gjetos of fj)f P«k.
THE EXECUTIVE,
General Asboth, who came to America as
the Adjutant ot Louis Kossuth, and who
distinguished himself at Pea Ridge, Port
Hudson, Mobile, and elsewhere, during the
war, ha.s been appointed Minister of the U.
8. to tlie Argentine Republic in feouth Ame
rica. The evidence in the trial of Major
Gee, late cammander of Salisbury Prison,
shows that of 10.000 soldiers confined in the
prison, 5000 diedm five months.— —It. Rous
seau*, brother of General L. H. Rousseau, of
Kentucky, has been appointed Minister to
Honduras.
CONGRESS.
Senate.—March 6.—The bi'l to pay the
expenses of .Missouri in culling out her State
militia was taken up and passed. The repre
sentation amendment was then debated, and
Mr. Saulsbury spoke against the measure. A
message was received from the President,
communicating information in regard to the
organization of governments in the lately
rebellious States; also, a teport of operations
of the Freedmen’s Bureau, both of which
■were referred to the Rcouiistruuiioii Commit
tee. A joint resolution was passed, giving
the consent of Congress to the annexation of
the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, in
Virginia, to B est Virginia.
March 7. —A resolution was adopted look
ing to the appointment of a medical .commis
sion to consider preventives against the
cholera and to attend the Cholera Congress.
It was moved to take up the resolution in
regard to the investigation of fraud by cotton
agents, but the subject was postponed till
Friday. A resolution was adopted looking to,
the protection of army officers from suits for
acts done in obedience to orders during the
-war. A bill was passed explaining certain
provisions of the internal revenue act. The
representation amendment was debated. i
March B. Resolutions were introduced;
proposing a constitutional amendment to
prevent rebels f rom voting or holding office
under the Federal Government, and looking
to the appointment, by Congress, of govern
ments for the late seoeded States. The pro
posed constitutional amendment, relating to
representation, was debated.
March 9.—The representation amendment
to the Constitution was considered, and a
vote being taken, failed to receive the neces
sary two-thirds for its adoption. The yeas
were 25, the nays 22. ,The vote was then
reconsidered, and an amendment was offered
by Mr. Doolittle, as follows:—“After the
census to be taken in the year eighteen hun
dred and seventy, and each succeeding cen
sus, representatives shall be apportioned
among the several States, which may be in
cluded within this Union, according to the
number m each State of male electors over
twenty-one years of age, qualified by the laws
thereof to choose members of the most nu
merous branch of its Legislature, and direct
taxes shall be apportioned among the several
States, according to the value of the real and
personal and taxable property situated in
each State not belonging to the State or to
the United States.” The further considera
tion of the question was postposed till Thurs
day.
March 12. —Representation amendments
were offered by Senators Wilson, Grimes, and
Sumner. The bill to extend the time for the
withdrawal of imported goods from bond, was
passed. The bill for the admission of Colo
rado was taken up.
House. —March 6. —The Reconstruction
Commij'tee reported evidence in relation to
Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, and Ala
bama, which was ordered to be printed. The
Military Academy bill was reconsidered, and
an amendment offered by Mr. Schenck that
no part of the money appropriated should be
4ipplivd to tHe pay of ut the cadets
from States lately in rebellion until such States
are admitted, was adopted. The bill was then
passed. A message was received from the
President in relation to the distribution of
the assassination rewards; also, one giving
information in regard to the Southern pro
visional governments.
March 7.—A bill to pay the war expenses
of Pennsylvania was made the special order
for Wednesday. Additional testimony was
reported from the Reconstruction Committee,
and was ordered to be printed. The bill
regulating trade with the British Provinces
was considered in Committe of the Whole.
A message was received from the President,
■declining to communicate information asked
for in reference to Juarez.
March S. —A minority report from the
Reconstruction Committee, relative to the
, admission of Tennessee, was presented and
ordered to be printed. The bill, fixing the
number of Supreme Court Judges at nine,
including the Chief Justice, was passed. The
Senate bill for the protection of all persons in
their civil rights, was considered.
March 9. —A resolution was adopted di
recting the Secretary ot War to report the
number of volunteers whose terms have ex
pired and retained in the service. The Sen
ate civil rights bill was considered/nd recom
mitted, by 83 yeas against 70 nays. The bill
to pay the war claims of Missouri was post
poned for two weeks. The reciprocity bill
was considered in Committee of the Whole,
and various amendments were adopted, in
creasing the duties.
March 12. —The portrait of Joshua R. bid
dings was ordered to be printed. A joint
resolution “ that that act of June-30th, 1864,
shall not be so construed as to exempt from
taxation by or under State or municipal au
thority, any amount of United States notes
not bearing interest held by any person as
money,” was referred to the Committee ot
Ways and Means. A resolution upon deny
ing rebels the elective franchise was referred
to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Morrill,
•(Yt.,) from the Committee of Ways and
Means, reported back adversely a joint reso
lution to increase temporarily the duties of
imports. Laid on the table. The Recipro
city Treaty was debated, and in the evening
session the enacting clause of the bill was
.Stricken out.
the states.
Pennsylvania. —The Union Convention
which met in Harrisburg. March 7, nominat
ed Gen. John W. Geary for Governor. Gen.
Geary was formerly a Democrat, but, as
Governor of Kansas, he refhsed to become a
tool of Mr. Buchanan in his scheme for sub
verting liberty in that State, and so resigned.
The Convention passed resolutions fully
justifying Congress, calling back the Presi
dent to his old allegiance, demanding the
resignation of Senator Cowan, and praising
Governor Curtin and Secretery Stanton, (a
Pennsylvanian), for their patriotic services.
Gen. Geary, in a short, soldier-like speech,
said that he accepted the nomination with
the firm and unfaltering determination to
sustain the great principles of equal justice
which underlie our republican institutions,
and a hearty endorsement of the principles
em bod ied in the platform. The Gettysburg
Battle-field Association have purchased the
grove in which General Reynolds was killed.
Kew York. —The city railroad companies
will have to return to the old fare of five
cents for each passenger—so the Court of
Common Pleas practically decides—unless
they can devise ways and means of collecting
the internal revenue tax of i of 1 per cent,
without levying upon the public the entire
ceQt.— —The number of immigrants arriving
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY. MARCH 15. 1866.
at New York city during the week ending
March 7, was 2108, making a total of 18,476
from Ist of January to date, against 8753 for
the corresponding period last year. A ma
jority of this week’s arrivals are Germans
and Swedes. A colored man, named Brice,
obtained a verdict for $750 in- the Superior
Court N. Y. City, March 7, as compensation
for damages sustained at the hands of the
mob during the memorable anti-conscription
riots in July, 1863. The city exchequer, of
course, has to foot the bill.
The Rhode Island Legislature has passed
a bill forbidding the exclusion of colored
children from public schools.
Illinois. —The valuation of real and per
gonal property for 1865, is $391,603,284, an
increase of $34,894,231 since the previous
year.
District of Columbia,—' The gold-bearing
quartz near the Great Falls of the Fotomac,
above Washington, is beginning to attract
attention.
Virginia.—A gang of Southern regulators
have threatened the life of one of the tcachfers
of the bureau, engaged in prosecuting_ his
duties at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
It is presumed that the only reason for this
threat is the fact that he is a Northern Abo
litionist. The Arlington estate, formerly
belonging to General Lee, is to be rented in
five-acre lots to the freedmen.
Tennessee. —A landholder in Marshall
county, who' rented portions of his land to
negroes, was recently driven away, with his
tenants, by armed guerillas. The minority
report on the admission of Tennessee says
that Bast Tennessee is strongly loyal, and
Middle Tennessee and Western Tennessee
disloyal. There are about 120,000 white
males of the voting age, and 80,000 colored
of the voting age, in all about 200,000. The
proposition of the majority, heretofore re
ported, places the State Government in the
hands of about 60,000, or about three-tenths
of the adult population, to the exclusion of
seven-tenths. The minority report provides
for the extension of suffrage to the colored
citizens. Governor Brownlow has received
a despatch from Mississippi, telling him to
“beware of assassination.”
Alabama. —Sixty gold watches and a
quantity of jewelry were found buried in a
cemetery, at Montgomery, Ala., recently.
Mississippi.— Complaint is made that
colored children are seized and apprenticed to
white masters, for a small compensation, un
til the age of 21.
Louisiana. —The Democratic candidate for
Mayor of New Orleans is John T. Monroe,
who was deposed from that office by General
Butler.
THE CITY.
One of our Grand Juries, in a recent pre
sentment, traces three-fourths of the crimes
committed to the immoderate use of intoxi
cating liquors. The opening of the High
School for colored youths, situated in Ship
pen Street above Ninth Street, took place
March 9. The new building is three stories
in heighth, 51 by SO feet, and cost $45,000.
All the building will be occupied for school
purposes.
Financial. —Gold has fallen to 30£. Fear
of still further depression paralyzes business.
The Ledger of Saturday, says:—“Sales
cannot be effected at any prices. While the
importers continue'to crowd their goods into
the auction houses, the domestic manufactur
era are stacking theirs in their mills. Several
of the cotton and woollen factories in the
neighborhood ot Philadelphia have ceased
operations, temporarily, as they at the time
supposed, in the expectation that the de
mand and sales in a month or two would so
far reduce their stock as to enable them to
resume work without any material break in
prices. In this they have been disappointed.,
-Snlo.s wo almost impossible at any price, and
any offered reduction hut the more effectually
frightens purchasers from the market. In
the meantime, the leading dry goods import
ers are feeding the auction rooms, the rule
everywhere being to buy as little and sell as
much as possible. It is pretty well under
stood at the "present advanced stage of the
season, that the spring trade of 1866 is a
losing one, especially to those engaged in dry
goods.
mscEixANEors.
The Pennsylvania Agricultural Society
at its meeting, November 7, passed the fol
lowing unanimously:—
Resolved , That the Society have no infor
mation which would justify the belief that
there exists among the cattle of our country
any greater amount of ‘disease than usual.
Neglect of sanitary regulations and certain
local causes produce at all times diseases
among men and beasts. It is unwise to con
found these results of evident causes with the
great scourge now afflicting the cattle of Eng
land. That nevertheless, it is highly proper
that unusual precautions should be taken to
keep all animals in strong health, and to pre
pare as best we can against future danger.
A Capital Plan.—A Washington telegram
says: —‘‘Some of the loyal men from several
of the Southern States are considering a pro
ject which, if acted upon, will lead to very
important results. Their plan is to issue
calls to the loyal men, both black and white,
in these States to assemble in convention, to
organize loyal State governments and elect
loyal delegates to Congress, who shall at once
present themselves to that body, and ask for
recognition for themselves and their new
State government. ’ ’
■ Testimony of Gen. Grierson—The follow
ing testimony from the famous leader who
rode through the entire State of Mississippi
before the capture of Vicksburg puts the
rebel States in a very unpromising position
for restoration: ,
Gen. B. H: Grierson, testified—l. have
been in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and for a short
time in Georgia. I thiuk I can judge correct
ly the feelings of the people of those States.
At the time ol the surrender of Lee and
Johnston my impressions-of the people there
were that they were willing to accept almost
any terms which might be granted to them.
by the Government; there appeared to be
great fear manifested by them that all of
their property would be confiscated, and that
possibly they would not be allowed to remain
in the country ; that appeared to be the feel
ing among the wealthy, influential classes; I
think at that time they would have been will
ing to accept any terms granted them ; but
they have grown from time to time more ex
acting in their demands; many of"them had
the appearance at first of accepting the situa
tion, and of being willing to abide the result;
this was particularly the case with the private
soldiers and poorer classes of the South; there
were of course a few of the wealthier classes
who felt very bitter and talked a good deal
about leaving the South entirely, and about
not being willing to remain there, offering to
sell their property at reduced prices; 1 think
that instead of growing more willing to accept
the situation, they are showing a more intense
feeling oi bitterness towards the Government,
I spent ot the leading men more particularly
they do not appear to think that they have
done anything seriuus; their only regret
seems to be that they had not the means to
carry out their designs.
I think that if the disloyal had been dealt
with more severely, there would have been less
dissatisfaction and. more loyalty in the Aowcft
to day; there is a great anxiety m the couth
to organize the militia and get rid of the
Freedmen’s Bureau ; I think there are secret
organizations in the South: I think the with
drawal ot the Freedmen’s Bureau would re- :
suit in great injustice and injury to the ne
groes, the poor whites and loyal Southerners; i
the people South think they are to be com-1
pensated for their slaves; if the troops were j
removed I think the negroes would be again
forced into slavery.
I found the. negroes much more willing to
work and less disposed to depend upon the
aid of the Governmeut than I had supposed
they would be; I have been surprised to see
them go to work so freely and cheerfully; the
negroes, if they have a chance, will support
themselves; they are very anxious to learn to
read; if permitted to vote, the influence of
the negroes will never be thrown against the
Government: they are true; in all my service
I never found a negro untrue to the country;
they were always ready and willing to give
information carefully—many times informa
tion of great value to the service. The
whites are opposed to the negroes becoming
land owners.
I think there is a great desire manifested
by them for the assumption of their debt:
they wish to bring that about, and many de
sire to be paid for their slaves; I think they
would oppose the payment ot the national
debt; I think they have qo patriotism for the
Union; they appear now to be as much de
voted to the cause of the rebellion as they
were during the war; they appear to accept
the situation beiause they cannot do any
thing else at present, not because they are
satisfied with it; I think that if another
election were held for Congressmen and
Senators, they would elect men. who are
even stronger in their sentiments for the
South and against the Government than those
heretofore elected ; they did in some cases
try to pick men who would uot be objection
able in every respect, but I think that these
men now would be objectionable to the South
ern people ; I infer this from a great many
things ; for instance, all employes of railroad,
telegraph, and express companies who were
loyal to the Government are having their
heads cut off and their places filled by sympa
thizers with the rebellion, many of them
heretofore officers in the rebel service.
The Southern people seem to have a great
desire to have this country involved in a war
with France, about Mexico.
FOREIGN.
Great Britain. —The military force in Ire
land has been increased. The arrests of
Fenians continue. The British Parliament
has authorized the seizure of the Irish tele
graph lines. The number of cattle attacked
with the plague during the week ending Feb.
17 was 13,000, the highest number yet re
corded in a single week. In the House of
Commons a reform bill has been introduced
extending the elective franchise to every male
over 21 years. U. S. 5-20’s at London,
Feb. 24, were 69} to 691. The London Tele
graph of Feb. 21, says:—“While all other
securities were depressed, and even consuls
were falling week after week, United States
five-twenty bonds not only maintained their
value, but gradually advanced from 63 to 67,
and are now quoted at 68}.” The writer
then proceeds at length to show, the insecu
rity of American finance. The day after the
publication of the article, five-twenties ad
j vanced from 6S} to 69|.
I France. —The Corps Legislatif, in their
j address to the Emperor, express their satis
faction at the assurance of the termination of
Mexican intervention.
Canada- —American fishermen are warned
from the New Brunswick shore fisheries after
the 17th instant. 10,000 militia were
called out to meet the expected Fenian raids
March S.
Mexico. —The Mexican Republicans, it
appears, are gaining constant victories in the
Mexican States bordering on the Pacific. The
French and Imperialists have been driven
into a few towns on the coast, where they
are closely besieged, and will ultimately be
compelled to embark oh the French ships in
the various harbors. Mazatlan, the chief of
these towns, garrisoned by the French, it is
said, cannot hold out much longer. It is
reported that recruiting for Mexico has begun
in Austria. Tl e Paris Paine reports the
probable withdrawal of 5000 French troops
from Mexico before the end of May. The
Imperialists have been' defeated in Llamo,
Sta. Cruz, and at Tehuantepec.
West Indies. —At last accounts the cholera
in Guadaloupe had declined to one or two
cases daily.
Prussia. —The Prussian Chambers were
closed by a royal decree on the 23d ult.
Chili. —The dates are to February 12th.
Only three vessels of the Spanish squadron
were on blockade duty off Valparaiso, the re
mainder having left for parts unknown.
The total loss of the Peruvian war steamers
Loa and Amazonas is confirmed. The
declaration of war against Spain by Ecuador
is confirmed, and an alliance had been entered
into with Peru and Chili. • '
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allowance of a dollar’s worth of Bibles each year, are
respectfully and earnestly requested to write out a
proxy, empowering Rev. Wm. White Williams, Sec
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four ministers from twelve different evangelical de
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England, he interpreted its articles of faith in a spirit
of genuine liberality and Christian catholicity, Stren
uous in advocaoy of truth, he yet more strenuously
inculcated that charity which is better than any intel
lectual truth.
These volumes contain the full record of his career,
—the circumstances of his earjy youth; his passion for
a n.ilitary life, which he reluotantly but thoroughly
put a?ide to gratify the wishes of his father; the soope.
thoroughness, and enthusiasm of his study at Oxford ;
the high spirit and purpose with which he entered on
his career as a minister: bis labors, trials, and success
at Winchester and Cheltenham; and> in full detail,
his heroic struggle at Brighton,—a struggle against
the bitter prejudices of the aristocratic and illiberal
portion of his own church and of the citizens,—against
the assumptions of those who claimed to bethespecial
depoistaries of truth,—against the indifferance of the
rich to the condition of the poor*—against the atheistic
views of the Workingmen, in whose behalf he labored
so arduously, and most of whom loved him as a bene-
factor ; and describe the eloquence and practical power
of his Sermons and Lectures, the thorough unselfish
ness of his character, and his too early death.
We invito attention to the following
NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
“The character it exhibits is one of the most strik
ing of tbis age, and the work it records will have
lasting ejection posterity. . . . There is something
bere for all kinds of reader*, but the higher a man's
mind, and the more general his sympathies, the keen
er will be his interest in the life of Robertson.”--Zon
don Athenaeum • x
“ We are sure that none can examine them without
interest or admiration for the manliness, the honesty,
and the intellectual vigor, which has perished by no
sudden or unexpected fate, but still has perished in
the green.”-- London Reader.
“No biography of late has met with such a universal
and enthusiastic welcome. The example which it
presents of a truly manly man: a man of masculine
OOurage and womanly affection ; a man with the bold
nessof a freethinker in speculation, and the devotion
of the saint in feeling; a man who loved nothing so
well as truth, but whose passion for truth was soft
ened by a tender reverence; a man with sublime faith
in the future, but alive to all the sacred associations
of the past; a man who blended with the most strenu
ous radicalism in regard to every thing false, unjust,
and unfriendly to Humanity, a truly conservative
spirit in behalf of all that is august, venerable, and
ennobling in the traditions of ages, such a example is
singularly attractive to the imagination, and full of
all sweet and wholesome influences.”--A T . Y. Tribune.
"A man remarkable not only for the graces of his
personal character, but for his position as a represen
tative of certain conspicuous tendencies of modern
thought. In his love of humanity and freedom, we
need not say he has our mostcordial sympathies. His
views of theology are certainly open to criticism; but
we should be untre to our name if we failed to recog
nize his noble independence in the pursuit of truth
and the expression of ideas.”— The Independent.
“ These volumes are full of thought, and well worth
every ministers perusal. Like his sermons, they
abound in seed-thoughts, and will stimulate where
they cannot guide.”— JS r . Y. Christian Advocate.
“The life portrayed is a remarkable one, in more
than one respect, but chiefly as the development of a
broad and strong, while singularly fine and pure na
ture, in an interne effort after, not truth in the abstract
only, but the highest style of manhood and useful
ness.”— Hartford Press.
“His much-tried Christian experience, as revealed
in his private letters, is full of practical results. His
character, to us. is intensely fascinating,”— The Meth
odist. '
*' The reader of his ‘Life and Letters* will see un
folded the same character that is indicated in his Ser
mons; will become acquainted with his mind, so rich
in intellectual and moral endowments, and will learn
the feelings and aspirations with which he performed
the noble work to which he was devoted.”— Examiner
and Chronicle,
“To say the least, we regard Mr! Robertson as one
of the greatest teachers of the age. His character as
aman, a Christian, and Teacher, as disclosed in these
volumes, will exercise a wide and beneficial influence:”
—St. John’s {N. B.) Colonial Presbyterian .
“We can recall now no collection of letters which
can be compared with these for comprehensiveness of
matter, felicity of diction, and elevation of tone and
sentiment, in discussing alike the commonplace and
the loltiest themes of didactic and spiritual i eligion,
under the most vitalized and intense dealing with it
in our modern life.*’— Atlantic Monthly [Rev. George
E. Ellis.]
“Themany readers and admirers of Robertson’s
Sermons will welcome this memoir Of his life.”— Hound
Table .
SERMONS.
BY REV. F. W. ROBERTSON.
Five volumes. 12mo. sl.£o eaoh volume. Sold sepa
rately or in sets.
Only one of the remarkablo sermons included in
these volumes was published during the author’s life.
The first volume, collected and edited oy his brother,
was so eagerly welcomed by all thoughtful readers,
that series after series was issued to meet the demand.
The result is, these five volumes of sermons that have
already taken their place among the standards of
modern pulpit eloquence, not solely or chiefly tor
their rhetorical excellence, but for their freshness,
vigor, and elevation of thought, and for their truly
liberal Christian spirit.
The almost unanimous judgment of the press re
specting these Sermons is fairly stated by Prof Henry
B. Smith of Union Theological Seminary, in Sours at
Some; “For originality, force, clearness of diction,
close contact with the minds and hearts of men, and
impressive eloquence, these discourses arc acknow
ledged to stand in the very front rank of modern
pulmt oratory.”
LECTURES AND ADDRESSES
LIIEBARY AND SOCIAE TOPICS.
BY REV. F. W. ROBERTSON.
1 yoI. 12mo. sl.£o
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