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SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1806.
The Money Panic.
The Crisis Passed Away in England and Con
fidence Restored—Review of the Disaster and
its Causes.
[From the London Time*, May 15.
The panic may be said to have passed, away as
' suddenly as it arose. Ou Saturday the city
breathed again ; yesterday the wonted feeling of
security had almost returned and suspicion was
no longer master of the situation. Commerce
has had its crises before, but it must be confess
ed that none has ever come upon us so sharply
aud so suddenly as that from which we are now
escaping. The week before last—and, as late
as Wednesday—nothing had happened to excite
unusual alarm. The Bank rate of discount was
not so high as it has been again and again in the
last three years, an'cLthough the glories of the
Finance Companies had begun to pale and it
was known that the Imperial Mercantile Credit
Association was tottering, there was no reason
to apprehend any panic in consequence of a
collapse which was distinctly foreseen. It was
the suspension of Overend, Gurney & Co. on
Thursday which awoke the terror of creditors.
The name of the firm was historical and the
magnitude of its liabilities showed that the mass
of depositors thought sis highly of the public
company with limited liability as of the private
partnership. It was notorious that the spare
money of town aud country bankers had often
been deposited with Overend, Gurney & Co., or,
at all events, had been employed through their
agency, and ail wcil informed men dreaded the
effect of the suspension of such a house upon
the popular imagination. Friday showed that
their apprehensions were well founded. De
positors ran to the banks to get back their de
posits, and tlie banks, unprepared for such a
sudden rush, ran to the Bank of England to
draw out their reserves and to beg for further
assistance. Four millions of money were lent
by the Bank of England during the day in addi
tion to deposits repaid ; and, though a consid
erable part of the money thus withdrawn found
its way back, the cash in hand fell from £5,727,-
000 to something under £3,000,000. This re
serve was amply sufficient to meet all liabilities
of the Bank of England, but it is evident that
the assistance it had rendered on Friday to
fiankers in distress could not be repeated. The
situation was full of danger and amply justified
the interference of the executive government.
Symptoms, indeed, were not wanting ou Friday
night that the bitterness of the crisis was past ;
but it was quite possible that things might yet
take an unfavorable turn, and the suspension of
the Bank Charter act, under the circumstances,
was a proper act of caution. 1
We are disposed to make every proper allow
ance for the conduct of the London bankers. —
A banker makes bis profit by investing the mo
ney left in his hands, and it is quite impossible
that such a trader should be prepared at all
■times, at a moment’s notice, to repay all his
creditors. ‘ It is, however, plain, that on this
occasion many of the Loudon hankers were
wholly unprepared; their cash reserves were
not merely Inadequate to meet the demands
upon them—they Were almost altogether want
ing. The competition between the banks for
custom, and the endeavor on the part of the
joint stock banks to outdo one another in the
magnitude of their dividends, had induced them
to trade upon cash balances dangerously limit
ed. When the rush came they had nothing to
do but to betake themselves to the Bank of
England and beseech the directors to re-dis
count the bills they produced from their bill
boxes. Au attempt was thus made to convert
the reserve of the Bank of England into the re
serve of all the banks in London. The Bank
ol England had about six millions of money in
its coffers to meet liabilities of about twelve
millions, and under no circumstances conceiva
ble as practically arising, would the proportion
lie found deficient. But if private and joint
stock banks keep cash balances amounting to
litt.e more than five per cent, of their liabili
ties, they have no right to expect that they can
escape the consequences or their recklessness
and improvidence by resorting to the Bank of
England with bills to be re-diseounted. In any
case, if they do rely upon such assistance, they
ought to be prepared to [jay the famine prices
consequent upon such a general competition
for what is after all a limited supply. The Bank
of England is as much a trading company as
any other banking association, private or joint'
stock, in Lothbury or Lombard streets; the di
rectors of the Bank of England owe the same
duty to their stockholders that the directors of
any other bank do to their shareholders; they
are bound in the first place to keep money
enough in hand to be ready for any contingen
cy ; and in the next to invest the surplus on the
best terms consistent with safety.
The deputation, composed, we are told, “ of
persons of the greatest weight and influence
and representing alike the private and joint
stock banks of London,” which presented them
selves iu quick succession in Downing street
on Friday had neglected these consideratious,
and the one thing they sought was to compel
the Bank of England to surrender the advan
• tage it had gained by the superior prudence'of
its directors. The thrifty were mulcted for the
beuefit of the unthrifty ; the foolish virgins
madu such a 'cKunor that they compelled the
wise virgins to share their oil with them, what
ever might be the consequence. The suspension
of Overend, Gurney &Co., was the first cause
of the. panic ; the too scanty reserves of London
bankers aggravated it; and the credit of the
Biipjk Os. England was called upon to allay
ii»2, witfc do not disapprove the action of the
government; ou the contrary, we believe
what they did was inevitable under the circum
stances ; but it is right that the blame of having
conduced to the crisis of Friday night should
be borne by those who are properly answerable
for it—that the bankers, bill-brokers and mer
chants who discounted bills at the Bank of Eng
land to the extent of four millions on that day
should not escape the condemnation which their
wilful carelessness as to their own stability de
serves.
Permission was given to the Bank of England
on Friday night to override the provisions of
the Bank Charter act, and the panic abated on
Saturday morning. It is an easy conclusion
that the Bank Charter act was the cause of the
panic, and the conclusion is apparently strength
ened when it is remembered that the panics ol
1347 and 1857 were stayed by similar infractions
of the law. It may be plausibly argued that as
the liberty to disregard the act dissipates the
fear of universal insolvency, the restrictions
imposed by the act. are the circumstances which
make universal insolvency probable. It must,
however, be remembered that there were panics
before the act was passed, as there have been
since; but before 1844 the solvency of the Bank
of England itself was Jeopardized whenever a
panic arose, and, iu liict, a suspension of pay
ments by it was more than once found neces
sary. It must also be borne in mind that the
action of the Bank of England before the sus
pension differed in no particular from what it
would have been had the act not lieen in the
statute book.
The truth is that no law can prevent a crowd
from being possessed by the passion of fear,
and it is well if an enactment primarily design
ed for other objects can serve to allay a terror
X blindly excited- The first end of the act of
1844 is to secure at all times and under all cir
cumstances the convertibility of the bank note.
This result, never before realized, it has perfect
ly accomplished, but to do so it is necessary to '
maintain a certain reserve of credit. A panic i
breaks out, tlie ordinary functions of commerce ■
are suspended, and the mutual confidence
without which civilized life is impossible’ 1
seems to be at an end. A suspension of the <
Bank act at such a time enables the Bank of
England to throw its credit over those who are 1
discredited, and the terror censes; but had it 1
not been for the act and the power wich it
keeps in reserve it must have been al- (
lowed to run its course. A simple analogy i
will explain what is, however, not difficult to
be understood by itself. A reservoir of water
is formed to supply the inhabitants of a town , in
which soon after a fire breaks out. The water
is intended to be drunk, and it would be better
that the fire should exhaust itself than that the
inhabitants of the town should die of thirst; i
but if there be more tban enough water in the
reservoir to satisfy their daily needs the sur
plus may properly be devoted to the uulooked i
lor contingency. The tire is put out, but the
existence of the reservoir is not the cause of i
the fire; it is the secret of its extinction. In
the same way the existence of the Bank Chart
er act is not the cause of a panic. A panic i
springs from universal and unreasoning dis- i
trust; but the act does keep in reserve an ;
amount of credit which is capable, oh an emer- i
gency, of being applied to support, the reputa- i
lion of those who are unjustly suspected. It is I
in this way that the suspension of the act alle
viates a panic and enables those who were ter- I
ror stricken on Friday to breathe freely to-day; t
but while the act is thus’ justified, we must re- i
peat that those ought most severely to be rep- t
rehended whose culpable abuse of the facilities i
of credit led’ to the frightful reaction of last '
week, who so far forgot the first duties of their t
position as to leave themselves unable to meet ]
tlie most ordinary demands of their creditors ]
and wh# seek at last to hide their own iinprovi- i
dence in clamorous denunciations of those who t
had been more prudent aud.of a law which no I
■otherwise affected them than that it helped to i
relieve them of embarrassment iuto which they <
had carelessly drifted.
A Sensation among the School Marms.—
The following paragraph, from the New York
News, of Tuesday, is calculatad to produces
stir in the select and saintly circles that make
up the female side of the Freedmen’s Bureau
“ The ramifications ot the Freedmen’s Bureau
are manifold and inexplicable. It is whispered
in the chronique scandaleuse, of Richmond, that
the episode of the virgin mother of the found
ers of Rome has lately repeated itself in the
capital of Virginia, the chief actors therein be
ing a Rhea Silvia (probably from Massachu
setts) who has been attending to the mfental and
moral advancement of one of the freedmen’s
schools, and a sable Mars, who “ loved not
wisely but too welland the “deminition to
tal,” as Mr. Mantilini would say,has been a sort
of composite Romulus and Remus, which de
serve, as they will doubtless receive, the prompt
est attention from the Joint Committee just
appointed by Congress to look up freedmen’s
affairs in the South. Being a “ loyal ” affair
all round, the committee should have no hesi
tation in sending for “ persons and papers,”
and clearing np this dark mystery.
Quite a number of Radical lawyer* in New
England and out West lately have taken to
preaching. It paysbetter. ,
[From the Richmond Times.
General Grant and Paul Pry Jenkins.
One of the most pert, impudent, ill-bred, in
trusive and irrepressible members of the great
Northern family of human magpies eailed “Jen
kinses,” crept into the studio of a Washington
artist the other day, and then and there discov
ered General Grant sitting sty a portrait, per
haps, and certainly less reticent than usual.—
Such an opportunity tor retailing the fragment
ary slip-shod chit chat of a great man not hav
ing previously occurred iu the uneveutful
career of the “Jenkins 1’ aforesaid, he treasured
up every syllable which Grant uttered, made a
sly note of it upon the paper lining of his hat,
and subsequently published a full account of a
private conversation for the benefit of the pub
lic. As gentlemen are nowhere held responsi
ble for gross violations of the sanctity of pri
vate conversations by impertinent and ill-bred
blackguards, even if “ Jenkins ” truthfully re
ported General Grant’s conversation, he cannot
be blamed for the publicity which a scandalous
Bohemian has given to his opinions.
The chances are all against “Jenkins” having
told the truth, as the tendency of that class of
animals to falsify and exaggerate is as notorious
as is their indecent and invariable disregard
of the common proprieties of respectable so
ciety.
It General Grant is, however, correctly re
ported, the conduct of the Southern people,
since their defeat, does not, it seems, meet his
approvals, and he distinctly asserts that the
course of General Robert E. Lee has not re
ceived his approbation. The first count of
General Grant’s indictment is, “ That while the
people of the South, soon after their defeat, were
humble, submissive and willing to submit to any
terms, they are now defiant, aggressive and ex
acting."
If the Southern people were “humble,”
“submissive” and “ willing to submit to any
terms,” soon after the surrender ot General
Lee, it was not from the consciousness of hav
ing committed any crime in seeking to estab
lish their national independence. • They were,
doubtless stunned and overwhelmed by the
magnitude of their misfortunes, but there was
nothing I" ike endurance, courage and forti
tude with which they bore the privations and
terrible sufferings of a long civil war to make
them “humble” in the presence of the hosts
who crashed them by weight of numbers. They
had commenced their struggle for independ
ence with tlie load ot obloquy which the negro
philists hud heaped upon them, as a race ener
vated, demoralized and degraded by the curse
of slavery. Their struggle had ended disas
trously, but-they had proved to the world that
no braver and more heroic people ever failed
in a great revolutionary struggle with a supe
rior power. They fought to the point of ex
treme exhaustion, and died game to the*hack
bone. General Grant is mistaken if he believes
that the people of the South were either “ hum
bled ” or “ humiliated ” by. the fate which the
disparity in the strength of the two sections
rendered inevitable.
If they were willing in April and May, 1865,
to “submit to any terras,’.’ it was because Gen
eral Grant, with the magnanimity of a great
and generous foe, had proposed terms so hon
orable and creditable that they won the respect
and admiration of a defeated but ehivalrie peo
ple. Tlie treatment which we received at tlie
hands of Grant, Ord, Patrick, and even Halleck,
was tinged with the conservatism of West Point,
and won the hearts of the people ol th? South.
We felt that we were dealing with men who de
tested and abhorred such howling Jacobins and
crazy dancing dervishes as Garrison, Steven aud
and Wendell Phillips. No terms were ever sub
mitted by this class of gentlemen to which we
did not submit with cheerfulness, and without
dishonor and disgrace. It was only when the
magnanimous soldier was replaced by the rude,
brutal fanatics and demagogues of‘the Nortli
that the indomitable spirit of the South was
aroused to resefat the insults of the vile rabble
who followed in the rear ot the Federal army.
It was only when the political “ bummers” of
the North, who had skulked in rear of the fight
ing men, emboldened by the surrender of our
armies, rushed forward to insult a fallen foe,
that we were made fully aware of our unhappy
condition.
As an honorable people to whom defeat has.
not brought degradation, we have been unable
to listen without indignation and scorn to the
“terms proposed” by Stevens and Sumner for
our humiliation. We have submitted to all the
terms which have been proposed by President
Johnson and General Grant, but the old un
conquerable spirit of a brave people has flashed
forth when insults have been heaped upon
them by our Congressional persecutors. If
General Grant, instead of being (we hope) a
magnanimous soldier, was an Attila or a Tam
erlane, ami should scourge the South with fire
and sword tor a century, he could not, unless
he exterminated the whole race at the South,
prevent us from resenting the insults which
have been lately heaped upon us.
The second count in General Grant’s indict
ment is against General Lee. “He is disap
pointed in the course which General Lee has pur
sued. It is different from what he expected it
would be when he surrendered. His exanygle
might have accomplished ten times as much good
as that of any other man in the South. He has
not behaved as well as Joe Johnston and Dick
Taylor.
We refrain from extended comment upon the
bad taste of this censure of the great Confeder
ate soldier who, for four long years, with pre
carious resources and a small army of famished
and half-clad men, hurled back the largest and
best appointed armed hosts ot modern times
reelihg, broken, damoralizedand defeated, from
the State which thty had invaded; and who only
yielded to the pre#ure of overwhelming num
bers when he had, !y his magnificent strategy
and. tlie valor of his soldiers, inflicted a loss of
one hundred Uiousund men upon his conquer
or. We pass this by and ask in utter amaze
ment, “ What has General Lee done to provoke
tins most ufijust aud unmerited censure ?” In
what respect has he not, like “ Joe Johnson ”
and “ Dick Taylor,” performed his duty as a
reconstructionist ? Each of these gentlemen
have labored industriously in their present vo
cation, but wliat occult patriotism is there in a
contract for digging a canal, or iu managing the
business of the Express Company, which does
not belong to the Presidency of a college ?
What did General Grant expect General Lee
to do which lie lias failed to perform ? Did lie
promise General Grant to travel through the
Southern States denouncing the “ rebellion” as
Gough, tlie regenerated sot, does intemperance,
and Green, tlie reformed black-leg, does gamb
ling? Was he disappointed at General Lee’s
not sustaining Underwhod and “the seven in
telligent freeilmen” who testified before the re
construction committee of Congress that we
Virginians are still ripe for revolt, and stub
bornly contumacious and rebellions? None of
these things the conqueror of McClellan, Pope,
Burnside and Hooker has done, Inil lie has
nevertheless thrown the whole of Ins' great in
fluence upon the side of law and order. He lias
counselled cheerful obedience, and prompt,
honest allegiance to tlie Constitution and laws
of the United States, and has done more than
any man at the South to reconcile our people to
their fate, and encourage our young meu to lead
lives at once industrious, peaceful and conten
ted. It. is very evident that Geue-al Lee has
been foully maligned by some of the fraternity
of “ secret stabbers” who lurk with poisoned
daggers in the shadow of tlie Freedmeu’s Bu
reau.
Disgraceful Scene.
We are of those who believe that the Radical
party, by their violent and intemperate eourse
iu Congress, will work out their own destruc
tion. But that such exhibitions of passion are
disgraceful to the country, there could be no
jection to the daily enactment ot such scenes as
the following, because they must inevitably re
coil ou the actors. In the House ot Represent
atives, last Saturday, in the debate on the tax
bill, the Radical'whip was thus cracked again:
Mr. Stevens moved to amend the sixty-fifth
section by striking out tjie words, “The Secre
tary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to ap
point an officer iu ids department who shall be
styled special commissioner,” &c., and insert
ing in lieu of litem, “Congress, by a concur
rent. action, shall elect a special commissioner.”
He said : I am done with giving patronage to
the Secretary of the Treasury where it can be
avoided. He lias already said that he will ap
point nobody to office who does not sustain the
President's policy. He' lias this morning dis
tinctly so informed a member of the House,
who called upon him for an appointment. He
asked him whether the applicant’s “antecedents
were in favor of the President’s policy?” and
when lie declined to answer him, lie said, “I
can appoint, and will appoint no man who does
not support the President’s policy.” lie re
ferred then to tin apostate Senator from that re
gion, and said; “ I will consult him when I
make the appointment, aud I will appoint no
body not recommended, by him.”
It is time for this House to let the people of
the country know whether officers are to be
sacrificed to this determination ot the subordi
nates of the President. If we do not stand by
them they will not stand by us, and they ought
not to. It is time that we, build up a wall.
This is a malfeasance in office. I have already
ascertained that four of the subordinates of the
President have made the same determination.
If 1 were a little younger, and I shall be in a
week, I think I would let those officers know
that this is a grand inquest ot the nation, be
fore which men who are guilty of mal-practiee
in office shall be brought, and their cases pre
sented to another tribunal which is to try them.
[Excitement.]
A voice—“ Good !”
Sir, we are recreant to our own interest; we
are recreant to our own dignity; we are re
creant to the interest of the country, if we do
not stand by those who stand by us. We must
take care that no more patronage shall be put
into the hands of any man to be abused—
avowedly abused. It is time that we speak
aloud aud let our friends abroad know that they
are in-no danger; that they shall not be sacri
ficed because they stand by Congress ; because
they are not the tools of a recreant President.
[Excitement.]
I have authentic, information that this very
day that course lias been taken by the Secretary
ot the Treasury, and that he has declared dis
tinctly that in that State he will consult nobody
but a recreant apostate Senator, who has be
trayed his party and his country.
(Mr. Stevens was understood as referring to
Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania.)
The Tobacco Fair.—The Tobacco Fair,
which is to come off in this city on the 30th
day of this laoutb, promises to be an occasion
ot much interest to the farmers ot our State,
especially those extensively engaged in the cul
ture of this staple. We lirn tfat the atten
dance will 6e tyrge and that the contest for the
preminmi offered wHI be quite* lively. Louis
ville hold* her well-earned and long ofccnpled
position as leading tobacco market in the
♦ountry. — Louisville Courier.
[Correspondence of the London Times.
French Opinion of the Bank of England.
The mode in which the Chanqßllor of the Ex
chequer employs his surplus rimuiic does not
meet with the approval of a wfft«r iu the Jour
nal des Debris. In a long nrtieie, signed, “ Se
cretaire de la Redaction” lie reverts’ to the old
charge about the Government’s wilful indebt
edness to the Bank of England and tlie consc
qnent injury to the commercial interest of the
British empire. When tlie Chancellor of the
Exchequer has more money than he knows what,
to do with he forthwith sets himself to lowering
the imposts on certain articles, and the surplus
previously obtained is appled to the reduction
•of the public debt by the government broker
buying in stock, which is tlie only species of
sinking fund the English admit of. If Mr.
Gladstone follows the old plan in the present
conjuncture he will buv up £1,350,000 of con
sols. The writer reserves for a future occasion
the other mode of proceeding which the fertile
mind of Mr. Gladstone has conceived in order
to attain more readily the object he has in view.
He considers, however, that it would be much
more advantageous for the industry and com
merce of England if these surplus funds were
employed in another variety of the public debt.
The State has long been indebted to the Bank
of England in a considerable sum—not less
than eleven millions sterling. Those eleven
millions from the capital of the bank, which it
lent to the government in times when the public
prosperity was far from what it now is, and on
which it receives three per cent interest. This
is the debt that should be first paidoff. It could
be done in four or five years, perhhps less ; and
the exchequer wonld lighten the annual burdens
on the taxpayers quile as much as by buying
consols which are also at three per cent, and for
the public the operation would be much more
beneficial than the diminution of eleven or
tweve millions sterling of the capital of the
funded debt.
The Bank of England has been lona plaeed in
a false position by being deprived of its capital
lent during the tears with France under Louis
XI I., the Republic and the Empire. Can any
one conceive a bank without capital, and a bank
like that of England, which leads the market and
reaujates the rate of commercial interest through
°^r ie country f It is an anomaly, a source of
mis at ion most unfavorable in its conse
qucrices to trade of every kind . A bank so vmi
st itiUed can never work advantageously , particu
larly when it is subjected to severe restrictions in
respect of its paper issae. The Debats is aston
lsheci that there can be found even in France
optimists who admire the constitution of the
of England as it results from the act of
- y - the Btran £ e provisions of that law,
which tie, it down, and by the privation of its
capital, the Bank, which should act incessantly
so as to lower the rate of discount on commer
cial paper, lias quite an opposite influence and
is the cause of the rise in discount. The in
dustry and commerce ol Great Briiuin have
suffered for many years past from a chronic
complaint, which is intermittent, but which
constantly returns—namely, the exorbitant
rate of discount. It is the consequence of the
false situation the Bank is plaeed in, and of the
doctrines which, voluntarily or involuntarily
it professes. But so long aw it is governed by
the I law of 1844, so long as its capital is with
held by the State, the evil will be without reme
dy This is proved by what is now occurring.
lii the city of London, which possesses more
capital than any city in the universe, the Bank
which regulates the rate of discount charges as
a minimum 8 per cent. Iu France, at least in
the towns where the Bank of France has
branches —and these are the most important—
tiie rate of discount is 3)£ per cent., so that at
the present moment the discount is in England
more than double what it is iii France. For
nearly a year there has been an enormous dif
ference between the two countries; it lias va
ried from 2 }4 1° 3%, aud now it reaches 4%. —
The injury to general trade is as obvious as it
is opposed to reason and common sense; for if
there be an axiom adipitted among practical
men as well as by theorists, it is that a low rate
is one of the main springs of public prosperity.
A high rate of discount is systematically kept
up by the Bauk of England to save its metalie
reserve, which is ever escaping it, because it is
deprived of its capital, and because the law of
1844, imposing obligations from which the Bank
of France is free, prevents it from supplying
the want of gold by paper. Still it does not at
tain its object, for the high discount, which is
intended to prevent the exportation of gold,
has quite a contrary effect. When there is a
higher rate of discount, the exportation of the
products of the country is made thereby more
difficult. It is evident that the merchant who
cannot procure money lor less than seven or
eight per cent., has less facilities for exporting
his merchandise to foreign markets than if he
could get it at three or three and a half pereeiff.
England, which is always obliged to go to for
eign markets for corn, cattle, wine and other
articles of daily consumption—not to speak of
silk, cotton and wool —would prefer paying for
them in manufactures. She must pay for them
in gold, and in a greater proportion when any
cause, such as that indicated, impedes the ex
portation of her manufactured articles. The
measures which the Bank of England is forced
to adopt in the circumstances in which she is
plaeed by tlie want of her capital and the law of
1844 produce an effect quite different from that
intended. The bank supposes that they enable
it to save its mctalic reserve, but they do the
contrary.
He concludes: “ The Bank of England will
have the choice only between impotent or neg
ative efforts and impossibilities of divers soi-ts,
so long as it is not placed in normal conditions.
One of these conditions is the full command of
its capital. The State must reimburse what it
took from it in times o f difficulty, and its surplus
revenue now gives it the means of doing so.—
The effect of the restrictions of the law of 1544
would be lightened if the State restored to the
bank the capital it borrowed, which should not
prevent the abolition of these same restrictions.
In this there is the most useful employment of
the surplus, and it is one which we recommend
to the attention of Mr. Gladstone aud the Par
liament.’^
[From the N. Y. Daily News.
An Eminent Catholic Divine Gone.
DEATH OP THE REV. CHARLES C. PISE, D. D.
Tlie Catholic Church has lost many of its
prominent divines during the past three years,
and on Saturday another was added to the list
of talented and able clergymen of that denomi
nation, whose demise the whole American
church is lamenting. The Rev. Charles Con
stantine Pise, D. D., for many years past the
worthy pastor of the congregation worshipping
in the church of St. Charles Borromeo, Sydney
place, Brooklyn, breathed his last, alter an ill
ness of a few weeks, at his residence in that
city, at noon, on Saturday, in the sixty-fifth
year of his age. Dr. Pise was the son of an
Italian gentleman of ancient and noble family.
His mother was an American lady, a native of
Philadelphia. The deceased was placed in the
Georgetown College at an early age, that fa
mous institution being then as now under the
control of the Order of the Society of Jesus.
Graduating there most creditably, he went to
Rome to pursue his theological studies, but re
turned after two years and completed his pre
paration for the ministry, under the tutelage of
the Rev. Dr. Bunti, the preceptor of the late
Archbishop Hughes. He was ordained priest
in 1825, and commenced his labors in Federiek,
Md., but subsequently removed to Baltimore,
where he officiated at the cathedral. The labors
of his position, together with the performance
of a large amount of religious literary work
which he attempted, impaired his health, and
he again visited Rome for a respite. While
there he was made Doctor of Divinity, and
honored with the title of Knight of the Roman
Empire. •
Upon his return to America he settledjin
Washington, and, through the influence iof
Henry Clay and other warm personal friends,
he was elected chaplain to the Senate of the
Uuited States. On the invitation of Dr. Dubois,
then Bishop of New York, he afterward came -
this city and officiated at St. Peter’s, in Barclay
street, till 1849, when he removed to Brooklyn
and purchased the church in Sydney place, with
whicli lie was connected at the time of his
deatti. Dr. Pise was acknowledged one of the
most eloquent and learned divines of his church
in America,.as he was one of the most industri
ous and faithful laborers in it. Aside from his |
labors with his spiritual charge, he devoted ,
much time to literary pursuits. He was the J
author of “ Letters on the Truths of Catholic
Doctrines,” “ A History of the Chnrch from its
Establishment to the Reformation,” “The Acts
ot the Apostles in Verse,” and many other
volumes in prose and verse. The decked also
edited, many years ago, in compan/ with the
late Father Feljx Varella, D. D., a* influential
magazine published in this city, known as tlie
“ Catholic Expositor.” In the volumes ol' this
work will be found many of histiappiest efforts
both in verse and prose. AmrUg the latter may
be mentioned “ Ilovae VagaHmnoie,” a series
of deeply interesting letters descriptive of his
travels in Europe. They vCre eagerly sought
after at the time of their publication.
The remains of the drfeased will be buried
from St. Charles Boromeo’s church to-morrow
(Tuesday) at ten o’cloA, p. m. A solemn re
quiem mass will be edebrated on the occasion.
Chop Prospect* in Southwestern Geor-
GIA. —We clip the following paragraph from an
article written l) 1 1he editor of the Macon Mes
senger, on his r«<urn from Mitchell Court:
As the Court was not our only attraction, we
would add to the above some items, probably
of a more general interest. The prospect of
crops, now D cultivation, is the absorbing one.
Mitchell cotnty is not considered as “ the grain
growing cqantry,” bnt we saw some very fine
fields of wheat and oats, which were then being
cut, and without any sign of rust or other in
jury. B»me complaint is made of this in
Dougherty county, but it does not exist to
any cotsiderable extent, although in some
places the crops do not present a very favor
able aspect. This may be generally attributed
to the quality of the land and want of proper
cultivation. With the reverse of this, the crops
of earn and cotton in all that section are very
promising. The land planted is probably three
fourths of that of the better days of freedmen,
(now past,) and a reasonable amount of it is in
provision crops. But few seem to have forgot
ten that “King Cotton” cannot pay for corn
or bacon, with the burden of a five cents tax on
his- back, with more in prospect. If any are
committing this folly, let them look to it in
time to provide against an inevitable future,
that is as apparent as if past, and its history
written. •
■■ m i mm ■ i
The New Five Cent Piece. —The new five
cent piece is to be of the same size as the three
dollar gold coin. Fifty pieces laid in a straight
line will make the “ metre” or unit of n French
measure. It will also be so near eight-tenths of
an inch that no ordihary measurement will de
tect the difference. Three of these coins will
weigh a hMf ounce, and be convenient for a
postage weight. Specimens have been received
at the Treasury Department,
The German Question.
Immense Armaments pf Austria—No War let
Declared-Italy Lil»ly to Make War on Aus
trta at all Hazard—Count Bismark Threaten
ed with Assasßuutf<<>ti, &c.
THE LATESf DISPATCHES^
[From th jc t *k Advertiser, May IT.
The Continental ncits presents no new fea
tures.
The Vienna corresjondent of the London
Times says the anuamfcuts of Austria in the
course of a few weeks vrill amount to nine hun
dred thousnud in the tiald.
The London Times' Baris correspondent says
that Count Btamark tidily receives letters ad
vising him of his imminent assassination.
’ Vienna, May 15,1865.
Complete bodies of Austrian troops have
beeu sent forward front) Vienna to the North
since the 11th instant, and the stragetic con
centration of troops upon the Prussian frontier
has thereby commenced.
An Imperial .decree has been issued to-day
securing perfect immunity front capture at sea
to merchant vessels beldngiug to nations with
which Austria at war, provided such nations
will adopt a reciprocal course. Thi* arrange
ment, however, will not extend to vessels carry
ing contaabaud ol war,'or which may have at
tempted to force an off retire blockade. •
A large number of horses are being purchas
ed in Austria by agents of the Bavarian Govern-
Rumors are current that efforts are being
made to bring about a compromise between
Austria and Prussia, aud that it. has beeu re
solved not to commence hostilities Until those
efforts shall have proved unsuccessful. These
rumors, however, are in no way authenticated.
Milan, May 15,1866.
Intelligence from Venetiu announces that
regiments ol Croats continue to arrive. 60,000,
are expected altogether, aud will be echeloned
from Grioli to Padua. Depots for the Austrian
military service in Venetia have been establish
ed at Gratz, aud a considerable force is station
ed in the Tyrol. The garrison of Venice is to
be raised to 34,000 men. Gnnboats have been
stationed and many torpedoes sunk before the
mouth of the channels of the Lido, the forts on
which have been mined.
Florence, May 15, 1866.
Humors of a prolongation of the stay of the
French troops in Rome beyond the date fixed
by the September Convention are without any
foundation.
Prince Napoleon had an interview witli the
Emperor of Austria shortly after his arrival in
Vienna from Italy**
It is believed he assured bis Majesty that Italy
would go to war with Austria, whether she had
the assistance of Prussia op not.
. . Berjin, May 16, 1866.
It is officially denied that Count Bismark has j
been negotiating with tile leaders of the oppo- |
sition, in view of a modiliution of the Cabinet. !
The government desires, b>wever, to come to a
better understanding with the opposition. It
is officially stated that tlierf was no necessity
I for the Prussian government to send any reply
to the Austrian note of tin 4th, since Austria
declared that all questions of disarmaments
were exhausted.
The National Zeitung publishes the following
official communication: Tie statements made [
by several German journals respecting alleged !
efforts of mediation on die part of Russia, and
also tiie assertion that the Czar had declared
I himself ready to support Austria iu the event
of her being attacked by Prussia, would appear
j to 1)0 untrustworthy, irrespective of the fact
! that Prussia will not be the-flrst to take the
i aggressive. Sucha declaration does not appear
probable, considering the rotations at present
existing between Austria and Prussia. Should
the middle and minor the Prussia,
proposal lor federal reform, Prussia will. 'ffkv
an appeal to the whole German natiouF, „ a
iug of the fullest and %i os l ol jj. 1
preheusive character. J ‘ 1
Munich, ißic. ;
The editors of the journataof the - city have
I been requested not, to puliP-n any intcl,p r ,!
I respecting the iuovemcniy 0 v \roops.
Another telegram staV|Zi*tlte governments
of Bavaria and Baden icM'.Ji favor of armed
neutrality. 14, f
Bkes\a;a May 1 y^GG
The municipality and Com lion Co’oncil of
this city have sent an address to Ring of
Prussia, in which they acknowledge the-jstice
of the motives which are h iding hk Majestyo
war with Austria, and declare that the
is likely to make the same sacrifices as in 1818 |
particularly as the wisdom of the King will <
liud means to increase the popular entliusiasid I
by terminating the domestic coifffict between
the Government and the chambers.
A ministerial decree published at Vienna on
the 13th, prohibits the exportation of arms over
the Itarian frontier, as well as to Switzerland
to the Zollverein and by sea from Austrian
ports.
Another ministerial decree prohibits in the
! same way the export of oru, in order to pre
| vent any short supplies in the victualling of the
l army.
| The passports of travellers crossing the
{ Schleswig frontiers will again require the Aus-
I trian visa.
I The independent ViennaWrnals continue to
demand the convocation ojthe Keichsratli.
It is asserted that the Ecpei-or of Austria hits
determined, in the dvent oiVar, to transfer the
regfinev of *" tin* fimpiess, wlio would
be assisted by a responsible Hungarian Gov
ernment.
A Berne telegram says the 1 union ...
Which had been stationed on the frontier of the
Valatine have been withdrawn to the interior
of the kingdom.
A Cohlentz dispatch says the Eighth and
; Ninth Prussian army corps are to be concen
j trated there aud at Wetzlur.
the peace humous.
The London Star, of the 15th of May, con
spicuously announces that the English Govern
ment do not feel wholly discouraged as to the
possibility of peace. Oil the contrary, the
| feeling which prevails is rather more hopeful
! than it was last week.
The Florence Nazione, of the 15th of May,
states under reserve that a note had arrived
from the French Government proposing a oan
gress.
There were rumors at Vienna of ner ‘‘ itlo, ? s
to bring about a compromise betwr " AUBtria
“The’ Paris evening journals, place' that :
and Baron Budberg, wife b " D ?- ,
ing ahout a peaceful 8 ol» n t ’^ lh ’ ho
ever, no confirmation of fl sla ttmuit.
the _
Liverpool, ]fe J 17,1866, 1
The war question is unchanged.' % r
There are, however, more pacific!““
from Paris, and the chances of a Europe 11 n "
gress are improving.
It is asserted that Prussia and Italy havc a^2!> «
sented.
The Austrian reply has not been received.
A Trieste dispatch, of the 17th of May, says
that the Austrian volunteers about to proceed
to Mexico will, it is stated, sail under the French
flag.
THE DANUBIAN QUESTION.
Bucharest, May 15, 1866.—The Chamber
has again adopted, by 111 against 6 votes, the
proposal to confer the throne of Roumana upon
Prince Charles of Hohenzollcrn.
Paris, May 1(5, 1866.—The Constitutionnel
says the Paris conference has decided in lavor
of the union of Moldavia and Wallachia, should
the inhabitants of the principalities combine in
demanding to be united. The conference,
however, has not consented so the election of a
foreign prince. France would have been glad
to see such an arrangement effected, but as it
did not meet the approval of the other powers,
the French cabinet could not think of imposing
its opinion on the other Euftipean Govern
ments.
Billiards.— The match for oue thousand
dollars and the championship, f ,500 points, ca
roms, between John Deery, of New York,hold
cr*of the champion cue, and Josepli Dion, of
Montreal, came off at the Cooper Institute last
I Wednesday evening. The game occupied live
i hours, and was played and won under extraor
t dinary circumstances. When it became evident
that the game was in Dion’s hands, Deery’s
friends mustered in strong force and united to
break down the nerve of his opponent bj shouts
and cries and interruptions of every sort. The
leader of the rowdies proclaimed that it was an
1 outrage to allow a damned Canadian to carry
away the cue from New York. The immediate
effect was that Deery, who had at the beginning
ol the interference been two hundred points
behind, passed his opponent, wlieu, after a long
delay, quiet having been restored by the police,
Dion went on his way to victory with only an
occasional shout from the ruffianly mob, and
won by thirty-four points, the score standing at
the end, Dion 1,500, Deery 1,466.
On Thursday evening at the same hall a game
was played between Messrs. Carme and Dion
for a purse of two hundred aud fifty dollars,
seven hundred aud fifty points, caroms, push
shot barred, on a carom table, with balls two
and one-eighth inches in diameter. When the
score stood, Carme lour' hundred and ninety
one, Dion four hundred and fifty-three, aud the
former, after a run of thirty, had all the balls in
the lower right hand corner, with the certainty
of s long run before him, his play was inter
rupted by a decision of the referee that he failed
to count. This decision was in opposition to
the opinion of the spectators, but prevailed, and
the balls beiug left to Dion in such away that
they became “jawed” by a single shot, when he
, had no difficulty in making a run of two hun
dred and ninety-seven, required to tinish the
game. Dion, after the game, declined to play
Carme the next morning for a thousand dollars
a side.
A Novel Cekemony. —A novel ceremony
took place at St. Luke’s (Episcopid) Church,
New York, on Tuesday afternoon, namely, the
solemn consecration of a young lady, by Bish
op Potter, as a member of the newly organized
sisterhood ofSt. Mary, an association which, on
the Catholic Sisters of Charity principle, is to
devote itself to works of mercy among the
poor.
She received from Bishop Potter the name of
Sister Agues.
Several Sisters of the organization sat in the
pejvs near the altar. They appeared in the
blitck robes of the order, their dress resembling
tlfet of the Catholic Sisters of Charity.
She ceremonies were preceded by the ante
imunion service, after which the lady candi
date for consecration was leAto the altar and
set apart for the Christian yff/fk in which she
has resolutely engaged. v
Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, late of the Con
federate Army, was in Athens last week. He
was on Ids way to visit his relatives hi South
Carolina.
(From the Cincinnati Commercial. •
Colored Spielers in Trouble—Game of Leap
Frog at a Uegro Faro Bank.
Long before the Civil Rights Bill, or the re
bellion that produced it, were conceived iu (he
minds of politicians, sporting gentlemen of
color were accustomed to gather around the
“sweat doth,” the “faro spread,” and the
rouoletto wheel, aud venture their “stakes” on
fortnne’a smiles or frowns. And to-day, itl*
every city in the land, where there is any con
siderable number of colored people, there are
“ spieler ” of safron, saddle and tar color, (vide
speech, in Council, of Mr. Glass, of the Fourth
Ward,) as ambitious of being considered
“ sports ” of nerve as are any of tlie heavy bet
ters of milder hue. Washington Adams Davis,
he of glossy ebony face, tight lifting, strapped
pantaloons, neatly polished leather, swallow
tailed coat of bine, with buttons of resplendent
brass, extravagantly Irilledjshirt-front, minstrel
like collar, half-a-dozen linger rings, and atten
uate rattan, may be considered the head and
front of the sporting fraternity of color. And
Washington Adams Davis displays just as much
nerve in “going down” to the indispensable
inside vest pocket lor his “ roll ” as 'can be
found among any ol the “ blue-chip ” betters of
Saratoga, New York, or even the Queen City.
But the gamblers of color have their troubles
with thc laws as well as their brethren in white.
Yesterday afternoon, for instance, detectives
Colcber and Mitchell, under the authority ol a
warrant sworn out by a loser ; visited one of
their faro banks, on Broadway, near Sixth.
While Mitchell entered the front door, Colcher
and officer McDermott were posted at the win
dows iu the rear, to cut off retreat. As Mitchell
entered, there were to be heard the usual rat
tling of “ chips,” and buzzing of such trifling
remarks as “ I coppah de deuce, and play de
Jacob card to win;” “Carry dose on de Queen.”
“ VVbo keeps dose cases dar “ Dak, splits on
de turn “ Dat are stuck, goes to dat ar case,
six “ Lend me ten dollars “ Can’t, I’m
broke,” Ac.
Tlie officer’s dehut produced a remarkably
rapid change- in sights and sounds. The “deal
er” clapped the box under his coat, and sought
the cellar through a tlie “ lookout ”
“weeded” the drawer, flung a slung-shot into
the stove, and played stranger, while those out
side the table made a rusli for the windows,
playing leap-trog with each other in their haste,
and displaying eyes of wonderful size as they
came through the glass in rapid succession,
some head first, some feet first, aud some ball
style, down upon the heads and shoulders of
the astonished officers beneath, who were able
to secure only two or three of them.
(From the Louisville Courier.
Funeral Obsequies of Colonel James W.
Raine, at Elizabethtown, Ky.
j Col. James W. Raine, eldest sou of John
j Raine, Esq., of this city, was mortally wounded
j at the battle of Mansfield, La.’, on the Bth day of
April, 1864. while commanding the Bth Texas
regiment. He died live days later, and was
buried in the. cemetery of Mansfield.
His remains were recently disinterred and
brought to this city. On Saturday last, the
36th Inst., they were removed, in a special ear,
to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, accompanied by
tlie family and numerous friends. At nine
o’clock the train reached Elizabethtown. The
i Masonic fraternity of that place, in full regalia,
: were in waiting, aud took charge of the re
; mains, conducting them to tW Methodist
I church, where an appropriate funeral sermon
was preached by R W. 11. Anderson. The
opening prayer was offered by J. H.Linn. All
the officiating clergymen are oi this city, and
went out iu tlie lUG’nil ear.
Colonel Raine was born at Elizabethtown,
November, Ttie, 1838, and was by his parents
consecrated to-j 0 j j„ holy baptism at llie altar
rested while his funeral sermon
was being preached. The church was crowded
to its utmost capacity by citizens of Elizabeth
town, Hardin and Larue counties. Leaving the
ehruch, the procession was headed by the Ma
sonic brethren, and followed by Confederate
soldiers who availed themselves of the oppor
tunity to honor their fallen comrade. Next fol
lowed a number of young ladies bearing boquels,
wreaths aud baskets of flowers ; the line was
lengthened and closed by a train of citizens,
male and female, without regard to past politic
al opinions or feelings.
Col. Raine was buried by the side of his
mother, -who died in his infancy ; and mother
and son repose together in the old village ceme
tery on the slope of the green hill which over-
J ,Vioks the town. The burial services were con-
I dudcA-by the Masons m their own peculiar aud
j imprgssce service, Dr. Linn officiating in prayer.
| The serttyes ended, the flower-bearing maid
eus decked die grave of tlie buried hero with
their floral ollettwgs. The entire funeral and
burial services werA, solemn and impressive,
and will not soon be foiurotten by the thousands
wlio were present. We Regret that the crowded
state of our columns com, *ls us to abreviatC
tlie more extended remarks wc had designed.
CmvAiat*' in Memphis.— They have il happy
Mayor of Memphis. He was drunk during the
whole of the recent, riots in tilt; city ot which
he is the chief civil ottiedr, but was, we believe,
able to lead a mob. He took offense at some
observation made by the Argus, and addressed
the editor a letter, as follows :
“ To the Editor of the Arif us :
“ For your .uncouth and ungentlemanly re
marks, iu regard to myself, iu this morning's
issue,<s hold you personly responsible. Select
your friend to arrange this difficulty.
• ‘ Miwt .. . _
"JOHN PAKK.
“ May 17,1866.”
The Mayor delivered this in the cJunting
room of the Argus , in person. Mr. Brower,
editor of the Argus, addressed a comrlunicatlon
to “ His Honor, John Park, ‘May** and Com
mander-in-Cliief of the Army »*.u Navy of Mem-
phis.’-” > *
The editor’s letter -declined to engage in a
flj/ld, or rather .£)’•* • 7 a nd the noble Mayor in
dorsed on t’~' etter, which he indignantly re
turned, th !5 smashing complimentary :
“ Whe -ever you choose to act the coward,
keep a ,! communications within your office as
the at jve - John Park.
- ‘May 19, 1866.”
The editor was then so uukind as to print the
.■qrrespondence, aud to say :
“ Whenever we ‘ choose ’ to act as aforesaid,
we will cheerfully adopt His Honor’s sugges
tion. Meanwhile the Argus will ‘ choose ’ to
demonstrate the necessity of a change in the
municipal administration of Memphis.”
Kentucky Stock.— On Wednesday the fob
lowing named race stock was sold at auction,
by Mr. John M. Clay, in Lexington, Ky. The
names of purchasers and prices are appended:
No. 1. Brown mare, Katona, foaled in 1857,
by Voucher; to R. A. Alexander, £IOO.
No. 2. Brown Kitty, foaled in 1862, by Star
Davis, (lain Katona; to Mr. Kegwin, 8145.
No. 3. Bay Ally, foaled in 1862, by Colton,
dam Katona; to Col. Grigsby, £6BO.
, No 4. foaled in 1862, by Star
Davis, dam Katona;’ 0 Smith, £220.
No. 5. Bay mare, toale(l >•' T 859, by
Baniton, imported by tb‘ Kentucky Importing
company, and purchased V.V l ;lfe
B. Clay for $850; to Ah'. Barb), ofjjoutli Caro
lina, SBIO.
No. 6. Bay filly, foaled in 1864, by Star Davis,
dam Rosalind; to It. A. Alexander, $505.
No. 7. Chestnut filly, foaled in 1865, by Star
Davis, dam Rosalind ; to Col. Grigsby, $260.
The city editor of the Richmond (Indiana)
Telegraph heralds the advent of a new tangled
] bonnet in that place thusly :
The Latest. —The latest Eastern fashion for
a bonnet apptsred on Mainstreet yesterday. It
consisted of wo rye straws, tied’ together with
a blue ribbor on the top of the head, and red
tassels suspended at each of the four ends of
the straws. It a “love of a bonnet;”
price only sl9.
Battle Between Boys.—The Alexandria
Gazette, of Monday, says :
The regular weekly fight between the Wash
ington anil Alexandria boys came otT yesterday
evening, at the Four Mile Run. About two
hundred—white and black—were engaged on
each side, and during the melee guns and pis
tols were freely used. No Alexandrians were
seriously injured. The Washingtonians were
defeated and driven from their position, with
the loss of their hats and jackets, whk-h had
been deposited in a pile previous to the com
mencement of the battle. These Sunday eve
ning civilized amusements have become of such
invariable occurrence that many take the e.-u-s
from Washington and this city to witnes* the
sport.
Niooeu’Condescension. —The following is
a specimen of the way the negroes in Norfolk,
Va., talked to Generals Steadman and Fuller
ton, during their recent investigation in that
city. Said one big nigger:
“ The people of the South must be taught
that we ore men like unto themselves, and that
we must be respected as such.
“ The people of the South must be educated
and instructed as to the fundamental principles
of our Government. We will assist to pay for
their education. We have extended to them
the right hand ot fellowship, and they have
spurned it with scorn and contempt.”
For right down nigger impudence, we think
that beats any specimen on record. We com
mend it to Sumner, and would desire to know
if liu can improve on it.
Crops.— Tne excessive rains last week great
ly favor the growth ot grass, while they were
decidedly disadvantageous to the growing
crops. The cotton is looking bad, and it seems
likely to be overrun by the grass. Corn looks
tolerably wefl, while wheat, though there is
some complaint of rust on the blades, and
“scab” is, asa general thing, not seriously in
jured yet. The oat crop will be first rate.
j [ Rome Courier.
A Prkonlnv Inquiry.— Mr. Ross, a member
of Congress from Pennsylvania, in a late speech
hi the Houselof Representatives, put the fol
lowing query ho Thad. Stevens & Co., who hold
that the Southern States arc out ot the Union
in consequence of the war. He said:
“ It these States are actually out of the Union,
why were some of their Representative retained
in Congress, without objection, after the pas
sage of their otdinanees of secession, and dur
ing the prosecution of the war t In August,
1861, Congress imposed a direct tax on these
eleven States of between five and six millions
of dollars, which recognized them as being in
the Union. In,March, 1862, in apportioning
representation among the States, fifty-seven
members were assigned to the eleven States
whose Representative are now excluded from
this hall. Why apportion them Representatives
in Congress if they were out of the Union ?”
Not one of the Radicals found it convenient
to answer these interrogatories.
Items from tbe Savannah Hews.
From Florida.— The steamer Hellcu Getty,.
Captain Ingraham, from Florida, arrived yes
terday morning. From Mr. T. If. Lajfe, the
accommodating Purser of tlie Gtitty, we learn
that a painful accident occurred on the North
river, above St. Augustine on Saturday last, re
sulting from the capsizing of a sail boat, by
which five lives were lost. The boat contained
ten persons, among them several ladies and
children, who were on their way up tlie St.
Johns river to Dago, when the hu.it capsized.
Among those who were drowned was A. A.
Brav6, the agent ol the Tfeljen Getty,- at St.
Auguptine, also his stator-in-law, and three chil
dren, one of them the only child of Mr. Bravo,
the other two were children of Mr. James
Michlcr, Nil of St. Augustine. Tlie wife of Mr.
Bravo was also in the boat and was saved, with
lour otiiers, by holding on to the bottom of the
boat. Previous to the drowning of Mr. 8., he
succeeded in saving a negro girl who was in the
boat. Among the five who were saved was a
man, whose name we did not learn. He suc
ceeded in getting ashore aud went a distance of
two miles in t(ie country for assistance. During
his absence those who were clinging on to the
boat were compelled to stand with merely their
heads above water, aud some times to stand on
tip toe, in order to keep the water from cover
ing them entirely.
The Poor of Georgia.— We are again called
on to chronicle a further donation ot 400 bbls.
flour, bacon, meal, &c., from the Baltimore
Southern Relief Association to the suffering
poor of Georgia. The steamer North Point,
of which Laßoehe, West & Daniels are agents
in this city, had on her present trip the above,
which makes about 1,300 barrels this steamer
has carried for the Georgia poor, free of all
charges. Such generosity on the part of the
Baltimore atad Savannah Steamship Line should
not be forgotten by our citizens.
United States District Court—ln Cham:
bers.— - In the U. S. District Court, in Cham
bers, Judge Erskine presiding, tlie following
case was argued:
The State of Georgia, complainant in Equity,
and James Atkins, Assessor of Internal Rev
enue for the Fourth District. An application
was made by tlie State lor an injunction re
straining the Assessor from assessing a tax on
the earnings of the Western and Atlantic State
Road. The Judge has the case under consid
eration.
Quick Trip. —The steamer Eclipse, Captain
I P. H. Ward, Mr. J. M. Kinehley, Agent, left
1 Savannah on Friday night last for Augusta, ar
| rived at that port, discharged her ettrgo and
took a return freight, and arrived at her wiiarf
in this city early yesterday morning, making
the round trip in lour days.
The Eclipse is one of the fastest and best
managed boats on our river. Her draught be
ing light, she is enabled to make Inir trips be
tween Savannah and Augusta* with’safety and
certainly at the lowest stage of the water.
We learn that the Express, the consort of the
Eclipse, after thorough repairs, will resume
her place-on the line in a few days. Our friend
i Kinehley is fortunate after the disasters and
j losses of the past season to have in reserve tw-o
I steamers so well adapted for up river transpor
| tation.
Arrival of Emigrants.— Fifty-three emi
grants, nearly all Germans, men, women and
children, arrived from New York yesterday on
the steamship Missouri. They are all young
and robust, and are bound for Augusta, where
: the women will be employed as house servants
j and tlie men as farm hand*
From Fortress Monroe.
JEFFERSON DAVIS’ BILL OF FARE.
Fortress Monroe, May 35, 1866.
The following is the schedule of meals fur
! nished Jefferson Davis foe a long time past.
| The most incredulous, iu reading it over, will
j see that lie has been well cared for, and that it
I furnishes a palpable controversion of I lie re
peated false assertions of ill treatment, poorly
| cooked'meals, and their inequality in point of
! delicacy and sustenance :
♦
BREAKFAST.
Sunday. — Veal eut
j lets, poached ‘eggs
(two,) wheat and corn
bread, butter, sugar,
■ami coffee.
Monthly. — Mutton
chops (two,) boiled
eggs (two,) wheat and
corn bread, butter, su
gar, milk and coffee.
Tuesday. —Beefsteak,
boiled eggs, wheat and
corn bread, coffee, but
ter, sugar and mine.
Wednesday. Ham
and eggs, Wheat and
corn bread, butter, su
gar, coffee and milk.
V'/iMrsrfay-Beefsteak,
boiled eggs (two,)
bread, (corn or wheat,)
butter, sugar, milk and
coftec.
Friday —Stewed oys
ters, makerel or fresh
fish, bread (corn and
wheat,’) coffee, sugar,
milk and butter.
Saturday Multon
chops, boiled eggs,
j)read, butter, milk, sii-
OINKEIi.
Sunday — Broiled
chicken, stewed oys
ters, potatoes, onions,
bread, butter, coffee,
sugar and milk.
Monday—licef steak,
panned oysters, pota
toes, onions, bread,
butter, coffee, sugar
and ifiilk.
Tuesday —Veal cut
lets, l'resh or salt lisii,
potatoes, onions, bread
butter and coffee.
Wednesday —Mutton
ohopst stewed oysters,
potatoes, onions, ap
ples, bread, butter and
coffee.
Thursday —Veal cut
lets, panned oysters,
potatoes, onions, bread
coffee, <fcc.,aud milk.
Friday —Pork steak,
poached eggs, pota
toes, onions, bread,
butter and coffee.
•Saturrfa (/-Beefsteak,
stewed oysters, pota
toes, onions, bread,
butter and coffee.
The intelligence that the privilege granted
Mr. Clay, shortly before his release, had been
extended to Davis, reached him this morning.
He will now be allowed on parole to the free
dom of the grounds inside the fortress, return
ing every night to his room in Carroll Hall.
His counsel (Messrs. Shea and O’Connor,) dur
ing the expected trial in June, have not yet ar
rived, but are daily expected. General Miles
has been instructed to grant, them free inter
course with their client at any time.
Forsress Monroe, May 27,1866.
Messrs. O’Conor and Shea are stopping at
the Hygela Hotel.
They have beeu in consultation with Jeffer
erson Davis during the day.
Columbia and Hamburg Railroad.— The
termination of the late disastrous war, says the
Edgefield Advertiser, has left to the citizens of
Edgefield District, as of every other section of
the South, little iave their lands. The question
naturally arises how can those lands be en
hanced in valu« l* Many persons are moving to
the West aud ♦.'udoreign countries, many plan
tations are under the sheriff's hammer, and
many others lV ast be sold for partition, and
otherwise. o.oe eonsequeuce will be that in an
isolated District like ours, where speculators
are few ami, capital scarce, real estate must de
preciate j.i value unless some stimulus be im-
P ? to its already depressed condition.
Experience, as well as history, teaches that
highways, especially railroads, are not only the
great civilizer of countries, but also (he great
appreeiators (if we may use the word) of landed
estates. And we do not hesitate to say that the
lands in Edgefield District will appreciate ten
per cent, in value the very day the first bar of
iron is lpid on the Columbia and Hamburg rail
road.
This road will be the great and neceesary con
necting link between New Orleans and New
York. It will he a portion of the old Piedmont
road, which has always been conceded to be the
direct and nearest air line between these two
cities, and the road over which the Jmme*ie
and entire travel from the Southwest to North
east, and vice vet sa, must pass.
There are at present from three hundred and
fifty to four hundred hands at work on the road,
which force will shortly he increased to five
hundred. The contract for tin-, bridge over the
Congaree, at Columbia, has been taken. The
laying of the iron upon the track will I c com
menced about tlic Ist ot November next.
Col. William Johnston, the able and widely
known President of the road, as also ol the
Columbia and Charlotte road, accompanied by
Colonel Gardner, Chief Engineer of the former,
have been lately in our midst, bending their
united energies to the furtherance and speedy
accomplishment of their great work. The high
integrity and known financial ability of the
President stamps with success any measure
with which he allows his name to be associated.
He is plain,'practical aud earnest, and possesses
in a remarkable degree the confidence of the
entire public.
Some time ago, when Col. Johnston’s name
was first associated with the Columbia & Ham
burg road, we uad occasion to east our eyes over*
a statement of the condition of the Charlotte
road. We ascertained the following facts. The
annual income of this road was about $800,000;
and the nett income, after payment of all ex
penses, $190,000. The entire cost of this road
was about $2,000,000; the yearly interest on
which is $140,000, leaving $50,000 nett profit to
the Stockholders, per annum. Besides this,
when Sherman marched through the country,
the Charlotte road owned over 1,600 bales of
cottou, a large uurnber of negro slaves, aud
much other valuable property.
The Columbia & Hamburg road will cost at
a close estimate of $1,500,000; and it is reason
able to suppose that a great and unavoidable
thoroughlare from North to'South, as this road
must necessarily lie, will prove more remuner
ative than the Charlotte road.
We are lully awake as to how immeasurably
important to Edgefield District will be the com
pletion of the Columbia & Hamburg railroad.
How immeasurably important in a monetary
point of view,.aud alsotn the way of conveni
ence ! And we sincerely trust that oar citizens
from all parts of the District will meet Cols.
Johnston and Gardner on Monday next, ready, (
to co-operate with them heart and hand. *
A gentleman who has just passed over the i
route between Augusta and Montgomery, Ala- 1
bama, says he did not see a field on the route '
•which was not interlocked with grass, or had ,
been newly plowed up.
Two Little Pairs.
Two lit*le_pui r » of boots, to-niglit,
Before the fire are drying:
Two little pairs of tired feet
f Xn a trundle bed are lying;
rne tracks they left upon the floor
Make me feel much like sighing!
Those Tittle hoots with copper toes :
* they run the livelong day ;
And oftentimes I almost wish
That- they were miles away ;
So tired am I to hear so oft
Their .heavy tramp at play.
They walk about the new-plowed ground
Where mud in plenty lies;
They roll It up In marbles round, ■
They hake it into pies;
And then at night upon the floor
In every shape it dries!
To-day I w s disposed to scold; ,
But when f look, to-night,
At those little boo s before the fire ,
With copper toes so bright,
I think how sad iny heart would lie
To put them out of sight.
For in a trunk up stairs I’ve laid
Two soeks of while and blue;
If called to put those boots away
O, God, what should I do ?
I mourn that there are not to-niglit
Three pairs instead of tipo. '
I mourn because I thought how nice
My neighbor ’cross the way
Could keep her carpets all the year
From getting worn or grey:
Yet well I know she’d smile to own
Some little hoots to-day !
We mothers weary and get worn
Over our load of care;
But how we speak to those little ones
Let eacli of us beware,
For what would our firesides he to-night,
If no little boots were there <
Where Familiar Quotations Come Prom.
1 There ie death in the pot,’ is from the Bible,
3 Kings iv. 40.
‘Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
death they are not divided,’ is spoken of Saul
and Jonathan, 2 Samuel i. 33.
‘ A man alter my own heart,’ 1 Samuel xiii.
13.
‘ The apple of his eye,’ Deut. xix. 31.
‘A'still small voice,’ 1 Kings xix, 13.
‘Escaped with the skin of my teeth,’ Job
xix. 30.
‘ That mine adversary had written a book,’
Job xxi. 85.
‘ Spreading himselt like a green bay tree,’
Psalms xxxvii. 85.
‘ Hanged our harps upon the willow,’ Psalm
cxxxvii. 3.
‘ Riches certainly make (not take, as it ts often
quoted) theruitllves wings,’ Proverbs xxiiii 5.
‘ Heap coals of tire upon his head,’ Ibid. xxv.
23.
‘No new tiling under the sun,’ Ecclesiastes
i. 9.
*Of making my books there is no end,’ Ibid.
vii. 13.
‘ Peace, peace, where there is no peace,’ (made
famous by Patrick Henry,) Jeremiah viii. 11.
‘My name is Legion,’ Mark v. 0.
‘ To kick against the pricks,’ Acts ix. 5.
‘Makea virtue of necessity,’ Shakspearc’s
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
‘All is not gold that glitters,’ Merchant of
Venice. ,
‘ Screw your courage to the sticking place,”
(not point,) Macbeth.
‘ Make assurance doubly sure, Ibid.
‘ Hang out your banners' upon the outward
walls, Ibid.
‘ Keep the word of promise to our (not the)
ear, but break it to our hope,’ Ibid. *
‘ It’s an ill-wiud turns ho good, usually quoted
1 It’s an ill-wind blows no one any good,’
Thomas Tasser, 1850.
* Christmas comes lmt once a year,’ Ibid.
‘ Look ere you leap,’ Hudibrus, commonly
quoied ‘ Look before you leap.’
‘Out of tniud as soon as out of sight,’ usually
quoted ‘Out of sight out of mind,’ .Lord
Brooke.
‘ What though tilt* field be lost, all is uotlost,’
Milton.
‘Awake, arise, or be forever fallen,’ Ibid.
‘ Necessity, the tyrant’s plea,’ Ibid.
‘The old man eloquent,’ Ibid.
‘ Peace bath her victories,’ Ibid. •
‘ Though this may be play to you, ’tis death
to us,’ Roger l’Estrange, 1704.
‘Ail cry and no wool,’ (not little wool,)
Hudibras.
* Count their chickens ere (not before ) they
are hatched,’ Ibid.
‘Through thick and thin,’ Dryden.
‘ When Greek join Greek, then comes the tug
of war,’ Nathaniel Lee, I(if)3.
‘Of two evils I have chosen the least,’ Prior.
‘Richard is himself again,’ Colly Cibber.
* Classic ground,’ Addison.
* A good hater,’ Johnson.
‘ My name' is Norval,’ John Hume, 180 S.
‘Ask ine no questions and I’ll tell you no
fibs,’ Goldsmith.
‘ Not much the worse for wear,’ (not none the
worst.) Cowper.
‘What will Mrs. Grundy say,’ Thomas Mor
ton.
‘No pent up Utica contracts our power,’
Jonathan Sewel.
‘ Hath given hostage to fortune,’ Bacon.
‘His (God’s) image cut in ebony,’ Thomas
Fuller.
‘ Wise and masterly inactivity,’ Mackintosh,
in 1791, though generally attributed to John
Randolph.
‘ First in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his fellow-citizens,’ (not countrymen)
resolutions ,D)-c.seq(ed to the House of Ko|)re
erai Henry Lee.
‘ Millions tor defence, but not one cent fbr
tribute,’ Charles C. Pinckney.
. ‘ The almost dollar,’ Washington Irving.
*‘ As good as a play” King Charles, when in
Parliament attending the discussion of Lord
Ross’ divorce bill.
‘Selling a bargain,’ is in 1 Love’s Labor Lost.’
‘ Fast and loose,’ Ibid.
‘Pumping a man,’ Otway’s ‘Venice Pre
served.’
‘ Go snacks,’ Pope’s ‘ Prologue to Satires.’
1 In the wrong box,’ Fox’s ‘ Martyrs.’
‘To lam,’ in the sense of to beat.
‘ King and no King,’ by Beaumont and
Fletcher. .
The hackneyed newspaper Latin quotation,
‘ Temporamutanter nos et mutamurin Mis' is
not found in any Classic or Latin author. The
nearest approach to it was, ‘ Omnia mutantur ,’
&c., and this is found in Barbonius, a German
writer of the middle ages.
‘Smelling of the lamp,’ is to be found in Plu
tarch, and is there attributed to Pythias.
‘ A little bird told me,’ comes from Ecclesias
tes, x., 30.
‘For a bird of the/air shall carry the voice,
and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.’
“ Ho that fights ami runs away,
May live to light another day.’’
These lines, generally attributed to Hudibras,
are really much older. They are to be found in
a hook published in 1050. The same idea is,
however, expressed in a eouplet published in
1543, while one of the fragments in Menander,
the Greek writer, that have been preserved, em
bodies the same idea in a single line. The eoup
let in Hudibras is : „
“ For those that fly might fight again,
Which he can never do that’s slain.”
‘ Hell is paved with good intentions,’ though
found in Johnson and Herbert, was obviously
in that day' of proverbial expression. Walter
Scott ascribes it to “some divine.”
* There’s a good time coming,’ is an expres
sion used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy, and
has doubtless for a long time been a familiar
saying In Scotland.
‘ Eripuit coelo vlnien, sceptrumque tyrannis'
was a line upon Frank)jn, written by Turgot,
the Minister of Louis XVI. It is, however,
merely a modification of a line by Cardinal Po
linac— 1 Eripurique Jovi futmen, Ehoeboque sa
oitas,’ which, in turn, was taken from a line of
Marcus Manillas, who 'says of Epicurus—' Eri
purique Jovi fdhnen viresque I'onati.'
‘ Vox popu/i, vox Dei.' The*origin of this fa
miliar phrase is not known, blit it is quoted as
a proverb by William, of Malmesbury, who
lived in the early part of the twelfth century.
‘ Ultima ratio region.' This motto was en
graved on the French cannon by order of Louis
XII.
“ Whistling girls nml growing hens
Always come to some had end.”
In one of the curious Chinese hooks recently
translated and published in Paris, the proverb
occurs in substantially the same words. It is
an injunction of the Chinese priesthood, and a
carefully observed household custom, ts kill
immediately every hen that erotvs, as a prevent
ive against the misfortune that the circumstance
is supposed to indicate. The same practice
prevails through many portions of the United
States.
The President’s Cabinet.—The serenade
speeches of the Secretary of the Treasury,
Secretary of War, Postmaster General, Secre
taries of the Navy and of the Interior, would
seem to place them in the following position :
McCulloch Thoroughly administration.
Stanton, Two against, one for.
Dennison So-so.
Welles Indilferent but to Ills place.
Harlan Dead anti-administration.
Speed Ditto.
Upon the whole, we don’t think the Johnson
Club made much out of the serenade, unless it
be to show that the administration of the Gov
ernment is being conducted by the following
forces: ,
Pro. fio-so. Contra.
1 , 2
If the President can administer the physical
or intellectual forces of Government by such
machinery, he knows more than Doetoi Gard
ner or any ol the metaphysicians in Eui ope 01
the United States. In Physics it certain such
a machine would break down; Metaphysics,
the Express don’t understand and hence gives
no opinion.— Netc York Express .
Fitzhugh Lee. —Old Prentice, of the Louis
vllle Journal, is a great admirer ofFitzLce—
In the last number of the Journal he says :
“We have just seen an article strongly prnis
iii«- Mai. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Maj.
Gen R E. Lee. Most heartily do we endorse
everything iu favor of that gallant offleer, ex
ccptin»- his participation in the rebellion. It is
very little that he was the handsomest offifcer
in the Southern armies, but it is very much that
he possessed unsurpa6sihle military skill and
science and nobleness of feeling. We were his
gnest. in his humble tent, open'to the winds of
winter but for some loosely intertwined pine
Roughs, yet his hospitality, all unobtrusive and
Tinosteutatious, was worthy of a Paladin.
We could put no question of military science
to Gen. Fitshugh Lee, whether pertaining to ]
cannon, cannon balls, or movements in the
field or anything else, that he could not answer
without a moment’s reflection. In military
science we think him the first man in the South
—his uncle excepted. 1
BY TELEGRAPH,j |
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. _
FENIANS LANDED-FORT CAPTURED- „■ .
New York, June 1-
It is reported that Fort Erie, Canada, oppo
site Buffalo, has been captured by the Eenians,
who are represented to be 8,000 strong,
of whom are said to be inarching, tinoppose ,
into the interior. Tt they have alrea J
cut one telegraph line.
FENIAN FLAG FLOATING ON
GREEN SHORE.
• Buffalo, June 1-
Notwitlistanding'the vigilance of the
ities in this section, the United States steamer
Michigan being under steam, having her porta >
open, and the city scanning with Canadian,
spies, several regiments of Fenians crossed over,
into Canada last, night, including troops
Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, and a regi- .
tnent from Ohio also came to this city. *i .
At this point they crossed in canal boats,-
drawn by tugs, and, when nearing the
i -here, they sent up, amid wild Irish shouts, the
•Green” flag floating.
Colonel Ausil, of the Thirteenth regiment of
Nashville troops is in command at Fort Erie.
A large number of persons are viewing the
sight from this shore.
The Fenians say that no depredations shall
be committed.
All the telegraph wires on the Canadian side
have been cut excepting those near the Suspen
sion Bridge.
An agent of the associated press has left for
the scene of operations.
The Fenians are reported marching towards
the Suspension Bridge, twenty-five miles from
here.
The newly raised Fenian cavalry regiment
under command of Colonel J. C’ortio, late <’ -
Mosby’s command, is part ot the expeditio
from tins city.
The Fenians say that GBueral Fitzliugh L
will command the cavalry wing of their art .
of invasion.
It is further stated that the blow will be strk
early next week, probably on Monday.
[second dispatch.]
Buffalo, June 1, 2:30, ai.
A reporter ol' the Express , who lias ji re
turned from a point a mile and ahaifdow
Lower Black Rocks, says that the head’ the
Fenian column, six hundred strong, ached
that point. > Nine wagons loaded with amuni
tion and arms proceeded them. Thevleclare
that they will effect a crossing before <y light.
[third dispatch. |
Buffalo, uue 1.
The number of Fenians which offend a land
ing in Canada from this point is etmated at
three thousand, with accessions liorly. They
are well armed, and have with thei six pieces
of artillery.
It is stated that there will be general de
scent on the whole frontier, and that the Fe- f
uians have, altogether, thirteen bctcrics of ar
tillery.
. The leaders have telegraphed this point
to various States to tiring on rcUftrcements.
The men who went from here, generally, had
served in either the X-ederal or tht.Confederate
armies. • ;
No figUirg has occurred, nor is ihere any
anticipated lor two days.
The Fenians are obstructing file Welland Ca
nal, cutting the Grand Trunk railway, and are
uniting in two divisions in Montreal and King
ston.
Col. O’Noil leads the troops from here and is
styled Commander of the Army of the Irish Re
public in Canada.
Gen. Sweeney is reported to have crossed
over with the main body, but this is denied.
Troops cross here without difficulty. There
are no United Slates troops here.
Fenians are leaving Boston, Philadelphia,
New York, and oilier eitica-
Toronto, June 1, 4:30, p. m.
Great excitement has been caused by the ru
mored invasion of the feuians. Volunteers are
hurrying to the supposed scene of action. It is
reported that the enemy evacuated -Fort Erie
and is now marching on Chippewa. The fron
tier is not Invaduil nt any other point than
named.
An engagement on the Niagara frontier is ex-
FROM BOSTON.
Boston, .Time 1.
i Two companies of regulars left here for the
North this morning, from Fort Warren, under
i command of Colonel Livingston.
IMPORTANT FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
New York, June 1.
The steamer Morning Star, with Rio Janeiro
1 dates of May 4th, has arrived.
The frigate Susquehanna left Rio, ,April 19th,
! for New York.
The news from (lie River Platte is important.
There was a fearful slaughter April 10th, of
1 twelve hundred Paraguayans, who attacked
the Brazilian batteries on the island opposite
Itaipu.
Ten thousand Brazilians crossed Xabary on
the 9th, without opposition, driving in the
’ Paraguayan skirmishers. Next morning they
occupied Itaipu, captured four generals and a
flag. The whole allied army was transferred
[ on the 9lb to Paraguay on the side of Parita.—
The Paraguayans abandoned their camps three
i miles on the road to liuamaiitlu and retreated to
> that fortress on which the allies wert inarching.
Huamantla cannot be held and a speedy end of
the war is anticipated.
The Brazilian imperial Assembly has been
convened. The Emperor’s speech, called cs
-1 pecial attention to the currency.
The Custom House, in Santa Catherina has
been blown up and twenty persons killed.
The Rio Grande De Snl old si'ver mines,
formerly worked by the Jesuits, has been re
discovered.
Coffee and Rio declining. Freights dull.—
Exchange on London low'er. Bauk rate 243^(1.
PUB .JO BUSINESS SUSPENDED IN RE
SPECT TO GEN. SCOTT.
Washington, June 1.
Public business has been suspended, to-day,
in respect to the memory of Gen. Scott. Con
-1 gress is not in session, both branches having
adjourned till Tuesday.
THE CHOLERA.
New York, June 1.
The cholera at quarantine is said to be of a
very malignant type, and is principally eon
tined to the German passengers. Eighty-four
eases have been admitted on hoard the hospital
ship Falcon, out ol which number fourteen have
died, leaving seventy patients, at last accounts,
under treatment. A revenue cutter is shortly
to he stationed in the lower bay, tor the pro*
lection of quarantine vessels, audio prevent
passengers detained there Irom escaping to the
shoVe.
NFW YORK MARKETS.
New York, June 1.
Nothing of importance was done iu Wall
street.
Gold, to a limited extent, sold for 40%@41.
Stocks were neglected.
MOBILE MARKET.
Mobile, June 1.
Sales of cotton to-day 50 bales. Middlings
24, nominal. Receipts for the week 2,181
against 2,598 last week. Exports for the week
2,680. Stock on hand 41,958. Gold 38(4689.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, June 1.
Cotton quiet and steady. This is a partial
holiday, (fold 41.
Augusta Market.
Friday Evening, June 1.
COTTON.—Markei quiet to-day, with a very
light demand. Sales have beeji so few to-day
that it is almost impossible to give quotations ;
though we quote, as the range of the market,
28 to 32c. for Middlings to Good Middlings.
GOLD.—(food demand. Brokers buy at 13(5
and sell at 138 aud 139.
SlLVEß.—Brokers buy at 125 and sell at
130.
STOCK.—Some inquiry for Georgia Railroad
Stock. a
River News.—Height of river six feet two
inches.
No arrivals or departures.
General Ruger’s" horses were stolen In Ra
leigh Thursday night.