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BY J. W. BURKE & CO. Georgia Journal & Messenger, J. W, BI KKE & CO., Proprietor*. A. W. UKKMB, | 8. BOSE, | Editor.. TUESDAY, OCT, 6, 1868. fossils and croakers. AVe heartily agree with the Montgomery Mail in its estimation of these classes, and their capacity for mischief. The old fossils who gather their dry bones together and make a worse shaking and rattling than that witnessed by Ezekiel in the valley of Jehosaphat, are bad enough. They saddle all of the mis* takes, passious, prejudices and blunders of a dead cause upon a living issue. They imagine that their marrowless bones con tain the only nerves of national existence, and they frighten both friends and foe by the clatter of their skeletons. But croakers are worse than fossils. Croakers are exuberant and boisterous in the sunshine, but are agonized with rheumatic pains at the slightest Bummer shower. Fossils are apt to lie where they fall, but croakers are swift to convey their nervous carcasses over into the camp of the enemy. They are.like that Earl of Moray, who, in the days of the Bruces, did not hesitate to join his forces to either Boot or Euglish, which ever might happen to be nearest his cattle and ca9tle, or like that Vicar of Bray, who changed from Komanist to Churchman, and back again as often as the oue or the other was in the ascendancy. Fossils are nuisances on the stump, but croakers are nuisances in the editorial room. The former have some re* gard for the feelings of humanity at large, but the latter have no regard to editorial humanity. The editor may be worked down, may besick, may be liarras6ed and vexed by blunders of subordinates, may need eneouragiqg visits from buoyant friends, when, lo! in rushes the croaker with: “What do you think of Maine? Ain’t you afraid they will carry Massachu setts? It’s all up. We must leave the country ’’—and a long string of such non* sense. Whenever such eousolatory exhi bitions are made for our encouragement, they are no doubt intended to make us jolly and vigorous. Unfortunately they would have an opposite effect, were it not for the philosophic manner in which we close our eyes pending cold shower bath, and nerve ourself up to the work of taking it coolly. If we were to opeu our eyes and argue with the croaker, ten to one lie would abuse Vallandigham instead of Buinner, and Blair instead of Butler. Bo we keep our eyes closed and our mus-- cles well in baud until he gets through, and thou we silence his batteries by agree ing with him. The fact is, we have so much work to do arguing with the enemy that we haven’t time to light sham battles with our friends. Once for all, we would beg the fossils to let their bones rest in peace, and the croakers to quit adding to the ammunition chest of the enemy. ILLUSTRATEII RADICALISM. Radicalism ie about to touch bottom in wilful, mean, and atrocious falsehood and misrepresentation. Its agents in Georgia, and, for aught we know, in other South ern States, are circulating a handbill with two coarse wood cuts, headed “How Dem ocrats Treat Colored Men,” and purport ing to give an idea of how the Democrats of New Y'ork, used the darkies in that city at the time of the riots in 1863. The Dem ocrats are clubbing, and shooting meu women and children, while Gov. Sey mour stauds by and encourages it. The text is even viler than the illustrations, and is well calculated to work much evil among the ignorant negroes in the coun try, especially when backed up by the ap peals and lies of tlie incendiaries who dis tribute it. Our friends should watch out for this handbill, and the men who are scattering it over the country. Tell every negro into whose hands it may fall, whom you can reach, how grossly false it is, and ask him if this is the way to get that peace which all, both white and black, so ardently desire. As to those who circulatesucli infamous appeals to hate and bad blood, don’t crop their ears, and slit their noses as they de serve. That would be unlawful. But if the neighborhood where they are caught can he made, in any legal way, too hot to hold them, no honest man will sorrow. Asa counterpart to this handbill, we sug gest making a picture of, anil circulat ing the ship that carried the Alabama freed meu from Mobile to Cuba, where they were sold into slavery by some of their Northern friends. The poor wretches wiio are now making sugar in that island, un der the lash of the overseer, could lecture upon such a picture with great eloquence. They could testify to their brothers in this country, as to which was truest to life. By all means let us have this picture. It will be a capital campaign document, North and Bouth. LET THEM BE TAI UHT. We beg to call special attention to a communication to be found on the outside of this day’s paper, from the Rev. J. H. Campbell, of Tboraaaville. It is upon a subject that should command the earnest consideration and generous support of ev ery true-hearted man and worn m in the State. That these orphans should be educated is plain. We owe it, if not to them, to their fathers, who gave their lives for us and oure. It is an insult to their bones, and a brand upon the motives which sent them to the field, not to do this much, at least, their orphans. We decorate their graves, and spend money in divers other ways to honor their memory. Bo far so good. But the liviug have claims, too—claims that plead every day, trumpet tongued, to the good and true. Shall they be unheeded, and we pass by on the other side ? If something is not done, a few years will witness the sorrowful spectacle of the children of those who died for Georgia be low the negroes in point of education. How will that sound? How it will read in a Yaukee Bureau report! The plan proposed by Mr. C. seems to us practicable, but some other may be better. If none is proposed, let us set to work and give it form. Vindicated.— Our estimat e of Genera Wofford’s Democracy finds ample vindi cation in the catnp of the enemy. In proof, whereof, we submit the following testimony from the Radical organ at Au gusta. We commend the witness and his deposition to the Congressional Conven tion of the Democratic party in the 7th district, which meets, we believe, to-mor row at Kingston. We were, right in the assertion that Gen. W. T. Wofford's heart is with us. He made a speech in North Georgia a few days since, iu which he de nounced lliu, Toombs,'and Cobb by name. Senator Miller.—As we expected w . 0u . 1 e th® case, it is authoratively de n.e ia this gentleman gives out any uncertain sound in i,; .... . f terances h» 11 “ Political ut- V leither for tiraut and Colfax nor a dummy i ike th „ t named. He stands by Seymour and Blair -the peace candidates for President . Vice-President-and is heartily^ ith " and party of the Constitution i„ its efn V h ® save the country from shipwreck LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. SATURDAY AFTERNOON’S PROCEEDINGS. House.—Bills on their third reading : A bill to exempt property belonging to widows and orphans when the same does not exceed SIOO. Lost. A bill to tax arable land five cents per acre for educatioual purposes. Indefinite ly postponed. A hill to vacate municipal offices In the State. Lost. A bill to regulate and increase the fees of Justices’ Courts. Lost. A bill to reconstruct the roads in this State and prevent further changes. Lost. A Will to require ventilation of the county jails. Passed. A bill to levy a tax in the county of Bibb to build a jail. Passed. A bill to prevent hunting on the Sab bath day in this State. Passed. A bill to allow defendants to redeem property sold under fi. fas., in two years Lost. A bill to exempt physicians of the State from jury duty. Lost. A bill to prevent common carriers from making distinction on account of race or color. Indefinitely postponed. A bill to prevent the organization of military companies in this State. Passed. A resolution to pay the old Judges of the Superior Courts up to the time of the ap poiutment of their successors, was adopt* ed. Several bills were read a second time, aud the House adjourned to Monday. MONDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. House. —The Appropriation bill was reconsidered and in connection with the appropriation for paying the colleges of the State for the education of maimed sol diers, an additional section was added, setting apart $44,000 for this purpose, said sum to be paid out of taxes to be collected, and hereafter no new students to be re ceived, A bill to incorporate the town of Coch rane, Pulaski county, was passed. The bill prohibiting the sale of lottery tickets in the State, with a provision recommended by the Committee, that the Georgia State Lottery be exempted, was then taken up. After considerable de bate a vote was taken on the recommen dation of the Committee, and it was not agreed to—yeas 35, nays 73. The bill, as thus amended, was then passed, and the House adjourned. Senate.— A motion to reconsider a bill lost on Saturday incorporating the Ocean Bank, prevailed, as did also a motion to reconsider a bill passed same day organizing a Criminal Court in each county. The bill requiring Plaintiffs in Judg ment to have their judgments recorded in the county to which defendants have re moved was taken up. Passed. The “Ocean Bank” bill was taken up, passed as amended by the Committee, and transmitted to the House of Representa tives. Bill to prevent physicians from practi cing medicine without a diploma. Passed. Bill requiring common carriers to pro-, vide equal accommodations for all classes, irrespective of race or color. Lost. The bill preventing any one having one eighth of African blood in him from hold ing office in this State was laid on the table. Bill to provide for the making of a jury list and provide for a drawing of the same. Indefinitely postponed. Bill to educate indigent and maimed soldiers of Georgia. Passed. Several bills incorporating mining, manufacturing and insurance companies were also passed, and some county lines changed, but the remainder of the pro ceedings were not of general interest. TUESDAY’S PROCEEDINGS—MORNING SES SION. House.—Mr. Morgan moved a recon sideration of the bill passed Monday, pro hibiting the sale of lottery tickets in the State. It was lost by a vote of 66 to 69. Fitzpatrick moved to reconsider the bill incorporating the Macon Street Railway Company, giving as his reason a desire to add other names as corporators who were among Lite largest property owners in the city. Mr. Sparks opposed the motion, and stated that some of these men whose names were sought to be added never had any property. The motion was lost—Fitz patrick alone voting in favor of it. Tiios. D. Wilcox, new member from Irwin county, was sworu in. The special order of the day, being a bill to amend the charter of the Atlanta Medical College, was then taken up, and discussed to the hour of adjournment. Senate. —A motion to reconsider a bill passed Monday, prohibiting physicians from practicing without a license, pre vailed, and the bill was then laid upon the table. A minority report from the Committee on the tetate Road was then read. A mo tion to take up the bill (to put the road in the bands of five commissioners) being made, an animated discussion ensued. It was finally ended by the bill being taken up and laid on the table for the remainder of the session. A bill so amending the divorce law as to make desertion for one year sufficient ground for granting a divorce, was, after discussion, lost. The Conference Committee on the tax bill reported their inability to agree aud asked for the appointment of anew com mittee, which was agreed to. AFTERNOON SESSION. Nothing of interest was done in either House—the time of the Senate being taken up in reading bills for the first time ; and that of the House wasted in a discussion of the private quarrels of a lot of Atlanta doctors, who are running the Medical Col lege up there. About Merchandizing in Macon.— Wc have a good set of merchants in Macon. They work very hard and make extraordinary exertions to pash the trade of the city a? far as is possible. The spirit of competition rules the market rates of ail leading grades of Western Produce so low that it is impos sible for any other city to get any trade which geo graphically belongs to this. And this remark may apply with equal truth to Dry Goods. But our merchants should not allow this spirit to get the. better of them, as is the case almost every day. They should have a reasonable profit upon all they sell, as their main business should not be to sell goods so much as to make money on what they do sell. Some houses let their ambition to do a big business get ahead of their better judgment, and ahead of common sense, and the consequence is, “there is a great cry aud little wool.” All such house! finally collapse, while its more quiet neigh bor pursues the even tenor of its way, never forget ting to firmly contend for a reasonable profit upon all sales, no matter if transactions are below others Seventy-five per cent, of all the men engaged in merchandizing in Macon for the last twenty years failed. The causes which led to these.failures are stated above. It is occasioned by a want of stability and a dis position to be elussed among "heavy dealers”—to have the reputation of selling more than any one else. But this is not the sure road to fortune. 1 f you have tact aud judgment in making purchases, you should have nerve enough to demand a profit at which you can live, or hold your goods. | THREE SONGS. Sing me, thou Singer, a song of gold ! ! Said a careworn Sian to me; j So I sang of the golden summer days ! And the sad, sweet autumn’s yellow haze, | Till nis heart grew soft, and his mellowed gaze Was a kindly sight to see. Siug me, dear Singer, a song of love ! A fair girl asked of me; Thou I sang of a love that clasps the Race, Gives all, asks naught—till her kindled face Was radiant with the starry grace Os blessed Charity. Sing me, oh, Singer, a song of life ! Cried an eager youth to roe; And I sang of the life without alloy Beyond our years, till the heart of the boy Caught the golden beauty, and love and joy Os the great Eternity.' THE MOBILE SLAVE TRADE AS CARRIED ON BY THE CARPET-BAGGERS. The Mobile Register is fixing tlie guilt of having, shortly after the war, carried to Cuba, and sold as slaves, over one hundred freedmen, upon certain very notorious carpet-baggers of that city ; noteworthy among whom are Harrington, now Speak er of the so-called Alabama House of Rep resentatives, as one of the principals in, and Griffin, a Radical editor, as privy to outrage. Tu it 9 issue of Friday last, the Register reports the progress'iu the good work very satisfactorily, as follows : Now we wish the colored men of Mobile and Alabama, “loll” leaguers and all others, to remark that what their apostle, Gritliu, failed to do, the Democratic party of Mobile has done—to wit: taken up the inquiry iuto this crime and des patched a messenger to the North to enlist the Na tional Democratic Committee and the Government of the United States in its prosecution. We are this morning able to say that the whole matter Inis been laid before the President of tlie United States, and that an official inquiry through the American Consul at Havana will be immediately instituted and vigourouely pursued. It will make no differ ence that this cannot be done in time to affect the Presidential election, but it will be in time to reach the guilty and bring them to trial and punishment for kidnapping and piracy, and also result, we hope, in the restoration to liberty of tlie poor frecd men who were so infamously betrayed by their pre tended carpet-bag friends. Facts developed since we lirst broached this mat ter, lead to the belief that the M M Brown schoon er was not tlie only vessel engaged in this enter prise, and the negroes were not shipped in the same vessel that carried to Cuba tlie desperadoes who conceived, executed and gained the golden fruits of it. We have the names of the Vpasseugers on the Brmm, and they were all carpet-baggers. Federal detectives and Northerners. They will be fur nished to the Government. We may only say now, “Mr. Speaker” George K. Harrington Wane of them. We also have the names of the colored cook and steward. The first is iu the city, w e believe, and his colored friends may learn from him if an attempt was not made, and failed, through the warning of a young man who was on board as su- j pcrcargo, to entice them on there to be sold. A BUREAU MUNCHAUSEN. In the New York Times of the 26th ult. we find the following as a special Wash ington dispatch: Wabhixotom, Friday Sept. 35. Gen. Howard to-day received later and fuller in« formation of tlie affair at Camilla, Ga., on the isnii inst., which fully confirms tlie previous report of its tragic ami bloody character. Major Howard, the Sub-Assistant Commissioner for the District of Al bany, writes to military headquarters at Atlanta as follows : Headquarters Sitb-District of Albany, i Bureau of Refugees and Fkeeomen. Albany, Ga., Sept. 30, 1868. ) Col. It. J. Leum, V. 8. A., Atlanta, (la. ; Colonei, : The affair at Camilla seems to have been a massacre. I inclose an accurate list of the killed and wounded, so fur as know n. A freed man, who was a prisoner at Camilla, but who escaped during the night, slates that he helped to remove one dead freedw outan and four wounded freedmen from the road, within one hundred yards of tlie Court-house. The white men, his captors, boasted to the new comers of twelve freedmen in one pond near Dr. Dasher's, two miles from Ca milla. Another freedman took refuge in a swamp, where he lay concealed all last night, with two oth ers near him. He heard, during all the earlier part of the night, the white men scouring the woods, shouting, enrsiugartd shooting the freedmen. The pursuers, he said, were accompanied by blood hounds. He heard the eriea and shrieks of the fugitives, ustbey wen* eh**,*!**'!* they wen- t»ua««t down By tne dogs, fwo or the men near him. be coming frightened, endeavored to escape, and both were shot within his lustring It was reported to me as lap; as four o’clock this afternoon, that up to eight o'clock this morning, when my informant left, they were still pursuing tlie freedmen with horse* and dogs. There ha* been an intense excitement in town all day. The town has been filled with freedmen. They have swarmed about my office by hundreds. It has been difficult to restrain them from proceed ing m«Air to Camilla. I have addressed them, counseling peace and order. I have told them that the offenders shall be puni.-lied, and that their lives should be protected, but I have no heart for my work. I feel no assurance that my promises will be. fulfilled. The Mayor addressed them, as did also some citizens, but the freed people scoffed at and would not listen to them, and I had the whole burden to bear. The report of Messrs. Vnon and John ston to the Legislative Committee gives the lie to this infamous document, and tlie mendacious drone who sent it knew that it was false. Tlie sole object of its concoction and publication was to give official coloring and sanction to what oth erwise might have been regarded as a com mon partisan, electioneering lie. Howard, like ali his tribe, belongs to tlie Radical party body, soul, boots ami breeches, anfi if the truth were known, hold this riot as the most marvellous piece of good luck for himself. It put him prominently be fore his employers as a zealous, stiek-at nothing tool, who well deserves promo* tiou. If lie could send North a weekly lie of this dimension from now till the election, he might get to be a Major Gen eral, like his namesake. A HURD TO PLANTERS. Last year’s cotton movement is repeat ing itself tlie present season. With an inadequate supply abroad, and our home ports not well stocked aud not likely to be, because, witli the diminished average of the growing crop, one million eight hundred thousand bales is a liberal esti mate —nevertheless the tendency of tlie market is downward, downward. Our advice to planters is to send cotton for ward and square their balances witli tlie merchants who have provided tlie means wherewith to raise it. Except by consent of parties, the fulfillment of obligations of this kind cannot be honorably delayed. With whatever portion of the crop is left over, profiting by the exampleol'last year, it would be wise to “tie up,” and await the spring market, if the downward move ment still continues, as we suppose it will. The foreign crop has fallen below ex pectations, and there is but one report from the cotton region of the South. The failure is undoubted, aud the question is, not whether a good crop will be made, but what will be the extent of the falling off from last year. Planters would con sult their own interest and that of factors also, by standing from under if their ne cessities and obligations do not put them under the control of the powerful combi nation of speculators who profited so largely last year by their misfortunes. Fortunately our planters have guarded against a recurrence of the imposition praeticised upon them last season, by raising largely of grain, and conducting their business upon the most economical scale. The embarrassment which they now experience is due to the improvi dence of 1866 aud ’67, when they paid ex travagant prices for wretchedly inefficient labor, and staked eveiything upon cottou to the neglect of more essential produc tions. —Jackson Clarion. The Ckntrai, Railroad and its Freight Tariff. —A friend has handed us the following, which we. publish for the information of all inter ested parties : Through Mates by the Great Southern Freight Line and Rmereger Moute, via Savannah. New Yokk Per 100 Pounds. to Ist Class. 2d Class. 3d Class. Macon .$5 80 $6 85 $1 93 Hawkinsville 7 35 5 25 L 68 Aloany 7 00 5 15 .*63 Eufaula ) _ „ „„ Fort Gaines 4 00 2 oO 1 60 Columbus ) Tlie Ist and 2d Classes in above Tariff comprise articles charged double and treble rates on other Tarlflfe. The 3d Class assimilates to first Class of other routes. To take effect Tuesday, September 29th, I«6S. The President is understood to have ex pressed himself, in conversation with some gentlemen from Virginia, as de cidedly in lavor of the people of that Htate voting in November at all hazards. MACON, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER «. 1868. REPORT OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE OS THE ST ATE OF THE REPUBLIC. Mr. Speaker: We deem it unnecessary 4 to review the past, except so far ns to re call a few facts tending to illustrate the present condition of the commonwealth. Many of the issues which have agitated the country for a number of years, have been determined by tlie arbitrament of the sword, and as practical questions have I passed from public attention. At the close of the late war, the people of Geor gia, iu common with the people of other States composing the defacto government, known as tlie Confederate States of Amer ica, acquiesced in the unavoidable conse quences of the struggle. And whi!e>*t>e lieviug it to lie tlie right of tlie State to ! return to the American Union upon i terms of equality witli oilier members of | that Union, and with tlie privileges and | humilities of all its citizens unimpaired, i and protected under tlieaigfsof tlie Con stitution of the United States, tlie people i of the State acquiesced in a plan of recon struction thought to he necessary and prescribed by the President of the United States. Although tiiat plan imposed pains and penalties upon many of the best citi zens of the State, which were regarded as unjust and oppressive, yet the State did not assume it Lo be her prerogative to question the authority of the President to act in the premises, much less to offer any opposition to his proposed plan. Passively yielding to the executive authority of the United States, tlie people of Georgia pro ceeded to organize a State Government in harmony with, and in obedience to tlie terms of the President’s plan of recon struction—scrupulously complying witii every condition of th t plan, including tlie ratification of the emancipation of their solemn enactment; tlie repudiation of the legal liabilities of the State and the recognition of tlie validity of the public debt of the United States. In an honest effort to accommodate itself to the new order of things resulting from the war, and to make its government productive of the greatest attainable good to all the people of the Stat •, including the three hundred thousand persons, who had been liberated from slavery, and for whom their former owners entertained feehngs of kindness, and whom they held iu nowise responsible for their altered condition, the Legislature of the State conferred upon persons of color civil rights, by an act approved March 17th, 1866, a section which we beg leave to quote : “That persons of color shall have the right to make aud etiforco contracts; to sue and tie sued ; to lie parties and give evidence; lo purchuso, lease* hold and convey real arid personal property; and io have full anrl equal benefit or ali law* ami proceeding for security of person and es tate, and shall not he subjected to any other or different punishment, pain or penalty, for the commission of any act or offense, than such as are prescribed for white persons committing like acts or offences.” The conferring upon the negro the elec tive franchise ; the disqualification of a large number of our most intelligent cit izeus for office holding; the misapprehen sion of the negro race as to the extent of our present Constitution ; the fact that botli branches of the General Assembly in the exercise of their deliberate and con scientious judgment have declared, by large majorities, that neither that Consti tution nor any law paramount thereto, confers upou the negro race the right to hold office, together with other facts which have occurred antecedently aud subse quently to the meeting of this body, and the pendancy of an exciting Presidential contest have aroused party feeling to a pitch which needs carefully to be guarded to prevent calamitous consequences. We deprecate the highly inflammatory aud violently abusive character of certain political publications aud public speeches, which unduly Ipflanie and excile the passions and prejudices of both race. We deprecate tlie criminally false inser tions in public prints and in public a<l dresses, made for the express parpose of arousing the hostility of the negro race atgntw-e* Wit ** mmmmm -*•* We deprecate the advice and sugges tions given by men, (wlio, in many in stances, are not indentifled with interests of the State,) which have induced negroes to arm themselves, fur their defence In the exercise of rights and privileges, which, it is fal-ely asserted, a majority of the white race desire to wrest from ihe negro race. We deprecate tlie fact tiiat there are meu in our midst who basely and falsely assert, that it is the purpose of a majority of the white people of the State to remand the negro to bis former condition of slavery. We deprecate tlie fact tiiat there are men among us, who persistently pervert and exaggerate facts, and draw upon their imaginations for material for publication ; and give to tlie world tissues of falsehood, tending to produce abroad tlie false im pressions that there is little piotectlon for person and property, and little security for life and liberty in this State. As tlie representatives of tlie State, well acquainted with tlie views, opinions and purposes of those whom wh represent: It will be remembered tiiat this liberal legislation was in advance of the passage of tiie I’ivil Riglits Bill, by the Congress of the United States, which, iri language singularly coincident with tiiat above quoted, conferred upon freedmen the same rights and privileges. It Is further true, that the Congress of the United Slates, for nearly two years, took no action tending to overthrow the State Government, or ganized and estatdished under the auspi ces of tlie President. Yet Congress for reasons satisfactory to itself, enacted, over the protest of tlie President, wiiat are know as the reconstruction acts, prescrib ing other and different terms for the res toration of certain Southern States, in cluding Georgia, to the Union ; denying tiie authority of tlie President to take such action in tiie premises as lie had taken, and setting aside all that laid been done by our people under the former plan. We refrain from any discussion of the relative merits of these two plans of reconstruction, or as to their conformity to the organic Ikw of the land. Our people watched with pas sive but deep interest tiie struggle of two co ordiuate departments of the Federal Government over their respective policies of restoring our State to its proper Feder al relations, and the unsuecesful efforts of each contending department to secure the co-operation of tlie third department of the Federal Government in the enforce ment of the oue or the other of these poli cies. It was a struggle in which our peo ple could take no part, though it involved their most vital interests. As the result, our State was subjected to a second recon struction, in which new aud different conditions were imposed and compliance thereto exacted. As in the former in stance, it was not iu the power of the State effectively to question, much less to resist the action of a department of the Federal Government. Thissecond recon struction was administered by the mailed hand of military power. We waive any discussion as to the character of this Con gressional reconstruction, or the manner of its enforcement; but must submit tlie question of its validity and permanency to the constituted authorities of the Uni ted States Government. Reconstruction under the Congressional plan is an accomplished fact. Our Repre sentatives elected under and by virtue of that plan have been admitted into the Congress of the United States. In fur therance of and in accordance with that plan, our people have adopted a State Constitution ; and by virtue of that Con stitution we are assembled as a Legisla ture. Radical and abrupt changes in our State Government have been effected, and in the adaptation of our laws, aud the hab its of thought and action, and the long established opinions and prejudices of our people to the new order of things, there necessarily must arise many causes and occasions for popular irritation and excite ment. We assert, that the idea that any portion of our people entertain the purpose or de sire of remanding the negro to a condition of slavery is too preprosterous and false to need refutation. We assert, that it is the purpose of the white people of the State to faithfully pro tect the negro race in the enjoyment of all the rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed to him by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of this State. We assert, that there is no purpose in any part of the State to impair the con stitutional right of the people, peaceably to assemble for the consideration of any m ilter, or to obstruct any portion of the p: toe enjoyment of any other con HiOHi«*rt. .r’giit or privilege. . In conelowoti, we would state, that we see no reason to apprehend that the State Government under tlie present Constitu tion, in its legitimate operation as direct ed aud administered by its several depart ments, as now constntued, will be more resUjetive of the rights of any class of our <itizens, than is absolutely necessary to harmonize it witli and conform it to tlie Jsquirements of tlie Constitution and laws or tlie United States ; and we believe the -State government wil! adhere to ami tnak'feffective the first section in the de clain|ion of tiie fundamental principles conduced in our Constitution, “protection of person and property is the the para mount duly of government aud shall he impartial and complete.” • I. F. Shumate Chairman. F. M Pepper, W. H. F. Hall, Dunlap Scott, A. H. Lee, W. A. Lank, John A. Cobb, G. W. Rumph, J- Cooper Nehrit, H. Morgan, F. B. Barrett. GEN. IILAIK AT INDIANAPOLIS. An AitalysiMof “Lei u* htivt* Puaw." At Indianapolis on Guid eral Frank P. Illair, in company witli Mr. Pendleton, Jeremiah S. Black aud other eminent Democrats, addressed a monster mass meeting. We append as much of tiie masterly effort of Geu. Blairas we can find space for; “Manhood suffrage,” which as inter preted by their acts means suffrage for tiie negro, and disfranchisement for white men, is now the great Senatorial phrase of the Sumner, W ilsons, and Wades, who imply it now to contra di-tinguiah from “woman suffrage,” once the shout of tiie whole party of Radicalism, who, like the French revolutionary philosophers, would break down the established human au thority, by way of leveling all to the base of human rights, which itself rested, like the world, on the nose o! a tortoise. These Wendell Phillips loclrinaries, wheu they had reached controlling power in the Senate and House, and through it usurped absolute power over the govern ment, took anew view of the mode by which suffrage wi a lo Le applied to per l»etuate Radical power. Suffrage amoug the free t>ori) and well educated, the brave and highly gifted Caucasian bred was not the caste suited lo build up au aristocracy, at the head of au army, to discipline Hie nsassefc to submission. The Radicals, as piring to subvert the popular sovereignty established by the Constitution of our fore fathers, took a leaf out of Napoleon’s work on universal suffrage, to proscribe anoth er species of popular votiug. In France a whole people are drilled lor conscription under local bureaus, of which our !•’reed men’s Bureaus are a sample. Out of this military material, which embraces tiie Whole people, au army of half a million aud more is drawn aud officered by tlie Emperor. As this ripens for discharge, the youth growing up among the masses for conscription are drilled to lake their places, so mat tlie army iu cantonment noid tiie great body of which the succes sive conscriptions grow, under constantly armed military duresse, with its accruing allotments of conscripts lo follow a similar training. Under that duresse, preparato ry to its future rotation of military duty, uuder the officers of the Emperor, the population chooses the national represen tative to maintain aud carry on tiie gov ernment, which is iu effect the Emperor and bis army. We have in embryo this very system at tiie South. Grant and Stautou organized aud officered tlie army, and under this military establishment Congress Las’taken refuge, and looks to it for the consummation of its schemes of power. Instead of the Frence Prefecture for lo cal administration aud control, we have tiie uegro Bureau and secret leagues for '*•*•♦* ....mhii.o votes to create State government—elect' the Nation’s Executive, aud bring Loth brandies of Congress in concert with him in administering the Federal government. As tlie game is at this moment urrainged for tiie casting throw in the November election, it is quite apparent that the bal lot-box is made to depend on the cartridge box, ami that by the dexterity of Congress in setting aside the Constitution, which held these instrumentalities to subserve their proper functions. Gen. Grant, who is put over the President to exert a “power outside the Constitution,” w hich enables him, like tlie French Emperor, to convert both of these patent boxes into one aud holding it in bis baud, turn out the dice that win for him. This is the modern game which Louis Napoleon lias taught ambition to play to history a republic, and as an anodyne to its throes—how humane in him, aud encouraging to a people to exclaim, "Let us have ptace !” But lo what potency is this element of uegro suffrage to grow uuder tiie fostering care of Radicalism and the tutelage of military governments? It is essential to the system now founded upon it, tiiat it must he made absolute by the bayonet over the elections of the Southern .states. It must send the twenty Senators and fifty Representatives to Congress, and an equal number of Presidential electors to turn the scale in the North, so that the head of the array designated for President shall grasp the government. Its power is then to convert the sham of uegro suffrage into a permanent military control of elec tions —and was there ever found a titter force to do the bidding of a military chief iu suppressing tlie popular voice, than the three millions of sturdy blacks, who now rejoice that they are let loose from all re straints, and may break up a form of au thority which they connect with their former slavery ? How rapidly has the disciplined white soldiery of India taught the millions of serfs of that region to re volt against their native Princes, and embodying a position into a soldiery of Sepoys, armed and drilled for that pur pose, taught them to subject more than one hundred millions of their own blood, hold tlie richest confines on earth, to a company of merchants of a little island hidden in a remote ocean ? Ho the Turks became the conquerors of tlie grand sec tion of the Roman Empire in Europe, Asia aud Africa, by con verting the slav ish nations they took in battle, and used as the material of au army, to spread their conquests over Christian civilized coun tries. The Janizaries, that carried terror to the State of Vienna and apostate Chris tian prisoners, filled with the sensoral enthusiasm of Mohamet's polygamous religion, easily prompted to such rapine among the fair races whose religion they had at jured. How apt all the colored races areto become the instruments of mili tary despots, lending to the subjugation of prosperous nations enjoying peace under civil institutions, ali history attests. — Greece, Italy, Spain, all the islands of the Mediterranean aud all its shores, the hap py oceans of ancient and modern civiliza tion, have again and again fallen a prey to barbarian hordes like the one now edu cating by our military satraps. Burial of Henry Horne.—A large audience assembled at the Catholic Church yesterday morn ing to pay a la.-t tribute to the earthly remains of Henry Home. A solemn funeral dirge was sang by Mrs. Blackshear, Misses Connor, Mr. Maas, and others in the choir, and an appropriate service read by the Priest. After the service at the Church had concluded, tlie coffin was placed in the hearse, and followed by along line of friends, the cortege moved through Mulberry to Rose Hill, where the body was con signed to its mother earth according to the rites of the Catholic Church. No death has occurred in Macon in years more lamented. It was universally regretted, for he was a citizen who walked among us as a good man, and who is now nothing but a memory. May the sod rest lightly upon his bosom, for scarcely does it repose upon worthier than lie! Keeping a Corpse to Satisfy a Debt.—The body of William Wilroy, who fell dead in Rocketts on Friday, was carried to the liar-room of Captain Bruce, to whom the deceased owed a debt for liquor. On Saturday the relatives of /Vilroy, hear ing of liis death, applied for the remains, desiring to bury them with the family dead. To their sur prise, Bruce refused to let them have the body until the money due him was paid, and threatened to have it buried in the poor lot at Oak wood. Wil roy’B friends at once appealed to Mayor Chahoon, who sent word that the body must not be detained by Bruce, aud later in the day it was reluctantly surrendered. Brace’s is certainly a novel way of paying old debts.— Richmond Dispatch. LETTER FROM THE HON. 11. H. HILL. To the Kriitw of the Xotr York Tribune : Sir—l liavo read ail you hate said in tlie Tribune on the subject of the collision at Camilla, in the State of Georgia. I beg permission to make a statement winch will present tills whole affair in it- true light to yon and the Northern people.: Early iu the canvuss tho whites of that State (nine-tenths of whom are Democrats) received pon- Hire information that the negroes were being en couraged to arm themselves aud hold nightly drills in military style. They were told Unit the object of the Democratic party was to re-enslavc them, and timt they must resist its success by force, and especially kill negroes who - huuill vote the Dem ocratic ticket. Very soon this canard, which orig inated in the Leagues, was openly proclaimed White and colored speakers at public meetings ad vised the negroes to get ready to fight, and were reminded that they could use the torches for dwell ings as well ns the guns and axes against the peo ple. A painful rumor obtained currency that the acting Governor (Bullockj was in sympathy with, if not actually anting this movement. Ido not know tiiat this was actually so. Thisstate of tilings naturally created alarm. Severn! outbreaks were attempted, and several conspiracies to kill white people were detected, and the negroes, when ar rested in different portions of the State, said they had authority and orders to this effect We had no confidence that the Governor would voluntarily aid us. Therefore letters were ad dressed lo the Legislature urging action. Ihe Legislature did act by (Missing resolutions request ing and urging tiie Governor to issue Ids proclama tion forbidding these, armed demonstrations. The Governor issued Ins proclamation, hut in a style and witli false charges which greatly confirmed the worst fears of the whites as to kis sympathy with these movements. But we bad the proclamation, and wc hoped that ali threatened dangers would disappear. Now, there was not the slightest desire, a. you seem to thiuk, of interfering witli the constitutional right of black and white “to keep and bear arms,” or to have Republican meetings—as many and as long as thev desire. We only desired to prevent military driffs, and organizations not antiiorized by law, and armed assemblages calculated to break tlie j**ee, and these we desired to prevent by legal authority, executed by the civil officer. You now have tiie exact reason why the Sheriff met the ap proaching ai med procession, and after exhibiting tin' Governor’s proclamation, told tlie b ailers they could hold the meeting ]«eaceaWy, but begged them not to attempt it iu Violation of that procla mation * Camilla is u very small village of not exceeding. I would say, 300 inhabitants—black and white men, women and children A large assemblage of negro;* gathered from sur rounding counties, led by these white men, and all armed, and tube excited by infiaiuoiatory speeches, and many of them by other can-es, placed the peo ple, families and houses of that little village hi dan ger of pillage, rape and burning, with the alterna tive, if prevented, of fearful “rebel outrage*,” to kill negroes, and prevent free speech, scattered all over tlie North, just as the State elections were ap- j preaching which, it was believed, would determine ] tlie President ml election. I know loth Pierce and Murphy, the two white men who conducted this whole atfiiir. They are of the most emphatic specimens of what are termed < arpet-imgger*. Before the passage of the recon struction measures there was no complaint beard against them These measures disfranchised every intelligent white citizen who bait held office in that country. Pierce- settled as a Bureau Agent in Lee county, and Murjdiy in Itmurhertv county, adjoin ing the county in wlm h Cumdb. Is sTtmue*, . -.-a the counties of Lee and Dougherty there are live negroes to one white. I have no idea that one dozen white RepaWicans could be found in the three counties. Thus you see at a glance the U-mp tatiourt offered to Pkrce and Murphy to get offices by tlie large negro votes. Accordingly since the passage of the reconstruction measure- these men have surfed with the negroes. Pierce wax for a time a candidate for Congress at the last election He has now received the nomination for that posi tion from a convention of negroes. Murphy was elected sheriff by the negroes at the last election, but was unable" to give tlie bond. He is now, I believe, on the electoral ticket. We have narrowly escaped several bloody riots in tiiat region before. Our people here betlrht these men, especially the latter, incited them. They were Jboth distinct ly in view, with others, when we counted tlie diffi culties in the way of preserving peace, and when we sought to secure the proclamation. But in rpite of that proclamation, an>l all the re monstrances of our people, and the fears of our women and children, they jurats ted in holdidg arm ed assemblage* of negroes, and the Camilla riot is the unfortunate result : This Camilla riot, properly understood, will ex hibit to the NurUi'-rn people more clearly than a thousand speeches cc uTd, the exact reason why the Southern w hites are, at present, unwilling to ex tend universal indiscriminate suffrage to tlie ne groes. It is because they can be taken possession of by a very few bad white men seeking office at their bands, and made terror* to society, and des troyers of safety for property and security for families. Many of tin- more intelligent understand and repudiate these Influences, but the greater number do not. In these very counties of Lee and Dougherty, in -•* JxK'Tt T**4jti«'t- Stud Mih v A-«>M#i'- v Idw frijrrwmiifty- Know tfur I phut in both those counties) tiiat iu 18W—after the surrender, mark you—lands were selling from 810 to WB ]>or acre. Immediate ly after tiie panaage of these reeous true tiou lueas tires these very lamts commenced declining, and I do know that some of them have recently been sold (with cotton as tiigh as it waa in 1866) at one dollar per acre in gold. To have our f.iniilie-; and onrlires thus constant ly meuanecd and our property depreciated, is cer tainly a fearful and sad condition. Let every tiuttt In the North place him- -If. hi? faintly and his [>rop ertv hi till* condition hi bis native country, and then, wheu he makes Uic most |<caeeat>le efforts possible, in a lawful way, to avert these dangers, let him hear himself denounced as “a Rebel, “an enemy” and “a traitor,” and guilty of "Rebel out rages,*” arid lie w ill have some idea of the exact condition of the Southern whites, many of whom did all in their power, like the writer, to prevent secession, and who have never seen tiie day wheu they would not give their lives to preserve the Con stitution B. H. Hill. New York, Septcmlicr 34, 1866. Infanticide.—l)r. A. 3. Simmon* was sent for on Monday to make a Post Mortem examination upou the body of a newly bom infant child w hose mother lives upon the plantation of Jjquire dames G. Hail in the Warrior District. The Coroner summoned a jury, when the following facte were drawn out of the w itnesses : Susan Gilbert (col’d) gave birth to an infant Saturday night, the father of which was the Rev. John Lamar, a colored preacher. The black people on the place suspect ed foul play with the infant on tiie part of its pa rents on Sunday, acid had ww.ir«»n»l» .«ml for them. The search resulted in linaiug its dead body hid under its paieut*’ bed. Upon examination Dr. Simmons quickly discovered it had been strangled to death. The Coroner’s jury So framed their ver dict, and directed the arrest of the hither and mother. Tiie Reverend John had, in tiie meantime, gone off to preach the funeral sermon of a deceased uegro woman, and was arrested w liilst engaged at tiiat very pious service. Thev wore tried yesterday before tlie District Magistrates and committed to jail here to await the action of tiie Grand Jury. The Macon and Savannah Cotton Markets.— By comparison of the Macon and Savannah cotton quotations for the past week it will be seen that prices have not averaged over V 3 cent difference. When we consider the expenses of shipping, dray age, commissions, etc., to the Savannah market, it will clearly put Macon ahead. Yesterday New Tork middling was selling at 33 cents here and 2aT. at Savannah. The expenses upon a pound shipped there will amount to at least 2 cents, which at 23 would be equal to getting 25 cents here. The Savannah cotton Factors charge 2'< per cent for selling, whilst those of Macon only charge 1. They make a great parade over loaning money at 1 per cent, but while this is true, they make it up in commissions and other little items rff chargee. No one save a big planter, who pledges the shipment of his crop, can borrow money at those rates. Besides Savannah is two hundred miles off, and therefore a planter can't stand by and 6ee his cotton weighed, and see that he gets all it sold for. These arc es sential items unquestinably worth looking after. I 1 is a town where a good deal of shuttling and ma nipulations go on in the line of cot ton. Macon is, therefore, the best market. Cotton sells for more here, planters are credited witli cor rect weights, and paid over all the money. It is convenient to visit occasionally and to come along with the crop. Asa moat and grain market, and for plantation supplies, we always have far better goods and sell them cheaper. They have this poor, greaseless, white New York and Baltimore stuff there they pretend to advertise as bacon, but here we have your regular clear sides, cut from 500 pound Kentucky hogs, aud warranted to raise four pounds of cotton to every one pound of that bacon given out to a nigger. Their corn comes in from tiie sea and is generally damp and musty. This is decidedly the best Western Produce market in Georgia, and a better cotton market than Savannah or Charleston. Their bacon has “skippers" iu it. The Blockade.—' There was a regular blockade of the Ralston Hall, Third Street sidewalk, yes terday, occasioned by the incoming and outgoing of snndry and various casks of Bacon into and from the mammoth provision establishment of IV. A. Huff. He only sold the moderate amount of twenty t/umxaud pomuU of metU yexterdny. To show that even this heavy drain did not “phaze” his sup ply on hand, we mention the fact that Huff receiv ed another little consignment of seventy-live hogs heads yesterday. There is no danger of his run ning out of meat soon, though his sales may be ever so heavy. lluff is evidently ruler of the meat market, as well as “Corn King," hereabouts. For anything else in the shape of Plantation Supplies, Borneo Blanket Bagging, Arrow or Buckle Ties, give him a call. Fill 1.1.1ps I’IIOTOGK APHM GR ANT. Wendell Phillips on llrani —(lrani “Drunk in the Public Streets since Januarg First ” —“ Which nobody can deny”—He "has no confidence, in (Irani"—(lrant is a "fool," a "King Log," a Resource, not a Choice — (irant devoid of "Any tstudes manlike comprehension"—"Lavish false hood cannot claim for him anything which fits him fora Leader" — Wherefore , Phillips will vote for Grant. From tlie Anti-Slavery Standard, Sept. 34th. ODB DUTY. In 1864, when Lincoln was nominated, we marie au earnest effort to rally a third party on a more radical platform.* We re joice that we made the effort, and still es teem it evidence of wise patriotism. The re-election of Mr. Lincoln was a grave mistake, from the worst consequences of which a kind Providence saved us by his death. Our effort and protest in 1564 were vain. As useless and vain now it seems to us, would be any effort to,organize a third party. And there are some reasons which render it largely, if not wholly, unneces sary. In 1864 the masses were not by any means alive to the duty of the hour. Ready for any step, they had no dettuite idea what step was needed. Further, they leaned with far too much trust on Mr. Lincoln’s supposed statesmanship and honesty. jNow’lbe Case 18 rilffisrent. 'f fat> have beeu largely educated to the Nation’s necessity and duty, and do not even affect to put off any share of it on the shoulders of Grant, or fancy that he can or will lead anybody, or anything. They see iu him a tool, not a leader. Faulty aud defective as the Republican party Is, still ii holds in its hands our only chance of safety. It is a party without principles or loaders. Its selfish men can not lead it j and its honest men will not follow. But, spite Os all this, it either has within its ranks, or represents, the loyal masses of the Nation, l'hey have .chosen it for their instrument. (Success, if it comes at ali, during this generation, must come through Its help. \Vbether one-half the legitimate results of the war shall be lost or saved depends on this Presidential election. Our latest criticism on the Republican parly is tiiat they, by sheer incapacity, have put the nation into unnecessary peril. When the impeachment failed, it 1 w <s madness to go on and admit the rebel Htates to their old places. Without land, without arms, with but little organization, the loyal vote lies at the mercy of rebels. Go to Igiwell andannouuee that whoever A’otes the Democratic ticket will be dis charged from the mills, how many will j-isk suffering lo supjsirt their principles? Tiii- nrg.v wa .starvation, but walks lo tho ballot l>ox witn a prstm no his breast. If in such circumstances be stands by the flag we shall henceforth maintain that the black race is superior to our own—there is no page in American or English history which records a civil right maintained by the masses under such fearful conditions. Congress betrayed its trust wheu it subjected the Nation to such peril. The members proved themselves thoroughly incapable or dishonest, when they adjourned iu the presence of such a dauger. ritili, the heart of tlie nation beats iuthe Republican party and every loyal man must hope aud work for its success iu this canvass. We have little confidence in Grant. The best thiug about him is that he seems desirous to execute tbe Nation's will. He is no traitor like Jobnsou, neither has he any statesmanlike comprehension of the hour. We fear lie bt-iongs more to Mor gan, Conkiing and Howard than to Hnm ner and Wade. He wasdrunk in the pub lic streets since the first duy of January. This is a fact as patent as the sun at noon day ; none but those too dishonest to be trusted with public journals ibats passing themselves off’for fowls,) deny it. He is a West Point graduate, with liis sympathies all iu the wrong direction. He has just V»ati tbrritiph IK w»r wUW-lt utits liuU’ii command to one race to do justice to an other —a war whose root was slavery and whose fruit was freedom. Y'et of the half dozen catch-words that the Nation has ex torted from his lips, not one has any rela tion to Liberty. The mottoes lie has lent to politics, or history, are such as a bull dog might have growled forth. A nation, hauling tor an idea, takes for its leader a man confessedly destitute of ideas. A stout soldier, an honest administrative officer—but had the Nation been made up of Grants, there never would have been an anti-slavery enterprise, an emancipa tion proclamation, any “North ” or any "South,” France might as well have taken Muratfor her Najaileou, or England put Roebuck iu Peel’s place. Our King Log is not imposed upon us; we select tiira ourselves. Nevertheless, he is but a shallow and short-sighted critic who seesouly Grant before him. Grant is only the almost in visible point of the broad, and every day broadeuiug, mass of purpose and resolve and necessity behind him. Though the nation has not been lifted to the full com prehension of its own work, it builds de terminately, by instinct, as it were. It cannot comprehend, much more accept, a principle. It gropes, half in light, half in darkness; has found out Fessendeu’s incapacity but still hugs the delusion of his honesty. Like Milton’s lion it lias not wholly emerged into shape or freed “its binderparls.” But its purpose is clear and full—over no matter how many prej udices, it will put beyond contingency the nation—and leave it nothing to blush for when it stands iu the sisterhood of Christendom. We must accept tiie hour, lot force it. Grant’s election means progress. We hope it means the irou hand of a just govern ment laid relentlessly on rebels. We hoped to see at last a loverof liberty in tlie White House, oue who loved and under stood what Lincoln only submitted to. If we cannot have that, give us at least aeon stable who will remorselessly execute the laws. Ten days after such a will is rec ognized at tlie White House, Wade Hampton, Alexander Stephens, Forrest, Toombs, Cobb and Seymour, will slink like whipped spaniels to their kennels. Grant’s friends understand so little the epoch they live in that their most lavish falsehood never claims for him anything which fits him for a leader iu such au hour. Pope said: “Feign what crime you will—and paint it e’er so strong. Some rising genius sius up to your song.” But Grant’s friends have not fancy and understanding of the iiour euough to lift him to its need. But let him show in the White House even the wholesome camp discipline they claim for him, and by the . first day of next April a negro will walk a hundred miles, even in Kentucky, to find enough specimens of Ku-Klux to furnish the museums of the curious. All this blood and rage is the child of cowardice, aud will vanish quickly into thin air, as it did in New Orleans when the grim aud resolute Yankee laid his unfaltering hand on the helm. None so thorough coward as the bully. Hence wo hail Maine and Vermont as day stars of hope, aud pray that other Slates may come up and better the in- ! struction. The immediate issue now, as in 1801, is whether tiie nation shall survive. Sey mour’s success means auother cliauce for secession. Grant’s election melts the mil lions Into one indissoluble whole ; calling us to stamp on it what legend God wills. As iu ISOI, the nation now can l>e saved only as a nation of justice and liberty. To bis amazement Lincoln found himself the emancipator of tiie slave. To his equal amazement Grant will find himself borne up and on to the shield of the negro. We said, in November, 1860, “for the first time in our history the slave has elected a Presideut.” The first day of January, 1863, justified the assertion If, which may God graut, this November sends Grant to the White House, we shall say “the negro has elected his President”— the future justify us as amply. Wendell Phillips. There are sßoo© worth of stamps on the will of the late Commodore Stevens. James Gordon Bennett has a daughter of 17, who, with James Gordon, Jr., will share the old man’s wealth. A man named Sikking has recovered SIO,OOO damages from the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for breaking his arm. VOL. LX-, NO 31 Hu.Hrt.nc- of ,„c Remark* „f JllUu , R AT TH* COLORED DEMOCRAT,, M«P.T iNIi ox MOXDAT SI«HT. M(hl U ” iUS ’ °° ntr " du < ;W > to the m< - ting, : tam no speaker: if any one hu T* eU - 1 iMr I,c will rtisaopoint td. Hut while rMO noAjrtsikOT, at the same tin,.- I B V nd Mr] >- an<l Zn tlu Democratic platform, and that is th- oniv form tlje colored muu in the Boii.li should stand X >n - do we live on and r-uttiva?.- > Whose railroads do we ride on, and who-,- l„, u , do we occupy? These things all belong to the white man. And and if you desert the white man you must starve. ’ The Radicals—the carpet-buggera— tell the eol on-d people they are doing great thin-- f.,r them hut it is all a mistake. They are doing you all the harm they can, and the sooner ton leave them the net ter. W le-n you join the leagues you ar- oblig. and to take an oath. When you join us, vour simple word is suflieiejit. Leave, them—leave the leagues— and unite with us, and we will do you all the good we i-an. Wo are all in tin- same ship. At tier mast head tloats the grand old flag of Democracy, and upon its folds are insorj'M-d the names of Seymour aiul Blair. I uiKt that flag wi are >ailinu,*an<! U one is lost all is lost. Hut Seymour, our n* \l Fre ident, will save us. It is a mystery that so many of mt own race should he completely blinded bv the glare of Kadi cal'sin, and tight so hard against tin- Demociu. v. I do not see, 1 cannot imagiriejwhy, even the ineoi ljJr of this eiuli are afraid to answer to their nam s at roll call. But can,a Radical negro -how me the platform lie stand-, upon ? If there is one here to night, let him get tip, and speak. All! you Radicals! And who is your chosen leader—the Moses who promises to lead you to vic tory ! Why, nobody but Scalawag Fitzpatrick. All he wants is your money to the tune of nine dol -kftotikiv. Why, my friends. I woujd sooner vote for vuedevl! Ilian tor ties scalawag , and ,s a f*\r tpedawy of the Radical party. Some say that if Seymour' is elected President tliat wc wilt go-back into slavery. No such thing, hut if tin: Radical, are victorious, let me tell u,~, tiiere will be a fair showing foe u» ail to go (jack to Africa and live on monkeys and roots. \o, my friends, were the vote taken to-day, not a single Democrat would rote for slavery. That is dead dead as the Radical party will lie after the November election. No human powur can send us is. -a into bonds, and the Radical- know it a- well as tin Dem ocrat*. Iwas a great deal freer then than ]am now or ever will he again And it is becau- th white man favored uie in the post that I cling t-> him in I the present, as I shall do in the future Hear in- ' I am a true-hearted Democrat—dyed in the wool— j and l wish all whoin ar me were on the same plat | form. : The white people owe tin colored man a debt I which they are trying to pay ; but you w on' l be, n | liim. You won t believe those who lived on tin j same plantation with you. Ob, no. But iet a seal a -1 wag or carjict-bagger come along, and he can get i your ia»t dime. These Janus-faced Radicals care j nothing for yon. All tliey want is your money— then you can slide. You elected colored nit-11 to the Legislature, where are they now. Why they w ere kicked out by the scalawags whom you helped to elect. Tie- Democrats didn’t do it; but such nu na- Pitapatrh s. did. And they served you riglit Now, my friends, when you are hauled up f e stealing, or get in trouble of'.,ny s-.rt to w: you go to get von out! Not one of you ever a-- to a Radical, but you run to a Democrat. Wig, 1 Because vou know the Democrat is abb; t■ ■ : you, vrfaije you ail km,w the Radicai has got neither . IW.IM-C fesm-a.ial.illtr nor saicae Why don't you j -*%f- Kby.wfry who VuU a! 1 know ran away from MaeonTfvTcfTrfnrt— ... : though you say the war was made for your free ! dom. f Again During a portion of Uie war I was with , our army in Virginia The Y ankees took uepris oner. They promised great things if I would go i North. They “aid I could marry a white lei,. ( Butl told them I would remain single rather than i have a Yankee woman fora wife. While I was a I prisoner. Col. Lew is, asked me how I would vote if I were at home. I told him I would vote for tie- Democrat-. And 111 do it, I shall always vote tie Democratic ticket. 1 told the Colonel tin.- jh •• >- pie at the North did not treat ns as equals. We do not have half the showing we do at the South. We are not allowed seats in your churches, and cars, i and precious little work there is for us. The Color - 1 j said my head was level; and I have tried No keep it level ever since. My friends, the white man and tl - blue ;. i | have got to live together. For Hod's sake let - | live in peace. If ever there is a war between us, , woe unto the black man. We arc- one against fur. ; It will be folly to tight- The white man b.— th * power. He will crush tint last one of us l»*.-ne..: j Lit, heel if ever a war comes between a-. Com i out, then, unite with us. and you arc safe. Turn I your backs upon these faisfe-hearted adi nturvrs, j who. after they have plundered and dt ,-ived you, i will desert yon in your hour of need., One at.d !! I hear me. lamatnie Democrat, and will go wit i ! the white muu all the time. I The speaker concluded his remarks with some j excellent advice to the colored people generally. | I have given the main points only of what wt>. f Twjoos Stterior Cotrt.—This (,'ourt c->nvet 1 (on Monday, and adjourned on Wednesday after noon. after attending to all tlie business on the ! dockets tliat eould be arrived at. " Some, ns is I always the case, was laid over from the absence ->f . attorneys, witnesses, and other good causi-s. J udge j Cole presided, and Solicitor Simmons fulfilled hi duties with the c-redit that has always been awarded J him as a faithful and efficient officer. They wen-, at this Court, multiplied beyond their usual extent, 1 from the number of criminals arraigned. The main item that occupied the attention of the Court was the riot on the premises of Hardin T. Smith. The general facts of this case have Iwscn hereto fore published. Over thirty were arraigned unde indictment by the Grand Jury for riot. I The two leaders were sentenced to a fine of ore hundred dollars and costs and six months impri eminent, or twelve months work in a chain gang, (if that be established in the county, > The county has no jail, and the expense of keeping prisoners elsewhere is a serious consideration to the tax pav ers. That county has the materials fur building a jail ou tlie spot, and it is a very proper work for their employment. Twelve others were sentenced to a fine of fifty dollars and costs and £-ur ***»’"" iaipMwniiifUt, or Six months in a chain gang. Six to pay a fine of twenty-five dollar-, iutd ; main three months in jail, or do the county four months service in a “chain gang" F.igbt were fined fifteen dollars each, or remain two mouths in jail. Five were released on the re commendation of the Grand Jury—perhap- from being unwilling participants, which was forced <ni mem by their leaders —and one or two from their want of ‘‘years of discretion.” Much could be said in connection wit-li this case, fur which we have not now time to write. The citizens of Twiggs have acted iu this manner with energy and decision in sustaining their rights, aud we trust that it will have its proper influence on the ignorant class who assume to take the law iu their owu under the influence of a few miscreant advisers. In at Last. —Owing to many vexations delays, Messrs. Adams, Jones & Reynolds have been prevented from getting possession of their new headquarters, the “Planters’ Warehouse," until this morning, when they move in. Though nut yet completed, the Planters' Warehouse gives promise of being one of tiie best constructed and most ca pacious buildiugs of the kind in the South. It re flects credit alike upon the architects, the Messrs. Woodruff—the contractor, Mr. James Cornell — and the enterprise and liberality of the stock holders. Iu this connection, it affords us pleasure to know and state that the new lessees have started in with a vim in business this season that augurs for them a degree of success that will place them second to none iu the cotton trade. Until yester day's inspection convinced us of the fact, we had no idea that this linn had received such a large quantity of the new cotton of this season. Should they continue this "lick," —and we see no reason why they should not —their business will far ex ceed that of last year, heavy as that was. We are not at all astonished, however, at these evidences of the popularity of these gentleim i with the cotton planters of Middle and South western Georgia—for with too such experienced cotton samplers and sellers, as Messrs. Peyton Reynolds and Abe Adams, joined to the busim-s tact, politeness and accommodation of Mr. !>. B. I Jones, no house could fail to give entire sbtisfac tion to its patrons. They have our best w islie- fur a heavier trade than last year. They have perfect ed arrangements to make advances upon in store, on most liberal terms —less than the vaunted Savan nah rates. When the Plantation Bitters were first made known to the American i>eople, some seven years ago, it was supposed that they were an en tirely new tiling, and had never before been used. So far as their general use in the United State- i conccrned, this may be true. It is also true that tiie same Bitters were made and sold in the Island of St. Thomas oyer forty years ago, as any old planter, merchant, or sea captain doing husine-s with the West Indies will tell you. it 1- distinct') within my recollection that ou the return of iny i futher (who was a sea captain, and doing an extern I sive tiade in the tropics), he would invariably have 1 tiie Bitters among the ship’s stores, and our family ! sideboard was never without them. For any sick 1 ness, it matters not severe or trifling, the decanter I Os these Bitters, by a different name, was always i resorted to as a sovereign remedy. : Magnolia Water— Superior to the last im I ported German Cologne, and sold at half the price.