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HfS ton tho people o 'll" 1 S-iite wiil have to elect
a body of men to meet on*l it present their in
tercet in sovereign convention. This duty is
one of no culinary inleroit. j Lio peisons
elected will have to discharge no ordinary
dutic-. Gef rgia by her own voluntary act has
placed herself in peculiar relations with the
General Government. The deed was done in
hot blood, and without due reflection. Fanati
cism and dein.igoguclsm carried the day, and
untold woes and sufferings have since been
visited upon our people in consequence of the
misstep. It is now too late to retrieve the
past. We must, look to Ihe future, and so
guide the ship of State that she will avoid
. the shoals and quick sands which cow sur
round her.
The Convention is to meet on Wednesday
October 1 Never iu the history ol Georgia has
there asembltd a body o! her sons upon whose
acts rested such a r<pousibility. Never in her
history was more wiseom, sagacity, and states
mirifthip dem tilde 1 The members ol ihe
Convention should be her most able sons;
men noted lot their clear heads and honest
hearts , men who have shown by their deeds,
both before the war urrd dining its continuance
that they are capable of rising above suit and
self interest ; capable of thrusting aside all
passion and prejudice ; capable of delibera -
ting calmly and p itriotic.iliy for (ho g »od ot
the 8t ate and for the welfare ot tt.e whole
country.
The question with those entitled to vote
houid he —not win* wants the < Hi e ; not what
friend Blisll be foisted into position-*-but who
is the man suited, by experience, to dis
charge the duties the < ouvi ntioii will he called
upon to perfoiiii. In ibis hour, pregnant
ffitU great events events which may affect
• common wealth for alt time, there should
inis it
he i ( rt y B P^ fiXnibttcd— noue winnover,
o'„"s,‘ i„ - «><• F*»b" lo l '“ mw ' ,l ' oul , l bi
th„ M( , ~uu '**'<» ° r 7““**,
'>■'"* 'UI -a U.. 0,,
• i her ja the L'mslativa Hall o<
once occupied oy '* ’ w
... , . -t|ul a atiofa- Itis by her own
this great and powc. ’•
. .. . , -j'ver her former post—
acta that she can n * ■ . 1
.. ~. , statesmnnshiand
tion. All tho prudence, ■’
patriotism she can assem v, fo tegothei w. 1
needed to restore her to a stand " |U * n ' l ' l
which she can again take i nit hi the onaiil.
of the United Stales Therefore,- VV,J again s.vj
let none but the best men 111 it c atl h>dud
be elected to the earning Conve. Mion. Ihe
machinery will have to b > set in mot uu ail ;ht,
or we will be Obliged, when our vepresi- udatives
* ask admission at Washington, to do all our
work over again bn ore the desired oiijsct is
gaiued.
Georgia now stands in need of (he services cf
her moat talented and experienced sons. It is
the duty of ail who are permitted to exercise
tho elective franchise at the coming election to
■oe that she has them.
'ill iC Klt V SC' -Til 1 H Tlls *
The subseriptions to the third series of tho
7,80 notes aro steadily increasing, s< me times
running to near mx m’llioui; a day. TbeTrt us
ury Department is now filling all orders on the
clay they aro received ’I hero is no necessity
for further argument in relation to the desir
ableness of this loan. Tho war expenses are
nearly over; and," when wo square ih-.i hooks,
tho Government will need no further loans,
except as tl.ey may bo required in the future
for tbe redemption of r.ich portions of those
now made as it may not suit our convenience
to pay, and these will Do obtained at peace and
not at war rates, indeed, a very large portion
of the community believe that it will be better
for iJ.' e Country simply to pay the interest,and
permit tin? debt to remain as a tapir d-a per
manent basis A' l 'h“ devoiOpnn nt ot oui gt' .fi
*xeaonrc.es. The m' ul w * u) * ;:1S Government
bonds has practically y'bt •■'* much moneyas
i% the same amount were hi hank notes.
The bonds are 1 imply a pein'.ftm nt i n dit
representing so much of ilia national wo.tiih,
aud available as cq.ltal for any bmiuess enter
prise, with tin' advantage oi diawmg hdeltVt,
until used ; while ihe l ank nottauf .. iiiciud
Banks —and we shall soon have no olhc mo
but tho smaller hand to hand eiruil itii.fi' !epce
uentatives of the bonds, cut up for convenience,
but bearing no interest J bus the bill holder
oi a U. 8. 7-o0 note in evey practical souse has
bis money, and at the same time geo- a liberal j
interest for lc. The nation;'.! debt has certain- J
ly mads the wealth of the country available
for great practical results It has mob! z-. and i(s
capital, aud given a firm foundation, net only
to banking, but other great and private inter
mit 8 -that require credit on the one hand, bur
«hat security for the people on the other, of
»hich the con airy's bond Is tho best and only
u iflieieut i<p esentaiive.
According to the latest telegraphic advices
therv rcui lir.s but a few of lb sevtn-tlwi ties to
be disposed of As scou as the i i.U red by
the Government agent has b on sold, the pt’ce
will advance. The icterist on them being so
great, and the nay of that interest be : ng so
sure, large amounts of them will he continual
iy taken by the European capitalists as a per
manent investment, l hen those of onr monied
men who delayed snbtcvil iiig to the original
loan will perceive the great opportunity they
have allowed to slip by without improving. We
predict that in less than a twelve months that
the seven thirty bonds of the United States
will stand higher and be inose eagerly sought
after than the bonds of ary existing guvert
ment.
COXFIDEXCE IN PttEMDENT Jeil NSCN-The
Democratic Convention of Vermont, at its late
session passed the annexed resolution ot confi
dence in President Johnson :
Uesolved, That iu the wise and cousd diet:
a \ policy of President Jehn on to iv- are all
the States to their ccnxiitutioual positions, re
investing them with rights and coriospyading
duties, and cementing anew the integrity of
the government, we discern a most happy an -
gury that the malignity which suite and col
lision has engendered may be utterly supplant
ed by-the fraternity which enabled our fathers
to form the Constitution aud create the Uu
ion.—and if, with Jacksonian firmness lie will
maintain his policy against the peking of trea
son on the one hand, and the raving and ri
baldry of fanaticism on the other, wo tender to
*• 'H our earnest aud undivided support,
bio
AUGUSTA, GA. t WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 2,1863.
TUB TWO PitESIDSVIS
This is the titlS of an address delivered be
tore.the faculty and students ol Dickinson Col
lege, Penmylvania, by that accomplished jour
nalist, John W. Forney, of Washington City.
Adopting the style of Plutarch, he institutes
a comparison between Abraham Lincoln and
Andrew Johnson lie shows that they both
sprung from the honest working classes of the
South, and that while they affiliated with dif
ferent political parties, they were both alike
disticgiffsbed for their intrepid advocacy of
popular rights and for their intense anduucal
culating devotion to the Union.
There is much in the temper and material of
this whole address lo make it attractive to the
general reader, irrespective of his party affini
lies But there is a single graphic delineation
which deserves the careful study of every pat
riot.
Mr. Forney acknowledges that he received
the facts from the lips of Mr. Lincoln. It was
in tbo early days of the session of ’O.O an 1 ’CI
The plot for the dismemberment of the Union
had been already concocted. The adiiiinistia
tioa of Mr. Buchaean was known to connive at
the scheme.
In the House, the leading diauniouists were
tierce and trequent in their denunciation of the
Government. In the Senate there was hardly
more decency or decorum t uoq in the other
branch ot Congress. At the suggestion ol Mr.
Seward, the Northern Senators generally re
trained fiom all bitterness of reply. He un
dorstood full well that it was a prut of the plan
of the disutffoni ts to provoke the friends of
the Government into an angry discussion, biD
he was resolved to lurnisli them with no pre
text tor their rash enterprises.
Ii was at this juncture that Andrew Johnson,
in the spirit of a true knight, entered the list
to battle tor the llrgof his imperrilled country.
With an eloquence but little itfferior to that o(
the gieat Athenian orator when
“He fulminod G.ar Greece
To Macedon an I Arta3teis.es' throne.’’
did Mr Johnson untna3k the conspirators au<l
etigmatiz i thoir policy a3 treason against the
Government of the United Slates.
The etfect was fifoetpioal on the entire Senate.
“Then," said Mr. Seward, !, y/u£ I assured
that a sound had gone forth from the Senate
Chamber, which would embolden every faint
ing friend of the Union in the South.’’
“It required’’said lie, “a Sou'hern Demo
urat to utter that sound so as to malic if effec
tual'’' And he adde 1 “that the mind which
recognizes a special Providence in the fall of
a sparrow caunct fail Uo perceive the hand of
God in this opportune championship of Au
di*. wJohnson.”
How much tn he regretted that the voice
of timely warning was »o utterly contemned
by the political leaders of the South.
VVh.at suffering and privation might have
beouavohffd. How much strife and blooff
shed would have born spared this devoted
laud. But madness ruled the hour, and in
stead of profiting by the wise counsels of tho
incorruptible ctatesmun ot Tennessee, he was
sneered at as a miscreant and pul t room, hymen
who have since exhibited no decided relish
(or “villainous -saltpetre.”
We make these allusions iu no unkind spirit,
but simply that our countrymen may have a
right estimate of tho wisdom and disinterested
ness of that eminent patriot who iu the prov
idence of Goa controls the destinies of this
great nation.
Tue Beuctiis of Masonkt. —We are pleased
to record ihe fact that tae Masons of Massa
chusetts have made off r of their hospitality to
leading brethren of their ancient Order at the
South. Coming from Massachusetts, too, this
fact will rejoice (lie heart of every true Mason
—willshow him the secret of the fact that while ’
dynasties have been swept away—while em
pires have went down -the lamp that was trim
med in the days of Solomon his continued to
burn brightly until to-day.
Masonry lias in the past done good service
to religion hy keeping alive among men the
spirit of its morality. Opinion in these latter
and lys had taken the shape very generally of the
conclusion tnat in (hat respect the Mosonic
system had outlived its uses. The error of
that public judgment was at all limes plain to
the thinkers who aro able to see underlying*the
fair surface of modern eiviliz ition, ps iu the
ease of ancient civilization, all these wild and
destructive passions that constitute to society
a constant menace. But confidence in the per
manence of our social system of modern times
has been exposed to all classes of intelligence
as a delusion, by the atrocities that, within the
last four years, and up to even to day, have
burst from the bad pa c sions of men, darkening
our civilization with the shadows and ashes of
a me ral desolation. Under these (circumstan
ces ir is delightful to observe the humanities
that have been enshrined for ages in the bosom
of the mystic brotherhood coming upon tire
sC?ne and rising on the wreck, holding out to
mankind the language of universal brother
h od and love. All hoc** to that precious
institution of the ancient times, vrb'ch, wffin
,-vrea Christianity iiaa hao its voice choked to a
very great extent by the falsehood of hundreds
who had been pledged to its service, s anas
out before mankind with the lamp of a loving
humanity in its hand, teaching and acting the
l aving kindness of the Sermon on the Mount.
Cake ok iu;: U\y Stonewall.— The proposed !
restoration by the Spanish authorities at i
Cuba, by order of the Queen of Spain, of the
rebel ram Stonewall to the Government of the .
United States, is another signal triumph of j
American diplomacy and valor. It yields the
whole principle contended for by Mr. Seward
and denied by the British statesmen. The cor
respondence on this important question will
fully prove that the deetrines laid down .and
the uetuands resisted upon by tire Secietaiy ct '
| st.Vc, m his intercourse with foreign Powers
! since the war broke cut, have been generally '
; if not gracefully conceded.
Spain was also afraid cl her West India pot j
sessions. Her hold upon them is very slight,
an J any provocation on her part would be con
sidered as a just cause for our government to
annex them to the United States. Ultimately
they will become a part and parcel of this
great nation, either by purchase or conquest.
An immense quantity of rain has recently
fallen in Ohio and Indiana.
“Bi.rsn Tom ix Cocbt.—Our o’d friends Gen.
Rsihune ot Columbus and Gen. Howard cf
Atlanta are making a concert tour in the North
with the urn deal-prodigy “Blind Tern."
Tney have encountered an unforsesn dffi
cnlty, however, in the person, of a colored man
of the B irnum stamp This last named per
sonage who has figured somewhat as a travel
ling showman, has simeptitoasly obtained let
tors of guardianship tor Tom in aa Indiana
court, and has brought Bethune into the Pro
bate court at Cincinnati*!,'charged with unlaw
fully restraining “Tom of his liberty.’’ Able
couns >1 have been engaged by each party and
the trial is exciting no little interest.
Gen. B ithuuo, iu response to the writ of
habias corpus pro luces a deed of indent re,
showing that Bliud i’om has been regularly
apprenticed to aim frr the Term of five years
by hhs father and mother, funner slaves of
said Bethuae, for what appears to be an am
ple money consideration. This contract of
apprenticeship purports to be approved by
Capt. Bryant .Suporiutendant, of the Freed
men’s Bureau. The investigation was not
finished at the last accounts, but the Judge al
lowed Mr. B, to retain the custody cf Tom
until he could meet an engagement previously
made for a public concert. We tiust Gen
-8., will bi the winning party in this contest.
Westward —The tide ol western emigration
to tbo .States and Territories in the Pacific
slope, seems to be & swing jr> greater volume
the present season than at any time since the
California excitement. The number of emi
grant teams .that passed Fort Laramie during
the month of May, i3 slated at live thousand ;
and of the stock, loriy thousand head This
immense emigration indicates that the rich
western territories, particularly the ituiifgrojis
region®, are attracting thither a class of people
who will tabor industriously to develop their
matci’ml resources. It is remarked that these
emigrants are apt to be attracted to new locali
ties, but they are not ol the “rough’’ class of
adventurers, tut are as a rule, sturdy and hard
working men, wlio are taking their families
along, with the design of making a permauenj;
settlement. The inducements for emigration
to the new territories are now very great to
those who have no prospect of seem big a com
petency jn tj;e pities and long se*lled locali
ties. In a ties' region eyery man a fair
start on the ioa-1 to fortune, and if he possess
tho requisite, thrift, gad energy, he is sure to
attain a position ol independent,
The Presjxsst’s IVlicy - -The clear, frank
vi-ws expressed by Uiesideot Johnson in his
conversation with Southern delegations have
attracted notice and commendation et erywhero
—in til sections of our country. Dlfficult as is
the situation, in view of the perplexing prob
lems invCt 1 ve l in reorganiz ffion, he is master
of it. Born aud reared* in the South, he fully
understands the secret workings of its social
aud political constitution ; yet his ardent pa
trotism and uiffolejjchiug loyalty elevated him
far above the malign influences which led her
peoplo into the great error. So devotedly
attached to the Union that he risked ail that
man holds most dear in its support, lie under
stands better than any other publ c man what
dangers must he avoided, and what policy pur
sued to secure a sincere and cordial support of
the Federal authority, and to establish free
dom on a basis that wiil bo respected alike by
all. It is evident from President Johnson’s
course that he intends to adopt measures that
will be most beneficial to the whole country
without pandering in the least to the sectional
ifcsucs which have already arisen, or which may
be forced upon the public from time to timp
by ambitious demagouges and designing politi
cians
Martial Law i.v Tjssnksush.— Many have
supposed that Tennessee was no longer under
martial lav. This is not so. The mililaiy stiil
reign supreme; although that power oniy inter,
seres when dissatisfied parties attempt, to over
ride the civil law,
Recently there has been a little disturbance
in tne Western part of the Stale. Some par
ties did not like cert tin . lav g and were deter
mined to oppose them. Gov. Brownlow called
upon Gen. Thomas for aid to stop such pro
ceedings. -The annexed dispatch from the
President to the Governor shows that he acted
right, and also shows that ho will bo uphold
in his position by the military power of the
Government :
Wa(-nixgton, July 10th, 1805.
I hope you will see—and I have no doubt
you will—that the laws passed by the Legisla
ture are faithfully executed, and that ail illegal
parties are kept from the polls, and that the
| election of members of Congress is conducted
fairly. Whenever it becomes necessary for the
I execution of the la-v and the protection oi’ the
ballot b -x, you will call on Gen. Thomas for
! sufficient military force to sustain the civil au
j Uioritv of the state. I have just read your
address, (ot the pith inst.,) which I most heart
ily endorse Andrew Jornson,
President of the United Stales.
From Alabama —A gentleman from Ala
bama gives some partieu'ars of interest in re
gard to matters in that State, llaiu has bcui
abundant in the Central part, and ‘he crois
promise an abundant yield—except in a tew
sections where labor is scarce. The coin crop
iu Central and South Western Alabama will be
an immense one. The health*of the coun
try is good. Most of the ptople abquieee will
| iugly to the new order of a Hairs. Gov. Par
! sons is quite popular. Business has revived
: to a considerable extint in cities and hvge
towns. The colored people ara deporting,
i themselves wdl in most parts of the State.—
| The Federal cttLials have given perfect satis
! faction to the people by their uourse. Both
whites and negroes who commit outrages are
promptly arreeieu and punished.
Cabtion - -The National Intelligencer calls
attention to a matter that wi 1 interest many
1 of our business men who are in the habit of
j stamping their letters hastily and careleEsiy.
| That paper says : -‘We understand some per
sons have been in the habit of placing revenue
> stamps upoft their letters. The Postiffiee
1 Department does not recogu'ie these stamps
I for payment of postal dues. Ail letters thus
tsamped will be sent to the deaf 'tter office. *
An English missionary was recently cooked
at a dinner for the discontented members of
his parish, in New Zealand,
io the r.m v .n:;t* .wo xikmbkhs of
I'liZ O-JU-Uv fill FE tIESCE.
Dr;An Br.L' auux :—Living in your midst—
in: eves ted .a ail thit concerns ihe peace and
we.fi._e o: cut off from all commu
nication woo *■ y cos erg' os, I have felt it to
bo mv duty addusi you brhtly and respect*
tully'inreiatn.:. to matters cf grave moment
anti ot common interest.
Iu various ways I have learned tliat some
discussion has arisen ; and that some anxiety
is felt iu relation to the futuic policy of our
’Church. The queaioa has come up—if the
Meiho-bst chwith, North, proposes reunion
shall we ftcvi-pl ? Opposed to this proposition,
some have suggested that we se. k refuge from
striie in ihe buisom of tho Fpiscopal Church
glow 1 beg to say that the agitation cf these
question c i is prematura and fraught with evil,
in the first pi ice the Northern Methodist have
not proposed reunion, and I medic* will not,
except upon ieims so degrading and repulsive
as to* pieclu-1 ■ even their entertaiumont—
much less their acceptance. I found this opin
ion upon their past history—their antecedents
before and dating ihe war and their oolicy as
declared, in a lejeut meeting, by their Bishops.
As u> the direr a tunative it is compassed
with embari. ,smei k<. Many difficulties are in
volved. VVe have not been invited, and it is
indelicate to presume upon a welcome. With
al, these are questions ot etiquette and c,on
science—of canon- or ordination and forms—
of Itinerancy and discipline, which no man or
congregati m can settle, limy belong to Con
ferences and Conventions,
In the present state of affaiis—if either pro
position were presented and urged, nothiug
hut strife,- discoid, alienation and dismember
ment would follow. He who speculates—theo
rizes upon the possibilities—tho contingencies
of the tuture aud assumes that the logic of
events or the policy of others will force us to
a chQice bel w. en the alternatives mentioned,
and thus seeks tq precipitate ap issue ppop us,
in my judgment acts unwisely indiscreetly and
those who urn excited or misled by sugh coun
sellors involve themselves in very unnecessary
disquietude. No, “in patience let us possess
our souls.” We ate not children to lie tossed
about with every kind of doctrine. Nor are
we sal ) set t<* tire <j efqiiqn others,
church relations are not dependent upon the
fortunes of war. There need be no restlessness
—no apprehension, and these ought to he no
piem-itru'e excitemout— no hasty decision. r j ! ho
Annual Corderenc-s will 'meet this fa 1 aud
winter ; aud the General Confetonce in April
or May next. These bodies will embody the
piety and the inteUig .nco of the Ministry and
will be thoroughly iufouned of the will and
wishes ot Ike maq.le. Through thqse organs—
the Church, will speak ( Hi ci ally—authoratively.
In the mean time let every preacher stand to
his appointment—do his woik, make full proof
ut his ministry, both among whites and blacks.
Let the membership live iu peace, be devout
and gtiiya for the revival qf the work of God.
For ot.e 1 abhor g'trifq, controversy, atid pray
dally for the peace ot Jerusalem. After much
ttlleclion, my delib- rale judgment iq that our
itpe policy is tf> ipaintnin our present
zition. Hcipiu Is puity, peace, ivod prog
parity. Propose amalgamation with any oth
er communion, we shall divide, scatter and bo
iost jt-lievc me brethren, in giving this opin
ion I am not taking coqhstff ot bigotry or pre
judice of sv:lianal pfidp or polifcal apjmQsi
ty—but of my convictions of what is most con
ducive to p, ace, and most for the glory of
God.
Accepting (be is-ues of the war as the will
of God iu reference in tho. unity of (fte nation
and the govenmeui. Let us ali'lead a quiet and
peaceable life io nil godliness and honesty.
Do not leave your loyalty in doubt by unman
ly repining*—by querulous complaint, or by
refusing the terms of offered amnesty. Q tali
fy ycurseives lor du io? of citigenship—foT the
speedy restoration of civil government. Let
us seek to repair the desola'ions ot the land by
a prompt and vigorous industry and prevent
the fijfthpr deaioral'zilion of society by mul
tiplying works of iii'U.and loye.
At. ah early d.y there will be a meeting of
the bishops- an announcement of the time of
thq.Gonterem e and our addressito the Churches.
Pardon me ff I have trespassed iu following
my own judgment and the advice of sundry
brethren, by ser ding to you this brotherly
epistle. May the Great Head ot the Church
give us the spit it of power, and love, and a
sound mind. G. F. Piekce.
Sunshine, July 20eli. 18!i5.
Interesting 10 Odd Follows —Proclamation
by tub Most Worthy Grand Sikh.— The an
nexed proclamation by the Most Worthy Grand
Sire, has been issued, and will be of interest to
the Older :
To all whom these Present Come Greeting:
Whereas, Owing to causes which no longer
prevail, severe.! jurisdictions subordinate to
the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the United
States have, during the past tour years, been
unrepresented in the Patent B;dy;and,
whereas, some difficulty is supposed to exist ‘
as to the manner of returning Representatives
to the Grand Lodge of the United States from
such juiisdictUn ; therefore, to the end that,
all difficulty may he removed, arid the way he
made open and free lor a prompt restoration
to entire affiliation with the brotherhood un
der the Supreme head of the Order: I Isaac
M. Veffch, Most Worthy Grand Sire of the
Grand Lodge of the United States, and of the
Order thereunto belonging, do hereby, by this
my Proclamation to the fraternity at targe, de
clare the unbroken unity of the Order, and by
virtue ot the sovereignty residing in the Grand
Lodge of the Unite 1 States, proclaim and
make known, that there eiists no hinderance
to the re-establishment of the fraternal rela
tions that formerly existed between all the ju
risdictions subordinate l o the Grand Lodge of
the United States ; and that every act or de
ciavation of any kind whatsoever, if any should
have been made, intended to impair the su
preme authority ot the Grand Lodge of the
United States over the whole fraternity is here
by to be null and void, and of no
torce or effect whatever.
And I do hereby earnestly and fraternally
invite and exhort all Grand Lodges or Grand
Encampments, in such jurisdictions iu which
the order may have become disorganized, to
reassemble according to the forms prescribed
hy th-.ir respective charters and constitutions,
and proceed with the work of organization,
and the election of duiy qualified representa
tives to the Grand Lodge of the United Slates,
winch will convene in the city of Baltimore, in
the State of Maryland,' on the third Monday in
September, ljjfih,
in the hope tbit our brotherhood may eorue
forth lroia the severe ordeal to which it has
been subjected, unscathed and reinvigorated
by its trials, and that its great heart may ever
vibrate in unison with its teachings of charity,
I await with confidence a prompt and cordial
response from every jurisdiction, assuring all
who acce 1 1 this'affectionate levitation that a
liafernai greeting' a waffs them upon the oc
casion of our Grand Annual Communication.
Bone at the city of Si, Louis, in the State of
Missouri, on (be twenty-fourth day of May,
Ann’) Domini eialiteen Hundred ands xty five,
of the Republic the eighty-ninth, and of our
beloved order the forty-seventh.
Isaac M. Ykitch, Grand Sir*.
Jam's L F>ii>GtLY,Cor. & Rec. Sec.
Capt Wise formerly of Andersonville prison,
is to. be tried by military commission.
The vertebral neck bones of the assassin
Booth, t altered by tbs bullet that caused his
death, ar- now on exhibition among other sur
gical enri sities of the war, at the Medical Mu
seum in Washington.
A bridg. on the Ohio aud Mississippi rail
road, near Ihilsborough, was carried away by
the high water July 20. The engine of the
passenger train was precipitated into the gap.
The engineer was killed.
yU, tEtV it!i> OV EXtJfdßil KECO'IMfIOSI
UF IHE l HU.M tA V' lOX OF lUE K.:B£L
iTO\.
Earl Russell ’i#id bet re Parliament on the
4th inst. the following dispatch fro ip-Mr Sew
ard to Sir F. B:uce. the B ti:-h Minister at
Washington, iu reply to the cfiieial notification
that the Government of Great Britain had
recognized the rebellion iu the United States
at an end :
* Dspamt.mlnt of State. )
Washi.notj x, June 19,1865. j
Sir : Due cousiderati. u has been given ton
dispatch which E tri Bussell addressed io you
on the 21 of June inst; and of which, ou the
14th inst, you were so kind as to have a copy
at this Departmer-1. The J-Tesid >nt is grqtifi
ed by the information which that paper con
tains, to the effect that her Majesty’s Govern
ment have determined to consider the war
which prevailed between the United States
and the insurgents of this country to have
ceased do fa to, and that her Majesty’s Gov
ernment now recognise the m establishment of
peace within th« whole tenitory of wh ch the
United States were in undisiutbid possession
at the beginning of the civil war.
The correspondence which took place he
tween this Government and tit it of her Majes
ty at an early stage ot the insurrection, shows
that the United Stqtts deemed the formation
of a mutual engagement by Great Britain
with France, that those two Poweis \you’»*i act
in concert in regard to the said insurrection,
to be an qnfrincUy proceeding, and that the
United States, therefore, declined so receive
from either pt tiprse Powets any communica
tion which avowed the Axistenee of -tuch tan ar
rangement. I have then fore, now to regret
thatJEarl Bussell has thought it necessary to
inform this Government that l.ei Majesty’s
Government have found it expedient to con
sult with the Government of Franca upon, the
question whetherr m r laioj; sty’s Government
will now recognise the rest oration of peace in
the United Stafoa.-
It is a further source of regret that her Ma
jesty’s Government avow that they will still
continue to consider that unv United States
cruiser, which shall hereafter be lying in a
jfrilish port, harbor or watns shall be detained
twenty-four hours, so as to idford an oppor
tunity for an insurgent vessel, then actually
being within said port, harbor or waters, to
gain ihe advantage ox the same time for h a r
irom the same port, harbor or wa
ters.
It is further a source of regret that her
Majesty’s Government have deemed it proper
to make the additional reservation ia favqr or
insurgent vessels of war, that for lire period of
a whole month Which shall elapse after the
new orders now to be issued by her Majesty’s
Government shall have been received by the
said authorities, any in.-,ui gent vessel which
may he found iu or which in ay enter any port
hqrbor, or wavers of her Majesty’s dominions,
and which may desire to divest of i'.s
warlike character, and to assume the flag of
any nation recognized by her Majesty’s Uov
prpmpnL with yliiph her Majesty is at peace,
will pe allowed to dp so; and further, that,
such vessels, after disarming themselves, will
be Dei-milled to lymam m such pris t, harbor or
wafers without an insurgent dug, although the
tvyenfy four Lours wiil not be uppiicablft, to
tl)e casts of sqch vec-sels • Far from being able
to admit the legality or justice of ihe instruc
tions thus made, it is my duty to inform your
Excellency that, in the iixst place, the .United
States cannot assent to' an abridgement of re
ciprocal hospitalities between the public vessels
ol ihe United fetatee aud thOiC of Great Brit
ain. So loug as her Mr-jetty M Government
shall insist upon enforcing the twenty-four
hours rule before mentioned, of which the
Tlnited States ha ye so long and, as they think
so justly complained, the baited States must
apply the same rule to public vessels of Great
Britain.
The President is also gratified to lea-n from
Earl Ilussel’a dispatch that her Majesty’s Gov
ernment will foithwith send to her Msj sty’s au
thorities in all ports, harbors and waters be
longing to her Majesty, whether within the
United* Kingdom nr beyond tho seas, orders
henceforth to refuse admission into any such
ports, harbors and waters, oi any vessel,of war
carrying the insurgent Hag, and to require any
insurgent vessels of war which, after the time
that ordeis may be received by her Majesty’s
authorities, may have already entered such
ports, and which, having complied with the
previous proclamations of the British Govern
«rent| m«y be actually within such ports, har
bors and waters, forth with to depart from the
same.
It is with regret, however, that I have to
Inform you that Earl Bussell’s dispatch is ac
companied by some reservations and explana
tions which are deemed unacceptable by the
Government ot the United Xtatqy. it is hardly
necessary to say that, the United States do not
admit, what they have heretofore constantly
controverted, ttkat the original concession of
belligerent privileges io rebels by Great Bri
tain was neither necessary or just, or sanction*
ed by the law of nations.
Again, it is my duty further to stale that tho
United States cannot admit, and on the contra
ry they controvert and protect against, the de
cision of the British Government, which allow
vesseisof war of insurgents or pirates to enter or
leave British poi ts, whether toi disarmament or
otherwise, or for assuming a foreign il ig or other
wise. As to all insurgent or piratical vessels
found in ports, harbors or waters of British do
minions, whether they entered into such ports,
harbors or waters beior** or after any new or
ders of tier Majesty’s Government may be re
ceived by any authority of Her Majesty’s Gov
ernment established there, tiffs
maintains and insists that such vessels are for
feited to and ought to be delivered to the Uni
ted States, upon reasonable application in such
cases made, aud that if captured at-sea, under
whatsoever flag, by a naval force of the United
States, such capture will be lawful.
Notwithstanding, howtsrover, the exceptions
and reservations which have been made by
Her Majesty’s Government, arm have been
herein considered, the United States accept
with pleasure the declaration by which Her
Majesty’s Government have withdrawn their
former concession of a belligerent character to
the insurgents, aud tiffs Government further
freely admits that the norma! relations between
the two countries being practically restored to
the condition in which they stood before the ci
vil war, the riaht to search British vessels has
come to an end by an arrangement satisfactoiy
in every material respect between the two na
tions.
It will be a source of satisfaction to this
Qovernmeat to known that her Majesty’s Gov
ernment have considered the views herein
presented in a spirit favorable to be establish
ment of a lasting and intimate friendship be
tween the t vo nations-
I have, Ac., William 11. Sewaeji.
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A heavy slonn. doing much damage, passed
over Cincinnati July 21.
At New York July 22, the great iron clad
ocean frigate, Punderburg, was suee- ssfully
launched, not less than fifteen thousand peo
ple witnessed the spectacle. No accident
whatever oecured. It was found when she
was set afloat she drew only fifteen feet water.
In six months ehe will he ready to make her
fifteen knots per hour and bids de iar.ee to the
world in arms. Her armaneut wBl consist ox
four fifteen-inch Rodman, fffid from twelve to
fourteen eleven-inch Pab! green guns. She is
the imbodiment of Ideal, of the famous ship
builder, Weils. Her plan is original and novel
She will be a floating fortification. Her sides
are three feet in thickness ; ironclad four and a
half inches. The ram is tho bow of the ship
itself.
A break in the Central Ohio Rai!*nd, near
Columbus, caused by rain July 21, threw the
. cars off the track. Eight persons were killed
and twenty-two wounded,
VpJL. L aX IY .* —NEW SERIE 8 V ; 1,. XXIX >: - •>,?
. HEWS feC.miAUV.
Dating the past two reals ttie colored -peo
ple of Alexandria have bu U over one thousand
dwelling houses, at « cost of from three hun
dred to one thousand dollars eacL. thrio
churches, and have established abon Awaffy
schools. There are eight thousand colored
people in that City, mid at last ac, oua;s * a t v
twenty-three \>> :e drawing ratlins from i
Government. Though considerably'inferior*!
iu numbers, tho white population are a much
greater burthen upon ihe Government. Dr
Fettij >hn, of Gentralia, Illinois, who ii ts charge !
of the* dispense.ry at tii .i place, reports lint toe
applications for medicine from the whin-s :
largely exec, and those from the in gross,
file claims of soldi* rs to offices being die •
cussed in (Jabinet meetings
G. B, Lamar, of Savannah, lias been released
from the old c xpital prison, aud ordered to re
port to the Secretary of War.
In-his instructions to the jury in the Mary
Harris trial, Judge Wiley granted substantial
lyffhp ptajers ot the defense, with the excep
tion of that giving the pi isouer the benefit of
any doubt regarding her soundues ot her mind,
which might be entertained by tl>e jury . Up’
on this point ih® Court J>eld tnn the defense
must be naiyfo out afifiuativelv beyond a tea®
able doubt by a prepondemn'ceol evideuce.
The last remaining ’egiments o‘ the army oi
the Botomae has been mqsimed out.
It is now itaitff, that the conspirators sen
fenced to iiffprisonment bus been sent to ta.o
Albany Boaiteuliary.
Ur sideut Johnson has written a inter to
Gov. Browulow, giving at greater length than
i a his telegraph of the 16th, his views upon
'the necessity and propriety of maintaining the
Stale Government and laws of Tennessee.
He had received such inhumation front West
Tennessee: as caused him tpily to endorse the
arrest of Emerson U'htridge.
ju Texas the treed men are rapidly availing
themselves of the privileges accorded them by
the proclamation (a inplaint is made by the
’T.poPerished slavtholders that the freedmen
are better og than tlyeir masters. It is said
mafiy of them h ive money laid up, and are
now renting good houses in Galveston.
For several years past Galve-stou hits suffer -
ed severely irom yellow fever, and the resi
dents here are predicting that it will decimate
the Union troops before the season is bver,
Gen. Granger has issued specific regulations
in regard to quarantine which will, if enforced
prevent the importation of tUfl disease
Irom other ports.
The wheat crop in Louisiana is better th in
was eyey known Tho sugar crop is not as
large as last year.
The Bed River country will raise no crop
rut corn this yeu> except in a few localities..
A vessel with a cargo of cotton has sailed
f 'em New Orleans to St. Petersburg.
The subscription to the seven-thirty loan
July 19 was $5,221,600
Gen. Buddy has applied for a pardon and ex
presses a determination to become a good citi
zen and infiuence others to the same course.
the cable across tho Gulf oi Ft. Lawrence
between Cape Breton and Newfoundland Is
land, is now out of order, aud will have to be
relaia.
No reporters will be allowed on the Great
Eastern. An account of ner trip will be fur
nished the press, however, as soon as she ar
rives.
The ladies of Washington are raising money
to purchase Fords Thea re. It is not known
to what use the building will be put
The vertUcl iu the case of Miss Harris, who
shot Burroughs at Washington, and who has
been tried tor murder* was not guilty. The
ju:y was out only some eight minutes. The
scene iu court was dramatical in the extreme.
Miss Harris fainted and fell into the arms of
her counsel, who kissed her, the moment the
jury gave in Hie verdict, while the crowd
hooted and applauded. During the argument
of the counsel for the prosecution Ihe judge
got into a quarrel with him', and threatened an
arrest unless he ceased abusing the witnesses.
The crowd appl.ufied tho youn-e! and en
deavored to have the war kept up. The judge
when ipa jury went out significantly remarked
lie would wait rot them, Mias 11. has left
Washington for the West, instead of the ins me
asylum.
Ihe long standing quarrel over Baltimore
appointments has resulted in the victory of the"
Montgomery Blair party.
H. G Parker has been appointed Superin
tendent of Indian affairs for State of Nevada.
Serious apprehensions are felt in regard to
the health ot Gov. Brough, of Ohio.
Emerson Etheridge is to be tried by court
martial for uttering seditious language,
J. It. Hood, the Anti-State Government
candidate (or Congress from the Chattanooga
District has been removed from the Postmas
tersbip of Chattanooga, and E. James, the
Radical Clerk of the Tennessee House of Rep
resentatives, appointed in his place.
Railroad communication between Waslring
torfhnd Richmond is now fully opened.
Charles O’Connor has been retained as sen
ior counsel by Davis. ’The time and place of
trial is not yet knomi.
Trams now run rogularly between Rich
mond and D luviiis.
Gtienlism in the Virginia Valley lias been
totally crushed out.
'i lie village wuere John Brown was hung is
being numerously vißited by relic-hunters.
Harper’s Ferry fs being rebuilt.
The cable of the Russian telegraph has been
successfully submerged across Frazer River.
Kepoits from the northern mines aro very
favorable,
Hon. Shuyler Colfax has arrived in Califor
nia.
Late advices from Australia say that the war
in Now Zealand appears to be dragging heav
ily along.
The deposits at the Californa mint for the
month of June was $2,227,000 the largest
amount, during the same space of time, in
three > ears.
The rumor that Guyn has been ignored by
Maximilian is confirmed-
Maximilian announces that he will sell no
portion oi the Mexican territory. He'invites
emmigration from all countries.
The Herald’s Washington correspondent
gays South Carolina was the lim to go out of
the Union and she will be the first who will
present herself to be taken back.
Iu North Carolina the*owners of small farms
are paying their tax cheerfully. The rich com
plain.
It is said $150,000,000 will pay all arrears
due soldiers.
The late issue of new Certificates of Indebt
edness does not equal the amount of those con
tinually maturing, and the reduction ol this
description of paper has been from $250,000,-
000 to less than $115,00,000. It is probable,
from prevent indications, that the becretary
will will be able to meet the requisitions on
lb* Treasury, under powers conferred by the
late Congress, without having occasion to re
sort to unauthoriz -d loans.
It is stated in (.-Racial quarters that it is the
intention of the Government to reduce the
army to 100 000 if not 50,000 men at the ear
liest practicable period.
The amount of the last series of the entire
loan of $600,000 000 remaining, as eppeais
from official data is forty two and a half million
dollars.
The Navy Department basnow no chartered
Yes-els'dn its employment.
The receipts under the Internal Revenue law
are increasing, and are encouraging.
In a dispatch to the British Minister at Wash
ington, Earl Russell says the enemy’s com
missioned ships of war can not, during the con
tinuation of the war, be relieved from tee risk
of capture and condemnation by any sate or
transfer to a neutral.
The Persian Gulf Cable is interrupted, and
telegraph communication with Indka is -con
sequently suspended.
Thb Index', the ccnfcdefcifi ormrn rn *
has suspended publication: V " IUU
I Leading Ere ! ! ®h rr--. L/.-j., .
I that the groat rusk (*; ! C P :EI0 “
I Performed, will cu:-.> Dre* tY • , t 0 *
| difficulty. ' ‘ . ' u '' Ul aD<l
,
! pointed successor to L■■ Ci -• ■-Tov ° w t f l>
j The cholora is ragin g a! Ah >- adri F
j People were dyini' - ., Gi - i.po *. i-, Jf
i and two hundred pr r ■ q jffvtV
| euizens had left fhepfoeC. No c*t-'oa had vec
I oCCiiiro'd among Am r cTni r'i*!, •>
i The cholera is sftin.v—v "
I- T fearful hurrica -- . ' L ~P
i Good Hope on th- i, ’ -i...
I mall steamer Aria a®, tu-m V. ‘ ‘ '. v .J' 1 *
! ’ally lost, and ,-voul-M, <.• >’ "c :••*>!- X o
-recked. Seventy lives wore fo I^So
! against swimlfovr p H roVu-u '
| Com punks arc V. Vl *‘
York.
New pliotey - ;
! greenbacks are in cuei:’,'
I v ‘keeper;' of Boat! ,-vr. .is l- v - vv .
I plied for pardon.
Tho Government !>••-•. i_ •
I Foni’s theatre. ‘ - h su uo.
! A Uno of steamers is to he ,-Mabiieh ; b>-
j tween New Y*-:U and Autwe -p.
A requisition for six millions to p ay ;r,„ ar
my was made July 28.
. . X*v* e!i r, IK, ' v "• U' > hundred
j ' V ■'* '* -’ ' • .. .mey.
u is thobght- th:u ihe gov-u. will an
nouuco ihe policy ot fin Mouroo doctrine fo>-
waida the French In Mexico.
said is to be r. in forced > hundred - *
Lis stated Grant has said the 1 . 6
have to leave Mexico.
Gen. Howard has issued an order ffe f •; .
planters of Lower Marylanddon’tquit ■ • : r
off' their old slaves to sta vc and netrltei to c t
ploy them the Government will tak- > <e.
siou of their farms and put frecff.e *•.*.-• •
them.
More Virginia delegations are in W Pmg
ington to get the $20,000 amnesty e.fiius* re
pealed.
Gen. Hoke has heeu leleaaed from prison
and allowed to return .to Georgia.
A Washington dispatch says the Pre ident
has issued an order pardoning every p;isciy;v
of war holding any military rank whatever.
The pirate Shenandoah is cruising off Now
Zealand.
Troops whose term of service expire:' before
Oct, 1, are to be muster, and out.
Sales of Government animals since May 1,
have amounted to $2,000,000.
Toe steamer Queens Bay has been wrecked
off More head city Bar. Thirty persons aro
missing. They were prisoners and Pennsyl
vania soldiers.
Itio stated that Attorney General Speed de -
clares that all cotton captured by our miiituy
forces in insurrectionary districts is captured
property under the statues of' 1863, wheth
er owned by loyal men or not.
It is thought that tho piiate She nandofth is
cruising after whuff- .5 as 1 ; ,1 , ,t ; a m
the tiack usually taken by the it.
C. J. Anthony a wealthy ciiizeu cf AV nces
le Mass., has been •’mcs-Aal upon compimriiH
ot it.-:-Gov. Giimove, of Muss., charged wi 1; ob
taining $15,000 out of (he latter fur n Login
goldmine. Anthony say.s Gilmore is trying
to defraud him.
A Fortress Monroe dispatch says
Davis is in excellent health.
The pirate Shenandoah s ill continues to
burn United States ves-eV.
Fore ! gi( Ma.keta.
The weekly returns of the Bank of Franco
show an increase of upwards of eight and a
quarter million of francs.
Tho Paris Bourse was fiat and lower on mar
ket is firmer, but quiet. Rentes 6 Of. 92c.
On July Bth the Manchester Cotton Market
was dull and declining
The English breadstuff market is f] it. Trices
tending downward.
la Ihe London Money market funds were
steady and Mone y ew y. United State* live
twenties were selling at 70 -a 71c. Consols DO
a 98In for money. *
At Liverpool, July 8, six thousand bales of
cotton were sold, One hundred to spe uiutoni
and exporters. Market dull ur.d unchanged.
Scott, Bell & Cff., East India merchants ia
London, have suspended. Liabilities, 7800,-
COt).
LATE WASiliAfiToS KEWS.-
Colonoi J. S. Loomis,% 1 taut special agent
of the Treasury Department, .and acting officer
of customs at Richmond, Virginia, has r.. ip
ed to the military at:'! *r!ri'.-.» for al! captinert
and confiscated property in h. f Dialsict. and
Las collected besides a huge amount of pro
duct* taken by the Richmond . government .or
ttixei., and upon which was bar .1 tbo c -.ora
ted ‘-produce loans ” Among other valuable
property taken by him is military rah road
lending from Danville to Greensboro, forty
miles in length, buiitby the Considerate army.
The road will be run unde.: the control of tM
treasury until rcgulariy confiscated by the
conrf, and is expect* i to pay a handsome per
cent, above experers.
The government has secured the original
copies of the ordinances cl secession,,©! - Vi; gin
ia and Alabama.
It is rumored in Washington fh.it Coaguß S.
is to be called together on tire, first of October.
L.formation received at the Froedn-.mV Bu
reau represent that rebels returning from the
late disbanded aimrea, to West enn •
openly avowed their intention to re-establish
slavery, after the Federal lows are with its* n.
Measures have been determined up i with
a \ iew of putting sp* eddy in operation the "ma
chinery for the sale and d:?J)o.-a! of the public
lands i/t said Si r tea as soon as regrefeia and re
ceiver.* may be deputed, j -my will he cloth
ed with proper authority for coin me * eg pub
lic land business. The -sat of the dfshioi <l
- will be as central a passible, sons to ail j.rt
facilities to purchaaors or parties seeking infor
mation in regard to the entry oi lands,
I'ORKHJA I t R VI«.
It is stated that Gottschalk has given three
thousand concerts in t- n years.
It in reported that an English chemist named
Gale h-is discovere-i a mHliod of making gin.-
power non-explosive. The process is to
be simple and effective, the cost trifling, .i;-i
the power is not inquired. In live miuules
a pairel of power can be made non ex Ive,
in the same time its explosive proper; -c iu
be restored.
Thq famous stallion of the lafo Due de Mor
ney. “West Atfetralian,” recently said for
$0,200,
Tiie King of Saxony lias just granted an am
nesty, without exception, to every one impli
cated iu the insurrectionary movements ol M y
1819. .
Sir Henry Bulwer has sold to the \ iceroy of
Egypt a small rocky inlet owned by him in the
Sea if Marmora, for £16,000.
Stage Lines in South Western Georgia.—
A Etawo line will soon be in operation bet we n
Albany and Cambridge, by tlio first ol the
c«m’ng month Tire distance is s-xtym.u.
Tliis will afi *rd great releif to the tiavefing
public ; and be the means of increasing «ke
n:a i facilities ol the country. The fare will be
$lO.
A line of stages is already running between
Albany and Thomas ville—distance sisiy
miles. Both of these go line.- will afford
additional means cf reaching Florida.
Gen. Steeoman —Tne new cummareicr of the
military district of Gen gia, i* ;. uken ci by
pur contemporaries iu the highest terms <>f
praise. All who know him re in to tit nk he wifi
honestly and faithfully discharge Lis dutk->
Athens Watehnm.