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JgUSTA, GA., DECEMBER 30, 1865.
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$. In a discussion to day about the,
is of advertising, one of the party
that Helmbold is paying the Tri
{lo,ooo per year for advertising,
true that any druggist can afford
:iy such sum for advertising?
A Boston Druggist.
hston, Nov. 11, 1865.
reply. ,
tis a matter that concerns a“ Boston
.gist” and all business men, and we
as well state that Helmbold is paying
Tribune over $lO,OOO this year. He
us $1,500 for one insertion of one)
in the Weekly Tribune, besides his
.am in the Daily Tribune. Bonner
paid us $3,000 for one insertion of
'.dvertisement of the Ledger. He
M that by judiciously advertising he
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Editor oe the Tribune.
would specially invite the atten-
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We give below a message from Presi
dent Johnson on matters connected with
our race. We commend it to the atten
tion of our readers:
MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT.
To the Senate of th.c United Slates:
In reply to the resolutions adopted by
the Senate on the J 2th, I have the honor
to state that the war waged by a portion
of the people against the properly con
stituted authorities of the Government of
the baited States has been suppressed;
that the United States arc in possession
cf every State in which the insurrection
existed, and that, as far as could be, the
Courts of the United States have been
restored, post offices re-established, and
step's taken to put into effective operation
the revenue laws of the country. As the
result of the measures instituted by the
executive, with a view of inducing a re
sumption of the functions of the States,
compichended in the inquiry of the Sen
•to, the people in North Carolina, South
Carolina; Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, have
reorganized their*respective State Gov
ernments, and are yielding obedience to
the laws and Government of the United
Stat s with more willingness and greater
promptitude than, under the circum
stances, could reasonably have been au
ticij ated.
The proposed amendment to the Con
stitution, providing for the abolition of
slavery forever within the limits of the
c .untry, has been ratified by each one of
the a? States, with the exception of Mis
sissn pi, from which no official iuforma.
tion has been received, and in nearly all
oi them measures have been adopted or
arc now pending, to confer upon the
freedmen the privileges wh ch arc essenti
al to their comfort, protection and securi
ty. In Florida and Texas the people are
making commendable progress in restor
ing their State Governments, and no doubt
entertain that they will at an early
period be in a position to ”csume all of
their political relations with the Federal
Government. a
The aspect of affairs is more promising
than, in view of all the circumstances,
could have been expected. The people
throughout the entire South evince a
laudable desire to renew their allegiance
to the Government, and to repair the de
vastations of war by a prompt and cheer
ful return to peaceful pursuits. An abid
in Haith is entertained that their actions
will conform to their professions, and that
in acknowledging tho supremacy of the
Constitution and laws of the United
States, their loyalty will be unreservedly
given to the Government whose leniency
thi y could not fail to a predate, and
whoso filtering care will soon restore
them to a condition of prosperity.
It is true that in some of the States
the demoralising effects of the war are to
be seen in occasional disorderly conduct,
but these are local in character, not fre
quent in occurrence, and are rapidly dis
ap-caring as the authority ef the civil
power is extended and sustained. Per
plexing questions were naturally to be
expected from the great and sudden
change in the relations between the two
races, our systems are gradually develop
ing themselves under which the freedmen
will receive the protection to which he is
justly entitled and by means of his color
make himself a useful and independent
man of the community in which he has
his home. From all the information in
my • and from that which I have
recently received from the most reliable
authority, I am induced to cherish the
belief that personal animosity is surely
and rapidly merging itself into a spirit of
nationality, and that representation, con
nect d with a properly adjusted system of
taxation, will result in a harmonious je
storation of the relations of the States
to the National Union.
Anfrew Johnson, President.
Washington. Dec. 18, 1865.
Ingenuity of a Chinese Tailop.—A
clergyman of Lord Macartney’s embassy,
whose cassock was so extremely patched
and darned that lie could no longer wear,
it with decency, Laving applied to a
toiler in Canton for a new one, received
shortly afterwards the new cossock with
every darn and patch so accurately true
to the old pattern that nothing but the
greater strength of new cloth could de*
termine the one from the other; the
tailor having unluckily conceived that
the darns and patches were so many em
blems of the clergyman’s profession. 1 his
anecdote is given by Barron as an illus
tration of the excellent imitative powers
and ingenuity of the Chinese,
Augusta, Ga., Saturday, December 30, 1885.
Seventh, That the negro is naturally
an abject coward ; but
Eighth, That he is a most dangerous
creature, capable of rising and murder
ing a community double his numbers, and
with a hundred times his strength in
arms and all preparations forMefencc
Ninth, That the negro can only live
in a warm climate, like that of the South
ern States; but
Tenth, That, now ho.is set free
there, he will immediately rush North,
and take the bread out of the mouths
of the white working men here.
Eleventh*, That white men cannot
work in the Southern fields, which cun
be cultivated only by negroes; but
Twelfth, That tho ncgioes ought all
to be colonized in Africa, or driven oft
to some remote corner of this continent.
Thirteenth, That the freedmen are
so stupid and ignorant as to be danger
ous to the Republic ; but
Fourteenth, That they ought not to
be instructed, or permitted to acquire
knowledge.
Fifteenth, That it would be a curse
to Northern working men to have the
negroes ftock into these States ; but
Sixteenth, That Northern working
men ought not to favor a policy which
would make the negroes contented to re
main in the South.
HARD TO PLEASE.
The New York Daily News writes,
“ The working classes of the South are
exposed, more than those of this section
at present are, to the pressure of negro
competition. The equality of the two
begins its assertion there, in a form more
threatening to the white laborer than
even in the case of the North. The
progress of the struggle at the South
may therefore be watched bv the work
ing classes here as a study if what is, as
yet, bur. in progress cf development among
themselves.”
It is difficult to satisfy men who are
determined to grumble. We have been
confidently assured, at different times, by
the Dady News and its friends, the mali
gnant, pro slavery men.
Fifst, That the free negro will not
work at all; but
Second, Thrt be will work so much
better than the white laborer, that the
latter will be injured by the pressure of
negro competition.
Third, That the country will be
ruined by the idleness of the free blacks ;
but
Fourth, That the negroes arc so ea?er
for work as to leave none for white work-*
men. x
Fifth, That the negroes'are a curse to
the country ; but
Sixth, That the slave system, which
made negro breeding a regular and profi
table business, and thus increased their
numbers at an abnormal rate, was a di
vine ■■ institution and a blessing to the
land.
Seventeenth, That they will inevitably
be ruined, and deprived of work, by the
competition’of ignorant and idle negroes.
Nineteenth, That the presence of the
blacks amongst us will always be a source
of difficulty and trouble ; but
Tw.ntieth, That the Emancipation Act
is wrong, chiefly because, under its opera
tion, the negro race is likely to die out,
like the Indians.
These are some of the curious con
tradictions into which men fall who ignore
all general princepies, and follow only
the will o’ the wisp of their prejudices.
It is not only in relation to the negro
question that they are thus blinded, their
folly extends to other affairs. Fur in
stance, they assert very earnestly that a
flierchant ought to be free to sell his
goods wherever he wants ; but they will
not have a laborer sell his labor as freely
though that labor creates the goods.
They insist that we shall buy calico in
the cheapest market, but not labor.
They laugh at the absurdities and cru
dities of “ protective legislation,” and yet
cry out that white workmen must suffer,
unless protected against “ the pressure
of negro competition,” they welcome
immigration from abroad, at the same
’time that they try to persuade working
men here that the labor market is already
overstocked. These are the same men,
who, before the war, declared the negro
a beast, a monkey, possessed of every
vile quality, and a terrible danger to
the community, and yet urged the re
opening of the African slave trade.—
N. Y. Evening Post.
The first thing General Lee dr ne when
he arrived at Lexington was to visit
Stonewall Jackson’s grave.
A great quantity of powder and Gov
ernment stores are being collected at
.Cairo, 111.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A REMARKABLE PROPHECY.
Twenty years ago, Mrs, Henrietta
Wellington Boath was invited in Europe
by an American family of large posses
sions at the South, to travel through .the
slave States and see for herself their ac
tual condition. Iler rhymed reply was
this singular prophecy :
You telLpie of a bright land far over the
sea,
But, ah ! can you call it the land of the
free ?
Where the image of God, for a handful
of gold,
Like a beast of the field in the market is
sold—
Where the child from the mother’s for.d
bosom is torn,
Where the father is chained, leaving or
phans forlorn,
Where the maiden is bartered, like mer
chandise ware,
Then doomed to the lash and the groan of
despair I
Woe! woo to thee, fair land! far over
the main ;
For the canker of death, dark slavery’s
stain,
Shall knaw to thy vitals, while every
From the victims who writhe, mounts for
justice on high.
And He, the great Lord of the universe
wide,
Shall smite thee to earth in thy strength
aud thy pride ;
For vengeance must fall for foul cruelties
done
Ou the beings iedeemed by Ills own be
loved Son I
The sound of the war-drum shall thrill
thee at night,
As thy sons aud thy brothers arc borne
to the fight; *
The slave and the cotton shall stab thee
with pain,
And the North and the South be divided
in twain,
And brother ’gainst brother shall strike
in the fight,
And battles be fought in the dead off the
night;
And the white maid and widow in sorrow
shall mourn,
And the flags of thy freedom in tatters
be torn.
The North in her might like a whirlwind
shall rise,
And the notes of tho cannon be borne to
the skies.
And though the warm blood of her he--
roes be shed,
The light of her freedom shall never be
dead;
The Stars and the Stripes an Excelsior
shall be,
Proud Liberty’s banner from land and by
sea;
And the Union, though spurned by the
slaveholder’s scorn,
Shall be guarded by Northmen for ages*
unborn.
A Passion for Watches.—ln the city
of Boston there is an individual who
may be said to have a perfect passion for
watches. He is the possessor of some
fifteen or twenty, if not a couple of dozen
of them. They are all made of the finest
gold and are not only of the nicest work
manship, but very costly and valuable
timekeepers. One abounds in perals,
another in diamonds, and another in all
sorts of precious stones; and the dial,
case and interior of each differ from that
of each of the others. One strikes like
a minature clock every hour, another is a
repeater and tells the quarters, while an*
other seems to sing like a little bird.
One or two are uncommonly’ large and
massive, having gold cases nearly a quar
ter of an inch in thickness; others
arc as small as a lady's watch. Each
posesscs its own particular and elegant
key, chain and seal. fc?ome are kept in
one room of the house and some in an
other and each is wound up and cared for
every day by the hand of the same own
er, whose taste and passion for watches
and their appendages is as great as that
of other people for paintings, plate, med
als or sculpture.
A home has been purchased in Lex
ington, Va., for General Lee.
Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, has
signed a petition for the release of Mr.
Mallory, late Secretary of the Navy of
the Confederate States.
The small pox is prevalent in several
parts of North Carolina.
Governor Oglesby of Illinois has gone
to Washington to look after the State
debt,
VOL I.™NO. 3.
Terrible a> o'Swift Justice. —A
few days since M-s, lieadly, who lives in
Union county Kentucky, had sold her
land and rc-ce Ivcd some eight hundred or
a thousand dollars in cash A day or
two after sue* had received the money a
traveling stranger called late in the even
ing and desired to get lodging for the
night. The Lie-.* declined but the stran
ge.- ins; ted, and Mrs Deadly consented
to let him remain over night.
At the usual hour of retiring, the
stranger proceed <1 up stairs to bed.
Late in the niglr he was aroused by the
lady of the Lou. , v. ho told him that
there weie three or four persons trying
to break into the house ; and she believed
they Were robbers, who had come there
for rhe purpose of trying to rob her of
her money.
The stranger arose 1 , seized his
and told her to godown stairs and open
the door and get behind the door as she
opened it, and ho would defend her.
Placing himself so that lie could distinctly
see by the light of the door when any one
tiitcitd, he gave tlie word, the lady open
ed the door,-and in rushed a man who no
sooner placed his foot t>O the door sill
than he fell dead from a bullet from the
stranger’s pistol.
A second man rushed in aud fell dead
by tl ic second shot. TLo third appeared
and was severely wounded by the third
shot, and turned and runoff, leaving a
trace of blood behind him.
The men who bad boon killed were
blacked and when the blacking bad been
washed off t eir faces, Mrs. Headly
recognized with horror her own son-in
law as one of the mon and the other was
a near neighbor and friend.
It was believed that the wounded man
was her own son. We did not learn the
name'’, of the parties killed, nor that of
the stranger who so providentialy ap
peared to save the old lady, her money,
and perhaps her life.—Ottwesforo, Ky.,
Monitor.
Don’t Want Law Books. —The
Richmond Whig is responsible *for the
following:
One ot the judges of the Freedmen’s
Court remarked to a lawyer who carried
the or er day fix u law books with him to
that tribunal, hi order to back up his
case with pertinent authorities, I am
astonished at you, sir; you come here
with law books at. i talk about law ; theyi
aro of no account, sir; all we want ia
tiiis court is the Bible. The lawyer lost
his case, and will never again be guiky
of taking a law book to the Freedmen’s
Court.
How to Get up a Quarrel with your
Wife.—Wait until she is at her toilet
preparatory to going out. She wfll be
sure to ask you if her bonnet is straight.
Remark that the lives of ‘nine-tenths of
the women aro passed in thinking
whether their bonnets are straight, and
wind up with the remark that you never
knew but one that had common sense
about her. W ife will ask you who that
was. You, with a sigh, reply, 1 ah!
nevermind!’ Wife will ask you why
you did not marry her. You say, ab
stractedly, ‘Ah ! indeed ! ’ The climax
is reached and a regular row is sure to
follow.
How to Appreciate Wives.—Ac
cording to the laws o/ the Greek Church,
its clergy may marry once ; but if the
wife dies they are not allowed to choose
a successor, a strange interpretation of
St. Paul’s injunclion to |he youtig bishop
of Ephesus, (I Tim. 3.2) It is said,
and may easily be believed, that this
gains fur the e lady a larger amount of
respect and attention tßa is usually the
Lot of ner sex in tho East, A gentleman
residing in Syria. was exceedingly sur
prised on once entering the house of a
leading prie.-t to find him engaged in
washing the linen o. the household; .and
on inquiring the reason of such an aps
pareinly uuclericJ occupation, the reve
rend papa replied: ‘I do this to save
my wife labor, that she may live Uie
longer, for you know, oh Kyrie, that the
law oi our church does not permit me to
have another, and I Wtsh to keep this as
long as I can.
The Nashville authorities are kept
busy fere ting out murderers.
A distinguished Judge of the United
States Court observed that when he took
buckwheat cakes for breakfast he could
sit. on the bench the whole day without
being uncomfortably hungry; if the
cukes were omitted, bo fek obliged to
take a lunch ab-.-ut noon. Buckwheat
cakes are a unive sal favorite at the win«
ter breakfast table, and scientific inves*
tigation and.analysis has shown that they
abound in the heat forming principle;
hence nature takes away our appetite for
them in summer.
