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/ 10ur hirniug, December 18, 1866. 11ecoii;tctctiotn --Tile Ilan of Horay G'reecley, r 11" ,m., : w t n '{m ed - with p y' til hew Y'tk :Tr;bunc of a re Cent t .* 1i has been sent to us be M.,,1 of tIhe plan Jnf recoistructioi p j"Morwad 1 tunmitakeable term: by ih ,iNi[or and Proprietor, MIr 4r,'t.y. l hi-\ i i plted itltamatun r!m st"! prominent a member of th RI )nblicatn pairtv,is worthy' of inor than casual; colid-era tion. The author ,elieves th;tt his plau o r eonitructioii i; the one to-settl e ernallv all the difficult -political is sues now between the North an( South. Our Opinioi ol' that :chemle is not s eangc i e. Mr. Gteeley. thinks "Uni v:r-tl Sulfrage," will prove a panaee lfor all the political illi that now afilid tus. If he has impartially, caroefull and logically weighed tbe ,eonsequei1 ce; of an aloption of his scheme, w eni r:v that ho has done so withou any other in estigation of the queo tion in the preties, than that 'whic i pr-c from 'a Norjhern. stan .point. Wt ithout any elal,tirateexposition o that featttrk in tl;'above touching uni v '-V l ailesty. let ns grant for th s ile oft h" a;rgule t, iniversatl Sul P -rhnl = i r. lrreolev may look .hon eNtly back to the paece. quiet and pro Stt i1n liihil ret!inel during an in: part ial aitti.irtration of the Consti ttint : , th,: l haw in pursuane 1r of , u1i ilattcr himself that a r< vi.! the days may be thercby se It h,s be!e will said that. the po p ' i:.. I'fuinited St at i' now reeoa . "lo 11.'r but ttc laws the 1:e, td the iaj ri: si into whie ii' ran, 1e themno!ves . T" 't "o dt: of action of cours * u 'i'i' i onal ~restrictions. Xi,, :{uid are observed n,. what tust. be the lin - . rul ; tint when the a '9ti t"iet ions iare ignore< :11u, the c'ma:jori'ties " m1U: - i rul. lhit the "laws'' be -ienc ut tothe wi 0: - a s the latter ai 1.- .Ilta :t , cf cutrse tl tinu: iaiatee aint.Z:ist oi 0ri : .o mitrue. It. is not all < Si >. !i y t + vte. Make tht Irr tlhe air, and go% ,I::- h "s li:blc to all tht wi . :mdr t I vapriicoes 41f aln hyp i t ir:tant the suiffr e uni a,''a wh:1 ftoIllw.s A vot ing piopuilatic ra th Nurth, wah a~ basuis of 22,000 nu,iiombi.. withI a .voinmg piop)ub tim at th: ''nth, with a basis of 41 000,00i)0, woulid itiuefmitetly cr'ipl) !outhi. Thei already etnlbittere r:h, wit thiisposition and fi c lia n w of' embhittering the i grits of te Senth agaIiinst their ']al noris wonl rpaidily range then Vi. ito ma:jorit iOs, pnd( wip) out tl - -ht m1uge! of libe'rt,y beloutgingsI Ithit miinrj it undr the present Cot 9tit ion. I ecenit respect for I 4 i on life in hope ; butt wvith Un ivers Suiffrage away goes that dlecent respe. Tli nagnanimi ty ai.id justice in b halft of our late President, sho'wn I Mr.U ireely, we admire. Let hi oow a,*magnianiii.ty eriually groat b4eiving thit the 8onthern peop' mnighit logically take. a (diferen.t vie fromn the people of the North, of wiu theu 4onstihtut ion meant when it eai -. I' e~ Cont,itution, ntorp "id by It to the States,. arou "e m -l t o the 8, respetg, c "to the nori a nnt ( A rt , Amendnents,) "The enumeration in "the Constitution, of certain RIGUrs, "shall not be construed to deny or dis parage orIII:Rs rotained by . the , peo p1e." The whole war was occdsioned by a difference of opinion as to the-onstruc tion of these and similar passages in the Constitution ; and must the whole criim' of a diversity of opinion be charged upon the South, simply be cause more muscle and cannon deoidei it against her ? Will not l%r. Greeley show that magnanimity in believing that we 'of the South believed ~Massachusetts sin-" core when she, in the first part of her State Constitution dccla.rod that,. "The people of this. commonwealthi "have the sole and exclusive right of "governing thelinselves, S a freo-, sov "ereign and independent State ; and "tlo, and forever shall exercise and en "joy every power, jturisdietion, and "right, which is' not, or may not here. "after be, by thett expressly delegat "ed to the United States of America "in Congresa asscibly." As Massachusetts declared, so we beLieved, that Congress is a body ex ereising its Legislative functions sole ly upon - delegated authority ; and those "rights" - and "powers," and that "jurisdiction,.' 111 of which she elaims to reserve for- herself, embrac ed, as, we believe, and necessarily in vylved, Til: PREROGOTIV$ OP DECIDING wiuEN CONGRESS INFRINPED THOSE "othetrm (righlts) retained by the pen ple." . . Mri (7 reeleyls remedy, like a reNe dy for the tooth-acle, may give tom porary.t'elief, but it will ':.titually destroy the organismyhich iives vi tality to the whole nichinery of Gov ernont in these UnitedStatcs: - Sands of Gold. . . "- 4 word filly spoken i like :<ij plesof' Y gold in pictures of sili'r." It PROERns. "Laws are like cobwebs, which may o LatchFiall flies, but let wasps and - hornets break through." 0 i, "A man who tells nothing, or who - tells all, will equally have nothing e told him.'' "The desire of appearing to be wise, t often prevents our becoming so." "There is nothing of which we are . so liberal as advice." . e- "We had.better appear to be what e we are, tban affect to be what we. are not. ,f "Those who apply thenselves too e much t.o little things, commdnly be come i.icapabl.a of great ones." e "The misfortunes of other people we all bear with an beroic conYtaacy." "The sure way to be cheated is, to I, fancy ourselves more cunning thau n others. ."True eloquence consists in- saying .all that is proper and inothimng more." -"W'e confoss small-faults in order to insinuate th'at we have no great ones.'' e - Premiuras. - I.We are authorized by the Propri8torl -to qt.ato that at an early date, premni 'umns as li beral.as their resources will .e allow,tho.m to preseat, avill be .offered - to comipetitors both in writing and can e vassing f.ar the Nr.ws and IIE.RAL.D.. \V ill not our friends bestir' them "selves for, our mutual benefit, ? We e design going thme full eitent of our a' ability to make a paper both useful iland' interesting to every citizen of t'he 3t Distriet. A liberal patronmago will enable us to pres'ent a sheet second to none as a F?amily and News.paper. We thank those friends who hav' y already indicated their purpose toa nand abet our efforts, and as a .retj n for their kindness will -stain a poinsr 8 give thein a paper that will be wo,I " of somethlngnmore than armore ep/24' e ral e xistence. h -I- *~- - - 1) -The Charleston Mercui.y latelpiso di a good point in giving in conf3Rr order the headings from severa' Lh -ern papers embracin~g account(' r .dars an.d all manner of erime.opeg; * The Merc.uru'. alaion in'ftia spoetive conditions of the North and Soutlh, morally and -socially, -reminde us of the old fable of the Man and the Lion. They wore witking out, when the man, in a splrf of ostontatiop, showed the li9, a sign of a man kili ing a lion. The- lion roplied, "%% o lions none of us can paint, if we could, we woultl show.you .a hundred mcn killed by lions for overy lion killed by nen.". The North has tho advantage of the South. a'heir picture papers make all South mean 1l,i all North , virtuous and' rliue,d.As for governm.tnt they have it all to thi"uselvels and decide all the. South; rus to be criminals. A Bito from. Boreas. On Saturday lust all exposed sur faceA were glazed with a - coating of ice. rho- branebea Qf tfees ",yere en cased in the same, and ioy fringes or namented'the oaves of the houses. The old To%yn Clock, from- outside prelstire, refused 'to indicate the hour froin about1iee o'clock A. M., when icy fingers clinhed her hands and forced her to be still. '3y the by, our. Mtinicipal' Time Piece is worthy of gome mention. lor years she haV"slicked," not us (-ray says, 'yehind''the door," but high up in the eloments. We do not of course compare her to the Cathedral Clock of Strasburgh, as to her venerable age, but Ave have authority for saying she is just is good any clock that ticks for the denizens of G(othan, and that is saying a good deal for her exalted highness. About 12 o'clock on Saturday, snow fell to a imoderate extent. cable )ospatohes, P.utis, Dacembor 1 -The Unit,ed St.ates Government. hay commenced legal proered. ingt in the fir-it tribunal e ot Seiao. to r. . cover the naunttnt of 2,2.3.(l00 fr:ncies paitl M. M. Armen, by the hgen'a of the' Cunf,do r.tt oveiine'nt: on accotunt, for uiMiig five iron-clad vessels,': a:leged to Iiave heen t ooustructed for tio usot t ie Empe1"or of China, bit actually inteonded for ' the Con fedctato navy, t.hough tho-veusels were never delivered. It is runor 'tl hero that the tomporal power of his Ilighness the 'ope hias b' w secured by ianagreement made bet wet"n the Enirperor Napoleon aui King Victor Emanu el. . . News Items, , W.tsnltrox, December 14,-There is great rejoicing by the negroes and their white friends over the neg o suffrage bill, which wa" passetid in boith Houses, by a ajority which pl-tces it beyond the peril of : veto. The' blacks of the Distict .f Coltlnbia are to have. hereafter equal po. Jitieel equarlty with the whitee. 4'he Su preme Court. of tho United States hai; reftised tore op i the quetion of the constitution al.ity of the test onth, rairequeedl tay Judge Sherwood and Governor Hlamilton, tf Tox as. A monster polition. fifty feet in length. ooienining the natmes of twarly every promient citizen of New Mexica, has beetn forwnrded to the authorities Iort, praying for nn ifterenso of the mili.iry force in ihat Territory as absolutely. neopsa"y to pro. t"ct the lives nnd property of the inhatlbi tants against the 1dians,'who are reported. to be plundering and tardering almost. wit ih imnptaity WAP1It?iTo, l)eaeinber 15. - A proposi tion to hold a Cnovention ot th." (overat of the Southern States. to cehtti,l-t the po-. litical situattioa an. determino what coue*e 'hnall be pturstu"el. in otrer l't neet t ho l"gal dematnd of Congres' tl ~ the ralioaI paIty, is noiw ntelr con idartion by p!~n.i inent Southertrer', Who m-e a 6id have bc:en itn corresponta;co with the Governors tlabove nmed. Niw Yot<t. December 15.---An explosion of gm-- ol'ne. it. is supposeti, notirred in t he Cmpn'e ellHouse. on Thaird Avonte, la't night. by which eight peronna were (erri ily hatrned-threb of wlhtm, it, is bclietv"el, caiot ret!over. Sr. bautt, 1)aeenther l:i.-A speci.il fr"ot Jetf'ergot Ciy ays the hu-h..:vhtckers eamo into Lexinfi'n. t hranoee, yes terday, undl.r'i commantd of Pol'ail Cltett . Col alon t gomery dtue nanled th eao strrender of . (em ens, atntl ata his refu-al, nti:itt ensmt'i at 'whech- Clen'!s atet killed, anl otner hasih-vhacker's tmo' ttily woulded. alont. gomery has arrestid s^veral of th m tos t. he tages for the safety of the Union citi xe . nlt t h e fla to iltl he clergy fulfill their pttnixese to tniye a loan for .:axinilil. lie Will rtetitn at the head of the Government.' The report is cered it edl here. The cotton crop of the Parish of t)taehi. In for th present year, will bo deticient about 12,0'J bales. Congrossional, - IAsuao"taro\, December I---a the Sen Ate, a extended debate tank place ont ahe bill for the admiissioa of ,Nobrasskaa. Saon terstrentoiosly opposed it, on thin raittun,l thit. the State CattitUtiauto. atloptel by the people of that Territory did not confer. no gre saifraie.' During .th1 'I eoaarse of thit Iebate, the status of. the Soithern State. was also discusel, when Sumnar deel'ned post positivety that they trever slott'd -b. re-mitted without. negro siifl'rago, eveni if they adopted the Con!"titational tanendn"at. To this, blth the Ohio sonn(ors--le4;ra. Wade adil herman--as positively repliel, lthat the adoption of that, amenident. was the only contlition to be imposel on those Siat,4. and that, upon their ratifying it, thlr Senators' and Represettatives shld._ _ be iuiedintely admitedl. WVadoc saild tat they hadaa offaered tIs btargaina to tho SothI, ran< lhe, foraone, shouctld silek lay it. .\r. Shtortwe'n shaid thae pe-opla of the Noartha lada 'a uni-lertatonod, nod wouald seo ablIdoa. Bot h thte rPn tr, however, deooe leti the atuth refuased to niecept It, .it tmuset lboe behal by the strong hanad ofanilitary power'. In thi ifemtse, thie.Sentot bill to regualaate thrlteeivo frafihlane ira the Dilstrict of ICehtimbira wnstacken fronm tho Spetaker' s l esk, rand Ingersoll, of -11l1nois. 'ealled. for. athe previoust qeetion ona the peassage of the' hill. Hale,bf. New v'York.. tiesitld tn ofYer' anamendmen.t providinag faor nan educeatioan 1lteat,.bait. tgeruoll ~'efused to yicht'for .that, puarpose, anel the hIll was report ed in fnal and pnaeo-. idIthteleate, by a vato ol' 117 to ,481. Thit ilotuse then went Into ('ocmit tee of th'taWhiolo 'an thte Presidhent'st nmrsage, uintl Wenatworth nmadte at speech, revlbwatng the an'ts and poijey of the Presi det iyard ns)(edl leave to itntrodutcea resohltion, to ekeept .Tenatiesee.. from the appliegtlon ofa, 'resolait ion ofdst session, dlireeottn'g .the Commait teta on fllalm-i to 'teject allelinms fotr danae~s to property onarebaeh I ttatest, during thet wars an ohtjeet ion 'lrng miade, It. gnes over. About fi1.4 taund c'ed wiigoanscro.sodI into rkatnsa. at Memphlas Iat mtonath. Aono ferry na3everngo of twonty no. $oenapday ro'ssedi the river, and the unmiber - was incoreasuing 'daily. The liargest part ofZIbese emrait wore from Nrhrt-eastern (1 eorgia, Etast Ten. neee, Northetin Ahtamia and South1 CArolina. - inost all thoer moavers were bonaid N-orthetrn Texas. O'FFnCJ h.0itnre.-The Na.innal Rspub can. th tPresident's orean; hn ts issuet oia Alondlay, remalids thn radiets thaat. Oven It. they redlue tt. JPouthern fitates to TerrU-a .ales, tlao?* atee. Wil still baa cbtitlleAo vota in the Pential- .e.I,1 ) mcert,. On the 28th a Concert will be given: >y the young men of the Town, and rei are assured that it will be above mything of tho kind siieo the days of ho Ballyhucks. Look out for the no ice at the proper,titmo. ew Advortitemernts, Burgains-by Jas. D. Mlnor. Dictator-lv J. ). Aiken & Co. Literally Trie-Iby Cathcart & Mat. iowR. - STn AN(I STORY OF A l'ti ...\xE - A,1' landlter, wh'ose lift- has br1-n it so 'ie of mi?for(tlnes, hasI jit. starrived st Pari1'1, mltb-r 11h1 followingl Ciremotlltall. -(s: In 1830, he. was exiled to Sib .. -in f((r" poliic.1 c"rimt' from vhe,nce ho Seal i) to MI oat real, n'rrivl g .-lhre in omlllet' p overtV. After e;glt y ar f iimiseral-, lif(: th1"ro, ie s ai("(i to Ur: si1, and1 w("nt 1o work in :hue doind ' ,inle:, and fromi Brazil to Cnlifornia, vbIrli in a short, tiie. ho collected ia mall formtnm in gg(I(1. In 1863, le" re urne 1 to Europe fand 'jolied- in Mhe atlliT ggle for his c-,mnltrv's ititdeti"edenc'. li(" wis i n:lt c:apttired an1 Ir tnsportel or lfe to Nett' -' ifl hilk Nortlh #t1 )ileri:. Ii I8(5. he f)1111 1 in the b)t'(d f a rivar issoS 4f nt--hd qtartz mixel wili iroil Ore. 1i12 l:lziban and Cii forn.i:t expe(r:1.nce nOW <a-nt' inl play} a'nd pr()"Clit hiireb !P t he dIi1(vyeredl 11n1 ?(tnr"( dhlianor"I, to the v1alue of $10, 11011, andl, nwar Ihef( close (11 ':omm111-r Im fan a I oil( Ia: tre (liaiti ll(1 , w.-igt n ' 7 5 C':r1:11<: m1 w trtib. h:1(l it plroved'( pI)(t(et. nl leas)t. ..$250.000. 11" tes'v- I(o make!;( his :ap e if to sibh.t thi-'( n'h the . Chtwno? 1;lpire. T's't?maller" dliamonl.h ecn:(l in a 1-It at,tit his rtet"son, ntl". to imakt.sur1' of the l:trt_"er oi(e, he forr(i ol olt of his ty"s, no in the : emnt ort,it. hi(1 the h ihly-priz'"d "jewt"1-. (Y his wany '-.,seh^I C11 a h(" Wa r1- h I hv a b):tl ini.. hi; h("l!.au1-1 q malt di;: inon('. =, s:ve a few wili I he s1111 to pr,(:(-ro ter he li( e3:lries of life. Afti:r mntill' d (4,r ht nij-riv(d t Cailt (t and slil. d for dlars "lie 1-e is no vitn 1' ntd in _reat mis(.rv tnd f(ov(rty\, ntl ht1:ing abh- -' ell bi-I ewlnsi pm(ves to b(tilled wihi h!ackapots, anl alm).t. w< rtlh't- s onitit'\l.\XilY A.' P a.)rttl.let, -An at;-ti illS oltra(r,e wa, rer"htral(d on T(1-.rlav' morninlg, in Ilrooklyn, hv it ang of rlian:. w i toretd th(" holE. o(tplli(1 byv at nullt"mr -of sawiti gir1 am(l h1.vint robbed"t Ilt itnmt(s, sciz("c tIl tt"ntitiedt \\"o lli1t1 w . : il q'llj.Cted llt it t-t it - t. r un't g il dig iti'5. \ II the" (("im alet wore otraf-d1 in a horrib't 1i1nnn'r. lIa(1 this -o)tccurre(i in iti io th.l it woulldi hav(' been" detcl:aredl a ."mnntnt, of tle h?rbarity of slaverv. nnd bt' cited ais nthlnlir evldeince whIy tho fio lth shlouhi h1: politically p)rost"cutte,i. We note far more ofIlheso slh:ckIitg caimeQ, us well ts nolIrder., int the Non it an(1d iorth-wti<t th n in any other parr. of the coulntrv, and .etIthere i-, of cours(., mit.hl Itt- it good in thesu see. Si(InS.-li ilim,>reY Suro ..* ,h'on- T-t-: B:NET ot HO'Us-:nt:t.:r F-:as --\lany persons who tiro .n . thlt ht :hit of fre-hinig minckere'l or ogh,-r li dtfish,' niever* dream theore is a ri.(br, and1( ia wrongr way to1 do it. Any nO( w ho hans seeni ihe prlces4 of en piialrationt goting lIt ait salit wIor5ks kno~ws tha t the1 alt fallsi to the hauom 03. Jtist so it is in the pan 1 where' Vour maci(kerel. or ot1her fish lieIs withI ih skit dowti, the sah wvil rall'10 the skitn and3 remin there;(he If place'd "wi'th Iifesh 'side downg f the -sal. will fall1 to the hot tom1 of the pan, attd the nfhi eCImI's o.:t freshented as it shotuld iti thle th er-ena-- it iis as1 suh whena putl in,-'Charlston0 New. 'V'il (orros C(ore isi iT.r,tNot .-Itte ms - hat they hav,o beent trying their haind at otnraising in Illinois. A porreepend(t~t in one of our e xohangeo, writing from near Cairo, in that. Staite, ttays: The crop diiriing. the past f&w years has been ant exceedingly profitable one. The presentt year the seaison iii.iaid to have beenL uinfavorableO, atrrd prines have depreciated. WVe find it sqling here ait I9 and '7 cents per pound in thie seed. AIbout four pounds1 ofreed cotton .muake one of ginned oton.* OVen1 ait this pr'ice, with fa~vorillAJsons. In parefuil onlture, it ie ai proflhI crop. [Aest.'year.theo crop was 1sold on ao "tout, thrqe Ihiotnandt ~Mies weroe sipe<l -om ustatique in thisa country last year, a orino helh was grown ein Johnisomn Iounty. CoViy.DRnATI MoNxY.-Jalgo Bng. eeid. (of (lil Urrited Sintes D)istrict. Coturt n Alabatma. lasa decided pa1ymenits'mndoJl n Confederateg cuirrency, to be niull and kI.RnNAI, II.vdiqx.-The receipts .V f the internni reven'ne ialonio4ja.geal l (it ybar was troe hundred and eleven rilliotns of dollr,