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YOIUME XI. TORKYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1865. * NUMBER 22.
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THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION.
The prompt, intelligent and deeided action
of the Mississippi Convention is worthy
of universal imitation. The members
of the convention met and organized, and
as the last forty years have been spent in
the discussion of the question of slavery,
they deemed it unnecessary to waste any
more breath about it. Appreciating and
recognizing 'the situation' as demanding
the immediate abolition of the institution,
they ratified the oonstitntioBal amendment
of the National Congress, which blots "it opt
forever. Haying done this without, so far
as we can learn, a single superfioos word,
they passed at once to the consideration of
the next matter of vital importance, which,
ox coarse was tue wuiiruisuvu nuu muuiwlion
of a11 the acts of the several Legislatures
of Mississippi which were passed during
the oivii war, and which were cot in
conflict with the Constitution and laws of
the United States.v Having completed its
labors it seems,* that the convention adjourned,
after having been in session less
than a week. And yet the work of the
convention seems to havo been as thoroughly
performed as if the convention had occupied
six months in listening to the dreariest
of speeches. This instanoe of speedy legislation
is worthy of imitation in all the
Southern States, where conventions are still
to be held. Oor finances will not for many
years sanction long legislative sessions,
tedious speeches aud barren displays of
ambitious orators. All that sort of thing
belongs to the past, and no constituency
should hereafter tolerate a gaseous and
windy orator whose vapid and (urgent utter
aaces cost a hundred dollars a minute. We
believe that the stern, practical lessons of
the war have taught our people that mere
speeoh-makers are of very small account.?
Legislation, like war, can be conducted with
very little talking. The great men of the
days of 1776 and 1787 rarely spoke more
than ten minutes, and they were men of
oertainly as many ideas as any of the politicians
and statesmen of our day. Great
men like Grant, Lee, Sherman and Johnston
have made brevity fashionable, and
military ourtness and reticenoe is now tbe
rage. Having 'run the Government' on
the oratical line until the regime of slangwhangers
endangered the life of the nation,
the Mississippi Convention has proved that
the safest and most certain road to reconstruction
is the shortest. We have no use
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boars' whenever they catch the eye of
'Mr. Speaker.' We beseech the voters of
Virginia, at the approaching'elections, to
avoid notorious and interminable slangwhaogers
as they would mad-dogs and rattlesnakes,
and if they elect snch unfortunates,
they must be put under heavy bonds
never to speak more than five minutes at a
time. If they will pledge themselves never
to speak tfnless they have something worth
bearing, tbey will, we feel assured, preserve
the most unbroken silence.?Richmond
Republic.
-FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.
The following judicious t and well-timed
order has just been issued by Colonel Whittleay,
Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau
at Raleigh, North Carolina :
"BUREAU OP REFUGEES, FREEDMF.N AND
"ABANDONED LANDS, U'D Ul'ARTERSL
"ASST. COMMISSIONER,
"STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
"RALEIGH, N. C\, August 15,19C5. .
[CIRCULAR, NO. 3.J "It
is renorted that manv freedmen re
fuse to enter into oontfaots for labor, because
they believe that the farms will be given
them by the United States GovernAent.?
If any do thus believe, they have no reason
for their belief. The Government owns no
lands in this State. . It therefore can give '
away none. Frecdmen can obtain fanns
with the money which they "have earned by
their labor. Every one, therefore, should
work diligently, and carefully save his
wages, till he may be able to buy land, and
possess his own home.
"E. Whittlesy,
"Colonel and Asst. Commissioner."
MaDy improper and erroneous ideas prevail
among our colored population, and it is
important to their own interests and welfare,
and especially to a good understanding between
them and their late masters, that just
snob plain and candid advice as is contained
in the foregoing order, should be repeatedly
impressed npon their minds.
No fanciful expectations of possessing the
lands of their late masters should be allowed
to deceive them for a single moment, or
to betray them into a life of idleness and
irregularity. Their future comfort and
happiness depend entirely npon their own
habits of steady industry and economy.?
There is no disposition on the part of their
late masters to treat them unkindly, or to
throw any obstacles in the way of their
making an honest and respectable support.
On the contrary, the interests of the late
masters and the late slaves are not in conflict,
for the present, at least, and all that
the late masters can properiy ana consistently
do for tbe advancement of the welfare
of the freedmen, will, we are sure, be
cheerfully and unhesitatingly performed.
But let these freedmen dismiss forever
from their mindslhe false and mischievous
idea that they oan live without work. Toil
is the ordained and inevitable lot of all the
sons of Adam, of whatever color or clime;
and it is a fatal chimera of au .ill balanced
brain to suppose that happiness, or respectability,
or usefulness, or a competent support,
is attainable without it. Let the freedmen,
then, go to work steadily, systematically
aDd feithfally, if they desire to improve
their condition or make life itself tolerable.
Let them comply with all their
contracts, in letter and spirit, and their late
masters instead of being converted by an
opposite course, into enemies, will continue
to be, as they have always been, their best,
truest and kindest friends.?Richmond
Whig. . i
NEXT SESSION OP CONGBESS. |
The question of the admission of mem-/'
bers to the next Congress from the Southern
States is now agitating the public mind.
With a law of Congress prohibiting any
one from holding a seat in that body who
had been eqgaged in the rebellion, It is
diffionlt to solve the question who the South
can send; for there is no prominent man
alive in the Southern States who has not,
direotly or indirectly been conoerned in the
war. The first matter to be considered,
them, is Manifestly, the repeal of the law, so
as to relievo the Sonth of the disability of
being represented in the National Congress.
Will the Radicals consent to this? That i
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is toe qaeatiuu. ?ve uuyd uu uuuut hjci?
will be an intense straggle to keep the
South oat, bat the people of the North are
more anxious for the South to oome back i
than the South herself is to return. Hence i
if thoynajority insist ' upon carrying out I
their plans, and elosing the doors of Con- '
gress upon the South, the Northern people ]
will arouse themselves to the necessity of <
putting down the Radicals and opening the ]
portals of the Uaion to every wayward sis- J
ter Who comes back, casting over her the i
cloak of charity and forgiveness, with the 1
oomplete obiviation of the past. The South i
has been restored to her political rights by ]
the amnesty proclamation and by the oaths i
of allegiance taken by her citizens. No (
farther tests can be required, unless it be '
the test of probation, and that is, of course, 1
out of the question. The men of the South i
who have conformed to the requirements of <
the Government are entitled to vote, and it i
is absurd to argue that they have not the
power to select their own representatives ; I
and it is still a greater absurdity to say that
these representatives shall not be received
whpn elected.
No such doctrine can stand before the
American people. When a Southerner
takes the oath of allegiance he must be regarded
as being restored to his former political
rights. He is as good as any other citizen
in the eye of the law: Tbe Government
must recongize this fact, else why administer
the oath at all? No doubt President
Johnson understands this matter, and if the
Radicals do not wish to go before the people
in the pending State eIeotiona.in a posi?
tion inimical to the administration, they
will handle this subject with fairness and
moderation. The President regards it to
be as much an act of disloyalty to prevent
a recuscaut State from coming into the Uninn
oq it io for nna tn crr\ nnt ond if t.hft
Northern States oppose the restoration of 1
the seceded States they are as oriminal as 1
the original secessionists.?JV. Y. Herald, s
Our Mistakes about each other.?
Not one man in ten thousand sees those
with whom he associates as thej really are. <
If the prayer of Barns were granted, and
we could all see ourselves as others see us, 1
our self-estimates would in all probability \
be much more erroneous than they arc now.
The truth is that we. regard each other 1
through a variety of lenses, no one of which i
is correct. Passion and prejudice, love 1
and hate, benevolence and envy, speotaole i
oar eves and utterly prevent us from ob- ]
serving accurately. Many whom we deem <
the porcelain of human clay are mere dirt, 1
and a still greater number of those we put <
down on black books are no further off
from Heaven, perhaps a little nearer, i
than the censors who condemn them. We t
habitually undervalue or overvalue each <
other, and in estimating character the i
shrewdest of us only now and then make i
true appraisal of the virtues and defects of i
even our closest intimates. 1
It is not just or fair to look at character ]
from a stand point of one's own selection. <
A man's profile may be unprepossessing, 1
and yet his full face agreeable. Wo once i
saw a young man, whose timidity was 1
a standing joke with his companions, leap
into a river and save a boy from drowning, 1
while his tormentors stood panic struck on t
the bank. .The merchant who gives curt 1
answers in his counting-house may be a ]
tender husband and father, and a kind i
helper of the desolate and oppressed. On *
the other hand, yonr good humored person, 1
who is all smiles and sunshine in public, ]
may carry something as hard as the nether y
millstone, in the place where his heart ought i
to be. i
Such anamolies are common. There is >
this comfort, however, for those whoso mis- I
judgments of their fellow-mortals lean to" {
the kindly side?such mistakes go to their i
credit in the great accouot. He' who ?
thinks better of his neighbors than they de
serve, cannot bo a bad man, for the standard
by which bis judgment is guided is the
goodness of his own heart. It is only the
base who believe all men base?of, in other
words, like themselves. Few, however, are
all evil. Even Nero did a good turn to
somebody, for when Rome was rejoicing
over his death some loving hand covered
his grave with flowers.
, Public men are seldom or never fairly
judged?at least, while living. However
pure, they cannot escape calumny. However
corrupt, they are sure to find eulogists.
History may do them justice; but they
rarely get it while living, either from friend
or foe.
Bishop Lay.?We mentioned last week,
that this-gentleman bad been arrested at
Lincolnton, North Carolina. He was taken
to Washington for examination in regard
to a package of papers, which it was known
he had at one time in his possession?the
property of the Hon. C. C. Clay. Satisfied
with the examination, the authorities
promptly released him. . While in Wash
mgton the Jdisbop was treated with great >
civilty and consideration. %
ggk, Grand Master C. G. Wintersmith, 3
of Kentucky, has issued an appeal to tho
leading metnbors of the Masonic Order in 3
the United States, calling a convention to
meet in Louisville on the second Monday
of October, to aid in bringing lack the old
harmony between all sections of the Union. '?
THE SOUTHERN GOVEBNOBS.
The New York Times, oae of the most
concervative of the Northern papers, speaking
of the Southern Governors, says: " ,
The Provisional Governors appointed by
President Johnson for the important work
of restoring the Southern States to their
oivil relations, On a constitutional basis,
have without exception, proved themEelves
singularly well adapted to their positions.
Their aotion, in the first steps,, has.
in every oase, been discreet, temperate ana
conservative. They have adopted the wise
polioy of interfering as liftle as possible
with those things which enter into the dhar?/>tor
tiintnrv and institutions of S&eh State.
which were established in other* times and
are adapted to existing conditions. In one
direotion they must 'build anew, and radically,
JJut in others they find the result of
much valuable work, ^rhich only requires
to be left alone. Belonging to the States
which they-have been appointed * to temporarily
govern, these Provisional Governera
have entered upon their duties with a
knowledge of the people and of the local
laws and necessities which is of the highest
advantage to them, and the fruits of
which have already appeared in their measures
and messages. While unequivocally
loyal in every action and word* they do
cot unuessessarily stir up popular prejudices,
or bear about the mien of conquerors.
Fhey ail proclaim unflinchingly, however,
;hat slavery is totally and forever abolished,
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)f the new social state upon the basis of
iniversal freedom.
Al! the Provisonal Governors cf the
States on this side of the Misssissippi Riv;r
have, moreover, the good fortune of beng
popular in their respective States.?
Governor Golden, of North Carolina, and
Uovemor Perry, of South Carolina,- are
bo$h gentlemen who have been leaders of
:he progressive party, and who have been
widely known as men of ability and character;
while Gov. JohnsoD, of Georgia;
aov. Parsons, of Alabama and Gov. Sharkey,
of Mississippi, have long been recognized
in their native States as men of unblemished
reputation, of high principle and
Df great capacity.
In the initial steps which ihese officers
bye taken, and in the others which they
ire about to take, is the most difficult part of
;heir work, and the most difficult part of
;he great labor of reconstruction. If they
manage in the fature with the discretion
ind justice which have characterized their
arst movements, they will .have rebooted
tionor upon themselves and done eminent
jeyvice to their country. *
Generals Lee and Grant as HisroRiANS.?The
following we clip from an i
exchange: .
The two leading generals of the late war,
Lee and Grant, are now engaged in writing
ip the history Of their respective campaigns,
[n both cases we suppose that the histories
svill be almost purely military in their charloter.
Lee, however, will have some advantage
over Grant, in that his history will
not be made in the form of an official report,
and hence he can indulge in greater
liscursiveneBS of statement and a greater
freedom of stylo th&n is customary in offi
aial documents.
Grant is a very close and acnrate writer,
ind we may say that Lee in general has the
jame characteristics. The la9t of Grant's
3ampaign, of which thus far he has given
as a foil report, was that which was crownsd
with the aplendid victory at Chattanooga
in the latter part of 1863 ; and we have always
considered that report as the master
piece of military writing and military philosjphy
that the war has produced.- The last
rail-military report of General Lee that we
remember to have seen, is that of the bat;le
of Gettysburg, fought two years ago.
Leo's report of his campaign will bo conined
entirely to operations in .Virginia,
vhile Grant's report will be of battles
ought and won over half a continent.?
From E.eJmont to Vicksburg, from Donelson
to Chattanooga, lie campaigned in the
South-west; from the Wilderness to Peters-,
aurg, and thence around to Louisa Court
House, was his battle march in Virginia;
ivhile during the last year of the war he directed,
combined and .co ordinated the
movements of all the forces over all the
States of the South! It will be interesting
n rftin ponnrfo nf fri-ant find T.f>r> nf the
^reat operations daring the last year of the
war, when the two great masters of the art
straggled with each other in Virginia.
Negro Statistics in South Carolina.?Something
has already been said on
;his subject in our columns ; but it will not
je amiss to give the full "list of those dis;ricts
in this State in which the negro exjeeds
the white population in numbers.?
rhere are twenty of them, and the returns
ire from the census of 1860 :
? White. . Colored.
Abbeville 11,516 - 20,869
Barnwell 12,702 - 18,041
Beaufort 0,714 _ 33,339
Charleston 29,188 40,912
Chester 7,098 11,024
Clarendon 4,378 8,717
Colleton.; 9,255* 32,661
Darlington 8,432 11,929
Edgefield 15,054 23,233
Fairfield 0,373 25,738
jleorgetown 3,t)13 18,292
[Cershaw.*. 5,048 8,038
Laurens 10,429 13,320
Marlborough 5,373 7,061
Sewberry 7,000 13,076
Drangeburg 8,108 10,788
Richland.... ' 6,863 11,444
Sumter 6,857 17,002
JnioD 8,670 10,965
iVilliamsburg 5,187 10,302
Districts in which white population preponderates
..." ......10
Districts in which colored population
preponderates .....20
SVholo number of Districts in State 30
* CoftimlPhwnix. ,
i THE EXODUS TO MEXICO.
Major General Herron, who has juat arrived
in ibis oity fromi the Military Division
of the Gulf, gives us some information
which will correct an error that is generally,
if not universally, prevalent throughout
the Nortk It is in relation to.the removal
of late Confederate soldiep.to Mexico, with
the intention of takingjiart in the contest
by whioh that unfortunate country is still
distraoted* Being just from Sbreveport
where he received the surrender of the
bulk of Kirby Smith's army, and where
he was brought in contact with Confederates
of every rank, he is' of course enabled
to speak advisedly.
Instead of the seveit or eight thousand
Missourians who are said to have.aocompa
Died Shelby beyond the Rio Grande, that
officer was followed it seems by a scanty,
band of two hundred.. Their purpose,' as
well as their leader's, Iras to join, hot Maximilian,
as has been^eported, bufrJuarez
and the-liberal cause. Missourians and
men from seceded States, will not exceed a
few hundred in number, all told. Like the
former, theydesigned to cast their, swords
into the scales against Maximilian, and the
French and Anstrians contingents by
whom he is supported. This, he says, is
the purpose of all confederates who hdve
sought or may seek a hand in the military
affairs of Mexico. Their motive in siding
with the liberal party is ope of resentment
towards Louis Napoleon, who so grievously
disappointed their hopes of intervention
against the United States in the contest
from whioh they have just emerged. A
partial reyengo, they now think, is attainable
by expelling his protege from Mexican
soil, and they will do their best to bring
about such a result. Others upon whom
this motive did not operate, expressed a
willingness to go out of pure regard for the
principle of the Monroe doctrine, and
thought that all interlopers upon American
soil ought to be driveh off.
Sterling Price is in Texas with his fami.
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ly, ana eaierwuuB uu.iueu.yi guiug iu iueiico.
It is not improbable that be may return
to Missouri at no distant day. Gen.
Mgnroe M. Parsons has also located in
Texas for the purpose of practicing law.?
Gen. Chtpchill, wbo was captured originally
at Arkansas Post, together with Buckner,
Bragg and Beauregard, are in New
Orleans?none of them thinking of .removing
permanently from the United States.?
General Churchill expresses a wish to go to
Europe to remaio a limited time abroad.?
St. Louis Republican.
Wise Thieves Steal and Compromise.?Last
summer a bank clerk in New
York stole ?100,000. He lost the.money
by "fighting the tiger/' He then called
upon a lawyer and informed him that he
wai a ruined man amT thought of suicide.
This led to the following dialogue:
<IIow much does your defalcation amount
to V
'One hundred thousand dollars.'
'Got any of it left ?'
'Not a cent.'
'That's bad; you have left nothing to
work with.' ;
,'What must be done-?' t
'You must return to your desk a^d abr
Btraot another hundred thousand.'
'What must I do that fori'
'To preserve your character aiftraave
you from going to the State prison. With
the hundred thousand dollars you are to
steal to:raorrow, I intend to compromise
with the bank.. Your stealings after tomorrow
will amount to $200,000. I will
oall at the bank and confess your offence;
I "will represent myself as your lieart-brokcuuncle,"'honest,
but poor;' I wHI offer
the bank $50,000 to hush up the matter.
The bank will accept. This will leave
$50^00 to divide between you and mc?
that is $25,000 apiece. With this sum
you can retire from business.'
Tho young man listened and took on
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wisuora. lie uouuica ins aeiaication ana
compromised as the lawyer said he should.
He is now worth $250,000, and is counted
'one of the most respectable gentlemen in
the city of New York.'
How to Catch a Thief.?One of ray
Khyrpoor friends having been repeatedly
| robbed of his sugar candy, which was kept
in an open earthern vessel in a small inner
room, bethought him of a way to discover
the thief. Having caught a dozen or so of
wasps, he clipped off their wings and dropped
them into the jar of sugar-candy. The
room was open to all the servants, but nothing
occurred till the dnsk of the evening,
when one of them goibg into the room, ostensibly
to bring some tobacco for his master
ITnrtlroTi wrno'tionrif tn flfit Hit ft ^ftrflll
howl.. The master at once knew that, his
bait was taken, and rushing into the'room,
caught the pilferer, as with a handful of
sugar-candy he had grasped some half dozen
wasps.?Lengtey's Residence in Sindh.
Horses Captured During the War.
?The Quartermaster General has issued
an ordSr, under instructions from the Secretary
of War, in reference to horses recaptured
from the Confederate armies, to
the effect that where. a horse captured is
identified by sufficient proof as the property
of a loyal citizen, the claim of such citizen
to his property will be .recognized by
returning the horse to him, or if the neces
sifcies of the service prevent such return, by
paying for it the average Government price
of the district; reoeipts to be taken in all
cases in duplicate. - - .
How to Kebp Butter Cool.?a simple
mode of keeping butter in warm weather,"
where ice is not bandy, is to invert a
common- flower-pot over the butter, with
some water in the dish wheie the butter is
laid. The orifice at the bottom may be
corked or not. The porousness of the earthenware
will keep the butter oool. It will
be better still if the pot bevoovered with a
wet oloth, the rapid abstraction of heat by
external evaporation causing the butter to
become hard.
POEM OP PABDON.
Andrew John sod, President of the United
States of America, to ail whom these
presents may oome, greeting;
. Whereas, ? of??, by taking part
in the late rebellion against the Government
of the United States, has made himself
liable to heavy pains and penalties;
and whereas the circumstances of his ease
renders him a proper object of Executive
clemency.
Now, therefore, be it known, That I,
Andrew .Johnson, President of the United
States of Amerioa, in consideration of the
premises, divers good and sufficient reasons
me thereunto moving, do tfereby grant unto
the said a full pardon and amnesty
for all offences bv him committed, arising
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. from participation, direct or implied, in the
said rebellion, conditioned as follows,
namely : This pardon to begin and take
effect from the day-on which-the said
shall take the oath prescribed in the proclamation
of the President,' dated May 29,
18C5, and to be void and of no effect if
the said ?; shall hereafter, at any
time, acquire any property whatever in
slases, or make use of -slave 'labor; and
that he first pay all costs which may have
accrued in any proceeding Hitherto instituted
against person and property.
And upon the further condition. That
thd'said shall notify the Secretary
of State, in writing, that he has received
and accepted the foregoing pardon.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
signed my name and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
tity of Washington, this ? day of ?r,
A. D. 1?65, and of the Independence of
the United States, the $0th.
^ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President: Wm. H. Seward,
Ra/mtnrtr nf ShitA
Extraordinary Decision of a Negro
Meetinq.?The Mobile Advertiser, of
the 16th makes the following extraordinary
announcement, on the authority of a citizen,
who w&9 presentata mectingof negroes
on the previous Sunday, near the city:
'Nine hundred of them assembled to consider
their condition, their rights and duties
under the new state of existence upon
which they have been so suddenly launched.
Our informant was surprised at the bard,
praotioal sense and moderation of tODe
with which the spokesmen of the meeting
urged their views. After'' long, talk and
caremi aeiiDeration, tnisueeiiDg resoiveu,
by a vote of seven hundred voices to two
hundred, that they , had made a practical
trial for three months of the freedom which
the war has bequeathed to them, that its
realities were far from being so flattering
as their imaginations had painted it; that
they had discovered that the prejudices oi
color were by no means oonfined to the
people of the Sodth, but on the contrary,
that it wa9 stronger and more marked
against them in the strangers from the
North, than the home people of the South,
among whom they had been reared; that
negroes, no more than white men, could
live without work, or be comfortable without
homes; that their Northern delivers
from bondage had not, as they had expected
and been taught to expect, undertaken
-to provide for their happy existence in
their new state of freedom, and that their
former masters had ceased to take aoy interest
in them, or. have a caro for them;
and finally, that their last state wad worst
than the first, and it was their deliberate
conclusion that their true happiness and
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wen-Deing required tnein to return to &ne
homes which they had abandoned in a moment
of excitement, and go to work again
under their old masters. And the resolutions
were phssed, and at last accounts the
wanderers were packing up their little
.slock of movable goods, preparatory to the
execution of their sensible purpose.
From Easf Tennessee?Deplorable
State op Affairs.?A correspondent in
Bristol, Tennessee, furnishes us with a letter,
in which it is urged opon us to notice
editorially the great daDger to whioh persons
are liable in passing westward through
East-Tennessee. The letter states that from
Carter's Station,, twenty miles west of this
place (Bristol,) to Chattanooga, no one professing
Southern sentiments can pa?s without
a guard of bayonets. Should they attempt
snch a thing, they are brutally, beaten,
and in many instances murdered. All
who see them passing through this little
town, shudder for the poor fellows, for they
nol 1 Irnrttn vr?V*of a in o4a?/i ilinm
i ncu auuv? nvub 10 iu dwid iul iuclu
All the prominent citizens are leaving
the country from Knoxville to the Watauga
River. Even those who were known only
as Southern men, but who never'took any
part in the war in any manner, have been
forced to leave their homes. Hundreds of
the best citizens of East Tennessee are coming
to Virginia. The lawless conduct is
encouraged and urged by public speeches.
Those Confederates, who are from West1
Tennessee, Georgia, etc., should go some
other route than this. Should they attempt
to go this route for the next few weeks they
will never get home?at least, nine out of
ten will not. I beg you to call the attention-of
such charaoters to the dangers of
this route, and in the same connection the
attention of the 'United States authorities.
It is ?but mnrder to send them this route.
Even Union men who profess to be conservatives,
and not abolitionists, can't remain
in East Tennessee.
Lynchburg Republican.
Emigration to the United States.
t t nnnaava frtrainn o rln'/ina fviof flla
?AU iiuiu AVicigu auviuco vunv vuv
rash of emigrants to this country from the
North of Earope is setting in with mare
than usual vehemence* Fifteen thousand
Polish exiles are making arrangements with
the Swiss Government for transportation to
the free soil of the States. From Norway
thd exodus of the most valaable part of the
population is so great as to exoite the fears
of the authorities, who are endeavoring to
uheok itv
ABOUT PASDONS. f
A very strange doubt or misconception
exists in regard to the effect of the Presi- !
dent's pardon upon the property rights of i
. the party pardoned.
Pardons, special and general are granted
in comformity with a clause of the confiscation
aot itsejf, approved July 17, 1862,. <
and entitled "an act to snppress insurrec- i
tion: to seize and ooniisoate - the property
of -rebels, and for other purposes." The
olauseis as follows:
"Seo. 13. And he it further enacted,
That the President is hereby authorized, at
i any time hereafter, by proclamation, to ex- i
i tend to persons who may have participated '
' in the existing rebellion in anv State or 1
; part thereof, pardon and anipeaty, with l
i such exceptions and at such times and on
such conditions as he may deem expedient i
i for the public welfare."
It thus appears that the President has
the authority of Congress for granting . am*
nesty and 'pardon for all offences against the
' United States committed daring the "late 1
rebellion, and that he has exercised the 1
power thus conferred by restoring all'prop* I
erty rights to the parties, oven where legal <
proceeding has been instituted, but not <
consummated. If the proceedings are be;
gun nnder this act of confiscation, in aDy
' court of tbo United States, the pardon has 1
the effect of quashing them on payment <
of costs by the party pardoned. 1
%We have been induced to pake this
1 statement in consequence of doubts and
misapprehensions in regard to the effect of
1 a pardon, which tend to throw suspicion
upon the solvency of Southern men, and to '
prevent the revival'of business and indas- 1
fva Tlia tnlmla /?Attnfwvr in iiWavnafo^ in
V* J X IIU" TTUUIO VVUUUJ ID lUIDIVSIiVU AW
the speedy restoration of peace, order and 1
confidence in the South, without which '
there can be no healthy trade and inter- 1
course between the' sections.? Washington.
Chronicle.
French Troops.?In view of .possible,
complications on .the Mexican frontier, it :
may be of interest to know what hind of aft <
army Louis -Napoleon is spending his fete
day with at Chalons. The correspondent
ofi the London Daily Post writes:
<The French cavalry is decidedly inferior
to ours, except in numbers. The best corps \
they have, in jny opinion, are the Cbasi
seur? a Cheval, or mounted light troops.? ;
They are certainly the lightest of light
horsemen, bnt extremely well mounted.
All that I have seen have Algerian horses,
entire animalS}8tailion8, very like the Arabs,
oh which the Tenth . Hussars and Twelfth
Lancers were mounted when they arrived i
at Sebastopol from India overland. The !
horses of the Chasseurs a Choval are not
, more than fourteen bands two inches, En- i
' glish measurement, but they look fully fifi
'teen hands, owing to the men being so very '
small. I am told the-French have seventeen
of these corps, each of whioh consists
of six sqnadrons of a hundred men. That
would make tea thousand men of the mos^
, workmanlike light horse I have seen in
Enrobe. There is nothing to bo compared '
with them in the Austrian army. 4 i
'The Lancers are a fine body of men.?- 1
They have eight regiments of them, each '
numbering'six hundred men and horses. I
The men are much larger than the Chassears <
a Cheval, more like onr hussar regiments. '
Tho Cuirassers are great heavy fellows, as 1
lumbering, but much more provincfal than 1
our Life Guards, and I should think quite <
as useless. The'dragoons I don't admire, 1
although the French think so hiehly of 1
them. They are trained to act cavalry as '
well as infantry,* and consequently spoil '
both. The artillery cannot'hold a candle <
to o.ur fellows. ~ Even the. crack corps, the {
horse artillery of the Imperiaf Guard, cannot
be oompared for a moment to our horse <
artillery. The infantry, I must admit, is !
magnificent, and is certainly now the best '
dressed infantry iu Europe. In their firing, 1
their gymnastic exorcise, their bayonet, *
fencing and every other exercise", the Em. <
pcror seems determined to.bring tbo whole ?
infantry up to the standard of excellence
which was once to be seen cxolnsively with 1
the Zonaves.' ' *
?: . i
The State Prisoners.?-The Fortress 1
Monroe correspondent of the Philadelphia J3
Inquirer writes under dato of Tuesday :
Jeff. Davis has been unable to take bis F
out-door exercise for several days past, on
account of a carbuncle on one of hie legs. ^
Davis baa for years been subject to these
painful eruptions, and asserts that they are n
not occasioned by his confinetnent: Jeff. ^
has become quite cheerful and commoni* ^
cative. He fullv annreeiatea the milr? .
rcjiinc to which he is now subjected. Several
volumes of the English classics are now ^
allowed him, an occasional daily paper, and ^
pen, ink and paper. He writes letters, of S(
conrso, enclosed to the Secretary of War. ^
Whom Jeff, favora with epistolary comma- ^
nioations is known only to Mr. Stanton and j
his confidential clerks. ,
Letters to Jeff, -are of frequent ofttfrrence.
Those Who send them may as weH
save their stationery and stamps, to say
nothing of the labor of writing. No let* Vt
ters are allowed to J. D. General Miles a,
becomes their custodian. Their contents tj
are perused by the reticent young General ft
and then packed away, and be. to whom q
they are addressed is not aware of their existence.
fl,
Clay and Mitchell promenade the ram- Q1
parts everyday, though never at the same 0j
hours. .. > c _
t """ ol
Attack on General Wheeler.? f,
General Wheeler on Taesday, "22d ultimo, w
was attacked and badly beaten by Colonel
Blackburn and Captain Quinn, at the City j
Hotel, Nashville, Tenn., where Wheeler si
was stopping. The difficulty, it is said, was G
in consequence of a threat made daring the ti
war by Wheeler, that "he would kill Blaok- m
burn if he ever took him prisoner, as lie, .fr
was a damned home-made Yankee."? ft(
Wheeler was in bed when attacked, and' w
was severely beaten. - ., . ... gl
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LETTEE FROM GBW. JOHNSTON4.
Baltimore, August 24.?The Fredericksburg
(Va.) Ledger, of Tuesday, publishes
the following letter of General Joseph ?>.
Johns ton.
Buffalo Springs, August 17, iflr
You ask my view of the frtttfe ?mwe
and future interests of us i!K The eate ifc
10 plain that very little can be said or written
upon it. ?
We, of the South, referred the question
at issue between us and the. United States
to the arbitrament of the swqcd~
The decision has been made and ifcfr
nrminnf. na Wa tnn.f thmlAi.
* w "?'j|?: 1
oision, accept it asfinal, and ri niigwiM H?
fact that Virginia is again onf^f tha United
States.
Oar duties and interest coincide. We
shall consult the one and perform the Q&er
by doing all that wo can to promote the
welfare of our .neighbors and restore prosperity
to the pount^ ^
We should at oncer commence, the duties
of peaceful citizens, upon some useful pursuit,
qualifying onrselreB to vote if possible,
and at the polls our votes should be
oast for conservative men?men who understand
and will maintain the interests of
Virginia as one of the United States.
This is the*eour88 which I have recommended
to all with whom I have oon versed
en the subject, and that whiotrl have adopted
for myself as far a* practicable;
Very truly yonrs, "'aJ^S
? ?_??>??? ??: Hqw
a Tqad Pulls ow his Past**.
A writer in the North Carolina" Farmer
tells as the following: - v '. *??' 'About
the middle of July X found a
toad on a hill of melons, and not wanting
bim to leave, hoed around him.
peared sluggish, and not inclined to move.
Presently I observed him pnaringvJrissd
bows against bis sides, and robbing dau*^
ward. He appeared so BiBgukr that I
watched tp see what be. was up Uh After
a few smart robs bis skin togas to bo?t
open straight along his back. NoWj Siid
I, old fellow, you have done it; but .be.appeared
tote unconcerned, and kept on ribbing
until be.bad worked down all Wskin
into folds on hb sides and hipaj tfiea
grasping one hind leg with hbjbaoifylbe
hauled off one leg of Jbis pants the same
as any body would, then stripped the.et?ujr
leg the same way. He then took hb out-.
off cuticle forward, between -bis fore-togs
into bis moulh, and swallowed it; then by
raising and lowering bb head, swallowing
as hb bead came down, he stripped off the
skin underneath until it came tfTTKs jSgclegs,
and grasping one of these with the
opposite band, by considerable pulling
stripped off the skin; changing hands, ha
of the head he drew it from the throat and
swallowed the whole. The operation' seem
ed to be an agreeable one, and Occngfed
bnta short time/ J y^f 1
fe?%*
A New Faith.?A neWTetigfoa tifiii
birth in New York city, on the &lst*&3W
ly. It was sired by & Scotchman by the
oame of Davidson* and, .ofcourw, daifBod
by fanaticism, ani damned* by the jmpare
generally. Davidson claim* to bo * bother
j{ Christ. If so, he nraat bfefte Waaihring
Jew. We have never heard of kiatfey
that name before, ss that notable muflttt'
bas borne many "cognomens which smack of
Jewish origin, snch aa.Joseph, Ahaahneas
ind Cartaphilus, bat Davidson hi too common
to savor. of Israelitwb origin. Again,
f he is a brother of the Savioast4m$lhMemineda
long time in tbese "Jow groands
)f sorrow," without making kna?ni>is
genealogy. .
Davidson is assisiod .by a man named
Noyes Wheeler, who claims to have been
sent by the Angel Gabriel to be a leader of
:be new sect, and will be immediately, imuersed
by a "high priestess, daughter of
5ioa and hand-maiden of the Lord," the'
ingel Gabriel being present, and aiding
md abetting. . . <_-n
This "brother of Christ" seems to gi?e
10 proof of his .identity by miracle or otfeBr
vise, as he considers it osejgss fhen faith
3 wanting, and where faith exists it istsnlecessary.
On the whole, he oasts Moroonism
completely.. We wonder if Boilon
3 not jealous of New York being the hjxthilace*
of the bantling.
A DAEHUQ Outrage."?AS Mt. fkrt.
Viskeman was riding, on Thnnd^kol,
awards Orangeburg, on the State Bari> be
ras attacked about dosk, when within fifsen
miles of. that town, by a negihMus,
rho, after demanding bis money, Jfotefbly
ragged him from his horse and rifled his
ockets of 3200 in gold and between forty
nd fifty dollars iff greenbacks. This genleman
states that he was informed by perans
in the neighborhood, among whop he
refnt to obtain assistance, that the negroes
i that section are in a verv demoralised
late, and are constantly committing dcpreaticms
oo the farmers around.
Charleston N$vt8+
Two Views.?It k said tfcata negro
'oman who was baptized a few Sundays ago,
t Huntsville, Alabama, dome forth from
ie water shouting?"freed from slavery,
eed from sin?bless God and General
rant."
Per Contra: An old dariyln Peters- . 1
nrg, Virginia, recently was heard talking
a freedom. He was giving advioe to some
f bis "jjolored brethero," and said, "Stay
id .your massaand worfc; he'll feed and
ode yon, bat yon come to town and gits
eedom; 'tis like Confederate moof?de
lore ye had de wis ye is." - b
8^" The report of the Assistant Comtnisonef
of the Freedmen's Korean foc North
arolina under date .of Ang. states
tat the whole number of debtifafe fieeden
and white refugees receiving support .
om government, amounted to about 10,)0
persons. Twp mouths ago the number
as double. The report speaks eacouraMlfe
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