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JOHNSTON, Kudness Manager. May Ist, 1866. ‘‘The Augusta Outrage.” The New Vork Tribune of the 2(ith instant, having previously published a garbled state ment of the late demonstration made in the name of some of the blacks, to deoorate the gruves of Federal soldiers in this city, closes a “sensation’’ leader thus : We respectfully ca'l the attention of the au thorities, and especially of Lieut. Gen. Grant, to this matter. It ought not to be permitted to sleep, until a day future has been set apart for publicly honoring the graves of Union sol diers in that Augusta cemetery, with full per mission to all who choose to walk thither in procession and strew flowers on those humble but not unforgotten graves. We give fair notice that, if something is not publicly, im pressively done to rescue those graves from the insult cast upon them by the rebel muni cipality of Augusta and our truckling military authorities there, the Loyal Millions will insist on knowing why. In our account of tills matter we stated clearly and explicitly, that the demonstration was not the conception of, nnr gotten up by the negroes. That the sensible and respectab'e among them said they did not desire to par ticipate, becauso they did not think it right and propet at the time, and that they were urged to it by their white leaders. All of this has been carefully withheld from the readers of the Tribune. The Federal soldiers who fill the graves in our cemetery were brave men who staked their lives on their view of Light. They had en dured'the hardship and toil of the camp and the maron. they bad stood the shook of bat ’ tie and carnage from shot and shell, schrapnell sup! in the charge arid from ambuscade, lir'fhe fortunes of war they received death wquuds at ChickumaiNTß—upon the banks of the River of Death. Captured they were * fritted as bravo men. They were brought to . out city our own braves. Side by . sirta tb«y the railroad cars—side by lay ft <>ur churches and in our school hoiifßM* The saqg prescribed *fof each, and wanhod and dressed the wounds of #acrfiiliko. QUr city physicians voluntarily assisted, and by day and by night for s.tftjM'to rcliovesfey sMU and assuage by troat th'b amputation aud mordauut V Ojlr Mothers, and our Wives and Daughters, JUucA<yd_by the magnitude of suffering and dis. from scanty stores, nourishment Confederate and Federal. They ryitcdSpim them iu person and administered to th£colw?sK*of aU, with their own hands, as lay. The last sad consolations for all— from Chaplain and Minister— Protestant and Catholic ; and when the final i*Urcall summoneifljjeir spirits to a brighter twirl. (heir bodies fy£re lajd in like rude coffins and consigned to earth with the same honors, in the same burial place, t It is those Mothers, and Wives and Daugh. \ters, lingering in saduess upon the memories ,qf their loved ones, that have laid a garland ujlou the green turf and the plain boards which mark but briefly the graves of those near and desy to them. The tribute was the tribute of afl'ectiou—simple aud touohing by its sim plicity—a few flowers gathered by beloved hands from the Land they Loved. Rut if the honors which wealth and power and victory have already given, and are still giving, with lavish hand, from associated treasuries and from the ooffers of the Govern ment, are not deemed sufficient, let a day be named and solemnly set apart to Honor the Federal Dead. If the gallant survivors unite to honor with honest, heart-felt honors, the graves and the memories of their once gal lant comrades, our people will regard with sol »rati respect, the mournful duties of these true soldiers. Rut, if the rancor of party spirit choos es, as becoming instruments to do such honors, another race whom we refused to embroil in the war, and never resided as warriors—so be it Commit them theu to their charge. Place them then, within their keeping. But no Southern soldier will sanction this outrage upon the memory of these dead, nor assist to place this stain upon the history of the living. There by the side ot our own soldiers are the graves which we made for them. But we do not believe that such is the wish, nor such the sentiments of the American sol dier. We can never believe that the brave men who have run with safety the gauntlet in the circle of death, from Manassas to Shiloh, ChauoeUorsvillo to Murfreesboro, Vicksburg, Cbickamauga and Petersburg, will ever pros titute their Jam*is to serve the venal interests of party politics. The brave men who survive know the brave men oi the revolution, and will trust and honor each other. The perils of the battlefield cement in brotherhood true soldiers. The Savannah Repuoncan reams from the New York Tribune of the 24th inst., that the Government has awarded a contract to Hen ry 8. IV etls. of New York, to rilse the vessels in the river and harbor ol Savsnmth. These vessels were sunk to obstruct the channel. The gunboats and other vessels were scuttled and sank at the time the city was evacuated. There are m all about 20, some of them very valua ble, with all their guns and armament on hoard. A Sew Opening for Filllbuster?. Late advices tell ns of.-such a degiee of ristleesnesa among the Cubans that conversa tion is suppressed in the workshops, and the most rigid surveillance maintained over the natives and lower elassos. Every One who has mingled with the Cuban people cannot have failed to note the tvidences of hatred for the iron despotism that holds them in sub servience to SpaiD. They talk but little— bccauses spies, informers and soldiers are ever at band, to prevent or punish a free utterance of tbeir honest sentiments. The gloomy walls of the Presidio, or the sharp horrors of the garoto await those who dare to raise their puny arms against the prevailing despotism. Still the hatred is bitter, general, and well founded. Denied all voice in the Government, with the positions of honor and profit filled by the pampered favorites of the licentious Court of Madrid ; disfranchised, disarmed and distressed by taxation, what is there to inspire in the breast of the Cuban any affection for the _ - He feists that while his island is the “ milch cow of Spain,” he gets not even a taste of the skim-milk ; but is fed on tbe bread and water of dependence and servility. The ill-starred attempts to revolutionize tha island have im parted a false estimate of the loyalty of the Cubans. In the first place, no attempts at liberation have been made by those possessing their confidence ; and none which promised them Liberty. Lopez was believed to be a mere adventurer, seeking to tear down one order of depotism to build up another, with himself os Us head aud chief. But the failure of Lopez, and the massacre of his devoted followers only stifled the spirit of revolt, which glows with increasing ardor in the breasts of nearly all the native Cubans. Many of them have been educated in America, and desire a republican government. It is believed that the present threatened revolt, and solicitude of the government, result from the stimulant which the conflict in South America has imparted to liberal ideas, if not from a concerted plan for revolution. If we take the map of South America, aud examine it, we shall find that Venezuela and Colombia are so near the South side of the island as to make communication easy and practicable.— W'th the exception of the defences of Havana and Matauzas, the antiquated forts and towers which guard the coast towns are the merest cobwebs, incapable of resisting for un hour any respectable line ot battle-ships. The army oi occupation is nearly all quartered at Havana, and would require days, it not weeks, to accomplish their transier to the South side, where there are hundreds of miles of accessible coast, and no inhabitants to report or resist the approach of an invading army. The people of Colombia and Venezuela pos sess enough of Spanish characteristics to assim milate readily with the Cubans, Os like origin, talking the same lauguage, and devoted alike to liberal ideas, here is anew road for Cuban independence. An alliance with those repub lics would give Cuba the men and munitions, aud her boundless wealth would afford au am ple basis for supplying the exchequer. These Republics can readily muster a land force able to crush 20,000 or Ab.QflO puuy scions of chivalry who comprise the army of oc cupation, and take possession of the stri ughoids which frown from the gray crest of the North ern shore. It is doubtless a consciousness of danger from a movement like this, which has aroused the vigilance of the guardians of Spanish interest in Cuba. It would furnish a Bpoedy aud terrible re dress for the infamous wrougs inflicted by Spain on some of the South ‘American Stalos, aud it would be strange if thero are no daring spirits to lead the enterprise. We have no particular interest in such a move ment beyond a desire for the dissemination of liberal ideas, and a sense of justice to the beautiful “Queen of tho Antilles, ’’ who has been crushed tor centuries by the galling ex actlous of the Castile. Radiant with her na tive charms she raises her chained arms to the gaze of the deliverer—speaking in sentiments more chuste and unmistakable than blushing damssl ever suggested to her timid swain— “ Comb and take mb.” The Latest Washington on Bit, A Washington dispatch of the 25th, says tho trial of Mr. Davis, under the Norfolk indict ment, will, doubtless, be postponed until Au gust or September next, in consequence of the strong feeling prevailing at Richmond on the subject. Much animosity, it is said, prevails toward the Jury who returned the verdict, and, until this subsides, the Attorney General thinks it best to delay the trial. This is but another siokly excuse hatohed out by the Radicals, for the purpose of securing the continued confinement of that distinguished prisoner, the late leader of our people. There are now no legal or other reasonable grounds upon which to base a continnation of Mr. Da vis’ case. All barriers, which are as yet un removed, will have been removed before tho time appointed for the sitting of the Court, on Monday next, and naught but the stubborn will of that very dignified judicial officer, Mr. Chase, will prove a help meet to the Radicals n carrying out their nefarious and inhuman plans. Martial law being abolished in Virginia and Richmond having been designated by Congress as the place where the Court shall sit, a true bill having been presented, and all things be ing ready, it is to be hoped that the trial will be proceeded with. Notwithstanding it has been ofrtimes as serted that the Judiciary Committee have abandoned the idea of Mr. Davis’ complicity in the assassination plot, it is again declared that that Committee is still engaged in taking tes timony referring to Messrs. Davis and Clay, and that the Committee entertain no doubt of their guilt. Lonqivitt. —Tne obituary of the London Times on two successive days gave the deaths of a remarkable number of very aged persons, who were supposed to have been fatally affect ed by the late cold easterly gales. The deaths of eight ladies were published, whose united ages amounted to 719 years, with average age each of 89 years 10 months, the youngest be ing 82, and the oldest havmg reached the as tonishing longevity of 101. The deaths of five old gentlemen were at the same time an nounced. whose ages, added together, summed up 434 years being an average of 86 years 9 months, the youngest having died at 83 and the oldest at 95. The united ages ot the eight ladies and five gentlemen summed up 1.153 vears. giving an average of 88 years 5 months. There was one couple of whom the wife was 97 and the husband 9ft when they died An Irishman named Daiy, die! lately in New York, at the age of one hundred and six years. His eldest daughter is sixty-nine years old. He never had a sick day until his las illaess. Tbe fflbsonrI ‘ Persecution.’’ The “Test Oath’’ in Missouri, though known now,.on satisfactory evidence, to be unconsti tutional, continues to be enforced, we see, with a merciless ness that would do no discred it to the Claverhoußes in the times of the Stuarts, or to the servants of the Spanish In quisition. There is no such thing as religious liberty in that State now—nothing, in fact, but a regln of terror, for Ministers of the Gos pel who feel that they cannot conscientiously subscribe to the Infamous conditions imposed upon them. Rev. A. H. Deane, writing to the Western Recorder at Louisville, Ky., from Harrisonville, Cass Cos., Missouri, says, that when the war broke out he was serving four churches ; each of these churches raised a com pany for the United States service, and he, as majer, took charge of them ; mustered them into service ; with them served his country ; was honorably discharged; but he comes aud finds the door closed against his ministry —not the door of the church-house, nor the door of the church, but the State door—closed against him. because, he says, “I flare not ; 1 cannot take the oath.” Aud adds : “Here, I meet my brethren and sisters every day hungering and thirsting for the bread of life. I dare not preach the unsearoh able riches of Christ, lest, after having served my counl ry faithfully, bared my breaßt to the leaden hail, I should be cast into yonder dark and lonely prison, or my little substance taken from my family that is dear to me, next to the blessed Redeemer’s cause.” Why dare he not take the oath ? Let him answer for himself, which he does, in part as follows: “Because my allegiance to Christ Is above my allegiance to the State; and, in our opinion, no man can subscribe to that oath as a servant of Christ aad obey the injunction of the gos pel, I think I can show that to obey the Con stitution in this particular, is to disobey Christ:” Speaking of the effects of this, in general, he says : “Out of the 450 Baptist ministers in Missouri thero were 400 denied the viarht to preach, to say nothing of the many that would coma to the State.” The Radicals allege that the Test Oath is opposed only by ministers of “rebel or disloyal proclivities” —but the testimony adduced above shows how false is that allegation. Railroad Heeling at Edgetleld, C. H., June Fourib. Wo are requested to advise our Edgefield friends, that a Railroad meeting will be held next Monday, June 4th, sale day—at the Court House. It is understood that the meeting will be addressed by Governor Pickens, Governor Bonham, Colonel Johnston, and other distin> guished gentlemen. The objeot of the meet ing is the consideration of the necessity for a speedy completion of the Columbia and Au gusta Railroad. This road runs through Edge field District fifty miles, and there are only two stockholders at present from Edgefield District. We hope our Edgefield friendß will see the urgent necessity for a speedy completion of this road. The noxt fall promises a heavy immigration lo the South. The beautiful country which lies contiguous to tho village and along the ridge, is just such land as bmall farmers will want. Healthy, well watered, producing fine vegetables, one of the ffflest fruit regions, beiDg seldom injured by frost— growing peaches, grapes, apples, currants, pears, cherrieß and plums. The soil iB easily cultivated, brings good crops of cotton, corn and wheat. But these lands are now cheap because inac cessible. Tho completion of this road will greatly enhance their value—bringing all their surplus within easy reach of Augusta, Charles ton and Savannah. Iffew Military Department, The telegraph has already announced tie recent changes in the military departments of the South, by which Georgia and Alabama have been made one district, with Gen. Woods in command. His headquarters, it is stated, will be at Macon. Gen. Tlilson is promoted to the command of tho Georgia division, and Gen. Swayne to that of Alabama, each being also in' charge of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the two States respectively. As we before stated, if this change involves the transfer of Gen. Brannan to some other field, he will leave with the respect of all who appreciate the qualities of a soldier and true'gentleman. It is gratifying to know that we have in his place an urbane and intelligent officer, who has won none but good opinions from all classes of our people, and whose efforts are earnestly directed to the promotion of the good of the country. No one will hail with more oordiality than we the return of the good old days when we are relieved of all military restraint; at the same time we trust we shall never allow old memo ries to prevent us from properly recognizing the personal and official merits of those sent among us in the discharge of the dutie3 inci dent to tho administration of the laws of the country. Freedmen’s Bureau Investigation. Generals Steadman and Fullerton arrived in tho city from Savannah and Florida on Sunday. We learn that their report from South Carolina, Florida and the Sea Islands, will be made in a short time. We had the pleasure of a call from General Fullerton, whom we are pleased to find cor rectly impressed in reference to the temper of owr people These officers will remain for several days in the city, in the dhebarge of the objects of their tour and we feel assured that they will find ail the functions of the bureau justly and and faithfully administered at present. Gen. Steedman is too well known and appreciated here for his straightforward administration of justice', to leave any room to fear that injus tice or malfeasance in office will be winked at, and if there aro any small fry. here or here abouts, who are making connection with the bureau a cloak for speculation and mischief, let them stsnd from under. Gratifying Intelligence from Washington. Gen. W. T. Wofford, member of Congress elect, from the Seventh Congressional District, in a telegram to the Atlanta Intelligencer from Washington, dated the 25th, says: General Howard has directed Gen. Tilson to use ex’ traordinary measures to supply the destitute people ol that devastated district with pro visions. The Intelligencer says it records this con siderate order with pleasure, and doubts not that it b*s been issued through the influence of Gen. Wrfford at Washington, his representa tion, and his feeling appeal in behalf of the suffering people of his district—the Cherokee section of our State, so long overrun and de vastated by Thomas’ army. General Tilson cannot move to supply the destitute in that section of our State too soon. They need prompt relief, or, we are assured, in many places, starvation will overtake many, and they wHI perish. To General Wofford much credit is due for his exertions in behalf of his suffering constituency. It affords us pleasure to chronicle his successful efforts in their behalf. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 6,. 1866. B smbardincai of Callao. It seems from the puSilsbed accounts of the Spanish attack on Callao, that Admiral Nunez caught a very ugly Tartar oa that occasion.— His fleet comprised the flower of the Spanish navy, and consisted of eleven vessels mounting 275 guns. He sailed- complacently up. the bar, and gave Xie authorities four days notice, in which to put the town on a warj footing. The Peruvians had forty-five guns in battery, many of them of tbe latest English improved ord nance, Armstrong and Bicakly guns of large calibrß—and though very fearful of the result, made a show of confidence by opening on the fleet. The fire was promptly returned, and the bombardment lasted some four hours, in which several of the vessels were disabled, when the fleet withdrew to San Lorenzo. The Peruvians had ten killed, chiefly by the ex. plosion of a oattery, including Senor Galves, the Minister of War. Some twenty were re ported- wourded. The Spanish loss was not known, as there was no communication with the hostile fleet Admiral Nunez was reported severely wounded. The enthusiasm of the Cillaoiana at the re sult of the attack is unbounded. The designs of Nunez are ‘unknown; some reporting that he would return to Chili, and others that he would renew the attack. The conceit is at least taken out of him. The Panama correspondent of tha New York Tribune says : “The Vanderbilt brought noither letters, pa. pers, nor correspondence "from Callao, and consequently we are without details of the at stempted bombardment. One fact is very ap parent, however, aud that is—the Spanish met with a decided reverse. They will probably not venture a second attack, but should they do so, they will fare still worse, ss the Peru vians will then have placed the city and bay in a more complete state of defense. “The Surgeon of the Vanderbilt informs me that he boarded the Numancia just before the former vessel left Callao, and ho (here learned the wounds.of Nunez were mortal. He was on the bridge of his flag-ship, directing the bombard ment, when the iion rigging was struck by a shot and he was hit ou the body, face and arm by the flying pieces. Hig wojnds were of such a desperate character that it was not even thought advisable to remove him to his room, but he was laid on a mattress on the , deck of the vessel, near the spot where he 1 fell. London Times—! 814. Among the files of the Chronicle & Sentinel, we find a copy of the “Augusta Horald’’ of August 4th, 1814, containing the “London latest dates” to May 26tji, or “seventy days” from Europe. A prominent feature in this issue of the Herald is the Leader : FROM THE LONDON TIMES OF MAY 20TH, 1814. The friends of Bonaparte, the poor weak creatures who some mouchs since, urged the necessity of making peace with him, now join in urging a peace with his tool James Madison. They abused and vilified us then -as members of the War Faction; and they do nothing else now. We appeal to the common sense of the country. Is it, or is it not, the dictate a'ike of justice and of policy, “not only to chastise the savages into present p -ace, but to make a last ing impression on our future fears ? This is Mr. Madison’s own rule The Morning Chron- true to its old anti-British feelings, tells us, wo have obtained all that “we went to war for.” Why, we did not go to war for any thing. In common parlance, to go to war for aDy thing, is to commence hostilities with a view to obtain some object not in our posses sion, but it was Mr. Madison who went to war With ue, aud that iu June, 1812. Mark the time, reader : for it speaks vol umes, in explanation of the traitor's motives. It was at the very moment, when Bonaparte crossed the Niemen, at the head of half a mil lion of soldiers, professedly to put the last hand to the Continental System, for the ruin of Great Britain. Then, when our fate (as this serpent thought) hung trembling in the bal ance, did he let slip the dogs of war, to seize and bring us to the grouud. The scene i3 completely and wonderfully changed—Bona parte is fallen, Madison is disgraced and dis - comfited, and Great Britain has the means of inflicting ample aud deserved vengeance. Lo ! the pupils of liberality, the philanthropists, the sworn advocates of foreign perfidy and treachery, step forth and deprecate the very idea of justice, or of prudent precaution against future insult; but they will no more be listen ed to now, than they were when they so ur gently pleaded the cause ot the Monster Bona parte. It is true, that negotiators of great re spectability have been appointed on the part of Great Britain to meet the Genevese demo - crat Galiatin, the furious orator Olay, the surly Bayard, and Mr. Russell, the worthy defender of the forged revocation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, We have, however, good rea son to believe, that the British diplomatists will not discuss the impudent nonsense called an American doctrine, about Impressment and Native Allegiance, which was in truth a mere pretext for war on the part of Mr. Madison: but they will enter into the true merits of the question, the unprovoked and unprincipled attack on Canada; they will demand full se curity against a renewal of this atrocious out rage; they will insist on th§ safe and undivid ed possession of the Lakes, the abandonment of the Newfoundland fishery, and the restitu tion of Louisiana and the usurped territory in Florida. If after all, the Eastern States should consider, as they well may. that an amicable arrangement with Great Britain is more for their advantage than a subjection to the tyran nical and usurped authority of their southern neighbors, we see no reason that should pref vent our Government from acceding to a meas ure in every point of view so desirable. This object is very likely to be facilitated by the arrival of our triumphant army from the South of France, the embai kation of which is not stopped as was reported yesterday; but is pro ceeding with all diligence; and it is probable that we shall shortly have to announce its ar rival on the shores of America. What does the London Times say now ? Who is in subjection “to tyrannical and usurp ed authority.” Who represents Great Britain now in the United States ? Will so amiable an arrangement us that proposed by the Times be ixAio to oAma nf *Vio ropragontatlYCi from New Eugland in Congress ? An Important Decision, * The New Orleans Cresent says, upon a hear ing, the Supreme Court rendered a decision affirming a decree of the Court, made in De cember last, in the case of George Schmidt vs. Jacob Barber, appealed from the Sixth Dis trict Court The statement is as follows : Plaintiff was a depositor in defendant’s bank, the Bank of Commerce, from January 17th to April Ist, 1862. A balance was due him of S4OO This subsequent to the occupation of the c.ty by the Federals, plaintiff demanded in legal tender, which defendant refused, and offered Confederate money. It was in proof that the business of the bank, at the time plaintiff kept an account with it, was conduct ed with Confederate money ; and upon his bank book was inscribed the following notifi cation : “Deposits in this bank are received only on condition that the amount is to be drawn in Confederate money.” The opinion of the Court now re-affirmed, was, in brief, that Confederate money having, upon the face of it, been issued to make war upon the government of ihe United States, parties voluntarily dealing in it, as was the case with both plaint’ll and defendant were culpable—guilty oi an immoral act—and the Court could not lend itself to the enforcement of contracts entered into in contempt of law. Declaring this contract, therefore, null and void, the decision of the lower Court which was in favor of the defender, was ordered to be reversed. Bpain is mere accessible now than at any previous time in her history. The direct route has been opened, which places the Spanish Capital in sixty hoars ride of the French, and at a cost of only thirty dollars. JOTriXCS FSOH THE CAPITAL. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL ] Washington,. May 24, 1866. lhe main interest in political circles t< day is the Cabinet serenade of last night and tie expression of views on the part of the C’-binet Ministers, of which it was intended to b; the occasion. The demonstration was not ii any respect a spontaneous or impromtu popular movement, although the Intelligencer icthusiastically terms it “a great outpouring Cl the people.” It was, in fact, A SHREWD EXPEDIENT G the part of the Democratic leaders here— s deliberate cut and dried effort to foroe those iembers of the Cabinet who, in the contest l tween Congress and the Executive, are either hostile to the latter or neutral, to take decid e! ground on ono side or the other. The rsult was looked for with peculiar inter et, both by the friends and the enemies of the tesideffi; and quite a large crowiK Including vjry tinny persons of more political weight than those who usually follow the music- and swill the processions on occasions of this char acter, gathered to hear the various speeches am especially to catch the delphic accents of theoracle of the War Department. Your cor. res ondent was amongst the multitude, an at te*ive listener to all the outgivings of the chjteu counsellors of the President; but he fetjs bound to Boy that he came away no wiser thin he went. And in this respect, his expe* rie .ee was not peculiar to himself.. The mid nq.it display oi Cabinet eloquence seems to hai; had no other effect than to produoe am ngst men of all parties here a general feel ing if MORTIFICATION AND DISAPPOINTMENT. 1 e effoit of Mr. Stanton to please every* bod has naturally enough resulted in pleasing nobly. Ho disagrees with the Reconstruo tionjlommittee’s report, and, thus far, is op pos4 to Congress ; yet he does not by any mea ■ yield that frank, cordial, and outspoken sup] it to the President’s policy which many had J:pec:ed from him. In a word, his long and aboratG speech (which by the way, was ■pitln out beforehand and sent round to the new papers and telegraphic agencies by the Sicrtary himself) is of a character to sustain fully he repitatioa which Mr. Stanton has alreaiy establhhed as a political trimmer, ut terly ievoid alike of principle and consistency. TEE OTHER RESPONSES of thedoubtfulmerabers of the Cabinet were equaljy enigma, ical aud unsatisfactory. The Secrcjary of tie Interior, Mr. HarlaD, in his lettepto tho eeienaders, rather snubs the chief moveji in the iffair, and absolutely refuses to commit himsellbeyond declaring hisajnshaken fidelity to the ‘Republican Union party” of which, he is a mmber; Dut, inasmuch as Thad. Stevens ou the on: hand, and Andrew Johnson on the other eiain to be the faithful expo- nen:s of that party it may be concluded that Harlan stands, and lesires, for the present at least, to remain “on the fence.” Mr. Speed, the Attorney Geuernl was equally shy of de claring his real views, and Mr. DennisoD, the Postmaster General was far from being as ex plicit as might have been wished. In fact, all of these estimable gentlemen whom I have nameu d?"r<> to wait a while, to see how the .iaidfU-i-fci teiSftr-w^ the op(o(fijyff'the cf ¥ sbr members of the Cabi net, McssriFseward, Wells, and McCulioch, there .«. T as never any dispute. They stand shoulder to shoulder with the President, and will support his policy in any event. THE LEGISLATION OF CONGRESS progresses sluggishly, and it is now said that the remaining business of the session cannot well bo disposal of before the middle of July. A majority (f the House are anxious to get away, but Senaflrs say that the feeling in their body tends towards a prolongation of the session uniil Appist, at tho lellst. The House is hard at work upon the tax bill; and the Senate is considering the new project for funding and consolilating the public debt. The scheme is meeting with powerful opposition, but is like ly to pjsvaii in the end. Your readers will be glad tollearu that thore is also a likelihood of THE PROPOSED TAX ON COTTON being rfluced by the Senate from five to three cents per pound. Avery powerful commer cial miside pressure is at work to secure this modifli’.lion, and as the remonstrance on the subject tomes exclusively from the North, they may very possibly be heeded. If the tax should be reflated you may be sure that it will not be out of any consideration tor the people of the Soutajonwhom the tax will bear with pecu liar hardship; but simply because of the ap preheijsion that so heavy an internal duty upon iotton will effectually stimulate foreign cotton powers to successful competition with us in the markets of tho world, and thus kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. MRS. JEFFEBSON DAVIS arrived here this morning and is staying as a guest in the family of Dr. Thomas Miller, who was her physician during her residence here.— She comes, I learn, for the purpose of urging upon President Johnson the immediate re moval <5 ffier husband to some more lalnbrious place d£confinement than Fortress Monroe. As I vX sMfiSeJrtion is backed by the certificate of Dr sloper, the Suigeon of the Post, that Mr. Davis cannot long survive a continuance*)! his retention in bis present prison, I think it quite probable that the request of Mrs. Davis will be acceded to. Butternut. WASHTvnTQii. Saturday May 26- The terrible money panic which is just now creating such havoc in) commercial circles abroad, and the re-action of which on this side of the Atlantic is visible in the tremendous leap of gold from 130 to 140 within three days, has caused a protound sensation amongst think ing men here, and is likely to accelerate the adoption of the great project for the consolida tion of our public debt. It is felt that THE STEADY DRAIN OF GOLD from our shores which has been goiDg on of late at the alarming rate of many millions a week, cannot continue long withont very se riously affecting the strength of onr position in the commercial world, and perhaps the stabil ity of the national credit itself. The reports of huge instalments of U. S. five twenties com ing back by every steamer, because they will no longer fetflr the same prices abroad which they bring at homo, is anything but encourag ing to those wbo manage our national finances; and the consequence is likely to be that Con gress will act with decision and promptitude in framing some scheme to renew and confirm the confidence of the capitalists of the world in the safety and Eolidity of American public securities. The feeling in favor of Secretary McCulloch’s p'an is gaining strength daily in Congress. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has de livered a powerful argument in its favor ; and the impression prevails that it will pass the Senate some time during the coming week. THE GREAT CRASH in England, the like of which has not been se; n - that country for forty years past, is go rally attributed by financial men here to excessive speculation iu cotton. The recent tumble of the great staple in the Liverpool market from 20d. to 12d. a pound was, of it self, sufficient to create a panic amongst a large class. It is not a little singular that the English, who have so long and so confidently predicted that the end of the war would be followed by a financial smash up all over America, compared with which all previous crisis would be trifling, should themselves be the first to totter beneath the commercial shock occasioned by the close of the great struggle, while, as yet, the current of American trade and finance glides on in apparent sereui tr. TWO MEASURES OF IMPORTANCE have been disposed of this week by the House of Representatives—one of them as praise worthy and well considered as the other is rash and reprehensible. I refer to the Bank rupt Law, and the bill for the Equalization of Bounties. For several years past-the leading commercial minds iu the oountrv have been doing their utmost to induce Congress to pass an Act to establish an uniform system of bank ruptcy throughout the United States; but hitherto without avail. The measure has been brought up iu each successive Congress, but, sometimes failing in the Senate and sometimes in the House, has never become a .law. After being discussed so often, and manipulated by so many successive commit, tees, it is beiieved that the present Bankrupt Bill is as near perfection as any such measure can be brought, before it has been subjected to the unfailing test of practical operation; and it is hoped that the Senate will imitate the House in passing it without unnecessary delay. The object of the bill, in a nutshell, is to re lieve, under proper restrictions, honest busi» ness men, who have been unfortunate, from embarrassment, so as to enable them, with light hearts, to begin the world anew. The other measure to which I have referred is THE NEW BOUNTY BILL. It is d’flicult to imagine a mote Iniquitous scheme and one more unjust to the tax payers of this country than that embodied in this bill. It is estimated that tbe amount filched from the Treasury under its provisions will not be less than two hundred and thirty million cf dol lars. Os this amount, not one dollar will go to the South, except a trifling allowance to the negro soldiers who served in the Federal army during the latter part of the war. It is well known that the real convictions of the majority of the House of Representatives were against this piece cf shameless extravagance ; but the temptation of securing popularity amoDgst the returned soldiers was too great to be resisted ; and, when the yeas and nays were called upon the passage of the bill, there were but two membe.e —Trimble, of Kentucky, and Nichol son, of Delaware—who had the honesty and courage to record their names against it. It is to bo hoped that this legislative swindle will yet receive its quietus iu the Senate. TIIE DISCUSSION OF THE TAX BILL in tho House is-not yet concluded, but will be, on Monday or Tuesday, at the farthest. I have noticed nothing in the debate that will specially interest your readers. The income tax remains fixed at five per cent, on all incomes below $5,000 ; and on incomes exceeding that amount tafn per cent. Tijg.ar, qunt. of,income exem - fax'Xpos. recommendation of the. committee, at sl,Uwa In the tax on tobacco, flie House manifested its usual lack of consileratiou for the wants and interests of the impoverished South, by taxing all tobacco of Southern growth v.ery heavily; while a comparatively nominal tax was imposed upon the grades of smoking to bacco produoed in some of the Northern States. The provisions of the bill in relation to distilleries are particularly Btringent and severe. THE WEST POINT VISITORS. It is worthy of note that the President, in appointing the usual Board of Visitors to tho West Point Military Academy, has not ignored the Southern States. Amongst the gentlemen appointed are the following : Virginia, B. J. Barbour; Florida, Win. Marvin; Mississippi and Arkansas, Josiab Snow.; Texas, Major Anson L. Mills, of Washington ; Missouri, Gen. J. Stevenson ; Tennessee, Judge S. J. W. Luck ey ; Kentucky, Judge Embree. THE CONDITION OF MR. DAVIS, lam glad to say, has again been very mate rially ameliorated through the intercession of his noble wife. She is still here, doiDgall 6he can in his behalf. Butternut. The Fenians Moving. The telegraph, on yesterday, reported sever al hundred Fenians leaving at Cincinnati on what appeared to be a military expedition.— The Nashville papers state that fifty or sixty ) "Jemphians arrived there on the 26th, for tho sea of war. They all appeared to be “spiling” for a tight, and told of some two thousand more to folio* them. The general impression in Nashville's that they will concentrate at De troit, with * view to crossing over to Windsor and Sandwich, Canada. The reported concen tration of Fenians at Calais, Maine, is be lieved to be a hoax. At Columbus on the 26th. the first session of the Muscogee County Court waß held, when he Judge entertained a writ of habeas carpus brought before him by Measrs Russell & King counsel for M. E. Bloodworth, the petty juror, who a few days ago, was arrested for horse stealing, immediately after being discharged from tho jury, praying his rolosse from jail. Judge Iverson appeared for the State. Be fore the trial was concluded J H Merritt, of county, the man from whom the animal was taken, appeared with a second warrant. Judge Howard refused to grant the writ, and the prisoner was ordered to be sent to the county In which the alleged thieft occurred, for trial, Santa Anna Snubbed. —The leading mem bers of the Mexican Club of New York city, among them General Ortega, Francisco Zarco, Dr. Navarro and Louis Degorreta, have pub lished a protest against Santa Anna, denounc ing him as the most obnoxious man in Mexico, a traitor, and the source of all their country s evil 6. They see in him only a most odious tyrant, whose name alone would be sufficient to disgrace the holy cause of the Republic, and declare that they will on no account trust him in any way. Civil Bights. A case involving the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Bill has just been decided adverse ly by Judge Thomas, of the Circuit Court of Virginia, now in session at Alexandria, in civil action between white men. One of the parties offered to produce negro evidence. The J udge decided that, inasmuch as the State laws of Virginia forbade the in troduction of negro testimony iu civil suits to which white men alone were parties, the evi dence of the negro was inadmissable, and that no Congressional legislation could impair her right to decide what persons oj classes of per sons ware competent to testily in ner courts. This decision will doubtless lead to much discussion, and create no little excitement be ore its final settlement by snpenor authority. NEW SERIES, VOL. The Sews ot (he Day. Jonathan Burns, an old Chicagoan was re cently robbed of SIO,OOO. It is believed that Napoleon’s life of Ciezar will extend to four volumes. An extensive gold field has been discovered fifty mfles West of Cleveland Bay, Queens land. The demand for fractional currency contin ues increasing, although the department Issues from $50,000 to $70,000 daily; Sumner, iu a late speech said, ths ballot was the columbiad of our political life, and every citizsn who has it, is a full armed moni tor. Fitz Hugh Ludlow, the well known writer, has been divorced from his wife. Private letters from Indiana give a very discouraging account of Gov. Morion’s con dition. - The latest novelty is a proposition to plant trees on the great prairies of the West. An Express messenger named Cohan stabbed his wife to death, in Memphis recently. She had sued him for a divoroe. ' Gen. Fisk, commanding at Nashville, has issued orders suspending all Freed men'a Courts in that department. At a sale of Government properly at Nash ville on the 26th, the ship yard at Edgefield, the Franklin shops and numerous barracks were sold - at nominal prices. A writ of habeas corpus was obtained on the 26th., in Toronto, in the case of the Fenian prisoners at Cornwall. Another destructive conflagration occurred in Cincinnati on the 26th. Seven hotels, sixty dwellings, and seventy-five stores wero in ashes by 8£ o’clock in the evening, and the fire was still raging. Lieut.-Gcn. Grant will visit the West during the month of June. Major Fifield, lately an attachee of the Adams’ Express, died on the 26th, at White Sulphor Springs, Ohio. Active preparations are in progress in Wash ington for a fair for the benefit of the Sailor’s and Soldier’s Orphan Home. Secretary Seward has written Goyernor Wells, that Louisiana passports are void. Calvin Fiesher, one of tho first settlers, and a prominent hanker of Indianapolis, died a few days ago. Mrs. Davis had a long interview with the President on the evening of the 25th. It is said she asks for the removal of Gen. Miles. Among those who called on her was Mrs. Sen ator Reverdv Johnson. Ex-Admiral Semmes was in Washington o’l the 25th, seeking such a pardon as will en 10 him to hold tho office lately conferee-' dpon him. The tax bill has been so amep ’ d 38 to ex empt from taxation articles -* ,anu ) ac *' ’ n institutions for the blind. and an^ sold for their support The birthday o f Queen Victoria was cele brated at Treonto on the 24th, with great enthusiasm. While a salute was being fired a cannon exploded, killing two of the gunners. Two freight trains on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad collided near Chatta nooga on the 26th, One man was killed and several wounded. The suspension bridge at Nashville is com ' They nave “stnfe eS =- , l*” ltt Gov. Worth, oLN. C., iu ;»ge to the Convention, made no mention of reconstruc tion measures. He says the State must wait the temper of Congress. Mr. Jesse Dickson, Town Marshal of Quincy, Florida, was killed on Sunday last by some negroes whom ho attempted to arrest. It is reported that the directors of the West ern Union and American Telegraph Companies have agreed upon a basis of consolidation. The “Bedstead” factory at Yonkers, N. Y., was burned on the 25th inst. The loss on buildiDg and machinery is estimated at $lO,- 100. A large quantity of cotton stored in the building was destroyed. The young men in a little town in Illinois havi met and resolved not to esoort or call upon the young ladies while they wear filters and waterfalls. Specimens of tin ora have been exhibited at the General Land Office. It is of great rich ness and parity—found eighty miles south of the California Quicksilver mines. Fourteen dollars from an anonymous corres pondent was received at the Treasury Depart ment on the 24th, and has been placed to the credit of the conscience fund. The Maysville (Ky.) Bulletin of the 24th, says, the prospect for grapes in that section is more favorable than it has been for several years. At the Brownsville, Nebraska, Land Office, 11,559 acres were entered last month for home stead actual settlement, besides a number of cash land, sales. The crime of infanticide has fearfully In creased in Washington city within the past four or five months. Infants have been found in sewers, vacant lots, dark corners &c., but it has apparently been impossible to detect the criminals. Some arrests however, were made on the 24th inst. St. Peter’s Catholic church, Capitol Hill, Washington, was robbed a short time since of a number of articles of furniture, among which were two candlesticks, two lace suplices, wine cruets, a silver pix and cibium. Late advises from Hong Kong say, the French cooiie'ship Hong Kong had been seized by the cooties on board ot her. When the vessel was recovered from them she was fonnd to be covered with blood and dead coolies. A collision had occurred on board a vessel in the Macao trade in which one hundred Ohinamen were killed. A large crane, used at Fortress Monroe for raising heavy weights, suddenly gave way a few days ago while a gang of laborers were endeavoring to ra'.Be a 300 pound Parrott gun, weighing thirteen and a half tons. No one hurt. A charming young lady accompanied Ste phens, the Fenian Chief, from Paris to New York. It is not stated what relation she hears to the great Head Centre. Anew mineral is reported to have been discovered in Chili, containing ten per cent of iodine. A cargo of it equals a fortune. A grandson of Cuvier has been appointed a sub-governor of the Bank of France, with a salary of 40,000 fr. per annum. A greater portion of the town of Pawpaw, Michigan, was burned on the 25th inst. A resolution has been offered in the Senate aud referred te the Committee on Post Beads, to repeal so much of the act to esrablish steam ship mail service between U "“** and China, as requires the vessels to touch Honolulu. was re ferred a bill to To the same committee w* o documents by the Overland Mail to the Wes tern Territories, and which requires theu pre payment. . *r • 0< 11. H. Empties his Haversack. In a latß number of “The Land we Love,” we find the following anecdotes : When Johnson’s army lay around Smithfield, N, C., ro flour could be obtained, -and meal only in such small quantities that two corn dodgers per man constituted the bread rations. Colonel R , who had gained such an#t^ia ble reputation as the commander o"f the-sharp ehooters of Sharps’s brigade, was a rigid disci plinarian, and determined to stop the practice, so common among the rebel soldiers, of yelling at citizens who passed by, especially if within the conscript age, and suspected of keeping out of the army for the same reason as Percy’s )°P~ a mortal antipathy to “vile guns” and “ villainous saltpetre.” One day a nice dapper young man, elegant ly mounted and handsomely dressed, with a bell-crowned hat, rode by the fun-loving regi ment, and was immediately greeted with the old cry, “Get out oi that hat ; we know you are thar ; see your toes working under it,” etc., etc.. Colonel II immediately dashed up, crying “Stop that hallowing ; it is coarse and ill-mannered ; no well-bred gentleman would be guilty of it!’’ “I don’t know Colo nel, ’ replied a Mississippi boy, with a merry twinkle in his eye, "how you expect men to be well-bread on two corn-dodgers a day.” The Colonel had no further remarks to make upon that interesting occasion. That accomplished scholar, gentleman and soldier, the lamented General Garland, of Virginia, related to the writer a conversation which he overheard between an Irish prisoner, taken at the second Manassas, aud a friend of his in the “ould country,” but then serving In the Southern army. The rich counties around the field of battle had been desolated by General Pope's order. Not a chicken could be heard to crows or pig to squeal for miles and miles. The seven or eight thousand United States prisoners were, therefore, of necessity badly fed, os shown by the following dialogue: _ Yankee Pat : “Dinnis, my boy, havo ye ribils no pity upon a poor fellow. I've had nothing to ate to-day, and the sun most gone down. Faith, and you’ll have a big score of sins to confess to the pralst for such trate ment.” i Rebel Dennis : “And is it for having noth ing to ate to-day you’re after giuiiibi’‘£’ Pat? In the Southern Confederacy wa ,ave one male a week, and three fights <• “ a Y- And how are we to lade so many uv-'®’ when your Gineral has disolated the lan* 5 ' 7,.°’ no > Pa t, we’jl not confess to the pre”’ we confess to Pope himself.’’ At the first battle mderedTo shaw’s South th ® waU and d had to An officer cross this route for tbem He rodo looli “ deliberate survey. th e?..r^ e enem y ceased. He laised his IDe aud rode off without fired at him. That officer was naviDj- j j£ erß }j aw himself. Was the ces u jh of the fire accidental, or was it a com fiment of the brave to the brave ? Who can ;ell ? But iu that conspicuous position he could not have remained alive a single instant had the firing continued. General Sherman cannot be charge 1 with the sin of loving the Southern people, and yet he has left this decided testimony, which we commend “ to all whom it may concern :” • “We should not drive a people into anarchy, and it is simply impossible for our military power to reach all the masses of this unhappy country.’’ Connected with the battle of Fredericksburg is an anecdote, which shows the difference be tween true unpretending courage nad_ the spurious article with its pompous assumptions. A general officer riding alone two days after the retreat of Burnside, slopped tp warm at a firo where a group of Cobb’s brigade, which had defended the stone wall, was lying down in all the listlessness of the abandon after a fight. The officer had ou a soldier’s overeoit, and was welcomed as tt'chvalrjman to the firev assault and terriele repulse, in his own simple style, ending his narrative with his ingenuous comments upon fighting in general. “I have hearn men say that they were spilin for a fight, but I never did spile for a fight. Stranger, I’ve been in every fight with'my rigi-raent, but I never did like fighting. But when we was killing them Yankees so purty behind that are wall, and they wasn’t hurting us, I was rale soriy to see ’em run. And I tell you, Mr. Stnart’s man, that was the only time I ever did like fighting.” Mr, Stuait’s man thanked him for his narrative, mounted and rode on, reflecting upon certain furious war speeches he had heard tiom men whose warlike exploits in the field had not yet become the theme of poetry and of song. The ordnance department at Richmond used to furnish, sometimes, shot and shell con structed on the boomerang principle, admir ably adapted to injure our own troops and to shoot round corners, but very harmless to masses of the enemy in front. Now, it happened on a certain occasion that General Early had received a lot of new projectiles and determined to test them. A battery was drawn out and a group of officers of superior rank to himsell, Generals Lee, Longstreet, etc., posted themselves at right angles to it to observe the firing. The first shot turned over gracefully on its side and went hissing and sputtering clos- to the mounted men of rank. Not liking so broad a compliment, they modestly retired a few paces. The second shot, more obsequious in its atten tions, gave a closer salutation. The captain of the battery now thougut it high time to interfere. ~ , Captain : “I think, General, that I had bet ter] discontinue the firing. The shells are utterly worthless.” General E. (eyeing the group of officers :) it looks like taere might be promotion in them ! You may continue the firing, Cap tain.’’ STONEWALL JACKSON. The admiration for Jackßon was by no means confined to his own section. The Federal prisoners always expressed a great desire to see him, and sometimes loudly cheered him. This was particularly the case at Hamer’s Ferrj, where the whole line of eleven thou sand prisoners greeted nim with lusty shouts. Citizens say that the hostile troops always spoke of him in terms of unqualified praise. A gentleman in the valley of Virginia relates that when Fremont and Shields thought that they had entrapped him beyond the pos sibility of escape, Siegel’s Dutch soldiers passed bis house singing “Shackson in a thug;” (jug) “Shackson in a shug;’’ and when they returned crest fallen from Port Republic, they answered his inquiry as to what they had done with Jackson, “Py tam, the shtopper some out of the shug, he gone, py tam; if the rebels don’t make him de President, Siegel's men make him.” While he was making his stealthy march around Pope’s rear, still as the breeze, but eventually dreadful as Ike storm, a Philadel phia paper remarked; “The prayerful partisan has not been beard from for a week, which bodes no good.” It sent Pope to fight Indians in the far, far Weston way from the pleasant haunts about Washington. “Where isiJackson? I asked an ’lrish pris oner, who was astonished beyond measure to find a rebel grasp upon his shoulder. Wtth the apt readiness of his people, be replied, “Faith, and that jiat the throuble all the time, sure.” Per contra, another countryman of the Emerald Isle, taken in McClellan s retreat from Richmond, who had been curiously ex amining the commissary stores, expressed the utmost contempt for Jackson, as he reeled along • “Ye’re laughing now, boys, ye 11 be after crying presently ; little Mao is as good a fighter as yer Stonemon Jockaon, and be domned tii him.” Trial of Sr. Davis. The Richmond Enquirer says that it is now said that the trial ol Mr. Davis will not take place until August or September next, in con sequence of the animosity preva ling here, against the packed jury that indicted him. The Attorney General la for waiting for this to subside. This, if true, sounds like a pretext, and a shallow one. Stock Sales. —At 1. S t K Bennett’s auction sales on yesterday, City Stock biought s7Bfa 79 : State Bonds brought s7l ; Northeastern Rail I(pad Bonds, S7B; City of Columbia Bonds, ssl ; Cheraw and. Darlington Rail Road Coupons,|sso. —Charleston Courier s 17th,