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th '?' aaa i^?iiEgl? COLUMBIA. * j ../Thursday Morning, April 19, U*??;jj Oircct Trade. . ' r J The New York SotdXern i?cchavge observes, witto satisfaction that -Con? gress lias boen invited to-*sst*t itt the. es'tabKslm*?nt of f^ue-Atlajptic line of stea??ei? b??w^H^a^*?o> and Liverpool. .Tho ?Sjjc?jjtj? .tte pro.-^ motera IrP^?^^^'1^^^*^^ of mair st??^i? between ther RoutlV ov?.. Skates.and.?senfclBritnrib JUHL 1 a^sd to pro ?m^?n?gns??s. FIHT thist pmposc, they ^sol??t a subsidy "A^am Congresa, an^^* return gnsiar?tee to b ling ont t?-tbs Southern States 5^00 emigrants. able-boftieVT laborers and* irtee?ianics, tw^ttuflllyr The preposition is ainoat iiupor? f tant one, riot merely as if regards tho the int?res?a?f "the Southern St?ke?, but ali? in ? nafion-al' point of view. Every Ane acquainted "wifh^the risa and 4wogres? of trade and commerce is aware thai much depends up.>n. rapid ?nttS?ertam postal eonununica tioji, Hitherto ail mercantile ad vk-rs passing between the commercial cities of the ^Southern- -j?ta-tes and France ;md England had lo be sent via New York or B&ston, and there was in the generality pf instances a great lusa of thn?, and in peculiar seasons a heavy loss in ft financial poi u t of view. A linetjf powerful steamers, snch as the celebrated "Inman Line plying be? tween " New York and the port of Liverpool, could, in ordinary wea "tuer, make the mu from j>ort to pori in ten to twelve days, but ?1 present Liverpool letters do not reach Charles? ton nnder sixteen day?, l t is, there? fore, evident that in point of celerity the project before Congress would be . -of great advantage to our Southern fellow-citizens. By its means, they could obtain their European corres? pondence with greater regularity aud pi'omptitnde, be thoroughly posted on the movements pf cotton and other Southern productions, and pre pared to take advantage of a rising or hold back from a falling market in Liverpool, ?Ianches??7 or London, without being obliged to obtain their intelligence second-hand from New York. The next advantage which the pro? posed line of mail steamers from Charleston to Liverpool would confer upon the Southern States, is the pro? posal to bring out not less than 5,000 able-bodied laborers and mechanics from Great Britain annually. At present, the great drawback to the _South is the wa.it of labor, agricul? tural and artizan. The experiment <?f depending upon the colored popu? lation now set free, has not, as yet, proved a success, and we fear, from the peculiar and distinctive features which predominate in the physical and intellectual organization of the negro, that it will continue so. Iu deed, any one who peruses with an unprejudiced mind the recent, able, argumentative and eloquent letter of Dr. J. O. Nott, of Mobile, to (?eu. Howard, President of the Freedmen's Bureau, cannot have the shadow of a itoubt upon the subject. An extract or two from that, masterly communi? cation will not be ont of place. Dr. Nott says: "In my professional rounds every day, T hear complaints that the negro Avili not work at any price. They are huddled together in shanties around the town, stealing, burning fences For fuel, dying of dis? ease and want, and yet you cannot get a cook or washwoman at ?20 a month." This habit of idleness, the doctor shows, Ls a characteristic of the colored race, and cites the case of the Haytiens in proof of his position. He says: "Can there be found in his? tory anything more positive than the utter failure of the negro race in Hayti? There the negro was left in full "possession of ono of tho finest islands in the world, having a tropi? cal climate well suited to his nature. At the time the whites were expelled, ?heir successors were left with every thing-H-people could ask for attaining a position among the civilized na? tions of the earth. A large portion of the population were educated; the system of agri culture was wdl developed;they pos sessed a large import and expor trade; many ol' them had been drillet > to commercial avocations, to the me ehanic and other useful arts; am what has been tlie result? If a sicl man waubs a little sugar in tin island, which once produced more p this article than any other equal ter ritory in Christendom, be is nos obhge?tto se*d t0A?w4ggbt Jp chase it as he wo*^t toeoliemc. . <A^|ri-I (.minn-. .cw?u*uw?yv, ri-ierHiuTv:, ???-v'? C \*w -arid~ctt-de>-, ti<tt>re' gftnef 1 assured a few..years ago hy A?mhr?? David Porter, thai bc, on\Otf?f oecu Rion, saw negroes Netingabd e?tt&fj? Donrintefan p3?n?f*s by ihr way-aide iu Haytfc" If only ono-haif of th it? pietiiro be Htcra?ly correct* it -would. ;!>. futile io exp<*ct 'that the piautar tio?sin the'Southern Stafas *<rill ever be propcidy cultivated, by the coi?red population, now that they nre^set afc liberty i??'accQrdauce with tho p,irrcnd> ed turnia pf the- Constitii?on: 'That Ods is ?- ^?nerirl feeling, among the Southern pUnters,' who know thc nmruieTsj. hirbitiv" customs J?ud* pr?br ?.pensities of the iiogio .raet\ is t^T ileucedivy the "fact, of theil' anxiety to induce tho unemployed lahor-ef'tho North to gp. South, and the- liberal inducements which they bold out to able-hodie?! and healthy agricultural istsand mechanics. * -If, then, the proposed line of mail communication between^he Southern States *an?l Europe could ojfeet no Other good than inducing a healthy emigration . from tho over-crowded , cities and towns of the United King? dom, who would find constant and well remunerated employment on arrival South iu developing-the rieh and "inexhaustible agricultural re? sources of that portion of the United Slates, the cost in a few yours would bo repaid i?ore than ton fold. Ir would convince the" citizens of the late slave States that neither Congress uer the national Executive were dis? posed to trent thom as a .subjugated neople or their part of the country as conquered provinces. . Tlie Civil Uiglits mu. Th? following is an exti nct from the speech ol' Senator Saulsbury. ol Delaware, made in the Senate, a few days since: " I rise to say, sir, that, in my judg? ment, the passage of this bill is an inauguration of revolution. It i> well, sir, that the American peopl? should take warning and set theil bouse in order, for it is impossibh that, the people will patiently submit to it. Heaven knows that we have had enough of bloodshed, enough o moaning in every household. The? are too many new-made graves ^oi any oue to wish to see more. Attempt to execute this law within any Stat) of this Union, and, in my judgment this country will again be plunge? into all the horrors of civil war. Ii my own State, an humble State ii point of numbers, but a State of gal laut sons, your law will nover bo ob served by the judiciary of that State most of them of tho Republican party. There is not, I say, a Repub lican judge, we never had a judge, si dead to tho teachings of the gr?a luminaries ?if the law, as to attenrp to enforce snell a flagrantly uncoil stitntionaJ law or act a.s this. I sha! not again enter upon the constitu tionality or unconstitutionality of th act. But, sir, if it be not grossly palpably, flagrantly unconstitutional then iivo-and-twenty years of some what diligent study of tho law bav availed me nothing. In conclusion Mr. Sanlsbury predicted that tb passage of this bill would lead t bloodshed, war and disunion." , Tho civil rights bill having beeoni a law, it wns but a proper t i ii ?ute t Congress that, in t ho presence of tim body, Cuflee should, without delay show that he regards himself as some what better than his radical friend.4 The New York Herald states: During the proceedings in th Senate Chamber, on Thursday, who the enlogimns on the late Senat? Foote wore being pronounced, pompous negro entered the dipl< matie gallery and took a seat, in tit mitist of tho foreign representative; Ho had evidently studied tho civ rights bill carefully, and thought tin a negro was as good as au auibass; dor from any of the foreign court He was in presence of thc radio Senators who voted for the passa}, of the bill over the President's veb and very naturally concluded that ll rights were equal to those of any roi on the floor of the Senate or in tl gallery set apart for the foreign r presentatives. Now, although th colored person was prevailed upon retire, niter some effort on the part the doorkeeper, because he happen? t?> g??t into the wrong place, it is?pi? tionable whether, under the proi sions of the civil rights bill, be w not justified in concluding tlint '. had the same privilege to sit in t gallory as anybody ?'lse. If he f into a mistake in this matter he or shared in the error commit ted hy t radical Congress when they voted i an equality which is obnoxious tot great mass of the people, and ne> eau be recognized, though athousa laws were passed to make it legal. < ? > Halifax advices of thc 17th in state that tho city physicians on ! emigrant ship England concur pronouncing the disease. " As:? cholera. No ease has occurred time the cabin passengers. 'Wileri thc irfliinlcudttte Butler was ; "C^nimaijdan^, and Goveroor" of Virginia rttut?*ortii Carolina, a-Noiv folk pnp?3r-(TO?*.0.'U Do?iinion^ states *bfrt, bj m military ordes, (No. i>0,) he ?jtahKshed a 'freedmen's Savings Balik," for tho "sofe-l'eeping''* of the funds of tho negro soldiers who cu? tistad iu^HS deportment. In that de? partment, it is said ihat 10,000 ne? groes" erdisted, and of the bounty morrey of each of these, "wards pf tiie uatiion',*'0OD was reserved forde posrt inTiutJer's savings banks. Tlie agent for tlie management of this* bank "was appointed by Butler, and' soon after the hero ot Big Bethel was rern?i?d,*the .agent of -the bank moeedj'.and" the Old Dominion says that from "that day to ibis there have leen doiibts aa to whore the money which had been d<?>asited in Iiis care, as pr?sidant or military ma? nager of the 'Savings Bank," could be found." . There are hundreds of unfortunate freedmen wandering up and down in a vain and most disheartening search for Butler's fugacious **Swvings Bank." Haggard and destitute freed? men besiege the lawyers' offices in Norfolk in search of in formation about "Massa Butler's bank," and "refuse to be eornforted. because it is not." The bank is as hard to overtake as a jack-o lantern in the muddiest jun gio-of the Dismal Swamp. Catlee is confidently assured that the "bank" is assuredly at a certain place, but when bp gets there with his dilapi? dated "certificate of 'deposit^" "Why, bress de Lord, de cussed bank am gone flem dav." One day the sabin depositors? are told that the Savings Bank has been swallowed whole by the "Bureau ot Refugees at Washington," and the nest day tlie report is denounced a* false. The Norfolk lawyers, who have been in bot chase attertbis bank for months, are despondent as tc ever buding it; and if all the othei "Savings Banks ' which have been establishes for the '?'sxife-lreejiiny''' o] the money o? the negroes, ure as ban] to overtake as Butler's jack o-lantem. we should regard them as not ver\ trustworthy institutions. .lohn Ra?nolph is said upon oin occasion to have visited a race cours? near the city of New Volk. A tlashy looking stranger offered to bet bin $500 upon Ibo result of the lace, and introducing bis companion, .said "Mr. Randolph, my friend here Squire Tompkins, will hold th? stakes." "But, sir," squeaked th? orator of Roanoke, "who will bole Squire Tompkins after I ."ive him un money?" Win-never unknown Northern ad venturers establish Savings Banks foi the "safe-keeping" of the money o the freedmen, the poor creature! would do well to lake counsel of thei: best friends their late masters- un? devise means for .'holding ' Un "Savings Bank officers." It is a disgrace to the nation tba the emancipated slaves should bi thus defrauded; but it is gratify ?ni to reflect that the people of theSoutl have, in no instance, been parties t< the gigantic swindles of which Un freedmen are being made the victims Northern adventurers have a mono poly of this noble ami philanthropy business. Why does not Hie Freed men's Bureau protect the negroe from this class of "friends of tie freedmen V"- -Richmond Times. RENTS rs N*RW YOUK. The Time represents the New York landlords t< be in agitation about their incomes Kents have conn- down, ami house ire to let. People have gone out o town or taken rooms. They canno pay half their incomes in rent. Th Fact is, trade has become stagna:.} business depressed, ami profits great ly reduced. Salaries ami wages mus fall. The juice ol living has d< .lined consid?rai , and rents nun follow. This city may ns well tak warning. Business cannot possibl lie conduct eil a: tlie rents of the pie ?ix months. They have been re?lu?-e somewhat, and they must lu- red in v dill further. -? . ?. Private advice ; fr??111 tile < Seller: fjonfeivnee. n??w in cssion in NC Orleans, announces IJev. 1 >r. Wu M. Wightman as most prominent) spoken ol' for the Rpiscopa?-y. I > Wightman isa native < liarb-sl?uiiai for man y years tho leading minist? iud ino- l eloquent lueiubel of ? I South Carolina Conference Pres ilen! of Wolf,,rd College, whence I removed tn Alabama to preside nv? its university. Ile would nobly li mo/ position ?d' which his deiiomin lion might invoke Iiis ai r.-planee. - - . ? A ib?spatch fr? ?rn Norfolk, dat? 17th inst , says the negroes in th pity paraded yesterday in hon?ti? the passag?' of t lie civil rights bi A difficulty oc?'urr?-d, aud one chi man was killed, and two moria) wimmln! Order was finally vest or? by the military. Advices from Liverpool, 1>\ t steamship City of N.-u York, sta that the French troops are to withdrawn from .Mexico. Trhe sdututern Pr**(H-TKe i nion, 1 -...J^?8 Worthy of especial notice that, since this peace proolaniation 'of thc President, tjie Southern press has. borne itself .with remarkable modera? tion. It is mor? mild and -more in? clined to dispassionate argument than beforo that paper appeared. Tins is quite natnral. "Wl?lo it vmsr under? stood that the writ of haln'ds corpus was suspended, and a newspaper might be-stopped at any moment a military commander of a district; or j his subaltern, might tliink proper, there was a feeling of impatience and ; chafing; of spirit, that excited the temper and stirred the impulse to bit? ter complaint and i-?aprelH?nsion...But tho Government having" relaxed its rigors-peace l>eing declared, atid: tin' haltpiis rorpns, consequently, re? stored, the editors are somewhat pa? cified, and begin to bilk quietly and argumentatively. So ft eat will lie, meekly sleeping on the hearth, until, discovering through a half-opened eye a thread upon her velvet, paw, dropped by the housewife, she rises, in great nervous excitement, and fu? riously dashes it from her. There is no uieasuiv botter calcu? lated to-do harm in a country like ours than to trammel the press. It arouses bad feeling and diminishes respect for authority,. The press is the shield of liberty, and it corrects its own errors. Mr. Jefferson's max? im, that error ceases to be dangerous when reason is left free to combat it. is very just. The press cannot go far astray to the public injury, while it is untrammelled, und thus enabled to cheek its own aberrations. We need not go into a disens-sion of the liberty of the press. The pub? lic opinion is too orthodox, the pub? lie mind too well informed on the subject, to justify anything bf the kind. Imperially is this the ease in thc South. During the whole struggle ! in the South and notwithstanding there were papers AV hieb made the 1 measures of the (Government the sub? ject of daily reprehension and ridi i onie- in uo Single instance was the liberty of thc press interrupt ??tl by I the Confederate Administration. Noi are we aware, with one exception, thal i the public indignation- led to the in j vasion of the rights of any editor. ! A body s if soldiers, passing thrungli ' Raleigh, destroyed the press of a Terj I notorious gentlemun, altogether dis ! loyal to the cause those soldiers wei? I fighting for. lt ?lill not appear thal citizens bad any part in it. lt wa> only a rash and impassioned act iv j the soldiers, who were very gallant fellows, who bad imperilled their live. iflphard-fought battles, lint, this out rag>', committed by such men mulei the impulses of the moment, wa mad?- tin- pretext for destroying tin press and materials of another news paper, of Opposite sentiments, at th< same time, in the same town. Thi: was the work of citizens; so that i may !>?> truly said that the only prcsi that was broken up and destroyed lo the citizens, sluring the war, was de shoved by w hat wei?- called " (Jnioi men." Neither the Government noi the people of the South, from the in ceptiou to the conclusion of one o the most extensive and bloody of al civil wal's, interfered with the libert* of the press Had t he < ?overumeut of the Unite? Studs ?'inuhite?l so liberal and wis?? : policy, it would never have fount ?MUSC t?> regret it. Had it, indeed proclaimed peace upon the conclu sion of tho war, and restored th States to their equality, it would bav secured immediate ami endnriii] benefits for thc whole Union, am harmonized the nation. It wouli hive restored industry, revived en teTprise, ended discord, and subdue the rancorous dispositions ??f the se? tions. lt would have at once re-organ ized th?: culture of the great staph of the South, and have diffused th rays of prosperity and joy over land where the genius <?f desolation n?v hovers in misery and gloom. Instea?l, what have we seen? Wit :ill tie- liberal dispositions of thc l'r? sident, so adverse is Congress to th; beneficent policy which charocterizt i^reat ?md magnanimous minds, tin he has been enabled to accomplie very little in the way ?H pacificatio of the nation. Congress has bo? eugagetl the whole session in franiru measures for the humiliation of tl South. Tlu ii- whole policy, as tl .%"////? 'i ??' Inff/hf/em^r justly remark has shown a '"?lesign of colonizii the South making ils Slates sat. pit's and rcilucing its people pract cally t?> subordination to the Nortl if not to the negro race itself." Sm a policy, MI far from ivstoring tl Union -o far from reviving tl hopes and industry ol tie' impove isheil South so far from revivingtl prosperity of t!i<- nation, and increa iii;1: ils powers and resources whi I'ii it liencd willi its ciiornu ?ns puhl deb: so far fr?un doing all this, h ?>nl> tended to ?lepress the spiritsai energies of the South, to deinorali and scatter its labor. t<? restrict t product ion of its sta]?les; and, wot than all, to inciense the bitter prej dices of the Northern people towar the South, and to strengthen the 1 sentiments of the Southerners, the < !<ingress Im?I been commission for evil, and deputed to make t breach between the North ami t South enduring and incurable, th could not have labored with more d?litv for tin- accomplishment these destructive ends. Ld us hope that, notwithstaudi lb?-time that is lost, tho better jiu ments of the Northern people u. prevail, und that the President mi M.i MI"m ) ii i m i i through their support, triumph in his efforts Co restore the Union to peace and ..prosperity. While Con? gress wages its war, 'there i s no peaced nu prosperity, no- growth'of i strength to the Union, no increase of resources te uieccV th? great rnacbfedne?s.oT the country; ona so continuing, nothing but_advorsifcy and ruin is in ?tore for Government and peopte. -; \ YRichnton.fi Dispatoft. Thc Military :tn?i Civil A ut iiorit ic?. We are pleased, says the Atlanta Intelliyftaacr, to see by the? following Tuxler from * Headquarters, Depart? ment of Georgia, that the military is gradually yielding to civil authority, and our courts are to take cognizance of all coxes, excepting, perhaps, iu a few special instances: HEADQUAH. K, DEPARTMENT G HOBO IA, ?AUGUSTA, GA., April fi, lSCG. (General Order No. 17. Provisions having been made by ti e Legislative authorities of the State of Georgia, by which all persons without regard lo color or former con? dition, are alike protected and secured in all their lights by the laws of the State, and the administration of them by rta officers and courts, command? ing officers of posts are hereby ordered to turn over to the proper civil authorities of thc State all persons, not soldiers, held in confinement, 01 under arrest awaiting trial, or undei bonds for their appearance before an} court or commission for crimes ol misdemeanors charged to have beer committed by them, except when committed against tho General Go vernment, to bo tried by the civi courts of the State. In future, all freedmen or others except soldiers, who-may l>e arrestee by the military authorities fm-crime or misdemeanors charged to hav< boen committed by them, excep where committed against the (.irene ral Government, and those arreste? for petit offence of which agents o tho Freedmen's Bureau may take cog nizance nuder provisions of Circula No. 4, series of IMS, Bureau of Reft gees, Freedmen and Abandone Iranda, State of Georgia, will be turn ed over to the civil authorities of th County or town in which the offene is committed, for trial liefere the civ courts of the State. Exceptions made to this order, fe trial by military commissions, will li especially directed from these nea?: quarters. By command of ?rev? Maj ( Jen. Bran lian. COTTON SEIZURES. - -Mr. ('hark O'Connor, the eminent New Yor lawyer, has given au elaborate op nibil on the seizures of cotton 1: Treasury Agent? as captured or abai iloned property, under the Acts < IStv?, and the subsequent legislatioi The property coucerned iii the de?: sion was a lot of Bit? bales of eottoi seized in Savannah, January 2G, 1ST? Air. O'Connor maintains, in a mo carefully drawn opinion, that tl Vets of Congress wert? war measure limited in their operations to the d ration of the war, anti that theWei ure was without authority. Mr, Br dy. Mr. Bvartaand JudgePierrepo concur with Mr. O'Connor in his a gu meut and conclusions, and add: "Wc are also of opinion that tl statut.- of Mandi 12, LSGSj is wi tho any authority as law, from its u having received the approval ami si nat un: of the President uutil aft the adjournment of Congress, ai that thus the whole pretended leg support of the Treasury agent sj tem fails." If, by virtue of these decisions, ; the cotton seizures since the \t should be raked up ami overhaul?: there would be something of a ni tering among the cotton vultures tl recently infested the South-west. I us have it done, by all means, and t plunderers mad?' to disgorge. Mr. O'Connor thinks that thc n ment the armies of the Confedere surrendered jieace ensued, and t nonrts must, recognize that fact, fiction could keep up a stat?: of w STRIKES. - Strikes are ocenrri everywhere. In New York, even 1 ear-.h ivers have struck, and the str airs were not running for ?eve hours, very much to tin- incon nienee <>f the people. Some of lines were suspended for awholed There have been strikes of paint and iron moulders and various ot frailes. These signs generally m great (manges in tho financial matt uf the country. Whether they gi worse ?.r better, on either turn, strikers are on band. They strike more on th?- ris?', ami against ?ess the fall. A special despatch from Washi ton to the Boston Advertiser says: "Preparations are making to 1 Ibo regular term of the United St. Circuit Court in Richmond, i month, and the trial of Jefferson vis for high treason may bc exp?* within two months." The Tennessee Legislature, I vote ?>f forty-one t<> fifteen, passed what is known as the "f ?bise bill." It disfranchises and bibi ts from holding any office all were on tim Confederate side in late struggle of the South for i pendence. The value of the foreign g? imported into New York during month of March readied 816,000, or about three times the usual am? ?lining that period. Fourteen persons on trial for son, at St Louis, have just beer lensed. Mr. McKenzie has ju*t received another fina'tfssorfmerit of French' candy, oonsist - ingurparfc-of jolly dxopii. raspberry ball?, chocolat'' cream?, almond ?nd chesnut*. pranlinos, nougat, aird lozenge? of ?il kinds. G KERN PKAS AND AsPAiiAor.-i.--Weare in? debted to Eliza Taylor for a ?mall meas ox the above vegetables. Persona wiahhtg to secure a supply, in a day br t wu, cm apply corner of Plain and Lincoln street* "Joe!?" residence. CHANT.!'. OF Nen HOV !.,>'..-By reference to mir advertising columns, it will l>c noticed that, on and after Friday next. Ute litt ti, the passenger train forX?recnvillo will leave Columbia at 7 a, m., and arrive at"7 p. m. There has been a reduction in tue through fare, and the travel by stages diminished. KNOCKED "Dows AXD BOBBKO.- It. Will be seen by an advertisement headed " Re? ward, if Required" that the mail agent plying between Columbia and Charleston was knocked down on the night of the 16th, and robbed of an iron key, which is valua? ble to him. The present proprietor eau return it through the post office without making himself known. NEW Flint. -We are pleased t" ?rat? that our old frtoud .1. C. .Tanney, "of hotel noto? riety, 8nd Alfred Tolloson, Esq., of Spar tanhurg, have fora, ed a partnership under the styles of .Fairney ?V Toltesoii aud Tolle soii A .Tanney, for the purpose of carrying on a general forwarding and commission agency, in connection with a wholesale aud retail dry Koods-and grocery establish merit-or est?bli?fir?etti?, more properly, as they have . two stores, adjacent to one another. It is really superfluous to say anything in recommendation of either of the parties, as they are known throughout the entire South-Mr. .lunney as the pro? prietor of the old Congarne Ifotel, and Mr. Tollesou as a succesafnl merchant. The ' -stores are located in the new building on the Son! h-west corner of Main and. Wash? ington streets. Mr. .Fairney will have charge of the grocery store", assisted by Mr. Win. Simons and others; while Mr. Tol leuoti will manage thc dry goods, assisted by J. C. Walker and other able clerks. We wish the new timi unbounded success, and an they have purchased their goods mostly for cash, and purpose t o sell low, it is highly probable they will meet with it. Ssw ADVERTISEMENTS. -Attention is call? eo to the following advertisements, which are published thia morning for the first time: Gen. Ames - Dry Goods at Auction. Dr. J. S. Houghton-Marriage, &c. Shiver & Beckham-Dry Gooda, Ac. Jacob Bell -Citation S. J. Freeman. C. F. Jackson-Dry Goods. C. H. Baldwin-Kerosene Oil, Ac. A. C. Davis--Self-raising Flour. J. McKenzie-Ice Cream Gardeu. J. C. Janney-Horse Stolen. Robbery-Reward, if Required. V. Cantwell-Saur Kraut, A e. Kuy A Hewetson-Notice. Changs of Schedule on G. A C. R. R. On Selfish Conntlentvo ls it not very wonderful that the radicals, who are opposing the President's re-cou? nt i m.- til m policy in Congress, should be so ?rn).id as not to see their folly, in trying to make anieudnieuts to the Constitution, and pass Acts for the perpetuation of their authority and power, when every school? boy, who can read the Constitution, does know, that the present so-called Cougress is only a bogus concern, and cannot make any constitutional Act without all the States are represented in Congress? None of the States have ever been out of the Union, or admitted by the Federal Govern? ment to be out of the Union; but even if they had been ont, the President's late proclamation has restored them to their former status in the Union, and gives to each State the right to claim, at the hands of the United States Government, all the rights and privileges of a Republican form of government, which is guaranteed to them in the Constitution. But if the eleven States, who were in a state of re? bellion, are io be governed according to the dictates of six or eight puritanical fanatical despots, who, forsooth, congre? gate ami call themselves the Congress of the United States, against thc will, and, in spite of the power of the President, and all tiie force?? at his command; and, indeed, have talked about impeaching the Presi? dent, if lie does not succumb to their fully ; if. indeed, there is not any power in the Government, nor in the people of the United States, which can cheek such a faction, then is our Government no more than a rope of sand, and onr Constitution not worth the paper it is written on. If those gentlemen, who are so anxious for the elevation of the freedmen above the whites, wish to legislate for their co? lored brethren in particular, they can easily net a few hundred, or a few thou? sand families, and colonize them, and go and live with them, where they can culti? vate their minds and prove their philan? thropy for thc race. The States that havo been heretofore pestered with them, would very cheerfully give them up for such pur? pose; but if tho colored race is to be left with their former owners, the white folks do nwt wish for the colored race to be uppermost, but would prefer the radical Congress to take them away and treat them just as good as thev please. So mot? it be. says SENEX. General Spinner, the United States Treasurer, is almost daily receiving "conscience" money from unknown sources, x'he last ease is that of an officer, who states that during the war he stole a certain sum of money from the Government, which he in? tends to return, from time to time, in instalments. His first instalment was 812.50, which was received on Saturday last. The Government ought to open a conscience receiving office at Nash? ville, Tenn., as we see it stated in the papers that it has lost about S'2,000, 000 there recently by Government swindlers.