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NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning, May 11, 1867.
The Saddest Yet.
The South has witnessed many sad and hu
miliating spectacles during the last six years
of strife and uncertainty. It was a sad scene
when her young men, in their pride and chiv
alry, laid aside tlie peaceful pursuits of life and
went forth to battle for a cause they believed
to be jn t. It was sadder still when her strong
holds fell, one after another, before the resist
less force of overpowering numbers. Her hos
pitals arid camps filled with the sick and suffer
ing and dying, presented a sight over which
Letter from Mr. Turner-
NASirm-LE. Tex.v. March Ith 1807.
Dear Herald; After one day’s toilsome la-
| bor in the Gate City to get iny endorsements
! properly arranged, and travel all night on the
•Spite Rood, I reached the very filthy town of
I Chattanooga. Taking a look around the place
I for a short while, I was most heartily rejoiced
when it was announced that the Nashville
train was about ready to depart, which was 8
o'clock a. m. Chattanooga shows many signs
| of the unprecedented freshet. The whole place
is filled with a most v illainous odor, caused, in
) a large degree, by the decay of hundreds of
i bushels of corn. My heart sank within me
when 1 saw so much grain rotting, and the very
j unfortunate people of Coweta suffering for
bread. I almost wished from my heart that a
similar overflow of the waters had taken place
i in the fall and winter of 1363 —it might have
assisted very much the care-worn and foot sore
It is one of the most wo-begone.
,t v
future against loss, by proper advice being
; given in the premises.
Resolved, That the Loyal Georgian, a daily
and wi ekly journal, published at Augusta, Ga..
bv its devotion to the Union cause, is entitled
to receive the support of the loyal people of
the State, and that we will accept it as the j
oriran of our Educational Association.
lb-solved. That we tender our thanks to Maj.
G. L. Ebeuliardt, State Superintendent of
Schools, and the author of this Convention ;
and we cheerfully bear testimony of his faith
ful stewardship in the educational vineyards of
our State.
Resolved, Tint the thanks of this Conven
tion are due and are hereby tendered to the
Letter from Honduras.
Ojio.y. Honduras. }
4 O Clock A. M., April 11. 1SG7. t
You find me engaged this early in the morn
ing writing you for two reasons: First, when
daylight comes I will be exceedingly busy.—
Secondly, the Trade Wind will sail this morn
ing at 10 o’clock, ami I will have to send this
letter by her. I will give you a short summa
ry of our trip. We left Atlanta 7:20 a. in..
April 1st. with fifty-four souls, arrived at New
Orleans 7 a. in.. April oil, without acc dent; j
went immediately on board the steamer Imde
Wind, and after making a few hasty purchases
in New Orleans, sailed for this point at 5 p m
no dishonor to her who was “last at tlie cross' An other case of cruelty has occurred in a school! wounded were left alone. About tniin*~i
and first at the grave.” \ Q Massachusetts. A teacher whipped a little boy , the litter-bearer came and Se.gt R **'
v ... j ,,, ,, i.-rei,. ,‘„ n ,, n .k nn- f° r hours, until his clothing was cut into threads , , , w ® l - n. wascj
As we looked upon the bnglu mounds un ^ ^ ^ drcadfuilv j^ted, and then fled.
der which sleep those who were not a.raid Had this occurred to a freed!>oy in the South, the
die for right, the puntul reflection pressed it- j aws would have punished the cruel wretch, and
self upon us, that if the living ot to-d.vv and it would have been a grand theme for Massachn-
the dead of yesterday might change places, our setts eloquence. —Hagerstown Mail.
country and our cause could not sutler trom 1 .
he consequences.—Sun it Times.
angels might well weep. Her slain upon a
hundred battle-fields, her desolated fields, her i Confederates.
ruined and silent cities, her suffering and fain- | God-forsaken Sodoms surely in America. I
ibhing widows, oiplians and soldiery, would : s topped at the Crutchfield House for breakfast
liave wrung tears from the most obdurate and i and j can sn y almost anything else in regard
heartless. Her wasting armies and their final that unwritable place of entertainment, ex
cept something commendatory. It looks more
citizens of this city and community for their April 4th, with sixty-ni*ie souls, and arrived
hospitality shown to the delegates of this Con- here at 10 1-2
vention, to the Methodist brethren for the use
of their house of worship, and also to the Su
perintendents of the different railroads who
have agreed to pass the members of this Con
vention to their respective homes free of charge.
Whereas, Several white citizens of this State
have been engaged in the education of our
people, therefore.
From the N. Y. Mercautile Journal.
The Russian Possessions.
GREAT VALUE OF OUR SEW ACQCJSTIOX.
Much light has been thrown upon the con-
m., on the 10th, without any dition and value of our new possessions, by
accident or unpleasant incident on the route. ' reports from such well informed and authorita-
I immediately came on shore and called on j tive sources as Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian
the authorities, stated to them briefly who we i Institute at Washington, and -Mr. Collins, the
were, and the object of our coming. Imme- j distinguished traveler and railroad projector
diatcly a pleasant smile of welcome illumiua- j now invested with the office ol l nited States
ted his lace, at the same time tendering us a j Consul at the A moor River ports of Russia,
cordial welcome. He stated that this was, lit- j The Professor has had able explorers in the
i erally. a great country, and only needed en- j region to be considered, for a year or two past,
Sale Stofjed.—Notwithstanding Gen. Tope’s
assurance in bis letter to Governor Jenkins
j that he had no desire to interfere with the reg-
( ular course of civil administration in the State
| we learn that a Sheriff's sale of property in this
county was stopped by his order Tuesday last.
! —Macon Telegraph.
An Episcopal Church is to be established in
Salt lake City, and a minister is going from
New York to take charge of it.
The acquisition of Russian Amerea gives the
United States four hours and thiry-nine min
utes more sunlight than it did before.
back to the rear, were there two others T ' ^
ded, and remained thereuntil the next eveni’e
He was then taken to n village called Burkett
ville, about half a mile from tlie bnttle-gro,,', d
On the evening of the Kith the thigh wus'an
putated by Ur. Jaynes, of the 2d Vermont
regiment, an excellent man, and held in g rat ,l
ful remembrance. The treatment
exceptions, was good by every
thence they
where they remained one month.
Resolved. That, we do hereby tender the | ergy'to develop it, to iintke it a rich and pow- \ and bases his statements partly on their Ircsh
same our sincere thanks,
wit* soon engage in the
prise.
and hope that others
nine laudable enter-
information, and partly
surrender, after having often nearly reached
the prize for which they contended during four
years of vigor, valor, blood and carnage, enti
tled their country to tlie sympathies of even
her foes. Her manacled chief, her prostration
beneath the power of the bayonet, her over
thrown institutions, venerable for age, after
like a haunted castle, or a Dutch church going
west in search of manifest destiny, than a place
of rest for the wea. y traveler. You may judge
I will not call there on my return home.
However, not far distant may be seen the
sublimely beautiful and more recently historic
the conflict of arms was past, commanded ex- Lookout, made so by the tread of contending
pressions of condolence from the four-quarters j thousands, marching to the music of thunder*
of *h c globe. Hhe was destined still to witness ! j n g and Jondlv reverating artillery, which rc-
sadder scenes than these. For in all that had
then occurred her people had neither said or
done anything to tarnish their honor or destroy
self-respect. If her armies were vanquished
upon the field, they at least had fought well;
if her cities were burned, she was powerless to
prevent it; if her soldiery suffered and died for
medicines, her coast was blockaded and she
could not obtain them; if her women and
children and strong men were deprived of the
luxuries and some of the necessaries of life, j
she was not to be blamed for it ; if her generals i
surrendered their swords and commands, they |
did not do it until resistance was futile ; if the j
bayonet overturned her institutions and gov
ernment, she had no power to prevent it. Her
honor, thus far, was preserved.
Rut, lo! when tlie Congress of the United
States, in March, 1867, made certain enact
ments, which the Hon. 11. J. Walker, in his
speech before the Supreme Court of the United
States, said no man in his soul would contend
was constitutional, and which erected a despo
tism unequalled for liideousuess by any lie had
seen in his travels in Egypt, Turkey in Asia,
Turkey in Europe, and Russia—we say when
this is done, contrary to tlie principles of our
people and the Constitution of our State, many
of Georgia’s sons, whom she honored in days
passed, from motives of we do not trust
ourselves to say—strip themselves of all man
hood and sense of decency and propriety, fall
down in tlie dust in all their nakedness, and
exclaim great is the Radical majority in the
Congress of the United States, and holy and
just are all of their enactments, and with no
tinge of shame mantling their cheeks, ask
others to do likewise, extend tlieir cordial hos
pitality to those who have given their votes for-
those measures. Has earth ever witnessed a
sadder scene than this? A people may survive
physical disasters, but the loss of public virtue
is an incurable wound.
deems it a little. When the precipitate sides
of tlie mountain were pointed out to me, up
which the contending forces climbed to the
attack, I was greatly astonished; for it would
seem that the active, niinhie chamois of tlie
Alps would be difficulted in reaching some of
the bights to which the soldiers attained.—
Though when men are urged forward by the
impulse of pride and ambition, they can scale,
with apparent ease, almost insurmountable
obstacles. What a misfortune that men have
not yet learned that, worldly fame is a myth,
and also that while they contend for freedom,
as they suppose, they are only forging manacles
and gyves which are to bind them and their
posterity after them. Where is the genius of
Liberty to-day? Alas! I fear ’tisgone forever!
We of the South and many of the North can
repeat, with feeling propriety, the memorable
words of Madame Roland, while she was being
bound to the recking scaffold: “Oh, Liberty,
what crimes are perpetrated in thy name!”
Tennessee is writhing now under the heel of
the oppressor. Several members of tlie Legis-
latuic came up on the same ham with me this i pjjutment by Military Court commissions for
afternoon. They assemble on Monday, I un- j the trial of violations of the Civil Rights Hill;
derstand. to settle, in some way, the impeach- i establishment of Union Leagues in every coun-
Nsgro Mseting in Mobile.
Mobile. May 3—P. M j
Tim colored Mass Convention of the State, i
which has been in session here for two days !
adjourned to-day. Delegates stated that the I
negroes in many instances have been cheated !
out of their earnings, molested and hadlv J
treated in districts they represent, but in some I
places have been treated well. In many in
stances the delegates declared themselves Rad
icals. The preamble says:
‘•Whereas, lately the right of suffrage and
equal rights have been bestowed on our race,
heretofore held in bondage, in order to acquire
political knowledge that will insure protection
in these newly acquired rights; and whereas,
it seems to he the policy of our political op
pressors to use fair or unfair means to prevent
organization or consolidation as a part of the
Republican party in Alabama; therefore, be it
“ Resolved, That we proclaim ourselves a
part of the Republican party of the United
States and the State of Alabama, and it is
with a view of lmrmony and good nnd- rstand-
ing not to estalish a separate political party
that we have sssembled.”
The second resolution expressed confidence
in the acts and orders of Generals Pope and
Swayne, in the discharge of their duty. The
third resolution, in the event of the d.scharge
of colored persons by employers for declining
to become their political tools, calls for stand
ing army protection, and declares that it will
make the condition of the people known to
Gongress, asking further legislation for tlieir
protection, even to confiscation. The fourth
resolution declares for peace between the races;
c< precates the conduct on the part of employ
ers that may necessitate further legislation for
the protection of negroes, or for further rebel
lion against the flag and country. Other res
olutions recommended the establishments of
schools, supported by a tax on property; ap-
erful country.
I have been quite busy since our arrival,
getting our goods through tlie custom house, j traders. lo sum up rapidly and briefly all | Jlf e pays like this ?
and obtaining stopping places for our party in j their testimony, it appears that the climate of | «
this quiet little village, but with the usual i this “icy desert” of which some papers have ;
hospitality of the natives, we soon found ac
commodations for our party. I shall begin
with f ew
one - Frorr
were removed to Frederic City
During all
this time noble women failed not six days of
seven to visit them, carrying not only words,-,.-
comfort, but baskets filled with the most p (i ]\
f table food the country could afford, bocks
| clothing, and every man (rebel) that was all
j to go from the hospital, either did or was <v,
j Iicited to make his home among them, lr
♦ ■ «■ j Frederic City 13th December, and arrived
Ristori. it is said, has made $270,000 clear j Petersburg 19th—remained there two months ■
reached his father's residence at Bowdon 18th
February.
and partly upon the experience I profit bv playing 168 nights during her v
, British and Russian Company . to the United States. What other calling
visit !
in
this morning to make preparations for our re
moval into the interior.
To give you some idea of the cost of living
here, 1 will give you the “bill of fare,” and
price, at our boarding house—good bread, sau
sage, fish, fried plantains, eggs to suit tlie taste,
Irish potatoes, coffee, butter, good beef, milk.
wine (an excellent quality
—all for twenty-five cents.
The ladies were greatly astonished to find
neat stores, well filled with handsome'English
and foreign goods, and much cheaper than in
Atlanta, generally fifty to one hundred percent.
I seijd you a fleece of cotton grown about
forty miles from this place. Coffee, sugar,
corn, chocolate, and all temperate and torrid
zones vegetables and fruits are raised on the
same place.
Land, as I told you in Atlanta, ranges from
ten cents to one dollar per acre. The party are
in good spirits, and are highly pleased so far.—
i . - j - Indigent Maimed Soldiers of Bowdon
been prattling, is during tlie winter, on the a
coast all the way from l’rince of Wales Island College,
to Behring Straits, about the same as that of j
Washington City, with little snow and much j
rain.
The soil produces excellent barley and roots
such as radishes and turnips, with lettuce, cab
bage, kc. In the waters, herring, salmon,
halibut an 1 codfish abound in “exhaustless
and a good cigar j numbers.
[A friend has promised us a brief biograph
ical sketch of many of the wounded soldiers
now being educated at Bowdon College under
the recent act of the Georgia Legislature, and
short accounts of the battles in which they
were wounded. We trust our friend will
while in the btraits and to the
j northward of them, the whale, so prized for ! tl com , with his prom ise. We begin
j oil and bone, roves in endless concourse. All , , . , .,, , , x _ . _
the rarest furred animals, such as the sea and ^kis we °k "dh tlie sketch ot . ergeant Biown
river otter, the sable, furry seal, mink, black, : and battle of Crampton Gap. These items
silver and red fox. with the red deer on the ' ma fi e history?]
south, and reindeer—the fleetest and best
draught animal on earth—at the north, swarm
through the length and breadth of the land—
Gold in rich washings on the surface ; copper of
fine quality and iron ore of the very best and
in exhaust less quantity, are among its mineral
treasures that have been tested and tried. Add
to these, the coal to smelt them, of various
linn Jimdismuik
BE INDEPENDENT.
T HE attention of the ladies is called to th*
various and wonderful labor-saving ma
chines for household work to he found at V"
M. REYNOLD S TIN SHOP, Newnan, Ga. Ho
has on exhibition the best and cheapen
Wash ing Machine
ever offered, and is agent for
Mendenhall’s Celebrated Loom,
SERGT. II. G. BROWN, OF COBB S LEGION. •
Sergeant H. C. Brown entered the service of i
the Confederate States 1st August, 1861, at the ' aad a!! the be3t H atterns of
age of seventeen—was enrolled by Capt. C. A.
McDaniel in May of the same year. He left
There are some Americans here already, and a j kinds, all good and all abundant, and you have 1 Kn 'don olst June, arrived at Richmond 5th
large colony from Louisiana looked for soon, a pretty fair sum total of good things.* j August; shortly thereafter was mustered into
The native inhabitants are represented to : service as a member of 1st Ga. Legion, com
be peaceable, teachable and industrious, and j manded b Col . T R . R C obb. Left Richmond
we can conceive of a worse fate for thousands of! J .
our suffering population in this climate, which I September fur \ orktown v la \\ est l oint
is not so mild as that of Washington, to be as
sociated with their new fellow citizens in gath
ering gold, storing coal, wearing mink anil sa
ble and feeding on venison, with the usual ae-
the agent having been here and secured lands.
1 also saw Professor Debee, from Alabama,
here. He has just purchased three thousand
acres of land for a colony from Mississippi and
Alabama. Our party are all well. There is no
duty on articles for our own use or consump
tion. Persons coming to Honduras ought cer
tainly not to buy goods iu Atlanta. I saw a
poor calf in Atlanta labelled, “Off for Hondu
ras.” Say to the owner he ought to send it
here to fatten it—for this, veritably, is a land
of abundance. /
Direct your letters to me, under cover, to D.
Dowd, N. O. letters to our party should be to
the care of the U. S. Consul at Ouioa. I will
write more fully next time.
With respect, etc., G. Malcomb.
COOK SST , 0'X7"jSS.
i All of which he i3 prepared to sell at Not
I York prices.
He keeps on hand complete stocks of
TIN WARE & HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS.
work in the Tinner's Line done to
order. May Il-tf.
companiments of farinaceous and vegetable
preparation.
The second skilled informant, Mr. Collins,
claims to have drawn his knowledge from the
highest sources on this continent and in Russia
j and to have ripened it by personal experience.
He corroborates all that Professor Baird reports j September, ’62.
and gives us far more. l or instance he says 1 comiqenceil the 10th. On the 12th the Le
that the prospect for gold mining on the Steek-| , , . e J , TT , , , ....
en or St. Francis river, -is equal to that of the ! took Passion ^ bandy Hook, below the tow
ment preferred against Judge Frazier for
releasing, under a writ of habeas corpus, the
members of the Legislature who were arrested
ty, and that the next Convention be held in
Montgomery in June next; and closed by say
ing that the above represent the sentiments of
the Convention, pledging their lives, fortunes,
for bolting last session. I trust that a just j and sacred honor to tl e faithful observance of
The Negro.
We trust our people will begin, this year, to
make preparation for a change in their labor
system, for the fact is being slowly recognized
that the white and black races cannot live both
free, harmoniously together. One or the other
must occupy tlie country and fully control it,
and force the other to seek homes elsewhere.—
The negro is content with nothing less than
thorough social and political equality. In
Richmond, Charleston, Mobile and New Orleans
the blacks have demanded the right to l>e jury
men and officeholders, nnd to ride on the same
car, sit at the same public table, occupy the
saint boxes at places of public amusement and
pews in the churches, and send their children
to the same school with the whites. The same
demand will he made wherever both races are
God may direct their deliberations, and the
faithful Judge may come off unscathed by his
traduccrs. The Legislature of this State is fast
following in the wake of the delectable United
States Congress. If Rrownlow were not so
good an imp of radicalism, they would soon
absorb the co-ordinate brances of State govern
ment. They are now about to take under their
guardianship the judiciary. Why do the peo
ple thus slumber over their rights? Browalow
is going to overawe conservatism with the bay
onet, or secure his re-election to the guberna
torial'chair. May a kind heaven deliver Ten
nessee!
I will spend the Sabbath here, and early on
Monday morning I will begin my arduous and
heavy mission. I’m fully aware of the needs
of the people, and if I fail it will be after
strenuous efforts. Though I feel now that 1
will meet some success.
Those who wish to address me can direct, for
the present, to the care of the Louisville Hotel,
Louisville, Ky. Respectfully,
W. A. Tcrxks.
Negro Educational Convention.
them, and the principles of the Republican
party.
The following was then adopted:
‘‘It is our undeniable right to hold office,
sit on juries, ride in all public conveyances, sit
at public tables and places of amusement.”
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Gen- Pope and Gov- Jenkins-
Those who defend Gen. Pope’s course toward
the Governor of Georgia, make tire same mis
take with the General himself as to what con
stitutes opposition to the reconstruction acts.
The Governor lias neither attempted to ob
struct the operation of the acts nor threatened
to do so. He has expressed the opinion that
the States had better nut reconstruct un-
! der them, but wait till a decision is reached as
to their constitutionality, or till popular opini
on changes on the subject at the North. This
may be advice ; we are quite sure it is, and that
Governor Jenkins makes an unfortunate mis
take in not uniting with the large majority of
Southern leaders of opinion in advising the peo
ple to improve the opportunity they now have
to secure a return to their normal political con
dition, and to representation in Congress. But
the Governor does not resist tlie law, does not
in any proper sense oppose it f in advising the
people not to reconstruct.
If General Pope will look carefully over the
laws he will see that the supplementary act
es and provides for the expression
From the N. Y. Times, Rep.
Confiscation at the South-
We see it mentioned that a “Republican
meeting,” recently held in North Carolina,
| adopted resolutions in favor of confiscation.—
| We agree with the Republican journals of the
I North, which have declared, with very great
unanimity, that confiscation forms no part of
the party platform, and which repudiate, in en
ergetic terms, the persistent attempts of Mr.
Stevens, Gen. Butler and other ultraists to force
it upon the party. It is quite true, too, that
Congress refused to enact any confiscation bill
and that tlie Republicans in that body gave
the project no substantial support.
At the same time the movement especially
in the South, may become formidable. The ul
traists of the Republican party are determined
to build up a party in the Southern States fully
in accordance with themselves. They scout
and reject the moderation of Sen. Wilson, and
hold such Senators as Sherman, Fessenden and
others of kindred temper, iu quite as much
disfavor as the Democrats themselves. Their
plan is to consolidate the negro vote, which
with, the help of the original Union men
of the South, they think will be sufficient to
overbear the great body of the whites who are
not disfranchised by the Reconstruct ion-bill.—
It is upon this that they rely for success. If
they can get the whole negro vote keeping it
compact, manageable and wholly subject to
tlieir control, they feel confident that tire Sou
thern States will become more radical than the
Northern.
And they rely upon confiscation to secure
this result. A promise of a homestead—to be
taken from the whites and given gratuitously
to every colored voter—will be a most formi
dable weapon fur the accomplishment of then-
object. It is precisely tlie kind of argument
likely to prove most potent with the class of
—remained on the Peninsular until its evacua-
i
tion by Gen. Johnston, 3d May, ’62.
The Legion was composed of infantry, cav
alry and artillery. The infantry battalion to
which he belonged was used as a supporting
force for the artillery of the Legion ; hence it
was with Johnston on his retreat to Rich
mond, and found no use for rifles until the 14th
The siege of Harper’s Ferry
ion
I am exchanging one and a half bushels of
old 184‘.) days in California.” He expatiates
upon the magnificent extent and navigating fa
cilities of the Mississippi of the North, the
great river Knitchpek, and the multitude of
salmon and other fish that inhabit it.
On Kotzebue Sound are immense deposits of
fossil ivory, such as has become the subject of
such valuable trade on the coast of Siberia. In
mentioning tlie fur trade, Mr. Collins says,
that the tact of the Hudson Bay Company af
fording to transport tlieir merchandize and sup
plies overland from Hudson Bay, or by way of
St. Paul, and return their furs by the same
route, is a startling evidence of tiie value of
Ihe trade, since transpoitation over such a dis
tance cannot cost less than $1 per lb., and with
the Knitchpek open to steam navigation, ten
cents per lb. “would pay enormously.”
Of the fisheries, Mr. Collins lias tlie most ex
alted opinion. lie believes that they will at
Htock Meal for one bushel Wheat, and aixfr
pounds best Kentucky Ilay for ono bushel
Wheat.
A sample sack of the Meal will he shipped
There it remained until the 14th, at which
time it was relieved by a Mississippi brigade,
and ordered to Brownville at double quick.
Sandy Hook is at the termination of Pleas
ant Yallev, near the river. Brownsville is sit
uated eight miles up the valley and opposite
Craqipton's Gap. The battalion arrived at the
village about 5 1-2 o’clock—Lieut. Ross com
manding company, Lieut. Col. Lamar the bat- to order on the receipt ot §2 2;
talion and Gen. Cobb the brigade. On arrival,
one of the com pan}* being very sick, Sergt. B.
was ordered to procure a room for him, and
while in the discharge of that duty the drum
tapped, the battalion flew to their arms, and
were soon marching towards the Gap. The
cqiml propor-
The Hay and Meal, user
tions, makes very fine feed for work Horses
and Mules.
The Colored Educational Convention, at Mu-
can, adjourned on Tuesday evening.
The following is the school report for Coweta
county:
In Coweta there are three schools, and 2S5 !
. , . i .scholars. One teacher paid by the Northern i
nearly equal m numbers. Can we, will "’e} Methodist Church-two by colored people.- i
Three school houses—two built by the Northern j
Methodist Church, one by the colored people, j
One teacher a Northerner, cue an Englishman
and one a Southerner.
stand this? Reader, you say, no. Well, you
must and will unless you, by all lawful means
in your power, expel the negro from our midst,
and urge him to seek a home next year in th£
West or elsewhere. Hounded on by fanatical
fools, the blacks are fast working their utter
ruin ; but so ignorant are they that they fail
to see it. The negro is the source of all of our
troubles. He invites the military to our peace
ful towns and villages : he is a spy upon all of
our actions, and with swift and lying tongue
delights in reciting to the military officers im
aginary wrongs, and chuckles when our people
fall into the rough hands of the soldiery.—
What man in the bounds of your acquaintance
has suffered military arrest except through
inriiorizes and provides for the expression j voters whom they address. J. hey were ail land-
of just such opinions as those held by Cover- ! Isss, and can scarcely be expected to remain
nor Jenkins. The third section requires that | blind to such glittering expectations. And,
they vote tor delegates to a constitutional con- I n ) ;i v re-i}' upon it, the scheme will be press-
vention, shall also for or against holding such 5-^ " despeiate and remorseless audacity.—
a convention, and if a majority of the voters j ^he men engaged in it are not men easily
are against a convention it will not be held.— daunted by fear of consequences still less by
In that case the present joint provisional and sp iuples as to tlie character oi the man employ
military governments would continue till some
Sergeant pointed out the way to the litter I
no distant day, build up a commerce and a pop-| bearers as best he could, and immediately I
ulation rivalling those of New Foundland and [joined his comrades. The Confederates occu- j
The delicacy, as well as the quan- j ied South Mountain frorn t]i0 Po tomac north
tny of tne fish, is unequalled, and the immense! , _ ,, I . r , ,, r ,
demand of the Pacific Islands and Asia would j ward - C;lnnon were m full play at different on ( ot on Crop,
absorb all of its surplus, while the labor would ! points on the mountain. For several hours
Applications shotiid he mad” at once.
Jp§y“We are not prepared to make advance!
give us a fresh and splendid nursery for first 1
class seamen—the very material we require for
the grand nautical and commercial supremacy
which we are to claim on the great ocean. Tim-| P* ed their places.
the artillery defended the Gap, but their am
munition being expended muskets soon oceu-
Sergt. B. w-as excited, but j
her for ship-building purposes, not to speak of i did not think he would he killed ; yet nothing
niaor uses, covers the whole coast, and water
power for saw-mills is lavishly furnished by
the hand of nature. The mere ice trade for
the Pacific slope, of both North and South
America, and for the Islands anil continents of
the East can be made to pay the purchase mo
ney of this region, and for internal trade the
Knitchpek offers as valuable, varied and exten-
but a sense of duty, prompted by a love of
country, could have induced him to have en
tered tlie fight.
The top of the mountain was reached by
the infantry just as the artillery were leaving
their position for want of ammunition. Posi-
-A-- SEAGO,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Corner Forsyth and, Mitchell Streets,
May li-33-3t. Atlanta, Georgia,
sive navigation and resources
reuce.
The fpllowin
adopted:
Resolved, That
resolutions were unanimously
w? acknowledge th:
of the Christian religion to he an essential part,
and the only secure foundation of Education—
the safe-guard of human freedom, and theonlv
source Of individual and national happiness and
prosperity ; and we earnestly appeal, therefore,
to our bretlieren throughout Georgia to use
every possible means within their reach to se
cure for themselves and their children sound
and thorough Scriptural instruction.
j subsequent attempt at reconstruction, or addi-
j tional action of Congress. Congress, having
I thus made reconstruction optional with the
j people, to speak or vote against reconstruction
! is not an act of opposition to the law.
j General Pope’s first demonstration in this
truths i matter, like his grand movement upon the en
emy in Virginia is a false one. If he shall re
move Governor Jenkins for any such reason as
he has threatened it, he will have mistaken
his duty. He has tlie unquestioned power to
do it. There is scarcely a conceivable act by
which he could exceed his powers, but the re
moval of the Governor will be a grave error of
judgment. Opinion in the South as elsewhere,
must be left free. We want the South to re
construct and return to the Union, but we
od. Neither Mr. Stevens nor Gen. Butler
likely to halt in the execution of such a scheme
from tlie fear that it may lead to a war of races
or plunge the South into hopeless and remedi
less ruin. The character and temper of the
men to go South as their agents and mission
aries—Senator Nye, Judge Kelly and Gen Lo
gan, fur example is by no means re-assur-
ing.
There are two grounds of reliance against the
success of such a project. It may reasonably
be expected, in the first place, that such a
wholesale scheme of confiscation as that sug
gested will unite the white vote of the South
against it And it is also reasonably certain to
Coweta Mortgage Sh’ff’s Sale.
On the first Tuesday in fitly next,
as the SL Law- ! tion was taken across the Gap. narrow and j \\7"D>L be sold before the Gotirt House
i x. . j . . , . , , ,, ; it door in Newnan, Coweta county, with -
I deep, that had just been occupied by the artil- ; • ,, , . , cl., c ■> •'
, *’ „ ,, . , , , , f J \ iu the legal hours of sale, the following pro-
j lery. On the right and left the mountain was j perty, to-wit:
_ Fnisox Scexe.—On Fast Day tlie Governor of ; impassible ; just in front was a small field lying | One town lot situate in the town of Newnan,
S-d.^ndSS‘vising Ihe Imiidffig^rcq^estoi i whoI! y " ithin the Ga P- aQd extending almost | in said county, known as part of lot No 11,
’ - “ ! across it. The side nearest was enclosed by an ! f om "facing at the north east corner of the
old rail fence, hedged with bushes and bjjars
New
eo
the warden to bring a certain prisoner to the
room. In a short time Mr. Mayo ami the man
entered and took tlieir position in the middle of j
the company. The convict was, of course, aston
ished to find himself ushered into so large a gath
ering, in which were some twenty ladies, including
the wife of his Excellency. Tlie Governor rose,
took the man by the hand, and spoke substantial
ly as follows:
“3Iy friend, about twelve months ago you were
committed to this prison for five years for the al
leged crime of passing counterfeit money. Soon j
after your incarceration, circumstances came to i
light tending to prove that, although a counter- j
feit bill passed through your hands, it was used !
by you in an entirely innocent manner, and that {
you were unwillingly the victim of a scoundrel, |
"who tied the State and has never been arrested. !
“ I immediately ordered a full investigation of
your case, and I am thoroughly convinced that |
are ari innocent man. serving out an unjust son- j shape of a horseshoe.
lot whereon the carriage shop of Win. H. Luck-
ie stood on 28th January 1858, and running
so dense as to prove almost impassable. The | thence east fifty feet thence south thirty three
field was quite ngirrow,,and the opposite ov low- | feet and six inches, thence west fifty feet, thence
er side was enclosed by a stone fence three and
a feet high &n the-upper side, and about ten
from the top of the fence to the road, which
was directly below. We were fronting across
this road, and a steep. Rill lay opposite, covered
with big trees. At the foot were gullies, logs
and boulders, behind which the enemy had
sheltered themselves from the artillery. As
soon, as the firing ceasei] they advanced to the
right and left, and formed themselves in the
Such was the condition
In
north thirty-three feet and six inches, together
with the improvements thereon. Levied on a*
the property of Wm. II. Luckie, to satisfy a
mortgage fifa issued from Coweta Superiot
Court in favor of Wrn. P. Nimmons executor
&cvs. Wm H. Luckie. Property pointed out
in said mortgage fifn.
GEO. H. CARMICAL, Sh’ff.
May 11th, 18G".
tenet-. The Constitution of the State gives me () f a j^faius when we were ordered to charge,
the power to open tlsc doors ol tms prison: and m ; °
the lawful exercise of that power I now grant yon a moment our gallant commander, waving his |
This very hour the war- , fiat, gave the command “ forward, boys!” with
on
react in the North, and work the overthrow of „ , , . .
P urt y which adopts it as part of its policy- j rcdieve^on°of a convict’s uniform and ,
IV* riMm. it n.rtiun (hut ilu> amt miM of tl.e , :iv0 you a citizen’s dress. You ha v-e been a good j a shout, and on rushed as gallant a band as
Alas, alas! that such an un-
great need of our State, and that v. e will do all
in our power by voice and vote to secure the
negro instrumentality ? Not one we apprehend. : a
Again, the negroes, some honorable exeep- , people in establishing day and Sunday schools, j
tions, have determined to give their support to j Resolved, That a free School system is the
the Radical party, and every such adherent is j j
almost as deadly an enemy to the interests ot j adoption of such a system,
our country as the incendiary. A white Radi- | Resolved, That till such a system is adopted
cal we can endure, but from black Radicals ’ *' ac Shite, we are iu pressing, need of assis- j
, T , , ,. , .. , . , tance, and that we earnestly ask the aid of all
good Lord deliver us. In time, then, begin to j who ure interested in the cause of our countrv |
seek same other kind of laborers, and be ready
for the change which interest and public opin
ion will surely produce.
Resolved, That the State Board of Education „„„ „„ . ... o
of Georgia be requested to appoint as manv 1 waut it dune voluntarily or at least'with E0 | people of the Northern States do not regard ; j nan 'witfiin these walls, and while I and my friends ! ever faced a foe. .........
men as it may deem advisable, upon the broad j further compulsion than the law “authorises, i confiscation with favor. They desire full and j here live we will everywhere bear testimony that . , , , , ’ , • With
basis of competency, and not color, to lecture I «=».-«. i ample guarantees tor the future safety ot tue i yom-Jimpnsonment leaves no stain on your char- command naa ever ue.n given, wun
and nive instruction and encouragement to the I i Union, and the security of equal civil and po- \ acter. A dear v.ne and losing sister haii? prayed ; unbroken line, onward was the charge until
‘Freedom mEast Tennessee. |««-' I^I«« I-
lsutas i L..dW doU z -**, •••**
and clearly over the hills and vales of East Ten- ■ an J tn.ng be\ ond ^ t.nm. tni
nessee. The Nashville Gazette, of May 8th, gives ! disposed to strip rue Southern peo;
the following items from that section’: i little property the war has left- them, or to pro- j person in the audience looked unmoved upon the ; wall was cleared Lamar in front. The firing-
prisoner
port.’
in crossing there
was some disorder, hut soon re-establishing the
lead
Marysville, mobbed the Rev. Mr. Haynes a mm-
.... - , ister of the Methodist Church South, on last htab-
anu humanity. j fi a -fi_ and drove him out of Marysville. They
Resolved, that we request all teachers to j then went out of town two miles, and broke up
open each day’s school exercises with prayer, ; a congregation of the same church while they
and reading a portion of the Scriptures, but we , were assembling for worship. Negroes were in
do net approve of* teaching any sectarian or j lh. c m°b-
Ax Old Newspaper.—Mrs. Ann Stegall, of ! denominational dogmas, believing that all such . The Bey. IT. T. Dowell, ox the Church North,
' matters should be excluded as detrimental - * charged with having been present at a league
less are they ' As ‘ ^ Governor closed his remarks the poor ; ] ine we advanced to the stone wall. Up to
~ j man, overjoyed with happiness, trembled in ev- I . 1
people of t:ie | err limb., and his face was wet with tears. Not a time no one was hurt. At a bound the
iG’ili. Ol* lO nro- : TM in 171 fUp Or»rllr*nr*« • LwiVoH nnmnvoil -n-rxr.n fl.n ..4 T • r __ rr-i n •
prost
this city, has presented us with No. 1383, Yol. j matters should be excluded as detrimental to
XXIX of the “ Augusta Chronicle,” published ! the interests and prosperity of Free Schools
, . 1 ,1 Resolved. That we tender our sincere thanks
Maich od, lSlo, and whicn contains a proela- j (fi e American Missionary Association,
mation ot James Madison, President, announ
cing tlie conclusion of a treaty of peace with
Great Britain. This article, together with three
short editorial notices, price current of five
lines and two marriage notices, is all the read
ing matter the Chronicle contains, tlie remain
ing space being filled with advertisements.—
and
all other Northern Aid Societies, for the liberal
j manner in which they have ministered to our
j actual wants, and all their friends laboring in
j our midst, who have thus far aided us in edu
cating our free race, praying that the kind
power of Divine Providence will strengthen
and enable them to go on with this good and
j glorious work which they are now engaged in.
. . I Resolved, That tljp members of this Con ven-
I lie number ot columns are sixteen, the size of ! tion do but express the sentiments of then-
paper 18x21 inches, and the type used is small j several constituencies, in awarding unbounded
pica, and Mr. George Adams is printer '■ l ,r;dsc toj-he several colored teachers am on
We quote the price current in full: ’ i who Coheir unyielding and persevering zeal,
Cotton. 15 1-2—16 Sugar,
Tobacco, 6 dolg. Bacon
Salt, 1 25 cts. Cornmeal,
' is charged
i meeting and having instigated the mob. Several
Union army officers who opposed ihe mob have
been threatened with violence.
Arms for the State militia have been sent to
Marysville, to one of the lead-rs of the mob.
Two assaults were made in Knoxville same day
j on men who have been ” rebels." The political
feeling is bitter and violent,
i The arming of the militia creates intense feel-
■ ing and dissatisfaction.
pen
and suffering of the- Southern States.
The meeting in North Carolina is probably
the precursor of others of a similar character.
\Ye shall, without doubt, have ‘confiscation'
raised as tne war-cry of the new Republican
prosperous future.—Exchange.
happy and
was now more rapid, and some of our rnen
| were shot down, and that, too, by an invisible :
*- -*• i foe. Lamar fell mortally wounded about twen- !
The Japanese Embassy, consisting of eight ty paces from the fence. Onward still was the ‘
charge, until we had gone about 150 yards {
from tho fence, where the fire of the enemy
Coweta Sheriff’s Sale.
On the first Tuesday in June next,
TILL be sold before the Court House-
doer in Newnan, Cow r eta county, with
in the legal hours of sale, the following pro
perty, to-wit:
One buggy: levied on as the property of
William Echols by virtue of a fi fa issued from
Coweta County Court to enforce mechanic’s
Uer. fox repaRs made and materials f^rntsboo.
on and for said buggy, in favor of Luckie A
Dickson V3 said William Echols. Property
pointed out in said fi fa.
GEO. H. CARMICAL. Sh’ff.
May 11th, 1867.
persons, two of them special commissioners, ac-
_ ___ r _ credited by the Tycoon, arrived at Washington
party of the South, as the banner under which j on the 26th ult. They have presents from the
the colored voters will be invited and urged to \ Japanese government to General Grant, Presi- j fi eKUTie 30 destructive that we were completely
range thcDiaeives in solid pfcalimx. The Mb. ] fSgSSUSST ®arrested. We remained in lino atout «„
r"itb gold, and appro- minutes, during which time one-third of our ; „
.. k ! - either hided or wounded Quieh i
Tlie Embassy will remain ly every man sought shelter for himself behind
JOSEPH E. DENT,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
(Grocer & Commission
VI gECHANT,
G KEEN VILLE STKEEV,
Si
these
‘these architects of ruin.”
pres
to Re equally valuable,
in Washington about four weeks
a tree. So completely protected was the ene-
William Heard, the Cedar comity, Iowa, cente
narian, died on the 6th ult. The deceased was
;ed one hundred and one rears, two months and
Letter of Erastus Brooks.
So writes a Northern man from Atlanta, Ga.
and with a mortification beyond expression,
hr twenty-six days, having been born in Loudon co, ! we are compelled to admit that he writes truly,
minded Virginia, on the 10th of January. 1766. He held j The heart of the Southern people is broken.—
ong ns, : the office of County Surveyor of Columbia cour- j Poverty at the heathstone, a bayonet at the
ty, Ohio, for thirty-two years. His direct deseii- : door, the brave and the true disfranchised, the
dauts mimber one hundred and niuen-seven timid and truckling lying and fawning, to save
W. B. AY. DENT,
MASUFACTCTER OF ALL XIXDS OF
TIN AVAEE,
AND DEALLR IX
Flour, 5 50—6 dels
We copy concluding editorial article:
ily endorse and commend their efforts—and
claim it as the indispensable duty of this body
Thf. bcnkficial effects of Peace.—Upwards! give some expression of their indebtedness
of 8 000 bales of cotton have been shipped thi V J 1 ” f lve soni ^ assurft,lce ” f de ; Fxxrev Covbtesils.—The laws of politeness
week to bavannah—also, a number of brave j to tester and support all ot said should be observed not onlv between intimate
men, who abandoned that city in the hour of ,. ea . < ;': ierS ', U a f e k ° own to competent, so- friends, but betwe
“The Heart of tho People is Broken and The Vicksburg Times of the 29th nit. appeared j my that Sergeant Brown was compelled to ro-
their Spirits Humiliated.” in mourning toy tho Confederate dead. j servc; Lis fire and await an opportunity. Several
Over 200,000 shad have been shipped from Nor- : had sought shelter behind the same tree, and :
folk to northern cities tliis season. j it was soon observed that the largest trees
Bad for Mexico.—It is said B. F. Butler rued- j afforded no protection, even to those who were
itates a trip to Mexico at an early day—whether fin mediately behind them. Taking position 1
in the secret service of the Government, or on his ; . .. j
own hook, is not stated.—Hash, Gazette [ «>me distance irora the nearest tree and resting 1
, r . j upon ihe right knee, three halls were observed j
tionBoardsIn the several conntieshi thaVIstate, j to strike a stone hard by, nearly at lightjangles !-AK kinds of Country Produce taken ia ex-
to each other. Attention was instantly direct- j ^ , „ t!ian ge.
; ,, I A ill duplicate any Atlanta hill given to
ed to the ngnt where the enemy wore distinctly ! merthants * TApri! 27-tf.
seen. A\ bile thus kneeling the gun of Sergeant !
B. became clogged, and rising to Ifis feet to j p TT7HTTM
force the ball down, he was struck by a minnie j W u* A Si
ball, breaking the left thigh igid cutting the !
under the Sherman Dili, will be composed of one
■ negro and two white men.
.Tamos Bnchanan, ex ; President, entered upon
^ ^ fii? seventy-seventh year on the 22nd ult. He is
was probably the iasf surviving constituent of j tary mandates, and the utterance of their Press . in vigorous health, and occasionally makes a trip
his first election. trammeled by tlie sword. They have bowed j from Wheatland to Lancaster, three miles and a
to the conqueror, and to day but few have sav- , half, on foot,
ed to themselves the last title of manhood, the
independence of thought and opinion. In our
London. May8tb.—'The Peace Congress met
ri.ctiriliv Tin- Tvrocewlinas are secret. This is • femoral arterv.
.Tn?t fir. Ibis iitnp nnr lino
General Insurance Agency.
danger, have departed for the same destination
—a prosperous voyage and a pleasant journey
o both, rot. we never wish to see their faces
more.
licitmg aid both at home and abroad for their ily ; and those hous
liberal support. and happy where the courtesies oi goou society j spirit
Resolved, That the Educational Board be are observed. There need not nor ought not to j the fiour of
be formality •but little attentions between broth- ; th.. i iS e
The Cofiference to settle the Luxembourg ;
stjon is in session.
of disaster and despair. Though de-1 ail the powers guaranty tin- settlemeiit, and ob- . tfis cross fire, Sergt. Brown removed one of his. Office at McCamy & Co's. Drug Store, Franklin
ise of sanctuaries, places must niu et in^ha^Sfcctton. J Uaspewlers and bound his thigh as tightly as j Buildings. Alabama Str.’t., Atlanta, Ga.
: England hesitates to give the guarantee. The his strength would permit and prevented fur-; Refers to Rev Jaues Stacy and J. J. Fiv-,
session adjourned to enable delegates to receive ' . t - • .
1 instructions from their Governments. Meantime ; iner 1 ,,loou ' 1 sox. Esq.. Newnan. Georgia,
went on with a devotion which did war preparations continue. | The enemy soon passed, and the dead, srvl ; A ng. 11 1 v
