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Georgia Journal & Messenger.,
f . ,v7b7«KE a CO„ Proprietors.
A. « . BBESE, J EdUorß#
S. KOSE, )
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 18G8.
THE CRETANS.
(jreat is the philauthropy of Boston.
The Turks, for some years, have been op
pressing the Cretans—the Greek inhabi
tants of a small island—formerly Caudia—
under Turkish rule. The Turks were too
strong for them ; aud the crescent has al
most overpowered the cross. Some of the
Cretans have fled to their mountain fast
nesses, and are still defending themselves.
They deserve great credit, and they have
our sympathies. We are very much in
the same condition—all except the moun
tain fastnesses and the persistent resist
ance. Boston, which is going to redeem
the Cretans, has put its foot on our neck.
As towards the Cretans, we are with Bos
ton ; as towards Boston, we are with the
Turks.
Boston prints a paper in the interest of
tht*Crotsnled *‘ The Cretan.” It
isa very neat little quarto—well gotten up.
It lias been sent to us, with a request that
we should notice its object and help the
cause it advocates, if we are favorable to
it. We are favorable. If Boston will let
us ii])— just take its foot from our neck—
wo will help “ The Cretan .” We cannot
do it, while we are down. Boston has a
very big foot, and lias sef it down very
heavily on our neck. We cannot help
ourselves, much less the Cretans. Boston
mvist put its other foot on the Turks. Then,
may be, the Cretans can recover and help
The Cretans? are in terrible condition,
according to the Boston philanthropists
and their organ, The Cretan. A sad pic
ture is drawn. It reads very much like a
description of Sherman’s march to the I
sea, or a picture of Columbia in the latter
days of February, 1865. An agent visits
ttie “Refugees”—a word once so familiar j
to our ears. He writes:
“I immediately proceeded to ascertain,
By personal inspection., tiie number, con
dition, and wants of tlfe refugees. There
were then over twelve thousand entirely
destitute, and supported by charity ; about
two thousand who saved enough in their
flight, or were able to earn enough, to sup
port themselves, and more were coutin
uallv coming.
“The largest part were children ol ten
der age; the rest were women and a few
old men. They were living huddled to
gether in barracks, or other buildings—
twenty, thirty, forty in a room, sitting or
lying upon the floors, without tables,
chairs, or bedsteads In this sad condi
tion, ragged, hungry aud idle, they anx
iously awaited news from their husbands,
fathers, brothers, lighting for the homes
and the gardens which they themselves
had abandoned, hut fondly hoped to see
again.
“In all this penury, dirt and suffering,
the women looked sad, hut patient and
resigned, the girls looking more hopeful,
while the littleones were as merry as your
children. But they ail strove to make the
best of their sail condition ; and, grouping
themselves according to families, each one
arranged some tattered blankets or rude
utensils, broken crockery and scraps of
furniture, in some nook or corner
“Moreover, in spite of all their pendiy,
squalor, and rags, they showed signs ot
the physical beauty and mental vivacity
Which distinguish the Cretans among the
Greeks who are acknowledged to he (.re
eminent, physically, anting the various
nationalities of the Bast. Fine skins, de
cate features aud limbs, aud large lustrous
eyes, make them remarkable even in
“Most of these unfortunate people had
fled away at the outbreak of the revolt;
but others were coming in continually, as
the Turkish army extended its ravages
They were all of them living witnesses ol
the barbarous nature of Turkish warfare;
for people do not abandon house and home,
and fly half naked, before the approach of
armies warring after the manner of civi
lized nations. Even the Polish peasant
did not thus fly before Russian armies;
and the only parallel is to be found among
barbarians, or savages on our own iron
tier ;”—yr— we may add—Boston bum
mers.”
The Cretans know, too, what a “block
ade” means. The writer says:
“A vigorous blockade has converted the
whole island into a vast prison-house, in
which tortures of various kinds are syste
matically applied upon an immense scale,
ami upon the whole population of insur
gent districts.”
And again :
“Disciplined armies, preceded by fanatic
and ferocious irregulars, devastate the
open country, burn the houses, destroy
tile crops, cut down the trees, teal up t le
vines, and leave no living ami no green
thing behind them.”
And here is a scene, attending a distri
bution of supplies, such as has been seen
nearer at hand than Crete is.
“The poor creatures were so eager to
net a garment of any kind to cover their
children's nakedness, or their own, that
they thronged and choked the passages.
Stifl they did not clamor or bog in words.
There was none of the crying out, and
praying and blessing you, so common
atnmm mendicants. They were unpruc
tieed in any art of begging. Pressing
hunger and want, and fear ot nakedness,
impelled them to come and show their
condition. Mothers mutely held up their
infants above the crowd, and pushed their
little girls before them—but were still.”
The following is a graphic picture. It
might have been painted without crossing
the Atlantic.
" The smoke of burning dwellings now
went up, not only from villages on the
plains, hut from hamlets in the mountains,
from shepherds’ huts and folds, and front
the tents and temporary shelters erected
by refugees who had abandoned them, and
who had clambered up higher with their
children and their goats. I myself, while
sailing along the coast saw the smoke
going up from their villages day by day,
and saw the light of their tires by night.
Such things may seem to you marvellous
and incredible, 'because you have never
witnessed the like, nor has pur land ever
known them [a great mistake, Mr. Cre
tan”! • hut history is full of them, nor
have they yet ceased in countries where
the hand of the tyrant is unstayed by law
or public opinion. [1 idelxcet, the South,
m the late war.] Reading a description
of the ways of the oppressors m the
Old Testament seems like reading an ac
count of Crete at this very day. Job says:
“Some remove the landmarks, they
violently take away flocks, and feed there
of ; they drive away the ass of the father
less; they take the widow’s ox for a
pledge; they turn the needy out of the
way; t lie poor of the earth hide them-
selves together. ... .
“They cause the naked to lodge without
clothing, that they have no covering in
the cold. , .. _
“They are wet with the showers of the
mountain, and embrace the rocks for
want of a shelter.
“They pluck the fatherless from the
breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
“They cause liim to go without cloth
ing, and they take away the sheaf from
the hungry.”
“We trust,” says “The Cretan,” “you
will encourage your readers to aid us by
direct contributions.” Can’t do it, sir.
Reason— read the story of the South as
given above, in your own columns. An
other reason is, that you say, 1 lie Cre- ■
tans remember Scio, which, in the long, |
long struggle between the Greeks and the
Turks, bears the same relation to them
that Fort Pillow does to our civil war.
When you have ceased to falsify history
<§e«gia So tint at iawtl JPessengct,
to institute a parallel between Confede
rates and Turks, Fort Piilow and Scio—
thus giving currency to an infamous
slander, long since refuted —when Boston
lias taken her foot off our neck—then
come on, and we’ll help you give liberty
to the world. But we.must ourselves first
be free.
PLACE Al'X DAMES
We find the following in a recent letter
from “Pink,” at New York, to tlie Charles
ton Courier:
But we are progressing now-a-days—we
are making history pretty fast in all mat
ters and things, especially on the political
chess-board. Thus, for instance, while
we know that female suffrage is to be one
of the leading political questions of the
future, our neighboring little village of
Passaic, iu New Jersey, only fourteen
miles distant from the metropolis, has just
established the great precedent of permit
ting the fair sex to participate in electing
officers. -On Tuesday Passaic elected its
Street Commissioner and other officers,
and eleven brave women cast their ballots,
to the great delight of the villagers, who
hud loqg decided that any womau holding
real estate in her own name had a perfect
right to choose visage officers. It is sin
gular, however, tlrat there was no split in
the female vote. It leaked out that they
had held a caucus on the night before
election, and the caucus-chosen candidate
was the successful mau on the next day.
The principle thus engrafted upon our po
litical customs though by insignificant
Jersey villages, will tell in the course of
time. Other towns and villages will fol
low the example, and subsequently the
.State will no doubt engraft female suffrage
upou its statute books. All that is needed
U to get the people accustomed to it, and
the admirers of this modern system could
not have chosen a better time than the
present, while we are permitting an un
educated and ignorant race of men to
share with us the right of suffrage. Cer
tainly our women will not commit the
blunders we hear of almost daily, which
have occurred in some of tlie Southern
States during the late elections. Oppo
nents of female suffrage are entirely over
come by arguments like these, constantly
applied to them by men who hold up the
rightof women to vote as against the right
of the negro. .
Apropos of women, the Woman s
League or Club, as it is called, is now reg
ularly organized. At a luncheon given
at Delmonico’s on Monday last, Miss Al
ice Gary, the new President, read her in
augural address in the presence of about
forty ladies, all members of the Club.—
Whether they were all authoresses or wo
men of culture, no outsider can tell, for
the simple reason that none but ladies
were present, and their statements have
not yet been made public. I judge, how
ever. from the change of name under
which the organization appears from time
to time, that the great question how to
name the new bantling is as much a source
of trouble to women as ever. First it was
called Sorosis, next we heard of the Wo
man’s League, and now again it is known
by the name of Woman’s Club, until next
month probably, when no doubt some
other title will lie suggested. The papers
here have generally made fun of the af
fair, but the ladies do not seem to mind it
much. On the contrary, Miss Cary, in
her address, on Monday, called attention
to it quite boldly, and announced her de
termination to urge the complete organi
zation of the Club, in spite of male sneers.
The Club is safe for one year, for it will
take these forty ladies at least fully that
time to agree upon tlieir Constitution ami
By-Laws. Borosis punch is the strongest
these ladies take at tlieir re-unions.
Amid all the ruin and desolation, the
heartsickness aud mental agony that lie at
the door of the late infamous war upon
our homes aim n.. 1 .3. ~ - Cod.
every day, for one consolation as proud as
it is priceless, ft is that the Women of
the South, the types and representatives
in this Nineteenth century of those who
watched at the Savior’s tomb, have come
out of the contest purer and brighter than
ever. The baptism of blood which they
were compelled to witness, and with
which, alas! so many of the noblest ming
led their bitter tears, has been to them as
the fiery breath of the crucible to pure
gold. There was naught that was grand,
or heroic, or self-sacrificing in action or
suffering that they did not dare and do,
while the struggle lasted ; but tiie poison
breath, even of Yankee malignity ami
I falsehood, fails to frame an indictment
! against their modesty and that devotion
I to the decor pm of social, and sexual pro
priety that is, with them, both sentiment
and conviction. Whether in the camp or
i amid tiie crowded cots of a hospital, how
! ever much they may have usurped places,
and assumed duties that thrilled wit]*
pain every nerve of their exquisitely sensi
tive organizations, they never became cal
| Unis or careless—they never unsexed them
: selves. They were Women, yes Southern
’ Women, through it all-the very highest
j type, the noblest exemplarsof the sex that
| God’s sun shines upon.
We say it with a heart full of pride. It
is the cherished treasure of every South
ern man's heart and memory. It is the
deliberate verdict of an applauding world,
and it will be the enduring record of His
tory. In the salons of Paris and London,
and Vienna, high born dames this day re
hearse, in accents of mingled surprise and
admiration, the trials and triumphs, the
more than Paladin courage, and the match
less delicacy and refinement of those whom
they recognize, by the freemasonry of gen
tle breeding, as sisters. Whatever may have
beeu the social status of our mothers, sis
ters, wives and sweethearts in European
eyes before the war, that epoch lifted them
to a level with the highest.
May they ever preserve it! And they
will. They will leave this crowding to
the polls with shouting, swearing, brutal
men to Northern women. They will
leave this handing together in clubs and
leagues, whereof the principal features
seem an insane and unwomanly desire to
spit upon Home and its duties, and a
morbid craving for becoming targets in
print for the sharp tongues of brutal cynic
and foul mouthed blackguards, to Mother
Cary and her clacking brood. They will
hold to the positions that God made
them for, and where the ehivalrie tender
ness and knightly devotion of the men of
j the South have hedged them round with
all that pure, good women expect or de
sire. While the women of the South are
true to the traditions and instinctsof their
race, and true to the teaching and exam
ple of the mother and wife of Washing
too, our faitli in a great and glorious lu
ture for the men of the South shall never
die.
liirsmi.
The Atlanta Intelligencer says that
there is a hand, numbering about forty,
men, women, and children, on the su
burb’s of that city. They represent them
selves as coming from England They
have some traits peculiar to the regular
Gipsy, hut differ in some respects in looks
and manners from them. They have a
special fancy for dogs, and have in their
camps every variety known in America.
They also have several fine horses and
mules. The women of their camps pre
tend great skill in palmistry, and have
visited the city, plying their art in fore
telling the hidden mysteries of the future.
BtesT- A little girl, while playing in a tub
of water, in Warrenton, Mo., slipped and
fell headforemost into it. The child was
taken out in time to be saved from drown
| ing, but the services of a physician were
1 required to bring it to its senses.
Forney’s Resignation. —A corres
pondent of the Baltimore Gazette gives it
as his opinion that Fofihey’s resignation
is a mere preconcerted sham. It is ob
servable that he makes his retirement de
pendent upon the appointment of a suc
cessor. it seems he had assurance that
no “appointment” would he made. His
missive was accordingly tabled, and there
it will lie, Tiie correspondent says:
“1 have it from trustworthy authority
that Wash bur ne, in argument, distinctly
told Mr. Trumbull tiiat Grant would de
cline the Chicago nomination if the Pres
ident was not removed. The conversa
tion occurred, I learn, on Tuesday. Mr.
Trumbull made no reply. A sound reason
this for the deliberate violation of a man’s
oath.”
Per Contra, another correspondent,
says:
“It is generally thought Forney has had
no intention of resigning, but merely
wanted to get a compliment from tiie Ben
ate in the shape of a refusal to accept his
resignation. There is no doubt, however,
that it will be accepted, as a majority of
the Senators want to get him out.
Among those named as successors to
Forney are Lafayette C. Foster, ot Con
necticut ; J. A. J. Creswell, of Maryland :
Gen James Brishin, of Kentucky; 1 hos.
L. Tulli ch, Secretary of the Union t oil
gressional Committee; Wlll. J. McDonald.
Chief Clerk of the Senate.
Fire in Thomaston.—A correspon
dent of the Atlanta Intelligencer writes
from Thomaston that a disastrous fire 00*
curred in that thriving town on the morn
ing of the loth iust. The storehouses of
Win. Johnson & Sou, andS. J. Lewis, tiie
Carriage Repository of John Bland, and
tiie Photograph Gallery of C. C. Sharp
were burned. All being close together and
constructed of wood they were quickly de
stroyed, and very few goods saved. Just
one year ago, precisely, the town was
burned, and tiie loss was heavier than
now. This loss is estimated at $20,000,
upon which there was an insurance of
$7,600. rt was evidently the work of an
incendiary, but no clue had been dis
covered totrace it to any particular person.
A note toourofllce, says respecting this
fire: “ We bad another serious lire here
last Friday morning, just one year, to an
hour, from tiie burning of last year. There
is no doubt but that negroes make these
fires to plunder. Three negroes have been
arrested upon very strong circumstantial
evidence.’ ’
From our Special Correspondent
TETTER Fit o*l M. tt UlltK.
Politic*— Morals Money— Mlnor Topic*.
New York, Mfty 15, 1868,
that same oeu tune.
The telegraph lias doubtless told you of
intense excitement here, incident to the
impeachment question; but it has not
been apparent to casual observation. —
There is a general desire that the matter
he disposed of, resulting from a hope that
however it is decided, it will put an end
to suspense and indue? a revival of busi
ness. But there lias been little enthusi
asm ohsei vable here on either side, and no
great, show of zeal, save by tiie old scold
of the Tribune, who has applied the party
lash without mercy to all Republicans in
the Senate and out, who oppose impeach -
tnetit. The other Republican papersund in
telligent members of that party who have
not gone mad, seem tired of tiie whole af
fuir and regard it most damaging to the
Republican party. The impression seems
~.«i u.at there will be another post
ponement on >atuitoSyi a,*.
Chicago Convention. There are a few'
who appear sanguine that the vote will be
taken on Saturday, and tiiat tiie I resident
will be convicted. 1 bear of large bets to
day, on a basis of $5,000 against $4,000 that
tiie President will be acquitted. \\ bile
tiie opponents o. Radicalism naturally
hope for such a result, there is little doubt
that bis conviction would damage Radical
ism quite as much as ins discharge. He
is now a scape goat for tiie sins and blun
ders of tlie dominant party. Remove him,
and they are directly answerable to the
country‘for the abuse of power which has
marked their rule. Moreover, W ade must
feed the hungry plunderers at hi* bark,
and in doing so, will dis .fleet a vt pie circle
of camp followers, who desert every party
when the rations give out. I n any event,
the prestige of Radicalism is Broken, and
there in great confusion and dismay in
their ranks. , . , r
The latest on (lit to-day is that A. l.
Stewart lias gone to \\ ashington to pre
vail on Grant not to allow his name to go
lie fore the Chicago Convention. 1 he T.ng'
lish of this is, that the great smokist has
so identified himself with the Radical
wing of the party, as to render Ins election
doubtful, and some new men must be se
lected to heal the defection. Ihe Democ
racy are very quiet, hoping evidently that
Grant will he the nominee, and believing
that he will he one of the weakest men
i hat could he selected. He has not a soli
tary strong point, and his weakness* and
positive imbecility grow daily more glar
ln ° CLEAR Tin-: TRACK FOR TRAIN.
That erratic c haracter, George Francis
Train, is gravely arranging his programme
to run for the Presidency as aTemail can
didate. There is no evidence here that lie
can concentrate any considerable Irish
vote ; but there is no telling what absurd
ity those who adhere to the vagaries of that
organization may he led to endorse. ' ram
lias far more ability than Grant, and as
sumes the role of a martyr to the cause ot
Irish liberty, and may find adherents
enough to seriously complicate the 1 resi
dential election, provided ho can keep
out of jail ami the lunatic asylum until
the campaign opens.
TltE ANNIVEIIBAKIKS
\rc in full blast, hut attract little atten
tion. Those abolition veterans, S. H. Fos
ter \bbey Kelley, and the balance ot the
“old panel” of the Anti-Slavery Society,
had their pow-wow 'yesterday. They do
not seem to realize that, their occupation
is gone, now that Cutty is basking in the
sweets of freedom, and their proceedings
are a rehash of the old abolition t ’ addle.
They are the real authors of emancipa
tion and tenfold more entitled to any
gratitude which the negro has to bestow
on those who loosed his chains, than Lin
coin or the Radical party. They from the
first started out to abolish slavery or des
troy the Constitution—which they termed
“a league with hell” —and having sue
ceedetfiu effecting their object, they may
well protest against allowing others to
reap the reward of their labors. Stephen
and Abbey deserve the Radical nomina
tion at Chicago, and are either of them
far better fitted for the position than
Grant. Rut republics are ungrateful.
SUICIDE, MURDER, ETC.
During the last few days no less than
seven suicides have occurred in this city.
Two attempts at wife murder are reported,
one of which was successful. Os minor
crime there is no end. With such are
cord is it not brassy for editors here to be
prating about Southern lawlessness?
There Is more crime, more immorality
and general cussedness in New York City
in one night than there is in the whole
State of Georgia in a month.
improvements.
In spite of the prevailing stagnation the
hand of progress is busy rearing buildings
of magnificent proportions. Anew Catho
lic Cathedral, to cost 82,500,000, has been
commenced; the Park Bank is nearly
complete, and presents the finest front in
the city. It adjoins the Herald building,
and greatly surpasses it in style, as well as
height- It is of white marble. The New
York Ledger is just moving into a massive
and spacious new building, in keeping
with the taste and prosperity of Mr. Bon
ner. Designs for the new City Hall have
been published, and attract much criti
cism. It Is to cost about $3,500,000, and it
is urged that it is too small, and the loca
tion—City Hall Park—is too far down
town. It will no doubt he erected there,
however, and evidently should be, for
though the march of population and busi
ness is uptown, mostbf the street railroads
radiate from the City Hall square, and it
therefore will always be the most acces
MACON, OA.. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1868.
sible point in the city. Stewart’s addi
tion to his up-town store is nearly com
plete, and the building now extends from
Broadway to 4tb Avenue, and is.nrobaf**^
the most magnificent store in the world.
amusements.
Tiiis is tiie dull season in dramatic cir
cles ; and the close of sensational produc
tions which may be termed “glittering
generalities” are the chief attraction. 'I he
“White Fawn”—a revised edition of the
“Black Crook”—is still on its legs at
Niblo's.
THE PRESS.
The newspapers are ail complaining of
the stagnation in business. Just now the
leading dailies are full of invective on im
peachment. Thu Woed, Times, Herald,
Express and Commercial Advertiser are all
opposed to tiie measure, hut tiie World aud
Express alone, of the papers named, have
opposed it vigorously from the first. The
Tribune is clamorous, malignant aud ab
solutely reckless in support of tbe meas
ure, and consigns to “ infamy” all who
oppose it, and especially those Republican
Senators who have bravely dared to rise
above party in tbeir verdict on the ques
tion. The little Sews is now the only
penny paper in the city—the 'Telegram,
and Star having both raised tlieir price to
two cents, 'idle News cla ms the largest
circulation in tiie city, but the Sun still
lias the letter list. Tbe Sun lias moved
into the old Tammany Hull building, aud
is conducted by Dana.
The hh/r js modeled after ]he old Sun,
and claims to be its The Eveir
ing Mail, by Bweetser, 1- a lively and gen
teel paper, paragraphic, gossipful, and
popular with the ladies. The staid and
reliable old Journal of Commerce is still
figuring away down in Beaver street, Aud
speaking of figures, the tables of exports
for the last three months, show a marked
falling off on tiie two previous years;
while the imports are larger. Tiie ques
tion arises, how is tiie drain to meet tiiese
balances to affect the finances?
Weather still cool. Oconee.
[comm unrated.]
University or Georgi a, \
May 16th, 1868. /
Messrs. Editors: A paragraph in your j
issue of the 13th eontaihsa mis represen ta- j
tiou as to the position of our fellow colie- j
gian, W. W. Collins. It is the fault of ,
the catalogue; hut it is due to him and,
his friends that tiie error should be cor-I
reeled. He is a member of tiie Junior ;
Class, and not the Freshman, as K there ,
reported.
Please notice the mistake, and oblige a
Cea.hsm ate.
I* Ilie l*re*ifl<!«it It (Ml nd to Ktfcute «n
•nt »u«titutional l.*H Ant iipuhlUb
eil Li'iierid
From the N. V. World* Mas 1A
By the civility and public spirit of the
pOr>es-or, we are furnished with a Iran
script of the following letter of President
Jefferson, w ritten in the first year of his
administration. It is superscribed
“Free.
“Tit: Jefferson.
“Edward Livingston, Esq.,
“Mayor of
“New York.”
Mr. Livingston was, attliat time, United
States District Attorney at New York as
well as Mayor of the city. Tbe pertinent
bearing of the letter on the impeachment
of President Johnson will be manifest on j
perusal:
“Washington, Nov. 1, IHdi.
“Hear Sit —1 some days ago received a
letter from Messrs. Deuniston Ac Cheih
of tiie most friendly kind, asking the min
eral ground on which tiie nolle prosequi in
Duane’s ease ought to he presented to tiie
public, which they proposed to do. You
are sensible that I must avoid committing
myself in tiiat channel of justification, and
that were. I to do it in tins case, 1 might
' »iu.l '<m by other printers in other
cases where it might be iti-xpeoient to
►av anything. Yel, to so civil an applica
tion, I cannot reconcile myself to the In
civility of giving n« answer. i have
thought, therefore, of laying your friend
ship under contribution, and asking you
to take the trouble of seeing them and of
saving to them, that the question be- j
ing in the line of the lnw, f h:ul desired
you to give them the explanation neces- )
sarv. My text of explanation would be j
this: The President is to have the laws |
executed. He may order an offence then ;
to lie prosecuted. If lie sees a prosecution
put into a train which is not lawful lie
may order it to be di-continued and put!
in to legal t rain. / found a prosecution go- j
ing on again** Duane for an offence against
the Senate, founded on the Sedition ft ft. i
affirm th at ait to he no daw ukcaure
in deposition to the Constitution.
and 1 SHADE TREAT IT AS A NUDITY
WHEREVER IT (TIMES IN THE WAY OK MY
functions. / therefore directed that
prosecution to he discontinued and anew
one to he commenced, founded on whatso
ever other law might he in existence against
the offence. This leas done, and the Grand
Jnr g finding no other law against it, de
clined dang anything under the hill. There
appettrs tojme to he no wink part in any of
these positions or inferences. There is,
'however, in the application to yon to
trouble yourself with the question. For
this I owe apology, and build it on your
goodness and friendship. Health and
happiness cum caeteris rot is.
“Tii ; Jefferson.”
“EmvAKU Livingston, Esq.”
.vritociors nritnEit.
Dr. BrJJield A ewso/nc shot in a Railroad
car— lAttgation about Confederate money
alleged id have been the cause.
One of the most cold-blooded murders
which lias happened for sometime in tins
part of the .State, occurred late yesterday
afternoon, about three miles from town,
on the Nashville and Northwestern Rail
road. Os the circumstances which led to
the committal of the bloody deed, and of
the deed itself, we have the following par
ticulars.
A suit is pending in the Williamson
County Court between a man named Bob
Phipps and the administrator of the estate
of James Newsome, deceased. While the
Confederate forces held sway in Tenue
see, James Newsome purchased a piece of
laud from Bob Phipps, lor which he paid
Confederate money. Phipps and credit
ors now bring suit to recover the amount
in greenbacks, on the ground that the
Confederate notes were not legal currency,
and that, on this account, the title made
was not a good one. Bob Phipps, his
brother-in-law, A. N. Gray and Dr. Bel-
Held Newsome, met at A. L. Demoss of
fice on Cedar iStreet, yesterday afternoon,
to lake the depositions of several witnesses
before Justice W. A. Mathews. W hue
the last witness was under examination,
a conversation commenced between New
some and Phipps, which grew into a uea -
ed controversy. Dr. Newsome remarked
that enough lies had already been told
aboutthecase under consideration. I liipps
responded in a similar spirit, and made
some opprobious remark m regard to-ome
former act of Dr. Newsomes’ father, at
which Dr. Newsome became very mucii
offended, and attempted to draw his pistol,
a Derringer, but was prevented by Jusiice
Mathews and Mr. Demoss, who caught
hold of his arms. Phipps then leit, 111,1
was afterward heard to say that he would
kill Dr. Newsome before fie lett the city.
It was not believed by Mr. Demoss that
anything very serious would grovv out ot
ttie affair in his olliee, but the result show
ed that Phipps was only too sincere in t he
threat he had made. A letter was receiv -
ed by Colonel Stone last night through the
hands of J. H. Wood, conductor on the
Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, to
the effect that Dr. Newsome had been
fatally shot by Boh Phipps while the train
was about three miles from this city, and
that tlie murder had been characterized by
such boldness and celerity, that even the
passengers in the same car did not know
it had been committed until Phipps pull
ed the bell rope, stopped the train and
made his escape into the woods.
Dr. Newsome’s body was left at Belle
view.—Nashville Banner, 11th.
The “City PnVk” fever has spread
to Nashville, Tenn. The citizens of that
place are very anxious to have a parn
made there.
Forney’s Chronicle says the Radical
Northern Methodist General Conference
at Chicago unanimously passed resolu
tions to pray for Mr. Johnson’s conviction.
TUIJHSDAY, MAY 21, IBGB.
‘ ~.iCU,,- . at. -■
rf'i’rt.aWhlfd) of Publishing Tomiaunt
.fitYJ'SSA from Radical 'Emissaries.
We find, in our neighbor of tiie Tele
graph, of date tiie 20th inst., another let
ter irom H. M. Turner, the Washington
City mulatto who was elected (?) last month
one of the delegates from this honored
county of Bibb, to the Georgia Legislature.
This letter seems to have been written
for tiie purpose of supplying the read
ers of the Telegraph with the latest
and most reliable information concerning
tiie mental and physical status of that
staunch friend of the South, Mr. Tliadeus
Stevens. Turner, with several oilier
colored preachers, al! Radicals, of course,
paiil him a visit, and he paid them t lie
compliment of a speech. They were all,
Turner especially, filled with admiration
of this “marvellous man,” who “beggars
all description.” Moved with pity and
love, Turner “gushes” us follows :
"No one can look upon him without feel
ing a degree of sympathy, particularly if
lie attempts to speak, to see his mind
struggling to make his physical frame
subserve its tiurjKJses, and essay to make
his almost ejnaciated functions obey the
dictates of ids indomitable will is exhib
itive of sueb a contention between mind
and inert matter, that pity necessarily uc
tMiipanils the sight.”
He does not tell us what the old malig
nant said, Hut. we have been informed on
that point through other sources. It was
tiie usual harangue whose devilish venom
and pitiless ferocity towards “ rebels ”
aud “traitors,” basso often invoked the
applause of our enemies and oppressors in
twd out of Congress. Whether he re
peated the wish, expressed on one or more
occasions, heretofore, to shut up tiie
entire white population of the South “ in
tiit) penitentiary of hell” is not known,
but it is reasonable to supjawe tiiat this
amiable proposition was not entirely lost
sight of. We consider it almost unpar
donable in Turner not to have furnished
the Telegraph with a synopsis, at least, of
the remarks, upon ttiis interesting occa
sion, of tiie “ marvellous man.” We
hopi he will supply the omission, here
after.
Seriously: We, of course, recognize the
perfect right of tiie Teh graph,ox any other
paper to pubh.-h or exclude just such mat
ter as it chooses, but we say frankly, and
fa the confident belief that nine out of
svtry “‘ii true men in Georgia will back
ns in the opinion, that such compliments
as opening tlieir columns to puffs of such
devils a* Thai Stevens, written by notori
ous Radical agitators aud emissaries, wbo
are here on missions of blood and strife,
are in very questionable lu-de. lin tier is
known in all this section as one of tiie
most dangerous tools, w hite or black, tiiat
Radicalism in its war upon our rights, and
property has ever subsidized, and ids in
fluence, which is great, was most mis
chicviously felt in the late election. .Speak
ing, we know, for the people of Bibb
county, ii]>on whom lie lias been fastened
by foicc and fraud as a representative, we
do not hesitate to animadvert upon the
propriety of a journal published in their
midst, and which lias always received
from them such a generous support, lend
ing its columns to such characters. \» by
not let them find exponents and readers
through tiie plunder-propped concerns at
Augusta and Atlanta? Ttie people who
-uWaibe for those sheets expect such read
ing. We shall is.- greatly (surprised to learn
that the readers of the Tehgraph are ill
tiie same category.
o >ai:s it” «?> mi; i..vie flu i iom.
“Nabob,” the well-posted and always
readable Georgia correspondent of the
Louisville Courier, whose letters we have
frequently published, presents, in a late
letter, the significant and very gratifying
fact of Radical failure to concentrate the
colored vote on tlieir candidates, as tiie
only redeeming features in the late can
vass. We do not quite agree with him as
to Us being tiie “only redeeming feature,”
hut this en passant, however. He says:
The only redeeming circumstance in the
whole catalogue of incidents connected
with this humiliating defeat, isthe discov- !
erv that the Radicals reckoned without !
their host when they counted on the uni- ;
ted support of the negroes. It has been
proved that the negroes cannot be all de
luded by the land and mule promises into
an abandonment of those who have always
been their best friends; that even the ter
rorism of the loyal leagues and subterra
nean conspirators cannot frighten them •
into a blind and unquestioning support of
Blodgett, Bryant & Cos., and that when
ever another popular election takes place
in Georgia, the Radicals will find that
they will he hoisted by the petard which
i tpoy prepared for the destruction of the
white race. In Sumter county, where the
negro strength is largely predominant
Gapt John A. Cobh, the worthy son of
his distinguished father, Gen. Howell
Cobb, was elected to the House of Repre
sentatives by a considerable majority. In
jgaker county, also, where the same uu-
merical relation of tlie races exists, the
llemocrats triumphed. In the district ol
which these counties form a part, the
Radical candidate, Wliitely, the renegade
Con federate soldier, the great svggestor o t
the menagerie at Atlanta, was beaten out
of sight for Congress by Col. 1 ift, a citizen
of Albany, a most worthy and excellent
gentleman, true to his State, his race, and
his section.
Couldn’t Raise THE Steam.— The car
pet-baggers ail over the South are experi
encing unusual difliculty, since the defeat
of their masters at \\ ashington, in raising
funds from the loyal leaguers for their
current expenses for whisky, tobacco, and
the monthly clean shirt and box of paper
collars. Tlie “man and brother” iiuds
the drain rather heavy, and as the warm
weather approaches, when work of any
kind is positively disgusting, he is dis
posed to keep his "fifty centses” for his
own personal comforts. We should not
be at all surprised if some of these carpet
sack gentry were not forced to go to work,
before the summer is over.
Apropos to this subject, we find in the
Montgomery Mail of a recent date, an ac
count of how one of Forney’s dogs, a vil
lainous creature named Kefl'er, who has
been wearying the indignation ot tlie
respectable people of that Slate ever since
tlie close of the war, recently failed in a
raid of this sort upon the pockets of the
“leaguers.” Hewas taking upasubscrip
tion, ostensibly for the purpose ot sending
a brother bummer to Washington to
hasten the admission of Alabama. \\ bile
lie was speaking, says tlie Mail, a sensible
old sable leaguer muttered to himself that
the thing of taking up “fifty centses” had
about played cut, and that lie thought it
the candidates for office wanted office they
had better pay tlieir own expenses, and
that Massa Glasscock, Felder and Stow
had better head the list of contributions.
Kefler called tlie gentleman to order, and
went oil with lfis argument. When the
hat was handed round it was found to
contain $1125. The carpet-baggers couldn’t
get up steam. Tlie audience was much
smaller than it had ever been. The ne
groes have been led by the nose long
enough.
it is computed that there are one
hundred and fifty barrels of whiskey
drunk in Boston daily.
REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL.
We invite the attention of all the repre
sentatives elected to the Legislature from
counties South of Atlanta to the sub
joined well considered remarks of the
Southern Recorder of the 19th inst. They
I state the whole case so forcibly that we
forbear any comment or argument of our
own. It is hardly necessary to add that
j we endorse and most pressingly urge upon
i our friends in the counties indicated the
| propriety aud importance of the sugges
| tion contained in the last paragraph:
| IMPROVEMENTS—THE CAPITAL—REMOVAL.
By the provisions of the Constitution,
tiie Legislature can, by a two-thirds vote
of two successive legislatures, amend an
article or section by submitting the
amendment to the voters of the Btate. We
hope that tiie tody to convene will not
fail to amend tiie tenth article, by striking
out Atlanta and substituting Milledge
ville. Tiie removal of tbe Capital was an
outrage upon the tax-payers of tiie State,
and a bid to Cherokee, Ga,, to dishonor
iierseif, which we are happy to say, she
scorned with just indignation. She did
not want the Capital iu Atlanta with such
a radical Constitution.
But there are questions of a graver char
acter than tiie pleasing of this or that sec
tion with tiie Capital; its influence and
advantages. The present Capitol lias been
lately repaired from roof to basement, at
an outlay of near $40,000; also, tbe Execu
tive Mansion ba.-> undergone thorough re
pair from roof to basement, at an outlay of
about $15,000. The question arises, is ail
this work to he thrown away, independent
of Die money spent for repairs?
We have now finished a fine Supreme
Court room iu tiie basemeutof tiie Capitol,
with all necessary rooms for Clerk, Re- .
porter, &e., and a Law Library room, ad
joining the consultation room of the :
Judges, all in the basement. In fact, the
> 10,000 spent upon the Capitol, has made
it anew building out and in- It does not :
look like the same building, and would
hardly be recognized when viewed from !
the North and South fronts. The base
ment, with line ventilation and modern
improvements is altogether new. What j
folly, under the circumstances, to remove
the Capitol, when not desired by the tax
payers of tiie Slate.
But there is another consideration tiiat
we would present to the'reader, that out
weighs all tiie test put t< gether ; and one
tiiat will cause many to think. From tiie
Comptroller General's Ke|»ort for ls6l
including tire year iB6O, when Georgia j
was m her glory iu point of wealth; we
find from that report, tiiat there were
MXTY FOU R/, unties in the .Stale that
drew more from tin Treasury than they
pah! in; and. that the heavy slave counties
supporU and the (Jo remnant. ; a startling fact, j
hut nevertheless a true one. Since tiie Slate
has become impoverished, u ho would have
at least two million of dollar*, to rebuild a j
new Capitol aud Executive Mansion,
“ worthy ol'tiie .-tale” as prated by those
iu favor of removal ? Those whosupport
ed the Government in days past; and to
know what counties did it, consult tiie
leport of I vjl.and it must be seen tiiat tbe
counties lie below Atlanta, aud voted .
against removal several tears ago when
the question was agitated. *
The heavy tax paying counties have
ever been against removal, and especially
to Atlanta, it being a hundred aud odd
miles from the geographical centre of tiie
State, while Miiiedgeville is within about
-ix miles, by actual survey, by report of
the Surveyor General.
We would suggest in consideration
| of the above facts, for all the counties of
the Stale to call primary meetings and iu
' struct tiie legislators elect, to amend tiie
i tenth article of the Constitution by retaiu
| lug the Capitol at Miiiedgeville. We
hope that the press of the State will urge
1 our suggestion.
I A DESERVED AM> I X DESIRE D PRO
MOTION.
We beg to say to our friend Grouby, of
tire Early County N'irt, that we do not de
sire promotion to the rank of OolonH,
and tiiat if lie insists upon calling us by
tiiat title, it will be a brevet of his own
conferring. We are neither General,
Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, nor
even—Esq. I’iain Mr. suits both our ideas
of propriety and our ta*te, much better.
While upon this subject, we desire to
express, in behalf both of the publishers
and ourself, our very sincere apprecia
tion of our cotemporary’s good words as
set forth in tiie following paragraph. We
shall endeavor, always by a devotion to
the Right as we conceive it, and unweary
ing perseverance and energy iu tiie dis
charge of our duties, always to deserve it:
“The Journal and Messenger , now pub
lished by J. W. Burke A Cos., and edited
by that ableand bold Southern writer, Col.
A. W. Reese, i- the very best paper iii the
State, and we hope that our people through
out South-Wes ern Georgia will give it
their patronage.”
The State Convention.—The Colum
bus Sun <fc Times bad doubtless not seen j
the notice published in yesterday’s issue
of this journal, calling a meeting of the
State Central Executive Committee of the
Democratic party on Thursday, the 2Sih
inst., when it made the suggestion of Ma
con, as the place, and June 17th as the day
for holding the proposed State Convention
of that party. Without knowing exactly
what the Committee will do in reference
to the proposed Convention, we would re
spectfully suggest that it might probably
be best to await the action of the National
Democratic Convention in New York on
the -lili of July, before assembling a State
Convention. We shall then have the en
tire field, with all its points, strong and
weak, before us, with tlie respective par
ties, their chosen leaders, and the ground
they intend to occupy, all thoroughly un
masked. We trust our Columbus cotem
porary will accept the amendment.
Melancholy Suicide.—We learn that
Mr. Magor Smith, of Griffin, formerly of
tlie firm of Flemistou & Smith, of that
place, committed suicide yesterday morn
ing about daylight, by cutting iiis throat
with a razor, lie got up about that hour,
went into the basement of bis hon-e, and
before anything was suspected, was a
corpse. No cause is assigned for the fatal
act, further than temporary mental aber
ration, caused by an indulgence in drink,
lie leaves a wile and several children and
many friends to deplore liis shocking
death.
Hail Storm. —From a private letter
written at Coal Mountain, Forsyth county,
we extract the following:
“A heavy hail storm fell about six miles
below here on the 16tli. In one place the
hail had accumulated to the depth of ten
inches. The stones were very large. They
tore the leaves off the trees and stripped
many of their fruit. I saw several wheat
fields that were ruined.” —Atlanta Era 15th.
This accounts for the cool weather we
have been enjoying here.
Death of Hon. John A. Gilmer. —
The death of Hon. John A. Gilmer is an
nounced in the ‘Greensboro’ (N. C.) Pat
riot, of the 15th instant, as follows:
“We have barely time before going to
press, to announce the death of the Hon.
John A. Gilmer. This melancholy event
occurred about ten o’clock on Thursday
morning, at his residence in this place.”
Body of Major Bturges Found.—
From a Richmond paper we learn that the
grave of Major J. R. Sturgess, of the 3d
Georgia regiment, who was killed in the
buttle of Seven Pines, was found in acorn
field which was being ploughed. The
body was taken up and reburied at tlie
junction of the Charles City & Willams
burg roads, about two and half miles from
Richmond, Ya. Our cotemporaries are
requested to give this a notice in order that
it may reach the eye of tlie friends of tlie
gallant soldier .—Savannah News & Her
ald Vdth.
FRIDAY, HAY 22, 18@8.
THE RIGHT POLICY. 1
The Athena Watchman of the 20th, re
lates the following incident, which y>o
have read with great gratification. Gfed
bless the women, and especially tiie wo
men of brave old Clark couuty—our home
for so many happy years, and around
which will cluster, wherever we may
go, and to life’s latest hour, some of tiie
brightest memories that gild tiie highway
of the Past. We commend their example
to tlieir sisters everywhere. We approve,
most heartily approve, tiie policy indi
cated. We have said before, and we re
peat here, that there is no weapon so keen
and certain iu its sweep,as tiie rigid ostra
cism "social, political, and in business, of
those -who have deliberately elected, in
tiiis struggle, to emulate tiie treason of
Judas Iscariot. They have declared, by
their acts, tiiat they desire and are work
ing for the destruction of the rights, and
liberties, and property of those whom an
inscrutable Providence cursed with tlieir
kinship. They have raised, for the foulest
and basest purposes, their leprous hands
against the very life of Georgia. They
have brought reproach, many of them,
upon tiie fair fame of honoafcd sires, and
dragged in the loathsome slime and filth
of tiie Radical shambles, genealogies here
tofore without spot or blemish. They
have basely betrayed and insulted tbe j
wise, the good, ami the virtuous into !
whose company some of them have been
received as equals, and to whose counte- I
nance and patronage they are indebted for I
all tiie power they have so basely prosti
tuted. Let them be anathema maranatha, i
henceforth and forever! Let no man as- j
sail them by violence, though. Let no !
man even engage in verbal controversy
with them. From the most brazen and
conspicuous apostate of them all, down to 1
the viiest scullion who fattens and revels :
upon the dirtiest offal, let tiie policy be
absolute and uncompromising nou-reeog- 1
nition. Our enemies have s hack led our \
arms, but freedom of will and thought are :
yet left us.
But to the incident. Says the Watch
man :
We learn tiiat at a Missionary Baptist
church in this county, last Saturday, tiie
ladies of the congregation having learned
tiiat their pastor, who resides in another
county, had voted the Radical ticket at tiie
late election, determined to ascertain
decline Wneai*Turner , rrtz**.,r. —•» it
no males present, the oldest lady was
deputed by the others t<> interrogate the
minister, who “acknowledged the corn ”
at once; whereupon, she informed him
that there was no use in coming there to
preach tiie next day, as the whole congre
gation itad pledged themselves not to turn
out to heat him. He replied, in substance,
that being a free country, every man
had a right to vote as lie pleased, and he
regretted tiiat politic* should tie mixed up
with religion. The old lady rep,ied, that
she had nothing to do with polities ami
did not believe politics and religion should
lie mixed together—and that, if this was
a free country, she and the rest ot tiie
congregation had a right to refuse to hear
an unacceptable minister preach—-that
tiie recent contest was not one on political
differences, but between the races, and
tiiat when a white man voluntarily aligned
himself in opposition to ids own people,
it was time for them to drop him !
IMPEACHMENT—WHY POST PONED.
That rancorous and brutal Chronicle, j
Forney’s Washington City organ, under
takes to explain tiie reasons for adjourn
ing the question of tiie remaining articles
ot fmp-'Bobiuent to tbe gotli, and gloats,
with fiendish malignity,over the prospect
of yet convicting the President, whom it
styles, with much unction, “tiie culprit.
The delay, says that paper, will prevent
the White House “criminal from setting
“aside the reconstruction governments of
“ tbe Southern States, ami compel the re
“ cusant Republicans either to vote for or
“ against the admission of Arkansas,
“ Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina,
"Georgia, and North Carolina, in accord
ance with the terms prescribed by them
“ selves.” It proceeds to say: “\\ hen
“these States are admitted there will be
“ added to tiie body of the Senate and to
“ tiie High Court of the Impeachment ten
“or twelve new Radical senators. With
“ such an accession of strength, there will
“be no difficulty in convicting and de
“ posiDg Andrew Johnson.”
Per Contra, tlie Washington correspond
ent of the Baltimore Gazette says that
Chief Justice Chase will refuse to swear
| in these bummers as members of his court,
j and thus block tlie “leetle game” of the
) virtuous Forney. At any rate, we shall
i be glad to see the conspirators “try it on:”
| “it is rumored that the Senate may admit
I as .many new members as they please, but
i not a mother’s son of them will be sworn
| in as a member of the Court by Chief Jus
itice Chase! lam encouraged to believe,
I further, that if anew impeachment is
essayed, and fourteen new senators are ad
i milted, as threatened by Stokes in bis
| Friday nig ill’s speech, to insureconvietton,
at least seven old senators who vojed to
i convict Mr. Johnson on tlie 11th article
; will be found in opposition to the new ar
ticles.”
Immigration. —A well written aud
pertinent communication upon this all
important subject appears upon the out
side of this morning’s paper. We invite
attention to it. Apropos to its recommen
dations, we notice that a meeting of the
landholders of Morgan' county and all
others favoring immigration to that coun
ty will be held in the Court House, at
Madison, to-morrow (Saturday,). We
hope to hear of others, particularly in the
“Black bell” counties.
As showing how the Southern States
are slighted in this matter, we publish, be
low the statistics, showing tlie number
and destination of immigrants arriving at
New York during the month of April.
As will be seen the States of Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Missis
sippi, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Maryland and Virginia, receiv
ed, in all, but 575 persons.
1 he total number of arrivals during the
month of April, reaches nearly 20,000.
Os these persons tiie Side of Arkansas
received 20; British Columbia 0 ; Canada
204; California 222; Connecticut 240;Dela
ware z 9; District of Columbia 85; Florida
2 ; Georgia 5 ; lllinos 2,754; lowa 401 ; In
dian 277 ; Kentucky 08 ; Kan-as 92 ; Louis
iana 62: Massachusetts 786; Maryland 172;
Maine 47 ; Michigan 452; Minnesota 259 ;
Missouri 648 ; Mississippi 14; New Hamp
shire 52; Nova Scotia 32 ; New York
New Jersey 573 ; Nebraska 125; Nortli
Carolina 6 ; New Brunswick 2 ; ltliode Is
land 219 ; Ohio 979 ; Pennsylvania 1,593;
South America 17 ; Texas 36 ; Tennessee
55; Vermont 66; Utah 2; Virginia 108;
West India 5 ; Wisconsin 1,185; Dacotah
-4; Montana 2 17,748.
A Brave Soldier Gone to his Rest.
We regret to learn that Col. Frank Lit
tle died at the residence of his father, in
Walker county, on Sunday, the 17th inst.
His disease was consumption.
For a considerable time before the close
of the war, t'ol. Little was in command of
the 11th Georgia regiment. Few braver
men ever made a charge or withstood the
shock of battle. “Peace to his ashes.”
Mayor of Camden, New York,
has ordered the police to arrest all boy«
caught playing ball on Sunday in tnat
place.
YOL. LX., NO. I*2.
CbuNTiNO Chickens, &c. —Monsieur et
Madame Wade must have indulged in sev
eral paroxysms of teeth-gnashing wheu
the result of the vote on the eleventh im
peachment article showed that they were
not to commence housekeeping in the
White House. Correspondents tell us th&4
this amiable couple had made all their ar
rangements to take possession on the Ist
: of June. The Huuday night before the
vote was taken Madame Wade declared
that she would sleep in the White House
in less than two weeks, and even went so
far as to invite two of her “gossips” to
dine with her on her lirst reception. On
that same day she and Monsieur, her hus
band, had a “tiff” over the appointment
of a young man from Zanesville, Ohio, to
his private secretaryship, whilst the
Madame was equally decided in her prefer
ence for a young nephew of her’s.
Over six hundred and fifty letters, by
actual count passed through the Washing
ton post-office in one day—the fith inst. —
superscribed for Wade and given to his
messenger.
It is a certified fact that Wade had, with
the assistance of ids Radical supporters,
nearly completed the full list of appoint
ments for tiie various custom-houses and
post-offices over the country.
How this old ruffian must have clothed
himself with a garment of ands when
the vote was announced. It is really re
freshing to think of.
The Latest Phase of Despotism.—
We find the following paragraph in the
Charleston News, of the 20th. Really
there seems no limit to the insolence of
certain minions of military despotism.
The most charitable conclusion we can
reach in the case of this man, Edy, is that
Nature denied him the luxury of even a
thimble full of brains, or that be was
drunk when he issued such an order.
Military Interference.—The Chairman of
the Hoard of Registration in Winusboro'
having applied to the proprietors of the
Winusboro’ News for advertising and job
printing, was answered that the work
would not be done unless paid for in cash.
Thereupon the chairman applied to the
Post Commandant, at Columbia. The
chairman’s letter was returned with the
following endorsement:
Headquarters Militaet Post or Columbia, »
Columbia. S. C , Muy 14,1565. /
Respectfully returned to James M. Daly,
Registrar. The proprietors of the Wiuns
boro’ News have worse customers than the
United .'tales Government. Mr. Daly
aijkc *
Rv order of Brevet Col. Edv.
E. K. Hill,
First Lt. Fifth Artillery, Post Adjutant.
Honored.— The telegraph reports “Gov.
Brown of Georgia” as highly honored at
the Radical Chicago Convention. Hewas
chosen to introduce to that body its per
manent presiding officer, Ex-Gov. Haw
ley, of Connecticut, one of the meanest
and most malignant enemies that Geor
gia and the South has, even in New Eng
land.
So did the British honor Arnold witli
office and gold, but the gentlemen and
ladies of England refused even to touch
the leper’s hand, and he stood a Pariah in
the midst of those who had bought
The day will come when this recreant who
has sold not only country, but race, will
i staud abhorred even by those whose cause
his treachery sought to serve. Let us see
the mau who dares Sow say that this apos
i tate can any longer be countenanced by
the friends of Georgia and her people.
Ivet us see the man who dares,with pledges
and protestations of his own fidelity to
Georgia, to interpose between this crim
inal and the lash of a pitiless hut deserved
public reprobation. He that is Brown's
friend now, should not be surprised to
find that many people doubt bis friend
ship for Georgia.
A Prominent Citizen Dead.—We res
gret to learn from the Athens Wcdchman,
of the 20th, the death of Col. Robert Mc-
Millan, a prominent citizen of North Eas
tern Georgia, which,occurred at his home
in Clarksville, Habersham county, on the
6th inst. During the late civil war he was
Colonel of the 24th Georgia Regiment.—
Asa lawyer, aud a zealous, active Demo
cratic politician, Col. McMillan wa3
widely known, and his decease will be
mourned by many friends in that section
of the State.
A Yankee Raid.—The Elberton Ga
zette, of last week, reports the doiDgs of a
squad of Federal cavalry in that county,
which revive the memories of Palmer and
his gang in 1865. They were pre ending
to hunt up and seize distilleries, but would
get drunk on the whisky, and commit all
kinds of outrages. Shooting at men who
ran from them, abusing women, and help
ing themselves out of smoke-houses and
corn cribs, were the most venial of their
j offences.
The Press on the Verdict.—As far as
; tlie response has yet come from the ra
' tiooa) press of theeouutry, the vote on the
j eleventh article of impeachment is hailed
in terms which doubtless reflect the pub
: lie sentiment of the honest masses of the
j people.
The Greenville Horror.—By later
arrivals from Greenville, Miss., we have
been placed in possession of additional
particulars of the horrid alliay at tLui
place Wednesday afternoon. According to
our informant, the difficulty occurred in
the yard of the Campbell House, the orig
inal* parties being Major E. P. Byrne and
Dr. T. G. Polk. Col. Powell Hinds inter
fered to prevent a hostile collision. Dr.
O. M. B auton, who had been standing
near at once commenced stealthily ap
proaching Hinds from the r.ar, with a
large bowie knife in nis hand. Once w ith
in striking distance, be suddenly plunged
tlie weapon three timesintoColonel Hinds,
who fell dead, with scarcely a groan.
He had no sooner accomplished this
horrid deed than he also approached Major
Byrne in the same way. Before auy one
could sufficiently recover from tlie shock
produced by tlie murder of Colonel Hinds,
he had thrust the knife, already dripping
with gore, into Majpr Byrne's body, in
flicting what it is feared will prove a mor-
tal injury.
As soon as the second deed was commit
ted Blanton tied from the spot, but not
until lie bad stabbed Captain B. G. Sims,
who had made an effort to stop him. He
escaped into the woods, and at lastaccouuts
had not been apprehended. The assassi
nations created the wildest excitement in
the community, the almost unanimous
voice of the people being in favor of uiete
ing out summary punishment to Blanton
in tlie event of bis capture. —Memphis
Avalanche, May 17.
Mutilated Currency.—lt will be a
gratifying announcement to all who have
anything to buy or sell, that tlie Nation a
Bank have been directed to redeem ail t*'
or worn out currency. This will save > -
ness men a great deal of tro . U < Lnd -uch
will now be no longer re
cti rrency to tlie Assistant J “ f t ' lo the
demption, c ~/l tJ| | value in
TXon'ey Ade^iser.
ftSeopf" are said to have-exposed grew
« dYJnnfeut P of Nova Scotia
that at the restrictions
“toied u%n them by the Dominion is so
: apparent.