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Dons ro order.
a; JOHN HaRTE'
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(Signed TAkDT A W LUAjfc.
eetu—Hr
CANDIDATES I'OK OFFICE
{CP* TO THE VOTERS
. OF THE
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
COMPRISING
THE COUNTIES OF ME KLENBURG, LU
NENBURG. CHARLOTTE. PRINCE ED
WARD. NOTTOWAY BUCKINGHAM,
CUMBERLAND. AMELIA, POWHATAN,
CHESTERFIELD, FLUVANNA, APPO
MATTOX. AMHERST AND NELSON:
I respectfullv announce my sell a candidate _to
represent the fourth Congressional District ol A ir
ginia in the next Congress of the United States.
iqS|—RO. RID(»H At.
ICTTO-the VOTERS
OF THE
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTR.CT,
COMPOSED OF
rHE COUNTIES 0* ORAN IE, CULPEPER,
Rappahannock. Stafford. Spotsyl
vania, LOUISA, HANOVER. GOOCHLAND,
HENRICO AND THE CI1Y OF RICHMOND:
We are sothorlzed to announce RENJAMIN
rOHNSON BARBOUR as a Candidate to repre
*nt the Third Congressional District of Virginia
n the next Congress of the United States,
an 36—td __
xy TO THE VOTERS OF THE FIRST
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. COMPOSED
OF THE COUNTIES OF ACC OMAC. NORTH
UMBERLAND. ESSEX. NORTHAMPTON,
WESTMORELAND. RICHMOND. LANC AS
TER. MIDDLESEX. KING AND QUEEN,
KING WILLIAM. NEW KENT. GLOUCES
TER. MATHEWS. YORK. JAMES CITY.
CHARLES C IT Y, WAR Wl< K. K I N 0
GEORGE, CAROLINE.—] respectfully an
nounce myself a candidate to represent the First
Coogressiona! District in the Congress of the Uni
ted Sates. RO. MAYO, Js.
an 17—tde___
tyro THE VOTERS OF THE TWENTY
THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT, com
posed of the counties of Appomattox, Campbell
ana inarioi e in mrouw yuvut. «.*»**
made upon me, I respect ally announce myself a
candidate to represent von in the next Senate of
Virginia. CHARLES TV. BUTTON.
Lynchbcho, September 29, I860.
oct3—lw___
13-COLON BL EDWARD T. TA YLOE,ot King
George oouuty, io suggested to Ihe voters of the
district as a gentleman worthy to represent them
In Congress. ___
»u24-tde_W ESTMOBE LAND.
tJ-TO THE VOTERS OF THE FIRST CON
GRESSIONAL DISTRICT.—I announce myself
respectfully a candidate to represent you in the
next Congress. I do so with diffidence but there
are some among you who think me capable of
rendering you good service. Debarred from that
of the State, having served in both Houses of As
sembly. the Constftnti n of the United Stat- s al
lows me, if it shall be your will, to represent you
in the National Legislature.
Withoutthe means of personal communication
in a district extending from King George to tire
sea, and from the Potomac to -lames River, em
bracing twenty counties. I must rely upon m?
many friends scattered through the district to
make me acquainted with you. It will suffice to
say that I discard all party except that of my
State and country; that I regard moderation,
firmness and vigilance to be ’he rhiet mer.rs ot a
representative in the present exigency, and that
all the ability I possess shali be devoted iuith
fully to your service. I am sanguine that wise
counsels will soon restore our beiovc-d old Com
monwealth to her former vigor and influence, and
thatjnnsurpassed prosperity is y-.t in store for her. I
shali be most thankful if it shall be your pleasure
to exalt me to the post which will best enable me
to contribute to the accomplishment of tin- end.
I regard it the duty of us all to restore the Consti
tution. the Union, and the Laws.
Your faithful fellow-citizen,
ED. T. TAYLOE.
dMU:l1 •* iaa*n24--id.
J3-TO THE VOTERS OF THE SENA
TOR1AL DISTRICT COMPOSED OF THE
COUNTIES OF { HESTER FIELD AME
LIA, PRINCE EDWARD. CUMBERLAND
AND POWHATAN — Persuaded by thereque-n
of numeioua voters, I announce mjselt a candi
date for the office of Senator fr-omthe above-men
tioned Pist let. ihe election wilTl* held on the
second THURSDAY in October next.
A legislative trust, even in ordinary times,
should be cautiously bestowed by an enlightened
constituency, and wanly accepted by a conscien
tious representative The besto a al cr reception ot
such a trust at a critical moment like the present,
without subo dinatiug all private partiality or pre
judice on Ihe one hand, and all personal espin
tlon on the other, to the solitary conslderati n of
the public weal, implies either a deplorable ignor
ance or a crimin 1 u sregard of the real situation,
a situ ,tion hopeful if wise and moderate counsels
prevajl. bat full of jieril If rash views or conduct,
e.-fri to a limited extent, are iadu.ged. 1 can
cny add. in a general way, that I resatd a course
of conservative moderation as both p.otentand in
dispensable in the amelioration of our condition,
and if honored with yoor confidence, profoundly
sympathising in oar common misfortunes. I shad
diligently aim to aid in ameliorating and remov
ing fiem.
sepS-tde t'. C. McfiAE.
ZJ-TO THE VOTERS OF THE FIR T SEN
ATORIAL DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA c-m
posed of the counties of King and Queen. h«< x,
Middlesex, Gloucester, Mattaevrs and K.ug Wil
liam We are authorized to announce RICHARD
HA*ES, of King W.lliam, ns a candidate to re
present the First District in the next senate of
Virginia. Election 12th October.
oct6—tde
Hkkbico. September 8th, I860.
2\> Messrs. William C. Moncure, J. C. Burl
M. C. Kggleston. George I). Pleasants. Thomas
L. Pleasants, B, W. Green, <tc. :
Gentlemen: I hive received your invitation to
become a candidate for a seat in the ensuing
Legislature. In accordance therewith, and with
many thanks to each and all of yon for your kind
appreciation of me, 1 hereby announce ntyaeif a
candidate. Should I be elected, it will give me
great pleasure to assist, in however humble a de
in restoring a solid peace to Virginia and
a placing her again aafely behind the bulwarks
of the Federal Constitution.
I am, with great respect.
Your fellow-citizen.
sepd—tde' L. W. T. WICKHAM.
tj- TO THE VOTERS OF HANOVER COUNTY:
At the request of friends from different portions of
onr county, and in accordance with my own
wishes, 1 hereby respectfully announce niysed a
candidate to repraaent Hanover county in the next
Legislature of Virginia.
au24—tde T. J. WOOLDRIDGE.
CT LUNENBURG AND CHARLOTTE —
ELECTION.—I respectfully announce nmeif a
candidate for the House of Delegates for *hc
election district composed of the counties of LU
NENBURG and CHARLOTTE.
IT* Election, second Thursday in October,
tep—d-iclm* GKO. W. HARDY.
t3-TO THE VOTERS OF THE NINTH SEN
ATORIAL DISTRICT composed ol the counties
of Charles City, New Kent, .lames City, City ol
Williamsburg, and counties of York, Warwick,
and Elizabeth City:
Fellow citizens:—I respectfully anuounce my
self a candidate to r- present yon in the next Gen
etal Assembly of Virginia.
ROtt’T H. POWER, M. D.
GlenOrooke York county, Ya. sep-3—tde
&■ TO THE VOTERS OF NOTTOWAY
AMELIA AND POWHATAN —We beg leave to
call your attention to William E. R .yam. of
Powhatan, as a suitable man ta represent us in
the next Virginia Legislature.
Mr. Royall nas been a magistiate of Lis coucty
ever since the adoption ol the new Constitution,
posseasing the business habits and capacity to
make ns a good representative.
MANT \ oters or Powhatan.
an 18—tde
LJ- WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
D. b. G. CABELL as a candidate to represent the
Senatorial District of Nelson and Rnckmidge tn
the next the Legislature of Virginia.
aep21—tde*^_ _
rf* We are authorized to anuouace NATRA
KIEL ALEXANDER, cf. Mecklenburg, as a can
didate for the Senatorial District comp '«ed of the
counties of Mecklenburg- Lunenburg. Nottoway
Brunswick and Greensville.
The Richmond Tinea Petersburg Excess and
Index will copy till day of election and send bill
to Whig office. sepSS—tde.
j 4 *.>Di DATES FOR OF* ICE^
lv VOTE FOR
THOMAS J. e’. ANS.
S. M. LEE,
E. A. J. CLOP ION,
For the House of Delegates of Virginia.
They will aerve if elected. octlO 3t*
ix* PEOPLE’S TICKET ’
FOR THE SENATE
John H. GII.MEB.
FOR THE HOl'SE OF DELEGATES
L. W. GLAZEBBOOK.
GEORGE K. CRUTCHFIELD
S. M. LEE. o* t7—4t*
£3” HENRICO COUNTY ELECTION.
For Hocse of Delegates
W. C. KNIGHT.
nctO—&»*
cu I'o THE VOTERS OF THE CITY.- We
are authorized to announce that the following
geot’emen have consented to serve in the House
of Delegates, if e’ected:
CHARLES R. MILLS,
K. A. J. CI.OPTON
P. R. GRATTAN.
oct7—6t* __
~tr- IN RESPONSE TO HIS FELLOW-CITI
ZENS,
A. T. PEER L K S
is a candidate for the Honse of Delegates of Vir
ginia. octlO—St*
u- HENRICO COUNTY
For Itot'SE of D k i. e g a t e s
SHERWIN McRAR.
no, lll_3t*
g^-TO THE VOTERS OP THE CITY OF
RICHMOND.—In compliance with the requests of
n any petaocs in the eeveul wards of the city. I
. n Bounce myself a cendidate for it seat in the
House of Delegates of the next Legislature of
Vi einia. Very Respectfully.
1 ITTI.ETON TAZEWELL.
Other Richmond papers please copy.
oct9—dtde
Richmond. Va. October D, 1S6G.
Messrs. John F. Tanner. James D. Browne,
Jacob Ezekiel, and others :
Gentlkmin- Your kind note ashing the use of
uiy name as a candidate to represent this city in
the House of Delegates has been received. I bad
hoped that some ot the business men of Richmond
would have offered their services to the people be
fore this time; but as very few of them seem will
ing to do so. and you have made me your choice.
I will not deny you the use of ray name for any
position that you may deem me competent to fill.
1 therefore announce myself a candidate for the
House of Delegate?, and if it tha’l be the p‘ci$ure
ot my feliow-citi/ecs to elect me, I promise to de
vote my best efforts to the support of both State
and Federal Governments in their nc-ble work of
restoring Virginia to her fotvner high pasition in
the Union.
Thanking you, gentlemeu, tor the high compli
ment you have paid me,
I cm, very respertfnlly, your obed’t servant,
octi—tde N. M. LEE.
O" A l rii REQUEST OP MY FRIENDS,
I tespectfully anuoun.e myself a* u candidate to
represent the City of Richmond, in the Senate of
Virginia.
seS-tdeJOHN H. GILMER.
ICi"FRAXKI.IN STEARNS will serve the peo
iie-.&.JAR5*irirso7^ te wnn^rar£5».if
opposition. No man has a deeper interest, in the
welfare of the State and county, aud he is a
friend oi peace and harmony.
sepg'.-tde_MANY VOTERS.
J3- TO THE VOTERS OF THE CITY OF
RICHMOND.—Having been called upon to an
nounce myself a candidate, at the ensuing elec
tion to represent the people of Richmond in the
House of Delegates, 1 t ike occasion to say that I
will serve them to the beat of my ability, if elect
ed. K. A. J. CLOPTON.
oct"—tde _
ft-WE MUl AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
JOSEPH H. WILSON. Esq., u candidate to repre
sent the counties of Campbell, Charlotte anil Ap
pomattox in the next Senate of Virginia.
sepl4—tde
SJ" WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
W. T. CLARK, Esq., a candidate for the House
of Delegates from Pittsylvania county. au30-tde
MMCELLAKllOUN.
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ill.—Our Own first Reader,
IV _our Owu St-Cuud Render.
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VI.— Onr Own Fourth Reader,
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VII —Our Own Fi.th Reader—in course ol prep.ua
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Biugham's Casar,
Mur tutu School Grammar-, bv t tv. Sipylue. A
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Our Own Mental Arithmetic—in preparation.
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N'OTICE.—The following Bond and Certificates
of Stock having been 'lost, notice is hereby
given the proper authorities that applications will
ite made lor their renewal
.Bond of James River and Kanawha Canal Co.,
No. 212, for 32,00m. guaranteed by State of Virgi
nia, issued to Julian Harrison.
Certificate Va. State Stock. No. 9SC. for *200. is
sued to Julian Harrison. .
Certificate Va. State Stock. No. 994, lor *200. is
to Miss F. C. Hetb. _ util4-law3m
OTOLEN OK DESTROYED, on or about the 3d
O April, 1865. a Cert .ficate for 100 shares Vir
ginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company s
c-tock No. 365 dated November 24th, 1862. stand
ing in the name of Edward Mayo, executor of E.
C Mavo. deceased. Also, a Certificated for 51)
shares of Richmond and Petersburg Raidroad
Company^ Stock, number and date f.-rgotten,
standing in the Dame of Edward Mayo, executor.
Application has been made for the renewal or the
above. EDWARD M vVO.
sep6~-Waif___
VTOTICE.—Application will be made to the
i> Board of Directors of the Virginia Fire »Dd
Marina Insurance Company for renewal of SCRIP
No. 578 for 28 SHARES of STOCK in said Com
pany. isaned 3d August. 1864, to W. A. Robinson.
se"p9— law2m
N OTICE is hereby given that 1 shall apply to the
Audltorof iho State of Virginia for the renewal ol
two Ceitif,nates of Dab< n: the state of \ traima, Issued
ia my caate, under Act of In March, 1MT—No. 5,.-.*, for
• i ‘f, and Sc l,5V3 tor the laid certificate* having
teen lent
sepi9—law3m* JNO. K. LaNGLEi
Two hfnpreb barrels
St'PEP. AND EXTRA FLOVR
For sai* |y W H PARRISH & CM.
octij_it
RICHMOND WHIG.
THURSDAY MORNING.OCT. 12, 1865.
INTERESTING FROM EUROPE.
ADDITIONAL BY TI1E BREMEN.
FENIANISM.
The London Times of the 27th, in a leader,
sajs:
’ The more we hear of Fenianism, the more
we are struck by the contrast between its
essential Weakness and the e.ilonl of its ram
iflcations. On paper no doubt it must bare
looked formidable enough. What Fouian.
ism proves, is that the influence ol the emi
gration to America is beginning to re-act
upon Ireland. No Irish mind is logical
enough to unders.and how it can be right
that a man who could make his fortune in
America should live in a mud cabin in Ire
land. The smal^farmers and peasants re
ceive glowiug accounts Ironi their relations
in America describing the prosperity which
may be enjoyed under a Republic, and
forthwith draw the infereuce that a Repub
lic in Ireland would at once increase the
population, und bring plenty to their homes,
give them tenant right, aud abolish the pota
to disease. The truth is, that Fenianism,
extravagant ar it is, liasin it more of the el
ements of a social revolution ilmu any pre
vious movement in Ireland. It strikes at
all authority, and would level the Roman
Catholic hierarchy quite as ruthlessly as the
Protestant establishment. We have no (eat
of a Fenian armata, especially after the pa
ret society iu Arerica learns the (ate <>t
their filibustering delegates, M’Caflerty ar.d
O’Connell, but it may take some time to
extirpate the lmvcu of American ideas,
which is now mirgliug with the chronic dis
or.nifitit nf* Trfll ni1.
fCorrespmience Loudon Times.]
DritUN’, September 26, 1865.
Aichdeacon OReilly denounced the Fe
nians from the alar, on Sunday last, in the
strongest terms. He dilated on their des
picable charade:, their lolly, and the utter
impossibility of their ever attaining the ob
ject they preteu ed to have in view in their
insane movement. 1 bey boasted that Ameri
ca would aid then in the liberation of Ire
land ; but in the ate war tbo Americans had
placed the I rial in the front ranks to he
mowed down lice grass, thus sheltering
themselves from the tire ot the enemy. Aud
the Generals, he said, natives ot the Ameri
can soil, wno lei them to destruction, are
now pensioned !>y that “ black Republic.”
He went on this strain, showing how falla
cious were the hipes.of American sympathy,
and said that the fomeutera of revolution am!
anarchy wore ever the reckless, the irreli
gious, the illitcote, the bare-brained and
the drunkards, while the religious and the
moral alone, ash the case of Moses, became
the regenerators of their country. He con
cluded his appctl with arguments, deduced
from reason anr experience, to prove that
constitutional aid legitimate means are the
best as well as the safest to obtain the redress
of grievances.
All the records of conspiracies in this
country demonstrate that it a treasonable
secret be intrusted to a third person, one of
the three will become an informer. The Fe
nians are furnishing a fresh illustration of
this propensity of Irish conspirators to be
The )*)Wi*an"l"T&FiJr,fitti>' tafirffaftis"a\nung the
motives for dela; on the part of the Govern
ment to bring up the prisoners for examina
tion, a rumor that the “members of the
‘Brotherhood’ who have volunteered to split
are so large that the Crown officers are per
plexed, and know notdiow to make a selec
tion between the various applicants.” The
Freeman remarks that the moral) effect ol
tLis baseness on the pari of the informers
will be useful here’aftcr to those who may be
tempted to join in secret confederations, and
induce them to distrust the knaves whose
chief object iu all similar attempts it is “to
accumulate subscriptions, aud after using
them, to sell blood ol the subscribers.” The
writer adds that the active steps taken by
the Executive, aud the support they have re
ceived from all classes, lay ami clerical, have
crushed out the hopes ol Peuiauism. “The
informers alone now have hopes to be tenl
ized, and when they will have earned their
blood money the organisation will be a thing
of the past."
PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S POL.ICT.
[From the London Times, September 27.]
IS ben the people ol the Northern States
elected Mr. Lincoln lor the second time they
were moved by a happy impulse to choose as
the second magistrate of the country Andrew
Johnson, of Tennessee. The office of Vice
President is in itself of little importance,
and though ou two former occasions a \ tce
Presidonl has succeeded to the Government
of the Republic through the death ot his su
perior, wo may presume that tnc expecta
tion of Mr. .'ohnson’s accession to the higher
office was hardly present to the mind of any
one of those two millions of electors. Those
who chose him wished to pay a compliment
to the most energetic and zealous among the
few Southern meu who had remained faithful
to the Federal cause, and it may have seem
ed to them that by electing a Tennesseean
they declared emphatically the non.sever
ance of a seceded btate front the Union. But
the great crime of April last has given su.
prerne power to the politician who otherwise
would have filled for the next four years the
dignified but powerless office of President of
the Seuate. All parties were startled at
this sudden change of men, and there were
probably few but the most extreme who
looked on it without alarm. Mr. Jobnsou
must now receive the credit of having dis
armed groundless fears and disappointed ex
travagant. hopes. Wo cannot tell what
thoughts haTe passed through the shrewd
and euergetic mind during these five months
of unexpected rule, how much he may owe
to the sobering responsibil ties of his high
office, liow much to the counsels of two or
three able men wbo have been schooled to
government amid the difficulties und calami
ties of war, how much to his own Southern
extraction, and to the fellow-feeling which
he avows for the seceders in every
thing but their secession. But, what
ever the motives which iutlueuce his policy,
the Americans have found in Mr. Johnson
an able and successful magistrate. Mr. Lin
coln is said to have meditated in th« last days
of his life a large amnesty and the restora
tion of the • outh to its duo place in the
Union, v, hen he fell it was tot unnaturally
thought in America that a sterner rule was
to be instituted, and the zealots of the e
publicau party hastened to accept Mr. John
son as their leader, with the hope, perhaps,
that they might use him as their too!. These
expectations' have, however, vauisbed.—
Wuhiu a month after the President’s acces
sion to O’t-ce his_ leaning towards a moderate
policy began to appear, and though it was re
ceived with marked disappointment by a
strong party of bis own supporters, the ef
fect of it on the conquered routh was so fa
vorable und tranquilizing that he has per
severed in it, and it may be expected to
characterize bis whole term of office.
There is no one on this side the Atlantic
who will fail to rejoice at the prospects which
this policy opens to the uewly cemented
Union. The Americans, with the suppleness
ot a young people, are adopting themselves
to their altered conditions. The Southerner
wbo has fought so fiercely for disunion no
sooner finds ft is impossible than he rises
from the ground where the superior might of
his enemy has prostrated him, bandages up
his wounds, takes off his tattered uniform,
burns his Confederate colors, and walks to
the polling booth to put in his ballot as he
would have done before secession. The only
true philosophy is to look upon the past as
something with which we have no more to
do, and to treat the present moment as the
first of a new .xistrnce. Tho Southerners
appear to lie anxious to draw a pen through
the history of the last five years, and to take
up the Union where they lett it. This is not
entirely possible, since during this time a
great revolution—the emancipation ot' the
negroes—has broken tho frame-work of so
ciety. But this the Southerners accept with
a readiness remarkable even in Americans,
and ask almost with unanimity that the
Union shall be restored on its old tooting.
They profess loyalty to it, and declare,
doubtless with sincerity, that they have no
treasonable afterthought in demanding a res
titution of their civil rights.
Whether these rights should be restored;
how tar the Southern States should be per
mitted self-government ; what should be the
interference of the Federal Government in
the relations between the white and black ;
whether some organic law on negro suffrage
should be passed and enforced over the
whole Union ; when tho military force which
u.iw maintains order should Im^gitb lrawn—
aro questions on which men wfifrlv differ a!
tho North, and they wilt he for some time to
come the chief subjects of party strife. But
wo think Mr. Johnson, in his liberal treat
ment of the South in all these matter*,
shows political wisdom and a true apprecia
tion of the differences which have divided
the two sections of the Republic. The
principles which he enounced in his 3peech
to the Southern delegation at Washington
tho other day are enu nstent both witli his
former acts and his present policy. They
aro simply that the Union must be main
tamed at all hazards, oy any means ana
against any nun or party ; but thai, the
Union once secured, the righth and political
independence of the States am the best
guarantees of national pro-parity. Slavery
is goue and I he Rebellion is over. This be
ing the case, ilie restoration of ail the States
to their former relations with each other and
with the Federal Government is desirable.—
“ While I dreaded and feared disintegration
of the States," says the President, “1 am
equally opposed lo cous didation or conoL-utra
tion ol power here, under whatever guisa or
name they bear; ana if the issue is forced upon
us I shall endeavor to pursue the same efforts
to dissuade from this doctrine running to ex
tremes, but I say let the same rules be ap
plied. Let the Constitution be our guide.—
Let the preservation of that and the union
of States be our principal aim." This theory
nudoubte. »> tends to give the Sonth an
i-arlier and larger pn-'cssinu of political
power than is thought 'alb even by moderate
men of the Republican party. But we think
that the confidence of the President, and the
bold liberality of bis policy, are not likely
to be in vain. The secession of tho.'>'Utbc:n
States was the natural termination ol^a con
dition of things which had its origin in the
very foundation of the i epuhlic. the jea
lousy between North and Sonth* which
deepened at last into hatred on the bait of
the latter, had several causes, the chief
being the existence of slavery in oneg-egion
and the attack upon it in another, -j, fur
thermore, the anger with which tb.j, If nhern
States-found their proportionate m Voc<!
vpnrlc diminished bv the®tra
-HrttfVnibti .■.jnE.ntmt.y ttoweU ml,., ^
temperate regions of the North. W /t of
these causes exist no longer , an.J»o- J, the
second, the South must every yei^- tcomo
more powerless to give ett-ct to an -oagriu
it may cause. The chief grounds f*rl lurrol
are removed, and those that reihMj* are
henceforth innonnous. The worst ),j| rhe
Federal Government can fear is -flat the
Southerners, in their political inMftcour.-i*
with tlio North, may become factious and
perverse. This, indeed, is not unlikely;
but it is an inconvenience which can well be
borne, and which is sure to decrease with
them. All the better instincts of th* people
will be against carryiug on a war ot words or
of votes when the war of weapons hai failed,
and they will surely find their interest in
submitting cheerfully to the destiny which
has linked them forever to the Northern
States. Alter ali, it is no grievous doom to
form part ol the American Union, even
though State patriotism may be Vfxed by
the insignificant pari which Virginia and
South Carolina must play in couyi&rison
with the time when they were loading re
publics in the Union. President Johnson
probably see-, that both necessity and ia
terest bid the conquered States to It loy-il,
and for this reason lie restores to each of
them its institutions, and to its citizens titcir
liberties and nroDertv.
TBE SHENANDOAH.
[From the London Times, September tai.J
There is every reason to hope that peace
abroad us well as at home will he the leading
aim of i’resident Johnson’s policy, Few
could have expected that one who denounced
rebellion so sternly would display such mod
eration and humanity in the hour of tri
umph, or that so eager a partisan would
prove capablo of rising so fir above party
influences. Perhaps Mr. Johnson himself,
liko his predecessor, Mr. Lincoln, hardly
foresaw the mellowing effect of responsibili
ty upon bis earlier views, and would freely
admit that in his short experience® office
he has both learnt and forgotten much. This
power of rapid self-adaptation is an eminent
ly American virtue, and it has infinitely la
cilitated the work of pacification in the
South. The Southerners do not protend to
have altered their private convictions, but
they look facts in the face, and, finding the
question of slavery settled once-for all by
force ot arms, they make the best of it and
cheerfully rejoin tbe Union. The same good
sense amt readiness to let hygotie-i be by
gones have been shown by tbe Northern
people, and still more remarkably by tbe
government. What concerns us, however,
more nearly is the present attitude of the
United States toward foreign powers, and
here, again, it is but just to acknowledge
that our tears have not been realized.
Even Mr. Cobden firmly believed that a dec
iaration of war agaiust the Mexican Empire
would follow immediately upon the siibjugi.
tion of the South, but nothing of (he kind
has yet taken pla.e, or appears to be con
templated. Our own relations w,th the
Washington Government have been
more friendly since France and l-^Btnd, in
justice to the United States as welfas them
selves, recognized the Cdnfederates as belli,
gerents. Mr. Seward, indeed, took exception
to the terms in which Lord Russell announced
the wit! drawal of that recognition, but lie cou.
pled his remonstrances with assurances of
his desire not only to preserve amity, but to
establish “a lasting and intimate lrieudship
between the two nations.” The sincerity of
this desire is fully appreciated in this coun
try, and the rememorance of any misun
derstanding! that may have arisen in the
course of the war is becoming fainter and
fainter every day on this side of tbe Atlan
tic. it is, therelore, peculiarly vexatious to
hear that one source of irritatior, which
ought long since to have been closed, is Mill
kept open by the proceedings of the $he>ian
dcah-, which continues to rove the «e*s under
e Confederate flag.
After recapitulating the grounds of com
plaint urged against Great Britaia in -be
United States, the Time.* goes on to say
“ When the recognition of tbe Confederate
States as belligerents was cancelled, on the
i 2d of June last, all the ports iu our empire
i were closed against vessels of war under a
Confederate flag, and all such vessels were
cautioned to depart forthwith, but the twen
ty.four hours’ rule was to be maintained in
tbtir favor • then and for the last time.’ A
reference t) the circular of the French Min
ister of Marine, published in the Sfonileur of
June 13, will show that precisely tho same
reservation was made by the Imperial Gov.
eminent: ‘ You will cause to be observed,
for tho last time in their behalf, the rule laid
down in my circular of the 5th February,
1864, and by the terms of which an interval
of at least twenty.four hours must be ob
served between the departure of auy vessel
of war of one of the belligorents and the sub
sequent departure of any vessel of war of the
other belligerent.’ TIij justice of this pro
vision is Self-evident, but it has no bearing
on the case of the Shenandoah, which was
not lying in any of our ports when Lord Res
ski.’s letter was received. It is true that in
the next paragraph pormi ision was granted t<.
Confedera e Captains to enter our ports and
I disarm their vessels, at their own rislc, within
one month after the receipt »f that letter If*
the Colouial authorities, but it was expressly
added that the 24 hour’s rule would theie
lie inapplicable. The worst, therefore, that
could happen is, that Captain vTadded should
have presented himself at Vancouver’.
Island within a month after the Governor
had received Lord Russell’s despatch, ob
tained leave to disarm the Shenandoah, and
thereby saved himself from the doom of a
pirate. It is highly improbablo that he
would have bethougnr himself of doing so
while he was in hot pursuit of the whaling
fleet. Even it he had, the Shenandoah’s ca
reer would be ut an end, for she must In
stantly part with her armamcht; whereas,
if he had not, the day of vrace would b:
over, and no British port would be open to
him.
THE SAN DESS KIDNAPPING P.A8E.
Ta* *f«Tiito .* e ob tans x. asp*. t8
HtVK iY iltKKK.
‘bn trial oi Charles 'togan Adams, ’am.
Ames Blossom, • alter Clayton and Wayne
Blossom, charge! with conspiring lo kid
nap Geo. X. Sanders, is progressing at Mon
treal, Canada. O’ eary, the Canadian de
tective, testified that ' gan agre'-d to give
him *5,000 cash, and promised *5,000 addi
tional, on the arrival of Sanders in Washing
ton, if he would aid them. The subjoined js
the material testimony :
Beverly Tucker examined-—On Sunday,
5th August, was informed tisat an attempt
would bo made to carry ofi Mr. Sanders to
the United Suites, and that the plans had
been discovered; 1 was as^td to be tu hand
at the time fixed fur the abduction, and con
sented , the matter was first mentioned to
mo by Mr. Townsend, the jeweler , on Sion
day 1 arranged to get a horse, and be pres
ent at tbe t me indicated , about 7 1-2 on
the Monday evening I set ou. for the toll-gate,
accompanied by my son and a S lUthern gen
tleman, Mr. Myers; we all readied the toll
gate, mounted, about 8 o’clock; when i
passed the gate a lev fids, I was accosted
by Mr. P£btoa , some five mi iutes auerward
his men came up, and We posted them , I,
my son and Mr. Myers then took a position
with the Chief of Police live hundred yards
from the toll gate; in five or ten minutes one
of the party said a carriage was coming up
the road, and in a few minutes after we
heard voices and shot? ; the Ode!', my son,
Mr, Myers aud myself then i-><l® t-^-nrdthe
<r--,-ne'ilii<r -li cli I <in,w ft csrri tsn ajjfi
heard the voice of Mr. Sanders, who was in
side; I next proceeded with the two young
men named to a wood at a grove near by to
intercept any of the kidnappers who might
pais; we waited some time, but seeing no
one, I suggested we should go to Lachin- ,
when about-a mile <m the road we wt-re over
taken by the police, who said there was nr.
use in our proceeding any further ; we then
returned home.
Cross-examined—0.1 the Saturday, wnen
iho plot was communicated to me, I saw .Mr.
Sauuders , lie said there was a plot to ah
duet him, that it had been detected by
O’Leary, and that lie was determined to take
the risk of lending himself to it, to entrap
the conspirators ; I told him it was a great
risk, as the parlies might deceive o’Learj ;
Sanders determined t > go, when 1 said 1
would be present and do my best to rescue
him ; i did no: see Sanders thereafter till
tiie whole thing was over 1 understood it
was part of the plan that l)r. Sanders should
enter the carriage; i think I heard him
speak at the toll-gate; 1 heard him sav,
while in the carriage, shoot the d—,
George X'. Sanders examined—Wirea first
informed of the pint ao-.u: Tnur^day, Au
gust 3d, when Mr. Townsend to!3 me there
were some desperate men i:i town, by direc
tion of the Washington Government, to kid
nap me, and if ■ agreed to put myself lu tho
hands o: the Chiei of Polico ell might be
captured; I asked if he were certain that
the men were agents of that G >verurueat,
adding that it they were, f would he dis
posed to operate with tiie Chief of Police to
have them captured; lie said there was no
doubt of it, when l consented to act with
the Chief; I met him at Mr. Townsend’s,
when he developed the whole plan to me ;
this was on the same or the next day. (Wit
ness here stated the plan, which has been
already given in O’Leary’s evidence, and on
other occasions.) 1 consented to everything
to induce the perpetration of the overt act—
the kidnapping—that is to say, accepted all
the risks ; O’Leary called at my house about
half-past eight on Monday evening; I was
standing in front of my house when he ar
rived ; ho jumped otf the carriage, saying ho
wanted me to go to tiie Recorder’s; 1 got
ready to go promptly ; I then took leave of
my wile, went out and entered the carriage;
we dr ve along St. Catharine to Guy street,
and it is ray impression that two >f the kid
nappers then entered the caii.-ige ; shortly
after the other entered; O'Leary was next
kicked out of the carriage , me party then
handcuffed mo, saying, "Damn you, we hive
gut you at last;’’ I cannot swear to the iden
tity of any of tho party ; they then drove ra
pidly to the toll-gate they acted as if going
to choke me, auJ, as I tbared they wore
abou. to choke me, or do..* me with chi >ri
lurm, I told ideal to d » nic u<j oarm* as I
would make no nuise ; to prevent any suspi*
cion of a trick, I denounced O'L -ary tor
haviug deceived me; on approaching the
toll-gate, the driver sa"1-' tn0. alir'“*
iho kidnappers jura; cl out of the ' urriage,
immediately after w hich I hoard firing behind
and before .no-! supposed wo or dtteen
shots : ray friends came speedily to m> re
bel; among thorn were -r. Townsend and
some of the police ; there being no Key to
unlock the handcuffs on iue. vr. rowMond
brought me to the Centre bution betore
mvmlease, Adams and the eider Blossom
were brought in handcuiled , ai^er being
manacled, could n-t have got out Ol the
“ 1 bad . wished . I could not have pre
vented myself being handcuiled; on entering
thr- carriage did not intend going to a-h
ington or me United rates; agreed, bow.
evtr to take the risk, though 1 did not mean
t0 go - area-aid ot >25,00d was offered lor
my apprehension ; 1 havo heard oi another
private reward
Cross-examined—The night I entered tho
carriag • with O'Leary I had no conversation
with him on the subject . 1 do not regard
myself a> a su;icct ol Her Majesty, never
; having taken the oath of allegiance, and l ot '
: having lived in this country long enough t > \
i btcome naturalized . I have lived here only
a year; I am a sovereign citizen of the
United States, the kidnappers were choking
tne, when I told them not to make dsmnod
asses or tools of themselves, as I was not
going to make a noise, but was willing to go
on quietly; I said when at the to!l.gate;
‘•shootthe damned scoundrels;” I did want
to go to the St. Lawrence Hall hand-cufFed ,
to show the evidence of the transaction *o
the world; I consented afterwards to their
being taken off mo ; tbe matter, as far as we
were concerned, was arranged by tbe Chief
and Mr. Townsend; I arranged nothing.
To Mr. Ramsay—I am one of tho»e wno
adhered to the Southern Confederacy and
don’t mean to abandon it; 1 am a politics
refugee.
To Mr. Devlin—1 came here Irons England,
having gone to that country from Trias.
Mr. Devlin—He was a Southern man, and
was connected raith the parties tried her *
for raiding; he belonged to the Confederate
States ; but I suppose he has since seen the
error of his ways.
Mr. Sanders—1 have not, sir. [Laughter.]
THE FENIANS.
facts about the fexiaxs, bt ox*e who knows
THEM.
Under this heading the Liverpool Journal
publishes the following siatemeats :
The Fenians uro the topic ot the day —
They monopolize the attention of the Lon
don editors, and are the particular pets of
the papers. Irish correspondents shroud
them in moonlight mystery, and would lean
one to believe they are a species of invisk))*
green conspirators.' Some people call them
tools, some designate them madmen, and a
great many Wieve there is some method in
their madness. Bom*- doubt their existence
altogether, some believe in tuem, &od caw
give a rehearsal of Some mLadveutut.. ,;i
the moonshine to sustain tbe story of ihci
credulity. Every dog has his day, and the
feuians arc certainly having their rail share
of the daylight. Wuo or what are they ?
ORIGIN.
The Fenian Brotherhood, we are toid, is
an entirely Irisli-Americ&u organization. It
is no new institution, for it Las been in ex
istence for the past eight years. Its foundei s
w«re two of the Irish exiles of 1648, Colonel
John O’Mahony and Michael Doheuy, the lat
ter one of tho most talented and dangerous
members of the Young Ireland party and a
fervent admirer of John Mitchel. In con
junction with them was the late General
Corcoran, of tho United States army.
THE FGU5DER.
O'Mahonv was totally unconnected wish
the Yonng Ireland movement till tho year
1643. lie is the present representative ■ f
one of the oldest and most respectable fami
lies iu Munster, possessing large estates i
the county of Tipperary, and at the time cf
Mr. Smith O’Brien’s Jiuttco was a mo;e
youth. YoutU as be was, however, ho bu I
influence enough to gat tier around him about
fifteen hundred of the peasantry, who en
camped on the Tipperary hills, and tnilt
tained their position for three weeks, till,
being completely surrounded by too milita
ry, the futility of further resistance became
apparent, and they quietly dispersed. O’Mi
hony and some of his friends, among them a
youth named Savage, who has siuce made
himself known as an Irish-American littera
teur, made their escape to France, wberr,
’tis said, the plans for tho future revolution
ary organization were formed. After son*
years’ residence in France, O'Mahony «®i-*
grated to America, where in conjunction
jCnraaiiii and Doheuy, he sot the Fe
nian Brotherhood afloat, In its early (lavs
the Fenian Brotherhood differed much from
its present form of existence. It was at first
a semi-secret association. Its meetings
were secret, and though its chief officers were
publicly known as such, the operations of iho
brotherhood were hidden from the public
view. Originally numbering perhaps a score
of members, it progressed so rapidly among
the Irish population io America, that in a few
short years it numbered scores of thousands,
ranking as its members many Irishmen oj
position and xnfluence. The Irish are cer
tainly good haters, and would have charmed
the heart of Dr. Johnson. They bate tho
English iu Ireland, and d > not leuru the art
of loving them abroad. T > this detestation
ot everything, English and Fenian organiza
tion owes the number and influence it has at
tained under the guidance of Colonel O’Ma
hony. For live years or more the brother
hood maintained its semi-secret coarac;*'r,
rapidly spreading its ramification-: through
every State of the American Union and
through Canada and the British Provinces.
A regular system of communication was
maintained by all the branches with the
Head Centre, O’Mahony, to whom was com
mitted the despotic rate of the van fraternity -
early difficulties.
The brotherhood had its asitiiani*. A
portion of the Catholic clergy of Amorica a:
tlrst opposed its operations ; s .me were it.
virulent denouncers, while some ardently
espoused its cause. But in Amerio t it is uo
torious that clergy of whatever deriomii.
lion have ,little or no political tudueuce wito
their congregations.
CHANGE OF BASE.
Three years ago the Fealaa organization
assumed a new character. A grand national
convention of dolegates from the various
branches of the brotherhood was called and
met at Chicago. Tne delegates assembled
to toe unmber of two hundred or th.-re
a bout s; they reformed the constitution ut
the organization, and boldly avowed its pur
pose and the means relied upon for its at
tainment.
The objection which was urged by tne
clerical opponents of the movement was
removed, and tne brotherhood becamo
thenceforth an open organization. Tne mem
bers were endowed with power to elect their
officers, the head ceutersh>p itseil wa: de
cured an elective office, the organization
was divided into States, each S ate of trm
Union having its chief centre, who is called
State Centre, and means were taken to as
sure the furtherance of their one object.
Siucp that time the Foaiaa movement hr*
spread more rapidly than before, and it is
now, perhaps, saying much less than the fact
to state its numbers at not less than three
hundred thousand members. E»ch member
pays a dollar as his entrance lee, and »ub.
scribes, in a great many instances, the same
amount weekly to the funds of the orgiuijt
tion. Peculiar precautions are taken that
no member shall have a chance of divulging
the vita! secrets of the body, and that kind
of miniature Republican government <s
maintained successfully throughout every
department.
SHE CISCIH.XA’Tl OOWTiNTIOS.
Another •• Grand Convention” was held ir.
January of this year at Cincinnati, attented
by some three hundred delegates from t;.e
United States, representing two hundreu and
fifty thousand members, and by delegates
from the British provinces an l from Irotanu.
American newspapers state that its proceed
ings were conducted with ail the dignity and
courtesy of a national representative assem
bly. hot so much of the business of that
convention, howover, has been divulged as ot
the former one.
One important resolution of the convention
wav a call made upon each branch of the
brotherhood for five dollars a member, which
call, we are informed, bai been promptly ic
sponded to , and another, perhaps the most
suggestive resolution, to the effect “ that
the next convention be held on Irish soil.”
About the period of this last convention was
established a Fenian Sisterhood, which bids
fair to rival the mescaline fraternity.