Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877, June 27, 1866, Image 1
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV.
Cipuirl? k li'iitinel.
♦ HENRY MOORE, V
A. R. WRmGHT,
k Bard Case.
James Kagan, a ckizen <X South Carolina,
who wiH arrested last fall and tried by a Hili-i
tary Court for murder, aad sentenced to (serve
a term of twenty years in the New York State
jirir on at Utica, was, as our readers aro doubt*
1* - t aware, recently discharged from prison by
order of Judge Nelson, Assistant Justice of the
Supreme Court of the Ifnited States. Upon
being role i- ■*!, Eagan returned to bis borne in
South Carolina and quietly resumed his agrl
cultural vocation. Iln thought, and so did the
poop! * of the Mouth, that there was an end of
his cm •, that at It ist no farther persecution or
punishment would be attempted by the mili*
tary authorities. The opinion of Judge Nel
• fli/u, uiunii- wu tiqbihhed, upon the rights of I
arruy or navy of the fruited States, was sound,
cogent r.nd conclusive. We have not heard a
single di- u entfoiis Judicial voice throughout the
wliolo country as to the correctness of that de
cision.
It s eras, however, that (lie military authori
ties in Ponth Carolina have caused this aged
man to lie again arrested and imprisoned. We
presnm/: that Cion. Sickles has decided that the
d' l ision of Judge Nelson was wrong. What,
then, will he do? Eagan has been tiied, con*,
victed, sentenced, and his sentence approved
by the power that ordered aud convened the
pretended Court. By that sentence Eagan was
ordered to serve twenty years in the prison at
Utica. It is "very clear that the sentence can
not now ho amended. He must be imprisoned,
il at all, in the prison at Utica. It is equally
clear that, so long as Judge Nelson sits upon
tliu bench in New Yoik, Eagan cannot be kept
in confinement under sentence of the South
Carolina military commission. Gen. Sickles
may arrest, confine and punish whosoever he
pleases iu bis own Department, because the
people there are denied the just protection of
law ; hut when he attempts to punish his vic
tims in the free State of New York, ho finds
that his authority is disregarded aud ignored.
Will lie attempt to try Eagan again? Will he
even go so far as so change tho terms of tho
original sentuuce, so far as relates to the place
of punishment? It is true that, according to
the decision of Judge Nelson and all other un
prejudided Judges, he has as much right to
cpnuji tho sentence now, as he had originally
■to try the case or pronounce the sentence.
Gen Sipkles, wo believe, is a lawyer of some
Btauding in his profession. Ho knows that by
no rule of law, civil or military, can he chauge
Kagan’s sentence. What then, we again inquire,
does ho propose to do with this poor old man ?
It would he worse than a mockery to send him
back to Utica—he cannot older him elsewhere.
Is the life of this old citizen to lie worn out and
wasted away i:i the gloomy dungeons of the
South Carolina military prisons, alter he has
keen pronounced by competent judicial author
ity not amenable to military law ? We invoke
the power ot the President in bohalf of the
* "rTgfft ‘dr ftltgirn (6 his fuir; free and perfect liber
ty. It Is the duty ol the executive to see that
the decrees and orders of the Judicial Depart
ments ate enforced and obeyed. The United
States District Court of tho Stute of Now York,
has issued an order or judgment declaring that
James Ergan was Improperly and illegally tried,
and his sentence to confinement in prison was
unlawful. The military commander In South
Carotin i, in defiance of that judgment, has re
arrested aud imprisoned the party. Will the
Government at Washington remain a quiet
spectator of this open dilianeo ot tho just au
thority ot a co ordinate branch of the Govern
ment, and see iis decrees trampled under foot
by military chieftains, without punishment or
rebuke? We think not.
Hl.h Freights.
We uro informed Hint produce can lie ship
ped fiom Cincinnati and St. Louis to tliiß place
by way of Baltimore and Savannah, at a cheap
er rate than by the direct lino of Railroad—
through Memphis, Naßhville and Atlanta. —
Trade will take that direction almost entirely
this (all we are reliably informed, if the rates
of freights by the Railroad .lines West of us
ure not materially reduced.
We canuot see how produce can bo trans
ported by rad a distance of six hundred miles
from Cincinnati to Baltimore, shipped by water
thence to Savannah, and then re-ahippod by
rail 132 miles to this place,, tvs cheaply us it
mbjiit be by rail direct from Cincinnati yia
Nashville and Atlanta, a distance of about 800
miles.
From St. Louis to Baltimore, the distances is
over eleven hundred miles, to this city it is nine
hundred and forty seven miles. Yet our'iu
for aunt says produce can be lauded here from
St. Louis via Baltimore and Savannah, cheaper
than by the short direct line via Mouud City,
Corinth aud Chattanooga. We call the attention
of those controlling ou# Western Railroad con
nection, to these statements, and would earn
estly impress upon them the importance of an
early and decided change in their freight tar
iff. Not only, should the freights be reduced,
but arrangements should be made at once to
bring corn, wheat, flour, bacon, without break
ing bulk ou the transit.
The iuterost of the inland cities of the State_
absolutely require that the prico of freights
from the West should be greatly reduced. It is
quite as important to the railroad companies
themselves, that a schedule ot charges be
adopted which will cause a diversion of the
immeuse traffic now seeking an outlet at Bal
timore, to their owa shorter and more direct
routes.
Cotton Blocms —The Editor ct the Montgo
mery Mail has been shown several large aud
healthy cotton blooms, from different planta
tions in that county, among them two very
lines ones from the plantations of Messrs.
Oadie, Miller & Graham, and from the Cham
bers place, by Air. Glenn. The blooms were
gathered on the 13;h of this month.
Watermelons were offered for sale in the
same city on the 14th at ? 1 it)each.
Several meteoric stones fell at Nashville on
the 12th, near the railroad depot. They were
of a bluish color, aud were quite hot when j
first discovered. Geologists say that nothing j
similar has been found in any other part ot the |
world. Oce speeimeu has been forwarded to ;
Washington, and another to New York, for j
further examination.
A young lady being to!d that her lover was
suddenly killed, exclaimed, “Oh. that splendid
gold witcii ot bis 1 Give me that—give me
something to remember him by
At bis own request, made before his death,
the remains of Gen. Scolt were wrapped in a
large American flag made for him, in the
spring ot 1881 hy a young lady of Washington.
Result of the Strike in new York.
The New York ship carpenters joiners and
caulkers have for several mouths beeu on a
strike to inaugurate the eight hour system.
Tr,i= strike was so general that the ship-build
ing interest came to almost a dead halt. The
carpenters and joiners have at last returned to
their work, having reduced themselves to utter
want, and they find business disorganized and
the chance for getting good wages worse than
before. The caulkers still hoid out, hoping to
derive means of support from their brother
workmen, and they, unselfish and free
hearted as mechanics ever are, will doubtless
divide their hard earned wages with the«e ob
stinate idlers, who, in the end, will “come
down” and accept the situation as it is de
fined by their employers. T hese collisions be
tween labor and capital are unfortunate for
the necessities of the laborer, sooner or later
place him at disadvantage, and ho must yield
to the interests of capital. This strike illus
trates, on a large scale, the injurious tendency
of such combinations, and ought to. impress it~
LftgllUiflQfe,as a lesson ui. owing
colfiiteaee and «oa
ference between laborers and their employers.
It is to tho interest of employers to lender
their operatives satisfied with their positions.
A growling, discontented workman is a nuis
ance. Therefore candid and reasonable re
monstrance from workmen seldom fails to se
cure reasonable concessions fiorr. employers.
We rejoice that in this instance the employees
have triumphed over the eight hour business.
It is an absurd crotchet of a low reformers, led
off by a few presses anxious to conciliate the
working men, while it is full of mischief to the
labor interest.
Labor is the lever that is to relieve the necks
of tho people from the yoke of heavy taxes and
a paper currency, and it wore wiser to add to,
than to take from, the productive energies of
tho people, for a time, that the incumbus of
debt be the more speedily removed. There
fore let there be no more eight hour strikes,
or other foolish collisions between labor and
capital ; but let all unite for “a long pull,
a strong pull, and a pull altogether” until we
get the wheel of iudustry lubricated and on the
track of progress again.
If the crazy humanitarians who aro always
shrieking for somebodya’ redemption from this
evil or that, would look in on the families of
their dupes and see the care of anxious wives
and hear the cries of hungry children, caused
by these hopeless and foolish strikes, they
might be induced to iet the working men alone,
If they must have a hobby, we commend to
them the suffering chickens and turtles, whom
thty can take to their tender embraces without
doing harm to anybody, and if applause is their
object we have no doubt every chanticleer in
the land will Bound their pruiscs, while the
voiceless turtles will look whole volumes of
gratitude.
The Frccdmrn’s Bureau in Lrillln —The
Freedmeu Denounce It.
We have noticed the election, by the Freed*
men of Griffin, of two anti-Eureau delegate- to
tho Equal Rights’ Convention soon to be held
in this city. The Griffin Star, of the 19th, says
that quite an excitement was created the day
before by the arrest of George Pitts and Hen
derson Ikck, the delegates elected. It appears
that tho disappointed candidates and their
friends reported to the Bureau that George and
Henderson had made remarks to their constit
uents very disrespectful to the Bureau at Grif
fin, which was the cause of tho arrest. The
investigation drew a large audieuce, both
white and black. The Deputy, who claimed to
bo the “temporary President of the Bureau,”
was disposed to carry things with a high hand,
as ho denied to the prisoners the right to bo
hoard throngh their counsel, Col. Normally,
and also said he would “be damned” if he
would allow the negroes to apeak disrespect
fully ol his Bureau, or words to that effect;
but he was rather overruled by City Marshal
Johnson, who seems to have considerable au
thority in this hermaphrodite court. The pris
oners, however, seemed to be pretty well able
to defend themselves, both making speeches,
and posted with authorities, drawing rounds of
applause from the audience.
They declared that their remarks were not
at the GuQiu Bureau in particular, but against
the Bureau in general, and that they were
willing to trust to the laws of the country and
their old masters aud friends for justice, and
thought the Bureau system, although well in
tended ia the outset, had been abused, and had
a tendency to create disturbances betweon the
races, when it was to the interest of both white
and black ‘hat they should all be friends. The
.freed van who brought the charges either failed
to appear, or gave different versions from the
first reports to the Bureau, and George John
son summarily dismissed the prisoners, who
triumphantly retired amidst tho plaudits of
their Iriends, who composed nine t< uths of the
blacks, aud pretty much all the white people
present.
“War and Kumars ®l War.”
If there is anything in the “war and rumors
of war’’ theory, the world has never been near
er a collapse than just now. The smoke of
battle has scarcely been cleared the fields where
Fenians and Kanucks met in dreadful conflict,
upon the plains of Mexico, never yet free from
hostile bands, the Mexicans are fighting Max
aud the Imperialists. A little farther down on
the map, we find the Peruvians waging dire
war with the Spaniards, witli Chili to help.
Then just over the way, the sons of Paraguay
are measuring arms with those of Brazil and
the Argentine Confederation. Dark war clouds
hover over all Europe, aud from every quarter,
iu that unsettled region, comes the cry : Pre
pare for battle ! The life blood of Russians
and Bokaharrlans is flowing in a commingled
stream. The gongs of the armies of China have
been brought into requisition to frighten off
the Mangoiians aud the Tartars with whom
Chinesemen are now at war, and last, bat not
least, succeeding the shock of battle which
rocked this country from centre to circumfer
ence, comes the war between the defenders of
the Constitution and the blatant, wicked -
hearted dupes ot fanaticism. Surely, the end
is fast approaching, and the day is not far dis
tant when he that is on the housetop shall not
come down to secure his household goods.
A Friuhtfcl Accident. —A Paris Setter, says
a frightful accident took place in that city in
the latter part of May, on the premises of M.
Anbin, the well-known manufacturer of fire-*
I works. In consequence of an explosion at the
1 moment when all the woik people were occu
; pied, seventeen persons—twelve women and
I five men- -met their death. The bodies were
l extracted from the ruins in almost a carboniz
led state One poor woman was found to have
given birth to an infant at the moment of the
accident. The circumstance has created a
great sensation. The Emperor immediately
sent five thousand francs to the families of*the
sufferers. H®, afterwards drove in person to
the scene of the disaster, and was enthusiasti
cally greeted by the entire population of the
neighborhood.
LETTERS FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New- Orleans, June 14, 1866.
REPUDIATING THE POLITICIANS.
The people here are repudiating politicians
and giving more attention than at any previous
period in the history of Louisiana to the mate
rial development of he. vast resources. Our
local elections are controlled less by ties of
party allegiance than by a general disposition
to elevate to official position the most worthy
men, without reference to past political prefer
ences. The late election of Gen. Harry T.
Hays for Sheriff was a forcible illustration of
the independence of a people in the selection
of their public servants. That gentleman was
opposed by the candidate of another organiza
tion, an old party hack, who has twice been a
regular office-sponger, but whom the voters al
most unanimously repu iiated at the polls.
BUSINESS OF THE CITY.
The business of the city is better than usual
at this season of the year, and the old custom
of suspending active transactions during the
summer mouths seems to be regarded as obso
lete or unworthy a continuance. Oae steamer,
brought in this morning
from st. Louis iffTfif; sacks of com at
barrels of flour. The Indiana, also from St.
Louis, arrived this morning with 3,360 sacks
of corn and 1,000 barrels oi pork, besides other
freight,
THROUGH FREIGHT AM) FAST FREIGHT.
i! Much of this freight is intended for trans-ship
ment, and is sent forward with the smallest
possible delay to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York or Boston, by steamship lines making
connections by through bills of lading, and at
low rates of transportation. Anew steam el
evator for the more rapid trans-shipment of
wheat and corn, will be ready for operation on
the river, in a lew weeks. It is not stationary,
but floating, and can be moved from point to
point. This will save storage aud diayage.
As Augusta has profited by through freights
and fast freights, so Now Orleans proposes to
profit also.
The Mississippi Valley Transportation Com
pany are doing a large business in towing
barges laden with freight from St. Louis.
Some of the barges come through from St Paul
without breaking bulk.
CANAI, STREET.
Canal streot is daily improving, progressing
and extending Its commercial houses. Dwell
ing houses have been converted into marts of
retail trado, with doors wide open evenings, un
til Canal street, by gas light, has become one of
the most brilliant and dazzling promenades in
the world. Some of the Augusta streets are
quite as beautifully eudowed by nature, and
are capable of equal improvements.
THE STREET RAILWAY SCHEMES .
New Orleans, when the roads now commenc
ed are completed, will be clasped in a reseau
of street railways, authorized by the city gov
ernment. and constructed by private enterprise,
six or eight new and entirely distinct roads
will be running by the first of September, and
citizens or visitors may ride in auy direction
for five cents.
TUB LAKE SHORE RAILWAY.
A more magnificent scheme than any other
is that of a railroad to encircle the city, aud
to run along the lake Ponchartrain shore, in
the rear of the city. The subject is before the
city government, and the charter applied for
will probably be granted, so that health and
pleasure may be sought by the thousands who
can afford to become patrons of the horse oars
IMPORTATION OF CARS.
Practically, tho South does less to encourage
its own mechanics than the theory of some
most demonstrative gentlemen would be like
ly to approve. For instance, Gen. Beauregard,
at the head of a street raiiroad association be
tween thiscity and Carrollton, ordered sixty cars
from Philadeljihia, and all the other new roads
order either from New York, Philadelphia or St.
Louis, cars that could be built and finished
here, thus giving employment to our own me
chanics.
CROP PROSPECTS.
From a careful reading of Texas newspapers
the conclusion is reached that the wheat crop
there is unusually large, hut cotton will bo
light. Western Louisiana and Mississippi will
not produce more than two-thirds as much
cotton as wa3 anticipated two months ago.
The sugar crop is unusually promising, except
in the inundated sections.
New Orleans, June 15, 1806.
THE CROPS MOKE HOPEFUL.
Texas and lied River papers received to-day
present a more hopeful aspect of the crop pros
pect, and even the more melancholy Mississip
pi journals appear less inclined to gratify them
selves with gloomy forebodings after a few
days of suusliiae.
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.
Much interest is -expressed through the col
umns of the press in reference to the multi
plication of Southern railroads. The opinion
is that no railroad can be constructed in any
portion of the South without contributing to a
greater or less degree to the prosperity of the
whole. Tho Southern Pacific Railroad via
Shreveport and Marshall to El Paso meets with
much favor, and the stock will be taken for its
completion much sooner than was anticipated
a few months siuce. The road will be open
to Marshall about the first of August. The
Railroad connection of Cincinnati and Mobile
or Peusacoi3, or both these latter cities, must
indirectly benefit New Orleans if it does not
directly profit our merchants. The trade, now
considerable between this city and Mobile, will
be greater when cur neighbor across the Gulf
enlarges her population and multiplies her fa°
cilitiesfor communication with the interior.
Tho steam lines are more numerous, prompt
aud frequent than wheu the year commenced,
The Pensacola trade will also be enlarged
between that point aud this city, whenever
population centra there and business improves,
a result certain to follow the superior railroad
facilities which are promised.
OVERFLOW AND INVASION.
Nearly nine-tenths ot the alluvial lands of
Avoyelles Parish are under water, and four
filths of the cotton and corn planted are de
stroyed bj the overflow. In the districts where
the water has not done the mischief, myriads
of grasshoppers are at work, in advance of the
caterpillar invasion, eating up everything iu
the fields.
THE LEVEES.
The Chamber of Commerce, a body composed
of merchants, politicians and professional gen
tiemen, sent a delegation to Washington a
short time since, to memorialize Congress on
the subject of rendeting assistance to the State
| for the protection of the i-.vees of the Missis
| sippi. The lev, e commissioners also sent a
j delegation theie. Congressional action has
• already been taken, and it is believed the ma
i jority of that august organ'zation will be will
i ing to reconstruct the levee# if they do refuse
I to reconstruct the people.
STEAM TO VERA CELL,
j Steam to Vera Cruz wilt enable New Orleans
to communicate more rapidly and certainly
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 27, 1860,
[ with that port than heretofore. One steamer
I left here last, week, aud another will follow in
a few days Shortly, we shall obtain Mexican
dates and mails direct, instead of by the cir
cuitous route via New York. Freights for
Mexico offer largely.
PRODUCE FROM ABOVE.
The Mississippi Valley Transportation Com
pany, lowed down by the steamboat Bee, four
barges with two thousand tons of freight last
evening. The total cargo was 20,401 sacks
corn, 4,807 sacks oats, 1.844 sacks bran, 408
sacks malt, 900 bbls flour, 177 bbls pork, 150
tierces lard, 300 kegs lard, BC3 bales hay..—
Another steamboat brought from St. Louis
this morning 2.084 bbls flour and 9,677 sacks
corn. Yet another brought in 9,541 sacks
corn, 1.504 sacks oita, 988 bbls flour. This is
a heavier produce arrival than New Orleans
has ever had before at this season of the year;
THE PRES3.
The New Orleans Commercial is the latest
paper established here. An association of
editors, reporters and printers run it, with a
prospect of suecess. They divide the losses,
and will pocket the profits. Wm. M. Burwell,
ranks during” the war, mis VieSselccfOTaWWS- 1
tor of this’journal. It advocates vigorously,
the commeicial independence of the South by an
increase of its mechanical aud manufacturing
products. It is said that three or four other
dailies wdl be established here by tho fiist of
September. There is room for alt.
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The examination of the forty-two public
schools of this city, progresses satisfactorily. It
was commenced two weeks ago. The whole
number of pupils registered is 16,749. Aver
age daily attendance 9;782. *
HONORS TO THE DEAD.
The memory of four Confederate soldiers,
who fell on the soil of Tennessee, was honored
yesterday, by members of the Louisiana Guard
Artillery, Washington Artillery, Gibson’s Bri
gade, Hays’ Brigade, Stafford’s Brigade, Cres
cent Regiment und Dreux's Battalion.
SUPPORT FOR THE LIVING.
God. Hays announces to-day, as President
of Hays’ Brigade Relief Association, a mods of
relief for its old membeis who arc in need of
sympathy or aisistence. *
Sews ol thc Day.
Anew Democratic paper will be issued in
St. Louis on the Ist of July.
John M. Botts is to be tho 4th of July orator
in Baltimore.
The Tennessee Journal, a German paper pub
lished at Nashville, has been suspended for
want of patronage,
T. L. Clingman, Senator elect from North
Carolina is now stopping in Washington.
Rev. Dyer Re! l , a missionary of the Amer
ican Board, since 1838, died in China on the
27th of Ma rch last.
The Senate Finance Committee have agreed
to fix the salary of the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue at $6,000.
Dr. Peabody, Chaplain of Harvard College,
has gone to Euiope. He will visit the Holy
Land.
The School Board of Cincinnati have recent
ly increased the salaries of all public teachers
of that city ten per cent.
The friends of Gov. Andrew propose to rim
him for Congress this Fall.
It is generally believed that Gen. Dodge
wiil defeat J. A. Kasson for the congressional
nomination in the Desmoiues dirtrict.
The President’s message vetoing tho Now
York aad Montana Mining Bill, was sent to the
Senate on the 16th inst.
Prof. E W. Gunle'r, organist of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church in Louisville, Ky., was
thrown from a rockaway on the 13th instant
aud instantly killed.
Leman W. Cutler has been elected State
C omptroller of Connecticut.
Mr. F. O. C. Darley, the artist, has gone to
Europe for a summer tour.
Advices from Rautan, Honduras, report that
there has been a grand celebration there in
honor of the anniversary of the emancipation
of the Jamaica negroes.
Com. Maury has received a present of $15,-
000 from some Os his secession friends in Eng
land.
Tho Vermont Republican Convention assem
bled at Montpelier on the 20th.
The trial of Maj. Geo, at Raleigh, N. C., was
concluded on the 13th inst. The case • was
submitted without argument.
Surgeon John B. Sumners, U. S. A.has been
appointed Medical Director of the Department
of the Cumberland.
There ate twenty-four Major and nineteen
Brigadier General of the volunteer staff still
in the service. Many of these are in the
Bureau Department.
The Columbus Ohio fire insurance compa
nies recently presented each member of the
City Fire Department with a $2,000 policy in
the Accident Company.
The regular army is receiving recruits at the
rate of tbreo thousand per month, Its ranks
will soon bo full.
The House Committee on Foreign Relations
will report resolutions mildly censuring the
coivae of the Government on tho Fenian move
ment.
A Pittsfield woman presented her husband
on Sunday night with three nice, fat, boy
babies, all at one birth. Poor fellow !
A. T. Stewart, Esq., has agents abroad pur*
chasing \*orks of art for the palace which he
is erecting on Fifth Avenue, New York.—
Powers and other sculptors have received com
missions.
State items.
It is in contemplatatian to erect a large
manufacturing establishment at Cedar Shoals,
near Oxford. The water power thereabouts is
immense.
The revival meetings iu the Columbus
Metnodist churches still continue. The inter
est increases as the meetings progress.
Some two hundred and twenty-two sacks,
containing about five hundred and three
bushels of corn, a third of the quota of Musco
gee county, has arrived at Columbus.
The work of widening the track ou the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad is pro
gressing as rapidly as circumstances will ad
mit.
Last Sunday the Macon Police arrested a
mulatto man named George Hall. The tele
graph sav3 the negro is believed to have stolen
SS,OUO in Augusta, Hal! formerly belonged to
Col. Logan, and w3s well known in Macon.
A recent letter to the Macon telegraph, from
the Indian Spring, alluding to the tornado
which recently passed over that vicinity, doing
great damage and causing several deaths, says
Near High Falls a family o: four whites and
two negroes were severely injured, and two of
the whites and the two "died from
tbeir injuries. The writer also mentions that
Mrs. Hale, near the Springs died from injuries
received from the tornado. Much of the wheat
whieh had bepn cut and shocked in the fields
was scattered bv the wind and lost.
FROM WASHINGTON.
jottings troji the cmm.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Washington, Thursday June 14.
The Radicals are in high feather at the pas
sage of the new constitutional amendment.
Although the measure was shorn of its most
savage feature by the action of the Senate in
striking out the section which proposed to dis
franchise the white men ot the South for the
next four years, yet its final triumph,even in
the modified form in which it came from the
Senate, was attended by circumstances well
calculated to exhilarate the extremists. In
the first place, the vote in its favor, in the
Senate as well as in the Home, was largely in
excess of the requisite two thirds. And seconds
iy, it gained the support of both the Radical
and moderate wings of the Republican party
with an unanimity that had not hitherto
marked the passage of any important party
measure. This unanimity was especially re
markable amongst
THE REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES.
When the roll ot the House.was called on the
liWiYßlWiiwftif AW vin ihg Senate modifi
cations of the ameudmeat, every member wbfc■
had been elected as an avowed Republican, in*
eluding seveial who have hitherto voted with
the Democrats in support of the President, an
swered aye. This sudden adherence of John
son.Republicaus to the Radical programme ex
cited general surprise, especially in the cases
ot Phelps, of Maryland, Green Olay Smith, of
Kentucky, and Whaley, of West Virginia.
Stevens and his body guard of extremists
swallowed tho amended measure—“ emascu
lated,” as they called it—with the best possible
grace, declaring that they did eo on the princi
ple of taking the best they could get, and
‘ because Congress waß composed of men and
not of angels.’' The amendment having thus
received tho assent of Congress, the next step
wiil toe tc submit it to the
ACTION Off THE STATE LEGISLATURES,
three-fourths ot which must ratify it before it
can become a part of tho Constitution. And
here I may mention that it. is no part of the
Radical plan to submit tho joint resolution
embracing the amendment, to the President,
for his approval. They kffow that he would
veto it and thus cause a delay very dangerous
to them, evpn if his disapproval of the meas -
ure should otherwise seriously embarrass
them. They have, therefore, taken the bold
ground that Executive approval is not neces l ?
sary to give validity to the joint resolution,
and Speaker Colfax has instructed the clerk of
the House of Representatives not to send it to
the President at ail. This is in open violation
of all law and precedent, for iho Constitution
expressly says that all the bills and joint reso
lutions of Congress shall be submitted to the
President, for his approval or veto. Every
constitutional amendment thus far adopted
has received the signature, of the Executive—
not excepting that by which slavery was abol
ished and.whieh autograph of Abra
ham Lincoln. Wftftt steps, if any, President
Johnson can tab resent this impudent in
vasion of his Aonal privilege, it is
difficult W, 1 flatter, however, there
can bo. •
' \!> Os THE ISSUE.
Either Congress must recede, or the Presi
dent must submit to an extraordinary snub
bing, A concurrent res olution is to be passed
by Congress, directing the President to com
municate to the State Legislatures for their ac
tion thereon, the joint resolution, unsigned as
it is, save by the presiding officers of the House
and Senate. It the President should comply,
he will, practically, admit that he is a cypher
in tho Government. If ho should refuse, there
will be a crisis —an open conflict of authority
—the result oi which will be as uncertain as
the effect of tho collision of an immovable
body with an irresistiblo force. Thus, the re.
lations between Congress and the Executive
just now are more ticklish than ever.
A BID FOR TENNESSEE.
Meantime the Radicals are moving heaven
and earth to secure the assont of the doubtful
States to the proposed constitutional amend
ment. I know that a letter, signed by forty
of the most influential Radicals, was sent off
this morning to “Governer” Brownlow of Ten*
nessee, urging him to call the Legislature of
that State together at once, in order that they
may take action "upon the amendment; and
giving him the most solemn pledges that, if
that action should be favorable, the admission
of the Tennessee delegation into Congress will
immediately follow. It is by schemes of this
character that our enemies hero hope to buy
the support of a sufficient number of the South
ern States to enable them to bind the rest,
hand and foot.
But let me pass to
MORE AGREEABLE THEME?,
Tho legislation of Congress, as the close of
tho session draws near, grows active and inter*
eating. It will be gratifying to everybody in
terested in cotton, to know that the Senate will
cut down the tax on that staple from five*
cents, as fixed by the House, to two cents—the
rate fixed by the existing law.
Anew army bill* is to be reported by the
House Committee on Military Affairs next
week, fixing the regular standing army of the
United-States at fifty regiments of infantry, six
of cavalry and five of artillery. E ; ght of the
infantry regiments are to be colored troops.
Both Houses of Congress have passed a bill
donating forty-six millions of acres of Govern
ment land in the various Southern States, in
homestead grants, to actual settlers “irrespec
tive. of color.” j
THE NEW POSTAL LAW
which has just been signed by the President,
provides, amongst other things, that pre-paid
aud free letters are to be forwarded at the re
quest of the party addressed, from one post
office to another without additional postage
charge, and returned dead letters are to be re
stored to the writers thereof free of postage.
TEE ROUSSEAU-GRINNELL FRACAS
is the leading topic of gossip to-day, and ex
cites universal mirth. The telegraph has doubt
less given you the main facts of the affair.—
Nobody sympathies particularly with Rousseau
and his wounded honor, and. as for Grinnell,
the universal popular verdict is, “served him
tight. 1 ’ The Radicals are howling dreadfully
over the caning of one of their Dumber; they
declare in alarm that it is a return of “planta
tion manners;’'’ and that the “Southern aristo
crats” have aheady inaugurated the regime of
bullying and ‘he bludgeon. Under the in
fluence of this absurd outcry, the House
will probably expel Rousseau.
If thiE should be the upshot of the matter,
our people at the South need waste no lamen
tations over his fate. Ho is a very shabby
* specimen of those terrible “Southern aristo
crats” who arc rarely seen iu Washington now
a-days. Ia fact, "he is a pompous military
coxcomb, whoso constant and boastful allu
sions to his insignificant exploits, as a Federal
officer, have disgusted everybody.
MERE MENTION.
The secession speech of Harris of Maryland,
on the floor of the House of Representatives
to-day, was characteristic of the man. He
fairly stunned the Radicals by his boldness. I
trust that yon will reproduce his remarks, so
that your readers may see that there is at least
one man in Congress who is not afraid to ex
press bis convictions.
The committee on Ways and Means intend
to recommend a very high tariff on foreign
wool.
A movement ia on foot to establish a Park
here, on the plan of the New York Central
Park.
The city is growing rapidly in size, business,
and vice. Speaking of vice, Menken, the she-
Mazeppa, is soon to appear at one of the thea
tres here. Butternut.
THE i’; PENDING UAH !
Abandonment of the Proposed Conference.
Austria’s Reservations.
The ‘Toys” confirms the news that tho Aus
trian reply accepts, in principle, the invitations
to a Conference,-but with such reservations and
conditions as necessitate the exchange of tur*
ther communications between the neutral Tow*
ers and the Austrian Government.
Tho “Memorial Diplomatique” says: “Aus
tria will not ask for territorial changes, but
will not oppose a lieu and loyal discussion
upon the pretensions of other States.”
French Accounts.
A Paris telegram of the sth says : “The
French Government has sent a note to Vienna
ia reference to the reply given by Austria to
the invitation for a Conference.” The French
Government regrets that this reply must bo
considered as a refusal to take part in the Con
ference, and, therefore, as frustrating the efforts
for the preservation of peace.
England aud Russia!.
England aud Russia have declared, through
their representatives in Paris, that, in their
opinion, tho reservations made by Austria in
her reply to the invitation of the neutral Pow
ers would prevent the Conference from having
a useful result.
Wo Hopes of Peace. •
The Loudon Times of the 6th says : “Daily,
almost hourly, tho chances of peace fade away.
Should the sword bo drawn it is from the. Elbe
Duchies that we shall probably hear of the
first seriou? event of the war, but the contest in
this quarter cannot compare in importance with
that which is impending on the frontier ot two
monarchies. At any moment the Austrians
may burst into Silesia. It is not unlikely that
the first great move of Austria will be an at
tempt to possess herself ot this province. It
would almost seem to be the prize of the con
queror in the coming campaign The Emperor
has probably been led to look for compensation
in the province that was wrested from his house
in the last war. This is to counterbalance Hol
stein to rnake tw for Venetia, if Veuetia should
be lost. Here Prussia must defend herseli, tor
there is no one to help her. Even if she had
a Western ally he could not penetrate into the
heart of Europe Tho only aid must come
from Prussia, aud the Czar is now quite indis
posed to take up arms on behalf ot tho North
ern Power. If Prussia seized Holstein it is
therefore not unlikely that Austria will at
once cross the frontier. The Emperor is nat*
urally desirous to show his strength and to gain
reputation at the outset by a decided success.
Whether Benedek will advance through Saxony
or Berlin, or content himself with a provincial
campaign for the conquest of Silesia itself, the
firsi few days of the war must determine, but in
either case all the resources of the Prussian
monarchy must be called :h in order to make
head against its late «!;y’
The Conference Abandoned .
The Loudon 'Times of the stli inst., annouu><
ces the abandonment of the proposed Con
ference. It says.: “It is with the deepest re
gret wc announce that the hopes of settling,
by a Conference, the. disputes which now
agitate Europe, must be abandoned. The
French Government has telegraphed to our
own that in consequence of the persistence of
Austria in imposing conditions, which would
make the discussions nugatory, the Conference
will not be hold, it wouid indeed, be a
mockery to call together the Representatives
of the great Powers on toims which would
necessarily involve their immediate saparation.
We fear then that matters stand as they stood
three weeks since, and that it now rests with
the armed Powers to compose their dispute by
negotiation between themselves, or to icsort
to the final arbitrament of war.”
Prussia lo Declare War.
The Daily News of the 6f,h says : Appear
ances indicate that the declaration of war,or the
manifesto equivalent to it, will proceed from
Prussia. The King’s Govsrnnlent has issued a
circular not to the neutral Power?, charging
the Government of Austria with a flagrant
breach treaties by referring the Holstein suc
cession to the Diet, and a similar accusation
has been formally made in the official State
Gazette. The object of both publications ap
pears to be to establish a casus belli. The
Austrian Government repels tho imputation in
another circular, and declares that it will ob
serve tho Gastein Convention until a regular
anil final settlement of the affairs of the Dutch
ies is made by the Diet of the Confederation.
These seem to be tho last words of Powers
about to appeal to the sword. In fact the King
of Prussia has reviewed his body guards and
sent them to the frontier, and is preparing to
leave for headquarters.
Crop Prospects.
Virginia. —The Abingdon Virginian, says
the wheat crop in that section will be almost a
total failure—at best, not more than a fourth
of tho usual jield. To make amends, how
ever, the prospect is excellent for an unusually
large corn crop.
An assistant of tho Freedmen 7 s Bureau, who
has traveled throughout tho South, thinks the
work on some of the plantations wiil have to
be abandoned for want ol food for the work
men.
The wheat crop in this section which has
been commenced to be harvested, is proving a
better yield of a first rate quality than was
hoped for three weeks ago; the average being
considerably, a3 we are informed, more than
half of au average crop.
Micsouri —The St. Joseph Union of June
10 says: “The past few days of settled weather
have done much toward maturing the wheat
crop, and we can safely say that the prospect
bids fair for a heavy yield of this great cereal
in Northwestern Missouri, than ever before
known. We are glad of this, for the gather
ing of the present crop must reduce the price
of flour.”
Texas.—A gentleman who traveled lately
through Northern and Central Texas, Bays the
people have harvested the finest crop of wheat
ever raised, and have since planted the same
ground in corn, the crop of which promises to
be exceedingly fine.
Alajuma. —The Mobile Tribune contains the
following extract from the letter of a planter
at Montgomery, who has planted 2,500 acres in
cotton. It is dated Ifth ins;:
We are hopelessly in the grass. I have 500
acres or more of cotton that have not been
touched with a hoe lam satisfied that a large
area will be thrown out from grass, whilst the
rivers and creeks have overflown their bottoms
and partially or wholly destroyed the crops. I
saw a man Saturday who has lost every acre,
and say3 many of his neighbors are in the same
sad fix I have lowered my figu-es to half a
crop, say 500 bales, and think it a full estimate,
unless with more than usually favorable sea
sons. The stands wrre had to start with, and
are being daily injured more and more inefforls
to get the grass and briars cleaned away, which
in all the most fertlio spots completely en*
velopo the bottom. There v/ili not be as
much corn raised as there.v.as last year.
Truly W. C B.”
In anticipation of C authorizing the
cieatioa of more National Banks several .State
banks have already filed their applications for
conversion into the same wish currency bureau.
Thq total number of banks is 10515 ; circula
tion $280,263,bhU, of which amount $1,358,-
215 were issued last we. k.
Par dined. —John ohetman, sentenced at
the last term of Bussell Circuit Court, to con
finement in the Penitentiary for three years, for
hotse stealing, has bi.en pardoned by Gov. Pat
ton.—Alabama paper.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV Ntßgg?
THE «OV£RNIH£IIT ANID THE SOI) fHERA' RAILWAYS.
iQisstatf nicnts as lo Ihc President’s Course in Regard to the Railways In the south—Pads
off the Case, with the Official Figures.
Correspondence of tho New York Times.
Washington, May 27, 18GC
Amoug the most malicious of all tho malicious
statements made b y the Washington correspon
dent of the New York Tribune, for the purpose
of injuring the President, and placing him in
a false position belore the people, is that em
braced in the following paragraph, . which
appeared among the Washington telegrams in
the Tribune a few days ago.
“Without the authority of law President
Johusou, among his earliest acts of reconstruc
tion, ordered the safe of Government railroads
and railroad running stock, iron and materials,
to an enormous amount to Southern men, on
credit; he directed the Quartermaster in charge
to turn over the properity, and take the pur -
chasers’ notes, payable monthly, up ,to two
years ; the value of the property thus nomi
nally sold, but iu reality given away, was pro
bably $20,00(5,000. Ut -course the notes, as
they fell due; were not paid, and it was never
intended they should be paid They are under
protest here to millions. The Government
holds chattel mortgages on property, all in
rebel bauds ; that has been consumed iu large
part ; in part has changed hands ; and tho
balance oi which ia used in defiant disregard
of the contract of purchase. The President
refuses to permit proceedings to compel pay
ment, or to recover possession of any portion
to,Uys. amount of the public prop
eflff* *“ .... -
The above has been copied'toxTenshiWpSy
the Radical Press, and referred to as illustrating
the “President’s policy,” and as showing his
“reckless partiality tor tho Southern people.”
Had tho unscrupulous writer of that paragraph
taxed iiis canning to its utmost, he could not
have produced a greater number of untruth
ful assertions in the same number ot lines. In
ail that was done with reference to the sale
aud turning over of the railroads and rolling
stock, ttrt President, the Secretary of War,
Maj. Gun. Thomas, and the Quartermaster-
General had full authority of law. Except as
to one matter, of recent date, Johnson had,
personally, nothing to do with the disposition
of the roads and stock, save to approve the
General Orders prepared by the Secretary of
War, under which the sales or transfers took
place.
Those Gonefal Orders were published in all
the leading journals, and set fortn tho terms
and conditions of tiunsfer aud 6ale. The
times and places of sales were well known,
and when the latter took place they were at
tended by the leading railroad men and capita
lists cd the country. The whole amount of
sales for cash and credit was about $20,000,-
000. About twoxthirds of tho entire sum was
for cash, which was, of course, deposited with
the United States Treasurer to the proper credit.
As shown by the statement in detail hereinafter
set forth, and copied from, the official records,
the sum total of sates on credit was $7,400,»
690,61. The total indebtedness of the railroads
STATEMENT OE SALES 01’ RAILWAY MATERIAL MADE BY THE UNITED STATES TO RAILROAD COMPANIES
UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
m , „ , „. . . _ u Interest lo Total Balance
, noad. Original I nrchaseg April 1, ? 6G Indebtedness Payments April I,’GG
Wills Valley $30,248 52 S!»C0 58 $31,209 10 $1,300 00 $29,909 10
Edgefield and Kentucky 114,772 80 3,424 25 118,197 11 118 197 11
Mucon and Bruuswiok 93,237 50 000 02 93,897 52 07,002 21 20325 31
Montgomery and West Point 38,559 00 1,140 1G 39,699 82 5,506 76 34 133 06
Southwestern 40,159 89 46,159 89 40,159 89
K° me u . ,™. 22,086 05 491 25 22,577 30 3,010 45 19,560 85
Memphis and Ohio 106.929 13 3,222 28 110,151 41 15,283 57 94 867 84
Memphis, Clarksville&Louisv. 337,082 36 9,216 89 340,299 25 150 00 340’149 25
Mississippi and Tennessee 127,750 52 3,237 30 130,987 82 27 414 70 103573 12
Alabama and Florida 79,021 04 1,743 98 80,705 02 7,233 75 73531 27
East Teunessoo aud Georgia 366,183 02 13,714 69 379,897 71 23,644 60 356 253 11
Muscogee 5,244 20 164 12 5,408 32 .1,316 45 4,091 87
Macon and Western 83,638 15 ' 83,638 15 59,305 04 27,333 11
Nashville and Cbattauooga 1,566,551 73 58,280 50 1,624 832 23 59,995 24 1 664 836 99
Term A Alabama Central 84,143 00 3,168 36 87,311 36 20,779 39 06,531 97
Mobile and Ohio 505,143 70 12,985 89 318,12 949 123,890 35 394.233 14
Mobile and Great Northern 18,036 72 399 75 18,436 47 1484 62 10 951 85
Memphis and Charleston 547,495 09 ’9,321 79 556,815 18 14’,089 07 542 126 51
Alabama & Tennessee River 183,270 40 5,452 41 188:728 99 15 340 18 173.'588 7 2
Miss, Gainesv. & .Tuscaloosa 33,476 39 1,096 45 34 572 84 ’ 34 572 84
Ga. Railroad and Banking Cos. 11 935 05 11,935 05 11 935 05' ’
New Orleans & Ohio 32,160 00 981 65 33 13165 ’ 33 13160
Naßhville & Decatur 135,171 92 2,726 14 137,898 06 22 046 25 115 251 85
Western and Atlantic 472,944 66 17,209 54 490,154 20 ' 490’154 2G
Central Southern 77,180 32 2,900 48 80,092 80 19 059 45 01 033 31
V. Tennessee & Virginia 205,055 65 10,195 15 275,850 70 7,150 94 268 099 75
Southwestern Iron Company 32:515 00 32 515 00 32 515 00
Adams Express Company $4,301 45 4 361 45 4 36145
Nashvi'!e& Northwestern 622,995 20 21,352 13 544,347 39 21445 20 52” 902 19
Mississippi Central 63,960 00 1,181 38 65,141 38 5 468 03 59’673 35
N. Orleans, Jackson &Gt. N. 200,797 58 4,276 56 205 074 14 34 418 75 170’055 39
Tennessee & Alabama 108,692 68 4,096 83 112,789 51 20,802 59 85986 92
Selma & Meridian 146,327 92 3,651 23 149,979 15 53 967 78 96 011 37
Virginia & Tennessee 102,880 00 2,040 44 104,920 44 ■ 1049‘>0 44
Wilmington & Weldon 110,000 00 1,575 04 111.573 04 3,947 65 1071625 39
Atlantic A North Carolina 51,453 93 1,207 91 52,66184 4 854 28 47 807 50
Western North Carolina 14,269 82 311 44 14 581 26 1863 88 12717 38
Petersburg 65,000 00 503 83 65.503 83 14,797 23 50700 60
Virginia Central 70,000 00 3,158 87 73,158 87 4 424 71 68 734 16
Richmond, tred’gh & Potomac 7,449 27 7,449 27 7 449 27
OraDge & Alexandria 90,395 74 90,395 74 ’ 90 395 74
Alexandria, Loudou & Damps 62,592 96 1,142 31 63,735 27 63 735 27
Manassas Gap 4,623 51 06 74 4* 690 25 309 09 4,381 10
McMinnville k Manchester 20,310 00 182 79 20 492 79 20 492 79
South Carolina 23,458 50 211 12 33,608 02 23 669 62
Memphis & Little Rock .151,979 73 151,979 73 151 979 73
Sao Antonio At Mexican Gulf 48,775 19 48 775 19 to
N. O , Opelousas & Gt. West, 113,773 45 113,773 45 113,773 45
. „ .. ® 7 ;f o0 ’. 6yo 01 *207,655 35 $7,608,345 96 $768,055 47 $6,839,690 49
In addition to, the siGB,Go.> 47 paid (which has been, about half in cash and half in vouchers
.or transportation services) there are also, undergoing adjustment in the Treasury Department,
about $200,000 of accounts, duo the railroad companies tor transportation services, applicable
to tbeir indebtedness. The I’ostoffice Department is withholding perhaps, abont $50,000 of ac
counts due for mail services, also applicable.
The Public Detlol Alabama.
The public debt of Alabama is thus stated by
Gov. Patton in his message to the legislature:
Description of bonds. Am’t. An’l int. Int. due.
Five per cent, coupon
bonds, payable in
New York $2,109,000 $105,450 $308,400
Five per cent, coupon
bonds, payable in
London 648,000 32,400 32,400
Six per cent, coupon
bonds, payable in
London 688,000 41,000 41,280
Aggregate Am’t. $3,445,080 $179,130 $442,080
The above is entirely a part from the domes
tic debt, which is held chiefly by the common
school 16th section fund. The comptroller,
Hon. M. A. Chisholm, gives the following
figures :
Annual int.
Six per cents, issued to
the School Fund $1,710,00844 $102,600 50
Eight per cents, issued
to University Fund 300,000 00 24,000 00
Eight per cents, issued
to Valueless 16th Sec
tion Fund 97,091 21 7,767 30
Aggregate Amount, $2,107,099 61 $134,367 80
Which interest is paid by an annual appro
priation, the principal sums being considered
irredeemable trust funds.
The debt contracted during the late war, and
which has been repudiated under President
Johnson’s conditions precedent to state recon
struction, was briefly as follows:
Eight per cents, payable principal
and interest at Mobile $ 673,500 00
Eight per cents, payable principal
and interest at the State Treas
ury % 3,171,000 00
Six per cents, payable principal and
interest at the State Treasury 2,085,000 00
State Treasury notes issued, without
interest 4,042,680 00
State Treasury notes (change bills)
without interest 3,122,551 95
Aggregate amount issued, $13,094,731 95
The last two paragraphs have been inserted
simply parenthetically as matters of record.
The domestic debt is a matter of local- impor
tance only, and the war debt no longer exists.
Our subsequent remarks will therefore be con
fined strictly to the debt proper, or that which is
held beyond the limits of the State.
The interest on the New York series of bonds
is payable semi-annually, May Ist, and Novem
ber Ist. The amount ol interest to be Fovided
annually for these bonds is $lO5, 4- • ® ?. e
interest paid included that due, * o '" , ’ ’
and hence at the same date in 80 0 . h But of
due four years interest, or $4 > •
this amount $53,400 had already been P»»d
Ihe Bank of Mobile for distribution, so that the
balance due and unpaid is I ss by that amount,
namely, $368,400.
to the Government, Including interest up to
the Ist of April, 18GG, was $7,608,345 90. Ou
this there have been paymeuts amounting to
$768,655 47; leaving a balance due the Gov
ernment, on the Ist day of April, of $6,839,090
49, from which is to be deducted about $250,-
000 of accounts In favor of railroads for trans
portation, etc , now undergoing adjustment.
So that the whole indebtedness to the Govern!
ment is at this time about $0,600,000. This is
secured by bonds to double the amount of
original Indebtedness, and the Government
has, beside, a lien upon the property sold and
turned over to the Railroad Companies, wh'ch
authorizes the seizure ‘of the property upon
default of payment of any of the installments
when due.
All the property sold or turned over was first
appraised by disinterested persons, and a fair
valuation fixed by them. The Government'
never owned the railroads proper; they were,
many of them, owned in whole or in part by'
the State. A State cannot commit treason, and
the property thus owned could not be confis
cated. The roads were turned over to their
owners, and the rolling stock, etc., captured
from the rebels as rebel property, and also
that furnished by our Government was all that
was sold. In one iustanco recently—the case
already referred to -the President was applied
to for an order to stay proceedings against a
railroad, and to prevent the summary seizure
.ul the road under the lien which the Govern
ment Tiolds. •"'
The President found that this company haJ
paid up the interest due the United States, and
part of the principal, that it had been paying
off the accumulated coupons and indebtedness
that had accrued during the rebellion, and that
these extraordinary payments wero about as
much as could bo asked ot the railroad, which
would be seriously embarrassed, and probably
ruined, if also compelled at once to pay the an
nual installments due the Government. The
payments already made had enhanced the
Government’s security to that extent, and a
stay of legal proceedings would not jeopardize
the interests of the United States.
Under these circumstances the President
signed an order to stay proceedings for the
present. And this is his only act or participaa
tion personally in the whole matter of sales
and transfers on railroads, rolling etook, &0.,
since his approval of the General Orders here
tofore referred to. The other failure to pay
the monthly installments has boen brought to
Mr. Johnson’s notice, and he does not, there
fore, refuse ‘‘to permit proceedings to compol
payment,” as charged by the Tribune. The
notes of these railroad companies are not “un
der protest here to millions,” aud the whole
statement of the Tribune’s correspondent, from
beginning to end, is made up of exaggeration
and reckless misstatements of facts. The fol
lowing, taken from the olhcial records, is a
correct
The interest on the London bonds, which is
payable semi.-annually, January 1 and July 1,
was paid up to January 1, 1865, and hence at
the same date, 1866, only one years’ interest
was due and unpaid, viz : on the five per cent.
$32,400, and on six per cents $41,280, or to
gether $73,680
United States District Court .--Judge Bus *
teed Presiding—Lad Day’s Proceedings. —This
Court met at its usual hour. A number of
cases were finally disposed of on the payment
of costs.
Cross motions having been made by Caw
kins, Moiris et al.\fo bail the justly celebrated
Mitchel cotton, (193 bales,) they were denied,
and an order was given that the marshal sell
the property at the expiration of thirty days, if
the Attorney General, ad interim, does not di
rect a stoppage of the proceedings in this Court
against the cotton.
The whole of the docket was then adjourned
over until the November term. •
Thus has closed the session of this National
Court in our midst. The Judge and Cierk, we
presume, will go to the milder climate of tho
North, there to enjoy the steamingj weather ;
the District Attorney will proceed to generate
more “costs,’’ and the enterprising Marshal
will once more take himself to his rounds,
hunting up the “faithful few.”— Montgomery
Mail, 15 Ih.
Arkansas.—A cotemporary states that some
excitement was created in the neighborhood
of Mrs. Babb, opposite Friar’s Point, a week
ago, by the repeated assertions of one of the
negroes that a mule had spoken to him, a fact
which his actions seemed to corroborate. Ihe
circumstances, as related to us by'good author
ity are as follows : The negro was plowing
with the mule, when he became exasperated
at its slowness and began to whip it unmercH
fully; whereupon the mule shook the harness
otf of himself, und confronting th * negro or-*
dered him to “cease whipping him, but to go
home aud prepare, for the day of judgment
, was soon coming and he would meet his j ust
reward.” The negro immediately fled to tbe
house and related the occurrence, laboring the
while, under the most intense excitement. The
negro is now a raving maniac and has to be
confined; but before tbe attack of the malady
he could not under any circumstances be in
duced to go near the prophesying mule.
Prince Humbert, son of Victor 'Emanuel,
was offered the comm nd of a corps d' arrnes,
and declined it. *‘ll I command a corps,” be
is reported to have said, “and am defeated,
people will say that this comes of giving im
portant commands to inexperienced persons.
If I am Victorious, my chief of staff will get
all the credit. 1 prefer commanding a divi
sion and doing what I am ordered.”
The greatest test ol agricultural implements
ever made in America, will begin at Auburn,
N. Y- July 20,.h, under tho auspices of tbe
New York State Agricultural Society.