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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.