THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
WILMINGTON, N. C, JULY 5,
1866.
The Fourth of July.
More than one year ago to-day, the Confederate
armies surrendered to the United States authori
ties, and, so far as the Southern people were con
cerned, the war was closed. They were then re
quired to swear that thenceforth they would faith
fully support, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States and the Union of the States
formed thereunder. But few of our citizens de
clined to take this oath and never did a people
subscribe to an obligation in better faith and with
nobler intentions. And in order to conform them
selves to the new order of things, and accept
fully the political situation established by force of
arms, the Southern people went beyond this
For although President Lincoln had officially de
clared that he had neither tho will nor the power
to interfere with slavery in the States, the South
gave its solemn obligation that it would abide by
and faithfully support all laws and proclamations
made during the war with reference to the eman
cipation of slavery.
The heroism and devotion that has rendered the
Southern people illlustrious, wherever manhood
and patriotism are regarded as virtues, should
havo been esteemed the best guarantees that these
obligations were not entered into with a craven
spirit, but in the hope of peace and in the inter
ests of the future prosperity of a common country.
A courageous devotion to principles, which stood
the severests tests to which men's honesty of pur
pose have ever been subjected, was the surest evi
dence that present declarations could have been
confided in.
The quiet and, under the circumstances, manly
submission to the demands made upon them,
seems to havo inflamed their conquerors against
ihe Southern people. Their cheerful concessions
were responded to by renewed exactions, evincing
by degrees a determined pnrposoto degrade them.
The South was not only called upon to acquiesce
hilly in tho legitimate results of the war, but is
now asked to mako "treason jdious." The noble
men who boro our banners in triumph over the
bloody fields of Manassas, through the memorable
swamps of Chickahoniinj amid the terrific char
ges at Chancellorsville, and sealed their honest
devotion to the cause in which they had enbarked
by the devoted attempt for mastery, against odds
and resources without parallel in history,, almost
against hope, in the desperate struggle for victory
from the Wilderness to Petersburg, and in the
tho stern and sullen retreat to Appomattox ; and
those who at Bontonsville illustrated the mighty
power of true patriotism in tho hour of despair,
must bo denounced by their own people as trai
tors, or, if dead, their memories must be dishon
ored and their blood despised. The virtues and
deeds of the dead Jackson must be ignored or re
membered with execrations, and the character of
the living Lee must be blackened with abuse, and
tho iniquities heaped upon the illustrious prisoner
at Fortress Monroe, applauded.
In order to be regarded as loyal and to be re
stored to tho Union, tho Southern people are not
only called upon to belie their natures, but must
themselves voluntarily execute the bond of their own
infamy. Thoy must not only submit to great hu
miliation, but profess that they cheerfully submit
to it as tho just meed of their traitorous actions.
To-day the South would have been glad to have
united with the North in honest and grateful re
joicings at the return of this national holiday.
Throughout the North, excited orators to more ex
cited auditories will utter patriotic harangues be
cause returning peace has restored over this great
country the blessing of the Constitution and the
Union. Tens of thousands of loyal tongues will
utter execrations against England's tyrant, as their
chosen readers, with faultless articulation, read
from the Declaration of Independence, that immor
tal document of our old rebel forefathers, how
swarms of officers have been sent to harass the peo
ple and eat out their substance ; how standing ar
mies, in timo of peace, have been kept among them,
without their consent ; how they have been sub
jected to a jurisdiction foreign to the Constitution
and unacknowledged by their laws ; how taxes
havo been imposed without their consent ; how
they have been, in many cases, deprived of the
benefits of trial by jury ; how their charters have
been taken away and their most valuable laws
abolished ; how the civil government has been
made subservient to the military ; how their sea
coasts have been ravaged, their towns burnt, and
the lives of their people destroyed ; how domestic
insurrections have been excited among them ;
and how their petitions for redress, in the most
humble terms, have been answered by repeated
injury. Throughout the length and breadth of
the prosperous North, will countless multitudes,
filled with patriotism, and in tho enjoyment of all
the comforts and luxuries of teeming wealth, and
clothed in the panoply of intense loyalty, and
blinded by the completeness of their success, res
pond with fanatical zest to each separate count in
tho terrible bill of indictment, and denounce as
disloyal and traitorous, those who might suggest
that the substitution of " the present Congress"
for "the present King of Great Britain" in that
remarkablo paper, would be but " submitting
facts to a candid world."
Then as a brave and noble people, with pro
found admiration for true freedom and good sense,
whose self-respect lias not perished with their de
Tent, we are glad that our people have not wel
comed tho Fourth of July with senseless uproar
and pretended rejoicings. They know and ap
preciate all that is implied in the due observance
of this dav, and have done and will continue to
do all that their obligations require and their
honor permit, to be regarded as worthy to assem
ble upon this national Sabbath with the other
States, as worshippers around the alter of consti
tutional liberty.
Tho Southern peoplo feel most powerfully the
full truth of tho remark of ex-President Davis to
his humano Surgeon for cruel outrages which
have told with fearful effect upon his health, have
snent their f urv in vain upon his mind and hie
A.
courage that his people, having failed in their
efforts to establish a country, had no country now
but America. For the sake of that Country they
will do all that duty requires, and upon its altar
will offer any sacrifice, but their honor. To-day,
then, should be passed by our people in dignified
silence, rejoicings will be but the shallow pre
tences of cowardlv natures : complaints are the
i
welcomed echos of radical hate.
Thanks.
We return our thanks to Hon. J. J. Williams,
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Flori
da, for a copy of the Acts and Resolutions adop
ted by the General Assembly of the State of Flori
da. OoL Williams' many friends in N. Carolina, of
which he is a native, have received with pleasure
the proof of the high estimation in which he is
held fry the people of his adopted State,
The Amrndd CotHut Ion. - ,; '--;
We surrender our space to-day to the Amended
Constitution. Its importance, the early day at
which the people of the State will be called upon
to vote for its ratification or rejection, and the in
adequate means provided for its publication,
make it imperative upon the press of the btate to
place it in the hands of their readers, at the ear
liest period possible. Wo understand that the
Convention limited it publication to two newspa
pers, the Senh nel and Standard, published at Ral-
eigh, but the importance of tne amendments re
...
quire us to publish it, througn regard to our sud
scribers and from no respect to the Convention.
We learn from the Sentinel, that the Secretary of
State has ordered a very large number ot extra
copies to be struck off and sent to the subscribers
of the papers .authorized to publish it, and that
he will send copies for distribution to the Clerks
and filiovi ff nf Pirh countv. which will enable
-A V4fc f-. vm. '
many of the voters to get possession of it before
thev are called upon to pass judgment upon it.
Mr. Secretary Best is doing all he can to provide
for the neglegence and penuiiousness of the Con
vention. We will, of course refer to the amendments in
detail at a future day. It will ba found that the syn
onsis heretofore eriven, embrace substantially all
the amendments.
We would advise all to retain a copy of this
paper, as the great length of the Constitution will
prevent its publication previous to the election.
Halifax County.
It will be seen by the subjoined card, that " the
old Senator from Halifax" ha.- consented to be
come a condidate for re-election. We congratu
late the people of that county, for at this time they
can illv afford to loose from the public councils,
gentlemen of such ability, experience and industry
as Mr. Wiggins.
Mr. Wiggins has been longer in the public ser
vice than any member of the last Legislature,
and as the head of the Finance Committee of the
Senate, works with an energy and zeal that as
tonishes many of the younger members. We feel
confident that he will be elected without opposi
tion. A CARD.
Mb. Ediiok: In iho SMtc of the 12th, there is a eanl
signed " Many Voters' requesting that I should an
nmmw mvsplf a yam a candidate to represent the people
nf TTftlifar w.nntv. in the next Legislature. I am protid
to learn that my course in tho legislature -was approved
by a large majority of my felloxr-citizens, Rud that I have
not forfeited that confidence which was reposed in me as
their representative. When I left llaleigh, at the close
nf iho HPsninn. I had determined in nry own mind that I
would retire from public life, and so expressed myself to
manv friends but I now yield to the solicitation of my
friends and fellow-citizens, and announce myself a candi
date for tho Senate, and should I be elected I can only
promise that I shall endeavor (as heretofore) to serve
hipm to il-ir hf-'t of mv oUnifv and iudemient. with -
fervent .wl LW?mNK.
June 29, lSt)6.
Governor WorlU.
Governor Worth arrived iu our city night be
fore last and returned to Raleigh on the 1 o'clock
train, yesterday. Wo had the pleasure, in connec
tion with other citizens, of calling upon His Ex
cellenev. and wo avo triad to " that ho is in the
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enjoyment of od health, though somewhat care
worn from tho severe labors of hi? office. We re
gret that official engagement-; rendered his stay so
limited, for Ave arc confident that our people gen
erally would have been vfe.d to have paid their
respects.
A ORDINANCE
Submitting tu tfi Qualijled voters vfih
Ratification or Rcjecirt uf iI-a t v.c; ;,??;
by ihe Convention.
Slate the
Adopted
Section 1. Be ilordniutd by ihe teople of North
Carolina, in Convention assembled. That the Con
stitution of the State, adoptedby this Convention,
be submitted by the Governor to the people on
the first Thursday of August next, thirty days no
tice having been given and that the polls be opened
by the respective Sheriffs and kept for three suc
cessive days, at the several election precincts in
each and every County in the State, under the
same rules and regulations as now exist for the
election of members of the General Assembly :
That the said Sherifis be required to compare and
certify the results of the election, on or before the
Thursday following, and transmit the same in
twenty days thereafter to the Governor of the
State ; That all persons qualified to vote for mem
bers of the General Assembly, may vote for or
against the ratification of the same : Those Avho
wish a ratification of the Constitution voting Avith
a printed or written ticket, "Ratification;" those
of a contrary opinion, "Rejection." It shall be
the duty of the Sheriffs to make duplicatestate
ments of the polls in their respective Counties,
sworn before the Clerk of the County Court, one
copy of which shall be deposited in said Clerk, s
office, and the other copy transmitted to the Gov
ernor of the State at Raleigh.
Sec. 2 Be it further ordained, That when the
returns aforesaid shall have been received the same
shall be opened by the Governor, in the presence
of the Secretary of State and Treasurer, and in case
majority of the votes polled shall be in favor of a
ratification of the Constitution, the same shall be
forthwith made known by a proclamation of the
Governor to the people of the State ; and thereup
on the Governor shall cause to be endorsed on the
Constitution as enrolled by order of the Conven
tion, or shall annex thereto a certificate, under
his signature, declaring that the said Constitution
has been ratified by the people of North Carolna;
and the Secretary of State shall countersign the
said certificate, and annex thereto the Great Seal
of the State, and the Constitution so enrolled,
with the certificate aforesaid, shall be f orever kept
among the achives of the State, in the office of
the Secretary aforesaid.
Sec. 3 Jte V furd.er ordained, That the Consti
tution, thus ratified, shall take effect and be in
force from and otter the proclamation of the rati
fication thereof : Provided, hoicecer, That the of
ficers holding office under the State shall severally
continue to exercise their 'respective functions,
until their places shall be filled by the Constitu
tion as ratified.
Ratified in Convention this 25th. dav of June
A. D.. one thousand eight hundred and sixty
six.
EDWIN G. READE.
President.
James H. Mooiu;, Secretary.
R. C. Badofjj, As't. Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Raleigh, N. C, June 26th. 1866. (
I, ROBERT W. BEST, Secretary of State, in
and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the
original on hie in this office.
Given under mv hand the 26th dav of June. A
D.. I860. '
R. W. BEST.
fSeeretarv of State.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
A Contrast.
Nothing could more strikingly exhibit the dif
ference between "a treason trial when Aaron
Burr was put upon his deliverance in this city,
and tne similar so-caned proceeding in tne case
of Mr. Davis noic, than a comparison of the res
pective courts and grand juries.
In the case of Burr we find the following :
r Judge OirrET Justice John MabshaijXj.
Grand Jury John Randolph of Roanoke, Fore
man ; josepn Jggleston, Josepnu. Cabell, ILattle
ton W. Tazewell, Robert Taylor, James Pleasants,
John Brockenbrough, William Daniel, James M.
Garnett, John Mercer, Edward Pegram, Munford
Beverley. John Ambler. Thomas Harrison. Alex
ander Sheppard, James Barbour.
In the case of Jefferson Davis, we have the fol
owing personel :
t7KCe, John Ct Underwood.
Grimd'J'irysCOftlijaghaimi Foreman. J. R.
Bigelow, Isaac Snowden, John ,T Taylor, George
C. Hem, TVHodgkini U 1)5 Harmon, C. W. No
land, F.: Decordy' George Ww Singleton, John T.
Daniels, John H. Boruni, William G. Webber, C.
Li. Cole, William T. Harrison, William N. Tinsley,
William Fay, Burnham Ward well, T. Dudley,
WBurnham Davis, Charles H. Whitehurst.
The feelings reAolt when we enter upon a more
particular comparison. Judge" Marshall, to Judge
Under tcood? Hyperion to a Satyr! The most
ignorant .will, .be struck with the distinguished
names on the Burr grand jury. The foremost men
in the State for talent and virtue were selected for
the inquest to be made. Three of the list were af
terwards Governors of Virginia others were Sen
ators, Judges, Representatives, Legislators, &c. All
Avere distinguished. Look at the other list. There
were two plain and honest men who were ashamed of
their company and opposed the proceedings. Of
many others the best can be said of them is that no
body knoAvs them so obscure are they that they
are strangers in the very counties from which they
came. Of others it were better that they were not
knoAvn so well. Three of them are alleged to be
dewters!
Look at this picture and then at thai I Under
wood, Borum, Burnham &Co., against John Mar
shall, Randolph, Tazewell, Barbour, vc. &c. TJw
world mopes .'
From the Philadelphia Age, May 29.
The Truth at Last.
We find the following in the New York Times o
Friday last, and beg to direct to it the especial at
tention of our readers :
"Tho A-ast majority of Southern people em
barked in the rebellion. They will certainly di
rect and shape the public opinion there. They
embarked in rebellion under the strongest con
victions thdt they could not Ha'c Arith us as a uni
led people. In my opinion, while the institution
of slavery continued to form their habits" and na
tional character, they ivere right in regarding the
differences between us a? irreconcihable and irre
pressible
It is impossible for us of the North to understand
that the Southern, people Avere sincere in their
convictions, and wh&i ihis fact is admitted, is it not
plain, tied Uf-re were no mean tf selll mjj ovr. differ
eaces accent b resort to icar 'f
The Supremo Court had no jurisdiction . by
which to penetrate the hearts of Southern and
Northern men, and assimilate the hostile ideas
which Avere fixed there by tho opposing systems
of slavery and freedom.
It Avas idle to attempt the reconciliation of irre
con ciliable ideas in Congress.
There was no alternative but war, the last and iinal
arbitrament for national disuntes and differences
In that resort to Avar the AvhoJe cause of differ
ence was invohed and stated. If Ave of the North
had failed in the Avar, Ave should haAe been con
strained to concede that slavery and its incidents
and conseouences in the formation of Southern
societv had been confirmed and established, ani;
must prevail throughout the country as tho oon
ditiou of renewed union.
Southern men kneA-v that their defeat involved
the destruction of slavery and its consequences.
We allknoAv, North and South, that the attemp
to reorganise the opposing sATstems oi iree and
slave society under our Govement is madness, be
canse it must rekindle ciA'ii Avar.
Is it impossible for us of the North to under
stand that the nien of the South, avIio Avcnt into
the rebellion ;uid fought us with the utmost deter
minatiou. kneAv exactly the interests at stake V-
Of all others thev knew best what thev Avere fight
ins for. and tho eoiisemienctb of victory, either
way. : When thc surrendered they knew that
they surrendered slavory. There arc thousands
of Southern soldiers Avho were earnest and sincere
in the Avar, and Avho, if avo will let them, will be
earnest and sincere, in submitting to the condi
tiousof defeat, so far as defeat iuA'olved the uban
donment oi' shivery, Avhieh avhs the cause of war
. is idle ash for repenlruce, in addition to sub
mission. .Ao t-artn'v pmcer can commava a aitruif
aits qewt'dioii. c tiroess it iroin.d be huocris
Who is it that writes these Avoids of truth'?
AVho is it that dares to state with candor and pre
cision in this heated atmosphere of ours realities
as to the past and present that every one in his
heart recognizes ? tt is no less a person than Gen
eral Martindale, once a gallant soldier in the Fed
eral army, ana now tueiiepuojictwi-Attornev-ijen
eral of the State of New Xovk, chosen at the las
election. The extract Ave give is from a long let
ter addressed to Senator Sherman in opposition to
the disfranchisement clause of the Reconstruction
project. Such Language and opinions from such
a source arc the most encouraging sign of change
in Northern sentiment tnat Ave have yet detected
Thev ai-e of infinitely more value and interest than
Mr. Seward's roseate rhetoric, or Stanton's
acquiescent grumbles. Here is a Republican
soldier Avho says that in his opinion the South
could not help fighting, and " were right " to
fight ; and he honors them for fighting bra ATely
and "with the utmost determination. lie ac
knowledges " the sincerity " of the South, and he
says, Avith honest emphasis, that after all they have
done and endured and suffered in this sincerity
for the South to profess, now, suddenly to love
us, would be rank nvpocracv. ouch language
we Democrats Ave who pray and hope and la
bor for reconciliation, might hesitate to use
but surely irom . such an orthodox source we
may be permitted to quote and to adopt.
The concession of General Martindale, not merely
that the South. .was sincere, but that there' Avas no
alternative for them but the arbitrament of war,
brushes away at once all the absurd theories which
so long perplexed legislation and executive action
as to a rebel oligarchy which precipitated the
masses into war. It recognizes the revolt as
popular movement. ' Such it was, and noAV when
as such it has failed, surely the same logic leads
to the result that minute penalties and' indivmua
proscriptions should not be visited on the reArol
of a Avhole community.
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Correspondence of the Baltimore Sua.
Tlie Democrats and the Proposed National Conven
tlon AVhat i to he Their Course The South
oud the Constitutional Amendment Opposition
to the New TarHTTIIgli Intles and Pnprr In
flation, &-.
.vshtxotoic, .J uric 2V. 1 lie , Democrats, as a
party, do not seem inclined at present to take part
m tho proposed .National union Convention,
though eminent politicians of the party have uni
ted in the proposition made by tho National Union
Club. It is said, by some, that within ten days
the Democratic members of Congress will endorse
it We shall see. But others think and hope
that the Democrats will hold a Convention subse
quent to that of the 14th August, and endorse the
principles to be set forth by the Convention of
the 11th. The rumor that Southern anti-Johnson,
pro-Congress men will hold a Convention to
urge upon tho South the ratification of the pro
posed amendment to the Constitution is doubted.
It is said, too, that Mr. Botts, of Virginia, who
Avas supposed to lead that party, has of late broken
from it. It is very little difference wrhether he
has, or not, or Avhere he goes, so far as political
weight is concerned.
The new tariff is generally opposed by the press
out of JNew England and Pennsylvania. 13 an
nounced as a temporary measure to save the man-
utacturers and the speculators in fabrics and mer
chandize of all grades from an impending fall of
price. 1 lie C hicago Jnluna estimates that the
holders of goods, foreign and domestic, of all
kinds, wm make two hundred millions at once by
the measure. These holders to an amount of a
thousand millions of property affected by this
tariff, will realize an advance of more than twenty
per cent. But the chief argument in favor of the
neAv tariff is flint it is rendered expedient and un
avoidable by the refusal of Congress to reduce
the currency. This is Mr. Morrill's view.. So
tho 917 millions of paper creates the abominable
tanli, and the tarirl perpetuates the 017 millions
of paper. .: : Iota.
Gov, Fatton has appointed Mr. D. S. Dalton
Secretary of State of Alabama, vice Albert El
more, Esq., who has resigned to accept thc Col-
lectorship of Mobile. '
Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Richmond, is.to deliv
er a lectnre upon Stonewall . Jackson, for the ben
efit of! the Hollywood Memorial Association. t
r, .General Ely, of theFreedmen's Bureau in South
Carolina, , against whom charges were preferred by
Generals Steedman and Fullerton', has avoided
arrest and trial by court martial by resigning his
orace &uu rearing iroxa wq service.
LATEST. NEWS
BW TEtEGRAP
Prom Wnihlnirtoii Con ert Letter fromjGen.d
"" - '"-.". Usgradcr. "v:-r
WAftBiNG-iswr, D. C, July 3.
The Senate daring the week has-rejected an unusual
number of nominations made by the President, most of
whom were soldiers of a bright record. Peter L. Foy, nom
inated for Postmaster at St. Louis, Mo., was rejected for
the second timo. ' ' "
Senator Lane did not die immediately as was reported.
A Leavenworth dispach says that he was still alive at the
latest accounts, but unconscious and without hopes of
recovery. i
The joint resolution authorizing the purchase, for
$5,000, of the law library of James SL Pettigrew, of South
Carolina, passed the Senate.
Congress has adjourned over until Thursday.
A letter has been received here from Major Gee eral
Magruder, late of the Confederate army, asking a friend
to intercede with the United States Government in his
behalf. Writing from the City of Mexico, Magruder Bays :
" I want permission to return to the United States. The
Imperial Government has gone to hell, and has no money,
and we have to get away from here. Many have already
left. General Price, myself and a few others, yet remain,
but we must look out for son e place to go to. There is
no hope for anything more here.
Markets.
New Yobk, July 3. ,
The receipts of cotton for the week, at all points, were
14,000 bales. Exports of the week from all ports, 9,000
bales. Stock on hand, 293,000 balest The cotton market
to-dav Avas dull ; quotations 36 33 cents. Sales of
5,500 barrels Flour at f 6 60 $9 25 for State ; $8 85
$13 75 for Western ; $10 20 $17 for Southern. Sales of
18,000 bushels Wheat ; Kew Wilwaukie, afc $2 26 $2 45.
Corn advanced 1 2 cents, with sales of 183,000 bushels
at 87J 88J cents. Ecef steady. Pork heavy sales of
9,000'barrels at $32 $32 50. Lard dull. Whiskey dnlL
Naval Stores dull. Gold-153. "
Large Fire in Brooklyn Valuable Stock Burned
One Man Killed.
The entensire stables of L.! C. Jackson, of Brooklyn,
were buvned last night, and many horses perished in the
flames. Among them was the Hamiltonian Stallion Mys
telin, valued at $4,000 ; Red Jacket, Sunshine and other
valuable horses. Edward Clark, a fireman, was run over
by an engine in the vicinity of the fire, and kiMed,
Additional Korcign iVewg by the C'titM..
The report of the Jamaica Commission of inquiry had
been presented to Parliament. The Commissioners' com
ment is prompt and energetic on the action of Gov. Eyrie,
ou the first news of the outbreak, but condemns him for al
lowing martial law to continue after the outbreak had
been suppressed, and for not exercising a proper control
over those sent out against tho blacks. There is now evi
dence, thev say, of an intended general insurrection of the
blacks. Mr. Eyrie is not to be reinstated as Governor of
Jamaica "
A commuiricatiun from Paris states that tho United
States Cabinet had made a positive non-intervention a
grcement with Napoleon, as regards Mexico, and that it
is in the faith of this understanding that the French
troops are to be withdrawn.'
Yictov Emanuel has issued a stirring manifesto to ihe
Italians. He recapitulates the effect of tho last war ofi
ItaTy, and regrets for supreme reasons the noble province
of Yenetia was allowed to remain in the hands of the Aus
tria ni, but a, favorable opportunity has now
arrived ' to accomplish tho independence e-f Ye
netia from Austrian rule. lie charges
the Anstrians with having assumed a hostile and threat
ening attitude on the Italian frontier, to disturb the pa
cific task of reorganization in Italy. Ho had replied by
again taking up arms : but nevertheless, should his desire
fur peace, by accepting the proposal for a Conference
(Austria having refused it), aftords a further proof, if she
relies on her strength, that she doe.- not equally '.'ely upon
the goodness of her cause. The Manifesto concludes
with a patriotic declaration of the assurance that Italy
has the sympathy of Europe, and hands over tho govern
ment of the State to the Prince of Casaignans, wbiie he
again lakes un the Eagl' nf Gaeta and Pastrarigo, of
Falflewrrn and Masino. ' .
VKKV L4TKST BY TELEGRAPH.
Tli I-itiorati of Coitgn-s Issue an Addrran in
I'nvnr of the "National Union Convention.
Wakhinotox, July 4th, 1866.
lv,,''TLe IujocialieSrenatvrs and Congressmen have issued
an address in favor of ihf- Union Convention, at Philadel
phia, in August.
The National Union, they declare, ought to be the watch
word of every rtan, and Ihey denounce the Radicals for
persistently refusir g to admit the Southern States to rep
resentation and say tt laws have been passed affecting
their interest in disregard of (Tie fundamental principles
of free government.
They urge full representation from all the States and
Territories at said Convention, to unite in a spirit of har
mony for the purpose of restoring the Constitutional rjn
ion, and. for this purpose only.
t'oigreT'legraph Lines J lie ltortsi-au-CiritMteiJ
Affair Report f the Military Board.
. , Washington, July 4, 186G.
The Committee of the House on Post offices and Post
roads have agreed to report to the House, the Penate bill
authorizing any Telegraph Company to construct 'iheir
lines upon any mail route, whether railroad, bridge or
highway, also with, power to lead any cable npon -onr
shores, any laws of any State to the contrary notwith
standing. '
From expressions of members of the Ifoute since the
report of the Iiosseau -Grinnel Committee it seems hard
ly necessary that a vo to of two-thirds necessary for the
expulsion of General Eossean. can be obtained. It is be
lieved that he w ould prefer expulsion to a public reprimand
before t he bar of the House. His fr iends - contend that it
he is expelled, tho effect would bo that he will be restrurned
to the United States Senate by the Legislature of Ken
tucky this winter. 1
The report of the Military Board, who were recently in
session for over two months, has not yet received the appro
val of the Secretary of War or General Grant. There are
rumors of its being set aside as unsatisfactory and a new
Board being convened. It is said that several members
of tho Board refused to sign the report.
The Pacific Railroad.
Omaha, July 4th, 1866.
The Commissio ers of the Government have examined
fend accepted an additional twenty miles of tho Union
Pacific Bailroad yesterday. One hundred and twenty-five
miles are now in running order. Regular passenger
trains, carrying tho daily overland mail, commenced run
ning to Columbus on the 1st of July. At Columbus a
dailv line of stages connect with the railroad.
Quarantine.
Malaga, July 4th, 1866.
This port is closed against all vessels arriving from any
part of the States, the Government having . declared the
whole of the United States infected with Cholera.
The steamer Lord Clarendon was driven out of port
yesterday morning to Fort Mahon to perform quarantine.
Condition of General Lane The MUbomi I Conwr--vattve
Convention.
"St.. Lorrs, Mo., July 3d, 1806.
General Lane is still alive, but speechless, and beyond
hope of recovery. .' ' r
The Convention of the Conservatives of Missouri, John
8. rhillips, chairman, have passed conservative resolu
tions and will issue an address to the people, and will send
a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention.
Movements of Rnropenii Slramci.
Bosiox. July 4th, I860.
The steamship China sailed for Europe yesterday. She
takes 110 specie. The steamship Cuba arrived yesterday
morning her mail have left for tho South.
The Notional AnniversaryThe Flag Presenta
tion, &c, &c. :
Washixgton,.D. Cl',' July 46 P. M.
The National Anniversary was celebrated in all. the.
Northern cities witn usual civic and military display.
The flag presentation in Philadelphia waa .highly im
pressive. Many thousands were present.. .. .
In this city the survivors of the war of 1812 paid their
customary visit to tho President.- The. only formal cele
bration was confined to the negro population. ' '
Destrnctivc Flrc in Portland, Blaine Heavy Loss
Hnudwds of Person L.eft Ilongelr .
PoiLTLAsrv Me. , July 5. '
Tliei e was a terrible conflagration hero yesterday. The
wind was blowing a, perfect "gale at, the time df the fii
which originated on Commercial Street, and swept' over a
space of one. mile and, a half in length, by one quarter Of a
mile in breadth, destroying everything in its track.' Half
tne city was destroyed, including all the business portion,
excepting the heaviest business houses. Se veral ciinrches
all newspaper ; offices, Banks,- public buildings and "many
dwellings were tfealroyed. Fifty houses were blown up in
the ' endeavor to check the progress of the flames. . The
Custom House being -fireproof, escaped. - The loss is enor.
J&otis, jmd at present has not been estimated.: A. thousand
tents have been sent'td the houseless peoples The deatruc-
tion is so complete that persons can hardly tell where thejr
houses were. ' '
Mexican Vcwi-The Voinito In Vera Cruz BToTe-
' mfentfc of ;
French
Troopau Position : of ; Santa
Anna.
r--. ;
New York, July 5.
: Vera Crux states 01 J line 'sza sxaie mibi. uw voimvu no 1
ragingln that city, and has occasioned many deaths.
It was believed that Santa Anna was acimg in xne inter
est of the Church property, and expected to be elected
President, upon the condition of restoring the property to
the Churches.
Maximilian continued reorganizing and concentrating
troops. Reinforcements had been dispatched to San Louis
Potosi, which movement was compelled -by the Liberals
moving against that city.
Celebration at Tammany Hall Letter from the
President Inhuman Shooting into a Party of
Children in Brooklyn.
, New York, July 5th.
The celebration at Tammany Hall yesterday was largely
attended, A letter from the President was read, in which
he says, there can be no nobler work than obliterating the
passions and the prejudices which retard reconstruction
and prevent the restoration of the Union.
In Brooklyr, yesterday, W. Yoltez, a painter, deliberate
ly fired a loaded musket into a group of children, killing
one and wounding two others.
New York Market.
New York, July 512 :i.
Exchange 108 J. Cotton dull at .W Gh 38.
Gold 152
THE DOG GONDEST DOG
1JY BBICK POMEEOY.
Dnrn the dorg I There goes a three by five
pane of glass out of the door, and there goes the
enssedest and wnssedest piece of excitable canine
we ever saw
Four years ago. the dav after
a
chap on the cars had the upper end of his 'smite
punched for calling us a traitor, To. Hatcher gave
us that red and brindle batch of a dog, then done
up small like, but looking so bull doggish t hat we
were afraid of his picture for a week ! Po. said
he was an Alabama bull dog, imported from New
Jersey in a basket, as a sample of the handsome
of that country. But he was a pretty purp. His
tail was no longer than a wicked man's prayer,
and was full as stunning ! And those ears !
They looked like the small corner of plug tobac
co. And such eyes ! And such eyebrows ! "When
he was but a child, so-called, some monster must
have slung him first against a stone wall, for his
eyelids looked like Ben Butler's, sort o' shamed of
something ! His jaws wore pretty jaws. They
were so severe in their angles there was so much
jaw in proportion to the purp that we wanted to
call him Swisshelm, but he wasn't that kind of a
pet. . But he was nigh onto all jaw.
We kept him four weeks in the sanctum, and
all that time' hired a nigger to watch him. He'd
steal steal is no name for it. So we concluded
to call him John Brown. And he kept the nigger
mighty busy watching him, till at last the nig
ger, being such a smart, mimieky, educational
cuss, got so much worse than the dog, that we
kept the dog to watch the nigger. Egad ! wasn't
it a fulJeam V Strange how niggei-s will leurn
things.
And he was the hungriest dog wo ever saw. A
pennyworth of beef didn't last him as long as a
ten dollar bill woujd last a Democrat the night be
fore election. He had a line voice for beef. And
what the dog would not eat the nigger would !
And the dog grew large and ponderous about the
jaws. He. used to cat papers, books, mats, vests,
old hats, gloves, patent leather boots window cur
tains and sich. lie ate such stuff for desert. That
dog ate a full calf-bound set of Harper's Weekly
One day, just on account of the calf. And he ate
ten copies of the Chicago Tribune one. day, but
the lies in them papers made him so dog goned
sick all that week that he would have died if the
nigger iu 'em hadn't emeticked 'em out, and so ho
got well! But he never pined himself to a shadow
hankering after Republican newspapers any more.
And he kept on stealing. We always thought then.
Republican newspapers aided in the development
of that complaint, for ho was sm-e to steal all the
nigger earned for us.
He"d walk out ou a rainy day, for his health,
and always com'p back witli something he had
found. Once it was a lady's veil. Then it was a
half a ham, with a butcher's knife sticking in it.
What he wanted to bring the knife with him for
is more than we know, imless he had to cut and
run. Oue day he came in with a baby's cradle.
There was some blood on the edge of it, and all
that afternoon the bell man "was out ringing a bell
and yelling " boy lost '." John Brown didn't go
but for two or three days ! Once he came in with
a wooden leg in his teeth. That night a wooden
legged soldier was missing, but, as cripple soldiers
were of no account, he didn't try to keep shy a
bit. He brought us the leg, no doubt thinking it
the kind of club we like for the La Crosse Demo
crat. And, he used to iind money ! He'd go into
a store and snatch greenbacks out of a cash draw
er just as handy ! . One day he came in with a
contribution box he'd stolen from the entry way
of a close communion church.
He carried the box behind the end of the side
board, broke it open and looked sick! John
Brown never sfcAe ai contribution box again, and
after that, when we'd point to that box and smile,
he'd drop his tail, what there was of it, and look
just like Ben Butler does when having his picture
taken. And he'd steal halters, bridles, saddles
and such stuff. And as he grew older, he'd actu
ally unhitch a horse and lead him across the line
into Minnesota. When any one would call out
"John Brown,"' he'd go for a horse sure ! And so
we had to change his name. What to call the cuss
we didn't know. But as he had chawed up so
many books, arid was always meddling with what
was none of his business and grew to be sort of
dogmatic, and radical about his bloody jaws, we
left off calling him John Brown, and called him
Charles Sumner. For a while he seemed to like
it. He was an ambitious dorg, and to keep his
name good, meddled with so much that was none
'of his business that at last he ?ot a doer eroned
caning which so affected his back bone that we
had to send for Anna Dickinson. After she
strengthened up liis spinal vertebra, he howled
and ranted around bo, we had to change his name
again.
So we called him General Curtis. And that
seemed to please him mightily. He'd stand on
his hind legs, poke the hair out of his eves, afifd
when he went out doors,' strut about as though he
was going to fight a Pea Ridge battle ! And what
notipe he'd take of mules ! He became enamored
of. mules, and often would lead them to the out
skirts of the city and hide them in the bushes,
And-he grew into such a taste for cotton. Never
was a dorg so . fond of cotton. Twan't safe for
half the ladies when out promenading in full cos
tume, to meet that dorg in the street. In fact, he
had such a love for cotton that twan't safe to let
him walk on the street, nor stay in the sane-turn,
nor go to any place. So we called him General
Siegel. That bothered him ! He had a tough
time of it. Gracious, how he'd twist his jaws and
bark ! And he loved to get into a dog fight, too.
He'd whip any dog in the city. But it took him
so long to get into a tight that he was nseless.
You see when we wanted him to fitrlit one doer.
we'd set him on another, and then he'd back into
the tother one, and then fight his way out ! But
it took so long to learn his style, and then twan't
always convenient to get up two fights, so wo
changed his name again.
He grew beautiful each day. In fact, he was a
handsome cus ! And folks took so much notice
of him, he forgot lie was nothing but a poor dog,
and he acted so that we thought best to call him
Gen. Butler.
You never saw such 11 change come over any
dog. He grew cunninger and cunninger every
day. He'd go to the butcher shops, rub his paws
on the carcass -of dead beef, and come home to
make us believe that he'd been fighting. And as
he growled so when he came and never had any
cuts or wounds on him we thought he waa getting
to be terrible brave. But at last we found him
out. And how that dog would strut ! And he
grew mean. He'll drive small dogs away from
their bone, and go to chasing kittens to some point
out of harm's way. And he'd snap and snarl at
women always insulting them. And he had
half & dozen pups he'd picked un around the citv.
as mean but not as 6mart ws he, and these pups
would cnase poor cirls into some corner where
Ben Butler would scold at. bark at. andthpn nfW
rubbin his dirty nose over them, leave them with
some wound npon them. But when he heard a
grm, Lord bless vou. how he'd run and hold hi
tail close between his legs. We had lots ol trouble
with hmJ .When he saw a church, hei wanted to
go in and steal something.
And when he saw a telegraph report in tho of
fice he looked as though he wanted to 'change it
some way. The only thing he was fit for waa to
watch the jewelry stores ! Let that dog go by a
show window where there would be- some silver
ware, and he'd stand there all day: And he'd
look into store windows, and break into churches
to look at the communion plates. And he'd follow
a funeral for miles if there was a silver plate on the
coffin. Most of the folks always thought he was
one of the mourners. But when we found thai
the graves "were"tug, and" one day saw his kennel
filled with silver plates, screws, etc., gnawed irom
coffin lids, we knew what a vehement mourner
Ben Butler was. A funeral procession just passed
the door and that is what the dog-goned dog
went out for so quick !
If anybody wants a red and brindle, square
jawed pet of this kind, whoso keeping will not
amount to over six hundred dollars a month un
less we have to pay his stealing, we'd like to sell
him. He is a'sweet pet just such a purp as some
poor man who is not able to buy a window curtain
or a book for his wifelto read would want. He can
eat a horse and chase his rider up a tree any day,
and were it not for hisr peculiarities, would be 11
fine dog. He'll eat anything, from an inkstand to
a linen night shirt from a pound of candles to a
baby from a magazine to an india rubber boat,
and grows handsomer every day he lives. We'll
sell him cheap. For particulars address, with rev
enue stamp to pay return postage on the dog.
which is such a handy thing to havo about, your
most dog goned truly.
The National Union'. C onvent iouTlic Sot llici 11
Democracy Wherein the Democrat and Re
publicans Differ -The Fall Election and the
Radical! The Electoral Vote President .iolui
hoii and the Constitutional Amendment -Hon.
A. II. Stephens The New Tariff" its Provision
in Regard to Coal, &c.
From the Correspondence of the llichmond Examiner.
Washington, Juno o(J.
Very earnest efforts are made by the Conserva
tive Republicans in Congress, and by some of
their Democratic coadjutors, in favor of the Na
tional Union Convention, proposed to be held on
the 14th of August in Philadelphia. There is no
doubt that the Convention will ho held, and, a
we hope, with a good attendance on the part of
delegates from every State of tho South.
The Democrats, as a party, seem loth to take
part in the movement, fearing that it will weaken
their party organization. Thus, the city and vi
cinity of New York is to-day more Democratic
than ever, and are sure of winning there ou their
own hook at tho fall elections. Therefore they
will do nothing that would, in their opinion, tend
to identify them with other organizations. But
it is now said that the Democrats of the North
will take some proper form of endorsing the prin
ciples and views which tho National Union Con
vention may set forth.
There is really no difference between tho con
servative Republicans and the Democrats. Tak
the doctrine of Edgar Cowan, the distinguished
Senator from Pennsylvania, and one of the ablof i
of all men ever sent from Pennsylvania to Con
gress, it would bo difficult to show in what political
point Mr. Cowan, a Republican, differs from Mr
Buckalcw, his Democratic colleague. Indeed, it
is well that the Democrats of Pennsylvania wi!!
throw their weight into the sale of Hr. Cowan, u-
a candidate for re-election to tne United Stat
Senate.
It is quite certain that it will require the united
force of all conservative men to defeat the North
era Radicals at the elections for Congress and tli,
State legislatures. 1 f they be allowed to take Con
gress and tho State legislatures iu all the t wen th
rive States now represented, or even if they have
their present majority, or anything like it, in Con
gress, they will carry the next Presidential elec
tion, without regard to Southern votes ; and, iu
the case supposed, the entire Southern electoral
vote, for whomsoever cast, would not vary the re
sult. Even if the Northern electoral vote would
be so far divided as to give to the Southern State
a balance of power on tho question in the electo
ral college, a Radical Congress would refuse to
count those votes. This would be revolution. It
might become the policy of the States opposed to
such high-handed abuse of power to call a sepu
rate Congress.
The Radical organs, and particularly tho oraii
of the Committee of Fifteen, now assert that
President Johnson has developed a purpose t
defeat tho article for the amendment of the Con
stitution ; that he will exert all his power to pit
vent any Southern State from accepting it, un.t
that he has. taken measures to prevent the atten
dance of a quorum of tho Tennessee Legislature
called to meet on the 4th of July. '
, Further the organ of the State Convention says .
" It remains to be seen whether the people of tin
recently rebellious States are ready to assist i 1 1
what must inevitably produce another war." ;(v
if the South do not ratify the article there will 1
another war. If they do ratify it, none of their
Senators and Representatives will be admitted, un
less they take the. iron-clad oath, and the Radi
cals assert that not one of them excerpt those of
Tennessee and Arkansas can take it.
It thus appears that tho declaration made, as
said, within a few days, by. "Mr. A. H. Stephens,
is true, to wit : that M tho oply hope of the South
consists in tho result of the; fall elections in tin
North. " The proposed National Union Conven
tion might, if its objects bo heartily seconded I
all Conservative men, secure a Constivative House
of Representatives and a majority in nearly all
the State Legislatures of the Central and Western
States.
The new tariff fixes the duty on Nova Scotia
coal at fifty cents a ton. This coal is used in laiye
quantities in New England for gasworks, wovL
shops, etc., and they must have it without regard
to the rate of duty. In tho House it is proposed
to raise the duty to a dollar or a dollars and a half
a ton, and the argument is that Maryland, Vir
ginia and North Carolina coal fields can supply bi
tuminous coal in inexhaustible ouantities if oro
lerly protected. An article in tho New Yorl
Stockholder demonstrates that coal from Richmond
can be supplied to New England at a lower rate,
by a dollar or two, than the cost of the Nov..
Scotia coal. But, of course, the Virginia collier
ies must be developed and well managed to de
liver the quantity that would be wanted.
Information.
Of C. W. and DavidS. Arthur, who entered the
Confederate army, as members of the first Mis
sissippi, is desired by their widowed mother M r
Mary Arthur, at Jackson, Miss.
C. W. Arthur was captured and taken to Can)
Douglas, from which ho escaped and was recap
tured. After which, in order to regain his lilwrt v .
he entered a U. S. regiment to light the Indian
in Minnesota. From this regiment he deserted,
and has not since been heard of. David S. A r
thur was from tho commencement of tho Avar i.
Gen. Beauregard's command, and served th'v.jidi
the Virginia and Georgia campaigns.
The mother of these young men, a destitute
widow, having lost all her property, still clin.oiu .
to the hope that her sons aro alivo is exti-ena-h
anxious to gain information of them, and will I'
very grateful to those editors who ronv this card.
and to any who will furnish her any hifonnatn ii
in their possession in reerard to tho fate of her
bovs.
Brilliant Wedding.
The Louisville Courier of the 27th ult.
has tl
following
Last evening Cavalry Church was crowded iti
a brilliant assemblage to witness tho nuptials ot
the gallant Col. Phil. L. Lee, late of the "s '
called," and Miss Belle, the beautiful and ace
plished daughter of our esteemed fellow-citie'i
Jamcii Bridgeford, Esq. The ceremony va '
lormea in the most approved stylo by Rev.
Piatt, and as the hannv eonnlo stood 'beforo th
chancel flanked by a half dozen charming brides
maids and as many grooms, a coup d'oeili ran.
beauty and interest was presented.
Among the distinguished visitors present wo n
kiccd General E. Kirby Smith, and General J e.
Lewis, of tho famous Kentucky Brigade.
The Methodist Publishing House in Na-hvihV
will soon be in full operation. Tho new diseii'ln -1'
is all ready for the printer, and will be n i; a
forthwith, with many other publications ol tne
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. ,