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YOL. 2-NO. 28. Miscellaneous. Ross’ Algaroba Steam Packing, t OR STEAM, WATE OB OIL PIPE JOINTS CJYLYNDER HEADS, STEAM CHESTS, AND JOIN * fc OP EVERY DESCRIPTION Patented 1866. I'ite Best, Host Durable AND Cheapest Packing Ever Invented. SUPUBIOJI Ata> COSTING FIFTY PEE OeNT/TjESS";? W4nBISITED^rOB|iABT LONOEB,.ANi}iSP WhEß* BTOr BEING UNJUT VBCTEfSBSIPTtAiI. I >ll.. Naptha, W atYh o»ai A*-* Deobee of Heat ? .... ' <,,. , os Pbesshbe > TO 'WHICH It is Obdlnaeily Subjected. This racking is made op composition Boaul prepared expressly lor this purpose, folly saturated with a South American Ohm, obtained from the Alraroba Tree, dissolved tn oils, with other materials which impart solidity and power of resis tance against the elements and substances wnlch soon Impair all other packings. it has not been brought before the public as an experiment, but after the most thorough practical test of Its qualities, In varioos places in this country for nearly a year, and for over two years in South America, where U was invented. Wbeiever it has been tried it lias given unqualified satisfaction, and has invariably superseded rubber. A premium was awarded the inventors at the Exhibition of the Mas sachnsetts Charitable Mechanics’ As jciation Fair, in 1865,-without auy etforton theii part This Packing is now pi use in sugar refineries, wa ter works, oil works, rolling mills, steamships, Ac., arid the annexed recommendations speak 'or them selves, in regard to its qualities and comparative cost. It Is equally good for faced or rough joints, and is warranted in all cases to give satisfaction. It is e» peciallyiecommended tor Steam Chests, and tor all places where grease or oil destroys rubber. It will withstand tLe jar ol heavy steam hammers, and great pressure, where all other packing soon glv. s ont. It contains no sulphur, a,.r anything that will corrode the joints on which it may be used ; and in case of bieaking the jointß it does not adhere, but will come oir whole, and can be used again. It is manufactured in rolls any length, 36 and 40 Inches wide, and is numbered from 0 to 5, No. (being about % inch thick and weighing six pounds per square yard, No. 0 weighing but little more than hall a pound per square yard. It can also be made of any required size and thickness. tfaeketsfoi Manholes, Steam Pipes, Ac., furnished to order withe it extra charge. Where the joints are ordinarily facto, Nos. I and 2 are used. For joints faced with care, and new or not corroded, No. 0 will answer. The higher numbers are for untaced and bad joints. While the cost of this Packing is less per pound than good rubber, its weight is less than one-half j and as heat has little or no effect upon it, it may be used much thinner than rubber, making its cost to the consumer, mmany cases, lessthan one-third that of rubber. FAIRBANKS, ROSS A Of' Sole Manufacturers. Orders tor large or small quantities promptly filled. The trade supplied on liberal terms by S. K. HEAD, Agent, News and Herald Office, Savannah, Oa. CERTIFICATES. Office or Water Wobkb,) gavanuah, January VI, 1867. / This la to certify that I have used your Algaiob* Steam Packing at tile Water Works, and have lound it to be a good and serviceable packing, beings cheaper anti equally as good packing as India Rub ber. R. D. GUBRARD, Superintendent Savannah Water Works. South Boston, April 14,1866. Mb. James Ross—Dear Sir : I have used your Alga roba Steam Packing on a Steam Hammer, and other joints, where there is a heavy jar, and where Red Lead has failed, and I am happy to say tlfat your Pack ing is the best thing I have ever used, and it cannot be too highly; - mmeuded. you’ - , most respectfully. a . * (jp -7. H 4 H. JENOTMg, a-tuf?. Liigfneer’i’ay f-cite Iron Works. Engine House, i I CHABLESTna Wateh Wobks, April 3,1866. j This is to certify that 1 havo used •• Ross’ Aigaroba Steam Packing” since November Ist, 1865, and And it cheaper and superior to any Packing I have yet used, having given itaseTere test during that time where rubber would not stand. 1 can cheerfuUy recommend it to all who may use Steam Packing. (Signed) WM. C. SCOTT, Engineer Pumping Engine, Charleston Water Works. Savannah, Ga., January 10, 1867. I have used “ Rosb’ Algaroba Steam Packing” on board the Steamship Leo, and have found it superior to any Packing I have used. It is not only cheaper but superior to Rubber Packing. (Signed) THOMAS MAGNER, Chief Engineer of Steamship Leo, 0016-ts ROCKBRIDGE ALUM SPRINGS. Open June Ist. fJIHIS PAVOEIfE AND DELIGHTFUL WATERING PLACE, having undergone thorough renovation, is prepared to receive visitors. Tne owners have made every effort in the outfit and equipment to ronder the place more than ev r attractive to those in quest of recrea tion, while to the invalid its mediciDal waters hold out new hopes of health. It mav be confidently claimed for them that they have in a great many cases relieved, and in many more cases cured, the follow ing diseases : Scrofula, and many chronic cutaneous diseases ; Chronic Thrush, Bronchitis, Chronic i>i arrhcea. Dyspepsia, Dropsy, Affections of Kidney, Bladder, and Plies ; and, in connection with the HOT BATHS, Chronic Rheumatism. As an appetizer, a tonic, and general restorative to an enfeebled constitution, it is perhaps Unrivalled amongst mineral waters. The proprietors have en gaged for the approaching season A VERY SUPERIOR BAND OF MUSIC, BOTH FOB THE LAWN and the BALL ROOM. THE BILLIARD and BOWLING SALOONS, both for ladies and gentlemen, will be found in more complete order than ever befo e. From the very extensive preparations now making at all the loading Virginia Springs, a heavy travel is anticipated, and, we think, will be attracted. It shall be the aim of the unders gned to keep their Establishment fully up to the foremost, and they hope to see a renewal of the social reunions which in former years lent such a charm to these mountain retreats. Passengers by the Virginia Central Railroad get-off the cars at Goshen Depot. Eight (8) miles of staging over a smooth road lands them at the Springs. BOARD, $3.50 Per Day; S9O Per Month. AS* W* have secured the efficient services of Capt. WM. H. SALE, so long and favorably known to the public, in connection with these Bprlngs. FRAZIER A RANDOLPH, Proprietors. PURCELL, LADD & CO., Richmond; A. B. RUCKER, Lynchburg ; COLEMAN & ROGERS, Baltimore; HEGEMAN Sl CO., New York ; Kgents for the sale of the Water and Mass or. Salts. rnyll—eod2m THE LAKE CITY PRESS. BUSINESS USD FAMILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT LAKE CITY, FLORIDA. I PROM the extensive circulation and the point where published, the LAKE CITY PRESS, as an advertising medium, offers superior inducements to the merchants of Savannah. „ E. WALLACE DAVIS, BeplS-tf Proprietor. OTATE OF GEORGIA, WAYNE COUNTY.— O Whereas, Jasper N. Ranlerson applies for Let ters of Dismission on the estate of B. E. Sapp, late of said county, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite all persons concerned to file objections on or before the first Monday in Oc tober, otherwise said Letters will be granted. Witness my haod and official signature this April 4th, 1867. GEORGE W. HUMPH, ap6—lam6m Ordinary* Tri-Weekly News and Herald Is published on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, AT No. 11l BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA., BY S. W. MASON, AT SIX DOLLARS PER YEAR, OR SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted atliberal rates. The Daily News and Herald t nnblished at $lO per year, or $1 per month; and The Weekly News and Herald Is issued every Saturday, at $3 per year. POSTIIABT F, II S Are authorized to receive subscriptions for the NEWS AND HERALD, Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly, at our advertised rates. We Meet Upon the Level. We meet upon the Level, and we part upon tire Square— What words of precious meaning these words Ma sonic are I Come let us contemplate them ; they are worthy of a jftfegg SOt'tf of PKiflfrhftrfl We meet upon the Level, thougliTrom every station come— The rich man from his man ion and the poor man from his home; For the one must leave his wealth and state outside the Mason’s door, And the other finds his true respect upon the check ered floor. We part upon the Square, for the world mußt have its due; We mingle with the multitude —a cold, unfriendly crew; Rut the influence of our gathering iu memory is green, And we look upon the Level to renew the happy scene. There’s a woild whore all are equal—we are hurrying towards it fast; We shall meet upou the Level there, when the gates Os death are past; We shall stand before the Orient, and our Master will be there, To try the blocks we offer by his own unerring Square. , . We shall meet upon tliaLevel there, but never thence depart! There’s a mansion—’tis all ready for each trusting, faithful heart; There’s a mansion and a welcome, and a multitude is there, Who have met upou the Level and been tried upon the Square. Let us meet upon the Level then, while laboring pa tient here; Let us meet and let us labor, though the labor be se vere; Already in the Western sky, the signs bid us pre pare, To gather up cur working tools and part upon the Square. Hands round, ye faithful Masons, from the bright fraternal chain, We part upon the Square below to meet in Heaven" again. Oh! what words of precious meauiug these words Masonic are— We meet upon the Level and we part upon the Square. THE TOURNAMENT, Being the Right Pleasant Joust Be twixt Heart and Brain. I. Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies, And the knights still hurried amain To the tournament under the ladies’ eyes, Where the Jousters were Heart and Brain. , it; Flourished the trumpets: entered Heart, A youth iu crimson and gold. Flourished again : Brain stood apart, Steel-armored, dark, and cold. in. Heart’s palfry caracoled gayly round, Heart tra-h-ra’d merrily, But Brain sat still, with never a sound, So cynical-calm a us he. IV. Heart’s helmet-crest bore favors three From his ladye’s white hand caught; While Brain wore a plumeless casque ; not he A favor gave or sought. v. The herald blew: Heart shot a glance To find his lady’s eye, But Brain gazed straight ahead his lauco To aim more faithfully. VI. They charged, they struck; both fell, both bled, Braiu rose again, ungloved, Heart, dying, smiled and faintly slid, “My love to my beloved 1” Sidney Lanier —Half a million of pounds sterling were bet in London against “Hermit.’’ —Edward A. Pollard, of Richmond, bus commenced a suit tor his property in Wash ington, sold by confiscation. —Admiral John A. Dablgren has writ ten the life of his son, Colonel Ulric Dahi gren- —A third part of General Custar’s cavalry force in the Indian country have deserted upon their horses. —The Pacific railroad is now in operation six hundred and sixty miles west from St. Louis. —The Memphis Bulletin, edited bv Admi ral Semmes, declares in favor oi female suffrage. —The amount of gold in the Treasury at Washington is $100,891,000, of which $lB,- 337,000 is represented by gold certificates. —Ninety-nine SI,OOO bonds were recently reported missing from llte Treasury Depart ment; no clue has been discovered to them. —General Grant has telegraphed to Gen eral Sheridan that there is no truth in the reports that Secretary Stanton and himself censured Sheridan for removing Governor Wells. —The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons ofNew York, at their recent session, adopted a resolution prohibiting any gift enterprise under the name of tbe Masonic traternity. —The farmers in Delaware county, lowa, have just discovered that they have wheat for sale, and are disposing of it at $1 50 a bushel. A few weeks ago they refused to sell at $2 25. —Prentice says, “No doubt Weuclell Phil lips, when he calls Gen. Rousseau a coward, borrows courage troui the remembered fact that the cane with which the General caned Grinnell was broken iu the operation.” —The twenty thousand dollar prize for a remedy for cholera, offered by the French Academy, has beeu won—by nobody. Val uable suggestions on the subject were, how ever, awarded partial prizes. —MacDonald, the New York sculptor, who made such fine portrait busts of Johu Van Buren and Charles O’Conor, is model ling a life-sized female figure, which he calls Somuambula. —Norman P. Bortie, of West Farmington, New York, accepts Robert Way’s challenge to any man in the United States to a single jump for SI,OOO a side. —The Shah of Persia owns emeralds au inch and a quarter long, and the diamond “Sea of Light,” which is two inches in length and one and a quarter in breadth. —A man in Ohio has commenced a twen ty thousand dollar suit against a woman for attempting to alienate his wife’s affections from him. —The Louisville Courier says: “We un derstand that a.good many citizens of Ten nessee are abandoning that State, and seek ing refuge in Kentucky, on account ot the intolerable condition oi affairs under Kadical rule.” —A New York jury found out the other day when they came to make up a verdict that a Prussian among their number, wbo had been observed to listen with great inter est to all their proceedings, couldn’t speak a word of English. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JUNE 17. 1867. EAST FLORIDA. An Important Case la the If. S. District Court—Stringent Oath Required of Ju rors— i he Effect Thereof—The Crops in Excellent Order. Lakh City, Fla., Jane 13tb, 1867. To the Editors of the News and Herald: Considerable interest is Is t by all classes of our people as to tbo determination of an important cause now pending before the United States District Court for Fiorida, which is iu session in St. Augustine, and pre sided over by Judge Fraser. The points in volved are of vital importance to tax pay ers. They are as follows: During the ses sion of our State Legislature in 1860 and 1860, an act was passed making certain ap propriations for certain pnrposes ; to meet these appropriations taxes were assessed by the different Couuty Tax Assessors nod Col lectors. The Tax Collector found difficulty in collecting these taxes, the parties refusing tUrtitfrrftlW Kjfc&tu "kimiity,- the, .Collector- advertised property for sale to meet the amount assessed. The owners of this prop erty filed, before Judge Fraser, a bill pray ing for an injunction tp enjoin the collection taxes and restrain the sale of said property, alleging in said bill that there ex ists no legal State government in Florida, and as a sequence the taxes were illegally assessed and crunot he collected; alleging further, that if there is a legal Slate govern ment in Florida authorized to collect taxes, that certain appropriations of the act befoie mentioned, which can only be met by taxa tion, are in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the United States. The appropria tions objected to are $60, 000 for the bene fit of disabled rebel soldiers, their widows aud orphans, and $5,000 to indemnify certain of ficers of the United Slates, who, at the time of the passage of the ordinance of secession, had United States money in their hands, and which they turned over to the State. The Judge granted the injunction as prayed for. Notice of a motion to dissolve the injunc tion has been given, and it will be argued at the present term. Able counsel are em ployed on both sides I am informed by a member of the bar, who was present at the organization of the Court, that iu addition to the usual oath re quired of jurors, the following oath was ad ministered by tne Court: “I do further solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of ihe United Slates of America; that I have not without duress or constraint taken up arms, or joined any insurrection or rebellion against the United States; that I have not adhered to any insur rection or rebellion, giving it aid or comfort; that I have not directly or indirectly given ahy assistance, in money or any other ihiDg, to any person or persons who 1 knew, or had good ground to believe, had joined or was about to join said insurrection and rebellion, or had resisted, or was about to resist with force of arms, the execution of the laws ol the United States; and that I have not coun selled or advised auy person or persons to join any rebellion against, or to resist with lorce oi arms the laws of the United States. ’ I am also informed by the same party that, by reason of its being so strict and rigid, two ex-oflicers oi the United Slates army, who served in that army during the entire aval’, d'-olioetk to take ajbiiwliilo men »v«re so scarce who could lake it, that they took a negro bailiff. It has been but a short time since 1 re turned from a flying trip through three ad joining counties. I found the crops in ex cellent order, although rather backward. The yield will be abundant —so say the cheering reports from all sections, in my next I wish to give you some ideas as regards the elements of wealth and power that exist among us. B. A Brutal Murder. Mr. John W. Price, of Edgelield District, $. 0., aged about twenty-five years, was brutally murdered, Wednesday night last, on the Washington road, six miles from tbo city, by one of a band of armed negroes, seven or eight in number. Mr. Price came io the city with a two-horse wagon, accom panied by a colored man-servant, named Claiborne Lockhart, and after transacting his business, left for home Wednesday ai ternoon, and camped near Mr. Moore’s house, at Quaker Springs. From the tes timony of (Jlaiborne, who was the only wit ness betore the coroner’s jury, it appears that, after Mr. Price and himself had gone to sleep—Mr. P. in the wagon and himself on the ground, about five feet from the wagon —he was aroused by some persons calling him, who asked him, among other questions, who owned the wagon; he re plied, a gentleman from South Carolina, when they left, but soon came back and awakened Mr. Price, asking him where he was going and if he had any liquor. He told them he was going up ihe coun try and did not have any liquor. One oi them then asked if he had any money, to which he made no answer, and turned round, when a gun cap was exDloded by someone of the parly, and immediately a gun was fired, the charge penetrating his lelt side, and passing through his body, causing instant death. As the gun was fired, one of the murderers said “Let’s kill him,” when Claiborne cried “murder,” and they ran away. No clue has yet been found as to who they are. Mr. Price had about four hundred and fifty dollars in money, when in the city, and was exchanging bills for gold, and robbery was no doubt the object of the party that murdered him ; but the alarm raised by Clai borne caused them to decamp without any booty. * Coroner Rhodes promptly proceeded to the place of the murder, and held an inquest over the body, with the following gentle men as jurors: Robert Phinizy, foreman; VYm. Skinner, John H. Niebling, Oliver Rioketsou, John Cartledge, John J. R. Flournoy and James Kelly, whose verdict was, “The deceased came to his death from a gun-shot wound in his left side, passing through his body, discharged from a gun iu the hands of some unknown colored man.” It will be seen, by reference to our adver Using columns, that Mr. Thos. W. Price, the lather of the deceased, offers a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest of the mur derer. —Augusta Constitutionalist , 14(/i. —The Coolie trade has become a regular epidemic among the Havana merchants. Everybody speculates in Celestials. Every few days a ship arrives with a load of these “white niggers,” and the vessels are con signed in some instances to firms that never went beyond calico and linen. The price of a good healthy Chinaman is about S3OO. Those who don’t pass muster as first-class sell from $l5O to S2O0 —so says a letter from Havana. A clergymau iu Flint, Michigan, on a re cent Sunday, duriug the delivery of his ser ntou denounced “waterfalls as abominable deformities, the fruit of depraved taste and woman’s extreme vanity.” On Monday moreiug a monstrous waterfall was hung upon his door, with a card attached, stating, “this is the latest style.” He says it looked so like a large wasp’s nest that he put it in the fire. A pretty widow of his congrega tion is accused ot the trick. The Quaker City, with her excursionists, has finally sailed for the Holy Land. Gen. Sherman did not go in the party, but Maggie Mitchell and Mark Twain did. Tire First Case Under tlic Bankrupt Law. [From the Buffalo Courier, June 4 ] The first case arising under tiie Bankrupt law, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, was commenced yesterday. The petition, which was filed with the Clerk of the Court, was that of Thomas B. Read and others, of New York ci,v, against Frederick O. Crowley and William L. Hoblitzell, of Elizabethtown, Es sex couuty, New York. It sets iorth that the petitioners are judgment creditors of the defendants in the sum of $923 10; that the defendants are bankrupt, owing debts to the amount of $100,000;" that defendants have executed a chartered mortgage to the Essex and Lake Champlain Ore and Iron Company covering property to the amount of SIO,OOO, contrary to the provisions of the act of Con gress approved March 2d, 1867, entitled “An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States;’’ that defendants also, contrary to the same act, made arrangements whereby one Henry B. Moore should make execution of a judg.- ment agaiust them of $25,000, and one Dan iel F. Payne should make execution of u udgmeut against them o $4,500. There ' fore the petitioners pray that the ri Teodaat-j ! be declared bankrupt by Ahe Court, in ac- ’ Snrdanee 'switli tin? rupt law. An order was triads by liie Court on this petition directing defendants to ap pear at a term of the District Court, to be beld in this city on the 24th of July, 1867, aud show cause why the prayer of the pe titioners should not be granted. We have been thus explicit in giving the points of this case, not because it is espe cially interesting in itself, but on the ground that the first proceeding under the Bank rupt law in this Court District deserves to be chronicled. It is a little singular, since the law was framed to benefit debtors rather than creditors, that this first case should be one of involuntary bankruptcy—-that is one where • the creditor, instead of the debtor, claims the protection of the Courts. It shows that the law is advantageous to hon esty on both sides. It not only relieves the embarrassed bankrupt from the rapacity of bis creditors, but it equally protects the creditor from the rascality of his debtor, and secures an equitable division of the assets of Ihe bankrupt. It is thought by emiuect lawyers that the existence of this law will do away with a large proportion of our civil suits. It will prove a great vortex in which will be swallowed hosts of attachments, sup plementary proceedings, suits on promisso ry notes, foreclosures of mortgages and other processes. The District Courts as Courts of Bankruptcy experience considera ble inconvenience at present from the tact that the rules adopted for their guidance by the Supreme Court have not yet been published. As they were adopted several weeks since, the inference is tiiat they have fallen into the hands of some speculator who expects to turn an honest penny by their publication. In the meantime the District Courts are, to a certain extent, working iu the dark in bankrupt cases, having nothing but the text of the Jaw to guide them. Any action they take may be found void when the rules are published. Gold Steady.— The New York Times, of Saturday, says: Gold has been remarkably steady of late. The extreme points iu the fluctuations since the first of May have only covered a distance of two per cent. There have been weeks in which speculators have had to be satisfied with fluctuations of one per cent.; and there have been many days itt which a quarter or an eighth of one per cent, has beeu counted a good tiling one way or the other. Tin; gold room has beeu very dull and stupid, and it seems at times as if things were about to dry up. Nobody can form an idea as to what will affect prices during the summer ; aud a very small affair, such as a business failure or a Bismarckian growl affords ooca ori--* I ;* y - -a,,.;.-,.. Culfgcu Keeps in , vrfli ostablishi‘U p 1- ey of selling a : <-i! gold now and then through the Sab-Treasury; but there is no reason to believe lie ever imagined that he could put it down very far or keep it down very long, by any movements he might make. We suppose ihut the prospect of the gtyiiu crop and the cotton crop will, in the absence 'of anything more startling, be the principal cause of auy such slight variations in gold as may be looked for during ihe summer. The steadiness iu the gold market during the last forty days lurnisltes a remaikable con trast to the violent fluctuations that took place during the Bame period last year. Register Commission. —The registers ap pointed for this city, says the Augusta Con stitutionalist, received tlieir commissions yesterday. The commission reads: The United States of America : By Bvt. Maj. Geu. John Pope, command ing Third Military District: By virtue of the authority in me vested by the acts of Congress and appointment of the President of the United S ates, I do hereby commission you, the said , ot Richmond county, State of Georgia, a Register for the city of Augusta, iu said State. You are, therefore, hereby authorized and commanded to perform the duties in cumbent upon you as Register aforesaid, ac cording to law and the trust so reposed in you. This commission to continue in foice until completion of your duties, or until revocation of the same from these head quarters. John Poi>e, Bvt. Maj. Gen. Commanding. Atlanta, Ga , June 11th, 1867. The Paris Exposition.— The Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs are attracting much attention at the Paris Exposition. The cor respondent of the New York Journal of Com merce, after alluding in very complimentary terms to the American pianos in the Expo sition, continues : “ Nor is less artistic skill and taste dis played in the fine Cabinet Organs of Messrs. Mason & Hamlin, which are acknowledged to exeel whatever has yet been effected in the quality aud sweetness of tones produced from reeds. The exhibition of these has been a great success, and has taken Parisian aitists and builders quite by surprise, be cause they were in a great measure unpre pared to find American mechanical genius developing itself so much upon objects re lating to the agrement and luxury of life,"as upon those which have regard only to profit and utility. The cases of these magnificent Cabinet Organs have also been extremely admired for their design and execution, iu both ot which respects they are allowed to rival the best productions of the Faubourg St. Antoine.” —A barrel of high wines was stolen from a bonded warehouse at Stirling, Illinois, the other night, and rolled out into the streets in the neighborhood, where its contents were distributed among a large crowd of people, who drank freely of it. In a short time, two thirds of them were writhing in agony. Men, women aud children lay here and there, groaning with pain, vomiting freely, and tor tured with the burning of the ardent fluid. One little child died Irom the effects of the iiquor, and three or four others were for a time dangerously ill. —Lucy Stone says she fully believes “that light will so dawn ou the anomalous politi cal position of woman that, before this sum mer’s suns have set, good men of all parties will come in solid column to woman, each man to his mother, and taking hold of the hand which rocked his cradle, will say, ‘Come with. us! If possible, forgive us. In future Rhare our legislation, and save us from such stupendous crime aud folly as we have been guilty of towards you.” Music: “Take your time, Miss Lucy,” &c. —Just before he was senteoced at Dublin, the Fenian Duffy gave Stephens a sockdol oger for sending his men into the fight and then deserting them for the Paris Exposition. Stephens is reported to be liviug in clover in the French capital, with lots of money and no end of fun. Speech or General Clanton, of Alabama, In Reply to Senator Wilson, at Mont gomery, Alabama. It£4t©w of the excellent remarks made bv General Clanton at the meeting beld at the Capitol, on Satur day-evening, a large number of his feUew-citlzens, both white and colored, addressed him a note, ro qucftiog a copy of his speech for publication. In re ply £> this note, Gen. Olanton submits a sketch of his Bpeft ll so far as he was able to recall it: Frleml': and Fellow-citizens: I returned from the country a few minutes since, and was lutormed that some colored men had called aims' office to invite me to attend this meeting. I apfSecnite this act of kiudttoss, confidence and friend sbijjou their part. My colored friends, weare Soutli emhien. born upon the same soil, live ill the same «V, and wilt Sleep in the same graveyard when oublesare over ; and our destiny is the same, prosper, tbo white race of the South will prmt rt if the while race prospers, you must wSo r; and whatever misfortune is visited upon ith must be borne alike by both races. It is B'<r dnty and interest to cultivate the fttend ation with your neighborsand-formerowriprs, I to-day aud ever have been your best friends. ', I can proudly say that nqpne in tllis assem aasert that I have ever oppressed him when a slave. On one occasion I fought for one of hese streets. On another, when a white man u waylaid aud murdered, and his neighbors ambled, und taken the law in their hands, »avowed purpose of executing the two sup laders, who were colorfed men, I Interposal 'em and succeeded in having them placed la ail and a fair trial giVen them. /One was convicted hung; the other acquitted and still lives. iydpLor from ' ,etts, who has just ad alstauL has alii V’ ical pilgrimage Month. He nas clraUenged any oi.o" present to meet him in discussion -to-night, and has offered to divide time with any one who would ac cept. I was born aud raised in the South, and hope to be buried iu hot soil. I have met the brave men of the Norih on many fields; they outnumbered and overcame U-, and 1 gertainly have no loir of their politicians. But for my family life would have but few charms for me. Neither the fear of the gallows, the gibbet or the bayonet, will ever cause mo to desert my people, forsake this bright Southern land which gave me birth, or deter me from the expression of my hodest sentiments under any circumstances. Some young Southern Radicals who have recently ad dressed you, say that the Sherman bill which they are advocating would disfranchise them, and hence their efforts were purely unselfish, whilst at the time their application to be relieved from the disabilities of that measure are pending at Washington, aud they aru doubtless expecting to call on you for your votes at the next election for this State. . I will here stato my own position briefly oa this point: I believe that bill is unconstitutional—l believe it is oppressive on a certaiu class of our best men. As ,soon as that bill passed Congress, a high Federal official, with the kindest leelings for me personally, said to me: "You were not an original secessionist. Copgress will r.-mova your disabilities under the Sherman bill. You must send on an application, aud I will approve it, and help you to get it through.’’ i replied that the Republican party had no right under the Constitution to disfranchise me, and I would never ask lor relief at their hauds, aud that is my position to-night. The Honorable Senator from Massachusetts has said some things to-night which evinces good feeling on his part, aud which I approve. He has also said many things from which 1 must disseht, aud made many assertions which the political history, and par ticularly that of our recent unfortunate war, proves to bo untrue. He commences with the history of slavery in the South since he came upon the stage of action, and endeavors to fix the responsibility of the existence of that institution upon the Southern peo ple, with all of its horrors, as dopicted by bis vivid imagination. I will carry the gentleman back to the starting point of the institution on this continent, and before 1 take my seat I will prove to you that the North is responsible for the existence of slavery, witli whatever evil attaches to it; and I am frank to say there were features in slavery which were wrong. Many years ago, my friends, before the United States had an existence as a nation,- your forefathers inhabited the homes of your race—Africa. The Northern people, who were then, as now, a commer. clal people, owoing many ships, went to the coast of Africa and brought some, and stole or kidnapped •your grandfathers and mothers, placed them in the holds of their vessels in great numbers, and in chains took some lew to their Northern homes, and sent most of them they sold to the Southern people for slaves. In this work they had valuable co-laborers in the English and Spanish. By this traffic iu human flesh they made large sums of money. The Southern people, aa a general rule, were op posed to the slave trade, aud when the colonies th ew off the joke of Great Britain, the Southern colonics amongst them, one of the principal reasons which they published to ttie wot Id in justification of their cause, was that the Mother Country had imposed slavery aud the slave trade upon them aguinst their wishes. When our independence was acknowledged aud we formed a Union of the colonies, the South was stilt opposed to the slave trade, and It would have been declared piracy, aud halt of your race in tile United States would not have been here now, but iu Africa ; but the Northern men engaged in the trade found i so profitable, and so entirely lree from auy consciet tiouß scruples were they, that they insisted that their i.ii,im .m ■' atlona sbovM intinue twenty yer-.1 1n,.,,, od the Smith yielded Yhe-H slave traders invested their money m lands . * and other property v ‘ii ad .. heir grandchildren or great grandohildren rich; and some of wham are now leading Republicans. The slave holders of the Northern States did the same thing in most instances, by sending their slaves to Virginia and other Southern States, and selling them when their slave labor became less profitable in a cold climate than white labor, aud have since amused themselves by abusing the Southern people as slave drivers—and the Senator, the descendant of these men, is here to-night, reminding you of the wrongs you have received at the hands ut your for mer owners, and advising you to avoid political al liauces with your frieuds and neighbors, and to seek an alliance with the people iu distant States, the Re publicans of the North. I repeat, that the conscien tious scruples of the North were not seen cropping out until they had your race In their pockets, where they have taken good care to keep you ever since. There are many good people at the North who are your friends, and who have never engaged iu the slave trade, owned slaves or approved of slavery. The same can be said of the South, and if let alone by the North, that ciasa would iiave been much larger iu tire South. More slaves have been freed by the acts of their owners in the South than at the North. Ueorge Washington owned about one thou sand, which he freed at his death. Mr. Randolph did the same. General Oglethorpe opposed slavery in Georgia. There is a man on this stage who knows 1 had an angry controversy many years ago in this city, for endorsing Henry Olay s emancipation scheme for Kentucky. He was my political leader. I never knew him to do wrong, but I fear we will never look upon his like again. The gentleman from Massa chusetts says you ought to identify yourself w.tb the Radical party of the North, for they have waded through a bloody war of four yeara to set you free, tu give you the right to sit upon juries-, ride on rail roads, testify as witnesses in courts, aud much else I deny every assertion he has made on these points, aud challenge him to the proof. He who says that this war was commenced by the Nortii to set you free aud confer on you the rights you now eDjoy, falsifies the history of the country, not intentionally, I hope. ThirGovernment of the United States, during Ihe late war, again and again declare 1 most solemnly that this war was not commenced or being waged for con quest, or with a view of interfering with our property in Gaves in the States. Mr. Lincoln urged us to re turn to ihe Union,pledging the Government to sustain us most coiilially, and slavery ita protection in the States. We were threatened with emancipation if we did not come back. In the one hand the Government offered us “Union and slavery,”—and in the other was “rebellion and emancipation.” Having gone to war on principle, the South chose the latter. No man knows this better than the Honorable Senator. Nor will lie or Gen. Swayne, who is on the stand, deny the assertion I am now going to make, that we could have gone back into the Uflton aud held you aa our slayes to-day. You are not indebted to the North or South for your freedom, but to God. Instead of abusing us you ought to remember that rebellion, which you are taught to deepise, by your enemies aud ours, who only come among you for your votes, was an inatru meut in tne hands of God for your deliverance, so far as mortal eye can divine ihe purposes of the Creator. The Southern people do not envy you your free dom They would not restore you to bondage if they could. They have your well being at heart. 1 did not fire a gun for slavery. More than hail ihe Southern army never owned a slave. Hardee, Cle burne, aud many others, signed a petition, long be fore the war closed, for your freedom aud to afford you an opportunity to volunteer and assist your friends of the South iu achieving Southern inde pendence. President Davie recommended this course, and I, in the theatre, iu this city, endorsed his policy in the presence of a very large assembly, and stated that 1 would take great pleasurein commanding colored troops. You acted well' your part during that unfortunate struggle, for which you deserve, aud have, the gratitude of every Southern man and woman in our midst. The gentleman says the Mexican war was brought on and advocated by Mr. Calhoun lor the purpose of increasing the area of slavery. No one ought to k ow better than the honored Reprefientativo of Massa chusetts than that the statement is untrue. Mr. Cal houn, and also Mr. Clay,' the great Southern giants alive at the time, opposed the war. Mr. Calhoun was to the last the bitterest opponent to the war—pre dicting as he did the disastrous result upon the peace of the country. Instead of the war being waged for slavery, it was very evident, as tbe result proved, that any territory adjoining would be tree territory. That war gave to the North California, Utah and New Mexico. Though only a noy I followed the old flag through that war, with many thousand good and true men from my section, who only regarded the na tional honor of our common country. Again, as to how you became free. The North aided to free you with bayonet and military proclamations only as they believed it would injure us and raise you up a hostile element in our midst, and seemingly making your welfare a secondary consideration. To render this act of theirs valid and constitutional, it was necessary that we should act. We called to gether our conventions aud without hesitation made you constitutionally free forever. We also gave you the right to testify in cases where you were inter ested, and I advocated, in this State House, your right to testify in all cases. You now enjoy many privileges here not enjoyed by your race in the Northern States. As the gentle man has congratulated you on your improved condi tion here, aud created still greater expectations for your future political aud social relations of the South, lot mo tell you what great blessings ihe North has In conferred upon your raja even in his own State. First, until very recently, although your race at the North are free, aud h ive the advantages of the free school system of which he boastn, and few in num bers, yet whilst your numbers rapidly increased as slaves in the bauds of cruel masters, referred to by him, at the North they have diminished, and they have been and are still excluded from Nortli > ern hotels, steamboat cabins, railroad cars and places of amusement. They have frequently been expelled from such places, aud sometimes mobbed for claim ing the rights of white people. CAnd what has been the result of every effort on their part to obtain re dress and establish their rights by law ? They have, in every instance, (unless it be very recently), signal ly failed. The courts and the country were against them. I saw iu the Northern newspapers—and I be lieve it to be truo, for I have nowhere seeu it contra dieted—that about the last of 1866. or the first part of the present year, Frederick Douglass, a mulatto ot Jfyw York, who fs said to be a highly educated and polished man, who conducts himself with great pro priety everywhere, travelled as far West as at. Louis, and was there and everywhere on his route refused admission into the first-class hotels of the Northwest. Nearly every Northern State has discriminated against them as jurors, witnesses, and heretofore at the bal lot-box. They nowhere at the North enjpy, in'- fact, alljthe rights of the white people, and in most States North they are by local laws deni, and political equality at the present time. One or mure States Went so fur Cp to deny them settlement within their boundaries altogether. Ypu are reminded by the gentleman of pecuniary favore conferred—the supplies voted you by his party and the Bureau under General Swayne in Alabamar-- as another reason why you should act w|th the R. publicans. X believe General Swayne to he a friend ei yours. X believe the gentleman who fiae just-ad dhessed yon is also a friend, for they have ho Cange to be otherwise, but no better friend than I am and many other Southern men. Mhny. of ua have been educated by your labor, and I hope I shall live lo* ;; enough to pay you back with compound interest, it. promoting education amongst you, which X teil you is the only hope of your race. I requested that General Swgyno be continued over ug, for although we see thiugs from different'stand ee‘fftslyot-1 believe he wants to do right, an.j.l never ion merely** But, however worthy the motivi oT the act 6it ill, paitof the Government in assisting ypu through tp, Bureau, and for which the Senator, amongst other reasons, claims your votes for the Republican party it.is an undeniable fact that the same party discritni natos against you in the way of taxes on cotton, and in this way wrings from the sweat of your hrow on. hundred dollars to every one received by yon through this same Bureau. With these factß staring you in the. face, which tb. honorable Senator will not deny, what is the obvtou object of his visit South ? It is this, my friends. His paity is in power,aud he is here aiming to keep then, so He is here to form a political alliance with you and what few whites can be induced to join him. They want office, they want spoils, and they want t.. retain power. It is quite pleasant and profitable to them. It is not because they love you better than other people. I warn you against him and all like him at home or abroad. What claim have the men in our own midst to your confidence, who profess to be Radicals and advis. you to join that party f I Bee several of them befm-i --me now on the stand. Mr. E. u. Metcalf is one, who within a few days past has written a letter saying, amongst other things, that the Southern men op posed to the organization to which he belongs have been legislating since the war to over-tax the pooi and deprive the negro of his wages. He ought to have known these statements were untrue. He ha lived here for many years. Hlb brave sous were in our army, and I never heard of h s paying any ne groes their wages until they were made tree. I havi beeu informed, and believe that Mr. Metcalf, who is a good man and citizen, did not write the letter re ferred to. A second is Judge Felder, my old friend—what is his record ? He, before the war, was a Senator from Montgomery county, if I am not mistaken, voted for a law to enslave every free negro iu thu State who dtu not leave by a certain time and to prevent any mor. from being made free. Under this law Jack Aber crombie, and his mother and bis sisters, went into slavery. 1 tried to savo them from the operation oi the law and failed. He claims to be your champion here, and invites you to join his party. Tne honorable Senator in his ism speech says I spoke of many small things which oc curred here which he had never before heard of They may be picayunieh to him away up in Massa. chusetts, but deeply ooncern us here. He may con ’ eider the oourse of our local Republican leaders here, the gentlemen referred to, as uuimportant, aud it maj he, and doubtless is true that he never beard from them or their political record before. But 1 hope. Senator, you will be patient and wait lor those gentle men. They are Republicans, like young birds,just be ginuing to feather; 1 hey have the will and will fiy after awhile, and you will hear from them. For, “When young converts first begin to sing, Their happy souls are ou the wiug," There is still another class, that for your owi aakes and humanity's sake X wish most especially to warn you against. I mean those mean wretches, who without employment or character al home, come into our midst and endeavor stealthily, and often at tin hour of midnight, to poison your minds and embitter your hearts against the white r ice, your neighbors. Any man, white or black, who does this to procun office or through any other motives, is a fiend in human shape and deserves the execration oi mankind. If this is persisted in, what will be the re suit ? A conflict of races, of course. From which God deliver us! See the riot which occurred in New Orleans—white men got it up, and when the danger became immiuent many of them tied, only a few ot their number aero killed but n-unl tirty or sixty unsuspecuug rreeumeu were reported killed A man mean enough to bring about and encourage such a state of affairs as a ooutlct of races in our streets,when the liuurof our danger arrives, could not be overtaken by the fastest in our citv. It occurs to me just at this moment that there if another portion ot the honorable Senator's last 01 second speech to which I will briefly allude. He says 1 have mentioned some things be never hoard. li, that he lias none the advantage of me, for he bar spoken of many things that he did that l have no: iieard before. He boasts of what the Northern army did, but I did not know he was with them. It is only very recently that he invaded the South. Hr reminds me of the bold frontiersman, who wnen the bear entered the cabin door quite unexpectedly, rati up into the loft. The good wife, having no means ot escape, used the pitchfork very freely, killing the bear; the husband, iu the lofi, crying out all the while, at the top of his voice, “Lay on, Nancy I Lav on, Nancy !” When assured that the hear was quite dead, he descended from his safe retreat, walked tip to the side of his wife, aud with the air of a game cock exclaimed, “Nancy, ain’t we brave The gen tleman can afford to boast no w of what we did. In conclusion let muAay, tlmt you have known me from my boyhood. I have always done the best 1 could for you, and am sttll your friend. Although i have beeu deprived of citizenship, yet I love 111 > country and her people, and 1 will remain witli you. When I took the oath to support the Constitution aud the Union of the States. I did so after much reflec tion and in perfect good faith. 1 did so with a deter mination that I would do all that I could to promote the peace and prosperity of my whole country, amt particularly your race, who were aud are now so much iu need of instruction. There is a minister (Kov James Newman) of the gospel ill this city, wilo knows that during the war, aud at a time when the South expected to be successful, we pledged ourselves out to another to give the energies of our lives to the im provement of your condition. Things have siuc.i changed. lam prostrated by the war, hut I will assist you all I can, and am doing so now, and encouraging others to do something. My heart was made glad a few days since, wheu 1 heard that a Southern man, notwithstanding our impoverished condition, had donated a piece of laud iu this city for a school house , for your children, aud upon which I learn the (iu vornmeut proposes putting np the building. But for the exoitomeut aud prejudice on the questions engen dered by politicians North and South, before tlm war, your condition would have beeu a much better one than it is. I believe you will bear me out iu the as sertion that your former Southern owners treated you quite as well as ihe Northern men did before they sold you to 11s, aud as well as those who set! In! in our midst aud owned slaves before the war. Your own observation and experience teaches you that the latler, whether from Massachusetts or any other New Englaud State, were, as a general rule, more exactiug than our own Southern born people. My fatbei hired out slaves for many yeara for an estate, and told me what he knew to be true, tbai those slaves never did refuse to live with or runaway from uuy but two men, aud one of those was from Connecticut and the otber one from somo other Northern State. Wlien you return to your homes be iDduslriovs, sober, and economical, save your wages and buy and adorn your homes, however smalt, edu cate your children, cultivate peace with all, and God will bless you aud reward your efforts I thank you for the respectiul attentiou you have given me. —A dispatch from Galveston says that Gen. Griffin has been forced to remove the city police because of their inefficiency aud hostility to the negro. The new force is composed of loyal and chosen men, several of whom are colored. » —The co9t of the new Roman Catholic Ca thedral in New York is estimated at $4,000,- 000. The time of its completion will depend something on the movements of the Fe nians, since it is built by the subscriptions of poor Irish servant girls and laborers. —Gov. Worth, of North Carolina, has writ- * ten a letter iu which he Bays, that while he would not urge Jeff. Davis to a9k for pardon, he is confident that humanity nod public pol icy would justify and require tbe granting ol a pardon to him by the President, upon pro per application. —The State Department has telegraphic advices that at leasl all of the Fenians, under sentence of death, have beeu commuted to imprisonment for iile at hard labor, none of them having been sentenced to be trausport ed, aa intimated in the newspapers. Mrs. Tom Thumb is again announced to be in an eminently interesting situation, after her extrication from which, the three Thumbs (if Providence blesses Mrs. Thumb’s prayers) will disport themselves once more upon the flowery glades 0.l Barnum’s. —At the Monumental Fair, just dosed in Pittsburg, a silver tea-set, inleuded lor the most popular preacher, was voted to Rev. Jesse Diviue, a colored minister in Allegheny City. —Francis Joseph of Austria was, on Sat nrday last, crowned at Pesth King of Hun gary —The prettiest neck tie for a lady- the I arms of her baby. PRICE. 5 CENTS. By Telegraph. From Washington. Washington, June 13.—The Jury for Sur ratt a trial ia progressing, aud the panel will moat probably be completed to-day. The Intelligencer, which is now regarded as the Executive organ, has the following: “We have authority for the statement that, at a very recent consultation of tbq Cabinet, it was decided that the military officers iu of the five Districts into which the unrepresented Southern Stales are divided have no power to remove civil officers de riving their authority from the State Govern ments as now organized, “The question, we understand, before the Cabinet, had reference to the removal of the Goveri or and other civil officers of the State of Lotlsiana by General Sheridan, but of course it will apply to the action of the other four commanders. No doubt the forthcom ing opinion of the Attorney-General will be iu accordance with the reasoning by which' it i» understood the decision referred t/, was arrived atTfcwitl fully justify toe ie.raHty issuing of orders replacing the deposed officers, which may become necessary as a consequence of this the Govern ment, would be no ground for an application on the part of Genera) ’ Sheridan to be re lieved from the position he holds, muph less would it warrant the inference that the Ad minislration contemplates or designs his re moval for his errors. Wa feel authorized to say that the speculations of sensational journals upon this point, however, they may be attempted to be supported by imagined political iu aioeuvres on the part of either the friends or. enemies of the General, are wholly without foundation.” From New Orleans. New Orleans, June 13.—Thu Picayune has the following from the El Comercie of Matamoras, of the 7th inst.: A letter of the 2d inst. from Monterey says that Miramon died of a fever which attacked him after he was wounded. At Queretaro, Castillo, Me jia, and several others have been shot, ac cording to a letter I have seen from a credible person in San Luis. The most profound silence is preserved as to what is to be done with Maximilian. The chief functioaaries talk both ways. I have just beeu told that the city of Mexico was taken at the close of the month. El Mexicans, the Imperialist paper, published at Browns ville, pronounces Maximilian’s proclama tion a forgery. It says it originated with a burlesquing paper at S ail Luis Potosi. An attempt at arson on Charles street iu this city was discovered and frustrated. If successful, it would have destroyed several large business houses. The object was to swindle insurance companies. The Prize Flight n I Aquia Crnk, Va. Acrjia Cheek, June 18.—The prize fight party arrived al 7 o’clock. The ring was erected on a hill near ihe river. Three thousand people were in the amphitheatre. | The conduct on I lie boat coming down was [ outrageous. There was tliieving, robbing j and breaking ini- th. .slate-rooms'. 'A mtm- I ber of persons' were boldly robbed. Wm. McMullen was the referee. The fight lasted one hour and fifty-five minutes. Sixty-seven rounds were fought in the most desperate manner by Collier. Aaron stood on the defensive, playing drop. Collier came up boldly until time was called for the sixty-eighth round when his strength failed. [SECOND DISPATCH. | Aqdia Creek, June 13.—Immediately alter the ascent of Collier's sponge, Aaron fainted in the ring and was laid side by 9ide with Collier. Aaron had three ribs broken before the last round. From Washington. Washington, June 14.—Romero, the Mex ican Miuister, has a letter dated racubuya, May 26, sigued Portiriu Diaz, which says that iu a few days he wiil have 35,000 troops, including 9,000 .cavalry, when he will at tack the city of Mexico and that none will escape. He says he could force the city with his present force, but he lacks cavalry to guard the avenues of escape. Diaz con cludes : When you shall have received this letter the soil of Mexico will already have beeu cleared of traitors. Tbe revenue receipts to-day amount to $685,000. The Herald and Tribune are furious over the policy foreshadowed by the extracts from the luteliigencer telegraphed yesterday. The Tribune saye: “We feel that the President is treading on dangerous ground, not only for himself, but for the country.” The Herald says: “Congress must meet in July, and it must meet with the resolute will to carry on the movement, now greater aud more necessary than ever, of impeaching aud removing Andrew Johnson from tbe Executive chair.” The Times says: “It may be well to re strain such removals for ilia future, but it will be a grave practical mistake to reverse the action taken hitherto, and a still greater blunder to remove or punish the officers for having taken it.” All the members but Mr. Browning at tended the Cabinet meeting to day T . Washington, June 14.—Specials to tho Baltimore Sun and New York World say that the President will probably assemble Congress in August by proclamation to ad just the complications under the Reconstruc tion acts. ' From Now York. New Yokk, June 14.—The Herald has a special from San Luis Potosi, dated May 28. Juarez respected the terms pro posed by Maximilian at his interview with Escobedo, on its reception, after due reflec tion. Maximilian, Mejia and Miraraou were con fined in separate cells for safety, and the guards doubled. The letter expresses little hope for the safety of Maximiliau. From Atagiistn. Auodsta, June 11.—Judge Reese, in the Superior Court to-day, decided that neither at common law, uor under the code of Geor gia, could the banks of the State make legal surrender of charters, unless accepted by the Legislature. This decision, in its effect, an nuls all attempted surrenders of the banks of the State, as the Legislature failed to accept in every instance when the attempt has been made. —A message on the Belgium telegraph oyer Its longest line costs only half a cent a word.