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Tub DIteTRUOTioN Committee and their
D«: i) .—The desperation and bitterness of the
‘infamous Congressional Destruction Commit
loo of Fifteen,” is well illustrated in their pub
lication of poitlons of the testimony of those
witnes-niH, who Lave been summoned before
them to testify against the loyalty of the South.
All this is done to iutnu-nco the coming elec
tions at tho North. 'Only such extracts from
the whole evidence are given, as will tend to
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inflame the ninety ot tho masses in that section
against the South. The feeling of this por
tion qf the commuiißy is already bitter toward
us. But this is not cuough lor tho Dsstiuction
Committee; they would arou-'o the feeling of
hostility still more, if possible, in order that
they may thereby keep up tboir party orgaui
ration—thus securing to themselves the
places and tho spoils of affile.
The opinions of Generals Grierson and Sax
ton are, of course, given to the Northern voters
sh entirely orthodox; hut not a won! is said
about tho convictions of tlenerais Grant and
Sherman, honestly forme 1, that the spirit of
the people of the South is ono ot loyalty to the
National Government.
The gtutemerffi) of the two ablest Generals
the Noith proauced, are not consiilerod reli
able by the Committee of Destiuction ; oh no !
it would not answer even to allow them to be
circulated in an official form ; because, by bo
doing, much damage would be done to the
future pro spects of the radical demagogues.
But the incorrect declarations of Grierson, who
ran all over the State of Mississippi with Bed
ford* Forrest at. his heels, and Saxton, who
never was in a skirmish during the war—are
amn uuced to be entitled to the fullest credit,
and are-loudly heralded throughout the land
in order to deceive these who are not acqu tint
ed with the real fooling w\)ich exists here.
This precious junfo—Tbad. Stevens and his
immaculate “Committee of Fifteen,” or “Cen
tral Directory,” as President JohttSon terms it
—is composed of fifteen members of Congress.
It bus been created for the sole purpose of
controlling the cutlre question of reconstruc
tion. Whenever a resolution looking to resto
ration is introduced, it is immediately referred
to the Committee on Destruction. A motion
to “lay on lire table” or ‘‘indefinitely post
pone,” is not to be compared to a reference to
this Commitiee. When a bill or resolution
goes lo that ‘ Directory," it is dead. The mo
tion to refer is the the death warrant,
and tha reference is the execTitiou.
The people of ihe South have little to hope
bar, so long as tueir destinies are controlled by
fifteen men bitterly hostile to their interests.
When the “Central Directory” dies, the South
v. i 1 begin to live.
Tui: Fkni ins. —The late 'news of tho F enian
movement brings ns further Interesting de
tails. It is stated that recruiting offices will
be opened in New York, soon, under the guise
of procuring emigrants to colonize and settle
in tho iu,inhabited districts of New Bruns
wick and Canada Hundred of experienced
i (Beers are also said to be flocking daily to the
Sweeney If adquarters in New York. Many
of the officer?, who tenner their swords, have
served in the Confederate atmy, and among
the applicants for positions, many may be
recogn z*d as Laving made brilliant reputa
tions lor themselves. Companies and regi
ments are with great rapidity,
and it is calculated- that General Sweeney
will be able, when he feels justified in calling
for tlieir service, to procure in New York city
• twenty five thousand nblc bodied young men,
4to have had experience in battle.
It sjiuown that sixteen thousand cartridge
boxes and knapsaoks were bought at auction
recently, from a well-knowu house in Park
Place, arfd quantities of arms and ammunition
are being negotiated for from day today, by
officers detailed for that purpose. It is proba
ble that Col. Tressha® will command the first
Fenian regiment from New York, and a WcH
known Southern cavalry officer, the second.
Au artillery reziment.is also being organized,
aud au independent battalion for special ser
vjee under the command of Col. Murphy, a
veteran soldier.
ju the above is contained a succ’nct account
of the Feni me in "New York* city alone. In
Philadelphia, Tittsbuig, Detroit aud number
less other places of lesser note, tho greatest
enthusiasm aud activity in the cause prevails.
Hundred of dollars have been
subscribed, of invested in bends. The ex<
citemeut is intease, and the leaders are doing
everything they possibly can to prevent its
*■ diminution. By speeches and appeals, it is
sought to tire the Irish heart. And right well
are the Head Centre's succeeding.
It is rumored thai some 40 000 negro troops
are soon to be mustered cut "00 ol these are
urv aeiv 1 - South Carol!*
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A Specimen ok Political-Preaching Lotal
tt — We are told by a Meriden, Conn,, paper
that a minister in that place on a recent Sun
day prayed thus.
Not my will, but thine, 0 Lord, be
done ; but if it be consistent wyh ihy holy
pleasure we would that thou speedily tele
yrapU fur President Johnson to come up to
heaven.’’
When every thing is taken into considera
tion—the troublesome times in which we live,
and the many threats which have been made
against President’! life —a remark, like the
above, is a crime in the highest degree ; is noth'
*ng moie or less than inciting to assassination.
Very many assassins have been pressed to their
blcody work by relTgToue enthusiasm, aroused
in just this way. It i3 the most common form
ia which nu.fi crimes have been incited, The
present attitude of many enthusiasts sAd fan
atics toward iho President Is so well known
that a parson who utters such a prayer should
bo puDished teverely.
Rut aside from the absolutely c riminal
nature of the offence, it certainly becomes the
press and pub lie, of all sejtons of the land,
to affix upon tha ciergyin m who Jhus debases
the holy office, and the congregation which
j fins him ia such a prayer, their proper char
acter among men and citizens. It is but a
short time since the President openly named
certain parties as in his -opinion guilty of
treasonable conduct. It cannot be forgotten
that he ha's frequently, sinco he became our
Chief Magistrate, stated and reiterated his
views, that treason, as the highest crime, «as
worthy the greatest punishment. Having now
j lined fanatics from Ml portions of the land as
equally enemies of the government, it is
hardly to be supposed that he desires to punish
ono class more severely than the other. But
the people in every quarter without referonce
to’paity names, owe it to him find to their l
country, to make a distinct division between
themselves aud those traitors at the North who
remain to this day iu open enmity to the gov
ernment.
We cannot understand the honesty of men
who profess to be patriots, and desire to sup
port the President in bis wise policy, but who
arc unwilling to break up their political rela
tions with Sthcr men who pray for the death
of the president, and who would of course
thank God heartily if he were to die suddenly.
When citizens act with such men for political
success, they'must not be surprised if they are
ail viewed us men of one class and character.
rn nil -
Hcpefol Indications.— The recent defeat, in
the Senate, of the bill, the practical working of
which would have deprived the Southern
States of about one-lhird the representation to
which they arc entiUed, is a hopeful iadica
tion cf the future. This measure was one of
the series in tho radical programme'and at the
time of its passage by the House there \vas
every reason to believe it would be endorsed
by the Senate. livthe final vote, however, it
fell far short of receiving the required two
thirds—only twenty-five Senators voting in
the affirmative—which gaye it a bate majority
ot three. Whether this action of the Senate is
attributable to conviction or to policy, cannot
easily bedcjprmined. It may be that they be
gin to see the absurdity of tho extreme pro
gramme aud that they are now honestly de
posed to modify their views ; or it may be
that they arc led to adopt a milder course' be
cause they see the inexpediency of forcing
measures upon the President that are foie
doomed to be vetoed. Whatever may be the
correct solution of this last action of the Sen
ate, however, it is evident that more modera
tion may hereafter be expected in that body
in respect to reconstruction measures, as they
have signally failed id every effort to deprive
the South of their just representation‘in the
councils of the nation—thanks to the President,
whose vetoing power exercises a wholesome
restraint over them
TIIADIIKUS SThVBNS AND TUB PRESIDENT.—The
United States House of Representatives has
again been the scene of a most undignified
and outrageous attack on the President by
Thaddeus Stevens, which was rather intensi
fied than mitigated by its satirical aud ridicu
lous stylo. The House, as usual, on the last
day of the week, devoted itself to discussion of
the President’s message, or, more properly
speaking, of his policy. Sundr y speeches were
made lor and against it, but Mr. Sttvsns took
up his time with foading a speech he had
some time before prepared in advocacy of his
own' position and policy, from which he
branched cut fnto a reference aud comment on
the President's speech of the 22nd of Feb
uary.
Thß whole speech was a most disgraceful
and malicious attack for the most unworthy
purpose of gratifying'his spite, and as such will
ouly add to the condemuatian, •ready almost
universal among the people, of the course and
character of Thaddtrn Stevens. Ic was, of
course, intended to widen the breach between
the two branches ot the Government, and was
a perfect defiance of popular wish for a settle
ment of all our unhappy The only
hope now for Mr. Stevens and the party he
leads by the nose, and whose true wish is to
break up the Government aud the Uniou, is to
tender irreconcilable these differe'sees, that
anarchy may ensue. Nothing can be accom
plished against the prosperity of the country
so long as Mr. Johnson occupies his "present
position, and he must , therefore be gotten out
of it. The cowardly threats and insinuations
of assassination having bden exposed wouid
unquestionably, should they bo carried out,
make Mr. Stevens anq his friends the victims
of popular revenge and Justice. They, there
fore, dare not attempt . it—and in fact must
guard against it; but perhaps they think they
can gain their end by creating such confusion
and throwing such impediments in the way of
a proper administration qf the government, as
to virtually if not actually dggtroy it. We
think not. These men are marked, and the
popular judgment will purely descend upon
and annihilate them -ehauld their treasonable
designs even approach consummation.
SuoorsTivs Foists —Tnere are some sugges
tive points in the recent statistics of Ireland.—
In the past year there has opeurred a decrease
in the number of inhabited houses cf Ireiand
to the extent of 1(»2T7, and in the population
of 34,846 and three million more letters were
posted to the island than during the previous
year.
Augusta, ga„ Wednesday morning, march 28, iB6O.
The Tone of the Scuthebn Pres;.— Since the
suppression of the Richmond Examiner, and
the issuing of Gen. Grant’s order, the radical
Northern speakers and papers have been con
tlnua fiy aarping upon what they term “the
disloyal tone of the {Southern press.” These
w'sacres are very free and liberal with their
advice, but their course in stirring up strife
and discord, and their endeavors to increase
the political troubles of the country, proves
that their great professions for the welfare of
the Union arehnere words—meaning nothing.
The Southern papers, a body, are doing
all ia their power to have the existing troubles
settled. They are earnestly supporting prin
ciples for which the President ie so manfully
aLd lighieously contending, and are sincerely
desirous of the re establishment of the republic
upon Retold foundation of the. Constitution
p and laws made in pursuance thereof. But it
so happens that tS>e President hjmsefif is at open
variance with the majority iu Congress upon
the great and absorbing question of recon
struction, and an issue has been made between
the Executive and Legislative departments of
the government which deeply involves the
present and future welfare of the Southern
Stated, as well also as that of the whole Union.
The South is more immediately interested in
this issue, because it relates directly to her
representation iu Congress, and to her enjoy
ment of the equal benefits of a common con
stitution.
Tho Southern press cannot, therefore, be
- expected to be silent upon a sub
ject so vitally involving Southern interests.
Our political status, our agriculture, our in
duitrial pursuits of every kßtid, are alt em
braced in the issue of wtfich we are speaking
It comes home to our “business aud bosoms.”
and it is the right, but the duty of our
press to participate in the discu33ions which
It leads to.- Denied a voice ia Congtessj this
i9 the only way in which our people can be
heard. We are sure that the President’s
couise and views are cordially approved and
endorsed all over the South. The magnanim
ity and honesty which he has displayed in
his efforts to restore the country to peace and
unity bare elevated him to «a high and proud
position. Our paoplo admire him for the
brave stand he has taken in defence of the
principles and doctrines which are the life and
soul of our institutions. In the struggle now
pending botween him and the dominant party
in Congress, there is at stake the very exist
ence of the republic, for if his adversaries were
to triumph, thoro would beau end to the
Executive powor. It would be swallowed up
by the legislative department, and thus all
the checks and balances so wisely and happily
adjusted by tho supreme organic law would bo
destroyed, and Government and people alike
be undone.
Tho press at the South, as far as our ex
changes enable us to judgß, has nothing more
at*h cart than tho succors of the President’s
pelity, which, alone, promises such a restora
tion as will sec%re upon a solid and durable
basis the prosperity, happiness and glory of
the country.
If all tho Northern journals were as friendly
to the President and tho Government, as ad
ministered by him, as the Southern press,
there would be a speedy end of our intestine
troubles and rapid advancement of the nation
al prosperity. There would be peace, friend
ship and mutual confidence from one end of
to the other. Sectional animosi-
soon disappear and kind feelings
and relations would succeed tha bitterness of
strife which have for the last five years shed
their disastrious iuflucnce over the land.
The Revolutionary Designs of tee Radi
cals. —President Johnson has been denounced
most bitterly for his aniversary speech by 6ome
of his former sujiporters..because be took oc
casion to hold up to public condemnation the
leading spirits in the Radical faction—charging
them with designing to change the govern
ment by fraud, usurpation, and amendments to
the Constitution. That Mr. hit the
nail upon the head, is shown by the fact that
notV leading man or press in the radical in
terest has undertaken to*controvert bis position
in this respect. This was not an invention or
discovery on the the Pteiidqut, • It has
long been E6en by others, and public attention
called to it. Early in the war, Gen. Banks
wa3 repotted to have prophesied that the char
acter of the government . would be radically
changed before the close of the war. During
the war, the New York Times, then inside the
Republican ring, becoming incensed at the
radical attacks on President Lincoln, took oc
casion to reveal some of the party secrets. In
the course of its article we find the following
outspoken-language on the leaders of faction
that is now laboring td prevent a consumma'
tion of the restoration policy of the President.
No measure has been too extreme, no policy
too violent, no mode of warfare too savage for
their tastes. They have led the van in the
blind race of Radicalism and barbarism, into
which they have seduced many public men of
wiser judgments and calmer passions than
themselves. They have scouted the idea
whenever it has been presented in any form of
closing the war, until not only Ihouid slavery
be abandoned, but until the people of the
Southern States should have been, reduced to
the condition of helpless and hopeless vassals
to the General Government. - 6 *
They have sought steadily and consistently,
them conquest, subjugation and ex'eimination
as States, in order that they might found up
on them anew empire raised upon their own
ideas, and to be raised by their counsel. They
have sustained tbe war,'not as a means of re
storing the jioion, bat to free tbe slaves, seize
the lands, crush the spirit, destroy the rights
aud.blot out forever the political freedom of
the people inhabiting the Southern States.
It is the schemes of this class of men that
President Johnson is now engaged in thwart
ing It is this class of men who are [now en
deavorlbg in Congress to pass more Constitu
tional amendments, and who are trying to in
jure the South and its people by enacting un
constitutional laws. President’Johnson was
not far estray in his estimate ot them.
From Maine. —Large and enthusiast meet
ings have been held in various sections of
Maine, supporting the President and his policy
Demonstrations of this kind, in lj}at quarter,
are certainly good signs. Everything which
has emanated from that section, for years, has
been Os the “darkest hue/’ May these faint
flashes of tWhiiSwa Uw far Easi be sur
Wingers of coming better days.
The Danger of Ocn Pusssnt Position*—
Congress is uncertain of its position, ity duties,
its powers. It is full of a factious, t resjdeSß,
revolutionary spirit. It seems to have-thrown
away the old government—to have cut loose
from the Constitution. Great wars necessarily
suspen I the operation of law to a certain ex
tent, and justify the use cf extreme or doubt
ful powers ; but a wise legislature would lose
no opportunity Sf relinquish a doubtful posi
tion that it had assume ’, forithe public good,
and take once more its natural place in the
circle of government. Congress, on the con
trary, is determined not to relinquish the po
sition that the war gav| it., jßs whole strugglo
is to hold that positibn, and to prevent, by
every means, a return to the harmonious, quiet,
naturSl operation of the old system. Its revo
lutionary -disposition and purpose i/ .most
clearly seen in its propositions to change the
Constitution of the country. Some thirty or
forty amendments are before it, which, if
adopted, wfould completely do away with tha
system ufider which the United States have
been so prosperous, and would change our
government in nearly every feature. Congress
assumes.that the Constitution is a nullity. It
ignores tha Constitutional distribution of pow
ers. It has taken the position of the Supreme
Court, to interpret the Constitution by party
vote. It has made its Central Directory—its
infamous Committee of Fifteen—an f xecutive,
to supersede the President. It has threatened
to impeach him also. In ail ways it assumes
superiority to the law, and is not a Congress
under the Constitution, but a fac.ion govern
iug in defiance of that instrument. • _
Is Js from this very point in their history
that free Governments tumble Into despotism.
At 6oroo weak hour when, for one cause or
another, ction prevails and law is superse
ded, and faction daily- grows \forse till a po
litical chaos seems#imminont, then some
strong hand se'zos all, and an unscrupulous
leader gains tho confidence of the peop eby
putting tho factions under ills foot, and a little
later, in virtue of that very confidence, puts
liberty in the same place. This i3 the histoty
of a* thousand republics taken from that very
point in their career at whieh wa now stand in
ours. Ttr c fall begins when faction supatcedes
the Government and pattern passion'takes the
place of law. This wa3 the history of liberty
in Rome, in Fiance and Eugland. Faction
made Rome ready for Caesar, faction in tho
long parliament paved the way for Cromwell,
aud faction iu Napoleon. inevita
ble. It is the Eame sorieß of facts in every case.
It is a lawot national life, and we will not be
exempt [from it unless there is something in
us different to all other cations. Tho people
are the only hope. ■ They aro certainly more
intelligent and more free, and their influence
is more direct than in other countries. Their
intelligence, their patriotism and their free
dom is what we must couut upon for the hope
that the factions will be put fluwn by a power
not inimical to freedom, by the voice, of the
whole people, and not by an amoitious leader
ready to become a despot.
TiiajpEroßucAis; Card at ths North. —The
Republicans are playing all sorts of dodges in
order to carry the elections in many of the
States at the North. In Pennsylvania alone,
has the radical party met at all the issues
made by its Representatives in Congress with
tbe President. In New Hampshire they did
dodge, and in Connecticut and Indiana they are
attempting to dodge that altogether by a
sort of ludia rubber platform that stretches
over both the President and Congress. In
Pennsylvania the party takes a little more de
cided position on the side ot Congress, yet
faiJs to meet manfully the issue. They strike
at the President through insinuations and over
the back of Senator Cowan ; but at the back
of Mr. Stevens they will probably be brought
up to the mark, although the wily and epoils
loving polifieians of tho Cameron school will
exert their great influence to preserve the
peace. The party that makes an issue and
then dare not meet it before the people, is. a
contemptifcle.party, to say the least.
India Cotton. —The accounts from Bombay
show a rapid increase of the growth of cotton
in Western India. The shipment for five
months alone, during last yeav, over the Great
Indian Peuinsula rai.way, amounted to 209,
724 bales—three times the amount for the
same period in the preceding year. The quali
ty of Indian cotton is far inferior to that
grown iu this esuntry. Between tbe French
aud English there exists great rivalry in steam
communication in the East, The French line
of steamships set-in io have the advantages of
comfort and speedy. The French freshwater
canal, at Suez, now empties into the Gulf of
Suez ; but the maritime canal,' which is the
great commercial work, shows no signs of
completion. Now that the war in this country
is over, a large number'of American travelers
have found their way to Egypt.
Tug Result of Abolition Philanthropy.— A
Republican tjeaatoi, in a speech a few days
since, made a statement wh ch shows tho re
sult of the great curse of this country—Aboli
tion philanthropy. He said that “ the actual
* destruction ot the black population since
u 1860 has been at least twenty-five per cent.
of the whole,” —“ a million out of four mil
“ lions have perished.” He m gut, with truth,
nave aijded that not only have a million per
ished, but a large proportion of the remainder
have been left so debauched and demoralized
as to continue their rapjd extermination.
Truly, the Abolition philanthropists cf the
ountry have much to answer fc-r.
A Rich Bjy.—The richest individual in
Massachusetts io a boy, the son of the late
Joshua Sears, a Boston merchant, who died—
leaving his sob as his sole heir; his property
was appraised at about $1,830,000. The jrus
-tees under his the rncst cf it in
real estate in Franklin Street; the -dwelling
houses of which they demolished almost en
tirely to make room tor the finest block of
stores in Boston. The investment proved
highly judicious ; the property has more than
doubled on their hands, and now reaches an
aggregate of over $\,003,000 in value. # The
lad who is to own this, is now being brought
up in the family of Hon, Aipheus Hardy, ohe
1 otobe trustees, and leading merchant of Bos
i ton.
The Secret Motive.—lu a letter to a meet
ing of conservative citizens of St. Louis, the
Hon. Edward Bates subjects the vetoed Freed
men’s Bureau bill to a merciless analysis, in
which he exposes with unmistakable distinc
ness the ulterior revolutionary object of the
proposed statute, and 'denounces with appro
priate but logical saVevity the dangerous sub
terfuge of its contrivers, was counteract
ed by the prompt and bold interposition of the
President. Mr. Bates aDo denounces the authors
of the bill, and says that - ' the secret motive
which induced them to lasten such a measure
upon the country, was to subvert the constitu
tional form of Government. In concluding
his letter, Mr. Bates remarks thus :
I think it a fortunate thing for the country,
that tho Radical faction i. so demented as to
pick a quarrel with tho President because he
refuses to be Iheir instrument to overturn the
Constitution gnd substitute in its place a mili
tary despotism, 'and to stake their political
fortunes upon tha monstrous vices and follies
of the Trumbull bill. For, iu doing,, so, they
do but insure their own defeat, find consequent
ly, the restoration and peace, and
revival of national inspect for legal govern
ment ana a national love for liberty by law.
Even the emancipated negro, for whose sake
it is pretended that this wrong is done, will not
long fail to see the hypocrisy and fraud of tha
transaction. They will see that while they
are cajoiod with the pretence of liberty and
equality before the law, this wicked bill sub
jects th- m to tiie power of military overseers,
excludes them from all legal protection, denies
them the right to appeal to the courts of law
for redress. of grievances, and requires the
agents and officers of the bqreau to “take
jurisdiction of all cases” which concorn them
and their interests.
Francs and Mexico. — The speech of the
Emperor of France was accepted iu this coun
try as a sincere expression of his desire to
withdraw his troops from Mexico. If, how
ever, instead of withdrawing at once, itshould
appear that Napoleon is actually dispatching
new forces to Mexico, it is highly probable
that a different interpretation would be placed
On his Speech by tha people of this country
The pr'esentrftypect of the subject is not at all
satisfactory. On the contrary, it is under
stood in France that the means nothing
but a diplomatic expression, designed to quiet
American minds. If this provs to be the case,
tho reaction here will he very strong. Our
people are not accustomed to diplomocy, aud
are very apt to resent any deception practiced
on them, especially by foreign powers. There
is no light feeling on this jaattor among
Americans abroad. They seem impressed with
the conviction that Louis Niipoleon has no in
tention to remove his troops from this conti
nent, and, on the contrary, they believe that
numerous troops now in France aro destined
to reinforce Maximilian.
The Cattle Plague. —The United States
Consul at Liverpool, in his despatches of Feb.
16th," says tho cattle plague is now the absorb
ing topic among the peoplo ; that it fills all Ihe
newspapers, and occupies nearly the. whole
attention of Parliament. Vaccination as a
remedy seems to be regaided as a total failure,
and no preventive will be effectual, in tho
opinion of those who are versed in the matter,
except to stamp it out, which means to kill all
the cattle taken with it on its first appeaiance,
and compensate the owners for their loss.—
There is a bill,now beforo Parliament on the
subject, causes a . good deal of discus
sion. The report lor tho week ending Februa
ry 10th, shows 11,590 new cases. The number
attacked since the commencement of the dis
ease is 143,023, of which 111,100 have died or
been killed.
Official Corruption,— la a debate in the U.
S. Seriate, recently, when a proposition was
under consideration to Ihvestigate charges
against certain officers who had served in
New Orleans and in tho Mississippi Depart
ment, Senator McDougal, of California, stated
that he knew of ajnan who had been rejected
by the Senate for Captain and Quartermaster,
who was nothing but a common sporting’man
in California, not worth SIO,OOO. After his
rejection by the Senate he went down to New
Orleans, where his brother was in command.
He engaged in operations there. In a short
time he died, and by his will ; which was now
in the Surrogate’s Court, it was clear that he
had made $2,000,000. He supposed the Sen
ate knew whom he meant.
• . --mac, <ss*=—
An Important Decision.— Judge Mason, in
the Supreme Court of New Yoik has given an
important decision. A guest at the Lafarge
House was robbed of a watch, his rings and
Bcarf pin, together with two hundred dollars
in money ; and on sueing, the proprietor set
up in defense that tho rule of the house—un
der the statute of tbe State—required valua
bles to b 8 deposited iu the 6afe of the office.
The Judge, however, charged that this did not
apply to a watch, or such jewelry as a person
usually carried about his person, nor to such
amounts of money as were usually carried in
of travelers to supply ordinary
necessities. The jury brofeght in a verdict
giving the plaintiff five hundred and twenty
five dollars.
‘•The Directory.’’ —The “Irresponsible Cen
tral Directory,” as the President designates the
Committee of Fifteen, report adversely to tho
admission of Tennessee members, and assume
that the State shall be admitted
demand that Tennessee shall make
with the United States to repudiate u>e Con
federate (ftbc, to disfranchise Confederate vo
ters, and never to make any claim on the
general government lor emancipation. In this
way the deshuctives are busily engaged to
change the foftn of our government, by dic
tating to States as to the regulation of suffrage,
and in other matters not warranted by the
Constitution. Well may the people thank the
President fpr earnestly opposing such schemes,
which only tend to deprive tile people of their
rights.
East Asiatic EiPtDiTiON. —The Austrian
Government has accepted the proposal of an
East Asiatic expedition, which is to start this
month. It is proposed to explore Siam, China
and Japan. This expedition will consist of the
frigate Schwarzmberg and the corvette Frieder
ich, and will be under the command of Admiral
Tegetthoff. part of the mis
sion has been intrusted by the Austrian Minis
try of Foreign Affairs to Chevalier Karl Yon
Scherzer.
VOL. LXXV.—-NEW SERIES VOL. XXV NO. it.
ADI’S AND BEfeOLtiTIOXH API*UOVED BY
THE GOVERNOR.
i- Com
169. An Act to incorporate the Vulcan Iron
and Coal Company, and to confer certain
pow-ers and privileges thereon.
. UO. An Act amendatory of the law in rela
tion to the establishment of lost papers.
171. An Act to relieve securities on bonds
for criminal offences committed during the
with the United States upon certain con
citons.
172. An Act to incorporate the Geosgia
Express Company.
173 An Act to incorporate the Georgia Life
and Accident Insurance Company of Atlai^D.
174 An Act tb incorporate the Mining Man
facturing and Improvement Company of the
city of Atlanta.
175. Ah Act to carry inio effect the 9th
clause of section I, article 5 of the constitution.
175. An Act to carry to Authorize the sever
al Ordinaries of this Stato to administer oaths,
and to receive eomperisation thereof.
177. An Act to regulate the distribution of
the Common School fund of the county of
Echols, and for other purposes.
178. An Act to amend section 3478 of the
Code of Georgia.
179. An Act to autboiise the»lnferior Court
of Richmond to levy an extra tax for county
purposes.
180. Au Act to am -ud an Act to incorpor
rate the town of Brunswick, in the county of
Glynn, to define its jurisdictional limits, to
provide fur the eleetiou of a Mayor and City
Council, and such other officers as may be re
quired, and confer upon them spec.Uc. powers,
and for other purposes.
181. An Act to amend tha 4467 section of
the Code of Georgia.
182. An Act to exempt from streot duty,
all persons who now are or hereafter may be
cime active members of either of the existing
Hook and Ladder or Fire Companies of the
city of Atlanta,. *
183. An Act to ckango the line between the
counties of Murray and Gordon,
184. An Act to authorize certain sales to bo
made in other counties in this State than where
Buch sales are now required by law, aud where
certain kinds of property have been removed
out of the State, to authorize the sales of the
same in the State where it has been removed.
i.85. An Act to repeal paragraph 183 of
part Ist, title 4, chapter Ist, of tho Code of
Georgia.
186. An Act to incorporate the New Era
Mining and Manufactanßg Company.
187. "An Act to amend and aiter the charter
of the city of Columbus.
188. An Act io amend part 2, title-3, chap
ter 2, article 4, section 3, of the Code of Geor
gia.
189. A« Act to incorporate the Dalton Pe
troleum Mining Company.
190. An Ant for tb; pardon of John W. Mar
tin, now confined in the Penitentiary for the
crime of murder.
191. An Act io prevent the illegal seizure,
detention, or removai of property in this
State, and to prescribe the punishment for the
same.
RESOLUTIONS.
29. Resolution accepting the benefit of cer
tain acts of Congress of the United States do
nating public lauds for certain purposes there
in mentioned.
30. Resolution requesting the Governor to
memorialize the Secretary of the Treasury in
regard to the seizure of cotton in certain
cases.
31. Resolution ai’thorizing'tho distribution
or disposition of surplus books iu the State
Library by the State Lilarian, under the direc
tion of the Governor, aud for other purposes.
32. Resolution' requesting the Postmaster
General to recommend tbe establishment of
ceitain mail routes.
35. Resolutions appointing a couftnlttee of
sixteen to digest and report a common scbooT
system to the next session of tho General As
sembly, and for other purposes.
34. Resolution in relerence to the commit
tee of five appointed by the Seuat#, and the
committee of tivo appointed by the House, to
whom was referred tb» Governor’s Message in
relation to providing corn for the destitute, to
act as a joint committee.
35. Resolution allowing tho Secretary of
State to employ a clerk in his office, for the
purpose of replacing destroyed maps in the
Surveyor General’s office.
36. Resolution requesting his Excellency,
the Governor, to pardon and let go free Epsy
Woofi, a convict in the Penitentiary from the
.county of Franklin.
37. Besolution requesting his Excellency, the
Governor, to instruct the Superintendent of
the Western aud Atlantic Railroad to give
certain aid to farmers and otheg persons upon
said Railroads.
UNITED BTATES C9K»BBSB,
Washington, March 14.
In the Senate; the Committee on Finance
reported back tbe bill to supply deficiencies
in the appropriation tor the current fiscal year.
Mr. Trumbull reported back from the Judi
ciary Committee, the Civil Rights bill, *aad
asked for au immediate consideration of it.
In the House, the feature of interest was the
debate on the expediency of marking an ap
propriation from the Treasury to aid in tbe
representation of the products of the United
States in tho French Exposition. Considera
ble feeling was evinced iu the course of the
debate against France. Mr. Waabburne, of
Illinois, declared that rather* than see the unK
forms of the Un!fed*Sta'.23 sent over to Paris,
to be snubbed dy the representatives of Euro
pean aristocracy, he would prefer to see them
On the backs ot our veterans, marching for the
Halls ot the Montezumas. It, was at length
voted, in the evening session, to make an ap
propriation of SIOO,OOO.
Thursday, -March 15.
The Senate concurred in the amendments of
the civil rights bill, and passed it by a. large
majority. The bill has now received the as
sent of both Houses of Congress, and will bo
transmitted on Saturday to the President for
is action.
A True Prophecy. —The projfhecy of Daniel
Webster, in regard to matters in case a certain
class of politicians obtained control of affairs
has proved too true. In glancing at the fu
ture of the country, ha said :
‘‘lf these fanatics and abolitionists over get
power into their hands they will over tide the
Constitution, .set the Supreme Court" at de
fiance, change and make laws to suit them
selves ; finally they will bankrupt tbe country
and deluge it with blood.”
The Conscience Fund or tub Treasury.— The
National Intelligencer, of a late date, says :
It will be recollected that the Secretary of
the Treasury a short time ago received from
an uuknown' source the sum of five thousand
dolfars, which the anonymous wrfter stated
rightfully belonged to the Government. Since
the letter enclosing tho money was received,
another communication has been sent to the
Secretary from another party, who claims to
have lost that amount, and asks if there is any
possibility of the amount deposited being iden
tical with the rfioney lost by him. It would,
dherefoie, be desirable to have the unknown
depositor state in what manner he received
this money.
A Riuc.—A gold cross and chain have been
dug up at Clare Castle Suffolk, England, sup
posed to be one presented originally to Tewks
burry Abby in twelve hundred and thiity-five,
sand alleged to contain portions of the hairs o
Lertain saint*, a part of the beam to which our
LomPb crocs was fastened, and a piece of stone
seem Mount Calvary. . :
[From the Flintshire (Eng.) Observer, Feb. 9 ]
TEE CATTLE FLAHI?« AND GOVERNMENT
AID.
On Monday next Sir George purposes bring
ing forward a bill on the above subject. Gov
ernment compensation he holds out no prospect
of, it having worked badly % century ago. In
a record ot the plague of 1757, written by Dr.
Lyon Playfair, ws read
“The system of compensation for slaughtered
animals would appear to offer a means of rd6~
ord, but it was soon abandoned, and it led to
the most serious frauds. Every animal Buffer
ing from disease Ot any kind was knocked in
head, aud classed as a plague-stricken
Imist, in order to ensure Government compen
sation. A more serious evil still resulted; for
the payment of. losses diminished the motive to
exertion, on the part of local authorities, for
the extirpation of the murrain. The Treasury
records, theroforei afford no clue to the number
of cattle which suocumbed to the plaguy but
it is probable that it reached to uowards of
500,000.”
During the cattle plague of 1714, the orders
then issued by the Privy Council wore very
similar to those which have recently been
issued, thus clearly proving that the plague of
that period was of the same character as the
one we are now visited with. Tha same pre
cautions were observed, the symptom* of the
diseased cattle are alike, all remedies failed to
relieve, and the “pole-axe,” or what we weald
now call the “stamping out” system, was pro
nounced then as the only radical cure.'
The plague then continued thirteen year!,
and from careful inquiries made by Dr. Faust,
it is said that'from 1711 to 1796, more than two
hundred millions of horned cattle were cut off
by the disorder in Western Europe; and no one
method of cure--excopt homoeopathy, tried in
18§5—was not tried, and found wanting in the
plague of 1745. All the modern appliances
were applied then, and to no purpose. During
this visitation Ireland, as now, was free from
the disorder. It will thus be seen that the ex -
perionce cf the plague in 1745 is highly valu
able, though most discouraging, both as the
use of preventive and curative measures.
In 1853 experiments were made at Charkow
with reference to inoculation. One thousand
beasts were inoculated, with matter of the
seventh generation, and not more than sixty
died.
Russia, beyond all doubt, has been proved
to be the nursery of the Rinderpest, as it is,
morej or less, ever present amongst the
herds ’bred in the Steppes of that county.
Tho virus’there used for vaccination has been
artificially converted into cow pox, or vaccine
virus, by miving therewith warm cow’s milk,
and a dilution of strong coffee is recommend
ed to be.used also, as it.contains casein like
milk.
The number of horned cattle in this country
is supposed to bo from seven to eight millions,
and their estimated value may be taken at
$70,000,000.
We have already shown that the history of
the plague in 1865 is but a close repetition of
its history in 1745, when it dwelt among us
for twelve years. It ravages then were fear
ful. and it behooves all parties, whether own
ers of stock or otherwise, to aid in every man
ner they pos3ibly can, to prevent the spread
ing of this most destructive malady. We
question whether any person, be his calling
what it may, would deny the right and justice
of his being called upon - to put his hand into
his ipocket to provide for the national loss,
which will inevitably take place should the
plague continue much longer in onr country.
In a parish of 30,000 acres in .Flintshire,
475 cattle have been swept off by thp muirain,
and only 225 remains. One farmer, Mr. Parry,
lost sixty head, out of a heard of sixty-seven.
Others lost from fifty to thirty-eight, leaving
only five or six head remaining. In the parish
of Coanalis Quay 800 head were swept off,
leaving very few alive. These figures are
startling, and all England is excited over the
devastation.
Ordination of Rev. Joseph Gross. —This
distinguished Divine, well known to many of
our citizens, has been inducted into the Minis
try of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The ordination of a Minister, says the Nash
ville Dispatch of the 17th—
“ Does not usually attract any special atten
tion ; but where the candidate for holy orders*
as in the present case, has eccupied a promi
nent position in the clerical ranks of another
denomination, his change of base (the phrase
is hardly sufficiently dignified for the subject)
is naturally suggestive of comment and reflec
tion. Rev. Dr. Cr iss has, for a number of
yearß, been tanked, justly, we suppose, as one
of the leading ministers of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South. Whether as an eloquent
preacher or a polished and vigorous writer, he
has been recognized as occupying no subordi
nate position. He was born in England, and
received his infantile religious training in the
established church of that country ; but com
ing early under Methcdistic influences, he was
Converted among the Weeleyans, and has since
devoted some of the beßt years of his life as an
exponent of Methodism ”
The Swiss Convict immigrant. —The Sec
retary of State, in a letter to Senator Sumner,
details the facts in the qpe of the murderer
Martin Bader, recently pardoned by the Coun
cil of Basleland, Switzerland, on condition of
his emigrating to this country. He was under
sentence of confinement for twenty four years
in chains. Ihe United States Consul, Mr.
Wilfe at Basle, intormed the Council ot' Basie*
land that the United States was not a colony
for convicts and criminals, and that the pernon
pardoned would not be permitted to land in
this country, but v.ould bo returned to
Switzerland jit the expense of those sending
him hither.
A Boston Opinion. —The Commercial,
ths leading’papers in Boston, remarks thus on
the situation :
It*really looks as if seme of the Radical
Congressmen were desirous of goadiDg the
South into another rebellion, to perpetuate the
rule of their party, which they consider of
more importance than any or all things else.
Rev J J Williams has beja consecrated the
Catholic Bishop of Boston *
Gen Evans is in Texas, looking up locations
for South Carolina settlers.
Rents are “tumbling” in Washfcgton.
No actibh in regard to Mexican bonds will
be taken by Congress for some time.
The New Hampshire vote gas the largest
6igce 1860. The Republican majority was
over twenty &ix thousand.
The plate od which the hundred dollar
counterfeit compound interest *• notes were
printed, has been found.
The marriage law in Pennsylvania has been
made very strict.
The Indiana Democratic State Convention
has denounced’ CODgregs supported the
President. .
The white sulphur spring property in v ir«
ginia, has been purchased by Col. J. H- ferry,
of Louisville. . .
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, has recov
ered from his paralytic attack. , .
Senator Saulebury was re-enUy so drunk
that he had*to be taken out of the bena-e
ka john Van Buren is stumping Connecticut for
Express Company have paid
the Memphis Bank $200,000, recently lost by
goldmine, T.mpico, *«*».
are attracting much attention.
8 The slaves recently, landed in Cuba from
Africa, are to be collected and sent bacn.
The distillery frauds in New York are being
litigated.