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OLD SERtES, VOL. LXXV.
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The Northern So (tiers.
There can lx; no fact more clearly estab
lished by the teachings of History than that
of the forgiving magnanimity of the sol
dier. The wars of the old world, both
foreign and internal, have developed in a
remarkable degree this active and honora
ble virtue amongst its heroes and chief
tains. We have witnessed with pleasure
the exhibition of the same noble traits by
the more distinguished and worthy officers
and soldiers of the Federal army towards
their vanquished and overpowered enemies.
The proceedings of the Cleveland Couyen
tioii will form one of the brightest pages
in the history of their glory arid renown,
it is true, and the more disgraceful to
them that it is no, that quite u number of 1
those who fought in the rear of the Eedfcu
r«t m iHynwPWMmimwvewfUrGH* WiWPHW*
property of their discorrifittcd antagonists. |
Hut the true and gallant soldiers, North
and South, have shown that, the battle
over, they can grasp each other’s hand
with the warm and generous feelings which
have distinguished the more honorable and
magnanimous of their class, both here and
in the old country.
The following incident related by a Gen
eral officer of the Confederate army, while
commenting upon the aspect of affairs at
the North, shows that the race of great
and good men is not yet extinct even in
Yankee land. Gen. J>. 11. Hill, in a late
number of the Land v:c Love, says : “Hut
wo confess we look for more good from the
‘Soldier’s Convention.’ The men who
have had mutual hate knocked out and
mutual respect knocked in by bard blows,
are the men after all, to cement the Union, !
if that delicate operation can ever be done. [
We hope that we will be pardoned for a \
pcnonal incident in this connection. We
had two particular friends in the old U. S.
army: the one born North of the Susque
hanna, the other South of it. Both ad
hered to the U. S. Government. The |
Northern man took the field and fought us ;
obstinately; the Soutnron kept out of j
harm's way, but secured a good paying
position, a; a teacher. After the war, we
wrote to the latter a brief business letter, .
which he refused to answer. The former,
learning that we had fallen into the hands
of the ‘Blessed Bureau’and other benevo
lent institutions, sent us a kind invitation
to bring the wife and little rebs to spend
tli'i summer months with him. It is easy
in this case to answer the question, ‘which ■
now of these two, thinkest thou, is neigh- 1
bor unto him, which fell among thieves?’ ” ■
Secretary Stanton.
The Washington correspondent of the '
N. V. Times insists that a previous dis- !
patch which he sent to New York in rela- j
tion to the resignation of Mr. Stanton j
was strictly correct. He says, under date
of the 18th inst. :
“.My (li'pateh of night beforo lust, an
nouncing Umt Mr. Stanton bail written n
letter to the President asking to bo relieved
from the position ofSoeretary of War, lias
created'n sensation here, and throughout
the country, judging from the inquiries
made, verbally, by mail and by telegram.
Tim newspaper who failed
to obtain the information have,ln some in
atanejs, attempted to discredit my state
ment. Notwithstanding these denials by
correspondents, who absolutely know
nothing about the matter, and are not in
the confidence <>J; those who do know all
about it, 1 again assert upon the highest
authority that Mr. Stanton bail asked to bo
relieved; that lie lias signiliod Ins desire
to become the successor of lion. J. P. II do,
as Minister to Spain, mul the position will I
he givdu him unless ho chooses to decline !
it hereafter. It is also equally true that |
Lieut. Uen. Sherman lias been requested
to come hero for the purpose of assuming >
the duties of Acting secretary of War, and ■
unless it bo found that lie cannot be spared
from Ills present command ho will succeed
Mr. St an ton. Thfiro is no direct telegraphic
cotuiiuiiiiutilion between this city apd the I
point whore Uen. Sherman now is, and il i
will lake several days to get an answer !
from him.”
Our prayer is that this statement may
he true. It would he a great relief to the
whole people to know that the tyrant
Stanton was well out of the country. As
long as he remains in the cabinet there can
ho no relief to our section from the illegal
and unconstitutional military arrests which |
are daily oecurriug throughout the entire I
South. We do not bcliovo that Genera!
Sherman, if in control of the War Depart
ment, would sanction such interference
with the civil authorities as we have
witnessed during the last eighteen months
under the reign of Stanton. At any rate
we will gladly welcome any change in the
War Department, as one which cannot at
least bo worse than the present regime.
A Fact Worth Uemcmbcrltig.
It is a favorite declaration with the lhut
icals, that the South was guilty of cruelty
to Federal prisoners; and if au appeal is
made in behalf of Jefferson Davis they
reply by tellirg its to look at Andersonville.
It is tljo slogan of their speakers, and
appeals arc made to the prejudices and |
passions of all classes by pictures of their
maimed heroes dragging out a miserable
existence amid the horrors of that “prison
pen.'' They conceal the well-known fact
that we did everything in our power to
exchange the inmates of Andersonville for
our captives who were pining in Northern
prisons ; and they forgot also that, accord
ing to the prison statistics, the mortality of
Confederates in Northern prisons was
greater than that of Federals in the hands
of the Confederates. An official report of
the war department issued some time ago,
states that the number of Union prisoners
taken during the war was 260,940; the
number of Confederates taken was 260,000.
Tlukoumber of Uh’On prisoners who died
in confinement was 22,576, or a little over
eight per cent: while the number ot' Con
federates who died in Northern prisons was
26,430, or thirteen per cent.
This statement ought to stop the mouths
of those orators and writers who are for
ever prating of Audersonville. We com
mend it especially to the harper who harps
for Hater's M Wkly.
Receipts and Expenditures.
From the annual report of Secretary Mo-
Cnlloeh— a portion of which lues been pub
lished—we learn that the income of the
Government from all sources, exclusive of
loans—that is, from customs, public lands,
direct tax, internal revenue and miscella
neous sources—for the year ending Jutie
30, InM, was over ssst>.i»\ooo. The total
expenditures for the same period, inclu
ding every department of the government,
amounted to more than $515,000,000. There
was cash on hand to the amount of over
$130,000,000, and if the gold in the treasury
be expressed in currency, the amount
would bo $100,000,000. The excess of re
ceipts over expenditures was nearly $38,-
000,000, and the expenditures were much
larger during a portion of the fiscal year
than they will be hereafter. With such an
income, and anything like economy in the
expenses of the government, the public
debt can easily be paid, and the currency
gradually come back to a specie standard.
If peace-real, substantial peace can be
secured, there need be no trouble about
the financial atliursof the government.
The \ irginia and Tennessee railroad,
from Bristol tj Lynchburg, will be con
solidated with the Southside road, making
one trunk line from Bristol, Tennesse, to
Norfolk, on the Atlantic coast.
The \\ ashington Republican of the 15th
inst., says : “Gen. Beauregard called at
Gen Grant's headquarters on Saturday
and paid his respects to the General-in-
Chief. The ex-llebcl chieftain was cour
teously received.”
’ A Few Thoughts for our City Fathers.
We are informed by several of our lead
ing merchants that the tribute collected by
the City Council upon the of cotton is
! doing the trade of the city great injury,
and that the planters who still send their
cotton here arc complaining very much
tliat they arc required to provide for a
portion of the expenses of the municipal
Government. It is true that the amount
is small —one-fourth of One percent., or
about forty cents per bale at the present
price for cotton —but it is quite enough to
provoke the opposition and discontent of
our country friends.
We believe that it would be tetter to re
mit this tax at once. It Is well known that
the mass of mankind are as strongly moved
and as obstinately prejudiced by small
things as they are by matters of greater
importance. If the planter feels that it is
wrong for him to be required to pay the
tax —that his necessity for trading in our
market is taken advantage of, to work
upon him an injury, the effect upon the
prosperity of the city is just as great and
decided, whether he is right or wrong in
his conclusions.
We even go further, ard insist that
every restriction or btmlien put upon the
trade of the city must eventually injure its
prosperity and retard its growth and de
puinaniem. .Jim if no. course tote adopted
fy our City Fathers is that which will in
sure the necessary amount of revenue re
quired for the proper administration of our
city affairs, and at the same time foster
and encourage trade and traffic from the
country, and thereby build up and estab
lish the commerce of the city. This tax
upon the sales of cotton is liable to the
further objection that a large amount of
cotton which comes here, and is sold on the
streets, is not subjected to the payment of
the tax, while the planter who sells through
the agency of a com mission merchant has
the amount of the tax included in the bill
of charges which is rendered by his mer
chant.
Again, some of the commission mer
chants in their great anxiety to please their
patrons, pay the tax themselves, and do
not include the amount in their accounts
with the planters. This is the source
of numerous complaints from planters,
when factors do not feel that tlie> should
pay this assessment upon their cotton
sales. It may be replied that the commis
sion merchants might settle the matter
between themselves, and thereby prevent
any further trophic on this score. To this
we answer that the matter could be ar
ranged only in one of two ways. first, by
the agreement of the merchants to assume
and pay the tax themselves, of Second, by
agreeing among themselves to charge the
tax in every instance against the planter.
We have seen that the planter’s prejudice
against the payment of this tax is such
that to compel them to pay it, tends to
drive them from our market, and hence
such a plan should not bo adopted, if it
could be fairly avoided. To insist upon
the payment of the tax by the merchant,
would be extremely unjust to them and
injurious in the highest degree to their
business and prosperity.
W e must then look for some other mode
of relief. We confess that the easiest
solution of the difficulty which presents
itselt to,our mind, is the repeal of the tax
by the City Council at the earliest possible
period. We hope that our city fathers will
give this matter their serious and early
attention.
Scarcity of Money.
There can bo no doubt of the fact that
the banking capital now employed in this
city is wholly inadequate to meet the
wants of our business men. Since the
opening of the cotton market this fall, this
deficiency in the supply of money has
been severely felt by our cotton merchants,
and consequently has had a depressing ef
fect upon the cotton trade. Our market
has been for some weeks past almost on
tirely without the funds necessary to move
forward the cotton now coming in from the
country. As the season advances and cot
ton comes in more freely, the stringency \
in the money market.- growing out of the
absence of banking facilities, will be more
and more severely felt.
Before the war, this city profitably em
ployed over three millions of banking capi
tal. Now we have but a single bank, and
it employs but the meagre amount of 500,-
000 dollars capital. With this small
amount of banking capital, it will be im
possible to meet the wants of the business
which ought to be transacted here. We
may look for a partial alleviation of our
condition, when English buyers come into
the market to make their purchases of
cotton. But even if we could control for
eign capital sufficient to move forward the
cotton crop, the legitimate wants of the
business men of the city would require the
use of more than double the amount of
money now at our control.
Wo believe tliat the business of the city
will seriously suffer unless we can increase
our facilities for raising ready money, and
that this injury will become more and more
pressing as the business season advances. It
is with the view to avert this inconvenience
jfcgtec call the attention of our people to
VHuhjcct now. We arc very well aware that
our merchants find business men have
j pressing demands myn their means iu the
j conduct of their regular business, and that
owing to the heavy losses incurred by the
| results o l ' the war, they arc not in a condi
| tion to withdraw much of their capital for
I the purpose of converting it into banking
I capital, yet there arc quite a number who
j might aid to some extent such an enter
i prise.
The planters who are sending their crops
to this market, will have, some of them at
least, a balance of cash on their hands for
investment, and if our merchants who are,
so deeply interested in the matter will call
their attention to this pressing want, doubt
less many of them will be glad to take
stock in anew Bank. There being no
slaves this year to be bought, planters will
lie looking round for a suitable-investment
of their surplus funds. We bel.evc that
no more profitable investment can be made
just now than that of Bank stock in this
city. We learn that the only Bank which
we have is charging and receiving interest
at the rate of 20 per cent upon their loans
to the business public. W e doubt it our
planting friends can find any scheme of in
vestment in the city, or out of it. which
will certainly pay as much as banking
capital is paying here.
We hope that our business men will con
fer together and take some action looking
to the speedy opening of anew Bank or
Banks in our midst. We have thrown out
the foregoing suggestions more with the
view of calling attention to the subject than
to make any arguments in favor of an in
crease in our banking facilities. We shall
Ik? pleased to have the views of our leading
merchants and capitalists in relation to this
important subject.
Southern Exiles. — Mr. Kendall, of
the New Orleans Ptavume, who is cow in
l’ai-is, writes that he has seen General
Toombs, and that he is getting along pleas
antly, but intends coming home this win
ter. as do many others who are in the same
| boat with him.
die also saw Geo. N. Sanders, whose
hair is long aud bushy, as of old. lie says
if George has been gagged in Paris, it has
been with good living. He sp:aks well of
Horace Gieeley—muc-li better than of same
Others —and talks of going to Russia.
Virginia Porcelain. —A Porcelain
Company is organized in Virginia, with a
capital stock of $250,000, of which 20 per
cent has been pftid in. A little ware has
been made, which is pronounced of superior
quality. Funds are needed to put the
; Company fairly at work.
The Baltimore Police Commissioners.
The telegraphic reports of the issue be
tween the Conservatives and the Police
Commissioners in Baltimore have for some
days looked ominous of a serious collision.
The Conservatives allege that the Judges
of elections appointed by the Cominis 1
sioner- are incompetent, that they have
ordered the police Magistrates to refuse
bail in the cases of persons arrested, until
the election was over ; that they connived
, at the refusal of the Judges to receive the
; votes of persons who were duly qualified to
cast the same ; and that they selected as
| extra policemen for the occasion, men
whose personal as well as partizan charac
ter rendered then, unfit for the positions,
j that by the illegal conduct of these Judges
i only one-sixth of the voters of the State
\ are allowed to go to the polls. Their re
moval is therefore demanded.
The Radicals maintain that their sole
offence is in enforcing the law so stringent
ly that returned rebels and Southern sym
pathisers cannot register without commit
ting perjury.
The general complaint culminated in
a Convention, composed of Representa
tives of the different Wards of the city,
and assembled in accordance with resolu
tions adopted by the Sixth Ward John
son Club. Great unanimity characterized
thoroughly in earnest, and determined, if
possible, to procure a reform in the city
government. A Committee was appointed
to wait upon Governor Swann, and urge
upon him the necessity which exits for the
exercise of his prerogative of the removal
of the Police Commissioners.
The Governor received the delegation,
and proposed to hear the charges against
the Commissioners. They declined to ap
pear in person, hut were represented by
Messrs. Stockbridge, Alexander and Stcl
ling, who denied the jurisdiction of the
Governor, but averred their readiness to
answer before a court of competent juris
diction. The Governor decided that he
had jurisdiction, and the Counsel of the
Commissioners withdrew. Indications of
resistance to the authority of the Governor
being manifest the telegraph informs us
that the Governor has issued a proclama
tion warning the leaders that in the event
of riot or bloodshed, they will he held to
the strictest accountability, and the power
of the State will be exhausted to bring
them to prompt and merited punishment.
"The Mountain Coming to Mahomet.
The Buffalo Express notices the removal
of a large woolen manufacturing establish
ment from Scotland to that city. It is
proposed to manufacture woolen goods on
a large scale, making a speciality of Bal
moral skirts. This movement results from
the manifest advantage which must accrue
the British manufacturer, in locating
his factory convenient to the raw material,
thus avoiding heavy freights and also en
abling him to put his goods in the hands
of the American consumer free of the
heavy revenue charges which would bo
levied on the same goods if manufactured
abroad.
The advantages which have induced this
discerning Scotchman to transfer his wool
en mill to Buffalo, which is a desirable
wool market, should also influence the
cotton lords of Manchester to establish
factories in the cotton districts of the
South. Would it not be wise for our
State Legislatures to offer some special
inducement to such investments, by ex
empting capital invested in .manufactures
from taxation for a certain period ? This
idea was entertained with considerable
favor years ago, and it applies with in
creased weight to our present condition.
The Eight Hour System.
A few clays ago the eight hour system
was adopted in the Government Printing
Offices in Washington. Under this sys
tem journeymen were to receive §24 a
week for eight hour’s work, and 50 cents
per hour for extra work previous to mid
night, and 75 cents per hour for every
hour’s work after midnight. The private
printing offices in Washington—those not
engaged on Government work —protested
against the new arrangement, and urged
that it was in violation of the standing
usage to make the government rates the
same as those current in the city. In re
sponse to this protest the Treasury depart
ment has refused to pass the bills of the
Superintendent of the Public Printing, and
the printers in the Government Printing
Bureau refused to work, and called a meet
ing to determine their course in the prem
ises.
Terrible Tornado in St. Louis. —A
most terrific storm visited St. Louis on
the 21st, doing an incredible amount of
damage. The storm came from the South,
bearing little to the Eastward. It lasted
fifteen or twenty minutes, ar.d was about
a quarter of a mile wide when ft first
struck, but grew narrower as it proceeded
North. Scores of buildings were unroofed
and hundreds more or less damaged. Trees
and fences were uprooted in every direc
tion. Shutters, signboards, timber, and all
loose tilings were carried through the air
almost like feathers. No lives are yet re
ported lost, but [several persons were se
riously injured. The loss is estimated at
SIOO,OOO.
Insanity op the Empress Carlotta.
—The Paris Kationale of the 7th, says
that at first her state of mind was attrib
uted to nervous excitement, caused by anxi
ety and disappointment, but latterly symp
toms leave no doubt as to the terrible
malady, and give no hope of her. The
Count de Flanders has been summoned to
Koine, where he is witnessing the lugu
brious and dramatic episode of an enter
prise which has produced nothing but dis
aster. The Brussels Echo of the 9th says:
News received here from Rome* states that
the mental crisis has greatly subsided, and
her majesty has been enabled to under, take
i the journey to Mermore, accompanied by
the Count de Flanders.
A New Alliance.—Foreign advices
refer to an alliance between Sweden,- Den
i mark and Norway as feasible. The
Opinion Rationale in its treatment of the
subject, shows it is likely to form a serious
point of antagonism between Russia and
France in the Baltic.
It is reported that the potato rot in the
Lower Province of Canada has ceased to
; spread siuee the weather changed, and
that the grain crops suffered much less
damage frora the long-coutiuued rain than
had been feared.
The Catholic Council Photograph
ed. —The members of the Plenary Coun
cil of the Roman Catholic Church, while
assembled in the grand portico of the Ca
thedral in Baltimore, on the 15th instant,
were photographed.
The Richmond Pres's.—The following
statement shows the advertising business
of the last three months of the newspapers
of Richmond :
Richmond Tunes ?9.305
Richmond Disp<itch 6,620
Richmond Whiff _ 4.s',t>
Richmond Examiner 4.770
An Incident of Negro Slavery.—
The New York Herald, of the lSth, tells
the following:
Among the passenger-) by the train to
Baltimore yesterday evening was a colored
man. about forty years of age. who. with
his wife, had spent a few months in New
York. This* man was sold at the block in
Galveston sixteen years ago, and when the
first blast of secession was sounded all his
fellow slaves escaped in squads within a
short time. Being repeatedly offered his
freedom by.the planter, he persistently
refused, determined to share his master s
fortunes: and it was only when the final
crash came, which bereaved the planter of
his worldly substance, that tlu> faithful
Scipio was reluctantly thrown on the world,
j He has relatives in Baltimore.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3!, 1866.
Kve nts of tUe nay.
Large manufactories are now busy at
Louisville, Ky., furnishing bagging, rope,
plows, wagons, brooms, etc. The clav
pipe factory of S. R. Shephard is so ex
tensive that three hundred are made for
one dollar.
In conformity with the late law the Sec
retary of the Treasury lias ordered the ma
rine hospitals in the following places to be
sold: Norfolk, Va; Ocracoke, N. C; St.
Marks, Fla; Napoleon, Ark; Galena, 111;
and Burlington, lowa.
The telegraph in Switzerland is the
property of the State. The charge is uni
formly one franc for 25 words, or a little
over one cent per word, irrespective of dis
tance.
A Paris correspondent states that the
numerous duels reported between journal
ists in that city of late are gotten up for
the purpose of advertising the papers with
which they are connected, and that the
pistols used are loaded with blank car
tridges.
Professor A. Wood, with a party of gen
tlemen, lately ascended Mount Ilood, in
Oregon. His report establishes the fact
that Mount Hood is really a volcano, and
that it is the highest mountain in the
United States, being 17,600 feet.
Mr. Fowler, a prominent English railway
engineer, proposes to build a pontoon rail
way bridge across the English Channel,
from Dover to Calais.
A boot-blackinsr machine has made its
appearance on the streets of Buffalo greatly
to the indignation ofthe “professionals.”
Y\. 11. P. Denny has sold the Circleville
(Ohio) Union, after 34 years’ continuous
editorial service. He states, in his valedic
tory, that during this period lie wrote not
less than 8,000 columns, and all for victuals
and clothing.
The Boston Transcript gets off the fol
low fng on the prospects of the season:
“’Tis doubtful putting the news altogether,
Relating to barley, to w-heat and to hops,
Whether the cropswill weather the weather,
Or whether the weather will crop the
crops.”
Major General Thomas, commanding the
Department of the Southwest, embracing
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama,
and Mississippi, will establish his head
quarters at Louisville on the first of No
vember.
Gen. Henningson’sdistillery at Rocketts,
near Richmond, has been seized by the
Collector of Internal Revenue, for viola
tions of the statute, and as a preliminary
to an action in rem for its forfeiture to the
United States. It seems that, through ig
norance, he failed to construct certain cis
terns, which the law requires.
A Florida paper says that a number of
a orthern Radicals who went to that State
to plant cotton have entirely changed their
politics, and become good Administratun
men, on account of the three cent tax.
The health of Nashville was never better
than at present. Cholera has entirely dis
appeared from the city and suburbs, and
there are no diseases of a fatal cluracter
prevailing.
The Florida Railroad, extending from
Amelia Island to Cedar Keys, one hundred
and fifty miles, its franchise, workshops
and equipments, is to be sold on the Ist of
November next, to the highest bidder.
This is the road of which Ex-Senator Yulee
was President.
The Bombay overland mail brings ad
vices to Sept. Bth. The famine in Orissa
was fearful. The Board of Revenue has
ceased to publish the number of reported
deaths.
The Government has received official in
telligence that the last ofthe Fenian pris
oners in lieland, who claimed to bo citi
zens ofthe United States, had been releas
ed by the British Government; that his
fire arms, Ac., had been returned to him,
and he had been shipped for his home
upon a vessel hound for this country.
Four libel suits have been commenced
against tho St. Louis Democrat, and five
against the proprietors of tho Democrat.
The damages are put at §320,000.
A project is on foot for supplying Now
York city with gas manufactured at the
coal mines in Pennsylvania. It is pro
posed to convey it through iron pipes, a
distance of one hundred and fifty miles, to
the city. It is asserted that it can be furn
ished at a much cheaper sate than is now
paid.
The New York Journal of Commerce
proprietors have purchased the property
in which their newspaper has been pub
lished for thirty-five years, and refitted the
building throughout.
The weekly mortuary statistics of Now
York present the startling fact of wide
spread destitution in that city. Twelve
persons died in that city last week from
starvation. If this be the rate for seven
days at this season, what are we to expect
lie coming winter?
Hudson, Wisconsin, Shas again been vis
ited \vitl» a desolating fire, and the only
hotel that had heretofore escaped destruc
tion was burned. This is the third time
Hudson has suffered from heavy fires
within the year.
During a flag presentation to a Zouave
volunteer company of freedmen, at
Charleston, on Friday, General Scott ar
rested those wearing shoulder straps and
side arms, in violation of the general or
ders of the Department, which prohibits
military organizations of any kind in South
Carolina.
“At a late meeting in New Orleans, Mr.
Roselius stated that since the close of the
war, property in New Orleans has ad
vanced to double its former value, owing
to the surplus of Northern capital, and en
crprising people from thoNofth who xver a
not afraid to settle.”
Theodore Dwight, a well known citizen
of New York, died at his residence in
Brooklyn, recently, front injuries receiv
ed while leaping from a car in Jersey City
while in motion, on Monday.
The number of immigrants lauded at
New York, last Wednesday, was 5,091,
making 1,939,92 from the first of January
last up to the present time, against 1,502,59
arrived in the corresponding period last
year.
The Herald’s Ottawa dispatch says it is
said a serious row has occurred in the Ca
nadian Cabinet. Mr. Galt wishes to get
back in his old place as Finance Minister.
Mr. Howland, who left the Post Office De
partment for the Finace Ministership, re
fuses to go back.
An organization, beaded by several
prominent merchants and professional
men, is forming at Louisville, Kentucky,
to relieve those portions of the Southern
States devastated by tlia war.’ A commit
tee was appointed to dralt a constitution
and by-laws.
Mr. Horace Armant and Ben. Warfield
had a shooting match in Broadway Hotel,
Louisville, on the 17th. Both parties were
wounded—Warfield mortally.
Miss Julia Bryant, a daughter of <Yil
liam Cullen Bryant, has been lately travel
ing in Switzerland with a party of friends,
including General Payne.
The voice of the great reform orator,
John Bright, has failed for the time being,
and he is threatened with a chronic trouble
of the throat.
Horace Greeley is said to have already
made a hundred thousand dollars out of
his History of the Rebellion, and will pro
bablv make a still larger fortune out of it.
>irs. Ritchie, the widowed daughter of
the- late General Wadsworth, of Genesee,
Xew York, is said to be engaged to the
Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest
peers of England. Mrs. Ritchie is said to be
beautiful and distingue, and the Duke is
old and homely.
It has been ascertained by Mr. Butz.
aetino- on behalf of the Norfolk banks and
others, swindled by C. C. Flint, proprietor
of the Old Dominion newspaper, that Flint
has sailed from Quebec fc-r London,
under the assumed name of Cornwall
Barry, taking $-2,000 in gold. Severaf de
tectives have been in pursuit of Mm.
General Sweeney is now at his home in
Waterford, with his family. He has Issued
a card, in which he wishes It understood
that he has resigned the position of Secre
tary ofWar. and declined the command in
chief of the army of Ireland. Being there
fore no longer connected with that organi
zation, he does not intend to lake any part
at present in the proceedings of the Broth
.erhood.
General Sheridan, in his report of the
freedmen in Louisiana, says the prospects
of a good coUton crop are very gloomy,
iowng to the late heavy rains.
British Estimate oi Southern Honor.
The following letter which appeared in
the London Daily 2 fetes, of September
2Sth, shows that the character of the
Southern people is properly understood
and appreciated by She better classes of
our British cousins. ;NWe record with pride
such testimonials ot the English people in
support of the honor anu good faith of our
people :
The attention of; the Committee ap
pointed to watch over the interests of the
holders ofthe above loan has been drawn
to the following paragraph which appeared
inyour leading urticte ot yesterday's im
pression :
“For some time past-the supporters of
Mr. Johnson s policy have been assuring
the public that a great change was taking
place in popular feeling and opinion in the
Northern States. | On this side of the wa
ter the same tone has 'been taken, and it j
has been so confidently assumed that a
change had come over the minds of the ;
people of the North spat even the disap- !
pointed holders of vpHhless Confederate !
bonds have fluttered themselves that some.;
little value even yet belonged to the rebel i
promises to pay.” rWu
On the part of the Committee, I beg j
leave to say that they', have the greatest
confidence in the rebajr promises to pay,
provided they were permitted to do so,
and they base their c|nfidonco, not on the
information they recave from the South,
but likewise on the testimony given by
General Robert E, iqtfetefore' the Recon
gress. GeneralEeewasaskeatne follow
ing questions :
Q. —What is the feeling ol that portion
of the people of Virginia in regard to the
payment of the so-called Confederate debt?
A. —I believe, so far as my opinion goes
—I have no facts to go upon, but merely
base my opinion upon the knowledge I have
of the people —that they would be willing i
to pay the Confederate debt,
Q. —You think they would ?
A. —I think they would if they had the
power and ability to do it. I have never
heard any one in the State, with whom I
have conversed, speak of repudiating any
debt.
I trust sir, your sense of justice and fair
play wilt induce you to publish this testi
mony.
I may further add that no such political
blunder was over committed by any states
man who had the restoration of' the Union
atheirt, ascompelling the South to repudi
ate their debt, and especially this paltry for
eign debt of £2,400,000„f0r which cotton
was hypothecated. The result has been
to retard the return of prosperity to the
South, and to annihilate their credit in
Europe. They required, and still require,
money for the cultivation of their estates,
to enable them to grow more cotton, to
bacco, sugar, and repair their railways ;
they offered any terms, but that fatal word
repudiation, although forced on them, has
been tho stumbling block to their obtain
ing a shilling.
The Committee believe tliat this fatal
word, so far as the cotton loan is concern
ed, is destined shortly to be blotted out,
and then the money markets of Europe
will be again open for the promotion of
Southern enterprise, and a renewed era
of prosperity will dawn. On behalf of the
Committee.
Wm. Morgan.
No. 32 Nicholas Lane, Sept. 27.
The Last Hours of John Van Buren.
The telegraph has announced the death
of Hon. John Van Buren, which occurred
on Board the Scotia on his passage home
from England, whither he had been for the
good of his health. The mails bring the
following details of his last hours:
A TOUCHING SCENE
On Friday the supremo anxiety of Mr.
Vanßuren for the restoration of the Union
showed itself in an instance which is pro
bably one of the most remarkable in mor
tuary history. He was feeling physically
better. His mind showed, however, no
increase of directness or clearness upon
general topics, or upon any at all, except
ing that singular intensity with which he
contemplated the distracted condition of
the country. While half reclining, half
sitting up. supported by the arm of his
daughter and niece on either side, Mr.
Van Buren’s eye lighted up with unusual
brilliancy, and even in tliis_ position he
seemed to expand to the eye with the pride
and port of the orator of other days._ The
narrow cabin became a vast auditorium to
bis view, the few friends a mighty audience,
but, more than all, the interests of too
country rose supremein his mind and com
pelled utterance. He began a speech on
national affairs, and concluded it not until
he had spoken without interruption two
and a quarter hours. The gentlemen around
his bed say that it was in ail respects
worthy of, and in some superior to his hap
piest efforts. At the first lie rapidly and
perspicuously photographed the progress,
the purposes, and the problems of’the late
war, and emphasized the pledged faith of
the government that it could and should
ultimate only in a secured Union ot free and
equal States. Ho then adverted to the ef
forts of Mr. Johnson to carry out that
pledge in letter and spirit, and to have for
his inspiration and guide the unmistakable
commands ofthe Constitution, and the
generous magnanimity of tho people. This
.part of the most remarkable address was
followed by a scarification of Congress in
terms of satire, eloquence and reproach, of
which none were so capable as. he. A rapid
review of the policy of reunion and dis
union netft ensued, and he thought he was
once more addressing his fellow-citizens in
his native State. The subject was present
ed with a splendid reference to the material
; interests and historic greatness of the Em
i pire State, imperatively demanding that
i she plant herself square on the side of a
perfect Union of equal and honored States.
At the close Mr. Van Buren 'pronounced a
eulogy upon the worth, the talent, the in
tegrity ot* Hon. John T. Hoffman, such as
only a man of his strong intimacy with tho
subject of his praise, and that intensity of
personal attachment, of which he developed
such a remarkabe amount, could so grace
fully, so sincerely, and so magnetically pro
i nounce. Asa piece of composition,
whether viewed as a literary, an argumen
i tative, or an oratorical production, his dv
-1 ing address was in all respects no less a
credit to the national reputation of the
I speaker than it was a vindication and tri
bute to the cause and motives that evoked
! its utterance.
A Confidence.
Our neighbor, the Chronicle & Sentinel
has lately pointed out very striking conci
denees regarding the loss of vessels bear-,
ing the names of Andrew Johnson and
Eceninff Star. , The first named was lost,
but the passengers saved, the second had a
portion of her crew rescued by a vessel
called the “ Evening Star.’’ These are
strange juxtapositions ; but what does eur
in semens brother say to the following :
Newbrx X. October 8. —The schoon
er Constitution, Captain Smith, from Wil
mington, N. C., for New York, was off
Hatteras Inlet ,on the 7th inst., with the
Captain, mate and one man sick of typhoid
fever. All the rest of the crew had died.
She was boarded by one of the pilots and
brought intodhe inlet in a very leaky con
dition. when medical aid was furnished to
the sick by assistant sugeon Patrick Mc-
Shane, and the dead on board were buried
by a detachment of men under Lieutenant
Randall.
Observe the schooner’s title and the
dilapidated qondition of herself and crew.
Observe, too.-' that a pilot boarded and
brought her in. Observe, farther, that
medical aid was furnished by Surgeon
MeShane, undoubtedly a Fenian. We say
nothing of the gent who “buried the
dead. ’ ’ —Constitutionalist 1 9 th.
Pretty goad, neighbor ; but the paral
lel would have bfeen more perfect if instead
of a sick and disabled crew, a elan of pi
rates, had been discovered on board, seek
ingfco scuttle the old craft.
A Relic.—To * show how success has
changed the policy, or the pretensions of
the dominant party North, it is refreshing
to read the following resolution, passed by
nearly a uaanimous vote at the extra ses
sion of Congress in 1801 :
“That the present deplorable civil war
has been forced upon the country by the,
disunionists of the Southern States, now in
arms against the Constitutional Govern
ment. and in arms around the Capital;
that in this National emergency, Congress,
banishing all feeling _of mere passion and
resentment, will recollect only its duty to
the whole country: that this war is not
waged on their part in an w spirit ot oppres
sion or for any purpose ot conquest or
subjugation, orpurpo.-c o. overturowing or
interfering with the rights or established
institutions of those Jtntcs. out to defend
and maintain the supremacy of the Con
stitution. and to preserve the L don, with
all the dignitv. equality, and rigltsof the
several States unimpaired ; ana that as
soon as these objects are accomplished the
war ought to cease. ’
\ cylinder printing press is said to have
been invented iu Leipeie, which an print
11 000 sheets an hour, and costs iar fcss than
Hoe's great American press.
only adopted as extremes.
The Great Fire in Quebec!—Over Two
Thousand Houses Destroyed--'Twenty
Thousand People Rendered Homeless
—Seventeen Churches and Convents
Burned*--The Loss of Real Estate Es
timated at Three Millions of Dollars.
By telegraph we have pretty full parti
culars of the great fire which occurred in
Quebec on the night of the 14tli instant.
Judging from the accounts which have
already reached us. this terrible confiagra
i tion has been as extensive and disastrous
as the late fire in Portland. This year will
I be remarkable in future histories of the
• times for the extent ar.d destructiveness of
| the great conflagrations which have oe
| curred in the different portions of the con
j tinent, no less than for the anomalous and
' disturbed condition of the political affairs
t of the United States.
Montreal, Oct. 15.—A terrible fire oe
j curred in Quebec last night in the St. Roche
and St. Sauveur suburbs. Fifteen hun
| dred houses were destroyed. Four men
were kilted. One soldier was blown up
; and another injured.
Quebec, Get. 15. —The whole district
i west of Crown street to the. St. Sauveur
I toll-gate, nearly a mile, is devastated. Sev
enteen churches and convents are destroy
ed. Two thousand people are rendered
homeless.
FULL PARTICULARS.
Quebec, Oct. 15.—At four o'clock yes
terday morning a fire began in the house
of Jo.eqff spee.t,
the early hour of the morning but few peo
ple were out. The wind, which had blown
a half gale from the east, had slightly
abated, but still continued with such vio
lence as to cause serious apprehension,
which was afterwards, unfortunately, real
ized.
By the time the fire-brigade had reached
| the scene, Trudel’s house was enveloped in
flames. The Sappers were already there,
but there was some delay in laying the
hose and getting sufficient water, which
■was not remedied for nearly an hour.
In the meantime the fire made rapid
progress. No less than ten or twelve hou
ses were on fire, and the wooden sheds on
all sides were ignited.
By half past five o’clock, eighty houses,
all of which were built of wood, were in a
blaze. The flames, driven by the wind,
were spreading in all directions.
At 6 j o’clock, over 150 houses were con
sumed. The fire by this time had run
along St. Joseph and Notre Dame des
Angcs streets, carrying everything before
it.
The church of La Congregation stood in
great danger, but the sudden veering of the
wind saved it.
Crossing St. Yalier street, the fire soon
afterwards spread into St. Sauveur and
among its hundreds of wooden houses
raged with defiant fury. House after house
fell a prey to the flames. It was thought
that the houses to the eastward would be
saved, but the fire crept back, continuing
its work of destruction.
At 11 o’clock the whole centre of the dis-J
trict lying between St. Sauveur and the
lower streets, running parallel with the
river, was a charred and barren waste, and
having nothing to feed on there the confla
gration distributed itself in opposite direc
tions. The wind increasing again and
blowing in gusts from every direction, three
separate conflagrations were observable at
one time. St. Sauveur Church, Dunn’s
soap and caudle factory, Rees’ rope-walk
and other large buildings were in flames.
Along St. Yalier street, toward the toll
gate and streets surrounding the general
hospital and convent, another terrible fire
was raging, with even greater fury; while
at the back of Crown street, along Prince
Edwards, Jesuit and Rilard streets, the
flames were creeping back and enveloping
street after street, in spite of the almost
superhuman exertions of the soldiers and
Seamen of the Aurora.
The conflagration ceased at about five
o’clock, when there was nothing more for
the flames to feed on.
A moderate computation places the num
ber of houses destroyed at two thousand
five hundred, and the loss of real estate
property at from two millions and a half to
three millions of dollars. The number of
persons rendered homeless is estimated at
IR,O(W. The body of a man, burned almost
to a crisp, was dragged out of a house in
St. Sauveur, near St. Valier street. It
could not be identified.
Sergeant Hughes, of the Royal Artillery,
was blown up and badly, though not dan
gerously, injured.
Lieutenant Douglass, of the Aurora ., was
badly hurt by the falling of a building.
Several of the seamen received contusions,
but, so far as is known, none were seriously
injured.
Lieutenant Benn, of one of the regi
ments, ‘ had bis arm broken by a falling j
beam.
iH|,
AUSTRIA AND ITALY.
Signing of tlie Treaty of Peace-Some of |
its Principal Conditions.
The treaty of peace between Austria and
Italy, signed at Vienna on the 3d, consists
of twenty-four articles, three protocols and
a supplementary article. The ratifications
are to bo exchanged within fifteen days.
The signing of the treaty was announced
at Florence on the 4th by a salvo of one
hundred and one guns.
It was believed that the King would
ratify the treaty on Saturday, the Oth inst.
After the ratifications the Austrians will
evacuate Venetia and the Italians will make
their entry into the Province. A few days
| after the entry of the Italian troops the
j pleliacitum will take place.
The question relative to the railway guar
antee has been settled in accordance with
the Italian proposals.
! A Florence dispatch says the following
! are the principal conditions of the treaty of
peace : The mutual exchange of all prison
j ers of war : Austria consents to the union
of Venetia witli Italy; the frontiers _to be
ceded to Italy are those which constituted
the administration front of Venetia while
under the Austrian dominion; the amount
I of the debt assumed by Italy is 35,000,000
- florins, payable by eleven installments in
' twenty-three months. The Monte Lom
bardo Venetian is transferred to Italy with
its actual assets and liabilities. Its assets
are 3,500,000 and its liabilities 66,000,000
florins. YV ith regard to the Venetian rail
ways until a further arrangement is arrived
I at, the revenues of the two networks of
railway north and south of the Alps will
be allowed to accumulate in order to calcu-
J late the gross revenue which should serve
as a basis for the valuation of the diplom
atic guarantee. ■ «Tiie contracting parties
agree to prepare a convention in which the
! railroad company would take part, for the
separation of the two networks and the
completion of the unfinished railway. The
j Venetians residing in Austria are to have
the right of preserving their Austrian na
tionality. All objects of art, as well as the
exclusives belonging to Venetia, will be
restored without exception. The iron crown
of Lombardy will also be given up to Italy
| The treaties which formerly subsisted be.
tween Austria and Sardinia will again come
into force for the year, during which pe
riod fresh arrangements can be concluded.
I Another provision of the treaty stipulates
1 for the restitution of the private property
belonging to the Italian Ex-Princes, which
i has been sequestered by the Italian Gov
ernment. with the reservation of the rights
of the State, or one-third. A complete
amnesty will be accorded by both Austria
an-l Italy to all persons condemned for po
litical offences, to deserters from either
army, and to persons compromised by their
political conduct.
The City of Naples was decorated on the
. Ith with flags in consequence of the sign
ing of the treaty of peace.
A Southern Invitation to tiie Jeyvs.
—The Richmond Whig, of the 28th ult.,
had an article on ‘'lreland, the Jews and
I the South,” in which it commented upon
) the. poverty of Ireland as shown by the
i statistics of the Jews who reside ou tne
Island. Its clo-in? remarks are as follows:
‘'Terrible, indeed, must be the industrial
i condition of Ireland, when the Graemes
avoid it Neither climate, distance, dan
-1 ser nor any other cause, deters them rrom
i settling in a country in which they can turn
a pennv. AYTicrc there are do Jews there
is no money to be made; where there are
no rice fields there are no rice birds; where
; there is no wild celery there are no canvass
back aucks; where there is no trade there |
are no Jews. We had their presence in
<nc*h numbers in the Southern oi&tes as an
. auspicious sign. Instead of diminishing
here, they have probably increased. In
■ this city numerous squares, almost entire j
strests." are monopolized by them, and a
soberer, steadier or more industrious and
, law-abiding class of population not ex- !
ist. They Interfere with no one, mind their :
own business, observe their religious cere- j
monies, and pursue their own peculiar en- :
jovments and indulgences. Ye hope they
mav never leave us. V hen they do, wc
shall begin to fear that wware given to '
ruin—that what a distinguished ex-Gover- j
nor would call 'the doom of Devergdil’ :
awaits us. If there i**te be a* new Jeru- :
j aulem, let Richmond be the place,”
■ The custom receipts at New York, Bos
; ion, Philadelphia and Baltimore last week j
1 aggregated §3,061,860.
Political.
Geary’s majority in Pennsylvania is
j about 13,500. In Ohio the Abolition rna
| jority is about 40,000 ; the Democrats gain
one Congressman—Gen. Geo. IV. Morgan
defeating. Columbus Delano in the 13th
district. The Abolition majority in Indi
i ana, in 04 counties, is 10,947, indicating a
reduced majority in the State. In lowa
the majority for the Black Republicans is
about the same as heretofore.
| The New York Express argues that the
prospect of a conservative victory is en
hanced by the results of the October elec
i tions. If, under the circumstances, the
majority in Pennsylvania could be reduced
one-half, New York ought to bo carried by
25,000 majority! In ISG4 (which is used
j as a standard) Pennsylvania gave a Repub
] lican majority of 20,075, while New York
j gave a Republican majority of 6,740. The
. aggregate vote of Pennsylvania in that
j election was 572.707, while that of New
| York was 730,712. Now there seems to
j be no doubt, from the returns so far re
| ceived, that the Radicals have lost at their
! late election, at least, five or six thousand
\ of the majority given for the Republican
j candidate m 1864. Taking the meaning
; of these figures at the Radical loss, wc get
this proportional statement and solution :
A Conservative gain of 5,500 in Pennsyl
vania, on an aggregate vote of 572.707, is
! equivalent to a Conservative gain in New
i York of 7,022, on an aggregate vote of
730,712. That is at the same rate which
: the Conservatives have gained in Pennsyl
vania upon the elections of 1864, the Con
! servatives .iu N(ew York would gain 9J>22 j
,ul
The colored convention at Albany re- 1
cently adopted resolutions claiming that
the elective franchise should be restored to,
not conferred on them, and denouncing the
two hundred and fifty dollars claim clause
as unjust. The resolutions also look for
ward to the consolidation of the colored
citizens of the State as a distinct party, or
branch of the Republican organization.
The Day Book says that Brother Beech
er has made a speech, recanted his ‘‘errors, ’ ’
and lias been received back into full com
munion in the Mongrel church. Beecher
has heretofore had some little credit for
bravery and boldness in maintaining bis
opinions, but he has proved himself a
coward and a sneak of the Henry J. Ray
mond stripe. A Christian minister! (Heav
en save the mark!) who will support what
ho denounced as wrong, only four weeks
previously, is just such a Christian as we
havff always supposed Beecher to be. “The
dog has returned to his vomit”—let him
alone.
In a very stirring speech made by Theo
dore Tilton, after Mr. Beecher had con
cluded his late address, he said that he
accepted the constitutional amendment as
far as it went , but that the lately rebellious
States should only bo restored to the Union
on tho basis of universal suffrage.
So if we accept the constitutional amend
ment, that is only a salvo for other con
ditions precedent to restoration.
Public Meeting in Newton County.
Pursuant to a call previously made, tho
citizens of Newton county met at the Court
House in Covington, on the 17th inst,, for
the purpose of expressing the sentiment of
the citizens witli reference to matters which
appear in the subjoined resolutions. The
meeting was organized by calling Judge J.
W. B. Summers to the chair, and Gen. J.
P. Simms requested to act as secretary.
The object was then explained by Colonel
Capers, with some brief and appropriate
remarks. On motion, a committee of one
from each militia district was appointed by
the chair to draft suitable resolutions. The
committee consisted of Colonel H. Capers,
W. Chafin, Franklin Wright, F. 11.
Hoard, Dr. Simms, A. Livingston, T. J.
Nelms, W. L. Davis, Isam Weaver and
James L. Jones. The committee retired,
and returned, reporting the following
prcamable and resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted.
Whereas, the citizens of Newton coun
ty fully appreciating their relationship of
loyalty to the .United States, and tho obli
gations of citizenship resting upon them,
have heard with regret that certain ex
aggerated reports have been placed in cir
culation with regard to the treatment of
freedmen domiciled among them; and
whereas, in their judgment the time lias
come to make an expression of their sense
on this and kindred subjects, bo it
Resolved, Ist, That this meeting, repre
senting the citizens of Newton county, ex
press renewed determination to sustain the
legal' relationship existing between them
and the freed persons residing among them,
and to maintain rigidly and inviolate all
obligationsof contracts entered into between
tho one as employer, the other as employee.
2d. That wo hold ourselves in constant
readiness to .protect the freedmen in the
enjoyment of the rights, privileges and
immunities guaranteed to them by the
Legislative enactments of Georgia, and in ;
an official or in an unofficial capacity, as i
Judges, Jurors, Counselors or Magistrates, j
or in tho ordinary relationships of* life, will
accord to them the same inuiscriminating
justice, and give to them such advantages
of advice as we would to other persons re
siding among us.
3d That if outrages have been commit
ted upon the persons or property of freed
men, they have been committed by lawless
parties and against the wishes of the law
abiding citizens of the country.
4th. That whenever such outrages arc
brought to our knowledge, we stand pledged
to use every effort to cause the offending
person or persons to suffer the penalty of
the law at the hands of the civil tribunals
of the country.
sth. That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to Maj. Gen. Tillson, Commanding
Department of Georgia, and that they be
published in the Covington, Augusta, and
Atlanta papers.
J. vV. B. Summers, Chairman.
J. P. Simms, Secretary.
Horrid Massacre in Cherokee County.
One of the most brutal massacres that it
lias ever become our painful duty to chron
cle, occurred near Cedar Bluff, Cherokee
county, Alabama, on the morning of Mon
day, the lath inst.
Mr. Arthur Williams was moving with
his family from Bartow county of .this
State, to Texas, and' on Sunday evening
last camped for the night on the banks of
the Chattooga river, about two miles from
Cedar Bluff. The appearances indicate
that himself, wife and two little children
were ail sleeping on one bed that was
spread uut ou the ground.
When found about day break on Monday
morning, Mr. Williams and these two
children were still lying upon the bed.
dead, and it on fire. They had been killed
by an axe that was lying near. Mr. W's
head having been Tterally spilt open and
the children horridly mutilated—hut all
seemed to have been killed instantly, as
their“ Bodies still remained upon the bed.
Mrs. W. having received a terrible blow
upon the head by the axe, and oh her left
■eye, breaking her jaw bone, with her
clothes on fire, had rolled down to the wa
ter’s edge, “. and, when found, though
speechless, was still alive when our infor
mant left this awful scene.
No clue is'given to the perpetrator ex
cept that a negro* bare-footed, called ;it a
house a half mile from the place at about
ID o clock on Sunday night and got a'drink
of water. These tracks wore traced to
the place, and Mr. 'William’s shoes being
! gone, tracks with shoes were found going
from the place. AVe understand the negro
was a stranger to the gentleman where he
I got the water. — Rome Courier.
; “ Tjie Mvedereiis Arrested.—The
Rome, Georgia, Courier says : We are
"lad to learn that the negroes who mur
’ dered Mr. Arthur Williams and hisfamily
on Monday morning last have been arrest-
I ed, and confessed the crime. One ofthem
was the keeper of the ferry over Chattoo
ga river, and one—whether the same or
not, we did not learn—was formerly owned
by Col. Mat Thornton.
One confesses that he took Mr. W's gun
and severely wounded Mrs. Williams in the
head and then ravished her—and assert*
that the other killed Mr. W., and then
the two daughters with an ax. They then
made search for money, but, as they al
lege, found none.
From Mexico.
Boston, October 19. A Washington
special t<s the Journal of yesterday morn
ing states that the terms of a treaty with
the Imperial government of Mexico have
been agreed upon, and are now under pro
cess of exchange. The French troops will
withdraw within the present Vear; the j
F'nited States will assume the protection of i
Mexico, guaranteeing the French claims in j
Mexico in consideration of the ces.-ion, by
that country, of the peninsula of Lower '
California, and other territory lying south
of our present southern boundary.
New York. October 19.—The litrail s
Havana correspondent says: AY e have in
formation from a private though reliable
source, that although Napoleon has refuseu
to Mexico the services of Gens. L Ilemont
and Frient, his majesty has sent to, Maxi
milian Gen. Castalneu and the Marshal de
Gaslenfif, for the time being, to assist in
reorganizing the administration and the
army upon anew plan, likely to attenuate,
if possible, the consequences of the ap
proaching evacuation of the French troops.
The measures, however, are considered to
be too late to serve the Empire, and are
NEW SERIES. YOL.XX Y. NO. 45.
Mr. Davis Not to be Tried Until May
ft rites the Washington correspondent
i of the Charleston Courier :
It reference to a trial of Mr. Davis upon
the indictment for treason. I have learned
I from the most authentic source that it is
| determined by the Chief Justice, Judge
i Underwood, and by leaders of the majority
in Congress, that a trial shall take place,
i but not at present. There will certainly
: be no trial at the nex regular term of the
i l nited States District Court for Virginia,
i which will he held in November. Congress
| wiil. pass a law at the coming session to
| moving the. obstacles to a trial which .Jus
j tice Chase found in the allotment of Jus
j tices .of the Supreme Court to any of the
I new circuits. The law will direct such al
; lotment, or leave it to the United States
j Supreme Court to make it.
| The trial will, therefore, be set for the
| May term, one of the Justices ofthe Unit
ed States Supreme Court presiding. It
would seem, therefore, that all prospect of
a release of Mr. Davis on bail was banish
ed ; for the Chief Justice and Judge Un
derwood. have determined that he shall be
tried. So all doubt upon this subject is
! removed. It, must, be presumed, however,
l that Judge Chase, to preserve his own con
! sistency, will insist that Mr. Davis shall be
j discharged from military jurisdiction when
! he undertakes to try the case in a civil
j court.
! It he were now transferred to civil juris-
I diction he could be bailed. But it an-
I pears, from what I can learn, that lie will
i fie held by military powerj. ill thy_ _time_ for.
frnSnt. ' Gcrrit rirmffiTtine Wmoulnwfiu
j tionist, who published an argument to
j prove that there is “no treason in civil
war,” recently declared in New York, that
it (the confinement of Davis) made him
ashamed of his country. It seems that
Mr. Davis must remain in custody' for six
or seven months longer at any rate. Then,
when on trial, he will still be in civil custo
dy. It is not probable that there will be a
conviction under the indictment of treason.
But, if there should be, President John
son will no doubt interpose with Executive I
clemency.
Great Britain—The Confederate Cotton
Loan.
The following note, calling attention to
the value of the Confederate cotton loan,
was sent to the editor of tho London JVews t
September 28:
On the part of the committee, I beg
leave to say that they have the greatest
confidence in the Confederate promise to
pay, provided they were permitted to do
so, and they have the confidence, not only
on the information they receive from the
South, but likewise on the testimony given
by Robert E. Lee beforo the reconstruction
committee appointed by Congress. I trust,
sir, your sense of justice and fair-play will
induce you to publish this testimony. I
may further add that no such political
blunder was ever committed by any states
man who had tho restoration of the Union
at heart, as compelling the South to repu
diate their debts, and especially this paltry
foreign debt of £2,400,000 l'or which cotton
was hypothecated. The result has been
to retard the return of prosperity to the
South, and to annihilate their credit in
Europe. They required and slil) require
money for the cultivation of their estates
to enable them to grow more cotton, tobac
co and sugar, and to repair their railways.
They offered any terms, but that fatal
word repudiation, although forced upon
them, has been the stumbling block to
their obtaining a shilling. The committee
believe that this fatal word, so far as the
cotton loan is Concerned, is destined shortly
to be blotted out, and then the mono;, mar
kets of .Europe will be again open for the
promotion of Southern enterprise; and a
renewed era of prosperity will dawn. On
behalf of the committee.
[Signed] Wm. M. Morgan.
The Great Storm.
The storm here has been tlie sever
est ever experienced, and the damage
done will exceed $50,000. The Potomac
has risen over a foot higher than the great
freshet of 1864. All the wharves are sub
merged, and the river is filled with lumber,
out-houses and wrecks of bridges. Bla
den,sburg is ovorflowod- ;uid the i'enaea mid
embankments'about most of the residences
wasted away. Rock Creek, that separates
Georgetown from Washington, is choked
with the debris of wrecked buildings and
lumber yards. The large brick saw-mill at
the junction with tho Pojonigc is a third
under water, and every indication is that
the building will.be destroyed by the rush
ing torrent. All that portion of George
town occupied by commercial interests is
overflowing with Water from four to seven
feet deep, arid, as the tide rises to-night at
3 o’clock, considerable consternation exists
that that portion ofthe city will be ruined.
News from Harper’s Ferry to-night states
that the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers
are rapidly rising. The trains do not pass
over the bridge, and it is doubtful whether
it will stand much longer. Tho dam near
Great Falls, 15 miles tip the Potomac, is
reported broken in, and the canal is dry;
this was an expensive masonry. The trains
from Baltimore were delated this morning
until after 1 o’clock by . the bridge over a
little creek near Savage Switch, 20 miles
from this city, being weakened by a land
slide, and to-night the New York train did
not leave, as it was telegraphed the bridge
had been carried away. Several sewers in
this city have'been broken in. The storm
still rages, but somewhat abated.— Wash
ington Dispatch, 14t7i.
FROM Tilt"iTiT WEST.
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Reported Mormon Outrages—lndian
Butcheries.
New York, October 19.—A IJerald’s
Leavenworth (Kansas) special, says the
Denver News publishes the following ex
tract from a private letter to Captain
Cochran : We learn that Mr. Weston,
editor of the Salt Lake Union Vedette,
was taken by the Mormons on the night
of the 3d inst., severely beaten, and given
ton hours to leave the city and take with
him several prominent gentiles. Mr.
Weston refuses to leave, and denounces
the Mormons in the bitterest terms. From
the frequent occurrences of outrages by the
Mormons on the gentiles, serious trouble
may be looked for.
Letters from Pulaski and Denver apply
for arms and ammunition for protection
against tlie Indians, who are reported to
have killed fifteen persons and made
prisoners of one family.
A Tribune Leavenworth special says
dates from Puebla, Colorado Territory,
October 18th, say that the Ule Indians
are committing fearful depredations
throughout the country, stealing stock, kil
ling men, and have carried away one man’s
wild and children. Further information in
regard' to the fight at Trinidad says Col.
Alexander reached tlie scent? ju»t in time
to witness the attack on a Ranche by the
Indians. Ift; engaged then! livcfiuilesvilong
the Fur-gate road, killing thirteen;-with the
loss of one soldier killed and twb wounded;
They .pursued the Indians! Lnkwere unable
to overtake them. 'Jim Denver A’ems on
Wednesday evening says the Indians made
another-attack 5n the .soldiers and citizens.
The Indians were repulsed with- twelve
killed. They were fighting last evening,
and the result is unknown.
j Mississippi.
j New Orleans, October 16.—The Mis
-1 sissippi Legislature met yesterday in ex
tra session. The Governor, in his mes-
I -sage says that necessities of the State con
j strained him to call the Legislature to
gether. No special emergency existed,
j but a general exigency, resulting from the
1 altered and deranged condition of our
federal relations and domestic affair
He states the removal of negro troops
; from the State and the transfer of the
| Freedmen’s Bureau to officers o 1 the reg
| ular army are subjects of congratulation.
He deplores the state of the country.
: lie incloses the Constitutional Amendment.
| but presumes a mere reading of it Will
t cause its rejection. lie recommends the
! admission of negro testimony in all the
| courts.
I He requests that provisions oe made for
j the education of indigent children of C on
! federate soldiers, and tor the relief of des
■ titute and disabled Confederate and State
soldiers.
The other portions of the message are
purely local.
From Yew York.
New York, October 20,—An interest
ing suit has been commenced in the'Su
preme Court by Mr. Calvin Lewis Robin
son, against Air. Etheldred AVoodward.
Both parties, at the outbreak of the war,
were residents of. Jacksonville, Florida.
Plaintiff claims that in March. 1862, the
defendant headed a gang who burned up
a large quantity of property belonging to
him, and now sues to recover its value.
AVocdward was arrested in this city, and
held in $5,000 bad. A motion is now
made to vacate the order of arrest. The
case will be argued next Thursday, before
Judge Clark, in the chambers of the Jfu- j
prerne Court.
At the present time almost all bulpess
in the oil region of Western Canada has j
come to a stand still. Speculation has en- |
tirely ceased.
. | Georgia.
; j Judge James Jackson, of this State, has
been pardoned by the President.
! It is now said the Committee has
j determined to locate the Penitentiary a ll
j Stone Mountain. -
j Mr. Boss Crane, one of the oldest and
j most useful citizens of Athens died last
i Saturday.
j lion. Wm. Boynton. Senator from the
12th District of Georgia, died a lew days
j The number of deaths reported in Savan
i null for the week ending the 22:1 was 31,
of which only one was from cholera.
The State Road depot is nearly com
pleted, and when done will be quite a band
some structure.
_ A revival is progressing in tlie Metho
dist Episcopal Cluirch, in Savannah, under
the preaching of Rev. Mr. Wynn.
Sol. Gibbs, the ringleader of a gang of
j colored thieves in Savannah has been ar
rested. Nearly tlie whole gang are now in
jail.
The Atlanta Era lias been shown some
splendid specimens of gold found in a vein
in the 19th district of Paulding county, 25
miles from Acworth.
The friends of Zimmerman & Verdery of
Atlanta, will be pleased to learn that they
have completed the reconstruction of their
store, recently destroyed by tire, and are
again “at home, ” at their old stand.
A company is being organized in At
| Hut! 1 „ tojrn called tlm Wiuaws atrn Ou: a
• to V-.r, . :■■■ l
cheap clothing,
Judge 11. 11. Clarke has been compelled
to resign his position on the Bench, on ac
count of ill health, and Gov. Jenkins has
appointed David A. Vason, Esq., Judge
of the South Western Circuit, to till tile
vacancy, until an election can be held.
Jesse J. Glenn is named as a candidate
for Congress in the 7th District in place of
Gen. Wofford, resigned. Gen. A. J.
Hansell, ol Marietta, Dan 1. 31. Printup,
of Rome, and James L. Calhoun and Dr.
James P. Hamilton, of Atlanta, are also
announced as candidates.
The Milledgeville l r nion mentions a re
port that the committee has not determin
ed to locate the Penitentiary at Stone
.Mountain, and adds : “If the State buys
the Mountain, one or two men will get
immensely rich, and the State be made to
lose a million of dollars !
A Macon county planter thinks ho will
realize about five bales of cotton to the
hand, witli extra pickers, but that his is
the best crop of the county. Macon coun
ty, he says, however, will turn out a good
deal of cotton.
Georgiaßailroad Depot— I Tlie Atlanta
Era says the new freight depot lor the
Georgia Road lias been commenced on the
old site. We join the Era in hoping that
it may be a more comely and convenient
structure than the old one.
In conformity with tin act passed at the
late session of the Legislature, the Treasu
rer notifies the holders of over-due Bonds
and Coupons of the State, tiiat in accord
ance with the order of tlie Governor,
which precedes his notification, they can
receive for them, on presentation to this
department, new Bonds, dated Ist July*
last, due twenty years after date, bearing 7
percent, interest per annum, payable semi
annually, in January; and Ju’iy, and se
cured by mortgage on the Western & At
lantic Railroad.
There were, says the Era, in attendance
upon the Second Baptist Cnuich, in At
lanta, on Sabbath morning, representatives
from the families of no less than five of the
Fix-Governors of Georgia. These were
Ex-Gov. Brown and family, the widow of
Ex-Gov. Wm. Schley, a sister of Ex-Gov.
McDonald, a sister of Ex-Gov. Cobb, and
a grand-son of Ex-Gov. Milledge, one of
the earliest Governors of the State. Such
a coincidence of Ex-Gubernatorial repre
sentatives very rarely occurs in the same
audience.
soitSTamkrica.
Brazil—Tlie War against Paraguay.
Neyv York, October 15.— A Bio Ja
neiro correspondent says axonierci.ee
held on the 18th of August, by the com
manding officer of the Allied. army and
navy engaged in the war against Paraguay,
and it was determined to attack forts Oaru
patyand Humaita simultaneously with the
whole of their land and naya! forces.
The issue of four million dollars worth of
bonds tvas authorized by the Brazilian
house of delegates.
COSTARICA—LARGE SHIPMENT OF GOLD.
One thousand pounds weiglit of gold
have arrived in Paris from Costa Rica, ta
ken from mines conceded to a French com
pany, and worked under the direction of a
French general by President Castero. The
Paris newspapers say the enterprise of
their countrymen in Central America will
recompense the country for their failure iu
Mexico.
“Joiin,” the Next Social Problem.
—A San Franeisco corespondent writing on
the subject of immigration to the Statu of
California, thinks that the next social
problem will be the status of the Chinese.
In a few months or years he will cross the
Rocky Mountains, and begin to fill up tlie
VfttJJey ol the Mississippi As soon as the
Pacific Railroad is completed, the path will
be open to him. Millions can still be ac
commodated in the mines on the Pacific
Coast, but the South, with its fields of cot
ton, rice and sugar, is the proper place for
them, and as she is now prO.- trated by tlie
ravages of war and the effects of famine,
they are needed to recuperate her exhaust
ed energies; soon the “ndgro question”
will btf lost in the Chinese question, and
then will come up the perplexing problem
of his status in the community, his con
tracts and his privileges. Qn the first of
January, 1867, the Colorado, a pioneer of
anew line between San Francisco and
China, will commence her trips, and every
arrival will bring from one thousand to fif
teen hundred to that port. Capitalists are
already discussing tliequestion of contract
ing with Chinese companies for iuiui-fise
numbers of them to cultivate thcr cotton
fields of the South for a term of years, at
a much cheaper rate than negro- labor can
he obtained. Soon the rivalry between.the
Chinamen and the negro-will commence.
Story About Mis Braddon. —A eor
: respondent of the London Herald gives
this account of a literary feat: “Lady
I Audley’s Secret” was- originally anaoun
! ced for publication iu three volumes. The
j manuscript was jiurictnally , sc-qfe to the
| publishers, hut when the wnrk.wu ' printed
! it contained only two r Volumes and tea
pages. It had been announced thatthfg
! took wae to appear at a certain day, and
when tne blunder was discovered that day
! was almost at hand. What was to be
“done? The fn-ocihcts df Saint Bride were *
plunged info .consternation. However,
notan hour was to befffst, and th» u#M.
tidings were broken “tS’ Mi Braddon.
She pafiseda little, and then ‘How
■ long can you give me to fill tip the 600
blank pages ?’ ‘Eight days aft the utmost.’
‘You shall-have the copy in good time,’
| and-the whole copy-wasin the hands of the
| publishers four days aftcnfafdsJ Arid..
| mark it, Miss Braddon did riot interpolate'
j a single word to the two volumes already
j printed, although the novel was complete
j iu itself: she started from the last line. ”
I* President .Johnson's Purpose.—
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, remarked,
1 in the course of a stump speech the other
day—
j 'He was_ of the opinion that the result of
| the elections would have a tendency to
j modify the President’ sieelings, and that he
| had confidence that, henceforth, Congress
j and the President would get along more
| harmoniously. Gov. Brownlow, who was
i sitting near, was asked his opinion, lie
| said he differed materially with Maynard.
I He knew Johnson well, had fought him for
tort}’ years, and ho Believed he would go
I on until he would be hanged !
I "Hanged !” That is the way the Radi
cals are talking.
I iNNET.rxf; the Mississippi. —The
American Railway Times says :
The project of bridging the "Father of
A* aters 7 at St. Louis has met with such
strenuous objection that it has been aban
doned, and the railway companies, whose
roads centre there, have conceived the
idea of tunneling the river. Consent to
construct the work will be asked of. Con
gress, and as soon as it is obtained it is
proposed to begin the work. The cost is
estimated at $3,000,00 ), and the time
required for the completion of the work
three years. The tunnel will not be more
than three-fourths of a mile long.
A AViiite Man Convicted in a Flori
da Coert on Negro Testimony. —As a
noted instance of the changed condition of
affairs in this section of country, wc men
tion the fact that a full blooded white man
was arraigned in the country Criminal
Court lately, before his Honor Judge Bc>g-'
gett, on a charge of assault with intent to
kill. He was tried by a jury of white men
and convicted by negro testimony, and the
Judge sentenced him in accordance with
their verdict to pay a fine of one thou-and
dollars. — Jacksonville {Fla.) Union ,