The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, May 12, 1866, Image 2
COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, May 12, 1866.
National Barnies.
Tho rooent explosion of the Nation?
al Bank of Washington has drawn
public attention to the manner in
which these institutions are organ?
ized. This bank, it appears, was a
a public depository, and by its failure
the Government has lost $400,000,
and other depositors- all the funds
) they had committed to the reckless
speculators who had the management
of the institution.
According to tho law creating na?
tional hardes, if they do not violate
their charter, there can bo no failure
among them. That law provides that
no bank shall be permitted to issue a
greater amount of circulation than
ninety per cent, of the par value of
the Government bonds deposited with
tho Comptroller of the Treasury, nor
issue a circulation to a greater amouut
than the capital actually paid in.
Moreover, each stockholder is indi?
vidually responsible for all contracts,
debts and engagements fr> the amount
of his stock. Tho law further pro?
vides that no loan to any individual,
firm or banking house shall exceed
one-tenth of the capital actually
paid in. And still further, an?
other stringent provision declares
thatif the directors shall violate, or
knowingly permit any of its officers
or agents to violate the Act referred
to, the charter shall be forfeited, and
every such director shall be held
liable in his personal and individual
capacity for all damages that may bo
sustained by any party in consequence
of such violation. The bill further
provides that at least tliree-fourths
of the stockholders shall have resided
in the State ono year next preceding
their election as directors, and be re?
sidents of the same during their con?
tinuance in office. The Washington
Chronicle, in commenting on this
failure, says: "Every director of a
national bank takes a solemn oath
.that he will, so far as the duty de?
volves on him, d?igently and honest?
ly administer the affairs of such asso?
ciation, and will not knowingly vio?
late, or willingly permit to be vio?
lated, any of the provisions of the
law. ' That there has been open aud
gross violation of law in this caso is
evident. Ii the directors were igno?
rant of, they were criminally negli?
gent of their sworn duty. If they
knew of it, and assented to it, they
are responsible to the extent of their
means for every dollar of loss sus?
tained by depositors, stockholders, or
other persons. It is difficult to frame
more stringer*, provisions for the safe"
ty of a bauk than are found in the
national currency Act. If a bank
fails in spite of all tho safeguards
. thrown around it by law, it can only
1 bo through the grossest misxnanage
tinent or by downright fraud."
' It is clear to us, therefore, after
reading these provisions -of the law,
that whatever depositors may suffer,
or whatever penalties directors and
stockholders may be hable to, the
note-holder is perfectly safe, and if he
holds a note of such a bank which
has failed, ho has only to present it
to the comptroller of tho currency
for redemption.
The system, however, is defective
iu some way, as this failure shows.
The capital of this bank was only
$200,000, yet it is reported that a,
party in Baltimore had borrowed
from it about $500,000. Therefore,
there, must be some side-door for
fraud, and a faithless board of direc
,. tors or officer eau swindle all the de?
positors in any bank, by lending their
money to stock-gamblers or others ou
whoso profits they most probably
depend. As wo have little or no
specie for a currency, and must
have some kind of paper money, let
ns have the regular greenbacks, for
the redemption of which tho faith,
honor and resources and credit of the
Government are pledged.
No national bank in the Southern
States has yet failed, and this, we pre?
sume, is owing to tlie high charactet
of the men selected for its manage?
ment, and to tho further fact that our
people are not much given to specu?
lation or stock-gambling.
PUESIDENT JOHNSON.-It is stated
that President Johnson has, within a
day or two, signified a purpose not to
leave Washington during tho summer
for watering places or elsewhere. His
daughters, Mrs. Stovor and Mrs. Pat?
terson, will probably *pcnd the slim?
mer in Tennessee.
" ' A Foreign Review. I
Dr. Charles Mackay, in a long and
interesting article written for thc
London Fortnightly Review, entitled
1 'President Johnson and the Recon?
struction of the Union," makes a
very fair and comprehensive review
of the ?political situation of tho*
United States since the war and the
accession of Andrew Johnson to the
Presidency. His views aro those of
an educated and well-informed Eng?
lishman, and will command attention
throughout tho British Kingdom.
He seems to understand thoroughly
the character, motives and policy of
President Johnson. Speaking of the
occasion of his accession, he says "the
people were in grim, it might bc said
in savage, earnest, and they gave Mr.
Johnston au earnestness of support
never before Riven, because never lie?
fere required, in the history of the
nation. Even Washington, nt thc
acme of his glory, never received
auch spontaneous, such unqualified
and such unanimous adhesion as was
accorded to this man, who gloried in
being a 'plebian,' in what seemed
the very darkest hour of the national
fortunes. And it was because of the
very darkness, that thc least departure
from law might have intensified, that
the people gathered around the light
of legality, and saw in Mr. Johnson's
rule the best and only chance of
guidance and deliverance."
He then traces the'policy of the
President step by step, fairly and
with an evident knowledge of its in?
terests and objects, and with a pretty
clear idea of thc purposes, the hopes
and the fears of the radical party.
On the latter point, Dr. Mackay
says :
The party opposed to the Presi?
dent dread, and apparently iu good
faith, that tho reconstruction of the
Union, in the mode proposed by the
President, will leadlo three several,
and in their opinion, three enormous
evils; first, a victory for tho Demo?
cratic and State Rights party, and
the re-assumption of power by South?
ern statesmen, reinforced by the
Northern and Western Democrats;
second, the re-establishment of negro
slavery-if not in mime, in fact;
third, tho repudiation by the South,
aided by a large party in the North,
of the national debt. Rather than
one or all of these things should be,
the party that is only a majority by
the exclusion of the South, would
hold the cotton States for an indefi?
nite period as conquered dependen?
cies, and govern them by military
authority, at any cost to tho public
purse and the public liberty. Ad?
mitting to the fullest extent the ho?
nesty and sincerity of the Northern
politicians who continue to hold these
views, let us inquiro dispassionately
whether their fears have any founda?
tion in the facts or probabilities of
the ease.
In the concluding paragraph, he
pays the following high compliment
to the President's patriotism and
statesmanship. Speaking of the pros?
pect of a rent union of these States,
he says that "if such a union is to
be the result; it will bs the imperish?
able glory of President Johnson, and
his undying claim to thc gratitude! of
his country, that lie was sagacious
enough to see the right course, and
bold enough to follow it. Among all
tilt? statesmen of his age he stands
pre-eminent. There is not a public
mau in Europe, unless it be tho Em?
peror Napoleon, win? does not appear
dwarfed when placed in comparison
with him. Greater is his task than
that of Washington: brighter will be
his place in history if he perform it."
We have not room in our columns
for tho whole article which appears
in the New York News. It is one of
the fairest as well ?is ablest reviews of
"tho situation" that has yet come
from England.
Letters received in New York stat??
that bishops Stevens, of Pennsyl?
vania, and Whitehouse, of Illinois,
of the Episcopal Church, were in
Rome on the 0th ultimo, and on that
day had a private interview with tilt?
Pope of a most agreeable character.
On the following day, they had a
private audience from Cardinal Anto
nolli also.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
at Washington, having exhausted the
stock on hand, hus discontinued the
distribution of flower seeds. The
issue of vegetable and garden seeds
will be resumed in a few days, in
order to meet the great demand of
the public.
Stirling King, who confessed that
it was he who stabbed Mr. Seward,
has been released by the military
from the Louisville, jail, there being
no charges against him. He was cap?
tured nt tho sanio time with one-arm
eel Berry.
A negro at Cincinnati sued the
judge ut an election for refusing his
vote. Ho claimed $10,000 damages,
ami the jury gave him ono cent.
/
'the crops?
GEO?GIA. -The Atlantrt Int?iUigencer
says:
' 'The cotton crop will turn out to
be an exceedingly shori one, if the
half that has been reported to us be
true-which is, that most of the seed
planted has proved to bo imperfect,
the plant itself, after its appearanco
above ground, almost invariably fail?
ing to take root and sustain its growth.
This, with the experiment of free
labor, now being tried in the State,
warrants, we think, the conclusion to
which we have come, that tho cotton
crop of Georgia will be an exceedingly
small ouc."
The cotton crop in Houston is re?
ported as looking well, but badly in
need of work. The cotton ero]) is
very sony, not a half stand.
The Southern Walcliman says that
in all Counties of North-western
Georgia, the wheat crop is very pro?
mising. There is a greater breadth
of land devoted to it than usual.
In Muscogee and vicinity, corn
looks better than cotton. Wheat and
rye arc doing well.
There will be plenty of fruit.
NOKTH CAROLINA.-Wc regret to
learn that the stand of cotton in this
County, which has boen planted lon";
enough to be up, is bad. Tho weather
has boen unfavorable to a good stand,
but doubt is expressed in regard to
thc character of the seed.
[ Raleigh Sent i url.
|We hoar pretty general complaint
in this County that tho cotton seed
planted is not coming up. Many
pcrsous are replanting, but whether
they will meet with better success re?
mains to be seen. The difficulty
seems to bo that the seed have lost
their vitality in consequence of having
been kept in heaps for two or three
or four years past. We hear the
same complaints from States further
South.- Charlotte Democrat.
FLORIDA.-The Gainesville (Fla.)
JVcir Ern boars very many complaints
about the stand of cotton in that sec?
tion. Tho failure is attributed to tin
use of old seed.
?Such are tho reports from nearly
every point in the South. The ovil
will probably prove so wide-spread
that it will havA> a material effect upon
the aggregate product of tho staple.
These reports, too, we imagine, will
have tke tendency to check the de?
cline in the article.
THE EAST TENNESSEE CONVENTION.
The Convention called to consider
the propriety of organizing a separate
State Government for East Tennessee,
mot at Knoxville, on thc ?id instant,
and was presided over by ono Judge
Rogers. The Committee on Besoin
tio sand business reported an ad?
dress, which was adopted, stating
that tho scheine of separation had
long been cherished hythe people,
that there were irreconcilable differ?
ences of feeling, habits, Ac., between
tit?? Eastland Wes!, and concluding
with statistical statements of the po?
pulation, square miles and resources
of East Tennessee. A resolution ad?
vocating a postponement of the ques?
tion of secession was voted down. A
committee was appointed to bring
the question before the Legislature,
and another committee to prepare an
address to the people and Legisla?
ture.
BnoKEES.- Guided by the recent
decisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States, the Commissioner of
Internal Keveline rules that when a
broker is engaged in selling, not only
his own stocks, exchange, bullion,
coined money, bank notes and other
securities, but also in selling thom
"for others, or for a commission," ho
is '"a banker doing; business as a
broker," and is liable to a tax upon
all his sales, sides of Iiis own stocks,
kc, included; and the internal reve?
nue officers have been instructed to
proceed at once to the assessment ami
collection of such taxes upon tho
sales of brokers, and of "bankers
doing; business as brokers," as still
remain unassessed or due ami unpaid.
Quite a flutter has been created in
Mobile, in consequence of an order
received from,Washington for the ar?
rest of a prominent official in the
Treasury Agents' Department of that
city. The books and papers under
his can; have been seized upon. It is
said that frauds on the Government,
amounting to 81,000,000, have been
committed at that place. No names
are as yet divulged.
-> ? ? ?
Ex-CoNFEPEllATES. Speaking of
the scenes of bloodshed and arson in
Memphis, the Appeal says:
"Wo have reason to believe that
ex-Confederate soldiers have not been
concerned in these turbulent occur
encesof the past forty-eight hours
that they are rigidly, according to the
terms of their parole, 'observing the
laws of the place where they reside.'
These breakers of thc peace, black
and white, are not of the vicinage.'
.
THE NEORO SQUATTERS ON THE An
LiNuToN ESTATE.- The control of the
freedmen's village on the Arlington
1 estate has passed out of the hands of
the New York Tract Society into
those of the Central Committee of the
American Missionary Association,
and Kev. Daniel Miles, ot Worcester,
Massachusetts, has been appointed
superintendent. There are about
1.200 freedmen there.
. ?.
The clerk of thoFreedmen's Bureau
Court at Savannah has absconded
with the funds of the litigants.
)
AM?1;!<'AN INFI?ITENCE ABROAD.
The Lo?don correspondent of tho
New York Ifeics remarks upon the
division in American politics und the
non-restoration of tho Union's ele?
ments of weakness abroad. He says
what is too natural and logical to be
denied :
The truth is, the aspect of affairs
in your country has greatly encour?
aged the French Government. When
the Confederacy fell; when Lee sur?
rendered his sword; when the South
suddenly gave up the struggle; when
the men of the South submit?
ted to the arbitrament of war, and
submitted to the Union, it was felt in
Europe that the Imperial game in
Mexico was over, unless it was to be
sustained by the military power of
j France. Dut as it seems to Furope,
! the Union has not been restored, and
j you are still a divided people, lt is
I now a year and seven days since Pre
! sident Lincoln entered Richmond in
i triumph, and yet the South is still
1 out of the Union. I do not presume
Ito oller any opinion upon your do?
mestic affairs. It is not the pro?
vince of :i foreign correspondent to
, criticise your national policy. It may
j be that it is necessary and wise to
treat the South ?us a conquered pro?
vince It may bo that tho conflict
between the American Executive and
the dominant party in the American
? Congress is inevitable ?md healthful,
j It may be that thc exclusion ot" tho
South foi- yours is but the prelude te
a lasting Union. I have only to deal
with fact?, and it is my province to
tell you that your domestic strife,
I whether it bc inevitable or avoidable,
I whether it be for good ol' evil, weak
i ens your influence abroad. Napo
: leon is acting upon thc conviction
that you arc a divided people, and
that he eau do as he likes in Moxie??.
Had thc Southern members of Con
gross taken their places in the Capi
' toi, had an amnesty followed peace,
there would not at this moment hav?
j be en a single soldier owing allegiance
I to thc Emperor Napoleon.
Mu. JOHNSON'S FIRMNESS IS Ti:u,
i INO. lt is said thc radicals reoonsi
: dered thc vote upon the ameudmen
J to thc post office appropriation bil
\ restricting thc President's power o
i removal, because they found out thu
j he would certainly veto the wholi
? bill and let tlu; post offices be close?
I up. Mr. Poland said he would no
\ stand before his people on thu
; amendment. Speaking of this voti
j of reconsid?r?t ion, thc Xntioiuil in
j lelliyeiteer, of thc 8th, says:
. "Thc things presaged by the dis
j cussion in tin- Senate yesterday were
j that numbers of the more thoughtfu
Republicans iii Congress will no
I longer sustain the head-long polio;
' that has been thus far forced alon;
j in the channels of legislation, unde
! the leadership of Mr. Stevens. An
I particularly is it indicated that mea
? sures to abridge the usual exei
j eise by the President ol' his prerogn
I tive in respect to appointments cai
Hot bc passed over his head if Vet oct
. Nor is there longer danger, wc fe<
j persuaded, that thc most odious fe;
tures of the disunion scheme of th
Reconstruction Committee can <>1
I tain tin- requisite Constitution!
I sanction when subjected to the onie;
I of Executive disapproval. We hail th
? indication of right reason as enron
! aging to union, as going a step in tl
! direction suggested hythe enligh
cued public sentiment of L"urope, :
giving hope to th?; depressed bus
ness interests of the country, and ;
strengthening the public credit.
: is now :i favorable opportunity f<
: such constituents of Congressmen ;
I are not politicians by trade to aid ai
comfort all those who. in the \\v.
councils of the nation, are dispos*
: to act for country, and not merely
..bey the behests of violent purl
sans. "
I THE TWO SHERMANS. The Ric
mond Times concludes its commet)
on Gen. Hampton's letter with t'
I following scathing paragraph:
"To us it seems incredible th
Sherman the 'General' and Sherm;
the 'Senator'can be the children
: the same parents. How the form
i must blush at the disgrace which h
i fallen upon the family, when heron
, of the marvellous valor and prowc
exhibited by thc latter in calli
Wade Hampton au 'impudent i
bel'and a'whining cur,' Place t
j vituperative Senator face to fi
: with Wadt! Hampton, and he wot
not. for tlic fame of Grant and t
wealth of lintier? venture to call h
a 'whining cur.
RI'MOKEO DEFALCATION, The P>
I ton Tnt relier says of the Hon. Ls?
j Newton, who presides over the Aj.
cultural Bureau, and whose scient
attainments are well known :
"It is charged that Commissio
Newton, of tho Agricultural Deni
nient, luis boen guilty of fraud,
misappropriation of public money
1 keeping fictitious names on the p
j rolls of his Bureau, and putting
money paid ont for them into his i
pocket; of renting needless buildi
nt Government expense and for
I own bein tit."'
/
Four of thi' negroes who corni
ted burglary and other outrages
Mr. Scott's, near Dee)) Gully, N
j bern, N. C., have been convicted
. sentenced to be hiing.
h
Severe but .Tust.
Thc Richmond Times is responsible
for the following: "Tho editor of the
National Intelligencer is greatly to be
envied. Ho has a complete file of the
Washington Chronicle, in the columns
of which the 'dead didapper' has been
turning summersaults once a week for
five years. During the last hall
decade, Forney has daubed with
praise and bespattered with mud
every prominent politician and lead?
ing measure. With this terrible
record of his innumerable apostacief
at his elbow, tho editor of tue Intel?
ligencer is enabled to impale the 'dead
duck' at least three times a week. Il
ho quacks forth his abuse of nm
distinguished personage, it is simply
necessary to turn to the Chronicle tc
find the most fulsome and sycophan?
tic flattery of that very person bj
Forney. If he denounces any pub?
lic measure, straightway the Intelli
gencer re-produces from the editorial
columns (d' the Chronicle the mosl
violent advocacy of that very mea?
sure.
"Providence having wisely provid?
ed every animal with an epidermis
sufficiently thick to protect its owner,
Forney is, of course, protected like ;
crocodile, with a skin of uncommon
thickness. Occasionally, however,
the harpoon of the intelligencer h
driven so very deep that ho rises tc
the surface and 'spouts blood.'
"For months past the 'dead ?luck
luis clamored for the trial, conviction
and execution of Mr. Jefferson Davis.
The desire of Forney for the death ol
Mr. Davisdates, it is said, from the re?
furnishing of the illustrious prisoner'.'
wardrobe last winter, as the wearing
apparel of tin; victim is always th?
perquisite of tin- hangsman, and m
species of plunder comes amiss witt
Forney, tn the midst of his hoarse,
red-mouthed yells for th?; blood ol
Mr. Davis, the Intelligencer reproduc
ed an editorial of Forney's highh
eulogistic ol'Mr. Davis, which artich
was written after th?; first battle o
Dull Run. This (rentre shot was mon
than even the 'dead didapper' coule
stand, and his efforts to wriggle out
of the difficulty are intensely funny
His admiration for the late Presiden:
of tin- Con federate States was attri
butable, no doubt, to tho proximity
of the Confederate forces to Wash
ington. Had the fortunes (d' wa
placed the Federal capital in tin
hands of the Confederates, everybody
knows perfectly well that in tel
minutes after the fall of thecity For
ney would have crawled to the Whit
House and humbly sought the pos
of organ grinder to th?! very man fo
whose blood lui is now so clamour
ons. If published in Salt Lake City
the ('?ironide would advocate poly",
amy. and if in the Fejee Islands i
would stoutly recommend cannibal
ism.
THE FREEDMEN'S COURTS DECTDEI
TO ni: TRESPASSERS. Judge Trigg, c
the United States District Court v
Memphis, has pronounced a decisio
in the case of an application for a
injunction against the execution b
General Rankle, Superintendent ?
tin- Freedmen's Bureau, of a jude
nient rendered by (ieneral Runkle i
favor of a freedman, according t
which it is held that, these Purea
Courts are trespassers, and liable t
be proceeded against by the courts (
the State as other trespassers.
Judge Trigg decides that th
Freedmen's Bureau Courts could oui
exercise authority under military lav
."If." says he, "these courts coul
exercise any legitimate authority, i
claim for their judgment or deere?
any binding effect or efficiency, thc
could only do so by virtue of the
connection with the military powe
* The recent proclamation <
the President of the United State
declaring that an insurrection 1
longer exists, is a declaration i
peace, which sweeps from among 1
everything which savors of militai
constraint upon the rights of citizen
and restores to them the ordinary ai
peaceful channels for tho assert?
and enforcement of those rights. *
The war being ended, that is an ci
t(> the court, and there being i
longer any such court, the officer
the Bureau has no longer authori
to act in that capacity, and to enfor
judgment or orders, whether ma
before or since the declaration
peace. If he does so, and under th
pretext seize the property of a ci
zen, he will become a trespasser, ai
may be held liable to damages to t
party injured."
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METHODIST CHURCH SOUTH.-T
General Con fen-nee of the Episcoj
Methodist Church, in its session
yesterday, adopted the proposed 1
representation in their animal a
general conferences, allowing
lay delegates from each district ci
ference in the annual conference
and four for every twenty-eight i
lusters from each annual conferer
in the general conference. Thisp
vision, like all the leading measu
j of reform made by this body, nv
be ratified by the annualconferenc
I New Orleans Picayune, 3</
Tn the Court of Admiralty, Li
don, on the 24th of Apill, il was
creed that the steamer Cam?l?on,
late nd a-I cruiser Tallahassee, ly
at Liverpool, l>e delivered up to
United States Government. The
leged owner did not oppose, and 1
condemned in costs.
Mr. Janies li. Slay ton, of Cha
nooga, publishes Colonel Wade, c<
mandant <>f the negro garrison
that place, ns unworthy the notice
! a gentleman.
Local Items.
Mortgages and Conveyances of lteal Es?
bato for sale at this office.
LKOAA..- lu the Court of Errors, yester?
day, the causes involving the constitu? loc?
ality of the Stay Law wa? again taken np.
Mr. Harlee concluded his argument. Mr.
Spain was heard in reply.
THE BOBOTNO OK COLUMBIA. -An inter
eating account ot the "Rack and Dentine
tion of tho City of Columbia, S. C.," ha.?
just been issued, in pamphlet form, from
the Plum ix. steam power press. Order?
can be till<:d to any extent.
BOOK AND Jon PRINTINO. - The Phoenix
office is now fully supplied with cards,
colored and white paper, colored ink, wood
type, etc., and is now in condition to exe?
cute all manner of book and job printing
in the shortest possible time. Give tts a
call.
THE CONCERT. -It will be seen by adver?
tisement that the concert for the aid of
building the Washington street Methodist
Church will be Riven at the ball of Nicker
son's Hotel, on Monday evening next. Tho
programme of the performance will hu
given in to-morrow's paper.
Rey. C. H. Pritchard will preach in tho
Marion Street Church, this morning, at ll
o'clock, and this evening at early candle?
light.
The Third Quarterly Conference for the
Marion Street ('burch will be held immedi
! alejy after th? morning service, and the
Conference for tho Washington Street
Church will lu- held at 4 o'clock at the
office of lt. Bryce, Ea?j.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is call?
ed to the following advertisements, winch
are published this morning for the first
time:
T. J. Gibson Cow Pea?.
Hardy Solomon -Mountain butter.
J. C. Seegers-Sundries.
John McKenzie French Confectionary.
Washington Street Church- -Concert. '
A public meeting was held in Lou?
don on the 24th of April, under the
auspices of the Duke of Argyle, Mr.
John Bright, and others of lesser
note, for the inauguration of "The
National Freedmen's Aid Union of
Great Britain." The object of the
society is the making of "extended
efforts in Great Britain to aid the
freedmen of America." If it is the
purpose of these gentlemen to extend
material aid, and not morai, to the
freedmen; to send them money and
farming utensils, and clothing, rather
than tracts and missionaries, then
they have our most earnest wishes
for their success. Nothing could so
commend these professional philan
throphists to us as real, earnest efforts
on their part to relieve the unfortu?
nate white people of the South from
thc crushing burden of negro pauper?
ism which tin; war has thrown upon
them. But we very much fear that
this forms no part of their plan; that,
on the contrary, it is their purpose to
help Mr. Thad. Stevens and his fol?
lowers to fasten the burden, for all
time, upon the industry of the South?
ern white.-New York News.
CAMPBELXI'S FORTE.-Those who
have read Campbell's "Battle of Ho?
henlinden" will be amused with the
following :
A gentleman in Scotland preserved
an old number of the Greenock Ad?
vertiser, containing the following an?
nouncement:
"Notice to Correspondent?.-T. C.
The lines commencing 'Ou Linden
when the sun was low,' are not up to
our standard. Poetry is evidently
not T. C's forte."
A business finn in Memphis re?
cently detected a thief quite adroitly.
They had missed money from the till
for some days? amounting to $350,
but could not detect the guilty party.
The cashier, a few nights since,
emptied into the draw a cup filled
with nitrate of silver. The thief
went to the till to make his evening's
capital, and in abstracting the money
covered his hands with the nitrate,
which he was unable to get oft". An.
examination of his paws in the morn?
ing proved the fan.e paws, or thief's,
and the guilty party was arrested.
The General Government intends
to build a largo and commodious
naval hospital on the grounds occu?
pied by the Naval Asylum, PhiladeL *
phia. The building is to be 309/feet
long by 03 feet in depth in centre,
and 27 feet in depth on the \*ings.
The structure is to be of Connecticut
brown stone, hammered stoneJ from
the Delaware County (piarrie? and
pressed brick. r
Gen. Stonenian's carriage iiorses
van away in Memphis the otheV day,
and running into a bayou, they Were
both, together with the driver,
drowned. Stoneman was not in ^ho
carriage at the time.
lt is rumored that Mrs. Stover.
President Johnson's daughter, &
shortly to be married to the Hon.
Edwaid Cooper, member of Congress
from Tennessee.
Gen. Rosencrauz's name was not in
the list of recent promotion; the
quarrel between Grant and Stan toi
and himself is said to be deep and
bitter.
Judge Frazier, United States Judge
in Florida, hus decided the lawyers'
test oath unconstitutional.
At the New Orleans races, on tho
; 3d, Nebraska, over-heated, dropped
i dead after the second heat.