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t 1 tern ijlLl.WE XXXVI*] 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. publishers and Proprietors. ! t , t,i viN« , .:T V ' j Edi,or ' JO* f ljc Jfeicol Hilton r publish^ Weekly, in Milledgcrillc, Ga £ or ner of' Hancock Wilkinson Sts., ii $3 a year in Advance. ADVERTISING. -muriKNT.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for insertion. [From the New York Mercury.] 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. Interesting Confederate Reminiscences Are contained in the last number of Blackwood's Magazine, from the j:>en f V- h.ites of respect, Resolutions by Societies, (Obit- , e “ i-xceeding sis lines, Nominations for ofiice Coin- .. . 1.Vl.t.krin I nntu-f-H for imli viH lint honofit .1 1 uit-fttions or Editorial notices for individual benefit,) i-Ud as transient advertising Legal Advertising. rjipg pales, per levy often lines, or less, Mortgage fi fa sales per square, I rji Olle< , t° r ’ !i Sales, persquare, ‘ .,;ions for Letters of Administration, “ Guardianship, ^. ters of application for dism’n from Adm’n *• “ “ “ Onnrd’n Guard’n I for leave to sell land, to Debtors and Creditors, j,l« of land, 4-c., per square, perishable property, 10 days, per square, ktrar Notices, 30 days, foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq.. each time, LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. $2 50 5 00 5 00 3 00 3 00 4 50 3 00 5 00 3 00 5 00 1 50 3 00 1 00 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.’” G 3m’ UfflSL. ABBOTT, W. L. ABBOTT. R. F. ABBOTT. ABBOTT & BROTHERS, General Commission & Forwarding 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». ABBOTT A BROS. G 3m. THE tOSSTimiO.MUST, Published Daily, Tri Weekly and Weekly i! AUGUSTA, GA., BY STOCKTON A CO. Daily, 3 ii months, 00. “ one month, 1 00. Tri-Weekly, six mouths, 3 00. “ three “ 1 GO. Weekly, six “ 2 00. Advertisements at reasonable rates. ■ ■■e Constitutionalist is one of the oldest and influential journals in Georgia, having also l ?te circulation in the adjoining States, thn6 first class advertising medium. o Gt 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.”