Des Arc citizen., 1866-08-25

BES~ There is a wise and we'll ll-known rule of law which excludes the testimony of those who have direct pecuniary interest in the issue or result of . pending contro 7ersy. The only relaxation of this rule is where all the parties litigant are permitted to testify.
 The application of this rule to that huge cesspool of malignant mendacity, islander, misrepresentation and downright, old-fash toned lying; the "Report of the Reconstruc- tion Committed would render about nine- tenths of its contents as utterly unworthy ofcredence as the most extravagant nara tiyes of Lemuel Gulliver.
 The witnesses who have most distinguish ed themselves by their deliberate calumny of the South are. as matter of course, the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, and the Radical tools who have not yet been mus tered out of the military service, and are stationed in the States of the late Conied- eracy The bread and butter of these men depend upon the continuance of the pres ent state of things. Their rank, their pay, their pickings and stealings all depend upon their persuading Congress that the Southern people are merciless and savage in their dealings with the freedmen, and that the safety of the ''Union men" depends upon troops being kept among us. So direct and indisputable is the pecuniary interest of these officials in the issue before Congress that, if it was transferred to our courts, that most corrupt and interruptions of judicial repobates Underwood-would not hesitate to exclude their testimony.
 We suppose it will not be questioned thatnine-tenthso of theseiuterested witnesses are doing better now than they ever did in their lives before They were before the war petty logging attorneys, small shop keepers, trades men, and obscure repres- entatives of a multitude of other common place occupations. But for the military occupation of the South and the re. enact ment of the Freedmens Bureau act, these butterfly officials would have long since returned to the grub state from which they emerged when the war commenced. It would be straugeif these men wer not reluc- tant to give up their rank and pay. Itis not probable that, in their optaion, the Southern people will ever become sufficient ly loyal for the nation to be able to spare their valuable services
 They are now waxing fat in Southern clover of the most luxuriant growth, ant they do not want it cut and harvested to( soon. Many an obscure and mousing ow is now at free quarters in some grand ole Confederate eagle'snest Many an obscur, cod fish-eating New Englander is now Radical satrap lording it in some proud olc Southern city and enjoying state anc magnifeence which the hungry and hum ble adventurer never dreamed of five year ago, when he was contentedly eating hi fish balls, fried potatoes, pumpkin pies ant molasses, amid the bleak and sterile hill of New Hampshire or Connecticut. Tn, South is fullof these men, and their defam atory testimony isat the service of the dis union enimies of Peace and the Presiden whenever is is wanted But if such testi mony is worthy of belief, then is that great common law principle, which excludes the evidence of interested witnesses, unworthy of the respect and veneration of the courts in spite of eight centuries of precedents tc sustain its wisdom. Richmond Times.