Smyrna times., 1865-06-07


knowledge Of the murderer adds the mcanness
of lying to the catalogue Of their crimes. 1t is
also clear, from the evidence, that the atrOcl-
ties received the sanction ofthe Richmond au-
thorltieS before they were put into execution,
and there are good reasons to believe that Da-
Wis himself was party to the scheme to muir
der the President and other high officers OF the
Government.
$500 PREMIUM TO AMERICAN WRTERs.--
The publisher of the Home Weekly, Philadel-
phia, announces that he will give $1,000 Tor
the best story, $500 for the second best, SlOU
for the third, and two premiums each OF $50
for those next best. The merits of the storca
to be decided by eminent and well-knOWn lite
rary men, whose names will be published witt.
their decisions. All manuscripts must be sent
in by the lst of October, lS65. Edgar Poe
prize story for this paper, and the writers OF
the United States have now an opportunity VI
giving the public chance Of seeing what tai
ent we have among us, and we hope those who
are still unknown to fame, but feel that they
have IN them : thoughts that breathe and words
that burn, should at once set to work and send
to the LE0n'e Weekly, Philadelphia, the results
Of their genius.
| Gen. Hallcck, commanding in Virginia. has
just issued from Richmond Il military order Of
Il moral nature which, though brirt in its pro-
visions, may be said to affect the black people
OF the South directly. and the white people i'll
directly, III the protoundcst elements Of their
existence. The order may he said to be ma
king provision for the hy0i cSttbljshntcntyHe
inStltUttoA Ct marriage among the negroes. 1t
opens by calling thS attention OF magistrates
and clcrgymcm to the cases Of "COlorcd men
and women who have marital obligations " says
that such persons should be duly instructed as
to their social and domestic duties, and espe
cally as to the duty disappearing and educating
their offspring, and adds emphatically that
they must be made to understand that the
laws of God, as we'll as the laws OF their coun-
try, forbid their living together as man and
wife without the solemnlZatiOn OF marriage.
Gen. llalleck then makes provision tor taclllta
| ting the formalitics of marriage, and closes by
urging the importance of the measure.
A REpENTANT REBEL.-Foote apologies to
the public for the speech which procured him
the name Of I" Hangman Foote. lie received
| the appelatiOn fifteen years ago, because Of a
very foolish and incOnsidcrate speech which he
made in the United States Senate in response
to a very cOrteOus and eloquent one delivered
by Mr. Hale of New Hampshire. IL dcnuncia-
ton of the system Ofnegro slavery in the South.
Mr. Foote says he early was ashamed of the
language and apOlogiZed for its use in open SEN
ate, but if editors and others will use the cpl
thet, he says he shall submit with as good
grace as practicable to wear the terrible shirt
of Nessus' for the remainder his life. When
a man becomes ashamed Of his indiscrctions it
is shame to remind him ofthem. What man
can pass through fifteen years of his maturcd
life without wishing to blot out some Of the
record?
TIE CATASTROPHE AT MOBILE The details
OF the fearful catastrophe at Mobile fail to ex-
hibit anything but the most unaccountable care
lessness on the part Of those responsible for the
disposition OF the ordnance stores. Storage
seems to have been sought in the very heart Of
the city. And in the building were two hun
dred tons of ammunition, consisting of musket
cartridges, cannon powder, large number Of
blank musket cartridges, a quantity OF loaded
shells, grape, canister and solid shot. In ad-
: dition there were about thirty tons Of powdcr,
brought iut2 the city all the way from Gaines
vile, for what earthly purpose it would surely
be hard to divine. There ought to lie a thorough
investigation ordered into the whole circumstan-
ceS. Even if the firing of the magazine was
: purely accidental, some one must have blunder-
ed, after fashion which demands searching
inquest.
a FREE SCHOOL IN VRGINIA-Adviccs
from Fortress Monroe informs us of the estab-
lshment ola public government school at Camp
Hamilton, and of its being in active operation
1t was instituted some time since by General
, Butler, and was put in operation 10y General
; Ord. More than one hundred pupils attend,
f most OF them being the children of Nirgnians
The building was erected by the government.
the means being supplied from MONEYS rnIIee,
ted in the department by q levy on certain cam
mercial privileges. The Principal is Rev, ]
, S. Evans, of West Chester, Pa, who seems ~
be very popular among the pupils.
TENNESSEE is reconstructin, +bo
state government, and one of the first acts Is
to nix the qualifications of voters Ii confne~
: the right OF voting to those white men, other
wise qualified, who are publicly known to
have entertained unconditional Union senti
ments from the breaking out of the rebellion
until the present time" Provisions are mad,
for proving the fact of loyalty beyond question i,
All other persons are excluded for six years af-
ter the passage of the act, and may then he
remitted to franchise by petition to the Circuit
or Chaneery Court, on proof Of loyalty to the
United States, in open court upon testimony
OF two or more good loyal citizens.
HARD GA returned rebel soldier from the
armies of the great Southern Confederacy,
reached his old home in Havre de Grace on
9 Thursday last. His former ncighborS and fcl-
low-citizcns rendered the hospitality and free
dom of the town to him, lashed board to his
back with traitor written on it i'll large let
tcrs, marched the returned brave round
town, and put him in the cars, with notice not
to stop there any more. Those Ilavrc de Gra-
clans must have dash Of the Southern Chlv-
airy about them. The Chivalry used to tar and
feather lucklcss AbolitioniSts and ride them out
of town on a rail.
A Richmond paper says that the stump,
twenty three inches in diameter and seventy in
f circumference, cut down last May by mimic balls
on the land of Mr.. McCOull one mile trom
, Spotsylvania Courthouse, has been carried tn
l Washington. This novel wood cutting occur
} red where " 9rren Corps broke through the
r Confederate lines after twenty hours continu-
Gus musket firing. The owner, Mr.. Joseph
S Sanford, was offered large sum, bur declined
4 to sell it. AS it was his personal property, he
/ hopes to recover it, or be suitably compcnsa-
ted.
. A dispatch from Ncwbern, n. c., says that
the former wealthy citizens of that city, wi
i are now returning home after an absence of
nearly four years, are received and entertained
: in the most hospitablc manner by their former
q servants, who not only relieve the wants of the
!. needy, but furnish them with money to pay
. their tax. The return of Mr.. Holden from
NocbinOtO iS lOOGnd f,,, xritb a rrroot Jool ~