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From the Southern Cultivator. WHAT A-Y OLD JLLY WOrLD DO IF HE WERE XOW YOl AG. - lie would marry a clever, respectable, good-looking, iutelligent, healthy, well- connected younjr woman, and love her and serve her with ihe utmost fidelity, as long as his life should continue her to him aa wife. If any fool does not un derstand the sense and duty and plea sure of this upon the naked suggestion, he would not understand the argument in support of it, and I therefor preter mit it. He would try, in an humble, modest way, to do the "will of God ; and in his relations to all men, lovingly to "work righteousness." Jle would, by some honest means for cash or on credit by purchase, gift, or inheritance, own a "tract" of laud in middle Georgia, or three quarter sec tions in Alabama not less than two hundred acres, nor more than two hun dred and forty. Here he would fix his earthly home for the whole term of his natural life, and having plain, substantial houses, and commodious out-houses and shelters, with one hundred and fifty acres of open l.ind, besides orchards, garden patches, lots, &c. he would beg-in to cultivate his farm. This farm he would divide into three equal fields, of fifty acres each, and era ploy eight hands, and give them four good mules, and a yoke of oxen to cul tivate it with. He would plant one thousand walnut trees. Twenty or thirty years hence, their yield of nuts and timber, would be worth a large sum. He would plant five acres in hg trees, and learn how to dry, preserve and pack the fis?s into boxes for market. After a few years the proceeds would be a proht of a thousand dollars annually, ( Fortunes will yet be made in the pre pa ration of fig preserves and pickles at thebouth, tor JS orthern market. Ji.il. So. Cult.) r lie would plant five acres in Scupper- none1 Grape Vines. In a lew years the wine would be worth several thousand dollars annually. He would plant five acres in Sugar Cane, and manufacture his own syrup and molasses, and a little surplus. He would cultivate five acres of cab bages, with the plow, and use them in making slops for the milch cows, and to fatten hogs. With plenty ot turnips, sweet potatoes, (none are half equal to the yam,) and hay, would always se cure milk and butter in abundance. He would level his land gather all the loose rocks to the low places where the soil would wash out of his fields, and if rock was at hand, would make rock fences at those places, so that no soil should escape, and no rain water either. He would cut his ditches on a perfect level, draw the dirt on the upper side, fill up low places, use the ditches for guide rows, and to protect bottoms from inundation, and he would manure the hill-tops. He would manufacture ten tons of compost, at a cost of not more than one Of guano, or any popular superphos phate, possessing in value of the single ton of commercial manure. He would read the Bible, pray and play with his children comfort and en courage his wife be just and liheral to his laborers avoid political prejudices, ami the bitterness of party strife, and as to the corrupting, demoralizing dia bolism of religious sectarianism, he would forget that human nature is ca pable of it. He would do well to respond to the smile of God, and make his country a garden a home a temple a tower of strength ! Of beauty and of guidance too, a slar! May ages contemplate my native land ! "Winle tempests shake the warring world ajar, God shelter her, beneath His mighty hand ! The maiden flowers, within her vales, Bloom safely, far from where rude war prevails ! Warwick. The subject of registration in the Southern States was considered in Cabi net session to-day, and it was determin ed that an order should be sent to Gen. Sheridan directing him to extend the time for registering in his District, so as to enable the Registers to get the benefit of the Attorney General's opin ion, and, if need be, revise their action in accordance with that opinion before closing the registry. The Attorney General has beeu.so entirely occupied with his onerous and absorbing official tluties in the Supreme Court that he has Dot been able to devote the requisite time and labor required to consider the subject of disfranchisement under the Reconstruction acts. To complete the w uik, it uecomes necessary to examine the various statutes of the several South em States, and it is understood that Mr. Stansbery will be prepared to submit his opinion to the Cabinet on Tuesday nn-vt "II7oJ. rn'T " unit, . J I IUUIC. Movements Among Workingmen. I acts show that lust at this time the la. boring classes of all civilized nations are in a ferment, and are demanding better remuneration and shorter hours of work, In .fans alone thirty thousand tailors are on a strike ; in London eight thou sand of the same craft are demanding more wages. Scores of other trades are disorganized for the same reason, am the movement is spreading to the entire laboring community. Even the agri cultural laborers of England the most ignorant and stupid peasants on earth not excepting the plantation negroes have actually demanded enough more to give them another pot of rjorter ner day. In this country, high prices have led to very general striking, and the igut-iiuur-iaw aguauon nas resulted in riots and great industrial disorganiza tion m several oi tne western States. New York World. "While trudging along one day all alone a soldier met a Methodist cir- cuit-nder, and at once recognized him as such, but affected ignorance Preacher. "What command do you belong to?" 3 Soldier. "I belong the Texas re giment, Van Dorn's Army. What ar my do you belong to ?" Preacher (very solemnly.) I belong to the army of the Lord !" Soldier. "My friend, you've got a very long way from headquarters. Highly Important Trial of Jefferson Davis It will take place at this . Term Chief Justice Chase will Pre V side ! We have received from a most trustworthy source of communication, the following facts, which may be relied on at least such is the decision at present on the programme, and ;it will, we arc assured, not bo changed, except for grave reasons : Jefferson Davis will be tried at the pres ent term of the Circuit court, which com menced its session in this city yesterday, ei ther on the " Norfolk Indictment," or a new one to be presented by the " John Minor Botts" Grand Jury, empannellcd yesterday. L. II. Chandler, the District Attorney of the United States for this District, is now in the city of New York in consultation with Mr. Evarts, the Association Counsel, with a view to comparing notes and preparing the line of prosecution. As soon as the Supreme Court at Wash ington adjourns, which will be at an early day, Chief Justice Chase will at once take his seat on the bench of the Circuit Court at Richmond, and the trial will commence. The term of this Circuit Court will be a very long one, continuing through many weeks, and the most interesting, from the above facts, ever held. In view of these facts, it is probable the application on a writ of habeas corpus will be denied. The above is from the Richmond Exami ner. It may ho that Mr. Davis will be tried at the present term of the Court in Rich mond, but there is no certainty about it. U. S. District Court. RicnsioND, May 8. It is now understood that Chief Justice Chase will arrive here on Monday next. Mr. Chancier, tbe prosecuting attorney, has not yet arrived. TJ. S. Marshal Underwood to-day received the following writ, and leaves for Norfolk with it to-morrow: The President of the United States to Briga dier General Henry S. Burton, and to any person or persons having the custody of Jef ferson Dae is, greeting : We command you that you have the body of Jefferson Davis, by you imprisoned and detained, us it is said, together with the cause of such imprisonment and detention, by whatsoever name the said Jefferson Davis may be called or charged, before our circuit court of the United States for the district of Virginia, at the nest term thereof, at Richmond, in said district, on the 2d Mon day in May, one thousand eight hunched and sixty-seven, at the opening of the court on that clay, to do and receive what shall then and there be considered concerning the said Jefferson Davis. "Witness, Salmon P. Chase, our chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, this first clay of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. W. H. Barry, clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Virginia. Mr. Davis, when he arrives Sunday, will still be in military custody, and will not be produced in court till Monday. It is stated that he will be kept in the Libby prison, where apartments will be assigned him. Capital Punishment is Japan. The Ja panese punish murder by decapitation ; par ricide and other such heinous crimes by cru cifixion. A prisoner sentenced to death is taken to the place of execution, surrounded by the officers, and having hung around his neck a placard, giving his name, age and rank, his crimes and sentence. After his ex ecution his head is left suspended in sight for tliree days, with the placard still hang ing to it. Arson is punished by burning the criminal at the stake; yet, as enforced, "this penalty does not bring a very painful death. The criminal is first kept on a very scanty al lowance of food for sine time. Then, before being taken out for execution, he is overfed on rich and highly spiced viands, till he be comes stupid and indifferent. ITe is fasten ed to the stake and wood and light materi als are heaped high about him. These are lighted at the same moment in six different places, and the victim is smothered by the .smoke, as quickly as he could be strangled by a rope. Sanford Conover, alias Charles Dunham, who testified on the trial ot the assassination conspirators, and also before the House Judiciary Committee that Jeff. Davis, C. C. Cla-, and other ex-rebel leaders were in con sultation, while he was present, on the plan to assassinate President Lincoln, has been sentenced to State Prison for ten 3'ears. Conover was convicted ot perjury in testify ing to the above effect, his accomplices ad mitting that the evidence was manufactured for the purpose of obtaining the reward offered. The Jewish Race. The " Hebrew National," a new weekly journal, published in London, gives some in teresting statistics of the Jewish race. It says that there are now living about 6,000, 000 Israelites, about half of whom live in Europe. There are 1,300,000 in Russia; in Austria, 900,000; in Prussia, 24,000, and in all parts of Germany, 192,000 ; in France, about 42,000 ; in Syria and Asiatic Turkey, 52,000 ; in Morocco and North Africa, 610, 000; in East Asia, 500,800; in America, 2o0,000 ; in Belgium, 1,800 ; in Denmark, 0,500; in Italy, 4,500. Plantations Overflowed Trade Move mentsMr. Kelley at Memphis. Memphis, Tuesday, May 7. The greater part of the plantations "south of here on the river are overflowed, and the planters are in a starving condition. The laying up of the Vicksburgh packets, during the high stage of the water has caused the planters in the Bends to ignore them. Trade is now going to St. Louis. Wall Patton, in a fray, stabbed James Austin, a river man, last night. The wound is not serious. Hon. W. D. Kelley addressed an audience of white and black Radicals this evening at Greenlow's Opera House. The crowd 'was quite large. Old Cooper is a Dutchman, and like many another of whatever nationality, has a wife that is "some." One day the old man got into some trouble with a neighbor, which resulted in a fight. The neighbor was get ting the better of the old man, who was re sisting his antagonist bravely, when his wife broke out with : "Lie still, Cooper; if he kills you, I'll sue him for damages." Two young princes, the sons of Archduke Charles of Austria, had a warm debate in the presence of no less a person than that of the august Emperor himself. Greatly ex cited, one said to the other : " You are the greatest ass in Venice!" Highly offended at a quarrel in his presence, the Emperor in terrupted them, saying, with indignation : Come, come, young gentlemen, you forget that I am present." ' Markets. New Yobk, May 8.-Cotton heavv and quiet. Sales of 800 bales at 27. Flour firmer ; state 11.2513.50. Mixed western corn 1.351. Provisions firm and quiet aval stores heavy ; turpentine 6869 ; ros in 3.753.78. Mom 5o;goid 1.38; coupons of 1863, 7f; of 1864, fif; of 1865 5": new issue, 7; 10-40's, 99J; 7-30's, 1st series, 6f others, 5f. ' Baltimore, May 8.-Cotton dull; low middling 23; middling 23; middling upT lands 2540.26. CnflW? Flour firm and ouiet. nL , and supply hcrht: white 1 oqtm a q nrrn. Mess nork 23 ma wi,;,i , Sf BUTLER COLF1X. LECTURE AT IRVING HALL HIS RECEPTION - ' BT THE UNION LEAGUE. Last evening, at Irvimr Hall, the Hon. Schuyler Colfax delivered his celebrated lecture, "Across the Continent." The lec ture was for the benefit of the fund of the Southern Famine Relief Commission. A large number of people listened to the lec ture. After the lecture, a reception was given to Mr. Colfax bv the members of the Union League, at their club-house on Union-square. Mr. John Jay, the President of the Club, upon takingthe chair, introduced Mr. Col fax to the meeting in the following remarks: Gentlemen: The language of eulogy is tame beside the logic ot facts, and a volume of biography would fail to convey an idea of a character so definite as that embodied, in the thought that Mr. Colfax was chosen Speaker successively by the XXXVIIIth, XXXIXth, and XLth Congresses. To those Congresses, with the XXXVIIth, history will accord a glory akin to that which hal lows the memory of the Continental Con gress of our Revolution. They carried the country safely through our second war for national independence; the XXXIXth in augurated the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery, to which this Club lent its active influence, and that immortal act has now led to abolition in Brazil, and has settled the question of abolition throughout the world. The XLth Congress, crowning the work of its predecessors, has ordained a plan of reconstruction based upon the na tional and eternal principles of the Declara tion of Independence ; a plan which i3 cor dially accepted by the bravest of the South ern Generals and the most judicious of the Southern statesmen, and under that plan we trust that the Speaker may presently order the roll-call of Representatives from every State of the reunited Republic. (Applause.) Such is the grand future of our country, free and harmonious at home, and proudly re frnivlfnl im in thf rlava of "Washington, of our international obligations, that this Club confidently anticipates, in its present efforts to elevate the idea of American citizenship, to lighten the burdens of our national in dustry, and to purify and ennoble our legis lation. Gentlemen, in your name I offer to our illustrious guest, personally and official ly, our heartfelt congratulations and most cordial welcome, and I have the honor and pleasure to introduce to you Mr. Speaker Colfax. (Applause.) SPEECH OF MR. COLFAX. Mr. Colfax, on rising to respond, was greeted with cheers. He spoke as follows: It is easy, M. President and gentlemen of the Union'Leagne Club, when trebly armed with the merits of a good cause, to bear or answer the attacks of enemies; but it is always difficult to reply to the cordial greet ings and the partial language of valued friends. Faithful as I have always striven to be to principle and duty, the long contin ued confidence of my immediate constituents has been both an incentive and a reward. But when gentlemen conspicuous as your selves in this great metropolitan city, identi fied with this noble organization, on which the Government leaned in the darkest hours of trial and peril, join with them in this in dorsement. I scarcely know what words to use as a fitting acknowledgment, and can only say "would that I were worthier." Wo scarcely realize (and I must speak again of our country as in the Lecture Hall an hour ago) how rapidly and yet how gloriously we are making history; out posterity will read it on the open pages of our country's annals. Six years ago how brief it seems but a fraction of an individual's life but a breath in the life of a nation the banners of Re bellion waved over hostile armies and stolen forts from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and the onlooking world predicted the certain downfall of the Republic. Now, thanks to our gallant armies and their gal lant commanders Grant the inflexible Sherman the conqueror Sheridan the in vincible and all their fearless compatriots on sea and shore but one Hag waves over the hind the Hag that Washington loved, and that Jackson, and Scott, and Taylor adorned with their brilliant victories the flag clearer to us in all its hours of peril than when gilded by the sunshine of prosperity and fanned by the zephyrs of peace, at last triumphant, unquestioned, unassailed. Six years ago, millions of human beings born on American soil, created by the same Divine Father, destined to the same eternal here after, were subject to sale like the swine of the stye, or the beasts of the field, and our escutcheon was dimmed and dishonored by the stain of American Slavery, 1'oday, auction blocks, and manacles, and whipping posts are, (hank God, things of the past, while the slave himself has become the citizen, with the freeman's wc-nponsof protection the bal lot in his own right hand. (Applause ) Nor can we forget, while rejoicing over this happy contrast, the human agencies so po tential in its accomplishment. First and conspicuous among the rest rises before my mind the tall form of a martyred President, whose welcome step no mortal ear shall ever listen to again. Faithful to his oath, faith ful to his country, faithful to the brave arm ies his word called to the field, he never swerved a hair's breadth from his determi nation to crush this mighty rebellion, and all that give3 it aid, and comfort, and sup port. (Applause.) Unjustly und bitterly denounced by his enemies, and yours, as a usurper and despot ; compared to Nero and Caligula, and all other tyrants whose base deeds blacken the pages of history, your no ble League stood by him amid thistempest of destruction, cordially and to the end ; and 3-011 have now your abundant vindication and reward. Though the torch of slander was lit at every avenue of his public life while he lived, the civilized world would become mourners at his coffin ; and with those li belous tongues hushed, our whole land en shrines his memory to-day with the Father of the Country he saved. Again, when, in the Yevy crisis of the nation's agonies, he struck with the battle-axe of the war power against slavery, as the cause of all our woes, you stood by him, upholding his hands and strengthening him in that eventful conflict. Enemies assailed you with epithet and in vective. You were called negro-worshippers, fanatics, and Radicals. But on the stump, at the liolls, and in Congress, we all faced the issue fearlessly, and the world-accursed system went clown forever and for ever. (Applause.) No thanks to our oppo nents for this beneficent consummation. But, even our enemies being our judges, how magnificently endorsed ! Who dares now to wag his tongue against it ? Who repeats the slanders heaped upon you but yester day ? Not one not one 1 But other du ties to the country yet remained to be per formed ; and j'ou, and those who thought with you, girded your loins for the work. The XXXIXth Congress, the noblest and most patriotic body of men I have ever seen assembled at the Capitol duriug my dozen years of public service, wisely rejecting the ill-advised policy of an Executive, whose highest ambition and desire seem to have been to destroy the party that had elevated him to power, proposed a Constitutional amendment, embodying great principles, that they deemed should be imbedded irre versibly in the National Constitution as fit ting o-uaranties for loyal reconstruction. Al though indorsed overwhelmingly by the loy al States at the ballot-box, the rebel States hardening their liearts, spurned and rejected at, and scoffed at its trainers and mclorsers. And then guided, as I believe, by the sarre Providence which gave our armies victory after victory, as soon as the nation had writ ten " Liberty for all" upon our banners, Con oress enacted the Military reconstruction bills, of March. 3 and March 24, opening the ballot-boxes to the loyal, regardless ot .race or color, disfranchising for the present t he lev iers of tbe rebellion.and laying down terms, on which the 1 , 1 ltea ?y tnis ness and devotion toV nf inw bringing t,,A l. lav : ness and devotion to V of pen13 ull"B'.' s forth its legitimate frtnVyvithi an alacrity unexpected to manv.Mtfl'itkiap acq""- L rl L2T Irast ma jority in the South arciVinS itheir life long prejudices, and jJiastenrn-SO accept fhrs terms nor nprvl Tsav to VOU that haV- inrr nsirefnll v rirl linstllv elaborated these laws, havinrr nasspd them, and then repass pel them over the. inevitable veto of the Ex- MMitivo. tlm flrrcat nnrtv which has thus be come responsible for them intend to stand by them faithfully and literally, if their terms are complied with by . the renei ouuesiu good faith and without evasion. (Applause.) They would be branded with dishonor and their fame tarnished forever it tney cuu not. But it is a party whose plighted word to the neonle has never been broken, and will not be now. I regret, indeed, that Mr. Sum ner's amendment requiring provisions in tne new Constitution for universal education as a condition of Reconstruction.did not pre vail, but I hope the good sense of the South ern people will establish it voluntarily, in suring them a warmer welcome as they re turn to the Council Board. After reviewing the action of the Repub lican party, and paying a tribute to the prin ciples by which it had won its signal tri umphs, Mr. Colfax closed his speech as fol lows : " Our centennial anniversary of the De claration of Independence will find us as an entire nation recognizing the great truths of that immortal Magna Charta ; enjoying a fame wide a3 the world and eternal as the stars, with a prosperity that shall eclipse in the future all the brightest glories of the past," I At the close of his fcmarks Mr. Colfax was greeted with renewed applause. On mo tion of Mr. Legrand B. Cannon, the meeting then adjourned for the purpose ot giving the members an opportunity of being intro duce! to their distinguished guest, A colla tion was then prepared, and the festivities were prolonged till a late hour. AXDERSOXYILLE RESPONSIBILITY OF JEFF DAVIS. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser in his despatch of last Fri day says : The Judiciary Comittec has in its posses sion a letter written by a Confederate soldier on duty at the Anderson vi lie prison pen to Jefferson Davis. The letter enters at length into details of the barbarous treatment. The writer says the Federal prisoners were frequently shot, and that rebel officers were encouraging the slaughter. The writer also says he hates Yankees, was driven from his home in Louisiana by them, but stili lie can not endure a service which compels him to witness and take part in such cruelties as were purposely practised there. He wrote to Mr. Davis because he believed him to be a man of honor and a Christian, and that the terrible treatment meted out to the pris oners was certainly unauthorized by him. The soldier urged that he might be shielded from censure for writing the letter, and that President Davis should have the matter in vestigated and the abuses corrected. The endorsements show that Davis received this letter, but that his only action in the case was to refer it to General Winder, the per sor directly responsible for the whole atro cious prison svstem of the rebels. It is known that there are also in the possession of the Government two letters from a rebel surgeon at Andersonville to the Richmond authorities ; one protesting against the bar barous treatment of the Federal prisoners, and a subsequent one evidently written after he had received an answer to the first, as he then apologizes for his previous protest, say ing that when it was written he did not know that there were diplomatic reasons for the course pursued toward the prisoners, and in another place he speaks of having been ignorant of the international reasons for the treatment our prisoners received. These letters are ihe clearest evidence 3-et brought to light that the cruelties practiced upon our prisoners were deliberately resorted to by the direction of Davis' government Jo force an exchange upon their own terms. COTTOX OX THE WAT TO ENGLAND. From returns published in Liverpool in the last week of April it appears that the quantity of cotton afloat from the East India and American ports on the way to Liverpool ami Loudon is still very large. From Bombay there were at sea forty eight ships, laden with 217,490 Dales of cotton ; from Rangoon, one ship, with 3(0 bales ; from Tuticorin, one ship, with 3,262 bales ; from Calcutta, fourteen ships, with 42,856 bales ; from New Orleans, eighteen ships, with 50,184 bales ; there are also two other ships afloat, but the quantity of cotton on board is not given. From New York there are five ships, but only four cargoes are re turned, namely, 5,713 bales; from Galveston, thirteen ships afloat, but only six cargoes reported, viz: 6,033 bales; from Mobile, eight ships afloat, with 25,423 bales; from Charleston, three ships, but only one cargo, 3.091 bales reported; and from Savannah, three ships, but their cargoes not reported. These ships and their cargoes are all bound for the Mersey. The following are on the way to to the Thames : From Madras there are 21,228 bales afloat; from Calcutta, 19, 985 bales ; from Cochin China and Tuticorin' 28,547 bales, and from Bombay and Kur rachee, 6,100 bales making a total of about 500,000 bales of cotton at sea for Liverpool and London. The WnEAT Crop. The news from the country all around Atlanta, for a hundred miles or more, as to the growing wheat crop, is of the most cheering character. Not only was an unusual breadth sown, but, so far as we "can hear, from all directions, the report is it looks in the highest degree promising. If no mischief befals it, the yield will exceed that of any former crop. It has been esti mated that a crop of ten millions of bushels will be gathered from the counties ou and contiguous to the State railway. The news from the counties west and northeast of us, as yet unjustly deprived of railway facilities, is also good. If the wheat crop turns out as now ex pected it will indeed prove a great rejief by supplying food. to the needy, and by reviv ing trade. Never before, we venture to say, did a people more fervently pray for a full crop; and never before did a favorable an swer seem more certain. A day of general thanksgiving should be proclaimed, if the present expectations are realized. Atlanta ((7a.) Era. The Department of State has received in formation from the United States Consul at Lambayeque, Peru that an important dis covery has recently been made in Peru of the silk plant. Preparations are being made to cultivate it upon an extensive scale. The shrub is three or four feet in hight. The ilk is inclosed in a pod, of which each plant gives a great number, and is declared to be superior in fineness and quality, to the pro duction of the silkworm. It is a wild pereiv nial, the seed small and easily separated from the fiber. The stems ot the plant pro duce a long and very brilliant fiber superior in strength and beanty to the finest linen thread. Small quantities have been woven in the rude manner of the Indians, and the texture and brilliancy is said to be unsur passed. " Jennie," said a Puritan to his daughter, who was asking consent to accompany her urgent and favored suitor to the altar, " Jennie, it's a solemn thing to get married." "I know it, father," replied the sensible damsel, " but it is a great deal solemner not to." "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.1 Daniel Webster. How are the Mighty Fallen !" Jefferson Davis, once the President of the so-called Confederate States, will soon be placed on trial for the crime of High Trea son. Three years ago Mr. Davis wielded imperial power. Vast armies of freeborn Americans obeyed his nod, and his word was law to eight millions of people. He involv ed his country in war to secure the right to carry slavery into new regions, and to render it perpetual and predominant on this conti nent. Behold the result. The cause which Mr. Davis advocated, and maintained for years in council and on the battlefield, has ignominiously failed. The people whom he sought to continue forever in slavery, are now free; and some of these very people, once slaves, constitute a part of the jury that will try him for the crime of treason. He is about to be taken from his place of confine ment in Fortress Monroe, to be brought to Richmond for trial, and it is stated that he will be consigned to the Libby prison, the place in which so many victims of his usurped power suffered from cold and hun ger under the hand of brutal jailors. It is also a singu lar fact that John Minor Botts, who is the foreman of the jury to try Mr. Davis, was confined by Mr. Davis in this very prison for his Union sentiments. In beholding sjj.i ;i spectacle all human resentment dies. No sharper pang could be inflicted on so proud a spirit than the con sciousness that he is pitied by those whom he has ruined, and over whom he once held the tyrant's lash. To descend from great things to small, we may mention that only six months ago Jon athan Worth, the Governor, so called, of this State, deliberately suggested in his message to the Legislature that the colored people were in the way in North-Carolina, and ought to be "distributed" throughout he country. But Congress conferred upon the colored people the right of suffrage, and soon after this, Governor Worth called a meeting of this people and address ed them, urging them to vote with him. The colored people heard him patiently and respectfully, and then unanimously declared they would not vote with him. In the course of his remarks to the colored people this Governor, so-called, who was so arro gant six months before, and who had pro posed that this people should be gotten out of the State, was so reduced and so meek in his bearing that, to sustain his character, and to make good his statement that he was peculiarly their friend, he referred to one of his own servants, and told every one who was disposed to doubt his word to " ask Stephen" if what he said was not so. Verily, a great change has come over the dreams of certain people during the last six months. " How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle ! O Jerusalem, thou wast slain iu thy high places." Rents. We call the attention of property holders in this City to the just, well-conceived and well-expressed appeal made to them to-day, through the Standard, by the non-property holders. We trust this appeal will have its effect. Rents are too high. High as they arc, they might be borne with more ease and patience but for the onerous taxes all have to pay. After all, those who are best off are the prop erty holders. They can afford to make concessions to others. We know there are two sides to every question. We have considered this subject in all its bearings, and we have no hesitation in saying that the appeal of the non-property holders is reasonable and just, and that it ought to be met promptly and in a liberal spirit by the owners of property. The Sentinel alludes to the fact that we have failed to publish the statement of Mr. Anderson, Superintendent of the N. C. Rail road, giving his reasons for the discharge of Col. Dunn. We received the statement from Mr. Anderson, but declined to publish it, because it contained a grave charge affect ing Col. Dunn's personal character. We shall believe the ch arge when proved, but not before. If it should be proved, we will have no hesitation in regarding Col. Dunn as unworthy of confidence or respect. We repeat our statement that no uncon ditional Union man or Republican can obtain employment under our State corpor ations ; and that services performed for the Confederacy, and sympathy with the " lost cause" constitute with these corporations the passport to office or employment. The Western Sentinel, speaking of Gen. Sickles' order, requiring the Charleston fire companies to respect the American flag, says : " We have read of an instance where Ges ler, an Austrian satrap, set up his hat and required the Swiss to bow to it." The Western Sentinel ought to be sup pressed. Such language in relation to the flag of the country ought not to be tolera ted in District No. 2. The Atlanta Era is fighting the battle of reconstruction under the following excellent motto : " Our battle-cry is, one country, one Con stitution, one destiny, for the whole conti nent, and that the property of the country must educate the people of the country." Our friend of the New Bern BepiMican, brings good intelligence from the Eastern portion of the State. The Republican As sociation of New Bern is daily growing, and mass meetings are called in adjoining Counties. Good. Keep the ball rolling. KALEIGH. O. SATURDAY, MAY 11th, 1867. Fourth Military District. The Arkansas Legislature Dissolved. Just as we go to press wehave reoeived the information that Governor Murphy has issued a proclamation, based upon an order from General Orel, dissolving the legislative body of the State, and transferring the pub lic treasury in the hands of Colonel Page, of the Quartermaster's Department of the United States army. We have not been able to obtain a copy of the proclamation, and give the above as its substance upon infor mation. Helena (Arlanms) Clarion, May 1. We trust the same thing will be done in North-Carolina, and that if the commanding General does not take thi3 step t he Congress will. Our taxes, federal and State, are enormous. The State is now about to col lect some four or five hundred thousand dol lars out of our people, under a tax-bill pass ed by the rebel Legislature at its last session. Much of this money is not needed, even if the present rebel organization is to be con tinued. It is hard that the loyal people of this State should be ruled by rebels. We trust, at least, that the rebel Legislature of this State wilj not be allowed to re-assemble in August next. Riot in Richmond. A telegram from Richmond states that on Thursday evening last a riot occurred in that City, among the colored people and police. On Cary street a large concourse had gathered to see the trial between the fire engine companies of Richmond and one from Wilmington, Dela ware. A fight took place and a negro was arrested. So says the telegram. The negro was rescued by the police and recaptured, and again rescued. Gen. Schofield with a company of soldiers finally dispersed the rioters. Nobody was killed, but several in jured. We await further particulars by mail. Tbe American Anti-Slavery society met in New York City on Tuesday morning last. Wendell Phillips delivered two orations, and Miss Anna Dickinson, Thos. J. Durant, of La., and Col. Higginsou a'so addressed the audience. The meeting was very enthusi astic. We leam that Perrin Busbee, of this City, has been appointed by the President to a Cadctcy in the United States Naval Academyt at Annapolis. The lamented Perrin Busbee, the father of this j'oung man, was an old friend of the President. Mr. B. is a young man of intelligence, good morals and fine personal appearence, and will no donbt prove a credit to his Slate as a naval officer. Personal. We see that Brevet Major General John C. Robinson, colonel of the 43d U. S. infantry, and lately in command of the district of North-Carolina, has been as signed to the department of the Lakes, va cated by General Hooker. This places him far enough from Raleigh to satisfy our 2eo ple. Progress. We are quite satisfied, as all our loyal people are, with the officers in command here, who have succeeded Gen. Robinson, but every true man regretted to see that gallant and patriotic man leave the State. Those of "our people" who wished Gen. Robinson away, disliked him on account of his warm devotion to the gov ernment and the flag, which too many of " our people" hate. Eloquent Tribute to the Union Men of the South. On Monday night last, 6th inst., Hon. Schuyler Colfax in the course of an eloquent address, paid the following glowing tribute to the faithful men of tbe South. We copy from the N. Y. T ribune : f I regret, indeed, that Mr. Sumner's amend ment requiring provisions in the new Con stitution for universal education as a con dition of reconstruction, did not prevail ; but I hope the good sense of the Southern people will establish it voluntarily, insuring them a warmer welcome as they return t the council board. But I cannot omit to state that one of the essentials to the recon struction policy is the election of Congress men who can honestly and truthfully take the oath required by law. We would have been faithless, and worthy of the " slow, un moving finger of scorn." if this essential had not been insisted upon inflexibly. When the waves of treason swept over all that region there were a faithful few who refused to bow the knee to Baal. Branded as traitcrs to the Confederacy because they would not surrender their birthright, they never swerv ed from their allegiance. Punished by con fiscation and robbery, threatened with out rage and death, they never faltered ; and when they could no longer live peacefully at their homes, they fleer to the mountains, the caves, and the swamps, and, u Welcome confiscation, robbery, exile or death ; but we stand by the stars and stripes to the last drop ofour blood and the last beat of our hearts." (Applause.) God bless these faith ful Union men. They are to lead back these States, clad in new robes of liberty and jus- ! tice; and we should have had "Anartliema Maranthema" written on our doorsills if we had abandoned them in our hour of victory. I cannot doubt the future of the great party which has won these triumphs and establshed these principles. It has been so brilliantly successful, because it recognized liberty and justice as its cardinal principles; and be cause, scorning all prejudices and defying all opprobrium, it allied herself to the cause of the humble and the oppressed. It sought to enfranchise, not to enchain ; to elevate, not to tread down ; to protect, never to abuse. It cared for the humblest rather than for the mi'ditiest for the weakest rather than the strongest. It recognizes that the glory of States and nations was justice to the poor est and feeblest. And another secret of its wondrous strength was that it fully adopted the striking injunction of our murdered chief: ' With malice toward none, with charity for all, . but with firmness for the right, as God gives us to see the right." (Applause.) Only last , month the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, in defending his reform bill, which holds the word of pro mise to the ear to break it to the hope ex claimed : " This is a nation of classes, and must remain so." If I may be pardoned for replying, I would say : "This is a nation of freemen, and it must remain so." (Ap plause.)Faithful to the traditions of our fa thers in smpathizing with all who long for the maintenance and advancement of liberty in Mexico or England, in Ireland or Crete, and yet carefully avoiding all entangling al liances or violations of the law, with a re cognition from ocean to ocean, North and South alike, of the right of all citizens bound by the law to share in the choice of the law maker, and thus to have a voiceinthe coun try their, heart s blood must defend. The telegrams from Europe convey un welcome intelligence of the impending war between the most powerful and enlightened nations on that continent, France and Prus sia. Both are arming as rapidly as possible. The peace conference which met in London, on the 7th inst., has thus far effected nothing. War seems inevitable. Judge Kelley of Philadelphia, addressed a large audience at Memphis, Tenn., on tho mgnt oi tue vtn. lie has gone to Orleans. New The New Orleans correspondent nf Mobile Advertiser, gives the following sensil ble paragraph : I believe that I have traveled as much as any man of my age in this city, and have been in all parts of the civilized world, autf among all kinds ot people, yet I have never carried a pistol, nor found occasion for tlm use of one. But many ot our young me,, feel called upon to keep one constantly ia their pockets. -- Removal of the Mayor of Tnscumbia. Hd'q'rs. Third Military Dist. i Atlanta, Ga., April 15, 13G7. Specid Order No. 2. 1. The municipal election held atTuscum bia, Ala., on the 1st of April, 1867, being in violation of orders of the General-in-Chief 0f the army, as well as orders from these head quarters and not having been conducted ia the manner and according to the late acts of Congress, is hereby declared null and void. 2. Lemuel S. Cockburn is appointed May or of Tuscumbia, and will be obeyed and re spected accordingly. Signed JOHN POPE. Brevet Major-General commanding. jDfficdaL Gen. Sickles' Order lor Registration. Charleston, May 9. General Sickles has just issued the following: Headquarters 2d Military District. ( Charleston, S. C., May 8. f GENERAL, ORDERS, No. 18. 1. On the third Monday of July next, in obedi ence to the requirements of the act ot Congress, passed March 2&I, 1SG7, the Commanding Gen eral will proceed and cause to be made a retristra tion of the male citizens of the United States twenty-one years of age, and upwards, lesidents of North and South Carolina, not disfranchised for participation in the rebellion, or lor felony. 2. One or more boards of registration, consist ing of three discreet and qualified persons, to be approved by the commanding General, will be orjianized in each County or City, to muko and complete the reristration, superintend the elec tion to be held thereafter for delegates to a Con-' vention to frame a Constitution, ami make ret urns to him of the votes and lists ol the voters, and of the persons elected as delegates, by a plurality of the votes cast, at sncli election. 2. The Counties in North-Carolina, and geog raphical districts in South-Carolina, w ill, for tlTe purposes of registration, be di ideu into conven ient registration precincts. In each registration precinct, a board of registers will, if practicable, be organized. Several places will be designated in each registration precinct, where the board will meet, and the citizens who are eligible to registration may go and be registered. The boards of registers will remain in session two days, from sunrise to sunset, iu each place of meeting. On the adjournment of the board, a copy of the list of persons registered will be de posited in a suitable place within tbe precinct seven days, for public information. And there after, tbe board will again visit every precinct and revise the list of voters, hear objections from citizens as to any adjudication made, and register any person who may, by reason of illness or other good and sufficient "cause, fail to attend the first session of tbe board. 4. All persons appcinted to make the said reg istration of voters, and to conduct the said elec tions, will be required, before entering upon their duties, to take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the act entitled " an act to prescribe an oath of otliec," and if any person shall falsely take and subscribe such oath, or affirmation, such person so offending, and being duly convicted thereof, shall be subject to the pains, penalties and disa bilities which by law are provided for the pun ishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt per jury. 5. -Jfembers of the boards of regigtmtlmt win be allowed as compensation four dollars a day lor each day, actually and necessarily employed in the performance of their duties, and tun cents a mile for each mile traveled on duty. Officers of tbe army detailed for Mien duty will be paid the per diem and mileage allowed for attendance on courts martial. 6. Any citizen desiring to serve s a member of the board of registration may forward his appli cation to these Headquarters, addressed to Cap tain Alexander Moore, A. D. C. No application will be considered unless accompanied by a writ ten recommendation, signed by cither the Pro visional Governor of the State, a Judge of the Cir cuit or District Court of the United States, a col lector or other priucipal officer of custome or of Internal Revenue, the Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, or the commanding offi cer of the military post within which the appli cant resides, certifying tbe applicant to be a tit and proper person to receive the appointment 7. It is essential that every board of registra tion should be composed of persons of recog nized consideration and worth, fairly represent ing the population, and iu whose impartiality and capacity the body of voters in the vicinage may have just reliance. 8. The boundaries of precincts for registration in the several plaecs within the precinct where the board of registration will meet, the day or the days on which the board will meet in each precinct, and, also, such regulations as may be necessary for the government of registers and of inspectors of election iu the discharge of their dutictt and to insure the accuracy aad complete ness of the registration, will be duly published for general information. a. Post Coinnianddfrs will report without delay upon the most expedient division of the territory within their commands, into registration pre cincts having reference, when practicable, to existing laws and customs establUniutr tbe usual voting places, and taking in view the importance of affording ample facilities for registration with the least interruption of the ordinary avocations of the people. By command of Maj. Gen. D. E. Sickles : J W CL.OUS Capt. 3Sth Inf., A. D. C. and A. A. A.'g. Headquarters 2d Military District. Nokth-Cauolina and South-Carolina, ) Charleston, S. C, May 7th, 1607. y S1ECnS. 3?DER3'f Extract. I. Colonel J. V. Bomford. 8th Infantrv r Brevt. Capt. Charles Snyder, 1st Lient. 8th Infantry, and 1st Lieut. Geo. F. Price, 5th U. 8. Cavalry, are hereby constituted a military tribunal for the trial of offenders within th limits of the Post of Kaleigh, N. C, charged with violations of Par. 12 of G. O., No: 10, and Par. 10 ot G. O., No, 12, current series, from these Headquarters. 1M. l : i; i a i , j. iiv jiiTjeei-uiugs, uuuings ana seniences io uc forwarded to these Headquarters for approval. py command oi jaj. Gen. u. E. SickU-6 : J. W. CLOUS, Capt. 38th Infantry, A. D. C. and A. A. A. G. 21 tf. Office Department Quartermaster. 1 Charleston, S. C, May 7, 1867. J S1SALKJJ FKOrOSALS WILL BE KEUEIVLD nt this office until 12 o'clock. M.. on Satur day, 20th inst., at which time they will be opened, lor larnisiiing a permanent iron fencing lor the ruationai Lemetertes at Wilmington, Newbern, and Raleigh, N. C. Proposals will state price per linear loot. The dimensions to be as follows : Height of iron posts above base, five and a-balf (i) teet. Diameter of the same, one und a- quarter (1X) inches, (square.) Height of stone base for the frame, two and a-hulf (2yQ teet, six (6) inches above ground. Thickness of stone base for the saute one and a-ha)f (IK) feet. Up per rails ot iron, two (a) lect, by tive-eightn () of an inch. Lower rail of iron, two (2i feet, by five-eighths () of an inch. Upright palings or spears, five (5) feet long, of three-quarter () inch ronnd iron. Sketches of the above can bo seen at the offices of Lieut- J. W. Means, A. A. Q. M., Wilmington, N. C; Lieut. Bishop Aldricli, Depot Quartermas ter, New Berne, and Lieut. G. V. S. Aiken, A. A. Q. M., Raleigh, N. C, and at this office. J. D. STUBBS, Brevt. Lieut. Colonel and Asst. Qr. Mr. In charge Ccmcterial Operations State of North Carolina. 21 Uitoi. New Advertisements. Republican Meeting. There will be a Meeting at Bockhorn Church, on the second Saturday in Jane. People al both races are invited to attend. May 11, 1867. 21 td. TEN BRICKLAYERS WANTEO. L To whom I will pay each from $3 50 to 5 w PCr day THOMAS LEW IS, Washington, D. C. May 11, 1867. 20-3tpd. Progress insert three times, and send bill to Mr. Lewis. CORN FOR SALE. 2r BARRELS OF CORN FOR SALE. AP 'Plyt JAMES BUCK. Raleigh, May 8,. 186X ai-8" f C r ' f t Pn c Ml ' v 51 if i ir I:' 11 i 1 ' I1 (V- ft t.f (J: If- j -