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Molohc Citizen.— We were much
hifei in pa ising the columns of the
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iwwereaigg daily. The time is not
Aantwbl they shall wield an in
Kdrougajut the length and breadth
tint but tew have any idea
: present. We perceive by the
of the “Colored Citi
jtit ia/destined to have a power
" win the state of its birth.
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■iti, Ohio, by J. P. Sampson &
I Cristo the proprietor* very sue
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I \ eruLL Conduct.—We are
lobearofour Churches becom-
Leatre of disgraceful conduct on
vof some of the colored frequen
’B is a matte” of surprise to us
calling themselves so, would
bouse of God and disturbe the
s there assembled in their holy
The devil himself has a holy
aman who goes to church toper
liuties to himself and his Maker,
liquid seem that his children lacks
"eding of their father.
rust that we will never be called
speak of thia matter again, but
meh conduct not stop with this
we would call upon the, church
bes who are disturbed in their
j f.n furnish us with the names
Ikndijtg parties, when we shall
i them to the public gaze.
j Insurrection.—On Christmas
Tie walking down the street in
l.tion of the Lower Market, our
f suddenly assailed with the ap-
■ s ?y of ‘ Insurrection.’ We at
V of our remarks in our last
W pon the possibilities and inn
■ es of a negro insurrection tak<
/Son that day. A thousand con*
[■ oughts entered our* breast re*
- UT seemingly misplaced confi
-e colored man, and that in spite
'prophesylogs arguments to
■ he W b rok«n loose and an
r-'iion wai commenced \ n rea j
Instinctively we foH QWed t p e
who was pressing in hot haste
Hhe lower end of the city, and on
lat the classic ground of Bridge
our horror and consternation we
* a m °o»trous crowd, from whose
• Ingses was issuing a perfect
torrent of oaths and curses. The yells of
demoniac demons and ungalvinized devils
stunned our ears to the deadening. Not
wishing to show the ‘ white feather, 1 we
cautiously approached the heaving vol
cano, and got near enough to be soothed
with some • soft strains and tender com*
pliments bearing tae unmistakable ac
cent of that ‘ Swate Isle of the Say' Oh !
how we breathed ‘delicious relief after
these sounds reached the tympanums of
our ears. At tast we ventured to in*
quire of a bystander of the cause of the
difficulty, and casually mentioned our first
fears in regard to it being a negro in
surrection. ‘Negro insurrection be d—d,’
was the polite retort. 4 Its nothing but
a Donnybrook Fair on a small scale that
some of the daughters of Green Erin
thought would add lustre to the hilarity
of Christmas?
Upon fuither inquiry wo found that
nothing ot a serious nature had resulted
to the fair combatants in their masculine
manipulations except a few slight
scratches, caused by the too close prox
imity of the extremities of their ‘ feel-,
ings ’ and each other’s faces.
Shade of a Christmas insurrection,
where art thou? Echo answers —
Where !
SCHOOL RECORD.
The following Schools will commence
their regular exercises on Tuesday, 2d,
J anuary:
Jackson Street, Grammer School, reai
oi \\ bite Baptist Church. Hours, 9
a. m. to 2p. m. Night 7to 9 o’clock.
C, M. Cumming, Teacher.
Broad Street, Grammer School, oppo*
‘’ite Upper Market. Hours, 9 a. m
to 2 p. m.
S. W; Beard, Teacher. .
Springfield Free School. Hours, 10
a. m. to 2 p. m. Night, from 7to 9
o clock. Miss 11. C. Foote, Teacher.
Trinity Free School. Hours, 10 a. m.
to 2 p. m.
Mrs. M. E. W. Smith, Teacher.
1 hankfull Free School. Hours, 9a.
m. to I p. m.
Miss 11. A. Dowd, Teacher.
Bethel Free School. Hours, 10 a.
m. to 2 p. m.
D. C. Jinks, Teacher.
Miss S. A. Hosmor, do
Sound Doctrine from the Far South,
1 lie San Antonio Express, a new Tex
as paper, openly declares these princi
ples :
‘ln its political department we ishall
maintain,
‘ 1 st. That the government created and
established by the Constitution of the
United States is not a league of inde
pendent sovereignties, with the right of
each to withdraw, at its own pleasure,
from the jurisdiction of the league and
erect itself into separate nationality—and
that it was wisely not so created.
‘2d. That the liberties of the people
depend as much for safety upon main
taining the full vigor of the federal gov
ernment, as upon preserving unimpaired
all the rights either affirmed to the States
or reserved to them in the Constitution,
that these two constitute one compfete
system of the government, not in con
flict, but in harmony with each other,
when properly understood.
‘3d. We shall maintain that the Union
is indissoluble except by violence or by
an amendment of the Constitution in the
manner prescribed in that instrument.’
It adds: ‘We can almost read our whole
duty in three lines:
‘lst. Educate the people.
‘2d. Give dignity to labor.
‘3d. Plant upon immovable foundations
the liberty of speech and of the press
‘Do these, and ‘all things shall'be add
ed unto us.’
An Audacious Thief.—‘Burlefoh,’ the
nom deplume under which Rev Matthew
Eale Smith writes to the Boston Jc*r
nal, tells of a remarkable robbery in
New York. He says: ‘The broker was
inside the counter, near the safe. A
man came in without a hat, and with a
pen behind his ear. He walked round
to the spot where the banker stood, who
was talking to a gentleman and said to
him, ‘Please to move sir,’ an-d the banker
did. The fellow coolly took out of the
safe several thousand 11. S. bonds, and
cooly walked away, and has never been
seen from that time to this. Near the
closing hours of business the bends were
sought for and could not be found. The
banker turned to one of the clerks and
asked him for them, stating that he saw
him remove them from the drawer.
Fortunately the clerk was able to prove
an alibi, and then the audacity of the
was made apparent,
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Committee ou Freedmen. Strozier,
Casey,' Owens, Gresham, Thorjdon,
Butler, Manson, Carter, J A W jfldn*
son.
Passed, a bill regulating contracts be
tween master and servant. If for over
one month, they must be in writing; the
working hours to be from sunrise to sun
set; the servant to be responsible for
damaging the master's property; wages
to be forfeited by leaving; the employer
may discharge the servant for disobe
dience, drunkenness, immorality, war t of
respect, or leaving service: enticing ser
vants away is made a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by a fine of $lOO, or imprison
ment for four months. '
A bill was introduced to make free
persons of color competent witnesses in
the courts of this State, in certain eases
therein mentioned, and to authorize the
making and declaring the force of affi
davets in certain cases; to provide freed
men with certificates of employment,
and to punish persons who employ freed
men contrary to law.
A bill to be entitled ‘An Act to open the
Courts of this State to Freedmen, and
to regulate their testimony in the
same.’
Sec. I. Be if enacted by the Senate
anu House of Representatives in Gen
eral Assembly met and it is hereby cnac
ted by authority of the same, That from
and after the passage of this Act, it shall
and may be lawful for all Freedmen to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
; in all the Courts of law and equity in
: this State, and'be subject to prosecution
I and indictment in the same for all crimes
1 and offences committed by them, govern
ted by the same rules as obtain in the
cases of white persons
/ Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
in all cases, civil or criminal, arising in
any of the courts of this State in which
Freeo men may be concerned, that they
shall be admitted *0 give evidence, sub
ject to the same rules and under the ssme
restrictions as to competency and credi
bility as so control the admision of white
witnesses in similar cases.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That
all laws and parts of laws militating
against this act, be; and the same is here
by repealed.
The following resolution was intro
duced to inquire, at an early day, what
legislation is nec. ssary for the relief of
colored persons who are orphans’, idiots,
lunatics, or of unsound mind, and who
are paupers; referring the report of the
committee appointed by the State Con*
vention to prepare a code of laws for
freedmen, to the Committee of each house
with instructions to prepare a bill which
shall amnlv secure to the inhabitants of
this State, of African descent, the rights
of person and property, including .the
right to sue and t x be sued, and to testi
fy ia the courts of justice in cases where
they are interested.
In the Elouse M. Leach introduced a
bill to prevent concubinage among ne
groes, and to encourage matrimony.
CONGRESS.
Mr, Wilson presented the famous
petition from the colored people of the
District of Columbia, asking the right
iof suffrage. It con.ains 2.500 signatures
iif about as many styles of chirography
as would have been exhibited by' the same
number of white men’s names. No traces
of color can be detected iu the signatures
except in the color of the ink.
Trumbull gave notice of a bill to en
large the powers of the Freedmens Bureau
in all portions of the United States, in
Crder to protect any individual in the
full enjoyment of the rights of person
and property, to furnish him with
means of vindication.
Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts. (Union,)
called up a bill to maintain the freedom of
the inhabitants of the States declared to be
in insurrection and rebellion by the
proclamation o/ the President, of the Ist
of July, 1862. It declares all laws
heretofore in foi *cc, or held valid in the
insurrectionary ». States, whereby any in
equality of civil i ughts and immunities
exists among the inhabitants of
States, on account of race or color, are
null and void.
Mr. Wilson ex pl ained the nature of
the bill. He said i proclamation of
the President of the 22d of September,
1863, declaring emanci patien, pledges the
faith of the Gover. me ut of the Baited
States to maintain the freedom of the
persons declared to be free. This was
repeated in the proclamation o 5 the Ist
of January. It was, therefore, ti?e duty
of the government to maintain the civil
rights and immunities of these freed men.
The most cold-blooded atrocities were
being perpetrated upon these freedmen,
and it was the duty of Congres.s to inter- !
fere at once. Whatever differences of ’
opinion there might be on the subject of
negro suffrage, there ought to l> $ none in
regard to the duty of making good the 1
guarantees of the government.
Mr. Johnson, of Maryland (Dem.)
raised legal objections to the bill,
Mr. Cowan of Pennsylvania, (Union,)
SENATE.
SENATE.
did not believe the bill would accomplish
what its author desired,
Mr. Wilson referred to certain laws
passed in the Southern States sine? the
abolitiod of slavery, which, he said, sub
jected the freedmen to.a worse bondage
: than slavery itself The condition of the
1 freedmen of the South was worse -to-day
than it was on the nay of Dee’s surren
< der
Mr. Sherman of Ohio (Union) sympa
thized with the objects of the bill.
Congress had the power, he said, under
j the second section of the Amendment, to
make provision for the freedom of the
blacks, and there was auother_ section of
I theHJonstitution under which it could be
I done; that section which gives to the
. citizens of one State all the rights of the
citizens of the several States. The bill
before the Senate did not define the civil
rights which the negroes ought to have,
but stated them in general terms. In
his judgment Congress ought to impose
the conditions upon which the Southern
States should be received back into the
| Union, and they ought to be in the form
of amendments to the constitution, Ac
tion on the bill before the Senate ought
: to be deferred until the report of the
' committee of fifteen provided for by the
. concurrent resolution passed yesterday.
Mr. Saulsbury, of Doleware, (Dem)
opposed the bill.
Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois (Union)
' thought the bill was premature in the
sense stated by Mr. Sherman.
On motion of Mr. Howard the Sen
ate adjourned.
Mr. Ste\ rens proposed a joint resolu
tion to abolish the distinction of color.
Mr. Farnsworth introduced a resolu
tion declaring it to bo unjust to deny
colored persons the right of suffrage, who
have contributed to the support, of the
Government and periled their lives in its
defence. The resolution lies over..
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Dispatches from \\ ashington say Gen.
Howard s report on freedmen’s affairs is
hopeful, lie does not think there will
be muck suffering during the winter.
The Texas planters are feeling much en
couraged by the excellent prospect before
them ot heavy • crops. Tbc negroes are
working with noticeable increase of
contentment and perseverance. .
The colored people of New England, at
their convention, selected George T.
Downing, of Rhode Island, delegate to
represent the interest- of their race at
Washington during the ensuing session of
Congress.
Tbc Legislature of \ ermont has trans
mitted to the Kentucky Legislature a
resolution lately adopted by that body,
the object of which is to secure equat
rights, without respect to color, to a 1
citizens residing in the seceded States,
including the right of the elective fran
chise. Governor Bramlette opposed very
strongly the adoption of such a resolution,
and urged the Legislature to take immedi
ate action.
A negro jury was impauneled at Callao,
Macon county; Mo., on the 4th instant,
zl suit for assault and battery was brought
before Squire Ballinger, in which the
parties were colored citizens. A jury was
summoned, composed entirely of colored
men, who, after hearing the evidence and
charge of the court, assessed the fine of
$2l each, to be paid or replevined, and
the case now stands recorded on the docke t
of the Justice.
Col. E. Whittlesby, Assistant Com
missioner for the State of North Carolina,
reports to General 11. 0. Howard, under
date of December 8, that acts of violence
and serious difficulties between negroes
and whites are very rare. None deserv
ing mention have been reported this
month. The destitution is not so great
as was anticipated, but there is reason to
fear that it will increase before Spring.
The Commissioner reports that from the
western district of the State the freed
men are beginning to look for homes, and
that contracts are made for the next
year at fair wages, ami many are rent
ing lands on liberal terms. The greater
part of the blacks understand that they
must work, and are willing to do so. The
temper of the better class of whites to
ward the blacks is good.
A New Rudder..—An experiment has
been made at Havre with a newly invent
ed rudder, in the presence of a number of
naval officers and shipbuilders. This
new rudder is described as different from
all hitoerto used, being composed of four
pieces connected by hinges, in place of
one solid piece. By means of these joints
the rudder, when set in motion by the
tiller, presents a curved surface to the
water, in place of a flat surface. The
object is to give both a greater flexibility
and a stronger action to the rudder. It
was attached to a large boat, which it
brought round instantly, toe boat turning
oi? itself as cn a pivot. The Journal du
Havre, wiiich speaks of the experiment,
observes that the invention is a most
valuable one and calculated to render
great service, not perhaps to ships of
large tonnage, but vessels heavily laden.
HOUSE’
In the Kentucky Legislature, a bill to
allow negro testimony has been rejected
in the Senate. A resolution has been
introduced, declaring that Kentucky has
reserved rights which she is prepared to
defend. A resolution ratifying the con
stituf iocal amendment has been iutro
duced, and lies over one day; also, a
resolution ret i.-ing to ratify. A member
from She'by denounced Mr. Lincoln and
Mr. Johnson as worse traitors than Jell.
Davis. have also been introduced
to repeal the law providing for a civil
remedy for injuries done by disloyal per
sons ; to repeal the law to punish disloyal
and treasonable practices; to repeal the
law requiring teachers and others to take
an oath; to repeal the law requiring
ministers of the Gospel.to take an oath.
The Freedmen’s Aid Association.*-
The Rev. A. « lay ton lately delivered an
address in the Universalist Church,
T wenuetb-street, in which he described
the condition of the negro in the South
ern States, and the absolute necessity
that’means should be provided for his
moral as well a* bis physical wants. Mr.
Clayton, who L s just returned from a
Southern mission, gave interesting details
oi negro efforts at self improvement, and
of the labors of the'missionaries of the
various religious or ganizations, and their
fruitful results. lie said that without
making any extravagant claims forequali
ty for the negro race, confessing that he
is not mentally the equal of the white
man, the greater our duty to strive to
elevate him, and the greater our responsi
bility for his salvation. With four mil
lion people calling upon us for light, there
was more earnest, honest work before us
tnau fell to the lot of all the missionaries
lor a hundred years back; and how much
greater the claim they have upon us,
children of the same soil, and now before
the law entitled to all the privileges that
we ourselves enjoy. The reverend gen
tieman then explained what had already
been none by the missionaries South,
since the close of the war, and called up
on all true Christians to lend their aid
for our suffering and less favored fellow
citizen. jy. Y. Times.
GEKBBATI® s
OF THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY
OF FEEDOM.
IN SPRINGFIELD CHURCH,
7JLVZ7ARY Itf, 1865.
C hairnmn,
Marshall,
Ist Assistant, . .
~d Assistant,
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
Music-* Blow Ye the Trumpet?
Prayer Rev. John Bryan.
Music— ‘ America.*
Introductory Remarks— Rev. Samuel
Drayton.
Emancipation Proclamation— Simeon W
Beard.
Music.
■Oration- Rev. Wm. H Tumor.
Music.
Prayer—R. v. Henry Watts.
Benediction—R e v. Edward West.
exercises to commence
AT 10, A. M.
.. v At f ' ie C,O3 ° nf the exercises, a callee
tionwill b y taken uo in behalf of the ‘Freed
man s Hospital.’ AH who have Hie good of the
2onV e -i a \ ne / rt ar ® re< l uestcd t( > coma prepared to
contribute towards thaUbenevoleht inanition.
LEWIS B. CARTER
street, where be will be glad t 0,.. wai ,
all of hii friends!
in formation wanted,
Q l ' moses waikins, who wL mid
irom W. Rob’t W utkins. - When last heard of
he belonged to Mr. Robert McWhorter, 5 miles
from WoodviJJe on the Athens Branch Railroad
If ho is living, be j 3 abou t 20 years of age and
of dark complexion.
A’?”' 1 ,”-*?’ of th. Mm „ ,
t.im.ly La? heard of, he was in Maryland
Dis’t, City of Memphis, Tenn., aged about 18
years, dark complexion.
Any information regarding either wilj be
thankfully received at the office of thfs paper.
dee3o.3tn FANNY WATKINS.
IN FORM ATION WANTED,
/AF lON EV JOHN ■'ON, who was sold
from John H men, of Clarksville, Halifax
county, near RoanoKe River, N. C. Last heard
from, he was in Hobby, Alabama.
Any inform ition regarding him will be thank
fally rece v d at the office of this paper.
<l«c3o Im KAMP JOHNSON.
ABRAHAM MALLORY,
BLACKSMITH St, WHEELWRIGHT,
on the
HARRISONVILLE ROAD,
HERE anything in my line will be
V V promptly attended to at cheap rates.
. . Robert Kent*
. Abiel Wright.
. Moses Gardiner.
. . Henry Mathews.
ALSO,