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The undersigned respectfully an nounocs to the people of Elberton and surrounding country that he has opened a first class Boot and Shoe SHOP IN ELBERTON Where he is prepared to make any style of Boot or Shoe desired, atshortnoticeand with prompt ness. REPAIRING NEATLY EXECUTED. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. ap.29-tf G. W. GARRECIIT. LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. ÜbAMJ AGE If U^UFACT’R EI.BERTOJV, GEORGIA. BEST WORKMEN! BEST WORK! LOWEST PRICES! flood Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O Common Buggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING. Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness v MIMSS BMACTIY. !P. J. SHANNON, Saddler & Harness Maker Is fully prepared to manufacture HARNESS, r?RIDI PS BULDLLn, SADDLES, At the shortest notice, in the best manner, and on reasonable terms. Shop at John S. Brown’s Old Stand. ORDERS SOLICITED. H. K. GAIRDIUER, ELBERTON, GA., DEALER IN lIYCDfIaS. EBOCGEm. HARDWARE, CROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &e* J, Z. LITTLE, CABINET MAKER AND UNDERTAKER Will give close attention to repairing Furniture. Orders in Undertaking filled with dispatch. Shop at Lehr's old stand HENBY D. SCHMIDT, DRAPER&TAILOR Ha* a select stock of goods for Spring and Summer wear, and a full line of samples from which selections may be made. Satisfaction guaranteed in every case. Thankful for past patronage, he cordially so licits a continuance of the same. apl4,6t Y. M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, {Successors to T. M. Swift,) DBALERS IN DRV GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY, BOOTS AND BHOI6, HARDVYARE, Ac., flWIt BLBERTOS €rA. THE GAZETTE. New Series. A RADICAL VIEW OF THE SHERMAN JOHNSrON PEACE CONVENTION. The Chicago Tribuna contains the following: Gen. Sherman, in his personal memoirs just published, gives in detail his histo ry of the famous convention made by him with the rebel Generals, Johnston and Breckinridge, preceding the surren der of the rebel army. Lee had surren dered to Grant in Virginia, and John ston and Sherman were near each other in North Carolina. The terms of that convention were written, every word, by Gen. Sherman himself, and they pro vided: 1. A suspension of hostilities in or der to submit the agreement for ratifi cation. 2. The Confederate armies to be dis banded, to be conducted to their State capitals, and their arms to be there de posited. 3. The recognition by the President of the United States of the several State governments, including Legisla tures. 4. Re-establishment of federal courts in the States. • 5. The people of the States to be guaranteed their political rights and franchises, and rights of person and property. This was signed on the 18th of April, 1865, and Bent by a special messenger to Washington. Pour days had then elaps ed since the assassination of the Presi dent. On the 24th, a response was re ceived from Washington, disapproving the Sherman Johnston agreement; on the 26th, anew agreement was made by which Johnston surrendered his army to Sherman. In the memoirs Gen. Sherman makes no defense of these terms other than that, after his arrival in North Carolina, he had taken steamer up to Grant’s headquarters, and on March 27 or 28 had a long conversation with President Lin coln, in which the latter expressed a de sire to close the war without another great battle; and that at that interview he understood the President to author ize him to say that; in case the rebel ar mies surrendered, “in order to avoid an archy, the State governments then in | existence, with their civil functionaries, provide others.” Geu. Sherman embod- this understanding in the agreement %4th the rebel General. AdmiralJ Por- j ter. who was present at City Point, sub sequently confirmed substantially Gen. Sherman’s recollection of the conversa tion with Mr. Lincoln. In the face of this, we have given by General Sherman Secretary Stanton’s dispatch of March 3, written by Mr. Lin coin personally to General Grant, forbid ding him to have any conference with Lee except on purely military matters, and instructing Grant “not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question,” as the President held such matters in his own hand, and would not submit them to military conferences or conventions. Of the existence of this instruction General Sherman denies all knowledge until aftei his terms with General Johnston had been disapproved by the new President, who, he was then informed, agreed with Mr. Lin coln. We do not propose to make any per sonal complaint of Gen. Sherman, nor to question his patriotism; we concede that he acted honestly, as he understood his duty ; but wliat we think is peculiar is that he did not then see that his terms would have been deplorable for the j country, and that in the expsiience of | the ten years that have passed he does : not now feel disposed as a patriot ’ to rejoice that his “terms” were re- j jected. Suppose the Sherman-Johnston agree ment had been adopted by the govern ment, what would have been the neces sary and inevitable consequences ? The President had issued his emancipation proclamation, but it had been prac tioally inoperative, except within the linen of the Union army. Slavery had not in fact been abolished. At the date | of this Sheriuan-Johnston agreement the j thirteenth amendment was pending, and j required the ratification of several of the I Confederate States to give it validity.— i Four fifths of the negroes were as prac-; tically in the possession and under the control of their owners as ever they had been. Under the Sherman-Johnston agreement, the rebel State governments then existing would have been recog nized as the only State governments in the several rebel States; all the arms of the rebel army would have been deposit ed at the State capitals, subject to the control of the State governments; and, under the same agreement, the people of the rebel States would have been guar auteed in the possesssion of their “prop erty” as defined by State laws. Here, then, this agreement, had it been ratified, would have arrested all measures for the abolition of slavery; would have required the concurrence of the rebel legislatures to ratify the thir teenth amendment; would have guaran teed the rebels in possession of their slave property, and given them a legal demand for money compensation for the slaves freed by the army. Had the seceded States been thus re stored to their original rights and priv ileges under the Constitution, there would have been 30 ex rebel Senators and 120 ex-rebel Representatives imme diately elected to Congress; and these, with their Northern allies—“ Copper heads” of that day—would have such ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTON GEORGIA, JUNE 9. 1875. control of both branches of the legisla ture as to prevent the passage of any one of the several constitutional amend ments. Not only would slavery not have been abolished, but its continuance under the State laws and constitutions would have been “guarani eed” as one of the terms of the surrender, and the rebel States would have been left in the possession of all their arms, both to keep the slaves in subjection and to renew the war in case the guarantee was violated. With a small vote in Congress from the North ern Democrats, these ex-rebels would have been able to coerce the passage of a law making compensation for the loss of slaves who had been released by our armies and had escaped to the North. Any scheme for the emancipation of the slaves would have been met by a demand for compensation, and, if slavery was abolished at all, it would have been at a pecuniary cost equal to the whole of our national debt. Wnen it was remembered that Andrew Johnson, standing almost alone, with a small portion only in each Honse of Con gress, was able to prolong the contest and defeat reconstruction for several years, it can readily oe understood how a Congress in the control of the ex reb els and their political associates would have defeated all the measures that have resulted from the war. It is not extrav agant to assume that no laws granting pensions to the Union troops would have passed which did not treat the sol diers of the “two countries” equally; and that no persons would have been compensated for property taken and damages caused by the war unless all persons on both sides were treated alike. Another and hardly less fatal conse quence would have been the recognition of that most dangerous of all political heresies, the inviolability of Slate sov ereignty. These rebel States claimed the sovereign right to secede; and the Sherman Johnston agreement recogniz ed the governments which had collect ively and individually waged war against the Union as the sole and exclusive State governments, which were instantaneous ly to be restored to all their ante bel.'um rights, privileges and franchises as States of “ piSße wtaorraned upon the terms agreed upon by Gen Sherman, with Gens. Johnston and Breckinridge would have lasted a year. It was practically a sur render of all the results of the war to the rebels,- a restoration of the control of the government to them, with slavery strengthened by the new guarantee as one of the conditions of peace. It is to be regretted that Gen. Sherman, who speaks of men and events in the most outspoken and candid terms, did not, in giving the history of this important event of the war in which he was con spicuous, frankly admit that however honestly and patriotically he acted at the time, he committed a grave political error, and that, in the light of the expe rience of the last ten years, he rejoices that his agreement with Johnston and Breckinridge was promptly repudiated by the government. PETE MCARTNEY’S LEAP. A Houston (Texas) special to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, of Friday, says: “The notorious counterfeiter, Pete McCartney, who caused a sensation in April by his escape and recaptures in Northern Texas, had his cases continued at the recent term of the United States Court at Tyler. The trial day was fixed for July at Austin, and Mar shal Puenel started with Pete from Ty ler en route for Austin. Pete was beav ily shackled and placed in charge of four guards upon the train. At Palestine he was hailed by some parties who said, “Hello, Pete; they have got you at last!” “Yes,” said Pete; “but damn ’em they can’t hold on to me long!” He appeared perfectly easy, and be trayed neither desire nor expectation of making an escape ; but while the train was approaching Phelp’s station, at about eleven o’clock in* the night, his guards were found to be Bound asleep. McCartney was making for the door of the car, a free man, when one of them aroused and said: “George, by God, McCartney’s gone!” They made for him, but he gained the platform, and, backing himself, held the door tightly closed upon them. On the inside they jerked the bell cord, but it bad been cut and pulled out of its rings. They then ran to the baggage car to signal the en gineer to stop the train. Just then the train reached the head of the grade and started down. There is a heavy forest of timber at this place, where he flew the train. The Deputy Marshals got off at Phelps and started back in pursuit of the slippery fugitive. The shackles of Mc- Cartney consisted of ankle bracelets and handcuffs, joined by an iron rod at his seat. After the escape they werefound— the handcuffs, iron rod and part of the chain which connected the anklets. The band he carried away upon his legs. The work was done with a very fine file, and was a neat job. A party who got in the cars at Palestine sat and talked with McCartney until just before his escape, when he, too, went to sleep. It is assert ed and believed that friends of Pete were on the train assisting, and money was used to aid the escape." Maine has anew town called Scatcha watchiekatchie. FISH CULTURE. The authorities assert that where fa cilities are available, as they are in a ma jority of cases, more food can be taken .from an acre of water, or its equivalent, than from twice the area of land, no matter how well it is tilled. Wm. Clift says, in the Phrenological Journal, that the black bass is otte of the best fish for private enterprise to handle. It will thrive m ponds that can be made and controlled on almost any farm where there is flowing water, and in quality it is good enough to satisfy even an epicure, ranking second only to the salmon and trout, and by many consid ered superior to them. In size the black bass attains an average weight of four or five pounds, and one was lately tak en which weighed seven and a half pounds. Doctor Wm. M. Hudson, one of the Connecticut Commissioners, says of him : “He is exceedingly hardy and adapted to our waters, being a native of the northern lakes. Any pond of clear wa ter having a variety of mud and gravel bottom, and one or more deep holes, is suitable for him. He is a great breeder, and is one of the very few fish that pro tect their spawning beds and young fry. He is the only fish su'table for wa ters able always to defend himself against the ravenous pickerel or pike.— Nearly all our ponds are infested with this pirate among fishes. He is able to conquer all bis enemies. Finally, he is game as the salmon, and in comparison with his size furnishes as much sport to the angler. He readily takes a live min now or a fly, and when he feels the first prick of the hook frequently r.ses three or four feet out of the water in his struggles to free himself, and it requires A quick eye and a steady nerve to land him safely.” The cost of these fish for stooking purposes, is from one to three dollars each, according to size and num er tak en, the expense of transportation being added. With an attendant they can be safely sent four or five days’ journey by rail. ■< All the efforts at stocking ponds with the black bass have been successful, so fir as our information extends. Tons re taken every year from ponds of a few f urnishine - an ..appreciable amoniit. of food to people in the vicinity. A pond of forty acres, stocked two years ago at an expense of three hundred dollars, is now valued at ten thousand dollars by its proprietors, aud will probably pay the interest on that sum. One of the excellencies of the black bass is, that be absolutely requires no care after he is put in his new home among the coarser kind of fish. He caters for himself, liv ing upon varieties that are of little value for human food. You have nothing to do but catch him when he is fall grown. A ponu should be kept closed for four years after it is stocked, an t then it will bear the strain of fishing with the hook, probably as long as water runs. Fish also can be raised in ponds that have no outlet, or in those that are sup plied by running water only pai’t of the year, if they do not get so low as to de stroy the fish by the excessive heat in the summer* Eels and mud pout are frequently found in • these stagnated pools, but carp would be a better fish, and furnish a large amount of food. In the abundant distribution of water there are few owners of large farms that can not command a large fish pond. On many the pond is already made. On others, nothing ia wanting but a dam, which will be none the less valuable for fish, because it furnishes waterpower for a mill. To those who have facilities such as the above, we would recommend at least a trial of fish culture on a small scale. GOVERNOEJOF GEORGIA. Charles J. Jenkins. There are quite a number of aspirants for the Gubernatorial office, says the Rome Courier, and if we are correctly informed, they are at work very indus triously to secure the Democratic nomi nation, and some of them, it has been asserted, have entered into a sort of combination to secure as many members of the Legislature as possible as dele gates to the Gubernatorial Convention favorable to their nomination. These members it is further charged were feasted and flattered in Atlanta last win ter with the view of making fair weather with the susceptible who were to be ap proached in that way. Whether these charges are true or not, we cannot say. Those feasts may have been simple acts of hospitality on a big scale and not in tended to blarney tbe honorable mem bers of the Legislature. NfrW, Charles J. Jenkins has not even intimated that he desires to occupy the Gubernatorial chair. If he has such de sire, he|is satisfied to leave the matter to the people without any solicitation from him or maneuvering on his part, believ ing that ifjhis services are demanded they will be palled into requisition, If he cannot receive such evidences of popular confidence as come spontaneously from the people, he will never become a mere office-seeker to secure it. Mr. Jenkins was driven from the Gubernatorial chair, where he was placed by the sovereign people of Georgia soon after the war, at the point of the bayonet, when the fed eral government undertook to pun the State government of Georgia through the medium of the War Department.— We all remember how bravely, how gal lantly and with what dignity C harles J. Vol. IV.-ISTo. 7. Jenkins acted, and how sternly he pro tested against military Usurpation and bayonet rule as he was driven from that office and took bis place as a private cit zen, “the noblest Roman cf them all.’' Georgians cannot well forget the con duct of their grand old Governor, nor the heroic manner in which he endeavor ed to maintain the dignity of this belov ed old Commonwealth. No true Geor gian’s heart will fail to swell with emo tions of gratitude to such a man for his sublime heroism in that memorable epoch in our State’s degradation when we wgre terrorized with the gleaming swor.d and the bristling bayonet; and there can be no true Georgian who would not desire to honor the man— the Governor who shrank nor faltered un der the tyranny of despotism that cow ered the hearts of so many and caused them to close their mouths to all manly protest against the infamies of military rule in the local afiairs of a grand old State. Such a man was Charles J. Jenkins—a name unsullied and bright in the lustre of its grandeur, its association with events that placed it conspicuously in the constellation of great names that have illustrated the noblest deeds of hu man history, and which will go down to posterity as a bright star to guide the great and good of coming generations. That name can again shed lustre upon the administration of Georgia and illus trate the character and renown of a State that has placed upon the pa ges of history the record of the noblest people. As this grand old man is quietly pre serving the even tenor of an honored re tiracy, expecting nothing and wishing nothing and striving for nothing of po litical honors, it would be a fitting trib ute to place him at the head of the State asa last testimonial of a State’s love as he passes that age in life when man nat urally seeks retiracy and repose from the bustling soenes of the busy world, where he may meditate in the sunset of his life upon what he has done for his fellow-man. Such a testimonial of a State's love and a people’s confidence would be a beautiful event to place upon the record of the noble old man to cheer bis heart as he approaches the end of a useful, unselfish, patriotic and honorable life. In view of all these facts, and on account of his eminent, fitness, bin stern integrity, his unblemished character and as a recognition of his virtues and bright ly shining record of patriotism to the State, we most respectfully suggest Mr. Charles J. Jenkins as a suitable candi date for the next Governor of Georgia, believing the people of this grand old State fully appreciate the virtues, the manhood and statesmanship of a beloved and honored public servant. LIBEEAL REPUBLICAN DICTATION. Yesterday morning, says the Chronicle & Sentinel, we spoke of tho attempts which are being made by the Liberal Re publican faction to dictate a platform to and select candidates for the Democratic party in the coming Presidential cam paign. The Nashville Union and Amer ican has an eminently sensible article on the same subject. It says there are doubtless a few that attended the Cin cinnati Convention who think themselves, by birth or special training, to be pre eminently qualified to make Presidents, if not to ojeupy the Presidential chair. In this they are wofully deceived. They are neither the timber out of which Pre sidents are made nor do they know how to select the material. They do not know the article when they see it. Their incapacity was made clearly manifest at the Cincinnati Convention; not in nominating Mr. Greeley, for that was the best thing the Convention could have done; but in attempting to “put up a job” in the way of a nomination which would have redounded only to the glorification of the Mutual Admiration Syndicate that attempted to run the Convention, and not to the profit or hon or of the country. \. r e repeat that the nomination of Mr. Greeley by the Cincinnati Convention was the best thing that Convention could have done, and we are not satisfied that his nomination at Baltimore was not the best thing which the Democratic Conven tion could have done. No Democrat could have beaten Grant in that race ; but the cordial support of Mr. Greeley accomplished much in liberalising the Northern Republican masses toward the people of the South and in preparing a way for the Democratic triumphs of the last twelve or eighteen months, It will not do, however, to experiment again with an outsider, with one who does not recognise the cardinal princi pies of the Democracy as essentials ir. republican government. More especi ally it canpot take for its standard Deal er one who went into or before the Cin cinnati Convention, and then refused to support its* liomime, because the latter was afterwards nominated by tbe Dem ocratic Convention. Nor can the D< m ocracy afford to be controlled in its ac tion by the counsels of those who, fail ing to get a ticket of their own making at Cincinnati, refused to support the ticket that was nominated there. The Democrccy will strive for apd hope to obtain the support of the Liberal Jte publicans. They will so act in Congress apd out of it, ip the Convention and out of it; they will select a standard bearer calculated to command the respect of honest, tolerant, liberal men everywhere; but they cannot yield to the dictation of a few political Israelites who think that no good thing can come out of a Demo cratic Nazareth. SIMONSON’3 SHOT THAT KILLED BISH OP POLK. To the Editor of the New York Herald : In your review of “Sherman’s Me rnoirs,” what purports to be a of the manner in which Gen. killed is given, from which it that Sherman called Gen’l Howard’s at tention to a group of officers ou Pino Mountain, and “ordered him to compel it to keep under cover.” Will you per mit ohe who was attached to Gen. How ard's headquarters, aud who was by big side daily on the Atlanta campaign— one who, with Howard and others sat our horses beside the Fifth ludiana battery that fired the fatal shot—-to gird the true story from my notes made that morning and published in a Western) daily a few weeks afterward ! There cer tainly is a grievous error either in your review or in Sherman's description o( the tragedy. Gen. Sherman was not there, and could nothavo seen the shot fired. Gen. Sherman may have, how ever, as he rode to the rear, where ho met Howard, called his attention to what he (Howard) would see when our party reached Gen. David Stanley's front. The facts—in which lam sure I will bo sustained in the main by Gens. Howard and Stanley and the staff offi cers present—are these: On June 14 Gen. Howard and staff left their headquarters for the front, where Stanley’s division of Howard’s (the Fourth) Corps had broken up camp and were awaiting the order to at tack Pine Mountain, It was just after sunrise. A mile or two in rear of the ad vance Howard met Sherman, but the convensation between them I did cot hear, as the two Generals conversed aside Howard and staff joined Stan ley and his staff on the road, in full view of Pine Mountain, and as we drew rein and echanged greetings, Stan ley exclaimed: - “Howard, do you see that group np there on the crest of the mountain t I wonder who they are.” We all brought our field glasses to bear upon the point indicated, and could plainly see three persons standing in front of the line of brestworks, and a larger group in the background. We could not tell whether they wore officers' or privates, but as it was evident tfie.)> were watching our movements, Stanley suggested that a few shots be fired to drive them under cover. Howard, who had suggested that Bishop Polk was in the party, made no objections, when Stanley turned to Captain Simonson, his chief of artillery, with the remark: “Simonson, can’t you uulimber, put a shot into that group, and give the Bis hop a morning salutation?'’ “I’ll try!” was Simonson’s laconic re ply. And away he galloped to the rear, A few minutes later a section of the Fifth Indiana Battery (Simonson’s) was unlimbored within twenty foet of us Th&Xiiyatsnant sighed tlia and tV shot exploded’ Over aridW tbe the group. Here my fails me, but my impression is a second shot was sighted and fired by the Lieutenant with no better effect. Simonson, when the gnn had been reloaded, dismounted and< said, “Here, Lieutenant, let me try it.” He took the range and the messen ger of deatho sped on its mission. Our glases were bent upon the group, and) we obßerued a commotion as tho shot took effect in the group that scat tered to the rear. While Simonson was upon his knees sighting the gun for an other discharge, Captain Leonard, Chief* of Howard’s Signal Corps, sitting on, his horse beside me, read the Confeder ate signal code that our officers had in terpreted at Lookout Mountain and caught the words: “General Polk is killed!" With a look of amazement, Leonard turned to How ard Stanley and and exclaimed: “Bishop Polk is killed!” “What?” exclaimed Howard, “have you interpreted the signal correctly?” “Yes, General; Simonson’s last shot killed him. They are signaling it along the line.” The young men of the staff who were cracking jokes inccsssantly ceased, and for a moment none spoke. Then Howard said: “Well, a Christian has fallen. Such is war ” Just then Simonson caught the words, “Bishop Polk is killed?” He was sighting the gun, and, lifting his eyes, that glared fearfully, exclaimed: “What is that, Leonard V‘ “Bishop Polk is killed \ Your last shots did it. They are signaling it over the mountain,” I replied. Simonson’s head dropped upon the “vent;” where it rested a moment. Then, raising his eyes, lie exclaimed: “Thank God! Yesterday they killed my dear brother ; I have killed a Lieu tenant-General and am avenged!” Without discharging the piece Simon son arose, removed and joined the staff. Sitently he repaired to his regular du ties, and, the line being formed, we ad vanced blowlj againßt the mountain, every one of us feeling that we would have rejoiced had some other than Lou isiana’s fighting Bishop gone down befpre Simonson's first and only shot. The ene my was so demoralized that be evacuated the mountain, and half an hour after wards we stood upon the spot where Polk fel 1 , and saw the ground stained with his blood. A day or two after poor Simonson, the only one of us who re joiced at the Bishop’s death, fell, shot on the skirmish line in Ackworth Woods. Then was the Confederacy It is possible that Gen. Shentian had been to the front that Earning, and see ing the group referred to, told Howard to disperse it; lint certain it is that he was nowhere near Howard when Simonson’s shot felt for the heart of Leonidas Polk, the fighting Bishop. A french expedition is preparing to start next September to attempt cross ing Africa from the mouth of the Congo to the White Nile. Among the presents intended to dazzle and conciliate the na tives will be the paste jewelry formerly the property of the Empress private theatre.
