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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. — — 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. —+ 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. M —♦—»— - 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.” ■■ 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. • ■ 1 1 T .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.