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n-HL be sent to those who wish it during the
fouvention sud Legislature at the following
sate* :
1 copy
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for four months, $1 00
* 5 00
^,rnhe friends of L. H. Rriscob, will
I support him as a candidate for the
Senatorial District, embracing the Counties
,• Baldwin, Hancock and Washington. They
" fe pi eas ed to say that he will accept the position
elected, and arp therefore authorized to an-
onnce him as a candidate. Many Voters.
* Milledgeville, Oct. 28tb, 1865. 13 3t
are authorized to announce the
tY name of SamURI. McComb, as a can-
'■ Ute t« represent Baldwin Countv in the next
Legislature. Election, 15th day of November.
Milledgeville, Oct. 31st, 1865. 13 3t
[IF The citizens of Baldwin are respectfully
D vited to attend a meeting of the county on next
SATURDAY, for the pnpose ot nominating a
e-ndidate for this Senatorial District.
Oct. 31,1865. Many Voters.
F5T\\. is generally understood that Judge Jkn-
jns to be the candidate for onr next Governor.
Ibis arrangement, we believe, meets the appro-
Lation of all parties ,
r-^*\Ve have been pleased to meet the accomplished
Editor of the Constitutionalist, Mr Dutcher, who has
t^nun a short visit to the Capital.
{yGen. Tillsonof the Freedman’s Bureau, addrees-
,i t ^ e Members of the Couveution on Friday evening
w Ills remarks were well received.
O —
ljp \ number of Ordinances were introduced in
f i,e Convention which have not yet been acted on.—
\\’e reserve publication until action is had on the
(’•rreapouJcnce between G«r. Brewnlow
a«<l Mr tienrge Tieknnr Cnrtin.
Private letter from Mr. Curtin to Gov. Broirnlov,
delivered by a citizen of Knoxville.
New York August 5.
If if Excellency Gnv. Hrovnlov.
Sir : 1 have been retained as counsel to assist io the
defense of W. C. Kain, now Under indictment in one
of the courts of your state for murder and treason. No
one has requested me to write to you ; but when I last
heard from Mr. Kain he mentioned the manner of his
eonfinement, and I could not help being shocked by
its unnecessary rigor. I am not ignorant of the state of
feeling in Tennessee toward persons on the confederate
side who may be more or less justly obnoxious topopn-
lar indignation. Into the merits of their cases I an not
wish to enter, excepting in the instance of Mr. Kain,
as I may have a duty to discharge on the issues which
the state has formally made with him in its legal tribu
nals. But I cannot think it unbecoming in ine to tug
gest to the authorities of the state that indictment and
trial on capital accusations, and the detention accessa
ry therefor, are punishment enough in advance of the
possible end of such proceedings, and that all un
necessary rigor attending the confinement, whatever
the supposed provocation, is what h11 men may justly
deplore. I am sensible that the Union people of your
slate have endured great suffering ; but the dignity and
humanity with which it shall administer its law's and
vindicate its sovereignty will have much to do with its
good name.
Let me beg you, sir, to use your influence or your
authority, and to see that this person is treated with no
more severity than bis detention requires.
I am, sir. very respectfully.
Y'our obedient servant,
George T. Curtis.
wor.ul serve bis day and generation, must give himself, t btiHf unflinching fidelity in war gives evidence of re-
with the utmost diligence, to the study of the great and I liable fidelity in peace of the unvarying proles " “
difficult questions which this war has brought upon I '.hat spring from private, public sources furnish
us, and whose just and true elucidation involves the i deuce of its truth * • -
personal interests and personal safety alike of men who ' " f u —**
have and of men who have not adhered in the past to
the national flag. Most oertaiiilv, Mr. Governor, I shall
be found according to rnv humble capacity, among
those who endeavor to Ao their duty in this regaid
without fear of the tongue, the pen, or the hand of any
man on earth.
f^Hon. H. M. Watterson of Tennessee, is present
n the city on official business from the Government
at Washington City. Hon. B. H. Hill late Confeder
ate Senator is also a visitor to the capital.
Thk J’hess.—We have been pleased to meet with
i rum her of the fraternity, during the past week —
Among them were, Maj. .Tno : II. Steele of the Intel-
... xer, Mr. Clay land of the Telegraph, Mr. Thompson
the Savannah Herald, Mr. J. S. Prather, of the
lira and Mr. Medlock of the Central Georgian,
ere are also present representatives of the press
<-„-n :i-»r places in the Stale, and several correspon-
j-nts of Northern and Western papers. All these
- -ntlemen will be welcome at our office, and it will be
a Measure to us to assist them, by any means in our j
,wer. in gathering up information for their respective ’
Answer of Gnv. Brovnlov, Published in Tennessee
before it reached Mr. Curtis.
State or Tennessee
Executive Department, Nashville
August 18
George T. Curtis, Esq- Xev York.
Sir: Your favor of the 5th instant is received.—
Upon some letter or message from one W. C. Kain, a
felon in jail at Knokville, you are shocked by the un
necessary rigor of his confinement, and suggest that
‘•the dignity and humanity with which the state shall
administer its laws” have much to do with the report
your client may have made to you but I know the
sheriff of Knox county, to whom your letter should
have been addressed, and know him to be an excellent
man, who has rendered gallant service as an officer in
our army : find I am confident that any statements of
your client, charging the sheriff with barbarous treat
ment of prisoners, are untrue. Your client, no doubt,
thinks it. very hard that he should be confined at all
for the conscientious (?) discharge of his duty as an
officer in such insignificant matters as hanging and
starving a few Union citizens, whipping ethers at the
stake or at the cart -wheel, and stripping Union ladies
who were passing through the rebel lines of all their
clothing, except what they had upon their persons, for
the heinous offense of thinking the rebellion wrong.—
In this upinion you may agree with him. I, who do
not profess to be so deeply versed in Vattel and Puff-
endorf, cannot.
I shall endeavor to see that the state vindicates its
sovereignty by administering its laws with dignity and
humanity ;"aud while profoundly grateful for the so
licitude you manifest for the leputation of Tennessee,
I must be allowed to say that when fully convinced
that I, or the subordinate executive officers of the
state, need instructions as to the proper discharge of
the grave official duties devolving upon us fn m attor
neys residing in other states of your well-known pro
clivities, I will give you due notice; bet until that
time such gratuitous,'patronizing lectures as yours eau
bt-regarded in no other light than jas unwarrantable
impertinence.
Verv Respectfully, vonr ob’t. servant,
W. G. Bkownlow-, Governor of Tennessee.
"'P'Among the distinguished gentlemen present dn-
. ..t the organization of the convention, and not coii-
i.. • ; J with it in any manner, we noticed Gen. A. K.
\v r. h.'e of the Confederate Army, so called; lion.
R 1’. Tripp.* formerly member of *be U. 8. Congress,
Ges. Steedmaa, commander of this Military depait-
c:ent, Ex Gov. Joseph E. Brown and Gen. Wilson.
pirirpouNTED.—A score or more of candidates for
Mio-cLger and Doorkeeper of the Convention were
udly disappointed by a decision of the Convention
(deeiing these officers by acclamation. This Was
hard!v fair. All the other officers had been chosen by
>,« and it was nothing but right that the candidates
{„• Messenger and Doorkeeper should have had an
r.-ju:,’, ciiauoe. The men elected were good men—but
Aawwiied a chance, rud ought to have had if.
fivicY Correspondence.—The reader will
find a correspondence iii this paper, between Gov.
Brown'-' 1 * - , and George Ticknor Curtis. Esq., ot
New l'ork City, which will pay him well for the
perusal. The letter of Mr. Curtis is truly a fin
ished production.
Mr. Curti s reply.
New York, October 10.
I Hi* Excellency, W. G. Btotcnlou, Governor of 7Vn-
I vessee.
Sir : On the 5th August last I addressed a note to you,
! respectful in its manner and in its substance, request-
1 iug yon to um* vonr influence for the mitigation of
1 what 1 believed to be the unnecessary severity of Mr.
j Main's confinement. Instead of giving me, er direct-
; iug any one io give me.any information respecting the
mode of confinement, you wrote me a letter winch
j could ou’y cause astonishment that it should have
j emanated from the place where it was dated—the Ex-
| ecutive Department of the State of Tennessee—in
! answer to such a note as I bad written to you. But
this was not all. Without waiting for your letter to
reach me in due course of mail, you published the
correspondence in Tennessee, when it must have been
perfectly obvious to you that my note was a private
one. although, according to customary courtesy, it was
addressed to yon by your official title. I was made
aware ef this publication at the time ; but I have to-
Your obedient servant,
George Yicksor Curtis.
From the Louisville Journal.
Tfce Release of A. IX. Stephens et al.
The release on parole of Alexander H. Stephens
will be received throughout the country with feel
ings of unfeigned rejoicing. His incarceration
at all was a harsh measure that might well have
been omitted with decided benefit, iu our judg
ment, to the best interests of the country. But
his release, though somewhat, and, we think, un
necessarily delayed, will be most welcome to the
conservative masses of all parties in the North,
while in the South the gratification will be univer
sal. Mr. Stephens has absolutely no enemies in
the South, for though there were many who re
gretted that he gave in his adhesion to the Con
federacy, yet they believe that he did so from the
best of motives, and in order to effect a reconcil
iation at the earliest possible day, we believe to
have been the key to his coarse. His sturdy and
persistent opposition to the revolutionary spirit of
Toombs, his eloquent defense of the Government
and the Union before the Georgia Legislature,
and his prophetic utterances as to the inevitable
consequences of the mad attempt to plunge the
country into a fratricidal conflict, are all remem
bered by the Southern people ; and, coupled with
the simplicity and purity of his private character
and his effoits to curb the flagrant licentiousness
of the oligarchy that surrounded him in the South,
they give hitn a hold upon the respect, confidence,
and admiration of the Southern masses which no
other man there possesses.
A full pardon will of course follow him in due
season from the President, until which period Mr.
Stephens is advised to remain in Georgia, with
which he will be bnt too happy to comply. For
the sake of appearances, several other ex-Confed-
erate officers have been paroled with him, each to
remain in the State from which he hails until fully
pardoned, or until his case sball be otherwise dis
posed of.
Mr. Stephens has already advised his friends to
give a hearty support to the measures of the Ad
ministration, and we doubt not |that his influence
at home will be most salutary in healing dissen
sions and promoting a spirit of harmony and fra
ternity among all classes, as w ell as a hearty re
turn to their allegiance to the Government of their
country on the part of Southern men. There are
no restrictions put upon his tongue or his pen.
and we hope he will let no false notions of deli
cacy restrain either; inasmuch as we feel certain
that both will be employed, if at all, in further
ance of the best interests of tbs South and of the
entire country.
He has never been a sectional man ; and some
of our readers may possibly recollect Lis truly
liberal, national, and splendid appeal to iiis col
leagues oT the South in the United States Con
gress to vote for the admission of Oregon as a
{state into the Union pending the discussion of
that measure. The politicians of the South Caio-
lina school, true to their instincts of fanning t! e
fires of sectional fanaticism, opposed the admis
sion because it was to be a free State.
The course of the illustrious Georgian on tnat
occasion endeared him to the friends of the Union
throughout the country. It showed him to be a
true patriot, of large and extended views. Faith
fulness to his own State and part of the country
he did not deem incompatible with devotion to
the whole of it, and his conduct then was but a
type cf his conduct upon all occasions down to
the very moment of the late revolt. A man with
such a record we say deserves paidon if anybody
does. He may have siuned; but let those who
have not cast the first stone at him.
It ill becomes the sneaking malignant who for
a quarter of a century were cursing the Union and
the Constitution while Mr. Stephens and his friends
were engaged in upholding them and defending
them, to heap abuse upon his head, and clamor
for his imprisonment and life, as some of them
have been doing, though for the honor of the
essiors
evi-
It is demonstrated that the people
of the South may be safely trusted, when they profess
more than willingness to return to their allegiance—
The State of Mississippi has already by her own sol
emn net, abolished slavery, and it is due to her honor
to show by her future that she has done so in good
faith, and that slavery shall never again flourish iu our
border in whatsoever name or guise it may be brought
forward.
day, for the first time, seen (he correspondence in print country, we are glad to know that the number cf
m a paper pubushed in this city. I sball now reply to t j,j g description of political hyenas is small Jr
you publicly, and in no other form. „ , j , . _ _ J . . ,, .
Mv note to you was sent unsealed, under cover to c Y C0U J^ have their way not a man in all the
an eminent citizen of your state, whose devotion to ®°®th who ever expressed an opinion contrary t
the cause of the Union has been as conspicuous as
that of any man in the South, and whose ability to
judge of the propriety of my request, and whose
jealousy for the honor of tne state, are at least equal
to yours. Had there been anything in it disrespectful
to you. or to the state, it is not probable that it would
have been delivered, although I certainly do not de
cile to cast upon him the slightest responsibility for
its delivery. In writing it, I was awara that I was
| writing to a governor, and I assumed that I was writing
to a gentleman. •
It can scarcely be necessary for me to point out to
Wbai kind of men nIibII represent tlie Month
iu Cougrenn?
The are a few men (and for the honor of human , th#pnb]ic how f Dnocent fhat - n( , te is of any or all of
r , v ..3 hope there are very few) who think j the offenses which )on affected to impute to it,or how
should be sent to the U. S.
tj.v no man
from the South, who cannot subscribe the oath
pre«crihel by the law of the government. That
oatii r quires a man to swear that he did not in
ar.v man ler shape or form, aid or abet the “rebel-
l,ou," or toauy extent sympathise with its sets or
Greets. Now, we of the Southern States, (loyal
citizens of the U. S Government) either are or are
not entitled to representation in the Congressof our
common country. If we are entitled to represen
ts,on in ihat assembly, then it is best for us of
tV: South, and the country at large, that.p.ble and
g’oj men should represent us. If we are not en
t led to representation, then why send anybody}
Congress i properly it proceeded from one who had consented to
, , stand iii the relation of counsel to a prisoner. I shall
prisoner,
probably do vmi no injustice if I regard the publication
of sucli an answer as proof of a purpose to feed a local
popular prejudice against Mr. Kaiu, instead of a de
sire to vindicate the dignity of the state, which, if you
are a man of sense, you know had been in no way of
fended by me. My remark, that the diginity and
humanity with which prisoners are treated by a state
iiave much to do with its good name, was so obvious,
not to sny common place, a truth that one would sup
pose it might challenge assent within as well as with
out the limits of any state, and be accepted as a not
ungracious, even if it happened to be an unnecessary
suggestion.
If you designed by the publication of such a letter
in advance of the trial of this prisoner to intimidate
others, as I believe you did. let mo assure you that it
will have no effect in deteri iug me from doing anything
T- j , i • . i for Mr. Kain. that Iliad undertaken. Belonging to a
If good, bravo and w l3 c men are not fit p r o fessi „ n whose common characteristic is thefearless
J c discharge of itsduties, Itiust that I do not fall below
the ordinary standard of its virtues. It has not at any
time been my purpose to be present at the trial of Mr.
Main. But it is my intention, at a proper time and in
a proper mode, to lay bernre the judicial authorities of
Wil’ the Presi i vour state my views of the legariquestions involved in
> i e a his case—questions of the ntrnost gravity, which will
demand, as I doubt not they will receive from those
authorities, the most careful, deliberate, and conscien
tious examination. Mr. Kain is indicted in a court of
vour state, with several other persons, for murder in
K’iate with honorable, intelligent and brave I the first degree; the homicide constituting the alleged
t baour representatives, are cowards aud fools?
D.es any man reply that we will be rejected from
‘ I participation in the deliberations of the National
Correas if we do not send men to that Congress
can swear they lived a lie ?
dent, the brave and high-toned men of the Army,
ortfp Stv-smen of the Norfh, prefer to associate,
to-.quils, with cowards and fools, and misers, to
13‘n, alb-it the latter were identified with the
unsuccessful cause of the South? No, no; away
*itb the idea. Brave men, and good men. and-
anl wigs men, will yet have a ruling voice in the
councils of this country ; and we believe they
*• i hava more respect for, aud confidence in,
-wriest, candid, patriotic men, than they have re-
tpect for, or confidence in, men who forsook tfceir
country and its cause for the security of their
persons and their property.
Tin: Convention.—Most of Fridajtend Sat
* Ay were occupied with the Bill of Rights, re-
P0:nd by the Committee of 16. It was adopted.
the Convention proceeded to the considera
* uof the Constitution proper. This will occupy
1 e body several days. On Saturday evening the
-■•Ath of Mr. Rice of Quitman was announced by
i s colleague, and.Resolutions of respect adopted,
* :en the Convention adjourned to Monday inorn-
* The unfinished business of Saturday, was,
‘ *t of determining the number of Senators and
^preseata’ives, of the General Assembly of thus
Btite.
A vert valuable Wouk.—We have now for sale
*'our nffice, at fifty cents per copy, a pamphlet pub-
-■‘icd in Augusta some time previous to the late elec-
• r 'i. primarily to furnish information on that subject,
u ‘ containing other matter ot permanent interest and
greatest importance to members of the Convention
4 1 state politicans generally. Thus the amnesty
* '•'amatiou* of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, the
b 1 ’ 1 ' a mat ion of the latter appointing a Provisional
“Weraor for Georgia, the gubemational proclamations
‘-ida va! ;ab!e tuad of dates, facts, and miscellaneous
^formation &ie furnished by it. Full instructions ns
'' Ul * manasr of applying for special pardon ere also
£ v«n. T , e Loot i3 well gotieu up and is of iinpor-
l&n, ‘ a for purposes of ready reference and preservation j
valuable public documents in a convenient form.
Away with Spectacles.
f, id Eyes Made New, without SPECTACLES,
DOCTOR, OR MEDICINE Pamphlet mailed
on receipt of ten cent*. Address E. B. FOOTE,
M So 1180 Bioadway, New Tork. [12 8tJ
murder having been the execution of a person who
was sentenced to death by a Confederate court-martial
in December, 1861, when the state was in the military
occupation ot the confederate forces. He was not a
member of the court, and not at that time in the con
federate serviceat all. His sole participation in those
proceedings consisted in employing his pen, at the
joint request of the judge-advocate of the military court
and of the counsel for the prisoners, in taking down
the testimony given on both sides. He is not indicted
for the offenses or the acts for which you arraign him
in your letter; und the irrelevancy therefore of those
imputations, which, even it they were true, can have
nothing to do with his treatment under the indictment
found against him, is at once apparent.
Your infamous insinuation that I may perhaps ap
prove of the enormities with which you gratuitously
charge him, is n very, strong confirmation of the pur
pose with which your letter, as I think, was written
und published. If you knew anything of me, you knew
very well that my approval of acts of cruelty and op
pression, whether committed by Secessionists or Union
ists—and enough of them have been committed by
both sides in this civil war to be a lasting disgrace to
our country—is a thing impossible to have been given
heretofore, or to be given now or hereafter. What
my “proclivities”—if you were entitled to know them
—have to do with the matter on which I wrote yon a
private note, no on- will be able to perceive excepting
those who are qualified to relish the manner in which
the prescut governor of Tennessee can write to a dis
tant stranger, who aeks him to do an act of mercy to
ward a prisoner that would have in no degree interfer-
red with the trial for the offeree charged, and which,
if inadmissible or unnecessary under the circumstan
ces, could have been declined with civility. As I ad-
drest-ed no ‘-lectures” to you or to thestate.it was clear
ly a? unnecessary for you to considermy “proclivities”
as it is obvious that you are ignorant of wbat they
are.
Here I should stop, were it not that there are con
siderations involved in this matter which are of the
utmost importance to society, and which I mean to do
all iD my power to enforce upon the public attention
aud conscience. Courts of justice in this country will
for years to come have difficulty enough in working out
the’application of sound legal principles to acts done
in this civil war, without being subjected to the further
and extraneous difficuhies springing from personal, or
party or sectional, or loeef prejudice, violence, and
dcGi-e for revenge- Men on all sides, both those who
have rnd those who have not acted under claim of
authority, will stand in need eveijwhere of a firm,
enlightened, upright, and impartial administration
of the law. aud must undergo its vis.Utions or
inquiries. The consistent and steady action of the
judicial, tribunals, in fearlessly redressing injuries
where the law requires such redress, and as fear
lessly refusing it where the law does not demand
or warrant punishment, can alone save society from
the perpetration of great judicial wrongs. Whoever,
therefore, is concerned in the administration of justice
In any eapaoity. on the berth er at the bar, and who
theirs would ever receive any quarter at their
hands.
Practically, they would make the ex-slaves and
the whites of the South exchange places. They
would not call the white people slaves, but let the
programme of Thad. Stevens, Butler, & Co , be
carried out thoroughly, and what else but outcasts
and wanderers and inferiors, homeless and penni
less—a condition far worse than that of the tonn-
er slaves of the South—would those white people
be? *
Thauk God and the good sense and decency of
the American people the tide is turning, and jus
tice, humanity, liberality, as well as an enlight
ened policy, not vengeance, constitute the rule
of restoration, the “open sesame” that is to ad
mit to the great feast of the fatt* d calf the tem
porary strays from the old family, whose tree
heretofore has been 60 goodly, and will hereafter
bear the green leaves and the golden fruit that
are to heal all our disorders and diseases, aud to
flourish in nneqnaled splendor for generations to
come.
Bev. Dr. Tnlmnge.
The Synod of Georgia at its recent session in
Aagusta, took the following appropriate action in
regard to the death of the beloved and distin
guished President of Oglethorpe University :
This Synod in the Providence of God is called
upon to perform the painful duty of recording
the death of the Rev. SamI'EL K Tai.mage, D.
D., who departed this life on the 2nd day of Sep
tember, 1865, in the 67th year of his sgc. This
event has filled the heart of the Church with emo
tions of unmingled grief and soirow, ana is de
plored as a public calamity by the intelligence
and virtue of the country.
His high social qualities as a gentleman dis
played in the affability of his manners and the
charms of his conversation—his fine classical at
tainments and extensive erudition R3 a scholar—
his signal administtative abilities as President of
the Oglethorpe College—the depth and force of
his piety a^a Christian— bis fidelity, dijfcence and
pofwfarity as a paslor. %ud his rich wffstruction
and fervid eloquence as a preacifer of righteous
ness—^|ese are a few ot the leading facts and
features in_»>e ljfe siffi character of our honored
brotherQyhoiias entered apon his reqtyid reward.
It being impossible bn this occasion To dis£u& the
rare combination of gifts and graces which be
longed to our beloved and lamented brother:
Therefore,
Resolved, 1. That this Synod devoutly recog
nise the sovereignty of God in the painful afflic
tion and final change of this eminent aud faith
ful minister of the gospel.
Resolved, 2. That an expression of profound
gratitude is due from us to the Great Head of the
Church for sparing so long this laborious aud de
voted servant in the field of usefulness which he
occupied, and that we will ever cherish his mem
ory and emulate his pare and excellent virtues
Resolved, 3. That all the members of this Syn
odical Assembly interpret this providential dis
pensation as a solemn call from the skies to great
er sacrifices and more abundant labors in our Mas
ter’s vineyard, that we may be always ready to
render up our accounts with joy.
Resolved, 4. That wo unitedly tender onr
warmest sympathies to the widow of the deceas
ed, and that our prayers will ever ascend for grace
to sustain and comfort her in this, the hoar of
deep affliction.
fmportnnl ftpeerh by Secresary BcCullocb.
Outlie 10th inst.. at a banquet given to him at Fort
\\a>ue, Imiiuna, Hon. Hugh McCulloch. C. S. Sec
retary of the Treasury, made a speech which is im»
portant as indicating the views and recommendations
that he will present.to Congress, aud the probable ac
tion of that body ia reterence to the national currencv.
VYe copy below the material portion of his speech. It
will be seen that he favors the withdrawal of a portion
of the redundant currency from circulation, by funding
the “legal tenders.” After briefly alluding to his own
position, and insisting that the Government must make
gold and silver the basis ot its circulation, the Secre
tary’ said:
The extreme high prices which now prevail in the
United .States are an unerring indication that the busi
ness of the country is iu un unhealthy condition We
age measuring values by a false standard. We have
a circulating medium altogether larger tlian is needed
for legitimate business. The excess is used iu specula
tions. The United States are to-day the best market
in the world for foreigners to sell in, aud among the
poorest to buy in. The consequence is that Euiope is
t-elling us more than she buys of us, including onr se-
cnriiies, which ought not to go abroad ; and tnere is a
debt rolling up against us that must be settled in part,
at least, with coin. The longer the inflation continues,
the more difficult it will be for us to get back to the
solid ground ot specie payment, to which we must re
turn sooner or later.
If Congress shall early in the ^jproaching session
authorize the funding of the legal tenders, aud the
woi k of a reduction is commenced and carried on reso
lutely, but carefully and prudently, we shall reach it
probably without serious embarrassment to legitimate
Duj-iuess. If not, we shall have a brief period of hol
low and seductive prosperity, resulting in wide spread
bankruptcy and disaster.
There are other objections to the pesent inflation.—
It is, I fear corrupting the public morals ; it is convert
ing the business of the country into gambling, and se
riously diminishing the labor of the country. This is
always the effect of executive circulation. The kind
of gambling which it produces is not copfined to the
stock and produce boards, where the very terms which
are used by the operators indicate the n iture of the
transactions, but it is spreading through our towns and
into the rural districts. Men are apparently getting
rich, while morality languishes, and the productive
industry of the country is being diminished. Good
morals in business, and safe, persevering industry, if
not at a discount, arc considered too oldfogyish for the
present times. But I feel tliat this is not the occasion
for croaking, and perhaps I ought, to apologize for the
train of remarks into which I have been led, but. I
feel anxious about the present inflation and its effects
upon the business and morals of the country. I am
hopeful that, by wise legislation, we shall escape a
financial collapse, and I am confident that a grand
future is before the United States. I am hopeful that
the currency may be brought up to the specie stand
ard, without those financial troubles which have, in all
countries, followed protracted and expensive wars.
By tiie experience of the last foui yeais we are led
to the conclusion that our people have a latent power
that always manifests itself when required, and is equal
to any emergency. I have faith in that as we have,
to the astonishment of the world, raised immense ar
mies—larger, 1 apprehend, Ilian any single nation even
brought into the field—aud met the enormous expen
ses of the war without borrowing from other nations,
that we shall also be able, without a financial crisis, to
fund our surplus currency, and interest bearing notes ;
bring back business to a specie standard, and piace
the credit of the country on the most satisfactory basis.
If we do this, we shall accomplish what the soundest
thinkers iu Europe have considered an impossibility,
and what no other people but the free aud enterprising
people of the United States, occupying the grandest
country in the world, could accomplish. But if we be
disappointed in these hopeful expectations ; should no
early check be put upon the issues of paper mouev ;
sl.ould prices still further advance, ami speculation be
still further stimulated, and the result thereof be ex-
ten.sive bankruptcy, depression, and hard times; the
grand destiny of this country aud this Government will
not be affected.
The United States occupy the best portion of the
temperate zone of a continent, stretching out its arms
to Europe on the one side and Asia on the other, and
producing all articles necessary for the subsistence and
comfort cf the race. If cotton be king, he is, thank
God,enthroned again. If bread be king, where should
his capital be put in this great valley of the Mis.-iss
issippt! This nation lias within itself everything that
is needed to make it the gratest among the family of
nations. Coal and iron are in juxtaposition and in
inexhaustible supply; mountains and valleys rich
enough in gold and silver to furnish the world for all
time what may he needed for circulation and other
uses; copper and lead, and other minerals iu no less
abundance, a soil of wouderful fertility ; a* climate
salubrious and diversified, above all, republican insti
tutions, and an energetic and cultivated people. We
have, it is true, difficult questions growing out of the
war yet to be settled, but I have an abiding confidence
that they will be settled as they come up for settlement,
in such a manner as will strengthen the Union and add
to our national renown.
The labor question at the South is one of these ques
tions, hut if there be no outside interference it will no>,
I apprehend, be a very difficult one. On the contrary
it is quite likely to be a self-adjusting one. The plan
ter needs the labor of his former slaves, and the high
price which Southern products will command for years
to come will enable him to pay liberally for it. The
colored people will soon learn that freedom from sla
very does not mean freedom from wo,k The inter-
| est of the two races will not long be anlagoui.-tic. The
I whites will need the ,abor of the blacks,and the blacks
I will ueeil employment. There is as much danger to be
apprehended from the unwillingness of the latter to labor
| fora support, as from an iudisposiiion to pay fair wa-
I ges. Like all other economical questions, it will beset-
! tied by the necessities and interests of the parties.—
j Fortunately for the solution of the questiou and the
! well being of laboring men generally, capital is not
■ supreme iu the United 6‘ates. It does not as in most
j other countries hold labor under its control, and deal
! out to it just remuneration only as will make it most
: productive. Labor is a power iu this free country,
1 with its cheap lands, which are within the reach of ail
industrious men, and dictates terms to capital. There
j is no part of the world where labor is more needed
j than in the Southern States No where will it soon
command better prices. This labor question at the
, South will, I doubt not, be satisfactorily arrange! in
j due time for the best interests of all concerned.
^rom miaaiaaippi
7 he State debt— Aegro Testimony—Absurd story.
New York, Oct., 23.—The Herald’s Jackson, Mis
sissippi, correspondent, presents An unfavorable state
of affairs.
- The State Legislature, which met last Monday, has
some difficult work before it, the worst of winch is,
probably, the revocation of State ordinances, which
were in a shocking condition.
The debt of the Commonwealth is large, and though
many of the people favored a second resort to repu
diation, it is thought that Mississippi has had enough
of this, and will not try it again, except so far as re
gards that portion of "her indebtedness contracted to
assi.-t the rebellion, all of which it is believed will be
ignored.
Another knotty question with which the members
will have to deal is that relating to the admission of
negro t stimony in the courts. A majority of them
are said to be m favor of Governor Sharkey, who in
sists upon the position of United States Senator, and
by their choosing for State Printer a gentleman who
favors it These are only two of the difficnlties which
this Legislature will have to wrestle with.
As industry generally throughout the State has been
paralizeu by the war, there is a great lack of the native
energy to resuscitate a better condition of things.—
Some practical but cruel jokes are being perpetrated
on the Mississippi negroes, with the story that on
Christmas day the Government intends to give each
one of them a tract of land, and lienee many of them
refuse to enter into contracts with the planters for a
period extending beyond that time.
Special Dispatch to the Savannah Herald.
Great Fire is ChsrlrMra.
Charleston. Oct. 18.—The Courier establish
ment and three other buildings adjoining, on
Hayne street, near the Charleston Hotel, were
totally destroyed by fire this morning. The loss
will be very heavy. A poition of the walls fell
iu about thirty minutes ago, killing and wounding
a large number ef persons Among those badly
hint is Capt Hoffman, Chief of Police.
How many are buried under the ruins has noi
yet been ascertained, and probably cannot be.—
Abont eight bodies Lave been recovered from the
ruins thus far.
The report is that Capt. Hoffman since died.
The wind ia very high, but it is believed that
the firemen will succeed in keeping the flames in
check.
Marshal Goodloe has just returned
to Washington from North Carolina.
He says that two-thirds of the pub
lished stories of cruelty to colored
people are false, and that in every par
ticular the people of that State are
accommodating themselves to their
changed relations.
— m wmm
Why is a married man like a can
dle ? Because he goes out at night
when he ought not to.
FOR THE
LJDIES.
V ISITING New York with the determination
to buv nothing except to supply my own
necessities, yet, when seeing the many novelties
in the shape of
HITS, CAPS Am BOSKETS;
and knowing the wants of my numerous putroDs
in and arouud Miiledget ille, I could not with
stand the temptation, and forgetting my determin
ation. have brought to this MARKET, a very
pretty stock of
miiaLinehy,
CLOAKS,
D&Y-OOODS
AND
YANKEE NOTIONS.
Come and see me at my old stand, opposite the
Milledgeville Hotel.
W. G. LANTERMAN.
Milledgeville, Oct. 9th, 1865. 10 tf
WANTED
500
BUSHELS DRIED PEACHES, for
which the highest price will be paid.
H. TINSLEY, Agt.
Milledgeville, Oct. 16, 1865. 11 tf
■Died in this county, on the 23rd iust., in the
25th year of her age, Mrs. Mary E. wife of Mr
John K. Strother, and daughter of Sylvanus and
Elizabeth Prince, of a violent yet short illness ot
acongeBtive nature, which lasted only eight days
Amiable and affectionate in disposition, pure,
kind, and true in heart, she won the love of all
who knew her. Although she had not united her
self to any church, she professed a change of
heart, and faith in the sanctifying power of the
blood of the Redeemer, and before her illness, was
looking forward with joy, to the approaching
meeting, when she intended, publicy, to avow her
faith by joining the Methodist Church. She was
marrud on the 4th of last March, and her be
reaved husband mourns the loss of a fond devo
ted wire. Thus, in the midst ot loved ones, and
in the bloom of her youth, she was called upon to
take her flight far above this vale of tears, to the
blissful realms of that better world above; and
she died urging all to meet her, where the weary
are at rest, and all is joy, pesce and love.
NOTICE.
T HE undersigned would take occasion to say
to our Father’s old customers that his busi
ness is still carried on at his old stand, where we
have always on hand a large supply of the follow
ing articles, viz:
i£a, Soda, Coffee Mills,
Coffee, Rice, Syrup,
Lard, Flour, &ugar,
Shoes, Mackerel, Molasses,
Cheese, Copperas, Bacon,
Starch, Powder, Nails,
Matches, Shot, Codfish,
Vinegar, Caps, Blue Stone,
Crockery Ware, Glass, Hardware of all
kinds, &e., &c.,
And everything that can be found in our line.
We would state to those who wish to buy for
their country stores, that, as we Lave wagons
running constantly to and from Savannah, we can
sell by the
WHOLESALE
as cheap as they can bny in Macon or any other
interior city.
We respectfully ask a continuance of the pa
tronage of our father’s old customers, and of the
public generally.
W. 8. STETSON & BRO.
Milledgeville, Oct. 23, 1865. 12 tf
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T WO MONTHS after date application will be made
to the Court of Ordinary of Baldwin county for
an order to sell the real estate cf Abel Abridge late of
said county deceased.
ABEL R AKRIDGE, Adm'r.
October 31, 1865. (j. h.) 13 9.
GEftRGIA, Irwin county.
W HEREAS, John G. Roberts andJMaria Sutton
apply to me for letters of administration on the
estate of A. J. Sutton dec'd.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons
adversely concerned, to file their objections on or be
fore the first Monday in December next.
L. M. COLBERTH, Ordy.
October 25th, 1865. 13 5t.
Extraordinary Inducements!
NEW STORE, NEW GOODS!
W E WOULD RESPECTFULLY invite the
attention ef the citizens of Milledgeville,
and the surrounding country, to our
FAliLi STOCK
OF
DRY GOODS
READY MADE CLOTHING.
flpOTS AND SHOES! fli
which will be sold for CASK, as LOW, or
LOWER, than any other House in the City, and
warranted to give satisfaction.
WE are just receiving our Stock of
FAX,!,
DRY GOODS.
Knowing the wants and tastes of our Custo
mers, we have selected with grtat care, the lates
STYLES AND FASXXXOSTft
of all kinds of
DRESS GOODS,
MISSISSIPPI.
The Legislature of this State met on the 16th. Gen.
8. J. Gholeon, of Monroe, elected speaker of tbe sen
ate, and Col. Simonton of the house. GeD. Humphrey
was inagnrated governor of the State the same even*
ing. A large amount of busiDiss wrs brought before
the legislature, and it was expected the sesison would
be a long one.
Gov. Sharkey addressed the legislature at the reqnest
of both houses aud afterward administered the oath of
office to the governor elect, who in his inaugural ad
dress, said:
I have always believed that no one or more States
could constitutionally sever ties that unite people of
the several States in one. The people rejected this
school of politicians. Those advocating the right of
secession could not have found a better mode of solving
the question than the arbitrament of war. The ques
tion was forthwith referred and decided against us —
The people of Mississippi acknowledge^ the decision
and express their wish to return to the Union. It has
besa ofleiaUy reported that oar people are not eiacere.
Fishing for Corpsee.
Hole one class of the London poor lire.
It will be seen by the following extract from the
London Daily News that Dickens sketched from life in
the opening chapters of^-Our Mutual Friend." The
News say6 :
“Men live by fishing for corpses. The ghastly trade
is at lea.->t as profitable as regular labor, and as it
unites somewhat of the excitement of gambling with
not a little of the savor of larceny, it is perhups not
wonderful t hat to a’certain class of minds its its attrac
tions should be irresistible. First, there is the chance
of a reward—sometimes as much as one hundred
• pounds having been offered for the body by the friends
or legal represAtatives of the deceased; secondly,
there is the chance of valuables aud mpneji being in
the dead person's pockets; and in the event of both
these contingencies failing, tlfere is still the six shill
ings paif to tlie coronal, and this^is was pertinenjly
rt walked to u-, ‘is a good nay’s work for the likeiof
them.” When watch or purse is found on a dead bofiy,
for which a reward has not been offered, they are, os
a rule, quietly pocketed, and tlieii late owner put back
into the liver, that he may be picked up either by the
police or some brother professional. That the men
following this loathsome calling are callous hardened,
and brutal, is a matter of course; that they should
long for a crop of well-dressed, appointed suicides as
eagerly as sportsman hopes for a good bag is not won
derful; and that they are as unscrupulous in their
dealings with the dead as they are perserving in their
efforts to capture them may De taken as inevitable.—
The strange and repugnant calliug once known and
recognized, the character of its professors may be
easily conceived.
“Of course, the Thames police take prompt charge
of all the bodies they see, but the range of their duties
is wide, the number of boats and men told off to a
prescribed number of miles of river comparatively
small, and the result is not a unprofitable opening tor
the lighterman, who, half-thief half body-snatcher,
turns his attention and devotes his nights to looking
up and down the river for corpses. A short time back
one of the best known of tnese fellows was seen about
two a. m. pulling stealthily in shore, with what seemed
in the dense mist and darkness to be a passenger or
fellow-laborer sitting in the stern. Something in the
uncouth swinging to and fro of the latter excited the
suspicion of tbe police boat on duty, and, tearing that
a healpless drunkard bad fallen into evil hands, and
would be robbed aud maltreated, the lighterman was
hailed and ordered to pull to. It was then seen that
the man supposed to be drunk was dead. The gear
ordinarily used tor towing the subjects from where
they are found to the nearest wharl in ths same parish
was out of order, and the lighterman had in conse
quence calmly reared the corpse up with its back to
the rudder, and in such an attitude that the faces of
the living and the dead men all but touched each time
the former bent forward to bis oar. “Only a stiff un,
master, I’m a-taking up to Rotherhithe,” was sulkily
given in reply to tbe questions pnt; after which tbe
speaker was permitted to pass on, to deposit hif 'prey
and claim bis reward in due coarse.”
GEORGIA. Irwin county.
W HEIIEAS, Jehu Fletcher makes application to
me for letiers of administration on the estate of
John Fletcher dec’d.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons
adversely concerned to file their objections, on or be
fore tlie 1st Monday in December next.
October 25th, 1865.
L. M. COLBERTH, Ord y
i*i
13 5t.
Family Grocery Store.
U|'HE undersigned keep constantly on band
JL Sugar and Coffee, Floor, Bacon, Mackerel,
and all articles usually kept in a family grocery.
They will endeavor also to keep meal, corn, peas,
and country produce generally, which they will
sell at a small advance on cost.
BROOKS & MOORE,
At James Duncan’s old stand
Milledgeville, Oct. 23, 1865. 12 It*
GRAND OPENINIG
OF
Bierstadt’s well known picture of tbe
Rocky Mountain baa been sold for $25,*
000.
DRY-GOODS
AT TnE EMPORIUM OJ
JOSEPH & FASS,
T IO which they invite the attention of the pub-
flic generally, consisting in
Rich black Dress Silks,
All wool French Merinoes,
English Merinoes,
Pdplius.
All wool DeLaines,
Wool Plaids,
^Ilack Silk Warp Alpacca,
All wooffifie Mohair,
English and American Printd,
English and American Mourning,
Damask and Bordered Towels,
Huck and Cotton Diaper,
Cambric and Jaconet Muslins,
White Lawn,
Ladies' Cambric Handkerchiefs,
Plain and Hemstitched,
Silk and Cotton Handkerchiefs,
Silk Lace Veils,
Barege apd Tissue Veils,
White, Slate and Mixed Hose,
White and Brown Half Hose,
Twilled, Red, Gray and White Flannel,
* Fancy Shirting Flannels,
White Lamb's Wool Blankets,
Balmorals and Hoopskirts of all
styles and qualities,
French Wove Qorsets,
Sewing Silks and Thread,
ALSO
A fall assortment of Notions,
Ladies and Gents famishing Goods,
Ladies Dress Trimmings,
A full assortment of Boots and Shoes,
- A large stock of Ready made Clothing,
All of which will he sold at the lowest market
prices. Being constantly in communication with
Manufacturers enables ns to sell our goods, as to
defy competition. Don't forget the place, 3 doors
from Milledgeville Hotel. Hertv & Hall’s old
Drug Store. JOSEPH A FASS.
October 7.1865. * 1°
TRIMMINGS, SHAWLS,
And a Large assortment of
WHITE GOODS,
And all kinds of Foreign and Domestic DKY
GOODS.
A large assortment of
GENTS.,
LADIES,
MISSE8, and
CHILDREN’S
30CTS & SHOSS.
Also a large assortment of
MEN’S AND BOY’S
HOOP SKIRTS,
BLANKETS, &C„ &C.
Now is your time—come one, come all, and
look at our large stock of
Ready Made Clothing,
GENTS
AND
FURNISHING
GOODS.
Cash buyers will find it to theirintereat by call
ing upon ns before purchasing elsewhere, as we
are confident that we can under sell any other
Firm in tbe City, as our large stock most be dis
posed of during tbe present 6eascn.
JACOB ROSENFIELD & BROTHER,
HENRY GOODMAN,
4th Door below Milledgeville Hotel.
Oct. 24, 1865. 12 tf
rriHE Undersigned are offering to the Public
J. their
ATTENTION LADIES.
J UST RECEIVED a lot of Draw Good*, Trim*
m ,.p„JFan.i^ E G»d irigg
3rd door Milledgorill* Hotel.
Milledgeville, Oet. 16, 186*. H tf
BJiTTJLttB
OF DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING,
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS,
HATS, CUTLERY, BOOTS AND SHOES,
AND NOTIONS.
HT. Call soon if yon want bargains.
Next door to Caraker’s Grocery Store.
BISCHOF & HEIN6HEIMER.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 23d. 1865. ]2 3t.
GROCERIES, LIQUORS, &c.
I HAVE OPENED anew Stock of Groceriee
and Liqqors, at the
Store of Mr. A. C. Vail*
Consisting of
FINE BRANDIES, BOURBON, MONONGAHELA AND
RYE WHISKEYS,
Champagne and other Wines, of fine brand,
No. 1 TONIC BITTERS. Tobacco, Cigar*, Can
dies. Sardines, Cheese, Crackers, and various oth
er articles too nnmeroos to mention. All of which
will he sold cheap for Cask. Call and see me.
W. A. WILLIAMS & CO.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 10,1865. 10 tf
Ambrotypiig ii Araory Hall#
Milledgeville, Oet 17, I860, U i\