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For tho Advertiser. A Spirit Message from Fort Delaware. Bx S. A. L. I'm thinking of thee now, this summer night, My mother dear, beneath thc shimmering light Of brilliant skies o'er canoping tho sea The earth-tho air-I'm thinking now of thee. I gaze upon the horizon's purple rim ; My bean grows heavy, a%l my eyes aro dim With unshed tears, for though to man's cstato . I havo arrived, my tears will como of late. And just above that rim the Scorpiou's sheen I:; bright as from my Southern home I've seen Its jewelled splendour, when too fair young moon Unveiled ber crescent o'er thc brow of June. I think of thee, for ob ! bow oft have I, My hand iu thine, titus gazed upon tho sky; And pointing ont the constellated throng, Like marshalled hosts which to this earth belong. ?. Yet bow unlike, for still they come again, And every night renew their peaceful reign : Each one is in its place-rip.wrath-no strife, 'Tis with such happy hosts that Heaven is rife. " These thoughts engender others ;-now my toni In its. sad ful!ne?s seeks some other goal Prizod of my boyhood, nnd the realm of thought Points to theb.tums my wandering footstepssought With dog and gun I've roamed tbe bentley bills Free frctn.aH care, from life's o'crshndowing ills ; llave roused thc. partridgc^from i:? covert shade, Dave watched thc gambols which the squire! made. Secured thc gamo I knew my mother loveJ, Gathered wMd flowers a". I idly roved: Then sougLl ber ?.le when evening shades came on, Eager frr the approval I bad won. When last I met thy warm and close embrace, Tiiscaso bad loft '.is itrjrers on thy face ; Thou knotrcsr, ?other, from my earliest years, I loved to nurse thee through thy su?e-in^ hours. .Sometimes I fear T never more shall seo My childhood'* home,-thc ones so dear to mc: For hope so oft my longing heart has fled, 1 almost feel as if all bepc wero dead. How lonely here, though thousands sleep around, For oa this sea-girt islet f am bound ; Though not by thongs, by walls so strong and high, I feel as if no human haunt was nigh. But cb ! there sure'y will seme glad time como, "Whoa I siiail rcac.i tba: dear old inOM grown home: When I shall soc tay ?nuih?iV face once more : Shall hear my father bles.s mo as of yore. Shall feel my si-tcr's kisses on my cheek ; My brothers joy bis kindly tones bespeak ; Titi smiles of cherished trie itu-thc hearty cheers From faithful s?riants greet my listening ears. Good nigbt, my mother, tor sweet thoughts will calm Tbc restless bosom as with healing balm ; I'll strive to" dream ol' Heaven, of home, and thee, I And may to-morrow change my destiny. June 1st, 1865. From ibo X. Y. Tribune. Letter from Hon. Jacob Thompson? \7Le:i hostilities bctwe-eu thc Northern and Southern Stutts broke out, and especially prior to chat timo, I entertained, 1 confess, deep, nnd strong prejudices against you and your paper, oh account oi your violent attacks upon ?.jcih?rn ititerestsaud institutions. Hut since jthayi.n.: I br;vi; re.-wiy sought the Ti ib , y une t?leafn the truth. There is a frank and ' ir.:'.nly directness itt your columns which I admire, and therefore I now make an appeal to your generosity to admit this commuhica,; ?ion into tho columns o? the Tribune. Sure ly there cati no longer oe anyo.\isling reason why Northern papers should desire to stiiin aud slab the reputations of Southern men ; and I suppose the press will be muzzled no longer, and a difference ol opinion no longer . be regarded as trea-am. ? The search of a good mau is fir truth. To set this before the people ol' the United States is the work ol which 1 arie your assistance, 1 and that of ali who hate unjust persecution. Ihjve been attacked often in Xi rt horn journals within the last four years, hut here tofore have attempted no reply. To defer iDngcr, however, if the avenues to the public ear aro open to me, would argue contempt for public sentiment on ruy part, which 1 clo not feel, and silence, might be construed into au admission ot the justness of the attacks. Laiit summer, wheo my name was unneces sarily drawn into a correspondence between yourscll and some of my fricuds at Niagara Fail*) thc New York Times began a regular ! charge upoa me tor " thieving," while Secre- j ttlry of the Interior, using the epithet u Mr. j Iluclianairs thieving Secretary/' and others I of the same purport. Tho Herald afterward j indujged ja thc same kind of expressions. ; Bat what wa? the transaction by which these I expressions are sought to be justified?* itfereVollows an explanation that it was ! not Thompson, but one of his clerks, who I stoic those Indian bonds.] An editoriij appeared in thc New York j Herald, evidently suggested by Geueral Dix. | in which the impression is sought tc Lo made ! that I was in some way connected with tue hotel burning iu New York. This seems to ; bc an inference from the fact that a Mr. Mc Donald was arrested and" held in dread of.his lile for some time, because of his supposed participa'.ion ht this attempt at incendiarism. Tho defectives Und out that this McDonald*; bas a brother in Toronto, C. W., who is great ly devoted to bim, to whom they ?make an appeal ro.-.ve bis brother's lift, and point out to him how it may be doue, and that was to appeal to the tror.erosity and magnanimity of; those who w&re engaged in it, to exonerate j thc prisoner, as they had no doubt it was tme j ho had taken no part in the nii'air. Thc ' brother, under the guidance of his feelings, ?, bit at Hie bait, and hunted np, anti induced the young men with whom Iiis brother was : charged to have been associated, to state his j entire innocence of all connection with them. ; Thc young moll, fearing the strength ol W. L. McDonald^ feelings aright induce him to ] act unwisel y with their statement, and having i full confidence in mv discretion ?md ?rio?dli ness, directed bim to pince it in my hand, to bc used when I might deem it necessary to sav-c thc prisoners life. I did not see the young mon on the subject. Afterwards thc detectives induced the different female mem bers of the family to m ike (Ko most, piteous j appeals terme for. tor: poper, i never believed | it- production necessary to save the prisoner's-1 life, because each messenger reported that | General. Dix-did not-'behove the* prisoner guilty, but reftrsed to rel?ase him un-il bc could obtain- ibis negative testimony, thus playing upon the feelings bf tins most e<:i mable family. Wheo 1 saw the game tbtl was played, 1 wrote a l.-tter to Mr! McDon ald in prison, saying I was willing -to ccitify j that I had a paper signed hy some of thc par ties engaged in the burning, by which he was entirely exonerated from all participation in it. But this did not satisfy the authorities Finding they could rot move me, they turned upon poor C"j ..i:: Kennedy, then andersen tenets of death, and induce?] hjtn, (under what circuinsranees I know upt, but I pre sumo when bo WHS intoxicated,) to cer tify to a statement .\s a true copy of iii? pa per 1 held, but wi ch -a no.copy, and whii ls contained what : Laxo .-...?O J ascertained to j bc absolute falsehoods. They stimulated and I excited Captain Kennedy.ngaitist me in e^ possible way, but they could not in bis n desperate moments pct bim to implicate in the plan for the burning, because he ki it Was false. But you see the extent of connection. It assumes this proportion, more. But of all the astonishing things wt have happened during this war between States, the inte proclamation of tbe Pr dent is the most unreasonable and unjust, seems there, has been created a new burt called tho." Bureau of Military Justice.'' that, it seems, there is evidence thavjtho sassiuatton of the late President was " ?neil concerted and procured ly and between J ferson Davis, at Richmond, Va," and my: and other rebels- and traitors ? barbo: in Canada."" When this proclamation react mc, I was in New Brunswick, o? my v home. I bis is a novel mode of banishme Now, sir, mark how a direct statement \ meet every point made by the evidence the " Bureau of Zdilitary Justice," and put open shame so solemn an act as a procla* tion. I aver upon honor that 1 have ne1 known, or conversed, or held communicatii either directly or indirectly, with Booth, 1 assassin of thc President, or with any of associates, so far as I have seeu tfem narai I knew nothing of their plans. I defy t evidence in the Bureau of Military Justi The proof, whatever it is, is a tiosuc of fal hood, and its publication cannot be ma without exposing its utter rottenness. I know there is not half thc ground to si peet me that there is to suspect Preside Johnston himself. Pirat-There was absence of all motive my part. To have removed Lincoln at t time it was done was most unfo-tunate bc for me and for the people cf the South. Tl I have believed, aud have often so express myself. President Johnson was to acquire dazzling power in the event of Lincoli death. ' Second-A paper is found in Presida Johnson's room, alter the assassination, sign by thc assassin himself, to the edee: that (Booth) docs net wish to trouble him (dob son,) but wants to know if he (Johnson) in. Now consider thi-. is not from a priva citizen to a high oilicial, and it is certain th if it had been sent by any other man, at ar other time, to any other oilicial except tl ono moat deeply interesled in the event abo to happen, it would have implied previo intimacy and intercourse, and a wish to lia' an interview without witnesses, which t! writer expected, circumstances admitting i Third-President Johnson goes tu bed. c the night of the assassination, at the unusu hour, tor Washington, of*nine o'clock, ar is asleep of csurs-.?, when an anxious gent;. map leaves the side of the dying Preside! to inform the new incumbent of bis gre: good fortune, which lilied him with unatter ble distress. .Now, mark me, J do not say that ali th creates a suspicion in my mind of-thc cor. piicify of President Johnson in the foul wyr upon President Lincoln. But this I do sa; thal if such circumstances con'd be so w.e take!? against the lion. B. G. Harris, cf Mt ryland ;. Ben* Wood, of New York, or M Vallancli;;u?im of Ohio, they would have bee received in the Bureau of Military Justit as testimony as strong us proofs from liol Writ, "i h?iSO feels may possibly suggest t President Johnson ami those wno owo thei otHoiuLpOSilion and "jiirsonal consequence t che breath ol' bis nostrils, a good ami suilicier .reason why tbe excited public mind of th people* ol tito United States which has bee lushcd-into fury by. weH concerted manipula dons, and now demands a victim, should bc ??eve lint there wa? evidence in the " Borea of Military Justice'' to Convict Soe Lem me - '. ceb?is und traitors"--of having " incited concerted and procured" thc assassination o President Lincoln. But, at ali eve;.ts, then facts ought to teach President Johnsen a ?es son of moderation and charity to all thoa suspected. 1 feel coi.h'dont no fact susccpti bio ol being tortured by ike sire wu..?.: inge nu rt y imo a choring so uiifartirabit*, tun b shown in truth against President Davis oi myself, nor, do I believe, against anyone o the gentlemen name.! in tl-e proclamation. Again, i am denounced as a lr .it >r and rebe?in this proclamation. Let tbewoikl judge between Pr?*i ?cut Johnson cid my seit, not according to tim law of might, bul according io thc ruL-s of right. For 'our yean prior to tim secession ol M:ss;x?ppi, 1 wai abs-itt from tb- Stat?, en paged in tho service of tho United SUfe3. J had no control aod could exert no influence over tho political action of the Slate. Presi dent Johnson, on the. contrary, hail been in the meantime in the service of the State ol Tennessee, a while her Chief Magistrate, and then tho representative of bor sovereign ty ia tli ? Senate of the United Mates-a body in which ali the Slates are sovereign and cipja!, irrespective of strength and popu lation. Prior to thc war between the Slate*, we hath had been democrats and belonged to the same party. In our creed, tho Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of ;9S and Dil set. forth thc doctrine of State rights. The demo cratic party for sixty year;;, with only tempo rary departures, bud held to their cardinal principles as initiated by Jefferson and Madi son, who had become the great apostles of tile party. By them, we learn that the con stitution of thc United States is a compact between sovereign States, each State acting for itself and us an integral party. Tho powers, granted were, delegated powers, to be exercised by a common agency for the Common welfare. To aroid future misunder standings, three of the Slates, in their arti cles of ratification, expressly reserved the right to resume the powers delegated when ever they believed they, were not used for their advantage. Un the subject o'f treason tho United States could declare no act trea son, except the making war upon the Um ted States and the giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Each State, however, being sover eign and having a larger scope of powers, could declare almost any act treason-a re fusal to bear arms in ber defence, to return home when required to do so, to bring into tbe common treasury any proportion of the properly required of each citizen. Wc were both North Carolinians. When she refused to ratify the Federal conslitution we remain ed North Carolinians.'owed our allegiance to (be Stme, and w?ro bound to obey her orders. By ber act of ratification, afterwards, she mide no citizens of thc United Slates. In co./.-yiPiite of her act aud in cb.'dier.ee to her order, we were bound to obey the consti tutional laws and regulations ol the United States, anrj if either of us had been guilty of resisting the iaw with an armed force, we would have been'guilty of treason, bccau;o we acted as individuals on our own responsi bility and bv our own mere motion, and the laws of the United States operated directly on individuals and tm individuals ouly. But, on tho contrary, if North Carolina, acting in lier sove reign capacity, resumed her delegated powers ?br any cause, and then ordered ns to take up arms in-her defence, obedience to her order might be cons rued possibly us w,ir upon the United Suites, but we would not Ito gtniiy of treason as individuals, 'because we would have no volition. Our net would bo the act of the Sta'.y : and if th-re was anr guilt, the state would be guilty of treason, and that is a manifest absurdity, as there: is n > I gal mode ol punishing a Stan.'. Awl hi?v . our ins' i iition*. b^en so miserably co* - st ;i ! .1 as to ? lace thu citizen in a posit i in which i ?rc.es bim iii bs guilty of theJiighest crime known to il e law", without any volition of his own, when obedience to tho order of one. govcrnmcut makes bibi guilty of treason i to anotber. I When Mississippi - seceded, I felt it to be my duty lo leave the service of thc United States, return home, and subject myself to Ibo onlers of roy State ; for thu sacred cause of State rights and State sovereignly, tbe doctrine of the fathers, I was willing to stake my life, my fortune, and all ray hopes. Mr. Johnson thought it his duty when Tennessee seceded to bold on to hts place, to set at naught the action ef his State, which had so often honored him, and to place himself under the protection of the United States, lie look sides with .power ; I took sides with weakness. Our motives are known only lo the living God; but I claim to have been honest, self-sacrificing and patriotic in the course I pursued, and I leave to posterity to decide whether power bas been given on earth to make wrong rigbr. Thc fortune of war cannot change a principle, although it may revolutionize a government. I cannot but think this proclamation was not intended for mp, 1 it it was to furnish an excuse to deni harshly with President .Jeffer son Davis, if arrested. A purer patriot, u more, conscient ions Christian, and a more honorable gentleman than he never lived in any ago or country. All he has done has been in obedience to thc behests of thc sov ereign States composing thc Confederacy, lie leaves, if the power and cruelty of his ene mies make it necessary for him to leave, with tho pmnd consciousness of having nobly dono his whole duty More true joy Marcellus exiled feel?, Than Ctosar with a Senate at his heel.?. Thc States were once confered sovereign ties, and as such, challenged our respect and obedience. Now, after a war of four years of unexampled- suffering) distinguished by feat 3 of gallantry, that reflect the highest' honor upon the patties engaged, aller thc two parties have been recognised by themselves and by all the civilized wcrld as belligerent.', to conclude tbe war by simply regarding thc arm'es of the United States as a huge posse ComiidiuSy ami the opposing armies as so many felons resisting arrest, is a most lame and impotent conclusion, which will shock the civilization of the age, and render this mighty war a tragical farce. There was uo nocd of offering twenty five thousand dollars reward for my arrest. If I felt the least assurance of being tried accor ding to the recognized principles of law, witnout a prpjudgmeut, without the arbitra riness of a court acting under tho instructions of this "Bureau of Military Justico," and rifjiou* contumely, 1 would go in person and dclryer myself up to the proper judical au thpnticF. Until 1 have such an assiirar.ee, I think I ought to keep out of the way, which no ooabt will gratify my enemies. J With respect, JACOB THOMPSON. ?vj May 10, 1865. 'An old Said Hakes a Young Widow. ' It is generally thc case that tbe richer and more beautiful'a young female is, thc more difficult are both her parents and herself in thc choice of a husband, and the mororo ii er s they refuse. I bo one is too tai!, and the other too short-ibis not wealthy, I hal bot respectable enough. Meanwhile ouc spring passes after another, and year alter year ?ar ries away leaf after leaf offhc bloom of yon th, and opportunity after opportunity. Iiuriiet Solw&od was the "richest heiress in her native tuwii ; bul she had already completed her twenty-seventh year and beheld almost all her young friends nnitedto inca whom she bad, at one lime or" other, discarded. liar riot began to bc set down for an obi maid. 1 [er parents became really uneasy, and she her self lamented iii private a position which is not a natural une, and to which those to whom Nature, ntjd Fortune have bum nig-, gard of their gift's are obliged to submil; but Harriet, as we have said, was both handsome and very rich. Snell was thc state o' things when her un cle, a wealthy merchant in the north of Eng land, came on a visit to her r .??nts. Ile r .-t a jovial, lively, straightforward . -?cus lamed to attack all difficulties boldly and coolly .. ion se -," said her father to bim ono day, " Hat rici continues single. Thc giri is banu sott? : what she is to have for ber fm tune you kr? v. : even in this scandal loving town nut a creature ctn breathe an imputation against her: ami yet shelis gelling to bc au old ma d." "True," replied tho uncle; "outlook yon, brother, the great point in every etlVir iu this world is to seize thc right moment; lilis yon hare not done. It is a misfortune, but let tim girl gu along with mc, before the end of three months i will rc lu rn her to you as lite wife, cu'a man as young aud wealthy as herself." Away went tb.: niece with ber undo. On the way home, bc thus addressed her: / '.Mind what 1 am going to say. You are no longer Mks Selwoud, but Mrs. Lumley, my niece, a y?.ung, wealth}', childless ???dow; ? you bad the inislbrlune to lose your husband, Coi. Lumley, after a happy union ol' ti quarter of a year, by a fall from ahorse while .hinting." "? " Out, mich;->' '"Let nie manage, if you please, Mrs Lum ley. Your f .?her bas invested mn with full powers. Here, look you, is the wedding ring given you by your late husband. .Jewels, ami whatever else you need, your aunt will sup ply you with; and accustom yourself to cast down your eyes." The keenwitted unpleintroduced bia niece everywhere, and everywhere thu young widow excited a groat sensation. Tue gentlemen thronged around her. and she soon had her choice out of twenty suitors! lier uncle ad vised her lo accept thc one who was deepest in love with her. and a rare chance decreed that ibis should bc precisely themo-it amia ble aud opulent. The match was. soot) con eluded, and one day the uncle desired to say :i few words to his nephew, iu private. "My dear sir/' lu* began, " ve hivo told j you au untruth." '.How so? Aro Mrs. Lumley's aiTec-1 tiona-" ; ? '.Nothing of thc kind ; my niece is sincere ly al (ached to you.'' " Then her lortune, I suppose, is not. c-quai to what you told mc !" K On the contrary, it is larger.'' " Well, what"is tuc matter, then?" "A joke-an innocent joke, which came into my head ono day, when I was in a good humor : '.ve cooltTnot recall il afterwards. My niece is not a widow." '. What, Ls Col. Lumley living?'' " No. no, she is a spinster.* Thc lover protested that he was happier than bc had ever conceived himself; and the obi maid was forthwith metamorphosed into a youi.g wife. No INCOME.-Mr. E. F. Sibley, editor of tho Aurora. Iii., Commercial, and Assistant Ags?ssor cf Internal Revinuo in Dearborn cJuaty, narrates the following amusing ot: cnn euee, which occurred in thc discharge of his official duties : Assessors of internal revenue, in their per-j Dgriuatioi's, sometimes run afoul of un ainu sim; incident to relieve the dull routine of their mat cj-of-fact vocation. While laking the return of a son of Erin, thc o'ber day, tho following prescribed interrogatory was put lo him : " Had your vyife any inc une du ring iii . past y 'ar '."' " Inconw Js it ?" ref lied Pat, '' divtl a ba-sue had twin* th.- year be i- r.e. and that'd enough lor any (lacent wo hum in iwo years !" So tho Assessor though" a?'d went on making out Pui's return, mu' ring upon tho possibility of support < : . ~ man with a fixed annual incomo of that kind* I Negro.Suffrage in the South. Senator Sumner. Wendell Phillip' I others declaro that unices the negroes i I Southern States are at once allowed to the war will have been waged in vain all the blood and Iroasure it bas cons will have been lavished to no purpose - ever. It is not easy to sec how sane professing to be patriots, can permit t selves to use such language as this. Mr. Phillips should declare such sentir is not perhaps surprising, j ie is nc American citizen-disclaims all politic leginuce to the fundamental law of the -and has said publicly within a month he would sooner loseb/s right hand swear to support thc Constitution of United States. To him thc mantenanc that constitution and the preservation o Union arc nothing. They are not obj-ci which he would contend a moment, sustained thc war at all, he did it from < motives, and sought by it to attain otho suits. Bttt Mr. Sumner is not in thai < gory. Ile is an American citizen, and cl to value thc Union and to stand by an feud thc Constitution. The W?r has served fho Union-has crushed rebe against the constitution, and has oxtitigi ed slavery forever-- How can Mr. Sur believe or say that it has been waged vain." ever, if some other desirable result! not at once attained 1 Thc fierce obloquy which Mr. Phi nonrs upon President. Johnson Tor not terring by a stroke of the ron, tho rigl vote upon all tuc negroos of the Sout! States, is characteristic of his relentless arrogant temper. Ile visited" President coln with thc same tempestuous wrntb, a does and will every public man, who fail come up to his standard of public duty, abilit}-, no uprightness of character, no r. lie service can shield from his voluble v lenee any man who fails to comply with demands in regard to the negro. And tl demar.ds just now, ignoring every considi tion of justice and public polic}', exact fi President Johnson that he shall give the franchised slaves complete control of rebel Slates. . Probably the great ma's of our people i concede that political rights should no lon depend upon color. Whatever rights i man enjoys, every other man, under simi circumstances, should enjoy also. Thc ( ored race must enjoy nil the political rig and privileges of thc whiterace,-othcrthii beiug equal. Whatever excludes the bl. man from voling shouM exclude tho wh man also. Tft"e whole country will recogn these requirements, and the legislation of I country will hereafter be based upon thc But the question of negro sutFrago in 1 Southern State0,*?s now pros-ntccl, is notu tied by those principles. Other questic are involved which demand attention, a foremost, among them is that which volves the right of the President cr of Cc gross to decide v:hal shall be thu qua ficaiions for toter.-; in Gu several iSiul Hitherto the National Government has nev claimed any sut h power. New-York] deck by ber own constitution what meri may vol and what men may wt vote, a* ber electioi Some of the Western States pp.rmit aliens vote before they aro naturalized. Soi Northern States exclude negro voter; al) gethor-some require n property quaiilicutii and others admit them on thc samp len with whites. If the. national government n forts control ol'this whole c]U.\st-on, we tnt he prepared see irvit Control exercised e. cry'wbere. It' the President may fay w\ shall vole in one S:ate, be may say who sb; vote in every other. Wt; do not believe tl several States aro prepared to concede bist tliis porer. Massachusetts will deci; fol* horsel', and will no! permit the Presi-'oi Or Congress to decide for her, " who chal? n vote within ber borders. The same rule iau;-t be applied lo Virgin and to Georgia in this initier, as to Miss' cluisetts and-New-Voil;. If they ?ire Statt of ibo Union l bey must con'rv! this q ties tic cd' voting themselves; anti it they are not Statt of the Union, they lin vc no business to vote ? all; President Johnson nets upon t hc prir.c pie-that they RM in the Union-that thc haye neve r boc rout ot'il-that their arts c pretended secession were null and void an never changed in the slightest particular th legal relation of Jbosc Slatc-s to thc Uoioi and this principle, with all i;s legitimate coi sequences, will be accepted by thc country ti thc basis of reconstruction, Ruf even if it were pomp?ien' foi Congres to decide this question ?f r tjro sufiVa-gi there, are .mme .considerations o-n... cte with it which S.'n-ttor Sumner can ?careel ignore. Conceding thc full natunl equal il of the.two races, ihoir opportunit?s for cul turo have certainly been very unequal. ? vti-j large proportion.of thc recent slaves a the Si.nth were field hands-i'?teiaSe, ignc rant o/cven the existence of government, ani just, rig incompetent to I inn opinions on poUl ?cal Fljbjccts ns the ca'ilo by their side. I South Carolina thi- class would very tie;j.tl form a.majorUy of thc whole voling po;mla tion. Is it sensible cir decent lo place th political control of that State in their hands hoes Mr. Sumner believe that it would b ?for anybody's interest to do so? It is tru wc- have ter ribly cbcipcucd that great ant priceless possession, the suffrage; but is i wise. thu3 absolutely to degrade it and. em pl; ii, of all its worth ? The dav will c'me, wo trust, when ever man, black or white, ia fho wholo country tit to exercise the right of voting, will ?losses: and enjoy that right, lint wc reoiuire of for cignora who como to our shores some year' of instruction and preparation before tbci are admitted to its cnjiyni. nt. The sann reasons which make this plan wise, wonk alan require asimilar probation from tue? who haye but just escaped from the ignorant-, and degradation of slavery.-New Yorl Times. " ff clio Tom, which way yon gwinc ?" "C;6?ar, dis chile gwme to Augusta to plj for ofiis ot' de gobefument/' "Well, darkey, what you gwinc (ododowr dar oh ' ' " I'se gwir.? to ply for thc post of senor in de Post odis Apartment." "Sextonbf Post Apartment'?"'. " Vc-s sib ; 1 berry de dead letters. Some time-you hear, Cicsar?-sometimes dey hab money In 'ctn amd den I rille dc corpse ? You see, sah? Yah! yah! yali!" Anil Tom went-op bis way rejoicing. -,-" ? A merchant at San Francisco, having the misfortune to lose his wife*, invited his clerks to"attend the funeral. He afterward! chan ged each of them for the day as lost time, and made them pay for the carriages. A??TUSU NEO ito SHOT.-Wc learn that a lady m Forsyth shot ard bailly wounded a negro-'woman on Monday morning. It seems that her negroes lhat* morning all Heft her, bat inn little while (.nc of the women came huck aud made a*i ell'jrt to uko til" a tub. I This thc lady objected to, v. lieu tho negro j seized her by the collar and forced her back. ! TheioujMiii tuc lady drew and ?ired a rcvob ; ver, thc discharge laking cll'ect Ja thc kc?tl I above the left nyc. She caine to the city ves jtertlayand reported to Gen. Wilson facts in accordance with thc above.-Macon Tele ' graplr. -? -O- ? SS* Kind WOIIIK do not cost much. Tl ey never blister the tongue or lips. Ami AC have never heard of arty mental trouble .*?r - , sing ?"rom this quarter. Though'Grey do not j coat much, yet they accomplish much. They help one's own good nature, and good will, Frau ihn N.-Y. Ilerald.. Important fron CoIumbia?-Nnpoleon /Checkmated. ' . ' Wc learn from our Correspondent in Pan ama that intelligence hus been received from .Bogota, on the best authority, that the Colum bian Government hns 'entered info a treaty with the government at Washington, where by the exclusive privilege of using thc Pan ama Rail oad for military1, naval and other government purposes lias been granted to I he United Slates Government in perpetuity, thus shutting out England, Prance and Spain from the road for ill but merely commercial uses. This treaty is embodied'in the renow edjc.barter of the Panam? Pvairroad Company, and it is said that it was negotiated through I the clever management of some American consul at tho scat of government' in Bogota. As Gen. Sickles is in that vicinity, on a mis sion from our government, it is not iraprom bnble that it is due to his sagacity that this important advantage hacheen obtained! It appears that the government of Columbia bas required and accepted tts'an equivalent a guarantee from tha Uniter! State? of its .?";?. ercignty cn the isthmus, and "security for transit on the road against all foreign Powers. This guaran ttce we are ina perfect position to make good just now. This intelligence will have a stunning ef fect in'Europe. It will, no doubt, be under stood as checkmate to Napoleon, and a warn ing to Maximilian to clear out of Mexico, and will be regarded as foreshadowing a union be tween all of the South American States on thc great principle of the Monroe doctrine. The sooner, then, that Maximilian evacuates Mexico thc better. Il is quite likely that President Johnson will soon give him notice that, bis presence is not agreeable there, and probable designate a day to quit. The right of the governmen t of Columbia to make this treaty will not, of course, be doubted. It bas clearly as much right to extend these nriv ilegei to us on its own soil as NapolconTiad to upset a republican government in Mexico and establish an imperialism there by foreign arms. Our African Relations? Our Assistant Provost Marshal has a rage for visiting "culled"?.balls. A few nights ago the participants in one were very much as tonished at-his appearance, and their delicate nerves quite shocked when his guards took them, collar and cuff, and led them forth tp ?thc guard house. The Africans, whoso pre dilection fjr shaking their toes had got them in trouble, might have been seen tho next day amusing themselves with brush-brooms sweeping the rubbish mts piles on the street, and afterwards they kindly volunteered to load it tn drays, etc. Lau night Mac was again in his glory. 'The bal! opened at S o'clock, amid a clash of tam borines and clapping of hands. Mac knew the minute it commenced, although bc sat in his office with bis feet on (he table and a ci gar stump in his mouth. At a quarter past eight he pat on b's accoutrements', and in five minutes was on his way (uninvited) to thc fan diago. At 8:25 he raps at the door, and, as it opens slowly, ibe perfume gathering on his senses almost overpowers him. But he has no time't? iaint, nnd has lett his .'reviving li n;;" at borne ; so'in ho goes, cioscly follow ed by his provosts; and m iking a charge on thc orchestra-knocking over three wenches and . ne ''buck''-succeeded in capturing tbo ?n;ire crew. We lost several nen wounded (in thc olfactories,) but ?bey are rapidly i?u covering. The "bucks" will bu put towrrk yu tho streets', but Ut* wehebe* (burring their finery being very much rumpled)geteffwith? out any itottble. The "music? was taken down tu thc Provost Marsbal'? oflice and 'pot on extra dirfy.-.pieyihg n few tunes for thc "tiper'" captured day before yesterday. Let our ".culled" friend remember that "what is to be, will be, eVwu if it.nevcr comes to pass ; for such is life."-Macon Herald. Prr.ise Your Wife.. praise 3'our wife, man, for pity's sake give hera little encouragement j ic won't burt uer. She Juts tnado your borne comfortable, your hearth bright and shining, your food agreeable ; for pity's sake teil her you r.baitk her, if'nothing mure. She don't expect it: il wiil make her eyes open wider than they has-.' for these ten years; but '.t will do her good dir all that, ami you, too. Th*re ar?1 many wom.ep to-day thirsting fur tho word of fir?::,n, tho language oT en couragement. Through summer's beat, and 'winter's toil they have drudged ur:com;.!.*..rt i ugly, and so accustomed have their lathers, brothers and husbands become to their mo notonous labor*. Ihnt they look tor and upou thc n as they do to thc daily ribing ol'thc sim and i's daily going el.wu. Homely ove ry day life may be made beautiful by an ap preciation of itsveiy homeliness. Youl.;"ow that ii you can taite from yoi{i ({rawer acleau shirt whenever yon. want it, somebody'll lin gers lr.ve ached in the toil of making it so tTnh and agreeable, so smooth und lustrous. Everything that pleases ibo cyo and sense has been produced hy constant work, much thought, great care, and untiring clfort3, bod ily and mentally. L It is not that many men do not appreci ate tbe thing, and feel a glow of gratitude fir thc numberless attentions bestowed upon them in sickness and health, but they ?ire so seiQsh iu that feeling. They don't come out orttb a beany'* Why, how pleasant you make I binga look, wife !" or, " I am obliged to you for taking so much pains." They thank the tailor for giving them '.fus," they thank tue man in .the full omnibus**'ho gi Veg thom a scat ; they thank tin- lady who moves along in the concert room : iu short, they (bank everybody and every thing out of doors because it is the custom, and conic homor tip tiiJr chair back and ?heir hreJs up, pull | out the newspaper, grumble if wife asks them to lake thc baby, scold if the 'ire has gone down ; or, if anything is just right, shut their monika, with a smack ol' satisfaction, but never say to her, .' I thauk you;" - - 1 tejl you what, men, young and old. if you did'but show an ordinary aiviliry toward those common arl ?oles of housekeeping, your wives; if you gave the oi:e hundred and sixtieth part ol' thc compliments you almost ehoked them with before they were?married ; if you would stop thc badinage about whom you are going to have when number one is dead, (such things wives may laugh at, but they sink deep sometimes ;) if you would cease to speak of their faults,, however banteringly, before others, fewer women, would seek for ether sources of happiness than your cold so^soish ail'ection. Praise your wife, then, for all the good qualities she has, and you may rest as sured that her d?ficiences arc fully counter balanced by your own.-Exchange. ' COULON'I l-'oot. HER.-The Lafayette (I.id.) Courier tells an amusingstory of some young ladies* and gents ofthat place, who were laking a social walk near tbe eenie-te j ry, when a ghost appeared. They all ran i but one sturdy woma.ii of thc strong: minded i class, who stood her ground till tho ghost j got to her, when she seized it, and thrashed i out of his ''rightful disguise a mischievous ! fellow, who heard the project of walking about thu grave yard discussed, and hid lum I seit t here to give the venturesome party a ? fright'. Sile led him back to thc bouse, and i in reply to the qmstioqs poured in upon her, I ?stud, ''Can't topi me, Pvc seen too vanny, men . in ??hciu -o get frightened at them.'' j J3J**The certainty that lien Leo and athen j have been indicted tur tresnen at Norfolk, causes I great excitement in Washington. Cotton--Cotton. ,A?ocsxA,.June, I860. ' I have been appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury.CoXtoo^gjE?nt ttt--S.avannah, and shall rcniaifl'in'Augusta for a few days only, to consult with owners relative to their Cotton.' By the new regulations-all restrictions re lative to Cotton have-bet-r* removed except the payment to Government of one fourth in kind. This is imperativo, and is required to be doue aa soon as practicable.* ' .The Government thinks that its"regulations relative to the marketing Cotton in tbeiusuy rectionary States are extremely" liberal^ and it de. expected in return tha't no unnecessary delay will be bad in meeting ita require ments. "*v * ..... The one fourth in kind being paid, the bal ance ia returned to 'tbe Owner " free" from all other fee* and internal- taxes. Tho at tn, st good raith on ?ur part may be relied OR, and a prompt .compliance, and payment of thf ta:: demanded. '. J! nave no authority to appoint sub-agents in the interior, and can only receive"Cotton at Savannah. I shall be glad to facilitate in every way in my power the efforts of owners to move their Cotton, and to that end shall be pleased to advise with them m regard tb it. .. ,. " . Transportation is at present limited. -It should bc the aim to remedy-this -?want as soon as may bel A register is kept at my office in Savannah, in which are entered the names of owners, number of bales, 'vhere stored, weight,-tc, of all cotton reported. It will be found to our mutual advantage-for all owners throughout the counUry tributary to Savannah to advise roo by letter or other? wine and have their cotton-registered. 1 am informed that there is a largeamount of cotton in store at . Augusta.'- It ia. advisa ble that measures be taken at' once to facili tate its movement, both on your own account and as thc Government desires .that the pay ment of the one-fourth he .not unreasonably delayed. * . . - . Barties owning colton .in atora here, or holding warehouse receipts, will please report the same to me at Planters' Hotel before my return to Savannah, 'which will be on or ab cut the ?'?th inst. . . . T. p. ROBB; lT. S. Purchasing Agent. THE QUESTION OP NEGRO SUFFRAGE.-In the proceedings of thc New School Presby terian Conference, which is now being held in New York, we find the following: .'THE NEGRO TO OFFSET THE IRISH VOTE."' <: The consideration of the memorial was the next business in order, and was discussed" by D. Spear, 0. H. Thompson (colored,) Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Pittsburg, arid others. The principal theme nf the discussion was negro suffrage. The last speaker, whose name was not announced, stated that it became, at this time, aa absolute necessity to give the" negro the ballot, to counterbalauce the Irish vote, and to keep out of Congress and the Senate, men from the South. The time has come, when such influences as Irish and Southern politicians should be held in check. Thc motion on the adoption of the memori al was put and carried." - A MOTHER'S GRAVE.-Earth has some sa cred spots where we feel like loosening the shoes from our feet and treading with holy reverence-where common words of pleasure are unfitting; places where friendship's band.1* have lingered in each, vows have been pji?jb-. ted, prayers offered and tears shed. Hov? ?the thoughts hover around such places, and travel through immeasurable space to visit tticm 1 liutof all spots on earth none is so sacred as that where rest, awaiting tho r?s urrection, those we once lov. d and cherish ed. IIeut>>, in aii agr..% the better portion of mankind have 'chosen the spots where they have Iov?d to winder ai eventide, and ahme. But among the cLiainei houses of thc dead, if ihore-is one spot more sacred than tho rest, it ia a mother's grave, 'lhere sleeps the mother of our infancy ; the one whose beat t was a stranger to cv?ry feeling bat love, ?mi ' w.ho could lind excuses when we could find none for oufselvi 3. There sh?? sleeps-, and we love the very cat th for her sake. A BEKET. Tpnoi-oGJCAi, SEMINARY; IN A BAH WA V.-The Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbians. C, of which the late Ur. Thornwe.U wis the.shining light, and "of which Br. Palmer, hardly lesa able audequal ly rebellious, has recently been chief proles^ sor, ???in n bad *ay financially. Tho treasu rer's import shows that the invrstPil funds of tiie Seminary amounts, in: vonnfi numbers, lo two hundred.and sixty-two thoosaiid dollars. Nen dy one hundred a.-id eighty thousand dol lars are in?i^t?d in. the bond? ol the Con federate States, about sixty two thousand iu' the b uiks. of South Carolina and Georgia; fen thousand in the Columbia bridge, recent* ly bur lied if. we mistake not, and the- balance in valions Southern railroad bonds and stock, and Slate and city bonds. The only iuvosf-' ment in securities outside of the shreded Slate.?. .8 about.-thirty-three hundred dellars in a Baltimore bank_N. Y. Paper. Professional Notice. 'ESSRS. BA0?N & BUTLER' wilL-practrco ia tho Courts of Law and Equity ia tai? bun e. ... - . Old G(H.;e of M. C. Bailer and Carroll ,t Bacon. J011E" E. BA"CO>', ia. C. BUTLER. ' ' Maj 2:t. . SM ' ' 22 Barter ! Barter ! , THE Oraui.eville. MaTiii*ac'urii?g Company will continue to Bmiei Ciutn for Ci'TTtifi, FLOUR; o? KN, ri?Aii, BACON AND LARD,. giving Au*;u.ua price* fir prodded at.il furuiaju big Cloth nt wholesale ratea. (iranitftville. A-jMI X' . ' "tf l.i -r-4-. VT? haro bcon authoriied by the Friends . of Capt. fjf. BOULWARE to ?rhnounce him a Candidate fur Sheriff of EitgeGeld Pitiiict.at tho next election. Apr 12 te* 3tV For Tax Collector.' Tho Many Friend? uf D. A. X. KELL, Esq.j respectfully nominate bim as a ?Candidato ?ci TH'S Collector at tbe next election...,. Pet IS '; j_te__ ? V For Tax Collector. THE many Friends ot Capt. JAMES MITCH ELL raspeetfuliy nominate him " a Candidate for TAX COLLEClOR'at tho nest eleotlon. * : . - SALUD?. - Dec ? ... to* ... 60 A1 Nolice. LL persons In-mbted to' tbe Mutate bf Robert l? J. Delph.Jate of Edgcfield District tkcbaiei, . aro requested taboroo -orward ?nd-tnuk* pay I meut; and those having:-demand? against ra?d i Estate will present thorn in duo time, and proper . ly authenticated.. ; . _ \ ' A. J. PELLETIER, Adm'r. j Oct ia . Ty"_42_ Notice. ALL persons ' having any claims or demands against tjho Batate uf Walker <*. Samuel, ' dee'd., ere required to pwciit them, properly h proven ; and. all persons baying any Notes,- p*. 'purs or Property of any kind .bel uging to said . Estate uro requested to hand ihem in ti? the un ? derrfgnedi who is the lawful Administrator; ui.d ! ulso ttl ose irdobted will please pay up imuiedi ' ately*, in lawful-money oi th? State, or i talubra l?n* in currency. A word to the wipe is ?efficient. I W. B. SAMUEL, Adui'or. 1 Mar 31 3m* 1?