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THE CONVENTION.
The Freedman's Convention commen
ced its sittings on Wednesday lOtb, inst.,
according to announcement, but owing to
the shortness of notice and tbe extreme
difficulty of travelling, there was but
rather a poor attendance of delegates.
Owing to a press of matter upon us this
week we have been compelled to forego
tbe publications of its proceedings, but
shall publish them as full as possible in
our next issue.
FIRE.
About 3 o’clock on Friday morning a
fire broke out in the Store of Mr. Sauter,
Shoemaker, corner of Jackson and Ellis.
For upwards of two bouft the devouring
eleu ent raged with terrible fury, but was
finally conquered by the superhuman
exertions of our noble fireman. AU
honoi to these devoted braves 1 For
tunatly there was but comparatively little
wind blowing at the time, otherwise the
consequences might have been terrible,
as it was, five, small stores fell a prey to
the firey monster. As far as we have
been able to ascertain, the principal suf*
fers arc Mr. Sauter, shoemaker, and
Henderson & Carter, grocers, who lost
all. Messrs Pearce, Roach, shoemakers,
and Stephen Walton, Barber, were more
fortunate, having succeeded in saving a
considerable amount of their property.
It is supposed the fire originated in the
stovepipe which goes through the back
wall of tbe building, and the house being
old and dry, very readily caught fire.
Wa have not been able to learn tbe
amount of property destroyed, but it
must be considerable.
A savings bank for colored people
established only three months ago in
Louisville, Kentucky, has de
posits over $30,000. About $7 J® have
been received feom colored soldiers,
originally from Kentucky, bbt now on
duty in Texas. This bank is a branch
of a national company called the‘Freed*
men’s Savings and Trust Company,’
chartered by Congress and approved by
President Lincoln March 3d, 1865.
President Johnson highly commends it
and has directed the Secretaries of the
Treasury, War and Nary, to give it all
propar focditetrt—* OofutifatwHafat.
Gen. Longstreet it is said will make
New Orleans his home.
CHURCH ft& JORIX
SprintjhU «r Bn
Midi tod Marbury Mrwu. Service.
10 30 a. in., 3 p. m, and 7 pm.
Bev Henry Watts, Pastor
Th**kjvt Baptist, corner ot Lineoh
and Walker streets. Services: 10 SC
a. m., 3 p. m, and 1 p a.
Rev Henry Johnson, Pastor.
Central or Thnrd Baptist, on Walker
street, between Campbell and Caroming
Services: 10 30 a m, 3 pm, and 7 p m
Rev Peter Johnson, Pastor.
Trinity Methodist, on Jack Aon street
Services: 10 30 am, 3p m, and 7 pm.
Rev Edward West, Pastor.
Bethel Protestant Mrthhdist, on Camp
bell street, in Dublin. Services; 10 30
a m, 3 p ro, and 7 p m.
Rev Samuel Drayton, Pastor,
school'record.
Broad Street, Grammer School, oppos
site Upper Market. Hours, 9 am.
to 2 p. m. *
8 W Beard, Teacher.
Springfield Free School Hours, 10
a. ro. to 2 p. m.
Miss H C Foote, TeacAer.
Night, School in Springfield Free
School Hour 7to 9 o’clock.
D. C. JENCKS, Teacher.
Trinity Free School. Hours, 10 a. m.
to 2 p. m.
Mrs. M. C. F. Smith, Teacher.
Thankfull Free School. Hours, 9a.
m. to 1 p m
Miss H. W. Dowd, Teacher.
Bethel Free School. Hours, 10 a
m to 2 p m
D. C. Jencks, Teacher.
Miss 8. A. Hosmer, do
GENERAL TILLSON’S ADDRESS.
Next week will bo published in full the
above address delivered before the «Con*
vention on Thursday last Parties wish
ing to procure copies had better bespeak
them at once as the edition will be limi
ted.
national banks.
As considerable doubt and distrust ex
ists amon our business men in regard to
receiving as current the notes of a num
ber of the National Banks, we append a
list of those declared suspended and the
views of the President of the first
National Bank of Richmond, Va., on
that list, so that all can j’idge for them*
selves:
BROKEN BANKS.
First National Bank New York
u Bank Attica, NY.
“ Bank Bedford Me.
“ Bank Hollewell, Me.
G Bank Pittsburg, Tenn.
“ Bank Syracuse, NY.
M Bank Salem, Mass,
“ Bank Bangor, Me.
According to the statement of the
Resident of the First National Bank of
Richmond in his letter to the Times, the
following Banks of the above list, never
had an existence, for want of Charters:
National Bank of Bedford, Me.
“ Bank of Hollewell, Me.
“ Bank of JSangor, Me
“ Bank of Pittsburg, Penn.
The other four named, says that gentle
man except the, First National Bank of
Attica, stand as high as any Banks in the
country, and the notes of the Attica are
receivi d at par by all the National I auks
although the Bank has stopped business.
The First National Bank of New York,
included in the list, is the oldest National
Bank in the United States, and its stock
is selling at 206 in New York.
I beg to add that all the National
Bank notes are secured by a deposit of
United States bonds with the United
States Treasurer, and in the event of the
failure of any Bank, its circulation is
taken up by the United States Treasurer,
by the sale of the*bonds.
. H. G. Fant,
President of the First National Bank,
of Richmond.
A terrible and serious accident hap
pened at Albany on Friday. . A servant
girl held in ber arms the youngest mem
ber of the family, aged about nine months.
She was carrying it through the ball,
when sbe encountered the mother of the
cbila, who was carrying a dish of boiling
soup. By some means a few drops of
tbe soup fell on the girl’s arm She
dropped the child on the floor, and turn*
bled against the mother in such a way as
to cause her to spill tbe boiling soup all
oyer tbe child, scalding it in a moat terri*.
ble mannhr. .It presented a terrible
sight, tbe skin peeling from its body and
exposing tbe raw flesh. The little suf
ferer lingered in great agony until Satur
day, when death put an end to its suffer
ings.
A committee has been appointed by
the Mississippi Legislature to get colored
troops removed from that State.
Reives:
POETH Y:
OBteIX A L AMD SMLECTBD.
a spoFrevisited.
Than hast not jhll« ta decay
0! ever buoyant o tare,
Thy streams have kept their wonted waj
tree * their oidea suture.
1 m BtJks ,woe€ rfell
Through the green valley’s leaping,
Ihe same oalm sunshine over all,
In benediction, sleeping.
For Nature keens her olden course
As something fixed and holy,
And bide her streams, with ceaseles
forob
Wear deep their channels slowly
As in the rock she ploughs a path
To lead the roaring river,
So sweeping o’er life’s stormy wrath
We pass to the Forever.
The acorn small, she hides in earth,
Which dews and suns must cherish,
But o’er her things of highest worth,
Is written ‘perish I perish I’
Only this human life of osrs,
’ So full of wondrous promise
Dies quickly, as the Bummer flowers
That evening taketh from us.
And 1 am changed since when I stood
In this eternal shadow,
And saw beneath me field and wood,
1 he river and the meadow.
Yet all the same, I come to thee
Dear spot, by memory haunted,
Unchanged in this, that still to ms
Thou art a land enchanted.
* G. B. Snowden,
Augusta, Ga.
COMMUNICATED.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. stb, 1866.
Mr. Editor: In the Daily Tran*
script of a late date I find the extract tc
wit:
Negro Masonic Lodges in the South,
—We published the other day, with com
went, says the Richmond Times, an ex*
from the Anglo African relative tc
the establishment of negro Masonic
Lodges in ’he bouth under the alleged
authority of the Grand Lodges of the
U tate of New York; also, in extract from
a .Newbern (North Carolina) paper com*
renting upon the establishment of one
of the lodges in that town. In explana*
tion of the matter, we glaily make room
tor the following communication from a
J*ew York Mason:
‘Richmond, December 22, 1865.
°l the Richmond Times:
‘Sir : In your issue of this morning is
pubii&ned an article on Freimasmry, con
taiuiog statements in regard to the Grand
Lodge of New York which,if true,would
not be very creditable to saeh an intelli
gent body of Masons; but it is not cor
rect.
‘The Grand Lodge of Masons of New
xork do not now and never have recogn
ized colored lodges, and the Grand
■Lodge spoken of in the extract from the
Anglo African is no doubt that of the
colored people calling themselves Ma>
sons There is no legal Masonic Grand
Lodge in the United States, that I am
sware of, which institutes colored lodges.
‘A New York Mason.’
This New York Mason says, ‘There
is no legal Masonic Grand Lodge in the
United States, that I am aware of, which
instituted colored lodges.’
This is true, for at the time our Grand
Lodge was ‘instituted* prejudice was too
strong against Negro elevation for the
white lodges of this country to grant us
a charter. Therefore, our fathers— for
it was many years ago—applied to Eng
land, and were loth made Masons and
granted a Charter under which we work,
so that we hail from the same source as
this New York Mason does, if he hails
from any. Should this not suffice the pub
lic, we will give them more.
Henrt M. Turner, Colored Mason
American Authorship.— * Washington
Irving realized a handsoma fortune, as
did also Mitchell, the geographer. Pro-'
lessor Davis received more than $50,000,
and Professor Anthon more than $6O -
000. The French series of Mr. Bolmar
jields him upwards of $20,000, and the
school geography of Mr. Morse more
than $20,000. A single medical book
has procured its authors $60,000. The
first two works of Miss Warier brought
her about $2,000; Mr. Headley has re
ceived about $20,000. Mbs Lesley’s
cooz.ery and receipt books have paid her
$ »2,0C0 and the Bev. Albert Barnes has
realized more than $30,000 by bis public
cations. Mr. Presoott, the historian, re
ceivedmore than $ <OO,OOO from his books.
The present sale of each ol Mr. Ban
croft o volumes yields him more than $l5,
000, and be has thirty-one years yet for
future sale. Judge Story dud in the
receipt of more than $B,OOO per annum
w l IS , worlsB - *bree years Dariel
Webster s works paid $25,000. Kent’s
Coumentariee have yielded to their au
thor and his heirs $lBO,OOO, and Web
ster’s dictionary also at kast $lBO,OOO
religious.
Bva
pw of Wioa once at the bento of ■
A " “;•"** tbe roo “> **
“***" ‘hem «pe«king n alow voice, of
* -®v frMoi *Sbe’» very odd,’ mm
*”*• Y “> * er J »in«al»r indeed,’ un
“other. ‘Do yon know the often dou to
o? ??• “ytt third mentioning cer
tain things to her discredit. The clergy
“*? ° “ Wfcen to ' d ™
L • J “’ Bhe “ odd ; ebe’seero
dd; she a remart aily singular. Why
would you believe it?’ he added, in a
stern and impressive msnner, 'ike was
”^ZlsV ard ‘° * feakiU <f "»y
InnSHtaEn Bible —This it a book
not often allowed to I e seen by the
world a people.’ It is entitled ‘A Holy
Sawed and Divine 8011, from the Lord
(rod of Heaven to the inhabitants of the
X 'T? ed i“ the Societj of Lebanon
County Columbia, .-tate of New Tors
E D h^ d ° f Aroeri<! »-’ I‘ pretends
tobea dmne revelation, and the testi
mony of eleven imgbty angels is given
who attended the writing of the roll An
edition was printed about twenty years
ter’hn 1 tbe shaker5 haker “‘•hlishment at Can
terbury, New Hampshire. The book
X“‘i' 8 ““a P^S® B from Scripture,
ime ? d^’ ®” lirged or “rtailed,
Md amendm “‘s.
as they are deemed necessary to suit tbe
Ce L IT 8 ° f thB di * » f Ann
’• it is a very curious volume even
more remarkable, though of less nreten
ded antiqmty, than the Mormon P fiible
A copy >s ordered to be sent to eiery
of Babel, on which
nouuoe that a cross was recently placed by
a missionary, consists now of only two of
the eight stones formerly erected The
remams are, however, visible from a very
KT E “ h Bide of ‘he
angular basis measures 200 yards in
length, and the bricks of which it is com
posed are of the purest white clay w£h
covered with characters traced most sure
h ‘ h ®‘>« d io. clear and “gX
style. The bitumen which served for
»u“ e «kte der, ’ ed . fro “ • fountain which
flows w t .“T t ‘ he J Wwer > »nd which
Bows with such abundance that it soon
,Dd ’°“ ld
neighboring river, did not the natives
-om ume to time, set fire to th. Xm’
tbefomT’ b“ d u **“
The Bible our Malakoff -—The
Jruel battles fought some years ago
round the Malakoff tower showed that in
that fortress lay the key of war, and on
t depended defeat or triumph, go the
Multiplied attacks, directed in our days
igamst the Bible, indicate that it is In
t b hinh ,e \ Of ° U u adverBaries ’ the tower
which, above all, must bo torn down
Let no one, by an unhappy error ran™
aimself among those who assail the edifice
Divine Revelation. The Holy Serin
lures snd the cross are the positions and
he arms which God gives us wherewith
U> gain victory. ‘They overcome him ’
jays Revelation, -by the blood of the
Lamb and by the word of their testimo
ay. Remember these words, my dear
orethru, students in theology now listen
ing, and let not these well-tempered arms
lose their virtue p your hands. And all
?e PC°P le of God hear tbe cry of bis
prophet. To the law and to the testi! 1
mony, if they speak not according to ,
tbw word, it is because there is no light
in them. —Dr. Merle DAulngne. 8
I.A L V'?> T ’ LL TBE Teuth ~ I‘ « re
lated of a Persian mother that, on giving
her son forty pieces of silver as his por
t on, she made him swear never to tell a
he, and then said: ‘Go, my son; Icon
sign thee to God: we shall not meet
again till the day of judgment’ The
youth went away, and tbe party he tray,
eled with was attacked by robbers. One
f‘ How asked the boy what he had, and
ho said: Forty dinars are sewed up in
my garments.’ The robber laughed, and
thought he was only jesting. Another
asked him the same question and received
the same answer. At last, the chief
called him, and asked him what he had.
He said, ‘I have told two of your people
already that I have forty dinars sewed up
mmy dothes ’ He ordered the dothes
to be ripped open, and found the money.
‘And how came you to tell this?’ asked
the chief. ‘Because,’ replied the child,
1 would not be false to my mother, to
whom f promised never to tell a lie.’
‘Child,’ said the robber, ‘art thou so
mindful, at thy tender years, of thy duty
to thy mother, and am I insensible, at
age. of tbe duty I owe to God ? Give
106 ewear repentance
on it. He did so. His followers were
all struck with the scene ‘You have
been our leader in guilt,’ said they to
the did, *now be the same in tbe path of
virtue.’ They immediately gave back
what they had stolen, and began at once
to lead an honest life.
AN ACT.
To make free perarns of color eomneteni
witoeasea ja the Courts of thia State
iu certain eases therein mentioned, and
Wauthonrotbom.king.ud declaring
of force affidavit* by them in oe r t*ju
cases.
Be it enaoted by the Senate and Boom
of Representatives of the State of G«or
?'j * SeD * r * l Assembly met, That from
aud after the passage of this Act free
pe-aone of color, shall be competent wit.
nesscs in all the court, of thia State in
0,vl ! ?“? wbereto • perron of color
» defendant, or wherever the offence
charged is a erime or tniademanor against
the person or property of free peirona of
oolor, any law, usage or custom to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Seo. 2. And be it further enaoted,
k A “?*" hereafter pending or
about to be instituted wherein a free per*
aon of color is a party plantiff or defen
dent, it shall be oompetent for such free
peraen of color to make and file any affi
davit now by law allowed a citixen to
advance, the remedy or aid the defence •
and when bo made and filed in conformity
with law, such action shall be had there
on as though the said affidavit had been
made and filled by any other litigant.
W. H. Gibson,
T President of Senate.
Jno. B. Weems,
Sec’y Senate
Thos. Harleman,
t Th ttt S P eaker House of Reps,
J. D. Waddell,
Clerk of House.
Assented to Dec. 15th, 1865.
Charles J. Jenkins,
Governor.
RASING CHICKENS.
‘There is much io breed in tggJaying
qualities. But the most is in good treat
moot-—making the hen 3t home. A
crowded place will not do. Too many
h aU3 together, is bad. Why ? Because
it interferes with tranquility. The points
I of success are: warm quarters, roomy,
clean, unmolested; plenty of food, a
variety of feed varied daily with animal
food of some kind, it matters little what;
watt? changed often: pulverised *arth or
spent ashes to wallow in; light, and as
much cheerfulness as possible. Then
select good breeds. The middle-sized
Dominique, single combs, yellow legs,
are perhaps the beet. The Spanish are
good layers; so are the Creels. Avoid
all big breeds, and especially the East
India fowls?
# Recently, Gen. Longstreet made a
visit to one of bis old staff officers in
Aberdeen, Miss., and upon the night of
his arrival, the house in which he slept
was set on fire. When an alarm was
given, it was f >und that the chain of the
well bad been broken and all the' buckets
carried off, so that it was with difficulty
that the house was saved from total de
struction.
Books
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POST OFFICE.
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WALKER & GREEN,
Bricklayers Plasterers.
AARDERS left at the GLOBE HuTEL will ba
V/ promptly attended to.
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NotictpJ Notice!
MISS MAGGIE WILSON wishes
to inform the colored citizens ot Augusta,
that she has just arrived from Ohio, for
the purpose of opening a Select School
for the benefit of Africa’s sons and
daughters, which will be opened on Mon
dSLJ H nnary lsth ’ i 86 6» 011 tbe coreer
of Walker Street, two doors above Third
Baptist Church.
No pains nor expense will be spared
to celtivate the minds of the long oppres
sed but now free race.
Term* varying from f 2 to |2 50 per
month. r
28 January 12th, 1866.
NOTICE.
nTiVE Me m berg of the Waiter! Society are re
± quoted to meet in the <Church,
on Greene Street, on Sunday Noming nt TEN
o elook. A fall atteodaaee ie requested.
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