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C. H. C. WILLINGHAM, EDITOR.
LAGBANGE:
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OCTOBER IS, IMS.
T%* $mccm at President Jabnton’i PoBef ft*
Sicrihtv of the Sidittli*
goutb, viz: President Johnson is oar friend, and
the Radical Party, opposing him and hisadmims
tration, are our worst enemiea And here another
Act presents itself which should arrest the atten
tion of eTery Southern man, viz: The Southern
people, In conjunction with the censervatiren of the
North, most sustain and up! o'd the policy of Presi
dent Johnson. lie Las the nerve to resist the
torrent of opposition to bis mild i olicy of restora
tion ; and the power of carrying his purpose into
affect lies mainly with tbs people of the South.—
His success, therefore, depends upon the temper of
oor people in complying with the requirements he
has demanded of them. Two States have met in
Convention, and carried out hii po'icy—Mississippi
and Alabama—and.the Prescient ha? signified his
approbation of the action of the two Conventions.
Other States will, doubtless, follow in the same
line of duty. When the civil governments of the
variosfl States have been re-organized in faithful
accordance with his policy, the people of the South
will have shown that the confidence reposed in
them by the General Government has not been
misplaced. Such harmony between the Govern
ment at Washington and the Southern people, will
result in the complete 6ucceB8 of the President’s
policy, and array the couseivativp men of the
whole country in support of bis administration,
and the oomph te overthrow of the Radical Party
will follow—for that unscrupulous political organi
zation is already tottering from its very founda
tions.
Charles Sumner, the great oracle of the Radi-*
cals of Now England, iD a recent speech, at a Re
pnblican Convention in Massachusetts, sail that
“ For thirty years and more this rebellion has bten
maturing. Who can say,” says he, “ that the
same time will not be needed to mature the condi
tions of peace ?” and adds, “ Who can say that a
generation must not elapse before these rebel com
munities have been so far changed as to become
■afe associates in a common government? 1 '
Charles Sumner ia the representative man of
the Radicals, whose policy is to keep the South in
a State of tutelage for the next geney^ion. If
they can carry out their policy by any political
strategy, whatever, we may expect much trouble
from that fiendish combinations of devils. But
luckily for us. the President has trusted to the
honor of the S"uthern people ; and, true to their
trust, they are uhowing that his coutnUmce is not
misplaced. This faift^ul discharge of our trust ip
strengthening the power of the administration in
our behalf, and weakening the strength of the
Radicals in their oppositions to the President.—
Our acceptance of the results of the war, as £ set
tlement of the questions at issue, and our ready
and faithful compliance with tho mild policy of
the Preaideut in restoring us to our former rights
lu the Union, give assurance to the conservative
and good people of the North that the policy of
President Johnson is a wine one, and the sequence
will M that the conservative masses will sustain
bim unanimously,^whether they belong to the De
mocruticor Republican party. Thus it is that the
success of the President's policy of restoration-will
be the overthrow of the Radicals, and the Soutb-
-ern Stntes will soon be rtstored to their former
'/toi’h'wiiY Tie'seen’how important it is for every
Southern man to rally to the support of the Prea
ident. But we are glad to chronicc the faot that
the course of Andrew Johnson meets with the
hearty approval o! the South, lie has shown a
maohood and a tenacity of purpose which has sel
dom, If ever, been exhibited by any men is his
position since the earlier days of the Republic.—
He is dealing the d-ath blow to the Radicals ot
the North. They are Coundering like fish in shal
low water. All their predictions as to the temper
and loyalty of the Southern people are being daily
met with refutation. Andrew Johnson and the
Southern people are now drawing the life-blood
from the Radical organization. Andrew Johnson
reposes confidence in the hone«yr and integrity of
the Southern people ; the Radicals want “ thirty
years” in which to “ mature the conditions of
peace,’ 1 and ere not willing to trust us; we ol the
South are giving Mr. Johnson the support of a
strict loyalty by a ready compliance with all that
is required of us in the process of restoration ; the
Radical organization is growing weak in popular
opinion, and the friends of the administration are
bouyant, and thousands are flocking to the stan
dard of Andrew Johnson as the man for the times
and thaman in the right place.
Negro Suffrage in Connecticut—At an elec
tion held in Connecticut, a few days since, the peo
pie were called upon to vote upon uu amendment
of the State Constitution extending the right of
suffrage to negroes, which was negatived by about
6,000 majority !—(every county in the State but
©*e voting against it.) This will be a stunning
blow to the cause of the radicals, who are insist
ing upon negro suffrage as terms precedent to the
re-admission of the Southern States into the Unioi t
They cannot, it seems, have the brazen effrontery,
to force Upon the Southern States what their own
people have so signally refused to accept. This
Connecticut election strengthens the arms of Pres
ident* Johnson in the pursuance of hie policy of
Southern restoration, and is evidenpe that the pop*
alar feeling North is going with' him.
R. C. Humber, Esq.—The many friends of this
gentleman, in this community, will be glad to
laarn that ha has been elected to the State Con
vention from Putnam county. It will be remem
bered that be once represented this county in the
Legislature. Now that war is no more in the
oouatry, we hope to aee “ Bob 1 ’ make his mark in
tk* oonnaela of the State. No more promising
young man lives there in all Georgia.
® 0L * c -B- Hanleiter —It waa only last week
**• congratulated the Atlanta {Veto Era npon hav-
log secured the services of this gentleman in the
■«*MicaI department of that paper. In its Is-
■oa of the 7th we find a cert from the Colonel re-
defcr *** * rule among
AOanu preventing- them from
working in an office with a fcUow-oraftaman who
!• not a member of their aaaociation.”
J ‘ Bclo “. of Tallapoosa county, _ _
B«need as candidate for Governor of AlabJI
Wonder If he is the man who used to edit the
Ifhak the same man, and should be
elected, his State paper* will be a disgrace to the
State tf the rales of orthography and .yntS
ueae better ohtamd in them than they were in
hn editorial*.
« remeal Premiers.”
The Louisville Journal has recently read this
class of divines a wholesome lecture. In ite issue
of the 4tb, we find the following:
*« We have received a communication from Mun-
fordville, written, we presume, by a clerical gen
tleman, in reference to oor article npon * Political
Preachers,’ in which he wishes to know ‘ bow the
clergy and the churches of this country are to un
derstand the article in question.’ He asks, ‘ Do
you advise us to give up entirely the political issues
of the whole country r As preacuera, yes, every
bit of it. Preachers as citizens have the same
right that other citisens have, of course, but as
. preachers they have nothing to do with 'political
There are two facte patent to the pe p • ^ ^ itaues' or‘political sinB-’ They have no business
to introduce such topics igto th- pulpit. If they
.do. they disgrace both it And themselves.
*• Let our correspondent and his brethren stick
to their texts, we repeat, and let politics alone.—
They have enough to do in their own line.”
The Journal expresses our sentiments on this
point exactly. Thet-e clerical agitators ba»e done
toeir share in bringing about the late troubles
upon the country. If they had confined themselves
to their texts as strictly as they ought to have
done, both North and South, and especially at the
North, their skirts vould have been clear of the
blood of thousands of good and innocent men who
have been offered up as sacrifices to the Moloch ol
war. That preachers have political rights, ia com'
mon with ih-ir fellow citizens, is not to be disput
ed or even doubted ; but when they enter the sa
cred pulpit to veutiilate their political notjoji|^«^|
stead of preaching the gospel, the messengers of
which they claim to be, they step from the path
The Election in Heard,—The annexed state
ment is the result of the election for Delegates to
the State Convention, aDd which failed to reach
us time for our last issue:
W. M. K. Watts 368
Berry D. Johnson 379
Elina P. Watkins, 2S6 •
The day passed off quietly and mainly harmo
niously.
1 be two gentlemen elected will represent the
connty well in the Convention.
Feeling Towards Hon A. H. -Stephen's at the
Nonth.—A writer in the Traveler proposes that a
petition be seqt from Boston for the pardon of Mr.
Stephens. The Boston Courier heartily seconds
the motion..
We would like to see Mr. Smephens released.—
We need the talents of such men in repairing and
perfecting our State organization. We trust a
eimiliar movement will be made in Georgia.
The North Carolina Convention.—The Con
vention met in Raleigh, on the 2d instant, and or~
gauized by the election of Edwin G. ReaX(K as Pres,
ident. Mr. R. was at one time a representative
in Congress from that State, and is said to have
taken no active part in the late war. A disposition
to hasten the return to tbs Union is said to be
manifested by ail the Delegates.
Important Decision—Judge Doniphant, of the
Coviugiou Circuit, has decided the Kentucky ex
patriation law to be unconstitutional It is be-
of duty, and wander into sinful and unforbidden i lieved the Court of Appeals will approve the de-
flelds, and cease to be ministers of the Holy Gospel | cision. The expatration law was the one intend-
Truth. If they desire to preach, politics let them j ed to disfranchise men for their action during the
step outside the pulpit and mount the rostrum,
where the harangue of political demagogues will be
more appropriately applauded or biased as best
please* their hearers. It is the business of preach
ers to preach repentance, and to hold up the
beautiful in the Christian character for emulation-
Their mission is one of -‘peace and good will to
ward man”—not to engender the bitter prejudices
of men toward each other.
In the South we had our “ political preachers."’
Their fulminations rang from the pulpit with cease
less constancy; and when the carnival of blood
b'gan. some of them repaired to “ the tented field 1 ’ j
to admiuister consolation to the penitent, and to
induce th- ainful to roprnt, as long as there was no j
danger. But when the active campaign began, 1
the air. whistled with iron and leaden hail, the ear !
deafened by the roar of artillery, too many of j
them shrank from the fiery ordea. aodsougbt more ;
congenial utmosphere. Others, who had never ;
preached politics, ministered to the spiritual com- j
forts of their chiuges ; and. when the serried hosts '
were marsha.liug, in hostile array, to meet thefoe
on the sanguine lit Id, they " fell into liue” and
received the shock ot battle with those over whoso
spiritual welfare they were sent out to watch.
When the history of tho late war is written by
the impartial pen of Truth, nud all the causes
which brought about the disastrous shock upon the
nation are enumerated, Truth, with solemn aspect,
will poiut. with steady hand and firmly com
pressed lips, to the throng of “ Political Preach
ers,” and include them in the solemn condcmna- \
tion : It teas yr that ditl it—your sacerdotal robes i
are stained with the blood of innocent men 1 Ye i
hart dishonored your calling ! j
late war by a mere act of toe legislature.
The Westekn Pork Market.— We learn from
the Louisville Journal that the prospects of the
pork market of the West were never better. There
seems to be an abundance of pork bogs, and a
larger corn crop made in tiat sectiou of the Union
than has been produced in one year in the last ten.
Mu. Davis.—A dispatch to the New York Herald
dated Fortress Monroe. October 2d, say- that "Jet.
ftrson Davis moved thil morning, under a etroug
guard, from his casennte prison to the quartejp
assigned him in Carroll Hall.”
Postal Service.—Du'ing the month of Septem
ber. Postmaster Genertl Dennison re-established
postal service on fifty of .he most important routes,
and reopened four bundled ana titty post offices in
the Southern States.
Released.—Gov. Cure, of Mississippi, has been
released from prison at Fort Pulaski, in the Sa
vannah harbor, by ordir of President Johnson.
The National Debt.
to the Cincinnati Gazette says the -Secretary of
the Treasury has lately said openly that he did not i
desire-that a dollar of the national debt should be ’
taken in Europe. He is also satisfied that the !
Treasury will be able to put all of the public 1
debt at five per cent per annum after 1808, except !
the six per cent., which mature in 1881 ami 1882.
knh l& the m&tfth of isepteinber it was reduced
to twelve millions and a half, and the annual in !
terest was reduced half a million. It is believed
by those who best understand the subject, that 1
the tide lias turned and is now ebbing rapidly.— :
The Treasury Department Printing Bureau is be !
sil.v engaged preparing the various forms required ’
for the conversion of the interest bearing circula- |
tion into.’>-20 bonds, tiuder the Secretary’s recent ■
advertisement. The engravers arc at work upon !
the plates for printing the bonds.
[cosmuntcated.]
Marriage anong the Freedmen.
Carter, former slave of J. L. Banning, and Sal-
lie, funner skive of W. McK. Morgan, were united
in the holy bans of matrimony, by the Rev. J.'
Blakely Smith, ic the Methodist church, Green
ville. before divine service commenced fur the
freedmen in the a'ternoon, on Sabbath, the 1st
day of October, 18t5.
The nuptial vows were witnessed by a large
concourse of both white and colored. The cos
tumes of the “ happy couple,” and their ebony
"** " | attendants, were in bon ton style and quality.—
A Waebington di.-patch | ji )e dignified bridegroom, his heart beating
■ against bis rulll«d cambric sbiit bosom and white
■ Marseilles vest, gently clasped the white-gloved
; left band of the blush ng bride, whbse dark-hued
brow, though suffused xcith blushes, beauti uliy
contrasted with the wreath cf orange buds that
lightly rested oil her jetty locks, and both gravely
bowed assent to the “questions axed, " and be"
Miscellaneous News Items.
Jackson, Miss., is being rebuilt rapidly
and business is improving. .
The Internal Revenae for two days end-
log Sept. 29, amounted to $2,400,000.
' Both Gen. Early and Gen. Mosby are in
Washington awaiting pardon.,
Hon. John Bell is living in retirement
at Nashville.
Revs. Edward Dood add Homer Bart
lett. two American missionaries, died re
cently in Turkey.
Tbe stra ght-out State Rights Democra
cy of Iowa have nominated Dr. E. S. Bai
ley, of Van Buren county, for Governor.
The Vicksburg Herald says it has a re
port that all the troops are to be with
drawn from Mississippi at an early day.
Gen. Thomas has ordered the freedmen
in Vicksburg to be assessed for the sup
port of tbe colored schools.
The bog cholera is prevailing, in Lou
doun county, Va., o a considerable extent.
The h'’g8 die soon after being attacked.
Mrs. Sterling Price and family have re
turned to St Louis. Gen. Price has goDe
to Brazil.
The Columbus (Miss.) Weekly Republic
Las at the head of its columns the name
of Andrew Johnson for President in 1868.
The accounts of Southern postmaster’s
before the war, are being overhauled by
a special officer.
Washington dispatches say that the
war claims of U. States citizens against
England are to be prosecuted vigorously.
All orders for the prosecution of confis
cation suits have been suspended by
President Johnson until further notice.
Mr. Jones, Assistant Secretary of War,
under the Confederacy, has been arrested
and taken to Washington.
The petition for the pardon of Jefferson
Davis is being circulated ia several coun
ties of Indiana.
Gen. Terry has given orders that all
colored troops shall be removed from
Richmond.
The Tennessee Conference is now in
sessian at Nashville. Bishop Karanaugh
presiding.
Col. James L. Orr, late Confederate j
States'Senator, has consented tube a can- !
didate for Governor of South Carolina. |
The Cliioago Tribune says there is a ina- !
nia for killing negroes in Union county, j
m. ;
The United States troops in Texas are 1
said to be dying in numbers from fevers ;
incidental to that climate.
Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, bv permission of j
the President, has returned to his family
in Essex county, Va.
The receipts at the office of the Cummis i
sioner of Internal Revenue on the 2d and J
4th inst. amounted to $4,868,453.94.
A Washington- special to the N. York
Herald says it is currently reported that
Gen. Ortega has succeded in negotiating
a large loan for tbe Mexican Liberal^ bas
ed on the security of confiscated property.
Dr. Mudd, at Tortngas, has endeavored
to escape, but was found secreted in the
coal bunk of the steamer Scott, and put
to bard work wheeling sand. The Quar
termaster of tbe Scott was arrested for
aiding Mudd in bis attempt to escape.
The Tribune’s special says; The P/e*»i :
dent has declared, within a few days, that
he will take no action in the matter of the
Louisiana govemship till be receives the
report from a new commissioner, who will
be sent in a few days.
Tbe Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
road Co. intend to run two daily trains
over their road,connecting with the trains
on the Western & Atlantic and tbe East
Tennessee &• Georgia Railroad. Sleeping
cars will be provided for all night trains.
The San Antonia (Texas) Herald says
Gen. Hood left that city on tbe 25th nit.,
for Washington and the North. The Her
ald believes the object of Geu. Hood’s vis
it to Washington is *o endeavor to obtain
from tbe President aa interview with Mr.
Davis.
The Lonisvile Journal referring to the
anticipated trial of Mr. "Davis, say» “there
is no.more chance that a jury of twelve
meu 'will render a verdict against him,
than that they will bring in such a ver
dict against themselves or the presiding
Judge.”
The trial of Emerson Ethridge has com
menced, before a Military Commission at
Columbus, Kentucky. He is charged
with uttering disloyal language, and try
ing to incite the people of Tennessee, dur
ing the late canvass for Congress to in
surrection.
To show the gigantic scale on Which
the war supplies were obtained at tbe
North, there remains on hand in one item
1,500,000 pairs of new shoes. The Quar
termaster’s Department have already sold
89,000 horses and mules, which have pro
duced upwurd of six million dollars.
It is contemplated iu Richmond to or
ganize a great Northern and Southern Ex
press Company, the officers and employ
ees of which are to be selected from the
Northern anil Southern armies. Over
$150,000 of the $500,000 required capital
lias been raised.
During the equinoctial storm, at Gal
veston, Texas, and Niblet's Bluff, and Os
age on the Sadine River, houses were
blown down,persons were mortally wound
ed by falling timbers, trees and fences
prostrated and an immense amount of
damage done-
A Washington dispatch to tbe Cincin
nati Enquirer says'the President lias in
structed the United States District Attor
neys, in various pints qf the South, not to
Mr. Benjamin, the ex-Confederate Sec- j begin any new proceedings under the
retary of State, is said to be on bis way confiscation laws, as to .the occasion for
oile r in best wishes
■ Miooess of the enter-
A Sfectai or.
After ilivine service the assembled croivd of col- 1
rre-1 friends vied '-tith each
and ciuigntiul.tiions fur th
prise.
Gov. Biiowst.ovr's Message.—Tne message of
Gov. Browm.iiw to the Tennessee Legislature,
sent in on the 3d inst., congratulates that body on
Stale items.
As tin* traiin on which some colored
troops passed through Decatur, a shot fir
ed from the train passed through the body
of a daughter of Dr. Durham. She was
not expected to live.
The Savannah papers compla'n bitterly
to Australia, with a view of practicing at
the bar.
The Albany Democratic platform square
ly supports President Johnson’s plan <>[
restoration. The radicals oppose it ol
course.
We see it stated that Corpus Christi is
now occupied by three regiments of col
ored troops, commanded by Gen. Charles
R. Russell.
i iic toon LHiinoei -<>! national banks
now doing* business is 2,507, with ail ng-
( gregalc capital <>f $398,051,723,50, and a
! circulation of $236,681,720.
j I he desks of flic members of the late
J Confederate House of Represents fives
were sold, on the 27th ult:, at auction.—
; I hey brought irom 2o to oO cts. each.
During the week ending September 30,
the Treasury Department has destroyed
nearly four hundred and ten thousand dol
lars worth of redeemed mutilated currency.
Governor Parsons has received a dis
sect) a course has ceased to exist.
Clint I’m bridge was tried in tho St.
Louis Criminal Court last wi?rk, for the
■■ alleged murder of a Mr. V liable, at Anh-
! ton, Missouri, August, 1862. Venable
i was kiiit d in a reagnlai fight between a
j portion of the enrolled militia of Missouri
■ and a squad*of Confederates, of whom
• Burbrdge. was an officer. The jury re-
j turned a verdict of not guilty.
I One of the officials elccti d at the recent
I municipal election in Richmond, which
i was set aside by the military has been
i permitted to qualify and enter upon his
| duties It is Sheriff Wrigh 1 . lTis bond
; is for $300,000. Indeed, it is anticipated
| that within a f<-w days hi nee the who!**
ticket elected on that occash n, c\ceptiiii r
the Mayor, .Mr. Sturdivant, who offers to
withdraw, will be recognized.
The Cincinnati Commercial says: —
There is some reason to believe that the
colored troops now stationed in the South-
the favorable manner in which civil law is work- fifty pounds> according J 8 opportun it y
lPir 111 tnf» rwnmman.lfl umAn.ln.nnt. /v* - * o t r j
f the rapacity of juvenile cotton stealers, j patch from President Johnson, announcing j »-rn States will speedily he withdrawn
and
who diminish the bales by from five to
ing in the State; recommend? amendments to the
franchise law, but is disposed to discourage sweep
ing changes iu legislation ; thinks the mass of the
people who engaged in the Confederate cause
should snflur at least ten years of disfranchisement ,
and thnt the leaders should receive neither mercy
nor forbearance ; recommends the reception of ne
gro testimony in the courts, but believes that the
white and colored people cannot live together as
political or social equals, and therefore favors sot
ting apart some portion of the national territory
for tbe special residence of the freedmen. He de
sires immigration into Tennessee from the Eastern
States and Europe to be fostered, and regards
President Johnson's reconstruction policy as tbe
sole hope of the country.
Mississirri Election.—A special dispatch to the
Louisville Journal, from Jackson. Miss., 5th in
stant. states that Gen. Humphreys is elected Gov
ernor of that State, according to all accouuts. by
ten thousand majority; also, that G. L. Potter.
anti-negro testimony, is elected to the High Court
by three thousand majority.
The same dispatch states there is considerable
speculation as to Hcmphrets’ election—he having
been a brigadier-general in the Confederate army,
and not eligible to office till pardoned. It is un
derstood that Gov. Sharkey will use all his influ
ence to procure his pardon. No doubt is enter
tained of bis success. ^
As near as can be ascertained, the new Legisla
ture will be composed by a majority of anti-negro
testimony men.
CoNFisdTiON AT ah End.—Mr. Chandler, United
States District Attorney, in some remarks at Din-
widdie Court House, Va., a few days ago said: “ I
am United States District Attorney, and have-had
something to do with all the confiscations
that have been made. I rejoice to tell you, my
frieads, that all confiscation is at an end. I have
received orders to suspend all confiscation.” At a
session of the Coart at Alexandria sure held, Dis
trict Attorney Chandler made a similar statement
to the Court, aud Judge Underwood thereupon dir
missed the confiscation suits.
offer.
A National Bank has been organized in
Atlanta and a charter granted. The of
ficers are Austell, president; YV. II. Tul-
ler, cashier; A. Austell, W. II. Tnller, G.
S. Cameron, S. B. Hoyt aDd J. H. Jaines,
directors.
The testimony in the case-of yonng
Ilight, Walking and Doughty, charged
with thu killing of Capt. Heasley, was
concluded on the 7th inst., and that the
military commission then adjourned until
the 10th inst., when the argument of coun
sel were to be heard. It is a tedious case.
The order which reqfiircd that ladies of
Columbus, Georgia, who had not taken
the oath should be refused letters at points
of delivery, lias been rescinded! Now
ladies can get all their letters that arrive
in C<?1 limbus, by any conveyance, no mat
ter whether they have taken the oath or
not.
Insurance Companies.—The Washington corres
pondent of the New York Herald sayi that the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided
that “ in deducting -the amount at their taxable
grass receipts for premiums and assessments under
•radon 108 of the act of Janaary 30, 1864, in-
•“ranoo companies are not allowed to deduct any
•ttoant paid by them for insurance.”
. P*«tty. handsome wile is to be admired;
to priST*’ 45 * Cr * tt “d «ratl«Nrifo u a Jewel to
Gev. Beacregard.—For so quiet and
unobtrusive a citizen, Gen. Beauregard
is made by the Northern journals to ap
pear to be the most restless and perturb
ed spirit aDd most ubiquitous pe£SODage
of this remarkable era. A while ago we
had the general in 6ome Northern city,
about to take passage for foreign lauds.
Again we beard of him as actually in
France, soliciting a general’s command
in the army of the Emperor. The very
latest bulletin, however, which appeared
in the papers of Sunday last placed him
in Mexico, by invitation of Emperor Max-
imillian, to take command of the army of
the Imperial persuasion.
What was our surprise after reading
these authentic accounts of Gen Beaure
gard’s movements to meet him yesterday
on the street, looking «g innocent’and in
different to these serious dispositions of
his person, without his will and consent
as a lamb regards the preparations of the
batcher to serve him up for the market.
There may be a General Beauregard iu
New York, Paris and Mexico, but the rer
al simon pure General, who is known in
this State as the man • who figured rather
conspicuously some months ago at Pe
tersburg and previously at Charleston
Conrintb, Manassas, Ac , i 8 now a sedate
quiet citixizen and civillian in his Dative
city, who has no idea of leaving his coun
try, and will remain here to meet all the
responsibilities and discharge all the du-
ti«s of a citizen.—tf O. Picayune.
his approval i>f the action of the late
State Convention of Alabama.
Gens. Lee, Joe Johnson, and Howell
Cobb, C lonel OuI«I and Gov. Joe Brown,
ot Georgia, have been summoned as wit
nesses for the defense of Wirz.
John M inor Butts lias been nominated
for Congress in the Lynchburg, Virginia,
District, in place of an ineligible candi
date.
The Democratic Senatorial conference
of Cumberland and York counties, Pa.,
has had 207 ballotings without nominat
ing a candidate
Mrs. Baker, the mother of the young
man who was hung by the uiob, was sub
sequently ordered in leave Knoxville bv
the same ruthless scoundrels.
Capt. A. C. Edwards, tried at Memphis
on a charge of being a guerrilla, has been
found guilty and sentenced to five years
imprisonment in the penitentiary at Al
ton, Illinois.
Colorado, as a new State, follows Kan-
eas,^.and all the other Abolition States,
forbidding negro suffrage. Colorado,
next winter will come into the Union an
anti-Degro suffrage State!
The Indians lately made a raid dowD
the West Fork of the Trinity, and killed
and scalped two men in the region of
Fort Worth. They stole hundreds of
horses and got away.
Tbe Lynchburg Republican states that
the famous ex-rebel Gen. Win. Mahone
has been appointed general superintend
ent of the Norfolk, Petersburg & South-
side railroad.
Mr. Swinney, pastor of a Southern Me
thodist Church at Glasgow, has been dis
possessed iby military force by order of
Governor Fletcher, and Mr. McReady, a
Northern Methodist put in hi place. ’
We are informed by the Menlphis pa
pers that Gen. Daua has been indicted be
fore the Criminal Conrt of the United
States, now sitting in that city, in the
sum of seventy-five thousand dollars.
The publisher of the Richmond Com
mercial Bulletin having again indulged
in the publication of treasonable language,
Gen. Terry has again suppressed the is
sue of the sheet. "
The Expenses of the Alabama Conven
tion foot up as follows:
Pay aud Mileage of Delegates, $20,863,20
Pay of officers, 1,602,00
mustered out of service. Upon re
commendation of General Palmer, com
manding the Department of Kentucky,
four thoucand of tlie colored troops of his
command will be mustered out, 1 caving
oix thousand still iu service in his depart
ment.”
Gen."Lee, the new President of Wash
ington College at Lexington, Y^a., arrived
there on the 18th ult., after traveling 100
miles on horseback. He was installed
President on the 9th inst. The ceremo
nies were of a very unostentatious char
acter, but contrary to the wishes of many
connected with and interested in the Col
lege, who desired to have the installation
attended with a gerat deal of pomp and
display.
Governor Perry, believing that the bare
organizati n of a military force in Sont
Carolina will have the effect of repressing
local disorder, and acting on the sugges
tion of General Ames and tbe precedent,
sanctioned by the President, in Mississippi,
has, by proclamation, invited the people
of his State to organize in each judicial
circuit one or more militia companies, to
act axuiliary to the United States forces,
for the’preservation of order and the peace.
Hon. D. P. Burnet, first President of the
Republic of Texas, charged with a peti
tion from tbe “ old Texans” to President
Johnson, for,Executive clemency .towards
Jefferson Davis, left New Orleans on the
30th nit., for YVashington. Ere his depar
ture a committee of ladies waited on him
nd handed him for delivery to the Presi
dent tbe petition, which several thousands
of the ladies of New Orleans had signed
also, asking for clemency towards Jef
ferson Davis.
Gov. Sharkey, of Miss., has issued a
Memorial nr Behalf or Mz. Davis.—At
the late session of the South Caroline Odv
vention, a resolution presented by Gen.
James Conner to the following effect, was
passed:—
Resolved, that it be referred to a com
mittee of three, to draft memorials to be
addressed by this Convention to bis Ex
cellency, the President of the United
States, requesting Executive clemency
for Jefferson Davis, tbe Ute President,
aud A. H. Stephens, the late Vice-Presi-
dent, of the Confederate States; for A. G.
Magrath And George A. Tienholm, citi
zens of this State, now prisoners of State.*
{Whereupon the President appointed the
following members as a committee: Messrs
Conner, William Wallace and Rose.
Cities to be Blessed.-—Id M&oon and
Montgomery the negroes are being hired
out to the planters .by the military au
thorities. Those cities, by this plan, will
get rid of idle freedmen, and one of the
greatest blessings cau be bestowed upon
both whites and blacks. q
Tbe Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has ruled that commission merchants are
dealers, and so are all persons who sell,
or offer to sell, merchandise, whether they,
have a fix§d place of business or not..
Married*
In this county, on the 6th inst., by Brockman
Hammett, Esq., Mr. Thomas Jk.nnino*, aged about
74 years, and Miss Alooka WhitaXkr, ia the ,7 <A
year of her age.
We congratulate the happy couple, sad wish the
fair bride may live as long as the bridegroom hae
lived, and that he may oontinne to live aa long m
the. How applicable the poetic liop—
“ Winter Ungers in the lapof spring.”
For the State Legislature.
West Point, Ga., Oct 5, 1875.
Willingham—Sir.- Announce my name ae •
Candidate for the next Legielature without the
solicitation uf “ Many Friends,’-’ or of “ Many Vo
ters.” 1 aui on “ my own hook.”
H. G. TATE.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Extra Family Flour. '
BARRELS Extra (Western) Family Flour,
/ just received by W. H. SIMS k SONS.
Kanawha Salt*
O ^BARRELS flue Kanawha Salt just In store
at W : H. 8IMS A SONS.
Fine Old Bourbon Whiskey.
1/A BARRELS just received and for sale by
IU W. H. SIMS & SONS.
Large Lot of Bacon
O N hand aud fur sale at tbe lowest market
pi
prices.
W. H. SIMS k SONS.
Fine Sugars!
^l^HITE, Brown and Crushed, to be found at
the store of
W. H. SIMS A SONS.
Fresh Corn Meal
^LWAYS kept in store l>
w. H.
SIMS & S0N3.
Sorghum Syrup,
O F superior quality, for sale low by
W. H. SIMS & SONS.
Sundries, (“ So-Called/’)
S OAP, Caudles, Bluesttine, Core Starch, Soda,
Jug. Ware, and many other articles—all for
sale low by W. II SIMS A BONFj.
Notice—-Justice of the Peace.
I ’HE undurvigued is now prepared to attend V)
the duties ot Ins office. Will hold Court ou
the THIRD SATURD AY in each mouth. Prompt
attention given to all business. Revenue Stump*
on hand. Office at Whitfield'e Corner.
JOHN I. CALLAWAY,
”0^13^1 f Justice of the Peao?
J. BROW.) MORGAN,
AGENT FOR THE
GERflUMI, HtYOVKR, VIAG1R.4 & REPCBL’f
FIRE & INLAND INSURANCE COMPANIES
New York.
octl3 6m
ALEXANDER STODDART,
General Ageut, No. 6 Pine St.
More New and Fresh Goods!
Fine Cigars, Night Blooming Cereus. Amber "Lav
ender Water, Jockey Club, Lilly White, Pine
Toilet Soaps, Kerosine Lamps, Wright’e
Indian Vegetable Pills, Spencer’*
Pills, 8trong’s Sanative Pills,
Ayer’s Pills, Champion’s
Pill,3, McLean’s Pills, Wood’s
Hair Restorative, Mrs. Allen’s Hair
Restorer, Mrs. Allen’s Zyiobalsamum,
Sanford’s Liver Invigorator, Hembold’s Ex
tract Buchu, McLean’s Vermifuge, Frahenstock'*
Vermifuge, Sozodont for tbe Teeth, Pink Cerate
for the Itch, and many other articles very useful
All of the above Goods just received and for
sale by . THOMAS S BRADF1ELB.
GODFRED KENER, "
Manufacturer of all Kinds of Furniture,
La Grange, Georgia,
WOULD respectfully inform,hl»
Nd friends, and tbe public g**er-
lally, that be is again engaged is
MANUFACTURING AND REPAIRING
ALL KINDS OP
F XT
Georgia, Troup County.
Court or Ordinary. Oct. 11,1865.
W HEREAS J. H..Cleaveland has made appli
cation to the Court for letter* of guardian
ship to the person and property of Charles T.
Duffy, minor of Franklin Daffy, deceased:
Tbtpe are. therefore, to cite and admonish tHh
... e persons to show cause, if any they hate, on or b5l v
proclamation accepting the proposition of f ore the first Monday in December, next, wby sail
— ■ - — n — J 11 aknMlJ _ La _ A. B ' *
$22,465 20
Colonel S. Thomas, Superintendent of the
Freedmen’s Bureatrof Mississippi, trans
ferring the right of trying all cases in
which the rights of freedmen are involved,
from the Freedmen’s Bureau to the civil
authority, upon condition that tbe Pro
visional Government of that State will
take no farther mode of procedure of the
law in force, except so far as these laws
make distinction .on account of color, and
allows that negroes shall be protected in
person and property; establishes prin
ciples entitling negroes to sue and be sued,
aud making them competent witnesses
and according to law give evidence. Tbe
Jackson News in an editorial denounces
the aut as repudiated by tbe people.
lx iTtrnn,
(At hia old Stand.)
LOW FOR CASH!
METALIC BURIAL CASES and WOOD COP-
FINS, of all description!!, always kept on band.
He also propose* to SAW TIMBER INTO LUM
BER on Shares. oct!3-tf
letters should not be granted.
octl3-td Lr PITTS, Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
A LB peraon* indebted to tb* estate of JOHN J.
WALKER, late of Troup connty, deceased,
are hereby required to make immediate payment:
and those having claim* against said deceased,
will present them to tbe undenigned proparly aa-
thenticated in term* of the law.
ootl3-40d NEWTON S. WaLKER, Adm’r.
Georgia, Troup County.
Court or Obddtary, Oct. 10,1885.
IXTHEREAS, W. H. Thompson has apoifod to
rv me for the Guardianship ot Sliaha Daffy:
These are, therefore to die and admonish all
person* to show cause, If any they have, on or bo
fore tbe first Mondajria December next, why
said letter* should not be granted.
octlS-td L. PITTS, Ordinary.