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0L1) 3 IRIES, VOL. LXXV." C Jjrouirlr leiiiinel HENRY MOORE, A. R. WR IGHT, Reon ra'Uon-Sr. Unrein and Br, John* son. The 'eaders r,f the Radical party are at war with the Ptc-idcnt on biu plau fora restoration of tin- Ur ion. They accnse him of having be trayed ibeit* atd charge upon him a cb . r of opinion upon tbu great questions grow n" out of the overthrow of the Confeder ate Oovernment. la a twi n* i , in; j>: th‘- paper we show ed that P endent Johnson occupies turn tbe (arr • position which he h»!d during tbe pro gr* ao'>b • war, oa these i+uia. We propose now to show that he ha?, in tbe conduct of the , ,Cnv. rotneijit i, ince tbe overthrow of i he Corded- ! fcra e B‘iw.v. followed the line of mark ed TiitKy’nfa' Repnbffr'n Party - iMwdf, aud j v, nc i w iliustrati aby tbe arltuini tr tion of Hr. 1 ticoin Prerident John-rm I, as been much a. i; ■ ; of I t<* for l.lr rriatdy recognition of tbe ii Ire of the St itet. His vetoes of the “Freed mau’h Ru.ei.u Bill” and the ‘‘Civil Rights Bill’’ have beta denouncer in unmeasured terms, be cin of his unan-werable arguments again** the imconstitoliocaiity of tboseactsia breaking down the reserved rights of tbe States. Al though we have known Me, Johnson to have liejn' i iife ;oog State Rights Democrat, we have never seen anything from fcis pen which w<o In i her on that s i j ct than the following resolution, which formed a part of tbe ‘‘Chica go Piatform” upon which Mr. Lincoln was elected to the Presidency : ll> ■ o-V </, That tin maintenance inviolate of the iig ii of th fitatcs, and especially the right of ttiic-i State, to order ad control its own do in-si.e iueitutio is, according to its own j’ldg iri»at,exciu3iv«ly, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endu re' cr ofc 1 political fabric depend; and we <l> n mce t e lawless invasion, by armed force, of di • i of a y State or territory, no matter ui.<it r a at ju. uxt, us among the gravest of crimes. The ve-.y men who advocated and voted for tbe “Frecdmen’s Bureau Bill,” and the “Civil .light, Bill,” declared in their party platform •‘that Uih maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend,” and President Johnson is denounced by them for sustaining and defend ug tbe very doctrine upon which the Republican parly obtained the control of the liovr r irnent. Another c! .rgo which is frequently brought againot tb; i’/esident is, that while he was Piov - ioual C iverbot of tbe State ol Tennesseo, ho issued u proclamation directing an eloction to be held for county t fficera, iu which he pre scribed an oath to be administered to voters requiring them to i wear that “they had never nided ti; i r .oellion, cither directly or indirect ly,” and But his p.osent position is ouo of an tagonism to that which ho thou occupied. This is shaitu in ‘y ami utterly untrue. That oath was not retroactive in its operation—-it only required of the party taking it that he would, alter that, time, “heartily aid and assist the loyal people iu whatever measures may be necessary lor the defeat aud overthrow of tbe airnies aud navies of the so-called Coufederato Slates. ’ We give the oath iu full as we flu dit in one of our i x lunges. the date being that ot September iithh, 1»64 : “lßOtmn v swear that I will henceforth support 'll Uu siiiutioa ot the United Suites ii|i,i (I,'toiKt it ngaiust the assaults ot all eno ni'et; tun' I mu an active iriond ol the Govern hi nt o; the Uui'eil States, uml uu enemy of the m » c tiled Uoutederuta States; that 1 ardent* ly , ishe iho HU|ppriSßu.n ot the present lebel liou against iho Government of the United Statu.-; that 1 Din Cute y rejoice la the triumph ot Uu armies aud navies of the United B'aks, nud lu th, dele a and overthrow of the armies, navies, ill I of nil armed combinations in the iutiic-i of the so-called Conlederate States; that i will coidial y oppose nil nrmisticts aud liegoln.ious ior peace with rebels in aims uuul the Communion of the Uaiietl Stales, ami nd oiw null i :0f 1 tuitions made in pursuance th. ie, ! shall hu e.slaOliehed over all the poopie ot every Mate and Territory out braced wiibm the Nat, ui Union; and tout I will he.utiiy aid and assist tae loyal people iu wnalevei inewßUu s in ‘y hr adopted lor the attainment ol ibesi. eudt ; urther, that 1 take this oath fri.iy uud vo uniaiiiy, and w.tnotu mental resitVaUuu. So h'’'p uie Uod.’’ W.i defy the moot ingenious Radical to find any thing in this oath like the luloloient provis ions of the'r own '“iron-clad test oath.’’ No one is uquired to swear that they had never given aid to iho OonlVderate States—to swear that they never sympathized with those who were waging war against the United States Government. Th y were simply required to sweir that they would, in future, neither aid or i assist the enemies of the United States. A guaranty for their future conduct, and not a punishment lor the past, was whit Mr. John son's oath required. Every mao, worn maud chi.d in the South could to-day ccuscient oueiy Bubscrihr to the oath r qmred ot the Tennessee voters so tar as applicable to the chauged elate ol flairs, but not one in ten thousand can, without penj uing their souls, take the Radical test o»'h. Pres ilent Johnson insists that the Uaion and tbo States was not destroyed by the ute civil war. The Radicals couteud that it was. Let us now t x ’mine with a little care the po sition of Mr. Lincoln in this subject, In his massage to Congress July 4th, 1 SGI, be says : “L-rst there bo some uneasiness iu the miads of the cam'd men as to what is to be the course of the Government toward the Southern Stati? after the rebellion shall have beeu sup pressed, the Kx dive deems it proper to say it will be hir purpose than, as ever, to be guided by the 0 u-titution and the laws, and mat he prof b v v ..l have uo different under standing , . 'ho ; w. is aud duties of the Feda- I ra! Govt .moat relatively to the rights of the Stales o.'ifl ii people under the Constitution thin that expressed in the inaugural addrtes. H,- desires to preserve the Government, that it may be administered for all as it was adminis tered bv the men wbo m.ideit. Loyal cit'i ut evetywliora a right to claim tnis ot then G'-vorum nt, aud the Goverum-nt bas no right to withhold or neglect it. It is not perceived that in giving it there is any coercion, conquest or subjugation in any sense of these terms. In his annual message to Congress, Decem ber. 1861, in considering the object of the war, he says : “In considering the policy to be adopted lor suppressing the insurrection, 1 have been anxious aud carelul that the inevitable conflict for this pur one shall not degenerate into a v.oleut aud remorseless revolutionary struggle. 1 hav., :lviv ore, in every case thought it proper to k ij> the i> tegrUy of the Union pn mi neid as th* ;r ~ ty *l>j el or Ike cental on lie port. le.iv ug ail questions wtiica ale nol of vital mi listy importance to the more deliber ate action ot the Legislature.” ° ® Alter th - terrible battle of Sharpshurg, in the Fail ci 1802, he issued a proclamat.on in which he said : “fcUro'fiT, as hert-tofpre, the wirwillbe prosecu'-eJ i r the object of practically tester' inc the co .s’.iiutii u«t relation between the Uuited Mai-vi .ml ibe people thersof iu llrwe fcitates in wi-icn that relation is, or may be, su-pended or disturo, d.” Thvre is uo intimation here that the ‘-Union” of tha States bad been, by the progress of tte war, destroyed. On the contrary, he speaks alone of restoring the constitutional relations ■ between tbe States-just what President John j son has been endeavoring to do ever since the 1 termination of tbe war, and just what he would long before this have accomplished but for tbe j opposition of tbe Radical Congress, , in bis annual message to Congress, Decem ber, 1812, wefiod the following words, spoken, j it must be said, almost in prophecy : “Tbe fiery trial tnrojgh which we pass will : light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say wo are for tbe I Union. Tne world will not torget that we say tuis ” Yes, the whole Radical crew then said they i were for the Union. Their whole cry w,.s to p eoeve the Union. They enlisted men to preserve the Union. They taxed tho people to p'* eive ihe Union. They equipped armies, at mi st enormous expenses, to the Union, fhey burned our towns, destroyed our faims, and blockaded our ports, to preserve the Union! iir. Lfficolu, ItJUfiftSt as early as 1802. had j seme doubts as to the honesty of 'tTfefrTottd’ l | professions of anxiety to save the Union, and | hence he tells them that what they then say will be remembered against them. As late as December, 1864, Mr. Lincoln is sued a prcc'amation, which we believe was tbe ti r st < (tidal declaration of any plan for a res toration ot the Union, in which he invite- the people of these insurgent Stabs to organzs Slate Governments which he says “sbail be recognized as the true Government of such State. Here it is : “And Ido further proclaim, declare, and make known that whenever, in any of the Slates, Aikansaa, Texas, Louisiana, Mississip pi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina, a numi er of persons not less than one-tenth in number cf the votes cast in such States at ti e Piesi< deritial election of the year ot our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each having taken the oath aforesaid, (amnesty oath,) and not having since violated it, and being a quali fied voter by the election law of the State ex“ istlng immediately before the so-called act of sfciision, and excluding all others, shall re establish a State government, which shall bo republican, and iu no wise contravening said oath, such shall be recognized*s tho true gov ernment of the State, and the State shall re ceive, thereunder the benefits of the constitu tional provision which declares that “ther United States shall guarantee to every State iu this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion and, on application of tbe Legislature or tbe Executive, when tbe Legislature cannot bo convened, against domestic violence.” In a letter to a prominent citizen of New Orleans, dated July 23J, 1862, he urged the people ot Louisiana to “set up a State Govern ment, conforming to the National authority undtr the Constitution,” and toils them that ; “The the army will be withdrawn so soon as such government can dispense with its pres ence, and the people of the State can thou, upon Ibe old terms, govern themselves to their own liking. This is very simple and easy.” Here is a distinct proposition made to the people of the State of Louisiana, that they organize a State Government, govern them selves upon the old teims, to their own liking.. As soon as such Government should be organ ized he was pledged that they should bo recog nized as a part ot the Government of tbe United States, and should receive tho benefits and share the burdens of the Federal Govern meat. Oa the 11th of April, 1865, but three days belore his death, he said, in a public address delivered at Washington : “We all agree that the seceded States, so ctlied, are out of their proper practical relation with tbe Union, and that ihe sole oljrct ot the Government, civil and military, in regard to those Slates, is to again get them into their proper pract cal relation. I believe that it is not ot’iy possible, bur, iu fact, easier, to do this without deciding o even considering whether those States have ever been our of the Uuion, thuu With it Finding themselves safely at heme, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had been abroad. Let us all j>m in doing the acts mce.sa.ry to restore the pro per practical relations between these States and the. Uuion, and each forever after innocently indulge bis own opinion whether, in doing the act , he brought tbe S ates from without tbe Uniou, or only gave them proper assistance, tbey never havn g been cut of it.. 'J his then, is the chart which he laid down ftr the guidance and direciicnoi Presideht Johnson iu his tIT irts to restore the Uuion. We believe that in ail his official acts the President has faithfully carried out the views of his preden cessor in relation to ths re-organiza'ion of tbe steaded Stabs, and their re'atioas to the Fed eral Government. He is now abused and most virulently denounced by h s Jate supporters because he has tbe manliness and courage to insist upon the recognition of those views and the adoption ot that line of poiicv which carried his party into power, and for the maintenance of which they are sacredly pledged to the whole people ol the United States. The people of the South are willing to ae cept, and will accept in good faith the Presi dent's plan of reconstruction. They cannot, without a surrender of everything manly and l onorble, submit to the terms proposed by the Radical Congress. One policy leads at once to union, harmony, good feeling, and confidence in tne Government. The other keeps open the bleeding wounds inflicted by the war, and causes gloom, desperation and dispair to over hacg and blacken the future of this once hap py and prosperous country. V.hat It Costs to tiovern tngland Her Ar my and Savy. , The civil service, army, and Navy estimates for the coming year, now before the British Parliament, amount to £32,482,153, or $162,- 415,765; divided as follows; Civil service £8.000,000; army, £14,095.000 ; navy. £10,388,- 153. Some of the items of these accounts, are interesting. The palaces cost £49,000, and £90,000 more go for the adornment of the royal paiks. Fifty thousand pounds are set apart for the erectiou of a building to contain the natural historical collections of the British museum, and a simi lar amount for the purchase of a site for the j enlargement of the National Gallery. The i "Foor Law Commissioners” of England \ Ireland and Scotland, entail an expense of | £242.000 ; and the “Secret Service” demands i £32,000. Printing and stationary cost £357,- | 000, and the postage of letters on the public | service in the department is £138,000. Edu - j cation costs £1,300,000, and the number of scholars is estimated at a million. The Colon | ial rulers receive £IOO,OOO, aud nearly £50.- i 000 go for the support and conveyance of cap tured negroes and liberated Africins, and the glares of the Mixed Commission established under treaties with foreign powers for suppress ; ing the traffic in slaves, besides the expense incurred in maintaming ships for this purpose The army consists of 135.117 menot all racks, divided as follows ; Regiments, 128,212 ; | depots in the United Kingdom of regiments in i India, 8 982; general staff 93 ; establishments. I j4B ; educational establishments, 281. Os the | total, 7 150 are olfi'ers ; 13,454 non commis stoned officers, and 117 000.513 rank and fie. j jtm militiry service in Canada costs £608,000; ! in NoviaScotia £193 000. 1 The navy comprises 765 vessels of all classes : of which only 193 are in commission, carrying 3 936 guns. Sixteen ships carry from 70 to 104 guns in each ; and the it on clad fleet cumbers eleven vetstis, carrying 216 guns Twenty„eigbt war vessels are building ; one of wh ; cb is ao iron-clad. Both the aggregate of naval vessels aud of commissioned ships is less i than tho a e of last year. The British navy costs more than the Ameri i can, according to tbe respective estimates for the years 1866-7. The former is kept up at a j cost of $50,000 000 ; the latter for $43,000 000 I The cost of the British navy is double that of | our present establishment, the figures beiD s as : 'ol'ows : Bii'ish $70,000,000 ; American $39, j 000,000. Pftutlcnt Johnson and the t aunts Flap far Kecomrut bn. Effnts are being made by a portion of tbe Radical press, to impress upon the people of the North the belief that the President ap - proves the piaa of the Senate “caucus” for a restoration of the Southern States into the - Uiuwu.. President with tbe masses, and perceivTng the' strong support and attachment of the people which he is every day receiving, they now claim that he is iu accord with them on tbe great questiou of reconstruction. This shame less dupiiciiy of the Radical press does not surprise ua. We know that there is nothing too low or too mean for them to seize upon, in tbe prosecution of their objects. Their hatred of the South is so intense, and their love of power so strong, that no reasons of honesty or justice wifi prevent them from resorting to any artifice whereby they may be able to gratify tbe one or retain the other. But what must be the feeling of the great mass of tha Northern people towards these men, when they discover the trick which these graceless journalists are attempting to palm upon them ? Tho President stands to day where he did hroughout the entire period of the late disas trous war. He occupies now the position which he held in common toilh ilr Lincoln in 1801— that a State could not voluntarily withdraw itself from the Federal Union. He has ever held that the ordinances of secession passed by the Southern States were utterly void, and has required the seceding. States, through their conventions to so declare. In this he has but carried out the view and policy of Mr. Lincoln. Mr>. Seward in his late speech at Auburn, N. Y., declared that President John on’s plan of res toration was nsi anew one; that he was but enforcing the poncy agreed upon and adopted by Mr, Lincoln's administration, early in the progress ol tho revolution. It is known that Mr. Lincoln held that the Southern States were never out of the Union. If not how can they be readmitted ? This is the point upon which the majority in Congress and the President differ. The Rump Congress in sists that the Southern States succeeded in destroying the Union. President John son, following Mr. Lincoln, denies that the Union was by tbe action of the insurgent States, but that by force of arms the power ol the Federal Govern ment over the seceded States, was merely sus perukd. Upon the surrender of the armed fotces ot the insurgents, the laws of the United States at once became supreme throughout the insur gent territory ; all armed hostility to the Gov ernment having ceased, the people of the .'outh became at once and without further legislation, subject to the laws and govern ment of the Federal Union President John son denies that any legislation, either by amendments or the organic law, or of ‘the statutes now in force, is necessary for the perfect restoration of the seceded States to their aucient relations to the Government. The President says the southern States are in the Union. The “Rump” says they are out of the Uuion. Here is no agreement, but adi vergence of opinion as wide as the Po es. Upon this question the issue was made with tbe Pres ident, and upon it both parties will go to the people in the approaching fall electious. We have an abiding faith in the good sense of the masses, and look hopefully lor the results. The National Intelligencer in a scathing re view of one ol Forney’s late let ters to the Presq presents th; issues now divid ing the President Rump Congress, so graphically aud terse y, that we give them somewhat in lull os follows : “Now, wuat is the record of the President a? procla m dto the country ? As early as t,be 25th ot January last, in a conversation with senator Dixon, of lionneciicut, Andrew Jjhn son declared that he had strong doubts as to the piopiiety of iurther amen Amenta to the Constitution at this time, suggesting, however, that if any changes were to ba made, they should be embraced iu a bimpie proposition, making iu each State the number of qualified voters the basis of repr-sentation, and the value of property the basis of direct taxation. Even th.-se modifications he and and not deem at ail ne ces6ary at the presen' t’me. At the Cabinet meeting heid on the ti et day of May, according to the pub.isbed accounts, the accuracy of which has never been called in question, “the President was earnest in his opposition io the report of the Committee on Reconstruction, aud declared himselt against ail conditions precedent to the admission of Ic-yal represent atives from the Southern States, in the shape of amendments to the Constitution or the pas sage ol laws. He Insisted that under the Con- Biiiuiion no State could be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate, and that loytl beuators and Representatives ought to be at once admitted in the respective Houses, as pre.-cribed by law and the Constitution. He was for a rigid adherence to the Constitution as it is, and remarked, that having sustained ourselves under it during a terrible rebellion, he thought that the Government could be re • stored wi’hout a resort to amendments He remarked in general terms, that if the organic law is to be changed at all, it should be at a time when all the States aud all the people can participate in the alteration.” Andtew Johnson thus stands before the coun try as opposed to all constitutional amendments at” the present time, and to ail conditions pre cedent to the admission of loyal representa tives from the Southern States. He is there fore necessarily.ccmmitted against the so called Congressional plan, involving, as it does, changes in ths organic law of the land and ser ve conditions which must be accepted by the 8 uthem States before they can have a voice in the deliberations of the National Congress Instead of having exhibited an “appearance of friendship to the plan of Congress,” we ihink it may be eafelv assumed that the Presi dent still abides by the great principles enun ciated in his annual message to Congress the following extra*s from which lucidly explain the position he then held, and to which he, doubtless, now firmly aflaeres : But if any State neglects or refuses to',per form its officers, there is the more need that the General Government should maintain all its authority, and, as soon a.- practicable, resume the exercise of ail its functions. On this prin ciple I have acted, and have gradually and ; qpietly, and by almost imperceptible steps, ! sought to restore the rightml energy of the J General Government and of the States. To : taat end, Provisional Governors have been ap pointed lor the States, conventions called. Gov mors e’ected. Legislatures assembled, and Senators and Rep esentatives chosen to the 1 Congress of the United States, At the same i time, the courts of tbe United States, as far as ecu and be done, have been reopened, so-that the :aws of the United States may be enforced i through their agency. Tbe blockade has been ! removed and tbe custom houses re-estatdished AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1866. in ports es entry, so that the revenue of tbe United States may be collected. The Post. Of fice Department renews its ceaseless activity, aud tbe Gtneiai Government is thtreby ena bled to communicate prrmptly with its offietrs and agents. The courts bring security to per sons and property: the opening of the ports invites the restoration of industry and com merce; the post office renews the facifities of social intercourse and of business. And is it not happy for us all, that the restoration of each one of these functions of the General Government brings with it a blessing to the States over which they are extended ? Is it not a sure promise of harmony and renewed at tachment to the Union that, after all that has happened, tne return of tbe General Govern ment 13 known on ! y as a beneficence ? I know very well that this policy is attended »itb some risk ; that fonits succe-s it r quires at least the acquiescence of the States whicb it c ncetns ; that it implies an invitation to these •Rates, by renewing the : r allegiance to the United state’, to'resume their functions as States of tbe Union. But it is a risk that must tie taken ; in tbe choice of difficulties, it is the smallest risk; and to diminish, and, if possible to remove danger. I have felt it incumbent on me to assert one other power of the Gen eral Government —the power Os pardon. As qo State c-’.n throw a defence over tbe crime of treason, the power ot pwwkm vested in the Executive Government oftne United States in exercising that power, l have taken every precaution to connect it with tb« clearest recognition of the binding force of the laws of the United Ctates, and an unqualified acknowledgment of the great social change of condition in regard to slavery which has grown out of the war. “The next rtep whi; h I have taken to restore the constitutional relations of the State his been an invitation to them to pa’t'.cipate in the high office of amending the Constitution. Every patriot must wL-ti for a general amnesty at the earliest epoch consistent with public safety. For this great end there is need of a concurrence cf all opinions, and the spirit ot mutual conciliation. Ail parties in the late terrible conil ct must work together in harmo ny. It is not too much to ask, in the name of (he whole people, that, on the one side, the plan of restoiation shall proceed in conformity with a wiiiingnesß to cast the disorders of the past into oblivion; and (hat, on the other, the evidence cf sincerity iu the future maintenance of the Union shall be put beyond any doubtby the ratification of the proposed amendment to the Constitution, which provides for tne aboli tion of slavery forever within the limits.of our country. So long as the adoption of this amendment is deiaved, so long will doubt, and jealousy, and uncertainty prevail. This is the measure which will effice the std memory of the past; this is the measure which will mott cerlainiy call population, and capital, and security to those parts of tbe Union that need them most. Indeed, it is not too much to ask of the States which are now resuming then places in the faroiiv of the Union to give this pledge of perpetual loyalty and peace. Until it is done, the past, however much we may desire it, will not be forgotten. The adoption of the amendment reunites us beyond all power of diarupfioD. It heals tha wound that is still imperfectly closed; it removes slavery, tha e'emeut which has so long perplexed and divided the country; it makes of us once more a united people, renewed and strengthened, bound more than ever to mutual affection and suDport. The amendment to the Constitution being adopted, it would remain for the States, whose powers have been so tong in abeyance, to re sume their places in the two branches of the National Legislature, aDd thereby complete the work of restoration. Here it is for you, fellow-citiz-ns of the Senate, and for you, fel low cit zms of the House of Representatives, to judge, each of you for yourselves, of the elections, returns, aud qualifications of your own members. We have, in tho above extracts, a brief reca pitulation of the steps taken by the President ■ o effect a restoration of the rebellious States. Have tbe majority in Congress yet proposed to un lo any of the measures thus instituted by the Executive ? Have they ventured to de clare nu I and void the election of Governors, and of members of Congress, and the proceed ings of State Conventions and Legislatures which aided ia- the ratification of the great amendment abolishing slavery, which repu diated the rebel debt and revoked the ordi nances of secession ? Have they attempted to arrest the operations of the courts, to re estah lisb the blockade, to ciose the customhouses, and to suspend all mail communication? In the case of Texas for instance, yet in a state ot transition from anarchy to law and order, havu they made an ffftrt‘o interfere with the measures of tho President to restore that State to aii its relations with the Federal Gov ernme it ? Coagtess has, in fact, acqiesced in everything that lias been done, notwithstan ding they have charged usurpation upon the Executive, and threatened impeachment time and again. Such being the case, may they not reasonably be asked to complete their por tion of tho wmk by consenting that “tbe plan of restoiation shall proceed in conformity with a wtilingntßS to cast the disorders of the past into oblivion,” and that loyal Senators and loyal Representatives, sent to the nation’s Cap itol by States and by people who in good fail h, desire to renew thetr allegiance to the United States, shall be allowed to participate in the work of legislation ? Finding the Piesident firm and determined at all hazirdsto maintain inviolate his oath to support the Constitution oi tha country, it is -uggested by “Occasional” that “Congress must, as it can, do the good' work without him. The key to these enigmatical words may perhaps be found by reference to the proceed ings of Congress under ‘he guidance of their “reconstruction committee.” It will be recol lected that it was by a “concurrent resolution” that it wat declared by both Houses, that “no Senator or R ipr-Renta'ive stall be admitted into either branch of Congress from any of the eleven States which hajre been declared to be in rebellion, until Congresi shall have declared such State entitled to representation ” An expedient by which to avoid a veto having thus beeu discovered, it would now seem from the words of “Occasional” that tesort is to be had to “coieurrent resolutions.” Fearing a veto, and failure to obtain a two-third vote, the Constitution is to be evaded in order that Ihe Executive perogative of the veto, so es sential to the interests of liberty, may be ren dered a nullity and party interests subserved “Teunessee admitted, and then Arkansas,” says Occasional., “even Andrew Johnson will find it impossible to find a pretext for faction. The door being opened for these two, the nine others will speediiy foliow.” This is a con summation most devoutly to be wished; and as it is one for which the President has earnestly labored, we hope the good work will be achieved. Let the idea ot conditions prece dent be abandoned. Guaranties are generally demanded by the weaker from the stronger party. To demand that the weaker shall give guaranties to the stronger side is an anomaly that should expose the fallacious reasoning that urges a policy so unwise." Ifesirabtesi We have received from the publishers, Messrs Thurston & Cos , 630 and 632 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, several very exquisite publica tions, or whatever else one may please to term them They are in the shape of cards, upon which are illustrated our Lord’s Parables, and the ten commandments, designed for the in struction of the young. There are two illus trated shields, Marriage and Sabbath School certificates, all of which are executed in the most approved style. The colored cards are worth 35c per set—the plain, 25c. The mar riage certificate is a something all married folks should have. The one before Us presents au aDgel standing with uplifted imme diately above a scroll, wherein are to be inscri bed the names of the husband and wife. Just above the scroll are places for the photographs of the eonp ! e, and at tbe foot of the card is the certificate of the officiating Pastor. Theee are worth 50 cents. Send your orders to the firm mentioned by us in the oat set. You will be pleased. During the month oi May there were shipped from New Yore to the lately rebellious States 20.496 pounds of trunpowder, 54,539 pounds of ! sbot, 212 000 percussion caps, 156 721 ball cartridges, and 1.165 gun; and pistols. A WEEK FRO a ROBE. The tJni'cd St-.tea Cos irt—Jufge bu«tteat—4. Mockery of Jostle —’tale Stay law—Crops—An Ort gsnarian—A Ter rible fctoim. Ox thb Wing, June 9. In a former letter I alluded to the United States Court in session at Montgomery, wdh Judga Bustbed on the bench. After spend ing an hour or two in that remarkable tribu nal, I was satisfied that I nysspelled the Judge’s name, and that it should have been Busthead. A more supercifiicut, coarse and undignified judicial officer cannot be found outside the Tombs’ Courts of New York. Betwten badgering witnesses and indulg ing curt, and insulting flings it the bar— at which he grins now and anon a ghastly smile—be manage? to make everybody feel uncomfortable. If an agent to make the authority of the Government odious had been sought, I do not suppose one could have been found better qualified to effect that object. I beg to apologise to the New York bar for hav iug stated, as informed.by a legal friend, that the Attornoy General is from that State. He i3 from near Dublin, in Ireland, and was living Trf war came on, wherahe had been a very good shoemaker. Leaving his country for his country’s good, he went North ward, and now comes back a very poor lawyer. He has, as I state! in my last, libelled about nine hundred casus, for treason ; most of whom have been pardoned, the conditions of which are, the payment of all cost3 incident to any pro ceedings enterfd against them. In this way the officers of Court aie filching from the peo ple of Alabama thousands of dollars. I be lieve the ususi bill of coat.? is S2OO. Avery unfortuuate vay to promote a spirit of recon ciliatioa, srd convert the miserable secesh sinners. A snore hateful mockery of justice never convened in tbe name of law than the tribunal which degrades the ermine of the United Stales Judiciary in the State of Ala bama.’ Your readers have been advised of the de cision of the Supreme Court of Alabama, on the stay law. It is declared to be constitutional so far a3 it allows tha stay cf obtaining judg ments, but unconstitutional so far as it inter feres with the execution of judgments ob tained. The bar here comprises an array of legal talent rarely to be found within the limits of one judic’al district. Among these, Judge Rice, Watts, Chilton, Clopton, Clanton, are conspicuous, and have a reputation wider than the limits of their State. Montgomery is a beautiful city, and though sharing the prevalent infection of dull tlm93, appears to be ready to enter this fall upon a career of solid prosperity. It is surround ed by a fine country, and settled by a pop ulation exhibiting as much ct culture, re finement and real worth as can be found in any community in America. Its capital is an imposing structure—its stores, thea tre, bank and hotel buildings are handsome specimens of arctiitecture ; while it 6 swell ing hills' are adorned with neat villas and elegant mansion!-, nestling amid trellised Vines and noble shades, in full view of the river, which sweeps in graceful curves through the valley to the gulf. Montgomery is admirably located for busi ness . It is in a favorite line of travel to the Wesr. If its railroad connections are speedily completed, they will make it the junction of a grand central thoroughfare from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and Lorn the Gulf to the Ohio, but if the3e are delayed, Selma and possi bly Opelika wiii divide with it the honors and profits of centrality. The Press of Montgomery consists of the Mail, and Advertiser establishments, both con ducted by expert journalists, to whom I am indebted for valued courtesies. The Advertiser is inaugurating a reform in its typographic department quite novel for this section—having’ some eight or ten young ladies employed setting type. They learn very rapidly, and evince great taste for the “art preservative.” Type-setting is better suited to the capacity and condition of woman, than almost any other pursuit outside her higher home sphere. She may pursue it with out contact with the demoralizing influences which meet her in stores and shops, and with less injury to health than results from needle work. There are hundreds of young ladies, orphaned or impoverished by the war, who desiro some employment which will place them above dependence. We commend them to the considerate notice of Publishers. There is room in the fields,' and stores, and shops for tne boys—let the Printer’s “Devil” give place to the Printer’s A.\o el, selected from the pure, intelligent and refined orphan girls of the land. One of the young ladies in the Adver tiser office had 300 bales ct cotton burned in Montgomery during the Wi'sonraid. Instead of repining in idleness over her misfortunes, she goes nobiy to work at a* business suited to her intellectual tastes. We commend her heroic self-reliance to the impoverished ol both sexes. I telegraphed you of the disastrous floods which have just swept over this section.— The Alabama river and its tributaries have been about up to the highest high water mark, and immense districts ate submerged. These lands, chiefly planted in cotton, will have to be abandoned, or planted in corn, for which the grass leaves planters little time. I was surprised to find crops in Middle and Western Georgia so good, after the gloomy reports wo have heard. lam equally surprised to find between West Point and Montgomery, so bad. Cotton Is so email and grass eo largo that it is hard to tell what it planted, and corn looks sickly from excess of rain. The etands of cotton are fair, and rather better than on the red lands of Georgia ; ow ing in part, no doubt, to the fact that fresh seed was more abundant here; and if it be possible to kill tho grass, there may yet be considerable cotton mad?. Many talk of abandoning one-half to save the other, and iu many instances it will have to be done But it is too early to make definite estimates about the yield of cotton or corn. The freed men are woiking very well, and with good weather two weeks will change the whole scene. It is gloomy now, beyond precedent in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. I allude especially to the counties of Chambers Macon and Tallapoosa, bat the remark applies with more or less force to nearly ail the country between here and Augusta. I have visited the charming town of Au burn, and spent a day with an intelligent planter in the' vicinity. I met here a number of the best farmers in thic, the best cotton growing cQuntv in the State, Grass—grass— grass—and rain—rain —rain- are the burden of every tongue. It has rained now five days in succession, and— though the sun is oat glo riously to-d-y—bets are freely taken, of a ju lep “the first time ws meet rn Montgomery,” that it wil! rain before night. A terrible storm passed over the lower edge of this county on Monday. It tore np thou sands of trees, blew down all the fences, and many houses in its path, killing a great deal ot stock, and cempletcly devastating a belt two miles in width and several miles in length. L is stated that several persons were killed, but I have not the particulars. A similar storm passed over Auburn a year cf two ago, blow ing down about lorly houses, sweeping timber through the air, tearing cotton bales to pieces and scattericgjtbem on the trees for miles. Ihe path of the late storm was from Southwest to Northeast, and your weather-wise readers are welcome to elucidate the partiality cf these tornadoes for this salubrious regiou. I learn that this storm extended into Georgia, killing several persons in Spaulding county, blowing off the piazza from one of the Hotels at Indian Springs, and playing havoc with crops, stocks, &c. I met at the pleasant and hospitable home ofE T. Glenn, Erq , near Auburn, Rev. J. Glenn, a venerab e Ocfigenaiian, who told me that fifty years ago he was pastor of the only Methodist Church in Augusta. He inquired kindly after many of our old citizens, but Rev. J ohn Mann and John Phinizy are the last of his cotemporaries left, of whom I have any JKte* oui wauretaiuj hi* faculrica in a surprising degree—rea'd a testament last night at prayers, and is about to drive to town in hia buggy. How these rever ed old men and women of the last century call up memories of the past aud stamp them with wiedom. This (Macon) county formerly produced about 30,000 bales of cotton. It is believed that scaicely one fourth of that amount, will be raised this year. It is settled chiefly by some of the sterling old farmers of Middle Georgia, and a more intelligent and orderly population cannot be found. 'One of the officers appointed to administer the oath of year, out ol 187 per sons who took the o*, at one district, found only one who could not write his name. This officer declared that no like instance could be found among a rural population, not even in New England, the boasted land of free schools. Dining with Frank M. Reese, Esq , at Au burn—a genial sou of the venerable Dr. Reese; of Jasper, and Tax Collector for this District— we were treated to the best julep and best ci gar ol the season—(“Frank,”—as he is famil iarly called by ail—can tell a good thing when sees it) —and a most appetising dinner, largely compounded fiorn his splendid garden. We then took a freight train for Opelika, connect ing thence with the passenger train from At lanta to Columbus, where you may hear again from Abistides. Columbus—lts Losses and ito Enter, rise—Preparing to Ke bui'd—Railroid Connections— Crops—Macon— Atlanta Home Again. Homeward Bound, June 10. Few cities suffered more from the war than Columbus. The manufacturing establish ments, most of the warehouses, the depots and bridges were destroyed, with about 75,000 bales of cotton. Mott s fine Palace Flou ting Mill, and the Empire Flouring Mill, alone mark the vicinity which was vocal with the busy hum of the various cotton and woollen Mills when I last visited the city. The Eagle Mills are beiDg rebuilt under the name of the Eagle and Phoenix, of which Company Dr. N. J. Bussey is President and principal stock holder. J. J. Grant, Esq., is rebuilding the Carter Factory. Arrangements are being made to reconstruct the Columbus Factory by Messrs. Clapp and Metcalf. Messrs. Porter aud Hill are about to rebuild the Columbus Iron Works. HMkvs. Mcllheney, Brown & Cos. will speedily have the Columbus Foundry in full blast; and the old Variety Works are to be rebuilt by Messrs. Clapp & Cos. Keith & Co.’s Machine Shop is nearly completed. Messrs. Barringer & Mor ton are rebuilding the Sash and Blind Fac tory, Thus, in the midst of a depression well calculated to repress and discourage all enter - prise, tha thoroughgoing business men of Columbus have gone vigorously to work, to make the elements tributary to the work of rebuilding the fortunes laid waste by the red hand of war. Messrs. Warnonk & Saulsbury, and Fontaine & Hughes, are ere'cting very large Cotton Ware houses ; and J. J. Grant, Esq , the enterprizing owner of the Cotton Factory, is rebuilding the warehouse formerly owned bv Messrs. Geeno wood & Gray. Messrs. Bedell,Greenwood & Cos. are organizing a Company to build a Steam Cotton Mill. I have this from a citizen who is posted, though it seems singular to resort to steam as a motor when water power is at hand. The c’ay beds which surround the ‘city are assuming the appearance of villages of brick kilns, and in a few moulh3 Columbus will re sume its old place as the moat thrifty manufac turing city iu this portion of the South. A number of Northern capitalists have been taking observations here with a view to the projection of other works. The water power is ample, and all the conditions auspicious of a grand future for the city. The only evidence of fogyism about the place is the want of a Railroad Bridge acros3 the river, on account of which passengers from Alabama are subjected to an omnibus ride of two miies. I believe the depots are being slowly rebuilt. The cars on the road to Macon are not quite up to the connecting lines, some of them, as well as the fare, being on a war footing—the charge being 7J cents a mile. — But our railroads bore so heavily of the losses incident to the war, that they are entitled to great praise for having done so much in the work of reparation. They cannot make bricks without straw, and I am sure the amount of business just now does not justify very heavy expenditure for improvements. You have already noted the fact that the guage of the roads from Columbus and West Point to Mont gomery is being widened to correspond with connecting lines. I believe it is in contemplation to arrange a through schedule by which freight may bo taken from Montgomery to Savannah without breaking bulk. Doubtless our Augusta and Cuarleston lines will be ready to offer equal facilities. It is evident lhat no real advantage results from levying contributions on freight and travel at the end of every railroad line.— Columbu3 with her narrow guage policy, and splendid manufacturing facilities, has scarcely kept pace with Macon, where through connections and a common passenger depot, put all travellers in i rood, humor with the placet and West Point has failed to realize the expectation of its founders, from the c.cg put upon commerce by the narrow guage which forces travellers to spend a few dimes and many maledictions by the delay. * Currents of trade obstructed in this way, like currents of streams impeded by artificial ob stacles, either seek other outlets or break over the barriers only to rush by with a more swift and certain momentum. Crops in this vicinity are extremely back i ward, and the river and creek lands have been submerged by the late freshet. Gras3 is ram pant, and planters much inclined to talk of ruin. The wheat crop in this section is light, NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV NO. 26. and Col. Mott told me that he should not at tempt to run the Palace Mill except lor cus" tomers. The area of cotton planted is usually estimated at about two-thirds the crop before the war, and few expect to make over half a crop on the amount planted. This will make the yield ono-tbird tbe old crop, and the esti mate now appears reasonable. Parties from the lower counties give rather more cheering accounts of the crop. The area of cotton planted is about as large as ever, and though the crop is late and very grassy, labor ers are improving the clear weather with a good will and a half crop is regarded probable. ' lam carefully noting the results of free la bor, and at the risk of being summoned, with Bill Arp, Dsn Rice and other notables, before the obsttuc*ion committee, I will give your readers a few dots from my observations. And first, I am agreeably surprised to find the planters so well satisfied with the change While the general opinion expressed is that not more than three-fourths as much work is done in a week, as was done when the negroes were slaves, and not much more than three-tourths of them are at work, still the savieg, in the sup port of non-workers, and attending to the sick, is so-great iMgMwMyUmlglflys less'fnan nndef the old system. Many tarmhre have told me that they would not have the slaves back if they could. Several have told me that they would make as much net in come to the hand as they ever made ; and a few report their prospect good for a full old fashioned crop. But this last is tho exception, and not the rule, —where from peculiar man agement the old hands have all been retained, aDd are all at work. In most cases, the wo men are idle, and very few plantations retain as many men as formerly. I observe that many planters are taking to the field with their sons, and where this is the case, the ne groes are doing well. They will keep up with a white man ftom a spirit of pride, more ef fectually than even from any interest in tho crop. 1 have noticed ssveral instances where farmers are paying the hands one-third the gross crop, furnishing subsistancr, and c’ivid ing them into squads of five or six—each vieing with tha other in the battle with Gen. Green. The tendency is to abandon the old gang sys tem, and give laborers an interest in the crop. Wi-.h a large amount of patience, and eternal vigilenca towards the large number of thieves and vagrants, a fair share of prosperity may be coaxed out of the new system ; but nothing like the old amount of productiveness, or the old amount of real comfort and thrift for the ne gro. Freedom has emancipated the whites from a heavy weight of responsibility ; greatly diminished the labors of farmer’s wives— in caring for tho health of the colored children and the provision|of clothing for all; it has greatly, cheapened labor. It has also turn- 1 ed loose a very large number of the blacks to thieve, and loaf, and starve until death takes them away, while those who work find it no easy matter to support themselves and those dependent on them. Emancipation has open ed to white labor tho fairest portion of the con tinent, and if those who own the soil improve their opportunity, they may make it as benefi cial to themselves as it will be fatal to those who loosed the bonds of the slave. This is to be done by selling and- leasing portions of the large plantations .to small farmers from Eu rope, who will raise but little cotton, while every surplus dollar (which we formerly spent for more negroes to make more cotton) should be put into cotton factories, until our brethren and sisters in Lowell and along shore who have made so much money manufacturing cheap cotton will fiud their occupation gone. If we use them right, these radical measures will inflict les3 evil on us than on those who make them. Like the gun in Hudibras, which, “Aimed at duck or plover, Shoots wide and knocks the owner over.” So the Rads, in seeking means of extorting revenue from us, will break down their own manufacturing interests and build up oura. Let them alone. At Macon, the Brown House confronts the depot, and dispenses as much of comfort as can be had at any hotel I have found. The train from Columbus reaches Mac6n at 4 p. m., and that to Atlanta leaves the next day at half-past 10. Thus, detentions are the order of the day. From Macon to Atlanta we observe the same small cotton aud rank glass that we have noted everywhere. Corn looks well, and the wheat crop, which is being harvested, is the best realized for several years. The Macon and Western Railroad is in fine order. I note, as anew feature* a car lor colored people, from whiohj whites are ex cluded. • To Atlanta—a fine dinner at the Planter’s—a long chat with Harris at the National, an eiegantly furnished house, just opened—and thence all aboard for Augusta—having been gone a week and a day. _ Ari-tideh. Immigration, The following article from a Northern paper, contains several pertinent reflections, which we commend to our readers. We trust that it will not be ten years before the tide of immi gration wiil be turned Southward. Much, however, depends upon the conduct of our land-holders. If they remain quietly at home, while Western interests are pressed forward by agents and runners in all the Northern cities, it will be long before Gur desire for immigrants and the advantages in store for them here, will be understood. We need Southern emigrant agencies in Europe and in New York to fairly state tbe inducements offered to Bettlers on our soil: Perhaps the most wonderful thing of this wonderful age is the vast emigration from Eu rope to the United States. At all periods there uave been emigrations trom densely to more sparsely populated countries, bat the world’s history prosepts no parallel to the present exodus from Europe. Literally— the Old World seems emptying its pop ulation Into the New. Additional stimu lus has been given to the movement by the close of the war in this country, the Fenian troubles in Iceland, and tbe disturbed and threatened condition of affairs on the continent o! Europe. According to information received by the Commissioner of Emigration, every berth on tbe steamship lines from Hamburg and Bremen are already engaged to the end of this year, and sailing vessels receive propo sals for the transportation of all the passen gers they can carry. The number of emigrants that have arrived in thiß country so far this year is, in round numbers, about seventy thousand ; and, with the advent of summer, the season may be said just to have begun. The emigration this year will almost certainly exceed three hundred thousand, against two hundred and tw„nty»3 : x thousand nine hun dred and sixteen in 1804, and one hundred and nicety-six thousand three hundred and forty seven in 1865. The western flow of pdpulatiSn from Europe to the United States within the last two decades is shown by the following : 1857 182,773 1858 78.589 1860 105,162 1861 65,529 1802 76,306 1863 156 844 1864 225,916 1865 196 847 1866 65 813 1817 129,062 1848 189.170 1849 220,791 1850 212,603 1851 289,601 1852 800,992 1853 284.945 1854.... 319 223 1855 137,323 1856 143 342 The great bulk of all thid foreign population are settling in what aie known as the North western States It is evident, if it is not so already, that in a very few years the majority of the people of those States, which comprise the most fertile and soon to become the most populous portion of the Union, must be com posed of aliens. It is not possible to foresee what may be the effects of such a condition upon the government of this country. We can, however, anticipate with tolerable cer tainty one desirable result in tbe arising in the. Northwest of a power antagonistic to and counter poising the destructive preponderance of the Government of tho New England fac tion. It is hardly necessary for us to state that few emigrants find their way into tho Southern States, notwithstanding the great demand for labor here, and the advantages offered by our climate. The State agencies from the West, combined with tty? railroad runners and ticket venders in tbe great Northern cities, together with the foreigner’s repugnance to the negro, and their natural desire to settle in the same neighborhoods with their fellow-countrymen that have proceeded them, suflice to sweep the great tide to the regions beyond the Ohio and aDd along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Ten years hence, when the great Northwest shall be filled up, emigration will direct its footsteps to the rich .fields and sunny skies of the South ; but even then it is more likely to approach us by recoiling trom the West aud descending the Mississippi than directly from the Atlantic seaboard. Iu the meantime the freedmen’s bureau will have demonstrated to work.” What the Fenlau War Really Is. There is no question that a very large por tion of the apathy with which tho Fenian per formances are regarded by tho public is due to the not unnatural enjoyment which people take in the spectacle of the Canadians suffering from raids. The St. Albans affair and the state of alarm in which the inhabitants of the American border were kept for nearly two years, by the threats, of bands of Confederates congregated in the Canadian' towns, have made a deep impression on the public mind, aggra vated, of course, by the “judicial 7 ’ proceedings at Montreal in which Judge Coutsol figured. It would be difficult to find in modern history a case of more wanton and shameless conni vance at a great crime on fho part of a highly civilised and professedly Christian community. Coursol was, no doubt, a corrupt and ignorant man; but he would never have ventured to pa rade his ignorance and corruption as he did if he had not well known that Lis proceedings bad the secret synfpalhy of his neighbors. Tbe Canadians tried to flatter themselves that when General Dix’s order was overruled by Mr. Lincoln and the Young affair blew over, that all was over. But tho press.here warned them the that real' mischief of the St. Albans affair, and ot tbe im punity enjoyed by conspiratorspon Canadian soil, d<d not lie in the amount of material damage suffered by the United States, hut in the tact that they laid the foundation for end less trouble in the future. The Canadians laughed at these warnings then; they now know what they mean. There may be powers in the world strong enough to treat all inter national obligations with contempt; but even Great Britain is not amongst the number, though she have Canada at her back. The retribution may not always come in the shape of open war, but it generally comes somehow. Roberts and Sweeney are rather contemptible instruments to serve as avengers of inter national perfidy; but in this instance they do the work pretty faithfully. That this feeling of soreness on the part ot the public here is pretty deep may by inferred from what we have been submitting to for the past month or two. We have witnessed, with out tbe slightest formal indication of dissatis faction, the creation ,of an avowedly foreign government in this city, with the various de partments and bureaus necessary for carrying on military operations against a power with which we are at peace. We have seen it com mission officeis, issue bonds, and actually raise an army, open recruiting offices, aud collect arms and ammunition, and assemble great bodies of men at rendezvous on our soil, for the purpose of commencing hostilities. We have had the commandei-in-chief of this army traveling to and fro on our rail roads with laige bodies of men marching on "our territory under his command” and have actually seen our lines of telegraph cut by his orders, in order to pre vent our own officers and police obtainingdn formation of his movements. We have seen one district-attorney flinch from arrestin ' him, fearing he could not summon force sufficient for his purpose, and have heard the same gen eral-in-chief, when actually engaged in the breach of our laws, warn him that he would, come to grief if he meddled with him. We have seen a hostile column leave our soil, in vade that of our neighbors, fight on it, and then fall back into our territory again, and the foreign government which he professed to obey issuing a general order, in New York, promoting the man to a brigadierßnip for his gallantry. These things are hard to bear. No civilized government ever bore them before from any power not vastly stronger than itself. Austria used to do this sort of thing in the small Italian states, and Napoleon used to do it iu those European kingdoms over which he had set viceroys ofhißowu. Os course, not have borne with it if tbe absurdity of tbe perfoimance had not been go monstrous. Most Americans, who paid any attention to tha Fenians, dnring the last year, thought it was a “little game” with which Irishmen not trou bled with much occupation were amusing themselves. We think it very unfortunate that this impression prevailed 60 widely, be cause it enabled the Robertses and the Swee neys to persuade their dupes, who are mostly ignorant persons, who have no means ot get ting at the real state of American feel ing. that the apathy they witnessed on the part of the public and of the law officers indicated sympathy with their enter prise, and assured them of impunity in carrying it out. They were thus enabled to strip thousands of poor men and women of large sums of hard earned money, to add to the existing distuibance of the industry of the country by drawing off large bodies of young men to the border, and finally—what we con sider more serious than all else—to set before the hundreds of thousands of ignorant foreign ers who reach our shore every year a most dangerous example of the way iu which the law may be openly defied and contemned in their adopted country. If tha Fenian per formances of tbe last six months have not done much to weaken respect for law amongst that now immense class of our population who are still unaccustomjd to the self restraint in which Americans are bred, German and Irish, human nature must have undergone some radi cal change. We greatly fear the Fenian or ganization is not the last attempt we shall wit ness in this country to supersede or set aside the national authority, by bodies of men hav ing little or no interest in the national welfare, and using the national flag and the American name as a temporary convenience. What ah Old Duo Did.—A lady residing in Campton receutiy owned a dbg, which, be cause of age and infirmity, had ceased to be of use. One day she remarked to a laboring man connected with the family that she would give half a dollar if he would take tbe old fellow off out of the way and kill him. The servant promised to do so if be might have tho doa’s skin to make therefrom, for his own use and comfort, a pair of gloves. At this stage in the conversation the old dog, who had been lying quietly on the hearth, arose, aad giving the conspirators a look more in sorrow than in anger, left the house. On a rise of ground not far away he stopped, and gave a lingering gazo at the house aud vicinity, then plunged into the woods never to return. Ha never was seen or heard of afterward.— CamardiN. II.) Stales* man The New Hampshire “Malish” are likely to be summoned into service for the protection and vindication of the neutrality laws in con nection with the operations ot the Fenians. The pledge signed by the captured F nians is in these words : “Vie the undersigned ac knowledge ourselves prisoners ot the United States, and agree to abandon the cause oi Fe nianism.” The bill to establish a Department of Edu cation in the City of Washington was defeated in the House 00 the Bth, by a vote of 64 to 59. The. Senate bill granting of way to the Humboldt Canal Company through tho public lands of Nevada has passed the House,