The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-02
The Amnesty Proeiamation-Its Personal
Bsarings-Who are Embraced in it and
who Excluded.

ing from Washington city, saws:
The most noticeable class of persons now for
the lirst time admitted to amnesty are the mem
bers of the United States Congress- who resigned
their seats and went South and the members NJ
the Confederate congress at Richmond and Mont
gomery. But it deserves to be notH that quito
number OF these are still entanglcd in the meshes
OF the present paper as will appear hereafter and
or another got their pardons.T Among these /
may instance Percy Walker United States men,
Der of Congress from Alabama: James T.. Pugh
from. Alabama; J: L. NJ Curry: from Alabama;
W Villain fofcner aiiies' OF South Carolina; William
Gholson, OF Virginia, and many others. good
many too, OF the session M mbers are dead
Sydenham Moore, OF Alabama died from wounds
i'll battle; Burnett, OF Kentucky; Barksdale Of Mis-
sissippi, who fell at Gettysburg; Branch, of North
Carolina, killed near Richmond: N. r. 81. Gurnetse
OF Virginia, anu others.
This proclamation, however, lels out few prom
hent menamonS them Bocock. of Virginia.
Speaker OF the Confederate House of Representa-
LynchburG; Henry \. Wise, Brieadier-G General
now practising law; Robert Bar1we,. OF South
Carolina, leading member of the Confederate
Senate, and about 1851 United States Senator for
brief period; u. Barksdae, OF Mississippi. Con-
federate memberof Congress-; VIM. A. Graham, of
North Carolina, member OF the Confederate Sem
ate, once UnitedStates Secretary of the Navy: Ed
ward Sparrow, OF Louisiana a member of the Com
federate States Senate; James Chestnut, of South
Carolina the irSt United States Senator who re-
signed his seat TO 20 into the rebellion, then
member Of the Confederate Senate, then a member
OF Davis personal staff and lastly brigadier-gen-
eral; Eerschei V. johnson, Confederate Senator:
and lastly, may mention David L. Yulee, United
States Senator at the time the rebellion broke out.
This person has had rather hard time of it. It
was understood that he was very loath to 60 in for
accession but was carried in bv the ground swell.
He resigned his seat in the United States Senate and
that was the end Of him. Mr.. Davis gave him no.
thing; his own S1te, Florida, gave him nothing; he
languished in obscurlty, and would probably have
been utterly forgotten but for the attentive zeal of
his own brother-tn-law Mr.. Joseph Holt, OF the
Bureau of Military Justice between whom and
himself there was little family fcud. Holt had
Yulee hunted up.and dragged to Fort Pulaski-to
revel on such dainties pork and beans, and then
deaf to all fraternal considerations Holt contriyed
he should stay-belng the very man last to be re-
leased among a number OF conspicuous prisoners
who had held high Office at Richmond So much
for having kind brother. inlay when you are in
trouble. COL George ?. Kane, of Maryland, is
pardoned by the amnesty. His personal enemies
have hitherto kept him out from this favor.
Mosby, the partisan, strangely enough, was en-
braccd by Mr.. Johnson's amnesty OF the Goth Of
May, 1865, beng only Colonel and liable to none
of tho excepting clauses. He came in promptly,
took the oath, Snd then it was too late do any
thing with him. Had the case been foreseen it
would probably have been provided for.
Besides the names above given, the most of
those pardoned are small fry, about whom much
need not be said. There are stif from one to two
hundred persona excluded from amnesty by this
last proclamation, embracing large number Of
the leading Confederate officials. 1 will run over
some OF the most conspicuous OF these as briefly
as possible
Davis, ex-PreEdent; whose trial at Richmond
comes off November next; Alexander II. 81 ephens,
Vice President; Robert Toombs, the first rebel
Secretery of State, then a brigadieI-general; R.
NJ. Il. Hunter, On ex-United Senator, successor to
Toombs in the State Department. now engaged Ill
farming on the Rappahannock; j. 2. Benjamin,
the Secretary of State for three years
and generally deemed Mr.. Daviss most influential
adviser now member Of the English bar;
James A. Seddon, Confederate Secretary OF
War in 1923, now engaged in farming On
Breckenridge, -arst a major-generai and then
successor to Seldom as -Socrctaly OF War,
now living in Paris; 9. @. Memmnger, of South
Carolina The first rebel Secretary pf the Treasury
now living in Charleston s. r. Mallory, rebel Sec
retary OF the Navy, now residing st Pensacola,
Fla; Thomas q. Watts, Confederate Attorney
General. now practising law at MONTGOMERY, Ala.
-Four OF Mr. Davis Cabinet officials have been
pardoned, VIZ: L. Pope Walker, OF Alabama, the
first rebel Secretary OF War at Montgomery, who
resigned in Ssp.amber, 1861 and became for awhile
q Brigadier- General, now practising law at Hunts
vile, Ala. John Il. Reagan, Postmaster General,
now a LAWYER in Texas; George Davis OF North
Carolina, Attorney General, and George A. Tren-
holm, OF South Carolina, who was the last Con-
federato Secretary of tho Treasury George ".
Randolph, of Virginia, who was Secretary of War
for considerable period, has been released by
higher power, having died last April IN Albemare
county, Va. -
Among the diplomatic snd commercial agents
excluded from amnesty, we note John Slidell, Min
lister to Paris now living in that city; James N.
Mason, OF Virginia, Minister. 10 London, now re-
siding quietly with his family at Toronto, Canada
West A. Dudley Mann, who got big salary at
Bruss els, nobody knows for what, now living at.
some cheap German hotel on his savings; L. @. C.
Lamar, or Mississippi, colonel in the Coincide
rate service, sent by Mr.. Davis during they To
Russia, and now practising law i'll Mississippi;
John Il. Pickett Confederate Commissioner to the
Republic of Mexico; General William Preston, OF
Kentucky, Co. federate brigadier then sent to
the Court OF Maximilian but neAr received there;
George Eustis, of Louisiana Secretary Of Lega-
ton to Slide; james h. Macfarand, OF Virginia,
Secretary TO Mason; Walker FeaTn, of Alabama,
Secretary to Lamar; Henry Wotze editor Of the
Index and commercial agent at London; Edwin De
Leon, Of South Carolina, employed to write up the
Confederacy abroad; Charles j. Helm, OF Ken
lucky Commissioner or Consul at Havana, and
some few others OF less note.
Among the agents employed by the Comedaracy
for miscellaneous purposes not yet fully disclosed,
and excepted BY this proclamation, we may men
tion Clement c. Clay, of Alabama, now lawyer at
Huntsville, Alabama; Jake Thompson who, with
Clay was sent to Canada and is still living there;
Gen. F.. g. Lee, an enaissargin Canada; Bevarly
Tucker, who was engaged in shipping bcof some
where in Nova Scotia and runnihg the blockade;
Capt. nj. F. Maury and Capt: Bullock, sent abroad
to buy ships; Ferguson and Huse, sent to London
to buy army snpplies--the last OF whouit is said,
made s'good thing out OF it, and feH htheys on
similar business. The notorious George N. Saun-
ders, who Affected to ba diplomatic agent OF tlie
~, y,Jo Eal kofn
missions III its service. ese& yfA
The military men unpardonei ara sfm quite nu-
merous, and there is barely space toSgiye the
names OF the most conspicuous. WrHtsw have
gard, Samuel Cooper and Braxton Bragg, oil of
these full Generals. Cooper was al 20 Adjutant-
General at Richmond. Among the Lieutenant
Generals arc John B. Hood OF Kentucky; John G.
Pemberton, E. Kirby Smith, Florida; 1heophilus
Holmes, North Carolina; James Longstreet, Louis
lana: uardee and Jubal Early.
Among the Major Generals not spardoned are
Howell Cobb, OF Georgia; John B. Magruder; Vir-l
gina; GeorgeE. Pickett, Virginia; Sterling Price
Missouri; E. McL2ws, Georgia; Huger, South
Lowell; Wade Hampton, South Carolina; n. b.
Forrest, Memphis; Dick Taylor, Louisiana; s. Z.
Buckner, Kentucky; Vim. Malone, Virginia; Cor
don, Georgia; Ely, :, Maryland and about twenty
Only two naval men Of the Confederate States are
Semmos and Admiral Bu-
chanan.
The Governors of rebel States are alsoexcepted
Among these no.c Govorner Smith, Of Virginia
fletcher has been pardonedy s. g.. Vance, OF
North Carolina; &c: :; e. Harris, Of Tcnnsssce; Ozark
State, died in Mexico; Lubbock, OF Texas; Rector
OF Arkansas; !. L. Brown, of Georgia; NJ. I. Bon
ham, Magrath, +. W. Pickens, Governors Of South
Carolina, aud Acting Governor Alston, If Florida.
On the whole, 1 take it, the numbH OF persons
still excluded from amnestymay bestited at one
two hundred, and certainly DOES not exceed fTe
hundred at the utmost. Mr.. Johnson would have
satisfied the lntr better il he had taken the adj
vice of the Herald, instead of sIr Scward'a,' and
planted himself on the broad ground ol universal
amnesty reconciliation n: ts and P;ogress But few
nsrer sense; thay peddle about tribes and when
they give away anything think the virtue is gene
clean out OF them.
Co1oGEp ScHooI"-In conversations wiira gen
tlenan who lately visited the colored lsy-sch6ol in
this place, We learn that the pupils have made
considerable progress in the elementary tranches,