Flake's Weekly Bulletin. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 6, 1865 Page: 4 of 4
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ÜM Niamu and Port Boy. Hm
l The Niagara rank in twanty
jé hundred deck passengers,
r oolored «oldie . *«• drowned,
i «em «ad orew ««uro «II saved.—
rallied at $130,000, on whieh
She had 900 tons of freight
rebeired no Injury.
FS^JSSSiraSS
or «sited for Europe to-day.
v, Not. 25.—Mr. McPborson, Clerk
of Bepresentetives, bee eent • new
printer, «jxm which the umbos of the
sroein
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No*. 96.
Urge block of
n, were destroyed by
heavy loss.
~ Adame, from Beaufort to Mobile.
nth«38d on Speuiisli Key, Abeoo.
Dancen went eehore on Jonee'
i ehip Panama. from New York for Galveston
«M wrecked the 34th. on Grand Bahama. The
captain and crew were sarsd
New Tots, Nor. 25.—Cotton dosed at 53e. for
middling. Hour advanced 10c. Whisky *2 34.
Corn .declined io¡ <Cftta PQfk <<jft 76. Htor-
Tnr Yo , Nor. 95.—Carpet atooka'aro much
reduced. Fine brown ebeetinge hare deolined
from 9 to Sc. Printa are doll at lo. decline —
1 shirtings, except New York Mills, have
from 91 to 3a Fancy caeeimerea nre sell-
prices. French marinoee and delainee
sustained than other good*. Bilks are
Moteoo, Nor. 21.—O on. P-ince de Rus-
ac T, of the Corp* of Engineer , ia dead.
Thirty-four milea of NUbmnrine telegraph are
going on shipboard, to be laid across the Strait* of
Jnan de Cruce.
Naw Yoai, Nov. 26—The Republicana hare
nominated If. O. Roberta for Mayor.
Wasmnotom, Nor. 95.—The State Department
received adrice* yeaterday from our Conaul at Liv-
erpool in reference to the aurrender of the She-
nandoah. The Attorney Oeneral haa not roceired
application for pardon from the Confederate pri
Señor Romero, the Mexican Minister, had a
lengthy.Interview with Oen. Grant yesterdu;
There seems to be no opposition to theael
of lb. Colfax to the Speakership. The Republi-
can aaya he haa received letter* from Messrs.
Raymond and Banka announcing that they will not
b# fTiinHdiitü
The «mail pox ia prerailing extenahe'y among
the freedmen of Alatwma, Georgia and Virginia.
The report that Assistant Secretary Otte, of the
Interior Department, la about to beremoredor
iutenda to reidgn ia false.
Major Bonrnatin, jot St Louis, haa been sen-
tenced to dismissal from the aerrice for onofflcer
like conduct
Mr*. Jane Swlaihelm i* about starting- a news-
• in Washington entitled the "Reconstruo-
ijor Gibbon, George Taylor and Robert Heath,
of (he late Confederate army, hid about $47,000
in<gold belonging to the Confederate Government,
•90,000 of wbiah they buried. Taylor and Heath
were arrested and sent to the Old Capital Prison/
The Government has seouredonly aiout $4, (NX) of
that amount •
The British Minister has beon instructed to urge
flyfri ffiti
S?90M 1jalea of cot-
ton ware sold yeaterday by Simeon Draper, the
U. & Cotton Agent, at the following prioea: Mid-
obits 56c., low middling 4B¡(
dling fair Mobile 66c., low middling 4&i@5Ho.
The steamer Corsica, from Havana on the 18th,
haa anirod.
The steamer Jacob Ball ia reported ashore. The
steamer Twilight is also ashore near where the
blockade runner Condor waa sunk. Her passen-
ger*. cargo and mails ware taken off and carried
toNewbern.
The ram Stonewall haa arrired at the Washing-
ton Nary Yard.
Graytown, Nicaragua, adrioes say there waa a
of Ool
Foreign News.
lfca British Parliamentwill moet on th« 89d tos ,
ttpaiu haa notified the British Government that
she tutanda taking eneigstk measures .to put an
end to the slave trade. _ , ,
The Austrian Government has lmued an oficial
Intimation which indicatea a fiisd resolution to
adopt, as for ss possible, a freo-Uade p'licy.
A *iw BirinK nia name as Lieut "• Wtn
of the 0th Connecticut Volunteers, was «w^d ss
i Fetiiiui in Dublin, IrcUod, on the 28th nit A
sereu-barrtled revolver, 900 patent rifle bella, said
to be poisoned, and four military drill books, were
amy now in Mexico will be gradually withdrawn,
and that by September) 1866, the whole will have
Nttiimmi to France.
liegiZl proceeding* hare been instituted against
thoBritieh Government for the rccent seizure of
the Fenian newspaper in Dublin.
The English ministerial modification*, eonse-
quant on the death of the late Lord Palmerston,
i re nearly completad, the onlr post unfilled lieiug
the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster,
made meant by Lord Claronden becoming Foreign
Secretary, vice Russell, promoted to the Preinier-
"U^esident Gefliird, of Hayti, recently announced
to his people that war vowels, purchased in New
York, wero on their way to Cape Haytien, and that
with theee the blockade of that town would again
bo re-established, thus sturviug out the rebel army
there and forcing it to surrender.
The liberation of tb« captain and crew of the
Shenandoah is aaid to have becu unconditional.
Ouvuruiiiuiit DeinB nt opinion tuat
there aro no legal ground ou which they could be
detained.
...Earl Russell attended the Lord Mayor's banquet
on' the 5th. In a speech he paid u tribute to the
metftpry of Palmerston. Adverting to the recon-
struction of the Cabinet he said no had received
the fullest support from his colleagues, and with
the reihark on its policy that he trusted the coun-
try would allow time to consider the course they
ought to pursue. and ho should abide by the prin-
ciples of his life. The Government deemed it
thoir duty to consider the wishes of the people, and
it Would be for Parliament to consider how far these
wishes were based on justice. He thanked God
the American war w is over, and ho trusted the
Republic, now freed from the sin of slavery, would
Tor centuries to come.
says that tho reception of Earl
,uet was a practical reply to the
detraction whioh has lately pursued the Govern-
ment Earl Russell's language could only be used
by men who feel the important measures expected
of them, and are willing to enconrage the hope.
The Star says the effect of the speech was
rather an eucourugement to the cause of re-
form.
It ia reported that Milner Gibson has been of-
fered the poet of First Lord of the Admiralty,
and tha Duke of Somerset would be Secretary of
War.
Itia understood that the Western Union Tele-
raph Company had contracted with Mr. Henly, of
orth Woolwich, for the manufacture of 500 knots
of oubmarine cable, for Behring's Straits, and 5000
miles of galrauized topograph wire, for the laml
line.
The subsidized mail steam service between Brest
and New York, is likely to causo considerable ac-
celeration of postal and passenger traffic between
France and America. The steamers, which will be
similar to the Scotia, ure building on the Clyde.
The first one was launched ou the 4th.' It is ex-
)acted that the Fronoh merchant* mil ho enabled
o mail letters up to Saturday night, as tho British
merchants now do.
The Coinmi
on '^*®®*^üeéu's Bench for crimiual'infor
_ nSrtfr
xicon territory relatively to its extent, dssir
lag to gire *U possible security in property and U
bsrtrtoamlgraals.'that they may beeome good
SCmaansTswccrtly attach*! tojEix naw country,
and baring heardths opinion of oar oouaaal of oo-
•Tsssnárii
aHoAtiosH.
Article 2. Agents of emigration will be appoint-
ed, who will bo paid by thoStote, and whose dut;
it will b« to promote the coming of emigrante, t-
pot them in puüxeuion of the land assigned then),
and to fiioilitute their settlement on them by cvarj
poMüible uieatiM. Thei«e Agents will feoei^e orden
from an imperial commixsion of emigration iijj-
iMiinted by ua, and to whom all communication;
relative to emigration will be addressed through
our minister of Fomento.
Articlc Ü To ouch emigrant will be issued at;
authentic title of lauded property incomutoble, anc
n certificate that s dd property'is free from all mort-
tmao.
Article 4. This property will be exempt from
T.utes the first year, as well as from the payment
of duty ou the transfcrr of possession, but only on
the first sole.
Article 5. Emigrants can be naturaliaed as soon
as they are aettled as colonists.
Article 0. Emigrants who desire to bring with
them, or introduce laborers in considerable num-
ber are authorized to do it; but thise laborer*
will be subject to an especial protective regula-
tion- ....
Article 7. The household goods #f the emi-
grants, their animals for lubor and for stock, seeds,
tools, machines, and implements of industry, will
enter free of custom-house and transit duties.
Article 8. The emigrante will be exempted from
military service during five years. NothwithsUinil-
ing they will be formed into a fixed militia for the
protection of their property and neighborhood.
Article 9. Liberty in the excroisc of their forms
o.' worship is assured to the emigrants, in conform-
ity with the organic statute of the empire.
Article 10. Each one of our minister* is
with the execution of this decroo in the part wl
concerns his oflico.
Dated ut Capultepoc, September 5,1965.
MAXHOLIX*.
Article 6 is suppose I to refer tothe introduction
of negroes from Africa, and honoe the following
decree regulating the subgenation.
Ia conformity with Article 6 of th« foregoing de-
creu, we ordain the following : .
1. Agreeably to th t laws of the empire, all m^n
of color uro freo, by the simple act of netting t/eir
feet on Mcxican territory.
2. They will niuke a contract with the pntrcn
who has engaged or engages them, by which he
shall oblige himself to t'eode, cloth, lodgo them,
and to assist them in sickness, as well as pay them
a sum of money, couformcd to the pouditii.nj which
shall be agreed upon between them ; and, moreover
he will deposit iu a savings bank (of which more
will be s.1 id hereafter) for the benefit of the laborer,
a sum equivalent to one-fourth part of this salary.
The laborer will bind himself in time with his pa-
tron to do the work for which he may lie hired,
for the period of at least five years, aud at most
ten years.
3. The patron will bind himself to maintain the
cliildreu of his workmen. In cuse of the death of
tha father, the patron will consider himself as guar-
diau of the children, and they will remain in ser-
r'ce until they urc of age, under the same condi-
tions as the fathers.
4. Every laborer will have a small book, conr -
teiftigued by the local authority, in which will be
recorded his filiation, the name of the place where
ho l'ibor-i, and a certificate of his life and habits.
Iu cusa of changing his patron, the consent of his
former patron simll be entered in tho book.
5. in case of tho death of the p. it ron, his heir,
likewise, that in many oountias
i ara entertained by the peaoa-
I disposed *ili"1" that violence to
by a portion of
ma by good man,
law may be inadequate to oontrol and piasint
such anticipated violenoe and outrages;
Now, therefore, L as Provisional Governor of tha
State of Texas, do hereby authorize and empower
she Chief Justices of counties where such outrage*
jlist, and in which there are good grounds to ant*,
cipote acta of violence and disorder, whioh the
eivil authorities may be inadequate, to oorrect and
prevent; to select a prudent discreet citizen or
their respective counties, having the confidence of
the community, who shall act as clüef or captain
'it police, ana shall have authority, by the aavice
\na consent of the Chief Justice, to raise and or*
{anise a ooinpany at the expense of the county, to
dct ati u police, which aholl consist of not lew than
ten, nor more than fifty men, who, with the chief
T captain, shall be sworn to support the Constitu-
t on and laws of the United States and tho Consti-
tution and laws of the ¡-¡tute óf Texas; and the
Chief Justices are directed to report the minies of
the persons composing said police force, to this
officf.
The company so organised, shall act mereur aa
a police foret, to assist the civil authorities of the
SUte and counties in preserving law and order, and
shall in all things be subordinate to the officers of
tho law. And iu toe discharge of their duties, no
violence shall be ottered by saidcomponies, nor by
any member thereof/to any one, other than is abso-
lutely nbsesary for a full discharge of their func-
tions as conservators of the peace and quiet of the
country. And should any members or said com-
immediately arrested and held for trial.
In all esses where it mjy be necessary to make
anreste for outrages already committed, or to pre-
vent tbe infraction of the law, the party arrested
shall be at once turnod over to the civil authorties
for prompt trial and punishment
Said polioe force shall, wherever practicable, act
in conjunction with the military authorities of the
United States, and never in opposition; and the
United States military authorities are hereby re-
quested to aid. as for as may be in their power, tbe
_ivil authorities of the State, as well as the police
foroe herein authorized to bo raised, ifc suppress-
ing lawlessness and protecting the lives ana prop-
srtyof theeifizens.
Tho
_ jo companies for police duty hsreby ordered to
be rais d, shall continue their organization so lona;
an, in tho opiniou of the Chief Justices of their
counties, there exists a necessity for it, and no
longer.
The citizens of th) entire State, of whatever class
or color, are earnestly exhorted to honestly engage
in orderly, industrious pursuits, and to bo assured
that so far as it lies vflth the Executive, crime shall
be punished, and the majesty of the law upheld.
—■— In Testimony Whxkbof, I hereunto set
T a ) my hand, and cause the seal of the State
j to be affixed, this the 18th day of Novem-
—v— ber, A. D., 18C5, and in the year of the
independence of the United States, tho niueticth.
By the Governor:
A. J. HAMILTON,
Provisional Governor of Texas.
Joseph Spknck, Act'g Sec'y of Statu.
C I R C i
TO THE CUtET JU.STtl
Austin,
LAB
ven c jusrr.
F.icecrivr. 0:-eicf., [
in, Texas, Nov. 17, 18<5i>. i
eOOUKU VI tmj uy awn j -- -j
hornea of your own. Now, If you are relytaa upon
what soma fool haa told you the Govornmout Would
do for you, bitter diaappointment will be rottr lot
The Gorernment haa airen you all that it bas to
iva you. that ia your freedom. That U enough—
„ you daaarva freedom, you cm do the mt If
you wait until Christmas to prorida jourselvea with
what will be your oondition when cold
weather comae on, anu you ara without homca,
without food, without provisions of any sort, and
a till the GTovernmout haa done nothing which you
here been told would be don?-? But one thing can
happen—you will not starve while there is some-
thing in ugnt to eat—you will, in such oase, begin
to take itfrom others, aud then, you will be under
the law, rogues and thieves. Do not be deceived—
because the Government made you free, it will not
irotoct you in idleness and thieving. It is my
_uty to &ae that the laws are respected—they shall
b* rupecttd. If it should become necessary to keep
the publio peace or d protect the property of the
oitizens, I will not only call on the United States
soldiers, but I will call upon the citizeus. No vio-
lonco can happen, without your being the sufferers.
I beg you, tor your owu good, to act wisely. Go
to work at once! Don't wait for Christmas. What
does that mean? Will Christmas bring you food
and clothing and homes ? If you think so, 1 tell
you that you are deceived.
I will exert myself to afford you all of tho pro-
tection that the law gires to every citizeu, but at
the same time, you must understand that you are
like all others, accountable to the law, for every
wrong that you may do. Your best course is at
onoe to engage to work for whoever will pay you
the best price. If you do not you will be m want,
you oanuot all live in towns. There is only so
much work that can be found in the towns of the
country. When that is supplied, no one else can
find anything to do. The labor of those who cul-
tivate tbe sou is tbe support of the country, and
that labor you hare at your control. Th<i prices of
labor are high, and you ought to be thankful that
suoh a prospect is opened to you for your support
I am anxious that you should not bo imposed on
SJr those who, under pretence of being your friends,
are, in foot your worst enemies. The man who
tells you that the Government will support yo\i
without work, is not your real friend—lie lies to
you, and will lead you into trouble.
The Freedmen's Bureau will, as for as it can, as-
sist you in making contracts for labor—but the
officers will not be able to attend to every case, in
time to juve you from want, if you wait for them
to act Any contract which you may make iugood
faith, will be rospected by tbe Government ami the
laws. You con have good men to witness your
contracts, and your rights will be protected by tho
laws of the country.
I think you will believe what I have said to you,
for I have said it for your goodi I beg you to be-
lieve it and act upon it for it is true and time will
prove it to you. Vou are free—free to work for
yourselves ahd to do right No man is froe to do
wrong and to live upon tho labor of others. This
will not be permitted by the Government, and if
you be foolish enough to attempt to disobey the
laws, yju will do yourself an injury which you
cannot repair in yours.
You have every encouragement. There is much
labor to lie done—much money to be earned by
honest work. You kuow how to do it, and when
county,
s=- -y-v
aí&SLñx
First: The prUouer waa born a alare «f
Patterson, and waa suoh at the time of the !*
i of tha offenae; that alavery existed in t
until it waa abolished by thT^UrfS?'
people on the 99d of February, 1805, when tv*
amendment to the oonatitutiou. abolishing „i.,„
was adopted. *7
Second : That the puniahmont of the
with whioh tho prisoner stood chi.rged was mir'
gated by the slave oode; that no slavu by law ,2
be convicted and confined in the pomtcntiurv
that by the alaro beooming, by o¡>eration of if
law, a freodman, would n<?t affix to hitn a hioh.!
or mora severe punishment than was vruv¡<]«d k
1..m >4 él>n éiinn iif (tin n/Mnmtn linn ..4 it - * J
law at the timo of the commisdoii of thn#iffeB„!
that under the Constitution we cannot, /y ¿ '
port facto or retrospectivo operation, utllx to t£
offense an increased punishment. Further th
irisoner being uow a freo man, he cannot ba dm
shed with stripes; that his punishment bvT.
to life or limb, and coii8oqu™s!
punishment in such emu
Judge B|nj ¡„,
ado ! "
cannot oxtend
the only api
confinement iu the couuty jail.
In an able charge to the jury,
made in the ¿
dorsed aud enforced
fense of the prisoner, and _
diet of guilty, and fixing the" punishment"«'2!
mouths' imprisonment in the county jaiL
the points
the jury returned" v#.
you know that this is your only means of living,
that it is tho command of God; your duty as well
us your iut.-rc.<t will, 1 hope, lead yon to do right.
A. J. HAMILTON,
Provisional Governor of Texas.
i vuit'l .msti.ie'oi i
again
, for p
«1
mm ÜÉMI
i*-'-- ' •
fhrious tornado on tbe 18th of October, which
i«apt the region from Mouker Point to Bluefields,
along the Mosquito ooast BInefields waa enrireiy
destroyed exoept the king'a residence. All the
growing «rom were deatioyed.
The London Daily News saya the crew of the
Shenondoah hare been released.
The Fori* pipera unite in demanding the with-
drawal of the French troop* from Mexico.
Tha ship Dunham, from London for Now York,
went aahore at New Inlet A tug had gone to ber
he stock market is active. Money ia easier.—
lis qpiet
Pa., Nor. 85,—Extensive steel
j „ •"ctod.ln * rieihity which
will require 8,400 skilled mechanics, 1000 of whom
ifromd&urope.
Nor. as—The Secretary of the
ewmmend a considerable increase
i Banking capital
D> Nor. 88. A paper heje gires a
ued atorar one million and a half
• Niw Yoh, Nor. 86.-One Polliccr, who waa ar-
rested for the murder of Garrero at Brooklyn,
a oonfoasion of the atMr yesterday. Hejr* in-
formation whioh led to tho arrest of Consales and
Nor. M. —'The daughter of ex-
Secretary Malloiy haa not obtained her
of his staff will leave on
to visit Bichmoud and other Southern
i Permitted to locate at
declined Sc.
Fenian flag staff has
i is transacted with all the
a government.
■ 86.—There is a foir
Mexican ports
Franoh as grow-
lbPhmea, Clark
riS
a • adrices fSSi.
to
toral, tha publication Celng likely to prejudice
Fenians at the approaching trial.
John Donoran, son of the late eminent Irish an-
tiquarian, had been oommittod for trial oua charge
of treason. Bail was refosed. He had been giv-
ing lectures to the Fenians on the use of the rffic.
"«>■■■
or he who acquires his property w bound to the,
r"?i«•i¿.iui|iin the condition that) I resp'-etfully roiiu:st, th;i*''
Thn íWnm. ,„,i ,,,„',1¡„,1 "lu decuasod was, aud the Inborn „„ i,¡„ e„.l, m the State, in .v!i¡ !¡i are any uoiiw'd-
Bench fnr^erlmínní mfor PWrious coutr mf erable uumb r of frcuduwn, \ri!l, in conjunction
nat the Droorietore of th!, iwi lnV I C- Iu ("lsu ol do.«<rfioii, tho laborer viKen taken, w.tli such of the goo.l citi:w.u as in ly fevl all iu-
nublishinir ^rchbishon í'uIIlVs ii is wi l 1,0 "M,iKnotl to thc l"u,lin work<- without pay, r tcrcst in thu subject in ittcr, tiku sncli measures a*
"Km,til hi: #u couu,s w reol,,iui him- ztera«cV!:° T^hn'nr to*:th,,r nt
—.— .—.— I tue (.jourt Houses or O >uulV Towns of such conn-
A DiWitiofs CotiNTB.iVKiT.—Th) counterfeiters ties, at th) earliest day which can bo ti\.-J; and
who.have lung Vicbii eugiigod iu imitating the v.iri-j cause to Is* read to than the following address.—
ou* issues of Government pajier, generally with ¡ And I earnestly roijueit, of every good citizen, co-
but poor Huceess, liavu made nil " * " 1 "" - *• ' — " * '
the fifty dollur legal tender note
considerable eirc datiou in this r
iu many^iarts of the country. When the'eountef- j may not pa wi'liu^ to respect his rights. " To avoid
Mlacellaneoua News.
Jt ls said toat Sir Frederick Bruce, the English
Monday
IÍSh
rot mt
> to tha
■Mj
IIZJO
Republic
lumbia.
JohnC. Breckinridgo, now in Cauada, has an-
nounced his intention, if pardoned, to take up his
reaidence in Texas. He ascribes tho disastrous
turning point in tbe rebellion to the reinovul of
Gen. Johnston from the command of the army be-
fore Atlanta.
Jeff. Daris, on hearing of the execution of Wirz,
remarked that the Gorernment might have hung
many worse men.
A Desfondes, the father-in-law of John Slidell
and Gen. Beauregard, died at Chalmetto, La., on
the 18th ult He waa a wealthy Creolo.
A death from cholera occurred in St Louis on
the 10th i net
, Ihe position of partiea in the Italian Parliamc*
ia: Moderates G86; Constitutional 101; Clerical 9;
doubtfol 46.
The next House of Representatives will stand
exclusive of the 68 members from tho secedod
8 totea, 144 BcpubUcans and 40 Democrats.
n?7 Legislature of lowo stands : Senate,
43. Republicans and 5 Democrats; House. 83 Re-
publicana and 16 Democrats.
A reduction of 30,000,0000 francs in tho French
*rmy and navy Mtimates has been decided upon.
The prise money of the Princess Royal is ready
for disbursement by the Third Auditor. The claims
n*fe been hanging in uncertainty for over three
year*. The crews of the following U. 8. ressels
are interested: Housatonio, Unadilla, G. W. Blunt
Memphis, Quaker City, America and Augusto.
The receipts for customs by tho U. 8. Gorera-
?.e.n!í?r were over $17,000,000, of whioh
811,006,787 wore received at New York.
The reward offered for the capture of Booth has
not bean paid, there being a dispute as to the lo-
mtilnau> «ato . It i. >«>!, *860.000. exclu-
sire of 8100,000 in gold offered by California. •
The total receipta from Internal Rerenue since
July 1, are 8186,000,366.
The total amount of coin on deposit in the U. S.
Treasury, on Nor. 1, waa about 8100,000,000.
It has been decided that matured and unpaid in-
stallments of bounty descend to heirs in foreign
countries, aa well as pay.
The lUchaslmes term will see King's College,
Cambridge, England, thrown open for the first
time since its foundation, to students other than
those educated at Eton.
„ from his
death bed of
uper, generally with i Ami i earnestly re>pie..;, ot every good citizen, co-
aii excellent copy of ( operation aud aid iu placing before tho freedmen,
ite, tuid have given it | their real condition on the ouo hand, and on the
is city, and probably other of protecting lü.n from abuse, by suchas
feit was fii-st submitted to the, men
employed to engrave the original note, they pro-
nounced it gonuine, but a close observation aud
comparison of the two notes, showed some slight
d tferenc.es. The engnivars are able to point out
but two discrepancies between the notes that will
lie app'irout to tho public. One of them is in that
part of the engraving of tho head of Hamilton,
upon the fiice of tlio n )to, which represente the
When the eountei- j may not bo willtu.; to respect his rights,
ten who had been : trouble, both raeos must do their duty,
and where
either fails, the law must be invoke I.
A. J. HAMILTON.
Provisional Uovonu.' of Tex.is.
APDltESS TO THE
MIEN Oi-' TjjXAS.
Mr. Bitohié is engaged oh an -
- , the aoene around
mm wnQvniM JUAifDa roa xaxks.—w.
¡rfc:
■Si «ÍS2i&.ÍÍ^1<7íb« foi
•Ui United States Tax Cwnmissionsrs in that SUte
Sam o Sorranm Lurn roa Taxxs.—W. H.
inter-
oon-
ionary districts, and heretofore com-
. .to you, waa intended to embraoe all
of whatever character or descripUon, situate
to an te rormud by tlic snapo
coll: r, so fa as it in sh ;wn, is perfect in the cot •
terfeit note; out in the genuine the linos of thu
flosh wore drawn by tho eugraver aeross the point
of the collar ut its junction with the wafstcout for
the purpose of relieving tho angle of the sharpnoss
it would otherwiso have oxhibted. This difference
is not readily observed unless the notes are perfect-
ly clean. The other discrepancy is it) the shnpoof
tho ornaments iu the border ou each .end ot the
face of the bills, and iu tho whole border oil the
Frrxlmtn of Te •<(*
With tho dudire an l purpSso to beneílt yon, I
line of the waistcoat crossing the white oollhr at the! now address you in plain lan.gunge. I earnestly
nock. The aeuto an :le formed by tho shape of th" request you to listen to what 1 have got to s iv. for
" * " it ia troth which it concerns you to know. Your
c induct during the late war was such us to win the
good opinion of all the world. Dariug that ter-
rible struggle you remained quiet anil peaceable
spectators ; although you kuuiv that your freedom
or continued slavery depended on tho*result You
disappointed both friends and enemies, by oxer-
rising a prudi n o and forbearance and Christian
reliance on the wisdom and justice of God's provi-
dence, which has elevated you in the opinion of
good mou in every part of the civilized world. This
is to-day your best treasure, and I wish you to pre-
serve it. Tho character which you have thusuwde,
together with your frocdom, is your wealth. I am
most anxious that you will once nrore disappoint
those who predict evil of you, aud foaring that yon
might be misled by the councils of bad or wicked
men, I feePit my duty to yon. to all of the peoplo
ofToxas, and to the Government of the United
States, to tell you what position you occupy in
the Government—what ar« your rights, and what
are yonr duties. In doing this, I shall speak plain-
ly, for it is proper for me to speak the truth in sucM
language as you will understand. You are froe—
made so by a generous, good Government; but
you must not think that freedom moans more for
you than it does for other*. It means foryou, that
Jt thougl
angles are not sharp. The eight sides of what at
first viow appeared to be circles may bo easily dis-
ourned. In the counterfeit bill tho border orna-
menta, containing the "50," are octagonal in only
a very slight degree, and seem to bo perfect circles.
The general appearunco of tho counterfeit giv^s no
iudiuation of i's true character.
The experts including the engrarers, say that
the imitation is so nearly accurate as to render it
unsafe for the publio to undertake to decide be
tween the genuino and the falso issues. The Trea-
sury Department will, it, is thought, find it expe-
dient to call in nil the 860 legal ténder notos in
circulation.—N. Y. Evening Post.
"
BuowtoowisM.— From the Natohsz Courier, wo
dip tho following:
If he parson-Governor Brown low,) were to be
seized by a quick colic, which would render him
¡nocuous, the country would hare real ton to be
pleased.—[Mobile Tribune.
Pleased, no doubt of it But we know who
would he better pleased than the country. Whew!
wouldn't the Prince of Darkness clap his hands
with glee, and stir his blazing, sulphurous fires,
when the Parson's breath begins to grow short and
shorter with the gripes.—[Quitman (Miss.) Mes-
senger.
OisxaaiLs Meade and B'„*tler on Nisoao Soi,-
liiciu.—At the public recaption given to u colored
P.aujylwuiia reginicut in Harrisburg, Pa., yepter
di^r, the following tributes to tho gallantry of nc-
'*"> tflmps were ro.-elvod from G. nurals MoAile and
Úutler: — * - 1
ritOM OBNKHAI. Mkadis.
* HuiDgüAitTBim Military Divihu 1
OF TnB Atlantic, ¡
Philadelphia ^November 12, 1805. )
G'iitíeinju of the Coiuinitiei -I regret exc-jod-
iugty that my duties anil ongagemeuts will not per-
mit of in,y being present at Ilarrisburg ou tlie 14th
lnltnnt, at the recaption whioh you propose to givo
to the returned colored soldiers. This reception
meets my eordial approval, and I am glad that tho
colored soldiers are to be thus welcomed. I trust
yfeu will be enabled togivethomarocaptiou worthy
ot their servic< s, of the cause they have bean up-
holdiu^, of tho State whoso honor they have boon
■íaiuiuuiiig.
Kenpcctfuljy yours,
GEORGE G. MEADE,
Mt^jor General U. S. K.
n¡' i.M GXNÜRáb UVTIBP.
Lowbix, Mass., November 3.
Gentlemen of tho Uoflauiitt"": —If my cMpp.Tu-
rnouts will poiwibly permit, I will bo present, to
meat my colored fellow-soldiers on tli ur return
from the sevvieu of their country. I h.ive witnessed
their patiouce and discipline iu tuo camp, and then-
bravery and good conduct ou tho battlefield, and,
above all, tiieir devotion and unswerving loyalty
11 the fiag aud the government, and I deeply fee'l
that they are ntitled to the gratilu lo, bounty and
unfaltering justice of thoir fjllow-countrymen. As
the possibility of my boing with you on this o>:ca
sion is so doubtful, I beg that y o a will not publio
lstteb rxom thlb SUENANDOAU's CmilK,^ I
Capt. Wiuldell, in a letter to Earl Russell, whichii
published, says:
"Iu obedience to orders, I fonnd myself in a,
Arctic and Ochotsvh seas, far removed from tk I
ordinary channels of commerce, and in conic '
quence of this awkward circumstance, I wai a.
gaged in acts of war until the 88th of June. 1 M I
ignorapt of the reverse Buffered by the Confed
urates, and tho total obliteration of the OoT«n.
mont under which I acted I received the fat
intelligence of the downfall of the Confedettte
cause on tho 2d of August from tho British bul
Barracout and desisted immediately from fatlm
acts of war, until I could commnnicnto with ^
Europoan port, and learn if tho iufonnntion *u
true. I could not huvo been sensible that tbi
tolos told by American ships were true, but roliM
upon the statement of a Uritish captain. 1 dili.
gontly sought for a precodcnt in law for guidaü
m the future control, itanagement and final (|u. I
po.sál of the vessel, but found none. Fffttlmg tbe I
authorities questionable under whieh I noted, i I
immediately ceased cruising, anil shaped htrl
c jurse for tho Atlantic. 1 did not feel justified it I
destroying tho vessel, but, on the contrary, thought I
the ship should revert to the American Gonan.1
ment I, therefore, sought Liverpool to leatn ú I
news, nnd, if without foundation, to surrender lb I
ship, with her guns, stores and apparel complete, I
to the British Government, for stteh dispositiunsl
it should deem proper. j
The Shenandoah was surrendered to tbe AjbmvI
can Consul, on the 10th, who took formal pone. I
sion, and placed her under Captain Freeman, vitt I
a crew of his own selection, to convey the ship ta I
Now York.
ly bread ; the right to work for yourselves and re-
ceive the full reward of your labor. This is all
that freedom means for any people,
mi., /-i. . ... United S
Tho Gorernment of the '
I States has giren
You are mistaken, Mr. Messenger, the Prince of
Darkness would not rejoice; for on Brownlow'sad-
vent into his kingdom, the Prince would be the
Parson's subject Brownlow would fill the Chair
of State.
- Abd-el-Koder bought several thousand dollars
worth of doll babies for his wiree, while in Paris.
Earl Russell is 7S years of age, and sound as a
roach.
j yottf
in tha town of
Amur Joxx.—Tbe following ia told on Gen. J. T
Mscruder:
While retreating from tha Peninsula in 1889,
the Genual and his staff stopped at the house of a
widow lady on the road, ana engaged dinner. In
a few moments Jim Phelps, a Louisiana ««Mi
accosted the ladr with : "Madamj cwl g« dfc-
uer ? "Yes sir," was the repiyT'iutas I am pre-
paring dinner for Geni Magruder and staff and
hare not room at my table for more, you will hare
to widt for a second table."
"Very well, madam, thank you," Mid Phelna.
Phe
__
thus speaks of the Confed-
,:T ? 1 ite certain that not one
Confedérate bonds or treasury notes, or
ffiuTmtoV'we
mpnth a lot of negroes
Pnbl o aala ai ano-
for any profit ftwnSfa
watóhini
waited uniil the feast was oa the table ;
the hostess proceeded to the parlor, to a
dinner to the General and rial!; Phelps entered
litely returned to the parlor, to watt. "
ral took a seat next" ~ *
ooursc was finished,
" "Sir, bar*
1ft
clean."-iy(Tt^f f
you this freedom, and will protect y .u in its en-
joyment You are now under the protection of the
Gorernment a. other people are ; you will be pro-
tected in all that is right; but in nothing that is
!vronR- This is what you have a right to expect
f om the Government, and what it will perform.
You owe a duty to the Government, as evenTman
does who receives its protection. That duty is to
obey the laws and employ yourselves in usefull la-
bor for your own support and not be disturbers
of the public peuoe by idleness and rioious habits.
No people can be idle without becoming rioious.
No man is a good citizen, who does not earn a 11-
ring in some honest way.
ihare t*on informed, from many souroes, that
you hare been told, that about Christmas some-
™n8,70Uld be done for you by the Gorernment
That there would be a division of property for your
benefit—that homes would be fru nished to you by
the Government and other things giren to ron
without price. I tell you in the name of the Pres-
ident and the Gorernment whose servant I am,
that aU this ia false—whoever has told you this,
haa lied to you. '«he Gorernment has ¿ven you
all that it can aire you—that is your freedom. If
you are not willing to work for your Bring you do
noti deserre to be free. The great masa of men,
white aa weU as black, hare io work for a living,
and those who refose to do so, are not friends but
enemies of the Gorernment If, then, rou are
wk for yottr
will not be
and try
won by
only do
friends to tha Gorernment, rou will worl
will obey the laws—you
idle and ridous—you will do your duty,
to preserYs the good name whion you hare
ggrrwdcMlduct in the post You can
The United States Gorernment haa no land in
engaged in making an
7 to tha Gorernment
itite Mlmlti tkil
ly announce that I will bo present.
Very respectfully,
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
Judge Bell, Secretary of State of Texas, has
reuched Washington, it is understood as peace
maker for Governor Hamilton. Tho Governor is
supposed to have been delinquent in the Presi-
dent's estimation for his tardiness in preparing the
State for resumption of her former status. Very
earnest complaints have been made by the people
of Texas—not in their papers, which have scarcely
the privilege to complain, but addressed to the
Presidont—of the Governor's denunciatory speech-
es on his arrival in Texas, his imprisonment of
persons without any process of law or chance of
trial, and his dilatory and, as they allege, unau-
thorised modes of qualifying electors in Texas.—
Judge Bell is a man of high cultivation and ame-
nity, but it will take all his diplomacy to cancel
the impressions made by the people of Texas and
by the naked toots, that Governor Hamilton has
not been aotivuly and discreetly performing the
duties of his mission.—2K 0, Pio. correspondence.,
Now that Congress is about to assemble, we
shall be flooded with all sorts of paragraphs simi
lar to the above, id which a very small amount of
fact is made to cover a very large amount of Mo-
tion, just as a small amount of gold is made to
plato a large spaoe of brass. The only truth in
the whole statement is the single fact that Judge
Bell is in Washington.
Whenever a politician goes* to Washington, and
there are several suoh from Texas, who are enemies
to tho Administration now there,
the firstjthing he does is to feed and olothe half a
dozon hungry correspondents, who flood the coun-
try with the fiotions of their employer's brain.
There are some truthful correspondents in Wash-
ington, but Publious, the author of the above, is
not one of them. Eren his own paper does no
give him any special credit
Moni: Ato >ut the Shkxandoah. — Tim LonJia
Timos says the reappearance of the Shunaaitnik
in English waters, at (he present juncture, in it-
toward and unwoloome, even if it is fortunate tk
iu this inatuco, uothiug practically turn.! on tin
original equipment of the ship thus pl.tcod in olr
hands. Although built and innbned iu fraudi
neutrality laws, there was no proof at Jim, ió u
her sailing to justify berdetoou. Ou ivory prin. 1
ciplo of law sli* beltmi r "the government w
aud property of tin
| 0 infederirtS (Government. 1'Ue most serious i[Ui*
tion is concerning the officers and crew. ,lt i« t*
be greatly regretted that the ship ever can e ba^
to England.
Tho Times say* the w >rk of proving that!« did
not know of the end of the war at the time he des-
troyed whale ships rests witn Capt WaddulL It
says that neither be nor bis crow cnu. under tny
circumstances, be given ovor to tho UnitedStntci
Tiie crime of which they really «tumi nccuied,
supposi ig them to haw wilfully igui red the te-
niiui'tii n of hostilities, is that of piracy; and ot
this ehiir o they may lie apprehended aiid tried bt-
fore an English court of justice.
The Liverpool Post says win u Capt. Wiidddl
heard thfj real news, or suspected thai wbiithem
told was true, he put about his ship and ran ft
Lisbon, not knowing what interpretation the Brit-
ish Government or the French Government might
put upon his conduct. He entered the Tutus,
paid i If his crew, and puta new orew aboard. In
his long cruiso and voyngo ho nover cucouuttredi
British or an American man-of-war.
The Liverpool dispatch to the Londim New
says th t on board tbe iheiitintloah t ere arc ubmt
thirty-six chronometers,-together with a numberrf
sextants, cabinet furniture, furs, and other article
<>f value in lur hold. Thoro still remain u large
quantity of ammunition, together with six ahort
guns and a large swivel.
The Liverpool Mercury says that the rcprencnU-
tivo of the American Government at this p >rt La
been, since the arrival of the vessel, in comnwni-
cation with the custom authorities. It is alt>o
ed that curtain coinmnrcial bouses, who were deep-
ly iuterested in the success of the Confederacy [
Reotoab Cavalry Obdues to Tbxas.—The
Washington correspondent of the (UnMnnaH Com-
mercial telegraphs <¡n the 30th as follows :
A very significant movement haa been made by
the Gorernment as regards Mexican affoin. All
of the regular oaralry, except deteohments sta-
tioned in this city and elsewhere, hare been or-
dered to report to General Sheridan on the Rio
Grade, and will be assigned to duty under Oen.
Merritt, at San Antonio. Tha second and third
ragimente of regular cavalry are now in Maryland,
«he fourth in Tennessee, and the first and sixth in
New Orleans. A letter from Corpus Christi re-
orired here t^day states that no mora troops an
being mustered out
were engaged yesterday in making inquiries in -1
gard to the Shenandoah. It may be,
tha'
... v therefore
.at some point will be raised as to giving up the
vessol. The home authorities have bcon coiamani-
cated with, and their deeiaion in regard to the toil
destination of the vessel, may be expected in *
d«ys.
Statement orth* Pnbllr Drbt.
Washinot ik, Nor. 2.—Secretary McCulloch to-
day promulgated a statement of the publio debit*
it appears from books of Treasurer' return* I
requisitions in departments, on tbe 31st of Octo-1
bar, 1865. The recapitulation shows tbe folio* I
ing: I
Debt bearing interest in coin, SI, 161,137,691 W 1
Debt bearing interest in lawful money, $1,1 >'
811,197 87. 1
Debt on which interest has ceased, (187,2
Debt bearing no interest, $38,662,335 85.
Total debt outstanding, $2,740,854,758 86.
Total intorost is #138,938,078 59, of which «7,;
670,340 50 is in coin, and #71,267,118 09 in lnwfol |
money.
The legal tender notes in circulation are w
lows:
Two yeara 5 per oent, #32,536,901.
United States notos, old, #3,902,070.
United States notes, new, #427,768,409 09.
Compound interest notes, #173,012,142.
Total, #633,709,081 09.
The following is the amount in tho Treasury.
In coin, #2-1,654,987 15.
In currency, #33,8000,591 64.
Total, #68,365,578 69. „ jeo .
Fractional currenoy on hand, $26,007,46 . .
A contrast Of the October statomont with I
September, shows a reduction of tho public |
of four millions dollars, and also a reducnon
legal tenders of orer forty-four millions.
October statement there ia also o new fe« ^;
namely, amount outstanding in 6-20 bona* j
changes under the Act of March 3d, ISOAWJg
four millions and a half; these are j?ayab «*'
fire, and redeemable in twenty years from |
ber'lst,"l865"sTe'per""ceci"interest ta i in.( ,
4~iporary loan at 4 per cent is #162,782! **£]*
C #3,130,071 ¡ and at 6 per oent,
Brigham Yo
jjngnam Young has had a new "revelation
He says it ta «fl «01 of God that Uta ais
should make their own bonnets and half .for th
teriZs raised In *nm other
"rerelation."—
**■ "tta listen
temí
cent, T ^ _ P)
Certificates óf indebtedness, bearing 6 per
interest, #66,906,000.
A discharged soldier by the name of I
relt was asked by another soldiea totd ®i j
whioh he did. Immediately afterward*.«¡T
quite stupefied and went ontsid^ when I
rode struck him with a slung shot and robws I
of nearly «160. The robber who gars W yl
was arrested, and the prisoners drugs
pockets. The caae ia now under toraaagW",
' An Irish attorney saya, no printer «*57
lish.a death unless apprised of the foct by te*
deoeaae'
£
oftoep
.V'-v'
SodMHuJtatait wmux&Ni —. #
! S (i*,'.V■ tv ' i
(f being^íéeeivcd they would h
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