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\ (HAKACTERIKTK HOWL.
From Maine to Alaska there rises upon
the chill air a howl from Radicalism over
the recent arrest anti jailing, upon the
charge of slander, of one Hatnuel Bowles,
editor of a “loyal” paper at Springfield,
jjagg. That exemplary citizen, the editor
of the New York Tribune , leads the cho
rus, of course, and exhausts a vocabulary
richer in expletives than logic, in de
nouncing the act. He declares that the
whole matter reads “like the stories of the
famous Icltrcs dr cachet*, during the days
of the Bastile,” and with a culminating
roar of indignation, demands “new legisla
tion losecure the protection of all persons,”
incidentally calling the heavens to wit
ness that “the liberty of the citizen is as
sacred for an hour as lor a lifetime.”
Truth well spoken ; but with what a face
of brass does Greeley, and such as he, who
made “the liberty of the citizen” a by
word and a mockery, not for an “ hour,”
hut for long, bitter, black years, utter such
words? How dure they clamor for more
“legislation to protect our persons,” who
endors'd the infamies of Forts LaFayette,
and Warren, and McHenry; Seward’s
“ little cell,” and the thousand name
leu and damning crimes by Stan
ton and his dogs against the “ lib
erty” of citizens whose only crime was
■ peaking their mind on matters whereof
the Law and the Constitution, gave them
full right to say their thoughts? What
manner of guardians of the “liberty of the
citizen” are these who hounded on mobs
of “loyal” vagabonds to strike down free
dom of speech and of the press, by mur
dering editors, and wasting their substance
—who urged and approved the arrest at
midnight, by a brutal soldiery, of men in
their beds, without warrant or even verbal
charges, and their trial, short and sharp,
Im for “com ts organized to convict.” How
dare they lift up hands of deprecation,
and cry aloud with voices almost choked
With wrath, over such outrages upon “the
liberty of the citizen” who for four long
years chuckled witii criminal glee at
every fresh attack upon those ancient
guarantees set by our fathers to protect
this liberty ? The shameless audacity
of tlie exhibition surpasses even our
most sanguine calculations. It has even
given us anew sensation—that of being
ashamed of Radicalism.
We do not excuse or justify tiie arrest of
Bowies, or rattier the maimer thereof. We
hold it to have been a scurvy trick, most
scurvily performed and for the gratification
of personal spite. But it was legally done,
upon a lawful warrant, lawfully obtained.
The prisoner knew who it was that arrest
ed him, his authority, and all matters that
it was his right to know. He went tojail iu
a carriage, and not between a lile of sol
diers. and ignorant how far his life was
sale. Doubtless he had, in the past, and
when “loyalty” was gushing aud paid,
seen and approved the latter mode, so that
he had an opportunity of enjoying the
contrast. For so much let him he thaukful.
llut, suy these indignant patriots in ad
dition to all tills, It was a cruel thing, a
pitiful thing, to leave the prisoner’s inva
lid wife alone all night in her comfortable
room at the hotel. So it was—perhaps
llut liow many invalid wives not only
were separated for one day, but for months
and years from husbands even less amcu
atiJe to justice than this poor victim? How
many of them not only did not indulge
(lie luxury of woe in a first-duss hotel, but
in filthy cells and casemates, exposed to
the brutality of such scoundrels as Butler
and llaker? Was Mrs. Phillips, at Ship
Island, any better oil'than Mrs. Bowles at
the Fifth Avenue hotel? Faugh! This
plea is not the least sickening part of the
whole business. It reveals, almost uncou
sciously, a lower deep of Radical selfish
ness, of its hard, cruel, bitterly merciless
creed. Country, Constitution, laws,
life, liberty and property —everything
must be saci iticed to its wicked will, but
the moment its own devices return to
plague their iuveutors, Heaven is in
voked for vengeance! We have seen many
exhibitions of its temper, out none more
ehaiaetoristie, none more despicable and
richly deserving public reprobation than
this.
VHK INSAS.
Militia HullianUm Mill Kauipniil.
1 From the Memphis Appeal.]
We leant from a gentleman lately ar
rived from Arkansas, that matters in Au
gusta, and the South-western part of that
State instead of getting better, are worse.
Tiie few who couid and did withstand the
rapacity of Cph&m and (Jatterson up to
the latter part of last week, have at last
succumbed, packed up their traps and
traveled—those of Augusta to Little Rock
and DeVull’s Bind', and those from the
South-west to Texas and the Indian coun
try.
A rumor prevailed in Augusta on Mon
day, that l T pham and his men, satisfied
they had about cleaned out the country
and ruined its people, were about to leave
for new and untried lields, where they
tiiought it likely their enterprise would be
as thoroughly successful. The sardines,
caudy and other good things of Augusta
are giviug out, and as they cauuot soldier
without that kind of provender, they are
"going for” the nearest and next best
point, perhaps Camden or the Bluff. The
militia are jubilant over the prospects of a
march in pastures fresh and green, and
already are gloating over the surprists and
tiie miseries they will induce.
Iu the southwest Catterson is monarch
of all he surveys, and has determined to
remain so, unless Colonel Badeau, who is
to make a tour of inspection of the State
shall insist upon his recall and the dis
bandment of his miscreants. The mur
ders and other crimes committed under
this man will never be known to the
world, tiuless he hitus-lf should surprise
us by his‘‘confessions.” lie is the most
vindictive, remorseless, implacable and
brutal ruffian that was ever associated with
Clayton in villainy.
There is an idea abroad that Colonel
Badeau will he able to insure the people
some mitigation of the sufferings they
have been enduring, by the suspension of
martial law, and from the presence of the
militia, ami that even the Governor him
self w ill soften his heart and listen to tiie
yoice of reason ami common sense. But,
judging by the past, and his refusal to
bear even respectable Republicans and be
advised by them, it is hard y to be hoped
f°r. The fear of General Grant, operating
upon him through Colonel Badeau, may
have the desired effect, and the citizens of
Arkansas may be spared any farther in
terference by the thieves and murderers of
batterson and Upliam. Clayton may pos
sibly be induced to call off bis "dogs of
war. We will wait and see.
the municipal election held in
* battanooga on Saturday, the extreme
Radicals were badly defeated, and the
mixed ticket, representing Democrats and
Republicans openly committed to "rebel”
enfranchisement was successful. There
Were four Democrats elected to municipal
offices.
fferotfia Smmrul an tl
V Well Merrilrd Compliment.
I yesterday a well merited and richly deserved
j compliment was paid the firm of J. W. Burke &
1 Cos., through their senior representative, Mr. John
! W. Burke. Feeling that something more enduring
1 than empty words of compliment were due the
| firm for the kind and considerate manner in which
j they have ever endeavored to promote the interests
' of their employes, while subserving their own, it
was quietly resolved, on the [xirt of the gentlemen
j engaged in the various departments of this exten
j Hive establishment, to procure some suitableteati
j menial, for presentation to Mr. Burke.
The gift was a tine gold watch aud
chain, and acorniMUec appointed to procure one.
Right faithfully did they perform their duty, as"
the one selected was a magnificent affair—massive,
handsome, and with all the modern improvements—
and we know will he duly appreciated by its re
ceiver.
By resolution we give below the proceedings
both preliminary to and those which took place on
the occasion of the presentation:
F.ditorial Room or Journal & Messenger, 1
Macon, Ga., December2B, 1868. j
At a meeting of the employes of Messrs.
J. W. Burke & Cos., on motion, Mr. A. W. Reese
was called to the chair, and Mr. 11. J. Neville re
quested to act as Secretary.
After a few preliminary remarks the following
resolutions were prepared and unanimously adop
ted :
Ibsohvil, Ist. That inasmuch as Messrs. John W.
Burke & Cos , have always evinced a kindly dispo
sition and the warmest feelings of friendship to us,
by guarding our Interests and working for out
common good, aud as we have never, iu any way,
reciprocated, other than attending to our various
duties, we feel in duty bound to make some gieater
effort to show our appreciation.
Resolved, 2d. Knowing our obligations to our
families, and being unable, pecuniarily, to present
something to each member of the firm, we there
fore select Mr. John \V. Burke as a suitable em
ployer to whom we may give the token of appre
ciation.
Revived, 3d. While we do not make any present,
because of above stated reasons, to the others of
the linn, we will assure them that they are ever in
our minds, ar.d constantly will our best wishes at
tend them.
On motion a committee was appointed by the
chair, consisting of Messrs. W. M. Mitchell, N.
Pinkham, C. A. Hall, J. 11. Bremer, and J. H.
Smith, with Mr. A. W. Reese, Chairman, to ap
point the day for the presentation of a gold watch
and chain, this being selected as the most appropri
ate gift.
The committee appointed Tuesday, December
29th, at tS o’clock, p. m., as the day and hour most
suitable for the presentation, and the Book Store
the most appropriate place.
Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting
preliminiary to, and of this presentation, be pub- j
lished in the Macon daily papers.
On motion the meeting then adjourned.
A. W. Reese, Chairman.
11. J. Neville, Secretary.
In accordance with the above resolutions, and on
the word being given, the employes of the entire
establishment—from sanctum to press-room—pro- j
ceeded in a body to the Book Store, where the pro
prietors had been invited to meet them upon busi.
ness—care being taken to keep Mr. Burke in pro
found ignorance of the object in view, and so well
was this managed that he was taken completely by
surprise.
The meeting being called to order by the Chair
man, Mr. A. W. Reese, he stated that its object
would be best explained by the reading of the
above resolutions by the Secretary.
At the conclusion of the reading, Mr. James 11.
Smith, who had been selected, by the committee
ua their spokesman, then advanced in front of Mr
John W. Burke and addressed that gentleman as
follows :
Mu. Burke: —Not another word need be added
to the very expressive resolutions which the Sec
rotary lias just read ; but I cannot permit them to
pass without saying one word in behalf of those at
whose instance they were drawn up.
These men have assembled from every depart
ment of this large establishment- from the sanctum,
where the brain is busy in the preparation of its
daily repasts for the eager public—from the com
posing rooms, where the clicking type tell of nim
ble fingers—from the press-room, where the clank
ing of the machinery, and the music of the steam
is heard, and from the bindery where the leaves of
paper, after nassirur from the. nress, are sluiced
a suitable form to be handed down to our posterity
as mementoes of our time from generation unto
generation. We arc here to utter no word of idle
flattery—nor to crook the “pregnant hinges of the
kneebut animated by a noble purpose, moved
by a single object—that of showing our high appre
ciation of yourself as a man, a Christian, and an
employer.
The poet utteved a lofty truth when lie said :
“ One little word in kindness spoken
Will drive the clouds away—
One little deed performed in love,
Turns darkness into day.”
Feeling thus—moved by a kindred emotion, it
was with singular unanimity that the idea of pre
senting this memento was carried out. And lam
proud to say that this is the unanimous gift of the
operative force of this entire establishment —from
those who have grown with its growth, to those
who have but recently come into it.
But enough. Now, sir, the most pleasing part
of this ceremony remains to be performed. 1 pre
sent you with this beautiful watch, together with
a list of donors. Take it ; cherish it, and if at auy
time you may be cast down, behold twice in every
t.venty-four hours that its hands point upward—tell
ing you that every cloud has not only a silver lining,
bat admonishing you to look upward for help and
succor Yes, sir, keep it; and when at last you
shall like Israel’s great singer “fall on sleep,” be
queatu it to those who may come after you, as a
memento to yourself from those connected with
the I'iKcnix Printing House—more to be prized
than “royal robe or kingly diadem.”
In reply, Mr. Burke spoke in substance as fol
lows :
Mr. Smith and Gentlemen : This beautiful gift
which you have presented me, is as undeserved as
it is unexpected, and 1 find myself without words
to express my gratitude. Our relations have been
pleasant and cordial; you have done your duty
faithfully, and if we have been kind to you, it *M
because you deserved it; and while I appreciate
highly tliis testimonial of your regard for me, I feel
that even it cannot add anything to my respect and
esteem for you.
lam proud of this occasion. I have occupied
every position in a printing office, from printer's
devil to my present station. I was always proud
to be recognized as a printer. Tiie printing busi
ness is tiie most elevated of all tiie branches of
trade. It is justly styled the “art preservative o f
all arts.”
‘•And yon, kind friends, who represent other
brandies of our business, are engaged in the noble
work of co-operating with the printer. The editor
must toil and prepare copy for the printer—the
pressman must print from the type* set by the
printer—the binder must fold and bind the book
before it can be serviceable to tiie public, and then
the salesman takes charge of the book and presents
it to the public; while the book-keeper keeps his
accounts, and show r s by his balance sheet how the
business succeeds. Thus you are all working to
gether to elevate tiie minds and morals of the
country. Go on, beloved employes. May God's
richest blessing rest upon you and yours.
“ I am glad to say, here in the presence of the
generous donors, as well as of the spectators, that
our relations have always been pleasant, and I can
testify to your faithfulness to our interest; and in
behalf of the firm of J. W. Bcrkk & Cos., (for I
consider the gift to me as the representative'of the
firm, 1 1 pledge you that no etfort shall be wanting
on our part to make the heretofore pleasant rela
tions that have existed still more cordial and en
during.
“Excuse me, gentlemen, for making so poor a
response to the eloquent remarks of Mr. Smith,
your representative, and believe me when I repeat
my sincere thanks for this beautiful gift.
Macon & Augusta Railroad.—We
congratulate the City Council, and our
citizens, generally, upon the action of the
Council at their last regular meeting on
Tuesday night.
The sum of $50,000 was pledged to com
plete the link between here and Mi I ledge
ville, and the Macon & Augusta Road will
soon be a fact accomplished. As previous
ly stated, not a dollar of this sum will be
required, how ever, till the road is finished,
and the cars run into Macon.
—A New York surgeon wishes to introduce the
Paris practice of removing the little toe of children
and adults as a preventive of corns.
Found Pc mi.
Mr. George P. Wagnon, once an old resident of
' Macon, but lately of Alabama, was found dead in
j his bed, at the Isaacs House, yesterday morning,
i The deceased had been suffering from the insidious
i inroads of that fell destroyer, consumption, and
: this, no doubt, was the cause of his death.
Our senior furnishes the following facts coirccm
; ing the deceased, which will no doubt prove inter
■ eating to all old residents :
He was a resident of oht city probably as far
back as 1836, and well known as an active man on
our street- as a cotton lntyer, and in other bnsiness
engagements. He was several times a member of
the City Council, and was always distinguished for
his energy an<%ctivitv in whatever lie was engaged.
After leaving this city, some twelve to lifteen
years since, he resided at West Point, aud after
wards in Russell county, Ala., near Columbus,
where he lost his home by fire, with all its eon'
■ tents. He had recently conie back to this city to
j resume his old occupation of “buying cotton,” and
I was cordially welcomed by many old friends.
Mr. Wagnon had been suffering for some time
i from his disease, and being iu needy eircum
j stances, lias been kindly cared for by Mr. Isaacs,
I who acted the good Samaritan by him. In this he
was assisted by some few of hi. boarders, who did
j all within their power to soothe the old loan’s
! afflictions and sorrows. May they meet their re
ward in the future.
VOTES TO FARMERS.
A correspondent who writes over the
non de plume of “Christopher,” prints in
a res nt issue of the Constilutionalut, a
communication so timely in its utterances,
and so cheering in its enumeration of the
agricultural prospects of Geogia, that we
give it this conspicuous place iu our
columns. It is a better editorial on the
subject, than we can write |
“Farming is ‘on the rise,’ as (hey say In
the markets; is getting better; yields
more, promises moie than it ever did.
And Middle Georgia is the best locality to
farm in, live in, and die iu of all America.
Georgia is the greatest State in the Union,
(or out of it,)and foran able and interesting
statement of her climate, soiis and re
sou reel, the reader wilt please see the ar
ticle upon that subject of Rey. (J- W’allaee
Howard, published in the Report of the
Commissioner of Agriculture, for 1860 ; to
be reproduced soon lor distribution among
the members of the Georgia Agricultural
riociety, iateiy convened at Macon, at the
expense of that association. Upper, Mid
dle and Lower Georgia constitute three
separate aud distinct regions in point of
climate, soils and productions, and of the
three, Middle Georgia combines most of
tbe good and few of the bad points of tiie
other two. The advantages of this locali
ty, aud, indeed, those of the whole State,
are begiuing to be known and appreciated
as they never were betoie, and, therefoie,
farming is looking up. Who, in tbe
memory of tbe oldest planter alive, ever
dreamed that Georgia could yield more
than one hale of cotton per acre until
David Dickson, of Hancock, made three
bales on one acre? Who but thought
twenty bushels of wheat per acre a prime
crop, until the Athens Club and other en
terprising spirits demonstrated that double
that yield was but ordinary ? It is a mod
ern and grand discovery that tiie red clay
hills and sandy pine levels of this regions
could yield two hundred do'lars worth of
crops iu one year, aud this has put fann
ing on tbe rise.
“The indications of anew era of energy
and hope iu farming are many and plain.
There is new life stirring tue country in
this matter. The Siate Agricultural So
ciety, chartered years ago by the Legisla
ture, witii oniy a nominal purpose, laid iu
silent apathy for so long, is t.ow revived,
and is alive witii energy, has a great work
before it, and urged on by such valuable
men as Dickson, Howard, Bcballer, and
sustained by thousands of intelligent
planters all over tbe State, lias accepted
tbe task iu good earnest, and is pressing
on to restore tiie weallii and prosperity of
Georgia through her agriculture. Iu
many counties of the State local associa
tions for tiie promotion of improved agri
culture are in existence and doing good.
And iu other counties clubs and societies,
with tbe same purpose at heart, w ill s on
,-i'— — 1 l-- 1 iix i&j i*i)f.ti T'lit;lifol- man ail
over the State are lending tlieir am, in
noble confidence that great good will re
sult from such a course.
"Another, and one of the best indica
tions of this new era in agriculture is in
the matter of agricultural literature in
Georgia. She boasts the best agricultural
paper in the South —the Southern Cultiva
te)i —thecirculation of which has increased
to over five thousand, from half that num
ber a year ago ; and with a proper exercise
of energy would reach ten thousand in
Georgia alone within the next twelve
mouths. Anew journal of agriculture—
the Rural Southerner —has been started
within the year past at Atlanta, and lias
now a large and increasing circulation.
The Maryland Farmer , and American
Farmer , of Baltimore, Practical Farmer ,
of Philadelphia, and other leading agricul
tural papers in .New York and in tiie West
are all rapidly gaining readers in this
State, and could gain more if they would.
So also with the stock-raising publications,
and all else appertaining to the farm. See,
also all the secular and religious papers of
the land, how much of their space is now
devoted to affairs of the farm and garden.
The dailies of every city in Georgia devote
almost as much to that as to political mut
ter.
"Further indications are in me growth,
development and support of nurseiies,
model farms, and such like institutions
the introduction and large sales of new
and improved stock of hogs and cattle of
prolific cotton seeds, corn, wheat and the
like, of which we might name hundreds
of varieties. Also, the large sales of im
proved tools and implements for the farm ;
turning plows being one of tbe first, ot
which ten are sold now to vine a year or
two ago; grain drills, reapers, threshers,
harrows, cultivators, and all the long cata
logue of now familiar names, but recently
unknown. The growing use of commer
cial manures —guano, bones, etc. —is au
other prominent feature in tiie breaking
of the new dawn. We need not call the
names of the different manufactures, im
portations and manipulations, nor tell
how many and where uew establishments
have sprung up lately lor making and
selling fertilizers. Evident it must be to
all, that in this respect a great change has
taken place. A laige proportion of the
crops of Georgia are now grown with such
materials as these for mauure. Iu all di
rections it is apparent that the people are
thinking more aud doing more, and in
vesting more ami accomplishing more, iu
planting than they have ever done before.
The reason of it all is that intelligent men,
with one accord every where see that farm
ing is a profitable as well as a noble pur
suit. Therefore it is we say farming is on
tbe rise ; promises more and yields more
than it ever did before.
"Let farmers, then, take courage; ap
preciate tiie advantages ' hey possess ; lead
and study over them, and strive to make
the very best of tbe tide now setting in
their favor. Theirs is a profession, and
not a mere trade; a profession in which
new developments are daily taking place,
and being seized upon by the ready and
intelligent and turned to profitable ac
count, while the dull sluggard, who de
grades his calling by bis indifference, lets
them slip bv and runs on iu the same old
rut.”
Horrible Crime in Columbia Coun
ty.—Uuder this head the Chronicle it- Sen
tinel, of Sunday, notices a3 follows the
murder and arson case iu Columbia
couuty, reported per telegraph in Mon
day’s issue of this journal :
There occurred in the neighboring couuty of Co
lumbia, on night before last, either a most myste
rious accident or, what is more probable, au
atrocity unparalleled in tiie annals of crime. Ou
Christmas night a house situated five miles from
Appling Court House, the county site of Columbia
couuty, and occupied by a Mr Gabrel Martin and
two sisters, was burned’ to the ground and its three
occupants cuH*uin«ti in the JUunex. The neiirhbors
arrived too late to save the bodies from the fire, but
it is generally believed the house was first entered
bv negroes, tiie three persons murdered and the
premises set on tire to destroy all evidences of the
crime. Mr. Martin was supposed to have a good
deal of money concealed on tiie place, and this
furnishes the true key to the whole transaction
It is scarcely probable that three grown persons
would sleep so soundly as to be burned alive in the
house without a single one escaping.
—An "eminent Federal Judge” tells a Washing
ton correspondent of the Savannah Republican that
the “execution of Davis for treason would he cold,
blooded murder, sir.”
MACON. GA.. TIES DAY, JANUARY 5, 1869.
THE HAVEN BU S.
BY SIDNEY LANIER.
L
< >ur hearts are gone, and our hearts are broken
And but the ghosts of homes to us remain,
And ghostly eyes and hollow sighs give tokeu.
From friends to friend of an unspoken ]>aln.
11.
O, Raven Days, d*rk Raven Days of sorrow,
Bring to us, in your whetted ivory beaks,
Some sigh out of the far land of To morrow,
Some strip of sea green dawn, some oranj
streaks.
in. (
Ye float iu dusky flies, forever croaking—
Ye chill our manhood with your dreary shade.
Bale, in the dark, not even God invoking, ; •
We lie iu chains, too weak to he afraid.
iv.
O, Raven Days, dark Raven Days of sorrow, *
Will ever any warm light come again ?
Will ever the lit mountains of To morrow
Begin to glean across the mournful plain?
A MOlllLlt.Vs EXPERIENCE IN BRAZIL.
We bad the pleasure of a visit yesterda
from Mr. James J. Selby, an iuteliigei
Mobile youth, who has just returned frot
Brazil, whither be went in 1867.
Mr. Selby landed first at Rio and too
passage from there for l’ara, in tbe goveri
ment steamer, for the purpose of joiniD
the colonists who went from Mobile unde
the guidance of Major Hastings, and ba
settled some distan a up the Amazon.
The Brazilian Government had
itself to transport emigrants from
country to any part of Brazil where tey
might wish to settle. The experienciof
Mr. Selby of the manner in whicii tat
pledge was kept was any thing but grti-
Fying. After great trouble and numeois
delays he secured a ticket and weutm
bogrd the steamer. During the passge
that lasted twenty days he was pijn
and day in the open air, and affod
ed no shelter from suu or rain. He vis
furnished two meals a day of feria,
which were served in a huge basiu set ut
upon the deck for the
tiie deck passengers cn mrnae. Thera wre
about a hundred aud fifty of these, p
groes, imlians, and ha’f- breeds—the v«y
scum of creation —lousy and filthy, aid
all fed together, hejpjng theipselvea by tie
handful at a time.
Tiie passage from Para to tiie Hastins
Colony, occupying three days, was of tk
same nature as that from Rio to tiie flrti
mentioned place. So much for the trans
poriation. The colonists who went of
with Hastings were promised supplies f<
six months or their equivalent in
with which to purchase supplies whel
they might deem proper. Row thatpronl
ise was bent may be appreciated from th
following:
The ollicial charged with furnishing tli
settlers with supplies is named-Piuto. Hi
is Vice President of tbe province of Par;}
and proprietor of a harem which turn]
him out annually a fair crop of half breef
Indian and negro offspring.
With the money that Pinto had reoeitf
ed from the government for the purpoie
designated, be established a store on tie
bank of the liver, filled it with theuliea)-
est groceries he could obtain, and forcal
the settlers to buy from him at tiie higef
cash price, or starve.
The settlement is distant from tiie rive
about eight miles ; a sandy desert without
shade intervening; and once there tliesef
tiers had to trudge under a tropical sui
hearing on their backs the poor but costlj
groceries supplied by the enterprisinr
Pinto. Delicate women from Al.-.batnl
bad often to perform that fearful task.
The land in the Hastings Settlement
and the Valley of the Amazon generaly,
is inferior in quality lo that of our own
country; and whatever is planted it}
speedily devoured by the miriads of insects
that swarm in those tropical regions. And
not only do those pests attack vtgetablei
life, but man and beast as well. An insect
called by sailors “tiie jigger,” lies in
weight at every turn ready to make lodg
ment in the foot of tbe pedestrian, and
form a colony of young “jiggers” in bis
llesh. The feet of hogs are so infested by
these insects, tliaf the auimuls uever get
fa ter than an ordinary lathe.
Scorpions, ceutipedes, tarantulas, ants
nYie'lVm combined stYrig£B"a"l
faced hornets, ticks as large as a mans
thumb-nail, that go through human flesh
like a mole through freshly spaded earth,
are some among many of tiie Amazonian
blessings that endow a man with tbe
powerof despising such tr ties as the clouds
of mosquitoes and sandflies that prevail
there. Comparatively speaking, thevam
pire is the mosquito of the Amazon Val
ley.
Whether the vampire is really a blood
sucker, is a question that has given rise
to some disputation among naturalists.
We remember reading, several years ago,
a magazine article whose object was to de
fend the great .South American but against
tbe serious charge that was generally be
lieved to be founded iu fact. Mr. Selby
sets that matter at rest. He lias killed vam
pires iu the act of suckiug liis blood.
Horses in the Amazon Valley sutler great
ly from these blood sucking bats, and have
to be kept well protected irom them at
night.
Os the families that went out with Hast
ings only four remain at the settlement,
the rest having gone to Para as a first step
towards getting back home.
Those that remain are the following :
Vaughn, Mendenhall, Steel and Emmett.
The health of the country is about on a
par with our swamp lands.
While tbe Hasting colony has been re
duced to a remnant, all the other Ameri
can colonies have been utteily broken up;
the colonists coming in as best they could
to the nearest seaports ; generally in au
absolutely destitute condition.
The result of the Brazil " fever,” sad as
it has proved to those who yielded to its
attack, will stand as a warning to the
Southern people against the hasty aban
donment of their native land. Even the
greatest curse that can fall upon us from
tbe foul womb of Radical hate—the curse
of mougrelism—cannot be avoided by go
ing to Brazil or any other South Ameri
can country. In all of them the nasty
fruit has ripened, and pollutes earth and
air with its sickening odors.
[Mobile Tribune , '2.Uh.
BLUE laws still i\ force.
A Connecticut paper calls attention to
some of the laws of that State, which are
certainly no great improvement on those
of two centuries ago. It says :
1 A married woman, guilty of infidel
ity, is punished by imprisonment in the
State prison not less than two years. A
married man guilty of infidelity, excel t
with a married woman, is punished by a
tine not exceeding seven dollars, or by im
prisonment in the common jail not ex
ceeding thirty days.
'2. The husband can in this State con
vey away all his real estate without his
wife’s couseut, and cut her off at his deatli
from every cent of his property. Iu no
other State in tiie Union an this be done.
3. While the wife has no right to any
portion of her husband’s property during
his life, and may be cut off from any por
tion of his e-tate after iiis death, the hus
band, immediately ou the marriage, takes
possession of a 1 her property, and keejis
possession during his life, giving the prin
cipal thereof to her or her heirs at tbe time
of his death.
4. Tbe property which may be acquired
by their joint exertions during wed
lock belongs to the husband alone, she
having no legal interest therein whatso
ever.
5. The children, fruit of the marriage,
belongs to tbe husbaud, not to the wife.
Iu case of separation he is entitled to
the custody.
The only remedy at present open to
married women against laws reducing
them to a condition nearer slavery than
freedom, is divorce. We are not surprised,
therefore, th it two thirds of the divorces
giauted in this Btate are granted to wives,
who have thus obtained restitution of their
our property, control of their own children
and a share of their owu earnings.
—At the Milledgeville tournament on Christmas
day, Mr. Stubbs crowned Miss Mollie White
“Queen of Love and Beauty.”
—Mr. J. M. Selkirk has left the service of the
Central Railroad, and will settle on a Fiord county
farm.
—Mrs. W. H. T. Walker, widow of the late Ma
jor General Walker, C. S. A., who was killed in
1804, near Atlanta, died of heart disease, in Albany,
New York, on Monday.
M\RK TWAIN ON HVRTFORII.
Don’t direct auy more letters to me at
Hartford until I fiud out iu which Hart
ford I live in. They mix such things here
in England—l think I am in Hartford
proper, but no man may hope to be cer
tain. Because right here in one nest we
have Hartford, and Old Hartford, and
New Hartford, and West Hartford, and
East Hartford, aud Hartford-ou-the-Hill,
aad Hartford-around-generally. It is the
strangest thing—this paucity of uames in
Yankee land. You find that it is not a
matter coufiued to Hartford, but it is a dis
temper that afflicts all New England.
They get a name that suits them, aud
then hiteij distinguished handles to it and
hang them on all the villages round about.
It remiuds me of tiie mau who said that
Adam w’ent on naming his descendants
until he rau .out of names, aud then said,
gravely, “Let the rest be called Smith.”
Down there at New Haven they have Old
Haven, West Haven, South Haven, West
sy-sou’-West Haven, and East by east
oor’-east-balf-east Haven, and the oldest
man in tbe world can’t tell whioh one of
them Yale College is in. The boys in New
England are smart, but after they have
learned everything else, they have to de
vote a couple of years to the geography of
New Havpn before they oau outer college,
gud theu half of them can't do it till they
go to sea a voyage aud learn bow to box
tbe compass.
That is why there are so many more
New Eugiand sailors than any other.
Some of them spend their whole lives iu
the whaling service, trving to fit them
selves for college. TMApriiass of people
have colonized the city of New Bedford,
Mass. It is well known that nine-tenths
of tiie old salts there become old salts just
in this way. Their lives are a failure—
they have lived in vaiu—they have never
been able to get the haug of tiie New Ha
ven geography. In tfiia connection they
teil a story Qf a stronger wh > was coming
up the Connecticut river, and was trying
ins best to sleep ; but every now and then
tbe boat would stop, and a man would
thrust bis bead into the room, Fiift fie
sung out “Lfadflain j” and then “East
Haddarn!” and then “Haddam’s Neck!”
and then “North Haddarn!” and then
“Great Haddarn!” “Little Haddarn!”
“Old Haddarn!” “New Haddarn !” “Irish
Haddarn!” Dutch Itaddam J” “Haddaui-
Haduaur!” ami then the stranger jumps
out of bed, all excited, and says : “I’m a
Methodist preadier, full of grace, aud for
ty years in service, without guile ; I'm a
meek aud lowly Christian, but d—u these
Haddams. I wish tire devil bad them, 'I
say !”
THE PIN iNt'UI- OUTLOOK,
The struggle of the question will be on
finances, bin there is no definite knowl
edge yet as to what shape it will take, and
the mystery must remain until it is known
what the great political Mrs. (Irundy—
who wears shoulder-straps and smokes
strong cigars—will say about it. Mean
time, the country is drifting toward bank
ruptcy through extravagant expenditures,
and the little doubt that has hung over
the ultimate certainty of repudiation as a
work of ueoessity and mercy, is gradually
being removed. The early resumption of
specie payments, which Congress seems
determined to insist upon, is the Pan-
Handle route to repudiation. It Hanks all
conscientious scruples by the force of ne
cessity—and achieves by a single act of Con
gress what else might take long years to
accomplish. Look at t lie prospects for the
coining fiscal year. They stand thus: The
estimated expenses will not fall a dollar
short of three hundred ami fifty millions.
I have good Republican authority for tlie
assertion tfiat they will exoeed that
amount by twenty-five millions, and may
foot up as high as four hundred millions.
It is not hard to count the items. To
start with, we have a hundred aud thirty
millions in gold for interest on the public
debt. The army will costa hundred mil
lions —a pretty large sum when itiscon
sidered that we are at peace with all the
world and the rest of mankind, except a
:ew unoffending Indiana, against whom
Military Genius insists ou waging periodi
cal butcheries. Then put down about six
ty millions for pleasure excursions, under
the auspices of the Navy Department.
Then we have an army of civil officers, turn
ery aU( I dishonest, and equal to the deple
ury, and, last but inn least— and a debt
that ought to be, aud must be paid—thirty
millions for pensions. The reader may ex
ercise his arithmetical powers over this in
a sum of simple addition, and find out, if
be can, how my figures can be gainsaid.
So much for the expenses—but bow
about the receipts? In all human proba
bility the internal, eternal and external
taxes will not yield two hundred and lily
millions, leaving a prospective deficit of
more than a hundred millions, and in
creasing the national debt by that amount,
instead of reducing it, us we are so often
and so falsely told is being done. It is
easy to gabble about national honor aud
national faith, but it does not lie in the
mouths of men who by their wasteful ex
penditures render honesty impossible and
convert honor into a joke, to read lectures
to Democrats about the inviolability of
the publiccredit. Public credit is no more
inviolable than private credit, aud the
nation that recklessly squanders its re
sources can no more meet i:s obligations
than tiie individual who spends his last
dollar at the gaming table.
It seems to be the peculiar aud inaliena
ble privilege of every American citizen —
including A. J.—to propose a way for the
payment of tiie public debt. I need not
recount the many devices already put forth.
The best and most practicable of them
was insanely voted down at the November
elections. My own opiniou is, that two
years from now the most popular mode of
dealing with the ‘‘Nationalblessing,” will
be through the cheap and patriotic form
of a vote of thanks. It will certainly be
acceptable to the bondholders, who are all
patriots, and love '.heir country beyond
everything else, to be paid off in this way.
In fact, if there is anything which a true
Radical holds as above alt price, it is the
thanks of Congress.
80, let them have a neatly engrossed ,
resolution passed with great form and
ceremony, declaring that the nation owes j
them an everlasting debt of gratitude—
and let gratitude take the place of gold
and greenbacks in their loyal hearts and
money-chests. —“ Muck" to the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Trade in the South.—The prospects
of trade in the Soutii for the coming year
are, on the whole, more cheering than the
terrible condition of that part of the coun
try would deem to warrant. During the
last two years more coin, wheat and bacon
were made in the Soutii than ever before,
aud yet during tbe year about closing a
fair crop of cotton lias been raised, mainly
on the strength of what the planter could |
do without credit, so that he is notin debt,
aud what he realizes will be mostly his
own, to invest in something profitable for
the future. That is, more money will be
distributed in tlie South than has been
seen there since 18t>0, the cotton alone j
being certain to realize about $250,000,000. i
Thirty millions of this will be distributed
from one point in Alabama—Mobile.
Fifty million will pay according to a fur
estimate, all the debts, leaving tiie balance !
to put life, and hope, and prosperity
once more within the enjoyment of the
people. They cannot expeud this money
for negroes, as of yore; nor will they seek
to add to their lauded possessions, tire
smatl plantation system having met with
general favor. They will invest their
gains iu the purchase ofi nproved farming
implements, hourebold furniture, articles
of comfort and luxury, diy goods, cloth
ing, books, sewiug machines, pianos, aud
other musical instruments, <fcc., <fcc. In
deed the trade of theßouth promises to ce
a rich one, and we entirely agree with the
Mobile Register , that the enterprising men
who view this prospect in the right light,
aud take proper advantage of it by placing
themselves in a position to ‘‘push things,”
are the men who are going to get rich
honestly, even under a military mon
archy. —Philadelphia Age.
—Old Brownlow is out in favor of the separation
of East Tennessee from the other divisions of the
State. lie says the people of that section “are
ready to go empty-handed," and assume “their
proportion of the State debt" If the Governor
speaks for the people, as he assumes to do, East
Tennessee may “go at once, and stand not on the
order of her going.” So says the Nashville Union.
—Charles Vann shot and killed Wilson Thomp
j son, on Monday, the 21st, at Colquitt, Miller
■ County.
DECISIONS OF THE SI PKKME ( til K r.
Ili-ln erf'll at Atlanta, Ore. 2*. IHtW.
Furnished by -V. J. Ifainmond, Stfjm-me Ounrt Re
porter, expressly for the CbnftttulUm,
\v. W. Whitlock, et al. vs. Jane Yauu,
et al. Equity: From Thomas.
Brown, C. J.
By the third item of the will of A. V.
he gave to bis wife during her wido.vbood,
certain negroes aud other personal prop
erty, aud about five hundred aud twenty
acres of laud, known as bis “Home Place.”
In case of her marriage, the negroes were
to be divided into three lots—she to take
oue, aud his two youngest sous, each one
share, aud his said two sons to take the
balauce of the property iu said third item,
including the “Home Place,” which was
to be held by their guardian till they were
of age. Testator afterwards sold tiie
“Home Place” to K. for SIO,OOO aud took
notes and gave bond for titles. After this
sale be added a codicil to his w ill, in which
be expresses bis purpose to give direction
to a “certaiu fund that be shall have,”
aud recites the tacts of tiie sale of tbe
“Home Place” for SIO,OOO, and direct that
“said sum of money” be re-invested by
his executors in a plantation for the use of
his wife during her life or widowhood,and
if she should marry agaiu, said plautatiou
to go to bis two youngest sons, as set forth
in the third and fourth items of bis will.
He afterwards collected $2,500 of the pur
chase money, which he used, and soon
after died. The balance of the purchase
money lias never been paid, the title to
the ‘ Home Place” remains in the estate,
and K. the purchaser, is insolvent:
Held, That there was an ademption of;
the specific legacy to the extent of the
$2,500 collected and used by the testator
before his death, aud as there is nothing |
for the codicil to act upon till the purchase
money due at his death (which is the “oer 1
tain fund” that was the object of it) is
collected, the oodioll, made uuder a mis- !
take, did not revoke the will, as to the
home place; and that the widow and two
youngest sons take it uuder the third item
of Die will. But should the purchaser at
a future time pay the balance of tbe pur
chase money and interest, and compel a
conveyance of the land, the codicil will
then attach to tbe fund, when so paid in,
and it will bo the duty of ti e executors to
invest it in a plantation fur the widow and
children, as directed iu said codicil.
Judgment reversed.
A. B. Wright, J. L. Seward and Wil
liam Doqgherty for plaintiffs in error.
A. D. Mclutyre for defendant iu error.
Miles Q. Dobbins, vs. A Porter, et al.
Equity : From Chatham.
McCay.J.
Where a bank made an assignment of
its assets fir the benefit of its creditors,
aud a large portion of its assets was in
money qt a market value, and a creditor,
nearly twelve monthsaftertheassignment,
filed u creditor’s bill, charging ttiat six
mouths after the assignment, and again
shortly before the filing of the bill, he had
demanded his share of tbe cash assets
from the assignees, and they had refused
to pay him unless he would release the
hank from the whole of his claim, and the
hill prayed an account: Held, that the
bill was not demurrable If there was
complication or cause for further delay, it
ought to beset up by way of defense; it
canuot be assumed.
Judgment reversed.
W. Dougherty for plaintiff in error.
Jackson, Lawton aud Bassenger for de
fendant iu error.
Tiie Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah
vs. Miles D. Cullens aud wife. —Case
from Chatham.
McCay, J.
A municipal corporation, tlie owner of
a market, the stalls of which it rents, is
bound to keep the pavement in front of
the stalls in a safe condition, and if a citi
zen of the corporation is injured, through
the neglect of this duty by the officers of
tbe corporation, tbe corporation is liable
to (be extent of (he injury received.
Judgment allirmed.
E. J . Harden, by tbe Reporter, for plain
tiffs in error.
Thos. E. Loyd for defendants iu error.
J. J. Pierce vs. Thos. Morgan, Survivor,
of E. M. Bruce & Co.—-Equity: From
Kichaioud.
McCay, J.
Equity will not entertain jurisdiction
for a tort, as such, except to prevent it.
When A, a warehouseman, files a bill
against B and C, partners, also warehouse
men, alleging tiiat they, as factors for D,
had, in conjunction with D, illegally got
possession of certain cotton which had
been stored witii A by various parties, and
had removed it out of the (State, to lie sold
on D’s account, and prayed that B and C
he enjoined from paying the proceeds to
1), and that they be decreed to account to
A for Die value of the cotton : Held, that
ttiis a hill for account and that the true
owners of the cotton, A’sprincipals, ought
to be made parties to the bill.
2. Equity requires all parties at interest
within the jurisdiction to be parties to a
bill. When a bill is filed against B andC,
partners, who are both served and answer,
the bill paying an account, aud one of the
partners dies: Held, That his personal
representatives must be made parties to
the bill, unless it affirmatively appears
that he died non-resident, and that there
are no effects in the (State iu which bis
estate has an interest.
When a bill is filed against a partner
ship, and after both have answered, one j
of the linn dies, it is not error to per- !
mit, before parties are made, an amend- I
ment correcting a misnomer as to the
Christian name of the deceased partner. |
When a suggestion is made of the death '
of tiie party and entered on the Judge’s
docket, it is not error, even after
judgment, to allow the entry to be made,
mmcpro tunc, on the minutes. It is only I
tlie correction of the neglect of the clerk.
It is tiie outy of the Clerk to transcribe
into the minutes ai! the entries on the j
Judge’s docket, showing action in tiie
cause, when the action does not otherwise >
appear on the minutes.
Judgment affirmed.
Walton & Sliewmake for plaintiff iu
error.
Johnson & Montgomery for defendant
in error.
Death op Dr. Daniell.—We regret to
have to announce the death of Dr. W illiain
C. Daniell, an old and highly respected
citizen of Savannah, which occurred on
Saturday night Jast at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. LeHardy, in Walthour
ville, after a brief illness.'
Dr. Daniell was a native of Greene coun
ty, in this State, aud was seventy six
years of age. When a boy he attended
the celebrated school of Dr Waddell, at
Williugton, South Carolina, aud was a
contemporary of Longatreet, McDuffie,
aud others who ro.-e to distinction. He
settled iu Savannah in early life, and de
voted himself to the practice of physic, a
profession for which he was well fitted by
a mind of great natural sagacity, improved
by all the advantages of a polite and
thorough education. He was several times
returned to the Legislature from Chatham
county, was once, perhaps twice, Mayor i
of tbecity.and assisted LaFav ette in layiug
the corner stone of the Greene Monument
in Johnson square. He was an ardent
friend of Southern independence before
and during the war, and held the respon
sible otlice of Receiver under the Seques- J
tration Act. His labors of late years have
been devoted to the rice culture, in which
he met with great success and amassed a
handsome fortune, a large portion of which
was lost with the late Southern Confed
eracy.—Savannah Republican '£.)lh.
Arrests in South Carolina.— Chief
Constable Hubbard, of South Carolina,
with five or six deputies, went to Abbe
vill Court House, a few days ago, and ar
rested Mr. Charles N. Dendy, ou a charge
of complicity in the murder, a few months
ago, of James Martin, member of tiie South
Carolina Legislature. Mr. J. Fletcher
Hodges, a son of General George Hodges,
was also arrested for complicity iu the
murder of B. F. Randolph, a negro mem
ber of the Legislature. Ben Thompson a
negro, was also arrested for implication
in the murder of Martin. The prisoners
were carried to Columbia, where an ap
plication will be made for their release on
bail, the community of Abbeville being
well satisfied that the parties arrested are
innocent of the crimes alleged.— National
i Republican, 29th,
THE I—-I E HETWKKN CONtiHE** AND «K>*
KK \L HR ANT.
Coming eveuis cast their shadows be
; lore, aud a great aud dark shadow is be
i projected over every interest in the
rand by the looming up in Cougress of a
determination not to remove from the Ex
feutive of the country the shackles which,
ru a moment of party hatred and fear, the
Radical majority were enabled to impose
upon the President. When theTeuure-of
; Olhee bill was passed tbe pretext was that
a was necessary to control tbe occupant
of tbe chair, and uo means or arguments
were used to assist its passage except such
as were exclusively personal to President
Johnson. No man who advocated the
measure, lu or out of Congress, dared to
proclaim an intention to disturb the bar
mouy of tbe powers of government, as ad
justed ill the Constitution, and which from
the first momentof our national existence,
has contributed so greatly to our national
growth and greatness. Had such an in- I
tention been avowed by tbe framers of that
hill it would have been received every
where with a burst of popular indignation
and scorn, and President Johnson would
have become a martyr instead of a re I
proacli in tbe public esteem.
To-day tbe position Isehanged. A man
endowed iu the highest degree with tbe
confidence of his fellow citizeus is about to
assume the Executive authority, which
(hey have conferred upou him in'the hope j
that his wisdom will bring back the glad j
sunlight of peace to the land aud hlsinteg
rily restore simplicity and honesty to the I
overgrowu aud corrupt hranebes of gov- 1
crumeut. Aoioes the field of this fair
hope a fiark shadow portends, and the die
positlou of Congress to bestow distrust 1
where the people have conferred confi
dence is its cause. Oue-third of tbe last
session of tiie present Congress has al- i
ready expired, aad from what lias therein 1
passed we may know the spirit that ani
•nates the body and what will he its course
in the remaining eight weeks it has to sit
unless some great power forces it to depart
from its intended course.
As at present limited by the legislation
of Congress the Presidential olliee and
power which General Grant will assume
on the 4th of March next will be utterly
useless for good iu tiie path where most is
expected ot him. Not ouly can lie not con
trol the policy of his government in allairs
of State, but lie cannot appoint his Cabi
net council nor remove tbe head of a su
bordinate bureau, nor even kick out of
otfloe auy corrupt inspector who may be
in league with the whisky ring. This
degradation of the Presidential olliee to a
mere military is destructive to our form of
governmentand will be ruinous to national
ami private interests. It is incumbent on
Congress at the earliest possible moment
to restore to the Presidency the powers
whioh the Constitution conferred upou it.
In the person of General Grant there is
not the slightest shadow of a reason for
continuing the distrust which has been
heaped on President Johnson, and a re
fusal or neglect to repeal the Tenure of
olliee bill will simply amount to a determi
nation on tiie part of Congress to deprive
him of the power to do the good which the
people have appointed him todo.
(Should Congress fail to do this necessa
ry and just act, there will be hut one course
left for General Grant to pursue. On tak
ing the chair lie must appoint to positions
in iiis Cabinet men whom lie knows and
whom he can trust to agree with him in
any great question 1 hat may arise. And
should any not agree with him, let him
displace them at once, and trust the peo
ple to sustain him. The Constitution, it
is true, makes the Secretaries of depart
ments tbe ad visers of the President; but
they are iiis subordinate officers, not his
masters, and auy other interpretation of
our plan of our government is simply to
impose confusion, contention and imp'-
tency upon tbe head of the State. At u
time like this, when every branch of the
administration requires to be purged of
the foulest corruption and jobbery, and
when we have elected to otfloe Die man of
our choice to do this work, it would be
folly or madness, or something worse than
either, to tie his bands with the present
Tenure-of-Ollice law. On Congress rests
the onus of the act. They are called upon
to move before General Grant assumes the
office, and if they refuse or fail to do so,
there can be but one deduction as to the
i reason for their course—they either (Us
ed lie shall not have power to purge the
Government of its manifold corruptions
and wickedness. — N. Y. lltrald, 26//i,
HE Xlt DICKS.
Forney ainl Foruey’w Brother.
[From the Springfield (Muss.) iivpublicftn. J
That must have been a pretty scene
when Baron Stoeckl and Mr. Robert J
Walker united in pressing upon Mr. John
W. Forney Hits sum of three thousand
dollars as a token of international good
feeling, while that pattern of all tiie par
ties and all the proprieties (Mr. Forney,
of course,) with his hands (undoubtedly,
behind his back,) gently, but firmly, re
fused tbe glittering gold, (Alaska was j
paid for in gold,) and declined to subject
iiis immaculateness to suspicion for any
amount of base coin. What a pity there '
could not not have been admission by
ticket to this little tableau! and cannot
Nasty,iu Ihe absence of that,do something
to reproduce this scene, which the world
would not willingly let die? While ad
miring Mr. Forney’s virtue, however, be
yond all expression, we cannot fully sym
pathize with the reason which he gave for
his refusal. He could not do it because he j
was Secretary of the Senate, a body not a
few of whose members make more money
in Washington than they ever made any- i
where else. This would seem an untie ]
cessary sensitiveness indeed. But that it
would have been a disgrace to journalism,
and a shame to himself in his high office
as editor of a newspaper (two, in fact, both
daily) to have sold his columns to the lob
by, and allowed his press to be used to de
ceive his readers, misrepresent public
opinion or rob the Treasury, does not seem
to have occurred at the time to this orna
ment of his profession, not even to this
model of sensitive purity, who couldn’t
take a “testimonial,” forsooth, because he
was (Secretary of the United (States Senate.
But the money was not destined to go to
Russia, by a long chalk. Like Genera!
Butler, Mr. Forney had a brother who, in
point of fact, published his paper. Happy
in the consciousness of virtue, he was
doubly happy in the convenience of his
family relations. We trust his brother
still lives and will long live to pick up the
bags of silver and the suits of raiment
which the proud spiritof the elder Forney
refuses to accept. What would the (Secre
tary of the Semite do without a brother ?
To be sure, if he hadn’t a brother (aud
brothersareproverbially something which
we cannot get for ourselves, he might at
least secure a brother-in-law. Now, a
brother-in-law is something any man can
have, uml it is his own fault if tic does no)
get oue. A brother in-law does just as
well, sometimes better, because he does
not go under the same name General
Butler had a brother-in-law who was a
great comfort to him.
Mr. Forney’s brother's name we do not
recollect To prevent confusion, let us
call him Gehazi. Mr. Gehazi Forney,
then, was fortunately on hand to solve
the difficulty aud release the friendly con
tending parties from their dilemma —for
Baron Stoekl and Mr. Walker could not
live in peace unless they left the money
in the Chronicle office, and Mr. Forney
would die iu torment before he would re
ceive it. At this juncture appears Mr. G.
Forney. He would take the money. Oh,
yes. he would. He wasn’t (Secretary of
the (Senate. Oh, no, be wasn’t. He was
only connected with a newspaper; and so
delicacy was out of tbequestion. Besides,
there was a youDg mau or two, sons of
anti-slavery prophets, staying at his
house (name of Forney), and for their
saxe he would take a talent of silver and a
couple of changes of raiment. Bo the
great matter was settled. Mr. Secretary
Forney retained his iuuocence, and Mr.
Gehazi Forney retained what was proba
bly worth a great deal more.
Murderous Assault by Thieves.—On
Sunday night, Mr. Wm. Fuulkenberry,
who lives in the neighborhood of Girard,
Ala., was aroused by a party of negroes
who had visited bis house on a thieving
expedition. He went out to see what was
the matter, when lie was attacked by tbe
thieves who beat and cut both him aud
his wife in a frightful manner. It was at
first reported in the city that they were
dead, but we heard at a later hour yester
day that they were not killed outright,
but very seriously hurt.— Colunkbus En
quirer, 2Silh.
:V()L. LX., NO. d-2.
A MODEL. LETT KB.
In response to Mr. Tift’s circular pub
lished a day or two since, the Republican
Ordinary of Muscogee county, writes tlie
following letter. Mr. Duer lias approved
himself a good citizen and an holiest man,
by T so manfully telling the truth. We
comuieud his letter as a model for his fel
low officials all over the State. They can
' just as safely aud truthfully say of their
localities, what Mr. Duer has so well said
of his :
Cou mbi s, G* , Dec. J 6, 186*.
ll<m. Tift, Wasftimjt'tu .
Drar Sir—Your circular addrv--ed to tin- Judi
cial officers umi Mayors of cities, in tlii-- State lee*
l*«ton received by mr, aud, us requested, 1 pmi ■ <1
to .vply to the several interrogatories therein cun
tained. Before doing so, however, it may m>t l>e
amiss to Mate, that I wit a warm supporter oft 1 »
Cong regional plan of reconstruct, .n, ant wj
elected by the Republican party J lid ire of the < .>urt
of Ordinary ol Muscogee county because 1 favored
that plan.
Is reply to your several inquiries, I ststeasf.il
lows: lu my judgment the laws of the Slat are
faithfully aud* impartially administered—a.- uiu. b.
if not more so, than fora number of years pat I
know of no resistance to tiie law, organized or an
organised ; the officers of tile law being as faithful
as at any prior time during my residence In the
State, which lias been since the year lMtv
it affords me pleasure to state that tin relations
of friendship aud good feeling between the races has
greatly increased since the work af reconstruction
lias been accomplished, and iKitb blacks and whit,
as a general thing, feel that the welfare of the two
races require# tiie cultivation of kindly feelings and
the promotion of lhei r mutual nwtonal latere ts.
It was to be expected that violent party spiiit
would exist between the two political parties, i hat
always lias been, and will be, when great political
questions arc to lie settled. But now, that the
Presidential election la over, Uie Democrats, so far
as 1 know, feel an increased assurance in the pur
pose; of the President elect, and the conservative
element in the Bepulilican parly, to so administer
the Government as to bring peace, security and
equality of rights throughout the entire Union
The influential portion of the people of Georgia,
without exception, so fares 1 am advised, desire
emigration from the Xortli and from Europe to aid
in developing the vast resources of the count iv.
They feel that it is upon the energy, intelligence,
capital and skill of the white rare they can only
rely to make litis land, favored of Providence,
bloom umi blossom as tiie rose.
Tiie people of the North pan us safely engage in
agricultural and other pursuits with the people of
the South us in commercial intercourse, aud now
that reconstruction is accomplished, our p. ople do
not desir# to see society thrown into a elate of so
mentation by trying to reconstruct reconstruction,
if there arc still evils existing in the body politi -
which need to be cured, they do not sec th»
eessity of tearing down the Government just . stub
lished to correct the same, but to rely upon the
constitutional inode of correcting evils under the
Government already established. What we need
above all tilings, ia stability in Government.
It would be difficult to estimate tiie evils which
would result, both to tiie Shite and tiie United
States, if Congress should overthrow the pi -< til
Government and establish a Military or Provisional
Government ill its place.
The people are just beginning to turn their at
tention in good earnest to their varied interest-,
which they feel will be alike secure to all under llie
present Government, and any distracting political
policy which wifi require anew the work of reeou
struction cannot but prove greatly detrimental to
the interest of tiie country.
In conclusion, allow me to express tlifi hope Unit
the future policy of the party in power Will be eon
trolled by justice, moderation und an earnest desire
to cultivate fraternal relations between tin different
section* of tiie Union, which alone will be theaure
foundation of n permanent peace.
I am, sir, very truly, your obedient servant,
John W. Durr, Ordinary.
W AMIINUTOft Ml'Kt IALH.
A STARTLING HTOKI.
Witxhinylop, Dertmber 20.—A letter in tiie
in;/ En>reu of to-day, the writer of which is
vouched for by the editor us being entirely trust
worthy, makes a statement that, there are certain
missing records from the archives of the Govern
incut, and the w riter says Unit he is well aw are that
tiie statement lie makes will, in some quarters,
awaken incredulity, in others a fear of further dis
closures, while the masses will give neither thought
nor attention to it; but lie affirms the truth of his
statement. The report is, that when Judge Camp
bell, of Booth Carolina, was in Washington at
tempting to arrange terms for the separation of hi*
(State from tiie Union, President Lincoln prepared a
proclamation, tiie purport of which is given below.
The writer says :
Shortly after the breaking off" of efforts to avert
the dire catastrophe of war, a gentleman having
free access to the private office of President Lin
coin repaired totlie Capitol of South Carolina und
deposited with a high official of that State a man
useript proclamation by President Lincoln, duly
prepared and ready for lilt signature, announcing it
totlie American pimple that rather tliauplung the
country lu civil war the Executive Government a.-
With this was a column of editorial in slip form,
with corrections, supposed to be Mr. Lincoln’s,
reciting freely the words of tiie instrument in.lica
ting the Executive act, und challenging for it the
approval of tiie American people. This is my
statement of the missing record. That it was not
issued was due to tiie intense feeling awakened by
tiie tiring ou the .Slur of tiie West. — LuuintUle Coi
rier Journal.
A DI 81. IN EAKNK I.
A duel was fought in this eity yesterday between
an officer of tiie regular army on duty here, and
whose name could not he ascertained, and Phil
Forney, son of the lion. J. W. Forney, the weai.
oils being pistols, at twenty paces. Three shots
were tired, by which Forney was twice wounded
and tiie officer once, but neither fatally. It i
tliought Forney may lose ids hand. The priuci
pals were eager to light the quarrel out. but, afu i
Idood had been drawn oil both sides, the second
interferred, and declared that as a gentleman's
honor hud been maintained, they should he satisfied.
The blight misimdei-landing arose in the dining
room of tiie Willard Hotel, a lady being in Die . a
and the qnarrel could only be adjusted bv the rigor ,
of the code. Forney’s second was Richard T. Shelly,
of New Orleans, a former correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, Washington Chronicle and
New York Tribune. —TrntUvillr Courier-Jour mi.
TUB AMNESTY PROCLAMATION.
Tiie President’s amnesty proclamation continu. -.
to be tiie subject of comment by Congressmen and
others in this city. It. is said that half a dozen
1 telegrams—some of them from Canada aud •nine
i cable dispatches from abroad, have been received
' here by Government officers, making inquire
l about the proclamation and its effect in ca‘ • of
i the return of those who participated in the rebel
I lion and subsequently tied the country. '1 lit p r
sons in whose interests these dispatches were -ent
i are George Banders, Jacob Thompson, lircei.in
ridge, and Mason.
I several Radical memoers of Congress have un
i hesitatingly given their approval of the amm -ty
i proclamation, and legislation in Congress is -ug
ge ted in consonance with tiie spirit of that docu
merit.
(Jn Chris' mas day a number of persons of di
tinction, members of tiie Supreme Court and < alii
net, military officers, etc., and private <-ill /■ ~
called upon President Jobn-on to congratulate i m
upon hi* amnesty proclamation, and ibeaptn of
the selection of the day for its promulgation.
(Louim-tOe Courier-Jourrud.
THE CASE or 'i HE GEORGIA SENATORS.
The rejection of Senators Hill and Miller, of
Georgia, by tiie United states Senate, is urge t by
a colored delegation under tiie lead of a Mr. Tin
ner, us well as by the white delegation, at the head
of which is Governor Bullock. The colored men
base their opposition, it would seem, more upon
personal grounds of indignation against the D m
ocratic party for what they term its base jngruti
tude, than on the ineligibility of tiie candidate- t,y
reason of any provisions in the reconstruction
laws. The Senators who are now seek ng adiuio
sion, they contend, were elected by the help of the
colored voters in the Georgia Legislature; but af-
tcrwurila the party to which they belong, forgetting
the service thus rendered, turned round and ex
pelled their faithful and too confiding allies. • The
influence at work in favor of Messrs. Hill and Mil
ler is of such an important and respectable char
acter tHat it is thought the Judiciary Committee
cannot, with much show oi reason, report solver- y
against them. Much men as Ex-Governor Jo.-' ; h
E Brown and General Meade back up the claims
of the applicants mentioned, while opposed to
them are merely the partisans of Governor Bullock
and the colored men that are simply seeking to be
advanced.—Al Y. Herald, With.
TROUBLE AMONG THE TEXAS REPUBLICAN*.
Reports reach here of a serious difference iu ths
ranks of the Republican party in Texas ou th
question of dividing that State into smaller con
stetlations. The native Republicans, taking the
same ground as the Democrats, protest against th
proposed carving project, while the imported Re
publicans demand that the proposition be submit
t'-d to tbe people along with the constitution. If
treated in this fashion the constitution, it is ex
pected, will be defeated by an overwhelming vote.
—-V. Y. Herald, ‘Doth.
Judicial Politeness.—Sentence of
death was once passed on a notorious vil
liuu by a popular judge, who desired to
maintain and extend bis popularity. He
said: ‘Mi. Green, you have just been
found guilty. Will you have the kindness
to stand up Mr. Green? I really would
not trouble you, Mr. Green, but such is
the established custom of the court. As I
was saying, Mr. Green, you have just been
found guilty by the jury, Mr. Green, of—
of—l believe you call it murder, Mr. Fore
man of the jury; yes, murder. You will
please take notice, Mr. Green, that it is
the jurv who find you guilty ; not I, Mr.
Green." I express no opinion on the sub
ject, but I am compelled by the law—it’s
a mere formality so far as I am concerned,
Mr. Green—to sentence you to be hanged
by the neck till you are dead, dead. At
w bat time would it be agreeable to you to
be hanged, Mr. Green ?”
<MI>
—The javeuile Athenians have been enjoying
themselves skating on “Carr’s pond, for several
days part. That’* where .we learned hew—hr to
doit