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Newspaper Page Text“WISDOM,, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.' VOLUME XXII. ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 26, 1868. NEW SERIES—NO. 44. M. DWINELL, Prop’r. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. RATES OF WEEKLY. One year a $3 Oil Three Month!...’"‘I.’! 1 00 RATES FOR TRI-WEEKLY. One year ; :...$G 00 Six Months .'. 3 50 Three Months 2 00 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. To clubs of Five or more ene copy will be fur nished gratis. Clean Cotton Rags wanted in exchange for the paper at three cents per lb. M. DWINELL, Proprietor. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land by Administrators, Exectors or Guardians, ore required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in each month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in tho afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the propertyis situated. Notices ol these sales must be given in a pub lic gazette 40 days previous. Notices of tho sale of personal property must be given in like manner, through a public gaz ette 10 days previous to sale day. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must he published -10 days. Notice the papplications will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must be published for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guar dianship Ac., must be published 35 days—for dismission troin Administration, monthly six months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for the forecloseure of Mortgages must- be published monthly for four mouths—for es tablishing lost papers, fur tho full space of three months—for compelling titles trom Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, for the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless oth erwise ordered, at the following RATES. Sherifl’s Sales per levy of ten lines orless S3 00 Sheriff's Mortgage fi. fa. sales, per levy, 5 00 Tax Collector’s sales, per levy, 00 Citations for letters ol'Administratiou- 3 00 Citations for letters ol Guardianship.... 3 00 Notice ot application for dismission from Administration, .- 6 00 Notice of application for dismission from Guardianship, .. 4 00 Apjdicntion to sell land, 0 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 Sale of Land, persquare, 5 00 Sale of porishable property, 10 days 2 00 Estray Notices, 60 days, 4 00 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square 4 00 . non advertising his wife, (in advance) 10 00 SATURDAY .HORNING, June 13. The Columbus Prisoners in Atlanta. We cheer fully comply with the request of the Columbus Enquirer, by publishing the following article from that paper. This we do not for the purpose of suggesting tiny factious opposition to the military au thorities, but for the purpose of assisting them in getting possession of the whole truth, and executing the demands of jus tice. It is believed that the Radicals at the North—the success of whose party de pends upon their persuading the people there that the people of the South are a set of revengeful barbarians—have sent throughout the South, as secret detectives, a lot of unscrupulous men, under promise that for every conviction they secure before a military tribunal, a large bounty shall be their reward. These inquisitors arc known in this section as “the smelling committee;” and they go nosing around, not so much with the expectation of “smelling treason in the tainted air, as actuated by the hope that they may be able, by manufacturing i rested are without means. The colored prisoners, of course, are in destitute cir cumstances. All of them are Den ocrats and conservatives, and good citizens. “What say our brethren of the press ? There in no time to be lest. Knoxville, Tennessee—.Brownlow’s Health Capt. Tom O’Connor, etc. Wo learn from a gentleman of this city, just from Knoxville, Tennessee, that Gov. Brownlow is prostrated with palsy, and can not speak above his breath. - His friends think he cannot live through the summer, though the Governor fully oxpeets to servo out liis six year’s term, in the United States Senate, before yielding his miserable life, which has been prostituted to the work of creating discord, resulting in robery and murder throughout the State, over which it is a burning shame that such an out-law should preside. His death would be hail ed as a public boon. Knoxville is supported by a large extent of rich and productive country, whose vast mineralresourccs are being developed— manufactories of every description are be ing built and the place is very rapidly in creasing in wealth and population. Capt. Thos. O’Connor, we learn is in the midst of business prosperity, having aban doned all the fast ways of Young America, and determined to he a dignified and suc cessful business man. Success to the Cap tain. Why should not Romo improve as rap idly as any other point in the South. With a climate the best in the world, surrounded by a rich and productive country, transpor tation both by rail and navigation for the products of the country, this is found to he one of the most desirable localities in the United States. We want capital, we want manufactories to dcvelope the resources of this country, and make Rome a growing, prosperous and enterprising city. Let the agricultural and manufacturing interest, which are more remunerative now than merchandising, be attended to, and this will he the most prosperous aud wealthy por tion of the State. Bleckley’s Cited Cases. We have received a neatly printed pam phlet of 64 pages. The following trans cript of the title page gives a clear idea of its contents. “Table of the cases reported in the first thirty-one volumes of the Geor gia reports, (1 Kelly to 31 Georgia) and afterwards cited in one or more of said vol umes, to which is added a list of cases cited in the 34th and 35th Georgia Reports, com piled by S. E. Bleckley, late reporter of the Supreme Court of Georgia.” Every lawyer will appreciate the impor tance of this work, and all who know him will agree with us in the assertion that no one in the State would be likely to make such a comp latiou with so much accuracy as Col L. E. Bleckley, of Atlanta. James Munsie under Arrest, We are informed that the charge against him is, resisting and threatening the life of a soldier, acting under orders, in the Monument to Bisliop Elliott. The Diocesan Convention of Georgia, at its session last year, decided to erect a mon ument to the memory of the late Bishop Elliott, but from unavoidable causes, the work was delayed, hut at its session in May last, it was decided to push the work for ward with vigor, and in order that this may be done, subscriptions are solicited from ail who revere the memory of this great and good man. That all may do something, the contributions asked from each will be small. Subscriptions can be left with Mr. Veal, Treasurer of tlie Vestry of St. Peter’s Church-. * The Constitution. We have received the first three num bers ofthis new Daily, published by Col. C. W. Stile3 & Co., at Atlanta. It is a spirited Democratic paper, large and^rell printed. Mr. D. A. Walker, the ized traveling agent is now in this liciting subscriptions. evidence aud a perversion of facts, to make . v . ., ,, , ! discharge ot his duty. If this charge it appear to the military authorities that ”,'“’,.1 v„ .. Jf„ the “trooly loil” are being persecuted by rebels. While it is the unmistable duty of all good citizens to assist in ferreting out Iiould he established against him it will probably subject Mr. M. to a heavy pun ishment. But we have not the most dis tant idea that Mr. Munsie, who is a law- crime, and securing suitable punishment i chiding, peaceable citizen, thought of, to the guilty, it is equally binding upon j lllueil lcs3 with intent committed the crime them to see to it that the innocent are pro- j charged. The facts as related to us are tected. While we have full confidence in the I substantially as follows: Capt. Do la Mesa military officers stationed here, and believe ordered his orderly to bring a certain Ne- that generally throughout the South they are right-minded, honorable men, yet they have to obey orders, and one of these is to arrest all parties guilty of crimes aud misdemeanors, provided the civil authorities fail to attend to the matter. Now, how are they to know who are guilty, except through complaints founded on a show of evidence. When, in this way, the parties innocent, or believed to be innocent, are arrested cither at the instance of imported spies and inquisitors, or of wicked “ and revengeful scalawags, “to the manor born,” it becomes the duty of all to aid in secur ing to them an impartial trial. We therefore second the suggestion made below, and ask for it a liberal response. “It is expected that the prisoners now confined in Atlanta from this place will be tried by a military commission at an early day. No time basyet been set for the tri al, but we presume it will commence be tween this and the 1st of July, and that it. will occupy several weeks. A telegram was received y-esterday from Gen. Meade’s headquarters, stating that the counsel for the prisoners would receive due notice of the time find place of trial, as soon as the same should be determined upon. “The gentlemen who have been engaged to defend the prisoners are General Henry L. Beuning, aud Messrs. Smith & Alexan- Ingrarn & Crawford, and Moses G. Gar rard, of this city, and Hon. Alex. H. Ste vens, of Crawfordyille, and Hon. Wm. Dougherty, of Atlanta. It is feared that sickness in his family may prevent Gen. Benning from taking a leading part in the defense, and that important private busi ness may detain Maj. Moses at home, at least for a part of the time; but the defense will still be ably represented, and the pris oners and their friends may safely entrust their ease to the strong array of legal gen tlemen named above. “In some of its aspects, the case of these young gentlemen is local and individual, in others it is general and concerns every man aud woman iu the State. -The liber ty, not of these prisoners, but of all the peo ple 'of Georgia, is involved in these military proceedings. The suggestion we wish to make is this : The expense of securing witnesses at so great a distance, and counsel fees will be heavy, too heavy to fall upon a single com munity, aud especially upon one which has suffered as this has. The attorneys nam ed above from Columbus do not make any charges beyond their actual expenses. This 'is liberal and generous, and is more, we think, than should be required at their Lands, since their own business must be neglected in the meantime. We beg leave, therefore, to suggest that contributions be raised in this city andtliroughout the State and forwarded to F. G. Wilkins, late May or, or John King, hanker, Columbus, suffi cient to cover all the expenses of this im portant trial. Several of the parties- ar- gro lad, in the employ of Mr. Munsie, be fore him. He pursued him on the street and tho boy ran to Mr. Munsie, for protec tion, saying “dont let him get me.” Di rectly Mr. O’Riley, the orderly came, with out a musket, but having a bayonett iu his belt, seeming to he considerably excited and demanded the boy. Mr. Munsie not suspecting that a soldier without a musket was acting under Military orders, but sup posing that it was his purpose to chastise the boy for some, perhaps, trivial offence, deemed it his duty to protect him, and positively refused to let the orderly get possession of the lad. The orderly drew his bayonett, Mr. Munsie got his Pistol and “high words” ensued. After, however, Mr. Munsie fully understood the matter, he went with the orderly and the boy to Capt. Dc la- Mesa’s office. Soon after re turning to his place of business,Mr. Munsie was arrested by a squad of soldiers. Mr. Munsie may have aeted in discreetly, in this matter, but we do not believe be intended to commit a crime. Which way will Freights go. We would invite the attention of our business men to an article in this paper headed “S. R. & D. R. R,” It will there be seen that last year a large portion of the cotton from Selma and vicinity was shipped by other routes than by the River to Mo bile, and the prediction is made that all the cotton, from that section, will, on the com pletion of the Selina, Rome & Dalton R. K., come this way. Instead of diminishing, this Road well greatly extend the area of trade to Rome. Citizen’s meeting. Pursuant to adjournment, a meeting was held at the City Hall Thursday night. The following resolution, introduced by Hon. J. W. II. Underwood, was adopted, viz : Resolved, unanimously, That a commit tee, consisting of five citizens, be appointed by the Chairman of this meeting, to unite with their Honors, the Mayor and City Council of Rome, in conferences and con sultations with the officers and others en gaged in the construction of the Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad, in referenoe to the location of said road through the city of Rome, so as to advance the commercial and general prorperity thereof, and to call attention to the advantages of locating tho machine and workshops at this place, and also to inaugurate such measures as will in sure the building of the road through Rome, and to give to the company every as sistance of the cordial and active sympathy of onr citizens, with them in the enter prise, and show a disposition to give them our aid and co-operation as far as our abili- will permit. The Chairman appointed tho following Committee, in accordance with the above resolution : W. S. Cothran, W. F, Ayer, Thos. W. Alexander, II. M. Anderson, R. S. Norton. On motion of Thos. W. Alexander, the meeting adjourned, subject to the call of the Mayor and Chairman. Terence McGuire, Chairman. D. M. Hood, ) . M. Dwinell; } Secretaries. Rome, Juno 18, ’68. Sirs. Ford’s School. The Spring session of Mrs. Ford’s School terminated with a delightful Musical Soi ree last Thursday night. We regret ex ceedingly to learn that, unless early assu rances are given of increased patrooage, her next session will open at Woodstock, near Cave Spring. Besides being herself one of the very best Teachers in the whole country, and employing the most competent assistants to be bad, she possesses a mos 1 happy faculty for the general training of young ladies, and preparing them for the exalted position they are expected to grace in southern society. We hope that satis factory arrangements may be made for her to continue her school in this city. . Cheap Calico. Cohen & Stillwell, have just received a case of prints, which they offer at 12}. cents per yard. They call attention of merchants and oth ers to their fine stock of tobacco, which they offer at wholsale and retail. Mr. Cohen has long had the reputation- of coming nearer, having everything for sale than any other merchant in Rome, and he must sell very cheap else he could not sell so much. Give them a call. “The Gray Jacket.” We are requested to say that work can be found at the News Agency, at the Post- office, during the absence of Mr. John C. Printup. It is sold only by subscription. From the N. Y. World. The Will of the Feople. Gen. Grant’s declaration that he will have no policy but the will of the people to guide him, reminds one of a similar declar ation of the great Mr. Pickwick of his poli cy at the great election at Eatanswill, be tween the Bulls and Blues, in which the Hon. Samuel Slumkey was the candidate of the Blues aud the Hon. Horatio Fizkin of the Buffs. “Slumkey forever.”: roared the honest and independent. “Slumkey forever!” echoed Mr. Pick wick taking off his hat.” “No Fizkin!” roared the crowd., “Cer tainly not!” shouted Mr. Pickwick. “Who is Slumkey?” whispered Mr. Tup- man. “I don’t know” replied Mr. Pickwick, “Hush! don’t ask any questions; its always best to do what the mob do on these occa sions.” “But suppose there are two mobs,” sug gested Mr Snodgrass. “Shout with the largest,” replied Mr. Pickwick. Volumes could not have said more. From the Selma Messenger. The S. R. Jc D. R. R. We are glad to bear the most encouraging accounts of the progress being made by the contractors on the Selma, Rome and Dal ton Road. A strong force is pushing the work with cheering and commendable, vigor. Already the ears run through regu larly to Cross Plains, fifteen miles beyond Jacksonville, and the rails are down sever al miles beyond Cross Plains. There is not a doubt that by the 1st of September we will have an unbroken connection, over this road with New York; and over this route will doubtless go the bulk of the cot ton crop of this section to New York and Liverpool. Iu this connection, it is a note-worthy fact that during the past season cotton ruled here at or within a fraction of the Mobile rates, aud that, too, notwithstand ing it was shipped in great part by Mont gomery and Savannah, or by Meridian and Louisville, to New York. During no part of the past season was the difference bc- tweeu the Mobile and Selma prices suffi cient to pay haif the freight and insurance to the former city. Our brokers bought here on northern orders, and paid New York rates, less actual commissions aud other ex penses. The completion of the S., R. and Dalton road to Rome will give us a direct route to New York, and lessen the freight on cotton, and thus stili further sustain the Selma market. If the broker could pay thirty cents for cotton here and ship via Louisville, he will be able, the same rates ruling at New York,to pay thirty-one cents hereafter. Planters will see at once how they are interested in the important fact now rapilly approaching accomplishment. The filling of the gap to Rome will cer tainly increase the business of Selma very largely. Our planting friends in Hale and. Marengo and Greene will all bring their cotton here, where they can hold it, if they wish, under their immediate care, and where they will be certain of better than Mobile prices. This Road Las been so long in progress that we are not greatly surprised that many persons doubt its early completion. It bad apparently “stuck” at Blue Mountain, and thousands and thousands in Central Alaba ma do not yet realize thatwithin a very few weeks it has been extended twenty-five miles beyond that point, and is making progress at the rate of nearly a mile every day.— Such is the fact, however, and we are confi dent that within sixty days the Selma trains will cross the Etowah. One of our most enterprising business firms, deeply interested in the completion of this road, wrote to the Superintendent a few days since, making specific inquiries as to the time at which Rome will be reached, and the facilities that will be offered for the transportation of the growing crop. Capt. Barney’s reply, which we have been permit ted to copy, is explicit and satisfactory, and must remove whatever donbtshavc hitherto existed in any mind on these points: Office Selma, Rome & Dalton R. R. Blue Mountain. June 13th, 186S. Gentlemen:—Your favor of the 11th has been received. In answer, I will say that at our present rate of progress we shall complete our road to Rome by Sept. 1st, 1868. ASwe advance aud concentrate our forces, we hope to accelerate our speed, so as to reach that city early in August. We shall be prepared to carry the grow ing crop of cotton to the Eastern market, and hope to be able to offer a choice of three routes beyond Rome, and as favorable terms as any. Very respectfully, E. G. Barney, * Sup’t and Agent. " R. R . ) : sll tain, > j G 3. ) | is! WELL SAID. The Journal of Commerce does not agree with the World in its view of accepting the status quo of Radical Reconstruction embodied in the Omnibns Bill. It thus disposes of the rotten-borough system and negro suffrage thereunder: “No law of Congress, no constitution of any State, no amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States, is unrepealablc. Congress has shown mankind with what facility the most solemn compacts, may be rent to pieces, where party interests require it. At some time not for distant, perhaps, the Conservatives may have the supreme power, as the radicals now have it. It will be their duty to revise and correct errors of Radical legislation. One of the first ques tions that will come before tl cm will be that of the repeal of all negro suffrage en actments and provisions. Unqualified ne gro suffrage will then have been tried upon its merits, on the large scale, if, on the whole, it is a good thing, it will not he mo lested. But if it is a clearly apparent evil and nuisance, nothing can save it from be ing sponged out of existence.” . The Journal is slightly punctillious in giving unqualified negro suffrage the benefit of a doubt—i. c., “if it is a good thing, it will not be molested.” It never was and never will be a “good thing,” and so it must and shall bo sponged out.— Cohstiiu- tionalist. EgL.Gen. Forrest is one of the delegates at laige from' Tennessee to the National Democratic Convention. 8gi,The Tennessee Democratic State Convention expressed a preference for Mr. Johnson for President. J The Bureau.—We thought, says the World, that the Bureau was to be dispensed with when tho Southern States came in. Instead of that it is to be continued for an other year, and now we look for an increase of the army in those States which were to bo all peace and plenty when the Congres sional policy of reconstruction had full play. The Omulbus Bill. Below we give the text of the Omni bus Bill, for the admission of the States named therein, precisely as it goes to the President. The bill having passed each House by largely over a two- hirds majori ty, tho President will hardly go through the formality of a veto. He will probably bold it the ten days allowed by the Con stitution, at the expiration of which it will become a law: An act to admit the States of North Caro- olina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Geor gia and Florida to representation in Con gress. Whereas, The people of North Carolina, S. Carolina, Louisiana. Georgia Alaba n i Florida, have in pursuance of the provis ions of an act entitled “An act for the more- efficient government of the rebel States, passed March 2d. 1867, and the acts supplementary thereto, framed Constitu tions of State Governments which are Re publican in form, and have adopted said Constitutions by largo majorities of the votes cast at the elections held for the rat i- fication of the same: Therefore, Be it enacted, That each of the States of Noith Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana. Georgia, Alabama and Florida, shall be en titled and admitted to representation in Congress as States of the U nion, when the Legislatures of such States shall have duly rat ified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the 39th Congress, and known as article 14, upon the following fundamental conditions : Sec. 1. That the Constitution of neither of said States shall never be so amend ed or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote in said States who are entitled to vote by the Constitution thereof herein recognized, except as a punishment for ucli crimes as are now felonies at com- :on law, whereof they shall have been du ly convicted under laws equally applicable to all inhabitants of said State : Provided, That any alterations of said . Constitutions, prospective in its effect, may be made with regard to the time and place of residence of voters; and the State of Georgia shall only be entitled and admitted to represen tation upon this further fundamental con dition : That the 1st and 3d sub-divisions of section seventeen of the 5 th article of the Constitution of said State, except the pro viso to the first snb-division, shall he null and void, and that the General Assembly of said State by solemn public act shall de clare the assent of the State to the forego ing fundamental condition. Sec. 2. That if the day fixed for the first meeting of the Legislature of either of said States by the Constitution or ordinance thereof shall have passed, or so nearly ar rived, before the passage of this act that there shall notbc time for the Legislature to assemble at the period fixed, such . Leg islature shall convene at the end of twenty days from the time this act takes ef- lact unless the Governor elect shall sooner convene the same. Sec. 3. That the first section of this act shall take effect as to each State, except Georgia, when such State shall, by its Leg islature, duly ratify article 14 of the amend ment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the 39th Congress; and as to the State of Georgia, when it shall in addition, give the assent of said State to the fundamental condition herein before imposed upon the same, and thereupon the officers of each State duly elected and qual ified under the Constitution thereof shall be inaugurated without delay; but no per son prohibited from holding office under the United States or under any State, by section 3 of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the Uni ted States, known as Article 14, shall be deemed eligible to any office in either of said States, unless relieved from disability as provided iu said amendment; and it is hereby made the duty of the President, within ten days after receiving official in formation of the ratification of said amend ment by the Legislature of either of said States, to issue a proclamation announcing that fact. The Columbus Prisoners. We regret to learn that these prisoners have been returned to their cells We are not informed why this was necessary, for ample security had been given on their bond that they would not escape; but we are informed that at the bottom of all this trouble is some detectives who have been sent from Washington City to nose ont the murderers of Ashbum—two miserable look- ing sneaks, that crawl, about hunting for crime among men thejfcknow are not guil ty, offering negroes money, threatening them, and using all kinds of means to carry out this nefarious plan of convicting inno cent men. It was these men who have caused the arrest of the prisoners, and who have the power now to put them in any place they choose; and we would not be surprised to hear that these devilish fiends did not bring into use again the rack. They are extremely anxious to mako a case ont, and they will not hesitate to resort to any of.&e negro Loyal ure to carrv their end. They have nffereTTP 5 ^ at , * jl T ton > AIa :> 1S ,n for Steal' ure to carry their end. They have offered negroes money; this can be proven; they have threatened to carry them to Tortugas; this can be proven—all to compell them to testify that the prisoners killed Ashbum. We hope these young men will have the fortitude to bear np under this bitter op pression. The day may notbc far distant when they will be relieved; yea, when they themselves may have the power to dictate a little healthy oppression. Then will they remember your kindness, Mr. Knockknees and Mr. ELatchetface.—At. Intel. 11<A. ARTICLE FOURTEEN. Sec. 1. All persons born or naturalized Well, it has bad full play, and what do we | the United States, and subject to the ju- see I—the retention of both Bureau and bayonets therein place of their withdrawal. Are these tho “loil” Governments we were to have—Governments carried on by negroes whom the North is taxed to feed? And is this the peace that Radicalism proposes—a peace maintained by cold steel. To Georgia Delegates. Atlanta, June 17th, 1868. Editor Constitution: Flease publish the following telegram just received in refer ence to quarters, in New York, for the Geor gia Delegates: J. B. Gordon. New York, June 17,1868. To Gen John B. Gordon. I have engaged a parlor at the Chauler House, opposite the New Tammany Hall, Fourteenth street, Doctor Duncan proprie tor. Georgia delegates desiring it will be furnished board and lodging there. James Gardner. Homicide at Columbus. From the Sun and Times, we learn that Jas. Carenton was killed by Peter Buckler, the son of the well known boot maker of that city, about midnight Saturday night. He cut him several times with a knife. Exit “Sharp and Quick.”—It has been understood in this city tor several days that Col. E. Hulbert is relieved of the “command” ho so successfully manoeuvered since first the Bureau .of Registration was introduced as a concomitant of reconstruc tion within the bailiwick known as the Third Military District. How it was all brought about wo have no certain knowl edge, but rumor says that the Commanding General’s attention, was drawn to. certain letters addressed to one Duer, at Columbus, by the Chief of Registration, and upon the latter’s failure to produce satisfactory ex planation thereof, “Cassio” was invited to “No more be officer of mine.” “After: death, then cometh the Doctor.” [Atlanta Constitution, 16th. Gen. Meade.—The Atlanta. New Era of yesterday says : It is touted in knowing circles that Gen. Meade willprobably not resume commandof this Military District. We do not vouch fob the truth ofthis report. - Adjournment of Congress.—It is said that the Radicals have determined not to adjourn Congress until after the South ern States have organized and - ratified the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution and their Radical representatives admitted. This is with a view to securing the South ern electoral votes for Grant 8®,The Rev. Henry Ward Beacher is in favor of Chief Justice Chase’s election as President risdiction thereof, are citizens of the Uni ted States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Sco. 2 Representatives shall be appor tioned among the several States aooording to the respective numbers, coanting the whole number of persons in each State, ex cluding Indians, not taxed; but whenever the right to vote at any election for the electors of President aud Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Con gress, executive and judicial officers, or the members of tho Legislature thereof is de nied to any of the male inhabitants of such States, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation rebellion, or other crime, the basis of rep resentation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty one years of age in that State. - Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, elector of Pres ident, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or any State, who having previously taken an oath os a mem ber of Congress, or as an officer of the Uni ted States, or as a member of any State Legislature, o<* as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Consti tution of the United States, shall have en gaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, but Congress may, by a vote of. two-thirds of the House remove such disability. Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for service in sup pressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned, but-neither the United States-nor any State shall assnme or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection .or rebellion against the Uni ted States, or claim for the loss or emanci pation of any slaves, but all such debts, ob ligations or claims shall be held illegal and void. - Sec. 5. The Congress of the United States shall have.power to enforce, by ap- piopriate legislation, the provisions of this act. - Views of Hon. B. II. Hill on the Proper 'Attitude ot the Georgia Delegation in the National Convention. On Monday afternoon last, in a conver sation with us, Hon. R. H. Hill, whose opinions are entitled to consideration by his many admirers, stated that in his judg ment the Southern delegations should have but little to do in determining the nominee or the platform of the Democratic party in the approaching Convention—that the platform should be a short and simple one —if it said anything at all upon the suf frage question, it should simply declare that the settlement of that question belong ed to the States—that the Southern dele gates should cheerfully co-operate with the Northern delegates in whatever their judg ment deemed proper to be done—that har mony should and would prevail, and who ever should he considered by the North as the most available and sure candidate, whether Judge Chase or any other person, to defeat the schemes of the Radical party, should have the cordial support of our del egates and people.—Macon Telegraph. {g^The Rev. C. H. Malcomb, Baptist, of Newport, Rhode Island, whose church has recently been disfellowshiped by the Rhode Island Association for its practice of open communion, in a recent address said: “I solemnly, here to-night, affirm that, after eleven years of quiet, patient in dustrious investigation, I hold in my pos session the unquestioned true evidence of a deep and wide spread movement, both among clergymen and in the laity, setting in this enlarged, more liberal and Catholic direction. And, although the Rhode Is land Baptist State Convention, a week or two ago, solemnly prononneed the Second Church, and all other churches, practicing open communion to be irregular, yet, so far from stopping that movement, I believe it will prove to be the best help which it ha3 ever received.” Remarkable Discovery jn .Tennes^ see.—The Chattanooga Union says that Mr. Wm. Staples, while d gging recently in a salt lick on big farm, twelvo miles northeast of Kingston, Tenn., struck a solid lime stone rock, about seven feet below the surface. He found in it a well, about eight inches iu diameter, filled with very salt wa ter. ' After tho disoovery of the woll Mr. Staples prosecuted his investigations, and to his surprise found a line of kettles.— The kettles were of Etoneware, made of the same material as that used by the Indians for their home ware, such as plates, dishes, etc., The kettles were broken, but their curvature indicated that they were about three feet in diameter, and were about for ty in number. A'most striking fact con nected with this discovery is that these kettles were found at a depth of seven feet below the surface of theground. Growing above them were trees—poplar and oak- which were evidently two centuries old. Scraps from Prentice. fl©“No “Rogues’ Gallery” would be complete without a photograph ofGen. But ler. {©“Edwin M. Stanton is practising law in Washington. Hitherto he ins been prac tising ’ ’ JSuGen. Grant’s riding a mule in his boyhood might'all have been very well, if the animal hadn’t kicked his brains out., - {S^Gen. Grant will be ■ as thoroughly tanned in November as he wonld ever have been if he had fallen into one of his own vats. {©“There is nothing in nature just now like the earthquakes of the Sandwich Is lands, except the quakes in the'soul of tho radical party. ing bacon—canght in the act. By an over sight he was not put on the Chicago delega tion. B@_Foiney says that the Democracy “seeks to take snap judgement” on Grant. It might be difficult to take snap judgment on such a judge of “schnapps.” {©"The Richmond Whig calls the Chi cago platform “wishy-washy.” No doubt it is “wish” enough, but the dirty concern would be the better for being more “washy.” 0@»Thc radical Editors think that we are exceedingly worried over the imprison ment of Mr. Woolley. Not a hundredth part so much as they are, and not a thou sandth part so much as they willjbe. {©“The present manager of the House of Representatives is a thief and a woman- whipper. He is cross-eyed, cross-grained, sits cross-legged and cross-armed, and is a cross-breed between a bear end a swine. ttguForney says in his Occasional letter of the 30th, in regard to the President’s acquittal, that “the nation is staggering.” This is not the first time that a radical or gan has mistaken Grant for the country. {©“Congress is evidently-determined-to bring in Alabama at once with her rejected constitution. She may cut the hair of her head as short as a boxer’s, but Congress will pull her in by it. Death of Col. Watkins. We regret to announce the death of Col. E. P. Watkins, a prominent lawyer of this place. He died at his father’s residence, in Coweta county, on Saturday last, with consumption. Col. Watkins was, for a number of years, Ordinary of Heniy county, and Secretary of State for eight years. During the war he was Colonel of the 56th Georgia Regi ment, and was in active service iu Virginia, on the coast and in the Western army; and during the War he represented this district in the State Senate. From Washington. Washington, June 16.—The Senate- bill was introduced promoting commerce between the States, and dispensing with fees on mails, military and naval stores. It contemplates the construction of a railroad centering in Washington. Bill, was introduced removing the disa bilities of certain citizens ofNorth Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia, and a few for other States. The list covers 1200, including Governors Brown, Holden, Gen. Longstreet, and Geo. W. Jones, of Tennessee. The last is .tho only- known Democrat in the lot. The Finance Bill was removed and dis cussed till adjournment. •In the House, the Senate, amendment relieving Roderick R. Bui], member elect from Tennessee, from-disabilities and seat ing him without the iron-clad oath, passed 96 to 27. After local business, the River and Har bor Bill was taken np. It appropriates about seven million dollars. Thesoutheast is only benefitted by 639,000 for the exam ination and survey of tbe Atlantic coast. The tributaries of the Mississippi get one million three hundred thousand dollars, but only one hundred thousand for the month of tbe Mississippi and eighty-five thousand for the improvement of the Mis souri, Mississippi and Arkansas rivers will be spent South. No action taken. From Florida, Washington, ’ Juno 17.—A dispatch from Tallahassee states that A. S. Welch, of Michigan was elected to the United States Senate for the term ending March 1,1869. On tbe last ballot ibr the term ending 1873, T. W. Osborn, Radical, of New York, received 31; O.B. Hunt, native, known as Southern loyalist, 21; Gov. Mar vin, Lem,, 16. The Florida delegation here are relieved of their apprehension of a negro being returned to the Senate from Florida. They seem happy. From Waolungton—Congreasional—Items from’Various Points. Washington, June 17.—In the Sen- . ate, the Texas Convention resolution, that Congressional Reconstruction would fail under Buchanan’s appointments, was re ferred to the Judiciary Committee. A memorial was presented fromWm.S-. Chipley, of Kentucky, that his son, resid ing at Columbus, Ga., had been arrested by the military authorities in violation of the Constitution, and carried two hundred miles from his home to Atlanta, where he is now confined and deprived of commuica- tion with his friends; that he is falsely charg ed with being concerned in the Ashburn murder, who was killed in a negro house of ill fame. Referred to the Judiciary Com mittee. A motion indefinitely postponing the Senate aud House amendments to the bank rupt law was passed. Burlingame and the Chinese visited the Senate. The Chair laid before the Senate a tele graphic dispatch from the Constitutional All who knew him,’ Convention of Texas, dated Austin, June respect bis memory and mourn his loss.— the 16th, containing resolutions passed at He was a true patriot, a loving husband, i that date, asking permission of Congress and an indulgent parent. He leaves a wife j for the Convention to organize a military aud five sons. ; force in conjunction with the Military To the many virtues as a good citizen, ) Commander to subdue crime add Iawless- we can add that he was a consistent member ! ness, which they allege is now so frequent of the Baptist Church ibr a number of years, ■ in that State; aud further setting forth that?" and we doubt not that our loss is his eternal I if Congress docs not rant this power, the gain.—At. Intel., 17th. j loyal people of Texas will be compelled to » — ! take the law iu their own hands in self- jgjy-The radical campaign in the country defense. Referred to the committee on begins with the expulsion, at the National j military affairs. Capital, of one hundred and fifty soldiers’ ~ “ ** ; votes from the ballot box—soldiers residing ! rom ‘ ss ss PP • there with their families. It is thus that; Jackson, June 16.—Governor Hum- they claim tho control of the city' govern- phreys has been removed, ment, and by such acts only can they hope [ Major-General Adelbert Aims is appoin tor success. This disfranchisement of the ; ted.Provisional Governor. soldiers is the first vie ory of radicalism. {©•Impeachment -has a queer result.— Wade loses his grip and his temper, Forney loses an office, and Vinnie Ream a free studio. Butler secures several tons of pri vate letters and telegrams for his collection, and Woolley gains a national reputation. {^■Nature is sanative, refining,, eleva ting. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity un der roses and violets, and morning dew.— Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet tbe new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. Look out into the'July night, and sec the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of Heaven^fresh as the bonfires of meadow flics. Yet the power of numbers cannot compote the enormous age—last ing as space and time—embosomed in time and space. And what are they— time and space? Our first problems, which we ponder all our lives through, and leave where we found them; whose outrwming immensity, the old Greeks believed, aston ished tbe Gods themselves; of whose dizzy height^ all the worlds of God are a mere dot on themargin; impossible to deify, im possible ta believe.—Emerson. Remedy for Rust in Wheat.—-The following, from a distinguished German agriculturist, is taken from a Bremen pa- pen For thirty years I have found this meth od successful in preventing nist in wheat: Some hours, at the longest six or eight, be fore sowing, prepare a steep of three meas ures of powdered quicklime, and ten meas ures of cattle urine. Poor two qnaTts of tins upon a peck of wheat, and stir with a spade till every kepnel is covered white With it. By using wheat so prepared, rust of every kind will be avoided, and I have noticed that while in the neighboring, fields, a great part of the crop is affected by rust, in mine, lying closely by it, hot a single eai so affected conld be found. The same writer says he takes the. sheaves and beats off the ripest- kernels with a stick and uses the grain thus obtained for scud. - ? The i.'niciuuati Colored Citizen, of.this week faysA gentleman of this city, noted for the elegance and exquisiteness. of his appar. !. is to IX- united in the holy bonds of wedlo;-k. (lurn<g the coming - fall, to Miss Heloise de'Laeoix, the fifty-thousand dollar quadr -in belle of Cambridgeport, Massa chusetts. ' Le-son in Grammar.—Lo! tho poor Lidia . Lower—The poor negro. Lowest —The. poor white man who is taxed to purchase bread and blankets for both the others. !!©»Juhn Banyan, while in Bedford jail, was called upon by a Quaker, desirous of making a convert of him. “Friend John, I have come to thee with a message from the Lord, and after having searched for thee in all the prisons in England, I am glad that I have found thee at last.” “If the Lord had sent you,” returned Banyan, “you need not have taken so much pains to find me out; for the Lord knows I have been here for twelve years.” An Error.—Our informant-had a con versation with Gov. H. Y. Johnson, on Fri day last, and the Governor.deolared his con viction that the nomination of Chase is the only course to insure success beyond a per- adventure.—Macon Telegraph. We are authorized by Governor Johnson, says the Constitutionalist, to state that tbe gentleman who reported-the above to the Macon Telegraph totally misunderstood his position. Gov. Johnson said, or- intended to be understood to say, that the salvation of tbo Government depended upon, the de feat of the Radical candidate for tbe. Presi dency. and that if the'nomination of Chase were indispensably necessary for that pur pose, he would cheerfully support him, if nominated by the Convention. BgfuA returned Californian found the ba by he left at home a miss of five summers One day he- offe. ded. her, and she ire fully exclaimed: “I wish yon had never mar ried into the family.” Feareul Outrage in Kershaw Dis trict—Two Citizens Hanged and one Killed.—We learn, upon authority that we consider indisputable, that dispatches were received 1 in Columbia Monday night from Camden, stating that an outbreak bad occurred amongst the negroes in thatvi-.. cinity, in the progress of which Stvcral of the most prominent citizens were! forcible incarcerated,', and two of them hung, and that the sheriff of the district, in a futile effort to command the peace, had been fa tally shot. It appears that the company of Federal soldiers which had been sent to that point at the. earnest solicitation of the citizens to quell the disturbances which were threatened in consequence of the killing of S. G. W. Dill last week, Lad received no tice that they were to be relieved by a com pany from Columbia, and without waiting for the relief to arrive, had started -from Camden. The negroes, taking advantage of their absence, rose ea masse, and com mitted the-horrible-outrage to' Which we allude. At this hour it is impossible to learn more of the details or the names of the victims, and we await with solicitude further reports of what seems to ns to pos sess every probability of truth.—Charleston- Mem, Vlth. H@»A French' woman once said that she never loved anything.- “Yon loved -your, children,” suggested a friend. “When they were little,” she replied. “And yon loye diamonds.” “When they, are large,” she replied, •guGen. Breckinridge, is expected, in Quebec gSgflS • Attorney-General Hooker is relieved by Capt. Jasper .Myers. Both the appointees are oncers of the Federal army. Florida Legislature* Tallahassee, June 18.—In the legis lature to-day T. W. Osborn was elected Uni ted States Sehatcr'fbr four years—vote 51 to 18. Osborn and Welch, who was elec ted yesterday are both ultra Radicals.— The question of election of Senator for six years from the fourth of March next will be taken up to-morrow. All the proceedings are in advance of th e action of Congress, and without the sanction of General Meade. - From Washington. Washington, June 18.—John W. Caldwell, of Ohio, was confirmed Minister to Bo.ivia. Indictment for murder, was'' abandoned in the Surratt case. From'Richmond. Biohmond, June 18.—A. S. Barber, a celebrated Virginian sculptor, died in Rap pahannock county,of cancer. The .New York World’s Chase Movement. The National Intelligencer thus responds to the New York WorUVs Chase movement, and its recent position concerning negro “To tell the whites of the States that suf-. frage is to be left to the States to regulate, without declaring-these negro governments ; I to be a tyranny and usurpation, is to trifle with and evade a great issue. It is. to turn onr eyes away from a great crime, to ignore the sentiments of the Northern masses, as evinced in every election where the issue has been presented to them, and wonld be an abandonment of principlealike disgrace ful and impolitic. Iij. short, it would be a dissolution of the Conservative party. . “We propose, therefore, manfully and ..earnestly -to grapple with themany outrages and atrocities of radicalism; and, when we shall have the power, to blot them all ont. It is for tius that tbe people are rising, as one man,'! from tlie Atlantic to th'o Pacific, Here we have a clue to the coolness and apathy with which thonomination of.Grant- and Colfax have been received. If we de sire a like fact for onr nominee^ allwo " have to do is to send them -forth with a doubtful and uncertain utterance to the masses, who long for deliverance and a con stitutional government under the control of the white.race in all the States. In this sign only may we eonquer.” ' . Depot at -Butler. Burned, The. new brick Depot built by the Mus cogee & South Western Railroad Compa nies was totally destroyed by fire on Sun day morning-last, • : . ' There was a quantity of cotton, osna- burgs and bacon, belonging; to the Flint River Factory, consumed. Loss covered by. insurance. Cause of the. fire not known. {©"Hannibal Hamlin, _ _ radical nomination for Vice President, has secured the Presidency of the Bangor and Piscataqua railroad.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, June 26, 1868, Image 1