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.1, THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL ENGELHARD & To lrftOiH oil Letters on PRICE, Proprietors, Business must he addressed. Terms of Subscription. V ( klv raprr. one rear, invariably in advance, $3 00 IV. Six months, " " " 2 00 aily Paper, one year, invariably in advance, $10 00 .six months, 00 thr?t months, one month, 00 00 From the Petersburg Index. LIVES .ITTrX AT THE OKAVE OF C.F.N. T. .1. PETTIGRF.W, OCT. Sleep, -warrior, sWp ! the struggle, The battle-cry ia Lushed, Our standard hae been lowered, Our brightest hope: been crushed ; The valiant hosts that rallied Our glorious cause to Have, Are now among the conquered, Or vith thee in the grave. sleep! for thy name it cheerished By the bravest and the best, And soldiers' hearts and woman's prayers An- with thee in thy rest ; And Fame hath hought a laurel crown And pla-ed it at thy head, While 5lt.-m.urv bedews thy grave With lears, oh noble dead ! They told me thou hadst fallen, Wher in prison I was bound r.y nnes of armed sentinels And the waves that rolled around ; And I weeped tor thee, my chieftain, Wc-pt fur thy early fall ; A Patriot and a llero, Tliv Tiame was loved bv all. lint )i re beside, thee kneeling, Bright liowers, not tears, I give Th' v are treasured in my heart To shed for those that" live. Thi: lluwtrs I joyfully strew o'er thee, Whose record is unstained, For thou hast avou thy freedom, While I am left enchained. II u.r.R.ri. N. C. (J. M. W. Tin- Songs of THe South. :gs of the South .' lias their melody fled, the lips that otiee breathed them, now breathe them Tha no more '? the devotion that waked them now dead, -1' ( ps it awhile r-itu-e the struggle is o'er? i,.. s,,;i-rs f f tin South! there is a spell in each strain, IY waken a rapturous love for our soil ; iiea .;ulc them. O ! proudly and fondly again, hi tin- hon: .- ol mirth or when bending in toil. ; oj ! he b!i lie South! let them swell on the air, siting of dawn has crimsoned the sky, ie-m th . life f.-rvor or evening hymns share, the west reluctantlv die. onirs of the South ! let their notes mingle sweet, :h i'- carol of birds in their own woodland groves, !.ii:i;iiaily bleiKl with sounds ot the street, 1.1 I!: t; k crowded haunts which humanitv loves. I'lie solids ot tin South ! teach our children to sins' Ihe laVf. .'t t ie land which prave them their birth : L" loe tin in , and still ith devotion to cliii" i ride to their home as the dearest on earth From the Augusta Constitutionalist. tiril tOXFEDEUATK DKAD. "Vilmf the lint t of :i Dead Yojingj Soldier. Girl Siii.l 1o the -".gg'-tted by the event of the 2Cth ult., when the ladies Augusta. Ueckt d the graves of the Confederate dead l':i iiouers: I: liiiov.n to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe l'-r you the tenderest of wild-wood liowers ; And o' r vour tomb a virgin's prayer I breathe To greet the pure moon and the April showers. I only know, I only care t know You died for me for me and country bled ; A thousand Springs and wild December snow Will weep for one of all the Southern Dead. 1 vrehni.-ee. some Mother gazes up the skies, Waning, like llachel, for her martyred brave Oh. tor her darling sake, my dewy eyes .Mui.-teii the turi above your lowly "grave. I'ii.- Cause i- sacred, when our maidens stand Linked with sad matrons and heroic sires. Above the relics of a vanquished land And light the torch of sanctifying tires. "leiir bed oi in. nor has a rosy cope To .-himnier bac k the tributary stars ; A : : 1 e . ry pet il glistens with a hope . re l.ove has blossomed in the disc of Mars. ste.. p! On youi conch of glory slumber comes iloMuiied ami'l the Archangelie choir ; Not with the grumble of impetuous drums lJecp'ning U e chorus of embattled ire. Al ow- shall tie"1 oak and cedar fling Their giant plumage and protecting shade ; I 'or you the so lg-bird pause upon his wing And warble i. .piiems ever undismayed. A i-l front n Connecticut Patriot. 'Ik Democracy of New York city appropriately d rated the anniversary of the birth of Thomas ri-Mju on the i:ith iiist., by a festival at the .'.f;i!M.in Doiee, at Tuion Doiee, at, Union Square. Ex-Governor SeVMi.uv, i Connecticut, and Chauncey Burr, of . u Jersey , w. re among the speakers. Mr. Sey-.-.. i ir. in concluding his remarks, said : In Connecticut the Constitution would never have been adopted had not Ellsworth gone to the Convention and assured them, on his oath, that i Ue Constitution did not attempt to coerce sover- ign bodies, defining his meaning of such bodies . s States in their political capacity. Another of the fathers asserted that there was no power in :he Constitution to force a State back into the t nion, as Vuch action would involve the good and lie bad in one common calamity. Had he lived to this day he wot Ad see that state of things fully carried it. hi the struggle to cone we have to bring iio dock together and recruit, it maybe, from the :lier side, in order to preserve the heritage left by our lathers. The oft repeated sentiment of Andrew Jackson, The Union must and shall be 1 reserved, v had been tortured and misconstrued. That sentiment was patriotic ; but he who uttcr e.t it had no idea of coercion as advocated at the resent day. Jt was impossible that the boy who :w his native home laid in ashes by Tarleton, in lunumd f the British foe, and who was com i" lied, in consequence, to fly with his mother in " the mountains of Tennessee, could have wished iiat so aire a fate would ever befall his beloved i.ativc State. In matters of dispute, it is not by swamp angels or ships of war that our countrymen :.iv to bo held in union, but by compromises and ; v aee measures, proving the poet right when he ild that ' the pen is mightier than the sword.' Now we have in vogue the Asiatic form of gov- niment groat armies, great taxes, and that con ii action of the purse and the sword that the Whigs. iu days past, pretended to fear so greatly, besides, we have lost the habeas corpus. Some think it has now been restored; but be that as it may, :i terribte precedent has been set by which fanatical majority may suspend it at any time. Mir mission is to restore the Constitution as it was understood by our fathers, or else we may be sure our form of government will give way to an oli faivhy, or a despotism. The autumn elections ill push the present Congress from their scats, ;o.d then will come the time to attempt a restora tion t f the Union on its original foundations of State rights. In associations of this kind there ia much to be done, and after awhile we may be able to congratulate ourselves on having done our duty in the great cause of advancing peace and consti tutional libertv Ax Oi-t Epitaph. A Trenton paper says : "A walk through the Morrisville burying ground, just over the river, will bring to one's no tice a queer epitaph. It is to Samuel McCracken, i former resident of that village, and bears the b-i lowing addenda to the record of his birth and l' .th : ' If all the leading politicians and priests go to Heaven, I want to get off at some other sta tion.' To put this on his grave stone was the or der of the man by directions found in his will." The Illness of (.Jen. Cass. A letter from De troit states that (Jen. Cass is failing fast. The ve teran statesman passes most of his time in sleep, undisturbed. At rare intervals he wakens up suf iiciently to ask for some of his old friends, who are sent for ; but on arriving, even within the hour, he is generally asleep again. His disease ia soft ening of the brain. A Catholic church for "colored persons" is to '; VOL. 22. STATE NEWS. ihe .North Cabolisa Feeedmen. The bureau lias just received a report from the assistant com missioner oi Treedmen Affairs for the State of iNorth Carolina, which contains the following mat- iers oi interest : me number of destitute and da pendendent freedmen has been gradually reduced lo sucii an exreni mat issues oi rations may soon le discontinued. The demand for labor still greatly exceeds the supply. Notwithstanding mis iact mere are stm large colonies of freedmen at Roanoke Island and Newbern who are not earn ing their support. The freedmen at Roanoke Is land have been notified that they would receive no more supplies after luay 1, and strenuous ef forts are being made to effect their removal. This is not the case with recrard to the paupers about Newbern, on account of the prevalence of small pox in that town. That malady is now decreas ing, and Captain Seely, the local superintendent, has already rented a farm, upon which he intends to place some of the dependents, and require them to do something towards their own support. A 2auper farm is in successful operation at Golds boro', under the direction of Chaplain Glavis, as sistant superintendent, and the freedmen's camp has, in consequence, been broken up. Wash. Chronicle. At the Spring term of Union County Court, a white man named Michael Nash was tried for com mitting rape on a girl, his own cousin. The crime was committed 9 or 10 years ago, when the girl was only 12 years old, but the prisoner escaped and did not return to the State until recently. He was iound guilty. J. II. Wilson, Esq., defended the prisoner, and the Solicitor and E. A. Thomp son, Jbsq., prosecuted mm. Me was sentenced to be hanged on the 1st of June. The Seaboard arid Roanoke Railroad is taxed to its utmost to carry the freights from Norfolk to North Carolina and Eastern Virginia. Northern and Southern companies are buying land in Chatham county, in which it is said oil abounds. The wheat crop of the State is said to be very promising ; the larmers are planting large crops of corn and cotton. Remains of Gov. Ellls. We learn that the re mains of Gov. J. W. Ellis, who died in 1861, while in actual discharge of his Executive functions as Governor of the State, were removed, a few days since from the family cemetery, in Davidson coun ty, to the cemetery of Salisbury. It is intended to erect a suitable memorial in honor of this emi nent statesman and pure patriot. Raleigh. The accomplished authoress of "The I Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina," published in the Watchman, gives the following graphic and life-like picture of the scenes in Ral eigh, immediately preceding the entrance of Gen. Sherman's armies, on the morning of April 13th, isbo. Uur citizens will recognize the exceeding faithfulness of the portraiture : Every door was shut, every window-blind 'was closed. The same absence of all signs of life, the same death-like silence and air ef desertion, the same precautions against intrusion, characterized Fayetteviile street from the Cap itol to the Palace. The reni air seemed shriveled. In the brief interval that elapsed from the retreat of her protec tors to the arrival of her foes, the beautiful city of Ral eigh stood under the outstretched arms of her nob''? oaks, embowered in the luxuriant shrubbery of a thousand gar dens, hist touched with vernal bloom and radiance stood with folded hands and drooping head, in all the mortal anguish of suspense, in a silence that spoke, awaiting her fate ! The North Carolina State Convention convenes, according to adjournment, on the fourth Thurs day of the present month. Pardoxep. We learn from the Raleigh Setitinel that Col. Geo. Little of that city has received his lardon through the hands of Gov. Worth. Personal. We had the pleasure of a visit, on yesterday, from the venerable Hon, Weldon N. Edwards, ot Warren. e were gratihed to see him looking remarkably well. Mr. Edwards warmly endorses the administration of Mr. John son. He thinks that our people should preserve a mild and dignified serenity, and carefully avoid doing anything that may interfere with the suc- ss of the wise and beneficent policy of the Pres ident. Sentinel. 3d inst. About to Return. We understand that'a num ber of the gentry from this place, who had the H- lnois fever so bad that it took them off like gal oping consumption, are trying to get back to Raleigh. Progress. Serious Accident. Last night at the North Car olina depot, a youth named Joseph Adams, son of ilex. Adams, deceased, was caught between two ars 1 y which his jaw-bone was broken, and 'his lead and face otherwise badly injured. He is, lowever, under the care of that excellent physi- --v t-w r -r-r- 1 11 1 1 cian, ur. m. ii. lucivee, ana an is oeing aone to relieve the sufferer that science can devise or sympathy suggest. Progress, 2nd inst. The Wadesborough Argus learns that Gen. A. J. Dargan of that place, has received and ac-. cepted the appointment of aid to the Governor, with the rank of Colonel. Bank of Wapesboro'. The annual meeting of the stockholders of this institution was held at the banking house in this place on Tuesday. Noth ing of general interest was transacted except to elect a Board of Directors, which consists of the following gentlemen : S. W. Cole, Jas. A. Leak, W. G. Smith, J. R. Hargrave, H. B. Hammond, and J. White. Wadesboro' Argus. The Cnors.--Hon. Lewis Hanes, Editor of the Salisbury Old Xorth State, who has just traveled through" the counties of Davidson and Forsythe, says that not more than a half crop of wheat will be" harvested in that section this year, Edoecombe. We learn that a Farmer's Club has been formed in Edgecombe, similar to the one in New Hanover. Greensboro'. We learn from the Patriot that the ladies of Greensboro' are forming a society to bestow care upon the graves of Confederate dead at that place. Fire at Jamestown. We regret to learn that the residence of Mrs. Field, in Jamestown, Guil ford county, was destroyed by fire a few nights since, the result of an accident There was $800 insurance, but the loss sustained is much greater. A Goop Order. Heapq'rs Post op Raleigh, Raleigh N. C, May 3, 1860. Orders, No. G. All officers, enlisted men and civil employees of the Government are hereby forbidden to drive or ride at a gallop or any other fast rate within the city of Raleigh. By command of Brevet CoL Carr, DAVID T. WELLS, 1st Lieut. 8th Infy, Post Adjutant. The next session of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina will be held with the Church of this city, and will commence on Wednesday, the 23rd inst. The following gentlemen are appoint ed to preach the stated sermons : Introductory Sermon, Rev. J. B. Hardwick ; Missionary Ser mon, Rev. John Mitchell. Raleigh Progress. ... Personal. Capt. J. Wall Wilson, is detached from the U. S. steamer Naugatuck and ordered to the .command of the Northerner at Wilming ton, and J. Med. Rosse, is promoted to the com mand of the Naugatuck. We lose an agreeable gentleman in Capt. Wilson, but have a very ac ceptable successor in Lieut. Rosse. Newbern Times Quick Work. A shoemaker in this town made a bet to-day, that he could cut and make a pair of shoes for a customer within three hours. 'He set to work and finished his job, having 17 minutes to spare. The shoes are neatly mad? and well finwhe& (Mfe&crc?' flew, WILMINGTON, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 186G. NEWS SUMMARY. Riot in Falmouth, Va. A terrible riot occurred in Falmouth, Stafford County, Va.,, on he 29th ult., between the whites and negroes. Fifteen negroes were killed outright and a number wound ed. One white man was mortally wounded, and others slightly. The affair created the most in tense excitement, but, at latest accounts, order was partially restored. Acting Private Secretary for the President. Colonel Cooper, Congressman elect from Ten nessee, is temporarily designated as the President's acting Private Secretary. He comes with an en viable reputation for his legal and business ability. Certain evil disposed persons haviner sent a threatening letter to J)r. Wilson, the Principal of a freedmen's school at Columbus. Miss. , the Com mon Council of that city, at a recent meetiner. passed resolutions condemning the act, and guar anteeing protection to Dr. Wilson and his assis tants, so Jong as they may conduct themselves with propriety in obedience to the laws of the land. Congress. Mr. Howe, from the Library Com mittee, reported a joint resolution for the purchase of the library of James L. Pettigrew, of South Carolina, for the law library of Congress. A bill was passed authorizing the briderina: of the Missis sippi at Quincy, Illinois. Refuses to Abpicate. The President has re cently ordered the removal of a prominent post master in Indiana, who refuses to abdicate until his successor has been confirmed by the Senate. That body will probably not do so ; and if not done, the Johnson appointee will appeal to the United States Court to put him in the place, and the question will then be settled whether the Pres ident possesses the right to remove an office-hold er and put another in his place without the con sent of the Senate, while that body is in session. The conservative papers of the North are exult ing on the declining prospects of radicalism. The recent elections justify them in considering it as oft the wane. A thorough union of all the ele ments opposed to the Sumner and Stevens tyrany would soon cvertnrow it. The Cades Bank Robbers Caught. Wheeling, April 30th. The burglars engaged in the robbery of the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, Ohio, were overtaken about two miles from Lagrange, Ohio, this afternoon, when a sharp encounter took place, in which one of the burglars was wounded and three captured. One succeeded in making his escape closely pursued. The amount of money recovered probably exceeds $150,000. The electric telegraph is to be introduced into China, and Dr. Macgowan has been appointed to proceed forthwith, as its commissioner and en gineer, to connect Pekin with Canton. He will be accompanied by a staff of telegraphers, and will employ a system which he long ago advised, by which messages can be transmitted in hiero glyphic characters. Declined to Hold a Coup.t. The court of Nan semond county, Ya., has refused to sit, because of the presence of one of the agents of the Freed men's Bureau, who are sent to all courts South to see what justice is accorded to the nigger. j Kentucky. A grand convention of the Demo crats and Conservatives of Kentucky, was to or- ganize at Louisville on the 1st inst. The hotels were greatly crowded on the previous day, by the delegates who had already arrived. Judge Hook of the Georgia Superior Court has decided that "Greenbacks" are not a legal tender for debts contracted prior to Feb. 25, 1862, the date of the passage of the legal tender act. Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, has issued an ad dress in which he thanks the ladies of Baltimore for the contribution from the proceeds of. the late fair, which they have sent to relieve the distress inGeorgia. "The two European powers which are now eyeing each other with the glare of beligerents, can bring formidable armies into the field. When on a full war-footing the Austrian army consists of 579,000 men. The Prussian army, including the Land wher, or militia, is composed of 566,150 men. Hon. C. C. Clay. The Norfolk -T77im'arc pub lishes, with some very appropriate remarks, the following beautiful letter from Hon. C. C. Clay, to two Federal officers who had charge of him in his captivity: Fort Monroe, April 20, 18GG. Captains Blackman and Landis ; Gentlemen On the eve of departure, and as a last act, I tender you all I have to offer my thanks and grateful acknowledgement of your repeated kind offices and cour tesies to one dearer to me than myself, when in deep affliction, my beloved wife. I may forget it, for I am but a man. The good God never will. May He reward you. Very truly, your friend, C. C. CLAY, Jr. Contributions. Mrs. Paul Ravesies, of Mobile, has collected 31,208 in response to the appeal of the ladies of Winchester, Virginia, for pecuniary aid to collect and suitably reinter the remains of the Confederate soldiers who fell in the vicinity of that city. Sad to Relate. A negro woman employed on the plantation of a Mr. Welsh, in Pontotoc coun ty, Mississippi, recently turned up missing, and upon searching her residence the corpses of her aged mother and four of her children were found. They had starved to death. The fifth child was at the point of death, but with proper- care recov ered. The mother was arrested and turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau. She said she was tired of supporting the brats, and had taken this means to get rid of them. A Doctor Explodes his Laboratory. A terri ble explosion occurred at St. Louis on the 29th ultimo, in Dr. W. O. Cornelius' dental office on North Fifth street, which shook the buildings in th8 whole neighborhood. The Doctor's laborato ry is on the second floor, where he was engaged in melting some vulcanized India rubber in an iron retort for dental purposes. Too much heat was applied, which caused the explosion. It is proposed by the Quartermaster-General to establish three national cemeteries in the Depart ment of Georgia, to which will be removed all the bodies of Union soldiers which do not now rest in graveyards or other permanent and decent grounds, viz : At Atlanta, Andersonville, and eith er Savannah or Milton. There are supposed to be about 30,000 bodies of Union soldiers in the De partment of Georgia. The Price ot Paper. The Cincinnati Gazette, in the course of an arti cle on paper manufacture, says : So far as we know there has been no reduction in the price of paper. This the manufacturers manage to maintain, notwithstanding the fall in goM, and the perfection of. a new discovery by which forest trees can be converted into pulp in five hours, and into paper ready for the printing press in ten hours. . Before the war we bought good news print in this market at 89c. The price is now, with gold at 126, 19c. Thus it is seen, that notwithstanding inventions and discov eries, and the substitution of wood and straw for rags, paper is as high as when gold was 200, and more than double the price current before the war. Yet Congress hesitates about repealing the duty on foreign paper, and the paper manufactu rers, in the face of the facts we hare stated, con tend that the 20 per cent, gold duty is necessary to their-protection But for this duty, paper would not command - over 15 cents per ft to-day, and the publishers would "be able to reduce; their prices correspondingly, but while the gold duty is maintained, it will be in vain to look for relief from the aw vl irtwff ftad wood, I RELIGIOUS ITEMS. The New Methodist Bishops. We see a para graph purporting to be a correct list of the names of the Bishops recently elected by the General Conference now in session at. New Orleans. Strange to say, not one of the names is given correctly. The following will be found to be accurate : Rev. William M. Wightman, D. D., of Greensboro' University, Alabama ; Rev. E. M. Marvin, of Mis souri ; Rev. David S. Doggett, D. D. , of Virginia, one of the editors of the Episcopal Metltodisl, of Richmond ; arid Rev. H. N. McTyiere, D. D. of Louisiana, editor of the Nashville Christian Advo cate prior to the suspension of that parier upon the occupation of Nashville by the Federal army during the war. They are all said to be able di vines. We know Drs. Wightman and Doggett to pe among tne very ablest of their denomination in this country. ' Cholera. Bishop McHvaine has proposedja pray-! er to avert the cholera, which will be read m all the congregations of the diocese of Ohio. There are thirty-seven Protestant churches in Paris, with fifty-four pastors. Fifty years ago there was not one. Wm. C. Peters, the celebrated composer of Church Music, died last week in Cincinnati. There is a split in the Nashville Presbytery. Rev. James King, of Bristol, and another gen tleman, have given $26,000 to found a Presbyte rian theological seminary. A South Carolina Mission Conference has been organized by Bishop Baker, of the M. E. Church South. Roman's "Life of Jesus," an infidel work, was solemnly burnt in the streets by the priests of Rome. A preacher who styles himself the Camp Meet ing Napoleon," nearly caused a riot last week in Concord, N. H. Methodist Protestant General Conference. This body of ministers and laymen delegates from the various annual conferences of the Meth odist Protestant Church, began its session in the Congress Street Church, Georgetown, D. C, last week, representatives being present from North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia. The Conference was called to order by Dr. L. W. Batchelor, on whose motion Rev. W.H. Wil lis of North Carolina, was called to the chair, and Mr. J. G. Cherry appointed Secretary pro teia. Among the members are the names of Revs. W. H. Willis, John Paris, T. H. Pegram, J. H. Page, A. W. Linebery, R. H. Willis, J. C. Deans, min isterial delegates, and Dr. L. W. Batchelor and G. J. Cherry, laymen, of North Carolina. Washington, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, TV. ler and Taylor, were Episcopalians, Jefferson, John Adams, and John Quincy Adams, were Unitarians' ; Jackson, Polk and Lincoln, were Presbyterians ; Van Buren was of the Dutch Reformed Church. The surviving Presidents are Fillmore, a Unita rian, Pierce, a Trinitarian Congregationalist, till recently he joined the Episcopal Church ; Bu chanan, an Episcopalian during the term of his of fice, but is said to have joined the Presbyterians this year; and Johnson is a Presbyterian. The Rccontrurtion Plans ami tlic Next Presiden tial Election Partisan Paer of tlie President's Policy, &c. Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. Washington, May 1. The bearing of the new Republican project of reconstruction upon the next Presidential election will be regarded with much interest by all parties. Should the President's plan of restoration prevail, the eleven Southern States would be represented by loyal men at once, and these would be in full participation with other States of ( all rights as members of the Union. But these States, it is contended by the Republicans, would, with the aid of one or two semi-rebel States, as they choose to term them, and of certain Northern States which are always ready to be demoralized, give a majority of electoral votes for a candidate who tiuld be nominated in opposition to the candi date of the Republican party. Congress will, therefore, persist in measures to defeat this combination. The eleven Southern States are in the Union for some purposes and are acknowledged to be so by two out of three branches of the Federal Government. These States may, and probably will choose presidential electors, according to the provisions of the exist ing constitutions. When the votes are counted, it will belong to the President pro tern, of the Sen ate to count such votes as he pleases, and declare the result. He would either act with his party or not. In either way, if the result be affected by his decision, a political crisis would arise. The proposed constitutional amendment as sumes that the elven Southern States are not in the Union. It is proposed in antagonism to the President's view n and policy. The amendment will pass Congress, even if it go no further. Whether it be ratified or not by the requisite number of States it will settle the presidential election in favor of the republican majority of Congress. If it be not ratified, Congress will assume that the eleven Southern States are not entitled to take part in the presidential election. If it be ratified, then the eleven Southern States will either go with the republicans or bo divided, and, besides, will be curtailed in their number of electoral votes. THE AWARDS IN THE CASE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Washington, May l.-A communication from the Secretary of "Vv ar was received in the Senate to-day, in answer to the resolution requesting all evidence upon which the reward for the capture of Jefferson Davis was based, including a report of General J. H. Wilson, of Colonel Minty, of Lieutenant Colonel Harnden, of Captain Hathaway, of Colonel Pritchard, and lists of officers and men of the Michigan Cavalry. The reports simply give a detail of the parts of the several officers and their commands, and contain nothing of strik ing importance. The party captured consisted of Davis and wife asd four children, John H. Regan, Colonels Harrison and Lubbock, Aid-de Camp to Davis, Burton, N. Harrison, (his private Secreta ry), Major Maurand, Captain Woody, Lieutenant Hathaway, Jeff. D. Howell, (midshipman Rebel navy), and twelve soldiers. Also, Miss Maggie Howell, sister to Mrs. Davis, and one black and one white waiting maid and several servants. Pritchard says : " On returning to camp I was ac costed by Davis from among the prisoners, who asked if I was the officer in command, and upon my answering that I was, and asking him whom I was to call him, he replied that I might call him what or whoever I pleased, when I replied to him that I would call him Davis, and after a moment's hesitation he said that was his name, when he sud denly drew himself up in true royal dignity, and exclaimed : ' I suppose you consider it bravery to charge a train of defenceless women and children ; but it is theft, it is vandalism.' " Major-General Wilson says that neither Colonel Harnden nor Colonel Pritchard knew of the reward that had been offered for the capture of Mr. Davis. ARREST OF AS ALLEGED DEFAULTER BURNING OF A GOVERNMENT STOREHOUSE. Boston, May 1. On Wednesday last Henry -C. Wheeler, of New York, was arrested on board the steamer Asia. Mr. Wheeler is President of the Brunswick and Florida railroad, and also connec ted with the projected Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad Company, who claim that Wheeler with held and secured bonds to the amount of $200, 000. Wheeler was taken before the Supreme Court and committed in default of $200,000 bail. - A "fire occurred this afternoon in South Boston, on Boston wharf,' which destroyed two - one-story buildings, leased by the Government for storing bonded goods, Ajgong the property destroyed m mi NO. 14. was four or five thousand hogsheads of sugar and one hundred hogsheads of molasses. Messrs. At kin3 k Co., and Spalding Burgess k Sons, are among the principal owners. PROCEEDINGS OF THE EPISCOPAL METHODIST CONFER -, ENCE. New Orleans, La., April 29. The committee on boundaries made their final report to-day. Dr. E. W. Sehon, of Louisville, was elected mis sionary, with headquarters at Baltimore. In the place of the ordinance changing the name, this morning, as a whole, it was amended by in serting " Episcopal ;" the title now is the " Epis copal Methodist Church." Correspondence of the Baltimore Sub. The President' Views on tne Subject or Recon structionMr. Dixon's Proposition Tne Repub lican Majority Disturbed and Broken New Fi nancial SchemeA Five per Cent. Loan. Washington, May 2, 1866. The President with the cordial and firm support of the majority of his cabinet, has strongly expressed his disap probation of the report and plan of the commit tee on reconstruction. Further, he has author ized, as you notice, the statement of his own views on the subject of reconstruction, in an explicit and positive and unmistakable manner. He is for the immediate admission of representatives from all the excluded States, and is opposed to any amend- A -- il ill J. j, 1. . mem oi nie coiisuiuuon until an tne states shall have an opportunity to participate in framing it, through their representatives in Congress. Senator Dixon offered a proposition in the Sen ate to-day, which reflects the views of the Presi dent, and will be heartily concurred in bv the American people, declaring that when any one of the lately rebellious States shall present itself not oniy in an attitude ot loyalty, but represented by men capable of submitting to constitutional tests, it shall be admitted to the right of representation. The apparent and pretended unanimity of the Republican majority of the committee infavor of the committee's scheme is already disturbed and broken. It was only a pro forma report, excited by the expressions of public dissatisfaction at the delay of the committee to . do anything. No two or three of the committee concur in the report, cuiu lb it niiciy 10 unuergo tiuKering in tne House, even by the members of the committee them selves. It is a complete abortion. ' Senator Sherman has introduced a very impor tant and plausable financial scheme in the form of a bill to reduce the interest on the public debt and fund the same. He proposes to fund the whole maturing debt in thirty year bonds, at five per cent, interest, both principal an interest payable in coin. The bonds are to be subject to no taxa tion, Federal, State or municipal. The amount saved by the reduction of the rate of interest is to be appropriated as a sinking fund towards the payment of the public debt. SECRETARY STANTON AND THE PRESIDENT. Washington, May 2. Some of Mr. Stanton's friends deny that he took ground in the Cabinet meeting yesterday in favor of tho President's re construction policy, but it is known that the pub lished statement was furnished by a prominent member of the Cabinet. A FENIAN PRIVATEER. Eastport, Me., May 2. A custom house official, who has just returned from Quebec, states that some armed Fenians left there in a small fishing vessej this morning, and were put on board of a large schooner back of Grand Marion, N. B. Eastport, Me., May 2. The United States steamer Winooski has just left the harbor in pur suit of the Fenian privateer. nominations rejected and confirmed. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Washington, May 2. The Senate rejected to day the nomination of General Blair for Collec tor of Internal Revenue at St. Louis ; also J. V. L. Findlay, for Collector of Internal Revenue for second Congressional district, Baltimore. William T. Parke was confirmed as Surveyor of the port of New Orleans. Eastport, Me., May 2. The schooner said to be a Fenian privateer was boarded by the custom-house officers at Quebec, this morning, and a large number of armed men were found on board. She has Fenian arms on board. charge of heavy forgery. New York, May 2. John Ross, a stock specu lator in Exchange Place, has been arrested on a charge of forgery. He had purchased $50,000 in gold each from Messrs. Black & Spalding, and J. S. Cronise, "paying for the same by his own certi fied checks on the Continental Bank. The certifi cates, it is alleged, proved forgeries. Ross is said to have forged the signature of A. Speyer to two check on the Union Bank for $64,500 each, and the certificate as the paying tellers, and also two cheecks on Howes & Macy, amount not stated. FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE MEMPHIS BIOT. Memphis, May 2. Some negroes in South Memphis fired on a citizen this morning, wound ing him and a white woman. The sheriff with a posse attempted to disarm the negroes, but they fled to the fort, firing as they ran. They Mere driven from the fort this evenitfg, and sought the woods. During the excitement seven negroes and one citizen were killed and a few houses were burned. The military have been under arms all day. All is quiet to-night, but fears are entertained that the negroes will attempt to burn the town, but they are groundless. Up to this time fifteen black and four white men have been killed. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Washington, May 2. The following is a state ment of the public debt of the United States on the 1st of May, 1866 : . debt bearing coin interest. Fivfc per cent, bonds $198,241,100 00 Six per cent, bonds of 1867-8 18,323,591 80 Six per cent bonds of 1881 283,744,154 00 Six per cent. 3-20 bonds 685,784,000 00 Total debt bearing coin interest $1,186,092,841 80 DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST. Six per cent, bonds $4,634,000 00 Temporary loan 131,497,853 62 Certificates of indebtedness 62,620,000 00 One and two years 5 per cent notes 6,046,900 00 Three-year compound interest notes 167,012,141 00 Three-year 7-30 notes 861,512,650 00 Total debt bearing currency interest. ..$1,188,313,544 62 Matured debt not nresented for pay ment 877,729 64 DEBT bearing NO INTEREST. United States notes $415,163,318 00 Fractional currency 28,192,017 54 Gold certificates of deposit 9,036,420 00 Total debt bearing no interest $452,392,755 54 Total debt.' $2,827,676,871 60 Amount in Treasury (coin) $76,676,107 02 Amount in Treasury (cur rency) 67,310,621 80 Total amount in Treasury $137,987,028 82 Amount of debt, less cash in the Treas ury .. . ..: $2,689,689,842 78 The above ia a correct statement of the public debt, as appears, from the books and Treasurer's returns in the Depaf fment on the first of May, 1866. . . Huon McCcllocii, ' Secretary of the Treasury. President Johnson's message was read in China forty-three days after its delivery in Washington city. It was telegraphed to San Francisco, and carried thence to China by a vessel which made the voyage in forty days. General Gregory has returned from a tour in the interior of Texas. He reports that vigorous plan tation work is successful, and the crops will be the largest ever raised in. that State. " Clie wife'ahcl children of Ex-Governor "Isham 0. Harris, later of Tennessee.- but tow of CordotSj Mexico, reached Paducah on the sixth instant, en route for their new home in Mexico, TERMS OV ADVKRTIS1IVO. 1 square, of 10 lines or less, for each and every inser tion, fl. ' Special Notices will be charged $2 00 per square for each and every insertion. All Obituaries ana private publications of every charac ter, are charged as advertisements. 3-No advertisement, reflecting upon private charac ter, can, under aitt cracTTMSTAKCES, be admitted. PERSOML. President Lincoln died on the fourth anniver sary of the day on which he issued his proclama tion calling for 75,000 volunteers April 15, 18G1. Judge Lucas P. Thompson, of the Supremo Court of Appeals, one of the ablest of Virginia's jurists and purest of her sons, died in Staunton on Saturday. Millard Fillmore approves President Johnson's policy, in a private letter to him. Tho Tribune adds that he was a friend to the South throughout the war. The Rev. Mr. Minnigerode. of Richmond, spent Thursday with Ex-President Jefferson Davis, ad ministering the sacrament, kc. Mr. Clay was not allowed to say a parting word to his fellow prison ers. General Lee's name does not appear in tho list of Southern officers who have applied to tho Pre sident for pardon. The President has specially pardoned Cen. Har ry Hays, of Louisiana. A youncrlady just out of her teens is the Latin and Greek Professor of a Kansas college. General Granfis to sit for a bust ' Simmons, a young sculptor from Boston, who has a studio in Washington. General Frank Blair has rented tation near Vicksburg. a cotton plan- Captain James D. Johnson, (late) Confederate States Navy, has become one of tho editors and proprietors of the Mobile Tribune. General Wheeler is about to bo made Superin tendent of the Montgomery and Eui'ala Railroad. MnC. L. Vallandigham is making a visit to Washington his first for sevei'al years. Rev. J. L. M. Curry, formerly a distinguished member of Congress, is now an ordained minister of tho Baptist Church, and tho IVcsidcnt of How ard College, Alabama. Seventeen Massachusetts Colonels were killed during the war. Volk, the Chicago sculptor has finished a bus of Mr. Lincoln, to bo exhibited at tho Paris Ex position. Respect to the Gallant Df.ad. When tho corpse of Gen. Robt. Hatton, L;to of tho Confed erate Armv, was being earned through the streets of Nashville, tho other day, a group of United States officers, who happened to be noar tho lino of procession, raised their hats and stood uncov ered until tho remains had passed them. General Hatton fell in the bloody struggle of Seven PineR, below Richmond. The Harrisburg Telegraphist informed that ex President Buchanan intends taking tho stump for Clymer, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania. The friends of Admiral Raphael Semmes liavo placed him in nomination for Judge of tho Pro bate Court for Mobile County. IIo will, of coursu bo elected. Miss Augusta J. Emails, of Mobile, is taking an activo part in tho raising of funds to protect tho graves of: Confederate soldiers who fell during tho war. A New Orleans letter says that Hon. J. r. Benja min has already taken rank as " a good iirst-clas lawyer" in England, and that ho will scttlo thero permanently. Genebal Forrest Bailed. Gen oral Forrest has been admitted to bail in tho sum of ten thou sand dollars, in Yazoo city, without aoy prelimi nary investigation into the killing of tho negro.on his plantation. General Cabell, who was captured with General Marmaduke during the Confederate invasion of Missouri, is keeping a boot and shoo stoic at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Later from Europe. New York, April 30. The steamer Allemanla with advices from Southampton to tho lbth, arrived. ha.1 THE GERMAN QUESTION. German advices continue to be more reassur ing, and there is a growing belief in peace. A. Vienna telegram of tho 18th says Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Saxony, Baden and Darmstadt arc quite united on the German federal question, and should war occur they would all be on tho side of Austria. Their agreement encourages a hope that peace will not be disturbed. The Berlin correspondent of tho London Times says that Count Bismark has repeatedly tendered his resignation within the last few days, but has been unable to obtain the sanction of tho King to his withdrawal. A modification of the Cabinet will probably be accelerated by tho Emperor of Austria having informed the Emperor of tho French that under certain circumstances ho would not object to lay tho question of tho Duchies be fore a European congress. The writer says most positively that no concentration of troops lias taken place in any part of Prussia, and that there is not a trace of any measure capable of being construed as aggressive. Peace meetings continue to be held in the largo towns throughout Prussia. The text of Prussia's reply to the Austrian dispatch of tho Cth inst. is published. It dwells especially on tho admitted movements of Austrian troops on tho Prussian frontier, by which Prussia was led to take defens ive measures, and says if Count Mensdorff, after the Emperor had passed his word that no aggression is intended by Austria, still continues to make mihtary preparations, it cannot be expected that Prussia, an equally clear denial of hostile inten tions having been given by the King, should re linquish those defensive measures which were called forth by the attitude of Austria. The Prussian answer to England's remonstrance is said to be cold and haughty. The Austrain an swer says : "Austria does not ask an inch of land in tho Duchies, nor will she accept it. Prussia wishes to annex the Duchies, ami .u.sfria is hound to support the rights of tho S hh swig-Uolstein people. She will not dictate to them, but re quires that tho will of tho peoplo and tho Diet should be respected: The Prussian and Austrian troops should be withdrawn and tho peo ple should choose their government by universal suffrage. Austria accepts their decision, even if in favor of Prussia. A Copenhagen telegram says that the govern ment of Denmark has received communications which compel it to assume a less hostile attitude in the German dispute, and it has adopted resolu tions of an important character. ' RUSSIA. There was great rejoicing ut St. Petersburg and elsewhere on account of the Emperor's escape from the attempt to assassinate hinu The man who attempted the Em;x-ror s life is a Russian, a landowner of small means, who consid ered himself injured by fhe emancipation of tho serfs. He discharged a pistol within a few fret of the Emieror, and the shot would probably havo taken effect had not a iwasant turned aside the as sassin's arm. This peasant has been ennobled for his effort. It is wuM that tho Emperor, with per fect presence of mind, himself seized the culprit, asking him quietly, 44 What have I ever dono to you that you should seek my life ? Nearly all the leading mail routes in Texas havo been reconstructed, and postmasters who can tako the test oath appointed. Admiral Semmos arrived in Molo on FrMay w b he received a most cordial greeting at i the'hands of his friends.
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