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Old) SIitUES, VOL. LX XVI. ffht'oitifk & jcntinrl. 11 iair*fll V 'lo< Hi I A. it. witi«.irr. tkumn oh WKEKI.T. W rU- slto . ■ 1 A I«. I M r r % , <*A : WLUNKSBAT SOBXINb, JAM JKY 2. 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.