He tortltax <?p*rtan.
SPARTANBURG t
w. M. TRIMHIER, EDITOR.
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Thiraday, 14, 1846.
Rt- John's College.
Vi learn from the Charlealon Record, that
tk? Female Seminary, in Orangeburg, which
had boon (Won to tho Protectant Epiaoopal
Chnroh, for tha Diooeaaa Theological 8eminary
f South Carolina, upon examination haa been
xouna IOMU1 adapted ta the purpose for which
ihsgr wore intended, sad Mr. James t. Welbm*i
presented 81. John's College, of thla place,
for the tt~t object. The 8u John's buildings
art largo and handsome, occupying one of the
moot desirable sites in our town, and dobtless.
In every respect well adapted to the purpose
for which they were so liberally donated. The
buildings in Orangeburg arc to be sold, and
the money appropriated to the establishment
of the Seminary in this place, and will be
opened in Ootober next. A laudable generosity
is displayed in this acu of Mr. Wblsman.
Tlie Stay Law.
Our ootemporaries appreciating the solemn
offset of ths late decision of the Court of ErrorB
pronouncing this law aa unconstitutional, arc
devoting much space and thought to its serious
contemplation. The viewB of editoro as well as
correspondents are worthy oar serious regard.
To us its constitutionality or unconstitutional!
ty is a matter of no importance now. The
thing is settled. An oracular opinion or judgment
has been given?the highest tribunal has
to ended forth its edict?has, in language not
lo be mistaken, announced that the law of collection
is re-established. To sue or not sue, is
the serious question' Mo ono from our stand
point, oan look upon our oppressed people and
any that the effect of that decision will not be
i .??, uuicbs Giruiwrs are inspireu
with a spirit of forbearance and indulgence in
adcfcroe that will save for a time, at least, (be
honest debtor. Will the holders of notes do so,
OS will they, their hands now being unrestrained,
direct their oollection at the expense of
their neighbor and friend ? If so, an exclamation
more awful than that uttered in referenoe
to the people of Jerusalem, will apply to
ear people. Satisfactory arrangements should
be node, by which creditors will be made safe,
without resort to the legal prooess of collect
lag, which will bring about an indiscriminate
sniag, proving most ruinous to debtors, and
In saany instances detrimental to the creditor.
Salts, however profitable to our professional
friends, must prove iniurions in th? <
degree, to the people at largo. Depopulation,
and a transfer of properly from one to the
other, are inevitable results if unbridled avarice
is permitted to indulge its voracious appetite.
We most be indulgent to each other, or
the entire country will be ruined. Before us j
U the picture of universal distress?unbidden, :
it presents itself to our painfal vision?by day ,
and night it haunts the benevolent, as well as
those removed from the unqualified operations i
Of this decision. Imagine the country at large,
nnder rait?the inability of honest men to meet
their acknowledged legal responsibilities, owing
to the scarcity of money and the absence
of those agricultural products which command
money?and you will have some faint conception
of the situation, in future, of our bleeding
oountry. Venesection, to utter monetary death, )
is a sequence, as natural as a logical conclusion
from well-eslabled premises.
While we were never an ardent supporter
and friend te the 8tay Law in its inception, we
are fearful thai ita removal at this particular
period, must bo hurtful to those interests
whieh form the substratum of our material
prosperity. Against this view of the subject,
we quote the following pararranh from the1
- - - " -1
Abbeville Banner, which is Badly true, and (
indioatss that the continuance of the law, being
thus abused, would belujuriouB to our people:
"If under its operation, there had been manifested
eny satisfactory evidence of effort upon
the pert of debtors to discharge their indebtedness,
we would have said without hesitation,
postpone the consideration of its constitution-;
ality, temporise, give the people a breathing
spell ; but whet were the facta T Was there ,
any disposition to pay debts f Was there any j
self-denial practiced T Was there any retrench-1
meat of expenses ? You will find the answer
So these questions when the measure is taken
of the breadth and depth of the deluge of,
"Yankee notions" which has inundated our,
land during the last twelve months, and when
the proceeds of all the cotton is accounted for ;
which was on hand at the surrender of the ,
tnniM last spring?cotton that has gone like j
the baseless fabric of a dream,'' but which has
Ml our debt# behind.''
The Stay Law was passed to protect soldiers
in the army, bat has proved itself to be any i
thing else bat a protection?a curse, and they j
will soon realise it. The soldiers needed no j
protection against their creditors during the
war, because they doubted the soundness of the
orraacy, and many even refused to take it
la paymentof debts. Certainly under the then
existing stats of affairs no legislation was nec '
asaory for the protection of the soldier. It it
neciless to comment upon the folly so palpable
In the passage of the Slay Law at the time It
was passed, bat we merely proposed an appeal
to the people for the exeroise of all the leniency
and forbearance possible. People should;
pay their debts, and any legislation protecting
ihem in not doing so, if not unconstitutional,
Is adjust and unwise. The orisis is inevitable,
at oroan will com?, and It it with th? people
Ihemtelree to mitigate its horrorn, by the exeroise
of ft spirit of benerolenoe end forbearUM.
To the low, wo must to good and lawobiding
people, yield obedieoee. Let tit, for
the toko ef ear country ovoid the prettnres of
litigation wherever it it potnible to do to- j
For the Cwoliu Spartan.
Letters frwm Haul Dell.
Me. Editoe : In these sad times, it is de
hghtfal for one whose ear and mind are ever
ftled with the din and smoke of town, to repair
to the country and realise the peculiar plealures
of rural ezistenee. The singing of birds,
the lowing of cattle, the sighing of brasses, and
the mnsio of rill and rivulet, have been themes
of the Inspired bard, and in the effusions of
his sympathetic heart, we imagine can be heard
the destinotive sounds of each of those fruitful
souroes of mental gratification. To these causes
it may be, is the acknowledgment so universal,
io oe auriouieu, mat nut ana vate, mountain
and plain?flowers native and cultivated, rural
scenery and rural modes of habit and thought,
are more favorable to moral enjoyment, than
the city. White the latter has its superior ad
vantages in regard to the facilities of a higher
and more cultivated state of outward. external
life, it nevertheless has its dreadful offsets
in temptations to moral deterioration. This
is not owing, however, to the absence of the
purest element of a beautiful morality, but to
the concentration of all the various elements or
principles that make up individual character.
In the country, each family is to be regarded
as a harmonious orgauization. There arc no
sentimental jarrings or discords?no opposition
of mind or feeling?the thoughts and feeling!* i
oi encn memocr ox mo nousonoia, wneuier
aroused by politics or religion, arc like drops
of water, inclined to blend swoctly ?to flow
into one unruffled stream. Tho town is not
so adjusted. There nre various families, and
between eouie will spring up alienations, growing
out of an antithesis in opinion upon important
subjects, as well as upon such minor
topics, as dreSs and tho latest style of hats,
(not to say bonnets, a good old fashioned, but
nearly obsolete word,) and the ordiuary suggestions
of unbridled gossip. The city may
be well governed?the majority of its inhabitants
peaceable in disposition, unobstrusivs in
ocial intercourse, but now and then a rough,
angular character interposes to produce jostlings
and rufllos the quiet streams of life. This
is frequently the case. The city is often, too,
made the place as well as the ooc&sion, for premeditated
outrages upon all the proprieties of
oivilircd life?lienee its remitatinn ?? ilamsirpil
and ils advantages impaired in the estimation
of the reflective and courtly countryman. I
will not further speak defensively just now of
tie town. In the broad and open fields, I
guide my incautious steps, and to the goddess
of the virgin forests, would pay ourmod humble
homage.
In the mj'thologic&l age of Greece, there
were numerous deities to whom the presiding
care and the control of certain objects were
assigned. I'or instance, Fan was the God of
the forests and the fleecy flocks that found
green postures and oooling streams beneath
his umbrageous wings. Ilow beautiful the
thought that he, beneath and to whom the forests
in all their grandeur flourished, and daily
expressed their devout thanksgivings, should
in like manner extend his arms of love and
nrnlnriinn nvnr fkn lamK ?Kn mn?? cfriltinrr
and lovely type of innocence and lovelinessThere
was another feature that gave tho forest
a peculiar distinction, and renders the country
in which the relentless blows of the rude axeman
have not been too untastefully and greedily
inflicted, peculiarly desirable in the summer
months, and that is that each tree was inhabited
by a wood nymph, and consecrated to some
particular Qod or Goddess. You remember
the story of Erisichthora. He was a hater of
the Gods and determined to violate a tree sacred
to Ceres, which is represented as being
fifteen cubits in thickness, and so tall as to
overtop all surrounding it. The execution of
his order was refused on account of the superstitious
fears of the persons present. At last he
seixed the axe, and as he bestowed bis first
blow, blood, to the amazement of the by stand
ere, began to flow, and a voice from the Dryad
within, premonished him of the perilous consequences.
Deaf to the entreaties and remonstrances
of Nymph and friend, he repeated tho
blows with his axe, until the mighty monarch
of the forest, toppled crushingly to the ground.
Then the nymphs applied to Ceres for revenge,
who directed them to renair to ice-rlnd SrviKU
where dwell fear, shuddering and famine, and !
order the latter, in the name of the offcuded {
and insulted Goddess, to take possession of his
bowels. Immediately the famine enfulded Erisichthon
in her wings, and breathed into him
the venom of her breath. On awaking he
hungered ?on eating his hunger remained un- ;
abated. Miserablo, wretched and hungry, he |
continued until his property was eihausted to '
satisfy cravings. At last he sold bis only )
daughter, to obtain food, but ali in vain, and i
finally died, having consumed his awn tlesh. I
Thus did the Gods punish the sacrilege of |
Krisichthon.
The idolatry of the Greeks as well as Romans,
though demolished in fact, has left and trans- [
milted an attachment for the woodland as well ]
as moorland thatthe highest states of civiliia- I
tion hare not destroyed. Whether it is because 1
the human mind is inclined to be idolatrous
naturally, or there is an innate appreciation
of nature in her primitive or cultivated condi- '
lions, we know not. Of one thing we are assured
that the progress of ideAs has invested
the mountains and hills?the wooded stretch ?
the marshy plain?the rugged fern bed?the
fields of yellow grain?the gentle tephyrs?the
morning sun and evening sunsets ?in fact, all
the diversities of surface and sky, with sn in- (
terest that youth can ne'er forget, nor old age 1
ever cease to love. Having extended our 1
rambling thought! beyond our pedal measurements,
we will put?. period to the one in hope |
that w? shall be able to resume the other in 1
some future number.
DERWENT |
Commencement at Reldvllle. |
The examination in the litli School will I
take place on the 26th inat., (Monday) and in
tha Female School on the 26th inat. On Wednesday,
the 27th inatant the CommencementDr.
Bout, of Greenville, will deliver the Annual
Oration before the Board of Trueteee on
the 27th inat, at 12 o'clock, M. The public
are reepectfally invited to attend thcae exererciaea.
Wo are informed that after a vacation
of about a week the aeoond aeaaion will commence.
effort of the Hons - Jmliciary Committee to
fasten upon the head of Mr. Davis a share of
the responsibility for the assassination of Mr.
Lincoln, has been an utter failure ; and if, as
you see stated iu the papers, they are still taking
evideuceon that point, it is rather to cover
up their rage anil disappointment in a respectable
manner, than w th any hope of securing
a pretext for what they seek?his trial by military
Commission.
TIIE rr.DKR AL COURT IT VIRGINIA
adjourned at Norfolk last week, and re assembles
to morrow in Richmond. It is understood
here that the counsel for Mr. Davis will appear
before the Court some time this week, aud demand
that the trial, under the indictment already
found against him, be proceeded with.
To this motion the District Attorney will prob
ably reply that the Government is not yet
ready to go on with the prosecution of the case.
In that event bail will be demanded for the
prisoner?a request, which, considering his
long and wcnrisoin incarceration and the pre
carious condition of his health, it will be difh
cult for the Court, with any show of decency
and fairness to refuse. It is said mat the eminent
pleaders who are to conduct the defence
are ready to give bail for their distinguished
client to the amount of ten millions of dollars,
they having ascertained that that amount can
be raised in New York ; but the general impression
is thai hail will not be allowed. The
proceedings, however, incideut to the effort to
obtnin bad will be of an interest second only
to the trinl itself.
rUKst.ST cosditi .X Or MR. PAVIS.
I was conversing yesterday with ? photographer
of this city, who, by permission of l?en.
crul Miles, the Commandant at Fortress .Menroe,
had an interview with Mr. Davis three
days ago. He describes the State prisoner as
wau aud careworn in appearance, though hit
fthi/sujuf still retains much of that nervous cner- i
gy which ale a s distinguished him. Mis bearing
was erect aud Ins step as firm as ever; and
tho only pu'.pablc evidence of his physical
prostration w is in his voice, which was very
perceptibly weaker than formerly.
iiss rEtl'okal aptkaraxck,
however, was very much altered. Previous to
his capture, it will be rchiembered, it was his
habit to g j c'.can shaven, wearing only a small
strip of heard around his thro&l. Since his
impri?onineut lie seems to have discarded tho
iw? .,f . I.- -l. .1 ? - - ?
vi i?c iix.nr ?in>gciucr, (iimcru, lor a long
time he was uot allowed the use of a raror,
or any oilier edge instrument) and consequent
ly the .entire lower porliou ot his face is cover- j
e?l with a beard, closely trimmed, however, as
if with scissors. IIi9 grey hair is also grown '
quite long, an l he wears it brushed straight 1
back from Ins forehead, very much in the slyle 1
of l'ierre Souls, whom many of your readers !
may remember to have seen at Charleston du- 1
ring the war. Notwithstanding his hirsute as j
pcct, his high cheek bone and sharp and clear
ly marked features, render him easily recogni i
table by any one who has ever beheld him in
the past.
In response to a request that he should eit '
for his photograph, he quietly declined, saying
that he had been so sadly changed by his re >
cent manner of life that be feared that none of
his old friends would know htm. He prom eed,
however, that at a future day, he would give {
the desired opportunity for his picturo to be
taken. Mrs. l>avis continues to prove herself '
a shining instance of
WOMAN S CONSTAM?;V AND PBBSCVEBAXCB.
oho is inueiuiigADie in nor efforts to Alleviate
the hardships of her husband s imprisonment,
And. by tier activity and zeal has already ac
nomplished much in that respect. I understand
that it is mainly through her solicitation that
the counsel of Mr. Davis have resolved upon an
effort to secure the release of their client upon
bail.
As the successive phases of this most impor- i
tant case are developed, I shall not fail to keep |
the readers cf the Courier fully and promptly
posted. ZED.
A San Circvmstaxcb at IlAMnaan.?Thi?
evening (June 6) between threo and four
o'clock, a terrible cloud arose in the west, ac.
cotnpanied by a fearful tornado, which swept
through our village, demolishing everything
in its track, trees, Ac., and striking the building
of the Allen Lodge, at thnt titne used as a
school room by Mr. Allen Seabrook and his
sister, completely destroying it. burying under
its ruins seven of the unfortunate children who
belonged to the school.?Cor Was. tt
William*. Evlns nud Choice. *
We call atteution to the card of these gentlemen
to be found in to- day's paper. The
two latter are well known personally and professionally
to the citizens of our District. The
senior member of the firm Gao. W. Williams,
K?q., ofYorkvillc, is a Lawyer of large experience
and high reputation, and made a
marked impression upon those who heard him
in the adrocacy of the causes committed to his
charge at the last term of our Court.
[Correspondence of Charleston Courier.]
JcflcrHon DavlN
Wasiiinutos, Monday, Juno 4.
The probabilities in regard to the occurrence
and result of "1'risoner Davis," as the official
reports from Fortress Monroo stylo the exI'resident
of the late Confederacy, form, just
now, the puzzling topic of talk anmugst the
newspaper folks here, and the quid nun< $ generally
Thi? i? ? ?""" ?u:-i. ?.
T- ? J-"* ??,C
Northern public are, if possible, even uiore
anxious rind inquisitive than tho people of the
South; licnce tho eagerness with which the
lynx-eyed reporters for the New York end
Western press catch at and sift every passing
rumor that bears in any way upon the fate of
the great captive. As yet
TtlF. TIM K UF 1119 TRIAL
Is n mutter in regard to which no conclusion
has been reached. Mr. Davis and his friends.
President Johnson, Chief Justice Chase and the
llndical leaders in Congress, all profess to desire
that the ease should he disposed of as
speedily as may be ; and, under such a state
of things, it would seem to be strnnge that
there is any further delay ; but tho truth is
that the bitterest enemies of the Confederate
ex-President fear that a trial at this time could
not by any possibility result otherwise than in
acquittal or a disagreement of the jury, and
they are thcretcre scheming to defer the matter
until they can concoct some plan to inture a
conviction One thing, however, is certain,
the trial will be an ordinary civil nn? TVi*
Later from Europe.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT?COMPLICATIONS
STILL UNSETTLED!
New Yobk, June 8.
The steamers Hermann and Southampton,
with dates to the 23d, have arrived
A Paris telegram to the London Tost states
definitely that arrangements have been made
for a conference of France, England and Russia
on one side. Austria. Prussia and Italv on
the other, with Drouvn D'Lhuys as President.
The London Herald says that conferences
cau do nothing, and that war is certain unless
the corabatauta become exhausted under the
burden of preparation.
The Dresden official journal says the conference
was to meet May 26th, but that Austria
was evincing a disinclination to participate.
If persisted in, she will be represented pro tem
by England. There is no relaxation in military
preparations by Russia, while there is a uni
ersal feeling that there will be a pacific solution.
l'jussia lias issued a decree that, in the event
of a war, the enemy's iucrcbaul ships will not
be liable to enpture on the high seas, provided
similar rules arc adopted by her antagonists.
The Austrian Commandant has notified the
Venetians that any attempt to enlist in Italian
Corps, or to encourage desertion, shall be dealt
with by martial luw. Austria has refused to
discuss any propositi in for the cession of Venitin..
The form ition of Volunteers into Regiments
commenced on the 21st.
A Vienna dispatch says that the treaty be..
-1 I.-I- ! tr : 1 i ? --
k" VV?? a 4 UQOiU IkU'l llrtij in VIICUSIVC Ml'l Ut'l^n*
pivc, and continue* until ilie end of the present
year. A Prussian corps is concrntruted at
Willi Kcrerful lUim. To prove that Prussia
accepts the medialiou of a conference, the departure
of the Prince Royal and Prince Frederick
Charles has bceu postponed.
The report that an Austrian patrol has crossed
the Prussian frontier is denied by the Austrian
commander.
The latest European news is from Queenstown
May 23d. The crisis is unchanged. The
The statement, that all the powers had assented
to a conference is premature, although the
invations have bceu sent oat.
EUROPE IN ARM8.
Klorbxce. May 14.
Earope in in arms! Austria has raised her
at my to <j(X),l)UO men. l'russia to 600,COO,
Italy to 400,000. All the German Stales are
mobilizing their smaller forces, which, may
together, amount to *^00,000. Switzerland, in
order to guard her frontiers, calls 16,000
men, under arms, and now we hear that l)emmark,
Spaiu, llelgium, France, Russia and
Turkey prepare for war. The continent seems
to be already giddy, and three millions of men
their full force are taken away from the plough,
from the factory, and from thecouutiug-house.
All the fiuauce* of the States are deranged,
and the ominous words of the French Emperor
seem to be the presage of a long ami bloody
war, terrible principally for Germany, where
it must assume the character of a civil war.
Austria, which for a moment seemed to be
doomed in iter isolation, i*, after all, not so
badly off as was believed, all the minor Slates
of Germany, with the exceptiuu of Mecklenburg,
Oldenburg, and Electoral liesnc, being
ready to hack her. Thus the opposing are
nearly equal, and France becomes once more
the umpire in Europe.
Now, Napoleon is not the man to go headlong
into the abyss of a terrible continental
struggle, and at the eleventh hour he mokes
the greatest efforts to stay the war, seconded
In that errand by England and partially by
Russia, lie proposes once more, and for the
last time, a peaceful settlement by a Congress
upon the basis of the cession of Venetta to
Italy, aud of the North Albingian Duches to
Prussia, fits diplomacy has lor a moment
caused a lull in the brewing storm. CSaribaldi
receiveu a letter from the King not to stir from
Caprera until he is called. The order tor the
completion of 200,U00 red shirts at Pisloja was
yesterday evening suspended. Ricasoli is not
yet Minister. An autograph letter from the
King of Prussia to Victor Emanuel was yesterday
presented at the palaxio. Pitti and
Bismark hang tire, through the Federal Diet
at Frankfort, by a vote of ten to five, accepted
the complaints of Sasony about the violation of
artiolA II th- r.,-1 1 r< v...
VI IUV 4 wucsai VWUOWIUMVU %JJ
Prussia.
Still, even at Vienna discontent is rising?
people openly blame the Emperor for hie bigheadeduess
in refusing to listen to any French
proposals for the ceding of Veneita to Italy,
and in Using time in coming to terms with
Hungary. At the present moment. Chancellor
Majlath is indeed at Perth, but, according to
our advices up to Friday last, he has not yet
met Deak, the only it.an who really represents
Hungary.
But, if Austria's position is not enviable at
nil, Italy has her difficulties. Belying upon
Prussia, she appealed to the enthusiasm of the
unlion, and at the greatest sacrifice mobilized
her army, and 200,000 men are already concentrated
on the Mincio and Po.
1^ .L 1 ? *
j?, uuw, * i usbih suuuiu prove i?.>c, imiy
could scarcely retrace her steps, but would be
forced to encounter Austria single-handed. It
is. therefore, with full reason that La Marmora
said in the Chamber, '* We must advance, for
behind us is an abyss." The war enthusiasm
would turn against the monarchy if the army
should once more hare to return without strik
ing a blow, and every Italian would endorse
Mazzini's words, that monarchy is unable to
achieve the unity of the nation.
The same uncertainty which troubles us in
Italy reigns likewise in Molde-Wallachta.? I
l'riuce Charles of Hohenzotlern has not ac- |
cepted the throne, but he has not refused it,
though the Paris Conference decided against a
foreign prince, and for the separation of the .
two Principalities. In the meant!.ue, l'.ussia
is arming and pushing her regiments to the }
South.?Cor. of \tu> York Trthunf.
Tiib Charleston and Cincinnati Railroad.
? A meeting of the several Delegations of the
C:ty Council, Chamber of Commerce, and
Board of Trade, which propose to visit ihe city
of Cincinnati with a vew to forward the projection
and construction of the railroad between
the cities of Charleston and Cincinnati,
was held yesterday morning at the Hall of the
Insurance and Trust Company, in Broad street,
it was agreed thai the delegation* should meet
in the latter city on the lGlh instant. No
other business was transacted. ? Courier.
The Fenian War. ?New York, June 9?A
8t. Albans special dispatch reports an engagement
between Col. Scanlan's regiment and the
British eavalry, near Pidgeon llill. The Britisbaeavalry
were dispersed and tied in oonfu
aion. The Fenians captured 1 CHI homes and
three flags. Four Fenians were wouuded and
one Briton killed and three woumlod. Scanlan
subsequently ordered the regiment to withdraw
from Canadian soil, but Gen. Shear still remains.
The Baptist Stats Convention of North CaroUna
has been in session at Raleigh, N. C.
Llaei ( Ike B?re*r?4 Omi
IT UU? MFim.
[Divd m Spartmnburf, Mr*. Jti IW, t Mr<
ChrutiuA, loving Wif* end Under Jfertsr.]
Weep loved onee weep, for Ok ! kew 4tw
The love you bore iket lifelem fora ;
We eannot chide tbe felling tear.
We oannot check the welling item.
Our beerte with sympathetic grief,
Would beet in unison with thine;
And fain would tender kind reuof,
And kneel beside, et " sorrow's shrine."
How calm and placid was her 1Kb,
The Christian's hope, her only joy ;
She was indeed "a loving wife,"
Iler acts alt pure with no alloy.
The vacant chair will now be seen.
The mother will be sought in vain i
No soothing words for anguish km,
No geutl* hand in hoers of pain. '
But come with me be reared one*.
To yonder glorious happy sphere;
List but n uioiuent to those tone*,
'Die angel choir is singing there;
And tnidat those sweet celestial sounds
Metbiuks I hear your dear one's roiee?Hear
how the swelling note resounds,
Within that sphere they all rejolee.
Thm with the Christian's cheerful grace, <
With hope coLfidiug to the end;
The orer draught rf grief efface,
And pray God resignation send.
1 Yes, proy that when your time is o'er.
Your race on earth is duly run;
You too may sing on Canaan's shore,
Thy will, O! God, be cror done.
MY THE LAST MAIL
IVashixotom, June 11 ?Shea, one of the
counsel for Jefferson Davie, made a motion
before Jud^e Underwood in chambers, in order
to te?t the jurisdiction of tho courts ia Virginia,
involving the power to hold the prisoner to
bail. It being a judioiel question with whieh
the President has nothing to do, Judge Under- t
wood expressed the same opinion whieh has
always been insisted on by Chief Justioe Chase,
that so long s? martial law or military surveillance
was enforced in Virginia, the courts
were s mere adjunct, and to be used >a aid ef
the military power. Judge Uudarwwod decline*
issuing a writ of habeas corpus to bring
ine prisoner before his court, until he reeeivea
from the President a relinquishment of the
accused from the eivit authorities, Mr. Davis
being now a prisoner of war
Naw Yo.1 x. June 11.?Th? ?
terminated in a tight about eight mild from
St. Ariuund ; a brigade of British regulars
charged upon a small portion of Shear's aruj
that hail remained behind, and captured sisteen
prisoners ; some of the Fenians were
killed, but how many is not known.
This fight took place almost on the boundary,
across which the Feoians were oompelled to
retreat. The English, howerer, had no idaa
of stopping on account of boundary, and they
charged forward across the liue, firing upon
the retreating band of Fenians. They also
made some captures on American soil; this affair
has been reported to Gen Meade, who is
at preseut investigating it.
The Fenian Council of War, at Buffalo, has
decided that it is best to order all the troope
back to their homes , without arms and money,
they thiuk it a useless waste of life to oator
Canada.
Wasiiinutos, June 8.?The final report of
ihe Reconstruction Committee setting forth (bo
reason ror the action of the majority was road
iu both Houses to-day. The conclusions of
the Committee are brietly that the people of
the South have proved themselves insurgents
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and privileges, that the so-called Cosftdr^k
States are not entitled to representation in
Congress, that before allowing it, adequate security
for the future peaoe and safety of ties
country should be required from them; and
this can only be found in such changes of ths
organic law as shall determine the civil rights
sud privilege of the eiliien in all parts of lbs
republic, that the represent*.ion should bt oa
an equitable basis, that a stigma be fixed on
treason and protection be given to lejal people
against future rlaims for expensee incurred
in the rebellion end for slaves emancipated by
the war, together an express grant of power
in Congress to enforce these provisions to their
e-d.
The Committee advocate the joint reeolntien
amendatory of the Constitution, and the two
separate bills designed to carry the law iaio
effect. The Committee claim, in conclusion,
that these bills are the result of conciliation
and concession. The report is signed by ten '
Rrpublican members. The dissentants are
Senttor Johnston and Kspreecn(stives Grids
and ltodgers.
Coxcoed, X. H., June 8.?It has hsea officially
announced here, from the War Department.
that there will nmhahl* b- ?
of calling oul the militia to preeorro neutrality.
Piii i.aDKLPtua, June 8.?An*bony Probst,
the murderer of the Deering family, was executed
this morning in the preseuoe of a few %
spectators.
MoXTOOMear, June 7.?A majority of Um
Supreme Court hare cecided the first and
eighth sections of the stay law, postponing
judgment on suits for twelve months to be con*
stitutional. The second, third and fourth tactions
which stay collections of judgment already
rendered bufore the passage of the law
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The sixth section relating to sale* under mortgage*
is also declared void. ,
Washinotok, June 8. ?In the Senate the
Reconstruction resolutions pawed to-day. Yens '
83; nays 11.
Toronto, June 8.?It is reported that all b
quiet on the Western frontier.
Parliament meets to day, and it is understood
that the Oorernor-Genaral asks for the
immediate suspension of the habeas oorpus
act.
An attempt to seise the Canadian tteaasrs
Corinthian and Pec heater, at Charlotte, ywtw
day, iraa frustrated.
Rrrrato, June 6.?It is said thai two Faaiaa
spies are to he shot this mnmin ? ?# w?-4
The Fenian* are moving from M alone with
artillery.
On hi* arrival at Fort Brie, the Awirloa
Consul was shot at aa<i grossly insulted by the
Dri'ith while in a house, with flag nnfurled.
He has demanded an apology.
New York, June 6.?Dr. Bisssl reports that
the mortality among patients is alarming. At
quarantine the disease is eery virulent. Some
die in a fsv hours rter being taken. The
ship Eugene whieh arrived from Hamburg, reports
twenty deaths, and eleven on the steam,
ship Herman from Bremen. The disease oq
these two vessels Is not stated.