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. ''?.' Friday Morning, August 4, 1865. =====-.} === The work of reconstruction and re? organization is going on smoo"i|flv and effectively in the Southern States. The Provisional Governors appointed by President Johnson have ali placi d themselves in communication with the people of their several States, and '1 have made known to them the course of policy they intend to pursue. They have explained to them the wishes--of the President, and counselled them kindly but firmly as to their cl.?des* These Governors ha ve encountered no I opposition on the part of the peopled over whola they rule. Wo aromet to hear of the first instance (says the Kiehmond Tutu's) of complaint by ! these high, officials of sullenness* or contumacy amftng Uieir people, livery- j where throughout the whole South a ? sincere disposition is manifested to do all thavthe constituted authorities yf the country desire thom to do. Tho Governors and thu people lun e, come to understand one anothor, and if left alone by 'meddlers and brsy-bodies, they will very soon ast< nish the .cpuntiy with a most gratifying dis? play of Southern loyalty anti obedi? ence. This is not tho ag?? ot* mirari . <. and rational meu conld not export the Southern people to poss through* a radical change of character and senti? ment in an hour, a day,-or a-?ionth. Snob a change might well "be viewed ' ns suspicious and hypocritical. But \hree months "have not passed over them without leaving traces of its healing and restoring influence. Tho Southern crops have "Ivon watehed with solicitude by the whole country, in the last three mouths an l under the fructifying influence ok' sun and .shower, the wheat grew and* was gathered: the corn, now fresh, green and luxuriant, promises a boun IfuPyield. The cotton, tho rioe und the sugar, where they have bern cultivated, give promise of Ibo same exuberance. But there is one crop that has boen watched v. i?.li far ?greater solicitude and that is of far moro im? portance than wheat or corn, than rice, sugar or cotton, By tho bless ing.,<tf God, and under the benignant and liberal polity pursued by Presi? dent Johnson, that great crop cultivat? ed now throughout thc whole South, promises a mighty yield -that ero]) is the restored loyalty and devotion ol* the Southern people to the Govern? ment of the United States. Lo* the blessed and genial influences ot sun and shower be continued yet for a season, anda harvest will fte gathered that will as much gratify ail true pa? triots as it will astonish, shame, and coni'i rand (hose pest dent intermedi Hers and busy-bodies who are c ustantjly misinterpreting and misrepresenting* all that thc Southern people say onto, and who are incessantly clamoring for the adoption of st? ru and harsh measures, as the only nieasurdk that can bring the South back to reason. In no quarter of the country m which elections have be n held do wo he?T of disorder or. of the manifesta? tion of disloyalty, sullenhcs or unwill? ing acquiescence. Tho people have with one accord determined to lot by? gones be by-gones, and il* we may use tho language of thc National intellir/un cer, "to conform to the amnesty oath in spirit as well as letter."* There is unhappily a most malignant dispo? sition on tho part of'tho old radical enemies of the South to nip this loyalty in the bud by taunts, misrepre? sentation and abuse.. But it must bo - remembered that all growing things have, their enemies. These pestilent creatures are but the bugs that infest tho wheat, and the worms that disturb the growing tobacco. Tn spite of their mischievous endeavors, the crop will yet ripen'and prove abundant. All i]:-? io-: ordod to nmkA^outTxwhat 1 tie"! true patriot deidresnto seo it, is gentleness, forbearance and magnani? mity on tito part of thc rulers of thc .Sensible Talk. . The rfcw York Times, speaking bf Northern seritiinen^ncl expectations abo'it the' South, say?: Wo (the Northern peoij?e and au thorities) are too exacting also' in re? gard to tho political action of the Southern people. "We expect them, nov* that the war is over, and they uro beaten, to become at once, not only loyal citizens, obeying all the laws, and sustaining fully tho national au? thority, but thoroughgoing abolition? ists, and advocates of n ?grb sur?rag?. Anything short of this we' consider half-way loyalty and think l in y have not been whipped quito enough yet. We denonaee tin m as still settossion ists at heart, ard eal! for th?-ir exclu? sion from tie.' rieht:. <>f citizenship. This is unreasonable aftd unwise. We liave really nothing to do witli their hearts. Vy> hsive no right to exact tie' complete chang** <>f senti? ment anti feeling which wo dein:.ml. We have u right *>?. iidftd that they shall obey the law. that they shall nc- ! kuowlotlge *and respect tin: national | authority, aiid ?^?nduet them* el ves as i peaceful law-abiding citizens. If tin y do this, we can demand nothing moro. They may believe in their hearts what they please; they may feel as they like about the war and tito government, they may be It.mi'l rebellious still: but that is really none of our hu.sin.-ss. We cannot control tia ii- opinions or Un ir sentiments; we can ami must control t? ?eir con duct, but Unit is all. Nor is it reasonable to expect that '.lie mass of th.e Southern people can or will become suddenly ?leve-tees of doc trines anttfeeutiments which thev have hitherto abhorred, ami agaiifct which titey have staked their fortunes and their lives: Moa do.not rhu;-, instantly change their whole natures on com? pulsion. Audrfiny ostentatious pre? tensions of snell a, change would be hypocritical. The greai body of the. Southern people, W^LTI* un?paesti<mably honest and sincere in the opinions, thtt.pivjmlicjjs and the resentments , which led them to relied against the I Govcrmfie;it; and it would lu: folly to ? sippo.se Lhat those feelings would all ! I ?ir at once eradicated hythe simple : fact thal they ha\e been beulten in the : richi A ru iical change in the sonti j moni of the Southern people, Concern I ing slavi ry ami the purpose ?mil t?vni per of the national authority, eau ?eily i br wrollglli ? .- rut--, by "win... IIWH ?wiseiy ?uluiinisteretl and by their cx ; perience ?>f the new condition upon : which th irv have entered. Nor, should wo desire to break the spirit or crush the self-respe?'t of the 1 people of tho Southon) States. Their courage, their resolute ?ind dot. rmined j spirit, is now among the priceless pos I sessions'of the whole country. IL has been our enemy, but hereafter it is to j be our friend. It has been thrued i against us, and has vainly sought our ! destruction ; henceforth it fights only on our side, and swells the power.ami the courage with which W4 may ?con? front a world in arm-:, lt would be snmidtfl in us tn crush or destroy if we should be dost roving a part ol that : which is to give us thOgprouYlesl place ever held by :y?ry nation on the face*of i the earth. They confess and f e! ! themselves overcome -subdued, sub ? jiigatod. From oo quarter do wo hear tilt;' faintest, li i ut of any wish oven to j renew the contest. It is not for us to poison the wound wo have inflicted on their pride, nor to stab, with insulting blows, the ?load body of their amhi j tion. j CHANGE OF F.\smox!* -Crinoline, in ' the shape of steel-hooped petticoats, is certainly doomed; but it will, of ?? course, die a lingering death, and pre? vail for some time with the servants when il has been clis?;u;\.lod by the mistresses. lt is a fact that at the I opera, the theatre, at ?lower shows, ami. indeed, at all public places, ladies i may now be seen without ?in atom of steel otu i i ugly concealed in their , nuder-clotiies. And they aro full dressed ladies of fashion, too; leaders ; of lou ?md denizens?)f the bn.rt monde. I Manly fashions, too, ure undergoing 'mutation. Peg-top trousers are de j cidedly going out; and going out ! wider and more pog-toppy, but ceasing I to be made at the fashionable taih^s! i Unmentionables ure ?di but tight; Ln ; deed, they approach the '-horsy" I character. Long and solemn frock .cont-*, too, have had their day, and gentlemen from .'Noah's Ark' tu j longer parade in threes alon:'; Picadilly and by thc rails of the "Ladies' Milo.' A sporting era in nail tors sartorial j seems to bo sotting in, and cutaway i skirts' with outside pockets, adorn th? j manly forms of our young aristocrat, j in town. , The salaries of Provisional O-o . ' vernors are three thousand dollars : year, payable monthly or quarterly i! by drafts on thc Department of Stat Affairs in Texas. NF.w#OrcL:r.ANs, .Tulv ?L--News ar rived yesterday from Brownsville", that S. Viesca, Governor cf SaltQlo, had ciiptured the rebel Gen. Kirby Smith and party, rt Piedras Negra?, about fifty miles fren: ?ir.g-lc Pass. A train of s6venty*ifye wagons, four pieces of artillery and nine hundred muskets ave saul to have been sarr?nderod by l?irby'Smiih und party, who are now on partie. The above news was received in Brownsville c:i the 12th inst., from Major Texier, of Certinas' staff. 1 clip the following from the San Ant on::-!, Herald? ( )nv information from Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras is up to July 1. Wc learn that Gen. Shelby had reach ed i lu- first named paine in a quiet and peaceable manner, but waa in? formed by t'ne authorities m Piedras Negras, that ho would not be allowed io take his men into Mexico with arms in their hands, but that ii" ha would leave his arias there would be no ob? jection to his entrance into tho coun? try as ?migr?t! ts with himself and mon. We are informed that Goa. Shelby finally aureed VJ {??~. and sold hi: ?arm; and cannon to,thc Libeaab at : Piedras Negras. There were two i thousand five nuudred stauls'of small ! arms and three pieces o? artillery, for I which Shelby received eleven Ihou \ . and dollars- -six thousand in.specie ; and five thousand ia bonds issued by the Liberals. The anns vrercimino I diab'iy shipped for Chihuahua. The : Gov n i or of tho State .% Coahuila : acted us agent for the Liberals. Gen. Shelby er.te wi Mexico with about two hundred and fiftj men. The column of cavalry, under the i command of Maj. Gen. Merritt, which left Shreveport on the tSfb i,n..t., has arrived :.' .Warshall. Texas. I The inarch through thc Stale will probably oooupy a month. Forage i and water il is i \p. eted *iil be very sea reo ?doug certain portions fei the route, dud up to the present timertherc has been abundance of both. The rorr sp. ndent of the New Or leahs Ti?"- ', writing fr;?m Shreveport on tha Kth inst., in .speaking of the route which (4on. Merritt intends to take, says: Starting from Austin, the command crosses Onion Creek in an ! eight, milo mardi; Woody Spring is a ! good halting place, thence hut ten mil-.; SMI jlavoo is distant har ten miles; the Gualuloupe River is ferried by a "long stretch of twenty seven miles; thence nineteen miles and Gib?lo Creek i* erosnd; sixteen ini'e< o?i a home strof h and tho end I of the present mare1:, S m .Val mio. b. ' reached. '4lie above is thc chart thal I will guido the expedition on the route to San Antonio, a distance of four ' hundred ?md twenty-livr miles. There ; are twenty-eight camping spots, twenty-eight water sources, at milich j th h command will halt. It is a thirty ! day mareil. 1 F WASHIXOTOX. July 2S.-The CUroni I has received a "letter from New Or ! leans embodying thc following extract ; from one written by a gentleman con? nected witS the heath punters of the Cnion force at.ClarksviIle, Texas. Lt is tlated duly 11, and is ?us follows: 1 am lying at thc month of the Rio < ? ramie, opposite to Ihlgdad. Thc Mexicans under Maximilian guard tin Opposite sith' arni our troops tlii-;. Th'e respective pickets are not forty rods ! apart. There is ?t good doa! of un? friendly feeling bc:.ween, the two j armies, and they < arnot long refrain from blows. On thc -tth ol' -laly. our j officers went ovo,r, and many rows oe 1 curred. I heard this morning that Govi. Brown, the commander at Brownsville, yesterday had an inter? view with -Juarez, and promised him the assistance of tiio_ United States troops, mid had tu'dcred the Fourth Indiana to cross the river. Gen. Steide, the department commander, went up i>v a despatch boat to court - : teract the order if possible. Brit even if he succeeds, things cannot lon& ? remain as thov are. [Cor. .Wc- lort Ikrald. The British ship Invincible was wrecked in May, I Stil, on Desert ; Maud, when eight days ont, from ; Melbourne for Callao. ' Six of the j crew were drowned ai thc time, and nineteen saved, including tin'captain. Ai! the provisions secured were four ju ninds ol' bread and th ive pounds of pork. They remained on tho island j for a year and ten days, living on ' shell-fish and roof--. One l>y oue they j died, and, finally, cone were left but t'ue captain, mate and one sailor. At last titi' ship Julian, bound from China to Callao, stopped at the island whim jin a J< iky condition, and rescued ?them. Th? captain. Dol^trnd, had ' arrived at Panama. . A negro barber was tarred nr.d feathered, la ' week, in Groensport, U. I., for insulting a waite lady Reconstruction. ALA.I>A}fA. I ^?Provisional Governor Tj?wii* E. Par I sons, of Alabama, bus issued Iiis |*ro ; clamation announcing the inaugure . tion f measures for tin- restoration of I civil Government in that State. The ! 31st of August ?3 ibo day appointed ?for- trio election cf delegates to the I Stat?' Convention, which ir, to assem ! ble on the?10:h of September. The i gre uer portion of the old county ami ' town o?icera arc re-appointed to the ! positions, which they ai'e to hold du* ? i inp the continuance of the Provisional ? Government; but they aro nil required j to take the oath of allegiance to thc : National Government and to give new I bo::ds for the performance of their ! duties. The Gove:nor comments on ! the present condition cf tho South, I and the ruin and Vu?eriug which the j war has caused? bul informs the pco I pie that notvvithflanding this, they i have-to-day vvery political right whicn I tliey possessed before the wai-, except : iug i lie right to hold slaves; and slavery, he tells- them, is irrevocably ' gone, and it is the part of wi ..dom to : make th..- best they can of the new I ordei of thing;;. ?EOROTA. ' Provisional Governor Johnson, of ! Georgia, has also issued tiis proclama : tion calling a State Convention and j appointing a day'for electing delegates thereto. lite 'election ii to be 'held : cn the -4th of October, and til? Con ; volition -viii assemble in Milledgeviilc : on tia.- 25th of the same month. Tho citiz :iis are reminded that hi order to le entitled lu vote or to become ean ; didate-; for election to tho Convention, . they must previously subscribe to the i oath of allegiance to the .Sationul Gov I eminent : and this they are earnestly I advised tu do. They are also informed ; that shivery is extinct. The adminis I trat ion of "civil law. ton great extent,. is to remain in abeyance till a State i Government shill haw.1 been chosen; ! but in Liie meantime order wdl be pre : served, ii necessary, by the military. j MAI;. COMMT.fyTC.vno\*. Thu follov I ing from the True Orita expiasses otu ' opinion upon the importune . timi m ? ; eessiiy of ti thorough ami immediafi restoration of th<- mails thr.uighoui ; the South: i' Nothing thal can be don?* l>y human ' agency would tuon* effectually tend tc I tue quick restora tion of the ? ?id rola ! lions between the Mort!, ?ttjd South. am? to the rapid revival of the Sou tl ! f uni its present depressed condition j timi! the re-establishineui of the mai , facilities timi existed r.+.the commence ! .at of the war now clos-d. ! Wi? haw seen it state J thal the Post I in isl.-; General lue: this subject nude: consideration, ?md that lie giv-. inti I marion of there behm difficulties i: I the way of thc early rc.-cstablishnicn of pos I routes and post oliiees in titi I portion of the I'niou. These diuicttl I tics, we presume, arise front there be : iug no appropriation for postal servie j in the South, lt' this is ?di. awkwan j though h be. ii. ru ed not be an ob I sRuiction to the re-establishment of a least all the leading post--#o:ites ala I the re-opening of till tin? post ol??ci ! thereon. "Where there's a will there' a way." If "the Postmaster-General will bu I advertise for the postal service to b j performed, we have not the shadow n ! a dohbt thal rosponsiUe men will a once come forward fully prepared i perform "it and willing tn wait for thei pay un til it is provided for! iv < 'ougre -s ?i'.' that bc necessary. As to the r< ! opening of post offices, let the Po.-t ; master-General but order if to b done quickly, and that ?md the sei : vices of postmasters can be set-ure j with a rapidity uni sampled cen i i this country ot. innumerable govern j nient officers und innumerable expect ant place-men. j !3 I bis is a matter of the greatest in: j portanee to ns of the South, li. i j also of great moment to tile whol i country and to thc < ?overnmont itsell i Iv. is needless to enlarge on that whic I is cicarly apparent to ai! men. Ever j interest-agricultural, commercial, sc i cia! and political-calls loudly for th quick renewal of Southern mail con: munication. -~~m>- ,- . . EXCITEMENT IN WESTEHN VIRGINIA L. Wilson, son of ll. C. Wilson, di cea-ed. who left his homeJn thispluc at the oommencement of thc rebcllioi; ?md accepted the- position of colon* in thc rebel army, retm-ned home o Saturday last. Hu was waited upi. by a crowd of soldiers and oth< ?s, : his mother's residence, on Sate r.e. night, and ordered to leave-. Ht: or< mised if they would only allow Iii at remain until the first of the week, a I would leave town, which request wy granted, ?md the crowd thou diapers i He left according to promise. - [Western Virginia Advocate. The value of propei-tv ir. Loudon : estimated at s??Q0.0O0,?00. ? m Tjocal Items Wo learn that J. C. Jannuy, E*q., has be'cn appointed Postmaster of this city. That Mr. J: can "keep a notai,;' no one can doubt, und if is thought that ha will . succeed .'.nally well in his now vocation. To TTAVE?EBS.-C. i. Pool's hack lino connects with thc cars at Kopo Station, im? mediately upon thc arrival of the flown train, and will convey passengers safely and securely to Columbia: it will also carry pas? sengers from Columbia to Hoje Station; m. time to take thc train thc RAUIC day for Creen ville. ?.Messrs. Townsend A: ??orth have made arrangements to receive tho Charleston Courier regularly, and will keep it for Balo at their atora, iii BvdelTs Row; wc r.rc in? debted tu thom for a copy. Io a short time th ev expect to have a good assortment of books and stationery-one of tme*partners' having gone :?i New York.to replenish their V.'- are hulaed V.^IrTk C. Shiver, .of rh.- Kingsville line, for a copy of'rife New York Uer".'. !. <u' -the 'J':>th. The Southern M'.oresH Company have abo furnished us oi' ibo Riehmond Times, of mo 28th un' ; '. '.uh. and late Charleston ami Augusta papers;. The can! of Messrs. Fenner, Bennett & Bowman, will be found in another column, previous to thc w; :., the tina did an exten? sive buHKie?'M at the 8.,nth, and they are dosiron ? of renewing their old acquaintance. Mr. T. A. Tobin, of this State, (whose post ufucc ts Ci?nt?n. Lauren:^ District,) Ls a tacmbcu of the concern, and will bc pleased t-i meet all their old friends and ti; make the acquaintance, nf any number of new oims. '! hose >_?! nileuien make advances tu cou.-iguineuts it' desired. Tin: C',?i.?>!:?:.) F KEE MASONS.-The Grand Lodge of New York has con? cluded its annual session. On Friday, the Committee on Foreign .Correspon? dence reported advt rsely to tho recog? nition nf lodges working under a charter from the Grand '[Lodge of Ibm .burg, .'filero afc several lodges of odored men ni ti;i.; country, having charier.-; granted by the Grand Lodge of 1 lam!air.:.', which have been for some time endeavoring to obtain re? cognition b\ the grand dodges of tho various rt!ates, but. without success. Au etlVirt was made by sour: of tho members ol' tho G rand Lodge of this ?State to procure their recognition, but thc only committee who could legiti? mately hrh?g the si.bVei before'tho be.ly reported adven?s L#, and lac mea? sure failed. This plm.cs cehuvd Ma? sons precisely v. her - thev have ever ;beon -beyond the pale ul Masbnio law. Masons cannot recogiii^e them ns such ::i any particular, nor have ; Masonic knowledge of theirexistence, notwithstanding tho fact that they arc hound by tile same solemn obligations and ties as are t heir white brethren. DiFi-?i t i.; ;::s HETWEKN RETTTRNXL) Sor.oiF.us. -The Al? tuphis .-bv/zwlearns oiau a bitter animosity exists between .tim people up the Arkansas. Fro '..:.:;( altercations occur between t ;use. who serve,! In-.'ne Confederate army and others from the Union urmy, who ' regari! each other w?th malicious ha? tred. Some days since, at Spaden, si party of discharged Union soldiers met a. number of paroled Confeder I at's, and, af ter an angry discussion, a I light ensued, in which" fire-arms were freely used, resulting in killing four men. * BKAZ?LTAN F.MIf ;i:.\TION Sen c. The True /lelia, of tho loth, states that Co!. Wm. Wallace V, . Wood, of Mississippi,- our former fellow-citizen and long-time newspaper eontouiTJO rary, has been in our eily some ?lays, en route for Brazil, as the special chief agent and commissioner of seve? ral hundred families who contemplate emigration and colonization. Coi. W. leaves our city on thc ?irst steamer via New York for Rio .1.micro, with a prestige of success in his mission that few men could attain. Bruru is A, MA UK ET. Yesterday' morning, a woman gave birth to a chihl inside the stall of a butcher at the Old Market. She had Leen to .market and was returning howe, when the critical emeraency nrosV which required her to pru up with such aooommoikitions as could be.ili? stan tl v provided by the humane pro? prietor of the stall in which she sough; r< fugo. After the occurrence, she was placed in an ambulance and tarried home.- liiclinioiid Times. . SmciDK. Widle the North River steamer Armenia, from Albany to Nev York, was mar Sing Sing, one. afternoon lasl week, a cabin passen? ger, a respectable looking woman with ?tour children, suddenly leaped over? board with the babe she carried in her arm :, aud both were drowned bc fori" assistance could reach Hiern. A beautiful younggirl in Michigan, has cloped with and married her fa