The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Standard does not think Mr. Gladstone makes Out his case. It was said that Lord Derby's second Ministry reduced the income tax from 7d. to sd. Mr. Gladstone says that this is a gross falsehood. And why ? Because the income tax of the last half of 1857 came in in 1858, so that Lord Derby's Government had the benefit of a half year's return of the 7d. Has that anything in the world to do with the undeniable fact that they did contrive so to manage the finances as to reduce the burden of the tax payer by 2d. in the pound. To proceed—Mr. Gladstone denounces them for raising the estimates in 1859. Under what circumstances? There was evident, imminent danger, of a general European war ; and we found ourselves at that moment without an available navy. The iron-clad ship had become the only possible rran-of-war, and it was necessary for us as quickly as possible to build a new fleet, and at the same time to be ready for present dangers. Does Mr. Gladstone deny the necessity, or docs he pretend that it could have been met without an increase of expenditure? Would he have dared to leave England absolutely defenceless even at sea ? Would he not have been a traitor if he had done anything of the kind? What did he do? He came into office next year, and, indepen dently of the Chinese war, he maintained the Con servative expenditure—rightly, because he knew it to be necessary. This is a sufficient answer to his charge. Again, it is said that the estimates of 1860 were higher than those of 1859. But, says Mr. Gladstone, that was owing to the Chinese war, and the Chinese war came because Lord Derby's Government sent a fleet to convoy and support Lord Elgin. Everyone knows that the Chinese war of 1859-60 was a mere continuance of that of 1857, against which the Conservatives had protested; that if no fleet had accompanied Lord Elgin, his approach to Pekin would equally have been resisted ; and, in a word, that the war was the inevitable consequence of Lord Palmerston's previous policy, and that in ascribing it to the Conservatives Mr. Gladstone is deliberately contra dicting his own positive knowledge. The Daily News supports Mr. Gladstone's financia retrospect. In 1858-9, it is said, with literal truth, when a Conservative Government was in power, the estimates were comparatively low. In 1859-60, under a Liberal Government, those estimates were increased ; and in 1860-61, under the same Administration, they were still further augmented. But the low estimates of 1858.9, though proposed by Lord Derby's Government, bad been prepared by Lord Palmerston's ; and the high estimates of 1859-60, though proposed by an Administration of which Lord Palmerston was the chief, had been prepared by that of which Lord Derby was the head ; and not only had the estimates been prepared, but a great part of the money had been spent, and of course could not be recovered. As Mr. Gladstone points out, all plans relating to the public charges must be prepared and com pleted months before they are put into exccu'ion. In the changes of party government, this confusion of responsi bility is inevitable. The Conservative Cabinet ought, however, to be content with having the advantage of Liberal economy in 1858-9 without claiming credit for it. The Liberal Government inherited Tory extravagance— that was hard enough, without subjecting them to reproach for it. So much for the two years 1858-9, and 1859-60. Now for 1860-61. In that year, which was both one of Liberal estimates and of Liberal expenditure, there was a still further increase of some £3,000,000 or £4,000,000. To what was it due? To the war with China, which was another bequest from Lord Derby to Lord Palmerston. This war was the consequence, as Mr. Gladstone says, of instructions sent out by the Conserva tive Ministry. Their policy is responsible for it. It began before the Liberal Government had been a fortnight in oiace ; and, of course, before any despatch of theirs could have reached the British envoys or commanders there. The war may have been right or wrong in policy ; but the expenditure was as strictly exceptional as that for the Abyssinian expedition, which has never been charged to the account of the present Administration. The Herald observes that as the Opposition leader had laid it down inferentially that Tory Governments had been as invariably characterised by extravagance as Liberal Governments by economy, some few statistical facts were adduced in support of the opposite conclusion. Thus it was shewn that, taking a period of twenty years, the heaviest Conservative budget amounted to £69,236,000, while the heaviest Liberal budget was no less than 272,702,059 ; that the lowest Conservative budget was £50,782,476, while that of the Liberals amounted to £51,250,120 ; and that the average of the Conservative budgets was £63,000,000, against an average Liberal expenditure of £65,000,000. Under these circumstances it is obvious that the war is carried into the enemy's camp, and that it is not Mr. Disraeli but Mr. Gladstone who is on his trial. The ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer shews some skill in manipu lating these figures; but no amount of dexterity will suffice to explain them away. In fact, leaving out of the question his charge against the financial policy of the Conservatives, it can hardly be said that he has vindicated his own. The Post thinks Mr. Gladstone is quite successful in answering the answers which it has been attempted to make to his original assertion that the present Ministry has increased the permanent expenditure by £3,000,000 since its accession to office. It is absurd to affect to answer it by the assertion that ten years ago the Liberals were as extravagant as their opponents, for that does not mend the matter in the least ; indeed, it makes it rather worse, for if the Liberals have been improving in this respect and the Conservatives deteriorating, it is clearly an additional merit to be placed to the credit of the former. But Mr. Gladstone declares that this reply, " in addition to being irrelevant, is wholly untrue." All its parts rest, in fact, as he shows, upon a confusion between the respective dates of the imposition and the actual incidence of taxes, and between the dates of estimates and of actual expenditure. The Times learns that Mr. Purchas displays his sense of duty to his diocesan by publicly declaring his intention both to disobey the bishop's inhibition, and to treat his admonition with contempt. He will preach next Sunday, and he announces an even more Ritualistic service than before. We are thus afforded, if this intelligence be true, another instance of that insolent disregard of all autho rity which has from the first characterised the Ritualistic clergy. Their proceedings have been an open defiance alike of archbishops, of bishops, of a royal commission, of established custom, and even of the older members of the High Church party. Notwithstanding the express injunction of the Prayer-book, they have refused to accept the arbitration of their diocesans, and, with no better jus tification than disputed interpretations of obscure rubrics, they have set themselves to carry out their own devices. According to their professed principles, their whole authority is directly derived from bishops, and it is one of the maxims of their school that nothing can be done rightly without a bishop. But as soon as the bishop interferes with themselves they at once scout his authority, and refuse to be controlled. It is difficult to imagine a more discreditable spectacle than is presented by the present con duct of Mr. Purchas. There is certainly no other profession in which a subordinate would treat his superiors with such contempt. We do not know what the law of the case may be, and it is as open to Mr. Purchas to dispute the legality of the inhibition as to resist the suit with which he is threatened. But common decorum would suggest that while the question is pending he should consult the wishes of his lawful superior. 'We trust the bishop will lose no time in testing the validity of his inhibition. Mr. Purchas has now rendered it evident that if he can be inhibited he ought to be ; and Church discipline needs to be rendered much more stringent if a bishop can be thus flouted by the self-willed incumbent of a petty proprietary chapel. There is no danger, says the Telegraph, that Mr. Roe buck will subside into anybody's political pet ; he will probably remain " Tear'em," as he once called himself, to the end of the chapter. He defends himself for his action while he sat on the Sheffield Trades Union Commission ; and probably even his enemies could not point b anything which he did that was indefensible or actually wrong. Yet his speeches in the House, and his questions as a commis sioner, certainly gave everybody the idea that he was an enraged denouncer, not only of Broadhead and his immediate tools, but of all the Sheffield artisans as probable accomplices of the notorious conspirator. He now says that Sheffield working men are on their trial ; but at that time he spoke as if they ought to be hanged. He is now quite willing to give trades unions coercive powers for collecting subscriptions from their members; but lie has in his head an odd notion, that when a union does anything illegal, all its coercive powers should be immediately withdrawn. Mr. Roebuck adds, " I am a lawyer and surely he ought to know that if a man dues anything illegal, he ought to be punished positively, and not by indiscriminately withdrawing his acknowledged rights. The regulation which he suggests would be as absurd as a law that a man who beat his wife should thenceforth have no right to sue in a civil court. If the members of a trades union, collectively or individually, break the law, let them be Prosecuted collectively or individually; but the mere withdrawal of their power to get in sums of money which have been duly subscribed would be a very illogical and illusory substitute for the regular punitive action of the law. The first Cabinet Council since the prorogation was neld at the official residence of the Prime Minister on Tuesday afternoon. The Duke of Richmond and Lord John Manners were absent. The name of Colonel Wilson Patten, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland, does not appear in the list of Ministers present. The right hon. gentleman's predecessor, Lord Mayo, was a member of the Cabinet. THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION. The twenty-ninth autumnal meeting of the Congrega tional Union was commenced on Monday at Leeds, the opening sermon being preached by the Rev. Thomas Binney. The first of the daily session was held yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Raleigh gave the introductory address. He alluded at the opening to the bloodless revolution which was now going on in consequence of the passage of the Reform Bill. He told his hearers that they had always been on the side of civil and religious liberty, and they regarded the use of the franchise by those who had a right to it as part of that liberty, and the more widely they could extend the rule the more free and safe as a people would they be. The present situation of affairs, he continued, even apart from the great religious question, shewed how impossible it was to separate politics from religion. He then spoke upon the Irish Church question, and . contended for equality of all before the law in Ireland. The real difficulty of the Irish question lay in England. If there were in England no Established Church, or if the Church established here contained nearly the whole population, or if that moiety which constituted the Establishment were anything like unanimous or harmonious, or less than entirely opposed to each other in sects and parties ; or if those sects and parties could suspend their animosities in order to do this one great act of justice for the nation's sake tc Ireland, the Irish Church would more easily pass away. It would be a great injustice to Dissenters to suppose that they were waiting to achieve a victory. In their opinion the good men of the Church were not going to fall, but were going to rise. Then they, and we, the rev. doctor said, may understand each other a little better, and come nearer to each other in love and labour for years to come. The Rev. Joseph Beasley, of Blackheath, read a paper on " The Terms and Design of Church Membership." " Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ" was the terms, but then in some places there had been a modification of the tedious series of steps which used to be preliminary, and which was very inquisitive as to the antecedents of the applicant for admission to the Lord's table. His notion of what the terms of the admission should be was, that each person should be left to pronounce on his own attach ment to Christianity ; that each applicant should be received on the ground of deliberate, intelligent, and expressed desire, when sincerity of such desire was sustained by pure and moral conduct, and that the mode of admission should not be such as would intimidate the nervous of any sex in any condition of life. The Rev. A. Clarke, of Stockport, moved, " That, convinced of the importance of the subject by the paper now read on Church membership, a full and candid expression on the various points raised th ,, reby is now invited, and we hope it may tend to a satisfactory conclusion, and prove of great advantage to our churches in the admission of members." alfß. BERN AL OSBORNE ON POLITICAL AFFAIRS. Mr. Bernal Osborne, who has been ill for some time, is so far recovered, that be was able to address the electors of Nottingham on Monday. After some remarks on his re lations locally, and some personal explanations, the hon. gentleman took up the question of Reform, repeating once again the story of how the Tories turned their backs on their principles and pledges, being educated to do so by the Premier. Ire claimed the Household Suffrage Bill for Joe Hume, whose disciple he (Mr. Osborne) was. As to the Bribery Bill he had supported it throughout, and he rejoiced at its passage. Tho public expenditure "had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." "Taxation," said the right hon. gentleman, "has jumped up to seventy-two millions per year. It is awful, 'awful.' And that is exclusive of about six millions for the Abyssinian expedition. As to the vote for that Abyssinian expedition, I do not care for telling you, I was opposed to that vote, and, although it has been suc cessful, it was a very questionable thing to inflict taxation on the people of this country for a Quixotic expedition. Ido not say that I do not glory in the man who led that expedition. The expedition was commanded by an officer of the educated service. Lord Napier of Magdala was a distinguished artillery officer. Napoleon said that he gained half his victories, not by the musket, but by the spade. Lord Napier made 400 miles of road, and through these roads they advanced and then took the tremendous position of Magdala. lam rejoiced at the success of the expedition. I honour Lord Napier of Magdala. I only regret that he was not made a life peer instead of a hereditary one ; for I think the time for the creation of life peerages is come." Passing to the question of flogging in the army, Mr. Osborne congratu lated his hearers on its abolition. His first notion when he entered Parliament was to abolish flogging, and—if they did not again return to it--that would be his last vote. Church rates, too, were abolished, and if they only returned the right man to Parliament the rate-paying clause would go in the way of all flesh. For these reforms be claimed credit to the Liberal party. The sub ject of trades' unions next engaged attention. Ile was the friend of the working man, and as such was very anxious to reconcile the differ ences between masters and men. He bad himself introduced the subject of arbitration to the House of Commons. Trades' unions were embodied for useful and laudable objects. Nothing could le more just then that men should combine for theprotection of their wages, and for ben , fit in sickness; and if they so combine he would give them protection for their funds. Then as to education its importance could not be over estimated. Scotland through education had made her sons known throughout the world for sharpness. The country was flourishing in every way. Prussia, too, by education had risen in the electorate of Brandedburg to the high place she now occupied. In Prussia there were two millions and a half of scholars; there were 120 high schools, and the seven universities, which is open to anybody. The country had in consequence of this—and not of the needle-gun—risen to her present position. But how different were things in England. Positively nothing was done except by the dissenters until 1839. Then again it was the Liberal party under Lord Russell that took the initiative and proposed a vote of £30,000 for education. Since then some progress had been made and the vote reached £BO,OOO, but the universities were closed to all who could not gulp the 39 articles. Not withstanding all the efforts made, Mr. Coleridge's bill was dropped et the end of the session. But if this country is to hold its position the whole educational system must be revised. At the same time he was not in favour of compulsory education. He did not think the people were prepared for a "conscription educa tion," but lie would supplant voluntary efforts by Parlia mentary grants. Passing on to the Irish Church, Mr. Osborne gave it as his opinion that the state of things in Ireland was brought about by ignorance in this country. He then went on to reiterate the old arguments in favour of disestablishment and disendowment. Returning to the subject of the representation of the borough, ho refused to withdraw or go to the ballot —the poll was the place to try candidates. He would not make impossible pledges. If he could not sit as an independent member he would not sit at all. In answer to questions afterwards put he de clared that ho would support household suffrage in the counties, the ballot, and an alteration of the game laws. As to the Sunday closing of public-houses ho would like to see the bill before pledging himself. THE REV. W. C. TEMPLER AND THE BISHOP or SALISBURY.—The Rev. W. C. Templer, whose rude conduct towards the Bishop of Salisbury made so much stir lately, in explaining his conduct, says that he offered to give certificates to any who wished to be confirmed, but none applied. " While Ido protest," he says, "in public and in private against the doctrines `enunciated in the charge of the Bishop of Salisbury,' I have never stated that I ' would not suffer my own children to be con firmed by his lordship '—only that I would not know ingly expose them to the peril of his teaching at any time, and especially at a most critical point in their soul's history. It is not true that the rector's intentional absence rendered it impossible for any candidate to obtain a ticket.'" SYNOD OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— This synod was opened in the Mount Pleasant Chapel, Liverpool, on Monday evening. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Craig, D.D., retiring Moderator. The Rev. James Towers, the Moderator elect, delivered the opening address. He alluded to the growing opinion in favour of freeing religion from State control, and stated that he did not anticipate any weakness to the cause of Protestantism from such freedom. He also alluded to the proposed union of Presbyterian Churches. On Tuesday the Synod sat at eleven o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Bell, of Newcastle, read a report on a model deed for Church property. He believed it would commend itself to all the Churches. A discussion, founded on several papers which were read, then ensued on the state of reli gion throughout the country, and the importance of an increased ramification of lay agencies under judicious control. In the evening a meeting was held for the expo sition of principles, at which several papers were read. A WELCOME APPARITION.—One day last weez a Birmingham paper, acting upon incorrect intelligence, informed its readers that Mr. Welby Pugin, the eminent Roman Catholic architect, was lying dangerously ill at Malvern, and shortly afterwards it was reported to the inmates of the convent at Stone, near Stafford, that Mr. Pugin was no more. The convent bell was accordingly ordered to be tolled, and whilst this tribute to the memory of their late friend was being paid by the inmates a gentleman knocked at the convent gate, inquired for the Rev. Father D—, and sent in his card. , The joy and astonishment of the rev. father may be conceived when he read the inscription, " Mr.iWelby Pugin," and the amaze ment of the latter on hearing, in reply to his question, "For whom is the bell Lolling ?" that it was for himself, may also be realised by the dullest imagination. The reports of Mr. Pugin's illness and death were eoual) . without foundation'. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1868. ALLEGED MURDER BY A WIFE, A tradesman's wife, named Laura Court, was on Monday night apprehended at Leamington, on a charge of murdering her husband. On Friday at mid-day she and her husband (who carries on business as a watchmaker in Satchwell-street), was heard quarrelling, and she was heard to knock her husband down violently. lie has not 'Ken heard or seen alive since. A police-inspector has frequently visited the house, and questioned the woman as to her husband's whereabouts ; but sho denied all knowledge of him, and stated she had written to his friends in London to know if they knew anything about him. On searching the house last night, the inspector found the de ceased at the bottom of the steps of the cellar leading off the kitchen with his brains dashed out. During yesterday a neighbour went to the house and said to the accused, " Laura, what can have become of Edwin ?" and she partially searched the house, but on going towards the cellar steps the accused said, "It is no good looking there!" and she did not prosecute her search further. The accused is in custody on a charge of wilful murder. COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. • 4.- - An aecident of a serious nature occurred late on Monday night on the London and North-Western Railway, near Oldbury Station. Two goods trains came into violent collision, a number of carriages were destroyed, and an engine overturned, blocking 4 , the line during the night, although we are glad to state that the occurrence was not accompanied by any loss of life, and but slight injury to only one person. A local account of it states that at a quarter to eleven o'clock, the local goods train, which left Bushbury Junction at 8.20, had ;shunted on a siding at the Spon-lane basin near to Oldbury station, to allow the passenger train for Dudley to pass, when the train was removed from the siding on to the main up line. The only conjecture which could be offered for this and the subsequent collision was that there was some mistake made in the signals, owing to the great fog which prevailed. Almost immediately after the local goods had gone upon the main line, the London goods, drawn by a powerful engine, overtook it. The driver of the latter, seeing that a collision was inevitable, jumped off the engine, escaping unhurt, the stoker remaining at his post. When the engine was close upon the orake the guard jumped from the van, and sustained no injury. The engine then dashed into the local train with terrific force, overturning and completely smashing up the van and leading waggons. The engine was thrown off the metals, and fell over on its side across the line. About thirty waggons were broken up or partially destroyed, and here and there furnished a vast pile of debris. The waggons were heavily loaded with minerals, coals, &c. The stoker was the only person injured. The Scotch mail was stopped and sent buic t) bizmingham. The Liver pool mail wiis r iso stopped by signals. With respect to the cause, it vr.4 s+se. 4 .e.l that, owing to the density of the fog, the cliive.-z were preys:Jed from making out the signals properly ; and, on the other hand, that the signal was "all right• " when the local goods train went on the main line. The damage is very great. THE PUBLIC .ffEALTrf, It appears from the return issued by authority of the Registrar-General, that in the week that ended Saturday last 4,368 births and 3,115 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 25 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate :of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 25 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin ; 22 in Bristol, 18 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 31 in Manchester, 41 in Salford, 25 in Sheffield, 26 in Bradford, 31 in Leeds, 28 in Hull, 20 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 27 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 21 per 1,000 during the week ending the 26th ult., and in Berlin 35 per 1,000 during the seven days ending the Bth inst. Scarlatina and different forms of typhus and typhoid fevers are jnst now shewing increased fatality in several of the large English towns ; the former more particularly so in Manchester Ind Leeds, as well as London, and the latter in Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds. Scarlatina last week in Manchester was three times, and typhus in Liverpool five times as fatal in proportion to popu lation as the same diseases in the metropolis. In London the mortality from small-pox, measles, and whooping cough, is comparatively low, but the death-rate from fever is high, and from scarlatina greatly in excess. During the last four weeks 383 deaths have occurred in the metropolis from the last named ; it is to be regretted that no general measure has hitherto been devised for stamping out this destructive disease. A SKETCH OF GEORGIA. (From the Anglo -American Times.) Georgia is just now the object of much comment and attention. After adopting the new Constitu tion, after accepting the 14th Amendment, and in consequence being readmitted into the Union, the Legislature has taken a position wholly at variance with the conditions expressed as well as implied. To use a slang word in its broadest sense, Congress and the North generally have been " sold" by Georgia. It is worth while to glance back to see if the history of Georgia casts any light upon present transactions. This State, though the latest settled, was one of the original thirteen. General Ogle thorpe was the founder, having planted the colony of Savannah as early as in 1732, although the name of the State came with the charter from George 11. The area is 58,000 square miles, and the popula tion, according to the census of 1860, was 1,057,286. Like that of South Carolina, Georgia's eighty miles of sea coast is low and lined with fertile islands (which form numerous lagoons and inlets), whereon the celebrated sea-island cotton is produced, while rice is extensively grown in the swamps of the mainland. To the north of the coast line in the midst of these marshes, and border ing on South Carolina, stands the city of Savan nah, the most important of the State, with its population in 1860 of 22,000, although Milledge ville is the capital. The next cities in importance are Augusta, at the head of the steamboat naviga tion on the Savannah river ; and Columbus, on the Chattahoochee. Next to these, ranks Atlanta, where the Government is, a town made celebrated by the war. It was from Atlanta that Sherman launched his army, without a base, at the heart of the Confederacy, after burning the city. A glance at the map will show how the State was swept by that General, when it is borne in mind that he har ried the country from Tennessee, Atlanta being the objective point of a long and bloody campaign, con ducted for the most part against one of the greatest Generals the South produced, contiuuing the destruc tion to Savannah, where he came into communica tion with the fleet. After Georgia had suffered the Ifull force of this desolating march, her Convention unusually active in its opposition to some che rished Northern measures, and among them strenu ously resisted the legal extinction of the Confederate debt, although the delegates were returned pledged to its nullification as well as to the repeal of the ordi nance of secession and the abolition of slavery. When the State Legislature had met after the re cess of January 15, 1866, the Governor laid before both Houses the code for the government and pro, tection of persons recently emancipated from slavery, reported by a commission appointed for the purpose, thus describing its provisions :—" It is just and liberal, as it should be, to the freedman. It is safe, as it should be, to the citizen. It extends no political rights to the former, but it gives ample security to his rights of person and of property. Like a great majority of the States which never ad mitted, or have long since abolished slavery, we are wholly avers 3 to investing him with' political right 3 and privileges. For that very reason we are under the highest conceivable obligation to protect him in his rights of person and property, and to aid by all just means his advance in civilization. This aid we gave hurt, this advance we effected for him whilst in slavery. Why shouldit be withheld now Whilst we insist upon occulling in relation to those persons :th6N_Po&ition - of the governing ete*s.,l4:tis, fully and fairly nest its responsibilities." After,re gulating the relatiOns between apprentices and maste.rs, an Act .wao-pasSed granting to oloured persons the right to make contracts, inherit pro perty, to hold and to convey estate, and to benefit equally in alUaWs for the security of person and property, which was followed by the partial resto ration of Georgia to her civil rights in accordance with the order of the. President. Governor Jen kins admitted in his proclamation that this highly satisfactory, movement was induced mainly by the legislation of the 'General Assembly relative to the status of the freedman—that is, that it was a bribe. The feeling of the Legislature in Georgia in 1866 was best shown by the Governor's Message, and the discussion which ensued on the proposed 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The Governor thought that if the State Representatives in Congress had had any hand in its preparation it would have assumed a less odious form. "The policy seems to have been first to push it without their participation beyond the stage of amend ment, and then say to them, accept our bantling, or take the consequences." Mr. Jenkins concludes by advising unflinching firmness in the rejection of the obnoxious amendment, " which magnanimity would not exact, and self-resped could not make." The committee on the state of the Republic, to which each House referred the subject, doubted the propriety of discussing the proposed amendment at all; from which they only departed to give their reasons for forbidding the discusSion, and these seem to us so forcibly to embody Southern opinion that we give the questions discussed in full :- 1. If Georgia is not a State composing a part of the Federal Government, known as the Government of the United States, amendments to the Constitution of the United States are not properly before this body. 2. If Georgia is a State composing part of the Federal Government, knoWn as the Government of the United States, then these amendments are not proposed accord ing to the requirements of the Federal Constitution, and aro proposed in such a manner as forbids this House from discussing the merits of the amendment without an im plied surrender of the rights of the State. In establishing these propositions we shall endea vour to establish : 1. That Georgia is a State of the United States, co-equal with all the other States of the Federal Union, and there fore entitled to all the rights and privileges of any and every other State under the Federal Constitution. 2. That the amendments have not been proposed in either of the methods required by the fifth Article of the Constitution. The report concluded with a resolution declining to ratify the proposed amendment, which, in the Senate, was unanimously adopted, and in the house passed by 132 to 2. An Act was carried referring to education, by which the Georgia schools were opened to all white children between 6 and 21 years of age. On November 30 a resolution was unani mously adopted in each House, expressing the sin cerest condolence and warmest sympathy with Mr. Jefferson Davis, praying the President to restore him to a people for whom he had so faithfully struggled and endured so much. It may readily be believed that the Georgians did not relish an inter ruption to the proceedings of a Legislature which so fully gave effect to their wishes in controlling the blacks ; and, in truth, many negroes of this State are even more than ordinarily unfitted for poli tical privileges. As we before observed, the most productive part of Georgia is along the swampy lagoons of the coast, where negroes of a very in ferior type are to be found. These degraded speci mens of the race believe liberty to mean idleness and lawlessness, they see no moral guilt in theft, and are restrained only by fear. Elsewhere in the State the African is more intelligent, and indeed when justly and kindly treated has in many instances worked so vigorously for his former master as to restore his ruined estate. In 1860 the total valuation of pro perty returned in specie was $369,627,922, which, reduced to currency, means an increase of 40 per cent. In 1866 the total value of taxable property was $207,051,677 in currency, which shows the frightful waste of the war. This is independent of the slaves, the number of whom in 1860 amounted to 450,033, valued at $202,694,855. The following statement gives the actual losses sustained by the State during the war apart from other pro perty. In railroads, fifteen millions of dollars ; in banks, thirty millions ; in public buildings, &c., ten millions, to which if we add the loss of slaves and the decrease of taxable proper!y, a total is shown of $841,254,876, estimated to be four-fifths of the entire wealth of the State. The suffering which followed the desolating march was dreadful, involving famine and, as usual, plague, and the Legislature appropriated $200,000 early in 1866 to buy corn for the starving poor. The return of that . year showed that the State had lost over one hun dred thousand producing labourers since 1863. The drift of labour was to the rich lands of the Lower Mississippi and the West ; but there was another drain independent of this which the Comp troller mentioned in his report. "It is an established fact," he says, " that the mortality among the ne groes far. exceeds what it was under out well regu lated system of slavery, being so great as to give a reasonable foundation for the prevalent belief that the days of the race are numbered, and that they will eventually become extinct." The history of the Reconstruction is too fresh in the me mory of our readers to need recapitulation here. The Constitutional Convention framed the new Constitution embodying the requirements of Congress ; the Legislature was elected, the Gover nor chosen, and the members of Congress were admitted to their seats after the State had accepted the fourteenth Amendment, when it was declared " reconstructed." It was then that the Georgia plot was rapidly developed, and the negroes ex pelled from the Legislature ; who thereon were de clared ineligible if with an eighth of negro blood, or to hold office, or to sit on juries. After unseating one-seventh of the Representatives, the next step was to replace them by white Democrats, the can didates of the minorities. It was in vain to remon strate or to assert that some of the gentlemen then sworn in were ineligible under the 14th Amend ment ; such motions were voted down, and no in quiry permitted. By this means it was hoped that the Democratic majority might be sufficient to over-ride the Governor's veto, and reproduce in Atlanta the state of affairs at Washington, only reversed with regard to the political proclivities of the executive and Legislature. Action yet remained to be taken against the two coloured Senators, Wallace and Campbell, each being allowed an hour to show why they should not be expelled. Wallace in disgust absented himself, but Campbell spoke to the point in a modest and sensible address, though, of course, without avail ; and with their expulsion the plot of Messrs. Toombs, Cobb, and Hill was carried to a complete success. It is in such action that Southern politicians have shown the greatest skill and met with most success . They shine in attack, and when they have the whole position be fore them they seldom fail. But masterly as have been the tactics displayed in throwing the power of Georgia into Southern hands, it is just possible that they may have been too successful; that they have overdone their work, or that it is premature. Brilliant in attack as the Southern politicians are, they are impetuous and incautious. There never was a more successful conspiracy—there never was one more ably conceived and more skilfully carried out than that which placed Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential chair, and led to secession as planned by the Southern leaders: nor could there have been a more striking instance of an engineer:being hoisted by his own petard. And why ? Because they calculated only their own side ; they omitted a careful esti mate of the character and strength of those against whom they were working a long way off, and un seen. Possibly they may, for the third time, have made the same mistake ; for on the eve of a general election they have risked, and perhaps wrecked, the hopes of their party in the Union to gain this poor triumph in Georgia. Putting aside, however, the ultimate results, and viewing only Democratic ac tion in Atlanta, we cannot withhold a high measure of admiration. Congress considered no precaution had been neglected, and the Republican party imagined that they gave Georgia over, tied hand and foot, to their own friends, The ready way in which the "rebel" fell into reconstruction called forth Re publican praise. Georgia was held up as a model State"; nothing could .exceed the harmony of the blacks and =dick white advisers, who were equally led by the nose, till the plot exploded under their feet, and they discovered, when too late, what it was to trust-to such guidance. When the Africans , had been rendered ineligible for seats in the legisla ture, to bold office, or to sit :on juries in Georgia, their position was the more hostile, as the confidence they had placed in the whites had betrayed them into aiding in such measures. The condition of the State rapidly became worse,when the most intelligent of the negroes had been placed in open opposition by proceedings they considered to be directed against their freedom. In vain Governor Bullock attempted to suppress armed organizations in which he then knew there was danger. Murders and out rages became more and more frequent, till they cul minated in the massacre at Camilla. The truth of this story has not yet been ascertained, as each party denies the account the other has given, and neces sarily so, as they are totally at variance. Major 0. H. Howard, of the United States Army, has made an official report through his commanding "officer, Colonel Lewis, at Atlanta, Georgia, to Gen. Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau at Washington ; but the Sheriff denies its accuracy. Weighing the conflicting statements, webelieve that common sens 3 would lead to the conviction that the more trustworthy account is that of the army officer, particularly as the results bear him out. He gives the' full list, so far as ascertained, of the negroes killed and wounded, with the loss on the other side, concluding with these words :—" Of the at tacking party only two are reported wounded— James Jones, the ringleader, who has a pistol ball in the forehead and two in his back, said to be mortal, and Collins, slightly wounded. It is estimated that at least fifty freedmen were killed and wounded." To enable our readers to under stand the affair, it is necessary to publish his letter : " Colonel, —The affair at Camilla seems to have been a massacre. I enclose an accurate list of the killed and wounded, so far as known. A freedman, who was a prisoner at Camilla, but who escaped during the night, states that he helped to remove one dead freedwoman and four wounded freedmen from the road within 100 yards of the Court-house. Ihe white men, his captors, boasted to newcomers of twelve freedmen killed in one pond near Dr. Dosher's, two miles from Camilla. Another freedman took refuge in a swamp, where he lay concealed all last night with two others near him. He heard during all the earlier part of the night the white men scouring the woods, shouting, cursing, and shooting the freedmen. The pursuers were accompanied by bloodhounds. Ile heard the cries and shrieks of the fugitives as they were shot, and as they were pulled down by the dogs, two of the men near him becoming frightened en deavoured to escape, and both were shot within his hearing. It was reported to me as late as four o'clock this afternoon, that up to eight o'clock this morning, when] my informant left, they were still pursuing the freedmen with horses and dogs. There has been an intense excitement in town all day. The town has been filled with the freedmen ; they have swarmed about my office by hundreds. It has been difficult to restrain them from proceed ing en masse to Camilla. I have addressed them, counselling peace and order, and I have told them that the offenders shall be punished, and that their lives should be protected ; but I have no heart for my work. I felt no assurance that my promises would be fulfilled. The Mayor addressed them, as did some citizens, but the freed people scoffed at them, would not listen to them, and I had the whole burden to bear. At this hour, mid night, all is quiet. Dr. Rushenberg has re turned from Fisher and Flagg's plantation, nine miles below here, where he has been all day, caring for the wounded. I will, to-morrow, take affidavits of the wounded men and others, and pre pare an official report. Please instruct me, and in. form me what action will be taken by military and civil authorities.—Very respectfully, 0. H. HOWARD, Major and S. A. C." Briefly sketching it from other sources it appears that Captain William P. Pierce, a Kentuckian officer of the Union army, who was stumping the State with Mr. John Murphy, of Indiana, approached the town of Camilla, Mitchell County, on the 19 h September, together with the Rev. F. Putney ; Philip Janin, one of the expelled coloured re presentatives, and about 75 others, where they were to address the coloured Republicans. At the time both Pierce and Murphy had narrowly escaped being killed; the white people from Ander son ville having sworn the two white scoundrels should die. When four miles from Camilla, James Jones met them and announced himself to be a courier from the people of Camilla sent to notify that they would permit no Eadical speaking in Camilla. Mr. Pierce before moving on sent a note to the sheriff of the county asking the protection of the civil authorities, and the sheriff and his con stables met the party two miles from the town. THE ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL. The inquiry into the charges of criminal negligence pre y:l-red against the railway company's servants was brought to a close at Abergele on Tuesday, and further proceedings will now be suspended until the next assizes for the county of Denbigh. The magistrates present were Mr. J. Lloyd Wynne. and Mr. R. B. Hesketh. Mr. Yeatmau, of the Midland Circuit, appeared for Henry Cripps, the prosecutor, in structed by Mr. Edwards Wood, of Birmingham, who was said to be unable to attend from illness occasioned by the injuries alleged to have been sustained by hira,,in . the Holywell collison. Mr. Louis, solicitor, of Ruthin - ;' assisted by Mr. Davies, Holywell, defended the breaksmen; Mr. Preston, solicitor, Rhyl, watched the case on behalf of the London and North-Western Railway. - - Mr. Louis declined to call witnesses for the defence. Mr. Yeatman, for the prosecution, contended that although the station-master at Llandulas might have shewn culpable negligence, yet that this did not excuse the negligence of the breaksmen, who had left the trucks kicked off to come down the line and run where they liked, whereby the lives of a great number of persons had been sac-rificed. Mr. Louis replied on behalf of the breaksmen, reminding tne court that the signal given to the engine•driver` according to his own admission, was that he should "kick easy," and that if he hat followed this direction the acci. dent would never have occurred. The Bench, after consultation, declared that in the wescnt case there was sufficient doubt to warrant them in 7,ending the case for trial. The Bench had determined to commit the accused to take their trial at the assizes for manslaughter. They were willing to accept bail. The breaksmen, Richard Williams and Robert Jones were accordingly bound over, themselves in £lOO and two sureties in .£5O each. The charges against the breaksmen's solicitor, Mr. Davies, of liolywell, which caused no little local interest and excitement, were next gone into. Mr. Yeatman called several witnesses. The purport of their evidence was that, at the hearing of the case against Eaton, just after Mr. Davies had promised to produce his clients, he engaged a car at Pensarn and brought them up to the end of the avenue leading to the court. The breaksmen got out of the car and were standing near it, when the police, who had warrants against the men, rushed towards them to apprehend them. The men became alarmed, and at the san e moment Mr. Davies waved his stick as a signal to them to drive off. The driver of the car galloped off in the direction of the railway, and the men got away. An imputation was thrown out at the time that the railway officers had connived at their escape by having a special train in readiness, but it was now shown by unimpeachable evidence that the general goods manager was on his usual visit of inspection, and that the officials in the special train were entirely innocent of any complicity in the escape. Mr. Louis, who defended Mr. Davies, before calling evidence submitted that no case had been made out for a committal. He contended that a professional man was not, merely because he waved his hand, to be committed on so serious a charge as that of feloniously assisting the escape of persons charged with committing a felony. The Chairman said that the charge against Mr. Davies was dismissed in consequence of the want of sufficient evidence to prove so serious an offence. This decision was received with applause in court, and when it was known outside a cheer was set up, which was renewed when Mr. Davies left the Town Hall and was seen by the crowd. We are informed that the valuable diamond ring found in the d6bris after the accident, supposed to belong to Lord Farnham, and which was forwarded to Hunt and Roskell fur examination, is proved by the most satisfactory evidence to have been worn by the _lamented Lady Chinnery. The appointment of Sir Henry Rawlinson, lath M.P. for Frome, to a seat in the Indian Council is gazetted. The boiler :explosion in South Staffordshire has resulted in another death, making in all thirteen. The other two injured men are expected to recover. Lady Edith Hastings (the wife of Mr. Hastings, of London) has purchased tho revision to the Marquis of Hastings's extensive estates in Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire, including Donnington Park. • We are glad to learn (says the Kentish Gazette), that the Archbishop of Canterbury is recovering from his somewhat severe bronchial attack, but his medical attendant still thinks it advisable that he should keep 'within doors. The Church News states that a very beautiful processional brass cross, literally covered with gems, is being manufactured for use in St. Barnabas Church, Pimlico. Most of the jewels have been presented by ladies of the congregation. The Corriere di Sardegna gives some account of Garibaldi. He is always calm, kind, and affectionate. He said recently to a visitor, " I do not suffer so much, but I feel lam growing old. lam a weather-beaten hull, which has made many a voyage ; a plank is at one time wanting, at another a nail—always something : but an earnest will supplies all deficiencies ; and when the country may need of the last timber of the old barque I shall willingly make the sacrifice. THE BRILLIANT METEOR.—The fire-ball which astonished us on Wednesday night, 7th inst., by its extra ordinary size and brilliancy, ‘173.3 observed at many places within a considerable compass. An eye-witness in Paris says that, being in bed, he was suddenly awakened at about a quarter to twelve by a strong glare, which at, first made him think that his room was on fire ; he sprang out of bed, and was just in time to see the inetem pass rapidly away and disappear behind the housetops. About ten minutes after he heard two loud report l, lik+ runshots. At Rouen the phenomenon was perceived about the same time, the direction being from S.S.E. to N.N.W. It is described as an incandesce/it globe, which, on bursting, split into two tongues of fire, and in this state fell into the Duke of Almazan's pleasure-grounds. The latter statement is in contradiction with that of the Figaro, which asserts that it fell at La Varenne, St. Hilaire, close to the Vincennes Railway, on 31. Lamy's property, where it was found to measure a metr e in length, and about twenty centimetres in thickness. The sound was certainly heard at Rouen as well as at Paris, 4 but it was not heard in Engine], CLERICAL AND LAY CONFERENCE IN SUFFOLK. A conference of the clergy and laity of the diocese of Ely was held at Bury St. Edmunds on Tuesday, under the presidency of the bishop. Among the influential laymen present were the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Grafton, Mr. E. Greene, 1e1.P., Lord A. Hervey, M.P., Major Parker, Lord G. Manners, M.P., &c. The Bishop of Ely, having traced the course of diocesan synods, expressed a fear that we were now coming upon a very formidable state of things ; the law was such that it threatened to paralyse the life of the Church. There seemed to be an introduction of unlimited license in various directions. A clergyman or even a bishop might teach heresy without there being any power to hinder him. The pastor of a parish might, against the consent of his people and in defiance of his bishop, introduce almost any cerenionials he liked. Ecclesiastical jurisdiction seemed almost powerless to restrain the action of individual clergymen. He believed that if the power of a bishop had been as great as it had been in times past, diocesan synods, by expressing the public opinion of the Church, and so giving weight to the bishop's judgment, would have prevented extrava gance and excess. As matters now stood a bishop was to a great extent alone and isolated ; and, standing alone, he was to a great extent powerless. We were in the face of very great dangers. He was not alluding in saying this to the disestablishment of the Church ; that danger, of course, existed, but he believed that the Church was per fectly able to rise to the occasion. . He alluded to the vast strides which infidelity, scepticism, and atheism were making, while, on the other hand, the Church of Rome was trying to re•absorb into herself all national Churches, and Churchmen needed to march with a united front against the common enemy, and to have united counsels among themselves for the great work which God had given them to do. Let Churchmen remember that mutual forbearance was one of the great principles of unity; absolute uniformity might be impossible, but with mutual forbearance they might have iu all essentials a spirit of unity. Churchmen would never, however, attract others to them by shewing that they were ashamed of their principles. While fully recognising the necessity for a highly educated ministry he admitted the desirableness of employing lay readers. We might supplement a highly educated clergy by'a body of. clergy diawn- from it some.. what lower class.. Let them be ernpl:ciyedflqt as deacpns," .. -and .then adYanced to MAIO, -.poSitiena: 'where -theY2 J , shewed suitable s qUalifiCations."_—Tlie -Dile 'Of 'Rutland' appealed to members of , the Church to lay aside all differences .upon minor points now that the-enemy was at the door; and all religion was in danger. •It was' not the Roman Catholic nor the Nonconformists with whom Churchmen had to contend, so much as the atheist and the infidel. Let Churchmen, then, look kindly and in a Christian spirit on one another—then he should have hope that the Church of England would long exist in con nection with the State of this country.—Several clergymen and gentlemen took part in the discussion. Later in the day the Conference held another sitting. LAW AND POLICE. THIC " END " OF THE LONG VACATION.—On the 24th instant at common law, and the 28th in Chancery, the long vacation, which commenced on the 10th August, will terminate, and the various offices be opened at the usual time. POLICE EVIDENCE.—Another case in which a magis trate refused to convict on unsupported police testimony was heard on Tuesday at the Clerkenwell Police-court. The charge was that of dog-fighting, and there were two constables whose evidence was rejected. A HIGHWAYMAN CAPTURED.—The inhabitants of New bury Speen, &c., have had a bit of " sensation" during the last few days. A man calling himself " Captain Hawk," wearing a mask, and dressed in the fashion of the highwayman of romance, has been stopping respectable people in the road, presenting his pistol to their head, demanding their purse. The other night, however, his intended victim -" tackled " and succeeded in capturing him. He was taken before the magistrates, and now stands remanded. In his lodgings were found a large number of the highway novels. He is by trade a painter, and is described as inoffensive. CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—A revolting case of cruelty by a father-in-law towards a boy, 11 years of age, has been investigated at Cirencester. The details are almost too revolting for publication. The prisoner was sent to prison for four months. • It is not only in Ireland that judges are dying andretiring give patrona ge t o M r . Disra e li. The furorhas inorder spread to to Scotland, where Lord Curriehill has just resigned his judgeship, and will be succeeded by Mr. George Dundas, sheriff of Selkirkshire. At a meeting of members of Convocation held on Tuesday aftertoon, in the hall of Magdalen College, Oxford, it was resolved to present a requisition to Sir Itoundell Palmer, asking him to allow himself to be put in nomination for the vacant seat. The Conservative party have put forward the name of Mr. Mowbray. The Times of India is responsible for the following story of a recantation, which significantly foreshadows the new order of things at the India Office : We hear, on the best possible authority, that the Duke of Argyll has recently addressed a letter to a gentleman well known both here and at home for his writings on Indiag politics, in which his grace distinctly renounces all projects of annexation for the future, trusts that the remain ing Native States may be well governed, without requiring constant interference, and "entirely approves of the experi ment made in the Mysore case." The Duke of Argyll has previously advocated :annexationist's doctrines. MANSLAUGHTER BY A BUTCHER.—An inquest has been held at Yeovil, Somerset, on the body of John Williams, a butcher, aged 23. Some days ago deceased had an altercation with another butcher, named Slade, in the market, and received a blow from the latter, which made him insensible for the time. On the following morning he was found lying dead in the closet of a public-house in the town. A post-mortem examination sheaved that death had resulted from congestion of the brain, caused by external violence. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Slade, who was committed on the coroner's verdict. DEATH OF A PAUPER THROUGH DRINKING.—A melancholy case of sudden death has been investigated by Dr. Lankester, at the Islington Union. An inmat named James Dowsett, SG, who had been accustomed to running of errands, was sent .with a parcel to a house in the Caledonian-road. On his returning home by way of Liverpool-street, Islington, a liquor pipe leading from the King's Arms vaults bdrst, and in a few minutes the gutter was filled with port wine. A large number of people at once filled pitchers of every kind, and deceased, amongst others, drank freely of it, and soon became intoxicated, and lay quite insensible in the street. He was speedily taken to the union, where, by means of a pump, one of the nurses extracted at least a pint and a half of port wine from his stomach, and he died before medical assistance could be obtained. A verdict of death from being poisoned by alcohol, accelerated by a fall, was returned. THE EXPLOSION AT BARNSLEY. —The adjourned inquiry touching the deaths of Mr. George Morris and ten others, who lost their lives by the exp'_osion at the fire works manufactory on the 7th instant, was resumed on Tuesday, by Mr. Taylor, coroner, at the Court House, Barnsley. The jury returned the following verdict :=" We are of opinion that the deceased persons came to their deaths by an explosion of fire works at Barnsley, on the 7th clay of October, 18G8 ; and we are likewise of opinion that the direct cause was the recklessness of Maria Cooper in placing a tin of composition on the stove where it exploded. We conse quently return a verdict of manslaughter against Maria Cooper, as to all parties dead except herself. We are likewise of opinion that children of such tender years ought not to be employed in such a dangerous occupation. And the jury further say that there appears to have been no proper regulation in conducting the works, and that the ebeds were unfit fvr the business.", - The sheriff urged them not to enter the town but on their adhering to their determination be and his armed party galloped back. Pierce and Putney in a buggy drove to the house, where they hitched their horse. When 100 yards from the Courc-house the plantatiou waggon, drawn by four mules, containing the tw a drummers and a fifer which composed the b and ' was met by Jones, who discharged a double -bar' relied gun into the waggon, wounding two. Thereon there arose from either side of the r o ad by Nvi .- f the coloured people were advancing a n umber, ° ll men, hitherto concealed, who opened fire, the coloured people who were armed returned while the majority fled. Pierce and Pn i , t° ,, n , f then ran between the combatants, begging t 7e Court to desist, but they only directed their u. r a against these gentlemen, wounding the former:, the leg and the latter in the shoulder, when tu, e ' t rushed to the woods and eseaped,being out all The freedmen caught bet ween th e fi re we re Vi c :l i d o discomfited, and ran for their lives, leavin g , ground covered with thei r d ea d b re th re n. ;" 1 7 0 were pursued for miles ; Murphy and Janin, endeavoured to escape in their buggy, being en v ' taken eight miles from Camill a , w h en Murphy vi t o captured in a deserted house, while Janin took 'the forest. The ne ws , w hi c h reac h e d Alb a* created among the freedmen the wildest excite 0 ment, and they earnestly re q u es t e d p er mission a t be allowed to go to the resue of their friends II Camilla. It is reported that th e Sh er iff of Mit° be d county aided by the posse, whom Mr. Pierce ~, accosted in the morning, had assisted in the attack. oty It is also said that men f rom B a k er an d Dough e ' counties had helped those of Mitchell county, aor that the attack had been organised. Gover ° r , Bullock, when he had ascertained some of the 11 ticulars, addressed the following message to t,O ; general assembly :—Fr om the communication tr av o i mitted herewith, it will be seen that in violation and with total disregard for the proclainatle issued on the 14th inst., the right of the Pen, to peaceably assemble has b een v i o l en tly andls barously impaired, and th e c i v il officers a county of Mitchell are wholly unable to P' ee. tect the rights of citiz ens or t o ma i nta i n the Pe 3 By section 7th of an A c t o f Congress, Pa,iss.„cr March 2, 1867, the organi za ti on , arm i ng , or Cau l * into service tho militia of thi s S ta t e i s proPe'. prohibited, and it is therefore e a r ne stly rec °ni mended that the Legislature make immediate to plication to the President of the U n ited St at • o u under section IV., Article 4, of the Constitu' ro l 0 of the United States, f or s u ffi c i en t m ilitary f ° o ,l to be stationed in said coun ty, t o the , e es , that peace may be mai n tai ne d, th e r ights, b c re d f and property of citizens protected and soo n , s c., and the guilty punished aft er d ue p roce ss of la Ido not deem it necessary to enter into all ° The meta to support the above recommendation. ter fact that this occur ren c e i s th e resu l t o f a cl! re . mination frequently and publi c ly express ed bY' r tbe sponsible persons of one political party that other political party o ug ht no t, an d s h a ll not , political • meetings, is too well known. I t + ot however, gratifying to k now an d t o b e lieve v, eo this sentiment is co n fi ne d t o a c l ass o f law' te d persons, who are not countenanced or slll 3 V r t ive by the responsible citize ns i n th e i r resPe'oo counties, but the misfortune is that the ontravo are not prevented, and, un le ss phy s i ca l force be promptly added to the honest efforts of the ° o f cers of the law, we shall be thrown into a s tate w ill anarchy, where neither life, prop e rty, n or law t he be regarded, and the innocent will suffer front R 3 wrong-doing of the guilty." General Meade do f dispatched by the President to assume comma ° o vi the troops and make a rigid inquiry into what is P o o known as the Georgia massacre, with instruc t ' o f not only to use the troops for the suppressioulro such outrages, but, if necessary, to call on the l ic o Department for more. A great State Conve rt e t. of the negroes of Georgia has been called for sy bo 6 by the expelled me m b ers o f th e L eg i s l a ture, . 0 1 have formed themselves into a civil and po lio to rights association, and have sen t a committee Washington to lay their case before CongresS• Mr. Goldwin Smith, in reply t o an invitation tO ig lecture in Carlifle, states that his passage to Ame r taken for the 27th inst., and that he has now a l e lo his hands than he can well get through. The following arrivals are reported at the an , York hotels : — . United States Senator M‘Donald of Ai es eol sas; the Hon. R. R. Bridges, North Carolina; Pr° t tbe James Law, Ithaca; and Kent Jarvis, of Ohio, are 1,0 0, St. Nichol'as Hotel. Generals Kilpatrick, Heintz% tlie Doubleday, and Vickers, United States Army, 3 !,. e4 3 etorl Metropolitan Hotel. L. A. de Padna Fleury, De e ll o tel• of the Brazilian Legation, is at the New York p l ied Bishop Young, of Florida, General J. K. Barnes,, u . s roe States Army, Judge Hale, Elizabethtown, and li'oll. o Ludington, Assistant Inspector-General U.S.A., a.,,,,r eg ,,i7, Hoffman House. The Hon. Rufus P. Spalding, M' "I , ' Ohio, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Geneml D.„410 , Clarke, Washington, and Colonel T. C. Stevens, of ''' sv eci are at the Westminster Hotel. The Hon. E. Bos o j e ll England, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Cornelius lieu Washington, is at the Astor House. Dr. Francis F. Spring, six feet five inchee. b o ce and weighing 550 pounds, died suddenly at his real; l ist' in Boston, on Saturday evening, Sept. 19. He NO' s o edr tive of Ireland, and a highly respected member of the _ n s , cal. profession, possessing great skill in the treatno cutaneous di-eases. a feat Mr. S. D. Warren, of Bosto n , h as es t a blished a to $5O scholarships at Amherst C o ll ege, t o b e awai,_'."," 100 indigent students of the junio r class, who have the rank in German. The widow of an Americ an c l ergyman , g 01.1 ):: ° of Paris for tl.e winter, wishes to take under her car® ° ar t two young ladies.—Add ress b y l etter Y.Z., M r . St" Holloway, opposite Camden-road, N. , 0 0 At a weddin g i u S out h w i c k , M assac h us etil Tuesday, Sept. 22, a t e l egram was rec ei ve d bef°soo, ceremony, dated the same day at Geneva, in Switzed the and conveying the congratulations of the °git a bridegroom, Mr. Cy rus Fi e ld , an d hi s f am il y . have been re-written on the way several times, il t otir to be sent by r a il roa d f rom W est fi e ld , yet reached wick early in the afternoo n o f th e day it was starte d ' 10 Delegates will leave England in a few wee ks arrange about the transfer of th e North-west 'rerr --t °ri be; Canada. Hon. Messrs. Cartier, M'Dougall, and u ° l l 4 o or . will form the deputati on . Th e G overnment o f the con' nion will, it is said, aid the Red River settlers hi strutting a road from Fort Gairy to Thunder BO' e LADvEßTlsEmErr.]—Holloway's Ointment.--Th er io ri , be little safety for sufferers who permit inflammations and u tions to continue their course in the vain hope of their ow t* amendment; such carelessness will certainly lead to diseqde ment, if it fail to end in death. Whenever disease attu°7; human body it should be promptly and vigorously nle t 0 4 ; medial measures; of which for external ailments this 0 1 ° A s" stands supreme. Bad leg s , ul cera ti ons , a b scesses , Pile,9,e4 tf fistulas, can be conveniently tr e at e d an d ra di ca lly rera°; o 4o; l this unguent, applied as directed in its accompanying c ° „ay Every mother, nurse, or sick visitor, by th e a tt en tive e" . 00 ,1' Holloway's " Instructions," can freq uen tl y arr est 011 , e s0 diseases before they have assailed the co ns tit u ti on and 1 /'" virulent or chronic. !DVERTISEMENT ]— Consumption, and all nervous, r osty stomach,and liver complai n t s i n every stage are only ugg„feetd, and accelerated by drugs o f every descr i pt i on, b u t P` yo 4 curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabi-e s we' d as proved by thousands of cases which had been CO'', e°;. hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthro," i 'sd, sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric ",, e , O O O , ments, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner i )ds, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, 0 1 t sP s , fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gou" s stte ° , rides, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepltropl, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, ", or t , cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnen e ' c i t ea sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shouldepr)of We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by p u ,.,,a10,i1 Food. Cure No 68,413.—"R0me, July 21, 1866.—The the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abancl o l 3 4 other tembdies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Revalents. Arabica Food, of which he consumes ef oo ,1/c:i4 at every meal. It has produc e d a surpr i s i ngly u%, effect on his health, and his H o li ness cannot po'l'Aficlie'r excellent food too highly." From th e "G azet t e du 0 e July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timberiog, chant, of Fernley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased„,ess• o f spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial de tu t Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutal i ,, fy,;, Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. „„ s ee:',l years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ners'e_:', asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, siciclo'„oo'.4 vomiting.—MariaJoly." ImportantCaution.—Beware of tlif, i ato. unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, 7, 10 X ; authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously at!' a ,„; t i s i In tins, at is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d. ; 5 l'at l J' l ls 12 lbs , 220 ; 241bs , 40s.—Also Du BAltar's REvALENTA up s CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 1 2 c o t 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 611., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cue The pt for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cull and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England 0 ' so. of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO., Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. 1 3,r 10 ) ASHETON — On the 12th inst., at 7, Palmeira-square' - ton, the wife of Charles Asheton, of a son. ,t he EGERTON—On the 12th i ns t., at 8, Onslow-gard ev 'fo , Hon. Mrs. Seymour Egerton, of daughter, stillb o ' t he LAW RIE —On the 11th inst., at L en fi e ld, Maidston e' wife of Major John Lawrie, of a son. Marriages. 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