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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL. WILMINGTON, N. C, PBIDAY. OCTOBER 5.1866. National Troubles. It must be apparent to the minds of every one that it is the determination of the rad ical party to prevent, if possible, the set tlement of onr National difficulties upon any basis tending to peace and harmony. They prefer -war and discord ; they care more for the success of their party than for the interests of the country, and are will ing to go to any extreme to perpetuate their power. In all of their public meetings, recently held at various points at the North, there has been a spirit of malevolence, and of the most intense hatred exhibited to ward the Southern people, entirely unwar ranted and unprovoked by any action on our part Wendell Phillips threatens us with the block and the axe ; that hideons abortion, Brownlow of Tennessee, shouts for the torch and turpentine ; the Beast of Massa chusetts, demands the gibbet and the rope ; and Thad. Stevens, with the smile of a hye na, consigns us all to the penitentiary of helL We are threatened with a war, in comparison with which our recent struggle will appear but child's play, and all the ap pliances that ingenuity can conceive, or malice invent, are brought to bear upon the minds of the Northern people, to urge them on to this carnival of blood. What has the South done since the ter mination of hostilities to cause this state of feeling on their part towards us ? We ac cepted the terms proposed with the most perfect good faith, promptly ratified every demand made upon us, have rigidly ad hered to all the conditions imposed, and have faithfully observed the obligations of the oath we took. In fact, our submission has been abject to the national authority. We venture the assertion that, within the limits of the late Confederacy, there is no feeling but that of a universal desire for peace. Not a single warlike ripple disturbs the calm that prevails, our people are hard at work endeavoring to bring order out of chaos, to build up their ruined homes, to provide, if possible, even by the sweat of their brows, a means of support for thoza dependent upon them, and all they ask is to be let alone. They have had miseries enough to almost make them wish to " curse God and die." Is it generous, is it magnanimous, is it in keeping with the character of a people claiming to be educated and refined, thus to traduce a fallen foe and to excite the worst passions of the multitude against him ? The intention of the leaders of the radi cal party to place the South in a position antagonistic to the government, is evident, and has an apt illustration in the well known fable of iEsop, and would be amusing, were it not for the vindictive spirit exhibi ted. The idea of charging upon us the flpsiro to inaugurate another civil war, is simply absurd. We have not the dispo sition, even if we had the means or the ability, to carry it into effect, and if lift minds of the majority at the North were not poisoned by the lead nri nf the republican warty, they could not for a moment entertain such a suspi cion. We have done all that a people could do to convince the most sceptical of our sincerity ; we are anxious for peace and quietness ; have no disposition for any fur ther strife and bloodshed, and are deter. mined to discharge our duty as good citi zens of a common country and entitled to equal protection under its laws. If there is to be no peace ; if the future is to be but a continuation of the miseries of the past, the radical party will alone be re sponsible. We can bear it with fortitude whatever fate may be in store for us ; can submit with dignity to any suffering that may be imposed upon us ; can make every sacrifice, except to compromise our honor. That we will never surrender, for it i3 all that makes life valuable. We will cling to it at al' hazards will cling to it like the shipwrecked mariner to the solitary plank that bears him up, amidst the wild waste of waters around him the last and only life buoy left him in the terrible disaster which lias befallen him. Raleigh. We were glad to notice, during our re cent visit to Kaleigh, evidences of improve ment in that city. We were especially grat fied with the repairs and improvements to the Capitol. It has been thoroughly cleansed, painted and repaired, and the en tire furniture renovated, and the building properly lighted with gas. Mr. Best, the energetic Secretary of State, to whom this work has been entrusted, deserves credit for the manner in which it has been done. The Messrs. Tucker, of that city, are build ing a magnificent store-house on the Burnt District," to meet the demands of a large wholesale and retail trade. Above the store-room there will be a Hall for pub lic exhibitions, of ample dimensions. This will supply a want long felt in that city. We noticed several other substantial build ings going up on the burnt square near the Market House. The most interesting feature we noticed in Raleigh, was an unusual large number of maimed citizens, who lost their limbs during the war, while gallantly serving their State as soldiers, having measures taken or receiving artificial legs. We felt much pride, as we saw that these noble men who had suffered and lost so much in the service of North Carolina had not been left unnoticed, but that the State was dis playing its gratitude in the most substan tial manner. The greatful feelings with which her gallant but unfortunate sons re ceive this evidence of the appreciation of their services by the State, must be gratify ing to the eminent member from Craven, in whose patriotism this action was con ceived and carried out, as it is to every honorable citizen of the State. The thorough manner in which the work is ex ecuted, and the very general satisfaction given thus far, reflects credit upon Gov ernor Worth, and Mr. Ryan, who has spe cial charge of the matter. Some political excitement, of course, exists- about Raleigh more of a local than .State character, however the issues being the Howard amendment and Repudiation. We believe nearly, if not all, the candidates are opposed to the former, but divi ded in reference to the latter. We were told that Wake county, which gave Gov. Hclden upwards of fourteen hundred ma jority last Fall, will give a majority for Governor Worth at the ensuing election. Kaleigh can boast of the very best hotel we have ever stopped at in the South. The Exchange Hotel, under the new manage ment of Mr. J. M. Blair, of Asheville, is ! most excellent in the neatness and cleanli ness of its rooms and furniture, the quality and quantity of its fare, and the urbanity and attention of its employees, and is an ornament to the city. The Trial of Ex-Presiflent DavU. The manner in which this case has been delayed, and made tbe subject of judicial jest by high officials, has become a reproach to the Government. Journals, the most radical in their hatred to the South and the eminent prisoner, who languishes in unlaw ful confinement, begin to glow uneasy and restless in reference to the course being pursued in regard to the trial of ex-Pi csi dent Davis. It has become a mere shuttle cock to be knocked about at random by the hatred of Congress, the political aspirations of Chief-Justice Chase and the malignant and reckless ignorance of Judge Under wood. Jn his message to Congress, in December last, the President represented it a.s most desirable that the trial should take place, but stated that the Chief-Justice was unwil ling to hold a Court for that purpose in Virginia, in which State only a trial could be had, as long as the military law was mi- perior to the civil. So long as we believed this officer to be influenced by honest mo tives, we gave him credit for a position we thonght commendable in a bold and in corruptible Judge. The President, how ever, in April last, issued his proclamation which removed this objection, but still the Chief-Justice did not try the case. True the Court was held by Judge Underwood and the case called, when the eminent counsel who represented the prisoner, de clared themselves ready, but without a single reason beiug given, and with an un seemly jest, the trial was postponed until the next term, which was to be held on the first Tuesday in October, at Richmond. It now appears that the Chief -Justice again desires to shirk responsibility in the matter of this trial, this time upon a mere technicality. He now thinks that it is not explicitly understood that martial law is abrogated in Virginia, and has advised the President to issue another proclamation making it clear that civil law is supreme in that State. He himself interprets the late peace proclamation as the President does, that it abrogates martial law, but on account of the misinterpretations put iqon the pro clamation by various military commanders, he declines to try the case unless another and more explicit proclamation is issued. We more than suspect the truth to be that the Chief-Justice shrinks from the or deal of the trial inasmuch as his secession record is worse than that of ex-Presideut Da vis, and not only as a politician and lawyer, but as Governor of Ohio in Ib5'. he is com mitted to the most ultra States' rights doc trines, having at that time repeated ly threatened, if necessary, to resist the Fed eral Government by forte, in the difficulties then pending between the Federal and State Courts in relation to the celebrated Oberlin fugitive slave rescue cases. The delicate sensibilities of the Chief-Justice regarding the sacredness of the judicial ermine, and in view of the exposures to be made by the talented counsel of the prison er, can well bo appreciated. We now learn from the yation.it intelli gencer, that "Judge Underwood and the Chief-Justice have come to the conclusion, that because of the legislation of the last Congress, the adjourned Court cannot be held, consequently the case of Mr. Davis, with all others, must be postponed to a future day." The Chief-Justice and his District Judge do not inform us what the legislation is that renders necessary this farther delay. In the meantime, the prisoner languishes in steadily declin ing health, and his family is rapidly com ing to want, while the honor of a great country is being sacrificed at the hands of its highest judicial officers to protect per sonal reputation, advance personal aspira tions, and appease political animosities. It seems never to have been detiuitely settled whether Mr. Davis is in military or civil custody whether he is to be tried for complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln, or for treason against the United States. We can hardly believe that Presi dent Johnson regard him as being held under military authority, for he tvouldlong since have released him on paroje pt order ed his trial before a military tribuual ; nor do we think, after the Conover exposures, there is any dauger of the assassination charges being pressed. For the sake of the reputation of the high officials involved and of the Government itself, we hope this chapter, which records one of the most cold blooded and high-handed transactions which has ever disgraced the archives of a couu try, shall not be indelibly stamped upon the history of the times by the solemnity and feacredness of a trial. If , on the other hand, he is to be tried be fore the proper civil tribunal for hereon, he should be handed over to the civil authori ties to answer the complaint that will be brought against him. There can possibly be no legal or honest difficulty in thewty pf prompt action, and he is entitled to a speedy trial, and his continued imprisonment is a scandal to the country. xne Charleston iouner learn irom a private letter received from the estimable wife of the distinguished prisoner, that Mr. Davis' health continues to decline, and that the pecuniary circumstances of his family are becoming very embarrassing, Friends who have lately visited him are be- coming sausnea mac 11 me seventeen months imprisonment to which the Gov ernment has already subjected him, is much longer continued that a trial beforen earthly tribunal will never take place, but that his prison doors will soon be opened JL J i ii 11 m t At" and his chains will fall from about him, and he will be summoned before the great Court above, before which, Judge and Prisoner, Captor and Ca ptive, will alike be ordered to appear. ' Slander I Slander X Gen. Wright, of Georgia, savs lie wan on the Committte that drafted the resolutions in the Johnson Philadelphia Convention in favor of duly rewarding Union Soldiers, and that he took care to have them so worded aa not to commit the Gov ernment ; for, if the South ever gets into power again, all pensions to Union Soldier shall be cut off unless ths Confederate Soldiers are put on the same footing." We clip the above from the editorial col umns of the Standard. We have often thought that paper, under the baneful influ ence of its senior editor, was, with reckless indifference to both truth and results, giving editorial sanction to the mischievous falsehoods of the Radical presses and ora tors in their bitter warfare against the honor and interests of the South. It required no denial of the above from the gallant gentleman to whom it was attri buted, to prove to us that it was totally false. An acquaintance with General Wright in the trying ordeal of the past few years enables us to endorse him as the very type of honor and truthfulness. His conduct as a gentleman and officer was such as would convince any one that deception was not an element in his nature. His course, un like his slanderer, has' been such as not to deceive Northern citizens or soldiers during the war, or since its termination. Gen. Wright, through the columns of the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel, of which he is an editor, thus refers to this matter : The above statement we find in the Troy Daily Times of the 122nd. It is perhaps useless to deny a statement so absurd, for denial here is uiirieeessa ry,as indeed it is anywhere thatthe character of the troy Tones is known. We have no idea that one who is ban6 enough to perpetrate such a slander will have the manliness to publish a denial of its truth, aud, if he did, would bo sure to invent .ome other canard equally mischievous. General Wright never wrote a line that, could be tortured into any such sentiments. He does not expect to cut off the Union soldiers from their pensions, nor has he anv hope that Confederate soldiers will ever be allowed anv place in the pension li-st." It thus appears that the Standard has given editorial sanction to Uio uase slander of the Troy Times. We can well under stand why these Radical papers publish such willful falsehoods upon our leading citizens, for such is the capital by which they are attemptiug, and we fear with too much success, to break down the Adminis tration of President Johnson and the efforts of the Conservatives to restore the Union upon honorable and constitutional grounds, but we cannot appreciate what truthful and honest motive a North Caroli nian, who has held high civil position and has yet higher aspirations, nay even con scientiously desires to bo respected among his fellow-men, can have to give publicity to the statements of these false witnesses against our own people. The e.rpechtlions which prompt, such conduct must be truly fascinating, but alas what have we to say of the heart which conceives it. Omrougness of flic Method of Tuxing Cottou, The National Intelligencer of the 22d says practical difficulties have arisen in the col lection of the tax of three cents a pound upon the cotton crop. A memorial of plant ers and others set forth that, under the pres ent law, planters and cultivators cannot move a bale of cotton until it passes the satraps of the Internal Revenue Commis sioner Department. They cannot even send a wagon-load to market to purchase pro visions for plantation supplies until they go, hat in hand, and beg some assessor or tax collector to weigh their cotton aud grant a permit to send it to market. These assessors or collectors cannot be found in the planting districts. They are in the towns. They do not go to the cotton plantation. The planter must send it to them, and, with much delay and expense, obtain his certificate of the payment of the tax, before he can sell. The producer has generally exhausted all his means, and has no money to advance to the Government before his crop is marketed. The memorialists say that the restric tions at present imposed to moving the cot ton, in addition to the heavy tax assessed upon it. will tend seriously to discourage further production of that staple, and will thus act injuriously upon the entire finan cial condition of the country. If the plan ter cannot ship his orop to mark3t without beiDg compelled to sacrifice a large part of it to the rigors imposed by onerous regula tions, he will naturally turn his attention to a different system of agriculture. The remedy proposed for the considera tion of the Treasury, is to include iu one collection district all the cotton-growing regions, and allow the producer or factor to send his cotton to any shipping point in the district. The Government, by estab lishing suitable regulations for receiving the cotton at the points of delivery, for weighing it where every facility for that purpose exists, and for bonding it until sold, or for receiving the tax from tb mer chant or other holder, would secure a prompt payment of the tax, with less liability to fraud, at a smaller c ost to the Government, and in a way less expensive and annoying to the planter and to the merchant. That this remedy will be resorted to is i very probable, lor it is quite within the power of the Secretary of the Treasury to adopt it. If the cotton crop should amount to two million of bales, of four hundred and fifty pounds each, the tax payable to the Gov erument will be twenty-seven millions of dollars, whLih will fall chiefly on the domes tic purchaser and consumer. Such is the scarcity of currency in the cotton-growing States that the Government tax cannot be paid in advance of the shipment and sale of the cotton. We are requested to state that GofoneJ Walter L. Stogie of Kichmond county, wilj deliver n Address before the Duplin Coun ty Vine-Growing and Agricultural Society, at Kenansvjlle, on Friday, ggth of Novem ber next. We congratulate the Society in. securing the services of a gentleman so capable of giving the proper impetus to their ne$r as sociation, and whose reputation as a scien tific agriculturalist will warrant them in expecting an address worthy the great inter est they have manifested in the objects of the Society, Manufactured Newi. . The JV1 Y. Journal of Commerce, in an elab orate article under the above head, speaks of the custom practiced by many papers in the North and West, of manufacturing special dispatches, purporting to be from the South, and which speak in no favorable terms of the Southern people. That paper denounces the custom, and speaks of it as contemptible in the extreme, and says that the Louisville papers have recently exposed a large number of special dispatches of that character. Many papers at the North are overflow ing daily with such dispatches, which, by the majority of their readers, are gladly taken for the truth, when really they are the grossest falsehood. The fact is, the publication of news of this character pays, and observing the avidity with which it is perused, when not obtained through false-hearted, unprincipled North ern men at the South, bogus dispatches are manufactured inthe office of publica tion, iu order to pander to the popular ap petite. I40 doubt, in the majority of cases, these dispatches are written at the North, but we have many instances of their having been written on Southern soil, but are none the less manufactured for all that. We have not forgotten the memorable communica tions concerning our own city, written by Beadle and Ashley of Freedmen's Bureau repute, nor the correspondence with "deown East " papers, from employees of other departments of the government, in oar midst, the whole of which abounded in falsehood from beginning to end, and were calculated to heap oppression upon the heads of a people who were innocent of the wrongs thus imputed to them. Would that the attention of the people of the North was directed to the examina tion into, and the correction of their own domestic evils, with that fervor which they display in endeavoring to remodel, in their own peculiar way, the internal affairs and government of the South. Battle's Digest. We are glad to see that the Law Volumes of Battle's Digest have been issued and are for sale. The volumes before us are complete and very full. The learned and indefatiga ble Judge, who has prepared this work, af ter years of most devoted labor, has placed the profession under obligations, which we hope they will be prompt in acknowledg ing. The entire work is to be published in three volumes, the first two containing the Law, and the third the Equity cases. The third volume will bo ready for delivery in a few days. The Law cases comprising the first and second volumes, in some editions are bound together, giving the purchaser a choice of procuring the entire work in two or three volumes. All who have examined the. work, are highly pleased with the Digest. The p r.nts decided are distinctly stated, and the ar rangement of the cases is simple and na tural. No lawyer should be without a copy. The work can be purchased of Nichols, Gorman v Neithery, Raleigh. tic". Dockiry Declines. We had uot supposed for an instant, that Gen. Dockery would accept the nomina tion tendered him by the little caucus which assembled lately in the SUwuard office, but thought he was only mentioned in this connection to enable certain " mi mistakably " patriotic politicians to make ni their record, in order to secure Federal patronage in the event of a Radical Ad ministration succeeding that of President Johnson. Mark our word, that a majority of the caucus and the Executive Commit tee, expect to secure appointments or reap the benefit of the proseritive clause of the Howard amendment. We give the correspondence between Go Dockery and the Committee : Kaleigh, Sept., 21, I860. To the Hon. Alfred Dockery: Peak Sir : The underpinned were appointed a committee, by the Union Meeting held in llaleigh on yesterday, the Uth. to inform you of yowr nom ination for the office of Governor of North Caroli na, and to reqiient vour acceptance of the same. You were selected without a dieiitin voice as the most suitable citizen to represent the Union sentiment of Jsorth Carolina. The restoration of the Union was felt by the meeting to be the para mount, all-absorbing question of the day. We have no doubt you concur with us in thisvitw, and we trust the resolutions adopted by the met t inpr will receive vour approval. With your assistance at the helm, th? ship of State, though surrounded by breakers, on every Bide, will yet weather the storm, and reach the only safe haven for her people the great nation al government founded by Washington. Sincerely trusting, sir, that you will accept the nomination thus tendered, aud devote what time is left to canvassing public questions, we have the honor to be, with high respect, Your obedient servants, J. F. TAYLOR, of Wake. ) H. J. M EN NIXGEE, of Craven, r Comm. E. T. BLAIR, of Randolph, Richmond County, Sept. 27, 1866. Taylor, II. J. Menuinyer, and & Messrs. J. T Blair : r. Gentlemen : Yours of the 21st instant, bv the hand of our friend Mr. Logan, has been received. Accept the assurances of my regard for this addi tional manifestation of trust and confidence re posed in me, by our friends assembled in llaleigh on the 20th instant, and my thanks for the very complimentary terms in which yon have been pleased to maice known to mo tne action of the meeting. 1 regret, gentlemen, to say that after mature re flection, eircinistarices of a personal character. connected with the few days that will intervene before the day of election, precluding tire possi bility of even a partial canvass of the State, com- el mo most respectfully to Uecliue the candidacy 6iidered me by the meeting in Haleigh. Allow me. however, to assure you that the resolutions and most excellent address adopted by the meeting, in the main have my most cordial approval. I greatly prefer the Howard amendment, with its reference of negro suffrage to our own Legis lature, than to risk the next Congress, which, in all probability, will pass a much more stringent law upon that subject. I also vastly prefer the restrictions unon office holders, about which the secession organs clamor so much, to more general proscription, with the confiscation of our lands, of which there is great danger, should the proposed amendment be re jected. 1 he argument in favor of immediate represen tation iu Congress cannot be answered. As well might a General be expected to resist a well-ap pointed army, or storm a stronghold without soldiers, as for our interests in Congress to be de fended until our members shall have been admit ted. And as President Johnson and Secretary Seward, as well as the Congress, have reneatedlv declared the test-oath to be a pre-requisite condi tion of admission, the people ought to invite all our tyember elect who cannot comply with the required conditjon, to retire", anji let others who can com- fly be elected, as an in'dispensable step towards larmony and restoration. ' Mqst respectfully yours, Au'bed DopKxnr. Fudge Barnes. 4 Correspondent from Duplin county speaks jn ftp highest terms of Judge Barnes, vho presided at the terw oi hp Superior Court for that pounty held last week. He is represented as a prompt and determined officer, and a most efficient Judge. The law-abiding . people of the county were much pleased 'with him. The Choleba. Three cases of fatal sickness have occurred during the last few days, which the Medical Faculty pronounce to be Cholera: The subjects were negroes of the same family living on the premises of Mr. H. A. Bagg, corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets. We have been reliably inr formed that no other cases have occurred and none now exist. The last death happened yesterday morning. The city authorities have taken every precau tion to prevent the spread of the disease, and we think there is no cause for alarm. Our citizens however, should be prudent. We publish in this issue a few simple, and, we believe, salutary directions from a gentleman of great experience in the disease. Our country menus need feel no uneasiness in visiting the city as usual. We. will advise them should the disease be pronounced epidemic. The Choleba. Of course the report of the cholera being in our city created considerable ex citement, and gave rise to many unfounded ru mors in regard to the spread of the disease. It is a noticeable fact, that if but one case of an in fectious disease is ofticiallv reported to be in a place, every person who is taken sick at or subse. ouent to that period, is said to be laboring under the effects of the infectious complaint. Tt was ru mored that two cases of cholera had occur red at the Seamen's Home, but we have been officially informed by Mr. Williams, Superinten dent of the Home, that thore was oot a particle of truth' in the rumor ; that there had been two sick seamen brought to the Home, but their complaint was nothing but common chills and fevers We have been very particular in our inquiries, and we are informed by several of the Medica Faculty, that no case of the disease now exists within our city : that it has from the first been confined to the lot upon which the first case oc curred ; and that there is no danger of its being communicated to other localities, as it will proba bly be entirely eradicated within a day or two. The public need have no fear. The progress cf the disease is rendered improbable, and there need be no anxiety in regard to the occurrence of other cases. All exaggerated and unofficial ru mors t-hould not be credited. Should other cases be officially reported, or discovered to exist, we will advise the public. Lodged i' Jail. Win. Wriglit Parker, the mur derer of Win. Childress, of whom we spoke as be ing held in the jail at Greensboro', arrived here Monday night under charge of officer Sellers, and is now safelv lodged in jail. After Mr. Sellars arrived in Greensboro' and had taken Parker in custody, the prisoner informed him that had ho (Mr. Sel lars) arrived twenty-four hours later, he would have been too late, as he (the prisoner) would have by that time escaped from jail, that he had been cutting a hole in the side of the prison, with a fair chance of success. An examination was made and Parker's statement found to be correct. He is a during fellow and it will be well to take every precaution to guard against his escape. TnE Journal. The Wilmington Journal en tered upon its 15th year on the '28th ult. It is a valuable paper, and deserves an enlarged circula tion. Goldsuoro jews. We are somewhat surprised that our cotempo" rary of the News should have no more veneration for old age than to try to detract from the num ber of years which entitles it to veneration. The error which he has, no doubt, inadvertently made, we would take occasion to correct. The Journal, instead of recently entering upon its fifteenth year has entered upon its fifteenth. JEFFERSON WAVIS. TIic Impending Trial Tlie ObstatUs in tlie "Way A Succinct Statement. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun gives the following additional intelligence in relation to the trial of this distinguished State prisoner : THE NEWSrArEltS AND THE TRIAL. The various speculative paragraphs pub lished within the past week with reference to the trial of Jefferson Davis are calculated to mislead rather than enlighten Ihe pub lic mind, bo tar as tne JL'resident is con cerned, Mr. Davis can be tried without let or hindrance, whenever Judges Chase and Underwood, or either of them, signify their readiness to taite charge ol the prisoner, who is held subject to the proper legal pro cess capais or naoeas corpus. THE TItUE STATE OF THE CASE. Of this fact both the udf?es named and the attorneys for the prosecution and the defence are well aware. From the hiehest authority I learn that there is no conflict of opinion between the attorneys as to the proper course to pursue. All agree that whenever the court is ready to try Mr. Davis, he will be delivered at once to the custody of the United States Marshal of Virginia, to whom a writ will be issued at the proper time, directing that the prisoner be brought before the court. There are but two obstacles in the way now to the trial of Mr. Davis in October. The first is found in a doubt among the lawyers, and in this the judges are understood to partic lpate, as to the egahty of a trial in Octo ber session, because it is not a regular term 01 the court. THE CHIEF JUSTICE. On account of this doubt it is proposed not to bring Mr. Davis to trial until the regular term in November. So far as Judge Chase is concerned, the same objections are urged by him to presiding in the trial as were mentioned by the Chief Justice last spring, viz : That he does not think it is explicitly understood that martial law is abrogated in Virginia, and hence he has advised the President to issue another pro clamation making it clear that civil law is supreme in that State. THE PEACE PROCLAMATION, Judge Chase himself interprets the late peace proclamation as the President does. viz : xnac ic aDrogates martial law, but on mi i account of the misinterpretation put upon the proclamation by various military com- Aua.uua.ui, Lii vjiiiei o usLiue lusisis on an other proclamation. The foreeoiner em braces all we have of an authoritative char acter with regard to the Davis trial. One of the objections raised by the civil officers ol the united fetates Couit to takinsr cus tody of Mr. Davis was that they had no e l ii ii saie piace 10 Keep uie prisoner. lo this the President responded that Mr. Davis could be kept in Fortress Monroe, under the control of the United States lUOlOUttl, VYALU IUB iAU Ul lilltS UllllVHTy. JEFFERSON DAVIS. The Conspiracy to Hang Htm Letter from Judge Holt, the Chief Conspirator. WabDep't, Bureau of Mujtaky Justice, ) Washington, D. C, Sept. 27, 1866. f Mr. James Lrordon Bennett . Sir I have to acknowledge your prompt compliance wnn my request, in having giv en a piace in your columns to my commn nication to yourself of the 224 inst, in re-1 mg conc,Ted in, that the whole matter he referred lation to tho calumnious charges against mel a ?Pcial cominittee, he, committee is com r -,i o o4""3." 1110 1 posed of some of the ablest irv iu connection witn rue "uonover testimo ny; but, while doing so, I regret to find in yqur editorial notice of this communica tion, in the Herald of vesterdav. trmt. Jjaye altogether misapprehended its mean ing, and in speaking of " comparing the original letters with the mannsnrint of his (my) denial," have inadverten tly laid me open to ' an accusation nk terly undeserved. I did not call m ones- : tion at all the genuineness of my own note to Oonover of the 15th of December, 1865, but fully admitted it throughout my letter a i ax - it Am. v.v . genuine note had been adinsted to the two luiwoou, uui j. uiu cumiuiun uiut xmsi fabricated notes (those of Conover and Har i;buiw w give iu an unwarranxaDie signi fication. A careful , reading of my commu- nicauon to yourself will clearly show this. The same exposure had been before made by me in reference to other notes of mine, which had been ' previously treated in the same way by your correspondent and others; but I have not denied, and do not now de ny, the genuineness of any note that with in my knowledge has thus far been publish ed, purporting to have been written and signed by me. J. HOLT, Judge Advocate General. - Mr. Harlan and the Cherokee Landt, Mr. Harlan's contract with the Connecti cut Emigration Company, in relation to the "Cherokee neutral land," is getting him into inextricable difficulties. He is openly and on all sides charged with fraud. The price at which he sold to the company was $800,000 $1 per acre the payments to run through a period of nine years. It is said that the Cherokees paid the Govern ment $500,000 for it thirty-one years ago. The Cotstiiutional Union, in its issue of Saturday, distinctly charges this transac tion as a flagrant fraud, and devotes two columns to its exposure. "We make the following extracts from it : "lo! the poor isdian! infamols official, con duct OF .IA1TES HABJLAK, THE LATE SECEETABY OF THE INTERIOR -THE CHEROKEES THE INNO CENT SUFFERERS CONNECTICUT LAND SPECULA TORS THE GAINERS BY TflK CUNNINGLY DEVISED SCHEME. On the 30th day of August, 1866, the last day but one that Hon. James Harlan, Ex-Secretary of tho Interior, held the Portfolio of that Department, he executed, by virtue of his official authority, a contrac t on the part of the United States through himself or their representatives, passing the title of the reserve lands of tho Cherokee Indians in the State of Kansas to the Connecticut Emigrant Society. SU0,U00 acres 6f the best land in tho State of Kansas for $800,000, one dollar per acre, in regular installments as below, with the privil ege to the company of taking the whole, receiving the deed upon payment of the stipulated funs. Now, the question naturally arises, why did the Secretary Harlan make this contract on the last day, but one, of hia official position ? It will be seen that the price paid for these lands by the Cherokee Indians, in 1835, was a half mil lion dollars in gold, equal at the present time to nearly nine hundred thousand dollars. It will be remembered that thirty-one years agolandin Kan sas was worth about one-tenth of what it is now in five years it will be worth te?i times what it is worth dow. What capitalist but would say that that land now is worth ten dollars per acre ? Here, thii, is the question of fraud, which we, with the evidence before us, in our judgment, pro nounce to ne ajraua upon tne American peopie and worse than a fraud, a glaring imposition, an infamous transaction to the detriment of our fellow-citizens, the Cherokee Indians. This appears to us the most cold-blooded swin dle, and the most flagrant violation of the spirit and obvious intention of a sacred trust, that has lately come under our observation. It will be seen from the date that this digraceful contract was one of the last official acts of the late Secretary of the Interior. It is of itself well calculated to arouse serious suspicions of the honesty of the transac tion. In view of all the facts, we think the con tract ehould be set aside as illegal, nniust. and contrary to the plain intent of tho treaty. The Union charges that he ' 4 committed this fraud for his oxen benefit" The Isew York Herald s despatch on the same subject thus closes : It is alleged, with how much truth I make no pretensions to knowing, that Mr. Harlan is inter ested in the Connecticut Emigrant Society. Tho matter is now undergoinfr lecral examination, aud it is probable that the contract of sale will bo set aside. Cotton Estimates. The monthly report from the Agricultu ral Bureau says that, upon a fair analysis of the cotton reports, the crop of cotton may be estimated at 1,500,000 bales. The Na tional Intelligencer publishes the following, showing that in some of the cotton-errow- ing districts the prospects for a good crop is very poor, while the accounts from some sections show that there will be a fine crop of both cotton and corn. The following statistics are sent ffom Mississippi : Plantations. Hands. 1860 323 7,621 1866 323 3,iD.5 Made 16,631 bales. cres Cultivated 84,306 32,222 The estimated yield of the land this year, is one bale to four acres, which would make about one sixth of the yield of I860. The crop will not reach 800,000 bales, (in the United States.) Perky County, Ala., Sept. 10, 186(3. On the Christian place they (the freed men) have nineteen dogs, and a hog is gone if they get after him. Negroes are wan dering all the time through the country with guns and pistols, audit is impossible to raise hogs here as formerly Un Monday last the army worm reap peared, and now scarcely a leaf is to be seen. Blooms, forms, leaves have disap peared and nothing is left but the bolls on the stalk. On the 11th of April my pros pects were as good for 300 bales as they now are for 50 bales. All the old planters say they have never seen such a year be fore for all sorts of crops. Tho worm is everywhere throughout this section, as far as I can hear. No place is exempt ; it is universal. The crop of corn is miserable. Many will not make enough to last until Christ mas. There is more stealing than ever. Tt has been very sickly. Statlstics of Cotton. Cotton is so important a crop that wo feel it to be our duty to give all information concerning it that may be of uae or interest to our readers We give below the statistics of the ordinary and the Sea Island crops for tUo last decade, ending 1860 : THE CKOr. 1850- '5l 2,353,805 1851- '52 a,007,68(i 1852- 53 3,200,211 1853- 51 2,929, 13'J 1 fi. o uKs rroo 1854-55 1855- 56. 1856- 57. 1857- 58. 1858- 59. . . .3,521,212 ...2,944,805 ...3,117,496 . . .3,851,691 . . .4,664,417 1859-60. SKA ISLAND CROP. 1853-54 . 39,689 40,841 41,512 1854- 55. 1855- 56. . 185657. . ..45,314 1858- 59 '4f w 1859- CO ' IL'aI lOOI-OH Al KKR The crop this vear. from all indiVsHrma n.;n i. much less than that of above table. One million, or therpahnnfa win probably be the product of this season, and this will be hampered by a three per cent tax. The New York Episcopal Convention. The Episcopal Diocesan Convention of New York, adjourned Friday afternoon 'af- ter a session characterized by perfect har mony. ine JNew lork correspondent of me x-miaaeipnia imager says : The Bishop's address, in its references to the ouum, ia a laouei lor tne politicians nf all nnrl every party, but the trouble is, the politicians never adopt or follow such models. Conciliation and Kindness have broneM fhA parts of the Episcopal Ch arch together again in the bond of peace and unity of spirit, and one can not help thmkiug if the politicians would but try the same experiment. " int nnm." HWa hnnv J suite would enure to the State. The question of a divisiou of the diocese coes over for nntii year, me jjianop's recommendation meanwhile be posed of some of the ablest clergy and laity con nected with tho church. ALIt?,??ht to e adde.ci Pending the discussion of the "division" question. Eev. John Honrv tt kins, of the Church Journal, announced that ho was authorized by an eminent lavmau to sav that he was prepared to cive S50.000 f. of two new Bishoprics withi announcement created a nnaHrn i,ni. .!'.., was taken upon it. So great is the dfimand for f Via $rirkfnAa 4. m.i - , . , . T"""" 3ES ?SflW10n8 ?arts SutT?!1 lfc 18 l? J?ontem-- S toUlld J,lble ouf Constan- tinople. One crentleman in Nfitr Vm-v or. v j A . " . , . v " De one ve 10 T 5,000 for u - a. A.n-k t v A California paper notices th a birth child " with one arm under peculiar cir- cuuiSKUAces. wueer Place for an arm. From the N. Y. World, 28th Sept. OBITUARY. Death of Dr. Francia Utter Hawk. Eev. Francis Lister Hawks, I). D., died at his residence in this city yesterday morr ing, aged 69 years. He was born in New bern, North Carolina, June 10, 1798. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1815, and was admitted to the bar in 1819, and practiced in North Caro lina. He was elected to the Legislature of his native State at the age of 23, but soon after turned his attention to theology, and was ordained in 1827. He first officiated in New Haven, Conn., as assistant minister to Dr. Harry Croswell, in Trinity CLurcl and was, in 1829, assistant minister at St' James, in Philadelphia. In 1831 he wa' rector of St. Stephen's, in this city, and was next called to St. Thomar, where L, remained till 1843. In 1835 Dr. Hawks wn s appointed to the missionary bishopric of the Southwest, at the same time that Bishop Kemper was put in charge of the North west ; but no provision being made for his support, he declined the appointment, -Having been appointed historiographer the American Episcopal Church, Dr. Hawks under the authority of tho General con vention, went to England and obtaind copie of a number of valuable and important pa pers relating to the early history of Ei iio P7J? America. In 1837, in conjunction with Dr. Henry, he founded the Xe,c York Review of winch he was for some time edi tor and a principal contributor. About the same date ho founded St. Thomas's Hall n x-iuauiug, xj. x., un enterprise winch invol ved him deeply in debt. When he was af. terwards chosen Bishop of Mississippi, his indebtedness was made an objection to hi.-. consecration by the House of. Bishops, hit he was triumphantly exonerated, and then declined the position. At tho close of 1 8 1 1 he became rector of Christ's Church in New Orleans, succeeding Rev. Dr. AVheatoji. Here he remained five years, and was, dur ing that time, elected President of the Uni versity of Louisiana. In 1849, he came b. New York, and became rector of the Churc h of the Mediator, which was soon merged in Calvary Church. Iu 1S54 he was elected Bishop of Rhode Island, but declined the office, preferring to retain his rectorship in this city. Six pleasant years followed, nnd during that time Calvary Church, which was lmn h in debt when Dr. Hawks assumed charge of the congregation, was entirely freed, and become one of the largest and most notable congregations in the city. The doctor, too, meanwhile, had been relieved from his em barrassments, and seemed to have settled down for life, free from care, and other than that imposed by the duties of his sit uation, in a loved and loving home. Bit! 18G1, with the secession of the Southern States, brought dissensions and divisions in the congregation and vestry of Calvary, and for days it was discussed whether 1 it- Haws, Southern born, and u known sympa thizer with secession, should be asked to resign. At the annual Easter meeting of the vestry in that year it was as good t3 de cided that the doctor must go. The pro ceedings of several subsequent meetings were published in the daily papers, and Dr. Hawks finally resigned, virtually ex changing parishes with Dr. Arthur Cleve land toxe (now JJishop of western New York), Dr. Hawks going to Christ Church, Baltimore, and Dr. Coxe coming to Calva ry, in this city. Dr. Hawks managed to " keep out of the papers," so far as expres sing his opinion about the political situa tion was concerned, and, like most clergy men of the Episcopal Church, he never preached politics in the pulpit ; and during the four years of war he retained the love and affection of his old friends, alike at the North and the South. Soon after the peace last year he was recalled to this city by some of his former pr.rishoners, and it is only a few days since the corner-stone of a new and splendid church of which he was t be rector, was laid in Madison avenue. Dcctor Hawks's position in his church was among the very first and most eminent divines of that denomination. Wo can re call no clergyman who has had more honors actually thrust upon him honors which he has almost invariably declined. IJe seemed satisfied with the simple charge of a con gregation, and in his connections with dif j U-'Lllt parishes in widely-separated sections uic t-uuuirv ne nas won an Hearts. Tso rector was ever more beloved in his priest ly capacity and as a man. His ministni tions in the desk and in the pulpit will be long remembered by all who heard them. To a scholarship of thehighestorder he ad tied the winning ways with which nature had endowed him. There was a persuasive earnestness iu his preaching, a solemn sweetness in his voice, and an impressive uess in his diction that always enlisted the attention and the admiration of his heal ers ; as a mere rhetorician ho was surpassed by few on the stage, aud by no one in tin church, unless by Waiuwright and bv Doaue. In private life ho was warm", genial, a charming companion, ami an ever faithful friend. His conu-rwi tion, rich with illustrations gathered from extensive study, travel, and observation, was lighed up at times with dashes vl the purest and most sparkling wit. livery one will recall the time when he was over whelmed with the difficulties resulting from his educational enterprise at Flushing! The future seemed dark enough. A friend con soled him with a quotation from the Psalmist, that the Lord would " feed the young ravens." " Ah, yes." said the .loeto- smilingly, "but there is nothii.g said about the young Hawks." Hundreds of like sav ings are treasured up by tho doctor's menus, and these flashes are the reliefs to more solemn and sacred hours iu houses of mourning and affliction, where tho doctor came sometimes as an evcrwelcome, genial guest, and again as a ministeiiug angel, with the consolations of his priestly office for all but broken hearts. There are many mourners for him now. As a scholar and author, Dr. Hawks will be remembered by his "Contributions tu the Ecclesiastical History of tho United States (2 vols. Svo., embracing Virginia and Maryland, New York, IKiG-'-ilj : fc'gyptand its Monuments" (8vo., 1S19) ; "Auricular Confession in the Protestant Episcopal Church" (12mo., 1810.) IjV translated Rovero and TselmrliV " Anti- quitiesof rem" (180-1,) and has edited the "Olhcial and other State Papers of tin; late Major General Alexander Hamilton" (2vo., 1842.) Before ho entered the church he published "Iteports of Cases ndjuuVi' ?Jlie, SuPreme Court of North Carolina, 1820-'26 (4 vols. 8vo., llaleigh, 11 ' and "Digest of all tho Cases Decided an.l Keported in North Carolina and he v;us an industrious and frequent contributor to religious and other periodicals. Whatever views mav have been exr.ri-. or entertained with regard to Dr. ila position in respect of the rebellion, no otic will now sneak of him with nnv other thoughts than those of rwwrpn and res pect. His name was absolutely without a stain; his character without a spot; and his memory will be cherished as loua i JllH many acts of charity and kindness arc iv membered, with the grateful alt'ootifn ol his hosts of devoted friends. A Texas editor has been presented with an onion a foot and a half in circnmlor- ance. There was a great cry raised over the matter in that office. Brownlow fainted at Erie, Pennsylvania, when about to speak. He unfortunately recovered. Mr. Daniel Drew has given ground and buildings in New York for a Methodist Col-ege--a gift valued at $250,000,
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