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PUBLISHED KV EU V WEDNESDAY MOEN INO B I D??E?S0?, KBESE & CO. TER.?IS Ol'SUBSCRIPTION. IN VARIABLY IN ADVANCE. The ADVERTISER ii published regularlyev ery WB?3ES0AY MoriNiso.ntTHREE DOLLARS peranuum: ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CTS. for Six Months; SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for Thrco Months,-ahcay* '" miranee. #?S~ All paper.* discontinued ot tho expiration of che titna for which they ?have boon pail. RATES O?" ADVERTISING. * PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, " Advertisements will ho inser-teil ai" thc rate o' ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS per Sq.ui.r (IO Minion linc* or io?s.) for tho first infeftino. and ONE DOLLAR fir each subsequentinsertion'. -v liher.? dweoant, will bo made to-those wishing to advortrso bytbo year. Announcing Candidates $5,00, ?n advance. That Satanic 014 Wretch. . Previous to the passage of the Supreme i tal.aud Explanatory Military Reconstruction ? ll, thu'. S'vLunic olcTwretch, Thad. Steven.--, delivered himself of a spec-h, from which th following is an extract. He'says: . it can ho reduced, I think, to a piain propo .sition, thai. Congress', and Congress atone, wa? thc power li?t cati reconstruct: w:w the power that cain admit these outlying State 1 Hetty I hut ilia Ptesidem has any rigbt'to cali on the Attorney General, or on ani either branch of tue government, to interfere ia any act of such n.construction". There was hui one appeal ^ that tras to the agents appointed by C mgresa. I* ought to befcrmwn listore this" to the President'. J trust it i - known in every colored shobl in this Ljistciot. that the CJistitutiou of the United State? does not apply- lo any Territory. Thc S tach are p vrties to the constitution, they are thf c instructing powers ; they are the sUb*tAn live body. Terril dry, however aeqOired, by purchase or* conquest or by inheritance, is th' property only of that "substantive power,- and - ihit power bound up by the constitution; that p'iwer aio.-ie is g ive ned by the coes?tu* tien, but does not extend for any purpose, into any territory or conquered province. Wai. luci, talk about the Constitution regulating the a.Ttion of Congress io a province, in a Ter ritory. ia a'State,.whether eonqOeted from a legitimate State or an illegitimate State? I may ask how one would treat thc Co-riVd e.-ate States of America. Why just as Con gress chooses. They are cur property ; their citizens are our subjects : their lives, their liberties are subject to the supreme will o thi< body, always Controlled by the laws ol na'iorls, the laws < f war, and the laws of hu manity. There is no other power on earth, thcreis ?KI branch of the government, there is no power in the government, except what i bare mentioned, that has any right to inter fire or to say one word on the subject. If yon wish to punish thc malefic tors for violated majesty, that is another question. Possibly you might do PO turr?ngh your courts of prac lice ; at least you might attempt if, but I di? not Suppose y< K can d > it. But thrre is one thing clear, ttint territory not yet declared by Congress to hz in a State of peace or restera tioti, it is under the military 'authority of the government, and any tribunal constituted by the military aurherity, any military tribunal, any court martii\\ can try any one of those . who belonged to the belligerent forces. Jef fersou Davis, or any man of the army of the . Confederacy, conquered by us, is this day sub ject to trial by a military tribunal. If T had my way I would have long ago have organized a military tribunal under military power, and I would have put Jefferson Davis and all the members of his Cabinet on trial for thc mur ders at Andersonville, the murders at Salsbn ry, the shooting down of prisoners of war in old blood-every man of them is responsible for these crimes. It was a mockery to try that wicked fel low Wirz, and make him responsible for acts which the-Confederate Cabinet was guilty of. Or' course they should be condemned ; wheth er they should be executed afterward I give no opinion. I would carry it out through the legal tribunals that I have mentioned, and which are as much the legal tribunals of the land as the Supreme Court ol the United States. That is my view exactly of what woukl be logical. A3 to the question of con fiscation, I think that a ma? who has mur dered a thousand men, who ha3 robbed a thousand widows and orphans, who has burned down a thousand-houses, escapes well if, own ing a hundred thousa id dollars, he is fined lifty thousand dollars, as a punishment and to repair his ravages. I said before that I was not in favor of sanguinary punishment. I trust in saying that I need not be supposed to con demn them when they are necessary. For instance : the clamor that has been raised against the Mexican Government for ihe b:roic e.vecutiou of murderers and pirates - [some applauie and clapping* of hands-by mcmhets, followed by some hisses]-that c'anior buds no favor with me. I think that \\?iile he bas gone far enough, though not hali so far as be might be justiiied' in going, yet there is no law nor policy under beaven, and no sense of Justice that will condemn that r,ial heroic, much-enduring man, Who for six y?ars has been hunted with a reward upon Ids Head-has beon driven from one-end erf hi empire to another, until he got to the very border-who has no parallel in history that I know of, except it be William of Orange, who was driven from island to island, and bom s^nd-p'itch to sand-patch by just ar t ut as bloody a persecutor as wa^s to be found in Maximilian when he decreed that every man warring against him should be shat down without further trial. I am not going to shrink from saying that I think such punish ment proper/' . At the cfose of the speech, the bill was passed. The ?London Time? ou the Morder of -Maximilian. The unhappy Emperor haa shared the fate of his chief associates, and the renovad d Re public of Mexico is stained with the bloud bf' tho dethroned-Emperor. That blood will cling to the nation as weil as to the/man who ha3 ordered it to be shed. Juarez is but a type of the raco, which, since thc Sovereignty of Spain was withdrawn, has ever alternated between despotism andanar-'; cby, and is now once more free to follow its half-savage instincts. Like -the great majority of those who are called Mexican, Juarez is an Indian, without, it is said, any admixture of European bi-o?. He has shown that-be had energy, courage, andperseverance, but to look to him for mercy, gentleness, regard fora fal len enemy, ead such like vistues, whether Christian or chivalrous, would be futile, ne belongs to a party whose usual recklessness and disregard of human life have been height- , cned to the extreme of savagery by the con fl ici of tho last lour years. The party again represent a barbarous population, inclined to look uptm moderation and mercy a's sig.vt of weakness. The worst traiLs of the Mexican character have boen exhibited in this matter, and lt will impress on'tbenew. Government;a character which will not easily be ebanged. As long as wc c&n 'rerae4mby, Mexico bas leen a lan'f of blood. The Yival factions h?v? never shruak from exercising the utmost' rights of Victory. If the goods owl the liber ty of peaceful residents were endangered by the struggles-of unscrupulous partisans, t - cse > did, at lea.str stake their lives on me event, and when they failed, unddrwutit the list ex tremity of Var. One might have hop?tl that the progress of enlightenment arid humanity might have extended even to Mexico, and that the Republican leaders, taaght by the events of the last feiryears, would have endeavored to introduce a milder political code. They have had not only the remonstrance ot Eu rope, bat thc advice of the United States. Every one is agreed that such a political state as existed before the invasion of the French, cannot j^ermaoently endure. They must be aware that ?(bese incessant disturbances and the desire of a* .many to gratify .their ambi Iton at the cost of-the public peece had their origin in the recklessness and demoralization of society, and that then? .could only be cured by abandoning the evil traditions of political l?ujLMBff? tfiTf if they have at th? drat OD jo?atiaj ytrfeftl ?JJ lb* w?# moni? tifa i formet conduct, we expect their Government will go from bad to worse until it falls anew iato anarchy, and compels another interven tion. Europe is iud likely attain to interfere, bul a time must come tchew the. Vjiited States, will hare io deal teitk tint t?over?t/ietil which slew Maximilian. ; ^ The Influence of Seuator Wilstfn'B Southern Trip. ! "Mack," ?b Washington correspondent ! of the Cincinnati Commercial, in hi* letter of ! of thc 4th inst-, says : Senator Wilson's Soulhern trip has un questionable done him, and through him, as any influential member of the Republican party will do the country, a great deal of j good. It has not in. ary positive stnse made bim Conservative, but it has convinced him * hst 'tb"eYe;is"nerther wisdom - nor statesmafir .ship i? the extreme measures proposed by [Sumner, Stevens and ethers, who kn?w noth ?i?g of the ?south or tho Southern p?op'e ex cfept what they have learned by private letters written bvar>etof worthless fellows, whoso only hope' for preferment and profit is ir. siieb eijisiation M will prevent respectable moa in .the South from participating in politics for years tccome.. Mr. Wilson oomes back fully convinced, so h: td!* me in conversation, that coi. fiscaiion w -ubi be a ruinous policy ipr bjth st e ions 0? the eooniryj and. that those who arc (?r -achii-g.tMt d ctrine are doirl mischief to thy country a'id ty. thc Rjpubiicin pa?ty. [Ie savs^f the negroes want land tjiey mu?: w>rk.f <r it'T that it is easier for a negro in the South, at thu present lime, to earn live aores of land, than for a wi-ite wau in Mas xichusetts th earn one ; that land is cheap ' and work is plvnty, and a maa.who, under cirtu'itstanc,t>s, is not i*ble to carn a,' farm, is not ii- to own one. Ho'-himself, al thc age .f twenty erne, workc-d,?n a farm foi* six dol iars a month, wli'h six dollars.wouldn't buy is much bud ia Massachusetts us on?'dollar votild now buy in the South. li? believe* -.?.he Southern people are disposed to trial the negroes vv.eli, an*l will educate them,.ajad pay them, and enable them td* take care of them selves. This much coming from ? maVi who bas done moro than any' other man-at any rate, quite as much-to shape the policy of the Republican party since its'organization, and to whose practical common*Sense as op posed to Summer's political Quixotism the ptrty owes much of its success, is quite sig nificant. < . ?.Poor Cariotta:'* . "Poor Carlotta!" Maximilian was shot a;ed to the front. Hrs*'last ' worth were j-Popr Carlotta!'' How tender and touch-' iog is this convincing illustration of the matt iy and" generous nature of the lallen Empe ror! Abandoned by France, be ti ay ed by a .Mexican follower, tried by a military tribu nal of his implacable cnemfe*, condemned to death, and. brought out for execution, all in terpositions in his -behalf from the represen datives of foreign Powers, having failed, this distinguished victim of Napoleon's '. grand idea" would have been justified had he d?vos ted his*last moments in denouncing the con [rivers ot his destruction and the barbarians thristiug for his blood, and iii deploring his untimely fall, in ilie strength of his manhood and his hopes. But Maximilian was a man of larger .breadth of niind aud heroism .han this. He bad deliberately cast his life into ' the scales io defence of his empire, he had pledged his word in thc name of his imperial aouse of Hapsburg to right it out with his enemies, and, like a true soldier, he was pre pared for his last disaster. He recognized nis "atp as. resulting from the fortunes of war. and had neither denunciations ncr regrets uh ais own account to. inuke. Like tlc dying Gladiator at Rome. Ile recked not of his life, nar of the priio, His heart was home, and that was far away. Face to face with his remorseless execu tioners, awaiting but the word to " fire !" all thoughts of his lost empire and his low es tate gave way to those endearing memories and sweet affeCtiors which had linked his life,, his happiness, his fate and his ambition with ' poor Carlotta !" As to- a drpwuing mau numerous events of his past ille running through many years of time arc vividly re. produced in a few fleeting seconds, so to this victim of Mexican vengeance were, no doubt, recalled in the last moments of his earthly existence those charming recollections of his young, beautiful, gif.ed, accomplished, and deVQted wife, whereby he had become so fascinated with his Mexican empire, and.his hopes of the Mexican people that he could only relinquish them with ' his . life. " Poor Carlotta !" Her triumphal journeys, her do ral receptions, her welcome chanties, her gra cious ways, her catholic piety, and her re sistless, womanly gentleness among thc sus ceptible Mexicans, were also faithfully devo ted to his cause as to develop in him the he roism of the feudal ages. He was her gallant knigh t, equipped by lier own fair hauds for a glori?os crusade she was his queen of love arid beauty, to whom his word -as a soldier and his faith as a devotee were pledged. All these thoughts in the presence of the .grave, doubtless, recurred to him *as_the memorie> of a gulden dream, and from these and that other thought, that she had hopefully braved the dangers of the seasj aud- the doubtful ? -neroMty of France in his behalf, only to be rop; edtoiu despair, and tobejdoomed to a liv rng death, came the inspiration to Maximilian which was expressed in his last expressive words,-" Pour Carlotta !" Nor is there in the rc-eords of history, a? tue last words of a dying fcaint or hero, any thing giveiv which appeals so" tenderly to our better nature, to all that beautifies and softens the human character, as these dying woads of Maximilian-" Poor Carlotta !" Thiey will crown in history this fallen man. .However misguided he was in his acts as a ruler, those two words, with ail their impressive aud re deeming associations, will crown him with' the f'owers of. affuctiou and the laureis of the hero. Had he recited and eloquently vindi cated every step* and every act m his imperi al career he would have failed to reach the eloquent defens? embodied in his oying ex clamation of " Poor Carlotta !" To her they will be the words of- restoration or dissolu tion ; for-hi m they are the wreath of im mortality. " Poor Carlotta I"-N. 1*. Herald. Publie Lands Granted to Southern ', Railroads. The New York T-ribxene has the following paragraph in its Washington correspondence : Mr. Julian has reported and .had offered to-the House Reconstruction Committee a very important bill^ of which , the following is the substance : Section 1 provides that all the lands-grantr ed to thc States of thc South in l???ti for rail road purposes, nearly 5*,O?O,?OO acres in ai1, which grants are now expired by limitation, are forfeited to the United.Staten, and made subject to the Southern Homestead law. This opens a very large body of cnoiCe lands to settlement and cultivation, which are now tied up in the hands of rebel corpora tions and rebel State governments. Section 2. provides that the Freedmen's Bureau shall appoiaj a competent surveyor to retrace and establish the lines of the old sur veys, where, they are obliterated,'at the ex pense of the United States. . . This relieves the claimants under the Jaw from $10 to .??25 for sjvveying a'single tract, the accuracy o? whick .survey is left entirely uncertain. "M . Section 3 provides that all the public lands of.the State of Texas which have not he?>n disposed of by .-aid State ?ball le forfeited to the United State*, and made subject to the said Southern Homestead law so soon as the ma?h[nery of thc Jsnd department of tho' gov ernment is extended over said lands, which is provided for. ,. Section 4 provides that all agricultural lands. which shall hereafter Be sold for nonpayment e." Federal taxes, and all like lands which shall be sold by virtue of prqqeediugs in bank ruptcy, shall bo disposed of onjy in lots of not. less thangi tormore than 80* aurea. These prov?noos would go far to quiet the clamor which has been raised in the South in favor of confiscation, without interfering with private property. As far as we know, this bill, if passed, will principally affect the States of the South west XS? T'o ?Oft of Bnssian America to fit, taxing pho whole territory; if atosi tfc?t ^aaatm ' THE ADVERTISER. JAMES T. BACON, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 18G7. ; Our Ciiab Kates. . We aro now famishing the ADVERTISER to Clubs at the following, very dow ratos: ? Two-.Copieii one Yoar, $5.50. Fivis Copies ono Year, 12 50. Ten Copies ono Year, 22.50. Twenty Copies ono Year, 40.00. No Clubs received for a less period than one year,-and in all oases the Cash will be required in advance. The namos of the entire Club must bo Fent at one time. ^STr Tho obituary.notice of that estimable lady, Mrs. ELU. O'CONNOR thc wifo of the late FRAN CIS O'CONNOR, Esq., who died at Mt. Vintage, the r?sidonco of her son-in lt\w, Mr- JAMES T.'GRAT, on-Friday last, At the advanced age of seventy, s'-rx ynnrs, bne boen received and will appear in our next i<?ue. . .?23*"* The Provost Court for this Military Dis trict bas been in session fit this placo since Wednesday last. Maj. STONE, thc President of the Court, works with a vim and dispatches busi ness rnp:dly. It rs thought tho Court will remain in session several days. gS?" There is a slight advance in Cotton, and a decline in tho provision market, according to thc last Northern and Lirurpool -quotations. Unnecessary. We call nttontion to tho Card of onr esteemed fclbw-cif?zen, Mr. Jon.s: COI.GAN, but think this public vindication of his character altogether un necessary, as our pcoplo have known hbo too long and too favorably to listen for. a moment to th? malicious rumor tbat-somo contemptible cur may have put in circulation against bim. The Wonder of Wonders ! It is a souroe of real pleasure to announce to cur wader? that SARGENT, the renowned Illusion ist, Magician, Necromancer,'?lc.; wilt give two of bi* inimitable entertainments in Masonicand Odd Fellows' Hall, commeecing this (Tuesday) eve ning. Mr. SARGENT oojries to'us with a wide and icnviable reputation as a Magician t.f tho highest caaraoter. Every where be meets with unbounded success, and gives universal satisfaction.' He is said to be a "Wonder of Wonders." . SARGENT has reocntly visited Augusta, and the Pre*?, noticing bl? entertainments, says': "SAU CENT is drawing largo and fashionable audiences zt his pince of amusement, and the loud and re peated applause with which ho is greeted each evening testifies*" thai his pefforaances are well worthy of patronage. As one evidence of the popularity of this young Illusionist, and the de sire of tho pcoplo to witness Iii? unequalled dex terity, we will state.a ease that came under our special notice last evening. A gentleman cam? rixtson miles, bringing bil wifo with him, on pur poso to tee this wonderful necromancer, His railroad fare, hotel bid, and ticket of admission amounted to about fourr?es dollars; and he ex pressed himself perfectly satisfiod, and would not fct've missed tho enjoyment for twice tho-amount. Thc Crops. It is molly cheering to hear frota all sections of the District so favorable reports in rogard to !h*c growing crops,-Cotton, Corn, Pea?, P4tatne.<; ?c. Our farmers aro in tho most ?xuberant spirits, uud most of them are entirely satisfied whh their prospects. They tell us that their cr ps were never better,-justas good, some say, u< they could desire, True, a few are wolully in the grass, and don't expect much of a cotton crop ; but it is thought tbat everybody will .make a sufficiency- of torn and other provisions for their owu use, and to spare. A big provision crop, and -so far hs .tho most of us are concerned, con fiscation, registration, convention, Thad Stevens, li.L.l lUitlnr. ar\A ol] ivlli?. ulinm!ii.>?/. i ??? I to the d-1. Hurrah for the tillers of the soil, ?ail-thank God for the generous und propitious showers with which we have been blessed. Robbers Arrested. On Sunday last throe men-W. B. Prisock, Rsrly Bedenbaugh and Benj. Bodenbaugh-wore arrested and lodged in j til, charged whh ?nter iug tho houso of Mr.^MATTK?AS SHEAI.T, a very ord gentleman living near the Lexington line, and robbing him of some $25 in money, a quantity of flour, jtc. It is said that they presented a pistol ,-rrid.threatened the old man that if he moved they would blow his d-n brains out. We are gratifi?e to know that these robbers and brigands have been apprehended, and hope that our people everywhere will act. as energetically as did thc cititons in Mr. SUEALY'S vicinity, in having all | such characters brought to justice. It is the only method lo put a stop to ttft the lawlessness extant for the citizens themselves-tho good and true to throw off their lethargy in this regard, dopent no longer on military or civil officers, but to take thc matter io their own bands, and seo to it that all evil-doers are apprehended or run out of the country. And then, and not till then, will good order and security for " life, liberty and property,' resume her wonted sway in the land. Sheriff's Notice. For tho interest of all concerned, we would di rect their espocial attontion-to thenotice of Sheriff SPIRES to all plaintiffs who nave oommoneod suits at law since May 1865. TheVo parties would dn woll to pay thc costs in said suits before Septem ber next,-or tho present costs will be considera bly augmonted and thc parties forced to pay. To the wise, a hint is ?ll that is necessary. Splendid Vegetables. We are indebted to Mrs. J. A. BLAND for" deci dedly the best Cabbage that we have seen tflis" scirsoii-und, in fact, as large and firm as we ever saw brought from Buncombe-, North Carolina. The "Cabbage question," is now certainly jettied, as we don't think jt possible for this mammoth specimon of the Cabbage species to be excelled. To tho Rev. MARION SAMS wo aro also indebted for the largest and finest and handsomest tomatoes it has ever been our pleasure to look Unon. The great mystery to us ls bow such* monsters' cari be raised. .Some of tho tomatoes exhibited by Mr. SAKS weighed over one pound, whilst the general, averago was from ton te twelve ounces. Who can beat, or even equal them? Mr. JACK COV*R, who is nu fait in all that per tains to gardening, sends us a Beet as large as -Well, we are afraid to say, through fear "that our'readers will say that we are exaggerating. Bul wo thank you JACK, for the whale,-'and will order a wheelbarrow' to send it home. Beautiful Cotton Stalks. Mr..linus FEAS.ER, A skillful farmer in tho Mt. Tabor neighborhood, sent to us some ten days since two very Pno stalks of Cotton, over waist high, arfd well filled with square?, blooms and bolls/ These -stalks aro hard to beat even now, ten day? after they were brongbt to this office. We ?re told that Mr. FEASTER*! entire crop*ls lo good order abd looks very promising-the result of industry, good management, guano, and the genial showers of Heaven. The First of the Season. Young FINK.NET DDRISOE, .who js running a ?mall farm, after his owb manner, and by tho way quite creditably, has presented us with a good sized Sw?et Potato. This ls very early for potar toes, and we give PINKMET the credit so far of | beating the big potato mun at tho Cross Roads i but look out PINK, if in the and, the Colonel dont fun ahead. Why Maximilian was Shot. Mr. Romero, the representative of the Mexican government ?at Washington-, ?is said to attribute the ?tern measures against Maximilian and the Mexican ronols to " tho desire of the Mexican, au thorities to take warning by the ill success of the conciliatory policy of the President and Cabinet of. the United States toward^ traitor?, and also a desire to win the sympathies of the dominant politioal party in thic country by a stringent and relentless coane toward the foreign and domestic , ?fiomiff ci Qt? Ibr?aa SifwH?/" i A Word of Warning and Advice to Freedmen. Thc country is hoing flooded with incendiary documents ; speeches of leading Radical?, rni? guidjng ch'atechisms ard inflammatory dialogue/. Many of tho latter'so false, stupid and ridiculous as to mate a very"fdipt laugh. All. these aro in tended for the instruction and misleading of the freedmen,' Of cpurso they, emanate from that wretched but powerful-faction which is laboring with such"satanic virulence to kiadie unnatural and filial social hates between two classes bonnd by so many relations and considerations to a common destiny. , What reek these incendiary agitators of tte future of the poor negro-of his material antiso cial advancement-of the profitablo employment of his industry and tho growth of bia intellectual and moral powers-after they have used him for their miserable selfish purposes of retaining power, of getting office, of accumulating money ? What interest have they to help him to become a useful and productive member of society ? The whole country in all its length ?ind breadth, is swarm ?g with mischievous incendiaries, ?peculating adven turor.-', and unprincipled demagogues, more exoro scencos, hangers on, af the communities in winch they db so ruuch mischief, living upon office) or by the misfortunes and taxation of the pacplo. When these.men have filled their pockets with the money extracted from the industry and prop erty of the people, they can tako their fliglt to distant lundi-to the North, from whence OMI of them come-and there fatten upon their ill gotten spoils. But not so with thc negroes, not so withxur citizens, who have accumulated property and raised families here, or who have established repu tations upon which they depend for sub?istence who aro identified with tho country in so nany, ways. Those white? and these negroee wil re main, they will bo compelled to remain; and it is their mtor?st-quito as much of the negroig as of tho whites-to preserve amicable and kirdry relations towards each other and towards ell of their fttllpw citizens. Those whor whithout provocation, are laboring os we remarked nbove, with such satanic 0'iru lenee to kindle the*e Unnatural and fatal, sieial hates, are thc worst opemios of onr govcrnnent and society. rf If the freedmen allow themselves to be lei by these teachers and taught by those books, they will discover, to their so/Vow, in a very few rrhrs, that they have built their houses upon the stnliesi of foundations. How to Avoid Confiscation. Sena<o.r WILSON-, of Massachusetts, hai ad dress:.! to a prominent Virginian, in ansver" to ta inquiry rec:ntly njRde, the following: SEDATE -CHAMBER, WASHIXUTO.V, D. C., t July 15. 1867. / To Wm. T. Early, Etq.. Chariotteevitte, Vu. ' DRAB SIR:-You ai>k me in your note, " Vhat. action is rioces.?iiry on the part nf the people here to avert from them confiscat?bn ?" I am sure'tbe generous action of General Grant and our Conv m.milers toward the men in arms agninsttbeir country ; the magnanimity of the nation; the liberal policy of Congress ; should satisfy you and the well-disposed people of the rebel State? that nuthiug will be done for revenge, b?t every thing'for the enduring peace of ihe country. Nothing can bring coofircation upon - the people of the robel Stales but the persistent folly and madness nf the massos of their people;.aid I cannot believe that tho body of their people wil! by their future action bring confiscation ipor, themselves. ? will suggest, ray dear Sir, asare, way for your people- to avert from themselvescon; !i -cition, remove disabilities, restore law, order, peace, and individual and national prosperity and happiness: Let them abandou at once and for ever the ideas, principles and policies of their lost cause ;. strive to conquer the prejudices, batei and passions engendered by their robeliAn' and the conflict they inaugurad. Let them accept' the results of the nation's victory, the unity of*J the State?, the perpetuity of the Republic, tbe emancipation, enfranchisement and citizenship of their bondmen, their equality of rights and privi I?ge*. Let them do this in spirit ?s well as in form; let them establish' schools for the education of both races ; let them encourage the freedmen to be thrifyand temp?ratelo get-homcst^ads thomeevelop the mighty resources our Heavenly Father has given the people of tho Sunny South, and cheri h a epirit of fraternity and love. Such action will inspire affection, confidence, magnan imity ; make confiscation an impossibility; cau?i disabilities speedily to disappear, and bring down upon them their State's and country's ble.siug;* and benefits. Ver/ truly, v?nr friend. HENRY WILSON. ^?T-" The Emt Florida Banner," published al Ocala, Fla., by B. F. SMITH, Esqr., Editor and Pmprietor, and STEPHEK C. DEBRCHL, Associate Editor, comes to us this- week with a handsome new head,-an evidence of increasing prosperity. Tho Banner is an excellent wc Hy, published st only $3,00 per annum, and is worthy of support. Pani Kayne's Prize Poem.. This giftod son of Carolina was awarded $108 for the prise poem which app?ared in the last number of the Southern Opinion. We find th? concluding lines in fha Charleston Courier : " Enonch ! 'tin overt the Inst gleam of hope Hoth molted from our mournful heroscope Of all. or all bereft; Only to us are left Our buried heroes and their matchless deeds; The'xe cannot poss; they hwld tho vital seeds Which in some far, untracked, unvisfoned hour May burst to vivid bud and glorious flower. Meanwbilo upon,the nation's broken hoart Her martyrs sleep. 0, dearer far to her, Thu-.) if each ?on, a wreathed conqueror, Rode in triumphant state Th/ loftiest crest of fate ; 0, dearer far, Because omcast and low, She yearns above thain in her awful woe. One ?pring its tender blooms Hath lavished richly by those hallowed tombs; One summer its imperial larges? spread Along our heroes' bed; One autumn walling with funeral blast, Tio witb?red leaves and pallid dust amassed AU round about them, till bloak winter now Hangs hoar-frost on tho grasses, and the bough In dreary woodlands seana to thrill and sturt, Thrill to thaauguifh of th? wind thut raves Across thoso lonely, desolated graves !" The New York Time* says of the laws taxing whiskey, that they are not only failures financially, but they have done more to demoral ize thc whole body of officers charged with t^cir | execution, and to convert a very large proportion of thom into shameless knaves, than all the other j laws of our statute books. ^?"-The Texas papers speak of a general de position among thc farmers of that Str.*.e to les sen the quantity and improve the quality of the land they cultivate. This chango is caused by tile scarcity of labor, which leads to improved cultivation and an increse of production from a given quantity of land. The improvement in the sj'stem of cultivation in Texas will ultimately extend to all parts of tbcf South. The American Consul at Vera Cruz, under ] date of June 2S*th, writes the State Department that the city of'Vera Crur and the Castle of 6L Jua'i P'Ulla, is io quiet possession of the Mexi ' n national forces. General Benaridos, the Imperial chief, and foreign troops have embarked and left the country. We picked up the following lines the other 11 rlay, and publish the? for the benefit of tho writer, j < Although we do not know his name, we congratu late him in bis good fortune in obtaining test: RJ'rTApp OP A 8COI.D?NQ WIPE. "Beneath this stone, my wife doth lie, Sho'? now at rose-rand-SQ am I." EgP" A general beer-drinking trial has come | ? off in Germsray. One man drank twelve gallon? in half an hour ; the other fifteen-and both bursted about the same time. , ?32r Virginia papers tay that Clark Mills is going to make an equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, and has already vidit'ed the ex-Confederate to make preliminary arrangements. ?gf The Fourth of July passed off very quiet ly in Chicago; only twelva fires, five murders, throe.nuicido-, -half a dogoh robberies and nine Bus.es of rape aro reported. The morals of that sity must be improving. tg?-" General Grant approves aiuggestion from I \ Popo, of tho 3d District, that* Confederates who I B jppose the Reconstruction acts violate tho terms if their parole. try Mrs. Jefferson Davis arrived In Charleston in Monday, and stopped one day at tba Milli Koa?, es ter ?rsy te Sarasa**, Qa. I Advice from a Sont carolinian in Washings. Wo find in tho Olarondonfianncr, tho folioi ng brief extract of a lett from Hon. Vi1. W. BOTCE, one of our forme Representatives in Congress, and now praotici* law in. the City of Washington. It is addresse'to Mr. GALLUCEAT, )f' Claren don I) i strict: " A word as to the public atterf. I think our people ought to register al participate *jn the tlections. To do nothing, ill bo te commit gui nde. I bink the great tfnt ia to cany out "lenora! Hampton's idea nd show themselves hereby the friends of the Cored people. Our >eople should recognise wha is inevitable in r? jard to the legal anJpolitiearights of tho Macha, tnd grant, of their own vtHion, what wilt be ;iv?n in ppito of them, "By ait course, harmony >etween the two rates will JO maintained, and' lolitical power in the -Statctwill remain ingana tandi. AH cxpresaions Hough the press or itherwue againat-the domin?t party ho? should i te avoided. It is impossibles^ th?3 tim - for the )eraocratic pnrty to help tb South. The great ibject with the South now sbuld bo to get estab ished in their politicaVrighT. Then a fooling of onfidenco Will take the pino of present ?neeca ity, and'capitnl flow in froinfhoNorth.. I feel intensely for the uibappy crtt?ition of ny Southern friends. You lust not be disooor ged-struggle on-affairs nust improve. With kind wiabei, yjur friend, WIL1IAM W. BO?CE. Congressional and Vv'^hiugton PfewY. On thc 10th, in tho Senate, the President's mos ?ge suggesting liability for Southern State debts anted an animated debate, and heated dcmoh trations as inopportune* and calculated to unset Ie the finances. The ines s a re WAS ordered to be rinted and tho Senjto odjriirtied.. \ In the Honse, the amen?tn .r.t reducing the'Re? onstructibn appropriation t<? $1,04*0,000, waa oncurred.in and the* bill goes to the Plaident. The bill passed last se?>:>u prohibiting the 'resident from troatihg with '.adiana waa repealed. Appla?so from the Democra ic sido over the first tcp backward.) A resolution, inatruCting thc Judiciary Commit se to inquire whether Kentucky, Delaware and iarvlanJ hnve State constitutions Republican in >rm, waa passed by the Spo.ikor'i vote, tho Honse Unding 47 to 47. Stevens introduced two bills pa Reconstruction -one entitlod " a bill to enable tho inhabitants of ie Southern Territories to form State govern tonta." They were ordered to bo printed and sferred to the Committee on Reconstruction. Raymond says that he never applied fur the .uatrian .mission, and Would.not accept it if con rmed. Persons in Washington to secare relief On the ?vee Questions are much discouraged. It ia understood that Cotton cases involving ros itation to loyal owner? decided by the Court pf llaiffia against the government wilVbe appealed rom. The amount involved ?3 $3,000,000. In the Senate, on the 17*h, Wilson proposed Se following amendment to the Constitution : No distinction shall be made by the United Hates or any State Jrmong citizens in their civil r political rights on account of race or color." Ordered to be printed. A bill providing that co person shall be dis tftlined from holding office in the District of Co txmbia on account of race, or color, passed. Ayos, 5; nays, 5,' vi? : Buck ale w, Bo/ard, Davis, Hen Iricks, Johnson. In the House, Butler rose to a queation oi irivibge, and.mada* allegations respecting pris ners. A colloquy ensued. Baldwin asked El Iridge if he expected the House to take Gen )uld'a s'atsmeut against tho testimony and state oent-of Union eflicers. Eldridgo believed thal Jen. Butler himself would not deny that Gen. )uld was a highly honorable and conscientious nan. (Sneering and laughter on the Republican ide ) Butler remarked, that before the war, he md regarded General Ould as a highly congelen tous and honorable man, but when a man coin nitted treason, he wai like a woman fallen from rirtuo, .ready for any crime, and from that hon: io oue knew where to find him. Eldridge re ntnueu tiuxiei mu? m twaBj-mat i ian LU euc nt iad forgotten the eminent men ihat had gone nto rebellion, Hancock, Adams and Washington hisses.) Every one of them bsd been called s robu!, and every one of them bad boon a rebel [continued hisset) until the rebellion became ? laccasa. The following was introduced and passed undei \ suspension of the rulos, by a strict party vote " Thal ?he doctrine evoked by the Presiden! that the abrogation of the rebel States binds thc nation to pay their debts incurrrd prior to th? rebellion, ii at war with the ?irinciples of intern?, donal law, a stab at the national credit, abhorrent to ovary sentiment of loyalty, and pleasing onlj to traitor*, their allies and sympathisers, by whoa? igency alono tho governments of said States wert overthrown." Th? Senate bill conferring on negroes the righi nf holding office waa amended to include the right of serving on juries, and referred to thu Judiciary Committee. A resolution requesting the President to iaaue a proclamation dirocting the proper officen to pro rent the invasion of Mexkw, was referred to the Committee on Foreign ?fft irs. On the 18th, in the Honse, Mr. Robinson lietel leave to introduce a preamble and '?aolution tc remove tho raw cotton ta.t. Megan. Allison anc Benjamin objected. Mr. Binghnm sent to thc Clerk's de?k, ami hat read, the followinir tel eg rn rn, rc-eived by hin From General Siokles: 1 Thauks for .you handsome reply to Mr. Eldridge; You may rw lievo his anxiety with tho consoling inforipatioi that my equipage has not r st him or any of bl friends anything, said equipage Ltipg (he cher ished gift of my colleagues of the ' Third Arm} Corpa." Mr. Logan offered a pre.-.M'jlo and resolutions which Was passed, reciting the general Tumor tba irmed expeditions are being organt?od in chi: :ountry ?gain?t the Republic of Mexico, at 7arl inca with the feelinga and wishes of all goo< ;itixens of the United States, and contrary to eg tiiblhaed public policy ; and lespectfuljy request ?ne the President to issue a proclamation requin nf ill proper officers of the United States to preven ?uch unlawful organisions being formed, am (raming all peraona who depart from tho United States on auch expeditions that they will forfei Ul rights to protection under the laws of thc United States. On the 10th, in tho Senate, thc House amend, ment allowing negroes to ierre as jurors wsu adopted. f Sumner introduced a bill to strike out the wore white from tho naturalization laws, which* wai referred to the Judiciary Committee. The veto wag read, and the bill passed notwHh. standing-- 36 yeas to 6 naya-Bayard, Buckalow Davis, Hendricks, Johnson, Patterson, of Ten aossee,-and the Chair announced that tho hil! wai a law. , ; The reconstruction appropri?t inp bill was pastee' iver the veto. In the Senate, on the2Qth, there wa? an ixregu lar discusaion regarding adjournment, in whiol :ho President was denounced a? contumacious ?nd Mr. Chandler said there was a ?ort of hybric joncern in the Sonate called Conservative Be publicans, Foasenden took the further remark* of Chand er at personal and said he hod but 'ope. thing tc lay. Tba Senator from Michigan say? what ii jot true. Chandler buried back Mr. Fesscnden's COD tempi rith ?corn, when the amiable controversy wat in irrupted by a motion to go into Executive set ion. The Senate ?dop tod the report of the Oom nittee of Copfere?ce and then adjourned to Hit if November. Tho Now York CHizen IcarnBthat "Broth .r Ben (Wood) trot hit with a red hot poker about ten days apo-a 'draw poker' in fact o the tune of $45.000-the winner being a dominent and respected member of fae up ?er house of the Common Council. Thia i? k fact, and it was a band of tbreiracea agaiuit bree qneenR that commenced the heavy baal ??as. Th? t;amo was played near th= Fifth Lvenue Hotel, in the saine room and at the ame table whore Brother benjamin, not long ince, won $128,000 in OD C evening from Con -r-4-=-?' '-1-r-^ For thc Advertiser. A Card. ? I tras no jess astonished tb soi pained to hear, a 'Yew days sinoo, that a false and insidious report if in c ire ula lion, to the effect,. that I am- a United Btates Detective, whoie '-busibesa it ft to spjr out and in'fbjrm i?e agents.-or:lao Qorernrnelrit, of any infractiftn.of the'Intern^-Rerenue-laws, by my fellow cUtfaens. ." Wbenyor how thitu tejp'ort .originated I am unable, to twy.i If nay of .my.-ac tions have bena suchas to lead to tho SUspioion ' that ? am a spy, I am perfectly willing that the(i mittor uh?M be investigated by a committee of honest me*. As such a report is calculated to in jure my reputation by lessening me in the esteem of tay fellow-citizens; I tuite this rnethod of pro nouncing it false and malicious ; and I herewith and hereby brand tho designing inventor of .this , fonl falsehood,this "j\ta?tTh tha'twtn*a|of ppuwa which ever finds an easy entrance io ignoble v minds," as a hypocrite, liar and knave:' ? hope* this card, and the passed; services .that land my sons have rendered the. C.VUJO once dear: to us all,. wi|l be eutrjeient to vindicate my name before-an impartial public. "'.-v .? JOHN COEOAlf. ?j , Tba Presideur* Veto Meaaog?. .O?rthe 19th, th? President sent jn to botjl Hoas?t-ot Congress hmvetwf tbe^uppletaen tary Jjfll, but wbidi was immediately passed in the Senate, over bis yeto, by a tote.of 30 ayas to 5 r.aji, and in the House by 100 aje? to 22 orfys. . >*. The lifessagc covers' three coramns- and ar gues elaborately thc inconsistencies, uncon stitutionality ?ud tyranny o"f the neu Aliud" ing to the dedrara/ion tbat the" State govern ments are ii?egal, he says : A singuUrcontra dictjoa is apparent here. Congress declares these local Sta e governments to -be Wega! governments, and then provides that these il legal.govern meats sbaH be carried "on by Fed eral officer*, who are to perform the very-du ties imposed on its own officers, by this ille gal State authority. It certainly would bc a novel spectacle rf Congress should attempt to carryon- a legal State government by the agency pt its own officer*. ' It is yet more strange that Congress attempts to Ktistain and carry on an illegal- State government by the same Federal agency. With regard to titre by conquest, ha says : It is a new title acquired by war. it applies only to territory or goods or moveable thtOj^s regularly captured in war-at? called M booty," or if taken by individual soldiers, " plunder.''* Tkere i's not'a fool of land if any one of these ten States whiob tbe United States bolds by conquest^ save only such land as did not belong td either of these States or any , individual owner. linean such lands as did belong to the pretended Government called the M Confederate States." These lands wo may claim to hold by conquest. As to all other land or territory?, whether belonging to the States or to individuals, the Federal Gov? e'rnment bas now no moro tide or right to k than it had before the rebellion-. The rn esvare concludes : u Within a period less than a year the le^'wlarion of Congress has attempted to-at rip the Execjitiv?-Depart. - ment cf t he-Government ot aomeo? its essen tial powers.' The Constitution and the oath provided rn it devolve upon the President the power and the duly to .see that the laws are . -faithfully executed. The" Constituticii, in or der to carrv out ibis power, gives him the choice of tho agents and makes them subject to his control and supervision-. Bot -rn the' execution of. these lawn tbe constitutional obligation upon the President remains ; bnt thje power to exercise that confftitttii?ual duty is effectually taken away. The military, com mander is, as to tho power of appointment, . made to take tbepiace-of the- President, and the General bf the army the place of the Sen ate ; and any attempt, on the part oj tho Pres ident to assert his own constitutional power may, under pretence of law, be metby official ( insubordination. It is to be feared tbatf hese military officers, looking to thc ?uthority r ?*t^eC?ust*ii"iuT'?^i^ i but the commander of the district and the i General of the army. If there were no other i ?bjection than this to this proposed legisla I tiou, it would bo sufficient. Whilst I bold j the chief cxecutivo authority of the United States, while 'he obligation rests upon me to see that all the laws are faithfully executed, I can never wilUogly surrender thaUrusUor : the po wera gi Ten for its execution,* J. can nev ' er give my assent to be mad? responsible for : tho faithful execution ol laws and- at the some i time .surrender that trust and the po iv era . which accompany it, to any other executive : officer, high or low, or to any number of ex . ecutivo oncers. If this ex?curiv?.trust, vested | by the ConsMt?tiop in the President, is to be .taken from him and vested in a subordinate 1 officer, the responsibility will be with Con gress in clothing subordinates'with unconsli : tutional power, and with the officer who ns 1 sumes it3 exercise. This inttrrference with i the constitutional authority of tho Executive Department is an evil that will inevitably sag tho foundations of our federal system. But it is not tho wrtrse ev^l o? this legislation. Ii ; is a great public Wrong to take from the President powers cobferred upon him alone by ibe Constitution ; bot the wrong is more flagrant and more dangerous when the powers ' so taken from tbe President are conferred ' upon subordinate executive officers, and es pecially npon military officers, over nearly j one-third ol 'he States of the Luton, Military , power, regulated by no fixed taw, rules su prent*. Each one of these five district com maho>rs, though not .chosen by tho peoplo OT responsible to them, exercises at this hour 1 BWe creative ppwer, military and civil, ' than the acoplo have over been willing tb? - confer-upon the head of the Executive* De r partment, tb\agh chosen by and responsible to themselves. The remedy must come from t the pedple tte**r>elvea ; they know what it is, t and bow lt is to\e applied'. At the. present , time they eau not, %ecordu>g to the' Constitu tion, repeal'these-lavs. f hey ennneft remove * or control this militair despotism, The icm. J edy, nevertheless, is I* ?beir hands \ [tis to ? be found in the ballot, \?? js a 8ure one jp - riot controlled by fraud, o^rawed by-arbitra ? ry power, or, from apathy ^ ?boj* part, tco ' t Itmg delayed. With abidi^ ooofluVirdo In j I this patriotism, wisdom and 'ntegrity, I am , stiff hopefal of the future, and t>8t*?i tbeend the rod of despotism will bc broken- tb? ' armed rule of power be lifted fron, ihe necks 1 of the people, and the/principles of ?vfolaied Constitution preserved. -0 ? .? AN AMERICAN1 BASTILE*.-It -would ap?ar that the last Confederate prisoner of war i*s not yet been released. Lieutenant John C Braiiie, lato.C. S. N"., a*very Bayard of the . sea, Whose gallant exploits ia the service of his country certainly cannot have been so 'soon forgotten, is languishing in the King'* cou**: 't'y penitentiary," New Jork, whore be bas be'pn a prisoner since September, 180(1: He was arrested in Savannah on \he charge of piracy and morder, in connection with f?e capture oftae Chuaptak\t, in Violation of the k amnesty granted by the President ip May, 1865, and has nevar, to ibis moment, been offered a trial. Bis case is ono of peculiar hardship, and one that deserves' the fullest sympathy And aid of the Southern people, in wfyose behalf he .labored and rough-!' so Vali antly. - ? ?.*>- ? A ClIECK TO THE RrSE IN. PaovrSI0K3.-r: There was a pretty decided break yesterday in leading Western products. Flour deolined 25c. per barrel ; wheat 6c, and corp and oat? lc. or 2c. per bushel. Pork declined 50c. per barrel, and tht> rapid F?SO in other hog pi-oducts received a decided check. The ad van co ki sugar, now. amounting to 2c. per pound within a brief period, seems also to have beers checked.-New York World, 16th. DROwNM).---We regret to leam lhat ayouth named Austin' Putnam was accidentally drumed in Habitu's Creek, in this district, at Abercrombic's mill, -on Suuday last. This youth, we loam, b^d gone \o Ofill-pond to bathe. Uis body has been found, and an inquest heliL-^Laupensvillo Herald, 10th. r- ?-rt p?f The boliercra in the approaching milleni uni are now at Warehouse Point, Conn., anxiously walting to go up. The understanding is that un less the pr?sent attempt ? successful, there wiU From Mexico. NEW ORLEAKS, .Inly IS, noon_The kt ve nue cotter Wilder.nfs.-i arrived' last ni^ht from Yera Cruz, where she arrived on ' the four teenth. A deputation of Mexican vigfeeen rxm'tdedtha vessiJ.^and ..^ari?y.'-welc?rAed .Madame Juarez.- On'tV-tifteeoVu. abc'-difem barked and mei.witb -an e?th?ar?stic jubfic .'rficepf?Qb. frorjor^Vil^baJd military'authorities. '.The city was . Ufaa^'ted, a^d'raewo^ dis played";' /rho 'pCTtt7?te to leave fodfte City ?Of ?fe???o o?r ?he wfc. * g Juarez arrived t.? the capital rnh'the 14th. 'He eatpBatically declined a re-election, and bas ordefted a Dew elcctlop. He will retwe to bis Hacienda in the mountains. It ia efflfeiaNy reported -that Vidaurre was " shot oa the sixth. Marquez is'believed to be biding in the City of Mexico, a id wiH be shot as soon as .captured.. M.. , t . ... ' ....... It is reported in Vera Cruz that .Santa Anna ?" still lives, but we havyUtfir da$ei? [ 3 j ifa 'Everything is qjiet'at Ver? Cruz. Th? .city waa perfectly healthy. The Austrian etoopof-war -??fi?betk Wai ' receiving Austrian 'refugees en hoard. She Bad no communici.tion with'Mexican officials except through the United "States gunloas \ Tacony and Consul Saulnier. The Wildernest bringa dispatches to th? BiiiUh. French,.aad Austrian Governments.. The Mexican trovernmeat rs preparing an' address fo tho woiid, in which they Vfxpeci tcgustify themseives for thg^execntion of Maximilian, ?t will treat of the killing sixty three thousand Mexicans fur defending their furtive soil, ari?? cire* "?Trecid??ts which they thtlrdc "will prove o early their acts within the range of propriety. They wrll produce doc hjnenta which will throw new. HghYupour their acts. Some erf the ablest merrin the Reb?blie-are engaged on .tho work. - . . - . -i-Hjf?*-'. r -" 'i , Fi*np Texas? GALVE8TOi>'July 20, p. m.-Heaftqaarters are overwhelmed -nth vnports of on/raties. in the Red River country and colored persons dare "not accept tlj"? .appointment of regisfer, as they are. threatened with, death. Judge Litemcr, a prominent Texan, ba* -resigned bia appointment in the Bureau, afraid of -his lifie. The chief outlaw, . iamed Guest (colored), fled to the woods on bis approach. He shot ? freedwonfatij ont cot her womb with a ljyrng. child, which he exhibited ia a drunken glee id a barroom. Hr was arrested bul escaped. Sterling (Rbbinsoi county) colored choach Was assaulted and two men and one - woman Silledv Captain "Landa!, . Bureau, sgeat, -cai?-.; ed ona hundred freedmen and. arrested two of tho ringleaders. ' . '/ More InrUa.n Massacres.. ..Ci:fCHc>'ATi,-July'19. . Dispatches iron: Leavenworth,' Kansas,-to the Cincinnati Cc mm er cia 1, says the Indian? captured a train n jar Port Barned; Bishop Lauray, ten priests and six Sisters of Charity were among the iraEst?ngerr'. The men were killed and their b Mijes -badly motikl*d. The women were badlv abused. An 1 escort tried to overtak?:the train and protect it, but ar ri red tod late. -i--?^? ? ?' ? ? CHARLESTON.-1--A correspondent -of the National lAtellige<icer} writing from Charlee-' ton, say? : ' ... Our people-arron the verge of despair. 'Our capitalists have remitted whatever money they could reafiza+nto gold tQ Liverpool and France, fearing tue political events of the next twelve months. Cor real estafce is al most unsaleable; vepy. UtJlaoC our land can be.sold at any price.. All building and en terprise baa stogpud. Temporary existence seems' to be the only anxiety. The threat ot confiscation and ajrariauisui that Messrs. le vens & Co. bold.over<is asa Damocles' sword is fast undermining everything like . a hope of peace, and in addition to this the certainty of having a negro State Government, froV. Governor-to constable, caps the climax of QUI misery. The Northern people do not realiz? how poor and brohea spirited wo arc, or they would not bo human- to.contiuue their harsh and to eke.out a bare, existence, is beyond belief. Many of '.he people who were able to save a tittle silver plate and jewelry have be-.-u selling it and paining it for* the past two years', to buy bread mid clothing -lor them selves and their little ones. We have seen articled that belonged to Revolutionary gen erais sold as old gold, that five 3-cars ago nu money could have bought ; but starvajion it a hardmaster. . , Important to Planters and Others. Captain Hawkins, commanding lbs post at Darlington, bas submitted the 4>lfowin? points to tho Commanding General Tor bi.* opiniop: . . . . Frequent cases bf theft-are reporte''. .Oom. fodder, etc., are found'missing, and tracee from the premises of the owner direct to L neighboring plantation-. The owner desire* a search warrant from a magistrate to recov er his property. Ho is sure that -it may bi found among the labores*1' quarters on said plantation! But le does not know on whom to fasten-suspicion. The question is. cana magistrate so fr?o a search warrant as ti. entida the holder to entry into and upon al? the premi?es on* said plantaron, or miwt tnt owner of the con, etc., obtain a secaral?, warrant for each of said premi*es ? By con tract, the planter" jteiteraily specifies that ht is to be permitted to enter any hmiseon his plaie atrwiil, because of .their* beine a|l hi> own pfdperty. Now, can a nerghbor-who has lost the corn, ?tc, looktipun the-different negroes quarters ai conatitutkig one and thc sam? preses, ell subject to aetion under the One warrant ? ' From the reply cf Gen. Sickies,-we extrad ite main paragraph r ' 41 In pederah; search Warrants can only be issued upon form by affidavit showing proba ble grounds for tie belief that the ?tol?n property is on the premises designated for Bearch ; the warrant Afcouldbe- placed ra the bandi of a congabie*, sheriff or deputy sher- - iff, and by him executed. If ?he. affidavit de scribes a plantation a? tho premises- Wheret the property h sncreted, the authoriiy to search woura extend to the dweiling-and all ?ppurter.ano'es. Premise* held by agreement* between hnd'ord and tenant would not be ?p?urler?ant and- a beparate warrant moat be issued- to authorize a'Search thereon." The New York Tines, of Saturday, has the following paragraph^ which we commend to the earnest attention of car readers:. ? One* af our Virginia correspondents gjves us*hifor* mation of the 6tart.:ing fact that the proba bilities are lb Avor-of??there hoing thtnojerxty of neffro'vofetis in tie State of Virginia. . This is due' to the refusal of. many of the whites to egister themselvcstiader the Military Bill, li ^believed that ab?ut 9G,000 -negro voters Wi boen registered-, *bile the whites, wbv ?Ott? bava regiatersd to the number of 12?> ^"e, acopwiing lo the computation, now TU e'rt<iver*1 thoafaads behind the blacks. Ihat fttn?gioes w-jj act'oompactry1 in poli nes, and ^ajfc strenuous attercpts to ?lect i?r T0 ^ecial representatives, black or wbvte, tVero ; l?Ul? doubt ; an.d that much bitteroes, offing- between tho two races wrll be ensandewJ \Q the ebntest for politioal ' 5?Fe.raa?y. 'a evi\?Rt from -th? present course of things C?r ct?respondent remarks that the- ?rgeprejondeSnceofrg.igte,.^ blacks reiAM T^?F?rl*n of Eastern Virginia, bas filled iJsfj?to ?b fioom ?nfl ?ra! The reproaches wV.n ara vkjited u ^e^e unquent whites are ?ry seXere, anjth? indig nation which ^f^ Mt agai?st th. blr?d aod_ mt?tof ^W6Pap?rs which haw misled the waite men^nl0 ^ deplorable a bunder ?ndenme as t?V (Ner Virginia to the power of th* negrds pe^es ?ery part of the countrj.1" \ r ' Ia Cleveland thcrt are fe^g who f|Uton shoes to their hoops waite the clerK^ u^oking for another pair, and walk off with the \,fe^ t3^*- Th?d. ?tevcn.i ?aja, thal V^W^ro^ ,'the Som^ will oatoh hell.H- B?l ^"ke iies, it is quite probable that hell Witt catch T\ jtST Qf otl\er yicWj a man may, io time)vff tired; but in the countcnanco .of women ther\. a variety which se.U ?carines at devance. " divino right of beauty,''say? Junius, ".is tho onl^y divine Tight ajuan ea 1 ncknowiedge, and a pretty woman tho only tjrtnt ba ip not au thorned to MILITARY IjratRucTioK nt COLLEGES.-Maj. Wbittfeiey, of the regalar anny bas, under the dire?tion of General Grant, and- by spe cial ord?r of Secretary Stanton, after consul tation Tfith the Authorities of tho principal colleges of the United/St'atc, matured a pian for the introducion of a system of TQ?ilitftry instruction into the colleges. "Hie plan proposed by Majer W hittlesey ii in the form o? an Act, which it is expected - Con grete will' pass at aa early day. It provides that, upon tho application of any established college having the attendance pf two hundred students, the President of the United States shall detail an army officer to act as a military Professor, aad while so em ployed-to hayo tho r.ink and pay of a-Lieu- - * '(tenant -Colonel, if he has served twenty years in the army,.and if,jaa ^ettok? a^.piy-.o^ '.;, a ?dajor, -Th*. J^&nt shep Jik?wj4eAdei|il g ?mgz-. tent Lieutenant of fie armylo act as military assistant. Wb?aeve? any college baa estab lished u_ course of instru.ctiyn in military studies ';h?? Act 'provides thai 'rne'flecesBaty -' text bocks shall be issircd^?ratuitously to the Students, anda suitable collidion of military, books ? " ?ference "be addea to the >. college 1 brary, and military maps, tnedel?, etc., be famished for the-rectnre room. . The course of study is to comprise " Instfttc- ?i tion in the Theory.of Ordoaupe, P^rojectireer and Gur.nery,:.'iu Military 'Engineering,- -in Military Law aad l&e Pracjticc,of .Courts Mar tial and in tfeer Art of Wir.": Tt is jirovided * that from each class, as if graduates, five shall be selec ted who havedistingoisbed thearscl ves for gentjral proficiency in tho collegiate course, , special attainments in military science, and of )joqd ffioral jehara?ter and of jsound Etealth, j and tba1, the ntweeS oT these five snail oe pub- ' pished Iii true'?rW ?f?gisttt, and'tbtt'??e-of . the-five shall be ' c'ommrssiotiPd as a Second Liehtervmt iu-theUnited Stat*? Anny, upon precisely tho same foottbg as graduates of West Point., "rjt , Major Whitflejsey, wo believe, hfls recently visited Lexiflf-tfen,.' .V^iijia, td oonfer 571th the Faculties of Washington Colleges and the Military Institute upon the adoption of his; plan. The University of that State, too. will doubtless inAorporate the n*jr feature .in its .curriculum ; and, perhaps, Roanoke and Em _pry and Henrv Coll?ges, Stay, bave* students enough attbeir>Bext session to authorize them #to make application for the benefits of the 'proposed \<3L^-?oHrjirt,, ^ .? --?,**'* ? .* ' ' ''Sa4 QaixnUi. ' ' ' A co?es?d boy-of abodt sj*r years- was and>..' .'dooly killed in this place, on Monday after^ - noon laat^ ip thc following- singular manner : The child was playing rn his father's, yard, ^h-en a'soldier of the garrison, Who was pass-" ?g along the- rcrSd this side of the depot, dis charged his piece-tQ, get tfd oTt^e.- l?ad, and tbe ball passeH over a field,, a?wral'bundred yarda, through an inch board, 'through the ?"j clrild'-s body ?nd', .lodged ?0 jjh arm, killing him trlqiost instantly A Co.-oner'ig. jury waa call?d?~of wlute-and. co!oi"?? n^n^wbo rendered a verdict of ac cidental, death. This occurrence speaks loud ly ag iioa?- ?he /pr?dtic? of shooting g*utis "in. the limns of-the f?f?) esp?cnjJly when load-? " cd with.balla.-Bariwgton So?henerr 19. . ?&~ Tho Declaration of Independence was read 10 tho negroes of Memphis on the Fourth at ?a pic-nic. They teiamohigbly i?oeq^e? and tb? most of thom left declaring they didn't go there to ?bear such d-<t rebel stuf. . ?.. . i , OBITUARY. SUSAN P.OPS, iufant daughter of H. C. and MARV' JASE ?I^O, ?ged one year, TOUT'months and fifteen days*, departed this 4tfa July-Mth, after a short "fUneets at ?he? residence .of her pa rents in Edge?eJd Dtsiripi. , God in hi's providence has seen Ct to tike tte only .child,. and leaves a disconsolate and be reaved* family. Fer one of suer* tender ego, she posaeesed more? than ordinary character. Genc [?ro.us and affectionate in her nature, she stood eminent -?mopg children. Beautiful in life, beautiful in death,-too pnre for o*rth,-she has win r?a?n to TUB TJffsom or?im wno said, "SntTer littletfaildron to come unto me and forbid them not." Just budding in life, the dear little one has gone to bloom ia Ilcavcn. " Dearest child thou hast left u.*, Here tlfy loss Wo deeply feel ; * But 'tis God 'hat hath bcroft us, lie .con ali our sorrows heal. T "Tat agnin we hope to meet ?bee, . When thc day of life is lied, Then in Heaven with joy to greet thee, "w here no farewell tear is shed." F. A.F. Sargent THE BEN?WEB MAGICIAN AND WIZARD OF THE SOUTH I - .ti A SO*" IC i ODO FELLOWS? HALL. TUESDAY AND 'WEDNESDAY, 23d A 24th. .FOR TWO NIGHTS . ONLY i . ^sS^Tinkeio 50 Cts.; Children 25 Cents. .Doors open at "i-o'crook. Perfonnanc* kr-eommencs At 8. July,, 2.'l lt* 30 Mat1;rasses ! Mattraisses ! IAM prepared to make to nr?tt, COTTON, WOOL, MOSS or SHUCK M ATTIRASSES, in tho bclit manner, ar.d at the most reasonable prices. M. A. M A RETE RT. July'23 tf '3*0 FARMER THE .WORKING . . 1867--'68-'69. 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