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HATES OF BtJnaCntPTION. One ropy of tint Paper one year no line ropy of tho PniMir six months 2 00 One Copy of tlm Paper tlirno iiimitlii* 1 IM» Mingle Copy o| the Paper, ID Club HmIom. *Ten Coplra of tlio liijier ono year, £38 00 Twenty Copli e of tho Vapor onn year 40 00 4V* All Subscriptions rtnist lie paid invariably in ad* Vaiire. No diai'i'iinluntioii In IHvnr of anybody. Off" The Paper will be atopped. in niriiistuiiri'S. nt Hie lime imid for, unless HiiliHi’iiptlonHun* previously renewed, EW Address all ordura to JONES k WILUNOIIAM. Attorneys. \V. O. TtlUOLE, ATTOltN V. Y A T 1 * A W , I<* (iriingc, C4i*orgl«. . *. tools. ' W. MAIIn TOOLE & MAURY, attornkyh at law. LaGrange, •0"»>Uln. w tfu <£runsse VOLUME XXV.} LAGRANGE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1801). 'NUMBER 2. . AIIIIAIIAMS, WIMBISH & CO., MEIICIIANTH unci TUADlfit^S, u. c. rr.nnKU., n. j. iiammond. I r.. w. iiammond, lAUrnnge, <ia. | Atlanta, (In. | buirange, da. PPdlHELL, HAMMOND <fc 1IRO., ATTOllNKYH AT I.AW, T.a Ornngc, Georgia, \iriLL prartlre in Tronp county. All ImihIiiosh entrust* V? ed to their care will receive pernuuat, prompt uml ■careflil attention. N. HAMMOND still romnins n member of the flnn of A. W. Hammond k Sou, of Atlanbi, except as to Tronp Miscellaneous. NOTH'K THIS I 1 TOE KTTUSCUinnn, Itaiuiliftil for pant favors, I by a prompt attention ft) business, hopes P*r a ronUn* Catting anil Work Done Promptly? 1. R. SASHEKN. I IU W. YORK. I n. T. JOURIUN. UNITED STATES HOTEL. Atlanta, Georgia. BASSE EX, YOR K A- JOUHDAN, PROPRIKTOIUL J. yr. F. imVSON AND It. T. JOntDAN, Clerks. w 1THIN one hundred yards of the general Pnasei Depot. Comer of Alabama and Pryor Streets, W. E. TKliilY, FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR-DRESSER, (III the Sims Utilise,) La Grange, Georgia. to CUTTING CHILDREN’S itteu i-tr FHWC IS A. FROST, HA N K E 11, t Side Square, noxt door to Wise .V Dmii-luss,) »»««' Georgia. GHOCKItlKH, HARDWARE, ntO VISIONS, HEAVY ROOTS AND SHOES, BUGGY AND WAGON MATERIALS, STOVES, AO., AC. STEWART'S CRUSHED, POWDERED, A, II mid C KU* GARS, and SUGAR HOUSE SYRUP and MOLASSES, CHOICE RIO, LAGUAYRA and JAVA COFFEES, STOVES—(Wnrrnnted to give satisfaction,) GUNNY «ml RLANKET BAGOINOf (44 to 10 in. to2' 4 Ilia.,) GREEN LEAF ROPE and ARROW TIES, AXLES, HUBS, RIMS and SPOKES, (buggy ami wagon) RUOOY TRIMMINGS, (every kind,) GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES and CAPS, PLANTATION and MECHANIC'S, TOOLS, (every kind,) LOCKS, RUTTSnnd SCREWS, (great variety,) BUGGY and WAGON HARNESS, CALF SKINS, SOLE, UPPER and HARNESS LEATHER, IRON and STEEL, (Sweden and Refined—all Hi7.ee,) SUPERIOR CHEWING and SMOKING TOBACCO, BACON, LARI) and FLOUR, (superior quality,) COTTON YARNS, OSNARURGS, STRIPES A- SHIRTINGS, NO. 1 SHORE and RAY MACKEREL and WHITE FLSII, on the moat rennon- WIMBISU k CO. Georgia lfewa from our Exchanges. The salaries of municipal officers of Augusta arc to bo reduced. Dr. Hurd, of tlio Atlcntu Eru, refuses to sign petitions to Gon Grunt for office. Tlio Augusta Constitutionalist soj’s tho moruls of that city lire rapidly improving. Marietta lms a vinegar factory, which tho Journal boasts is the only ono south of Louis ville. Certain young men in Savannah arc charged by tho Xetcs with filibustering intentions against Cuba. Charles Vann shot and killed Wilson Thomp son, on Monday the 2lst at Colquitt, Miller county. Mr. J. M. Selkirk lias left tho serven of the Ceutral Railroad, aud will settle on a Floyd county farm. Aftho Milledgvillo tournament on Christmas day, Mr. Stubbs, crowned Miss Mollie White •‘Queen of Love and Beauty." Tho Directors of the Georgia Ruilroad have declared a dividend of four dollars per share, paynblo on and after January 12th. Mr. S. B. Bair will resume fhn publication of the Middle Gaorgian—a paper ho managed be- foro the war—at Griffin on the 1st of January. In Columbus, cotton receipts to December 11, 1807, wore 44,1)21, and to December 12th, 1808, were 24,040 bales—showing a falling off of 20, 881 bales. There is a livel}' mulo buriuess done at Atlan ta. Nearly 8,000 havo been received there dur ing Hie season. Prices range from $1*25 to $200 per hood. iininry of Nn eniored Six hundred and fifty students linv the Kentucky University this year. The Manchester cotton mills are only running throe days in the week, a*, present. General Shonp, an ox-Coufcdomtc Brigadier, has become an Episcopal Minister. The Countess Wnlewska has become the, first lady of honor to the Empress of the French. Thomas H. Wynne, of Baltimore, has been elected Superintendent of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. Dennis Hewitt, for forty-nine years editor of the Hillsboro (X. C.) Recorder, retires from that position January 1st. Vanderbilt is popularly supposed to havo made between live and six million dollars by the lute corner in Now York Central. Before you acquire a taste for whisky, insure your life and take a farewell of your family.— Whisky is a certain death. It is only a question of time. The cultivation of broom com is extending in Virginia. The yield averages a not profit of $44 per acre, notcounting the seed which is valuable for feed. The actual debt of the Ntatc of Pennsylvania, on tho 30th of November lust, tho end of the fiscal year, was $33,280, 940 13, a mere bagatelle in these days. W. A. McCracken, Esq., editor of the .Spring- field (Ohio) Advertiser, died nt the Washington Hotel, ‘ Vicksburg, Miss. He was ou his tray South for the benefft of his hcnlth. Tho eight Southern Conferences of the Xorth- n Methodist Episcopal Church claim a net gain of membership of nearly 48 per cent. In 1807 k Tima Tim Him, moon, mid slur* murk that e Which else in |.nrt of UimUh ul rutty. Ujiull tlio dial nl tlio hniiaiii) ill They wore, In 1l K ht. the riiM.nl of its rotimla- Tho fl.-i tJiiK Ami'* tliui spun from Then lo Then. Time's hut ctern ty's crua i> il--bleeding huIu— A w< if ul memo, y to (jod of man And hId uimI deuth aud hi 11. ’•iiom THEN— Up, up. from tho primal deeps, Ye rlusterinu Wo Ida urine ! f tlls'it; Burn, burn,D, yo mukiilny Sun, And flush each uiubt-honi Star I By you will my A«ch move. And you hIiiiII mv records keep, Until from Thru to' Then On tireless winu I h*coi». Yi< Windn A MlHdng I’roi hi STARTLING DISCLOSURE. The communication which wo print below snvs the Washington Evening JCrpress of Satur day, contains a most re which cannot fail to erenti The writer of it is well kn by us, and we have every • ability of his statements; The New Yoik Sun ventilates a statement bv HATEK OF ADVEUTIBINa. Anvr.nTiHKMENTii at f 1 j>cr sqnaro of 10 anlid line* of Ms typo for on., lusfrtion. Hubmquent Insertions half '•I ' - l""U'l- - nlmi.n n.lv. rtiM, m. m*. -j:, p, ,• extra. .♦ j no i S oo * i 'o| IIII •20 00 '24 INI '27 00 7 r, 1 fttoi $ io oo III 00 •21 INI 2*1 (N) ;w» oo :t:i (Hi HU ( I 0 00 HO (Nl '.1.1 00 ISO 'kublo statement, a marked sensation, vn to and esteemed mfldcnce in the reli-, It De i- Windn und yo luppinp Waves, Begin yotirceasefesa roll! •ml, O ye ghostly shows, 1 ye Ire. lork lip the l*»le*! minor, bud and bloom, I yr Autumn, fruitage hoar iriiiK. Iron, your lloworn twl routin' for my children lair Bishop Pierce gives notice that that the color- they numbered 09,380 and now 102,393. Srnl On (a J QQQ Bmdiel* SEED OATS <i ( "1 OLD i JT York a 1 Riven to Cnllectloi Potutors. ■«4h Early O.Ktdrirli and Nonhannorh Poto- very early uud choice varictioH, Junt re- WIMBISH k CO. ed preachers in Georgia and Florida will meet to organize an annual conference, January Oth, in Augusta, Ga. George P. Wagnon, an old citizen of Macon, but of^late years a resident of Alabama, was found dead in his bed at the Isaacs House, in Macon, on 29th nit. l)r. McLean’s Rtables, in Columbia county, were destroyed by fire a few nights ago. He lost Amassa Clark, of Edinburg, Portage county, Ohio, has just died in his ninety-ninth year. lie contracted a cold, from which lie did not recover while attending the Presidential election. A new hotel will be built at Niagara Falls next summer on the Canada side. It will be a short distance above the Cliff on House, and erected by a joint stock company, at a cost of $300,000. In a manifesto to the Cretans Garibaldi tells a fine carriage, new buggy, all his corn, aud had : them that the proclamation of a Republic in OAVE.V it HARVARD, COTTON W All Knot’s K,. La Grange, Georgia. rpiIANKFUT. for the liberal pntmnaye Iwrinweil on m I liiHt year, we nim»niico to COTTON SHIPPERS AND 1-AHMKIlS that we have re-o]Hm<H| our old stand, near the IL It. Depot, aud will give prompt and pernonnl attention ,4tor * ,d w,,h ,,H - Wu si"., havo a NIGHT* WATCHMAN in the eRUhllNlunoiit, aopll-tf MEDICAL NOTR E! ^ Cbniee article, for Hale b Heat Orleii JUST received by WIMBISH k CO. WIMBISH k CO. 08 badly burned. The Macon Telegraph reports the death of Mr. James M. Morris, for many years a popular con ductor on tlio Macon and Western railroad. Ho died at Bamesville on Tuesday last. Tho City Council of Macon has subscribed $50,000 in bonds in aid of the completion of tlio Macon and Augusta Railroad. It is subject to ratification by tho voters of the city. The Augusta (JonslilutionaUsl learns that Mr. Spain shall be the watchword for a new move ment on Rome, and warns them to he in readi ness. A California paper says that tho delay in the commencement of the rainy season much uneasiness among the farmers of that State, but there was nothing yet to justify an expec tation of a drought. Mrs. Augustus N. Dickens, the widow of Au gustus N. Dickens, a brother of Charles Dickens, Tim NOW— •Tin tlm pul 'Tin child Or n '"f hope that beat I-ut to die •hVh low h ap at the hiiii- tho Bow way up in the nky, Whim tin- rain'h buttering work Ih done, 'in to toil, 'tin to climb—''tin to niifTr-r and ’TIn to guili—-'tin P. lone—lilc'h dream: 'Im to J ’ve and P» hate—'tin to uruxp uml t The idtudow no low than the Ileum. o fueh dromniug inai i wall, and it* end in Aud dowmvi , . The World's llrvnnl. whose acreen no flea hi Muv lift. To thin, like eudleM battle-liui* With reinforcements thick hm tlioiujhUi nt In' onfideii- 1 incut.— i xnd tlmt j equally i id belief ! ntioji to of tlm Pollurd oi‘ tin tial records of the Confederate Govern That this is so may be readily believed, i they will ultimately be discovered is probable. But this mere statement at is not my purpose, i desire to call utto other “missing records" from the archive Government of the United States, or, if the v not missing, to the fact that the public scums to have no knowledge of them, and lam but too well convinced that the statement I am about to make will, in some quarters, awaken a smile of incredulity; in others, a fear of further disclos ures, while the general public will give neither thought nor attention to it. It will be remembered that on the inaugura tion of President Lincoln, South Carolina de puted three commissioners to negotiate (to be concise) terms of separation, and settle up the business of the partnership, us far as that State Pay Your Small Deuth. Pay your small debts. You do not know how much good is fre quently uoomplished by adopting Uh'h principle. It was honest old Ben Franklin, we believe, who, us an experiment, followed up a small ac count ho paid to a tradesman. In a very little* while he ascertained that the money paid tlio trmlosinan had passed from hand to hand un til the number of bills ol nearly similar amount ttled with it reached some fifteen or twenty, v not be possible to do as Franklin did, up tho history of a small amount of money in the way of debt-paying: but it may bo set down us a fact that the prompt payment of small debts is the initiative step towards paving cash for every tiling. Generally speaking, these small debts are due to persons who need all tit© [ lit to capital they can command. Io such, they are of immense importance, and it may be suid of the person who allows those trilling obliga tions to remain unpaid while having the means to discharge them, he is not, in the true sense of the word an honest man, unless, by express con tract-, a time for payment has been fixed, and that not arrived. Pay your small debts und big ones too. If you would be happy and com fortable, sleep sound, eat heartily, and enjoy tho peace of mind which only men with good con science are supposed to enjoy, pay your small debts. A distinguished army officer, who has become wel| acquainted by actual service with the char- .‘oneerned. Of course, Mr. Howard sought : acter, neccessities of the Indian tribes Or hut-, niivuiii Here Kins* mu Earth’s ponipot » eloqnont f>f death, Ami eyeless skulla behol.l « Uiiliulited, Suva to faith, by on Upon the darksome verge the; And apectral host, to try the h inditig beneath the eloinl. i has a spacj to gain time for the m w administration, and I fused t/> see or acknowledge them officially, etc., but still lured them to remain. At last they dispatched to the Executive of their State helijf i» the utter hopelessness o. peaceful solution, j aud announced their purpose t . leave the capital. This resolve was not executed simply because Judge Campbell was authorized to say that if their departure was delayed results might be ob- I tiiined they little hoped for. On this hint they j lingered, but only to be disappointed, and then j they took their departure. if the reader has noticed the overture of Judge Campbell to delay the commissioners, lie will suppose that gentleman lmd some ground for his I opinion, and had reasonable itH<-urnuceu that a j j happy issue, in his judgment would grow out of ! 1 the delay he craved. What |those grounds and , i assurances were can only be conjectured; but i I they must have proceeded from high official I I Hources; and, viewed in the light of what 1 am about to sav, and which is true as demonstration, makes conjecture reality. Shortly after the I breaking off of efforts to avert the dire catastro- l phe of war, a gentleman having ti the private office of IT to the capital of South Carolina and de] witlwt high official of that State a manuscript til to bin Im r In robe of sbr spread; r tin; grinning Uuud. Hiding tiic ngftilK 1 ' :.-t Ut lUrtt. A Model .1 of Medielni ■Viren In tin* vurioiiH braneln n of tin* Medlrnl Pro to tlm citizen* of Iam(range ami surrounding T HRESH uud GENUINE, for salu by W! of thirty years in IiiOrango. (luring that time, by tin* mini * nrin, I* n Niillleient guarulltee to the j ie* t nither from the town or ominlrv, \vi 1 fuithfully attomlecl t Family Flo ml of miperior quality. ju*i David Dickson, of Hancock, hns declined the ! the celebrated novelist, committed suicide ou •sidency of the State Agricultural Society, Christmas at No. 380 North Clark street, Chicago, . promptly old stand. WIMBISH k t Exfrn Flue CHrewo f 1 AAA hns. EXTRA FINE CHEESE, Ji»t rnv lvUU by WIMBISH & ( W0THIN6 LIKE LEATHER AND PRUNELLA! F. IlOhLF., boo't aniiTs■11nk m a k r:it, (Still at hi* Old Stand.) La Grange Georgia, ml other . : in tin* b lie invite* hi* friend* und h!1 .<ntiuuc the gem nit. I for wdo bv WIMUISH k OO. B4 KIT aud SHOE line, other* to iuiU u tnuinge with which tlio; Liverpool ! QNK OAR LOAD jiiHt n*celv«d « Onnno! Gnm.o! W GUANOS. , Will nlsu funiii .. ... j DUST and LAND PLASTER, nil .. ... I freight added. Give um your order* earlv that ! have them tilled in time. Will Hcnd your ordm J or Merrymiui, a* you may prefer. Can fiirninli ; Ii«*ter, iu strong new suck*, at £2‘J pi tendered to him by tho late Macon Convention The Griffin Star says A. W. Wheat, Esq,, a IMBI.8H k CO. prominent citizen of Campbell county, (lied of dropsy a few days ago at his residence in Canip- bellton. Deceased wus about fifty years of ago. j The Augusta Chronicle if: Sentinel says that re- i trenehment seems to bo tho order of the day, il and Council has, by a few strokes of the pen, j «avoc\ to tho city more than eight thousand dol- I larfl per annum. j The Telegraph says; In Macon the cotton re- | ecipts of last year, from 1 st September to 27th December, wore 50,157. This year, to 24th De cember, they were 39,989, showing a fulling off so far of 10,170. Two scalawags went to a free concert for by taking an overdose of morphib Senator Sumner is preparing a speech on finances, and is said to favor a speedy resumption of specie payments. Beast Butler is also pre paring si speech on the same subject, and holds that a resumption of specie payments is impos sible. (KittlftwrU'ft) MANIPULATED nu Lund ! phans in Macon the other night, When a con- Ihi- di'pu WIMBISH A (X l him. I irk, hi* bugs tliat • euiiblod to k.-.q. ¥. HOLI.lv. hi* hu*inp** going on._ nnvi:i-lf CLAGHOBN, lIEUltlVU iV CO., COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS. No. 7 Warren Block, Auganln, ...Georgia ; Corner Yendiu* Range and Accommodation Wharf, Charlraton, Souili Curnliua ; 120 Chestnut Street, Phll»«l(*lpRIn, PcmiMjlvn nin. I I Ill’ll A L CASH ADVANCES made nt nil times on con- J Hignmnntx of COTTON. •W* JOSEPH S. BEAN, of LaGraugo, Georgia, Is onr Agent, and will give prompt uttmition to ihfpmenl* mid ad- vanetj. iu* pi l -tf ATLANTA MARBLE WORKS! WM. GRAY, Prop’r, S. II. OATMAV, Ag't, ^\mei*icitn und Foreign Marble, MONUMENTS, TOMBS, VAULTS, HEADSTONES, TABLETS, Mantled, Statuary*, Vrn« anil A’niira, A NT) all description* of FINISHED MARBLE OF THE All order* faithfully executed nnd promptly filled. R*-OFFICE AND YARD—Opposite Georgia R. 1(. Depot, Atlanta, Go. ootl6-tf ALEXAXUEIt FIIGK\Z1N UEU, (Hunter Street, nonr Whitehall,) Atlanta, Georgia, Tin: will *ell BULK MEATS, for CASH, m V ? profit*, or order them for a small oonin •mmlHHibn. WIMBISH k CO. LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST! rpHE largest, newest a: L to be fouml in IjiGrange, have fnnt be the house formerly oeeiipieil by J. U. Rhea, next d< ... W. F. Dansby, East side public wpiurv, LaGrauge, Georgia. lloiight for OumIi ut Drices, enabling uh to offer, to our customers, Goods at unpnralclled Low X*ricos lor Cash. purebaso. l*iritrt 11 w° oil orders fo rPIWITURE, UPHOLSTERING, MATTRASSF.8 ANI) REDDING, DECORATIONS, WINDOW CURTAINS, ke., kc„ kc ad promptly attended to. n octlfi-tf ALDKRT I.EltMAN, WATCH-MAKKR AND JKWKKKH, NEW JE1VEUIY. JUST received a large stock of GOLD AND HIL\*EIt WATCHES, WATCH CHAINS, CLOCKS, (of ull sorts nnd wizen,) JEWELRY, (of the very latent styles,) POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY, (very best quality,) SCISSORS, (every size, nnd tho finest that can be had.) PLATED WARE, (all doscrlptiona and boat quality,) SPECTACLES and SPECTACLE CASES, (of all kinds,) DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, QUKKNSWARE, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES, BACON, SUGAR. COFFEE, SYRUP, MEAL, FLOUR, FISH, PEPPER, SHOT, POWDER, HARD INKS, OYSTERS, CANDY, PICKLES, OBKESE, kc„ Ac. Gruvc'i. Mills l-’lon, 1 who cv.r tried it.- .fXnmil-: * williams. EVANS & RACLAND, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROOEHS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, (East Side Public. Square,) iv»A Georgia. L ARGE supply BAGGING mill ROPE JuHt receivcd ljy EVANS k RAGLAND. •nil many other fancy article*. All of which I will soil tmrfcr Cu*h. nor*-5*-tf A. LEHMAN. Land Planter, Ac. I UTLL fnrnlah, at LaOrange Depot, by the ton or car load, GROUND LARD PLASTER, or Gypaum, os good aa tho beat, In sack* (per ton) at $22 00 In Bbla. (per ton) at 21 00 LaOrango. Nov. 10.—tf A._E. COX, Agent. For Sale. O NE NEW ROC RAW AY AND HARNESS, and one PI- ANO, Chickering’s r.mko, LOW FOR CASH, or ON •Tn*E, rtecuml by Ucu. JOHN A. SPEER. ocWS-U • Execulur. '* B 1 " , b >! EVANSkjlAOLAN dT jr you want heavy BOOTS aud SHOES call S find EVANS A RAGLAND. EVANS A: RAGLAND. _ HOT-GUNS, PISTOLS and CAPS otTluiud and for sale EVANS k RAGLAND. ma ^UGARS, A, B aud C, t M GLASSES and SUKUP e P ICK1.ES, SAUCES, OYSTERS and CRACKERS kept by EVANS .St RAGLAND. S UPERIOR JOB PRINTING.—New Typo enable us promptly to execute, in the best manner, all orders ' doacr' “ “ • ■ •* W ANTED.—As many dubscribera ah tho Job Work wo can do—¥ RE1 Y ERY few printing OHtablishmontH PORTER OFnCE iu the way of in get, and do—FOB CASH—at the Reporter office. tributina was taken up for the little unfortunates, these “trooly loil” skunks responded with Con federate currency. It was decided in tho Spalding Superior Court, that where n note due a Northern creditor before the war had been sequestrated by the Confeder ate Government, the creditor could not recover from the maker of the note. The Macon Journal if' Messenger gives an ac count of an amateur Mazeppa in that vicinity who drove his horse up stairs into his bed room and went to hod with him, causing quite an ex citement in the family next morning. Tho Ladies’ Memorial Association of Atlanta are about erecting a shaft one hundred feet high to commemorate the Confederate dead. The location is to be on the open space between the Passenger Depot aud Alabama Street. Hugh Fitzpatrick, a lad about sixteen years of age, was accidentally shot and killed in Savan nah, on tlm night of the 24th ult, by another youth named John Shafferling alias John Con- uomr, while in pursuit of Christmas sport. The Augusta Hepublicun announces three eases of incendiarism in that city, none of which, fortunately, proved very destructive. This prac tice of kindling fires under houses at midnight is far from being a pleasant one, but, as usual, nobody was caught at it. ])r. William C. Danicll, a widely-known nnd distinguished citizen of this State, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Lo Hard}', in Walthoiiryille, Liberty county, of pneumonia.— Dr. Daniell was a native of Greene county, hut early in life adopted Savannah as his homo, and continued to reside there up to his death. The Augusta papers contain further accounts of the Columbia county tragedy, which prove that Mr. Martin and his two sisters wero first murdered, and then robbed and af.erwards con^ sumed in their dwelling, all for a small amount of money. Circumstances point to three negroes as the guilty parties, and they have been arrested. Tho Tliomnsville Enterprise is able to announce that Mr. R. Hardaway, President of the Thom- asvillo and Albany railroad, has returned from tho North, where he succeeded in negotiating the bonds of tho Company nnd purchasing iron for tho whole rond between Tliomasville and Albany. The first cargo will arrive about the first of March. Tho A,ngusta Chronicle learns that certain Rad ical leaders in its city have obtained a lirge number of signatures (970—mostly negroes) to a petition, representing that the late municipal election in Augusta was carried by fraud nnd in timidation, and praying Congress to remove the present city government! A messenger was sent to Washington to carry tho petition. By resolutions of the Stato Agricultural Socie ty, tho Secretary was required to issue a short address to the people of the State, to appoint an agent for every connty to solicit subscriptions for members™ and to have the proceedings forthwith published in pamphlet form. Upon tho meeting of this Society, it ought to have two thousand memB^ra enrolled; if not, then the fail ure will not be accordance with the spirit which it evoked throughout the State. Tho Savannah Republican says that owing to tho scarcity of able-bodied seamen at that port wages have advanced Very considerably and may bo quoted as follows: To Liverpool $50 advanoe nnd $30 per month; to Havre $50 advance and $30 per month; to Bremen $55 advance and $80 per month; to tho West Indies $30 advance and $30 per month; to Buenos Ayres $60 advaance and $30 per month; to Now York $25 advance nnd $30 per month; and to Boston $30 ad vance and $30 per month. England now lias an army of one hundred and seventy-seven thousand men, of which seventy thousand two hundred nnd ninety-two aro garri soned in the British isles, fifty-nine thousand in India, and the remainder in her other depen- ! dencieH. I' Tlio Boston Journal miys there was some I disappointment when the announcement was made that several manufacturing companies had not made a sufficiently favorable exhibit to warrant the directors in declaring a semi-annual dividend. The Cincinnati Gazette is responsible for the editorial statement tliat Gen. Grant remarked, while cn route from Chicago to Washington, that “he feared the carpet-baggers would swamp tho Government before he could take possession of the White House.” An old man named Michael Soden, living in New Albany, Indiana, died from hemorrhage re sulting from a piece of meat which lodged in his windpipe two weeks before, producing partial strangulation, and rendering him unable to tuke other than liquid nourishment. It is known that the amnesty proclamation will be in one direction the return of General John (’. Breckinridge to Kentucky. That gentleman, however, had intended next summer a return which will take place in March. He will, it is said, remain entirely iu private life. The Washington Republican says Attorney General Evarts has not yet considered what effect the new proclamation will have upon the motion now pending in the Supreme Court to squash the indictment in the ease of Jeff. Davis. There seems to havo been some doubt whether it does or does not relievo tho Court from the necessity of disposing of this motion. A New York correspondent states that Chief Justice Chase, in conversation with reference to the effect of the President’s amnesty proclama tion on Jeff’. Davis’ ease, he intimated that the country had probably heard tho last of that case, but that if Davis would consult liis own self-rc- spect, he would spend the rest of his days with his friends in England. A few Radical papers declare that by his late amnesty proclamation, the President puts him self in contempt of tho fourteenth constitutional amendment, and in the same breath they declare that the proclamation in no wise affects the amendment! Now, will they oblige the public by informing it which of these two positions they intend sticking to ? They certainly cannot hold to both. Old Brownlow is out in favor of the separation of East Tennessee from the other divisions of the State. Ho says the people of that section “are ready to go empty-handed,” and assume “ their proportion of the Stale debt." If the Governor speaks for tho people, as he assumes to do, East Tennessee may “go at once, and stand not ou tho order of her going." So says the Nashville Union. Tho Louisville Courier-Journal suggests that as “ Fort Lafayette, which is better known as the ‘American Bastile,’ has been destroyed, tho key of it should be sent to Mount Vernon to be hung up by tho side of the key of the French Bastile, which was sent to Washington by Lafayette, who little thought when ho did it that a fort would be named in honor of him only to bo de graded to the level of the Bastile. The Richmond Whig says that it has reason to know that influences are now at work iu Vir ginia looking to tho desirable end of a return to peace and amity, and (that tho intellects aud tho purest characters of this State are now sori- ously devoting themselves to the preparation and organization of measures designed to end strife, and to satisfy any rational demand that can be mode upon us. It is positively denied by a Paris journal that the ex-Queen Isabella carried off the crown jew els when she crossed the Pyrenees. According to the Memorial Diplomatique, her Majesty, who has just purchased a magnificent hotel in the avenue of the lloi de Romo for a sum of 1,700,000 francs, has for her entire for tune but 33,000,000 reals, about $3,000,000 in gold, tho portion of the Prince of Asturias, which wus lodged in the Bank of EDglaud. In response to Mr. Tift’s circular published a j day or two since, the Republican Ordinary of ! Muscogee county, writes the following letter.— Mr. and an honest man, by so manfully telling the truth. We commend liis letter as a model for his fellow officials all over the State. They cun just as safely and truthfully sav of their locali ties, wlmt Mr. Duel* has so well said of his: Columbus, Ga., Dec. 2fi, 18C8. Jinn. Xelson Ti/I, Washington, I>. < Dear Sul—Your circular uddren dicial officers and mayors of cities, has been received by me, aud, as proceed to reply to the several interrogatori* therein contained. Before doing so, however, limy not he amiss to state, that 1 was a wur supporter ot the Congressional plan of recoi struction, aud was elected by the licpubficui party Judj says in a private letter: 1 h<- military do not want charge of the Indians; but it is necessity that they should huve it, if tin* Indians are to be saved from extermination. I'l e frontier settlers will attend to that in time, it matters rest where they arc. Tho Indians must be protected from the white man, and the whites from tin Indian. Only troops can per il uni such service, and to do it well they must not be embarrassed or controlled by a Bureau under u different head, whose ideas work through entirely different channels from those of the mil iary.” These are very sensible views, but they are not likely to find favor with the Agents, Su perintendents, und other appointees of the In dian Bureau. Death or Ri:v. Basil Manly, ]>. D. — “A good man lias fallen in Israel.” It. will bring sorrow to the hearts of all who knew him to learn that the great and good Dr. Manly is no more. He breathed liis last a few days ago iu Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Manly was for many years the President of the University of Alabama, and clainntio •i-kirl'.-nt' Hnnnin i uu ^ f ‘ r his administration it reached its highest i r .miit,.. „,/i a 111 uc< . point of usefulness. Young men throughout tlmt SL. ! S’ 1 ,L '- SmUh educated byW and always re "" ;nib " r bim " i,h Jove and affection. H. lis si mature mimmi . l’ ra,c '“"'J the Rospcl foriuure than half a century, to the AinericTu^jiVople, 1 UnS n Ther Zta“ j £* S W V'" mdUOt f 8 L °Y do * the country in civil war, the Incentive Govern- “"f' P 3 °! ^ L « wru ment of the United States acquiesced in the dm- f, ,ff nr H " ! “ ineinbermetit of the Union. With this was a i ? V . H,s «>» ««*» low to the Bap- clm,m editorial, in alip form, with corrections tlht 1 ‘‘"V, 1 ' 'I"' 1 to the countr )' nt lar«e—Jfo„(. or.l, — of tho . lions, supposed to be Mr. Lincoln’s, reciting freely tin- words of the instrument, vindicating the Execu tive net, and challenging for it the approval of the American people. This is my statement of the missing i That it was not issued was due to tie feeling evolved by the tiring ou tlic St West. A few questions, and I have done: 1st. Was the knowledge of the preparation of (his document the foundation of the request of _ Judge Campbell tlmt the Commissioners should Duer has proved himself a good citizen J not depart V 2d. Does the State Department preserve evi nce of tho existence of this paper, or 1ms all disnpj: ! * ... . . V correspondent of from Washington •eturv : only in the mind of the editorial defence of the *d to the ju- U this State, both 3d. Who prepared tin proposed proclamation ? 1 will not defy contradiction of the statement nide, but from personal inspection of •uinciits, and certain remarks inherent •olid, J affirm their genuineness as e.on- is 1 believe in the existence of mv being. PACOLET. i Country.—The Com- ronicle shows that Senu- the gold now in the high. The gomery Advertiser, The Case of Mr. Davis.- the Baltimore Sun, writin; on Saturday last, khvk; The Supreme Court reassembles early in Janu ary, und it is suggested that Mr. Davis will re turn at once, ami be surrendered by his bail.— He will then be committed to custody, aud a writ of I,ubrus corpus will then be applied for to the Supreme Court, and the discharge of the prisoner be asked for on tin* ground that the amnesty extended by the President absolves him from all liabilities, and letters have already been sent to him to England urging that he allow his case to be tlio test, in order to discover the true weight of the President’s proclamation. Georgia Affa Washington, sa, . | tor Morton’s estimate United VHatcs is far u of the Court of Ordinary of Musco- | thought that the amount had actually largely in- : county because I favored that plan. In reply to your several inquiries, I state as follows: In my judgment the laws of the State arc faithfully and impartially administered—: much, if not more so than for a number of y past. I know of no resistance to tho law, gauized or unorganized; the officers of the law being as faithful as at any prior time during my residence iu the iState, which has been since the veal- 1848. It affords mo pleasure to state tlmt tlio roln- pro<1Ul lions of friendship aud good feeling between tho two moos has greatly increased since the work of reconstruction has been accomplished, and both blacks and whites, us a general thing, feel tlmt the welfare of the two races require the’ cul tivation of kiinllv feelings and the promotion of their mutual and material interests. It was to bo expected that violent party spir it would exist between the two political parties. That always 1ms been, and will lie, when great political questions are to bn settled. But now, that the Presidential election is over, the Demo crats so far as 1 know, feel an increased assur ance in the purposes of the President elect, aud reused since I860, and might be now as higl; $67*2,010.000, certainly above $400,000,000. Tiie Chronicle, assuming thut travelers in Eu rope have taken out as much as emigrants have ears I brought in, and leaving out the circulation of the Pacific States, as of no use to the banks or people of the Atlantic States, makes the follow ing estimate: Gold in tho Atlantic Staton in $105,000,000 Klit years, nulling June :i0, 180H 485,000,000 Imports ol specie l.»r eight yeurs, ending June so, isos 141,900,000 in Washington.—A friend in the Macon Teh graph, drops us a iHtrer on me 26th, in which he says: “I have been here two days and find Georgia affairs a muddle, though we have a good many friends. Still the result is very doubtful. The Recon struction Committee are to report immediately on tin* assembling of Congress, and action will be taken, I think, before the meeting of our Legislature, on the 13th of January; you have, therefore, but a short time to work. “ I hud irvery pleasant interview with Senator Sherman to-day, und told him many facts that he did not know. If it is possible, I shall re main a few days in Washington aftor the Con gressional recess is over.” ; Expor Total supply, e 1*.»f Hirccii* last ram South durii Total Iomh in 8 y Stock in 1808. It • i. $548,100,1 .$ 791,900,000 ould thus appear that the present stock redons metals in the Atlantic States is The Virtues or Gold.—Tho New Yoik Herald illustrates the value of gold enrreney to cheapen food and reward labor to the masses: Happy San Francisco.—The last quotations of flour in San Francisco arc reported at $4 75 and So 75 in gold, or say $6 40 and $7 75 iu green backs. In New York for similar brands we pay from twelve to fourteen dollars iu national cur rency. Happy San Francisco! whero gold is the circulating medium, where labor is in de mand, and where flour and all the essentials of life aro cheap as dirt! What is an occasional earthquake as a drawback to the Queen City of the Pacific against such advantages as these? of the precious metals in the Atlantic States is Value of Advertising.—Mr. Parvin, the ex- dose upon $230,000,000. It is not to be suppos-1 tensive advertising agent at Cincinnati, writes: ed, however, that all this exists in the form of coin, nor even of coin and bars. A certain por tion of the supply of gold and silver has been That form of j , luo cnnH01 ;vutive element of the republican party, j taken for ooiaferotaTpuiposoB. to so administer the Government as to bring I • * K 1 . . peac thr The necessity of a thorough but judicious stem ot advertising was never so forcibly im- essed upon my mind as it 1ms been within the past few weeks, although I have studied adver- , -r* i , * A . | ..-70,000,000 from the foregoing balance, I K J*°“Jd. J”*™ «b?n‘. $1110,000,00(1 as the present amntry. They feel that it is upon the oner- I Btockof coin nlld bn]li , gy, intelligence, capital aud skill ol tlio white I race they can only rely to make this land, favor- | ed of Providence, bloom and blossom as the j the Atlantic States. ’ Advertising Tested.—An Atlanta paper in the course of an article on tlic value of advertis- >f the. north can as safely engage j ing to business men, says: A merchant in Macon, who had been success ful for The peopl in agricultural aud other pursuits with the peo ple of the South as in commercial intercourse, uud now that reconstruction is accomplished, our people do not desire to see society thrown into a state of fomentation by trying to recon- j with the printers, and his v . i. if *i still evils ! he did three times tho amount of business thut accounts became due, but not so with those that have curtailed und advertised sparingly. They find it is difficult to settle small accounts. Mr. Greeley Improving,—A late number of the New York Tribune says: There is much to admire in the domestic hab its of the middle and oven of the upper classes my years, concluded at the beginning of the .Southern people, and this is most admired of one year that he would try the virtue of ad- j by those who, by u residence, have learned what verting. Tlmt year he spent eighteen hundred those lmbits ur»*. We refer to their simplicity, struct reconstruction. If there _ existing in tho body politic which needs to be ! ho ever did before in the same length of time.-- cured, they do not see tho necessity of tearing down the Government just established to cor rect the same, but. to rely upon tho constitution al mode of correcting evils under the Govern ment already established. What we need above ull things is stability in government. It would be difficult to estimate the evils which would result, both to the State and the United Slates, if Congress should overthrow the present Government aud establish a Military or Provis ional Government in its place. The people are just beginning to turn their at tention in good earnest to their varied interests, which they feel will be alike secure to all under tlio present Government, and any distracting political policy which will require anew the work of reconstruction cannot but prove greatly detrimental to the interest of the country. Iu conclusion allow me to express tho hope that the future policy of the party in rower will bo controlled by justice, moderation and an ear nest desire to cultivate fraternal relati He still keeps his mime aud business prominent in the paper, and finds his profits steadily in creasing. Other merchants in Macon witnessing the success of this house, followed its example, and now the Macon papers ore among the best n testimony is, that j hospitality, and natural kindness ot heart. Per haps there is no portion of the Caucasian race so elevated above what daily concerns the com mon masses of mankind, either by fortune or station, or whoso native goodness is less obscured by the fashions and manners of the day. ... „ Mr. Daves’ Case.—The Supreme Court re-as- patronized in the State, and the business men ( sembles early in January, and it is suggested of tliat city are among the most substantial iu that Mr. Davis return at once and be surrendered the South. j bv liis bail. He will then be committed to cus- We happen to be able to testify to the truth tody, and a writ of habeas corpus will then be of tins statement in every particular. For the i applied for to the Supreme Court, and the dis- size of the place, there is more advertising done • charge of tho prisoner be asked for on the ground in Macon than in any other city of the South, I that the amnesty extended by the President ab solves him from all liabilities, and letters have . already been sent to him to England urging chant or business man in the city is to be foimd [ that he allow his case to be the test, in order to iu her daily papers; not occasionally, and con densed into the smallest possible space, as if the ! lamatii parties were afraid that somebody would find out. where they are, but regularly, systematical ly, and prominently, and in many instances with an many instances with an apparent disregard of cost They know wlmt they are at, though, the different sections ot the Union, which and go into the papers and stay there because 1 ”' * u ~ it pays. The result is practically demonstrated in the rapid growth of business aud accumula tion of fortunes. discover the true weight of the President’s proc- twe alone will be the sure foundation of a permanent peace. I am sir, very truly, vour obedient servant. JOHN W. DUER, Ordinary. Gossir .about Upper Georgia, Etc.—Major Burns, late Comptroller General and now Sena tor from the Floyd District, was in rtur office on Monday. The Major brings a good report from Floyd. * He says it is teeming with abundance, and even’ interest of the country is looking up. Land is in demand at twenty to forty dollars per acre. Immigration is coining in rapidly. Rome now numbers six thousand people, and wo spec ulated us to tho probability that she would, in a few years, be tho largest interior town in Georgia. Corn was ho abundant thul. at distances from the railroads it had been selling ok low ns thirty cents a bushel. Coal was worth, by retail, twenty-five cents per bushel. Money was quite plenty and trado brisk. The railways had put the city in cheap and easy communication with tho vast coal and iron deposits of that region, and they were looking forward to beginning shortly ii kind of Southern Pittsburg. Speaking of the approaching session of the Legislature, Mr. Burns was of opinion that it would simply pass a resolution, disavowing any purpose to violate the Reconstruction acts, or run counter to the Reconstruction policy of Congross, and proposing to submit the eligibility question to judicial arbitrament, and then ad journ, leaving Congress to provido for the suc cession, if it desires to do so.—Macon Telegraph. General Meade.—Tho Tribune says it is the intention of the Senate Reconstruction Com mittee to ascertain the views of General Meade upon placing Georgia under a provisiouol gov ernment, Bloody Woiue Among Negroes.—On Saturday night last ill this city, a colored husband killed The Cabinet Slate.—The new Cabinet slate, revised and corrected for tho Christmas holidays and the recess of Congress, is as follows: Secretary of Stale—Hon. Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts. Secretary af the Treasury—Hon. John Sherman, of New York. Secretary gf the Xavy—Admiral David D. Por ter, United States Navy, of Pennsylvania. The positions of Secretary of the Interior, At- the destroyer of his happiness, with a knife, for ! tornoy General and Postmaster General are now the very tniling offence of “pillowing, there, | '* * Mlie." Pai" ’ where no head save liis should lie. ” Particulars —Erring wife, injured and enraged husband, big knife; dead nigger. On Monday or Tuesi one of Particulars—mean whiskey, location, somewhere in this county. On Monday night another was shot, and killed by a “ gemman ob color;” a few miles below the city, for using insulting language. We havo heard of several cases of minor and less fatal knife and pistol practice, but deem them too un important to chronicle. Have heard of no moving of troops, and all’s ouiet along the raging Thronateoska.—Albany News, 1 si instant. Oglethope College.—The first term for I860, Bull commence on the 12th of January’. Tho Monday or Tuesday another negro sent j new faculty wo believe will give great sutisfac- f his race to “ de happy laud ob Freedom.” ‘ fciou to tho friends of the institution. The re turn of Professor Lane to the college will give great satisfaction, not only to the patrons of the College, but to our whole community who highly appreciate his character as a scholar and u Chris tian gentleman.—Fkderal Union. It has been provod in court that the late Mr. Augustus N. Dickens left real and personal property worth $3,800. An acquaintance of Clios. Dickens, in Chicago, says that Dickens’ brother fled from England with the lately de ceased woman, deserting his wife, whom the novelist supported comfortably. Words of Truth.—In his speech yesterday, iu tho case of the City against Alexander Alex ander, charged with a violation of the “ drum ming” ordinance, Mr. Miller, the able lawyer for the accused, made use of the following language, which will, by its truth, strike forcibly upon tho mind of every sensible man of business:— “ Nine men out of every teu," he Raid, “who make money in their business do it by advertis ing. "—Chronicle if’ Sentinel Colonel IJi H. Baxter, son of Judgo Baxter, of Hanoockconnty, and liimself a native and resident of that county till 1852, died ifi Texas very suddenly a few days since. Good News.—The Mobile Registersays that within the last thirty days cotton plantation acres have risen throe hundred per cent in val ue. The present crop will pay the planters all out of debt, and leave them such eaah surpluses as they never rejoiced in in tho old slave timea. More Pardons.—It is believed in Washington that the President will shortly—at least before the expiration of his term of office —issue a proc lamation clearing the dungeons everywhere of political prisoners. The step is confidently ex pected by the Presidents friends. iSSSSSSSSSl