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■tit u i fTTOXJfcir ZT4TS7k C4M7 :„*= 5F:f£SM* :«F :■?>• ■ MPPPMM p^f-I li&£ _ t n JH^ THE FEDERAL UKJOJV, f CoTiicrof Hancock and Wilkinson streets.) OPPOSITE TIIECOI RT H0TSE. fl0l«3T0.\, mSDET&CoTTstate Printers. Tuesday Morning, January 9, 1866. The A.Iininifttrntion nml it* Enrmie*. Ail eyes are now turned to Washington city to see tlio combinations and plan of attack, which the Radicals, led by Sum ner and Stevens, will develope on the re assembling of Congress. Both Houses met on Friday last, and we may reasona bly expect that the programme of the con tending parties will soon be made known. As for President Johnson, he has put his foot down ; and we believe he will keep it down just where he has put it. Tho Rad icals, on the adjournment in December, were not so strong as when Congress first assembled. The President’s policy had gained strongly, and was daily adding new elements of power, when Congress adjourned for the Holidays. Sumner has been to Massachusetts, and consulted with his fanatical followers, and Stevens has been to his home in Pennsylvania to consult the Oracles in the Coal settle ments. Correspondents from Washftg- ton predict that Andrew Johnson will whip the fight, and secure a majority for the Administration, at least in the IT. S. Senate. It is useless to speculate about the result. We are but clay in the pot ter’s hands, and must take what comes and make the best of it. We can all hope for the success of the President in carry- OULETHOR^ t'NTVEIWITV. \\ e arc Jfecippy to inform the public that the excises of this valuable in stitution, our venerated Alma Mater, will be resumed on the 16th iust. The Institution had suffered so much froiji the loss of its distinguished President, and the wreck of so large a portion of its endowment, that we had hardly hoped to see it on its feet again so soon. We are therefore truly gratified to observe (see advertisement in another column) that its halls wili be speedi ly re-opened. In addition to the regular Collegiate course there will be an irregular and scientific department; also a Prepara tory and Academical School. With out disparaging the usefulness of the dead languages, it is evident that many of our young men have lost so much time and means by the war, they can only aflord to spend a short time in such studies as will speedily fit them for business. A larger pro portion must study book-keeping; must by all means learn Agricultural Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, En gineering, and such other scientific branches as will enable them to de velop the valuable Agricultural and Mineral resources of our State, and build our Railroads and Manufactur ing establishments. Our mineral wealth, promises to equal that of any other State, and is slumbering in the bow els of the earth for lack of intelligent enterprise amongst us. As we have lost so much by the recent struggle, let us qualify our young men to open up these hidden treasures of gold, silver, copper, iron, coal and petroleum, that we confidently hope will yet re store Georgia more than her former wealth and prosperity. We are glad to see that besides those of the Faculty long and favora- ing oat his scheme of restoration and re construction, and for tho admission of our known as instructors of youth, the Senators, and Representatives; hut that is all we can do. We have been pleased at the indica tions of a change of base on the part of 6ome of the Republican leaders, and we expect yet to see the President use his power so as to secure a majority of Con gress. Let us be patient, and hopeful, and in the meantime, do no act that will injure the President, or iu any manner strengthen the fierce opposition arrayed against him and his plan of reconstruction. Negro Troop*. We do hope Gen. Grant’s suggestion about removing the negro troops at the South will be adopted. They occasion more trouble here than all other causes combined. They have caused more mur- mstitution has secured in the depart ment of Physical Sciences the services of an energetic young Virginian, who comes highly recommended, not only as a finished scholar, and elegant wri-* ter, but who from the experience of a four years campaign in his native State, in different capacities, has gain ed a high degree of qualification for the instruction and control of youth. Under the direction of such a corps of teachers, old Oglethorpe must again enter upon her wonted career of use fulness, both to the Church and to the Country. Don’t he discouraged.—Young ders to be committed in the last six mouths, j man ^ discouraged if you find than were perpetrated in any six years before the war. They are the great stum bling block in the way of the restoration of the former peace and good order that characterized all Southern communities. They do incalculable harm to the freed- men by their example and their bad ad vice. President Johnson ought to disband them at once, or take them to the frontier, j where they can do no harm to anybody but the wild Indians, or themselves. The conservative press at the-North will do the country good service by ringing this subject in the President’s ear, from day to day, until the negro troops are disbanded, or removed from the South. WILL TIB E It 1*0 IT? We saw in one of our exchanges a proposition made to the Freedman’s Bureau, that the negroes should be al lowed to vote whether they would re tain their freedom with all its cares, sufferings, starvation and death, or re turn to their former masters and mis tresses and enjoy that care, protection and comfort, of which they have been deprived by men who were entirety ignorant of their situation, or of their wants and wishes. As all. male and female are equally interested, it would be right that all should have a vote on the subject. We are aware that the Freedman’s Bureau has not the pow er to grant such a request, but if they should recommend it to Congress, that body, if they wish to be consistent, could not refuse to give the negroes their choice. If they were allowed to vote on the question, many no doubt would vote to remain as they are. Many would prefer the vagabond life they are now living, with the prospect of starvation before them, but we be lieve a majority of tho negroes in Georgia would now rejoice to return to their old masters, and spend the re mainder of their days in that ease, se curity and plenty, all which they find they have lost by the change. But will the Abolitionists give them the chance of voting on this, to the ne groes, all important question ? We fear not. We believe they dare not trust tkem to vote on that question. EP’The year 1866 began, and ends on, Monday. lit hard work and little pay. Work is honorable, and industry will certainly have its reward. At present, the man who is out of debt, and making a bare support, is well of. Don’t be dis couraged because you can’t get mar ried just now, and take a wife’s cares |and troubles on your shoulders, in ad dition toyourown. Wait a little long er. Honesty and industry will soon put you in a position to get a girl who will divide your sorrows and your joys. At any rate, don’t be discouraged be cause your wages are small—the con dition of the country requires every business man to practice economy.— You should do the same thing. Work on—a brighter day will dawn on your efforts, and your labors be crowned with a fruition of all reasonable hopes and expectations. ■■ ♦ Do wc Move? It has been supposed that the progress made in science and art cheapened labor,and reduced expenses. One would not think so, after being informed that the charge for fare between this city and Macon, on the cars, is Three dollars—distance 37 miles. Twenty-five years ago the stage fare between Milledgeville and Macon, distance 32 miles, was Three dollars! It seems from this that travel by railroad is as expensive in 1866, as it was by stage in 1840. Do we advance t True the Central R. R. suffered very heavily by Sherman’s raid, but we do not think the company ought to expect to recover by causing our already impoverished people to make good its losses—losses which were not peculiar to any class or condition amongst us. —+ A VOICE FROM THE GRANITE STATE. —The Republican State Convention at Concord, New Hampshire, has adopted Resolutions in support of President Johnson’s restoration policy. Messrs. Sumner and Stevens may well look to their laurels, when the Re publicans of New Hampshire rebuke their Radicalism. The white advocates of black suffrage in the District of Columbia, being unable to cast over seventy-five votes out of sev en thousand, in the election on Wednes day, are now pretending that they stayed away from the polls, as they preferred to petition Congress on the subject, rather than show their strength by voting, The Sew York H.wald’s Plan of Compro mise. * Tlie Editor of the New York Herald iB always ready with a panacea for the troubles of the times. He discovers an irrepressible conflict between the Presi dent and the Radical majority in Con gress, and straightway he comes forward with a compromise, which he professes to believe if adopted, will ‘‘cover the whole ground of existing difficulties with the late insurgent States.” Here is his plan, which ho proposes to make a part of the Constitution. Article—, Section 1. Every State shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the right of suffrage within its own limits ; provi ded, however, that no person shall be ex cluded from the elective franchise on ac count of color, race or religion. Sec. 2. All persons engaged in the late rebellion against the government of the United States are hereby restored to all the rights which they have forfeited ; pro vided, however, that this shall not apply to rights of property in regard to which legal interests of third parties have inter vened. Now, if this proposition should be adopt ed, one or the other party to the “compro mise” would get badly fooled: In our humble judgment the Editor of the Her ald is entirely indifferent as to which it may be—the Administration or the Radi cals. After giving exclusive jurisdiction to the States, regulating suffrage within their own limits, respectively, the Herald, in the same breath, takes it away. If there i9 any meaning in tho proposition, it is that the States, while they may uot ex clude negroes from voting on account of color or race, can make other qualifications which would exclude the ignorant and pauper classes. In other words, tho Her ald would make money and education pre requisites to the exercise of the right of suffrage. By this rule the South would be still further weakened in Congress.— Nearly the whole of the black population, and a large percentage of the white popu lation would have no representation in the lower House of Congress. Instead of sev en members of Congress, Georgia would get, probably, three or four. The Presi dent is iu favor of leaving the whole ques tion of suffrage to the States, without any provisos: The Radicals are in favor of regulating this, and other questions touch ing the internal policy of the States, by constitutional amendments under congres sional legislation. There is no middle ground to stand on between the opposing policies. The President must triumph or there is noRueb tliiDg left with us as State rights—the government becomes a con solidated power—and the next step will be to monarchy. We have strong hopes that the policy of the President will prevail, and the coun try be saved total wreck in the vortex of despotism. Some of the Sicns. The following, taken from the Augusta Transcript, presents, in a brief space, some of the straws by which the reader may tell how the winds blow in the political world. Referring to the debate on the President’s message, communicating the Report of Lieut. General Grant, tho N. Y. Times says: Mr. Sumner, following Mr. Stevens, has charged the President and Gen. Grant with “white-washing” the South ; and in order to invalidate their testimony in regard to the good faith with which she has accepted the results of the war, pro duced a scrap-book full of newspaper ex tracts and private letters. We are told that it took him nearly two hours to read it, and notwithstanding that it was inter- spered with scholatic platitudes, it fell with a dead weight. Senator Cowan re plied, iu a half hour’s speech with brillant effect. Never was Senator more com pletely vanquished than Sumner; for when Senator Cowan pronounced tho collected batch of extracts which were read, as the production of anonymous scribblers and disappointed cotton thieves. Sumner folded his scrap-book and stole silently away- The Times' letter re marks of this delivcrence, that, “his facts, though ever so strongly arrayed, weighed not a feather in the scale against the plain statements put forth yesterday over the signatures of President Johnson and Gen. Grant. The Transcript adds : The two speeches to which we have re ferred have effected a breach in the repub lican party, and will result in new organi zations both in Congress and iu the coun try at large. The Washington correspon dent of the Louisville Courier gives an intetesting account of the affiliations that have already taken place. He states that the Democrats are a unit in sup port of the President and are aided by Senators Doolittle, Dixon, Cowan and other Republican Senators, including Mr. Foster, the President ; in the House, Mr. Raymond, the coufidental friend of Mr Seward, is rallying the Conservative Re publicans to sustain the President, while Thurlow Weed ridicules Thad. Stevens in New York Times, and the staunch old Evening Post; with lingering love for its old Democratlfc principles, denounces the Pennsylvania Cossack in bitter terms.— Even Forney, never honest, hut alwavs astute, indorses the policy of reconstruc tion. He declares that on the Stevens policy “no party can he held together in the free States, in the face of incessant turbulence, dissatisfaction and bitterness that must spftijtf *11 over the Union as a consequencC Of bo chaotic and unsettled a policy. ; The Southern Members of Congress held a caucus in Washington on Tuesday, and decided to return to their homes, leav ing only one Member from each State to represent ttfem before the Joint Commit tee of the two booses. . '}!•■: ‘ • AGE1* ANIS INFIR.TI N’ECSBOKM. YytJ see that the Freedman’s Bureau has decided that the former owners most support the aged and infirm ne groes left upon their hands after every negro that can work has bUea taken •from them. This, it appears to us,‘is so manifestly unjust and cruel that we can not believe it will be sustained by the Abolitionists themselves. The reason given by the officers of the Freedman’s Bureau, is, that the owner has had the labor of his former slave when young and in health. This, in many cases, is not a fact. Most ol the negroes were purchased in families and the purchaser took the old folks be cause they were the fathers and moth ers of the young negroes, and they wished to make the young ones con tented by keeping the family together, and thus they expected to be paid for taking care of the old and infirm by the labor of the young and healthy. But to take from them the means of support, and then compel them to sup port the old and infirm negroes is an impossibility. Even the Freedman’s Bureau can not compel men to per form impossibilities. General Iiitclligeuee. Denib of Mi-ary Winter Dari*. Baltimore, Dec. 30.—Hon. Henry Win ter Davis died here to-day, of peumouia. Idp 1 " 3 The Provisional Governors of the Southern States have all been paid at the rate of 83,000 per annum. Gov. John son’s share amounted to Si,000. The Hon. Revcrdy Johnson made an argument in the United States Supreme Court on Friday, in the case ex parte of A. II. Garland of Arkansas, against the con stitutionality of the Congressional test oath. Georgetown, following the example of Washington opened the polls to test the sense of the citizens on the subject of ne gro suffrage. Of over eighteen hundred votes cast only one was in favor of thus extending the franchise, The Mills House, in Charleston was opened on Wednesday last, for the first time since the commencement of the war. Resolutions in favor of negro suffrage have been indefinitely postponed in the Missouri House of Representatives. —France has now seventeen large com mercial steamers running between Europe and the American contiuent aud her colo nies. —The wife of a German snrgeon died recently in Paris. When friends came to condole with him he was found to be busily dissecting h^Hbody. Concord, N. H., Jan. 3.—In the Re publican State Convention to-day resolu tions were adopted declaring that the tone and temper of the President’s Mes sage meets with warm approval, which argues well for the success of the Admin istration. Resolutions were adopted declaring that a scepter, planted by the foreign bayonets of A ustrain despotism in Mexico, is a stan ding insult to our power, and a menace to our republican institutions. New York, Jan. 4.—A suit was com menced in the Superior Court to day against Secretary Stanton, by Jas. Mad dox, for alleged imprisonment, claiming damages to the amount of 8100,000. Cotton steady at 52 1-2. Gold 43 1-S. Burial of the Confederate Dead. The funeral of obsequies of the dead a of the Eighteenth Georgia Battallion (Sa- vannah Volunteer Guards) were observed with appropriate solemnities at Laurel Grove Cemetery yesterday afternoon.— Notwithstanding the* inclemency of the day, at the appointed hour 3 o’clock, a very large number of our most respectable citizens, ladies and gentlemen and youth, including the relatives and friends of the gallant dead, had assembled at the en trance of the reception vault, where the boxes containing the remains had been, placed side by side aud covered with lau rel wreaths and boquets of choice flowers The sad company had gathered round, and in the silence of deep feeling—more ex pressive than the military pomp and swell of martial music, with which the last hon- : ors are paid to fallen soldiers—awaited the performance of the burial service by the attending clergy. Alter the arrival of the Metropolitan Fire Company, in a body, among whom, as in the crowd, we observed many veteran voluuteers in the late war, companions in arms of those whose manes they had come to honor—an appropriate hymn was sung ; after which the solemnly impressive burial service of the Presbyterian Church was read by Gen. Tiilsm’s Circular, direct attention to the last tier from the Assistant Commit ° r ' of the. Freedmen’s Bureau fo r T State of Georgia, which we publish We r fr of the, Tillson, in instructing to-day, Gen. agents to compel the freedin ally, to accept tail- contracts tl.e,n haa adopted a com* dm, W( i£ by the needs and interests of ail his cn » gener- es. The country can neither ciasg- recover Secretary Seward to Travel South. Washington, Dec. 21.—Mr. Seward, Secretary cf State, and his son, assistant secretary, have, upon the advice of phy sicians, embarked for a short voyage to a warmer latitude in the South Atlantic. Mr. nun ter, chief clerk, lias been ap pointed Acting Secretary in the interval. —Twelve hundred negroes in South Carolina have returned to their former masters. They had been living on gov ernment rations in Charleston. —There are 6,000,000 acres of land for sale in Missouri at 81 25 per acre. —Why is the James river like a keg of lager beer. Because they both flow into the Dutch Gap. C^We are informed that the colored troops, for some time past on duty at this post, are to be mustered out of service in a few days.—Avgusta Cons. When shall we be able to make the same gratifying announcement as regards the large body of negro troops quartered around Macon? Isn’t it about time Mr. Staunton, that our eyes should be removed from the sight of ebony in unifrom ?—2 ele- graph. Easily Satisfied.—The Chicago Repub lican relates a story of an elopement, in which the husband was easily pacified.— A couple from Jerseyville stopped at the American House. Carlinville, and rep resented themselves as man and wife.— The pair went to bed at night, but were scarcely uuder the blankets before a man arrived with an officer and had the first arrival arrested and lodged in jail. The latest arrival then took “tother feller’s” place in tho bed, representing himself as the woman’s lawful husband. On Tucs- dav the injured Benedict had the guilty parties arrested, hut a compromise was effected by which the woman agreed to go home with her lawful lord. Rev. Dr. I. S. K. Axson, of the Inde pendent Presbyterian Church. After the reading, a most fervent and feeling prayer was addressed to the Throne of Grace, by the Rev. Sylvanus Landrum, of the Savannah Baptist Church, the ceremonies being closed by the Right Rev. Stephen Eliott, Bishop of Georgia, who prefaced the closing burial service with a brief but most touching allusion to the solemn oc casion, which thrilled the hearts of all present. The funeral rites feeing over, the remains of those who had been identi fied wero borne to the family lots of the deceased for burial, while. the eleven, whose remains could not be identified, were hurried in the Savannah Volunteer Guards’lot, togeiher, as they Lad mingled their blood on “their field of glory.” When the graves had been closed over and strewn with wreaths and evergreens and flowers, the sad throng withdrew in silence, many a kindred heart experienc ing a relief that the loved and lost ones had been gathered to rest in the bosom of their native soil. Savannah Herald 1*/. A correspondent of the Ohio State Jour nal gives the following anecdote of Tom Corwin, on the night he received his death stroke : When as last the press about him les sened, I sat down by Lis side. What be happened first to say to me furnishes one of those strange coincidences which help to invest our lives witn a tinge of the mys terious and awful, and which makes us superstitious. One of his first utterances to me was a startling description of what Tom Corwin was to be iu twenty-five min utes after its utterance. It was this : He said. “You are more bald than when 1 saw you last, the day before I sailed for Mexico.” I said, “Yes.” He said, with the semi-solemn, semi comical face which has become historical, “But, then, Julius Csesar was bald.” I said, “But, Csesar had fits.!’ Then he assumed a serious manner, and said : “twenty years ago, I saw a man fall in apparently unconscious paralysis, when in the midst of excited discourse. He was carried out by his friends in this condition, and his first act of consciousness was to utter the words you have just said : ‘Caesar had fits!’”— In twenty-five minutes after, I assisted in carrying Corwin out in the precise condi tion he had so strongely described. Sober Advice to Congress.—There is at least one miud at the North that comprehends the public sentiment, and truestaftw of affairs in the Southern States. The great difficulty in the way of both the white and the black man at the South, is the mischievous disposition to meddle with their relations on the part of those who are entire strangers to both, and must in very nature of things, bring all they toucli to grief. The Southern people know the negro best ; their sympathy for him is more sincere and practical than that of anybody else ; and it is to tlieir interest to treat him kindly, and do the most for his comfort and hapfiness. This latter fact the Northern fanatics, and some of tlieir agents South, seem utterly inca- pablo of comprehending. They have been reasoned with and importuned by Southern men, but all to no purpose. Will they then harken to the opinion of Northern men at their own doors, and men who have agitated on slavery as much as the most of them ? With the hope that they may, we copy the following well con sidered opinions from the New York Times, the leading organ of the Republican party, and controlled by men who rank among the ablest of American journalists. It says : The great problem of keeping the two races together in the lately insurgent States on terms which shall be mutually advantageous, must be solved at the South—In the local Southern Legisla tures, in the local courts of justice, in the Executive'fconncil chambers of just such Governors as Judge Jenkins. Every fea ther’s weight of extra official pressure from without will most surely produce a reaction in the minds of the better dispo sed of tin: employers at the South. And nothing that the philanthropy of t he North can contribute will be a compensation to the freedman for his forfeiture of the good will and kindly co operation of those who have heretofore directed his labor.— Tele graph. its industrial prosperity, nor canordpv ami security of person or property h restored, while the land is f u || 0 j be gros who will not go to work and who have no h>nest means of support W think it would have been both iV» J beneficial had Gen. T. also ordered that where freedmen are compelled tt) accept contracts there shall be an abatement of the wages offered; for the reason that a planter cannot count so confidently on the faithful observ ance of the contract by one who is forced into it, as by one who enters into it voluntarily. Of course the compulsory class cannot be considered as valuable as the voluntary contracts There is another order of General Tillson with which, under the circum stances, we do not find fault, but the reason given for which we regard as untenable. It is the order requiring late^lave owners to continue to take care of the old and infirm. Humani- ity requires that this class shall be cared for, and w r e are glad to have Gen. aTillson’s testimony that the late masters are generally cheerfully extending to them a support. But it evinces a disregard of facts that ought to be taken into consideration, to say that because late minsters have long had the services of these negroes, and were required by State laws to take care of them, they are therefore equal ly bound to do so now. When so re quired by State laws, they wsre able to take care of them, because they bad the services of the able-bodied negroes of the plantations (many of them sons or other relatives of the infirm class) to assist them in so doing. The plan tation economy was an integral sys tem, all the parts of which were nec essary to sustain it. When the Gov ernment took away the effective work ing force, it knocked away the prop that upheld the whole system; it withdrew the efficient workers, and with them the means by which the owner was enabled to provide for those who could not provide for themselves. But it is a most honorable tribute to the late slaveholders of Georgia to say that they are cheerfully accepting the task of caring for the infirm ne groes after their efficient hands have been liberated. We wonder how many such examples there are at the North—how many poor Irish or Ger man “helps” are provided for in their old age by former employers who for a a score or more of years had the ben efit of their faithful service when able to work '?—Col. Enquirer Value of I'oufcderutc Currency. The Legislature of North Carolina havingap- pointed a joint select committee to determine and report upon the proper rate of gold as compared with Confederate currency during war, the com mittee made the following report: 3 he joint select committee, to whom was refer red a resolution on the scale of the depreciation of Confederate currency, state that th-y have had the same under careful consideration, and after mature deliberation; ask leave to submit the fol lowing report : The Confederate Prices of money jrom May 1, 1861, to May 1, 1865. MONTHS. 1861 1862 1863 1664 . 1805 January $ 1 20 $3 00 $2100 $50 00 February.... ...... 1 3C 3 00 21 00 50 00 March. . . . T J 50 4 00 23 00 60 00 April 1 50 5 (-0 20 00 100 00 May .« I 10 1 5! 5 50 19 00 .Tune 1 10 1 50 6 50 IS 00 July 1 It I 50 0 Oil 21 00 August 1 10 1 50 14 no 23 00 September... 1 10 2 00 14 00 25 00 1 12 1 15 2 00 2 50’ 14 00 26 00 14 00 30 00 November. .. Deember .... 1 2U 2 50 20. U) 35 00 Doc 10 to 20 42 00 49 OOj Dee. 20 to 30 — The scale includes the entire month, from the first to the last day, except the month of Decem ber, 1864, which is divided into three parts ouao count of rapid depreciation. C. L. HARRIS* For the Committee. The foregoing will be valuable for reference, and may be regarded as a precedent by tlie Leg islature of oar State, when it shall take action on the same point. • Through to Savannah in One Day. The Augusta and Savannah Railroad is now so near being completed that passen gers can now go between the two places in j board, and every day’s subsequent prae- one day. J he trains leave Augnflta at j tice will increase the quantity of work she six A. M., and arrive in Savannah at 10 ! can accomplish. There is no more honor- The publishers of the Montgomery Ad vertiser are advertising for a number of young ladies to learn the printing business in that office—that is, to become a type setting machine. They 6ay: “An in dnst'ritm?, swift moving compositor, can set at a moderate calculation, six thousand ems per day, and the price per thousand is sixty cents.—A tuition of two to four weeks duration will enable an intelligent woman to set enough types to pay her P. M. Passengers now have to ride only twenty-two miles on coaches. This part of the road, we arp informed, will soon be completed. ■ able employment, and we pledge ourselves to see that the strictest order and mutual respect shall be maintained in our office under this new system.” On a recent occasion Gen. Sickles ac companied ex-Gov. Aiken, of South Caro lina, on a visit to his Sea Island Planta- tson, on Jehcsse Island to assist in persua ding his former slaves to enter into labor contracts for the ensuing year. they found the negroes totally unwilling, how ever, to enter into such an arrange® 611 • The prominent difficulty in their minds was the hope and the expectation that t 0 Government would divide out the lan 3 among them. The following colloquy took place between Gen. Sickles and one of the “head ruen” on the plantation : “General, cant you send to tbe^ g° e * ment, and ask ’um to let us buy d e an ’ and we will pay for de lan’ in two y ear ®> and if we no pay for ’um den let the g° erment take de lan’ back.” The General replied that such an ^ rangement was impossible; that the ^ c|id not belong to the Government; u Gov. Aiken, their former master. wt, °, every body knew, was a very kind® and would’ pay them good wages, reply was: w “Well, massa Gen’l—den we ns b’long toMosser? and den dy goberme • take us from Mosser, and gib us Den can’t de government do de same jelan’?” Not bad logic that.