REV. A. M. STEWART'S LETTER,
Washington, January 13, 1866.
All ( fi'or s tor the instruction and ele
vation of the Freedmen should be thor
oughly imbued with the religion*of
Christ, Every such movement should
be constrained by love to God. Our
grand systems of common school educa
tion at the North have generally become
divorced from direct religious influences.
A race of intellectual giants is being
reared by which mighty deeds are and
Will be accomplished. Great danger,how
ever, that like the fabled giants of old,
vision may be contracted to one eye
knowledge and wisdom separate ; intel
lect and morals,
and religion, divorced. We are in great
danger of rushing to a smash up, like
an eDgiDe on a down grade without
breaks. John W. Forney, notwith
standing his violent hammerings at the
most sacred prop of our national exist
ence and permanent prosperity; his
flagrant violation of the laws both
of God and man, with flaunts and
insults at the Christian sensibilities of
our country; is without rebuke honored
by the Senate of the United Stetes. He
has defiantly separated himself from all
cherished influences of the Protestant
Christianity of the country, and boldly'
cast himself upon its infidelity for pecu
niary aid and social support. Mr. For
ney is in these things no greater sinner
than many others. Of late, however,
matters have been approaching a climax,
and circumstances have tended to give
him prominence as a leader against God,
against holiness and against the future
stability of our country.
RELIGION OX THE COLORED PEOPLE.
The existence of so many millions of
Africa’s children among us Anglo-Saxons
remains to a goodly degree an unsolved
problem. It may be, they have been
alloted to us as the future conservators
of true religion, and hence to maintain
the stability of ouy free institutions. If
any people can with propriety be called
religious, this degraded race seems to
merit the appellation. They take to it
naturally. Their instincts are religions.
The Israelites during their loDg bondage
in Egypt, dropped circumcision and ap
parently became sadly "degenerated in
the religious elements of Abraham’s faith.
In these, the now Freedmen, have
seemingly grown stronger in their length
ened oppressions. Long since they had
shrewdness sufficient to lose all confi
dence in the professions of those whose
religion justified them in cruel oppress
sion and multiplied wrong. Hence, Jthe
known proneness of the slaves in their
efforts at worship to get, if. possible,
alone and in their .own ornde way hold
such service as their rude intelligence
permitted.
MELANCHOLY WORSHIP.
Sad is it for me to be present when
these poor people engage of themselves
in holding religious service. ■ Their dog
garel and almost senseless songs drawl
ed out in low, plaintive minor keys—the
too often unmeaning jargon of their
preachers and exhorters—their groans,
shouts, laughs, slapping of hads and
general bodily exercise, all give tokens
of long bondage. On hearing, the thoughts
are carried away back to the harps
moaniDg in the breeze while hanging on
the willows along the streams of Baby
lon. .
COLORED CONGREGATIONS.
A rather easy matter is it, where they
are in sufficient numbers, to gather a
colored congregation, yet not usually so
easy to accomplish. this in connection
with the undemonstrative, spiritual and
scriptual order as*practiced in the vari
ous Presbyterian families. Dr. Barnes,
Hodge, ori’ Tyng would hardly be as
likely to collect so large a congregation
of Freedmen in one of their dense settle
ments, as one of their own self-constitut
ed preachers, unable, perhaps, to read
intelligently a single sentence of the
Bible, or properly to connect in his noisy
address any two doctrines of redemption.
No scarcity of such preachers among the
colored people; yet, with such continued
and without large improvement, there is
apparently but little hope of permanent
religious advancement among them. The
thoughtful mind discovers here a difficult
yet all important field for high-toned
-Christian effort. Representative men
-an'S women are demanded fo-p-the work.
Neither mold nor female teacher should
be sent who cannot present, both by pre
cept and example, a superior type of
Christian character.
OUR WORK. IN ALEXANDRIA.
The religious missionary was - the
leading object in organizing efforts among
the Freedraen in this city, Nor should
this leading idea ever be abandoned.
Without any effort at sectarianism, reli
gious worship is conducted in the mis
sion according to the order of the Re
formed Presbyterian Church. ~As it is
found peculiarly difficult to draw away
from their former low types of worship
those whose habits have already been
formed, special attention is given to the
young. Religious instruction and wor
ship is mingled with intellectual training
in the week day exercises. On the
Lord’s d ay, a Sabbath-school is held with
an actual attendance of a hundred pu
pils. Our four teachers find here a large
field of usefulness in the Bible class,
'.Scripture lessons, Assembly’s Shorter
Catechism, Ac. A hopeful congregation
is this. A permanent and intelligent
foundation being laid, for Church erec
ionand extension
, Kansas.— The Senate have passed. resolu
tions in favor of hanging Jefferson Davis and
other rebel leaders.
All Government Employes at Fortress
Monroe, formerly connected with the rebel
service, have been discharged, for fear of
their aiding the plot to secure Jefferson
Davis' escape. Col. John S. Moseby has
been arrested at Warrenton, Va., by the
military, and taken to Washington.——An
officer high in command at Fortress Monroe
has been removed for conniving at the recent
plot to liberate Davis. The Secretary of
War has discharged one of his clerks for say
ing he would like to see Senator Sumner
“sent to his long home.” -It is said'the
Government has received information of Na
poleon’s intention to withdraw the French
troops froin Mexico, hut Senor Romero,
Mexican Minister at Washington, does not
believe the report. On Friday, for the
first time in American history, a colored man
was paid for carrying the mails. His route
is in Virginia;
Senate. —January 16. —The resolutions re
questing the President to withdraw our Min
ister from England and issue a proclamation
of non-intercourse, were debated and laid on
the table —yeas 25, nays 12. The resolution
requiring the reference to the Committee on
Reconstruction of all papers concerning the
rebellious States, and the District suffrage
bill, were debated.
January 17. —Ten thousand copies of the
President’s Message, and Gen. Grant’s Re
port on the Condition of the South, were
ordered to be printed. • A resolution was in
troduced calling for information of the condi
tion of affairs on the Rio Grande. The bill
increasing the army was taken up, debated
and postponed. Afterwards Senator Doolit
tle made an elaborate speech defending the
President’s reconstruction policy.
January 18. —A resolution was passed or
dering the distribution among the State Li
braries of five hundred copies of the works -of
James Madison. Bills and resolutions were
reported incorporating the Freedmen’s Sav
ings and Trust Company, and admitting Co
lorado into the Union. The resolution for
the appointment of Provisional Governors in
the South was debated. In the debate, Sen
ator Wade made a noble protest against the
attempt to overawe the sentiments and con
victions of Congress by outside influences.
He said: “ I have never had but one polar
star to my action, and that I adhere to whe
ther lamin a majority or in a minority. I
never intend to be tempted from it one single
inch. I have fixed my eyes upon the great
principle of eternal justice and right, -and it
has borne me triumphantly through all diffi
culties in my legislative career since I had a
seat in this body. I say triumphantly, for I
have stood upon this floor when I had not
ten men to support me against the entire
Senate, and when the principle I advocated
was, unfortnnately, more unpopular than
those I announce to-day. .How was the
whole Senate startled by the idea of univer
sal emancipation ten or fifteen, or even 'five
years ago? Talk about unpopular-doctrines,
and attempt to intimidate by the ifbShation
that I shall, be found in a; minorijlrcamong
the people. I know better, I
think. 1 know that I tread, the great path
of rectitude and right. I don’t care_ who op
poses me ;• God Almighty is my guide. He
goes before and strengthens me. He has
never failed me yet, ana I don’t fear He will
on this occasion. ’ ’ A hill granting the frank
ing privilege to Mrs. Lincoln was passed un
animously. _ -
January 19. —Mr. Doolittle presented the
credentials of Judge Marvin, Senator elect
from Florida,, ana endorsed his loyalty.
After debate they were laid on the table.
The bill to enlarge the powers of the Freed
man’s Bureau was taken up and debated by
Mr. Hendricks in opposition, and by Mr.
Trumbull in favor _of the measure. An
amendment confirming the titles to land,
under Gen. Sherman’s Savannah order for
three years, instead of for life, was adopted.
January 20. —A bill was passed extending
the time for the completion of the Burling
ton and Missouri railroad. The bill enlarg
ing the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau
was taken up and debated. Senator Guthrie,
of Kentucky, opposed it.
January 22. —The Committee on Recon
struction _ reported an amendment to the
Constitution, that when the right of suffrage
is denied to any class of citizens, that class
shall be excluded from the basis of represen
tation. The resolution to refer all papers
relating to the. South to the Reconstruction
Committee was passed. The bill to enlarge
the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau was
considered. Mr. Cowan’s amendment, to
restrict its operation to the States lately in
rebellion, was lost—yeas 11, nays 33.
House —January 16. —Mr. Cockling offered
a series of resolutions against re-admitting
the Southern States without conditions,
which, being objected- to, were laid over.
The Committee on Reconstruction was au
thorized to send for persons and papers, by
yeas 125, nays 35. The debate on suffrage in
the District was resumed.
January 17.—The bill establishing a na
tional protection homestead company was
tabled: yeas, 120'; nays, 32. The vote on
the negro suffrage bill was ordered to take
place to-morrow, and the bill was then
debated.
January 18. —The bankrupt bill was re
ported and made the-order for January 30.
A bill regulating the Freedmen’s Bureau
Wks made the order tor the 23d. A report
was made against paying claims for damage
done to property during the war. The Dis
trict of Columbia Suffrage bill'was taken up
and debated. After various dilatory motions
it was passed granting universal suffrage
without restriction in the District. Yeas
116, nays 54.
January 19. —The Commute of Ways and
Means were instructed to consider the expe
diency of repealing the stamp dudes on writ
ten instruments.
January 22. —A resolution was offered and
referred for the trial of Jefferson Davis by a
military court. The Committee on Recon
struedon proposed amendments to the Con
stitution, providing that when the right of
suffrage is denied to any class of oitizens, that
class shall be excluded from the basis of
representation. After discussion they were
laid over until Tuesday.
Pennsylvania.—Governor Gurdn arrived
at New York from Havana January 17.
Mrs. Grinder, the Pittsburgh poisoner, was
hangetUJan. 19. She made a confession.
A. M; Stewart.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1866.
Dtta nf tjyi P«k
THE EXECPTIVE,
CONGRESS.
THE STATES.
New York. —Olean was visited by a most
destructive fire, January 15, laying it almost
entirely in ashes. Two hotels alone remain
standing. -G-onzales, who murdered Senor
Otero, has been found guilty of murder in
the first degree. Dr. Nott, of Union Col
lege, is in a dying condition. Passengers
by the steamer Corsica , from Havana, at
New York January 19, reports jthat the
cholera was prevailing quite extensively in
some parts of the city, but that the journals,
in accordance with in instructions, make no
record of it.
New Jersey. —The House of Assembly
have passed the Constitutional Amendment,
abolishing slavery, by yeas 42, nays 10.——
Not a single New Jersey bond has been sold
by the State for less than par. Previous to
the year 1863 they were sold at par; since
then they have generally commanded a large
premium.
Massachusetts. —During the year ending
May, 1865, 7,249,921 pairs of boots, and 24,-
620,660 pairs of shoes, were manufactured in
this State. Rufus Choate, Jr., died at
Boston on January 15, from the effects of
wounds received in the late war.
Maryland.—The owner iff a building in
which is held a colored school at Wytheville,
Md., notified the teacher of a school, a few
days since, that it would have to be closed, as
the laws of Maryland prohibited the educa
tion of negroes. The teacher submitted the
case to Major General Howard, commissioner
of refugees, freedmen, &c., who directed the
teacher to continue the school as before.
The House of Delegates have endorsed Gen.
Grant’s recent letter opposing the further
withdrawal of troops from the South.
Dist. Columbia. —An unsuccessful attempt
was made January 15, to murder Justice
Field, of the Supreme Court, by an infernal
machine, contained in a letter sent from Cal
ifornia. Unsuccessful attempts were made
January 16, by incendiaries to burn down
several of the colored churches in Washing
ton. Hon. Geo. W. Julian, of»lndiana,has
received, at Washington, a threatening letter
enclosing a large piece of a negro scalp, with
the hair attached.
Kentucky. —Efforts arebeing made to send
John C. Breckinridge to the-United States
Senate from Kentucky.
Tennessee. —John Bell has begun a series
of letters in the Louisville Journal on public
affairs. He accepts the results of the war,
and recommends a warm support of the Pre
sident’s policy. The Nashville and ‘Chat
tanooga railroad has sued its late president
for $1,000,000 damages, for 'permitting the
rebels to use the road during .the war.
Florida. —The President has relieved Pro
visional Governor Marvin, and recognized
David S. Walker as Governor. Mr. Walker
was elected by thepeople.
Mississippi. —Harrangues by ( officers at
negro meetings are prohibited by/the Missis
sippi Freedmen’s Bureau. —-Gov. Hum
phreys has issued a proclamation declaring
“ the blockade of the ports of thjfe Confeder
ate States removed. ” j
Missouri. —The loss caused by the ice to
the St. Louis steamers amountsito: $BOO,OOO.
: The United States Marshaluin Western
Missouri has confiscated a large rnumber of
estates belonging to rebels—among them, the
property of General Sterling Price/.
Wisconsin.—Gov. Stone, at hil reinaugu
ration, January 11, said: —“Sound policy
can never sanction the disfranchisement of
four millions of freed people, whose loyal
ballots would Constitute them anj army of
occupation to the G overnment in the South. ’ ’
Texas.—The order directing the disarma
ment of the negroes has been revoked.
The United States cotton-license tax in Gal
veston, has produced, in four months, nearly
$631,000. ; ’ .
PAPERS ON JEFF DAVIS’ TRIAL.
. The following papers, submitted to Con
gress Jan. 10th, exhibit the policy of the Ex
ecutive as far as developed in regard to the
rebel President and his associates. They are
of sufficient be given entire.
The President encloses reports Rom the
Secretary of War and Attorney General, and
at the same time invites the attention of the
Senate to that portion of his annual message
which refers to CoDgress the question con
nected with the holding of Circuit Courts of
i.the United States within the districts where
their authority has-been intercepted: '
War Deparmei®, Jan. 4 1366.
Sir: In reply to the annexed Senate reso
lutions, passed December 21, 1865, referred
to me by you for report, I have the honor to
state — First. That Jefferson Davis was cap
tured by United States troops in the State of
Georgia, on or about the tenth day of May,
1865, and by order of this Department has
been and now is confined in Fortress Monroe,
to abide sueh action as may be taken by the
proper anthorities of the United Stales Gov
ernment. j
Second. That he has not been (irraigned
upon any indictment or formal charge of
crime, but has been indicted for the crime of
high treason by the Grand Jurf of the
District of Columbia, which indictment is
now pending in the ■Supreme Coutt -of the
said District. He is also charged With the
crime of inciting the assassination of Abra
ham Lincoln, and with the murder qf Union
prisoners of wav, by starvation and other
barbarous and cruel treatment towards them.
Third. The President deeming it expe
dient that Jefferson Davis should first be
put upon his trial before a competent court
and jury for the crime of treason, he was ad
vised by the law officers of the Government
that the most proper place for such trial was
in the State of Virginia. That State -is
within the judicial circuit assigned to the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who
has held no court there since the/apprehen
sion of Davis, and who declines for an indefi
nite period to hold any court there.
The matters above stated are, so far as I
am informed, the reasons for holding Jeffer
son Davis in confinement, and why he has
not been put upon trial |
Fourth. Beside Jefferson Da vis, ( the fol
lowing persons, who acted as officers' of the
rebel Government, are imprisoned,/to wit:
Clement C. Clay, at Fortress (Monroe,
charged among other things with! treason,
with compliey in the murder of Mr. Lincoln,
and with organizing bands qf pirates, robbers,
and murderers in Canada, to burn the cities
and ravage the commerce and coasts of loyal
States on the British frontier; D. L. Yulee, 1
at Fort Pulaski, charged with treason while
holding a seat in the Senate of the- United
States and with plotting to capture the forts
and arsenals of the United States, and with
inciting war and rebellion against the Gov
ernment. S. K. Mallory, at Fort Lafayette,
charged with treason, and with organizing'
and setting on foot piratical expeditions
against the United States' commerce and
marine on the high seas. Other officers or
the so-called Confederate Government, arrest
ed and imprisoned, have been released on pa
role, to abide the action of the Government
in reference to this prosecution, and that for
alleged offences, on their application for am
nesty and pardon. Among these are S. A.
Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury; John
A. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of War;
James A. Seddon, Secretary of War ; John
H. Reagan, Postmaster General; R. M. T.
Hunter, Senator; Alexander H. Stephens,
Vice-President, and sundry other persons ot
less noth. Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War.
Attorney General’s Office, )
January 4, 1866. I
To the President:
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt from you of a copy of the resolution
of the Senate of the United Stutes.of date
the 21st of December, 1865. In thait resolu
tion the Senate respectfully requests to be
informed upon what charges and for what
reasons' Jefferson Davis is still held in con
finement, and why he has not been put upon
When the war was at its crisis, Jefferson
Davis, the commander-in-chief of the army
of the insurgents, wis taken prisoner, w tn
other prominent rebels, by the military torces
of the United Sta e>. It was the
"militarv so' to take them. They have bean
heretofore, and are jet held aspns .
war. Though active hostilities have ceasea,
a state of war still exists in the territory in
rebellion. Until peace shall come in fact,
and in law, they can rightfully be held as
prisoners of- war.
I have ever thought that trials for treason
cannot be held before a military tribunal.
The civil courts have alone jurisdiction of
that crime. The question then arises, where
and when must the trials thereof beheld?
In that clause of the Constitution mentioned
in the resolution of the Senate, it is plainly
written that they must be held in the State
and district wherein the crime shall have
been committed. I know that many persons
of learning and ability entertain the opinion
that the commander-in-chief of the rebel
armies should be regarded as constructionally
present with all the insurgents who prosecut
ed hostilities and made raids upon the north
ern and southern borders of the loyal States.
This doctrine of constructive presench, car
ried out to its - logjca consequence, would
make all who had been connected with the
rebel armies liable to trial in any State and
district into which any portion of these
armies had made the slightest incursion.
Not being persuaded of the correctness of
that opinion, but regarding the doctrine men
tioned as if doubtfiik constitutionally, I have
thought it.not proper to advise you to cause
-criminal proceedings to he instituted against
Jefferson Davis or any other insurgent in the
States or districts in which they were not
actually present during the prosecution of
hostilities. *■
Some prominent rebels were personally
present at the invasion of Maryland and
Pennsylvania, but all or nearly all of them
received military paroles upon the surrender
of the rebel armies. Whilst I think that
thote paroles are not an ultimate protection
for prosecutions for high treason,, I have
thought that it would be a violation of the
paroles to prosecute those persons for crimes
before4he political power of the Government
has iproclaimed that the rebellion has been
suppressed.
It follows, from what I have said, that I
am of the opinion that Jefferson Davis and
others of the insurgents ought to be tried in
some one of the States or districts in which
they may be charged. Though active hostili
ties, and flagrant war have not for some time
existed between the United States and the
insurgents, peaceful relations between the
Government and the people in the States and
districts in rebellion have not yet been fully
restored. None of the justices of the Supreme
Court have held circuit courts in these States
and districts since aetual hostilities ceased.
When the courts are open, and all laws can
be peacefully administered and enforced in
those States whose people rebelled against
the Government, when thus peace shall have
come in fact and in law, the persons now
held in military custady.-as prisoners of war,.
and who may not have been tried and con
victed for offences against the laws of war,
should be transferred to the custody of the
civil authorities of the proper districts, to be
tried- for such high crimes and misdemeanors
as may be alleged against them.
I think it is the plain duty of the Presi
dent to cause criminal prosecutions to be in
stituted before the proper tribunals, and at
all proper times, against some qf those who
were Anainly instrumental in inaugurating
and conspicuous in conducting the late hos
tilities. I should regard it as a direful cala
mity, if many whom the sword has spared,
the law should spare also; but I would deem
it a more direful calamity still, if the Execu
tive, in performing his donstitutional duty of
bringing these persons before the bar of jus
tice to answer for their crimes, should violate
the plain meaning of the Constitution, or in
fringe in the least particular the living spirit
of-that instrument.
: I have the. honor to be, most respectfully,
James Speed, Attorney General.
THE CITT.
Judge Allison on Jan. 16 sentenced ffm.
Aston to pay a fine of $lOOO and undergo an
imprisonment of seven years, for injuring a
man by shooting him with a pistol, this
being the extent of the law. At the meet
ing of the various committees on the Steam
ship fund, held January 16, subscriptions
were reported to the amount of $500,000.
The full amount of capital required for pres
ent operations is $600,000, and it is expected
that the whole of it will be subscribed at the
next meeting. The sum here mentioned is
sufficent to purchase vessels enough to estab
lish steam lines to ‘Wilmington, N. C.,
Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans.
During 1865 the expenditures, of the
city were $10,363,256. The city is paying
90 cents per 1000 m’s for its printing,-; —
During 1865 there were 438 fires in Phila
delphia, causing a loss of $1,269,499.
Financial. —The public debt decreased from
August to December, $41,000,000. The
current fiscal year’s receipts of internal reve
nue will be over $300,000,000. The Sec
retary of the Treasury still estimates the
Southern cotton supply at 1,750,000 bales.
FOREIGN.
Mexico. —A letter from Brazos, of the 7th,
to the New Orleans limes, says:—Bagdad
was captured on the morning of the sth. The
attacking party consisted of sixty men. They
captured nearly 300 prisoners, one half of
whom turned Liberals, and formed the garri
son of town on the attacking party disappear
ing. The Liberal loss was 4 killed and 8
wounded. The Imperial loss was 11 killed
and 27 wounded. Upon assuming command,
Gen. Escobado requested of Gen. Weitzel a
detachment of twenty men to preserve order,
.which was agreed to, and the men were or
dered down. Recent dispatches from
Minister Bigelow, it is reported, say the
French Emperor has no intention of with
drawing his troops from Mexico.
The New York Herald's dispatches from
Metamoras say -that not only the French
troops will withdraw, but even “ Maximilian
has recently unreservedly expressed himself
ready to make his exit from Mexico as soon
as the United States shall demand it.”
Twelve thousand French and Austrian troops
arrived in Mexico during Christmas week.
Toluca, the ancient capital of the empire, 36
miles from Mexico, has been taken by the
Liberals, under General Munoz. All the Im
perial troops at the Capital have been sent
to retake the city, and Marshal Bazaine com
mands in person— —Juarez left Chihuahua,
December 9, and a large French force took
possession immediately after.
France— Napoleon gave the usual New
Year’s reception to the diplomatic body, and
expressed his happiness that the past year
had strengthened the bonds of peace, and
was an augury for a long day of peace and
prosperity oVer the world.-— —Count Faver
ney Second Secretary of the French Embassy
at Washington, has had an audience with
the Emperor. .
Chili has authorized privateering against
Spanish commerce. -The death of the
Spanish Admiral of the fleet blockading
Sis confirmed. He committed suicide
from mortification at the capture of one of
his vessels by the Chilians.
ItalV - The new Italian Ministry had been
com Dieted under the Presidency of LrMar-
The Pope received the congratula
tes of the French army on January l st „d
tionsoi , ca ,ditwoud probably
' betefasUime he could bestow his blessing
be the ms , f par pd the enemies of tpe
• Chmch would go to Rome after the departure
of the French troops.
mSOELLANEetS,
The Colored Press. —The Independent
makes the following enumeration of papers
now conducted by colored men: At New
Orleans, The Tribune, a daily, is owned and
edited by colored men, and conducted with
great ability. At Mobile, as one of the re
sults of the recent convention held in that
city , The Nationalist, a weekly, is just now
starting, under the auspices of an association
of colored men, to be edited by Eev. J. Sills
by, once of the Siam Mission. At Augusta,
Ga., The Colored American, about the size of
The Tract Journal, is just starting off with
ability and fair prospects. At Beaufort, S,
C., The New South has reached “ Vol. IV ,
No. 9.” At Nashville, Tenn., The Colored
Tennesseean, a, very respectable paper, has
issued the twenty-seventh number of its. first
volume. The Religious Recorder, the organ
of the African M. E. Church, is published in
Philadelphia, and looks not greatly unlike
The Recorder of Boston. And now The
Leader appears in this city.
Items.—The Emperor Napoleon receives
five millions of dollars a year, and the Em
press one million. Queen Victoria receives
.about two millions. The high price of
paper, it is said', has induced the New York
Tribune to import paper from Belgium.
Harper's Weekly is printed on paper frem
Belgium. The report that the wrong Win
der is in custody, for barbarities to our pris
oners, is confirmed. The right one is said to
be in Canada.—-George Bancroft has ac
cepted the invitation to deliver tha.eulogy on
President Lincoln.— —Three of the Adams
Express robbers have been captured in Con
necticut, and three-fourth of the stolen money
recovered. The amount stolen was $250,-
000.-; —Professor James L. Mapes, the dis
tinguished agriculturists died at Newark,
Jan. 10, aged 60. Since July there have
been twenty light-houses built, or rather re
stored, at the expense of the General Gov
ernment. These light-houses were all in
Southern waters, and went to ruin amid the
wholesale wreck which followed the rebellion.
The population of Paris is 1,667,841.
The Governmentowns47,poo,oooacres of
public lands in the South. It is said that
the Falls of Saint Anthony recede so much
every year, that in a short time they will be
destroyed—nothing being left but rolling,
tumbling rapids. Dr. Beemis, Superin
tendent of the State Lunatic Asylum at
Worcester, has been for some “weeks the
inmate of a similar asylum at Philadel
phia. The rebel owner of the Planter,
captured so gallantly by Robert Small in
Charleston harbor, has applied for the return
of his “ property.” It is at length ascer
tained that Gen. Lee did apply for pardon.
The Richmond newspapers wish to turn
the correspondents of Northern journals out
of the city, as it is alleged they write false
hoods. —; —The Committee on Reconstruction
has begun the examination of witnesses to
ascertain, the condition of the Southern
States.
The National 'Temperance Advo
cate is a very handsome new monthly
octavo just issued, by J. N. Stearns &
Co., No.-111 Fulton Street, N. Y.. at
$1 per annum; .It is the organ of the
new National Temperance Society, and
seems to be conducted with spirit and
judgment. We commend it to the favor
of earnest Temperance men.
grin ■ JiuMitafow.
Now Ready, The February Number of
HOURS AT HOME.
TABLE OF CONTENTS;
The Straggle In Tyrol. By C. L. Bbacb.
Geoffrey, the lollard— Concluded.
The Science of History. By J. A. Fboude.
Westminster Abbey. By Col. J. G. Wilson.
A Miracle in Conrt. By Rev. C. E. Knox.
Private life of Sir Thomas Moore.
Modern languages. By Proi. Wells, of
Union College.
Senator Collamer.
• The Religions Sentiment in the Union
Army. By William Swixton.
With several Poems and other Papers of Interest.
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