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Old) SERIES, VOL. I.WVI. <i Hvoniclc k Jfortfal. JIKNltv MOOKi:. A. It. Wltlt.in. TKRAIS ok si USCUIFTION. WEEKLY. 5 menth* '* 6 montut "*J"* i *,<■. Jw AUGUSTA. GA j WKItmUAY MOR.MVG, JI.VK 12. Gknhul Exchange Warehcu be Attention is called to the announcement of I'rank Ballard, E.- p, No. 15 Cortland •Street, New \ ork, to Southern merchants and planters. He offers to take Southern produce of all kinds at the highest market price in exchange for boots, shoes, and provisions, lb; will answer all questions cheerfully. Address biiu al New York, I*. 0. Box 4320. Shell Explosion—Almost a Fatal Tragedy.— The Foundry of Mr. Phillip Malone, on Jackson street, formerly the Augusta Machine Works, was providen tially spared from being the scene of a fearful catastrophe last Saturday after noon. f )n theevaouation of Atlanta several thou sand shells were shipped to this city, where they remained, at the close of the war, and were afterward purchased by Mr. Malone from tho If. fl. Ordinance Department for the purpose of being used in castings. It was thought that all had been unloaded. Igist Saturday afternoon, however, as the workmen were preparing for a large cast ing, some of these shells were being melted in the lurnacc, when suddenly a powerful explosion took place, shattering and break ing in fragments in the upper portion of the furnace. Some twenty or more workmen wurcsianding'iround the furnaceatthe very moment of the explosion, Imt fortunately all escaped without even a scratch. For a few seconds they stood rivetted to the spot, consternation being depicted on every countenance, but they soon recovered from this and congratulated each other on their Providential escape from a fearful death. The Okl Dragon on Confiscation. The following letter, written by the Rad ieal lead, r of the present Congress, to the Gettysburg Star k Ilerald, .shows that he atill hopes to have his confiscation schemes become the law of the land : Lancaster, l’a., Tuesday,). May 28, 1867. j Dear Sir: Short as your letter U, I fear 1 cannot answer it without violating an injunction of uiy medical advisor, not to hoc line excited. You live in a region which was two or three times invaded by the armies of .Jefferson Davis. In the counties of' Bedford, Fulton, Franklin, ('umherland, Adams and York they visited almost every farmer and other inhabitant, and plundered them of their horses, cattle, provisions, wagons and money, when found, besides some detached cases. They laid in ashes one thriving village of 0,000 peo ple, and turned the inhabitants houseless into the streets to seek shelter in fence cor ners. No provision has ever been made, or is now making, to reimburse the plun dered citizens. By the law of nations a tiovernment makes no compensation for damages done by an invading army unless such tiovernment bo victorious, when it always provides by treaty for the payment by the vanquished enemy. A Government which neglects to make such provision on behalf of its plundered citizens is basely negligent of its duty. A quasi peace exists between the late belligerents, the terms of which are dictated wholly by Congress, which is under the control of the Republican party. Nothing but the proceeds of the confiscation of a small portion of the property of the wealthy rebels can be applied to pay the damages iullieted by .the marauders unless it he paid out by the Treasury of the United \ States. A few liepublican meteors, ul- . ways erratic in their course, are flitting through and exploding in the Republican I atmosphere. They attract sufficient pub lic attention to enable them to assure the amiable rebels who inflicted this injury that they need fear no confiscation ; that nobody of any note in the North is in favor of imposing such punishment for the sake , ol remuneration or of justice. They as sure them that nothing shall be taken from Aikens' estate of millions, from Hampton, Davis, Orr, Faulkner, or from a thousand others who are still worth their hundreds of thousands, to reimburse tho loyal men, North and South, who were plundered of their estates, and to aid your poor neigh bors to rebuild their humble tenements. It is scarcely to be endured that Congress for two sessions should sit indifferent to those Bufferings, and take no steps to en force these rights. These remarks apply to large portions of .Maryland, of West Virginia. Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, as well as to the slave States. He who can patiently listen to that potent human ity which we now see progagated, has more command of himself than I have. I ndeod, it looks as if we were still to add to the burden of our taxation to defray the expenses of transportation and Die ovutiou of triumphant traitors. But i must stop or 1 shall commit the fault against which l have been warned With great respect, your obedient ser vant, Thaddeus Stevens. A New Decision. In tliese days of “decisions” on every possible subject, says the Detroit Free I’rcss, from every conceivable tribunal, it would he strange indeed it that new one, the military satrapy, did not distinguish itself in the same line. Accordingly, we find that in Houston, the capital ot the western half ol Military District No. 5, a very large number of the “fruidmeu of that city were summoned to act as jurors, under General Griffin's order. (>n at tempting to swear them in under the oath prescribed by that agent of the dictator ship, they almost all frankly stated that they could not take the oath thus required, ’['hey had “given aid and comfort to the rebellion —they would not swear to a lie— and yet negroes must lie placed on the jury in order to keep up with the spirit of the times. I nless this could he accom plished, the cry about the “loyalty” of out four millions of new-uiade citizens of the South would he exploded; the entire “loyal" portion of the Southern popula tion would be minors. But Griffin .V C 0.,, were not to he baulked in that way- The obstacle was too slight. It was a proper case for a “decision.’ So it was decided that the negroes were not “citizens” till I >66, and that, consequently, their arts previous to that date ircrc not conti infla te,! in the oath. This got them. Throe negroes swore that since 1866 they had not sympathized with nor given aid and comfort to the rebellion, and they were sworn iu. Mechanic Fire Company.—At a regu lar meeting pf Mechanic Fire Company, held at their Hall on Monday evening, June 3d, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : Presideut. Foster Blodgett. Vice President, P. Hansberger. Captain, Edw'd Boulineau. Ist Lieut. Kent BiselL •2nd Lieut. Geo. lliley. Pipe man, Stephen Frank. Assistant Pipeuian, J. Davis. Treasurer, Wm. Fix. Secretary, Louis Schiller. On motion of Wm. 0. Bolder, the daily papers of our city were requested to publish the list of officers elected, together with the address of the President, and that a committee of three be appointed to pro cure a copy of the address and furnish it to the different papers. Wm. O. Bohler, A. -1. Smith, and J. Frazer were appoint ed said Committee. Lons Schiller, Sec'ty. M e regret our inability to publish the address of the President, which is of con siderable length and force, being hand somely put together.— Local. The latest horticultural device is that of removing the stones from fruits by a pro cess of gradual reduction, by extracting the pith from shoots and grafting them on stocks and their own branches for succes sive seasons. The experiment has been perfectly successful with the Malaga grape TUc Federal Tax on (otton. We leSrn that complaints have been made in some instances against our cotton merchants, by planters in the interior, be cause three cents a pound is still taxed in their bills of cost. &c. Our planting friends should bear in mind that the reduction of ! the cotton tax was only made on the 2d of March last, and that the act reducing the tax contains a proviso that the reduction thaß not tuli&plac? i until the first day of September, 1807. W e give below the law a.s it passed both houses of Congress, so that our country friends may see for themselves that our cotton merchants are compelled to pay three cents per i>ound until September , next.. It is found in the proviso to the Ist sec* 1 tion of “ An act to amend existing hues in relation to Intern'd llexenue, approved March Ith. 1867,” aDd is in these weirds^ ‘ Provided, that on and after the first day of September, 1867, a tax of two and a balfesnts per pound only sliall be levied and paid on any eotton produced within the United States.”' Free Speech. The first panel of the Grand Jury at the recent .session of the Superior Court of Muscogee county, in the conclusion of their labors, returned to the Court certain mat ters in.tjjgijt present me pc, a .per-r tion of after being read in open Court, were, at the instance of the presiding Judge, stricken out. The rejected portions of these present ments have been published by the Colum bus Sun, and we reproduce them, in an other column, lor the benefit of our read ers and in justice to the Grand Jury. We are at a loss to discover any good reason why the Judge should have been unwilling to have every letter and every line of th* rejected paper published as a part of the action of his Court. We do perceive many reasons why the gen tlemen composing the Grand Jury of Muscogee should warn the colored people against the efforts of Radical emissaries to produce alienation and bad blood between the two races, and why they should urge them to “trust to their long tried friends,” the Southern people, as the class through whom they should expect to receive the full benefits of'their emancipation. We think that the mean truckling to the base behests of the ultra Radicals, which has characterized a portion of our press and people, for some time past, should be discontinued. The people of Georgia should endeavor to show, by their acts as well as words, that they are the true friends of the colored people. It is their duty, whenever Radical emissaries attempt to produce collisions between the two races, not only to denounce the attempts hut they should go further, and apply at once to the proper authorities forthe employment of force to prevent the terrible consequences which might follow the unrestrained license of their incendiary teachings. As we are now wholly subject to military law, the military authorities should he appealed to for pro tection from those‘peripatetic incendiaries. We do not pretend to say that all the Northern men who came here to address the black people are incendiaries. Neither do the grand jury of Muscogee say this. vVe know that the addresses of Horace Gree ley and Gerritt Smith, delivered in Rich mond recently, were of a highly con servative character, and we learn that their effect upon tho colored people was palpably good throughout the city. It is against the efforts of such men as Kelly, Ashburn & Cos. that we protest. It was this class of Northern men which, doubtless, the Muscogee Grand Jury had in their “ mind's eye” when their present ments were prepared. Os course we know nothing of the motives which in fluenced tho presiding Judge to have the erasures made in the presentments. We hope that it was not done because he was tinctured with Radicalism. It is, at least, singular that, while these emisaries arc prowling throughout the country, en deavoring to stir up strife, that the Grand Inquest of the county of Muscogee ispre termitted from expressing their opinion upon the propriety of sueli conduct. Georgia Radicalism. —“ Little Din gy, ’' the organ of the “Atlanta Republican Union party, ” in its issue of the first inst., in an attempted review of' a late article written and published by Admiral Semuies in the Memphis Bulletin , speaks of him as the “Great Rover” and as Pirate Semroes. We hardly suppose that the distinguish ed patriot and gentleman thus alluded to will lose cast with the good people of this country and of Europe on account of this mean, contemptible fling, which is made at him by this would-be Southern paper. Wo merely call attention to it that our readers may see where the Union Republi can Party of Georgia are drifting to. Wonder tfliat little dingy will call Joe Brown, J. L. Orr and others of its late rebel friends ? Ben. Butler.—The New York Herald, commenting on Butler’s charge against Gen. Grant that the phrase “bottledup," was his own invention, and was appro priated (a mild Butlerism for "stolen ") by Grant, asks: But why should B. B. complain? Grant, if he took the phrase from him. certainly gave it back to him with interest. There is no danger of his losing it again: for it will always stick to him. Nor is this the first time that an inventor has fallen a victim to his own invention. Dr. Guillo tine is said to have been guillotined, and it is not surprising that Dr. Butler should have been ‘‘bottled up. The Hartford Times makes the following estimate of one of the smallest of items in the cost of military government in the South: A single “ military department" at the South lias ,00 Boards of' Registration. They have already held their sessions for weeks. They will hold them for many weeks to come. Each member is paid eight dollars a day. Estimating ten mem bers upon each Board, including all their runners and attendants, and 300 Boards to each of the five Monarchies, and we have a daily expense of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) for these Boards alone. Geo. W. Williams A Co.—A rumor having been set afloat in Charleston that this old and respectable house was in failing circumstances, Mr. George W. Williams, the senior member of the iiriu, publishes a card in the Mercury, in which he indignantly denies the truth of such rumor. The following extracts from his card will apply with equal force to some people not a hundred miles from Augusta, as they do to the Charleston news-mongers: Perhaps it might be comforting intelli gence to the friends (?) who have been so actively engaged in circulating falserenorts to our injury, to leani that of the many miilions of dollars of foreign and domestic exchange purchased by George W. Wil liams A Cos. during the past twenty-five years, they have never lost a dollar! If the people of Charleston will devote half the attention to their own business that they do to that of others, we shall then hear of fewer failures and more prosperity. It may be great amusement to some peo ple to stand on the street-corners and talk about respectable houses "suspending ; but to one whose credit and reputation is as dear to him as purity is to a virgin, is a serious matter, and not to be trifled with. Adjusted. —We clip the following from the Montgomery Advertiser of the Ist instant: We* are glad to be able to announce that the difference mentioned in the Advertiser vesterday, as having taken place in the United States Court-room between Gov. Watts and Judge Busteed, has been happily adjusted by the interchange of OOTnplinieuts and the Governor again ap peared in Court to look after the interests ol' his clients. president Johnson on his tour. HIS SPEECHES, ETC. Richmond, June 2.— The President, on bis way hither from Washington, was accompanied by Secretary Seward. Post master-General Randail, Colonel \\ m. G. Moore, of the President’s Staff, Surgeon Basil Norris, U. S. Army, Colonel J. R. Oburne. Colonel A. H. Seward. U. S. Army, William S. Mitchell. E. L. Cren shaw, George Mattingly, Agent ol the Potomac Steamboat Company, and Gen. R. O. Tyler. The last named is the Chief Quartermaster of the Second Military Dis trict# detailed by Genera! Sickles to act as one of the escort. Reaching Fredericks bu :* at half-past eleven o’clock Saturday nignt, a number of persons of the vicinity gathered at the station and greeted the President with cheers and called lor a speech, but he merely thanked them for the manifestation of their respect, and shook hands with some of them at part ing. He arrived at Ashland at 2 o'clock and was met by about twenty persons, one of whom extended to the President a cordial welcome in their name. The President, in response to the informal addres.-. said: “Gentlemen, accept my thanks for this compliment.” The train arrived at Richmond at three o'clock, a. wj. The President was met at the station by Mr. McFarland, President of the City Council, and several other mcm befs of that body, Mayor Mayo aul Ex- Mayors Sanders and Sturdivant. These gentlemen extended to him a cordial wel come ami invited him to. accept of the hospitalities of the city of Richmond. The interview was rather infernal but pi«£sap,t. The liaCKSin 'waiting’conveyed the party to the Spotswood Hotel, where they were accmmodated with the best apartments. The President’s chamliers are those here tofore occupied by Jefferson Davis, and subsequently by General Grant. This morning the President, Secretary Seward, Postmaster-General Randall, accompanied by a committee of the city authorities, attended the services at St. Paul’s Church, where the Rev. Dr. Minnegerode officiated. After returning to the Spotswood Hotel, the President received a number of visiters, including a few ladies. The President and partv, this afternoon, dined with the Mayor and Council at the hotel. Many of the citizens, not being aware of the arrival of the party, eame to Richmond early this morning and congregated at the railroad station this afternoon to witness their coming, a report having been in cir culation that they would then arrive. The President and party leave to-mor row morning, between three and four, lor Raleigh. Richmond, June 3, noon. —President Johnson and party left for Raleigh this morning between 3 and 4-o’clock. Weldon, N. C., June 3, noon. —The President and party left Richmond between three and four o'clock this morning. On their arrival at Petersburg they were met by the Mayor of the city and General Stoneman. They here breakfasted. The Mayor expressed the pleasure of the citi zens in having them for their guests, and said to the President that they would he much gratified if the party would, on their return trip, remain longer in Petersburg than they had on this occasion, in order that there might be an extension of hospi talities. The President expressed his thanks for the kind reception, and hoped he might in the future be able to recipro cate. Weldon was reached at Ida. in. Raleigh, June 3, p. m. —The Presi dent was met by the following named offi cers : State Treasurer Battle, Secretary State Best, Comptroller Burgin, U. S. Marshal Goodloe, and also by a Committee ot the City Council. Mr. Battle, addressing the President, said : Mr. President, in be half of the people ol' North Carolina, it is my grateful province to welcome you-to our State. Born and raised to manhood on our soil, you forty-years ago left our borders, to battle with the difficulties and strive for the rewards of the great West. After being crowned with the most distin guished honors by Tennessee, and the daughters ofNorth Carolina, you have, by the aid of the people of the United States, : reached the highest point to which human ambition can attain; wo believe you have, ! with singular intrepidity, used the powers of your great office with a sincere desire to | heal the wounds and advance the prosperity j of our common country. On this, your j return to revisit scenes of your early days, we extend to you a cordial greeting as our President, our fellow-citizen and our friend. The President replied: Iliave nolanguage adequate to express uiy feelings and emo- I tions on this occasion. I shall not now i recur to the scenes of my_early life, for it has not been my intention or desire to | make any general remarks on this tour, 5 but simply to acknowledge and express my sincere thanks for the manifestation of respect of my fellow-citizens. 1 acknowl ! edge to you, sir, and those whom you rep resent, gratitude for the welcome which J you have thus given to me. I must leave i you and others to infer what I ought to have said if 1 had ventured upon a full reply to the remarks which you have made. I Again, gentlemen, I sincerely and heartily thank you. Mr. Battle then said : Mr. Secretary of State, and Mr. Postmaster General, I am likewise commissioned to offer you a cor dial welcome to our State. We earnestly hope that in your progress you will pass your time agreeably, and on your return j will retain pleasant impressions of our | people and State. Secretary Seward replied : I can cor-j tainly say, for myself, for I do not under take to speak for Postmaster General j Randall, that here, at the threshold of: North Carolina, I feel myself under a peculiar embirrasment. I find the Sec retary of State of the United States ■ overwhelmed by tlie Secretary of State of j North Carolina. [This produced laughter j in the crowd owing to the marked contrast j in weight and statue between the two Secretaries —the North Carolina Secretary j being six feet four inches and a half high, [ and heavy in proportion. J Seward resum ed : I hope my respected and esteemed ! associate will not meet with similar ; embarrassment while travelling through ; this State. I came here with the Pres ident ; with pride and satisfaction is this visit to his native State—pride and satis- | faction because he has honored me with ! i his confidence in the administration, and satisfied because l can bear testimony, be- ; fore the people among whom he was born, ' as I always cheerfully do before the people ! : ot my own native State, the people of our common country—a world—that his only! objects are the restoration of peace, harmo- : i ny and prosperity throughout the Union I —satisfied still more, because I believe his | conduct of public affairs has been, in all j respects, not only patriotic but wise and ; benevolent. I thank your for this cordial ! welcome, in the name of the authorities of North Carolina. All the world knows we, ; ot the national administration, hold all the Federal States closely within their con- : ' stitutional spheres : on the other hand, it. becomes us to show, as l trust we shall while we remain here, respect for all proper rights of North Carolina with loyalty and submission to the constituted authorities of this ancient and honored commonwealth. Postmaster General Randall remarked : "I also return my thanks. The only reason, I suppose, lam not overshadowed is be i cause there is but one Postmaster General. Like my friend, the Secretary of State, I, also, have much pride in visiting North Carolina —proud because I come to visit the birtli-plaoe of the honorable President , of this great nation; proud because the office of President is higher than any place occupied by any potentate of the old world, and because all may see the most promi neut man who represents the power and • institutions of the people: and because he, after the tribulations through which we have passed, lias an earnest hope that • prosperity may, in all its fullness, follow the peace which now prevails throughout the land, and that we may, in all respects, be a united people, speaking with one voice, and that voice for the glory and prosterity of the nation. I know this is the feeling which animates the President, as well as the great mass of the American people —their hopes and prayers being that we may have one body, and that a sound one—faith—and that a solid one—for the giory of the republic. ' The ceremonies having closed the party resumed their journey. At the j several stopping places on the Vay I to Raleigh many persons, white and i black, approached the car to shake hands with the President and converse with him. Among the-incidents was an old negro wo man who, rushing through the crowd at M arren depot and seizing the President’s hand, exclaimed "Bless de Lord. I'se been longing night and day for dis day to come round dat I might see de President . A genuine black man came up and introduced J himself as "Caisar Johnson,” saying 1 "Dat s a good name. ’ The President ! pleasingly replied, “Yes ; I think so—it , will not disgrace you if you do not disgrace 1 it.” j Raleigh, June o, p. m.— The partv ar rived at a quarter past four. A large crowd was in waiting and the President ; was cheered on landing. Gens. Siekles, i Burnes and Miles were at the depot Ke feated cheers were given in honor of the ‘resident. Mayor Haywood addressed the Presi ; dent as follows : i “ Allow me, sir, in behalf of the City AIfGUSTA, GA., VyEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1807. Council and citizens in general, to tender to'you a cordial welcome to the hospitali ties of the city of Raleigh. I trust, sir, the visit you now make to your native State and city, alter an absence of many years, may be as agreeable to yourself and friends who accompany yon as I know it will be pleasing to our people. Many of the Irier.ds an and associates of your youthful days have passed away, but there are still some remaining, who will be delighted to honor one who has, by his own exertions, ascended the ladder of fame, step by step, to its topmost round—the proud and honorable position of President of the United States of America. The President responded by remarking: “It would be affectation in him were he to say he was indifferent or insensible to this manifestation. He could not prove false to his nature and manhood. Such a wel come, as this from those who had known him first and longest, on his return to his native city was highly appreciated. He had nothing further to say than to tender to the Mayor and those whom he repre sented, his thanks for fchis cofdial wel come.” The procession was formed—the Presi dent being accompanied by a military escort. He was cheered as he passed through the principal streets. On reach ing the Yarborough Hotel he proceeded to the portico and was there introduced to the crowd by Governor Worth, who addressed him as follows: Gentlemen and ladies, I have the honor to introduce to you his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. He visits the city ot liis nativity on the nvjMßjjg M e.s istizens, to be present at the erection" o: araonumenl to commemor ate the worth of his father. As the repre sentative of North Carolina, I offer him a cordial welcome from our whole people. I deem it inappropriate to the occasion to allude to any of the political ques tions which now divide public opinion. We propose only a tender of respect to the President, in which every true-hearted North Carolinian ought to join. We all desire the restoration of Constitutional Union as nearly as possible on its old foundations, and, therefore, we all honor our illustrious guest, as posterity will honor him for his intelligent, constant, and manly support of Constitutional liberty. Welcome, then a hearty welcome to North Carolina, a son wlw has rendered himself illustrous by his honest, earnest, unflinching adherence to the Con stitution and Union. The President was greeted with applause and responded as follows:—Sir—permit me, through you, to tender to those hero present, and to the people of the State of North Carolina, my sincere thanks for the welcome tendered me on the occasion of my return to my native town. I confess that, under the circumstances,and in view of the demonstrations whieh have been made since I reached Raleigh as well as on the way, I am inspired with emotion which language is wholly inadequate to express here. In the language of another—and it is not worth while to attempt to improve upon it —here, in the city of Raleigh, is where my infant eyes first saw the light of heaven. Here are the scenes of my childhood—here is everything to bind man to his fellow and to associate him with surrounding objects. Here is where tho tenderest of the heart have taken a firm hold upon everything to which it is at tached. In making my entrance into this city to-day, my mind voluntarily wandered back to the time when 1 left her streets, a penniless and inexperienced boy, to make my way in the world. (Applause.) When looking back forty-one years ago, and on returning here to-day, I begin to inquire where are those I left, behind ? I, in the language of poetry itself, the friends of uiy childhood, where are they ? “Echo answers, where ?’ ’ Some have emigrated and gone toother lands ; some have com plied with the inexorable and irresistible call and have passed to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller re turns. I again ask. friends of my childhood, where are they? Where are the Havwoods, Hunters and Lanes? Where the Pearces, the Roysters and Smiths and Jones? Where is the long list of men who lived at that day, and who commanded respect for constancy to principle? (Ap plause.) Under such circumstances could I feel indifferent ? I would bo false to my nature if I forgot you—and not to indulge in self adulation,_ I can say 1 feel proud of tho demonstrations in my honor by the citizens of my native town. “Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land?” (Applause.) This is not the time or oc casion to discuss the political issues [ which disturb the public mind, but as allusion has been made to my : first going out from among you, I I may say that ever since I formed an oiii-n- I ion as to the fundamental principles of i the Government, I have adhered to them j and to the Constitution, the Union and the flag of my country. (Applause.) When] I went out from among you and from the time I became connected with politics, I laid down as my rule a conscientious per formance of duty, and adopted the Constitution of ruy country as my guide—(applause)—and by these, whether in prosperity or adversity, I have always been guided and controlled; and come weal or woe, in high places or low places, with the Constitution as my guide, with my hand laid on the altar of my country, j I will leave these great principles for those who are to follow. (Applause.) One of my leading tenets has been the prosperity of the great mass of the people, holding that all persons, without regard to condition or color, should be esteemed according to intrinsic merit or worth, leaving each to rise on his own merit, courage and energy. Let this be the standard, so that to every one may be assigned his true position. I trust and hope, instead of discussing party issues, creating factions between the North and South, East or West, that all will exert themselves for the restoration of the Union of these States, so that the flag may float over a contented and prosperous people. (Applause.) Let us, my friends, repair the breaches made by the war and restore the Union. This being accomplished, we may then make such issues as the public prosperity and safety may demand. Let us efface from our minds the memory of the past let us pour oil on the troubled waters and restore peace to the States. This has been my constant object; but let this pass. I simply came to this place in compliance with your invitation, to participate in another ceremony—to confer an honor upon the memory of one who was a few years ago in your midst. This has not emanated, as I understand, from any particular quarter or family. One word to you, young men. There is much said as to education’s advantages, et cetera; but if any of you wish to succeed, or, in common phrase, make yourselves men, you will have to do so through your own'exertions. I know some are familiar with the hardships and fiery trials through which I have passed during the time that has elapsed since I left you. It is not for me to say whether 1 haVe succeeded or not. Let that be as it may—my race is nearly run. lam no aspirant for anything, and the way is open for all. Places ot emolument and distinction are be fore you. There are here a few of those in whose hands the administration of the Government is to be placed; we are pass ing away; the next wave will bring you young men and women in our places, and our work will fall into other hands; there fore the greater should bo your efforts to prepare yourselves for the responsibilities that must, in time, devolve upon you. In conclusion, permit me to tender you my thanks for this cordial welcome, extended through your distinguished representative, the Governor of the State. Though she sent me out penniless and friendless, and did not then afford those advantages which you now enjoy; and though on returning I cannot do so, in the language of the schools, to my alma mater, I can say, with pride and satisfaction, she is my mother; and whatever may have beeffher delinquencies, 1 love her still. Then, ladies and gentle men, let me again express my heart felt thanks for the warm and sincere wel come on my return to this, my native city. The President, as he retired, was re peatedly applauded. Secretary Seward, having been loudly called for, said l: _. , _ “ Ladies and gentlemen of .North taro lina, like mv great chief, who preceded me. it is not my purpose to make a speech, having come with him to his native city as a companion and friend. lam entitled to rink out of the scene. I feel the touching solemnity of the occasion. The President is among you now —nothing more has happened. It is only one more citizen of llaleigh come home again. I owe you one word of acknowledgment, however, for the willingness you have shown to see and hear 'me. It was not so always It will. I trust in God. be so hereafter; (applause) and if it is not so hereafter it will be, as I think it has been heretofore, your fault and not mine. ["Yes,” “ye?." I have one word to say about the politi cal situation. W hen the idle and mis chievous expression "let the wayward sis ters depart in peace." I noticed well that the tempter went abroad and placed his I mouth at the ear of North Carolina and i she went out with the rest, but most loath and the last of ail. I have not forgotten that after the storm of violence and passion had begun to subside, and the rainbow was distinguished by the laintest tints in the political skies, we sent out. the dove and the olive - branch inviting the wanderers to come home again, North Carolina was flattered and hastened back to the ark. [Applause and laughter.] You never had my consent to depart. You never had my refusal to stay—you have al ways my heart to come and stay in what way you can. Come white and black, come mixed, comfe altogether—only come altogether, only come; and all shall be well again) [Applause as he withdrew.} Postmaster General Randall was next called for, and said; "It does not. become me to talk much in such a place after what you have heard from the President and the Secretary of State. I simply come for ward to express my thanks ior your good will—l come as a cup-bearer and assistant to the President, to whose staff I belong. Y’ou see in him a young man going out from among you without a place to lay his head, with no place to call his home—and nov, r you see him return with the highest honors heaped upon him —you have seen him going out on foot and returning in a chariot— a President of forty millions of people. (Applause.) It is well such spectacles is presented to this great peo ple, that they may see there is no position that energy, enterprise, honesty and in telligence may not reach —which qualities, without the Presidents bending the sup ple hinges' of the knee, have led the people to give him the highest public places on earth. It is good to reaph high positions MrjuUfrt 4-Ypii.ause.) Tne time will come wnen it will bo' asked, not what wealth we gained and power we acquired, but beyond this will he. the inquiry, is the world any better for your having been in it? The President loves the people because he is of the people. It is an honorable journey he has made hither —holding in affection the memory of his father. He has left all the duties of his high office to pay a solemn tribute to departed worth. Randall was applauded as he retired. Major General Sickles was vociferously called for and reluctantly appeared on the balcony. He was greeted with repeated applause and spoke as follows : I respond with pleasure in obedience to your sum mons to make my acknowledgment for your kind and courteous reception. lam here to-day to join you in paying honor to your fellow-citizen and triend, the Pres ident of the United States. It is a source of much satisfaction to me, as I am sure it will be to your distinguished guest and his honored associates, that they have not only received a spontaneous and cordial welcome irom the people but that all has been well ordered by the authorities of the State and .of Raleigh. No one can fail to observe that this assemblage is one of the greatest respectability and decorum, and that no instance or trace of disorder has occurred to mar the dignity and pleasure of the occasion. Confident that this is gratifying to the Chief Magis trate, and the Cabinet Ministers, who are friends, to witness the admirable bearing of the people of this capital, it is my pleasing duty to testify to the President that what he has seen to-day in the capital, prevails everywhere over the broad surface of your native State. General Sickles was ap plauded as he retired. The assemblage, which was large, after cheering the President, retired from the vicinity of the Hotel. The President, in company with Secre tary Seward, walked through the streets of Raleigh, pointing out various interest ing localities and occasionally halting to shake hands with old friends. A large number of strangers are in the city from all parts of the State. After tho dedication of the monument there will he a State dinner. From Richmond. Richmond, June 3, p. m.— Gen. Sclio- j field issued an order to-day for the instruc- 1 tion of Boards of Registration. After j quoting the reconstruction act as to who': are disfranchised, including Executive and Judicial State officers, he says: _ No one is disfranchised for participation in the re bellion, unless he previously held someone of the offices above named. First. The following will he regarded as Executive and Judicial officers of the State of Virginia within the meaning of the law : Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of'Public Ac counts. Second. Auditor and Register of the Land Office, State Treasurer, Attorney ■General, .Tudges of tho Supreme Court of Appeals, Judges of the Circuit Courts, Judges of the Court of Hustings, Justices of the County Courts, Mayor, Rccorderand. Aldermen of any city or incorporated town who are ex-officio, Justices, Coroners of towns and counties, Escheators, Inspec tors of tobacco, flour, and other commo dities. Fifth. All persons who voluntarily joined the rebel armv, and all persons in that army, whether volunteers or conscripts, who committed voluntarily any hostile a*et thereby engaged in insurrection ; any person, however, who was forced into the rebel armv, hut avoided, as far as possible, doing hostile acts, and) escaped from that army as soon as possible, cannot he said to have engaged in the rebellion. Sixth. All who exercised the functions of any office under the Confederate govern ment or the government of any one of the Confederate States, whieh functions were of a nature to aid in preserving the war or maintaining tlio hostile character of those governments, and all who voted for the ordinance of secession, engaged in the re bellion or gave aid or comfort to the enemy. Seventh. Those who voluntarily furnish ed supplies, food, clothing, arms, ammu nition, horses or mules, or any other ma terial of war or labor or service of any kind to the Confederate military or naval forces, or money, by loan or otherwise, to the Confederate government, or aided, in any way, the raising, organization or equip ment oftroops, gave aid and comfort to the enemy and participated in the rebellion and civil war against the United States. Eighth. Togive individual soldiers food or clothing enough to relieve present suffering, or to minister to the sick or wounded, are simple acts of charity or humanity, and do not constitute giving aid or comfort to the enemy. A parent may give his son, who belongs to the hostile army, food and cloth ing; hut if he give him a gun, horse, or other thing, to be used for hostile pur poses, he thereby gives aid and comfort to the enemy. Ninth.. Whenever, after the examina tion required by paragraph 12 of the regu i lations of May I.3th. the Board is still in | doubt as to the right of the applicant to be registered as a voter, and he is then : willing to take the prescribed oath, the | Board will give to .that oath its full weight, j and register the applicant as a voter. Tenth. In the lists of those who are l registered after challenge and examination, I and those who arerejeeted upon challenge, : the board will state in each case what ! office or offices the person held previous to the late war, and what insurrectionary or rebellious acts lie committed, and what kind of aid and comfort he gave to those engaged in insurrection or rebellion. Eleventh. The challenges provided for in paragraph twelve of the registrations of May 13 th, will he selected by the board from i the most respectable and intelligent voters 1 of the district or ward—those who have the most extended acquaintance with the i people, those who are interested in secur i ing a fair and just registration, and who | will be most likely to detect and expose i any attempt at fraudulent registration. The challengers may be changed at any time at the discretion of the board. They j will not be entitled to any pay for their services. Registering officers are I hereby empowered to administer oaths to witnesses who may be summoned by the Board in any case of contested registration. I The registration will commence in every county and city, without unnecessary delay, after the receipt of this order. ! General Schofield issued another order, : assigning Commanders to the military sub • districts. Gen, Granger is assigned to the Richmond district, Col. iranklin to the Shenandoah disttict. Major Stewart to the | Alexandiia district, Col. Johnson to the Fredericksburg district. The officers of' the Freedman’s Bureau, acting as.Military Commissioners in the counties in these 1 districts, are to report to said Commanders. Canada Sews, Montreal, June 2. —The small steam ers Admiral Porter, \\astmyton and Tempest, bound M est, from New lork, were seized by the Custom House officers to-day. It was generally thought that the seizure was predicated upon suspicion that they were iu the Fenian service: but it has transpired it was owing to tne fact that the freuaom of the £t. Lawrence River ceased ay the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty, and foreign vessels cannot now come further than Quebec _ without a special permit from the United States. Pending the arrival of clearance papers, which have been sent for, the vessels are detained. Xew York ton stitutional Convention. New York, June 4, p. m. —The Con stitutional Convention organized. Wm. A. Wheeler President. South American News. New York. June 2. —A special dis patch to the Herald, dated Rio Janeiro j via London, June 1, says that the media ! tion of the I nited States has been de clined by the Brazilian Government and renewed preparations for the prosecution i of the war were being made. Gen. Urquiza u was reported had revolted against the allies, taking with him ten thousand men. There had been no further fighting. J Cholera rages ia the allied camp. The revolt in the Argentine Provinces is , reported to be ended. From Mexico. New Orleans, May 3, p. m.—A telegram : from Galveston says that a letter from Queretaro, date not given, says : Maxi milian and all his principal officers gave up j their swords to Escobedo himself; entire army, Maximilian's artillery, ammunition, wagons, surrendered. The following chief's are prisoners: Maximilian, Mejia, Castello, t’as sanana, Gayon, Merino, Alveria, Maximo,. Campas and Miramon. The latter was captured in the streets of Catz shortly after the surrender. Mendez alone is missing. Over two hundred subal tern officers are also captured. Miramon and Campas are reported by a private letter as having been shot on the 16th. Maximilian had a severe attack of dys entery on the evening of the 15th. A physician of Escobedo’s was sent him. A private correspondent; from San Luis says : lie has recovered and is expected in that city and will probably cross over into the United States. sold Fort An official report from Escobedo, an nounces the death of Col. Louis Cavalo, of Labuca and Col. Miguel of Palcapalcions. From Charleston. Charleston, June 3, p. m. —General Sickles will publish to-morrow the. follow ing : lleadq’rs 2d Military District, ) Charleston, S. C., May 30th, ’67. j General Orders No. 32. First. Any citizen, a qualified voter according to the 'requirements of the act to provide for the more efficient govern ment of the rebel States, passed March 2d, 1867, and the act supplementary thereto, passed March 2d, 1867, is eligi ble to office in the provisional governments of North and South Carolina. All per sons appointed to office will be required to take the oath prescribed by the act afore said, and to file tho same, duly subscribed and sworn, with the Post Commander. Second. All citizens assessed for taxes, and who shall have paid taxes for the cur rent year are qualified to serve as Jurors. It shall be the duty of the proper civil officers charged with providing lists of Jurors, to proceed within their several jurisdictions, without delay, and ascertain the names of all qualified persons to place on the Jury lists-, and from such revised lists all Jurors shall be hereafter sum moned and drawn in the manner required bylaw. 'third. All citizens are eligible to fol low ['any licensed calling or vocation, sub ject to such impartial regulations as may be prescribed by the municipal or other competent authority not inconsistent with common rights, and the constitution and laws of the United States. The bond re quired as security shall not exceed the penal sum of one hundred dollars, one or more securities being citizens, and worth in the aggregate double the amount of the bond over and above just debts will be suf ficient. Fourth. Mayors of cities and other mu nicipal and town officers and all sheriff’s, magistrates and police forces are required so be vigilant and efficient in maintaining order and in the discharge of their duties. They will he expected to co-operate with the military authorities. Fifth. Post commanders may summon to their aid, whenever the ordinary means at their disposal shall not he sufficient to execute their orders, such of the civil offi cers and as many of the citizens within the territorial limits of the military post as may be necessary, and the neglect or refusal of any person to aid and assist in the execution of the orders of the com manding officer will be deemed a misde meanor, punishable by such fine and im prisonment as may be imposed by a military tribunal, and approved by the command ing General. Sixth. No license for the sale of in toxicating liquors in quantities less than one gallon, or to be drank on the premises, shall bo granted to any person other than an inn keeper. The number of such licenses shall bo determined and the fees, to be charged for each license shall he prescribed and collected by the municipal or town authorities and appropriated for the benefit of the poor. If any person shall be found drunk on the premises where liquor is sold the license may be revoked by any magistrate, ’([he tax im posed by the Internal Revenue laws of the United States is an additional charge and does not excuse the party from the observance of local regulations nor exempt him from the payment of such other license fees as may be imposed by munici pal or other competent authority, Seventh. All contracts hereafter made for the manufacture, sale or transporta tion, storage or insurance of intoxicating liquors, shall, within this military district, bo deemed.atul treated as against public policy, and no civil action, suit or proceed ing for the enforcement of any such con tract shall be entertained in any court. Eighth. In public conveyances on rail roads, highways, streets or navigable waters, no discrimination because of color or caste shall be made, and the common right of all citizens therein shall be recog nized and respected ; the violation of this regulation will be deemed a misdemeanor, and render tho offender liable to arrest and trial by a military tribunal, to be designated by the Commanding General, besides such damages as the injured party may sue for.and receive in the civil courts. Ninth. The remedy by distress for rent is abolished. Where lands arc leased or let out for hire or rent, cotton, corn or other produce at the same when served from the land may be impounded, hut the same sliall not be removed, and cotton, corn or other produce so impounded shall he held as security for the rent or hire so claimed, and may be sold in satisfaction of any judgment for the same, provided that any unsatisfied claim for labor bestowed upon the cultivation of such cotton, corn or other produce shall in no case he post poned to any demand for rent or hire, hut to the extent of such claim for labor there shall he a lien on such cotton, corn or other produce having preference over any claim ior rent or hire. By command of Major General I). E. Sickles. (Signed) J. W. Clous, A. A. G. From New Orleans. New Orleans, .Tune 3, p, in.—Jacob Barker proposes to the creditors of the Bank of Commerce to form a joint stock company with a capital of half a million of dollars, to build houses and stores. The stock to he paid for in checks on the Bank of Commerce. lie proposes to turn over to the company all real estate and per sonal property as well as its bank. Bank Statements. New York, .June 3, p. m. —Bank state ments show a decrease in loans of three million three hundred thousand dollars; decrease in deposits three million two hundred and eighty-seven thousand dol lars ; decrease in legal tenders two million one hundred and two thousand dollars : in crease of circulation forty-nine thousand dollars; increase of specie five hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. Death of an Author. Boston, May 3, p. m. —Lucius Marlins Sargent, the well known author, died to day, aged eighty-one years. Frazer, Trenholm <v Cos. New York, .June 3, p. m.— Frazer, Trenholm Co.’s circular announcing their suspension expresses the hope of an early resumption. Bi.ce Ridge Railroad.— A meeting of the stockholders of the Blue Ridge Rail road was held at the Mayor’s office, at the City Hall, yesterday. His Honor, the Mayor, represented the interests ot the city, and E. W. Marshall, Esq., was proxy for the State. . „ The President s report of operations tor the past year, showing a very encouraging and prosperous condition of affairs, was read and confirmed. The President s re port stated that great hopes were enter tained that through coDnection’wouid soon be made, and that the people on the other side of the mountains are very anxious to see it completed. The contract ot the Greenville and Columbia Piailroad Com pany with the President of the Blue fudge, by which the former takes a lease ot the Blue Kidge and all its rolling stock and appurtenances, was approved by the meet ing. The report of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Blue Ridge was also read and confirmed. The meeting then ad journed.— Charleston Courier, Ist. The military command has assumed control of the quarantine at Key W est, and intend a'rigidenforcenent of the laws. Important Order from Gen. Pope. lleadq’rs 3rd Military District, ) (Georgia,- Alabama a Florida), > Atlanta, Ga . May 29, 1867. ' j General Orders No. 25. I. The late disgraceful riot at Mobile, due mainly to want of efficiency or of incli nation on the part of the Mayor and Chief of Police to perform their obvious duty, seems to render it necessary that the mili tary authorities of this district should "ex-, plain to all such officials the position they occupy under the laws of the United States, and the manner in which they will be ex pectedto discharge their trusts. 11. The late Acts of CoDgre>s are pre faced with the statement that "no legal State Government or adequate protection for life or property now exists in the rebel States of * * * Georgia, Alabama and Florida,” and these acts, therefore, whilst proceeding to recognize the existing State Governments as provisional merely, estab lish also a Military Supervisory Govern ment, which is made responsible for that security of life and property to citizens which was not possessed previous to their passage. The final responsibility for peace and se curity in the several States iu this Military District rests, therefore, with the mili tary authorities, and in case the civil pro visional officers in any part of it prove un able or unwilling to protect the people, it becomes necessary for the military power, , either to supersede them by military offi cers, or by other civil officers, or organi zations which will effect the object. 111. In order that the civil officers in this district may understand precisely what is iL, fifr. Iheat ,l«r the military authori- I V. ’ln cities -or 'towns having munfeipa! government, the Mayor and Chief of Police, or other civil officers possessing their authority (where there is no Mayor or Chief of Police), arerequired to be pres ent at every public political meeting or assemblage which occurs within the limits of'their jurisdiction with such police force and arrangements as will render dis turbances or riots impracticable. It will be no excuse to say that such civil au thorities did not know of the meeting or did not apprehend disturbance. It is easy, by municipal regulations, to require that sufficient notice of any such meeting be given to the Mayor, or other proper au thority', to enable him to prepare for the suppression of disturbance; and it is proper in the present excited state of the public mind to make sueli arrangements as are necessary for the preservation of peace at all public political meetings, even if there he really no danger of disturbance. In any event the civil officers abovereferred to, as w r ell as those hereinafter mentioned, will guide themselves by this understand ing. V. At all .public political meetings, or assemblages, held outside of town or city corporations, the Sheriff of the county, or his deputy, or a deputy specially appoint ed for tho occasion, will be present, and will, in ease of need, organize a posse from the people on the ground, which he will hold separate from the body of the assem blage, to interpose, if necessary, to preserve the peace; hut in selecting persons to serve as a temporary police force, or posse, they are instructed not to summon any of the officers or public speakers of the as semblage. Sheriffs, or their deputies,-arc empower ed to exact service from all persons thus summoned as a posse, and to require that due notice shall be given to the Sheriffs themselves of any public political meetings, or assemblages, which may be called in their respective counties, in time to make arrangements herein indicated. VI. It is to be distinctly understood that the duty of the proper municipal authori ties, and the Sheriffs of counties, is to preserve the peace, and to assure thSir rights and privileges to all persons who desire to hold public meetings not in vio lation of law, and to take all precautions to prevent the invasion of such rights and privileges. VII. In case of any riot or disturbance, if it cannot he clearly shown that the civil officers above indicated were present, and did actively and faithfully perform their duties, both by word and deed, such officers will be deposed from their offices, and otherwise held responsible by the military authorities to the full extent of the neglect or criminality manifested by them, VIII. All commanders of troops in this district are also instructed to render to the above mentioned civil officers, on their application, whatever military aid may he needed, and the military commanders are directed to send a judicious and careful j officer, to be present at such political meet- j ings herein referred to, as may oepur within the limits of, their jurisdiction. Every officer thus detailed, while not interfering with the civil officers in the performance of their duties, will stand ready to interpose, and, if necessary, to •bring such military force to the spot as the necessities of the case may demand. IX. Rostand detachment commanders within this district are directed to keep themselves advised of all public political meetings which take place within the limits ; of their jurisdiction, and during such meetings to hold themselves and their commands in readiness for immediate ac tion at the call of the officer whom they are directed in a previous paragraph of this order to send to such meetings. Com manding officers are informed that they will be held to their full share of responsi bility for any want of precautionary meas ures or prompt action to prevent riots, or to arrest disturbers of the peace. N. The commanding General believes that ordinary good faith on the part of the civil officials above mentioned, in taking the precautionary steps indicated in this order, and in performing their obvious duty, will secure the people of this district from riots or riotous proceedings ; and he sincerely hopes that no occasion may arise (as none need arise) for any active partici pation of the military in the execution of law and the protection of citizens in their legal rights and privileges. By command of Bt. Maj. Gen. John Pope. G. K. Sanderson, Captain 33d Infantry, A. A. A. G. Crop Prospects. The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says the wheat crop in Cobb and adjacent counties never looked better, and all other crops promise well. The Greensboro Herald says: We are pleased to learn that the prospect for an abundant harvest of wheat in this section is exceedingly promising. If the weather should continue favorable a few weeks longer and the rust not prevail, a large yield may be expected. Weather and Crops.—With a few days this region of country has been visited with several genial showers, which have greatly revived our garden and field crops. The weather, too, iia.i become warm and seasonable, and a brief period will effect a wonderful change in the aspect of agricul tural affairs. Thus far, crops have been greatly re tarded by the cold, and stands of cotton materially injured. There is yet time, however, for them to recover fully, and favorable seasons will produce an average yield.— Cutlibert Appeal. Crops. —Po far as Terrill, Calhoun, Webster, and Lee counties are concerned, we have no doubt, with the continuance 'of good seasons, they will make nearly enough corn for home consumption. From various sources we learn there is more corn planted—in proportion to the general crop—than has been the ease in several years, and we have never seen it looking better at this season of the year. So liar as we are enabled to judgo, it lias been necessary for our farmers to replant nearly one-half the cotton, rendering that portion a little backward. There is a fine stand, however, from the second planting. 'Where replanting was not rendered neces sary, the crop is forward, and in excellent ’Condition. We have heard of many acres on which it will average ten inches in height. —Dawson .Journal , May 31. The Wheat Crop of Alabama. —We learn from reliable gentlemen who have recently travelled over a large portion of the State that the wheat crop is unusually promising, and in the counties of Lee ' Coosa, Elmore, Macon, Tallapoosa, Ran dolph and Chambers, the yield is expected to be larger than it has been for many years past. This will be a great relief to the people, and especially to the destitute, who, a few months ago, could see nothing ahead of tnein but ruin and starvation.— Mont. Advertiser, 'May 3] st. The Crop Prospect in Illinois.— There was a meeting of agriculturists at Geneva, 111., on the 21st ult. Gentlemen were present from nearly every section of the State. The reports of crops Were ex ceedingly favorable. The fruit crop, without exception, and including {Teaches, is pronounced promising—unusually so. , Ihe spring-sowed grain never stood ! thicker and better, and looked healthier. Grass is getting a bottom growth, thicken- j ing up, that will insure a good crop.— j W heat grain, wherever sown, wintered ; well and looks fine. __ Most of the corn is ; planted, even in Northern Illinois. In some sections of the State it is up. Great Imdccements. —Stop at I. Kahn & Co's if you wish to purchase the cheap est goods in the city. . 2 NEW SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 24. I From the Montgomery Mail. General Sway ne’s Report of tlie Riot at Mobile. Headq'rs District of Alabama, ) Montgomery, Ala., May 20, 1567. j Maj. Gen. John Pope, Commanding 3 d Military District, Atlanta, Ga. : ( General . Herewith I have the honor 1 to transmit to you the report of Col. 0. L. Shepherd, 15th U. S. Infantry, command ; ing officer at Mobile, upon the recent riot in that city. Immediately upon .hearing of the out break, I proceeded to [Mobile in company with Brevet Brig. Gen. Win. McKee Dunn, Assistant Judge Advocate General, and made personal inquiry into what occurred. So far as I can learn, the disturbance was not apprehended or deliberately planned, unless possibly by a small party of ruffians, such as are usually found in cities. Nor do I find that after it com menced it was participated in by a large number of persons, but that, on the con trary, the scene was hastily abandoned except by the police, and by such parties of freedmen as gathered together for de fence or from confusion or excitement. It seems that the speaker having been for some time interrupted by persons who should have been immediately removed, a single arrest was made. This was accom panied by the discharge of a pistol, after which a number of shots were fired «t the stand occupied by the speaker and his friends. After a momentary lull, a large number of additional shots were fired, apparently without vindictive purposes, the weapons, so far as known, being point timidity or inefficiency can he sustained against the police authorities of tne city of Mobile. At the same time, freedom of speech and public order have been greatly outraged in that city, by an ele ment which is active in the spirit of the rebellion, and presumes upon the sympathy of the police in this regard. This is sup ported by the antecedents of the police, and by the fact that hut a single arrest was effected on the night of the disturb ance. Sincere and earnest apprehensions was expressed to mo lest a collision of races, extended and disastrous, and involving with the fate of the colored people that of Union men in sympathy with them, should grow out of the impulse given by the recent outbreak. To prevent the possibility of this I di rected the Post Commandant to assume the maintenance of public order, to place guards at the headquarters of the fire companies, to prohibit outdoor assemblies after nightfall, to suspend the entire police force and reappoint only such as were known to be trustworthy, and to summarily punish all disturbers of the peace. For the final suppression of the disor der'y element above referred to, ami to give confidence and support to those who have been heretofore the allies of the Gov ernment, I respectfully recommend that the control of municipal affairs he trans ferred to persons well known for their con tinuous loyalty to tho Unite ! d States. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Wager Swayne, Maj. Gen. Protest of Mayor Withers.— Mobile, May 26, 1867.—T0 the Hon. Boards of Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Mobile: On the 22d instant an order from General John Pope, Com manding the Third Military District, on the recommendation of General Swayne, deposed me from the office of Mayor of the city of Mobile. 1 yielded prompt obedience to the man dates of a controlling power, hut in that act of obedience I simply yielded to a ne cessity without impairing or forfeiting or intending to impair or forfeit any claim or interest, personal or official, vested in me by tho laws of the land and guaranteed to me by tho plighted faith of the Govern ment of the United States. J. M. Withers. Admiral Scmines on Reconstruction. But aside from this evidence that the Northern people intend to keep faith with us, what other course is open to us ? Since the Bulletin first took ground upon this question, which was when the supplemen tary hill was passed, which left *lie Southern people no option, almost all our prominent men have spoken. YVe have carefully read their letters and speeches, and we find in no one of" tljcm any plan proposed by which we can better ourselves. Some of them denounce the reconstruction acts as unconstitutional, and from the Northern stand point they are so. But we, as high toned Southern men, mindful of our honor and our past history, must occupy our oicn stand point, and not that of our late ene my, if we would not stultify ourselves. To repeat former arguments used in these columns, we claimed the right to secede ; we did secede; we established what we claimed to be a foreign government and we waged a four years’ war in support of that government. We were beaten in that war, and are to-day a conquered people— conquered in a foreign war, proclaimed by ourselves, and not merely subdued in a domestic insurrection. Shall wo turn round now and proclaim ourselves liars? Shall we say that none of these things occurred ? Shall we not only admit our selves to he liars, but shall we iu addi tion proclaim ourselves to be swindlers ? Shall we admit that we induced our people to withdraw from the Union under false pretences, and that we invited the officers of the old army and navy to become rebels and traitors, instead of rallying to the defence of a legally constituted govern ment ? Is it the code of honor the passiv ists now propose for our acceptance ? Y r cs, it is, and, strange to say, sensible men, honorable men, commend this code to us ; to such an extent do men’s wishes, and interests, and politics blind them. But to lay this question of honor aside, and look at expediency. How are we to help ourselves? Has not General Pope told Governor Jenkins that the reconstruction law must be executed like any other law ; and do we not know that it will be execu ted in spite of anything we can do ? If the people of Mississippi, or any other of the ten conquered States, should register themselves, and vote against calling a Convention, the; Convention would be called nevertheless. ’1 he negro vote and the vote of the Radical whites would outnumber the passivists; or, if it did not, tho Reconstruction Act would he so amended at the next session of Congress as to accomplish the object, with, doubtless, further and more strin gent discriminations against those who have participated in the war. Governor Perry, of South Carolina, in particular, must he mad, when he recommends the people of that State to vote againt a con vention, lor lie knows than the blacks alone in that State are more numerous than the whites. Governor Perry talks of honor, and the Constitution, and at tiro same time recommends his people to put their necks quietly under the foot of the black man. if there were any free choice left us, we might or might not accept the terms; if we might or might not take our respective States hack into the Union on the condi tions named, the ease would be different. But if we do not reorganize the ten States our selves, they will as certainly be reorganized by the negroes and Radicals as that the sun shines, and that is the choice, and the only choice left us. Choose for yourselves, brethren of the ten States.— Memphis Bulletin. J'iftv Persons Drowned, —The acci dent which took place on the Tyne in con nection with the great boat-race between Kelly, and Chambers, was of a most calamitous nature.. The landing stage on the Quayside at Newcastle is reached from the shore by means of two gangways—one being used for the goods traffic, and the other for passengers. The latter gave w-ay under the enormous weight of the crowd, and 100 persons were precipitated into the ! river. Great feats of bravery were per formed by r one David Taws and others, and thirty of the poor creatures were at once rescued from their dangerous posi tion. It was, however, feared that not fewer than fifty were sucked in under the barges or carried away' by the tide. A few of the bodies were recovered, hut some days would elapse before the full extent of the catastrophe could possibly be ob tained. # In the year 1750 there were hut seven newspapers and periodicals published in the United States ; in 1810 there were 350, including 25 published daily ; in 1832 there were 588 ; in 1860, 2,051, circulating an nually 927,951,548 copies. Ihe National Intelligencer says: "The negroes may be ignorant, but there are many of them of sufficient intelligence to know, as Gen. Garfield frankly admitted in a speech made last February-, that the Radicals have befriended the negro not from sympathy for him or from love of justice, but from interest.” No truer words were ever spoken. The surprise is, that any Radical could be found with the candor to make the acknowledgment. Josh Billings truthfully remarks that “trying to live on the reputation of a dead grandfather is just about as enterprising as trying to hatch out rotten eggs under a tin weathercock.” Inauguration Ceremonies. Raleigh, N. C., June 3. —The ceremo nies at the City Cemetery commenced at noon to-day, in connection with the dedi cation of a Monument erected to the father of the President. It is a simple shaft on Red Limestone, ten feet high, with an ornamental cap. The inscription is: “In Memory of Jacob Johnson, an honest man, beloved and respect ;d by all who knew him; born , died January, 1812, from a disease caused by an over effort in saving the life of his friend. ’ ’ The President and party, accompanied by Gov. Worth, Gen. Sickles and others, having reached the cemetery in carriages, were conducted to a platform near to the Monu ment, where a very large nunfbor of specta tors was present, all apparently deeply interested in the ceremonies. After preliminary religious exercises, Hon. D. L. Swain, LL. P., President i of the State University, delivered an address, in which he traced the history of Raleigh, and in this connection alluded to Jacob Johnson, who, by a deed of noble daring, saved the lives from drowning of Henderson and Callum, at the ultimate cost of his own —passing away eventually a martyr to humanity. The following obituary notice, written by Col. Henderson, the editor of the Raleigh Star, is copied from that paper of Pith January, 1812: “Died, in this city on Saturday last, Jacob Johnson, who has for many years occupied an humble but useful station. He was city constable, sexton and porter to the State Rank. In his last illness he was visited by the nrincipal inhabitants of the city. By all whom he was esteemed for his honesty, sobriety, industry and hu mane friendly disposition ; among .ill by whom he was known and esteemed, non* lament him wore except, perhaps, his own relations, than the publisher ot this paper,, for he owes his life, on a particular occur sion, to the boldness and humanity of Johnson.” The orator, among other things, alluded to the fact that three natives of the State—Jackson, Polk and Johnson— have passed from obscurity and poverty in North Carolina to comparative opulence and eminence in Tennessee, and thence to the highest point of honor in the Union and the world. 1 >r. Swain concluded as follows: “Os the history of the son of Jacob Johnson, who commenced life under such comparatively unfavorable auspices, this is not the time to speak. The companion of his boyhood, Leonidas Polk, whose character I have attempted to • portray, has passed the portal of the grave. The President of the United States is before you, scarcely more time worn than the Lieutenant (Jeneral seem ed at our last interview. , I lis career in life, thus far, is one of the most remarkable in any age or nation. His country and the world have decided between the two representative men of the two parties which divided North Carolina and the South, that lie who achieved success, if not more pure and patriotic, was as hra\e, as disinterested and wiser than his compeer. The movements cf the series are belofe you. 'The crossed swords may be suspended as a memento of the past, and a warning for the future. The blood of the noblest heroes on both sides of the conflict will soon form a union in the views of the descendants of those who met in deadly strife on well-fought fields. The most‘patriotic hearts, North and South, East and West, already beat in unison. The time has arrived when patriotism, not less than Christianity, requires the forgive ness of the past. We cannot forget the crossed swords on the monument, surmounted by the Stripes and Stars, form an appropriate memorial association for the Confederate and Union dead, and no strife should he impress ed above their graves hut patriotic and generous emulation to do the most to pro mote harmony, and restore the more pr feet union, designed by the Constitute our common country.” The ceremonies were closed - benediction. Two colored gi»-' hunches of the choicest flower of Jacob Johnson. N. B.—The folio win f inadvertently omitted President’s speech, and “I have come to monies of dedicati whom you respf humble copditi of him Tap' man and a J > prize which cor. • Rejectee Jury of Mus it not To -be fc body, nor inapp, codition of affaii exhort the people of cogee to faithfully obe posed upon them, to avoi crings and discussions, and selves to those occupations from which alone, they may relief from the troubles which aik a community. We would especially sel and advise both white and black i. a participation in secret political societies,- sought to be organized and established in' our midst.by designing men, the only re sult of which must be to destroy that har mony which now rests between the whites and blacks, and to create a division of sentiment, which must result in antagonism . between the two races, destructive to the propriety of both. We have learned with regret, not unaccompanied with apprehen sion, of the violence and bloodshed which have been brought upon other communi ties by the incendiary teachings and harangues of men whose only aims are the procurement of political power, and we would w-arn the colored people and those who are using them for political purposes, to trust to their long-tried friends, and to believe that all attempts to secure rights and privileges by violence which are not recognized and protected by law, will, in the end, re-act upon themselves, and blast that prosperity and political security to which they are entitled under the law.” A Physician’s Appetite.—The follow ing extraordinary but well authenticated statement appears in the London Medical Times : “The celebrated Dr. Fordyce dined every day for more than twenty years at Dolly’s chop-house. Ilis researches in comparative anatomy had led him to con clude that man through custom eats of tener than nature requies, one meal a day being sufficient for that nolle animal the lion. At 4 o’clock, his accustomed hour of dining, the doctor regularly took the seat at a table always reserved for him, on which were placed a silver tankard full of strong ale, a bottle of port, and a measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy. The moment the waiter announced him the cook put a pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some delicate trifle as a lion banche to servountil the steak was ready. This was sometimes half a broiled chicken, some times a plate offish. When he had eaten this he took one glass of brandy, and then proceeded to devout his steak. When he had finished his meal he took the remain der of his brandy, having during his dinner drunk the tankard of ale, and afterward the bottle of port. lie thus daily spent an hour and a half of his time, and then returned to his home in Essex street to give his six o’clock lecture on chemistry, lie made no other meal until lib return next day at four o’clock to Dolly’s.” PICPKOCKETS ON THEIR M EITLE. —Seven English and seven French thieves started on their predatory expedition through the exhibition, and agreed to meet at a case in the boulevards or rather at a restaurateur’s, where they had previously engaged a cabinet particular', and had ordered a sup per, to bo “stood” by the vanquished. They met at the appointed hour, and you will be proud of your countrymen’s superi ority when you learn that they triumphant ly displayed forty-five watches and nine portemonnaies, whereas the French tyros in the noble art could display hut teu three portemonnaies and a half a dozen handkerchiefs, “small deer,” which are disdained by the professed pickpocket, and are only “faked’ f during a novitiate in the profession. They magnanimously avowed themselves vanquished, and agreed to recognize the superiority of the victors in the form'most pleasing to them by standing half a dozen of champagne, followed by howls of blazing punch in quick succession. Up to this stage all had been highly gratifying to our national pride, but the hour of Britain’s humilia tion was drawing nigh. Our countrymen fell under the table ; their hosts, though they had not read the tale of Falstaff ’s dis aster at Gadshil], fell upon their prostrate foes, eased them of their plunder, and re tired in triumph with the forty-five watches, the purses, &c., and, moreover, left the waiters instructions to apply for the pay ment of the bill to the gentlemen up stairs on the floor. —Paris Correspondent. Rev. Julius Pegmire was arrested at Erie, Pennsylvania, on Monday, charged with embezzling $15,000 worth of revenue stamps. He was formerly connected with the Internal Revenue office as clerk. Ben Davis, of New V ork, and George Adams, of Missouri, ran a foot race of one hundred yards for SI,OOO at Bloomington, 111., on Friday last. Davis won by four feet in 7i seconds.