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The Ifegro. 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 , * . /