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OUB TBB If 8: ; „ Tb« Cabral B iaraad eray wart wUirtrrtarxXKW, at M.W per annum. in advance. Single copes 10 cento. , , RaTCS OF AdTKKTISIKS. ♦ ONI DOLLAR par square ot TIN LIMBS fertoa first insertion, and FIFTY CBN IS for Meta ef “lataatton Wanted » will U * tatted at A* rate of TWO DOLLARS AND *’ NIFfT CENTS for ON B month, provided they do not esaaod FIFTBBN LIMBS. Parties tending us the names Of ten new sub aei ibera for one year aeoom panted with the neces sary amount of funds, shall receive a eipy of the paper for one year gratis. J. T. BHUFTEN, Augusta, Ga. TO OUR »ÜBS( RIB EES ANU Thß PUBLIC. CF The following named gentlemen rre authorized to receive subscriptions for the American Cesear Johnson, R. A. Harper, Moeee Gar- , diner Albert Tompkins, Joseph K. Williams and Moeee Johnson. Any person wishing to subscribe to*'the Colored American, can call on any of the above named gentlemen, or at the office on Jackson, corner of Ellis street, and it will be promptly attended to. All persons wishing printing done at the loweatratea, will please give us a call. We are now prepared to do any kind of Job Work for our colored friends, such as Party Tickets, Cards of all descriptions, Show Bills, Labels, etc M all dene at reasonable rates and shortest notice. We are in hopes that persons who are sub scribers to the Colored American, will be ready when we call for their subscriptions, as the terms ate strictly in advance. We earnestly ask all persons, whether white or colored, to aid us in our efforts to print a journal whose avowed motto is HARMONY AND GOOD WILL TOWARDS ALL MEN. OUR AGENTS. The following are authorized Agents to receive Subscriptions and Advertise ments for the ‘Colored American Lewis Williams, Washington Ga, William Finch, Athens, Ga. Bev. William Campbell, Macon, Ga. James Porter, Savannah, Ga. Thomas P. Maxwell, Charleston S. C. D. W. Attwood, Zanesville, Ohio. I 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 A T R- A. HARPER’S, Opposite the POST OFFICE. 26 WALKER & GREEN, Bricklayers Plasterers. AARDERS left at the GLOBE HuTEL will ba V/ promptly attended to. 27 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. X 9 CABB. JOI the peblie&r their liberal aberaofmtroMfo fr 1 —«*■*■ hi., „ d ntoeM ** *'>» oontiaaa CM of the —wt 30 THOM Ad p. BBARD, Jaekeui Su