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tXouJay EvcnJnir, April 16, 1856.
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A aUcond Daniel Com to Judgment
We are informed uu the authority of one
ct the Washington opr;p'dcut of the
revolutionary press that Ju$o Underwood,
of Virginia, a tmrversaj place-hunter and
standing candidate fur the Virginia Scna
torship, a lately made what U called an
Important decision in. Virginia j hi conclu
ioa being that lie rebellion it ill exists,
the Aa!a riwya ha t lrn retored. in
any ef the Southern Stataa, and start lal
law i 'still supreme. This effort of Dug.
berry fMon tu developed in the race of
a maa named Tbouia Javin,' of Alexan
dria, who, fur an ordiuarj assault upon oue
of the favored descendant of Ham, wit
fined by an impartial Provost Marshal the
extravagant sum of $500, and sentenced
to imprisonment until it should be paid.
An application for a writ of habeas cor
pus was made by the couuscl of Javin,
under the auppoaed assurance of protection
of the late peace proclamation. The pris
oner was brought before Judge Underwood
tinder the writ, which was returned bv the
officers of General Aogur stating all the
facts of the ease, and adding that ha had
been held under military authority by or
der of the President of the United States
-all of which was duly certified on the
back of the writ. The hearing consumed
six hours, after which Judge Underwood
decided in substance that the peace proc
lamation did not apply to such cases, and
reminded the prisoner to custody, He
bM that the proclamation, in excepting
Texas, practically declared that the rebel
lion continued to exist. As long, there
fore, as Texas was excepted, the writ could
not apply to such cases as that of Javin,
reu if the proclamation was legal.
We clip the foregoing from the Baltimore
Transcript for the purpose of making tome
comments. What the consequences of the
late peace proclamation of the President
would be, we thought was too clear to ad
mit of any doubt. , The Constitution of
the United States provides that "the writ
of hdbeos corpus shall never be suspended
except when in cases of insurrection or
invasion the public safety may require it"
An insurrection had existed in eleven states
tor more than four years, but the President
in his seeent proclamation declares that the
insurrection in ten of those States is at an
tuL Certainly no portion of the country
is now invaded. Then surely the writ of
habeas corpus is restored in the ten Sfates
4 which the insurrection is declared to be
at an end. This is a logical sequence of
the President's proclamation. It was not
necessary for him to say in so many words,
: M the writ of habeas corpus is hereby re-
BtOred itt aaid Stat." TW proclamation
' if as made by competent authority, and it
establishes the fact that jit the ten States
referred to, the contingencies upon which
alone the writ of habeas corpus can be sus
pended have ceased to exist, and having
ceased to exist, the writ is necessarily re
stored. But Judge Underwood has made the
wonderful discovery that because Texas
was not mentioned in the proclamation
that therefore the rebellion continues to ex
. ist in Virginia. Strange logic this; we
cannot comprehend it. In Texas, we ad
mit that it still continues, technically, to
exist, and that consequently the writ has
not been restored in that State. But if
the proclamation was made by competent
Authority, and of this we do not entertain
a doubt, the insurrection Las ceased to ex
ist in the States enumerated therein, and
the writ has been restored in those Slates ;
for it would be absurd to say that because
the people of one State were in insurrec
tion against the government, therefore the
writ of habeas corpus is suspended in eleven
States where there is no insurrection. Yet
this is, fat effect, what this learned (?) Judge
fay. We are no lawyer, and therefore it
xnaybe thought presumptuous in us to
criticise the opinion of a -Federal Judge;
but U seems to us that the case is so clear
that nothing but common sense is wanted
to enable any man to understand it.
' Since writing the above, we see that
Judge Connelly F. Trigg,- j-f Uh United
States Circuit and District Courts in Ten.
peesee, has decided in the ease of General
Backer, that the proclamation "$' abolish
military supremacy, and that all cases of
iTteaaoa wyl hereafter go to the civil au
thorities. We presume no one. will que- i
Xion ym mr. jmince irrgg reasjT
iy competent wun jnago vnoerpoeaj
Wfa&e
Democrat, of the 24th ult .
"Cholsju at hr "West, TtoiiSx
The following is an extract from a private
letter from an officer b the army, dated
New Orleans, March 13.
"Official news that the cholera has. bro
ken oat at Key West has reached us. As-.
sistant Taylor and sixteen men are down
with it. A strict quarantine is established
below aew Urieans, and f essels from 11a
ana and Key west are subject to twenty
one day's quarantine. .
"1 he pestilence is slowly but surely ap-
Yin"
a t S I m wi i aw viuv v vuu mmiit uiuc
proachmg. Having elready reached thefoiHaia at the expense of the County, In
main land of our Southern coast from the
- West Indies, we aaay soon expect it prog
jeae northward. j Let the people of oar
. cities and towns prepare for it. Is Loui
Yille ready I ' j ' -
i .1 tl.. lliul mi in ( -H J i ' 1 1 i"
. iiI.uiii, hhJ tl,jury found Mm guil
ty. Hit jjuuunuu'ul was bxtfai'il tt tkirtv
uiue laai.r (hi in ittr back, winch was duly
Stlmiuimcixl by tt sheriiLw lialtiyk, (AT.
la view yf Kuril ocourrvticm as th quit
common la the Huth-e think th civil
rlghu kill has not . Wcoiq a law a day too
soou. A gentleman who was present and
witnessed the exerutian of the above sentence
wrria a frieud la this city that it was the
moat horrible thing I ever saw. .The eTO
was mad to Uke off all his clothes. The
sheriff thea took a cowhide and ravs hlia
tMMy-uIu lushes, brluging the hlu4 every
time, and uitiug up twv-oowhinaa. I saw
another whipped to-day. 1 undrratand that
Jliey are glig to cut tba mr oO on to-nor
row, which is another way they have of pun
Uhlnir here." It is tiiris that Aiiwrioaa oivU
ixatiou was thoroughly purged of thase relies
ot barbariitin. Ortain sections of U eivu
right hill, if spplied to tha judga who pro
nounced this snatenre sod the shrin who
ecuted it, would have a salutary effect u
both. ta MnKiger ariruiiiKut eould be
ed to prove the Ofcossity ot this measure thaa
the occurrence related abovs Wiijjkm
CAfONtcie.
The law of this State provides that all
males, both white and black, shall bo pub
licly whipped, when convicted of the "rime
of larceny. Since our civil courts, have
resumed their operations persons of both
colors havevbc whipped for stealing.
The law makes no distinction. If Bcuben
McDowd had been a white man he would
have been punished in the same war.
This has been a custom with our people
for many generations, and if this genera
tion be a barbarous one, so was that to
whieb William Gaston and Nathaniel Ma
con belonged. We believe that when a
person, black or a bite, is guilty of steal
ing, he deserves to be whipped for it ; and
that a person who wilfully and wickedly
commits murder, onghHO be hanged. But
the people of our State have no choice in
this respect. They have no penitentiary
or houses of-correct !dn, and they must ei
ther whip thieves or turn them loose on
society. The demoralisation occasioned
by th war has been sncb, that if the lat
ter should be done, all the fanners' horses
would be stolen, and indeed no species of
property would be safe. Uur people are
not aide at this time to build houses of
! corn i tion. They are barely able to par
their taxes and live.. Their civil courts
cannot even pay witnesses and jurors for
their attendance; and we know that, at
the last term of Wake County Court, (for
merly one of the wealthiest counties in the
State,) there was not money in the Treas
ury to pay a mechanic for making some
Cine tables for one of the officers. We
pg our friends who reside in more favored
regions to bear with ns in our poverty.
We are as solicitous as any of them can
be to uphold the character ot "American
civilization." We regret that some of pur
ancient customs, and the poverty that pre
vents us from erecting a penitentiary or
houses of correction for the punishment of
erime, should stttyStt us to uncharitable
and injurious imputations. BUT OUB
LAWS, SO LONG AS THEY ARE
IX ACCORDANCE WITH THE CON
STITUTION, AND SO LONG AS
THEY BEAR EQUALLY IN THEIR
PUNISHMENTS ON WHITE AND
BLACK, DO NOT CONCERN CITI
ZENS OF OTHER STATES. Our
cotemnorarv of the Chronicle would nun
ieh the J udge who directed this colored
man to be whipped, add the Sheriff for
whipping him. The civil rights bill would
not do that, 1 lie colored man was pun
ished just as a white mail would have been
and as white men have Wen, recently )
ana this is aJl the bill reterred to requires
But the correspondent of the Chronicle,
who has no doubt witnessed many things
more "liorn We" than the whipping of
miserable thief, is shocked at the report
that "they are.going to cut the ear off one
to-morrow." Well, the ear has not been
cut off. Every body still has his ears, and
some people have very long cars, true,
one of the punishments for perjury in this
State is cropping; but this punishment
seldom if ever inflicted. A e have been
living here and looking about us for more
than-forty years, and we have not yet seen
any one with cropped ears.
We learn that the colored man referred
to was well whipped, as white thieves are
well whipped; but the correspondent is
mistaken in saying he was "made to take
off all his clothes." lie was only divested
ot nis shirt.
Correspondents of Northern news
are prone to paint the dark side of South
ern society. They are unwilling to see
any "silver lining" to the murky cloud
which is ever before 'them. The writer of
this will gjre them a. conple , of instances
ot his own knowledge, which occurred at
the February Term of -Wake County
Court, and will prove that our people hare
some UtUt regard for the colored folks. A
negro boy who had stolen some cot ten
yarn was brought btfor the Court, -He
confessed his, offence. -II is former master I
for Mm and offered to pay the cosU
Ae Court Would release Tiim "without
iit.Quii nim w eo nn wy aoa steal no
SKU Ilia wbt suiJU alraU II U
more. I lit
wbippedfbut, as hp wss a mere yooth, a
he seemed to be penitent for his crime, and
. a .
a. his former master interceded for him,
and promised that he would hare an eye
upon him and endeavor to make htm an
hontt, industrious man, he was permitted
to go unpunished, as we have stated. 1 be
other case was that of a grown negro man.
who- had been sent to the jail of an ad
joining county oil the charge of larceny.
One of hi relatives came into Court and
begged for him. (A couple of white men
of character offsred to go his bail. The
Court made an order to aend thirty miles
order that he might tire bail and go to
work. But meanwhile le broke jail, came
back to Raleigh, and went to the Freed
manVBnraaodfo)roWii?f. We hare
before w the pvwfotioa pap be reed red
B hi li
lllxill i
!.n.h , anion nAr 1 ', 1
person viul.kiiu tliis oiJtr to mnsli.l
and dealt with tu the sevrr.it and Biott
exemplary maimer.' AAcr some womU
between tliis offitcr and the shctil of the
county, this negro man was again arrested
by tho latter, but be was bailed, and we
suppose is now at work.
We trust the Chivuicle'viU do our peo
ple the Justice to lay thcao two cases be
fore It readers. They occurred nuder the
eye of tho writer of this, who U Chairman
of Wake Count Court.
We think we know something of die
people of Jforth Caroltoavaod wt fed lore,
there is no disposition among, ous judges,
our iuriea. or our members of tha lend
profession to do injustice to free people of
color. At the same lerni 01 in eaperior
Court of this County at which this negro
man was whipped, a negro woman was
tried for the crime of arson. She had
fair and impartial trial. Four counsel,
learned la the law, appeared for her, ana
two of the in address
the jury In her be
half in an able and impressive manner.
We bar often listened to one of her coun
sel. Ex-Gorernor Bragg, but we bar her
er beard him make a more effective speech
than he did in this case. Respect was
shown, and full weight was given to the
testimony of colored persons given in the
case.' The general belief was that the
woman was guilty. It is more than prob
able the jury thought so; but her guilt
was not legally proved beyond all doubt,
and, giving her the benefit of this doubt,
they returned a rordict of not guilty.
Raleigh Standard. "
The ABstrlnB-rnsiilaa Centrorerwy.
The quarrel now going on between. Prus
sia and Austria over the Duchies of Schtea
wig and Uolstein, appears, by the latest
European advices, to become more obsti
nate daily. There was an obscure rumor,
a short while ago. that the Austrian Em-
repressive manner.
neror had written a conciliatory and friend
ly letter to the King of Prussia; bat the
truth of this is denied in the latest intelli
gence from Vienna.
The tone of public opinion in Berlin
leans decidedly toward anticipations of the
declaration of war on the part of Austria,
based on the straitened finances of that
power. The threatening attitude assumed
by Prussia, in the matter of her expressed
determination to annex the two Duchies,
which is the source of all the trouble, com
pels Austria, resolved on her part to make
the occupation of the territory in dispute
by Prussia a casus beUi, to maintain a much
larger standing army than she would oth
erwise do. 1 he condition of the Austrian
exchequer will not permit a lengthy armed
inaction ; and hence If would not be at all
surprising if, at any moment, the Prussian
Government should receive the Emperor's
ultimatum, to abandon at once all preten
sions upon the Duchies or prepare for hos
tilities.
By the Convention of Gastein, Holstein
became subject to the authority of Aus
tria ; fawn wttfe the Truman terrfr
uciwtcu uc auu U1Q ASUUHTB III UIOJfUTO,
and adjoining the latter, her hold upon
Schleswig-Holstein must be considered
very feeble. Austria has declared her wil
lingness to abandon the Duchies to a ruler
. i l .1.. l.: x ,i;.t-
who has the best claim to the throne j- out
she has not, thus far, consented, and doubt
leas will not consent, that Prussia should
usurp that ruler's right
The question of the friendship-or hos
tility of the minor German States has not
yet entered into the quarrel. No confer
ence upon the subject of the differences
has yet been had with the German Diet,
for the simple reason that the dispute be
fwcen the two great Powers 1 hat not yet
taken a- definite' shape. That they
eventually be drawn iuto'the whirlpool, in
case of hostilities, is more than probable,
and that they-win "come out small
the articulating process (to borrow a simile
from Mr. Silas Wegg's friend. Mr. Venus,
is also not more than possible. One.of the
most singular results of a war of this com
plicated nature would be the extinction of
all the little Uerman JJukes, Grand JJukes,
Margraves. Palatines, Princes, etc, who
now' exercise a kingly rule upon their
.j ,i' .
try estates, and the summary absorb-T
uerciH a' amiri t nun u iron Lurir I,
country estates, a
ing of them into one of two great empires!
including the whole German race.
In case of a recourse to armi, the mili
tary preponderance would rest with Aus
tria. one has at present over four hundred
thousand men underarms, and can increase
it by another hundred thousand, if neces
sary. This force shr can use effectively.
it pushed to the point of making an, issue,
for the reason that neutrality in a straggle
w ..-"-. a. a. . W W
between her and. her adversary has been
promised by the other great European
l owers, inciudiniritajy. With fair play
assured to them; Prussia And Austria "thus
stand before the eyes of the world appa
rently bent upon a bloody conflict-the
former supporting her claims to respect
upon the reputation of the great Frederick,
and upon her military training ia the Na
poleonic wars: the tatter founding her pre
tensions upon the ' mefflorlei $f that Eih-
re wbose scepter, wielded by Kaiser Bar-
the Burargraff of Prussia, land east a shad.
i -v- -fi.
nsirsw
A renuine case of Asiatic Cholera la av
ported to bare occurred in Richmond res-
tezday about noon. The victini was Nel
lie Palmer, daughter ofolnrjrallneK
a W
Eaqthe present public printer, a beauti
ful young lady, possessing many accom
plishments. She came from" Winchester
urinr the wj. 8he wm taken mysteri
ously tu at tbe residence of Air. Uavid J,
Saunders on Sunday night and died res-
icraay morning, ut. voieman, wno wa
early in, pronounced it an undoubted case
of cholera, the dreaded visitor we bare so
4
often heard of in onr ;far-off borderv - W
trust the pjiysican is mistaken fat the char
acterof the. disease;1 but forewarned is
forearmed. The subject was alluded1 to
ka kbe City Council last tvooing. Exam-
,ti,' . :.s i.i t!-5 u. -;! of tin
t m -s coiii'i jnii t'.e proiaioiis of the civi
r:, Its lul now a law, iu consequence of
iu passage over the veto by a vote iu each
House of two-tuifus and especially con
emiiig the manner In which the objections
made by the President may operate to his
embarrassment as the Executive, some
looseness of apprehension that ought to be
corrected.
1. Objection to a bill are not to be ta
ken to imply that the evil which are pos
sibly, or even brobablr. Incident to its prac
tical working are inevitably to happen.
For eumpje. It tf Ytry . becoming objec
tion from the tieeutivs that proposed
law lodges in bis bands a dangerous pow
er. ' The very proffer of the objection is a
good assurance, when ' the measure Las
gone into effect, that such an evil is not to
happen.
S. If, in the opinion of the President, a
proposed measure contains unconstitution
al provisions, and they nevertheless go up-
ron the statute book, it is not obligatory
I upon him, at the risk of stultification, to
refuse In advance of occasion to execute
them. The interpretation of statutes comes
sfter their enactment and arises upon actual
I Instances, in whatever form circumstances
offer them, ouch Instances may never
arise as shall require the decision. . When
they do, it should be made upon all the
Hehts accessible, and upon -an otbciai
sponsibility as little restricted as the Con
stitution will allow.
S. When a competent authority ha de
clared any particular provision of a stutute
void by reason of unconstitutionality, such
a decision does not avoid the whole law,
nor any other part of it than that which
was concerned in the case passed upon. It
ia true that the several provisions in most
laws are so inter-dependent, one upon the
other, that there -is reuerallr- somewhere
in the statute one which, if found to fail,'
renders virtually null and all the others.
But this is not always the case. An ord
nance, for example, may 'establish a Citt
department, and repeal all previous law
on the subject It may also provide a re
ligious test for membership. The latter
provision would be void. But that would
not affect the remainder of the statute.
4. It ia common to speak of a bill in
Congress as 'unconstitutional' unfortu
nately, too commonly a justifiable opinion.
The word is to 'ie understood as applied,
not actually to the several provisions and
sanctions oY the hill, but to some of them"
only that particular one, perhaps, what
ever it be, for the sake of which the bill is
supposed to . hare been brought . forward.
In this view, it is not incorrect to speak of
a bill or a law as 'unconstitutional,' though
some carelessness of speech on these sub
jects has led to popular misapprehension,
which at such times as the present goes to
swell the popular agitation.
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A Family of Seven Persons XVTorder
d rau-tteolJurs of the Tragedy.
' Phnadolnhla. Aoril 11. The most horrible
tymgrirtgeay, vbr known to haVe oocurrad in vUla
uy cauir tu ugnt uia aiieruouu. ad euuro
family, consisting of Christopher Peering,
aged 3d; his wife, aged 30 Miss Kealing. a
lady cousin, aged 45, and his four children,
named James, seed 8 ; Thomas, aged 5 ; An
nie, aged 4, and Emma, aged 14 months, were
found brutally murdered upon their premises,
on Jone's lane, near the Point House road, iu
the First Ward. All the persons named had
their throats out and their heads horribly
mangled. The murder is supposed to have
been committed on Saturday, as Mr. Deering
was last seen on the morning of that day.
The mother and her four children were found
in one corner of the barn, covered with dirt
and hay. The father and Miss Keating were
found lying-dose to the outside of the barn,
and like the others, covered with dirt and hay.
The discovery of -the murder was not made
till about 2 o'clock this morning. The bodies
were in a partially decomposed state, show
ing evidently' that several days had elapsed
since the perpetration of the attroeious deed.
Mr. Deering was a cattle dealer, and great
ly respected by his neighbors. His residence
is in the suburbs of the city, where houses are
sorae distance apart, which account for the
affair not being discovered before. It con
fidently believed that the person who commit
ted the horrible deed is a young German about
twentv-five rears of are. who has been in the
4employ of Mr. Deering for several weeks past.
A ' .n A-. cw. ;ince
. f . .
Friday.- - .
The instrument used in mnrdering the fam
ily was a very sharp axe, subsequently found
minenouse. wiwtnis ne siruca idkib iu
tbe head, and afterward cut their throats.
sJittllboy, about fourteen years of age, who
was employed by Mr. Deering, is also miss-
ms-. i tie is also supposed to nave neen mur
dered, and'hia body thrown down a well On
the premises, or into one of the many ditches
which abound in the neighborhood. Further
developments will he made to-morrowi The
murderer has not been captured up to th time
of the present writing. The horribls affair
has created great commotion throughout the
I lUTOBXSQ EXaUPLX OF A STATISlfaJT
When about to vote on the passage of
the Civil Bights bill, Mr. poolittle made
atoBt eloquent and powerful speech in sup-1
-c ' i.LiuB.aiw i .ia - T--p " - . tiiiin,-. mi'P 1 1 m iihhitiii .it . iiijm.h t J-,mi m
port of the President S7 restoraon-polierr
instructions of the Legislature of Wiscon
linciiaaaa
tote for the Civil : uigbts bill in order to
SlfvettBeIsidenleW
instructions, said Mr. Doolittle, 1 shall dis
regard. He then prooeeded to give his
sstktene for this Course, a telegraphed iu
the Congressional report, and thus contin
ued : ' 'C:
"I know, sir. that if I disregard these
instructions, and rote to sustain the Presi
dent's policy, that act . will terminate my
public life. Be it so. I would not jit here
tor an hour with the weight upon my con-
science which X would hare if I failed in
this hour in whatj conceive to be my du
ty to my country. I reSsect the opinions
of the men who hare constituted themselves
my instructors 1 but they hare been de
ceived and misinformed.. It they were
misinformed.. It they were t
ier7they would think and act different
ciaU
1 If CuW i!...! . f l .li- ..f i..uih Cur-
oliua and thu ltt- l'lo i-ion.J (Juvi-rimr,
Mr. Perry, liave represented to the l'rtni
deut that the Superior Court of that State
will not administer justice under tbe State
laws, even against white men who were
criminals, because of the interference of
the military authority under Gen; Sickles.
It seems that by the criminal code of the
State, white men are liable for petit larce
ny, horse-thieving, to the penalty of
thirty-nine stripes laid on ine uare oaca.
There Is no penitentiary in the State, and
the Legislature adjourned without creating
that Uistitutionwhlch is so necessary for
all the purposes of civilisation. - A eaae
came-to the Bute court sitting in Charles
ton of aggravated crimes, and, upon con
viction, the criminal, who was a wl bite man,
and to the manner born, was sentenced to
receive nine-and-thirtf laahea. The cere
mony was about to be performed, when
Major General Sickles forbade It in an of
ficial order.
As the matter now stands criminals of
the white and native race cannot be pun
ished in South Carolina according to her
own laws, and, as the Legislature is not in
session, no other code can be provided.
The President in this emergvney. Is
nrged to abrogate General Sickles' order,
What the President will do in the case is
yet unknown. The military order "Wil
erhaps be enforced, and the mate left to
evise some mode of punishment better
adapted to the ideas of the age. National
Intelligencer.
By direction of the Quartermaster Gen
eral, Brevet Major James Oleason, (Quar
termaster, U. S. A., will start in a day or
two to make a tour of inspection of all the
battle-fields of Virginia, for the puqwse of
ascertaining, as fur as possible, tbe number
and location of all the Union dead that
have been buried on the fields. It is the
intention of the- Government, as we have
stated, to have all these remains -brought to
the Arlington Cemetery Ifor "internist,
ltiehmoiid inquirer.
This action, upon the part of the , Gov
ernmcnt, is eminently proper. The gov-
enihietit'owes a debt of gratitude to the
men, who fell in the struggle to maintain
its snpremacv, and that consideration, to
say nothing of the claims of humanity, ren
ders it becoming that their remains should
be respected and honored.
he same reasons appeal with equal
force to the States of the South in behalf
of their dead. When those States called,
their sons recognised the authority and
rushed to arms at the summons. They
believed that they were perilling their bo
dies in defence of a good cause. They
sealed that faith with their lives lives verv
precious to relatives, friends and communi
ties. - .bach Mate ot the youth, therefore,
owes tp ittf good name, by every obliga
tion of justice, pride, gratitude and human
ity, to guard with pious reverence, so far
as it can, the ashes of its gallant dead.
Sentinel .
official.
circtxar to thr .beads of depart
ments ix refkbenck to appoint
ments to office.
It is right and proper that the Govern
ment of the Unitea States should give earn
est and substantial evidence of its just ap
preciation of the services of the patriotic
men who, when the life of the nation was
imperilled, entered the anny and navy to
preserve the integrity of the Union, defend
the Government, and maintain and perpet
uate, unimpaired, its free institutions. . It
is, therefore, directed
'..First. That in appointments to office in
the several Executive Departments ofjhe
ijenenu governments and the various
branches of the public service connected
with said departments, preference shall be
given to such meritorious and honors blv
discharged soldiers and sailors particular
ly those who have been disabled by wounds
received or disease contracted in the line of
duty-aa may possess the proper qualifica
tions. ... J-'"
second. 1 hat in all promotions in said
Departments, and the several branches of
the public service connected therewith,
such Aersdns shall have preference, when
equally eligible and, qualified, over those
who" hare not faithfully and, honorably
served in the land or naval forces of the
United States. - .
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Rxecutixe Mansion, Sprit 1 1866.'
Feopli starving is Alabama. The
Huntsville Independent contains an ap
peal in behalf .of tbe people of Marshal
county, Alabama, who are represented as
tarring. , The Judge of the court of pro
bate for that county certifies to the follow
ing, ' "" ; y
KM helpless, indigent, people, without
any1 means of support, including white and
colored there are twenty-one hundred and
eighty persons women, children and iff3
njnedT13fersoiia wbo''.sureTnble-.:.- to
work, but have no means to purchase suo-
juit-B lorraiTjrng on rannmg operations, I
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thousand persons white and black.
Of the
residue of the population, not twentr hare
means more than adequate to their want.
According to the census last taken, in
1860, the population of tho count r. white
and colored, was about jeleren thousand,
auu at luia ume is not propapiy more tnan
nine thousand fire hundred persons.'
8 MA IX Pox. We are happy .to be able
to state, on the authority of Dr. B. 8. Prim
rose, city physician, that the small pox is
rapidly abatiug in this city, land the,hope
and belief is that in the course of a few
weeks it will bve-tirely disappeared.
Still, we again urge upon those who hare
not been vaccinated not to neglect it Any
one of them' may be the very - last case.
The city physician can be found daily at
am vimvv wa uii mataiiai nuiwwn
A i '.... ..I., r f.,t ,.n .t I.i, i a
Willi a inns hliout half di.ui) ;
Ilia fgurs u a abort, sud Ills hair was gray.
And kU bright eye t iallJ In surh a wsy.
That you would hart thought he wa ouly at
- PU' ,
Or having a bit of fun.
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All labor, said ha, appears to be '
A part nf my honored trads '
They may dig or preach, or hw, br teach
Whatever they do, you will see la each
Something that's always within my reach.
Or my daily sustota made.' "
The parson may smll as down each aisle
His eloquence sonorous rolls
II nan only helluva, whea hi sermon is o'er,
And silence broods o'er the pews ones more.
That he merely performs what I've done be
fore, For I am a surer of sola.
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The doctor delights, as he knowingly writes
A prescription for pain or smart.
To think that for aches he can give an
And also to think of the coming foes
I'm sure my profession with his agree t
--" I practice the heeling art
An LL.D. or higher degrees '
Of scholastic lor commanding,
May aspire to fame in some selene high.
And pusxle wis heads with logic dry ; ,
And yet he cannot do more than I,
To improve th understanding.
The merchant at ease, sends over tho seas,
And eorameree lends aid to his call ;
But tempest may rally to rend his sails,
And his argosies sink under wintery gales ;
Like me be his fortune sadly bewails,
. Whenever he loses his awl.
Though hard I may stitch, and never get rich,
Yot some of more means I eayi beat ;
For though of their wealth they may make a
great show, 1 I
And scatter their income as fast a they go.
There' one thing that I can do offoner I
know,
And that is, make both ends meet
When ages have sped, and among the dead
AH other professions hav passed.
I all alone in my glory shall be ;
No other employment will any one see ;
It must be so, for you all wjll agree.
' My profession is one of tbe last
GENERAL IVEAVSr
Tbe payments of tlie direct tax under
the act of August 5, 1861, for the 'first
quarter of 1866, ending March 31, were
as follows: Virginia,- $22,270,17 ; Aorta
Carolina;' 837,310 V South Carolina $10,
297,45; Tennessee, $40,0QO; Arkansas,
15,230. Total $123,107 62.
Brig. Gen. Uuckner, late of the Confed
erate States army, was arraigned in the
li hited States Circuit Court, at Mcmphhi.
on the 6th instant, oh a charge of treason,
and held in $10,000 bail to answer at the
next term of court.
The number of vetoes heretofore aent iu
is as follows : by Washmcrton 2. by Madi
son 6, by Monroe 1, by Jackson 9, by Ty
ler 3, by Polk 3, by Buchanan 1, by John
son 2. All of these were sustained, save
an unimportant one of Tyler's and the last
of Johnson's.
The Marion (S. C.V Star savs that on
the night of the 1st a portion of the United
States Garrison there set fire to the house
of Kate Lewis, a courtezan, burned up the
school room of the free negroes, and beat
several of their colored brethren unmerci
fully. '
It is estimated, says the Chicago Time, -that
one thousand persons were killed or woun
ded by the late tornado in Pope and Johnson
counties, in Illinois.
The first Connetieut river shad of the sea
son was caught in Wethersfield cove, on Tuoa
day, and sold for $3.
One hundred and seventy-five negroes vo
ted at the election in Madison, Wisconsin, a ,
few days ago, under the recent decision of tho
State Supreme Court . -
The Government is about to commence the
rebuilding of J-ort Sumter.
The death of a'Mormoti Bishop is thus an- -nounced
: He was thirty-seven years old, and
leaves an interesting family of eleven wives
and forty-seven small children, to mourn his
death.. ... . , " . e...',....
The Edgefield (South Carolina) Adver
User of Wednesday last reports the. arrest
of some dosen or more prominent citisens
in that vicinity, by the military authori
ties, and their incarceration at Columbia in -
Ithat Btato. . ,-,'
The Gainesville (Florida) Era thinks
that State will soon bare a superabundant
population, as emigrants are pouring in .
from all parts of the world. - It bids them
welcome, and assures them of a kind re- -
ception, particularly jf they bring money.
H mJtr9ema thus speaxs of -this n
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markabjs well:
well baa existed seren winters an
six saroroortv Its depth is 4 1 fwt , a be :
water ia from two and a half to three feet
in depth. A coat of ice is formed on the
wall of the well the whole deftth of the wa
ter. Tbe ioe becomes so thica in winter as
to render it difficult to dip up water with
a common bucket The surface of the wa
ter also freesee over every night during tbe
winter. Ice has tho formed four inches
in one night the present winter. '' Tho
owner is obliged to descend into the well
and cut open tbe ice every morninr in win
ter, in order to draw water. As spring ad
raneesy the surface of the water cease to
freeze, but the ice remain on the well
around the water, diminishing in quantity
as summer advances, but does not entirely
diaannmr. lame mnaininr untQ the next!
winter's freeainr cOnuncncea, The well
yields an abundant supply T water. "
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