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CON STTTUTT 02S"ALIST.
AUGUSTA, GTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 22,1866.
Our New York Oorrespondence.
New York, August 16,1866.
It lms been the boast of the Southerners that
they have gone through a crisis of unparalleled
severity, and uniformly preserved their integ
rity and honor ns a people. This, even the
more reflecting Radicals have always stood
ready to admit. But Southern men must now,
pause and ask themselves whether they have
not been degraded by the course of those who
have pretended to represent them in the Phila
delphia Convention. Fidelity to friends is a
cardinal virtue, and cannot be neglected without
dishonor. During the progress of the late war
there were a few men at the North who boldly
vindicated the cause of the South ; who denied
the right of the Federal Government to make
war upon States. These men incurred a vast
amount of odium, and many of them suffered
severe penalties for their courage and candor.
In the course of time the Southern people were
compelled to lay down their arms and accept
the terms of a conqueror. They are invited to
a convention, purporting to have for its object
the restoration of the Southern States and peo
ple to their rights and privileges in the Federal
Union. These delegates not only consent to,
but champion the exclusion from the delibera
tions of the Convention, of those men who
were and remain the vindicators of the South
in her darkest hours. Is this manly and honor
able ?
The Radicals avow that they received great
aid front the blacks in the war against the South ;
and they claim that they cannot honorably con
sent to a policy of reconstruction which does
not look to the conferring of civil rights upon
these blacks. For this point, (ostensibly, at
least, though I have no faith in their sincerity,)
they quarrel with the President, sacrifice the pa
tronage of his administration, and put themsel
ves in thg opposition. Are not Mr. Vallandigbam
Mr. Jesse D. Bright, Mr. T. H. Seymour, Ex-
President Pierce, Mr. A. C. Dodge, Geo. 11.
Pendleton, and many others whom I could
name, who have been practically proscribed by
the Philadelphia Convention, as worthy of as
much consideration from Southern representa
tives as the negroes of the South receive from
the Radicals V If the South consents to such
an open repudiation of obligations, as this Con
vention has exacted, she is indeed dishonored.
The Radical requirement embraced in the latest
constitutional amendment is ijiocuous in com
parison.
The Convention has adjourned this afternoon;
and the net result is the betrayal of that view'
of Southern Rights and dignity of which Jef
ferson Davis, under John C. Calhoun, was and
is the proper exponent; its proceedings may be
summed up in the following
NOMINATIONS FOR 1808.
♦’or President,
WILLIAM 11. SEWARD.
For Vice President,
JAMES L. ORR.
President Johnson has already discovered
that he has been betrayed in the house of his
champions. It is true the above nominations
were not formally made, but they are known
to have been agreed upon by the power behind
the throne. This inglorious result marks the
Convention as a fizzle, and plunges the South
into greater uncertainty than ever. For the
South, l take it, will never support the above
ticket; and it has no strength at the North.—
No, wc shall have to go back to where we have
ever found just principles boldly vindicated.—
By the course pursued towards Mr. Vallandig
ham, that gentleman is made inevitably the
leader of Democracy, and it is fortunate that
the duly of leadership falls to a man who is so
thorough in his conception of constitutional
liberty.
THE CABLE NEWS.
The morning papers receive full reports of
European news ; but the facts are so bedeviled
with headings and dashes, that one finds it diffi
cult to make out matters. This morning I threw
down one of the “ popular ” dailies in disgust,
and betook myselCto an old fogy journal, and
there I had no difficulty. The Associated Press
of this city will hereafter take 500 words daily,
on an average, at, a cost of $1,250 in gold, being
accorded half price, I believe. This will be so
divided up, however, that the cost to each pa
per will be comparatively light.
ANOTHER CHANCE FOR MAWWORM.
A ruffiau, who deliberately cut a comrade’s
throat for some trifling offence, is to hanged to
morrow ; and we have the usual amount of de
praved sympathy in his behalf. He will be
tuade a hero and martyr before he is under the
sod. No wonder crime increases among us.—
The passion for notoriety will lead one to mur
der, if no other means to that end offer them
selves, and these sympathetic Mawworms do
all they can to stimulate that direction, to the
passion. If there be an argument against
capital punishment it is, that its abolition would
deprive the weak-minded of opportunities to
exploit their ill-judged sympathy. A cut throat
in hand-cuffs and dungeon does not stimulate
heroic platitudes.
BUSINESS MATTERS.
We have a general improvement in prices
and greater activity in trade. The announce
ment by Secretary McCulloch that he will pay
off about sixty millions of currency obligations
threatens a perfect avalange of unemployed
funds. There has been a large advance in Gov
ernment Securities to-day, and dividend paying
railway shares are better. During the past two
days, there has been a diligent picking up of
cheap lots of cotton, and the sales in that time
•amount to 7,000 bales, closing firm at
for Middling Uplands. Cotton goods arc firm.
Flour has advanced over a dollar a barrel in the
past week. There has been a good deal of rain
in the Northwest, which Interfered with har
vesting the spring wheat, and much of it will
no doubt be injured. But the speculation
looked like a “ break ” at the close to-day.
Provisions are firm. Groceries tend upward.
Willoughby.
Tobacco.— Twenty-eight years of observa
tion have convinced Dr. LitcUel that few per
sons cau continue to consume (smoke) daily 20
grammes of tobacco without their vision or
memory becoming impaired. There are many
smokers, be urges, who may long resist these
clfects, but the pernicious consequences,though
slow in manifesting themselves, are however,
none the less certain.
This probably comes from Hall’s Journal of
Health, which might truthfully add, says the
-Mobile Times, as the experience of all genera
tions so far back as the time of Moses, that few
persons can continue to consume (eat) daily
fourteen ounces of bread, without experiencing
a decay of the physical and mental faculties.—
There are exceptions—such as old Parr and
others—but the results, though slow in mani
festing themselves, arc, however, none the less
certain. We would not, however, on this ac
count recommend entire abstinence from bread,
any more than we propose to ourselves entire
abstinence from tabacco.
The latter may help one over the inevitable
track in somewhat less average time than the
trip used to require before the days of Sir
Walter Raleigh, but the increased speed leaves
the passenger less time to do mischief, and it
is certain that makind have become moral since
the introduction of tobacco. Compare the late
campaign in Bohemia with the Thirty Years’
War, and even the horrors of the French Revo
lution with the massacres of the Albigenses—
and remember that the French in ’93 only took
snuff; since they took to smoking, compare ’30
and ’4B with ’93. The only war, indeed, since
tobacco was fairly introduced, which has rend
ered its conductors infamous, has been that
waged by the North against the South, and it
is notorious that the agitators who brought on
the war were as violent in their crusade against
the Virginia weed as against slavery, and if you
encountered one of them with his arms full of
Abolition tracts for distribution, he was certain
to have a Counterblast to Tobacco in his pocket.
Sale of the First Bale— The first bale of
new cotton brought to this market was sold
yesterday, by Messrs. D. P. & R. Ellis, accord
ing to note published yesterday morning. It
was from the plantation of Edgar Dawson, Esq.,
and classed as “good middling.” It was
“ knocked dowon” to Mr. L. 8. Wright at 30
cents per pound, the purchaser also paying the
Government tax of three cents per pound.
After selling the bale of new cotton, Messrs.
Ellis “put up” » bale of the old crop, hand
somely and securely packed, and also classing
“good middling.” It, too, was bought by Mr.
Wright at 80 cents.— Cel. Enq.
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Our Paris Oorrespondence.
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Paris, July 81,1866.
Editor Constitutionalist:
NICKOLSBURO.
Sir : It was at the Schloss of Niekolsburg
that Napoleon I. rested after the battle of Aus
terlitz, now nearly sixty years ago. It is at the
same Schloss, belonging to the Austrian Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, that King William the
Conqueror has taken up his abode after his nu
merous victories, and where the Austrian pleni
potentiaries have signed the armistice and the
preliminaries of peace.
THE TERMS OF PEACE.
Austria is definitively excluded from the Con
federation of States north of the Main, which
will be under the jurisdiction of Prussia, who
will moreover have the command of the com
bined armies of the federation, and which will
represent these States at foreign courts. The
Duchies of the Elbe, with a part of Hanover
and Hesse, will be annexed to Prussia. Aus
tria has consented to pay a wr.r indemnity of
seventy-five millions of florins.
The armistice has bee* prolonged to a month
from the 2d of August next, and it is hoped
that war will not be resumed.
ALARMING IMPRESSIONS.
Thus we sec Prussia absolute mistress of the
north of Germany, at the head of an immense
array, which will ever be a menace for France,
says the pessimists. We shall not even get the
long wished for frontier of the Rhine, which
might have guaranteed us against a European
coalition. The union of the north of Germany
is accomplished, and everything leads us to be
lieve that the southern States will soon or later
join the north, so that Germany will some day
form a great and powerful empire.
Napoleon the 111., in abandoning Austria,
and allowing it to crushed, has been paving the
way to his own abasement.
Many affirm that the peace of Nicliolsburg is
but a sham peace, to which Austria only con
sented that she may have time to breathe, and
that as soon as she has amply,provided herself
with the needle gun and the improvements in
artillery, she will begin the war all over again.
Such is the opinion of mauy who are behind
the scenes, and who pretty well know what is
goin-r on. These alarms may be premature,
and we really know but one thing, which is,
that Prussia has entirely crushed her rival, and
that she has placed herself in the first rank
among the powers of Europe. The part of
mediator, by the Emperor of the French, is
over, and we must now patiently await the
issue of the negotiations now going on amongst
the diplomatists of Austria and her allies.
AUSTRIA AT HOME.
Austria, which has been defeated in every
battle and encounter with Prussia, cannot be
said to be much happier at home, as general
discontent is manifested at the way in which
the war has been carried on ; and the Kingdom
of Hungary, from which so much had been-ex
pected, has shown itself very lukewarm during
the late war, and is now clamoring for its Con
stitution. However, the Imporial prestige of
the House of Hapsburg has so fallen, at home,
that the municipal council of Vienna thought
itself justified in remonstrating with the Em
peror, and the Jews of the Capital refused to
equip a regimeut of volunteers.
The people also grumble at the men chosen
by the Government to command the army,
who has shown their thbrough want of capaci
ty to defend the country. It is reported that
at in the late battle before Presburg, which was
suddenly stopped by the armistice, the Aus
trian troops would, in another hour, have been
short of ammunition.
The Hapslmrgs are decidedly like the Bour
bons, of whom it was said “ they learn nothing
and forget nothing ,” for Franz Joseph, instead
of listening to the complaints of his people,
has determined to tighten the reins of Govern
ment, and has suspended every personal liber
ty in the Austrian Empire. It may truly be
said that the Hapsburgs are on the road to ruin.
BLOCKADE OP FRANKFORT.
The Preussischer-Staats-Anzeiyes has been
taking great pains to announce to the world
that the free city of Frankfort, which is being
thumb-screwed by the Prussians, has nothing
to complain of. As the King and Von Bismark
have, according to their accouut, acted with
considerable leniency towards the money bags
of the mein , who have for tin; last few years
been doing everything lo insult and annoy the
“ great King." Who will have his “ pound of
flesh ” and will not abate one hreutzer of the
contribution of seventy-five millions levied
upon the Frankfortcrs.
His majority did not condescend to receive the
deputation headed by Herr Barron Von Roth
schild.
MONEY DOWN AND SILENCE IN THE BANKS,
is the word of command from the Prussian
camp.
The cruelties committed by the leathern hem
lets on the inoffensive inhabitants of Frankfort
recall the atrocities committed by the lathers in
France during the invasion of 1814, it is hardly
possible to believe that such things could take
place in the 19th century.
POLITICAL HOLIDAYS.
“Now that the preliminaries of peace have been
signed and that there is every likelihood of our
having a little respite, our political men are
eager to be off and enjoy the otium mm dignitate.
Our Emperor left on the 28th for Vichy, in Au
vergne, where he contemplates taking a long
rest after the fatigues and cares he has of late
undergone.
The Empress and the Prince Imperial remain
at St. Cloud until the end of next month, when
they will join the Emperor at Biararritz. It is
not yet certain whether the Emperor will spend
his fete day on the 15th at Paris,'or at the Camps
of Chalons. It is genarally rumored that His
Majesty left Paris in a very poor state of health,
and that he requires much rest and quiet, which
it is impossible for him to get whilst in Paris.
ANDERSON FOR EVER.
Much more joy has been manifested in Paris
at the victory gained by our old enemies the
English over the waves of the Atlantic. Paris
will now soon be in direct,communication with
New York. We hear that the Knight of Ring,
telegraphed from Valencia to Newfoundland,
and requested an electric spark might be sent
him to light his segar with. The laying of the
Trans-Atlaniic Cable is indeed a great triumph
and is far superior to all the victories of the
Prussians.
ROTHSCHILD A DRAMATIC AUTHOR.
The last week has been pregnant with events
of every kind. The armistice—the laying of
the Cable, which we think is pretty well for
one week, however this was not enough, and
wonders will never cease. As it is now an
nounced that Baron James Rothschild, lias be
come a dramatic author. The rich financier
however, does not bend so low as to produce
his works, in au ordinary theatre, that would
be expecting of him—but it is at the palace of
Ferriere, that his piece entitled. Baron and
Financieryt\\\ be performed and by amateur
artists, amongst his family and friends.
A PARIS SCANDAL.
Philippe the celebrated assassin has at last
had justice done on him, he has suffered the
extreme penalty of the law, and all is said.
Another scandal has now arrived. A few days
ago the strollers in the Boulevard,near midnight,
were surprised to sec a vast quantity of jewels
flung out of a window of the Cafe’ de la Patrie.
A crowd collected, and as usual, a great many
different versions of stories were spread about
explaining this strange occurrence. The real
history is as follows : A young man belonging
to a good family, but reduced to poverty, set
sail, leaving his mother and only sister at
Paris. Having by dint of exertions amassed
an immense fortune, he returned a few weeks
ago to Europe, and on seeking for news of
his family discovered that his mother was dead
and his sister had disappeared. After many re
searches he found that his sister had been
seduced, and was alas! now one of the frail
beauties with which Paris abounds. The
brother made use of a strategem to obtain an
interview with his lost sister. He invited her
to supper, and it was then, finding that she
turned a deaf ear to his entreaties, to abandon
her course of life, that in his dispair he tore off
her numerous jewels and other ornaments and
flung them out of the window.
Very Dutchie. —A Dutchman from the
backwoods of Pike county, says the Milford
Herald, whose wife, it seems, does not feel
strictly inclined to fulfill her part of the mar
rage contract, entered one of the Milford law
offices not long since to take advioe in regard
to getting a divorce from his “worses” half;
Wht being unable with his limited knowledge of,
the English language, to explain his business,
he made it plain by saying “he wanted to get
one of dose tings vot you no stay mit her any
more.”
The Health of Mr. Davis. —Approaching
Old Point Comfort, I could not keefp from
thinking of the proud heart beating there with
in those walls like a caged eagle, and I knew, J
top, fid**’ entirely reliable, thajkJjff
health what had been r th
that his life was gradually but surety
away. Mark my prediction! The only tm>'
Mr. Davis will ever have will be at the bar of
Eternal Justice. He will never live to be tried \
by an earthly tribunal. He is further on the
road to the grave than the outside world has
any idea of; and, ere long, the telegraph will
announce to the press the sufferings of Jeffer
son Davis are at an end, and he will be better
off— Cor. Memphis Bulletin.
The Direct Tax of 1861.—1 t is true, as we
stated on the authority of a special telegraphic
report yesterday, that a clause of the new Tar
iff bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury
to suspend the collection of the United States
land tax. We have the bill before us, and copy
the 14th section:
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to sus
pend the collection in any or the States here
tofore declared in insurrection, of the direct tax
imposed by an act of Congress, passed August
5,1861; entitled An act to provide increased
revenue from imports, to pay the interest on
the public debt, and for other purposes, until
January 1, 1868.
Approved July 28, 1866,
Signs that have Failed.— Friday, says the
New Era, the moon changed. Friday night the
sun went to bed in a cloud. Yesterday morn
ing the heavens were cloudy all over. The at
mosphere felt damp. The corn on our left foot
sent pains tingling up our backbone. There
were rheumatic flashes in every joint and muscle
of our body. The poplars showed the white of
their leaves. The wings of the old turkey gob
bler drooped. Flies bit. Mosquitoes swarmed
and sang as never they 6ang before. The half
wilted flowers turned their thirsty throats sky
ward. The grass straightened out its warped
and twisted blades. The jay bird squawled.
The crow cawed. The hen< cackled. The roost
ers got up a diminutive crow, and everybody
said it was going to rain, and it didn’t rain.
Gen. Humphrey Marshall.— This massive
soldier and distinguished statesman passed
through Louisville, Ky.. a few days sim e. He
will spend the hot months in Kentucky with
his family and friends, returning to New Or
leans and the practice of his profession in the
autumn. He is in the enjoyment of robust
health.
General Marshall is a man of enormous pro
portions, and his extrrordinary size hss given
rise to many a good joke. When in the Con
federate army, and commanding the East Tenn
essee district, Prentice of the Louisville Jour
nal, used to say, that the rebels were widening
Cumberland Gap to allow Humphrey Marshall
to pass through.
The “ Ex-P. G.” Holden says that he signed
the ordinance of secession with a heavy heart.
We presume, says the Wilmington Journal,
that it was equally heavy on the 22d, when he
thus glorified over its passage :
Thus was the anniversary of the Mecklen
burg Declaration of Independence GLORIOUS
LY celebrated by the delegates of the people in
Convention assembled. North Carolina has
been slow to act, but she has acted finally.—
We think she has acted WIBELY from first to
last. Henceforth her destinies are with the
States of the South, and she will make good
her act of the 20th May, 1861, with her LAST
DOLLAR AND HER LABT MAN, if such a
sacrifice should be required at her hands.
Please Dont. —On a recent occasion, one of
our friends was coming up from New York by
the North-western railway, and it appeared, as
ill-luck would have it, that there sat opposite to
him a gentleman with remarkably long legs,
which he wits not very particular about digging
into our friend’s knees. On the arrival of the
train at Birmingham, the long-legged man re
marked to his neighbor, “I shall get out and
stretch my legs here a bit, as we wait ten
minutes.” “For goodness’sake, sir, don’t do
that!” said our friend, “for lam quite sure they
are too long by half already.”
Anecdote of Washington. —The only man
of whom any record is kept who was not awed
by the presence of the Father of his Country,
was James Byrnes. He owned a piece ol land
which Washington desired to have included in
the plan of Federal capital. Mr. Byrnes flatly
refused. Unused to opposition, Washington
turned upon him and said, as he only could say
it, “ Mr. James Byrnes ! what would your land
have been worth if I had not placed this city on
the Potomac ? ” Byrnes was not crushed ; but
undismayed, coolly turned to him and said:
“George Washington, what would you have
been worth if you had not married the widow
Custis ?”
The Venerable Thurlow.— The New York
Citizen tells us of the venerable Thurlow of the
Times ■■ “ The best and boldest swimmer at
Long Branch last Sunday was the venerable
Thurlow Weed. Disregarding the rope, and
disregarding all warnings about the ‘ under
tow,’ he struck out squarly, as if for the desti
nation ol Valeutia bay, in Ireland, but thought
better of it when a good deal less than half
way across, and came back with lusty strokes
to attend the Philadelphia Convention.
Nirto-Glycerine. —A method of rendering
nitro-glvcerine non-explosive without perma
nently destroying its properties, has just been
discovered. It is not unlike Mr. Gale’s method
of mixing gunpowder with powdered glass, and
consists simply in mixing the mtro-glycerine
with mctalic alcohol or wood-naptha. So long
as the two substances remain together the com
pound is perfectly innocuous and non-explo
sive. When the nitro-glyeerine is required for
►use, it is separated by washing the mixture in
water, by which the naptha is set free.
An Absconding Partner.— The Montgom
ery (Alabama) Advertiser of the 3d says: Ru
mors were rife on the streets on yesterday of
the departure for parts unknown of one of a
well known grocery firm of this city, having in
his possession funds to a large amount, the
property of others, which in the course of his
business he had been entrusted with. The
amount in possession of the absconding party
is variously estimated at from $9,000 to $30,000.
Something in a Name.—Not long since, a
farmer in county, Va., lost his wife, and
out of love for her memory, called his estate
“Glenmary.”
A neighbor having met with the same afflict
tion, and equally desirous of keeping before
him the image of his dear departed, followed
his example, and this farm is now known by
the name of “Glen-Betsey.”
The Pall Mall Gazette states that “a little
while since it was announced by a clergyman
that ‘a glass of sherry, with a biscuit, at 11 A.
M., half a pint of bitter ale at an early dinner,
and another glass of sherry in a cup of arrow
root at supper,’ would be found efficacious in
the prevention of cholera among the laboring
classes .”
A French journal tells of the vengeance of
an owl after a young lad had killed its young.
It watched faithfully for him during five days,
and finally, seeing him approach, pounced upon
him .and with a stroke of the claw tore out his
left eye. _
An oyster dealer in Baltimore has made so
much money in buying and selling the bivalvu
var luxury that he has purchased a large island
in the Chesapeake bay, and is putting up a resi
dence thereon that will cost half a million of
dollars.
General Grant, according to the New York
Citizen , is a Fenian sympathizer. It also says
that “ Grant’s detestation of Seward is refresh
ingly and amusingly undisguised. It bubbles
up and runs over on every proper and improp
er occasion.
A writer called at a printing office and ac
cused the compositor of not having punctuated
his poem, when the typo earnestly replied,
“ I’m not a pointer— I’m a setterA
The editor of an up-country paper hay *
vertised for a room in the poor house f'£ cvba|
self and the publisher until his '
prepared to pay up. One
A( T rruan woman who arrived at Be/tJM
111., irom the old country, was
chest coutining $10,300 in gold and silver
some scamp whom she had hired to convey her ■
baggage.
The Mayor of a western town proposes to
kill half the dogs in the place, and tan their
bides with the bark of the other half.
declaration of principles of
THE NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION.
National Union Convention now as
the city of Philadelphia, composed
Xlrlu 08 from evef y Btate aud Territory in
Shir admonished by the solemn lessons
X,renin. , las * five %™ rs ' u has leased the
iuiKsrie* ° ler of thc Universe to give to the
," People ; profoundly grateful for the
Hu,*! P* lo ® - desirous as are a large majority
ts n*V i c punt r 3Tuen in all sincerity to forget
au f ~° f i give the past; revering the" Con
stitution as it cones to us from our4nncest
ors j regarding the Union in its restoraffon as
more sacred than ever; looking with deep
anxiety into the future as of instant and continu
ing trial, hereby issue and proclaims the fol
lowing declaration of principles and purposes,
on which they have with perfect unanimity
agreed.
Ist. We hail with gratitude to Almighty God
the end of the war and the return of peace to
our afflicted and beloved laud.
2d. The war just closed has maintained the
authority of the Constitution with all thc pow
ers which it confers, and all the restrictions
which it imposes upon thc General Government
unabridged aud unaltered ; and it has preserv
ed the Union, with the equal rights, dignity
and authority of the States perleet and unim
paired.
3d. Representation in the Congress of the
United States and in the Electoral College, is a
right recognized by the Constitution as abiding
in every State, and as a duty imposed upon the
people, fundamental in its nature and essential
to the existence of our Republican institutions,
and neither Congress, nor the General Govern
ment, has any authority or power to deny this
right to any Slate, ortowithhold its enjoyment,
Constitution, from the people there
4tlmfoV pi ea,lu P° n the people of the United
if4gct to Congress as members thereof
none but men who admit this fundamental
right of representation, and vho will receive to
seats therein loyal representatives from every
State in allegiance to the United States,. o»»iiect
to the constitutional right of each House” to
judge of the elections, returns and qualifica
tions of its own members.
sth. The Constitution of the United States
aud thc laws made in pursuance thereof, ore
the supreme law of the land, anything in the
Constitution or laws of any State to the con
trary notwithstanding. All the powers not con
ferred by the Constitution upon the Genqrai
Government, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States, or to the people
thereof; and among the rights thus re
served to the States is the right to prescribe
qualifications for the elective franchise therdn,
w r ith which right Congress cannot interfere.
No State or combination of States has the
right to withdraw from the Union, or to ex
clude, through their action in Congress or
otherwise, any State or States from the Union.
The Union of these States is perpetual.
6th. Such amendments to thc Constitution of
the United States may be made by thc people
thereof, as they may deem expedient, but only
in the mode poiuted out by its provisions ; and
in proposing such amendments whether Jty
Congress or by a Convention, and in ratifying
the same, all the States of the Union have >n
equal and an indcfeasable right right to a vokc
and a vote thereon. J
7th. Slavery is abolished and forever prohi
bited ; and there is neither desire nor purpose
on the part of the Southern States that it shoujil
ever be re-established upon thc soil or witliki
the jurisdiction of the United States; and t fir
enfranchised slaves in all the States of the Un
ion should receive, in common with all the in
habitants, equal protection in every right if
person and property.
Bth. While we regard as utterly invalid, aril
never to be assumed or made of binding sores,
anv obligations incurred or undertaken in mat
inst war against the United States, we hold tile
debt of the nation to be sacred and inviolably,
and we proclaim our purpose in discharging
this, as in performing all other national obliga
tions, to maintain unimpaired and unimpcaclied
the honor and thc faith of thc Republic.
9th. It is the duty of the National Govern
ment to jecognize the services of the Federal
soldiers and sailors in the contest just closed,
by meeting promptly and fully all their just
and rightful claims for the services they have
rendered the nation, and by extending to fthose
of them who have survived, aud to the widows
and orphans of those who have fallen, the most
generous and considerate care.
10th. In Andrew Johnson, President of tfi’e
United States, who, in his great office, lias
proved steadfast in his devotion to thc Consti
tution, tlie laws and interests of his coun
try, unmoved by persecution and undeserv
ed reproach, liaviug faith immeasurable in
the people and in the principles ot the
Government, we recognize a Chief Magis
trate worthy of the nation and equal to the
great crisis upon which his lot is cast, aud we
tender to hint, in the discharge of his high and
responsible duties, our profound respect, and
assurance of our cordial aud sincere support.
(From the Houston Telegraph.
The Restoration of Oivil Government to
Texas.
We publish below, as a matter of general in
terest, the telegrams which passed between Sec
retary Bell and Mr. Seward, in relation to the
assembling of the Legislature and the inaugura
tion of Gen. Throckmorton. We have been
furnished them by Secretary Bell:
State Department, i
Austin, Texas, July 2G, 1866. )
Hon. IV. H. Seward:
Please Inform me by telcgraurwhcther or not
it is the will of the President that the Legisla
ture of Texas shall meet on the 6th day of Au
gust, and Gen. Throckmorton be inaugurated
on the 9th ? Will the Legislature be permitted
to assemble without the inauguration of the
Governor elect ? If so, what ain I expected to
do? You will perceive, by reference to your
dispatch of July 17th, that my instructions are
not definite. My solicitude increases as the
time for the meeting of the Legislature ap
proaches. Your obedient servant,
James H. Bell,
Secretary of State of Texas.
War Department, >
Washington, July 28, 1866. \
To James H. Bell:
Your telegrams of the 21st and 20th of July
received. The President directs me to say that
the Legislature of Texas will assemble and' or
ganize on the 6th of August, without hindrance.
The Governor elect, Mr. Throckmorton, will be
inaugurated on the 9th, without hindrance.—
When you have reported the organization and
inauguration to this Department, by telegraph
or otherwise, the Provisional Governor will be
relieved, and the Government will be trans
ferred to the elected authorities of Texas. Un
til the receipt ot such notice by yourself, or by
the Governor elect, the condition of affairs will
remain in the Provisional Government, as here
tofore, except the organization and inaugura
tion aforestated.
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State.
Just out of Their Holes—Pour Confed
erates Come in and Surrender.— The Peters
burg Index, of Wednesday, says the serenity of
the office of the commanding officer of this
post was agitated on yesterday, by the appari
tion of four Confederate soldiers, who gave the
names and “desciiptive lists” as follows:
Anthony Monkas, Co. E, 52d Georgia Infan
try, 3d Army Corps, A. N. Y.
Thomas Wells, ditto.
James Brinberter, ditto.
Allan Tewksberry, 43d Louisiana, ditto.
A more ragged set of mortals had never ap
peared before the Colonel during all the deal
ings he has ever had with the “ragged rebels”
of Lee’s army. Tewksberry was a sort of wal k
ing illustration of original patchwork. His
clothing had been tied, and sewed, and stuck
together with string, and thread, and tkorns,
until there did not appear a solitary square inch
upon it which had not been tied up, sewed up,
or stuck np, in some way or other. His com
panions were not quite as badly off, one laving
a pair of blue Yankee pantaloons, with only a
half a dozen rents in it; another hiding the
raggedness of his grey pants with a flowing,
though ribbonry, Yankee overcoat, ard the
other making his decency apparent by conceal
ing the defects of his upper garments with an
old oil-cloth fly, awfully bedaubed will. mud.
Tewksberry stated to the Colonel that he
ar.d his party stopped on the Apporiattox,
about seven miles above the city, after tie evac
uation of Petersburg, for the purpose, at first,
of resting; that they stayed longer than they
expected, and were cut off. They then made a
vow to live on that spot, and never go i*>me or
give up until the Confederacy was completely
annihilated. They sought out a cave on the
banks of the river, which, at that poinb is very
after some little industry, succeed-
3 ’ ereC t\Tig for themselves a most c-Jmforta
blei'iftJe home. Here they lived uponfish and
gaik - and occasionally roasting ears during all
last summer, and upon bread made Pf corn
they had gathered from the corn field 4, and an
occasional pig they fonnd without a mother, in
their rambles during the winter. TBIi spring
and summer they lived as they did last sum
mer, but recently, hearing from an Ad negro
man that the Confederacy had undoubtedly
“ gone up,” they concluded to quit tl|h barba
rian life and surrender. They marcled to the
city yesterday morning, with their rackets and
accoutrements, stacked arms in front of head
quarters, sent in word that they were the rem
nant of the army of Northern Viigiuiv, and
that they wished to surrender upon the condi
tions accorded to the main body. Obi. Milton
cordially assented to their request, gave them
transportation to their homes, and bade them
adieu.
The illustrious four roamed about town for
a short time, had new suits of clotliug given
them, and, after being made about tail drunk,
embarked on the Southern train for their
homes. \
Man Shot bt Thunder !—The’Statesville
American learns that a young man if the lower
.portion of that county was shot in nc leg by a
tpeal of thunder, one night rcconsv, lodging
Right or ten large shot in the limb. He heard
kb report, and instantly felt a smaiing in his
Es a \d upon examination, most nfirvelous to
found that instead of a Eilgle bolt of
hac * been struck ly veritable
■ _ u i‘uhot, which were extractedhy a surgeon
■<bf tt/ph flce * w h° > 8 entitled to flnplicit confi-
WJ renders this mysterious iftiiir more pe-
R|/*r and significant of sometfeng, to finite
r Aiflds incomprehensible, is that: he wounded
"man was shot while in a watennaon patch!
The Emperor of Austria sent pis 300 horses
and 150 carriages to Ofen for entity. He could
open a first clrss livery stable if things go mnch
harder with him.
¥
Augusts, Ga., -W*st 10,1866.
Dr. R. A. T. Ridley, LaGraryefGa. :
Mt Dear Sib : I have reaeivojL this moment!
yours of the 4th inst., as ( *-of the Con
vention of the Third District,
informing me of my now™ 1
as a delegate for the to the
Philadelphia Convent ion, 1° Jffmble o“ the
14th instant. M/mj
I see, by the newspapers, havo been ap
pointed by all the other “lstriN, Conventions,
to the same position. I feel deeply sensible of
the honor conferred upon, and the confidence
reposed in, me, and I avail myself of this
opportunity to express my sincere thanks. I
regret, however, that the knowledge of my ap
pointment has come too late for me to make
known, in time for an alternate to supply my
place, that it is impossible for me to attend the
proposed Convention. I should do so cheer
fully, if it were compatible with surrounding
circumstances, in which the public have no
interest.
Thc Southern States having decided to respod
to the call for such a Convention, it should be
with cordiality and AM delegations. It is for
'this reason, that I regret iny inability to attend
and that it is too late for my place to be filled.—
The object sought to be accomplished is so im
portant to the public welfare,that every doubt of
success, by the mode adopted, should be sacri
ficed to an honest and faithful experiment. For
what true hearted patriot does not feel that it is
incumbent upon him to do all that he can to
restore the harmony of the States, upon the
basis of the Constitution ? So far as the Con
vention shall seek to accomplish this, it will
have my hearty sympathy, aud I shall hail its
success, as among the proudest and sublimest
achievements of patriotism and. statesmanship.
The restoration of harmony between the
North and South, aud of representation to the
latter in Congress, is a work which must be
done by thc people of the former. They are
the triumphant party; the Government is in
their hands ; we are excluded from all partici
pation in its deliberations aud actions; we can
not be otherwise; uutil they consent. The is
sue is for them to decide; the battle for the
Unjon and the Constitution must be won or
lost, at the North, without any practical partici
pation on our part. Moral aid aud comfort are
all that we can render, lienee, I am forcibly
impressed with thc conviction, that our strong
est aud best policy is silent, but dignified sub
mission to the necessities of our condition, leav
ing the responsibility entirely upon the North
ern people to determine our fate and the future
destiny of the Government. When wc com
plain we are toll that we arc sore-headed and
not sufficiently humbled. When we urge our
rights under the Constitution, we are told that
we have none—that we have forteited them.
When we make required concessions, it is
but the pretext for further exactions. Wc can
neither say nor do anything that is not convert
ed into a weapon against us. Hence, the poli
cy of entire quiescence, I have thought, is best.
We can sustain the President; we can sustain
the Conservative men of the North; we can
stand ready to perform our part in the Govern
ment, whenever we shall be permitted ; wc can
obey thc Constitution aud laws; we can be
just and magnanimous to the freed men. Be
yond all this, what can we do ? In all this,
there is moral power—the eloquence of sub
mission to wrong, and iujustice which, sooner
or later, will reach the hearts of good men, in
all lands. For myself, I cannot but feel appre
hension, lest the contracting of party alliances
at this juncture, however laudable the purpose,
may destroy this moral power; for to consti
tute au efficient element, in such an organiza
tion, wc shall be compelled, most probably, to
pay for it in thc form of concessions of princi
ple aud abatement of self-respect.
I fear something of this sort, in connection
with the Philadelphia Convention. The plat
form promulgated by those who called it, re
quires a surreuder of principle, on our part,
which, if insisted on by the Convention and
yielded by the South, cannot fail to produce
great mischief, without, so far as I can discover,
any corresponding good. But if our delegates
shall be welcomed as peers; if the Convention
shall organize a party, whose object shall he to
restore the Union, upon the basis of the Con
stitution, as it is, and if fidelity thereto and to
the laws passed in pursuance thereof, shall be
the only test of loyalty, then immense good
will have been accomplished. It is in this view,
that, in my opinion, the experiment is worth
making. It is for this, I hope, not sauguincly,
but earnestly, in the trembling faith, that wise
and prudent counsels may guide its delibera
tions. But why speculate as to the probable
fruits of the Convention ? It is close at hand
and we shall soon know its results. It is every
patriot’s prayer, that they may be most happy
and benign—thc beginning of a career of peace
and harmony lor onr distracted country.
1 bavo tlio honor to be
Your obedient servant,
Hebsciiei. V. Johnson.
Stolen Southern Jewelry—Where to Look
for it.
The following is an extract from a letter from
New York, published in the Baltimore Episco
pal Methodist, of the 4th instant:
A Southern lady, on a visit to this city, went
to worship in one of the up town churches.
Soon after an elegantly attired New York lady,
of high social standing, entered the same pew
and remained during the service, after which
the Southern lady called her aside into the ves
try room, and in the presence of the rector,
with Whom she was well acquainted, thus ad
dressed her : “ Madam, Jdo not wish to of
fend, you but that shawl you arc wearing be
longs tome.” (The shawl was a superb one.)
The New Yorker protested, and declared there
must be some mistake. “ If,” says the South
ern lady, “ you will examine a certain corner
you will see my initials worked in it, and the
rector knows my name very well.” The cor
ner was found as well as the initials. The
Southern lady then remarked, “ That ring you
have upon your finger is also mine, and if you
will take the trouble to examine the interior
you will see the same initials engraved in the
ring.” Similar movements as above described
took place, and with similar results.
Turning to her again, the Southern lady said :
“ Madam, that bracelet you have on is mine al
so, and by prossiug a spring ou the inside it
will unclasp and show you my portrnit.” The
New York lady did as requested, and there was
the lady’s portrait. She promptly returned the
ring and bracelet, as she was convinced beyond
the power to controvert it, that they were the
property of this Southern lady, and remarked
as she did, “They are yours, and you are wel
come to them, but as I wore the shawl to
church I must beg the privilege of wearing it
home again.” The Southern lady acceded, of
course, and they exchanged cards. The shawl
came back in due time, but the New York lady
had probably obtained the articles in such a
manner as to render it too unpleasant to di
vulge. No more was said about it. Moral:
If Southern ladies want to know where their
articles of missing jewelry and wardrobe furni
ture are, let them attend some fashionable,
“up town,” New York church, and if the men
want to know what has become of all their fine
horses, shipped North by army officers and
“ bummers.” let them spend np evening in
Central Park.
[From the owi.
A Catechism.
That is to say, an Instruction to be Learnt of
Every Child as soon as she be able to speak.
Q. What is Society ?
A. A number ol persons assembling them
selves together for the purpose of obtaining
amusement of various kinds.
Q. What arc these assemblies called ?
A. Parties.
Q. Into how many sorts may parties be divi
ded,
A. Into five sorts —namely dinner parties,
musical parties or concerts, dancing parties or
balls, evening parties or drums, and afternoon
parties or kettle-drums ; besides two parties in
a large house at Westminister.
Q. Define a dinner paty ?
A. Dining under difficulties.
Q. A musical party or concert ?
. A. An assembly where conversation espe;
cially flourishes under the enlivening influence
of vocal and instrumental noises.
Q. A ball ?
A. A small empty room devoted to the rausj
cular exercises twice the number it was origi
nally intended to hold.
Q. A drum ?
A. A place where every one goes for the sake
of seeing who is there, and indulge in a little
playful scandal.
Q What docs the prefix “ kettle” signify ?
A. It is a Chinese derivation, and refers to
the beverage usually provided at those meet
ings.
Q. What are the chief objects of society ?
A. To see and be seen ; to talk gossip and
hear scandal; to make acquaintances and lose
friends ; to study the fashions ; to exhibit the
last acquisition from Paris, and to criticise the
same in others.
Q. My dear child, it is very well to know
and be able to repeat All this; but tell me, what
must you do to fit yourself for society?
A. I must learn to be moderate in my appe
tite ; to be polite especially to my superiors in
rank; to give up all natural feeling, and study
to appear unconcerned when my toes are trod
den upon. I must learu to dance, to sing and
to play; to be quick at making conversation
with those whom I wish to cultivate.
Q. How must you best succeed in (he last
uamed object 9
A. By diligently reading the papers, espe
cially the Owl; by going to all the theatres,
picture galleries, flower shows, conjurers, ra
ces and cricket matches, and by picking the
characters of all my acquaintances to pieces.
Q. What should be your final end and aim
in all this ?
A. To be called “ awfully jolly,” and to hook
as large a fish as possible,
[So as children are come to a competent age,
and can say this Catechism in English and
with understanding, they shall ho further in
structed in the truths therein contained, and
shall bo brought to the Queen for presentation.]
Death of an Editor.—Francis Hall, Esq.,
for many years the publisher and editor of the
New York Commercial Advertiser, died on Sat
urday last, aged 82 years, after an illness of
many months. He was a printer by trade, and
one of the founders of American Tract So
ciety, only one of Dr. Spring,
survives. Mr. Hull „ many years, a
Vice President of t lk, Society,
and an officer of— 'lonization
Society. Bk,-
Information ®*NkJfccrs, of
Monroe, Union coun»J^^^®“ es Information of
his son, J. A. Ro|™}JLIFO was a soldier in Rip
ley’s Brigade, on
heard of just prior to The battle at Averasboro’,
in this State, after wnich he was missing. Any
intelligence concerning him will bo gratefully
received by his distressed father. Will the press
please circulate this notice ?
Sentinel
Lines to aDead Babe.
Sweet dew drop of a summer’s morn,
How short hath been thy stay ;
Thou wert too pure to wander o’er
Life’s dark and troubled way.
Let noue repine for tliee, sweet babe,
Tby home is with the blest;
’Twcrc siu to wish thee from the boon
Os thine eternal rest.
Those little smiling lips
Bear witness of thy bliss ;
As though an angel stole thy breath,
And blessed thee with a kiss.
The Proposed Tunnel under the English
Channel.
Mr. Hawkshaw is making a sensation about a
tunnel under the English Channel. As he is a
solid and safe engineer, this old project is now
not visionary. It was first suggested by Math
ieu, a French engineer, about the end of the
last century. In 1802 the plans of it were shown
to Bonaparte, who was then First Consul, aud
to the Institute. As France and England were
then at peace for a short time, it was hoped
that the work might be done. Charles James
Fox said to t ßonaparte, “This is one of the
great things which we can accomplish when
united.”
The records of the plans have disappeared;
but the late Mons. Cordier, Professor of Geolo
gy in the Museum at Paris, had a recollection
of it which is as follows: It was to be a sub
terranean road, formed of two arches or vaults,
one.above the other, describing in their longi
tudinal course an irregular line, the highest
point of which was at the centre of the strait.
The lower vault was a drain lor the upper one;
and it discharged into reservoirs at each end.
In the upper tunnel was a paved road, lighted
by oil lamps suitable for diligences drawn by
eight horses. It was to be ventilated by iron
chimneys sunk through the water, and held in
place by earth and rock thrown into the bed of
the channel. An eminent French engineer said
of this scheme; “At the commencement of this
century the moral sense of the two nations was
no so completely developed as to unite them
in a civilizing work such as this. A sanguinary
war succeeded the treaty of Amiens. Then fol
lowed forty years of peace, during which the
great leaders sank into their graves ; and an era
of conciliation was inaugurated, and a generous
and conciliating feeling prevailed.”
Since the plan of Mathieu three others have
been proposed by French engineers. One is to
join the two countries by an isthmus, with
openings barely sufficient to accommodate
navigation, and culverts to allow the necessary
flow of water. Tlio next plan, by Dr. Pay erne,
was a tnnnel, to be made by laying on the
bottom of the channel a solid foundation of
rock and stones well cemented, and on this
floor to build up a covered way, thc work to be
done under diving bells. Next Messieurs Frnn
cliot and Tessie proposed to sink an iron tube ;
but to this scheme was opposed the practical
difficulty of an uneven surface of the bed of
the strait. The next was by Mons. Favre, for a
tunnel formed of a coveriug of timber and
thin iron plates and masonry, built up in the
sea and closed with iron valves. All these
schemes were projected without much knowl
edge of the nature of the ground under the
straits.
The first practical attempt to grapple with the
difficulties was made by Mons. Thome de Ga
mond, who, in 1857, presented to thc Emperor
an elaborate study of thc whole question, and
proposed the construction of a tunnel from
Dover to Cape Grisnez, accompanying his re
port with detailed drawings of the structure,
and geological charts of the bed of the channel.
He proposed a tunnel arched with stone, whose
external are was to be 29 deg. 3 see. radius, and
22 deg. 9 sec. high. In thc lower part was to
be a conduit for drainage, and above this a solid
road for two lines of railway; and on each side
a raised footpath for those w’ho were inclined
to travel on loot. It was suggested that, a sec
ond tunnel might be built over the first, so that
the passenger aud goods (raffle might be sepa
rated—it being presumed that a single roadway
would be insufficient for both; but as thc cost
of a double line would be great, Mans, de Ga
mond proposed to leave it for posterity ~r o]
vide whatever additional aecomuioiations thov
may need. At each end w as tobe a Rhal [f^
r; a ,r, 0 /r p r cnger - and to mid-channel, on
the shoal of Yatne, was to be a tower for cn
trancej and around this tower was to be au ar
tificial island, for the accommodation of ship
rwl est ' lnate d cos t of the work is about
ffoj,uuo,uuo; and the time required for it was
. six years.
The New Breech-Loader for the French In
fantry.
The present war, says the Constitutionnel, has
drawn public attention upon the question ol
portable fire-arms. In fact, the public have be
come infatuated with the Prussian gun, not
withstanding its defects, which have hindered
France from adopting it. We have had an op
portunity of examining, during the past lew
days, several new systems, some of which were
more ingenious than practicable. One, how
ever, appeared to us to unite the greatset num
ber of advantages in solidity and simplicity, as
well as beiug practical and economical. It was
the system of M. Jarr, who, since 185.9, has de
voted himself to profound studies in order to
perfect breech-loading arms. His weapon—
pistol, carbine, musket or lowling-piece—is a
sort of light yet strong, revolver.
Id rovolvava tho«r]i,i.Rr Tor tho im
adherent to the barrel around which it revolves,
and although worked upon a very simple plan,
is not without inconvenience. In this instance
the cylinder is replaced by a flat plate which can
he taken away or put back at will. The weap
on of M. Jarr is composed of two distinct parts,
First, the weapon itself, with the barrel, stock
and hammer; and secondly, the barette, or
moveable breech, containing the charges or cart
ridges.
In using this weapon, the barette , or movable
breech, is first charged. It is composed of six
chambers for the cartridges, but which can be
made long or short, and consequently can be
adapted to the firing of few or many rounds.—
The loading is accomplished npart f-om the bar
rel and hammer, and it is, therefore, without
danger of accident. Once charged the barette
may be put into the pocket like a box ot cart
ridges, and instead of one barette only, there
can be two or three, or ns many as you wish,
and all charged beforehand. When going to
use the weapon one of these barettes , or mova
ble breeches, is placed by a simple and rapid
movement in the place reserved for it between
the barrel and the hammer, and the cartridge
can be discharged in an instant, and when all
• are fired, the barette, is removed, and another,
already charged, put into it 3 place, and so on.
This weapon of M. Jarr has also many other
advantages. It is not quite so heavy as the or
dinary musket, and tho mechanism is simple.
The cartridges are so placed as to be always pro
tected from damp, while the barrel can neither
become greasy nor overheated, because the air
rushes through the moment the barette is re
moved to be replaced by another. The in
ventor undertakes to oouvert all the arms to
his system without much expense.
Such are the advantages which this entirely
new system presents, and which has just been
definitely adopted by the Government for the
arming of the French infantry.
Can Men Flt.— At the last meeting of the
.lEronautical Society of Great Britain, tiie Duke
of Argyll expressed the opinion that “if ever
we obtain the power of traveling through the
air, It will not be by the flight of individual men
but by the production of machines capable of
containing a number of men, move and sustain
themselves.” In this opinion he Is supported
by several European and American balloonists.
Mr. Wenhaiu, an English aeronaut, contends
that an attentive study of the modes of flying
adopted by different birds must form the basis
of sound aeronautic science ; and a variety of
recent experiments indicate that gas is not to
bo the lifting power of “ the balloon of the
future.”
The boldest theory yet put forth is that of M.
Nadar, the French aeronaut, whose curious little
book, called “ The Right to Fly,” we have al
ready noticed. Nadar insists that “when lie
shall have determined upon doing so, man will
fly like the bird,” and that the more powerful
the apparatus employed for mechanical flight
the lighter relatively will it become: in other
words, the principle of aerial navigation so that
the machine employed for tho purpose shall be
heavier than thefair. Ho cites, as an illustration
of this theory, tho hold flight of the eagle, which
soars to great heights “by reason of the great
width of its wing 6, which arc in proportion to
the weight of its body,” and contrasts It with
the timid flight of a sparrow ora pigeon thrown
from a balloon at an elevation of some hundreds
of yards. “Throw the bird out,” he savs
“ and you will see it either falls like lead, ‘or
turns over and over, till, in its descent, it
reaches the donser portion of the atmosphere
where its small size permits it to sustain itself
aud to re-employ its ordinary movement.” All
the flyers, properly so-called, ho adds, are the
largest, the thickest, and consequently the
heaviest.
Nadar has been severely snubbed by the
French Academy for what is regarded as his
Impracticable theorizing; hut he returns the
bard knocks he has received with interest, and
evidently full of confidence in his own powers.
“Who would be bold enough to swear,” he
asks, “in this age of scientific miracles, that
man’s weight (the eternal obstacle to the flight
of man by order of the Academy) will not he
the very weight turned to account by man him
self in the air ?’’ Who, indeed ? The idea of
crossing the Atlantic by steam was ridiculed,
the telegraph filled men with nmazeraont, and
the laying of a cable under tho oeeau was pro
nounced an impossibility—but all these have
been done. The new cable may work, and M.
Nadar may fly, and the result would bo as ro
markable as other scientific solutions of difficult
problems.
Murder will Out.— The Indianapolis Her
aid of July 17 says ;
“ A man was arrested in Jackson, Miss., on
the l6th,for crime committed thirteen years
ago at New Orleans, at which place ho kept a
ooffee house. During 1850, two foreigners
from Havana entered the house, Indulged free
ly in liquar, became boisterous, and showed
logo quantities of gold about their persons,
which aroused the demon of avarice in Dubley,
the proprietor, who then supplied his guests
whith drugged liquor until they bcenme Insen
sible, when he beat them both on the head with
a cndgel, and, securing the gold, dragged the
bodies to the river and threw them in, suppos
inglifeto be extlnot. They were discovered with
in two minutes by a fisherman, who succeeded
in resuscitating one, but the other was com
pletely dead. The one living was rendered in
sane by the blows received, and remained crazy
for nearly one year. When he regained his
reason the murderer had sold out, left the city
aud, until the day of his arrest, his whereabouts
were unknown, when he was seen and recog
nized in the street by the foreigner, who had
him arrested. Dubley now awaits a summons
for his departure to New Orleans.”
BY TELEGRAPH,
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
From ISTew York.
STANTON TO BE MINIBTER TO SPAIN.
CANADA PREPARINO FOR THE FE
NIANS.
THE CABLE IN DANGER.
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.
SPECIE FOR THIS COUNTRY.
GREAT FIRE IN JERSEY CITY.
THE CHOLERA.
THE FIRST BALE.
BANK STATEMENT.
SWEENEY ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO THE
FENIANS.
New York, August 19.
A Washington special dispatch states that
Secretary Stanton will soon be appointed Min
ister to Spain, and that General Steedman will
be mado Secretary of War.
An Ottawa (Canada) special says that the
Canadian authorities continue their prepara
tions to resist the Fenians. The troops at Que
bec were ordered to be in readiness, and 10,000
canteens were being manufactured.
A letter from Heart’s Content, of the 7th
iust., states that the shore end of the cable got
fouled with an anchor of a coal vessel on the
Otli, but was relieved by a diver.
There were 17 new cases and 8 deaths in New
York on Saturday, the 18th instant.
The shipment of specie to Europe from the
United States since January 1 exceeds $52,000 -
000.
New York, August 20.
The loss by the fire at Jersey City, yesterday,
reached nearly two millions of dollars. Ten
or twelve lives were lost. Fourtccu vessels,
twenty thousand barrels of oil, and a large
amount of cotton and tobacco, were consumed.
Most of the tobacco belonged to the Italian
Government.
Among the vessels burned were the schooner
Barrett, bark Ivertrade, Bremen ship G. H.
Vitchen, Dutch brig Lambert, and several
schooners and lighters.
Fourteen new cases of cholera occurred in
Brooklyn yesterday.
The first bale of new cotton arrived yester
day, from New Orleans. It is a line specimen
and speaks well for the quality of the crop now
picking.
There were only three lives lost by the fire in
Jersey City.
The bank statement shows an increase of
loans of $3,008,000; a decrease of specie, $878,-
000 ; legal tenders, $2,000,000.
Gen. Sweeny has issued an address exhorting
Fenians to avoid forming party political asso
ciation not connected with the cause of Irish
freedom.
From Europe.
THE UNITED STATES AND THE BLOCK
ADE RUNNERS.
New York, August 20.
(Per steamer David at Farther Point.]
Allemania and England arrived out on the 9th.
An affidavit made by Mr. Mallins, clerk to
Howard, Dolman & Co., solicitors in London
to United States Government, having been pre
sented to the court of admiralty, setting forth
that seven steamers, blockade runners, laying
at Liverpool and standing in the name of Fra
zer, Trcuholm &Co., were lawful property of
the United States, having belonged to Confed
erate Government at the termination of war,
the Admiral issued a warrant for twenty thou
sand pounds against each steamer and to pos
session. It is alleged that three of the vessels
are subject to a pending chancery suit by the
United States against Prioleau, the others bona
fide property of Frazer, Treudolm & C'o., and
one other belongs to the builders, having never
been registered. The Times says that the
speech of King of Prussia has not made a favor
.able improanjaiaia !><*»•;,*, <.VeiiHinnntf t-liOflo wl*o
most approved, of his ajpeoess. The absence
of any allusion to France or other foreign
powers offends Parisians.
From Washington.
MORE CONVENTIONS.
MEXICAN NEWS.
Washingtom, August 20.
The Soldiers’ Convention at Chicago will be
exclusively Union soldiers who endorse the
President. It is proposed, however, at a later
date to have a convention composed of North
ern and Southern soldiers.
The Mexican Legation at Washington had
received advices that the French had evacuated
Monterey and Saltillo, which are in possession
of the Liberals. Escobedo, with one thousand
Mexicans, expect to be before San Louis Potosi
within two months.
From Chicago.
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION.
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Chicago, August 20.
A destructive Are has occurred here, destroy
ing Hanhorn, Murray & Co.’s tobacco ware
house and the adjoining building, occupied by
G. &C. W. Church, Cady Tieman and others.
Loss, $500,000.
The passenger train on the Michigan South
ern railroad was thrown off the track near
Hallsville, this morning. Twenty-three persons
-were seriously injured.
From St. Louis.
THE CHOLERA.
St. Louis, August 20.
There were upwards of 600 deaths from
cholera during the past week, exclusive of
deaths at quarantine.
From Oincinnati.
PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.
Cincinnati, August 20.
There were 60 deaths from cholera ou Satur
day and 54 yesterday.
U. S. VESSELS ORDERED TO THE COAST
OF MEXICO.
Washington, August 19.
In accordance with the President’s Procln
mition of the 17th inst., declaring null and void
Maximilian’s paper blockade of Matamornsand
other Mexican ports now in possession of th(
Juarez Government, the Navy Department hat
detached two men-of-war to be stationed at tin
mouth of the Rio Grande. The commander o‘
the Pacific squadron has also received orders t<
send two men-of-war to Mazatlan nnd Guaymiu
to protect United States interests in that qunr
ter.
PROCLAMATION FROM PRESIDENT
JOHNSON.
Washington, August 19.
The President has issued a Proclamation, m
during that the insurrection which heretofore
existed in the State of Texas is at an end, nnd
is to be henceforth so regarded in that State, ar
in tlie other States in which the said lusurrec
tion was declared to be at an end in the Procla
mation of April 2,1566. The President furthei
proclaims that the said insurrection is at an
end, and that peace, order, tranquility and civil
authority now exists in and throughout th<
whole of the United States of America.
CONVENTION OF SOLDIERS.
Washington, August 19.
A meeting of officers and soldiers met last
night at Williard’s Hotel, at which It was de
cided to hold a Convention of soldiers, North
and South, at Chicago on the 17th of Scptem
bcr. A committee was appointed to draft n
call which will be issued during the week.
Generals Stcedman, Emory, Custar, and other
prominent officers were present.
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STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS.
New Yobk, August 20.
Arrived—Steamers Britanuia, from Glasgow;
Albermarle, Niagara nnd Washington from
Richmond.
Foreign.
(BY THE CABLE,]
THE LONDON MARKET.
IMPORTANT FOREIGN NEWS.
London, August 18—Evening.
Annexed are the official closing prices of to
day. Consols for money, 88%. United States
Five-twenties, 68%. Erie shares, 42%. Illinois
Central Bhare,s 75%.
Liverpool, August 18.
Cotton market has been quiet to-day at un
changed rates; sales amount to 8,000 bales; Mid
dling Uplands, 18%d. Breadstuff market is
firm, except for Corn, which is a trifle easier ;
mixed Western, 265. 9d. The provision market
dull. Pork inactive.
Berlin, August 18.
A bill is under discussion in the Prussian
Chambers which has for its object the annexa
tion to Prussia of the Kingdom of Hanover,
the Electorate of Hesse, the Duchy of Nassau
and the City of Frankfort.
Paris, August 18.
The Emperor Napoleon denies having enter
tained any design of annexing the territory of
Belgium to France.
Prague, August 18.
The Peace Congress is in session, and nego
tiations are making favorable progress. The
ratifications of a treaty of peace will, it is ex
pected, be exchanged in ten days.
London, August 18.
There is nothing of importance to report in
British politics.
LATEST FROM MEXICO.
m New Orleans, August 20.
Rio Grande advices of the 12th report Esco
bedo in Monterey on the sth instant.
On the 4th Cortinas took Reynosa from the
Liberal commandant and pronounced for the
French.
General Douay left Saltillo for Monterey on
the Bth with 4,500 meu.
Bazainc is at San Louis Potosi sending rein
forcements.
A CHARGE AGAINST CUTHBERT BUL
LITT.
Washington, August 19.
A special to the New York Herald asserts
that Cuthbert Bullitt, of New Orleans, has been
guilty of misconduct in office, and that the
President will remove him.
CHOLERA AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, August 18.
There were twenty-six deaths from cholera
yesterday. The scourge has reached the country
parishes.
New Orleans, August 20.
There were 28 deaths from cholera Saturday
and 148uuday. The disease is decreasing in the
city, but spreading along the Louisiana river
coast.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, August 18.
Cotton less active, but prices unchanged;
sales at 34% to 35c. Flour dull; common
grades of Southern drooping; ales 350 bar.
rcls at $lO to 15 50. Wheat easier and good de
mand. Corn closes steady. Oats a cent better.
Pork closed heavy ; sales 8,500 barrels at $32 56
to 32 87 for new mess. Whisky dull. Rice
dull. Molasses quiet. Sugar firm; sales 600
lihds. Cuba at 10% to ll%c. Coffee steady.
Gold, 49%.
New York, August 20.
Gold, 48%. Exchange quiet at 108%. Cotton
firm at 34%@36%.
New York, August 20.
Gold, 48%; Five-twenties, 110; Seven-thirties,
106%. Cotton firm ; sales 1,500 bales Uplands
at 34% ; Orleans 36%. Flour quiet and firm;
Southern, slo@sls 50. Wheat, 2@2c. bet
ter. Pork firmer at §33 87. Lard firm at 18%
t3}3l. Sugar heavy. Coffee firm. Naval Stores
quiet ; Turpentine, 08@70. Rosin, $2 87@$8.
NEW ORLEANS MARKET.
New Orleans, August 18.
Cotton unchanged ; sales to-day 900 bales.—
Gold, 40%. Sterling, 59.
New' Orleans, August 20.
The cotton market is unchanged. Low Mid
dling. 32(®33c. Gold, 146.
MOBILE MARKET.
Mobile, August 20.
Cotton —Sales to-day 350 bales ; Middlings,
30@31 cents ; market quiet but firm.
Augusta Market.
August 20.
COTTON.—There is a firm feeling in the
market. We hear of sales of 130 bales for
local consumption. We quote: Middling, 28c.;
Strict Middling, 29e.; Good Middling, 30c.
GOLD.—Brokers buy at 140%, and sell at
148.
SILVER-188@142.
SECURITIES—DuII.
EXCHANGE—Par.
1 HB .
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They cure Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint.
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They cure Cramps and Cholic.
They purify and invigorate the System.
They cure Headache, Constipation, and Bili
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They require no change of diet.
They instantly relieve distress after catiug.
They make the weak strong, the languid bril
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Around each bottle.
Try them, and be Cured.
The Local Editor.—Passing along the
street, yesterday afternoon, we met a gentle
man with a bright little boy by liis side. As soon
is the little fellow caught sight of us, he attrac
ted his father’s attention by pulling at bis coat
tail, and pointing at us, said :
“ Oh, pa, there goes an editor 1"
“ Hush, my son,” said the parent, “don’t
make sport of the poor man ; God only knows
what you may come to yet.”
Such was the experience of Charlie Kirk, of
the Louisville Courier.
Madame Bonaparte, ividow of the late Je
rome Bonaparte, sister-in-law to Napoleon 1.,
■ind aunt of the present Emperor of France, re
siding in Baltimore, met with quite a painful
accident on Monday. She was descending tho
stairs of her residence, when, by a misstep, she
fell forward, breaking oue of the small bones in,
her right wrist and bruising her forehead.
W ilkes County Agricultural Club. —We
learn from our able exchange, the Washington
Gazette , that “ old Wilkes” lias now a regularly
organized agricultural club. Dr. W. M. Jor
dan is President; Captain G. G. Norman, Vice
President, and Thomas W. Callaway, Secretary.
Among the reccut “inventions” in France
which have been brought to light by the recent
discussion on the needle gun, is one which
(Ires twenty balls a minute, and lias a musical
box iM the butt, thus doing away with the ne
cessity of regimcutal bands.
Seeing is Believing. —ls ladies avbo do not
, use the fragrant Sozodont will compare teeth
with those who do, they will sec in an instant
more rcasous for adopting it than can be com
posed into a noivspaper paragraph.
Smart Bor.—“ Ma,” said a little boy, “why
is a postage stamp like a had scholar ?” “ I
can’t tell, iny son.” “ Because it gets licked
and put in a corner.” “ Susan, put that boy to
bed.” “
One of the very latest styles of ladies’ hats
now worn is called the “ butter dish.” They
arc a cross between a snapping turtle’s shell
and a wash-pan, and are “ so nice.”
The Late Murder in New Jersey.—A
colored man was arrested on Saturday night on
suspicion of having murdered the Hon. George
Raymond, on his farm, at Woodbury, N. J.—-
The murder was perpetrated a few weeks ago
and created intense excitement all through flie
section of the State in which it took place. De
ceased, formerly United States Consul to Brazil
was found with his throat cut in a room in
which he had been sittiug reading. Tracks
made by the supposed murderer were discov
ered in a corn field near the house.
Fin*.— The residence of Mr. John A. Heard
in Wilkes county, was consumed by Are on Fri
day of last week. The origin of the fire is un
known.