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The great question, l* the negro enpa*
THE NEWNAN HERALD
Prom the Louisville Journal, j the reTolt at the first favorable opportu- j not inconsistent with our present con- on the part of our fannes to dispose of Tr ‘s to be rtgn tted that Luut..mn
0 - 0 -- — r -'he vote of the Mississippi State Con-' nitv? That's not the wav to restore the dition. j their lands so cheaply when by a judi-j Colone L^ c ^ (’ enora i
Wc of providing for his own want!?? it] rent ion, in favofc of abolishing slavery in 1 Inion. Fraternity is not thus developed To facilitate the people in obtaining cious course, they can procure help that attacked the i 1 n 11 ^ di dlle c >uld
undergoing a test. lie has been cast’ that State, may be taken as a fair indiea-1 or perpetuated. Confidence and good the Amnesty proffered, the Ordinaries or: will enable them to plantt their farms in ^ heeler in hi. 1 - • .j^,j on ]y
upon his own resource*^ a fair trial has tion of popular feeling throughout the feeling beget confidence and good feeling. Clerks, (as the case may be,) arc author J small grain at least. \\ e ask toem to ( being out of the &sr icc p ^ ^
been given ..him. A ^failure can result; Southern States. That vote was eighty- j It u unjust to hold the mass of the South- ited to procure printed hlauks from cither calmly consider this subjet in all its bear-
only from hisfaults er deficicnces. six in favor of the proposition and eleven ern people responsible for the recreancy one of the following presses most conve- ings. and if it would not ho better, it it
Wc give no opinion on this point, as it is j against it. The eighty-six represent those and bravadorof a few malcontents. Ik-al nient, as the same uiny be needed, for would n**t be more manly, to meet diffi-
fiow in t'rafit- 1'rein the decision ren- in the South who realize the fact that ' "encrouslv and fraternallv with the nia- which payments will be provided, on bills culties than to despond under them.
/.AJtr i#rinnrc **0* 111 1 . _ m 1 ^ ^ * * . . , ^ ^ — .—- — ^->
tiie Mfte. ‘Oar terms * d< ’ rc<4 can be no appeal. N o amount : slavery has been annihilated, that seces- j trity, and thev will take care of the po presented at this office, viz: Savannah Morris Ketchum
| of evidence of \circumstantial character non was a huge blunder, and is now a i litical huehwhackars and incendiaries; at ^Republican, Augusta Chronicle & Scnti-:
Work must be paid f 0 r can corTWtncss * I** the affir-1 dead cock in the pit, and that the Union 1 —* - J — -x»-J- —i c —.w— ttUnh Tnirl
Rumber of the Herald. j more,
pored under serious difficul-
pof exchanges in preparing
>cr. Wc hope
in future.
mativc is for the negro, wc do say that ! is one and indivisible, that, in the lan-
wc believe he lias capacity for nothing guage of the immortal expounder of the
The idea that the black can ever
use properly the elective franchise, with
iti accompanying privileges, seems to us
preposterous. The very fact that he has
u been the slave of white proves his i«fe-
orald to many who arc riority.' Why is Africa as barbarous to
day as it was ten centuries ago?
ch need not expect
tss wc receive notice
imoncy, of a desire
Constitution, we are to hare “ Liberty
and I'nion, one and inseparable, now and
. I -
forever;” that they intend to conform to stronger itstcad of weaker
. . ., . . .... .1 i r 1" o . i _ . r ,„| i A warmer or more general sympathy
least the said majority will be able to dc* ncl. Southern \\ .-itchman, Atlanta Intel v ’ ,
.... , . ,, .. r. n-\t ti * .k has never been expressed than that which
this with such assistance, moral and tua- ligencer,Rome Courier. Macon leu graph. . , _ ,
, - - ,, , j n i i is evinced lor the senior member ot the
tcrial, as the Government will be both Southern Recorder and Loiumbus r.n . . . .
, .... _ , , . i great banking firm which has been re-
able and witling Jo afford them, and to do nuirer. i v , , , , , ,, ,
• • i . .... „ . .r ccntly overwhelmed by so sudden ami
it in such a manner as to make the l mon Done at Miludgevule, the capital ot J ,
. * _ _ . . „ .... -.i. » _ .r dreadful a calamity* Mr. l\et<
by a severe reprimand from the Lead of
the Department.
They behaved like cowards. They are
rewards. It they had not been cowards,
thev wouldn’t hare gone—two big rascals
to beat one very small man in his bed ; a-
man. who, small as he is, could, foot-loose,
kick either of them through the street.
Major-General Wheeler was in Nash
ville; as a witness in the case of Champ
Ferguson, by the authority of the United-
states Government under its nominal pro-
Atlanta will find it
advertise cxtcnaivc-
r the counties in
irculatcs largely
. The merchant*
hvillc and New
insult their interest by do-
|y gratified at the cncour-
h has been extended to us.
policy of Georgia,
limit a policy, is like a ship
cakcra—destined to speedy
i with “a wise policy/’ is
both chart and compass,
in her favor to avoid
prosperous voyage.—
iis proposition is
Ir country,England,
^governed by short-
cal rulers she would
of self-government,
jr sway limited to her narrow con-
On the other hand, she has, in
instances, been blessed with atates-
of prudence and discretion, and to-
Why
arc the governments of Liberia and 1 lay ti
miserable failures? The answers to
these questions point plainly to the con
clusion to which we have arrived. If he
is ever granted, in law, equality with the
whites, time will prove that it will not
elevate him.
God gave men different talents, and no
line can be drawn that will equalize the
whole. An effort at its accomplishment
would prove just as successful at one to
make all bodies of water the same size.
He could not liberate himself from slavery.
All that lie has of cnlightcniyjcnt and
liberty, was taught or given by others.—
In every instance in which the experi
ment lias been tried, he has given unitiit-
takeable signs of a tendency to decline
instead of advance in the scale of civili
zation. The efforts of missionaries to
elevate his ancestors have bccu vain.- —
How true that those who know more of
the negro, give him credit for less enpa
city than those less acquainted with him.
Why is this? If he is a black whitcinan
why does he not convince men with whom
he is in daily contact? The loudest
clamor for his legal equality with the
whites, conics from those who never saw
day liberty flourishes in Britain—the
morning drum of her armies beats around
the world, and the sun never sets on the
dominions of Queen \ ictoria. Her sub
jects view its rising from the slopes of
the Ural, feel its burning rays on Indias’
plains, and behold its decline from the
golden shores of the Pacific.
This extension of empire, accompanied
by prosperity, was the work of ages, and
is mentioned not with the expectation of
convincing any one that Georgia’s limits
will be thus extended, but as a proof of
the value of wisdom in the national
council. It is as much the duty of the
mail to preserve established, as to
Tits. Our State now asks
lil but endangered privi-
slie will need the services
prevent their loss, it will
her Convention. Let too
led to the clamor from some
become a degraded pco-
Lt enough, and perhaps the
id to avoid may he cast upon
President has manifested a
a dozen of his race. We guess they
to grant the eleven States
"fjbt all, their guaranteed rights,
r becomes us to rally to his support
on these great questions. By a speedy
restoration of civil law and admission in
the Union, wc gain untold blessings; and
among them is the writ 6f Habeas Cor
pus. The removal of the military forces
would greatly exteud our freedom, not
withstanding the gentlemanly bearing of
many officers and uicn of the army.
Wc entreat flic voters to select such
men only as have the good of the coun
try at heart, Wc canuot have all things
as we wish them, yet we may be able to
avert many evils that are now threatening.
We must defeat negro suffrage; and to do
this wc assure you great prudence is ne
cessary. Of course the reader will un
derstand that we db not intimate that we
apprehend any danger of the State Con-
vention^fastening it upou U9 by direct act.
But there is a large party in the Northern
States opposed to the President, prepared
to resist the admission of delegates into
Congress from Georgia aud other States
similarly situated, unless the different
Conventions enfranchise the negro. That
is powerful in numbers and energy,
defeat bangs the weal of our
prudent men to the
the understanding
littou to receive
ich as his condition
oving ourselves just.
,nks with all who agree with
past—come boldly up
conflict, trusting to the
on this question must
once our delegates
mgress, aud tho xnili-
k our destiny will he
Our great object
the aid of all right*
everywhere in their aecorn-
‘ r ue wc will be opposed in
s by some, it matters not
idopt; yet there is reason
ve that* a moderate and
our part, will secure !
nt to overthrow all
To partic-
peculia.r
misapply the adage, “a prophet is not
without honor save in his own country.”
In ail candor, is there not more feeling
than judgment in the demand? If his
right to vote and hold office is placed on
the broad ground that the Creator gave
all men this right, why not grant it to
the Indian, and at the point of the bayo
net enfranchise all Europe “and the rest
of mankind.” If not on this, upon what
grounds? Who maintains that he is
equal in virtue,, intelligence and refine
ment with the white. In what instance
has he shown it? If the object of the
demand is punishment and degradation
to the superior race why not say so?—
What interest of man or government will
this advance ?
actual facts, and have renewed their alle
giance in good faith to the Government
of the United States, recognizing this as
thrir country and accepting the tout en
semble as a fixed and everlasting political
finality, never again to be called in ques
tion or disturbed. In our view, the rote
of the eighty-six hath this extent” and
this significance. It is a cheering and
glorious circumstance. It is a light flash
ing along the horizon lately so dark and
deathly. It is a bow of promise, and a
sign that the deluge of passion is at last
subsiding. The vote in the Convention
followed speedily upon the heels of the
election of the delegates by the people,
and must be fairly presumed to reflect
the views and purposes of the latter upon
tho issue. The Convention, recollect,
was a Mississippi Convention, a State in
which secession and its whole brood of
isuis were more rampant and intolerant
than in any other Southern Common
wealth, with the sole exception of the
little palmetto community upon the sea
shore.
We may be told, indeed wc have al
ready been, by those whosccin determined
to keep up the causes of sectional irrita
tion as long as possible, that the Conven
tion was not such as the people under
other circumstances would have elected,
and that the vote doesn’t express there
fore, the private predilections of the
members concerning slavery. This, if
true, but makes the act in question all
the marked and significant. The fact
that a body of intelligent men represent
ing a trreat State, fully conscious of all
the facts and influences surrounding them,
could divest themselves of life long pre
judices, and ordain an ordinance directly
in the face and eyes of those prejudices,
because the inexorable condition ot the
State and country demanded it at their
hands, is, we submit, a stronger proof of ^| 1C Government.
There is, in some quarters, we regret
to say, a disposition to repel rather than
invite Southern loyalty and reunion, to
impose conditions so hard and onerous as
to carry with their acccptai^e a sense of
degradation, upon the ground that the
Southern people have no rights that tho
Government is bound to respect—thus
making the masses responsible for what
the conspirators did; and upon the fur- 1
ther ground that Ac said masses are de*
tern-ined still to cherish resistance to the
Government. An improbable and absurd
hypothesis wbieli is contradicted by the
public press of the South, the action of
public bodies, so far as any action has yet
been bad, and by the testimony of every
man, woman and child from that part of
the country.
Ex Governor Swann, of Md., speaking
in a late letter upon this subject, says:
“ The impression existing among some
that the Southern people arc still deter
mined to continue their resistance to the
authorities of the Government is not jus
tified, in my opinion, by anything that
has yet transpired^ I should be sorry to
believe it. The people of the South, so
far as my observation extends, are a sub
dued and prostrate people. Their spirit
has yielded to the universal ruin which
broods over their land. They know bet
ter than fce do the deplorable condition
in w hich they have been kept by this
war. I can see no disposition on the part
of the masses to perpetuate a state of
anarchy, which is every day becoming
more ana more desperate. On the con
trary, I see the most unmistakable anxiety
in many qmirteis to place themselves un
der the protection ol the aid flag. They
have zduiittcd, and are ready to admit,
that their cause has hopelessly failed, and
stand prepared, as I believe, to renew
their pledges of citizenship and loyalty to
, 0 . ° .. f dreadful a calamity. Mr. Ketchum, the
the State, on this the , th day ot .. ... 1
. . • .u r i cider, savs the New l ork 1 ost, lias been ; tcction—and in compliance wilti its smn--
Auirust, in the rear ot our imru ■ » / } r
1S65, and the eighty-ninth year j for nearly half a century one ot our most „ lons Therefore, by the act of black-
c - * prominent, respectable, and useful citi- ! {, Iir „ an J Quinn, the faith of the Federal*
zenB. Identified with many business en- (Jovermucnt was dishonored. If, in 4
terprises of the highest moment, an ac- a J t lifjon to the reprimand^hey have r«-
tive promoter of public ami private works ceived. they can be pwtrfohcd only witK*
which have played an important part in t j, e public «CT>rn, ief the public seo th»!*
developing the resources of the nation, t j irv f, aTC a f u || an d overflowing' measure
an ardent supporter of the Government 0 p that.—Louisville, .fdurnal.
of American indeptuidonce.
JAS. JOHNSON,
Provisional Governor of Georgia.
By the Governor:
L.Tj. Briscoe, Secretary.
Historical.
We respectfully request Captains in
this and adjoining counties, to furnish us
a brief, historical account of their com
panies, the numbor killed and wounded,
in what battles engaged, during the late
war. Such articles will possess a local if
not a national interest. In case the com
manders will not do this, will some other
member of the company supply his place?
All the events of the great contest arc
fresh in the minds of those engaged, and
an immense amount of useful information
may be preserved by complying with our
request. Delay will ensure its loss. We
wish the writers to ti^pt the subjects im
partially and if possible not to exceed a
column. If furnished we will publish one
communication each week.
Mail Facilities.
The Macon Telgraph sajs the Post
Master General has informed Gov. John
son, “ that with a view to furnishing mail
facilities at the earliest practicable mo
ment, to persons residing at or near coun
ty seats in the State of Georgia, he has
the honor to inform him that the depart
ment, on the receipt of reasonable bids
for the transportation, will be prepared to
issue orders authorizing temporary mail
service (‘ till 31st December) on routes
runuing from snch county seats to the
nearest point on railroads on which mails
are conveyed/'
Letting of contracts on all the routes
in the State will be advertised from 1st of
January 1865.
There is n <> excuse whatever for a
much longer stoppage of mails to all the
principal points in the btate. Every
county seat can secure, a regular mail,
within thirty days, if prompt action is a
taken. We have also heart! that b?ds will
be considered reasonable upou all routes,
if they correspond with the figures paid
prior to the war. There should be no de
lay in moving in this matter.
A Singular Trial.—A man named
Seward was arraigned before the Mayor
of Newport on Thursday, oa a warrant
charging him with committing a breach
of the peace. Defendant and plaintiff,
as well as the witnesses on both sides,
profound conviction as to what that con
dition is and what it requires, than would
or could have been afforded by a deerec
running parallel with their private notions
and wishes. Those men “ conquered
their prejudices ”—an effort of mind that
requires manhood and a clear perception
of duty. The election of delegates had
a canvass. The press and people discussed
the situation in which they were placed,
the present and the future. The present
views of candidates were freely and frank
ly given, and were mostly called for by
their constituents. The election was not
a dark or haphazard affair, nor was there
any military interference, so far ae we
have been able to leafn. The people
understood the result of the war, and the
question was, in aubstancc, u What is
best for us to de, all things considered?”
We venture to say that the voters of Mis
sissippi never cast their suffrages under
a more thorough comprehension of the
true state or bearing of public questions
in which they Were interested than they
did upon the occasion o£ electing their
late ConventioD. Their judgments, not
their passions, were this time in the as
cendant. They ca»t transcendental poli
tics to the winds, and met stern facts
instead of fancies.
This action on the part of the people
of Mississippi is manly and evidently in
earnest. It is a declaration of peace,
and ought to be met by the people of
the North in a spirit of corresponding
manliness and promptness. Let the tom
ahawk and scalping-knife of sectional
vengeance be buried beneath the ruins
of the mighty conflict. W e protest
against the bad disposition which delights
to find something to carp at, that i» ever
indulging in suspicions, that refuses to
take general facts as proofs of prevailing
intentions, that erects individual villainies
or disloyalty and demagoguery into the
major characteristics and temper of the
Southern people, aud who seem to Jread
thorough reconciliation between- the
North and the South. Because there are
eleven members in a Southern C-onven-
t({jn of a hundred who arc loth to let S°
the old regime and who try to persuade
themselves that something may jet “ turn
up " to restore it. whose faces are gloom
ily towards the past and the darkness,
and who will not be comforted without
the exploded institution, shall we charge
disaffection, dwingomoasness, and treason
upon the Southern masses ? When they
proffer to return to their allegiance, and
comply with all reasonable conditions in
order to be again skizens
If reactionists in any particular State
or neighborhood show their hands, let
the consequences be visited upon that
particular’State or neighborhood alone.—
Lot not the whole be condemned or pun
ished for the conduct or the sentiments
of a handful of the cld stripe ot secession
disorganizes, such as those who attempt
ed to organize reaction in this State at
the late election. The victory (?) of
these latter has turned oat to be such
that they will never wa it another one
like it.
If South Carolina elect a disunion
Convention or Legislature, or send disu
nion members to Congress, let South
Carolina alone take the consequences of
her acts. Don’t risk them upon the
head of Missisrippi or upon that of any
other Southern State.
Masonry Rising into Religion-
The Mason* of Maseachusetta have
made offer of their hospitality to leading j
brethren of their ancient Order at the
South. Coming from Massachusetts, too,
]nis f ac * rejoice the heart of every
true Mason—will show him the secret of
the fact that while religions disappeared-
while dynasties were swept [away—while
empires went down—the lamp that was
trimmed iu the days of Solomon, has con
tinued to bum brightly until to-day.
Masonry in the past has done good
service to religion by keeping alive among
men the spirit of its morality. Opinion
iu these latter days had taken the shape
very generally ot the conclusion that in
that respect the Masonic system had out
lived its uses. The error of that public
judgment was at all times plain to the
thinkers who are able to see underlying
the fair surface of modern civilization, as
in the case of ancient civilization, all
these wild and destructive passions that
constitute to society a constant menace.
But confidence in the permanence of our
social system of modern times has been
exposed to all classes of intelligence as a
delusion, by the horrible atrocities that,
within the fa»t four years, and up to even
to-day’, have burst from the bad passions
of men, darkening our civilization with
the shadows and ashes of inoral desola
tion. Under these circumztances it is do*
lightful to observe the humanities that his house,
have been enshrined for ages in the
bosom ol the mystic brotherhood coming
upon Ihc scene and rising on the wreck
of religion holding out to mankind the
language of- universal brotherhood and
loVe. All honor to that, precious institu
tion of the ancient times, which when
Christianity has had its voice choked to
a very great extent by the falsehood of
hundreds who had been pledged to its
service, sflmds out before mankind with
the lamp of a loving humanity in its
hand, teaching and acting the loving
kindness of the Sermon on the Mount.—
Aeic York Heirs.
in all its finuncial trials and difficulties,
he was widely and as honorably known as
any man in the mercantile community.—
By prudence, economy, activity, and in-
te<;ritv. he had accumulated a large and
n • m
solid fortune, which he used in no foolish
display or extravagance, but in public en
terprises and labors of usefulness and be
nevolence.
From the moment that he learned the
criminal delinquences of his son, whom
he had entruried with the management
of hi* concerns. Mr. Ketchuiu devoted
himself and all that he possessed to an
honorable effort to repair as far as he
could the wrong that had bocn done. All
the remittances received from the numer
ous depositors of the house wore at once
put in banks to the credit ot the owners;
his large private wealth, amounting to
some two million of dollars, has been
surrendered to replace the bonds abstract
ed. and to satisfy the claims of creditors;
and though himself the largest loser by
the default, he has only been anxious to
cover, to the whole extent of his ability,
the losses of others. His property has
been assigned under the advice ot his
counsel and the best judgment of friends,
to well-known and competent gentlemen,
in order to provide, as folly and as justly
as it cm be done, for the satisfaction of
those who are touched by the ladure ot
A TRount.Eso.ME Cousin—The Empe
ror of France is obliged to keep a sharp-
eye on his erratic cousin, whose liberal
principles are Bpt to get better of imp®--
rial discretion. The Prince is now, or was
lately traveling in the south of Ireland,
and the Pall Mall Gazette learns “ thafl
he had been requested by the Emperor
to abridge his visit,” fearing, it is alleg
ed, that his Ajaccio speech would be
made the subject of a political demonstra
tion in his favor. This is a warning num
ber two, and according to the press law ot
France, a third will render the Pjince li
able to total suppression.
A PROCLAMATION.
BY JAMES JOHNSON, PROVISIONAL GOV
ERNOR. *
To the People of Georgia:
For the purpose of enabling the people
of Georgia the nore easily to prepare
themselves for the exercine of the rights
of citizens, I hereby proclaim and direct,
that the Ordinaries in the several coun
ties of the State, be and are hereby au
thorized to administer the oath of amnesty
set out in the President’s Proclamation of
the 29th of May, 1S65, to such persons
as shall be entitled to take and receive
the same; and in caac of a vacancy in
the office of Ordicary in any county or
counties of this State, then and in that
case, the Clerk of the Superior Court of
■uch county shall .administer said oath;
Provided, said offirers themselves shall
bare previously taken said oath.
It is farther declared and directed, that
when the oath is delivered os aforesaid
to ^ny person within any of the excep
tions specified in said proclamation, it
shall be appended to the petition of the
applicant—whieh petition shall also be
certified before such Ordinary or Clerk,
by the oath^of the party, and when ad
ministered to any person not embraced
within any of the exceptions specified,
the original oath taken and subscribed
shall be sent by the officer administering
the same to the Secretary of State of the
United States, and a certified cc?j ahall
be given to the applicant.
And it is further proclaimed and de
clared that all the civil officers of this
State, who have taken and subscribed
the oath prescribed in the Proclamation .
^ A Great Mistake.
In the confusion of the hour, says the
Macon (Ga.,) Gazette, many of our plan
ters have determined to sell out their
lands, and either leave the country or
move to town. They believe everything
is so confused that it will be impossible to
make a crop next year. They are sacri
ficing their possessions for a mere song,
and doing themselves, as well as their
country, a great injury. A few sharpers
are buying up these lands at a very low
figure, and will make fortunes out of it
as soon as the tide of emigration turns
this way. We would advise every one
to be more calm and considerate, and
hold on to their lands. This confusion
of society, disorganized as it is, will not
always last. The blacks must settle down
upon some definite plan of labor, or they
must starve. The| free warmth of the
sun will soon give way to biting frost of
winter, and they can no longer lie down
under a tree and dream of a big planta
tion given them, but they will be compell
ed to go to work and provide food and
raiment, and seek a shelter from the
storm. A marked change has taken
place in the past month in the conduct of
this unfortunate race. Pilgrim negroes
no longer throng the thoroughfares lead
ing to our city, and no longer occupy the
street corners, to the annoyance of every
passer-by.' They appear to have settled
down to a considerable extent. Many of
these wandering pilgrims have returned
to their former homes, and welcome glad
ly the plow and hoc, finding by a bitter
experience that freedom without labor is
nothing more than freedom to starve. ■
There are many others who would gladly
return home if they were assured that
their former masters would receive them.
They are not devoid of all reason. They
That lie should feel these reverses
deeply is but natural. A sudden change
from the height of affluence and pros
perity to an almost absolute poverty, is a
vicissitude hard to be borne and it is all
tbc harder that it h is fallen upon his
old age, ami at the close of a long and
Ex-Rebels in Mexico.—A letter
from a returned rebel, to the Missouri
Republican, gives an account of the re
bels who went into Mexico, from which
we extract: ‘*We left Houston on tho 11th
on horseback, having with us threo pack
mules, and reached San Antonio on the
18th, where we met Gen. Shelby with a
force of about three hundred men. The
French admire Shelby very much, and
were anxious he should join their service.
From what I saw and what the Duke of
Ecklcnghen told me, I think Shelby will
be offered a Brigadier-General's command
if he will accept it. They allow enlist
ments for one year and upward, in the
cavalry, and give them foO per month.
The Boston papers make tin ntiuii of
Major-General Ewell’s epicurean tastes as
exhibited during his late imprisonment
in Fort Warren. \Y*e guess the gallant
Genera! always lived pretty well at his
own headquarters. We spent a night,
with him last Drcember (he is an old pi r-
iaborions career. But wlmt he feels still! «>i«*l Friend of more than twmty years
more deeply than the loss of fortune, is , standing.) and he set before us turkey and
the sad and terrible ruin of a son to whom ' a bowl of apple tody, which General
he was devotedly attached, whom every
body seemed t^ love, whose promises in
life were most flattering, but who is now
a wotidercr upon the lace of the earth.—
The dilapidations of fortune are often rc-
Custis Lee (our own taster was thou a
thousand miles off) pronounced excellent.
On the 10th in.-t., nothing was known
in England as to the cause of the f’ailtir«;
of the Atlantic cable, but tbc managers
trieved bv nianlv endurance and fortitude, , , , • , , , ,
iruuu u) iiiJiio t ju ! held a meeting anu rcso ved to raise mon-
. . . 1 • n- i "
but the wounds inflicted upon the affee-1 ^ f()r # ncw cable Tlu . ir p ] ack is wortlty
tions are seldom, and leave a sorrow that ,
can never be consoled
of success. It may be concluded, there
fore, that the enterprise in not in tho
be settled that Jeff' P rcscnt sUtc at to
to-day
SHOT It seems to ,
r. . - ir . i « i abandoned.—Lou. Jour.
Davis, arraigned for treason, is to be tried . _ _ —
by a civil court. It is said that some of | PakdoNkI).—The President
President Johnson s advisers in an out of j pardoned the following persons :
the Cabinet strongly urge the trying of: Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, formerly
the distinguished prisoner by a military j Master General of the United States,
court, but, that the President himself is : g Whithorn, and Frank C. Dunning-
resolute in his decision to have it before . 0 f Tennessee, E. II. Murrell, of Vir-
a civil tribunal. jginia, James L. Seward, of Thomas Co.,
We arc truly glad of that. We have.j Ga., formerly a meirbcr of Congress of
all along ardently desired it, but we have : the United States Trom that State, Jainca
said little upon the subject, for we could A. Lorley, of Montgomery Co., Alaba
not hope to influence, by anything we
might say, the action of the Federal
Government. Wc have no doubt that it
will be found impossible to convict Mr.
DaYis of treason before a civil court, and
probably the President has just as little
doubt of this as we have. Certainly the
eminent % captive, possessing the very
great advantages which a defendant al
ways possesses in the making up of a jury,
ean never, where so manny of the people
of all classes sympathize with him and
his late cause, be in the slightes danger
of having a verdict rendered against him.
The jury in his case may fail to agree,
but, if they agree at all, they will pro
nounce him not guilty. ’I his may be re
garded as an absolute unquestionable
fact, for so it will aisuredly prove, les
Mr. Davis, whether innocent or guilty,
will, if tried by court and jury, go unpun-
and Alfred Chapman, of Orange Co.,
Virginia.
T’ne two most precious things this side
the grave are our reputation and our life.
But it is to be lamented that the most
contemptible whisper may deprive us of
the one, and the weakest weapon of the
other. A wise man, therefore, will b©
more anxious to deserve a fair name than
possess it, and this will teach him so to
live as not to be afraid to die.
No Income—Mr. E. F. Sibley, editor
of the Aurora 111. Commercial, aud assis
tant assessor of internal revenue in Dear
born county, narrates the following amu
sing occurence, whieh occured, in the
discharge of his official duties :
Assessors of internal revenue, in their
peregrinations, sometimes run afoul of
. .. _ . an amusing incident to relieve the dul-
ished, except by his imprisonment and | rou tine of their raatter-of fact vocation,
by the mental tortures which have been While taking the return of a son of Erin,
preying since his downfall like vultures
upon his heart.
the other day, the following prescribed
interrogatory was put to him : 11 Had your
he escape through the failure of the jury
liiU? Oil L MVW «r r J
know that rigorous winter, with its blasts to do iu duty. \\ Jiether stern and aa
* c— j r *
And we shall not regret his escape from w ;f c a0 y income during the past year? ”
the fearful penalty of treason, even though « Income is it,” replied Bat; “ nary bit-
ked justice require his execution or not,
we believe it best for the peace and har-
and cold, will come, and with it the ne
gro’* greatest trouble*, for their troubles — - , — =>
_ ...... u i will then commence in earnest. The j mony of**!l sections of the restored Union, j t j, a possibility of supporting
the oat presen m e roc ama Te oetable* and fish which nor and best for the character and standing. wit j, a g xe< j animal income of that kijd.
aforesaid, if no. embraced within .«“ W “' “f. ;11 ^ -i of our countr , .hroughoa. .he civilized —- ,
she had twins the year before, and that*
enough for any daycent woman in tvD
years! ’ So the assessor thought, and weit
on making out Pat’s return, musing upn
a wonon
were all deaf and dumb. A gentleman * — i . . , . » .. a ohean iivin^. win oe gone.. u. w<a«»j — - —o—■- i „
who understands the signs fcy which order to bo again j&xens in full fellow- j the exceptions,^ or^v o^may^ave i‘ j Migolid meatj| wiU hare ^ be purchased., world, that he should not be executed for j About forty persons, o nea cou j,
mutes converse was sworn iu as inters- ship of the Republic, shall we keep them speotal Amnes y i e 0> P e negroeg f ee l the force of these truths, j treason, Turning him over to the civil jlcnnessee having eon ec arc ou .svs
ter for the parties. The trial, lasted ser- chafing and waiting, and intimate .that, iu eeei thereafter m the d,«:harge ° f ? he . ^ounoVnced lookin* about to authorities is, in our opinion, one of the by the military au honties have bc«
eral hours, Id was witnessed by a eoa- spibe ,11 probability and the best duties of their several office acconUng j “^insUh^l day.- wisest act- of tl. President _ « | ^ or hanged within the last tKe
siderable number of curious spectators.- evidence to the contrary, they are secret- to the laws « ««*«>£ P ^ ^ lhink it is a great mistake Lhanuf I
Louisville Journal j ly cherishing the purpose of rcocwjng of January, 1 Sbl, so iar as the ssme arc.iRC , * . /