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MA( on , W i-: n I-.S i>a Y, July 31,1867.
KmM»I »«r Hn Journal anti
.TicMsentrcr.
Anierlcus — WM. C. GODWIN, P. M.
Cuthbert-J. M. BROOKS.
Dawson —J. C. F. CLARK, U. H. C.
Albany—E. KICHARDBON, P. M.
Thomaston —1. 11. TRAYLOR.
Forsyth—F. O. MAY’S.
Perry—J. S. JOBSON, Esq.
Fort Valley—J. A. McKA V, P. M
Eufaula, Ala—ll. B. FIELDS.
Hawkinsville—L. C. RYAN.
Oglethorpe—W. .J. J. SMITH 4 .
Montezuma —I CHAIM >J> DAVIS.
Talbotton— J. CALL I EE, L M.
Griffin— JASON BURR.
MilledgevillC—F. L. BRAN I LLA .
Be on Your Guard !
Recent occurrences in Tennessee, warn
the white’ people of Georgia what they
must expect a few months hence, when the
political canvass for delegates to tiie Con
vention opens in our Btate. The same
accursed spirit and its infamous ministers,
whose work is seen there, have been busy
in our midst for months. They have pen
etrated into almost every corner of the
Btate, and wherever they have reached,
have left their loathsome trail. Despite
orders from military head-quarters, the
negroes have been allowed to form semi
military organizations, and to drill and
partially arm themselves. We do not
charge the military with complicity in
this matter, hut we do charge that its pub
licity may well excite a suspicion of
wilful blindness on the part of those
whose duty it is to see. The various
organizations, benevolent and other
wise, in almost every city of the South,
are only nuclei, around which to build up,
at Radical bidding, a formidable military
power. When they appear in public,
they do so with the timed step and erect
bearing that comes only of practice. Those
who have enquired into toe matter, say
that in their halls, and at hours of the
night when honest people are asleep, they
show a like proficiency in the manual of
arms.
Now what is the duty of the white peo
ple. We mean of those who are not pre
pared to throw themselves into the em
braces of Radicalism, and who are deter
mined that the Btate shall not, if they can
prevent it. Obviously, first to vote against
a Convention. That is the first line of
werks to make a stand at. Next, if defeat
ed there, take such steps as will insure
some concert of action in crises like those
thathnvebeen precipitated upon our friends
in Tennessee. We do not advise any or
ganizations that will violate, in letter or
spirit, orders from our temporary masters,
but such an understanding among all who
agree, as will enable them to help each
other whenever and wherever such help is
demanded. Kelf-preeervation is the first
of all Nature’s laws. It is supreme in its
application to every living tiling that
walks or crawls upon the earth. Tyrants
recognize it, and even their minions re
spect it. It docs not become white men
who were freemen once, and who proved
their fitness for the glorious heritage of
liberty upon an hundred battle-field, to die
like rats in their holes, without even a
struggle for life. They have a right to de
fend themselves if attacked, and our
remarks have this exteut and no more.—
We plead for self-preservation, nothing
else.
Therefore, letno super-serviceable minion
of “loyalty” charge otherwise. Let none
of these nameless creatures, who having
sold their own honor long ago art' greedy
to debauch that of their fellows, raise the
bowl that we are “fanning the embers of
rebellion.” We intend no such thing
Rut wo do intend, so long as per
mitted to handle a pen, never to cease,
in season or out of season, to fight Radical
ism, and implore our countrymen to do
likewise. We never intend to give up the
doctrine that this is a white man’s coun
try, won by the blood of white men from
Indians, British and Mexicans, for them
and theirs forever. And last of all, we
never luteud to give up the principle of
aetC-pitiMomictoii dm mailer wtiere it leads,
and regardlessof any and every antagonism
its enforcement may evoke. If this be
treason, make the most of it.
The Nationalßepublican. —We find
among our exchanges bv yesterday’s mail,
the initial number of this new aspirant for
negro favor, just horn at Augusta, ft pur
ls >rtH to be the successor of the Iktilg Press,
whose late proprietor, Mr. Pughe, will be
the business manager of the new concern.
The item from the Chronicle <V Sentinel
found elsewhere tells a different story as
to|its paternity, which account is in ac
cord with our information derived from
other sources. The savan of tin- Lvyal
Georgian, though, might not be sweet to
white men, and “policy”, perhaps, sugges
ted that its share in the enterprise be kept
out of sight.
If we understand its anoints, and the
real objects it will seek to accomplish, we
have no hesitation in wishing it speedy,
and most hopeless failure.
Serious Disturbance.,— We regret to
have to chronicle a serious disturbance
which ocourred in Rutland District, some
ten miles from our city, on Sunday night
last, in which some ten or twelve negroes
were wounded—none seriously, we believe.
It serins that the negroes of the neighbor
hood have been in the habit of meeting
every week and sometimes oftener for the
purjKise, ostensibly, of holding religious
exercises, but, who had formed a Club, or
League, for purposes only known to them
selves, and that on occasions they went
through with military drill, etc. The
meeting did not take place at a church,
but in the woods, 011, or near, as we
are informed, the premises of Mr.
Daniel Garey. The conduct of the ne
groes, in some way, seems to have given
offence to some parties, so report goes, aud
they determined to break up the gather
ing. On Sunday night, the negroes had
another meeting, and while assembled to
gether, we know not for wliat purpose,
they say for religious exercises, they were
fired into by, as reports says, three white
men, with double barrelled guns, six loads
taking effect, and some ten or twelve ne
groes being wounded. As the party' who
did the firing ran, we are informed they
were fired at by a negro, with what result
is not known. These are the facts, as we
learn them, but as the accounts are prin
cipally from negro information, it may be
exaggerated. As to who the parties were
who committed the outrage we are unable
to say', one report being that they' were
negroes, opposed' to the club,another, that
it was designing political intriguers, who
desired to make a breach between the
whites and blacks, and .another, an ,j
one given most credence, is that it was a
party of three white men in the neighbor
hood who wore endeavoring to break up
the assemblage. Whoever the aggressors
are the a*t can not be too severely depre
cated, and we are convinced, was commit
ted with no good intention towards the
good people of that district, such acts of
lawlessness can but tend to increase the
difficulties, and retard the prosjierity of
our people, and should lie, as we have no
doubt they are, frowned upon, as liny de
serve.
We learn later, that a justice of the
peace has issued warrants for the arrest of
suspected parties, and has taken out suffi
cient assistance to make the arrests. We
also learn, that tiie parties accused, at
•east two of them, say they eau prove ail
allot
Spell it Correctly. —“Quoudam,
“Nabob,” anil other correspondents wri
ting to papers outside the State, must
spell the name of their shining light of
Jacobinism, at Atlanta, Mr. William
Markham— Whilom of Confedrate gun
!K>at-iroii notorieto, and other “dis
loyal” practises that “put money in his
burse”. These correspondents spell it
Marcom. As there may be some respec
table white man in Georgia of this name,
we protest against the mistake. It is ac
tionable, and any Jury of the vicinage
would give sounding damages if called to
pass upon it.
Bi rke’s Weekfy.— This excellent little
paper for boys and girls will shortly begin
the publication of a thrilling story of life
in Texas, duing theearly history of that
State. It is from the pen of a talentpd
Floridian, now resident in Texas, and the
pictures are drawn from life. He was one
of the survivors of Fannin’s ill-fated band;
was with that brave officer when he was
captured, and was left by the Mexicans
for dead after tlie inhuman butchery of
his brave associates. In this narrative
he details his marvellous escape at that
time, and his wanderings for weeks, while
attempting to reach the white settlement.
A competent critic has read the manu
script and pronounces it equal, in point of
thrilling interest, to the best of Mayne
Reid’s stories, while it posesses the addi
tional merit of being founded on fact. Ad
dress J. W. Burke <fc Cos., Macon, Ga.
Negro Registration.
Convention Testimony— What the Cnoven
tion will Do.
The Georgia correspondents of the New
York Times, “Quondam,” had better look
sharp or he may lose his place and be
send out of the “loyal” sanctum besides.—
A male guant “rebbil” could not state the
case morn truthfully anil plainly than Re
does in the extracts below. As there can
be no loss ot “self-respect, or honor” how
ever in aiding with a cheerfui heart to
make the picture a reality, of course we
welcome this accession of intelligence to
the voting population of the State, and
“toss high” in advance, “our ready caps in
air” at tiie prospect of getting back into
the Unionjuhder a constitution that “even
Thaddeus Stevens will approved
Your able corressondent, “Libra,” has
given you a faithful picture of negro regis
tration. I have seen many such scenes,
and I can assure you with perfect sinceri
ty and free from ail prejudice that not one
in a hundred of the negroes whom I have
seen registered had the most distant con
ception of the object of registration, of tiie
meaning ol' the oath they took, or of tiie
colored people, that the Government may
learn (lie number who are to get “free
farms,” and that voting for the Radicals is
the price which they must pay to acquire
these landed estates. It is tiie utter igno
rance which makes the prospect of negro
judges, sheriffs, ordinaries, justices of the
peace, notaries, legislators, &c., appalling
to those who understand the duties of
these officers, and who see the ruin which
this ignorance in power must of necessity
bring upon the whole people.
The Convention w ill certainly be adopt
ed. Os the w bite votes registered in Geor
gia a majority will vote against it, but the
negroe will be ail polleiLtnd will be a unit
in favor of it. It will we controlled and
directed by such jmen as Farrow 4 , Bry
ant, Markham and Erekh art, and will
adopt such a constitution as even Mr.
Tjiadeus Stevens will approve.
Brevities.
Since January Ist, 144,236 immigrants
have landed at New York. A slight ex
cess as compared with corresponding
months last year.
The Radicals declare that the "Judiciary
shall be in harmony with the sentiments
of the times.” The Philadelphia Age
gives as notable instance, judges who
were in such harmony, Pontius Pilate,
Jeffreys, Lord Ellenborough, and Fon
quicr Tinville.
Registration iias commenced in Florida.
Tn Leon county, (lie report at two pre
cints is 539 negroes, and 35 whites.
A man named Rockwell, hailing from
Memphis, fell from the third story of a
building in St. Louis last week, and was
instantly killed.
jv negro fitn nameu Cora Rice, made
cold pudding of herself on Saturday last,
at Memphis, by taking a large vial of
laudanum.
The Nashville Banner charges Stokes
with having been privy, during the war,
to the murder of a Confederate soldier,
whose ear was cut off and taken to camp
and exli i bited at h is (Stoke’s) head-quarters.
He laughed over it, ami declared “other
d—d rebels should be treated in the same
way.” Stokes is the candidate of the God
and morality party for Congress.
’l’lie Federal Treasury Department will
issue, in a few weeks, fractional notes of
the denomination of fifteen cents. On the
right hand corner of the bill will be a like
ness of Grant, and on the left, that of
Sherman.
The new “reconstruction” act, and the
resolution appropriating $1,000,000 to force
it upon the South, arc officially published,
with the statement, by way of boast, that
they were passed over the Peesident’s
veto.
At four preeints in Colquitt county, re.
gistration -tands 165 whites, to 14 blacks.
“The Poisoned Hash” is the cheerful
title of a stunning romance now appearing
in a New York Weekly paper.
Maximilian’s body was emlialmed. It
took seven days and nights to finish the
operation. It was pierced through both
throat and abdomen by balls, and the
Fgyptian method, and a partial injection
were found necessary.
Burglary is in fashion at Montgomery
now. One merchant ou Market street
lias lost, within a few days, S6tXI in money,
and a large lot ot laces, lawns and calicoes.
“Yuba Dam”, in the Louisville Courier,
says the reason why so many couples
marry this hot weather, is tosave expense
in tliearti des of tire-wood and bed clothes.
t hirty thousand brave men in Ohio, last
year, promised to love, honor, and pay the
bills of a corresponding number of dames
and damsels. The cry now is: “We are
coming, Ma and Pa, thirty,’ thousand
more.”
The result of registration in the city of
Atlanta, and county of Fulton, shows a
majority fur the whites of 154 in the coun
ty, and of ST, in the city, for the blacks.
The total vote in the city is 2,969.
Farther Ryan, author of the “Conquered
Banner”, preached in Atlanta ou Sunday.
We would bo glad to welcome him to
Macon.
Two men named Bridgeford and Nichols,
shot each other at Frankfort, Ky., on Fri
day, with the following result; Nichols
dead, and Bridgeport mortally wounded.
Prime while wheat sold in Cartersvilie,
on Thursday, for >1 95, to $2 oh, per bush
el, and re*’, ditto, tor $1 65, to $1 75.
Paul Taylor, the one armed negro who
was to have beou hung on Friday last at
Montgomery, Ala., has been respited till
the 23d of August.
A farmer named Go wan, and his wife,
of Weaihersfieid, Yu, were murdered on
the 23d by a Frenchman. He knocked
them down, and beat out their brains with
an axe.
Female suff rage has been defeated again,
in the New York Constitutional Conven
tion.
The preliminary stejs to have the Ala -
Ixinia & Florida K. R. take the benefit of
! Bankrupt Law, have been completed
| The assets of the road will be sold.
Gen. Grant is at Long Braucb, and the
suobsaud toadies who there do cougregrate,
are making them as disgusting as Chase is
at Saratoga.*aml is said to be very “thick”
with certain magnates of the Catholic
Church.
The “Freedmen’s Saving Bank,’”of Au
gusta, has suspended payment. The mon
ey has been appropriated to support such
vermin as Bryant, and his organ, the Loy
al Georgian.
Registration thus far in Alabama, shows
27,229 whites, and 48,547 blacks—total 75,-
776. The grand total will foot up, it is
thought, more than 100,000 voters. In
1866, the census returns showed 105,000
white males over 21 years of age. Com
ment is unnecessary.
A wretch named Hunter killed his
niothel at Cincinnati, on the 25th, because
she begged him to g 6 home from a drink
ing saloon.
A man named Norman shot and killed
a companion named Bamford, the same
day in the same city. They both belong
ed to Newcomb’s Minstrels.
Y'ale College students, after the Com
mencement, visited Worcester, Mass., and
taking possession of the Bay State Hotel,
destroyed and stole over $1,400 worth of
furniture, crockery and bed clothing.
William Blackwell, aged seventeen, was
drowned while bathing in the Chattahoo
chee river, at Coiambus, on Thursday af
ternoon —the second case at that place
within four weeks.
Registration for the present has been
closed in Columbus.* It stands, so far, 609
whites, and 649 blacks.
Southern Arkansas papers report the
prospect for corn section very flat
tering. The never better in
the bititory of the
It is gratifying to le!m\ that the health
of the Hon. John Bell, who lias been dan
gerously ill, is improving.
The name of Gen. Harry T. Hays, Sher
iff of New Orleans, who was registered
under the “reconstruction” act has been
stricken from the list by order of Sher
idan. *
In the three counties of Harrison,
Campbell, and Fleming in Kentucky—all
radical by large majorities—there are 849
families without Bibles or Testaments.
Agin house and lotof cotton in Texas, were
burned in rather a singular manner re
cently. A pile of cotton seed outside the
door took fire from exposure to the hot
rays of the sun, and the flames were com
municated to the building.
One of the white niggers named Robert
son, who spoke at the Radical State Con
vention at Columbia, S. C., “thanked God
that the Southern people failed in their ef
forts to break up tiie best”, &c. What a
pity they had not broken up such vermin
as Robertson, et al, when they had tlio
power.
Three brothers, the oldest not more than
twelve years of age, living on the Cincin
nati & Indianapolis Railroad, were terri
bly bruised and injured a few days since,
by having a train pass over them at full
speed as they were lying in the hollow of
the track between the rails —just for the
fun of the thing!
It costs the tax payers of the so-called
United States, $40,000,000 per annum to
keep the Southern States under military
rule. Right costly job, this, to put the
negro race above the white.
The Post Master General recently sus
pended a post master in Indiana for steal
ing. The President nominated iris succes
sor, hut of course the Senate rejected him,
and under the Radical tetiure-of-ollice law,
the thief was re-instated. Upon informing
him of the fact, the P. M. G. politely re
quested him “to use as little of the money
of the government, and make as few false
entries, as possible!”
The Republican State Convention in
New Jersey met last Tuesday at Trenton.
Resolutions approving the murder of Max
imilian, and nominating Gen. Grant for
President in 1868, were lajil on the table
by an overwhelming vote. Chase has the
inside track in that State.
The thermometer stood at 98 in the
shade, at 1 P. M. Thursdays in Louisville.
Fat men were hiring two freedmen a
piece, to keep them alive—one to fan, and
the other to tiling ice.
The Louisville Courier refuses to pub
lish “ three yards of warm weather poetry
dedicated to Amelia,” because, in the first
verse the “ poick” moans, “ Oh! she was
fair, biit sorrow came and left its traces
there,” and then don’t tell what became of
the rest of the harness !
The Arkansas Gazette, published at
Little Rock, has completed its 45th year,
but is still “lively.” For instance, it
heads its telegrams : “ Special to the Ga
zette, but generally gobbled by the Repub
lican, without credit.”
A batallion of U. S. Infantry arrived at
Atlanta, Thursday, for garrison duty.—
The oppressed and outraged white men of
Tennessee beg for troops, but can’t get
them.
Anegro and a white man confined in
the La Grange jail broke out on the night
of the 24d, anil made their escape.
Richard G. Walker, a native of this
State, but long resident in Montgomery,
Ala., died in that city, on Thursday, of a
congestive chill.
In the counties of Murray, Whitfield,
Catoosa, Walker, Chattooga, Gordon arid
Bartow, registration, so far, shows a white
majority of 3,349.
111 Webster coanty so far, the result is
whites, 365, blacks., 346.
Journal & Me ssenger.— We congrat
ulate this distinguished journal upon
having been suedissfully delivered of sev
eral jokes upon the Era. Stale, fiat, and
unprofitable it is true, but thev were jokes.
Its head is not "very good, perhaps, as a
fond mother once said of her idiot boy,but
then, poor child, it is the only one it has.
[Atlanta Era-, 27th.
When the public knows, as we do, that
this paragraph was copied almost word
for word, from the St. Louis Democrat, of
a very recent date, where it was applied to
the St. JLouis Republican, the inference
will be irresistible that the courtly Escu
lapius of the« Era is worse off even than
the idiot bo; f —the latter had a head of his
own, the so rmer borrows from other peo
ple. When, you “prig” so unMuahingly
hadn’t you. better, hereafter, be a little
more carefuil ?
Journal & Messenger Printing
House lues recently received additions to
its assortment of Type, of the latest im
proveinen es, from the best foundries.—
With skili ‘ui workmen, excellent material,
and a determination not to lie excelled in
the style car price of work, this Printing
House is prepared to till all orders for
Printing—Trum an address card to a mam
moth poster.
Cornelius Thompson,a young freed man,
was befoi »> Judge Whittle 011 Saturday
last, char god with stealing a pistol from
the store ofD.*J. Bear. He plead guilty
aud w;is s euteneed to six months impris
onment in: the county jail.
The LkWal Government has decided
that all Inqierial Prefects be punished
with six years exile; and Secretaries two
years.
[For the Journal &. Messenger
Our Mope.
Not to the aged, or even to the v
we now to look for the future g< l( j ■
welfare of our desolated and ■
country. Wisdom alone cannot * ■
safely into port the storm-beaten 1. ■
there must be earnest labor,
with knowledge, to right the siukiij; sLn/J|
Idly folded hands, and eyes lookin onni"”
mute despair, have never yet wrount ese ,J
but ill. *
Like the Wold, brave crew of a fj dik
ing boat, we must be up and iloinj.
While the storms of political IWjd Jy
vengence are
wrath
ing o’er —w hile the tor
rent of mean and pitiful spite falls witli
blinding fury on our brows. sit we not
down in weak and helpless agony ; let us
not, in vain and helpless terror, shut our
eyes, to keep out the frightful vision ; ’ti?
hut a nightmare, that w ill Boon pass, if w e
put forth strength enough into the strug
gle to throw it off. Day will yet dawn,
(tho’ the night be long and dark,) it will
come, and bright and glorious will te the
morning of that day, which brings us reso
peace and liberty.
Let each of us, then, put forth our
strength for the accomplishment of the
great eud; and would we find the full frui
tion of our hopes, we must employ that
only sesame to the Temple of Prosperity,,
which is “ Industry.”
To the young men, then, we would say,
“ (Jo to work—do anything-, scorn not
honest labor. Let it come in what shape
or form it may. Take the spade, and the
pickaxe; follow the plow ; wield the hoe ;
so you are honorably employed, never
mind how or where; and when the day,
with its work is over, and you take in
yours, the hand of wife, or sweetheart, it
will be pressed none the less closely, that
it is hardened by honest toil. Let your
pride now be, that you are a mainstay of,
not a hurden to, your country. To be this,
you must work, and manfully.
And this work—we can not do it sitting
“on the shady side of the street,” nor un
der the hospitable awningsof villagestores,
neither in the parlor, lounging away the
golden hours, in silly nothings with a lady
love, who is equally guilty, in that she
thus w astes her time with one who is too
indolent to make himself worthy the re
spect of a true woman. ’Tis time that she
should be initiating that lithe and grace
ful form into the mysteries of bed-making,
anil, room-sweeping; those delicate,jeweled
fingers should be flashing in and out of
the smooth, light pastry for dinner, or
cutting, fitting and making sundry gar
ments for the wearing of her charming
self, and even for the poor, tired mother,
who seeks in vain for a “spare moment,”
in which to rest and refresh herself, for the
hourly call upon her time and care.
To the young men, again, we would say:
If you wish to sun yourselves in the “eye
beams,” (and “heart-beams,” too,) of a
sensible girl (and no other will make a
wife worth trying for), you have but to
step upon the broad-floor of a dray, aud
once there you will not lack for time or
opportunity to display to best advantage,
the Adonis-like proportions which may
be yours; and then, how independent,
how manly and noble, you appear in her
eyes; and how, dearer than life, does she
hold you, when she sees, and knows, that
you have a true self-respect, and a heart
worth the winning—one which she will
ever find brave, bold and true.
This then, is the fact: In the young
people of both sexes, must we place the
hopes of this country. There’s is the
promise to raise from the grave of our
“ lost cause” the ashes of departed glory,
and animate again with life aud energy,
the germ, the fruit of which will be a great
and noble nation. To them, we say, shirk
not your duty—seek not a shelter from the
furious blast, but nobly, manfully stand
erect, with brow uplifted, and with a heart
strong with determination, bear up till the
storm is o’er. Still keep an earnest,stead
fast gaze fixed upon the light which
streams across the black and trackless
waste of political strife, from the light
house of “ Right,” and we will yot con
quer; we will vet, (when tho bootless
wrath of the party ascendant lias swept
with its withering breath, like a simoon,
o’er the length and breath of our unhappy
country, and spent its fury,) guide safely
our noble “ iron-clad," storm beaten, wave
lashed, tho’she be, into the long wished
for haven of Peace, Liberty, and Prosperi
ty. *1
Americas, Ga., July 21, 1867.
THE GOSPEL OF MU H Elt BEAUTY.
Nineteen hundred years liave gone
since Jesus, standing beneath the blue Ju
dean sky, with a lew disciples and some
plain men and women about him, t-aidof
the lilies of the field, “ Solomon in ail his
glory was not arrayed like one of these;”
and yearly, through all that time has this
marvel of summer beauty glorified tie
earth. It is indeed true that “ man iivetli
not by bread alone,” but needs wherewitii
to feed finer senses, and the Soul as weli.
Corn, and wheat, and grass, and tree
could grow in plainer style, and flowers
need not bloom to support bodily life; but
here are the stately beauty of the queen
of cereals, the waving banners of tin
wheat-field, the green carpet whereof th<
warp and woof of delicate grass is grace
ful in its every thread, the liilies, rich in
their shining raiment as when Christjmade
the monarch’s robe seem poor beside them,
and the noble grandeur of great trees.
This all tells of spiritual harmony, and
fitness, and grace—the beauty of iulinate
and Divine Life pulsing through all na
ture —and tlie Gospel preached by flower,
and grass, and waving harvest is,
“Let grace, and harmony, and beauty
dwell in every soul and be manifest in ev
ery life, and thus shall man approach to
ward the great Exaropler. ”
The Abundance of Beauty.
One of the most remarkable things in
the world is the abundance of beauty •
of what not only feeds, clothes, and out
wardly serves the material needs of men
but also pleases the senses and the soul’
feeding and comforting the finer faculties’
f ind, after setting before us what we turn
into bread and raiment, and houses and
b<x>ks. gives us the benediction of beauty,
as -in unexpected grace after meat.
The grass which springs up in the cracks
of city streets, or which the farmer’s ox
licks up by mouthfuls iu the meadows
what a beautiful thing it is iu shape, in
color how exceeding fair!
How attractive are the grains to the
eye, from the bearded grain for horses
which loves the northern lands, to that
queen of cereal plants, southern born, audl
loving the sen, the Pocahontas of grains
the great Indian Empress of Corn !
The very roots that beast and man feewj
on have a certain homely comeliness.-f
How handsome are the shapes of apylq
pear, peach, qtiA'ice and plum ; of die
acroo, the nut, the pine cone, yea of ev-ry
leaf, from the northern thistle to the
proud jiaini which claps its hands to its
Maker’s praise Lei'oath the tropics.
How fair are all the seeds, —those wiicli
fall into the ground, or tangle themsfives
in the feathers of bin Is or the hair of Oven,
or those which float otf in the gossfmer
balloons and parachutes, on every br-uth
of wind, scattering Hue parent beauty to
spring up in fragrant liveliness.
The fuci which float-on tiie still waters,
and fringe the timbers.of the wharves are
lovely and .vet so little jaoticed that they j
have uot the welcomeofajuEnglish name, I
and I must talk Latin wlmn I praise these j
humble things.
It is not alone the rich who can own ;
beauty. It is a philanthropic Goa who
made the world, —the world itself a com
monwealth, and all its beauty demo-ratic,
almsgiving ol' the Almighty to your heart
and mine.
ways si> easy to < i<• •
■-.V'*- - J . the occasion is
:'■ ■ r thi- purpose, as
7: inteu ~ts oi eti
in your 001.
. toy yo,,d
'.ttfc|yLcm
’ B^^*c
, ~
an
whizzing that excellent
Hoad, the were met at the sta
tion with free transportation in abun
dance, and escorted to the cosy, ‘vine
olad’ “Academy”—where was a scene for
•Painter’s eye,’ or ‘Poets dream.’ The
country wasout 'en-mass I—little 1 — little boys and
girls, with their happy smiling faces, and
sunny ringlets—“ Young America,” with
his romp and turmoil—young gents and
young ladies, paired off as so many cooing
doves, prospecting their future nests, old
age with rinkled face wreathed in smiles,
as bright associations of by-gone days
flitted by; and last, but not least, the end
less, [ever-present “Freedman,” from the
robust man down to diminutive "afri
cans,” with every imaginable kind ot ve
hicle, to fill up the back-ground, and
make a real rustic “Country Picture.
PROGRAMME.
Morning,—examinations in grammar,
geography, arithmetic, spelling, etc., and
all the 'modus operandP of a thorough
“School Examination” —which
from Americas did not arrive in time to
hear; but, judging from the remainder of
the exercises, and what we were told, will
vouch for, as being equal to any ot the
“Commencements” of the “High Schools”
or ‘Colleges’ in the country, as it was genu
ine, having less varnish and more sense.
2 P. M.,—When it was unpleasaut even
to perform that very necessary function of
nature, and too much so, from the exces
sive sultryness of the weather, to do any
thing else, we repaired to a shady hush-ar
bor, and did partake, in quantities that
would testify we were fond of good
things, of as line a dinner as the country
could afford—and that is saying consider
able.
After dinner—Order of the day, w’as,
‘enjoyment , —which was obtained from mu
sic, (a full string band of six instruments
being in attendance) conversation, prom
enades, etc., mixed up with a good many
lemonades, ice-cream, water-melons, &c.,
&e., &c.,
Evening,—music, speeches, composi
tions, dialogues, charades, tableaux, etc.,
so numerous to prohibit, for the want ot
space, a description —suffice it to say,
there was some twenty, or more, speeches
(some original) delivered to an attentive
and appreciative audience, on the follow
ing, with many other subjects, "Our
Country,” Profanity,” Location,” “True
Education,” “Eulogy to Gen. Lee.”
“Southern Land,” “Our Duty,” “True
Eloquence,” “Never told a Lie,” “Sol
diers,” “Flirtation,” “Think I will,” —
which were rendered, from the short time
occupied, (about a week) in preparation,
exceedingly well, some of the young men
waxing eloquent, while others chained the
attention of their hearers! The whole
concluding nicely, by the reading of a
well written, sensible and delicate Valedic
tory, to school mates, teacher, band and
people, by the accomplished Miss M. T.
Bushin, of Macon county.
In conclusion, may all examinations
evince such sound training, and good dis
cipline, and go off as pleasant—may edu
cation gain its foot-hold in every nook
and corner of Georgia and the South, that
it seems to have, under the supervision of
this nice gentleman, and zealous worker
jn the -cause*of education, Prof. B. M.
Camp. May our ignorant poor, and the
more ignorant “freedmen” be educated, so
as to make our country more prosperous
and happy, is the sincere wish of
“WENTZ”
Americus, Geo., July 24th, 18G7.
A Good Wifo.
A good wife makes the poorest and most
desolate home a paradise, and moulds the
most negligent and indifferent husband
into a tender and thoughtful companion.
The iniluence of a woman—quiet, imper
ceptible and all persuasive—is irresistible
when directed by woman’s instinctive
tact and affection. The clamorers for
woman’s rights rarely attain their object;
while the meek and yielding can bind
manhood with chains of roses more potent
than chains of steel. The first inquiry of
a woman after marriage should be—“ How
shall I continue the love I have inspired ?
How shall I preserve the heart 1 have
won ?” Endeavor to make your husband’s
habitation alluring to him. Let it be to
him a sanctuary, to which his heart may
always turn from the calamities of life.—
Make it a repose from his cares —a shelter
from the world—a home, not for his person
only, but for his heart. He may meet
with pleasure in other houses, but let him
limi pleasure in his own. Should he be
dejected, soothe him; should he be
thoughtful, do not heedlessly disturb him;
should lie be studious, favor him with all
practicable facilities : or should he be pee
vish, make allowance for human nature,
and by your sweetness, gentleness and
good humor, urge him continually to
think, though he may not say it—“ This
woman is indeed a comfort to me; I can
not but love her, and requite such gentle
ness and affection as they deserve.”
Invariably adorn yourself with delicacy
and modesty. These, to a man of refine
meut, are attractions the most highly
captivating; while their opposites never
fail to inspire disgust. Let the delicacy
and modesty of the bride be always, In a
great degree supported by the wife. If it
be possible let your husband suppose you
think him a good husband, and it will be
a strong stimulus to his being so. As long
as he thinks he possesses the reputation he
will take some pains to deserve it; but
vhen he has once lost the name, he will
be apt to abandon the reality. Cultivate
aid exhibit with the greatest care and
constancy, cheerfulness and good humor.
Taey give beauty to the fiuest faceand im
port charms where charms are not. On
the contrary, a gloomy, dissatisfied mau
ner is chilling nnd repulsiveto his feolingp.
H* will be very apt to seek elsewhere l'or
tfose smiles and that cheerfulness which
h* finds not in his own house.
In the article of dress study your hus
titid's tastes. x The opinions of others on
tais subject is of very little consequence,
;f he approves. Particularly shun what
he world calls “curtain lectures.”—
When you shut your door at night, en
deavor to shut out at the same moment
iah discord acid contention, and look upon
vour chamber as a sacred retreat from the
vexatious of the world —a shelter sacred
to peace and affection. How indecorous,
offensive, and sinful it is for a women to
exercise authority over her husband. A
knowledge of cookery', as well every other
branch in housekeeping is indispensable
in a female; and a wife should always
endeavor to support with applause the
character of the lady and the housewife.—
Let home be your empire—your world.—
Let it be the scene of your wishes, your
thoughts, your plans, your exertions.—
Let it be the stage, on which in the va
ried character of wife, mothers, and of
mistress, you strive toshine. In itssol»er,
quiet scenes, let your heart cast its anchor,
let your feelings and pursuits all be
centred. Leave to your husband the task
of distinguishing himself by hLs vulor or
his talents. Do you seek for time at home,
and let your applause be that of your
servants, your children, your husband,
your God. That fame is noblest which
ihe true, loving and affectionate wife
secures from among the inmates of the
home circle.
Thk Order of the Day.—A general
order for Sozodont. In the teeth of all
op|»osition it lias become the supreme den
tifrice of the age.
moral Influence of. Farming.
There is a decided moral tendency in
the direct and close dealing, if we may so
speak, between the farmer and his God.—
They work together. God has ground
this realm (so geologists tell us) into a
somewhat hard and thin soil. "He has
sent the springs into the valleys, which
run among the hills, aud caused the grass
to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
service of man.” These gifts are in the
rough. The condition of their true enjoy
ment is useful aud health-giving labor.—
or mined, the
soil must
into blankets and sandals. In short,
labor and reward are inscribed on every
gift of God, and none so generally receive
them right from the giver as those who
till the ground. There is less intervention
of varioloid scrip and poisonous nickels.—
The vine holds out its clusters, the rich
purple all undisturbed. The apple, the
pear, the peach, bend their blanches to
the gathering, as only God can make
them. The harvest fields nods to the
reaper, that it may become sheaves in his
bosom and bread to the hungry. The
broad bosom of the meadow undulates and
throbs with every breeze until shorn of
its trophies. Even the forests toss their
giant branches for shades. Is there not a
sense of great nearness to God amidst
these blessings?—a feeling of satisfaction
and comfort closely allied to thanksgiving,
praise and love? —[Farm & Fireside.
Slander.
If there is a sin witiiout extenuation,
an offence without pardon it is the sin of
slander, the offence ofdefamatiou. While
it robs its victim of happiness it does not
contribute one mite to the felicity of him
who pullutes his lips with slime, while
it wounds the fame ot him at whom his
poisonous shot was sent it does not add in
any measure to the good name ot him
whose envenomed tongue did the mischief.
On the contrary it is but the fostering
nurse of malice and the constant food for
the bitterness upon which it lives. Os all
the characters on earth there is none so
despisable as that of the slanderer, the
busybody, the backbiter. He is a moral
blight upon the body politic, the spawn
of a degraded humanity, a hooded monk
of the inquisition of mischief. His office
is one of the most infamous choosing, and
the manner in which he practices itjustly
subjects him to the contempt auil scorn of
the noble minded and good. With
envenomed tongue and a “lip ot lies,” lie
stealthily moves about whispering his
foul infamies, the unholy emanations of a
perverted brain, the spurious offspring of
a polluted soul, to those who will allow
them audience. Mean in his purposes,
base in his designs, he engenders trouble
wherever his lying tongue may wag. The
very air he breathes become pestiferous
aud his life is a libel upon all the beauty
of God’s creation. His action make him
a sneak, and compared to him the vilest
worm that crawls in the dust is a noble
thing. —Miss Barber's' Weekly.
The Household Tyrant.
But few things have been better said
than the following on “the baby,” by
Ralph Waldo Emmersou :
“The small despot asks so little that all
nature and reason are on his side. His
ignorance is more charming than all
knowledge, aud his little sins more be
witching than any virtue. All day, be
tween his three or four sleeps, he coos like
a pigeon house, sputters ami spurns, and
puts on his faces of importance ; and when
he fasts the little Pharisee fails not to
sound his trumpet before him. Out of
blocks, threads, spools,cards and checkers,
he will built his pyramid with the gravity
of Palladio. With an aocoustie apparatus
of whistle and rattle he explores the laws
of sound. But chiefly, like his senior
countrymen, the young American studies
new and speedier modes of transportation.
Mistrusting the cunning of his own legs
he wishes to ride on the necks and shoul
ders of all flesh. The small enchanter
nothing can withstand—no seniority of
age, no gravity of character; uncles,
aunts, cousins, grandsires, grandames—
all fall an easy prey ; he conforms to no
body; all conform to him; all caper and
make mouths and babble and chirrup to
him. On the strongest shoulders he rides
aud pulls the hair of laureled beads.”
The Only Light at Oealh.
Life’s last hours are grand testing
hours; —death tries all principles, and lays
bare all our foundation. Many haveactcd
the hypocrite in life, who were forced to
be honest in the hour of death. Misgiv
ings of heart, that we have kept secret
through life, have come out in death; and
many also who seemed all right and fair
for heaven, have had to declare that they
have been self deceived. A gentleman of
renown was on his dying bed, when a
friend at hand spoke of the Saviour. “As
to the Bible,” he replied, “it may be true ;
I don’t know.”
“What, then are your prospects?” he
w r as asked.
He replied in whispers, which, indeed,
were thunders :
“Dark—very dark.”
“But have you no light from the Sun of
Righteousness ?—have you done justice to
the Bible ?”
“Perhaps not,” he replied; “but it is
now too late—too late!”
A mother who had laughed at and
ridiculed religion and religious people,
was seen restless and miserable on her
death bed. Hhe desired that her children
should be called. They came. In impas
sioned accents she addressed them: “My
children, I have been leading you in the
wrong road all your life. I now find the
broad road ends in destruction. I did not
believe it before. Oh ! seek to serve God,
and try to find the gate to heaven, though
you may not see your mother there.” Her
lips closed forever, and her spirit departed
to its account, while the household looked
on terror struck. Mother! father! would
you die thus? Oh, no. Then jioint to
heaven and lead the way.
[Bible Society Record.
[Written tor Moor’s Kura! New Yorker.
JOY AFTER GRIEF.
“ Tims ever In the steps of grief
Are sown the urecious seeds of joy.
Each fount of Mura.li hath a leaf
Whose healing balm we may enjoy.”
That joy, and sorrow, pleasure and pain,
are intermingled in every life is a truth
acknowledged and proven by each indi
vidual history. Every human life enriched
bv years of experience, has felt, at times,
the waters of Marab rising and burying in
darkness their fairest hopes and treasures,
aud imparting its own bitterness to their
sweetest pleasures until existence itself
3eemed a weary thing. Each heart must
have its seasons of fasting—its sad Getli
sernane.
These constant changes from light to
darkness in the inner .world are not acci
dental or the result of circumstances
merely, but are necessary to the perfecting
of a plan, the wisdom of which it becomes
us not to question. We are so constituted,
physically, mentally and spiritually, that
the full developement of our powers re
quires these transitions, though we may
not discern at the time the hand of Provi
dence thus dealing with us. Sorrow and
suffering are common to mankind, and are
ordained of God for the working out of
good in us. They are the agents employed
for developing our character,for enlarging
our powers, for subduing our passions, for
purifying aud refining the heart. With
these holy ministries, for they are such
rightly considered, the heart is pressed
down and softened aud its sweetest juices
are pressed out and flow in deeds of Jove
and kindness towards all, and then return
to us bearing precious seeds of joy which
find lodgment in our hearts and ripen iuto
perfect fruit.
Without such influences, those sympa
thies, which lead us out of ourselves, and
up step by step until we can almost take
hold of the Divine hand, were never
awakened to life and activity. A life
solely of pleasure or contentment, with no
thought of the morrow, or for others’ weal
or woe, is not life at all, as God designed
when he bequeathed unto us these noble
powersof heart nad mind.
Those heavenly aspirations which lift us
higher and still higher in the scale of
gradation—those longings to be, to do, ami
to suiter if need be, for the right and good
of mankind—those tender feelings gushing
forth and embracingall the human family,
rejoicing with them in joy, and sorrowing
with those in tears, spring forth fiom, and
are cultivated only in a heart rendered
pliable and rich by the visitation of pain
and grief.
Lena.
Ncud|>ap<-r Change.
Heavy. —The Era of yesterday has tlve
following:
W. L. Scruggs and J. B. Dumble have
bought out the Opinion, which is now
under their management. Mr. Dumble
has large journalistic! experience, and is a
gentleman.
Little Crosses.
Christ comes to us morning by morning
to present to us for the day that is open
ing, divers little crosses, thwartiugsof our
owu will, interferences with our plans,
disappointments of our little pleasure. Do
we kiss them and take them up, and follow
in his rear, like Simon the Oyrenean? Or
do we toss them from us scornfully,because
they are so little, and wait for some great
affliction to approve our patience and our
resignation to his will. Ah, how might
we accommodate to the small mutters of
religion generally those words of the Lord
that ye despise not one of
ones!” Despise not thy little
have ruined many a soul. I'e
gp*tqittle duties; they have be. n to
EBB; an excellent discipline of humanity.
Despise not little temptations; rightly
met, they have often served the character
for some fiery trial. And despise not little
crosses; for when taken up, and lovingly
accepted at the Lord’s hand, they have
made men meet for a great crown, even
the crown of righteousness and life which
the Lord hath promised them that love
him?—[Dr. Goulburn.
Faith. — I have seen a lone tree stand
ing on the prairie : have beheld the storm
of winter buffet against its trunk, and the
gales of autumn bend its lofty branches to
the dust, but when the blast had gone,
have viewed its tall form still erect, limbs
still expanded, ami I have said such is
the Christian amid the riots and tumults
of the world’s unrighteousness. His t rust
is in Him who gave the tree its unyield
ing root, in whose right hand there is de
liverance. Let the Christians, then, learn
a lesson from thetree, and amid the con
flicts of life remember, that with faith,
they are like a house built upon a rock ;
that their warfare is but for a limited per
iod, and that the reward of the good sol
dier of tiie cross is an inheritance of etern
al felicity.
A Glorious Picture.— “ Nabob,” cor
respondent of the Louisville Courier writ
ing from Augusta, photographs the con
dition of our poor old commonwealth
when we “ get hack into the Union” un
der the accursed Sherman hill. And yet,
there are men right in our midst who see
no loss of self respect or honor in endors
ing aud helping on this loathsome thing!
Imagine Markham the ex-negro trader,
whose substance is solely derived from the
sale of slaves, Governor of Georgia ; Far
row, the potash man, who boasts that he
was prepared at any time, while beheld an
appointment under the Confederate Gov
ernment, to betray the cause lie professed
to serve, a judge of the Supreme Court;
Peters, the blockade runner, controller;
Dunning, the blacksmith, treasurer, ami
the other officers filled by negroes, and
you will then have an idea of the condition
to which we are likely to be reduced un
der the healing process of reconstruction.
Negrojudgcs will administer the law of
person and property. Negro juries will
decide the law aud the facts. Negro sher
iffs will execute the process of the courts.
Negro ordinaries will execute wills, admin
ister estates, and appoint the guardians of
children. Negro legislators will make
laws and appropriate money, and negro
assessors and collectors will Value property
and collect taxes. Give us negro profes
sors in our colleges, negro painters, sculp
tors, authors, architects, and navigators,
and we shall have nothing left to desire!
Our happiness will he complete. Our
civilization secured, and our progress ac
celerated and upward. And why not?
If there is no hazard in making savages
expoundem and revisors of the law ; ad
ministrators of the public money, and
custodians of the public liberty, with equal
safety may they he appointed to teach the
sublime truths of science, to explain the
beauties of Aschylus, to write our litera
ture and build our temples. The pages of
Sophocles are quite as intelligible to any
negro I have ever seen, as the Code of
Georgia; and he Is just as fit to explain
the binomial theorem as he is to judge ,of
the law in the simplest action of assump
sit. Sumner and Stevens have said, “ let
there be light—let the negroes be states
men, jurists, law-givers,” and it is a capi
tal felony to doubt that the light is, or
that the negroes are not the superiors of
Colhoun, Taney and Henry Clay.
General Holler I’u-lietl to Hie Wall.
[From the National Intelligencer.
It will he remembered that General But
ler, while Congress was still in session,
seized upon a minor article of the Intelli
gencer, based entirely upon interpellations
in tiie House of Representatives, to de
nounce it in phraseology consistent with
practice in tiie lower ranks by what are
termed “Tombs” lawyers.
The Intelligencer, of course, could not
retort in kind. Bearing upon the whole
subject of the exchange of prisoners, the
following letter of Col Robert fluid, the
Confederate Agent of Exchange, whose
statements will he relied upon by all men
who know him, will show that (leral Hol
ler himself was greatly in error in his
premises. He forgot to state that the most
important part of the correspondence in
reference to the exchange of prisoners oc
curred between Colonel ()uld and Generals
Hitchcock and Mulford during the period
when the Confederate Agent of Exchange
was forbidden by his government to nego
tiate with General Butler in reference to
the question of exchange :
Washington, July 23,18G7.
To the Fditors of the National Intelligencer :
T respectfully request the publication of
the following letter received by me from
Colonel Quid, of Richmond. It will he
perceived that it fully sustains my state
ment in the house, with the unimportant
exception of the number of prisoners of
fered to beexchanged, without equivalent,
by the Confederate authorities.
Very Respectfully.
Charles A. Er.rmrnGE.
Richmond, July 19, 1807.
lion. Charles A. Eldridjc :
My Deak Sir:—! have seen your re
marks as published. They are substan
tially correct. Everyword tliat I said to
you in Richmond is| not only true, but
can be proved by Federal officers. I did
offer in August to deliver the Federal sick
and wounded, without requiring equiva
lents, and urged the necessity or haste in
sending for them, as tin* mortality was
terrible. I did offer to deliver from ten to
fifteen thousand at Savannah without de
lay. Although this offer was made in Au
gust, transportation was not sent for them
until December, and during the interval
the mortality was perhaps at its greatest
height. If I had not made the offer, why
did the Federal authorities f send Jtranspoi
tatiou to Savannah for ten or fifteen thou
sand men ? If I made the offer based o:.-
ly on equivalents, why did the same
transportation carry down for delivery on
ly three thousand men ?
Butler says the offer was made in the
fall, (according to the newspaper report,;
aud that seven thousand were delivered.
The offer was made in August, and they
were sent for in December. I then deliv
ered more than thirteen thousand, and
would have gone to tiie fifteen thousand
if the Federal transportation had liven suf
ficient. My instructions to my agent
were to deliver fifteen thousand sick and
wounded, and if that number of that class
wore not on hand to make up the number
by well men. The offer was made by me
in pursuance of instructions from the con
federate Secretary of War. I was ready to
keep up the arrangement until every sick
and wounded man had been returned.
The three thousand men sent t<> Savan
nah by the Federal* were in as wretched
a condition as any detachment of prison
ers ever sent from a Confederate prison.
All these things are susceptible of proof,
and I am much mistaken if I cannot prove
them by Federal authority. I am quite
sure that General Mulford will sustain ev
ery allegation here made.
_ o Vours truly, R. Ocld.
* • ©• General Butler’s correspondence
is all on one side, as I was instructed at
the date of Jiis letters to hold no corres
pondence witn him. I corresponded with
Mulford or General Hitchcock.
t R. Oclji.
On nu.
This is a street rumor, very generally
credited as true, that a company, consist
ing of Foster Blodget (Military Mayor), J.
E. Bryant, (the present editor of the Loyal
Georgian), H. B. Bullock, of the Express
Company, Col. Bowles, Federal Tax As
sessor for this District, Benjamin Conley
Hiioe dealer, and E. H. Pughe, of the mu
latto Press, have purchased the two negro
papers in this city, and that they will he
miscegenated and issued daily under the
name of the “ National Republican'”
Itumor has it, also, that the new paper
will be edited by V. hi. Barnes aud D. G.
Lotting. Ihe first issue is expected to-day.
Will be, it is said, the organ
of the Radical Negro party, and expect to
secure the patronage of the Southern Ex
press Company, the City Government,and
the Federal Government. This supjiort
may keep it on its legs a short while, but it
is hound to fail.
[Chronicle aud Sentinel, 28th.
A REIGN OF TEHHOU
THE BLOODIEST RIOT IN THE ANN t
TENNESSEE, ‘ W ° F
Again the soil of Tennessee has
deeply of the blood of its persecute ’"' k
zeus. Again the myrmidons of Jirowi. i' , ‘'
have brought death and desolation
peaceful homes, and still they an- p,.,.,. • ,
by this great government of on in to Jr,
on in the carnival of blood which t|
have inaugurated throughout the sJ'! J
and still the infamous militia isiecogni,
as among the “ regular constituted uit/"
ities.” The corpse or the martyred g J
scarce grows cold, ere the tidings’ 0 f .' j!
more sanguinary conflict than that w f"i
placed Franklin in mourning, comes m '
from East Tennessee.
On a branch of the East Tennessee v i
Virginia railroad, leading from Ho,, '
vilie Junction, in the little vi11a,.,.
Rogersvilie. It is the capital of J{ a * ;
comity, of about seven hundred inl j
tants, and is distant sixty-four milt s t !
Knoxville, the home of Brownlow. |
many other plaiss in Tennessee, it ba
clique of Radical time-servers, who nic
bitter and relentless in their halrt.i '
every Conservative, as Hulun i„ j„ .
hatred of every good.
It had been announced through t 1 ,
newspapers that ou Tuesday of tin- w ,
Einersnu Etheridge, the C0m,.,,,.,
caniddate for Governor of Tenues-,, ,
address the people at that plac,
when the announcement reach,,,
village, the Radicals swore that L *
never mount the stand to sj, ,;
crowd there as long as trusty • ,
men who would use them could ~
These threats of repeated outrage,!
failed to move the great Cons
chief one jot, and lie detcimiiu ,i
tilling his appointment, come what i,
Every bobody anticipated tioutilc,
when the day arrived the ]>eopK‘ !
in from all quarters, armed with nui-k !‘
shot-guns, revolvers, aud other wtai„
the Radicals bent ou riot ami iilood,
the Conservatives deternied t,, ■/, [
themselves to the last, should they i r
assailed.
With one o’clock came Etheridge, ami
mass of not less than live hundred,'half,
theip colored, gathered about the
house on the square, to listen to his m ,
As he proceeded, his terriblo deimmiaii,
and through exposition of Km,. ,
corruption fired tie* Radical heart t,
a degree, that he had spoken but an
when one of his sentences was |>jck, ,1 ,■
by Tom King a notorious jiartisan, w,
shouted hack, “That’s a d—d lit !” ,\,
knowing who had tiling the cowmdiv in
sult into his teeth, Mr. Etheridge bulled
back a withering epithet, wide;,
scarce had uttered ere a whistling 1 • i,i.■ i
cut the air in dangerous proximity
to the place where he was siamtim , ~,,
this shot was quickly followed by teller
in other part of the assemblage. Thee,-,, i
at once broke, the Radicals moviugiup:, l .!.
toward one side of the Square, slmnm
ami yelling like demons of the lower ;
and the < onservatives going in an opp
direction, both parties firing as they »,-.••
They soon drew up in position, and ti
won; of death began in earnest, veil,
after volley of minnie halls, huge m,
small shot, and the contents of numbed?-
revolvers, being pmued in rapidsuceessitr
every round carrying wounds and 3 :,
into the ranks oi tho combatants mi
they’began to waver, break into sic
and move from tho Square, keeping up ,
scattering lire as they slowly retreated.
Mr. Etheridge, holding in his hand-:,
revolver, stood firm throughout, m,
moving an inch from the |iusition he
at first taken.
The battle lasted about twenty iiiiniii
by which time the Square was clean,
and only random shots were being tired m
other portions of tho village. The tic.
man to fall was a white Conservative, .i
bullet crashing through his brain and kill
ing him instantly. \ Radical negro wi
th e next, a ball entering his side and pa
ing nearly through him. Hedied in al- w
minutes after he fell. Seven other per
sons were mortally wounded, while twee
live or thirty received wounds more or le
serious. The wounded were convey, i !
a hotel, where they remained until «lbei
means could he provided for their ean .
It is said the Radicals suffered mu-!, but
we have learned nothing reliable in ic
gare to their loss.
As soon as the firing ceased, Mr. Ktii
eridge left the courthouse, and pw., . ed, ,|
to his hotel. He left town by the nu ht
train for Hneedsville, to fill an appeal
merit there.
Trouble is anticipated in other portii-i.-
of East Tennessee, and in many plan-
Brownlowites have sworn that Mr. I t
idge shall not speak, but he will not
moment shrink from the duty before I,
lie will neither ho intimidated by tla
threats nor driven away by their mil,
No such measure of the Brownlow <h -)«,
ism can put down free speech in Tcmo
see, though backed by all the rag ' i
militia in his despicable service.
There were rumors yesterday of imm
trouble at Rogersvilie, hut we could gulbei
no reliable information to that effect.
Touci UNO Inci dent —M a x IMI Ua n ’
Last Letter to his W ike.—The / / <
ranza, of (|uere(aro, uml«-r date of Jum
20th, givts the following among the in /
dents attending the murder of M:iximili:i
and also the last letter he wmte —‘TANARUS"
Ca k lott a.
When they had reached the top «»f t lo
height do la Campana, Maximilian i
ed fixedly toward the rising sun; 1 f-n
drawing from his pocket his wal
touched its spring and produce! a m.
turn likeness of the Express Carlofta. IP
brought the image to his lit**, ki -c l
and then handing it by the chain 1" I
er Fischer, said: “Carry this souvenir
Europe for my dear wife; amt should
ever be able to understand you, t*!! i •
that my eyes were closed with lu-r 111
ness, whicti 1 will hear with me to la
cu !”
* * * * * *
My Beloved Carlotta.— ls C'»<l c 1
mit that your health gel better ami ym
should read these few lines, you will Fan
the country with which fate hasstriekei
me since your departure for Europe. N
took along with you not only my lit
but my good fortune. Why did L in t •
heed to your voice! So many unlev <
events! Alas! so many sudden I
have shattered all my hopes, so l lud -
is hut a happy deliverance -not an a
—to me. 1 shall die gloriously, like a
dier, like a king vanquished, l<uf not •
honored. If your suffering arc too gl
and God should call you soon to join n
I shall bless his Divine hand wiiief 1
weighed so heavily upon ns. -V
Adieu! Your poor Ma
• An ln< lilt-lit.
Dear Gazette: —l have the followin''
incident from a gentleman of undo'd > ’
veracity:
On the fourth, a large niimlxr
groes assembled in Thomaxville
brate the birth-day of strangle! I "
Among the speakers for the
J. L. beward, a small cur who
wake of Southern loy;i//-'f !
was telling lies from the ‘ >
an old negro was unusually 1
soon as Heward had finished, i‘.'
obtained permission to “peak, am
“My’ friends, I have but hw*- ° ' ■
Col. beward lias made you a sj.et 1
want to tell you that you am
him.” Pointing his finger at < I
tinned: “Whenever he take- ■
anything you must keep your ey<
for he hashis eve on money.’ 1
Dalbatton o« :<
"Got His Dander Up.
Col. DeOraffenreid, of Macon, ha'
teu a letter to an Atlanta paper, iu v j
he says “we have liven quiescent t :
We must now be militant.” Th - j
very much like fighting someth! - |
somebody. “One of Georgia’s tru |
most chivalrous sons” fu- i,< is ur
by the Atlanta uian; evidently l'- v
in his heart, and if there be mean;
his “big words” will soon have it
hands.
But who is the chivalrous Colo:. ■
to fight? We don’t see the eneiii.' I
remember that a few months sin
Was a vp,ndal enemy marchiug ■
the State, laving waste our proper!.' .■
ing our dwellings, and driving <•> . ■
women and children from their n
—then there was afforded a -i
portunity for all Georgia’s 'chim B
to go into the blood-letting Imsiu* Bj,
we have forgotten if the Colonel*' I ', a|
a very great many of those ha l
invaders. ik'b ■
Keep cool, Colonel ; the time 1
ing is passed ; the Yankees have ■ \\ *
the South and disarmed her ! ( ',f F
are sorry that the very short per l i
late war prevented the chivalry ” ’ ' t i,
ting a chance to “pull a trigger j' ;
country’s cause. A few foolish ,
stand out with scant supplies ot i l ’" a u I
clothing for four years in tiie ~,>re
nemy more than five times their*” j , „ j
iu numbers, but they gave way ” • ~,-r ]
that scores of “chivalrous Georgia l ” |jlt j c
prevented from taking a hand in ,
skmnmagc. —[Chron. & Seu.