By Telesrapli.
The Debt or Texas-Te*a? Kot to be
Represented in Next Congress.
NEW OKLEANS* November 10.-Ex-Gov.
Tierce, of Texas, says that the friends of
Provisional Governor Hamilton say that he
will hardly call the State to meet in con?
vention before the middle of January next,
and the citizens of Texas believe that she
will not bi: represented in the next session
of Congress.
The debt, contracted bv Texas amounts
to $0,000,000.
All the Federal negro troops have left
the Bio Grande.
From Louisiana.
NEW OBLEANS, November ll.-General
Canby has issued an order turning over to
the authorities all the salutary regulations
that have been held by thc military since
1802; also, resigning ail control over the
State levees, the work on them, and tho
collection of the tax to keen them repaired.
He is also withdrawing the provost mar?
shals in the Parishes, except in certain
cases, atid is also stopping the issue of
charity rations to persons unconnected
with the army.
General Fullerton leaves thu fixing of the
amount of wages between freedmen and
their employers for the next year to bc re?
gulated by the law of supply and demand.
Tile Fenian Excitement.
WASHINGTON, November 13, 18G5.-Mr.
Seward had a long interview with the Pre?
sident to-day, which gave rise to the report
that the British Government had made
some formal demand on ours in relation to
the Fenian movement. The rumor is plau?
sible, if not true. The British Government
has been on tho '"anxious seat" for months.
It sent one of its special detective's to this
country some time since to furnish all the
information he could collect concerning the
strength, organization, efficiency and
financial ability of the Fenians in America,
and the disposition manifested towards the
movement by our Government and people.
This agent bas really learned enough to
alarm the Johnny Bulls, and has probably
communieated much more on '"information
and belief." He has made overtures to ono
of our prominent detectives and endeavor?
ed to obtain his assistance hy bribery. All
these facts warrant the belief that the
British authorities are seriously alarmed,
and that they have asked Mr. Seward to
' define his position."
TORONTO, C. W., November 13.-The
Fenian alarm continues.
It has been decided to place a force of
volunteers on active service to check Fe?
nian raids. Two battalions have received
orders to hold themselves in readiness for
instant outpost duty on the frontier.
The guards at the volunteer armories
have been doubled, in consequence of in?
formation received of thc designs and pro?
jects of tho Fenians.
The 60th regiment of British regulars
have been sent from Montreal to Western
Canada.
GENEHAL BLAIII REFUSES TO TAKE
THE NEW CONSTITUTION OATH.-Gen.
Frank P. Blair appeared Yesterday tit
the Sixth Ward poll, held at the'en?
gine house on Washington avenue,
to record his vote for the anti-Consti?
tution candidates for Auditor and
County Court Judge1-Peckham anti
Dailey, wiitin his ballot was rejected
hy tho Judges of Election, Messrs.
Stephen Ridgoley and John S. Thomp?
son, because the General refuseel to
accept the Drake infamy known ns
the new Constitution oath, but offered
L instead of it un oath prepared by
I himself, covering the whole ground
of constitutional allegiance to the
Uniteel States and thc State e>f Mis?
souri.
General Blair, "after waiting for se?
veral to cast their votes, said : "Gen?
tlemen, I offer to cast my vote, and
am reaely to prove: to you I am twenty
one years of age, and have been a
resident citizen of the State t>f Mis
semri for over twenty years, and that
I am otherwise qualified te> vote at
the present ?lection. Here is my bal?
lot, (the General here presenteel to
Judge Ridgeley his ballot.) I have
prepared and now offer you an oath
of allegiance', which I have subscribeel
and sworn to. I elecline to take, the
oath prescribed by tho new Constitu?
tion of Missouri, and desire you to
decide that I am entitled to cast my
ballot without taking said new Con?
stitution oath."
Mr. Ridgeley replied: "We can't
decid?; so, General, but must decide;
exactly tho reverse," to which Mr.
Thompson assented.
General Blair then said: "Gentle?
men, 1 require you to say whether my
ballot is rejected only because I have
refused to take the now Constitution
oath?"
The Judges answered: "Entirely so;
for no either reason; because you re?
fuse to take tia; Constitution oath."
General Blair inquired; "Do you
regard me in ?ill other respects as a
qualified voter ?"
Messrs. Ridgeley and Thompson
replied: "Certainly; your vote is re?
jected upon that ground, and that
ground only. "
The ballots for Messrs. Peckham
anti Daily were then folded by Mr.
Ridgeley and marked by him "re?
jected," and General Blair quietly left
tho poll.-Si. Louis Republican.
John B. Thomson, formerly of
Richmond, Va., and well known in
literary circles in the South, is now
attached to the editorial stall' of the
London Herald.
Robert E. Lee.
.vi jn;.vui;;i'Mi, iii im Ol ? XX
ginia, there is a college which bears
the came of the most illustrions citi?
zen ever born in the "Old. Domin?
ion fertile as that pleasant land has
been in heroes; nor could George
"Washington himself have wished that
thc college erected in his honor should
have for President a worthier chief
than tho one who quietly entered
upon his duties just a fortnight ago.
The new President is still in the prime
of manhood, though already his hair
and beard are grey; he has been long
accustomed to .command: he is fa?
miliar with hardships as with fame
has slept for months amid the woods
of Virginia, and has crossed the Rup
pahannoek Northward at the head of
a victorious army; he has been proved
alike by good and evil fortune, and,
whether when threatening the Federal
capital, or when surrendering his
sword to a Federal caji tain, he has
ever borne himself as beseemed a
man noble alike by ancestry and by
nature. The descendant of "Light
Horse Harry" has doffed the grey
uniform for the garb of a peaceful
professor; nor can we own that the
change is a degradation, even for
Robert Lee. There is a difference in
thc mode of action, but no alteration
in the object, which is simply to
render the best service he can to his
native State. To that single aim he
has never onee been unfaithful; and
he will still pursue it, we may rest as?
sured, with the oki high enthusiasm,
tempered b}- a cautious brain.
Throughout the war nothing was
more remarkable than Lee's personal
influence-tho manner in which he
impressed every one who approached
him. That men with Jackson's purity
and earnestness, or with the tlebomiire
and graceful valor of Stuart, should
appreciate the illustrious qualities of
their leaders, was only natural; but
e^en the humblest soldiers in the
rank:: felt, though they might not
have been able to express the: moral
power which Lee exerted. The war
was, in all conscience, sanguinary
enough; but there would have been
a very carnival of carnage, a devilish
outbreak of all men's fiercest passions,
had the Southern leader been of dif?
ferent temper. Gallantly as the Con?
federates fought, we must never for?
get that their armies were often com?
posed of somewhat questionable raw
material; that the volunteers, with
all the instinct of bravery- which sel?
dom deserts a dominant class, had
likewise many of the vices which arc
I inevitably engendered by the posses
! sion of arbitrary ami lawless power,
j Accustomed to the unchecked li
j cense of authority, the slaveholders
might perchance have been read}
enough to give the war a character o:
internecine hatred ; and it was emi
nently due to Robert E. Lee that th?
courtesies and humanities of civilizer
warfare were, on the whole, observed
Tile gentle nature of the man neve,
degenerated into weakness ; with :
high hand he could restrain excesses
and admirably did he exercise hi
power. There are no purer pages ii
the history of the civil war than thosi
which relates to his invasion of Man
land and Pennsylvania, at a timi
when the temper of the Southern
people was sorely tried. Such quali
ties as he displayed could not fail, ii
j the long run, to win the regard of ?
manly and affectionate people ; am
while we find that he was loved like :
father by all those who shared hi
immediate perils, we. have not ye
forgotten that when the victoriou
veterans of the North wore niarehini
home through Richmond, they burs
into a splendid shout of enthusiast
as they recognized, gravely conten?
plating them from a curtained win
dow, the familiar form and face c
Robert E. Lee.
"The old order changes, gi vin
place to new, and God fulfills himsei
in many ways." To teach young lad
I their classics and mathematics ma
seem but a poor occupation for on
whose word was lately the suprem
law for a hundred thousand fightin
j men, and yet there need be no sens
of humiliation involved in the delil
crate acceptance of such employmen
The "new order" is that of peace; f<
a time, tho finest thing that Lee cou!
do was to set an example of valor an
virtue to the whole manhood of tl
South; but not less pure is the gloi
of one who, by honest and patient 1;
bor, prepares the young for that long*
conflict which tills the whole lengl
and breadth of human life. Our ag
to quote the French phrase, is "fe
tile in emotions," is swift and suddc
in its changes. The ruler of yestc
day is the exile of to-day; the exile
to-day may be the ruler cf to-moiTO'
Many a bright sword is in its sea
bard beside that of the great V:
gillian. Only a few weeks ago t
ji't/ici'rs of Paris could gaze on o:
whom Victor Hugo called a "speet
in a white burnous"-on one who for
,ye?i'3 lOUght inter me oiu .01 ouuidiun
fashion against Bugeaud and Bedenu,
ago inst Cavaignac, Pelissier and La
moriciere; und now the survivor of
them all, Abd-el-Kader, journeys
slowly homeward to Damascus.
In a Russian city, far within tho
heart of thc mighty empire whose
power he withstood for nearly thirty
years, quietly lives au old, grey beard?
ed, weak-eyed man, against whom,
when he held possession of his moun?
tain fastnesses, Grabbe and Woron
zoff vainly hurled their disciplined
battalions, and so calm is now the
order of his life, that only with a
strange thrill of wonder does the tra?
veler hear that he has indeed seen
Schamyl the Circassian. The hero of
Rome, Vercse and Marsala, limps
about along the rocky pathways of
Caprera.
What English tourist on the conti?
nent who casually meets George
Klapa, remembers immediately the
exploits of the man who held Co
morn against the Austrians, and once
sallied forth ns far as Raab, on the
road to Vienna itself. The action
of these leaders are already passing
into history, and may surely be viewed
with historic impartiality and calm.
Beaten like them, Lee serenely ac?
cepts the altered conditions of his life.
Had he consulted a poor and outworn
feeling of "personal dignity," he
would have left the country in which
he had held command so absolute,
and supered a discomfiture so over?
whelming. By men of all parties in
Europe, he won id have been hailed
with acclamation ; he would have
found it impossible to remain in pri?
vacy; he would have felt again the
breath of popular applause-but to
what end? The welcome must needs
hare beon misinterpreted across the
Atlantic, and have tended, however
unfairly, to excite an angiy feeling.
Lee as an exile, as a refugee, would
have been a living protest against the
Government which proscribed him ;
president of a college in Virginia, he
lends the aid of his illustrious name
to the good work of reconciliation.
[London Daily Teh.,'?mph.
A CASE OF PAKDOX.-A clergyniar.
of this city, a relative of Gen. Elliott,
of South Carolina, who defender;
Fort Sumter, received a letter lately
from him, stating that he was at Port
Royal, supporting his family by tish
ing, and he requested the clergymai
to endeavor to procure his pardon
It will be remembered that Gen. Gill
more commanded the land attack 01
the fort. To facilitate the case, fo:
such pai-dons are granted slowly, a;
an act of graceful courtesy from om
brave soldier to another, and as ;
deed which would exert a most happ;
influence, the clergyman wrote t<
Gen. Gillniore, saying that if hi
would go in his barge across the ba;
he would see a fisherman's hut, am
in that hut a wounded fisherman
whom he knew very well as th
former commander of Fort Sumter
and he requested him to procure tb
pardon. Gen. Gillniore at once re
sponded, thanking the clergyman fo
the suggestion, and sending a lette
to the President, asking the pardo]
as a personal favor. The clergymai
saw the President a few days ago, am
the pardon granted, and will b
sent to him as soon as it can be has
tened through tho necess;iry officio
bureaus. This pardon, the Attorney
General told the clergyman, wi)
secure to Gen. Elliott the imm?diat
restoration of his lands close to whic'
his fisherman s but now stands.
[Ualtimore Sun.
CHIME rs HIGH LIFE IX CAXAOA.
The Hamilton Time.*, Upper Canadf
in the following paragraph, gives a:
intimation of a deplorable state <
society in Canada-the result of ol
ficial corruption and of the deferenc
paid in British dependencies, as o
home, to a spurious aristocracy :
Among the prisoners now in cu;
tody at London, on a charge of b a
glarv, are a sou of a late mayor t
Hamilton, a son of a late sheriff c
! Middles a son of a present Supt
i rior Conn Judge, and a son of a pos
I master. We may add, that ?he fifi
is the son of a manager of a bani
that the remaining prisoner is respec
ably connected, and all of them ai
young men whose habits for sever;
years past have been such as to bril)
them under the constant attention <
the police.
-*?.
The new Catholic Church <>? St. Gi
briel, a large and beautiful structur
in Thirty-seventh street, betwe?
First and Second avenues, New Yor]
was dedicated Monday forenoon, i
the presence of a crowded congreg
lion. Archbishop McCluskey, assis
ed by other eminent clergymen, of
ciatedon the occasion, ?md thosernn
was preached by Bishop Lynch,
South Carolina.
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IlrjcoaxiziNo REBEI. MONEY-Thc
Lebanon Register says that at the Oc?
tober terni of tho Circuit Court for
Cannon County, 1SG5, a suit was tried
which was predicated upon the pro?
missory note, payable in Confederate
money, due in November, 1S(53.
Judge Cooper held that inasmuch as
the United States bad acknowledged
the Confed?rate States a belligerent
power, .a contri c., payable in Confed?
erate money, made in a locality that
was in the military occupation of the
Con federates, would be valid and
binding upon the parties, and that
the plaintiff would In: entitled to re?
cover whatever the proof showed the
Confederate money to be worth at the
time the note fell due.
BELGIAN TROOPS FOKMEXICO.-The
Meuse, of Belgium, October '23, pub?
lishes the subjoined:
"Negotiations have been entered
into and adopted, in principle, for
the formation of a new corps of troops
for tho Emperor Maximilian in Mexi
eo, consisting of a regiment of cavalry,
composed o seven squadrons, of
which a portion of one would remain
in Belgium to form the depot. Tho
command will, it is said, be given to
the Major of the regiment of Guides
at Brussels, who would have the rank
of Colonel. Another officer ol the
same corps would be appointed L.eu
tenant-ColoneL The first two squad?
rons will be ready to leave in Jan?
uary."
Great excitement was caused at
Jackson, Miss., by a most infamous
outrage upon Drury J. Brown, a
prominent and respectable citizen, by
Captain Peek, Provost. Marshal of the
negro bureau. Peek attempted to
use his authority to rob Mr. Brown,
and Brown applied to headquarters
for relief. Upon his return he Avas
assaulted by the Captain, and after
some difficulty he called on his negro
guard to seize Brown, which they did,
and dragged him in the most brutal
manner by the heels to the guard
house. Tito outrage was so infamous
that, the citizens rose en masse and
demanded Mr. Brown's release, which
was granted, and tho brave captain
lied from the scene of danger.
The Springfield Republican narrates
a curious railroad accident which
occurred at Clinton, Connecticut, a
few days ago. An express train was
approaching, when a cow, annoyed by
a small dog, dashed on to the rails.
When the train had passed, the cow
lay with her head cut off, and the
little dog with his tail cut off. sat be?
tween the rails looking after the re?
tiring cars with a face indicative of
the most intense astonishment and
disgust.
The steamer Creole, bound from
New Orleans to Mobile was hove to
a few days since by a round shot from
Fort Powell, by one or two shoulder
strapped gentlemen who wished to
visit Mobile. The Times calls it an
outrage and ne-xt expects to hear of a
she'll being pitched into a steamer,
blowing her up and killing the pas?
sengers and crew.
Old Colonel Robert Tansill. for?
merly of the United States marine
corps, latterly a colonel of ti Virginia
regiment ami an inspector on General
Williams' staff, has published ti book
on the causes of the' overthrow e>f the
Confederate Government. It is de?
scribed as highly luminous, original,
witty ?uni entertaining.
\Ballimore Sun.
An Englishman named John Mo
High is going to have a high time in
this country. The Herald's Wash?
ington correspondent denounces him
as a spy on the; Fenians, sent hero by
the British Government, and gives as
accurate ti description of the cockney
as used to be given of a runaway
"nigger."
Raphael Semmcs, of Alabama note>
rioty, is eloing business in Natchez,
Mississippi.
At an auction sale of wines, liquors
unc? sportsmen s goods, belonging Lo
the estate of the late Thomas C.
Amory, of Boston, there was realized
a sum amounting to about 825,000.
There was a quantity of brandy in
iluded in the collection which brought
from $26 to $30 per bottle.
General Briscoe, who has just been
convicted of embezzling Government
funds at Lynchburg, and sentenced
to five years' imprisonment, has been
released by order of the Secretary of
War, on the ground of his long and
gallant services.
A dashing young bachelor lately
appeared in Central Park with two
handsome ponies, whose tails were
done up to look like a lady's water
fall, and cooped up in small fish nets.
The team created a great sensation.
The United States war steamer
Suawance returned to San Francisco
on Wednesday last, from an unsuc?
cessful cruise in search of the
Shenandoah.
A street car conductor in St. Louis
lias been fined twenty-five dollars for
trying to eject a colored woman from
his car.
Over eleven hundred immigrants
per day arrived from Europe at New
York during the past week.
"Bill Arp," so-culled, is a candidate
for Congress from Georgia.
Houses of prostitution aro licensed
in Montgomery. Alabama.
Auction Sales.
Fur nit ure Sale.
By Levin & Peixotto.
ON" MONDAY MORNING next, at lOo'clock.
wt* will sell, at our Auction Room,
A variety of handsome FURNITURE, ia
good condition, consisting in part of:
Mahogany Hair-seat Chairs, Hair-seat
Sofas. Mahogany Wardrobe, Bureaus, Cane
scat Chairs, Windsor Chairs. Card Tables,
Dining Tables.Mahogany French Redstead,
Mattresses. Child's Crib, Washstands,Sew?
ing Machine, (Wilson Si Wheller,) Parlor
Stove, Ac. ALSO,
A No. 1 Sett Ruggy Harness.
Cart, Wheelbarrows, Turpentine Soap,Ac.
Unlimited articles received up to hour of
sale. Nov 18 2
Sales of Go ver nm't Property.
AT noon, on WEDNESDA1*. November
22, and every day thereafter, at Col?
lege Campus, I will offer at public sale, GO
YEUNMENT PROPERTY in my charge:
Horses and Mules, sold Wednesdays anil
Fridays.
Wagons and Hames-?, Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
Scrap,* Wrought, Pig and Bar Iron, Boil?
ers, Engines and broken Machinerv sold
daily.
Bricks and old Buildings. Thursdays.
Terms cash. EDGAR McMULLEN,
Assistant Special Treasury Agent.
Nov 18 10
CORN, GRIST, FUIR, BACON.
FOR sale bv J. M. CRAWFORD,
Nev is 1* Cotton Town.
Desirable Building Lots to Lease.
O EYER AR LOTS on Assembly street,
IO suitable for large stores, can be leased
for i terni of vears, on application to
Nov IS 5 " JAMES II. BALDWIN.
"NOTICE ! NOTICE !
4 NY person having any HATS or BON
J\_ NETS at Mrs. S. J. COTCHETT'S
establishment, will please call for them
THIS MORNING before 12 o'clock, as at
that hour the establishment will be posi?
tively closed._Nov 18 1?
Owner Wanted ior a Bible.
DURING the occupation (d' Columbia by
Sherman's army, a BIBLE, 'ontaining
the entries of the death of tr. o children,
was left at tho house of a lady. The owner
can obtain it bv applving at this office.
Nov IS _I*
FRESH OYSTERS.
/j$f> /' \ THE undersigned will keep on
\j .yhand, on and after MONDAY.
\iU?^/ 20th, a full supply of OYSTERS,
which will be served up in every style.
Families supplied at reasonable rates.
T. M. POLLOCK, -'Rear House,"
Nov is Rear of Hanahau A Warley'a.
~ JAMES CONNER'S SONS""
?'TED STATES TYPE FOUNDRY
AND
PRINTERS' WAREHOUSE,
"V^os. 28, ;i(> and ;i2 Centre street, (corner
JLI of Reade street,) New York. The type
on which this paper is printed is from the
above Foundry._Nov 18
To Printers.
rililE undersigned i\ill receive proposals
J. for PRINTING 1,000 COPIES of the
ACTS, RESOLUTIONS and REPORTS of
the called and next regular session of the
General Assembly; together with the CON?
STITUTE >N OF THE STATE and the seve?
ral ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS and
REPORTS passed by the late Convention.
Tho printing to be in uniform style with
previous like printing, stitched and bound
together in good paper covers, and to be
delivered to tlie State Auditor on or before
the rtrsi dav of March next.
By wider:* WM. !.'.. MARTIN.
Clerk of Senate.
JOHN T. SLOAN,
Clerk House of Representatives.
Columbia, November 1865.
?a- Charleston Courter publish for one
Week. NOV t>