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General Johnston's Letter.— Asa
part of the history of the late w ar, we pub
lish this morning a letter trom General :
Joseph K. Johnston, correcting errors
which, it is alleged, bare been disseminat
ed by the biographer of Genoral Stonewall
Jackson.
General I’opc’s Order.
The spirit of conciliation and desire to
work out smoothly and harmoniously the
demands of the Congressional Military
Reconstruction, which characterized the
orders of General Schofield in Virginia,
are characteristics of the order of Generel
Pope. It is the evident desire that the
social transition which is comprehended
and imposed by <'ongressional enactment
shall be accomplished so far as its ex
ecution and the provisions of the
law will permit. The first item of
General Pope’s orders announces, in
the plainest terms, that interference
with the present civil authorities “can on
ly arise from the failure of the civil tribu
nals to protect the people, without distinc
tion, in their rights of j>erson and proper
ty.’' Such an announcement as this as a
line of policy, of course, needs no exposi
tion, and we have no fears but that this
protection’’ will be universally extended,
in the same spirit of justice which hitherto
prevailed among all officials and with all
classes of good citizens. If interference
comes at all it will only l«e in thecoinmunity
where the lawless and reckless govern. The
, .1 is devoted exclusively to re
•,, icials to their duties, hut forbids
. *i, . ... from the use of‘ any influence
deter or dissuade the people
t mg an active part" in reconstruc
: bun. A*. ave but little fears of violation
if u ' it nos the order. The third item
an elections “ before the pre
i ribed registration of voters is completed,
but it declares that “all vacancies will be
filled by the appointment of the Com
manding General.” This is all-im
portant to our citizens. This regard for
public good, which General Pope displays
throughout these orders, will unques
tionably govern him in these appointments,
and we have no doubt that a similar re
gard will he paid to the wishes of a com
munity subject, however, to the scrutiny
which the laws demand. It becomes,
then, of the highest importance to preserve
tranquility and good order, that, wherever
and whenever such vacancies occur,
all citizens hould unite and request the
appointment of such persons who will
meet the requirements of the law —will
command the ostetftn and respect of t lieir
fellow citizens with general concurrence.
If the mass of the people are apathetic,
there can bo no other result than that
representations of the designing will be
accepted, whatever may be the conse
quences. Let there, then, be unity of
action and harmony of action in all sucli
cases. But let there be action —not in
difference and supineness—and we have
little fear but that, lightening the labors
of the General, it will end in mutual good
and general satisfaction.
Baltimore. —The following list of
Southern products received in Baltimore
by water during the month of March, is
elipped from the Baltimore ,Suu of the Ist
inst. The amount is greater than that for
tin; previous month, and the exhibit will
prove of interest to the merchants and
producers of this section :
Tlio receipts of Southern produce by
water during the month have rather in
creased. The receipts of cotton amounted
ht ;i,on7 hales, of which 1,070 bales came
irom Norfolk, -ltd bales from Savannah,
>.."d bales from Uioliniontl, bales from
Charleston, 258 halos from Wilmington,
North Carolina, and 38 halos from, other
North Carolina ports and 20 bales from
New Orleans. Os naval stores 427 bbls.
spirits of turpentine, 1,208 I>l>lb. rosin, 211
bbls. turpentine and 10.7 bbls. tar were
received from Wilmington, North Caroli
mi ;0401,b15. rosin, 127 bbls. pitch, 72 bbls
and 27 eases spirits of turpentine, and 9
bbls.’ turpentine ; HlB bbls. rosin from Nor
folk, and Lift bbls. rosin from Richmond.
4if tobacco, .52 > packages and 111 lihds,
were received from Richmond, 78 packages
from Norfolk and 21 packages from Wil
mington, North Carolina; of rice 4-lltiercos
and -ill bids, were received from Charles
ton, and ltd tierces from Savannah. Re
sides (lie above, tlio receipts of lumber,
shingles, staves, Jic., wore very large dur
ing the month.
Population ok the South. —The fol
lowing table shows the white and colored
population of the excluded Southern
States according to the census of 1800 ;
Whites. Blacks.
Alabama 520,43.1 437,070
Arkansas 321,194 111,259
Florida 77,748 02,07 1
Georgia 591,588 405,098
I jouisiana 357,029 335,073
Mississippi 353,901 437,404
North Carolina 031,100 301,522
South Carolina 291,388 412,310
Texas 421,294 182,921
Virginia 090,711 420,805
Total 4,271,981 3,227,099
At the present time, says the New York
Herald , making allowances for natural in
crease on the one hand and the effects of
the war on tho other, in these ten Stale?,
in cutting off the whites and increasing the
blacks by accessions from Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Missouri and Maryland, brought
down for security as slaves during the war,
the aggregate population is perhaps now
about 1,500,000 whites against 3,750,000
blacks. The blacks are in the majority in
South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana,
and they are probably about equal in
numbers to the whites in Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida; and with universal
Mack suffrage they form a strong balance
of power in the other four States.
.John 11. Surratt. —The New York
Heralds M'ashingjon correspondent states
(hat “John 11. Surratt, since his incar
ceration in the county jail, has been allow
ed every privilege which could tend to
make his situation more comfortable and
which is not incompatible with the reg
ulations of the jail. His counsel have
had frequent interviews with him, as have
also his own brother and sister; but no
one else has been allowed to have any in
tercourse with him. llis friends in Prince
George county have been allowed to send
liim books, food, ,ke., subject to an ex
animation by the jail officials. 1 lis counsel
are confident of their ability to clear him
of the charge of complicity in the plot to
assassinate Mr. Lincoln, and will base their
defence upon the ground ofhis innocence
of that particular charge. They have
their case fully prepared, and the trial is
only delayed by the District Attorney,
who is as yet unprepared. It will probably
take place by the middle of April ?”
Enlisting Spanish Soldiers for
'lkxtoo. -Letters from Havana to the
20th ult. state that the Imperial Mexican
Consul at Havana were enlisting Spanish
soldiers to defend Maximilian's cause at
Vera Cruz. They are offered a bounty of
S2O and $1 a day from the moment they
land at Vera Cruz. About three hundred
men have been enlisted, and were to have
sailed on the 22d ult,. on the Spanish
steamer /hr/s. It is said that the agree
ment was entered upon by Archbishop
Ijabastida, on the part of Maximilian,
with the Spanish authorities at Cuba.
Letter from Governor Pickens.— I
The following is an extract from :t private
letter received by a gentleman in this city
irom Governor Pickens, of South Caro- j
lina :
You know the desolation of our country !
,as fumed us all, and we are in great :
poverty. tied only knows whether we
will be enabled to gather this year’s crop,
and the policy of the Government forbids
all enterprise, and puts it utterly out of our
reach to raise any money now on anv terms
whatever. Me would gladly sell'ball'of
our lands lor support and ready means
but, of course, no one will purchase with
the open threat of universal confiscation
standing over our heads, and want and
starvation before thousands of our people
both black and white. The most cruel part
of it is. if possible, the first suffering comes
upon the helpless black people, who have
been innocent of all blame, and really have
acted as well as any people would have
done under the circumstances. 1 really
think that most men who own land are
struggling now to do all they can do for the
support of their former faithful slaves. I
know this is my case, and it is what adds
•neatly to my present embarrassment and
, ramped means.—( %ir(eslon Courier,
Died.--This day, at ;i P. M.. Mr.
Armaud - Y. jlignofc, aged twenty-three
years, u native off J/jusiana.— X. 0. Paper.
brant the Hope or the South.
The success of the democratic parly at
the recent election in Connecticut yields
; much encouragement to the conservative ,
I* South. A careful consideration of the
causes which-conduced to that success,
j and the means used in acquiring it, limits,
however, this encouragement, solely to
I the hope that possibly this Democratic
i success may affect the future policy of the
i Republican party. If this result be at
tained, it will be to the great gain of the
nation. The Republican party is now
. governed by a mere faction, who control it
i by position and coercion, not only the
party itself, but national kgislation. The
i leaders of this faction boast themselves
j “no party men.” They have no political
principles, save that of “agitation.” The !
history of their lives furnishes the history
of all the civil dissensions and political
evils which afflict the country. They :
boast the name of Radicals—in truth, they
are anarchists. Their aid is deemed j
essential for success against opposition
and they govern by threatening disaffection
in the face of an assault from a wily and j
powerful antagonist. Reckless, unprinci- !
pled, and unscrupulous, they intimidate
by conjuring groundless fears, and dis
seminating the wildest tales, without even
colflt for foundation, of disasters and plots
of treason, and all that is diaboli
cal within the scope of human in
vention. In the name of patriotism,
they seek to rule, even at the cost of
ruin, under pretence of guarding the
liberties of the people, and rendering
stable and secure “the blessings of a free
government. ’ \Vith unbridled license they
outrage humanity and common decency,
with acts of personal revenge and unblush
ing schemes of self-aggrandizement. It
is these men —this taction which seeks
to perpetuate civil broils and intestinal
commotions and military rule at the South
—to the North—to the whole country—
North, Hast, South andWest; —to all par
ties—Republicans, Conservatives, and
Democrats ignoring the great laws of the
land—the Constitution of our forefathers’,
and overriding and usurping co-ordinate
brandies of government ; —they present
the single alternative of submission to tlieir
dictates or universal anarchy. To these
men, the Connecticut elections is as sig
nificant as the prophetical inscription
which smote the knees of Belshazar, when
sitting at the great feast he drank wine
and praised the gods of gold, and of silver,
of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Itistothese—“mote, nie.ne tekdupharsia."
But it is greatly to be feared by all who
truly desire the welfare of the country,
»?ho would labor for the establishment of
the institutions of the great Republic under
the‘wise restraints of true liberty in unity
and harmony, that the evil which has
been inaugurated will be perpetuated to
the bitter end. That hereafter, the course
anddistancein party politiesfrom this “new
departure,” will be guided and directed
exclusively by party interests and party
strength and party position. It is greatly
to bo feared that national interests and
national influence will be sunk to achieve
party success—to perpetuate party power.
Let this be the avowed and growing prin
ciple of parties for the future, as it has
been avowed and lias governed during the
past few years, and the descent is easy. It
will require no prophet to predict the re
sult—the final catastrophe. All means
will justify the end. Might alone will cre
ate right; and fee victis will become the
cry of triumph. Nor arc such fears
groundless, despite the fact that the first
rebuke to faction 'comes from the Gibraltar
of its strength, New England, and from
the midst of school-men who first taught
the effectiveness of Sharp’s rifles and coni
cal bullets as political arguments. Such
fears find tlieir justification in the recent
course of the Democratic party-// the
Press of that party represents truly its
mind and foreshadows its policy. But a
few months ago the Constitution was its
charter. But a few months ago it pro
claimed everywhere that the salvation of
the country rested upon the inviolability
of the Constitution, as the ark of the
covenant. That the ballot-box was the
birth right of Americans, and that “the
franchise shall ho elevated—not debased."
To-day the whole Democratic press is
unanimous, as an acpedient , that the
South should adopt the Constitutional
Amendment. It remains to he seen if the
legitimate representation of the party
will sanction this “new departure.” But
surely the tendency and direction of such a
course should awaken serious consideration
at the South. To us the fact is patent. The
contest at the North in the next Presiden
tial campaign will be exclusively for party
supremacy. It will - be one of unusual
strife and bitterness. The South cannot,
and should not, take part in it, as intriguers
with either of the parties now in existence.
There is but a single course left to us lor
self preservation—our only resource is the
magnanimity of those who know the perils
] of battle and the trials of the camp. They
] alone can estimate rightly tlio blessings of
j peace and harmony. G rant is endeared to
them by all the associations of successful
| war. 11 is dauntless courage is written in
the history of bloody campaigns. His mag
| nanimity at Leo’s surrender touched eve
ry iSout herner. Repeated acts of generosi
ty and kindness adorn his intercourse
with us, in the midst of troubles and
anxieties, and menaces and persecutions.
: Nor is his love of constitutional liberty
j less than bis valor and magnanimity,
j When the enactment of Congress
vested in him the sole power to en
force the existing military law, he vol
' untarily subjected all acts and all pro
! ceedings io the approval of the President.
Gould there be a greater peace-offering,
by the soldiers of the South to their vic
torious brethren of the North, than Ulysses
I S. Grant?
Taxation Without Representation.
j —Wo tin 1 the following remarkable state
j inent in the Richmond Enquirer: “It will
! give some idea of the enormous taxes levied
by the United Stales Government to state
that the single town of Danville, Vm,
j pays, we understand, a tax of three mil
lions of dollars on the manufacture of to
i baeco, the tax lieing forty cents per pound.
Yet the same people who are so liberally
contributing money to the coffers of the
national treasury arc denied representa
tion in Congress.”
The Jewish Messenger of March 29th
publishes the following list of companies in
which Jews “do not insure:” Tho Man
hattan, Germania, Republic, Niagara,
llanover, International, North American,
of New York. The JEtna, Phoenix, Mer
chants, and City, of Hartford. The
Phamix, of Brooklyn. We are glad that
the good physic is working. An insurance
agent in Philadelphia advertises that lie
will take no more risks for any company
which refuses risks on the property of
Israelites.
American Credit Abroad.—lt is an
nouned, on the authority of one of the
officers of the Bank of England, that “in
all its dealings with the I nited States the
bank had never lost a dollar by an Ameri
can.” The largest note ever discounted
by this bank was a “piece of paper” for
£BOO,OOO, about $4,000,000 in gold.
The Waterfalls. — We see it stated
that the young ladies of Memphis, having
become disgusted with tiie war waged on :
the waterfalls, now composed of hair.
“ ctsetery have adopted a waterfall, which ,
is simply a eoeoauut fastened on the back
part of the head by means of ribbons. The
eoeoauut being hollow, it is said the ladies
carry their rouge, hair oil and painting j
materials in them.
A New Convent Building in Au- j
oust a.— Wo had the pleasure of inspecting ;
in the office of G. T. Berg, Esq., yesterday j
morning, a beautiful piece of work—the j
plans and working drawings of a hand- j
some and commodious building about
being erected for the Convent of Mercy in j
Augusta, Ga. The building will be a well j
ventilate,! structure, containing recitation i
rooms, dormitories, chapel, etc., all of j
which are reached by broad stairways.
Mr. B. has been the architect of a number
°[ handsome buildings in this citv and
elsewhere, and the present job will he the
means ot making his abilities more
i generally known. —Columbia Phoenix, sth.
M e presume the foregoing has reference
to a building to be erected for tiie Sisters
of Charity in ibis city.
The McDonalds ; or, the Ashes of |
Southern Homes, a Talk of Sher- I
man's March. By Wm. Husky Peck,
of Georgia. Author of “Bertha Seely,”
“Charles Marion,” “Confederate Flag
on the Ocean,” “Beatrice,” “Maids and
Matrons of Virginia,” Ac.. Ao., Ae. Will
lie published April 20th, 1807.
The above work is one of the most in- ;
teresting and thrilling which this distin
guished Southern author has given to the
press. It abounds in scenes and incidents;
of the most striking and dramatic charac
ter, and the plot, which is sustained to the
end, is admirably worked out. The char
aoterof “Cashmore,” the brutal and heart
less speculator, is painted in vivid colors,
and that of “Myra,” the old negress, is
true to the life.
Conducting both hero and heroine
through the most perilous adventures and ,
hair-breadth escapes, the author gives to ;
every chapter an increasing interest, and
holds the reader in absorbed and unflag- !
gitig attention to the end. Price, 81.00, ;
neatly hound in cloth." A liberal discount j
to the trade. Agents and dealers will please |
send in their orders as soon as possible. j
Office of Metropolitan Record , |
424 Broome Street, New York.
The Fourth Military District.— The I
following is General Ord’s order assuming |
command of the Fourth Military District: |
lld'ors Fourth Militaey District, i j
(Mississippi and Arkansas), [ i
Vicksburg, Miss., March 26, 1867. j )
General Orders No. 1.
I. The undersigned having been ap
fointed by the Piesident to command the
'ourth Military District, consisting of the
■States of Mississippi and Arkansas, hereby
assumes command thereof.
11. Competent civil officers in this Dis
trict are expected to arrest and punish all
ottenders against the law, so as to obviate,
as far as possible, necessity for the exercise
of military authority under the law of Con
gress, passed Marsh 2d, 1807, creating
Military Districts.
111. Such other orders as may become
necessary to carry out the above named
act, and an act supplementary thereto, will
be duly published. E. 6. C. Ord,
Brevt Maj. A Brig. Gen. U. S. A.
AJoak. —A sensitive subscriber sends
us the following:
Greensboro, 2nd April, 1567.
Dear Chronicle :—For lleasen’s sake,
| print your advertisements in their legiti
! mate places. I have been so often fooled
; by old Sozixlont that I would see him
! and wash both in li’ll before 1 would buy
a bottle of it. Bronchial Troches are a
j d—d humbug, too. Subscriber.
Trial of Mr. Davis.— The New York
j Evening Express, of the 30th ultimo, says :
; “Judge Underwood, of Virginia, is in
; Washington in conference with the Attor
: ney-General respecting the trial of Jefl'er
son Davis. It is the intention of the court,
| it is now said, to hav e this case tried in
j May, and it is understood Chief Justice
, Chase svill preside, and that Acting-Gener
al Schofield will shortly address him a
letter stating that the court can proceed
with tho business, whenever lie is ready,
with perfect freedom. Unless this matter
is disposed of in some way at the next
term, the President will release Mr. Davis
! on bail.”
j A Sensation.— The Washington* Star,
of the 30tli, says : “A leading State Sena
tor of Virginia, who opposed tho action of
the State Senate i« legislating for a Con
vention under tlio Military Reconstruc
tion Bill, is about, it is admitted, to advo
•ate a compromise of the white voters of
that State with the colored voters. That
is, to give the colored men the entire Con
gressional delegation if the white men are
allowed to control the State Government.”
The Orange Crop in Florida.—The
St. Augustine (Florida) Examiner says that
the orange crop has been under-estimated.
From one grove ninety thousand have
been sold. Tho prospect for next year is
very fine. Tho Examiner says : “The trees
are perfectly loaded with blossoms, many
of them looking like an immense bouquet.
One or two of the largest grtves in the
vicinity of the city will, if the season con
tinues favorable, bear between ono and
two hundred thousand. Os course, it ijsas
yet impossible to make an approximate
estimate, hut the crop, provided we have
no severe frost, will surpass, by far, any
that we have had for years.
Taking an Early Start.— A Wash
ington correspondent writes: “Tho first
application for removal for disability,
under the third section of the Constitu
tional Amendment, comes from James L.
Seward, of Sou .hwostern Georgia, formerly
member of Congress from that State,
whoso memorial was laid before the
United States Senate on tho 2!!tli ult.”
And that before tho amendment has been
adopted as part of tho Constitution !
The Montgomery Advertiser , of the 2d,
j says : “A telegram from a responsible
j source in Washington, wag received in
I this city on Saturday, which stated that
| the Supremo Court would meet on Mon
! day, and that an effort would bo made to
got a case before that tribunal to test the
| constitutionality of the recent Military Ite
! construction Act.”
Major D. S. Corbin has been appointed
U. S. District Attorney for the District of
South Carolina. The Charleston Mercury
says:
“ Major Corbin was, fora long time,
; Judge of the Provost Court in this city,
and by his impartial conduct in that posi
tion he commanded the respect and de
served the good will of the community.”
Havana correspondence of the 27th ult.,
says: “Tho whole French squadron of war
vessels from Vera Cruz had arrived, mak
ing an imposing display. The Spanish
iron-clad Teuton, which excited the un
| qualified admiration of the Dons some
time ago, was thrown completely into the
shade on the appearance of tlio French
vessels of the same character.”
A young lady named Bennett, aged six
teen, lias been refused admission to the
Methodist Collego in Pittsburg, on her
second term, it having been discovered
that she has African blood in her veins.
The Attack on the Street Gails.—
In our issue of yesterday we neglected to
; mention that the attack on the street cars
1 was not confined to that of Conductor
| ltives, but had extended to an assault up
! oil those of Conductors Roumillat and
Faber at a later hour of the evening, in
which several windows of their respective
cars were broken and the passengers sub
jected to great inconvenience and appre
hension. In the effort to quiet the dis
turbance the police were attacked and two
of them severely beaten by the negroes.
After considerable resistance five of the
, leaders were arrested, and with Die six
j who wore taken in custody Monday even
i ing, will Ik- - tried before tho Provost
j Marshal this morning,— Charleston Cou
| ricr, 4th.
Trj vl of the Rioters. —The Provost
Marshal was engaged yesterday morning
in hearing the evidence in this case. Five
witnesses were examined, but as there are
; nearly five times that number, ifie ease
will not he concluded for some days.—-
| Charleston Nates, 4th.
New Masonic Work.— Hon, A. G.
Mackey yesterday filed in the Clerk’s Of
fice of the District Court of the United
States, an application, and obtained a cer
tificate for a copyright of anew Masonic
book eutUW ‘ ‘The Symbolism of Sacred
plants as developed ip Free Masonry and
the kindred institunoHa of the ancient
world.” — Charleston Courier, 4th.
Horse Plague. —A new and strange
plague has broken out in certain parts of
Now Jerwiy—tlie attack frequently being
so violent as io ipsigfis U;e death of the
animal in twenty-four or forty eight tours.
The victim at first- encounters a tiimculty
in drinking. The loss of appetite then ]
sets in, followed by putrality of breath
and rapid prostration. Although evidence 1
in some way connected with the throat, no
cough attends this fatal malady. Although
the disease is spreading with considerable
rapidity, and much attention is given to it.
the doctors can make nothing of it. Pro
fessor Cook,. of Rutter’s college, has been j
devoting himself to the subject, and is :
baffled at every step. Careful post-mor
tem examinations and elaborate chemical
tests afford no light or guidance to the :
medical profession.
Georgia State Lottery—First Draw
ing.—About 4. p. m., yesterday after
noon, a crowd of some two hundred per
sons assembled in front of the Granite
Block, Broad street, to witness the first
drawing of the “ Georgia State Lotteryfor
the benefit of the Masonic Orphans’ .
Home."
Slips of paper, numbered from oue to I
seventy-eight, inclusive, were placed in a i
glass wheel, which was then revolved and
a number drawn out by a blindfolded boy.
This process was continued until twelve
numbers had been drawn from the wheel.
While this was progressing, many ejacula
tions were heard of “ that's my number,” J
and many pencils were seen employed in
noting the numbers as thev were announced.
We have heand’of sereral small prizes.
The following are the drawn numbers,
as officially issued by the Commissioners, !
Messrs. Calvin. Fay and A, M. Wallace:
40, 50, 73, 36. 52, 53, 27, 44. 29, 69, 37, j
48. —Atlanta Opmioji, 4th.
Frost.— Considerable frost in the conn- j
try yesterday morning. None in town.
Fruit considerably injured. —Columbus |
Sun, 3 d.
Letter Trom Gen. Joseph £. Johnston, j
The First Battle of Manassas—lm
portant Historical Errors Cor
rected—Wiiat the Confederate
Victory Accomplished—Why Wash
ington City was notCaptured—Etc.,
ETC.
Selma. March 21, 1567. j
Editors of Selma Daily Messenger :
Gentlemen : The life of Lieut. Gen.
(Stonewall) Jackson, by a member of his
Staff, will, evidently, be generally read in
the South. It is, therefore, important to
me to endeavor tocorrecttheerrorsrelating
to myself, which I observed in glancing
over that part of the work preceding
and referring to the battle of Manassas.
On that account, i respectfully ask the
publication of what follows, in your paper:
Pages 196-7: “When General Johnston,
however, arrived at Harper’s Ferry, and
claimed to relieve Col. Jackson of his
command, the latter had received no di
rections from the State government to
surrender his trust. And' here arose a
temporary collision between the two au
thorities, which displayed the inflexibility
of Jackson’s character. He replied that
he had been intrusted by Major General
Lee, at the command of the State of Vir
ginia, with this charge : and he could only
relinquish it by Eis orders. In this posi
tion he was, while respectful, immovable ;
, and as the Confederate Commander was
I equally firm, a mischievous strife was
| anxiously feared. But very .soon, the
j mails brought an application from some
person pertaining to Colonel Jackson’s
Command, upon which was endorsed in
the handwriting of Major General Lee, a
reference to the authority of Gen. John
ston, as commanding at Harper’s Ferry.
This furnished Colonel Jackson all the
evidence which lie desired, justify his
surrender of his trust.” * * *
I think that this statement magnifies
the circumstances in question, and does
injustice to Gen. J ackson’s character. The
State of Virginia Lad joined the Confed
eracy and transferred the control of its !
military affairs to the President, several j
weeks before my arrival at Harper’s Fer- {
ry on the 23d of May, 1801. Within an
hour after my arrival, Gen. (then Colonel)
Jackson came to me, and tho order assign
ing me to the command he had been exer
cising, was shown to him. On the follow- '
ing morning my order assuming the com
mand was sent to him, with a request in
writing, that ho would have the necessary
number of copias made and distributed to
the troops. After acknowledging my note
and order lie’wrote: “Until I receive
further instructions from Governor Letcher
or General Lee I do not feel at liberty to
transfer my command to another—and
must, therefore, decline publishing the
order. Meanwhile, I beg you to be as
sured that jt will give me pleasure to afford
to yourself and the other officers named,
| every facility in my power for obtaining
appropriate information relating to the
post, and departments of the Service con
nected with it.” Major Whiting, who
fell in defence of Fort Fisher as Major-
General, a West Point associate of Gen
eral Jackson, at my request represented
to him that the authority of the Confeder
ate Government was paramount in the
case, and the manner of transferring the com
mand in accordance with military rule. He
soon reported Gen. Jackson convinced. The
whole affair occupied little more time than
was consumed in going twice and back from
my quarters to Gen. Jackson’s. There
was no display of. inflexibility on his part,
nor exhibition of firmness on mine. There
was nothing in the affair to call forth those
qualities. If there was any “collision be
tween the two authorities, ’ I was uncon
scious of it as well as of the danger of
“mischievous strife.”
Page 201: “On this expedition Colonel
Jackson was ordered by General Johnston
to destroy the locomotives and cars of the
Baltimore Railroad at Martinsburg. At
this village there were vast workshops for
the construction and repair of these cars ;
and more than forty of the finest locomo
tives, with three hundred burden cars,
were now destroyed. Concerning this he
writes: ‘lt was sad work ; but I had my
orders, my duty was to obey. If the cost
of the property could only have been ex
pended in disseminating tho Gospel of the
Prince of Peace, how much might have
been expected.’
“That this invaluable property should
have been withdrawn to Winchester by the
way of Harper’s Ferry, before this point
was evacuated, is too plain to be argued.
Whose was the blunder cannot now be as
certained ; that it was not Colonel Jack
son’s; appears from the extract ofhis letter
just inserted.”
The letter quoted does not refer to the
removal of the property, and therefore
furnishes no evidence on the subject. It
only expresses the natural regret ofa good
man at a. groat destruction of property,
rendered necessary by a state of war. If
Col. Jackson had thought the suggested
removal right, lie would have attempted
it while in command at Harper’s Ferry
between the 29th of April and 24th of
May, as I should have done between the
last, date and 15th of Juno. Col. Jackson’s
course was probably prompted by the con
sideration that directed mine, and gives
the authority of his groat character to my
course. It would not have been right on
our part to seize the property of that
road before the evacuation of Harper’s
Ferry, nor politic to commit such an act
of war against citizens of Maryland, when
we were receiving so much aid from that
State, and hoping for much more. The
seizure or destruction of that property by
us, could have been justified only by the
probability of its military use by the enemy.
That probability did not appear until
about the time when Col. Jackson re
ceived the order in question ; then, being
unable to remove, we were compelled to
destroy it.
But the most valuable part of this
property, the engines, eould not have been
removed, in the manner pointed out. Up
to the time of evacuating Harper’s Ferry,
we were removing the machinery for
manufacturing small arms, as fast as it
could be transported on the railroad, to
Winchester. To cx-pedito this work, I
proposed toborrow engines from the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad, hut was assured
by the engineers of both roads that that
to Winchester, especially near Harper’s
Ferry, where it was supported on trestles,
was not strong enough to bear those
engines, which were much heavier than
those for which it was constructed, and
that if brought upon that road they would
inevitably crush it. This would have
stopped the removal of the machinery
from Harper's Ferry, which was far more
valuable to the Confederacy than all the
rolling stock of the Baltimore and Ohio
Road.
Page 211 : “ Accordingly, on the fore
noon of Thursday, the 18tn, Ihe army of
the Valley, numbering about 11,000 men,
was ordered under' arms.’’
Pages 212-J3: “The forced march of
thirty miles brought the army to Pied
mont station, at the eastern base of the
Blue Ridge, whence they hoped to reach
their destination more easily by railroad.
General Jackson’s infantry was placed
upon trains there on the iorenoon of Fri
day (the 19th of July), while the artillery
and cavalry continued their march by the
country roads.
"The President of the Railroad Com
pany promised that the whole army should
he transported ou successive trains to
Manassas Junction by tile morning of
Saturday; but by a collision which was, -
with great appearance of reason, attributed
to treachery, the track was obstructed,
and all the remaining troops detained,
without any provision for their subsist
euce, for two precious days. Had they :
been provided with food, and ordered to
continue their forced march, their zeal
would have brought the whole to tho field ,
long before the commencement of the bat
tle.”
It is twenty-three, not thirty, miles from
Winchester to Piedmont, and thirty-four
thence to Manassas. Jackson’s brigade
reached Piedmont early on Friday; buftho
other troops arrived at the usual time of
I ending a day’s march—making two marches
: of this distance of twenty-three miles. At
that rate, the thirty-four miles remaining
would have consumed nearly three days,
and the troops, if they had marched on
with the least practicable delay, would
have arrived at the scene of action the day
| after the battle. Jackson's might have
reached it Sunday night. The author says
, this army amounted to 11,000 men. More
than S,OOO of them wore in the battle, con
veyed on five trains, the first of which ar
rived at Manassas Friday evening, and the :
last about noon on Sunday. The deten
tion of the remainder was due to the
wretched management of the railroad
traias. The only collision occurred Satur
day night, ofa train bearing the Cth North
Carolina regiment and an empty .one re
turning. The regiment was carried on,
reached Manassas Station Sunday morn
ing, and took part in the battle. Elzey’s
brigade, on another train, passed over the
place of collision soon after the occurrence, !
and reached Manassas Station soon after
coon on Sunday. These facts prove that
the track was not obstructed, at least not
seriously. None of the troops were left
without any provisions for their subsistence.
If any of them suffered for want of food,
it was in consequence of throwing away j
their rations —then not unusual on a
march. We left w inehestcr with as much !
provision as we had the means of trans- :
porting, and had enough for two days, |
after the arrival of the troops at Manassas, j
on Monday. The author asserts that ail i
the remaining troops (Jackson's infantry
being placed on trains) were detained at
Piedmont two days without food. These
troops got to Piedmont Friday afternoon,
and the battle began Sunday morning, not
much more than one marching day after
the arrival at Piedmont. About 8,300 of;
the 11,000, at which he estimates the army
of the Shenandoah, were _engaged in the
battle; therefore, but 2,790 could have
been detained at Piedmont. The met that
these troops were two days in marching
twenty-three miles, from Winchester to ,
Piedmont, shows that they could not have I
marched thirty our miles, from Piedmont ,
to the scene Or action. ir less than two
days, and tlia the only hope of getting
them into the b trie was by the railroad. ,
Pages 215-lt : “The plan of battle
which was ado ;ed, at'te the designs of i
the enemy were "ully disclosed, was worthy I
of the genius if Beauregard, who sug- j
gested, and of Johnson, ho accepted it. j
This was to Sen the two reserve brigades, |
which were at and. to . stain the shock I
upon the left, md to ena.le that wing of
the army to h..d us gre md for a time, j
while the centra and rigi were advanced j
across Bull liui. and swu g around into
position parallel to the • nem.v’s line, of I
march,, towards the Ston 3 Bridge, with
the view m mailing thei. rear guard and
| 'heir line of ommunication at Centre- :
1 ville.”
' The plan of ha. tie-” so extolled by the
i author, was made impracticable by Mc-
Dowell’s turning movement, and, therefore,
was abandoned when the “designs of the
| enemy were fully disclosed." The move
ments of Bee and Jackson to tlm left, so
far from being the consequence of the dis
| closure of the enemy 's plans, preceded that
discovery ; indeed it was Bee’s encounter
with the Federal army which revealed to
! me its designs and “such reinforcement as
! could he spared from the centre and right”
were then ordered to hasten to the firing.
| Iho plan the author supposes and admires,
would have kept our centre and right (six
! brigades) out of action, and enabled the
Federal army to crush the other three.
I Centreville was throe and a half miles
north of our centre on Bull Run, and the
! field of battle was a mile and a half south
of the original loft on Bull Run. So that
it is dear that the troops which might have
moved to Centreville in the beginning of
the action, could, by no possibility, have
reached the field in time. to take part in it,
but would have assisted McDowell in his
turning operation: and made it impossible
to prevent his seizure of our depot at
Manassas: •
Pages 216-17: “The two Generals dis
patched tlio order for this movement to
the commanders of the right and cen
tre, and then galloped to the scene of ac
tior- r -
J . , .mint supposed,
bul and directing
tro 1 r ini the ye;‘te and right to march
raj "y fi t-he fit/G
217 - “ ” inregard after
lis ; in an , to. hear his
! guns open upon the heights of Centreville,
i until the day and the battle wore too far
advanced for any other resort, relinquish
ed the movement. * * The only tactics
which remained lor the Confederate Gen
erals were to bring up such reinforcements
as could be spared from the centre and right
successfully.” * * *
General Beauregard eould not have lis
tened for the openingof guns on the heights
of Ccntroville, for none had been sent
there. McDowell’s turning movement was
revealed by Bee not earlier than half-past
ten. If the centre and light had been
ordered to Centreville, as the author states,
they could not have reached it much, if at
all, before 2P. M. If those troops had
then been ordered into action, they could
not have joined in it —it would have been
two late. As it was, of three and a half
brigades ordered up, two were too late,
although those orders were dispatched at
least as early as 11 o’clock, a. in.
This account of the battle does great
injustice to General Beauregard, and to
Bee’s and Early’s brigades and their com
manders. General Jackson’s great fame
is in no degree enhanced by such dis
paragement or his associates.
Page 330*f “The pursuit of the enemy
was not continued beyond Centreville, anil
this was the first error which made the
laurels of the Confederate army, so fair to
the eye, barren of substantial fruit. It
was accounted for, in part, by the.paucity
of cavalry ; but this excuse was no justifi-
cation, because tho cavalry in hand, of
which only two companies had been en
gaged in the actual combat, wan not perti
naciously pressed after the fugitives, but
paused even before it met with any solid
resistance upon them.”
The “substantial fruit” of this victory
was tho preservation of the Confederacy.
No more could have been hoped for. The
pursuit of the enemy was not continued
because our cavalry, (a very small force)
was driven back by the “ solid resistance”
of the U. S. infantry. Its rearguard was
an entire division which had not been en
gaged, and was’ twelve or fifteen times
more numerous than our two little bodies
of cavalry. Tho infantry was not required
to'continue the pursuit, because it would
have been harrassing it to no purpose. It
is well knmfn that infantry unencumbered
by haggage trains, can easily escape pur
suing infantry. Napoleon’s victories of
Lutzenamd Bautzen are strong instances.
I maintain that, considering the relative
strengh of the belligerents, the Southern
people could not have hoped for more
j “ substantial fruits” of this victory. The
defeat of the Confederate army would
have involved the immediate overthrow
of the Confederacy.
Page 239 : “Another cause of the in
terrupted'pttf suit was a rumor brought at
sunset to the commanding Generals, by
some alarmed scout, who had seen some
bewildered picket of the enemy wandering
through the country—that a powerful
Federal force was about to attack the lines
of Bull Run near Union Mills, where they
were now denuded of defenders. This
caused them to recall the fresher regiments
from the chase, and send them upon a
forced march seven or eight miles, to meet
an imaginary enemy, and to return next
morning to the field of battle.”
Wc had, of course, but one command
ing General—myself. The story of tho
“alarmed scout” and “bewildered pick
et” is doubtless intended for sarcastic
surmise- -not fact. It is out of place in a
biography of Jackson. No troops “were
recalled from the chase and sent seven or
eiglit miles by night” or day “to meet an
imaginary enemy.” Holmes’ brigade,
which arrived too late to join the battle or
pursuit, and Ewell’s, reported by its com
mander to he four miles off after the fight
was over, were ordered to return to their
camps, for the comfort of the men, and to
spare Ewell’s a needless march. The
latter, in his conversation with mo, said
that the Federal troops which had been
facing our centre and right during the day,
were reported to be advancing, lie agreed
with me, however, that if this wore true,
they would soon he recalled to serve as a
rear guard. Still lie and Holmes were
cautioned to be on tlieir guard. No soldier
was ordered by me to march, in con
sequence" of this report or exposed to dis
comfort or fatigue. No troops were order
ed to the “field of battle” next day, ex
cept those detailed to collect the arms,
&c. Our infantry which pursued the
enemy from the field, finding their pur
suit ineffectual, soon abandoned it.
Page 231: “ It was expected that the
Confederate commanders would at least
pursue the enemy to the gates of their en
trenchments before Alexandria and Wash-,
ington ; and it was hoped that it might not
he impracticable, in the agony of their
confusion, to recover the Virginian city, to
conquer fclic hostile Capital, with its im
mense spoils, and to emancipate oppressed
Maryland, by one happy blow.”
These expectations and hopes were ex
pressed at the time, not by military men
who understood the state of ass airs, but by
the same military critics of the press, who
iiad but a little while before heaped de
nunciation ou me for the measure which
averted the capture of our army in the
Valley, and enabled it to preserve the Con
federacy at Manassas—the abandonment
of Harper’s Ferry. Such a pursuit would
have been fruitless. Wc could pot have
carried the entrenchments named by as
sault, and had none of the' means to be
siege them. Our assault would have been
repulsed—and thccnemy, then become the
victorious party, could have resumed their
march to Richmond. But if wc had cap
tured the entrenchments, a river a mile
wide lay between them and Washington,
commanded by the heavy cuds of the
Federal fleet. If we had taken Alexandria,
which stands on low and level ground,"
those guns would have driven us out of it
m a few hours at the same time killing
our friends, the inhabitants. We could not
cross the Potomac, and, therefore, it was
impracticable to “conquer the hostile capi
tal’’ or “emancipateoppressed Maryland.”
The failure of our invasion in ] 802 and
1863, with far greater means, might con
vince the Southern people, I think, that
the author’s expectations were extrava
gant.
Page 231. “The toiling army, which
had marched and fought along the hills of
Bull Run through the long July day, de
manded, with enthusiasm, to be led after
the flying foe, and declared they would
march the soles off their feet in so glorious
an errand without a murmur.”-
My information of the disposition of the
army was very different. According to it,
the troops believed that their victory had
established the independence ofthe South—
that all their country required of them had
been accomplished—tho war ended, and
their military obligations fulfilled. They, I
therefore, left the army, in crowds, to re- ;
turn to their homes. Such were the re
ports of generals, colonels, staff officers
and railroad officials. The exultation of;
victory cost us more men than the Federal !
army lost by defeat.
I age 251. “But more than this; the
morning after the battle saw an aggregate
of 10,000 fresh men, composed of the re
mainder of the Army of the Valley, who
had at length reached the scene, and of
reinforcements from Richmond, arrived
within the intrenchments at Manassas
Junction, who were burning with enthu
siasm, and expected nothing else than to
he led against the enemy at once. ’ ’
I have no records ; but according to my
recollection the 6th South Carolina regi
ment constituted the only reinforcements
from Richmond at the time refen-ed to. !
On page 211 the Army of the Valley is i
estimated at 11,600. So that less than j
2,7u0 men of that army, must have ar j
rived the day after the battle, as more
than 8,300 were engaged in it. lam con
fident that if we ha’ll marched, a few days 1
after the battle, to “conquer Washington,” i
and “emancipate Maryland,” we should
not have brought 20,000 men to the banks '
of the Potomac. Our inch, as has been
already said, believed the contest decided
—their objects achieved —and were more
disposed to go home to enjoy the indepen
dence and glory they had won, than to
renew the war on Northern soil.
Pages 231-32 : “In a few dais, the
patriotic citizens of Alexandria seut au
thentic intelligence of the condition of the
beaten rabble there, and in Washington,
whieh a true military sagacity would have
anticipated as Jackson did, without actual
testimony.”
No such intelligence was sent to me.
Nor were the Federal troops south of the
Potomac a rabble. Mansfield's, Miles’,
and Runyan's divisions, a larger force
than we could have brought against them,
had not been beaten or engaged—and the
reports of the commanders of the brigades
engaged, show that they entered the en
trenchments organized, except those who
had fled individually from the field. These
latter undoubtedly gave an exaggerated
idea of the rout to the , people of Wash
ington ; as those from cur railks met by
! the President before he reached Manassas
on his way to the field, convinced him that
our army had been defeated.
Page 232 : “For days there was neither
organization nor obedience, nor thought of
resistance on the south side of the Po
tomac.”*
This assertion is unfounded: it is dis
proved by the reports of the Federal (gen
eral officers, and the fact that Gen. Scott,
I who had near 25,000 men idle within
twenty-four hours of Washington, brought
j up none of them, and that the President,
! Cabinet and members of Congress seem to
have been unconscious of danger—or such
a state of things as that described.
Page 233: “Now, then, said the more
reflecting, was the time tor vigorous au
dacity. Now a Napoleonic genius, were
lie present, would make this another Jena
in its splendid fruits. * * **
* lie would firmly press upon the disor
ganized masses; he would thunder at the
gates of Washington, and replenishing hit,
exhausted equipments with the mighty
spoils, rush blazing, like the lightning that
siiiueth from one part under the heaven to
the other, through the affrighted North.”
The author does not surely expect ra
l tional readers to believe _ that this bom
: baijt was really uttered in the army, or
| that our soldiers condemned their General
for not being “a Napoleonic genius,”
when but one is found in all history. The
“ splendid fruits” of the battle of Jena
were due to the fact that Napoleon, with
about equal force, turned the Prussian
army before defeating it. Ilad it been
able to take refuge in entrenchments cov
ering the passage of a river a mile wide,
those “ fruits” would have been less than
ours—which were, the preservation of the
Confederacy for'the time.
The masses referred to were less disor
ganized bv defeat than our army by
trumpli. By “gates of Washington” is
meant, I suppose, the fortifications upon
which skillful engineers, commanding the
resources of the United States, were en
gaged for several months—manned by
double our numbers, half of whom hail
not seen the battle—and a river a mile
wide commanded by the guns of the United
States fleet. We attempted invasion in
1802 and again in 1863. First, after Gen.
Lee’s victories over McClellan and Pope,
and Jackson’s over Banks, Fremont and
Shields. The second time, when the way
was supposed to have been opened by the
effect of the battles of Fredericksburg'and
Chancellorsville.
On these occasions, the forces defeated
were ten times as great as those repulsed
on the 31st July, IfeGl , and their losses
twenty times as great. Yet those defeated
armies met us at Sharpsburg and Gettys
burg, so strengthened in numbers and
spirit as to send back the war into Virgin
ia. These events show how far, in July,
1801, our army could have “rushed
blazing” through the North (if it could
have crossed the Potomac) and how much
the North would have been “frightened.”
The failure of the invasions conducted by
Lee, aided by Longstreet and Jackson,
and attempted under such circumstances,
proves that the Confederacy was too weak
for offensive war, and is a conclusive ar
gument in favor of the course against
which the author declaims so vehemently.
Page 234: “lie (Gen. Jackson) was
then compelled. to sit silent and see the
noble army, with its enthusiastic recruits,
withering away in inaction on the plains of
Bull Run, now doubly pestilential from the
miasma of the August heat, and the stench
of the battle-field ; under camp fevers
ten-fold more fatal than all the bullets of
the enemy. Regiments dwindled, under
the scourge, to ’ skeletons ; and the rude,
temporary hospitals acquired trains of
graves far more numerous and extensive
than those upon the hills around the Stone
Bridge.”
If Gen. Jackson had seen the state of
things described above, he could not have
been compelled to “sit silent.” He would
have done his duty—by protecting his
brigade from the effects of such wretched
incompetence, by remonstrance to the
General—and if that proved ineffective,
by appeal to the Government. Ilis silence
proves that he did not soo the evils his
biographer describes.
It is well known that large bodies of new
troops are sickly in all climates. Our sick
reports were larger in the healthy climate
of the Valley than at the time referred to.
No troops were then encamped in the
Valley of Bull Run. or nearer to the “bat
tlefield” than four or five miles. The dead
had been buried, so that ladies visited the
field without inconvenience. The writer’s
own estimate and Gen. Beauregard’s very
strongly contradict this account of our great
losses by disease. Ho estimates the army
of the valley at 11,000 when it left Win
chester. Gen. Beauregard reported his to
be about 21,000, including 1,500 mounted
men, and the garrison of Manassas (2,000
soldiers and seamen), in all about 32,000;
deducting 1893 lost in battle, leaves 30,107
—not estimating the thousands who went,
home in the belief that their victory had
terminated the war. On page 239 the au
thor says, after their “forces had grown to
about 00,000 men,” the Confederate Gene
rals “pushed their lines forward to Mun
son’s and Mason’s Hills.” This was early
in September. According to this, the army
had then been increased by the difference
between 60,000 and 30,107—29,893. If
my recollection is correct, it had received
since the battle, ten regiments—one from
South Carolina, one from North Carolina,
one from Texas, one from Alabama, two
from Mississippi and four from Georgia,
averaging less than 000 men. So that
these reinforcements amounted to not more
than 0,000, leaving 22,893 as the growth
of the regiments represented to have
“dwindled, under the scourge, to skele
tons,” But these, assertions—that our
regiments dwindled to skeletons during
August, and that the anhy had. grown to
about 60,000 men eany in September, are
altogether incorrect. I have contrasted
them to show the carelessness of the au
thor’s accusations. The battle and its con
sequences reduced our army taabout 27,000
men. M hen its advanced guard occupied
Munson’s and Mason’s Hills early in Sep
tember, it had received, since the battle,
not more than 6,000. So that its strength
then, was little more than half of the biog
rapher’s estimate.
Page 236 : “The wearied Confederate
soldier did not find the rain any the less
! dreaiy the nest day, because they were
! either counter-marched up and down Bull
| pun, °r left to crouch on the battle-field
I in fence corners, without tents, instead of
engaging in the inspiring pursuit of the
enemy. ’ ’
None of our troops were counter-marched
up and down Bull Run, the nest day.
None were on the battle fields—but those
detailed to collect arms, &c. Reauregard's
troops had a full supply of tents —and
those from the Valley a partial one. Pur
| suit would have been fruitless —and there
fore anything hut inspiring.
I Page "3B6 : “The country was then teem
’ ing with supplies ; herds of bullocks were
j feeding in the pastures around Ccntreville,
i and the barns of the farmers were loaded
j with grain,”
| The country between Bull Run and
j W ashington is poor and thinly peopled—
and never teemed with supplies. If there
were ever herds of bullocks in the pastures
around Ccntreville, any Southern man can
tell how many would have been left by a
Federal army of four divisions (near
40,000 men), encamped there from the :
17th to 21st of July ; and it there was j
ever abundance between that place and j
Washington, those who have seen a
country through which a Federal army had
inarched once, can judge of the abundance
left where it had. passed twice.
Page 236 : “A march of twenty-live !
miles could surely have been accomplished j
without baggage or rations, especially ;
when the short effort might lead them to
the spoils of a wealthy Capital. ’ ’
It is about forty miles from the field of
battle to Washington by the main road
through Alerandia—perhaps four less* by
Munson’s Hill. At the end of that march,
a broad navigable river would have sepa
rated our army from “the spoils of a
wealthy Capital. ” J. E. Johnston.
Note —The numbers given above ex
press effective force.
SUB-DISTRICT OF ALABAMA,
Headq’rs District of Alabama, )
Montgomery, Ala., April 2, 1867. j
General Order So. 1,
By direction of General Pope, the un
dersigned is charged with the adininistra- 1
tion of the Military Reconstruction Bill in :
this State.
The principles which will control its ex
ecution have already been announced. j
A literal compliance with the require
ments of the Civil Rights Bill will he ex
acted.
Ail payments on account of services ren- ;
dered during the war to the pretended j
State organization, or any of its branches,
are peremptorily forbidden.
Wager Swav.ve, Maj. Gen.
The State Supreme Court of Missouri j
has rescinded the order requiring lawyers j
to take the test oath prescribed by the
Constitution. I
OUR H ASUIS6TO.V UORESI»O.iDE\UE. j
The Congressional Exodus—Probability
of the ticcess In ing Extended until it ext
'Winter-—The Southern Stumping Tours j
and Assistant Treasurer Chandler of j
the Treasury Department Proposed for j
< \..ff re dtu Mission—The Rejection of j
Military Mai by the Senate, etc., etc.
.... . Washington-, March 3-1.
J exception of an Executive j
session of the U nited States Senate, which
wilHast prooably two weeks, though more \
likeiy not so long as that. Andrew John
son is alone, and, as the Radicals sav,
master of the situation. The first session
ot the fortieth bengross adjourned with
its members feeling good at the thought j
of having tied the hands of the President
to the extent that he is in no respect able to
counteract their political influences. There
was a long war over the adjournment
question, and at one time it seemed as if a
month more was likely to be added to the
session. The Conservative Radicals ,go
home with the settled conviction that
there is to be no more legislation until
next yrihtcr, and the Radical “rads” de
part with the determination to have a ses
sion in the middle of the summer, if pos
sible. For this reason, there is a tacit
understanding by every Radical member
to instil into the standing Judiciary Com
mittee, which is still bearing the burden of
unproductive impeachment investigations,
the principle of perseverance and activity.
They are not to cease their labors but keep
on hunting up evidence upon which to
impeach the President. There is no tell
ing what is to transpire in the political
world between now and July ; new issues
are already opening, and there is every
appearance of the South being the battle
ground. Eminent speakers atid influen
tial men are already packing up their
trunks with political tracts and freedmen
bureau sermons, to convert the illiterate
negroes who have, by a system of in
sane legislation, become endowed with
the elective franchise, and who, it seems,
are not made the passive tools of the
parties who have thus been legislating for
their good (?)
The Connecticut election has been the
theme of - intense excitement. It takes
place to-morrow, and the readers of the
Chronicle <£• Sentinel will note the result
in the telegraphic column before this let
ter is published. There has been the
usual amount of speculation, and bets of
olden time character have been freely of
fered and taken. Many of the employees
of the Government, not having the fear of
removal before their eyes, have obeyed the
emphatic injunctions of the New York
Tribune, and gone homo to vote. Much
depends upon the result, much more to
the Radicals than to the Conservatives. If
the former are beaten, great will be the
wailing there, for it opens the key-note to
anew era in the Northern States.
The confirmation of the nomination of
General James B. Steadman, yesterday, as
[ Collector of the Internal Revenue for the
First District of Louisiana, was a matter
of much surprise. It is accounted tor by
the fact that, several of the most prominent
Radical papers, incited by the bad treat-,
inent shown towards Generals Slocum and
Blair, have commenced protesting in
strong terms. Steadman is equally as
strong a Johnson man as either Blair or
i Slocum. During the Presidential cam
i paign, prior to the war, he was a Douglas
! Democrat.
Hon. N. G. Taylor, th 6 new Indian
Commissioner, will enter formally upon
liis duties, and ex-Commissioner Bogg will
retire. Mr. Bogg hardly expected, at any
time, to be confirmed. He had passed a
large portion of his life in the South, and
was an anti-war man during the entire
length of the late struggle. Mr. Johnson
had great faith in- his fitness for the
prominent position from which he has
been rejected, and re-nominated him upon
the meeting of this Congress.
It is intimated that Mr. Chandler, the
present Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
will bo nominated as .Minister to Austria.
The Government is determined to accept
Mr. Mortey’s. resignation. Mr. Chandler
is radical in his views, and would be con
firmed; but his personal popularity is equal
to that of any member of the Government.
Mr. McCulloch has ever had the highest
appreciation of his services, and but for
liis remonstrances, Mr. Chandler would
have resigned long ago, as the trying
duties of Assistant Secretary of such an
immense Bureau as the Treasury Depart
ment have impaired his health.
Notice was given in several of the
churches this morning of a collection to be
taken up, probably next Sabbath, in aid of
-the Southern poor.
Several of the proprietors of “loyal”
(in its modern sense, i. c. Radical) news
papers of the South have been in Washing
ton for several days past, confabbing with
Clerk McPherson, who is brimfull of
patronage in the way of distributing official
advertising. Many of the sojourners have
already repaired to. their respective places
of abode, armed with a prospect of funds
sufficient tt> enable them to keep a news
paper in operation, and every man of them
a candidate for Congress when recon
struction is complete. The functions of
the State Department, with reference to
the printing of the laws, are entirely taken
away, and even the printing of Depart
ment circulars are given by McPherson to
private parties. Arlington.
From the American Funner.
Improvement of Poor Lands.
Mr. Editor : In your October number,
a correspondent from Dinwiddie county
asks for some advice in regard to making
“permanent improvement of poor lands.”
lou have probably answered his inquiry
more fully and satisfactorily than I can do,
in subsequent numbers which I have not
seen. Bo this as it may, lam willing to
contribute my mite toward “making two
blades of grass grow where but one grew
before.’-’ 1 might further premise, that I
have had some acquaintance with the
worn-out lands of the South.
’The first operation is to plow the ground
well; subsoil it if convenient; if this can
not be done, plow deep, five or six inches
at least; then put on about thirty-three
bushels of lime to the acre. Sow with
oats, not too thick, not over two bushels,
to the acre, cover with a spike harrow and
sow clover seed immediately after the drag,
about six quarts to the - acre. Make a
drag of light brush, and brush in the
clover seed. The sowing of clover seed
should follow that of the oats before there
is any fall of rain to form a crust. Pass a
roller over the ground if the soil be light.
This is merely the starting point, and very
>..Joh depends upon its being done well. I
have seen plowing done in the South that
I could not call plowing at all, it was only
scratching; in fact, I have not seen a plow
in the South that would cut and turn over
a furrow slice as it ought to be done.
When the crop of oats is taken off, let
the young clover grow on until fall, with
out any stock running on it, and it will
start nicely the next spring. Let it grow
on the next summer until about half the
bloom has turned brown, then turn it un
der with a good plow. Give it another
coat of lime, and let it lie until the follow
ing spring, then put it through tlio sauie
course again with oatsand clover, arid after
this crop of clover is plowed in you may
seed it with wheat, or wait until next
spring and plant it with corn.
| Be careful not to sow the oats too thick.
: soas to smother the clover. The object of
sowing oats with the clover is more to pro
j tect.it from the scorching rays of the sun,
| but it wjll nevertheless help to pay expon
■ ses. When the land is worn out or natu
rally poor, the farmer must grow a few
crops first for the good of the land, before
j he begins to grow any for profit to himself,
a 5. w \d b n( l no system so cheap and
effective for the purpose, in my opinion,
as the one here recommended.
In regard to the lawn, permit me to add
i a few words, for I delight to look at a well
kept lawn. The soil must be enriched by
i top-dressing—lime, guano, phosphate,
poudrette, or any other kind of manure —
it must have a plentiful supply, and that
repeated. This is the first grand requisite.
The next is, mow, mow, mow, from spring
until autumn, whenever the grass is six
inches high, and you will soon have
nothing growing on it but what ought to
grow there—grass of a lively green. A
poor lawn is an unsightly thing.
Fire.—At 31 A. M. yesterday a lire
broke out in the premises in Victoria
Range, King street, occupied by Messrs.
Ilofiinan, Brabham & Cos., as a dry goods
and clothing store. It was first discovered
in the rear of the second story, which was
used as a work room to make up the
clothing. The flames spread rapidly, and
although the engines were promptly on j
the ground, they could not prevent the j
destruction of the building. None of the
stock was removed, and what was not de
stroyed by the fire was damaged by water
so as to lie useless. The fire communicated
i to the roofs of the adjoining buildings, and j
| the stores were deluged with water, injur- j
j ing the goods materially. Mr; Win. j
3lathiossen’s clothing store, to the north .
of the burnt building, was damaged by j
. both fire and water, but only a small por
! tion of the stock was injured, and it was j
I fully covered by insurance. Ur. Jos. ;
1 Frank, who owned both the store and
| stock of the dry goods establishment to j
| the south, had $3,000 insurance op the
house, and $16,000 on the stock. His
losses, however, will not reach that amount.
The store occupied by -Messrs. Hoff man,
Brabham & Cos., was owned by -Mr. Lope,
and was insured tor $5,000 j the stock was 1
insured for $20,000 in several of the city .
agencies. 'The fire is presumed to have
been caused by an incendiary, as the store
was closed early in the evening, and no
one slept on the premises. The front of
the building and the lower story are com
paratively unharmed, but the interior was
completely destroyed, and the rains will
mar the appearance of King street eon- j
siderably.— Char. Kerns, s</i.
Rev. Dr. Burti" irtm died in Buffalo, ;
last week, when at Union, in 1826, founded i
the Kappa Alpha, the oldest college so
ciety in the country, * i
The Duty oftlic Hour.
NO. 2.
Messrs. Editors : —This is not a question
of mere individuality. It is one that al
feets alike communities and States. Noi
ls this a question of the moment —of mere
ly to-day. It is one that must affect us
for good or ill, weal or woe, for time. The
idea prevails, and to an alarming extent,
even among our wisest statesmen, that
constitutional liberty is gone, and gone
forever! Here we will join issue. I admit
the tree ofiiborty no longer puts forth her
foliage, affording shelter to the millions
that are cast upon the desert shores of
oppression, fanaticism and despotism.
I admit that the pillars upon which reste
the national fabric are being one by one
torn down. That the confidence of man
in man for self-government is greatly
shaken. That their love of our former in
stitutions is growing cold. That the monu
ments of our national greatness no longer
resist time or circumstances. With our
rulers, love of country is absorbed by the
love of power. The diversity of climate,
soil, productions, and mechanical pursuits,
wlneh characterized us in the past as one
I rea 4 es t and most powerful nations of
I the globe, no longer excite within the hearts
i ol out people a national pride, or unite
, us as one people homogeneous, forming, as
it should, an inseparable band of con
nection. There is no longer an involuntary
glow of delight at the sight of our national
emblem, borne as it has been from the time
when it was ridiculed as a piece of striped
bunting, until it had come to be known
and respected wherever the ray of civiliza
tion had reached: for our canvas-winged
birds of commerce had born civilization
into the polar regions of the North and
I the most distant islands oftlic South. It is
j true, we were once pround of these achieve
[ ments as well on land as on the sea. We
[ pointed then with satisfaction to our sehool
! houses and academies, our workshops, our
railroads or telegraphs, or to the fruits
they had borne on the forum and in the
council chamber, and in the diversity of
manufactured articles Which had increased
the comforts ofour own people, also con
tributing to that of other nations, encir
cling the globe, as it were, to find ex
changeable products required for the com
forts or luxury of our people at home.
These were great, as they were proud
triumphs, because they were the triumphs
of mind over matter.
May we not cherish a hope of a return
of these, and that our hearts may once
more be made glad with their sunshine and
their showers ? Is it not among the proba
bilities of a no distant future, when the pride
of our nationality may or will again become
enthroned upon our hearts and the lofty
strains of eloquence once more yield the
dome of our national greatness ?
These prospective blessings—if they are
ever again to be realized by ourselves or
our posterity—will depend vgry greatly, if
not exclusively, upon our own political
conduct both at the present or in the fu
ture.
We are offered, at least, the prospective
means of our own redemption, though it
be through personal humiliation in a sac
rifice of our personal pride in yielding obe
dience to losses, degrading in their terms
and oppressive in their character. But it
is either to accept of these—for we are
powerless to change them —or do worse,
infinitely worse, in yielding up the control
of the goverement, State or Federal, for
all time to come, into the hands of un
principled knaves, . who will control the
negro vote in their interest, elevating
themselves to place or power; foisting
upon us State Constitutions and laws
degrading and oppressive; forever dis
franchising us; and, by taxation and con
fiscation, driving us from the homes of our
childhood and the green graves of cur sires.
Negro suffrage has been foisted upon
us by our unprincipled conquerors, and it
is now lull time , the people of this countiy
were bringing their minds to a full realiza
tion of the fact. These will be protected
in their privileges under the military law ;
if resistance should bo offered them in an
effort to exercise this privilege, by the
bayonet, or not merely by the bayonet in
the hands of white men, but bayonets in
the hands of negro soldiers, who will lie
placed as garrisons in our towns and cities,
menacing and insulting our citizens, and
driving the white man from the polls. If
you have not thought of these things—tor
our oppressors will leave no means unturn
ed to humiliate and degrade us—it- is
now time to pause and reflect ! It is
true, it is hut a choice of evils, but choose
you the least.
It is the judgment of wise statesmen
in this country, that out oftlic forty or fifty
thousand colored voters within the State
of Georgia, not more than Jive thousand
can or will bo controlled in the interest of
the native and resident white population
of the State, but Will be subservient to the
will and control of the Northern Radical
element. Why is this so, if true? Is it
| because those who work upon our plau
j tations, in our houses, in our work
shops and arc our teamsters and porters,
have no confidence in the men upon whom
they are dependent for labor and support ?
Whatever of capital there is left in this
country is in the possession of the white
population. It is, therefore, by a wise and
energetic employment of this capital that
•the colored race can improve their con
dition. They should be taught this im
portant fact. The first and paramount
necessity of the colored race within these
States is employment —permanent and re
munerative employment. Without this
employment they must perish and sink into
a state of barbarism. To obtain employ
ment the material prosperity of the white
population must be in a confident or
healthy condition. Mutual confidence and
a reciprocity of interests will insure this
material prosperity. Political insecurity,
which always paralizes produotivo energy
in any country, is a death-blow to the ma
terial hopes and aspirations of the negroos.
Teach him this fact, by showing him that
the ratio of his prosperity is just in . the
rat jp of your material and physical pros
perity. That in proportion to the accu
mulation of wealth and its comforts, you
are able to pay for your labor, and to con
tribute to the comforts or well-being of
your laborers. Every blow that is aimed at
the white population of the South by the
would-be friends of the negro at the North,
is only a blow aimed at the negro and his
social and material well-being. The only
road to his permanent prosperity is through
! a well-regulated government of these States
j by the intelligent, wise and humane native
population. Any other mode of obtaining
it must be ephemeral—ofshort life—result
ing in ultimate woe and bloodshed. We
must teach the freedmen that their pre
tended friends neither ffeed, olothe, nor ed
ucate them, and if they yield to their
wily political machinations, nothing but
the most terrible injury to thorn and their
posterity can result from such a course,
j The first and most important duty—be
came it is the most vital to us as it is the
most paramount to'the negro—which we
now have to perform is to sweep from their
plastic minds the delusions of which he is
the unsuspecting victim, and the work of
controlling the political actions of the freod
men at the polls will bo an easy one, if
rightly commenced.
Wherever those efforts have been made
in a spirit of cqnfidcnce and forbearance,
they have succeeded. There is no people'
on the face of the globe so capable of realis
ing the wants or sympathizing with the
necessities, or so ready or willing to con
tribute to the comforts of the negro, in
health or in sickness, ns those who were
born, reared and educated in the midst of
slavery, or who wore their former masters.
It is the Southern man thus reared and
educated, or who best understands the
nature of the negro, that is his best and
truest friend.
’The negro is not only a freeman, but,
under the law, is invested with rights and
immunities which that law so unjustly
denies to thousands of the wise and ex
perienced statesmen of this country. Be
ing in possession of this highest preroga
tive of a freeman, lie should he taught a
| wise and prudent exercise of this boon,
j To accomplish this, shools for the educa
tion of the negroes should bo established
! and encouraged. But more of this anon.
C. P. C.
Crawfordvtr.r.E, Ga.,March, 1567.
Robbery of Over $60,000 in Coi;-
i pons, Bonds, Cash, —John Johnson,
Joseph Cheatham, If 1 wardEddleton, John
Moore and Robert Eddleton, all colored
boys, were arrested and caged yesterday
on a charge of having stolen fropi -Mr.
Jacqueline P. Tayloc a tin box containing
$.8,000 in coupons, a diamond ring worth
SBOO, a pair of gold spectacles, S3O in
cash, and bonds to the amount of over
! $50,000, and other articles. It appears
’ that the father and mother of Johnson
! lived with .Mr. Tayloo as servants, and the
boy in this way, having access to Mr. Tay
loe’s house, availed himself of the oppor
tunity to get at the tin box, which was in a
desk. Johnson says he took out the mo
ney, but saw no red box containing the
ring, and after burning the [tapers took the
money to the other boys and gave the tin
box to one of them, who says he threw it
in the basin. The amount of coupons in
the box was SB,OOO. The father and
mother of Johnson are believed to have
had nothing to do with the robbery. In
met the, police say it was through their
instrumentality the discovery was made of
what became of the property. The boys
will be examined before the Mayor this
morning. —-Richmond Whir/, 2 d. *
A committee of the New York Legisla
ture has been investigating the affairs of
the I acific -Mail Steamship Company
Among the depositions taken was that of
Leonard W. Jerome, who stated that he
had lost SBOO,OOO in different stocks since
last February. The President statedXt
the company was worth $37,000,000
General B. F. Butler got into’the’Pcnn
sylvarna A\ enue cars in Washington a few
days since. Ihe car was quite full. As
soon as he entered one of the passengers j
stood up and said : ‘ ‘Ladies and gentlemen j
put your hands upon your Docket hooks, j
Ben Butler is in the car.” Butler got out j
at the next crossing. ‘ {
Georgia Jfcws. -
lanta, recentjv" thai JS ,°'' 11 At
suddenly retire fnm. ? ler . cbanta kreak and
of about three per week 10688011 a ” avcra «*
shtefE&:">'“*?* «.►
the head, and in shannon,? - he back of
very much the tail of a Connlsf res ? mble
tied up Tennessee stvie to t« esto -? a horse,
the mud. None buSe f
fancy can afford to wear them.-fcf
reuton C/ijiiier.
First National Bank op m,™
The sixth quarcerly report of this institu
non will be found in our columns The
statement shows that the Bank is mir, ?
with prudence and is ready for’anv
gency that may come upon it, while m lrT
same time the balance-sheet show a W,°
some profit.— Macon Tel., 4th J ~
Distinguished Arrival. ---Among the
passengers last night, bv the Cental
tram was Mrs. Harriet Beecher s£
who has been on a visit to Florida. We hone
her sojourn in the South has been a
ant one, and that she finds the morals of
our people much improved since she wrote
Uncle Tom s Cabin.”— Macon Tel,, 4th
Protracted Meeting.—W e learn that
quite an interesting series of meeting is
now progressing in the Mulberry street
Methodist Church. Services are held
nightie, and will be continued through the
week. Macon Telegraph, 4th.
Stock Sale.—On. Saturday, in Savan
nah. stocks sold as fojlows : Central Bail.
road, fitXp 92 ; Atlantic and Gull'll lit
4>, Southwestern 90; Savannah r•
Company, 22(« 22 1-2. ba:i
Reward for the Robbers -Retail
trade in the city havino- h„.,„ • ,
.fatal by the alweDce“ofaur ’country
neighbors, wno cannot in safety travel on
either of the main thoroughffires leading
here, a number of gentlemen have d®
tcimined to offer a reward for the mis
creants. Ibis sum, when •i,1,L,,i ~,
§SOO reward offered by the City CounciT
t,ie lenders to
justice. Uu am tins is, that our rural
trade S am? Sm"* 1 fr , om I the accustomed
ti. • a " ‘raffia and thus are incon
vemeneed both themselves and our citizens.
W ood haulers have become quiet chary
and certainly not without reason. -Atlanta
Intelligencer, 4th. ( t
Superior Court, Judge R ecS e, presiding
has butfew oases of interest. The p, i, "f
--pal ease is Cody vs Norris.
We notice upon the streets to dav Ben
Toombs, Gen. IVright, Judge Reese, and
other gentlemen of political notoriety and
legal ability.
It is with emotions of sadness we chroni
cle the death of our esteemed fellow-citi
zen, Joseph M. Roberts, Esq.; but so it is,
the hand of death has been again stretched
forth, and from our community is snatched
in the prime of life one of Warrenton’s
most promising sons, and made mourning
in the hearts of a father and mother
brothers and sisters, and a host of admiring
friends.— 1 Varrenton- Clipper, 3 ,1.
From New York -The steamship San
Salvador, Captain Nickerson, arrived here
yesterday, from Now York, with a lar-o
freight and passenger l\sL-~Savannah
J\cws <l* Herald, Ath.
.1 he Storm. About dark yesterday we
were visited with a terrific storm of thun
der, lightning and rain, lasting for an hour
or more. A small quantity of hail also
fell. It was the heaviest washing rain we
have had this season.— Atlanta Opinion
nth.
The Savannah Republican, of the 2d,
reports law at a discount in that city. The
Courts—United States, State and County
—met on the 2d, and adjourned without a
brief.
Bishop Wilmer (says the Courier) ar
rived in Rome on Tuesday night. On
Wednesday morning he held service at St.
Peter’s Church, and confirmed a class of 23
candidates.
More Relief.—Wc had the pleasure
yesterday of meeting some of the officers
of the U. S. bark Purveyor (a very nppro
priatmname), which has brought 11,037
bushels of corn for the suffering people of
Georgia, contributed by the Relief Com
mittee of .New \oriv. The vessel and-cargo
are consigned to Captain Reynolds, U. S.
Quartermaster at this post, subject to the
order and direction of the Relief Com
mittee. She is under the command ol' J
If. Stunpson, Acting Master, according to
naval etiquette; but, if an opinion was
taken from the suffering people of Georgia,
whom lie has aided in relieving, lie would
certainly be brevetted to a higher rank.
—Savannah Advertiser, nth.
Up TO THE Old Standard.. -The
Columbus Sun is boasting of the cotton
trade of that city. It says : “ vfell posted
cotton factors tell us that before the war
the ordinary rule was that Columbus re
ceived one thirty-fifth of the total cotton
crop of the United States. Now (Cleans
received one-half. This being true, Colum
bus u ill rccciyc her proportionate share
and has done so thus far. Owing to the
poOr crops and the demoralization of labor
in J jouisimui, it j.s doubted whether
Orleans received her half.”
From Philadelphia. —The steamship
Tonawanda, Captain Jennings, arrived
here yesterday, from Philadelphia, with a
large freight, among which was one hun
dred mid twenty*seven boxes oi niuchincry
for some enterprising capitalists in Colum
bus.—Savannah News <(,- Herald, 4th.
Attempt to Commit Murder.—We
learn that a gentleman was assaulted on
Murrietta road yesterday by a negro, who
attempted to fire on him with a pistol, but
only the cap exploded. The negro was
pursued and captured. He was brought
before Justices Butts and Gaulding, who
committed him to jail.
We hope an opportunity is now present
ed for the speedy operation of justice, as
the Superior Court is in session, and may
dispose or the oaso immediately.— Atlanta
Opinion, bth.
Fire.— A little before three o’clock
yesterday evening the bells rung out an
alarm of firo for the Second District. On
reaching the spot, we found the fire to be
•in one of the row of houses on Harris
street, just at the end of Houston.' Three
buildings were consumed, each occupied
by two families, all negroes. One of them
was owned by Mr. Wm. Rogers, and the
other two by Mr. Fred. Cook. The latter
had no insurance on his property.—Savan
nah Advertiser, bth.
The Georgia Baptist Convention.—
I ho Sun says that this body, which meets
in Columbus on the 20th of this month,
promises to be largely attended by many
of the mast distinguished ministers and
members of the denomination in th is and
other States. Among many others who
are expected, are mentioned the names of
Dr. Boyce of South Carolina, and the Hon.
and Rev. J. L. M. Curry of Alabama. The
meeting will be important.
Corn for Upper Georgia. —We learn
that Mossrs. Hunter and Gatnmell, under
instructions from John Welch, Esq., chair
man of the Southern Relief Committee of
Philadelphia, yesterday bought 11,000
•bushels ol white corn, which they turned
over to Pofcrson Thweatt, Esq., State
agent, who is acting in behalf of Governor
Jenkins and Colonel Sibley.
This corn, or a portion of it, at least,
went forward last flight, and the remainder
will sooii follow. It is to be distributed
among the suffering people above Macon,
and to bo given out to the destitute,
“without respect to race or opinion,” as
was desired by the donors.— Savannah
Advertiser, nth.
\\ EI.L Done,—We. are informed by
Major Wallace (hat he paid into the
Treasury of the State $50,000, from'the
profits of the Western and Atlantic rail
road, for the month of February last. The
same amount was paid in for January.
The business of March, however, did not
nay expenses. So complete was the
blockade on roads above during the most
of the month, that the freighting business
was almost suspended, 'i bus it appears
the people of Georgia arc losers in a
double sense when the feeders to this great
State work are closed.
With an ordinary bos!ness and good
management, this road will net to the
State a half million dollars annually.—-At
fun fa Opinion.
Death ol An Old Cum.:,. -Joseph
4*uy, an excellent citizen, and for many
years prominent in the politics of Middle
Georgia, died at his residence inVineville,
1 uesday night last, and was buried Wed
nesday, at Marshalville. Mr. Day repre
sented Jones county for many years in the
Legislature, and was once Speaker of the
House of Representatives. He moved to
Houston county about ten years ago. and
within the last few years changed his resi
dence to Vindtille, a suburb of this city.
He was about seventy-eight years of age,
and the news of his death will be read with
regret by a large circle of personal friends,
besides many of our prominent men with
whom he was politically associated in years
past. —Macon Telegraph, itth.
Repair c*f the Montgomery and
Ei fal la Railroad. ---On Thursday last
fifty white laborers departed on the Central
Railroad for the purpose of grading the
Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad.
Yesterday an addition of filly more were
sent for the same purpose, it is expected
to jiave the grading done m a short time.
—Savannah Herald, 6 th.
A prize fight lietwcen Frank Drew, of
St. Joseph, and James Brainard, of Mon
tana, occurred in Kansas, opposite St.
Joseph, on Sunday. One hundred and
sixty-five rounds were fought, occupying
over two hours. Drew was the winner.
From Liberia. —The ship Golcotida,
which vessel sailed from this port some
time since for Liberia, has returned, hav
ing arrived at fortress Monroe on the 30th
ult., bringing a mail and passengers.—
Charleston Courier , 4tA.
Pensacola., April 2. —The election of
Mayor here, in which the negroes partici
pated, resulted 4n the election of the
Southern candidate by 111 majority.