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SiWrtttmlf &KSS& Sllpr tfecr* Vol. EL—No. 148. gn%|Mttrtser j LARGEST ACTUAL CIRCULATION. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Tne square, one insertion SO 75 Jne square, two insertions 1 25 Dno square, three insertions 3 75 One square, one week 3 00 ."•tv'-qwaves, “ “ 000 Three 1 “ “ 000 Funeral Notices 0 75 RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. j By Mail—one year $4 00 Six months 2 00' Three months 1 00 Local Matters. * £3“ Ely Otto is our duly authorized agent to receiro and receipt for advertisements. The Mails. The mails close at tho Poet-office according to the late change of schodule as follows: By Central Railroad—Through pouches for New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Nasli e, Miliedgeville, Atlanta and Augusta, and v mail for line of Central Railroad and all nts contiguous, daily at 6]4 in the morning. By Central Railroad—Through pouches for gusto, Columbus, Macon and Charleston, ily at 6 in the evening. By Atlantic and Gulf Railroad —For all points on the road and contiguous, and for all parts of Florida via Florida Branch Railroad, daily at 7 in evening. 6®“ The demand for our paper of yes terday morning, containing “Bill Arp on the Situation,” was so great that we re publish it in this issue. Those of our friends wishing copies can bo accommo dated by sending or calling at the office, an extra number being printed for those unable to obtain copies yesterday. The Treasurer of the Widow’s Society desires to return thanks for a donation of $27 from the Grand Jury, through Mr. Octavus Cohen, foreman. Mass Meeting. The Republican of yesterday morning contained an editorial notice to the effect that a mass meeting of the citizens of Sa vannah would be held in the afternoon, in rear of the jail, to consider the present. unfortunate condition of our country, and the best method to be pursued in restor ing peace and tranquility to our State. On repairing to the spot, we found'an assemblage pf probably three thousand egroes ; men, women and children, and nly eight or ten white men, half of whom were reporters, iv. S. Thomas was eall o the chair, and P. M. Middleton and Win. Pollard appointed Secretaries. We took full notes of the different speeches, but are not aide to get them in to-night, on account of the abundance of other matter. Addresses were made by Prof. James Porter, Rev. Tunis G. Camp bell, Col. A. W. Stone, Dr. Louis A. Fal lagant, Dr. J. W. Clift, and several oth ers whoso names we did not learn. All the officers and speakers were negroes, with the exception of the three last named. Magazines anil Pictorials. Messrs- Rankin Bros, have again laid us under obligations by sending a lot of papers and magazines. Among the latter is the ever favorite Godey. Although we have often before spoken of this best of its kind, yet we cannot refrain from giving the following from the Long Island Star, which meets our cordial endorsement: Godey’s Lady’s Book lia's become al most indispensable to every family. The information it communicates in reference to the boudoir, the nursery, the kitchen, the house, and the laundry is invaluable, and no lady housekeeper but should be a subscriber. This attentive firm has received an er supply of Frank Leslie, containing view of Court House Square on sale y. Also all the latest magazines, pic orial, news, sporting, literary and other papers. Card of Thanks. The officers and men saved from the brig Charles E. Savage return their thanks in the following card, signed by all of them, whose names will be found in our report of her loss : “We, the undersigned, officers and crew of the ill-fated brig Charles E. Sav age, wrecked off Hatteras Shoals, take •this method of expressing our thanks to Capt. Baker, officers and crew of the steamship Herman Livingston, who so kindly laid by ns in our distress, and sent their boats to our rescue while we were in a perilous position, and also for the gentlemanly and kind treatment we re ceived while on board the steamer.” From Sew TforSt. The steamship Herman Livingston, Cant. Baker, arrived yesterday morning, •/nr thanks for papers. Marine Disaster. We are indebted to Purser Charles F. Burke, of the steamship Herman Living ston, for the following account of another disaster during the late severe weather : “On the 15th inst., at 9, p. m., twenty miles north of Cape Hatteras, off Wimble Shoals, in fourteen fathoms of water, fell in with the brig Charles E. Savage, Capt. G. R. Graham, from Baltimore for Charleston, dismasted. Laid by her un til 12 o’clock; wind blowing a gale from *E. N. E., and heavy sea running; the brig drifting fast on the shoals, and being unable to render any other assistance. Manned and lowered two of Raymond’s patent metalic life boats, by which means the officers and crew were safely trans ported to the steamer. The following is a list of the officers and crew: Officers —G. R. Graham, Captain ; Jas. Williams, first officer; Richard Withlow, second officer; John E. Graham, Cap tain’s son. Seamen —C. A. Rudaker, Wm. Smith, George Wilsou, John McGeorge, Samuel C. Abbott, Charles Mason, Steward, Mason, Cabin boy. [This brig was built in Baltimore for Mr. Charles E. Savage, Capt. Graham, and others. She was built in first class style, under the supervision of Capt. Graham, and was on her first trip when she was wrecked. — Ed. Adv.] Sen Books and flames. Tke little ones must be amused as well as instructed, and Messrs. Mallon <fc Frierson are prepared to supply their wants in both respects. Their advertise ment this morning gives but a small idea of their extensive stock, to which they invite examination. STATE ITEMS. Capt. Terrell, a Confederate sdout of some notoriety, was severely if not fatally wounded at Cartersville on the night of the 13th. It seems that an elderly gen tleman named Battlefield accused Terrell of being implicated in the killing of his sou during the war ; and, for this reason, made au attack upon him with a knife, battlefield gave himself up, and was lodged in jail. The Cuthbert Appeal calls the atten tion of the citizens qf that city to the present condition of the cemetery. It. is certainly a disgrace that a population of 2,500 or 3,000 cannot afford a fence to their cemetery, but will allow the sacred spot where rest the remains of the loved and lost to he overrun by cattle and hogs. An appraisement of the veal estate in Rome wajfmade recently, and it is found to aggregate very nearly SOOO,OOO. This city was damaged but very little during the war, and is going on in improvement. During the past year seventy-five build ings have been created, and all by citi zens. Seven prisoners escaped from the jail in Columbus on Friday night last, while the sheriff and jailor were sleeping in the same building. One returned and gave himself up, after having been severely wounded by the others, who feared he would betray them. The movement made in Bartow county to sustain thg policy of Gov. Brown, was ,a signal failure, as resolutions were •adopted almost unanimously counseling no action at present. Maj. Orine offers the Brunswick Cou rier for sale. That city cannot be as pros perous as has been represented, if it cannot support so good a paper as the Courier. Mr. J. M. 'Estes has been elected Al derman of Columbus to fill the vacancy occasioned by tho death of Mr. W. H. Griswold. The Rome Courier reports the cold on Wednesday and Thursday nights as in tense. Tho peaches are probably nearly all killed. Rev. X. P. Woodfin, of Ashland, Va., has accepted the call to the pastoral charge of the Baptist Church at Rome. • All the inmates of the Bartow county jail made their escape on the night ofthe 12th. . Another Hosk Carriage. —Our North ern exchanges state that no sooner was the loss ofthe Andaliisia made known by telegraph in New York, with the elegant hose-carriage for the Independents, than a call was issued for a special meeting of j the donors, to take the proper steps for ; purchasing another machine. These iire j men of the North, in their sympathy for ' their brethren of the South, evince a i spirit which it. would bo well for many others to imitate. There is a plain, prac polittcnihßmanitatians.— •O'oJtrwW-t.. i A ' nix. TUESDAY HORNING, MARCH 19, 1867. [From tho Rome (Ga.) Courier.] BIIX ARP OX THE SITUATION. Rome, Bio Shakty Tkruxtoky, No. 3. I March 8,1557. } Mr. Editor: My intention was to have remained in dignified obscurity the small remnant of my miserable days, but my friends Bob Hide, Bam McCrakin, Tip and other respectable gentlemen of all sexes and both colors, seem to be dis heveled about the times, and insist on my views about the momentous state of our sufferin country. The good people in Atlanta have got shaky in the knees, and it is the duty of every good citizen to keep the disease? from spreading if he can. I haven't been to Washington, nor been playin sentinel on a watch tower, but my observations convinces me there is a power of fuss on hand about something. Polities look squally and alarmin. Bill Sherman overrun 'he country, aud de stroyed and carrie<A.iway our property, and now his brothei*Vohn is finishin up the job by robbin us of the rights and liberties our forefathers won. General Thomas is playin Vantoun with his 21 orders —puttin harmless boys in the bar racks for tableauin with an old rebel flag —accusin us of all the crimes in the deca logue; such as murder, latceny, rape, arson, burglary, bigamy, perjury and sui cide, throwin up i» our teeth the magna nimity of our conquerors, as bein our safety valve from death and Beelzebub. Good gracious! what an awful people wo are! And now comes J oseph, the sentinel, with his long winded message of consolation, telling us how we may ileo from the wrath to come —skeerin the people to death, and gettin every thing, into a stew. What made him in such a hurry ? why dident he keep silence for a few days until the veto was signed, and the bill was passed? Why dident lie give Mr. Jenkins a chance? If the times was so perilous, why dident he go and see Mr. Jenkins, and give him his opinion in private and save all this excitement? Mr. Jenkins is the Gover nor ; he is the sentinel on the watch tower; he's the pilot of the old ship; he’s the people’s choice. He can call the Legisla ture when it is necessary. If he is in doubt about it, he can consult with Lump kin and Cobb, and Hill and Cooper, and Hardeman and Gibson, and Brown, and decide what ought to be done, and the people will be satisfied. But while the ship is in a storm let all the deck hands keep silence. The word will come from tho Captain soon enough. May be that Joseph feels sorter responsible for the fix he’s got us in. May be he's re pen tin for the didos he cat up, and the seeds of dis cord ho sowed durin the war; but I doubt it. I don’t think his ambitien or his van ity sees anything but his own importance. It looks like he thought the Oapital was moved to Atlanta, and he was Governor still. He's afraid the people will think he's dead, and just as soon as a mg uitng happens, and littie before he clutches the occasion—seizes the opportunity, delivers his message, stirs up the people, sets the Gate City in a ferment, gets his name in the Herald and the Tribune. Joe Brown, a whale, big leader, conspicuous, fame, history, Mr. Jenkins nowhere, Milledge ville gone up, Joseph E. runnin the ma chine, in Atlanta! Well, I don’t know what is at the bot tom of all this, but. i ant afraid that while Joseph was in Washington somebody car ried him up on to a high mountain and showed him a kingdom or two, and he fell down atid worshipped. These little kingdoms that a man sees from the top of a mountain are mighty demoralizing. But I notice that all this fnss which Jo seph has kicked up is confined to the towns and cities, where a heap of folks live, who haven't g.it much of anything to do. Tho farmers don’t know much about it, and care less—the whole concern is a god send to soma folks. I know an old worn out politician who has been poking around for six months, tryin to revive the Demo cratic party for a livin, and now he’s in his element. Parties are formin, and the old hack is in his glory. He’s sorter like the Era as yet —he won’t take a side, he won’t join the issue, ho won’t commit himself, he’s keepin an open rear as the Era says (I wish that paper would take an astringent.) But, my friends, we’ve got nothin 'tc be ashamed of. Since the war our pur suits have been peaceful and honorable. We needent humiliate ourselves through fear of what humankind can do to us. If the Radicals intend to confiscate us, they will do it, and no acceptance of Sherman’s bill will prevent it. If they want our cab bages, they are going to have ’em. If they will ride over one law. they will over another. If t hey disregard Mr. .J ohnson's great argument., they'll disregard any thing. 1 .n’t kuow how it is generally, but thei-e aiut an unpardoned rebel in ttus county, and if they confiscate they hjpec got to declare the pardons all void'. fUi body knows what they won’t do, or when they will quit doing it, and mv advice is to suffer and be strong, endure everything and accept nothing. Allis lost save honor’ hold up your manhood, don’t lick the hand that’s raised to strike the blow. Joe Brown’s banner says “all is lost save honor, aud that is only tolerably l thank yon, it grows puny and weak.” He says we can have representation in Congress. Who by? A man who can take the test oath, and can control the nigger vote. Who wants such a representation ? How long before he would join the Radicals i and go for confiscation. Ts he controlled ! the nigger vote he’d promise ’em laud or ■ anything else. Demagog. i.-shave always control ' he Ike ignorant* 1 com’-.h',”V done just what. Joe Brown wants us to Jo, and look at. her and weep!—a nigger can didate runnin for Governor. But suppose we had representation, and had elected all good men, fair men, just men; what could they do for us? Just nothing at all. With the present radical majority all our votes wouldn't undo any thing that has been done, and with a rad ical President they could do as much more as they pleased. Just let ’em all alone, give, 'em rope, more rope ; history is repeating itself, the crisis will come some time, tyranny and oppression must run its course. Joe Brown's programme wont stop it. One of his resolutions made my head swim ; I felt like taking chloroform._ He would make the whole Yankee t nation believe we loved ’em like brothers, and wanted ’em to come out South, and let us hug ’em. Well, all that sorter stuff' is played out. There ain't a hundred mfen in the State that has uny more respect for a radical than a hyena, and Joe Brown knows it. But the good Lord knows our hearts, and how fondly we cling to those moderate men of the mighty North who would save us from the humiliation that awaits us. Let a kind word be spoken to a subjugated reb, and the warm blood quickens in the veins. Oh, but here are the Union Leagues, somebody says, what are they going to do with us? Never mind my friends, the Union Leagues aint goin to hurt nobody. They are mi le of flesh and blood like we are. and they are citizens, and their fate will he our fate. They are as much disgusted at Sherman's bill as anybody. They are our neighbors and our friends, and if there is some bad men among ’em, there is enough of the good to make ’em do right. So keep quiet and be easy, and the Union Leagues are not going to trou ble you. If they want to save their own, it don't follow that they want to steal yours. But Joseph is afraid we cant stand a military government. Well, I know it is humiliating, withering, crushing, hut we have stood it, and can try it awhile long er. We can do it till we can do better. Military governments aint the cause of our poverty and distress. Its a govern ment higher than-Tbomas, Sherman, or Sheridan. Its the loss of crops, the want of rain- The military never stopped the corn from growing, and there’s just as much rain in one platform as another. It the Good Lord will only bless us with an abundant harvest, everything will go on smooth enough with the humble and hon est people who drive the plow and hoe the corn. If they prosper, everybody else will too, if they mind their own busi ness. We will have to quit talking so much and quit writing altogether—muzzled lips and a gagged press. I've done took warn ing myself, and quit. Had my life insured in the Knickerbocker, and the policy wont, allow ine to expose myself, to jump Into WTinccerotry pent. Tlttrmffttnry >• • out write us acyhow. Folks say the pm is mightier than the sword, but you put ’em both together, and they flank a man out of his liberty, and may be his life, in double quick. The Mayor of this town had a little billet doin with General Thomas the other day, and only come out second best, though it was not an ooen field nor a fair fight. I thought myself that 21 order must lie a hoax, got up by Brick Pomeroy, or somebody, and was lookin for the Genral to come out in a card denyin of it, but I soon found that it was a genuine Robesperean document . I still think his posterity will deny it some 29 years hence, • Well, I was mighty mad. I would have given a hundred dollars to have played Vantoun with him one hour, just to have been turned loose in the papers, all free, no gag. no jail, no barracks, no bayonets, no guard. I would have got such a grin on him for the next six months, as would have made everybody except Brick Pome roy forget that Beast Butler stole spoons. “Living on their magnanimity!” I tell you that got me, that burnt me, when I knew there wasn't enough magnanimity in a ship load all such to support a poor Reb 24 hours. Magnanimity ! My opin ion is they’ve lost the seed, and' don’t know whr.t the commodity is. I Was as •full of epitaph as Brownlow is of pizen. : Language came to me spontaneous : reg ular hidelifiers, that would have peeled : the bark from a man's carcass like skin j ning an alligator. But you see I was in j the cautious state, am! had to smother jmy feelings. J think I should have gone jup with spontaneous combustion, if my | wife hadn't broke the spell with her com ic scenes, She is an amusin and inter j estiu woman, much given to music in these days of numerous and lively off j spring, but jest ns soon as order 21 come : out, she hunted up the "prey jacket" and i the “coweiorcd banner and just such a solo soiree as 1 have 21 times a week, was never heard m Big Shanty before! She seems to take a delight in letten the rebel Hag on the title page “see the light,” and •‘Haunts it about'* in my face because I call myself a Union man. She says that part of the order about General Hanson’s remains, was founded on serip i lure, and so was Phil. Sheridan's about ’ Gen. Johnston’s, for Solomon says in Ecclesiastics, “that a living dqg is better . than a dea 1 lion." My opinion is that it. 1 will be impossible to harmonize these women durin this century. Such orders as 21 will cut oil ail hope of it. I think j if Gen. Thomas hadn’t been a Virginian, iho wouldn't have,issued it. Ive noticed : that- when i Virginian falls he falls heavy : and fur. Ie gits further over on the side - agin us than anybody. I've heard that Scott got hold of ’em about, this time, i and took ’em up into a high mountain, j and show’d ’em a kingdom or two, and ! the General fell down and worship'd, and j Ed. Johnson wouldn’t. I tell you my } friends, a man ought to be careful about j going up onto these dangerous mountains, and this leads me to remark we ought to I petition Mr. Johnson to put over Big l Shanty a General who stood square to his State. Hope for the best, my friends. Don’t imagine you see panters and injuas, be cause we are in a Territory. Don't mis take a bureau track for a bear sign. Don't fear it will be sickly, because Florida is hitched on to our diggins. Attend to your business, keep off of a high moun tain, and all will be well. I would say more, but my wife's music has begun. Yours respectfully, Bn.i. Arp. R- S.—l date my letter from Rig Shan ty, as I hear these three “diggins” are to have that name. Let us all be thank ful we know whar we are. For two years it has been doubtful whether we are in or out. My opinion now is, that we are out , and I heard a female voice «ay whoopee ! B. A. GEj^ESAL ADVERTISING AND COLLECTING AGENCY. MERCHANTS, and DRY GOODS DEAL 1T ffl. ERS desiring to advertise in either of the following papers, can do so through the under signed, who is the authorized Resident Agent. In sending advertisements in this way, parties will avoid the risk of sending money by mail Subscriptions also received. ELY OTTO, Advertiser Office. AGENT FOR Argus, Bainbridge, Ga. Star, Griffin, Ga. Southern Christian Advocate, Macon, Ga. Southern Cultivator, Athens, Ga. Journal k Messenger, Macon, Ga. Daily New Era, Atlanta, Ga. Opinion, Atlanta. Ga. Press, Augusta. Ga. Daily Herald. Griffin, Ga. Ledger, Fort Valley, Ga. Appeal, Cuthbert, Ga. News. Albany. Ga. 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HARDEN, Agent, mh2-lm At Planters’ Bank, Savannah, Ga. o THE QUEEN IFire Insurance Gobi? OF LONDON AND LIVERPOOL. OAPITAL $13,000,000, ! Will take FIRE RISKS ON BUILDINGS, MERCHANDISE, and COTTON IN STORE, LOSSES PROMPTLY A I) JESTED with out reference to England, WILDER & FULLARTON, ci«r2-lm AGENTS. INSURANCE Marine, Fire, Life AND Casualty Can be effected at equitable rates in FIRi?T CLASS COMPANIES, on application to J. T. THOMAS, 117 Bay Street. Booms and Board. Whole No. 457, SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OF The Oglethorpe Insurance Cos. OF SAVANNAH. . Savannah, 27th February, 1867. This Company, in accordance with the pro vision contained in section 9 of its charter.- will on and after Ist March proximo, receive 3fOXEY on DEPOSIT for SWINGS in sums of One Dollar and upwards. Copies of the By-Laws, showing the condi tions upon which SAVINGS may be deposited and rate of INTEREST allowed, will be fur nished on application at the Office of the Com pany, 117 Bay street. President, 11. W. 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