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FRIDAY MOBNIKG, MARCH 26, 1869.
“The Chinese Puiric.”
Wo copy from the Ban Francisco Bulletin a
report of another and important stage in the
progress of the great Chinese problem in Amer
ica. We may remark, in relation to the devel
opments of this article, that a -remarkably hos
tile feeling already exists among the -whites in
California to these Celestial immigrants of both
sexes. In fact, it has embittered to such a de
gree ns to threaten a -war of races, insomuch
♦hut the philosopher of the New York Tribune
has felt himself called upon to protest in the
name of God and humanity against plots and
designs for the extermination of the Chinese,
■which he hints are rife on the Pacific shore.
Every thinking man will see in this grand ad
vent of the Celestials upon our western coast;
the establishment of a new point of historic de
parture in the American futnre. The landing
of these swarms of Chinese women pnts a new
phase on the whole immigration movement, and
changes it to a grand campaign of occupation,
under which, in a very few years, the Pacific
States will substantially pass into the hands of
the Chinese.
Enough will be seen in the article from the
Bulletin to show, that the Chinese in California
already number men of capital among them,
and with their indomitable industry, sharp in
tellects and frugal habits, the Anglo-Saxon will
be no match for them in the nee of sccumnhu
tion. They will grow in financial power as fast
as they increase in numbers; and the ratio of
their numerical increase by immigration will,
of coarse, be prodigiously accelerated by their
growing wealth. ' They will control California
probably in less than ten years, and California
itself will become but a way station m the on
ward march of Western colonization by the
Chinese. - *
The aeoonnt of the Bnllctin shows that this
female immigration bears an the most odious of
the Coolie trade, and the women are, in fact,
bonght and Bold.
Tire Indiana Imbroglio.
The telegram announces that all the Demo
cratic members of the Indiana Legislature who
resigned, in order to leave the Legislature with
out a qnorum and so prevent the passage of the
fifteenth amendment, have been reflected. This
wiU onablo them to bring the Legislature to
terms. They wiU compel it either to adjourn the
decision of the question to the next session and
so give the peoplo an opportunity to pass upon
the amendment, or they will resign again and
leave the government to be carried on without
on appropriation bill. He Radicals in Indiana
will therefore be forced to oonoede the postpone
ment, and beyond this the extraordinary opposi
tion of the Indiana Democrats will not go. If the
people elect members to the next Legislature who
willsnpport the amendment—well and good. But
the Indiana Democrats are right in demanding
that this amendment, before becoming, by con
sent of Indiana, a part of the Constitution, shall
be passed upon by the people in the election of
a new Legislature,
Nomhzbscbs Coming to Gkooou—On the
steamer Charleston, which left New York yes
terday for the city of Charleston, says the
Chronicle and Sentinel of Wednesday lost, we
learn by telegraph, was a large number of
Northern people coming to seek homes in Geor
gia, South Carolina and Florida. Let them, and
just as many more as will, come. For Georgia
we tender them a cordial welcome, and feel as
sured that if they oome to this State they will
have no cause to repent their choice. In any
section that they may choose to locate, whether
they oome as emigrants to labor, or as invalids
in Rearch of health, they will find an abundance
of fine land at fabulously low prioes, and be re
ceived with that kindness and hospitality for
which tho Empire State of tho South hoe been
oolong noted.
The Aik-Line IUiutoxo.—'The Atlanta Con
stitution says, we visited the Air-Line Road yes
terday, and found the work progressing with vi
gor and dispatch. Hands are actively engaged
ip excavating earth to make several large fills.
The rood was fortunate in securing the services
of such men of unbounded energy and vim, as
Messrs. Scott, Bondnrant and Adams. The cul
verts (and their name is legion), are being con
structed by Cousin John Thrasher. Every body
knows that Cousin John never half does a thing,
so tho mere fact of his having charge is a guar
antee that they will bo done. Ere November's
blasts are heard, the first twenty miles of the
road will be completed, We consider the “Air-
Lino” a fixed fact, and bound to go through.
The New General.—General Sherman is now
trying his hand to stop the biggest leak in the
Treasury—tho army. He is shelving all idle
officers, dismissing useless soldiers, breaking np
unnecessary camps, and petulantly snapping at
every man who remonstrates with him in carry-
■ing out these wholesome measures. It would
bo a good idea to muster out the whole force
with the exception of enough to take care of
public property. This army costs ns from seven
ty-five to one hundred million a year.
The New Spanish Government.—Tho Cortes
has at last agreed upon a form of government.
A king whose tenure shall be eighteen years, a
Constitution, Congress, ate. The Church and
State to be separate. This is a derided im
provement upon the imbecile, intollerant and
bigote d concern of a government they bad there
np to a few mouths ago.
Gmnt is tired of Congress already. At an
interview the other day with the President, one
of the Military Committee of the House said
ho thought Congress would not be long in ses
sion. Grant responded: ‘T am glad to hear it.
I think an early adjournment is the very best
thing Congress can do."
Hon. Pierre Socle.—The H. O. Times, of
the 19th, contains the melancholy announcement
that application has been made to Court for tho
appointment of a Curator to take charge of the
affairs of Hon. Pierre Soule, he having become
hopelessly insane.
Steaxoe Omission.—Will the Atlanta papers
do the public the favor to publish a list of acts
passed by the Legislature at its last session ?—
They are looked to for such information, and
we take the liberty of reminding (hem of the
fact—Savannah Republican.
Red Sclthcx Spbiso in Florida.—The Flor-
dian mentions the discovery of a Red Sulphur
Spring near Tallahassee, which is valnsble as a
remedial agent in scrofulous and main-rial dis
eases.
There is an old lady in Lynchburg, Va., who
says she made a pair of socks last fifteen years
by merely knitting feet to them every winter,
and legs every other winter.
Bcttalo has given Grant a pair of boots, and
St. Louis has sent him a coat. Every one of
the contributors is now vigorously besieging him
' for an office. .
The Legislature of Ohio has passed a bill in
demnifying all citizens who lost any property
by the raids of General Morgan.
The Democrats of Texas say they can easily
elect a Governor. But the military have the
counting of the vote. ' • i
African Barbarism.
A chapter in African barbarism is now open
ing all over the country which is compelled to
arrest the attention of the American people and
supplant, for a time, the operations of the po
litical outrage manufactory of the Southern
Radicals. The blood fairly curdles at the hor
rid crimes we are compelled daily to record—
committed by the blacks upon whites and upon
persons of their own race and color—crimes,
the unexampled atrocity of which is as wonder
ful as the meagemess of the temptation—the
patriness of the inducement to commit them—
crimes so bloody, sensual and beastly as to jus
tify hesitation in admitting a bare recital of
them to the columns of the newspaper press.
But it is due aa well to truth as to public and
personal safety that the people should see what
dangers threaten the lives and persons of the
defenceless, and the necessity of an extreme
caution against exposing those under their pro
tection to liability to such horrid outrage.
The truth is, the restraints and the discipline
of slavery were necessary to keep the unedu
cated African within tho pale of civilization.
He is a sensualist by constitution. To passions
and appetites much stronger than those of the
white race, he adds a very small counterbalance
of the intellectual and moral faculties. His
intelligence does not extend to comprehending
the restraints of law, except as he may happen
to see a legal sanction inflicted. He could un
derstand a fine—imprisonment—the whipping
post, or the gallows. But it may well be doubt
ed whether the mass of freedmen are at all re
strained from crime by the apprehension of
punishment, which may possibly reach them
through the alow process of a preliminary ex
amination, indictment and trial by jury. That
is something too far off too uncertain to act
as a detergent. Mossa’s whip promptly admin
istered was a far more efficacious restraint than
the law ever can be, though it inflicts, in dne
season, the penitentiary or the gallows. In this
situation, staffed with ideas of bis equality with,
or, in fact, superiority to the whites, and di
vested to a certain extent of those social.and
morel restraints which formerly governed him,
it eon be readily seen that the jnore brutal and
ignorant ore often bnt little safer than wild
beasts or lunatics. The smallest provocation—
the slightest temptation, may lead to any horrid
crime. Examples of this fact we reported yes
terday ; two more are related in our columns
to-day, and bnt a few days ago an intelligent
little white girl was brutally butchered, near
Maoon, by a negro woman, to obtain possession
of three dollars and twenty cents, in order to
bny cakes and candy with the money.
Sach events as these are bound in time to
open the eyes of people. They are occurring
in the North as well as the South. A horrid in
stance was narrated yesterday in Chamberaburg,
Pennsylvania, land they frequently happen in
the North and West, wherever the emancipated
freodmen have fonnd their way. They are
practical illustrations of the absurdity of the
dogmas of negro equality, and will, in time, it
is to be hoped, bear fruit in better sense, better
legislation, a more prompt enforcement of it
and greater precaution on the part of the whites.
Tire Horrid .Murder mid Outrage near
Drayton.
Editor* Telegraph: While traveling between
Byronville and Drayton, in Dooly county, Ga.,
on Tuesday tho 23d, and upon coming to the
residence of Mrs. Moat, at C o'clock in the af
ternoon, I met three gentlemen of mj acquaint
ance, two of whom had guns. Upon inquiry,
they informed me that they were looking for a
colored man who had cat the throat of one child
and gagged another.
At the residence of Mrs. Brown wo learned
that tho body of the child had been found and
the mnrdorer caught. We went jo the spot
where the child was found. Its throat was cut
about four inches. The sight caused feelings of
indignation which can scarcely be described. I
there met Mr. Stansel and family, who related
to mo the circumstances of the outrage as fol
lows:
The murdered child, Martha Holland, was an
orphan, eight years old. Her father and mother
are both dead. She had been left to the foster
ing care of her half brother, Mr. John Holland,
who, desiring to send her to a school in the
neighborhood, rather remote from where he
resided, made arrangements to board her with
a gentleman by the name of Holder, living
about one mile from the school house. Mr.
Henry Stansel also sent his daughter Emma,
about twelve years of age, to the same school.
Emma passed Mr. Holder's every morning and
calling for Martha they walked to the school to
gether.
Mr. Stansel had a negro man in his employ
by the name of Needham, who worked upon a
small farm near where Mr. S. resides. In pass
ing to the school house, the little girls had to go
through a long lane. It seems the negro had
gone to a field near it that morning, with his
plow and mule, bnt without doing any work,
waylaid them in the comer of tho fence. This
waa on Tuesday morning. When the girls ap
proached, he seized and carried them to the
woods, threatening that if they hallooed he
would kill them. The younger child, Martha,
being much frightened, did halloo, when the
brutal beast stabbed it in the throat. Emma
says Martha groaned once and died immediately.
Needham then tied Emma's wrists and gagged
her—patting a stick cross-wise in her month as
far as he could, and securing it in that position
with a string tied to each end of the stick.
After this he takes the body of Martha—car
ries it about fifty yards, where there had been a
number of pine poles cut for building a house,
and pnt her body in some of the pine tops and
covered it with others. He then returns to
Emma, and takes her (still tied and gagged) to
within thirty yards of where he had placed the
body of Martha, to another parcel of pine tope—
tied her to a sapling and covered her with other
tops, in which condition she remained, in inex
pressible agony, from about eight o’clock in
the morning until between four and five o'clock
in the afternoon, when she managed to pick the
string to pieces with which she was tied, and
thongh exceedingly frightened, fearing the de
mon would discover her if she moved, yet be
lieving it would be death if she remained, she
determined to attempt an escape, and actually
succeeded in reachingt he residence of Mr. Hol
der with the gag in her month, which she could
not extricate until Mr. Holder cut the string and
took it from her.
After this, she started for home, accompanied
by one of Mr. Holder’s daughters, and commu
nicated the appalling facts to her parents, and
told them she knew where Martha’s body had
been placed.
The neighborhood was aroused, and some
of the people accompanied Hr. Stansel and
daughter to tho scene of the outrage, while
others started out in search of Needham. It
was not long before Needham was found, hiding
in some broom-sedge, near where he lived.
He started to run, bnt was overtaken and com
mitted, and yesterday was on his way to jail in
Vienna.
Emma says: that after she was tied Need
ham returned three times, she thinks to see if
she was still there. The last time he left was
about twelve or one o'clock.
It was ascertained that during the afternoon
Needham went to one of his colored neighbors
(a ditcher) to borrow a spade. The general
opinion is that the use he intended to make of
the spade was to bury both victims. He prob
ably intended to kill Emma that night, and then
to bury the corpses of both the children.
Emma and Martha are both of highly re
spectable parents and are relatives. After
Needham had confessed these horrid crimes he
was asked why he did it ? His reply was, he
did not know—only the devil got into him.
Needham is a copper colored mulatto, about
25 years old, about five feet eight inches in
height and weighs in the neighborhood of one
hundred and forty pounds. Ho was a man much
inflated by freedom and had a bad character for
honesty: bnt in other respects had excited no
particular notice or apprehension.
lVho Has Lost a Mole ?
Vienna, Ga., March 25, 1869.
Dear Telegraph : On Monday last, Mr. Lilly,
of this place, went out into the woods near
town, to see to his hogs. Whilst he was attend
ing to his hogs, a negro man came, leading a
mule through the woods, and inquired for the
Hawkinsville road. Mr. Lilly directed him how
to get to that road by going through town, which
he seemed unwilling to do, and appeared anxious
to go round town. Mr. Lilly intimated to the
negro that there must be something wrong and
that he thought it probable that the negro had
committed some crime and was running away,
whereupon the negro fired his repeater at Mr.
Lilly. Mr. Lilly took shelter behind a yoke of
oxen and cart, and the negro mounted the mule
and galloped off.
The negro was captured and is now in jail.
He says his name is Jim Braaley and that his
home is at Griswoldville, Georgia. The mule
is a medium sized, dark bay mare mule about
five years old, and is no doubt stolen propety—
the negro having told three different tales about
the male.
On Thursday last, 23d inst, two white girls,
aged respectively fourteen and eleven years,
were on their way to school in the eastern part
of the county when a negro man came np to
them and caught one of them under each of his
arms and told them that he would cut the throat
of tho first one that hallooed or made any noise
— the younger girl, being badly frightened,
screamed out, whereupon he cut her throat from
ear to ear.
The negro then took the other girl into the
woods and gagged her by tying a forked stick in
her month—he tied her down ami violated her
person and kept her gagged and tied down in
the woods for six or seven hours.
After the negro had accomplished his hellish
purposes and satisfied his brutal passions, he
went off to get a spade to bnry the girl he had
trilled, and whilst he was gone the girl managed
to get loose and went home gagged.
The negro has been arrested, and is now in
jail charged with the crimes of rape and mur
der. The relations of the girls would have
killed the negro on sight had they not been pre
vented by the citizens from so doing.
Shepard Rogers.
Diabolical Murder.
We learn from officer W. D. Oliveira, who has
just returned from Clinch county, where he has
been on official business, that on Saturday morn
ing last, a negro named Poshns Mnckall, resid
ing at the village of Lawton, at Station I -*, on the
Atlantic and Gulf railroad, administered poison
in roasted potatoes to two colored children, nam
ed Charles and Mary Mack, which produced death
in about thirty minutes. There being no officer
at the village, tho citizens called upon officer Oli
veira to arrest the negro, who had immediately,
after poisoning the children, fled to the woods.
The officer, accompanied by Wm. Guglo and Wm.
Cameron, pursued him and after an exciting
chase, succeeded in capturing him and disarming
him of a revolver, a bowie knife and a quantity
of ammunition. Ho was taken to the village and
turned over to Messrs. Wm. Cameron and J. D.
Simians for safe keeping until he could be
turned over to a county officer, from whom,
however, he soon managed to make his escape.
Officer Oliveira followed him into a swamp, and
succeeded in arresting him a second time, and
turning him over to the same parties from
whom he had escaped. This time he was se
curely manacled so that it was impossible for
him to escape; officer Oliveira then took the
train and proceeded to Station No. 11, where
he reported tho facts to the Coroner and Dep
uty Sheriff of Clinch, who proceeded forthwith
to Station No. 12, the Coroner to hold an in
quest, and the Deputy to take charge of the
prisoner.
It seems that Mary Mack, the mother of the
murdered children, who claims to be a widow,
has keen living with Mackali for some time, and
that recently she abandoned him and came to
Savannah, leaving her children on his hands,
and that his object in poisoning them, was to
rid himself of the expense and trouble of sup
porting them. The boy was four years of age
and the girl three. Many of the citizens who
witnessed the children in the agonies of death
were so exasperated that it was with difficulty
that they could be prevented by cooler beads
from executing summary justice upon the fiend
in human form.—Savannah Republican, 24th.
The Messing United States Marshal.—It is
now considered no longer a matter of donbt that
Dickson, United States Marshal for Georgia,
has absconded and gone to parts unknown. The
general impression here, how received we know
not, is that he has gone to Cuba, but we doubt it
After .diligent inquiry, we have been wholly
unable to learn to what amount the Government
and private parties have suffered from this de
falcation ; the loss is generally believed, though,
to be quite heavy. Those who are best acquaint
ed with his business affairs and coarse of life do
not believe that be took any considerable sum
with him. Between several losing enterprises
and fast living, very large amounts, considera
bly beyond his income, were doubtless absorbed,
and the day of reckoning approaching without
ability on his part to respond, he considered it
prudent to leave the country. His official bond
is signed by two of the “solid men” of Savan
nah, and calls for twenty thousand dollars, be
yond which his indebtedness will prove a total
loss.—Savannah Republican.
Power of the Class Interest.
New England, with a population less than the
single State of New York, has more influence in
the government than half a dozen such States.
In the arrangement of the Standing Committees
of tho Senate, the following chairmanships are
given to that section:
Foreign Relations—Sumner, of Massachu
setts.
Military Affairs—Wilson, of Massachusetts.
Appropriations—Fessenden, of Maine.
Pensions—Edmunds, of Vermont.
District of Colombia—Hftmlin of Maine.
Public Buildings—Morrill, or Vermont.
Auditing Committee of Contingent Expenses
—Cragin, of New Hampshire.
Printing—Anthony, of Rhode Island.
Thus, out of twelve New England Senators,
eight of them are made chairmen of important
committees—such as the foreign relations, mil
itary affairs, appropriations and pensions. In
truth, it would seem that New England is now
ronning the Senate of the United States. As the
Cincinnati Enquirer says, “ it has been so ever
since the Republican party came into power, and
will be eo long as it is retained in it. New Eng
land is the head and the West the tail of their
organization.”—TaUahattee Floridian^
Fight in Mississippi.
Memphis, March 22.—On Saturday night a
skirmish took place neaz Batesville, Mississippi,
between a body of disguised men and a squad of
United States soldiers. After sharp firing the
maskers fled, but were pursued and one of their
number captured, who proved to be Jesse
Rhodes, a citizen of Panola County. The mas
kers had threatened to lynch a negro in the
neighborhood, and the commanding officers
sent a detachment to protect him. The par
ti, s met in the woods, and a collision ensued.
Rhodes was sent to Vicksburg, yesterday, in
Brownlow’s Thieves and Assassins. — The
Avalanche’s Brownvillo (Tenn.) special, seven r.
sl, says a hundred militia arrived there yester
day. After pressing all the horses in town, they
started for Woodville. where a squad of militia
was fired into a few days since. It is reported
that to-day they destroyed a store, and then had
an encounter with some armed men, by which
the militia lost fifteen killed. This is not fully
confirmed. Considerable excitement and anxiety
prevails there. Business is entirely suspended.
Welcome to Tennessee.—The Nashville Ban
ner welcomes a colony of eighty Pennsylvmia
farmers to Tennessee. They brought their
fanning implements and will settle near Tulla-
lioma.
BY TELEGRAPH,
From Atlanta—Another Dodge by Dr.
Bard, of the New Era.
Atlanta, March 25.—The following is a synopsis
of suable argument by one of the ablest jurists of
the South—sincere and without reproach—a mem
ber of Georgia’s Legislature—a Republican, and a
determined supporter of Grant’s administration.
It will appear in to-morrow’s New Era:
He says: I consider the fifteenth amendment a
Republican measure. It was proposed by republican
Congress—waa warmly urged by President Grant, a
Republican President, in his inaugural address, as
the best solution of remaining questions growing out
of the reconstruction policy of Congress, and is right
in itself, and settles the suffrage question and
makes it uniform all over the Union; entertained
these views, and considered it the duty of every truo
Republican to support it; it was the duty of tho Re
publican members of the Legislature to take hold of
it with energy, as a Republican measure,'and ifivite
Democrats to come upon it as an administration
measure. Many of them were ready, in honest good
faith, to have done so. This would have been the
first step to harmony and good understanding be
tween Republicans and that wing of the Democracy
which is willing to give Gen. Grant a fair trial and
support his administration, if aa wise and liberal as
all are now satisfied it will be. But to my astonish
ment and regret, I soon found this was not the line
of the State administration.
Gov. Bullock withheld the amendment from the
Legislators as long as he could do so without cre
ating too much sensation.- Finally, when he could
not hold it longer without an untruthful reply to in
quiries of both Houses, he sent it in, accompanied
by the message and recommending its adoption.
The message was a characteristic document on the
line of bis one idea, and waa clothed with such
language and filled with each expressions as might
reasonably be expected to give Democrats firm sup
port, as they had expelled the negroes from their
■eats. He taunted them with his construction of
tha amendment; which he said would, if adopted,
give the negroes the right to hold offioe and reseat
them.
He knew this waa the surest way to frighten
them from the support of the amendment. Bullock
intended to drive the Democrats from its support,
and opposed privately its adoption. Whilst re
commending it publicly, to satisfy the authorities
at Washington, he did everything possible, by him
self and his officials,.to defeat it. The fifteenth
amendment in the House was a plain and simple
resolution of adoption, adopted by 49 Democrats for
and 48 against it, few Republicans voting for and
against it, the balance of the Republicans dodging
or refusing to vote.
In the Senate,,Mr. Conley, the bosom friend of
Gov. Bollock and a warm supporter of his policy,
voted for an indefinite postponement. The next
morning it was brought np and ruled out of order
by the President of the Senate; but on an appeal
from the decision of the Chsir, a final vote was
taken, two-thirds of the Republicans voting against
its sdoption, or by absenting themselves during the
discussion.
Men holding the highest appointments in Bollock’s
gift, and known to be on his line of pohey were active
in the lobby and upon the floor, electioneering
against it. The reasons given for this was that it
would defeat Bollock's policy at Washington, urg
ing that Congress had not acted in good faith in
carrying out the fifteenth amendment, and wonid
not trust Congress any farther. Bullock played a
doable game in recommending the adoption and
privately opposing it with all bis power and patron
age. or it would bavo been adopted by over two-
thirds of both branches; that tho impression is at
tempted to be made on the President and members
of the Cabinet and Congress that the Democrats
are not acting in good faith, but it waa the honest
view of the Democrats that the North intended to
adopt the fifteenth; amendment, and this was
thought to be a propitious time to settle the whole
question. It was a Republican measure, and Re
publicans bad no excuse for voting against it.
Toe whole question is, that a few desperate Rad
icals, who want things in their own hands, look with
great interest to his trip to Washington, and that,
backed by Attorney General Farrow, they can make
President Grant do as they please, and thus shatter
tho frame-work of reconstruction and destroy peace
and harmony. Thousands now support the genera]
policy of Grant who were heretofore opposed to
him, and they consider the reopening of the re
counts traction question tho greatest misfortune that
can befall Georgia.
Congressional.
A NEW GEORGIA BILL.
Washington. March 25.—House.—Tho Mississip
pi bill was postponed until after the morning boar
The Reconstruction Committee bad no meeting
to-day.
The Election Committee was hoard on Louisiana.
No action.
A joint resolution restoring tho jurisdiction of the
Court of Claims to cases of citizens in the loyal
Statee, for vessels impressed during the war, was
passed by a vote of 87 to 80.
'Upson replaces Poland on the Reconstruction
Committee.
A bill restoring a republican government to Geor
gia was introduced and referred to the Reconstruc
tion Committee. It reassembles the original Legis
lature and imposes a test oath of qualification, and
declares the expulsion of colored members void.
The Mississippi bill was resumed, bat hud aside
for the tenuro-of-office bill, which after a strong
debate, was referred to the Juditiar^Committeo by
a vote of 95 to 79—only ten Democrats voting nay.
House adjourned.
Senate.—Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, has been
seated.
Mr. Rice introduced a bill restoring a Republican
Government to Georgia. A motion to consider it
failed, by 40 to 15.
The bill providing for the redistributing and issue
of an additional fifty millions of national currency
was considered, but without action.
Amendments to the National Junction Railroad
bill, connecting the North and South roads around
Washington, was adopted and it goes to the Presi
dent,
Senate adjourned.
From Washington.
Washington, March 25.—In an absolutely au
thenticated interview between Grant and the Mis
sissippi delegation, who are urging Grant’s assis
tance in passing the pending bill, Grant doubts
whether the bill will restore peace to Mississippi. He
favors appointments by the military Governor, with
a resubmission of the Constitution, with a separate
vote on objectionable features, some of which, he
says, probably would, and perhaps should be de
feated.
Mr. Johnson’s physician baa left for Greenville,
in response to a despatch announcing Mr. Johnson’s
dangerous sickness.
Young’s wives have reached Chicago.
The Governor of New Jersey, in a message, ar
gues‘against ratification.
Rhode Island has postponed action.
Indiana returns opponents in Bpeciil elections.
Mr. Boatwell wants legislation for redistribution
of national currency.
Customs for the week ending March 20, 64,-
166,000.
The President Iia3 nominated Edward L. Plumb
Consul-General to Havana; AlonzoP. Connell, Sur
veyor of Customs, at New York; E. A. Merritt, Naval
Officer of New York; Julius Emmerson, Assessor
3d Louisiana district; James A. Cooper, 2d Ten
nessee district; Isaac J. Young, Collector of the
4th North Carolina district; Julia P. Woolfolk,
Postmistress at Jackson. Tennessee, and Jamies T.
Smith, Collector of the 2d Mississippi district Quite
a number of Northern nominations.
The Executive session confirmed Bancroft Davis
.Assistant Secretary of State : James H. Casey, Col
lector of Customs at New Orleans.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, March 25.—Upon the statement
of State Senator Lynch and State Treasurer Dou
blet and his chief Clerk, relative to warrants drawn
by Auditor Wickliffe, that the payment of coupons
was fraudulently issued, the grand jury today found
a true bill against the Auditor for misdemeanor.
Tho fraud appears to have been discovered in Janu
ary-last, but upon being confronted with it the Au
ditor refunding the amount of coupons (62000) no
disclosure was made till the 23d inst.— Senator
Lynch giving as his reason fears of its effecting the
credit of the State.
The Auditor vacated his office today, and the
Governor has appointed L. T. Delassize. a ^red
man and a member of the State Board of Education,
as acting Anditor. <<|
General News.
Wilminqton, March 25,-The wreck referred to
in the dispatch of the 2ith proves to bo that of the
brig Model, of Portland, Me., bound to Savannah.
The crew was picked up by the schooner Kate Rich
and brought to this port today. The vessel was a
totalloss. ' ,
xrocTT V, March 25.—No races to-day, they havo
been postponed until Saturday.
Foreign News.
Madrid, March 25—The committee on Cortes
reported a' Conatitntion for a monarchy. Tho King
to reign eighteen years; Senators thirteen; Mem
bers of Congress three years; Church and State
separate. Cortes has passed the conscription law.
Marine News.
Savassah, March 25.—Cleared, steamers Living
ston, New York; America, Baltimore; hark Oscar
West, Grnnsby, England- Arrived, barks S. W.
Swasey, New York; B. B. Walker, Boston; schooners
H. G. Bird, Rockland, Me.; a W. Holst, Baltimore;
Haynes, Boston.
From Cuba.
Havana, March 23.—Twenty-five insurgents,
mostly of high rank in the rebel army, were
captured and executed within five leagues of
Trinidad. The situation in that quarter is more
serious than it hitherto had appeared. The Boo,
a newspaper of Matanzas, professes to have re
ceived intelligence that Florencio Jiminez, a
rebel General, has presented himself to the
Spanish authorities to receive pardon. He says
that other leaders, members of the revolution
ary junta at Villa Clara, will follow his example,
provided their lives be spared and they be guar
anteed safe conduct to some port from which
they may sail from the Island.
The Nassau Herald reports the capture of the
American brig Mary Lowell, at Bagged Island,
by a Spanish man-of-war. The brig, at the
time of her capture, was in the possession of
the British custom-house offioe rs, on charge
that she was carrying arms and supplies to the
insurgents in Cuba,
The British war steamer, Cherub, has sailed
from Nassau for Bagged Island to investigate
the affair. The Havana Government is fully
advised of the conduct of the commander of
the Spanish war steamer.
The Peruvian monitors remain at Bagged
Island. Daring the voyage one of the rams
broke loose and ran into the steamer Havana
and sank her. Several of the crew of the Ha
vana were drowned.
Georgia—Governor Bollock and Ills
Friends.
A writer in the Washington Bepublican gets
off tho following in regard to Georgia matters.
It should not be forgotten that (he Bepublioan
is a Badical Bepublican paper, and speaks the
wishes and sentiments of a large number of the
Itapnblican members of Congress :
“It appears clear to me that Congress will not
separate nntil after having remitted Georgia to
a territorial or provisional State government
nnder entire military domination. I have never
seen men more sick of their friends than are the
Bepublicans of Congress just now of Governor
Bnllock and his immediate supporters in the
Georgia Legislature, who have, in acting on tho
proposed fifteenth amendment to the Constitu
tion proved themselves qnito as unreliable as the
rebels of the body, and qnito as unworthy as
they to be intrusted with the management of the
public affairs of any portion of the people.”—
Atlanta Era. \
Fine at Dawson.—The Journal of yesterday
(Thursday) says: About 11 o’clock last night,
our quiet little city waa aronsed by the alarm of
fire, and was found to bo tho business office of
the Dawson Manufacturing Company, which
had too far advanced in burning to be saved,
when tho citizens got. there. We have not, os
yet, learned the loss. No idea as to how the fire
originated.
[AnTzansruxNT.]
Maoon, Ga., March 25, 1869.
To the Colored Citizen* of Macon and Bibb County:
Gentlemen—'This will inform yon that I called in
the Tax Collector's office, to pay my taxes, yester
day, and, to my groat surprise, I learned that only
a few of my race had paid the tax required by tho
Constitution and laws of our State. Those of ns
who are not property-holders are only required to
pay ond dollar (61 00).' This constitutes what is
known as our poll tax, and all legal voters especially
are required to pay it. I am not appealing to yon,
however, to pay your taxes so as to be able to vote
again, simply; for I hope, if the present decision of
tbs Legislature is allowed to remain, you will never
touch another ballot-box with a forty foot polo—and
I shall so advise yon at tho proper time. But our
character and reputation as civilized and law-abiding
citizens are at stake. And oar willingness to sup
port and comply with the requisitions of our Govern
ment will be the test of our status. And our friends
and foes will judge us from that stand-point. Be
sides, the simple dollar paid as a poll tax goes, or is
expended, in the education of our children. So,
yon will perceive, your money will never leave the
country, but will be devoted solely to our own eleva
tion. or, in plain terms, to the education of ourselves
and children. Thus, by paying our taxes, we obey
the laws of our State, vindicate our claims to every
right of a freeman—demonstrate our capacity for
self-government—and help to dot our hills and val
leys with free schools, which are tho great elevators
of men, races, and of the world.
A man too contemptibly mean to labor for the ed
ucation of his children, when the salvation of oar
race is suspended upon it, is too mean to be recog
nized by them as a father—too mean to be called a
husband; he is not a citizen, but a worthless incu
bus on society. Such is the character of those who
will not pay their taxes.
the magnanimous side of
e is more
pay your
iety. I
>t pay their
Now, I havi
the question. The other side of the picture
the brute order. That is, if you do not p
taxes, yon will be made to do it Now you can settle
the affair bjr paying one dollar. But if the sheriff
comes after you with a fi.fa., or with an execution,
yon will be doubts taxed; and it will oost yon from
two to five dollars—which will be undoubtedly done,
unless you settle your taxes at once.
Our Tax Collector, Mr. Heath, says he will con
tinue the collection through the month of April,
though the law requires him to dose his books
about the 1st. This he does ms a favor to the poor
and illiterate. I would also advise you not to merely
trust your taxes to any employer, white or black, bnt
see to it yourself. You arc responsible, and not
your employer. H. M. Turner.
Will our white friends read this letter to any col-
mud persons around them, and oblige H. M. T.
iiEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
FOB. SALE,
rjUIE most desirable vacant lot in Macon, being a
X a part of lots Gve and six in Square No. three, on
the eomer of Third and Wharf streets—containing
one-half acre. This location, from the testimony of
the oldest physicians and long experience, is consid
ered one of the most healthy in the city. and. thouzh
retired, is very aceessiblejrom the seat of business.
Its surface is admirable, and the view unsurpassed.
WASHINGTON POE.
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THE HONEST FEBSON
'HO. by mistake or otherwise, took from the
ladies'car, on the Central train. last evening, a
ladies’ car, on toe uenlral train. last evening, a
yellow sole-leather Hand Satchel, containing asmall
quantity ofelothingand some pneketbooki containing
papers of value to me and some private memorandum
books, will receive a suitable reward upon returning
it to this office. No questioni asked.
mar2S-tf WM. A. REID.
AUCTION.
ATURD AY morning, at 10 o'clock, we will sell —
A No. 1 FIRE PROOF SAFE (new).
mu26-2t R. R. CLAYTON A CO.
DR. C. J. ROOSEVELT,
HOMCEOFAT TTX S T.
H A 5teturned to Macon and resumed tbo practice
of bis Profession. Residence and office corner of
Walnut and Third Streets. mr21-lw
WANTED TO BENT,
A sm ALL HOUSE, near the business part of 'he
city Apply at
mar23-tf THrS OFFICE.
GARDEN SEED, Etc.
A FEW MORE LEFT—
LANDKETH’S GARDEN SEED
And genuine MUSQUITE GRASS,
For Lawn and Pasture, at
marE-tf ELLIS ' DRUG STORE.
FOR JU8TICK OF THE PEACE. 1\
authorited to announce PETER McHENRY
trirfr known as the bower
hbld'at the Office of E. C. Grnnni^ on_Satorday. 3d
day of April.
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FOR JUSTICK OF THE PK ACE. W
authorited to announce W. CT&BBjffjM a an i-
aatnonrea auuuuut. c - ——- ■ . , m
date for Justice of the Peace, for the 564th Di.
known as the Upper District. mar-
e are
as a
FOR JUSTICE OF THK PKACfi.-W
authorised to announce R. W. STUBBS. EsQ-.
Candidate for Justice of the Peace in the 716th (Low
er) District. mar25 -‘ d
Wearo authorized t» anoouaoe JOHN
w. 1 . -yw-. ’u. SHORTER as a Candidate for Jus-
ttoTomTPeace for the 716th District, known as the
Lower District. m : ,r.4-tdc
Wit jsiart frwarhtigt
ab (faudinatctt .“tit Crvu’iUiUmg fur ^tic-
dcit.s'richtcr ira 7l6tfu (lower) Sisfrirt rk-
smcigctt.
new aevebtisembnts
STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING,
: f
Resolved. That in compliance with theroqucit i
Kesoiveu, st~.vhnldi>ra of this Company.
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ice over this Road „
presentation of their
MILOS. FREEMAN.
. Secretary.
AH LINGrTOn
lutnal Life Iraram Company,
OF VIRGINIA.
purely Southern*
HODXE OFFICE, Bichmond, Va.
JN0. E. EDWARDS. Pres’t. D. J. HART800K. Sec.
ASSETS OVER $500,000.
New and (treat Popular Feature— Annual
Dividend* on Life Premium* with One-
Third Lower on Profit*—No Note* Re
quired for Premium*—All Restric
tions Removed—All Policies
Non- Forfeitable.
JJAVING
G been appointed Agent for this POPU-
LAK SOUTHERN COMPANY for the city of
Macon, and haring » pcraonal knowledge of the
management of its affairs, I recommend it to my
friends in Macon and Southwestern Georgia. »* a first-
elm. Life Insurance *>gP™>'p DLI)IAM . A
Office at present, with Carhart A Curd,
Da CUAS II. HALL, Medical Examiner.
, mr2S-lm _
NEW AUCTION HOUSE.
W E have opened an Auction Houseiou Second
Street, opposite J. W Burko Jfe Co.’s Book Store,
ami will offer for sale, on Tno*day next, at h&lf~put
iu o'clock, a. m„ city time, in front of Store.
Carriages, Buggies, Horses & Mules.
Also, at tho same time, in Store, a largo lot of new
FUKNITUKE. eonsfctin* of
Cottage Setts,
Tables, Chairs, etc.
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES.
Sale positive. Terms cash befnro delivery.
L. H. BRYANT A CO.,
Auctioneers.
N. B.—Believing we can get for Goods their value.
We will, is all oases, cherre full commission on all
Goods bought by the owner. Consignments solicited.
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Southern District of Georgia.
ALEXSn'iVkR S.BAER,Bankrupt,} In Bankruptcy
[ HEREBY ffive notice of my appointment as Aa*
alienee of Alexanders. Baor.of Cuthbert, Randolph
county, Georgia, who has been ml judged a bankrupt
upon his owu petition by the District Court of tbo
United States for said District.
Cuthbert, March 24, I860
JAMES BUCHANAN,
mar26-d1aw3w Assignee.
Southern District of Georgia.
HORACE^gWERS, Bankrupt.} 10 Bankruptcy.
X HEREBY give notiee of my appointment aa As
signee of Horace Powers, of Cuthbert, Randolph
county, Georgia, who baa been adjudged a bankrupt
upon hia own potltian. by the District Court of the
United States for said l)i-triot.
Cuthbert, March 24. 1869. *
JAS. BUCHANAN,
mar26-d1aw3w • Assignee.
Southern District of Georgia.
In the matter nf 1 . „ ,
SEABORN A. SMITH. Bankrupt./ ln Bankruptcy.
I HEREBYAive notiee of my appointment aa As
signee^Seaborn A.Smith, of Cuthbert. Randolph
lged a bankrupt upon
Dii-
county, Ga.. who has b- en adjudged
his own petition, by tha District Court, for said
tnet.
Cuthbert, March £4.1869
-JAMES BUCHANAN.
mar24-dla»3w Assignee.
Southern District of Georgia.
} In Bankruptcy.
ay.appointment a* As-
of Cuthbert. Randolph
In the matter of
MICHEAL J! RICH—Bankrupt.
I nKRBBY give notiee ol i
eisnecofMicho.it J. Rich.
county, Ga.. who has been adjudged a bankrupt upon
hts own petition by the District Court of the United
btates, for said District.
Cuthbert, March 24,1869.
- .. , JAS. BUCHANAN.
mar2G-dlaw3w Assignee.
Southern District of Georgia.
In the matter of | T „ ,
CALVIN BRYAN-Bankrupt. / In Bankruptcy.
county. Ga.. who has been adjudged a bankrupt upSn
State.! forVai^Diitrict.* «*»« o. the Uni'Sd
Cuthbert, March 24, 1869.
ro.ex-s, o JAMES BUCHANAN,
mar26-dlaw3w Axrinee.
Sontbern District of Georgia.
In the matter of > _ „
JAREL> W. POUNDS—Bankrupt, f In Bankruptcy.
I HEREBY sire notice of roy Appointment as A*_
njmee of Jared W. Pound/, of Clsycount^Gi
wno baa been adjudged a bankrant noon his* own
Sr said'District C °° rt ° f the "
Cuthbert. March 24.1869.
jambs buchanan.
Aoignee.
mai26-dlaw3w
Southern District of Georgia.
In the matter of »_ _
*?ABfc HOLLMAN. Bankrupt. Bankruptcy.
county, Georgia, who hat been adjudged a* hanlcnint
Cuthbert, Ga.. JIarch 2S, l&j i.
mar»-law3w JAS ' B ®CnANAN.
■ - / Assignee-
[OPFIClAL.f ~
n At&Ga V ! &^ri8®. }
he?ebv«M T »^t t r J0bn M ’ Clark ' 6 » < J- be. and he is
to of BMdT h ^^fFertilizersforthe eoun-
ty of Bald win, by virtue of the cower and authority
r f °tM “ A t ct r entiUed "An Act to protect tho
” ?, f thu ‘-Lite from imposition in tho sale of
fertilisers —approved September 17,1868.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Execu
tive Department, at the Capitol, in Atlanta,
the day and year first above written.
. ' . RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By theGovernor: Governor.
I>. B. :>F. fRaKFr.KRIRI>,
Secretary Executive Department
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BANKERS & BROKERS,
MA-CON, GA.,
R ECEIVE DEPOSITS, BUY AND SELL EX-
CHANGE, GOLD, SILVER. Stocks. Bonds apt
Uncurrent Funds. .* w
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL ACCESSIBLE
POINTS.
49-Office open at all hours of the day.
[septl-lyrl
H
XXXX WHISKY.
AVE received, this evening, another lot of this
Pure W hisky. jqjjjj w. O’CONNOR.
No. 60 Cherry Street
OLD HYE.
Received, this evening. 25 Barrels of this ehoice
brand of common Whisky. It is not equaled in this
market for the money. Also, other ohoies brands of
good medium Rye V) bl3}: fc 0 w O’CONNOR.
_ No. 60 Cherry Street.
IMPORTED ALR AND TORTER.
lish and Scotch ALES. —
JNO. W. O’CONNOR.
No. 60 Cherry Street.
SUNDRIES. ■
Champagne and other Wines, puro Brandy, Flour,
Fish',Tobacco. Sugar, CofieenndTeas.
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j NO- W. O’CONNOR.
No. 60 Cherry Street.
WHITE LEAD.
T HR COU?MBIAN WHITS LEAD-in psilf.
L. W. HUNT ACOi.
Druggists, Cherry bt.
rpHREE TONS
MAGNOLIA SNOW WHITE LEAD-in pails.
L. W. HUNT * CO.,
Druggists, Cherry st.
RXLY WHITE LEAD—in- pails.
L. W. HUNT A CO.,
Druggists, Cherry st.
F™ S?LOUIS PURE WHITE LEAD, warranted
e^nal to the best in market, and at leas pnee-^^—
zn8r25-tf
L. W. BUST & CO.,
Draggists,
82 and 84 Cherry st.
To Druggists and Physicians:
H AVING recently purchased the entire stock of
Drugs. Medicines, etc., of tlio PhttaU Drug Store.
Fuffiula. Ala.. I now offer for sale a half interest in
it on roasonablo terms, to any Druggist or Physician
capable of conducting the business. Tho Phoenix
Drugstore is located in Harts New Block, and is
fitted up with new and beautiful furniture, and all
tho necessary fixtures to n first-class Drug 8tore.
Terms mado known by addressing
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M- A. SMITH,
Bufaula. Ala.
CATHOLIC FAIR.
A T a meeting, held in the basement of the Catholic
Church, on Snnday evening, 21st inst., tbesever.nl
committees were appointed for tho management of
the Fair, to be opened on
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1869.
Tbo following gentlemen composo the
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT;
0. G. Sparks. Chairman.
J. W. Adcrhold, T. C. Dempsey,
Geo. B. Turpin. C. 3i Carey.
K. Isaac-, P. Fitrgerald,
T. Hardeman. Jr., H. McKervey,
J. B. Cutninimt B. O’Connell,
W. K. deGraffenfled, J. W. O'Connor,
D. Neligan. M. Daly.
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“THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.”
A LL persons indebted for advertising and subscrip
tion to this paper, are earnestly solicited to set
tle immediately with tbo undersigned, who alone has
the right to adjust balances. Editors, with whom the
‘‘Citizen” ha* exchanged, will please withhold their
papers until further notice. £ g - ASDKKW £
Americas, March 25.1869.
“Plow, LOOM AM ANVIL.”
On or about the 1st of May next, the undersigned
proposes to commence tho publication of a new paper
under the abovo title: devoted to tho development of
all the industrial resources of Georgia and the South,
Educational, Agricultural, Manufacturing and Me-
chanical.
The paper will be published, simultaneously, at
Macon and Amoricus. with Headquarters at Macon,
and will be.Issued Weekly, in the best style of the
I will soon bo
terms.
' rd
' W. ANDREWS."
NOTICE.
4 N Election for one Justice of the Peace and tiro
Constable* will bo held in each of tho Militia
tricta of Bibb county, cn the first Saturday ithe
3d day-of April no.Vi) in !h<> mariner ;i ad form pre-
eenbad by law. That praeixiet for the Lower District
Oeual ulaccs for holding Justices* Court.
At the same time, at tho Court-house (City Hall,)
and the county precincts, wiH be held an election
for tea Commissioners to locate th o Court-house and
Jail insaid county, and lor the d r .linage of the swamp
adjoining tho city of Mucor?.
C.T. WARD.
mr-4-td Ordinary.
Cr. NTJSSBAUM,
34 SECOND STREET, (Comer of Alley.)
T EC E A. T E E.
RALSTON’S HALL.
BETURN OF
COtert’s SontiieraDramalic Troaje.
FOR ONE NIGHT ONL T.
FRIDAY EVE WING, March 26,
Will be produced, th» great sensation of
“UNDER THE SAS LIGHT.”
J- \ . <«-lLBERT, Manager.
marS-2t J ' M ' GIIj BERT, Agent.
H 4ynro returned from New York and ot
, J Y*■ tWW'Morkete a few days since, return,
-„r, , J .v h n u ks to i“ y 0ld Patrons for tho liberal ,
?robestowecton tne in the pn<t a Sir
■ X. “P' 1 * le Pdbhc generally to eontinun
I would call tho attention of.
ry ono to tho largo and well selected Stock of
STAPLE AND FANCY ,
DRY GOODS
NOW ON EXHIBITION AT THE
SOUTHERN EMPORIUM.
You,£*n find anything usually kept in a first
i>ry Goods house, at prices to compare with
house South, and while I-insure that no tim
trouble will be spared in showing Goods
TO PLEASE MY CUSTOMERS,
Country Merchants,
amine u'v s”ock whi*le' -? re . r< - v lff-«tfully invited to ex-
piies. >«» while laying m their 8priac 8up-
s«inac ria ' W '" be to induoayouto call
G- NDSSBAUM’S,
QNE GROSS CELEBRATED 1
daylight burners,
'‘ h Chimnie8 that heat will not break. Only $1.00
w 1,1 fit up any Lamp, at
_n>a~-f ELLIS’DRUG STORED
A FEW MORE LEFT.
AJ aoie out o/ts,'bX^c?“ 0ld ’ 1 wisi t0 mak0 a
hrnne, and on reasonable ?)^ ana !. h °to who want a
immediately. M UmS'« mI do well to call
quick., if “ant^Thome m " ,eJ 0D Soc0 ®°
FOB. SBEB OB X
A C0TTA(1K «0USE, with four
pantry, and all necessary outhouses
Apply to n -rv
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