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WES DAT MQRXING July 0.
Wheat Crops in Vann’s V alley.-
The Atlanta Mass Meeting and Be*
p cbllcan state Convention.
We would call attentian to an article
from the Intelligencer, in our columns
to-day, in regard to this Radical move
ment in Georgia. The following fur
ther facts in regard to that convention,
are gleaned from the columns of that
same paper. “More than three-fourths
of all. the persons present were ne
groes.
In the temporary organisation, Col.
A. W Stone, of Savannah, was called to
the Chair, and S. W. Beard, Esq., (col
ored] of Augusta, and P. M. Sheibly,
Esq., of Rome, appointed. Secretaries.
Two Committees were appointed; one
on Credentials, and the other to report
officers for permanent organization.—
These Committees were composed -of
about half whites and half blacks.
Delegates from 68 counties were en
rolled, nearly all of whom were ne
groes.
The permanent officers of the Con
vention, reported and elected, were
Foster Blodgett, of Augusta, President,
and two Vice Presidents from each Con
gressional District—about one half of
the latter being negroes. Secretaries
P. M. Sheibly, Esq., S. W. Beard, Esq.,
(colored) and a white man from Sa
vannah. The Declaration of Indepen.
dence was read by Mr. Sheibly.
Three speeches were made; the first
by A. W. Tenney, of New York; the
second by Rev. J. M. Simms, (negro)
of Savannah, and the last) by S. W.
Beard, (do) of Augusta.
Previous to the assemblage of the
Convention, thefive negro Loyal League
clubs marched through the principal
streets, in procession, preceded by
music and banners. The number of
persons in the procession was estimated
to be from 1200 to 1500.
“Can these things be, and overcome
us like a summer cloud, and not excite
our special wonder.”
The Floyd Superior Court.
Met on Monday morning, the 8th
inst.. Judge James Milner, of the Cher
okee Circuit, presiding. The list ot
Grand Jurors for tho first week may
be found below. Besides the local Bar,
we noticed the following Attorneys in
attendance: Hon. Ben H. Hill and Capt.
H. A. Gartrell, of Athens; Hon. Warren
Aiken, ofCartersville, Col. J. W. Wad
dell, Maj. J. W. Blance, tbe Solicitor,
of Cedartown, and Wm. T. Trammell,
Esq., of Griffin.
The Charge of Judge Milner to the
Grand Jury was plain, practical and to
the point. His instructions in regard
to a full and impartial execution of the
Criminal Code, madeadeep impression,
and he was particularly forcible upon the
subject of vagrancy. He made no dis
tinction in regard to race or previous
condition, but urged that prosperity can
not be restored to our impoverished
section unless all ablebodied persons,
not having visible means of support,
should be compelled to woric, in accor
dance with the laws of the State. He
did not doubt but that, in many cases,
vagrancy and vagabondism had been
encouraged by the munificent charities
of the government, and generous indi
viduals and societies at the North, and
he urged that unless the laws were rig
idly enforced, permanent evils would
result to our people, growing out of
these well meant, and in many cases,
much needed charities. The Charge,
ns a whole, was excellent, and, we have
no doubt, produced a deep impression
on the Jury.
GRAND JURORS FOR THE FIRST WEEK.
Geo. S. Black, Foreman, N
James H. Ragau, Lewis D. Burwell,
John Moore, Reece M. Braden, San
ders W. Vann. JamesjC: Wood, Har-
vey'Waahington 1 _-Jtjfin Taliaferro, Al
fred Johnson, Wm.. Ramey, Tbos. J.
Davis; Reuben S. Norton, Wm. J.
Wright, Wm. H. Burney, Elias B. Bai-
lenger, Thos. H. Bryant, Martih F,
Kinarrf, Wm. C. Hendricks.
REPORT NO 2.
Ed.-Courier.—Dear-Sir i 1 herewith
send you my report for ther week end
ing July 6. I had hoped to be able to
send you a larger number of crops,. bat
returns come in somewhat slowly.—
When my reports are completed, I
shall aggregate the whole, so as
to show the average yield of all the
crops reported^:
Crop No. 15. 16 acres sown, yield 120
bushels; average per acre, 7} bushels.
No. 16.55 aicres sown, yield 432 bush
els; average 7 47-55 bushels.'
No. 17 24 acres sown, yield 60 bush
els; avefoge 21 bushels.
No. 18.14 acres sown, yield 105 bush
els; average 7$ bushels.
No. 10. 30 acres sown; yield 175 bush-
e!s;|average 5 5-6 bushels.
No. 20, 33 acres sown, yield 246 bush
els; average 7 15-33 bushels.
No. 2l;30 acres sown; yield 101 bush
els; average 3 11-30 bushels.
No. 22.30 acres sown; yield 127 bush
els; average 4 7-30 bushe’s.
No. 23. 20 acres sown, yield 164
bushels; average 8 1-5 buehels.
No. 24.7 acres sown; yield 48 bush
els; average 6 6-7 bushels.
No. 25. 6 acres sown; yield 46 bush
els; average 7} bushels. ,
No. 26. 10 acres sown; yield 25 bush
els; average 2} bushels.
No. 27. 16 acres sown; yield 158 bush
els; average 9} bushels.
No. 28. 12 acres sown; yield 116
bushels; average 9$ bushels.
No. 29, 8 acres sown; yiold 142 bush
els; average 17$ bushels. |
Na. 30,8 acres sown; yield 75 bush
average 9$ bushels.
No. 31.30 acres sown; yield 160 bush
els; average 5$ bushels.
A. J. Ring
- Cave SpriDg, July 6, ’67.
>Vashin gton Matters.
Washington, July 5. —It will require
a two-thirds vote to suspend the rule
adopted by the House on Wednesday
confining legislation to prefectirig and
strengthening the military reconstruc
tion bill.
Pending tbe adoption cf the rule,
motions to adjourn by extremists fail
ed.
In tbe House, tbe Speaker announc
ed tbe committee on reconstruction
provided for by tbe resolution adopted
on Wednesday, as follows: Stevens,
Boutwell, Bingham, Farnesworth, Hub
bard. Beaman, Paine, Pike *ad
Brooks. T r) ' 1 V- S /
Farther Iron Washington—Death of
Judge Wayne.
Washington. July 5.—Judge Wayne
is dead. He was born in Savannah,
Georgia, in 1790, and appointed to tbe
Bench in 1835.
'The prosecution has closed testimony
against Surratt.
Resolutions have been submitted that
legislation be confined to reconstruc
tion, and bills relating to it only be
acted upon. Long debate ensued, dur
ing which it transpired that 13 Sena
tors in cancus voted in favor of univer
sal suffrage. The resolution restricting
legislation finally passed—ayes 19 ;
nays 9.
Mr. Wilson slated, in course of the
debate, that Secretary Stanton wanted
Card ot Judge T. J. Davis—Case of
Joseph Johnson, Freedman.
We are now satisfied that injustice
was done Capt. De la Mesa, in an arti
cle that appeared in our paper of May
24th, in regard to bis interference in
the trial of Joseph Johnson, Freed
man.
We used the word “convict,” in the
connection alluded to below, because
that was the word used by Judge Davis
in giving us an account of the affair.
It is not our purpose to do the slight
est injustice to Capt; Dela la Mesa or
any other person, and hence we publish
the following card of Judge Davis, with
pleasure;
Cave Spring, July 4, ’67
Mr. Dwinell: .
Dear Sir—In your Tri-weekly of
May 24th, was an article referring to
the trial of Joseph Johnson, Freed
man. It might appear that injustice
was done to Capt. De la Mesa, in refer-
erence to an expression used referring
to myself, in the case of assault and
battery, upon the person of a freed
boy, Elleck. I might have said convict,
where I intended to say charged, which
caused you to err in that single term.—
It is due-to Capt. De la Mesa to say that
he only entered the charge, and on my
appearing without the proseoutor, he al
lowed me to settle the case with the
party. Yours, &c.,
T. J. Davis.
A Card of Thanks.
Rohe, Ga., July 8th, ’67,
The thanks of. the Ladie’s Parsonage
Association, M. E. Church, are hereby
tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap for
the donation, by the hhnds of Mr. Nev-
in, of $35 50—net proceeds of the re
cent Concert. Miss Lou Gibbons.
Secretary.
Fire in Atlanta. -We learn from
the Intelligencer that ■ ihe grocery store
of W.S. Adamson,onPeaobtree Street,
wl6 consumed on the night of the I6th
inst. *
Hon. B. H. Hill will address the cit
izens of Atlanta on Tuesday, July
16th.
Registration in Atlanta.--The reg
istration having been completed in tbe
first and second ward, shows a majori
ty of 70 in favor of the whites.
Gadsden Times.
We have received the first No. of
this paper published at Gadsden, Ala.,
by L. W. Grant and T. J. Cox. The
paper is very neat and well, filled with
interesting reading matter. We wish
our young friends abundant success in
their enterprise. They are located in
the midst of a rich, agricultural and
mineral country, and we shall be sur
prised if quite a number of our mer
chants do not advertise with them.
Subscription $3 a year. Address
Grant & Cox, Gadsden, Ala.
New Advertisements.
N. J.. Bayard offers to rent the rooms
recently occupied by the Courier office.
•Sheriff sales by N. Yarbrough. Bai.
saales hy A. 'N. Starn, of Polk ooun-
Fight at Franklin Tennessee.
We learn from passengers who arriv
ed here yesterday morning, that there
was a fight at a public meeting at
Franklin Tennessee on the 6th inst.,
in which some 15 men were killed and
a large number wounded. No particu
lars given.
From Mobile.
Mobile, July 6.—Yesterday was gen.
erally obseived as a holiday, and busi.
ness was suspended, A large number
of citizens went on an excursion down
the bay to witness the regatta. There
were also several excursion parties of
freedmen; the day pasted off quietly. A
national salute was fired at noon. A
Federal seldier shot himself in a store
on Water street.
The steamer Tobasco, bearing the
Mexican flag, arrived yesterday morn
ing with four or five hundred of the
foreign legion belonging to Maximil
ian’s command at Vera Cruz.
They left Vera Cruz on the 28th of
June. They marched out with colors
flying, saluted by Liberal forces, and
were allowed to retain, their arms, and
furnished with a national vessel to leave
Mexico.
Lt. Col. J. E. Ludy, of the French
army commands them, He says they
will be mustered out here.
South Curolina.—A correspondent
of tbe New York Herald, writiig of
South Carolina, says:
Great ( are| the apprehensions of tbe
whites of a negro State government
which, from the barbararic ignorance
of their blacks, will be hpt to adopt
such laws of heathenish confiscation,
agrarianism and negro social equality
&6 will make existence in tbe State in
tolerable to the white man and worse
than death to the white woman. On
the side of the blacks there J is] a cor
responding degree of enthusiasm, and
they [have] already in their political
meetings thrown out 6ome ominous
hints of making property exclusively
pay the expenses of the State, and of
living some unusal exemptions and
State favors to the laboring class.”
He adds that “the manifest destiny
of South Carolina, if peace is to be
maintained between her two races, is
tbe relinquishment of ber soil by the
whites to tho absolute occupation of the
blacks.”' Sucb is the Shellabarger *‘re-
construction l”
In the House, the Speaker presented
a memorial from- Adams against tbe
admission of Mr. Beck from Kentucky.
Referred to the Committee. on Elec
tions. I
Mr. Paine moved to' suspend the;
rules so he might introduce a joint re
solution tendering the thanks of Con
gress to Major General Sheridan for
his able and faithful preformance of
duty as commander of the district of
Texas .and Louisiana. The rule was
suspended by 110 against 18, and reso
lution passed. ■
Additional papers regarding the Ken
tucky delegation, and a protest from
the members' whose seats are not con
tested, referred to ConSmittee on Elec
tions.
Joint resolutions of thanks to Gen
einls Sickles, Pope and Schofield adop
ted.
Mr.’Scbenck offered a- resolution of
thanks to Petrolum C. Mosby and At
torney General Stanbury for maintain
ing the President’s policy. Pending
the question of its reception, the House
adjourned till Monday.
Tbe resolutions thanking District
Commanders.were passed by a third
party vote.
Mr. Brooks is the only Democrat®
on the reconstruction committee.
The Cabinet is in session to-day.
Internal revenue $2,500,000.
The Mean Whites—A few, says tbe
Richmond Enquirer, have been Arise to
nature’s instincts. A few whites have
united to inflame the negroes, and to
head the movement; But it has been
for the Offices which they hoped thus to
clutch for themselves.—
We will not defile these Fees with
their names. Venal conspirators
against the Commonwealth,'and trai
tors to their race—the salaries and
titles of office, will be a poor reward
for the shame that buys them.
The Fourth In New York—Treasure.
New York, July 5.—The Rising Star
brings $819,000 treasure.
There were three killed,many casual
ties, and twenty fires from the cele
bration. A pleasure boat was run down
by the Steamer Norwalk, returning
from Long Island. Five of the six pas
sengers were drowned.
(N. Y Market.
New York, July 6.—Cotton firm.—
Sales 950 bales at. 26 to 26$. Floor
more steady; State $6 50 to $10 ]50 .
Southern $9 25. Wheat firmer. Corn
dull. Pork firmer. Lard drooping.—
Naval stores quiet. Groceries quiet but
firm. Freights unchanged.
Stocks strong. Money 6 per cent.—
Gold 38$. Sterling 10$ to 10$. Bonds
of 1862. coupons, 111$; 1864, 108$
1865,108$.
A Negro Mayor and Connell for Rich*
mond—Fusion ot Newspapers.
Richmond, July 6.—A colored caucus
in the upper wards last night decided
on running a colored , candidate for
Mayor, and a Council ticket with
whites and 3 blacks.
The Enquirer and Examiner newspa
pers have been fused,and will be pub
lished by a joint company. among
whom are the Hon. Jas. Lyons, Judge
Ould, R. T. Danniel, and others prom
inent gentlemen.
The Mlssissppl Levees.
Washington, July 6.—Leading mem
bers say that Congress will not take up
tbe question of rebuilding ieves on the
Mississippi until the State is reconstruc
ted under the acts of Congress.
Vessel In Disiress.
New York, July 6.—The brig Cora
M. Goodrich, from Savannuh'for Buenos
Ayres, put into Holmes’ Hole in dis
tress, the cargo shifted. Nearly all
bands sick.
Louisiana ufaT. Marshal.
Washington, July 6—papers have
been filed in the Attorney General’s
office looking to the removal of F. J
Herron, U. S. Marshalfor Louisiana,
Mexican Imperial Troops.
New Orleans, July 6.—Tbe Austrirn
steamer Elizabeth has orders to pro
ceed to Vera Cruz without delay to
bring Austrian aud Mexican'lmperial-
ist officers and troops here. She will
return immediately. Colonel Ludley
and other officers of the Vera Cruz gar
rison, who arrived in Mobile by the
Tobisco, have come here.
Registration in Alexandria.
Washington, July 6.—Total registra
tion in Alexandria is 2.603. The black
majority is 205. Challenged 196. Re
jected 7—all whites.
Registration In Mobile.
Mobile, July 6.—Registration in the
5th, 6th and 8th wards for the week
1,334, of which 781 are whites.
Registration at Savannah.
Savannah, July 6.—Registration to
day 151 whites and 129 colored. So
far 816 whites, and 1,703 colored have
registered.
Foreign Intelligence.
London. July 4.—The grand review
ia Hyde Park postponed on accoun t of
Maximilliao’s execution. Great in
dignation here aud on the Continent
Vienna, July 4.—The Imperial
Court has gone into mourning for
Maximilian.
London, July 4.—Bank of England
holds 22 500,000 pounds bullion.
Paris July 3.—Vanderbrook, Broth
ers, American hauliers here, have sus
pended.
Napoleon ordered the Court in mour
ning for Maximilian.
The Fanrth at Augusta.
Augusta, July 5.—Business general
ly suspended yesterday. National sa
lute fired at noon. The freedmen and
soldiers had a row, which at first threa
tened to be serious, but nobody killed.
[From the Chronicle and Sentinek-
Notes on the Situation—-No. T
—
BTB. H. HILL.
7|r
The late civil war did „
any formal treaty of peace. _
ted States, though recognizing by
the departments of their Federal G<
ernment, the Confederate States’ as a
belligerent- party, would not recognize
tbe right of making a treaty by their
enemy lest a sort of separation ;or, inde
pendence should be. implied,
W9 must, therefore, look to the
ound? of difference., which broughi
le conflict; to the declaration:' by
011671 States of the purposes of ‘the
... m - *
ing the, progress of the war, ana to the
conditions or stipulations ff tbe sur
render,'lor 'the terms of peace, and the
consequent rights of the victor and the
obligations ot the 1 vanquished. For we
must a,1mit that the doctrines of the
issue, as insisted upon by the United
States, and the purposes and demands
of the Hnited States in iriakirig and
Carrying on tbe war, arid the terms of
surrender, and,' therefore, make the
law of the peace tor both parties—Be
ing thus demanded by the one party
and concCded by tbe-other.*
Tbe Southern States insisted:'
I. That the Federal Constitution was
.a compact, to which the Slates were
parties as separate' and independent 1
debate, that Secretary Stanton wanwa 1$^, add therefore, were parties with
no legislation regarding Indians. Se n ~ bright, by Virtne of their separate
ate adjourned till Monday. # sovereignty; of withdrawal from the
In thn Hnn<u> the Sneaker Dresented b . V -■ ... • J
compact when, in the judgment of the
State withdrawing, her interest or safe
ty required withdrawal.
2. That the administration of the
common govern ment by a sectional par
ty—sectional because organized on
principles of avowed hostility to a right
of property held, by the citizens of the
Southern States and recognized ihi the
Constitution—would endanger the in
terest and safety of such States; and
therefore, justified the exercise of the
right claimed to withdraw.
Many in the South believed this right
to wi’hdrawjwould be conceded by the
party then coming into power in the
United Stales, and that, therefore, the
secession would be peaceable. They
were encouraged to believe this, be
cause this doctrine, though now' and
for years advocated at the South, did
really originate in New England, and
first came asa threat from that quarter of
the Union; because alsb, many of tbe
prominent organs and leaders of the
new party did concede the right, and
some declared if the Southern States
chose to exercise it, they should do so
in peace.
Bu‘, this impression proved to be a
very fatal mistake; and it is very cer
tain that the United States, and ever\
department of their government) in the
beginning and throughout the duration
of the struggle, and until after the final
surrender, did deny in every official
form, both tbe right of withdrawal, the
validity of the attempt to withdaaw, as
well as the sufficiency of the case made
to justify the attempt.
Thus the right of a State to with
draw from the Union became the great,
leading question of difference between
the parties to the conflict, as made by
all the official records, and was the main
question io be.decided by the conflict.
The South insisted the Union Was dis
solved; the North denied it;' they joined
in battle to decide tbe question. Now
let us see the official proof that this was
the. original issue.
In Mr. Lincoln’s first Inaugural Ad
dress we find the following language;
“It follows from these views that no
State, upon its own mere motion, can
lawfully get out of the Union; that re
solves and ordinances to that effect are
legally void.” * * * “I, therefore,
consider that, in view of tbe Constitu
tion and laws, the Union is unbroken,
and to the extent of my ability, I shall
take care, as the Constitution itself ex-'
pressly enjoins upon me, that the Jaws
of the Union shall be faithfully ex
ecuted in all the States.”
Here, two things are plainly asserted
by the Executive power of the United
States: 1. That the Union is not and
cannot be broken by the senarate States;
and 2. That this doctrine shall be main
tained.
In July, 1861, the Congress of the
United States, with almost entire una
nimity, resolved.
That this war is not, waged,. on our
part, in any spirit of oppression, nor lor
any purposeof conques\ or epbjugatidn,
n ir purpose of overthrowing or interfering
With the rights or . established institu
tions'of the States; but to defend and
maintain the supremacy of the Consti
tution, and to preserve the Uniop,, with
all the dignity, equality and rights of
the several States unimpaired; arid, as
soon as these objects are accomplished,
tbe war ought to cease.”
Now, let us enalyze this resolution
and we finfl that it asserts three very
distinct propositions:
1. It declares what is not the,purpose;
of the war : Il is. not m a spirit ot op-
presssion, nor for any purpose of eon
guest or subjugation.
2. I t declares what js the purpose of
the war : ''lo defend and maintain the
Constitution, and to preserve the Union,
witn all the dignity, equality, and rights
of the several States unimpaired.”
3. It daclares when the war shall
cease: “As soon as these objects are
accomplished the war ought to cease;”
that is, as soon as the Constitution is
maintained and the Union preservecl
with the dignify, equality and rights of
the States unimpaired, the war onght
to cease.
Ten days afterward the Congress
again declared, on motion of a New
England Radical their “fixed determi
nation to maintain the supremacy of
the govern me ut, apd the integrity of
the Union of all these United . States.”,
And, with the single exception of. Air.
Breckinridge, this resolution was unan
imous in the Senate.
Quotations of like character cculd be
multiplied until there should be no,
end of the books that should be writ en
but these which I have made are so:
clear, so explicit, so official, and make
tbe single purpose of the war on the
part of the United States so distinct
that. I could not make it more ex
plicit by a thousand additional proofs.
That singie purpose, at that time, was Ur
ln ' defeat the validity of secession and preserve
the Union of all the States. ,
Now, I have conceded, and here re
peat, that either party, during the*
struggle,Jmay increase bis demands, or’
enlarge his purposes in waging-the war;
and these additional demands or pur
loses being proclaimed and made
known to the other party before the
surrender, while “his men and arms
remain.” may be claimed as one' of
the results decided by_the war, and as
making paiit of the terms of peace.—
Such demands, it is true, mast be reas
onable, and snch purposes must be
within the laws of war. F<»r instance,
either party, within tbe time prescrib
ed, may demand the removal of tbe
cause of the war so that it may , not
produce a renewal of the conflict; or, in
ease of an unjust war or of unnecessary
or unreasonable prolongation of the
struggle, may demand the expenses' of
the war; or, in cose of rebellion, maiy
insfet on excepting from tha amnesty
the authors, of the disturbance ?to tfe
brought! to legal trial; ot if a cruel and
barbarous nation were to give distinct
notice ta rebels that they must e;:pect
no quarters; that they must consider,
in case of surrender, that t heir lives or
property of both are forfeited, the world
might .be shocked and .humanity made
ashamed; feurt'the rebels onght not to
complain, far in that case they are no-
ple -asserting a'simply cfobbtfu! right;
bat they are disunionists in the’ teeth
of tire very decision of the war itself; - a
and disunionists who do not se& to ‘
accomplish their ends ia (M open,
maWlttUay, but who de
ion under pretence of
who trample' oft' the Coi
der oath flu support it;
the war affler resistano
why fight an Unarmed people, and not
their own impoverished victimess
tified that they must submit to tbe de- purposes of the Confederate States as
■ • ' * * ’ and ought ; objistituting any of tbe terms of the
wifi oftheco
»tr to exte
erfuinatii
Bit
to be made known before the surrender,,
with nhusiial distinctness, lest the wea
ker party, relying on the law ef nature
and humanity, .to save something by
not figbtipg. to extermination, should
be entrapped into a surrender' which
accomplishes what they inteuded by
■SuriWbderiilgtb facHjiSS 1 '* Joiutait Oil) in
I repeat, the only demand made by
the United States in the beginning was,
that, the people of the Confederate
8tates should “lav
of jthe war, to *«■*•. The defeat ofjieces-
sion and the preservation.of the Union,
cation Is, did^toe S
Tbe question is, did the United States
during the war, and before lire surren’
der, ^nake other demands of avow ad
ditional purposes and make them
known to the Cjonfederatos? ^
• I have been unable‘to’find any other;
and believe ho other man' is: able to
find Any other, legitimate or official de
mands or declared purpmes.
1 find many individual threats, and I
find also acts of confiscation, suspension
of habeas corpusi and Such' like acts)- but
then they are declared to bfe, what in
deed their very natures make them,
wnr measures—to end. with the war, apd
to make no part of the terms or law of
peace. They were adopted as means to
accomplish tbe one great origtml pur
pose, to force us to ley down our arms,
and thus preserve th.e Unions Mr.
Lincoln did.promise a liberal exercise
of;the pardoning power, from which it
may be claimed to that he Would
except some from the amnestybut he
could only except them for a legal tria
and I suppose even Mr. Lincoln dii
not doubt theresult of a fair' triad, iih 1 -
less of some one who made war ob the
United States, before the secession of
bis State. For though the result of the
war did deeide that secession* Was void,
yet, as intent as is the essence of crime,
it did'not and could not deeide, that
one who honestly believed that seces
sion was legal, was bound to know it'was
void before the decision made it so. And
though tire result establishes* that seces
sion is and teas and must remain void, yet
he who honestly believed, at the timA
that secession was either a Constitu
tional or revolutionary right, or that his’
allegiance Was due to hik State when
secession was-asserted, or who believed
the co-ercion of a State was a .crime,
could not become a criminal by acting
on his honest belief. But if a man, be
fore the secession of his §tate, made
war on the Uifited States by seizing ber
forts or otherwise;-or,df while boldii-g
an affice under an.oath to support the
Uonstitation,of .United State*, he used
the fanctfons of that very office, by
overt aots, to destroy the Union, such a
man was a traitor and might, with some
show of reason, . have . been excepted
from the amnesty and reserved for tri
al. I think, however, true Wisdomand
ja> peaceful future required entire am
nesty for all theLpast, and careful ab
stinence from all* oppressive acts in ail
the future.
Married, On Sund a
* Note.—The feudief Wilf observe
that I do not claim tbe doctrines and
•the Rev.Jesse'iS*
altos C. Ware, andjHl^
JP**-■wanJSAi
^ Married, In this *
day evening, the 4th °n' X.
dence of Mr. E. Merck V* thj
JeMeLamberth. MR. the
and Miss Emua Noble & J|
°f thi a
These were all defatted in* the
der. iThe official dec!
purposes of the United States,-■bestow-;
ed before the surrender, wure tbe term
to which the Confederate States agreed
to submit by the surrender, and wfttr
which the United States are bound to*
be satisfied; and, thus, they- fotm the
law of. 'peace. Yet, a Georgian, one
boasting.of the honors conferred on
bin* by tbe people, in a late speech at
wuimEHH MlWedgevilie, tells us we are out of the
their arms,-re-- ''^wadsoKlIng-to our town position! j™.
Bartow, Floyd
meet in'Floyd cot
tod fc
rtgisteffig-qoili.
Laws ot Congress,
Rome,
a
known
«•©
ScnottSS’ H
TEXAS VALLEY, Satari. *
FLOYD SPnrsija
the wiil'of lhe conqueror!” as though'
that very surrender did not defeat our
declaration, and make good, the declar-
’ Ang. 2I r 22, andzt ** 11 *
I Let it be understood
! usual place of hol£n r • - 1 ‘ 1
. ssiaoDDA oajftvroaUl? ? y to
sraasdsss B
julyll-tw-w-td ' %
GEORGIA, Polk County.
During the War. Mr. Lincoln, os Pres
ide n t of the United States, issued bis
proclamation, emancipating staves in
certain States and parts of States. But
this, itself, was declared to be a war
measure only• Afterward the Congress
bad proposed ter the Ctates an amend
ment to the ^Constitution; abolishing
slavery everywhere. . But; the tates
had not fotified.it. : It was therefore,
only a proposition vnditermined at tho
time of the surrender. After the tour-
render the slave 1 States "accepted and
ratifi d this proposed amendment, and
thus by the act of the
jecame
There
in
fact, though notin legal strictness, be
counted as one of the things decided
eigo State. One of oUr own teachers,
who tells us his .children are to lire
am’ong us,’ makih'g, In the same bteath,
our wVl and the will of the enemy alike
our law, if, : by such contradictory posi
tions, he can barm us .wi both eases! , . , ,
efforts to get a perpetaod suspension of
Habeas Corpus,” and by the bitterness
which .quotes ihe conclusion of the pe-
Jitioafoi; Halytas, Cgrpiut-r-the mere for-
jSjSsHF'JTESS
tency dn- the part ef Mr. Davis!- And
yet he exclaims, as if his motive was
suspected and needed confirmation
for leave to sell, die
estate of Wm. J. Garner, Ia(e 0 f:
deceased—for settlement ,
countt
to t2|
Adm’r.
‘What interest,.,then, can 1 bate in
wleadinq you t
A great Writer gives- us an sonant of
a very similar speech- which was made,
long aguby one. who- had, been “often
honored,”and after quoting the speech,
adds this comment:
“So spake the false dissembler unper-
>' ceived; i Io
For neither Man nor Angel: can discern
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
invisibiej.exceptGpdalqpe” ....
But that speaker himself afterw:
in a soliloquy, gave the explanation of
all his-attempts at deception.- H-esaid:-
“Bat what will not. ambition and re
venge.",.- .'i- i.
Descend to 7' Who aspires must down
atluW' ' '-' J Ca’n.a^d) Imie Wtiljtg
As high he - soar’d* obnoxious, first or
last.
To basest things.’
ed tbb acceptance of emancipation
part of tbe lerms atthe conference jp
Hampton Roalds, yet peithpr. he^ nor
Gen, Grant) nor .any other! power, al
luded to this as a part of the terms dar
ing the negotiations for, nor at the
time of the acceptance of the surren
der. : The only .conditions .of the sur-
What then, did the wat, decide, and
what, by that decision, is the law of
i^ 8 -® h
Secession is void; the Constitution is
maintained; the Union is preserved;
with all the dignity, equality and rights;
of|the several States, unimpaired, with
the single exception.of .the., abolitiq'ptof
slavery through the consent of the original
slave States. • '>■ ■■' » baoTin
Arid wheta onr people, after' the rap-
render, took an oath to support tbe
Constitution of the United; States and.
the Union of the States thereunder,
they were‘to support the above" decis
ion, and ntohing more.
The meeting of the Convention in
these States, to conform their Consti
tution^ and laws to the. change brought
by the abolition of slavery, was proper)’
and a result of the agreement (o eman
cipate. The appoin tment! of provision
al civil officers by the President to en
able these conventions to be called and
to act, was proper machines to accom
plish the end. Further than this no
reconstruction was ever needed or was
legal or proper. But for the abolition
of slavery tne States would have. been
restored,to their old Constitutions and
government, as* they existed at ‘the
time of secession. ..
Every proposition in these. Military
bills has been originated since the war;
not one of them was demanded daring
the war. or was made a condition^tof the
surrender. There is Dot a respectable
pnblicist or law writeV, ancient or mod
ern, heathen or Christian, which can.be
quoted to sustain them.
By evCTy sucb'author tbe attempt to
prescribe new tft-nJS^lfftr Lhesurrender
is infamova^rs a breach * of. ' (Be -peace;
is a new declaration- of war, and is a
most perfidious abandonment of the
most sacred of obligations m the face of
mankind.
Nay, more*these Military Bills, are
disunion bills. Those who propose
them are disunionists; those who advo
cate them are disumonists; those who
consent, to or accept them are disunion-
isti. Aud they are d&tfuiforiists, too,
not, like the secessionists, an a pririci-
Bfomlcld'c, at Brunswick.
We learn of a shocking affair which
ictUTfeS at Brunswfck on Friday last,
the parties to which Were Capt. E. J.
Martin, arid Mr. K G. Westmoreland,
a partner of Gea. J. B-, Gordon io the
milling business, arid acting British
CoristtFat kpai'pdttitw'.-. u, .yry.
P’rorirwhatwe have learned of the
affair, it appears that both gentlemen
had been paying attention to the same
young lady, daughter of Col. C. L.
Schlatter hut Mr.' Westmoreland
proved the-favored one, arid they were
married at II o’clock bn Friday morn
ing. Some time since while both par
ties were still visiting’tbe young lady) a
coolness arose between them, and ; one
day .some words passed, which lad to
the.sendiegbf a cballega by Westmore
land, batUrrorigh the’ intercession or
friends tbe - matter was adjusted, al-
though there still remained a coolness
.,— riday, after the wedding, promt-
rations were being made for their de- T
pirtnre on the Sylvan Shore, for - this
city,: with avietr oi taking a bridal tour
in his office with histooat off while the
bride was in an adjoining room, super*
intending the packing of her trunks.
Martin walked. in t without saying a
word, drew a pistol arid deliberately
shot Westmorekrid iri the' groin. He
sprang op, .when Martin fired aga : n,
struck him in tbe breast. He caught
him by the hand, saying Martin,. what
bave l ever done to you that yon should
want to shoot me,” and sank back to
the floor, and never spoke again.
. Atoldi^r who>ppened to be pass-
mg ran io and wrestedjthe pistol from
Martin’s band. Martin surrendered
himself to the military tonfhorities. and:
was confined in a roomat the hotel.—
ld(3ar‘ ‘ ‘
the civil authorities. He tra» brought
to ibiii'city ori tbe Sylvan Shore,'and
committed to jail,- .there being.' none in;
Glynn county- , ., ,..., ,
ind is sam to have been
stingnished ana wealthy
family in England. He was engaged
in running the blockade during tbe
latter portion of the~war, and in 1865
settled-in Brunswick., •
!AS, Nathan I. Co bb Aj
. . trator of James W. c^b J |
applies to me for Lettere;«f dismi., 0 ;
said Administration.
These are therefore to cite all person
cerned> kindred and creditors to
O N the'first TtiesaaymAngastneibttf.
Court', House, door in said conmw I
Floyd,- within tho legal hours of sale,
be sold! One Amhulancd Wagon, levied.) 1
as the property of Pitman Lumpkin to «. I
isfy tbe Court Cost on one fi. fe. from Fu
auperior Court M. T.- Kawtins, beirw J
said Lumpkin* aUd'fhomai Lumpkin, iev
rityr and % I.- G) Blake Indorser, and ;)
Court cost and one fi. L from' the Coat,
Court Fart A.Hargrove vs- j’itiaan
1 Also City Lot lying oft- the corner (
Lincoln and Green Streets in' the Citrl
Borne, ,Ga., it beingthe Yorth Westornp'*
part of .lot No. 60 intheOstanaula Dirim!
of .the City of Bomb, and the - house ail
other iinprorenientson said ht' The Horn'
being known as . tlie old Ssptiit Chunk
House now converted into a'DarellligHeue'
Levied on as the property'of D.- H.lfatoa
to satisfV & fi. fa. 1
John T. Biley VS. saidh.
erty pointed' out by Plainfiff.
Also lot of land No. two 1 htmflkd aid
fifty-nine, (253) and sixteen atrer offtte
'North-East corner of lot of land nualsf
three hundred and seventy-nine, OTSj'aliia
the fourth District and fourth Sectiu of
the. late Cherokee purchase now Floyd
county, being the place on Beech t'nek,
known as the’ Tutt Place, adjoining the'
' ’ - ~-" j) e an and Capt J.-W. Tuner,
na
leviedim'w virtue of
Floyd! Superior GourWacob Wjse WE
W. Tutt maker, and J. B. Bray indorser,-
and, other fi. fas in my hands vs. saidT
Defendant heving 1 waived the beneh
tbe stay law, ana the property pointed nt
by.Plaintiffs Attorney
GEOBGIA-—Polk County.
X WILL offer for sale to the highest bidder*
X for cash in hand, it the Court How
Charles W. Langwortby, ss specified mthe
town, cositaiffita^teeit^
The place in said town, »t the tuneNW'
‘ the attachment was occupied by S'
lutmuny;' also IfiolawoSce and totW-
merlj owned; by £. D. ChiloInVeMtiiu*
ey arising from the sale of the } . ...
perty; sold- by Wi. Mills»» »gn*>» 1 *
iiuwlft. in hftrp.hv duminded. in orfKrttM*
j shew
from the i6f
lands, is herebv demsnded, i
may be properly applied,) to
cation in my hands, waned- —— —j
of the County Courf, on a jodgment rww-'
ed on the 26tb day of Jane, 857, *t u«.
semi-annus) term 3f ssid «**.''? ***
Leonard Morgan v*. Charles
-July# I a ' Aj.M_ST0NB,
Printer’s fee 113 Bpec.slBail.EC^
tbe war. He owns a large plantation
on the Altamaha, and is very respecta*
hiy connected.—j$av. 4dv. of 8(4.
i, 'pACrs Uorioos ; Astii 1 Vahiable.—
Noah’s ark was 547 feet high, measur
ing.72,525 tons. tit i
The difference between a water level
and a straight. line is a departure of
eight Inches to the mile, which furnish
es by a simple proposition in geometry
a method of calculating the earth’s
diameter. ,
t A *°«P bubble may be blown so thin
that it would take 2,500;000 : layers to
forro the thicknessof nin inch. -*«** o-"
Average quantity of blood in the, bo-:
dy in; health ia reckoned to be ‘483.
ounces, cr 25 pounds avoirdupois, or
20 imperial pints.
Quilt p*ns were first used in 553,
A. : D. Metalic pens came' in to use in
1830,
A.pair of rats, well situated, and. left,
entirely undisturbed, will in’ three
years have increased to 605,809.
Small pox is .not contagions over
thirty feet.
The yellow is the illuminting ray of
sunlight.
Water constitutes nearly four-fifths of
tbe weight of the animal body.
A good sired mature brain in a man
?ighs 3 pound 8 ounces; in a woman 3
pounds 4 ounces.
.
Death of a Good Citizen.—The pain
ful iritelligence was received in this city
yesterday of the death of Geo. W. Cuy-
ei’, who died at Mnnich, Germany, on
the 10th ultimo. The deceased had
been for a number of years, the cashier
of the Central Railroad Bank of this
city, the duties of which position he
discharged with the utmost fidelity and
ability .—iSav. News.
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known,
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this animal, sack as
COU _ ■
wind, increases
the appetite-gives
• smooth - ’
glossy skin-
transforms t h
tie skeleton into a
SSF-*a
*“5SS*
tost
stoS
£&5Si>
In all disesues of Swine,
the Langs, Liver,
Ac., this article
acts as a specific.
By patting from
one-half a paper
to a paper in a
barrel of swill the
shove diseases
Win be eradicated i V riven i# «»** *
arantirely.prevented. H ctoleia- m
preventive and cure for the a s
We# M Cats per Taper, orb
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AT Iff*®.
miLCIAU BBT# IJ»
Ho. lift Franklin v 0 *
For Sale hy Draggiatt and west*"*-
out tha Onitad States. _ .»il b v
For sale Wholesrio and Be yT 4 c0«
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