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(mu: vtyutmau P. It. ILLDES, -- Editor. QUITMAN, OBOE rill DA V, MAIM I! 18, IHCB. Dn.v. The 20th of April has been not a port I by lie Georgia Convention, for the elec tion of all civil and municipal officer* in the State, as al*o for the voto upon the now Constitution framed. A QrF.HTtov.--.Should theduy to he nam ed hy General Meade for an election of State officer# he hilt thirty day* off mid j should the Democrat* determine to run a j candidate for Governor there? Ixdng no time for a State Convention how will the j candidate he n< imnatid? M e would he t glad to hear fr< in our Bern* die cotem ! potnrie* on fid* point and all may speak , at onee if they ho desire.— Macon Trie \ rj/Tjth. We should prefer that the DenmcrajH make no nomination. If they do, it will ho a endorsement of the usurpation of the Radical programme for itecon s’ruefion. A failure to nominate a can didate, may enable the revolutionists to place in the Kx cutive a Mongrel; hut it Will bo only temporary. For so goon as ihe Reconstruction nets of Congress are pronounced unconstitutional all proceed lugs had and laws enact and thereunder, f ineluding the usurpations of Military commanders and mongrel conventions,) will he null and void. In such event Hon C. J Jk\ki\'s, the present only le gal Executive of Georgia vvill he reinsU led Govern* r, and will hold the office until .a successor is legally elected ami qualified. Therefore wo protest against the nomination of any nan to run (or Governor, in < pj o ition to the Mongrels. Georgia liadiatl Candidate A The Mongrel Convention of Georgia, j on the 7th, resolved itself info a notninu- j ting body, and on counting noses found I there were present ninety-two delegates; of these thirty one were negroes and 1 wenty eight northern men. R. B. Bui lock was nominated for Governor; H . L (Jlilt, Congressman for First District; and C. 11. Ilepkins, Mayor ol Savannah. ‘•Potash” Furrow, the President of the I'ntou League, protested against the action of the body and Ims published a card announcing himself ft candidate for Governor. It is thought the election will he ordered to lake? place the first wee k in A pi ih National Democratic Convention. The National Democratic Committee have issued ft call for the National Demo cratic Convention, to assemble in the City of New York on the 4tl» day of July in xt for the purpose of nominating ran didatcK tor Pit sident and Vice President of'lie United States. 'l''he basis of rep resentation is double the number of Sen ktora and representatives in Congress t*f each State. Hy this call the South in not ignored, aid tl.ncTore w ill he repre sented in the important assemblage. I in peach moot All preliminary arrangements have been made by the United States Senate ut)d Chief Justice Clmoo, 111' the trial of Andrew Johnson. A summons for the impeachment was served upon the Pres ident on last Saturday evening, made re turnable to-day (Friday). On the pre sentation of the summons, the President took the mutter very coolly, simply re marking, that he would attend to it. It is asserted, hy thorn? who appear to he in the confidence of the Executive, that ho will appear before the bar of the Sen ate in person, to answer to the charges preferred. The New York Express says: “The friends of impeachment say that the whole tiling will he over in six days.— Tim friends of the President say that thirty days will pass before the impeach ment will he re tidied. They have been ml vised by the ablest counsel in the land that Senators can he objected to as well as jurors, and the men who have pro judged the case cannot sit on the trial. They intend to object to every Senator who has expressed an opinion on the matter and in easy of u denial, bring forward witnesses. Tl cy md to con test the matter inch hy inch, a id use c\- ery legal defence that the la v allows, li all Senntois who lave expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence » t the President shall be set aside, the jury to try the Piesident will he a small one.” This, in good part, will meet our con stitutional objection to the Donate that it in not an impartial jury. There may, possibly, he a difficult \ in this line of de fence, the Senate being the judge on all points to be raised. They will, doubt less, decide against the President and in favor of themselves, and the important question arises : Can an appeal he had from their decision ? We cannot see why it should not. The? Senate is sitting, not ts u legislative body, hut as a court ol law, and we cannot see why an appeal cannot he taken to tl e highest judicial tribunal recognized by the Constitution. Upon the whole, this case of impeach* tm nt 4s enveloped in a fog, and we doubt if there is legal knowledge and mental astuteness enough in its managers to work out of it into the sunshine. Tito Snvaiiiiali Advertiser, What has Itecotnc of this excellent daily? Have unr friends, WirmsuTox and J'lvink, cut the J-amuT from their daily exchange list ? It lias failed to come to hand for several weeks, and is son ly missed. There is a disposition on the part of the moderate* Republicans and Democrats in and about Atlanta, to compromise on a conservative man f«»r Gov* ruur, fur the pui|Hj*e of and» leaoiig Builtt‘k. i ui i vunou ‘ iiftmiii Georgia* The work of the Black Republican 1 vcitinti of Georgia, any* the Augus ta Chrot)(' if: Srnlinrl, is rapid y draw* j iiig to a clone. Tin; illegal and uncofisti | ttifinnui conclave, which ban rioted in ill j gotten power at Atlanta for the past two i»r three months, has ncnrl/ completed its labor of evil and perfected its plan of military reconstruction Soon the result of that labor—a Constitution fir the State of Georgia--will he submitted to the peo ple for ratification or rejection. Embra cing, as it will, the elevation of the blacks to political p< wef —aye, under the mili tary despot ism which rules ns and dis franchises so many of Georgia’s host and noblest sms, even to political supremacy —what becomes the duty of the white men of our State ? To prevent hy all the lawful and peaceful means within their »*»wer, the adoption of that Constitution. It will embrace within its provision* a glittering bait to the suffering people— I a golden temptation, as it were, to give j it vitality and force. It will give them j what is called “Belief”—relief from their j debts; hut, oh 1 at what a sacrifice of I honor, of safety, of peace! To secure this ten j orary relief, this seeming secu rity from present evils, shall >ur people fasten np« n themselves anil their State the yoke of negro supremacy and Radi cal dominion forever? That is the word -forever ! for it is idle to say that they can he got rid of at some fillurc day. It vain to l ope for such a thing. The right of suffiageaiid political power once granted to a people, it will lx; found a v< »*y difficult, it not an impossible, task to wrol it from tin m by peaceful kgis !•, 1 . .n. Ii can only he done by force and in bloodshed, or by the presence of the nword and the bayonet. 'Jims, then, to secure a temporary relief from the exuc' lions of the creditor, while tho white poo* pie of Georgia fasten upon themselves and then children forever, an incubus *o blighting, so deadly as this ? We cannot believe ii of them. They will not forget that this is the while man’s country, the white man’s Govo» mnent, the white man’s work; and they vvill make it the white man’s triumph ! So let them throw off* their apathy and their indifference to tin* great political events which are transpir ing around us. So let them cast usith; their sidfiishm?**, and shut their eyes to the blinding glitter of the Relief Provis ion. So let them look adovvn the. long vista of past yearn, and refresh their patriotism with memories of Washing ton, of Jefferson, of Madison, of Clay, of Webster, of Lumpkin, of Troup, ot all tin* glorious names of white men who framed our Government, who adorned <.ur Government, who illustrated its brightest pages, and who stamped upon every page of its history the glowing words : “This is the white man’s Govern* ment.” So let them, beholding these honored and honorable memories, emulate the example of the dead heroes, and pre serve the honor of Georgia from tarnish ment and shame. So let them look, too, adown the avenue of coming years, and behold the miseries of Radical and- negro rule, if they fasten it upon themselves. So let them hearken to the mute appeals of the spirits of the dead Confederates who fought and died to save them from infamy and tyianny; to the living ap peals of the maimed and suffering sol diers, the heart broken and poverty strick en widows and orphans. So let them look to the past and to the future, and make the piesent the hour to indemnify the oik* and secure the other. So let us all, then, with one accord, unite to defeat the mad schemes of the designing adven turers and politicians, tvho are striving, upon the ruins of out grand old Common wealth, to build up for themselves and their negro allies u monument of political power and political supremacy. Arouse, then, and, throwing aside apathy and selfishness, prepare for the coming strug gle which must decide the political fate of your noble Stale. Organize in every city, every town, and every county, ami when the day of trial comes show to the world that Georgians are not afraid to do their duty at the lujlut-box, as they were not afraid to do it upon the battle field. Thus united, thus organized, and thus acting, we shall save our dear old , mother from the terrible fate which threatens her, and achieve a triumph as glorious ti» us as it will be fruit Jul of | good to our posterity. The Suvoitunli He pub I lean. That sterling Florida journal, the Tab j lahussce Sent inti, in a late issue indnl* ! gea in the following deserved compli mentary terms of that favorite daily, the Savannah lo'jiubliean, which we moat heartily endorse : “Os t e Savannah Itejiuhliran, we have spoken so often and in terms of such cn llinsinstie praise that we have feared our well meant compliments might be con strued into meaningless flattery. Even when it was directly opposed to us in politics there whs always, about its trig : on mis editorials a ring of independence and candor which, above all things else, we most admire in journalism. There is jno paper, perhaps, published «<? far South which is read move extensively, or with greater interest, North. L Indmlf I of Souther n character and S utheiu in ' forests, the AV/mfi/eiin is now exercising an in:!- one* ! Northern States which ought to in-.. .< every Southern man inter ested in building it up. It is now an ! honest honorable and true exponent ot [ Southern sentiment as reflected through a thoroughly eon verted Northern gentle limn. .The HepuUivan has reached the ; dignity of a Metropolitan organ and it well deserves the proud distinction, i H e hope itwill he universally oilculuted , throughout our State.” The Prf.sioknr s Coi xsei,—lt is stated that 4lie following named gentlemen will act as the President's counsel in the ini* ! pcachment tiia! : Attorney General Stun- I cry, J. S Black, \Y. S. G rocs beck, D. j D. Field. B. R. « intis, \V. M. Evurt and G. T. Cat tis. Had tea I Proqiects Kvc:y step taken by the Jacobins in Congress, but contributes to the already accumulated mas* of capital to Ihj used in the next presidential election to their destruction. Their rccc t precipitation with respect to the impeachment ques tion, remarks the Greenville Advocate, has broken a link in the chain of radical ism, which, in all probability, can never be united. Thousands of honest Repub* Means at the north were opposed, conuci. entiously, to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson upon the trail parent and flimsy pretext complained of by Congress, and hundreds of the most substantial and re liable journals there, have denounced the nefarious plot with great bitterness and warmth. It was this overwhelming ad verse influence that kept Congress at bay, and protected the President from the shaft* of their malignity. But the late stubborn determination of the Exec utive, manifested in his order removing .Stanton, aroused their ire to such a pitch as to disarm prudence and the more de liberate calculation# of caution and par ty expediency. It is truly a shell thrown into the radical camp, that will prove very destructive to their party organiza tion. There is any amount of point in the remark of a radical Senator : “That lie did not know which would injure tin party most, the conviction or acquital of the President.” Just so exactly ; there is injury on either horn of the dilemma, since impeachment lias been inaugurat ed, that will result in the final overthrow of the radical party, and a triumphant election of Andrew Johnson for the next four years. Can Grant be Arrested ? The Chicago Times calls attention to a political atiomoly in our government that may well startle the people of all sections. It is that Gen. Grant cannot Im tried hy court martial. By the arti cles of war, a court martial must be composed so as to include among its members some of the same rank us the accused. The Times continues : The very most that the President can do is to issue an order placing Grant under arrest. This arrest would be only nominal in many respects. Like the arrest of any mili tary officer it would involve no confine ment If Grant were placed under ar rest he would be simply deprived of his command. Even this would amount to but little ; for if at the end of twenty days no charges were preferred against him he would bo entitled to resume his position. That there conic* -..n0 char ges preferred i* evident from the fact mat there is no tribunal with which the complaint could be lodged. It follows from this State of things, that in Grant the nation has an official who is absolutely beyond all responsi bility. The members of the Supreme court may be reached in case of official misconduct, by Congress. The Presi dent is always amenable to the Senate through charges which may he prefer furred by the House. From the Presi dent of the United States down to the village revenue inspector, there is in all this country no one who is irresponsible save Ulysses S. Grant. Now, what is a despotism ? It is the power of a despot. Wlmt is a despot ? One who governs with unlimited and ir responsible power. A despotism is a form of government in which one rulers unchecked by constitution or laws.— Is there any constitution of laws which check Grant ? None what ever. He is above all constitutions and laws for he is absolutely unknown to either. If definitions have any value, if lan guage may be depended on, then has this country fastened upon itself a des potism as absolute as autocratic, as ar bitrary and irresponsible as that of the government of China. While professed ly in advance of all other enlightened governments we ha ve in reality placed ourselves under a system as tyrannical and as autocratic as was ever known in days when nations intrusted single men with their lives property and destiny. The only limitation which can be im j posed upon our despot is an arrest of twenty days ; and it is doubtful whether ! even this time and check would be sub milted to by him who, in the character of General is the Czar of the United States. A grlctill urnl Prospects. The New York. World says “it is evi dent that every year the West of Eu rope becomes more and more dependent upon us that from the Ist of Septem ber last, Great Britain has imported from this country nine millions of wheat and Hour, rt full prices and would have imported twety millions more, if wc had Imd it to spare. As lor corn it says : “Wc are absolutely unable to find ship room to transport to her our surplus, for which she is making urgent call and pay ing most liberal prices. The export of provisions has been on a scale ot unsur passed magnitude. In the past three months we have exported many thou sand tierces and} barrels of beef and pork, and many million pounds of b icon and lard; in fact quantities almost unpre cedented and these products have gone forward at good prices. During the past year domestic tobacco, has increased twenty per cent in price, and during the same period the exports have been on a scale far in advance of any former year and arc only impeded at the present time bv dejiciency of supplies. “A« respects vOtton, the superiority of the Southern States for the growth of this staple needs !»•* more effective de mons’ration than that Manchester, alter having for seven years put forth her ut most efforts to develop Cotton growing in other parts of the world finds her sup plies so reduced that she bids for out i ( i : ton twi :e as much as the average j price before the war.” All that thecountry requires says the j World, is— “ The restoration of good feeling be tween the several sections, and among all classes sf our wide spread country : j the restoration of statesmen to the con- ! trol of our public affairs ; the lemoval ol ! oppressive individual taxation a sound currency and the establishment again of that sense of justice and security to ; which unhappily we lihv«- hoeu for a con siderable period strangers.” Tin* Nashvi le G.z ite calls General Thu uas the of A«; tat tuTvtirt. He lief Measure an Finally Passed by the Convention. Paragraph 1. No Court in this State Khali have jurisdiction to try or deter mine any suit against any resident of the State upon any contract or agree ment mode or implied, or upon any con tract made in renewal of any debt exist ing prior to the first day o! June, 1805. Nor ahull any court or ministerial officer us this State have authority to enforce any judgment or decree rendered or is sued upon any contract or agreement made or implied, or upon any contract in renewal'of a debt existing prior to the first day of June, 1805, except in the fol lowing cases : 1. In suits against trustees where the trust property is in the hands of the trustee, or has been invested by him in other specific effects now in his hands, and in suits by the vendor of real estate against the vendee, when not mole than one third of the purchase money has been paid, and the vendee is iu possession of the land or specific effects for which he has sold it, and he refuse* to deliver the laud or said effect* to the vendor. In such cases the courts and officers may entertain jurisdiction and enforce judg ments against said trust, properly, or laud or effect*. 2. In suits for the benefit of miuorsby trusties appointed before the Ist of June, 1805. 8. In suits against corporations in their corporate capacity, but not so as to enforce the debt against the atockhol deis or officers thereof in their individual capacity. 4. Iu suits by charitable or literary institutions for money loaned, property otlter than wives sold, nr services ren dered by them. 5. In suit* or debts due for mechanical or manual labor, wlicu the suit is by the mechanic or laborer. G. In cases where the debt is set up by way of defence, and the debt set Up exceed* a 113* debt due by defendant t plaintiff of which the courts are denied jurisdiction. 7- In all other cases in which the Gen era! Assembly shall by law give said courts and officers jurisdiction, provided that no officer shall have, nor shall the General Assembly give jurisdiction or authority to try or give judgment on or enforce any debt the coiiHideration of which was a slave or slave*, or for the hire therefor. Paragraph 2. All contracts made ami not executed during the late rebellion with the intention and lor the purpose of aiding aim encouraging said rclxllion or where it was the purpose and inten tion of one of the parties to such con tract to aid or encourage such rebellion, snd that fact was known to the other party whether said contract was made hy any person or corporation, with the State or Confederate States, or by a cor poration with a natural person, or be tween two or more natural persons, are hereby declared to have bien and to be illegal, and all bonds, deeds, promissory notes, bills, or other evidences of debt made or execuWd by the parties to such contract, or either of them iu connection with such illegal contract, or as the con sideration for, or in furtherance thereof, are hereby declared null and void, and shall be so held .11 all courts in this State when an attempt shall be made to en force any such, contract, oi* give validity to any such obligation or evidence of debt. And in all cases where the defendant, or any one interested in the event of the suit will make a plea, supported by hin affidavit, that he lias reason to believe that the objection or evidence of indebt ed ues* upon which the suit is predicated, or some part thereof, has been given or issued for the illegal purpose aforesaid, the burden of proof shall be upon the plaintiff’to satisfy the court or jury that the bond, tie and, note, bill or other evi dences of indebtedness upon which suit is brought, is or are not, not* is any part thereof founded upon or in any way con nected with an}’ smh illegal contract, and has not be n used in aid of the ro belliou, and the date of such bond, deed, note, bill or other evidence of indebted ness, shall not be evidence that it has or has not, since its date, been opened, trans ferred or used in aid of the rebellion. Faragraph 3. It shall be in the power of a majority of the General Assembly to assess and coMeet upon all debts, judg ments. or causes of action when due, founded on any contract made or implied In-fore the first day of June, 1865, in the hands of sny one in his own right, or trustee, agent or attorney of another 011 or after the first day of January, 1868, a tax not exceeding 25 per cent., to be paid by the creditor on pain of forfeiture of the debt, but chargeable by him as to one half thereof against the debtor, and collectable with the debt : Provided, that this tax shall not be collected if the debt or cause of action be abandoned or set tled without legal process, or if in judg ment be settled without levy and sale : And provided, further, this tax shall not be levied so long as tl e Courts of this State shall not have jurisdiction of such debts or causes of action. The recent scenes at the War Depart ment in Washington are worthy tii pen ot Sylvanus Cobb, and would make out* of the must thrilling dime novels ever written. The grim Stanton holding mid night councils of war about his bivouac in the Department sending out a faithful emissary to lock all the doors in the building and finally settling himself in his sleepless chair with the pile us keys on a table before him ; the weary pass ing of the hours us darkness, whose monotony was relieved only by the tramp of seiitinela changing guard ; the parting just before daybreak with his staunch Congressional supporters who confided the ex-Secretary to the prut c ting care of one waking pali '- t, Thayer of Nebraska—these are better than tales of the Inquisition. Stanton we learn like a true warrior slept on his arms — or keys—occupying a lounge iu his of fice while Thayer napped on another, j The monotony of the seigo was varied ; by the appearance of breakfast brought i hot fioiu the illustrious gentleman’* kitchen, and also by the arrival of Mrs. Stanton, with whom he conversed, veil tui ing without guard to the cut b stone. 1 but leaving his base of opeiations well protected by Gen. Howard Having NeUled the details of his commissariat, 5 he again retired within his inticiichincnu there to await in sternly stupid immo- j bility the further progress of what will go down in history as the seige of the War Department. A Gentile paper, published at Salt Lake City, predicts that if the Mormon question is let alone, the progress ol civilization will settle it in a few years.- It says : “When the Pacific Railroad gets out this way; when men are plenty aidwol en si arc, how the ruth c s mva tiers will ‘gobble up' the surperlluous wives, and leave thejdisconsolate saints o mourn beside detcited hearthstones Srtrela (cl out of tlie Senate C'Uatu ber. The lending article of the Old Guard for March makes i tioatliing review of "A letter of Senator Drake, of Misiuuii, to SeiiHtor Johnaon, of Maryland. Tlie letter is in reply to a pamphlet written by Senator Johnson against the Reconstruction acts, and may justly lie regarded as the voice of the Senate in its defence and as revealing the exteut of the Revolution projected by Congress. The review first considers the grounds taken by Mr. Drake for pronouncing the scheme of Reconstruction to lie con stitutional and then comments on the declared objects of it : This letter lets the Ward cat otit of th* hag and fully confesses that all this "Reconstruction" is to put the while race on an equality with uegrous. And it dares to defy and threaten the white race of the United States in the follow ing maimer : “Dot them, if they please prolong their efforts to keep the negro down ; tm they will learn that he cannot be kept down, if the nation keeps its honor with them ; and it will keep it ! No cry of danger to our institutions will stay its resistless march to this grand cousnrna lion No appeal to the people against the subjugation of ten States to negro rule will avail for the loyal people of the nation will answer hack with a shout. Ili ttcr to the toi/al nnjro than to lha Hebei irhUe man /’ Tin "nation keeps its honor” with ne groes : Who pledged the “nutio honor’ to negroes ? Who are (he nation Is the furious and traitorous taction ol political Jacobins who i ntlnace less than mi fourth of the white popuiotion ot the United States, “the nation ?’ Two tail ors once petitioned the Dritisli i’arlia incut beginning thus : “SVe the people ol England.” The total majority in ail the States which held elections in 1807 was largely with the Democratic party and the m»- joiities against negro suffrage were everywhere overwhelming. Rut all those white men who do not go for ne gro suffrage do not belong to the 'nation,' Seven tenths of the white population of the United Stales are inexorably oppos ed to negro voting hut the mean tluee tenths who believe themselves no better than negroes are the only people who have a right to he cuited the “nation,” and all the rest are defied and threaten ed by this idiot voice trum the Senate.— We arc impudently told that “no dan ger to our institutions will stay the re sists'ess march to this grand co- sums lion” of negro equality. It is declared that “no appeal to the people against the subjugation of ten States to negro rule will avail." Hear that white people of America. You are threatened from the Senate Chamber that you will appeal in vain for the supremacy of your own blood over that* of the barbarian negro ! Your votes, your proud and virtuous will Can avail nothing, for the Heiio and its militaiy tools will force negro suffrage upon yon in defiance of your power.— That is the insolent threat. Have these Senators no throats to lie cut ? How many duplicate heads do they count a piece? Had they twenty thousand cat'll they would bej as powerless as w spa of straw against the fiery wrath of the white masses v . they come to realize that they have 1 » brought down to the level of negroes! While the whole drift of Congressional politic* is to put the white man down to depths if li uindation and misery under the hand of merciless oppression we are told that "the negro cannot he kept down,” meaning that he shall stand on a perfect equality with white men. Now this is the one absorb ing ai nos this faction which calls itself the Republican party. It is nothing more nor less than a negro party. Every man intending to vote with that party at the next Presidential election must go with Ids eyes open for negro equality The mail who says he is opposed to ne gro equality and yet votes with that party gives the lie to his professions. Every proud and virtuous while man, and especially every white woman should look upon him ns a besespecimen of the white race who has degraded him self to a level with negroes. Grant uk it TVillst-i-. The editor of the Randolph Citizen re calls some interesting reminiscences of the great Reticent. He had a tor.gue at one time, it would seem ; In the summer of IStiljGerieral Grant, then colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois regiment of Infantry, was stationed at Mexico, on the Ninth Missouri railroad, and hail command of the post. He re mained several m -nths, mingling freely with the pimple, rcgardle-s ot the pecu liar shade of any unci* political opinions; and a.- the distinguished Colonel had then no thought of aspiring to the Presi dency or a dictatorship no uocasion exis ted for the tcticence to which lately he owes the gieater part of his popula- ity, I Ulysses the Silent was then Ulysses the i Garruons, and embraced every fair iq - portnnity which came in his way to ex-j press his sentiments and opinions in re gard to political affairs. One of the de - clarations wo distinctly remember. Ins public conversation in Uiusgo's banking house a sterling Union man put the qiu-s tinntohim: ""’hat do you honestly tliiuk was tho real object of this war on the part of the Federal Government V’ “Sir," said Grant, “I have no doubt in the world that the whole object is the restoration of the Union. 1 will say fur ther though that I am a Democrat every man in mv regiment is a Democrat—and whenever I shall he convinced that this war has fi r its object anything else than what I have mentioned or that the Gov eminent designs using its soldiers to ex ecute purposes of the Abolitionists tleu 1 will nut only resign my commission Imt I will carry my sword to the other .side and cast my lot with that peop'e.” This same Grant now openly defies and treacherously betrays his superiorofficer forfeits th* esteem of los countrymen and mankind and dooms himself to undying infamy that he may become ihe willing instrument of Had cal v n.-; orators in preventing a restoration ic Union emasculating the Presidency, striking down the Supreme Court overturning the Government of our fathers scatter ing down every bulwark of liberty and making slaves ol as noble people as ever lived on God's footstool, to a horde of loitsey negto barbarians. Os such is Ulysses I, the Radical hero and demi-go- A decision in the Mc.Vrdlc case is ex pected t week from Monday next. It involves the constitutionality of the Reconstruction Acts of Congress. i Extkmilso G hack to Bankrlits. —The bill introduced into the United States Senate by Mr. Stewart, intended to a mend the Bankrupt act, will apply to section Di rty three of the present act. It i* now the law that a debt created by fraud or eiida-zzlemcnt or by breach of trust while the party is acting in a fidu ciary' capacity shall not he discharged. But the debt may l-c proved against the estate and the creditor receive his divi dend, which shall be a discharge for as milch as is paid- Another clause enacts that a discharge under the Bankrupt act shall not release or affect any other per son jointly liable with the bankrupt for the same debt as partner, joint contrac tor indorser or surely. The same section contains the important declaration than in all cases of bankrupty where pro ceedings are commenced after one year from the passage of the act (w hich time expires March 2, 1868), the party shall j not be discharged unless his assets pro duce fifty per cent., upon his liabilities, or lie has the written assent of a majori ty in number and value of his creditor*. Tire changes which Mr. Stewart propog es are as follows: He would re-enact the proportion of the law in reference to the non-discharge of bankrupts as to fiduciu ry and cmls-zzlement* with the stipula tion that others jointly liable with the bankrupt shall not lie released but he would extend the fifty per cent, clause until one year after June, 18C8, under the same regulations a* are prescribed by the present law. It will be some time before both Houses ofCongres* will act upon the proposition. Meanwhile the fifty per cent clause will operate a gainst all bankrupts who are made such in the interval, l'erson* disposed to be voluntary Im k ill Jits will and lay their ap plications if possible, while inis amend - ment is under consideration ; but those persons who may lie forced into invol untary bankruptcy will not have the benefit of the extension of time unless there is a proviso r extending the present law up to the time of passing the amendment.— J’hila. Inquirer. Senator Vickers, of Maryland, presen ted his credentials to the Senate on Mon day last. Stunner moved their reference to the Judiciary Committee, because in Maryland negroes were not [lermitted to vote, and therefore the government of said State was not republican. AVhen• upon a Democratic Senator retorted, that under Sumner's plan, five N’ew England Slates and Wisconsin would have to car ry on the government. The old repro bate, Sumner, saw his blunder, and with drew the motion. Vickers was seated. The Georgia Convention on the Oth, adopted by a vote of 18 to 46, a resolu tion requiring voters ori the question of the ratification of the constitution, to take the following oath : “Yon do solemnly sweat or affirm) that you have been duly registered agree ably to the acts of Congress ; that you have not prevented, or endeavored to prevent or dissuade any person fro voting at this election ; that if the Con stitution noon which the vote is now be ing taken is ratified, that you will truly and faithfnllv support it. So help me God. The Charleston Mercury says : “The very man—Stanton —who now indicts General Thomas under the Tenure of Office Act, advised the president as a Cabinet minister to veto Ibis act as nil constitutional ; and consented to write the veto, but was prevented from doing so, as he alleged only by indisposition. DRY GOODS! SPRING TRADE, loss. WHOLESALE! yiff & w ivmms, SAVANNAH, GEO., WILL BE PREPARED TO OFFER ABOUT TIIE I OTH INSTANT, A COMPLETE STOCK, ON THEIR USUAL FAVORABLE TERMS. March 7th. 1848. <-lf pew Admtiocmrnto. FRESH GROCERIES, Just received at the BANNER GROCERY. Quitman. March 13. ’6B. oOSHEN BUTTER! Fur sale at ll»e banner grocery. Quitman. March 13. Just received and for sale at the BANNER GROCERY. Qnitmin March 13, ? f>B. Administrator’s Sale. W’lLI. bo sold before the Cotirt House door |l in the town ofltlackshear, G»., on the first Tuesday in May next, between the 1-gal hoar* of sate, two small Lots of land, with a frame house upon it, belonging to the estate ol A. C. Strickland. Sold for the benefit o' the heirs and creditor-. Terms: Half cash, and the balance on six months credit. Tuos. Swkit, Admr. March 17- l$«8. | The Washington Siur of 7th says that ! General Lorenzo Thomas will hereafter attend the Cabinet meetings as Secreta ry of War od interim and that business pertaining to the War Department will l>c transacted through him by the Presi dent. In a whisky revenue row in Clairborne county, Tenn., on the 6th inst., three men were killed. A company of caval ry had been dispatched to aid the reven ue officers. There have been two hundred and fifty four [letitions for bankruptcy filed iu tbe j Clerk’s office of the Un'ted States Dis -1 Irict Court, at Savannah, up to Tuesday last. lion. n. 11. Hill addressed an assem blage of two thousand eitizens, at Atlan ta, on the 10th. He bitterly opposed ratification aud denounced the Conven tion There was great enthusiasm. . The Radicals, in Convention at Atlan ta, have nominated Gt‘n. Grant for Pres ident, and Foster tlie perjured t lilian of Angusta, for Vi.at President. At a dinner given recently in Boston, there were thirty UmdhoMers present, every one of them being worth over a milliou apiece. A little girl baby, found in a snow drift in New Jersey, lias been appropri ately named Cliiona. Suvautiuli Market. Cotton. On the 9th the market was very ac- I Uve, aa«l price* advanced to --f for mid dling. This is the highest price realized the present season. On the loth the market was in active, with a alight decline from the previous : -lays quotations. Trateactions were limited, j We make the following quotations : i Ordinary HJtSitS Good Ordinary 73$ (« ■ l.ow Mi-idling .24 (-4 Middling 23 os Gold— buying a id- setting al Hit. i iUcos. Shoulders 14c.; Sides, lap's 17; Ham 1 , ; lfs.c.'s. Kioe* - IVman-l Goad-quoted from #12(3 sl7. j Ski»h -lujf-niHt. Quitman Retail Prices Current, CORRECTED WEEKLY. j It should W horn* in mint! that our quotation* represent retail pric«** only. l.sirgv bill* to plant era a’ and utbm may be purchased at a »h*ri* lower. ! Bacon |>* . 18 (4. 20 Butter—(iofibfn | r* lb.. 60 (4 Country jf* lb. . 35 (K 40 | Candles... ' pi, IK HA <O. *0 •Chew** . ip* 25(4 35 Coffee Bio f If. . 29 (a S3 Corn r r* bnab 1 <hi (4 ] 2A Cracker* lb . 20 (* 25 KffP <!oz 1A (4 20 Flour—*V»»|M*rflne ... +* bbl I A oo (p 16 00 Family j* bbl 17 00 («L 18 00 , r ip* lb.. (<* sft Urd ip* lb 23(0. 25 jOjater.* ir* can (<t 40 Peaches jf* can (<* Ao j Fickle* ! p* jar. A0 (4 ~f> Fotatoea- Irish C bush! 2 50(4 3 00 .Sweet |f* bu«h (4 50 | Powder j«*&».. | CO (4 75 Potash t* i (4 2** Hire r * t*. 15 18 Utkin* f. (<* Salt rack. 3 50(4 4 50 Soap f* tv 15(4 2“ ; Stiff nr ... : *j* B* . It* (4 2A Syrup jr* pal.. 50 <4 75 S'»la . . (4 *0 Shot («4 20 Starch jf* ft- 20 (4 25 Tobacco, good article. If* 1 50 (0 3 ftn 1 \ ln«ic«r jf* gal * ; 0 (4 7A A. C. LOMELINO, DEALER IS Groceries, West India Fruit, WINES, LIQUORS, PROVISIONS, Ac. CORKER BflA AVR COV.KF.fS STS,, Vnder Masonic Hall, SAVANANH GEORGIA. March Ik IdtiS. _ 7-ts SPECIAL DENTAL NOTICE. i 8 F have frequent solicitation to visit parties ■ J\_ in the eonntry. who need ftentiet work -lnne. I would say. it is impossible Tor me to vis ! it patients at their residences, unless in very ur gent cases. I am prepared, with every facility, at my of fice. to _ __ T Do oi k W ell, r i therefore it is not only to tlie interest ol the ent. but decidedly to my own advantage for parties to come to the office. it is almost impossible to extract teeth without paiu. or to in-ert fillings in sensitive tceib. out side of tho office ; another Advantage is, that I have au Assistant here, to aid me in all difficult operations—the services of whom 1 would be deprived of in the country. M. L. BATTLE. D. D, 8. Quitman. March IX, ‘ti*. 7-tt FINE AND COMMON TOBACCO, For wt!<* at th«* BANNER GROCERY.