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S3TJUGD r.OTi \t lailu L. CLAYLAND,] [J- B. DUMBLE, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 4, 1885. To the Voters of Bibb County. I am not a candidate for the State conven tion. C. A. THARP. TRAVELLING AGENT. Mr. A. E. Marshall, is the authorized travelling agent of the Macon Telegraph, and will visit different sections of the State within the next few weeks. Contracts for subscriptions and advertising, made by him, will be filled without delay. THE STATE ROAD. Col. R. L. Mott, one of the commissioners appointed on the part of the State to receive this road from the military authorities of the United States, gives the Columbus Enquirer a gratifying statement of the particulars of the transfer. The road was turned over to the State on the 25th ult. The United States very liberally proposed to furnish running stock, machinery, tools, &c. The commission ers took seven locomotives, two stationary engines, one hundred box cars, and could have obtained more had they asked for them. The car shops and all necessary machinery were also secured. This stock is an advance made to the road by the government, at prices exceedingly liberal. A The commissioners let out contracts tor building fourteen bridges on the road, to be completed by the 15th of December. These contracts were all given to Georgians. The government makes no charge for the repairs made by it, where the road was tom up by its military authority, but charges for re pairs of any destruction committed by the Confederate forces. All the nett receipts of the road, obtained by the United States during its administra tion of its affairs, are*to be accounted for to the State. The commissioners found Gen. Howard, the military officer in command, liberal and accommodating in his dealings with them, and his instructions from the War Depart ment equally satisfactory. The commissions have made application to the President of the United States for pro- ' visions for the hands employed on the road. The country is a complete waste for twenty or thirty miles on each side of the road, and cannot possibly furnish provisions. 23P” During the war John Ross, the Chero kee chief, was on both sides. He went to Washington and made Mr. Lincoln believe that he was a friend of the Union; while at Richmond he was believed to be a friend of the Confederacy. Now at last he is found out, deprived of his chieftancy, and every way repudiated. Upon this fact the Chicago Republican remarks: “What a social and po litical disturbance there would be, if all the chiefs of the whites, commercial and demo cratic, who were on both sides during the war, should likewise be found out, exposed and degraded to the ranks. |giP 1 * A late Washington letter says a good many of the collectors of customs and of in ternal revenue in the South, have filed their bonds and gone to work, discharging their official dnties, in hope that congress will make provision, by a deficiency bill, for their payment Most of the appointees have been unable to take the stringent oath prepared by congress. In its stead they have sworn to bear true and faithful allegiance to the gov ernment now. Texas.—Governor Hamilton has sasued a proclamation prescribing rates for the govern ment of affairs pending the restoration of the State government. All former laws relating fo slavery are abrogated, and colored people are declared equal with white men in the eye of the laws. District courts may exercise jurisdiction in criminal or other cases, and repeal laws in relation to negros under State laws, except when they conflict with acts of congress. Mutilated Notes.—It may interest some of our readers to know that United States notes used as currency after being too much worn or defaced for circulation, arc redeemable on ly by the Treasurer of the United States, from whom rules for redemption on sums of three dollars or more, may be sent to the treasur er by mail without prepayment of postage, and its value will be returned by the treasur- Stf” The Clarksville (Texas) Standard says the frontier is in'an unpleasant state. There is trouble with the bushwhackers, who lately hanged Capt. Hayden, of Montague, and with the Indians, who have taken horses in and around Decatur, and killed others, and who lately killed a white boy near Prairie Point. The State department has authorized all claims of American citizens, which have been incurred by the depredations of the Al abama and Shenandoah, and the Canadian raids, to be presented to a commission, which has been authorized to settle all claims be tween the United States and Great Britain. 'ZW A Washington dispatch to the Cin cinnati Gazette says that prominent demo cratic politicians, who are engaged in figuring upon the character of the next congress, say that there will be a majority of ten in favor ■'of admitting the Southern members who come prepared to take the test oath. 53F"TLe mails south from Washington are increasing so rapidly in quantity that the post office department was compelled, a few days ago, to order one additional daily trip from Washington to Richmond, over the Orange and Alexandria railroad. The Hon. W. T. Oldham, late senator from Texas to the Confederate congress, writes from Monterey to San Antonia, con firming the statement that Maximilian had ordered all Confederate refugees to San Luis Potoei yg* Work on the treasury department ex tension, at Washington, has been discontin ued—the appropriation having been ex hausted. 23^ The Tennessee legislature will assem ble to-day. REVOLUTION IN IRELAND. The British public appears to be greatly agitated just now, because of some revolu tionary demonstrations in Ireland. Our rea ders are aware, that the seed of this rebellion was planted in the Northern States by a num ber of Irishmen, who style themselves “Fe- nians,” with the avowed'object of liberating the “gem of the seas” from “British tyranny.” Large meetings have been held, some money raised, armrpurchased, and a number of offi cers (mustered out of the federal service) dis patched to Ireland to command the insurg ents. At one of these meetings the Irish ban ner was displayed, with the inscription: “Let them say what they will, her banner fears no storm, The deeds old Ireland once has done, she yet can do again.” The accounts of these proceedings publish ed in the Northern papers a few weeks ago, were treated with derision, and contempt by the English press. By the last advices, how ever, received per steamer Cuba, those journ als have somewhat changed their tone. They no longer assert that the midnight drills in Ireland, and plain daylight demonstrations in this country, are purely imaginary, and composed of “menin buckram.” The gov ernment appears to be thoroughly alarmed, if we may judge by the magnitude of the precautions taken. The Irish magistrates are meeting with closed doors, and have forward ed memorials requesting an increase of the police and military; orders have been sent to the constabulary stations and barracks, for the men to be prepared for sudden emergen cies ; police agents are stationed at every tel egraph office to intercept messages involving Fenianism; a large fleet is coasting along the Irish shore. The most significant of all these measures, is the suspension of the Dublin newspaper, the Irish People. This is a high handed affair, and in times gone by, only re sorted to, in the last extremity. The last great “uprising of the people” in Ireland, took place in 1848, and turned out an absurd failure, a sorry farce. The insur rection was quelled by the police, and the leader Smith O’Brien nabbed in a cabbage garden. Not a company,of the fifty thousand regular troops stationed in Ireland, was call ed on, and not a dyop of blood spilled. Ever after, Mr. O’Brien was dubbed tlie'hero of the cabbage garden.” He was an honest, sincere man, though of very limited understanding, and died peacably in his lied, a year or two ago, in Ireland. Revolutions always have failed, and always must fail in Ireland. The gentry, the protestant population and the clergy, are strong supporters of the govern ment. Indeed,the better classes,are more loy al, more devotedly attached to the .crown, than the English themselves. These classes although a minority of the Irish people, form the real strength of the nation. The lewer classes of catholics, (the aboriginal celts) al though strong in numbers, are not drilled, possess no arms or money, no organization, no leaders, not one of the elements that might warrant the slightest chance of success. They are the only disaffected class in the communi ty, and easily swayed from one extreme to another. For these reasons we cannot under stand, why the English government should Jake such rigid precautions. Our firm conviction is, that all this turmoil is gotten up by schemers in the North and in Ireland, who under the guise of patriotism, (which old Dr. Johnson defines as the last refuge of a scoundrel) are instigating the wretched celts to rebellion, and in the mean time collect subscriptions, to help on the cause. "When all the money likely to be raised, has been safely cribbed, they will di vide the spoils, and leave their deluded fol lowers to shift for themselves, as best they may. : i. ■ . ; 55F” A Southern clergymen, writing to a Northern one, in 1860, said: “Dissolve this union, you infamous villains, and we shall make this proposition at once to Louis Napoleon, a most sagacious mon arch, and he would quarter at New Orleans 200,000 Frenchmen, and at Chesapeake 200,- 000. more; wc would then command the Mis sissippi valley, whip the nortli-westem States into our Southern Confederacy, and we would then turn upon the.,New England States, and cause the hurricane of civil war to rage, and sweep from Mason and Dixon’s line to the codfisherics of Maine, until we would extinguish the last abolition foot-hold on the continent of America !”**■* “If the response is not satisfactory, call a prayer-meeting, and have Wendell Phillips, Beecher, Cheever, and all the long-faced hypo crites who insult God, and mock religion by calling upon him for mercy—pray old John Brown and Confederates out of hell, where the whole hatch of you are going with light ning speed 1 Ask God to forgive you for your wickedness—pray morning, evening and noon, with your faces towards Harper's Fer ry ! Ask him to wash your filthy garments from the stain of blood of your Kansas and Virginia murders, and importune him until you get your answer ; ‘go and sin no more’— sin no longer against conscience and your country’s laws and constitution.” Lc style e'est L'homme (style indicates the man) said the celebrated Button. To judge by that criterion, it is evident that the above choice epistle was penned, (could only have been conceived) by Parson Brownlow present governor of Tennessee. No other man living (always. excepting the editor of Ned Bcntline’s Own, New York), have concentrated so much vituperation in so few lines. It is also very clear that the Rev. gentleman is an adept in the art of throwing “political summersaults.” What Gen. Lee Advises.—.A Washing ton special to the Cincinnati Oasette says: “ The Christian gentleman, Gen. R. E. Lee, in a letter to a friend at Petersburg, gives the following advice to his fellow citizens: It should be the object of ail to avoid con troversy, to allay passion, give free scope to reason and every friendly feeling. By doing this, and encouraging our citizens to engage in the duties of life with all their heart and mind, and with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past, or fears of ftie future, our country will not only be advanced in science, but in virtue and in reli gion.” We see it stated that the National In telligencer, of Washington city, is to be the “organ” of the present administration. If Andy Johnson needs an exponent in this way, he cannot do better than select the jour nal named. It is eminently conservative and dignified in tone, has never bowed to the demon fanaticism; and its management is, in addition, characterized by an ability not excelled by that of any journal in the country; WHO ARE QUALIFIED TO VOTE. Some days since we published a statement received from a source deemed entirely, relia ble, that parties falling within the thirteenth section of the amnesty proclamation, bet ter known as tile twenty thousand dollar clause, wlie Ave application for par don^ and jeceivai endorsement of Gov. Johnson wert>CMBdered entitled to the privilege of voting at the election to-day.— Yesterday a report to the contrary was circu lated in the city. But wC learn that' Gen. Croxton, commanding the district, on being ■pplied to by a gentleman who was anxious to obtain infojj^htion on the question, coin" «ded with our original statement, the General was, we are informed, frank in the saying that he had no wish to interfere in the election. Yet he seemed positive that all ap-' plicants for pardon, who had filed th^ir peti tion, endorsed by the Governor,' ought to be allowed to vote. In reference to this point, we find the fol lowing correspondence in the Constitutional ist of the 1st inst: Covington, Ga., Sept. 12,1865. Dear Sir : Although personally unacquaint ed with you, I venture to address a note of inquiry in reference to a point of considera ble importance, affecting, as it may, the character and material of our State conven tion. It i3 a generally received opinion through out the State, and accepted by yourself, as appears from your recent instructive letter to Colonel Fulton, that no person belonging to the excepted classes can vote or is eligible as a member of the convention until he re - ceivcs a special pardon. It is respectfully asked, what are the grounds for such opinion? It is not authorized by the express language of the president’s proclamation appointing our provisional governor nor does it flow therefrom by inference. In that proclama tion it is declared that “in any elec tion that may be hereafter held for choosing delegates to any State convention, as aforesaid, no person shall be qualified as an elector, or shall be eligible as a member of such convention, unless lie shall have previ ously taken the oath of amnesty, as set forth in the president’s proclamation of May 29th, 1865, and is a voter qualified as prescribed by the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, in force immediately before the 19th of January, 1861.” It is.also direct ed that the convention shall be “composed ot delegates to be chosen by that portion of the people of said State who are loyal to the United States, and no others.”— Such are the conditions imposed, and such only. Nor has the provisional governor added whatever to' them in his proclama tion concerning the Convention. In this matter he but repeats the language of tho President. And these are the two decisive sources of authority. What is there in these to exclude any excepted person, who evinces a spirit of loyalty by taking the oatli and filing an application for pardon, from voting, or from a seat in the convention ? Is he ’held to be disloyal until pardoned? It-will be seen by reference to ithe proclamation of Gov ernor Perry, of South Carolina, that ali with in the excepted classes who take the oatli ttfitl apply for pardon are entitled to vote, or be-; come members of the convention in that State; and it cannot be presumed that the President means to be less liberal to Georgia. I have offered this point, not for the mere purpose of special pleading, but because it concerns the practical interests of the State. In my county, and, I doubt not, in many others, some of the best citizens, men eminently fit for seats in the convention, and whose politi cal antecedents are not offensive to the gov ernment, but who fall under tho thirteenth exception, are likely to be excluded from the convention by the popular opinion that they arc ineligible. I request that you review the points, and permit me to publish an opinion which will carry so much of confidence that I have ventured with diffidence to differ from the one already expressed. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. M. Pace. Hon. E. Starnes, Augusta, Ga. Augusta, Sept. 14th, 1865. Mr Dear Sib : Your very intelligent let ter'of 12th inst., was received by me this morning. I agree with you in the suggestions which you make as to the qualifications of voters under the proclamations of the president, and the provisional governor—especially 'if the construction confine tself to the language of these documents. But a different view of the subject had been generally entertained in our State, and is entertained by the military au thorities of the United States now among us. And it was in deference to this opinion that I made the assumption to which you refer in my letter to Col Fulton. The commanding general here argues thus: “The person applying for special pardon, though he takes the oath is iumislied with no copy of it. and is not considered in pos session of it. He can use it in no way, ex cept to have it sent on to the president with liis application, as evidence of his desire to be restored to his rights'of citizenship. If he undertake to vote, and that vote be chalenged, he can furnish no evidence of his being with in the amnesty, or his having taken the oath. From all which.it is inferred that though the language of the proclamations seems to en courage the idea that he is entitled to vote, or serve in the convention after having taken the oath in any way yet this was not intend ed by the president. Upon talking, the matter over with the general, after the receipt of your letter this morning, (which I showed to him) Gen. Stcedman agreed that as the matter did ad mit of doubt we should endeavor to have that donbt removed, and that he would im mediately telegraph the president on the subject. I am, by his direction, about to prepare alelegraph to Be submitted by him to President .Johnson. If this be answered you will probably hear from, me on the sub ject again in a few days. Very respectfully, &c., E. Starnbs. J. M. Pace,-Esq., Covington, Ga. Augusta, Ga., Sept 27th, 18C5.. Mv Dear Sir :—The president has not yet returned an answer to the telegram. And, considering this fact, and ■ seeing that in South Carolina, public notice has been giv en by the governor, without {interference from the president, that persons who have applied for special pardons, should be al lowed seats in the convention, if elected, and the right to vote, General Steedmanhas authorized me to say, that he thinks that the same rule should apply to Georgia, and the question of right left to the con vention, if any one chooses to'make it there. This decision may be acted on safely, : I think, for I have no idea the convention will decide differently, should it be deemed nec essary to raise the question there.’ And I • presume the President does not mean to inter fere, or he would before now have* replied to General Steedman’s message, as he has an swered others forwarded since this was sent. Very respectfully, yours, &c. E. Starnes. J. M. Pace, Esq., Covington, Ga. Mr. Don. Carlos Buell, once a military man, is now president of a company which has leased R. A. Alexander’s extensive iron works in Green river, Kentucky, and contemplates making Kentucky his future home. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. The Central Pacific Railroad has been for several months surveying the ground at the summit of Sierra Nevada, preparatory to a final location of the route across the moun tains. AS incendiary fire at Portland, Oregon, on the 27th, destroyed property valued at- twen ty thousand dollars. All the second New York heavy artillery lliav'e' been mustered out and have left 'for New York. The sentence of Lieut. Jas. Burke; 4th N. Y. heavy artillery, cashiered for. conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen tleman, has been approved by general Au- ger. ^ It is estimated that there are fully eight thousand negros in the city Of Alexandria, Va., all of whom are self-supporting, and who contribute to the maintenance of a con siderable number of schools for the Colored* people. Owing to the lack of funds in the work on the capital extension, the work pill be dis continued till Congress makes further appro priations.' The London Times makes the following not very creditable admission, when it says “drinking has becomaao interwoven with the life and soul of every English occasion of im portance, that the idea of closing grog shops on election day, is inadmissible.” A fatal boiler exploit occurred at Buffa lo, oiFthe 28th, in the^JYatt and company’s rolling mill, killing two men and wounding about a dozen others. A section of the boil er, weighing about half a ton, was hurled, through the building a distance of three hun dred feet. The circuit court of the United States for "Wisconsin, entered a decree of foreclosure,and sale against the La Cross and Milwaukee rail road on the 27th. The high bridge on the South Side rail road, near Lynchburg, Virginia, has been completod, and there is now no interruption on the route between Petersburg and Robin son’s Mill, six miles below Lynchburg, It is expected that the bridges between that city and Robinson’s Mil will be finished in two weeks, when the cars will go through' without any detention. The' San Francisco Courier says that the Shenandoah was not long since successfully furnished with a ship load of supplies from that city, by a vessel thatwns quietly cleared for Victoria, and which has not yet turned up at that port. Father Siels, a Catholic priest, has been sent to prison in Franklin county, Missouri, for solemnizing the rites of matrimony with out taking the test oath. The Kentucky delegation headed by Gov. Bramlette, are still in Washington, and have long conferences with the president and heads of departments. They ask the removal of General Palmer from command, the with drawal of negro troops from different parts of the State and a greater concentration of troops that now exists on the border. , Both white and colored people will have nothing to do have been ordered to leave At lanta. Electioneering Fracas in Ohio. From the Cincinnati Commercial.] Eds. Com:—The State sovereignty demo crats held a meeting, and Mr. Long addressed it for over an bout, without being interrupt ed, or perceiving any sign of ill-will among the audience. He left the ground a few min ifies with a friend. Mr. Maginnis, the candidate of the State sovereignty party for lieutenant governor, followed in a cool argument on the origin and nature of the Federal system. He had only proceeded fifteen minutes without inter ference, or marks of dissent, when suddenly Corporal Pike, late of the army, broke in upon the speaker with a question: “Do you say a State has the right to se cede ?” Maginnis replied, he was coming to that presently. Pike repeated the question. Ma ginnis then said that such was the drift of wliat he had said, and he expected to demon strate it. “Then,” cried Pike in a loud voice, “ wc soldiers that foughtjho South all through, the war, are a set of murderers, in your opin ion.” Maginnis replied mildly that he , had not said so. To which Pike rejoined, very excitedly, “You are a damned secessionist, and wc will not allow any such talk here.— You must come down,” he said, drawing out a navy revolver and flourishing it. He com manded him to come down several times, and as Maginnis stood still, he fired his re volver, but with bad aim, and pulled a heavy table off the platform to the ground, smash ing the pitchers and tumblers, and upset ting with it Maginnis’ hat and cane, which were afterwards stolen. Finding Ma- ginis could not be scared by these outrages, Pike scrambled upon the platform himself, pistol in hand, where the President and sev eral others were standing on their feet and endeavoring to get away. When he got up, he found Maginnis confronting him, and as he approached, the latter drew his pistol and fired close to Pike’s head, when an old man, endeavoring to leave, struck Maginnis’ elbow and threw up the pistol, so that the ball hit above the brow, and only cut the scalp for a couple of inches. Maginnis seized Pike’s pistol then with his left hand to divert his aim, and Pike fired at his body and struck Maginnis just below the stomach, and made a flesh wound of small size, but in a most dangerous place—so near the bowels.— Maginnis could not cock his pistol, but after Pike fired, he used the barrel of it on liis bead, cutting several gashes, which bled profusely, and stunned Pike, who fired another ineffectual shot between Magin nis’legs, and fill to the platform, bleeding and overpowered, and Maginnis hurried him off to the ground, about three feet, where he lay till liis friends took him up. Maginnis never left the platform, and fought it out till his adversary went grass for good. The weapons were very unequal, Maginnis had a small one, but Pike’s was a large size, and he had boasted of its execution. The friends of both parties seem to have left them to fight it out, and nobody attemtped to stop it. Some soldiers encouraged Pike to kill the speaker ■on the platform, and seemed to enjoy the ag gression upon liis rights and safety. The mass of people were indignant,and expressed them selves freely afterward. Theparties were both arrested, but not bound over; Maginnis saying that if.he could not protect himself on a plat form in a public meeting from one man, be would be unwilling to prosecute him, and that at any rate Pike had got the worst of it, and he was not vindictive. Mr. Maginnis’ conduct is as much admired as Pike’s is con demned, and rudeness and ruffianism have met with a timely check, for which wc all thank the bravery and coolness of Mr. Ma ginnis. He speaks this evening at the State Sovereignty lieadquarters, Democratic Ex change. Both parties are Democrats, Magin- VAKIETY. A Rochester paper says: A man who resides in Chili, New.. York, declares that he has dis covered the cause of the prevailing drought-. He attributes it to the large number of light ening rods lately put up about that region of country. He says these rods take the electri city from the Clouds, and scatter^t without affording rain. A correspondent who has seen her, describes Miss Brandon, the English writer, as a “red haired, stout, rather vulgar looking cockney woman of thirty odd, and says she is an itin erant actress, and known great destitution.— The combined sale of her books in England has been six hundred thousand copies, in America, two hundred and fifty thousand, in France and Germany, one hundred thousand. She has made in the last four years about forty thousand pounds, and funded half of it. ' ... John Hanks is showing about the country, the log cabin built by himself and Abraham Lincoln in Macon county, Illinois, in 1830.— He has had it in Boston common, and has just brought it to Bamum’s museum, in New York. Mr. Hanks accompanies the show with reminiscences of his acquaintance with Mr, Lincoln. Half the proceeds of the exhi bition are to be devoted to the erection of a monument to Thomas Lincoln, the late Presi dent’s father. The citizens of New Orleans have been made happy by the arrival of two cargoes of claret. The Pic. says, we don’t want a* nicer drink of a hot summer day, than claret with a lump of ice in it, and a half-tumbler full of seltzer water poured in; and we sympathize, therefore, in the bacchanalian feelings of those who have so long been deprived of their Bordeaux, their Latour, their Margaux, and now find them abundant again.” A communication from Toulon states that so violent a sirocco has been blowing over that town, thousands of swallows were weath er bound there, waiting for the south winds to cease to cross the Mediterrean.—English Paper. A soldier named King was recently hung in Ireland for the murder of his officer. A comrade who officiated .as hangman per formed the duty so bungling that the mur derer suffered for fifteen minutes and died in horrible agony. , , The Albany Journal says every candidate on the republican ticket has bled for his coun try. Candidates of all parties are generally made to bleed pretty freely. An escaped slave who absquatulated ten years ago from Louisiana, came North, made a fortune of a million of dollars, and is now helping his old mistress, made n beggar by the war. Augusta Beach said she was sorry she shot her husband in the Chicago theatre, and as lieis recovering she was admitted to a bail in' 13000. Shoddy is, reported in full rig in Paris, wearing diamonds, smoking cigars, and spending no end of money, In France last year out of 900,000 railway passengers only one was wounded. German astronomers have discovered a planet. All Germans are star gazers. Norfolk has raised $800,000 for a line of steamships to France. A hangor man stole $400 lately and his conscience troubled him so that he had to re turn it. The Sewing women of Chicago have formed a protective union. A German club-house in Baltimore will cost $200,000. Lady L. Duncan was an heiress; and Sir W. Duncan washer physician during a severe illness. One day she told him she had made up her mint! to marry, and upon his asking the name of the fortunate chosen one, she bade him go home and open his Bible, giv ing him chapter and verse, and he would find it out. He did so, and read what Nathan said unto David, “Thou art the man!” We observe that there is to be a hotel built at Bull Run. The New York Mercury says that “heretofore it hasn’t been much of a place to stop at.” ') “There’s a difference in time, you know between this country and Europe,” said a gentleman in New York to a newly arrived Irishman. “For instance, your friends in Cork are in bed and fast asleep by this time, while we are enjoying ourselves in the early evening.” “That’s always the way,” exclaim ed Pat, “Ireland niver got justice yit.” LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. DISPATCHES TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. New York, Sept. 30.—Gold stronger. The exports of specie to-day is larger than was anticipated, amounting to nearly one million dollars, which produces a stronger tone among dealers. The expected large payments last week, on account of 50,20 coupons, click the upward tendency. Quotations this after noon ranged from 144 to 1441-4. The pay ment on 5-20 coupons from Monday to last evening, were about $135,000. * The theatrical managers in this city have held a meeting and resolved to withdraw their advertisements from the Herald. From Washington. Washington, Sept. SO—The New York Herald's special says there was a rumor to-day that Gen. Meigs was to be superceded in the quartermaster's department. His succession is probably to devolve upon some of the se nior officers of that department, such as Col. Crosby or Col. Vinton. The western branch of the United States sanitary commission suspended general busi ness to-day, and all surplus stock, office fix tures, etc., will be disposed of by sale. The claim agency business, to which the commis sion has lately devoted much attention, which has been very successful in their hands, will be continued. It is understood the commis- sibil has a fund of about $400,000 on hand. The Wirz Trial. Washington, Sept. 30.—The Wirz com mission re-assembled to-day. Capt. Wright, ex-quartermaster at Andersonville, was re called for the defense. He testified that when he succeeded R. B. Winder at that post, ten of his regiment were taken for use of hospital. He says he tried, but failed, to obtain more for that purpose. As to lumber, he was equally unsuccessful, owners not having been paid for what they had previously furnished. An injunction was served on him and others to pay them for cutting timber. He had nev er seen Wirz search prisoners. Mr. Baker. Did you hear Capt. Wirz cqm- plain of the bad condition of affairs. Judge Advocate Chipman objected to the declaration of the prisoner. Mr. Baker said he did not ask for Wire’s declaration but his acts. Col. Chipman remarked that Mr. Baker asked about complaints. Mr. B. said it was competent, according to the rules of law, to show the kindly disposi tion of the accused in order to refuse the al legations that he wilfully and maliciously murdered oi maltreated the prisoners. The court remarked that they had over and over again overruled such questions. Mr. B. said he designated to show that Captain Wirz accompanied his complaints by acts to ameliorate the condition of the pris oners. Mr. Baker withdrew the question and pre pared another viz: Do you know of any acts, on the part of Wirz to ameliorate the con dition of the prisoners ? Witness replied that he could not think of any. Witness never heard that any soldiers received furloughs for shooting Union pris oners. He had frequently carried vegetables into the stockade for the relief of prisoners, after showing Wirz what he had for them. Wirz permitted Masonic honors to be paid to deceased prisoners. Lieut. Davis was in charge when Capt. Wirz was sick. Cross examined by Col. Chipman—Wit ness had no personal knowledge of Wirz did not in the stockade, but outside of it he knew the accused put prisoners in the stocks and chain gang. W. D. Hancock, of the Confederate army,; testified that he never saw any of his men shoot prisoners, but bad seen them after they were shot. Wirz never to his knowledge, promised furloughs for shooting prisoners.— No orders were issued to take from Stone- man’s raiders anything more than money, knives and forkSj and such other articles as they had stolen from the people of the coun try through which they passed. Confederate soldiers were punished just the same as Union prisoners. i New Xork Money Market. New York, Sept. 30.—There was rather more demand for money early in the day, but it was freely met at 5 per cent, and at the close brokers could not lend their balance at this rate. There is a good supply of commercial paper offering, with a peceptible increase in cotton bills. At the close some names were Funeral Notice. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs- P. T. Bartkum, are requested to attend the funer al of their son Horace Theodore from his res:, dence on Bond street, at 10)4 o’clock A. m., this morning. * NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ALLISONS & EIRKMAN, Cotton Factors AND General Commission Merchants, Nos. 29, 31 & 33, So. Market St., — - Nashville, Tenn. Refer To—J. B. Ross & Son, Macon, Ga.; J. H. Anderson & Son, Macon, Ga.; Fleming & Whcless, Augusta, Ga.: W. Heya Warren, Au gusta, Ga.; R. J. Lowry & Co., Atlanta, Ga.; J. Rhodes Brown, Columbus, Ga.; W. H. Smith, Montgomery, Ala. oct4-2m* gf Atlanta Intelligencer, Lagrange Reporter and Eufaula Spirit copy 2m and send bill. FOR 3A£i£, AT THE WHITE STORE, Corner Third and Cherry Streets, 10 barrels Cincinnati Cream Ale. 10 “ Eureka Smoking Tobacco. 80 “ Bourbon Whisky. 10 “ Monongahela Whisky. 5 “ Peach Brandy. 2 “ Grape Brandy. 1 “ Bay Rum. Smoking and Chewing Tobacco. Candles, Starch, Cigars, Cheese. Crackers, Sugar, Coffee. Mackerel, Claret. 1000 bushels Malt Barley. oct4-2t WITHERS & LOUD. done at 6 l-2a7 per cent, and others at 7 1-2 A gentleman from the country, of the high- alO per cent. The supply of cotton bills is est respectability, recently shipped equal amounts of the same sugar, the produce of his plantation, to St. Louis and to this city. The shipment to St. Louis netted him 100 per cent more than the shipment to New Or leans. An extraordinary pedestrian feat is to be performed at the St. Charles Opera, New Or leans. Mr. W. N. Harris, a pedestrian of ce lebrity, will undertake, and he promises to increasing, rates ranging from 9 to 10 per cent. Bankers’ bills are offered more freely the rates being 6 l-2a7 per cent. There is also a perceptible increase in tlie offerings of pro duce commission paper, at 7 a 8 per cent.— Banks are discounting jobbers’ paper quite freely. Gold is stronger. The export of spe cie to-day was larger than was anticipated, amounting to $1,000,000, which produces a stronger tone among sellers. The expected accomplish, the feat of ’walking for 100 con- j lar g c payments next week on account of 5-20 secutive hours on a plank 22 inches wide and ! coupons checks the upward tendency. The 22 feet long i payments on account of 6-20 coupons from Th, Savaniinh^pnpere ofj SSSSZKSRSS according as opportunity offers. writing Mississippi at an early day. . I to the New York Tribune, gives the following The New York Tribune of Thursday says: j in regard to affairs Florida: “ An important meeting of the College of; Those correspondents are mistaken who Surgeons was held on the 27th at the New j suppose a beligerent disposition is to be found York University, and important papers read j anywhere in Florida, on the cholera and yellow fever, and one of j * * * the medical gentlemen declaring the metrop- j The collector says no property has been olis could not, by any possibility, escape the t libelled for confiscation; and he has made no former scourge which would be upon us in j attempt to distribute it in small lots to the three weeks.” j negros, as he knows it would meet with We are glad to see that the Cincinnati Oa- | strong opposition from all parties. It would icttc favors a general amnesty as far prefer- j require a hero to execute it, military force to able to the present pardon system, and for protect the freedmen during the term of the the further consideration that it would release the property of the South from the uncertain ty that must prevent enterprise, and would hasten the reconstruction of its industry. Tho Washington Star says that two colored womeii and colored men were in attendance a few days ago at the president’s, to ask par don for their former master, a man named Williams, who is, or was at the breaking out of the war, a wealthy citizen of Virginia, and at one time owned a number of slaves.— It appears from the statement of these color ed people, that Williams made 'application for pardon some time ago, and as the appli cation has not been acted upon as yet, they went there to intercede for their old master, The Lynchburg Virginian says it has been requested by Gen. Curtiss to state that the meeting, which was proposed to be held in that city for the purpose of getting up a pe tition in behalf of Air, Davis, will not be al lowed. The United States district court of Alexan- ria, Virginia, has ordered that all suits for property under the .confiscation 1 law, be dis continued until the party lias been pardoned by the president. Miss Rebecca Adams, an attachee of Mc- Vicker’s theatre, Chicago, died suddenly on Monday, in an apoplectic fit. On Saturday afternoon she appeared as Widow Melnotte in the play of the Lady of Lyons. 23?" A dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer from Washington says: It is evident that the popular current is settling strongly in favor of the administra tion policy, and it is thought that its oppo nents will not be able to raise a corporal’s I guard in the next Congress. Sumner in the nis belonging to the Long wing and Pike to Senate, and Thad. Stevens in the House, will the short. I be left almost alone. lease. “If,” he adds, “ the militia is organ ized, a3 foreshadowed by Governor Sharkey, and indorsed by the president, he has no idea the freedmen will remain laborers in the cot ton fields. They are excited and partially armed. There is hope of organizing the la bor of the State in such way that freedmen will return to the field and recruit agricultu ral wealth, as few laborers seem to vanish with promulgation of the militaiy order. In conclusion, he says lie beard of but lit tle trouble between freedman and other em ployees. Nearly all the plantations have been con traded with, and employees made contract ors for the year 1866, for fear of the labor at the beginning of the season. A gentleman largely connected with the oil speculation, and connected with a dozen or more oil companies, rolled up a fortune, it is said, of half a million in a few months. He made a splendid speculation in the pur chase of a splendid building down town, for which he was offered fifty thousand dollars above what he gave for it the day after he bought it He held on to his oil stocks until he lost all he made and failed. His building was sold for eighty thousand dollai* less than lie gave for it, and is bankrupt—a specimen of the sudden rise and sudden fall of men and iortunes in this city.—N. Y, Corres. Jour nal. . ^l 1 ? who committed suicide by shoot ing himself a few nights since in an eastward bound car on the Great Western (Canada) railroad, turns out to have been John L. Har- vey, Esq., a prominent lawer of Dubuque.— Insanity is hereditary in his family, and he had lately been suffering from great mental depression. He was on liis way East to visit relatives near Boston. 1ST IE W FIRM* SINGLETON, HUNT & CO., OPPOSITE LANIER HOUSE, MACON, GEORGIA, N OW have in store, and for sale, the largest and Best assorted stock of BOOTS, SHOES, AND HATS, in the South. Those wishing to buy, to sell again, will here find facilities not surpassed by any house south of Cincinnati, as the entire stock has been purchased, FOR CASH, from the manu facturers in the cities of New York and Boston. A good supply ot TRUNKS AND UMBRELLAS Will also be kept on hand. 1 The firm hopes, by constantly replenishing, and by strict attention to business, to merit a liberal portion of public patronage. W. R. SINGLETON, W. C. SINGLETON, oct4-3m Y. J. HUNT. Journal & Messenger copy. Attention Ocmulgee Fire Co. No. 3. C ALL meeting Thursday evening the 5th inst. Important business to be transacted, every member is particularly requested to be present H. P. WESCOTT, E. Einstein, Sec’ry. Foreman. oct4-2t* G EORGIA, Jones codnty.—Whereas Wm. H. J. Wood and Jackson Wood applies to me for Administration upon the estate of William Wood, late of said county deceased. These are to cite and admonish all persons con cerned to be and appear and file their objection if any they have to the contrary, in this office on or by the first Monday in November next. Given nnder mv hand officially Sept. 30,1865. ROLAND T. ROSS, oct4-5wlaw* Ordinary. New and Splendid Stock of Goods. I SHALL open on the first of October without fail at the stand known before the war, as B. F. Ross’ furniture store, next door to J. B. Ross <fc Sons, on Cherry street, one of the best selected stock of goods of all kinds that has been offered in any market in the South at any time, and I would most respectfully say to all merchants and to the buying public, that a call upon me will do them no harm. I have taken great pains in buying my goods—selecting just such articles as would meet the wants of the people, and I feel assured that I can offer such bargains as will insure me the pa tronage of all those who honor me with a call. A. P. G. HARRIS, Of old firm of DUNLAP & HARRIS, afterwards HARRIS & DENSE. oct4-9t* For Sale or Kent, A VALUABLE cotton plantation, 10 miles from the city, containing 2,000 acres, 500 acres open land. A good dwelling and all necessary out buildings on the place. Provisions and stock with it, if desired. For further particulars, apply to Jas. Dean, on the place, or J. E. Jones, at Macon & W. Railroad. octl-ot* Macon Typographical Union. T HE members of this body are requested to at tend a called meeting, thi6 evening at 1 o’clock. By order JAS. H. SMITH, oct4-lt Secretary.. Private Board. T WO families and a few single gentlemen can be accommodated with board in a very pleasant part of the city, if application is made within the next three days. For particulars inquire at this office, of ELAM CHRISTIAN. oct4-3t* Store to Rent. I N an eligible position in one of the best business blocks in the city of Macon. Address Box 105, P. O. oct4-4t Z3P Atlanta Intelligencer please copy 4 time* and send bill to this office. /"I EORGIA—Jones County.—Ordinary’s Of- VX fice, said county, September 37, 1865.— Whereas, Mrs. SarahR. Lane applies tome for administration on the estate of wm. A. Lane deceased. These are to cite and admonish all parsons con cerned to file their objections, if any they have, in my office, on or before the first Monday in No vember next. Witness mv hand officially. ROLAND T. ROSS, oct 4-law5w* Ordinary. For Rent. T WO dwelling houses and a store near the busi ness part of town. Apply to Macon Intelli gence office. oct4-3t F. R. & B. L. GAULDING. /X EORGIA, Bibb County.—Whereas, Mre. Fran- VJ cea Brinn, applies to the undersigned for let ters of Administration upon the estate of Richard Brinn, late of said county, dec’d. rhy letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my hand and official signature. sep2-w5t WM. M. RILEY, Ord'y. /X EORGLA, Jones County, Ordinary’s Office VX said county.—Whereas Charles L. Danic, ap plies to me for letters of administration upon the- estate of William Coulter, deceased. These are to cite and admonish all persons con cerned, to file their objections, if any they have, in this office by the first Monday in October next. Given under mv hand officially, Aug. 80, 1865. ROLAND T. ROSS, aep l-w5t Ordinary. (~1 EORGIA, Decatur County.—On the first VX Monday in October next, B. F. Benton will apply to the Court of Ordinary of said county, for letters of Administration on the estate of J. P. Genlden, dcc’d. eep2 w30d H. M. BEACH, Ordinary. NOTICE. ons indebted to the estate of Alber A LL person L. Rose, late of Bibb county deceased, are re quired to make immediate payment, and those having claims to render them in terms of the law to the undersigned. aopl4-w40d JULIA B. COLLINS, Admt’r. EORGIA, Putnam County.—Application will VX be made to the Court of Ordinary of said county at the first regular term after the expiration of two months from tills notice, for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of Andrew Reid, dec’d, late of said county, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. WM. A. REID, ALEX’R. S. REID, Jr. Admr’a, Ac., Andrew Reid, dcc’d. sep6w60d