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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MOKNING, AUG. 1, 1860.
[From the National Intelligencer. •
Minister Harvey's Letter.
Some time since an interpellation took place
iu (he United States Senate, to the effect that
Mr. Harvey, our Minister to Portugal, had of
fended certain haughty and proscriptive Radi
cals in Congress by severe reflection in a letter
upon their course of hostility to the President.
It was a private letter, but was thought useful
for publication. Mr. Harvey has been a suf
ferer by that Senatorial discussion, since that,
his letter was not generally made public. It
came to light, however, on Friday, when an
other debate occurred in the Senate. Mr. Har
vey’s letter we insert in our columns to-day. It
is expressed iu that direct, strong, and severe
manner of treating of political error that char
acterized him as an editorial writer, and par
ticularly as correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American and New York Tribune for
many long years. To say that be is the peer in
ability with most of his persecutors in Con
gross, and that he has done twenty-fold more
service to the Republican party than any one
of them, would not be, on the whole, very wide
of the mark. His eulogiums from time to time
of several of them effected only what newspa
pers generally succeed in doing—namely, build
ing up politicians, oftentimes upon slight foun
dations.
Lisbon, March 24, 1866.
Hon. W. 11. Seward:
Mv Dear Sir: I thank you, for myself and
for many others, for your recent speech in New
York, which has the ring of the true metal,
and is a direct and logical consequence of the
policy consistently shaped through the last four
years. If the Administration cannot be sun
tained iu lighting on “that line,” it had better
surrender absolutely, tor no other plan of cam
paign can possibly succeed, and il' this fails,
woe be to those who cause the defeat.
The folly and madness of some of our so-call
ed friends astouud arid mortify those who are
removed Irom Ihe lint atmosphere, of passion
and interest. They make wilful war upon the
juuii who, like all others, challenges, from ex
tgjonal causes, respect, admiration and sync
iratby lor his noble conduct, and who has made
liiore sacrifices for the great principles which
j , lfl . triumphed than those sell constituted
leaders, backed by their admiring followers,
hive done all their lives, or probably would do,
,u presence of such dangers as he incurred for
ther defense. Tired by the sternest tests to
wh i'h human endurance could be subjected, lie
has exhibited a grand and imposing fidelity,
which stands out in striking relief to the eln ap
professions of revilers wlm shouted loudly
enough for “the cause” when advocacy iu
v, |veil no personal peril, and when zeal was
md without the promise of reward.
Certainly, I have never been of the number
vlio admired the President’s former “Demo
iraev ” in its party sense; but I should feel
in'vsclf wanting in llie heart of a true American,
could I withhold or see withheld from him the
justice dire to sneli rare devotion as lie has
idiown or fail to recognize his pre-eminent ser
vices to the Union, and his modest but tin-
If nullin''' loyalty; or liohl back the grasp el
gratitude and affection. When we do not
honor such qualities we dishonor ourselves.
Since attaining his high responsibility he has
exhibited capacities of statesmanship and trails
of personal character which have exorted the
admiration of the nations in Europe least dis
posed to look with luvor upon our institutions,
of the men who shape or illustrate them.
Duty, patriotism, and even selfishness, all
combined, as it were, to utgethesupport of tlie
wise and patriotic policy which the Administra
tion was obliged to accept ami piirstwphi the
•absence ol any devised or proposed by Congress
for a state of‘peace. Differences of detail might
be expected in the new order of things, but
surely they did not warrant such accusations as
were made, and such menaces as were more
<1 bail intimated against the President, or the
slightest withdrawal of confidence from him,
much Jess a rupture, which in some quarters
seems to have been designedly provoked- While
■any collision between the majority in Congress
and the President is to lie regretted, the recent
explosion will operate like electricity in cleur
ii«. the atmosphere. The common, strong
: ins,: ol the country will vindicate itself again,
•as il Iras often done before, by an instruction
Kiknly t« lie remembered by those who would
“ rule or ruin.” The people arc weary of agi
tation for the sake ol agitation, and they de
mand that peace, order, and law shall be re-es
tablished throughout the length and breadth of
•the Union. Faction can no more arrest the
antureh of those evente than the march ol the
waves, which will not go so far and no further
at their bidding, although they may command
with the tongue of a thousand Canutes.
Let the administration go straight, forward,
aful without shrinking, and all will be well,
bowl as partisanship may at its heels. Look
nl the record of your own individual expe
rience sfuce 1801, ii instruction and encourage
ment be needed. Who so persecuted, outraged
nml traduced, and by many who should hang
their heads down in very shame, and who so
triumphantly honored and sustained, even to
the dangerous point of being praised by the
compelled homage of revilers?
If it were possible to destroy the Union, and
wjfcli it all hopes of the future, the men engaged
in and exciting the crusade would be exactly
the appropriate instruments. All their en
deavors, their enthusiasm, and their desires
have been directed to that end, if not witli in
tention, at (Least with a mischievous policy.
They seem to have taken their lessons of wis
dom from the Duke of Alva, whose advice,
unreason, and obstinate conceit cost. Phillip
the Second one ol the fairest parts of his do
minions. Minns the form of tti« inquisition -
of which the modern Alvas would preserve till
the punishment—there is a striking parallel be
tween the champions of harsh r.ml headstrong
zeal three hundred years ago and that which
lashes into fury now, and merely because it
.cannot have “ its own way.”
We arc lighting a new tretl.U: for the Union,
ami against foes the more dangerous for being
insiditons within the lines of onr own camp.
But I Intt’e not a particle of doubt about tin.
result, any more than 1 bad aboijt the issue of
the other war, when onr proper strength could
Jtie collected and judiciously applied.
The crisis demands positive remedies and di
rect treatment. Quackery will not do in this
extremity. Therefore, the sooner it is under
stood that a line must be drawn broadly and
clearly the sooner will the administration be re
lieved from some of the dangers which inci
dentally menace it. Whoever has studied the.
■event of the war mast be convinced that the
SA-ick man eared very little lor his own status,
or was willing to make much effort to change
it. No such opportunity was ever offered to
the enslaved race to strike lor itself; wd cer
tainly encouragement enough was given to it to
do so iu some direction. Every proper and
humane man feels that, emancipated as that race
joow is, it should have every just aid and pro
jection until able to help itself. Hut let me toll
•you, from some little observation on the sub
ject, and some knowledge pf the people that
human ingenuity could not devise a mor# effec
tive method for fastening another form of bo rui
ng.: upon them than this ballot which is pro
j»pscd as their sovereign panacea. * Give them
;b*j right, and 1 would pledge my life on the
result, it the test eOuld be fairly made, that id
most aioety per cent, of the whole black popu
lation would vote on the side of their old mas
ters, or, iu other words, become the instru
ments of fastening new chains upon them
htlves; and if ever the day comes —which I hope
iiieVgr to see, for fear of the consequences—
when these people may vote without condition,
you may expect to see the South compacted by
negro suffrage, and uniting with the Northern
so-called Democracy In regain possession of
the Government, and overthrow everything thus
far accomplished, and snob a result would be
quite in keeping,with the sagacity and rnodera
ttiou of those who are ready to sacrifice every
thing sacred to the one idea of tliejr foolish fa
naticism.
I have not been able to see tin* Unmluency of
the war of races on account ol thfl ballot, as
supposed by the President, but 1 do sell ill St
(the much more serious danger now suggested—
(the old hatred and jealousy between negroes
*u>d the ignorant white class, which the negro
in his loftiness calls the “ poor buckra”—which
would lead to a collision, probably, if they were
approached by an equalizing process like suf
frage ; hut I cannot think that anythiug serious
would come of it. The political aspect of the
■question is much graver, and ought not to be
.Ignored. Os course Fred. Douglas and his fol
lowers would argue differently, hut experience
is worth a little more than delusive theories.
Wishing you well through all these vexations,
I am, as ever, faithfully.
James E. Harvey.
The Morals of Washington Under Radi
cal Ausotoes.— The Washington correspond
ent of the New York Watchman, a religious
journal, thus depicts the state of morals at the
National Capital under Radical auspices :
“Licentiousness and drunkenness arc the
prominent features of Washington life this sea
son- Members of Congress spend their after
noons and evenings in billiard and drinking
saloons, smd their nights in houses of ill-farue
or assignation. Five-sevenths of the Republi
can members of Cougress spend tlieir nights in
licentious dissipation. While a majority of tin;
Democratic members are working for the good
of the country, the opposition, relying on its
majority, goes in for a 1 good time,’ so-called.
Washington, under Abolition auspices, is the
most licentious, depraved city in the Union.
Drinking saloons, gambling houses, houses of
prostitution and assignation arc about the
Capital as side-shows are about a circus. Har
lots and niggers occupy the galleries, smile on
tbfc'f P et members on the floor, and throw
kissed to the ‘ God and morality’ representatives
of honest constituencies.
“ Sad «ad indeed, but every word true. Let
hoDetfitt the next election will send here
a d&Tdns of men. “ Malcolm.”
The New York Triune, in discussing the
modesty of crinoline, innocently asks : Do
we not delight to see the .feet m 4 shapely little
limbs ol children, and adorn, decode and ex
hibit them with commendable pride !' Js there
any'thh'qTin decent in that ¥ and are not the Inl y
developed legs of perfect women quite as at
tractive and admirable •
“The District Convention.”
Hitt Hall, Augusta, Ga., ?
July 28th, 1866. $
In pursuance of the call to the people of the
Fifth Congressional District to assemble,
through their delegates, to appoint Representa
tives to the Philadelphia Convention, to be
on the 14th of August, delegates from a por
tion of the counties appeared and proceeded to
Organize a District Convention.
On motion of Col. J. R. Dawson, ol Greene,
Colonel E. 11. Pottle, of Warren, was called to
tlie Chair, to act as Chairman. John 11, Seals
was requested to act as Secretary.
The Chairman, on taking hia seat,'announced
that business was in order; when Dr. Pilcher,
of Warren, proposed the name of Hon. Wm.
Gibson as permanent l’r«sident of tlie meeting,
which was unanimously sanctioned by tlie
members.
On motion, the Chair appointed a committee
of three, consisting of W. 11. Pilcher, General
R. Y. Harris and Colonel E. 11. Pottle, to wait
on the President elect and notify him of the ac
tion of the meeting, and request his acceptance.
On taking the Chair, he indulged in a few
pertinent and appropriate remarks, explanatory
of the object Qf the meeting, and the design of
the great National movement tp be inaugurated
at Philadelphia on the 14th of August next.
On motion of Gen. Harris, of Richmond, the
delegates from the several counties were called
upon to report their names to the Secretary lor
registry. The roll of counties comprising the
Fifth Congressional District was called, when
the following w< re found to be represented by
the following delegates, to-wit:
IK a shiny ton. —John W. Renfro, T. O. Wicker
and W. C. Riddle.
Warren— E. IL Pottle, Dr. W. H. Pilcher
and R. R. Beck.
Richmond— Hon. Win. Gibson, Dr. B. F.
Hall, Foster Blodgett, James T. Both well, Gen.
R. Y. Harris and George T. Barnes.
Taliaferro.— Wm. J. Rowland, Linton An
drew Stephens.
Greene. —Miles Lewis, R. J. Dawson, J. 11.
Seals.
Glasscock.— Dr. E. G. Scruggs.
On motion of Col. Pottle, a committee con
sisting of one from each county represented,
was appointed to prepare business lor tlie eon-*
sideralion of tlie Convention.
The Chair appointed the following members
to constitute said committee, viz :
Colonel E. H. Pottle, of Warren, J. W.
Renfro, of Washington, Win. J. Rowland, of
Taliaferro, Col. R. J. Dawson, of Greene, E. J.
Scruggs, of Glasscock, and Gen. R. Y. Harris,
of Richmond.
The committee retired, and on their return
made tlie following report, which was unani
mously adopted:
The committee, lo whom was referred tlie
matter for the action of this Convention, beg
leave to submit the following report, aud your
committee recommend the adoption of the*
following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Convention, approving of
tlie meeting of a National Convention in
Philadelphia, will send two delegates to repre
sent this Congressional District in said Con
vention.
Resolved, That Linton Stephens, of Hancock
and A. It. Wriglit. of Richmond, bo selected as
delegates from this Congressional District, and
James S. Hook, of Washington, and Dr. H. R.
Casey, of Columbia, be selected as their tilter
nates.
Resolved, That the Convention nominates as
delegates from tlie State at large A. 11. Stephens,
11. V- Johnson, B. 11. Hill and Hiram Warner.
Alternates Hon. W. 11, Hill, Hon. Win. Law,
lion. C. 11. Cole, Hon. David Irwin, and that we
respectfully request this nomination lie concur,
red in by llic remaining districts of tlie Slate.
Resolved, That should any necessity arise for
any additional action on the part of this Con
vention in filiation to the choice of delegates
from the State at large, the President of this
Convention In authorized and requested to cast
the vote of tliaConveution.
Resolved, That we cordially- endorse the re
construction policy of President Joliuson, and
will sustain him in bis wise aud patriotic pur
pose it) maintaining free government and con
stitutional liberty to the people of the whole
country.
Respectfully submitted,
E. M. Pottle, Chairman.
Hon. George T. Barnes offered the following
resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That should neither tlie delegates
nor tlie alternates appointed by Ibis Conven
tion be able to attend the. proposed Convention
in Philadelphia, then the Delegates tie author
ized t.nd requested to select two suitable citizens
to represent the people of this district.
Oil motion of Col. Pottle, a committee of
three, consistingof K. It. Pottle, Foster Blodgett
and Lintim A. bli tiia ue, as appointed by tlie
Chair to notify the delegates rcirUrul or timir
appointment.
Oil motion, the ('hronicle Sj Sentinel ami the
Conalitiilionuli.i! were requested to publish the
proceedings of this meeting.
Wtf. Gibson, Chairman.
Jno. 11. SEAI.S, Secretary.
| Fijjm the N. Y. Herald Correßpciulence.
'file Conspiracy to Hang Jeff. Davis.
My disclosure a few days ago ol portions of
the evidence educe.-1 by life dcdieiai'y Commit
tee of I he -House of ffeprcsouLaii-y.es jifeyelopiiig
the (liaholieal conspiracy of certain radical* J#
implicate .fell’Paris, hy means of bogus wit-!
nesses, in the Assassination of President Lin-'
cotp, and procure his trial and conviction by a
military tribunal, occasioned in diverse circles
here a yuriwy t/t sensations and exuberancy of
expression, both «y&jjs and amusing. The
little bout in the ILoijsn IQ-(fq.y between Bout
well, of Massachusetts, and Jaelt lagers, of
New Jersey, members of the said committee,
resulting from the refusal of the former to allow
the.latte 1 ' access to the testimony and papers
betuie ibc epiqniittce, because, as Ms. Boutwcli
declared, s.ojq.e iWJp.‘>rt‘*i)l portions of them had
tied) eoininunieated to yp,d published jn the
New York Herald, Jiqs intensified tfre iqteree.f;
excited by my letter, and furnished “.ebrifirma
, tiou strong as proofs of Holy Writ" that ipy
disclosures, astonishing as they were, per
fectly correct. w
The seccsh who sympathize with Davis and
regard him as a martyr of a holy cause are
highly incensed) and vow vengeance on the
conspirators the moment their names shall
transpire. All honorable meu—RepopHoans as
well as Democrats—are indignant at the cow
ardly attempt to murder Mr. Davis by a mili
tary commission and false testimony, and de
mand th-ft the guilty parties shall be rigorous
ly dealt ysiili, if there is any law to reach their
offense. The uiJW.ef.QJfa Radicals who are ever
ready to justify any excess f>y any
of their faction are chagrinjieil »j)(J gfim.4 us
the denounuiit, and affect to doubt the guilt oi
their fellows, but declare that if they did as
charged the end in view justified the means,
and that },t is sometimes necessary to do evil in
order tii.it good m? The conspirators
themselves, or such of i,b.epi as are here, are in
tensely alarmed, if one may judge from the
long faces they wear and the extra aibinljoiis
they bestowed on the members of the Judicia
ry Committee for several days succeeding my
disetosv.es, and are now daily bestowing on
Mr. Boutwejf. The committee itself, at least
the Republican members thereof, are enraged
at the unauthorized pwldmalton qf their pro
ceedings and the testimony and papers hefQfe
them, which Mr. Boutwcli avers they used 1
grr'a.t efforts to keep secret, and declared that
cither “Tiga walls have ears” or that the Her.
aid employs spiyif correspondents, who move
about unseen in all tbejf caiicuses and com
mittee rooms, appropriating lq>-L sgerpts, or
else that somebody has outrageously betrayed
their confidence. Several parties, reporters
and others, have been suspected of perfidy,
and severely questioned. But the suspicion ol
more thajj QQU member lias fallen on Mr. Ro
-3 w ho, from the beginning of the hi vesti-,
gatiou has heel) satisfied Qf Ml'-Davis’ inno-i
ccncc and ciideavore-d, by a ri ilOWM cross-ex
amination ol the vTitueeiMie to impair liieif f.eji
timony. , „ , .
It is quite pjobable tliat the zealous enortß ol
Mr. Rogers to acquit Davis, whom one of the
committee has provokiugly denominated Ills
“ client,” has contributed m some measure to
unravel aud break down tbe conspiracy ; but jt
is certain that the Herald is not indebted to
the New Jersey gentleman for the informa
tion it has promulgated and is about to add in
regard to this interesting and mysterious affair.
JACK ROGERS IS NOT A HERALD REPORTER.
The suspicion that Mr. Rogers iia4 furnished
the startling intelligence to the Herald , aud hie
subsequent employament of a rebel phonogra-:
plier to assist him in examining the testimony
and papers, furnished Mr. Boutwcli with a
plausible pretext for refusiug him access to the
records, especially as some oi the papers in cus
tody ol tlic committee were “ confidential papers ,
of the War Department and could not safely be i
exposed to general examination.”
THE CONFIDENTIAL PAPERS OF THE WAR DE
PARTMENT.
The “ confidential papers,” however, I have
high and unmistakable authority for stating,
are nothing more or less than tbe depositions
of “ Campbell ” and “ SDevel,” already pub
lished in the Herald , and of other bogus wit
nesses made for the Bureau of Military Justice,
and ot a stale letter found in the archives of the
rebel War Department addressed by a soldier
to Jeff' Davis, proposing to dispose of Lincoln
<fc Co., If authority and means were furnished
him by the Government to carry out his plans,
together with a letter from Davis to Jake
Thompson, rebel agent in Canada, expressing
impatience that a certain project—not znamed,
but supposed by some to be -the assassination
ot Lincolu and his Cabinet—bad not been car
ried out, and urging immediate action in the
matter: These are the only papers in the cus
tody of the committee that by any construction
or distortion can be made to bear in the slight
est degree against Mr. Davis.
BOGUS WITNESSES.
Campbell and Snevel, who, it had been dis
covered by the friends of Davis, had made false
-depositions for the Bureau of Military Justioe,
implicating the accused, were, by a splendid
manoeuvre—a sort of a flank movement—in
duced to go before the committee and acknow
ledge that their depositions were a tissue of lies
from beginning to end. But the other witnesses
for the said Bureau, who Campbell declares
were bogus like himself, were not brought be
fore the committee to sustain their depositions
and submit to a cross-examination by Mr. Ro
gers ; and as Campbell hod confessed himself to
be a perjured scoundrel, tlie committee have a
right to reject his assertion that the other wit
nesses arc bogus like himself, nnd to believe
their depositions, which depositions iornt the
most important “confidential papers of the
War Department” that the committee have in
hand. s
BOGUS EVIDENCE OF JOHN TATTEN.
Two of these deposition makers are men call
ing themselves John Patten and F. B. Wright.
The former, iu liis deposition, says that lie is a
native of Georgia, and is well acquainted with
Mr. Davis; that during the war he was engaged
in furnishing provisions and stores for tlie rebel
army, having been excused from militory ser
vice on furnishing a substitute; that in tlie lat
ter part of June, 1863, au acquantaucc of his
named Lamar, also from the State ol Georgia,
informed him that he (Lamar) was about to
enter upon an enterprise which if successful
would immortalize and enrich all who engaged
in it, and at the same time iuvited deponent to
join him; that at deponent’s request Lamar ex
plained tlie nature of the enterprise, which was
lo kidnap or kill President Lincoln ; that de
ponent then inquired what plan had been de
vised and whether the Government was cogni
zant of or hud authorized tlie project; that La
mar replied that several high officers of tlie
Government were aware of and applauded it,
and that he was assured by General Winder
that President Davis also approved it; that lie
(Lamar) was to have an interview with Davis
the following day, when he would present his
plans and learn his (Davis’) decision. That
deponent promised to enter into the scheme if
the President should sanction it, and on Ihe
next day accompanied Lamar and Winder to
Davis’office; that Lamar submitted a written
plan for kiduapping Lincoln, and for killing
him if it should be found impossible to carry
him off alive; that, Davis, after reading the plan,
said he had never doubted that a small party of
brave men could attack Lincoln in his strong
hold aud kill him, and perhaps make him
prisoner and run him into the Confederate
lines, but that he had felt some doubts whether
such a proceeding would be recognized by
the civilized world as honorable warfare; and
as the emergency had not in his judgment
arisen for resorting to such extreme measures
he had dismissed several similar propositions
without serious consideration ; but that recent
ly the enemy bad committed the most barba
rous outrages and shown an utter disregard of
the laws of nations and the laws of war, and
that he now lelt not only justifiable iu adopting
tin: measure proposed, but that, he would prove
recreant to his duty to reject any scheme, how
ever harsh, calculated4o lay tlie enemy at his
feet, or bring him to honorable terms of peace ;
that lie (Davis) further observed that since this
subject was first mooted before him he had be
come fully convinced on mature study and re
flection that the President ol tlie United States
being the commander-in-chief of the army, it
would be as proper anil as fiflly in accordance
with the laws of war to send a small party
within the enemy’s lines to capture or kill hint
as to do tlie same by any of bis officers or sol
diers ; that he then complimented the plan
submitted by Lamar and expressed the opinion
that if it were resolutely acted upon success
would be certain ; that reference was then made
to tlie subject of money to carry out the plot,
when Davis said lie would arrange that matter
with General Winder, who would furnish from
time to time spell sums as might be required ;
that deponent and Lamar then left, and on Uie
afternoon of the same day received a consider
able sum of money from Winder and enlered
on tlie desperate business ; that they engaged a
number of reckless but reliable men, who were
to work themselves through the Federal lines
and take quarters in Baltimore and Georgetown
and wait until called upon lor action ; that sev
eral days after said interview with Davis one of
tlie parties associated with deponent and La
mar, named McCullough, was arrested on the
charge of betraying their secret; that deponent
and Lamar and another associate named Powell
(supposed to he Payne, who was executed
with Mrs. Surratt) called at Gen. Winder’s of
fice to learn the facts in the ease, and were there
informed that the General had just gone to Da
vis’ quarters in regard to McCullough’s ease,
whereupon deponent anil his companions also
repaired to Davis office; that they found Winder
there, with the detective who arrested McCul
lough, and that, said detective was in tlie act of
explaining to Davis the circumstances under
which he made the arrest: that Davis then said
to deponent and Lamar that it was fft he re
gretted I liat tliey had associated with them in
so important an enterprise a person of Me
(Jilllough’s habits, and that lie imped they had
confided iu no more of the same character; that
the blockade runners who had heard M’Cul
lougli’s hoasjs might he Yankee spies, as many
of their class were, and that he feared the pro
ject might be communicated to the authorities
at Washington and frustrated ; that the utmost
haste must be used in putting the scheme into
execution or failure would be certain ; that the
blow should be struck at once; that General
Winder, who was in a rage over the conduct of
McCullough, added, “Yes, you must strike at
once ; bring the d—d baboon here, dead or alive,
as soon as possible; if you can’t letch his whole
carcass bring bis d—il scalp ;” that Davis, with
a smile, interrupted Winder, observing, “Gen
tlemen, you will not forget the directions I have
I.li.tfi.ly noven you. I prefer that you should. It
possjblc, capture Mr. Lincoln and bring him
within our lines without harming a hair of his
head ; but il you find it impossible to capture
him, it is your duty to destroy him it you can
reach him the same as you would any officer or
soldier in his service; and il you succeed iu
making him prisoner and find there is danger
of his being recaptured, you will lake care that
h,e dqes not return to Washington alive; but let
mi. agqui abjure yon to lose no time; if a knowl
edge."of your intentions rpael[ jyashington, your
labors will lie ill vain; and the sipTeiidbr fit'
Vicksburg to Grant, and the defeat of Lee in
Pennsylvania, who is being driven back on our
capitol, render it necessary, as perhaps the only
means of saving the country, that the enterprise
should be carried out at once; go ou, and if
CM.ecgesful, you will be bailed us the saviors of
your country,ap<J receive unbounded rewards;”
that deponent then saul thqt tjjcy were prepar
ed to strike as soon as they could' get' Norf'li
with the balance of their party, who were
already engaged and eager to start, hut that
they should require more money lor operations
when they should get to Washington; Davis
Replied, “Yes, that is all right; that Lite General
(rfcferrifigfo Winder) would see to that;” that
on the same day Wiudef furnished them with a
large sum of money, anil "deponent, Lain.'.,-,
l’owcll aud others, started for Washington ;
that on arriving North they found that many of
the men forwarded by them had been arrested
and copfjned in the Old Capitol and other
prisons,'pn suspicion of being spies, qnd that
they were obliged so abandon their upcfertal,:-
iug.
BOGUS EVIDENCE OF F. B. WRIGHT.
The witness, Wright, in his affidavit for the
Bureau of Military Justice, deposed that he was
a native of Nova Scotia; that in 1862 he weut
to the Confederacy, running the blockade into
Wilfnington ; that for a time be was engaged in
speculating in provisions and military stores,
but that in the beginning of )8()3 fie xyits em
ployed by General Winder, in Richmond, as
detective; that in July, 1803, lie learned from
Winder that there was a project on foot to kid
nap, and, if necessary, to kill President Lin
eal!) ; that oue cvemng shortly afterward, while
passing' a- PJjblio house, lie heard boisterous
talking w ithin, Anil On qjfitefing found a man
named McCullough, half inebriated, bohsting
to some blockade runners that within a month
the old rail splitter would be in Richmond cut
ting wood te cook the Yankee otic-el's’ rations
at the Libby ; that k nowing McCullough was
petraying an important secret of the Govern
ment, be, qs was his duty, arrested and confined
him iu (Jast’e ThupdCr; tpat ou the following
day he was informed hy Winder that t‘b'i Presi
dent. was exceedingly annoyed at the arrest of
McCullough, as his father, a very wealthy and
influential man, had interceded witli the Presi
dent in his behalf, aud had represented that lii.s
son bap pecn arrested maliciously and without
cause, aiid tllat lie (Winder) wished deponent
to accompany him to Dims and explain pre
cisely what he had heard McCullough say and
all the circumstances under which lie had made
the arrest; that thereupon deponent anil Win-'
deg called upon Davis, when deponent, at his
fSx.eejienpy’s jeqqesf, juafie the desired expla
nation ; that while they jyere talking on the
subject three men named Patten’, tamafanjj
Powell, called iu relation to the arrest ol' Mc-
Cullough.
i The deposition then proceeds to recount what
was said aud occurred hy and between Davis
and the other parties referred to, and corrobo
rates ip almost life precise language the account
given m Patten's affidavit qf pja second inter
view with the rebel chief.
Thus it will be seen that the aim of the con
spirators was to lasten upon Davis a murder
ous design as far back as 1863, by making him
a party to a plot at that time for the killing of
Die killing of the president, a fact which, if es
tablished,it was supposed would, tagep in con
nection with the testimony the perfidious
Campbell and Snevel were expected to give,
leave no doubt in the minds of a court of the
guilt ot the accused. The affair was so in
geniously contrived that it would be impossible
Ui gonlp-diet these witnesses, Winder and Pow
ell (Payne) pojpg jjead and Lamar being only a
myth.
But Pat,tcn and -Wright, qs J have already re
marked, were not brought before flic commit
tee to uustaiu their affidavits, and the cbmliiit
te.e, or the Republican members thereof, have
decided tq belieypthe* r depositions, the “ con
fidential papers oi life Walr DepipTineut,” not
withstanding “Campbell’s’ assertion before
the committee that the deponents were iqrpd
bogus wiluesses like himself.
The depositions of these men, of which i
have given you a very full synopsis, furnish
the only evidence against Mr. Davis in the
hands of the committee, the two letters referred
to, and other stuff called evidence, being of no
importance whatever. Any lawyer would as
annn'thiqp pf putting “the man in the moon ”
on trial on the strength of such evidence as oi
putting Mr. Davis, and the .committee while it
will profess to believe Davis guilty will fail to
recommend that he be brought to trial. The
Radicals, whose machinations have been un
masked through the laudable treachery of
Campbell apd Hqeyel have abandoned their
murderous designs, and qre now employing
the Judiciary Committee, pliant tools as
could be desired, to Mde the evidence of their
iniquity and screen them from ihe opprobrium
they Reserve. Mr. Rogers is not permitted to
examine the testimony, because, in flict, that of
Campbell diSjClpspe ifoc names of some of the
Radical conspirators; lie is not allowed to ex :
amine the papers because the depositions of
Patten and Wright, upon which the committee
luwe to found the opinion of Davis’ guiltvwill
not, on their face, b&ar legal scrutiny. These
heartless Radicals, since they cannot have the
pleasure of hanging the unfortunate rebel,’.ren
der him infamous in the eyes of honorable
men.
Mr. Boutwell, in Ms report, will admit, for
he will be bound to notice and admit, that
Campbell and Snevel, who made depositions
for the Bureau of Military Justice of more im
portance, supposing them to be true, than all
the rest of the evidence in the case put togeth
er, were Induced to confess before the commit
tee that they had sworn falsely from beginning
to eud, and were engaged and paid for doing
so by an agent of the Government; and all the
ingenuity and skill of the learned gentleman
will then be summoned to shield his Radical
friends from responsibility and blame, and
render plausible the proposition that the lact
-these two scoundrels were suborned aud sworn
falsely in the matter furnishes uo just grounds
for rejecting or suspecting the testimony of the
other witnesses; but let it not be forgotten that
Campbell says the other witnesses were su
borned also. •
I From tlie New York World,
Lord Stanley.
It is a curious commentary upon the actual
position of England iu Europe that men of all
English parties seem to be as one in regarding
the appointment of Lord Stanley to the post of
Foreign Minister in his father’s new Cabinet, as
the most satisfactory feature of the new admin
istratiou. One of the ablest of the English
Liberal journals goes so far, indeed, as to admit
that this single nomination may perhaps “ up
hold the Tory Cabinet at least us long as the
war on the Continent lasts.” The specific
strength with which this particular appoint
ment Is thus credited, aud by which It. is thus
held to be distinguished from the rest of an ad
ministration is neither above nor below the
average standard of recent British Cabinets, is
well worth considering, for It reveals the com
pleteness of the revolution which lias been
wrought in the publle opinion of Great Britain
on the subject of tier foreign is but
the. oilier day that the British wor
shipped that ideal Foreign Minister of British
tradition by whom matters should be so man
aged that “ in all Europe no gun could be tired
without the permission of England.” Many
years have, indeed, elapsed since anything at ail
approaching to a realization of Ibis ideal exist
ed ; but this, Englishmen, naturally enough,
were slow to apprehend. Bo long :w Lord
Palmerston lived, the average British subject
devoutly believed that the most careless sug
gestion of her Majesty’s airy and dashing and
indomitable Foreign Secretary had greater
weight in the councils id' Vienna and Madrid,
of St. Petersburg and Paris, than all the Seek
and armies of the Continent. Lord Palmerston
himself did much to keep alive this clieoiTul
faith ; for while he never quite shook off, in his
old age, that delightful bdblt of bis youth,
which had become a second nature with British
statesmen of the dominant party duriiijj’tlir
long French wars, ot regarding every political
convulsion, however, trivial, which occurred
from the Dardanelles to the Pillars of Hercules,
and from Archangel to Marseilles, as a tiling
to be immediately looked after and written
about and taken care ot by the Foreign Office
in Downing street, he had enough of natural
tact aud of acquired experience to avoid com
mitting the isolated Euglaud of 1850 to any de
cisive course of action, unless in the strongest
and safest company he'could command. Such
was the fortunate combination in Ibis veteran
statesman of superficial audacity and of sub
stantial prudence, that lie kept alive in Euglaml
tlie prestige ot her own foreign influence long
after it had faded quite away everywhere else in
Europe. Lord Russell, with a superficial pru
dence such as Palmerston never atl'ec.ted, com
bines a fundamental fussiness and want of per
eepfiou which have led him into making Eng
land at once odious and ridiculous, by admin
istering, in her name, moral lectures on polities
to powers which laughed at his advice as pre
posterous when they did not resent it as ini per
tinent. During his tenure of the Foreign Office,
in Lord Palmerston’s last admiiiistratioh, Earl
Russell contrived, for the first time in her re
cent history, to get England snubbed so openly
and so vigorously that even the complacent
stolidity of lier public conceit was penetrated.
And now that a new British Ministry comes to
be formed in the lace of the most exciting, and
ill some respects the most perilous, political
situation in which the eoutiuent of Europe lias
found itself since the peace of Paris, all Eng
land hails with gratitude the transfer of her di
plomatic interests into the keeping of a young
statesman whose known convictions and whose
personal character are regarded as a solid guar
antee that iie will neither play the pedagogue
Os princes and peoples, after the fashion ol Earl
Russell, nor affect, like Lord Palmerston, to
ride the whirlwind with a rosebud between his
teeth and direct the storm with a jest. The con
fidence which Lord Stanley takes with him into
Downing street consecrates England’s decisive
abdication of ajl her pretensions to uphold tin*
cause cither of “order” or of “progress” on the
European continent. The England of Castlc
reagh, which poured opt her gold and her Wood
like water against the tides of change and re
volution ; the England of Palmerston, which
sympathized with every revolution and drew
tiie sword for none, have both now passed
away. Lord Stanley takes office as the repre
seutalive of the Euglaud ut to-day, ihe Euglaml
whose home policy has been cieated by free
trade, and whose foreign policy must Co I lew the
mighty work of change which emigrating and
commerce have accomplished in the new worlds
of tin; West aud of the South, in America ami
in Aiiulm umlNcw Zmlaml.
There in a striking harmony between the
personal pljarapter of the \\eye statesmen and
the policy which comes with him into power
and popularity. The heir of oue of the noblest
names ol' England, and of one of the few
existing English titles in which some real light
of English history lives, Lord Stanley mainly
owes the prominence which at the early age of
forty he has achieved in English polities, lo
the cold, clear, unenthnsiastic, business-like
Ipne pi' his mf.ejj.'ct.. Alienated, while still a
a lad :,f school, front tlie confidence ,and
intimacy of those of his own order and age, by
an unhappy affair, of a kind which the spirit of
caste rarely condones in a man of rank, Lord
Stanley has lived among his fellows- »••«' y-*
fip“rt lr°m !!!“«», commanding the uuwilling
attention of those who most disliked him by
his active apd prospective position in the
fuistoefacy i;f liiiiaip, and Cfthqpciipg t|ie re
spect of the pumic by his tine intellectual gifts
and his indcfatigadle industry; hut neither
winning personal influence among the upper
classes by any social qualities, uor attracting a
general popularity by those dashing tastes and
traits of character which the multitude admire,
in a social superior, and adore in a political
plpef. ffeserved to the extreme of hauteur,
eynipal, with no hold on that lovely and formi
dable world of brilliant womanhood in which
Castlcreagli and Palmerston found so many
and such important helps to power, J-ord
Stanley, as the ipost unsympathetic of men
apd pf politicians stands naturally forward in
England as the organ of a foreign policy, be
come necessarily unsympathetic also. In
recent foreign politics he figures as hav
ing uttered the coolest judgment put for
ward in England on American affairs, when he
predicted three years ago that “ the cower of
the North was likely 10 prevail, but that its
main difficulties would begin with tfe end of
lbs y/ar ; in tjie question Pf Danish Duchies he
protested against the foolish and feverish pro
test made by Earl Russell in behalf of England,
a protest which resulted only in exasperating
the Prussians, without helping the Danes ; on
the Italian question he has shown a sort of icy
disbelief in the gushing enthusiasm of the
Italiau population for an ideal Italy of restored
flliHi' i all.l pn Hie Eastern question, of all Eu
ropean questions the most likely to excite an
English statesman’s , mind, he has always ex
pressed his dissatisfaction with the doctrines of
those who think England bound to protect
Turkey against dismemberment at the risk of
war with all Eastern Europe.
The advent to the Foreign Office of a states
man pf suc-h a temper apd of such views at this
particular juncture pf tiipe, pia'y wel'be regard
ed in England as offering no slight security that
the Cabinet in which lie sits will keep England,
as sedulously as possible, dear of! any part iii
the “ reconstruction of Europe” now going on.
That the anticipation of such a resell from his
participation in its counsels should he consid
ered by Englishmen as the strongest poiut in
chances of that Cabinet for success, shows
us more plainly tliaii many books and speeches
could, how completely the England of ISliO
differs from the England of 1815.
Mu. Doolittle Whites a Lrttek to a
Southern gentleman, who is one of the dele
gates elect to the Philadelphia Convention.—
Notice how the principles of the call are reit
erated at the close of the epistle. There is to
be agj'aud ljyp fpqst, and all tlqat sort of thing,
but only “ upon the principle* set forth in the
call for the Convention.” Here is the letter as
found in an exchange:
‘ Washington, Julj 10, 1800.
PpAh Sift; Inclosed I send you The circular
letter of our Committee on' yrgaiization. It
contains the views ot the National Union Ex
ecutive Committee. We expect tt see a great
Convention at Philadelphia, area Union of the
patriotic heart and brain of the comtry, and of
the whole country, East, West, North and
South, to bless Almighty God thatwar is over,
that peace has come, and come to stay once
ipore under tljc old flag, yith inf a star ob
sCureij, to spake, hands together iff friends, in
social and political actioh, pledg'd to maintain
a true allegiance upon the principles set forth
in the call lor the Convention—file Constitu
tion, tpe Uuiofl, and the' Govcrrtneut of our
common country. ‘ '
Respectfully yoijn,
•I. K. pooLiTTLß^Chairmau.
"*• •
From the Sublime to the RfoicuLOiis.—
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly , commenting
on the latter day habit of pcjfting patent
medicines, &c„ on the beautiful f- ocks of the
country, says:
Last year, weary of shop, ail feeling the
necessity of restoring tone to be mind by a
course of the sublime. Tboms<ti and I paid
many dollars, traveled mdny mss, ran many
risks, and suffered much froinprapertlnence
and from dust, in order that weniight See the
wonders of the Lord, his mouffain and his
waterfalls. }Ve stood at the foottof the moun
tain, am} gazing up\rari at a frecipße, tbq
sublime we were in searcher tgnn to swell
within our hearts, when our ey i were struck
by huge Roman letters paintet on the face of
the rock, and held fast, as if by a pell, until we
had read them all. They asked the question,
Are yon troubled with worms ”
i.
The Peace Question.
Prussia Rejects the Armistice Offer —Italy Can
not Accept Venetia from Napoleon, and War
Likely to be Resumed in both Theatres — Eng
lish Review of the Situation and Its Conse
quences.
[From the London Times, July 7.
The events of the last few days have followed
each other in too rapid succession for a calm
and comprehensive forecast of their probable
consequences, aud tbe news that Prussia has
rejected the proposals for an armistice, convey
ed by General von Gablenz, disturbs the san
guine hopes ol peace that prevailed but yester
day. No deliuite reply to the telegraphic mes
sage afterward received from the Emperor Na
poleon has been reported from the Prussian
headquarters, but it can hardly be expected that
its purport will be favorable. The King of
Italy has already answered that he must con
sult his Prussian ally ; but iu the meantime the
warlike spirit of the Italian people lias loudly
protested against accepting any cession of Ve
netia through the hands of a foreigner. There
is, therefore, too much reason to fear that hos
tilities will be resumed in both theatres of war.
If so, Austria will be unable to withdraw any
considerable number of troops from Venetia,
and, unless sheltered by the :egis of France,
may soon be compelled to bear terms ol peace
dictated to her by Prussia in her own capital.
Whether or not this last humiliation be re
served for her, it needs no gift of prophecy to
discern anew order of things unfolding itself
ouL of the battle clouds that still lower over the
slaughter fields of Bohemia, or to foresee that
a new policy must readjust the antiquated
balance of power. Little, indeed, remains of
the territorial settlement of Europe established
by the peace of Vienna, and the marvellous
triumphs of Prussia have effaced almost the last
of the lines traced there by inonarchs aud diplo
mats on the map of Europe. One of the pros
cribed imperial family had long occupied the
throne of France, and had enlarged her allotted
borders by annexing Savoy and Nice ; Belgium
bad long since been severed from Holland;
Naples and Sicily had more recently been wrest
ed from the Bourbons to be united wiili Lom
bardy, Tuscany and the Legations into an
Italian kingdom, wholly unlike the short lived
kingdom of Italy ; aud other removals of ancient
landmarks were in contemplation, when the
alliance between Prussia and Italy gave the final
blow to the tottering fabric of dynastic l ights.
Italy is now free, at least of any foreign yoke,
from the Alps to tfie Adriatic. Prussia is for
the time mistress of North Germany, Austria
lies prostrate at her feet, and the Germanic
Confederation, like the German Empire, exists
no longer, except iu history. The sovereign ot
Austria aud her dependencies may still retain
the title of Emperor, and maintain some rem
nant ol that reverence which his ancestors
claimed to inherit from the Roman Ctesars ; he
may still wield a considerable military power,
ami exercise a considerable influence in the
councils of Europe; but he will never again oc
cupy the first place among German princes, or
uphold petty reactionary governments on either
side of the Alps against, their unwilling subjects.
For many years to come—perhaps for many
generations—Austria must acquiesce iu the as
cendancy of her rival, and uot in German v alone
but in Europe, even if she is spared fresh dis
asters and allowed to retain all her province*
except Venetia.
These are the first and most certain results ol
the crushing defeats sustained by the Austrians
during the last fortnight. A military empire
cannot rally from such a collapse like a consti
tutional monarchy; aud we can only wonder at
the strange infatuation which led Austria to de
cide the Congress to which Prussia acceded, to
hurry the Diet into warlike measures when she
was herself unprepared to defend her allies,
aud to intimate that her military honor would
be outraged by the cession of Venetia unless
she had first proved her ability to retain it.
The next questions are whether the Emperor
Napoleon will back the tender of his good
offices by a threat of armed interference, and
whether in any event lie will be content with
the part of stakeholder, or will act upon the
principles apparently foreshadowed in his letter
to M. Drotiyn de Lhiivs. Does he regard him
self as a simple trustee ot Venetia lor Italy, or
will lie make liis own terms before transferrin*'
it? Will he submit to witness aggrandisement
ot Prussia in Northern Europe without de
manding any fresh rectification of the eastern
frontier of France ; and il uot will he negotiate
privately with Count Bisniark, or will he Invite
the great Powers to aid him iu a new partition
of the Continent based op the rights of “ na
tionalities ” “and natural boundaries? Per
haps it may seem premature to discuss such
contingencies as these while Italy and Prussia
are apparently in no mood to accept bis media
tion, tlie former irritated by defeat and bent on
the complete dismemberment of Austria, and
the latter flushed by victory aud impatiently
looking forward to a victorious march upon
Vienna. It is difficult to believe,however, that
either Italy or Prussia wifi ultimately repel the
pacific overtures of the Emperor Napoleon, es
pecially if they should be supported by this
country. The annexation of Trieste and the
Adriatic provinces of Austria to Italy, or the
annexation of Bohemia to Prussia, would not
be sanctioned by the public conscience of
Europe, and the political extinction of Aus
tria is aq idea that can hardly be enter
tained even in Berlin. Sooner or later,
therefore, without sacrificing a single soldier
or imposing the slightest burthen on France,
tlie French Emperor will probably find
himself again the rial arbiter of Europe. 11. is
a position which a lofty ambition would dis
dam to abuse. The Emperor cannot fail to
appreciate it, and, we may trust, will not
tightly roynqi iv oj .-everting ift Umigns i,« mm
solemnly disavowed. The chief danger is that
Prussia, even if willing to suspend hostilities,
may advance claims inconsistent with all other
interests but lier own. But Prussia, however
formidable, is not yet tlcrmany. Blie lias over
run Hanover and Saxony, but she has yet to
win the confidence and sympathy ot the
Saxons and Hanoverians, u< M can she afford to
disregard the qsplyayfons of llie German people.
Those aspirations puiut towards union under
Prussian supremacy, but not towards absolute
subjection to Prussia, and the sentiments, as
well as tbe interests, of the Emperor Napoleon
are supposed to x>oiut in the same direction.
ie would himself prefer a division of
Germany into a Northern and Southerft con
federation, analogous to the dualism which he
openly favored in Italy, but he will assuredly
respect the right of the Hermans to regulate
their own affair*. While, then, it is inevitable
that Prnssia should absorb some of the smaller
Principalities, and possible that she may retain,
either nominally or virtually, under lier sway
tlie States she already occupies, we do not
anticipate that she will carry her conquests
further. It is no part of the Emperor Napo
leon's policy, whether or not it he done- of
Oouut Bismark’s objects, to expel the House of
Hapsburg from Germany, or to force it to
elect between its German and non-German
territories, so as to leave no counterpoise to
the power of Prussia in Central Europe. Had
it been so the Emperor Francis Joseph would
not, even at the last extremity, have invoked
his intervention.
Looking only to motives, and judging of
these by the common rules of morally, we
might well pause before contemplating with
anything like satisfaetion the present aspect of
Europe. The pypviuee of the historian, how
ever, is distant from that of the moralist, and if
is as historians that we, being no parties to the
unscrupulous aggression of Prussia, nor re
sponsible for the suicidal obstinacy of Austria,
must strive to interpret the signs of our own
limes. Thus, relieved from all scruples as to
the nature of the agencies employed, wo are
free to recognize, from this point of view, the
dawning of an “ ampler dav ” for the European
family of nations. It would he a shallow con
ception of the causes which liave brought about
this great crisis to imagine that Count Bismarck
and his master, out of a sheer desire to aggran
dize the House of Hobenzollcrn, had conspired
against the Austrian empire and the independ
ence of the minor States, and successfully
availed theipselves of the enthusiasm for Geimari
unity to effect their selfish purposes. How
much truth there may be in such an hypothesis
we do not undertake to say, hut if it were the
whole truth, the supposed plot must have
failed before this. However much they may lie
inclined by national instinct and tradition
to appropriate the territory of their neigh
bors, educated men will not light and die
heroically in a cause no better than robbery on
a grand scale. The Prussian soldiers believe
themselves, rightly or wrongly, to be achiev
ing liberty, as w r ell as greatness, for their coun
try, and in the fact of their so believing we may
read the tendencies of which Count Bismark is
the conscious or unconscious exponent. Ca
vour deliberately guided the stream on which
he was borne along, and Prussia now repre
sents in Germany almost what Sardinia then
represented in Italy. Whether the Prussian
Minister will have the sagacity and moderation
in the hour of triumph to show fOrberance to
wards a vanquished foe, to summon a Ger
man Parliament, apd to identify himself hence
forward with the progress and development of
the nation, is a problem on which it would be
vain to speculate. Whether Italy will know
how to use the splendid fortunes opened to her,
as it were, late in life, is another secret ol' the
future. In the meantime -vye pan hardly err In
welcoming the substitution ol natural lor arti
ficial bonds of union, of settlements founded on
popular will for the arbitrary conventions be
queathed to us by the great war. We arc far
from holding the revolutionary doctrine that
community of race, or language, or religion, or
even of all combined amounts to an indefeasi
ble title to a separate political existence. Such
circumstances are no ipaye than presumptions,
which may he rebutted by higher considera
tions of expediency. But the system wiiieh
treats them as nothing, and keeps up great
armaments to overawe the craving for national
life, is a system alike, unjust and (ami to the
peace of Europe• ami of this system the kill of
Auslikm dominion ip Italy and of Austrian
supremacy in Germany will, hiimuuly speak
ing, prove the death warrant.
A Woman’s Revenue.— The Indiuapolis
Herald of Monday has this paragraph :
A young girl, belonging to one of our best
families, fancying that she had been badly treat
ed by an elder sister, took a terrible revenge.
Procuring a stick of nitrate of silver at a drug
store, she dissolved it In her sister’s wash pitch
er. The young lady performed her morning
ablutions, and was horrified in the epureg of
the morning'to find that her hands had turned,
as brown as thoste df a’mulatto. A look in the
glass .revealed the alarming fact that her face
was the same color. The younger sister now
heartily repents her criminal folly, and would
do anything in the world to remedy the evil she
has caused. Time only can efface the marks of
the terrible bath, and in the meantime the affair
is being kept quiet. Callers arc told that the
young lady is ill of a contagious disease,and she
keeps her room, impatiently awaiting the tedi
ous process of growing white again.
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WAR NEWS.
THE MARKETS.
Farther Point, July 28.
The steamship Peruvian, from Liverpool, on
Thursday, July 19th, via Londonderry, brings
Liverpool dates of July 20tli.
The militany position is unchanged.
Great forces are concentrating on both sides
before Vienna.
The Moniteter says that Prussia Ims consented
to abstain from hostilities for five days, pro
vided that Austria agrees to do tlie same and
give lier discretion on the basis proposed with
in that period.
The news from tlie Great Eastern continues
very satisfactory; about nine hundred miles of
the Atlantic Cable had been paid out.
COMMERCIAL.
Cotton lias declined % of a penny on the week.
The sales ot the week have been 71,000 bales;
to-days’(Fridays) sales are estimated at 12,000
bales, the market closing steady. Middling
Orleans is quoted at Middling Uplands
13%d. Breadstuffs very dull. Corn easier.
Provisions dull. Consols for money,
United Slates 5 20’s, C9«£@7o, Illinois
Central Shares, 77(tJ77j<j; Erie shares,
42^; Bullion in the bank of England decreased
.‘l-17,000 pounds.
The steamer Moravian, from Quebect, arrived
at Londonderry on the 16th, and the City of
Boston, from New York, arrived at Queens
town on the 18th.
The Preston Bankiug Company had sus
pended. The liabilities, at present, are un
known.
It is reported that Austria had decidedly re
fused to accept Prussia’s conditions lor peace.
The Moniteur du Sair denies that the French
Government had any intention of becoming
an armed mediator in the difficulty.
The Prussians had occupied Darustudt.
PEACE CONSIDERED CERTAIN.
THE NAVAL BATTLE.
Halifax, July 80.
The China with advises from Queenstown to
the 22d inst., lias arrived.
Cotton is a }£ to Ljd. higher. On Bat unlay
sales of 20,000 bales Middling Uplands at about
14 to 14’4'd. Breadstuffs inactive. Weather tine.
Provisions flat. Consols, 5-20’s,
70}£@71.
The China’s news about tlie armistice has
been anticipated by the Cable.
Liverpool, July 21.—The annouucement
that Austria lias accepted the proposals for the
suspension of hostilities caused great buoyancy
in all markets. The prevailing opinion, espe
cially among the Germans, being that peace is
almost certain to be concluded and consequent
ly there will be no resumption of hostilities.
The Italian answer had not yet been received ;
there were no reports of any further fighting.
Liverpool July 22d.—In the great naval
light off' Liesa tlie Italian iron clad Re de Italia
was suulc by collision at the commencement of
the battle; one iron clad boat blew up with all
on board amidst the cries of “long live the King
and Italy,” from the crew. Italian accounts
state that the Austrian squadron retired after
one man-of-war and two steamers had been
sunk. A Vienna dispatch says the Italian fleet
was driven back aud was being pursued by the
Austrians iu the direction of Acoua.
It is asserted from Paris that Austria has
consented to retire from the German confedera
tion.
The Paris Bourse was was excited; quota
tions 69.32.
The Observer states that Parliament will be
required at almost the last moment ol' its ses
sion to give its concurrence to the confedera
tion of tlie North American Provinces, including
the plan for the maintenance of the Grandtrunk
railway.
THE AUSTRIANS CLAIM A VICTORY.
A TREATY OF PEACE.
THE ITALIAN IRON CLADS BLOWN UP.
Hr. I«u. p via Aspitlg Kay 2Stli.
The London Times of the J27l.fi says of the
telegraph : “It is a great work. The glory of
the age, and of nations, and they who have
achieved it deserve to be honored as iJCjefac
turs of their race.
A treaty of peace lias been signed between
Austria and I russia. A previous telegram says
that five days armistice between Austria and
Prussia commenced at noon on the 83d.
There was more fighting on the 88d, the Aus
trians claiming victory.
Shaftesbury had protested iu the House
oi Commons against reform. In discussion on
the tarifl, Sir John P.irkington admitted that
England was behind all oilier nations.
In the severe engagement of the 20th, off
the Island of Lissa the Austrians claimed
a victory; they sunk the Italian iron clads, run
ning down one and blowing up three.
— I
From Washington.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, July 23.
John A. Dix has been confirmed as Minister
to the Hague.
Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey, submitted a re
port this morning in tbe House as a minority
of the Judiciary Committc, in the ease of Mr.
Davis. He takes the grouud that much of the
testimony before the committee, tending to
connect Davis with the assassination feat was
false and that lie should, receive a preliminary
hearing to which every man is entitled.
Senate.— This morning a resolution was
passed after considerable discussion, granting
the use of a recently erected wooden building
on Pennsylvania Avenue in Ibis city for any,
lawful purpose, hut especially for meetings held
with a view to the liberation of Ireland,
i The credentials of Harlan, Senator elect from
lowa for six years, from the fourth of March
next, were presented and ordered to lie on the
table.
This afternoon both Houses adjourned sine
die.
THE MILITARY COMMISSION SHOWN UP-
Washiagton, July 29.
Representative Rogers, yesterday made a
minority report from the Judiciary Committee,
showing the perjury anil utter worthlessness of
the alleged guilt of Davis and others in the Lin
coln assassination
DISTURBANCE AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, July 38.
The Radicals held a mob meeting last, night,
which was composed principally of negroes
who went howling through the streets threat
ening violence. The' leading Radicals used
violent and abusive language.
Three negroes were killed.
PHILADELPHIA’DELEGATES.
Savannah, July 28.
The convention of the First District elected
Hon. Wm. B. Fleming and Gen. J. B. Gordon
delegates, and Hon. T. J. McTyre and Col.
E. C. Pendleton, alternates, to the Philadelphia
Convention. Alsr, ratified election of the
Fourth District of delegates and alternates at
large.
CHOLERA AT TYBEE.
Savannah, July 28.
Six deaths and nineteen new eases cholera
occurred at Tybec to-day. N umber of cases in
hospital eighty-nine (89). Total number of
deatffs to date one hundred aud forty-six.
THE GREAT EASTERN NOT HEARD
FROM.
Asrr Bat, N. S. July 28.
There is no intelligence of the -arrival of the
Great Eastern at Heart’s Content, where she is
now fully due.
DELEGATES TO THE PHILADELPHIA
CONVENTION.
Cincinnati, Jnly 28.
C. L. Vallandigham and Judge Gilmore were
appointed, on yesterday, delegates to the Phila
delphia Convention. They will represent the
Third Congressional District of Ohio.
NEW ORLEANS MARKET.
New Orleans, July 38.
Tlie cotton market l* firmer; sales 1,850 ■
bales; Low fiddling, 82@34. _ Bank Sterling,
Gold, SB. New York, discount.
From New York.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE A SUCCESS!
New York, July 29.
The following has just been rcceired:
Heart’s Content, July 28, IB6o.—We ar
rived here at nine o’clock this morning. All
well. Thank God the cable has been laid, aud
is in perfect working order.
Cyrus W. Field.
| SECOND DISPATCH.]
Heart’s Content, July 28.—We are in tele
graphic communication with Ireland. The
cable is in perfect working order.
[THIRD- DIBPATCH.J
Heart’s Content, July 28.—England and
America are again united by telegraph. The
cable is in perfect order. We have been re
ceiving and sending messages through the
whole cable since the splice on the 13th iust.,
off Valentia. Cyrus W. Field.
Heart’s Content, July 27, 9:30, a. m.-The
Great Eastern has just anchored opposite the
telegraph ofllee. The cable was spliced two
hours since on the Mediwa, and will be here in
three or four hours. Whole distance run 1609
uautieal miles; cable played out, 1864 miles;
slack was little less then twelve per cent, abso
lute distance.
Heart’s Content, July 37, 9:10, a. m.—C.
W. Field says the weather was rough, with
heavy squalls and fogs uearly all the time.—
Signals never failed, but were perfect all the
time. He sent a telegraph to Loudon a day or
two since and got a reply in eight minutes.
Mr. Field says there has been riots in Lou
don on aenouut of the refusal of the Govern
ment to allow reform meetings in Hyde Park.
A daily paper has been published on board
the Great Eastern.
From Charleston.
A YANKEE THICK.
Charleston, July 29.
The four prisoners sentenced by the Military
Commission but reprieved by the President,
and whose attempted liberation on a writ ol
habeas corpus occasioned the recent conflict oi
authority between Gen. Sickles anu the United
States District Court, were quietly removed
last night by steamer under guard from Castle
Pinckney. The military authorities refuse to
give any information concerning their present
whereabout. The impression prevails that
they were sent North beyond the jurisdiction oi
the court.
YANKEE FILLIBUSTKRS.
New York, July 30.
The New York World reports the sailing, ol
Thursday last, of a steamer for Mataiuoras,
with a large quantity of arms and ammunition,
including twelve pieces light artillery, for
Juarez’s army. Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace and
Brig. Geu. Stevens, recently of the Union
army, were passengers.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, July 28.
Gold, 150. Cotton steady, but dull; Bales
600 bales; prices unchanged. Southern Flour
steady. Wheat firm ami quiet, but unchanged.
Pork heavy at s3l 50. Lard steady. Sugar
firm. Coffee quiet but firm. Molasses dull.
Naval Stores quiet. Turpentine, 68(3(71. Ro
sin, $2 75@$8 50. Registered Sixes of ’6-S,
10c.; Coupons of ’62,107# ; ditto of ’64,105>£ ;
10-40’s, '.W%; Treasuries, 108%@t04; North
Carolina Sixes, new bonds, 63.
New York, July 30.
Cotton higher, but the effect of European
news is not yet fully developed; quotations,
30@39e. Flour dull. Wheat dull and droop
ing. Pork dull and heavy. Sterling dull at
8%. Sight, JO#. Gold, 4 i#.
MOBILE MARKET.
[Mobile, July 28.
Sales ol cotton to-duy 450 bales. Market un
changed. Middlings, 31 @32.
—. 111
A Lesson to a Scolding Mother.—A little
girl who had witnessed the perplexity of her
mother, on a certain occasion, when her forti
tude gave way under severe trial said :
“ Mother does God ever fret or scold ?”
The query was so abrupt aud startling, it
arrested the mother’s attention almost wuii a
shock.
“Why, Lizzie, what makes you ask that
question ?”
“.Why, God is good—vo' a know you used to
call him the “ Good M'u,” when I was little—
and 1 should like know if lie ever scolded.”
" No, fillUJ .
“ Well, j’,„ he don’t; for scolding al
wav". makes me feel so bad, even if it is not me
m fault. 1 don’t think that I could love God
much if be scolded.”
The mother felt rebuked before her simple
child. Never bad she heard so forcible a lec
ture on the evils, of scolding. The words oi
Lizzie sank deep in her heart, and she turned
away from the innocent face of her little one to
Hide the tears that gathered in her eyes.
BTATKOF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN
TY.—In tho Superior Court. Present, Hon.
James S. Hook, Judge of said Court.
Executors of Turner Clanton j Petition to foreclose a
».i. ! mortgage on real cb
Eliza C. Starr. ) tate, Ac.
It appearing to llie court by tlje petition of tlie
plaintiffs, accompanied by tlie notes and mortgage
. deed that the defendant, ou the twenty-second tlay of
September, eighteen hundred and sixty-live, made and
delivered to one of said plaint ifl’B her lour promissory
notes, bearing date the day and year aforesaid, where
by she promised to pay, on the first day of January,
April, July, and outlie thirtieth day of hteptemher,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to said plaintiff or
bearer, four hundred and fifty dollars in speeie, or the
value thereof in currency, at the maturity of each "ol
said notes respectively, making, in the aggregate, the
sum of eighteen hundred dollars principal, for tin
rent of the Newton House ; and for the better secu
ring the payment of the said notes the said defendant
on the day and year lirst aforesaid, executed and deliv
ered to said plaintiff her deed of mortgage whereby- she
conveyed and mortgaged to the said plaintiff' and his
eo-cxecutors a certain lot or parcel of land with the
improvements thereon situated in the city of Augus
ta, in said county and State, having a front on Market
street of one hundred and six feet mare or less, and of
that width extending two hundred and twenty-seven
feet to Reynolds street—bounded on the North by
Market street. South l>y Reynolds street, East by lot
now or formerly owned by- Charles Carter, and West
by lot now or formerly owned by Sallie Cadle. And
it further appearing that two of said notes, viz: the
tirut due on tho first day of January, and tho second
on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty
six, and now due are unpaid
It is therefore Ordered, That the said Eliza C. Starr
do pay into this Court, on or before the first day ot
the next term thereof, the sum of seven hundred and
fifty dollars hi specie, or the value thereof in curren
cy, at the maturity of said notes, with interest on four
hundred and fifty dollars from the first day of Jan
uary, and on three hundred dollars from the first day
■ ol April, eighteen hundred and sixty six, and the costs
of this proceeding, or show cause to the contrary, it any
she can: and that on failure of the defendant so to do,
the equity of redemption in and to said mortgaged
premises lie forever thereafter barred and foreclosed.
And it is further ordered, that this Rule be pub
lished in tlie Constitutionalist once a month for four
months, or served on tlie defendant, Eliza O. Starr, or
her special agent or attorney, at loast three months
previous to the next term of this Court.
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the
Minutes of the Court.
WILLIAM G. W3IDBY,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court,
_jylß luni4m Richmond County,-Ga.
Siuilliu SiuiilibuH Curnuliir.
H UMPHRKYS’ SPECIFIC
FOR
PREVENTION AND CURE
OF
ASIATIC CHOLERA.
As tlie season advances, and Dysentery, Cholera
Morbus, attended with Fevers are becoming com
mon, a PREVENTION for the ASIATIC CHOLE
RA is a necessity witli every individual and every
family.
In Lite last visitation of Cholera in this country Dr.
HUMPHREYS’ SPECIFIC was regarded, where
ever the pressure on liis time allowed it to he intro
duced, bb the surest PREVENTIVE and most effec
tual CURE given to the PUBLIC.
Os those who used the PREVENTIVE faithfully
only abont
Five Per Cent, were Attacked,
And of cases treated the mortality was
LESS THAN FOUR TER CENT.
Ouo-half ounce vials $1 00
Pookot cases, three 3 qr. vials, and book of direc
tions, complete 3 00
Family eases, three one ounce vials, and book,
complete 5 00
HOMEOPATHIC SYPIIILOIIJS.
ANCHOR SYPHILOID, cures UonorrhoßU, Gleet,
Old Urinary Complaints $2 00
STAR SYPHILOID, (case of three bottlea and
book) cures Recent Syphilis, Chanores, Buboes. 6 00
Sent by mail on receipt of price.
HUMPHREYS’
Specific Homeopathic Medicine Company,
682 Broadway, New York.
STEVENSON & SHELTON,
PLUMB & LKITNEtt,
W. H. TUTT,
niylO-eowfim Agents, Augusta, Ga.
Administratrix’s Sale.
virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary
of Richmond county, will be add, on tho first Tuea
day in AUGUST next, at the Market Houee, in the
City of Augusta, within the legal hours of sale, the
Reuse and Lot on the North side of Broad street, in
what is known as Quality Range, the late residence of
£bza A. Byrd.
’ AMANDA C. OAKMAN,
Administratrix of Eliza A. Byrd.
June 1886. ;eB-law»d
GREAT
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AGENCY AT AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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At the lowest established rales, viz., ns follows
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Will Insure any person against Travelers’ Risk for
Two Days, in the sum of $15,000, with the
Weekly Compensation of sls, in cane
of Disability by Accident.
, as CENTS
Will insure you for One Day against General Acci
dents, including Travelers’ Risks, in tbc sum
of $5,000, end a Weekly Compensa
tion of $25, in case of Disability
Two Dollars and Willy Cenls
Will insure you Ten Days against General Accidents,
for $6,000, with Weekly Compensation of $25.
Wivo Dollars
Will insure you for One Month against General Acci
dents, for $5,000, with Weekly Compensation of $25.
Twenty-Wive I>ollHrs*
Will insure you for One Year against General Acci
dents, in the sum of $5,000, with Weekly
Compensation of $25.
Other sums for all periods at proportionately low rates.
This is the only Company of its kind ever originated
in the South, domiciled in New Orleans, but with
Agencies throughout the States. A reference only to
the subjoined names of Directors and General Board
of Reference is Builicient guarantee to all of its stabil
ity, and must command the confidence of the public
throughout this country:
D I RECTORS.
General ,)s mrs Longstre ft, (Lougstreet,
Owen & Co) . New Orleans
John O. lloliihedok, (llohlrcdge. Pax
son 4- Folsom) .. New Orleans
A. C. Graham, President First National
Bank .. New Orleans
T. I‘. May. United States Treasurer New Orleans
Gen. F. J. llerkon, Corn’ll Merch’t New Orleans
Sam I)kBow, Commission Merchant.... New Orleans
W. O. Graham, Wholesale Grocer and
Commission Merchant New Orleans
J. P. Dillingham, tDillingham 4 Bon
ner, Attorney:!) New Orleans
Everett Lank, Merchant, 22 Magazine
atreet . New Orleans
A. J. Inqersoll Mobile, Ala
Gen. M. J. WkiSht Memphis, Tenn
W. D. Griswold Ohio and Miss. R. R.
Gen. K. B. Nichols Texas
Gen. Robert E. Lee..... Virginia
O. Williams, Secretary New Orleans
GENERAL BOARD OF REFERENCE.
We are kindly permitted to refer to the following
gentlemen in regard to the soundness, stability and
good management of the Great Southern and
Western Live and Accident Insurance Company:
Geii. U. S. GRANT Washington
Geu. B. W. BRICE
I* II- V. LATROBE, E5q......... ~y..... Baltimore
K)1IN J. ROE . St. Louis
ilou. FRANCIS P. 8LA1R........,L... .Vicksburg
PTRBT NATIONAL BANK \ Memphis
Uon. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS Georgia
TEXAS NATIONAL BANK Galveston
ROBERT W. JOHNSON Pine Bluff
riENBY HENDRICKS 4 CO Houston
Gen. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON Richmond,
Gov. B. G. HUMPHREYS Mississippi
A. M. GENTRY Houston
VERMII.YE 4 CO ..NewOrleans
NATIONAL BANK OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK
NATIONAL REVERE BANK Boston
J. C. VAN DUZtfR Nashville
Gon. FRANK CHEATHAM.. Noshvillo
Gen. J. 1,. DONALDSON..... .....Nashville
FIRST NATIONAL BANK Nashville
THOMPSON, MORRIS 4 CO Shreveport
N. SUTHERLAND 4 CO Shreveport
WASHINGTON MoLEAN Cincinnati
Gen. GEO. B. HODGE Cincinnati
CENTRAL^ATIONAL BANK Cincinnati
FIRST NATIONAL BANK Mobile
THIRD NATIONAL BANK Chicago
Liberal deductions from Premiums will be made on
Bir and Twelve Months Policies, when renewed direct
with Home Office.
Address, “ LOCK BOX 400, POST OFFICE.”
Mag. TnOMAS J. RHKTT,
Os South Carolina,
General Supervising Agent.
■arwe are now prepared to issue Policies and
Tickets of all descriptions from all Hotels, Steam
boats, Railroad Offices, leading Merchants, and an
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JOHN J. COHB|V * SON, Agents,
~ Augusta, On
Thos. Pioxiame, Gen’l Traveling Agent.
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