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2 fflI€('€S u WISELY *■ «VlHAi •wr SPARTA,J 3 E 0 RGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, Aua. 27, 1860. Our Corps of Contributors. 'Col. ». T. Harris, F. L. Littlk, Esq. Dr. E. M. Pendleton, Col. C. W. DuBose, J. T. Jordan, Esq. Esq Geo. F. Pierce, Jr. For tho Hancock Journal. A few Thoughts on the Charac¬ teristics of Our Age No. HI. In our last communication we offered the opinion that every people, who lived tinder government at all, had just that form which suited their necessities, and th at the proselyting zeal, that once char¬ acterized some sections of our country, was uncalled-for, unphilisophical, and redicu lous. In-as-much as government was made for man, it must adapt itself to man’s peftuliarities. Hence the same form of government is not likely to answer the demands of two different people, than is a given coat to fit too meu taken at a ven ture on opposite sides of the globe. The mistake which wc made is quite natural. We fancied ourselves to be free, and con sequently, happy, iu a political sense ; and in our moments of generosity we wished all other people equally so. Attributing our prosperity to the form of our govern¬ ment, we imagined that the same form Would make all other people equally pros¬ perous. Freedom is not an absolute term. It is merely relative, and has a different meaning in its application to different people. What one would regard as glori¬ ous liberty ; another would call slavery.— Tho bushman Hottentot, even, when dressed iu holiday attire, is quite naked. lie scorns the slavery of so little as a, quarter ol a yard of cloth, dirty or clean, tied anywhere. IIo sleeps in trees, and lives upon grass-hoppers, and other of na¬ tures untaxed bounties. Upon a feather bed, he would dic*of night-mare, or imag¬ ine himself bewitched beyond euro by all the skill of tho conjuror’s art. Does free¬ dom mean the same thing to him that it does to us ? Republicanism would affix a “stamp” of the “internal” sort, to one of the extremities of every grass-hopper and lizard in Africa, and the choleric Bushmen Would go to war, upon the principle that, if a “tax upon tea” bo a “casus belli,” so it a “tax upon any other equally’indispcn ctblc article of diet. The writer of this communication bus never wasted much sympathy upon “tho suffering millions of Europe,” because he has regarded ull such expressions as deci¬ dedly figurative , and intended to elect somebody to Congress, or the Legislature, or, simply, as words spoken iu the cause of rhetoric and finely rounded periods.— It is very truo that there is suffering eve¬ rywhere. That is man’s heritage. Yet people suffer by % thc million, nowhere.— And we have yet to learn that there is anything more pceuliar or more distressing in tho sorrows of Europeans than in those of Americans. The laboring classes in this country rc eeivo larger wages than the same classes ih Europe, and this fact, doubtless, is xbade the basis for the belief that there is nfcoro suffering there than here—a conclu¬ sion which wo think utterly illogical.— The wages of the laborer everywhere are proportioned to the cost of living. We wake this remark in refcrcucc to the com¬ mon, day laborer! The cost of living in Europe is much less than it is here, and bonce.a dollar represents a less umouut of work here than it would there. It is a nkttcr of deep regret to us that this fact is not known to the lower classes of Europe, as it would save many of them a very long journey, and us, some very bad company. As to the matter of oppression by their rbltfs, wc believe there has been vast ex * aggernttou. Coming to a country, one of whose fundamental principles is abuse of kings, it- is 'quite natural these people should- seek to bring themselves into no¬ tice, and to excite* sympathy, by highly colored pictures of the barbarities to which they are subjected in their native land.— ♦Fust to it was before the war when a slave escaped from his master into sOmo* North¬ ern State. Abolitionists were eager to hear anything to our discredit. Their ears were open to the tale of Sambo's woes, and Sambo’s mouth was open to false¬ hoods, which, for compass, polish and de¬ tail, surpassed anythiug which the Fath¬ er of crookedness, himself, has left on rc oord. A* a general rule —tako the opiu ioxrfbr what it is worth—the lower class¬ es, everywhere, are apt to be discontented. Those, following in the wake of that •traoge, wild, grand, sane and in sane* vis¬ ionary, Victor Hugo, may attribute this dissatisfied spirit to tbe “crimes of socie¬ ty ;” wo tliiuk it arises from the fact that they are— wlutt they arc. We hold the belief fttat the location dffih’rent people’s within their respective boundaries, all over the face of the globe, was not a matter of chance. We think France tho best plate iu the world for Frenchmen-; Germany, the best place for Germans—upon the principle that we arc utterly at a loss to know how it could hap¬ pen that home should not be the very best place oh earth for everybody. In this broad world, that is just what we make it, every man has a country, and every man may have a home; and if there be not affection* enough in him to bind him to the one, or the other, wc have no faith in the love which he may profess for the home and the country of strangers. GEORGIA. For the Hancock Journal. Necessity. It is no uncommon thing in the En glish language, for woida to have many different significations on shades of mean* ing. Even those that are in most com¬ mon use, are sometimes so very compre¬ hensive in their signification, as to be ap¬ plicable to almost all subjects of a similar and even of a dissimilar character. Such, for example, is the one we have chosen for illustrating partially, our views oil the present state of our affairs and on the na¬ ture and condition of the Government.— That we have a Government, in form— quasi in character but iu reality, not the Government created and established by the people is a fact so transparent to every man who has given the subject a moments thought, that must be admitted by every candid thinker. That the Gov¬ ernment which was established by the thirteen States or the people thereof, iu their sovereign character in 1789, was a Government so long as it was free from usurpation, which commanded the lespect and affection of tho masses, is also a fact, so clearly written upon pages of History, that none can be found even in* this de¬ generate day, skeptical enough to deny it. That all good Governments instituted for the benefit of the governed, is equally clear. Nor can it be successfully denied, that any people under the sun, have been disposed to bear their wrongs so long as they were not insupportable, rather than redress their grievances by the sword.— The tyrant-and usurper may resort to it— do resort to it, for the purpose of riviting the chains which they have forged, but the people themselves have ever avoided it, until forbearance was no longer a virtue until forced by necessity to do it The usurpations and wrongs, with which our Government justly stands charged, did not have their origin in necessity.— Its enemies denounced it as weak, yet none was stronger in its structure, to the extent of its delegated powers. In its infancy it only lacked the power. This was undenied and undeniable. Every good man in the land accorded these pow¬ ers to it and to sustain it, was ready “to do and die.” There was—there could be no' necessity for any stronger Government than was thus established, for all the pur poses of Government, If it were we.ik as some pretended, it could be amended in accordanoo with tho prescribed terms.— They were expressed in the instrument itself. Tho sword was never contempla ted, by its founders for any such purpose. it was intended that the Union should be perpetual, but the great fact must not be lost sight of, that it was intended also, that the Constitution should never be dis¬ regarded by any department of the Gov¬ ernment or any portion of the people.— Perpetual and exact fidelity to all its pro¬ visions was the price of perpetual Union. For it cannot be presumed, that any of the Statos of that day could have enter¬ tained the idea for a moment, that it was a Government of unlimited powers in any sense of that term, that they wero thus creating. It never could have been rati¬ fied if any such idea had prevailed and of course, could have never been formed, if not ratified. This being a truism, the States respectively, must have power remained sovereign and independent, so far as a Federal Gov¬ ernment is to be considered So long then as the government was administered according to the Constitution it was strong enough and good enough for all and for every wrong. Every evil had its appropri¬ ate remedy. None were incurable by peaceful means. There could be no neces¬ sity for force or eoerciou to secure obedi¬ ence to law exoept as against the lawless. Public opinion was the great corrective of ull public evils and when this failed, pow¬ er enough was lodged in the hands of the Executive of the National Government, for their correction. What more could be desired ? There was uo necessity for more power to enforce law, if resisted than was given, for the reason that enough was giv¬ en for each and every emergency, as ex¬ perience fully proved, for nearly a half century, during the better days of the Re¬ public. And we are bold to declare, that au honest, just and proper administration ; of the Government would have secured its perpetuity, for all time to come, beyoud ‘ SU r r rtr - among the people who eKcted them gradual demoralization of the masses—sec-, tional jealousies degenerating iuto section al hate—the inordinate love of money aud *■* *" « rv tc *““ 6 thc Fiu, ° causes of the late disruption, lhere nev-, er was any necessity for these. The I*ul» ! pitr failed most signally in the discharge of its duties. It cried not aloud, against these mighty evils—these grievous wrongs which were silently but surely preparing the way for the destruction of more than six hundred thousand lives, and ten thou¬ sand millions of treasure, with a National debt of three thousand millions of dollars, and sins enough thrown in to damn a world and populate tho lower regions to the ex¬ tent of suffocations. Let it not be thought that we are harsh in our condemnation of the Pulpit. \Ve have the greatest confi¬ dence iu its power for good as well as for evil. But while we would not have it to ally itself with party politics under any circumstances wc would have it proclaim at all timse, the principles of virtue and a sound morality, and against every vice that corrupts the heart or is opposed to justice and truth. A corrupt people can no more maintain a good Government than can a corrupt fountain send forth good wa ter. It was its office—nay it was its im¬ perative duty, to keep the morals of the people pure, as far as it was in its power to do it. That it has not exerted its whole power to this end, cannot be questioned. Now theie is and has been no necessity for any failure iu its efforts in this direction. Wc leave the guilty in the Lands of their final Judge, believing that He will meet out to them their just reward for all their delinquences here. It had the Bible !— The Bible with its sacred precepts and teachings were trampled under foot. It had the Scriptures! But the Commandments were “too grievous toover come.” It hud the truth as it fell from the lips of the greatest Reformer the world ever knew ! But what of all that? The Savior of the world no longer influenced their hearts by bis word or through his Spirit. Hence all our evils—all our woes. The plea of necessity, will not avail in anything connected with tho past. Chris¬ tianity recognizes no such doctrine outside of the ten commandments, and the New Testament. By them wc judge, and by them we condemu the whole batch o f political preachers, from first to last. To the extent of their influ¬ ence over the minds of men, are they re¬ sponsible and justly so held, for every crime, whether moral or political. Called to preach the Gospel of the Son of God professedly, they have prostituted their calling, for party objects and are mainly responsible lor a fratricidal war, with all its honors and all its guilt. Even uow that the battle is over, they are not silent rn their advocacy of wrong. What do they mean ? Is it their purpose to drive the country iuto infidelity Where is their love to their fellow/ man? Where their coudemiutiou of the most barefaced sins that ever polluted a Nation ? Where ^ ,e * r effort as peacemaking ? They may ^ uow their duty but they d > it uot. They are U,ue,i0 lekcl upharsin”—weighed and Found wanting, J hey love not the truth “they regard not either the principles of j U: >ticc or righteousness and the best that Ca 11 he claimed for them is, that they are “ w hited sepulchers iuii et rottenness with * n * We mean political preachers ODly— party hacks—“wolves in sheep’s clothing” — nothing more nor less thau such. We loath them as we do the foulest stench that ever emanated from the vilest sinks of cor¬ ruption aud iuiquity. But they have hud influence—great influence in some sec uops of the country and they have it now ; and so long as they exort it, just so long will it bo found difficult to re cstablith such friendly relations between every sec¬ tion as every good man must desire. GIVIS. — -d—------— - A A’oblc Retaliation. A Havanna letter of the 20th ult. states that the patriot General Quesada leceutly seut a flag of truce with a letter to the Spanish General Lcsca, proposing to ex¬ change some prisoners. Lcsca responded by sayiug that the death of a dozen Span¬ iards was of no cousequence ; besides, he had none of Quesada’s men as prisoners, for ■as soon as they fell iuto his hands he had or¬ dered them shot, aud he should continue to puisuo this same coarse. When this answer was received by Quesada, he called the Spanish prisoners together and said : “Senors, I hold in my hand a death war¬ rant issued against you, drawn up by your own chief, Lesea. The reading of it in¬ spires me with horror;” so saying, he handed the paper to one of his aids, who read it aloud. Seeing that the prisoners were full of indignation at the sentiments contained in Lesca’s note, Quesada said to them : “Senors, General Quesada is not a General Lcsca. I pardon you all. YTu can. leave when you will, and to effect a safe exit for you I will issue the necessary passports.” When the General had fin¬ ished speaking, the liberated Spaniards burst forth in shouts for Quesada and free Quba. Only two of them asked the nec C5Sar y protection papers to go to Havanna, —“ “ - the liberating army. --- We were informed, on yesterday, a difficulty took P ,ace on Tuef<J ay between o Ilt . 0 [ rhe combatants was killed.— Chron. ifc Sent. Rumored Impeachment of Gov. Bullock. Wc learn from persons who profess to know whereof they speak, that a deter¬ mined purpose is expVessed by a large number of members of the House of Rep¬ resentatives of our Legislature to prefer articles of impeaohment against Gov. Bul¬ lock immediately after the General Assembly mcet3, and that the movement is daily gaining strength amongst tho members. T here are said to be many al¬ leged grounds of impeachment, the princi¬ ple of which are the spending large sums of the public money by the Governor without authority of law, the conversion of the State’s funds to his own private use, and the abuse of the pardoning power. It is confidently asserted that State Treasurer Angier is prepared to furnish abundant and conclusive proof of the two first charges, and as to the third, abuse of the pardoning power, almost every county in the State can prove where legally coni, victed criminals of the deepest dye, many of whom have confessed their guilt, have been let loose upon society by the soi-call ed clemency of the Executive, until the people have almost abandoned confidence in the protection which the law affords against evil-doers .—Journal d> Messenger, Aug. 23<?. We stale it as our candid opinion that the General Assembly will do well to give its attention to subjects of more interest to the people and the welfare of the State, than that of impeaching Gov. Bullock.— The reseating of the colored members, and tlie prompt passage of the Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment are matters of much greater importance, which should first of all, occupy the attention of the Legislature at it* next meeting. We look upon its impeachment rumor as a first class humbug, which will end in empty air.— Any movement in this direction would be highly detrimental to the political, social, and material interest of the commonwealth. Our people want political quiet and repose, Impeachment means revolution, aud as" stated heretofore, (in these colnnms) we shall oppose any steps looking to such del¬ eterious result .—New Era, 24/A. Grant Taking Ike Back Tratk. Grant is exhibiting his chronic political vacillation in his conduct to Mississippi. The policy of conciliation that he favored, and for which a heavy wing of the Repubs lican party has been battling, proved suc¬ cessful in Virginia. The ultra Radicals were promptly thrown overboard. The same policy has triunmphed in Tennessee. The thing has frightened the ultraists, North, who have come back upon Grant so heavily as to frighten him into a craw¬ fish out of his conciliatory policy, aud even to some backsliding on his own dear kinsman, the Dent. The bugaboo that has been rattled about bis ears has been tho split in the Radical ranks. Our own Democratic press has helped the cry, by claiming the triumph cf Walker aud Senter, as a Democratic victory, when, in no sense of the word, has it been a Democratic victory. It was won by conceding the very thing the Demo¬ crats opposed. It was really the result of a grim necessity. The radical party was divided, and the rebel vote was the turn¬ ing weight. So the moderate Republicans weut for getting it, and gave the rebels enfranchisuient, if they would support them. The disfranchised were fighting for freedom, the Republicans for place. The extreme Radicals were too fanati¬ cal to go strongly for rebel enfranchise¬ ment and they were whipped. Aud now they are trying to drive Grant from his conservative Republicanism by the scare¬ crow that the thing is a sharp Democrat¬ ic dodge, “to divide the Republican par¬ ty,” and scramble into power through the divison thus created. lienee we do say our journals have been impolitic as well as untrue iu claiming such visitors, as Walker’s aud Senter’s, Demo¬ cratic. They had better pass for just what they are—triumphs outside of party, growing out of necessity, and establishing no prin¬ ciple, but that, if one man plays friendly, aud anotner hostile to you, that you arc very apt to side with the former, when you can do nothing of and for yourself alone. We copy an extract from the St. Louis Republican : If it is really intended to reconcile, the administration must do right throughout, and not talk conciliation and act disfran¬ chisement. aud thereby please nobody. A reconciliation, by which is meant that Southern men should elect Northern'car. pet baggers, or send to the United States Senate politicians who grind them in the dust, is no reconciliation at all. It is a phantom created iu the imagination ut perhaps a well-meaning man, but evident¬ ly not of a man of ciaer understanding. sub agent for Georgia and Florida, has already upon his books orders for upwards of six hundred Chinese, the treater num ber of whom are for Savaunah and its im vici “ ,ty - Sno.v fell in France aud North Italy on the 29th and 317 July. The IVewg. STATE. The Thermometer stood at 103 in Ma¬ con last Sunday. New corn is selling in Bainbridgo at 81 per bushel. Jasper county has had meal from now corn. A gold mine has recently been discov¬ ered in Forsyth county. first Forsyth paid 35 cents a pound for its new bale of cotton. Georgia has forty-seven cotton mills, against thirty.five in 1850. Tho Menroo county Superior Court is in session, with 243 cases before it. The Dawson Manufacturing Company is furnishibg freight cars at the rate of thirty a month. T. S. Garner is canvassing Hall coun¬ . ty in the interest of the Air-Line Rail¬ road. Governor Bullock has ordered that tax of four tenths of one per cent, be as sessed and collected for the present year. The Governor has pardoned Jim Jones, a person of color of Dougherty county, who was convicted of burglary in the for night, and sentenced to the peuitentiary life. New Cotton. —The ‘Augusta Chroni¬ cle & Sentinel of yesterday says : A far¬ mer, whose plantation is on Broad river, in this State, brought into this city yes¬ terday thirty bales of cotton of this year’s crop Last Sunday, says the Courier, was one of the hottest days ever known in Iloino. The thermometer at 3 o’clock p. m., stood at 103° and at 9 p. m., at 89°.-— The nights during the past week have been unm-ually warm tor this locality. TOKEIGN. Serrano puts on the airs of a sovereign. The Pope returns his thanks to the Emperor ^ of Austria for pardoning the Bishop of Linz. Tw nty thousand elephants furnish Sheffield its annual supply of ivory. It is said that Marshal McMahon will j succeed Neil as Minister of War. At a meeting held at Waterford and Thorless, the Government was urged to issue a general amnesty to Fenians. Encounters are still reported between the Spanish troops and the (Jarlists. in which the latter are unfortunately defeat ed. Two American prelates, who had been detained in Abyssinia, have been released through the invention of the British Gov¬ ernment. will Malaiga raisins in crop, it is thought, be one-third less than last year, when it was 1,950,000 boxes. The famous Clychy prison, Daris, was put up at auction the other day, the first price being 8300,000, but no one would take it at that figure. A gang of English pic-pockets, which infested the German watering places have been arrested. The controlling idea of a French “girl of the period”—to dress as every one else dresses, and yet to dress as no one else. The Governor of Espiritu Sauto has conscripted all in his jurisdiction between the ages of 20 and 50. Sickness is decreasing at Havana.— Heavy rains arc falling daily, and tho thermometer murks ninety-eight degrees day and night. eight A wealthy Dublin geutleman keeps printing presses busy, printing tracts, most ol‘ which he writes himself, in seven different languages. The Kuipcroi is still suffering from rheumatic pains, and will not visit the camp at Chalons until September. The I’rinee Imperial reviewed the troops at Chalons in the absence of the Emperor. GENERAL. Gen. Sherman is going to camp meet, ing with Senator Sprague of Rhode Island. The Arkansas negroes propose to pre¬ empt lauds, and hire Chinese laborers to work them. Grasshoppers are at last utilized '“Io¬ wa is teaming’ with grashoppers, 6ays a paper of that State. The remnantof the Seminole Indians in Florida, complain of Outrageous treatment from their white neighbors. Trot. Julius II. Seelye, cf Amherst College, lias determined not to accept the Presidency of Michigan University. If you want all your neighbors to “know all about you,” give a party and don’t in¬ vito the folks “who live next door. A man iu St. Louis committed suicide last Thursday, because the sickness of his wife rendered Lcr unfit ro support him. The talk i3 revived of bringing to France with the pomp, the remains of the Duke of lleichstadt, the son of tho first Napoleon. The Russian Government is said to have ottered thirty-five million francos for piclurc sal,e - B«. Liebig state, that the .and of Hesse has risen 300 per cent, in value in °° D9eq “ CnCC I Tho invitations of the that wedding in Atlantic City, Wyoming -Territory, were j sent that kind on playing cards, the only article of j that the country afforded. Ihe Hon. Horace Greeley’s knowledge of agricultural affairs is improving. The turnips him which he raised last year only cost one dollar aud twelve cents each. None Philadelphia is in sore straits f.r water. can be drawn from Fairmount re. servoir. New Y T ork on thc contrary, is blessed with an abundant supply of Cro ton. The Cotton Crop of Georgia.— A feeling of profound disappointment per¬ vades the mass of Georgia cotton planters just now. The rust has clean dissipated every prospect of a “bully crop,” and knocked down anticipations l’rcm twenty five to fifty per cent. We have heard much talk and speculation about this rust whether, in truth, the plant is rusting or burning undor the drought and the in¬ tensity of the solar heat, We think it must be a good deal of both. At all evbnts, the disease saps the vitality of the plant at once. It wilts, droops, and frequently falls prone upon the bosom of Mothef Earth. What bolls are sufficiently matur¬ ed, will open prematurely and develop their contents of rather inferior cotton, and then the account of the stalk is closed for ever. Georgia will make as much cotton as she did last year, and that was a very scant crop. Whether she will do better, and if so, how much, is yet to be settled — Macon Telegraph. Cotton Tax (Jlai ws.—W e have seen’ a circular from Washington, which states that it is now the entire Supreme Bench, with one exception, are of opinion that the cotton tax was unconstitutional, and will have to bo refunded. A case is to be made in Court next December, and is no &mbt is felt about the ultimate result. l£ is further said, that, a company is being organized in New York with a capital of five or ten millions to buy up these claims' and that parties are now selling them tor a song when they are worth their face.— Planters and others, who have paid th a tax, arc earnestly advised not to part with their claims for the present. 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K A Y T ON'S OIL OF LIFE CURES ALL Pains and Aches, AND IS TI1E Great Rheumatic Remedy. KAYTON’S PILLS Cures Sick Headache AND A l I, BILIOUS DISORDERS. May 21—ly. K. li. stedman; ^ i & iH! Stoves-! Stoves f HARDWARE ANO CUTLERY, ^ JL I \\^ I?, "E ■""* Kellies, J A RS, &C. % l June 18—Hut SPARTA, GA-