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* , 3 VOLUME XXX\Ii] MILLEDGEVILLE,. GEORG IA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, !S65. NUMBER 21. 'jOliCUTOX.MSBET.BARXES&MOORE Publishers sad Proprietors. s. >' J0S nOrCMTOV, 55. XI#BE r> . Gdilors. labor, holidays, rations, and so on, will be fruitful sources of discontent and trouble unless there is a uniform practice estab lished anion" neighboring farmers. We are aware that it is proposed to fix prac tice in some of these matters by statute, but then no law can meet all details, and no law will undertake to fix a maximum, while it may establish a minimum. The proper course is for the fanners of acouu ! ty to meet and arrange all these details it S3 a year in -Advance. | among themselves in a spirit « f comity; ill J ! and in due regard to mutual convenience and the particular circumstances and sur round in (T.!jc Jxbctal (Union: ▼ nu Minked Weekly, in Milledgetillc, Go., Comer ok Hancock Wilkinson Sts., ADVERTISING. vcikST.—One Dollar per square ofMen lines for 1 c hins-rti>n. Once more : we assume that the great *2 50 5 00 5 00 3 00 3- 00 4r 50 3 00 ! 5 00 | 3 00 5 00 . 1 50 ! 3 00 ! 1 00 ‘‘•''‘i"'.;!!!;.r'Vesnect. lt-solutionH.y Societies, (Obit- j difficulty to be enemntereiand overcome, 'exe-t-dini' six lines, Nominations for office Com- w ill be the unreliability of the labor. Nations or Editorial notices for individual benefit,) | X |,o best and kindest of planters in - the j olden time found their hands “playing possum,” or taking to the swamps when the crop was in the grass or in any critical situation requiring special attention or ef fort. Now it is no matter of fancy, but it will be one of almost certain experience, that all the crops in particular localities will, in some periods of their development, get into this situation. It then becomes “root bog or die.” You must master the difficulties or forfeit the year's work or a larger portion of it. Just then, however, labor begins to desert you and you have to replace it. It becomes economy to of fer very large inducements, and you are ready to do it. You find your neighbor’s laborer lurking about your premises in breach of bis contract, and wliat is to hin der j on from putting him to work ? W ill not many do it ? and in due time all the settlement get to bidding ^-against and riven in like manner 19 days previous.to .vi • day. j preying upon each, other. The law ought, X -Hees m i indeed! to step in here; but how powerless ' vittin- tlritXjipiicHtiun v.iil be made to tl.e Cunrt of j s j aw when not backed bv intelligent and " Ijjiud. must uC iniudfcii* | • |p • • ' ’ 1 ! °?tive public opinion. Now what the planter needs in this case, is a thorough understanding and agreement.not to hire these refugee Hands on any tenns. It must be understood that the laborer must bring a certificate of character, and honorable discharge, and if any others are lurking rcund, it shall he the duty of ali who know it to see that they are dealt with as vagrants and made sert ‘ ; to give an account of themselves before n « ! n-A»lr A f oil 1 the nearest magistrate.—If there is any Book and Jok work, of all kind.., ^ other wny in whicll fariners can promise PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED themselves a reasonable degree of protec- _ mm ■ 4 h 3.' f* C £. ' HT* a ? . 1 ,1 1 / ~ ~ * ^'nications * •"; TC( 1tramiml advertising. Legal Adveutisiso. SierifTs sales, perlevy often lines, or less, S .. Mortgage ti fa sales per square, Collector’s Sales, perequare, Potions for Letters of Administration, „ “ Guardianship, Letter* of application fordism’n from Adm’n i* “ “ “ Guard’n in'ii'n for leave to sell land, Notices to Debtors and Creditors, Sale* of land, Ac., per square, ‘ .. perishable property, 10 days, per square jyray Notices, 39 days, Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq.. each time, LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. c f.-md &• bv Administrators, Executors or j fiasiTiat are required by law to be held <•« «l»? f}'>t I in the month : between the hours of 10 in the , forenoon and three in the atternoon, at the Court house ktlie county iu which the property is situated • N'.itie,: of these sales must be Riven in a public ga- . •gtte 40 davs previous to the day of sa.e. , j Votiei-s for the sale of per.oual. property must be . ■ ’ irevious.tosali AotlCetlBU appiieniiuii ' , ,,,,1,1,1.. Ordinary for leave to sell Laud, e.,ims j 1 active public Opinion eJ for two months. .... 1 -- Citation* for letters of Administration V, uni diantv.p fcc','m'ust'be published 30 days-for dismission from Administration, monthly si r month* .or dismiss.on from Guardianship, 4b days. , Kales for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub..-.tea oitlily for four months—for establishing lost pawn, i, r thr full spore 0/ thrre month*—(or compelling'titles f, om Executors or administrators, where bond lir.s been given by the deceased, the full space of tl.iee months. . ,. . Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or- pgree ot protec- _ , tion from each other ami from contract r?* When Tsubscriber^fiodsTTross markon J breakers, it does not occur tons. iUpaoerhe will know that Lis subscription has j I o sum up : the farmers ot every coun- expired, or is about to expire, and must be renew- j*ty should come to an understanding, not ed if he wishes the paper continued. only upon these matters, but also upon rp vredo not send receipts to new subscri- the equally important concerns of planta- bets. If they receive the paper they may know < (j oa ;iru J general police—the protection of tint we have received tlie money. j their stock, &:c.; and when you have ac- rr Subscribers wishing their papers changed comp i ls i, e( ] these points of mere indispen- from one post-office to another inust state tlie jy regulation, it seems tous you have ”” “4 P ” ,r0 v" h,Ch ' b,.t entered upon the threshold ct the 1 ■ = proper business and utility of county ag- I'nroii) on “M ootimoB uparr ihai ir«. licultural associations. Meeting once a j week, or fortnight, at the Couit House, these organizations could be of immense utility in interchanging the results of ex- i pcrience under the new and difficulty prob lems now before the country. We com mend this subject, without further enlarge ment, to the good sense and discretion of 1 our planting readers. It seems to us there aie fifty reasons why we should have these associations in the South, to one why they f should exist and flourish in the North and West. But there they live and thrive from | generation to generation as permanent in- ! stitutions of the country, while here they have had hut a temporary and fleeting ex- | istence, and, so far as we know, not one is I now alive.—Journal & Messenger. A T T IS 8 # OFFICE. Nigger, let her be! You t'lmll not steal iny sow '. You think because you are free Y’ou’ll have her any how. rns my old fathers sow, was raised around this lot; Then nigger leave her now ; Thy hand shall harm her not. Twi Slit Xiirg* Or That good old useful sow, Whose pigs both large and small, You've stolen anyhow ; And v.-ouldst thou steal them all ? r, now forbear; Withhold that deadly stroke .- l.?e here I swear, Thy wooly head will get broke. When bnt an idle boy. Oft on her back I’ve rode; And ’twas my greatest joy, To see her bear the load. I'de take her by the ear, tho' a friendly hand— . n ,vc this foolish tent, Hot let that old sow stand! As l-o The l'c!!ici« cf a l.ifc of CiMHipntien. [From the Cincinnatti Commercial.] ■ The subject of this sketch is very well known to many people of this city. Four J years ago James C was not worth ; a cent; then, managing through his • relations with several persons connected ! with the naval rendesvous at this point to become intimately connected with that branch of the recruiting service, commen ced the days of his money making and da- I ted his extraordinary fortune. For the ! information of many who may as yet be I ignorant on this subject, we will state that >»niii) —.. I o a t, of (be many millions of dollars made We Lave been importuned to some fur- .through the enlistment of soldiers and tier reioatk upon a suggestion thrown j sailors, and the sales of their credits by Government officers, a fair proportion pas sed into the bands of third parties; and at this point, where hundreds of thousands of ! ay is not oaseu upon piuvuvu* v-j,” dollars were thus dishonestly acquired, rience, of which we have none, but only | “Gunboat Jimmey” was in reality the ac- upr.Q gome general observations and the j tivo»worker for those in authority, and tttte primafacie aspects of the case. I shared with them the proceeds. He was !V a take it for granted that all our plan- I sharp and energetic, and very shrewd in ate actuated by a desire to do full i the business, and so well concealed his justice to the laborer—to protect his rights j operations that the Government detect- a well as their own; and indeed he is brft ( ives, and those who were jealous of his a simpleton who fancies there can be any- remarkable good fortune, sought in vain thing like order and prosperity upon any for some method of exposing him and those alter basis. The laborer must be secure for whom be operated. Up to this time and content, or his service will be neither j 0 f Iasi year our subject had realized at satisfactory nor reliable. j least $150,000—the proceeds ofeulist- hut independently of this general truth, j mt ,„t operations and the sales of naval the force ot which all must admit, ha'--e I cre dits, half of which wore Hie well known 0l >r farm in" friends considered how much “paper credits.” At the age of twenty- ^content "and trouble may arise from j five our.subject had arrived in possession tt -re want of uniformity in the compensa- j of an independent fortune—made through C ? i e t us suppose a case : Here are | bis own operations, however questionable ■ i , 1 f. ,• ..... a < • _l,„Wo clmll hop flip. rpKiilt. Mv heart-strings round thee stick. Close as thy hide old ft lend! Ti on nigger, dress that brick, And leave iny old sow’s pen ! Go nigger yet not slave ! Go nigger, leave this spot! YViiile I’ve the power to save, Tby lmnd shall harm her not. Island Ckff.k, Dec. 1865. » Coiiut; Agricnllnral A«»oci:Uiosi". out casually a few weeks ago, in reference to County Agricultural Associations, it is, bowever, well to premise that what we say is not based upon practical expe- i.et us suppose a case, mu, : mo “ -i- YJ V u ,. Ie ‘giiboring plantations or farms. A pays, j n character. W e shall see the result. - - • 1 Small in statua, hut with a well devel oped and shapely form, our subject was favored with a handsome face, perfectly re<nt!ar features, and sparkling, intelligent f‘ s liands ten dollars per month and food *•* full lor their labor. B pays six dollars, food, clothing and medical attendance, fo 1ms made an arrangement with his hands for a per ceutage of the crops, and pays nothing but food meanwhile. The negroes from the different plantations intermix, discuss the question of wages among’them- Ee 'ves, and although it might puzzle a ^’hite man to tell which class had the ad- 'antage, it is very clear to our mind that toe difference iu the tennis will be a fruit- foil source of discontent aud trouble. 1 he a egro who bad the most ready money " ill probably be the emissary ol discord, "hereas, if all were on the same tooting, toerc would be no occasion for dissension at >d fault finding. Again, all the questions about prices of of play was one of bis pleasures. Nighi after night of last Winter he passed in sumptuously furnishing gaming rooms, w here, in the maddening excitement of faro, bis thousands aud teus of thousands melted away. Playing modestly was something lie could not understand; he would always l>et high—very 7 high—so high that the entire interest of the game was always centered in his play wherever be happened to be. lie did not seem to play with the hope of winning, for lie was scarcely pver known to draw out. He seemed to think nothing of losing a few thousand a night. lie sunoumled himself with a crowd of dissipated and frivolous young men, who were always at liberty to be merry at bis expense. To backmen, be was a bone covered with juicy meat, and thousands of dollars were swallowed up iu hack and liv ery bills. In bouses of prostitution, of tbe luxurious class; be was a thribly welcome guest at all times, for ho thought nothing of a bill of a hundred dollars for Aviue, in a single evening ofdebaucbe. He kept a mistress—a fascinating wan ton, upon whom be lavished money with an unstinting hand, anc[ on account of whose infidelity lie at one time attempted to commit suicide The career of wonder ful dissipation was, however, soon brought to a close. A few months only, sufficed to bring him to the end of his purse—to eat up the last cent of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and to place him a thousand dollars in debt—to make him a thousand dollars poorer titan nothing. We next bear of him as dealing faro at $150 per month, in a Baker street gamb ling house, and then as instituting suit agaj^st the proprietors of a certain gamb lingwouse in which, as he alleges, be hist $37,000 of his fortune. Such then briefly stated, is the sudden acquisition and still more sudden loss, through dissipation, of a fortiftie of $150,- 000; the possessor of which, while he had the shrewdness and energy to acquire it, I lacked the character to retain it. Einllirr Kuu^li linncyciiooii. On last Friday morning an athletic young far mer, in the town ofWaynesburg, took a fair girl, ‘ “all bathed in blushes,^front her parents, and started tor the first town across the Pennsylvania line to be married, where the. ceremony cold be performed without a license. The happy pair were accompanied by a sister of the girl, a tail, | gaunt, sharp featured female of seme thirty seven j summers The pair crossed the line, Were ntar- j tied, and returned to Wellsville to pcss the night | People at the hotel where the wedding party stop- ! ped, observed that they conducted themselves in a rather singular manner.—The husband would take his sister-in-law, the tall female aforesaid, : into one corner of the pallor, and talk earnestly to her, gestickulating wildly all the time. Then the tall female would put her foot down and talk ; to him iu an angry and exciting manner. The husband would take his fair young bride into a corner; but he would no sooner commence talking to her than the guant sister would rush between j them and join in the conversation. The people! of the hotel ascertained what this meajit about nine o’clock that evening. There was an uproar in the room which had been assigned to tho new ly married couple.—Female shrieks arid mascu line swears startled the people iu the hotel, and I they rushed to thespot. The gaunt female was pres sing against the door of the room, and the newly- married man. mostly undressed, was barring her out with all might. Occasionally she would kick the door far enough to disclose the stalwart hus band, in his Gentleman Greek Slave apparel. It appears that the female insisted upon oc- 1 cupying the same bed with the newly married I pair; that her sister was favorably disposed to the arrangemf nt, and that the husband had agreed to it before the wedding took place, ami now indig- . nantly repudiated the contract.—'Wont ycu go awa v now, Susan V said tin? newly-married man, softening his voice. ‘No,’ said she, ’I won’t—so thete !’ ‘Don’t you budge an inch!' cried tiie married sister, within the room. _ | ‘Now—now, Maria,’ said the young man to his wife, in a piteous tone,‘dou t go to cuttiu up in this way; now don’t.’ » j ‘I’ll cut up’s much as I wanter!’ she sharply replied. . ‘Well,’ roared tho desperate man, throwing the j door wide open and stalking out among the crowd, 1 ‘jest you two wimmin put on your duds and go: right straight home and bring back the old man j and woman, and your grandfather, who is nigh on to a hundred; bring ’em all here, Hi marry the tcholc caboodle uj 'em, and ice'll all sleep together !’ ^ : The difficulty was finally adjusted by the tall female taking a room. Wellsville is enjoying j itself over the sensation.—Cleave-land Plaindcttl- | Horace Greely on Reconstruction. Tbe follojving letter was published in Washington on Tuesday : To the Editor of the Intelligencery In your issue of this morning you have spoken of my presence in Washington, and of my view of tbe political situation, in terms which seem to require of me a few explauatory words. I herewith sub mit them : I desire and labor for peace. Peace between ourcouutry and all others. Peace between the North and South.— Peace between white and black. We have bad enough of war and waste, of havoc and carnage, for at least a century. Hence I have long labored and still labor for true and lasting peace. I can conceive no possible good to our-country, to any country, to any section, race or class, that is likely to be secured or promoted by alienation between tbe President and tbe Congress of tbe United States. On the contrary, it seems to me that every peril that now threatens us, every evil that now weighs upon us would be aggravated ; eve ry good put at hazard, every hope cloud ed, if not blasted, by such a malign, un toward collision. I have come here to do whatever I can, however little that may be, toward avoiding such a catastro phe, but I am not, as your paragraph would seem to imply, that I am the ad vocato of any especial plan of reconstruc- I tion. I urge only that the President and j Congress, each respecting the others eou-' stitutional prerogatives and personal con- j victions, shall freely and trustfully confer, I discuss and consider with a profound de ference for each others patriotism, and an j earnest desire to agree on a course of ac- J tion which they shall mutually deem just and beneficent. Let the great problem of reconstnjfflon be approached from all sides in this spirit, and 1 feel sure that a benign solution will be speedily attained. Our difficulties are aggravated by the fact that our position is essentially novel. 1 can recall no parallel in human histoiy. it is complicated by questions affecting the natural rights of freedmen, and our moral obligations to them as our human allies in The Press oil the President’s Message. t The President’s Message has called forth I comments from the leading journals of the country, which, although characterized by I diversity of opinion indicative of their pre- i possessions, and proclivities, give clear | manifestations of approval ol the general l tone of its positions with regard to the j grave subjects now agitating the country, j The sentiments of moderation which it : breathes, tBe maxims of forbearance which it inculcates, the distrust of arbitrary : power which it expresses, and tbe whole- j some warning which it utters against tbe | protracted exercise of military rule within j From Washington. Nhw York, Dec. 13.—Tlje Times Washington special says : ComodoreHall lias been relieved from command of the Philadelphia navy yard ; Comodore E. Elfridge succeeded. The Herald's Washington special says : Gen, Grant had an interview with tbe President yesterday, and communicated to him the result of his observations du ring' his recent trip through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Geor gia. He was everywhere respectfully re ceived by all. Tho majority of the negroes in these the States, seemed to have commedned 0 - . - l h'emselves to the acceptance of the entire I Stat f s a,e ln comparative idleness, and conservative press north and south. Qf j n car!y aH refuse to renew their contracts course among the radical politicians and I V 1 ! 11 .' 1 . after Christmas, believing a general extremists it is not so favorably received. ' n *sion of property is to take place at Tbe Washington Intelligencer says “it tnn ®* 1 lie Southern men of influence were outspoken in favor of complying with any demands the President might consider necessary for their restoration. Gen. Grant believes that the people of the South almost unanimously desire a speed}" re-admission to their old position in the Union, and that their professions of future loyalty aud good behavior are hon est and sincere. is a masterly State paper, and for clear ness and elevation of style, it will class with any of its predecessors. Every pro position is so simply and clearly put that its statements carry conviction, while the whole argument is clear and connected as arc the waters cf a crystal stream.” The New York Express says, “it responds to the anticipations which conservative, patri otic men, looking to the good of the whole country, had been led to indulge respect ing it. Whether as it regards cur domes tic relations, or foreign affairs, it is patri otic, straightforward aud, statesmanlike.” I he Philadelphia American, pronounces ‘fit a document that will challenge the ad miration ot the public far and wide ; that its tenor on the restoration of the States and rights of freemen, is such that if at length Congress see fit to act rather than wrangle, it will harmonize with his views.” The Philadelphia Ledger is equally ap proving in the opinion that “it will chal lenge attention and approval, not less on account of the great questions which it treats titan of its intrinsic merits ; that as a Slate paper it deserves unqualified praise.” i he New York Herald regards the Message as a “conclusive vindication of his course.” .The News, of the same the late momentous struggle. That avc ma J ! of Yours, Horace Greely. Household Servants. The difficulty of obtaining household servants continues here without abatement, and yet it is believed that if all would work there would be a superfluity of them. The ambition of the freedmen and freed- A Sew Wrinkle. At the burial of Lord Palmerston a most j extraordinary intideni transpired. After the body bad been deposited in-tlie tomb, the officiating clergyman began the ritual of the dead, and pronouncing the solemn words with due clerical decorum, carne to i that never-to-be-forgotten phrase : “Ash- j cs to ashes, dust to dust.” Universally | as all men know, at this stage of the in- I torment^ fragment of earth-inold is crum- ‘ bled upon the coffin. Not so, bowever, j with my Lord Premier. *IIe was no shar er of the common lot; for, instead of the i base sod the Chief Mourner (hired for En- glisli funerals at so much per head) show-. ! ered upon the old man’s metalic case a number of diamonds and- precious rings! We do not wonder that the spectators are | represented to have been astonished at this unusual proceeding. It almost paral lels George the Third’s sepulture, in which eighty years of rottenuess were shrined in gold. We think it an undignified de parture from a custom sanctified by neariy ev*bry Christian creed. Still, we cannot quarrel with defunct great men and their mausoleums. At the present time, politi cians seem to control religion. Queen Victo ria is a Pope in balmoral skirts. Palmers ton created bishops. If they happen to be interred a little differently, is it anybody’s business ? As so many outlandish things have been eliminated within such brief intervals, who can tell wliat phantasma goria live men may exhibit for the edifica tion of the departed. Is it to reason thus: Into a statesman’s grave jewelry shall be thrown; into a farmer’s, a bunch of tur nips ; into a garroter’s, a pair of brass knuckles ; into a carpenter’s, a chisel; into a steamboat captain’s a smoke stack , into an ex-quartermaster’s a Confederate bond and Abstract L ; into Beast Butler’s, a Newgate calendar; into a Major Gea- and a copy of Sher- Beecher’s and Brown- ulpbur—and so and so example wluch is permcious. twns of grave moment has ever, ou the | j, wi| , be sc 6 cn tL>l we i, ave 66 said Dotb . Some of our families arc without any i whole, cettained so much that will be gen-. • of t|w |adiog Into yourgraTe , 0p he- sort of help. Ibey arc willing to pay for : orally and justly approved, with so little , n ® t|lere iWI be cast ‘ mar igold it, to treat the servant as a white servant j that will or should provoke dissent. It is j an( , viole , But fat0 . molher of our is treated at the North or in Europe. All ; a btate paper, he says, “of signal ability ; )iai>n ; a „„a they ask is a decent respect to the duty j and of universal frankness, dealing unre- wbich is owed the moment the servant servedly with every great-question of in takes the obligation. When we say that ternal and external policy, aud calcula- there is not one instance in five cases where ' ted to increase the hold cr its author on the moral law is respected, wc underrate ' the regard and confidence of the American the trouble that our citizens have been | prople.” obliged to succumb to. With a thousand j qq ie Baltimore Sun, although express- idle persons in the city, who, under, a pro- ; rj g the belief that the message came short per regard to duty, would welcome their 0 f the just expectations of the Southern opportunities, there is hardly one in ten of people in regard to the question of recon the freedmen aud freedwomen who will be city, welcomes it as placing the President promptly re-establish the Southern States j **j n direct opposition to the foolish and Yin- in all their original rights and liberties | dictive policy of the .Republicans as devel- without sacrificing those of any portion ot | °P e ^ by the representatives of that party in the American people is the earnest desire j Congress. I lie World, althougu appro ving" the general tone, thinks that tiie mes sage lea\’es something to be desiderated in point of vigor. The Times regards its views as “full of wisdom and conveyed with great force and dignity ; that the whole document is one of which every American may well be proud for its eleva tion of tone, its practical wisdom aud its great exhibition of the national strength women is to go to housekeeping. That is 1 aud glory but, then, tbe Richmond Whig considered by them tbe acme of bliss, and a full assertion and fruition of their right. But those who are in a condition to under take tbe expenses are comparatively tew. They give-tone to the others who are not in so good a condition. Imitatn-eness—to use a phrenological word—is especially strong: in the black man. What tbe best alludes that the Times would have said the same If the message had beeti deliver ed in Choctaw. The Journal of Com merce pronounces it “able and vigorous,” and destined “to take rank among the no blest documents of our History.” The Evening Post “finds it frank, dignified, direct and manly.” The philosopher of of them do is wliat the worst of them j the Tribune, although having implied bis aspire to do—and so it turn3 out that eve- j dissatisfaction by insisting that Jongress ry colored person is aspiring to tbe dignity ! and not tbe Executive, is the true expo l freedwomen who will be j struction, admits frankly that tbe geneial tempted by any offer, or submit patiently tone 0 f its positions i? very gratifying, to the necessary control which the hirer 1 Revolting Exhibition.—For the last few days (say* the Chicago Times) large crowds have been seen assembled in a corner of the Court House Square, staring with stupid wonderment at one of the most repulsive exhibitions e\ _ er shown to : the public. In a small covered wagon, i drawn by two dogs, sits a maimed soldier, , or a man in soldier’s attire, a woman, and 1 a little girl. The group sitting there eyes. He dressed with great taste, in clot bin" of tHe most.costly and becoming description. His fingers and shirt-front wove always brilliant with diamonds, and a massive gold neck-cham and Jurghen-. sen watch completed bis ornamentation. Gentlemanly in Ids manner, generous to a fault, and always kind and obligmig, e soon found hiinself whirling ab«ut in a constant round of dissipation, which was so congenial to bis disposition. Women, cards and wine took hold of hint; and held him with a vice-like grasp. Habituated to excitement, by the peculiar business in which he bad been engaged, the phrenzy (tjr* A Washington special correspon dent telegraphs to Forney’s Press as fol lows : “The Union members of the Sen ate will bold a second caucus oti Monday morning, at ten o’clock, for the purpose of considering the reconstruction resolution offered by Mr. Stevens on Saturday even ing, the 2d of December, and adopted in tbe House on Monday, after the election of Speaker Colfax. Some ambiguity iu the resolution Yvill necessitate a change, and a number of Senators are themselves in doubt whether tbe Senate ought to con cur in its general scope and object. There seemed to be a determination to stand by the President among the Republicans iu Congress. His message has given such general satisfaction as to secure him the confidence even of those who do not agree to all his suggestions. It may be said of the President that lie is the most successful of our statesmen, because he lias present ed the most generally acceptable plan tor solution and settlement of our national disturbance.” The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette telegraphs that paper on the 11th instant., as followj: “For the first time to-day the conservative wing of the Union party co-operated with the Delnocrals. Air. Sutnner called up his bill confirming*the titles of freedmen set tled on the Sea Islands by Gen. Sherman’s order, to their lands and moved its refer ence to the, Military committee, which was known to be friendly. Messrs. T. rum- bull, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Morgan and Harris voted with the Democrats, and carried it instead to the Judiciary Com mittee, supposed to be hostile.” —mmm Figures won’t lie, is an old homely expression, but few men can look on fashionable women’s figure now-a-davs and suy as much. A# inuVt Lave ove*/ the hired. Occasionullv’, ! • ^ hese nrc tlic vre-ws of some of tbe j stretch out their eager hands on every at exorbitant nrices one can "et a day’s Ing ° Ui *7’ ° /1 C ., We j side, for a time gathering in tbe five cent at cxorbitdiit piices one can a . !? n .i may add the remark that most of them ! nWps tWt g rMt ;ino & n thfim from fiVC . work, but generally nothing more, and concur , n the opinion expressed in the pa- it is so that the hirer is ready to submit to ppr last n;nne( ], that tbe President takes '.able position.in asserting that any insolence, and to do Yvork, in order t meet a trouble which counsels patiencound submission to tbe command Yvhich tbfetscr- Y’ant has of bis necessities. In short, the servant exhibits no sense of obligation— no disposition to perform his or her part of tbe contract. Well, now, what from this can be ex pected, but a growing distrust of the freed men and freedwomen—a Ylesire to get rid of tbe necessity of employing th<?m ; and earnest aspiration for the presence of duti ful white servants, yvIio have learned that for money paid, something must be given in return ? We desire very much that Wendell Phillips, or some man of his Yvay of think ing should come hither and look into tbe matter—t%ke a household, and see how he could get along, with two or three thous and idle servants lying about tbe streets loo e, getting a precarious subsistence, and willing to steal to make up for tbe neces sities of their idleness. Such gentlemen would go back to Boston wiser it not bet ter men. There is only one way that yvc can see to get rid of this preplexing and daily annoying trouble; that is, to invite ser vants hither, and leave the freedmen aud freedwomen to be starved into some form of duty. A thousand white servants could find employment within twenty four hours, aud we pray that by some process they may come to us. Where’s the White Man’s Bureau ?- According to the address of the State Teacher’s Association ot Tennessee; there are S9,000 adults in ihe State who can neither read nor write, and 300,000 children without school ad vantages. It seems that one quarter of the adults are totally illiterate. an impreg tbe elective-franchise belongs exclusively to tbe several States, and that it is but just to wait for experience to show wliat use the black race will make of its freedom and means of advancement in the social scale before the question of political privi lege can fairly aqjl wisely be considered. And that the almost unanimous judgment of the country will sustain the President in the declaration ihat this great, this mo mentous subject, which, not ripe for judg ment, is nevertheless, now and at all times beyond tbe scope of Federal action. (Sav. Herald. The State IIouw Eierliouft. Without questioning the capacity of his successor, Mr. Burns, we regret to see that Col. Thweatt was defeated for Comptroller General, in the election on Friday. This is one of the offices to which the principle of rotation ought not to apply. Our friends, J. W. Burke & Co., were we see elected Public Printers. There is scarcely a bouse in tbe State so well capacitated to fill the functions of this of fice satisfactorily, and aside from our regret that our Milledgeville compeers, should have lost almost the sole pecuniary inducement, we are pleased Yvith this ap pointment. It strikes us, however, that the public printing ought to be done at the Capital, and there need be no extor tion about the business. Fair prices can as well be established and maintained for printing, as for laying bricks, or any other mechanical labor. I here is nothing more mysterious about it.—Journal Sf Messen- g?r. A two-headed child lias just been born in London. . Nothing new. pieces that are thrust upon them from eve ry side. When they havegot sufficient to reward them for exhibiting, tho woman deliberately unhooks her dress in front, and there the wonder seekers see, coiled up in her bosom, a rattlesnake about four feet in length. As soon as it is exposed, the reptile shoots out its head, darting it rapidly to and fro, and slowly uncoils it self, as the woman, taking it from its warm nest, holds it tip for inspection, while the man narrates how every third day she suckles it as she would a child. She then slowly rolls it up again around her hand and returns it to its former quarters. This exhibition is of itself sufficiently disgust ing, but it is followed by another still more so. The marly removing his hat from his head, passes his fingers through bis hair and draws from its nest, amongst his shag gy locks, a spotted toad, black and yel low, which be permits to crawl around bis neck and over bis face.' Tne man boasts tBait there is no show in America equal to this extraordinary exhibition. He might boast Yvith truth that there is not one to be seett««qually as disgusting. Disposing of the Freedmen.— I he Chron icle and Sentinel, of Augusta, says : We are informed that about a thousand freedmen have already been sent from this section to the Mississippi Valley. These parties refuse to make contracts with their former owners. They probably think that those Yvho provide for them in days past will have to continue to do so, wheth er they work or not. But the authorities are pursuing a course which will soon dis pel this delusive idea. Why is a faithful printer like an ar dent lover? Because he “sets up” a great deal, and employs an occasional “em brace.” .