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THE CIIIMEII AMBRIM ■ .i..» ... i-.w-i ..... ■ _ . .. .I* .... ■ - - - - - —-- - - —— ■— —■ — • ~~~~7~X2Z1 a——J— -b ~ _i~r **■*»■—era* ■"** '■ —a “ by join t.sewftea. tolorcb American. JgUSTA, GA., DECEMBER 30, 1865. Editor and Proprietor. T. Shoften, . <p, Colored American is issued every week : ; further notice, at $4.00 per annum, in llt e. Single copies 10 cents. Rates of Advertising. \’E DOLLAR per square oi TEN LINES -je first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS for ■ additional insertion. , V’Jces of “Information Wanted” will be ..-red at the rate of TWO DOLLARS AND [Y CENTS for ONE month, provided thev d o exceed FIFTEEN LINES. < 4 rties sending us the names of ten now su - pers for one year accompanied with 'the uece - amount of funds, shall receive a copyj of the ec for one year gratis. J. T. SHUETEN, Augusta, Ga. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND TllE* PUBLIC. J The following named gentlemen are rized to receive subscriptions for the d American •ar Johueon, R. A. Harper, Moses Gar -rilbert Tompkins, Joseph K. Williams Johnson. person wishing to subscribe to the American, can call on any of the sTei>amed gentlemen, or at the office on lorner oi Ellis street, and it will be attended to. ksoa, -:ly .1. pet >ns wishing printing done at the will please give us a call. We ■pared to do any kind of Job Woik lored friends, such as Party Tickets, I descriptions, Show Bills, Labels, e at reasonable rales and shortest i hopes that persons who are sub lie Colored American, will be ready 11 for their subscriptions, as the trictly in advance. We earnestly ■sons, wheJJier white or colored, to ir efforts to print a journal whose Lto is HARMONY AND GOOD YARDS ALL MEN. IHE PROFITS OF AD VER* TISING. The Hew Fork Tribune prints the ■neq correspondence, which may be .rating to other business men than ®BtB : To tho Editor of the New rE Tribune — $. 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 4 insure a fortune. The- old preju ;t among druggists and physicians ::.nst advertising is dying out, and ■v. as well as others, see that the .’nest mode whereby they can make tnselves and their medicine known to public, is by a wise and liberal sys -of advertising. 11 elmboll discovered ; fact, and taKcs advantage ot it. Editor oe the Tribune. would specially invite the atten- of those of our readeis doing busts in the city to the above correspon g «, as showing the immense import I of advertising. Wc offer to the I mess comunity of this city andsur* I ill dit'g neighborhood, special advan ces in this line, from the fact that some prietors of city sheets have positively sod to receive advertisements of ;oTed persons doing business in this W e shall make no distinction be ■en color in tbi& matter, and will as receive white advisements, as One man’s money as goo d f° us as anothers. Come f orwar J ? ‘ttrefore, with your advertisements aQ d siake the Colored Ameianic equal to »ny paper in the State. You will find ° Ur prices very reasoiable, Give us a trial. 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.