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VOLUME XXI
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1867,
NEW SERIE8---N0.
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k. DWINELL,
Proprietor.
jEfiAh ADVERTISEMENTS.
cl-. of Land by Administrators, Exec
■ - Guardians, arc required by law to
| "Lu o„ the first Tuesday in each month,
uS "he hours of ten in the forenoon
^ i ,hree in the afternoon, an the Court
|H°iisc in'the county in which the property
*j£isof these sales must he given in
n A|ic gazette 40 days previous,
vltices of the sale of personal property
l hceiven in like manner, through a
li e "azette 10 days previous to sale day,
l P Sice to Debtors and Creditors of an es
lute must be pablished 40 days.
• ti c c the napplications will be made .to
■the Court of ‘Ordinary for leave to sell land
11st be published for two mon ths.
| Citations for letters pf Adm.ni.trat.on,
(Guardianship Ac., must be published 3b
I j, vs for dismission irom Administration,
I monthly six months—for dismission from
Guardianship. 40 days.
I Rules for the forecloseure of Mortgages
must be published monthly for four months
I-for establishing lost papers, lor the full
/snare of three mouths—for compelling titles
llrom Executors or Administrators, where
1 bond has been given by the deceased, for the
| full “pace of three months.
I Publications will always he continued
|according to these, the legal requirements,
I anless otherwise ordered, at the following
RATES.
j Sheriffs Sales per levy of ten lines or
less $ 3 00
j Sheriff's Mortgage fi. fa. sales, per
I levy, 5 0®
J r»v Collector’s sales, per levy, 00
[Citations for letters of Administration... 3 00
I Citations for letters ol Guardianship 3 00
I Notice ot application for dismission
from Administration, 6 00
| J'otice 'of application for dismission
from Guardianship, 4 00
I Application to sell land —.... 6 00
I Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00
J Sale of Land, persquare,.... 5 00
I Sale of perishable property, 10 days... 2 00
I Stray Entices. 60 days, 4 00
[Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square... 4 00
iFormaii advertising his wife, (in ad-
tance) 10 0q
Saturday morning, July 13.
| Address before the Polk County Agri
cultural Club, by HI. Hi Bunn.
We commeDd this interesting ad
tes to the careful perusal not only of
I fetners, but also of all classes. AgH-
| cultural Societies organized, and earn
J estly working after the manner he sug
[ jests, will prove highly advantageous to
J the farmers first, and then, incidently
Ito every other class in the community.
1 The preliminary steps are being ta
ken to organize similar societies in Bar-
Jloiv and Whitfield counties. Why do
j hot Chattooga, Walker, Gordon, Catoo-
Isa, Dade, and the other counties of up-
I per Georgia, move in this important
| totter.
Riot at Athens, Alabama.
It is rumored that there was a riot at
Athens, Alabama, six or eight days
f ince, in which two white men and six
negroes were killed. These things are
the legitimate results of arraying the
negroes, in secret leagues and political
parties, against the white race.
What a fearful responsibility rests
u pon the Radical emmissaries, and the
selfish,^ or unthoughted “sons of the
uth, who arc inaugurating this hor
rible state of affairs.
Hh Rev. Bishop Qumtard is not Sick
■m m Rome.
I of 6 666 a sta * emeat going the rounds
I our exchanges that Bishop Quintard
p lying in 0 f gastric fever in thig place _
15 ' s n °l so. He had a short ill-
■ four or five weeks since while
I 181 ln ® b * s friends in Rome, but soon
| ^ covered, and so far his friends here
T . is now in excellent good health.
JiT? Clled in DalUm on the 7th inst
| and left R ome again on the mh
A Card.
| The omission of the firm of Wright
th fr ° m the Business Directory for
me City of Rome, was the fauit of the
an< * not of the compiler. It
1 appear in my next issue.
J. R. Stevens.
Information Wanted.
I o ls anx ious mother desires to know
Lh-'u b ° UtSOf Columbus Gartrell,
| v ’ Mulatto freedman, formerly a
I m1 C I T m ^ ome > Ga„ and owned by
I, " 1 ai Y Choice. He left Rome about
ffo ° Jears Slnce . and when last heard
I Vast, •!,“ ^ le sutI imer of 1866—was in
| Nashville, Tenn.
•Any informati
| received
Addn
ion will be thankfully
ess Mrs. Polly Holt, Rome, Ga.
copy.
Exch:
I the £ f S0 ‘ NAI “~AVe are pleased to see
L. C ®® rful Presence of our former cit-
lnah’^°i‘ A ' M ' Sloan ’ now of Savan-
Q,. . denin g ^e hearts of his numer
ic Eome - Hek in exoel -
|herl h / al - h,andwi11 P robabl Y remain
I Court UriD ^ 8ess i° n °f the Superior
Printlce’s Advice 10 Kentucky.
The Last number of the Louisville
Journal sketches the situation and gives
some wholesome advice to thrf people
of Kentucky; which is good everywhere
South. It says:
Congress has no more right under
the Constitution and the laws to shut
out the members from Kentucky than
it has to shut out those from any oth
er State. It rests its action in our case
not upon any Constitution or any law
but simply upon its own will. It choos
es to take such action, and so takes it
’Tis of no use for a people to attempt
to adapt their action to that of such
factions body. They can have r
means of knowing or even conjecturing
what it may do to-morrew or the day
after. They can only know that it will
dojustwhatit may think is required
by interest, ambition, and revenge. If
at any time it deems its own power in
danger from the uprising of public
opinion, it will assume that only those
who give a thorough support of Radical
ism are loyal, and that none others
have the requisite qualifications of Fed
eral Senators and Representatives.—
It will most assuredly assume this, and
act upon the assumption, if in any
case it finds or fancies such a course
necessary to the maintenance of its
supremacy and its power to tyrannize
and oppress. Therefore ’twere folly as
well as baseness and abasement to try
to temporize with it. Let us meet it,
as we have met it, without shrinking,
without recoding, without yielding one
particle of our rights. No attempt to
compromise with reckless and madden
ed tyranny ever did any good or ever
will do any.
No—quite the contrary. Let Ken
tucky, at this time, gave sign that she
is willing to succumb, let her prove
that she dares not stand up in the posi
tion she has deliberately taken, let her
show that she is ready to forego her
undeniable rights in order to win Radi
cal favor or avert - Radical displeasure,
let her indicate that she is coerced,
subjugated, intimidated, bowed down
in abjectness of spirit, and the Radical?,
in Congress and out of it, all of whom
hate her and have loDg bated her even
more than they hate any one of the
States that seceded, will pounce upon
her as furiously as bulhes always
pounce on cowards, and feed fat the
old grudge they bear her, making quick
amends to themselves for all the trou
ble and annoyance that she has, by
her proud and independent course,
been giving them. We telDyou, fellow-
Kentuckians, if you would avoid the
bite of the Radicals, bull-dog, look
him sternly in the eye and stand your
ground, for, just so surely as you cower
and flee, his teeth will meet through
the calves of your legs. We speak
from a thorough knowledge of the
hahits of the animal. Nothing could
be more immediately and more thor
oughly fotal to our State politically at
this time than tame and base compli
ance with wrong and oppression. She
can be wronged and oppressgdj by the
gauntletted arm of power ; sh| can be
disgraced only by herself.
J
Wheat Advancing.'
A good article of white wheit, on yes
terday, would command twd dollars,
and red $1 70.
Spear’s Fruit Preserving Solution
“In addition to its many rirtues, it
saves sugar in preserving, and we have
the testimony of those who tied it, to
the effect that it is a perfect jantiseptic,
and the cheapest and best method
known for preserving all kinds of fruits,
jellies, spiced fruits, tomatoes, die. It
also saves the trouble of sealing. One
of the above named firm assnres us that
he has used it for over tirjelve years,
and gives it the preference over any
other mode of preserving. Now that
the fruit season is upon us, housekeep
ers, who have never done so, would do
well to test the virtues of this fruit pre
serving solution. Before us there are
numerous testimonials to its value.
The above is dipt from the Atlanta
Intelligencer. This “Fruit Preserving
Solution” is for sale in Rome, by Turn-
ley & Gibbons, and also by Dr. R. Y.
Mitchell. J. C. Rawlins, proprietor of
the Choice Hotel, used it last year
with eminent success. A; bottle full—
price one dollar, will preserve several
gallons of fruit—try it.
Registration in Fulton Conuty.
Up to the 10th, the whole number
registered was 2,000—of-these 1,138 are
plain,” and 862 colored.
In Clayton county, up to the 9th, the
registration stood, 339 “plain” to 128
colored.
Registration in Whitfield*
The total number registered in this
county, up to Wednesday afternoon is,
Whites ..... 803
Blacks . . . . 140
Total
Several districts yet to register.
943
N. Y. Market.
New York, July 10.—Cotton firm—
sales 1800 bales at 26$. Flour—State,
S6 90 to 11; Southern, $9 50 to 15 75.-
Wheat—new white Virginia, §2 35 f
amber Georgia §2 50 to 3 05. Western
Corn, §1 06$ to 1 08; white New Or
leans, §1 09. Pork unsettled—new
mess, §22 35 ; old, §21 25. Lard firm
at 11$ to 12$. Whisky quiet. * Rice
quiet. Sugar firm—Sales 1000 hogs
heads Muscovado at 11$ to 12. Coffee
quiet.
Stocks heavy. Money 5 to 6. Gold
38J. Sterling, time, 10$; sight 10f.—
Bonds of'61, registered, 109 to 109$.—
Coupons of 1864,109$; 1865. registered,
109 to 109$. New issue, 108$ to 108$.
The Difference.—The Albany Eve
ning Journal says the difference between
Horace Greeley and fThad. Stevens is,
that one favors umversal amnesty,
while the other urge? universal dam-
nasty. /
;JT
[For the Rome Courier.}
Address of Mr. M. h. Bonn.
Polk County, July 9, '67.
Mr. Dwinell:—I send yon an ex
tract from the minutes of a meeting of
the farmer's club of Polk county, held
in Cedartown, June 29th—by publish
ing the same, with the accompanying
address, you will greatly oblige.
extract.
Mr. Bunn being called upon for his
address, was listened to attentively by
all present—after which Capt. Battle
moved that the club tender tlieir
thanks to Mr. Bunn for his able address
with the request that a copy be fur.
nished the club for publication. The
motion was seconded and adopted
unanimously. Maj. G. W. West,
Chairman.
L. B. Stone, Secretary.
ADDRESS.
Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Far
mer’s Club of Polk County
In answer to the call you made on
me at our first meeting, two weeks ago
I have concluded to present to your
consideration, some of the .advantages
which may result to us ftom thus or
ganizing atld keeping up regular meet
ings in our county, of those engaged in
the great farming interest,
The first advantage I mention, as
one incidental to our frequent meet
ings, is the cultivation of social feel
ings, and kindly relations, and the in
crease ot those sympathies of our na
ture, so promotive of the peace, good
order and happiness of society.
We are constituted by nature for so
ciely. He who shuts himself out from
society, or refuses to take any part in
the public enterprises, put forth for the
benefit of it, becomes. gloomy, selfish
and useless—cuts himself off from ma
ny sources of pleasure, and is the ob-
ject of contempt or hate to his fellow
man. Who that mingles much with
his neighbors and friends, does not
find his thoughts quickened, his mind
enlarged, his feelings enlivened, his
sympathies aroused, and his whole na
ture elevated aDd improved. Associa
tion brings mind in contact with mind,
and heart with heart. New thoughts
are elicited and learned, passions and
prejudices are corrected, and thus so
ciety is benefitted and elevated.
Is there not room for improvement
in these respects, among us, the farm
ers of Polk county ? May we not hope
to gather together, in our meetings, the
intelligent, the polite and successful
planters of our county, and learn their
thoughts, their naanner6 and their
sources of success ?
But, 2ndiy. A direct and palpable
advantage will be, the increase in
knowledge we may expect on the ma
ny and great subject matters of interest
to farmers. How manifold are these
subjects, and how important-! Let me
but glance at a few of them, and you
will see that they a-e legion, and their
importance beyond calculation ! The
soils we work in, their analysis; their
adaptation to the various productions
we want, the grains, grasses, vegetables
and flowers we raise; the cotton, rice,
fruits, tobacco and cane, we use and
sell: the mode and culture suited for
each, and preparation for use or mar
ket; the manures our exhausted lands
need—barn-yard and commercial, their
application in kind and quantity; the
whole economy of labor, in the tools
and lavor-saving machines we need—
the plow, for instance—what an almost
infinite variety of make, sizes and uses!
Who knows the best ?
Consider then, the farm stock we
rear aDd use—the horse, mule, cow.
sheep and hog; and the domestic fowls
we raise. Who knows the best breed,
mode of rearing, feeding and using.—
See to what an almost endless extent I
may enumerate these subjects, in which
we all are interested, and on which we
must have information, in order to use
and apply them wisely! Does any one pre
tend to have all the knowledge or wis
dom in these things that he needs or
desires ?
_ Agricultural societies, works and pe
riodicals offer stores of knowledge on
all these points, of which, all wanting
knowledge, may partake. The club
we propose to establish here, consoli
dates the experiences of our neighbors,
our friends, and opr best planters. Our
sole business and object, is to gather
and disseminate knowledge, that will
result in the improving of our lands,
our living and our hearts 1
I might properly stop here and al
lude to the many and great improve
ments which have been made in the
business of farm economy; in produc
tions, enriching the soil and labor-sav
ing machines. How simple and ineffi
cient were the plows our forefathers
used. What wonder would one of them
now express, if he could rise and see a
four-horse plow, cutting a width of
twenty or more inches, and a depth of
twelve. What would he say if he could
see a reaper, drawn by two mules, cut
ting, in one day, 12 acres of wheat, and
then see it threshed and cle aned, by
one machine, at the rate of five hun
dred bushels a day.
Many of our people now seem in
credulous when told that by manuring
and proper cultivation, one acre of pine
land may be made to produce a bale
of cotton, or 30 bushels of corn in an
average year. These things have been,
and are being done, here and there
over our country. Much advancement
and mauy improvements have been
made but they Are partial, as the sum
mer rains in a. dry year—We ■ want
them to be general—universal.
Mr. Chairman: I take the position
that those counties in our State, and
those portions of our whole country>
where the greatest advancement has
been made in the business of farming,
have been those parts where the peo
pie have formed and upheld agricul
tural societies, and read agricultural pa
pers. The Northern and Western peo
pie are far ahead of ns in successful
farming economy; and some counties
in our own State, as Hancock, Houston
and others. The farmers there gener
ally read agricultural papers and have
county societies and county fairs—at
least, they had before the war.
In the North, nearly every connty
and town has its society and fair, and
then a great State fair The people are
addressed, and instructed often
their business and interests—they make
experiments, they see improvements in
productions, implements and stock,
they see the professed improvements
tested, Facts make knowledge and knowl
edge rightfully applied is wisdom.
Now, no one pretends that a society
like ours can accomplish everything—
turn poverty like ours into sudden
wealth, or a desolate country, like ours,
into a aland flowing with milk and
honey. We propose it as a help; as
means of collecting facts and encour
agements, and the scattered wisdom of
our county. Lot us see bow it can be
made to work :
Our Chairman, or the club will ap-
appoint some one to deliver ns an ad
dress, or tell us his experience, on
some-subject of practical interest to ns
farmers. He will think and inform
himself, and bring out to us the treas
ures of knowledge on that subject. He
will give us facts, arguments and en
couragement —thus our stock ot knowl
edge will be incrased by his. Again, a
new plow, or other farm tool may be
presented to our club for adoption or
recommendatien; or a neighbor may
have one which he recommends for
general use. Our Chairman appoints a
Committee to take and try it, or see it
tried, and report op it. A field of corn
wheat or cotton, may be in our county,
deserving notice—a committee is. sent
to see it, and report on its manage
ment—the seed used, culture, &c.
Thus we will get knowledge and en
couragement free of cost.
3dly. A spirit of emulation will be
excited, that will result in special and
general improvement. I heed say but
little on this point. Our nature prompts
us to desire to excel. When we see
field of fine wheat, corn or cotton, we
instinctively compare ours with it, and
desire to have as good. A sight of fine
horses, mules and hogs on our neigh
bor’s place, prompts us to wish to have as
good. It will be the business of our
society, by committees and reports, to
collect such facts as will incite our peo
ple to emulate the best, and to show
them how they may even excel. What
others have done, why, with effort, may
not we do ? Can the breeds, and effi
ciency and profit of our farm stock be
improved ? The thing has been done.—
Can wasted lands be restored, and be
made to bring again, fine wheat, corn
and cotton ? Such have been restored
aud raised even above their pristine
value. So may yours be. Can broken,
rolling lands be ditched and cultivated
so as to prevent washing and ruin ? Yes,
the practicability has been demonstrated;
so may yours be. Mr. R. S. Hardwick,
of Hancock county, now dead, has de
tailed a system of hillside ditching,
which, if followed, will accomplish the
object with as little failure as human
means generally are subject to. And
let me say here, that this man, for tb>s
great work of agricultural improve
ment, deserves far more to be embalm
ed in the memory of his fellow-men,
than all the Shermanizers that, under
the pretense of patriotism, have laid
waste man’s fair heritage of earth.
Let no petty jealousies come into our
hearts, but let us emulate each other’s
virtues and improvements, and strive
even to excel in all that tends to resusi
tate our worn lands, and rebuild our
broken fortunes. And, as one tried
means to accomplish this good work, let
us build up a large, working society of
agriculturalists here, that will do as well
as the best, and be an honor to our
county. Shall it turn out that a connty
having two such valleys as Cedar and
Uharlee, so famous for cotton, corn,
wheat, and bacon—having such im
mense quaries of slate, comprising so
tnany intelligent, energetic and (form
erly) wealthy men; whose lands, in
their value, rank her as about the 3d
county in the State—shall it be that
there is not public spirit enough in our
county to maintain an agricultural so
ciety 7 May wc not hope that the day
will come when we will be so reeonstruc
ted as to have county fairs and distri
bution of premiums.
4thly. There is great power and ef
fect in the continued agitation of- my
subject, even a bad one. See the re
sult of the continued agitation of abo
litionism-first in England, and then
in America. What desolations it hath
wrought! See too, the ruin brought on
our country by the agitation of party
politics t Now we propose to repair, as 1
well as we may be able, these desola
tions, arid our wasted farms and for
tunes, by calling the people's attention
to the only door left open to us (if that
be left.) Here is a field of pare, patri
otic effort! Here is a theme for the
real philanthropist ? Pure ambition
may here find ample scope. Unselfish
zeal may here win laurels in oratory
and song, without any lurking evil.
Come all you who love your native,
or your adopted homes—this once fair
and sunny land—come let us band to
gether and consult together; let us col
lect facts and arguments and encour
agements, and disseminate to the peo
ple, and rouse them to restore our
good old Father Land to its former
prosperity—yes, even to outstrip our
despoilers by patient toil, good husban
dry, and inventive genius; in science
and art, in manufactories, and every
thing which makes a people rich, inde
pendent and powerful.
Let us honor our profession. Let us
dignify labor in the soil. Agriculture
a low and mean occupation ! It is the
primeval employment of man. It is a
science a§ well as an art While, like
the subject of man’s salvation, it
simple, in its essential truths, that the
wayfaring man, though a fool, need
need not err in them, ^yet it presents
subjects that puzzle the profoundest
mind. It is the very life of all trades
and professions. -It is the groundwork
of all national prosperity. It presents
the fullest and grandest themes that
ever engaged the mind and heart of
the philosopher, poet or patriot—save
only man’s redemption from sin.
[From the Chronicle & Sentinel]
Notes on the Situation—No, 8.
BY B. H. HILL.
Even, then, if we are'really a con
quered people, I have shown that by
the well-established i ules of the laws of
war and of nations, we are not “sub
ject to the will of the conqueror,” ex
cept as that will was declared before
the surrender, and. therefore, agreed
to by the surrender. I have shown
that any terms prescribed after the
war is over, and after a surrender is
accepted, are not only not binding on
the conquered but are infamous in the
conqueror, and amount to a new de
claration of war against those who
were entrapped into laying down their
arms, and wno are, therefore, for the
time being, helpless. And whether
Congress or the Executive, <*r both, as
is variously claimed, or whether the
President and the Senate [as is the
truth), be the peace making power of
the United States, I have shown from
the official records of each and all,
that the only conditions demanded of
the Southern people, in laying down
their arms, were the preservation of the
Union under the Constitution, with
the single change of the abolition of
slavery, which single change was very
doubtfully and imperfectly demanded,
but was very promptly and cheerfully
yielded.
No principles, than those I have
announced, are better settled, or more
in consonance with natural reason and
public justice; no terms were ever
more distinctly declared os the purpose
of waging the war, or more sacredly
promised as the conditions of the peace;
and no surrendering people ever did
more promptly, more absolutely, more
submissively, or with one-tenth the
sacrifice of property and hope and
pride and feeling, comply with all the
terms demanded on their part, than
did the Southern States and people.—
They laid down their arms; they gave
up the great principle of government
which their fathers taught them never
to yield, and to maintain wihch they
bad fought so long and endured so
much; though already, impoverished
they gave up four billions more of pro
perty—the descended patrimony of cen
turies; they struck the fetters from
their slaves by their own consent, and,
with words of encouragement and hope,
gave the freed slaves, by their own
laws, absolute civil equality with their
former owners; they abided, without
complaint or claim for damages, the
burning of their cities; the devastation
of their homes ; the destruction of the
food for their women and children, and
thousand others acts of war which no
civilized code will justify, and no civiliz
ed precedent will mitigate ; they chang
ed their organic laws, and re-dige;ted
their municipal codes to conform them
to the new order of things. They re
pudiated the obligations and contracts
they had assumed to their own people
and to mankind to secure help in what
they had deemed a struggle for liberty
and life. They hazarded a social revo
lution and a paralysis of every form of
labor, which might well have awed the
most thrifty people, and the most firm
ly established society. All these things
they did and suffered to show good
faith in fulfilling the obligations of
their surrender, to maintain the Con
stitution and preserve the Union! Yet
two long years have elapsed, and they
have not been permitted to enjoy a
single privilege’, nor suffered to escape
single burden of that Union! Nay,
while waiting to receive what was so
earnestly, so sacrelly promised—their
recognition equals in the Union—they
have seen swarms of agents of United
States permeating every neighborhood
of their land, and stealing, in the name
and by the permits of the Government,
and carrying away their cotton and oth
er remaining means with which they
bad hoped to begin the recuperation of
their condition ; and they see continued
among them a hybrid institution, born
in war and unknown to the Constitu
tion, with a crowd of officers to execute
its functions, many of whom make
companions Of their former slaves to
fement hatred to the Southern whites,
and some of whom find mistresses
among their former slaves, and use
their offices fo levy blackmail on all
classes for their support. And all
these things, and more, our people bear,
and Speak about only in whispers,-lest
by resisting and resenting the outrages
of even robbers and vagabonds, they
furnish to those robbers and vagabonds
the pretence for the charge of a linger
ing spirit of rebellion against the Gov
ernment!
And now we are told, by these Mili
tary Bills, that the very constitutions
and governments we so promptly and
so submissively formed and organized
in our order to fulfill all the possible
obligations of our surrender, must be
abrogated and annulled; that new con
stitutions must be organized, in which
our former slaves are all to participate,
and from which every intelligent and
virtuous man whom our people have
deemed worthy of trust and confidence
at any time during his whole life, shall
be forever excluded. To this new gov
ernment the negro race is to consent
for the white race, and by it the emi
grant robber and vagabond, with their
bribed Southern coadjutor, are to rule
both races. And until this oppression
shall be fixed upon us, and made part
of the irremediable law of the land, and
shall receive the approval of the au
thors of these bills, who are never to be
subject to the government they thus
dictate our people are to live under
military surveillance, subject to charge
without crime, to arrest without war
rant, to warrant without oath, to trial
without jury, to imprisonment without
remedy for release, to robbery without
appeal for redress, and to death without
any process of law! v
Even this bitter cup of hellish ingre
dients might be drank, but for the
nausea which makes us vomit when we
see it commended to us—urged upon
us by some who were born among us—
who have been often trusted and honor
ed by us; nay, by those who hurried
us into secession to get our rights, to
save our hooor and “to avoid equality
with the negro;” who assured us seces
sion would be peaceable, and who, af
ter secession, did all they could to pro
voke a war ; who pledged us the “last
man and the last dollar” if the war
should come, and who employed their
talents in discouraging the men,
quarrelling with ourselves and in mak
ing money when the war did come
who bravely promised us that no enemy
should invade odr soil without “march
ing over their dead bodies,” but who,
when the enemy came, only betrayed
us to subjugation ; who now in!orms us
of their confidential receptions into the
councils of our oppressors, and can
bring from those councils only the
assurance that, unless we drink this
cup. one more bitter shall be provided.
And, as evidence of fidelity, wisdom
and kindness in all this, they are will
ing to submit to their own disfranchise
meat, and. therefore, can have no possi
ble motive but our good 1
The Constitution is violated; the
laws of nations are defied; the pledged
faith of the nation is mocked; and un
resisting people we are warred on ; a
disarmed people are insulted; an impov
erished people are oppressed ; a trust
ing peoplo are betrayed ; the Union is
rent wider and wider and even wider
asunder, and all, all by those who load
the weary air with constant loud pro
claims that they alone are loyal, or
wise, or true !
'Alas! our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps,it bleeds,and each hew days gash
Is added to her wounds.”
Gen* Sickles and Registration*
Chauleslon, July 9.—The followin
semi-official announcement was pub
lished this morning:
Gen. Sickles has directed not to be
gin registration in the military district
until Congress shall have determined
more explicitly who are entitled to be
registered. It is presumed that Con
gress will extend the time for the com
pletion of registration in the Carolinas'
until October or November.
The Commandant of Georgia Removes
his Headquarters to Atlanta.
The Macon Messenger, of the 10th in
stant, says:
The headquarters of Col. C. C. Sib
ley, we regret to learn, will be removed
on to-morrow to Atlanta. Col. R. E. A.
Crofton will remain as commandant of
this post. Col. Sibley is an old United
States officer. He conducted bis de
partment as commandant of Georgia
during his stay with us in Macon, with
ability and general satisfaction to our
citizens. He takes with him the good
wishes of ail our citizens, who regret
that the interests of the Military De
partment requires his transfer to At-
anta.
Col. Crofton, as commandant of the
post, has given satisfaction, and those
who have made his acquaintance speak
of him in every way as a gentlemen and
true soldier.”
Bloody Aliair;at TuIIahoma.
A Militiaman Shot Through the Head.
Inspector General Hunt last night
received a dispatch from Captain Kirk,
commander of a company of Brown-
low’s militia at TuIIahoma. stating that
at half-past four o’clock in the after
noon, a member of his company had
been shot through the head and instan
tly killed by one De Witt Bennet, a
Captain in the late Confederate army.
No particulars, whatever, were given—
not even the name of the man who was
shot.
Gen. Hunt immediately telegraphed,
in reply, an order for the arrest of
Bennet, and instructing Captain Kirk
to preserve order among the militia.—
Nash. Hist. 7th.
S^*There is said to be but little con
fidence between those two noted Mexi
can radicals Juarez and Escobedo, the
former being fearful that the latter will,
on the first favorable opportunity, be*
tray him.
g^*Ths Circuit court is in session at
Franklin Tennessee, where the riot
occurred-^and the grand jury are inves
tigating the facts in regard to the
affair.
Os to Mexico.—A filibustering fever,
with the Watch-words “On to Mexico,”
prevails in New Orleans in all circles.
Confederates and Federals partake of
it alike; At the anniversary dinner at
the St. Charles, ex-Govesnor Weller,
of California, gave as a sentiment, “On
to the Montezumas,” and was respon
ded to with applause.
. Washington News.
Washington. July 10.—Comptroller
Knox lias returned.from New Orlerns,
and is preparing a final report' regard
ing the New Orleans Sub treasury and
First National Bank troubles. He has
recovered §600,000, which covers about
half the Government, loss.
Sickles has written Senator Trumbull
urging general amnesty, except indi-I
viduals to be named, on the ground,
among others, that few of the enfran
chised classes are fit to hold office.
The Kentucky members regard their
admission during the present session of
Congress as hopeless.
Further from Washington'.'
Washington, July 10.—Defense en
gaged all day in implicating witnesses.
A number swore that neither Tibbetts
nor Cleaver could be believed on oath:
Several parties swore that there was rid
dancing at Metropolitan Hall on the
afternoon of the 14th—no round table
in the Hall, thus .contradicting Vander-
pool’s testimony. The Hon. Johri
Nugent, of California,- is an applicant
for the Mexican Mission, backed by tntf
California delegation.
Internal Revenue S812 000.
In the House tbe time fof taking ev
idence in the Kentucky election ex
tended to December.
Committee of five appointed to in
quire into the treatment of Union pris
oners, With power to send for persona
and papers.
A bill was introduced extending thO
provisions of the homestead law to Ala*
bama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Florida. Referred to the Recon
struction Committed.
The Committee on Foreign Relation^
directed to inquire Whether any Amer
ican citizen had been arrested and cod*
victed in Great Britain fo* words spo-' .
ken in America.
Mr. Wilson stated that the Judiciary
Committee had requested him tosta’t#
that they were not ready to report on
impeachment.
Mr. B’outwell offered concurrent res*
olutions to adjourn to October next,
eliciting warm debate, which Was id*
terrnpted by the announcement of the
death of Mr. Dennison. After ehlogieri
the House adjourned. . •
In the Senate, the consideration' 6i
the Judiciary Committees’s Reeonstruc
tion bill was resumed. Amendment
giving commanders power to fill vacari*
cies by appointing citizens or detailed
soldiers, adopted by a vote of 20’ to 15»
The following was added to the 6’tb
section i *
Whether holding such offices at thd
time of the rebellion or before.
Mr. Dennison’s death was announced„
eulogies pronounced, and the Seriate
adjourned.
Congressional Proceedings’.
Washington, July 9. - -Senate.—The
Judiciary Reconstruction bill was ta
ken up, and the day consumed in nrg*
ing the point whether commanders
should be allowed to appoint civilians
to vacant State offices. Adjourned
without definite decision.
House.—Reconstruction bill was re
sumed. The sixth section was modi*
fieri by striking outthe words "or' un
less he shall consent to be relieved,”
and inserting instead, “or in arrest pun
isbable by dismissal irom the army, or
disqualified by sickness from tbd per
formance of his duties.*’ and the bill
passed yeas 119, nays 31, viz : Adams,
Archer,- Barnes; Eidridge, Getz, Gloss*
bredne, Holman, Hotchkiss, Marshall,
McCullough, Morgan, Morissey. Mun-
gon, NiblaCk, Noel, Phelps, Randall,
Robinson, Ross. Sitgreaves, Stewart,
Stone, Taber, Van Auken, Van Trump,
Wood. Adjiurned.
From Richmond;
Richmond, July 10.—Last night in
Petersburg, about two hundred rie*
groes assembled at the cars, and res*
cued from the Sheriff of Nansemond
county, a negro convicted of. felony,
who was being brought to the Peniten
tiary here. They made the Sheriff pro*
duce the keys to the handcuffs, and
then made off with the prisoner. The
prisoner Was again arrested by the po
lice of Petersourg this morping and
brought to the Penitentiary.
The majority of the negroes register*
ed so tar in this city is 1,700.
The French tobaccb seized as Cap
tured property by the government, and
for which thc'Rothchiidsare suing; waa
sold to-day by the United Stated Treas*
ury agent. The money is to be held
until the suit is decided. There are
319 hogsheads.
A meeting of the citizens of Back*
inghanFcounty yesterday adopted the
Republican platform and endorsed the
course ol the Whig.
Registration Closed.
Augusta, July 10.—Registry list clos*
ed to day for this city. Total register
ed 2,277. Whites 1,546; blacks 1,731.
How Maximilian, IWiramon and Mejia,
met their Death.
New Orleans, July 9.—The limes
has a special dispatch from Houston,
Texas, which gives a detailed account
of the execution of Maximilian, Mira*
mon and Mejia. Neither of them were
bared, blindfolded, or any indignity
offered, as has been reported. Maxi*
znilian, before being shot, recapitulated
the causes which brought him to Mex
ico, and denied the authority of the
court which sentenced him. He ex
pressed the hope that his blood would
stop tbe effusion of blood in Mexico.
Miratnon spoke from a paper—the on*
ly regret he felt in dying was. that
should the Liberals remain in power,
his children would be pointed at as the
children of a traitor. Mejia made no
address. Maximilien called the ser
geant of tbe guard, gave him a hand-
full of gold, and requested tbe favor
that the aim should be directed at his
heart. Five balls entered his heart,
which not killing him instantly, two
soldiers were called out to ( shoot him
in the side. Much dissatisfaction was
expressed, and grief manifested. Max
imilian's sword was presented to Juarez
by Escobedo in the government pal
ace.
A Sad Truth.—We are informed that
the statistics.at Milledgsvilie show the
alarming aggregate of seventy thous
and paupere in the State of Georgia.
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