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BY J. W. BURKE & CO.
Georgia Journal & Messenger,
J. XV. BrRKE & C 0., IPreprietors.
A. \V. ItGENE.
S. HOSE, ) Editors.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1868.
AND STILL THEY GO.
Aiul still they go. Elsewhere we copy
n paragraph from the Kansas City Adver
tiser, informing us that about twenty gen
tlemen from Hale county, Ala., are now
looking fora refuge from the rule ol negroes
and carpet-baggers,in that vicinity. Every
day we hear of someone leaving home
and friends here to seek peace in a ditler
ent section. Yesterday Hr. W. A. Wil
liams, of Lowndes county, a popular gen
tleman, gooil citizen, and accomplished
dentist, passed through here en route to
Henderson, Ky, where lie proposes to put
down his stakes.
Protesting that this is unwise and wrong
in most cases, we cannot blame those who
see no hope for the future of this State, for
leaving it.
We regret, too, that those gentlemen
who are leaving us. are our best citizens,
not politicians or office seekers —men who
would care litile fordisfranchiseraeut even,
if the privilege of suffrage was left in the
hands of intelligent and good men.
Within a year, since the calling of the
Convention last fall, not less than, one
hundred such citizens of Dallas county,
despairing of peace or protection or hap
piness here, have gone to Kentucky, Illi
nois, Missouri, Kansas, California, and
Brazil, and as many more are preparing
to go hence.
We copy the above from a recent issue
of the Selma Messenger.
We heartily agree with the editor in his
opinion as to the wisdom of such an exo
dus, but we are hardly prepared to join
with him iu not censuring it.
It is the duty of every true, loyal-hearted
citizen of the South to remain and help
her out of her troubles. She needs them
all. Besides this, if it were not the duty
of Southern men to stay at home and aid
in the rescue of their section from tire po
litical ills that beset her, it is still their
duty, as citizens of the United States, and
members of the grand army of lovers of
the Constitution, and friends of free gov
ernment, to abide where their influence
for good will be most felt. At home, every
Southern man, we mean of that class who
are able to move off, has a positive and
well-ascertained iulluenee. He has grown
up in a community, and has his recognized
place. He represents, in opinion and ac
tion, not only himself, but others. He
makes sentiment. When he goes to Ohio,
or Kansas, or California, he leaves all this
behind, anil becomes a mere atom in the
multitude, almost lost in the general ag
gregate of anew community. There is
work, and plenty of it, at the South, for
every white man in it who is not absolute
ly a cypher. Even if there was no help to
be giveu politically, the field is still vast
for earnest, hopeful work. This South of
ours needs ail the brain, all the muscle, all
the will, and all the patient, resolute en
ergy that all her children can furnish if
she ever stands steady upon her financial
legs again. In commerce, manufactures,
agriculture, and education there is work
meet for a Hercules to do. There is no
man too humble to aid in one or the other,
or haply, all of these directions. Let us
stand fast, then, and pledge ourselves to a
willing, faithful service.
As to wandering off to Brazil and other
mongrel regions, that folly has about cured
itself, and hardly deserves serious combat
ting. Those who have tried it, do not en
courage Others to learn by the same sad
experieuce. The Southern people, in all
their lessons since the war, have very fully
and very indelibly learned the one that
teaches them that “though everso homely,
there is no place like home.” The despo
tism of tiie bayonet is very grinding, but
it is more tolerable than the despotism of
mongrels in a mongrel country.
EGYPTIAN COEN—HUMBUG,
Having published the advertisement of
Egyptian (Jam in the Journal and Mes
senger, we copy the following from the
New Orleans Christian Advocate, and hope
none of our readers will send money until
they hear from us further in regard to the
matter: .
Kkwark ofthe Egyptian Corn Hum
bug—An individual under the name of
F. E. G. Lindsey, of Abingdon, Virginia,
is sending out circulars, professing to have
for sale anew and wonderful variety ojf
corn, called, “Egyptian Corn," for which
he charges $1.50 per package.
He also professes to be an editor of a pa
per called the “Itinerant Cornucopia."
From our own experience with this cireu
cular we came to the conclusion that the
whole thing was a swindle, and the person
styling himself F. E. G. Lindsey, a vil
lain. The circular was sent to us a year
or two ago as an advertisement, and was
published accordingly. But our bills for
advertising were all sent in vain, as we
never received a single response.
We received a letter from one of our
subscribers in Michigan, stating that be
had sent the money according to direction
for packages of corn for himself and neigh
bors, but never received the corn, nor
could he get any reply to his letters of in
quiry.
We received another of these circulars
a month or two since, requesting us to in
sert the same as an advertisement, and
send bill, “making it as low us you can for
cash." We, of course, threw it aside.
But seeing the advertisement in several of
the papers of this State, and fearing that
many may be swindled thereby, we take
take thisopportunityof warningallagainst
sending their money for this “Egyptian
Corn,” as they would probably all see
Egypt before they would see the corn.
We hope a so that no other editors will be
deceived into publishing this circular, and
that those who have been deceived will
immediately warn their readers of the
deception.
We trust that arrangements may be
speedily made with the sheriff at Abing
don to arrest those engaged in this busi
ness.
Bennett’s Advice. —The New York
Herald is giving the Democratic party
much advice just now. Bummed up it is
represented by one word —Chase. The
following is a specimen :
They (the Democrats) must go to Chase.
He is the only man in the country who
will be worth a button against the Repub
lican nominee. Let the Democrats have
the moral courage to look upon things as
they are, to look upon the light opening
as anew one, to ignore past relations of
men to parties, and, accepting so much as
has been honestly doue in reconstruction,
go forward for the assertion of the suffi
ciency of the constitution with Chase as
their leader. Let them dp this and they
may have a future, They may put any
Democrat they choose in the second place,
even though he come front the smallest
pigeon hole iu Tammany. Chase lias
enough brains to cover all, and in his
record there is the moral dignity that
would make the ticket acceptable to the
highest standard of American thought.
Radicalism counts for Grant’s election
much upon the (Southern Btates; but
Chase could carry those Btates against
Grant. This is true of no other man,
and the election, may turn on this point
If the Democratic convention nominates
Chase it will stamp itself a bold aud wise
body; but if it does not the defeat of its
party is absolutely certain.
A New Way to Save Corn.—The
Bum ter (B. C.) Watchman tells of a farmer
of that district who has been selling his
corn—what he actually needed for his own
use—to keep it from being stolen by negro
thieves!
■ARKANSAS.
The bill for the admission of this so
j called State is now before the President
! for his signature. We hope.he will veto
I it, though we know that will uot prevent
, the consummation of the damnable crime
her recognition as a member of the Union
with her present “constitution” would be
against the rights and property ofuine
tenths of her bona fide citizens. Still, we
hope the President will scotch, if he can
not kill the snake. A more outrageous
infraction of rights, and a more wicked
deliverance of a helpless people—who are
the State in point of numbers, property,
intelligence and true loyalty—to the
vicious rule of barbarians, bummers and
scalawags, will uot stain the annals even
of Radical infamy. Os all the “constitu
tions” that have been, or will be, sent up
to Washington, this one from Arkansas is
the most devilish in its conception and ex
ecution. Under its provisions, not more
than three or four out of over sixty thou
sand white men in the State, can vote,
hold office or sit on juries, practice law or
medicine, teach school, oredit or publish a
newspaper. There is not one redeeming
feature in ail its meanness, malignity and
remorseless ostracism. Any man who
would prefer “getting back into the Union’’
on such terms, to remaining under the
rules of eveu the most brutal satrap in
the ranks of the Federal army, deserves to
wear a collar and be a thrall, the rest of
his natural life. .His children should come
into the world on all-fours like dogs, and
have dish water in their veins instead of
blood.
Useless. —The efforts of all plunder
propped tilings called newspapers, that
serve the Radical party in Georgia, to pro
voke a notice,- by name, from the conduc
tors of this journal. We have other and
better use for our space, and too much re
gard, not only for the dignity of the pro
fession, but the feelings of the ladies and
gentlemen who take our paper, to thrust
such uncleanness upon their notice. We
have been taught, from our youth up, that
the proper place for carrion was tiie muck
heap and boue yard. We cannot be in
strumental in dragging it into tiie pres
ence of respectable men and women.
Consoling. —A “ trooly loil ” rascal
named Callicott, who made hiß start in
life by selling iiis vote to the radicals in
the New York Legislature, lias been con
victed of defrauding the Government in
New York city. Tiie Charleston News is
very much refreshed with the thought that
lie will visit Hug Sing, as he was a cotton
agent in that city at the close of tiie war,
and showed himself a “precious rascal.”
We know several of his kinsfolk in Geor
gia, now, who would be much benetitted
by a sojourn at that musical establishment.
Felicitous.— James Russel Lowell has a
poem in the Atlantic for this month, in
which the June of that latitude Is thus
described :
“Long she lies in wait,
Makes many a feint,peeps forth, draws coyly back,
Then from some southern ambush in the sky,
With one great gush of blossoms storms the world”
“Subscriber.” —We beg to say to the
person who writes us from Twiggs county
over tliis signature that we can make no
defence of tiie opinions heretofore express
ed, and to which he excepts, unless he will
furnish us with his real name. We have
no time, nor eveu the inclination to com
bat heresies that have no more substantial
backing than that furnished by a norn de
plume. Sign your name to the protest, or
furnish it to us, and we will endeavor to
show wherein we are right and you arc
wrong.
The Freedmen’s Bureau employs
seven hundred and three agents and
clerks, whose aggregate salaries are eight
hundred and nine thousand* three hun
dred and forty dollars per annum, irre
spective of their pickings in government
rations, clothing, <fce. Os these officials
sixty-four are in Washington at a cost of
ninety thousand dollars per annum, and
in addition there are fifty-six others in the
District of Columbia at a cost of fifty-three
thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Maryland has fortunately only nine, at a
cost of eleven thousand seven hundred
dollars- per annum, while Virginia lias
fifty-three, at a cost of sixty-one thousand
one hundred and eighty dollars. Alto
gether the bureau and military cost eleven
million dollars per year of the people’s
money to maintain satrapies and purchase
tiie votes of untutored colored men to
sustain Radicalism in power. —Baltimore
Sun, Ist inst.
John S. Ashe.—On Saturday evening
last, with the setting of the sun, passed to
eternal repose ail that was mortal of this
chivalric Carolina gentleman
Colonel Ashe was born in 1796, of
wealthy parentage whose ancestry could
be traced far beyond the first settlement of
this State.
For many years he occupied a seat in
the Senate of this State and was a wel
come compeer in the councils atfd domestic
associations of the Hamptons, Haynes,
Prestons, and other honored sons of
Carolina—whilst in private life be devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits and the
encouragement of material improvements.
Charleston Courier, Isi inst.
Ural Estate Owners in New Orleans
Excited.
The Picayune of the 26th says :
“There is quite a flutter among those
owners of real estate who are supposed to
he affected by the decision of the United
States Bupreme Court in the celebrated
Gaines case. Tlie.preseuce of Mrs. Gaines
in our ci;y, whose purpose it is alleged is
to prosecute or compromise with, as the
case may be, the holders of property
claimed by her under the will of Daniel
Clark, is the occasion of the excitement to
which we allude. The claims in question
extend so far back, and are so little under
stood, that a general insecurity among
a large class of property holders exists. —
We understand that an attorney in the
city is making quite a handsome thing of
it, being conversant with the nature of the
claims, by furnishing information either
affirmative or negative in its character, for
the sum of twenty-five dollars in each
case.
As the oily is more or less interested in
this matter, it would be well and quite
proper if the authorities would provide for
a publication of a list of the property-hold
ers in this case to which judgments attach.
The Chicago Platform and the Fi
nancial Question. —A correspondent
asks us if we think that the committee
who prepared the resolutions at Chicago
“ intended to dodge the question as to the
payment of the Government bonds in
gold?” Fortunately, we can present in
reply something more than our mere
.opinion. A discussion between the New
Haven Register and the Journal of that
city has brought out the fact, admitted by
the Republican paper, whose editor had a
first-rate opportunity' to know, that a
resolution was prepared in the committee
pledging payment of the bonds in gold,
and it was voted down, the one we com
mented on, being substituted. That settles
the question, we think, beyond dispute.—
Mew York Journal of Commerce.
New Wheat-—The planters in this
county will commence harvesting this
week. The indications are that the yield
will not be large, in proportion to the
breadth of land sown, but of excellent
quality. This price In the market will
open at probably two dollars a bushel,
but the expectation is that it will soon de
cline. We would again suggest that part
! ies will subserve their own interests by
j getting their wheat into market as soon
• as practicable. —Rome Courier 2d.
THURSDAY, .JUNE 4, 1868.
‘ ’’OREGON!
The home of Joe Lane responds to tiie
nomination tis Grant and Colfax by a mag
nificent Democratic triumph The party
of the Constitution and the equality of the
States have routed the cohorts of Radi
calism, and set that far oil' sovereignty
once more iu tiie diadem of Hates that
aresliil true to a Union of peace, justice
and law. Oregon, that has rolled up Radi
cal majorities since 1860, now turns her
back upon the conspirators, and returns to
her allegiance. We hail the result as an
omen full of promise. It is the first ray
of that sun of victory whose beams sbali
bathe a continent-in glory in November.
The work of redemption begins upon the
Pacific shore of the Republic. It will not
stop till its thunders reach the Atlantic.
Tli roe times three for Oregon! See the
dispatch elsewhere to be found.
The Southern Cultivator —For the
current mouth lias made its welcome ap
pearance, with a table of contents full of
value to every fanner in Georgia. It is
as follows:
Agricultural Department —Work for the
Month; Green Crops Turned Under for
Manure, &e.; Notes on the Ramie Plant;
Letter from Mr. Dickson —Manures Again;
Home Improvements vs. Making Money
by Commercial Manures; Proper Angle
for a Plow Stock; Renovating Southern
Farms; Sheep; the Best Cross for Country
Sheep; Cotton Seed for Sheep ; Mr. Gift,
Mr. Dickson vt al.; Book Farming, &c.;
Co-operation among Farmers ; Chester
White i’igs; Blind Staggers or Sturdy in
Horses; the Old Method of Bee Culture;
Chicken Fever and Apple Disease; Farm
Accounts; Bedding Sweet Potatoes, Ac:;
Hog Raising ; Florida—the St. John's
Country; I raining Lands; Bloody Mur
rain; Poultry for the South ; the Use of
Lime in Kugland ; Singular Disease of
Pigs; Measuring Corn in a Crib; Dr.
Heard’s Moth Trap; Anew Cement-
Scraps ; Cultivation of Sweet Potatoes ;
Best Location of Houses for Health ;
Grasses; Gullett’s Gin Stand—Dickson’s
Cotton, Ac.; Clover, Grasses, Ac.; the
Study of Manures; Mud as a Manure—
Rice, Ac. ; Spanish Tobacco; To Lay a
Fence Worm, Ac.
Jlortii'uUurtdDepartment. Kitchen j
Garden ; Winter Cabbages ; Grape Culture;
Strawberries, Scnppernong Grape Vines, j
Onions—Extract from a Private Letter; j
Cause of Blight hi Pear Trees; Seed Po- j
tatoes; Tomatoes; To Rid your Garden of !
Cut Worms ; Insects—“ Lady Bugs.”
We would like to see this invaluable ,
periodical in the hands of every farmer in j
the South. It is better worth the money j
($2 a year) than any agricultural journal
in the United States. We shall make
liberal extracts from it from time to time, i
for the benefit of our subscribers who do
not take it.
Literally Verified —Madame Gree
ley having one day in 1865 eaten too much j
dinner, and suffering with indigestion j
therefrom, fell to scolding like a very drab
at her own household, and, waxing pro
phetic, spake as follows. Never was a
prediction more literally verified. Said
she:
New England produces many of the best
specimens of the human race; and, along
with these, some of the very meanest be- j
iugs that ever stood on two legs, canting, j
rapacious, hypocritical, ever ready to skin j
a Hint w ith a borrowed knife, ami make 1
(for others) a soup out of the peelings
This class soon becomes too welt known
at home—‘‘run out,” as the phrase is—
when they wander all over the earth, .
shuffliugand swindling, to the injury and j
shame of tiie land that bore them and cast
them out Now, let it lie generally pre
sumed by the ignorant blacks of the South j
lliata Yankee, because a Yankee, is ne- j
cessarily tHeir friend, and ttiis unclean j
brood will overspread the South like lo
custs, starting schools ami prayer meetings '
at every cross road, getting hold of abau- !
doned or confiscated plantations, and hi
ring laborers right and left, cutting timber j
here, frying out tar and turpentine there, .
and growing even cotton, rice and sugar,
which they will have sold at the earliest j
day and run away w ith the proceeds, leav- j
ing the negroes in rags and foodless, with
winter just coining on.
The Fate of.“ Relief. —We refer
those white men of Georgia who voted to :
impose the Atlanta Constitution, with its I
unlimited negro suffrage feature upon
their fellow citizens, in order that they,
the white men aforesaid, might cheat
their creditors, to the Washington dis
patch announcing the action of the Senate
Judiciary Committee upon the “relief”
clauses of that instrument. Just what we
predicted has borne to pass—“ relief ”is a
cheat and a swindle, but negro suffrage is
a fixed fact so far as Congress can make it.
These shifty souls went shearing, but have
come home clean shorn.
The first and third subdivisions of Sec
tion 17, Article 5, read as follows :
Section XVII. Par. I.—No Court in
this State shall have jurisdiction to try or
determine auy suit against any resident
of this State upon auy contractor agree
ment made or implied, or upon any eon
tract made in renewal of any debt existing
prior to the first day of June, 1865. Nor
shall any Court or ministeiial officer of
this State have authority to enforce any
judgment, execution or decree rendered
or issued upon any contract or agreement
made or implied, or upon auy contract in
renewal of a debt existing prior to the
first day of June, 1865.
Par. III.—It shall be in the power of
the General Assembly to assess aud collect
upon all debts, judgments, or causes of
action when due, founded on any contract
made or implied before the first day of
June, 1865, in the bauds of any one in his
own right, or as trustee, agent or Attorney
of another, on or after the first day of
January, 1868, a tax of not exceeding 25
per cent, to be paid by the creditor on pain
of the forfeiture of the debt, but chargeable
by him as to one-half thereof against the
debtor, and collectable with the debt:
Provided, That this tax shall not be col
lected if the debt or cause of action be
abandoned or settled without legal pro
cess, or, if in judgment, be settled with
out levy and sale : And provided further,
That this tax shall not be levied so long
as the Courts of this Btate shall not have
jurisdiction of such debts or causes of
action.
The proviso excepted is in these words:
Provided, That no Court or officer shall
have, nor shall the General Assembly
give, jurisdiction or authority to try or
giVe judgment on or enforce any debt, the
consideration of which was a slave or
slaves, or the hire thereof.
Call for a State Convention.—The
appended resolutions of the Central Exe
cutive Committee, we doubt not, will be
approved by every working Democrat ih
the Btate. Thorough organization will be
one of the results of the Convention, and
this is precisely what is needed We
agree with our cotemporary of the Journal
& Messenger that bushwhacking and still
hunting won’t win. A square, stand-up,
knock-down and-drag-out fight istheonly
one that will in the least enhance the suc
cess of the Georgia Democracy. The result
of the late election is a sufficient warning,
we should think. —Monroe Advertiser, 2d.
53?” A man with three ears was recently
seen in Arkausas—one on each side of his
head, aud the third one between his
l eetli.
MACON, GA.; TUESDAY, JUNE 9. 1868.
akoRGH Ffion the
Favored by*nature with ail that makes
a home and country desirable ; iu her sa
lubrious climate, her productive soil, her
mineral and forest resources and her vast
water power; and bearing on her bosom a
population who have sprung from an an
cestry of hardy yeomanry, with no false
pride of lineage or wealth, her sons and |
daughters have become the most self re- j
liaut citizens that a demouartic form of gov- !
eminent has any where produced. In tiie ;
recent destruction of her institutions and
tiie shock giveu to her industrial pursuits !
she has been temporarily stayed in her j
high destiny, but good may arise out of
the evil, by calling into action higher ca
pacities of resolution, energy and inven
tion. She must, to fulfill her destiny, be
come by the foresight and energy of her
people, truly the empire state. With a
calm reliant hope in the future, she calls
upon her own children and invites her
other weeping southern sisters to join in
earnest efforts to build up the ruins and
make glad the waste places. The forests
of her vast domain have already yielded
much to enterprise. The marsh and mo
rass have been utilised; the mountains
cut down for her railroads, her valleys fill
ed with waiving grain, the roaring waters
tamed and appropriated to machinery,
auil thousands of bumming spindles at
test her industry. But much more re
mains to be done. Our worn out clay
hills like infants who have lakeu too
much paregoric, are sickened by bad treat
ment. Georgia is still young and will out
grow her diseases when the highways he-,
come lanes, and from the top of every
spire a neighboring village can bo seen,
then, and not till then, will Georgia have
attained her maturity. This time is com
ing, and will assuredly arise out of this
war that has apparently struck us down.
The ways of God are mysterious. Who
shall deny that he has afflicted u», that
we may become better? Who shall say
that out ot humiliation ami suffering lie
will not lift us to happiness? While we
humbly as a people bow to his decree, let
us also hold up our hands and aspire 1
it may be decreed also that we shall “per
fect through suffering.”
Having premised thus much, practical
ni»o n> B and a direc
tion of their energies. The new state of j
affairs is developing new modes and means
of progress. Men of fertile brains are
working out problemaof political economy
Nature’s self is at work for the rest.' What
we most need is more population, and
more reliable labor. Those who intro
duce emigrants are the pioneers of the on
ward march. Those who form stock com
panies for improving, renting and selling
lands will induce emigration. Dense
population will give us cheap labor. Cot
ton and other manufactories will then
spring up on eveiy hand prepared to fur
nish goods to all lands cheaper tiiau it can
be done by those who have to pay for the f
handling and shipment of the raw materi
al. We make ourselves self-sustaining
and self-reliant. Small farms will give
every man a happy home, ajid much man
ure, with improved .-ecus and culti aliou
will make every place a garden spot, and
till the laud with plenty. Prophecies, it
men believe in them, work out their own
fulfillment, for wvury man directs hi* en
ergies to the end. Nature is show ing her
self bountiful to Georgia. On every bill
and in every valley rooting out that pest
of our soil (the Bermuda grass) is creeping j
swiftly and surely, without human agency
anew and valuable grass or clover easily
destroyed when the lauds are needed fur
cultivation. We hear of anew species of
corn, that is to bring us 160 bushels to the
acre ; anew cottonseed that is to yield 2
bags to the acre and command 10 Cts. per
pound more in the market. We read of
vast deposits of rich manure, close to the
borders of our “late New Inventions that
make short-hand of abor. Surely nature
and art are combining for our advance
ment. Let every man think so and no
one despond, and the result will come.
We say then, push on, you emjgant com
panies, form your landed stock, and im
provement associations. Build your tim
ber boats, start your machine shops, facto
ries, steam laundries, etc. Give the negro
a New Mexican Htate to emigrate to,
where he can enjoy the boon ofliberty
under bis own vine and fig tree. Fill his
[dace with industrious whites, scratch
the surface of your old Bermuda fields,
and sow in tiie Georgia clover, raise your j
cattle upon the rich pasturage, cut the ,
clover, bale it and do without the North- j
ern hay ; bring in the manure, sow your
improved seeds, concentrate your energies,
a inline assured that this Georgia of ours :
wifflfiaugli and grow fat.
Phoenix.
Turned State’s Evidence.— Don Pi-j
att, of Ohio, a well known politician of ;
the most approved Radical pattern, feel
ing very bad over the result of the im
peachment plot, relieves his mind by vol- :
untarily taking the stand, kissing the :
book, and telling all he knows of his asso- !
elates of that party. His testimony is as j
follows:
Through the unsettled condition of a
country suffering from civil wars we have
developed more rascality than any organ
ization ever called into existence. We
have filled the offices with thieves and
their pockets with stealings. We have
organized rings that in turn create office
holders and control the government. Men
go in poor ami come out millionaires. For
one dollar paid to the government from
hard-earned taxes hundreds stick to tbe
dirty fingers of official scoundrels. We
have whisky rings, Indian bureau rings,
manufacturers’ rings, national bank rings,
railroad rings, land-jobbing lings and in
ternal improvement rings. From the low
est officials up to Senators aud Cabinet
officers, the taint of corruption runs, until
the people, dazed aud confused, confound
tbe right and listen with indifference to
the threats of exposure.
“Let Us Have Peace”—Bays Grant in
his letter accepting the Radical nomina
tion for President. Avery good text.
How those who are supporting him preach
from it at the South, is described in the
following from the Columbus Sun of Tues-
day :
Columbus Citizens at Fort Pulaski.
—We are told they are lodged in tbe cells
of the fort, apart from each other, and are
allowed no communication among them
selves They are not permitted to receive
or write letters except such as are com
posed in general terms—mere statements
in regard to health and business matters —
nothing as relates to treatment, arrest, &e.
Friends cannot see them Confinement
in the cells of that sultry fort, surrounded
on all sides by water, infested by swarms
of mosquitoes and sand Hies, under mili
tary restrictions, must be terrible—especi
ally to men who, we are confident, can
disprove any criminal charge which scal
awags or anybody else can bring against
them.
No Such Odds Now.—The Cincinnati
Enquirer, says that General Grunt was
never successful in winning a victory, ex
cept when he had three or four men to his
enemy’s one. As lie has got no such odds
now, it is pretty certain that he can’t de
feat the Democracy of the country.
j * LETTJSE FROM NEW YOBS.
1 The Pig Tails — The, Still-born Nomination
‘ “at Chicago — Pugilism—New Books—Ho
tels—Astor House, d-c.
New York, May 29, 1868.
Gotham has had anew sensation, in the
recent arrival of Hon. Ans'ou Burlingame
and his Chinese embassy. They occupied
about forty rooms at the Westminster
House, and have of course been the objects
of marked attention As lam Innocent
«>f the C’liow-chow-che-fung vernacular,
and liuve “uo friend at court” to present
; me to the august mandarins, I have con
j tented myself by seeing them through a
! glass darkly at Nihlo’s, where they seemed
! 10 enjoy the gyrations incident to the
“White Fawn” quite as well as our native
! barbarians. They area decided improve
ment on their cousins, tiie coolies, whom
it was once my privilege to see somewhat
more closely at the hotels and oil the sugar
estates in Cuba, and as a free show aie u
decided success, i incline to think the
Great American Tea Company will do
more, however, to strengthen our com
mercial relations witff China, than Bur-
lingame and his exhibition of pigtails.
The nomination of Grant and Colfax
has tailed to inspire any genuine enthusi
asm. It seems to be accepted as a matter
of course, and papers like the Times, Post,
(Springfield Republican, and others which
were opposed to impeachment, evince a
cordial support of the Chicago nominees,
though they are directly committed by the
action of that body to the impeachment
movement, and tiie failure of that shame
less mockery must necessarily weaken the
popular enthusiasm for the Radical ticket.
All the attempts to galvanize tiie dis
cordant elements of the party into enthu
siasm have been failures. The salute tired
after the nomination was the coldest and
most formal feu de joie ever attempted.
The demonstration at Cooper lu-titute,
and tiie various club meetings, show that
there is little heart and less brains in the
work of rejoicing. The Tribune and For
ney’s "two papers—both daily”— continue
to write those who defeated impeachment
out of the party, and the Tinas and other
more moderate organs in turn fulminate
anathemas on Greeley Forney, Thud, (slo
vens el al. The Post, a day or two ago, iu
replying to the abusive articles by Forijey
and Greeley, said that it would b•• well for
the parly, now entering upon an arduous
canvass, if its leaders "would < allot) tfu ir
dogs."
The Chase movement is still a subject of
gossip, but meets with little? favor from
any prominent Democrats, save those
identified with the ring of bondholders,
who hope through his election to secure
their pound of llesli in tiie shape of gold
interest and exemption from taxation. It
may lie that those who areeoouetting with
Chase hope to w(d«t> • ••■“ I —* —■■■»«<••*
nun unu Ine Grant interest.
Tiie final removal of .Stanton—that dirty
old carbuncle on the administration —from
the War office, gives more general satis
faction than any event of the day.
THE MILLING I NTKKKBT.
There is no more striking evidence of
tiled- morali/.ation of the masses than the
intere.-t manifested in prize fighting. The
Coburn and McCoole affair created an ab
solute furor for two or three days of the
present week. The papers is-ued extras
every half hour, announcing tiie manifest
details of the affair, and not less than lUW,-
n<)o extra copies of the Herald, News and
Telegram—each of winch made the light
a speciality —were sold. Muscle is at a
premium here. The latest contest for the
championship was between two boot
blacks yesterday. The ragged little chaps
raised a purse of sls, and a Brooklyn
“shiner” was pitted against an expert
young knight of the brush from Buffalo,
i'he result was tiie triumph of the Brook
lyn l»iy, “Aleck,” in Ij minutes, over
“Old Buff” There is something practical
in this, trilling os it may seem —and some
shining good to mankind may r suit from
it. It will stimulate the disciples of Day
and Martin to s|»eed and skill iu their “pro
fession,” and tli us save a great deal of valua
ble time! It is so much none harmless than
dog-baiting, rat-eatchitig prize fighting,
and other devilment, that it deserves this
paragraph in the way of encouragement.
A MARINE CONTEST
An interesting quadrilateral marine con
tent la no* being waned between tile four
different steamer lin< s lit J 5 >stou. The fare
has l*-en reduced from week to week since
tile Spring season opeired, until they are
taking passengers at SI.MU to cti.uo, and
some at even lower rales. - The boats, on
liieseJiues are alt of excellent class, hut
those of the “Norwich and Worcester”
line appear to he in esjteciai favor. Any
of your readers who wish to visit the “huh
of the Universe,” may do so from this
l>oint at a very moderate exjiense, and if
the competition continues may set a free
passage, and a year’s subscription to tlie
Atlanta> Monthly!
NEW BOOKS.
To tlie making of books there is literally
no end, and whether business prospers, or
goes to everlasting smash, the mills of the
publishers grind on. The Harpers have
just issued a handsome volume of most
attractive tourist gossip, by Rev. Dr, Hol
lows, entitled "The Old World in its New
Kru " Sheldon & Cos. have anew volume
of sermons by Rev. Newman Hall. The
Appletons are issuing a Globe Kdition of
the works of Walter Scott, and a cheap
edition of the Waverley Novels, fete Ison
& Cos., Philadelphia, have issued an illus
trated volume of the “Impeachment and
Trial of Andrew Johnson,” which is live
ly, chatty ami readable. It contains por
traits of those who have labored.conspicu
ously in the trial, with all the evidence,
speeches, and ttie decisions of the Chief
Justice. Oakley &. Macon have out a vol
ume of pleasant miscellaneous sketches
entitled January and June. These are the
most noticeable events in the hook trade
that have attracted my notice this week.
I observe that G- R. Oathcurt, Esq., for
merly of the Charleston Mews, is issuing
a monthly publication devoted especially
to tlie interest of the bodk trade. Itisfull of
startling reviews'of new books and of the
current periodicals, and to publishers and
those who would keep the run of new pub
lications, it is valuable. Price only ?1 a
year.
TRIFLES.
There were only IMS arrests and 407
deaths in town last week.
Passing down by tlie Howard Mission,
on Sunday morning, 1 noticed a great
crowd of people, of a low order, chiefly
children, emerging from that city of refuge
for little wanderers. 1 was told by a polite
policeman that 154 persons took breakfast
there that morning, most of whom had
lodged in the station house that night.
One roust go away from Broadway to get
a correct idea of the varied phases of life
in Gotham.
Ristori is giving some more farewell per
formances this week.
Money is getting abundant and cheap,
the rate's of interest being 3 to 4 per cent,
on Governments, and 5 to 6 on good paper.
Gold is steady, and Government securities
looking up.
Weather cold, with rain almost daily
fora month. . Oconee.
Healthy Sign. —The Selma (Ala.)
Messenger says: “ One house in this city
on Monday, shipped nine hundred sacks
of canehrake corn to Mobile.” It says
last year every dollar in this section Was
being sent West for corn ; now we have a
surplus, and corn is as low here as it is in
St. Rouis.”
The Wheat Crop.— I The early crop of
wheat in this county is now being harves
ted. Planters say the leaf-rust has injured
the wheat to some extent, and it is feared
a short crop wilt be the result—not more
than two-thirds, if that. Tlie late wheat
promises better than the early. —Hancock
Journal, 30 th till.
“General Grant and speaker Colfax
will it is announced, start about the first
of July for Colorado. They expect to he
gone two months. The trip is solely for
the recuperation of the health.”— Wash
ion Dispatch.
Sixteen years ago the ranking general
of the United States, just after receiving a
nomination for President, started on a
tour for recuperation. The objective point
of tit at trip was Salt river, and Genet al
Scott reached it late in November. The
present contemplated trip may furnish a
parallel to that —Colorado not being very
1 far from the Great Salt Lake.
FRIDAY JUNE 5, 18U8.
From the Ccnstituiionalist.
CUDDLE AM) €»’ K<>« ii% \ .
Land and Immigration Bureau, i
Athens, Georgia. j
The undersigned have, associated under
the above name for tiie purpose of bring
ing to Georgia, European emigrants, prin
cipally farmers and tenants; and what is
mostly needed here are capital and bona
fide settlers, they do not contemplate the
introduction of mere laborers, or house
servants, except upon request.
The landholders of Georgia have lost
very much, but they still retain the soil
ot their fatners, rich iu resources, suscep
tible of great improvement, and blessed
with a climate of unsurpassed salubrity
in by far Hie greater portion of tbe .State,
suitable for tbe production of every staple
grown within tbe wide limits of tbe 1
United States. These elements it is their
duty to make available in restoring tbe
wonted prosperity of their Stale, and our
object is to help them in so doing, if they
will come forward promptly and liberally
to the aid of our enterprise.
Our lirst step is complete organization
at home. We, therefore, invite the land
holders of Georgia to offer through us
their lands to the world, for sale or lent,
and in tracts to suit their convenience.
VV’ith each trad entered, a piuu or survey
of it is required, accompanied by a com
plete description of such tract, full direc- j
tions for which will be found iu our
circular.
When a sufficient amount of land is
entered with us to offer to tbe foreign
emigrant all description of soils and loca
tiontqour ageus in Europe will go to work
actively to canvass tbe different counties.
Our foreign organization is iu the hands
oi one who has some of the most signal
advantages for the happy accomplishment
of this part of our enterprise, and who
will conduct the’lirst ship load of emi
grants to our harbor of Havaunah. To
pave tbe «uy for our foreign operations
preliminary steps will at once tie taken to
make the inducernems which we otter
known abroad. We will, in this connec
tion, be greatly aided by tiie spreading,
in the most important languages, of a
memoir on Georgia, similar in purport
and tenor to one written by Col. .Schuller
in lavor of Virginia, upon request of tbe
Virginia Bureau of Immigration, Which
has already created a lively interest for
Virginia in Europe, and been tiie means
of bringing the first direct emigrants to
Virginia.
Our enterprise not being aided by large
capital, or wealthy corporation, nor in any
wise a money-making scheme, but, on the
ESEfSHf /dWJV n i? 1 account"of the difficuT
ties in our path so little appreciated, or
even known, by the public generally, will
neces.-arily be of slow growth. Neverthe
less, w e are confident of ultimate success
and resolved to carry out the work if
those who are mostly interested iu it*, will
eupjiort us, looking for our chief reward
to a regeneration of the agricultural
interests of Georgia upon which every!
oilier interest so entirely depends.
The expense of our enterprise to the
land-owners will b« the payment of a
registry fee to defray the cost of foreign
and domestic correspondence, copies of
maps and of desciiptioua in various:
languages for our foreign agents, foreign :
and domestic advertisements and publica
tion of our Memoir on Georgia. \V hen )
we deliver, tiualiy, to the* land-owner his j
purchaser or tenant, we will require a !
[>er centage on the money transaction
between them.
Our circular contains full information
ou these points not esjiecially mentioned
here, and may be had on application in
person or by letter. As. our enterprise is ;
for the public good, ah corresponding witli
the Bureau are requested to enclose ten j
cents or stamps to cover postage and
stationery.
The newspapers of the State, heretofore
so liberal iu their advocacy of similar
movements, are respectfully requester. to
give to ttiis appeal the benefit of their f
circulation M. C. Fulton,
For Home Department.
F. BHALLKK,
For Foreig i Department.
A New Feature in the Northern
Old School Assembly.— An Albany let
ter from the General Assembly of the Gld
School Presbyterian Church contains tlie
following:
“The special feature of interest this
morning in tlie Assembly wu# the ‘color
ed’ or‘dark’ feature*which came suddenly
into conspicuous prominence. Old Father
Williams, the delegate from Knox Presby- ;
tery, Georgia, was invited to come for ward
upon the platform and address tlie Assem
bly. Although a member of that body, and
having the same right to i i~e and speak to
any question that any ‘white’ member of
the Assembly enjoys, still the fact that
never in the history of the Presbyterian
Church (Old School ! has a ‘black’ delegate
set in any of her ecclesiastical courts made
it ainatler of delicacy for tlie new delegate :
to exercise his right without special invi- .
tatifni.
" LET US HAVE PEACE,"
Prays Grant, with a nasal whine and a
hypocritical unction that will set the eye- :
halls of Radicalism to rolling, and its
hands, stained with the blood of half a 1
million of American citizens, to raising
themselves up in pious response. The
prayer, if not impious, is a mockery—a
cruel and shameless mockery. Who is
this man that dares thus to insult facts, and 1
outrage decency and the record of the liv
ing present ? What has he done for peace j
since the close of -that bloody war wherein :
he bore so prominent a part? What is he j
doing now ! Read the account, elsewhere
copied, of the arrests of peaceable, respec
table citizens of a neighboring city. Is
that “peace,” and is he the man to pr.ite ;
about it? If lie means the peace of chains I
and slavery-the peace of death and the j
grave; the peace of murdered law and j
justice; the peace of a strangled Constitu- j
tion and a bankrupt, ruined country ; tlie
peace that waits as a liand-maiden upon '
jails and the gallows ; the peace that would
kill the body and fetter even the free soul —
we can understand tlie propriety of the
invocation. Not else, though. Go to,
thou hypocrite—thou shameless, wanton j
herdsman of the meanest, most malignant,
and most cowardly gang that ever dis- 1
graced God’s image, or trampled upon His !
laws-!
A Warm Reception.— Mr. is the j
scalawag .Senator elect from the Senatorial i
District composed of the Counties of
He is a full blown Radical, and loves a tie- j
gro as much as he hates a “rebel.” He j
goes in of course not only for political but
social equality, and repudiates not only at I
the ballot box hut in his household, all
distinctions founded upon race or color. j
Acting upon this theory lie has brought :
one of his constituents to great grief. Said
constituent called to see him not long ago,
and dinner being announced as ready be
fore he left, he was invited to a seat at the
Senator’s hospitable board. He accepted
the invitation, and walking in plumped
himself ou a chair by the side of a daughter
of his host. It was therashest act of his life.
The next thing he knew lie was lying up
on the floor where he had been knocked
by a chair in the indignant woman’s
hands. Her mother reinforced her, and
I such a mauling as that darkey got makes
the bones ache to write about. The old rap
scallion who had got him into the trouble
stood by all this time not daring to say a
j word. When they had finished with the
darkey, they turned to the white man and
telliug him that they would not live with
any one who sought thus to degrade them,
packed up what they needed and left the
bouse. They are boarding around among
the neighbors and find a hearty welcome
wherever they go. We propose their
health with all the honors. Hip! hip!
hurrah!
LETTER FRO A ATLANTA.
f on rrvßl a Mattngff.
Atlanta, June 2, 1868.
When it is dull in Atlanta, you may
I kuow it is tight tinjes everywhere else;
I and 1 tell you, it is pretty dull about here
j just now. I speak now of business and
I solid things, all of which wear a grave
| and solemn face. Stiii the spirit of enter
! prize is uot dead. The noise of the ham
| mer and the anvil lias not died out, our
mechanics and men of work and labor
find ample employment, and tbe limits of
our growing city .continue their inroads
upon the suburban settlements, foreshad
owing the future growth and prosperity
which lies before us. The truth is, At
lanta is bound to be, and that at uo very
distant day, the city of Georgia, capitol or
no capitol. In the political world tnere is
life and activity. Tbe near approach of
the time when the Legislature is to assem
ble here, and the active preparations going
on for tiie reception and comfort of its
members, creates quite a stir, not only
with the "City Fathers” and landlords,
but with all classes and characters. Y’ou
need not think that we me iu favor of ,
Bullock and the Constitution, because we
welcome the capitol in our city, for we
were not, and are not, as onr votes showed
when we spurned tiie bribe and stood by
our principles at the late election. At tiie
same time, we are free to say, that we be
lieve that Atlanta is the place where tbo
capitol ought to be; and if-it comes here,
all outsiders will feel that it is good for
them and the State that it is so.
Mr. Htephens— not Thad., but A. H., a
* far better and wiser man—has been so
journing for several days iu our midst.
His health is bad, but his spirits are good,
and he iqteaks more hopefully of the future
i of tiie country than lie has done since the
| close of the war. He looks forward with
j much confidence to the defeat of Grant,
whose popularity lie regards a* fast wan
ing. With a true man as the candidate of
: tiie Democracy for President, upon a thor
ough .State Rights platform, .which shall
embrace unconditional antagonism to
Radicalism with all its sins, oppressions
and corruptions, lie regards success in the
(‘nmiliff iriiw n * --
(speaking kindly as lie does of the various
candidates who have been named for the
Democratic nomination, I thought I could
discover a decided preference for Mr. Pen
dleton, of Ohio, as a statesman of tiie
Htate Bights school, and one who could
bring to this contest a more enthusiastic
support than any other named man. Mr.
.Stephens had intended to extend his visit j
to your city, and I regret to learn that the j
slate of his health compelled liim to aban
don his trip, and return to bis own home.
Much of the political chat around town 1
is the discussion of the probable appoint- ,
menu of his extraordinary Excellency
Governor!! Bullock. Already have the
knowing ones disposed of a iarge quantity
of Bulloi-k’s patronage. The two for
tuuates agreed upon fur the Supreme
Court bench are Judge Walker, and Gen. j
McKay, of Sumter county, who has pur-
chased this promised promotion by the
most unscrupulous subserviency to uncon*
ditional negro equality. This appoint
ment is certain —his confirmation by the
.Senate there are few negroes in
that body, and it is hoped not many white
men who bqxbM»t«k quite *.o L ti- p <di tk-aiiy,
as McKay. Those of us who witnessed his
performances during the Convention pray
to be delivered from tiie degradation of his
appointment. In reference to Chief Jus
tice Warner, there is a general desire for
his retention with all good men, but tnere
is one objection urgeil against him—and
also Judge Harris—which will settle the
question as to Harris ; and if it is proved,
will defeat the re-appointment of Warner.
They are too honest for the times. The
earnestness with which Joe Brown & Co
protest against the elevation of that class
to high judicial positions, is hard to resist,
aud hence tiie opinion gains ground that
Warner will not be appointed. It was this
view of the case that led to the suggestion
of the name of Joe Brown for the [dace of
Chief Justice. It was said, and said truly,
that “if you want to avoid even the ap
pearance of honesty in the selection of a
Chief Justice, Joe Brown is your man. He
is incomparably above (or below) all others
in all the elements which make up the
character of a finished knave. But the
inimitable Joseph was not to be caught in
that trap, and whilst he, with modest
blushes, accepted the compliment, at the ,
same time declined the office. He is light- j
ing for Senatorial robes, and nothing Jess
will satisfy him. The question of who is
to be Chief Justice remains unsettled, and
even knowing ones are at fault, in indica
ting the man for the place.
Our own judicial circuit is a matter of
most interest with our people, and for that j
reason is most talked about. It seems to
he pretty well settled that a Mr. Rope, :
known only as the sympathetic partner \
of Joe Brown, has been set aside to that
work. The argument in his favor is a
strong one and may he repeated in a
word It is this that a man who has found
happiness and success in an intimate ac
quaintance with Joe Brown for more than
two years, should have qualified himself
liy absorption, for any business, for which
honesty and integrity, are regarded as dis
qualifications He is now on a tour get
ting up evidence for one John Harris, of
Newton, claiming to be a Senator from
that district So it is written down on j
the slate, Judge Rope. Quite a contest j
was growing up over the Augusta judge
ship, but how little did the parties to it <
know of the true character of his honor J
Judge Gibson, if they thought he was go- j
ing to jump overboard of his own freewill i
and accord. Whilst the contest and |
discussing was quite active and exciting I
both in Atlanta and Augusta, the light- j
ning flashed across the wire* the astound
ing fact that tlie Judge had flanked the
whole party, and was quietly and snugly
ensconced in the Chicago Radical Con
vention. It was a trump card—the out
side ring was thrown, and Gibson con
tinues on the bench.
Speaking of Chicago, 1 must stop my
Atlanta gossip, to fell you of a good tiling
that happened at Chicago, which has not j
yet got into the papers, hut is freely talked |
about in the saloons of Atlanta. When
Joe arrived at Chicago, he look upon him- ’
j self tlie leadership of the Georgia delega- j
tion, and spoke on ull occasions as one who I
spoke by authority. This riled one.Foster
Blodgett, who had held so long the undis
puted title to Radical leadership in Geor
; gia, and he began to demonstrate his rest
lessness under this assumed superiority of
Joseph. Joe billed and cooed around him,
| but all to no purpose. Blodgett was irrecon
: cilible, ami Joe became desperate. Most
I men would have faltered under such eir
j cnmstances —but it is truly said that the
devil never deserts his own, and the adage
was fully verified in this case. This cher
j islied friend and counsellor of Joseph sug
| gested to him the Idea of having Blodgett
: arrested and put In jail—and he was ac
| cordingly caged, at the suit of some friend
of Joseph, and kept safe and quiet until
VOL. LX., NO. 14.
our immortal hero closed up the business
1 of the Chicago Convention, amidst, the
' shouts, hisses, and plaudits of that aslfcm
! blage of vile spirits. Well done, Joseph !
I give you the stury as I hear it on every
' corner of the street. Os its truth I cannot
speak with certainty.
I will return to my Atlanta gossip in a
j future letter. Whitehall.
A Case for Gen. Meade. —A few days
| ago a negro foreman on a plantation in Hale
i county, Ala., brutally whipped a white
! boy aged about fifteen years, who was em
! ployed as a laborer upon the place. The
Greensboro Beacon gives the following
statement of the facts:
A lad, probably fourteen or fifteen years
of age, the son of a man by the name of
Horse, who Lives some eight or ten miles
north of this", in Mr. Bryant Avery’s
neighborhood, was very severely whipped
a few days ago by a negro man in the em
ployment of Mr. i>. Avery.
The facts, as we have heard them, are
l>riefly these: The boy was employed by
Mr Avery to work in the Held. The ne
gro man who whipped him was the fore
man on the place. 'The boy had been
dropping peas, and not having done the
work in a satij.liM-.lorv ui.mwr tun.
maa cut the limb of a peach tree, and
whipped him with it most severely, leav
ing his back, from the neck to his loins,
most shockingly bruised. We judge that
he must have received at least fifty lashes,
and heavy ones at that. The punishment
would have beeu severe and cruel to have
been inflicted ujkjh a slave in the days of
slavery, fo* any offence not of the most
heinous character.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of
the negro, by Justice Wright, but he bad
made his escape threatening, we under
stand to kril any <>ue who should attempt
to take him. Much an outrageous attempt
merits very severe punishment. The ne
gro will consult his safety by leaving the
neighborhood permanently.
Miraculous Escape. —The Wilmiog
| ton Star of Tuesday says:
We have to record perhaps one of the
most miraculous escapes from death by a
large number of passengers, which has
ever occurred on a railroad. The engineer
j of the train due here yesterday morning
about 1! o'clock, discovered when about a
mile South of Whitaker's, on the Wil
mington A Weldon Railroad, that a rail
i had been, displaced on a piece of trestle
workj^wbmb hj. T o^ y flgto?
it, and only had time to shut off steam,
when his engine was precipitated down
the embankment some twenty feet, turn
ing upside downwards. The baggage car,
third class, second class, and passenger
cars were thrown down the embankment
likewise, leaving the sleeping car alone
on the track. Capt. Morrison, who was
in charge of the train, states it to be tbe
worst smash up he has ever seen, and it
was a mystery to him how any one hail
escaped witii life —but not even a serious
injury had been inflicted. Thespikes hail
been drawn from the crossties at oue end
of the rail, and the rail removed about ten
inches from its position.
Which? —The Columbus Enquirer of
Wednesday, says that the arrest of A. G.
Bennett, by tbe military, tbe day before,
lias given rise to a variety of speculations.
Beunett is a Radical and Loyal Leaguer,
and was itt the house with Ashburn the
night the latter was killed. Some people
think that his arrest is an indication that
the military have struck a veiu that will
run in the right direction to disclose all
the facts connected with that event;
while others are persuaded that it is a
move to get him out of the way, as he
knows too much of Radical rascality. He
10 i»II !iif! 'luftiSfie3't!ir3S«j|
with the Hulbert-Duer conespoudence *
that reflected suclt credit upon the first
named party, and the inference is that he
is to be bagged “ sharp and quick,” to pre
vent further disolo o ures. Hulbert wants
“ p^ce.”
"ff> the Ri>< ui: r—The carpet-sack bum
mers, renegades and shysters who con
cocted the relief swindle had better borrow
a,ciean shirt, get a free pass per Bullock’s
express, and hurry on to Washington.
Their Radical masters are about to stran
gle tire bastard called “relief,” without
even the benefit of clergy. Os course the
Georgia gang do not care for it as affecting
the interests of the people It was put in
the Constitution to carry negro suffrage
through, and it did. So far so good. But
suppose Congress strikes it oat. Will they
not lose the State beyond a peradventure
in November? Will the people not pun
ish them for having practiced such a
cheat? We charge nothing for the ad
vice, but A. Brown A Cos. had better burry
to Washington. A little of the money
that eminent firm made so easily at Chi
cago, judiciously expended ax Washing
ton, may have a wonderful effect.
Ex President Buchanan’s Funeral.
—Took place at Wheatland, yesterday af
ternoon. “God bless my country”several
times repeated, were bis last audible words,
and one of his latest requests was that Ex-
Presidents Pierce and Fiiiiuore, and Pres
ident Johnson, should attend his funeral
President Johnson issued the following
the day aftemewsof tbe sad event reached
Washington City.
The President with deep regret announ
ces to the people of ttie United States the
decease, at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, on
the Ist iust., of his honored predecessor.
James Buchauan. Thisevent will occasion
mourning iu the nation for the loss of an
eminent citizen and honored public ser
vant. Asa mark of respect for his mem
ory, it is ordered that the Executive De
partment immediately be placed in mourn
ing, and all business be suspended on the
day of his funeral. It is further ordered,
that the War and Navy Departments cause
suitable military and naval honors to be
paid on this occasion to the memory of the
illustrious dead. -
Signed. Andrew Johnson.
GEORGIA DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION.
delegates at large.
A. H. Chappell, Columbus; B. 11. Hill,
Alheus.
H. S. Fitcli,Savannah ; John B.Gordon,
Atlanta
district delegates.
Ist. W. T. Thompson, Savannah ; P. C.
Pendleton, Valdosta.
2d. Arthur Hood, Cuthbert; B. G. Lock
ett, Albany,.
3d. Hugh Buchanan, Newnan; John
! L. Mustain, Columbus.
4tji. Win. A. Reid, Macon ;C. Peoples,
Griffin.
sth. A R Wright, Augusta ;E. J. Pot-
I tie, WarrentOD.
6tli. Col. Phil. R. Simmons, Gainesville ;
Coi. Wm. P. Price, Hail lonega.
7tli. J. H. Wadded, Cedartowu ; Lewis
Tutnlin, Cartersville.
STOCK Sales—One hundred shares of
Georgia railroad stock were sold in Augtis
on Tuesday, at $80.25 to §80.75 per share;
and five shares of Augusta ami Savannah
railroad stock, at §90.25 per share.
In Savannah on the same day, 26 shares
of Atlanta and Gulf rai roa 1 7 per cent
guaranteed script, at §66; 25 shares of
! stock in the same road at $45, 75 to $46 per
1 share, and ten shares of South-western
railroad stock at $99, 75 per share.
Reversed Positions — Cnpt < harles
II Townsend, late of the l S army, who
whipped sever.*: members of the Conven
tion before he resigned, has beeu notnina
! ted as Deyipcrutic candidate for Congress
in tbe First District. The scalawag can
' fiidate is Major J. W- Wofford, once of
! the C. S. army.