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mi Jfacte. ~ . ? ?? Gen. Scott's ooffin was six feet and nine inches long. _ ? The population of London has been estimated by the "Registrar General at 3,054,940 on the 8th of April, 1867, five yean from the date of the last oensns. ?It is stated that the last autograph General Scott ever wrote is in the possession of the proprietor of Cozzen's hotel at West Point?-an order for a bottle of brandy. The New York Herald asserts that the Government has lately lost from twenty to thirty millions of dollars to keep down the prioe of gold, bat the effeot was disastrous. Speculation is rampant. ?? trtn. .Dee, writing irom navana, appeals to the people of Texas for pecuniary aid in behalf of Geo. Magruder, lately deposed from offioe by Maximilliao. He rep* resents Gen. M. as very poor. An entire Jewish habitation, dating two oentnries back of the Christian Era, is said to have been exoavated in Syria. The disooverers claim to have discovered in the dwelling, the five books of Moses, the Psalms of David, and other Hebrew books. Prentice says a oba'p sometimes enters his offioe and sets an hour without telling one word of truth during the whole time. The editor of the Chicago Journal thinks he must be one of the telegraphic reporters of the Associated Press. Most of the Southern States are taking steps to establish orphan associations for the care and education of those made orphans by the disasters of the late war. They are gotten up by private charity. In Mississippi they are to have one at Lauderdale Springs; in Tennessee, at Clarksville. The Cleveland Herald states that the steamboats on Lake Erie use fish for fuel. Sturgeons weighing sixty pounds are thrown into the fnrnaces. and the oil as sists the combustion of the wood, twenty sturgeons being estimated as equal to a oord of wood in the generation of heat. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued an order oorrecting certain instructions to assessors, concerning assessments of incomes for the year 1866, by whieh it appears a guardian residing abroad should return the income of his ward in the distriot where the ward resides. The Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to an inquiry of the House iu relation to the sales of gold, reports that the Assistant Treasurer at New York sold gold amounting to the sum of 835,440,000 during the month of May at the rates, 130 J, ^AI AA 1 1 A1 * 1 ni 1 i3Ut, 13U2, ana 1019. A call is pablished in Perry county, Alabama, and signed by A. B. Moore, exGovernor of the State; J. L. M. Garry, exCongressman, and others, requesting a meeting of the citizens to devise some method of properly encouraging edncation among the negroes. The Chief Engineer of the New York Fire Department says the burning of the Academy of Music was undoubtedly the work of incendiaries. Fires were kindled not only under the parquette, but in the second and third ciroles. It is reported that Maretzek says Bennett set fire to the building because the Managers did not advertise in the Berald. A private count of Congress on Wednesday disclosed the fact that six Senators and fifty-four Representatives were absent from the city. An adjournment about the middle of July is regarded as certain, although some are opposed to any adjournment, desiring to have a succession of short recesses, in order that the President may not remove any officers. The Edgefield Advertiser in speaking of the Columbia and Hamburg Railroad, says "there are at present from 350 to 400 hands at work on this road, which force will be shortly increased to 500. The contract for the bridge over the Congaree at Columbia has been taken. The laying of the iron upon the traok will be commenced about the 1st of November next " The road is estimated to cost 92,500,000. A majority of the Supreme Court of Alabama have decided the first and eighth sections of the stay law, postponing judgment on suits for twelve months to be constitutional. The second, third and fourth sections which stay collection of judgment already rendered before the passage of the law was, also decided unconstitutional and void. The sixth section relating to sales nnder mortgages is also deolared void. ? o~o In the North Carolina State Convention on Wednesday, a report was received from the speoial committee in reference to the repeal of oertain acts cencerning the rights of persons of color. The report reoommends the nnrestrioted admission of negro testimony in the courts in cases where negroes are parties to suits, their free migration, their right to bear arms, and the making of the law to punish negroes with death for an attempt of rape on white women applicable to white men. The Montgomery Mail informs us. that Gen. Eosser, whose intelligent and gallant service for the South reflected such honor upon our arms, will take charge of the division of the National Express Company from the Bio Grande to Montgomery. Gen. Bosser will make bis headquarters at New Orleans. We learn from him that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston will remain President of the Express, having declined the Presi dency of tbe Alabama and Tennessee Jtuveri Railroad, lately offered him. Gen. Johnston will probably reside at Baltimore. . When Mr. Brooks floored Charles Samner with a gotta percha cane, in the Senate Chamber in 1856, Lonis D. Campbell, of Ohio, ran to the bleeding and scar ed-todeatb 8umner, picked him np from the floor, and conducted -him to a sofa in the lobby. Mr. Campbell, subsequently as chairman of a select committee of the House, reported a resolution to expel Mr. Brooks. After all this, when the nomination of Campbell as Minister to Mexico came up for con-! flrmation by tbe Senate, Charles Samner : was the only member who voted against him. The friends of Mr. Campbell say Charles Sumner is an ungrateful wretch. Strong efforts are being made by some of the most influential people in Hartford, Conn., to obtain a commuDtation of the sentenoe of a wretch who has been convicted in that city of the murder of his mother, his sister and his wife, on the grounds that direot communications havo been received 1 from the spirits of his victims pleading in 1 his favor. After his conviction the murde- ] rer confessed that he-killed a man in North ] Carolina in 1860, poisoned the members of his node's family, set fire to his barn, and 1 committed varions other pleasant aotions ' whioh have interested the Connecticut spir- < itnalists in his behalf. I John Townsend, of Edisto Island, S. C., the man who gave the Confederacy 6100,000 in gold in 1861, has not been ' more snocessfnl in keeping his recently 1 hired German laborers than he was in re- | taining his slaves. He says : "They cost ( me thirty-five dollars each to bring them to , Charleston from New York. I fed them far better than ever I thought of feeding my hands; even gave them coffee and sonrkront, ] when what should they do but demand but- ; ter for their bread, and milk for their coffee, ^ and the next thing the whole crowd left me." ?I fte fjMwJI? YORKVILLE, S. C. I THTJBSDAY MORNING, JUNE 14,1866. , OUB TEEMS?IN ADVANCE;. 1 THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; j TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR for three months?payable in "greenbacks." When payment ' is made in specie, TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS < per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS . for six months: SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for three 1 months. 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Ar- t guing in favor of a practical system of ed- a ucation, the result of which will be to produce more workers and fewer theorists? c more plain, pradtioal enterprise and less fo- s rensic and political display?the writer rea- a sons foreibly, and, wo think, correctly. r " * - r Applied to the present condition of our P people, we accept tlie position taken in this article, as eminently worthy of our atten- D tion. For years past, the educational insti- D tutions of the South have directed the a minds of the young to such a course of a study, as fitted them for the rostrum, to the c exclusion of all other sciences. Youthful a ambition was, in few instances, stimulated r in developing praotical sciences. Cicero v and Juvenal, and the abstractionists of in- e tellectual philosophy, were the types exclusively followed; while the lever of Archim- 1 ides, and the practical science of Newton 1 or Bacon, were seldom permitted to find a 1 place in the College curriculum. We believe that this system requires reform. The South needs practical men, and a men educated to labor. The structures of the past, have been swept away?our so- 8 ciety obanged, and our existence a new one. | Labor alone, wisely exerted, can restore us to our former affluence, develop the resources of the country, and rebuild the shattered ruins that mark its fields of waste and desolation. To expect this, we must educate our youth with a view to the task before them. The plain principles of practical science should be placed in the hands of every boy, and his ambition studiously directed to tbeir mastery. How to labor, is the first lesson a people must learn in the effort to attain prosperity. There is no more fitting place from whence to instill these elementary principles, than the college hall. Labor, as a system, requires thought, training and enterprise. To labor successfully, requires that a people be.educated to it, as well as any of the learned nrnfoaninns To ntilize and annlv all th? t" ?? -rr-j ? j elements calculated to develop the resources of a country, is the highest aim of practical philosophy. We have these elements, and we need educated labor to develop them. We have no patience with that system of education that rears every man a theorist, politician or poet. Our present wants demand stronger and coarser intellectual fabrics. We need that kind of science that will bring back flowers and fruits to our wasted fields?that will produce two blades of grass where only one grew before?that will renovate and re-people our oities and tillages?build railroads, dredge rivers and | harbors, and start the musio of machinery ind manufactures wherever a waterfall or pine forest will afford water and steam. It < is practical science and industry, above all i else, that will do this, and the only thing i hat will do it. i The educated men of the South have heretofore ignored the real source of national prosperity. Labor has been too i much in disrepute, its results too meagre in : comparison with the grand trophies of political life. The day is rapidly approaching we believe when he who invents a new i labor saving machine, or a superior compost i for wasted soils, will be honored as a greater benefactor to his countrymen than one who wastes his life in spinning governmental theories that the first breath of revolution i whirls into obscuritv. OUR FUTURE. There are strong probabilities that Congress will pass by the requisite two thirds rote, the obnoxious list of amendments to ' he Constitution, and then adjourn. Twelve nontbs must then elapse before it is ascer;ained whether or not three fourths of the States will ratify these amendments. There 1 s also an equal probability that the votes >f the Legislatures of twenty seven States, constituting the required three-fourths) lannot be bad to sustain the aotion of Con- 1 ;ress. If this be the result, the South will iccupy, until 1868, her present abnormal position of half military and half oivil govsrnment for her white population, and no I ;overnment at all for the blaok. In the neantime, taxation, plunder and stealing, 1 rill continue, and her people may finally be 1 tarved into an acceptance of any form of government that the majority may desire to 1 mpose. ' The nintnre is a ploomv one. but is en- 1 r? ? ? o j / ? irely within the pale of probability. The ' mly caose likely to defeat snoh a result, 1 nil be the defeat of the radioal Republican ' larty itself at the coming eleotions next ' ?all. If that party shcnld again be authorzed to hold the reins of Congressional 1 tower, we believe that the South will be 1 tarved and plundered until she quietly ' icbs the hand that holds the whip over her. ' 1 THE "SITUATION." i The Senate has passed the Constitutional .mendmont reported from the committee of , ifteen, striking out "the disfranchising lause and inserting the amended one pub- ] ished by us last week. The vote stood ( ipon its final passage 33 to 11. This gave , he two thirds vote necessary to pass an ( MAMJtMAnf fViA n^nofUnfiAn Tha ni?An_ iLUCUU LU CUU IU bUC VUUOVibUVlVU. Jk uv j/* vj/~ ^ sition, as amended, now goes back to the , loose, and will there receive its final Con- , sessional action. The Legislatures of ( wenty five States will then be required to j atify it, before it becomes a part of the 1 attered instrument it is designed to be ^ ppended to. Two bills have also been reported by the , ommittee, which, if passed, are to form a ( pecies of enabling legislation for the redmission of the seceded States to their ^ irivileges under the Constitution. They ( irovide that whenever any State shall, by ( ts legislature, adopt the Constitutional a- , nonrlmonh ihn rpnrpsAntfttinn mfiv hfi ad- . oitted to seats in Congress, and such rights ^ ,nd privileges restored to it, as are not yet ^ .bsorbed by the general Government. We lo not believe that any Southern State will icoept representation under conditions that , equire it to dishonor those of its oitizens, . vhose counsels have been, and are yet, neoissary to its welfare. ( This Committee has probably ended its abors by presenting a report accompanying i ts other work, of which the following is a j elegraphic synopsis: The conclusions of the Committee are, >riefly, that the people of the South have >roved themselves insurgents and traitors, ind forfeited all political rights and privil- 1 iges ; that the so-called Confederate States ] ire not entitled to representation in Con- 1 ;ress; that before allowing it, adequate . leourity for future peace and safety should >e required from them, and this can only : )e found in such changes of the organio oto oe cViall rlntnrmlno thn nitril rirrVtfc onrl an UO ouau uvhviiuiuu vuw vtfii iiguvo uuu jrivileges of the citizens in all parts of the epublic j that representation should be on in equitable basis; a stigma should be fixed jn treason and protection should be insured ] ;o all loyal people against future claims for ixpenses incurred in the rebellion and for ilaves emancipated by the war, together vith an express grant of power in Congress :o enforce these provisions To this end, 1 ;be Committee advocate the joint resolution , imendatory of the Constitution; and have presented two separate bills, designed to sarry the same into effect. The Committee ilaim, in conclusion, that these bills are ;he result of conciliation and concession. The report is signed by ton Republican nembers. The dissenters are Senator foiiNSON and Representatives Grider and Rodgers. i A Mr. Williams, representative from Pennsylvania, has rendered himself ilistinfuishtd in a doubtful way, .by running ;hrough the House under the "gag law," a resolution of inquiry concerning the reportid ovation in the South to the Confederate lead; whether civil or military offioers i vere concerned or connected with such jroceediDgs, and whether suoh honors were : orbidden in memory of the Federal dead, rhis extraordinary resolution was inspired i >y an artiole in a free negro paper publish- ; id at Atlanta, Ga., stating that a procession ] if negroes bearing flowers to decorate the graves of Federal soldiers, bad been refused : permission to enter the cemetery where tbey were buried. We understand tbat no such i refusal was given, but tbat only delegations from the negro rabble were permitted I to enter the cemetery for the purposes I named. < Pitiable indeed iB tbat spirit of fanatical i proscription, which having exhausted the ordinary catalogue of penalties for treason, interdicts the tear of sympathy that would be offered upon the grave of the dead ! and turns away the hand tbat would plant a memorial flower over the home of its affeotion. Can it be possible that we live in an age like this? The.fate of the new Bankrupt Bill which passed the House, and lingers in the- Senate, is still uncertain. Senator Poland from the Committee to whom it was referred, has reported favorably upon its passage, but *- 1.1 I cne impression prevails mat iu? ocuaic id ot disposed to take the matter ap at this session, on the plea of want of time to dis0US8 it. THE CANADA*IHVASION. The Fenians have actually invaded Canada and captured the place where old Fort Erie, of past notoriety, used to stand. They have, however, effected a strategic abandonmentof their conquest, and returned to the American shore of the St. Lawrence, where they all permitted themselves to be captured by a U. S. gun-boat. Thus probably ends Major General Sweeny's grand Campaign for the liberation of Ireland. The details of the affair are briefly these : About the first of Jane a body of men of the Fenian persuasion, numbering 1000 or 1500, under the leadership of a man styling himself Col. O'Neil, crossed over to the Canada side of the St Lawrenoe, tnnnaita the village nf Erie, where once ?rrw 0- ? , 3tood the Fort of that name. Little or do force opposed them, and war bulletins were jent back'anouacing the capture of the Fort. From thence they moved towards the interior, and at Ridgway?a small town about twelve miles from the line?they enoountersd a small foroe of Canadian volunteers sent jut to meet them. A skirmish ensued in which Irish pluck is said to have vindicated its superiority, and the volunteers were pressed back in disorder; several persons were killed and wounded. The Fenians did not follow up the victory, but loitered ibout the vicinity a few hours, when finding i considerable force gathering to meet them, ind no hope of help from their friends, tbey decided to aDanaon meir rasn enterprise and re-cross the river. On their reborn the marauders were brought to by the [J. S. gunboat Michigan, and taken in custody. Later dispatches say that the officers bave been released upon bail, and the men upon their own recognizances to keep the peace. The news of this event rapidly spread, ind the patriotic butmisguidod Irish swarmed to the Fenian recruiting stations throughjut the Northern cities." Thousands are reported to bave taken up arms and offered their services to the leaders; but a failure }f money, as well as other weighty reasons, will probably prevent them from ever reaching the'scene of expected conflict. Such a gathering of the clans as this little outbreak produced has, perhaps, not been witnessed since the great rebellion of 1796. The Canadians, in the meantime, have not been idle. A large force of volunteers and British regulars line the St. Lawrence, and will probably prevent a renewal of the scenes of the past few days. Gen. Meade is in command of a U. S. force on the Amerioan shore, prepared to intercept any lawless body that may attempt to repeat the sffort of O'Neil and his party. The President has also published a proclamation, warning all persons from "aiding or abetting the unlawful expeditions of evil disposed personsj against a Nation with which bhis Government ia at peace," and directing all magistrates and civil officers to assist in enforcing the laws. Upon the news of this outbreak reaching Washington, instructions were sent to the District Marshal of New York, to arrest Messrs. Sweeny and Roberts, the acknowledged leaders of the organization.? These gentlemen were both taken in custody, and the latter refusing to give bail, was mi j u* cummuieu. auus, uu uuuui, tuuo tui iuo time, this ill conceived and worse executed design, for restoring Irish liberty. The Fenians are represented as dispirited and disgusted with the results of their late expedition. Considerable numbers of men are reported to have been gathered upon the border under the excitement aroused by O'Neil's party; but the U. S. authorities are inntrnnfed tn tnlrn nil aimb intn onstfldv. and tbus, further mischief will, doubtless, be prevented. We regret that a brave and patriotic people like the Irish, should lend themselves to such preposterous designs as the one just inaugurated. That a set of brawlers such as Sweeny and Roberts appear to be, should be permitted to mislead, decieve and probably sacrifice a parcel of honest and brave men, for mere want of common sense, is an oatrage that calls for relief. A handful of men, without arms, money, leaders, or nationality, to attempt to overrun Canada, and thereby rescue Ireland from Great Britain ! 'So preposterous a c design would hardly be allowed a place in t the brain of an enthusiastic Hottentot. i P. S. Sinoe writing the above, Jaterintel- t ligence has been received, announcing far- j ther trouble from an invading party at an- j other point. A regiment of Fenians under i the command of Col. Scanlon are reported to have engaged the British Cavalry and 1 won some successes, but afterwards with- I drew from Canada soil. This is, no doubt, the last act in this faroe of supreme folly, t mm ( mxtxi *ddx>aa i. n J. mriwu? We again notice with pleasure, other aocessions to the press of this State. One by one, these luminaries of thought peer through the obscurity that has, for a time, conoealed them from us, and enter again upon their missions of usefulness and instruction. In this connection, we are pleased to weloome again to our exchange list, the Marion Star?.a sterling old shftet, representing an intelligent community ; but which, in the general disarrangement of affairs, at the close of the war, was suspended. It is now issued under the imprimatur of W. J. McKebball, Esq., printed upon new type, and presenting a handsome typography. The Sumter News, another new and healthy weekly, is before us. It is published at Sumter, S. C., by H. L. Dare, proprietor, and F. J. Moses, Jr., editor.? These gentlemen are both well fitted for their respective duties, and will, no doubt, e-ive their natrons a valuable iournal. s? ? ? v The daily Columbia Carolinian visits us this week in a new dress, and enlarged to more than double its former size The old patrons of this paper, who in its palmier days, found it so valuable an accession to the fireside and counting room, will weloome it no less heartily, under the auspices of its later managers?F. G-. DeFontaine & Co. We take pleasure in recommending the Carolinian as one of the best dailies published in the State. ? ?lt> TBIAL OF MB. DAVIS. The U. S. District Cou;L for Virginia? judge Underwood presiding?convened . in Richmond on the 6th instant. A charge to the grand jury, in whioh the people of Virginia were denounced with that coarse brutality characteristic only of Judge Un derwood, was delivered to the grand jury; when Wm. B. Read, Esq., of Philadelphia addressed the Court as follows: May it please your Honor, I beg leave to present myself, in conjunction with my colleagues, as the counsel of Jefferson Davis, now a prisoner of State at Fortress Monroe, and under indictment for high treason in your Honor's court. We find" in the records of your Honor's court, an indictment charging Mr. Davis with this high offence, and it has seemed to us due to the cause of justice, due to the feeling of one sort or another, which may be described as chrystalizing around the unfortunate man, that we should come at the very earliest day to this tribunal, and a9k your Honor, or more properly the gentleman who represents the United States, the simple question, what is proposed to be done with this indictment? Is it to be tried ? Is it?and this is a question which, perhaps, I have no right to ask?to be withdrawn ? Or is it to be suspended ? If it is to be tried, may it please your Hon- 1 or, speaking for my colleagues and myself and for the absent client, I say with empba- ; sis, and I say it with earnestness, that we come here prepared instantly to try that 1 cause; and we shall ask no delay at your Honor s nanas rurtner tnan is necessary to bring the prisoner to face the Court, and to 1 enable him, under the statute in such case made and provided, to examine the bill of indictment against him. Is it to be withdrawn ? If so,? justice and humanity seem to u& to prompt that we should know it. Is it to be suspended?postponed ? If so, may it please the Court, with all respect to your Honor and the gentleman who conducts the public business here, your Honor must understand us as entering our most earnest protest. We ask a speedy trial on any charge that may be brought against Mr. Davis here or in any other civil tribunal in the land. We may be now here representing, may it please the Court, a dying man. For thirteen months he has been in prison. The Constitution of the United States guarantees to him not only an impartial trial, .(which, I am sure, he will have,) "but a speedy trial " and we have oome no slight distance ; we f have come in all sincerity; we have come with strong sympathies with our client, pro- | feesional and personal; we have come here . simply to ask that question?I address it to the District Attorney, or to your Honor, as may be the more appropriate : What disposition is proposed to be made with the bill j of indictment against Jefferson Davis, now , pending, for high treason ? Mr. Hennessy, Assistant District Attor- ( ney, replied that Mr. Chandler, the District ( Attorney, had not arrived but was expected tbat night. He would telegraph immediateIt? t a AT V Plionrllor o n rl if f r?nntlamnn * ?jr ?v/ i>". vywL.ww.wi, www 11 WWWL. feWWWIWWIWW failed to answer him, or to arrive, he would ( promise a positive answor to morrow (Wednesday.) Mr. lleed answered that this would be i satisfactory, and the matter rested here. The counsel for Mr. Davis are Messrs-. ] Reed of Pennsylvania, O'Conor, Brady, ^ and Shea of New York, and Brown of | Baltimore. These gentlemen, as well as , the distinguished prisoner himself, are i ready and anxious for the trial. Messrs ' O'Conor and Shea at the time the court | convened, were in Washington in consulta- ^ tion with the Prisident and Cabinet. The j proceedings of the trial will be directed by ] these high authorities, and the object of counsel is to procure it at this sitting of the . court. In the event of a failure to have , this done, an application for bail or release j m parole will be made. Thus far, bat lit- e! le encouragement has been given to those e: nteroeding in bis behalf. The presnmpion is strong that the trial will be post- w )oned nntil next Fall, bat whether the ap- la jlication for releaee will be granted or not, * s a matter still involved in dodbt. Late intelligence states that the Court ^ ias adjourned nntil October. Mr. Davis g .rial will be postpond until that time, h rhe Grand jury brought in an indiotment 0 i gainst John 0. Breckeptridge for treas- * 3n. The indictment is an exact copy of p :he one under which Mr. Davis is to be it irraigned. 1< GEBBIT SMITH AND MB. DAVIS. & Strange things are daily ooourriug in ihis strange world of ours, but we must confess that a recent letter of Gerrit 3mith, of N. Y., opposing the trial of ExPresident Davis for treason, goes farther in 5 ;he way of the remarkable than anything a, ire have seen recently. A man who five a; rears ago howled like a chained maniac ti igainst the South; who cursed with a bitter- ? jess and bate that the fiends of earth and 0j iell combined would blush to attempt? ind who did more, perhaps, than any other b iving abolitionist to incite the late quarrel ? ind its consequent wretchedness, now argues ^ joldly and forcibly that the Sonth is not to j( je punished for the war; that she never as a r( people or section committed any treason; g ind that her people should not now be * punished as traitors. This remarkable document is addressed g x> Chief Justioe Chase, as the judge be- t< Fore whom Mr. Davis is to be tried. He " jontends that the latter should not be ar- * d raigned for treason, and hopes the judge Q will so deoide ; and supports this position n by logical aod legal data that cannot be * impeached. Bat strangest of all, is the avowal that the South was less to blame for 8 '.he recent war, than the North. He may f( remember the abolition tracts he wrote? the seditions and conspiracies they were in* d tended to incite?the hundreds of thous* ^ inds of dollars he contributed to send armed men to Kansas to murder peaceful ^ emigrants, and if so, he has good data 1 from which to make such an avowal. His ' joo version to common sense and justice is a 1 matter of sad congratulation?sad because ^ be may now revert back to his wild invee- P tives for the blood of a harmless people, ^ and survey fully the ruins of which be was u me of the ohief instigators. A great |? uind as bis unquestionably is, oan do much P in any cause whether right or wrong We 7 ire rather pleased than otherwise that the 9 Devil has embraced the church; but when ^ such characters attempt to defend us, we ^ are naturally led to question the integrity 9 of onr cause. We give in bis own words, a few of the 8 positions now assumed : And, just here, let me say that, since 9 there was no treason to pardon, President ,? Johnson had no pardoning to do. Pardons p to Southern men are no more in place than [ would be pardons to Englishmen, bad we Q conquered England. * * * * * * IIow great would be the sorrow of all the oppressed nations of Christendom, at learn- j ing that the Chief Justice of the United States holds that id a civil war, and even ? in a fully developed one, there remains the crime of treason and work for the esecu- ^ tioner! They would feel fresh alarm, whilst every despot would feel himself more firmly seated than ever. Surely, America, with all her boasted love of freedom end ^ human rights &nd with all her deference for numbers, should not be guilt; of subjeot- ~ ing the vanquished party in a civil war to the law of treason. There will probably be j maDy more civil wars. The great majority ^ of them will originate in the interests of ( Freedom. Some of them?perhaps many of them?will result adversely to her.? When they do, shall the conquering tyrants ^ be able to plead the example of America? ( of Republican America?of Freedom -loving ^ America?for haoging the vanished Wash- , ingtons and Franklins ? God forbid! Rut ' it will be claimed that the Washingtons ^ and Franklins, having a just oause, should j not be bung; and that the Davises and Lees ^ should be, because their cause is UDjust.? Unavailing distinction! For the conqueror e would have but to hold (and for this his ,j own bare word would be his sufficient an- g tbority,) that his own cause is just and the j enemy's unjust?and then his way would c be clear to go straight to hanging the Wash- j ingtons and Franklins. #**** ? . a How sad that the North should in this, t the great trial-hour of her wisdom and integrity, be found so mistaken in regard to j( her Deeds and duties ! She denounoes the Q South for bringing on the war But her ^ own responsibility for it is no less than that of the South. Nay, in the light of the fact ^ that her temptations to betray freedom and justice were so muoh weaker than those which assailed the South, her share for the c common responsibility for the war is far P greater. She clamors for the punishment ' of the South under the Constitution. But she should feel that the South has been punished very severely already. She com- a plains that the South has still a hard heart. " But it is not harder than her own. The heart that can refuse gratitude to the brave, forgiving and magnanimous black ^ saviors of our cooutry, and that, by deny- 8 ing them suffrage, can. throw them again j" under the feet of their old oppressors, is a heart that need not look abroad for a worse * one. The North calls on the Sooth to repent. Bat she needs to hamble herself r by the side of the Sonth in a common re- jj pentance for common sins. I have said we mast deal with the Sonth in the spirit of impartial jnstioe. We must also deal with her in the spirit of p great generosity and great love. We most - e aim no indemnity for the past. We ?*jLcact no unnecessary security for.the fa- - ^ ire. We mast subjeot her to no changes _> nd no disabilities, which are not indispeo- ^ ible. If the breaking np of her '' inded estates to parcel them oat to her; 'bite and black poor is not demanded by er people, we mnst not insist upon it If? y potting the ballot in. the hands of her lacks, it will not be necessary, in order to " we her, to withhold it for a season from er whites who* were involved in the cmilfc , f the war, then are there strong reasons 'by we should not insist upon the proband. One thing more. The South is oor, and the North is still rich. Would ; be too large an expression of fraternal >ve to save the Sonth for some five or ten ears from the imposition of direoff nationI taxes ? With great regard, your friend, Gxbeit Smith. . THE TEST OATH. > In the U. S. Court at Bichmofld, on the -. th instant, John H. Gilmeb, Esq., an ttorney at the bar of Virginia, renewed an pplioation previously made, to resume prae* ce in that Conrt. The language of Jadge Fndebwood in reply, was a singular piece f judicial ruling "He said : '': "That he knew it to be in contemplation y some of the most radioal men in Con- ~ ress to repeal the disqualifying Act of anuary, 1864, and was of the opinion that 3e Aot would be repealed before the adornment of the present Congress. Its 3peal had been strongly niged upon Coore ss by a majority of the Supreme Court nasmuch as this question had been very- .V.. bly argued during the.past winter, and reargued before the Supreme Court of theJCF. tates, he felt great delioaoyin undertaking 3 go farther than to simply aoquieeee in whatever course the gentlemen of tbe- bet ere disposed to take. There would be no epartnre from the asoal course on the pert f this Court, unless an objection should be iade j but he hoped that no objection - ; set a. it?, a? t.if i .. rouia De maae ai,iDis time, oeiieying ins? be Act would soon be repealed. Heststl^ffifrnC istinctly that he would not objeot to any entleman practicing iu bis Court, who had ormerly been accustomed to do so. Mr. Gilmer said that this was all that he esired, and that he should practice in thfe ; ?? " !ourt in the usual manner/' So the question of praotioe in the U. S. . **? Jourt of Virginia, is left to the wishes of be gentlemen of the bar! The probabili- , . y is that those who may have business in srvut-. be Court, will not be long in making up beir opinion as to whether they will resume raotioe or not. It will be remembered . bat the Supreme Court heard arguments pon this matter last winter, and a majority f the Court decided the Test Oath, as ap* lioable to Attorneys, unconstitutional and oid. This decision was not pronounced, nd will not be, until the next sitting of the lourt in December. For reasons best known o the radical members of the Court, a vdt? nt via nnrmitbd tn atnnd nrmn thfl Rtat.nta - ?? r?..?_r_ looks, while great interests, and a large ' bare of hnmao welfare remained in jeop> rdy thereby. If Courts are organised to 'n> dminister the Constitation, justice iind ivil rights gaaraDteed thereby, we are com* tolled to consider that this august tribunal, d this instance, failed to fulfill its duties nd its high mission of justioe. MEBE-MENTCOW. Mrs. Susan P. King, daughter of the late lames L. Petigru, of 8outb Carolina, is .> .iving readings in Boston. The Wionsioro' Newt is of opinion that the wheat crop pill be oomparatively light in that District. ?he rust has damaged the grain oonsiderbly, and a good deal of the wheat is thin. .. Louis Napoleon is said to hare gone ' o work to arreat the impouding war.******' 1he New York post offioe forwards ninety one of mail matter every twenty fonr hours. The Carolinian says that several xplosions have ooourred in that office from kerosene oil. 'When was beef the lighest? When the sow jumped over the noon. Minnesota will export this eason ten million bnahels of wbeit Two rears ago she raised none whatever.** [here is an old negro in DanviHe, one hunIred and fifteen years old. He has smoked iver since he was ten years old, and the Times says has buried seventeen masters, vbo, we suppose, did not smoke. Che ladies of Tallahassee, Florida, have Bent dajor Gee, now on trial at Raleigh, a draft or 82,300. In the circle of Frenoh ' ooking there are only six hundred -and ighty five ways of preparing eggs. * ? Phe wheat orop of Texas promises to ooniderably exceed the average yield. rlore than twenty thonsand Jews have been onverted daring tbe past centary. n Evansville, Indiana, all persons offendng against manioipai regulations and onble to pay their fines, are to be worked on be streets at sixty cents a day antil fine and osts are paid. If a person with a arge family of children offends yon, yon a ay easily obtain a delicious revenge.-?, live eaoh of bis little boys a tin horn. 7*' More than ten tboasand shops are pen for business in London on Sundays,. ; ^ " There are in N. York oity 40,000 vagrant hildren, tbe offspring of erime, vice and auperiam.**-; It is bow a violation of be lawa of Wisconsin for minora to outer illiard-rooms or places where liquor is sold. *Don't take too maob interest in the uairs oi your uejguuuro. onvu poi wou*. fiH do. The number of emigraota bat arrived in New York, in May, was 44,000?of these 4 were for Arkansas, 45 )r Georgia, 245 for Keotnoky, 41 for Louiiana, 825 for Missouri, 1 for Mississippi, 0 for Sooth Carolina, 14 for Texas, 79 for .'ennessse, 186 for Virginia, and 4 for Florida. Total for the Soothera States, ,404. Houston, Texas, has air vailoads diverging from & ?-"There ow," said a little girl, while ramaging a rawer in a bureau, "there now, grandpa as gone to heaven without his speetaeles." A man in California has made preorations to hatob sixteen thousand ohickne by steam during the ooming season.