gaitoota itzttitimar.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1865
"The printing presses shall be free to every
person who undertakes to examine the pro
ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of
government; and no law shall ever be made
to restrain the right thereof. The free commu
nication of thought and opinions is one of the
Invaluable rights of men; and every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any sub
ject; being responsible for the abuse of that
liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of
papers investigating the official conduct of offi
cers, or men in public capacities, or where the
matter published is proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given In evi
dence."
Why the Democratic Press Supports Presi
dent Johnson and How Far It Will
Do So?
Numerous Abolition newspapers,
throughout the country, while they
give to President Johnson but weak and
half-hearted support, attempt to cast re
flections upon the press of the Demo
cratic party, because it speaks kindly
and hopefully of the new President.—
We are not surprised that his course of
conduct in regard to the reconstruction
of Southern States should give greater
satisfaction tothe Democratic press than
it does to the radicals. It is much more
in accordance with Democratic doctrine
than with the fanatical creed, and the
crude political theories of the radical
Abolitionsts. That the radical press
should denounce it, while Democratic
newspapers everywhere sustain it, is
only natural.
Whenever, during the last four years
the Democratic press deemed it proper
to call public attention to violations of
the Constitution of the United States ;
to disregard of the most ancient and
sacred rights of the individual citizen ;
to gross disregard of well estab
lished law; to unnecessary assump
tions of arbitrary power by the
Executive; to shameless disregard of
civil law by those who were dressed
in a little brief authority; to the gigan
tic frauds of corrupt officials, and the
wholesale plundering of the public trea
sury, which has done so much to swell
the vast proportions of our enormous
national debt; or to any other of the
gross abuses and outrages which have
saddened the heart of the true patriot,
and made him tremble for the fate of
free institutions—whenever the Demo
cratic press, in the exercises of the sacred
right of free speech, has dared to allude
to any of these things, it was denounced
as disloyal. Systematic attempts were
made by those in authority to suppress
the right-of a free discussion of public
measures; and, when this failed, mob
violence was encouraged. But, through
all, and despite of all such opposition,
the Democratic press spoke out plainly;
dertOuncing what it regarded as wrong
in plain terms of honest and patriotic
reprobation.
Then, as now, the democratic press
was ready to give credit to those in au
thority for whatever act of theirs, of
public or private character, was calcu
lated to enhance the general good of the
nation ; reserving, however, the right
to criticise all acts of those in power
with that freedom which is necessary
in any form of free government. That
it found itself frequently standing in
opposition to measures proposed and
acts done by the dominant party, will
not be regarded as strange, when the
events of the past four years shall come to
be read in the light of important history.
It showed through all a spirit of fear
lessness which forced even its opponents
to respect it. Neither, attempts at sup
pression, on the part of those in autho
rity, no• frequently recurring acts of
mob violence, for which there seemed to
be no redress, could intimidate it, or
force it to be silent for a moment. It
spoke out bpldly and fearlessly, and the
people listened to its utterances, and be
lieved them to be honest and true.
Since Andrew Johnson has been called
upon to preside over the destinies of this
nation, the Democratic press of the
country has 'watched his course with
anxious and eager solicitude. It stood
ready to approve o• to censure, accord
ing as his public acts proved to be wise
and judicious, or the contrary. Find
ing him willing to enter upon the great
work of reconstruction with prudent
foresight and statesmanlike sagacity, it
gave him every assurance of sympathy
and support in such a course.
When it saw him boldly renounce
the fatal doctrine of "State Suicide,"
upon which the radical abolitionists had
so strongly insisted, it praised him—not
from any sycophantic impulse, but, be
cause what he thus did was in accord
ance with correct political principles.
When, in issuing his proclamations for
the reconstruction of State Govern
ments in the revolted States, he refused
to assume powers not granted to him by
the Constitution of the United States,
and left each State free to control its
own local affairs, he then took his stand
squarely upon Democratic ground. It
would seem strange, indeed, if in this
the Democratic press of the country had
not stood by President Johnson. When,
in spite of all the pressure which the
radical Abolitionists could bring to bear
upon him, he steadfastly refused to in
terfere for the purpose of helping them
to carry out their favorite design of con
ferring the right of suffrage upon the
negroes of the Southern States, he again
showed himself entitled to, and he again
received universal commendation from
the Democratic press.
In thus giving President Johnson sup
port in all which he does rightly and
wisely, the Democratic press holds itself
perfectly free to condemn when any of
his acts shall call for reprobation. It
has not failed to speak out boldly against
the continuance of unlawfully consti
tuted military commissions, and to de
nounce as criminally wrong, the trial
before them of parties, who, from their
status and the character of their crimes,
are amenable only to the civil law of
the land. In every wise move which
-the President may make to restore law
and order ; to preserve, protect and de
fend the Constitution of the United
States, he will have the warm sympathy
and the hearty and earnest support, not
only of the Democratic press, but of the
Democratic masses throughout the
country. This support and sympathy
will be given freely ; the more freely,
because it could never be extorted, ex
cept through the honest convictions
that his acts are right, and his policy
calculated to preserve the Constitution,
to recement the Union, and to speedily
restore permanent peace and prosperity
to our war-weary and much distracted
land.
Mustering out the Veterans
Preparations have commenced for
mustering out between forty and fifty
thousand troops from the armies of
Generals Meade, Hancock and Logan.
About eighteen thousand of those effec
tive whose terms of service first expire
will be mustered out from the Army of
the Potomac by regimental organiza
tions. • All absentees belonging to such
regiments will be in addition to this
number, and may swell it to twenty-five
thousand. Hancock's veteran command
will be reduced seven thousand. The
Army of the Tennessee will lose fully
Affeen thousand.
" Hon. Ben. Wood.
It is stated that Ben. Wood telegraphed
to the authorities at Washington his
de.sire to testify before the Military Com
-
lA:fission, concerning the • $25,000 draft
sent to him by Jacob Thompson. He
claims that it was given him to be used
;,,A.r.t.sposea/M in ing gold for a friend of
~„-iyhoixtpsam, ,axid eays that he so used it.
It is not k,ixo t wn. whether his request
Chief Justice Chase, after having made
a, complete circuit of the Southern coast
from Fortress Monroe to New Orleans,
is announced to have arrived at Caro
in time to be at home for the Ohio State
Convention. Never since this nation (
had an existence, never, perhaps, in the
history of the world, was there a more
disgraceful and disgusting exhibition
than that made by the highest judicial
officer of this country during his elec•
tioneering trip among the negroes of the
South. Mr. Chase is apparently quite
insane on the question of effecting his
elevation to the Presidency. To secure
the emoluments of that office he plain
ly shows that he would willingly sacri
fice judicial honor and honesty. With
the Constitution of the United States
plainly and unequivocally declaring the
right to regulate the elective franchise
to be entirely left to the control of each
State ; and there being neither power in
the General Government to assume such
authority, nor any recognized precedent
for its exercise, he, who is by virtue of
his high office the chief guardian and
defender of that sacred instrument, has
had at the same time the unscrupulous
audacity and the unparalleled mean
ness to exhibit himself to this coun
try as a pitiful beggar of votes from
the ignorant . and degraded negroes
of the South. If they had possessed
votes to give, such an exhibition on the
part of the Chief Justice of the United
States could not have been regarded
otherwise than as most disgraceful and
degrading. When it is remembered
that they not only had not votes, but,
that they could never be endowed with
the high right of the elective franchise
otherwise than by State action, except
through the most palpable violation of
the Constitution of the United States,
which Mr. Chase was sacredly sworn to
observe, protect and defend, we cannot
find words of reprobation strong enough
to mark our abhorrence of his acts. The
judicial ermine has been sullied and
disgraced by this mostunworthy wearer
of it. He has bedraggled it in the fil
thiest purlieus of partisan politics, and
put a foul stain upon it which centuries
of time can never efface. Who could
have any respect for a judicial decision
pronounced by such a judge? All his
acts will he subject to suspicion, and
the conviction that Mr. Chase is not
possessed of the honorable uprightness
necessary for his high position can never
be:efiiiced from the minds of the Amer
can people so long as he lives ; and
when he (lies his memory will only sur
vive as a warning against the appoint
ment of corrupt partisans to such posi
tions. Only, as he shall thus serve, as a
monument to mark the folly of these
days, will either his life or his death
prove to be of value to the country he
has disgraced.
He managed to get back to Ohio in
time for the State Convention, but only
to find the leaders of his party at home
too cowardly to adopt the theories he
had advocated in his stumping tour
through the South. So ends The Chase.
Judge Wilkins
Hon. William Wilkins, who died at
his residence in Pittsburg, on last Fri
day morning, in the eighty-sixth year
of his age, was the son of Gen. John
Wilkins, a prominent citizen of Penn
sylvania, and was born at Carlisle, in
this State, in 1779. At an early age, his
family removed to leittsburg. Judge
Wilkins was admitted to the bar in his
twenty-second year. His career as a
lawyer was in the highest degree suc
cesSful. In 1820, he was appointed
President Judge of the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Allegheny county. He
was also a Ridge of the - United States
District Court; and on March 4th, 1831,
became a member of the United States
Senate. During his senatorial term,
the exciting question of nullification
arose, and thoughout that great struggle,
lie gave to General Jackson an earnest
ud efficient support. He resigned his
wsition in the Senate in 1834, to accept
he mission to Russia, tendered to him
y President Jackson, being succeeded
n the Senate by James Buchanan. In
1840, after his return from Russia, Judge
Wilkins was placed on the Van Buren
electoral ticket, and was also the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the Al
legheny district, but of course, failed of
an election. In 1843, he was again a
candidate, for the seat made vacant by
the resignation of the late Hon. W.
W. Irwin, appointed by President
Tyler, Charge to Denmark. In this
contest, there were three candidates,
the Whigs running Hon. H. M. Brack-
inridge, the Anti-Masons, Neville B.
Craig, Esq., and the Democrats, Judge
Wilkins. The latter was successful,
nit had not occupied his seat in Con
:ress many weeks when President Tyler
invited him to take charge of the War
Department. Judge Wilkins, from the
termination of Tyler's Administration
in 184.5, took hut little active part in
politics until 1555, when he allowed
his friends to use his name for
the State Sentite, to which he was tri
umphantly elected for three years. In
the Presidential contest of 1856 he serv
ed as an elector on the Buchanan 'elec
torial ticket, but advancing age admon-
shed him of his inability to take au
active part in that exciting contest.
From that period until the breaking out
of the civil war, the venerable deceased
was but little seen in public ; but when
the blast of open rebellion was wafted
from South Carolina, he put on his har
ness and labored assiduously, with all
the powers of his great intellect, to
arouse our people to their duty in the
terrible crisis through whieh we have
so happily passed.
Moral Status or Negroes North an
South.
The N. Y. Tribune, in an editorial
advocating negro suffrage, says :
" The negroes of the South are in good
part devout Chridians.."
That is infinitely more than can be
said of the free negro population of the
North. It is indisputable that they are
the most worthless and degraded part of
our population. There are counties in
this State where fully one-half the ex
penses of the criminal courts, and at
least one-third the expenses of the poor
houses are entailed upon the community
by a population of free negroes not
numbering one-tenth of the whole
population of the counties. This we
know to be true of certain counties
along the border. How does it come
that the slaves of the South are so much
superior in morals to the free negroes of
the North? Has slavery elevated she
former or freedom degraded and de
moralized the latter? Which is it?
Will the Tribune please explain?
The Spirit of Radicalism
The New York Times, a leading Re•
publican journal, truly exhibits the
spirit of radicalism by saying that "those
who voted for McClellan merit disfran
chisement." Is that what the Repub
lican demagogues mean when they talk
about " universal suffrage "—to take
away the right of voting from white
men who differ from them, and give it
to negroes ? But the TbeneB consoles us
with the remark that no such disfran
chisement will be likely to take place.
How generous!
Appointments for Georgia.
The remaining appointments for Geor
gia were made on Monday, viz : Judge
Erskine for United States Judge, Col.
Stone for District Attorney, and J. I.
Dunning, of Atlanta, for United States
Marshal. These are among the strong•
est Union men in Georgia.
Waiting for Something to Tarn lip.
When it was announced that the time
for holding the Democratic State Con
'vention had been postponed, many Re
pubilean newspapers, and among them
the Excilniner, took occasion to make
themselves merry over the matter.
Paragraphs, weak in structure, and en
tirely devoid of wit, went the round of
the Abolition press. They professed to
discover a sign of weakness, and a want
of confidence in our prospect of success,
in this movement. Poor Wilkins Mi
cawber was invoked, and - many changes
rung upon his favorite expression. The
DeinoCratic party was "waiting for
something to turn up."
Well, something has already turned
up. The Republican party of this State,
feeling that the times are sadly out of
joint with them, being very much at
sea in many respects, not knowing how
to meet the issues that present them
selves, fearing to indorse the views
of the New England fanatics, who have
been their real leaders for years, and
dreading a disastrous defeat this fall,
have concluded to " wait for something
to turn up." They have postponed
their State Convention until " early in.
September."
In the meantime something will be
sure to turn up, though, if we guess
aright, little that will be likely to prove
of advantage to the Abolition party.—
The Democracy of Pennsylvania will
meet in State Convention. They will
lay down a platform as broad as our
nationalty itself, which shall reiterate
the great fundamental principles of the
party, as applied to the condition of ex
isting affairs. This will be done in terms
entirely devoid of ambiguity, so that the
people may see and know exactly what
Democracy means, and what the party
intend to do. After placing upon such
a platform good and true men, against
whom no word of reproach can be truth
fully uttered, they will appeal to the
people of Pennsylvania, laboring hon
estly and earnestly for, and confidently
expecting a complete and most signal
triumph at the ballot-box.
But it is possible, indeed within the
range of probabilities, that by "early in
September" the jarring and discordant
elements of the Republican party may
be arrayed in open hostility to each
other. That corrupt and infamous po
litical organization is doomed to speedy
destruction. It may succeed in hold
ing together for a little while longer,
through the power of public plunder,
but the end of its wretched rule is ra
pidly approaching. It, may be that by
" early in September" it will recognize,
even more clearly than it does at pres
ent, thc: fact that it has no hope of suc
cess in the future, except the very du
bious one to be found in negro suffrage.
Nearly every Republican newspaper in
this State has admitted, within the last
month, that without this their party is
irrevocably "gone under." There is no
telling what may turn up by "early in
September;" but we can see little hope
of anything likely to prove of the
slightest advantage to our opponents.
The Democratic party ought to be
obliged to them for postponing the
Convention to " early M Sfptpmber."
It is a confession of cowardice in these
loud-mouthed braggarts, and it gives us
the chance to be first in the field with
our platform and our candidates. As
our platform will be unassailable, and
our candidates u nexeeptio nable,it will be
to our advantage to be followed rather
than to follow our opponents. We can
be working while they are "waiting for
something to turn up:"
Negro Sulrrag,e:
The Annual Conference of the Afri
can Methodist Episcopal Church, in the
Bridge Street Church in Brooklyn, on
Thursday, listened to an exciting debate
on the report of the Committee on the
State of the Country.
IZev. Stephen Smith, of the Philadel
phia Conference, objected to that por
tion of the report which said that the
colored man ought to have confidence
in President Johnson. Has he not re
fused to let the black man have any
power in the organization of Mississip
pi, Tennessee, and other States? Presi
dent Johnson has the right to let him
have a voice in that, but he has not
given it. I would just as soon be a
slave in the hands of the bloody tyrant
as a free man without my rights as a
freeman
Rev. R. H. Cain, of Fleet Street
Church, said : My brother, who has just
taken his seat, finds some doubts as to
the good feelings of President Johnson
towards the negro race. I confess that
there is some little doubt in the matter,
and yet when I remember that Andrew
Johnson is President of the white man
as well as of the black—when I recog
nize this, I think we should forbear;
for there are conflicting interests at
stake, and it would be unfair for the
President of the United States to be par
tial to any paricular race.
In the South there will, however, be
another revolution yet. There is a deep
under current of feeling running among
the slaves, and they feel this—thatthey
have been in bondage too long. All
they ask is simply the right to live and
to have the protection of the laws as
other men have. Unless the Govern
ment give the slave the right of fran
chise, there will be trouble. [Louderies
of " Yes!"] Take away the right of
franchise from the black man, and there
will yet come the darkest period in our
history in the southern States. The
whites down there will rise up some of
these mornings—l was going to say it.
[Laughter.] You know what 1 mean.
[Continued laughter.]
" The whites down there, (women,
children and men), will rise up some of
these mornings and find—l was going
to say it. [Laughter.] You know what
I mean." [Continued laughter.]
What does this bloody, miserable,
blasphemous " reverend '' scoundrel
mean, but that he wishes and hopes
that " some of these mornings " the
white women and children of the South
may be found nu in their beds!
There are plenty of bloodthirsty w bite
fanatics in the North who would be re
joiced to witness the enactment of such
Scenes. If left to their own devices,
they will yet precipitate a war between
the two races, which may excel in tragic
horrors anything which has occurred
during the prevalence of the bloody
struggle now happily closed. It is the
duty of all right thinking men to insist
upon moderation and calmness. Agita
tion of the vexed question of negro suf
frage can only result in evil. President
Johnson has resolved to leave the mat
ter where the Constitution puts it, with
in the control of the several States.—
There let it rest. To agitate it now, is
criminally wrong, and can lead to no
good result.
What the South Gains
Senator Sumner, in his recent negro
suffrage speech at Circleville, Ohio,
stated that the Southern States will
gain fourteen new members of Con
gress, and as many electoral votes, by
the freeing of the slaves. The former
rule was to count only three-fifths of the
slaves, but, as they are now no slaves,
the whole negro population must be
taken into the account. At the last
census there were about 3,600,000 slaves
in the Southern States, two-fifths of
which number would be nearly a mil
lion and a half, which, at the ratio of
population entitling to a representa
tive, (96,000, we believe,) would give the
number at fourteen or fifteen. No won
der the Rads want the negroes to vote.
Fayette County.
The Democracy of Fayette county
have put in nomination the following
ticket. Of course a nomination out
there is equivalent to an election :
Assembly, Chas. E. Boyle;
Treasurer,
'
Wm. Darlington • District Attorney,
Thos. B. Schnatterly ; Sheriff, Samuel
W. Bo.yd ; Commissioner, Griffith Rob
erts; burveyor, Martin Dickson ; Poor
House Director, Thos. G. Sherrard ;
Auditors, D. W, C. Dombould' and W.
B. Barris. '
The Condition or the Negro.
For years past the ears of the civilized
world have been constantly distracted
by having dinned into them the most
exaggerated stories of the sufferings of
the negroes of our, Southern States tin
der' their; cruel and tyrannical task
masters,-,The Abolition ,newspaper
press, and all the resources that NeW
England possessed in fiction and poetry
were fully employed in acrusadeag,ainst
American slavery. The pulpit was ef
ficiently used, andYankeeoratorsnever
grew so eloquent upon any other theme
as upon the wrongs of an oppressed and
downtrodden race. They were philan
thropists, these pale-faced Yankee wo
men, and these intermeddling editors,
preachers and platform orators. They
were fired with all the zeal of a madand
blind fanaticism. It was useless for any
one to attempt to reason with them.
Bent upon destroying slavery, they re
fused to hear a single word of remon
strance. Succeeding finally in having
their peculiar doctrines engrafted upon
a political organization, which acciden
tal circumstances brought into pdtver by
a minority vote, they at once proceeded
to carry out their peculiar views.
After such sacrifices of blood, of trea
sure, and of all material interests as no
nation ever made before, slavery has
been destroyed. That is the only real
and tangible result of the war. The
people know it to be so, and even now
they are asking themselves whether this
is enough to compensate them for all
the suffering they have undergone. No
one pretends to claim that the white
race has been benefitted by being killed
and maimed by half millions ; no man
of sound judgment has the hardihood
to assert that a huge national debt is a
great blessing; and we presume no
single individual can be found who
considers the payment of heavy taxes
as a blessed privilege. It is no wonder
the people are asking what has been
gained by the struggle.
Has the negro been benefitted?
If he has, that is something. But, has
he? We assert he has not, and we
think we can very easily prove it. The
breaking up of the old relationship be
tween the masters and the slaves of the
South has entailed untold miseries upon
the poor negroes. Within the last three
years more of them have died from
starvation than ever before lost their
lives by reason of neglect or ill usage
since the first black man was brought
from Africa to our shores. It would be
easy to show this if any attempt had
been made to gather statistics. The
whole tenor of newspaper accounts of
al - hilts in the South abundantly proves it.
It is impossible to read a letter from any
newspaper correspondent in the South
without being fully convinced of it. A
few extracts will suffice for the present.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Charleston on the
7th, says :
" According to the reports of the wart
committee lately organized by Genera
thirney, the mortality among the ne
groes in this city is perfectly fearful.—
The deaths among them are reported to
average one hundred per week. Last
week ninety-one deaths of negroes were
officially reported, and the week previ
ous one hundred and sixty-seven. No
mortuary list is published as in most
cities, and it is but right that the matter
be made public. The mortality on the
islands exceeds anything ever known
in the history of this country."
Yet it is on these islands, on the coast
of South Carolina, where the new sys
tem of free labor, is said to be working
most admirably.
The Louisville Democrat thus shows
how negro philanthropy is working in
Kentucky. It says:
"The negro is more to be pitied than
blamed. Freedom is establishing grave
yards to hide its work allover the State,
and, when its work is done, then let
sickness, disease, freedom and death
shout aloud, `free Kentucky.' We un
derstand that during the past twelve
months there have been about 1,200
deaths among the negroesat Camp Nel
son, Ky., alone—one hundred victims
per month. At that rate, how long will
it take to make Kentucky a free State."
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, writing from Raleigh, North
Carolina, on the 17th, says:
" Wilmngton is now reported on good
authority to be sickly. Gentlemen who
have just returned from that place state
that a great mortality prevails among
the colored people, and they were dy
ing so fast coffins could not be procured
to bury them. Typhus fever is the
chief scourge. Streneous efforts are
made by the military authorities to pre
vent the accumulation of the late slave
population in the towns, but the eager
ness of these people to return to their
old homes from the interior, where they
were forcibly carried when our armies
took the coast, brings large numbers to
these central points, from which they
wait opportunities to reach their desti
nation. Once back where they were
raised, they hope to meet old friends,
from whom the war has separated them,
and to find employment."
When was there ever such suffering
and unmitigated misery among the ne
gro slaves of the South before ? The
truth is the false philanthrophy of the
fanatical abolitionists has brought only
evil in its train. It has shown itself to
be a plague worse than the opening of
the fabled box of Pandora. No man
can help pitying the poor negroes. They
were comparatively happy and content
ed in their former condition of depen
dence ; but their present state is one of
great destitution and suffering, while
their future is very far from being hope
ful.
Message of Governor Saulsbury
Governor Saulsbury, of Delaware, in
his message to the Legislature of that
State, takes strong and tenable grounds
in favor of the unrestrained freedom of
speech. He urges the members of the
Legislature to guard with care against
all attempts to niake the negro the equal
of the white man. He also declares
that the Government can gain nothing
by dealing harshly with those who have
been in rebellion. His message through
out is a very able and exhaustive docu
ment. The radicals may depend upon
it that if President Johnson does not
change his constitutional course with
reference to State rights, not a negro in
the whole South will ever be allowed to
vote.
Return of Governor Aiken to Charleston
Governor Wm. Aiken was cordially
welcomed back on his return to Charles
ton. As he made his appearance he was
recognized and enthusiastically cheered
by the crowd on the wharf. He was,
says the Charleston Courier, afterwards
surrounded on all sides by his friends,
shaking hands and offering their con
gratulations. A carriage was imme
diately engaged by the crowd, and the
Governor conveyed to his residence in
Aiken Square. He speaks in the warm
est terms of the kind treatment and re
ception he met with during his stay at
the North, particularly in New York
and Washington. His interviews with
the President were of the mostpleasant
and agreeable nature.
"Loyalty" in Massachasettk ,
The Boston Courier says that the test
of "loyalty" is undergoing achange in
Massachusetts. Hereafter it will not be
"loyalty " but " treason," according to
the Abolition-Republican interpretation
to " support the Administration."
—The decision of the Internal . Revenue
Department, a year ago, that certified checks
were to be treated as currency, and, taxed
accordingly, has been confirmed by the
Solicitor of the Treasury Department, and
may now be considered as 'finally settled.
The decision is one of great int,restqo
businessanen and bankers,'
Artful Dodging of the Ohio Abolitionists
-Will Pennsylvania Follow Snit?
• Itis not probable that the Republican
State Convention of Pennsylvania will
prove bold enough to announce negro
suffrage as one of the planks of its plat
form in the approaching political can
vass. • The same causes which operated
to postpone it in Ohio will have double
force in this State. We shall have a vast
deal of nice dodging, and the exercise
of great cunning in the wording of reso
lutions. In all probability, all hands
will agree to endorse the Declaration of
Independence in full, but especially that
clause of it which the negro worshippers
swear by, "all men are created free and
equal." This sentence may be sufficient
to satisfy the radicals, who, equally with
the timid and time-serving among the
leaders, will be willing tosacrifice prin
ciple for a proper price. In all proba
bility the description of what occurred
at the Ohio State Convention will accu
rately represent the condition of affairs
among the Abolitionists of this State,
the time of whose assembling in Con
vention is at present a matter of entire
uncertainty ; but when they do gather,
at the call of the incorruptible patriot
Simon Cameron, we expect the condi-
tion of affairs in the Committee on Re
solutions will be like the inside view of
a similar select party in the Ohio Con-
vention. We take the following account
of what occurred therein from " the in
side view" given by the Cincinnati
C'onwierciai, a leading Republican pa
per:
The sessions of the Committee on
Resolutions were not especially harmo
nious. The debate that was restrained
in the Convention broke out in the
committee-room, and there was a free
and emphatic exchange of views. The
army delegates were quite peremptory,
and it is even complained they were a
little rough, in obeying the instructions
to insist upon unequivocally backing
up Andrew Johnson. The representa
tives of the Western Reserve had a res
olution which they were prepared to
stand and die for, pronouncing the
times exigent and propitious, for the
taking of an "advanced step"—and the
advanced step meant negro suffrage
North and South, and especiallyt he
latter, and that right away. For
a time, it seemed that if the advanced
step could not be got into the platform,
the committee would disagree, and two
reports would be presented to the Con
vention, and the cry would be havoc,
and the dogs of war would slip. Fortu
nately, everybody was prepared to in
dorse the Declaration of Independence,
and the unity of the party was main
tained.
" We must remark, however, that,
though the radicals made but a slender
showing in the Convention, there was
no lack of the deepest anti-slavery feel
ing in it, and that few were found who
did not freely admit the unreasonable
ness of the prejudice against the negro,
and express a strong desire that itshould
he eradicated.
It is plain, from the above account
that negro suffrage and equality is to
be made a living issue. It was kept out
of the Ohio platform, or only admitted
in disguise, but, it is to-day a cardinal
doctrine in the creed of the Republican
party. Most of the Republican news-
papers of Ohio profess to be satisfied
with the platform adopted, and take
care to interpret it as meaning "nigger"
more plainly than the language would
indicate ; but an occasional radical sheet
has the honesty to grow indignant over
the practiced deceit. The Cleveland
Leader is down on all such dodging of
the vital issue. It says :
The resolutions adopted by the Union
Convention of yesterday are excellent
as far as they go. We endorse every one
of them. The platform is, however,
chiefly remarkable for what it omits to
say, than for what it says. It weakly
and timidly ignores the only vital issue
of the day—the great question of negro
suffrage. Besides this there.is no other
live issue on which parties are divided.
In dodging this the Convention has
proved itself two years behind the times,
and has inflicted a bitter disappointment
upon all earnest and thinking Unionists.
Greely comes to the relief of all such
soreheaded Abolitionists, and in the
Tribune of yesterday thus plainly inter
prets the enigmatical action of the Con
vention. Horace says:
Those friehds of universal suffrage
who hoped for an emphatic expression
by the Republican State Convention of
()lac), have no occasion for discourage
ment in the record of its action. The
question, we are assured, will be can
vassed in every school district of the
State from this time until election day ;
the Democracy having ranged them
selves against it as Republicans have
taken ground for it.
General Jacob Dotson Cox, the Re
publican candidate for Governor, was
originally a Liberty party man, but has
been an active member of the Repub
lican party ever since its organization,
and is at this moment an ardent advo
cate of negro suffrage, a factwell known
to the Ohio Convention, and, it may be
added for the benefit of oneor two New
York newspapers, that General Cox has
been for many years and is now the
warm personal and political friend of
Chief Justice Chase.
And it may further be added, for the
benefit of the same newspapers, that
Ohio Republicans "do not see" that
'split" in the Republican ranks for
which they so ardently pray and so
cheaply labor, but will proceed to finish
the good work they have so long been
engaged in—that of saving the country
from the toils of pro-Slavery fanatics of
every grade, and of rendering justice to
that loyal class of Southerners who
saved our country in the hour of its
sorest needs.
Gen. Cox is a young man of about 38
years ; of great abilities and thorough
education ; has served in the Ohio
Senate, where he ranked as a leader
among the radicals, and has served
from the commencement of the present
war, first as Colonel, then as a Briga
dier, and now as a Major-General of
Volunteers. His services in the army
are well known. His wife is a daughter
of the late President Finney, formerly
of Oberlin College, in which blacks and
whites are admitted on equal terms.
Will the coming Convention of con
tractors, shoddy it es, Abolitionists and
other political nondescripts of this State
which waits for Simon to say " wiggle
waggle," be so fortunate as that of
Ohio? Will it be able to get up a plat
form, which shall be heralded to the
world as repudiating the doctrine of
negro suffrage, but, which shall be in
terpreted by the Tribune and other radi
cal sheets as perfectly sound on that
great issue? There is no little talent
for deceit among the leading Abolition
ists of this State ; some of them are
most adroit political jugglers; not a
few of them have been with every party
that has had an existence, and on dif
ferent sides of every political question.
To more than one of them the saying
of Talleyrand, that, "language is used
by statesmen to conceal their thoughts,"
is familiar. We expect to see
some very artful dodging, but, that
they will be able to deceive the
honest masses of Pennsylvania in re
gard to the real designs of the Repub
lican party we do not believe. Through
its real leaders it is irrevocably commit
ted, as a party, to the doetrines of negro
Suffrage and negro equality. He who
cannot see that such is the case must be
politically blind indeed. The party in
this State might as well pit themselves
squarely upon the record at once. They
cannot dodge the issue if they try.
THE selection of the Hon. Charles J.
Biddle, of Philadelphia, to deliver the
oration before'the Democracy of Harris
burg, on the 4th of July, was a happy
and fortunate choice. Mr. Biddle is a
forcible writer and eloquent speaker,
a nd ranks among the leading public
men of Pennsylvania. We feel assured,
from his past record, that he will " win
golden opinions from all sorts of people"
on Tuesday next.
—The President has pardoiied Charles
Walsh, one of the Chicago conspirators im
prisoned at Columbus, Ohio..
Trial of the Conspirators.
WASHINGTON, June ..—The follow
ing testimony was taken :
TESTIMONY OF GEO. B. HUTCHJNSON
I am a soldier. I saw C. C. Clay
about February 12th last at Queen's
Hotel, Toronto. I also saw Sanders,
Tucker, and others, at Montreal, on
February 16. I was present at a con
versation in Montreal on June 2d or 3d„
at St. Lawrence Hotel, when the pres
ent trial was discussed by Dr. Merritt,
Tucker, Gen. Carroll, of Tennesset, and
Ex-Governor Wescott, of Florida.—
Beverly Tucker said he had burnt all
the letters for fear the Yankee sons of
would steal them. The witness
had knowledge that Dr. Merritt enjoyed
the confidence of Tucker and the others.
THE ARGUMENT FOR ARNOLD.
Mr. Ewing then proceeded to read the
argument in the prisoner Arnold's case.
He commented on the testimony at
some length, and argued that Arnold
had a rupture with Booth long before
the assassination occurred, and could
not have aided him in it.
The evidence established only that at
one time Arnold was a party to a plot
to capture or abduct the President. If
on the 14th of April the President had
been abducted instead of assassinated,
Arnold could not be punished, because
he had long before withdrawn from the
conspiracy. There was not the remotest
testimony to connect Arnold with the
commission of the murderous deed.
.ARGUMENT FOR DR. MUDD
After a recess, Mr. Ewing addressed
the Court on the subject of jurisdiction.
He contended that the Court had no
lurisdiction in this case, and pursued a
ine of argument similar to that ad
vanced by Reverdy Johnson. In it he
said if the laws govern, he (Mr. Ewing)
felt satisfied that his clients were safe.
One of them, Dr. Mudd, had committed
no crime known to the law. He could
not be charged with treason, nor as aid
ing or abetting in the death of the Pres
ident, for, at the time of the tragedy,
Dr. Mudd was at his residence, thirty
miles from the place of the crime. He
certainly could not be charged with the
commission of the overt act. There
were not two witnesses to show it ; but
there was abundant evidence to show
he did not commit the overt act. Dr.
Mudd never by himself or with others
levied war against the United States, or
gave aid and comfort to the enemy. He
ventured to say that rarely in the annals
of civil trials has the life of an accused
person been assailed by so much false
testimony as had been exhibited in this
case, and rarely has it been the good for
tune of au innocent man to so confute
and overwhelm his false accusers by a
preponderance of undisputed truth.
There was no reliable evidence to show
that Dr. Mudd met Booth more than
twice, and that was last November in
Charles county, on a mere matter of
trade. He had never met Booth in this
city.
Mr. Ewing the❑ reviewed the evi
dence relative to Dr. Mudd having set
Booth's leg, and other events, in that
connection, arguing that from all this
there was nothing to lead to a conclu
sion unfavorable to the accused. Dr.
Mudd voluntarily, not on compulsion,
gave information concerning the route
by which Booth, with Hrold, had
escaped; and instead of thanking him
for this, as a good and loyal citizen, an
effort was made to punish him. Truly
the ways of military justice, like those
of Providence, are inscrutable and past
finding out.
He concluded that his client could not
he punished, either as a principal or as
an accessory Hefore the fact, for the
evidence fails to show eitherknowledge
or intimation or supicion to commit the
crime. If the prisoner was to be held
responsible at all, it was as an accessory
after tl le fact, and beyond all controversy
there was no proof on this point.
All sthe arguments for the accused
having been read, Associate Judge Ad
vocate Bingham said that on Tuesday
next he would be ready with so much
of his summing up as touches the ques
tion of the jurisdiction of the Court, and
he hoped by the next day to deliver the
conclusion of his argument.
The Court then adjourned until Tues
day morning, at 11 o'clock.
The Last of the Famous Rebel Crescen
Regiment.
lllrom the New Orleans Picayune, June 1-1.1
We met yesterday several young gen
tlemen -who have lately returned, as
paroled prisoners, from the Trans-Mis
sissippi Department, who were of the
small body of survivors of the Crescent
regiment that left this city with so much
eclat little over two years ago. The
regiment numbered eleven hundred
strong, and was composed of the sons of
our old citizens, many of whom were
taken from the schools before they had
ever reached the higher classes. They
had been called out for three months
service, and in the expectation that
they would be released at the expiration
of their term of enlistment, many
youths were persuaded to go who had
not attained an age and maturity suited
for military service. But the termina
tion of their service occurring at a mo
ment when the war was raging with
the greatest violence, few were permit
ted to return or were so inclined, and
the regiment was, therefore, reorganized
and enrolled for the war.
From that time the Crescent boys
were snbjected to a series of trials, hard
ships, exposures and vicissitudes that
told dreadfully upon their once full and
enthusiastic ranks. Engaged in many
of the most bloody battles that have
marked the progress of this sanguinary,
war, this regiment has been several
times so reduced or disorganized as to
destroy its regimental organization, and
compel its consolidation with other re
giments. At the battle of Labadieville
the lieutenant colonel of the regiment
was killed and the whole regiment cap
ture-d. In the subsequentcampaigns of
General Taylor, the regiment, having
been exchanged and reorganized, was
again severely cut up—until at last, in
the severe fight at Pleasant Hill, it was
nearly annihilated, the colonel, lieuten
ant colonel and many of the officers and
three-fourths of the men being killed
and wounded.
And now the war closes, and the proud,
exultant, hopeful, eleven hundred of
the most promising and exultant of our
youth, who left this city three years
ago, so full of military glory and ardor,
return to their homes reduced to the
pitiful number of sixty-one—the whole
number left of this once grand and
splendid body of young soldiers. Such
is one of the sad pictures of the horrors
of war ! May it contribute another to
the numerous other lessons with which
the history of the last four years is so
fearfully replete, to warn our people, in
all time to come, from ever embarking
in so bloody and barbarous an experi
ment.
Proceedings of the Virginia Legislature.
In the House of Delegates of Virginia
at Richmond, on Wednesday, Mr. John
ston, from the committee on courts of
justice, to whom was referred the bill
from the Senate to prescribe means by
which persons who have been disfran
chised by the third article of the Con
stitution, may be restored to the rights
of voters, reported back the bill with an
amendment to strike out so much of the
oath to uphold and defend the govern
ment of Virginia as requires a person
to -take the oath to the United States
twice over. The bill as amended pro
vides that the amnesty oath of the 29th of
May, and the oath to support the Gov
ernment of Virginia, as restored by the
Convention which assembled at Wheel
ing on the 11th of June, 18i4, as per
tains to the State Government alone, be
all that shall be requisite to restore dis
franchised persons to the rights of vot
ing. The bill was passed—one member
voting in the negative—and sent to the
Senate when that body, declaring it to
be " unintelligible," laid it on the table
and a committee of conference was ap
pointed.
The House also passed a bill amend
ing the third article of the constitution.
This article excludes from any office of
honor, profit or trust all who have held
office under the "Confederate govern
ment," or the rebel government of Vir
ginia. The amendment
. proposed is to
strike this disqualification out of the
constitution, and to allow all to hold
office, provided it shall be ratified by the
people. A bill was likewise passed to
stay the payment of all debts contracted
mill accruing before the 26th day of July,
1861, the debtor or party liable to pay
on the demand of the creditor and prin
cipal.
An act fixing the second Thursday in
October, 1865, as the day for holding
elections for Congressmen and members
of the General Assembly was passed by
the House.
—The blockade-runner Wren, which
sailed from Havana on the 11th, was seized
by a portion of her crew and taken to Key
West, the object being to obtain prize
Money.
Grant's Passion for Smoking
The June number of Harper's Maga
zine has an interesting article, entitled
" Recollections on Grant," giving anec
dotes , illustrative 'of his character and
an estimate of his military genius. It
seems that the motto of the Scottish
clan from which Grant derives his sur
name, is " Stand fast, stand firm, stand
sure." The following extract is inter
esting :
" He is a more inveterate smoker than
either Sherman or Rosecrans, but he
smokes in a different style and for a dif
ferent effect. Both Sherman and Rose
crans take to tobacco as a stimulant to
their nervous organizations. Grant
smokes with the listless, absorbed, and
satisfied air of an opium-smoker, his
mind and body being soothed into re
pose rather than excited by the effect of
the weed. Neither Sherman nor Rose
crans are neat smokers, the velvet
breast-facing of their coats and their
shirt-bosoms being generally soiled.—
Grant, on the contrary, is very neat, and
smokes only the best of cigars. He
smokes almost without cessation, and is
never at ease when employed at any
thing which forbids smoking as an ac
companiment. During the famous in
terview with Pemberton before Vicks
burg he smoked with his usual com
posure. We pardon Gen. Grant for
smoking a cigar as he entered the
smouldering ruins of the town of Vicks
burg,' said a rebel paper after the sur
render. A little stage effect;' it added,
'is admirable in great captains.' But
Grant never smokes dramatically. His
cigar is a necessary part of himself,
and is neither assumed nor abandoned
for state occasions. ;He has been known
to smoke at reviews, and has frequefitly
been brought to a halt, and notified by
sentinels or guards over commissary
stores, No smoking allowed here, sir.'
On entering the Senate Chamber lie had
to be requested to leave his cigaroutside.
Stamped Paper
The New York Herald puts forward
lie following sensible suggestions:
The Waste of trouble and saliva which
is at present involved in complying
with the Internal Revenue act, with
regard to stamps, is a source of great an
noyance to the business public, and one
which calls for the establishment of a
stamp office, such as exists in the capi
tals of each of the kingdoms of Eng,
land, Ireland and Scotland. Stamped
paper is bought from the stamp offices
there and kept for sale by the law
scriveners and licensed dealers in stamps
throughout the country. Bankers,
merchants and others send blank check
books in large quantites to the stamp
offices to be stamped with a press mark
and kept for use. The process involves
a mere indentation of the paper, and
dispenses with the use of ink and gum.
At the same time it obviates the risk of
stamps which are affixed coming
off, which in the case of legal instru
ments is important. By the use of
private marks also in the stamp, it can
be ascertained at any time in what year
the impression was made, and in this
way the forgery of important documents
have been detected. Where the stamp
office furnishes the paper, an extra
charge is invariably made for the same,
but where the applicant for the stamps
sends his own paper the net tax only is
charged. We recommend the subject
to the attention of the Secretary of the
Treasury and the commission of three
now sitting to inquire into the ways and
means of improving the revenue and
simplifying taxation. There should be
a stamp office in the capital of each
State, and by establishing it at the head
quarters of the Internal Revenue De
partment it could be done with little or
no expense beyond that necessary for
purchasing stamp machines.
The Jeff. Davis Disguise Fiction
Our reasons for discrediting the story
of Jeff. Davis' attempt to escape in dis
guise are these: First, the absence of
any evidence of its truth; second, its
incongruity with Davis' personal char
acter; third and chiefly, the fact that
Colonel Pritchard, whose name asso
ciated with the story has given it all the
credit it ever had with any one, has
been making speeches frequently since
his arrival North, iu no one of which
has be in the most distant manner al
luded to the disguise. On thecontrary,
in private, as we are infOrmed on the
best possible authority, he speaks of the
story, but as distinctly says that he was
not present, and did not see the report
ed occurrence or any part of it. " It was
reported to him," and, as he always
adds, "sworn to at Washington."
Besides this disclaimer of actual
knowledge by Colonel Pritchard, we
are informed, and believe, that the cap
tain of the gunboat which brought him
to Fortress Monroe reports Colonel
Pritchard as having told him repeatedly
that there was not a word of truth in the
story, but some people thought it neces
sary to keep it up. Mr. Davis was but
partly dressed when the party rushed
in. He surrendered promptly and with
dignity, saying that he was unarmed.
When about to be removed, Mrs. Davis
threw or handed him the water-proof
which he wore till put on the gunboat.
The story so discreditable to our sol
diers, who were represented in this
same current narrative of the affair as
having bullied and abused Mr. Davis,
is equally false. They took no such
advantage of their power, but, on the
contrary, simply made it impossible for
him to escape, and then treated him as
brave soldiers would and should treat a
fallen foe.
This we believe to be the truth of the
matter, and we certainly do not con
sider the fact that Secretary Stanton
has sent Mrs. Davis's aqua seutum to the
Chicago fair proof that Mr. Davis at
tempted to escape in disguise, any more
than we should consider it proof if he
had sent Mr. Davis's boots or Mrs.
Davis's bonnet to the Paris exhibition.
—N. Y. IVorfri.
Applications for Pardon
M. F. Conway arrived in Washington
from Richmond bearing applications
for pardon from Brig. Gen. Echols and
Commissionary General St. John, of the
rebel government, and from twenty
five prominent citizens of Richmond,
composing an organization known as
the " Ambulance Committee." Gen.
Echols is represented. to have been for
the Union when a member of the seces
sion convention, and only to have suc
cumbed and accepted service under the
rebel government when all opposition,
became hopeless. The same argument is
urged in the case of St. John. The "Am
bulance Committee" partook largely of
the character of a benevolent organiza
tion, and was used to facilitate the trans
portation of ['llion and rebel prisoners
from the rebel railroad depots to the
point of exchange on our lines. It em
braces the names of a number of
wealthy and charitable men of Rich
mond, who are free from all charges
that render them especially obnoxious
to our authorities. Many of them are
large holders of real estate, and com
pelled to obtain pardons under the
twenty thousand dollar clause of the
President's proclamation. Mr. Conway
bad an interview at the White House
in their behalf to-day, and is to have a
final one on Saturday.
/knottier Oil Strike In Greene County.
The Standard Oil Company made a
big strike on Wednesday last, ou the
Amos Hartley farm on Big Whitely, at
540 feet The well flowed a stream the
full size of the hole for two hours. It
was supposed that at least-one hundred
barrels was thrown out of the well
during the flow, which was scooped up
out of the holes around the well. As
soon as it ceased flowing they com
menced tubing the well. B. li p . Arm
strong, Esq., our informant, who left
the well on Saturday morning, informed
us that they were pumping at the rate
of two barrels of pure oil per hour. It
is said by good judges to be as pure as
the Dunkard oil. This proves beyond
all doubt that Greene county is one of
the best oil regions in the State.—
lVaynesburg McBsengcr.
Cheap Patriotism
The Loyal Leaguers of this city are
exclusively patriotic and liberal to a
fault. An instance of their liberality
has just come to our knowledge. It ap
pears that the government employs,
and no doubtpays well, a band at Camp
Cadwalder for camp purposes, with
which we have no fault to find, as it is
very just and proper that a camp so well
conducted should be thus favored. We
do object as tax-payers, however, to
this band being detailed to play at the
Loyal League House on Broad street,
every day, for the gratification of those
who have been and still are fleecing the
government in every imaginable man
lier. If the band is not needed at the
camp, let it be discharged, and if the
Leaguers wish to danee, let them "pay
the fiddler."—Phila. Sunday Jlfel‘eltry.
Breckinridge In Cuba.
He Crosses from Florida. in a Small
Open Boat—Eight Dais on the OceinL
The Arguelles' Case Again—Was: the ,
Extradition of Arguelles Demanded by
the Captain-General? •
'Special Correspondence of the N. Y. World.]
HAVANA. June 17.
General J. C. Breckinridge, accompa
nied by his aid-de-camp, Capt. J. Wil
son, his faithful war servant Thomas, -
Colonel Taylor Wood, and two Confed- „ -
erste soldiers, arrived at Cardenas on
the 11th inst., in an open boat of about
one ton burthen, from the coast of Flor
ida. This party, after the capture of
the President of the late republic, made I,
their way to the St. John's river, where
they procured a boat, in which they pro- _7
ceeded up that river until they reached
a point due west of Indian river, near
the head of navigation. At St. Johns,
Colonel Taylor Wood joined the party, -
having been captured by the command
of General Wilson, which captured the '
President of the Confederacy by acci
dent, but he made good his escape the -
same night.
The small boat was hauled across the
country from the St. John's to Indian
river, a distance of twenty-six miles,
and launched for the ocean. On reach
ing a point called Gilbert's bar, near the
mouth of the river, the boat was beach- ,
ed, and dragged across a sand-spit sixty
yards, and launched in an inlet com
municating with the ocean. On this
part of the route Indian parties supplied
them with scant provisions - ff . " cumty," -
of which they made bread. For the
balance of the voyage they were com
pelled to live on shell-fish, caughtalong
the shore, and turtles' eggs, of which .
they also laid in stores for their voyage •
across the Gulf stream. •
From the inlet near the mouth of In
dian river they coasted south some fifty
or sixty miles, when they beached their
boat to hunt provisions. At this time
a United States gunboat or steam trans
port, running down south between the
shore and the Florida reef, observed the
party, and the commander dispatched
a boat from the vessel to ascertain who
they were and what they were doing
there. As the boat began to show her
self, there was some excitement in camp,
and Thomas began to get his weapons
ready for use. They were temporarily`
located on a shell-ridge, between an im
penetrable swamp and the waters of
the ocean, so that if they lost their
boat they would perish in the swamp.
Taylor Wood, with the cool determi
nation of " Rough and Ready," his
grandfather, ordered his two men to
launch the boat, which was instantly
accomplished, and the others having
retired under cover of the brush, the
two soldiers took to the oars " with a
will," and pulled for the advancing
boat which they met at aboutone-eighth
of a mile from the shore. An officer in
the stern seat of the gig, with a revolver
in one hand, hailed the boat with the
usual marine questions. Taylor Wood
became immediately the roughest 'long
shore woodsman, wrecker, and fisher
man that ever lived in Florida. " His
men were paroled soldiers ; they had to
live some how ; they were hunting
wrecks ; and until they could find some
thing better, they were subsisting on
the rather washy charity of the sea—
shell-fish driven on shore and turtles'
eggs ; they meant to get as far as Indian
Key, or possibly Key West ; they had a
boat-load of papers, if he wanted to see
them." And the ready boys pulled forth
their parole documents, which were ex
amined and found correct. "The folks on
shore were of the same class; had plenty
of papers—the same—and were trying
to cook 'dinner, if they could find any
eggs or shells; wouldn't the captain like
to go along ashore—lie would be pa
fectly weloomc to the best they had, and
their papers too!" Their hospitality
was declined—the dictum " all right"
was uttered, and, "give too, my boys"
—when away shot the gig on her re
turn voyage to the steamer—name not
known. The wearied and half-starved
party breathed more freely after the in
terview, which had been rather tedious
while waiting for the result. That eve
ning they left the shore, havingon board
a few dozen of eggs, cakes of cumty
bread, aril a few clams, so small that they
might pass for muscles. They reached
the banks in about thirty-six hours,
having spoken one vessel and obtained
a supply of fresh water the day follow
ing their departure from the Florida
coast, and met with no other incident,
though terribly perplexed for want of
food, until they reached Cardenason the
morning of the I lth—eigh t days—where
they were received by the people and
the authorities with great kindness, well
fed, well refreshed, and serenaded In the
evening. The ladies wished to entertain
them in their hospitable homes, which
was, of necessity, declined for the wan t of
suitable raiment. The Governor of Car
denas furnished the party with transpor
tation to Havana, where they arrived on
the 12th, accompaned by an adjutant of
the Spanish army, and took ,up their
quarters at the Hotel Cubano. The adju
tant reported his arrival with his guests
to Captain General Dulce, who instruct
. ed him to say to General Breckinridge
that he had the " freedom of the city
and Cuba, for himself and his friends,
as long as they might wish to remain ;
and when lie was rested from his fatigue
and at his own convenience, he would
be happy to see him."
Those who know the country through
the woods from Georgia to St John's,
(the public roads not available for their
services, except at night,) and thence
by the route they took to the coast, will
appreciate the troubles and dangers en
countered to get through safely, besides
the difficulty of obtaining food and sup
plies for the six persons. The boat in
which the voyage was performed did
not admit of more than one sleeper at a
time, and the only navigator, Taylor
Wood, had to be always on the alert.—
In a squall at night, he was thrown
over by a sea, but having the halyards
in his hands, he managed to get on
board again without any one being
aware of his brief absence. Before leav
ing the coast they had religious services,
and on reaching Cardenas, before leav
ing their frail boat, they returned
thanks with prayer , and praise to the
Divine Providence, whereby they had
been saved.
Col. Chas. J. Helm, who has always
been highly esteemed here for his gen
tlemanly and social qualities, with the
people and the authorities, continues to
exercise a pleasant conservative influ
ence for the benefit of many unfortu
nates who come ander official interdic
tion, and are homeless. He presented
Gen. Breckinridge to the Captain Gen
eral of Cuba at his country seat, on the
14th inst., and the distinguished confed
erate was received with heart-warm
earnestness of manner—courteous and
most cordial—the Captain General ex
pressing deep sympathy, and regretting
that circumstances had rendered it ne
cessary that lie should be a guest among
strangers for a little while ; but lie
might rest assured that the laws of hos
pitality should not be violated in Cuba,
and that he should not be allowed to
feel that he.was a stranger in the land ;
that as long as he desired to avail him
self of it, Cuba should be a safe asylum
for himself and his friends. Colonel
Helm was requested to remember that
he was included, of course, as a cherish
ed and most valued friend.
I n this cennection, GeneraliDulce re
marked that lie had been much misrep
resented in one matter, among North
ern people, winch lie had never intend
ed to notDe; but as his feelings, his
principles, and his conduct might alike
be misunderstood in the future, it was
but just fir him to say, that he bad
never asked of the United States Gov
ernment die delivery of Col. Arguello
in Cuba, nor had he by. private or any
other means, authorized or sought the
capture end bringing to Cuba of that
person. Phis leaves that midnight cap
ture and abduction where it belongs,
among irresponsible subordinate offi
cials of your Government—a voluntary
offering, for which compensation was
expected, but whether realized or not,
I am rat posted well enough to tell—
their pockets can respond. - Wehave no
other news which you will not have re
ceived direct from Mexico, Central
America, and the South American
States. Jeffrard is punishing rebels in
Hayti ; and the evacuation of St. Do
mengo by Spanish troops proceeds as
rapidly as possible. DANA.
gegro Biot in New Jersey.
A serious nigger riot occurred in Sale m
New Jersey, lately. A wench slapped
the mouth of a very respectable young
lady upon the sidewalk for some fancie
affront, and got knocked down for her
pains. Other " culled pussens" too k
part, and a general pitching in followed,
when die blacks, being overpowered
fled. All business was suspended, and
by elevOn o'clock that night not a n!gro.
was to 'be seen upon the streets. Us
tilitiea were resumed the next #4,,
when some of the blaelts fired upon a
white man, wounding hint severely:."