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"ADVERTISE!
To our patrons both white and colored,.
we offer the very best terms to iJQe?fis;
4o our colomns. Our eirculation-is daily
incressing, aod will soon be reaa‘b} 20.-
200 iuhabitants of this State, aod ostisid.
As a medium for Whte Men doing busi~
pess to present their cards before their
colored patrons, it stands unsurpassed,,
apd we commend their special att.ent.ioh
so the bubject. Give us your advertise
ments and let the world know what you
have to dispose of.
CHURCH RECORD.
Sprinsfield Buaptist,corver of” Rey
nolds and Marbury streets. Services :
10 30 a. m., 3 P m.,.and 7 p. m.
Rev Henry Watts, Pg&tor.
Thankful Baptist, corner of Lincoln
and Walker streets. Services :10 50
s. m., 3p. m,and Tp-m G
' _Rev Henry Johnson, Paslor.
Centralor Third Bagtist, on Walker
st:eet, between Campbell and Cumming.
Services: 1030 a m, 3 pm, and’7 p .
Rev Peter Johuson, Pasior.
Trinity Methodist, on Jackson street
Qerviees: 10 30 am, .3 p m, aM?p m.
"Rev Edward West, Pastor.
Bethel Pratestant Methndist, on Camp
bell street, “in Dublin. Services: 10 30
aof; 3 p wiyand 7 pm
Rev Samuel Drayton, Pas’or,
SCH?OL DIRECTORY. o
State Supt. Freedmen’s Schools, G L
Eberhart.
Ass. Supt F 8 for Richmond Co.
Rev. C S Martindale, Missionary.
Springfield Free School. Hours, 10
a mto 2 p. m
Prof Donald Brown,
Miss H C Foote, Teachers.
Springfield Night, School.
| Prof D. C. Jencks, Teacher.
Trinity Free Scheol. Hours, 10 a. m.
to % p. m. ,
Mgs. M. C. F. Smith, Teacher..
Thankfull Free School. Hours, 9 a.,
m, tol pm L
Miss H. W. Dowd, Teacher.
Bethel Free School. Hours, 10 -a
mto2pm k-
Prof D. C Jencks,
Miss S. A. Hosmer, Teachers.
Central Church N ight School.
Rev W F Edes, Tvacher.
Broad Street, Grammar School, oppo~
site Upper Market: Hours, 9 a m.
to 2 p. m.
S W Beard, Teacher.
Select School, corner of Walker auvd
Cumming, streets. Hours, 9am to 1
:p mo " :
Miss Maceie WiLson, - Teacher.
Hamburg Free School.
Cbarles Gr.fin, Teacher.
TABLEAUX VIVANT.
We are glad to see this kiud of amuse
went so well appreciated by the colored
people of this city. They cannot spend
their spare half dollars and quarters in
a more desirable manner, especially when
the prooeedsv_;ré devated to the various
charitable objects in need of their timely
assistance, .Of the exhibitions which have
been present«f, we can say but little, as
our space is limited but what we bave
scen reflects the highest eredit on all con
<cerned, ol
We will give a more extended notice
of thew in our next, in the meantime we
wish all engaged fhe utmost! suecess in
their self<imposed endeavors to please,
instruct and relieve their needy brethren.
There is a grocery store two doors above
the Upper Market that our patrons will
find greatly to their advantage to trade
with. We can assu- the.un of KiND TREAT
MENT, LOW .PRICES abd JusT WEIGHT,
three great requests in business. Sece
advertisement in another column.
Do you see ehai snake how he writhes
wd wrigles. Don’t be seared of: bim, he
%uly notifies you ifié&% you éan get your
Walches, jewlry, ete., xe’a‘red,ltjx neat~
uess, cheapness, and dispatch. Find out
all about hig snakeship in anither col
ump, 50 ¥
To the sick and afflicted, Dr Grandson
+ Yuris hasthe pavacea which will restore
“en to their accostomed health. See
ard, g !
- Information is “watted of & Drummer
Boy belorging 16 e 103 U 8 “Colored
troops. . Seenotioe. v v .t
Wi & it WP hasnolnd ad
. +All kinds of country produce will be
found at Kent, Cotton & Co., near Geor
gia R R Passeoger .Depot. i-We advisc
all our friends in p@éd of such articles to
give them a call. . Bee advertisemaut,”
THE TEACHERS: OF.THE
COLORED SCHOOLS-
We believe that a few words in behalf
of those engaged in the educational in
terests ‘of the ‘Freedien are not uncalled
for.. « Others; Dotin sympathy with ihem.
have spoken of thew; and of their work ;
and not always in the kindest or most
charitable -spirit.” Let both sides be
heard. That there 18 nothing discredit~
able in the work itself, or which necessari
ly brings under suspicion the characters
and . motives of those engaged in it,
would seem to' be, a statement which
must commaud the ready assent of every
fair<min-led person, ~
More thau this—the work commends
itself as a good. a very much-needed, an
indispensable work; and, withal, an hon
orable and Chrisiian one In the new
position in whieh the Freedmen and their
children are now placed, as well leave
them without food or clothing, as without
education. To bestow this is sim dy an
act of mercy; one of the plaitest ot duties.
Why suppose that they who have ¢ me
forward to de this work, have dore so
under the promptings of, uuwor)hy and
selfi b, rather than of pure aud d:sinte
rested conswderations? -Is it .uot hetter
for ourselves, aud fairer to others, to im
pute good rather than bad wotives?, Is
it not better to take the more obvious,
particularly when it is the kiudest and
best interpretation of actions? The com
iug f teachers from the North on such
an errand, has beeun brught against them
as an cvidence. of their selisconceit; as
an unjustifiable juterference ; as indicat~
ing oun their part, the belief that they
alone were ecmpetent to meet the exi
gencies of the bour, and of the colored
race, in supplying the. traivipg which
they need.
The work, it has been said, could have
been done, and would have been done,
and as well done, without them, and by
the people of the South’ themselves
Again, the condition of the poor and
degraded clagsses at the North bas been
wrged; and the questiou asked, - Why
not remember th t charity begins at home?
Why come here to remedy our evils, when
you have your own to look after and re
dress ?
Aud, finally, the very position of
teacher in a colored scho | is lovked upon
with contempt ; spoken of depricciating
ly, and even sueeringly ; as if it inv lved
a personal degredation, and pever could
be held by a man or wowan who had
any true self respect
A wo:d or two in reference to each of
these points.
So tar as concerns any unduve or ex
aggerated estiwate of themselves, on the
part of the teachers, or of their ability to
d, what could not be done as well, or
better, by others—the imputation, on
its very face, is a purcly gratuitous one,
_ There is nothing either in their char
gcters' or motives to sustain it. They
are, for the most part, unobtrusive, de
vote young women, who have left ti eir
New England bomes, and come to this
labor, it, for any other purpose them to
to do good, certainly not in any vain re
liance on their -uperior gifts, either of
intelligence or benevoleuce; or in ary
foolish self-confidence that they have a
special gall to this -office, or special en
dowments to weet its demands. Neither
they nor those who send and suvport
them, have been moved by any other con
siderations thrn those which arise out of
the urgency of the case; the plaiu pal
pable fact that hereis a great and import
ant work to be done; a class of ignorant,
neglected beings to be instructed; to be
fitted to use and to improve the freedom
which has been conferred upon them. -
. In a word, it is believed that here is
an opportunity of doing good to a race,
not whose present hopelul condition alone,
but whose past history bas made the
strongest . appeal to their sympathies.
Uhey bave couwe, some of them at vo in
considerable sacifice aud inconvenience,
to do, or to tryto do, this work; to im~
prove this opportuuity. All they ask or
desire is, to be permitted quietly and un
obtrusevely to do it They would not
that their ‘good should be evil spoken of,’
though, it need be, they, coubticss, can
submit to this; coutent to leave it with
the ' future to show ‘what. tbe present,
with its excitements and pr.judices, can
wot decide, whetuer their work was need
ed or not, and whe:her they were the per:
sons to do it or not ' As to the charge
of interference with the South, of taking
its work out of its own bands, which, lef
alone, it would 'ave doue, is it not an
objection merzly i form? Is there any
solid foundation for it in fact? How
mauy Southern Jadies ‘could bave been
found willing to cousent to the lubor'
which is undertaken by these Northern
teuchers ; wiliing to go into these school
rooms, and to uhdergo. there day after
day, the drudgery of teachiug these color
their fathers and mothers, aud grand
mothers, into the rudimeuts of knows.
ledge? _ All their instinets and pre
jndiges, and habits . protest against such
an enterprise.. And while we state the
fact, we can at the same time explain, and
to some extent palliate it. It is, the
natural result of the relation which they
have sustained to the black man. There
i * the fatal memory o the time, so re~
cent, when the men of the.one, were mas
ters, and ‘ the meu. of the other, their
slaves.” It is not reasonable to expect
that the people of . the South should so
immediately accommodate themselves to
their changed relatious, as to become the
educators of those sox cently their pro
perty ; and towards whom they b.ve had
the associatiqns,belo:aging to property,
rather, than these appertaining to humao
beings, possessing the endowments, and
claimmg the r ghts of human be ngs, Iu
the, meautime, the recoguition of these
rights wade the culture of these endow
wen,. a watter of prramount and immedi
ate necessity. Doeg auy reasonable wup,
Southerner or Northeruer, believe that
the work wouid bave heen iuitiated, had
not the Novth uudertaken it ?
There is avotber yiew ot the subject.
In view of the circumstances under which
the change in the ciandition of t'.e color
ed race was effccted, viz—as the result
of the war, of which its comiyued servi
tude or emunc pation became the issue,
it scemed simply right, when this issue
was decided as ic was, that the N rth
shoald uuite with the South in the'eff.r!
to qualify the Frecdman for the boon of.
liberiy, which they were the mstruments.
uuder. Provideuee, in . conferring upon
v, Indeed, had it failed 1o ¢o so, this
would doubtiess have been made ans
other ground of grievance aud reproac:.
It would have been said. You bave given
the slave his freedow, and throwu upon
us the cutire burden of preparing huu
for it. '
As we regard the matter, if, through a
disinclivation, on the part of the North,
to ioter.ere, on the one hand, and the
fechings aud prejudices o the part of the
Soutl; rendering them averse to all effort,
in this direction®ou the other hand, tie
poor freedmen had been left to himself,
there might, possibly, have been some
good reasou for the fear of insurrections
aud plots which rccently agitated the
public miud of the South. If these fears
have proved to be futiie, we believe that
the resuit must, in some good degree, be
ascrib.d to the judicious teachings and
wholesome influence of Northeru men and
women; teachers alike, whether their
sphere of labor were the school roow,
or the Bureau, . ;
As respects the allegation of poverty,
wretchedness and crime at home, we have
not the ~lightest disposition to deny theig
exisience, especially in our large cities.
But when this condition of things is
brought forward as a reason why we
should pus forth no efforts in behalf of
those who may need our fiendly iuter
position elsewhere—we protest agiiust
such an application: and we would do
this, eveu though uothing were doing to
remove or rewedy our +pecial howe evils.
Failing to do this, would coustitute vo
valid reason why we should leave the
other duty undone DBut thcre is no sach
failure, True, we are not doing all that
we wight do aud ought to do, iu this di:
recticn. Where is the man or the com
munity, which, in any respect, comes up
to the full demands of duty ? If, hows
ever, those who are ready to fall back on
the old saw that Charity begius at home,
as setting forth the oue essential and
indispensable condition on which charity
can be practised auy where else, will only
eousult our statistics of monies expended
of noble institutions endowed, of hear:s,
and heads, and bands enlisted—all in the
sacred cause of huwacity, aud in its vari
ous aspects of poverty, suffering and siv
—he may be satisfied thac charity As
begun at home, aud to some bicssed pur
pose—though a great deal still remains to
t e doue.
As regards the occupation itself, now
under consideration, and the estimation
iu which it is held, this will vary accord~
ing as people’s standards of right aud
duty vary, Aside from thbe disturbing
iufluence of prejudicc and education,
wh.ci’even over well disposed and rightly
principled miuds ofteu exerts a power
whieh they can justify by no reason -
tuere is the host of worldly, ambitious,
fashionable and selfish interests that sway
men ; the thinking as others thivk; the
doiug as others do; the goiug with the
curreut, regardless of whither ur to what;
equally resardless as 1o what issues of
right or wrong may be iuvolved. By
such, the position of teacher iu a colored
scbool may be rezarded with contewpt,
aud the incumbent of such a positiou de
spised. |
But there is & teaching which says,
‘He that is greatest amony you shall be
your servant,’ aud ¢ luasmuch as ye have
aoue it unto one of the least of these my
bresiren, ye bave, done it unio we.’
I rue to-the letter aud spiric of bis teach:
ings, their author sough: vut, and associ~
awd_;qi@b,‘_aéd Jabored for, aud chose his
disciples from, the poor and despised.
\ He sat.at weat with publicans aud siu~
‘wers,” and to the surprise even of his
disciplos, sat and talked witha Samantan
woldai o and while * the comiuon peopie
heard him gladly,’ :he question was asked
by the lcading man: ¢ Have auy ot the
rulers, or the Pharisees believed ow him 7’
And what was the reason they did nét
b lieve him; and drew nside their robes,
as we cin easily believe, that thev might
not be polluted by his touch. when they
passed him'in'the streets of Jerusalem ?
What was it but just this—that he eamse,
as stated in his'own words, ¢ to the lost
shieep of the house of [srael.’ - [t is curi.
ous, and it is sud to sée how the wis
judements and prejudiees of men’ repeat
themselves througa the generations ; yes,
and how the wen and even the ministers,
who would assert to, or make this gene
ral statement, , would fail of the applica
tion which we have now in our thought.
And yet, how plain is it that the work
under consideration, as respects its sub
jects, its objects, itss whole spirit and
scope is in tne line indicated by Christ’s
teachings, aud sanetified by his example.
How can any one, with the New Te:ta~
ment in his ‘hand, deny or doubt this?
How can any ‘one, who has drunk iuto
the Master’s spirit, for an instant doubt
that, were He te revisit this portion of
our world, (and we may make such a sup
position for the szke of illustration) he
would sooner be drawn to the humble
huildings where thesc * little ones’ as
semble in their ignorance aund poverty,
than to many of th chambers which
tower above them, rich in architectu al
display?
What a commentary upon lis life and
lubors, thut in commusities, and by peo
ph- calling themselves Christian, the en
deavor to elevate a race from the long
wyght of iguorance aud degredation 1u
which they. hav: been so Jong buried, t«
pour the light of knowledge iuto their
darkened muuds, to lift thew up to the
culture, the privileges, the diguity of
bumau beings, should not only bave no
sympathy, no co operation, but that thos.
who are eirrying 1t on shculd be looked
pou with suspicion aud dislike, not to
say contempt.
ApniNisTrRATION InDicaTiONs,— Mr.
Bartlett, the intelligent and reliable cor
respondent of the Springfield Republican,
who seldom affirms without well ascer
tained evidence of his correctness, writes
from Washiogton. ~ :
‘The very latest news I have from the
Presidential mansion is to the effect that
Senator Fessenden bad an interview with
the President recently, and that heis
convinced that there will be no difficulty
in making the matter of reconstruction
with)ut any controversy with the Presi
dent. 7The President has made the sub~
jened remarks recer tly to a prominent
Senator. He said: ‘I must look to the
Republicans for support and not to the
opposition. |am familiar with the his~
tory of , John Tyler and Millard Fillmore,
aud do not inteud to foliow in their foot
steps. We will wait for the report of the
joiut commitree, and if it comes withio
the bounds of reason, [ will be satisfied ’
These remarks | am certain Mr John
son has made within two days. 1 could
give you names, but it doesn’t seem prop
er.) ;
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 29th, 1866.
- Editor Loyal Georgian— Have colired
persons a right to.own and carry fire.
arms ? A Colored Cutizen.
Almost every day, we are asked ques
tions similar to the above. We answer
certainly you have the same right to
own and carry fire arms that other citi
zens have. You are not cnly free but
citizens of the Uunited States. and, as
such, e¢ntitled to the same privileges
granted to other citizens by the Consti
tutign of the United States.
We call your atteution to the followirg
paragraph, from Circular No. 5, issued
by General Tillson, Ass’t Commissioner,
Bureau of R. F. and A. L., which is the
law upon the subject. ‘
- IV. Article LI, of the amendments to
the Coostitution of the United States,
gives the people the right to bear arms
aud states that this, right shall no* be
infringed. Apy person, wnite or black,
may be disarmed if convicted of making
an improper or dangerous use of weapous,
but no wititary or civil officer has the
right or authority to disarw any ciass of
veople, thereby plac:ng them at the merey
of uthers. All men, without distinction
of color, have the right to keep arms to
defend their homes, familics or them
selves.
In Scotland a minister refused the
sacramert to a printer who was engaged
duri g part of Sunday night in producing
a paper Which the miuister coufes-ed that
be read with pleasure every Monday
morning.
The first of a series of meetings to
cclebrate the Centenary of Methodism in
Awerica, was beld at Washington, Janu
ary 25th at St Paul’s M E Chaurch,
Secretary Harlan presided.
Salt sold at half cent per pound at the
Goverpwent sale in Richmond recently,
wdobn. Biight, 0.8 r.ocut speech st
Birminghamy, thus spoke of the pocrer
classes in Gres: Britain:
“There are amingst them one million
~ considerably more than a willion, T be
live, m the (flfite_d Kingdem—of those
who are classed in the unfortunate list of
paupers. ' Therc are at le:sta million
wha are just above the paupers—always
in peril lest they thelnagrvvs should be~
come pnupers. Their condition and their
prospects are no wore favorable than
that. Then, look at the ignorunce of the
lower strata of this portion of the pa~
tion ; look at their poverty, their suffer
ings, their utter hopelessness of good.
Why, in the American Southern States,
during the reign of slavery, every negro
had an an idea that there was a day of
jubilee for him = ‘Verily,’ they used to
say, ‘the Lord will come and deliver us.’
But in this class, this lowest strata of
the population of yourcountry, I venture
to say there is neither belief in anything
better for them, nor scarcely is there any
aspiration after i¢’
An expeditious young lady at Chicago
has been a maid, a wife and a grass widow
in the short space of fivq mouths. She
sued for divorce eight days after mar
rage.
The Commissioner for the Freedmen’s
Burcau in Nocth Carolina, reports the
negrocs as willing to make contracts,
Three men named Leysaught, Perry
and Craft, were hung at Nashv lle ou the
26th, They were found guilty of the
wurder of Heffernan. Teu thousand per
sons witnessed the execution.
Large numbers of freedmen are re
turning from Texas to Louisiana and
other States, with the r former masters.
Some of the oil stock of Pennsylvania
wells which sold for ten dollars a
share a few months ago, is now vyalued
at five cents per share.
Charles Decker is supposed to be the
smallest man living. He 1s eightcen years
old, and thirty-six inches high.
Fifty thousand animals bave died ia
England for the past six months; from
Rinderpast. )
Bureav or R F & A Lanbps,
Orrice Act AssT Com STaTE OF Ga,
Avagusta, Ga, Jan. 16, 1866.
Circurar No. 2
' I. The demand for labor in this State
‘exceeds the supply; therefore no con
‘tracts will be mad: in the compulsory
manner described in Paragraph 3, Cir
enlar No. 5, series of 1865, from this
Office, except the full compensation men
tioned in Paragraph 2 of the same Cir
cular is given. A special report of all
such Contracts will be promptly 1 .ade
to this, Office. i
I[. Agents will promptly report to
th.e Offi-e or to the nearest Commission
er of the Bureau, all vagrants who can
not be provided for in the manner pres
scribed in the proceeding Paragraph.
Davis TiLLson,
Brig Gen Vols Act Asst Com.
Approved:
Jno. M. Brawnan,
Brev't Maj. Gen U, 8. V.
Commanding Dep’t of Ga.
Official-
W. W. Deang, A. A. G.
AN ACT.
To make free perscns of color competent
wituesses in the Courts of this State,
in certain cases therein mentioned. and
to authorize the paking and declaring
of force affidavits by tghem in certain
cises. ' L
Be it cnacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Geor«
gia, in General Assembly met, That from
and after the passage of this Act free
pe-svns of color, shall be competent wit~
nesscs in ull the courts of this State in
civil cases whereto a free persou of color
is defendaut, or wherever the offence
charged is a crime or misdemancr against
the person or property of free peisons of
color, any law, usafe or custom to the
contrary notwithstanding. .
See, 2. And be it further enacted,
That in all cases hereafter pending or
about to be institutcd wherein a free per«
son of color is a party plantiff or defen.
dent, it shall be compe*ent for such free
person of color to make and file any affi
davit now by law allowed a citizen to
advanee, the remedy ot aid the 'defence ;
and when so made 2nl filed in couformity
wish law, such action shall be had there
on as though the said affidavit bad been
wade and filled by any other litigant.
W. H, Gissox,
President of Senate.
Jxo. B. Weewms,
. Sec’y Senate
_ Tros. HarreMaN,
Speaker House of Reps.
J. D. WapbpELL,
Clerk of House.
Assented to Dee, 15th, 1865.
' CuarLEs J. JENKINS,
_ QGovernor.