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European. .Nu?ra.
WASHINGTON, May II_Additional foreign in
telligence montions that it ia understood that a
um'.ual understanding lias been arrived at be
tween Franco and Austria, in aaaurdance witli
which Austria undertakes that should Italy at
tack Venetia indopondontly of France, none of the
ovontual results of victory will bo securod by Aus
tria without the diplomatic intervention of France.
It ia asserted that tho object of Austria in
tuonacing Prussia and Italy is to forco England
to assent to a European Congress.
LATEST.
London datoB of tho Oth inst. say that Prussia
has doclared to the Diet tha,t tho warlike relations
-on her part ara entirely defensive. Austria's reply
to the Prussian uoto was entirely conciliatory, but
decimos to disarm under the circumstances.
Warliko preparations la Venetia are pushed en
ergetically, and it is supposed that Venetia will
soon be placed iu a state of siege. Nothing fur
ther has been board of tho steamer City of Wash
ington.
Later from Kurope.
NEW TOBK, May 16.-Liverpool dates to tho 5th
inst. havo como to hand. Sales on Saturday seven
thousand (7000) bales; market unchanged. Mid
dling Uplands aro quoted at 13id.
United States 5-2J's G74 to G7|. Consols 8GJ to
8Gi.
NCTV York tliiili, t.
NEW YOBK, May 16.-Colton firm and has ad
vanced from one to two cents per pound. Salea
sixteen hundred bales at 35 to 3Cc. Gold 30.?.
LATE NEWS.
Mr. Davit and his Trial.
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[From New Torfe Herald Correspondent]
FonTBESS MONROE, May 12.-Jeff. Davis roceived
the notice of the indictment for treason proncnted
against him by the Grand Jury of the United
States Circuit Court, recently in session in Nor
folk, with something moro than stoical indiffer
ence. On the contrary, ho expresses himself, as
I am told, greatly pleased at tho recuit, and hojiod
that his caso would now be soon decided. He
shows himself in his conversation on the subject
to have Leen perfectly sincere in his avowal?, all
along of au earnest do ii re to be placed on trial.
While I do not helio vu that ho for a moment enter
tains any approheuaion na to the result of the '
trial, I am satisfied that ho both expects and de
nirc.i that the examination shall he of the most
thorough and searching character.
His chief point of defence, as he has frequently ?
fitatod, will bo based on the subject of State rights
and the prerogative granted every citizen of a '
State to sustain the official action of mich Stato. J
I think, moreover, he feels confident of receiving '
a fair and impartial trial, and is willing to abido !
the issue. To his counsel, I am told, ho '
has already written on the subject of his expected '
trial. Como what will, Jeff Davij will show him- '
aelfno cowardly prisoner at tho bar of justico.
Tho attacks in the Southern press (whose editors '
hope thus to bulster up his cane) against Judge '
Underwood and tho other members of the Grand
Jury,-he does not, I am satisfied, sympathize with
in the least; and all their mutteriugs about pack
ed juries and corrupt judges have no effect upon
him.
New Five Cent Coinages
WASHINGTON, May 12.-The President has an
pointod Colonel Walter 11. Scalou, Collector "of
CiiHtonia for Chicago, to get up the live cent
piece, which is eoou to be issued. It will cost
about $600,000. Thero will lie, when the coinago
is completed, $3,500,000 in money in circulation,
that being the amount of postal currency in five
cont pieces that the new coinis intended to super
sede.
Forrest In San Faanclsco.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.-The Bum of five hun
dred dollar??, in gold, was paid for the first choice
of seats on the first appearance here of Edwin
Forrest, by Mr. Tiifiney.
SATURDAY, May 12. Tho capital of the San
FranciBoo Insurance Company bas been increased
from $150,000 to $300,000.
Tho British ship Parisian, from Otago, New
Zsal&nd, has arrived, bringing dates of the 16th
of March. Wboat was quoted at 6?. 7d. for nevr,
and Corn, 7s. per bushel. The s'jck of Flour
had been reduced to a low point, ar solder s were
firmer.
?Late Markets.
Nsw YOBK, Mav 14-Flour hut declined 10 to 15o, and
Wheat 1 to So. Corn las advanced Id. Beef 1B stead*/.
Pork heavy; mess $80 7) to 31. Lard firm at 10 to 22V?C
Cotton firm at " to 35o. Bagar tad Naval Store? arm.
"Id 130},.
MAY 16.-Flour has declined 10 to 20c; Stato brands
$7 SO to 0 M-, Southern $10 to 16. Wheat declined 2 to
4c. Oom quiet at " to Soo. Barf steady. Pork heavy;
mess $3076 to 31 f? bbl. Lard Bteiiiy at 10 to ..?;c.
Cotton Arm, with aales of 1400 titles at " to 36o. Oold
120 Vs.
lUr.nHOHE. Hay 14_Flour quiet and firm. Wheat
steady. Oom declined lo; white 80 to 87c; vellow 81 to
82o, Oats firm. Provisions firm. Sugars steady. Cof
fee dull. Whiskey firm,
CINCINNATI. Hay ia.-Flour dull and nominal; no ac
curate quotations can be gi von. Wheat-Buj-eri asking
a reduotlon of 10 to 16 cents per bns?el; priera nomi
nal. Oom steady . 168 to 69 cent? for No 1. Oats firm
at 46 to 47 cents for No 1. Bye steady, 80 to 85 cent?.
Whiskey dull, $3 S3 In bond, $2 -20 duty paid Pro
vlslons-Mess pork dull at $31; balk meats In ?:tl<7?-i do
..vinil, salee ol 3110.000 bbls at $12. $16, and $17 for
sh culders, s-ldes, and olear sldei; a largo business could
lim- *> boen done at thca ? rates, but holders demanded Vi
hlgln'**. Lard dull; decdned to 9i^o, but there oan't
bo mu *>? bought nt tbls rate. Hie. H Arm; 13K, loy,
and IK'.'c? sugar oured hams In good dtmacd at 22 to
23c and 1 **1*1? bams at 20 to '21c Oold l'JS ',.
' Loo IST ix '*?* M ?y H -Tobacco steady, with aales of 61
hhds. Flon r-Sn,?t?rflno Flour dell at $8, extra $0, and
family $11 26 to $13, Corn-Mixed la bulk 62o. Oats
47c. Pork-_ ? '. Pata held at $31. Bacon shoulders
13>;c; clear sid.>a l?j^o; choleo sugar-cured hams 28c.
I*?rd In tlercea lib. Whiskey-IUw f J i0. ,
NEW Oiu.i'.aKfl. stay 12.-Cotton In fa'r donoand; sales
of 1600 bales low mldi.'Hnu at 33 to 34c; today's receipts
700 bales. Pork $82 70. Oold 129. Steading easier at
40; New York slglit excb.-.n?A ?? premium.
Pni_o"rim, M?y 12.- Flour finn; superfine, $8 to
?8 76; extra, $0 to 10 25. Wheatflrm; red at $2 60 to
.2 70; white at $2 80 to 3. Oom buoyant; yellow 83c
Oats firm and advanced le ?-'rovlitoiis firm ; pork firm ;
sales 600 bbls new meas at $51 60; mess heel, $18 to 22;
cut meats, sales 20,000 lbs ?alt Aide? at IG\?1*. Whiskey
unohangod. Tallow.-Sales 200,000 lbs at *2o, an ad*
?ance .
CniOAOo, May l8.-Floor doll. Wheat unsettled and
decllued 8 to (o, o oslng at $1 CO J?' to $1 01 for V.o. 1,
and $110to $1 12 for No. a. Oom declined )', to lo; at
?50 vi to Gio for No. 1. Oats quiet at 81 to 82>{o. Pro*
visions dulL Freights firm at ?),c on corn to Buffalo.
Beoelpta-11,000 bills flour, 81,00ob"heis wheat, 155.? 00
bushels corn, and 81,000 bnatuls oats Shipments
'.COO bbla flour. 8S,uO0 bUBhels wlioit, 03,000 bushels
oom, and 81,000 bushels oats.
81. LOOTS, May 13. -F"UB-Holders (Urn?, buyers
?.tandou. Wheat heavy ai*d un?hang?d Oom dull at
?4to?9o. OAUflrmat43to45>i('. Pork $31 lo $31 60,
Bacon advancing. Sugar cured b?ms 23vii- afaou^dax?
13KO; clear aides held ot ll?ie at tha cloaa.^
BY LAST NIGHT'S MAIL.
DIPLOMATIC COBttEarONBI-IC
Wo loam from our Washington exohanccB of
Monday, that tho last inatalmont of documouts
rolativo to Mexico makes between flvo hundred
and eix hundred page?. It appears from this mass
of corrcspoudenco, that on tho 5th of January iii.
HOMERO sent documents to Mr. SEWAUI?, ahowin'r,
iu tho first place, that tho assassination of Gen.
ABTEAOA waa an accomplished fact, notwith
standing the endeavors of tho French to conceal
it; and, moreover, that it was premeditated and
executed hy orders from Mexico, or by the com
mand of tho Fronoh Gonoral-in-Cllief of tho in
vading army, or by tho French agent in that city,
on whom they try to lay thtVr'csponBibility of their
conduct. Ho adds that thq assassins have not
had the manliness to assume the responsibility of
their crime, but havo tried to conceal it, or im
pose tho guilt of it upon au unhappy traitor ofQ
cor who has joined the conquerors of his country.
In a subsequent communication, dated February
20, transmitting to Mr. ?-KWAI- additional docu
ments, in order to keep the United States Govern
ment informed of the conduct of the invaders of
Mexico, ho saya :
I now call your attention to tho inconsistency of
treating Mexican's as belligerents after having
once denied them that right. Tho French agont,
Maximilian, after having donied all rights of bel
ligerents to tho soldiers of the Republic, whom he
proclaims as bandits in his dooroo of the 3d of
October, and shoota without trial in conformity
with his decree, oven though they belong to the
regularly organized forces, now negotiates a for
mal exchange of prisoners with Gen. Riva Palacio,
whom ho calls "general," and flattert, with cour
teous lanRuago for his humanity to French pris
oners. To say tho least, this hignifios an ac
knowledgment of the rights of belligerents to tho
forces of tho Republican army. The evident ob
ject of this inconsistency is to gain the reloaso of
the French prisoners; and it is an open confession
forced from those invader? of the Mexican Boil
that those forces defending tue independence of
their country are not disorganized bandits or
highway robbers, SR they assert: and it iu unjust
and absurd to deny them tue consideration
usually extended to all belligerents throughout
tho civilized world.
On the 10th of March, M. ROMF.HO addressed
Mr. SEWARD as follow** :
Mr. Secretary : As a specimen of the manner in
whioh the so-called decree of the \iaurpor Maxi
milian, issued October 3,1005, ordering the execu
tion of all Mexicans who defend tho iudcpoiideucc
of their country, is carried out, I have the honor
to inclose to you with this* note thodeath sentence
pronounced againet Colonel Garlos Garcia Cou,
and til" mode of its CXOCOUOS?, oouuined in au ex
tract from La Sombra, a paper published in the
Oity of Mexico. The colonel waa twenty?flve years
of age. He had ouco served in the ranks of the
Interventionists, but afterwards reflecting ou his
duty as a Mexican, he joined the defenders ot in
dependence. He waa suo/icquontly taken prison
er, condemned, and executed in the irregular
manner shown by tho annexed document. I re
frain from commenting on what is hero improperly
called a trial, and whioh in nothiug but real &SS*B
sination, as it was done iu accordance with the
eo-called decree, which is already known to tho
Government of ?he United States.
Mr. SEWABD replies, March 14, 186G:
Silt: I have the honor to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your communications ot January 5 and 22,
and February 20, and March 10, 1-6, with their
inclosures, which relato to the decree iaaued Oc
tober 3. by the so-callod Emperor of Mexico, and
in which the penalty of death is declared against
all Mexicans fV-und in arms, and defending tho in
tegrity aud independence of their country against
the forcible intervention of Franco in that Repub
lic. You further inform me that thin penalty has
actually been visited upon Major-General Jose
Maria Arteaga, and several of his companions in
arms, recently mudo prisoners by tho Fronch. In
reply, it is scarcely necessary for me to assure
you that the Government of tho United States
deeply regrets the untimely fate which has over
taken those bravo champion;* of tho cause of lib
erty and republican institutions iu Moxico, and
fully deprecates tho practico of a system of war
faro so little in consonance with the usago of en
lightened Statos. I bog in answer to state that
tho subject will receive the attention to which it
is BO justly entitled from this government, and
meauwhile have the honor to renew to you, sir,
the assuranco of my higbost consideration.
(Signed) WM. H. SEWARD.
Senor M. ROMEUO, _C, Washington, D. C.
Tho following correspondence took placo be
tween Gen. WfiiTzuia and Gen. MEJIA :
HEAIaQUAItTEnS DlSTniCT OK THE RlO GRANDE, I
BBOWNSVILI-, TEXAS, January 2, 18G6. j
GENERAL : I understand you havo taken seven
teen prisoners from the Liberal forces, "und that
you iutond to execute them. In tho naino of the
entire civilized world I protest against such a
horrible act of barbarity. I believe It will stamp
the power which you reprosont with iofamy for
ovor. To oxeoute Mexican d fighting in their own
country, and for the freedom of their country,
against a foreign power, is an act which, at this
age, will moot with universal execration. I cannot
permit this to bo done under the oye of the Go
vernment without, on its behalf, entering this
solemn protest.
I am, air, very respectfully,
Your obediont servant,
G. WEITZEL.
Major-General Gommandi ng.
To Ma ior-Genoral THOMAS MET?A, commanding
Lino of tue Rio Orando.
IKPERiAia ARMY or MEXICO, DIVISION liai A, [
HEADQUABTEBS MATAMOROS, Jan. 2, 1806. )
GENEUAL, : I acknowledge the receipt of your
nota communicated this day. I find myself-ander
the necessity of repelling energetically the par
ticipation which you pretend to take in the inter
nal concerns of this country. The business to
which the protest iu your noto refers has now
been brought before competent tribunals, and no
one has a right to suspend the proceedings for
your individual cognition. I will add that the per.
sons in question are accused of having taken by
force ot arma thirteen wagons and twenty-six
mules, and robbod thirteen persons. It would be
very strange, General, if, in the middle of this
nineteenth century, the bandits and fighting rob
bers aro to rocoive help and protection from the
civilized world. By the same occasion I seo my
self obliged to remind you or the coat ont s of the
letter I Ead the honor to address you on the. 21st
of last December. I shall return without I answer
all communications of the character and couched
in the language of tho one now before mo.
Accept, General, my esteem and consideration.
THOMA8 MEJIA,
General Commanding the Lino of the Rio Orando.
To Major-General WEITZEL, Commanding the
Western District of Texao, Brownsville.
The following we clip from the Washington cor
respondence, datod 13th, of the World :
THE BRMOVAI, OF VOST MASTERS,
There- are some twenty thousand pontniastera
in the United States, of whom bat oight or nine
hundred require confirmation by the Senate.
Thora are to be vigorous removals among the rest
who are denouncing the administration. Their
dismissals are being made out at the Postoffico
D?partirent.
MOUE ABOUT THE TRIAIa OK DAV*fl.
The indiotmeut presented by tho Grand Jury
of the Distriot Court of Virginia against
Jeff. Davis for treason, was reooivod at
the office of the Attorney-General yesterday,
being delivered by Judge Underwood in
person. It waa decided not to give It to the public
at present. Tho iadiotment contains no fea
tures of special intorent, being much the same in
form with the previous indiotmoat in ado at Nor
folk. Judge Underwood has boon le consultation
with tho Assistant Attornoy Gonoral rolativo to
MrrP*w.,tarl?Irat,,Blobmi)ndi? Jane., Every pr?*
par allon far bolus made for the ovont at that tfido.
patt
It ii understood that Chief Juatice Chaso will prc
Bido, and Attorney General Speed will prosecute,
assisted by Judge Culford of M?-??sachii-Its,??ano
William If. Evarta?, Esq., of Now York, as oooniel
ou tho part of the prosecution. Tho court will
convene in tho early part of June. A gentleman
who lins read tho oviuciico against Mr. Davis for
complicity in tho assassination plot, status that it
doeu not contain a singlo fact Gmt would have
been thought sufliciout by the President, or auy
other fuir-mindcd man, to order tho trial sought.
THE "PlaAJ*" IN THE SENATE.
Thcro was a general conforonco in Washington,
on the 13th, of tho members of tho Recoustruc
tion Committee, relative to the course to bo par
Hued on the Constitutional amendment, which
comes up iu tho Souato to-morrow. Tho result
seems to bo that a determined effort will bo made
to striko out the third section, which disfranchises
all rebels from voting for the next four years. lu
its plane it ia proposed to iusort a clause depriving
all officers of tho rebel goverumout from ever
holding au ofliuo under this government. In this
it will necessarily go tothoHouso for concurrence.
It will, it is now believed, command a two-thirds
vote iu that body.
CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH OF HENRY A. WIES.
Ex-Goneral and ox-Governor HENRY A. WISE lec
tured in bohalf of the orphans in Alexandria, Va.,
ou the 13th, and in the courso of bis remarks
mado the following observations :
You might call the father a rebel if yon
pleased, but ho (tho epeakor) was alivo to defend
the dead against the charge of either treason or
rebellion. (Applause.) A little further on he
remarked that there was no power ou earth which
could make him movo one t>tep from old Virginia.
He bad made no confessions and taken no test
oath, and tboro was no power which could make
him tako one. He was no traitor, that he would
swoar before high heaven. If he were one he
ahould deservo to bo shot. Ile had taken no
oath of alloKiaiico, for he waa not a foreigner
to bo naturalized. For two conturies his fore
fitborB had lived in the old commonwealth of
Virginia, and their bonos restod iu her soil. Ho
then asked how many of the foreigners who were
present at tho eurrendor of tho Confederate army
at Appomattox Court Houso could say that. This
war, he said, only proved tho truth of tho three
lines Of political wisdom written by William Penn,
according to whom tbo form of a government was
but an inferior consideration. The worat form in
good hands being almost as good as the best, and
the best form in bad hands being almost as bad
as the worst. He claimed to have always had the
highest regard for the Constitution of the United
States, and said that when tho Government of the
United States called upon him to euppreas insur
rection, and on tho other hand his Mate called
upon bun to repel invasion, it was simply a con
flict of sovereignties, aud lie was not responsible
for his acta individually in obeying the voice of
his State.
Andrew Johmon and the JUadlcal?.
THE CORRESrONOENT Ol' TH? LONDON TIMES HAS AN
INTERVIEW WITH THE l'BESIOENT.
[Washington (April 16) Correspondence london Time*.]
In the perplexed and uncertain state into which
public affairs have fallen, it is impossible for me
to send you any information moro important or
valuable than the particulars of au interview
which I bad with Preaidont Johnson, at tho White
House, ou Thursday last. The President's opin
ions, especially with reference to the frccdmen,
havo beeu so wilfully misrepresented in the Radi
cal press of this country, aud hi?, general policy
toward the Southern States haa been exponed to
so much unjustifiable perversion, that Mr. John
sou's own <-ii pi? n at i ona on both these subjects may
have some weight even with those who are most
embittered against him.
The President first adverted to the condition in
which he found the country on his accession to ,
office, aud pointed out that ever since that time
tho Radical party, which now has the control over :
Congress, had been preparing for tho issue now
forced upon him. Tlieir object waa manifest, aud
it was ono which, from their point of view, they
could scarcely be blamed for pursuing so eagerly.
They knew porfeclly woll that wheu tho South i
cano hack into Congress their day of power would
be over-tho Southern representatives would stand
as a unit* they would probably fall into al
liance again with the Democratic party, tho old
issues of slavery and State sovereignty would be
dead and buried, and the party which uow rules
would be stripped o? its power. Their talk about,
philanthropy i.nd benevolence to tho uogro meant
nothing moro than a desiro to work upon the feel
ings of the North, so that they might, be enabled
te alrrj everything their own way.*
It was a renewal of an old conflict. The two
sections of tho country were ready to go to war
before the rebellion broke out-the one to preservo
slavery, the other to destroy it. Each side was
willing to sacrifico the government in order to
gain its object. Tho South struck first ; the re
bellion waa Bubdned at tho southern eud of the
line, and now it is swinging round to the other
end. " Thoso men," continued tho President
and he always used these words to denoto the
Radical party-" aro almost ready to go into re
bellion again rather than have their aupremaoy
dostroyeu by tuo r?introduction of the bouth.
They know nothing practically of the real state of
the South. Tho very man who had drawn up the
Civil Rights bill, what are his means of judging ?
I loft bim in the Senate during tho war, and went
out to Tennessee and Baw it all, and bore my
share of the troubles. Ho stopped at home, and
now ondoavors to make bis theories square into
the oventa ot the war, and leglslato on ideas which
he has never pat to tho test."
Tho President then went on to speak of slavery
and the negro. He had been brought up, be said,
under the very shadow of the institution of slave
ry. He had bought and owned slaves, but still he
had always been for abolishing slavery upon any
basis which could be adopted w.tb safety to the
country. When it carno to the question whether
slavery should be abolished or the Government
broken np, he never had a doubt as to the
course which ho ought.to pursue*, be decided
to give up slavery, and he abided by that de
cision. Rut the South now would treat the
negro with greater kindaees than the North, if it
were loft alone and not exasperated. "They
talk of justice toward tho negro," continued the
President, "God knows my heart yearns toward
bim wheu I think of the ond these men are pre
paring for him. I Bee that end clearly enough
thev aro going the way for a conflict of races.
When that occurs, wo all know how it will
faro with tho negro. How has such a contest
always ended? When the time comes there will
bo no struggle. The result will be decided with
out that. Now, then, what do wo find ? The very
thing which wo said theso Southorn States could
never do, which wo thought those four Years to
provent tin.- doing, these men affirm that tboy
have actually dono, namely, boen out of the Union.
The Southern Statos are ready to como back upon
our terms, take loyal oaths, and acknowlcdgo
their allegiance, but these mon say they shall not.
Whv, if they had offered to como back, or any of
them, during the rebellion, should we have turn
ed them away on tho ground that they had placed
thomaolves out of the Union ? Mr. Lincoln offered
to receive tho whole Legislature of Richmond-a
rebol Legislature, and would have welcomed them
with open arma. Would ho have refusod to re
ceive these States now that they havo fully sub
mitted ?" " J, ,.
The President next referred to the misrepresen
tations of his policy which have been BO indue
trlouBly spread abroad. ''Theeo men" had for
months past had the public mind open to thom,
and bad poured into it what they pleased. Now
it had become inoruatod, as it were; but onco let
that incrnstration be broken through, and the
truth would begin to find its way. "I am not dis
couraged," added the President; "either these
Statos must be brought back, or they must be
kept out. It is like doing a sum in addition-some
sums want figuring up more than others before
you can get the answer, bat I believe it will come
out right la the end."
Mr. Johnson then enlarged with considerable
dotail upon the operations of tho rreedrain a Bu
reau, and asid that ita rnaohfuory was now bolng
tiaod to got negroes conveyed from the North back
to tho 8outh by tho very men who were, aeeorUng
that tho lire? of the frcodmon were not safo in the
South. They had hired or bought lands, they
w.uitod labor, and they got tlit-jr negroes trans
ported at tho expense of tho Government. Tho
Freedmon'a Bureau compellod tho nogroi-s to go,
or they stopped their subsistence allowance. It
waB littlo butter than anothor form of shivery, only
that it was solely conducted by Abolitionists; tor
the Froedmcn'? Bureau would not assist a South
er? man In getting negroes from tho North, where
many thousands of thom have taken refuge du
ring the war. A gentleman from Faulkland Cotin
tv, Virginia, had been to him, tim President ??aid,
only a low days ago, Baying that ho lind sent three
htiudrcd negroes to tho District of Columbia for
security during tho war. Ho now wished to hire
them, hut tim Froodmou'H Bureau interposed ob
stacles, aud would give him no help in transport
ing them; whereas the Govnrnniuntraitroud-iwero
placed at tho disposal of other speculator*?. In
all that ho ?vid, it was evident that the President
approvod some plan for protecting the negro and
giving him succor, but that ho considered tho ad
ministration of the Freedtnen's Bureau was not) all
that could be desired. It did not acuoni plush the
true object for which it was foundod.
Passing from this enl-joct, the President said
that tho Jtadical party in Congress talked to the
people as if they had to foar aomu act of oppres
sion on the part of tho Executive bocanse the
Civil Nights Bill had boen vetoed. "But the veto
power," he said, "could never be made an engine
iif oppression. It has only a nogativo forco-it
originates nothing. It can only Bay when it SCCB
un wiso or unconstitutional legislation attempted,
'Now stop. Consider this thing a littlo further.
Pass the bill if you will by your constitutional
two-thirds majority, but I think it well to give you
an opportunity to think over it again.' They have
panned the Civil Bights Bill, and it will not be long
boforo a Judge is arrested for carrying out the
laws of his State. Then the case will be brought
to the Supreme Court, and tho people will Boon
seo which was right-Congress in insisting upon
having it, or I iu ondoavoring to dissuade thom
Irom it." Hore, again, the President distinguish
ed between the principle on ?vhich tho bill is pro
fessedly baaed, and the bill itself; the former ha
was anxious to seo carried out, hut tho moans
proposed he considered objeotionable and hazard
ous, -a^.
"Congress," the President fnrther said, "rep
resents tbo States, but tho men who voted for
them individually, all voted in my election. I am
like the Tribunes elected by the Human people-1
am to stand and represent their interests. And
what other object can I have but to represent
those interesta-the interests of my country? I
have no party objects to serve-no sc-IGsh interests
to promoto. If I were a man of ambition,' I do
not know what I could desire moro than I have
gained. I have gono the whole giddy round, from
a-derman upwards, and I do not value this oflico
(hero the President spoko with great earnestness
and feeling) excopt for the good which it may
enable me to do. I waut but a corner of this
house to live in, aud I do not care a bawbee, as
the Scotch say, f??r all tho rest. Let mo but sec
the oountry "at txatatooy und peace, and how
gladly would I give up all I I suppoao I mi y say
that I have don?- onough to satisfy any reasonable
ambition, and f el that m ? race ia well nigh run.
.{-hese mon want power ; 1 havo enough, and am
indifferent to what I havo. Wo think"-he said
tliesn words with a ?mile-"we think this a great
position, With our idoaa-wo aro educated to ?lo no;,
nut I can assure you that I am often here twelve
hours a il? y without it over occurring to mo that I
am President." Ho evidently meant, without tho
pride of power occurrinir to him.
"These mon," he also said, "havo raised the cry
of 'mad dog' at rae, and tho people seem to bo
getting afraid. They will understand me better
hy-and-by, and nu der at and these men too. I
oould not expeot to get through without a strug
gle." Yet it was most extraordinary, hr r] j-Jtf???fa, ?
ad, to thifik of the oourse willoh '?UIMA*-\I> flj
were pursuing. By being united again the coun
try would stand respected in the eyes of the world.
It was now laboring under the evils of an inflated
currency, and while trade is restricted by tho
South being kept in uncertainty-an element of
danger in the Slate-such evils could not bo cor
rected. Yet there were signs that people were
beginning to be alive to the truth. "Look at
Peor?a"-and he mentioned several other towDS
where meetings in favor of the President's policy
have lately been held siuco the passage of the
Otvil Bights Bill. "It is like water trickling along
the ground," said Mr. Johnson. "You can seo
the damp places here and there, and you know
that it will gradually spread. It will tali o time;
hut, after all, what good can be accomplished
without tri:il and difficulty ? If I fail, my regret
will not he for myself. I will hope that some ouu
wiser will riso up to do the work." The President
uttered theao words in a somewhat weary and
sad, but very earnest tone. Ho continued with
greater animation: "My e ?n vic tiona are a great
source-the best source-of courage to a man. I
have fought disunion nearly all round the circle,
and if I um called upon to completo tho circlo I
will. Then I could ?ay most heartily that I would
that I could depart in pcaco."
Such, so far as I feel myself at liberty to repeat
thom, were the remarks made by the President.
I believo that I have reported his very words in
most install?es, but there were many illustrations
which he employed which I am unable to recall,
and in a conversation of nearly two hours there
must necessarily bo a great deal which I cannot
pretend to remember with sufficient accuracy to
repeat. That the President is as urra and unsha
ken as ever, it was impossible to doubt after lis
tening to bim. He relies upon the good sense of
the people to bring the present crisis to a favora
ble end; but it ia clear that he has no personal
objects to serve. Ho told one of the most distin
guished of American politicians only yesterday, as
be told me on Thursday, that he will never con
Bent to he a candidate for the Presidency again,
[will only add that the President looked better in
health than when I saw him some mouths ago,
"d that he speaks with great clearness, force,
md ability, and brings to bear on the subject
upon which he is talking many very suggestive
aud felicitous figures and illustrations.
? a? a
HIE INDICT1U-NT OF __-PRE.SIDE.NT
DAVIS.
WHERE AND WHEN l8 HE TO BE TRIED-THE OIUN'D
JURY.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, writing last Friday, says :
' 'The indictment of Jefferson Davis by the grand
jury at Norfolk, aud setting his ease for trial at
bick mond in Juno, is in strict accordance with the
programme agreed upon here. Judge Underwood
e expeoted in the city to-night, with tbo copy of
the indictment. The trial of Mr. Davis will now
undoubtedly take place at as early a day in the
lune session as possiblo, aud will of course be
conducted with all due formalities, bul at all ar
rangements necessary to secure a conviction have
beeu made, the result may be easily predicted.
It is the settled purpose of certain men in high
position hero to nave Mr. Davis executed, if it is
within the range of possibility, and they are not
slow ia asserting that the people of tile North
will never allow the interposition of Executive
alemenjy."
But the Washington Star ot Saturday evening
thinks the trial will bo in Norfolk. It saya :
It ia now understood that Jefferson Davis will
bo tried in the United States Circuit Coiirt, Judge
underwood, in the oitv of Norfolk, Va. Chief Jus
tice Chase will preside. Attorney-General Speed
will prosecute, assisted by Judgo Clifford, of Mas
riachusotts, aud William B. Evarts, Esq., of New
Fork, as counsel on tho part of tbo prosecution.
Iho court will convene in the early part of June.
The same paper saya :
The indictment for (reason, wo hear, contatos
no features of special interest, being much the
same in form with the previous indictment of him
made at Norfolk. [Washington?]
The jury making the indictmont was conipoeod
9f aix men from Alexandria, two from Fairfax,
seven from Richmond, and five from Norfolk.
riioy all claim to haye been Union men through
out tho war. although eovora! of thom aro known
to havo been very good Confederates BO long "
they wore not roaohod by conscription, and wo;.*o
eft froo to prosecute their contracta with (he Con*
?. .. . .?. . :
/
feder*?te Government, and fill thoir pockots with
money. When the conscript officer was about to
grab thom they niado thoir escape through tho
lines and turned up firat-claas Unionists and mar
tyrs on tho other sido. Of tho Norfolk men, tho
Virginian o. that city says :
"It is not necessary for our purpose that wo
should mention names.we theicforo omit thom, and
moko the general deciaratiou, tho truth of which
will bo attested by overy respectable mau in this
community, that so far as the Norfolk mon uro
concerned, who wero on that jury, a moro unre
liable set, ?ritte ono or possibly two exceptions,
could not bo found iu this or auy other commu
nity.
'Thrco of them aro d?sertera from tho Con
federato ranks. Rutlor mitigated his infamy in
this community, by fixing perjury on ouo of them.
And another, seeking a 'lower depth,' after hu
turned Union mau, went into the business of ron?
niug blockade goods into the Confederacy, and yet
as a juryman, took the oath that he had never
given 'aid and comfort' to the South."
Of the men from about Alexandria the Gazelle
says :
"Wo aro informed by a goutleman, who was
horn and raised, and has lived uninterruptedly in
this city for upwards of a half a century-who is
known to all our citizens, and has at various
times held important municipal poeitlooB -that of
tho thirteen members of Judge Underwood's
Grand Jury, now iu session in Norfolk, who hail
from Alexandria, ho has nover heard of but throe,
and of these three, though clever in their way, no
sane mau would ever have supposed for an in
stant that for a Petty Juryman he could oven be
selected."
Of the Richmond contingent, certainly no bet
ter than those from Norfolk and Alexandria, we
will probably have something to say her o after.
Tho New York News, after giving the names of
tho Jurors, adds :
"Among theso tbero aro four individuals whose
antecedents are of a nalino to suggest that they
are strongly biased against Mr. Davis. William
Fay, Burnham Wardwoll, T. Dudley, Jr., and
Burnham Davis, were brought from Richmond to
Norfolk to servo in tho panel. During the war
these men wero hold by tho Confederate authori
ties as prisoners of State, at Richmond, under
suspicion of correspondence with the enemy.
What their moral attributes may be, wo know
not; but the simple fact that by authority of tho
thou President of tho Confederacy thoy were de
prived of liberty aa supposed spies of the Federal
Government ought to havo been sufficient, in the
eye8 of justico, to render thom incompetent to act
even iu tho initial proceedings of the case. Al
though the action of tho Grand Jury ia a mere
form, still it would havo boen better if that form
had been carried out without tho agency of par
ties who may be Bupposed to uurno resentmouts
and vindictive feeling agaiust the prisoner."
It is aaid there were Bevon indictments madu by
the Jury, but the name9 of tho other parties have
not yet been made public.-Richmond Whig.
Wonderful but True!
MADAME REMINGTON, THE WORLD RENOWNED
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stamped envelope nddroened to yourself, you will re
ceive the picture by return mall, together with desired
-formation.
Address in confidence, Madame GERTRUDE REM
INGTON, J?. O. Bor 21?7, West Troy, N. Y.
May R tutue3_o
For the Army, for the Navy, and
for Every One.
The world ia so inundated now with medicino? of
every description which are warranted cures for every
known and unknown species of disease, that the aufferer
duds it almost impossible, to extinguish between good
and bad. Some of these wonderful fluids profess to
cure.overy complaint known to tho Materia Medica. In
speaking of HOHTETTFK'S BiTrens, we refer to a prepara
tion which limits itself to one department of Uu body
tho stomach-the irregularities and disorders of which
it not only claims to cure, bul docs. Its reputation lias
be-mo world-wide, and from the Pacific to the atlantic,
lu both humlspberes, and in every latitude and ? >*.??, it
is known and emplojed as a lomedlcal agent.
persons who have been rcpeaicdly deceived, perhaps,
cannot be convinced that Hostetter's Bitters will effect
sure, rapid, and permanent eurea Bm. this assertion
is confirmed by testimonial letters from the most dis
tinguished men iu tue country. AU who have onco
used these Bitters keop them now by their side as a
safeguard, bolle. lu? that "an ounce of prevention is bet
ter than a pound of eura."
The digestive organs which have bean violated and
prostrated by excessive or irregular indulgence of appe
tite, wUl bo restored to their norn-.-condition hythe
usa of this wonderful medicine.-Boston 1 raveller.
Mayla_._
MRS. WINSLOW,
An experienced Norse and Female Physician,
Presenta to the attention of Mothers her
Soothing Syrup,
FOR CHILDREN TEETHING,
**.'_oh greatly facilit?t- the process of Teething, bj
softonlng the gums, reJuclug all inflammations, vii'
allay ALL PAIN and spasmodic action, and la
SORE TO REGULATE TEE BOWELS.
Depend upon It, mothers, it will give teat to yoursal vat?
and
Relief and Health to Your Infant*..
Wo havo put up and sold this article for over tlilrr*
years, and can aay m confidence and truth of It what ?ri
have never been able to aay of ?** other medicine
NEVER HAS IT FAILED IS A SINGLE INSTANCE TO
EFFEOT A OBRE, when timely used. Never did ? e
know of an Instance of dlssatiafaotlon by any one wfco
ns<- it. On the contrary, all are delighted with Ita op?
rationa, and apeak In terms of oommendadon of lu
magical effects and raodlcal virtnea. We speak in tali
matter "what we do know," after thirty years' expe
rience, and PLEDGE OURSELVES FOB THE FULFIL
MENT OF WHAT WE HERE DECLARE. In almo?
every instance where the Infant Is suffering from pair
and ezhanation, relief will ba found In fifteen or twenty
minute? after the syrup Is administered.
Full directions for using will aoootnpsny each bottle.
Nona genuine unless the foo timiU ot ODBTIS * PER.
EINS, New York, Is on tho outside wrapper.
Sold by all druggists throughout the world.
frico only 30 Cent* par Hot tie.
For tal? by
KING & CASSIDEY,
february Vt etoo ?ChaTlecton
~?WNOTICE.-ffHBEE MONTHS APTJEI.
data, application will bo mad? to the Jslmoro _ntual In -
miran co Company for renewal of Coi-?cato Bo. Ut, tot
10 81-re? in Mid Company-said Crrtlflotto having
beda destroy?- or lost by the fire la Columbi
Varch? tulhno OHAfl. P. HHlERi*.
MA It II I ED.
In this city, on tho 7tli Instant, at tlio rroldeiiro of
t .e brido'a mother, l?y Ins RKV. ('. Q. Plnckney. Cant
OEOROH r. CRAWLER, or Norfolit, vD" to LIZZIE
HOLLAND, eldest daughter ?it tho luto "ut. I'. MCNKL
TV, of Savaiiuub, Oa.
OW 'Tite Friend? unit Acqvalns anees or
E. Vf. BECKETT and family, aim? of Jons 0. BURCH
MVEn and family, oro luvii.ui to attend lbs l-*t?n?-r" Ser
vicos of tho former, at tho northeast comer ol Pitt and
Calhoun ?trootu, This Morning, at btlf-*pa" Eight o'clock.
May 17 *
SPECIAL NOTICES.
?*?- AN ADDRES8 WILL BE DELIVERED BY
tlio llev. Prof. MILES, beforo tbo Clircstoniuiliic Society
of Charleston College, in tho Collego i kapai, This
Evening, Hay 17th, at 8>i o'clock. Tho public ?onerally
aro Invited to attend._1? j,raj, y?
OW NOTICE.- CONSIGNEEi-fPER 8TEA?I
8HIP "ADELE," from Baltimore, aro hereby notified
that sho is Thit Day dlscbarRing cargo at Accommoda
tion Wharf. All gooda remaining on tim Wharf at sun
set will r?o stored at risk and expeu.o of owners.
May 17 1_8TIUET BROTHERS k CO.
OW FINAL NOTICE.-ALL 1 "180X8 HAV
ING claims against tho Estate of tho late TH0MA8 C.
PORCHER, of St. John's Berkley, will present thom on
or before tbo let June next to cither of toe undersigned",
or to HENRY SEABROOK, Attorney-at-La v, 50 Broad
street, otht-rwlso they will be debarred payment.
E. BL SEABROOK. 1 . , ...
P. E. PURCHER, j ???-???.itbtrator.'.
Moy 3 tbmO
OW THE LADIES OP -TRINITY METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH lutend holding a FAIR, in aid of
its funds,at Hibernian Hall on WEDNESDAY EVENING,
May 23. The fiillowlog gentlemen, membors of the
congregation, are requested to act as a Comn.lttee. of
Arrangements :
WM. WALTON SVITH,
V. ii. DF.I-ONTAINE,
M. W CRUSH.
DR. T. ti UEMMISGWAY,
B. W. WARREN.
WM. M. HA?E,
?apt. T. J LOCKWOOD,
[a. T. POTTER,
W. B. MOORE,
G. CUAMI1ERLAIN,
j. a M ARTIv.
W. H. M O It It l8.
il_ W. PEMHERTOX,
LAWBKNOE STEIN*.
O. HENRY WH"__B,
W. MASTERMAN.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS,
LEONARD CHAP?N,
WILEY T. BURGE,
L GAMBBEL,
W. J. MIDDLETON,
R. M. BUTLER,
W. H. l-MITH,
H. C. 8TOLL,
EDWIN PLATT.
JAR. COPE*-),
C. A GRAESER,
ti. A. NELSON,
DU, H. BAER.
DR. J. It. MOOD,
E. COMSTOCK BETTS,
W. H. JKFPERS,
May Ki_
AW TAKE PAR riCULAIl NOTICE.-10 OLD
SLIP, NEW YORE, 8th MAY, lHG?.- T?> tho Consignees
of tho MATTIE E. TABOR, "pt AKSOto, bound from
Philadelphia to Charleston, and all whom It may con
cern :
1, Grono:. Divin, of 14 Old Slip, Merchant of the
City anil Slato of New- York, hereby glvo you notice not
to pay over uuy morey or tuan?***-! clatiuc 1 to bo due, or
due and paya'jlo, co tlio Bald Cant. A-IN?>I.I>, ariatng from
the lxulghtof tho said Schooubr "MATTIE E TABOR"
said money?) or money beiug my property until her re
turn to New York, and completion of Charter Party,
dated March 3?tb, 1866. And should you part with
auch monty or moneys iu deflauco ef tnls notice, I
niall hold you each, and evory ouo, Hablo iu damagos
tomo.' I hold vessel ti f*-.'..til her said Charit* Party,
dated as above, March iii>:u( laflt?.
Mer 14 ?* -?? '-?. ? - O DAVIS.
OW BOINEST & BURKE RECEIVE THE
latest New York DAILIES evory afternoon. Price 10
cento._Btutli_April g
OW IN THE MATTER OF INFORMATIOH
IN REGARD TO D0CDMENT8 LOST OB DESTROY
ED.
THE STATE 1 IN EQUITY,
OF . COLLETON DISTRICT.
SOUTH CAROLINA J A bill to perpet?ala Testl*
Ex relatione. j inouy.
The bill to perpetuate Testimony In tho matter of
documents lost or destroyed, baviug been filed for this
DlBtrlct-on hearing this bill and on motion of LEROY
F. YOUMANS, Esq, 8 ilicitor, It is ordered, That all
persons interested in docuincDts of any description
lost or destroyed during the recent war, the proof of
whose existence, loss or contests, or any of thom, resta
in the memory of witnesses, and who desire to have
oTidcnce taken and perpetuated in regard thoroto, have
leave to como before the Courts for this purpose, by
making written applications uudor oath to tlio Commis
sioner, in accordance with an Act of the General Assem
bly of the State of South Carolina, entitled "An Act to
provide a mode hy which to perpetuato testimony iu re
lation to deeds, wills, choses in action, and other papers
aud rccor?U destroyed or lost during the recent war,"
en'icteil on tho twenty-flrst day of Deromber, A. 17a
Uno Tboueand Eight Hundred and Sixty-five.
B. 8T0KE8, O. E. O. D.
Commissioner's Office, Oolleton District, April 9,18?S6
April 1C_th?*mo
OW HALL'S VEGETABLE 8ICILIAN HAH*
RENE WER has proved itself to be tho most perfect pre
paration for the bair ovor offered to the publie.
It 1B a vegetable compound, aud contains no Injurious
properties whatever.
IT WILL RESTORE GRAY HAIR TO ITS ORIGINAL.
COLOR
It will keep the bair from falling out.
It oloansea the scalp and makes the hair soft, lu*.
trous, and silken.
It is a splendid hair dressing.
No person, old or young, should fail to use It.
IT IS RECOMMENDED AND USED BY T??H FIRST
MEDICAL AUTHORITY.
OW Ask for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Bene,wet.
rod take no other. R. P. HALL k CO.
Nashua, N. H.. Proprietors?.
For sale by all Druggists. Wholesale by
KING & CASSIDEY,
Marchi thly* Charleston. 8. a
OW GIFT ENTERPRISES! ! I-TO ANY ONE
-.cqualnted with tbe enormous un fits made Irom the
isle of WATCHE8, JEWELRY AND FANCY GOOD8
Konorally, it cannot be denied that Gift Enterprises can
be honorably conducted, givlogto bilyera the full worth
af their money, and at tlio ?amo timo affordln? the seller
?1 fair profit. A firm long in trado and moBt respectably
sonnected, havereBolved to offor tnolr entire ?took for
?ale on the popular pla? of one prloe per article, con
luctlng the concern (which Is duly licensed according
to law- on the mont fair and liberal basis, BO that every
?ne patronising cannot fail to obtain f uliy the worth of
tho money invested, while i*" in a certain number will
liave a hundred-fold return. That thoy may not bo ao*
: lined of deception, they propose aendln-f a sample worth
5:1. with circular tree, to auy ouo who may wish to test
the legitimacy of tho concern. Ti:IIB you see it costa
1 ou nuthing to mako the trial, while It may bring you a
tiandsome present; try It ! Send your address to Box
1788, Post?nico, New York city. ??? May 11
CHIEF QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE,)
Dlll'AllTMKNT HotirU CAIIOLI.W.?.. J
Charl??to.1 8. 0., May 16, 18C?. )
SEALED PROPOSAL*? WILL BE RECEIVED AT THIS
Ofltce until 1. o'clock, M., on Tuesday, the 5th day
if June. I860, at which time they win be opone?*, for
furnishing tho Quartermaster's Department in this City
?flth OAK AND PINE WOOD, uutll January 1st, 1807.
Deliveries to be made 01 South Commercial Wharf, a
inch tlo.es, at?d In aaou quantities, as may be required
?y the Depot Quartermaster.
The quantity r< quired monthly will probibly be abon
3no Hundred Cords of Oak, md One Hundred and Fifty
3ords of Pine.
Bidders ?rill state the price por cord of the kind o
Wood that they proposo to furnish.
Two good sureties In tho sam of One Thousand Do
ara ?aon, to bo named In the bid. will be required for
?ha faithful performance of the contract.
Bids deemed unreasonable will btr rejected.
Proposals must be add ret isca to the ut tioriigned, and
narked, "Proposals for Furnishing Wood/'
0. W. THOMAR.
Brevet Lieut. Col. aad Ouiof Quart/wmaster, '
May li ia