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Washington Dispatch to the New -Yorh Tiinw.
MB. DAVIS AT FOBTBESS MON;
BOB.
It is not tree that Dsns neither speaks
nor is spoken to. Snoh rigor would be
childish and absurd. With Major-Qeneral
Miles, with Dr. Graven and- other officers
of the post, be converses freely and unrestrainedly.
They have no desire to be nocivil,
nor wonld they oonsent to snoh a
fdepth of degradation as would be needfnl,
Lre they expected in any way to irritate,
noy or disturb their prisoner. With the
aoldiers of the guard he is not permitted to
talk, nor would he be if be was a simple
visitor. It. is customary afc all military
posts for visitors, and especially prisoners,
to refrain from oonfersation with any sol
dier on doty. In case he needs any tiling
at any time he has only to tell the sentinel,
who oalls the officer of the guard. Rising
at an early hour, Mr. .Davis takes a bath,
then dresses, after which he is visited by
the officer of the guard, the officer of the
day, and the medical attendant. lie then
breakfasts, after-which ho walks up_and
down his room, converses with Gen. Miles,
who generally visits his quarters about that
time, or with Dr. Craven, reads the Bible,
and quite likely longs for books and papers;
that he has hot thus far been permitted either
is a fact. Whether it is best to wholly
deprive him of the sopicty of books is a
fair matter of argument. . Many think that
he should have everything of the kind with
which to while away his time and make the
tedious hears pass less slowly. Then there
are many who entertain the idea that Jeff,
deserves a little punishment, and that it is
not at all desirable that his time Bhottld pass
'pleasantly or rapidly. Quite likely the
government are of that opinion : at all
events, he don't get the papers. It has
also been stated that no letters of sympathy
had been received for him. This is incorrect.
Mrs. Davis and other members of
the family have written frequently, and althoagh
Mr. Davis is not permitted to read
the letters, he is furnished witlf all items
of domestio news and interest, suoh as the
state of health and movements of the family
generally. In addition to these, numerous
letters of counsel and advice have been
received,, although none of them,"with one
exception, have been given him. It is not
deemed right that intercourse by letter
should be permitted with any one, although
one would suppose it could do no harm if
the mere home letters were allowed to pass
freely. Of course there are hundreds of
silly people in the country, and it woulii be
Mra'nge if they srbo pester the President
for opinions, bother persons of note for autographs,
and deluge officiate with advice,
should not occasionally scribble a line of
abttse to old Jeff. His friends, however,
may repfc easy on this point; he is never
annoyed by these impertinencies, because
he never sOes nor bears of them. It is said
that he rarely talks about or cares to bave
reference made to political or military matters.
Quite likely this is in deference to
the pood advice of- his counsel. When
Davis was first incarcerated,he made application
for pen, ink and paper; the application
was refused. He then made no requests
for several days, until after the reception
of a letter from an eminent lawyer,
whea he again requested stationery. It
was granted on one condition; finding it
difficult to comply with, the terms, he returned
the materials. He has several times |
' expressed a desire for free, correspondence
with bis wife and family, and seemed annoyed
at the determined refusal, given at
each application. What earthly- honesty
purposes the presses hope to gain by circulating
lies about. Jeff's health it is d?cult .
to conceive. He is in better condition today
than he has been in fire years. It will
be remembered that a hacking cough seriously
affected his throat and lungs during '
his last days at Washington ; it has gone
entirely. He has been blind of one eye
*or many yepis, and the aig?t of the other
was exceedingly poor of late.' The power
of his eye is greater now than at any time
in ten years. He wears at times the famous
green goggles, but there is not the need for
them now that there osod to be. Daring
his rule at Richmond, the oonstant 'strain
upon his eye wore upon it, and it was
the opinion of his best and most intimate
friends that he would eventually lose his
sight altogether. This is changed for
the better. Regular hours, much sound
sleep, almost total abstinence from wear
and tear, are doing much for his health
generally, and very much for his eye
- fight. His carriage is still erect. His
hair is ohanging color; bis cheeks, always
sunken, are now covered with a light beard,
making him look fatter and sounder ; his
physique is in good repair, his limbs are
firm and his step square. Of bis mental
condition it is more difficult to speak. He
is eager for books, for mind food, as he is
for the substantiate needed by his body.?
r- Naturally nervous, years of ill health have
made him irritable. Other years of abaploie
power made him impatient, and trouble
seems to have made him querulous. Still
he sleeps like a top. He retires early, and
sometimes never tarnB till morning. Nor
is it true that he has been denied the
privilege of an occasional walk, any more
than is the story that his near approaching
dissolution compelled a change of programme.
Gen. Miles, a prudent, efficient
officer has been in charge of the prisoner's ;
person and health. He is, in fact, held
responsible for him by the President and
Secretary of War. At first, before the
excitement of the capture and confinement
ware away, itjyas deemed best that be
should be kept quietly in his ample room.
Since then, however, at various times, at
the suggestion of the General or. of Davis,
as the rase might be, they have walked
out upon the ramparts in the cool of the
early evening, and snuffed the fresh air
together. With General Miles, Mr. Davis;
has em been* courteous and decorous in
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[ his beating and conversation. There is no
reason why he sbonld not be^ for so far as
the externals of life and society go, be is
as proper a person as can ?bc fonnd in a
| day's tramp. The heat having become so
| iotetse at the fort, General Miles, has made
| these excursions more frequently, and with
great benefit to his mental and physical
condition.
Sarmises are always in order. It is the
! matured opinion of one "well informed
circle," that he'll be tried by a military
commission, convicted ami banged.
Another equally, well informed circle is
confident that he'll .be tried by a civil court
and acaoitted.
Oqe opinion is just as good as the other,
and the reader can take. his choice. Of
qd&thing they may rest assured. The Government
has not yet determined what to do
with him, and when it does, it will do nothing
inconsistent with its dignity.
From the Winngboro',Tri-We?kly News.
REPUDIATION.
There is a very general, misconception
on tjjie part of our people on this Bubjeot.
To what extent the State would be^benefited
by tho passage of a laW cancelling all
existing private debts, is a question that
need not be considered, if it is impossible
to enact such a law. Now, can such a law
be passed?
The -^Convention" can pass no specific
laws. It can only, by a Constitution, prescribe-what
kind of laws the Legislature
may, or may not, enact; how these laws
are to be eDaoted, and how executed-.. Can
the Legislature pass suoh a law??
Oor present Constitution,..Art. IX, Sec. 2,
declares that "no law-impairing the obligation
of contracts, shall ever be.passed by
the Legislature of this State/7 This the .
Convention can strike out, but it eannot or
dain thz-contrary, authorizing the Legislature
to pass saoh a law. The Constitution
of the United States, Art 1. Seo. declare?*?No
State shall pass any l%w impairing
the obligation of contracts." This
prohibition has been uniformly , held to apply
to contracts made by the oitizens of the
same State, aiFwell as between the oitizens
of different States. This' prohibition is
final, for the Constitution of the United
States is the Constitution of each and every
one of the States. Should our Constitution
allow, and our Legislature enact, a law
impairing the obligation of contracts, the
Constitution of the United States would
make such a law null and void. Our
Judges would not recognize suoh a law.?
By Article VI of the United States Constitution,
that Constitution is made "the
supreme law of the land; and the Jndges
in every State shall be bound thereby; any
thing m the Constitution, or laws of any ,
State, to the contrarv notwithstanding."? i
To render.this provision the more efficient, 1
the same Article requires that all the
Judges of tbe several States -"shall be
bound by %ath to support this Constitution."
There are several classes of laws which ,
may be.passed for tbe relief of debtors,?
suoh as bankrupt and insolvent debtor laws, exemption
Taws, and stay laws. All bank,
rupt or insolvent debtors.laws, without exception,
that have ever been passed by any
State or by Congress, require tbe surrender ]
by the debtor of aH his property. And in j
respect to them, Kent in' his commentaries
on tbe Constitution of the United States, <
gives it as decided that in order for a State (
law Dot to violate tbe United States Constitution
"tbe debt must have been contracted <
after the passing of the Act." Vol. 1.
pp. 422.
Exemption laws are always prospective. 1
Thus, our Exemption Act. of .1823, and tbe
Homestead Act of 1851, in express terms, '
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are maae 10 apply owyto "aeDSS tnereaner 1
contracted." This was necessary to render *
tbem constitutional, in not impairing tbe '
obligation of existing contracts. ' 1
How far stay laws can be extended with- 1
out impairing the obligation of contracts, 1
has not yet been decided. These it is the ^
province of the Legislature to pass.
We conclude by stating three proposi- 1
tions, which we hold, to be, in point of law, 1
undeniable:
1st. Without an amendment of the Con- '
stitntion of the United States, no power 1
can pags a valid law, cancelling existing *
private debts...
2nd. Tbe Legislature is.the proper an- 1
thority to pass laws for theielief of debtors. |
3rd. All such laws most be so framed aB '
not to impair the obligation of existing 1
contracts. Jubisconsulths. J
History or the War?Interesting j
Curiosities.?Welearn that Mr. Edward 1
A. Pollard, whose, name is already known ]
as an annalist of the war, and as one of tbe
editors of the Bichmond Examiner, has '
been recently making a tonr of the South \
for tbe purpose of collecting materials and j
memoirs touching the war, with the view *
of waiting an elaborate history of the past <
four years. Mr. P. has been so successful '
in Bichmond that he has seoured many of *
the original papers of Glen. Lee, and corn-' ^
plete series of his despatches, whioh, of '
themselves, will be the most interesting ep- 1
itome of the events of the war; Some of ,j
these, autograph dispatches will be of infinite *
interest to collectors of curiosities of the *
war.? Whig. <
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fgr The New Orleans Picayune says l.?
the talk of- emigrating . to 3raril continues.1 ; <
in that part of the country,.the emigrants J
being discontented Southern families, who, '
now that the rebellion is over, cannot make <
up their minds to live in tbisooantry.? 1
The country to which the proposed emi- '
grants propose to go is the upper valley of <
the Tdoarititts River, whose Chief seaport 1
is Para, It is a county similar to.that '
watered by the Amazon.* The Picatfunc <
is of the opinionthe movement will <
not amount to much; home ties are too*'<
strong for any considerable emigration tot
take' place. The Texaaa, are'talki ng the <
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From the Charleston Dally News.
orafbiTr.
Ii gives as so much pleasure to observe
the re-opening afb oases of-business, and
to see the names of merchants that were
familiar to as before the.war, in-their places
again, that we can do no less than make a
record of them. The energy-with which
these gentlemen have returned to their former
pursuits, and the determination they
exhibit to meet with a success equal to that
which they previously acquired, gives us
pleasant anticipations of considerable . prosperity
daring the ensuing fail and winter.
We notice, on East Bay,-MrC. Mordecai
& Co., Bnrokmyer & Moffett, J. Dawson,
Bollajan & Brothers, B. O'Neil, A. Canale,
J. N. Robs cm, ^Street, JD. Barrow.
.In .Broad Street?S. G. Courtenay, J.
PlnitlMnan ' "A <?awla - Jtr TlomAn f! PIaAOA
i/l?VIUU?U^ AURII40 W JLTHIUUU) .W# * M,wOw)
Klinck & Wickenbotg, J. Steiber, C. Love,
H. Harris, D. MeKenzie.
Id Cumberland street?H. F.<B^g?g(t?
Co. .
In Market street?J. C. Ef. Claussen,
P. C.Kerrigan, D. & J. Canter.
In Hayne street?W. H. Cbafee, W. H.
Gilliland, N. Hunt & Son, H. fi. BeLeon,
Gr. W. Williams & Co.
In Meeting.street?M. Bolger, fl;:F.
Panknin, A. C.Phin, Rhenneker& Glover,
A. S. Hull, E. Daly, J. Commins & Co,,
H. F, Stroheokgr, Tapper & Lane, E. B.
Stoddard & Co., H. Bisohoff, J. W. Brown
& Co., Laurey & Alexander, Tapper &
Sons, "Williams & Covert.
In King street?J. H. Bredenburg, C.
AHrens, W. G. Trott, E. Lacassaigne, G.
W. Flash, J". Seigling, J. B. Read, J. Bussell,
;H. C. Stoil, B; Mantoue, B. Johnston,
E. B. Cowperthwait, 0. E. &' A. S. Johnson,
M. Drake, J.. B. Duval & Son, T. W.
Bliss, J. W. Cant well, W. B. Heriot -&
Co., J." T. Snead, J. Marion, T. M.Brie*"
tofl, W. Carrington & Co., KeniSck &
Skrioe, J. Thomson, A. King, S. Hart, H.
SoubeyrouXj J. Jara, J. Van WinWe, B.
FeldraaD, Marshall & McMillan, C. Bidg,
J. A. ThouroD, G.W. Aimar.
In Society street?A. Stenbouse.
In addition to theBe we havo many large
establishments presided over and owned,by
Northern merobantS' of responsibility, who
have come amongst us to settle and be a
part of us, and we here tender them a most
cordial weloome< .With their udtiring industry,
and the facilities in commerce improving
every day, and open to all, may.
We not-look forward to a great, future for
oar good old pity? Politioal excitement
has too long stood in' the way of the commercial'
advancement- of Charleston, and it
Bhonld now be thrown aside, and an interCoarse
established which wool'd briog with
it friendship and- confidence, leading to soeial
intimacy and business reliance with all
parts of- the Union. This achieved, the
benefits and advantages are hardly to be
imagined. *
Repairs and improvements in stores and
private, dwellings are steadily being carried
on in every part of the city, and torn sheds
and.ragged walls are disappearing every
day from Mew. - ' - "
" A. new and handsomely arranged" Post>
offioe has been established at the Pavilion
Hotel, under the direction of the Aoting
Postmaster, Stanley Gr. Trott, Esq. (the
location is peculiarly well adapted to the
business portion of the city> and the inter*
nal affairs are conducted with so mnoh order
and regalarity as to excite the commendation
of the community.
SEN. LEE DUSING THE PETEBSBUEG
BATTLE.
A correspondent of the New York World
writes as follows:
Soon after sunrise on the 2nd of April,
the Federal columns, in heavy mass, advanced
from the outer line of works, whioh
hey hadr carried at -daybreak, to', attack
General Lee in his inner intrenchroents
near Petersburg. When the present wrier
reached the vicinity of army headqnar;ers,
on the Cox road, west of the city, a
Federal-column n&s rapidly advancing to
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jdarge a nattery posted in cae opea ueiu to
he right of ^ie house, and at -that time
was firing rapidly. , Gen. Lee was in the
awn in front of bis headquarters, looking
:hrongh his glass at the oolumnas it moved
it a double quick across the fields,, and
mowing the terrible significance of the advantage
whioh. the Federal troops had.
rained,-I~looked at the .Generalj to ascer:ain,
if possible, what he thoughfr of it.
Qe never appeared more, calmj and if the
tffcir had been a review,; he oonld not have
exhibited less emotion of any description,
[n.full uniform, with his gold-hilted sword,
lift perfectly quiet look, he appeared to be
witnessing, with . simple curiosity, some
military parade. "
The movement of the Federal column
jacame more rapidj and the battery was.
ioon charged but it succeeded - in gallopng
off uuder a heavy fire of musketry;?
Fhe column then pressed on, and the Fed:ral
artillery opened a heavy fife on the
rill, before which the Southern guns?
here was noinfantry?withdrew.* General
Lee retired slowly with his artillery, riding
lis well-known iron gray, and one person,
it least, in the oompany foigofthe shell
ind sharpshooters in loOkihgat the superb
jld oav&Her, erect as an arro^^od'as calni
iru^May morning. When he sard to-an
ifficer near, "This a bad business, Colonel,"j
:here was no excitement in his voice, or
fry change whatsoever in its grave aqd
lourteous t^oes. A 'fllight j flnsh oamV. to ?
his face, howeve^ a-inomeht afterwards. A
iffell'irom the' j5re<F a|
:he group, burst almost upon him, killing"
i horse near by, and ontting his bridle
reins. This brought a decided expression
)f "fight" to the old soldferV fi?c.*b and he
probably felt as he did at Ctilpeppp^.when
:be- disaster of 1 Rappahannock bri< Jge oc;old
me, <'I should qow Jike to go into a
jharge."
The demeanour of-publio men on
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{ critical occasion, when he saw himself1
about to be subjected to the greatest humiliation
to the.pride of a soldier-;-capture?
.was admirably noble apd serebc. It was
impossible not to be atruok with the grandeur
of hijp appearance?no other phrase describes
it; or to refrain, from admiring the
princely air with which the old cavalryofficer
sat his horse- With -his calm and
'thoughtful eye, andgerfecfe repose of manner.in
spite of the restive;movement8 of
his horse, .frightened by the firing, it was
hard to believe that he saw there was no
hope, and for iimself would have oared little
if one of Jhose bullets singing around
had found its-mark in bia breast.
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From the ftew York World.
TEMPER OP TEDB,SOXTTHe^;.
The bewing of tbeaouthern people under
their defeat andtheimmense loss of property
involved in thr enmnoipj&on of their
il&yee, is more getre*ousr manly, and selfrespecting
than we had any reason to expect.
From the Potomac to the Rio
Grande, there is not Of.guerilla band, nor
any demonstration of resistance to the federal
authority. . The influential statesmen
of the South, and their trusted military
.leaders, are disposed, to a man, to aoqoiesce
in reunion and make the best of the situation.
General Lee, whom . the southern
people revere, is an open applicant for par;
don and lends weighty example to a sincere
and faithful submission of the lows. Gen.
Johnston who stood next to Lee in southern
consideration, has publicly given as rational
advice to his fellow-citizens as joonkMiaVe
'been dictated by the staunohest friends of
the Union..,; Mr. Bovoe; of Sooth Carolina,
Governor Brown, of Georgia, and other
southern statesmen of-equal distinction
hove made addresses counseling acquicsence
in the abqlitiou of slavery, and fealty
to the federal government. The southern
newspapers are almost universally conducted
in. the samo,admirable-iind manly spirit.
There is no contumacious sullenpess, no
eaptioos repining on the Constitntion, no
refraotory assertion of state sovereignty, no
harsh criticism of the policy of President
Johnson, none of the hasty- tone of self-assertion
onoe so characteristic of southern
publiomenr And yet there is nothing servile
or craven in the general tone of acquiescence
and Bubmisskjn.'IHs the simple
manifestation of good >sense and manly
feeling, which accepts the inevitable without
womanish petnlenoe,and eeeka in% straight
forward manner, to adapt itself to the aotuir!
situation.
As Americans, the Sonth 'has given ub
no reason to be ashamed of oar countrymen.
They jngde, to be sure, a terrible mistake
in going into this contest, but onee in,
they bore themsfel^s with a resolution; gal'lantry,
persistence, and fidelity to eaSh other,
which did no discredit to their public
spirit and soldierly qualities. The' heronlean
and protracted .exertions we were compelled
to make to subdue them attest their
vigor and valor; and after so tough a contest,
we cannot deny them the possession-of
great qualities without liamiliating selfdisparagement
Bat the frankness of their
submissi6n,when flbey saw they were beaten
is as ooqppioaods a proof of magnanimity
as the ohiralrio determination with which
thgjy /(Might against superior odds. It adds
toioar senso of national strength, that, in
future wars with foreign powers, we shall
have the support of men who understand
so well the duties of soldiers and ohizens.
Considering:'their present admirable
bearing/oughfc'weto treat them as friends
or as enemies ? When we separated from
Great Britain, we proclaimed to the world,
in the Declaration of Independence,' that
we shoulds hold the Britons, like otbtt
foreign , peoples, "enemies, in wary in
peace friends." Shall we treatoar own
repentant brethren with less magnanimity
than foreign nations praotice toward each
other?. Having treated these brave and
misguided fellow-countrymen as enemies
in ; war, shall we refnse to treat them as
friends in peace ? Why should oar newspapers
teem' with calumnies on their character?
When they so .frankly aocept the
neweorder of things, aDd the mighty revolution
in their social system; what sense, j
what magnanimity, what decenoy even, is
there in subjecting them to needless humiliation
and indignities ? Nobody fears a new
rebellion ; nobody believes that the frank
submission of the South iBfeigned; and it
irunworthy- the character of a great nation
to practice a mean, tuspioions, and irrita-<
ting surveillance ?vera proud and spirited
I community/who bear themselves with irach
I seir-command under one 01 me greatest
trials through which any people was ever
i called to pass.
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. liINCOLN, SHEBMAN AND DAYIS.?pA
correspondent of the Cincinnati Daily
i Times, describing a conversation with General
Sherman, quotes him as follows :
"I askedMr. LinooIn explioUly, when I
went up .to .City Point, whether he wanted <
me tocapftre Jeff Davies or let him esoape,
and in: reply he told me aatory."
That "story" may now have a historical
valued and I give it, therefore, as General
Sbermam said Mr. Linooln told it?only
promising that it was a favorite story jrithT
Mr. Linoolhj-.: which he told^ many times.
andin UlaittpSipB Of itfaiiy^ points of. public
polioy.
I *'EI1 tell yo*, General/' -Mr^incoltt was
said to We'began, "I'-il tell joUiWhat I
think about taking Jeff. Davis; Oat iu
Sangamon county thero was an old temperiw?.e
leoturer who was. very striot in the
doctrine and practice of total;abstinence.
Que day,, aftet a long ride: in the hot sun,
bhstopped at the house of a friend, who proposed
a
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manage to pat in a drop unbeknownst tome,
"i gaess it woald'nt hsurt me fonob !'
<Now General/ Mr. Lincoln is said to
have concluded, 'I'm bound to oppose the
escape of Jeff. Davis, bat if you coald
manage to let him slip oat unbeknownst
like, I guess it woultfnt hurt me much Y
'And that/ exclaimed General Sherman,
?ia all I could get out of the Government
as to what its pplicy was coDoerh|ngpj
rebel leaders, till Stanton assailed..me for
Davis'escape!'
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The Admirable; Conduct- of the
South.?The admirable temper of the
South is attracting general attention and
sympathy. To be sure there.are exceptional
cases?inevitable there are such?bul
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the general tone -of the Soath is magnammoos
and loyal. Men remain.in the qoan
. try and follow the high examples of theii
moat popular men In soliciting the pardoc
of the President, and they declare their resolve
to conform to the Amnesty Aot in
spirit as well as letter. The pecnliar instigation
and all the pet political dogmas ol
the South are positively rejected by. the
Federal poifrer; ana to this new dtate ol
things the South is conforming to an extent
and with a decree of alacrity and unanimi'
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ty which is as surprising as it is gratifying.
The Federal Government is, on .all hands,
acknowledged by them as the superior and
sovereign 'power; and'Southern, men crowd
under the excepted clauses in the-Amnesty
Act to ask its forgiveness. There is. no
spurning of the gracious overtures of amnesty,
such as have marked all history, and
instances of which are freshly remembered
in the oases of Yiotor Hugo and . Louis
Blanoh, who preferred perpetual exile, or
the dungeon or the scaffold, to France under
the Emperor. All guerrilla resistance
appears to hare ceased in the South, and
her influential men?Buch as Lee, Johnston,
Brown and Boyce, and other names representative
of nearly every State in the late
so-called Confederacy?names intimately
associated with the rebellion?all these
powerful agencies appear to be enlisted on
the Bide of the c&untry. If there were not
American hearts at the bottom of this submission,
men who have-fioaght and endured
as the conspicuous Southern rebels have
done would not thua sue for pardon. In
fact, the case of the South, more and mori
every day, reminds us of the i'aored story
of,the restored Prodigal Son. 'We advocate
no unsafe measure which shall originate
even in the best impulses ; we desire
to see loyalty guarded and shielded at every
point of reorganization, (as it is abundantly,)
bat we.do insist upon a manly and fraternal
recognition of the new-born spirit of
the South. And on this matter of cultivating
an Amwcanr sentiment between the
sections vre awell so frequently and'so emphatically,
because we regard this as the
all-in-all of trne anion, as compared with
whioh everything else is but cold, uncertain,
transient, and to a, degree despotic. Oar
tbitulsi^iames, ioyolriog
nicalities and parchment questions, Can be
made to divert the hearts of the 'sections
from coming together, so stfoog io ooaseot
and . love far a * common oountry aa to defy
danger from all fature party combinations
and maohinations: '
Washington Intelligencer.
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Mortality among the Negroes.?
We receive, through NortfienTand Southern
papers, the most alarming accounts of
the fearful and astounding mortality among
the emancipated negroes in the Southern
States. We also learn from a private letter
that there, are 17(X.000 of these people in
arid around the city of Charleston, and that
although none of those epidemical scourges
which occasionally decimate the Atlantic
States have made their appearance, the negroes
are dying, "like diseased sheep."?
The New TTork Herald, after examining
the reports of its various correspondents,
averts'that the same fearful mortality exists
among the emancipated negroids from
Texas to Virginia.. It states.that the offininl
ronnrtjj with reference to the mortality
among the negro regiments, also disclose
the same state of things where the fiegro is
in the military service of the United States.
The Herald arrives at the conclusion that
the negro will entirely disappear from the
effects of great natural causes like the Indian.
Jt alleges that they are gradoally
disappearing frottf those occupations at the
North where they were once fomrd in great
numbersv . Thelrmonopolyj it says, ;of the,
( occupation of hod carriers, seavengersnporters,
hostlers, hotfil waiters^boot blacks and
barbers, has long ceased, and the Irish and
Germans are still elbowing thifth out.?
Carefully prepw^efatistic(al"data, the Herald
states, show that the mortality of the
Boston- thV deaths.among the colored population
exceed the number of births nearly
fcWoto one.
T- Jnnnn ii norinrl nf fl?T
I My :illjaniunwi^uu; uui?ug m
months; there were in .1859,306 death&and
148 births. The mortality in the extreme
Southern States) it is anid, among the negro
troops, is equally _great. ' Regiments whioh
have never been" In battle have, in six
months, lost by death one-half their number.
. This momHty was' not the resnl t of
&e'appearance of an epidemic.
|"? ?Ao'oording," says the Herald, "to the
best: data to be obtained, it safe to afirte
that of fcbejfour millions of lalaoks in "the
South in 1860, not oyer itfeee millions are
now alive. The census of 1870 will undoubtedly
present an astounding result in
regard to thisunfortauafce race. The mortalityfromaR^(?unteieJnor^a8iog.,^
iheakin ^^^ ^
| SUFFRAGE QUALIFICATIONS.
The qualification^ of voters ia different
States is a mattetof considerable interest at
the^pr^ent time, p^^^^ '^nMCtion^
^Jneg^Snot8aUowS^'vote under
any circumstances in any of the States
1 kwhieh composed the Union in 1860, ex1
oeptingjfo*, and in only two $atea," (Ver,
moot and New Hampshire) is a colored
' person allowed-to vote without a property
< qaalitication. In New Hampshire there
' were in 1860, one hundred iand^ ninety col
ored voters, and in Vermont, only eighty.
' iy voter must/within two years, have paid;
s State or county tax, unless excused from
- taxation.
i . In Rhode Island, a voter must own real
estate of one hundred and thirty-four .dollars
value, or of the: clear value of.sevW
dollars over any grointfi^rent.
A colored f erson is not allowed to vote
in 'Hew York, unless he has resided in the
, State three years, and is a freeholder in
value of two hundred and fifty dollars, and
paid taxes'thereon.
V -
Scene in a. Faench Cgubt.?A poor,
pale, wan seamstress was arraigned for theft.
She appeared at the bar with a baby of eleven
or twelve months in her annB, her child.'.
She went to get some work rone daj and
stole three gold^ins of 10 francs each.rShe
was too poor, to engage a lawyer, and*
when asked by the jadge what she had to
say for herself, she answered: ''The day I
went to my employer's J carried my child
with me. It was inxny arms as*it is now.
I was not paying-attention to it. There
were several gold coins on the mantle piece,
and unknown to me it stretched oat its lit
tio hand, seized three pieces >hioh I did
cot observe until I got home. I at once;pat
on my bonnet and was going j?ck to my
enployer to return them when I was arrested.
This is the solemn truth as I hope
for Heaven's mercy." The court upbraided
the mother for her impudence in endeavor- 1
ing to palm c^snpba^maoifesi lie for.the
truth. They brought her for own. nice
to retract so absurd a tale. These appeals
had no effect except to strengthen the poor
mother's pertinacious adherence to her ori.
ginal story. A* tlqs; firmness was sustained
by that look of innocence which the most,
adroit" oriminsi oau never counterfeit, the
court were at gome loss.to discover what decision
justice commanded. To Telieve their
embarrassme?t.one"of the judges proposed
to renew the scene described by the mottor. |
Throe gold coins were placed on the^jerk's
table. The mother was directed to'assume
the position in which she said?he-stood at.,
her employer's house. There wm then a
breathless nans? in court. The babv good
discovered the brfghfboin, eyed it for a momeat,
^ifed ita
uny nana ana oiaicnea snem in us angers
with a miser'seagerneaa. The motSer was
.'. '? " i ^ '* .
The Eestob^^pn tkljepff South i*
Congress.?The Southern' people are
electing to the various offices that they' have
They ohoose to reconstruct a Southern
State/the men who di^the meat to^estre,
this for a simple reason; there are no othen
pery fellows; weak-kneed, trimmers, who
ifrere rebels when the rebellion was np?and i
Union men when it was down. Such men
will-not be trusted where they are known,
and we ought to rejoioe over it as a healthy ,
sign of tho rca) honest republicanism of .,
the South. "We ought also to regard it as
a healthy sign that' the Southern people- choose
to be represented in peace by the
men who led them in war. ' Tlie Northern
people will do the same. . No one has given
op,the rebel cause ^completely as the
Southern soldiers. No/Claas of the Southern
people is "so fair or ' honest, or *6 sin
cerely earnest in their desire-to see the
country pacified. These are-the men 'the
South how pots in offieo.-- It iaj as~we say,
a heatthy sigh?bat thereris to be a fight
; aW't if with the radicalt^specialJy in so
far as the South wished to be^eprese n t e d in
Congress by this class of men. '
. Jej^Bc
A Belligerent Cow.?There is *:cow>(;
in .Washington, D. C., which, marched with
Sherman's army from Atlanta, Ga., and da- ]
ring all the time, from Nov. 1,1864 . to-May .]
Brevet Major- General- D. Bv Morgan to ,
the Stddiem'r Home, for the use of that in- j
satation. Long may she lire. *Tfae-dis- <
tance of her mirches are: From Atlanta' to (
Savannah, 32S miles; from Savannah to (
Go8dflboroagb,- N: C., 471 milee j ftom ;
Goldsbdroto Cape Fear river, 8Lffllies; i
from Cape Fear jriver to WashingtonrlyU I
Richmond, Va,,- 342 miles,; total, 1220 c
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