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N. S. MORSE.
dljrantffe & UnrtiittL
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m*. J D. BTE&DMA
Oar readeisTHre interested in kaowiog ail
that pertains to the civil and military career
of this distingtiMir-d officer, who now bag tall
it:ny camTmn 1 of Georgia
lie is, wo arc informed, h native of Pennsyl
vania ; and having inherited but little worldly
fortune was apprenticed when a boy lo tbe
printer's trade.
In early roanliood, however, he manifested
that pa«sk>u for military life, in which lo has
earned such high distinct Rltt. AeoordingFy, in
18%, when only fifteen years of age, he deter
mined. against the wishes of bis friends,
to join a military expedition then organizing
and fittln % ont-foi Texas under the leadership
■of Henry Clay, Jr. For this jjurpose he re
paired to L‘>«tfcvilte, Ky., the place of
vous, and after two weeks drilling weson tbo
<ove of staitlpg for \’>w Orleans, wK-i he "was
reclaim-id by gtßarJian/ lie
Nv»s srlii In'ent, howfvarf'ou thi* adventure,
and not long after started on his own account
hut reached New Orleans after the expedition
had Bailed. II- th-.-n engaged as a ‘ jour’’in
the Picayune office, where be remained but a
»hort time. Subsequently he worked in the
♦‘Sentinel’• office at Vicksburg and afterwards
*wds employed on the Louisville Journal.
Soon af er leaving Lou'sville bo became a
>cU zjn of Ohio, and a contractor on several
largo Internal imp 'o vein mt enterprises. The
practical ability which ho exhibited iu this de
.partment, secured his election to the Presidency
*of the B >nrd of Public Works. About this
time he was also elected to the Legislature of
Ohio, where he acquired much reputation as a
Safe and judicious Legislator.
lo 1857 ho was elected Public Printer to the
llouse of Representatives at Washington, ho
ling at this time the editor and and proprietor
•of, the Times & Herald, published at Toledo,
Ohio In 18li0 lie was a Douglas delegate to
(the convention at Chiriesion, and in the suae
year was defeated tor Congress in the Toiado
District. It will thus bo seen, that Gn.
Steeduien was a consistent, National Democrat 1
and when the rebellion commenced ho became
an ardent supporter of the wav waged for its
suppression.
In April, 1801, he enlist'd in the service of
his country as a priv.it , and from the ranks he
was elected as Colonel of his regiment.—
From that position be has risen to the inf.rrae
diate grades to a 51 aj >r Gcncr.ilsaip.
This was the reward ol his gallantry on sev
eral hard fought battle fields, as well as for
his unnrailed qualities as a disciplinarian.
llis first battle was at Garrick’s Ford, where
be bo signally ff ? '*■ ated Gen. Garnett ; cat taring
the greater portion of his command. For his
gallaut services in th it battle, !;o was promoted
to a Brigadier Generalship. lo ilio spring of
l8t»2, he participated in the hardest fighting at
Fishing Creek, where Crittenden was beaten
and Zollicolfer killed.
Ilia command was also ti in the battle
of Perryvltle, and i 1 the last battles with Mood
at Nashville. There are two pn&ugeg, how
ever, in the military career of Gee. Steed-nan
Which merit special consideration.
It will be remembered that Gen. Wheeler at
One time invested Dalton with a cavalry foreo
Os live thousand and deiumdcd it.s uncondi
tional surrender By some singular oversight
ho failed to cut tlio telegraphic wires comma
bleating with Chattanooga. The Colonel c--u»
branding at Dalton telegraphed to Genera
ISteedman at Chattanooga, and he with twelve
hundred coloved troops reached Tunnell llill
that night, and next morning attacked and
voutod Wkcelei’a force.
The rapidity of this movement and (he lr.il
tliiicw of ils execution, won him the highest
Commendation from his Government. But per
haps his moat signal bucoess was achieved at
Chickamau ga. U# had been stationed with
BiX thousand troops to deSeud an important
position on the left wing cf the l lion army,
feeiug satisfied that th ' attack on ids position
Was a fjint, aud ascertaining vliat the Union
fttmy was being over powered by the Coulcd-
Ytrale forces, he abaudoued iris po.-nimji con
trary to order's and hastened t > its relief. lie
rlVed on the field at two o’clock, and was
heavily engaged until sunset,. saving by the
timely movement the Union force* from a
Complete and Sisiwlrous overthrow. Doling the
tight ho lost sixty seven poteent of his force, but
80 conspicuous was iris bravery and so skiliul
his dispositions, that he won g idea opinions
from the commanding General, and was pro
moted to a Major Generalship.
For some time past Gen. fcb has been the
commandant of the District of Etowah, with
bis headquarters at Chattanooga. He has
Gone much to introduce order and quietness
Into that distiieß by the suppression of all
factious and treasonable proceedings.
Ho undoubtedly possesses administrative
talents of a high order. There is method in
hH his plans and finances in their execution.
He i* particularly vigilant in the enforce
ment of his police regulations.
While he is not deficient iu the tnuiviUr in
tuodtf, he is perhaps nine distinguished for the
iorhler m tv. This combination of qualities*,
has made him everywhere a tenor to evil
doers, and a protector to loyal and well dis
posed citizens. We regard Ids appointment ,to
his proser,t responsible position as one emi
nently proper. Let him Lav ■ have the cordial
and undivided support of the Meads of the
• Government.
Wht Gem. Ewell Joisio ths Southern
Army.—Gen. Ewell, in a letter written from
Fort Warren, hie present abiding place, to a
friend, furnishes his statement of how he became
engulfed in the maelstrom of the rebellion.
Ewell said ho saw prominent Northern men in
:-and out o! Congress advocating secession and
’declaring that the rebels wave light, and he
was thus led to believe that a disolution of the
Union was inevitable, and there lore, though
very reluctantly, resigned his commission in
the national army and entered that of Jeff.
Davis.
Ex-Gov. Brown. —The Milledgevillo Record
er states that Ex-Gov. Brown, as soon as he
has recovered from his indisposition, .will re
move to Atlanta,
i Ova Roply to tub Forced Loyal Pbwss t>f
[ Auodsta—Oar attention has been call*d to a
paragraph which.first appeared in the Trans
cript, and wa3 copied Into the Constitutionalist
of Sunday morning.
As in commercial transactions the endorser is
oftentimes of more importance to the negotia
bility of the bill than the drawer; so in this
case we should not have noticed the paragraph
in question, bnt for its repubUcation. A3 re
spects the Transcript, we should as soon think
of fighting a pitched battle with an offensive
animal as t o bandy epithets with the ostensible
manager of a sheet whose distinctive quality
is its unadulterated meanness.
The attempt to make us editorially respon
sible for the contents of aq advertisement, is
in strict keeping with that code cf professional
etiquette which has been pursued tor the last
.two years by the Constitutionalist towards the
Cusoxicle St Sbstine*. Because forsooth we
did not bow the knee to lhal and give a sup
port to the Richmond wo~
did notsee lit to follow the Constitutionalist
aud (ho officials it upheld in their rotten and (
corrupt course; because we did what was j
right and had the manliness to oppose des- |
potisrn and tyranny—the Constitutionalist did i
all it could to injure our legitimate business !
by continually uttering the cry of Yankee! |
Yankee !! It did its best to have patronage j
withdrawn from our office and to prejudice the \
public against us because we were bora North j
of the l’oloniac. And finally when ve took a
bold conservative stand in favor of light it en- j
deavored to incite a mob spiiit in the cdmina- {
uity to destroy out office .and to have the editor j
and proprietor of this-,; ~«u shot down in his !
chair. Fur all this chtvalrous conduct wo !
tender the Constitutionalist as we have once I
before, our supreme pity and contempt. We j
also tender it both our pity and contempt for i
the underhanded course it has lately pursued |
towards us and lor the great endeavors to in- |
jure us with parties who do not agree with us
iu our political views.
Both the Transcript us well as the Constitu
tionalist—two papers who are only ioy 1 be
causo they are afraid tp be otherwise—are too
cowardly to attack the signers of the advertise
ment. They spit their venom at the Cnuosicnr.
& Sentln'sl. In this way they disguise Iheir
real purpose, which is to bring odium upon
United States colored troops and their ifliierr.
And yui such men c’aim to ho the representa
tives of Southern chivalry. The bare preten
a on is libel on Southern character and op the
Southern soldiers.
They have talked aud written 3 vast deal
about batt'es and sieges, but *a oy were care
ful to keep out of tango of Yjhkee bullets. The
time is at hand when the people of this section
will spurn such bliiATgutdes and their secret
incendiary sheets.
When Bob Acres is immortalized for bis
courage and J ide Falstaff is cannoaizd tor hie
virtues, then may such braggarts and black
gu ode expect to be reckoned as patriots and
gentlemen.
Ai'i aus is Tennkxsub —A Memphis corre -
pendent of the Chicago Tribune, states that
same of the most loyal ciFzjns of Tennessee
are now the returned soldiers They have had
enough of war, dernagogueisra,and sectional
ism, and are willing to accept the condition of
things as they exist, and become loyal and tru e
to tin IJuited States government. They are
opposed to those who brought the late troubles
upon the country, as well ae bombproof pa
triots who remained at home during the strug
gle, ever again holding any officio.
We are glad to learn these facts. We trust
the relumed soldierr in every section will prove
good cftizsnG and will also take the same posi
tion as their Tennessee brethren towards tire
corrupt office holders of by gone days, aud
those who remained at homo and protracted
the war in order that they might bebenelitted
thereby.
Tub Ti iucoo Tax —Under the Treasury regu
lations respecting the collection of taxes in
Stales lately in insurrection, recently promulga
ted, lire Commissioner of Internal Revenue fixes
the following as the rates of tax on manufac
tured tobacco, when sent beyond the limits of the
States lately in insurrection, viz :—lf removed
from the place of manufacture prior to Sept. 1,
I*o2, no tax ; if removed between September 1,
1563, aud July 1, 1864, fifteen cents per pound ;
if removed between July 1864, and April 1,
186.'), thirty-five cents per pouncf; and it re
moved since April 1860, forty cents per
pound. The present owner will be required
to prove when the property left the place of
manufacture.
An Decision.—A very important
decision has just been decided by Judge Lewis,
of the U. S, District Court iu Massachusetts.
The matters were the United States vs claim
ants for seventy baleß cotton. The cotton was
licked up floating off Wilmington,North Caro
lina, by the steamer Vicksburg. The United
States libelled it as property derelict. The
decision is now given that the property is a
prize of the United States. It has heretofore
been fiie practice in New York to allow the
under to keep the cotton and goods so picked
up, although the point has not been, previous
to this decision, adjudicated The dedeiou
estalishes, therefore, a very valuable prece
dent.
Tne Gkeat Bistillkkt Cass. —The Peoria
(HI) Transcript, rearing to the Danne-Fuller
distillery case decided ia that city, says The
defendants failed to appear, and judgment wa’
rendered by default. The parties wre assess
ed $187.7)29 28. The tax penalty on what was
confiscated amounts to $98,000. The number
of gallons confiscated is 46,882 32- 100. The
whole amount of tax penalities, value of prop
erty confiscated, Ac., amounts to over $300,000.
Th® whole number of barrels found shipped
in cxcees of report is 835. Thus far this is the
largest case that has occurred ia the country
among the distilleries that have been seized by
the government.
Extra Mail F acuities Col. Harris, the
efficient Post Office Agent has received instrue
tions from tbo Post Office Department to make
up a mail for Savannah by every steamer leav
ing for the city from Hilton Head, Charleston,
or Beaufort. By this arrangement, probably
two Northern mails per week will arrive at Sa
vanaah.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MCDpTFL, JULY 19, 1865,
EVILS OF WAR.
| We heard on iast Sabbath, at tbe Church of
[ Atonement, an exceedingly appropriate dis
j oouiee on this most fruitful them;. Tho Rev
erend speaker, after a beautiful teoidimn ou
Isaiah’s vision of Millenial glory and blessed
ness, proceeded to set forth the chief obstacles
to the realization of universal peace. Amongst
these obstacles was that eclat which invests
martial deeds alluded to in tho Shaksperean
phrase as constituting ‘’the pomp, pride and
circumstance of glorious war.”
He thought the minds of the young should
bo disabused of this prejudice, and that the
arts of peaceful husbandry and the other pon
strvauve a.encies of Christian civilization
should enjoy the popular preference and praise*
The reality of war, observed the speaker, is
something altogether different from tho fancy
sketch of Sophomoric orators. The frightful
scopes of .carnage and (LsolivlUm
to curdle thejdooiof the spectator and so in
cTuco the phranthropist to desire its abolish
ment throughout the world. He wa3 willing
enough to allow that there were circumstances
under which wars might be justifiably waged.
These, howevc-r, were exceptional cases—and
in general, they bad been undertaken for in
suffi ient reasons. In these cases the anthers
and al ettors were guilty of a high crime against
God and humanity. We think sermons of a
like character with the one above referred to,
nvgbl bo usefully delivered from all ojr pul
pits at the present time.
j State Lunatics A-ti-um.—Owing to the ina
: bility to use the funds in the State Treasury
|in purchasing supplies, the appropriate>n made
| by the LvjH'ature for tho State Lunatic A?y
--j in-.u lias been entirely useless ; a ,and it has, a’ec,
| been almost impossible to procum them on the
credit of the State. Some time ago, says the
| Macon Telegraph, the necessities of this insti
tution were communicated so Gen. Wjlsop,
who responded by ordering bis commissary to
issqa to the institution a certain quantity of
meal and bacon, and another order was re
cently made, directing the issue of all that
might be uecjgsary, after other means of get
ting subsistence should be exhausted. The
friends oi the poor unfortunates will with grat
itude remember Q u. Vy. for tji3 kindness in this
particular. The inmates of the asylum, under
treatment, now number about three hundred
and fifty.
4. Tain- rjinc Doath.—Gol.J. R. McClanna
han, late editor of the Memphis Appeal, has
met with a terrible accident, which resulted in
his death. On the’feiorning of June 29, he was
found in the ally in the rear of the Gayoso
House, Memphis. He had some time difring
the night fallen from the window of his room
in the third story of the hot?], and was liorri
bly mangled by the fall. Both arms and both
legs were broken, the latter near tb? knees,
Jiis Alia crushed, and he wW otherwise badly
bruised. Go was conscious when discovered,
and, in tho intensity ofhishgony, begged them
to kill him, aud put an end to his sufferings.
He died shortly after.
Col McCiannahan was,for many year.; editor
of tbe Memphis Appeal, and accompanied that
paper in its migratory tour through the various
Southern States during tbe late war
„ABMY OF TKKNESSKB MUSTtRBD CIT. —111 CGOI
pliauce with instructions front the Adjutant
General of the army, of date Adjutant Gen
erali Office, War Department, July Ist, 18G5,
all the remaining trocp3 of the 14tb, 15th. and
17th Army Corps, and of the Provisional Di
vision of tbo Army of the Tennessee, not in
cluded in the muster-out ordered in General
Order No 24 are to be at once paid off and
mustered out of she service
AH officers and men now absent, whose
leave will expire befoie the muster out of their
commands has been completed, have been or
dered to lepon. to their regiments at Louis
vil'o, Ky., otherwise to the nndesvous in their
respective States to which their commands jvil!
bo sent.
Cotton in Tex vs.—a letter from Galveston
to the New Orleans Times, daUd Jane 19th,
gives some items of interest to cotton dealers,
lhe writer states that there is much less cotton
in Texas than had been supposed. 8 .one authori
ties say that there is not over fifty thousand
bales in. the whole State, but lam inclined to
think this estimate too low. Ail the best cot
ton, they say, has either been carried to the
Rio G rande and shipped from there, or has run
the blockade here. • w The growing crop,
lam told, promises pretty well, aud they say
there is nearly, or quite, a half a crop planted.
Th 1 negroes seem to be working as usual.
The Union Club. —Notwithstanding the groat
exertions of the Constitutionalist and Trans
cript and their supporters, to break up the Au
gusla Union Club, we are happy to say that it'
still lives, and that its roil is increasing
daily.
The names of the signers to the Union Club
now number over one hundred* They ai£
Union men of the right stamp too. We trust
that the roll will soon number thousands.
There is room yet within tha Uni >n fold for
all who are loyal.
Insult to U. S. Tko *?s —An article which
appeared a few cays since in the columns of
the Augusta Transcript, was a studied insult
to seme U. S. troops stationed heTe, and their
officers. The proprietor of the Tramcriptin
his Tuesday's paper, after his attention had
been called to the matter, instead of apologi
sing for his course as he ought, rather glories
in his infamous conduct. We trust he now
will be compelled to make an ample apology
by those he so grossly insulted.
Foreign Arrival at Savannah.— I The first
foreign arrival at Savannah since the opening
of the port to foreign trade was the English
bark Nutfield, from Bermuda, via Matamoras,
with an assorted cargo.
The Gsand Lodge op the State op Geor
gia.—A special commanication of the Grand
Lodge will be convened iu the City of Macon
on the first Wednesday in August next. It is
the sincere ds are of tho Order that a full at
tendance of and ilegates be present. „
A Hebrew free school has been established
to York city.
i *' mi tutted xati->nal
J' : • . JS«|gH A VSK M»! E3.
j Hon. Fo:« Clark, Comptroller of the
j Gurrc-cdT b F'ca;a-y Department, Wash-
J ipgtcn, the following circular, rela
tive to the iw.p on of mutilate! National
Bink holes; 1
Trc.v-übvDj t int. Office op toe j
I “OoMfTd iLEK CF TUB CURRENCY,
Y’ • Fa-hinctox, D. C. )
The follow uggt St! rns are offered lelative
to the ;vii of mutilated circulating
notes ot Banks, and their return to
this office:
First—The o es are to be redeemed by the
banks by whij ii;ey aro respectively issued,
sarid t hould not returned to this office in
sum-! lets than >, or in even mutiples of
that ammmt.
Skcan 1 Mtrf J.tcd notes which have been
tom or dcface4'i i! be received, when present
cd issued. tj^ijß_-U> r ovldud..ali-.
■ > lur Tibliterateii that it
■’Htfiffiflje d'et a r.uiaed by what bank the notes
were issued
Third -Fragments should be redeemed by
banks, iu full, when accompanied by an affi jf
vir stating the cause and m anner of mutilation,
and that the missing part of the note is totally
destroyed The good character of the affiant
should also bo fuify vciuhed for by tae officer
before whom the affidavit is taken.
The fiiln'ts mist be forwarded to this
office, with rho fragments to which they relate
iu order that b-uks presentiag such parts of
notes may obtain cicdit for tho same.
Exceptional cases nmy occur in which no
affi-1 ivil can b ■ obhainxi, and where no reason
able doubts can exesi in regard to the entire
destruction or iritfurabie damage to missing
portions of notes—vs t>y fire, acids, &e. where
evidence oi identity is ample by the signature
of one or both effi- rs, or title or loca'ily ot
the note—where tty) iategrity of the billholcjer
fs uqexceplion iifio, uad . where no question
eouy.l arise in reg ud to a fr-tdiiient or impio
per use ol pu-Ls; in such instance
judicious dircr.mLiuti{.u must necessarily be
exeiCifi-.-u by i: u-oiii ■of B-tuks. It i j , bow
ever, adv-.-:F-M f !I*at s®ah notes bo received at
then- iu• i face value, an i a perfect note given
therefor, a r e wd t.- i-a: preserved of the tact
to be sen' l to ibis cflic,a' *Uh the mutilated note
when returned for rojempMoq tbo bank, in
wliioh ca§e fit*- e-; • 1 c vill* fce aijowed In this
department.
Fourth—when uo a.I ,i lieu con be obtain
cd m r c.ou to t'.e mining parts, and possi
bility exists that any improper use can be
m ade of tho sam it n re,corntn?nded that a
proportionate value only be allowed, estima
ting this by comparison of the portion returned
to the missing pari.
A record shoaM bal kept of the amount
io all such in.- a m:-, and a vouchor of sumo
Tendered to this qffic.-.>. when the mutilated
note or notes si: -,;l ,be io turned for rederup-
E° n F. Clarke,
-•Ooinpf toiler of tho Ourroncy.
fcAFi unAuni ron Pardon".— The following
circular Jotter of the Attorney General is is
en dto the-reveia! Provisional Governors of
ibs Southc-r i fTales ;
. After consultation with the President, I de
sire to call y0;.,-' attention to and ask your co
operation. in cases arising under the procla
mation of amnesty and pardon of May 23,
Wf.-tQ the :raiJjS • Seilrea"'to
mane the operation of that fnstrument as gen
eral as possible, it is envious ihat great dangers
are to lie apprei ended from a loose or indis
criminate-exercise of clemency In order,
therefore, to protect your State and the Gen
elal Gov.ni.me.ii! from the evils re ulting from
such giee of the iv.-.urat’a pifrdoning power,
J desire to refer to ,01, hereafter the applica
tions for pardon, m ailed n pursuance of that
proclamation, by cif;z.-iss of your Slate, in re
i.ilion to which tiiis (U/iartuient lack 3 informa
tion, and to risk from jvut a report in each ease
as to the p.'opvki ty of graating the clemency
invoked
't he special points on which information is
(ledrtd are: First i> the petitioner, irom such
information as you can obtain, likely to be a
peaceable and useful citizen in the future.
Second have proc • >diu;s been instituted
against his property under the confiscation
act. Third, is any p-.'purfy belonging to him
now in the possession of the United States
authorities as abao.dou|h 1 property or other
wise la cas<?,j where Inference is made to you,
all the papers on liie.in this office will be sent
to you tor \ ur .into;nation, and it is earnestly
desired that, you will give them a prompt and
c ireful attention, an i return them with your
r< port :
ine Pres id .-nt desired those cases referred
to you for two objects: First, to do away as
tar as may ho po.- dd, with any risk of grant
ing pajd .n-. to di.-1.-y-J or otherwise improper
persons, and especial s* to such persons as from
previous-co - uni mn; character are not to be
trusted with the <•>’.: trol of that class, which
has been h ;p:-iiy c .orted by rebellion and
war, from si ivory to freedom, and to which
lhe government looks in the not far distant fu
tore tor suppm t, and from intelligent and loyal
citizens Second., t:m President desires to
strengthen your ha-*. >3 i Q the re organization
of society in your State by every moans con
stitutionally btJoi gieg to him. To you, pri
marily, lie looks lor the support of law and
order in your Shale, and for The institution of
such measures as will at the earliest day possi
b!o piare her in proper relations with the Fed
eral Union, and thin restore her to all the
blessings of a government which we proudly
think to be a-; siren as it is merciful. The
Uaded Slates Distric, Attorneys are instructed
to render such asidstauce as may be necessary
n the matter,
MEETIWi OFTHK 11OUHUOLDEKg OF THE
fcA. it R ASD iliSi&lSa tiOMPASY.
The stcekh -id-rs of the Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company, held an adjourned
meeting in this city, on Tuesday.
The meeting having been called to order,
President, John P. King, stated that the stock
holders were assembled together in accordance
with adjournment of a meeting recently held,
but wh.ch was disqualified for action by rea
son of the want, of t>. quorum and directed the
Secretary to call the roll of names.
Mr. Barnett, from Washington, moved, in
order to greater taiedhion in business, to
omit the Calliu r of t ui roll, and let gentlemen
present give their u * rue s to the Secretary,
which was agreed to. Mr. Barnett then moved
the appointment,o' a committee on proxies.
Messis. Barnett, Hutchins and J. W. Davis,'
were appointed that committee.
After examining the credentials of proxies,
the Committee rep.utt i the iffitnber of shares
represented personally to be 5,905. Those by
proxies 17,.75 Total shares represented
22.240, but venturi.! the opinion that, inas
much as a number of the certificates of prox
ies were attested by magistrates, ejected or
appointed since the p is,-ngc of the Ordinance
ot secession, they wire of doubtful repute,
and the Chairman in behalf of the Committee,
deemed it advisable to report no quorum pres
ent. The report was accepted.
After some little discussion on points of
minor interest, Judge Hutchins moved an ad.
journment to the next annual meeting, (first
Tuesday after see..,nd Monday in May,) which
being seconded, was put, and agreed to.
Constitutionalist .
Chi'k James Web.-t-r, aged seventy-four
years, w-,o resides on Stevens Creek, Grant
county, Kentucky, is ft, q,thet of toity-five
cni dren His grand-children number eighty,
and ms great-granachs Iren tsvenly-seven.
He is now living with hi.sfouiih wife, who is a
sister of the wtte of one of hie own sons. Father
and son thus stand in relation of brother-in-law
1 to each other,
IREASI'RY OfHCCLAft.
TREAStrr.Y D, PaRTMSNT, j
W Asm»GToN, D C., Jane 27. f
she various rules aid regulations heretofore
prescribed by the Secreir.ry.of the Treasury in
regard to the above uarnsd subjects, having
been rendered nugatory in whole or in part by
the changed condition of affairs in the South
ern States, and executive orders and proclama
tiods, and the War Department hiving as
sumed charge of freed man, abandoned lands.
Ac , under the provisions of the act of Con
gress approved March 3, 1855, the followin''
instructions as to the duties of officers cd tho
Treasury Department in tbe premises aro pro
scribed and wdi be regarded as in full force
and effect immediately on receipt thereof bv
any officer whose action is in any wise affected
thereby:
First All restrictions on commercial inter
course iu and with tho Stales -and parts of
States heretofore declared in insurrection aud
on the purchase, transp. rtation aad sale of the
products thcjepba:c renmvi and wo to the
■ L'affspoTfSUon iher to or therein of arms, am
munition, articles from which ammunition is
made, gray uniforms and gray cloth, and ex
cept also those relating to property heretofore
purchased by she agents, or captured by. or
surrendered to the military forces of tho Uni
ted States. Nor will any less or taxes be coi
lected, except those imposed by the customs
and internal revenue laws. And the supervis
ion necessary to prevent the shipment of the
prohibited articles will be exercised ouly by
the regular and ordinary officers of tbs cus
tomq acting under the revenue laws of tho
United States.
Second. Subordinate, officers discharging
duties in regard to co'nun icial intercourse,
under tbe regulations referred to. will consid
er tiieir official connection with this depart
ment terminating with the SCkh inst, without
further notice.
Third. Agents for the purchase of products
of the iqsrp-rt ptioaary States, on government
account, will dos; their official business east of
the Mississippi River with the 'fransaotions of
tho 13'h iust, and west of if with the Irausac
tiocs of the 24ih inst,returning to sellers all
property or money received or collected since
those dates respectfully, and using such dis
pitch in the premises that- their'connection
with the department may, it possible, terrain
ata with tfjo SQth. inst.
iourtb.. Officers of the department charged
with the duty of vccaiving and collecting, or
having iu their possession, or under their con
trol, captured, abandoned or confiscable per
sonal property, will dispose of the same in ac
cordance with regulations on tho subject
heretofore prescribed, at th* earliest time con
sistent with the public interests, and vviil re
frain from receiving finch from military or
naval authorities after the 30,h iust. This will
not be const:u-'d, however, as interfering with
the operations of the agents now engaged iu
receiving or collecting the properly recently
captured by, or- Bin-rendered to the forces of
the United States, whether or not covered by
or included in the records, Ac , delivered by
rebel militaiy officers or cotton agents. Those
so acting will continue discharge tho duties
thus imposed until sutuPproperly is ail receiv
ed or eatisfactor iy accounted for, and until the
amount sr secured is shipped or otherwise dis
posed of under the regulations on the 'subject
heretofore prescribed; and they will use all
the means at their command with the utmost
vigor, to the ead that all the property so col
lected, captured or luni'-d over sbalLbe secured
ia tha ,United states
cost and delay. After the 30da inst., Die duly
of receiving captured and abandoned property
not embraced in the above exception, {will he
discharged by the usual and regular officers of
the customs at the several places-where they
may be located iu accordance with the regula
tions relating to the subject; and officers "here
totore performing that duty will give them all
the. aid and information in thoir power to en
able them to carry out tiio same.
Filth. Officers of this department charged
with the care or supervision or having in their
possession r f under their control any abandoned
or confiscable lands, houses or tenements, vviil
turn them over to a duiy authorized officer of
the Bureau of Refugees, Freed men and Aban
doned Lands as j ir as they may be required or
demanded by the same, together with all
money, books, records and paper arising from
or relating to the property so turned over, ta
king proper receipts or vouchers therefor.—
This rule >vi!l also govern the actions of all
agents of this department connected In any
way with the care of freedman, &-3, so far as it
may be applicable; and a 1 persons asking for an
information in regard to tho property so turn
ed over, or for the reless i of the same, or for
he release of any money or proceeds arising
therefrom, will be referred ta the Commission
er of Refugees,Freedmen and AbamloncdL ands,
at Washington, to ighom communications on
the snbjet -houfd be addressed.
Sixth. Officers of this department having in
tlroir possession, or under their control, any
money whatever arisisg from fees collected
under the commercial intercouse regulations,
except those collected for the benefit of freed
men (which will be disposed of under section
5), or from the sales ot captured, abandoned,
or confiscated property, will forthwith deposit
the same with the nearest assistant treasurer,
designated depositary, or deposit bank, keep
ing the amounts from the different sources
separately, to the credit of H A. Rialey, Esq ,
supervising special agent, Ac; taking there
for receipts quadruplicates, which receipts
must show whence the sums were reeeeived,
one of which will he retained by the officer so
depositing, one forthwith sent to the Secretary
of tho Treasury, one to the Commissioner of
Customs, and one to Mr. Risley, at Washing
ton.
Seventh. All officers above referred to ex
cept proper'olilcers of the cu tom house acting
exclusively under the revenue laws, will, after
they have closed their official business as above
directed and sold at auction to the highest bid
der the furniture and property remaining on
hand aud accounted for the .proceeds of the
same forthwith systematicalijqAnange thebooks
records, papers,&c, of their late offices, that they
may easily be referred 10 and.examined, pick
them in secure and waterproof boxes and for
ward the same so marked as lo indicate their
contents, together with their respective resig
nations, addressed to the Secretary of the
Treasury, Washington city.
High McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury.
AMNESTY 1 0 i’H*S REBEL feULDIEiiS.
Attorney General’s Office, j
Washington, Jans 19lh, ISCS. )
IP. W. Holden, Provisional Qovsrrfior, N C
Sir :—The President has referred to me so
much of your letter of the 13:h instant as re
fers to the 12th exception iu the proclamation
of 29th May, 1805.
I am instructed to say that the paroled rebel
solflieis, who are noUexclp led because of some
other exception in the proclamation, should be
allowed to take the benefit of the amnesty and
vote.
I am, Sir, most respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
James Speed,
Attorney Oemral.
The prospect tor the California wine crop of
18G5 is very good. The yield will b3 larger
than ever before, unless some exiraodinary
misfortune should befall the graps._ About
two millions of vines are now in bearing con
dition.
A Mies Sullivan, of Newport R. I , was in
stantly killed by lightning recently Koe wa
in thevard and had an iron poker m her hand,
probably adjusting a spout to a waxr ca^n.
Gov. Pierpont has issued an order authoriz
ing st ven counties of Virginia to hole e fictions
with a view to the reorganisation 01 tfifi a.a-.e,
and its return to civil jurisdiction, j
v O.L, LXXIVNEW SERIES VOL. XXIV NO. 30,
FOREIGN JiKVIS
With the exception of the interior of Western
Australia the continent is now pretty we !
open from South to Norib to theente’-priv cf
settb rs. Contrary to popular expectation th e
has been plenty of water found, and l-.rtim
plains cap able of sustaining the »5 fie surplus
population of Euiope.
A hundred and fifty thousand copies of a
biography of Mr. Lincoln h ive been sol i at
Paris
|hc Portuguese government has at last pas
sen an act which practically abolished tbe
monopoly in tobacco in that country.
It is understood .that uu arn.istice has been
entered into between the King of Italy and
the Holy:Father of Rune—who repudiates the
kingdom of Italy as a usurpation—!o the ef
fect that no bishops of the Church in Italy
shall be required to take the oath ot allegiance
to the crowu, but shall simply be called uoon
to enter into a wfiten agreement not to vio
late tbe laws of the kingdom. Xn otner words
the Ktug admits the spiritual claims of the
Church, and ths Church agrees to neutral
respecting the temporal claims of the Kinv.
A return has just been furnished to-Parlia
ment, by he Marquis of Huntington, showing
flat the expenses incurred on all clases of
Armstrong guns, their fittings, projectiles, etc.,
including the 100 pounder smooth-bore guns,
since tbe date of the return furnished to Mr.
Monsell’s committee, in May, 18(53, amounts
to £285,411 Is Sd. The changes and altera-,
tiona iu tho same period have cost £15,528 2s
41, while the extra cost in providing projec
tiles, etc, in consequence of alterations, has
been *5,032 4- 2d
The value of the stakt'sywhn by the French
h-o Gladiator, at the Dauby races, was SB4,
Matilda Heron, (he aefress, has fallen heir
to $(5,000 by the death/ ->f a brother.
The Emperor of A us fa has announce;! Lis
intention of being crow-H-d King of Hungary.
■§An Important Oao;-.u Begimental Of
ficers—The Secretary ’ J Wav has issued a
very important order L, regard to penalties
for tho neglect of ifuty 'and disobedience of
orders on the paj-t ot couiiqissioncd officers in
charge of troops about tube discharged tho
service. The Older reads:
”In many instances delays have resulted in
paying mustered out troops, in consequence
of regimental and company officers allowing
their men to disband, in violation of orders,
prior to their commands being reported for
payment and final discharge to tho chief
mustering, officer, or his assistant, after ai ri
val at the designated State rendezvous. In
other cases there has been delay from com
pany and tegimental officers neglecting te
furnish full data relative to the enlisted men,
thus rendering the muster- out rolls imperfect,
and necessitating corrections.
With the arrangements of the War Depart
ment, as now completed, there need bo no
delay, and consequently uo hardships or iu
conveaienoe to the enlisted man, if full data
for the roils bo furnished in tbd'fleld, and, ff
after arrival in their respective States-, as well
as during transit thereto, commissioned officers
look closely after tho comfort and interest of
tbeir men, and remain constantly with thorn,
so as toenfoßfia order and control them.
It is therefore ordered, That Chief Muster
ing Officers, and their Assistants, report by j
teWgCam the names of atl negleciful officer 3 1
'*b4V;i I’nrr otrarg a;/ai:y»I. tVi(-m, to n- Adju
tant General of tbe Array, (withholding in the
meantime, their final payments and honorable
discharges,) with a view to their summary-arid
dishonorable dismissal from the service with
forfeiture of all pay. The report by telegraph
will be sent promptly upon erres of neglect
benig brought to notice, and, at the same
time, tho facts ir. ful will b3 reported by mail
Governors of States are requested to report
delinquencies coming to their notice, to the
Chief Mustering Officer of the State, and to
the Adjutant General of the Array, so that a
prompt remedy may be applied.”
NEWTS SimVIAHV.
A procession ol colored men prominaded the
streets of New Oi leans, July 4, singing old
John Brown.
A statue of Horace Maun ha3 in
the Massachusetts State House.
General Sherdian bus issued orders iuvifing
all Texas refugees to raturn homo and resume
possession of their property. Home guard or
ganizations will not 'o3 permitted, and the citi
zens will he held responsible for tho acts of
guerillas.
The Virginia Legislature has adjourned.
Nearly all tho measures required by Gov. Fier
pont to assist him in the wmk of reconstruct
ing the State Government were passed, elicit
jug little or no debate in their p-isnge. Tho
most inpoitant of theso was that extending tho,
elective franchise to persons wins were exclud
ed from it by the Alexandria constitution.
These persons arc tho-ie who have voluulaiily
given aid and comfort to the rebellion eiuct.
the first of January, 1864. The election of
msmbers of Congress and of the new Legisla
turn is to take place on the 12th of next Oc
tober. At this election the people are aiso to
decide whether the Legislature shall have pow
er to repeal the constitutional provision which
excludes from holding office all who have
been engaged in the rebellion.
General H u tsulf, commanding at Petersburg,
Va., lias forbidden, in an official order, the
holding of any more meetings by the planters
to establish a fixed price for the labor of the
negroes, or to make distinctions prejudicial to
their interests, and no difference in rato of
compensation ior the same -labor by whites
aud blacks is to be allowed.
The total receipts of the Chicago sanitary
fair, foot up three hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars
Great demand for negro labor exists in Mary
land. The farmers there are paying fifteen
dollars per month to males, and from ten to
twelve to females, for field labor. The sup
ply is still short, and agents have been sent in
.different directions to make contrucls and in -
duce immigration, notwithstanding their re
cent expulsion from Richmond.
lu Yucatan Maximilian’s imperial forces are
said to he ex exterminating the Indians.
A petition is circulating through Minnesota
to the next Legislature, in favor of woman’s
suffrage. One of the reasons stated for it is,
that it would tend to impart a refining influ
ence in our politics.
They kill pigs by steam in Chicago. A great
iron claw, with fingers, hooks out tho p’ga
which are quarrelling in the pen below, and
lifts the porkers to agiblet near by, and then
plunges them again into scalding water. By
the machine fifty porcined are kilJied, tedded,
scraped, cleaned, split and hung in rows ready
for salting within an hour.
Brigadier General Patrick has issued an or
der prohibiting all officers and paroled men,
and ail others not on duly in Richmond, from
wearing side aim-, and revolvers.
The thorough bird blacx stallion Don Juan,
ridden t v Gen. Custer at the grand review at
Washington in May, is said to have been taken
by him for his own use without compensation.
Hie own-r is said to have afford undoubted
proofs of loyalty, whereupon Secretary Sain
ton gave an older -or the rendition of the an
imal Ho was valued at $9,000. Like action
was taken lately in the case of a pair of
matched mares, for a year in possession of
Major Britton, Payma«<-(ir’s Department.
One of the Herald’s correspondents has re
cently made a tup aciuss .‘aouth Carolina in
the tiack oi.Sitt:ri!jat.'3 and he descri
bes the havoc acu desolation as most comoJete -
The route of the avenging army is marked by
burned chimneys, obliterated railroads and
a touatry pretty well cleaned of animals,
forage and surplus provisions,
lV4y tv isiiiMiras news.
The Navy D pariment hasconcl- ded to send
an non clad gunboat to the Pacific coast.
1 ;>e troops encamped around Washington are
complaining of bad treatment by commissa
ries.
No resident of Florida has yet appeared as a
candidate for Governor of that State.
Gen. Howard, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, has
received a letter from Gen. Fisk, Commissioner
r 's Freed men for Missouri and Arkansas, stat
ing that tne affairs o! the froedmen are at pres
ent ra a very prosperous condition. Taere is
a great demand for laborers, and irood frmma
are offered. Iu Missouri there are only two huu
died and thirty fix colored people dependent
upon the Government for sustenance; wbiffi
ihc.c are forty-four hundred and fifty two
w..ites suppor.ed by the Government
i he Second Comptiolfer has decided that all
persons trttusfoire.i to the iuyj, and ail dis
charged from the army to enlist, and who did
enlist on such-discaarge in the navy, aro en
titled to tho same bounty to which ttiey would
have been entitled for tho same period of sor.
vice under their enlistment in the army, to lie
paid out of the proper appropriation for
navy or marine corps, provided that any prize
money to which they may become entitled
shall be subject to a deduction of the amount
of said bounty.
The rumor that Gen. Beauregard is in Wash
ington under arrest is incorrect. He is still at
N-.-w Oilesns.
Surgeon Geneial Barnes ■ cautions melioal
officers of the army against exhiliitiug any
table statement or paper belonging to tho offi
cial records of the Medical Department, or giv
ing any information, copy or extract from the
same, or giviug any information to any per
sons whatever, except to those whom such
information should bo rendered under existing
regulations aud orders, unless by written au
thority of the Surgeon General. Circulars and
circular letters requesting information as to
tho results ot thoir obseivatiou and practice
will not be replied to by the Medical Depart
ment.
An immense mass of testimony in support
of pre-emption claims on the Suecal ranch
the city lauds of Benicia, and the United
States reservation at Benicia, California, have
been received m the General Land office. By
act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1863,
provision is made for pro emptioa rights with
in their limits, and as the lands are very valua
ble there is much contest for their possession.
The casrs are now before the department for
final adjudication.
The returns received at the General Land
Office show that in April last over fifty six
thousand acres, valued at over seventy thou
sand dollars, were taken ftp for actual settle
ment under the Homestead law? at bfc- Cloud,
Minnesota.
The Freedman’s Bureau has set apart a large
quantity ol confiscated and abandoned land in
the South, iu tracts of various .localities, for
tho especial benefit of negroes. Not less than
hundred thousand aro now subsisting on
government rations in the State of Virginia
alone.
Junius Brutus Booth,' brother of tho assassin
Booth, has been unconditionally released from
the Oid Capitol Prison, by order of tho Secre
tary cf War.
The East and West Gulf squadrons aro to
' ACtfbfjf’
R ar Admiral Thatcher.'
Mr. D H. Bingham, of Alabama, who was driv
en out of the State at the beginning ot tho war
for his Union sentiments, has prepared a state
ment to be pr seated to tho Preaid .lit protest
iug against tho appointment of Mr. Paraona as
provisional Governor.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
made the following decision :—Where an en
trance fee ia demanded of spectators at a race
course, the proprietor should lake license un
der tho second paragraph of article 39, section
79, of the act ot June 30, 180-M Tho Commis
sioner has also decided that where a perron
keeps a itor.se, the use cl which is necessary to'
(he prosecution of his business, tho expense of
keeping the horse, including iced, &c, may bo
deducted from income. When the horse ia
usrul partly for business producing income, and
partly for pleasure, so much of the expense for
keeping the horse as is clearly referable to
productive 1 tbor may be deducted.
The friends of Mrs. Surratt have taken to
deicnding her by moms of anonymous pam
phlets, which tin y scatter liberally through tho
Washington hotels.
Under the law of 1862 for establishing agri
cultural and mechanical coibgcj in the States,
there have been selected for tho State of Min
neseota 119.212 acres of public land, leaving a
residue ot 787 acres yet to be selejfel to com
pliment due the Slate under the nutate.
The extraordinary feat of driving a horse,
hitched to. a light sulky, from Boston to Port
land, a distance of about one hundred and
twelve miles, between sunrise and sunset, soma
minutes over fifteen hours, was attempted 0110
day recently, ior a wager or two thousand dol
lars, by Edward Brackett, of It .-x bury, Mass.,
with his gelding Lyon. The start was made
from Boston at the appointed time, and all
went w.dl until withm about lour miles and a
half of Portland, a full half hour of <ifie stipu
lated time yet remaining wnen the horse stag
gered and fell, as t ough in a fit, ami shortly
after died. It is estimated that over twenty
thousand dollars had been bet on the affair.
Gen. Grant’s monthly pay, income tax de
ducted, is $1,062,70. This exclusive or com
mutation of quarters, etc, which amounts to
nearly as muon more.
The Bieton Gozetts says that a seizure was
made last week ia that city, by the Boston
custom hou-;e officers, ol several casks of what
purported to be empty ale bottles mado of
earthen wave, which were found to contain
from twelve to fifteen high cost cigars each, bo
neat ly packed that it geemed almost incredible
that they could have been packed there with
out damage. They came irom Matamoras'
The appointment of the Commissioner of
Lands to occupy the position of Commissioner,
of Indian Affairs, and lhe assignment of
Joseph Wilson to the office ol the former,
raises the question as to the legality of the
acts of the ratter under tho fav? of I*>3, wjnch
provides for such appointments only ‘in case
of death, resignation, absence from the seat or
acvernment or sicknes--," neither of which,
specifications apply to tho Commissioner of
Banda, w nc act# as Commissioner of Jcdian
Affairs.
The General Land Office has received a list
of lands selected at the land office at Maya
viile, Gal, by the eg.-nt of tho Central Pacifio
Railroad Company, as injurious,to said compa
ny, under the grant of July 1, 1862, and July
2, 1864, to aid ta the construction of the Pa
cific Railroad, amounting to 55,203 ac T es.
Ihe selections were duly certified to by tho
register and receivers a3 free from conflicting
ciaims and subject to selection under the grant,
and that th°jr fees had been pail and the
other expenses of surveying, Ac, duly deposi
ted with the Assistant Treasurer at ban Fran
cisco, aa required by tho act of July 2,1864.
Returns received at the General Land Office
show that in April over fifty six thousanujacres,
valued at over seventy tuousand dollars, wera
taken up for actual settlement under tho
Homestead law.
The Savannah Ilera'd congratulates the citi
zens of that place and all who are interested
in the commercial prosperily of the city, on
the rapidly increasing number of boats at our
wharves.
The price of coal ia coining dova la th3
Pennsylvania market.