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THE FEDERAL UNION,
(Corncrof Hancock and Wilkinson streets.)
OPPOSITE THECOtBT llOVNE.
•OCCHTOIV, MSBET & CO.. State Pi Inters.
Tuesday Morning, December 26,1865.
.rmxCfie
iJhrkiMittui* han Came!
Whilst we were lyinp; in bed Christinas morn
ing awaiting the usual salutation from a half score
of white and black children, wb.over-heard the
following colloquy between jour little girl and boy,
(aged, respectfully, 10, and 12 years,) in an ad
joining room.
“Buddy, what are you going to do with your
Christmas money ?
Well, Sissy, L don’t know. I reckon I’ll bu^ ette of December 5th, says :
“WU're'# tour 3}'«aic
Freedmen in search of that b^sfol laud,
where there is little work, and'plenty to
eat for nothing, would do well te. read the
following, and start right off for Illinois.-—
Thiuk of corn at lOctsa bushel and burnt
in the place of wood !
Corn as Fuel.—The Galena (111.) Ga-
let US REASON TOC!ETHER.
At the close of the old, and on the threshold of
a new, year, it is proper for us to address a few
words to those who intend to walk with ns on
the pathway of the untrodden tuture. We are, to
he brief, not discouraged at the prospect before
Ps. We intend to strike out, with a manly de
pendence on the smiles of Heaven, and the grat
itude of man. We expect to labor harder than we
ever did before, to build up our almost ruined
country, and to repair our mined fortunes.
If those who can aid us would come forward
now and pay us. in advance, we will be able to
buffet the waves of misfortune. Those who owe
ns for past services, are assured that we need
what is duo ns, to enable us to keep our heads
above water. Come up then, old fiiends and new
friends, and give us a lift. Send the money by
mail, and aid us to increase our list of subscribers,
bo that we may enlarge our paper and increase
our material. Sustain your paper, and you will
promote the cause of education, good morals, the
prosperity of the State, peace and good order,
throughout all the ramifications of society.
Pleasing Intelligence,—The telegram from
Secretary Seward to Gov. Jenkins, formally an
nounces the end of the Provisional Government
in Georgia. To the wisdom and prudence of Gov
Jenkins, as displayed in his Inaugural Address,
the people of Georgia, are, in a great measure,
indebted for this early deliverance from the mise
ries ot a Provisional Covermnerft. The prompt
action of the ^egislaturo, touching the constitu
tional amendment, and the enactment of a law
admitting negro testimony in our Courts, in cer
tain cases, also contributed greatly to the happy
denouement. May it be a long, long time, before
Georgia is ever again placed in a position so hu
miliating and troublesome to her good people.
WimI Next?
Nearly all of the Southern States which rebell
ed against the Federal Government, have adopted
the amendment to the National Constitution
abolishing slavery. The Constitutional majority,
three fourths of the States, having been received,
the amendment becomes a part of the fundamen
tal law of the land. This prompt action of the
Southern people has astonished the leaders of the
Radical party. It has upset some of their well
laid schemes, and will drive them to other and
more desperate remedies to save themselves and
party from destruction. Sumner and Wilson in
the Senate, and Stevens in the House, are bring
ing up the heaviest of their guns to play on the
fortifications of Andrew Johnson. But as they
get more desperate—as they resort to more doubt
ful and dangerous expedients to save tlieir party,
they encounter new and formidable obstacles at
every step. The Black Republican members of
Congress are not all fools or madmen. They have
used the nigger just about as far as they can do so
with safety to themselves. Negro suffrage, and
negro equality is rather too nauseous a dose even
for New-Englanders, and they well know that they
must drink of the same cup, when they present it
to us.
We have some hopes that before January 1,
16tiC, the “Bill of Fare,” got up in the Senate by
Sumner and Wilson, will be thrown under the
tablo and spurned from the presence of even
Black Republican Senators and Representatives
If it be so, then the people of the South can con
gratulate themselves on the cheerful acquiescence
of their representatives in the restoration policy
of President Johnson.
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WHICH IS RIGHT f
In the dispatches to some of the Northern pa
pers, in reference to President Johnson’s telegram
to Provisional Gov. Johnson of Georgia, we see
an expression of the President given in these
words. “why can’t you elect your Senators T”
In the official copy cf (he President’s dispatch, as
communicated by Provisional Governor Johnson
to the Legislature, the following language is used:
“why can’t you be elected Senator?" Here is a
very important discrepancy, which makes the
greatest possible difference. It (he President in
tended only to uige the immediate electien cf IT.
S. Senators by the Legislature, then there was no
impropriety in the language used ; but if he used
the language last quoted, and communicated by
the Provisional Governor to the Legislature, then
we are induced to believe that th'e President did
not intend to make public that part of bis tele
gram ; and we think the Provisional Governor
would have done well to have loft out a personal
reference, while communicating the portion of
general and public interest. As tbe telegram has
been spread upon tbe journals, and is already in
print, we conclude there is no doubt about which
ie tbe true version of tbe telegram—the one that
went North, or tbe one that came South.
We have no personal or political animosity to
tbe late Provfsional Governor; but we cannot
think that tbe President intended to forestall the
action of the Lcgislature^Vy making a demand in
relation to U. 8. Senators, at tbe time when he
wa« commending tbe Representatives andSenatois
for an .act of so much unselfish devotion to the
peace of tbe country, and the success of his great
scheme of reconstruction.
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Gen. Grant.—The opinion of this distinguish
ed General, in regard to the feeling and conduct of
tbe Southern people, which will be fonnd in
dispatch from Washington, December 19th, will
do more to convince the people of the North of
the wisdom of President Johnson’s restoration
policy, than any expression of opinion from any
other man in tbe United States. Gen. Grant and
Andrew Johnson, President, is a strong team, and
the Radicals will find them hard to bicak down.
some poppers, and some marbles, and some toys
But, Buddy, you oughtn't to spend money that
way ! You know M a and Fa has to work mighty
hard these times to get a little money, and you
ought to buy something useful with your money.”
Christmas has come! But oh, how changed!
Pop, pop!.pop! There it goes ! Who are they 7
Who are those little fire-worshippeft that make
night hideous ? Positively, three or four little
ichite^ boys: not a little nigger in the crowd !—
There it goes again—pop, pop, pop ! Up goes a
cracker in-the air, and down comes a bright heart
ed little boy on the ground. Away, away, on the
deep, still, listening Rir, rolls; in mellow caden
ces, the shout of joyous little ones. Up goes a
fire-ball—now it rolls, and tumbleg on tbe green
sward. Up again it goes, bright as ever, casting
a flood of light on the pathway of some lone, un
happy freedmnn ; and now it rolls into the guilty,
and the “voices of the night are hushed.”
Whilst the happy-hearted little fellows ’are fir
ing up their Christmas works, we will moralise,
just a little.
Reader, this is not the entertainment to which
we were erst invited, before the great shadow fell
upon our homes, darkened all our lives, and bore
away tiie sunshine forever from the hearts of
but where’s Pete, and Sam, and Phil, and Gus.
and Bob, and ike? snd all the other little niggers
that used to frolick with j our little boys, and our
little boys, on Christmas Day? Ah, where are
they ? Follow us to the suburbs of the city. En
ter that little .shanty—there sits a middle-aged
freedwoman, slowly recovering from an attack of
Small pox. On the damp, cold hearth, before a
feeble fire of green pine knots, sit three little ne
gro children of the ages of 8, 10, and 12 years.—
The bright light of tbe fire-balls, ns it ever and
anon crosses tbe pathway of Phil, as he slowly
stumbles down to the spring, awakens no remi
nisernce of the past, nor even stirs a longing for
the company of the other boys “down town.” No,
no ! Phil is free, now. His Mammy has “goDe
to housekeeping,’' and he must cut wood and
tote water for the family ! jOh, Freedom! What
do little niggers know about you! Oh, Christ
mas, what do you know about Freedom! Fire
away your poppers, toss up your tire-balis—touch
off your rockets and Roman candles—run, jump,
shout, fall down, roll over, light your pine torch
es—who cares for all them! Aint Phil free!—
What if Phil has to cut wood and bring water,
and mind the baby, and steal taters—what if
Christmas does come, and Phil cant smell gun
powder. Aint Phil free? Aint liis Mammy
making four dollars li month—four dollars a
month! and aint she, helping house'. What is
Christmas to a free nigger ? Bang, bang, bang !
there it goes agsin ! ’ Pop, pop, pop—up go the
fire-balls—and the very air 'is vocal with the
shouts of happy little hoys—hut slowLy and sol
emnly Phil wends his way to the spring, sucking
a potato peeling, and wondering'how long it will
be before Mammy can send him to school.
Cleaning out Vagrants.—The Military in
Atlanta, Savannah, and other cities in Georgia,
have commenced the work of cleaning out the
idle negroes who are infesting those places. They
are doing a good work. Can’t something be
done here ? There are numbers of vagrants,
hanging around this place, and the Military here
would do the country and Statdgood service by
cleaning them out.
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The Affair at Thoinnsrillr.
An account ol’adifficulty at Thoinasville which
we copy from the Sav. Herald, is greatly exagger
ated. Official accounts state that it was but a
small matter. It would be welt for newspapers
and letter writers to be careful in making men
tion of disturbances such as the one referred to,
especially not to color their reports. The truth
is disagireable enough; but incorrect or exagger
ated accounts ^always grow-in size as they get
farther from the scene of the real transaction,
and are picked up by silly or bad people who use
them to do harm. We have been pleased to see
the good conduct of a large portion of the freed-
men, and we are very certain that all sensible and
good white men and women will do all in their
power to protect the interest of those who have
been made free by no act of theii own. All well
behaved negroes shou'd he respected by the
white man, and encouraged to persevere in well
doing. The negro will soon learn that his late
master is-not his enemy but his friend, and when
convinced of this fact, we expect to see him enter
upon tlie work before him, with a determination to
gain the respect and good will of .those who must
be, of all others, the best fiiends to him the world
can afford.
The Code on Freedmen.—We
have written to the Commission, pre
paring this Code, ami hope that the
Mss. may be placed in our hands in a
few days, so that we may have it
ready for the Legislature, when it re
ed in both Houses
of this Code, renders it a public work
of more than ordinary interest.
Christmas Day.—As we write,[the Nveather is
very warm, and the pr«pect good for more rain.
The earth now is thoroughly soaked.
Eal of the
in
Provisional Government
Georgia.
We copy-elsewhere to-day tbo correspondence
by Telegraph, between tbe Secretary of State
Hon. Wm. H. Seward, and the Governor of Geor
gia.
In another place we also copy an article from
the Macon Telegraph, touching tho retirement of
the Provisional Governor. It so well expresses
our own sentiments, we substitute it for any re,
marks we might be expected to make.
Greely on llrownlow« and the Tennessee leg
islature.
The defeat cf the Negro testimony bill,
in the Tcnnesce Legislature, by the East
Tennessee members, has aroused the ire
of Horace Greely. Hear him.
“Those East Tennessee Unionists have
been permitted, by a weak and worthless
Union General commanding, and a rever
end blackguard, who is-styled Governor,
to murder two or three negroes to balance
each of the paroled and returned Rebel
soldiers whom they have seen fit likewise
to dispatch, until they have good reason
to deprecate the admission of negro testi
mony ; for it would hang hundreds of
them if there was any semblance of justice
or law in that region. According to our
information, not. less tlian a hundred rebels
and, negroes have thus been butchered since
last June, in and around Knoxville alone,
and there will, of course, be mere if tho
strong had of authority bo not stretched
over them.”
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Mistake.—It is announced by corres
pondents from Washington that the mem
bers of Congress from Georgia were in that
city. That is a mistake. We do not be
lieve one of them lias gone to Washington.
ApiJ-'H It I SiOLI I lO.Hil A I* |*ItO V
JJO T*f*S GOVERNOR.
1. An act to consolidate the offices
of Secretary of State and Surveyor
General, and to provide salaries for
the Comptroller General, State Treas
urer, Secretary of State and Librarian.
2. An act to make free persons of
color competent witnesses ip the
Courts of the State in certain cases.
[We publish this act to-day in full.]
3. An act to change the place of
holding Superior and Inferior Courts
We understand that many of the peo
ple of Warren and other towns in the east
part, of this county are using com for fuel.
We had a conversation yesterday with
an intelligent gentleman, who has been 0 f Bartow county, until a Court) house
burning it, and who considers it much j g |, u j|k
cheaper than wcod. He says that corn in
tho ear gives considerably more heat than
the same bulk of wood. Ears of corn
can he bought for ten cents per bushel by
measure, and seventy bushels worth seven
dollars, will measure a cord. A cord of
wood, including sawing, costs 89.50, which
is $2.50 more than the cost of a cord of
corn, besides the fact that the corn pro
duces more heat than the wood. If these
statements are true (and we have no rea
son to doubt them) there is no fuel more
economical than corn. The crop of corn
this year is far beyond the demand, and
if it is cheaper than any other article for
fuel we can see no objection to using it as
such.
AN ACT
To make free persons of color compe
tent witnesses in the Courts of this
State, in certain cases therein men
tioned, and to authorize the making
and declaring of force affidavits by
them in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Geor
gia, in General Assembly met, That from
and after the passage of this Act free per
sona of color, shall be competent witness
es in all the courts of-this State in civil
cases whereto a free person of color is de
fendant, or wherever the offence charged
is a crim® or misdemeanor against the per
son or property of free persons of color,
any law usage or custom to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Sec. Snd. And bo it further enacted,
That in all cases hereafter pending or
about to he instituted wherein a free per
son of color is a party plaintiff or defend
ant, it shall ho competent for such free
person of color to make and file any affi
davit now by law allowed a citizen to ad
vance the remedy, or aid the defense ; and
when so made and filed in conformity with
law. such action shall be had thereon as
though the said affidavit had been made
and filed by any other litigant.
WM. GIBSON,
President]of Senate.
Jno. B. Weems,
Sec'y. Senate.
T1I0S. HARDEMAN,
Sp’k’r House Rcpre’s.
J. D. Waddell,
Clerk of House.
Assented to Dec. 15th 1865.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Governor.
We are permitted tp publish the follow
ing letter, handed us by a highly respect
able merchant of this city. The letter is
written by an aged uncle, who resides in
London. It may perhaps he of interest
to our patrons:
70 Ginsox Square, Islington, (
London, Oct. 19, IS65. )
You have been cut off'from England (or
nearly so) for the last four years, and
therefore I will give you a line cr two as
to English feelings in this country, as to
the North and South. When the war
commenced the feelings here were gener
ally in favor of the North. But after a
few months we fuimdthat part of America
was so bumpsous, overbearing and unreas
onable, to say the least, the people of this
country (I mean a large majority) altered
t.,eir view and became hearty wishers of
success to the South. This was the view
taken, I repeat, by a huge majority of our
people, and myself among the number.—
Yoiy war, I cannot heliei e, was for the
emancipation of the slave. It was never,
i am sure, entered upon with that view,
and we believe when the North started
that cry it came from hypocrites. If they
had declared that at first, the feelings in
England would have been very different.
It is a most abominable thing that the
slaves should have been made free with
out compensation to the owners. When
assembles. *It bas bee« ordered priot~|# n g ,a p <J gave emancipation they declared
The importance "P 6 ” 1 /’ and »“>nce g«ve
1 000,000 to the owners. Why should
America not give one hundred million to
your owners.— Columbus Hun.
In the list of two hundred and thirty-
two members of the present Congress,
sixty-nine were horn in New England
forty-seven in the single State of New
York, while the remaining places ot na
tivity are equally divided between the
Middle and Western States of the Union,
excepting one born in Canada, one in Ba
varia, one in Scotland and two in Ireland.
On the score of professions the law claims
a large majority, while printers and news
paper men no less than fifteen.—Boston
Courier.
Washington Matters.—Senator Wil
son wants officers in regular army who
have done no service in the War,, re
lieved by officers in the volunteer ser
vice who have.
Hon. E. M. Stanton is going to dc
liver an address on the late President
Lincoln.
Hon. James W. Johnson, member
elect of Third District of Ala., has
presented his credentials. They were
referred to committee on Reconstruc
tion.
A resolution has been offered in
House that # no State shall be admitted
who endeavors t© repudiate National
debt or assume Confederate debt.
The President has been called on
by House to know why Mr, Davis has
not been tried for treason.
4. Advancing money to State Prin
ter.
RESOLUTIONS
In relation to adjournment.
In reference to continuance of cases,
against the Banks of the State.
In reference to Inauguration.
Letter from Gov. Jenkins.
Official Recognition of our State Organ
ization. .
We are gratified in being able to
present to our readers, in the follow
ing letter from His Excellency, Gov.
Jenkins, an official copy of the dis
patch from the Secretary of State of
the United States, recognizing the
State Government of Georgia and
formally turning over to it the official
records of the late Provisional Govern
ment. This important event was first
announced in our Press-telegrams of
yesterday, but that announcement
failed to convey a just idea of the
kindly and confidential style in which
the official mandate is enclosed, and
which cannot, in these days of hitter
words and malignant misconstruction,
fail to be deeply gratifying to every
son of Georgia. We are much obli
ged to the Governor for this early
communication, and attribute the facts
it conveys as much as, or more than
anything else, to his judicious Inau
gural Address, of wliicn we r^iarked
at the time of its publication, that it
could not fail to benefit our position
with the. Federal Authorities:
[Journal Sy Messenger, 22d
Milledgeville, Dec. 20, 1805.
Editors Macon Journal i\* Messenger:
Gentlemen.—Believing the intel
ligence conveyed in an official tele
gram, received to-day, from Washing
toj), will gratity the people of Geor
gia, I send jou a copy of it for publi
cation. Please furnish a slip to the
other papers of your city, in time for
their issues of the 22d :
Washington, D. C.,
19 th Dec., 1S65.
To His Exccllenctj the
Governor of the State of Georgia:
Sib—By direction of the President,
I have the honor, herewith to trans
mit to you a copy of a communication
which lias been addressed to His Ex
cellency, James Johnson, late Provis
ional Governor, wjiereby he has been
relieved of the trust heretofore reposed
in him, and directed to deliver into
your possession the papers, and prop
erty relating to the trust.
I have the honor to tender you the
co-operation of the Government of the
United States, whenever it may be
found necessary, in effecting the early
restoration and the permanent pros
perity of the State over which you
have been called to preside.
I have the honor to be, with great
respect,
Your most obedient servant,
W. H. Seavard.
A copy of the communication to his
Excellency, Governor Johnson, re
ferred to. in the above, and of
the same tenor, accompanied it. I
trust that the people of Georgia, and
their public servants, will prove to
His Excellency, the President of the
United States, that his confidence has
not been misplaced.
Respectfully, etc.,
Charles J„ Jenkins.
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.Matters in Tennessee.—The Union
radicals of East Tennessee, in the
Tennessee Legislature, are doing all
they can to defeat the President’s con
servative policy. They appear not to
desire to have' matters settled, and af
fairs to go on smoothly as in days be
fore the war. Their highest ambition
seems to be to persecute South
ern men who have returned to their
homes for the purpose of assuming
peaceful avocations. They do not
want things settled, but wish the ex
citement kept up in order that they
may gratify their private hatreds.—
The}* have carried matters so far at
Knoxville, that the military haveinter-
fered in behalf of those they seek to
oppress and ruin.
In Tennessee all the troubles which
now exist, are for the most part caus
ed by those men who during the war
termed themselves “Unionists.” It
would be well for the State if they
would now carry out those principles
for which they once professed so much
love and veneration.
[Chronicle Sentinel.
Washington, Dec. 14.—Hon. Daniel S.
Dickinson, in a speech at the seranade to
night, said Andrew Johnson is not a hot
house plant, but a mountain oak, which
defies the fury of the thunder gust, In
trepid yet patient, firm, but forgiving, with
tho Union and the Constitution as bis
pillar and his cloud, he seeks to reconcile
and bring together again the estrayed
children of a common father. Let us all
aid him in the good' work and secure its
accomplishment.
“U0W TO Hlilil* THE SOUTH.'*
Under this head the New York Times
makes the following announcement and
comments :
Mr. Conway, late of the Freedmen’s
Bureau, in the State of Louisiana, is about
to proceed to England fox the purpose of
pointing English capitalists > American
cotton fields, and satisfying them that the
freedmen will work for those who will treat
them well and pay them fiyrly.
This idea is of the gr§atest importance,
not only to the Southern people, white and
black, but to the nation at large. The
project is urged upon the attention of Mr.
Conway by many of our best commercial
men.
It is well known that for the want of
capital one half the rich cotton lands of
the South must lie uncultivated till the
Southern people are assisted with outside
help, or till their lands are in possession of
those who, with capital and energy, are
able to cultivate them.
The commercial benefits which must re
sult to our own country by the cultivation
of our cotton lands, will be appreciated by
any one who will give the subject one mo
ment’s attention. Already many of our
citizens are turning their attention to the
subject of cotton production. The high
price of tins' staple at this time, and tbe
prospect that the price will not decrease
for two or three years at least, prompts
them to enter rapidly upon the work of
purchasing lands, or of making advances
and loans to those who already own them.
It would be wise on the part of our own
citizens not to allow foreign capitalists to
purchase our rich cotton fields ; but as the
quantity of lands now thrown upon the
market is a thousand times more than will
be absorbed by the local market, the in
troduction of foreign capital enterprise
should be engaged. Nearly all the plan
ters are impoverished. They have lost
everything. Their slave property is gone.
Their floating capital was all wasted in,
their attempt to create a Confederacy of
their own. Having nothing, they are,
very many of them, sick at heart, and
are unable to employ the freedmen as to
make them contented.
They have been in the habit of paying
their freedmen yearly. This has created
very great dissatisfaction among tho latter
class. The}’ want their pay exactly as
white laborers want theirs. Frequent pay
ments tend to increase their confidence and
contentment. It would be asking too
much of the best of us, to require us to
wait a whole year without receiving our
wages. How much more can be expected
of ignorant freedmen than we could pos
sibly bear o’urselves 1 The payment of
one-quarter or one-half wages will not do.
Repeated evidences of our good faith to
ward the Southern freedmen will do more
to make them happy and industrious than
anything else. This cannot be done by
planters who have no money.
No doubt Englishmen will send millions
of dollars into the cotton regions of Ameri
ca just so soon as they see that they can
purchase and cultivate them. On this
point Mr. Conway can give them satisfac
tory information.
There is much said about tho introduc
tion of other than negro labor into the
South. It is well to bear in mind, howev
er, that it takes time to learn to raise cot
ton and sugar. The freedmen are trained
to the cultivation of those staples ; and,
though there are defects in their services,
as there are defects in those of any class,
there arc at the same time, many great ad
vantages ; among them familiarity with the
clinlate, a knowledge of the soil and of the
manner of cultivating it.
When,it is remembered that one acre of
good cotton land will produce more cotton
than is now required to purchase it and
pay for the labor of its production, it will
not be difficult to comprehend how rapidly
this subject will secure the attention of en
terprising men.
One laborer, the whole cost of whose
services for the year will not exceed two
hundred and fifty dollars, will produce, by
his services, a thousand dollars’ worth of
cotton.
The Dkah oe the
Thomas P.
luomas P. Taylor, who has . Ta kt
from Winchester- with the remain 1 . 81 ?” 1 ® 4
cral* Confederate soldiers, savs. 8ev ‘
graves of all who lie in the bur4,„ tlle
of that town are known, a plot Un,i
whole being in possession 0 f Iff™ °L tte
Williams and Mrs. A. H- U.p oy{ j
ladies are also trying to raise fund* ,
the purpose ot exhuming and i.„i! .. r
the dead that lie iu the neighboringTn S
before they shall be plowed over °'
proper enclosure for their remains’ ^ a
In this pious work they should ]
the assistance of the people of the s; Ve
whose dead lie scattered all about
Funds for the purpose sent to this JT e ’
or to Major Taylor, at Forest w.’
a“ar‘ y ’ Va - Wil,be ^5
We would thank Southern par Pra ,
the above.—Lynchburg Virl^J 0
copy
J he New York limes alleges that v
the Hon. Joshua Hill of Geero-j a ** .
New York recently, he stated ’tint*
friends of the Union held the Stnt« f
J. E. B. Stuart.—From a sketch of
this great cavalry officer, published in the
New York Netcs, we clip the following :
He laughed and danced, and made
merry wherever he went. He would fight
all day, and at night—if circumstances
permitted—ride ten miles with his banjo
player afld dance with a party of young
girls “till tho “small hours.” If his fatigue
had been great he would lean back on a
sofa, fall asleep in a moment, and wake to
dance as gaily as before. A greater facul
ty for sleeping just when he wished I ne.v-
er saw. Half the time on marches, he
slept in the saddle, and his adroitness in
not falling was remarkable. With one
knq,e thrown over the pommel of the sad
dle, arms folded and chin resting on the
breast, he would sleep mile after mile,
and wake as much refreshed apparently
as though he had risen frum a good bed.
There was something of the cavalryman
in everything that Stuart did, as« in his
personal appearance and habits. It was
seldom that he doffed his high boots even
in winter quarters, and he invariably dan
ced in his spurs. A pair made of soli<b
gold, and richly carved, were presented
to him; but these he only* wore upon ex
traordinary occasions. His sabre was a
French one, slight, slender, pliqJMc and
light. This rarely left his side. He pre
ferred horses of medium size, rather light
—liked mares, and would never have
stallions. His lioises, “Skylark,” “Star
of the East,” “Lady Margaret,” “Lily
of the Volley,” were all excellent. The
equipments were plain and good, a Mc
Clellan saddle without leather covering,
curb bit, and single rein—no martingale;
behind the saddle a red blanket rolled in
an oil-cloth overall. These arc .trifles, it
may be said, but the world is made up of
“trifles.”
The General’s seat in tbe saddle was not
only- good—it was perflbet. His figure
was short and heavy, but in tho saddle he
was a model of a cavalier. He seemed to
“grow there.” His person moved with the
movements of his horse, so'perfectly that
horse and rider seemed one. He was an
excellent swordsman and would have been
—nay, often was—a dangerous man in a
charge. A regiment of men like Stuart,
with the drawn sabre, would go through
or over anything. It is certain at least
that they would die trying.
Georgia from the vortex of secession w
Mr. Toombs came into the capitol with th«
New lprk Tribune in his band, trir.m
phantly reading an editorial declaring
that the Southern States had a ri«ht *°
secede, and that the Federal Government
had no right to hold.them. “That,” said
Mr. Hill, “overthrew us, and the' Stav
was rushed out of the Union.” It j S: i
true that in the application of Mr. A. if
Stephens for pardon he states that the
support of secession by Mr. Greely, in the
New York Tribune, was one of the princi.
pal reasons for his embarking in the cau«c
of treason. When he found so prominent
a leader of the Republican party advoca
ting tbe separation of the country, he felt
that longer resistance on his part was un
necessary and useless.
We notice says the A T . Y. Times that
some Northern papers are raking together,
from all quarters, all statements and sto
ries of wrong, injustice and bad treatment
to blacks in the Southern States. Of
course they are able to make up quite a
formidable show of material, such as it is,
and able, moreover, to make it appear
that the poor negro, since his cmancipa
tion, is in a truly frightful condition, tie
have no doubt that an equal amount of
diligence upon the same thing, if applied
to the Northern States, and aided by ao
equal amount of imagination and malignity,
would want them to make an equally ap
palling exhibit of negro maltreatment in
our own section. If all tbe Northern
newspapers were searched daily for cases
of assault upon negroes by white men,
for cases in which negroes were treated
unjustly, or refused credit or turned oat
of house and home because of their *failure
to pay rent, it would seem to. outsiders as
if the white men of the North spent the
greater part of their time and muscular
energy in persecuting tho blackmen and
women.
Such a course towards the South is
wicked.iu itself and cruel to the negro, as
well as baneful to the country in keeping
up sectional animosities. There are many
wrongs and much injustice practiced upon
negroes in the South; and it is a sad fact
that among ourselves and the world over,
there are wrongs enough committed by
man upon man every day to maka the hu
man race ashamed of itself. But is as
criminal to stigmatize* the whole people of
the South as being responsible for and
gloating over the wrongs, as it would be
to characterize the Northern people in like
manner because similar wrongs arc perpe
trated in their midst.
[From the Cincinnati Commercial]
An Affair of love—-Elopement.
A New York merchant, named Sey
mour, passed through our city recentlv
in hot pursuit ©fan absconding couple
—his.daughter and her intended hus
band. The two eloped from the girl's
•residence on Tuesday last, and being
provided with a considerable amount
of money, obtained on the young lady’
diamonds, purcu ased tickets to this
point, by wav' of the New York Cen
tral. Avery few hours after their de
parture the father of the thoughtless
and lieadstrohg young lady had ob
tained information as to the direction
they had taken, and immediately start
ed in pursuit, in the company of a
detective. It seems that the favored
lover in this diair is a worthless fellow
—a broken down gambler, with noth
ing but good looks, a fine wardrobe,and
any amount of woman-killing tact to
recommend him.
The acquaintance began about three
months since, in a purely accidental
manner. Love at first sight was the
first folly of the easily impressed beau
ty—for she is described as being very
beautiful—and the adventurer, per
ceiving his advantage, was not back
ward at least in his attentions. A s
he was almost immediately forbidden
the house by the father, stolen inter
views resulted. At one of t-hese meet
ings the young lady informed her lover
of a fact which startled him in a very
pleasant manner. She told him that,
by the will of a maiden aunt of great
wealth, who had but recently died,
she would come into possession on tbe
day of her marriage of property to the ^
amount of fifty thousand dollars, m
Boston, Philadelphia and New York.
Here was an opportunity which he
with
grasped eagerly. ~ Immediately
ping the dishonorable purpose
which he had in one week m et hel .
half a dozen times, he sought her han
in marriage, and the elopement
mentioned was the result. . .,
The couple passed through this ci)
without stopping on their way to *
Louis, to which point the father ^
pursued them, hoping to come op
them iu time to prevent a rnarn a a ’
which cannot fail to wreck hi*
ters happiness and throw a large p ro l
erty into worthless hands.