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ft WASHINGTON VJrf- fit AJMg (Payment on tlie PuDHc ueou ThP-PrnnncPfl Rpff IpmCllt Of the Arrest of J. Aufristufc 3Iarsh at Slemp'ils.- .Lit Centre Wbinf, Ark., I'Magcd-by,, Militia, , -: Citizens Outraged ' dercfl. and .Hup . 39; SpalnfiDecldcsagaint HepnWl . . .rnnlsni. . Garibaldi Coming to America. First Day of the New Orleans Kaces. WASHINGTON. ' Lcsrnl Tender Sotea called In rayincul vbntlic Public Debt, etc. Washington, Nov. 2S. Under the ie cent circular from the Treasury depart ment requiring financial agents to leqd.'-Jn for redemption, certain descriptions of legal tender notes. A rerjr large amount has been rectived. The Secretary of the Treasury in his financial Teport will show the expenditure oa the public debt ac count of $848,600,000 which includes re detnptionp. The Librarian of Coogress has caused to lev'placed in the Rotunda of the Capitol, a statue of Alexauder Hamilton, heroic itire, executed in Italy, by Horatio Stone, of this city, under an order pj Congress. The Herald's Washington special says the terms of the proctocal now in the hands of President Johnson, are in general just as our Washington correspondent slated recently, except that the number of commissioners is to be four instead of lhre, two to be appointed by each side. Eich one of the Alabatni claims must be de cided unanimously or referred to an arbi trator. The government considers this protocol is equivalent to a conceuio.i on the part of England that her conduct in recognizing the Itebelsas belligerents shall be passed on in arbitration. Judges Nelson and Blotcliford hare dis agreed on legit points involved in the Kosenburg naturalization cae, and the questions are" to Lb submitted to tho.United States Supreme Court at the next farm. Judge Nelson today grantnl an order re quiring plaintiff) and defandants in the Eric case to show cause why, on Mon day, the order of Judge Blotchtord, ap pointing Jny Gould Receiver, should La vacated. Full argument will be had tint day, while the Judge will also decide a motion to show came why Aug. Belmont cannot be made a pvty to the suit in the United States Court. "JfEV Y03SK. Xojtilnntlii Tor 'lty Officers Opin ions if .11 r. Bontwell, etc New York, Nov. 23. The Demo cratic Union Executive Committee, at Ma sonic Hall, Ihst evening, nominated Fred crick A. Conbli.ig fjr Mayor, and Richard O'GoraiiU lor Coi Duration Couusel, in place of Joo. Kelly und Abraham P. Lsw iei.ee, declined. The Constitutional Union Convention a!o nominated Mr. Conkling Schuyler Colfax. Vice Preiident elect, is now ujuiiming in this city. He spent Ihanki'giving I).iy in Brooklyn, the guefcl of Beijamin W. Delauiater. In the eve ning an entertainment wax given in honor of the Speaker mid hit wife, in which a large number of prominent citirens tssisted, and the gentleman received many congrat ulations on two happy events of his life, viz: His marriage with Miss Wade and his election to the Vice Presidency. Mr. Colfux will leave fjr Washington to-morrow. A correspondent has had a conversation with Congrestuian Boutwell, who, in an swer to inquiries, stated that he should ad vocate the exaction of more stringent measures of reconstruction in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, than had been re quired Iroin the other States. He believed that specie payment can be hastened only by advancing prosperity, and not by legis lation. Ab to the suffrage question, he w as of the opinion that Congress had the power to declare who may vote for Presidential Electors, Senators and Congressmen, if not the power to regulate the entire question of tufirage in the States. Judge Cordoza has ict-ued an injunction restraining Judge Divis from acting as Receiver at Erie, while the report as to Jy Gould seemed founded on the action of Judge NeUon, as before stated. An other report is that the Legislature will finally settle the whole matter by the pas bage of potue i.ew ai t. As the Legislature docs not mtet for coino time, this report is at leapt premature. Quiet reigns at Erie headquarter, which were wide open to day, and Mr. Gouli, in reply to an iu quiry, said everything was going on as ucual and that be was attending to the business of tho office that Mr. Davis can not act : he is so bound with stays, and in his (Gould's) opinion does not propose to act. Davis was in the office five minutes last week, lj.it not since. Schenectady, N. Y , Nov. 28. The ticket office of the New York Central rail road in this city, was broken into by bur glars last night. The safe was oponed with keys and about 3000 in money taken. i here is no due to the burglars. PACIFIC RAILROAD. Itic Work f OiiiMriiclltui 3ios Itniiltlly Fortran!. St. Lc.fi1, Nov. 23. Senator Stewart aud familv, from Nevada, arrived at Salt Lake Thursday, rn iovt, for Washington, D. C. Ho tepiesents the Central Pacific railroad completed 4'H miles East if Sac ramento, anil a gap of onlv luO nnlcs be tween that road aud Ibe Union Paritir railroad. XEW Oltl.EAKN. 1 lit.! Hh.v if ttin llnce. AEWURI.EASS, iov. s. mere wa- a large attendance at the opening races to lav over Metrtire Course. The flake was for all ages. dah of a mile and a half, to carry thirty pounds, ptirhe 5400. tin . marck beat Trart-it and Tom fitcm. Time 3:02. For the State Post Stake, three mil heats, 52,500 entrance, Alabama entered Bayonet: Miouri entered Sundown: Lou isiaca entered Gilroy. Bayonet won. The following is the summary: Itayooet 1-2-1 Gilroy 2 1-2; Sundown 3 3-3 Tune fi:2(, 0:24, 0:24. Wta'hsrfine, cool and bracinp; trark verv hcavv. lVcminent turf men wcruprcsmt from all sections, and the btt tii.j? all one way itavonet b"ing the fa vorite and Sundown recond. In the Ne Orleans District Court yes terday, the District Attorney informed the court that Clii. f Juiire Cha? bad dis pensed with the Ul .alh tt.r jurors, aud moved the came ;u'-' he adopted in the United Sialc- d.ur! of L-iuiiana. Judge Darreil ordered the oath to be adiniuls tcred as required before the war. Ricimo.M All Old WliUt.j Hill ,i be I'l.l.l. Richmond, a . Nov. 23 The Rich uiond Circuit Conn !o day give judgment against the city for S1&.000 worth of whisky, which was destroyed by order of the City Council on the night of the evacu ation in 1SC5. About 3,000 barrels were destroyed, for all of which the city will have to pay. UKOKGIA. I'eiltT.il Troopsto 1'renervo Ihe l'ence. Atousta, N'ov. 2S. Gen. Sweeny, with 'two companies of the lGth Infantry mrivtd here this morniug, and will re main until after the municipal election, Lext Wedneeday. i r n.ii Hf i . sVJ.r jo - ESJ, A B U S H ED ; M ARQH 30, 1835. ARKANSAS. Clarion's nilitln Hack n Town and Mnrdcrlifi Cltlzcntr. Meuphis, Nov. 28. The Appeal' Ar kand ".comspondent , fii.'thit on-jte 10th a body of two hundred men, claiming to be 'militia, entered the. town of Center Point; Sevier countyYand -arrested all th iuhabilttnt. They marched 'them lulo. a open1 field and placed a uuard over them, and then proceeded to sack the town, after which (hey left. Next day the.citizensof the adjoining county liock-eel lpio townanu a meeting was gotten up 10 express luereu timentsof (he people in regard to the out rage. While the meeting was progressing the same bedr of men dashed, into th town and opened an indiscriminate fire upon the assembly, shooting down a num. ber. and then arresting three of the oldest and. boat citizens, named Hester. Anderson and Gilbert, carried them out to a field and shot them. The band is still in possession of tho town. MEMPHIS. Arrest of n 2Vcw Tork Swindler Do. pnrtnre or Troops for Texas, etc. Memphis, Not. 28. J. Augustus Marsh. late of the firm oF Temple cc .Marsh, bro kers in Wall street, for whom a reward was offered foralleged swindling in bonds, was arrested' hero this afternoon en route to Cuba. He is held to await tho teqnw sition of the Governor of Now York. Fif teen thousand dollars in bonds vere found on Ijim. Eight companies of the Twenty-ninth Infantry,, under Gen. Wilcox, left this afternoon on tho steamer Ruth for the frontier of Texas. An affray took place- this morning on Butler street between two negroes named Steve Grayscn and Anderson Colbert, which resulted in the shooting and 'mor tally wounding of Colbert. Grayson was . arrosted and lodged in jail FOREIGN! Park. Nov. 2S. The Patrio says the Corps Xegialatif will meet on the .4th- of January'next. Ihe publisher of the Celtic Progress newspaper has been fined 500 francs and sentenced to one month's imprisonment for publishing a. list or. subscriptions lor the proposed monument to M.- Bouderin the cemetery of Mount Martre. The Patrie. of yesterday, says there m a large faction in Spain who favor the forma tion of a Triumvirate for five years. IENKA, .Nov. lis. An American ve&el. with arms on board, designed for the tue of the Wallachians, passed up the Danube a day or two since. Florence. Nov. 28. Dispatches havo been received announcing, that Mount iEtoa is in a state of eruption. Madrid. Nov. 23. There have been mauy Republican demonstrations through out Spain within a few days. Jloresce, Nov. 23. Quite a serious outbreak occurred at Boulogna, and new troubles are feared. The disturbance originated through a refusal of the peatasts to pay their taxes. Tea persona hare ieen killed, and several badly wounded. Vienna, Nov. 23. Reinforcemen have en sent to the Province of Bekr. via to quell disorders there. London. Nov. 23. A correspondent in the Pall Mall Gazette says Garibaldi is .about to leave his home and emigrate to America. ThU conclusion hai been ar rivtd at in consequence of the reproaches oi .uiijiiu ana nis menu, consentient on he General's failure in the Roman insur rection last year. Honors 10 .Minister Johnson Mr. l)is- rneli I)ecllnen tho Peerajje. Lo.nddn. Nov. 23. Great preparations are ben.g niade at Birmingham for tho ie ception of Reverdy Johnson on Wednes day next. John Bright and others will speak on the occasion. Ibe dinner to Mr. Johnson which wai contemplated by the Working Mens' So oiety ef this city, has been abandoned. l'.onjamin Duraeli declined the Peer ;e. flirt wife has been created Via-coun- c of Beacoufields. London, Nov. 23. The pre.w unite in commending Uuraeh s refusal of the Peerage aud its homage on his wife. The oppojition journals alo eulogize the career ol tho Premier. SPAIN. Tnc lliauccs Against n Kenublicnii I'onu of Uovcruiuent. Madrid, Nov. 23. The trovcrnment ha declared that the popular sense of the coun try is antagomstical to the establishment of a republic, and that the Corttz soon to meet will surely propose a form of monar chy. CUISA. The Wnr AgitttiHt the Iiixnrsrcnt Havana, ov. 28. The first battalion of voluoteern leaves to-morrow for the seat of war. It is reported that the insurrec tionists have burned the plantation ol Col. Acosta, who commanded a battalion of volunteers. It is reported that Gen. Espedes, of the revolutionist'', had three men executed who were caught robbing and committing incendiar ism. Impede, previous to the atlaek and repulse at MaBsalinino, recommeded that the women aud children should leave tewn. The confidence of the people and Capt. Gen. Lersundi in the sptedy termina tion ot the war, is increasing. Another battalion of volunteers will march to Hal- quen during the coming week. GRANT. Interview with tho President Elect IIIh Policy Foreshadowed. Washington, Nov. 27. The idea pre valent that Gen. Grant is always taciturn is quite erroneous. There are persons with whom he converses freely on politic) as all other topics. To-day in an interview with a friend he said bethought the result of the election had u salutary eftect on the country, and that already it was quieting down. He apprehended no trouble in the future, and believed the con dition of the country will soon show im provement. He said he was desirous of Pfaee. but that eo far as he was concerned, the rights of all classes of people and com- munilKH should be respected. Also, reter lint; incidentally to the fourteenth coustitu tioual amendment, he said alter next cen sus, in accordance with its provisions, Ken tucky and Maryland would snlliir loss ct representation if they refused to allow nc trroi the riiiht of suffrage. " It will be a bitter pill for Ihein." continued tho Gen eral, " but I reckon they will have to stand it" INCIDENT AND ACCIDENT. New York Nov 5i The Time.' Pouh- keepsif di-pati'h says: It ha bm now ascertained that the Victim ol the retvnt mysteriom roadside murder is Airs, smith, wife of Jacob Smith, of Wuriiborourb, Soliivan cotiLty He B arted frjm heme S.iturday at one r. M. in a one hore wagon with his wifa, propoing to take her ti (Jlivo, UHler county, to visit lier daugh ter, who he protested to her had been badly hurl and wished her immediate presence- lie returned to wurtzborough on Sunday, staling that Ihe horse had given out and that he had sent his wife o his daughter ny a cinnrc rine ann came b'ick for Ibe children to take them to the girae place. He left again on Tuesday with the children. Alter lie ten his hou.-e it was entered by ihe citizens and it was found that he had curried off every thing in the house except one old trunk whicl was opened and in it was found a remnant of a piece of goods which is exactly siini Ur to the dress found on the murdtred u-nmin. Since Smith left with the chil dren nothing has been dthnitely heard ol i hom The children were those or ais wife by a former husband. Wheeling. a.. Nov. 2b. A steam lmil?r in Reid'a soip factory exploded this mnrninc. carrvine away the south wall of the building and damaging adjoining pro nortv cjnaiderably. An employee named Cahill was instantly killed. Philadelphia, Nov. 2S. The auction store of Leeds & Co., on Arch street above Third, burned to-day. The build ing next door above, occupied by James Ogden as office of mailable iron workr, was damaged by water. 1 f-i AKWS OFTBE , A Denver dispatch'saya that the city lin ViBnn infested with' dcspferito' fchanwj" ters driven from thp townspn the pacific v railroad-by the vigilants. - - i; - - '- ' On the niirhtof the 23d amobof twenty montook from tho Denver jail asw named 'T. 'H. "Muegrovc, charged' wilh horsestoalingr and hung him. The Ditvatch savs one thousand hush els .of California wheat havojustbson- received by one of the .mills sit (Hicn mond. 4 The Mitchell (Indiana) hub and spoke manufactory .was consumed -by firo. Wednesday morning 1i total- loss"? Val ued at $12,000; insured for $2,500. The Methodist Book Concern, of Citw cinnati, has purchased a -no stone front building on tho north sido of Fourth street, between Elm and Plum streets. Thirty thousand banela of corn havo been shipped from Lexington, Kyi, in the last two months to tho distillers of Botir bon and Harrison counties. Tho Union Pacific Railroad Company is now pushing tho construction of tom porary bridges across the "Missouri River at Omaha, and will soon be able to move an enormous quantity of froight await ing transportation "West A spirit of discontent is declared to he sn'readini? in Paris. It is said that the government, with suicidal zeal, presses and multiplies prosecutions for opinion's sake. It is noticeable that these telegrams come from London, as it'h not likely they could be Bent from Paris. There is a growing interest manifested in the cultivation of tobacco in Northern Georgia. The climate and soil are found to be in no W3y inferior to that of Virginia, and some specimens manufactured at Clarksville will compare favorably with the best Lynchburg chewing tobacco. Mips Knowles. of ML Vernon, India ns a school-mistress, aeed twenty-six, has re covered. S3.000 damaees of Mr. S. S. Dry- deD, "of jKokomo, a widower, for breach of promise. As Mr. V. ouereu tne prosecu trix S2.000 to settle the case without a trial, the Eokomo Tribune thinks the damage too high. A Washington dispatch to New York says that the British Legation has at length produced a bill against the United States government as an onset to the Alabama cUims, amounting to $45,000,000, being for damages alleged to have been sustained by British subjects in the South during the rebellion. The Russian Legation in Washington deny the report that $2,000,000 of the Alaska purchaso money "was expended in securing the good will of Senators and Congressmen for tho passage of the Ap propriation Bill. Six millions of tho par chase money has already been paid. Leprosy is reported to be spreading at a fearful rate in the Sandwich Islands, and the government is urged to adopt severe measures, in order to check the disease, which is believed to have been introduced by the immigrants from China. This de scription of leprosy is considered conta gious, and, unless its progress can be ar rested, the Sandwich islands, it is a&erteil, will in hfteen years time be depopulated A Washington epeoinl gays: Sjvera Radical lobbyists, who have boen, ar ranging for material aid from the gov ernment to support their projects, havo been bold enough to seek Grant's counte nance and favor. It i honorable to him to record that they were dismissed with a stern rcbuko. At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, three tenements on Bridge street and a bowling alley and a building on Hanover street, were destroyed by are on Wednesday morning. Several families were ren dered homeless. Tho loss is $7,000. which is fully covered by insurance A terrible explosion occurred Thursday in the Arley Mine Colliery, near Wcaji, England. Three hundred men were in tho pit at the timo, most, u not an, oi whom have perished. Thirty-two bodies thus far have been recovered. Hundreds of relatives of the dea l are gathered at the mouth ofihe pit,. and the scene is heartrending. Ex-King George of Hanover denies most emphatically that he intends to take his seat in tho British House of Lords. He says he wants to get his throne back, and that he will never take any steps which might involve a forfeiture of his rights to the crown of Hanover. A new "whisky" question has been raised. Rats, in violation of law, have eaten $200 worth of stamps off whisky barrels in a Dubuque distillery. A vigi lant detective has reported the act, and tho Commissioner's decision is wanted. The War Department has issued an order that no permanent barracks, quart tors, hospitals, storehouses, officers' Bta blcs, piers of wharves shall be erected, but by order of the Secretary of War, and according to the plan directed by him and no alteration shall be made in any public building without authority from the War department. A Washington dispatch says : Secre tary McCulloch has nearly completed his annual report, and has fixed on his esti mates of revenue to be raised for the next fiscalyear at two hundred and fifty million of dollars. This estimate U one hundred and thirty-ono millions less than that made Jor tho present hscal year. The Columbia (A C.) Phanix says: Gov. Scott will doubtless recommend, in his message (and the Legislature, it is presumod, will carry it out) to fund the interest on bonds due up to July lust. It is understood that North Carolina, ueor. gin and Tennessee havo made similar ar rangoments Tbo incoming taxes wil', he thinks, be suiiictent to meet the inter est accruing." The fcooretary of the treasury has or dered collectors of internal- revenuo, in all cities where an assistant United States Treasurer or designated depository under the act ol lb04 is located, to dis continue their depositsin national banks c n the first of December, and thereafter to deposit only in tho United States tub treasury. Tho Supreme Court for New York oity has recently decided that although in prize cases tho united states Courts had. .... .... ... r . , asserted too ngut to treat tne iteueis as belligerents, yet that civil contracts be tween parties ourui uuu oouui cru noi dissolved by tho war, as the I nitodrtatcs retained jurisdiction all over the country, and that n summons served during the rebellion upon a person in New Orleaxs would be suuicient to sustain a judgment against him as a party in a Buit brought in the Unhed S-ates in Now York. Speaking of Gen. George II. roport on tho condition ot Ten Thomas' 'ennesseo af fairs, the Chicago Times says : The ro' port hns nothing to say about tho crimes of tbo Brownlow government Corrcs- nondents of Radical newspapers have had much to say ubout tie crimes of tin t government, and of its outrages upoa tho majority oi tno citizens oi me ouhu, uui Gen. Thomas Hccmato beignorantof them. There are portions of hia report which rend as if Anna Dickinson, or some other ill-informed, ranting fanatio had written them There is a mixture ot cant, mat evolcnce. misrepresentation, and Jacobin bosh in the report, which is altogether dtscretitablo to its author. A Washington special of the 25th Biys : Great eurprue h manifested over the ap pointment of G. B. Williams as Supervisor for Indiana, since it has transpired that his brother is now Collector of Internal Revenue iu the Eighth District of that State, in which office he was deputy at the time of his appointment. The office was created to put a check on Collectors and other Revenue officers, and the impropriety of appointing one brother to supervise the other, is manifest, but Rings are fashion able, and the Indiana clique wants a share of the spoils. Cleveland, Not. 28. Ihe steamer Oaston is reported sunk in Lake Michigan, by the steamer Milwaukee, both of the Northern Transfer company's line. No lives lost. No particulars. r m f;uuvNASHVtLl:E, ..-fit. i-.-4' -. : :, TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE. S Eft' ATE.' ?J asttville. Nov. 28. 1863. Senate mel at 10 o'clock 'A. M , Speaker Senter in the chair and seytntteu members present. By Mr. Keith, the following-rMolulions: Whereas, His Excellency" the Gover nor, 'dfa oa'the'13th of Mai-Matt,' previous to convening thisGeneral Assembly" in ex tra session, Appoint a ne,w Board of -Directors of the Penitentiary, and in his message ' expressly indicated the necessity of adopt ing measure! for the adjustment, of thsj un settled condition of the affairs of the Peni tentiary, and on account of some official failure the 'appointment of said Directors was not confirmed on the part of the Ren-ate.- Therefore Resolved by the Senate of this General Assembly, That we most respectfully en quire whether the official information of said appointment has been sent to the Senate, and if not, that such information be furnished as it will enable thh house fo take immediate action for the adjustment of the long neglected difficulties hanging upon the interests ol the State on account of that institution. Laid over tinder the rulej. By Mr. Garner : An act looking to the sale of the Nashville, and Northwestern Railroad. This bill calls upon, the compa ny to make a full report in regard to the financial condition of the r03d, its indebt edness, amount of stocky taken in, etc It aslo -provides that, the.road be sold .to the Ulgnesi uiuuer, auu maimc oiaiu is uun ready to receive any proposition that the company may see fit to make. The bill proposes to purchase the stock together vith the franchises of the road, provided that the State and company can agree upon prices. Passed first reading. By Mr. Keith: An act for the protec tion of the school fund. The bill provides that when any person fails to pay taxes on land it shall be levied against him and authorizes the collector to advertise the land for sale at the. Courthouse door in which the land lic3. Passed first reading and referred to Committeo on Common Schools. On motion of Mr. Frierson, the vote rejecting House bill No, 13G, was with drawn for amendment. On motion of Mr. Norman, .House Joint Resolution No. 212, appointing a commit tee to'scttle with the Riilroad Receivers, was taken from the table and adopted. HOUSE BILLS OS THIRD READING. No. 31G ; An act to incorporate the Gran ville Lodge No. 342 of Free and Accepted Masons. Pawed. No. 327 : Bill to incorporate the Ward ens and Vestrymen of Graco Church, at Memphis. Passed. No. 340; .To incorporate the Raleigh Mills and Manufacturing Company, also to incorporate the town of Raleigh, with a Mayor and five Aldermen. Passed. No. 440 : An act for the protection of Millers and persons going or sending to mill. Rejected. nOU3E BILLS ON SECOND BEADIKO. No. 270 : An act to provide for the publi cation of decisions of the Supreme Court of Tenne-see. Rejected. No. 313: An act amendatory of an Act, corapensatinz Justices and Jarors. R;- jecled. isp. Mo : A bill to legalize the official acts of Isaac R. Recder, Justirc of the Peace for Robertson county. Rejected. SENATE BILLS OK TJIIRD HEADING. Bill No. 313 : To incorporate the Knox ville Marble and Mining Company, to have capital 6tock of $50,000 with the privilege of increasing the sum to $500,000. Passed and ordered to he transmitted to the other IIouo. No. 303 : An act to incorporate tho War ren Chronicle Printing Company, to have a cipital stock of $25,000. Mr. Lindaley offered an amendment that the' stockholders shall be responsible for all debts of the company. The bill was rejected. No. 30S; An act to surrender the Mc Minnville and Manchester railroad to the stockholders. The Judiciary CommitUe amended the bill hy striking out the word "stockholders" and inserting "company." Mr. LindIey said : The Receiver of that roid is the Receiver of auother road. He has taken possession of tL it roid and is running it for his own ue. He is to charge himself and to say what shall be charged. There is nothing being paid over to the State. He is a contractor of the Southwestern railroad, and his hands are allowed to go over Ihe road free of charge. Mr. Parker made a few remarks in de fense of the road and in reply to senator Lindsley. After some diccusaion from several other Senators, the bill was, cn motion of Mr. Parker, made the special order for Mon day week. The Senate then adjourned until next Monday morning at 10 o'clock. IIOUSK. The House was called to order at 10 A. li., Speaker Kichards in the chair. Roll call was dispensed with, as the slim atten dance showed that no quorum was pretcnt. Mr. Faulkner obtained leave of abse'-.ce until Tuesday next. Ilia speaker announced the following special committees : Oa Mr. Hammer s educational investi gation resolution, Messrs. Hammer, Bos son and Smith. On Mr. Prosper Blind Asylum resolu tion, Messrs. Prosacr, White, of Greene, and Pitts. NEW BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS By Mr. Waters: Resolution relative to the State Armory on College Hill, instruct ing the Treasurer to look after the same. Adopted under a suspension of the rules. liy Air. xiosson: Kesolution that the Comptroller be requested to inform the Hou?e.wbat changes, modifications or re ductions may, with safety to the financial interest of the State, be made in the pres ent Revenue Laws of the State. Adopted pedera suspension of the rules. By Mr. Inman, of Cocke: Joint reso lution to adjourn sine die on the 14th proximo. Laid on the table by a vote of 32 ayes to 24 noej. liy air. rrosser: ilill to amend Section 5 or the Act orMarch 12, 1SCS, to establish a Board of Commissioners for Sumner county. The bill authorizes tho Board to issue C percent, conpon bonds, not exceed ing $20,000, to fund the indebtedness of the county. Passed first reading and referred to Committer on Finance and Wayi and Mein?- By Mr. Kercheval : Bill increasing the fees of Attorneys-general, as follows: for each conviction for misdemeanor when d fendant pays the cost, $10, for each conviction for felony, when defendant pays the ccsts, $20. Passed first reading and referred to Committee on Judiciary. By Mr. Kercheval : Bill amending the Criminal Laws ol the state, with regard to carrying and using deadly weapons' Passed first reading aud referred to Com mittee on Judiciary. By Mr. Hamilton, of Shelby : Bill to in corporate the Memphis Preserving dm piny. Passed first i eidinp. By Mr. Prosser: Joint resolution in structing the Comptroller to issue his wa rant to Rhum & Bailey for $242. for Ger man printing ordered by the House at tho last session. Laid over under the rules. STATE AID TO RAILROADS. The resolution heretofore offered b Mr. Poto:. to the effect that all action on the "Omnibus Bill" be postponed until a Joint Select Committee thoroughly investigates .the condition or the roads to which state am lias oeen granted, and the manner in which the bonds already loined have been used, was reported hack trom the Uom mittecon Internal Improvement, with the suggestion tint no further action on the resolution was necessary, ns Senate bill 302 (the Omnibus Bill) had already been luliy exirained and reported upon. Mr. Poston moved to refer the reolu tion to the Committee on Finance and Ways and Means. Mr. Cordell moved, in lieu, to refer it baelc to Ibe Committee on Internal lni pnvemenlg. Mr. Poaton moved to lay Mr. Cordell's motion on the table. The vote stood, ayes -ljnoesoU. tio quorum voting. Adjourned to Monday at 10 A. M The Madrid correspondent of the Lon don Times is lamenting 'the progress of 'Democratic principles in spam. r m m t new TEifiSESSEE. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, THE - IMMillSB., THE COXSTIi OriO.VAIJtt Y OF THE jxKcnvE j--k.vschi.se z.vtr. . BT W". II. HUMPHREYS. Thosdcfe or constitutional ordinances hive been sanctioned .by the consti tuted authorities and should" bo oboyed. Tho caso of .Ridley vs. Sherbrook, in which their'validitylias boon affirmed by tho Supremo Court of tho State, has been taken to tho Supremo Court of tho United States on tho ground that thoy violated the provisions of the Constitu tion of the -'TJnited States. The, ques tion is therefore an open, pending ques tion, and tho. subject of legitimate dis cussion. ' In substanco and effect these ordi nances declare that no citizen of tbo Stato wholhas borno arms against 'Ihe United States, voluntarily " in the late rebellion', or given encouragement, aid, comfort, or counsel to the same, or who has accepted or sought ofiice under tho late Confederate States or under any insurrectionary State with, intent to aid said rebellion, or who has voluntarily supported'ahy" government hostile to the United States, by money, proportyf.in! fluence, persuasion, or in any 'manner whatever, snail havo tho right o vote in any election of public officers. These ordinances provido for a registration of al" tho voters of tho State ; they author ize tho Governor to appoint a Registrar for each county cmpoworod to give- a certificate to each applicant, declaring tho rightof tho person therein named to vote ; they dcclara that no person shall be entitled to voto who does not obtain such certificate, and that tho Registrar shall not issue such certificate to any person who doos not filo an affidavit with the Registrar denying that ho has ever committed the political offenses or done the acts .opacified in tho ordinances, and who doas not also obtain and file with the Registrar tho affidavits of " two un conditional Union men," that thoy verily behove the applicant has not been "guilty of tho disqualification" set forth in theso ordinances ; they also provide that the Registrar shall hear testimony against the right of the applicant and award a certificato or reject the application ac cording to the weight of the testimony. Theso acts further provide that when it shall be made to-appear that fraud or irregularity has intervened in tho regis tration of voters in any county, the ttov ernor may set aside tho registration. Theso ordinances, though by their tarms they may bo construed to em braco the whole past life of the appli cant, yet specifically they embrace of fenses committed or acts dono in lobl, 18C2, 1SC3 and 1864 in "tho late rebel lion." As thoy involve the rights of perhaps more than one hundred thousand citizens of tho State, and tho very exist ence of elpctivc government, they de serve tho earnest and dispassionate con sideration of every person who values chartered rights and elective govern ment. Tha Constitution and laws of the Stato of Tennessee, prior to the late war, had declared tho causes for which the citi zens of the State could be deprived of tho right ot sullrago, and had established tne moda of proceoding by which it could be done. The Constitution declares that no freeman should be taken or imprisoned or disseized of hi3 freehold, "liberties or privileges, or exiled or outlawed, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of hie, liberty or property, but by the judg ment of his peers or the law of tho. land. This provision, extracted from the great English charter, i3 declared by an able commentator on the fion-shtntinn of tho United States, to bo no more than an amplification of the provision of the Con stitution of tha United States, which de clarei that no man shall be deprived of life, liberty or property but by the duo procoss of law, that is, by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction act ing under pre-existing law and according to the established forms of tho Constitu tion. Tho Constitution provides, also, that the L 'gislaturo may pass laws to deprive persons convicted of infamous crimes of tho right of suffrage. Under this provision of the Constitution tho Le gislature did enact that persons guilty of murder, larceny, perjury, arson, burglary, forgery, and of certain other specified felonies, should, on duo conviction there of, be deprived of tho right to voto or to give evidence. It has been long estab lished in England and in tho United States that no other evidence can bo in troduced to exclude a person from giving evidencoon tho ground of tho commis sion of a specific crime, than tho record of his conviction of such crime. The court cannot arrest tho progress of tho trial on hand for the purpose of tryiDg tho witness of a crimo which excluded him, and which was committed perhaps in another county. Tho court cannot ar rest a trial for larceny to try tho witness on a charge of porjury, without giving the witness the benefit of any constitu tional forms and safeguards. It is upon the same ground that no voter can bo'ex cluded on tho ground that ho has been guilty of one of the felonies enumerated in tho Codo, without tho production of tho record of his conviction. If he could bo excluded without the production of the record of his conviction, tho register of voters, or iho ministerial officer who holds tho election, might bo required to trv tho citizen claiming the right to vote, on tho charge of murder, perjury, larceny, or other felonies specified in tho statute, without the constitutional safeguards pro vided in criminal proceedings. Tho ro cord of tho conviction of the votor of any of tho enumerate! felonies, is conclusive that he has been lawfully deprived of the right to vote. There can bo no other lawful evidence of tho deprivation of tho right to voto on the ground of commission of crimo, than thesentenco of a court of competent jurisdiction, organized under the Constitution, and any exclusion founded on crimo without tho pro duction ot tho record of conviction is without tho authority of law, and entitles the rejected voter to damages against tho officer'vho excludes him. A citizen who is deprived of tho right to voto by tho conviction and sentence of a constitutional court acting under pre existing law, is deprived of his right "by duo process of law," by the law of tha land" in the constitutional sense of the terms, and can novcr vote unless he be lawfully restored. ri his forfeituro of constitutional rights, thi3 disability, this disqualification, this punishment, is inflicted on persons duly cjnvicted as before stated, of certain enumerated felonies, but the statute does not embrace all felonies or any misdo meanor. It does not embrace treason or seditious libels, or seditious speeches. It does not embrace any of tho political oii eases or acts required to be denied and disproved by theso "elective fran chise acts." Thero was no statute of the Stato of Tennessee in force in tho years 18G1, 18C2, 18G3, ISM, which inflicted forfeituro of tho right to vote as a punish ment for any of the offenses set forth in tho acts of 1SGG-7, or a3 a punishment for the commission of any political of- fenso against tho United States. There was no act of Congress in 18G1, '2. '3. or 18G4, which authorized tho infliction of such penalty on any ot the offenses or a:ts set forth in the acts of 18GG-7, by action of either btato or i ederal courts. No law of the Stato of Tennessee or act of Congress notified tha citizens of the Stato in advance that if they bore arms against the United States, or sought of fice in any insurrectionary government against the United States, or aided the same, or gavo counsel or encouragement to the same, or supported it by money, property or influenco, or in any other manner, they should, on due conviction thereof be deprived, of' the, right ot Buf frago; Neither Jbe authority of tho" Stato.pr .of tKa United States, had given that notificiti'on -by duly promulgated law of tho impending penalty which ia the basi3vo.all criminal responsibility. Bat afier the war was at on end, after the great mass of those who had fougtpV with most determined will against the United States, had laid down" their arms and, proclaiming their anxiety for tho preservation of law and order, and for tho re-cstablishmcntof peacoful industry, bad discouraged all irregular and lawless war, and all violation of the laws of tho United States, after tho courts of tho United States were open in all tho States, and offenders in all tho States were subject to arrest and to trial, without tbo slight est resistance to the execution of the law, after tho Chief Magistrate of tho United States, had issued and they had accepted tho benefit of a proclamation of amnesty, discharging them forever from all penalties, forfeitures and disabilities, which they may have incurred for and by reasoyi of tho commission of any political offenso against tho United States, and restoring them fo any rights which thoy may have .for feited, then and not till then tho constituted authorities of tho Stato of Tennesseo by retrospective oaths, estab lished a stato of political outlawry against perhaps a hundred thousand citizens of tho State, not for offenses against the Stato. but for offences against tho United States, which had been pardoned by tho Executive of tho United States. Havo tho constituted authorities of tho Stato tho rightful jurisdiction to punish pardoned offenses .against tho United States by retrospective statutes or ordi nances ? In tranquil times it would bo declared with hardly a dissenting voieo that all statutes and constitutional provisions which exiled or outlawed or in any man.. ner destroyed any citizen, or which de prived him of his liberty by imprison ment, or of his estate or any part of it by forfeitures or fines, or which deprived him of tho right to hold office under the governmsnt, to give evidence in tho courts, to voto in public elections, to sua in tho courts for injuries to his person, his property or his character, or which deprived him of any civil or political rights previously possessed ani enjoyed, on the ground that he had committed offenses against tho State, prior to tho passago of such statutes or ordinances were prohibited by the Constitution of tho United States as retrospective penal enactments or ex post facto laws. It is immaterial whether thess statutes or ordinances proceed from an ordinary legislature or from tho delegates of tho people in convention assembled according to tho requirements of a pre existing Constitution. Tho Constitution of tho United States- declares that no State shall pass any ex post facto law or bill of attainder. No respectable authority has ever held that tho word " State" did not ombrace tho people of the Stato in any capacity in which tho people of tho. Stato might choose to organize themselves. If this were not so tho delegates ot tho people in convention assembled, might grant titles of nobility, abrogato all contracts, and enact ex post facto laws and bills of attainder without restraint. Tho punishment of citizecs by depriving them of their civil or political rights by consti tutional provisions ordained lor thepun ishment of offenses committed prior to the passage of such ordinances aro of no more validity than an ordinary act oi tno legislature enacted under similar circum stances and for like purposes. Tho elec tive franchise act passed in 1SGG-7, for tho deprivation of the citizen ol rights for nflVnees committed or acta dono iu 18G1,'2, '3 and 'i aro therefore prohibited br tho Constitution, whether they are legislative acts or constitutional provis ions. But if such statutes wcro not retroactive in operation, if the offences ot forth in these statutes were pun ishable by the express terms of statutes by deprivation of the right to voto a d hold office, such acts would bo void and of no legal validity because thoy would bo acts of attainder. They would bo acts of attainder because they would punish citizens for alleged crimo without a trial by tho judicial branch of tho govern ment. The whole work of deprivation for alleged crimo has been accomplished by tho law-ordaining department of the government, and by tho executive de partment. The judicial branch of tha government has been wholly excludod. r. . ii. . rt .: BO long as mo pronioilion in mo uuuau- tntion. of bills of attainder stands, no citi zen can be deprived of civil or political rights or privileges, or bo otherwise pun ished on account of offenses committed without a constitutional trial by tho judicial branch of tho government. Iho "elective irancnisG acts- uepnve iuu citizen of his rights on tho ground of of fenses committed in "thelato rebellion" without a trial. Theso acts, therefore, aro acts of attaindcrand prohibited by tho Constitution of the United States. Tho precedents of such enactments by tho parliament of Euglrnd from timo to time in tho progress of con turies, and the decisions of tho Supreme Court of the United States almost from its foundation to the present timo, amply sustain theso positions. Some of them may bo referred to, and first, as to par liamentary attamaers. In tho twenty-eighth year of Henry the Eighth a bill of attainder wasonacted against the "lato Earl Kildare" and others. This special act declared that tho "late Earl and his aiders, abetters, confederates and adherents in bis traiter- ous acts and purposes, should be nod stand attainted and convicted of high treason," and that tho conviction should be as "strong and ellectual against tne adherents and confederates as if they had been -specially named." It is possible that tho punishment ordered to be exo. cutod by the judgment of parliament, might have been tno same wnicn wouiq have been adjudged against them by tho Court of King's bench, acting under ex isting laws for the punishment of treason, but this sentence of parliament was an act of attainder, because it was a special law mado for the occasion, adjudging punishment without a regular trial by the court, to which should have been sub mitted tho facts of tho case and the law involved. If this judgment of parliament had been certified to tho Court of King's bench for execution, and the adherents had been brought before that tribunal by habeas corpus, no indictment would have boen filed against them, but they would have been abked if thoy had any thing to say why tha sentence of the law should not be executed upon them. The iudgment of parliament left rfcthing toba r . . . . rt i -r T.'- i i t.l tried oy me uourt oi mng s Dcncu, uni. tha fact of adhcrenco to the Earl. Par liament usurpsd tho jurisdiction cf tho judiciary. In tha thirteenth year of Charles tho First the Earl of Strafford was brought before the House of Lords "on a bill of attainder. He was tried, attainted and executed. A distinguished commentator on tho laws of England states that he was attainted and executed "on state of facts which by no provious liw or adjudication had bten or could bo declared treason.'' Tho attainder was afterwards reversed ; tho reversing statute declaring that "all the proceedings in relation to the said attain der should be cancelled add taken off tho file, or otherwise defaced and obliterated, to the intent that tho same should not be visible to future ages, or bo brought into example to the prejudice of any parsons whatever." This nobleman, according ta the commentator, perished by an cx poet facto law and the proceeding by bill of attainder. In tho reign of Chailcs the Second, a member of Parliament (Sir John Coven. ' try), made somo remarks on tho disso. 1S68. N - luto chxracterof Charles. Ho was there upon soized in tho streets of London by soine persons, who assaulted and wound ed him in tho face with tho intent to dis figure him. Tho authors of the assault fled to the continent, and Parliament passed an act of attainder against them, adjudging that tho oSendera should re turn by a given day and surrender themselves-for trial on pain of perpetual exile, and in case of failure, that thoy should stand attainted of felony, and suffer and forfeit, accordingly. Thero wa3 no law in existence to punish this assault in the manner it was adjudged to' be punished by thi3 act ef Parliament. It was an post facto law and an act of attainder. In tha reign of William tho Third, Sir John Fenwick was indi ted for conspir ing to assassinate King William and bring on a French invasion, but it was found impossible to convict him in the established courts, for tha act of 7th William, just then enacted, required two witnesses to convict in cases of treason, and but ono could be procured. The prosecution in tho rogular court was abandoned and a bill of attainder brought in Parliament. Each house allowed the introduction of much proof that was in admissible in the courts. They allowed tha introduction of proof of what the wife of tha accused had said and done, and what bad been given in evidenco in another proceeding, to which Fenwick was not a party and at which ho was not present. The act of 7th William, requiring two witnesses, was not com. plied with. Tho proof was insufficient to convict him of treason in the estab lished courts of the kingdom. Tho coun sel of "Fenwick urged in vain that tha statutes of England defined tho crimo of treason, established tho proof required to convict in such cases and prescribed the mode of trial. They urged in rain that the accused was in the hands of the pub lic authorities, subject to ba proceeded against in the established courts, and that the great charter gave him a trial by a jury of his peers and tho law of the land. "If these Parliamentary attain ders coma in fashion' said one of his counsel, "we shall not know what is treason, what is evidence, nor whera or how wa are to be tried." Tho bill of attainder was carried in the House of Lord3 by a majority of seven, and in the House of Commons tha voto stood a huns dred and eighty -nine for attainting him and one hundred and fifty-six against it. He perished on tho scaffold. The histo- rian Macauly says in regard to the at tainder of Fenwick, that "however clear ly political crimo may have becn.defined by ancient laws, a man accused of it is not to be tried by a crowd of eager poli ticians of whom ha can challenge none, even with cause; who have no judge to guide them; who aro allowed to como in and go out 03 they chose ; who hear as much or as littlo of the accusation or de fenso as thoy choose; who are exposed o every kind of corrupting influenco da ring tho investigation; who cheer one orator and cough down another; who are aroused from sioep to cry aye or no; and who aro hurried from their suppers half drunk to divide. It was unjust and of evi! example, not because it was a re trospectivo act, but because it wa3 an act eminently judicial and performed by a body destitute ef all judicial qualities." Tho act of Parliament by tho authori ty of which Fanwick suffered, was an act of attainder, because ha was tried by Parliament and not by the established courts of tho kingdom which had juris diction of tho case, and it was a retro spective statuto because it changed the rules ol evidence in that case and pun ished the accused upon testimony upon which he could not havo been convicted and punished atihe timo tho alleged of- ensc was committed. Ho was not guilty by tho pre-existing law, but was adjudged guilty by special law made for the occa sion and after tho offense was committed. Another English historian declares that the attainder and execution cf Fenwick was a blot upon tho character of tho Whigs who were tho avowed champions of liberty. After tbo effort and the failure of the movement to restoro the house of Stu art to the throne of England, in 1745, Parliament enacted a law, providing for the trial of several of the noblemen and others, who were engaged in it, in tha county of Middlesex. The offenso was not committed in that county, and the laws of England gave the accused tho right to be tried in tho county in which tho offenso' was committed. They were tried in London, county of Middlesex. Tho historian Smollet characterized thi3 law as an cx post facto law, inflicting an enormous wrong on the accused, because it deprived them of tho right to ba tried in the county in which tho offenso was committed, and because it wa3 enacted after tho commission of tho crimo of which ho was charged. In tho eleventh year of Georgo II, sixty voters of the borough of New Shore ham, were deprived of tha right to vote by a special act which named them. Thoy wore deprived of their nght3 on the grounds of bribery at an election for members of Parliament. There was an existing law which punished bribery by deprivation of tho right to vote, but this act was a bill of pains and penalties, (which is embraced by the Constitution in the phrase, "bill of attainder,") bo- cause theso sixty voters were deprived of their rights as a punishment lor the crime of bribory without a trial by tho established courts. By a subsequent act tho wholo of tho voters of tho borough of Cricklade were deprived of tho electoral rights on ac count of tho provalenco of bribery in that borough. Wooddeson, a commen tator on the laws, of England, says that "theso acts may bo properly classified under tho head of bills of pains and pen alties.'' It therefore appears that parliamentary judgments wore sometimes rendered in tho presence ol tneaccuseu, sometimes in tho absenco of the accused. Sometimes evidence was introduced, sometimes there was none; sometimes thero was no pre vious law to punish the party as ho was punished, and sometimes there was; that Parliament proceeded by no used form or law, and tho proceedings wero generally characterized by violcnco and passion and exhibited tho apucaranceof malignity and persecution. It also appears that bi Is of attainder were enacted azainst bodies of men who wero named and against bodies of men who woro not named. Wooddeson states that tho cxerciao of the power of making the law for cases after they arosoand inflicting punishment without rcferenco to any existing law, was snocsing to monumanuy oi wo peo ple of England, and was found like Sisy phus' stone to roll back on tho promoters, During tho war of 177G tho feeling which that bloody and devastating con flict created, introduced, to somo extent, confiscation and deprivation of civil and political rights, by test oaths; and legis lative oders ware enforced against those who adhered to the British crown in the truircrle. The treaty of peace provided that no further prosecutions on account of tho part citizens had taken in tho war should bo instituted. Able and prominent men in all the States took ground against its continuance and maintained that the un instifiablo course of the tones when they obtained the ascendancy in any quarter i during the war, did not justify lawless retaliations. They declared that this course would "let into government, prin cioles and practices which would Tu tho end prove fatal to themselves." Marion, of South Carolina, Henry, Jef ferson, Madison and Washington of "V ir ginia, were among those who took pa rt against these measures. Gen.Hamiltonr of New York, stated in a speech, that all the persons, with few exceptions, who had been most distinguished in accomplishing tha revolution, wero opposed to this sys i tern of retaliatory measures. Ho said FW SERIES NO. 81 that thoy proposed 16 condemn citizens without preordained law; without a judi cial trial and to- "disfranchiso them in tne facoof tha Constitution. If tho Legisla ture could disfranchiso any number of citizens by general description, it might soonxonnno alt the voters to a small number of partizans and establish an oli garchy. If it may, without a trial, banish all whom circumstances may render ob noxious, no man can be safe against a pre vailing fiction. The namo of libe ty applied to such a government was a mockery.'' During tho period, which elapsed between the trsaty of peace in 17S3 and tho adoption of the Constitution in 1787, tho popular judgment became settled against ihe policy, and tho results wero manifest. Tho Consti tution of tho United States provides that all legislative power shall bo vested in tho hands of ono body of men ; all judicial powers in tho hands of another body of men ; and all executive power in Iho hands of an executive. No one branch can oxcrcise tha powers bo longing to either of tho others. This division of power had been advocated in Franco by Montcsquier. and able writers inothor countries.as a fundamental feature of & just and free government. It had been maintained and partully executed in England and other states, but had never been completely and practically established in tho very structure of the government beforo the adoption of tha Constitution of tho United States, and the adoption of the Constitutions of the States about the samo time. This division of power was intended to prohibit tho consolidation of all power, legislative, cxecutivo and judicial, in the hands of one body of men, or of ono man, and to restrain tho action of depraved and turbulent majorities against weak and helpless minorities. But theframers of tho Constitution did not content them selves with this genoral prohibition of the passago of the bills of attainder by tho provision that tho legislative de partment should not .exercise judicial power. By tho special prohibition of ex post facto laws and bills of attain der, they intended to declare, and did declare, mere explicitly, that neither Congress or any State should exile, out law, or in any manner destroy any citi zen, or deprivo him of any established rights, civil or political, by forfeitures or disabilities inflicted for offenses commit ted, unless such forfeitures and disabili ties were incurred by tho violation or laws previously enacted, and unless such forfeitures and disabilities were declared and enforced by tho judicial department of the government. It was believed and declared at, tha timo of tho formation f the Constitution, that tho legislative branch was the strongest, and that the judiciary was the weakest of tha threa departments, and that tho greatest danger in the future operation ot tne governmeni Would be, that it would bo overthrown in its independent action, or bo suspended for periods of time, or that tha judges would become the sorvilo instruments of tho other departments, a3 many of them lnd pecn during the reign ottne tuaors anu Stuarts in England. Tho Constitution thereforo attempted to ostiblish tho in dependence of the judiciary, and erected a bulwark for that purpose, by the power given to dcclaro acts of Congress in con flict with tho Constitution void, and by other" provis'ons. In support of tho samt general pur pose, tho lramers oi tno ionswu- tion mitigated the rigor ot tno com mon law in regard to political offen ses. They cut off that legion of con structive treasons by which so many able and virtuous men had perished, in the progress of centuries. They abolished that principle of the common law which cor rupted tho blood of persons attainted of treason, and prevented mem irom receiv ing and transmitting estates by in heritance. They required two witnesses to any overt act of treason before a con viction would be had and maintained. They limited confiscation to tho life of those whoso estates wero subject to con fiscation. Thev provided by amend ment, that the arrest for crimo should bo founded on affidavit ; that the party ac cusedshould be informed of the naturo and causa of the accusation against him ; that ho should have tho bencfitof counsel; that ho should not bo compelled to give evidence against himself ; thatho should havo compulsory process to obtain wiu nesses in his power ; that he should ba entitled to a speedy public trial in tha district in which tho offenso was com mitted ; that the district should bo previously catablishra by law, and that excessive bail should not lo re quired, nor excessivo hoes imposed, 1 . i :. .c nor cruet nor unusuai puuuuiiiu inflicted. It id unquestionablo that tho prohibition of tho cxerciso of judicial power by tho legislative or executive De partments, tha provisions for tho inde pendence of tne judiciary; me eiaDoraio and detailed provisions for tho security of tho peoplo against groundless and op pressiva prosecutions and the provisions against car post Jacto laws and bills of attainder, constitute altogether tho most prominent and remarkable teaturo in tna Constitution of tho United States. The wise men who framed tha Constitution, considered them all necessary for tho safety and liberty of tho peoplo of tha United States, for some of tho ablest of them declared that the greatest engine of despotism in all countries was the power of punishing individuals. Washington, Hamilton, Jeuerson, Auams, rrannun, Madison and others wore guilty of trea son against tho King of Great Britain, according to the theory of tho British Constitution and tho doctrine oi tno per petuity of natural allegiance They had, hv b. successful revolution, escaped an rr nnxt facto law transferring their trial from tho American States to tho county of Midd!csex and city of London. Like wiso and brave ana magnanimous raon, as they wcro, thoy determined not to lat into tho eovernmem principles auu nTieWrf which mizht bo used in the 1 r, . . . .1 i most uniustiiiaoie manner to urauuy their descendants. They intended to give to future generates all tho security against oppressive, aiuiuaij mm duuhu rv nrnsecutions. which, under similar circumstances, thsy would ask for them ;lvos. Witat CosciEEsa Will Do Senator lTnrinn nf Indiana, it is said, will take t,a li-i1 !n certain measures. Jlo will n....ni lil 11 for the redemption oi cretn h,ot-. oml he will urpo that cold salw le discontinued, and the gold surplus be ap propriated for the redemption ot ifgn lea ders. Hi bill wi.l fix the time for be ginning redemption, January i, ioa will ba worth their lace in mid. Hb will oppose in the meantime anr further contraction of the currency, and cancel all notes when presented for re demption. Gov. M. does not suppose tnai tiT nrnnoMtlnn. if carried out. will tend to diminish currency, as gold and silver n,V mint in lo euudIv the puce oi uie licral tender notw cancelled. The time for Winning redemption will not bo insisted oo, somo Congressmen favoring beginning in one year, oiners in mree, auu uiucm five years. Washington Express, Nov. 21. Tnv rw fUnrxET. A correspondent of the Baltimore Gazelle states that "wnue n.n fWinfipfil was canvassing the Senate m -.ruin if he would be connrmeu nmtntnl Secretary of War. a Radical Senator called upon Gen. Grant for his advice. The General frankly stated that he was utterly opposed to placing mm i.rr nninrs in civil positions while retain ini their enmmiwions: but. under the Tiwnlisr circumstances, hethoughtthe rule r . . . i ...i r rpL.:- r. f . " .,r . ..j t (.. it. .arv rp?miV ftULlCU US ITUU1 luab ku ttPil centrv are to be excluded at M'": P A J. . . i r il- .11. iat frnm ina uaniner. anu cuttrawij u nf Sffhnfkld and Porter. Gen. Grant. although having no power to decide wlv i,.u rnmnmA his ministry, niust neces' aarily have sometning io any a.- uj nu u i i i. 1 1 i Itliat C1U9 suau uo cjn-tf i REMARKABLE 3)UELS. Soma Intere-ln jiUt'Icl"ruet l)uhb; Kra-neiit lla-Expht'n Feiuxln Uurlltis lioir eTeray Johnson Lout no rye, tic In the year 1777 a duel ocoured in Nev Yrk city between Lieut FMi-f"toDf haugb, of ihe cwven'y-sixib, ad Op'. McPherion, of the Fortj-JtCaod Briii Raiment, in regard to the manner of a -lagan mrof corn. omt conte'idW 'ha- th' eaiirg was from the cob, and the other luat tha grain should be cn off from the ccb before eating. Lieut Feaihert'tOMehaugh rust his right arm, the bait (rata ls antf g oi.U-'s H3tol shattering the limbdr.tUfu.l., so mach ho that it h.iu to be ampul red In 1797 Hon. George Thatcher, R'.ce seniativc from Masmicbu-uHts, wa chal lenged by Mr Bl..au', of Tear., tr a Verbal criiiciotn on a rt-oluiion ff to- by Hie latter. Mr. T. received the ehalUrga while abed, and treated il with coiitemiu- iHi-midicule, promising to write tu hi wife kx jlMtachtiriettH for her view on the s-ib- jtct. The ptculUr treatment ffbnled greit oiiwemeot at IheKXpeinwof htsefcivjfr .us 4avet.ry. .Mr. Ulouut wjsikrw afitr ex- pel led from Co grem for trcasooable tr-uw-" actions with the Spanish. Governor of New Orleans. In 172S a duel took place oa Boston Common between Uearj Pfliilipi and Benjamin Woodbridge, in whiek Wood bridge was killed. Iu wan funghtby moon light with swords, and without second. Woodbndge's body was found at daylight next morning, and great excitement wjm created. Phillips escaped on a man-of- war, then in the harbor, and died ia France, suffering all the horrors of re morse. Mademoiselle d Maupia,a female duel ist, wi born in France in 1763. ben ever she desirtd to indulge in a frolic, nr revenge an inu!t, she httdaide the km !e aud assumed the mile attire. 0J evn.ig br'wg at a masked bail given at ta Pjiua Eyalby. Mon-ieur, the King's brother and, as usual, disguised as a in-io, she il dulged in some freedom toward a lady of rank, which was ill received, aad calrd forth tha indignation of three of the ladj'd friends, whs invited the intruder to ac company them down to the garden. La iliuuiu complied on the instant, drew-her sword, engaged the three champion suc- cesiiviy and laid th m all litelts on the ground. Then coolly returning to tha ball-room, she made herself kBown to His Royal Higbnee, and obtained a froj pardon. In the "good old days" of Frircr. iiadame de Nesle, brought up in an old chatrau iu Aujou, was very beautiful and very romantic, bhe made her first ap pearance at the petits xmpen ot the Regency as a Bachan e, sealed between the Duchess of Brry aad Madame Duvrrae. She soon became the rival of .Mad time de Polignac in the affections of Richelieu, and she chal lenged her antagonist to tioirle combat. The duel took place near the Pore Mi:ro Madame de rtesle tainted Msdima de Polignac; Madame de Polignac returned the salutation to Madame de Nesfe. They were attended by two squires as wiloees. The pistols were loatltd, and it u ar ranged that the two rivals should walk to ward one another as far as a scarf, with permission to fire at any time during tha advance. Madame da Ntsle fired first. without effect; Madame de Poliznac re served her fire, and wounded her an- taguit in the shoulder. This dual created a great eensatiou at the lime, but It did not bring back the iaooatact Data to the feerof Madame de Neil;. The famous du-1 between Burr a d Hamilton took ptiee ia July. 181. Tne details of which, and the interne x'i.e nient which it ooca-tionod, are too well known to require repeating. , in 1SUS Henry Clav frxieht with old Humphrey Marshall. They exchanged two or three shots, and both were slightly wennued. A duel between Mr. iflcUotii, for many years a member of Congr-s fr .m South Carolina, and Col. Cummin, lock place in 1322 The former received a se vere woand in the bick, which lamed him for life. The papers of the day were filled with totiita jiod ridicule iu regard to the duel, and Mr. MeDufSe's wound, though it proved no j ke to htm, ciu-ittga sort of gait reeciWiBg the spniig-hak sf an old man, irom wbiea be HMhretl lltlMtUh, in 1S01. Graham, Major 2oah U aottstaat on the JNVt&mni Ahealt, ltt bU life ia 1327, at the dueling grottod at HubokM, with Bar ton, the aott-w law of EJwaril Livingstone, in a dipoe about "whvw.s tramps in a game'of cards. K-vody Jolitk-on, o.ic prtreut Minss r t EiigUuid, lost an eve by the rebound r f a pi-tot ball, while prciiciog at a targe. H wa selected aa the seernl, nnd expec ted to be called on as such, ia a duel in rojteaipUtion at WjdbinxUXi in 1311, which never took placf. In 18-1-, a Mr. Cochrane, a vouoz lw ftutlent, twenty years old, waa killed near Ua-Inngtou by Julian Mar, fur some rilling or imaginary Affront at an evening party. Ujchrane Went to the field in a coach and four, in high spsriu, humming operatic air. Uheo the combatant i were placed in position, and aiked b7 their seconds if they were reidr. Cochra'-.j promptly answered "Yea!" towini: up his liat iu the air. He wah riiot throuua the iead at the first fire- Mr. May wan after ward appointed a Lieutenant in the nn u i ted rifles, aud ditiaguisbed himself in the -Mexican war; heLi now deid. In ISol H liruliirny, formerly L ni'c i States Senator from Louisiana, was chal lenged and killed by a Mr. Camming, at New Orleans. The newspapers llirnw con siderable ridicule on the affair, raying Mr. received his adversary's shot eomewba'. n the rear, just above his hip joint. Col. .Montgomery was snot io a duei boat a dog; Col. Ramsay in one about a Servant j Mr. Featherstone in one aboli. a goose; Geo. Barry wxs challenged by a dpt. bmith lor declining wine at a dn.uer on a steamboat, although the General pleaded as an exeite that wine invariably made him sick; Lieutenant Crowlhtr lolt his life in a duel because he waa refused admittance fo a club of p'gem shooter.-'. rVSIKRICaX lJlt'Jl.-.o.-tu i.V ft Y lit I V A Iotter received in Washington fa a Syria, dated Occ 12. states that recently a party of Englishmen and two Ameri cana wero charged with having smuggled arms into the interior for tho purpose of overthrowing the government of the Sul tan and placing it in the hands of tha i acba, who had just tost his succession to the viccroyalty of Egypt Tho accused parties claim to have been surveying a- new railroad route, and thut their arms were fur the purpose of defending their employees. At the dato of the Iotter they wcro imprisoned at Damascus. Tha American Consul-general for Syria, and 1 alestino nau sent nis consular clerk, t j the city to demand the release of tho Americana and their delivery to him Lr trial, according to the provisions of ex isting treaties. The Ottoman authorities, frightened at what they supposed to ba a treasonable plot, thus fir bad refused t) release tho prisoners. The English ccn gul seemed somewhat indifferent to tha fato of his own countrymen. Our Con- sul General was endeavoring, while show ing all proper respect for the Turkish gov ernment, to (rive the American prisoners such aid and counsel as was proper The consular clerk was sent to the Turkish Governor General at D.imoseus, and it was supposed that, as he bad experienco in arranging similar difficulties at Joppa, and Jerusalem, his present errand in be half ot hi3 countrymen would be success ful without the necessity of resorting t) formal diplomatic proceedings. TAX o. tValltUfcV. It is said an effort is to ba made by a whiskey Ring, having large amounts on band, to raise it to 5- per gallon. Com missioner Kollina thlnti that l&ngress will not entertain the proposition, as hia report shows tint the receipts from the whiskey tax are largely in excew under the wurt ingt of the new law of the receipts for a corresponding period under the old $2 law. It is mid the receipts will reach the ptimatea of the Commilte of Ways and Means. Cba MjEStos and LtvrooL Steam: Line. Tho aVbra, with great satisfaction, aiinonncai that the steamship Golden Horn, the first of the Liverpool line, has cleared for her port of destination from Charleston, with a cargo of two thousand five hundred aad fifty-three bales of up land and one hundred and eighty-eight bags of tea island cotton. This ship has proven z superior freighter, and with a good run of cotton, well compressed, her capacity would amount to about three thousand balii. J, Marsh il iLtre, local uiitor of the Southern Ofinien, was the author of the article for which Pcliard was amuinated in Richmond.