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Old) SIitUES, VOL. LX XVI.
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The Territorial Plan ol ThaE. Stevens—
I'AattTli Opini u of it.
pleasure in traosfering to oar
eolnimi* the following which wo dip Trom
U.*; Manchester, (N. Ij.) Dailp Uwofy
It will iiesecn that there L still left in trie
Eastern States it Conservative element
, which, in on/ opinion will soon make itself
felt in the Councils of tlie nation. nWI
observe-with sortie degree of iutorc-t also,
that a real 1 has bo<-ri pulihshoti for a .State
Convention in Connecticut to tala- into
eonsiderati in the contemplated revolution
ai v of the present rump (Jongre-s.
These afe favorable sign.-,. and to
■ strengthen us in our determination,'to take
no part in the violent and unconstitutional
and destructive legislation which the Kadi
•nls are endeavoring to force upon ns.
if these outrageous indignities are to he
filed upon the Month, let us keep our
hands clour of the foul scla-mc.
The Union says :
‘ The proposition to organ tzij a territorial
•"•Tcrmndtd- •'•■ltstTwt Af North
Carolina,” WiKstn ore like the apprentice
work of ari amateur - leiol - district Con-
Krep than of a real Congress of the United
States. It is hard to realize that anybody
can Is- serious in such a work ; and w :
still think it very doubtful whether even
Thad. Stevens really intends anything
more than-t o intimidate that State and
others into a compliance with his demands.
As Homo seem to regard the matter as
quite in carmen, it will he well to remember
that no department of the government has 1
ever recognized those States as out of the
Union, liven this Congress lias repeated
ly recognized tlieir identity as organized ;
Sint'* under the constitution. Os course, j
any action based upon any other theory is j
clearly revolutionary hy the testimony of
< ‘oiigrcHJ itself.
It is sometimes asked —Who shall re-j
ron-truct the President or Congress ? j
The answer is, if the .States were always I
in the Union, there is no reconstruction to,|
lie done and this is the simple fact. North
Carolina is already aft organized State; !
and Coitgreus has no more right to order a j
constitutional convention in North I'arolina
that in New Hampshire ; and we suppose, j
the people of that State will pay as little j
attention to such an order as we would; ■
itnd that the President would he about as I
likely to enforce it In re as there.
(it'ti. Silkies’ Order Against Corporeal
Punish raont.
'I - i-grains lroyi Washington bring us
the cheering intelligence that the Presi
dent has directed (he Secretary of War to ,
revoke the recent order of, (Jen. Sickles I
fm-bidding corporeal punishment to he in
flicted in the Uarolinns for offences against'
the criminal laws of these States.
loan article published in this paper a |
ii iv days since upon this subject, we I
gave it as our opinion that the obnoxious j
order would ho annulled. We felt sure that i
as soon as tlic matter was properly brought
before the President, lie would relieve
these States from the operations of this j
intolerable nuisance, and we have not been i
disappointed.
We h-urii also that the order of (tenoral
Schofield, Military Commander in Virginia, ;
convening a Military Commission for the j
trial in Ur. Watson, a civilian, for the al- j
leged killing of a negro in Rockingham j
n.nntv, lias been revoked by order of the
President.
Let our people continue to obey the !
laws and in good faith conform tlieir eon *,
duetto the teachings of the constitution,]
placing a linn reliance upon the President 1
and the Conservative men of the North |
and West, and we have strong hopes that !
we will yet obtain our rights in the Inion. j
A Whopper.
Representative Julian, of Indiana, to
day received a letter from Mobile, Ala- S
buiiia, in which the writer represents j
(here are 1-1,000 persons, white and black, j
in that vicinity, who are pleased with his |
hill, giving the Southern Slates territorial ;
government preliminary to their com
plete restoration. In re-snonse to theques- j
non v tint they shall do to help the ill, asure, j
lie has advised that its friends send peti- 1
lions to Congress and hold public meet
ings -t'ornry's J'nper.
Wlrnt fools Representative Julian must
take his constituents and the great mass
of the Northern people tube, if lie believes ;
that such enormous falsehoods can he i
paluied upon them as the true condition
of affairs at the South. They know as
well as lie does, that his correspondent's
letter was false from beginning to end.
Who are these fifteen thousand persons,
Air. Julian, in Mobile, who are so pleased
with your territorial hill? We venture
the assertion that, if the vote of the black
population alone, was taken in Mobileupon
this question, that it would fail to receive
a majority of that class of the inhabitants.
Will our Mobile exchanges toll us who
these people are, who, according to Mr.
Julian s correspondent, are so anxious to
have a territorial government for their
State ?
Uritisii Opinion of the Southern People.
We make no apology for transferring the
following article to our columns, which we
,-iip from the Ottawa, ,Ua.) Post, of tho
ISth lust. It should be a source of gratifi
cation to the South to know that tlieir eon
duet in this eventful trial is approved and
endorsed hy the enlightened KngUshmen
wh.< inhabit the country on our Northern
boundary, and who, above all other class
of foreigners, are most eonservant with our
-i-teiii of government:
THE SVIUIT OF THE SOl.T I '.
The same proud spirit of opposition to
oppression which led the South to (-imago
in the late civil war, though lighting
against fearful odds, is now inducing them
to strive for independence in another
mat ner.
flic editor of the Augusta (Ga. t 'hrotv
idc J- S ntinel. who was a Major General
in the. Confederate, service salts ;
To our ptwiplc wo would say, be firm in
\ i.nr deterniiiialioii to abide in good lairli
tlie terms of Tour surrender. Go lo work
manfully and resolutely in rebuilding
your lost fortunes and" restoring vour
former comforts. You have a mighty
work before vou. It is one which chal
lenges your utmost exertions. There is no
time for despondency and gloom. You
have a fertile soil, a salubrious climate
and magnificent mineral resources. These
you must Wild to the promotion of your
future prosperity. 1 >ook not too much to
ilie Federal government for relict, bill.
' ke men resolved to succeed, take time by
tue forelock. And now, while the whole
X rth is aroused and excited upon th -
- ues!mu of your future relations to the
Federal Govrnmant, lay the foundation cf
\ our future fortune and prosperity broad
bud deepiu the natural resources of your
favored section.
As Insinuation. — The New Yor.-,
\h th odist has this significant paragraph in
the course of its editorials :
it is feared that church members alwve
reproach in the general tenor of their !iv.
will sometimes select from a pile of um
brellas one which they are not sure belongs
to them, and will let it hang on their rack,
> r devote it to household us-, with but lit
tle cvncf-iTi about the rights of the true
Others of equally good character
will borrow o nc and wear it out, never
mentioning their delinquency iior tliiuk
ing ot offering payment.
MCRDEttLb "BuaF.AU AfiK.VTS WaKT
EP.-A liberal reward will be paid by the
Reconstruction Committee of Congress for
’ murdered agents of the Freedmen s Bu
reau, as well as 'insulted'' school nanus.
As soon as Congress adjourned the demand
for ’ atrocities and “outrages subsided'
but it has been revived with a vengeance
during ths last tsn days -
Important Publication.
We are glad to learn that the National
Publishing • Company) 507 Minor street,
Philadelphia, have in pro? and now near
, ly ready for delivery, a history of the 4afe
war, .written hy the Hon. Alexander 11.
Mtepnens.
There arc ftif men livii.v thoroughly
I competent-in every way to write a < ■■n.ip’.eto
] and truiMul narrative of 11ft -lining
I events of the late war. as Mr. Stephens.
! We are assupd that he has spent nmrii
time and labor in preparing this work, and
| has had access to papers and cojre pen-
I dp nee connected with many interesting
i feature, and incidents of our late ytrtigvlc,
which no other writer has enjoyed. 11 is
1 own private correspondence during the
few years immediately preceding hostilities
I as weil as during their progress, affords u
| fund Os valuable material for the eompic
. lion of such a Work as he has undertaken.
; Mr. was also for many years
a "prominent actor in the scenes and legis
lation which immediately preceded the
war. and knows much ofjhe secret history
sos those stirring events which precipitated
; the country into one of the most stupend
ous and sanguinary struggles which has
j ever marked the history of the world. I Its
| knowledge of men and measures acquired
from personal observation and participa
tion in the action of the Gqvcrnmerit,
enables him to bring before the public
many of the secret -springs whiei vt m
motion tfie great revolution lin-pugh frl^en
VtftiWojttKTp®* . 1
' The history 1 ' df the earlier days of shh
Confederate Government, ami particularly
that portion of its exit-ten- i as a “Prd*ij
visional Govcfnment, ” while located at ■
Montgomery, lias never been given to the
public. Mr. Stephens was in Montgomery
as a delegate to the Provisional Congress
from this State, and # tqok a -leading part j
in the legislation enacted Inhere? Many:
questions of immense importance to tlica
then seceded States were canvassed and-]
acted upon then. Ti.e Southern public i
has long sought a true record of those j
days, and opinions leave been formed of
the men and measures of that period, i
which doubtless, a full, candid and «om
presensive statement ref .the actual condi
tion of the country and the various 1 ' mens- j
ures proposed will tend very much to soften
and modify.
No other man how living, except, per
haps. Air. Davis, can give to the world the [
true character of the ’‘James lliyer nego
tiations’ ’ with Mr.'.Lincoln, during tholatter
part of the war. The.people .of the 1 nitod
States, North :u| d South are deeply in- |
forested in having a full and complete j
history of tlieir trgnsactiofis,' and we are ]
very confident, that in Mr. Stephens’ ]
forthcoming book we shall have an Itnpaf- j
tial and strictly tmtlifW narrative of all
that will be of interest. to the public in j
relation to tlieso negotiations;
The ehaftioter.if Mr. Stephens mind, !
his habits of thought, and splendid powers ]
of analysis, together with his great hon
esty and truthfulness a-- a statesman, eon
spire to point him out .Aye proper hjsto- :
rian of the times in which he acted so eon- j
Hpieuous a part. AY c know his indomita
hie energy and industry, and will-he greatly' 1
mistaken if his history does not at owe i
place him at the head of those whose la
bors heretofore in this lujd oi lftt-raturc ]
have given them the highest rank in the
world of letters.
forthcoming work will bo in one
voi."%-, of about eight hundred jhi;ros.
and will he issued from the presa during i
the coming year. We advise dealers and i
others who desire to have early-copies, to
send in tlieir orders to the publishers at
once, in order that there may be no delay
in securing the we-i-m .
.More of the Kevoluitonary Designs or tlie :
Uadltals.
‘•Kx-( iovornoi- Thomas, of Mar viand, will
introduce a bill into the House after the i
liolidavs, svqieisciUiig tho present State
government of Maryland, and providing!
for one based oil tho loyal people oi the, j
Slate.'’ —Cincinnati Commercial.
AVe are not at all surprised at this action
of the intensely loyal Thomas. There can]
he no doubt but that Congress has .just as ■
much right to abolish tho State Govern-]
liient of Maryland as it has ol North Caro
lina or any other Southern State. The j
smaller and less powerful of the Middle
and Kastern States, are in their advocacy
of Territorial Governments for the South- j
ern States forging chains which will at no
distant day tear down their own sovereign- ;
ties, and bind tlieir people to the power ol i
an uncurbed and oppressive majority. ]
The separate and independent existence of :
the several States is essential to the 1
perpetuity of our system of Republican
Government. Once the power ol the j
States as co-equal members of tin* Federal |
Union is destroyed, and their right to
regulate their domestic institutions in their \
own way impaired, a blow given to Con
stitutional Government on this continent,
from which it will never recover.
We have warned the people of the North
against the policy ot committing their re- ‘
; vengeful feelings towards the Southern peo- !
] pie to betray them into the commission of ]
acts which in tlieir practical effects must
strike a death blow to tlieir own institu
tions, and ultimately destroy tlieir liberties.
The proposition of the Radical representa
tive from Maryland, should warn them
! in time against the utter destructiveness of
i the Radical programme for the humiliation
i of the South.
We cannot prevent this' revolutionary
legislation. We have no voice in the
Halls of Congress, to warn the people of
the United States against the rash and sui
cidal policy of those who are now in' the
majority at AY ashington. A\ e have no
deeper interest in this question than have
all and each of the States of the Union.
If Congress can to day at a single blow
strike out of existence tlie ten Southern
States, it may with equal right and pro
priety blot out at some future time the
smaller and 1< » powerful of the Eastern
and Middle Status.
The pretence set up now to justify this
infamous outrage upon the Southern
States, that the Federal Government is
bound by the Constitution to insure to each
of the Star s republican forms of govern
ment. maybe usedwithquiteas much force
at any time against the Northern States
which may fail to conform their legislation
to the standard set up for them l y the
dominant power at Washington. This
plan of “Territorializing” the Statesof the
Union is a two-edged .-word, which will
certainly inflict upon the hands that wield
it as much harm as upon those on whom it
is intended now to fall.
Once yield tho right to Congress to use
this power for any purpose or reason
whatever, and it takes no prophetic vision
to foresee that occasion will not Ik* wanting
any rime the Congressional majority may
wish, to strike from the American constel
lation any of its glittering jewels.
AVe of the South may go down first: but
so sure as tills great wrong is put upon us.
just so sure does the sun of American lib
erty set forever amid the wailings and
lamentations ot an oppressed aud outrage i
Western Associated Press.—'li e
Cleveland Herald. Cleveland Plamd nUr.
Toledo Cowmereial. Toledo Bhu fr. Detroit
Tribune. Detroit Post. Chicago n-p'
can. Chicago Jottrn </, Chicago (
Milwaukee /Ait/y Wisconsin ani lu-iuvii.a
polis (i'Mi tte. together with some twei.iv
five Northwestern daily papers, have re
solved to maintain relations with the New
York Associated Press tor obtaining tele
graphic news, in preference to dealing with
Mr. Craig's sensational ‘1 nited fctetes
and European Telegraphic News Agency.
These papers, in fact, compose the
Western press proper, the Chicago Times.
which is the representative of no party,
and the Chicago Tribune, which reflects
the views of its “managing editor only
to the contrary notwithstanding.— Chim/o
Journal.
(UK WASHINGTON I'OBREHPOJfMNCE.
The Territorial Petitions—senator Trum
bull mi the Rampage—Asliley% Im
peacliwent Hesolution to have Another
Trial- The Clerks and their Compensa
tion— Nebraska in the Senate —Senator
Foster’s Successor as Vice Pres'dent
pro tempore—Tue President’s Com
posure Cnder the Impeachment Threats
—Staiiton’s Views oil suffrage —Minister
Harvey’s Pa> —Contracts lor Indian
Goods-—The Finance Committee —Vi-
vacity in VVashjngtou, etc.
Washington, December 19.
The presentation ot memorials and peti
tion.- in both branches of Congress, pray
ing for the entire aboli ion of State organi
zations in the South, have become com
mon and every day occurrences, it is not
often, however, that tac-ir introduction is
1 accompanied by sqph a grand flourish as
was ime brought forth jesterday by Sena
tor Trumbull. He begged ihad. Stevens
and hi- party to take eh&ige of the State
•f Louisiana until such representatives as
he would order, and Su:nner would ap
: prove of, could lie sent from its par-
I i.-hes; and such a policy, without doubt,
j is the real aiie-ariing and intent of all
I ilie.-e mfcmoriais, which the radicals so
! persistently advocate now. Trumbull in
; presenting this Louisiana lncmfirial made
1 it the occasion of a stump speech in behalf
1 of his re-election, and was met by a cutting
• response from Garret Davis, who seems
ever on the alert to show.up tlie faults and
j inconsistencies of radical nature, and,
] this writer, who has ia<st assuredly a tine
lieid for operations. Trumbull, who is
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
and who wants’to continue in that exalted
position will have a hard fight to retain his ■
I’seatc Logau, who is rabid as Trumbull,!
i and Ogilvie, who leads Logan in respect to j
..’radiuoikm. are both looking with covetous ;
E 7ye- r upo:: ttk Seii..te, and give the author
.-oi' the civil rights bill no little uuearihess. :
There are very many indications that aii I
attempt will be made in the House of
Representative? before the close of the
session to impeach the president Several'!
of the Radical members appear to have
committed themselves to such a proceeding; I
hut others are more in favor of holding the '
threat of impeachment as a rod of terror
over his In id, and wiil therefore consent I
to the appointment ofa committee to in- '
vestigate his' official proceedings without,
pledging themselves to adopt the report of 1
such a committed. . It. is understood that f
after tho rc assembling of Congress „.a
resolution t o this -eifeef will he passed —one
introduced by Ashley, of Ohio, ori Monday
failed, because the rc<iuisite two third vote
eould pot be obtained to Seefire the neces
sary suspension of the rules. A full Radi
cal force Was not present on that occasion ; ;
but as Ashley is a prominent member- of,
the party, and his determination to im
peach the President if possible, has been
submitted to and approved of by many of
- associates, a fuller vote in his favor Is
expected at the next trial.
The clerks In the geyoral Departments
who are clamors for an increase of pay
were very much distressed upon learning
that the 'Finance Committee of the Senate
verterday asked to ho discharged from the
further consideration of tlieir petition, for
compensation, and loud and deep were the
curses leaped;:* last night on the head of
Fessenden, who was said to be tlie author of
theig piisery. They feel better to-day, ho w
eyt -r, upon the explanation that the petition
referred to was of last years’ presentation;
and’have re-commenced their efforts-as
lobby member* with renewed energy.
Fti.-vcns iis i-emneering for them in the
idou?e, and Morrill, Chairman of the Com
mittee to which tlieir petition has been
referred, is favoring it, so their-chances
tlie re look very well.
The Senate commenced at one o’clock
tu day on the bill for the admission of
Nebraska, the question then being on the
amendment of .Air. Brown, of Missouri, de
nying admission until that obnoxious word
.white is stricken from the State Constitu
tion.
Buncombe discussion was indulged in to
great extent, and at half past .six the
Senate adjourned without having taken a
vote on anything connected with the bill.
A -strong attempt will be made to pass it
to-morrow ; from the indications of
to-day it does not seem likely as if the effort
will he a success. • The Senators elect,
both from that Territory and Colorado
continue very hopeful, and predict that
tlie President will sign the hills this winter,
al; hough he vetoed Colorado at the last
v-es.h:::. J:-. that ease they will t.ik.. then
seats before the fourth of Marcli ; but if a
veto does meet them the radical Sumners’
and Browns will vote to sustain the Presi
dent, notwithstanding his veto would be
an entirely different grounds from their
objections.
It has not yet been altogether decided
upon as to who is to succeed Mr. Foster as
President oi’ the Senate pro tempore : but
there is no doubt whatever that he is con
sidered altogether too Conservative for
that position. He voted against universal
suffrage in this District, and that was suffi
cient to complete the Radical distrust of his
soundness. If the question of impeaching
the President had been positively agreed
upon, Senator Wade would before this have
been in the Vice President’s chair, as the
majority seem to favor his election ; but
the Senate is not si* rash as the lower body
on this topic and will not plunge headlong
into the adoption of measure's looking to
the deposition of the Executive. It is
found that the North will not sustain Con
gress in too much revolution, and there
may he such a thing as carrying the threat
of impeachment too far. This, will he
demonstrated when the popular, sober se
cond thought, which Mr. Seward predicts
will make its appearance at no dis
tant period- It is noticeable that
Air. Johnson gives himself no un
easiness whatever concerning these reso
lutions, petitions and memorials requesting
investigation into his official conduct, lie
is as severe and composed as ever, and
constantly assures his friends that nothing
on the part of Congress will compel him to
move one iota from the path which he
cousiderd just and right under the consti
tution."
3lr. Stanton will be called upon to
give his views on the subject of universal
suffrage in this district, all the other cabi
net officers have declared against it at a
meeting 'from which the war minister was
absent. It is confidently asserted that
Stanton will-also sustain the* President on
this measure ; but so far he has preserved
solemn reticence. It is also asserted
i that the President in his veto message —
no one presume* to doubt that he will veto it
! —will place his objections upon the ground
thar an educational test should have been
applied, and tliereare no reasons to contra
dict this. The country will soon learn
however what lie has to say in the matter.
Minister Harvey, United States Minister
at the Court of Lisbon, lias been serving
his country since the end of the ’last fiiscal
year without any remuneration. This is
: the reward of that official for having written
i a letter to the Secretary of State a year
ago endorsing the President's policy, and
an example of petty radical spite. If he
: continues in that position, he will probably
I serve another year under the same circum-
I stances as his fault is considered unpar
j dutiable, and no item will be made in the
i diplomatic and consular appropriation bill
| for his benefit.
Secretary Browning, yesterday awarded
a contract fur furnishing goods, wares and
! merchandize for the Indian Bureau, and to
day Mr. Ingersod, one of the rampant
Radicals of the House, offered a resolution
directing the Committee of Indian affairs
to ascertain whether this contract was
! awarded to the lowest bidder, which some
i ease.
The Finance Committee is working very
, assidiously on the Tariff Bill, and will en
: deavor to have it matured for presentation
on the first week in January. It seems
| now to be generally understood that it
will embrace nearly all the features of the
! bill which passed the House last winter.
. The city is remarkably lively now, and
Pennsylvania Avenue, in the afternoon, is
crowded somewhat after the fashion c!
days of yore. The approach of the holi
days is the source of much vivacity, and
the shop windows glare with these assort
! iiKnts of new wares, trinkents and subetan
rials. With the exception of the workin.
Cengressional Committees, hut few mem
bers of Congress wiil remain in tills
• vieinity. Some are going South or
pleasure and investigating tours, am
others intend visiting their home- in th.
North, to pass Christmas and New Years,
' Several left ibis aftenmon. and by to
I morrow night there will hardly be :
: quorum beneath the shadows of the Capi
tol. Arlington.
The Last Revolutionary Soldiek.—
i There is but one Revolutionary pensioue:
j left of that band of patriots to whose per
‘ sistent courage and sagacious wisdom w.
ar- ind-1 u 1 lor oifr freedom — Samuc
Downing, of Saratoga couuty. New York
•A contributor to the New York E nh:
Pott offers, wo think, a happy suggestion
that some public testimonial be paid thi
sole survivor of our Revolutionary strug
gle. and that Congress make a p.i ..
recognition of our appreciation of tin
grand struggle in which he was an actor
by sending a deputation to wait upon th
last pensioner of the Revolutionary era.-
Xa tioital IntclUycnctr,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1S(»7.
A (.loom;. Prospect.
The terrible commercial and financial
crisis, so long, expected, is slowly but
surely drawing near. The culmination of
the great political war which desolated the
South does not er.d there. Like a huge
wave, it has rolled over that rich and
beautiful half of the Union, and after
] carrying untold horrors to nine millions of
once happy people, and leaving a land
that actually flowed with milk and honey a
bleak and barren waste, the wave is now
surging back upon us, and bringing the
} evils of commercial and financial chaos, the
! extent of which, as yet, we do cot dream
of. The. South, cam tot be blotted oat with
out entailing destruction upon the Xorth ,
and the complete desolation of the South
is the hellish work which Thad. Stevens
and his co-workers have sworn to spend
the balance of tlieir miserable miss-spent
lives to accomplish.
To-day ail over the North we hear
groans of financial embarrassment. The
commercial world is sick. In every large
city of the Northern .States the productive
branches are paralyzed. Money is said to
be “tight.” The markets are depressed.
AYorkingmen are to be turned out of em
ploymetit. Hundreds, of hard-fisted for
eigners, who, a year ago, were tempted by
the rumors of high wages in this country
to leave tlieir homes in Germany and
Switzerland, aftd other parts of Europe,
and embark for our shores, found the
reality a disappointment, and have re
turned to their friends to tell them
that America is not the country it
was ten years ago. Importers in
our commercial centres are shipping
their stocks back to Europe. Manufac
turers are stopping productions by work-.
ing only half the time. There is alarm
and distrust everywhere, and great is the
marvel thereof; We hear all sorts of ex- j
piaifflttoS’s of the present condition oV*
thiugs. The leading financial writers have
given the commercial classes the causes of
this 'peculiar state of affairs, and each j
writer has a theory of his own, which lie
feeis is the true one. We are told that ;
there is too much money ; and again, that
there is not money enough ; we are in
formed that there is a plethora of goods ;
that the consumers’ market is glutted, and
again, we are given to understand that,
there are not half goods enough in the
country. One theory is, that prices are
too high, another, that price itself has
nothing to do with it, but fluctuations or,-'
changes, in values, growing out of the i
variations of the gold quotations, cause the,!
stagnation in trade; but not oue of the
scores .of theorists seeui to have the least |
idea of the real cause of the stagnation in I
Die commercial world to-day. Ft is the
loss of the Southern trade yiain/;/ ; and j
i this result is rendered more serious to us, j
' in consequence of the enormous prices es- ]
tablishedin the North, through limited pro
-1 ductions. Consumers will not pay, save i
very sparingly, and hence ; goods move j
. slowly. These two causes produce the j
present depression over the entire North, ]
to-day.
The extent of the productions of 18. VJ.
in the Southern States, in the profits of!
which we, of the North participated, will
give the merchant of the. North, whogp
business to-day, bordering upon stagnatioh ;
some clue to the cause of the, to him, mys
terious condition of the commercial world
of this section. He must remember that
the trade relations of tho South and
North, have been as closely connected as
the mechanism of a clock. Not a wheel ;
, could move of this complex machinery,
without moving the whole ; and although j 1
the hour hand of that clock, traversed so I
slow that the eye could not see the motion, ;
if we looked at it as each hour was brought ,
to a close, we saw that it must have borne 1
an actual relation to the swiftly moving 1
seconds, which rapidly made the sixty re
volutions an hour. So, when we saw in
1859, tho cotton bale brought to Lowell
and made into sheeting, we saw tlie proof I
that negro labor furnished the material !
for the riiiil that fabricated it, and we
could easily trace the relationship the cot
ton mill operative sustained to the negro ; j
and although the profits of that mill .moved j
by hidden channels to points which could
not readily be pointed out, nevertheless, !
the profits were there, in the - North ; and j
ramified into Cheever’schurclf, and Beech- \
er’s Church, and into the pockets of thou
sands who supppsed they were not ,in the
remotest degree touched by the Soutliern j
labor question,-or the cotton, sugar, rice i
on tobacco crop. The.great West, as well I
as the .North and KaSt, is vitally interested
in this Southern desolation. Can we lose |
; such results as these, and not have the j
: commerce of the West, North and East,
| permanently crippled? Exports of tlie i
j South in 1859, were, naval stores, $;5,G95,- j
174; rice, $2,207,148; tobacco, $21,474,- \
' 038; sugar, $31,455,241 ; cotton, $204,- ]
128,493. Total exports, $262,560,394. ]
Here will be the cause of future evils to j
come upon us. The South blotted out, is |
our downfall. The salvation of the South •
is our future commercial greatness. The !
presidential election of 1867 must settle the !
tide of the whole country.
The restoration of the South means the
restoration of compulsory negro labor. ll'
these miserable creatures cannot be made i
to work, the South will become a howling j
wilderness in a quarter of a century, and
the entire North will be utterly ruined. ]
The present year will show no rice, but
little sugar, not a tenth of a crop, a very
limited tobacco harvest, nothing lo speak
of in naval stores, and less than 900,000
bales of cotton. The relation we sustain
commercially, to the South, will cause us
to feel all this. Next year tlie result will
be far worse. The negro is dissatisfied
this year with what he has obtained for
his services, and the master is also dissat
isfied with °his crops ; both parties are
disappointed. Free agency has failed. to
igve the negro even the comforts of life,
and as liis fate is in his own hands, he will
go from bad to worse, till he is wiped out
of existence. The restoration of the old
relation, or something like it, between the
white man of the South, and his late
“slave'' will be the restoration of property.
The presence of the four millions of ne
groes there, in tlieir present relations to
whites, is a blight and a curse upon the
soil, and their universal extermination
would be a blessing to the South and to
the whole country; this extermination is
indeed inevitable ..under existing circum
stances.
It will be remembered that the State's
bordering upon the Mississippi river, are
subject to, inundations which sweep the
country for hundreds of miles, through
the sudden rise of that mighty current.
For a hundred years, the levees which
protect the estates lying ou the river have
been built and kept in repair by gangs of
negroes. This is a huge work, requiring
thousands of hands at a time, and must be
done iu dry seasons only ; in wet or rainy
seasons, these levees, or huge earth en
bankments, cannot be constructed. It
requires whole armies of laborers- who are
worked incessantly at certain periods, Or
the breaches which the mighty river
makes could not be repaired. Nothing
but military, or coercive labor will answer
for this kind of work, and now. we are
told, the levees must forever be abandoned
for the negroes cannot be forced to do this
kind of labor. The result will be the to
tal destruction, in tire coming live years,
of hundreds of plantations which have
; produced their thousands of hogsheads of
• sugar each. AVhat a terrible day of reck
oning is in store in the North, for the
party which has brought such desolation
upon our common country!
North Carolina Emigration to the
AVest. —About seventy-five more emi
grants from North Carolina, chiefly Ircia
Randolph county, in that State, collected
within a radius of 30 miles of Ashboro
passed through the city yesterday, on their
way to Indiana. This batch of emigrants
is the third or fourth from that locality
within the year. The population of Ran
dolph county at the close of the war was
about 6,000 but since that rime the tide of
emigration has been >teady and continu
ous. and altogether at least two thousand
persons must have left for the richer and
more prosperous regions of the AVest,
most of them passing through this city
A considerable number of emigrants have
also left tlie adjoining counties of Alia
mance, Davidson and Guilford, in North
Carolina, all with the prospect of better
ing their fortunes and settling in more fer
tile agricultural districts, where the effects
of war have not been felt, and where most
! of them have relatives.
The inhabitants of this part of North
Carolina are chiefly -turuy yeomen, pos
~. -sod of keen trading instincts and active
industry, altogether valuable acquisitions
to the working population of any country.
The attention of the Alary-land Emigration
Society might be turned towards them
with profit to this State. The party yes
terday included a number of healthy look
ing formers, with their families, besides
several freedmen. Many of the heads of
families were ready to purchase land upon
arrival, but most of them expected to rent
small farms and go to work for themselves
in that way. They were in charge of Mr.
Addison Coffin, a North Carolinian, resi
dent for many years in Indiana.
General Grant held a levee at the Lin
-U-ll House, at St. Louis, on Friday night.
A large number of the citizen* ot that citv
i paid their re*pecte to him,
The Reported Commissioner from South
Carolina to AVashington.
In our column? on Friday appeared a
special* dispatch from our Washington
correspondent. iLeo), dated _ 20th instant,
stating that " the deputation from the
South Caroiinf Legislature returns with
theyassuranee that the State will be adinit
ted constitutional amend
i mem. ’ ■-
Subsequently we received the New York
Tribe.a of Thursday the 20th inst., con
taining a letter from. Washington, which
stated that "a reading member of the
I South Carolina Legi.Luure had arrived
here {Washington] a few days ago, having
j been deputed by the members of that body,
j to confer with the Republican members of
1 Congress m regard tojhe present condition
iof the affairs of the country,” etc. This
letter contained many statement, in ad
dition to the above. \Huyh, we are informed
are in fio wise true, bc.ng altogether the
! speculations of the wr.ter, and no doubt
gotten up for se»atio.;.d purposes.
The Tribunes AYigsliington correspon
dence of the following day, Friday, the
21st instant, contains the following para
graph, which the write; has the honesty
to say is a “current rumor,” but which, we
are authorized to say is as far from being
true as were the first statements of the
Tribune's correspondent:
“There is a very current rumor that the
amendment question has been arranged
with the South Carolina representatives,
and that they have pled red its acceptance
by tlie Legislature, provided that no fur
ther conditions are exacted, which, it is
asserted, the leaders of the Repulicau par
ty have agreed to. The rumor is a most'
important one if correct, as the admission
of South Carolina to vdugress, without
further conditions than the acceptance of
the amendment*, mb'-t irilqce _ all the
.jv r i ‘ jh*m>j v L»V _
Our Washington correspßidem, '‘Leo,”
in lus letter published elsewhere, likewise
refers to the visittof the reported commis
sioner, and who is also somewhat in error
as to the main facts of the case, which we
will proceed to relate as obtained from a
smirch beyond question.
It appears that prior to the close of the
sessjoh of our Legislature, which adjourn
ed on Friday last, a large majority
of- the members of tlie Senate consulted
together as to tlie propriety of sending a
member of that body to Washington, to
confer with the President on the probabili
ty of the State being restored to her place
in tlie Union should she adopt the con
stitutional amendment. After consultation
it was derided that some good might arise
nfrOin the pursuance of such a course, and
one of their number was selected- for tlie
mission.
The gentleman selected was Colonel T.
C. vVeatherly, Senator from Marlboro’
District, who immediately proceeded to
Washington, and sought an interview with
the President. Upon his arrival he found
that the- President was occupied in a
Cabinet meeting, and being disengaged lie
' determined to make good use ot'his leisure
moments, by obtaining interviews with the
leading Radical mem >ers of both Houses of
Congress, and conversing with tjjcm freely
upon the subject of the constitutional
amendment,and the prospects of the admis
sion of South Carolina to her rights upon
its adoption. Col. Weatherly succeeded in
making the acquaintance of several of the
lending Radical Senators and Representa
tives, with whom he conversed freely, and
was assured by them that the constitu
tional amendment was the ultimatum of
(Congress to the Southern States ; that its
adoption by them would remove all ob
stacles to their being admitted to represen
tation in Congress.
Col. Weatherly, however, had a subse
quent interview with President Johnson,
to whom he had been formally deputized,
A¥e learn that tho interview with the
President, was ofsome duration, as well as
free and candid.
As far as we can learn, and we believe
that we are correctly informed on the sub
ject, the President is unchanged as to bis
views in reference to the uneonstitutional
ity of the proposed amendment to the Con
stitution, which is agitating all sections,
and which, if persisted in, must boa source
of great evil to the whole country.
• As said before, the interview with the
President was free and candid, during
which he expressed the hope that tho
Southern States would remain firm in their
position as regards the constitutional
amendment and'steadfastly reject it, be
fieving it to bo an adv.noe sto]s to the in
auguration of a despotism. In doing
which he said he hoped they would be
guarded, in tlieir reasons assigned for its
rejection, and avoid any language that
might, by any possible means, be tortured
to give offence to the opposing party.
The President feels confident, from a re
cent decision given by the Supreme Court
that, he will be sustained by that law-abid
ing body; and that in a short time a re
turning - r.iso of reasoniwill point out some
middle ground between the constitutional
amendment, and the projected Territorial
scheme, upon which our country may be
come united, when peace will again smile
upon us with all its blessings. —Charleston
Courier , 25 th inst.
What Jefferson navis Says About tlie
Capture of Jolts ?h Surratt.
A letter from the Fortress Monroe cor
respondent of the New York Herald says
Mr. Davis, as I haye been told, express
es gratification at the arrest of Surratt.
He is gratified because now he sees the
way clearer than ever to the establish
ment of his own innocence in connection
with the death of Mr. Lincoln. Even if
the captured fugitive prefers the accusa
tious it is claimed he will, he avers that it
will be a very simple and easy matter to
disprove them and his anxiety in regard
to the result has this depth and compass
and no more —the desire of an early oppor
tunity to meet and refute the charges,
Whatever of criminality may attach to him
as the head and front of the late rebellion,
whatever of treason there may have been
to liis country iti bis official acts as the
chosen chief of the Confederacy, lie is
willing an impartial jury shall determine,
and if he is proven a traitor and meriting
a traitor’s doom, be is willing to pay the
penalty of his death ; for then the knowl
edge of the motives prompting to his
course and mens tdbi ennsda rccii will sus
tain him. The penalty of defeat in the
groat struggle of a great people for a great
principle he would cheerfully pay. and
though judged by the standard of sober
discretion, his course may have been pre
mature and ill-advised, and though tried
by the tecliuical tests of the law he may
be adjudged guilty of treason, there would
vet be something of glory in such a fate ;
but every feeling of his nature revolts at
assassination, and particularly of such a
man as Mr. Lincoln, who, although his
opponent in a contest of arms, he respec
ted for liis integrity, high magnanimity of
character and sincere and unyielding devo
tion to what he considered right. All
this, as relates to the capture of Surratt
and the interests and destiny of'Mr. Davis
as involved in the case, and particularly the
expressed gratification of the latter at the
arrest, does not much favor the theory ot
Air. Davis’ implication in the murder ol
Air. Lincoln. Disregarding his own as
sertions his friends feel confident tnat if
; Surratt does attempt to shoulder the _as
i sassinarion plot on him, a rigid investiga
tion will show the charge as groundless as
i that attempted* by the alleged perjurer
' Conover and his fools before the special
investigation Committee ot the last Con
gress. Concluding this topic, 1 will, there
fore add that the capture oi Surratt
lias not diminished the -appetite of -zoff.
Davis : that his sleep has been none tlie
] less on account of it : that he maintains
the .sameeven tenor oi mind aud spirits,
and is as cordial and social as ever towards
the officers of the fort aud visiting friends
daily calling to see him;
Death of an Old Citizen.— Another
name has been added-to the list of old citi
zens of Milledgeville who have passed
away during the year 1866. Air. Chappell
Boutwell died at his residence on Thurs
day last. lie was one of our oldest citi
zens, having resided in this place for the
past sixty years.- Asa citizen he will be
greatly missed —to hi- large family his loss
will be irreparable. At one time he was
Mayor of the city, and at the time of liis
death wa- Asst. Assessor of internal Reve
nue for this district. M'dedgeviib Union.
December 25.
A Precious Scamp.—The Louisville
Democrat contains the * following para
graph : *
Another Impostor, tor -averui auy
past a man has beeu =? in g tarough the
city representing himself as' *enerai \\ ood,
of'the “so-called, and by his affable
manners and good address, has ingratiated
himself into the favor ol a number oi per
sons. He represented that he wa.- ap
pointed by the Governor Oj Georgia t
purchase corn for that kJa.e, and through
papers, which were evidently rorged, fie
succeeded in getting froincome o. our busi
ness men considerable *ota oi corn, for
which he cave a draft which was not worth
the paper upon which it wa- written. Ihe
police were made acquainted with the
facts, and the protended General \ amo j.sed.
“Tom,” a guenine Guinea negro living
at Hamilton, Ohio, is the only person rum
alive who witnessed the surrender ot Corn
w all is.
News and Other Items.
| There are now 30,000 idle negroes in
Washington.
The New York College of Dentistry
work for the poor of that city free of
j c-harge.
The Maryland State treasury lias about
•four million surplus.
i, lit Java twenty-eight degrees of rank
are indicated by the parasols.
The collapse ot crinoline is gravely an
nounced by the Pound Table.
Four Southern freedmen are in jail in
j Connecticut lor alleged murder.
There is a young man in Springfield. 19
j years of age, who weighs 370 pounds.
! Halls Journal of IJeafth says people
mustn’t “cuddle'kip’’ in bed if they would
j be healthy.
In Alewphis, a tew days ago, a negro
woman gave birth to four boys, and all are
! getting on finely.
j * There are twelve public parks in New
J Orleans. Most of them, however, are In
: great need of renovation,
i A book is just out, which is written to
: prove that astronomers are all wrong. It
l is maintained that the earth is flat.
A hat worn by Napoleon at Egtace,
brought 1,820f. at a recent sale.
YY isc-onsin sold over' three, million dol
lars worth of butter last year.
The New York city election clerks are
well paid. They receive fifty dollars a‘
day.
Max now threatens Napoleon with black
mail, publishing private letters, Ac.
John A. Thomas, for breaking his
promise, pays a Miss- Green, of Mon-
The A irgiuia Ftate seal, which was taken
oft at the evacuation of Richmond, lias
turned up.
. A Norfolk paper says that city continues
to march forward in the achievement of
her destiny—prospering and lo prosper.
W. L. Wise, Assessor of Internal Rev
enue at St. Paul, Minn., refuses to surren
der the office to Col. Geo. G. Woods, lately
appointed.
A gentleman lately moved into New Or
leans from South Carolina, was accompa
nied by twenty of his former slaves, Who
refused to part from him.
The Boston Yacht Club is reported to be
arranging for a challenge regatta, to come
oft next summer, with special reference to
showing tlie New York yacht men how to
do it.
A correspondent speaks of a youthful
and fascinating American prima donna,
who despises small talk, and who bestows
all her affections ou dogs, mofikeys, rab
bits and parrots, and is withal a misan
thrope.
The Demas Barnes, the groat vender of
patent medicines, has been indicted by tho
Grand Jury of Kings county, N. Y., to
gether with other persons, for alleged
bribery and corruption at tlie late Congres
sional election in that county.
The Republican mojority in Illinois, on
the State ticket, at the late election, is offi
cially reported at 55,770.
The disbursements on account of tlie
Departments for the past week were: War,
P,092,495, Navy, $2. ; »,00l». Interior $197,009.
The celebrated actress, Avonia Jones
BroOkes was to begin an engagement at
the Theatre Royal, Aberdeen, .Scotland, a
few nights since for six nights.
The late Confederate General AVilliain
l’reston, -w rites a letter saying he will ac
cept the Democratic nomination for Gover
nor of Kentucky.
The Irish citizens of St. Louis gave a
grand banguet to Mr. McGuire, of the
British Parliament, Thursday night, at
which there was a jolly good time.
The location of the new Presidential
mansion has been determined* on, it is
said. The place is about two miles north
west of Washington, and embraces grounds
fer a park. The land is valued at about
$1,500 per acre.
The receipts of the New Orleans cus
tomhouse during sue first week of the
present month wero $201,619 20—the largest
amount received in one week since the
< 'ustomlioi.se was established tjiere.
It is rumored that it is contemplated to
establish iu Washington an officicial ga
zette, which will contain exclusively all
the government announcements and ad
vert isements, and thus avoid the squabble
among the Washington newspapers in re
gard to official advertising.
sam.
The South. —The New York Times lias
the following, the most sensible paragraph
which has appeared in its editorial columns
since it went back to Radicalism :
Whatever may be the political policy of
Congress in reference to the Southern
States, it should not be blind to the policy
of fostering Southern industry, Southern
production, and the practical business in
terests of the South generally. Whether
the present State Governments are recog
nized or not, whether the Constitutional
Amendment ho adopted or not, it is a fact
that the continued prostration of Soutliern
interests is a very serious damage, not only
to the well being of the South, but of the
whole country. With a large production
and a prosperous industry there, large rev
enues would be poured into the treasu
ry —lightening our burdens, improving the
national credit, and diminishing the public
debt. With the present state of things,
revenues must continue as they are, mis
erably small. Even if the plan of creating
territorial governments for the Southern
States be carried out by Congress, it would
be advantageous that their material inter
ests be encouraged ; for territorial govern
ments will prove excessively expensive
affairs to the nation, and a burden upon
the people of the North which they will
soon feel heavily—especially if Southern
prostration reduces still lower than now
Southern revenues. It is, therefore, ex
ceedingly short-sighted in Congress to turn
its back upon all projects for developing
the resources of the Southern States’,
merely because the political sentiments of
the people are unsatisfactory. It is mar
vellously like biting off one's nose to spite
oiie’s face.
Death of Dr. MaGehee.—We arc
pained to hear of the death of this promi
nent and useful citizen of I feorgia. Dr.
AlaGehee was one of the most practicaland
successful farmers ir. the countrj’. He was
als;o a scholar, a gentleman of refinement
and intelligence, and one of'tlie liiost.agreea
ble conversationlists we ever met with. 110
died at his residence in Houston county, i
after a brief illness. —Federal Union.
Traces of pre-historic civilization have
been found in St. Anthony, Alinn. A trap
door, secured by a curiously shaped lock,
was discovered in the door of a cellar, and
on poshing investigation further it was
opened and a spiral staircase, leading down
one hundred and twenty-three steps, ap
peared. It ended in a passage which led
into an artificial cave, about which were
strewn iron and copper instruments, and
at one side of which was an elevated plat
form and rude seats. A stone sarcophagus
wa- also found in another apartment,
which on being opened disclosed a human
skeleton.
It is not uncommon to find in factories
that, where tlie machinery is stationery
rats gnaw the leather belting where they
can get access to it, A correspondence of
the Scientific American states that rats
will not taste anything containing castor
oil or what is covered with it, and he re
commends that the belting lie rubbed with
the oil. Any leather exposed to the de
predations of rats will be preserved by this
remedy.
The Philadelphia Age relates a Radical
trick to keep three soldiers, who intended
to vote the Democratic ticket at the late
Gubernatorial election, from the polls. A
Radical swore out a warrant against them
on the morning of the election, had them
arrested for highway robbery, aa_d sent to
jail, where they were kept until a few
days acee Tlie grand jury ignored the
bill. Their prosecutor absconded, and
failed to prosecute the case.
The immortal J. N., the erratic visitor
| to Mr. DavL, whose arrival there and inter
view with Mr. Davis wa- de.-reribed yester
day. hade farewell to Uld Point this morn
ing, and went to Richmond, mtending
thence to proceed on an extended riouthern
tour, in order to acquaint the Southern
people of'the full concurrence by Mr. Davis
in his views and theories upon the recon
struction of the 1 nion. It is said that the
officer of the Fort accuses the 'immortal
of having made use of a little strategy in
obtaining an entrance into the fort, and an
| interview with Mr. Darns. J. N. referred to
| this little device of his in a very, self-satis
fied manner, an ! spoke very feelingly of
I his treatment by the officers while a privi
leged visitor in the fort, and while intent on
! the accomplishment of his important mis
-1 s en. —Fortress Monroe Letter.
Riirder and Magic—A .Curious storj,
In the early part of last week a man
named Chas. Framel was arrested in Can
treville, in Reynolds county, Mo., on th*
charge 'of having murdered a Capt, llop
f tins, in July 1565, then acting as a provost
! marshal near Uentreville, 111. The party
! causing the arrest is the lather of the mnr
! dered man, and as he passed through this
; city a day or two ago with his qirisoaiPin
j charge,.the following curious psptieulars as
i to the information which led to the arrest
1 were ascertained, and which will he read
with interest by al! lovers of the marvel
-1 ous. After the murder was committed,
Mr. Hopkins, the father of the deceased,
became filled with tlie one absorbing idea
of bringing the nuirdererofhisson testifier
the extreme penalty of the law. To ac
complish tiiis, the old man devoted all his
time and energy, and in prosecuting his
search during the past year has wandered
over the best part of Missouri, Kansas.
lowa and other western States, oiten ap
parently being on the eve of success, but
frequently finding himself utterly disap
pointed and foiled. Towards the latter
part of October he returned to his home
near Centralia, 111., weary and 'dispirited,
hut retaining as strongly as ever his deter
mination to track the murderer to the end.
Aud now we conic to the strangest
part of the business While the old ;
man was taking a few days’ rest, and plan- i
ning his scheme for anew tour, rumor car- I
dried to his ears the fame of a blind girt
living at Bit. Vernon, 111., named Bliss
Mary A. Lucas, and it was told that she
possessed the weired power of looking into
the past, unraveling allkinds of secrets and
describing aud pointing out the residence I
of men and women she had never seen. In i
other words, of being a fortune-teller, a i
ciroe, or whatever else* it may ho appro- j
priate to call a yoking woman who posses- !
aci M-irfpiftiral powers and does many
extraordinary things. Mr. Hopkins on
hearing this determined to see this won
derful damsel and seek her assistance, and
accordingly lie visited Bit. Vernon, obtain
ed an interview with the fortune-teller,
related the facts of the case, and implored
her to point out, if her science permitted,
the abode of tlie long-sought man. And
the blind secret-reader lifted her sightless
eyes and mentally gazed into the mysteries
ofa vanished time, saw the deed of blood,
scrutinized the face oi’ the murderer, fol
lowed him as he fled, and through his wan
derings for many months, until she finally
saw him in his present residence, and then
she spoke to her visitor and gave the in
formation he desired. She described the
person of the mail he wanted, and finally
told Blr. If., that he was living in Reynolds
county. Bio., near Centrevme. Thither
Blr. Hopkins went "and discovered with
but little difficulty Charles Framel, the
man he had hunted for many months, and
whom he charges with the murder of his
son, arrested him as above stated, and car
ried him home for trial.— St. Louis Re
publican, Dec. sth.
“11l tel .Ell Ilf INI I’ ’ ExTRAORDINA RV.
The New York Herald publishes the
following telegram, dated Boston, Decem
ber 17, iu its issue of Wednesday:
The removal of Adjutant-General
Scliouler bids fair to create a sensation, it
being certain now that General Butler was
the cause. The letter from the Governor
of the State announcing to Adjutant-Gen
eral Scliouler his removal, was dated on
Friday last, and gave as a reason Selioulei-’s
opposition to General Butler’s nomination
for Congress. The letter, it is understood,
will soon be published, in connection with
other matters concerning, it is reported,
certain profitable cotton speculations while
the General was in command at Fortress
Bfonroe. The decision that was arrived
at by the court martial upon these alleged
speculations, it is held, wa-s reversed by
the payment of a heavy percentage of the
profits. It is also alleged that official pa
pers were ante-dated after G eneral Butler’s
removal; but even the above does not in
clude all the charges upon the black list
that has been prepared, and which is
threatened to be pubilshed. There is also
included in the charges an allegation that
a very large sum of money was placed iu a
bank in Paris at the time these speculations
were in progress. The whole affair wears
a most damaging aspect, and the parties
who hold the official documents will not
Scruple at all about making them public.
The Dayton (Ohio) Empire , of last
week, makes, editorially, the following
statement:
But a few days since we were assured, hy
a very respectable and intelligent gentle
man, a citizen of New Haven, Connecti
cut, that there are now hanging on the
walls of “Beast’ ’ Butler, at Lowell, two
magnificent pictures —“Christ on the
Cross” and “Blaryat the Sepulchre,” we
think —painted, evidently, by some great
master, which are certainly of SIOOO value
each. They were plundered from one of
the elegant mansions of New Orleans—
the mansion of one of the wealthiest gen
tlemen of the South—which Butler confis
cated and appropriated to headquarter
purposes, and as a receptacle of stolen
goods. Our informant was a correspondent
at New Orleans when these pictures
were shipped, and saw them on the
vessel in the harbor.
An Ominous Prediction.—The late
Lord Macaulay, in May, 1857, wrote a
letter to H. L. Randall, of New York, in
which he expresses his earnest couvicions
in relation to the future of the United
States. He said:
It is quite plain that your Government
will never be able to restrain a distressed
and discontented majority. For with you
the majority is the Government, and has
the rich, who are always a minority,
absolutely at its mercy. * _* _ * l
seriously apprehend that you will, in some
such season as 1 have described, do things
which will prevent prosperity from return
ing ; that you will act like a people who
should in a year of scarcity devour all the
seed corn, and thus make the next year a
year not of scarcity, but of absolute famine.
There will be, 1 fear, spoliation. The
spoliation will increase the distress. The
distress will produce fresh spoliation.
There is nothing to stop you. Your Con
stitution is all sail and no anchor. As I
said before, when a society has entered
on this downward progress, either civiliza
tion or liberty must perish. Either some
Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reigns of
government with a strong hand, or your
republic will be as fearfully plundered and
laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth
century as the Roman Empire was in the
fifth, with this difference : That the Huns
and Vandals, who ravaged the Roman
Empire, came from without, and that your
Huns and Vandals will have been engen
dered within your own country byyourown
institutions.
Case of Rev. Geo. T. Williams.—Re
tribution.—The people who have been so
industriously prosecuting the Rev. George
T. Williams, of Suffolk, before a New
York police court, arc now realizing the
force of Holy Writ. One witness has died,
and the nephew of another has been ar
rested and committed for stealing.
The New Y ork Police Gazette has a de
tailed account of the arrest, examination
and final imprisonment, in default of bail,
of a fust young man named Henry Steven:,
; alia* Frederick Williams, for stealing the
sum of sl2ofrom bis employer, and says:
This young man Stevens is a nephew of
i the lady who so rigorously prosecuted the
: charge of picking pockets against the un
fortunate Rev. 0. Williams, of Yirginia.
who was a victim of circumstantial evi
i denee. The lady then was very desirous
! that the law should be vindicated, and un
! pleasant as was her duty, she felt herself
compelled to prosecute the matter to its
fullest extent, the evident innocence of the
minister to the contrary notwithstanding.
I Now she has changed her mind, and is
; confident that the ends of justice will be
amply satisfied by allowing her to give Dr
Hunter a check for $l2O and discharging
her nephew. She thinks it an outrage
l t? at r' 0un 2 ™ an of his respectability
should be so rigorously prosecuted, even
if he is guilty. We seldom saw a case
where, in so short a time, the tables have
| been so completely turned. The lady,
\ who was a lover of justice, will now feel
the injustice she did Rev. Mr. Williams,
and perhaps will be cautious in the future,
j Meanwhile, her ‘‘darling nephew Harry
| has a good prospect of taking a sojourn up
the Hudson, where he will be ‘‘shaved,
| stripped of his gaudy and fashionable at
; tire, put in among fellons and convicts,
and boarded at the expense of the State,
i Well, such is life.
And, may we, not ask, is not this retri
bution.''—Petersburg Express, loth.
The Informer Against Surratt
A correspondent informs us that the name
of the Frenchman wht> was engaged with
; a Welchman in teaching on Nineteenth
street, and who furnished the information
leading to the arrest of John H. Surratt,
is Santa Farara —at least, that is the name
.by which he then passed. He is a tall,
good-looking man, with black hair and
: moustache, and manners somewhat digni
i fiedi— Jfati&iin! Intelligencer.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVL NO. 1
4 The flights y>f W ennui*
'The ri Aits of woman, vliat are they? :
Xlie tight to labor, lovetand pray;
The right iq weep with those that weey,.
The right to wake when otheivsslqep.'-
t Tho right to dry the fatten tear!
The right to quell the rising fear;
The right to smooth the brow-of care;
And whisper eoniibi-t to despoil.
The rigbtto watch ihe parting breath,
To (tooth aiid-eheei- the bed of death ;
The right when earthly topes all fall,
! To point to that within the veil.
Tiie right the wanderer to rcelaitn ;
, And win tfie lost from jutlis of shame;
The right lo comfort and to bless
The w idow and tho fatherless.
; Tlie right Ihe little ones to guide
i fn simple t'aitiuo J rim that died,,
IV itli earnest love and gentle praise
! IY> bless and cheer thy youtnlffl davs.
I The right the intellect to tVain, ' ,
And guide the soul to noble aim;
I Teach it to rise above earth’s toys,
i And wing its flight to heavenly joys,
right to live for those we lave, '
Che right to Uie that love to prove;
The right to brighten earthly homes
VV itli pleasant smiles and gentle tones.
Are these thy rights? Then use them well.
Thy silent influence nope can tell;
If these are thine, why ask Ibßjmore?
Thou hast enough to answer foY.
Y ENTILATION OF THE FEDER AL’CAP!"
i tol. — The ventilation of the Capitol at
; NY ashington is artificial. The air is forced
into the apartments hy immense steam
fans. The Scientific American says:
The fan for the Senate Chamber is 14
feet iu diameter, weighing 6,536 pounds,
and driven by a 16-horse engine, running
; from 30 to 60 revolutions per minute. At
the lowest rate this delivers into the Sen
ate Chamber 30,000 cubic feet of air per
minute, being 20 cubic feet per minute lor
; each one of_],soo persons. The Hall of
Representatives "has a fan 16 feet in diame-
J f WA’hfov 9.U50 pounds, ar>d driven by
an engine ol 50 horse power. Ihis fan*
can be run up to 80 turns per minute, de
livering 100,000 cubic feat of air per min
ute, equal to entirely filling tho hall every
five minutes. In winter one-half this ca
pacity is exercised.
The ol her two fans, lor tho committee
rooms, offices and corridors, arc each 14
feet in diameter, weighing over 5,000
pounds, and can be run to 60 revolutions.
Driven each by a 16-horse power engine.
In summei the air which is delivered to
the budding is cooled arid hydrated hy
coming in contact with water falling in a
shower, similar to tlie means employed in
low-pressure engine for condensing steam.
.1 ho same principle, or .something similar,
will probably be adopted to moisten the ab
used in winter for the double purposes c-f!
heating, and ventilating.
Information is daily being received,
principally through private sources, ol the
accumulation in the British Provinces on
our Northern border of great quantities of
dutiable goods which have been imported
in close proximity to the boundary line for
the purpose oi running them across the
border and evading the payment of duties.
It is also known that more extensive and
powerful combinations for carrying on the
smuggling business have recently been
formed, and an amount of enterprise and
ingenuity engaged, in the evasion of the.
revenue laws which require tho closest
attention and unremitting labor and energy
on ihe part of the revenue officials to coun
teract their efforts.— N. V Hay Booh.
Miss Virginia Penny, a teacher in the
Third Ward School, in Louisville, was
tried, on Tuesday, on indictment for
assault on Adam Haag, one of her pupils.
The hoy disobeyed the teacher’s orders,
and she whipped him ; was impudent and
she whipped him again—excessively, the
prosecution claimed. The court ruled that
the teacher had the right to whip the boy ;
hut that if the punishment was excessive,
and maliciously inflicted, the verdict should
ho against her. The jury found her guilty,
and Bliss Penny was fined one cent.
Letters received from Paris tins week
indicate that the French Company will,
ere long, undertake the completion of the
James Biver and Kanawha Canal. There
is also a story that New York capitalists
will probably, before the close of the year,
contract for the completion of the Coving
ton and Ohio Railroad. Should these ex
pectations he confirmed \ irgiuia will com
mence tlie new year with the certainty ofa
rapid recovery of her firmer prosperity.
A correspondent of the Boston Post,
who has arrived in Savannah, tells the fol
lowing ;
T was walking to tlie station this even
ing with a small carpet bag in my hand,
and when a few squares distant 'from it
saw a poor, half-clothed, half starved look
ing negro lad leaning against a fence by the
sidewalk. As I approached him the fol
lowing conversation transpired:
‘•Boy, do you want to carry my carpet
hag to the railroad depot?”
“Don’t know. How much gimme?”
“A quarter of a dollar.”
“Humph (contemptuously), ye don’t
fool dis chile to work for nntiin for ye.—
Gimme a dollar V mebbe I’ll tote it.”
The incident is very illustrative of negro
idea of free labor.
A bureau for the Mississippi Valley,
through which all necessary information
may be acquired in regard to crops,” manu
facturing operations, shipments, and stocks,
grain and flour at different points and
perods, is to he established at St. Louis.
A writer in the Dictionaire du. Commerce
goes into elaborate calculations of the money
saved arising out of the greater rapidity
of railways, and values it at £8,00(1,000,
on the basis that the time ofa French citi
zen is worth su. an hour.
Plea forEaklv Marriage.— Rev. 11.
Biorgan lectured a tew evenings since, in Bos
ton, upon “Young Men and Early Blar
riaget, “ The lierahl, of that city, gave
an elaborate report of it;
“Text, Prov. 18:22, ‘YY’hoso findeth a
wife, findeth a good tiling, and obtaineth
favor of the Lord. Said our young men
believe in the Scriptures. There is no ne
cessir,- of enforcing this text by a lecture
hero.
Blr. Taylor, of Tennessee, having be
come dissatisfied with the manner in
which tlie Special Committee on the New
Orleans riots proposes to conduct tlie in
vestigation, resigued as member of that
committee on the iltli ins!., and Mr. Hiram
McCulloch, of Maryland, was appointed in
his place.
The Empress Cari.otta.— Some of the
papers belonging to the sensation organi
zation publi shed a short time ago what pur
ported to he a cable dispatch, announcing
the death of tlie unfortunate Empress
Cariotta. The following, from a subse
quent New York date, explains the mat
ter :
A dispatch, professing to have been
transmitted through the Atlantic Cable,-
hut in reality coming from an irresponsible
and unauthorized source in the city, and
published exclusively in several journals
not belonging to the Associated Press, an
nounces the death of Princess Cariotta.
No such di-ftateh has been received in this
city, and the statement therein contained
is cruelly false and utterly s) urious. It lias
the appearance of having been only c-on
i erected, merely to create a sensation, and
the papers which printed it are unfortunate
in the bad pre-eminence they have acquir
: ed by publishing exclusively news of such
a character..
Arrest of “Hon. ” John Morrissey,
- 31. C. —A New Y'ork dispatch of the 16th,
| says:
| An order of arrest has lieen issued by
JudgeMonell, on ihe affidavit of Nelson
B. (Jdell, against John Morris-ey, John
i’A. Morris, Wm. C. France, Charles If.
Murray. S. E. Simmons, V.'m. L. Sim
mons, Jacob Blaudvelt, John BlcGee, A.
Nathan, Wm. Ward, Wm. Craft and
other well-known sporting men. all of
whom the Sheriff is directed to hold to
bail in $3,000 each. Odell deposes that he
has lost over $35,000 the past year in
patronizing the policy shops owned and
kept by the above parties.
Another Old Citizen Gone.— Major
M. I). Huson, oneof our oldest and most
respected citizens, died suddenly at his
residence on yesterday morning at 4 o’clock.
He was ill but a few days. Verily the
angel of Death is in our midst,.— Mill edge -
ville Union, December 25.
The funeral services of Mrs. Senator
Fowler were well attended in \Vasliin<>ton
•Sunday afternoon, Pith inst. Her reunites
were conveyed to Lexington, Ky., for in
terment.
A letter dated Drince-au-Prince, Novem
ber 27, says that the city of Mevagoance
was almost totally destroyed hvliro on the
I 27 tb,
To the Voters 1?I ilio mimic judicial
| Circuit.
i iu: consenting to becotup a candidate for
f JA? Judgeship of the Middle Circuit, I do
• not intend to canvass for an election. Were
! f assured of th# propriety-i>t‘ such a course,
f neither time nor means would permit me to
i adopfit.
The past ten years of*my life have been
; almost exclusively devoted to the service
] ofthe State. This service has been in both
military and civil life—in the legislative
| halls<ind on the hattie-field—in war and in
i peae£. Idiave always endeavored to dis
j charge my duty, faithfully, honestly, honor
. ably. Whatever I have accomplished, I
. haye been made to feel that it has not ad
| vauced my pecuniary interests. I desire to
abandon the field of politics, and sincerely
trpst that the tocsin of w.ir will never
again be sounded, at leasjin our day and
; generation. I wish to pass the remainder
of my life engaged exclusively in the duties
of that profession to which 1 have been at
tached from youth. Age, physical condi- '
tion, and consideration for the interests of
my family, derhand it of me; but I.shall
ever feel proudly grateful to the generous
, and noble have so often honor
! cd me with their@mlidence and support.
It is not without diffidence and distrust
that I have submitted my name as a candi
date -for the Judgeship of the Superior
1 Court Os this Circuit. Pure and impartial
justice and a firm administration of the
law3 demand the highest oualitics of the
head and heart. I can only promise an
honest and constant endeavor to discharge
faithfully the duties of the office, and to
preserve the sanctity and dignity of the
position so long, so well, and so worthily,
filled by the late lamented Judge. Holt —
! the model Judge, *
Relying upon, the active and generous
j support which the brave soldiers residing J
I within the circuit have ever given me, and
i ujjou tlu,tcorifid"nc"-,-;r>fiirl\cfe
i have so often honored me, Ifrust to vour
active sympathies for support, at the elec
tion on \\ ednosday, the 2d dav of January
next. *
Your fellow-citizen.
Was. Gibson.
Augusta, Dee. 8, 1806.
Military taw in Time of Peace.
We learn that thte order of Gen. Sickles
for the suppression of corporeal punish
ment was served on the Solicitor of the
county yesterday morning. This seems to
he a premeditated and arranged programme
on the part of Government officials. We
would like to see the matter brought to a
test, and know whether the civillaws of
the State are to be set at defiance. It-is
useless to treat a grave matter of this kind
in a milk and water manlier. If our laws
are to be put at defiance by the edict of a
military satrap, the sooner we know our
liitc the hotter for all concerned, and then
the people will know how to act in self
defence.
We publish below, from the Newborn
Commercial of yesterday, some fruits of
what we may expect to he the result ofthe
late order, if it has to be submitted to by
our people:
First Fruits op Sioki.es' Order—At
tnmpteii Murder to Commit Robbekv.
—On Friday night last, a watchman, in
charge of a lot of cotton on the plantation
of Heath and Weatherbec, across the
Trent river, was shot and severely wound
ed, the _ bone of one of his thighs being
badly fractured. , It appears that a gang
of negroes went to where the cotton was
stored, and finding a watchman there, de
-liberately attempted to muidcr him that,
they might steal a lot of the eottdh. So
we shall have it for tin; present. The law,
as adulterated by Sickles’ order, lias no
terror for thieves now; and the license
thus given will be improved, and violence
and bloodshed no doubt result.- - Wilming
ton (A r . C.) Dispatch.
Atrocious MtiRbER. —On Tuesday
evening last, a party of five negroes made
a murderous attack on Mr. Joel Heath, a
most respectable citizen of Lenoir, near
Pugh’s Bridge, about six miles below
Kingston. In the conflict, Mr. Health
killed one of the negroes and so severely
wounded another that he is not expected
to live, but, sad to relate, Mr. Heath lost,
his life. A horse belonging to the negro
party was also killed. An inquest was
held yesterday, but we have not heard the
result,— Nciclmtu Commercial.
F.u"'tell SM(- restsin IRb 2.;-.it! - ,
English capital and English Commercial
interests have already, since the close of
the war, secured the larger part of the
carrying trade between our Souther States
and European ports. The steamship lines
running between New Orleans and the
commercial centres of England and France,
are by no means the only evidences of this,
though they are the most noticeable.
Within a few weeks past, the cotton ex
ports (this year’serop) have been moving
| direct to Europe in unusual volume. 'The
signs, of the times are that this English
i activity in the South, after obtaining con- '
1 tool of the foreign commerce of that see
. tion will be turned toward the estab
lishment and control of manufactures
; there. We have heard recently of
| not a few ventures of English capital in
the direction of cotton and other manufac
tures. There are some attractions toward
, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama are
also reported by the agents of English
houses to hold out specially inviting oppor
tunities. The cotton tax, which has proved
Ia heavy discouragement to cotton planting,
acts as an inducement to cotton manufac
i turing in the South; for cotton escapes
the tax altogether when manufactured in
the collection district in which it is raised
and the difference of three cents a pound
constitutes a serious item, one way or the
: other, in settingl the price of goods per
I .yard.
We are glad to hear of the investment of
i English capital in Southern manufactures
jot this and ‘other kinds. It will aid in de
: yeloping the South, improving its condi
tion and encouraging its people; and if it
‘ enriches the investors and managers, we
I can certainly find tio fault. We think,
moreover, if the enterprising people of the
North would direct their attention sonie
! what to these practical enterprises in tin-.
South, instead of occupying themselves
entirely with its small they
would do a wise thing, and a nllfljtf benefi
cial to all parties, and of special importance
to our future interests in our own country.
—New York Timex.
A Territorial Condition.
Some of the gentlemen in Congres.
seem to be acting under the delusion that
by remanding the late rebel States to a
territorial condition, the Southern people
will be made to feel more sensibly their
impotence contrasted with the power of the
General Government. The testimony
from the South, gathered alike from news
papers and individuals, is well calculated
to dispel this false idea. The state of pub
lic sentiment in that part of the country
seems to justify the telegram from Mil- •
ledgevillc, printed in New York papers of
Saturday, which said, “the sentiment in
the Legislature seems decided in favor of a
Territorial government rather than the
acceptance of the Constitutional .amend
ment,' or similar terms.” The truth is,
the people at large are indifferent as to
the course of action which Congress may
adopt. The question as to whether they
shall have a Territorial or some other form
of government, is most remote from their
thoughts. The subject now pres.-ing with
terrible significance is, "Ho* shall we get
something, to eat?” Everything else is
subordinate. They conceive their condi
tion to he as had as possible, —a Territorial
government could make it no worse. I irst
of all, they want to know how labor can he
made available.
About Mobile there are 15,000 negroes
living in indolence, while many of the best
plantations are overgrown with grass and
cotton-wood, and on the levees above New
Orleans scarcely any produce is seen ex
cept that landed from Northern steamers.
There are some signs of improvement, from
the discovery on the part of the negroes
that their dependence on the Freedmen’s
Bureau is precarious, in (.consequence of
which some are making overtures to their
former masters for employment. The more
intelligent, especially, _ scorn to approach
the bureau, regarding it as an institution
best suited to paupers. It is believed that
considerable numbers will be compelled to
work the coming winter, from sheer ncces
sity. A strong desire is felt on all sides
that the local authorities shall regulate the
employment of labor, solar as relates to
the enforcement of laws, and all interests
favor an equal protection, regardless of
color or condition.
These subjects, relating to the means of
obtaining a subeistance, are the ones that
command earnest attention, and cannot he
evaded. About polities people care little
and say less. So Congress need fear no
remonstrance, whatever action it may see
fit to take. — X. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Death of a Venerable Rabbi.—
The death of a remarkable Rabbi of the
Jewish Church of*Germany is announced.
M. Frank was a native of Wilms, born in
the year of 1758, so that he had attained
his one hundredth and eighth year. At
that advanced period of life he was without
auy of the infirmities of old age ; his hear
ing was perfect; he read without spectacles,
and took long walks up to the last week of
his life.