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VOUME XLII.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 29, 1872. NUMBER 44. ght jftbera 1 anion, •j is PUBI.ISHtD WEtKLT !>' MILLEDGEVILLE. GA., BT BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, (CVaer ol H aucoc ^ ,iQl * Wilkinson Streets,) 52 ia Advance, or $3 at end of the year. A ' S. N. BOOGHTON, Editor. ADVERTISING. vt.—One Dollar per square of ten line* for reinsertion, and sbventy-five cent* far each subse c :, contiouanoe. ’ ,- rlbUt ,. H of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit- exceeding sixliues, Nominations for office,Com- ’* ui( , ttll „us ui Editorial notices for individual benefit, . „ c j transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. _ Sheriff’* Sales, per levy of ter. lines, or less, $2 50 B .. Mortgage fi la sales, per square 5 00 ^ , s tiou3 lor Letters of Administration......... 3 00 ^ppilcatiun Guardianship, 3 00 for dismission from Administration, 3 00 " Guardianship, 3 00 .. “ leave to sell Laud, 5 00 ii for Homestead., 175 Notice to Debtors and Creditor., 3 00 Salts of Land Ac., per square 5 00 •• perishahie property, 10 days, per square,.. 150 Vjtrav Notices,30 days 3 00 f.jrrt'iosure ol Mot tgage, per sq., each time, 100 ^plications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) 1 75 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, &c., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the j-.t Tuesday it.the month, between the hours of It' |,, p forenoon and 3 iu the afternoon, at the Court JJ 0JS « In the County in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga Ic :te fU days previous to the day of sale, jintices. tor the sale of personal property must be It) days previous to sale Hike manne ‘ day. viven in . Notices to the debtois and creditors of an estate ffl ilst also be published 10 days. Notice that application wili be made to the Court of Ordinary for leuve to sell Land, ice., must be publish or ts i me lit Its. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, kr must he published 30 days—for dismission from A Jministrntiou monthly three mouths—for dismission ) r „m Guardianship, III days. Rules tor foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish- .4 monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa- pars tor the full space of three mouths—for compell ing tities from Executors or AdministratoiW where bond has been given by thedeecased.tho full spaceof three months. Publications will always be continued according to t&ose, the legal requirements, unlessotherwise ordered Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY aNI) NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. Agents for Federal Union in New York City GEO. P ROWELL Sc CO., No. 40 Park Row. S M. PETTING ILL A- CO., 37 Park Row. |y.MK.'SRs. Ghifkin Sc Hoffman. Newspaper Advertising Agents. No. 4 South St , Baltimore, Md.. arc dti'v authorized to contract for advet tisements at «ur loicnt rates. Advertisers in that City are request ed to leave their favors with this house.” Civil, I,AW IIV THE NOl'TII. I.eltrr from Gra. Ilnnrorlt to Gar. Peaae •f Texas—Defease sf General Order No. 40. Headqr’s 5th Military Dis’t. > New Orleans, La., March 9, 1868. ) To His Excellency E. M. Pease, Gov ernor of Texas : Sir: Your communication of the 17th January last, was received in due course of mail, (the 27th January,) but not until it had been widely cir culated by the newspaper Press. To such a letter—written and published for manifest purposes—it has been my intention to reply as soon as leisure from more important business would permit. Yourstatement that the act of Con gress “ to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” de clares that whatever Government ex isted in Texas was provisional ; that peace and order should be enforced ; that Texas should be part of the Fifth Military District, and subject to mili tary power ; that the President should appoint an officer to command in said district, and detail a force to protect the rights of person and property, suppress insurrection and violence, and punish offenders, either by military commission or through the action of local civil tribunals, as in his own judgment might seem best, will not be disputed. One need only read the act, to perceive it contains such provisions. But how all this is sup posed to have made it my duty to or der the military commissions request ed, you have entirely failed to show. The power to do a thing if shown, and the propriety of doing it, are of ten very different matters. You ob serve you are at a loss to understand how a Government, without repre sentation in Congress, under a milita ry force, and subject to military pow er, can be said to be in the full exer cise of all its proper powers. You do not reflect that this Government, cre- of humanity and religion; proclaimed it covered with disgrace, and vented his eternal abhorrence of it and Ps measures. It may, I think, be safely asserted that a majority of the British nation concurred in the views of Lord Chatham. But whoever supposed that profound peace was not existing in that kingdom, or that government had any authority to question the abso lute right of the opposition to express their objections to the propriety of the King’s measures in any words, or to any extent they pleased? It would be difficult to show that theopponents of Government in the days of the elder Adams, or Jefferson, or Jackson, exhibited for it either “affection” or “respect.” You are conversant with the history of our past parties and po- itical struggles touching legislation on alienage, sedition, the embargo, na tional banks, our wars with England and Mexico, and cannot be ignorant of the fact, that for one party to assert that law or system of legislation is un constitutional, oppressive and usnrpa- tive, is not a new thing in the United States. That the people of Texas con sider acts of Congress unconstitution- oppressive or insulting to them, is of no consequence to the matter in hand. The President of the United States has announced his opinion, that these acts of Congress are unconstitu tional. The Supreme Court, as you are aware, long ago decided unani mously that a certain military com mission was unconstitutional. Our people everywhere, in every State, without reference to the side they took during the rebellion, differ as to the constitutionality of these acts of Congress. How the matter really is, troubles, leaving their works an ines timable legacy to the human race. These laws, as I am informed, connect ed the civilizations of past and pres ent ages, and testified of the justice, wisdom, humanity and patriotism of more than one nation, through whose record they r descended to the present people of these States. I am satis fied from representations of persons competent to judge, they are as per fect a system of laws as can be found elsewhere, and better suited than any other to the condition of this people, for by them they have long been gov erned. Why should it be supposed son and property, must be preserved.” Will you question the truth of these declarations? Which one of these nifies the shortcomings of officials who are perhaps as earnest and conscien tious in the discharge of their duties great principles of liberty are you as yourself: and a most unsound con ready to deny and repudiate? Whoever ! elusion, that while any persons are to Congress has abolished these laws Why should any one wish to abolish them? They have committed no treason, nor are hostile to the United States, nor countenance crime, nor favor injustice. On them, as on foundation of a rock, reposes almost the entire superstructure of social or der in these two States. Annul this code of local laws, and there would be no longer any rights, either of per son or property here. Abolish the local civil tribunal made to execute them, and you would virtually annul the laws, except in reference to the very few cases cognizable in the Fed eral courts. Let us, for a moment sup pose the whole local civil code annull ed, arid that I am left, as commander of the Fifth Military District, the sole fountain of law and justice. This is the position in which you would place me. I am now to protect all rights, and redress all wrongs. How is it possible for me to do it? Innumerable ques tions arise, of which I am not only ignorant, but to the solution of which neither you nor I can dogmatically af-; a military court is entirely unfitted. firm. If you deem them constitutional laws, and beneficial to the country, you not only have the right to publish your opinions, but it might be your bounden duty as a citiz’en to do so. £ifn § ir tt to r g. KAIL ROAD TIME TABLE. irijvaiand Departure of Trains at Milledgevill*. MACON Sc AUGUSTA RAILROAD. S»ny Trnin. DomiTrain to Aueumn arrives at Milledgev., 8.17 a.m. Up Lam to Macon arrives at Miiledgeville, 7 23 p.m. Night Trnin. Arrives from Augusta at 12:20 a m. “ “ Macon at 12:16 a m. EATONTON Sc GORDON RAILROAD. 8.45 p. m 2.35 p.m Tp Train to Eatmiton arrives at Milledgev., Iloiru Train to Gordon arrives Tost Office Notice. Mu.lkogevii.le. Jan. 18, 1872. From and after this date mails will close as follows : Mai's for Atlanta and Augusta and points beyond going nottli and east, wit! close at 8 o’clock A M. Mails tor Macon. Sou'hwestern Itosd. and points beyond, going south west, will close at5 P M. Mai a for Savannah and Florida close at 2:15 P M. Raii- fin Eatontonand Monticellocloses at8:45-P M. Office hours from 7 A. M. nutil 6:30 P. M. Office open on Sundays from 8 to 9 1-2 A. M. Money Orders ohtaiued from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M. JOSIAS MARSHALL, P. M. Church Directory. BAPTIST CHURCH. Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11 O'c lock a m and 7pm. ■Sabbath School atit l-2o’cloek, am. S N Boughton, Supt. Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH. Hears of service on Sunday: 11 o’clock, am tnd 7 p m. Sunday School 3 o’clock p m.—W E Frankland, Superintendent. - Friends of the Sabbath Sclioul are invited to visit it S S Missiunaiy Society, monthly, 4th Sunday at 2 p m Prayer meeting every Wednesday 7 o’clock p m- Rev A J JARRELL, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Service* every Sabbath ^except the 2d in each mo) It i I o’clock a in. aud 7 p III. Si ibbalh School at 9 1 2 a in. T T Windsor. Supt. Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p Ta. Rev C W LANE, Pastor. EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Without a Pastor at preeeut. Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a m. Lodges. I. o. G. T. Plillnlgcrillc l.odgc No 115 meets in the Senate Chamber at tile State House on every Friday even ing at 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, W C T. E P Lane, Sae’y. Cold Water Templars meet at the State House *ve- 7 Saturday afternooifat 3 o'clock. MASONIC. Benevolent I.eitgr No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d 8a irday nights of each month at Masonie Hall. G I> Case, Secy. I. H HOWARD, W. M. Truiplc Chapter meets the second and fourth Sat urday nights in each month. L D Case, Sec’v. S G WHITE, H P. tlilh-dgrrillc I.odge of Perfection A.'-dn A.*. 8- R.\ meets every Monday night SA.M’L G WHITE, T.\ P. -G.’-M.\ Geo. D.^Case, Exc Grand bec’y. CITY GOVERNMENT. Mayor—Samuel Walker. Board of Aldermen.—1. F B Mapp; 2 E Trice; JT.vCaraktr; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J H McComb; 6 Henry Temples. Clerk and treasurer—Peter Fair. Mar.-hal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle. D.-puly Marstial and Street Overseer—Peter Fen-ell. feeitou—F Beeland Lit) Surveyor—C T Bavne. City Auctioneer—S J Kidd. Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples. Mapp- Street “ J Caraker, Trice, McComb Land “ McComb, J Caraker, Trice. Cemetery “ Temples, Mapp, T A Caraker. 11 -aid meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each A mill. ated or permitted by Congress; has j No less is it the privilege and duty ol all the powers which the act intends, any and every citizen, wherever re- and may fully exercise them accord-1 siding, to publish his opinion freely ingly, if you think it ought to have more powers ; should be allowed to send members to Congress, wield u militia force, and possess yet other powers, your complaint is not to be preferred against me, but against Con gress, who made it what it is. As respects the issue between us, any question as to what Congress ought to have done has no pertinence. You admit the act of Congress author izes me to try an offender by military commission, or allow the local civil tribunals to try, as I shall deem best; and you cannot deny the act expressly recognizes such local civil tribunals as legal authorities for the purpose speci fied. When you contend there are no legal tribunals for any purpose in^to the merits of such a cause, that its Texas, you must either deny the plain reading of the act of Congress or the power of Congress to pass the act. You next remark that you dissent from my declaration “ that the coun try (Texas) is in a state of profound peace” and proceed to state the “ grounds of your dissent.” They ap pear to me not a little extraordinary. I quote your words : “ It is true there no longer exists here (Texas) any au thorized resistance to the authority ol the United States. But a large ma jority of the white population, who participated in the late rebellion, are embittered against the Government, and yield to it an unwilling obedi ence.” Nevertheless, you concede they do yield it obedience. You pro ceed : “ None of this class have any affection for the Government, and very few any respect for it. They regard the legislation of Congress on the sub ject of reconstruction as unconstitu tional, and hostile to their interests, and consider the Government now ex and fearlessly on this and every ques tion which he thinks concerns his in terest. This is merely in accordance with the principles of our tree Gov ernment; und neither you nor I would wish to live under any other. It is time now, at the end of almost two years from the close of the war, we should begin to recollect what manner of peo ple we are ; to tolerate again free, popular discussion, and extend some forbearance and consideration to op posing views. The maxims that in all intellectual contests, truth is mighty, and must prevail; and that error is harmless when reason is left free to combat it, are not only sound but salutary. It is a poor compliment One would establish a will, another a ! deed ; or the question is one of suc cession or partnership or descent or trust; a suit of ejectment or claim to chattels; or the application may re late to robbery, theft, arson or murder. How am I to take the first step in any such matter? It I turn to the acts of Congress, I find nothing on the sub ject. I dare not open the authors on the local code, lor it has ceased to ex ist. And you tell me in this perplexing condition I am to furnish by dint of my own hasty and crude judgment the legislation demanded by the vast and manifold interests of the people! I repeat, sir, that you, and not Con gress, are responsible for the mon strous suggestion that there are no does so, avows himself the enemy of human liberty and the advocate of despotism. Was there any intimation in General Orders No. 40 that any crimes or breaches of the law would be countenanced ? You know that there was not. On the contrary, you know perfectly well that while “the consideration of crime and offences committed in the Fifth Military Dis trict was referred to the judgment of the regular civil tribunals,” a pledge was given in Order No. 40, which all understood, that tribunals would be supported in their lawful jurisdiction, and that “forcible resistance to lav* would be instantly suppressed by arms.” You will not affirm that this pledge has ever been forfeited. There has not been a moment since I have been in command of the Fifth District when th£ whole military force in my hands has not been ready to support the civil authorities of Texas in the execution of the laws. And I am unwilling to believe they would re fuse to call for aid if they needed it. There are some considerations which itseems to me, should ciuse you to hesitate before indulging in wholesale censures against the civil authorities of Texas. You are yourself the chief of those authorities ; not elected by the people, but created by the milita ry. Not long after you had thus come into office, ail the Judges of the Su- dreme Court of Texas—five in num ber—were removed from office, and new appointments made ; twelve of the seventeen Judges were removed, and others appointed. County offi cers, more or less, in seventy-five out of one hundred and twenty-eight coun ties, were removed, and others ap pointed in their places. It is fair to conclude that the executive and judi cial civil functionaries in Texas are the persons whom you desired to fill the offices. It is proper to mention, also, that none but registered citizens, and only those who could take the test-oath, have been allowed to serve as jurors during your administration. Now, it is against this local govern ment, created by military power prior to my coming here, and so composed of your personal and political friends, that you have preferred the most grievous complaint. It is of them that you have asserted they will not be found wanting in affection or re spect for Government, er yielding its obedience from motives which you do not approve, war and not peace is the status, and all such persons are the proper subjects for military penal ju risdiction. If I have written anything to disa buse your mind of bo grave an error I shall be gratified. I am, sir, very respectfully, you obedient servant. W. S. Hancock, Maj. Gen’l Commanding. From the Country Gentleman. She Art of Tarming 1 . local laws or institutions here to be do their duty ; they will not main- advocates would silence opposition by force ; and generally those only who are in the wrong will resort to this ungenerous means. I am confident you will not commit your serious judg ment to the proposition that any amount of discussion, or any sort of opinions, however unwise in your judgment ; or any assertion or feeling, however resentful or bitter, not re sulting in the breach of law, can fur nish jurisdiction for your denial that profound peace exists in Texas. You might as well deny that profound peace exists in New York, Pennsylva nia, Maryland, California, Ohio and and Kentucky, when a majority of the people differ with the minority ou these questions; or that profound peace exists in the House of Repre sentatives, or the Senate at Washing ton, or in the Supreme Court, where all these questions have been repeated ly discussed, and parties respectfully and patiently heard. You next com plain that in parts of the State (Texas) istin" here under the authority of the it is difficult to enforce the criminal United States as a usurpation on their j laws ; that Sheriffs fail to arrest; that rights. They look on the emancipa-1 grand jurors will not always indict; tion of their late slaves and the dis franchisement of a portion of their own class as an act of insult- and op- COUNTY OFFICERS. Judge II. It. Bell, Oriiiaory—office io Masonic Hall. F L Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, “ Chadiab Arnold. Sheriff, “ L P Bmmer. Depty Sheriff, lives in the country. Marshall, Kev’r Tax Returns—at Post Oflfc*- L N t allawsy, Tax Collector, otiiue at liis store. « Temples, County Tieasurer, office at his store, lfiaae Cashing, Coronor, residence ou Wilkinson st. John Gentry, Constable, residence on Wayne at, near the Factory. MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA. Dr - 0. D Case Dean. Dr. S. G. WHI TE, Prea’dt Regular mectiug first Monday in December- STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM. ^ Dr THOS F GREEN, Superintendent. ® R Bell, Ir. & Steward. FIRE DEPARTMENT. ® Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief. 11 ^ ^ ^ Kire Co. meets nt the Court Room on first Hint third Tuesday nighta in each month. CALL AND SEE DS ! CO, _ c. w. GArSB dL TWleus in f ' . PRO VISIONS, GROCERIES, EIQPORS, HARDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, SHOES, fact everything usually kept in a First-elaai ^ «unily Grocery & Provision Sl*r®» East ei,i c Wayne Street. Agents for Whann’s Raw Bona ® u per Phosphate* ” B. All persona indebted to ua ate eameatly r»- qnested to settle at once. c W. GAUSE. H. M. BOSE. MilledgeviUe, Ga., Feb. 6,1872. 28 tf pression. And this is all you have to present for proof that war and not peace pre vails in Texas, and hence it becomes my duty [so you suppose] to set aside the local civil tribunals, and enforce the penal code against citizens, by means of military commission. My dear sir, I am not a lawyer, nor has it been my business, as it may have been yours, to study the philoso phy ol statecraft and politics; but I may lay claim, after an experience of more than half a life time, to some poor knowledge of men, and some apprecia tion of what is necessary to social or der and happiness. And for the lu- ture of our common country, I could devotedly wish that no great number of our people have yet fallen in with the views you appear to entertain. Woe be to us whenever it shall come to pass that the power of the magis trate, civil or military, is permitted to deal with the mere opinions or feeling of the people. I have been accustomed to believe that sentiments of respect or disre spect, and feelings of affection, love or hated, so long as not developed into acts in violation of law, were matters wholly beyond the punitory power of human tribunals. I wilt maintain that the entire free dom of thought and speech, however acrimoniously indulged, is consistent with the noblest aspirations of man, and the happiest condition of his race. When a boy, I remember to have read a speech of Lord Chatham, deliv ered in Parliament. It was during our revolutionary war, and related to the policy of employing the savages on the side of Britain. You may be more la- miliar with the speech than I am. If I am not greatly mistaken, his Lordship denounced the British Government— his Government—in terms of unmeas ured bitterness. He characterized its policy as revolting to every sentiment that in some cases the military, acting iu aid of the civil authorities, have not been able to execute the process of the civil courts; that petit jurors have acquitted persons adjudged guil ty by you, and that other persons charged with offences have broke jail and fled from prosecution. I know not how these these things are ; but admitting your representations liter ally true, if for such reasons I should set aside the local civil tribunals and order a military commission, there is no place in the United States where it might not be done with equal proprie ty. There is not a State in the Union, North or South, where the like facts are not continually happening. Per fection is not to be predicted of man or his works. No one can reasonably expect certain and absolute justice in human transactions; and if military power is to be set in motion, on the principles for which you would seem to contend, I fear that a civil Govern ment regulated by laws could have no biding place beneath the circuit of the sun. It is rather more than hinted in vour letter that there is no local State Government in Texas, and no local laws outside of the acts of Congress, which l ought to respect; and that I should undertake to protect the rights of persons and property in my own way and in an arbitrary manner. If such be your meaning, I am compell ed to differ with you. After the abo lition of slavery, (an event which I hope no one now regrets) the laws of Louisiana and Texas, existing prior to the rebellion, and not io conflict with the acts of Congress, comprised & vast system of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal. It required not volumes only, but libraries to contain them. They laid down principles and prece dents for ascertaining the rights and adjusting the controversies of men in every conceivable case. They were the creations of great and good and learned men, who had labored in their day for their kind, and gone down to respected by me, outside the act ot Congress. I say unhesitatingly, if it were possible that Congress should pass an act abolishing the local codes of Louisiana and Texas—which I do not believe—and it should fall to my lot to supply their places with some thing of my own, I do not see how I could do better than follow the laws in force here prior to the rebellion, excepting whatever therein shall re late to Slavery. Power may destroy the forms, but not the principles of justice; these will live in spite even of the sword. History tells us that the Roman pandects were lost for a long period among the rubbish that war and revolution had heaped upon them, but at length were dug out of the ruins, again to be regarded as a priceless treasure. You are pleased to state that “since the publication of (my) General Or ders, No. 40, there has been a percep tible increase of crimes and manifes tation of hostile feeling toward the Government and its supporters, aud add that it is “an unpleasant duty to give such a recital of the condition of the country.” You will permit me to say that I deem it impossible the first of these statements can be true, and that I do very greatly doubt the correctness of the second. General Orders No. 40 was issued at New Orleans Nov. 29, 1S67, and your letter was dated Jan. 17, 1S6S. Allowing time for Order No. 40 to reach Texas and become generally known, some additional time must have elapsed before its effect would be manifested, and a yet f urther time must transpire before you would be able to collect the evidence of what you term the condition of the country; and yet, after all this, you would have to make the necessary investigations to ascertain if Older No. 40, or some thing else, was the cause. The time, therefore, remaining to enable you, be fore the 17th of Jauuary, 1S68, to reach a satisfactory confusion on so delicate aud nice a question, must have been very short. How you pro ceeded—whether you investigated yourself or tfirough third persons, aud, if so, who they were, whxt their com petency and fairness, on what evidence you rested your conclusion—oi wheth er you ascertained any facts at all, are points upon which your letter so dis creetly omits all mention, that I may well be excused for not relying explic itly upon it; nor is my difficulty di minished by the fact that in another part of your letter you state that ever since the close of the war a very large portion of the people have had no af fection for the government, but bitter ness of feeling only. Had the duty of publishing and circulating through - the country, long before it reached me, your statement that the action of the District Commander was increas ing crime and hostile feeling against the Government been less painful to your sensibilities, it might possibly have occurred to you to furnish some thing on the subject in addition to your bare assertion. But what was Order No. 40, and how could it have the effect you attri bute to it ? It sets forth that “the great priuciples of American liberty are still the inheritance oi this people, and ever should be.” “That the right of trial by jury, the haJreas corpus, the liberty of the Press, the freedom ot the grave long before our recent | speech, and the natural righto of per tain justice ; will not arrest offenders; will not punish crimes ; and that out of 100 homicides committed in the last twelve months not over ten ar rests have been made ; and by means ot such gross disregard of duty you declare that neither property nor life is safe in Texas. Certainly you could have said noth ing more to the discredit, of the offi cials who are now in office. If the facts be as you allege, a mystery is presented for which I can imagine no explanation. Why is it that your po litical friends, backed up aud sus tained by the whole military power of the United States in this district, should be unwilling to enforce the laws against that portion of the popu lation lately in rebellion, and whom you represent as the offenders ? Iu all the history of these troubles I have never seen or heard before of such a fact. I repeat, if the fact be so, it is a profound mystery, utterly surpass ing my comprehension. I am con strained to declare that I believe you are in very great error as to facts. On careful examination at the proper source, I find that at the date of your letter four cases only of homicides had been reported to these headquarters as having occurred since November 29, 1867, the date of Order No. 40 ; aud these cases were ordered to be tried or investigated as soon as the reports were received. Moreover, the fact of the one hundred homicides may still be correct, as stated by you. The Freedmen’8 Bureau iu Texas reported one hundred and sixty ; how many of these were by Indians and Mexicans and how the remainder were classi fied, is not known ; nor is it known whether these data are accurate. The report of the commanding offi cer of th« district of Texas shows that since I assumed command no applica tions have been made to you by him for arrest of criminals in the State of Texas. To this date eighteen cases of hom icides have been reported to me as having occurred since November 29, 1S67, although special instruction had been given to report such cases as they occur. Of these, five were committed by Indians, one by a Mexican: one by an insane man, three by colored men, two women by their husbands, and of the remainder, some by parties un known—all of which could be scarcely attributable to Order No. 40. If the reports received since the issuing of Order No. 40, are correct they exhibit no increase of homicides in my time, if you are correct that 100 had occurred in the past twelve months. That there hai not been a perfect administration of justice in Texas lam not prepared to deny. That there has not been such wau- ton disregard of duty on the part of officials as you allege, I am well sat isfied. A very little while ago you regarded the present officials in Texas the only ones who could be safely trusted with power. Now you pro nounce them worthless, aud would cast them aside. 1 have found little else in your letter but indications of temper, lashed into excitement by causes which I < eern most imaginary ; a great confidence in the accuracy of your own opiuions, and an intolerance of the opinions of others ; a desire to punish the thoughts and feelings of those who differ with you, and an impatience which mag- the Pennsylvania delegation in the National Convention, has issued a pro- nunciamento demanding the sacrafice of Colfax, and the selection ot a more available man. Mr. McMichael, no doubt, speaks “by authority,” and consequently Colfax stock is below par Indiana Democracy.—The Yevay (Ind.) Democrat, an able and earnest exponent of sound principles, thus closes a splendid article on the so-call ed reformers : “Let Greeley bow down to Grant, apologize for and re tract the slanders he has uttered against him if he chooses. Democrats will battle under their old colors for good government, and, if defeated, they will, at least, have the satisfac tion of having done right.” A terrible account comes from the West. A train of supplies near old Fort Lancaster was captured by In dians. Seventeen persons were killed or wounded. The atrocities were hor rible. Several were tied to wagons and burned alive. Some were shot and scalped, and others had their brains dashed ont. The band consis ted of one bundled and twenty-five. Tiie ELEfTORAi, Vote of 1872.—We copy from the Chicago Tribune tbe following table, ex hibiting the electoral vote in the election of 1S72, with a statement of the popular majority in the same States in IStiS : A man posesses a farm, the land bein of average fertility, which medium state means it is half worn out or only exhaus ted of half its plant food, and thus has the power of growing half crops. If this man goes on lowering the condition of the land, he is a had farmer; if he does not weaken the soil further nor improve its capability to grow heavy crops, he will be a nonprogressive one—a kind of milk- and-water farmer; hut if he manages so as steadily to increase the fruitfulness of the whole extent, till, in the eud it becomes sufficiently rich to grow as heavy crops of every variety as can be brought to per fection, he is a good farmer, and one the country should honor; he has not hidden his talent under a bushel. It is easier to farm well than ill. The man who makes two blades of grass grow where one only grew before, and makes every kind of produce double, too, is a happier man than the one who poles on doing neither better nor worse than the average; while the miserable man who impoverishes his land must feel how do- graded a position he stands in, and his mind must sink lower and lower with his prop erty. If a report of every farm through every parish in the Union was made once in seven years, and the improvememt, the impoverishment, or the non impoverish ment of each was published, it would give the country at large a better idea of what is going on in agriculture. It is no use of denying facts, and the truth is starting from the east, the land is robbed of more than half its fertility, and still as population moves on so does the exhausting system. If when a parish, a county, or a 8t tte is half iinpoveiished, a stop can he put to the debilitating pro cess, why not stop at the beginning! Why not reimburse from the start? Land is seldom too rich, and when it is said to be “in the highest state of fertili ty,” what a pity to bring it down ! Yet this is the custom, the tashion, and the example set bv all. This kind of poli cy carried into other lines of business would cause men to say the guilty parties were insane or fools. Land cannot throw up immense crops on water and air; therefore if these crops are sold off, the land is that much the poorer, but science and common experience proves that there are stages at which some of the produc tions of the earth can he taken away when nothing has been abstracted to cause injury, and if, at this period of the crop's growth, it is turned into manure, the land is benefited without any f<reigu aid. Thus by having intervemug crops of this kind, there may he things sold one year that may be replaced the next by this renovation. This is why the four-course system, or some other suitable rotation, is insisted upon in Bugland. Poor land is brought to be rich, aud good laud is kept up on the best estates, yet there are annually great quantities of fat cattle and sheep sold from these farms, and wool, cheese butter, etc., continued to be pro- ' J duced, because there is an art in doing this so as to improve and increase the stam ina of the soil. There is no mystery whatever in the case, for here is a field of barley, say grown after roots; this barley, probably sixty bush els por acre takes away considerably from the soil, though being a quick grow ing grain not so much as other sorts, but clover follows, having been sowed with the barley. Every body knows when clo ver is cut young the ground is beuefitted by producing it, therefore, if it is mowed twice and cut each time when coming into full bloom, there will be from the two mowings tons per acre of matter to bo manufactured into manure, which has not weakened the land it grew on, consequent ly. this is a renovating crop, aud has done more in adding fertility than the barley didin abstracting; next comes wheat, aud j G}rOCeriC8 <$* PtOlisiOnH that takes more away than the barley ' did, but then Comes the intervening root and at such rates as will not drive a man to the Bank crop, which puts far more in to the soil by rupt Court in a few year8 ’ 0ur “ l “ beinK Electoral Rep. Maj. Dem. Maj. State* Vote 1872. 1868 1368 Alabama 4,280 • ••• Arkansas........ . 6 3J.74 California 514 f . 1 Connecticut 3,054 Delaware .... 3,357 Florida .... Georgia 11 .... 45,688 Illinois 21 51,150 .... Indiana 14 9,572 Iowa 11 46.359 Kansas 17,030 • ••• Kentucky 12 64,301 Louisiana .. 7 46,962 • ••• Maine . 7 23,030 Maryland .... 31,919 Massachusetts.... 13 77,069 *•*• Michigan ......... 11 31,431 .... Minnesota,....... . 5 15,470 .... Mississippi 6 .... .... Missouri 15 25,883 • ••• Nebraska * 4,290 Nevada 1,262 .... New Hampshire... . 4 6,967 •••• New Jersey...... .... 2,880 New York 34 • ••• 10,000 North Carolina.... 10 . 12.136 .... O.iio 22 41,423 • ••• Oregon . 3 • ••• 164 Pennsy ivania .28 23.393 • ••• Rhode Island 4 6445 .... South Carolina... 7 17,064 Tennessee.... 11 30,446 .... Texas 8 .... V-rmont 4 32,112 .... Virginia 11 .... • ••• West Virginia...* 5 8,719 .... Wisconsin........ 10 24,447 .... Total .357 574.142 1158,309 Necessary to a choice 179 158,309 415,833 MACON CARDS • JONES & BAXTER, General Commission Merchants AND DEALERS IN Produce, Provisions, Staple Groce ries, Fertilizers, Lime, Plaster, Cement, Ac., No. 100 Cherry Street, MACON, GA. May 14,1872. 42 ly MIX & KIRTLAND, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ^ BOOTS AND SHOES, E 1 r, 5 BSACOIT, GA- Bf«. 3 COTTON AVE., and 66 THIRD STREET, Sole Agent* for the BXCBLH0B 6AITBB. May 14, 1872. 42 ly 07 C HODGKINS <fc SON. Q-XTJTS. rZIHXVG IA C BIS. Sporting Goods. 59 BEulberryTStreet, May 14, 1372. coir, GA. 42 ly CREDIT OR CASH! W E wish to remind our friends in BALDWIN HANCOCK and PUTNAM Counties that we are still iu tbe market for beiug consumed than the wheat has taken, and so this easy, plain system is a fair exposition of all those which are devised to enable farmers to make mouey while sustaining their land. The Richmond (Ky.) Register tells this : “At u dance given by L. Coyle, in Kingston, a lew nights since, there were a number of married ladies pres ent who brought their babies along.— Feeling inclined to trip ttie ‘light fantastic’ a round or two, they left their progenies in an adjoining room in charge of Mr. Coyle and Joe Maun- in, wiio had kindly volunteered to be mamas to the inuoceuts ad interim.■— During the absence of the fond par ents, Tom and Joe concluded to swap clothes, and in a short time every baby sported him or hersell in toreign ha biliment. Tbe mothers, after an hour or so’s devotion to terpsichoreau de lights, took each their baby vestments and the dear little forms therein con- taine 1 , and retired to their respective and once happy homes. On preparing the little ones for their crib, sexes had changed—girls were boys and boys girls—and with one universal yell the outraged maternals set out on a baby hunt. At last account most all had, by ‘the strawberry mark,’ succeeded in recovering their lost heirs ; but Joe and Coyle are said to be non est when any ot those mothers are in or about Kingston.” The Grant Radicals iu Pennsylva- via have recently given a stunning blow to Collax. It is evident that they do not want him on the ticket with their favorite chieftain, and they are now loudly clamoring for the nomination of a Pennsylvauian in his place. Morton McMichael, the editor of the North American, who heads rupt Court iu a few years. Our sales being large We are satisfied with small profits: Haviug cheaper freights than Augusta we can 8AVH YOU MOVBY by dealing with us. We sell BACON, CORN, FLOUR, LARD, OATS, TOBACCO, SUGAR, COFFEE, MOLASSES, RICE. SALT, NAILS and Everything needed by the Country Mer chant or Planter* TERMS Cash, or Credit till next Fall with Factor* acceptance. Try our prices. SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO., BKACOV. GA. Mayl4, 1872. 42 2» ^BBNTSiWASTBB. 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