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A Ihe above named Hotel, at
Ino old stand opposite the .Court
’’M ”3 House where lie will at all times
be pleased to Fet his lriendsanU Hie public gen
erally. Th< house lias been renovated, and .he
table will be lit erally -unn/ied.
Mr W T Poster will be in readiness with good
horses and vehicles to couvey passengers to any
desired point.
J- J. DOHECTY.
Greencsboro Ga. sept ?o—tf
Augusta Hotel.
AUGUSTA, : : : : GEORGIA.
S. Jl. JONES, Proprietor.
rnms Lead ing, FaOiionable Hotel, has been
J. newly and elegantly imnfshed. and is uoiv
prcpaied to ext' iid a • Georgia Welcome.”
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DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
(Sunday excepted.)
Leave Augusta at (>.30 A. M.
Leave Atlanta at 5.15 A. M.
Arrive at Augusta at C OO P. M.
Arrive at Atlanta at 0.10 P. M.
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Leave Atlanta at G. 20 P. 51.
Arrive at Augusta at 3.15 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta at 5.00 A. 51."
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Athens, Ga., must take Day Passenger Train
Passengers for Mobile and New Orleans must
leave Augusta on Night Passenger train at 8.00
p, in. to make close connections.
Passengers for West Point, slontgomery
Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junction, Memphis,
Louisville and St. Louis, can take either train
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TIIROUGII TICKETS and Baggage checked
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Sleeping Carson all Night Passenger Trains
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following Schedule until further notice:
CIIALESTON TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at < .00 A 51
Arrive at Charleston 4.00 P 51
Arrive at Columbia 5.20 P 51
Leave Charleston at 8.00 A 51
Arrive at Augusta 5.00 P M
11. T. TEAKE, Gen’l Sup’t.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
Bay Passenger Train— (Except Sunday.)
Leave Atlanta 8 45 A.M.
Leave Dalton 2 55 P. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga 5 25 P. M.
Leave Chattanooga 320A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 12 05P. M.
Night Passenger Train — Daily.
Leave Atlanta *1 00 P. M.
Arrive at Dalton 1 15 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga • 410A. M
Leave Chattanooga 4 10 P- M
Arrive at Atlanta 1 41 A. M
Dalton Accommodation Train —Daily Ex
cep l Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 3 50 P, M
Arrive at Dalton 12 25 P. M
Leave Dalton 1 25 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta 0 45 A. M
ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train—Going Out.
Leave Atlanta 5 15 A. M
Arrive at West Point 10 A. M
Leave West Point 1 18 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta 0 5 1 , M
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Macon ‘ 45 A. M
Arrive at Atlanta 2 00 I. M
Leave Atlanta 1
Arrive at Macon 1 30 **• M
Leave Atlanta 8 40 P. M
Arrive atslacon 4 25 A. M
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the Traveling Public that he has furnished
his Hotel throrghout, and is prepared to accom
modate all with the best the country affords, on
reasonable terms. Board nr.d I.dicing $2.00
per day. Single Meals, 50 cents. Board per
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AUGUSTA, :::::::: GEORGIA
Newly Furnished and Refitted,
UNSURPASSED BY ANY
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IS NOW OPEN TO TIIE TUBLIC.
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Late of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprie
tor of Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.—ea4s
» ftsaicA* mh\ TUKTAi oi .
UNO k BROWN I N G, Prop’rs,
(Opposje Passenger Depot.)
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fc. Actor You no, Wm. H.TTkowning,
Late of Nashville, Tcnn, Late.of Ga
GREENSBORO, GA., AUGUST 24,1807.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
BY FANNIE DOWNING,
They have tern off the crown from her beauti
ful brow,
Yet sho never seemed half so majestic ns now,
When she stands in the strength of her borrow
sublime, .
As she ever stood—noblest and best of her
time I
They have wiped from the roll of their country
her name,
Co-ex latent with glory, co-equal with fame;
On the record of time it will gladly enduro
As unchangeably bright as her honor is pure.
They have stolen her crest, which for ages has
blazed,
And the motto slie loves from the. surface
erased, _ “ _
But vain is their malice, nnd futile their art,
For the seal of Virginia is stamped on the
heart t
Sic Semi'ek Tyrannis! We will whisper it
low,
While the hearts in our bosoms cxultinlgy glow
As we think of the time, in its sure coming
course,
We will prove it by deeds with a tcrriblo force.
Not the we of this age ! We shall pass from
our pain
Ere the bonds of Virginia are sundered in
twain;
Yet the day when her children shall free her
shall dawn
Just as surely ns earth in her orbit rolls on !
On her regal White shoulders they press down
their yoke,
But her mind is unfettered, her spirit nnbroke;
A woman, sore weakened, her form they con
trol,
But the points of their arrows turn blunt on
her soul 1
Like the vultures, they swoop in a clamorous
swarm,
And their talons imprint in her delicate form ;
Her rich treasures they covet, yet blacken and
blot
As they’re parting her garments, and easting
the lot!
As the Jews loved the Romans that horrible
night,
When the Sliechinah took from the temple its
flight:
As the Poles love the Cossack, and Greeks love
the Turk ;
We Virginians love those who have compassed
this work !
Yes, we love them ! as Antony, righteous in
wrath,
Loved Brutus, the murd’rer, polluting his path,
When in brazen disgrace he defiantly stood,
With his hands redly reeking with Caesar’s
warm blood !
Yes, we love them ! as Rachel, whose baby lay
dead,
Its soft body apart from its innocent head ;
Stung to madness by pain, and infuriate with
"hate,
In the depth of her anguish, loved Herod the
Great l
Though our faces must wear in their presence
no frown.
In our souls wo despise them, nnd trample
them down ;
To Virginia, in chains, we exultingly cling,
While we spurn them away as a leprous
thing!
Not the v rath of a day, o~ a season is ours ;
t the white heat oi' passion it ceaselessly
towers;
We will keep it aglow, and its red sparks shall
run
Through the veins of Virginians, from mother
to son!
For Virginia has daughters, who stand at her
side, *
And her spoilers in dignified silence deride ;
While serene in their strength, every feeling
controlled,
Into heroes the men of the future they mould I
r Tis true, they are infants now, hushed on the
breast,
Hut we teach them a lesson no tyrant can
wrest;
Sic Semper Tyrannis we will sow with their
prayers,
Theywil) reap with rejoicing the harvest at last!
To Virginia, at present the cross and the
sword;
Bnther future is fair in the hand of the Lord ;
When Ills vengeance sweeps down in a fiery
tide,
She shall shine as the gold that is seven times
tried!
From God’s own chosen people, His arm was
removed,
While though Palestine Siscra raged unros
proved.
Till the work which the Lord had appointed
had wrought.
When the stars in their courses for Deborah
fought!
Thou Mother in Israel, Virginia, shalt wake,
And thv hands of captivity captive shall take ;
At thy" feet they shall bow, they shall crouch,
they shall fall,
With Sic Semper Tyrannis thou It trample
them all!
They humble Virginia 1 Just as well may they
To sully the stars of Heaven’s battlements high!
When they crumblo to nothing Virginia shall
shine , ,
Eternal, immutable, glorious, divino .
Their Guns Turned UroN Them. —The
National Intelligencer quotes from Mr. Pier
repont’s speech in the Surratt case to proto
that a conspiracy to take the Presidents life
is a greater crime than one against a king s
life, &c., &c„ and asks the following questions;
“Why should not the conspirators (Cono
ver, Ashley, Butler, and Holt,) against the
life of President Johnson be arrested, impris
oned, tried by military commission and
ignominiously executed l’’
They are making ruin in Louisiana out of
sweet potatoes. Seven barrels of
yield a barral of rum.
(From the {savannah Republican.)
General Pope's Newspaper Orders.
The last military edict number 40, from
Headquarters Third Military District, pub
lished in yesterday’s Republican , in which
instructions are sent to civil officers of every
grade to publish their advertisements only
in such papers as support the Reconst'uction
measures of Congress, lias very naturally
created a profound impression upon the pub
lic mind. We are greatly astonished al the
general tenor of the order, conflicting as it
does so strongly with the order published a
sliott time ago in regard to the freedom of
the press, in which Gen. Pope took a lofty
ar.d liberal ground, condemning the action
Td one of his subordinates of Mobile, who ex
ercised bis tyranny over a weekly Republi
can journal issued in that city, in the strongest
terms, and denounced the exercising of any
restraint over the press or any interference
wi'h its Constitutional tights. With the
recollection of its previous mandate t inging
in our ears—an act, too, that received, as it
justly deserved, the warmest encomiums from
the press of tho country—North, South,
East and West, irrespective of party feelings
this last is at least open to the charge of in
consistency, for it contradicts, or sets aside,
in the plainest terms, all that has been pro
claimed from Headquarters on this subject.
Candor compels us to say that we regret the
appearance of this order, and for what ap
pears to us tho best of reasons. We
cannot but regard it as a step backwards in
the great work or reconstruction. There are
a great many valid objections to tho enforce
ment of such orders as this, which enlight
ened men of al! parties, be they Radicals or
Secessionists, Republicans or Copperheads,
may justly entertain without exposing them
selves to the serious charge of obstructing or
retaiding the reconstruction measures of
Congress. An order of this kind cannot be
carried into execution without great detri
ment to the public interest, and much lots
and inconvenience to Government, on ac
count of its utter impracticability. At pres
ent there are but five jou-nals in the State
that do not oppose the Congressional pobey
of reconstruction —the Savannah Republican ,
Atlanta Era , Atlanta Opinion , National
Republican , Augusta, and the Griffin Union,
a weekly sheet. It is impossible for this
small number of papers located at such re
mote points, to. reach people in (he upper
section of the rt»i. hr in ‘ .cl th° citizms of
any county, in sufficiently large numbers
(outside of the localities in which such jour
nals are published) to accomplish their mis
sion, viz: the dissemination and scattering
broadcast among the people of all tho new
laws of the laud, military and civil.
We disl.ke the order because it breathes
strongly of that intolerant spirit which
several of the rabid journals North and South
are still foolishly revealing towards all who
conscientiously differ with them on certain
political questions. Attempt to conceal it
who may, it is emphatically tampering with
the press, and a direct inteifercnce with their
legitimate business, in onr honest judgment,
not sanctioned by pure justice, nor warranted
by circumstances. It will bo viewed by
many people as a direct tax or levy upon the
trade of every anti-Congressional journal in
Georgia comprising over fifty, for the purpose
of supporting journals whose doctrines are
so odious, and whose editors are so detested
that the people refuse to sustain them in
their midst. Horace Greely spoke tho truth
when he refused to give any material aid to
ward establishing ultra and extreme news
papers in the South, asserting that “a journal
which is not conducted with sufficient ability,
magnanimity and discretion, while battling
for the right, to induce people to take it, and
to support it because of its justice, influence
and enterprise, is not worth sustaining, be
cause it cannot possibly achieve any good.”
We have in our experience of the past twen
ty five months tho best assurance that can
possibly be required, of the willingness of the
people of Georgia to sustain a respectable
Republican journal —hence it cannot be said
that the people are to-day so sullen and hos
tile to the Government that they will not rea l
pr subscribe to a pftper that may hones.lv
differ from their views, and at the sa,ne l ’ me
yield a cheerful aid to the • Government.—
Any attempt on the part of the Government
to force people of the South to patronize pa
pers of the Brownlow School, teeming with
the vilest kind of abuse against everything
that is dear and sacred to them as Christian
people, will end as it should, in ignominious
failure.
Without professing to.possess the sagaci
ty or discretion ofa Roman Julius Agricol?,
or the wisdom gained in the Persian schools,
we dare assert that this order, by virtue of
its infeasibilily and injustice will help to
defeat the very cause it was intended to ad
vance. We fear it will dishearten and intim
idate the people who have manifested a desire
to do all that they consistently could to
promote the restoration of Georgia to the
Union, in spite of the unsound teachings of
broken down and disappointed politicians.
It will be received by many as an order pro
hibiting or limiting free political discussion.
We are inclined to believe that this order
would not have emanated from' tho 111. Q’is
of this District, had it not been for the false
hoods, misrepresentations and exaggerations
that ate daily made to General l’ope by un
scrupulous and designing politicians—hun
gry patriots—modest aspirants for good fat
offices. Lest some of our neighbors, with
their usual magnanimity and truth, should
hasten to make capital oit of this order by
insinuating that vre have been instrumental
in securing its passage in order to gratify
personal aggrandizement,we desire to forests J
any such aacusations. We are poor, have a
weakness for greenbacks, and are not so in
dependent that we cara nothing for the ess
teem and respect of the high-minded citizms
of Savannaii, the majority of whom, while
differing from us politically, have never
refused to accord to us that courtesy and
kindness which finds its mainspring wherever
there is true nobility of soul, honesty of heart
and a keen appreciation of justice. But
thank Heaven, our poverty is not so great,
nor the sting of human avarice so strong,
that we could consent to disgrace ourselves
by seeking to enrich our pockels at the ex
pense of sacrificing our political adversaries’
inalienable rights.
We sincerely wish that every journal in
Georgia could see as we do tho perils of pro
longing resistance to ibe laws of Congress
and could realize as wo do the great misap
prehension thoy entertain regarding the real
sentiments of the Northern people ; but we
should disdain to resort to such measures as
these to convert them, or aronso them from
their hallucination, So far as our hanV'ig
anything whatever to do with this or any
other order, we can say that we have never,
by word or deed, sought (o inlluence the
passage of any order, without it was one di
rectly antagonistic to this, where we denied
the right of any power, civil or military, to
order a free American citizen what he should
and should not publish in tho columns ol his
paper. Our opinions on this subject are 100
familiar with the public to require repetition
here. In conclusion we must say that it
is not our idea to reform, and wo believe
that there is an all conquering power in
truth, whose stenglh no man need doubt,
and that as Milton says:
“Let her and falsehood grapple ; who ever
knew truth put to the worst in a free and
open encounter! Hu .••.■>!) fron***# '- the
best aud surest Suppression. When a man
hath been laboring in the harvest, even in
the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished
out his findings in all their equippage,drawn
forth his reasons as it were a battle, ranged,
scattered and defeated all objections in his
way, calis out his adversary into The plain,
oilers him the advantage of wind and sun, if
ho please, only that be may try the matter
by dint of argument; for his opponents then
to skulk, to lay ambushruenls, to keep a nar
now bridge of licensing where the challenger
should pass, though it be valor enough in
soldiership, is but woakness and cowardice
in the wars of truth. For who knows not
that truth is strong, next to tho Almighty 1
She needs no policies nor stratagems, nor
licensings to make her victorious ; those are
tho shifts and the defences that error uses
against her power; give her but room and
do not bind her when she sleeps.”
Negro Supremacy and a Counter Revolu
tion —The President’s Position.
[From the New York Herald.]
The Radicals have blundered into a posi
tion that gives the President a golden oppor
tunity—a chance to redeem his administra
tion —to obliterate the memory of his great
errors in taking advantage of the greater
errors of his enemies. He can yet convince
the Radicals that in giving up impeachment,
on the ground that they could have no man
more suitable to their purposes in his place,
they counted with only a one-sided view of
the possibilities. The -country is justly
alarmed at what has already become evident
in tho realization of the Radical p.arty pro
gram ne. It is clear that this programme
means no less than negro supremacy in ten
States, and the consequent division of the
country on a worse basis than that which led
the rebellion. We fought to free the
union from party domination guided by
slaveholders, and we fall under a party dom
ination based on the votes of tho slaves we
made free. We have set them free to make
th*m our masters. We exchange a white
tyranny for a black tyranny. Thi3 was not
wliat the people meant when they gave lives
without limit and money without stint to
prosecute the war. Eveu those who desired
to free the slaves would not have made them
masters of the political destinies of any part
of the nation ; yet something Vory nr-ar to
Ibis must be the result of the policy of those
Radical leaders of whom Mr, Stanton is tho
type. .
We degrade and adulterate the national
life by introducing into it half a million ser
vile, semi-brutal voters—all that the suprem
acy of an arrogant and dangerous faction
VOL. 2, NO 18
may be secured and made permanent. And
this, indeed —this making of negro voters
and driving the white men of the South from
the polls—is the whole result of tho war as
Radical leaders see it.
But the people are awakening to the true
perception of this great matter, and it needs
no extreme prevision to know that the na-«
tion will eventually trample under its
feet every vestige of tho party that bolds
such ideas, and lias led it into this false
position. The plain question for Mr. John
son is whether he has the courage to take
the current of this national tendency and
make a bold fight with Congress and the
Radicals, now that they are in the wrong—
to fight when he may have the people on
his side, with the same spirit with which he
assailed Congress when Its Acts were in har
mony with the national will. If ho has, the
case is plain before us. lie must make a
clean sweep of all the present personnel of
reconstruction. He must brush away all tho
commanders, and if thero are no Generals
to take their places, make some. He must
not stop with Stanton even in his Cabinet,
Taking thus anew departure, pursuing an
honest policy of reconstruction, never loosing
sight of tho real objects of the war, but break
ing up utterly this mischievous attempt to
secure nigger supremacy, ho will merely go
before the wishes of the people, and though
an attempt at impeachment would come as
sure as sunrise with the assembling of Con
gress, tho attitude of the nation would awe
it into silence.
Where ate the “American flag” patriots
now ? Tho Mexicans, to seize Santa Ana, in
violation of the laws of nations, literally
trampled, with their feet, upou the American
flag, and yet we have not beard a siugle note
of wail from these leatherslunged heroes, who
but just now made our country a bedlam
with their hypocritical yelk The American
flag may be trampled into the mud forty
fathoms deep, and these flag screamers will
never raise a note, unless it may somehow,
redound to tho glory of negroes. “Beauti
black darlings!’’— Old Guard.
Southern Reconstruction.
The following paragraph from a recent let
ter of the lion. Ilevscbel V. Johnson to the
N. Y. Tribune embodies truth which cannot
be evaded:
“The scheme of reconstruction offered to
us professes to extend to us the right ts
cbopsimr bj’ vote : It calls on us to say whether
we ;Vre for jM.nst a* BPtmmwSßy such as
mat scheme contemplates. When TANARUS, in the
exercise of that volition, express myself as
opposed to it, you and the other leading R -
publicans of the North, who consider my
poor opinions worthy to lo noticed, infer
fhorofrom that lam disloyal, factious, and
rebellions. If those who are opposed to that
plan of reconstruction are thus to be branded,
why call on us to choose? If we bo free to
choose, is it quite consistent, charitable, and
just, to denounce us because we do not choose
ns the Republicans desire that we should!
Aye, more than th’s; to- threaten us with
perpetual disfranchisement and confiscation
if we do not choose ? Is that the way to
establish State governments,- “ deriving their
just powers from tho consent of the govern
ed ?” It is true that I am disfranchised—
ram not permitted to register. But I did
not know that I was, therefore not at liberty
to write and speak freely to my f.llow-citi-
Z3DS, without being denounced as disloyal
and factious. I profess lo be loyal to the
constitution and intend to be loyal to the
Union, when it shall be settled that Georgia
constitutes one of the States of the Union.
But if loyalty means fidelity and adhesion
to the Republican party, I shall never belong
to it nor be loyal to it, so long as it per*
sists in a course of policy which must end
in the overthrow of the constitution. I have
taken the oath of amnesty, and intend to
keep it in good faith, in letter and in spirit-
It binds me to support the constitution. That
I will do to the best of my ability. It binds
me to support the emancipation of the ne
groes from slavery. That I intend to do, and
favor their investment, by law, with every
right that is consistent with every right that
is consistent with their welfare, tho interest
of well organized society, and the perpetu
ation of government. More than this ycu
would not ask of me. We may differ hon
estly as to what lights are commpatiblo with
these ends ; but that difference does not con
stitute either of us traitors or disloyalists, in
any legitimate sense of that term.”
Rsnoyatin* Worn out Lands. —At >
recent agricultural meeting in Boston, one
of the speakers remarked that “on a tract of
land, which was overrun with wood box, bri
ars, and other shrubs, be turned one hundred
and fifty sheep. At that time a cow could
not have lived on the whole tract The sheep
were kept there several years, and killed out
the wild errowtb so that detract now affords
good pasture for fifteen cowi."
]3oys"nev er lose anything by being
civil and accommodating. It often proves
to be the foundation on which their after
fortune is built-
