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Loyal Men must Control this Government.
On the 4th ot June, the Lower House of Con
gress passed by n vote of Ci to 40, a hill decla
ring traitors ineligible to ofii;o finder the Gov
crnmert of the United Suites. The bill provides
in suhstnn- e a? fol ows :
"That any person fleeted or nppoiuted to any
office of honor or profit under the Government
4,( the United States, either in civil, military or
naval department, shall, before ciiti-ring on the
duties of such ofiije, and before Wing entitled to
anv of the salary or other emolument thereof;
take and subscribe nn oath that ho had never
voluntiirialy borne arms ngainstthe Government
rf the United States since ho had been a citizen
thereof; had voluntarialy given no aid, counsel,
countenance or encouragement to persons cng i
god in armed hostility tiiereto ; had never sought
or accepted or sought to exercise the functions of
any office whatever under any authority or pre
tended authority in hostility to the Government
of the United States; that he had neither volun
tiirialy renounced his allegiance to tho Govern
ment of the United States nor yielded a volun
tary support to any pretended government, au
thority, power, or constitution hostile o.- inimical
thereto; that he will support and defend the
Constitution and Government of the United
S'ates ; n 1 nil laws made in pursuance thereof,
nguinnt ull i nemies, foreign or domestic; bear
true faith and allegiance to the same; that he
takes the o'nligition without any mental reserva
tion or evasion ; and that he will well and faith
fully discharge the duties of the office on which
ho is about to enter. This oath is t bo preser
ved among tho files of tho Court, House of Con
gress, or Department to which such office ir.ay
appertain ; and any person filsely taking such
oath shall bo guilty of perjury, and on conviction
thereof shall, m addition to tho penalties now
prescribed, be deprived of his office, and rendered
incapable forever thereafter of holding any office
under the Government of the Unite 1 States."
This bill, in its material provis ons, was pre
pared by Air. Maynard, ot Tennessee, a slave
holder, who ought to bo a good judge of what is
just towards pro-slavery rebels. One would
think such a measure would meet no unyielding
opposition from loyal men, but it was voted
against by forty-six Congressmen, all of whom
lire Democrats but one. Among these it is not
at all surprising to find Vallandigham, one of
tho leaders of tho movement to reconstruct tne
Democratic darty on the basis of tenderness to
treason and slavery, who declared that no troops
should march from Ohio against the South ex
cept over his dead body, and who was hustled
out of a Union camp on the Potomac by some
of the indignant soldiery. It is natural that
Democrats of his sort should bo willing, after
this war is over, to forget the little differences of
the past, and acknowledge tho utility of the
rebels to the Democratic cause by keeping the
way open for their lenders to bo restored to
political power in the Union as it was. But men
who are more intent upon preserving tho Gov
errment and the Republic as the fathers estab
lished them, free from the domination of caste
and local interests, and untainted by the perni
cious heresy of secession, inviting fresh rebellion
against the peaceful decisions of tho ballot box
such men believe and intend, with Andy John
son of Tennessee, that " none but loyal men
must control this Government." The war will
not be rightly ended unless it shall uproot entire
the class of aristocratic plantation lords who
live 1 on politics and cotton, and who labored for
thirty years to " fire the Southern heart and pre
cipitate the cotton States into revolution." Po
litical power in the South must be given to such
men as Johnson, Brownlow, Holt, Bott, Ether
idge, Maynard and Boiiligny men who were
true to the whole country when tho traitors
whom the Vallandigham cl'npie would restore to
Congress and the Cabinet, were fighting to de
stroy it. Hereafter, the people of tho insurrec
tionary States will themselves refuse to trust
those who betrayed them, ami the United States
Government must do likewise. All whom the
war does not kill cf the vipers tuust be smoth
ered in the lap of Peace, not farmed in her
bosom. Apptal. '
Shootiko Slaves. Three runaway slaves,
of a party of seven, were shot at Blandenburg
recently : one of them, it is supposed mortally.
They resisted being captured, but being unarm
ed, were overpowered. It is said that tho Mary
land slaveholders do not pay as liberally for the
capture of their fugacious property as they did
In more palmy penoos, oui iney st:n pay
enough to induce the vigilant watching of all the
roads by which (Jscape might be made. It is the I
nature of the institution of slavery to produce a'
numerous class ot whites, with nothing to do but 1
to " catch niggers." Xational Republican. I
White and Illuck.
A debate upon Cheap Postage, in tho House
of Representatives, on Monday last, nlFu'dcd
that eminent antagonist of agitation, Mr. Rich
ardson, of Illinois, nn opportunity of speaking
" against the legislation w hich discouraged
Union sentiment while efforts are making to
place tho Negro on nn Equality with the
Whites." Now, it being well known nnd set
tled by all manner of scientific demonstrations,
and weighty Biblical authority, and ethnological
investigation, nnd careful measurement of facial
angles, nnd no ons of synodical confabulation,
that the Black can no mora be " placed on an
equality with tho White," than a ipi.irt beer pet
can bo placed in a pint beer pot ail this we say,
being us well settled as tho first Chapter of Gen
cis, we take it most unkindly, tint Mr. Rich
ardson of Illinois should be so hard up for some
thing to say, that nothing would serve him (in
stead of keeping his mouth shut) but tho
igniferotis utterances. What, in the name of nil
thu gs analogous, has the relation ot tno INegro
to the Chimpanzee to do with Cheap Postage?
But this is always tho way with the Richard
sons. No subject of debate can bo considered
Ion;;, before these agitators have in the Negro.
Tariffs, money bills, railway bills, bills of nil
kinds mmo of these can pass through their
Congressional nnd obstetrical crisc, unless tht
Negro is by to assist. Some honorable Mem
bers, under no circumstances, ever talk of any
thing else. It is a sort ot mama with them.
Tiiey live in a dreary apprehension that com
pulsory amalgamation will receive tho sanct:on
of law, and that they, among tho first victims,
will bo forced to the marriage altar, each with
his dusky bride. They behold their estates
enjoyed by a yellow progeny. They fearfully
anticipate the time when their great names will
bo upheld only by a flivous secession, while nil
over the country tho white faces divine of the
first families sulfe.r a cuticular change into some
thing permanently sable. Thcso Richardsons
know their own weakness, nnd may be justly ap
prehensive. But why do they not, instead of
making speeches, go tit once and have themselves
put under legal guardianship'? Don't they see,
these unthinking Richardsons, that they give the
Negro importance by continually talking about
him? Don't they see that it is their anile fears
which have made him a bugaboo of such por
tentous dimensions that even bold Ben Wood is
a little scared ? Don't they see that it is useless
to harp never so stridently and assiduously upon
the sacred nnd never sufficiently to be prized
doctrine of Black Inequality, when all protests
however passionate, aud demonstrations how
ever conclusive, only servo to push the black
man into a slill higher nnd moro minatory posi
tion? It is Mr. Richardson of Illinois who is
frightened now, whito man as he is popularly
supposed to be. It isn t oamuo who is now
down trodden nnd oppressed nnd cowering it is
Mr. Richardson of Illinois who is in danger of
enslavement, of tho debasement of tho Richard-
sonian blood, of the crisping of tho Richardso.
niiin hair, and of the depression of tho Richard-
sonian nose. I oor man ! he hail a little start
of Sambo, it is true, in the race of life but his
legs are giving out his beautiful whito skin is
in danger of a fatal discoloration nnd who
knows what young Master Richardson may do ?
nnd tho young nnd accomplished Missis Rich
ardson ? Scores of black women may pino for
the boy ! Groups of black men may conspire
for tho girls! No wonder Mr. Richardson had
something to say upon tho Postage Bill ! No
wonder, while talking of red stamps, of blue
stamps, and of preen stamps, that ho impercept
ibly glided into a protest against that yellow
stamp which threatens the fiices of his descend
ants. But let him take courage ! As the Blacks
advance in civilization and taste, it is barely pos
sible that they will decline to have anything to
do with tho Richardsonian stamp nt nil. The
great-great-great-grandchildrcn of the Honorable
Member may be as white as ho is. How whito
that is we do not know. We never painted his
portrait.
For our own part, as we have the misfortune
to belong to this white race, which if not already
doomed to discoloration, is yet in such decided
danger, wo cannot help thinking that it behooves
us at least to hold a Convention in defense of
our complexions. And hair. And fieial angles.
And unexaggerated shins. When . a man like
Richardson who is a public charac ter, nnd nn
orator and a statesman, nnd n Republican, and
all that sort ot thin,', considers himself as a
white man to be in danger, it well becomes fry
who are smaller than ho is, nnd perhaps not so
white, to be everlooking out for their right to a
good Constitutional color it the family. It
Richardson will only resist whatever impulses
he may feel in thu Erebcan direction, wo also
promise to do our best. We tnu-t all hang
together whilo this perilous crisis continues.
We beg Mr. Richardson to involve himself in
his virtue, nnd to stand firm.
Meanwhile, this word "Equality," about
which so much is said, reminds us of those old
Spanish pistareens which once used to pass for
seventeen, twenty, or twenty-five cents, accord
ing to the skill of the operator. " Equality " is
uncommonly fluctuating. We can at a moment's
notice produce ft dozen of the whitest of men
whose claim to equality with hime!f, Richardson
would, if no election were pending, ferociously
repel men ho wouldn't eat with, wouldn't
drink with, wouldn't sleep with, wouldn't play
poker with, wouldn't even fight with and all
of them tolerably white after recent washing.
Yet if these free and independent gentlemen :
should claim to be Mr. Richardson's political
equals, he would, with his best hustings smile,'
admit the impeachment. When the Declaration !
of Independence alludes to freedom nnd Equal-1
ity, it means not Scinl, but Political Freedom I
and Equality. The distinctions of Society are
independent of legislation. There are fine, old j
fimilies in this city who could not by any, the'
most imperative! legislation and the most '1 read-1
EUGENE CITY, 011EGON,
ful penalties, be forced to ask Mr. Richardson to
dinner. They would go without giving dinners
f irever, rather than do it. That is a matter of
taste, because there are many; nnd those not of
tho very lowest class, who would not scruple to
eat dinner with Mr. Richardson, especially if he
agreed to pay for it. Like seeks like. Tho
vulgar and ignorant cohabit with their kind, and
well-mannered folk hun even Members of Con
gress, when they also happen to bo boors or
rkmkeys. As for Political Equality, though we
may bo afraid of it, our fathers were not. For
good or ill, our institutions nre lise-, oon it;
and Mr. Richardson should be the last man in
the world to find fault with the principle, since
it is not to be supposed that lie is elected to
Congress by the votes of the most intelligent
aud virtuous men of the District. Democratic
institutions, while they bring great blessings,
bring also gret risks. Witness the presence of
Mr. Richardson in tin House of Representa
tives. But whilo tho Whito Race shall remain,
as for a century or longer it must, dominant in
North America, it is either contemptible cow
ardice, or equally contemptible cruelly, to profess
to be afraid of a class weak through two hund
red years of oppression, and destined to remain
in a still diminishing minority. It is all n
wretched subterfuge and the meanest makeshift.
As such wo hurry to abandon, for this day at
least, its further consideration. X. Y. Tribune.
Free Homes lor the Laborer.
The Homestead Law is tub United States.
While we are discussing and hesitating about
our policy for securing a population on tho one
hand sending agents to solicit new inhabitants,
and on tho other, through petty jealousies, pre
ferences, nnd tear, not untVequeutly placing se
cret obstacles in tho way of settlement by
strangers while we are one day declaring that
no laud shall bo sold except to bona fide settlers,
and tho next selling vast blocks to nn English
Land Company, who everybody knows never
mean to settle, but to make a profit by peddling
out what wo Imvo sold in block, nnd who con
afford to pay 1,000 to n member of Parlia
ment for bullying the Government till they
mako the grant on terms more profitable than
wos ns first intended, the American Congress
has adopted tho most comprehensive policy for
the encouragement of immigration which has
perhabs ever been devised. By tho Homestead
Act, which recently became law, every man who
will settle upon them may have 100 acres of
land for nothing, nnd without any conditions to
drive him buck into the remoter corners or the
inferior tracts of tho public domain. Partial
offers of such gills have often been made before,
but wo doubt whether any endowment on so
magnificent a scale has ever been conferred on
tho moneyless sons of labor, not one of country,
but of tho civilized world. We lately men
tioned the passage through tho House of Repre
sentative of tho law for which ever prohibits the
introduction of Slavery upon any Territory now
in possession of tho United States, or which may
at any future time come into their possession.
We described this as tho chief point in the
avowed programme of tho Republican party,
which, by the election of Lincoln, and the se
cession of tho South, obtained tho control of tho
Uovernment last Spring. Hut the Homestead
Liiiw is tho eonipletement ot the prohibition ot
Slavery in the Territories, or rather, perhaps,
one is the complement of the other. The great
schemes of policy would be maimed if either of
them had failed of adoption. On tho other
hand, even the gift of land would have been a
poor attraction to freemen who are to cultivate
their farms with their own hands, if by the side
of them there should exist an institution which
makes nil labor degrading, and the occupation of
an interior casto. And, on tho other hand, the
most ellective way to shut out felavciy is to
people the new lands, where it might otherwise
seek to extend itself, with men whoso position
places them in natural antagonism to the planta
tion system.
1 ho attention of the world is naturally turned
to the exciting scenes which are being enacted,
and are expected to bo enacted, by the hosts of
armed men now confronting each other. But
war is in its nature temporary, and perhaps
the few engagements which are called decisive
battles of the world would be reduced in num
bers if we could eliminate from them those
which were mere symptoms of the direction of
moral nnd physical forces, rutin r than the im
pulses which produce that direction. The civil
transactions of the last f.v months nt Washing,
ton will make their impression upon nges to
come, when the battles on tho l'ototunc and
Tennessee will bo regarded ns mere accidents in
bi-torv. l hey lay the foundation of States
larger by several times than all Europe, nnd
they mark olf the dwelling places nnd tho homes
of a huge population of free yeomen, w ho in
the next half century will probably exece 1 in
numbers all t!;e people who now live on the
Northern Continent of America, on this side of
tho Mexican boundary. Montreal Herald.
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Tub Fugitive Slave Law. Tho House by a
decided majority, has instructed tho Committee
on the Judiciary to report a bill, limiting the
reclaiming fugitive slaves to loynl persons, and
giving those claimed as fugitive slaves, right of
trial by jury. These safeguards may bo suffi
cient in the States, but here, in this District, a
total repeal of all laws permitting the recapture
of fugitives, would bo better. Or at tho very
le.vt, the right of recapture should be confined
to loyal persons in Maryland. There can be no
fair ground for ever allowing the people of V ir
ginia, after the conduct of that State, to make;
this seat of the national Government a hunting '
ground for slaves. National Republican. j
A womax in love is a very poor judge of.
character. She can see nothing but excellence
where others sec nothing but shallowness and
rottenness. Ditto on the other side with a man 1
in love o'lly more so. I
JULY 2G, 18G2.
More about Pocahontas.
It will bo remembered that Pocahontas, when
about thirteen years of ago, saved the young
English Captain, John Smith, from the death
which her father, Powh .tun, had resolved he
should suffer. As the tomahawk was about to
descend 'n his head, tho girl rushed forward and
clasped that head in her nrms. Tho stern heart
of Powhatan relented, nnd ho consented that the
captive should live to mako tomahawks for him,
and beads and bells for Pocahontas.
Captain John Smith was, without doubt, nn
imperial kind of a man. His personal appear
ance wait fine, his sense nnd tact excellent, his
manners both cordial and elegant. There is no
doubt, as there is no wonder, that the Indian
maiden felt some tender palpitations on his ac
count. Once again, when owing to some nib.
understanding, Powhatan had decreed tho death
of all the whites, Pocahontas spent tho whole
pitch-dark night climbing hills nnd toiling
through pathless thickets to save S nith and his
friends by warning them of their imminei t
danger. Smith offered lur many beautiful
presents on this occasion, evidently not npnre
ciating tho sentiment that was animating her.
To this oiler of present's she replied with tears ;
and when their aeeeptanco was urged, Smith,
himself, relates, that, "with tho tears running
down her cheeks, sho said die durst not be seen
to have- any, for if Powhatan should know it
sho wcro but dead; and so she ran away by
herself, ns sho came."
There is no doubt what tho Muso of History
ought to do here ; were she n daino of proper
sensibilities, sho would have Mr. John Smith
married to Miss P. Powhatan us soon as par
son could be got from Jamestown, Were it n
romance this would bo tho result. As it is, wo
find Smith going olF to England in two years,
and living unmarried until his death; and Poca
hontas married to tho Englishman, John Rolfo,
for reasons of Stnte, we fear a link of friend
ship between tho Reds and Whites being thought
desirable. Sho wus of course Christianized nnd
baptized, ns any ono may see by Chapman's
picture in tho Rotunda, at Washington, unless
Zouave criticism has demolished it. Immedi
ately sho went with her husband to England,
At Brentford, where sho was staying, Captain
John Smith went to visit her. Their meeting
was significant and affecting. "After a modest
salutation, without uttering a word, she turned
away nnd hid her face as iC displeased." Sho
remained thus motionless for two or three hours.
Who can know what struggles passed through
the heart ot tho Indian bride nt this moment-
emotions doubly unutterable to this untaught
stranger? It seems that she had been deceived
by Rolfo aid his friends into thinking that Smith
was dead, under the conviction that she could
not bo induced to marry him if she thought
Smith nlive. After her long sad silence, she
came forward to Smith and touchingly reminded
him, there, in tho presence of her husband, and
a largo company, of the kindness she had shown
him in her own country, saying, "You did
promiso Powhatan what was yours hhould be
his, nnd ho tho like to you ; you called him
' Father,' being in his land a stranger, and for
the same reason so must I call you." After a
pause, during which sho appeared to bo under
tho influence of strong emotion, sho said, " I will
call you fither, nnd you shall call me child, nnd
so I shall be forever nnd ever your country
woman." Then she added, slowly and with em
phasis : " They did tell us always you were
dead, and I knew no other till I came to 1'limouth ;
yet Powhatan did command Uttamaltomakin to
si'ek yon out and know the truth, because your
countrymen, will lie much." It was not long
after this interview that Pocahontas died. She
never returned to Virginia. Her death occurred
in 1017. Tho issue of her marriage was one
child, Thomas Rolfo ; so it is through him that
tho first families of Virginia nre so invariably
descended from the Indian Princess, Captain
Smith lived until 1031, and, as we have said,
never married. He was a tioblo and truo man,
and Pocahontas was every way worthy to be
his wife ; and one feels very ill-natured at Rolfo
and Company fir the cruel deception which, we
must believe, was ull that kept them asunder,
and gavo to the story of tho lovely maiden its
almost tragic close.
Save Your straw.
'lho sacrifice of so much stock last winter
should admonish evif y farmer to use the utmost
care in order to avoid the recurrence of another
such pt ci.niiiry loss to his purse, and of such
great Milfering of tho animals placed in his care.
As it is now about the Season f harvesting uinl
threshing grain, it would bo well if every firmer
should take especial pains to save all his straw
in order to guard against such extreme nnd un
expected emergencies us were experienced last
season. It is altogether too common a practice
fir firmer to throw out the straw from tho ma
chine in such a manner as to render it entirely
worthless for fodder. Sometimes it is shoveled
away and then burned up ns the cheapest mode
of getting rid of it. And this is done too, by
farmers who have but a very limited supply of
hay, and whose stock through the pelting ruing
of winter are compelled to live on such subsist
ance as they can pick from tho almost barren
fields. Such sacrifice of lodder is both slovenly
and sinful. But a very little more labor is re
quired, if you have no room underneath a roof
lor it, to build a neat square, six or eight
cornered) fence of heavy rails, eight or ten
high for a stack, which, if built with care, can
be made so as to save nearly all the straw
for uso as fodder. Then if you have plenty
of
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nay, mis siraw win always renar von
bedding for stock, thus being well prepared
for good manure, and if your hay fails you,
through the inclemency of the weather, your
stock will testify to the fact that it is much,
very much better fodder than fir brush or
rotten stubble. Oregon farmer.
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NO. 28.
An Ignoble Issue.
Careful readers of tha Congressional Glibt w 11
have noticed, that while the Tax bill was pend
ing in the Senate, Mr. Saulsbury proposed an
amendment to the effect that no part of the
moneys arising from the bill should beappropri.
ntd to the feeding of negroes. The proposition
was a little, harmless kick nt black men, which
plobahly, nlforded a needed relief to the Senator
who ottered it. It was quietly voted down by
the Senate, and would have passed Into obscurity
which most becomes it, but for the perverse and
unlucky activity of one of the Washington cor
respondents of the Batimore Sun. This person,
whoever ho may be, sees in Mr. Saulsbury's
amendment, the grand issue upon which national
panics are t be formed, upon which gentlemen
are to bo elected, or defeated, as members of
Congress, nnd w hich is to decide the fate of tha
n xt Presidential campaign. Shall negroes be
fed nt public expense? That according to Mr.
Saulosl.iiry is a great question, but, according to
this correspondent of the Sun, it is the question.
The Government is feeding men at Newburn,
nt Pensncola, nt New Orleans, nnd doubtless, at
nt a dozen other places. This does not violate
the Constitution, or wound anybody's sensibili.
ties. But to feed black men 1 That, indeed
may well arouse our wrath. The negro, accor
ding to tho Constitution as expounded In tha
Dred Scott case, was made to support us, not
to bo supported by us. His vocation is to be
lived upon, not to subsist upon others. He is
to bo considered hippy, if he is allowed a mod
icum of what lie earns, but is never to be an
object of charity. To feed at the public crib, is
tho exclusivo right of those who are white.
This is the point which Mr. Saulesbary makes,
and upon which ho demands the verdict of the
country. Xational Republican.
(Jov. Stanly on The Laws of North Carolina.
Gov. Stanly will not allow the negroes at
Newburn to bo taught to read and write, because
the laws of North Carolina forbid it.
Let us see how this scrupulous functionary
respects the fundamental law, tho constitution of
North Carolina.
On tho 31st of May ho dircctod lho following
notice to bo sent to Mr. Helper, a native born
citizen of North Carolina :
Office of tho Provost Marshall.
Newburn, N. C, May 31, 1862.
II. II. Helfeu, Esq.:
Sir : I inn instructed by his Excellency the
Military Governor of the State of North Caroli.
na, to inform you that ho requires you to leave
this department in the? first vessel going North.
I am, very respectfully, yours,
Dan Messenger, Provost Marshal.
Now, the Declaration of Rights of North
Carolina declares
" That no freeman ought to taken, imprisoned.
or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privi
leges, or outlawed Oil EXIi.KD nr in m.
manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty.
or property, but by the laws of the land."
And tho constitution of North Carolina declares
"Tho Declaration ot Rights is hereby de
clared to be a p ,rt of the constitution of this State,
and ought never to bo violated on any pretense
whatever."
Governor Stanly is only a specimen of that
numerous class of politicians whoso vision never
embraces any laws except those which advance
tho interests of slaveholders. National Jiepub.
Thb New Slave Trade Tkratv Tlii trentv
has had tho efTect to deepen and widen in Europe
tho good feeling which was first attracted tow
ards our Government by its high minded course
in tho Trent affair. The English papers partic
ularly refer to mo new slave trade treaty in
highly laudatory terms, ihouuh manv of them
rather assume, that in this as in other instances,
the American Government did not do right as
because it believed in tho proverb that "hon
esty is the best policy." The London Times of
of courso views tho matter in this light, but adds
more justly :
" Mr. Seward, we believe, tins hoon tha rrin.
cipal tnover in this matter, which originated en
tirelv with tho American Governnionr. Tha
treaty was proposed first in less formal shape
an. I then, when Lord Lvons obiected thnt it
would be dangerous to act uron an informal
agreement, it was draw n np as it now stands. If
.nr. oewata nan desireii toavcrt the danger ot
a British interference on the part of the South,
ho could not have hit upon a better expedient
than to give tho liberal statesmen of this country
whosYive strong auti slavery feelings, a treaty,
ihu working of which will require not only prace
but cordiality, between tho Governments. With
the respective ships of war boarding the respect
ive merchantmen of tho two nations, and with
three mixed Courts of Justice sitting at Sierra
Leone, tho Cape, nnd New York, each power
must use much forbearance aud urbanity toward
inn oilier. Lici u nope that the concessions
which tho American Secretary has made to us
will not be viewed with distrust by hi country
men. The honor ot the American fl ig is as
safe in the hands of our naval officers as in those
of tho Americans themselves, and we feel sure
that Mr. Lincoln's Government will never have
ciuse to regret the course into which humanity
or policy has now directed it.
Previous reports of there being a rebel priva
tccr in the Chinese waters are confirmed by a
letter received nt San Francisco, dated Batayie,
March 31st, which says a British war steamer
spoke a rebel privateer steamer of eight guns
in the Chinese sea.
The Prince of Wale, in Egypt, has shown
himself to possess qualities worthy of t true
traveler. He travels without pretension, walks
a good deal, and rolls up his trousers and wades
from the boat to the shore of the Nile, when
most of hi suite are carried on the backs of the
native.