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The radicals have no hackers.
among all the statesmen, lawyers or
writer's on national law to sustain
them in their present attitude of hos
tility to those whom they please to
call former ''rebels" Montesquieu,
one of the ablest of the French wri-
ters on these topics. says:
''-As soon as Republic hos COM
passed the destruction Of those who
wanted to subvert it, there should be
an end of terrors, punishments, and
even Of rewards. Great punishm cnts,
and, consequently, great changes,
cannot take place without investing
some citizens with an exorbitant
power 1t is, therefore, advisable in
this case to exceed in lenity, rather
than in severity; to Danish but few,
rather than many; and to leave them
their estates, instead Of making Il
vast number of contiscations. Under
a pretence Of avenging the Republics
cause the avengers would establish
tyranny. The business is not to de-
stroy the robels, but the rebellion.
They ought to return as quickly as
possible into the usual track of Go
vernment i'll which every one is pro-
tected by the laws, and no one in
jured"
This opinion of an able lawyer aud
statesman is peculiarly applicable at
the present time when contiscation
and Acknowledgement, test oaths and
military commissions, arrests and
prosecutions are the tactics of tho
radicals. After u year has elapsed since
the termination Of the effort to sub
vert this Republic, there is not yet
quite an end of "terrors' or ..pun-
ishments." But this radical faction
will not heed the teachings of any
jurist, statesman, or the ablest politi-
cal writers--as we heard n legal friend
once say, in another sense, however,
''you might as well try to spout elo-
qucnce up an elephants trunk" as
to make the effort to drive reason or
common sense into the knotty heads
of the party of Thad. Stevens.
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rhe Reconstrustion Scheme. :,

The New York Herald, OF the 11th
instant, processes to have private ad-
vices from Washington, but we are
inclined to doubt that the President
will heed the intimation or sugges-
ton of the Herald, that he will not
think worth while to push the war
with the radicals to extremities. -
From all We read in those journals
supposed to be In his confidence, we
believe he will, unless they recant
their heresies end come over to his
policy. The Herald, on the faith of
its private advices, says:
The constitutional amendment. rs
it has passed the Senate, designed tc
cover the reconstruction and read
mission into Congress of the lately
rebellious States, will probably, with
out further modification, be passed
by the House to-day under the pre-
vlous question, in order that this
amendment may be submitted with
out further loss of time to the States
for ratifcation
We understand, further, that an
extra session Of our Legislature may
be looked for to inaugurate this work
of ratification. and that it is supposed
this example will be followed by other
States. The Republicans in Con
gress, we are also informed, are SAIL
guine that the required ratification Of
three-fourths of the State Legisla-
I'm 1,f, b
ment Ill season to restore to their
places III Congress most, if not all,
Of the excluded States during the
next session. It is believed that the
bill which is to follow this constitu-
tional amendment, giving those States
ten years credit on their share of the
national debt, will have a decisive in
huence over them, ready cash being
ALI article Of which they are now
sadly deficient
We nre not advised whether in
those movements the cooperation of
Congress and the President is cX-
| pected; but us Congress has aban-
doneu its main issue with the Presi-
dent-negro sutfragc-;,nd has adopt
ed his policy, he will not, perhaps,
think it worth while to push the war
with the radicals to cXtremities ON
the issue between Executive and
Legislative usnrpation. There issome
generaiship i'll the idea OF Il special
session of our State Legislature and
OF others, to ratify this amendment,
us it will clear the decks and give the
Republicans the actual occupation of
the field in advance of the coming
fall elections. In this view, we await
tn" action Of the House upon the Sc
nate amendment as for the first step
III Very Important programmt
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The rrcsident's orsan ON the Final
BepOrf.

We made some extracts on Tues
day from the final report Of the Re
construction COMMITTEES; with rum
ming comments thereon: The Wash
Eington Repuolicm., the acknowledged
exponent of Hke Presidents, views
and opinions, hasa trenchant crit
cism on the report, FROM which we
make one or two extracts:
1sThis Government has been a
monstrous engine of wrong and usur-
patton; this war has been o crime of
unparalleled atrocity and infamy; and
every American soldier has been q
murderer of his fellowman In fact
and intent, unless every American
State is an integral part of this
Union, and every person born and
residing in them is an American citi-
zen. Under the great charter of the
Constitution, our armies went upon
the territory where revolt existed to
make the rebellious citizens submit
to the laws, and enable the States
disturbed by individual insurgents to
resume their functions and exercise
their rights, or else the national pre-
sence there was unjustiiable, and
each man who upheld the flag on that
soil was an invader. Yet this astutc
committee does not consider the de-
bate on this question necessary 1t
dared not face the issue; for to admit
that the eleven States were ever out
of this Union would be to confess
that either their act of secession was
legal, or their act of resistance sue
cessful."
AS to the slanders on the people of
the South, and the denial of their
fidelity to their obligations to the
Government contained in the report
from which we quoted and comment
ed on, the Republican is very severe.
1t says:
t'The report, in its opinion of the
loyalty of the Southern people and
its canvass Of Southern affairs, seems
to have sunk all respect for truth and
ali claim to craftsmanship. Accord
ing to it, there is throughout the
South san evidence Of an intense hos
tility to the Federal Union We
pronounce this false. The organic
Law of every Southern State recog-
.lizing its fealty to the National Go
vernment, the almost universal quiet
and order of the Southern populacc,
the nnexceptionable teaching of the
Southern press and pulpit, which now
inculcates obedience to the laws, the
example of the conspicuous civil and
military leaders, all stamp this state
ment of the committee without foun-
dation and without excuse. We also
deny the right to interpret dislike to
the thirty-ninth Congress and it's dis
organizing influences, whether at the
South or North, as 'an evidence of
hostility to the Federal Government. ,
1t is love and reverence to the Go
vernment that causes us at least to be
hostile to Congress.
This is the truth fifty spoken, and
shows up the rump Congress in its
true but offensive and repellant CO.
lors.
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NEGRO MUTINEERs The 57th regi-
ment negro troops mutinied lately at
fort Smith, Arkansas, and refused to
start Tor New Mexico. They were
surrounded and disarmed by the Sd
(whlte) cavalry, and sixty of the ring
leaders pnt under guard for trial
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Not long since, Elkan Herzmann,
Rabbi of Jewish synagogue in
Brooklyn, New York, was kicked ont
OF his church by portion of his
congregation, who objected to his
ministration on sectional grounds.
He. on Thursday, brought an action
against them, and received $500 da-
hinges
In Response to :. reQuisition signed
lN many eminent merchants, the
Lord Mayor of London had called IL
public meeting ut the Mansion House,
for the 2ith of May, to take steps for
the erection OF " statue in London, in
honor of George Peabody
Gen. Mcclellan has given it rs his
opinion that, in n war between Prus-
sia and Austria, Prussia must go to
the wall, and, adds a London writer,
HE knows what fighting is, and who
look like fighters
The frien Is of President Johnson,
Gov. Swami, and the opponents of
negro suffrage, Will hold mass meet
ing in Monument Square, Baltimore,
VIZ h4i.N VN0iiiHS,, INC 1clu A!fothuS.
The speakers have not vet been nn-
nouuccd.
Horace Veruet's picture, Joseph
sold by MS brethren. brought at the
recent sale in the Hotel des Ventes,
Paris, 81 500. This is considerably
more than Joseph's brethren received
for the original.
\ Frenchman has obtained IL
divorce from bis wife in Paris, OH
the ground that, after absenting her
self for twcnty-three days, she refused
to give an account of her proceedings
during that time.
The officers OF Il widely advertised
oil company are under arrest at
Philadelphia for conspiring to de
fraud the stockholders. Among the
accused are two well-known clergy
men.
Miss Sallic H. Polk, daughter of
the late Right Rev. Leonidas Polk,
General G. $. Al was married, on
the lst inst, to Capt. +. T.. Blake, of
Charleston, $. G.
At Trenton, (N. j. ;, on Wednesday,
the grand jury indicted two members
of the last State Legislature and three
lobbyists for corruption.
There WAS ~ fall Of meteoric stones
near Mobile recently. some Of which
were so hot they could not be held in
the naked hand.
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EFFECT or TIE SySpAy IAQroI;
LAw.-The New York He~dL Of
Monday, says:
The weather being pleasant yester-
day, the EXciscmen made another
raid on Jersey City and Hobokcn.
The rush of visitors continued from
noon TIL night. and it is estimated
that 20. 600 people visited Hoboken
alone. There was no disturbances.
although every body was more or
less merry with wine The Broad
way concert saloons, with their waiter
girls, We're III full blast during the
entire day, dealing in ice creams,
soda water, lcmonadrs and the mildcr
class OF drinkablrs. One saloon had
4 large organ III it, from which sacred
music was dispensed Three arrests
We're made, one Of them n barber,
who was arrested for sponging his
customers faces with bay rum; but
the Justice let him off with an adj
monition.
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W. \. Leitch, Esq, Surveyor of
Custom at the port OF Charleston,
has followed the example of his
brother officials and resigned his po-
sition.
1t is stated that pickpockets relieved
Gen. Grant of his watch and Speaker
Colfax of his purse nj Gen. Scott's
funeral
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The Family OF Fornev.

The Family OF Forney.
We have another piqnant article
from the pen Of Mack. the wide
awake and intelligent correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, in the
sketch of the ,'-Dead Ducks" auack-
ing relatives and Immediate family.
which we publish below. ssMaclx''
deserves credit for this interesting
notice of the ''house of Forney::''
FoRNEY, THE, DIsINTEREsTEp rATRIor
Every once in while the great
American toady, John w. Fornev,
speaks of the party which supports
the President as made up of '.hire-
!ings, a word which he borrows
from the vocabulary of the late
Southern masters. The public may
like to know how purely disinter-
ested Eorney is, and has been, in
support OF the Republican party
how much self-sacrifice he displays in
the premises, in fact
Firstly, then, there is John w.
torney, the dead duck in p7.oprit
persona, Clerk of the Senate, Mt
S3, 500 a year and stealings.
Secondly, there is ID. G.. Forney.
publisher of the Cha'onicle, cousin Of
the dead duck $, in pay of the Senate,
drawing " salary Of about 50, 900 IL
year for work which he never per-
forms-a clear swindle.
Thirdly, there is another Fornev.
brother of the ducks, mail agent
between here and PHILADELPHIA.
tourthly, there is another brother,
mail agent on the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Road
Filthy, there is a junior Forney,
who all through the war was sta If
officer, on duty in Philadelphia.
SiXthiy; there is another son Of the
dead ducks who, early in the war,
was got Il commission in the navy,
under Il solemn covenant never to be
sent to sea, nor exposed to the rude
fire OF rebel guns-and he never was.
Seventhly, Forney is carried about
the city of Washington in Il vehicle
owned by the Government, drawn by
a horse owned by the Government,
and driven by man paid as labor
er i'll the Capitol grounds All OF
which may be strictly patriotic. bnt
1t is not legal
Eighthly, Forney has for IL private
servant l man who is paid as la
borer for the Senate, Which is con
trary to the law i'll such cases made
and provided
Ninthly, Forney gets the CA,vniclc
edited by men who are paid as clerks
of the Senate, which may be patriot
ism. but looks like swindIing.
Tcnthly, Forncy will employ no.
body as clerk or messenger in the Sc
nate who Will not help to edit either
the Gru0icie or the Press; which is
good economy hut bad morals in the
dead duck.
Elevcnthly, Foruey wrote :. beg
giug letter to the President about SIX
months ago. The Presidents did not
grant the prayer Of the petitioner,
and the CIroaicie immediately came
out against Andrew Johnson and his
policy; which may be disinterested.
but doesn't look that way; looks
rather like All unsuccessful attempt to
Crook the pregnar; hinges of the knee.
When tliritt may follow Fu,r.;cy.
What n self-sacriticing patriot For
ney is. to be sure MACK.
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Since Mr.. Charles A. Dana left the

Since Mr.. Charles A. Dana left the
Chicago Republican, the proprietars
OF that journal have received so many
applications for the post OF editor
that they have published the follow
ing notice in that paper:
:.'All persons applying for the po-
sltIon OF editor of the Republican
VIII be required to subscribe for the
daily for one year, price ten dollars
in advance. BY the adoption of this
rule, we expect to give our paper the
largest circulation of any journal in
the Vest
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-14

TIE WEArHEn.--T bot spell still con
tfnues; the thermometer must have noted
Yesterday, about 95 degrees Fahrenheit
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Bishop Hopkins, Of Vermont, has
written speedily forthcoming His
tory of the Episcopal Church"
The Hartford Theological Institute,
has received a $50, 900 donation from
James B. Hosmcr, of that city.
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BOOK ANu JOB PRINTING. Ihun,.
once ls now fully supplied with car.l-.
coiored ard white paper, colored ink, wood
type, etc, an'l is i'll condition to cx.1a1aac all
manner OF book and job printin the
shortest possible time.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-14

IHE BURNING OF CoLuar11A. an inter
esflliS account OF the Sack and Dessruc
ton OF the City of Columbia. s. Char
just been issued, in pamphlet form. from
the P'""'r power press. Orders filled to
any extent Single copies 50 cents.
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The JOCKEY CLUE. Persons dcsirous or
becoming members OF the above clul,
should apply to L. Il. Levin, Esq, Score
tary, at Gregg & Co.'S. In the list ot
officers published a few days ago, thena
of VIM. Hitchcock, Esq, a. time-keeper,
was omitted.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is cali
ed TO the following advertisements, which
are Published this morning for the first
time:
II. 7. Peake-To Contractors.
l. I: Levin -"ConSaree Jockey Club
=. ". McMaster-Nurse Wanted.
~ r. Phillips-Furniture, Shoes, etc.
James Anderson-To Shippers.
COOK "anted.Aprlv ut this Office
Johnny Hcb. NIinstrols ols-Concert.
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MAYORS COURT. in this Court, ycster-
day morning, J. l.. Kirkwood was arraienod
on the charge OF driving a wagon upon the
sidewalk. on Washington street, and fur
allowing his horse to walk in a brick drain.
in violation of city ordinance Fined IS in
each case. Several cases were continued.
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The LOST CAUsE-.i ne,c So,,tl.e,,4 His.
'o'y J ne Hm' V the Confederation; 6y
T.. il. Poatud, 4 luytnid.-Mr. $. W.
Rowan, the agent for the sale of the
above book, ill the Districts of Richland
Fairfield, Lexington and Newberry, will
wait On orr citizens during the next few
days, f"r the purpose of receiving sub-
scrlrtions for this work. Mr. Pollard was
the editor of the Richmond Examiner
during the war, and had superior opportu
tulii'lea FOR the preparation of q work Of
the KIND. The illustrations are executed
IN the Very best style, and the entire work
VIII rank with the 1irst publications Of the
day
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CLOSE CONNECTION. Yesterday morning.
for the first time since the war closed, VIC
shared the advantage of close connection
between New York and Columbia by the
Charlotte Railroad. We received the New
York papers of Monday, 1lth INST, and tn e
EAchmond papers of the 18TH We are
gratified at this desideratum having been
gained, aud award due praise to those
Through whose energy and corporation it
has been attained
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Eight or ten millions of logs are
blocked up on the Allegash River, in
Maine, for lack of water, and viii
probably not be got out this year.
What pity the poor deluged peo-
pie of Mississippi and Louisiana
could not transfer their surplus to the
bed of the Allegash stream.
EDITORS PHOENIX.
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Don't forget the Concert of the JOHNNY
Rebs. tonight
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New HooK.-Wc are indebted To Peter
Il. Glass. Esq, of this city, for copy OF
new work, just issued: I'm Trust: or Or
bcrtrand's Household" by Amanda NJ
Douglass: Lee \ Shepard, Boston, pub
fishers
This volume will bear careful reading
1t abonnds in well-d fined contrasts OF
character, investing each with due shar.
W the practical, as we sometimes meet
them in the everyday walks of life. The
principal hero exhibits, throughout the
entire plot, devotion of great moral force
IN the duties incident to the peculiar posi-
ton he is made To occupy, and fcrcibly il
instrates the patent truth, that the patti,
OF duty is the path of safety"
The typographical execution Of this worL
is good
fRovosr CorRl The proceedings be-
fore this Conrt were rather unimportan,
yesterday. Besides several debt cases. the
following were disposed of:
The {'.ited States cs. Ou0sA Bu,.,,,,,
B''az| S"nt'er ami Simon Ftoyd. f;.aei,,,e,,
Charge. larceny. 1t was proven that these
darkcys were old hands at the hog-stealine
business, and had recently carried oil
several Of these unclean animals from the
plantation OF Joseph Bates, near Column
bla. Quash was released-the evidence
not being sufficient 10 convict; the others
were sentcnced to sixty days imprison-
ment.
The }nHeA states cs. Ihosnns Garner
Su"on Gn,"er and Linus I'hUips and
"u'erS. t,.ee0men. Charge, disorderly con-
durt These parties were charged with
being participants in y general row, on
city. occupied by number Of freedmen
Thomas Garner was acquitted and Simon
and Linus were fined S5 each.
ihe court adjourned until Friday.
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Local Itens.

Mortgages and Conveyanccs OF Res. Il
tate for sale at this Office.
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.an OLi0us Measure.

The New York Mercantile .L.uyu.a
Of the 7th inst, has an article re-
viewing the provisions Of the new
Congressional tax bill, from which We
make the subjoined extract. The
Jo"'~N is Il large, ably-conlucted
and reliable exponent Of the CONNER
cial interests of New York:
1T is to be hoped that another
effort will hc made in the Senate.
either to remove or reduce the five
cents pound tax on cotton. II is
manifest that the South, with hcl.
ruined resources and changed condi-
ton Of labor, is in no position to
bear this additional strain. 1t is
wrong every way. In national point
of view, the tax will prove injurious,
because it will operate as 4 direct
bounty on the foreign culture Of the
article. 1t is also likely to prove in
curious because it cannot fail to de-
press still more the cultivation of tie
staple, and impose obstacles on the
success of the new experiment of free
labor in the South. Even On the
plea that the consumers pay the tax
alternately, and that the bull, of the
tax VIII be drawn from foreigners.
still, it is plain that the amount must
IN the first place be paid on this side
of the Atlantic. The $40, 900, 600 or
500. 900, 600 expected to be raised.
must be paid into the United States
Custom Houses, and bonded ware
houses, and Will operate as a serious
and, perhaps, fatal check to Southern
energy and industry. The energetic
protests of the New England and
Western farmers against a tax on leaf
tobacco, and the rcjoicings at the new
impulse given to the petroleum inte-
rests of Pennsylvania. Ivy the repeal |
OF the comparatively triifiiny tax on
crude petroleum, should operate rs
warming against the policy of the
proposed custom tan. II is TO be
hoped that II sober second thought
may induce Congress to reject mc;i-
surc that cannot fail to be attended
with the worst possible results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-06-04

SUPPOSED SUICIDE.-About quarter mast I
O'Clock on Saturday night a man named Cha.
Springer, belonging to Bangor, Maine. whilst
shooting at the pistol gallery OF Mr. Warren.
NO. 90 West Fayette street, shot i'm self through
the head. Drs Reed and Rich were called 10 a.
tend him, but his injnries were of uch nature
as to preclude all hope of recovery, and he died
in about two hours. DIR. H. Greentree. coroner.
held an inquest, the only witness being the per
son In attendance at the room, and from whose
testimony II appeared that the deceased on en- .
tering the gallery paid one dollar for a certain
nsmber OF shots, and had fired all except two
when he fell TO the floor with the wound in his
mead. The jury rendered a verdict that the de-
ceased came to his death from pistol shot nv
his own hands while laboring under tempo.
rary insanity. The bosy was removed to the
dead house at the central police station
Springer was rather genteelly dressed, and an.
peared TO be without funds. On his person
were found number Of letters, ap parently
written but recently, and signed by him. In
one OF them to a friend he speaks of being very
poor, having been robbed Of all his money: in
another 10 Secretary Stanton he resigns his
position as clerk in the War Department.
and TO his mother he writes of his depressed
spirits, and expresses fears of losing his mind
From the letters he appears to have SON by a
deceased wife, and was about marrying again
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sun Of this naorning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-06-04

OLD SCHOOL PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY
An exciting scene occurred in the Old School
Presbyterian Assembly, at st. Louis, Thurs
day. After warm debate, Rev. w. NJ. Fergu.
SON, OF GAINESVILLE, OhIo was expelled for in
dulging in slanderous correspondence con.
cerning one Of his fellow members. The
Louisville case was further debated and
brought TO hnal vote on Friday last. The
amendment of DIR. Humphrey was laid on the
table, and the substitute of DR.. Gurley taken
up and passed by vote Of 1876 to 81 This
substitute condemns the declaration and test. !.
mony as slander against the church, schis-
matical in iIs character, and its adoption by
any church is declared an act OF rebellion
against authority. The General Assembly
summons all signers OF the declaration. and
all members OF the Presbytery who voted for
ii, to appear before the next General Assembly
10 answer for their conduct, and prohibits
them from sitting as members Of any church
court higher than session until their cases
are decided, and dissolves any Presbytery that
disregards this action of the Assembly and
vests all Presbyterian authority in such min :
listers and elders Of said Presbytery as adhere
10 the action of the Assembly.