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MIL LEDGE VILLE) GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1865.
NUMBER 17.
nil! GHTOX.MSBET, BARNES & MOORE Poe'S fins piece of Poetry, ‘-The Raven,” it
- _ - - parodied below, with great skill and point.
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THE lir.ACK BIRD.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary.
O'er the war of the rebellion, and tbe things that
were before—
While I sat absorbed in thinking—brandy cock
tails slowly drinking,
Suddenly I saw a blinking, one-eyed figure at my
door—
Saw a one-eyed, winking, blinking figure at my
chamber door,
Standing there, and nothing moie.
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Ah! I never shall forget it, how iu glancing round
I met it,
And I ever shall regret it, that I looked toward
that door;
For I saw a monstrous figure, like a giant, only
bigger,
And there stood a big buck nigger, leaning up
against my door—
Stood a powerful big bock nigger, with bis back
against my door—
Leaning there, nothing more.
Straight into the fire place spying, where my ham
and eggs were frying,
I beheld the poker lying, near the hearth, upon
the floor;
Then with most determined vigor,straight 1 burled
it at the nigger;
But so quick was that big nigger, that it missed
and struck tbe floor—
Missed the nigger’s head completely, and fell
harmless on the floor—
Struck his heel, aud uothing more.
„ of Land, &c., by Administrators, Executors or Back into the fire-place looking, where my ham
tirdl&ns, are required by law to be held on the first and eggs were cooking,
.. iu.. i ..<• iii ... *i.,. shaking, quaking—as no mortal ever shook or
quaked before—
I then heard this ugly sinner mutter but these
words. ‘'Some dinner!'’
’Twas the only word he'd spoken—’this the only
word, I’m sure—
When I picked up pluck and answered, 'T shall
feed you nevermore.”
This I said, and uothing more.
idar iu the month; between the hours of 10 lu the
• : .-tiioou and three iu the afternoon, at the Court house
' ... enmity iu which the property is situated.
"jiiitiee o! these sales mast be given iu a public ga-
.. -e 41) da»s previous to the day of sale.
Notice, for the sule of personal property must be
. in iko manner 10 days previous to sale day.
i-s to the debtors and creditors of un estate
j.ho he punished 40 day's,
y... r ,. that application will be made to the Court of
0-:;-.;ry for leave to sell Lund, &c., must be pubiish-
■>rt'vo months.
.• ms for letters of Administration Guardianship,
i Milt be published 30 days—for dismission from
iJiM.istrat.ion, monthly six month*—lor dismission
fri.ii Guardianship, 40 days.
j ; .lor foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
1 ' • ; / tor I'D it r months—for establishing lost papers,
“.'f n U space o) three month*—for compelling titles
L ffl Executors or administrators, wher
tecii given oy the deceased, the full space of three
Then his impudence beginning, and his gums ex
posed in grinning,
With a smile by no means winning, did he view
me from the door;
And lie coolly said, ‘‘Your treat, man—I’ll ne’er
go into the street, man,
„ . Till I get something to eat, man, I shall never
bond has | leave your door;
I shall never quit your chamber, though you beat
me till I roar,
pjbliitations will always be continued according to I vou—nevermore
^ th» legal requirements, unless otherwise or-, " ex er leave you nex ermore .
Then, toward the fire-place marching, where my
link .".lid Job work, of #11 kinds,| «'»'**«■»*
WIOMITLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
at t SI I S O F r S 1’ E .
ly sta;ked the saucy nigger, boldly stalked
across the floor;
Never made the slightest bow, sir—then I knew
tliere’d be a row, sir,
" r -i r i „ i, „„ I For I made a solemn vow, sir, he should go back
rr When a subscriber finds a cross mark on fQ t) , e doo ,.
bpaper lie will know that his subscription^has j TLen j kk . k( „j i jini f r0!n my chamber,and lie went
back to the door;
Leaned against it—nothing more.
lupired, or is about to expire, and must be renew-
liii he wishes the paper continued.
Rp We do not send receipts to new subscri-
urs. if they receive the paper they may know
iutwehave received tbe money,
f?* Subscribers wishing their papers changed
post-office to another must state the
1 i • ai : a
:ame of tin
•ed.
post-office lrom which they wish it
GUST A HOTEL
S. tl, JOXES
BY
and
Z. A. RUE.
Then this black bird, for awhile, sir, really did
Cnuse me to smile, sir,
Though a rav’nous, rabid, hungry look his dusky
visage bore;
“Though,” said I, “thou art a freedman, thou
hast gone so much to seed, man,
That I'll give a little feed, man, as you seem to
be so poor,
Provided you will work for me a half hour or
more.”
rtfE respectfully invite our old friends and the trav
IT eliB£ public to give uw a call. Nothing shall be
vanting mi our part to satisfy the inner and outer
rants uf men.
JONES A RICE.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 5th^ 1865, 5 3m *
A. K.. SEAGUO,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
[Established in business 185’2.]
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
U.i give strict attention to ail business entius-
e'toLim His long connection with the Com
mon and Produce business of Atlanta, gives
ffm advantages over perhaps any other bouse in
Atlanta or Upper Georgia.
Sept. Ctb, J 8(35.
Much I marveled this ungainly nigger should re
fuse so plainly
_ j To do a little job, 'twould take ball an hour or
more—
For we cannot help agreeing that no living hu
man being
Should refuse to labor, seeing that he was io blas
ted poor—
Should refuse to earn a dinner he saw cooking
from my door—
Though he ate one ‘ nevermore.’”
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MERCHANTS, AND WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL DEALERS IN PRODUCE
AND GROCERIES,
WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA.
•'E keep constantly on band a good stock of
four, Bacon, Corn, Wheat, Bagging and Rope,
Cotton Yarns, Osnaburgs and Shirtings, Maeker-
Cheese, Ac, Ac. Prompt attention given to
•■ceis and consignments.
Sept. 12th. I SGT».
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There I sat engaged in musing what ho meant by
thus refusing,
And I then began abusing this big nigger at my
door:
“Sure,” said I.‘ you must be crazy, seeing yon’re
so cursed lazy—
Soconlounded awful lazy as to want to work no
more—
Wiil you ever work for wages—tell me, tell me,
I implore.'”
Quoth the nigger, "Nevermore!”
"Nigger,” said I, “horrid demon—nigger still, if
slave or freeman—
Think again before you answer, this one question,
I implore:
Have you yet no sense of feeling—do you mean
to live by stealing.
Or by working and fair dealing?—tell me, tell me,
I implore,
On your honor as a nigger—will you labor as be
fore
Qoutli the nigger, “Nevermore!”
Startled at the stillness broken by- reply so flatly
spoken.
“Doubtless,” said I, “this big nigger would con
sume enough for four.
When on some spacious rice plantation, he would
out-eat all creation—
Never made a calculation how much cash it cost,
I’m sure,
For Lis master bought tbe victuals in the good old
days of yore,
Now, he’ll feed you “nevermore!”
*vng a :
SAVE TOUR RAGSJ
AN COTTON RAGS, also damaged cotton,
l&kcu in exchange for tin ware.
T. T. WINDSOR.
Kiliedgeville, Oct 23, 1865. 12 3m
AS. HARTRIDGE,
"EMISSION AND FORWARDING
BlXlfMWi
92 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
*T No business done iu Cotton except as a
• T on Commission.
x ov. 3, 1865.
14 3m"
TISON & GORDON,
Cotton Factors, Commission
AND
10KWARBING MERCHANTS,
;, 6 Day Street, Savannah, Georgia.
Wit. II. TISON, WM. W. GORDON
Special attention-will be given to the sale
“'LUMBER, ROSIN, TURPENTINE, frc.
1,1865,
Nov
14 3m*
j
ATTESTION LADIES.
UST RECEIVED a lot of Dress Goods, Turn
nuiigs and Furnishing Goods.
JOSEPH A PASS.
... 3rd door Milled^illo Hotel.
“ill«igevill«.©et. 1G, 1§6§. 11 tt
‘Nigger!” said I, “thing of evil! quit my room—
go to the devil—
Or if you’ll consent to work, I’ll bring your sup
per to the door,
Tell me truly, I conjure yon, for the last time, I
implore?”
Qouth the nigger, "Nevermore!”
Be that word our sign of parting, nigger man."
I cried, upstarting—
Get thee back to where thou earnest from—let me
8 ee your face no more;
Join the army—go to Texas—never conie back
here to vex us—
Ne’er return again to vex us—never let us see you
more;
Take your gaze from off my meat, and take-your
carcass from my door!”
Quoth the nigger, “Nevermore!”
And the nigger still is standing in my entry on
the landing,
A very pretty burly-picture, with his back against
my door,
And bis eyes are ever spying at my ham as it is
frying, ,
And my poker still is lying near my hand upon tbe
floor,
But ro.v victuals to the “fly-trap” of that nigger
by my door,
Shall be lifted, “Nevermore!”
of Col. Heros Von Borcke, who was
chief of staff for Gen Jeb Stuart, the fa
mous cavalier of Virginia. His pictures
of cavalry experience in the Army of
Northern Virginia are intensely inter
esting. This incident occurred at
Gaines’ Mill, during McClellan’s on
slaught upon the Confederate capi
tal :
Les Lancicrcs
An affair of a few minutes was with
a newly organized regiment of Feder
al Lancers. They s f ood three hun
dred yards from us in line of battle,
and presented, with their glittering
lances, from the point of which flut
tered a red and white pennon, and
their fresh, well-fitting blue uniforms
turned up with yellow, a fine martial
appearance. One of our regiments
was immediately ordered to attack
them; but before our Virginia horse
men got within fifty yards of their
line, this magnificent regiment, which
had doubtless excited the liveliest ad
miration in the Northern cities on its
way to the seat of war, turned tail
and fled in disorder, strewing the line
of their retreat with their pictures
que but inconvenient arms. The en
tire skirmish, if such it may be called,
was over in less time than is required
to record it, and was a highlyludic-
rous exhibition tff Les Luncircs, danced
to somew’hat "animated music. I do
not believe that out of the whole body
several hundred meh more than twen
ty retained their lances; and their
suddeu and total discomfiture furnish
ed a striking proof of the fact that
this weapon, formidable enough in the
hand of one accustomed to wield it, is
a downright absurdity and an incum
brance to the inexperienced.
A Hot Place.
Just as we were galloping along
the line, the enemy opened upon us
with grape and canister; and our men
began to waver a little, the ranks get
ting into some confusion. At this
moment General Stuart, who had to
ride a few hundred yards further to
meet Col. Fitz Lee, turned round to
me saying, “Captain, I wish you to re
main herewith my staff and escort un
til I come hack, to give a good exam
ple of to the men. J ’ So we had to
stand formany minutes in this diabol
ical fire of canister, which came rat
tling along the hard dry ground, or
howled over us right and left-—a pret
ty severe trial. It requires but little
courage to attack the enemy, or even
to ride about composedly under tire,
in comparison with what is demanded
to sit quietly in the face of several
batteries, from which, with every mo
mentary puff of smoke from the mouths
of the guns, one may reasonably ex
pect the messenger of death. A shell
which exploded directly over us tore
nearly to pieces the captain of the
squadron nearest to me, with whom I
had just been talking, and killed or
wounded several of the men. But our
exampie had a telling effect; the ranks
closed up and remained in good order
till the command was given, and the
long line of horsemen, soon in rapid
trot, disappeared behind a range of
friendly hills.
General Stuart and -staff navv gal
loped forward again to our artillery,
which in the meantime had lost many
men and horses, but was still answer
ing with the greatest energy the gall
ing fire of the numerous batteries of
the enemy.
Windage.
About six o’clock in the evening I
was sent by Gen. Stuart to order to
the front two squadrons of our Geor
gia regiments to attack one of the Fed
eral batteries, which, without pioper
support, had been making a very bold
advance* The er ^T'y had brought up
| Jackson and Stuart.
We encamped upon the field of bat
tle. After midnight I felt myself
touched on the shoulder; and when
grasping the hilt of my sword, I ab
ruptly demanded who was there, a
mild voice answered me, “General
Jackson.” Tbe great Confederate
leader was in search of General Stuart.
Stuart, who slept on my right, was
immediately aroused, and Jackson, ac
cepting my invitation so to do, sat
down on my blankets by liis side. 1
left them alone, those grand warriors,
in their midnight council, and wander
ed about, meditating on the stirring
events of the day. I was deeply im
pressed by the blackness of the night
and the profound stillness of the slum
bering camp. Here and there a camp
fire shed a red glow around, and the
stillness was only too mournfully in
terrupted by the groans of wounded
and dying men, who, not many hours
before, had been full of health and
hope. I was myself saved only by
God’s Almighty hand from being a-
mong them.
The Battle Fall.
Heath had raged fearfully in many
places, especially where our troops
had been Compelled to storm the
strong entreachments of the enemy.—
On some of these perilous slopes the
dead bodies might be seen piled three
or four on eacli other. I was struck
here by the piteous contrast presented
by the bodies of two of our dead
which were lying side by side. I can
never forget the sight; 1 can see them
now—the one a man more than fifty,
who had been shot through the head,
and whose silvery white hair was dab
bled in his blood ; the other, next him,
a lad of sixteen, whose frank face was
ighted up by clustering fair hair, and
Georgia Methodist Conference.
APPOINTMENTS FOR 1SG6.
Augusta District.
G G N McDonnell P E.
Auguata—St Johns—A Wright. W H
Gibson, W Lane.
Editor Se. Ch. Adv., E II Myers.
S S Agent, Dr L Pierce.
W F College, J M Bonnell, Pres.
I
Potter. St James—Geo Kramer, 1 S
Hopkins. Ansbury—D D Cox. Trinity
—to be supplied.
Savannah—Trinity—A M Wynne.—
Andrew Chapel, to be supplied.
Springfield—N D Morehouse.
Sylvania—J M Stokes.
Bethel and Col. Charge—Jas. Jones.
Waynesboro—J M Austen, C J Oliver.
Buike Col. Charge—T'hos B Lamar.
Louisville—E G Murrali, A T Mann
Concord Mission—H D Murphy.
Columbia aud Col. Charge—R A Con
ner, and one to be supplied.
Iticbmond and Col. Charge—T It Rey
nolds.
Athens District.
W R Branham, P E.
Athens—H II Parks, W P Patillo. Col
Charge to be supplied.
Watkinsville and Col. Charge.—A G
Worley, R J Corly. Factory M ission—
to be supplied.
Jefferson and Mission—F M Malsby, A
Hollifield. -
Madison—H J Adams, J L Pierce.
Morgan and Col. Charge—W R Foote,
B W Williams.
Greensboro—J W Talley, Thomas F
Pierce.
Lexington and Col. Charge—D J My-
rick, and one to be supplied.
Washington—M Callaway.
Wilkes and Col. Charge—L L Ledbet
ter.
Lincolnton—T B Harber.
Elberton—J H Grogan,
Elbert—W Norman.
Columbus District.
R B Lester, P. B.
Columbus, St Luke, J E Evans. Girard,
J B Littlejohn. St Paul, J O A Clarke.
City Mission, C W Key, J T Norris.
Muscogee. W W Tidwell.
Upatoy, W C Rowland.
Genevia, L Rush.
Butler. G C Clarke, C A Mitchel.
Talbotton and col. charge, W Knox.
Belview, II P Pitchford.
Centerville, L R Redding.
Hamilton, A J Dean. Harris col. charge.
To be supplied.
Levert Female College, G H Patilo,
Prof.
Lumpkin District.
L J Davies, P E.
Lumpkin and Greenhill, J C Simmons.
Cuthbert and Georgetown, W A Parks,
J R Owen.
Randolph, P C Harris, J B Wardlaw.
I ort Gains, J II Harris.
Stewart, E A II McGhee, J T Turner.
Buena Vista, J T Ainsworth, Y F Tigner,
Sup.
Jamestown, J T Payne.
W estern, D O’Driscol, B J Baldwin.
Dawson, T T Christian.
Dahloncga District.
W P Pledger, P E.
Dahlonega--L Q Allen.
Camming—M G Hamby.
Clarksville—F G Hugos.
Miss. Joseph Chambers.
Cleveland
whose small hands were crossed over j
Clayton—To be supplied.
Blairsvillo and Morganton—To be sup-
his heart, where the enemy’s bullet! plied,
had struck him. j Ellijay—J L Fowler.
Among Jackson’s men on t? e pie-1 Cantor—J R Parker,
vious day I had looked with astonish- Gainsville—W T Caldwell. -
ment at a soldier from Mississippi—a ; Carnesville G Hughes, II Crawford,
perfect giant, whose appearance hau !
attracted the more attention from a
Americus District.
S Anthony, P B.
Americus and Col. charge—C R Jewett.
Andersonville, W S Turner.
Smithville, D W Calhoun.
Ellaville, J F Berry.
Oglethorpe, J P Duncan.
Lanier, R F Williamson, W Brook*
Ft. Valley, W J Cotter.
Perry Station, E P Birch.
Perry Circuit, J M Marshall.
Viena, T 8 L Harwell.
Ilawkinsville, J T Curtis.
Isabel, to be supplied.
Starksvilie, To lie supplied.
Sajiderscille District.
vest of bear skin that he wore. Here
among the dead I found him qgain,
with a small hole in the breast which
had been sufficent to make an end at
once of all his strength and vigor.
Bayonet Fight.
Many stories had been recited in
camp about a tremendous bayonet
fight, hand-to-hand, during the battle
between our Texans and the New York
Zouaves, and it was said that these
Hartwell- B Sanders.
Rome District.
B Arbogast P K.
Rome, A M Thigpen.
Cavo Spring and Cedar Town,
Jerrol.
Manassa, C A Evans, C H Ells.
Calhoun, W A Simmons.
Spring Place, B J Johnson.
LaFayette, W T Hamilton.
Dalton, W C Malory.
Atlanta District.
A J
J. B. Payne, P E.
Atlanta, Wesley Chapel and colored
determined antagonists had pierced | mission: W P Harrison, W J Scott;
A Qurious Illustration.—"My friends,”
said a returned missionary at a late anni
versary meeting, "Let us avoid sectarian
bitterness. The inhabitants of Hindostau,
where I have been laboring for many
years, have a proverb that ‘though you
bathe a dog’s tail in oil and bind it in splin
ters, you cannot get the crook out of it.
Now a man’s sectarian bias is simply the
crook in the dog’s tail, which cannot be
eradicated; and I hold that every one
shonid be allowed to wag bis own peculi
arity in peace.
auvuuuu J.UO -y Iiau uiuugui, uj;
to the distant heights twenty pieces of
rifled ordnance, which, by undue ele
vation, firing too high for the effect
they desired, were playing upon an
open space over which I had to ride.
The fire was so terrific that I found
one of our reserve batteries, not active
ly engaged at the moment, entirely de
serted by its gunners, who had sought
protection with the horses in a deep
ravine, and who cried out to me to dis
mount and join them, because other
wise certain death must be my fate.—
I pushed on, and reached the point of
my destination in safety; but gallop
ing back I felt a stunning blow across
the spine, and the same moment my
horse rolled over with me. I was con
fident the animal had been struck by a
cannon ball; but to my surprise I was
not able to discover any wound. As
I wa£ myself unhurt, I re-mounted my
brave animal and continued my way.
A solid shot had passed close to my
horse’s back, and the current of air
set in motion by its passage bad knock
ed over both horse and rider. After
ward, during the war, I witnessed
many similar cases of prostration of
ot Pi
aaen and animals by windage
each other through and through with
their formidable and fatal weapons,
and that their dead bodies had been
found erect in the very attitude in
which each had received his death-
wound. Curiosity carried me to the
spot. An obstinate struggle had, in
deed, taken place between the troops I supernumerary.
Trinity : A G Haygood ; A Means, sup,
City Mission ; C W Parker, J N Craver.
Circuit to be supplied.
Decatur and Mission, J J Morgan W A
Dodge.
Covington.and Oxford, M W Arnold ;
colored charge, J W Yarborough.
East Newton, W H Evans ; O S Means,
named, which had ended in the utter
annihilation of the much vaunted Zou
aves, whose bodies, dressed in flashy
red uniforms, were scattered about
all over the ground like the scarlet
poppies in a corn field; but the never-
erring bullet of the famous Texan
marksmen had brought them down—
not the bayonet. I carefully examin
ed many of the corpses, and found
only three or four with bayonet
wounds and these had been received
evidently after the bullets. These ac
counts of bayonet fights are current
after general engagements,and are fre
quently embodied in subsequent “his
tories,” so-called ; but as far as my ex
perience goes, recalling all the battles
in which I have borne a part, bayonet
fights rarely if ever occur, and exist
only in imagination.
■ Secretary Stanton's Guard.—A Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincin
nati Commercial writes:
It is a singular fact that Secretary
Stanton cannot so far recover from the
belligerent attitude which so well be
came him while we were at war, as to
dismiss the military guard from his
own private residence. Passing by
No. S20 K. street, yesterday, about
noon-dav, I encountered a chap in
blue regimentals and dirty white
gloves, strutting up and down in front
nf flin Gnolofinl mnnainn^ nf tllB SfiC
of the “palatial mansion” of the Sec
rctary of War, and in the alley in the
rear of the house was plainly audible
the tramp, tramp, of another armed
patrol, who soon came into view with
bayonet on shoulder, keeping guard
over bis side ofrtlie fortification. Isn’t
it remarkable, that while the forts
around Washington are being disman
tled, and Lieutenant General Grant
comes out and goes everywhere unat
tended, the Secretary of War should
require to be so constantly hedged in
by bayonets'? Our War Minister
seems to be the only man in the coun
try who can afford to keep a private
battery on his premises.
"The pleasures of the imagination, taken in
tbeir full extent, are not so gross as those of sense
nor so refiuetl as thoie of tne understanding.”
West Newton, W A Florence, A Gray.
Monroe, D Kelsey.
Marietta, J W Hinton.
Alpharetta, J R Gaines.
Powder Springs and Dallas, C Trussel,
A J Devers.
Haralson Mission to be supplied.
Lawrenceville, G W L Anthony.
LaGrange District.
J B McGhee, P E.
LaGrange, E W Speer.
Trotip, W M D Bond.
West Point, Bethel and Long Cane, R
II Jones.
Greenville, J B Smith, J Rrnsb, J W
McGhee.
Coweta, R F Jones.
Newnan and Palmetto, P H Heard.
Franklin, T J Embry.
Houston Mission to be supplied.
Carrolton, W C Dunlap.
Campbelton, J Murphy.
Whitesville, R W Dixon, W J Ward-
law.
J D Anthony, P E.
Sandersville, JLR [McWilliams, T W
Knight.
Irwinton, T M Loney.
Jeffersonville, W S Baker, T W Tray-
wick.
Dublin, Charles A Moore.
Jacksonville, J E SeRtell.
Mount Vernon, S A Clarke.
Reidsville, L'B Pay ne, W F Connelly,
Sup.
Hinesville, W M Watts.
Swaynesbcro, L P Neese.
Statesboro, W T McMichael.
Bryant, To be supplied. '
Darien and McIntosh, To be supplied.
Missionary to China, Yonng J Allen.
Moses A Leak, transferred to Montgom
ery Conference, F L Allen, to Texas Con
ference, B S Tyner, to Florida Conference.
R A Holland and J R Dearlicg, to Ken
tucky Conierence.
RATIFICATION OF THE A31ENDNX1TT
OF THE CONSTITUTION PROHIBIT
ING SLAVERY.
The Legislatures of North and South
Carolina have been informed from Wash
ington that the ratification by them of the
recent amendment to the United States
Constitution prohibiting slavery, is a spe
cial prerequisite to the readmission of
those States into the Union; and a tele
gram informs us that the Legislature of
South Carolina has, in compliance, passed
an act ratifying that amendment.
\\ e have heard some apprehensions ex
pressed that the failure of the late Con
vention of this State to ratify the Con
stitutional amendment alluded to would
embarrass our resumption of Federal re
lations. We do not think that there is
any ground for such apprehensions. Tbe
action required did not properly belong to
the Convention. The amendment of the
Constitution has been submitted to the
Legislatures of the Northern States and
acted on by them. It will probably come
before the Legislature of this State, which
will convene previously to the meeting of
the Congress of the United States, to
which our Representatives and Senators
will present themselves for admission to
seats, and as the Convention, the highest
legislative authority known to the State,
has already amended the State Constitu-
, . f . . Q , ., , tion so as to prohibit forever slavery or
Agent for American Bible Society, G J) involuntary servitude in Georgia, there
can be no obstacle in the way of the Gen
eral Assembly, a subordinate body ratify
ing-™ similar amendment of the National
Pearce.
Griffin District.
W F Cook, P E.
Griffin and Colored charge, C A Ful- Constitution There need be no appre-
wood W A Ropers hension therefore that the non-ratification
Zebulon and S B 9 ’rnesville, W A Seale, ( °* tbe anti-slavery amendment will be
Pike Mission, M Bellah. allowed to stand in the way of a speedy
Favettcville, A Dorman. re-adjustment of amicable relations with
Thomaston, J W Reynolds. <f ov « rnin ? nt -. . ,
Upson, J O A Cook, M H White, Sup. . A s „ th e. ter “s Constitution provid-
Monticello aud colored charge, W W
Oslin, E K Aiken.
McDonough, James Ilairis, G T Em
bry.
Jackson, J W Turner.
Jonesboro, Geo Bright, R II Waters.
Culloden, J M Bright.
Forsyth, P M Ryburn.
Circuit, W G Allen.
Griffin Female College W A Rogers,
President.
Macon District.
W
J Lewis, P E.
Macon, Mulberry Stf—J S Key. J
Burke.
First St., W M Crumley.
Milledgevillc Sc Bethel, G W Yar
borough.
Sparta & Hancock, B F Breedlove, J
W Simmons.
County Line, J V M Morris.
Putnam, J J Singleton.
~ Eatontou, It W Bigham.
Clinton, W P Arnold.
Warranton, J M Dickey.
ing for its amendment, requires that it
shall be ratified by two-thirds of the
States before becoming the law of the
land, and as this provision implies the ex
ercise of sovereign will on the part of the
States, it would have been more consistent
with the spirit of our government to have
left the matter for the voluntary action of
the Legislature after the readmission of
the States into the Union. Such a course
would have preserved the forms and con
sistency of our Federative system, and
would have left no ground for future cavil
on questions of validity. But, slavery
being abolished by our own fundamental
law, and the institution being dead beyond
the possibility of reconstruction, it matters
little about the forms of its final sepulture.
Sav. Herald.
Mr. B., seeing upon his wife's shoulder
a large shawl pin said. “In the military
eh ! got to be captain 1” She instantly
remarked, pointing to the seventh baby in
her lap. “No, dear, recruiting sergeant
iii the seveuth infantry.”