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In the First Year Of His Term
From the New York world.l

From the New York World.
1t is subject of just congratulation
that the rupture between President John
son and the Republican party takes place
so early in his term. Mr.. Lincoln was
inaugurated in March and assassnated
in April; so that Mr. Johnson's term of
Office is as long, within about month,
as if he had been elected President, in
stead of Vice President
The session of Congress this winter Is
the first in his four years. We shall have
two new Congressional elections before
his term expires, and successors will have
been elected to thirty-fve of the fifty
Senators now composing the upper
House His Republican opponents must
therefore see that they have long road
to travel
They are by this time convinced that
the Presidents policy is fired If they
should triumph over it, they cannot ex-
pect to reap the fruits of their triumph
until after the Inauguration of Mr. John
sons successor Are they willing, for
mere party advantage, to keep the South
disorganized and unrep=esented for so
great length of timer They do not
lack the will, but they do the power.
Congress can accomplish nothing except
by legislation; and it is already demon
strated that the Republicans of this Con-
gress can pass no law which the Presi-
dent does net approve. 1t is morally
certain that they will be weaker in the
next Congress than they are in this. They
were aided in the last Congressional
elections by the whole gigantic Federal
patronage when the Government expend-
lures were at the rate of eight hundred
million a year; aided by the war fervor
which then prevailed among the people;
by the military terrorism and provost
marshal insolence then predominant in
most parts Of the country; by the re-
strictions then laid on the freedom Of the
press by frauds perpetrated in the army
vote, taken under administration surveil-
lance. In the next Congressional cleo
ton they lose all these sources of inhu-
ence- The great personal popularityof Mr.
Lincoln was an aid to them; the greater
popularity of Mr. johnson will be an OBJ
struction, as his influence will be exerted
to promote the success Of his own policy.
Strong enough to Illustrate the radicals
in this Congress, he will PROSTATE them
in the next
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THE ISSUES.

s. s. Cox. in bis recent speech at the
Washington veto ratification meeting,
thus tersely stated the present political
issues; The conflict now is between bu-
reauocracy and Democracy; between the
rump and the executive; between State
existence and State destruction; between
Constitution and anarchy; between lib.
erty ordered by law and liberty disor-
dered by radicalism; between Union and
disunion; between perpetual peace and
incessant agitation" Nothing could be
more clearly aud more truthfully stated.
And now let us ask if there can be any
compromise Of opinions so opposite to
each other? There cannot we must
either have peace and law and order at
once, or the Constitution will be a dead
letter. The majority in Congress must
yield to the wishes Of the President. or
but little will be done the present session,
and the people will have to wait until
they can make themselves heard through
the ballot-box The radicals say We are
yet in a state of var, while President
johnson says: 1t Is now time of peace,
and let us have peace; let as enlarge the
Constitution; let us live under and &C
cording to its provisions; let it be pub
lished and printed in blazing characters,
as though it we're in the heavens and
punctuated by the stars, SO that all can
read and all can understand
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BEECHER ON PHILLIPS.

The New York Post says of Henry
WARD BEEcuER's reply to WENDELL
PHILLIPS: Every gentleman who heard
him viii agree, we think, that for sound
logic, earnest eloquence, deep pathos,
flashing wit and overwhelming power, it
has never been surpassed by any effort
ofthe distinguished orator Mr. BEEcHER
was, perhaps, stung to an unusual de-
gree of feeling by the exceedingly ungen-
erous, if not ungentlemsnly, reference
which WENDELL PHILLIPS had made to
him personally reference wholly I'M
true, Gs it appears, in its assumption Of
facts but, beside that, his whole soul and
mind seemed TO be in his subject, and for
an hour and half he spoke with an in
tensity and ferTor that not only delighted
but carried away his audience. The ap-
plsuse seemed 10 be an almost unbroken
roll of thunder"
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EREIAs EXCITEMENT.

A New York paper Of the q says
Colonel RoBERrs, one ofthe Presidents Of
the Fenian Brotherhood, issued an appeal
TO the members Of the order. He says
England is seeking TO aires, and crush
out rebellion before it is begun, by ell
ing her jails with patriots, and asks If
Irishmen in America will stand idly by.
Come forward, then, he says, to fight the
common foe in the only way in which
military aid can reach them. Not mo-
ment is to be lost Your prompt assist.
ance will enable Us to take the field within
- days Let men who win fight re-
port to Gen. SWEENEY, and those who
can contribute send their money at once
70 these headquarters, for which they will
receive Irish national bonds.
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FAILURE FOR TEN MILLION DOLLARS

The failure of THOMAS SAvISs, a rail-
way contractor, is announced in the Lon
don papers. The liabilities are about
e, 900, O00, and the assets about f3, OOO,-
600, subject to realization. 1t is feared
that the suspension of other railway con-
tractors must follow, and already rumors
are afoat to this effect, resulting in the
serious depression of certain finance
shares. Chief among these has been the
London Financial Association, which is
said to be heavily involved. This cir
cumstance has elected letter from the
Secretary of the Stock and Shareholders
Inquiry and Protection Association, waao
has authority" for contradieting the
reports which are in circulation. The
London Financial, he says, is only liable
to the extent of ESQ, 900, and this is COW
cred by f75,000 of undoubted securi-
ties 4"
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CABINET CHANGES.

1t has been given out, and not, as far
as we are informed, contradieted, that
the resignation of Secretary STANTON is
in the hands Of the President, and will
doubtless be accepted, and that Mr.. Sec
Rotary HARLAN, of the same mind, is in
a similar situation. A few days will
probably settle the question; but what
of the Senate We dare say that in the
reorganization Of his Cabinet, the Presi-
dent will select men so acceptable to the
country at large that the Senate will re-
cognize the propriety of their confrma-
ton. In the appointment of good and
amiable men the right of the President
to Cabinet of his own choosing cannot
be denied
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PROBABLY so.

Saws a Western paper; Facts are saic
10 have been lately developed in Wash
ington which indicate that alarge trade
is being carried on, by persons assuming
to act under authority of the Freedmen
Bureau, in shipping negroes from the
more northern of the lately rebellious
States to Mississippi and Georgia, where
they are compelled to remain on what
ever plantations they may be allotted to,
whether they like the service or not, being
thus reduced TO new system OF slavery.
1t is stated that certain protested phIlan-
thropic agents are doing handsome bus
mess in the commission which they re-
ceite for procuring these laborers, and
that the trade has grown to such proper
tons already that the President has pro-
tested against it.
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ANOTHER STEPHENS.

Late Dublin newspapers say another
double Of STEPHENS has turned up in the
county of Kilkenny. He carried wal
let stuffed with hay. His address was
singularly polished and gentleman-like,
bis complexion fresh, his bsard large,
pointed under the chin, and slightly
fried with grey at the end, his hands and
feet remarkably small, his height feet I
inches, his eyes brown, his figure stout,
and over his forehead quite bald Every
thing seemed 20 indicate that he was Head
Centre STEPHENS himself, who was thus
wandering about the country in disguise
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7,..-..,.'I.-..',--''--.7---.--.---'----
MARRIED..

B0sT-KIMEs.-0n the sth of January. Al
the residence of Mr.. Petres, in Pamela county
Miss, by Rev. IL. NJ. Morrison. Mr.. ALrRrr
BosT to Mrs. JANE KIMEs.
BOWEN-BoST by the same, at the resi-
denee Of the brides father. in the same county
ON the 18th February, Mr.. WIN. P. BowRy and
Miss ALICE s. Bosr.
TH0MAS-BIsH0P.-0 On the morning OF the
18th OF February, BY Rev. J. w. Bates, Mr.. c.
Thomas, of Memphis, and Miss ALICE BISHOP,
Of Pamela county.
DoWDRE-CHILDS.- on the 7th February,
by the Rev. DR.. Gillick, at the residence Of the
brides mother, in Coahoma county, Miss, Mr..
K. j. BowDRr, of DeSoto county. formerly Of
Washing on. Ca, and Miss MARY A. CHILps.
Calm be thy sleep as infant slumbers,
Pure as angel thoughts thy dreams.
May every joy this bright world numbers
Shed Ger thee their mingled beams"
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natical party. He never for amoment
considered the welfare Of the country
where it stood in the way Of a party par
pose. He never regarded the war as a
struggle for the nations life, but only as
the opportunity to destroy forever the
great Southern party by war; and now
that the country is saved he opposes the
notion that the war is at an end, simply
because he fears that the party he desired
to kill is not yet quite dead. His great
est fear during the war was not that the
North would fall, but that it would sue
coed too soon; that 1t would put down the
rebellion before the people were ripe for
radicalism-before alarmed by the con-
tinuance of the struggle, they would be
ready to accept any idea and any meas
ure that seemed to promise success. With
this idea in view he was greater power
against our Generals than all the armies
of the enemy together He strove to
carry out even against Gen. GRANT the
tactics employed against so many others,
and his creature, DANA, lived at GRANTS
headquarters for months, being neither
more nor less than a spy upon the great
soldier. BAKER was his spy upon others.
Such were the tactics employed by this
great Secretary against every one who
should be guilty of defeating the rebels.
They were enemies to the purposes of his
party, and must be dragged down
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THE CABINET.

The New York Tribune says: Those
members of the Cabinet we are informed
on good authority, who contemplated
resigning their portfolios, have con-
cluded, after consulting with friends, to
await the action of the President. They
prefer to give him the opportunity of re-
moving them, should he think proper,
rather than Of accepting their resigna-
tons. 1t is not improbable that he will
accept the alternative in the case of one
Of these gentlemen, in the course of few
days. Such is the expectation at Wash
ington among persons well informed "
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sis in Mexican affairs on the Pacific
coast is imminent
The French troops in northern and
western Mexico have been driven to the
coast and hemmed in in port towns,
whence they are liable to be driven aboard
their vessels for safety.
Marattan is besieged, and its streets
barricaded. The Liberals under cover,
are pressing close to their rear. Wher-
ever aided by Americans recently en-
listed, they have been victorious. s's
Threats of indiscriminate slaughter of
the Americans are boldly announced by
the Imperial authorities in certain towns.
1t is actually necessary that U. s. war
vessels be speedily dispatched there to
prevent trouble
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HIS SUPPORTERS.

According to the most reliable infor
nation we can obtain, the following dis
tinguished Republicans support the Presi
| dent
Hon WM H. SEWARD, Secretary Of
State.
Hon. WM DEYNIsoS, Postmaster-Gen-
eral
Hon. HuGH McCULLocH, Secretary Of
the Treasury.
Hon. GIDEON WELLEs, Secretary Of
the Navy
Gen. G. d. Cox, Governor of Ohio
Rev HENRY WARD BEEoHER, of Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn
Senators CowAE, MORGAN, NORTON,
VAN WINKLE, WILEY, DooLITTLE, DIXON
and STUART, all Republicans.
Hon. DANIEL S. DICKINSON, candidate
for Vice president before the Republican
Convention.
Senator DooLITTLE addressed a meet
ing of Republicans at New Haven, Con-
necticrt, on Wednesday night, which had
been called for the purpose of sustaining
Mr. JOHNSON, and indorsing his policy.
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CURIOUS REvERsEs OF FORTUNE.

A lineal descendant Of DERxor
MMoRouoH, the last Irish king is now
engaged as a stone mason in Liverpool
He is known by the name Of DOYLE
The undoubted representative of the
celebrated Earl of Ulster, of the reign
Of ELIZABETH, and Who gave that mon
arch good deal Of trouble in Ireland. is
now policeman in the Liverpool force
The grandson of one Of the most emf
nent members Of the Irish Parliament.
who was not only distinguished as an
orator and beautifullyric poet, but also
for his patriotism and opposition to the
Union, is now bartender in a Liver
pool tavern.
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Pistol Shooting Extraord binary.

Captain Travis, of the Pistol Gallery,
states that one of the most remarkable
ieats in pistol shooting that has come I'M
der his observation in his peregrinations
through the South since the close Of the
war, was achieved at the gallery last
week, by Mr. Samuel X. Head, an at
tache of the Savannah Herald Mr.
Head first shot ten shots at the target at
deliberate aim, ringing the bell seven
times out Of the ten He then placed a
bottle on the floor, at distance of twelve
PAGES, setting a cork on the mouth of the
bottle and bullet on the top of cork.
He was to hit the cork without breaking
the bottle, and drop the bullet into the
bottle. Mr.. Head dropped the bullet into
the bottle FIVE times out of the ten trials,
and did not break the bottle. Mr.. Head
is one of Capt Travis pupils, having
taken lessons from him fifteen years ago,
and the Captain is justly proud of his
performance. Savannah Herald
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TREATMENT OF THE FREEDMEN.


The assumption by Radical politicians
that the Southern people dislike the ne
groes, who were once their servants, be
cause they are now free, is founded more
in policy than reason. The other as.
sumption that it has become the province
of the Northern people to keep the con-
science and direct the education of the
Southern people on the ground that they
are a distinct and inferior race, is the
offspring of bigotry and ignorance No
Southern man or woman of sense blames
the negro for desiring to be, or accepting
his freedom when it was rendered to him.
In the struggle to accomplish that result,
he was passive spectator, and was more
affected by the terror of the times than
by any longing to be free. He was won
derfully loyal to his master during the
war He protected and supported his
family, and in many instances entered
the Federal lines and Struggled out
clothing for him There are thousands
of colored men who, from choice, fol-
lowed the fortunes of the Confederacy
until they eliminated in irretrievable
disaster. Liberated by circumstances,
which they neither created nor attempted
to assist or control, the negroes of the
South cannot be charged with RESPONSE
bihty for the attitude in which they now
stand to the whites. They would have
been less than human, or far above the |
highest type of our species, if they had
turned about when the Government Of
fered to them their liberty and flung it
back in its face.
Had they achieved their freedom by
violence. then, and in that case, enmi-
ties would have been produced and per-
petuated. This they did not attempt
They simply stood and Witnessed the
solution of the most remarkable problem
of the times There we're at first in their
minds wild and fanciful dreams, that
have, we are happy to believe, been
already dissipated In proof of this,
the cotton States, without
reference to the Frcedmens Bureau, the
negroes are returning to the plantations
Of their old masters, TO take their places
as laborers in their native fields Thus
are their scattered families being re-
united around the old cabin fresides, and
their evening songs .nce more making
the night vocal In the order of things
il must come 10 this We except the
great cities and the border States from
this statement There, the negroes are
greatly demoralized, and will probably |
not soon become domestics 1t will be
to the interest, as it is now the disposi-
tion of the Southern people, to protect
and care for the colored people 1t is
SANDER upon the white race in the South
to assert that they dislike and intend to
Cypress the black people living among
thom
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pJr General MILLER, the new collector
Of the port of San Francisco has signal
lied his assumption of the duties Of his
Office by turning out twenty-three blatant
Radicals, and filling their places with
one-armed and one-legged soldiers. The
discharged set say they fear the Govern
ment is being transferred into military
despotism.
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Important Order.

HEApeUARTERs DFPirx'T OF TENNESSEE,
MEMPHIS. TrSS., March s. 1886.
General Orders, No 6.
In accordance with orders received
from the Headquarters Of the Military
Division Of the Tennessee, the District
Of East Tennessee is discontinued, and
the records of the District will be, at an
early day, sent to these Headquarters
The separate brigade organizations ofthe
troops serving in East Tennessee will be
continued, and the Commanding Officer
Of the Brigade viii, as heretofore, have
control over that portion Of this Depart
ment, now known as the District Of East
Tennessee, with power to order General
Courts Martial, but not Military Con-
missions
Military Commissions now in session,
BY virtue Of orders issued from Head,
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FREDERICKSBURG.

The House Military Committee have
received letter from a gentleman re-
siding at Fredericksburg, Va, stating
that portion of the battle-ground, where
the Union dead were buried, is about to
be occupied for fair grounds and agricul.
tural purposes and asks the Committee
to take some action in the matter. The
Committee referred the matter to the
President, who has authority Under ex-
istind circumstances to authorize the
purchase Of such lands for soldiers Gem
eter1ae
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JAMAICA.

In the House Of Com mons Of the 18th
inst, Lord CARDwrLL introduced a bill
for the future government of jamaica.
He briefly explained that the Govern
ment had thought fit to ratiy the deci.
sion which the Legislature of Jamaica
had arrived at, abolishing itself, and it
would be proposed to establish a Govern
ment similar to that in Trinidad, for the
period of three years, and if:the Govern
ment was successful, then it would be
made permanent. fai
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JOE BROWN.

A committee appointed by the Geor
gia Legislature to investigate charges Of
fraud against Ex-Governor JoE Brown
and his subordinates, report that they
are unable to find any evidence of fraud,
corruption, or improper use Of the public
money by any State official, from Cover
nor BRowS down to the lowest official
agents ha
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most prominent Of these Is that of West
Virginia. They divided the Old Domin.
ion, in order to punish her The. act is
generally thought to be unconstitutional.
Well, on Tuesday, the Senators from this
bogus State, created by the Radicals, were
in their seats, and helped TO sustain the
Presidents veto, Thus an outrageous
act returned to plague the perpetrators
Other similar retributions are in Store
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nine millions Of currency interest, an

nine millions of currency interest, and
thirty millions coin interest. In addi'
ton to this he has paid the current ex-
penses of the Gesernment, and large
amount of acquisitions from the war and
navy departments. In brief the public
debt has been reduced twenty-nine mil
lions, while there are in the Treasury
over fifty-seven and a half millions in
coin and currency more than at the frss
named date. This reduction of public
debt is entirely in short date obligations
and legal tender notes.
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Dss The Lewistown, Illinois, Democra,
Of the 23d says Several cases OF
spotted fever have recently occurred in
Harris township, and in most cases it
has been fatal One child was taken in
the evening and died before morning
The disease is thus named because the
victim breaks out in aorid spots before
death. Medical aid does little good in
such cases.
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HERALD ON STANTON.

The New York Herald thus pays its
respects to the great War Minister, Stan
ton: Mr.. STANTON has been an evil
influence in the Cabinet from the day be
entered il he has abused his position
70 the West uses, and the immense power
that Il gave him--ibe grand opportunities
that It would have afforded any other to
serve the conntry-hsve been by him
employed to build up selfish and ia
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THE LEGISLATURE.

The Legislature is about finished up.
The House has notified the Senate that
it cannot command a quorum, and the
members are generally going home. Ev
cry friend of justice and good order must
regret that circumstances haze produced
this state Of things But the determine
ton Of few men to disfranchise the
people, could hardly terminate in any
other way than it has.
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POISONED

I ION Wednesday morning, DR.. IsAIAH
B. LINZ, a well-known and highly re-
spected physician of Chicago, Illinois,
died at his residence, on Wabash avenue,
from the effects Of an overdose Of NOR
phine, which was taken TO relieve a Sc
vere pain. The quantity taken was four
grains Assistance was promptly rem
dered, but all efforts to restore the unfor-
tunste man proved fruitless
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D1r The Government Treasury agents
have received orders to commence the
sale of cotton seized by the military au-
thorities as confscated and abandoned
property.
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ns5r A letter from Southern Kansas
says the season is SO well advanced the
spring work has begun. Many Illinois
emigrants are chronicled as recently ar
rived in that quarter of the State, the
beautiful Neosho Valley.
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esS- The Charleston Courier says that
M. W. Grand Master Orr has beeu au-
thorized by the Masonic Grand Lodge
of Pennsylvania to draw upon its treasu-
rer for one thousand dollars to aid the
Grand Lodge of South Carolina.
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Ra- In Adams, Mass, Mrs. ELIZABETH
Powers attempted to rescde her young
child from the railroad track while train
was advancing, and both mother and
child were instantly killed. She was a
widow, and leaves eight orphans.
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REDUCTION.

1t is computed, from Official data. tina,
since the last annual report OF the Sec
retsrJ Of the Treasury in October last
be has reduced the public debt twenty.
nine millions Of dollars, and paid twenty
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quarters District Of East Tennessee, will
continue in session until they shall have
completed the business before them, and
have tried all the cases they were-organ-
ICED to act upon. n
by command Of Maj. Gen. Stoneman.
WIN l.. PORTER.
Rreyet Maior and A. A. q. Z.