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A Starilin. Stoy from Utah. ASSASSINATION Ov A GENTILE. The Salt Lake Union Vidette, of April 4th. comes to us w"th its columns in mourning, and the follo7ing startingstatenemeit: "Last Monday evening the~'ottimunit was astiunded with the intelligenOe of an*, 'bilher, fout assassination, committed 6h. Theatre street. only a few steps east, of Main street.. The man who was assassina ted was known throughout Navada, and :nore particularly at Austin an" ieese Rliv or. as one of the best uiiz,ens of that State] and was engaged in the freighting business between this placo and Reese IMver. ills conduct while here was that of a good, quiet, peaceable citizen, violating no law of the land, interfering in no way with the le gitimate business of any person nod honor ed and respected by all who knew him. "A few days ago lie was lawfully joined in marriage by Judge MeCurdy, one of the associate Judges of the United States Court in and for this territory, to a lady of this city, who was claimed by the Nlormon lead ers as the wife in polygamy of a Mormon, now absent. on a foreign mission. This lady, by the sanction of law, and hV the ni thority of the highest legal otlicers of the territory, abandoned the false po)sit)n in which site had been placed, aild legally join ed herself in mina-ringe with, Squiru jirAl.s field. Charges of resisting tho police on the night of his marriage were institutl against him, and his wedding night. w$as passqd in one of the cells of the city pri sons. "B-assfield. conscious of having done no wrong, quietly went into court with his counsel, gave the bonds required of him and in every respect conf*orniel to every re qitirement. of the courts in the premises. "In the meantime, tle lady, tearing tlat efforts would be matde to take her ehii(lreii from her, caused a writ of haheas corpux to be issued from the United SItes Court, in order to ascertain whether she waz entitlel to the custlody of then or not. ihe wri was isued last Friday. returnable and iri able before Judge NlcCynv. This i-siie brought up oft once the question of polva tny andl its positioi utie.r tihe lasw. It% re quest of Ilhe opposing coiinsil, theo hearing was postponed ften ile to tie untit M1a. day evening. 2d April, 18:;. Mr. Brass field wis in court. with the coutnisel for him. self nnd wife. "Judge Snow annoinced to tie couirt that the ense in issue involved tlie legal :11tnd const8itutiotial right of polygi1oy. ani that he thought it better to so state tih e e in plain wordls-for which we give him filI cred it. lie did not. seen a. all aesirous of ,.vad ing the issue. Adiitional time being re cluired. and by miutt .1 consent, of bott (boutn Hel the case was fortier po!t potted until 1i A. W. this morning, nnd .ite court adjoiirn ed. Within half an hou'r thereafter, Brass. field, when within a few feet of Ile hotel where he resided, and when in company of the United States Niartshal, was shot. inl the back, and within one hour from tile time he left the court house lie was a dead tman. "We cannot. close wit hout referring to t lie publicly expressed opinioi ol' certain Nfor mons in this city, that ltassfield was justly punished by death, and that. the bailnce o'f lte Gentiles here would be serveil inl t the same way if they were not careful." It adls: "It would be useless to deny the fact that in the opinion of ttie Gentile comt miunitY (11, this city, the killing of' Mr. IIrastiold was a deliberately planned scheme, concoeted and advised by mien high in nuithor-ity in tlie Mormon Church." Fair in Wilnisboro', The ladies of Winnsboro', it will be sceen by their advertisement in unotlier caliini, propose holhli'ng a fair in that town on the 17th and 18th instant, ito issest. inl the vetv laudable work of rebuilding their pl,ace ;, worship. destroyedk by Genieral Shema-In army in its march th.rough li tatee-the ladies believe, without 'his consent, anI which, for his credit, it is hoped was the case. They ask the aid of any who may ie disposed to contribute in itny way, nnl tleir. appeal, we trust, will not be nude in vain. The madest little Chapel of St. John's had raised its unobtrusive tower williot the corporate limiits of the town oif Witins bore' some thirty odd years ago, and mnty of its members, ant somc ofi its piious a od venerated foutiders had b.etn giitheired to their fathers and slept in its peaceful gioe-: but this solein sanctity was soon to lie idis. turbed by lie hostile t rendu. of an inivadin" army. Already had t he i ncenudiary's torch spread desolation and ruin thriiughout the' surrondirig country, andt swept oil' onu-half of the beiautifitl little town of Winmnsb,oro', leaving hundreds of families hoseless and homeless. Sti.l, there remainedl to the stricken and desolate the consolation of worshipping the God of their fathers in his contsecrasted temple. What was iheir~ horror when they wlinessed this, thteir last refuge --their cherished lit tIe Chtapel, in flatios ! The venerable and historic bell which had summoned the rebels of 1776 in St. Geor-ge's Dorchester to their saintly devotions, unid which, for~ long years after, puerformned the same pIous service for the wvorshippers at 8t,. kVanl's, in this city, tolled out. itsa re qulim from the crumtblinig towver, and fell, and was lout'in the common rin. General Siooum was heard to express deep regret. at this time, for the commission of a deed which he knew mtust be infamnonsu and damaging to the whole army in the +yes of the otvilsed. worltd. The congregation worshipped subsequent y in tihe Conrt. House, tinder the eloquent minIstration of the R1ey, Dr. Lord, now es. Loomed .Reotor of St. P'aul'g-Q Chints cit, wosevacncy was filllefby the R1ev. Williitm P. Datllose, ietr progeht. Rector, a young clergyman of fine abilities and great promlse. Any coxtributions left at this Oflice -will be pro'aptly forwarded, and aokpowledged t hrough the Wlnnusboro' News, ri copy of which will be sont to the donor.--Charleon Counrler. The Briti fleet now oIlf the Canaian coast l manned by 5,717 meri, and .ouurtles an .eggregatte of 448 g.uns. NV Th'ie communnication from "E" ill aippear int our next. Circular. We direct attention to the Circular i, this mornings paper from Captain SePAS the Commandant of the 'ost. The objects of the notice are .suflicient. ly distinctly expressed without a rep, tito here. That there eitier is now or will inevitably be great destitn ion in this~ District is well kntownt to all w To are cognizant of ti real condition of some of the whites and many of the freedmen. As we presume this circular conte mplates sen system of relief, we heour peop wn! ill aff>rdo. Captain Si':Alt such assimtance as he desires. It will h observed that. the interval lie fore the reports must be gentde is very brief a tid requmirds prompt attention. Troasoti said to be lDefined in Tecisste. oan exchiaiige we. clip the follow. mgi item: Tho the recent case 'of Do Witt C. W illiame., convicted in elesse of reasoin, the court held tihat a man can b ici of treaso w agfinst bo- the United StItes aitnd ihe -State of Tenies. ser by th le samn overt act anmd -that the P~residentu's pa rdonm, wvhilst it anuled It le o bse agai lnst , the United Sal aes, was~ of no effe'ct.ini regard to the ofl'ense ugist the St ate. fOroI our stuidy of te hitory and na tbref the Constitutio rofthet(United States, we positively a.ssort, mand we un. dertaku to sustain t.he assertion by legitimate argment, that not only ca . not i tea m lie de,liid ais te above case would itply, hut that the definition herein given is a partisan one, and is in keepiinllo with, and is -dictated by, hat vindictive spirit which characterises the party in power whose motto is "Iaght is right." The determination of that party is to hang the Hlon. JrFFanSoN .DAvtS, and to prepare the w'ayfor j-tstifyiing that siinfil and shanieful act, its partisans are dlrawving definite conclusions from gent. ertli:ies, and thus evincing the truth of the saying.of that. gr'eat legalist, Lord Con:. that "fraud lurketh in generali. ties." olt to the argument. th'le third section (if t third articles of the Consiti. tution prov'ides that '"Treason against thme Unaited State., "shallconsist, only in levying war "againist thr, or inh adhering , to their "eueies, giving them aid ad comfori, Now it is an historical fact that when this section lewas under disctssion in the Fdrain -l Convention in 1787, serious "bjection whs raised again u st it on ac count.of' its liability to misconstrution. Loii.:th MAtfN, At.th in General of Maryland, mand a delegate from that State to said Convention, in his report of tin proceeIlings of the Conventioi to the Legislature of his State, expresses those objections in the following words: "'Dy tl e principles of this Americant "revl ution, power may and ought to be "resisted oven by' arms, if necessarv. "The time may come when it sha hie "the duty of a tate, in. order to preserve "itself from t.he oppression of the general "government, to have recourse to the "sword-in whlich case the proposed "form of government declares' that, the "State and overy one of Uus citizen, who "act under its authority, are guilty of a "direct act of treason ; reducing .by't,his "t.he df'erenr. St,ates to ibis alimernative, "thRat they mnst ,tamely an) p'cagweily "yield to de.spothmr, or their citizens.must "oppose it, at thme hazar'd of .the halter "if unsuiccessful-and reducing the .qiti. "zons of theptite which shall take arm., "to a uitnuion in which .thiey - ush "exposed to pnisuhment, let them Mue s "they will, since if' theuy obe,, the ''ether,ity 6f theirt Atate Govern mhe "will be -guiltoof treasoesugi,vh ize '' Uhited State*.-4 th6y jfois thibg&ri "governmeit they will -be guils fl'as. 'on aginst their oton State! "To sayo the'eirzds.gf t,l .eepotive 3(tfeP,''iyu Letlana. M4pp, i'frpbj being punishable' r' - at/4 r to slhq I ecStd0cs, whenl actingitpressly. i o d"toI the authority of tir otn Sta* wished to.have Qbtanod as an a n lit io thethird section of thi articlA I he fillowing CIA 0:'. ov1ed" that no act or Act,s 4o1e bi) e or more of the Statew' aganit "the United States, or by any citizen of "any one of the United States. under the "atiihoriti o!f one or more of the said "States, shall be deemed treason or pun. "islhcd as such ; but, in case of war being "levied by one or more of the States "against the United States, the conduct 'of each. party towards the other, and ".their adhronts repectivelY, shall be "regulated by the laws of war and of "nations." But.this amendment was opposed and rejected by the imijority of the Conven tion. Such are the facts. Now what are the looical convlusions ? 1. The Convention heard the objec. tions to the indefinitely expressed word. mag of the r--ction before us. Thle ma jority withont as9enting to or denying their legitimacy,. simply rejected them, and left the section as it was. This was, to say the least, of it, unwise. 2. The States, the par:s of States and the citizens which were at war with the United States were all trented duriig the late war as belligerents in evcry re spect.; t.hat is "by the haws of war and of nations." 3. If the United StqteR claim ihnt in rejecting LI-r11.:n MAIMTN's amend menl, the Convention conmtrtied th sec,ion in qttes:ii to declare that trc-as. on was jnst what that amendment took it to be, then we hold that the United States is inconsistent, in reognlating their proceeding aginst. a secessioniist as it traitor now, when Imring the. war they regilated their condutc toward him by the laws of war and of nations. 4. That treason is a crime against only the United States, and not a single State. 5th. That, in view of the construe tion of what is treason by the United States-gianting that WILLIAtS. of Tennesse, is guilty of treason, and is amenatld6 ti h1- laws of the United Statis, if unpardoned he is now subject to trial before the United States Court, but if pardoned lie is not amenable to thP laws of Tennessee, f-ir article fift,h of the amendments to the Constitution ex. pressly sias : "Nor shall any person be subject for "the s'nic offence to be twice put in jeopardy (if life or limb." History of Slavery In Masanchusetts. We find, in tihe Richmond Times, the following additional extra-:ta from Mooip's "History of Slavery in Maqa. chusetts" which has already been intro. duced to the readers of the Ni:ws. Froni the accounts of tie Colony of Massachusetts for receipts and expendi tires of an Indian warcommence-d 1715, and ending in 1746, Mr. Moore finids among the "credits" the following hn-i inane item: "By one hiund red and eighty eight prisoners o.f war sold into captivity, ?387 13s. 00d." In the Plymouith Record, volume v., page 173. in August, 1 675, there is an order for the sale in "foreigne count.rves" of "one hundred and twelve Indians." In September, 1 678, one hundred and seventy-eighit "prisoners of war" were put on board a -vessel commanded by "Captaine Sprague, a.id sold into Spaine." In 1776 one hundred and fif. ty Indians came in and voluntarily eur riendered themselves, praying mercy of the Puritans, buts they were "sowid for slafes," remarks Easion in hisi "Rela tion(," anid were "shipped out of' the countrie." TI.re wife and child of that most celebrated 'of Indian Kings-we alluide to "Philip of Mount Hope," were sent to tha West Indies and sold. This Indian Princess waa' the daurghter of good ol Massasoit. t,he first and beat friend of the Puritans iii New England, whose fauithfmul frrendship- sed the Ply, month Ctooy frein 'desatotion- upon more than one -oconsiomn. -This fact Edward Evereti s5tte in one of him orna tioneas A cargo ,of North -Awierican Indiants were ie4' by ies haPwaawr of -Massachuse#e te MAfrIcaw PiAe ~This was cari'yin.g/the etheiv trade ftIt Africa with a vengeanoe. Mr. Mos det votes forty-eightapp of his el 6orate Mto1 to the ~ *Jifle nIduh.rs cirledQfr opur pidpra writin genjon* Irg 4nti IQ plove that they were tra . Nekg in iuman esh in strict accord noief with the "will of God." One ai&,"Yo SaInts" in 1637 covtt ig an Inalan prisoper of war, proposes ,: lly "thp cltel" after the.following hiarac.teristic Usetion ,-It having again pleased the Most Hliglh to put into your hands another niserable drove of Adam's degenerate )eeds [meaning Peqnod prisoners of war], I am bold to reqest one of the :hidren. I have flxed mine eyn on Ahis little one with the red about the neeke. but I will not be peremptory ibout my choice." One of the enrly "Winthropq." in 1737, also craving a share of Ihe spoils Lf a successful midnight forny upon some Indian vilbige, writes: "Mr. Epdecot ind myselfo sainte you in the Lord Jo sus. We have heard of a dividance of women and children in the Bay and would be glad of a share, viz: a younge woman or girle and. a boy ifyou thiinke good. I wrote to y>:u for some loycs fi Bermwuabs which. I thinke is consbler(a ble." This. e.xnplary gentlnian wits in the foreign trade it. would seem. hate NoW. WASHINGTON, May 11.-Gereral ickles has been confirmed us Minister to the lague. NORFORK, May ll.-Late yesterday after noon he 0rand Jury ofi the United States Circuit Court in session, brought in a True Bill against Ex-l'resident Jefferson avis for trcason, and adjoirned to meet i) Rich mond on the first Nesday in J knte: Judge Underwood went North last night taking with him a copy of the intdictment against Ex-President Jefferson Davis. The Washington Republician of yesterday states lint arrangmnots ire now mnaking for fhe trial or Mr. Davis in virginia, anl lint it will tikke 'l-tee at an early day. ail in a civil court. It is undersi(i thlt Chi ief Justice Chase will preside on tho oceasion. Goio TO EN41.AND.-Thti New Orleans Crescea, or the 4ith inst., learns i hat Gile rIs Deaturegard and Wirl Adaims, aid M. Sclwartz have been deputiel by the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad Company to go to England and endenvor to make soine arriangn1t4 ro' 1he relief of the corpora lion froin its eubariassiuients. WASHINGTON. ay .-S r:NAT.-Mr. arimes. from tho Naval Committee, report ed a bill to restore Comiander Charles luniter to his former rank in file navy. In lie early part or tie wil Commmander im ter pitrated A blockade runner, ail ran hier ashore arid calittired lier on the coast of Ctula, within a mnarine league of liat is land. The Spanish Government took uni brago at this, as a violation of the neutrali ty laws, and Commander lnniter was cash iered at its demand. The bill wits passed. WAsRt1o-roN, May ll.-The Senate pass ed lte postal appropriation bill after strik ing out ihe anendment. heretofore adopted, preventing parties appoint ed to otlice dur ing the recess from recovering any pay u. lil confirmued by the $enate. Before the of passage of the bill. Cowan inade a speech doeclaring that those who interpos. od to prevent tie Southern States froin hi ing represented were disunionists. and that opposition to rest oration was superinduced by fear of losing political power. NHw RAILIOAn.-The stockholders of the Cheraw and Coalfield Railroad held their annual meeting in Charleston on th 9th inst. Ma.j. B. D. Townsend elected Presi lent. From time reports of the officers, we learn that the debts of the company are incon siderable and represented in Confederate currency, while its assets for the proseei. tion of the work consists of about $875,000, in the capital stocks ef the Northeastern and Cheraw and Darlington Railroad Com panies. About ten miles of the rond have been graded, nti cmparatively little work Is ne cessary to prepare the road-bed to receive the superstructure' as far as the North Carolina lino.---henaix. Raymond M. C., and editor of the N. Y. Times says of the Reconstruction amend ment : As a plan of p1-einention atud recon. strutlion, the whole thing is worse Ithan a bumrlesqjue. It. might he styled a force, were the cemntry not in the midst of a very serious drtai. Its proper designa' tion would be "A plan to prolong Indefi nitely the exclusion of the South from Congress. by imposing cotndit ions to which the Southern .people udever will anhmtit." This being the obvious scope sad tentdency of the propositions uwe are bound to. .asstume that it clearly reflects the settlctd purpose of the .committee. So that theo joint committee appo-ute'd nearly five months ngo to t ake exclusive charge of the qtuestion of r'econstruction,. now offer~ as the result of all their labors wilat would in fact render reconstrueo tion foi'eygrmpostible. -And yet,..$aymond voted for I amendmeJdf. O9 consistency, thou" j.e1'el -b.a 9'.iy negroo one. de Frp.K0en s TI .-Ex. Qovj,tiiI,eichie, or ' JI, writes sa .ow..to at riend in f~ork : "Uuclh of the ill felit mniIested by th4 .Rkdkvals- towar eop.le of' the South #foWs-ont o ie"nharepresent tions anti hlander.a rd aind' . it4 .. the og p the F men's Burei' Thy d,-stre to retinin their positionp, as ilwir duties are light and their pay' good--tter, . jnd,id, thin tlhy can hope for ill any otheir business. Hence, the persis:emt ef6rts nide h nine tenths of thatn, to prove to tie nthorities that onr people are disloyal. Sooner or later the minds of the North. ern people will bo disabused, and we must he patient until that time shall come."1 TEL EGRA IP10. New York Cotton Market. N mw YfoiK, May 10.-Cotton firm, at 34 to 35c. Gold 29J. The Commissioners on the Freedmen's Bnreau. W.tmiroT0N, May 12.-Generals: Steedman and Fullerton, Conimissioners appointed by the President to inve3ti. g1atv, the operations of the Freedmen's Burean in the Soviihern Stes, have re ported nia to Virginia and North Caro liin. They -give insinues of the dis. honesty nod arbitrary power exercised hy some of the oliceri mnd agents of the Birein in making arrests, imposing fiines nid inflicting punishment, disre gardi.ig the local laws anl(d especially the siatute of limlitation, tis creating prejudice ngainst the Government. They therefore recommend the with. d1wal oif the officers of the Burenu, 1ul also transfetrence to the officers com. m1a1ding troops of so dities as it may 41ill e lnece.ssary toTerflrm inM colllec tion with the freedmen. T t1.: Flf.:.:r tN'S COuITrs Dr:ci or: TO m:. 'll h.Sl'AsS.ls.-Jrdge Trigg, of the United States District Court of Memphis, hais prononiced a decision in the case of ain appliention for in injinc tilni against the exee-mion by Gtnernt Htmkle, Siperintendent of tihe Freed non's lhrvin. ot a judgment rendered by Gen. Hinkle- in Favor of a frel-dian, necording il whichl it is held flut thes bireau cou.rts are frespassers, nod liable to be proceedrl ngainst by the courts of the State is other treRpaXsers. Judge Trigg decides thlnt the Freed. mlH' 13nrean courtsemid only exercise' authority inder military hiw. "If," vaid he, "these courts couid exprci,e any logilimtle nthority, or claim for their Jiudgment or decrees nny linding efect or efficieicy. they comilI only do o virtue of their copneciion with tle mtilit. tary power. * * The r-cent provia mtlistl Of the President (if the Uii,ed States, dechiring that. un insurrection no !oigietr existe, is a declaration of peace, which sweeps fromn umong tis every thing which savors of a military con st raint upon I he rights of citizens, nd' rstores to them the ordinary and pence. fill channels for the ns-ertioi and en. Forcement of tile.e rights. * * * * The war being ended, flint is aua end to 1he court, and I here being no longer any such court, the officer of the 3nr.-an line no longer ant hority to net. in that capAci. ty, and to enforce judgment or orders, whether made before or since the decla: ration of peace. If ha does so, and inder that. pretext sieze tit property of a citizen, he will hecome a trespasser, nnd may be held liable to.dmnages to he party injured." CIRCULAR. WINNanoRo', S. C., Masy 14, 186., HA VINGt IECEIVED ORtDERS 'yO RE PORT all person;s both White and Black, who are in a destitute conadition, and who. are In need am. present or are lkely to be come so, from lack of seed withi whloh to raise crops to support them during the qn suing winter, and rations to feed them this season, and as it Is inmpossible for me viuit the different portions -of the, Dls;ri4 and obtain the, necessary informnation,. "person, any and all porsons who osn rend ' any assistance in snaking the aboYe repoul are requested to codm'nn9q,te ith aI2a per. son, or by letter, giving nanlo, ,, age race, number of family nod e'ars of, ago, *hcthter -male oe' .. s ilewber of aores to be seeded a of seed re quired, and a vtiation as they maye a roport will be mad o~,$5~ f.he 16th insL.. OsG 8PE4R, *F 9, sa)~ . Vet. Vol., Mt. Pro,ost Marshal. mn 1fl6-1 Akorod'ut bar'reln and kits, Caroling eleaain9'J*Wpgs, Prime lard,. Spice, Pp sisOIle, Lamps,. - CO. any 3'66-f No.8, i nge