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£ r | , ij | #|' | g; 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 «§Jumns, 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.