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AU(aiSTA. <iA:
WEDNESDAY MOUSING, AI’KIL 3. '
Hi ti.kr vers is Bingham.—These two
worthies aro at loggerheads, unit are
now engaged in throwing up the Rascalities
of each oilier, ilinghani says that Butler is
a magnificent liumhug, and that liis con
duct during liio war was a disgrace and a
lailure. Butler retorts that Bingham's
greatest military exploit was in hanging an
innocent woman. “When thieves fallout
honest men get thoir dues.” Hut who is to
atone for the blood of a murdered woman?
Robuery.— Saturday night the private
store-house of Mr. 11. l’rimrose, adjoining
his residence in Harrisburg, was broken
open and robbed, id' provisions. The
thiifves took his horse and roekuway from
the stables, hi I died up, placed the booty
in the roekaway and drove off. After liav
inn secreted the provisions, the team was
drove back and put up in the stablo safe
mid sound. This is what might bo termed
an audacious robbery.
Sam: op Tammany Hall.-e-Tammany
il ill, hi New Vork, was sold at auction on
Wednesday, Tor $170,000, which is con
sidered cheap, though there may he some
mortgages upon it. The purchaser is Mr.
Charles A. 1 >ana, formerly Assistant Sec
retary of War, and formerly assistant edi
tor of tho Tribune. Jt is stated that he
intends, alter the Ist of May, to fix up the
Wigwam as a newspaper establish incut.
The New Vork Express says:
Taininauy 11 all was one of Iho oldest po
litical landmarks of this city. During the
war of IM2 it was tho headquarters of those
who were in favor of ils vigorous prosecu
tion, At no plaeo were tho victories of our
forces received with more heartfelt enthusi
asm than in this famous headquarters of tho
I lemoeraey. Tho leading monofthecountry
delivered addresses from its rostrum on va
rious oecuslons, and it has been remarked
that it ltttule ami unmade Presidents. It
’ survived many of iho parties who were
denounced within its walls. On one occa
sion it was the great rendezvous of the
supporters of Jackson; and it was the
scene of a great jubilee wljett lie was ele
vated to the Presidency.
\\ c recall in our oWn experience some
of the most marked events in tho political
history of tho country at this old wigwam.
The administrations of Andrew Jackson
and Martin Van Huron especially centre
there, as do those of the Polk, Pierce and
Buchanan administrations. It seems but
yesterday that we saw la \\ is Pass speak
ing from the rostrum, with liis coat and
neck-tie oil', of a summing summer even
ing, and receiving the applause of the
immense throng w hoi stems! to him. We
recall, too, tho presence of Silas Wright,
and many of the old war horses of tho
Democratic party. Alas, where are they’
now, and wluit a change of moil and of
times have twenty or thirty years wrought!
Tin: Internal Revenue Taxes.—
Wo learn, from official sources, that‘some
important modifications have been made
with regard to the Internal Revenue tax
for the present year, which it is well that
the public should know :
1. In the first place, the time for the
assessment has been changed from the Ist
of May to the Ist of March.
2. The limit ot incomes exempt from
taxation has been changed. Instead of
incomes of s6t)o and loss being exempted,
the maximum has been raised to £I,OOO.
All incomes of SI,OOO, or less, are abso
lutely exempt from taxation.
The tax upon incomes has been re
duced from five to ten per cent.
4. The taxes upon private carriages,
musical instruments, yachts and silver
watches have been removed.
So says the Mobile Reffisterof the l Sth
instant.
Dk< line in Stocks.— The 10.-ses on
stocks in the Mew York market have been
enormous since the first o' December. The
losses on nineteen stocks during the past
two months—that is, since January Ist—
amount to nearly twenty-five millions.—
During that time Pacific Mail has declined
£1,000,000; Krie railroad, $2,600,000;
Cumberland coal, $2,500,000 ; Mew York
Central rail oad $-,500,000; Northwestern,
$0.510,000; Western Union Telegraph,
$1,250,000; Delaware and Hudson coal.
$1,1*00.000; Union Navigation. $1,000,000;
Michigan Southern, $910,000; Atlantic
mail. $500,01*0 ; Fort Wayne, $847,000 ;
Quicksilver Mining Company, $700,000;
and six other stocks from a quarter to half
million each, making an aggregate of
$24,812,000 on nineteen stocks.
Ci x \ era i, AMX est v. —The Lcgisla t ures
ot North Carolina. Mississippi and Florida
have passed Acts to grant a general am
nesty and pardon to all officers aud soldiers
of either the Confederate or Federal army
for crimes or misdemeanors alleged to have
been committed during the war, while act
ing in conformity with orders, and district
attorneys have been ordered to enter a
noVi prrs, , t i,i in every case where such an
indictment is pending.
Hen krai. Sam. Houston's Residence.
—The Bonham (Texas) AYir* says ; “The
time-honored, venerable mansion of the
lamented General Sam. Houston is being
torn down to be replaced by brick and
mortar. I his old house has been respect
ed for one-quarter of a century on account
of its traditional history; but the energetic
hand of improvement is no respecter of
history or its traditional records.”
Payino Themselves in Gold.— The
legislatures of W iscor.sin. Tennessee and
Kentucky have passed laws requiring the
per diem of their own members to be paid
in gold or its equivalent.
Accident on the Opelika Branch
Road.— The Columbus Sun, of the 24th,
learns that freight trains on the Opelika
road, ran off the track on the evening of
the 23d, and smashed up four box cars.
Provisions for Chattanooga. —The
Republican , of the 23d, says a car load of
provisions from Nashville had reached
that place, for the poor, on the day pre
vious.
A Mournful Exhibition.
The House of Representatives, say- the
National Intelligencer of the 20th, witness-
Icd yesterday a pit ruble spectacle. An old
| man treifihling on the verge of the grave,
| claiming to be too feeble to deliver his own
speech, full of maliceand bitterness, solicits
tho ear of the House to pour forth his
\ venom against an entire people. We .shall
take another occasion to speak of the
i, character of Air. Stevens’ speech; but we
simply now recur to the circumstances
under which it was delivered. No one,
not even Mr. Stevens himself, contem
plates the likelihood of his bill becoming a
law. It was introduced and referred
several days ago to the Committee of the ;
Whole, and Mr. Stevens yesterday ob-'
tained an a speech
upon it, which it were Hotter for his fame
he had never made. & ; may be welcomed
by a few narrow-tniwied, malignant j
ultraists, but it will be despised by the
noble, mourned over by the charitable, and
regretted by the patriotic, ’ who will feel 1
that such an exhibition in the halls of Con- .
gross, two years after the close of the war,
is a national dishonor. There are men :
who believe, some of them honestly, that
Mr. Stevens has done bis country good
service, and that iri warring upon the Con- j
stitution and enforcing military government !
on the South, he has entitled himself to the j
national gratitude. But even tig. * will I
not defend the exhibition of a Tad nTan’s f
spite and impotent resentment, and espc-|
chilly when it is marked by the stage trickery j
of an adroit politician and an accomplished
demagogue.
-Mr. Stevens was sick or was heralded as |
sick some days ago. But it was given out |
that he proposed to make a speech advo- j
eating confiscation and assailing the l’rosi- j
dent. Prior to this he introduced his bill
and had it referred to the Committee of
the Whole. After the dispatches, an
nouncing his purpose were scattered
abroad, the bill itself was sent, and was I
put in the hands of the politicans of the
country the day before the speech was de
livered. Air. Stevens comes into the
House, and after introducing two or three
other bills, showing his usual vigor, appeals,
to the House to let him be heard, probably
for the last time, on liis bill, to which end
he moves a reconsideration of the motion
referring his bid.
He begins his.speech, reading from the
printed slips, but, apparently exhausted
after a few paragraphs, it is handed over
to Mr. McPherson, who finished reading
it front the Clerk’s desk in his clear, high
ly-finished style, and we suppose it .is to be
telegraphed to the country as tho final
effort of “the grand old - man,” who has
exhausted himself in his devotion to liis
country.
We remember that a similar scene was
enacted some months ago. Mr. Stevens
was represented as exhausted from disease.
A great flourish of trumpets was made
about his final speech, and public expecta
tion was awakened and a dramatic interest
created for the final words of tho veteran
leader —words of bitterness and of malice
also'. But “theold man eloquent” lived
to go to Harrisburg, in’order to show that
“there, was more vitality in him than in
many a younger man,” and survived even
his merciless slaughter there; and it has
nut been many days sinco the Chronicle
commented on liis enduring the protracted
night sessions of the House with ail the
freshness and vigor of youth.
If those arc indeed Mr. Stevens’ final
words, we shall not regret his retirement
from public life. But if it is part of the
stage trickery to give them a consequence
to which they aro rjof entitled, *wo wish
the public to understand it. We make
sport of no man’s physical infirmities, and j
we trust we are not lacking in respect to j
age. But wt> despise the arts of a dema- |
gogue anil the manoeuvres of a veteran I
and accomplished trickster. On the
Thirty-ninth Congress the influence of Mr.
Stevens was inordinate. Had it been
wielded to secure an adjustment of our
national disturbances we might have long
ago boon a united people. But instead of
promoting union, lie preached discord ; in
stead of harmonizing, he intensified sec
tional antagonism. Tie succeeded in
changing or coercing the opinions of a
majority of his associates, so that men who
honestly sought pacification at the outset
gave their votes to the infamous military
bill. That is not enough for his insatiate
hate. Ho would let loose the horrors of
confiscation and of agrarianism upon an
unhappy and impoverished people; but
we are confident that in this respect his
power will not be equal to his malice.
The Stagnation of Business in New
York.—Perhaps nothing, says n New
York correspondent, shows in so striking
n light tho prevailing stagnation in all
kinds of business as the internal revenue
returns for the past few mouths from the
Thirty-second Collection District, which is
tlie most important collection district in
the United Stales, embracing as it does the
lower wards of the city, and including all
the most important bonded warehouses:
October, lSiitl $1,054,751 :'.9
November, ISiiii 050,05$ go
December, lstlu 712,a50 30
January. 1557 #... 027,525 71
February, Ist>7 334,957 $-5
These returns, certainly exhibit a very
remarkable decrease, but not more so, as
there is reason to believe, than will those
of tho other districts as soon as the footings
van be prepared.
The Connk<ticutElk< tkin.—A Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
says: “The Connecticut clerks here have
made engagements to go home to vote at
the State election on Tuesday week. Sena
tor Dixon is in the daily receipt of letters
to the effect that there is no doubt of a
Radical defeat, and 31 r. l’errv. the Radi
cal Senator from that State, is said tohave
‘given it up.’ The clerks here from Con
necticut have been informed that it is es
sential for every one to cast his ballot, and
those who do not go will certainly bo look
ed after.
Immigration.— By the .report of the
New York Commissioners of Immigration
for 1 Stk», it appears that during that year
the whole number of passengers who ar
rived at New York was 294,557, being 57,-
1)66 more than during ISGS, and 50,492
more than doling 1864. Os the arrivals
during 1866. 00,039 were citizens of the
United States, and 253,41$ were foreigners.
Os these, $1,047 were from Ireland, 100,-
710 from Germany. 36,1 $6 from England,
and 22,409 from other countries.
J fsTICE T<* THE N EG ro.— What is stated
in the paragraph below, from the New
Albany Xrtes, in regard to the freedmen
of that locality, is no doubt true of many
others;
“We are gratitieil in being able to state
that, so far as this locality is concerned,
they have demeaned themselves like men.
We have heard of no desertions from the
plantations, or any impudent action in our
city among the negroes. The ■ universal
testimony throughout this section is. that
they are doing hotter this year than thev
did last, perfectly content to abide by the
contracts made. Tho experience of last
year is before them, au.i tin v see the folly
of trying to get along without work. It is
i true, we hear of a negro now and then do
ing badly, and running otV. but it is ur.lv
i the exception to the rule."
Lunatic Asylum.— A writer in the Ma.-
eou Journal a- Messenger, who has lieen on
a visit to MilledgeviUc, writes: “There are
now three hundred and twenty-seven
patients in the institution, and their health
better than is usual at this season of the
year. The friends or humanity and the
canje of Christian civilisation, will never
cancel their debt of gratitude to Dr. Green,
for bis indomitable energy in planning,
constructing, and supervising the institu
tion, as in my judgment no other man
ever would have done.'’
Monument to Artemas.—An organi
zation is forming at New Orleans to raise
funds to erect a monument to the memory
of the late Artemas Ward.
Reconstruction in the Carollnas—Gen.
Stektes’ Order.
e received an abstract of .the following
by telegraph yesterday*, but as the matter
is one of very great importance, we give the
Order in full as contained in the Charles
ton Courier, which came to hand yesterday
afternoon: *
llka 1 >q’its, Second Military District, j
(X. Carolina a.yi> 8. Carolina), j
<'on srniA, S. C., March 21st, is-. 7. j
i [General Order* So* ].]
I. In compliance with General Orders
No. 10, Headquarters of the Army, March
liUt, I*o7, the undersigned hereby assumes
| command of the Second Military District
constituted by tlie Act of ( 'ongress. Public
No. i>, 2d March, ISO 7, entitled “An Act
for the more efficient government of the
rebel States.”
11. In the execution of the duty of the
Commanding General to maintain*the se
curity of the inhabitants in their persons
and property, to suppress insurrection,
disorder and violence, and to punish or
cause to he punished all disturbers of the
public peui * and criminals, the local civil
tribunals will be permitted to take juris- ;
diction of and try offenders, excepting
only such leases as may by the order of the
Commanding General lie referred to a!
com mission or other military tribunal for j
trial.
•lii. The civil government now existing
in North Caroliinvalid South Carolina is
provisional only, anci in all respects sub
ject to the paramount authority of the Uni
ted States, at any* time to abolish, modify,
control or supersede the same. Local laws
and municipal regulations not inconsistent
with tlieCor.stitutiou and laws oftheUnited
States, or the proclamations of the Presi
dent, or tyth .♦tell regulations as are or
may be prescribed in the orders of the
Commanding General, arehereby declared
pi be in force ; and, in conformity tliero-
Avith, civil. oiUccrs are hereby autiiariaed
to continue the exercise of their proper
functions, and will be respected and obey
ed by tho inhabitants.
IV. Whenever any Civil Officers,Magis
trate, or Court neglects or refuses to per
form an official act properly required of
such tribunal or officer, whereby due and
rightful security to person or property
shall lie denied, tho case will lie reported
by the Post Commander to these Head-
quarters.
V. Post Commanders, will cause to be
arrested persons charged with the commis
sion of crimes and offences when the civil
authorities fail to arrest and bring such
offenders to trial, and will hold the accused
in custody for trial by Military Commis
sion, Provost Court or other tribunal or
ganized pursuant to orders from these
Headquarters. Arrests by military au
thority will bo reported promptly. Th.e
charges preferred will be accompanied by
tlic evidence upon which they are founded.
VI. The Commanding General desiring
to preserve tranquility and order by means
and agencies most congenial to the people,
solicits tho zealousand cordial co-operation
of civil officers in the discharge of their
duties, and the aid of all good citizens in
preventing conduct tending to disturb the
peace; and to the end that occasion may
seldom arise for the exercise of military
authority in matters of ordinary civil ad
ministration, the Commanding General
respectfully and earnestly commends to
the people and authorities of North and
South Carolina unreserved obedience to
tho authority now established, and the dil
igent, considerate and impartial execution
ofthe laws enacted for their government.
VII. All orders heretofore published to
the Department of tho South arc hereby
continued in force.
VIII. The following named officers are
announced as the staffof the Major-Gene
ral Commanding:
Captain J. W. Clous, 3Sth U. S. Infantry,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General and
Aide-de-Camp.
(’apt. Alexander* Moore, ;38th U. S. In
fantry, Aide-de-Camp.
Hvt. Major J. R. Myrick, Ist Lieut. 3d
Art., Aide-de-Camp and Acting Judge
Ad vocato.
Major James I*. Roy, 6th U. S. Infantry,
Acting Assistant Inspector General.
Hvt. Major-General R. O. Tyler, Deputy
Quartermaster General U. S. A., Chief
Quartermaster.
Hvt. Brig. General W. W. Burns, Major
and C. S., U. S. A., Chief Commissary of
Subsistence.
Hvt. Lieut. Col. Ohas. Page, Surgeon U.
S. A., Medical Director.
1). K. SICKLES,
Major General Commanding.
Official: J. W. Clous, Aide-de-Camp.
Ail About Segars.
W. C. Prime, Esq., editor of the New
York Journal of Comnierce, writing from
Havana, gives the following interesting
particulars about the manufacture and
prices of Havana segars. He says:
It has been a special object with me to
try the, various segars here manufactured,
and to learn something about the business.
I drove out, the other day, to the manu
facturing establishment of Partagas, the
largest and probably the finest manufac
tory of segars iu the world. Their repu
tation is co-extensive with the use of Cuba
segars. It is of course unnecessary to de
scribe the method of making them. Every
hoy has seen this done in every town. But
the great care shown in the selection of
tobacco, the larger portion being raised on
their own plantations, and the exceeding
skill of the manipulation and the rolling,
which gives such beauty to the segar,
entitled them to their high rank among
the manufacturers of the world. The
tobacco is placed in large rooms where it
remains until it lias undergone a thorough
process of fermentation. The wrappers are
divided into three classes, according to
fineness, andgivethe numberof the several
grades of segars known as firsts, seconds
and thirds. Thebeautyof the leaf selected
ier wrappers of the firsts, especially for the
highest priced segars, is beyond praise.
The price list of the Partagas segars is a
curiosity. The highest price marked is
for Celestiales at SSOO per thousand ; next
are tho Salamones, at $400; next the
Napoleones, at S3OO, $l5O and $l4O. The j
lntpcriales, Embajadores, Cazadores and j
Rothschilds range from sllO to $l3O. The j
lowest priced sugar on thelist is the Londres j
third, at $33. The very high priced segars
are all large, weighing from twenty to
twenty-two pounds per thousand. They
arc made with great care, and rolled slowly
and cautiously. The best Londres sfcgar
< of the Partagas cost $53 per thousand, and
their best Brevas cost SSO. The Regalia
Britauica, first, second and third, SIOO,
S9O and S3O. The Londres Weigh nearly
fourteen pounds, the Regalia Britanica
nearly nineteen, and the Brevas eighteen
pounds per thousand.
Segars can of course be bought at cheap
er rates in Havana than those which I have
given. But the certainty of a good segar
enable? the established houses to demand
high prices.
The best tobacco of Cuba is grown in the
western part of the Island, audit is re
markable that the same fact is true of the
plant as of the vine in France, that the
soil seems to vary without any visible indi
cation of the reasons. Plants growing on
one line of soil produce the most choice aud
valuable tobacco, while those on the ground
ten feet distant are of common aud inferior
quality. The transfer of seed makes no
difference. Os course, soil producing the
finest leaf is of very high value. It is
nature’s laboratory fitted for its work, and
no scientific agriculture can imitate it or j
produce the same results.
1 am unable t-o procure the statistics of
the export of segars from Cuba. The j
amount is enormous, but the amount con
sumed here is also enormous. Every one
smokes, and smoking is allowed every
where. They say that when a tire breaks ‘
oat in Havana the engine companies rush
to the spot, and begin work by forming a
i line and lighting their segars. True or
! not. I can affirm from a dozen examples
| that in stores and shops of all kinds, when
! you ask for an article the clerk will de- j
j iiberately take out his cigarette ease and
j ask you for a light, if you happen to be
smoking, before ho answers your question,
j I have found very fine segars here selling
at prices as low as sls a thousand. In
lew instances, however, can these be ob
tained uniformly in any large quantities, ,
lor from year to year. The Esculapios
j manufactory turns out very line tobacco,
i fully equal to any other in quality if not in
’ elegance of workmanship. The old Cabanas
house maintains its ancient reputation.
' There are hundreds of factories, large and
i small, and it is not at all uncommon to
I find segars at ten for a dime which are as
! good as those for which you pay a dime
each. But it will not do to depend on
; such purchases.
All the segars for sale here are fresh,
and it is difficult for even an experienced
smoker from the States to select here. It
: would be impossible to find segars in
Havana which are old and dry. And here
: permit me to remark that smokers wo ft Id
do better always to use fresh segars. They
are better in flavor, and produce less effect
on the nerves even when they are stronger
segars. A dry segar has lost much of its
distinctive character, and it is only poor
segars which improve by age, by growing
mild and flavorless.
After a tolerably thorough search in
Ha\ana, and a trial of all kinds ol segars.
1 am convinced that the best advice which
can be given to Americans, desiring to
purchase first-rate segars for their own
use, is to recommend them to send for
1 artagas segars. It they wish a small
segar let them send for Operas, at SSO, and
tor a large and.heavy after-dinner segar,
Brcvas at the same price. The Wires,
at *l3 for the seconds,
and s,a for the thirds, are all good, and a
medium-sized segar. Thev are very sure
to have good segars who make up their
nnnd to pay the expense and take these.
1 have thus far said nothing of the Ci
l garotte, or Cigarillo, which is smoked uui
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1867.
versally here by male and female natives,
and which is beginning to be used in New
York more than formerly. The Honradez
, manufactory is the largest here, and in the
world. I visited it the other day, and was
amused to find that they do everything
there except make cigarettes. They make
their own boxes and barrels, cut the paper,
i print the labels, lithograph rhe ornaments*
for packages, cut and prepare the tobacco,
; and then send it out to be rolled into cigar
j ettes by any one and every one. Thousands
!of persons are thus employed. You will
I scarcely see a porter at the door of a house
] in Havana who is not busy making a little
! money by rolling cigarettes. The paper
| and tobacco are furnished by the factory,
j and on returning the work the man. woman
j or child is paid at the window after the
work is inspected and approved. But I
i am very confident that there is tetter to
! bacco in the world for cigarettes than is
- grown in Cuba. There is no tobacco here
fit to smoke in a pipe, and the test tobacco *
: for the pipe is generally the best for cigar-
I ettes. A mixture of Louisiana Perrique
with the best James River or Lt-nehburg
smoking tobacco makes a better cigarette
1 than anything in Cuba. Latakir tobacco
makes by far the finest. The supply from I
here is enormous, in Europe and in the
States.
I have frequently heard it stated that
Connecticut wrappers are exported to Cuba
for use here. Many believe it. It is not
true, and for the very good reason that no :
such importation is allowed here. It is
not at all_ probable that a segar ever left
Cuba which was rolled in anything but a
Cuba wrapper or made of anything but
Cuba tobacco.
OTE WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
What the Work is Before Congress—An '
Adjournment in Order—The Effect of \
that Essay on Confiscation —Registrar j
tion in the District of Columbia —.j
Butler a Faded I'lower—Temperance a
Power in Official Circles—Aid for the j
Destitute Without Regard to Race and ‘
Color —Financial Matters —A Dreary !
Rain , etc.
Washington, March 21.
Nothing now remains for Congress to do
beyond passing, over the President’s veto,
the Supplementary Bill, if the President, in
his ideas of consistency, does veto that
measure. Then, as the disposition to im
peach the President has vanished, the
domineering members of both Houses can
go home and console themselves with the
reflection that they were not’found want
ing in their efforts to legislate, during the
past winter, in favor of preserving intact
their party organization, whatever may
have been their faults in other respects.
The members who were anxious not to
leave the metropolis for their homes, from
which they so recently took their depart
ure, will have to give way to the old Sena
tors and Representatives who know what
the results of a long session in Washing
ton amount to, and let the short experience
in Congressional life which they have
tasted since the 4th instant suffice until
the next meeting. Whether that will be in
October or not until December, is not yet
definitely determined upon; but the
probaba bib ty now is, that no recess will be
taken ; but that, when Washington is free
from Congress again, it will be until De
cember. However, no one can tell what a
day - may bring forth, and nothing will be
surprising. It is not certain what the
date will boos the re-assembling of the
present Congress, though it will probably
be determined upon in a day or two.
Thad. Stevens’ speecli in favor of con
fiscating the property of the people of the
South, though it was the product of elabo
rate study and long preparation, has fallen
still-born, and, of course, no sensitive per
son will imagine that it will have even the
same effect that Sumner’s proposition in
the Senate, to give the freedmen the
homes and plantations of their late masters,
met with —and that was a wonderful one to
the author of the Senate resolution. The
friends of Stevens say this long, vindictive
confiscation tirade of his, which he was
forced to deliver by proxy on account of his
failing health, is the last of his grand
efforts—like all his efforts in Congress sinco
the war terminated, it has proved
to be a brilliant failure. It needed
the unanimous concurrence of the
Radical members, of the late notorious oh-
sttuction cabal,' .over which Thad presided
in tho House, to give it respectability even
in the eyes of the more relentless of tho
Republican Congressmen.
During the last, session a law was passed
in connection with the municipal affairs of
this District, making it requisite for all
who intend to vote at the next election,
which takes place injj une, to register them
selves as voters ; but as many of th'e old
residents lost all interest in the question of
who was to govern the District after the
law creating universal suffrage was passed,
they have failed to register their name's,
and as there is no representation in Con
gress accorded them, except through the
will of intensely Radical Chairmen of the
“Committee on the District of Columbia”
in both Houses, they persistently refuse
to walk up to the office of the judges of
election and satisfy newly made citizens of
their loyalty. This looks as if the negro
candidates will carry the day when the
election occur% In one of the wards of
this city the contest for the nomination for
Alderman lies between two full-blooded
negroes —both said to be well educated:
After a while we shall note how near
Boston we are in every particular, with out
colored members of the City Council, and
“perfect equality before the law.”
One of the best illustrations of the
homely phrase, of going “up like a rocket
and down like a stick,” is made iu the case
of B. F. Butler, who has subsided since
his unavailing efforts to impeach the Pres
ident, and his unmanly attack on the Ap
propriation Bill for the relief of the
poor of the South. He is hardly
thought 01, and the idea that he has
any influence in the House of which he is
a member, either for good or- evil, is scout
ed by. everybody. Strangers visiting the
Capitol inquire for him as they would at a
menagerie for one of the wild beasts; but
as a notable he is behind John Morrissey.
There are none so poor as to do him rever
ence. Exit Butler.
Since the inauguration of temperance j
principles among members of Congress, i
many of whom were not addicted solely to
the use of cold water until the present and
last session, that theory has assumed for- j
midable dimensions, and it has become one ;
of the requisites now for applicants for j
official positions, that they show themselves j
to be “cold watermen;” that is, if the
office requested is in the gift either of the
Senate or House of Representatives.
The destitute negroes in the District of j
Columbia are to have applied to their j
wants the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
recently appropriated. It will be under the
management of the Commissioner of their ;
Bureau. White people in distress need I
not apply, however pitiful may be their :
condition. It seems that this humane ;
Congress cannot discover their wants in !
the face of the multitude of freedmen who
demand protection. It is well that the
charities, which have commenced in the
North, and which should shame even such
men as B. F. Butler into something like
humanity, should goon, as Congress does
not seem likely to be in the humor for ex
pending money south of the Potomac, ex
: cept for electioneering purposes.
It would be well for parties in the South
who have any of the postage - or first issue
of fractional currency in their possession,
to give no attention to any enterprising
Yankee who happens to be travelling iu
their localities, aud who explains to them
i the depreciated value of the fractional
funds in their possession.
General Spinner, the U. S. Treasurer,
is eonstautly in the receipt of letters
| from various parts of the South, asking
| whether this description of currency (the
“short currency) ’ is redeemable. Evi
dently someone has been busy in making
false representations to parties possessing
such funds in the desire of buying at a large
discount all there is in localities where its
real value is not known. All the Govern
i meut will be redeemed when properly pre
sented at the office of the l. S. Treasurer.
This being the day on which the sun
crosses the line, the elements have taken
good care not to sutler the fact to pass by
unnoticed, and the dreary rain that is now
falling is one of the gloomiest that the
northeast wind has driven along for some
time, Pennsylvania Avenue, from one end
to the other, is a sea of mud. and the Po
tomac river, which, on bright sunshiny
mornings, glistens in all the majesty of its
beauty, is now not visible from the portico
of the" Capitol, but rests enshrouded in as
misty a fog as ever Dickens described in
his varied pen-pictures of London. Wash
ington ever had the reputation for being,
in the rainy season, the most miserable of
all miserable places, and to-day it has
reached the culminating point in dreari
ness.
The Clerks 1n the different departments
are beginning to complain loudly, ot the
vast number of itinerant sellers of books,
paintings, and quack notions generally, ail
bearing on the mysteries and miseries of
the late war, who are forever invading the.
red cape sanctuaries in the endeavor of
j soliciting subscriptions to their goods and
I wares, not a few among these travelling
agents are of the strong-minded female
persuasion, and it is easjxto perceive the
annoyance that arises from their persistent
appeals for “your name to the list of my
subscribers.” Arlington.
Letter From Gen. Longstreet on the
Political Situation.
New Orleans, La., 1
March 18,15C7. }
Editor Rep QrlMns foiigs :
Dear Sir— ln your paper of yesterday
you have expressed a desire to Jiear the
views of several gentlemen upon the po
litical condition of the country. I find my
name mentioned upon vojir list, and pro
ceed, without hesitation, to respond.
As I have never appliedjtuvself to poli
ties, I cannot claim to speak to the wise
' statesmen of the country,- who arc devot
, ing their energies to tho Dilution of the i
problem which agitates tlie public mind.
; lean only speak the plain,* honest convic
tions of a soldier.
It can hardly be necessary at this late
day to enter into a discussiofe ofthe matter
that is usually brought up in arguing up
on the proposed plan reconstructing
the Indeed, I think that
many of them are not pertinent to the
question.
The striking feature, and the one that
our people should keep in view, is, that
we are a conquered people. Recognizing
.•tbik fact squarely, there is but
one course left for wise men to pursue.
Abjept the that are offered us by
the conquerors*!’ be no dis
credit to a conquered peopfe for accepting
the conditions offered by tbeif conquerors.
Nor is there any occasion’fA A feeljjßg of
hum;::...; i ifJte-.-tn i* --L :.
and I hope that 1 may say, a creditable
fight; but we have lost, Lot us come for
ward, then, and accept the finds involved in
the struggle.
Our people earnestly desire that tho
Constitutional Government shall be re-es
tablished, and the only means to accom
plish this is to comply with the require
ments of the recent Congressional legisla
tion.
It is said by some that Congress will
not receive us even after we have com
plied with their conditions. But I can
find no sufficient reason for entertaining
this proposition for a moment. I cannot
admit that the representative men of a
great nation could make such a pledge in
bad faith. Admitting, however, that
there is such a mental reservation, can
that be any excuse for us in failing to dis
charge our duty ? Let us accept the terms
as we are in duty bound to do, and if
there is a lack of good faith, let it be upon
others.
I am, very respectfully,
Your most obd’t servant,
James Longstreet.
Important from Mexico.
Galveston, March 21, noon. —Rio
Grando dates of the 16th instant., from
the Mexican scat of war to the lOthinst.,
being eleven days later, state that a battle
has been fought at Catahualpan. It ap
pears to have been between a small part of
the forces, not more than 1,500 being en
gaged on either side. Maximilian took
part in person. Accounts of the result
differ, but appearances are that Maximil
ian was victorious.
Porfiiro Diaz is about to besiege tlie
capital. A general battle is impending.
Juarez will shortly- order the French
residents to leave the country or, be nat
uralized.
The Liberals are fighting guerrilla fashion.
Several Imperialists have been shot from
the roadside while riding beside the
Emperor.
Tlie general appearances arc more
favorable to Maximilian’s success.
Santa Anna proposes to join him.
Galveston, March 21, Evening.—
Flake’s Evening Bulletin publishes specials,
with news from the jnterior of Mexico,
three days later than the noon report.
Maximilian was besieged at Queretaro
by Gens. Escobedo and Corona. A battle
was expected immediately. The forces at
Queretaro are estimated as follows : Lib
erals 18,000 to 20,000. The Imperial
force half that number. These figures are
derived from Liberal sources.
Southwest Pass, March 21. —A rumor
comes to us by schooner Brazos , from
Matamoras, to the following effect. We
give it for what it is worth :
■Jlaxinuhan is .expected, daily. 3.t . Mata
moras with a large-army. There are only
about 100 Mexican troops in the ci*y. Tlie
' citizens are wild with excitement. Busi-'
ness is entirely suspended ; even tlie news
papers were not published in consequence
of the citizens being under arms. Dis
patches received there report the ports of
Tuspan and Naulta blockaded by the Im
i perialists._ A steamer, name unknown,
was ;to sail for New Orleans on the day
I following the departure ofthe Brazos.
_ New Orleans, March 22.— The Bulle
| Hi has a special dispatch from Ycra Cruz,
dated the 18th instant, which says Bazaine,
! the last ofthe- French commanders, left on
the 12th.
The French iron-clads Magenta , filoy
nninime, and the Flanders fleet of gun
boats aro still at Vera Cruz. They will
i sail on the 10th. The Liberals are invest
ing the city, having possession of the rail
road and water-works. An attack is daily
expected. The Imperialists aro understood
; to have chartered a vessel, which- will be
ready at any moment to take them out of
i the Country. No person is allowed to leave
| the city by _ the gates. It is difficult to
i obtain reliable news from the interior. It
| is the impression that Vera Cruz will, in a
short time, be in possession of the Liberals.
Tampico is still occupied by the Imperial
ists. Everything is. quiet there.
The Tax on Cotton. —It will be seen
by the following, kindly furnished by Dr.
Ready, U. S. Internal Re venue Assessor,
that the reduction from three to two and a
half cents ip the tax on cottoh, does not
take effect until Ist September next.
Those who do not fear other loss in con
sequence thereof will, by holding on un
til after September, save half a cent per
pound on their cotton. — JS T . O. Pio.
Assessor’s Office, U. S. I. 11.,]
• First District, NeW Orleans, >
March 18, ISG7- )
Gentlemen : As an erroneous idea has
obtained in relation to the tax on cotton,
for the information of the public, I would
ask the publication of the following ex
tract from tho internal revenue act of
March 2, ISG7 :
“That on and after the first day of Sep
tember, 1807, a tax of two and a half cents
per pound only shall be levied, collected
and paid on any cotton produced iu the
United StatC3.”
It will be. seen that the rate of taxation
on cotton will continue as at present (three
cents) until tho first day of September
| proximo. Respectfully,
James Ready, Assessor.
New Hampshire Election Returns.
—Revise- returns from all but six places
give Harriman 35,580 : Sinclair 32,580 ;
scattering 103. The places to be, heard
from are Danville, Nelson, Hart’s and
Wentworth’s locations, Cambridge, and
Erroll. They gave last year, Sinclair 153,
Smyth 195. Add them to the above,, and
the entire vote now will stand— Harriman
35,776 ; Sinclair 32,773 , scattering 104 ;
total 68,013. The above, without further
loss or gain from the six remaining towns,
will leave Harriman’s majority over all
2,939 ; plurality over Sinclair 3,033.
Representatives ret urned —tie publicans
187; Democrats 119. The remaining
towns chose last year 12 Republicans and
9 Democrats, which would give the total,
if they come in the same now, 199 Repuo
iicansand 118 Democrats,. leaving the Re
publicans a majority of 71. .Last year it
was 90. The Democrats gam 19. Many
members have been chosen on temperance
and other local issues. An unusual num
ber of towns have chosen representatives
-by from one to ten majority omy. Sin
, elair increases his last year s vote
and Harriman gains on fcmvth
total increase is 2,591.--Sosfo« Herald
r [HonJan). m , .
Matrimony or Death. —A very curious
affair transpired on Jefferson street, near.y
in front of our office, on Saturday, _od
iust. A couple of respectably dressed
young women were passing along tue
street when they were met by a very well
dressed young man. One of the girls ac
costed him, and he stopped and spoke to
her. Some words transpired between them,
when the girl said, m a very loud voice,
"Are you going to marry rue The
young man answered something which we
suppose must have been a negu ne, as the
■ girl immediately caught mm by .he throat
and as he struggled to get We. Arei off
his collar. The other girl then attacked
: him and as he tamed to go they gave him
a vigorous kick inthcrea., each, and off
: he went. They turned and walked off mthe
opposite direction, and so the auair ended.
As wo know nothing further of it we leave
the public to draw their o'™ conclusions.
—Louisville Courier.
“RniGOLiNE. ’ '—A London .surgeon has
invented an article . called rhigohne
from petroleum, which "ill hat-ail the
beneficial results of chloroform., without its
attendant dangers. Itapplied external
ly. and renders the part insensible to pain.
About ten barrels of crude oil are neces
sary to the manufacture ot oqe gallon of
“rhigoline.”
Georgia News.
Southwestern Georgia.— The Albany
A- ws of Friday says of the crops in that
j section: “ Before the recent cold spell
i many of our farmers had planted largely of
| corn. The heavy rains and warm weather
brought it up rapidly, and when the frost
came last week, a great deal of it was de-
I stroyed, especially that which the planters
i call the first planting. The second plant
i ing is much tetter. The rain has kept the
i Workmen back, but replanting has com
' menced, and it wiil all soon be right again.
The farms, in general, are in good condi
tion, and crops tetter advanced than at
this time last year. A good crop is antici-
I pated, as the rain has ceased, and tokens
| of settled weather are visible.”
Off for Honduras. — Our fellow-eiti-;
zen, D. P. Ferguson, Esq., left this city !
| yesterday for New Orleans, whither he |
j goes for the purpose of arranging matters j
of transportation for a party of about j
thirty persons who have determined to i
emigrate to Honduras. — Atlanta Intelli- -
gencer, 24th.
Rev. Dr. Hamilton has retired from the ;
editorial chair of tho Guthbert Appeal, as j
the increasing prosperity of Andrew Fe- 1
male College, of which he is President, ;
occupies all his time.
First Ice.—The schooner Four Sisters,
which arrived from Boston yesterday even
ing, brought 150 tons of ice to Messrs.
Haywood, Gage & Cos. This is the first !
arrival for the season of this necessary ar
ticle.—Savannah Advertiser, ‘lath.
. Chattanooga. —The Republican, ofthe
Kith, says : “The Tennessee is once more
pursuing the even tenor -of its way, and
the casual-observer gees but few traces of
its recent fearful height. The levee is
alive with fiatboats, loaded with eatables
for _ hungry mouths; and the ferryboat is j
plying regularly across the river. The i
services of carpenters* and laborers are
greatly needed in the city at present iu
cleaning away the debris' of the inunda
tion. ’ ’
The Albany News says the whole amount
of insurance on the property recently des
troyed by fire in that city amounts to
SIIB,OOO.
Another Outrage.— A man, whose
name is unknown to* us, was fired upon
while coming to town, on the Peach-Tree
road, early on Saturday morning. The
man Was sitting upon his wagon, uncon
scious of danger, when some miscreant,
supposed to be of a party of negroes, dis
charged the contents of a gun into his
body. We did not learn the full extent of
the injuries. _ One arrest was made, and
an examination was to have teen had of
the outrage yesterday afternoon. —Atlanta
Intel., 24th.
Personal. —We were pleased yesterday
on making the acquaintance of Dr. Craven,
well known through the South from his
work, “The Prison Life of Jefferson Da
vis.” The Dr. seeks our genial climate
for tho benefit of his health, and we trust
he will find all he anticipates, as we are
sure he will meet a warm welcome at tlie
hands of the Southern people.— Sav. Re
publican, 'loth.
Among the arrivals at the Screven
House on Saturday was G. W. Carlton,
the celebrated American publisher, who
has gained an enviable reputation as a
witty and genial writer of travels. — Sav.
Herald, 'loth.
Changed Positions.—We heard, a
few days ago,' of a man in Pulaski county,
who'is employed by his former slave as an
overseew The freedman pays liis old
master eight bales of cotton to superin
tend his planting operations the present
year. —Dalton Georgian.
The Valdosta, limes reports a good pros
pect for fruit and crops generally in that
section.. No frost as yet.
A correspondent of the Valdosta Times
writes > that a- negro near Tebeauviile,
Ware county, was barbarously murdered
by three others, but gives no particulars.
The proceeds of Brick Pomeroy’s lec
ture in Columbus was $122, which is to
be divided between the poor of that city
and the starving people of Upper Georgia.
Dr. Andrew advertises for a competent
and reliable foreman to take charge of the
American Citizen , and says that to a man
of experience as Editor and Printer, an in
terest in the business will be given, without
the investment of any capital.
The Superintendent of the Western and
'ployfetf^n l fepa^tr^"Siie*' rbaff damagM'bf
the freshet, leave of absence for ten days,
on pay, in consideration of faithful and
hazardous services.
That Counterfeit SSO. —Wc would
again warn our citizens to be on the
lookout lor the counterfeit SSO bill. United
States currency, to which allusion was
made in this paper some days ago. Three
of them have been passed upon unsuspect
ing persons, and were not detected until
offered on deposit at the banks. The
spurious bill may be identified if the but
tons on the coat in the vignette are closely
examined. They are very plain on the
genuine, and the contrary on the counter
feit. There are doubtless many of them
in circulation, for eight out of ten unsus
pecting persons would take them without
hesitation. —Atlanta Intelligencer, 24th.
The distressing and destitute condition
of many of the people of Middle Georgia,
as depicted by a distinguished gentleman
from that section, is truly sad to contem
plate. We had the pleasure of making
the acquaintance of Colonel Hart, of Henry
county, Georgia, whose mission here is for
the purpose of securing a portion of the
corn brought by the steamer Memphis for
■distribution in this State. And we sin
cerely hope that his mission may be com
pletely successful, and. that he may carry
to the suffering poor of Henry county the
ro’ief' they so much need. —Savannah
Republican, 25th.
Capt. W. 11. Hillyer, of New York, and
his two brothers, we understand, have just
purchased a plantation in Camden county,
in this State, situated on the north bank of
Crooked river, containing two thousand
one hundred and forty-four acres (nine
hundred cleared and under fence ; em
bracing a great variety of soil, adapted .to
the growth of sea island cotton, rice, corn,
potatoes and vegetables of every kind),
together with two hundred head of cattle,
horses, mules, wagons, carts and imple
ments, dwelling and out houses complete, at
an average cost of a little less than eighteen
dollars per acre. We also understand that
these enterprising young men contemplate
cultivating cottou and corn extensively
this season.
Great credit is due to those who are
taking the lead in this mode of reconstruct
ing, the South. Wo welcome them to our
State, and hope success will attend their
enterprise.— Savannah Republican.
A Very Important Decision. —We
learn verbally—but the report is made on
the authority of a distinguished lawyer—-
that Judge Erskine, of the United States
District Court, has, during its present term
at Atlanta, ruled in effect that the adjudi
cations by our State Courts during the
war are of no landing effect. The point,
wc understand, came up in this way: The
plaintiff in the United States Court sued
on a note, and -Mr. Hansel], counsel for
the defendant, interposed the plea that it
had already been sued upon in a State ,
Court, and. judgment rendered therein.
Judge Erskine overruled the plea, on the
ground that there wore no courts in Geor
gia, from the date of the ordinance of seces
sion to the close of the war, which a United
States Court would recognize.
Wc need not attempt to explain the far
reaching effect of this ruling, if it should be
sustained. There has been no meption
that we have noticed, made of it in the
reports of the Atlanta papers. But it
reaches us through sources that do not
allow us _to doubt its substantial correct
ness. — Columbus Enquirer.
The Virgo in New York. —All anx
iety concerning the steamship • Virgo was
dispelled last evening by the receipt of a
dispatch stating that she had safely ar
‘ rived at New York, after an exceedingly
rough passage. - - Savannah Herald, 26th.
Drowned at Sea. —We learn that
Isaiah Sfaith, of Yarmouth, N. S., was
lost overboard from the British ship Clyde,
in a heavy gale on the 4th of March last.
Every effort was made by the Captain to
save the unfortunate young man, and the
boat which was lowered was stove to pieces
in attempting bis rescue. — Savannah Re
publican. _ -
A Desperate Negro!—Detective Lath
an. who lias long been on the lookout for a
noted negro house-breaker, discovered the
object of his search yesterday afternoon on
the Bay. The negro, evidently guessing
the intention of the officer to arrest him,
started to run, and was hotly pursued by
the detective. Beaching Montgomery street
he turned towards the river, upon reach
ing which he madly plunged in. A boat
was procured, and after some difficulty he
was captured and carried to the barracks.
—.S Herald. 26th.
C ntkrkeit.— Mr. I. C. Plant, Presi
■ dent -.'the National Bank in this city, has
: shown us a counterfeit £lO bill on the Na
tional Bank of Newburgh, N. Y. It can
I be easily detected by a caretul person,_as
the engraving on the back of the bill is in
distinct and does not show clearly as in the
genuine, but is badly printed and poorly
; executed. It issignedby (as well as we can
: make out) H. J. N. M. Post, Cashier, and
, George Love, President-- Jour. <£- Mess.,
' 26th. '
Speech of General Wade Hampton.
The following is the speech made by Gen
eral T\ ada Hampton at the recent eelebra
tion by the freedmen of Columbia, S. C.
, It will be read with pleasure and profit by
' a ll of our readers and have a due effect on
! the minds of our prominent citizens who
are invited to lead in similar gatherings in
our city and State:
My Friends : You have requested me
to give you a few word? of advice to-day,
and I accept the invitation in the same
kind spirit with which it was given. There
have been few incidents of a public char
acter that have gratified me more than
this mark of confidence from the colored
people of this district, amongst whom, my
life has teen passed. And it gives me
pleasure to say, that from them I have
always been treated with kindness and re
spect. Nor has their conduct towards iue
changed in the slightest degree since the
change in our relative positions. I am,
therefore, justified in calling you my
friends, and I hope that, as my past con
duct to you has made you look upon me
as your friend, so my advice and actions in
the future, will but confirm you iu that
belief. You may not know, perhaps, that I
was the first Southern man who addressed a
colored audience after the close of the war.
This I did, nearly two years ago, in tho
lower part of this district, and the advice
I gave them I shall repeat now. Again,
last fall, in an address to many of my old
soldiers in Dickens district, I touched
upon the duty of the whites towards
the colored people, and I shall read
to _ you what I said on that oc
casion. There is one other point On which
there should be no misunderstanding as to
our position : no loop on which to hang a
possible misconstruction as to our views,
and that is the abolition of slavery. * *
The deed has been done, and I, for one, do
honestly declare that I never wish to see it
revoked. Nor do 1 believe that the people
of the South would now remand the negro
to slavery if they had the power to do so
unquestioned. Under our paternal care,
from a mere handful he grew to be a migh
ty host. lie came to us a heathen —we
made him a Christian. Idle, vicious,
savage in his own country, in ours he be
came industrious, gentle, civilized. Let
his history as a slave be compared here
after with that which lie will make for
himself as a freeman, and by the result of
that comparison, we are willing to be
judged. A great responsibility is lifted
from our shoulders by his emancipation,
and we willingly commit his destiny to his
own hands, hoping that he may prove
himself worthy ofthe new position in which
he has been placed. Asa slave, he was
faithful to us ; as a freeman, let us treat
him as a friend. Deal with him frankly,
justiy, kindly, and my word for it, ho will
reciprocate your kindness, clinging to his
old home, his own country and liis former
masters. If you wish to see him contented,
industrious,_ useful, aid him in his efforts
to elevate himself in the scale of civiliza
tion, and thus fit him not only to enjoy the
blessings of freedom, but to appreciate its
duties.
1 mention these things to you, to let you
see that I have held but one language in
reference to your people since your free
dom, and to give you the assurance, if you
need any, of my sincerity in all the advice
I shall offer to you to-day. I regard the
invitation you have extended to us to-day
to offer such advice, as honorable alike to
us and to yourselves. It is a fit answer
and a strong rebuke to those who so per
sistently misrepresent the feelings of the
whites and the blacks of the South to
wards each other. It is honorable to us,
as it shows that you look upon us as your
friends; friends with whom you wish tc
act and from whom you are willing to seek
counsel. It is honorable to you, as it
proves that you cherish no ill-will towards
your former masters, that you Confide in
their honesty and that you look upon them
as your natural and life-long friends. Your
own orator of the day, who has just address
ed you, has spoken wisely and kindly oil this
topic, and the advice he has given you I ap
prove of heartily. Why should tve not be
friends ? Arc you not Southern men, as
we are ? Is this not your home as well as
ours? Does not that glorious Southern
sun above us shine alike for both of us ?
Did not this soil give ‘birth to all of us ?
And will we not all alike, when our troubles
and trials are over, sleep in that same soil
in which wo first drew breath? I see be
fore 'me a banner on which is inscribed
“ United we stand, divided we fall.” That
motto is full of significance and truth, for
your welfare is inseparably linked with that
of the whites of the South. If we are un
justly taxed, you will have to pay your
share ; if we are oppressed, you will suffer;
if we are ruined, you will be destroyed.—
Your prosperity depends entirely on
that of your country, and whatever fate
awaits the white people of the South,
will be yours. I have said that if an un
just tax is laid upon the South, you will
have to pay your share of it. Let me prove
this to'you. Many of you are laborers on
plantations, working for a portion of the
crop. Well, suppose you get one, or two,
or three bales of cotton, as your year’s
wages. Now, before you can sell this cot
ton, for which you have worked hard a
whole year, you have to pay a tax of
twelve dollars a bale for every bale you
have made. There is a case in which
unjust taxation falls as hard, or harder, on
you than it does on us. Suppose Con
gress was to tax the wheat of Ohio, the
lumber of Maine, the iron of Pennsylvania,
or the factories of Massachusetts in the
same way, would not the people of these
States- complain bitterly ? Would they
not send men to Congress who would use
every 1 effort to have this unjust tax re
moved ? So you must do, for every blow
that is struck at the South falls On you as
well as on us. I want to make you feel
that-you are Southern men, with all your
hopes, your feelings, and yOur interests,
identified with the South, for that is the
true position for you to occupy.
Now let us consider for a few moments
the subject which has brought you together
to-day—the military bill just passed by
Congress. You must bear in mind that a
great many persons, amongst whom is the
President of the United States, think that
this bill is unconstitutional; that Congress
had no authority to pass it. Now the
only, way by which that question can be
settled is by a decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States. That Court
will declare the hill either constitutional or
unconstitutional. If constitutional, you
will, by it, all be allowed to vote. llow
will you vote ? Whom will you select to
make the nc'.v laws which are to govern
the State ? Will you choose men who are
ignorant of all law—all science of govern
ment, to make your laws and to frame
your government ? Will you place in
office these strangers who have flocked
here to plunder what little is left to us ?
Or will you trust the men amongst whom,
you have lived heretofore —amongst whom'
you must always live ? It seems to me
that this latter course would be the wisest,
for as it is to the interest of the Southern
whites to make the blacks enlightened,
prosperous and contented, they would
surely do all in their power to secure these
objects. I do not tell you to trust to pro
fessions oflriendship alone, whether they
come from the Southern man or the
Northern. But what I ask you to do,
what I have the right to ask of you is,
that as we profess to be your friends: you
will give us the opportunity of showing by
our actions, whether tve are sincere or not.
If we deceive you, then turn to the
North, and see if you can find better
friends there. I have no fears of the re
sult; for with us not only does humanity
dictate kind treatment, honest dealing, just
laws lor the colored population, but self
interest demands from us the same course.
A stronger prejudice has always existed
| at the North against your people than here,
and it exists still. A curious instance of
this prejudice came under my own obser
vation some years ago in Philadelphia.
Passing through that city, I had with me
two servants for whom full fare was charged
on the railroad ; but the ticket agent told
me that they would not he allowed to ride
in the same car with myself, as the people
: there "‘did not like to ride with negroes.”
i "But,” said I, “you make me'pay-fiill
price for them, and one of them is the
nurse for my children.” “That makes no
difference,” he replied, “you can't take
them into the car.” I told him that I had
paid their fare; that I thought them good
enough to ride with me, and therefore quite
good enough to ride with his fellow-citizens,
| and that they should get into my car. So I
brought them in and kept them there. But
to return to the subject from which this
; anecdote has led me. If this bill goes
into operation, you will first of all have to
vote for members of a State Convention.
Now your own speaker, to whose remarks
on this point I listened with pleasure and
interest, has given you sound and practical 1
advice. Select the men whom you know 1
to he honest and trustworthy, and who
are identified with the State. All who are
candidates for the Convention can give their j
views, and make pledges as to their course,
in case of their election. The action of the
Convention will not be final, nor will it
bin and the people of the State in theshght
est degree, for when the Convention has
adopted a constitution, that instrument
will have to be submitted to all the voters
! for ratification or rejection. Should the
i new constitutionthcn not give equal pro-
NE W SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 14.
j tection and rights to all, it can be rejected,
j Another convention can be called, and an.
■ other constitution submitted to the people.
| You have it, therefore, in your power to
test the goodwill and honesty of purpose of
the whites, without any danger of injury
to yourselves. Let those, then, who are
familiar with the cause, the people, and
the interests of South Carolina, frame the
new constitution, and if you find that
your rights have been ignored; if you find
that there is one law for the white man, and
another for the black, 3*oll can justly com
plain of having teen deceived, and you can
reject the constitution. This convention, I
then, will be the means of testing the sineer- j
ity _ot the professions made to \*ou by the j
white.citizeus ofthe State, and of j'ours to j
them. But suppose the bill is pronounced '
unconstitutional, how then ? You will be !
left in precisely the same position you held
before its passage. The present State
governments wiil continue, and the present
laws will prevail. It will then be for us to
prove that our professions of friendship
were not idle, and while I cannot speak
for others, I tell 3*oll what I am willing to
see done. I am willing to give tho right
ot suffrage to all who can read and who
pay a certain amount oi taxes, and I agree
that all, white as well as black, who do
not possess these qualifications shall te
excluded. 1 would not take this right
from any who have heretofore exercised it,
but I wish to see an educational and prop
erty qualification for voters adopted for
the future. Let this qualification tear on
white arid black alike, and while it will cut
off from voting some of both races, it will
lie a strong inducement to all to seekeduca
tion and to obtainatbr themselves a real
and tangible interest in the State. It will
. serve to elovato all classes and contribute
not only to the material prosperity* of the
State, but to the increase of virtue and
education among her people. No one un
der twenty-one years of age is allowed to
vote, nor can foreigners do so until they
have been in this country some years.
An Englishman knowing all about our
laws and our system of government,
and having great wealth, might come here
to live, yet, by the naturalization laws of
the United States, he could not vote until
he had been five years in the country, and
two years in the State where he desired to
vote. Thus, 3*ou see that there is no such
thing as universal suffrage, nor do I think
it. desirable that there should be. You
would have no right to complain of a law
which would put you on a perfect political
equality with the whites, and which would
put within your reach and that of your
children _ that privilege enjoyed by any
class ol'citizens. Your own speaker has
dwelt forcibly on this point, and I com
mend his advice to you, as wise, sound and
practical.
You ask counsel of me. I have given it,
fully, frankly, sincerely. No personal
motives can possibly* sway me, for I am no
longer a citizen of the United States or of
South Carolina. The bill which gives the
right of suffrage to you, disfranchises me.
I have not even a home here, for my home,
and the homes of all who love my name,
have been laid in ashes. I have no politi
cal rights. I have nothing to bind me to
this ruined land but the memories of the
past; the affection I cherish for its
people, and the graves, of my kindred.
These ties, however, are strong enough to
keep, alive in my* heart a warm interest in
my State, and they arc sufficient to make
one strive always to promote her welfare.
This motive, alone, brought me here to
day, for it was not until the chairman of
your Committee urged me to come, upon
the ground that I could thus “do good to
my own people, and to his,” that I con
sented to address you. I trust that these
expectations may not be disappointed, and
that the spirit which has animated this
meeting may spread over the whole South.
I trust that hereafter there i;ty be mutual
kindness, forbearance and » ict-ation be
tween all classes of our peop.
The movement you have comn J to
day is destined to exercise great influence
over the whole country*. Apart from the
political importance of your meeting, and
looking at your action in an aspect purely
personal, 1 cannot but be greatly gratified
tit the confidence you have reposed in me.
It is but another evidence of that life-long
kindness shown by your people to myself;
a kindliness which ] gladly reciprocate.
From many of you I have met not only
kindness, but affection. I cannot forget
how faithfully sonieof your people clung to
me through all the perils and privations of
the war. I cannot forget that it was one
of you who was always amongst the first
at my side when I was wounded, and the
last to leave me. Such affection is not
often met with, nor is it easily forgotten ;
and, while I have a crust of bread, it shall
be shared with this well-tried, this true,
this trusty friend. I thank you again for
tiiis expression of your confidence in me,
I pray that God will direct your worthy,
and that Ho will prosper you in all worthy
aims. I trust that your people will be
come identified in feeling, purposes and
hopes, as ’they are in interest, with the
South, and that acting harmoniously with
us, we may. together lie able to bring once
more to our distracted land, peace, hap
piness and prosperity.
BciUli of Dr. Thomas Hunt.
An event which lias been apprehended
for several days has at last occurred, to the
very gtoat grid of this whole community.
\Ve refer to the death of Doctor Thomas
Hunt, which occurred at the St. Charles
lintel, in this city, Wednesday night.
Dr. Hunt was one of the most distiii-*
guished professional men in our city. He
had attained the,highest eminence, not
only in t his city and State, hut throughout
the South, for science, learning, and every
accomplishment that could command suc
cess and popular confidence, as a physician
and savant. During his long career in this
city, lie had enjoyed the confidence of a
large circle of devoted friends, patients and
admirers, who were bound to him not more
by his great talents and skill, than by his
uniform courtesy and dignity of manner,
and his warmth of heart and fidelity to all
the claims of friendship and performance
of duty.
Dr. Hunt was born in Charleston, S. C.
After graduating at college with high dis
tinction, he emigrated to and settled in this
city with his distinguished and able
brothers, Judge Theodore G. Hunt, and
Randall Hunt, the eminent jurist and
statesman. This was thirty years ago.
The youngest of the family, William 11.
Hunt, also one of the most distinguished
lawyers, settled iu this city some years after.
Dr. Hunt immediately assumed a high
position in the faculty of the’State, which
he has maintained ever since, extending,
every year, the circle of his usefulness and
his fame. As one of the original founders
of the Upiversity of Louisiana, he has
entitled himself to the special admiration
and respect of all, the lovers of science and
learning. T .gather with the eminent and
popular Dr. Warren Stone, who, with the
fidelity of a devoted friend, attended him
in his last moments. Dr. Hunt did more
for the cause of his profession and of
science than any other gentleman in the
State. Asa lecturer lie was exceedingly
eloquent and learned—always ready on all
questions of a scientific or even political
character. In the social circle he was re
markable for his ready wit and agreeable
converse. Asa friend and a man of the
strictest honor, he was invariably true and
faithful. Wc feel our inability to do jus
tice to the distinguished character and bril
liant qualities of the lamented deceased,
and trust that that duty will he performed
by someone of the many able, gentlemen
of his profession in this city. Dr. Hunt
was about fifty-six years old. He had
been twice married. By his first wife, a
daughter of Judge Carletoo, formerly of
this city, he leaves two da .-lifers and a
son, Carleton Hunt, Esq. Hi- second
wife, a Charleston lady, suvv. ~X.
0. Times.
The Nashville Route. —We learn
through official sources that the contract
has been let, to transfer passengers and
freight at Bridgeport, to private parties,
who obligate themselves to transfer fifty
car loads of freight per day. They have
three steamboats employed, and will carry
loaded cars in barges from one bank to the
I other. The distance traversed is about
j seven miles. An island intervenes to pre-
I vent a direct crossing. The extra charge
! for this ferriage will be seventy-five cents
! for each passenger, and seven cents for
1 each one hundred pounds of freight, f our
! cents a bushel will be charged bn corn,
j Atlanta Opinion, 26th.
j Fire at Columbus, Georgia. —We.
learn from gentlemen who reached Atlanta
| yesterday, that a fire broke out at Colum
! t, us about three o'clock Sunday morning,
■ on the east side of Broad, between Bryan
and Randolph streets, which destroyed the
St. Mary’s Bank building and the stores
adjoining above, comprising five brick
buildings of two stories. They were occu
pied as follows : By Blount <fc Chipley,
grocers ; Pope & Cos., druggists; two dry
goods stores, and one as a confectionery.
The property principally belonged to the
estate of W. W. Gerrard, and Moses and
Adams. The loss on the property alone is
estimated at from forty to fifty thousand
dollars. Blount & Chipley fully insured.
—Atlanta Intelligencer, 26th.
Madame Patterson Bonaparte lives in a
boarding bouse in Baltimore. She is 78
years of age.
The Peabody Dinner.
The dinner given last evening by Mr.
George Peabody to General and Mrs.
■rant, and the Trustees of the Southern
Educational l und, at the Fifth-avenue
Hotel, was an exceedingly elegant and in
teresting entertainment. About seventy
five guests, gentlemen and ladies, were
in attendance, embracing those most dis
tinguished m the various walks of life
and in society. Mr. Peabody received his
guests in the parlors of the hotel, and es
corted Mrs. Grant to the dining-room.
General Grant attended Mrs. Hamilton
Fish, and Hon. Robert C. Winthrop es
corted Mrs. Farragut. Ex-Governor Fish
occupied the head of one of the tables, ami
Ex-Governor Aiken, of South Carolina,
presided at the other. Bishop Mellvain,
accompanied by his daughters; Ex-Gov.
Graham, of North Carolina; Hon. Win.
C. Rives, ofYirginia; Dr. Sears, of Mas
sachusetts, and a large number of our own
eminent and influential citizens with their
wives, were among the guests. The dinner
was exceedingly elegant, and was served
with taste. An excellent band was in at
tendance, and played various operatic and
other airs during its progress.
After the cloth was removed, lion. Mr.
Winthrop, who is President of the Roal and of
Trustees, presented a series of resolutions,
which he said had been drawn up by Gov.
Aiken, seconded by Gov. Graham, and en
thusiastically adopted by a unanimous
vote.of the Board, tendering their most
cordial acknowledgments to Mr. Peabody
for his munificent and well-directed'gen
erosity, and expressing their high appre
ciation of the patriotic and philanthmiifr.
spirit by which it had been prompted. Mr.
Winthrop accompanied the resolutions }*,-
some exceedingly tasteful and eloquent,
remarks in recognition of the noble spirit
evinced by Mr. Peabody in the use he is
making of the wealth which his enterprise
and sagacity have acquired. He quoted
the remarks of Mr. Webster that America
had laid the world under obligation by con
tributing to it the character of George
Washington, and said wo might now add
to this the further eulogy that she lias also
contributed the example of Geo. Peabody.
When some future Thackeray, ho added,
shall write of the American Georges, lie
will find in them quite as much of true
nobility as in any that ever wore a crown.
Mr. Winthrop’s remarks ivere received
with frequent and hearty applause.
Mr. Peabody, in brief and feeling words,
made his warm acknowledgments for tho
compliments paid him in the resolutions,
and for the cordiality with which they had
been received. He said he felt highly
gratified to find himself surrounded by sq
many of the most distinguished of his
countrymen, and expressed the hope that
the efforts lie had made, inadequate as
they arc, might contribute something* to
ward the restoration of peace, harmony
and prosperity to our beloved Union, lie
closed by giving as a toast:
“Our Ctountiy — lts army anil navy and
their commanders, its President and Us
Congress, all its States and all their peo
ple”—which was drank with hearty en
thusiasm.
Mr. Peabody then begged tlic in
dulgence of the company while he pro
posed another sentiment—the country in
which so much of his life had been passed,
“England audits beloved Queen” —which
also received a cordial recognition.
Gov. Fish then closed the festivities at
the table by toasting “Mrs. Grant and tho
Ladies of America,” which, like the others,
was received with applause, and was fol
lowed by tho reading of a sonnet to Mr.
Peabody, written by Mrs. A. C. Botta, af
ter which the company returned to tho
parlor and gradually dispersed. Tho occa
sion was one of marked interest and en
joyment.
It is understood that the Trustees,
during their sessions of the past week,
have matured a plan of operations for ad
ministering the fund which Mr. Peabody
has placed in their hands, which will proba
bly soon be given to the public. We be
lieve the leading features decided upon is
that the first effort, shall be for the estah
lishmenf of common schools throughout
the Southern States, to be mainly in the
hands of female teachers. The practical
organization'and administration of the sys
tem has been committed to Dr. Sears, so
well and so honorably known from his long
and faithful devotion to the cause of com
mon school education in the New England
State;:.
Mr. Peabody returns to England about
the first of May .—Mem York Times, 2 ml.
A Hew Southern Staple.
Anew filant has been added to the re
sources of'our* tropical and semi-tropical
regions—a now textile, which will furnish
the world w T ith clothing and the means of
knowledge. We have seen, within a few
days, long .skeins of a cotton-like fibre,
cotton-like in whiteness, softness and
fineness, but much stronger, which is
now produced at the rate of five crops
per year, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mex
ico, where it has been cultivated for five
years by a Belgian naturalist and botanist,
who went there to pursue his favorite stu
dies and occupations in a soil and climate
which favor them.
This plant, called the ramie, is’ a native
of Java, was introduced thence into the
Jardin dcs Plantes, at Paris, by sorno
French savan, in 1844; was regarded then
as simply exhibiting the wonderful advan
tages of the tropics, being too delicate for
open air culture in cold climates. But
having been planted and tried in warmer
climates than that of France, yet not so
equatorial as that of Java, it has been
found to do as well in them.
It is due to M. Benita Raezl, chief of
the Horticultural Institute of Belgium,
now of Santocomspram, San Andres Tust
la, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, that wo
can now pronounce it a naturalized plant
of this continent, and to his present visit
to this city will speedily owe its introduc
tion into the field culture of the Gulf States,
to which it will permanently pertain.
Tiie ramie (its Javanese name) is a plant
like hemp, contains in its stalk the fibre
for which it is raised, and which is grown
like the sugar-cane, from being planted in
lengths or Torn its stubble : with this ad
vantage over the stubble of the cane, that
each succeeding year it grows better, and
that in Cuba and Lower Mexico it will
furnish five,and here at least three, cuttings
a year.
By anew process and some simple ma
chinery invented by Mr. R., the lint can
be prepared from the stalks, taken fresh
from the ground, in twenty-four hours.
We ail know that months of labor and the
entire discoloring of the fibre follows the
treatment by the ordinary process of flax
and hemp, while the ramie* comes out
white, clean, pure, and unhurt.
Eight hundred pounds of lint to the acre
is to be expected from each cutting of full
growth, in fair land. The culture is
similar to that of cane; but as the plant,
when once set, is hard to eradicate, grows
vigorously, and defies the influence of grass
or rival plants, cultivation is only needed
to promote its growth. When ripe, it
should bo> cut ; but neglect to do* this
causes no special damage, so that it may
wait days or weeks the will of the free re
publicans of Mexico and the Union. The
fibre is long, fine, and strong ; the plant
easy to raise, and hardy in a southern
latitude ; its preparation for market is
simple and cheap in cost. Under these cir
cumstances, we may safely pronounce that
it will at an early day take high rank
among our staples.— N. 0. Picayune.
Horrible Murder in Noblestown,
Pa.—A dispatch from Pittsburg, dated
the 21st, says: News has been received
here of a horrible murder committed on
the evening of Monday, March 18, near
Noblestown, Washington county, Pennsyl
vania. Three men went at 9 o’clock to the
house of Hugh Sproull, a wealthy farmer,
and demanded his money. He refused
them, and told them he knew them. One of
them then seized Miss Sproull, an aged sis
ter of Mr. SprouH, and carried her up
stairs, where he bound her to the bed with
ropes. The other two attacked Mr. Sproull
and beat him with a pair of tongs, and inflict
ed on him stabs that must have proved fa
tal in themselves. Twenty-one wounds were
inflicted on the unfortunate man. They
then threw a quilt over the corpse and
robbed the house, getting something
over one hundred dollars. Miss Sproull
remained as the murderers left her until
the next evening, before theerime was dis
covered and she released. There is a clue
to the murderers, and they are beiug
tracked. Mr. Sproull was a bachelor, six'-
ty years old.
-There arc two of the impulses in man’s
nature—industry and idleness—to onp of
which he is bound to yield, either going
the way leading to happiness or that lead
ing to utter worthlessness. They are so
distinct, the effects they produce are so
entirely different, and we have illustrations
of travellers in the path of glory so beauti
fully fine, that it should be an incentive to
put forth all our energies to walk in that
path, which, though rugged and rough it
may be, still contains at its end the goal of
higher honor.
Paymaster General Marshall, of Massa*
chu -etts in his final reports, shows that
since the beginning of the rebellion Massa
chusetts paid over thirteen and one-q uarter
millions of dollars in bounties to soldiers
and sailors.