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November in each year ; to enable the Infe rior Courts to raise money to discharge exit ing debts. A resolution was offered to authorize the Governor to appoint a c<>mm : tt“e to inquire Into the condition of the t) nks of this State. A bill to repe ?! all laws prescribing penal ties for carrying concealed weapons, was lost on its third reading. A message was received from his Excellen cy Gov. Jenkins. It was taken up and read. It recommended the passage of a bill to open the courts of the State to tbo freedmen, and to provide for their trial in criminal cases. The Senate bill referring to this subject was taken up and substituted by one from the judiciary committee. Home discussion ensued when a division was called, and the bill pass ed by a vote of 79 to 49. . k" ur If A. M. both houses arteni b ed in the Hall of the Holism and proceeded to the election ol State Home omeen§. Ihe annexed resolution was passed : Resolved, 1 hat the Committee on Internal Improvements, be instructed to irq'fire into the rates of freight and fare charged and dow being taken by the railroads ot this State, and see whether the --*» vj.,| a tiug their charters iu the enormnu and charges Dltde ; and wh i . ought to be had to prot '• / the State therefrom, and t , t» ase by bill or otherwise. ’ try inform ed the Horn-cot the ~, —o , resolution referring |to the suspension ot sjits against Hanks, and also announcing the concurrence of the Senate in the House bill in reference to opening the courts to freedmen. The resolntion in reference to Bank suits was taken up and passed. The Senate announced the passage of Mr. Kenan s retolution in reference to President Johnson. The House took up this resolution and concurred therin. Mr. Barnes moved to appoints committee of three to act with a similar committee from the Senate, to wait upon Gov. Jenkins This committee consisted ol Messrs. Barnes, Peeples and Frazier lb« Governor having nothing farther to communicate, the House on motion adjourned, to meet on (he 15th of January next at 12 o’clock, M. Moke about Cott..n. —As every thing which relates to cotton interests our readers, we giv below some extracts from Wright <fc Go’s circue lar, of New York ; f I he sales of cotton in England during the week ending November 23, 51.000 bales, 18.- 000 of which to 6iM - culatoifl and. exporters, at 20d per lb for Middling Orleans Stock of American, 98 000 hales. Total stock, 370,000. The sales of cotton at New York, for week ending December 13, were 8 000 bales. The exports for the week has been—to Liverpool, 5,500 bales; Glasgow, 2; Havre. 2,114; Ham burg, 580; Bremen, 63. Total, 8,309. Facts have not justified the coutident tone assumed fry receivers of cotton at the porfs and tbeir agents in the interior as to the quantity of the staple for thcoming People are becoming familiarized with estimates at 1,700,000 to 2, 000,000 lor 47 months ending Ist of September, 1865, who in September and October confi dently predicted that all the available cotton would be in the ports by the end of the year, and every week we have information 6f quan tities of cotton in out of the way districts, such as Florida, Noith Western Louisiana and Northern Texan In the latter State alone the weekly receipts hav* lately averag-d about 10,000 bales. The facilities for transportation must Dot be lost sight of. The rivers, particu larly the smaller ones, are all low, and even now the network ot railioads is far from per fect. The rates of freight chaiged by railroads, apart from actual inlormation as to their con dition in North Carolina and Georgia, would indicate that the receipts at the Atlantic porta do not represent the stocks that better com munication and cheaper freights would move to the Seaboard. Naturally euough the reaction has given rise to extreme estimates in the other directions and !igur< s are put forth which certuinly are not jus'ified either by the receipts at the ports or by what we learn of stocks in the interior. From the Southern ports, particularly on the A Man tic, are ih efly by steamer to New York, which add rapidly to the stock there, without diminishing the amount held ia the Southern ports. Recent Euiopean advices do not encourage the id a that much can bo ship ped thitbm on limited ouDrs at present prices. The smat’ foreign export for the past four weeks n ay however induce oiders from abroad at more practicable limits '1 he toilowiog is a statement of the move m*'nt in cotton since the Ist September last : Receipts at the ports in the U States 687,000 Expoit to Great Britain 294,000 “ France • 22 000 “ other Foreign Forts 10 000 Totaljexports 323,900 Stock on hand 452,000 Os which during th 9 past woek included in the above :• Receipts at the ports 68 000 Exporis to Great Britain 13 000 “ France 2,000 “ other Foreign Ports. 1 000 Total exports 16,000 IJA Message fr. u thn President. — l he Presi dent ban seut a message to Congress ia reh tlon to the condition of affairs iu the South, in which he says : From all Information In my possession, and from that which 1 have recently derived from the most reliable authority, 1 am induced to cherish the belief that sectional aniraositv is surely amt rapidly merging itself into a spirt of nationality, and that representation, con nected with a propeily adjusted system of tax ation, will result in a baimonious restoration cf 'he relations of the Stateß to the National Uuloa. .The President also furnishes a communica tion from General Grant, in which that officer ■ays : In free conversation with the people of the South during my recent tour, I am satisfhd that the people have accepted the present situ ation ot affairs iu good faith. Gen. Grautalso says there is such universal acquiescence in she" authority of the general government throughout the country visited by him, that the mere presence of a military force, without regard to numbers, is sufficient to maintain order ; and he further says that the good ol the country and economy reouire that this force should be white tro< ps. 1 his is all the telegraph dispatches furnish. We shall publish document in full when re ceived. i— tm Gen. Butler and tub Virginia Legislature. —When it was rumored that General Butler was to take command of the department of Virginia, the annexed resolution was intro duced into the Legislature of that State : Whereas, It is currently reported and gen erelly believed that the celebrated Handibras tic General B. F. Butler is about to take charge of this military departmout with powers extraordinary ; therefore. Resolved, That whatever money may re main in the State Treasury be immediately di vided among the widows and orphans of de ceased soldiers, and couriers he dispatched to the various counties requesting the people to secrete or bury their plate. F Daniel S Dickinson and the President.— Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, in a recent speech said Andrew Johnson is not a house plant, hui a mountain oak, which defies the iurv of the thunder gust. Intrepid, yet patient, firm but forgiving, with the Uuiou and the Constitution as bis pillar and his cloud, he seeks to recon cile and bring together again the estranged children of a common father. Let us all aid him in the good woik and secure its accom plishment. A New Bureau. — rte notice one of the mem berg of Congress dt-eiies to have a grand Na tional Educational Bureau established — Li enlorce education up to a certain standaid up on the residents of eveiy section. Such plan* sound well to talk about : read well upon paper ; but will be very difficult plans to carry out. Every State should be left free and un tramelled to arrange her own affairs in such ■utters AUGUSTA,- GA. ! \vK.n\Esn\y >nm.\i\<; MCMHKyi ''• * THE i,\OOtt Ut KHIIOV. Tfco labor question is cno of the greatest ! problems to be solved by the South. There j are good grouuds for the apprehension now j felt, that freedmen may prove intractible and j exhorbitant in their demands. It therefore becomes us as a people to look about, and 6ee in what way the great labor problem can be successfully worked out. In the French Colonies, owing to the deser tion of the plantations by their farmer negro cultivators, the Coolie system has gradually attained a wide development. Guadeioupe, which in 1860 had received only 3 724 of these orioritial irn nigrants, counted iu 1861 no few er than 38,000, made up of 30.000 Hindoos 6 000 Senegal Africans, and 2.000 Chinese. Among these it has been fouod by experience, both in English and French colonies, that the Hindoos are most available. The Africans are the more robust, but the mortality among them is thirty five percent., while it is only ten per cent, among the Hindoos. The Chineese from the cities of the Celestial Empire, are in subordinate, vicious, and only medium labor ers. Those from the country districts, particu larly when converted to Christianity, are more docile and better workers ; but the most de sirable class are nearty all incapaciated by their crippled feet, or the Chinese authoritiss oppose their departure. Their women can on ly woik in a sitting posture, owing to the cot deformity, and the wages of all are five dollars per month, payable monthly, while their contracts are made for the long term of eight years. On the other hand, the Hindoo coolies are more submissive, contented, agreeable in as pect and disposition, better workers, and less subject to disease. They handle the sugar cane with more success than the Chinese, softer skin it and lacerates. Moreover, they are usually accompanied by wives and families of children, thus offering visible guarantees of stability and morality. Their contracts run for five years only, and their wagts are from twelve francs to $2,25 in specie for the men, teu francs for the women, and eight fiaDcs for boys from fourteen to sixteen years of age, payable one half at the end of each month, and the other half at the end ol the year. These advantages have won for the Hindoo a decided preferenoa every where, and the same Freach companies which have supplied the colonies under their own dig with thiso valuable laborers are, it seems, prepared to supply the Avneiican Gulf States, if ueeds be, at the same rates and in any quan- The New Orleans Bee announces that an Agency is about to open in a . Louisiana sea - port, and that if contracts are entered into during the present month or in January, la borers "will be engaged by the end of April next, and trom that time forth, imported at the rate of 2,000 per month, 60 long as wanted. The Company importing guarantees the sign ing ol contracts, and tho planter has nothing to do but specify hts order and give his secu rities. The difficulty suggested by the fact that Congress during the war, pissed a law declaring all contracts subscribed abroad by immigrants invalid, is to be met by the signa ture within American jurisdiction and under local regulations; but the planters, of course, havetoruu the risk of luture adverse enact ments. As the Hindoo Coolies are all British subjects, they aro, in a measure, under the pro tection of ihe British Consul, like any other im migrants to a foreign country, and it is usually in his presence that,all contracts are signet! and by his intervention that all disputes arising about them are settled He, too, sees that their comfort and safety on the passage as well as after reaching their destin ition are secured, and that the agreements entered into are car ried out iu good faith by both parties. There is one thing a fixed fact. Our planters to develop the great resources of this country , must have labor, they can rely upon If the freedmen will make contracts and stick to them, well and good. If they will not, then, as we have said, we must look about and see where reliable labor can bo had, an on what terms. In a few weeks we shall see what the freedmen will do. If they will not work, it is of no use to temporise with them, but at once adopt means to procure labor elsewhere. “I did all l cou'd ior the revolution, and now I'm going to do all I can ior the Union, }ou musn’t ask me to give up my idea ot State rights; that’s in my bones,andean uever be got out. But 1 as<ure you it shall never give any ruoro trouble so far as I am concern ed.” The above we find in a letter from the South, published in the Boston Advertiser. We are triad to perceive that some of the correspond ents of the Northern papers are willing to aid aud do justice to the South. The above sen timents, the letter writer says, were expressed o him by a gentleman from Madison, Ga. If lie had been selected to give a description of the universal feeling throughout this section of the Uuiou, lie could not have performed his task better. He “did all he could for the revolu tion that is what nearly every man in the South did. Ami now that the war is ever, our people are willing to accept things as they exist, and are ready to do all they can for the Union. Nothing more cou’d be reasonably demanded. Nothing more ought to be asked of them. Since the close of the war, a great majority have on all occasions cheerfully acquiesced in whatever has been asked of them by the Gen eral Government. They have done all in their power to show that they had become loyal cit izens again. If the radicals at the North hereaf ter prove as loyal to the “Union and the Con stitution’' as the South, there will be but lit tie or no political wrangling in our National Halls of Legislation. We fear, however, that such will not be the case. Already have their leaders introduced firebrands of discord. Already have they en deavored to defeat the conservative policy of President Johnson, if tne South, as a unit, and the conseivatives of the North stand by the President, we believe he will yet cariy every point he has undertaken to, and bring defeat and discomfiture upon his opponents. Extensive Immigration Scheme.— Hon. G. P. Maisb, our Miuister at Turin, has for warded to Washington the proposition of a Company of Italian silk and grape growers, aud wine manufacturers, to immigrate to this country in such force as would suffice for the cultivation of a million of grape vines, and ten thousand mulberry trees. If the emigrants spoken of are steady and hard wotke'S, we sty encourage them to come to this country by all means. We have im mense tracts of land, now unoccopied, well adapted for the cultivation of the vine and the mulberry tree. The climate is al6o favorable. “TKFAFOX STILL IS EXieTE.VCE •» The above caption contains the essence of be Na°hville Press and Times' lucubrations n President Johnson’s advisory dispatches to the North Carolina and Georgia Conventions, and it is of opinion that it “Would have been better to let the rebels—for they were rebels—have full swing and as'ume tho payment of the Confederate war debt, d-feat the Consti tutional amendment, and refuse to repeal or annul thesreession ordinance.’’ “ The spirit of treason, is still rife in the cotton States, and we wish the coun try to see it manifested in its real char acter.” Such articles are calculated to do no good, but an immense deal of harm. To say the least of it, it is as incorrect as uncalled for; and, as a journalist, we should regard ourself recreant to a sacred duty, did we not brand it as such. The people of the South fought the North, upon what they thought was a hue issue Their gallantry in battle won the admiration of the great military chieftains, who sustained the banner of the Union. They failed i» the accomplishment of their de-igns; and that man, North or South, who does not admire tho promptness with which they accepted the re sult, is certainly no man at all. The general Government has had only to make its demands, and they have been con ceded. As soon as the Convention of Georgia was informed that the repudiation of the war debt, was necessary to secure the restoration of the State to the Union, did it not repudiate ? Has not South Carolina done everything that was demanded at her hands ? It is ol jested that the States have exhibited an improper spirit, by el. cling as represenla tives, men who were in the Confederate army.. We deny that there is anything improp er in such an act. The men, whom we have elected were, it is true, in the army I but, at the 6ame time, it should not be for gotten that almost every one of th'm opposed secession. They acted like men in tho lute conflict, and thought they were right. They have thrown down their arms, and ro newed their allegiance to the Government of their Fathers ; and aho -v by their acts that they have resolved, by tho blessing of heaven, re ligiously to observe their oaths. The people of the South are loyal, and are worthy of tho confidence of the Government. An Important Case. —The application of A. H. Garland, Esq., of Arkansas, formerly aa at torney ol the court and late a member of the Confederate Congress, to be permitted to prac tice in tho Fe I eral cjurts without taking the oath of office as prescribed by the act of 1862, and as extended to attorneys by the act, of 1865, was partially argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. The questions in volved are of groat magnitude and of es-. pecial importance to the lawyers of tho South. Upon the decision hangs their right to do busi ness in the United States courts ; or, in other words, to eDjoy the full rights, privileges, and profits of the practice of the profession. On behalf of the petitioner Matt. H. Car penter, E?q , of Milwaukie, opened the case in a speech of great power, and concluding with a peroration that held the entire assem blage spell-bound. The Attorney-General re plied; »Dd Hon. Raverdy Johnson is to con clude the argument in support of the petition er this week. Mr. Johnson’s argument is ex pected to be one of the greatest of his forensic effort. Let us Not Borrow Irouble —We notice that many of the Southern Journals copy the Washington dispatches of Northern radical papers, and borrow much trouble therefrom. Wo do not believe in such a coutse. Trouble and difficulties will cmie without being sought. The true policy is to wait until they m ike their appearance “upon the stage,” and then to meet th«m manfully. There never yet tfas a difficulty in the pathway ot life, but what some means was provided to overcome it. It is no use to borrow trouble over matters at Washington. We feel confident that every thing there will terminate favorably to Ihe S"u h. The dispatches to the Northern radical press are mere buncomb, circulated for mere political effect. They amount to just nothing, and should be taken for just what they are worth—notbiug. If we conduct ourselves in accordance with the plans marked out by President Johnson, we may feel assured that all will be well in the end. Negro Suffrage in hie South —We see that numbers of the radicals in Congress are deter mined, if possible, to have negro stiff rage in the South. We have loaf all patience with this class of agitators. They are continually endeavoring to force another section of tie Union to do what their own has,positively re fused. If the Northern negro who has always been free, and had opportunities for mental ira • provement, is deemed unfit to vote by the Northern States, they are in*no position to insist that the Southern negro, whose faculties have but little, if any improvement, shall be allowed the voting privilege. Until the North has per mitted the negroes to vote, it has no right to ask, much less demand that the South shall. No action of Congress can in any event com pel a State to allow any person to vote whom the States itself says shall not. There is but one and only one way for Congress to do in this matter—and that is to leave the suffrage question where the Constitution has left it— wi h the States themselves. The Fenian Movement.— The criminations and recriminations.between the Fenian Senate and the rest of the Fenian Brotherhood, still continue. In the meantime the Fenians ex pect the arrival at New York of Head Centre Stephens, who recently escaped from prison in England, and are preparing to give him a grand reception. A large meeting held at Chicago, endorsed the action of the Senate, and recognizing Colonel Roberts as President of the Fenian Brotherhood. O’MahoneyJ the deposed President, has issued a general order, stating that orders on military affairs will net be regaided until approved by himself. In Columbus, Ga ,every man who hitches an animal to a tree, is heavily fined. In Au gusta, they are not, but they ought to be. For one, we cannot see the m=e of planting a tree, protecting it for years, and then—having it killed by using it for a tying up place. B >tter plant posts at once If there is any ordinance on onr city law books that should be strictly enforced, it is the one which fines thoughtless individuals for making an improper use cf shade trees. The law in this matter should be rigidly enforced. The Meanest Theft Yet -One of the tables of an otphan’s Fair in Savannah, was robbed of several articles a few days ago. This is tne meanest theft yet. A person who would rob an orphan, has got very low down in,the scale of crime. What is Ocn Position.— ln a recent debate in the Senate, Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, said “infcs judgment Congress ougat to impose the “conditions upon which the Southern States “should be received back into tho Union. When the war was going on, these same radical g< nt’-mon. in order the better to ac complish their designs, claimed that the South was never out of the Union; that there was no such thing as secession. Now, that tho war is over, and the South has couaented to accept that doctrine, the same men. in order to out their further nefarious schemes upon South era rights, turn a complete Bomer-6au’>, and cooly talk about imposing conditions upon the Sou.the.iu States b.fore receiving them back into the Union. The course of those double faced politicians reminds one very much of the little joker. “Now gentlemenyon see it, afcd now you don’t.” 'they retain a position taken just long enough to carry out some favorite schtmeor Utopian idea—and no longer. It is to be hoped that tbeir power to do evil in the Hails of the Na tional councils has ceased forever. We trust there is conservatism enough in Congress to carry out-the Prrsident's plans of reconstruc tion. If so, the men who are hankering tor more bleed and ruin, will be compelled to re tire ingloriously, and hereafter be content to occupy the back seats—shorn completely of their influence and power. Our Policy Towards Mexicl— The policy towards Mexico, may be considered settled for the present. Gen. Logan recently bad an interview with the President and Secretary of State. The newly, appointed Minister ex pressed his desire to go to Mexico, if be could be assured that the policy of the Administra tion toward Mexico would be changed, but de clared his unwillingness to go unless the Gov ernment iutended to extend somo substantial aid to the Liberals. The President informed him that he could not give him such assurance. Mr. Seward ad ded that our policy of neutrality toward Mex ico would, for th« present, remain unchanged. Whereupon, Gen Logan positively refused the Mexican mission. Washington dispatches further announce that Mexican affairs have been fully and scusse.d at a Cabinet meeting, and it has been determined to appoint no one in place of Gen. Logan. The policy of the Administration just m>w, therefore, may be considered of the non inter ference order. What it may bo, the future will reveal. Decidedly a Nice Place to Live in. —Since the close of the war we have heard many say that “New York was the place to live ia.” People live there—no two ways about that ; and live rather fast too. Residents and Strang erg are not only assailed and robbed in remote quarters of the city, but in the most public places. A man in bro id daylight, while at tempting to pocket change given him by the conductor of a horse car, was ■ set upon by ruffians, hustled from the platform, and rob bed of his money. At night such cases are said to be too common to be worth specia mention. One paper speaks of the robbeiy of a whole car full of passengers a few nights since, because it was “an exploit of peculiar picturerqueneßs and dramatic effect, conceived and executed with the boldest genius.” A troop of fiye or six brigands, well armed and daring, took possession of a car, and while one saw that the conductor gave"* no trouble and another stood over the driver, the rest robbed the passengers of their money, watches, and other valuables, without any of that Indecent haste which too often attend similar opera tions. Surely New York is a “great place to live in ” Another Plan.- Mr. Stephens of the U. S II use, desires to have the pensions of those of tho Federal army entitled to them increased, and to have the same paid “rut of Southern estates.” The true policy for Congress to pur sue, ia to adopt nothing but conciliatory ures. No patriotic member thereof should in troduee any thing else, Propositions like those of Mr S. may not amount to any thing. Will undoubtedly be promptly voted down, as they ought to be. But at the same time, they vex and annoy conservative men in all sections, and serve to keep up unnecessary excitement and agitation. Every thmg which does not teid to advance the interests of the whole na tion should be carefully excluded at the pres ent tnno from our National Halls of Legisla ti m The Cattle Plague in England.— The cattle plague has been increasing in Eogland dtuiDg the past month to an alatming extent. During that period the attacks have risen, from a pre vious monthly average, from 14,000 to up ward of 27,000, and the deaths, destruction in cluded, to upward of 21.000. Between the 4th and 11th of November the number of case 8 increased by fifty per cent. In the ensuing week things were not quite so bad, but there was a further increase still. The London Times assumes that the deaths, instead of 700 a week, are at least four times that number, and if winter does not bring a change for the bet ter, the losses may be 5,000 or 0,000 a week before Chris'mas. White Labor in Louisiana.—A New Orleans paper learnsdbat a conference has been held between a number of prominent planters of the Stater and a leading agency of that city, which resulted in an arrangement by which a large number of Germans are to be invited to come to Louisiana as laborers upon some of the cotton plantations. These gentlemen, by way of experiment, propose to cultivate one plantation with white labor exclusively, go that a practical comparison may be made of the results of negro and white labor ia the culture of ocr great staple. Couxrr Indebtedness.- The bill passed by the Legislature at its recent session, to enable the treasurers of the several counties of the State to raise funds for the payment of the indebtedu'ss of their counties, authorizes the issuing of county bonis maturing within three years, at seven per cent, interest. Bracing News.—A Washington correspon dent says that the Southern delegates to Con gress are being treated with courtesy and con sideration by many of those who bold seats on the fl or of the House, and, it is said in Re publican quarters that they wfll certainly be admitted at an early day. Letters to Provisional Governors. —The Secretary of State has addressed a letter to ♦he Governor and late Provisional Governor of South Carolina, similar to those recently so-warded to the Governors of Alabama and Mississippi. Cotton Advancing. —The latest advices from New York show that cotton is again on the advance in that section. The quotations are 51a520. This will be welcome news to these with docks on hand. Dialer i'rom England. —A large cargo of assorted goods has arrived in Savannah direct Tri m England. There is no good reason wby the sea port of our State, may not become an importing and cxpoitmg place of great imp >r taece. There is no use for citizens of Georgia P’-jing iv tribute to the large cities of ihe North, if she can save the same by keeping her trade at homo Our leading business men should take an interest in the matter. Sivan uah can be nyjde one of the great cotton mar kets of the land. By so doing our cotton deal eis will save heights to New York, save them t-elves a great many other expenses ; and what is be.-t ot ail, have their own proper y under their immediate control. Lst the importing merchants of Savannah bo retained. They aro public benefactors.— I uty have started a business which will result in millions cf benefit to tho State annually. All home enterprises of every description should bo built up and encouraged. What helps one portion of our commonwealth helps the bal ance. We trust all our merchants before sending North for goods, will first see what desired ar ticles they can obtain from the warehouses of the direct importers in Savannah. Keep Nigrges from tub City. —ls there is one thing which ought to be done, it is to keep ; dle negroes cut of Augusta during Christmas week. They wiil flock here in crowds. They will have no money and but little if any pre- T .firms. Many have been doing nothing for sometime, ektingout a precarious existence. Such people will throng our sheets ; they will find nothing to do if they had the inclination, and petty thieving and robbery will continue to be the order of the day. It would be h kind act towards the negro to keep him away from tho cities at any time, and especially when they come in the masses they will be likely to during the holiday. If they are given to understand that they will not be allowed to go to large places, they will stay away. If you permit the negroes to con gregate in towns, it will be difficult to main tain order.. We hope the authorities will act iu that decided manner which a prudent policy de mands. Fenian Matters. —The Fenians having de posed their first President, Col John O’Mahony for malleasance of office, have called to office ana inaugurated the Vice President W. II- Roberts, as President of the Fenian Brother hood, The new President has issued an ad dress which is attracting considerable atten tion, lie states that Erin is not to be freed “from the vampire which remains on Irish soil consuming the substance and crushing the liberties of the Irish people,” by newspaper discussions and high-sounding mysterious proclamations. President Roberts announces that tho time haß come for action. He says : •‘Our means, our eneigies, our whole thoughts must oo directed towards the mil itary arm of the Fenian B-otherhood, through which at once, we can accomplish the free dom of Ireland. Our common and implacable foe imagines that we may be destroyed by iuternal dissen sion.” ' But the Fenian Brotherhood will show the world that.it can reform the abuse in its midst without destroying power or retarding the movement. The late difficulties wijl strengthen the organ : zition and be the means of putify ing it from much tha f was erroneous in its tendency, and highly detrimental to the cause.” The determination with which the new P eei dent is bent on doing bloody vork, is evinced in the following paragraph from his inaugural: TAcfion, action, must, therefore, be the or der oi tee aay. rne iuuaß coninuuicu vy uie patriotic, toiling masses of the Irishmen of America must not be squandered or turned into other channels than those for which lUay wire intended. The Irish people in America are ready to give millions for war, but not one dollar as a tribute to drones or adventurers. We must have some other trophies to show or our hlgn wounding professions than a few old rusty muskets, lodged in a garret, as the volun tary cffeiings of patriotic muu. Time, circum stances and the Almighty seem to favor the present movement tor the overthrow of that despotic and brutal power who has left deso lation on the track of her friendship and misery as the legacy of her slaves.” Arrestor Comm >d>ke Bemmb3—.The arrest cf Commodore Raphael J Semmea, better kuewn as commander of ths Alabama, has struck the people with- astonishment and regret. It is impossible to form an opinion as to the rca soii3 which icfl'ienced the arrest It is true that Sc mm os inflicted material damage on Now England shipping, but certainly not any greater damage than our Generals inflicted up on land. He fought under a regular com nis sigu, with all tho rights which properly at tach !o a beligerent, and did net avoid a fair battle in an open sea. Like a brave soldier,, be fougtht his ship until she went down under him; and then, us a true soldier, returned to his country to share her trials and misfortunes- Throughout his whole career he has exhibit ed none but the noblest qualities which belong to mankind; and if any man deserves the mercy of a generous and powerful Govermeat; t h at man is Raphael J. Semmes. We trust that this arrest is only for the pur pose of securing the testimony of General Semmes with reference to the questions which have arisen between the United States and Great Britain. English Papers on Prbfidbnt Johnson’s Policy. -The English papers are beginning to praise President Johnson and bis policy. The London Times thinks that his confidence in the South and the bold liberality of his policy, are n>t likely to be in vain. The London News characterizes his Administration as sagacious and prudent. The London Telegraph says it affords both a crushing rebuke to the believers in an outworn diplomacy,and a splendid en couragement to those who believe in the ca pacity of a free people to select fit rulers, when one sees that this self-taught tailor of Tennes see, by virtue of his direct sincerity of purpose and homely mother-wit bids fair to suc ceed in a task which might have sorely tried the statecraft of a Richtleu. The London Herald says that the President has agreeably disappointed at least one-half of the world by a wise and statesmanlike policy, that will give him a h ; gh place in the patheon of American worthies. Greeley and Brownlow.— Greely and Brownlow appear to have agreed to disagree. The foim-r aiiude3 to the latter as a “Reverend Blackguard Governor. It is an old saying that when parties of a certain character fall out, honest m»n get their deserts. We hope the suffering State of Tennessee, will be the gainer by the quarrel between the knights of radicalism now on the carpet. Disarming is South Carolina.— We are informed that both the military and civil au thorities in South Carolina are busily engaged in disarming the negroes. Instead of buyiDg arms the colored portion of the community dad far better save their money to purchase bread. Tub and Civil in Mobil*.— lt will be recollected that sometime since, Mr. Thomas C. A. Dexter, special Treasury Agent, was ar rested by the military out the charge of fraud; and that General Weed, commanding tho De partment of Alabama, refused to obey a writ of habeas corpus, issued by Judge Basted, for the liberation of Dexter, ou the ground that the said writ was suspended in tho State by the proclamation ot tie President and that the action o; General Wood iu this matter was sustaine-by the‘President. A few days ago Judge Busted delivered -a iioaL opinion ia th's case, saying— Teat a warrant for a Path meat against Gen. Wood will cot be vacated without the court’s consent, but while a quiting Gen Wood, I cannot, even by implication, consent to yield to what I consider an encroachment off the Executive D ipartm tit of the Government upon one of its co ordinate branches. Ihe exercise of these functions by the Pres’dent not only allows, but directs disobedience to these au thorities I c aim exemption t>o a any tespoa sthilUy of gu'lt as alleged. 1 respectfni'y pro test against the act of the Ihosidcnt, and as sert that the trial ot the petitioner, Dexter, cannot lawfully proceed in any other way, than that established according to forms now prescribed by the utioti. National Bank a.—A tew days e.ince we no* tmed the winding up of some National Backs Ftom an official sotttce we gather the annexed information in regard to these institutions : A National Bink .-v.nnot ‘ail to pay i S 'SSUO bee use it is based upon a deposit of Gote.-n ment Bends in tho Treasury of the Uii'ed States For every one hundred dot ars de posits and with the Treasuty in tho Five Twenty Bonds,. bearing s ; x per cent interests p: r an num in gold, payable seratui annually—the Government issu ■* to the banking association ninety dollars iu National B ank bills, hoidmg in reserve ten per cent to secure the note or bill holder—in case of -the bank failing to to deem. And when a deposit of tea forty bonds is made, the Government only .gem s eighty seven and a half per cent, to the Bar king as sociation—holding ia reserve twelve and a. half per cent, over the issue. The Government holds the plate from which the bilisfara print ed, and in do case can there be an over issue. Each Stockholder is liable far double the amount of his stock. Our readers will perceive that the bills of the National Banks are good under all circum stances —whether the bank ia in full operation or is in process of being wound up. \VASlii.\a lOV SEtVf. The Senate reconstruction Committee is Fes sendeu, Grimes, Harris, Howard, Johnson and Williams. Sumner docs not want Tennessee admitted unless negroes can vote. Strong resolutions inimical to Maximilian have been introduced into the S mate. An eifort is to be made iu Congress to re sume jurisdietiioa over that portion of the District of Columbia ceded to Virginia The following is flie House committee to inquire into the condition ot the lute Confed erate Slates : Stevens, of Pennsylvania; Washbnrne, of Illinois ; Morrill, of Vermont; Grider, of Kentucky; Bingham, of Ohio; Conk ling. of* New York;Boutwell, of Mass.; B ow, of lMbsouri; and Rogers of New Jersey. Fifty thousand copies ot Grant’s report are to be prinft and for gratuitous distribution. Some of the members of the Senate desire to have Mr Davis tried at once. Gen. Grant has issued stringent orders to commanders of posts where the Government has powder stored, to take precautions for its preservation. Mr. Eglesfon, of Ohio, has introduced into the United States House of Representatives a bill to repeal the charter of (he City of Wash ington, and place the municipal government in the hands of the Commissioners, as was the case many years ago. This will deprive the people ot all ehetion for local officers, and set t e the vticeasing agitation of the suffrage question. The Congressional Directory is out—a me nth ahead of usual time. Stevens is bard at work to carry out, if pos olLlo, L!c plant? Gen Butitr has received formal acceptance of his resignation. 'ihe Navy Depn'vt'perV ben received advices that Peru will as ;. C‘ i\ : Spain. Gea. Grant atteo 1.-; tilt meetings. Retrenchments cod in ihe Treasury Departu t*/;. a j j orcs j B being cut down. Col. Brown of Fr.' . m v i in Virgint nia proposes feto remove a!! •.>es iuj tha- State to Gov«rnm< of Dads n Florida. FROM BuUi'H AM Hi 104. There is no chaagein nutters in Chili. The blockade still continues, and the Spanish fleet was supplied with provisions by a transport In Bolivia the fighting continued with more favorable prospect for the revolutionists. Gec eial Lamar had taken Bobiji, killing the com mander. The President was occupying Potosi with 1,500 men Peru is at peace, and the Government is be ing rapidly organ'zsd. AM the Ministers and Consuls in Europe and the United States have been superseded, and all the officials at home wdl bo euspen led and tried for political crimes, unless »hey have by acts prove I them selves in favor of the revolutionary party. A demand has been made on the Briti-h Minister for President Pezoi and some of the memtx rs o f his cabinet who have taken refuge in British ships, on the ground that they are guilty of treason and criminals, lbe British Minister’s reply was only that the vessels had sailed. The Spanish Minister is living aboard a Spanish frigate, owing to a conspiracy discovered among some Chilians o ass rssinato him Rio Janerio dates 'if Nov 3 report no further fighting between the Paraguayans and the At lies, b t the latter were carrying on the cam paign vigorously, pushing in pursuit of the former, who were retreating. One division of the Brazilian army had reached the river Paraguay, aud had commenced crossing over into the Province of Carriontes. The Empernt of BrJTzil was expected to return to his capital from the scene of war on the 12th of Novem ber. state IT?.M3 At Thomasvil’p, Mr. James A Seward and City Marshal Atkinson, prominent citizens, have been arrested on very serious charges Seward is charged wi’ti an attempt to assassi nate an armed colored ordeilv from headquar ters, by stabbing him iu the back, while he was carrying dispatches, and A'kinson is ar rested for threatening a colored man named York, a witn-ss against Seward in tho otter case, and exciting an assault on him. Chaplain Frrnch, has received an appointment as Agent of :he Freedman's Bureau, and order ed to report to Brig. Gen. Tiiison for duty- iu this Stare. R v N M Crawford, D D. cf Georgia, has ac cepted tho Presidency of Georgetown, Ky . College, and will soon enter on the duties of his office. Tne interminable divorce case of Edwin Foirest, the actor, has taken a novel rh me.— He appeals to the Supreme Court of the United states to set aside the action of the'New York Supreme Court, which granted his wife & and vorce—his ground being that the marriage 02 urred in England, and the Courts of this country have no business to meddle with it The Pope aud V eter Emanuel have, at !• ngth, come to an amicable agreement, facilitated, no doubt, by the withdrawal of the French troops and the nerv decided language in which the Emperor Napoion Ilf, n.cent’q intimated to the Papal Nuncio that he could not aay longer sustain a rea.ctioary policy at Rome Anew is on her way from New York to run between Savannah and Micon. Garroters are busy in Savannah. Robberies are frequent, Passeagers can now go front SavanDah to Tfcomasville in thirty-six hours. The Savannah t;mber trade is increasing rapidiv. The Chattahoochee is in good boating order, and business is brisk in Columbus. The returns forwarded to Milledgevide show j Mr. Buchanan to be forty odd votes ahead of judge Bigham for Congress ; but we are in formed there is some difficulty or misunder standing relative to the vote of Talbot coun ty—; he ref urns sent to Miiledgevil e sbo - ing only two mojonty for Judge Bigham—which should have been sixty-six votes. ISEWB tIMMtKY. I Few pardons are granted, number of an- 1 j prlicau.s per day. five hundred. Parties in North Canfliiia claim that th#’ j c ,’ >n Tl nl!0D that State had no power to pas® li • Revenue Law as it did. as all of the busil ness on the sea coast, inside the Union ’-mes a , ;a K n fr aceacted under Treasury permits:, | mi l under the regulations of the Treasury De pa; iment tot trade in insurrectionary States he exeention of the inw has been immediate ly threatened, and there being no courts tn the State to act,.in the premises, the parties havt appealed to the President, and he has promised to give the matter early attention. * On the morning of December 14, the thcr- v mometcr stood at eight above zno at Cinciu-" nati. Ic is announced that the Secretary of the Pea-ury has now good reason for beiag satis fied that, the warts of tho war department ’will* not amount to anything like what he was led to •utppo.-e they would. Many ciicumstsnc’es. have occurred since the estimates «vr« made to wairant the conclusion now reach) and and be- : lieved by the Secretrry to he correct, and t e is confident that he can get along during thejpresent year without hut her loans, and without increasing >ho public del t ; snd is of t he opinion that next year he wdi certainly bo able to diminish it very much. I ne Secretary of Mate has been officially ro tiued that the Constitutional amendment has been ratitbd in Indiana, Judge Reagan, cf Texas, has returned to his o and home, lie is in good health. Juarez states as the reason for his ordering Geu Ortega to b i tried was because by leaving Mexico he virtually abandoned tho Republican cause. Juarez wants a now Pr.si <i@atelected so he cau return to private life. Only 2,000 French troops have been landed at Vera Cruz during the last month The conversation ot French effiyers in that city was contemptous towards tho United States. Large quantities of munitions of war for the French troops had also been landed at Vera Gttz Three thousand French troop3 are on ttu ir way to Mexico. Cholera has appeared tn Vera Cruz. At Mobile, Judge Busted, of the United States District Court, decided that the test oath is unconstitutional. R J.Seinni'B has been arrested in Mobile, and is on bis way to Washington. . Ihe Florida papers are clamorous for tho liberation ot Mr. \ulee from Fort Pulaski, as his presence in the State is very essential to the rapid development of internal improve ments and other important interesls. Twelve workmen were killed and nineteen others scalded by the explosion of si steam bailer at the blast furnanoe near’Charleroi, Belgium. The Heusfcn Telegiaph reports the arrest, | by General Giegory, of Mr FPrnere, on the charge of unit g dags io catch a freedman and faleety imprisoning him. Colonel Elmore’s p’eu Is, the dogs were used to track an un known thief, and who proved to be a negro. A writ of habeas corpus was served on Gener al Crcgftry, who respected it, though and nymg its jurisdiction, and asked an extrusion to Jau uirv 15 to receive instructions fioro Wiuhing ton. Elmore was releas< and on heavy bail. A Richmond paper says that some of the leading capitalists North aro vishing Rich mond. and seting the condition of airaus in Virginia, have begun the formation of “Loan Ass ci tiouß” with sufficient capital to make libera! loans. There is a German National Bank at Mem phis wbh SSOO 000 capilal. The grants of public lands to the Northern and Certral Pacific Railroads will exceed, by careful estimates, 125,000,000 acres A few days ago a negro in Nashvi’le pur sued aud struck a white boy twelve years of age, when the latter turned and shot him dead with a pistol. The jury of inquest ren dered a verdict of justficab e negroc'de. A company with S3O 000.000 capital has been formed in San Frauebco, Cab, to hiiild a road seven hundred aud twenty miles long from San Francisco to San Diego, thence eastward to the State line, connecting with the contemplated j-oad to the Mississippi river. The Senate of Alabama has declined to re peal tho laws making a distinction between tho white and black races, as required by the President A man in Richmond, a few days Ago, re caii-oH u totter with one thousand dollars en-V closed. The writer said it was the return of* property stolen in one of Stonoman's raids. fl An investigation just, made discloses the fact* that J. M. (’latk of tho Currency Bureau, andl Solicitor Jordon, of the Treasury, wero both! in possession more than a year ago of all tliefl information in regard to tho abstraction otfl tho plat.c upon which one hundren dollar coua-B terfoit Treasury notes were printed. ■ Hon. Thomas Corwin, bad a paralysis attack* in Washington December 15 fl The Fenians of Chicag 5 offer so fit out a' fleet of privateers on the lakes when necessary. Ihe number of negroes executed at Jamacia, is about 4,000 for insurrection. Tho indictment against Geu Palmer for en ticing slaves from Kentucky has been quashed. 'i he nld«-st voter in the country ia Mr Jere miah Aracs, who lesldes near South Ambov, New Jersey His age Is said to bo one hundred aud five y-ars One paper b.’x establishment ha3 contracted wi h paper collar manufactories to furnish 11,000 boxes daily for a year This gives Borne idea of the paper collar business. A military history of the Ohio troops is to ba published. M The Miami University, Oxrord, Ohio, i.J be taken for an Agricultural College, Measures have been taken in B riPnruSKS the establishment of an asylum h r Hied and orphan children of the disabled r and’sailors of Maryland. * c . The work of repairirg the levees '- 'c.etM MiVsid-ippi at New Orleans is raiddiy goinl forward * J t a The voters of tho District of Columbia havl an election to show Congress the majoritj sgajnst negro suffrage. 1 The interest ou the January bonds 1 000 000 in gold. » 1 A mdl lino is to be established betwoej New York and Columbia, S A | General Kilpatrick leaves for China in Janl uavy. I Secretary Stanton has gone North on a trip Hon Fi!z Henry Warren has accepted the position of Minister to Guatemala Thurlow Weed is n.>w assistant editor o New York Times. Henry Winter Davie, of Maryland, has coro< out opposed ro Pr<> dent Johnson. It. is now thought G'eat. Britain will bac out in hei position on the Alabama question. The wool trade has emwn immensely »hhi the la:-t five years. In 1860 33,000 000 pouni of wool were imported fI. rn foreign count.ri t 1864 76,000,000 In 1860 the United Stat' produced 60 GOO OCO pounds o' wool ; in 181 90 000,000. lu 1860 we imported about sl7 000 000 worth of manufactured woolens: i 1 SG4 over $1,000,000. Valnaof woo'en gc o< manufactured in the United States in 186 *121,868 ldO 33 One third was the produ of the single srate, Massachusetts, v The Virginia Legislature ad >pted a res<,h lion recommending the pardon of Jefler.-r Davis, and other political prisoners, and tl restoration of the privilege of the writ of ha beas corpus The Maryland registry law has been sue taiued bv the Supreme Court, which from voting tli those who cannot take oa a presented in the new Ccs i'ut on. Enci! O'.Vlaho ey, head director cfjtbe an S'sterhood, puh'i-h* s a card saying Ireland will soon be a battle field, and for prompt contributions to the fund, urges the purchase ol Fenian bonds 'i be Fenian agents sent from this to Ireland have returned saddened by the prospects of their cauFe. Navigation is closed by a gorge in the sifeippi twenty utiles below St, Louis, and river i3 about closing opposite the city. Humphrev Marshall is negotiating purchase of the old National lotelligenc RBI Gen Roger A. Pryor has recently mitted to the bar in New Yotk ci y, and practicing law there. Hfl The General Assembly of Virginia passed resolutions app -aliog tj the Pr.~ and Congress to postpone the coiiectu n « f Federal taxes of 1861. and to permit th ; to assume payment of the same ; and th*t Collection of internal revenue accrued previ> HB to the at poiutment of collectors be 17 postponed. The small pox is carrying off large of freedmen at Alexandria. Va. -i'V\