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When upright men die, they are supposed
to go right up: Per contra, down
right rascals are supposed to go right down.
A Frenchman who proposed establishing
a school, having heard that a high
school would be more respectably patronized,
took rooms in the garret of a four story
r house.
Considerable sensation was reoently
created in Central Park, New York, by the
appearance of a handsome, dashing-looking
woman, elegantly dressed, riding on a
spirited horse after the masouline fashion.
A Bostonian has contracted for the
building of the long bridge over the James
river, at Richmond, fer $130,000, and is to
have it completed by the first of January.
This bridge connects Manchester and Richmond,
and is little overs mile long.
'The Washington Chronicle says, that
the excess of the receipts over the expenditures
in the Post Office Department for the
year ending June 30, 1865, is more than
$850,000. Never before was so favorable
an exhibit made in the Department
. The Germans in Texas are preparing I
to plaht'dbtton on an extensive scale the I
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coming season, auu w nmw wj .???* lib
or. They are using their influence to
secure a large emigration from Germany
id to that State. ' ?
?? A most disgraceful pugilistic encounter
occurred yesterday morning at the
corner of Meeting and Broad-streets, the
oombatants being a white man and a negro.
TUe difficulty arose from some trivial cause,
and ended by. the negro receiving a severe
thrashing.?Charleston News.
The bonds of the "Irish Republio"
' are "payable six months after the acknowledgment
of the independence of the Irish
nrftion," with interest at six per cent, from
the time of issue. Confederate Treasury
notes were payable after the ratification of
a treaty of peace, &o.!
?--National Banks are getting rapidly
intofashion in the Sonth. There are thirty
five already established in eight States,
' of which sixteen are in Virginia, seven in
Tennessee, three each in Georgia and Alabama,
two each in N. Carolina and Louisiana,
* and one in Texas. Their aggregate capita!
h ltd 474.4no
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The Frenoh Courier, of New York,
affects to be indignant at the appointment
of General Logan as U. S. Minister to the
Republio of Mexico, and pronounces it a
(iprovocation." It adds, in substance, that
the French troops now will not leave Mexi.
pQ. Franoe is allied vith Mexico now,
tfgbt or wrong, and will maintain the alliance.
There is said to be a movement on
foot, on the part of the radical Republicans,
to bring out Charles 8umner, of Massachusetts,
sb their candidate for the Presidency
in 1868. This movement is the result of a
oonviotion on their part that President
Johnson intends to conduct bis administration
upon conservative and Lemooratio principles,
and that all hopes of winning him
over to their way of thiniritig most t)e"aban; "
. doned.
r* Amongst the property captured by"
the Federal forces just before the close of
the war was a draft belonging to the Confederates,
dated January 12,1865, for three
thousand pounds sterling, drawn by the
Confederate Government on the house of 1
Brown, Shipley & Co., London. A Bhort .
time ago this draft wa^sent to New York
fbr collection." To-day the Secretary of the
Treasury received oftcial intelligence that
the draft had been paid, netting the sum
of*14:688 in sold.
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1 jxi tne last meeting of the British
Association for the promotion of Soience,
Prof. Bennett, of the University of Edinburg,
-declared that physiology were now
almost agreed, that to man mast be ascribed
a sixth sense, which was to be called the
seiise of weight. If two little tubes, the one
of lead, the other of wood, were gilded
over soas to look exactly alike, and of the
same temperature, no one of the five senses
usually allotted to- man wonld indicate
which was lead, which wood.- It was only
by taking them up and feeling their weight
that this could be discovered, and this sense
of weight deserves to be called a sixth
sense. ^
*- There iB at this time a gentleman
from the South-west stopping at the Charleston
Hotel, who informs the News that he
has made an arrangement at the North for
Stbe cultivation of l,UUU aores of cotton
land by fifty Swedish laborers. He says
that this plan is being largely adopted in
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.
He also says that Northern capitalists
are readily advanoing oapital for the
on shares; that socie-'
ties are formed that furnish labor for a commission,
and that the effeot has already
been to advance lands that four months ago
could have been easily bought for $20, to
$60 an acre.
The Richmond Times says that "never
since the world began, did agriculture
offer such rich rewards to labor as the agriculture
of the ootton and tobacco States of
the South does at this time. At the present
price of ootton, every man, be he genBtleman
or laborer, white or black, by throwing
off his coat, rolling up his sleeves, and
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going into tbe neias, can maae a saiary 01
at least twenty-five hundred dollars in the
year. At the present price of tobacco,
H every man and boy, who is willing to work,
can go into the fields and earn by tbe sweat
of his brow from twelve to eighteen hundred
dollars a year. Never was such a state
of things known in this Southern country
of ours before. Never was agriculture so
promising, or its rewards so oertain and so
H munificent as at present."
-?? The South Carolina Bailroad, which
all oar oitizens are anxiously concerned
about, is making we understand, steady
progress towards completion. It is thought
that the Augasta branch will be completed
to Midway, twelve miles beyond Branchville,
aboat the first of tbe coming month;
and if no nnusaal obstacle presents itself,
the entire line will be open to Aogusta on
the first of February next, or perhaps soon-;
er. Tbe Savanqah Railroad Company have j
contracted for the rebuilding of their j
bridges across the Kdisto, Asbepoo and .
Congaree Rivers, and this work will be
poshed forward rapidly to completion.?
With energy it may be expected that the
entire railroad system of this State, whioh, ,
a few months since, was in a most deplorable
condition, will soon be in working order.
? Charleston News.
By the arrival of the steamer Henry
Chauncey at New York we have later news
from Sooth America. Bat little ohange i
has taken plaoe in the state of affairs in J
Chili since the previoos mail. The block- i
ade of the ports by the Spanish Admiral
Pareja still continoes; bot some few vessels
have been permitted to enter and dear at
Valparaiso, while others have been ordered
off. No farther action has been taken by
the foreign diplomatic corps in Chili in relation
to the illegality of the blockade.?
Pareja, with only seven vessels, declares all
4|-* ?fnrtv in nnmhprl closed.?
I?1IC \w?w? ?v.y /
The fear which for a time existed that Pareja
would bombard Valparaiso, seems to
have subsided. Chili, determined to maintain
her national dignity, is making every
preparation possible to carry on the war into
whioh * she has been forced. Telegraph
lines and roads are being opened into the
interior and to the frontier, whioh will in a
i measure compensate for the loss of commuI
nieation by sea. AH oustom duties have
f Deen abolished," and thirty-six^ coast'towns
are declared ports?of Chili. This is done to
enoourage blockade running, which will no
doubt iu a little while be oarried on quite
extensively. Letters df marque have been
'issued in large numbers, and already many
persons have left Chili to avail themselves
of them. Congress has spent its time in
devising .measures the most useful in the
present emergency.
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THE S. C. LEGISLATURE. 1
This body re assembled on Saturday last. 1
Up to the hour of going to press, we have '
received no report of the proceedings.
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DEATH OP THOS. J. ECCLES, ESQ. <
It becomes our painful duty to announce ^
the death of one of our well-known citizens .
?Thomas J. Eccles, "Esq. He died in
this pUce on Sunday last, iu the 49th year
oi ms age, alter a angering illness or Dine .
weeks, caused from exposure incident to
military service last Spring.
Mr. Eccles was a printer by trade, and
has been at sundry times, counected with
the newspaper press in this place, as editor
and proprietor. Also, in the same oapaoity
at Rock Hill, in this District, and at Lin*
oolnton and Shelby, N. C. He was a
sprightly writer and bad many admirers.
He was firm in bis friendships, forgiving in
disposition, and generous to an adversary.
His virtues, let us remember and emulate;
nd if he had faults, let us forget them.
ELECTION FOB CONGRESS.
An election was held in this District on
Wednesday last for a member to. Congress
for this (4th) Congressional District. But
little interest was manifested in the result,
but three hundred and sixty six votes hay- ,
ing been polled. The result is as follows :
Farrow, ; 162
McAlilley, 151
Reed, 53
We have not received sufficient returns
from the other districts to enable us to even
guess who has been elected. At Greenville,
C. H., the vote stood: Farrow, 91;
Reed. 86: McAlilley 17 ; Jones 4. We
.hope to*receive fall returns in time for our
next issue.
The indications are that Ex-Gov: Aiken,
is elected in the Second District; General
Kennedy in the First; and Gen. McGow.
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A.SX) 1U bUC 1U11U.
MR. H. M. ASHEB.
We take pleasure in directing the attention
of such of our readers as are in the
habit of visiting Charlotte, to the adver
tisement of Messrs. A. Weill & Co.,
which may be found in another column.?
It will be observed that Mr. H. M. Asher
is a member of the firm. Previous to the
war he was a resident of this plaoe, and by
his correct deportment, obliging manners i
and attention to business, made many :
friends. Remember Askel when you go i
to Charlotte, and give him a call. i
ON DIT.
We clip the following paragraph from'
a late camber of the Charleston Carolinian,
and give it to oar readers for what it is"
worth. We are very willing to disbelieve
the story:
"We have, for several days, been in possession
of a report that Major-General
Siokfeseomes to assume command of oar
State, with power and instructions from
the President ^of the United States to reconvoke
the State Convention. It is alleged
that the purpose of this extraordinary
step is to obtain from the Convention the
adoption of two' distinct measares : First,,
the repudiation of the State war'debt; and,
secondly, the nullification (as distinguished
from the repeal) of the Ordinance of Secession.
We believe that this report, singular
as it may appear to most of our readers,
ia well founded."
NEW ADVEBTIBEMENT8.
J. A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?Martha C. Pails and
Robert Allison?E. W. Falls, deceased.
Col. A. Coward?King's Mountain Military School..
C. P. Pelham?Southern Guardian.
James P. Hart?Wagon and Pony for sale.
Alfred Craven?House and Lot for sale.
J. A. Brown, 0.. Y. D?Notice to the heirs of Moses
Lindsay. *
W. H. McCorkle?Auction Sale.
MEEE-MENTIOU.
The Montgomery Mail says that the receipts
of cotton in that oity from the 1st of
May tothe.4lb instant, amounted to twenty-five
thousand bales. New England
pays a revenue of over fifty millions per
annum. Massachusetts handing over 828,789,885.
The'Petersburg Index sayB
that General Hood and Gen. Longstbeet
will go. into bosiness in New Orleans.
The Charleston Carolinian, says that the
door plate of Col. Richard Yeadon, the
time-honored editor of the Charleston Courier,
is in the possession of Gen. Benj. F.
Butler. , It was stolen by Redpath and
presented to Butler. The Government
has realized over six millions of dollars
from the sale of captured cotton.. Sales
this month amount to $1,200,000 m gold.
Acoording to the report of Colonel
Thomas, of the Freedman's Bnrean, the
total number of negroes in Louisiana draw*
ing rations from the Government is twenty
thousand. Advices from Spain state
that the Queen has issned a deoree positively
forbidding the extension of negro slavery
in the Spanish oolonies.
A Richmond letter says that the. reason
of the refusal to restore the property of
the Hon. Henry A. Wise is that be deolinesto
take the oath. South Carolina
wants to pay her Internal Revenue tax
in State bonds, and not have any U. States
Collectors here, bat Secretary McCullough
says there \s do law authorising saoh
in operation.* Some enterprising chap
bas offered the Government 81200, for the
privilege of digging up the bones of tbe
luring the past five years. Major
General Q A. GiLLMOFfi bas relinquished
;be command <jf tbe Department of South
Carolina, to Major General Daniel E.
3ickles. A man in Fall River,
Massachusetts, bas taken out a patent for a
nocbine which manufactures twelve thousmd
shingles per day. "Gov. Hamil-roN,
of Texas, writes to the President that
ie expects to call a State Convention iD
December.*" 7 ""The "First National
Bank of Charleston" was organized on the
21st instant. Andrew Simonds, Esq.,
was elected President, and William C.
Breese, Esq., Cashier. Sad accounts
reach Washington of an increase of
disease and mortality among tbe freedmen
in nearly all the Southern States.
A project is on foot to establish a National
Bank at Greenville. '-The constitutional
amendment, giving the negroes tbe
right to vote, was voted dowp in Wisconsin
by 10,000 majority.' The Republicans carried
the State by 7,000 majority, however.
The Freedmen's Bureau in Louisiana
has left the right to fix tbe wages of
freedmen to tbe 'planters' and freedmen
themselves.
T* aoi<3 fFof fVid Sonrofai>tr ftf tfiA TVftftn.
ury wishes to have the pnblio debt paid off
in about thirty years. The Mississippi
Legislature have memorialized the President
to remove the troops from that State.
Seven of the nine Congressmen^
eleot from Virginia oan take the test oath.
The Mississippi House of Representatives
has refused the negroes the right
of testifying against white persons.
The report that Duff Green is dead is
denied.-* The amount of National
Bank currency in circulation is $214,111,.
815. The army estimates for the
peace establishment in 1866 are $33,000,000.
--The Seoretary of War states
thai there is war material enough on hand
in America to equip a million of men, and
over $30,000,000 have bee^ realized from
the sales of Government property.
Negro suffrage is defeated in Wisconsin
and Minnesota. The sales of Quartermaster's
stores in North Carolina have
realized $300,000. An ezohenge
warns its readers against receiving the bills
of the following insolvent National Banks.
1st National Bank, New York; National
Bank Attica, New York; National Bank
New Bedford, Maine; National Bank
Halowell, Maine. Ten companies of
Veteran Reserves voted at Cairo recently,
upon the question of mustering out. All
the privates but three wish to be mustered
out, while all the offioers but one wish to
remain in service. During the war
two colored soldiers enlisted in the Distriot
of Columbia for every white one.
I t ' For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. (
DEAD SOLDIERS IN" VIRGINIA, i
Mr. Editor: Having recently visited J
some of tbe battle-fields of Virginia, and j
tbe Hospital baryiDg grounds at Gordons- t
ville and> City Point, it may be of in- (
terest to some of yonr readers to know tbe <
condition of the graves of their friends who '
were boned at these places.
At the "Wilderness," Gen. Jenkins' j
Brigade Hospital was on Mrs. Pulijam's <
farm, on the right of the plank road, leading 1
from Orange, C. H., to Fredericksburg,
about a mile and a half west of the battle- |
field. The graves were all marked by a ;
head boards, upon whioh was inscribed the i
name, company acd Regime111 to whioh the '
deceased belonged, and when be died.?
When I visited the spot I found that 'the j
graves had been ptowdd and harrowed over, i
and rye sown on the ground. The headboards
were all down and scattered over
the graves, so that it was impossible to tell (
where any particular person had been boI
ried. Among the head boards fonnd, were
the following: G. fl. O'Farbell, Go. G.,
P. 8. s. ; c. d. McKeown, Go. G., P. s.
S.; W. White8IDE8, Co. E., 5th 8. C.;
Wm. Ross, Co. D.f 5th S. C.; Sergt. R.
W. Rola?d, Co. 0., 5th 8. C-; A. Thomas,
6th S. C:; W. R. Atkins, Co. E., 6th
8. C.; and F, Day, Co. L., P. S. 8,
At Gordoosville, only a few of the headboards
are down, bnt the fencing aronnd
the bnrying ground is in a dilapidated condition.
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Abont thp Federal cemetery at City
Point, everything is in perfeot order. Each
corpse has been buried .separately, and the
ground laid off in rows and seotions, with
nioely arranged and well-kept walks. Eaoh
grave is marked by a painted head board,
with name, company, regiment, and when
the person died. Mr.*F. J. Tracey is the
Sexton, and has bad charge of the cemetery
ever Bince its establishment. He .has
keptp reoord of the "name," "company,"
"regiment," "when died," &o., and in
what section and row the body may be
found. In looking over the books I found
the names of several Confederates soldiers
who bad died and were buried there, among
whom are the following South Carolinians :
Thomas James, Co. G., 26th S. C.; C'.
M. Atkinson, Co. E., 7th S. G.; M.
Parker, 1st S. C. Battery; M. 8core,
Co. K , 21st S C.; J. W. Lessley, Co.
K., 25th S. C.; J. C. Kearney, 21st S.
C.; C. Linder, Holoombe Legion ; Wm.
M. Platt; Co. C., 5th S. C. Cavalry; Jas.
W. Reid, Co. B., 1st or 5th 8. C. Cavalry.
There are maoy of Carolina's dead soldiers
sleeping under the sod of old Virginia,
on spots far retioved from the places
"which onoe knew - them, bat whiob Shall
know them no more forever." There are
qaiet spots where "tombless graves in grassy
billows" tell where brave hot .unknown
heroes are resting from the struggle.?
Though unforgotten, their.jiames are not
there to ectertwine with laurel and myrtle 'r
yet while not one sign or token fs there to
tell who sleeps beneath those nameless
.mounds, oblivion oan never claim them ;
nor oan anger or malice or revenge rob them
of the memory of their virtues. While
there are many of these nameless graves
scattered over our land, there are yet many
others marked by some oomrede, who, perhaps
sleeps on another field, or by the care
of stranger friends, which are still unknown
to friends at home. M.
War 'RumorH.
Washington, November 14.?The increased
and plainly visible exoitement among
tbe army and navy officers, the stoppage
of the sales of tbe naval vessels and
army transportation material, tbe frequent
and protraoted interviews between the President,
Secretaries Stanton and Welles, and
Gen. Grant, Admiral Farragnt, Genera)
Siokles, and other prominent officers, the
ordering into commission of several ironolads,
the war like preparations at the arsenal
and navy-yards in Brooklyn and Charlestown?ail
these things are taken as meaning
something serious. In faot, Officers
high in tbe confidence of representatives
of tbe government do not hesitate to say
that the strongest possible ground will be
' taken in the matter of our relations with
Great Britain; that tbe indemnity question
? ? Ko?lro/t nn. if nnnemarv. bv the whole
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military and naval strength of the United
States. It is asserted that the sending forward
of Hanoook's corps to the Canadian
border is bat the first of a series of similar movements,
and that before the first of December,
an army of observation of not less
than fifty thousand men will be placed, on
the frontier. Officers of both branobes of
the service have expressed themselves gratified
as the prospect of active employment.
Washington, November 15.?In late
years the proposition has bcen-often mooted
in the Senate of having papils at the Legations
to learn the -art.of dijjlomaoy. Bat
oar present school of diplomaoy seems to be
that of arms. It looks arms. The appointment
of General Logan as Minister to the
Republic of Mexioo, (the seat of government
of which is in the province ef Chihua
baa,) contemplates'onr resistance, at least,
to further French aggression in that quarter,
and probably to a continental policy sustaining
the Monroe Doctrine. The latter idea,
is strengthened by the appointment of another
soldier to go to Chili, and take the ;
place, after a while, of an experienced and
popular minister now there. Meanwhile
General Kilpatriok goes to Spain, it ia said,
to impress the views of our Government on
the Court of Madrid. *. *
The Frenoh imbfoglio has been given as a
reason in the highest quarter for keeping
up the army at present to aboat 200,000
men, some of which are. being concentrated
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> the Canadian frontier, to repress Fenian n
novements, doubtless, .and thns ingratiate b
England to our interests against Franoe.? t
Bat the latter has an alliance with Spain b
>y marriage, and with Austria by setting
tp one of her Archdukes in the splendid t
smpire of Mexico. Dynastic reasons, with g
lesire to keep the French people in good I
lumof, may make war with us in Mexico
rather a desirable thing to Napoleon. ' Na- a
joleon is reported to be withdrawing troops \
from Rome, which thing may he to pro- c
jure a conciliation of the Catholic clergy in t
Mexico. v i
Franoe has as large a navy as our/own,
ind in a war our commercial marine would i
be the greater sufferer unless, indeed, it is <
For the most part in foreign hands by tTans I
Fer daring the scourging of the seas by ConFederate
privateers. , <
T* ??5H l?? MmomViofoil ftpnaral Mo- 1
Doagall, Senator of California; made a deep ]
impression upon Congress a coupM of see- i
none since, bj a very able exposition of ]
French designs in Mexico and on tbe Paei- i
So slope.
New York, November 18.?The NeW '
Orleans Times, of November 3th, says, in
relation to tbe rnmors of naval and military 1
preparations, &c., "we have inforraatiop
which we are not at liberty to disclose, giving
positive corroboration to these rumors,
and we hesitate not to predict that unless
the Frenoh troops are removed from Mexico
before Christmas, there will be aotive intervention
on behalf of tbe Liberals, and
the traditional policy of the United States
will be vindicated.
Chicago, November 18.?Gen. Logan's
intention is to make bis future home in
Chicago. / He will' not accept the appointment
as Minister to Mexioo, at least for the
present.. He has had no word from President
Johnson since he was Darned for the
plaoe, and be regards bis appointment as
simply a marked demonstration in favor of
the Liberal canse, and not made with the
intent of having him proceed to Mexioo to
fill the duties of his mission.
Washington, November 19, 1865 ?
The reason why General Logan has not accepted
the Mexican mission was because
the Government would not assure him that
our policy toward Mexioo would be changedDesigning
politicians who could make something
handsome ont of the Jurariat Loan,
have been, trying for two weeks to plaoe
the Government in a position itT which we
conld not help openly espousing the Jurarist
cause in Mexico, even to the extent of war with
Prance. General Logan's appointment
was tbe first step, but Mr. Seward's adroitness
turned that weapon against them, as
explained in a former dispatch. The friends
of the Liberal canse bere are greatly depressed
at the unexpected denouement of
this appointment.
AH the recent movements of the Federal
troops near the Rio Grande were made in
pnrananoe of orders to prevent violations of
the neutrality laws. The dismantling of
the forts here, and the recent large redaction
made in oar naval foroe, are regarded
as strong proofs that the Government does
not intend to engage in war with any foreign
Power. General Logan is expected
here, when efforts will be made to indaee
him to acoept and go to the frontier, to take
advantage of whatever contingencies may
occur.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger speculates in the following
style in regard to the appointment
ot tf en. Liogan as minister to mexico :
"What the does the appointment of Gen.
Logan as Minister to the practically defunct
Republic of Mexico mean ?" was the.question
put this morning on 'Change, to a prominent
politician, jnst arrived from Washington,
and whose relations with the State
Department, if not with the Whiie House,
are known to be of the most intimate character.
The answer was : .
"It means that we shall have to recognize
the Empire in less than thirty days
from date. * Logan will go oat accredited
to Juarez, but be will never discover him
nor his capital, and so he will forthwith report
to-Washington. The President will
accept this as offioial proof that the RepUblio
is dead, and Congress, accordingly, will
be notified of the fact, with the recommendation
that we reoognize Maximilian. And
the ultimate result of it all will be, $bat
Gen. Logan will eventually turn up in the
City of Mexico as Minister from the United
States "
. I give you this for what it is worth. The
party advancing it, I repeat is in a position
to know something of the subject of what
be speaks. Intelligent men, who are close
watchers of public-events, are inclined to '
think.that it is the real key to the Logan
appointment, and I know that parties who
have large peonniary (imperial) interests
in the Vera Cruz Steamers entertain the
same belief, and are jabilant accordingly.
Pnvroonnndpnno e\f tlia rhflriMtnn finnripr.
From Washington.
Washington, November 14, 1865.?
What I stated in my Fetter yesterday is
more than confirmed by developments today,
in regard to the increasing probability
of the exclusion of Southern members of
Congress elect from their seats, at the commencement
of the ooming session.
Mr. McPberson, the Clerk of the last
House of Representatives, has autborixed'a
statement of his intentions in relation to .
tbe formation of the roll of members who ,
are to take part in the election of a Specter.
He will not enter on tbe roll, or call tbe j
names of, Representative# of the late re- <
bellious States, but will leave them to present
their credentials to the House.
He sayB. be. will not-take upon himself i
the responsibility of deciding who are mem- j
hers of the House, under the laws of the i
United States. His predecessor, Mr. Ethe- *,
ridge, acting at the opening of the 30th
Congress, under the ..ame mandatory Act
whioh governs Mr. MoPberson, excluded
from his roll members elect from two States, <
who'were soon after admitted to their seats '
by the House; and he enrolled members <
from two States, who were afterwards ezoloded
by vote of the House. The judgment <
of the Clerk was reversed in both oases, for i
the House aote upon its political predileo- I
Hons, whioh the Clerk cannot always fore-. 1
see. In the. present case the Clerk easily <
comprehends his situation and that of the I
majority of the House. He knows that they. <
have prejudged the questfpn, that he ,j
.ft
last comply with their deoiaioa. He will b
'e impartial aa between different States of it
he Soath and as between individuals, for q
le will reject them all. tl
The House will be organized as it was I
wo years ago, while the country was in fla- s
;rant war., The state of peace is not yet to b
ie contemplated.' . , i
The inflaenoe of the Administration, was, t
l month or two ago, strongly deviative and- t
with great effeot, in favor of the admission t
)f all 'members from the South who ooald
;abe the oath, and in favor of the repeal or
nodifioation' of the law prescribing the oath.
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loo mnuepco or toe AU ministration iu mm natter
is neutralized by the delay of some i
jf the Southern States in conforming with
;be Executive requirements.
It might be properly stated'to the people
)f the South that President Johnson feels
bimself bound to earry out and enforoe the
[Kipular dooree of slavery abolition by securing
the freedmen in the future and fall
possession of their liberty, or against future'
State or Federal legislation.
President Johnson, however popular in
the South, would not be sustained in the
North if be swerved in this matter. He
considers himself and the country pledged
to take care that negro freedom be protected.
Of course, any reactionary measures
on that subject, that may be reported from
the South, embarrass and perplex him.
The Attorney-General has remarked that
the blacks must not be made slaves to the
law, after -they have ceased to be slaves to
individuals. This was said in reference to
some report of the - adoption in the South
of a plan to create certain laws whereby
bondage would be praotically restored.
The President- has been lad to believe
that the tendency of political events in the
South is reactionary. Ho will not, therefore,
move another step towards restoration till
he shall be notified of bis error in this respeot.
This very day replies were made to peti
tions for pardon, whiob exhibit the interposition
of less favorable relations between the
Presideot and the South. ? Leo.
. Washington, November 15, 1865.?
The appointment of General Logan as Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Republic of
Mexico surprises every one.
It is natural and proper enough that the
PmrfHonf jihnnM annnint military man tn
offices of profit and honor, in oases where
they are fit for the post. General Logan is
as mnoh fitted for diplomatic service in
Mexico as General Kilpatrick is for like
service in Chili. Both .situations require
abilities of a high order, and great experience.
It is unnecessary to remark, however,
upon the situation of Chili or Mexico,
further than to say that, in> their troubles
we are in danger of becoming involved, and
that, therefore, we must expeot from those
who represent us there an intelligent appreciation
of our interests.
* General Logan has been engaged in the
political canvass of the last few months, and,' '
in his speeches, he has strongly insistod upon
the necessity of expelling the Frenoh
power from Mexico, and thus maintaining
the Monroe doctrine. He goes, therefore,
to Mexico, already committed to hostilities
with France, as soon as they can be provoked,
by our interference in Mexican matters.
It is well known that Mr. Seward has
carefully avoided any declarations in his
pnblio addresses and dispatohes which will
commit him to any opposition to the Monroe
doctrine, as it is commonly understood
in this country. He has taken oar$ not to
hazard his popularity- by any' step that
would seem to be hostile to that doctrine.
President Johnson acts upon the same line
of policy.
The appointment of. a military man, and
a man who has already demanded war against
the Government of Maximilian and
all its European supporters, is qnite signifi
oaot of the policy of President Johnson to
wards Mexico.
Not many days ago this subject was
talked of in the President's presence, and
it was suggested that in case of trouble with
Mexico or'France, we would not find ourselves
prepared with an army. The President
remarked that the army had not been
aod would not be so far reduced as had
Deen generally supposed. At tois moment
the army embraces over one hundred and
fifty thousand men. Bat as to the navy,
whioh would be chiefly relied upon, in case
of war with France, we should be somewhat
in default. Many vessels of war have 1
been or win be sold off, and that portion of
our mercantile marine whieb would be requisite
for war purposes and particularly for
privateering, has been sold off to European 1
sabjeots, during the late domestio war.
Some suppose that the Administration
intends by this stroke of policy, not only to
gain a little temporary popularity, but to
divert the public miod, both in the North
and in the South, from the contemplation 1
of domestio differences and the new
troubles that may arise from them. .t
It is absurd to suppose that Gen. Logan ^
can really fulfill his mission unless at the
bead of an army. He is accredited to the
Government of an extinct Republio, whoee
bead, Benito Juarez, is a fugitive, and 1
whose .Constitutional term of service has
expired. An election of another President 1
is impossible, and General Ortega, now in
New York, is dow the nominal successor of I
Juarez in the interval, be being the Chief I
Jostioe. v -2
Perhaps General Logan, with bis stfite,
all military men?like Gen. Kilpatriok
will not be required to prooeed further than
New ;York.
The Administration will take care to give
all sinecures to officers of the late army,
and without regard to their former politics.
Gen. Logan was a strong Douglass Detnor j
crat with Southern proclivities. 1
Leo. . |
?The Ooeen's CABEiAOE."-rIn the ?
description of the preparations for Lord j
Palmeratpp's funeral, wo are told "The i
Queen's carriage will lead the cortege.'' ? *
rhis is a toaohing expression of the sorrows 1
jf the Queen, whom etiquette does not per- 1
mit to mourn in person, for her most ill as- <
;rioas subject. The empty royal carriage, {
svhich is all, that the decorum of English ?
jourto permits, is a significant emblem of <
be emptiness of all human things. The '
jarriage is the symbol of Eng&b royalty, *
which is itself but a symbol of the power ?
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a
ehind the throne, greater than the throne B
.self. To onr American ideas, that re
nirement of courtly etiquette which makes S
he. Queen's hones chief mourner of a *B
'rime Minister seem very oddf- but we |9
appose it is all right and -proper^Tbe B
lones conducted themselves, we date say, B
rith a gravity befitting the oeoaaton,' and B
he carriage was not more empty of all geo- *. Ejj
tine sensibility than most of the loaded 5g
iquipages which followed in itftrafiM B
. ?+- peimntjrnr
Speeoh of Hon. Schuyler Colfax- "'
Hon. Schuyler Colfax .arrived in Wash- IB
ington on Saturday, and was in the evening oj|
serenaded at the National Hotel, where be ]B
made the following speech : . ct
My Friends : I thank you for this pleas- fl
ant serenade with whioh yon welcome me fl
on my return to this sphere of pobiie duty. - 3
Sinee I left here I hare' waeeHed, as yon -fl
are all aware, many thousands of miles' orer &
the plains and mountains to the" Pacific fij
slope, and np that coast to the British pos- I
sessions in the Northwest; hat I willnot
detain you with any allusions to the scenery V
or incidents, as I hare already picMuwfl to fl
speak in regard to tbea in this eitynaxt , fl
month. 1
My thoughts more naturalfy tbia "fl
evening to the auspicious condition wftfer
country, now, as compared with the closing fl
of the last Congress. Then an alien and M
hostile flag waved over cities and forts,-and * fl
cajnps and regiments, and we went bomb in JS
Mar oh to assist in ratting jnore tro0pa^1|fl9- fl
ed for by the President Now there fa *
peaoe all orer the laod,*and the flag, of .be Vfl
Republic waves unqestioned over erety^- |l
ore of our national domain. We newer
knew the raloe of oar iMtUatiQifajl^jLjgB fl
hour of their peril. If we had failed there ' Ifl
would bare beeo no rekoiTeotfon from the ||
tomb of nations; bat, thanks to oar hereto is
defenders, no Gibbon will write the histoay I
of oar decline and fall. \ . . Ifl
I shall bail the day when all the 8tatesJ |?
shall rerolre in their appropriate -orbit a- - fl
round the Central Gorernmedt, and jrhen SB
we oan behold them, "distinct as tbe'bib |S
lows, but one as the sea." Bat we eannot am
forget that history teaches'us it wae eight - ra
years after the surrender of York town in ifl
the Revolutionary war, though our fathers i . fl
were of one mind as to its necessity,1 before Si
the Constitution was adopted aud the Union iffl
established. It is auspicious that the ablest
Congress that has sat here daring myknbwl- fl
edM of nablio affairs meets next m6bth& 1fl
face and settle the momentous questions
which shall be before it. It will not be ^Sb
governed by any spirit of revenge, bnt sole- H
ly by doty to the country. I have no rigbt ; I
to anticipate its action, nor doTblhd my- |g
eelf to any inflexible and unalterable policy. 8g
These ideas occur to me, and I epdfArdf Eg
them with the frankness with which "Ire |?
sbonld always express our, views. I&t ||
March, when Congress adjourned, theStates jfl
lately in rebellion were represented in -a jl
hostile Congress and C/binet, devising ways U
and means for the destruction of tbw conn- jm
try. . It may not be generally known, bnt |s
it has beqja repeated to me in the testimony ||
of members of the so-called Confederate sS
Congress, that General Lee?the military ||
hesd of the rebellion?declared last- jfrbnt- H
try, in his official oharactor, that the new- M
test waa utterly hopeless; bill theit^fiJon- * M
grees and Cabinet determined to condone tM
the "struggle, sod' fifty thousand mea fell aS
after that time On both sides, in the battles "fl
around Richmond, Petersburg, Five Forte, Sk
and on other battle fields. - ?
Since the adjournment of the U. States
Congress nets single rebellious8tatfc volan"
ill - il-litt 1l*l nl
va* 11 j ouiaouuoicu y uwvmrvrwj i*i? wwu *
its weapons; not a regiment abandoned its
falling colors ; bat the Union armies coo- I
que red peace?not by compromise or itftSTontary
submission' bat by (brae of arms ? )
Some of tboee members of the so oalM
Confederate Congress,' wb<ra tear adjomo- .
ment last 3farcb, were straggling to bjot
this Kepablic, as a nation, frotn the map of
the world, purpose, I understand, to enter
Congress on the opening day of its session,,
next month, and resume their former badness
of governing this ooontiy they struggled
so earnestly to rain. 'They say they
have lost no rights^ It seems the barfiibg - *
of the 8h*ps of our commerce on theoeten, ay
starving prisoners on the land, and raising II
armies to destroy the nation, .woold impair wg
some of these rights till tbeir new govern- ||
meats were ^recognised by Oongretn, *n>e Jfl
Constitution] which eeou bframed for every S
emergency, gives to each Hoase the ercla- vB
Bive right to- jodge of the qualifications of Bj
the election reftrrnsof its members, and I M
apprehend they will exercise that right ?9
Congress hasjog paased oa kw dn reeou- n
stractioD, President Johnson prescribed M
certain action for tbese-Statea whieh he H
deemed indispensable for tbeir restoration ffi
to. their former relations to the Government, fl
which I think eminently wise and patriotic. fl
First That their oonveotiona should de- fl
dare their various ordioawa of saoewiifl* 1
null and void?not as some have done, M
merely Mpeaiiagthemt^ abeotafely wl$
oat any force and effect. . m
. Second. That tbeir Legislatures shonld . . fl
ratify the eonstitntional amendmentabolish. . -H
ing slavery," that this oaose of dissension Is
and .rebellion might be utterly ettiipmd. - 1
Third. That tbey should finally repodi- m
ite.the rebel debt?-thoagb by its terms it Is
would be a long while befose it fell due- M
.laughter and applause) ? as it was ta be H
payable six months after the reoognition of
the Confederacy by tbe United States.?
This remipd" f?0 of an aid friend iw.'Jadi- ^B
ina, who said he liked to give his notes pay* 11
able ten days after conrooMnee. [Applause fl
ind laughter.] Bat them^uftpth/gi^ajrms fl
)n which, I think, there a no division a- fl
nong the loyal men of the Union : fl
First. That the Declaration of Ipdepeo. ||g
lepge must be recognised as the law; of the $|
ana, ana every man, alien ana nauve, ftps
vhite and black, protected ia the inaliena^ ||J
)le and God-given rights of life, liberty, tia
indthe pareuitof happiness. Mr. Liaooln, |?
a that Emancipation Proclamation, which H
a the proudest wreath in his ohaplet of . g|
litpe, not only gave freedom to the slave, |ff
)ut declared that the Government would lg|
aintain that freedom. [Applause.] We |ffl
sannot abandon them and leave them de- 1|1
enceleas at the mercy of tfirir former own:rs
j they must be protested in their rights jfl
if person and property, and these freemen |fi
nost have the right to sue is courts of jus- J?
ioo for all just claims, and to tectify, also, M
10 as to have "security against outrage and ?BB
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