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NEWNAN, Saturday Morning, July 27, 1867 Hamper's Magazine.—We have received the August number of this monthly. The most interesting articles arc, Personal Recollection*? of the War, Port Hudson, Tom Marshall of Kentucky, and Private Correspondence of Dan iel Webster. Terms $4 a year. Mu. Hill's Speech and Gov. Johnson Letter. Wc have received from the Augusta Chronicle office a pamphlet copy of these important doc uments. Price 6 cents for single copy. The nne office adveitised to issue this week, in j imphlot form, Mr. Hill’s “Notes on the Sit uation.” The President’s Veto. The President's Message, vetoing the Supple mentary Bill No. 2, is an able and faithful vindication of the constitutional rights cf the South. It matters not if Congress did disre gard it, still it should shame the timid man in the oppressed States who is willing to surren der his rights and liberties at the demands of the Northern Rump. How any consistent Union man or origiuai secessionist can forsake the President surpasses our comprehension.— How he who was the friend of a constitutional Union, and lie who was the firm advocate of the rights of each and every State, can now give that party, which daily stabs the Consti tution and keep asunder the Union and territo rializes or provincializes States, is one of the wonders of these latter days. Head the message, ponder over it; it will do your soul good and cause you to feel like throwing up your hat for Andrew Johnson. happens he is required by the State laws to in this new relation Congress can govern them by military power. A title by conquest .-tands on clear grounds. It applies only to territory, or goods, or mov able things, regularly captured in war, called booty, or, if taken by individual soldiers, plun der. ’ There is not a foot of the laud in any of these ten States which the United States holds enter into bonds with security, and take an oath of office ; yet from the beginning of the bill to the end, there is no provision of any bond or oath of office, or for any single quali fication required under the State law such as residence, citizenship, or anything else. The only oath is that prowled for in the ninth sec tion. by the term of which every one detailed or appointed to any civil office in the State is required to take the oath of office prescribed ^ —— — v , „ , , -. - ■ , _ - _ by law for officers of the United States. Thus, pretended Government called the Confederate lilted from the necks of the people, and the had called him a traitor. To this, Kelley ding to the forms of the Constitution, repeal their laws They cannot remove or control this military despotism. The remedy is, never theless, in their hands. It is to be found in the ballot, and is a sure one, if not controlled by fraud and awed by arbitrary power, or from apathy on their part, too long delayed. With abiding confidence in their patriotism, On last Tuesday, the Rev. John W. Lancas ter. a prominut member of the Union Leaugue of Hickory Flat, Chambers county. Ala., went to the corn field of Mr. Robert Kelley, where he was plowing, and called upon him to ac hy conquest, and only such land as did not be- . wisdom and integrity, I am still hopeful of the j count for certain opprobrious language he had Violent Demonstration of tlie Union league. Mayuard, in a debate with Etheridge r c ! ly, attempted to prove the latter a “ rs uu. ; because all the “rebels” were for him. p>V i ridge, by the same process, proved Miivudrd" 1 nigger, because all the niggers favored'him “ long to either of these States or any individual I future, and that in the end the rod of despo- i uttered in regard to the said League, owner. I mean such lands as did belong to the tisra will be broken, the armed heel of power j Lancaster, in the first place said that Kelley . . •« v . i i . a. . i *i <- 1. l _ _ e a 1 .. .— .. . 1n .4 i i * i _ — a _ I' _ a ? T .11 _ an officer of the army of the United States, de tailed to fill a civil office in one of these States, gives no bond and takes no official oath for the performance of his new duties; but,as a civil officer of the State, only takes the same oath which he had already taken as a military offi cer performing civil duties, and the authority under which he acts is Federal authority on- fctates, these hinds we may claim to hold by conquest. As to all other hinds or territory, whether belonging to Slates or individuals, the Federal Government has now no more title or right to it than it had l*efore the relcllion.— Our own forts, arsenals, navy yards custom houses, and other Federal property situated in these States, we now hold, not bv the title of principles of served. Andrew Johnson. Washington, P. C., July, 19, 1867. Hews in Brief- lv. and the inevitable result is that the Feder- : conquest, but by an old title acquired by pur- Don’t be Deceived. Wc have been informed that the report lias gained circulation in several localities, that the names of those who vote “against Conven tion ” will be forwaded to Gen. Pope, and that their property will be confiscated immediately. How absurd. The reconstruction act itself gives every one the privilege to endorse on his 518 Possible some of the reasons^which prevent THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. To the House of Representatives of the United States : j I return herewith the bill entitled “an act sup- . piementary to an act entitled an act to provide , a " enc y ot ds own officers, for the more efficient government of the rebel strange ihat<<ingles.- attempts id Government by the agency’ ot its own offi cers, injeffect, assumes"the civil government of the Stale. A singular contradiction is apparent here.— ! Congress declares these local State governments ; to be illegal governments, and then provides i that these illegal governments shall be carried | on by Federal officers, who are t<> perform the | very duties imposed on its own officers hv this j illegal State authority. It certainly would he j a novel spectacle if Congress should attempt to carry on a legal State government i*y the of its own officers. It is yet more to sustain and tor the m.orq efficient government ot tne rebel ° States, passed on the 2d of March, 1867,” and | cari y an illegal State go\ eminent by the act supplementary thereto passed on the same reucial agency. 22d day of March 1867, and will state as briefly ^ HS connection, I must c:>. 1 a. amtio ticket “ against a Convention ” or “ for aCon- \ cut ion ” us lie chooses. None hut the silly and uninformed will for a moment listen to such wicked reports. Decide for Yourself. Are you willing to disfranchise your while neighbor and at the same time enfranchise the negro? Then vote for reconstruction upder the Sherman bill. Are you willing to disqualify your white neighbor, perhaps your father or brother, for holding office, and at the same time qualify the negro for holding office ? Then vote for reconstruction under the Sherman bill. Every man must decide these questions for himself and not for another. Is it True? Radicalism's reply to the objections urged against the unconstitutionality of the recon- ‘ ruction acts is, the South is outside of the ! of the Constitution of the United States. ; us examine this assertion, for it is nothing : ■ -,t. Did the South have the right to secede, ; A; did she secede and thereby relieve her citi zens from all obligations to support the Consti tution? That was the question, the solution of which was left to the sword. If the South ern armies had triumphed, the answer would have been in the afthmative, and if, as was the case, the Northern armies were victorious, the answer must ho in the negative. Then the Southern States did not succeed in their at tempt to destroy the Union, and have at no time been other than members of the Fedeuil Union. In other words, the South, by her act, failed to relieve herself from obligation to sup port the Constitution, and if bound to support she is entitled to all the protection of that in strument. This must he the Federal manner of reasoning, for if the Union was dissolved, the war waged by the North was nothing more than murder, robbery and arson on a large scale, it appears, then, that no act of the Southern States absolved them from their original obli gation to support the Constitution. The question then arises, has the Northern States, by any act of theirs, done for them what they failed to do for themselves? This admits of but one answer. Then by the act of neither party has the Union been dissolved, and as a sequence the Southern States are still in the Cnion, and being in the Union are entitled to the protection of the Government and its Con stitution : and therefore all that talk about the South having nothing to do with the Constitu tion is sound signifying nothing. But, for the sake of the argument, let it he granted that the Southern States did secede, and were relieved from all obligations to sup port, and deprived of all protection of the Constitution, still Congress is not out of the Union, and its members by their oaths arc bound to support the Constitution, and are pro hibited from passing any unconstitutional acts. Congressmen are required to support the Consti tution if the Southern States are not. The con dition of the latter docs not alter the condition of the forWer. It matters not what may be the peculiar status of Georgia and her suffering sisters, that circumstance does not give Con gress the right to violate that instrument, which its members swear before God to support. In other words, it matters not, so far as Con gress is concerned, whether the ten unrepre sented States are in or out of the Union ; for if these States are in the Union, that body is prohibited from passing expost facto laws, bills of attainder, or depriving any State of its equal representation in the Senate without its consent, or designating by act electors in any State, and if those States are out of the Union those pro hibitions still remain. Tliis, then, is the state of the case: All acts violative of the Constitution passed by Congress are amply null and void, and the members of j Congress who vote for such acts, knowing as ; tliev do that they violate the Constitution, ! me from giving it my approval. This is one of a series ot measures passed by Congress during the last four months, on the subject of reconstruction. The message return ing the act of the 2d of March last, states at length my objections to the passage of that bill. They apply equally well to the bill now before me, and 1 ain content merely to refer to them, and to reiterate my conviction that they are sound and unanswerable There are some points peculiar to this bill which I will proceed at once to consider. The fisrt section purports to declare the true intent and meaning, in some particulars, of the two prior acts. Upon this subject it is declared that the intent of these acts was first, that the existing governments in the ten rebel States, were not legal State governments, and there after said governments to be continued, were to be continued subject in all respects, to the military commanders of the respective districts and the paramount authority of Congress. Congress may, by a declaratory act, fix upon a prior acta construction altogether at variance with its apparent meaning, and, from the time at least when said construction is fixed, the original act will be construed and mean exact ly what it is stated to mean by the declaratory statute. There will be then from the time this bill may become a law, no doubt, no question as to the relation in which tke-cxistiufp,govern ments in those States, called the provisional governments in the original act, stand toward the United States, as these relations stood be fore the declaratory act. These governments it is true, were made subject to absolute mili tary authority in many respects, but not in all the language of the act being “subject to the military authority of the United States, as | hereinafter prescribed.” By the sixth section of the original act, these governments were made, in all respects, subject to the paramount authority of the United Slates. Now, by tliis declaratory act, it appears that Congress did not, by the original act, intend to limit the military authority to any particulars or subjects therein prescribed, but meant to make it uni versal. Thus, over all these ten States, this military government is now declared to have unlimited authority. It is no longer confined to the pres ervation of the public peace, the administra tion of criminal laws, the registration of voters and the superintendence of elections ; but in all respects is assorted to be paramount to the existing civil governments. It is impossible to conceive any state of so ciety more intolerable than this, and yet it is to this condition that twelve millions of Amer ican citizens are reduced by the Congress of the United States. Over every foot of the immense territory occupied by the American citizens, the Constitution of the United States, theoretically is in full operation. It binds all the people there and should pro tect them ; yet they are denied every one of its sacred guarantees. Of what avail will it be to any of these Southern people, when seized by a file of soldiers, to ask for the cause of ar rest or the production of the warrant? Of what avail to ask for privilege of bail when in mili tary custody, which knows no such thing as bail ? Of what avail to demand atrial by jury, process for witness, a copy of the indictment, the privilege of counsel, or that greater privi lege, the writ of habeas corpus. The veto of t-lie original bill of the 2d of March was based on two distinct grounds : the interference of Congress in duties strictly per taining to the reserved powers of the States, and the establishment of military tribunals for the trial of citizens in time of peace. The im partial reader of that message will understand all it contains with respect to military despot ism and martial law has reference especially to the power conferred on the district command ers to displace the criminal courts and assume jurisdiction to try and punish by military boards and most particularly the suspension of j habeas corpus by martial law and military des- ! potism. The act now before me not only de- ] dares that the intent was to confer such mili- j tary authority, but to confer unlimited author ity over all the other courts of the State and over all the officers of the State Legislature, executive and judicial. Not content with the general grant. Congress iu the second section of this bill, specially gives to each military commander power to suspend or relieve from office or from the performance of official duties, and the exercise of official powers, any officer or person holding, or pro fessing to hold or exercise any civil or military office in such district, under any power, elec tion or appointment, derived from, or granted by. or claimed under any so-called State, or the government thereof, or any municipal or other division thereof.” A power that, hitherto, all the departments of the Federal government acting iu concert or separately, have not dared to exercise, is here attempted to be conferred on a subordi nate military officer. To him, as a military officer of the United States Government, isgiv- tention to the tenth and eleventh sections of the bill, which provide that none of the officers or ap pointees of these military commanders shall be bound in his action by any opinion of a civ il officer of the United States, and that all the provisions of the act shall be construed liberal ly to the end that all intents thereof may l.«e ; fully and perfectly carried out. It seems that chase or condemnation for public use with compensation to former owners. M e have not conquered these places, but simply repossessed them. If we require more sites for forts, custom houses, or other public uses, we must acquire the title to them by purchase or appropriation in the regular mode. At this moment the U. States, in the acquisition of sites for national cemeteries in those states, acquires title in the same way. 'ihe Federal Courts sit in court houses owned or leased by the United States ; not in Court houses of the States. The l nited States pay each of these States for the use of the i its jails. i Finally, the United States levies its direct taxes and its internal revenue upon the pro- • p-jity in these States, including the productions of the hinds, within their territorial limits, not by way of contribution in the character of a conqueror, but in the regular way of taxation under the same laws which apply to all the other States of the Union. From first to last, during the rebellion and since, the title of each of these States to the a violated Constitution be pre- plied he had never, during his life, charged , any man living with such a notorious of fence. Lancaster further said that he had been ac cused by Mr. Kelley, of advising the negroes to go to Hickory Flat, on the 4th day of this mouth armed. Mr. Kelly replied he had made use of just such language, and if he requested him. he would prove it to be so. About this time it appears that the conver sation between the Rev. Lancaster and Sir Rel it is stated in the papers that Gen. Skki neither owns nor pays rent for his fine reside!,,' * in Charleston. “Government business’’ " the thunderbolt that crushes all objection f n>1 ? the owner. Cholera in Memphis is decreasing. Hon. John Bell is sinking rapidly. Judge J. Shell Verger, of Mississippi, is dead. Surratt has closed his testimony, and the prosecution is rebutting. Negroes are allowed to serve on juries iu the District of Columbia. “ By the clergyman’s skirts the devil din,!* into the belfry,” is an old Spanish proven, which finds strong confirmation in the can., of Ex-Parson Brownlow. The Tycoon wears gold pantaloons that trail four yards behind, and smokes a pipe. One of Rrownlow’s militia, on being arrested for murder in broad daylight, boasted that he , . . , . ..... , , had kilted eighteen men. He was allowed te ley, was about to terminate in the shape ot a t . bCa p e that night, as the campaign is not Santa Anna is still alive at Campeachy. is thought he will be shot. personal combat, when the son of Lancaster ran up. making use of some violent threats.— Mr. Kelley, as a sensible man would natural ly, became rather alarmed, as well as his horse, which become excited and ran off with the It ; plow smashing things up generally. closed. Vet violent demonstration of Mr. Lancaster and | son, Mr. Kelley went to the magistrate William Registration has closed in Savannah until } Taylor, at Fredonia, Ala., and got out a August. Total whites 2,259 ; total blacks 3,022. A mocking bird was sohf* in Nashville this summer for $200. The Supeeme Court of Virginia has decided that notes given for slave property are collect able. Says the Herald : Old Thad declares : “ y,\ will be ready to sheathe the sword when il, At this work we have commenced is done.” Vou has already sheathed your sword in the heart o' your country. 0, traitor to the white iace and if your work is not already clone, vum country is. war rant for them. The constable in connection with one or two more persons went to apprehend them, and j bring them to justice. It appears that Lan- i caster and his son felt that they had done ; something that was wrong, and had notified . some of their friends to assist them in their I resistance to arrest by any civil officer. No ar- j. mble and resolutions were adopted • rest was effected. The matter was lying still _ 1 Turkey has in contemplation the sale of Je- aad nothing being done as no arrest could be j 1 effected until last Saturday night, the 14th | from our midst our worthy Com m u n icited Tribute of Respect At a meeting of New River Lodge No. \)\ held aff Corinth, Heard county, Ga., thefoHow- Congress supposed this bill might require con- lands and public building owned by them has struction, and they therefore applied this rule. ! never been disturbed, and not a foot of it has But where is the construction to come from ? ! ever been acquired by the United States, even Certainly no one can be more in want of con- under a title of confiscation, and not a foot has struction than a soldier or an officer detailed j for a civil service—perhaps the most important j in a State—with the duties of which he is al- j together unfamiliar. This bill says lie shall rusalem francs. and Jaffa to Russia for $20,900,000 ever been taxed under Federal law. In conclusion, 1 must respectfully call the attention of Congress to the consideration of one or more questions arising under this bill, not be bound in his action by the opinion of j it vests in the military commander, subject only to the approval of the General of the any civil officer of the United States. The du ties of the office are altogether civil, but when lie asks for advice he can only ask the opinion of another military officer, who, perhaps, un derstands as little of his duties as he does him self, and for his action he is answerable to the milituiv authority, and to the military alone. Strictly, no opinion of any civil officer, other than a Judge, has a binding force, but these army of the United States, an unlimited power to remove from office any civil or military offi cer in each of these ten Suites, and further power, subject to the same approval, to detail or appoint any military officer or soldier of the United States to perform the duties of the offi cer so removed, and fill all vacancies occurring in these States, by death, resignation or other wise. The military appointee must be required military appointees could not be bound by a judicial opinion. They might very well say, j to perform the duties of the civil officer accord- even when their action is in conflict with the j big to the laws of the State, and as such is re- Supreme Court of the United States, “that j quired to take an oath, aud is for the time Court is composed of civil officers of the United j States, and we are not bound to conform our action to any opinion of any such authority.” This bill, and the acts to which it is supple mental, arc all founded upon the assumption that these ten communities are not States, and their governments are not legal. Throughout the legislation upon this subject, they are call ed rebel States, and in this particular they are denominated so-called States, and the vice of illegality is declared to pervade all of them.— The obligations of consistency Dind a legisla tive Lodv as well as the individuals who com pose it. It is now too late to say that these ton com munities are not States. Declarations to the contrary, made in these three acts, are contra dicted again and again by repeated acts of leg islation by Congress from the year 1861 to 1867. During that period, while the States were in actual rebellion, and after that rebel lion was brought to a close, they have again been recognized as States of the Union. Rep resentatives have been apportioned to them.— They have been divided into Judicial districts for the holding of District and Circuit Courts of the United States, as States of the Union can be districted. The last act on this subject was passed July 23d, 1866, by which every one of the ten States was arranged into districts and circuits. They have been called on by Congress to act, through their Legislatures, upon at least two amendments of the Constitution of the United States as States. They have ratified one amend ment, which required the vote of twenty-seven States of the thirty-six composing the Union, when the requisite twenty-seven votes were given in favor of that amendment, seven of which were given by seven of these States, and it was proclaimed to be a part of the Con stitution of the United States, and slavery was declared no longer to exist within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdic tion. If these seven States were not legally States of the Union, it follows, as an inevitable consequence, that in some of the States slavery yet exists. It does not exist in these seven States, for they have abolished if also in their State Constitutions; but Kentucky not having done so. it could still remain in that State. But, in truth, if this assumption that these States have no legal State governments he true, then the abolition of slavery by these illegal governments binds no one, for Congress now denies to these States the power to abolish slavery, by denying to them the power to elect a legal State Legislature, or to frame a State Constitution for any purpose, even for such a purpose as the abolitiomofslavery. As to the other constgraHonajp^amendment, having reference to suffrage, it happens that these States have not accepted it.’ The conse quence is, it has never been proclaimed or un derstood even by Congress to be a part of the Constitution of the United States. The Senate of the United States has repeat edly given its sanction to the appointment of j udges and district attorneys for every one of these States : yet, if they are uot legal States, not one of these judges is authorized to hold a court. So, too, both Houses of Congress have passed appropriation hills to pay all these judges, at torneys and officers of the United States for exercising their functions in these States. Again, in the machinery of the Internal Rev enue laws all these States are described, not as Territories, but as States. So much for the continuous legislative recog nition. The instances cited, liowevgr. fall far short of all that might be enumerated?' Exec utive recognition, as is well known, has been frequent and unwavering. The same may be said as to judicial recognition through the Su being a civil officer. What is his character? Is he a civil officer of the State or a civil*officer of the United States ? Where is the Federal power under our Constitution which authorizes liis appointment by any Federal officer ? If, however, he is to be considered a civil officer of the United States, as his appointment and oath would seem to indicate, where is the authority for his appointment by the Constitu tion ? The power of appointment of all officers of the United States, civil or military, where not provided for in the Constitution, is vested in the President by and with the advice aud consent of the Seuate, with this exception, that Congress, by law, may vest the appoint ment of such inferior officers as they may think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in tlie heads of departments. Bat this hill, if these are to be considered inferior offi cers, within the meaning of the Constitution, does not provide for their appointment by the President alone, or by the courts of law, or by the appointment in a subordidate officer. So if we put this question, and fix the char acter of this military appointee either way, this provision of the bill is equally opposed to the Constitution. Take the case of a soldier appointed to per form the oflice of Judge in one of those States, and, as such, to administer the proper laws of thy State, where is the authority to be found in the Constitution for vesting in a military or executive officer strictly judicial functions to be exercised under the State law ? It has been again decided by the Supreme Court of the U. States that the acts of Congress which have attempted to vest executive power in the judicial courts, or in Judges of the U. States, are not warranted by the Constitution. If Congress cannot clothe a Judge with merely executive duties, how can they clothe an officer or soldier of the army with judicial duties over citizens of the United States who are not in the military or naval service ? So, too, it has been frequently decided that Congress cannot require a State officer, either executive or judicial, to perform any duty en joined upon him by a law of the U. States.— How can Congress, then, confer power upon an executive officer of the U. States to perform such duties iu a State? If Congress could not vest in a Judge of one of these States any ju dicial authority of tlie United States, by direct enactment, how can it accomplish the same thing indirectly, by removing a State Judge and putting an officer of the U. States in his place ? To me, these considerations are conclusive of the unconstitutionality of this part of the hill before me. and 1 earnestly commend their consideration to the deliberate judgment of Congress. Within a period of less than a year the legis lation of Congress has attempted to strip the Executive department of the Government of some of its essential powers. The Constitution, and the oath provided in it, devolved on the President the power and the duty to see that —-— i- -a r.-il— —The Consti- Gen. Tom Hindman has not turned Radical. In a published letter he denies it. Boards of registration in North Carolina have been announced. They are composed of ob scure persons. Twelve more Generals and four more Colo nels of the Imperial army have been shot by the Mexican Liberals. The work of building a bridge across the Chattahoochee river at Fort Gaines, is 30on to be commenced. Both Houses of the Northern Congress ad journed at 4 o’clock p. m. Saturday, the 20th, to the 21st of November next. Gen. Sickles lias issued an order authorizing the marrying of a white man and negro woman in Fayetteville, N. C. The registered voters in Sumter county num ber 2,217. Whites 664, blacks 1,553. Not one-half the former have registered. President Johnson estimates the cost to the Northern Government of the execution of the reconstruction acts, to be $1G,000,000. The President is considering the propriety of calling upon the District Commanders for the purpose of establishing uniform rules of action in reconstruction. On Friday, July 19th, the Explanatory or Supplementary Bill No. 2, was passed by the Senate over the President’s veto, by a vote of yeas 30, nays 6, and by the House, yeas 109, nays 24. The Columbus (Ga.) Literary Society has pre sented Col. James Waddell, of Cedar Town, with a beautiful silver cup, as a token of their appreciation of an address delivered by him before the Society. Colonel H. M. Ashly, who has been tried at Clinton, Tenn., on charges of murder and oth er crimes alledged to have been committed during the war, was acquitted. The Pole who made an attempt on the life of the Czar of Russia, has been found guilty, and, under extenuating circumstances, sen tenced to imprisonment for life. Rev. Thomas F. Scott, Episcopal Missionary- Bishop of Oregon and Washington Territory, died in New York on the 14th. He contracted the Panama fever while en route from Califor nia to New York. Mr. W. C. Wylly, an aged and respectable citizen of Savannah, and a veteran of 1812, died July’ 23d. Telegraphic communication is now open be tween Savannah and Thomasville. The Austrian frigate, Nuvara. has sailed from \ Trieste for Vera Cruz, to bring back the re- | mains of the Emperor Maximilian. It is tho’t I that Juarez'will surrender the body. Tlie Supreme Court of Massachusetts has de cided that National Bank shares are subject to citv and State tax. i inst., when the house of Kelley was surround- j I od by, as it appeared to him, a guard of 40 or ! i 50 soldiers, lie was called up and told by ! the younger Lancaster that he had to quash j ! the warrant he had sworn out against him and j i his father, or his life would pay the forfeit. Of i course he promised to quash the matter. John W. D. Lancaster is said to be the Pres- I ident of the Union League at Hickory Flat, Whereas, It hath pleased God to remove and much beloved brother. Rev. James McKixzus, who departed this life after a protracted illess, on June lot;, 1867. Therefore, Bc.it resolved, that in the death of Brother McKixzra the country has lust, a good citizen, the Fraternity an excellent mem ^ ^ her and the church a bright ornament and ' and said, on this occasion, he had to sustain cmplary Christian Minister, his cause in the matter of that warrant against him, the whole army of the United States. As some property and the safety of ono’s Resolved, That we deeply deploro the loss of | our brother, and extend to the bereaved fanii- life is a matter of some doubt in portions of ! ly our heartfelt sympathies and can only’ oiler | Chambers and Randolph counties, Ala., we j anxiously await the action of Gen. Pope. Can- i not something be done? If such outlaws as j these are to run over the country at large, with banded ruffians, what is to become of us ? | Lawr aud order are the highest prizes known to ! any country. — West Point Observer. Maximilian to his Wife.—TheQueretaro Es- paranza publishes the following letter from Maximilian to his wife : My Beloved Carlotta :—If God permits your health to get better, and should you read these few lines, you will learn the cruelty with which fate has stricken me since your depar ture for Europe. You took along with you not only my heart but my good fortune. Why did I not give heed to your voice? So many untoward events, so many sudden blow’s have shattered all my hopes, that death is but a hap py deliverance, not an agony to me. I shall die gloriously, like a soldier, — vanquished but not dishonored. If your sufferings are too great, and God should call you soon to join me I shall bless His divine hand, which has weigh ed so heavily upon us. Adieu ! adieu ! Your poor Maximilian. Hell is governed by the Devil and Tennessee by Brownlow.—Prentice. the consolation that the earthly temple lifts been exchanged for one “not made with hands eternal in the Heavens.” Resolved further, That these resoulutions be published in the Newnan Herald, and t|if> Southern Christian Advocate, and a move ex tended notice of his life and services be pre pared at the earliest convenience. W. C. Smith, j L. C. Wisdom, - Coin R. O. Moreland. i Prentice is usually correct, but lie has got his geography mixed this time.—Chat. Union Brownlow has always been bidding his po litical opponents “to go to hell.” As we wont dtrit, he seeks to accomplish his purpose by making a bell of Tennessee.—Nashville Gazette Speaking of negro suffrage in the South Geu. Butler, in his impeachment speech in New York, said : “Universal, impartial suffrage, al lied to universal ignorance, will only add to our danger ; giving to the masses the club of j Hercules, to be wielded, with the strength of the blind Samson, after he has been a slave grinding iu the house of the Philistines.” Haralson Sheriff’s Sale. On the first Tuesday in September next. ' ILL be sold before the Court House door in Buchanan, Haralson county, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: Lots of land No. 586 and 620, containing 80 acres, more or less, of originally Polk now’ Haralson county: levied on as the property of William G. Cocdy, to satisfy one fi fa issued from Haralson Superior Court in favor of An drew McBride vs William G. Coody, principal, and D. B. Head, security. Property pointed out bv William McBride. JOHN W. TOMLINSON, Dept. Sh’ff. July 27th, 1867. At the same time and place will be sold fho following property, to-wit: Forty acres of land, more or less, number not known, the place whereon Henry Catlireni now lives: levied on as the property of L. P Garrison, to satisfy a fi fa in favor of A. K. Sloan & Co. Property pointed out hr R. Hardy. WM. THOMPSON, Sh’fl'. July 27th, 1887. T Who is the laziest man ? The furniture deal er : he keeps chairs and lounges about all the time. If a man waits patiently while a woman is “putting her things on,” or ‘shopping’ he will make a good husband. Brownlow says he sleeps with a quiet con science. Then ins conscience Iras a dirty bed fellow. TWO months after date application will !>•> made to the Court of Ordinary of Coweta cTiTinty for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of A. C. Bohannon, late of said county, deceased. J. T. KIRBY, Adin'r. July 27—2m. rr ii es ‘LITE DRUG STORE.’ Corner Whitehall and Alabama Streets, ^TL^TSTT^ T E invite the special attention of Drug gists and Merchants in the surrounding country to our large stock of e prophet, that" she ™ IS Foreign & American Goods. cnew.” This was a r>art of a Brigham Youn of Joe Smith, the “d—dst liar he knew.” This was a part Sunday afternoon sermon on the Smith family. Mr. Duncan, who it will )e remembered, was tried over a year ago by a military com mission at Savannah, for maltreatment of Union prisoners at' Andersonville, and who was cor victed and sentenced to fifteen years i imprisonment at Fort Pulaski, has recently 1 frnm fliot. turf. which they have sworn to support, place a stain i en the power supported by a sufficient military ' P r A rae Court of the Unitedtfttates. lhat august upon their souls which all the waters of old 1 ^ to remore cvcr - v ctvil officcr of the United ocean cannot wash away. States. What next? The district commander who has thus displaced the civil officers, is author- tion of its duties in bank and upon the circuit, has never faiied to recognize these ten commu nities as legal States of the Union. The cases in that court upon appeal and writ of error, in Radicalism is a hideous monster, and j i ze d to till the vacancy by the detail ofanoffi- - . , proposes and demands the performance of acts S ec'-, or a soldier of the army, or the appoint- ! those States where the rebellion began, have no * r * ! .... ,.i mi • .... ! lippn nuniKSpri nn sinv idea of cessation ot luns- the laws are faithfully executed, tution, in order to carry out this power, gives ; jrou him choice of the agents, and makes them ' wag subject to his control and supervision ; hut in j .,, , . , the execution of these laws the constitutional j od > the re ' st te - t] <--d back, obligation upon the President remains, but the Half the Tabic Rock at Niagara Falls was I succee( ] et i j n making his escape from that fort, [ blown off on last Thursday. Two thousand and has not as yet been recaptured. moved, but the projecting part breaking Buying in large quantities, directly from Ifn porters, Manufacturers and Packing House?, we are able to offer inducements not to be sur passed in New York, to merchants who employ less capital and buy in smaller quantities. We are daily receiving lar a e supplies ot Drugs and Medicines, Oils and Paints, Window Glass and Putty, Machine Oils of every kind and quality, A stepmother whipped a five year old child at Sterling. Ill , nearly to death, recently.— , She beat it and smothered it with a pillow tiil ! 1 nrmshps Pvestuffs. i , -Tfle startling news has been announced and . the life was neJiriy extinct when‘the neighbors ; * ’ ’ power to ^exercise j confirmed that there has not been a revolution j took the child away from her aud found its x " ~~ in Mexico for the last six days. effectually taken away. The military com mauder is, as to the power of appointment, ; made to take the place of the President, and i the General of the army the place of the Sen- 1 ate, and any attempt on the part of the Presi- j dent to assert his own constitutional power back literally cut to pieces. Gen. Lee has not announced himself in favor of accepting the Congressional plan of recon struction. He will not talk on the subject. An exchange says that it i3 a safe rule to wet ! the wrists before drinking cold water, if at all : heated. The effect is immediate and grateful, 1 and the danger of fatal results may be warded ■ off by this simple precaution. may, under pretence of law, be met by official j "■ insubordination. It is to be feared these mili- ! Drowning of General Meagher.—Cincinnati tary officers, looking to the authority given by ' July 17.—A passenger from Fort Benton ex- these laws, rather than to the letter of the plains how General Meagher came tobedrown- Constitution, will recognize no authority but j ed. He was engaged in a quarrel on the after- the commander of the district and the General noon of the 1st instant with an Irishman who ( . of the army. If there were no other objections had insulted him. Excitement seemed to have | millions to tike it back, and be thankful to General Sherman’s opinion of Walrnssia is concise and pronounced: “Give ’em seven than this to the proposed legislation, it would be sufficient. Whilst I hold the chief executive authority: of the United States ; whilst the obligation ! had not been recovered, rests on me to see that all the laws are faith- rendered the General delirious, andj at 10 ; get off so cheap.” o'clock p m., he fell overboard. Search was | made for his body, but at last accounts it unnatural and impossible, any man to vote willingly to disfranchise his father, and it is impossible to dispense with the services of many of our wisest, best and most experienced men in governmental affairs, and at the same time supply their places with ignorant and vicious men. Its results are wicked. As certain as the sun shines, Radicalism, if permitted longer to flourish, will produce a conflict of races. The result of its teachings will put the blacks and whites to cutting each others’ throats. Though we fear the immediate future, still we have an abiding, joyous hope that God and man will, on this earth, hold to a strict account the authors of our ruin, and the knees of these wicked destroyers of constitutional liberty will be made to sujite each other like Belshazzars, tor the handwriting will appear upon the wall amid their revelry. These things are as re morseless as fate, and, we believe, as true as the Book. Americans will yet awake, and woe be unto the unfaithful stewards. M e protest against all acts and policies cal culated to produce an era of blood, and wash unr hands of all responsibility. Randolph Macon College, Virginia, has con ferred the degree of L. L. D. on Bishop George 1. Tierce. It is imnatral for other person. This military of- j j ^lly executed, I am never willingly surrender j diction. They were term to term, until the rebellion was entirely subdued and peace established, as if no iusur- * aiu never States before that court bv writ fleer, whether an officer or a soldier, is to per form the duties of such officer or person so sus pended or removed. In other words, an offi cer or a soldier of the army is transformed in to a civil officer. He mav be made a Governor, a legislator, or , , , . . . . a judge. However unfit he mav deem himself a l'l x ' a ; a "4 ev , e ? G’ ori 3 iaa l tUlt 1 M I , , I . 1 art* pnwrtainMl hv that ..nhnnal The bench dience The soldier, if detailed to act as a Justice of It is reported from the Danish Island of San- that trust or the powers given for its execution, j to Thomas that Senator Doolittle has gone to give lay consent to be made re- j Copenhagen to negotiate with ihe Danish gov- rection had intervened. New cases! occurring ! sponsible for the faithful execution of the laws, 1 eminent for the purchase of Santo Thomas. It ■fince the rebellion, have come from these j aud at the same time surrender that trust and : will be remembered that some time ago it was Mrs. Jefferson Davis and daughter J , n Augusta on Tuesday, guests at the Ilanters Hotel. it of error and < ?°' V ’-T, which accompany it, to any other exec-1 stated that he had been sent, as a special en- su i 0 ide last Sabbath tit. These cases * utive officer, high or low, or to any number of , vc.y to Russia in matters connected with the j placed a gun at t >1 in the exercise • executive officers. i sale of Russian America. ! chest, and struck tl vested by the Con- to be taken from subordinate officer, the Congress, in cloth The Peach Trade.—It the Camden Sri.'iDF, of a Preacher.—V?e are informed that the Rev. Mr. Kev, a local Baptist preache., who lived en Bushy creek, m Burke county about twenty miles from Augusta, committed _ * morning- It appears that j the lower extremity of the i ;k the hammer with a stick, j which he held in his hand. The cause of the j stated that that | rash act is unknown. This life of ours is short ; Patent Medicines, Imported and American, Fancy and Toilet Goods, And all articles kept in a First Class Dm;? Store. On hand also, Land re til’s New Crop Turnip Seed, And the highly recommended Spear’s Patent Fruit-Preserving SOLUTION - . One box preserves 128 pounds fruit, without Expressive Sealing or Air-Tight Jars. Call arid examine our stock and drink from ; the famous 6i Arctic 55 Soda Fount!! F1EDW1NE & FOX, Corner 'Whitehall and Alabama streets July 13-tf. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. the Peace, must obey as quickly as if detailed | made by the Judges at the December term, and with the officer who assumes its ex- j at »elDhiaand Baltimore R. R- Co. has made, \ good many people have been puzzled of for picket duty. 118G5. even* one of these btates is put on the . r u.-„ a i “{™. anu ■. A ? . . 7-a J ; 18G5, every one of these States is put on the This interference with the constitu- civ perform . _ _ w A , „ lie is detailed. It is clear, however, that he j South Carolina, Georgia, F lorida, Alabama and , worst evd Q f this legislation. It is a does not lose his position in military service. Mississippi constitute the I itth Judicial Circuit, i wron <r to take from the President p ~ ' ■■ “ ‘ * He is still sub- And were allotted to the late Mr. Justice Wayne. preparations of corresponding purpose. great The Surtax’s Ways.—Among the toUet arti- ; puutic wrong to ta-;e irom me President powers cles which the Sultan has brought with him inferred on him alone bv the Constitution.— inte the countries of the models is an immense SPECIAL KATES ON WHEAT. Per Bushel, .oamauy people u<*ve uccu vo. , , , a . . ,, , s magnitude lor j j a ^ to know what “ the interests of God and 1 From West iroint, and ot&tionSOII ■ i humanity” are. Tne military bills have ex- , plained. They are the election of Radicals, to j office by “nigger” votes. I & Amboy R. R. Co. has already fit-1 enough at best, and why should man destroy j THROUGH onsiDUity will oe witn congress, in ciom- | ted one bundre( i and twenty-five cars for j it by his own agency .—Augusta rress, --an. j the subordinates with unconstitutional the transportation of peaches alone. Hie Phil West-Point Bail Road, TO An armless negro-in the Shenandoah Valley writes an excellent “hand” with his toes, loads j of this section is that the officer or soldier de ; tailed to fill a civil office'must execute irs du ties according to the laws of the State. If he is appointed a Governor of a State, he is to ex ecute the duties as provided by the laws of that State, and for the time being his military char acter is to be suspended in his new civil char acter. If he is appointed a State Treasurer he must at once assume the custody and disburse ment of the funds of the State, and perform those duties precisely according to the laws of the State, for he is entrusted with no other of ficial duty or other official power. Holding the office of Treasurer, and intrusted with funds, it ground tion acts are attempted to be sustained is this: That these ten States are conquered territoiy; that the constitutional relation in which they stood as States toward the National Govern ment prior to the rebellion has given place to a new relation; that their territoiy is conquered territory, aud their citizens a conquered people; president are comerieu w tumnuiuuic cacuu- — —.—: v * . tive officers, and esneciallv upon military of- have cost somebody a very-pretty sum ot mpn . ’ - ey. Another of the Sultan s accessories is a nCerb ‘ , , _ , . g a n, , ... kind of screen, which he uses at meals. It Over nearly ^one-third the fcnab]es ^ the other people at the table t “ Ttadiiion directs shall not be able' to note - . . . . i eiiuex ms appetite or the abstinenoe of the or responsible to them, exercise at this ^, our Father of the Faithful—doubtless a convenient it, etc. He is still an officer or soldier, tie is stm sou- »nu wcre»iwu«a w iuc i. uu ^ ^ . . . , ject to the rules and regulations which govern Louisiana. Arkansas and Texas are allotted to j j> ut wr&n< r more flagrant and more dan- ! tank of Nile water. His Highness is forbidden the army, and must yield due respect and obe- i the Sixth Judicial District, in which there is a , gerolls \ v hen th* powers so taken from the to bathe in any less sacred water. The trans- --- —fi-ads a fine needle add sews with dienco toward his superiors. The clear intent vacancy on the bench. The Chief Justice, in ^ are conferred on subordinate execu- 1 portation of this tank from Egypt to Pans most | ’ * “ .... 1 the exercise of his duty, has recently held a 1 -- — - 1 ’ --- i Circuit Court in North Carolina. If North Carolina is not a State of this Union, the Chief Justice had no authority to hold a court there, i --- i enaoies mm w and everv judgment and decree delivered by nion. military power, n without being seen himself, him in that court was coram nonjudice and void. ^ ™les supreme, il! InU? that profane eyes Another ground on which these reconstruc- commanders, hough no, r J . P- P? » ■ either the appetite Macon, Ga. j Savannah, Ga ' New York more executive power, military and civil, than the people have ever been willing to confer on the head of the Executive Department, though chosen by aud responsible to themselves.— They know what it is, and how it is to he ap plied at the present time. They cannot, accor- reg illation. Some Radical Cubans-at Havana celebrated the execution of Maximilian by a dinner, where toasts were drank to the Monroe doctrine. In a London paper is advertised for sale “ a manuscript copy of the Holy Bible, written in a neat, legible hand by an old gentleman be tween his seventieth and eightieth year, and now to be disposed of for the benefit of his family.” Persons addicted to what is known in some of the papers as “Sunday reading,” will find much that will interest and instruct by tum- idg to the Old and New Testaments. . 21 cente ..38 “ ...48 jj3”Cars go through from Atlanta and Mp 1 ' * gomery to SavaDnah, without transfer, hire- class side wheel Steamers leave Savannah evei Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, for New lor . No delay at Savannah. No charge for wliarl n or drayage, in Savannah, on "Wheat going tnio Any further information relating to ehiprnen , &a. can be had on application to L. P. Gran, lanta & West Point B. R-, Atlanta, Ga.; n- Walker, Supt. M. & W. R. R-, Macon, Ga-;; • Selkirk, Master Transportation C. R- B • , . nah, Ga.; David Waldhauer, Forwarding Age- C. B. B. Savannah, Ga.; or to G- J- FGREACBE, Genl. Agt. Atlan.e. Jane ^2—5t.
