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\VBBVB4D4Y MORMJiH, J6HK 7
TUX JtC DITM O 9 THE SOl'iH
1 be afcJication of Jimeo tbe 2nd an-l the suc
cession to the throne.of William of Change, will
' ever be regarded b j intelligent Englishmen as
one of tbe moat fortunate event* in their na
tional history. The long series of frauds and
perjuries as well as oppres ion-3 that had m\rk
od the administration of tho Stuarts, had
thoroughly satisfied the English people that
their continuanoe in power was wholly in com
patible with the limitations of a constitution
al monarchy.
The event has justified the wisdom of their
conclusion, and the propriety of their revolu
ticnary movement. All that is most illustrious
in modern British history—the Bill of Rights
the union with Scotland—the firm establish
ment of the Protestant religion—the const li
dation of their vast Colonial empire -the mari
t.m i supremar y of England—tbe Reform Bill
of lt>32 which first puigod the nation*! repre
sentation from the impurities of Old Samm
end its congener ß— these measures wtdeb have
enriched and enjoblcd the English >ealru be
youd “ail Greek or Roman fame,” are the
leg tlm.tte ftbits of the Rtvolntion of 1688
Yet there were thousands at tho time who re
gretted the overthrow of tho Stuart dynasty,
and who locked wl b dL-favor on tbe new
regimo.
For more than a half century there were
J too bites—partisan) es the exiled monarch and
of his sou and heir, Charles E 1 ward—who drag
ged out miserable lives in foreign lands, or
luiked in the rural districts-of England or the
tytoUffh Highlands All this while they were
an evil leaven In English politics. They fo
mented the rebellions of’ls and’ls, end in the
latter years of Queen Anas foisted on tbe coun
try tho ministry of Harley and Bolincbrofee.—
They looked to St. Ger t ains rather than to St.
James, and boasted of their prowess at Cullo
den and Preston Pans, while in the same breath
they depreciated tho splendM triumphs of
Blenheim and Raraillles.
But the Jacobites are no longer kuown hr cur
tout History. Victoria is os firmly seated on
the throne, as though the Pretender had never
txUtedf The renowned October Club drank their
lust bottle and adjourned sine die long years
ago, tho village curates and tbe non-juring
Bishops who once eloquently declaimed on
the Divine right of Kings, new sleep in their
dreamless graves and have been succeeded by
anew lace of clergymen, who p ssoss quite as
much godliness and far more political wisdom.
Jo tine, the species Jacobite once so formid
able to the house of Hanover, is forever extinct.
We have indulgtd in this historical resume
because it will illustrate one feature in the
coming civilization of the South. We consider
It as morally certain that an immense majority
of tho Southern people will iu twelve months
become zealous supportors of tho Federal Gov
ernment. For a brief soaoon, there will be
some degree of restleasnees, and even positive
disoomfort under tho political and social
change just consummated. But that man is lit
tle acquainted with the philosophy ol history
when applied to unsuccessful revolutions who
imagines that any large number of our peo.
pie will long continue to chorlsh their past or
pueent reseutinout*. Never to be angry was
a bravery of tbe Stoics which belies some of
the noblttbt impulses of our manhood. But on
the other band, it is alike wicked and foolish to
prolong our indignation wheu its only effect is
to render ourselves miserable. A few mouths
of returning commercial prosperity and of
vsioO and equitable government, will do much
to efface the bitter memories of sectional de
feat and failure. Our old men will resolve to
make the best of th-e situation and cling more
closely to the InglesldS because of their late
experience of tho evils of civil wr.r. Our
young men Instead of organizing gn rilla
binds and planning future rebellions, will like
the Athlete of'old, gird themselves for a more
earnest struggle aft f the rewards of wealth
and the prizes of distinction. While all this
may be confidently expected of ninety nine
hundredth? of our population, it is likewise true
that we also shall have our Jacobites, who will
bo life long enemies of the existing order.
Very few of this class Will come from the
ranks of those armies which upheld the for
tunes of the late Confederacy ami Ist the car
riage of tho battle field. They will be mainly
couijvosed of disappointed officials—impover
ished aristocrats, aud secession rowdies whose
former occupation will be no longer profitable.
There may be a few of a better class who, from
mistaken patriotism, will uever be satisfied
with the re-estabHshuient of Federal suprema
cy. These, wherever they nicy be found, will
Improve evuy opportunity to damage the Gov
ernment and its friend*, They will continue
to dream of tofolgaintervention, and the land
iug of a French brigado on our coast would bo
balled as nu omen of deliverance. Uninstruct
ed by the past they will persist in regarding
State sovereignty as a political ' tuism, and tho
light ot secssaiou as a constitutional safeguard
against Federal encoachmeuis.
Nor will they allow themselves to believe
that any possible good can result from a res
toration of the Union and tho triumph of Ame
rican nationality. Our agricultuse may
thiive beyond, precedent—our manufactories
may multiply a thousand fold—our roramer. e
may whiten every sea—our population may
iucroass to fifty millions in a single life-time—
the true Jacobite wi.l bo blind to all these evi
deuces of progreteive grandeur and glory. He
will still donuißce the Yankee as a poltroon
and Boston as the “Mo her of Harlots;’’ ha
will still swear by the memory of Calhoun aud
still interpret the Constitution in tho light ot
the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of ’#B
uud ’9:i.
We seriously fear that this is a oiass of in
curables that no remedy will ever reach. The
wiser course we think, is to let them indulge
their wayward humor without restraint or mo
lestation. A powerful government can afford
to be magnanimous and no real advantage
will accrue to the country from a policy which
might secure to them the honors of p dltlcal
martyrdom. Like the Jacobite of English his
loiy, they will pass away and. the sorrows and
sacrifices which the whole nation has borne,
will be .forgotten amidst the splendors of a
.guodfii civiiiutlou than the world .has yet
witnessed. i
FiFTKKN D*aw N*ORK>3 IN ON* Pit* Cl*
Sunday fifteen dead negroes were found in thi
river bel&V"®W|*r witftfarthe spiOTTif ft
hundred yard*. They were lodged in drift
wood aud along the banks of the river. The
Telegraph says no marks of violence we» re
potted as having been found npen any o'them.
The bodies were buried on tho banks of the
river where they were found. Nothing what
ever is os yet known as to how th«y ome to
their death
THI£ (.ATI CIVIL WAK.-I < * UKaiUTS-ITS
PHILOSOPHY.
The great struggle Is ended ; the mustering
j of p >werful armies ; tbe st-rn array of hostile
j battalions meeting cn die field of strife ranged
I under rival btnnerw ; the shock oi amps ; a’l
j this is over. The cioud ess splendor of a sky
of peace beam* upon the whole Republic—
“ Grim visag'J war has smooth’d hi* wrinkled
front.”
We may now estimate the results of tbe tre
mendous convulsion which so lately shook the
continent. We may fifu-.lv the philosophy of
that great struggle, which for four years tested
the strength of a government, admitted tu day
to be the most power! u! on the globe. That
Htrugglo was not the result of chance. It was
no transient outburst of popular passion. No
gathering of the people on the Aventiae mount
to confront the patricians of Roms. No up
heaval ofa political system afflicted with slight
social disorder} It wa* something deeper than
alt this. There was a siguifiemee in the move
ment too important to suffer it to be classed
with any mere popular commotion prompted by
impatience with existing forms oi government.
It took its rise from eiuses as profound rs tbe
principle* which lie at the foundation of the
government. It was the culmination of a dis
pute that grew out of conflicting elements in
corporated in the very structure of our politi
es! system ; a dispute that for nearly half a
century bad threatened the existence of the
Republic,
Nearly fifty years since, the question ot .ad
mitting anew slave holding State into the
Union was discussed ia Congress. Mr. Jeffer
son, then living in retirement at his loved
Mouticello, was startled by the angry violence
of tho disputants. He wrote to a friend that
tho tones of the discussion, at that time raging
iu tho halls of Congress, smote his ear “like
the sound of afire bell at night.’’ Tbe fierce
controversy was lulled for a time, by tracing a
line o/ demarcation between white labor and
slave labor along the parallel ol latitude 36
deg 80 min. It became an historical bound
dary. It was a luminous trace where the spir
it of faction lost itself la the pure flame of pa
tiiotism. Even Mr. Calhoun gave in Ire adhe
sion to it. In the evening of his life, that emi
nc-nt statesman looking out upon the expand
ing territory of the Republic, expressed his
satisfaction at tho adoption of that line. Ho
wished it to stand. Ha declared that above
that parallel of latitude slave labor could not
be profitably employed.
Indeed, it seemed that nature has Indicate
it as the boundary beyond 'which slavery was
not to pass. But the restless aud insatiable
spirit of party leaders could not be cor tent
with such a limit. They insisted that all the
Territories should be open to labor, and
that a line of exclusion was a rnaik of pe
proaoh. Cbngres* was prevailed on to abolish
the well established, long recognised, histori
cal ’compromise line. The act vis fatal to the
peace of the Republic. The results have added
deeper emphasis t) the wise admonition : ‘ Re
move not the ancient landmarks’’
Then came tho great struggle for ascendancy
between the advocates of free labor and slave
labor. As on the one side it was asserted that
all the possessions of the United States- -mere
Tsrritorien, not yet organ’s ;d into »States —
Hhould be open to slave labor; so on the other,
it was insisted that from such Territories in
voluntary servitude exoopt for crime, should
be forever excluded. The advocates of slave
labor triumphed in Congress. They achieved
a still more important aud substantial victory
before the Supreme Court of the United Swipes.
JJfThat august tribunal in the opinion deliver
in the celerated Dred Scott case, declared that
every part of tho teriitory of the United Stales
was opened to slavery, from which it was no!
excluded by positive law. It declared further
that a territorial government did not possess
the constitutional power to exclude slavery ;
but that slave holders might take their pro
perty of every description with 'them to the
territories and hold it under the protection ot
public law, until the State government was
formed—that then it was in tbe power of tho
Inhabitants in reorganizing their Stale Consti
tution to admit or prohibit slavery.
Then oama the groat contest for tbe Presi
dency in 1860. A candidate brought forward
by tbe Republican party was elect and. Hr
did n>t pretend that the government of the
United States possessed the power to interfere
with slavery in the States Nor did his party
claim any such authoiity for the government.
Mr. Lincoln himself solemnly declared that it
was not his purpose to Interfere with slavery
as It existed in the States.
Such was the state of parties when the revo
lutionary movements at tho South precipitated
the country into that featful struggle from
which it hast just emerged. Now, tho whole
aspect of the. slavery question is changed
Saveral of the s’.aveholding States throwing
efi their allegiance to the government finder -
took to organise a now and independent gov -
ernment. They staked everything upon the
issue. Th* result is Well known. The United-
States government in combatting the South, of
course, "aimed its blows at a system which,
while it disturbed the harmonious action of
that government in peace, t.ffordcd to tho
South a source ot strength in tho war waged
against it. The Picsident, by a proclamation,
struck at the existence of the system of domes
tic servitude Congress sustained bim. # The i
result U, that slavery no lo ger exialg ia any i
of the Stitcs. Whatever opinion may be en
tertained as to the constitutionality ol the '
measures employe 1 foi the abolition of slavery |
the actual! italics of the institution is beyond j
dispute Nor do we thick that any wise or J
patriotic man will seek to iah>e a question in !
regard to that institution.
It har ceased to exis’ forever in the whole ,
extent of territory embraced by the United i
States- even if it were possible to bring the j
Supreme Court to pronounce the measures
adopt*! for the abolition of slavery uncoastitu- j
tional, it would be vsry nuwlse statesmanship
that would undertake once moro to incorpor- |
ate I into the political system of the States
wh«e it recently existed.
Ve do not propose just uow to speak of the
effect which the change is likely to produce in
thi industrial system of the South, or in its
economical prosperity ; though we- have very
decided opinions on that subject. We shall
/ust now limit our remarks to the political ef
•feetot the great change which we hive under
gone, hy the abolition of slavery. It it now
numbered with the things £1 tat were. Hence-,
forth we enter upon anew - order of
The lofty gates which but a little while since
shut blit bf vicw.the future of our cwiii*at :
are now thrown wide epen : and we advance
into the midst of the new and expanding for
tunes that stretch Illimitable before us.)
We give our hearty support to the new sys
tem. We shall not seek to revise it ; wc shall
maintain it to the best of our ability ; we be
lieve that brighter fortune* await the Repub
lic than ever dawned #c it before The great
cause of quarrel between the Vorth and the
South is now removed
No longer is there a conflict between the sys.
j terns of inlustry existing in the States of tbe
Union, however widely they may differ in soil,
| climate«r Internal resources. For our own
part we have at a*, times favored the widest ex
pansion of the Republic, and we canuot lament
thi ipisr.ing away of an element that always
threatened its stability. We regret the indi
vidual suffering—the personal loss--the incon
veniences resulting from so sudden a change in
the structure of society. But we profoundly
believe that these are only temporary evils
that a high prosperity awaiti the South—that
when the labor of the South adjusts itself to
the new circumstances it will actually yield a
higher compensation than ever before.
But the public, political and national advan
tages to spring from .the new system, are such
as to overbalance any temporary or partial
evils that may lesult from the change.
HB.veavnTii w* are ons.
F-tats Thrasury Notes axd Bonds —We
notice some of the papers in this State and
elsewhere, are endeavoring to “write up” the
various notes and bonds issued by those States
which seceded during the war. These papers
arc eilher very ignorant of tho true status of
affairs; or knowing hew matters staSd, havo
become the cat's paws of designing men, and
are doing ibeir best to deceive their readers and
the public generally. In regard to the notes
and bonds of any State,, issued sicca the days
of s cession, cur advice to all is—“touch not,
i handle not.” Iu cur opinion they are not
worth the paper thpy are printed on. We be
lieve, from (he policy adopted elsewhere, that
no act of (hr State Governments, Legislative
Assemblies, or the State Judiciaries, during
the w?r will be binding. When the South
seceded, she, as it were, commenced working
out a big sum on the political blackboard.
TheNoith has succeeded in wiping out the
whole affair. Ice acts of Southern State
Executives, Legislative bodies, and Judges,
have ail been unconstitutional, and no power
or cageied law can now make them constitu
ticcal. Therefore, they tire HI void.
We may refer to this subject at length in a
few day?, when we get more light from Wash
ington.
V/e refer to it now only to give our readers
some advice, ia order that-they may not be
deluded by the bad counsel o' newspaper edi
tors who write through Ignorance, or
who have sold their columns to some sharper
who desires to foist on to a confiding and un
suspecting public, at a good price, what
fully knows to be utterly worthless. To our read*
ers, one and all we say—buy neither £tate
bonds or treasury note? which have been issued
since the States they belong to seceded, or which
were is ued by any State tor war purposes.
You miuhtas well put the money so invested in
to the tire, for it would then return you just as
much revenue and benefit as tho species of
property referred to.
So mb Remarks vob the Fault Fibbers’
Organ Our neighbor over the way has taken
it upon himself to criticise the acts and deeds
of Judge Rexford, of the I’rovost Court. lie,
with his gang of dissatisfied disorgauijv?r.}, do
not appear to be content with the good order
that has for some time reigned supreme in onr
city. No ! not they. They do not like good
government. They had much rather the law
less bully spirit, should again reign supremo in
our midst, us it always has iu days past.
Our neighbor is of tho opinion that the
most worthy Judge who has the regulating of
tbe morals of the place under his charge, docs
not. understand the duii*>S%f his position. Does
not understand what is the best punishment to
ii.Bict upon the culprits daily brought before
him. lie therefore very owllshly suggests
that the negro sinners who arc anaigned for
unruly doings should be at once sent to where
they came from, aud made to do just exactly
what they have done all their lives. What a
punishment this would be for a law-breaker I
lie would remember it until an opportunity
offered to commit another crim:—and no
lo lger. Before our neighbor ventures any
more legal advice, we suggest that he “reads
up” a little. He will find upon searching past
records, that persons disposed to do wrong,
ate restrained more by tear ot a speedy pun
ishment than by anything else—and that is
just the course Judge Rexford is pursuing.
We will teie take occasion to remark, that
we have heard largo numbers of our leading
citizens speak highly of the prompt, efficient,
and effectual mannej in which business is dis
patched at tbe Provost Court. The course
pursued by Judge Rexford thus far, meets
with tbe cordial approval of every good law
loving resident of the place.
No one expects the Judge to please fault
finders, and we do not think he intends t >.
Du. Gwin’s Version of the Sonora Affair.
—The latest version of the alleged Sonora
cession is derived from Dr. Gwin himself, and
pto the effect that he, as civil director-in
chief, and Marshal B ia'ne,. as military chief,
a - e to establish a capital at Osiepe, Sonoruj
put into operation a system cf colonization, a
code of laws, courts, etc ; requiring all c< Un
ists to take an oath of allegiance to (he Mexi
can Imperial government, thus holding the
province in the dynastic interest of Maximil
ian. but, at the same time, in the financial in
terests of France, until tho latter "has ? cured
a return for the large sums expended by her
in Msx'co. Sufficient French troop3 wiil re
main in Sonora to cirry this scheme into ef
ect. D:, Gwin is to hive a salary of sixty
thousand dollars a year.
If the late so-called Confederate leaders bad
succeeded in their designs, L*#. Gwin might
possibly have carried out the plan of Napoleon
As matters now stand, however, no such
project will be permitted to go into effect.
The boundaries of the United States are
destined to be enlarged until they stretch to
the ioe-barriers of the Arctic on the North
to the sunny climes of the Isthmus on the
South. Aud no Earopeon ruler need dream
\>f polluting the soil of the regions mentioned,
by establishing on any portion thereof a tyran.
nical or despotic government. American air
contains too much freedom for any such
thing. American soil is for freemen. Thi s
eoutinent is a large one—but none too large
for the proud American Eigle to range over :
or for the stars and stripes, that sacred emblem
of civil, liberty, to float over and protect.
Sosrrrmrc. Wroxot^-AM persons who come
to this city frqc- claim that every
! thing is scarce in the market of that city. Tbs
j dealers here can get a plenty by goifig into the
| country for it. In Savannah, where thing* are
i scarce, beef is selling for twenty cents per
| pound. In Augusta, in the midst of plenty,
' it takes thirty-five cents to purchase a pound
of beef. Evidently something is wrong. We
invite the attention of the proper authorities
to the matter.
Timely Remarks.—\Y> learn that our esteem
ed fellow citizsn He* rv F. Russell. E-q., ad
dressed some excellent rerawks to a largo group
of negroea assembled at the market bouse
Tuesday morning, ilc advised th>»n to return
promptly to their former ov-ners and to woik
ia good earnest, reiving upon the sense of
right and justice of their tote masters* to give
them proper compensation, lie urgt and them
to adopt this courses a3 best for ail parties,
and assured them that in that way they
would make crop3, support their own famines
and do much towards making themselves %nJ
others h ippy. If they we.e not well treated ,
hl7 could leave,for they could not be expocte i
ed to stay with a man who did not extend pro
per treatment to them.
Mr. Russell Is one of our best citizens ; a
man of generous nature, thoroughly acquainted
with the South and iks and we hope
that his advice will be followed generally.—
We taust too that ail good citizens will give
similar counsel to tho negroes, and thus ad
vance the real interest of tho white and color
ed races.
To those who employ colored laborers
wr will say-treat th'-ru well; treat them liberal
ly ; giro them fair wages, and the present
great up heaving of the social system in the
South wiii be far less injurious to you than you
imagine. By pursuing a .wise and judicious j
course in regard to the matter, ia a s v x>rt time
you will bo much better off then you < iver havo
been.
A Very Di?creditabls Txa*sa jtion*. —A
short time before Gen. Johnston’s su> render, a
large lot of infected paper stock, rag i, cast off
clothing, &c., was shipped from Bermuda to
New York. From facts which have recently
come to li kt, it appears that the ship cnent w/as
mile intentionally by a mannuaied Dr. Bla< k
burn, for the express purpose of introducing
into New York’ aud other places where tht
stock went, a most virulent end fadU disease-
Fortunately,tbe whole plan was thwarted by
some discoveries made by the New York au
thorities. A more infamous and fiendish plan
to destroy human life was never conceived. It
is said that Blackburn belongs to the George
Sanders crew of plotters and schemers ; and
was paid for his services by the ’.ate Richmond
powers, He is at present in Uanada. The
United States authorities have demanded him.
If they get possession of hire, ho wiil undoubt
edly swing* if he goes out of the world that
way, he will only meet his just desurta.
A Disastrous Fisk.— The freight depot of
the Augusta ar.d Savannah Railhead was
burned last evening. The ii.uues. were dis
covered about half past eight o’clock, and not
withstanding the great exertion** of the fire
man; their progress could not be sijiyed until
the building was totally destroyed. A portion
of tha wall next the street fell Gown. The
building at this end of the depot, occupied as
offices, was only partially burned.
We wore unable to ascertain tho amount of
freight in tbe depot, but from ail we could
learn, there was not much.
During tho fire one or two shells; exploded.
This, together with tbe rumor that U*ero wa6 a
largo number of this kind of ammunition in
the building, caused a scattering so» a while.
The lose occasioned by tho fi w is about
$(5,000 —although it would take more than
that amount to repair damages at tho present
time. The fire was evidently tho work of &n
incendiary.
s Luxber Wanted.— The Atlanta papers say
that lumber is mucif needed in that city. That
is an article which is greatly needed!, in Augus
ta also. Parties who own saw mills have now
a great opportunity to make money—yes, to
accumulate a handsome competency. Lumber
of ail descriptions commands (he most extra
ordinary prices ,n every miuket. Now is the
tune for the country lumbermen tf> send their
etuff to the cities. Another opportunity of the ,
kind will probably never be offered them—as
civil wars ot the sort ws have just passed
through never happen mew than once in a life
time.
General Lee.—A Washington dispatch says
that Gen. Lee wiil soon be indicted for tree- :
son by the Grand Jury at Richmond. The
moment he ia iudicied, bjs; parole is of no use
to him.
From this, it would seem that whenever a State
government sees fit to proceed ngainst a citi
zen of the State for Liking part in the late re
bellion, that the paroles of the General Gov
ernment will r,fiord him no protection what
ever. That only shields him from the civil
laws of the United States, and not from the
civil laws of any particular State.
>n*na± 4CV*
Letters *y Express.— Attention is invited
to the notice in our special column, in which
it is announced that the Express Company
will carry letters to any point within their
reach, (until such time as the U. S mails are
re-eetabiished,) at twenty five cents in specie
or national currency for each ringle letter ot
one half oaa,ce, &i". In the present unsettled
state of mail coniiminicatnita, t;ii3 arrangement
of tho Company is of the h'gh_est mportance and
a £reat public convenience. For further de
tails we refer to the advertisement.
Ths Cropsux Central Georgia- —'The Mil
ledgeville Recorder says that the wheat har
vest in that section commenced to a limited ex
tent, last week. The <a*!d dry spring, with the
rust of late, Las considerat-ably injured it.
t/e hope, nevertheless, there will be enough
made for domestic consumption* Corn aud
other growth has, from late raing .considerably
improved, though more backward than usual.
Prospect* on the whole are as yet tolerably
fair.
‘ -fcj i »
Little Ahead of Time. —The Macon
Herald comes to us bearing the date of May
32. We have always heard that odr sister city
was a fast place, with fast people therein. Here
we have proof of the assertion—for any man
who can ‘‘get ahead of time,” must be of the
decidedly fast order, and reside in a fast com
munity.
The Rehel Loan—The rebel loan was qao
ted-iirLondon at 12a H on the,l2th of May ;
a fact which shows that there are some parties
interested in it whose tenacity of opinion.)*
such that they eannot realise that the end of
the war has really eomo. The news of the
capture of Jeff Davis will, however, be a
“settler” lor them.
Blais v* Davis —a special Washington dis
patch dated May 24th, says that the elder
Blair wa* called before the Grand Jury and
testified to acts of-treason committed by Jeff
Davis. The jury have agreed to report a true
bill. This action is understood to be in con
formity with the wishes of the administration.
A Grand Sight.—At the great review of the
troops returning home, in Wasbington, on May
24th, sixty-six thousand were reviewed, on May
95tb, eighty thousand more passed before tho
commanding Generals. It must have been a
grand eight, .
pukside&t JoasMnv amyea-tt pbocla
. at vriox.
Through (hw ktednAjs of an official station
ed at Atlanta, Jbe Intelligencer of that ci’y
I bos been favored with the perusal of the Chat—
i taao-v.o G:* a ttto.ef .May 30. Fiorn it Is taken
the following importan t telegraphic report cfti
tsining the President's Amnesty Proclamation.
We hope soon to lay before our readers the
Proclamation iUelf in all its details. What we
present below embraces only the O-.th to ho
administered and the exceptions prescribed in
the amnesty.
THE 01.1 U.
Ido solc-mn!y swear or affirm in the prs** -
ence of Almighty God. that I will henceforth
faithfully defend the Constitution of the Uni
ted States and union of the States, and will
, abide and faithfully support all laws and precise
1 mations which have been made during the ex
isting rebellion with reference to the omanci-
L nation of slaves. So help me God.
rsB«on8 txceitkb.
All who have been civil, diplomatic or oth
er vis?, domestic or foreign agent* of the piu
terded Confederate States.
All who loft Judicial stations under-the
Untied States to aid the rebellion.
All Military and Naval Officers nb.ove the
j rank cf Colonel in the Army, and Lieutenant
i in tho Navy.
All who'left seats in the Congress of the
United States.
All SVho resigned or tendered the resigna
tion of their commissions in the Army and
Navy of the United States.
All engaged any way ia treating otherwise
than lawfully as prisoners of war persons
forced (found) in the United States service.
All Military ar.d Naval Officers who wove
educated by the United State*.
I All the protended Governors In insurrection
, ary States
All who left their homes within the Federal
liuia and passed into the rebel lines to a-fi the
rebellion.
AH who have engaged ia the deatructiflb,of
commerce on the high aeas, and all who have
made raids from Canada or engaged in jle
stroying commerce on land and rivers.
All who at the time when they soak to obtain
benefit hereof by taking the path and remain
in military, naval or civil confinement, or un
der bond of military or naval authorities as
pigents of the United States, prisoners of war.
or persons detained for offences of any kind
efc.her betoro or after conviction.
KK&aPTIOPI oy QK.ti. B'€liLK!B BV COLOM
, ill Art xiltCUafLlO.
if <»
On A.oril 5, Major General Sickles, special
envoy from the President of the United Stales
of Amerfc.oto the President of the United
States of Colombia, was Introduced by the
Secretery of interior and of foreign affairs and
presented to the President by Hon. Mr. Burton,
resident Minister cf the United States. The
General addressed tfce President in the follow
ing terms:
Mr. President : I have the honor to be pre
eented to your Excellency by the resident Min
ister of my Government us an envoy from the
President of the United States of America' to
the President of Colombia. I consider myself
foitunate in being tue interpreter of the cord
ial and reciprocal sentiments of friendship ea
terteined toward* this sitter republic. The
destinies of this continent unquestionably re
quire the system of free government.? under the
republican form ; and the assiduous cultivation
of sincere and strong friendly relations wfth
all the American republics is a policy dictated
to my government by the past history of my
country, and one in accordance with the per
sonal sentiments and convictions of its chief
magistrate. The United States of America
are strongly bound to Colombia by reoiprcc *1
treaties as well as by mutual, geographical,
commercial and political interest, and these
bonds should inspire both countries with an
earnest desire to maintain the friendly relations
which happily now exist. Iu the United Stab s
of America, where you at one time represented ’
yonr country, many cf our citizens and public
men had the honor to be personally acquainted
with you, and few of them there are who and ■
not look with satisfaction upon the tranquil
prosperity enjoyed by this country under iis
present illustrious administration, and feel an
interest in the personal welfare of your Excel
lency and of this priviliged laud.
The President replied as follows :
General—l receive you with eleaiure and re
spect at the sumo iime, as the direct envoy of
the honorable President of United States, wht,
I am well convinced could only send words of
sincere friendship and fraternal policy to my
country. lam also pleased that the man chos
en to express the sentiments of that great ru
ler is a distinguished patriot, one "who has
been maimed while defending ths vital interests
of his country, and aiding to purge our con
tinent of the leprosy of slavery. I trust that
your stay among us may prove pleasant to
you, and that when you leave you will carry
with you the conviction that by no other peo
ple orgovernmeut.than this are so much sym
pathy and good will entertained for the honor
able and generous policy of your government.
I thank you lor the kind'words you have ex
pressed regarding myself.
Among those present on the occasion were
a number of Senators and representatives, the
{general commanding, and the chief of staff
After the speeches a short friendly conversation
ensued, in which the distinguished gueßt ex
pressed IPs desire to become acquainted with
our society, of which ha enter aineci a very
flattering impression.
The Rebel Bam Stonewall Sdkkendered --
A letter to the Nejv Yprk Tribune, dated Ha
vana, May 20, gives the annexed particular
of the surrender of the rebel ram Stonewall :
It has been rumored that Capt. Paige of the
Stonewall, wished to surrender on the same
terms as those extended to Gen. Loe, so Capt.
Boggs of the Connectiont, who had some ex
perience with Rebel rams at the taking of New
Orleans, sent him a note demanding his surren
der, and proffering the terms extended to G m.
Lee. The reply was that present instructions
from his Government did not permit him to
accept4he offer of Capt. Rjggs
From the news lately received from (lie
United States, Capt. Paige probably concluded
he would not bo likely tor some time to re
ceive instructions from hu Government, so he
applied to Gen. Daice to deliver the vessel up
to him, on condition that she should never be
delivered up to the United States. Gen. Dnlee
immediately and firmly refused, stating that
had he deminded her surrender they might
have claimed conditions, but as they had come
to him voluntarily to-surnender her into h>3
.hands he would accept no conditions whatever,
but would receive her as a deposit. This wis
finally agreed to and t-e officers and men put
ashore, a guard of Spanish marines taking cu -
tody of the ram.
Gen. Dulce then wrote to Gen. de Marina
stating tte facts, and tho Auditor de Guerra
with some artillery officers rhea proceeded on
board and took an inventory of everything on
board of the Stonewall. When this is conclud
ed she will be taken to the arsenal and re
main there without a flag until further orders.
The flag was hauled down last night and was
not hoisted this morning. So the Spanish au
thorities did not have to lower it. Most of the
crew were Spaniards and Portugeeß, and a
hard looking set of scoundrels they are.—
Large numbers of them had deserted.
The Portugese Consul Las shipped four of
the deserters, and there are four more in jail
for getting in a row the other night.
The Captain General hasjast returned from a
trip to Cardenas and its environs It is said
he went to avoid the Stonewall complications,
and that he only returned when he had leavrfbd
that they were solved.
FftOM SOUTH AMERICA.
It is certain that Spain has made claims on
Chili. How they will be settled is not deter
mined. i
According to the latest news the Braz llan
squadron was still at Montevideo and Buenos
Ayres, and the land foicea concentrated In
Montevideo were being marched back to Rio
Grande. ' War was impending between Brazil
and Paraguay. The Brazilian Government
asked permission of Buenos Ayres to march its
army through the Argentine territory, which
was peremptorily refused. The Brazilians
had decided to postpone their Paraguayan
campaign until the spring.
COMMERCIAL.
—xtxtxssioee. ~ —.—7-:
stew VerK MarkeS-.May SI,
, From New \ork Herald and Tribin.o cl May
2&:h, we cull the annexed market reports :
Gold—Gold has been strong and tnederute
ly active,-the tendency of the premium reing
decidedly upward, notwithstanding the r,ci
-that speculation is mainly in favor <Jf a fall.
Popular sentiment, hovever, conuotleog con-
J tiol the price of a commodity which Ks scarce.
| an( l for which the demand is imperative
j Gold, from being unreasonably high, his fa!b n
j to a lower point than the condition of the pub
lie finances warranted, and as a natural cease-'
quence the legitimat demand fo.ccs it hi-h«
er. Last quotation 134^
| Foreign' Exchaxi#:- Foreign exchange h.s
been active -and very firm, and buyers who
have been holding back for lower prices are
beginning to come inti the maikot. Bankers
ask 110 a £ for their sixty day bills, and IKK
jat short sight. One result of the light expor
! fattens is an extreme scarcity cf commeicial
| hills, which forces drawers into the go:d mar
ket. The latter are quoted at 109 aJ.
The Money Market.— The supply of money
continues abundant at 6a6 per cent, for loans
at call. The demand is limited, and a more
active market would conduce to a healthier
circulation. The treasury is insuring pro
longed ease ia order to facilitate .subscriptions
to the Seven-thirty loan, and to prevent a de
cline in its gold bearing securities in the [ace
of their low pvico abroad. The discount line
is inactive, and fiist class commercial paper is
rated at 6a 8 per cefit. The banks as well as
private lenders haver, however, been critical
of names of lase, and they, as a rule, prefer
investing their capital in the form of call
loans.
The Stock Marke? —But little is doing in
the stock market. Prices are in the ascendant.
There is quite to buy for an ad
vance. Governr-ieut securities dulbhfrt steady.
U. S. sixes 67, 112; U. S. sixes 5 20, 103f.
There are no quotations £<? Southern stocks
of any kind. % iSfc "' v
The following‘sfed'Wwfke i reports (exclusive
of specie) from New York to foreign purls for
the week ending May 22, and since the begin
ning of the year:
1864.' 186;).
For the week $3,736,032 $1,953,550
Previously reported G2,3i1,9;0 67,421,483
Since January 1, $66,047,942 $69,375 039
The imports and exports at this port from
July 1 to latest date, have been tts follows :
1863 4. 1804-5.
Imports mdse, $189,229,944 $135 053,557
Exports produce, 143,620,473 191,541,828
Exports specie, 50,76- ! ,427 31,775,549
Cotton. —The market continued dull and
prices were 2c. lower. About 700 bales
changed owners on the basis of 5 >e. a 54c. for
middling:
Upland. Florida. Mobile. NOftT
Ordinary, 46 40 46 46
Good ord’y, 50 50 50 50
Middling, 57 57 57 57
Good mid’g, 59 59 59 58
Middling fair, 62 62 62 63
Coffer —We hear of no sales, bat as tho
stock is much reduced and prospective arrivals
light, holders generally refuse to sell unless at
an advartce.
Candles. —Adamantine are dull, but the
prices are without change ; sales at 23 a 27e.;
Sperm are ouiet at 87. J .c. Patent are inactive
at 37J a 50c.
Drugs and Dyes. —Tho business in the lead
ing articles under this heading lias been light,
though the few sales making are at full prices.
Molasses is in fair demand' and prices are
firm: sales of 60 hhds. Porto Rico at 65 a 70c ;
100 hhds. Cuba Muscovado on private terms:
by auction 50 hhd. Porto Rico at 42c for Com
mon.
Naval Stores -Spirits Turpentine lias been
iu fair jobbing demand; prices have advanced
and at the close are firm at $2 75 per gallon;
stock on hand is about 500 bb!s. Ilosius have
ruled quite steady and a lair business wan
done, closing at slll2 for Common; sl2lß
for Stearino and No. 2, and sl9 25 for No. 1.
Tar has been quiet but steady at s6as7 for do
mast. c,and sGa§B for foreign. Pilch is quoted
at sl3 for No. 1 city.
Rice— Only a moderate retail business is
doing, but prices are firm; sales cf 50 bags
Rangoon at 9JalOc.
Sugar— Raw Sugars are ingothl demand and
firm, but prices are without essential change;
sales ot 1,894 hhds. Cuba at
auction 160 hogsheads Porto Rico at 11
Refined are dull, but there is no essential
change in prices.
Salt —There is bnt little inquiry for Liver
pool; the receipts are fair; and most of it is in 1
store; Bulk Salt is not very plenty; we quote
Ground at $1 50, and Fine as follows: $2 30
a§2 35 for the various kinds, and $3 for Ash
ton’s; Turks Island is lower and dull at 38u39c;
we quote Cadiz at 30 i32c per bushel.
Tea—The business in both Black and Green
hse been only moderate; at the close prices are"
a little better than nominal; we quote Hyson
at $1 15a$l 25; Young do. 95ca$l 70; Gun
powder and Imperial, Gscasl; Oolong 75ca$l
60; Souchong and Oongon 650a5l 50; a'ud Un
colored Japan, Soea£l 15
Tallow — The market is firm and fairly ac
tive; sales of 120,000 pounds at lOJilOfe for
Western; 10go for Eastern, and 10( ilo‘c for
city.
’ Tobacco. —There has been only a moderate
inquiry since our last for Kentucky, owing to
the extreme prices demanded by holders; our
quotations chow but little variation; we re
peat our coin rates as follows .
Heavy Western
Light Leaf, and Cla’ksville.
Lugs, . 4Jas4c. s£a6-}c.
Qommon leaf,
B leaf, 7 aS BJHO
Good leaf, B>]ilo llalS
Fine leaf, llal2* 14alG
.Selections, 14a16 17a20
Whiskey. —The market is lower, (he supply
is larger, at the concession there is more doing;
sales of 370 bbls at $1 94a 1 95 for Western.
Wool. —There h. 13 been a fair business in
Domestic fleeces since our last. Prices have
ruled quite firm, £nt aro without special
change; the inquiry during the week was in
part from spinners. Foreign, descriptions have
ruled dull and at the close prices are nominal;
we quote domestic fleeces as follows: Csa67c.
for Native and J Merinos; 674703. for h and ?
do ; 70a74c. for full blood <k> ; 75kTYc. for
Saxony;, 64aG5c. for No 1 pulled; 68a70c. for
Superfine do , and 70372 c. for Extra do.; 20a
25c. for tcmmon unwashed California, and
42a44e. for fine unwashed.
Western t,'o:n*aero!al Matt ra.
The blockade on tho Louisville railroad
tends to Stiffen the price of produce in Ten
nessee, but no change in prices is noted.
At Nashville, while the subscriptions to the
second series of U, S. seven-thirties began
somewhat languidly, and during the first week
in April reached only about one million of dol
lars, during last week they amounted to 93
millions of dollars, and nearly one half of the
whole $300,000,000 was sold during tho last
two weeks.
The Louisville Price Current says: '~We
have two lines of packets between Louisville
and Cincinnati and the East; a line plying the
Cumberland river regularly; a daiiy line along
the lower Ohio; two Green river packets, and
a permanent line to be immediately organized
for tte Tennessee river, which is of vital im
portance to Louisville; also tri-weekly, packets
hence to Cairo and Memphis, connecting with
a tri weekly line from tLo latter point to the
Whits river, as far as Jackson port. Un the
meantime, our.merchantable in reofipt of
heavy supplies of groceries and merchandise,
which, as will be seen on referring to our price
list, are selling nt&3 low rules as can bo pur
chased anywhere out of New Fork. The stock
of provisions is heavy, aud tho Lbu'svillo mar
ket is now the cheapest in the West.
The tobacco receipts at are
steadily inert using, and prices arc£ afiVrfncbtg,
with sabs of upwards o' I,COD hogsheads this
week at full prices. Tho crop present
year for mtrket is undoubtedly shojJ,
NASHVILLE MARKET— MAT 22,
Corn, shelled ol 25, and ear at $1 bus.
Other grains nominal. Bacon sides at 20 eta ;
plain hams, 22 a 23 cents; and sugar cured
harus at 23 a24 cents. Lard in tierces at, 21
cents, and in kegs at 23 a25 cents. New
RoborUon county \\%isky at $2 50 a 3 50, ac
cording to quality. Old Robertson county at
$3 50 a 4 50. Pure Lour ton at $5 a 6 per gal
lon by tho barrel. Brown Sugar at 21 a25
cents,According to quality; Crushed 28 a' 30
cents." .
NASHVILLE PRICE CURRENT—MAY 22. '■
Back of Tenijeesee - - 70 dis
Union Bank 42 d ; s
Planters’ Bank - - -40 dis
Bank of Rlielbyvilio - - <35 dis
, Merchants’ Bank did
Bank of the Union - - par ..
Traders’ Bank ... 75 dl-r
Bank of Commerce - - 60 dis
City Bank - - - - 50 dis
Bank-of Paris - - - 8 ) <!ia
Bank of Chattanooga - - SO dis-
Bank of Memphis - -. 80 dis
Buck’s Bank - - - par
Commercial Bank - - 60 dis
Southern Bank - - - 80 dis
Bank of Nashville - - 75 dis
Ocoee Bank - - - 75 dis
Bank of West Tennessee - - 85 dis
Bank of Middle Tennessee - 30 dis
Northern Bum of Tennessee - 75 dis
Georgia and South Carolina - 85 dis
North Carolina and Virginia - 85 dis
Alabama - S5 dis
Louisiana - - - -25 dis
Gobi - - 2S premmm buy leg
G 'ht - -32 premium selling
Sdrer - - 2'o premium buying
>~:'vey . .25 premium selling.
i*r?«>es at Atlanta.
ibe Atlanta Journal gives ths annexed as
tfce wholesale prices in that place :
Bacon, - - - 12 als per pound
Butter, • - *2oa 25 per pound
Corn, - - ■ ,$1 L> a 1 20 per bushel
Eggs, - - . . 15 a2O per dez
howls, - - - - 15 a25
Factory Yarns, - $1 00 a 1 25 per bunch
Flour, - ■; ■ssooa 600 per cwt
lAul, - . . 12 al6 per pound
* ’ " 51 13 a2O bushel'
o nu ‘ S ’ ' - * 40 aSO per yard
Sola"’ . . 12a «PM Pound
Salt, _ - - ' “ 03 aO4 per pound
Syrup Cans . . 70 p er gallon
Sheeting, - 15 a 20 per yard
Tobacco, - - - 50 a1 25 per poued.d
Whiskey, - - 125 a 200 per gallon
FROM MtXICO.
By waydf California we have news Rom
Western Mexico. A dispatch from Saa Fran
ciec-J says :
Private letters received in San Francisco
from Mexico, give the following particulars oi
Uie capture of Guaymas by the - French, on Urn
z9th cf March. The Guaymasiaas wiue sur-
by the arrival of four French nien-of
war, and groat constf.rjnntiua prevailed. 'J im
French force immediately disembarked, taking
possession of (ho city. The Mexican forces
under Pesqniera, evacuated the town, taking ;
the road to Sati Martial, expecting to m -et
Gen. Moniales. They hiwl difficulty in carry
ing off the artillery, as their horses had been
sent into the interior to carry grain and forage
to the city.
If Pesqniera effects a junction with Morri
ales, the Juarists will have three thousand
mon. against tho French force of only seven
hundred.
. Communication with tho interior has been
cut off, and Juarez permits no provisions to
enter tho city.
A skirmish took place outside G uaymas alter
the landing of the troop3. The kiiied on both
sides did not exceed a dourn.
The French men pf-war returned to Mazri
laD, and the French have taken charge of the
customhouse affairs, have appointed their own
officers «f the fleet, consisting of PilJas, Daesit,
Cordeliqrer and Lucifere. Gen. Ersapies tb
turned to Mazatlan on the Dansis, with three
companies of infantry. One of the
blst regiment of the line reraaias in Guaymas.
Reports in Houston and Galveston papers
confirm the news about the successes of the
Mexican Republicans.
Gen. Negrete lias captured Chera, 75 miles
from the Rio Grande, and on April 22, the Im
perialiat^were completely routed at Piedras
Negras, on tho Rio Grande, and the entire
force, with the exception of three who escaped
into Texas, captured. Negrete then marched
upon Matamoros, wfifth placo was rapidly be
ng abandoned by all the foreign merchant#.
A Present Offered to President Johnson,
but Declined. —The offer by several leading
citissns of New York, of a carriage and homes,
With harness, blankets, 4'c., complete to Presi
dent Johnson, lias been respectfully declined.
Here is the President’s letter to the committee
who tendered the present on the part of the
donors:
Washington City, May 22, 1865.
Messrs. A. A. Low, E-q.,Piielps DodoCo.,
Hoyt Brothers, J; S. Schultz and others:
Gentlemen : I am iu receipt of your very
complimentary note, dated New York, May 17,
1865, wherein you request my acceptance of a
coach, span of horses, harness, &c., as a token
of your high appreciation of my public course.
While I fully appreciate the purity of your
motives in thus tendering to me such subrian
tial evidence of your regard and esteem, I am
Compelled, solely from the convictions of duty
I have ever held in reference to the acceptance
of presents by those occupying high official
positions, to decline the -offerings of kind and
loyal friends.
'1 he retention of the parchment conveying
your sentiments, and the autographs of thoEo
who were pleased to unite in-the manifestation
of regard, is a favor 1 would ask; and I assure
you, gentlemen, I shall regard it as ono of the
highest marks of re jpect from any portion of
my fuLow-citizens.
Tiusting that I shall continue to merit 3 cur
confidence and esteem in the disebarg : of the
high and important duties upon which I have
but just entered, ar.d with the best iv.shes for
your health, &c., individually,
1 am, gentlemen, your3 truly,
Andrew Johnson.
FO&EIUN. ITEMS.
An ingenious clockmaker of Versailles has
invented, a dock no larger than the ordinary
instruments, which will go for one year, or in
deed for a much longer time. Tho internal
mechanism is not altered, but the pendulum js
replaced by a horizontal lever, which acts on a
twist of elastic wiie suspended vertically.
Two sens of the late Duke of Newcastle
quarreled recently, ending in a fight with
carving knives, •during which one of them was
fatally stabbed in the abdomen. As the mur
derer belongs to a great Whig family, he gets
off scat free, the Queen having issued an or
der permitting him to leave tho kingdom.—
• Though the son of a duka has murdered his
brother, he must not be runi-shed, a3 it would
lut a stain on the hereditary ordet to have a
gallows erected for him ! Where there is au
arristocracy of any kind, the laws are never
U3tiy administered.
The railroad between Bayou Sara and Yv'ood
ville, Miss., is being immediately repaired.
U SriLL. be paid on delivery to Messre. W.*A. Ramsey J:
T? V l;o., ot my (irc-y HORSE, fctolin on Ist May. ‘J liU
animal t so well known that he can be retained hut a-hort liiui
without dicr-ovv-v. He is ab.utlSK nards hi(;h, very light
gr« 7, s l-'h’iy S ;i bitten, ano had & newly he&'.ed ws-t on hi*
right hind hoof. W.NEYLL IIAEEHMI-M.
n a>l6 ■»
NOTICE.
THE public are hereby notified not to trade for two not--s
lai'Cby tie under j yu-dand payable to T. A. Ulan chard
one for sixteen th >u;uod five bun red dolla nr <1 pynii •
cm day alter the dale thereof;the other for tlxieeu thou n 6
five hundred and ! ms, and due three year* .'ter She date there
of. Each otßai'l n„*B' v ere dated the sth of February, IiCS.
The co ..'deration f-r vrb'ch said nott-c were given having
fade' ’he rami.nl thereof wili be resisted.
ma;.H4w2o W H. P'VIE.
bUidt.tFF Bi.J.si.
TSEGI.L be eob! on 'I u-fday, the 6‘h day <•{ Jen' t ext be
'Jf tore the Oourt tlrua; do«.r at Apuiiw, (a lumhla
county, the to i.i-vicg »m;d pr p»i.y. to w.tiLT.e Mm mao
ja, the property ol Mb - Ma y E. Bynum. John hiugoi-se.
Trust e, to M.is'y a tax fi fa. in favor c ‘•’talc
ii ay9 K‘wl9 -I J '' ,i: Tl i---. Sir rr.
rjr ATE Os OkUiiL V» , nxUIiMUA JJ OOt.N ii .
h 5 Whereat Oer'ge .ichiey.taiiird-,;.n or ... l.'u nit;
ham. minor, ..(now ui sge applies to in; for Letters of Hi
ini sV n.
These are. therefore.to riteand admen'.-h all, end slnen'ar
the kindred and friends of said min r, to ho and. appear .1
my oifice on.Or"before the first Monday in July j.cv,to show
cause, if any they have, why sard Letters should not
granted. . _
Given under my hand and official signature, at office in A
K Z%°&fu b ** Qf^a; " DAYID L. RUATU, Ordinary,