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OLD SERIES, VOL. LX XV.
Chronicle & Sentinel.
HEM * MOOItU,
A. 31. ? HKHIT.
TERM'S O' -M M ltll’TION.
Y.
AK.I Sl'A . GA :
WEDNESDAY HORNING, IIK< EMBER 20
The Poor of tlie South.
'i he .South can never forget the noble
ili.'iritie. of Baltimore, Uiuisville anil
St. l/iuk The actions of Baltimore
ami ,St. Louis were presented in the
name ol noble ladies—noble representa
tives of noble deeds—but there was much
tangible evidence, that it received the
cordial endorsement and hearty co-opera
tion of the sterner sex, and it gives us
pleasure also to add, that among them
there were those who had heretofore
diametrically opposed past Southern po
litical P.W, and i«,liey. It is further due
to truth and ju.-tiee to record the fact
that t hero have ltetn many and repeated
iiwtamt of high-toned, lilicral, gem rous
sympathy apd aid tißqudpd by, ,
:>* "Mfcftti | Li. H
b en many individuals, in Chicago,Roches-1
Gr, Albany, Springfield, Boston, Cincin
nati, and New York Democrats, and Re
publican*—men who, touched by acommon
humanity, and actuated by the true
spirit ol Christian benevolence, have risen
above political con idorations and party
policy, and have emended substantial aid to
individual cases among our impoverished
and distressed people. We know of sever
al such instances. We bear in recollection
tlie g.-inioiis action of a Cincinnati firm,
who, at the close of the war supplied a
citizen in tin* interior of the State, a man of
large family, [tub utterly destitute, deprived
by war ofall means of support, with goods
at prime cost to sell for his own benefit.
I his was done, too, upon account, and with
out security, tlie stipulation being that the J
names of these liberal, generous-hearted |
men should never be made public. We j
know of many vorv many instances of j
generous liberality on the part of citizens j
of the above-named cities more especially j
of the city of New York. Disinterested
benevolence has also been extended by
Northern churches, particularly by the
Catholic, Episcopal and Baptist churches.
The Masonic Fraternity, too, have been
generous; and officers of the army stationed
lime, ns well as some distinguished officers
at the North. Nuw, these things-redound
to the credit of the individuals. They cre
ate individual obligations more binding
than laws, and make lasting ligaments of
grateful friendship.
But they tail to excite those emotions which
reach the great heart of the people. The
public onlysce threats of confiscation, vi
tuperation, calumny, abuse and perversion
of truth; and this produces iri difference, es
trangement and distrust. Public demon-,
strations of friendly aid and kindly sympa
thy by the Northern pe< ; -i,- towards the
South, will do more to elf h horrors of
the past--destroy sectional (inferences,
built up fraternal regard, and cement the
bonds of union, than all the Congressional
enactments and Constitutional amendments
that can be passed. Let the Northern pe»
pie threw aide the harsh, bitter, vindio-,
live denunciations of the politicians. Les
tin 'Mod men of the North rise up in pub
lic demonstration and extend friendly
aid and sympathy to the Southern
pc. r, •„ dk Avitl awaheu ata.'iponse which
they little dream of, and do more for re
construction and harmony between the two
sections than all the political schemes that
can be devised.
The drought Os the past year has been .
excessive. There lias been nothing like it
seen in tlie South since the year IsIS.
Nearly all the planters were compelled to
use whatever of credit they could command
at the close of the war to replenish tlicir
farming stock and implements. Those, who
were so unfortunate as to be within the
paths of desolation swept by war, had to
hazard all that remained to them, for bare
subsistence, 'file effects of the drought has
been most disastrous. Many, very many, are
without corn and meat to carry them
through the winter. Alas, there are too
many to be found, daily, on our streets
now, sit. the very beginning of winter, en
deavoring to obtain a sufficiency of corn and
meat for support until the genial warmth
of Spring renews vegetation.
It is with no small degree of pleasure j
and gratitude, therefore, we notice a move- I
meat like the following, which appears in
the New York .Journal of (bui/Hirec.
TUB POOR OF THE SOUTH.
The attention of the benevolent has
been directed, from time to time, to the
intense suffering of many families at the
South ; hut hitherto there has been no
organized effort to relieve the districts.
The purse of the wealthy people of the
prosperous Northern States is not closed
against the appeals which eonte front the
Southern country, and a largo amount of
money, in private donotions and individual
charities, has already been given. But
what has been done is not a hundredth
part of what remains to be done. At the
present moment there are thousands of
families in South Carolina, Ceorgia and
Alabama, who look to the coming Aviator
without hope, and who are actually pes i-li
ill" to day from starvation.
We are aware that some will receive .
tliis statement with doubt. We assure them 1
that there is no doubt on the subject. We j
have lying before us letters from the highest. ;
and best authorities in the South on this j
subject, whose testimony cannot be disrc-|
garded. We have also had interview
with many gentlemen residing in the
Southern States, who corroborate this
evidence in the fullest particulars. There
are not a few districts of country in the
South where the present supply of food is
isufficicnt to last thirty days, and where
here i> neither money nor produce on
vhieh to base the expectation of a further
supply. Whole villages are living on the
closest rations already, and the future is
absolutely dark.
If there is any one who, in the face of j
such facts as these, is inclined to answer I
the appeal for help with bitter words of !
reproach, >t is unnecessary to meet this j
feeling with argument, since they have j
only to remember that this desolation and
starvation involves little children as well
as grown men. The strongest feelings
must give way before the terrible suffering j
which young boys and girls are now under
going, and are likely to endure in the
eomitig winter. Tlie memori sol the war
have no -force against the riles of such
objects of benevolence, wholly irresponsi
ble for their own condition.
We speak of this subject at present W
eause the winter is on us, and what is to lie
done must be done at once. Ladies of this
city, always foremost in devising benevo
lent plans, arc about to take the matter in
hand. They have consulted with gentle
men of high character and standing, and
it is exceedingly pleasant to find that there
is no jioliticnl feeling in a matter of this
sort. it epublicans and Democrats uniic in
approving their work. U o do not yet
knew their precise method of appealing, to
the public, but understand that a meeting
will no held to morrow for the . purpose ot j
organizing operations. There is no more
worthy work to bo done. e .trust that
they will find the good people of this great
city eager to be counted in. for such a
charity. It will result in conferring happi
ness. rescuing life, averting misery, and in
establishing another bond of affection be
tween sections so mournfully severed by
the events of the late fearful years.
General Sweeny.- —Major and Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas W. Sweeny,
who was recently restored to his position
in the regular army, lias left to join his
regiment, the lf>thl nited States infantry,
at Nashville, lennessee. This officer, it
will be remembered, was the Fenian Sec
retary of War, and the General-in-Chief of
the Fenian forces which invaded Canada a
few mouths ago.
Gubernatorial.— A writer in the Ma
con Tdtgraph suggests the name of Hon.
Thos. Hardeman, Jr., Speaker of the
House of Representativt*. as a candidate
for Governor.
GreeJy Becoming Ferocious.
As the rime approaches for the election
of United States Senator from New York,
i the philosopher of the Trpjnui swings
. nearer and nearer to the Radical' pro
! gramme of “ blood, confiscation and
exile.” The few soft words recently spoken
l by Grcely towards the oppressed and much
| abused people of the South, liave not
j strengthened his position with tlie extreme
j men of his party, t who control the balance
; of power in the New York Legislature.
! There has been recently exhibited growing
symptoms of disapproval and condemna
’ tion of bis comparatively mild and humane
j course towards the South. These coni-
J plaints are calculated to weaken his
j chances lor the Senate, and hence we are
j pained in see evident symptoms of a bask -
j ing down from hi- former position,
j The recent report of General Sickles
j upon tlie condition of affairs in South
J Carolina, affords the opportunity, and the
Tribune gladly seizes upon it, fur the pur
pose of traducing, not oidy tlm people of
that State, but of the whole South. The
white citizc-ift of South Carolina un
charged With aiding and abetting in a
systematic course of injustice and opjires
committed upon the blacks, lor which
no one will arrest or commit the offen
ders for trial. Tin: 'Tril.nni says: .
“Magistrate* art* dilatory in issuing war
rant*. Sheriffs anil constables arc far from
diligent in making arrests. Coroners,
whore Irci-dmcn arq,killed, are more than
traditionally obtuse. With bands of
mounted jobbers prowling about the
country,- with justices of the pea -o afraid
to do tin-ir duly, with officers of the police
either cowardly or corrupt, what chance,
in a .sparsely settled locality, have honest
men of escaping from an outrage which
the devil may prompt, opportunity in
spire, and passion consummate ? There is
nobody who will arrest, and, if there wore,
there is nobody who will commit for trial;
there is no resource lint to fall back upon
tlie military power, and thus indefinitely
to postpone that hour, s > much to bode
sired, when it can bo safely and .sensibly
Avillnirnu iu”
We arc very sure that even the editor of
(lie Tribune if brought to the test would
say that the fthovo picture is rather too
highlit colortm. We beg that paper to
give a single instance in ivhicli the magis
trates liave 1 icon even “dilatory in issuing
warrants’ for the* ayrest of parties who
have been charged upon oath with the
commission of crimes against the negroes.
If the matter has become so common surely
a case can be named whore the sheriffs and
constables have shown a want of deligence
in making arrests. We have never before
heard that any class of Carolina officers
were “traditionally obtuse” , when called
upon to act in cases-of injuries to black
people. Will the Tribune man give us
the names of some of these numerous
Carolina civil officials who so pcrsistantly
refuse and neglect to perform' their duty.
The Tribune, by a very simple and easy
process, glides from the specific charges
against tlie people of Carolina to wholesale
and deliberate slander upon the white in
habitants of the entire South. It says:
“ Tlio public tuen of these Slates, many
years ug<>. begifn U> teach their inhabitants
lessons of contempt for law/’
We have no hesitation in declaring that
• the “teachings” of the “public men”
of the South Ibr “many years,” have
been Aviso, conservative, and just J and
that the effect of such teachings have been
clearly shown in the manly bearing, ; high
toned sigiiimCnt, and law-abiding conduct
,of our whole people* We arfe not afraid of
comparison inUhis’rcapoct with any portion
of tlie civilized world —including even the
Puritan States of the NoVtlu
We arc reminded that avc should be !
extremely thankful to the Government of
the United States for the timely and
thorough protection it lias given to us from
the lawlessness of our own people. The
poiver of the Federal Government, it is
said, alone has saved us from the horrors ol'
a servile insurrection.
“It was tlio benevolent justice of the
United States which saved them from all
the possible horrors of a servile insurrec
tion ; it is now tlio military three of the
United States whieli preserves them from
destruction at the hands of their own vio
lent population. What a commentary is
this upon the much-vaunted doctrine’ of a
self-sustaining and isolated State suprema-
Thc only danger that the South has
ever feared on account of servile insurrec
tion has been caused by tlie unauthorized
and lawless interference with our social
relations, on the part of mad fanatics and
base seditionisls who have Hocked to our
borders since the close of the war, from the
hot-beds of puritan intolerance in the J
Northern and Eastern States.
The presence of the military in our midst !
for the last eighteen months has done more j
to develope and encourage lawlessness and i
outrage, than all the “teachings of our I
public men for many years.” Tlie mere j
fact that a military force was kept amongst ;
us for the purpose of enforcing the will of i
the conqueror, has tended to develope, j
wherever such force lias been stationed, a
strong feeling of antagonism between tlie j
white and black races. The latter class j
begin to look upon them as their only j
friends, and the former regard them as !
their inveterate enemies. The conduct of i
the officers and men, in many instances, has \
been sucli as to justify these impressions. 1
The recent action of the President in the
ease of Gen. Pickett, isalso being comment- !
ed upon by the Trillion, and not having the ;
fear of the military power of the United !
States upon its eyes says :
“Gen. Grant recommends Pickett to tlie i
clemency of tlie President, but we doubt j
whether the public verdict; upon these |
murders wilt agree with the otiieial cxcul- i
pation.”
Here we have the humanitarian of the
Tribune in advance es judicial investigation
declaring General Pickett guilty of murder.
The meanest felon is presumed by the
law to bo innocent until his guilt is proven,
but the philosopher of the Tribune scorns
this humane axiom of the law, and assumes
that General Pickett is a murderer before
bis ease is investigated. Doubtless it i<
the tremendous pressure of public senti
ment at the North which has caused the
Tribune to lend its columns to the mad
purposes and insane ravings of tlie Radi
cals. Ind ted such presuro must be strong,
when it not only drives Greeley from
his life long opposition io capital punish
ment, lqt also causes him to take issue with
the man who, above all others, the radicals
have been most anxious to conciliate and
secure. General Grant is very plainly in
formed that the rabid spirit ofrevengo which
now controls the Northern masses will not
j be thwarted by any course of compromise
jor conciliation. Their cry is for blood!
i The blood of Southern white people will
; alone allay their thirst for revenge. We
are, we confess, much disappointed in the
decided and complete surrender which the
Tribune has made upon this question.
Tltatl. Stevens Rebuked.
i Ever since the adjournment of Congress
last summer, Stevens has been laboriously
engaged in maturing measures to be
passed by the present Congress, in order
to check and humiliate the President Due
of his favorite measures came up in the
1 louse last week, and received a considerable
ventilation. His proposition was that any
! man nominated by the President and re
[ jeeted by the Senate, should be disqualified
1 thereby from-holding any offic-e for oue
year. In his eagerness to degrade the
: President he failed to perceive that he
was really I’utUng the power iu the Presi
dent's hands of disqualifying Stevens and
till his friends from holding office for a
year.
Hale, of New York, (Rep.) in exposing
this hideous measure, said 'thai it put iu
the President a hands the power to put a
brand on any man, and even to disqualify
; Mr. Stevens himself for any office in the
United Elates, by nominating him for
j Commander in-Chid of the army, or for
Chaplain in the navy, as tlie Senate would
be very likely to reject him.”
That such a proposition should ever
have been made, and more particularly by
so astute and observant a man as Stevens,
is wonderful, unless wo account for it in
accordance with the logic of the old saiv
—“whom tlie gods Avould destroy they
first make mad.”
Columbia ami Augusta Kaiiroad.
A Practical Mechanic, who is a man of
good soutid sense, “hut no engineer,
make-the following suggestions, “which
he Avould like in some way to be brought to
the notice of tlie Committee of Council —
to be taken for what they are worth
1-i. It Avould be unwise to make a sub
scription which will be used in disburse
ment for general construction, to bring
this read to the South Carolina bank of
the l iver, and trust to raising money here
after for building the Savannah river
bridge. Such a course would throw upon
the city the burthen of building the bridge
to make available the benefit from tlie road,
it would al<*. leave her vexed questions to
be adjudicated Avitii the South Carolina
road—a road with whose interests she is
identified.
end. Tlie present location of the connec
tion of the South Carolina road through the
town is obnoxious to many of our mer
chants apd citizens, and Is a subject of
constant complaint; the present, bridge of |
this road is of wood ami must be renewed
other sideof the river is constantly liable
to be torn away by freshets,
3d. Lot Council consult Avitii officers of;
both roads—agree with them for abridge in
common, which shall be near the present
one, and shall iic reached by double tracks,
upon stone piers, extending from the high
grounds of South Carolina and above high
water mark; arrange with them a com
mon through connection up the bank of
the river, and by the canal to the Georgia
Kaiiroad; and appropriate the subscription
of One Hundred Thousand Dollars to
building a substantial iron bridge for tlio I
use of both roads.
4th. To convey the title to tlie bridge to
both roads jointly; give both roads a free i
transit to ami connection with the Georgia j
road, receiving therefor from the Columbia j
road stock to the amount of One Hundred j
Thousand Dollars, and from the South Car- j
olina road a relinquishment of all claims |
of whatsoever kind for whatever of ox- i
elusive privileges they may claim.
AVe publish a mechanic’s suggestions as j
the best mode of reaching the Committee, I
and because avc think they arc entitled to j
consideration both by the Committee and
our citizens. They seem to be maturely
considered and conceived in a spirit of’
fairness and justice to all parties in inter
est. The Avlioic of this matter however is
in our opinion purely a matter of business
negotiation. The South Carolina Road is
thoroughly identified with tlie interest of
Augusta, and avc luiA r c ever found its ac
complished officers ready to adjust matters
for mutual benefit, and we feel quite sure
that the energetic President of the Colum
bia Road will pay all due regard to tlie in
terests of his stockholders, a majority of
whom reside in Augusta and Charleston.
Every ouq must see that tlie pressure of
rival through lines will l’orec short [routes.
Wc therefore hope the negotiations Avill
be conducted with fairness and good feeling
—accomodating the interests ofall so far as
it is possible, and making common cause
in securing through travel, which is iioav
sought to be diverted by Avuy of Chattanoo
ga in the construction oi' the Wills Valley
Road as well as-other routes.
Tiiaihlcus Relents.
A discussion took place a feAV days since
in the Loiver House of Congress upon tlie'
proposition of Mr. Lawrence, (Rep.) of
Ohio, to repeal the statute of limitation
in trials for treason, and providing “ that
any man guilty of treason may be tried
unywKqip, and at any time.” The mover
of tlie proposition, Air. L., was candid
enough to state that hht-ohjnai. wvioDjN—
ducing it aviis for the purpose of having
Air. Davis tried under its operations, and
.stated liis belief that, unless itAvas adopted
| Mr. Davis could not be hung.
! Thad. Stevens, in replying to the argu
j ment of Air. Laivrenco, is reported to have
| said:
j “Ho would rather see every traitor in
' the country escape than see one of them
hung by a law passed after his offence j
ami for the purpose of hanging him. He I
denounced such legislation as utterly tin- j
justifiable and discreditable. Moreover, j
there ought to be a statute of limitation,
especially for easesof treason, which would
always be regarded as in part political
offences. Legislation .on such offences
should bo for healing public evils and not j
for keeping them open indefinitely, and
tlio healing influence of time should !
always be allowed. Mr. Stevens said that j
he did not believe Davis could bo tried for I
treason, nor that he had been guilty of any !
treason, liis offence was that of a bellig- j
erent, not of a traitor. He had not op- ;
posed the efforts made to bring him to trial,
hut lie had not favored them; but lie ivas !
utterly opposed to any legislation of tlie
kind proposed, which should make the i
mode, lime or place of trial different from
wliat they wero when the offence was com- ;
milled. His remarks were heard Avitii |
general attention.'’
It is becoming very apparent, to us at ■
least, that tlie Radicals will never lie able
to agree upon a fixed and definite plan of
action against the South and Southern
men. Their general objects are doubtless j
identical. They desire to still further op- j
press and burden our people, and many of
them clamor for our humiliation and dis- '
grace. When they come to agree upon tlio i
details they split into many factions. The j
safety of tlie South lies, in a great measure, i
in the impossibility of a cordial agreement
among our persecutors. Every day’s ac
tion in the present Congress developes this
antagonism amongst themselves as to the
action which the majority should take in
reference to Southern affairs. We do not
believe that they can agree.
Supprcssio Yen.
We have had frequent occasion to call
attention to tlie unscrupulous character of
tlie Forney’s Press, and have more than
once exposed its wilful falsehoods uttered
against the South. Hardly a week passes
but avc notice some flagrant untruth or
malicious slander ngaint the Southern
people in its editorial columns.
In its issue of the flth appeared the fol
lowing telegram from New Orleans:
NEW ORLEANS —A MURDER.
N eav Orleans, December B.—lt has 1 icon
reported in some Northern papers that tlie
agent of the Frocdmen's Bureau at Bay >u
Sara, Louisiana, was murdered by rebels.
The deceased was highly esteemed by tlio
All the other Philadelphia Sunday pa
pers-.!' that date contains a similar dis
! patch from New Orleans, though an
i important sentence ivas left out of the
dispatch, as published in tlie “Press. ’.
The genuine dispatch which c-ame over
the wires, and ivas published in the other
papers, ivas as follows :
I: ha* : ,n rep I'D .', in some Northern
papers that tlie agent of tlie Freedmen's
Bureau, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was
inurdei I yr< .. -: . . h
-. The deceased m highly as*
; teemed by the people.
We have placed in italics that portion of
the dispatch which was suppressed by the
i honest, fair-minded editor of the Ike ss.
It is by the constant ra iteration and care
ful manipulation of such slanders upon the
South, that “the Northern heart" is kept
“fired" ngaint us.
Xegro Suffrage.
At the recent local election in Boston the
negroes all voted the Democratic ticket
this was because they found the Radicals
would dot give them a chance at the spoils.
1 iK 1 usual Radical majority was cut down
some nir.c- hundred, and' the Democrats
puned largviy in the lower wards. The
tioston negroes have found out what the
rest ot the African race will discover iu
■ thi- Democrats are, i Om
a,l, their best friends.— lie, alii.
I This is just what the negroes would do if
were granted them iu the
i iAiiUh. ihe men who own the lands and
the houses, and furnish the provisions and
labor to the negro, will always be able to con
trol their votes. There may be a few in
the larger towns whoso votes might not be
controlled by sueh influences, but the best
majority would cn.-t their ballots in ac
cordance with the views and wishes of their
employers.
The Fort Wayne Gcr.ctt, notices the ar
rival in that city of half a dozen iron halls
with chains for the use of people who have
no vi-ible means of support.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESBAf MOHNING, DECEMBER 26, 1866.
News and Other Items.
A tel gram lias 1 men received here an
nouncing tiie death of E. M. Bruce, of
’ -Kentucky.
New Zealand has 1.000 miles of telegraph
lines in operation.
The next Congress will stand 128 Re
publicans to 35 Opposition.
Tlie cotton crop ol Georgia, is valued at j
| $35,000,000.
The burnt district at Charleston is being j
j rebuilt.
Tlie street railway at Charleston was i
i completed Saturday.
Rev. Air. Spurgeon's church, in Lon- j
j don, now numbers three thousand -Jive j
[ hundred members.
John Brougham, tlie author and actor, j
is seriously ill, and his engagement at the |
Boston Theatre is suspended in conse- :
quence.
General T. L. Crittenden and family
were passengers on tlie Ocean Queen, which j
-left New York on the Ist December for ;
California.
The Union Pacific Railroad is now - gra- j
ded within twenty miles of Fort Leaven
worth.
Tlie mercury climbed down to one de- j
gree below zero in the Chicago thermome- \
tors, -Wednesday morning.
gt-friml*r eight btitta4s cMpenteoU
from Paris, shortly, for the Catholic Cathc- !
drai at Buffalo. They will cost §16,000.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of proper- j
tv in tlie business portion of Lexington, j
Illinois, was burned on Sunday night.
The President lias recognized Allen A.
Burton as Consul of Costa Rica for the j
State of Kentucky, to reside at Louisville.
Officers have been sent to all tlie princi- j
pal cities South to recruit for the regular |
infantry.
Dr. I!. P. Williams, of Bar!tour county, j
Va., was murdered on Droop Mountain, j
on the 23d ultimo.
The Tribune lias engaged Dickens to
write a novel for it. 11. G. v, ill continue |
liis “Beaureau novel-ties.'’
It costs one cent per pound' freight to
bring corn from St. Louis, Missouri, to j
Augusta, Ga.
Anna Dickinson lias congested her right j
lung, and reduced her voice to a whisper
by riding on the prairie and lecturing af
terwards.
The damages to the public works of
Ohio from freshets and other extraordinary
causes, during the year, are estimated by
t lie lessees at over §IOO,OOO.
Horace Greeley, Win. Curtis, Ex-Presi
dent Fillmore, Judge Harris, and fifteen
others, are candidates for U. S. Senator
from tlie State of Now York.
When completed, the military fortifica
tions iu progress at Fort Clarenco, Halifax,
will lie among the most effective in Amer
ica.*
The official report slioivs that in the
year 1861-5, §30,500,000 wero expended for
tlie suppression of Indian hostilities.
Tlie real estate in Cincinnati is estimated
at §06,454,062. Personal property §07,218,101.
Total, §133,672,703; corporation taxes, §l,-
741,-120; school taxes, §327,198.
Prentice says in the Louisville .Journal:
Mr. Story, of the Chicago 'Times, asks what
injury “impartial suffrage” could do in
the South. AVe knoiv, but w r e shall not
toll him. Wo won’t tell a Story.
A card published in one of the Chicago
papers from one of tlio local employment
committees says the city is overrun with
men in search of work.
Air. Fink, tlie electrician of tlie Russo-
Amerieau Telegraph, estimates the short
est time in which tlie three thousand six
hundred miles of iviro can be put tip, at
live years.
J. N., tlie Pennsylvania Philosopher,
will go to Washington on the ltii of March
next “to lift tlio Pressure, to raise the veil
ItftTt to ACsifTrTh'iu'l.' wtevenfroTTuo IffiptitJ^ 1
ing doom.”
A Roman Catholic Church, for tlie ex
clusive use of colored people, is to be erect
ed in St. Louis. A convent is to be attach
ed under the charge of colored nuns.
Airs. Caroline Rexford lias recovered
§7,500 damages in the New York City Su
perior Court, against the Seventh Avenue
Railroad Company, for injuries sustained
in getting on one of their ears.
Among the passengers by the Scotia,
from Noav York for Liverpool, were Vis
count Monek, Governor General of Canada,
the Earl of Airlie,and Mr. Scarlett, British
Minister to Mexico.
One of the women speakers at tlie Equa
Rights meeting in Now York, was so pret
ty that the public seemed inclined to give
her any right she choose to ask. Some of
the more antiquated ladies styled her “a
forward minx,” * though she blushed
charmingly while speaking.
Airs. David Kitchen, of Alorgan county,
Indiana, gave birth to three children a
short time since. Her husband wasja mem
ber of the 33d Indiana, and aviis discharged
for “disability!’’ “Who’s bin hero since
J’so bin gone ?”
Colonel Henry Wilson, with a party of
friends, lias availed himself of tlie Opportu
nity of the Congressional recess, to visit the
battle fields near Richmond. The Buffalo
Courier says the Colonel never found an
opportunity to visit those fields when he
was a Colonel, and they Were battle-fields.
Rev. Air. Lumsden, the Fenian who was
acquitted, has turned his misfortunes to
account by writing a lecture which ho
styles “Five Months Imprisonment.” Ho
delivered it in Buffalo the other night.
Test Oath. —The Washington Ch von ide,
says the Supreme Court has decided live to
four against the Constitutionallity of the
Test Oath. Promulgation of the opinions
of the Justices will be made as soon as
Judge Grier is able to be in attendance.
John Alinor Butts is publishing a book
I entitled “The Great Rebellion—relating to
i the secret history, rise, progress and disas
trous failure of that execrable movement;
i and a vindication of tlio author’s political
1 life.” There's no cure for Batts.
Rev. Air. S., of Boston, recently asked
! ot a Boston merchant, a subscription, to
| build a church; he received ad , which
- was duly entered upon tlie .subscription
I book. Subsequently it was redeemed and
j erased by the subscriber paying three
| hundred dollars.
Air. Thos. S. Carlyle, is engaged “to
j cover a page in tiie daily edition of the
! Tribune .” The oversole is unlike theun
! dcrsole —the one is upward and beaven
! ward—the other is downward, nay, li—ll
- ward.
President Johnson Re-Nominated. —
; The Pittsburgh Itcpublic of December 12,
| hoists the name of Andrew Johnson for
| President in 1868. The friendsof President
; Johnson in Pennsylvania seem to be per
i feeling their arrangements for a complete
i organization throughout the State, for the
next Presidential campaign.
A cheerful clergyman, iu Aladison, Wis
; cousin, Rev. Mr. Mayson, a Scotchman,
lately electrified his congregation by get
! ring grossly inebriated, and in reply to a
: gentle remonstrance of one of his deacons,
j he indicated tivo roads, leading in totally
; different directions —one that might go to
lii ; the other, that he was going to Seot
| laud.
j The work ou the Cincinnati and Louis
j ville Railroad ivill be commenced imme
diately. Five hundred thousand dollars
, have been subscribed by tlio Louisville
I and Nashville Railroad in aid of the enter
j juiso. The road will be al-out one hun
dred miles long, and will intersect tvitb tiie
i Louisville and Frankfort Railroad at Ha
grange, Kentucky.
The Tattle of Matamoros. The
Spanish papers of Matamoros are very
severe upon elen. Lscobctlo for leading lu
men to certain death, in the assault of the
city, but praises the valor of his troop-.
The successive columns moved lorward
with perfect regularity till swept down on
the plain, or drowned in the moat. Only
two moil -uoecoded in reaching the inside
of Fort Monterey, and they were killed on
the spot. Ren. Espinosa liad his horse
shot under him about thirty yards from
the moat, but on foot continued to urge
i forward his men, most of whom were
1 drowned. The water in the moat was
deep, but none of the assailants knew any
thing of it, plunged in head foremost, never
|to lie rescued. Espinosa commanded the
reserve, and after he saw the imposibility
; of reaching the fort—lie now being shot in
j both legs—coolly ordered the retreat; but
• at this moment Canales' jforoee sallied out
and took them all prisoners. They were
soon after sei at liberty on their paroles,
i Among tin killed, hitherto luimeutioued,
i was C.ipt. P.irtiris \ ili«-la.
The Case or (.'eocKi^ieKeu.
Onr readers have alroMßcen informed,
through our telegraphic ǤJumns, of the
attempt which has be|u nSwitly made, by
j the radicals in Cougrlssg jB involve Fresi
! dent Johnson with aefrvjßsympatliy lor
treason, by charging I’ifw ivith having
! failed to bring General ||Kkt to trial for
tlie alleged murder of ..jßpn prisoners
I during the war.
In answer to a call for itaSfrmation upon
this subject, tlie Preadeii tpransm it ted to
i Congress the following ,q*K’spondence
which seems to have' «ppletely taken
i them by surprise, and has-tad the further
effect of quieting all further inquiry in
; relation thereto.
Whenever the PreadenMfcroAvs General
J Grant at the radicals, hfmakes a ten
strike. They are kept inmjUesom) fear
| of Grant, and dare not Owaosc any thing
which, he supports or evenjjrabrates. It is
' mortifying to witness tlichfa'jecl stibmis
i sion to tlie will of. thetfeWsievuii .davs’
| wonder.”
Attouxey UsnkraVs Office,.)
Washington,
To the President. 'JSSttf'
Sir: 1 have the ihonfcete' aclcnoivledgo j
ihe A.vipt of a rC'sojutjMHK'.he Houm
! referred to me for report'asking informa
| tion in regard to the application for pardon
| ofG. E. Pickett, who acted as major-gen
i oral of tlie rebel forces- in the iate war for
the suppression of the rebellion. I trails- !
i mit you herewith six,copies of all papers
j on file in this offie-J, in reference to the
! case. No action haAieon had upon these
■ papers, as yet, nor has this office any in
| formation of proeoo-iings instituted against
j tiie said Pickett sot cruelty to prisoners—
j or any offence against the luavs of Avar.
1 have the honor to be. &e., Ac.,
] leney Stjanberuy,
Attorney General.
l’etition of General Pickett.
Richmond, Va., June 1, 1860.
| Jlis Excrllcneu. Andrrvi .Johnson, Presi
ded of the United Sides:
Sir:—l have the honor to state that
| your amnesty proclaim tion, of 28th May
j last, lias been read. I find myself among
I the classes of persons ejeepted from the
; benefits of the proclaim inn under sections
3, 5 and 8, having held lie rank oi' -Major
General in the Confederate States Army,
resigning my position t»s captain in tlie
United States Army, aid being a graduate
of West Point, I write, making a special
application. At the commencement of our
domestic trouble I wai stationed on the
disputed island of San Juan, occupying it
conjointly Avitii the Brtisli forces, and did
not leave until my resignation had been
sent in and I was projeriy relieved by the
commanding officer o tlie Department of
the Pacific, and loavij granted me to pro
ceed to my home, ura then only through
conscientious duty rip I conceived) to my
mother State, Yirgnjia. Had she not se
ceded, I should not liave been in tlie Con
federate army, as nobncAvas more attached
to the old service oretood by and fought
for it Avith more fidelly; norcould any one
have been more sad Jr loth to leave it than
I, avlio have from inf youth been so de
voted to it; and I udw am, and have been
since the surrender 'of General Lee, to
Avliose army I belonubd, willing and ready
to renew my allcgiai.ee as a loyal citizen to
tlie United States Government, and have
advised and counselled ail tlie men be
longing to my division to return to their
homes and tlie pejeci ul pursuits of life,
to take tlie oath and allegiance and to ob
serve with scrupulous truth its stipulations
and to faith fully obey the laivs of their
country. Aly wisf as expressed, is a sin
cere one, and this communiQat-ioius ad
dressed Avitii a hope that the liberality
spoken of in the Amnesty proclamation
may be extended to cover my case.
I have the honor to be, etc.,
(Signed) GeOucisJ]. Pickett,
Major-Qcncrrl C. S. A.
Accompanying the above was aibopy of
tlie oath of allegiance taken by Goneral
l before Jj ' .
Alarshal at Iticainona, to, iBCS.
The following is tlie endorsement upon
the petition of General Pickett :
“The Secretary of War reports that
General Pickett stands charged until the
unlawfully hanging of twenty citizens of
North Carolina, and the case is now under
i investigation in North Carolina.
“Edwin AI. Stanton.”
General Pickett to General Grant.
Washington. D. C., March 12, 1866.
j Lieutenant General (J. S. Grant, com
manding the Armies of the United States
1 of America:
i General: I have the honor to state
j that shortly after tlie surrender of the Con
i {federate finves under tlie command of
j General R. E. Lee to General IJ. S. Grant,
: Commander-in-chief United States Army,
I in the past year, being at the time paroled
| by tlie last named officer, I made a com
j mumcation to liis Excellency the President
i of the United States asking for his clem- j
j oney. The papers in the case were pro- j
; seated by cx-Senator G. if. Browning of I
| Illinois for the consideration of the Execu- j
t-ive. They consisted of the application I
| referred to, tlio required oath, a rccom- i
j niendation from Governor Picrpont, of j
I Virginia, and certain statements of officers ]
i of the Confederate service, members of a i
; general court martial, in reference to tlie I
j execution of a number of deserters from tlio ■
| said service, Avliilc I was. in command of 1
| the department of Nofth Carolina, in 1863.
1 Aly object uoav'in presenting this paper
is to ask your favorable consideration of
| my case, and that you \vi’ >if you believe
in my sincerity, for which L pledge you my
honor as an officer and a gentleman put
such ail indorsement upon it as will ob
tain from liis Excellency the President a
guarantee that 1 will be permitted to live
unmolested in my native State, where I
i am noiv trying to make a subsistence for
my family, much impoverished by tlie
Avar, by tilling the land. It lias come to
my knoivledge that certain evil-disposed
persons arc attempting to reopen the
troubles oi, the past aud embroil me tor
the action taken by me ivhilet lie command
ing officer of the Confederate forces in
North Carolina. I acted simply as the
general commanding the department.
Certain men deserting from a North
Carolina regiment, ivas taken with arms
in their hands, lighting against the colors
which they had enlisted under. Charges
were preferred against them at a regularly
organized court-martial, composed of of
ficers from Ngrth Carolina, Georgia and
V irgima, before whom the men were tried.
Tlio evidence in the case being unmis
takable, the men being identified by num
bers ot their old regimental comrades,
| they were found guilty and condemned to
I ne hung. The sentences were approved
j by me, and they ivere duly executed ac
i cording to the custom of Avar in like cases.
! My action was sanctioned by the then
| Confederate Government. If the time
| has mot arrived for the Executive clemency
to be extended to my.case, on which point
i I am noiv pressing, i merely wish some as
i surance that I will not Ik 1 disturbed in my
i endeavor to keep my family troin starva
| tion, and that my parole, which ivas -riven
: me in good faith, may protect me from the
i- assaults’- of those persons desirous of still
! keeping up the war which has ended, in
; my humble opinion, forever.
Appealing to you as a soldier, and feel
i ing confident that you Will appreciate my
1 position, I sign myself, with much esteem,
G. E. Pickett.
This letter u indorsed by General U. S.
Grant, as fallows: j,
! Respectfully forwarded to his Excel
i lepey the President of the United States
i with tiro recommendation that clemency
| lie extended in the case, or assurance given
j that no trial will take tdacefor the offences
| charged against G. E. Pickett. During
j the rebellion, belligerent rights were ac
: knowledged to the cnimies of our country,
j and it is clear to me that the parole given
5 by the armies laying down their arms pro
j teets them against punishment for acts
| lawful for any other belligerent In this
; case I know it is claimed that the men
I tried and convicted for the crime of de.se r
-1 tion were Union men from North Carolina,
who had found refuge within our lines and
in our service. The punishment was a
j harsh one, but it was in time ol war, and
where the enemy no doubt feu it necessary
to retain, by some jiower, w service of
I every man within their reach. General
! Pickett I know, personally, to be an
honorable man, but in this case his ;.uug
i ment prompted him to do what cannot
well be sustained, though 1 cannot see
how any good, either to the friends of the
1 deceased, or by fixing an example tot the
1 future, can be secured by his trial now. It
would only bring up thd-.quesUon whether
or not the government did not disregard
its contracts entered into to secure the sur
! render of an army. _
(Signed) . I■ S. Grant,
Lieutenant General.
J larch 10, lsOft.
SECRETARY STANTON TO THE PRESIDENT.
War Department, |
W\->IHN<;Tj>N, D. December 10. )
The {secretary submits a cqpy of the
report of the Adjutant-General, transmit
ted to the House of Representatives May
1 lasi, with the documents and papers
! printed in Pub. Doc. No. 98, first session
j House of Representatives, Thirty-ninth
Congress.
The resolution of the lion e ojjFif epre
sentatives of the 23d of July was referred
to the War Department on the 25th July,
whereupon a telegram was sent to Goneral.
Robinson as follows.
Adjutan»G eneral’s Office, (
Washington, July 27. j
Major General,). C. Robinson, Raleigh
N G.
| Please state lioav the examinination in
j the case of Pickett for hanging Union
j prisoners iioav stands, and send immediate-
I ly by televragb.
(Signed) . E. D. Townsend,
Adjutant-General.
On the 27th of July, the day preceding
the adjournment of Congress, this answer
■ ivas received:
Raleigh, N. C., July 27.
The record of the proceedings of a board
of officers, called to investigate the oireum-
I stances connected ivith the hanging of
; Union prisoners by Pickett, was forwarded
! to the Adjutant-General, April, 1866, in
| compliance with the telegraphic instruc
j tions of tlie same date from the Secretary
|of War. Since which rime nothing has ;
; been done in the case.
(Signed) .lohn P. Robinson, j
j Brevet Alaj. Gen. Commanding.
I Os the.sau.l day a reporLwas prepared j
TffesJ-x; wwnsMWCSftu t
: gross, hut in vieiv of tEeimormatioh al- '
| ready transmitted, it ivas not deemed nia- j
! tevial to make further report until the ex
! animation of the rebel archives ivas com
! pleted.
! Ou December 15, isOG, instructions had j
been given to Major General Huger to
; pursue the investigation in accordance with i
t lie recommendation of the Judge Advocate !
General. Alajor General Huger reported;
April 27, 1860, that to enable him to com- i
plete the investigation he ivixhed to be fur- |
unshed with copies of the proceedings of!
the rebel court martial which tried the i
prisoners, and uuder whose sentence they
were alleged to have been executed, if they |
| could be found in the rebel archives.
The examination of the archives has
[ been diligently continued, and is not com- i
ploted, but the record desired lias not jme j
been found. On July 21, 1866, the Judge I
Advocate General submitted to the Score- j
tary of Y\ ar a statement by a person, lie
being thoroughly reliable, recommending !
the arrest and trial of Pickett before the |
military commission, then in session in
North Carolina, for the trial of tlio em
ployees of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Taking into consideration the setion of s
the Supreme Court of the United States j
in the case of Alulligan and others who had
been tried and convicted by a Alilitary J
Commission and the doubts east upon the J
jurisdiction of such tribunals, the Secretary I
of War has not felt authorized to pursue
the course recommended by the Judge
Advocate General until the opinion of the
Supreme Court should be formally pro
hmlgated. _ The magnitude ol' the offence j
alleged against Pickett is such that there, j
should be no person to contest the juristic- i
tion of that tribunal to whom the trial may j
bo committed. E. AI. Stanton, ’ j
Secretary of War.
The report of the Secretary of War was
accompanied by a letter from Air. H. Do
herty, dated Newborn, N. C., July 16,
1866, addressed to lion. J. Ilolt, Judge-
Advocate General, urging action upon the
part of the government in reference to the
arrest and trial of Pickett, upon which is
the following indorsement:
Bureau of Military Justice, )
0 July 21, 1860, j
Respectfully submitted for the consider
ation of the Secret ary of War. The writer
ivas recently in the military service, and
| when on emty in North Carolina ivas ofli- I
i daily connected with the investigation
there made of the charges Preferred against ■
I the rebel Pickett, and outers, of having ;
| murdered some twenty-two of our prison
! era of Avar. 11 e is believed to be a tlio
| roughly reliable; man. It is recommended
that Pickett he arrested and put on trial
before the 4 Alilitary Commission now en
gaged in trying the employes of 4 « ffroed
rnou’s Bureau in North Carolina
Judge-Advocate General.
Accompanying this is the memorial of
I \Y". H. Doherty, late Captain and A. Q.
AI. U. S. Vbis., dated September oth,
i 860, to the Secretary of War, represent
ing that the writer was President of a
Court of Inquiry to investigate the mur
der, by hanging, of United States soldiers
in Kingston, N. C., in the spring of 1864.
That the report and evidence, as ivell as
those of his second court, held subsequent
ly at Raleigh, and the correspondence be
tween Pickett and General Peek, U. S. ;
Yols., and the report of Judge Advocate I
General, recommending the arrest and trial
of Pickett:, hud been published by order of j
Congress in Pub. Doc. No. 78, First Ses
sion, House of Representatives, Thirty
ninth Congress.
The lhcmoriol concluded by urging that!
the suggestions of .Judge Holt be at once !
attended to.
| The Secretary of War also submitted a !
j report-from E. I). Townsend, Assistant;
! Adjutant-General, dated July 27, 1866, ■
j enclosing a copy of the report of May i, j
1860, in answer to the resolution of the
House of Representatives of April 16, |
1806, which was published as stated j
I above.
; The Adjutant-General says since that :
i report search has been continued by the i
Adjutant-General’s office for testimony iu j
the case, but it has not yet been praetica- j
| ble to bring it to trial, owing to the nature ;
of the evidence, which is mostly from :
rebel sources. The report of May 1 alluded j
j to concludes as follows:
i The papers submitted show that the in- j
j vestigation of this transaction has been j
| continued under the commanding general j
of the Army of North Carolina from the j
19th of October, 1865, and ivas in progress |
! on the receint of the House resolution.
A Slight Mistake. -A little incident j
transpired in a family circle up totvn the j
other evening that is too good to keep, and
shall be confided to the readers of this
paper. The kitchen of the excellent fami
ly of which I speak is presided over by a
good looking domestic whom ivo will call
Alary Ann, she rejoicing in the attentive
devotion of a manly young male servant
employed by a neighboring family, named
John. Now, such wero John’s relations
with the fair Mary Ann—they ivere “en
gaged” just like anybody’s folks —that he
was in the habit of entering his inamorata’s
domain without the formality of knocking.
And be it known that the lord of the man
sion had been absent several days, and was
expected home by the evening train. On
that evening the mistress of the house sat
in her boudoir panting in expectation of
the coming ofher husband. Shortly she
heard, or thought she did, liis familiar
footstep at the side door, (his usual place
of entry) and dashing down the stairs in
the darkness she precipitated herself into
his arms. A loving, lingering kiss was im
printed upon the check of the representa
tive of the sterner sex. He answered not,
but pressed her closer to his heaving bosom.
Hoiv long this thing would have gone on is
not easy for us to say, had not an adjoining
door been thrown open by the pretty Alary
Ann with a light in her hand, when what
a sight ivas revealed to all three 1 Alary
saw her handsfemc mistress in tlie arms of
her own lusty lover, John; the mistress
saw, not her expected spouse, but Alary
Ann’s young man: and John—well he was
-o dumbfi.unded t.-upporirtg _ that he was
hugging Alary Ann ail the time) that he
couldn't see anything. In the midst of the
muddle the husband entered and the tableau
vicaet was complete! lie soon compre
hended the affair, however, and had too
much good sense to scold his wife for her
“carelessness,” or. to keep so good a joke to
himself, but lie never imagined it ivould
getnnto the papers .—Portland (Me.) Cor
respondence of the Boston Herald..
If was stated repeatedly on the floor of
I the Senate, in the negro-ai!7> ago donate,
I that we must either protec; .ee negro or
: give him the ballot to protect himself. :
But even with the ballot he cannot pro
j tect himself against a hostile \
j raent; and by" forcing the ballot irito his
j hands we but intensify the hostile reeling
' against him. and prepare for civil commo
tions throughout the South. Is it not the
part of statesmen so to legislate as to pave
the v: y for the voluntary adoption ot pro
i posed reforms, rather than thrust them
upon a reluSat j >ep]>le V As long a-; the
Highland airs and were inter
dicted by act of Parliament, they were the
badge of devotion to the Stuarts, and
Hy revered in many a Scottish
: home. The moment the interdict was re
moved, Scotland was free from disturbance.*
Negro suffrage voluntarily adopted by any
Southern State cannot lead to mischief.
-Negro suffrage forced upon aiiy white
i population in the South will breed commo
tion, hatred, m;d bloodshed, as much be
cause it is forced against their rendering of
the* Constitution as for any other reason.
.
An enterprising freodman. in Nashville,'
at the beginning of the year purchased a
farm for §*,ooo, anil lias realized SJ.Oou
worth of crops this season.
Tnc Lecture or Admiral Senimes.
The Galveston News, of the stli, gives
| 3,1 interesting account of the lecture of
i Admiral Semmes on the “Equipment and
j Captures of the Alabama," delivered in
that city on tlie evening of the 4th. We
j quote a few passages :
, _ The fame oi the Alabama, he said, de
rived nothing from her commander. She
was marked ns being the first large stcain
! ship ever employed in a war against a
I commercial people. Her fame ivas the
tame of steam. Commerce and gold were
die great simavsofwar. The Confederates
filled for the want of them. But iu their |
depredations upon the commerce of the j
l nited States, by means of the Alabama,
they had violated no law of nations, and
were supported by the precedents of Amer
ican history and decision. We cannot
follow the lecturer through his proofs" of j
this position; but it would be unjust not to '
say that their remarkable appositeness and !
conelusiveucss gave lively interest to ivliat j
would have been otherivise a comparatively i
dry theme. Tlie belligerent character of
the Confederate States \i*as iully establish
ed, and the right of belligerents to get ;
ships- of Avar and tit them out where they
pleased, ivas abundantly sustained. A
ship of war was a personification, deriving
her character from her commission ami
not front Her antecedents. But the Ala
bama had much better antecedents than
the American men-of-ivar (not pirate-ships)
whicKßenianiiiiFiraiikliii and Silas Deane :
French ports during the revolutionary war.
The Bon Homme Richard, on which Paul
Jones immortalized himself and tlio i
American navy, was much less clear.in :
antecedent than the Alabama, and had a j
crew composed often or twelve nationali
ties, including the Malay. The cases of
the Surprise, the Revenge, and others j
ivere also quoted.
j Among Ijic “hits” ivas one at Minister
| Adams, who intends dying sorrowful un
-1 less lie can make out the Alabama to have
been a “pirate,” and get up a trouble with
! John Bull on her account. —and yet lie is
| the grand son of the same John Adams,
who on a mission to Europe, as recorded in
j the standard history of America, pocketed
and ivas comforted by the proceeds of
j prizes captured by vessels indebted to neu
; tral ports tenfold more than the Alabama
1 can be proven to have been.
The Alabama, left Birkenhead as a mer
i chant ship, and received her armor on the
I high seas, where her commission ivas first
read, and her flag unfurled. She was fol
loived through her history "and doings, and
! justified in every act, from her first move-,
j ment to the burning of her last prize, not
| by obsetfre or unknown authorities, but by
i the universally recognized’lights of history
! and laiv.
She noiv sleeps, said the Admiral, be
neath the waters of the British Channel,
as her commander hopes to sleep after a
-while beneath his native soil. Iler justifi
cation ivas clue to the great struggle of
- ivhicli she formed a part—it was due
j American history, ivhicli, after a while,
j Would knoiv, scctionally, no North, no
■ South —as the deeds of Confederate coin
| manders and soldiers, and the deeds of
Federal armies and tlicir leaders—whose
honor and sincerity marked the record—
would alike form a part of the annals of the
ivliole country.
****** *
Altogether the lecture was a remarkable
effort, not only in the brilliancy and con
elusivenoss of tlie points made, but in a
certain sustained and impressive, though
fearless, exhibition oi' the importance of
history, which ivas responded to by a voice
rising above the hearty cheering at the
close, and giving the hearers conviction
that the Lecture ivould prove to he “a
| beacon light to the future historian.”
The Case of Frazer, Trcnholm <fc Cos.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia l\css says:
The settlement made by Consul Morse at
London ivith Frazer, Trcnholm & Cos., the
disavowal of ivhicli, by the United States,
ivas mentioned in recent despatches from
this city, purported to be a settlement of
all claims of the United Stases against that
■“firm, ii; v iffvtTTg many thousand pounds
sterling. It appears that proceedings in
chancery were being vigorously prosecuted
by our Consul at Lii'espool, Air. Dudley,
ivlio had succeeded in forcing Frazer,
Trcnholm & Cos. into a position where they
were compelied to make full disclosures, on 1
oath, of all tlie dealings of that blockade
firm with the Confederate Government, in
cluding all the transactions of the Confed
erate Secretary of the Treasury, Air. Geo.
1 A. Trcnholm, together with a full exhibi
! tion ofall their books and papers,
i To avoid this disagreeable and fatal dis-
J closure, Frazer, Trcnholm & Cos., sought
■ and effected the settlement which lias been
j clandestinely made through Consul Morse
I and one Montgomery Gibbs, reputed agent
j of the Treasury Department, which agrcc
! merit provides for dismissing all the legal
1 proceedings in England and the United
: States, and giving up till claims of the j
United States, and merely requires that
Frazer, Trenholm & Cos., shall state, not )
, under oath, what Confederate property
they have had in their possession, and
j shall dispose of the same, and alter paying
themselves £150,000, which, without any
| statement of an account, is agreed on as
I the' indebtedness of the Confederate gov
‘ eminent to them, shall pay any remaining
balance to the United States,
i This settlement was made by Consul
i Alorse, under color of a general authority
1 from the Treasury Department to secure*
the Confederate property in England, but
. has been promptly rejected by the United
j States Government, on the ground that it
! is entirely one-sided, practically rclinquisb
| ing everything to Frazer, Trenholin & Cos.;
! and was, in fact, utterly without authority
j on the part of the Consul at London,
’ ivho.se instructions did not apply to these
proceedings, which ivere under the sole
j management of the Consul at Liverpool—
j and that Air. Alorse made the pretended
! settlement behind the back of Consul Dud
ley, and without the knoivledge of United
States Minister Adams, ivithout whose
sanction no action of Consul Alorse was to
bo valid. The disavowal ol the agree
ment having gone forward to England by
telegraph, due legal proceedings ivill be
renewed and pressed ivith vigor until every
dollar of Confederate property in tiie hands
of the chief financial agents of the Con
federacy shall be secured.
Woolen Manufactures is the West.
—The St. Louis Republican has the fol
: loivingnotice of the Eagle Woolen Mill in
! operation in that city:
'fhe extensive establishment—the iargi.-:
West of' the Alleghany Alountains—is five
i stories high, and 00 feet in width by 150
|in length. The machinery is all noiv, and
i of the most elegant and complete, dcscrip
i tion, embracing the very latest improve
ments. It employs 150 hand;), and is pre
pared to furnish additional work at any
i time to any number of good weavers, at
| good wages. The amount of wool con
sumed by it annually is from 150,000 t<>
200,000 pounds, and farmers ivil! always
get the highest cash*price for it. The
j mil! runs 1,680 spindles, which can turn
j out 600,000 yards of cloth, eassimcrc,
flannels, blankets, Ac., per year. Home
| specimens of its fine cloths which we saw
are quite equal to any imported fabrics,
: and show that American manufacturers
can compete ivith any in the woM.
It is by such establishments that St. Louis
! is destined to become, ere long, the chief
: manufacturing city of the United States,
and we cordially wish it all prosperity.-
Atrocious Murder. —We have been
permitted to make the following extract
from a private letter, dated at Palatka,
December sth, addressed to a gentleman
I of this place : —Tallahassee Sentinel.
* * * “It is _my painful duty to in
. form you that William 11. Stevens, sheriff
of thi.-i (Putnam) county, oti Thursday last,
29th ult., was fou’ly murdered on the road,
about twenty-five miles from Palatka, near
the Register Precinct, while on his return
home from collecting taxes. His body was
| discovered on Monday, the JJd inst., his
pocket book haying been rifled of its con
tents, torn to pieces and scattered with his
papers on the ground, lie is known to
have had $l5O about his person when he
left home. He was killed by a pistol or
rifle ball, which passed through both lungs
into the back of his neck. It is supposed
that lie must have died in.stanly upon re
, ceiving_ the shot. Ilis poor horse was
found tied to a tree almost perished with
hunger. It is obvious he was mudered for
his money, aud partie.- arc on the track of
the murderer, with some hope of bringing
j him to justice.
Negro Steerage.—A cotemporary
1 likens the effects of the Chicago Tunes’ new
negro suff rage policy for the Democratic
party to that of castor oil on the boy who
made a wry face, and said to bin motlier,
“I don't think I quite like castor oil, it is
i a little too rich.'’
Or, like the case in this city, when a
! mother offered her little boy some castor
oil, and told him it was coffee. "Ves,”
| said he, “it is coffee, Pad JinOby d»i t III v
| coffee. Fa.hani/e.
NEW SEHIES, VOL. XXV. NO. 52
i 0115 WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
i Rejoicings over Suffrage—The Negro
! Candidate for Mayor—Thanksgiving
and Prayer to he Offered up—The
! Female Treasury Clerks iu a Flutter—
Executive Sessions—The Sordisaut
Southern Loyalists at Work—. The Tariff
Hill—-A Breach of Harmony Likely to
Occur—New England Against tlie vi est
—Colorado aud Nebraska.
Washington, December 15.
There is great rejoicing among the black
and white Radicals over the passage by
. both Houses of the suffrage bill. They
j have long ago indicated their choice i'or
! Alayor at tlie next municipal election, and
i claim now that lie will certainly be elected.
The fortunate individual is Mr. Sayles J.
i Rowen, who is the present Postmaster of
: this District, and who is so obnoxious to
1 the old residents and property owners
that petitions were in circulation as early
j as a year ago begging for his removal,
i The President, however, for some reason,
| perhaps because be could not discriminate I
1 between the number of applicants for the
! position, has retained Air. Bowen, and he
yet remains one of the most violent Radi
cals holding office under the administration
which his friends daily revile at the Senate
and House of Representatives. A Mr.
i Day, local preacher and itenerant alioli- j
tionist of some notority is another can- j
didate for tlie colored votes at the next
| election, out whether as Alayor or some of- j
; tiee of a lesser grade is not yet determined i
upon.
iii’fhilif'iT'liiiittV’iji'f
: as the negroes ivlio have fallen into the
clutches of their friend Day, had woful
1 stories to relate of the riianner in which
I they are placed by him. It is thought
that the President will send in liis veto
early in the coming week, when the Radi
cals declare it ivill be immediately over
ruled. 'Thanksgiving and prayer will be
offered up by several Radical clergymen
here to-morroiv, for the boon which Uon- |
gresshas bestowed upon the colored race of
this District.
The lady clerks of the Treasury Depart?
ment are in a great flutter, Giving to the
published announcement that tlicir services
ivould be dispensed ivith at an early date.
It is said that on the day after the para
graph containing this neivs first appeared,
there was not one lady absent lrmii her
desk ; but the amount of work aecomplish
i ed was not great in proportion to the punc
| tuality of the employees on that morning.
To talk of making a summary dismissal of
the females at work in the Treasury Dc
| paitment is the verriesUionsense. However,
1 no such thing is contemplated, and if it
i were, members of Congress, and other
I prominent officials ivould besiege the . Sec
! retary and liis assistants like a conquering
army. The ladies know’this j and will not
j believe that official paper and red ink will
! be parted from them in a short time.
Tiie Senate, ivill commence its executive
sessions next ivcek, although they ivill not
) get well to ivork, in the consideration of
appointments made by the President during
| the recess, until after the expiration of the
holidays. There is nodoubt hut that many
ivlio have been appointed ivill fail to re
ceive confirmation. The various commit
tees to whom the appointments which have
S been made bear reference, are investigating
j in an unofficial way the different subjects
ivhicli it is knoivn will he referred to them;
and it is openly proclaimed that many are
the heads which are to be cut off by the
Senate. Among those ivlio, it is said, Will
not receive confirmation, are the Collector
and Purveyor of the Post of Philadelphia,
besides several Western appointments, as
much of the power noiv in the-President's
hands is to be taken aivay as soon as possi
ble, and one among the various proposi
tions of doing that is by rejecting his con
servativo appointments.
The “bogus” loyalists still bold tlicir
■ sessions in this city, and ‘‘deliberate” on
the favorite topic of territorializing the
l South, in which they have the advice and
counsel of every Radical Senator or Repre
sentative in the endorsement of that
dogma. They have organized themselves
into a regular body, and will have repre
sentatives here all ivintcr. Parson Brown
low is expected before the session expires.
The tariff bill is creating much specula
tion and comment, although it is not
probable that its cousid.- atien will he
j commenced until after Congress re-as
! sembles on the 3d of January. Senator
Fessenden’s Finance Committee is very
i busy on the subject, and have tiro separate
I measures before them, one of ivhich
' passed the House last session. The other
is the result of much forethought and
study by the Secretary of the Treasury and
his assistants, and does not seem to he
in great favor with the Committee. The
bill which passed the House last session,
and which it is thought will receive the
concurrence of the Senate, with some few
amendments this session, is very obnoxious
to the Western men, and may make trou
blfe in the party. New England’s interests
are therein made more valuable than those
of any other section, and the result of it has
been a decidedly feeling of animosity be
tiveen the Eastern and Western radicals. < )n
making as much profit out of the South
as possible, they arc all agreed ; but ivlien
it comes to one section of the North taking
the money out of the pockets of another,
there is a growl immediately. It is a con
summation devoutly to be hoped that some
measure ivill pass during the present ses
sion which in’ll produce a breach in the
radical ranks.
The Nebraska and Colorado Senatorsare
here, watching the progress of their re
spective hills for the admission of their
States with intense anxiety. Since Con
gress became so ultra Radical, there are
some doubts expressed as to whether they
will be allowed to come into the Union
without striking out the word white in
tlicir State Constitutions. Sumner and
other leading radicals will light them hard
on that line. Although it is generally be
lieved that these Senators will vote with
Congress and against the President, they
have given no assurances, and it is pos
sible that they would when admitted he
found willing to sustain the veto of the
President, when designed to protect the
.South from wrong and outrage. If that
h they cannot he admitted too soon.'
Aungtox.
Georgia Mining Company.
The article below, in relation to the
Georgia Mining Company, will be found
interesting. It i- - pied from tlie Dah
loncga Signal :
It w.,. our* good iortuae to employ a
. leisure hour, during the past week, at the
new mil! of the Georgia Alining Company,
located in the Pigeon Boost branch, in
this county, near it- junction with Cane
creek. A battery of ten stamps were at
work, and we were delighted with the ex
celleni. arrangement of the machinery, and
the apparent thoroughness of the process
adopted by this company for the treatment
of their ores. This process is known as
Bartola’s, it being the invention of Bartola,
an ingenious mechanician and mctallur
i gist of New York city. The ore, after
’ being reduced to sand under the stamps,
is subjected to further trituration under
j Chilian wheels, whence it passes through a
! ei ie.-- of amalgamating pans, yielding its
I metalic treasures to the mercury under a
! mullcr pressure. Unscientific and unskill-
I ed as we are, it was still patent to us that
| gold, which could escape the careful and
watchful treatment of this process, would
1 be of such trifling amount that to ’save .it
I would cost more than it would he ivorfti.
! Our country is deeply interested in the
success of this enterprise. The ample
1 capital invested, the skillful arrangement
; of the mine and the mill, and the con
| nection between and with them, the com
petent ability with which the whole enter
prise is conducted by Col. Geo. B. Pride,
’ and lus assistants, tending, each in its own
channel, to an economical and through
manipulation of the ore, ensures success,
if the gold is there. That it is wc believe,
and so do ail of our citizens, who have
been familiar with this properly. But
Col. Pride will prove it. Let the invest
ment pay, and this mill is but the predeces
sor of a series' ivhicli, will develop our gold
I mines, and with them enhance the value of
I every man’s property w’itliin the county.
AVe urge our citizens to visit, as we did,
i this, enterprise. Exhibit it to strangers,
and concentrate public interest upon it.
Anierica--Madame Kistori.—Madame
llistori had a glorious house to-night, says
a Washington telegram. After the first
act she was called before the curtain and
delivered the following pretty little speech:
Ladies and Gentlemen Sfy recep
tion at Washington lias impressed me pro
foundly. Tiie capitol of this wonderful
nation, the great names of the past and
present that consecrate it, inspire a thou
sand emotions. I can speak Imtone .senti
ment—God bless America.
Madade Ristori’s invocation is timely. It
might however have been improved by this
phraseology : “God save and bless Ameri
i ca V —“America will need ail the prayers
1 that can be offered for her salvation. She
;is in the hands of the Philistines. (Jur
government has already been changed !
i lie are today practically unde >• an
| Oliyarchy —a second Council ot Venice !
as bad as the Council of Ten ; and the
! people are slow to realize the fact that they
i are losing the liberties which their fore
fat hers died to secure for them. Hart ford
j Times.
The Conquered South.
The following, from the pen of the edi
j tor of the Dcßoios' Review, gives cx
j pression to tlie feelings of the Southern
heart in this hour of its severest trial:
| Throwing aside, however, the question of
; responsibility, when the decision against
1 us was the sword, we will do the Southern
\ people the justice to say, there was no
longer any hesitation. The day of debate
was ended. The talent, the worth, the
intellect, all that was noble and distin
guished in the States, from Virginia to
Texas, the descendants of the men who
fought with Washington at Yorktown,
of the heroes who figured in all the great
fights where the national eagle floated, or
who vindicated the name of the nation on
the ocean, on the floors of Congress, in
the chair of the presidency, or the cabinet,
or in positions of honor abroad, buckled
on their armor, marshaled their cohorts,
and in hot haste rushed to the front. The
exceptions were so few as not to effect the
rule, and we are not now, nor ever have
been, willing to impugn the motives or to
denounce the men, scattered here and
there in most of the States, who constitute
the exceptions. Let them defend their
records as we do our own.
Was this a rebellion ? were these trators,
I or did the. struggle rise to a greater and
nobler, attitude ? The question can re
| main for history. Name it if you please,
j however harshly, and where do you find,
in all the histories that you have read,
struggle maintained with as much fire and
energy ; such deeds of valor and prowess
performed ; such privations and sufferings
endured ; such heroism displayed. llow
many groat armies were driven back :
what captains’ fortunes were ruined; what
Saragossa defenses, as at Charleston and
•Vicksbuj-g l Six millions' of men were in
death struggle against times that num
ber‘; six mi|liqps without a ship, with
.scarcely a guiyboat, t cut oft' ‘from the world
•by rigorous blockifdes,’ without workshops,
machinery, dr meehanfchl aptitude, with
out clothing, without arms, and often
without food. Vet the fight went on four
long years, until some of you leading
writers and thinkers began to express the
opinion that Southern independence was
virtually achieved. These deeds of daring
and heroism, this record of energy and en
durance, startled the European world, and
extorted its admiration, if not its friend
ship. Arc the men of the North less im
pressible by the morally sublime, when
exhibited by those once their enemies ?
Can they not recognize heroism, and claim
it as their common heritage in the future ?
Even heroism, if you please to say so, in a
wrong cause ?
This people lias not been degraded or
bumbled. Lis not in your power, and if
you are true statesmen it cannot be your
desire to do cither. They are your coun
trymen, and for good or tin- ill. Ycur de
scendants and theirs, in all the ages that
are to come, , are likely to be mingled to
gether. Their crest is erect! Let their
losses be ever so severe, they do not em
brace dishonor. That survives, and fortu
nately for America it does; for what a pic
ture would its republicanism present wore
the people of one-third of the States, seli 1
acknowledged, to be degraded and de
based ! Neither revenge nor policy could
dictate this. Revenge could not he grati
fied by sowing the storm to reap the whirl
wind. Policy, ancient and modern, teaches
differently. The Greeks and llomans
conquered the world by conciliation, law.-,
liberties, institutions, as well as by arms.
English liberties and the English Consti
tution have been maintained by the de
scendents of York and Lancaster, of Crom
well and the Cavaliers. On the field of
Bosworth, after the star of Richard had
set in. blood, the princely Richmond could
exclaim;
“ Proclaim a pardon to tlie soldiers lied,
That in submission will return to us;
And then, as, wo liayo taken the Sacra
ment,
We will unite the White Rose and the
Red.
Smile, Heaven, upon this fair conjunction,
That long hath frowned upon their en
mity.”
A people with such antecedents as those
of the South cannot submit permanently to
be lorded oV&r, and acknowledge- tV- au
thority of a. master race. They may en
dure for n time, but the wound will rank'e
and blcal afresh, and they will strike back
and bite the heel of the oppressor. In
extinguishable hatred will grow up, and
their children and children’s children, like
the infant Hanibal, will be sworn upon the
altars of vengeance. Nor ought the power
of such a race to he despised. Weak it
j may he to-day, disorganized and over
whelmed by defeat, and colossal, disciplined
-and organized may he the power which is
; brought in threatening attitude against it.
j There are small accidents in history
which change the relations ot peoples.
| The weak have but to wait upon opportu
ni.ty. Ireland, Poland, Italy, Hungary,
j will rise and rise again. History is full of
| these examples. A vast military estab
lishment;, great standing armies, garrisons
will he needed here; and while their force
is expended in crushing rebellion in one
' quarter, in such wide domain, it will bo
| aroused and rampant in a hundred others,
i The tyrants, the oppressor and the despot
will in vain seek to prevent opportunities
which the great political relations of the
world involve, and he will, even in tlie
grandeur of his pretensions, tremble be
fore them.
■‘Who would bo free,
Themselves must strike the blow.”
| But why drive a brave and earnest peo
ple to despair ? What great public [pur
pose can be answered? In what respect
' will the North be happier, wealthier, most
powerful by. such a course? What Chris
tian or patriotic instinct can he gratified by
it? You have said that freemen were
better than slaves, and is not tlie doctrine
as applicable to white men as to negroes ?
Bo you not hasten to get rid of the expense
and charge as Territories by. converting
| them into States ? Has not Britian real
ized a thousand times over profit by the
change which made her colonies indepen
j dent States ?
1 Bo you wish to make secession odious
j and prevent the possibility of its recur
rence ? If sharp, fierce, sanguinary war
: has not accomplished this, do you think
the meaner remedies oflthe thumb screw
i an'd the galleys will avail ? What a com
pliment you are paying to a people whose
standards have all gone down, and tlie
; debris only of whose power survics. Mo
thinks.
! “There be six Richmonds in the field,
• Five have I slain to-day !”
The South went down under your co
horts and your legions ; hut having gone
down with her board and teeming lands
j wasted, with her cities destroyed, her war
, riors scattered, arid bleeding, and dead,
her resources exhausted, and her people
clothed in sackcloth and in ashes, yours is
a magnificent tribute, when behind every
bush you see her bayonets gleaming still.
■ Compose yourselves. The work is done—
done efficiently and finally. The issue,
which was made fairly, was as fairly de
cided. In appealing to the sword, its ar
bitrary was accepted. Peoples know no
higher courts, and Congress may decide
| as they please—the bayonet gives the law.
From the Chesapeake to El Paso, the
, South tells you this, llcr Legislatures,
1 her statesmen, her disarmed warriors, her
i people of high and low decree, all solemnly
j and emphatically declare it, and having
i discovered their truth and earnestness
1 when they told you that they ment war.
' Can you not trust them now when they
tell you that they'mean peade, permanent
and lasting peace ? Moreover- the issues
which-resulted-in war are uxstinct. It’
1 new ones arise, Ih’ey are as likely to hq
I suc {! as will distfrro the peace of The North
! as ours. No man in our domain, unless
j within the walls of a lunatic asylum,
i dreams of resistance to a power which, in
; the heyday of our prosperity and might, bore
| so overwhelmingly and relentlessly upon
I us. The Government of the United States
I is our only Government, and in its honor
i and glory must we find ours.
Tin: City Railway.— We arc happy i ,
j chronicle the fact that the receipts by the
| cars yesterday far'exceeded the most san
guine expectations. The returns last eve
ning, exclusive of the.last trip of four
: cars, footed up seventeen hundred and
' twenty-two pa-.sengers. This is hk-iily
gratifying and cheering to those who hav
labored s<> assiduously to rcndc-r the en
terprise a success. The conductors wore
highly pleased with their first day’s expe
i lienee, and believe the average receipts
! will far exceed those of yesterdaj*. We.
congratulate the officers, stockholders and
citizens generally on the triumphant suc
cess of this new and important enterprise.
These returns, it will be remembered, arc
only those on the main line. The branch
line, it is expected, will be in operation in
a few days. —Charleston Courier 18th.
Rev. J. If. Cuthbert.-— I This gentle
man. well know in this community as the
former Pastor of the Wentworth-streec
Baptist Church, hut now laboring in
Augusta, preached on Sunday afternoon
fast to many of his former congregation at
the First Baptist Church, in Church-street.
Mr. is a very pleasing speaker, and,
with a highly cultivated mind, well stored
with treasures, new and old, he never finds
any difficulty iri riveting the attention of
his listeners. — Charleston News.