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MACON, TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 1867.
Retldent AgcnU for t Ik** Journal and
JI MM II jr«*r*
Americus — \VM. C. GODWIN, I’. M.
Uutlibert -J. M. BROOKS.
Dawson-J. C. F. CLARK, C. H. C.
Albany— E. RICHARDSON, 1\ M.
Tiiniintstmi —f. H. TRAYLOR.
Forsyth —F. <». MAYS.
IVrry—J. K. JOHSON, Esq.
Fort Valley—J. A. Ms KAY, P. M
Eiifaiiln. Ala. —15. B. FIELDS.
Il.awkimville—L. C. RYAN.
Oi?|. tlmr|*-\V. J. J. SMITH.
Montezuma—lCHAßOD DA VIS.
Talbottou-J. CALLIER, P. M.
Griffin-JASON BURR.
Miliedgeville—F. L. BRANTLEY.
To I*l.aNTKita. —The columns of the
Journal & Messenger are at all times
open to judicious and intelligent commu
nii atioiis from our country friends upon
all questions of importance to the plant
ing interests--such as crops, labor, and oth
er matter of general or local interest. We
intend to devote a good deal of our space
to matters of interest to the planter, and de
sire their assistance in giving such news
as in their jiower.
TO AOMI.MSTRATORS, executors,
AMB (>IIAHDIANK
Remember that O en - Pope’s order for
bidding State, county, and municipal
officers advertising in newspapers that op
pose Kherman reconstruction, applies
to those officials on/?/, and that you are at
lils ity to select any journal you please for
ndvertiseinenjs over your own name.
Brevities.
('apt. Frank Johnston, a native of New
York, but resident in Atlanta for ten years
past, died in that city on Saturday of con
ges! ion of the lungs. He was a captain in
the I nth < la. regiment, during.the late war.
The Hon. B. H. Hill, denies in a card
to the editor of the Atlanta Era, that he
liail anything to do with the speech of
young Cox, as charged by an anonymous
w riter in that paper. He further says he
would have congratulated that young gen
glcmaii on the stage, if his subject had
l«een the Crusades, and of equal merit.
The total vote of Kentucky at the late
election will be nearly 13(5,000. Helm
ls-ats Karnes, Radical, 56,391 ; Kinkead j
party 71,058; and both 43,177 votes.
Prentice says there is in North Carolina
a negro preacher, named Turner, so exact
ly like Brownlow, that is not possible to
decide whether Brownlow is a white Tur
ner, or Turner a black Brownlow.
The Radicals, says Proutioe, who are es
tablishing their policy in the South in the
expectation of making it permanent, vain
ly Mippose that the laws of nature can be
violated with impunity. God’s statutes
are stronger than radical legislation.
At a Radical meeting in North Carolina
a few days since it was resolved that “poor
I ni mists’’ should of right, have the prop
erty of “rebels,” and that Congress ought
to see to it. Thieves and vagabonds are
always trying to live without work.
North Carolina Unionists never had any
pro|>erty to lose by the war.
in Florida, near Micosoukie Lake, an
armed mob of black scoundrels recently
surrounded a quiet country school house
tilled with white men and women who
were attending an examination of the
children, and threatened all who attempt
ed to leave with death, while they search
ed for another darkey who was not a Rad
ical.
Ir:i Aldridge, the famous negro trage
dian, died recently in Poland, while on a
“starring” tour.
Col. J. H. Hartley, the editor of the
Louisville Democrat, is lyiug in a very
critical condition in that city. His dis
case is inflammatory rheumatism.
Mike Lipmau, the circus man, is coin
ing to grief financially. At Wilkesbarre,
Pa., the other day, the Sheriff took com
mand of bis show, and sold six of Ills fin
est horses for debt. They brought $2,500.
At a meeting of “scalawags” and ne
groes in Midway, Ala., last week, a negro
held an umbrella over one of the white
speakers to keep the sun out of his thee,
and white man returned the courtesy by
holding ditto over Culfee when he was
s|M>aking, to keep the rain off. Umbrel
las and big yellow gauntlets are all the
rage in this section with the “newish”
when they go in the sun—the blacker the
negro, the bigger the umbrella, and lon
ger the gauntlets.
Two bales of new cotton, the first of the
season, were received at Mobile on the 17th
instant, classed as Good and Strict Mid
dling, and sold for 30 and 35 cents.
The Marshal of Sweetwater, Illinois,
writes to the Chicago Tribune, that an
“ t* reliel officer” named Warner, former
ly of llie tlth Georgia regiment, was shot
and killed at that place on the 10th inst.,
bv a Yankee soldier named Green.
Accidents from base ball are getting
quite numerous. At Knoxville, last week,
a player in attempting to throw the ball
broke bis arm al*ove the elbow, with a
* pop’ that was beard fifty yards. At Chi
cago, on Wednesday, Jno. O’Donnell was
bit iu the stomach with a bat, ami died
from the ollecls of the blow 7 .
cOaUstioa kept in France allow that du
ring the last SO years mortj than 10,000
persons have been struck by lightning,
of whom 2,222 were killed outright. A
great many more men than women have
been killed. It is also demonstrated that
open windows are not so daugerous as
generally supposed, as liglituiug does not
follow a draught.
Forty-five cities ami counties in Vir
ginia give a white majority on the regis
tration tistsof 18,858. It is thought a similar
proportion will hold in the full returns
from the entire State.
The Kufaula News hears said reports of
the ravages of caterpillars in Flander, and
lower Alabama. Crops that promised
finely two weeks ago, have beau nearly
ruined.
“Site only wore a single rose,” accord
ing to the song. Good costume for this
weather.
Mad dogs are “on the rampage” in
Mobile. Several have been killed in
that city, recently.
The Tallahassee Floridian tells of a ne
gro dwarf in that city fifty-five years of
age, and only forty inches high!
The recent heavy rains carried away
several hundred feet of the dams at the
Kalnia and Bath mills, near Aiken, S. C.,
and submerged the track of the South
Carolina Railroad, near that place.
What Can the Conservatives Accom
plish?
The Montgomery Mail, by the way one
of our most brilliant and plucky exchang
es from any quarter, asks, and answers
itiis question very cheeriugly, a* follows :
We commend it to the consideration of
those rising-sun worshipers who have
been wont to contemn the party of princi
ple as hopelessly weak and imbecile. It
run?) be to their interest, yet, to join it.
We rejoice to know, too, that recent
events have added hundreds of recruits to
its ranks. Tyranny’s tide never yet rose
and raged with unusual hatefulness, with
out raising up thousands of brave souls to
stem it, who might otherwise have re
mained quiescent. If Gen. Pope is desi
rous of solidifying the white vote of his
“District” “against Convention,” he could
have made no more masterly move to ac
complish that purpose, than by issuing
his last two orders. Let his suggestions
to Gen. Grant be adopted, and the men at
the South who have dared to tell the peo
ple the truth, anddefend Liberty and Law
under the very frown of military power
banished, and he can muster very quickly
and stow away in anyone of his barracks,
thereal representatives of the white race, at
least of Georgia, who will vote for that
scheme of “reconstruction:”
What can a Conservative party in the
Southern States accomplish ? It can, in
hulf the Southern States, defeat a Radical
State Convention, even though it should
determine, through prudential motives,
to adopt the plan of suffrage proposed by
Congress. It can prevent taxation of prop
erty alone, to carry on governments which
are enjoyed by property owners and non
property owners. It can defeat Radical
schemes of lavish expenditures of private
islatures of incompetentjudges. Inshort,
it can prevent the imposition upon tliepeo
ple of the many novel aud absurd schemes
of reformation, which are flitting through
the brai us of ambitious demagogues who
desire the vote of the negroes. In the
States of Virginia, North Carolina, Geor
gia, Arkansas, and Texas, the Conserva
tives, by organizing, can easily elect to
Congress men who will not vote with the
Republican party. In Alabama aud Flor
ida, the Radicals have a majority of regis
tered voters, but by sending to the Con
vention, sound Conservatives from the
upper counties, aud by throwing our bal
lots in the lower counties for moderate
Republicans who will stop short when
they shall have done what Congress re
quires, we will have a Convention which
will beConservativein fact, if not in name.
Such a Convention would disfranchise
no one—and in the subsequent elections
for the Legislature and for Congress, the
Conservative vote would be swelled by
thousands upon thousands of men who
cannot under the Congressional Acts vote
for the Convention. To accomplish this,
the Conservatives must unite and organ
ize, and not permit Radicals to be elected
throughout the State, by default. It is
absolutely certain that, by the least exer
tion, after Congress shall have accepted
their Constitutions embodying universal
suffrage, the votes of Virginia, North Car
olina, Ueorgia, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama,
and Florida will be cast for the Conserva
tive ticket at the Presidential election next
year. We contend, therefore, that an or
ganization of Conservatives can effect the
following objects in a majority of the
Southern States :
1. It can prevent the adoption of any
measures more dangerous than those pro-
Sosed by the Sherman Acts—such as dis
•anchisement by the State, and indirect
confiscation.
2. It can consolidate the forces of the
true friends of the Constitution, aud ena
ble them to wield a potent influence upon
each question as it arises.
3. It can discriminate between local can
didates, and throw a united weight in fa
vor of honorable men.
4. It van divide the vote of the South in
[he next Electoral College , ccnd even though
it should uot strengthen the ‘ Conservative
candidate, it can neutralize the vote of the
South, and let the States of the North fight
the question out on their own respective
lines. *»
Wasting Ammunition. —Our cctempo
rary of the Chronicle & Sentinel, we most
respectfully suggest, is wasting much val
uable ammunition in devoting a two col
umn leader to a letter recently written by
one B. H. Bighain, of Lagrange—whil
om, by grace of Ex-Gov. Brown, and un
der a mysterious dispensation of Provi
dence .Judge of the Coweta Circuit, and
defeated candidate for Congress in 1865.
Such a broadside is as if One fired at hum
ming birds with a rifled ten pounder. The
Ex-Judge, like a great many more "’urn
ble pie” eaters, wants “persish,” and so
Gen. Pope et al read his soporific effu
sions, lie is satisfied. To convince or
change the opinion of the people, is a very
secondary affair. Let him have his say,
then, without notice.
Holt. —The announcement by telegraph
a few days since that this red-handed
wretch had been driven from the Bureau
ofMilitary Justice, is welcomed by all hon
est men, North and South, as a measure
of justice and retribution tardy, it is true,
but still eminently well deserved. A ren
agade and a traitor, able, cruel, aud re
morseless, and the foulest reproach to the
land that coffins in its historic soil the
honored dust of Clay and Crittenden, he
reproduces in his dishonored person the
worst qualities of the most exeerated tools
of despotism ever pilloried in history.
If it be possible that one spark of con
science has survived the blood-guiltiness
of Iris career for the past six years, the
memory of hia myriad crimes will poison
the remainder of his ill-spent days. May
the ghost of the murdered Mrs. Surratt
haunt his waking and sleeping hours!
When he lies down to die, may her prayer
for mercy, and that livid, swollen face as
it dangled upon the gallows, be the last
sight and the last sound that shall affright
his soul, and blister his eyeballs ere he
sinks to the regions of the eternally damn
ed!
Another Honest Blow Struck.—
l'he wires flashed the good news yester
day over the laud, that President Johnson
had followed up his victory over procras
tination and timidity, the first blow for
which was struck when Stanton was
ejected from the War Officer We need
not say bow gludiy we chronicle this event.
To the people of Louisiana and Texas, we
oi&rour hearty congratulations upon their
release from the grasp of one of the most
brutal despots that ever bullied a brave
people. We wish the Sioux, and Co
manche, and Arrapaho, aud Cheyenne
‘ braves,” much joy of the Ravager of the-
Shenandoah Valley.
We are no prophet, uot the son of one,
but we are not afraid to venture the pre
diction that somebody iu Georgia will
hea r it thunder, at least, before many days!
The Press Meeting.—As we stated
Sunday morning, Friday, the 23d, inst.,
aud not Tuesday, the 2SUi, is the day
agreed on by the Press here, for the meet
ing proposed by the Intelligencer. Will
Maj. Steele make a note of it ?
Just In Time. —The Colnmbus Sun, of
Sunday, pays the Fort Valley Gazette the
following compliment. The crucible of
order No. will separate, if it serves
no better purj»ose, the fine gold of devotion
to principle, ami pluck to defeud the
Right, from the base alloy of trtickliugex
pediency. It is comforting to know, too,
that for all the deeds done under this in
decent greed for the crumbs that fall from
the great man’s table at Atlauta, the Peo
ple, some day, will most surely reward
those who now pre/fit by them.
The Fort Valley Gazette of Saturday
morning, contains a leader in which that
paper is put on the Pope line. This se
cures to the Gazette the Court patronage
of Houstou, beretorore, for years, enjoyed
by our veteran friend Simri Rose, of the
Macon Messenger. There is an old say
ing—“a stitch iu time saves nine.” The
editor of the Gazette is evidently wide
awake, in money-making at least. In
this case .‘Pope has proved himself a
“dead shot’”
Brave News: We feel authorized now
in expressing great gratification, aud our
confidence iu the report alluded to recently
in the public Sprints, that District Attor
ney Fitch would at the next session of
the U. S. District Court for Georgia, pros
ecute for perjury several of those misera
ble creatures calling themselves “loyal
ists,” and who are now in possession of
the wages of their infamy, if Col. Fitch
will prosecute to conviction the scurviest
one of the squad we will forgive, and free
ly, too, the disappointment he has caused
lalely not only many of ‘his ante beUurn
friends,‘but hundreds who knew and ad
mired him as the author of a letter, the
peroration of which was the enunciation
of one of the noblest sentiments ever born
in a freeman’s soul !
Notes on the Situation No. 17.
BY B. H. HILL.
No nation or people ever realized, during
the descent, how rapidly they were rush
ing to destruction. If people could only
be made to see whether they were hurry
ing they would not go. Those who do see
aud raise a voice of earnest warning, are
generally considered as excited —some-
times as mad. People will not believe
their own leaders will sell them or betray
them until the bond is executed or the
treachery is complete. Here is the trouble
with our Northern friends. The masses
love the Union and the Constitution.—
They have shown that love. But they
will not see that the very men they send
to Congress are trampling on the Constitu
tion and forever destroying the Union.—
Those who undertake tolay bare to a people
the corruptionsoftheirown leaders assume
a task as difficult as it is dangerous. The
wicked become their enemies aud use eve
ry means to destroy their power, and the
good will not believe their revelations or
heed their warnings. Yet no man who
ever undertook such a task was ever able
to tell all the real truth. The realities of
national misfortunes and downfalls are al
ways far greater than the descriptions of
those who, by warnings, sought to prevent
them. So the measures which produce
national ruin is beyond remedy. De
nounce them as you may, and they areal
ways worse than you said they were. His
tory furnishes us many sail illustrations
of these solemn truths. To recite them
would be instructive but I will not now
delay to do so.
The Military Bills will furnish one of
the most striking proofs, iu the future, of
the truths I have uttered. lain denounc
ed a calumiuator because of what I have
said of these measures and their authors
and supporters. Time will pic ve my lan
guage to be lame and feeble. Every day
something is developed which gives them
a more infamous character than was eyen
suspected before. I have denounced these
measures as being contrary to the Consti
tution; as abrogating State Government:
as degrading the white race; as calculated
inevitable to begeta warof races, as destruc
tive of all constitutional liberty; as being
enacted in fraud, executed by force, and
consumed ;by perjury. Can anything be
worse? you will ask. I reply, yes; these
very bills are infinitely worse. I find I
have never fully—indeed but vaguely—
comprehend their turpitude. I have all
along supposed that odious as they were,
the people—a people—were, at least, al
lowed a semblance of right to reject them
and, of course, by rejecting them escape
the purposes and objects of the measures.
I had frequently called attention to the
fact that Congress had devised a scheme of
relieving themselves of the odium of these
measures by at least seeming to submit to
some people the privilege of accepting or
rejecting them. This, 1 supposed, also ex
hibited a lingering, though farcical respect
for the once pure aud great idea that the
people—at least some people—should have
a government founded in their consent.—
And this I had supposed was the reason
for permitting the voters to express their
approval or disapproval of the scheme by
endorsing on their tickets “for a Conven
tion” or “against a Convention. ” But in
this I have been greatly mistaken. Tlie
whole country has been mistaken. What
I have been laboring so earnestly to prove
was a cheat turns out to be a trap—a snare
—a downright pitfall! This is one of the
remarkable discloseures made in Govern
or Brown’s last article reviewing the
notes : Hear him : “If we reject and vote
down the Convention, when Congress
again meets in December, it will pass an
act extending the disfranchisement to
every man who votes against the Conven
tion, whether white or black, and proba
bly to all others who voluntarily aided in
the rebellion.” If Congress never intend
ed to abide the decision ol’itsown selected,
qualified voters, why ask for a decision?
But let us hear the Governor fully. I will
not imitate his example by cutting sen
tences in two and changing words to rep
resent him as saying just the reverse of
what he does say:
“But it may be asked why disfranchise
a man because he votes against the Con
vention? The reply is, Congress, repre
senting the conqueror, has submitted its
plan for reconstruction and restoration of
the Union, ami the vote of each man,
white or black, will be looked to as a test
of his loyalty and willingness to see tho
Union restored and peace once more es
tablished. The tickets of all, black and
white, will no doubt, be numbered, aud It
will be an easy matter for the Govern
ment to see how each voted. The question
is not whether we will allow thefreedmen
to vote. That is already established be
yond revocation.”
Again he says: “Mark it—be not de
ceived. If you vote down the Convention,
in less than two years Georgia will be re
constructed with a representation iu Con
gress ; the great mass of white men in
Georgia, including all who vote against
the Contention, will be disfranchised, and
there will be a very general confiscation of
property to pay the war debt and pension
the Union soldiers who were disabled iu
the war.”
Now, let every man, in Georgia and iu
the U nited States, fairly analyze the above
remarkable disclosures.
Iu the first place the object of submit
ting the plan of reconstruction to the vote
of the people is not to ascertain the will of
the people with a view of respecting that
will. Georgia is to be reconstructed any
how in two years, even though the people
are to vote, but the vote is uot to decide
the question voted on!
Iu the uelt place we are not called on to
decide “whether we will allow the Freed
man to vote.” “That,” we are distinctly
told, is “already established.” and estab
lished “beyond revocation.” If we are
not all ciphers we might ask, when, where
how and by whom was this established
But what is the object ? If did not
intend to abide the decision why ask it ?
The vote is asked as a means of ascertain
ing who is loyal. “The vote of eadh man
will be looked to as.a test bf his loyalty.”
Loyalty, then, is not to depend upon sup
port or adherence to the Constitution, It
is not to depend upon connection with the
rebellion ! A man may have come from
the North ; he might have fought four
full years in the Union army, still if he
has settled in Georgia and votes against
Convention, he is disloyal ! It does not
depend on color. “Whether black or
white” if he votes against Convention, he
is disloyal. The ticket of all, black and
white, will be numbered ! So, a man may
be a Northern man—a Northern black
man —a Northern black Union soldier—
but if he votes “against Convention,” he is
disloyal ! And so a mau may be a South
ern man—an original secessionist— and
a real white man—a Southern white Con
federate soldier who fought four years for
the Confederacy—but if he only votes for
a Convention, he is to be considered loy
al ! But why is a vote for or against a
Convention to be taken as the test of loy
alty or disloyalty ? Because it is a vote
for or against the plan “submitted by Con
gress” which plan is to secure ten States
to the Radical party. Here is plainly con
fessed what I labored to prove ; whoever
is a Radical is loyal. The Radical party
is thus substituted for the Convention, for
the laws, for the Union and for the gov
ernment! People of the United States
was it for this you fought ? Did the South,
sure enough, fight for the Constitution,
and tlie North for the Radical party ?
But this is not all ? Why so anxious to
ascertain who is loyal, or rather disloyal ?
Because all who, by this test are ascer
tained to be disloyal, are to be disfranchis
ed and their property is to be confiscat
ed !
Thus it turns out, that the only feature
iu this Cougressonal reconstructed plan,
which had even a farcical resemblance to
anything virtuous, is shown to be a suare,
a trap, a disgraceful, iniquitous inquisi
tion. I affirm there is nothing in the
dark, cruel aud bloody history of the in
quisition of surpassing this
scheme in the iurtJSly of its corfception,
in the hypocrisy of its plan of execution, or
in the villainy of its purpose.—And dark,
cruel and bloody, beyond any precedent
iu the past, will be many years of Ameri
can history if this plan be consumated.
I have said, and I now re-affirm with all
added emphasis, that the time will soon
come when not a decent, respectable man
will be found iu the Radical parly. I beg
all such, now lingering in it, to consider
wither we are going. If all who vote
against Convention are to be disfranchised,
only negroes and a few Africanized whites
will be left to rule the country. Does any
sane man believe such a rule possible?
Under pretence of restoring the Union ten
negro States are to be formed ! Under
pretence of allowing the people to vote a
hunt is devised to find victims for dis
franchisement and robbery! And all
these things done under oaths to support
the Constitution !
If this be only a threat, originating with
Governor Brown, what shall be said of a
3outhern man who would manufacture
sucli a threat against his own people ? If
it be the real purpose of the so-called Con
gressional plan, what American citizen,
after understanding it, can be so lost to
every sense of justice, of decency, of man
hood, of honesty, and of honor, as to sup
port either the plan or the party which
could desire or adopt it, or whose existence
could depend on its success.
If it be a desperate threat how cowardly
are they who will be alarmed by it ? If
it be the reaf purpose, how base is he who
could possibly support it?
So in any view it is absolutely necessary
for every mau who would preserve moral,
political or social respect, or any sense of
manhood, either not to vote, atall, or vote,
like a man, “against a Convention’”
Gov. Brown makes another very re
markable statement. He tells us that
almost all the entire property of Georgia is
“already confiscated!” And, reader how ?
He says by the Act of July, 1862. And
this singular statement is made by one
who has been Governor of our State—who
tells us he is a lawyer, and has a good
profession.
In reply to this I say :
1. That this act was unconstitutional
and even as a war measure, aud has
been declared so even by some of the
Northern States. /
2. That if constifuTfrmal as a war meas
ure, tlfen; bv its »t could only
be of force during ike wir, operating on
property seized during the war, and nec
essarily ceased to have any force as soon as
the war ended, and such has been declared
to be the law by the courts of even Massa
chusetts.
3. That the act on its very face makes
itself only a war measure, and declares its
only purpose to be “to insure the speedy
termination of the present rebellion.”
Thus over the nature of the subject—
over the nature of the act—over decisions
of Northern courts—over the declared pur
pose of the act, and, I will add, over the
express authority of every respectable in
ternational law-writer in existence—
Governor Brown tells the people of Geor
gia this act is still of force aud by it their
property is already confiscated.
Why don’t the President execute it? —
"lie seems bound to execute all acts of
Congress. Gov. Brown tells us that “Thad
deus Stevens arraigns the President for
having failed to execute it.” Well, I do
not know what Stevens has done. Heaven
forbid I should keep posted in his opinions,
or quote his acts or threats as authority for
any people! But I believe Governor
Brownhas slandered «ven poor old Thad.
Stevens. He and Sumner have both been
trying to induce Congress to pass bills to
confiscate partially our property.
Why ask such bills, if they already have
one by which the property has been con
fiscated ? Not long since it was stated Mr.
Stevens was perfecting a bill for mild
confiscation, which he hoped to get through
Congress if he could live five years longer.
Why pray for five years to perfect a
partial measure of confiscation, when one
more extensive is already on the statute
book unrepealed ? Has not Congress been
anxious to find a reason to impeach the
President? Why not impeach for refusing
to execute a law which was passed by
Congress aud approved by the Executive?
I have desired to find some excuse for
Governor Brown’s advocacy of the Mili
tary Bills. But I am qtterly unable to
palliate his conduct. Ite rushed out in
support of the Shennan.rJßill before the
President had acted on it, aud before Con
gress had passed it over his veto—thus
weakening the President and encouraging
the Congress. He was then declaiming
against the case pending-fh‘ the Court be
fore the Court had <hKbiie4.it. Arid now
what Stevens SumSijsr have been
vainly trying to induce (jjpngress to do.
against the 'Southern* peMfie, this naan
finds out is “already done,?’ No need fop
poor old man Stevens,to -fRe five years
more. Do let him be informed of this
great discovery of €he L.foften honored”
Southern statesman, that 1» may die iu
peace ! -
Every decent Radical paper in the North
has denounced the idea of confiscation
even Mr. Stevens’ mild confiscation—as
disgraceful robbery, which, would make
the nation stink with infamy: and, yet,
Gov. Brown—so willing to sacrifice him
self for the dear poor people—has continu
ed to threaten us with confiscation —“tlie
sleeping on ou speaker’s desk”—and
now, at last, proclaims our property
already confiscated. The terrible lion has
waked up—crawled off the speaker’s desk,
and actually entered the “statute book!”
Man, alas ! is a more dangerous animal
than the lion, Aud better that all the
lions of the earth were turned loose upou
the American people than that this Radi
cal party should be allowed longer to tear
the American Constitution and prey upou
American liberty.
“Poor man ! I knew he would nol be a wolf.
But that he sees the Romans are bnt sheep;
He were uo lion, were not Romans liinds.’’
Murder of Judge Horne.— We learn
that on Saturday last the case of the mur
der of Judge Horne, ofSumtercouuty, was
laid before Gen. Pope by Col. Haw Kins
and A. Blown, Esq., in Atlanta, and that
lie left all action ou it witk the civil au
thorities-
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS,
[By the New Yorfc Associated Press. I
<ieucral News.
New York, Aug. 19. —It is stated on
good authority that uo arrests or prosecu
tion or the defaulting tellers of the Trades
man National Bauk will be made. The !
alleged defaulters were in this city and at '
the Bauk yesterday, and etlbrts are being
made to affect an amicable settlement.
A man named O’Niel died yesterday of
yellow fever, at a tenement house in the
tenth ward. He had been at work on a
vessel at quarentine.
Arrived schooner Arctic from Apalache
cola. She reports on the IStb, oft’Tortugas,
Spoke Bark James M. Churchill from
Pensacola for Bueua Ayers with Captain
and mate both dead. There being no nav
igator on board, they instructed them to
keep in company, which they did until
the loth when off' liatteras, they lost
sight of her during a heavy squall, and
have not seen her since.
Fragments of the New York steam tug
Adeline have been louud. The crew have
not been heard from, and it is supposed
the tug blew up, and all hands perished.
A patch in the boiler of the steamer
Palisade blew out as she was leaving for
Fort Lee. Five huudred persons aboard
stuggled to escape, and two jumped over
board but were picked up. None hurt.
Several vessels with sickness were quar
antined yesterday. Nothing contagious,
hopever, so far as known.
Herald’s special says Grant has already
assigned several of Stanton’s favorite sub
ordinates to active duty.
Montrael, August 19.—Destructive fire
at Middleton’s coal oil stores, 000,000 gal
lons oil destroyed; loss $150,000; price
rising in consequence.
Richmond, August 19.—Gen. Blunt,
Quartermaster General of this District,
has been relieved, and Col. J. W. Moore,
of the Burial Corp 9, appointed to the place.
The sum of $150,000 was received here
to-day, the expense of registration in this
State.
Augusta, August 19.—50 far a9 heard
from the recent rains have done uo serious
damage to •crops. Heavy showers yester.
day, but clear to-day.
Some feeling is caused by Gen. Pope’s
recent order No. 49, and letter to General
Grant, and it is believed to have injured
the cause of reconstruction. The press is
agitating a call far a State Convention for
the purpose of making organized efforts
in opposition to reorganization under
Military bills. A number of papers favor
the calling of a Conveniion.
County meetings are being held in Ala
bama to elect delegates to Conservative
Convention to be held at Montgomery on
the 4lh of September.
Corn and cotton crops in Alabama are
better than in many years. The yield es
corn is immense, and cotton prospects are
flattering.
New York, Aug. 19.—The Bank State
ment shows that deposits have decreased
$5,362,000 ; legal tenders decreased, $6,573,-
000; loans decreased 8177,000; specio in
creased $008,000; circulation increased
$104,000.
Washington Items.
Washington, Aug. 19.—The President
has assigned Gen. Thomas to the com
mand of the stli District, Gen. Hancock
to the Department of the Cumberland,
and Gen. Sheridan to the Department of
the4liSßouri. Necessary orders will be is
sued from the War Department.
It is understood to-day, that Mr. Plumb
proceeds to Mexico, as Charge de Affairs,
relieving Ottenburg.
Roger A. Pryor, publisher an affidavit,
denying personal knowledge of Conover
and his confrees. They were nevor at his
office.
Nearly six inches rain fell here during
the recent storm. All the coast steamers
out in ihe recent storm have reached their
destination.
The Commissioner of internal Revenue
has made the following decision; The
interest of any successor to arise from the
sale of any real estate, under any trust for
vhe sale thereof, shall be deemed a succes
sion thereof chargeable with duty, and the
duty shall be paid by the person having
control of the funds if a will be over a
thousand dollars. And for want of per
sonal preporty, an executor sells real es
tate to pay a legacy, the money arising
from such sale is deemed a succession, on
which the executor must pay tax. Any
person having an interest in an instru
ment unstamped, or improperly stamped,
maypresent it to the Collector with proper
stamps, and SSO penalty, which act legal
izes the instrument. The Collector must
note date and fact on margin of the instru-.
ment. The Collector must remit fees on
evidence that the stamp was inno
cently or ignorantly omitted. This appli
cation must be made within twelve months
after the making of the instrument.
In connection with the muster out of
volunteer officers, it is confidently stated,
that a Colonel of regulars will relievo Gen.
Howard, as Chief of the Bureau of Freed
men, Refugees and Abandoned Lands.
changes dependent upon the
removal of Gen. Sheridan, have occasion
ed frequent visits between the War and
Executive Departments to-day. Ti» qi**-
tions, however, relate to minor details.—
The assignment of Gen. Thomas to the
stb District, may be regarded as fixed.
There are $190,000,000 in ilie Treasury,
whereof $109,000,000 is gold,
Revenue Receipts to-day $641,000.
Brevet Maj. Gen. A. B. Howe, of 4th
Artillery, reports to Gen. Schofield for du
ty.
Minister Berthemy and M. de Fewerot
te, first Secretary of French Legation are
about marrying Washington ladies.
Foreign News.
Washington, Aug. 19.—The following
is Cable Summary: Vienna Gazette says
there will be an alliance between Austria
and France, if Prussia and Russia becomes
allies. The Emperor and Empress of
France, the Emperor and Empress of Aus
tria, and the King of Bavaria met at Sals
bury on the 18th. The Emperor of Aus
stria gave a grand State dinner. Reuter
and Von Buist were also there. Confer
ference of Sovereigns on the 19th.
Registration.
Charleston, Aug. 18.—Registration
returns for the past week from all the Dis
tricts heard from, foot up as follows:
Whites 2,687, Blacks 8,894.
Challeston, Aug. 19.—Registered
487, of whom 209 are w’hites, and 272
blacks.
Wilmington, Aug. 19.—Registration in j
first ward to-day, 58 wbitesaud 21oblucks.
The Board of Registration are refusing to
allow lawyers and many others to register,
who are almost uuiveraally considered en
titled to registration.
Heavy rains above, and tremendous
freshet in Cape Fear river.
Columbia, 8. C. Aug. 19. —One hundred
and tbirty-oue registered to-day—Whites
60, Colored 77.
Markets by Telegraph.
Financial.
London, August 16, Noon.—Consols
weak, 941. Bonds, 70J.
Evening.—Consols, 94y. Bonds, 73j.
Liverpool, August 19, ’Noon.—Cotton
quiet, steady; storms abated ; weather
favorable for crops.
New York, August 19.—Gold 140 J;
Stocks dull; Money 4to 5 per cent; Ster
ling 9|; Sight l()c. Heavy shipment of
Bonds last week; some say as high as
7000,000. *62 Coupons 13§aj|.
Evening.—Stocks dull. Gold 141,5. ’62
Coupons 13f.
Prod nc.c.
New York, August 19.—Cotton quiet,
281. Flour, old, 10 cents better. Wheat
firm. Corn a half cent better. Oats dull.
Pork quiet, $23 6c.
Evening—Cotton quiet, 27j.
Cincinnati, August 19.—Flour firm,
demand moderate—Family $lO 50c; Ex
tra 9a9 50; Superfine SSaS 50. Wheat firm,
red, $2 15c, white, «$2 25c- Corn firm,
scarce, number one#>aß6c. Oats dull, 57c.
Whiskey 30c. Pork $23 50c. Bulk meats
in demand, slll3c. Bacon slioulderr, 12J
Mobile, August 6. —Cotton—no sales.
New Orleans, August 19.—Cotton stiff.
Low Middling 26J ; Middling 581. Flour
firm, quotations unchanged. Corn dull,
105a112.
Baltimore, August 19.—Cotton and
Flour unchanged. Wheat, white, 2 50;
red, 1 20. Corn, white, 112al 15 ; yellow,
117a120. Oats declined 2to 3 cents. Sugar
unchanged. Bocon shoulders I3al31; rib
sides 15J; clear rib UU. Lard 13a13j.
Savannah, August 19.—Cotton dull,
no demand, quotations unchanged. Mid
dling 261a27.
Augusta, August 19.—Cotton stiff', un
changed; Middling 26c.
Wilmington, August 19.—Spirits Tur
pentine quiet, 52c. Rosin steady $6 00.
Consignees per Railway.
MACON A WESTERN.
W R Brown; J F Davis; Jewett A Sni
der; Artope & Son; Seymour, J & Cos;
Asher Ayers; Porter &H; Jones B I);
J B Ro9s; E Whiteside; F Balentine.
Going! Going! Gone !!—Faster than t.l»e auc
tioneer's hammer knocks down merchandise,
neglect dispose# of the teeth. Bid, therefore, for
that prize r.f life, a perfect set., by brushing them
legularly with Hozodont.
August 20-lw
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
# ™« nr,,,
RIBBONS,
Millinery and Straw Goods.
ARMSTRONG. CATER & CO.-
j IMPORTERS AND'JOBBERS OF
Bonnot Trinaming & Velvet Ribbons,
bnnnets, Silks, Satins, Velvets,
Blonds, Nets, Crapes, Euchos, Flowers, Foatliorg,
Ornaments, Straw Bonnets and Ladios' Hats,
TKIMMKf) ANI) UNTKIXUKD
SHAKER HOO DS, Ocd.
237 and 239 Baltimore St.,
BAETIIUOICK, MIL,
Otter the largest Stock to be found in this Coun
try, and unequalled in choice, variety and clmap
ne*s, composing tiie latest Parisian novelties.
Orders solicited and prompt attention given.
August 20-lm
50 Wagons.
50 NEW FOUR OR TWO-IIORSK WAGONS,
Wood Axels, Well Ironed.
Price $76 00.
LITTLE & SMITH.
August 20-2 ins
baggingT
WE wish to call tlio attention of Planters and
Merchants to our laige and varied stock of
Bagging, and ask nllthost wishing to purchase to
call on or communicate with us through letter,
prompt attention given same.
126 bales BEST GUNNY,
3f)o rolls Perfect do
150 rolls Patched do
50 rolls Patched do Also
200 SACKS SALT.
Seymour, Johnson & Cos.
August. 20-c
THE MISSES SEDGWICK’S
boarding amt uay ucnooi,
Comer Washington and Telfair Streets,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
THIS School will re-open OCTOBER 2d. For
circulars containing terms, &c., address the
Principals.
REFERENCES
Hon. Chas. J. Jenkins, Angusta,
Geo. G. McWhorter, Esq, “
Hon. K. A. Starnes, “
Dr. J. P. Garvin, “
Prof. Geo. W. Rains,
Cel. R. It. Bulloch, “
Dr. L. \V. Battey, “
Hon. Wm. 8. Gould, “
James Miller, Esq., “
Geo. M. Thew, Esq., “
August 18, 1867-ft
WFLFE’S SCHTEDAM SCHNAPPS
lathe purest liquor manufactured in the world.
WOLFE’S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS
are recommended by ail the medical faculty.
WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS
are sold by all Grocers and Apothecaries.
Guano! Guano! Guano
WE have in store a large lot of Whsnu’s Haw-
Bone .Superphosphate, and Kettlewell’s
Manipulated Guano—the best Fertilizers known
for Turnips, Win at and ai! grain.
Call soon and get your supply at
JEWETT A SNIDERS.
August 17-3t.*
BROWN’S HOTEL,
OPPOSITE THE RAILWAY DEPOT,
MACON, CIA.
B. E. BROWN <£ SON, Brapneiort.
GROCE KIES,
Provisions, &c.
WE call the attention of lluy
er» to our well xrli’cltil
Stock of
GKOCEIt Ii :s,
BOTH FANCY AND STAPLE,
which we cllbr them, knowin;j that
we can give satisfaction hoth in
quality and price. Our Stock of
WINES,
W II IS K I KM,
BRANDIES, ALES and PORTERS.
Is acknowledged to tie the rlioirMt, and
most vstried iu tlio State ; and wc offer
them at most reasonable prices.
SOLE AGENTS FOB CHAK MBLSON * CO a
WHISKIES, Copper-Distilled,
Also, for Harrison’s
LONDON ALE and PO.^ER,
which we enn offer to the Trade at sl2 pci
tank of six dozen.
Wo are prepared to sell a PI’HE
Imported Claret Wine
ut the LOW PRICK of $5 jut dozen
CORN! BACON!!
We otter to Planter* CORN and lI.M'ON
both, for gakii and on time, payable on
the gathering of the growing nop. This*
wishing to purchase on time, wdl please
make early and |M>rsonal application, the
amount offering being limited.
ON CONSIGNMENT.
10,000 POUNDS
DRY-SALTED SHOULDERS,
The sweetest Meat over offered in tin*
market.
MEGRATH & PATTERSON,
Mulberry street, Maeon, fin.
junolß-ct
STYLES AND FABRIC’S
FOB
SPRING, 1867.
'iniK LARGKHT and MOST PKKKF.iT PTOTk'
1 of DRY GOODS 111 the city call i»«iv In-m-« ii «l
S.T. COLEMAN’S.
My Htock embraces full lines <>i every itiwil|,-
tion of Goods heretofore l(c|)f, to which I liar*
added a fine variety of
Ready-Made Garments,
for Ladies and Children i Underwear,
IN
warrs goods
The variety was never h<i areal, in lII.KAf’UK.Ii
and BROWN HOMKHPIIN there has liven m great
decline. Os DKK.SH GffoDW I have an Inexhaus
tible supply.
A great variety of Goods for Men niel Buys.
The public from HIM, and ad'oinmg nolle,
arc invited to give me a cull.
I have a LaHUK HTOCK, and intend to
SELL CHEAP.
Times are hard, and If yon have but hill., own
uey. get all you ean lor it 1 will no mv •>< *, im
you. H. T. TOLLMAN.
m&r22-ct
SEYMOUR JOHNSON & CO'S,
Corner Cherry and Third 8t»
ir>n BBT**. WHISKEY.
100 lift lon (tuny Bagging
UK) rolls perfect «lo
100 rolls patched do
»J 0 sacks Halt. 1
300 boxes Caudles. .
100 bales Stewart's Hngar.
7ft hints Bacon, *'
Lanl. • J^"V,
100 kegs do .--AS
50 bbls Bine Plsii.
ISO packages new Catch Mackerel.
200 boxes Soap, .»-,>*<■• -risie v
100 lings Coffee.
10 bags Uncbo Coffee.
50 bales Twiue.
Whaley’s Iron Ilamls.
Illce, Cheese, Tobacco, potash, Molasses, Hyrup,
Blacking, Barrel Covers. Pickles, Candy,Hardincs.
Ac., dec., Ac
We offer the aoovo Gooes to purchasers at low
est prices, and we think It to the Interest of those
buying to examine our .stock, wh|cli has, w ithin
the last two weeks been vastly IlicreaMal.
Minrwjuii, joiinmon a co.
August 15-ts
DISSOLUTION.
rpHE LAW PARTNKU.NIIIP of “ KUTHKK
1 FORD A WKKMS" Is illssolv.il by
consent. They will both occupy their pres, m
office until the Ist oft tetober next ami w.n K ive
their joint attention to the uusctlh-il l.uMnesn of
the Arm.
JOHN KI'TII KKKt iltli
JNO. 11. WKKMM.
Macon, August 13,18«7-3t
FOR RENT.
From October ist, the dwelling anon the
hill opposite llie residence of Col. p m j|,,„
Apply upon the premises.
, ... MIW. T. B KCKK.
August 18-Jw
SMOKING TOBACCO. -
mon t 2 a Jl d * n i a,) kfailes. In eighth, .piarht
anddrums) ' iiUU ono po " n ' 1 (| i.|»-r»
This Is a desirable lot for retailers, ami w ill Ist
sold low to close consignment
For sale by JONES, BAXTER A HA V
August 18-;tt
WOLFE’H HCHIEDAM SCHNAPPIS
corrects the change of water.