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Old) SERIES, VOL. LXXV.
Cljronirlf 'i: Initinrl.
HENRY MOORE,
A. R. WRIGHT,
MC't tirgtnia Convention.
A “loval” convention was held last week in
Alexandria. Dispatcher to the N*-w York
papers report that resolutions were submitted
sotting forth insubstanee the following points:
'i he rebellion was wicked and causMe-s, and
recommending that all who voluntarily bore
anua in its aid be excluded lrom the elective
lranchise ; but if they are allowed to vote, in
sisting that freedmeu be allowed the same
privilege ;, confidence was expressed in the
sagacity and patriotism of a majority of Con
gress ; the Civil Bights hit! wits approved :
the course of President Johnson while Governor
of Tennessee, was endorsed ; also some ot his
speeches, made before the war closed, in
which ‘he urged the disqualification of the
rebels, either to vote or hold office ; repudia
tion of the acls of the Legislature which lately
mes in Richmond was proposed ; the meet
ing of a Constitutional Convention to crigi
naie with “truly loyal men,” was demanded.
Ts n spirit of this meeting, though represent
ing the Bentiments of a small minority of the
voters of Virginia, is ominous of mischief. It
is the same spirit of intollerunco, which has
enabled the minority in Tennessee, under the
mauipulation of an election controlled by ihe
presence of tbe military, to enact the fran
chise law, aud numerous other measures in
violence of tbe spirit as well us letter of our
institutions. It is the echo of the radical theo
ries in CengtasH, which would disfranchise tbe
whites of tlitwbouth, who obeyed tbe voice of
the States, and sustained tbe war, while they
would elevate the most benighted plantation
negro to the lull dignity ot citizenship.
Does anybody suppose that tbe people of
any state, will acquiesce in the policy of a few
disaffected citizens who ignore the rights el
four fifths of Ihe legal voters?
Such a supposition is a reflection upon tbe
intelligence and manhood of the people o£ the
"old Dominion,” and the “Volunteer State,”
which there is nothing in their antecedents to
justify.
Viewing the several disorders as they exist,
and the efforts being made to increase them,
we look with painful apprehension upon the
future of those States. An exchange justly
remarks that “it only requires the simplest
acquaintance with the instincts ot human na
ture, to certify to every reasonable man. that
when a minority in Tennessee, or West Virgin
ia, or elsewhere, attempts to exclude from the
elective franchise, and from a share in
the government, the vast majority of tbe
people —trouble must and will come. A ma
jority may yield for a brief tiring aud as an
accidental or extraordinary measure, to the
sway of tile minority ; hut to yield to it as a
settled policy, they uever will ; especially a
majority that ih vast [and overwhelming, and
that comprises tile virtue, the intelligence, and
the manhood ol the community.”
Those who are busy stirring up these local
disorders, aud three who, iu Congress are
directing a policy iu reference to sulfrnge which
encourages them, would do well to pause and
reboot upon the legitimate and inevitable re
ults of their action.
If they desire tire perpetual reign of discord,
and tlio expense of a large military occupation
of the country ; if they desire the horrors of
a war of races, and the utter destruction of
Southern industry, then they are ou the right
liue of action. l(ut if they desire peace, aud a
restoration of fra'ernnl intercourse between all
sections of the country, they have utterly mis
taken the ageucies which accomplish such a
result.
Audi AlUruui I’artfin.
Tbe Radical press of the North have ex -
pressed great regret that they have no commis
sioner accompanying Generals Steadman
and Fullerton to represent the feelings and
interests of the freedmeu. In other words,
they declare that the tour of these gentlemeu
is a mere scheme to holster up the President's
policy, regardless of the true interests of the
freedmeu, and that, Iu the absence of a willing
witness of their own way of thinking, the
President will have the advantage. . This light
estimate of Gen. Steadman's character for
* eracity by those for whom ho has borne the
perils of tbe field so long and well, is u strike
ing proof of Radical rapacity.
lint be that tie it may, wo do not sen wind
the Radicals can want of anybody to watch
<!on. Steadman, so long ns he is accompanied
tiy that most self sacrificing philanthropist,
liev. l>r. French. He was here as a leading
olficitil when the Bureau was opened, and is
certianly able to judge of the fruits of his own
labors, without bias against the government
which sent him. If l>c. French is satisfied
with the report of General Steadman, and
assents to the dosing of the Pandora's box
which lie assisted in opening among us, we do
not think the Radicals can find much consola
tion from auy other testimony.
We observe, however, that an attempt is
being made to rebut the evidence afforded in
Steadman’s report concerning the Bureau in
North Carolina, by the publication of a series
of resolutions which it is asserted were drawn
up solely by the negroes, about Newhern, In
these resolutions it is averred, among other
things, that “so long as they are not made
equal before the law, they oonsider the Freed
man's Bateau au indispeneible necessity.”
They also assert that wheneirr the ekctiie fran
chise it ijiven Jhtm, they will ask no further
special protection. ”The right to vote is to
afl'urd them victuals, drink aud lodging, aud
until that right is conferred they look for
those little extias from the Bureau. We have
no doubt that these resolutions, which we dud
paraded, full of stunning Hades, in a Radical
will he believed before the testimony
of Gen. Steadman, or eveu belore the endorse
ment of Hr. French, who. though a veteran in
the church and in the party, has the radical
misfortune to ha a white man.
The Union Pacific Railroad. -The New
TorkTimes says the Secretary of the Treas
ury has issued to the Union Pacific Raik-~>ai J ,
Eastern Division, SBBB,OOO of six per cent,
bonds, being the amount due on the last sec -
tion of twenty-three miles, which, was ac
cepted by the United States Commissioners
last mouth. The road is now completed for
ninety-seven miles up the Kansas 8 alley,
from the Missouri border to a point three
hundred and eighty miles West of t>t. Louis
The road will be opeu to Fort Riley, four hun
dred and torty miles trout St. Louis, on the
15th of July.
\ia Cleveland,— lu consequence of the de
tructlon of the Cbichatnauga bridges bv late
ains. muds and passeugers coming South, are
compelled to take th* route eia Cleveland.
This inconveuleuce, it is said, will tie over
come in a tew days.
Editorial lorrc-pocdente.
Waynesboro',- May 22d, ISSG.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:—l reached
this place yesterday aQd found comiortabie
quarters with our friend Ward, the versatile
proprietor of the Waynesboro’ Hotel. Having
tri and in their.order,[physic, law and planting,he
has at last discovered his peculiar forte —hotel
keeping— and gives striking proof in the orderly
management of his house, that he is pos-essed
of that rare gift, knowing how to keej> a hotel. I
commend his house to all your readers whom
business or inclination may lead this way.
THE SUPERIOR COURT
is in session here, aud i find that it has attract
ed quite a number of visitors and strangers.
Your own city is well represented by Hon.
George T. Barnes, Colonel 0. Snead, E. 11.
Miller, J. Gtanahl, Hon. E. Stains, W. A. Wal
ton and Hon. H. V. Johnson. From Savannah,
1 notice Gen. A. R. Lawton and Col. George R.
Black. From Screven, Captain J. D. Ashton
and Col. ) L. Singleton. From Louisville,
W. A. Wilkius, Esq., and Col. Pottle lrom
Warrenton.
Among the local Bar, I notice the gallant
Capt. Corker, who commanded a company iu
the 3d Georgia Regiment, and who served
with distinguished gallantry in all the cam
paigns of Ihe glorious old Army of Northern
Virginia, uptothe terrificcoidliot atGettysbnrg,
when he was wounded and captured, and af
terwards confined at Johnson’s Island, until
the close of the war. I was glad to see alto,
Capt. A. M. Rogers, formerly, I believe, a citi
zen of your town, and who served in the late
war under the heroic and chivalric Hampton.
There appears to be a considerable amount of
business iu the Court, both now and old. Many
old cases wore disposed of yesterday, and
Judge Hook is driving ahead as if determined
to release the dockets from the weight of mat
ter under whioh they now groan.
TUB CROP PROSPECTS
here as elsewhere in this State are far from
good. There is a universal complaint of de
fective cotton stands, and I hear a of a large
number who have ploughed up their cotton
and replanted iu com. The frequent rains
and cool weather of the last three or four
weekß have filled the crops with grass and gTcat
leirsare entertained that the freedmeu will
not apply themselves sufficiently to the task of
cleaning it out. There is not a large crop
planted here, not near so much as in ’6O and
’6l. This is mainly from the scarcity of labor
ers, and the great want of plough stock and
plantation miterial, consequent upon the
march of Sherman’s grand army through the
country in the fall of '64. The corn is small
but gouerally looks green and healthy. Ihe
greatest danger to be apprehended fop this
crop just now is grass, which Seem to have
taken a pretty strong hold upon tho crops of
every sort. Wheat was promising until re
cently. It is now generally infested with rust
and will doubtless be seriously injured.
THE FREEDMEN
Are reported as doing very badly in some lo
calities, and this especially along the line of
the Railroad and iu the vicinity of the towns.
In theao portions of the county remote from
those localities they ara reported as doing up
on the whole, tolerably well. I have met a few
planters who say that they are doing as much
work now as when iu the state of slavery.
The general statement is that they are about
one half us effective as before tho war. I was
not surprised to hear that the Northern meu
who have begun planting here ate not suc
ceeding ueur bo well as tho old master ol' the
negroes The accounts from several of the
plantations being run by Yankees are that
the negroes are discontented, many of them
deserting- and the crops beautilully in the
grass.
‘ WAYNESBORO’
bears fewer of the evidences of the blastiog
influence of war than auy village which I have
seen, through which Sherman’s angels passed.
1 lielieve that the town was occupied but a few
minutes by Jhe Federals, when Wheeler’s gay
troopers fell upon them and put their cohorts
to flight. There are many reminiscences of
the olden time which linger now in the mem
ory of a few of the old citizens, which would
be exceedingly interesting to your readers, and
1 hope to be able while here to gather some ol
them up for the nse of yonr columns.
The criminal docket will be taken up to
morrow, aud I learn that there ate several in
teresting cases for trial. Among them two or
three for homicides of high grade. The Court
will probably adjourn on Friday or Saturday.
Burning of Columbia.
We give place to the communication of one
of “ Hampton’s Men ” in vindication of his be
loved commander. There is not the slightest,
necessity for vindicating the reputation of
Hampton where he is known. He was opposed
to the inauguration of the late war ; but when
he fouud “ treason” committed by the capture
of Harper’s Ferry, and that treason unavenged
aud the accessories shielded by the power of
State governments, even from punishment for
the infraction of the laws which put in jeopardy
the peace aud safety of atdtnte ; and his State
with her sisters uniting for a conflict irresisti
ble aud unavoidable, with all the desire for
pe.ace on both sides, he uohly threw aside his
own opinions and gallantly imperilled posh
tion, fortune and life in the cause of the
South. There is no necessity for writing one
word in behalf of the nobleness of General
Hampton's oharaoter. We have only' a very
casual acquaintance with him. But there
comes to us a tradition which we cannot
refrain from giving as an illustration.
His father's will bequeathed to him most of
the father’s possessions. The family was as
sembled. The will was read. Silence ensued.
The noble Hampton stepped forward saying
—this is the beat way to adjust this matter, and
immediately tearing the will asunder, cast it
into the flames. All, step brothers and sisters,
were equal then before the law.
We have always had our opinion respecting
the Burning of Columbia. The policy was de
creed at Washington. It was the same policy
that was enforced at Jackson, Miss. It was
distinctly announced at Atlanta that "war was
barbarism.” The blackened belt which traces
the march from Atlanta to the coast, and
which" sweeping from the Savannah through
Columbia, across the Catawba to Fayetteville,
aud adown the Valley of Virginia, was the eX'
ecu lion— Ihe soldiers obey'd orders !
* ’One of Hampton’s men” is certainly en
titled to be heard, as a witness, if tor no other
reason than that long before the war, be by his
own act freed himself from whatever odium
attaches to the term slave baron or slavehol
der. by manumitting four score or more
• slaves” received by inheritance.
Generals Bedford Forrest, John C. Brown,
Cerro Gordo Williams and Basil Duke have
been invited to attend the Tournament at
Clarksville, Tennessee, on the 30th of May,
and are expected to attend.
The Bankrupt UUI.
The telegraph has informed us of the pas
sage iu the House of the Bankrupt bill. We
have not seen a copy of the bid, but it is stated
that it is tbe bill originally reported as amend
ed in the House, with some other amendments
meeting the objections then made to it, which
were simply in rezard to the fees of legal offK
cers. It has been the subject of Congressional
legielation for several years, having been in
troduced before tbe war, continued through it,
aud being still agitated. It will probably pass
tbe Senate, and meet the approval of the Pres
ident. We are inclined to agree with yie Her
ald that the measure is a desirable one for the
country. By its passage tbe unfortunate mer
chant of former days may resume business, and
a fresh and healthy tone be infused into nearly
every branch of trade. It will contribute to
revive tbe depressed spirits of many honest and
respectable families who have been harassed
by hard and unrelenting creditors for the
payment of debts incurred in days of pros
perity, but the failure to meet which could
not be foreseen. What benefit is it to a credi
tor to keep his debtor under the harrow for ail
time when a little liberality, in allowing him
to resume business, may be the means of en
abling him to pay off his old debts in full ? If
. a debtor be hone3t he cannot pay unless the
bankrupt law relieves him, and ho may if so
relieved. The creditor, therefore, stands a
good chaDce of being benefited by the law as
well as the debtor. If a debtor be dishonest it
will make no difference to the creditor whether
the bill pass or not, and it is ridiculous for
him to oppose it. We do not see where the
bill in its operations can result in damage to
any of the great interests of the country ; but
on tho contrary, we belive it will be the means
of imparting a renewed impetus to all branches
of American enterprise.
What has Become of the Matches f
This question promises to take the place of
the stereotyped interrogatory : “ What has be
come ol the pins?” The Journal of Commerce
lately published an extract from the official
revenue returns, page 232, showing the number
ot gold watches returned to the tax commis
sioners’ office at Washington, from the various
States. The total number of gold watches un
der SIOO in value was 6,654, and over SIOO in
value 1,242. The total number returned in the
Stale ot Massachusetts was 47. The State of
Vermont returned two ; and we believe that
there is nothing above a silver “bull’s eye’’
returned from the State of Connecticut.
Os course these returns have attracted notice,
as very high evidence of grave neglect or deep
corruption iu the tax department.
The .Boston Traveller states that on examin
ing the records of the United States Assessor
for one ward alone in that city, the number of
gold watches returned and taxed was 2,000,
and at this rate the number in the city of Bos
ton was not less than 5,000. Similar inquiries
of other officers ot course reveal similar results,
placing the Assessors or Collectors, or the
Bureau officers at Washington in rather an em
barrassing attitude before the country. It
would not be very surprising to see few
watches returned from the South, since Butler
and his self-appointed agents preceded the
crop sent out by Captain Rollins, and left dry
picking for the Assessors in tho regular way.
If this is a sample of the way in which the
revenue is collected, it is high time somebody
was overhauling the Tax Bureau of “ the best
government on earth.”
Foreign Interference Producing Revolu
tions in the Southern Republics. —Mr. Sew
ard’s hopes of peace and tranquility in St.
Domingo under General Baez as President ap
pear to have been ill founded. Another revo
lution-the second this year—has disrupted
that government, and is rapidly leading to a
war between Hayti and St. Domingo. When
Geffrard, last year, with the foreign aid ten
dered by the British man-of-war Bulldog, had
suppiessed the rebellion of Salnave, that re
doubtable warrior was permitted—at British
instigation, it isisaid—to escape to St. Domin
go, in order that he might stir up rebellion
there. Baez succeeded in suppressing, captur
ing and kicking Salnave out of the island ; but
the work begun by the rebel is now culminat
ing in the deposing of Baez. We shall doubt
less never have peace in the West Indian and
South and Central American republics until
the power of the United States is manifested
in such a way as to practically forbid British
and other foreign interference in the domestic
affairs of the numerous miniature republics
which Mr. Seward describes as “the buttresses
of our great republican fortress.”
State Items.
There were fourteen interments in Savan
nah during the week ending the 21st.,
There has not been a homicide in Columbus
since a week after the occupation of the city
by Wilson’s troops, with the exception of Maj.
Warner, killed by a negro.
The National Express Company now takes
freight at Macon, Columbus aud way stations
on that branch of the Southwestern road.
On Tuesday at Macon, a number of shells
stored in a temporary arsenal erected by the
Federal authorities, exploded, while they
were being emptied.
J W Avaut of Crawford county was adrnit
ed tc the Bar at Macon on Tuesday.
Competition among the steamship lines run
ning between Savannah and New York has
reduced the fare to $lO.
Mr: Riley Harrison, whose whereabouts had
for some time been unknown, it is now as
certained was killed by the accidental dis
charge of a gun in his own hands, near Decatur,
Ala.
The destruction of four of the Chickamanga
bridges ou the State Road created some
apprehension last week lest the price of corn
would rise iu consequence thereof. It turns
out however that freights by the Cleveland
route are just the same as over the State Road,
and the prices of Western produce will not be
atfected thereby.
The Griffin Star says a very brutal murder
occurred iu Clayton county last Friday
about midnight, at the residence of Mr. T. M.
Jones, seven or eight miles above Jonesboro.
Mr. Jones was called to the door by two men.
When near the door, he was shot and instantly
killed. It is not known who perpetrated this
desperate deed but parties are in search of the
villains.
Masonic Lodgs No. 186, at Carnesville, will
celebrate the birth day of St. John the Bap
tist. in Carnesville, Franklin county, on Sat
■ urdav. 23d June, (the 24th being Sunday.)
An address will be delivered by J. B. Estes,
I
A fire occurred in Savannah, Tuesday morn
ing. A lot of cotton consisting of 21! bales on
the Florida Steamboat wharf, was discovered
to be on fire. After a time the fire was sub
dued. with the loss of about SO bales burnt
and damaged. The cotton was consigned to
j Mr. Octavus Cohen, and was insured in North
em companies.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY. 30, 1860.
•LETTER riton W*SSm«Tfty
[ SPECIAL ok the chronicle and
SENTINEL.]
Washington, May 16.
Messrs. Editors Passengers leaving Rich
mond on the P. M, train arrive in this city at
6.10 A. M.. via tbe Orange and Alexandria
Railroad. The Railroad accommodations are
poor, cars rough in appearance and seats very
hard. The road was in a miserable condition
the greater part of the route, li is to be
hoped, however, all these defects will soon be
remedied. The weather is cooi for this season •
of the year. Crops look only toletabiy well;
some few exceptions however. lam glad to
be able to communicate au important fact that
will soon bring “tears of joy” to the good
people of Louisiana. I learned to-day at the
Treasury Department that something over two
million dollars, specie, that was claimed and
taken possession of by the United States forces
some time ago iu New Orleans has been turned
over to the proper owners, the Government
paying the necessary expenses to have it car
ried back- Quite a stir tug. been made, in j.he
Radical camp at the desertion of Lafayette S.
Foster, Vice President, to the side so ably de
fended by the Johnson party. Only a few
days ago the same camp was sorely affected by
the conservative views expressed by Edwin M.
Stanton at the Cabinet Meeting . It is fully
settled now that these high officials, hereto
fore so much opposed to the views of the Ad-
B inistration, have gone over to the Union par
ty. Thus it is, oue by one, the Radicals in
their zeai for further breaking up this Union
are losing their main props, and soon, it is
hoped, the last vestige of support will bo gone
when their house, like that of the foolish man.
bnilt on the sands of disunion, will finally “fall
and great will be the fall thereof.” The
Freedmen’s Relief Association are thinuing out
the freedmen in this city. We have already ,
sent four cargoes to Rhode Island, and the fifth
will be ready to sail in a few days. The New
York Hotel in this city has been complained of
as a disorderly house, and the officers are on
the look out. Mohsiour Cbatain had better
keep both eyes open. It is generally believed
ill official circles that the President has inter
ferred in the case of R. Semmes, recently
elected Judge iu Mobile, Alabama. He will
not be allowed to officiate iu that capacity un
til pardoned.
Season.
Washington City, May 19, 1866.
Messrs. Editors: Absence from the city pre
vented the correspondence promised for last
two days. No of great interest to-day.
The Senate not in session. In the House a
message from the President, transmitting the
Report of the Postmaster General and Secreta
ry of Interior, in obedience to a former resolu
tion of that body Relative to clerk’s employed
therein, was laid beloro that body. The
speaker announced that no business save gene
ral debate would be in order to day. Morris,
of New York, and Patterson, of New Jersey,
made lengthy speeches on the reconstruction
policy, sustaining Congress, and opposing the
policy of the President. Tho latter was very
bitter. • •
As I predicted in my letter of a few days
ago, the proprietor and occupants of the New
York Hotel have come to grief. They were
arrested last night between eight and nine
o’clock. Several ot the girls were fined $lO
and cost, and the case of the proprietor con
tinued until Monday. Many of the girls are
“highly respectable, ’’ and have been passing
off as wives of (so-called) husbands, with
whom they have been illicitly living.
The receipts from customs at the ports ot
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore
for last week were $3,192,525 02.
The disbursements of tho Treasury for the
Departments of War, Navy and Interior for
the week ending to day were $1,456,891. The
receipts from internal revenue for the week
were $3,560,141.79. The Commissioner of
Patents has issued for the week 96 patents.
Messrs. McGregor & Humes, farmers in East
Sothiar, Scotland, has favored the Commission
er of Agriculture with a valuable lot of oats,
barley, potatoes and turnip seed.
Much complaint i3 made against the street
postoffice boxes. It is elledged by some that
letters are permitted to remain in them, or not
be delivered to proper parties for several days.
I have been using them, hut from this date I
will put my letters in postoffice proper. The
President has dispatched a prominent military
man to North Carolina to arrest the Freed
men’s Bureau officers recently reported hy
Generals Steedman and Fullerton preparatory
to having them tried by court martial. Would
it not be well for your city authorities to make
express mention of one J. E. Bryaut Esq., tha
once figured so conspicuously, to these two of
ficers whon they reach your beautiful city ?
“ By ail means have it done.’’ Season.
Burning of Columbia, S. C.
Augusta, May 15, 1866.
Epitoks Chronicle & Sentinel:— Your issue
of the loth instant contained the report (copied
through the Charleston News, from the New
York World) of a public meeting held in
Columbia, S. C., regarding the burning Os
that city by Sherman and his army. Many of
the sentiments expressed in that meeting, as
reported, were unworthy ot Southern men.
Is it not enough that we are defeated and
conquered ; that our great and good men are
vilified and traduced by cowardly calumniators
safe by the protection ot a Rump Congress ?
Shall it go forth to the world that the noble
General Hampton, was (even by implication)
acknowledged guilty of the heinous crime of
burning his own native city ?
Colonel McMaster is reported to have said
that it was a shame to speak of Sherman as
Major Gibbes had done ; that Sherman was an
hoDor to the country, Ac. Then, of course,
Colonel McMaster does not believe Sherman
sacked and burned Columbia, or else he (001.
McMaster) approves the deed.
,Otherlspeakers at the meeting used language
not much more creditable ; nor was there a
6ingle sentiment worthy the occasion expressed
by any other besides Major Gibbes.
If the persons holding the meeting really
desire to know the truth of the affair, every
person living in Columbia at the time of Sher
man’s entry, and every soldier in the armies,
both Federal aud Confederate, could, if living,
testify as to whom and by what orders Colum
bia was burned, to the eternal disgrace of
modem warfare)
I served under Hampton during the late
civil war. and I will not allow such insinuations
against him to pass unnoticed.
Sherman did (whether by orders or not I
cannot S3v) burn Columbia. The charge of
having done so, directly or by implication, on
General Hampton is a wilful cammny.
I glory in having been
One Hampton's Men.
A twenty thousand five hundred dollars
national hank robbery took place recently
at Osage ; lowa.
JOTTIS6B Fiion TflE CAPITAL.
[from our own correspondent.]
Washington, Thursday, May 17.
As I predicted, more than a week ago, in a
special dispatch to the Chronicle & Sentinel,
the bill for the admission of Colorado into the
Union has encountered the President’s veto.
Avery great pressure had been brought to
bear upon Mr. Johnson to induce him to sign
this bill, and up to the moment when his pri
vate Secretary appeared at the bar of the Seai
ate, with the document in his hand, many were
confident that it would be approved ; but in
fact the President bad made up his mind un
alterably against the measure some ten days
ago ; and, when I telegraphed his intentions
in regard to It, the veto message was already
written. .
THE PR DENT’S OBJECTIONS
are stated jar more. briefly than in the case
of his two previous vetoes. For the benefit,
however, of such of yonr readers as may be
averse to the perusal of dry official papers, 1
wftl meqtiofiYiratfcth**** ot hie reasons for
withholding his signature consists in the in
sufficiency of the population of Colorado. He
also thinks tho present juncture a very inop
portune time for the creation of new States,
and takes occasion to remark upon the un
fairness and glaring inconsistency of thus
hastily granting the rights of a sovereign .State
to a Territory little known and sparsely set
tled, while the same rights are persistently de
nied to the loyal millions of the eleven States
of the South. There is good reason to believe
that, in this instance,
THE VETO WILL BE SUSTAINED. ‘
It will be remembered that the bill passed
hy a bare majority in the Senate; and the
friends of the President in that body can count
cm the support of the ultra negro-suffrage
, Radicals, to prevent the veto from being over
ridden by a two-thirds vote. Colorado, there
fore, for the present, at least, is likely to re
main “out in the cold.” I hear also that it
has been ascertained, in a caucus of the Re
publican Senators, that they cannot muster the
requisite two -thirds for the passage of the in
famous constitutional ameudmeDt, so the con
sideration of the subject has been postponed
until next week, iu the hope that something
favorable to the Radicals may turn up in the
meantime. But all around the political hori
zon we find the signs of a
great consevative re-action.
In the Northwest, the mass of the voters who
supported Lincoln and Johnson in 1864, are
rallying to the support of the man whom they
then elevated M:o the Vice Presidency; and
preparations are being made to hold State Con
ventions of the Johnson Republicans in In
diana, Illinois, aud lowa, preparatory to the
October elections. But the circumstance that
gives the greatest alarm to the Radical mana
gers here is the sudden and complete defection
of Maryland from their cause.
• So striking has been the revulsion of popu
lar feeling in that State, even amongst those
who have hitherto acted against the South, tha*
those consummate demagogues, Governor
Swann and ex-Governor Bradford, whose prin
ciples (if they .have any) and professions vary
with every breeze of popular favor, have open
ly announced their adhesion to the President’s
policy, and now roundly denounce their late
brethren of the Radical camp. At the next
election there will undoubtedly be *a great
change in the Maryland Legislature and it is
hoped that a State Convention will be called
for the repeal the odious “registry law,’*
which cannot be got rid of except through the
action of a Convention.
THE INDICTMENT Or JEFFERSON DAVIS,
Which has just been published here, is a very
•curious document, and one well calculated to
provoke a smiie. It certainly seems droll to
Southern ears to hear the indignant Grand
Jurors, in deccribing the great Southern revo
lution, charge that “a great multitude of per
sons, whose names to the Jurors are at present
unknown, to the number of five hundred per
sons and upward, armed and arrayed in a war
like manner, that is to say, with cannon, mus
kets, pistols, swords, dirks, and other war
like weapons, as welt offensive as defensive ;
being then and there' unlawfully, maliciously
and traitorously assembled and gathered
together, did falsely and traitorously assemble
and join themselves together against the said.
United States of America,’’
THE TIME OF THE TRIAL.
Is as yet uncertain. Chief Justice Chase has
undoubtedly signified hia willingness to pre
side at the trial, providod the President will
take decided measures to protect the Court,
from any possible interference on the part of
the military; and the President will not allow
any omission on his part to be the occasion or
excuse for. any further delay. It is believed,
therefore, that he will soon issue a proclama
tion absolutely exempting United States Courts
from ttys operation of martini law. The gene,
ral impression is that tha trial will take place
in June ; but parties who are well informed
tell me that it is likely to'be deferred until the
close ot the summer.
THE MEXICAN LOAN GUARANTEE.
It is whispered that the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations is about to report favor’
ably'upou the bid to guarantee fifty millions o f
dollars worth of the bonds of the Mexican Re'
public. There is a powerful lobby interested
in the passage of this gigantic swindle. The
representatives of the Mexican Republic here
utterly repudiate Santa Anna in spite of his
• professions of hostility to Maximilian. They
think that lie is secretly ia the French interest.
GEN. HOWARD AND THE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU.
The report of Generals Steadman and Ful
lerton in regard to the Freedman’s Bureau
has raised a terrible dust amongst the friends
of that blessed institution hereabouts. Gen.'
O. G. Howard is very mad about it, and I hear
a rumor that he is likely to be soon relieved
by the President from thp position of Superin.
tendent of the Bureau.
Butternut.
Washington, Saturday, May 19.
It is at last agreed on all hands that Jeffer
son Davis is to be tried by a civil Court. On
this point it is well known the President has
never wavered; but, until to-day, the radicals
in Congress have been very positive and per
sistent in their threats to pass a special Act
providing for the arraignment of the Confede
rate Ex-President before a military tribunal of
some kind. This morning, however, the Judi
ciary Committee of the House of Representa
tives decided to take no action that might in
terfere with the civil proceedings lately ini
tiated at Norfolk.
A BASELESS CHARGE ABANDONED.
The action of tbe Committee (which is com
posed ia the main of some of the bitterest
radicals) was founded chiefly on the very
vague and unreliable character of the evidence
of Mr, Davis’ alleged complicity in the plot
which resulted in the death of President Lin
coln; for it was upon the pretext of that com
plicity that the advocates of a military trial
hoped to carry their point. But the Judiciary
Committee, much as they hate the distin
guished prisoner who languishes in Fortress
Monroe, were unwilling to make themselves
ridicu'ous by endorsing a charge that they
found was unsupported by a particle ot trust
worthy testimony; so, as far as Congress is
concerned, the matter has been dropped.
Meantime the Attorney General is veusy
MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TRIAL.
The bill providing for a special session of
the U. S. District Court in Richmond next
month, has passed both Houses of Congress,
the Senate having agreed to it yesteiday after,
noon. It wilt probably be signed by the
President to-day, and thus becomes a law.
The counsel lor the prosecution arc now pre
paring their arguments, and the distinguished
advocates who are to conduct the defence,
have long since matured their views and
policy. It will certainly “be the most interest
ing judicial proceeding that has ever yet oc
curred upon this continent, and will take rank
with the causes ctUbres of history.
DURATION Ot THE TRIAL—ITS PROBABLE RESULT.
trial will hardly he tedious, tor tho evi
dence on both sides will be brief and compre
hensive in its character. The issue to be joined
will, of course, be not so much in regard to
facts as to principles. The testimony, there
fore, will probably be concluded in two or
three days ; but it is likely that the elaborate
arguments of so numerous an array of counsel
will consume quite a week. As to the result,
•everybody here believes that a jury selected
with a decent regard to fairness, will either
acquit or fail to agree upon a verdict. But,
In the event of a conviction, there is little
doubt that the President, in view of the un
precedented circumstances of the Case, will
use the pardoning power. Sumner this morn
ing presented in the Senate the memorial of
some obscure fanatic modestly praying that
Congress should provide for the trial of Mr.
Davis by military commission, aud have him
shot on the 4th of July as a pleasant and pro
fitable way ot celebrating that anniversary.
In offering this precious document Sumner
spitefully expressed his belief that the forth
coming civil trial of “ the Arch-Traitor,”
would be “one of the great comedies of the
age.”
THE EQUALIZATION OF BOUNTIES,
The soldiers and sailors who were in the
service of the United States during the war are
in high glee at the prospect of the passage of a
bill just reported by the Committee on Mili
tary Affairs for equalizing the bounties of all
soldiers, sailors and marines. The bill pro
poses to do this by allowing to all soldiers,
sailors and marines who served during the
war an uniform bounty at the rate of SIOO per
year, for the time they were actually in service,
deducting, however, from the aggregate
amount of bounty to be so paid to.each claim
ant, any bounty or prize money heretofore
paid or now due to such claimant. Tha whole
scheme is a gigantic swindle upon the Treasu
ry and will cost the pockets of the tax paying
people something like $125,000,000. But
Congress feels that it must do something for
popularity, and if this bill should pass its ad
vocates count largely upon the votes and sup
port of the discharged soldiers.
MGHB MENTION.
Amongst the prominent Republicans who have
come out squarely iu favor of the President,
and against Congress, is Lewis D. Campbell, of
Ohio, the U; S. Minister to the Mythical Mex
ican Republic. * * * * * e a company
has been organized to cultivate cotton in the
District of Columbia. * ** * * * * The
people of Washington are very much alarmed
at a proposition now pending in Congress, to
take away their city charter, and to turn the
municipal government over to a board of
Radical supervisors. ****** There
is some talk of a war with Ecuador, because
that wretched republic is either too poor or
too stingy to pay her just debts to this gov
ernment. ****** The Northern
papers, which gloated so hugely over the
burning of Columbia, S. C., are now trying
very hard to wipeout that foul stain upon
Sherman’s military reputation. They parade
with much ado an affidavit of one Wm. H.
Naßh, who swears that Columbia was burning
long before any of Sherman’s troops entered
it. Very like a whale !
AMNESTY ITEM3.
Amongst the latest pardons signed by the
President are those of the following persons :
Frig. Gens. (Confed.) D. H. Cooper, of Ar
kansas W. R. Cox, of North Carolina, and
S. E. Daniel, W. B. Kendrick, Sarah A.
Stephens, Nicholas Wylie and L. Battle, all of
Georgia. Butternut.
Judge Ballard, of the United States District
Court, in Louisville, Ky., has decided that
General Davis is criminally responsible for re
sisting the order of arrest made in his case in
connection with the Isham Henderson affair,
and has ordered his indictment by the Grand
Jury.
Twenty-six regular soldiers have been com
mitted to the Ohio Penitentiary for desertion
and insubordination. Their terms of confine
ment vary from eleven months to fifteen years.
The Paris banker Mires has just bought the
Paris Presse for 1,500,000 francs—s3oo,ooo —a
large price. The only member of the editorial
staff retained is the witty feuilletonite, M. Paul
de St. Victor.
The New York Sun pronounces the paid fire
department of that city a political machine'
and a failure bo far as practical firemanship is
concerned.
the French ship Jean Arc is now a tAnnapo
lis with one hundred midshipmen, who are
there to witness the annual examination of .our
naval cadets.
The Boston Traveler announces the arrival
there of five cargoes of lumber, over half a
million feet in all, from Jacksonville, Fla.
It is said that the sub-agencies of the Freed
men’s Bureau are considered as being worth
more than the President’s salary.
Eev. John M. Johnson, who died recently in
Missouri, had traveled during his life 27,949
miies and preached 2,822 sermons.
The next Minnesota State Fair will bo held
at Rochester, Oimstead county. Major Gener
al Sherman will deliver an address on the oc
casion.
Fifteen thousand dp liars were realized by the
Washington Artillery ball in New Orleans, for
the disabled members of the corps.
According to M. Chevalier, the use of opium
in England is increasing enormously. In 1840
the consumption was 38,329 pounds ; in 1803,
it was 144,213 pounds.
Michael Maione, sentenced to two years im
prisonment in the Nashville penitentiary by a
military commission for killing a negro in
Memphis last year, has been released by Judge
Trigg, under the habeas corpus act.
A man has been sentenced in Scotland to
ten days’ imprisonment for trying to gain ad
mittance to a Masonic Lodge, not beiDg a
member of tho Order.
By an order of court, the newspapers -are
forbidden to publish the proceedings oi the
Jacques trial, now in progress at Louisville.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV NO. 23.
Indictment Against Jefferson Davis.
The following is the presentment of the
grand jury at Norfolk, Va.. in the case of Jef
ferson Davis, in full :
The United States of America, District of Vir
ginia, to wit:
In the Ciriuit Court of the United States ot
America, in and for the District of Virginia
at Norfolk—May Term, 1866.
The graiid jurors ot tbe United States of
America, in and for the District of Virginia,
upon their oaths and affirmations, respectively,
do present that Jefferson Davis late ot ihe city
of Richmond, in the county of Henrico, in the
District of Virginia aforesaid, yeoman, being
an inhabitant of and residing within the United
State of America, and owing allegiance and
fidelity to the said United States of America,
not having the fear of God before his eyes, nor
weighingYbe duty of his said allegiance, but
being moved aud seduced by the instigation of
tho devil, and wickedly devising und intending
the peace aud tranquility of the said United
States of America to disturb and the Govern
ment of the said United States of America to
subvert, and to stir, move and incite insurrec
tion, rebellion aud war against the said United
States of America, ou the fifteenth day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, in the city of
Richmond, iu the comity of Henrico, in the
District of Virginia aforesaid, and within the
jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the fourth circuit in and for the dis
trict ot Virginia aforesaid, with force and arms,
unlawfully, falsely, maliciously and traitorous
ly. did compass imagine and intend to raise,
levy and carry ou war, insurrection and rebel
lion, against the said United States ot
America, and in order to fulfill and bring
to effect the said traitorious compassings,
imaginations and intentions ot him, the
said Jefferson Davis, he, tho said Jeffer
son Davis, afterwards, to wit : on the
said fifteenth day ot June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
four, in the said city of Richmond, in the
county of Henrico, and district of Virginia,
aforesaid, and with in tbe j urisdiction of the Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the fourth
circuit, in and for the said district of Virginia,
with a great multitude of persons, whose
aames to the jurors aforesaid are at present
unkuown, to the number of five hundred per
sons and upwards, armed and ariayed in a
warlike manner, that is to say with cannon,
muskets, pistols, swords, dirks and other
warlike weapons, as well offensive as defen
sive ; being then and there unlawfully assem
bled and gathered together, did falsely
and traitorously assemble and join themselves
together against the said United States of
America, and then and there, with force and
arms, did falsely and traitorously, and in a
warlike and hostile manner, array and dispose
themselves against the said United States of
America, and then aud there, that is to say,
on the said fifteenth day of June, in the year
ol our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixtv-lour,’ in tbe said city of Richmond, in
the county of Henrico and district of Virginia
aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction ot the
said Circuit Court of the United States for the
fourth circuit in and for the said district of
Virginia, in pursuance of such, their traitorous
intentions and purposes aforesaid he, the
said Jefferson Davis, with the said pur
sons so as aforesaid, traitorously assembled
and armed and arrayed in the manne,r afore
said, most wickedly, maliciously, and traitor
ous did ordain, prepare, levy, end carry on
war against the said United States of America,
contrary to the duty of the allegiance and
fidelity of the said Jefferson Davis, against the
Constitution, Government, peace, and dignity
of the said United States of America, and
against the form of the statute of the said
United States of America in such case made
and provided.
This indictment found on testimony of James
F. Milligan, Geo. P. Scarbury, John Good, Jr.,
J. Herriy Henderson, and Patrick O’Brien,
sworn in open court and sent for by the grand
jury. L. H. Chandler,
U. S. Attorney District of Virginia.
* Letter from Mrs. TANARUS» J. Jackson.
The following letters speak tor themselves,
and will be read with deep interest by all:
Mayor’# Owice, )
City of Mobile, May 18, 1866. J
Editors Advertiser and llegister :
I have this day received from Mrs. T. J.
Jackson a letter acknowledging the reseipt of
the amount sent through me to her by the
citizens of Mobile. Whilst requesting that I
would not publish her letter, she begs that I
will make a grateful acknowledgment to the
citizens of Mobile. I cannot do so more ap
propriately than by copying such portions of
her letter as I feel she would not object to hav
ing published.
Yours, very trnly,
Geokqe A. Ketchdm,
Acting Mayor of Mobile.
Cottage Home, N. C., May 9,1866.
My Dear Sir:
Your letter ot January 10th, 'enclosing a
check for seven hundred and sixty-eight dol
lars and seventy-five cents, has just been re
ceived, having b6en forwarded from Staunton,
Va. I regret that the long delay in reaching
me has given you cause for thinking me indit
ferent and ungrateful.
* * * * a
But as you say, “it is a free will, New
Year’s offering, and expresses the deep and sin
cere sympathy for tho family of the soldier
whom you delighted to honor whilst living,
and whose memory is still held in grateful re
membrance.” I cannot refuse to accept it.
Indeed, I could not and have not declined any
such testimonials of love and gratitude to the
memory of my precious husband.
a e * a a
For the kind words of sympathy expressed
in your letter, I tender to you and to those
you represent, my sincere thanks, and as
sure you that it is a comfort and strengthens
me to bear my great loss, to be the recipient
of s o much affection, .kindness and gener
osity, from our noble hearted Southern peo
ple.
Yours, very trnly,
M. A. Jackson.
To George A. Ketcejcm,
Acting Mayor of Mobile.
Detail of Officers.
Orders have been issued by the War De
partment, giving the details of officers for the
ensuing two years as follows :
From each regiment of cavalry and artille
ry, three officers from each of the first tea
regiments of infantry, two officers ; from each
of the nine new or three battalion regiments of
in'nst y, six officers. Not more than one captain
will he detailed from each of the regiments ot
artillery and cavalry and the ten old infantry
regiments, nor more than one captain from
each battalion of the nine now regiments. Com
manding officers of the nine new regiments
will equalize the details between the battalions
of these regimen's. Regimental commanders
will select the officers to be detailed and or
der them to report by the Ist of September
next ; those from the cavalry regiments to
Brevet Brig Gen. W N Grier, Lieutenant
Colonel ot the First United States Cavalry,
Superintendent of the Mounted recruiting
service at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ;
those from the artillery and infantry regiments
to Brevet Brig Gen Butterfield, Colonel of the
Fifth United Stat-s Infantry, Superintendent
of the General Recruiting Service, at New
York City All officer,, r.ow on recruiting
service will be relieved by those detailed un
der this order, and are ordered to join their
respective regiments. Should the service of
any of the relieved officers be required ta con
duct recruits to the departments in which their
companies may be serving, the Superinten
dents will give the necessary orders accord
; ingly.
So far as practicable, the selection* for the
j above details will be made of officers who
! have served longest in the field during the
war.
■ The Hon. V M Benham. formerly Secretary
of State of Alabama, has been elected Probate
Judge of Lauderdale county.
Another new large iron screw steamer, the
Nerbudda, simillar to the ill fated London, is
believed to have foundered, with every soul
on board.
Governor Fenton, of New York, has pardon
ed Zeno Burnham the mock auctioneer.
The Burning of Columbia.
Messrs. Editors: An erroneous report, by a
Northern reporter, of the '‘Sbcrmaa meeting
in Columbia,’’ has been published iu the N.
Y. World, and copied into your columns, As
you requested—and no one has sent you an
account ot the meeting—l take leave to give
you a correct report.
Upon the Chairman announcing the object
of the meeting. 1 offered the following pream
ble and resolutions :
Whereas, Major-Gen. W. T. Sherman, U. S.
A., who gained for himself by his systematic
employment ot the torch in the war upon the
Southern people and their homes, the well
merited title of the Great Inceudiary, has
attempted to shirk the responsibility of tho
Infamous act of burning Columbia, after being
surrendered to him, anil in the actual occupa
tion of his army:
. Resolved, That a committees of twenty-one
citizens, who were present at
be appointed to collect affidavits of evidence
thereof ; and that said affidavits be deposited
among the archives ot the city lor tuture use.
Resolvcdf That the committee of iwenty-oue
be authorized to prepare ,carefully condensed
synopsis of the evidence, and publish it to the
world, certified by their names.
I stated that it would be impossible to give
extensive publicity to the Voluminous evidence
which would hqpiliccted. but that a short
synopsis would be widely copied by the press,
while the affidavits would be preserved until
the proper ocoasion occurred for using them
in a legal point of view
Col. Me Master objected to the preamble as
pre-judgiog in advance of the collection of evi
dence, and said it should be remembered that
the people of the North looked upon General
Sherman as a great soldier, and honor to his
country, who had done more than General
Grant to bring the war to a close ; that he
was entitled to have the evidence against him
adduoAl before condemning him.
Mr. Talley took a similar view, and so did
the Hon. E. J. Arthur, who offered a substi
tute simply proposing a committee to collect
testimony and report to a subsequent meeting.
Othet resolutions to the same effect, were offer
ed by Mr. F. G. Da Fontaine.
Not convinced of the technical objections of
gentlemen of the Bar, I still replied (bat ray
object was not discussion on a matter upon
which all agreed ; that in the preamble I had
simply explained, in a few words, the object
of the meeting ; that, in stating propositions
known and believed by all of us, I did not con
sider that I was denouncing Gen. Sherman ;
that I thought I was drawing it rather mild ou
the General in alluding to him so gently; that
the preamble was not absolutely necessary ;
so, lor the reason above giveD, 1 asked leave
to withdraw it. Dr. \V. Reynolds objected,
but 1 insisted, and it was allowed. Mr.
Arthur’s resolution was then adopted, as fol
lows ;
Whereas, it is highly important to tho truth
of history that the circumstances attending the
destruction of the city of Columbia, on the
17th of February, 1865, should be fully and
impartially investigated, and t‘ e evidence in
relation thereto collected aud perpetuated
while the facts are still 'fresh iu the memory of
witnesses ; he it, therefore
Resolved. That a Committee of twelve per
sons be appointed by the Chairman to collect’
the testimony in relation to the destruction of
Columbia at the time aforesaid, and report the
same to an adjourned meeting of the citizens
of Columbia and Richland District, to bo call
ed by the Chairman of said Committee when
he may be prepared to make such a report.
Under the above resolution the Chairman
appointed the following named gentlemen :
Chancellor S. P. Carroll, Hod. W. P. DeSaus*
sure, Hou. E. J. Arthur, Dr. John Fisher, Dr.
Wm. Reynolds, Dr. D. H. Trezovant, Dr. A.’
N. Talley, Prof. W- J. Rivers Prof. John Le»
Comte, Colonel J. T. Loan and Colonel L. D.
Childs.
In common with his fellow-citizens, I am
unwilling that au impression should be made
that ‘‘resolutions vindicating Hampton, and
indirectly fastening the blame on Sherman,
failed”—no such were offered. Where Gen.
Hampton is so well known for his nobjg in
tegrity and unsullied character, the idea Is prt-~"
posterous
As I took part in the initiation of the pro
ceedings, Tam not willing that the published
report should go forth without correction. I
am perhaps entitled to a word in the premises,
as I saw my residence wrecked, pillaged, and
deliberately set on fire by Sherman’s sober
soldiers, and when I remonstrated with them
for burning a house filled with women and
children, they shouted and jeered at mo :
“Qui facit per alios, facit per se.’’
I might even be pardoned were Ito de
nounce the barbarous and wanton destruction
of my literary, scientific and historical trea
sures—the associations of my life, and being
rudely driven, into the sheets, with my daugh
ters and grandchildren, to wander through
Sherman’s pitiless fire-storm and licensed sol
diery—but I prefer to leave him to his con
science and his God.
I would, however, when Mr, Bancroft stu
dies the truth of history in the evideuce of our
committee, to perpetuate it, commend to him
the following recent poetical tribute to the
Great Incendiary of the Age ;
“The sacred laurel, meed of hero-praise,
Would wither, scorched, upon a brow like
bis.”
Respectfully.
R. W. Gibues, M. D.
Columbia, S. C , May 21 186 G.
P. S. I trust the New York World will copy
this. It has ever tri aled the subjugated South
with justice and a fair consideration.
The President’s Policy.
The most material declarations of Mr. John
son, as to his views and intentions, are per
haps well given in the following extract, from
a standing article in the Bichmond Republic :
The*Representatives of the States’should be
loyal men, willing to abide by and be devoted
to the Union and the Constitution of the
States.
All responsible positions and places ought
to be confined distinctly and clearly to men
who are unmistakably and unquestionably
loyal— President’s reply to the Virginia Com
mittee.
I hold it to be my duty to recommend the ad
mission of every State to its share in public leg
islation when it presents itself in the person of
representatives whose loyalty cannot be ques
tioned under any existing constitutional or
legal test. Presidents Veto message.
The Constitution declares that no State shall
be deprived of equal suffrage in the Senate
of the United States without its consent. Then,
where do we stand ? All that is needed to
finish this great work of restoration is for tho
two Houses respectively to determine the
question. Oh ! but someone will say. “A
traitor might, come in!” The an~wer to this is,
that each House must be the judge, and if a
traitor presents himself, cannot either House
know tnat he is a traitor 1 And if he is a trai
tor, can they not kick him out of the door, and
send him back, saying to the people that sent
him. “Yon must send us a loyal man ?” Is
there any difficulty in that ? If a traitor pre
sents himself to either House, cannot that
House say to him, “No ; you cannot be
admitted into this body. Go back. We will
not deny our people the right ol representa
tion, but they must send a loyal representa
tive.”—President's address to the soldiers and
tailors.
I will put an end to the Freedman’s Bureau
just as soon as the South, by proper action for
the protection of the freedmen. make- it unne -
ceesary. —President’s interview with Governor
Cox.
To this collection of the President’s decla
tiong may now be added the views expressed
or plainly indicated, in the Proclamation of
Peace. We have, then, probably, the sub
stance of all that has been disclosed of the
programme adopted by the administration,
fer the treatment of the Southern States.
Duir on Imported Live Stock —The Pres
ident has approved the bill providing that
after the 16th inst., there sha l be levied, col -
lected and paid on all horses, mules, cattle,
sheep, hogs and other live animals imirorted
from foreign countries, a duty of twenty per
centum ad valorem. Provided, That any such
animals now bona fide owned by resident citi
zens of the United £>tates. and now in any of
the Provinces of British America, may he im
ported into the United Elates, free of duty,
i until the 27th of May.