland in May next.
I It is announced that Queen Victoria will
• hold during the season, at Buckingham Palace,
f live courts, for the reception of a certain num
ber of ladies and gentlemen—each reception
being limited to 250. Tin; Prince and Princess
of Wales will hold Drawing Rooms and Recep
-1 tions on behalf of Her Majesty.
Messages were presented in both Houses of
■ Parliament, from the Queen, on the 20tli, ask
ing that provision be made for the Princess Hel
ena, on her marriage, aud for Prince Alfred on
his coming of age.
Mr. Gladstone gave notice of a motion for the
erection of a monument, to Lord Palmeston, iu
Westminster Abbey.
Tiie Times Suez Canal question is
definitely settled. The company do not retain
a single acre of ground except such as is needed
for the maritime channel. Politically this ar
rangement removes all possible questions of
dispute.
In the House of Commons, on the 20th, Mr.
Clay introduced a reform bill, which proposes
that the electoral franchise shall be given to
every male over 21 years of age, who’has re
ceived a fair education. Mr. Gladstone, in some
remarks upon the measure, declined to give any
explanation ns to what the Government intend
ed to propose.
London, Feb. 23.—The Bank of England lias
reduced its rates of interest to 7 per cent.
Tiie Paris Patrie says certain proposals have
emanated from Maxmilian which render possl
siblc the return of 5,000 troops from Mexico
by the end of May.
PRUSSIA.
It is stated that the advanced Liberals had re
solved to cull on the Government to withdraw
a letter addressed by the Chamber by Count
Von Rismark, otherwise they will decline to
discuss any future bills presented by the Gov
ernment.
AUSTRIA.
Disquieting war rumors were afloat, at Vien
na, in reference to the relations between Aus
tria and Prussia on the question of the Duchies.
COMMERCIAL.
Liverpool, Feb. 23.—Cotton—Sales of Wed
nesday and Thursday 10,000 hales, including
4,000 bales to speculators and exporters. Mar
ket. irregular and 1-4 d. lower, under news from
America.
Breadstuff's quiet and steady. Provisions
steady., except bacon, which is tinner, and lard
which tends upwards. ’
London, Feb. 32. —Consols for money 87 1 2
nuVf «*•*» ¥ive-Twonti?8 y 6»3ia
01)5-8. Eric shares, SBasß 1-3. Illinois (V.,
tml shares, 76 l-2a77. ls t en ‘
At a Fenian demonstration in Washington
City last Wednesday night Senator McDougal].
of California, and Hon. Mr. Wright, ot New
Jersey, avowed themselves in favor of Irish in
dependence, and advised the same neutrality on
the part of this Government tka( England had
exercised during the late war.
The citizens of Columbus arc about taking I
steps to raise funds for the erection of a monu
ment to the memory of the citizens killed in the
Confederate army.
A negro soldier brutally murdered a white
child named Edwards at Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
last Thursday. The boy was only eight years
old, and the negro shot him through the head
merely lor troubling his dog. Suppose the in
nocent victim to have been black and the mur
derer white, whaty a terrible howl would there
aot have |>een raised in the Abolition camp,
' * • FROMEUB<UPK.”~ "
* > New York, MftrchYl.
The steamship City of Bostbrt has arrived.
Liverpool Cotton Market,—Cotton had -ad
vanced 1-ad. . Sales for tbur -days were .54,000
bales, the market closing dull.
General Neva*.-*- The rumored resignation of
Earl Russell is unfounded.
The military in Ireland will be further aug
mented. i" < ■ • ’
The K"friiHh Government has seized two ves
sels, said to belong to the Chilian Government.
Arrests continue plentiful hi Ireland.
London, Money Consols, 87 1-8
aB7 1-4. United States 5-20’s 71a7l 1 -8.
FROM WASHINGTON,
Washington, March 11.
Tlie British Minister has been assured by the
United States Government that no violation of
the neutrality laws will bo permitted by the
Fenians. t
The Canadians are greatly alarmed, apprehend
ing an invasion.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, March 12.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of A1
bert G. Mackey, as Collector of Customs, at
Charleston, South Carolina, and George Bryan,
of Charleston District, ns Judge of (lie United
Suites for the district of South Carolina.
NEW YORK COTTON AND GOLD MARKET.
New York, March 12.
Cotton firm, with an advance of one cent.—
Sales 1,800 at 41a42.
Gold 30 1-2.
Augusta Market.
Monday Evening, March 12.
COTTON—The offering stock and receipt*
arc light, and very little is being done in the
market. Quotations are the sanu-r as Saturday.
Middling to Strict Middling 845i35. Good Mid
dling 30.
GOLD—Market very dull. Brokers buying
at 130 and asking 134, but no sales.
SlLVEß—Buying at 125, and selling at 130.
STOCKS AND BONDS City, Stale and ‘
Railroad bonds are in demand.
General Intelligence.
The military and civil authorities ol Mobile
- have issued orders establishing a strict quaian
-1 tine off that port against all vessels from the
i West Indies, where the cholera now prevails.
1 The citizens of Madison county, Kentucky,
held a large meeting at Richmond on the sth, nt
. which resolutions were passed highly eulogistic
1 of the President and his plan of reconstruction.
, A inau named Edward Reagan committed sui
' cide, by shooting himself in the head, at. the
’ Government sales room, in Nashville,Tennessee,
on Thursday morning last.
Major J. M. Ridenaur committed suicide, by
. jumping into the river at Cincinnati, on last
2 Thursday. „
. General Cerro Gordo Williams was at Cairo
■ on the Bth instant.
The Fenians are enlisting men and collert
r ing money at St. Louis. Ten thousand dol
> lars were collected and live hundred men enlist
ed last week.
t
t Judge Fitch James Matthews, formerly Judge
I of the Superior Court at Columbus, Ohio, is
dead.
a Two white soldiers attemptod to rob a negro
man at Montgomery, Friday night, but the latter
~ put spurs to his ho'rse and escaped.
c Tlie remains of Col. Colquitt, Capt. Cooper
f and Lieut. Bize, ail of the 46th Georgia, have
( been disinterred and removed to Columbus.
1 It is reported that efforts are making at Chi
cago to tit out a Fenian squadron for thepur
s pose of clearing the lakes of British merchant
r men.
* Congress has been in session three months
- and lias done nothing hut talk, talk, about the
I freednien and the bureau.
I
i The Charleston and Savannah railroad is now
B completed to Anderson’s Station, thirty-three
miles from Charleston, to which point a tri-
J weekly train is running.
1 1 Winborn, Lawtou & Co. arc erecting a steam
( saw mill near Savannali which will turn out
, from fifteen to twenty thousand feet of lumber
per day.
) -- nil . ii.i ■. i , i
i Hoyt’s Superphosphate,
©6.3 PER TON,
DELIVERED IN AUGUSTA.
E offer the above well known and thoroughly
favorite
MANURE /
At SB3 per Ton, in lots of five Tons. In smaller par
cels S6B per Ton.
This Manure has been used ami tested in the most
thorough manner in Georgia, and has universally
proved equal to any Manure offered in the culture of
Ootton. Every barrel is guaranteed to be of standard
purity. Below are the names of some who have used
and cau best speak of its excellence: -
Jonathan M. Miller,.Esq., Beech Island, S. C.
Owen P. Fitzsimmons, Esq., Jefferson county.
David Dixon, Esq., Oxford, Ga.
J. A. 8011, Esq., Oglethorpe county, Qu.
James P. Fleming, Esq., Augusta, Qn.
Isaac T. Heard, Esq., Augusta, Ga.
Dr. E. M. Pendleton, Sparta, Ga.
Robert P. Connelly, Esq., Burke county, G.i.
R. J. Henderson, Esq., Covington, Ga.
Thomas J. Davis, Esq., Beech Island, S. C.
George A. Oates, Esq., Augusta, Gd.
Dr. 11. It. Cook, Beech Island, 8. C.
Titos. W. Whatley, Esq., Beech Island, S. (J.
Wm. Summer, Esq., Pomaria, S. C.
Col. M. C. M. Hammond, Athens, Ga.
Wm. D. Grant, Esq., Walton county, Ga.
James A. Shivers, Esq., Warrenton, Ga.
J. F. Awtrey, Esq., LaGrange, Ga.
Wilson Bird, Esq., Hancock county, Ga.
J. R- Morrison, Esq., Burke county, Ga.
W. A. Saffold, Esq., Madison, Ga.
W. W. Anderson, Esq., Warren county, Ga.
Judge M. H. AVelborn, Esq., Warren county, Ga.
M. W. Hubert, Esq., Warren county, Ga.
W. 11. Brantley, Esq., Warren county, Ga.
Isaac Powell, Esq., High Shoals, Ga.
L. C. Dennis, Esq., Eatonton, Ga.
A. G. Hester, Esq., Waltou county, Ga.
Joel Mathews, Esq., Oglethorpe cour,ty Gu.
Colonel John Billups, Athens, Ga. "
I)r. G. W. Watkins, Sparta, Ga.
A. J. Lane, Esq., Sparta, Ga.
W. W. Simpson, Esq., Sparta, Q*.
J. T. Bothwell, Esq., Augusta, Ga.
J. V. Jones, Esq., Burke county, Gu.
A. Pharr, Esq., Social Circle, Ga.
J. C. Bower, Esq., Irwinton, Ga.
R. H. P. I.a zen by, Esq., Warrenton, Ga.
James Rainsford, Esq., Edgefield, 8. C.
Hon. J. J. Jones, Burke county, Ga.
8. M. Manning, Hawkinsville, Ga.
E. A. Smith, Esq., Walton county, Ga.
T. J. Lester, Esq., Walton county, Ga.
John P. C. Whitehead, Esq., Burke coanty, Ga.
Dr. M. S. Durham, Esq., Clarke county, Ga.
A. P. Dearing, Esq., Athens, Ga.
prompt attention, orders should bo armt in early,
J. O. MATHEWSON, Aoknt,
febß—dlmtSm • 285 * troot -
Steak Dishes, Chafing Dishes
Soup Tureens, Tea Urns, Coffee
Pots, Tea Pots and other Planished
or Block Tin Goods, for sale at re
duced rates, by
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.,
Augusta, Qa., March, 1860.
Cooking Stoves, of the most,
approved kinds, varying in price
from twenty to one hundred dot
lars, sold under, guarantees to
operate perfectly, By
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.
255 Broad st.
Augusta, On., March, 18(10. inh2— tlm
Cedar Buckets, Wash Tubs, Keel*
ers, Measures, Wash Boards, Clothes
Baskets, Plough Lines, Trays, and
other Wooden Wares, for sale at re
duced rates, by
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.
255 Broad st. •
Augusta, Ga., March, 1808. tin#
House Furnishing Goods, of
every description, at rates much
reduced, for sale by
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.,
255 Broad st.
Augusta, GA., March, 1808. mh2—t|m
Tin Ware, of all kinds, at
Wholesale and Retail, for safe
by
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.,
255 Broad st. *•
AuswtU, i March, U 49, • ‘ mb2—tlu