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Y F. R. FILDES.] VOL. I. THE QUITMAN BANNER, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. K. R. HL.DKS. T Publisher. TERMS OF Sl' BSC RI I*T ION : For on* year $3 00 Fornix mouths 2 00 For three months 1 00 terms ok advertising : will be inserted for one dol square of en lines, or less, tor each in ' T"> ntv-hvk per rent, will be in the rates, for atlvrrtiso- for six months, and fifty per !!VOiih>. provided tt advance. must l>e marked with the num- desired, or the period to be qTuMished, and in every instance accompanied with the amount required for payment. All communications of a personal character, obituary notices, reports, resolutions or proceed ings of any society, association or corporation will bo i.arjjed as advertisements. Leant advertisements, from county officers w‘ ar* regular patrons, inserted at 10 per cent, dis, mnt irom usual rates, the party paying costs beitw-the heueficiaries. * ; VHKthofrssion! (L arbs. card CAMEV W STY RES TT A V INI UKSI MED THE PHACTICE, will I 1 receive and promptly attend to buq| ias. k r.’ir office at Quitman. Ga. karebl4, ltM Dwf William E. Evans, Jtttornni ;mb (Counselor at fatd, W ARESBORO' , GEORG iA. TTVILP pive prompt attention to all business W entrusted to his care in the Brunswick Circuit. fob 17 1 y JOHN 0. M CAIL. Jkii ' “• HUNTER, HUNTER & McCALL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, QUITMAN, BROOKS COUNTY, OKO., TTTILL GIVE PROMPT ATTENTION TO W all business entrusted to their care, in the Counties of Brooks. Thomas, Colqiit. Lowm.es and Berrien, ol the Southern, and the Counties of Echols and Clinch. of the Brnns wirk Circuit Also in the Counties of Madison and Hamilton, Florida. January 20, 1866. iy RENNET & LANE, sltf omens nnb Counselors at fain, QUITMAN 1 , GEORGIA. mxrnx GIVE PROMPT ATTENTION to Tv all business entrusted to them in the Counties of Brobks, Thomas. Lowndes. Berrien and Co{i,ait, and will practice anywhere in South ern Georgia under special contract. January 20, 1866. I ll If. G. TURNER. A»fe*lfET AT X,AW QITITVaN, GEORGIA. January 20. iB6O. 1-ts DU..I. 11. McCALL, QUITMAN, GEO., Boirers his Professional services to the citizens of B R (Quitman and surrounding country. RtlPDmce at bis Drug Store, on the corner.' I>r. E. A. JELKS, QUITMAN, GEO,, RESPECTFULLY asks the patronage of the , citizens of Quitman and surrounding coun try. [jan2o-tf JR O. DENTIST, _ T AKES this method to Inform the citizens of Quitman and vicin ity that he will visit this place once l IXJ in throe months regularly, from the Ist of March. February 24, 1866. ly Dr. F. 11. Lewis, Surgeon Dentist, IS NOW LOCATED AT Quitman, Georgia, AND is prepared to do all branches of Dentis try. Will guarantee perfect fits and satis factory work. k .7&r Not having been able yet to procure an tOffice. he will call abrevidences, when desired. M Orders left At the Store of Stainaker & will be promptly attended to. <> Mr. A. -J. Hpring and Summer [goods, a AT.GRBOVERVILLE. Bpilh subscriber is now receiving his Stock of Spring and Summer Goods consisting of *VKLIGQES, MUSLINS, || GINGHAMS. Kottonades, stripes. H BROWN AND PLANTER'S LINEN, mu IR TINGS, WT SHEETINGS, fc-i , LONG CLOTHS, IJirjß BED TICK, AC. HBKs. Misses’ and Men's Hats Hr and Bonnets; BgpjHO.vs- Flowers, Wreaths, Plumes. Gloves. Mr 1 DIES HISSES HEX AND CHILD REX' S ■ x ' BCOIS AND SHOES, [ Groceries, Hardware, CROCKERY, L Saddles, Bridles , Girths , BRI, l|c other ar'i too teipous to mention. sold at Me market price. § JOHN M. RAVSOB. I Bfrtillc. AprUn. 1866. 13-ts sii inifM mmii. Bill Arp is Called Bifore the ltecon struclion Committee- SU ITR ESSEI) TESTIM 0 N Y. To the Editor of the. M<troj>olitan Record .- Mu. Editor : Mufdsr will out. ami so will evidence. Having seen Ran Rices testimony before the Destruction Commit J tee, 1 have felt sorter slighted because no j mention ain’t been inide of mine. 1 sup puse it|!ms been suppressed but lam not to be bid out in obscirity. Our country is the special jury, aid by and by tins business will go up before it on appeal. The record must go up fair and complete and therefore I’ll take occasion to make public wbat I swore to. I said a good deal more than I can put down Mr. Edit or, arid at times my language was con sidered impudent, but they thought that was all the better for their side, for it il lustrated the rebellious spirit—l heard one of’em say : “Let him go on—the ruling passion strong in death. He’s good States evidence.” When I was put on the stand old Bout web swore me most fiercely and solemnly to speak the truth, the whole truth, and/ nothing but the truth, and I observed that he was then entertaining about t | quart of double rectified, and it lookri like it had soured on his stomach. Old | Blow was settin off on one side with a | memorandum book, getting ready to n< tfte - down some “garbled extracts.” Old Iron Works wua Chairman, afnd j when he nodded his Republican head,ydd j Boutwell says he : “Your name is Arp, I ; believe sir ?” “So called,” says I, S “You reside in the State of Georgia, do you ?” | “I can’t say exactly,” says,” I. “I live in Rome, right in the fork of two pijun I rivers.” “In tie State of Georgia.” says he i fiercely. “In a state of uncertainty about that,” says I. “We don’t know whether Geor gia is a State or not. 1 would like for [you to state yourself if you know The state of the country requires that this j matter should be settled, arid I will pro ceed to state.” “Never mind, sir,” says he. 'How old are you, Mr. Arp ?” “That depends on circumstances,” says I. “I don’t know whether to count the last five years or nqt. Durin the war your folks said a State couldn’t se cede, but that while she was in a state j of rebejlion she ceased to exist. Now ! you say we got out and we shan’t get j back again until 1810. A man’s age has got something to do with his lights and if we are not to vote, I think we ought to count the time. That’s about I as near as I can come to my age sir.” “Well, sir,” says he ; are you familiars with the political sentiments of the citi zens of your State ?” “Got no citizens yet sir that we know S of. I will thank you to speak of us as ! “people.” •• HBKE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RICJHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY PEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.” QUITMAN, GEO., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1866. “Well, sir,” says he, “I’ll humor your obstinacy. Are the people of your State— ; “Don’t speak of it as a State sir, if you I please. I’m on oath now and you must j excuse me for being particular. Call it a section.” “Mr. Arp, are the people of your sec tion sufficiently humbled and repentant to come back into the Union on such terms as we may think proper to impose?’ “Not much they ain’t says I, “1 doiit think they are prepared for it yet. They Iwould’t voluntarily go it blind against [your hand. They say the deal wasn’fair land you have marked the cards and stoic Itlie trumps, but at the same time they | don’t care a darn what you do. They’ve become indifferent and don’t care nothing about your Guy Fawkes business. 1 mean no respect to you, gentlemen but 1 was swore to tell the whole truth. Our people aint a noticing yon only out of curiosity. They don’t expect anything [decent or honorable, or noble from you, [ and they've gone to work diggin and I plowin and plantin and raising boy chil- I dren.” | Right here the man with the memoran | dum scratched down a garbled extract, I and old Boutwell says he: “What, do I you mean by that sir ? What inference Ido you intend ?” I’m statin facts,” says 11, “you must draw your own inferences. ■ They are raisin boy children. Any harm lanout that ? Any treason ? Can’t man ■ raise boy children ? Perhaps you would j like to amend the Constitution and stop | it. Old Pharaoh tried to stop it among | the Israelites, but it didn’t pay. lie tinal- I ly caught the dropsy in the Red Sea. We [ are raisin boy children for the fun of it. I They are a good thing to have in the I house, as Mrs. Toodles wood say. I “Mr. Arp arenot the feelings of your people very hitter towards the North ?” “I beg' your pardon, sir, but you’ll have to split the question, or else I’ll have to split the answer, Our people have a very high regard for honorable men brave men, noble-hearted men, and there’s a heap of’em North, sir, and there’s aheap of widows and orphans there we. are sor ry for ; but as for this hero Radical parly they look upon’em like they was hyenas a scratchin up the dead for a livin. It’s ias natural io nate ’em as it is to kill a snake, It’s utterly impossible for me to tell the strength and length, and bight, depth and bredth of their contempt for that party, They look upon a Radical as—as—as —well as a beggar on liorsc back—a buzzard sailiu round a dead eagle —a suck egg dog crcepin up to the tail of a dead lion. They talk about hir in Brownluw to abuse ’em, to use lan guage on them, like he did a few years ago when he spoke against Pyrne. It they do hire Brownlow he’ll spatter ’em, lie’ll daub ’em all over and slime ’em and slobber on ’em about right, and it will stick forthe pores are open and their mor als spongy. Pd like to stand off about ten rods and hear him spread himself.— It would ho worse than a squirt-gun full of cow-slop, and 1 have no doubt would give general satisfaction.” “That’s sufficient, sir,” says old Bout well “lif it was it was in their power to do so would your people renew the fight ?” “Ndt unless they could fight the Radi cals (ill alone, and all the world agree to “hands off.” Even then there wouldn’t be no fight, for we couldn’t cotch you.” “What do your people say on the sub ject of negro equality ?” "They say it’s a lie sir—it don’t exist by nature and never can it practice. Folks were not created free and equal. That may bp a theoretical truth, but it’s always Keen a practical lie. There’s grades of • society every where. There’s men T give jibe sidewalk to, and there’s men that 'gives it to me. There's men that I vote, and men that vote me, and the grades up, up, up, step by step, from my sort to Mr. Davis and Mr Stephens, and Gener al Lee, and Howell Cobb and Ben. Hill, and their sort ; for they are the highest in the nation ; and then again it goes from me down, down, down, to the nig gers and the Republicans and the Radi cals and that’s as low as they tun.— There aint no equality and you cant make one. We’ll vote the niggers certain I’ll vote Tip, and Tip’s a’head centre ’ He’ll vote about forty and the first thing you know we’ll elect seven big' black greasy niggers to Congress. W e’ll do it certain —seven of’em 18 carats strong with African musk. Ihe other rebel States will do the same thing and you’ll have about fifty of ’em to draw seats with, and you can all stick your legs up on your desk together and swap lies and vermin and shampood at the same shop, ami the fair sexes can set together in the gall ries and mix odors and fan their scent about promiscuous. We’ll give you a full benefit of your Civil Rights bill see if we don’t. Yon go on—play your cards. We are bidin our time. We are payin your tax es and your duties and back rations for 1864, and licenses, and your infernal revenue and obeyin your laws without havin any hand in makin ’em, and we are cut off from pensions and public lands ; and you sold a poor man’s still in my county the other day because he couldn’t pay your tax on some peach brandy he stilled for his neighbors some two years ago 5 and soon youll be sellin the laud for the land tax, and your are tryin your best to play the devil general ly"; but you’ll catch it in the long run See if you don’t. Talk about Fenians. When the good men of the North and the South all get togethor, they'll walk over the track so fast that you wont have time to g'et out- of the way. You’ll sub side into obscurity, and your children will deny that their daddies ever belon ged to such a party. Excuse me, gentle men, but I’m a little excited. Five cents a peund on cotton will excite anybody that makes it. Tax on industry-—on sweat and toil, Protection tariff's for Pennsylvania and five cents a pound on Southern cotton —half it's average worth and your folks will manage some way or other to steal the other half My ad vice to you is to quit this foolishness and begin to travel the only road to peac Old Blow couldu t keep up with his gar 1 bled extracts. “What makes the President so popular at the South ?” “Contrast, sir—contrast. The more he ain't like your party, the more popular lie is. lie would treat us about right, 1 reckon, if you would let fliim but you bedevil him so that sometimes he I don’t understand himself. I don't think | he knew for a while whether his Peace Proclamation restored the writ of habeas corpus or not. But do you go on and impeach him, and that will bring matters to a focus. I’ll bet you’d be in Fort Del aware in a week, in a week and the Southern members be here in their seats, j and they’ll look round at the political j wreck and ruin and plunder and stealage that’s been goiu on they might exclaim in the language of the poet— “ Whose pin here since l’sti pin gone?” "Mr. Arp, suppose we should have a war with England or France, what would the rebels do?” “They’d follow Gen. Lee, and General Johnson, and Longstreet and Bragg and old Bory. My opinion is, that Gen. Leo would head the Union army, and Gen Grant would he his Chief of staff, and Gen Buel would rank mighty high, and” “What would you do with Gen. Sher man?” “S r.y’you mentioned him We’d have to hire him, I reckon, as a camp tiddler, and make him sing “Hail Columbia” by fire light, as a warnin to the boys bow mean it is to burn cities and towns and m ike war upon defenseless women and chil dren. No, sir our boys wouldent tight vptdor no such ” At this time the man with the memor andum put down some garbled extracts. “Do you think, Mr. Arp, that il the South should ever hold the balance of power, they would demand pay for their negroes?” “I can’t say, sir. But I don’t think the South hdpmythiiig that way. We got tillin' before the war h>r their vittels and clothes and doctor’s bills, and we got it now for about the same. It’s all settled down that way, and your Bu reau couldcnt help it. The only differ ence is in the distribution.- Some of 11s don’t own as many as we used to, but everybody has got a nigger or two now, and they’ll all vote o n ofI.JA nigger that wouldent vote as 1 told him, shouldent j black my boots.” At (his time the Committee looked nt one another, seeming to be bothered and I astonished. Garbled extracts were put j down with a vim. Mr. Boutwell says lie, “Mr, Chairman, I think sir, we are about through with the witness I think, sir, his testimony settles the question as to what we ought to do with the Southern traitors. The chairman gave mo a Republican nod and remarked, “Yes sir, I think we do. The scoundrels burnt my iron works.” Whereupon I retired / having given general satisfaction Ydurs truly, Bill Arp. Prentice on Brownlow- Like the Augusta Chronicle & Senti nel ”we do not generally approve of newspaper invective, and lienee have not presented our readers with the open ing scenes in the tilt now going on be ! tween l’rentice, of the Louisville Journal, and Brownlow, the Governor, so-called, \of Tennessee. But Frentice lashes His I Excellency with such inimitable grace ! and vigor that wo present his rejoinder | to the last bulletin of the Governor:” | Old Governor Brownlow, after keep ling the filthy hole in his head shut for j weeks, comes out with another attack on us in his Knoxville Whig, which has i even been a disgrace to Knoxville, to Tennessee, to civilization and to uncivil!- j ! zation. lie never has mind cnougli to j keep his body from rotting—consequent j ly he has always been a mass of putri-j faction; he has never had sufficient com | moil sense to last him over night so that !he wakes up a miserable fool every | morning; and this last effort of his in the j Whig is the poorest, feeblest, the jejun-j j est. the most contemptible that we have • j seen, even from him. It dosen’t rise: I even to the low level of the invective. I j There is no more talent in the writings j \ dian in the scratchings of a dung-hill | | fowl upou a dung-hill. It is a mere conj catenation of vulgar epithets and liugfl , vile lies, for which there is not as the thin and shadowy ken and iivii, infuriated, and imflßH or no man -so weak that, dig that we road of, li“ jL~ . g.iii.-’ folio- .do h io •■Jm 1 - x <9 • ■ '■ s’ agyglg 1 , • ''FPwfimmrP .1 jag is a full bubble floating on the surface of a cess pool It is pretty extensively believed in Nashville that Brownlow is insane. We don’t believe it. Insanity has been de fined to be the entanglement of thoughts, but he hasn't thoughts enough to make a tangle. ‘Tis a pity for him that he isn’t insane, for it would ho the oiqy ex cuse, utter mental imbecility excepted, for the disgrace he is inflicting upon the State in which he dwells. Ho calls him self a man of God. He professes to be a messenger of “peace and good will to men ” He holds himself up or out as a saint ordained and annointed to establish the spirit of Christianity among mankind. But he has ever promoted strife and fights and bloodshed in neighborhoods, lie has been a pest, an itch, a leprosy, a yellow plague in every community, lie lias distilled venom like a human bolnui upas. 11 is tongue has ever been “set on lire to hell” to kindle (lie wagging mem her. Beelzebub’s tail is forever coiled like a snake around the old miscreant’s neck. There has never been any more religion or decency in his sermons or his prayers, or his exortations, or his talk at death-beds, than in the yelling of hyenas, the cursings of pirates, or the abjnega tions of ballots. lie has desecrated the house of God as much by the blasphe mies as if he had stolen the sacramental vessels or used them in treating his con gregation to apple jack. It is a wonder that in his pulpit he has never been trans fixed by the forked arrows of God's ven geance. Ho professed to guide men to iLeaven, and curses them to boll. He would go for universal damnation, provi ded he could be exempted himself. In his black robes and white craval, he might remind one of a black snake with a white streak around his neck. What an infinitely miserable old man this must bo. He never did a generous or kind thing in luh life. He was ever meditating the gratification of his malice. He has ever been seeking to steal upon his unsuspecting neighbors like a cat upon a bird. Every man has a deadly antipathy to him. They say there are people who have such an antipathy to black cats that th, y instinctively know j il one is within a hundred yards of them in the darkest night, and we are sure that decent people would recognize his p%ux imity at twice the distance, lie can have no healthful sleep, only convulsions. The whole of the beautiful world—sky, earth and sea—must be as black as Ere bus to his eyes. Every sound must be to his cars like a shriek of the damned; every drop of rain must seem to him a blasting sirocco; every morsel of food a dose of infernal brimstone. The poor old wretch must feel terrible remorse. He must feci as if his ribs were red hot gridirons, broiling his en trails. If every malignant and accursed lie he has told were a coal of fire upon his body, he would writhe and twist into a taller mountain of flame than ever the old Tartans did. His heart is uh black as ten thousand devils. He sees behind him only the mounds over (he graves of buried victims, and before—only the Dead Sea of Despair. Heaven, earth, and even hell abhor him—though the latter will manage somehow to gulp him down. His very face looks like that of a dead man, who mistaking a hoy’s toot ing-horn for Gabriel’s trumphet, has got up for judgment before his time. IDs evil passions have killed every semblance of human nature in his features, if there ever was such a semblance there. People of Tennessee ! Io ! your Gover nor! “With one hand clenched to batter nones, While ’tether elans ’bout Paul and -Moses.” What two Virginia Girls Did. Among the strangers in Philadelphia at this moment are two ladies from Mar tinsburg, West Virginia. Yesterday they were purchasing a seed drill, a mowing j machine and other agricultural imple- I ments,Svhosc cost in the aggregate was I about eight hundred dollars. Their home j was very close to the theatre of the late ! war. Between the two contending ar i tides their houses anil their barns were j burned, their horses and their cattle driv en off, their only brother conscripted into i the Confederate army, and themselves j left utterly destitute and homeless. And : one who, seeing a young lady such as ' we saw yesterday, had been told that she | had personally plowed and planted many acres of land, would have laughed to scorn the party so informing him. Such, j however, is literally the case We learn ed the facts from a gentleman residing l in the vicinity. The smoking ruins of the farm upon which these young people resided had scarcely cooled when the neighbors lubbed together, built them a sort of bam. Horses were loaned to them, and the girls with their owil hands ploughed the ground and seeded it with corn. The crop grew apace, and with they harvested it. They t a gi | •pjjk .- .me 1 I these went KH.O- the l it alone I iides of the war ‘ ” " » 'pml'l r* '!"• :ii'i!i:v ’4'ii mf*£ :: JEsW |||r - .5 : :y. waiie r, lie [53.00 per Annum* NO. 21. buildings td astfes. One of the young ladies lias since married, but the others still do duty as their own “overseers,” and they themselves purchased venter 1 day and directed the shipment of the ag ricultural implements to which we have' above referred. The wonder to the deal er was, that a ledy delicately gloved, ami attired as though she had never over stepped the bounds of the boudoir, should descant experimentally and intelligently upon the respective merits of the diflet ent reaping machines, and upon the com parative value of the different patents for threshing out the cereals. These young ladies were educated in Philadelphia, and are well known to many of our best people. Rhitadelphia North American, Village Destroyed by a Tornado.— The Savannah Merchantile Mirror gives a graphic account of a tornado that swept over the village of Saxton, Beaufort Dis tried, S. (J., 011 ’he 4th iust. It says : The village consisted of fifty houses, forty five of which were destroyed. Some of the houses were carried a distance of three miles with their inmates in them. Many of the freed people were killed and wounded—-men women and children Near the village was a pond into which several were blown and drowned. All the furniture, trunks, chests, bed clothing wearing apparaland greenbacks of these unfortunate creatures were carried away. From the succeeding Saturday to Mon day the remaining freed people were en gaged in searching for and burying the dead. Trees were also uprooted and blown a great distance. Saxtons village is situated about one mile back of 1110 city of Beaufort. It is also reported that a large dwell ing house of Mr. Benj. Capers of Lady’s Island was blown down and the trees on the enclosure uprooted. We give the above facts, says the In dex as stated by “the reliable freedmen.’ - - A queer genius who call’s himself Josh Billings, discourseth the proverbs follow ing : Wo are apt tu hate thorn who won’t take oqr advice and despise them who do. It is dredful cazy tube a pliool—a phool—a] man kau be one and not. know it. Real happiness don't consist so much in what a man don’t hav, as it duz in What lie don’t want. “Large bodies move slo,” this ere proverb don’t apply tu lies forthe bigger tha ar tha faster tha go. A man running for oflis puts me in mind ova dog that’s lost—he smells ov everybody 110 meets, and wags hisself all over. Most ov the advice we rosea re from others iz not so much an evidenso of their affockshun for themselves. If you want tu git a sure crop and a big yield for the seed, sow wild oats. What a man spends in this life, ho saves ; what he don’t git wan’t incut for him, and what he saves he loozes. When a feller gits a goin down hill, it dus seem as tho cvry thing had bin greas ed for the kashun. If tliar waz nothing but tiuth in this wurld, a fool would stand just as good a chanso az a wizc man. ltize ally, work hard and late live on what you kan’t sell give nothin awa and if you doiitdie ritch and go tu the devil, yo ma sue me for damages. [N. 8.-The cbove remarks are not intended to bo personal. Marrin for lov ma be a litile risky, but it is so honest that God kaut help hut smile on it. I argy in this way if ’ a man is right ho can’t be too radikil if he is rung he kant be too conservatiff. There is 2 things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that iz twins. Genuine Eloqunce —There are riS peo ple in the world with whom eloquence is so universal as the Irish. When Leigh Ritchie was traveling in Ireland he pass ed a man who was a painful spectacle of pallor squalor anil raggedness. Hi.» heart smote him, and he turned hack. "If you are in want,” said Ritchie “why don’t you beg !” “Surely, it is begging I am ycr lion or.” “You didn’t say a word.” “Os course not. ycr honor, but see how the skin is spakin’ through thetrowsers! and the bones cryin’ out through me skin ! Look at me sunken cheeks, and tho famine that’s starin’ in my eyes!—. Man alive, ins’t it beggin’ I am with a thousand tongues ?” Worms in Pork.— . The papers, says tho Nashville Union, all over the country aro making a great fuss about worms in pork, Since we entered the army in’6l, this lias been nothing new to us. The boys used to grumble about them some times but we always thought the worms had the most reason to complain. gssy The London Times closes an arti cle on the American negroes as follows : “Their place there is no denying it, is service and submission. A Jaw of nature we canuot alter and the best their friends can do for them is to find out the posi tion and occupation that fit their quality the best, and advise them to accept thc-j cheerfully.”