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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER,
J. W. RI'RKE & CO., Proprietor*.
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OCR TRI-W'KERLY.
We are now publishing a large Tri-
Weekly, issued on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday. It is placed at the extremely
low price of five dollars per annum, and
is the cheapest paper in the State. Send
for it, if you donot prefer the Daily or
Weekly edition.
OCR PAPER.
With our large and handsomely printed
Daily, Tri~ Weekly and Weekly editions —
the old favorite is gaining ground every
day. We thank our friends fer their kind
efTorts to extend our circulation. We in
tend to make (he Journal and Messen
ger one of the best papers in America.
We have heard of a few spiteful people
who are saying hard things about it, but
these are few and far between.
MASOMC.
We intend todevote a column weekly to
Masonic intelligence, which will be under
the management of Mr. Simri Rose,
Grand Secretary. All public notices con
nected with the Grand Lodge, Masonic
Insurance Company, will appear in this
paper—and it will indeed be the organ of
the Grand Lodge of the State. We a-k
the aid of our Masonic brethren in carry
ing out this feature. Will they send us
itemsof Masonic intelligence occasionally.
farmers
Will confer a favor by sending us com
munications of interest connected with
their farming operations. We shall tat e
great pleasure in inserting such matter.
We intend that the Journal and Mes
renoek shall not be a whit behind any
paper in the State in promoting Agricul
tural interests.
ADVERTISERS
Will take notice that in many of the low
er counties we have the largest circula
tion, Daily and Weekly, of any paper in
the State. Their advertisements will get
a wide range if sent to the Journal and
Messenger.
EDITOR I \ L AMENITIES.
Wt; copy in part an editorial on tbi-subject from
the Macon Telegraph, and ns a public journalist ve
give our cordial endorsement to till; sentiment
expressed by that paper. The impersonality of tlie
press is un idea that editors should strive to make
universal. A newspaper should speak the worts
of truth and soberness, and they should, as a ge.i
end rule, not bej-egarded as a mere expression of
Individual opinion. The singling out of editors as
the subject of Individual attacks cannot be justiti and
except in a solitary case, and that is when tiie cause
of truth and public justice demands It When a
bad man assumes to speak for the public, or any
important portion of it, and to impress his indi
vidual views as an evidence of corruption in the
popular mind, it is due to society to expose the
fraud, and this can be done only by an exposure of
the true character of the perpetrator. Such, occa
sionally, becomes necessary in the course of un
editor’s duties, and the exception only goes to sus
tain the purity and independence of the press. An
impostor and criminal should always tie brought to
light and held up to the public condemnation, even
tli nigh lie should seek to cover up It is individu il
character under the privileges of the press.
Ho speaks the Savannah Republican.
Our friend, the editor, is right, so far ns
he goes, but we hardly think lie goes fur
enough. If a bad man, by his infamous
slanders upon the character, motives and
conduct of a whole people, deserves expo
sure, why should bad men,banded in a par
ty or clique,to do all these things and more
besides, be spared ? If one editor of a
Radical paper is held up to public repro
bation for his manifold evil courses, why
should not all share the same fate ? The
people of Georgia, like those of eveiy
other Southern State, have been cursed 1 y
the presence of a horde of unclean crea
tures who have sought to rob,and ruin,and
degrade them by editorial assaults, by in
cendiary speeches, and still viler appeals
secretly, and at night, to the basest pas
sions of an ignorant race. They have made
themselves public enemies, just as house
breakers or innriki-ui'. - —. un —J- *
shed blood directly, or witli their own
hands, but they stir up men less cunning
but braver than themselves, to do tilings
that lead to it ; and though they do net
rob openly, and within the meauiug of
the law, they none the less take what docs
not belong to them by usurped power,
newspaper calumnies, and corrupt legisla
tion We do not see what right they have
to courtesy, either of speech or act, from
honest men.
To our thinking, the true position to oc
cupy upon tiiis question isjusttliis: Ex
tend courtesy when it is deserved, but not
indiscriminately and without reference to
whether the person differing with us can
show any other grounds for such difference
than personal greed. Does any sane man
in Georgia believe that the carpet-baggers,
ora majority of natives whoapproved all the
wrongs and outrages of “reconstruction’’
did so as the result of au liouest belief that
it was best for the country or its interests?
When their motives were so plain, were
we to stultify ourselves by conceding what
they claimed—an honest of
opinion? Not so. Men’s acts, and not
their words, are sometimes safest coun
sellors for those who would learn their
real motives.
Other people may do as seems best to
them in this matter, but we never in
tend to stoop to the interchange of courte
sies, editorial or otherwise, with those
whom we believe to be working against
our and the State’s interests, just to stuff
their filthy pockets. When we recognize
an honest difference of opinion upon mat
ters where men may disagree, without the
odor of plunder rising up to taint the trans
action, and where there can be no question
of personal advantage to influence a de
cision. then, and then only, shall we be
willing to extend amenities.
small areas.
I lie men who make up their minds to
cultivate small areas, and spend their
money liberally for fertilizers this year,
are the men to have full pockets aud con
tented minds when harvest time comes
again. \\ e think there has been a grow
ing and very gratifying disposition to
do this apparent all over the country,
and we augur the best results therefrom
next fall. Those who have tried it this
year, need no advice or appeals. Their
crop proceeds are worth all the eloquence
of tongue or pen in the world. They will
try it again this year, and with even bet
ter prospects aud success, for they have
the priceless light of experience to walk
by. We hope to see twenty of these wise
men this year, where there was oue last.
One thing, we fear, rather stands in the
way of the polijy: There are symptoms
of a cotton mania breaking out again, and
when men get bitten bad their ideas ex
pand, indefinitely. They scorn small
farms, and small everything else, and see
only huge plantations and large gangs of
workers. They think too much of quan
tity, aud too little of quality, aud having
put all their money in land and labor,
have little or none left for the benefit of
the land itself. We hope our fears may i
prove groundless, but there cortaiuly
seems, in recent developments, some
foundation for them.
Gentlemen of the planting interest, you
know your owu busiuess best—presuma.
biy, at least—but don’t, for Heaven’s sake,
ever be caught again as you w’ere in 1867.
We know very little about farming, but
we claim to have kept our eyes open to
results as they turned up, and we do .know
you made a mistake that year, and that
you had bitter cause to regret it. You
seem inclined, under the stimulus of flush
prices aud good balances, to repeat it.
Don’t do it. Plenty of provisions first ,
then on acres made Cat with fertilizers,
laugh as loud as you will with Cotton the
King.
An Excellent Investment.
His Honor, Mayor Obcar, on behalf of the City
Council, purchased a few days since, the Freed
tneu's Hospital buildings, situated near 6us tin’s
Phosphate Factory.
Becoming aware, some time since that these
buildings would be sold on the winding up of the
Bureau in Georgia, the Mayor wrote to Gen How
ard, iufo'iuing him of the city’s desire to purchase
tliis property, at a fair valuation. Gen. Howard,
in reply, expressed himself favorable to the sale,
but at the same time informed the Mayor that no
private sale of Government property could be
made; that it must be sold at public outcry to
make the transaction legal and according to law.
Such being the case, when the property was of
sered the other day at auction, His Honor, bid it
in for the very moderate figure of $1475.
There are ten good, substantial buildings on the
premises, with everything necessary for hospital
purposes. Indeed, we are assured that everything
is of the. very best, and the" property well worth
SSOOO.
It is the intention of the city and county to com
bine in this matter, and establish a Hospital and
Alms House for their paupers. It will beconduct
ted upon the plan of forcing all of the inmates,
who are able, to labor in some manner towards
paying for their support. In addition to the city
and county paupers, there arc some twenty-five
colored indigents at present in the late Freed
men’s Hospital. These, of course, will now have
to be taken care of by the city and county author
ities now that the Bureau lias been abolished.
Os this number, it is thought fully one-half will be
found able to labor for their own support upon the
farm which it is intended to start in connection with
the Alms House. For this purpose the city has
purchased ten acres and leased ten acres, at anom
nal price, from Mr. 8. I. Gnstin, with the privilege
ot purchasing or leasing as much more as they
may need.
It is also contemplated to put the paupers at
light employment —such as bottoming chairs, mak
ing brooms, etc. This will not only have the effect
of lessening mendicancy, but make the institution
in a measure, self supporting. There is not the
slightest doubt but that there are some unworthy
parties now drawing rations from the city, able but
unwilling to labor for a livelihood. Force them to
labor, and you make them useful members of so
ciety. Force them into this work-house, or to
leave the city and county, and our word for
it, tiie pauper list will be reduced fully one-third, if
not a half from its present size. Well conducted,
we predict a great reduction of the present burdens
upon the tax payers of the city and county.
Retrenchment the Order or the Day.
Heretofore the costs in all eases tried before His
Honor, the Mayor, have been divided between the
Chief Marshal and City Clerk. This has been done
away—the money now going into tiie City Treas
ury The fees heretofore accruing to the Clerk,
on issuing licenses, now go the city. To makeup
these losses, however, to the Martial and Clerk,
their salaries have been raised SSOO per anuumeaeh.
Their perquisites, heretofore, have been fully
double that amount, so by the new plan there is a
saving to the city of at least *IOOO.
In the matter of wood for the poor, the city is at
no actual expense for cutting and hauling—the
sale of a portion to citizens, at $5 per cord, more
than paying the outlay.
At tiie close of the war, from accummulation of
interest on bonds past due, and the cost of build
ing the City Bridge, there was a debt of $157,000
hanging over the city. Much of this, we are happy
to state, lias been liquidated, and the financial
affairs of tiie city are in a healthy condition, now,
with a reasonable prospect of growing better fust
should nothing occur to hinder. In another year
we hope to make a still more favorable report.
Death of a Mason.
Dr. Joseph D Bkooks, of Pleasant Hill, Georgia,
died on the m ruing of the 20th ult. He was a
great and good man, and his real worth was scarce,
lv known until he was gone. He left the world in
full hope of a bett r state. His disease was affec.
tiou of the heart. He was a member of the Georgia
Masonic Mutual Life i nsurance Company, so that
his heirs will receive a handsome sum from this
Company.
First Colored Presbyterian Church,
The corner-stone of the new church edifice about
to be erected by the congregation of the colored
Presbyterians, under chargo of Her. Robert
Carter, situated on Washington Avenue, in rear of
the residence of the late Charles Collins, Esq., was
laid on Friday, the Ist of January, inst., with ap
propriate ceremonies.
1 lie address of Rev. Dr. IV ills upon the occasion,
was very tine and most suited to the occasion.
We hope to see the building speedily pushed
fj tvnrpn/wun, aim (remiaku. “ i
TUB WAR IV ARKANSAS.
\rrtvnl of Clayton's Hummers on the Margin of the
Father of Waters—Chickens and Captured—
Candles, Pickles, Sardines and Can-FruitsUobled.
The war in Arkansas has progressed to
our own doors. The rascally irregulars of
Clayton have actually had the temerity
to show themselves in sight of Memphis.
They have actually shaken their “dirty
shirt” standard in our faces, and sent
greeting to Brovvnlovv, whose genius they
humbly imitated. The scoundrels have
captured Hopefield, Marion and Mound
City, and have by this time sacked ali
three of these important cities, and sent
fleeing into the woods the inhabitants
whose chickens and hogs they are now
feasting upon, and whose candies and tit
bits they have long ere this gobbled.
White, black and brown, these fellows
represent, we are told, the offscourings of
Arkansas, are out on a “tare,” as they say,
and prepared for any devilment tlieir of
ficers may conceive.
On Monday evening they arrived at
Madison, from 160 to 200 strong, (where
from it is not possible to learn, as they tell
more lies than the father of lies himself,)
immediately seized the train and upon it
made their advent into the quiet but de
ceptive Hope-field, much to the surprise
of the six peaceableinhabitautsof that city,
two of whom happened to be abroad wait
ing for sun-rise, at the time. The soli
tary store lusted, one may well imagine,
but a short time. The tempting sardines,
the many-colored candies, the crackers
and cheese, unknown to any ordinary
commissary, soon fell the legitimate prey
of the thieves, who prowl through the
State with Clayton’s suspension of the
habeas corpus and his commission for rob
bery in their pockets. Replenishing their
stomachs, Marion and Mound City were
shortly surprised, and by a suddeu coup,
with many yells, captured aud occupied
all the live stock on the way, falling into
the hands of this more thau ruthless en
emy. W hat their purpose is, beyond theft
aud murder, it is impossible even to sur
mise, as the people in the river counties
of Arkansas are noted for tlieir peaceful
disposition aud attention to the houest
duties of life. It is hard, but we suppose
the poor people overrun by these “dirty
devils” will have to grin and hear it, and
may tiiauk, perhaps, tlieir contiguity to
Memphis that they are not all murdered,
or as horribly maltreaed as Catterson does
the people of the Southwest, many of
whom, it said, will carry to their graves
tin- marks of his brutality.— Mempnis Ap
peal, Dec 30.
Deplorable. —We are credibly in
formed that the dignitaries of Jackson
county, Fia., at a recent term of the Cir
cuit Court lor that county, bad a sweet
time, expounding the law and administer
ing justice to the good people of that uu
fortunate sectiou.
It seems that the jury was composed
principally of black negroes, aud that His
Honoi, together with his corps of sub
officials, were white ditto. Morpheus, it
is known, has many charms for this Sable
brotherhood, aud oil that occasion pos
sessed more than ali the thunder, elo
quence, and logic of the attorneys present,
and was even proof to the importuuities
of the learned Judge himself.
In consequence ;it was necessary to ad
journ the Court ou one or more occasions
that the duskycustodiaus of justice might
be refreshed by a kiudly nap. —Eqfaulo
News, Ist.
Dr. Mudd and the other Sufferers.
—A Washington letter in the Baltimore
Gazette says:
There is good reason for believing that
President Johnson has concluded to finish
up the work of amnesty, and that right
early, as the opinion of three members of
his Cabiuet to-day urged him to do so. It
was argued thnt consistency demanded that
those guilty of lesser offences should not
be allowed to suffer in prisons while free
i pardon was granted to all tiiose who have
been fortunate euougb to escape imprison
ment. A distinguished gentleman, in a
position to know, strongly intimated this
afternoon, after the regular Cabinet meet
ing had adjourned, that the political suf
ferers at the Dry Tortugas would soon be
released from their imprisonment. Mr.
Johnson expresses great gratification at
the spirit in which his Jate proclamation
has been received by the whole country—
a few only excepted.
A DIMiRAf EFIL PROPOSITION.
We are greatly disgusted at tiie move
ment recently inaugurated iu Virginia by
certain |>oliticians to induce the people of
that State to swallow, voluntarily, the
poisoned bolus of negro suffrage, in order
that they, the politicians aforesaid, may
fill their greedy stomachs with the leeks
and onions of office. It marks another
sta re in the decadence of principle so la
mentably frequent these latter days, and
of which tiie Southern people have had
so many evidences. We hope these lead
ers and their disgraceful proposition will
receive the short and sharp punishment
of universal public contempt and repro
bation in the “Old Dominion.”
They may prate as they please about
being “practical,” and “doing the best
for themselves ” but no honest man,
no man who has opposed this iniquity
upon principle, will be deceived by it.
They have seen, in other States, how, by
such cries as these, tiie Government has
been put in tiie hands of thieves and plun
derers—men destitute of every virtue, or
even asemblauce thereof, who bate truth
as an iustiuct, and love lies and all man
nerof villainy—earpit-baggers, renegades,
aud ignorant cornfield negroes. They
have discovered other leaders, elsewhere,
using such hobbies as these to ride
from the camp of unsuccessful principle
into the cam)) of triumphant rascality,
and they will soon see that theirs are not
one whit better. We hope to see every
man who favors this scheme lashed naked,
from the Blue Ridge to tide-water, with
the whip of an indignant people’s scorn
and contempt.
When we reflect, too, what tiie people
of Virginia are asked to endorse, as tiie
twin brother of universal negro suffrage,
it does seem that these leaders are crazy
as well as wicked. The Constitution of
Virginia, made by the meanest lot of vag
abonds and adventurers in her limits, in
providing that no man shall hold office
who cannot take the te-t oath, thus brands
every decent, respectable citizen of that
.State. Th * idea of these Acliaus, we sup
pose, is, that if tiie people will ratify this
Constitution, the bait of universal negro
suffrage will induce Congress to strike
out the test oath provision, and thus let
down the bars to them to grab, by negro
votes, all the offices of the State. Wheth
er the people, who want no office, will
lend their honest hands to any such foul
work, we doubt. It is their duty to stand
back, tiil the crack of doom, rather than
walk one step in such a disgraceful path.
If Radical fraud, an I so-called Democratic
pandering tiiere o, succeed iu forcing this
Constitution through, Jet tiie people sub
mit to what cannot be helped. If the tar
red stick is forced into their hands,Jet them
use it to break their enemy’s h-ad, as we
did here iu Georgia, but take it, volunta
rily, never! If they do, they write their
death warrant, and fix tiie doom of their
noble old Common wealth. Tuey bar the
way to any future efiTrts to get rid of the
curse, and handcuff themselves into a per
petual allegiance to the policy, no matter
how it works, nor how many opportuni
ties may offer to get rid of it. The real
people of every other Southern State have
kept tiie faith, and been true, through
every vicissitude, to principle. Let not
the record of first defection be made
against the dwellers in the land of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison, aud Monroe.
V\ INTERVIEW WITH GR ANT-HIS “ COA
SERVATISAI.”
Wo find the report of an interview with
General Grant by “ a distinguished citizen
of Ht. Louis,” from which what follows
below is an extract, in the St. Louis Dem
ocrat, (Rad.) of December3oth. VVe pub*
lisli it to slaud side by side with Dr.
Miller’s rose-colored impressions as re
ceutly written by him to friends in Geor
gia:
* * * * * * After a cordial greeting
,-¥3tetai‘4nW §>imfew.
In a few moments Senator * * * was an
nounced, with Judge * * * of Louis
iana.
“Genera!,” said the Senator, “Judge
* * * wished to see you a few moments and
consult with you in regard to the improve
ment of the levees of the lower Missis
sippi. We wish the Uuited States Gov
ernment to endorse, and thus guarantee
tiie bonds of the State of Louisiana for the
restoration and improvement of tiie
levees.”
“ I hope the Government will not do
it,” the General replied, with a quick, pos
itive utterance that was not only decisive
and liual on that subject, but almost stun
ning.
“ It is impossible to cultivate our lands,”
interposed the Senator. “ The levees are
absolutely necessary.”
“ I know ail about the levees,” he an
swered. “I served in that country when
a young man, and I had something to do
myself with the breaking of those levees. •
"But,” said the Judge, “ millions of
acres of the best laud in the world are sub- j
ject to overflow.”
“ Let them overflow, and let them stay
under water,” said Grant, “until thei’r
owners are willing that Northern men
and Northern capital should come in and
protect and improve them. Northern
men with ample capital are ready to make
a garden of your State, and you won’t let
them do it. \ our large landholders are as
hostile to the Uuited Stales Government
to day as they have ever been ; and if that
Government should rebuild their levees it
would not change them a particle. I know
no way the Government could have
adopted for rebuildiug the levees but to
have confiscated the lauds of those en
gaged in reoellion, ~nd used the proceeds
to restore the country. As that was not
done, nothing reinaius but to set your ne
groes to work, and invite iu and welcome
Northern men.”
’“General,” said the Judge, “the ne
groes won’t work.”
“Won’t work,” Grant quietly replied,
“ they’li work if you’ll pay them for it.”
“ Aui I not right?” he added. “Isth«re
not such a hostility to Northern men that
it amounts in most sections of the State to
a practical exclusion of them from the
agricultural interests of the country? Is
there not an unwillingness to divide up
the lauds, and sell in small parcels to
those who might immigrate; and is there
not a general tendency to secure the servi
ces ot the negroes without prompt and
adequate compensation ?”
“I must say,” said tiie Judge, “ that
there is more or less of truth iu all these
uuiuta.”
“ Then,” said Grant, “I think you will
have to build your own levees, or wait
under water uuiil you are willing men
should come in who will build them.”
The-above, though not all that was said,
gives the substance aud spirit of the con
versation. It shows much more plainly
thau any statement I have seen precisely
where the President elect now stands
with reference to the South.
This conversation shows that whatever
he may hereafter do, he now stands by his
past record. He means that a citizen of
the Luited states shall be recognized as
such, aud secured aud prolected in his
rights and privileges in every State ; that
the freedom of the freedman shall he re
cognized aud his labor fairly compensated •
that the national obligations shall not be
increased, and that the promoters of the
late war at the Sonth shall not be aided
by the Government iu repairing the dam
ages occasioned by the war.
The result of the interview was a strong
couvictiou that Grant is a Radical in the
most radical sense of the political term
and thatail parties North and South would
do wisely to recognize the fact aud act ac
cordingly.
How They Spend Their Money—a
young farmer, living not far from this
city, after settling with his freedmen for
the past year’s work, feeling an interest
in their welfare, concluded to notice what
they purchased with money earned by a
year of faithful labor. He paid one young
fellow upwards of forty dollars—the bal
auceduehim —and theu asked him what
he intended to buy The freedmau told
him he did not kuow, hut was going to
look around aud see. They met again in
about an hour. The freedman, in the
meantime, had gone intoa leading jewelry
store and bought a gold-headed walking
cane, for which he paid twelve dollars.
The freedmau strutted off down the street
with his red brogans and fancy walking
cane.— Columbus Enquirer , 3d.
GEORGIA JOUENAI AND MESSENGER.
Dave Brister, a colored man in the ei
ploy of Major Middleton, who was frieiib
iy to that gentleman, was driven away y
tiie negroes. Dave arrived here last evn
iug. Hu says that on Wednesday tiie ie
groes went to Southfie (land uttered thrqts
(gainst ids old cook, and demundeclto
know from her where themules were. tjie
did not kuow, and they then broughtip
some mules aud carriedotf thecarts. Tty
then went after Dave, who took his tvo
children* and lied. He lay out in fie
woods, in the rain, ail Wednesday nigit,
and came in yesterday eveuiug, alnpst
worn out. Dave confirms tiie stateroul
that these disorderly negroes are forebg
the quietly disposed cues to joiu thtm,
and that if they are not put down, tfc«y
will murder ail who oppose their actioie.
They have not burned any of tiie build
ings thus far.
On Wednesday tiie rioters took Jofen
Hogan, (colored) one of Mr. Middletof’s
watchmen, aud the man who gave shelter
to O'Donald, and the wives and childrm
of tire white men who were beaten and
driven from .Southfield, and led him <ff.
t he last seen of him he was being driven
iu the direction of the railroad track, at
the point of the bayonet, by aging of tie
negroes. Nothing has been heard of h:m
sime, aud it is not known whether he vas
murdered or driven off.
THE NEXT SENATE.
Who Goes Out nnd Who Slavs In,
| From the Cincinnati Commercial, 27th. ]
On tiie -itii of Marcli the terms of the
following Senators expire : Bayard, of Del
aware ; Buckaiew, of Pennsylvania; Chan
dler, of Michigan ; Conness, of California;
Dixon of Connecticut; Doolittle, of Wis
consin, Udmunds, of Vermont; Freling-
Iniysen, of New Jersey; Henderson, of
Missouri; Hendricks of Indiana ; Mor
gan, of New York; Morrill, of Maine
Patterson, of Tennessee; li&nisey, of Min
nesota ; .Sprague, of Rhode Island ; Stew
tlDirn if ebras l?a f " VSiV "W
West Virginia; Wade, of Ohio; Welch,
of Florida, and Whyte, of Maryland. Ot
these twenty-two Senators, only two, so
far, have been re-elected—Messrs. .Ed
munds and Sprague, both Republicans.
In Californ a, Eugene Casseriy, Demo
crat, lias been elected to succeed Mr. Con
ness. In Connecticut, ex-Governor Buck
ingham, Republican, has been elected to
succeed Mr. Dixon, Democrat. Mr. Pat
terson, of Tennessee, son-in-law of Presi
dent Johnson, will be succeeded by Parson
Brown low. Ohio will exchange Ben Wade
for Judge Allen G. Thurman, Democrat,
and Maryland, William Pinckney Whyte
for William T. Hamilton, both Democrats.
The Florida Legislature lias elected Abijah
filbert to succeed A. S. Welch. The iat
ter gentleman, although he had beeu rep
resenting Florida in the Senate for the
last six months, has never given up his
residence in his own State of lowa, wliere
iie will return, after the sth of March, to
take charge of the State Agricultural Col
lege. He is the only Senator who goes out
with tills Congress.
PLAIN TALK FROM A “MAN AND BROTHER.”
The following pithy uote, from Rev. Al
fred E. Anderson, of the colored church,
will explain itself. As we are "neutral”
iu this light, we shall eudeavor to give
either side a fair hearing on the vexed
question :
“Knoxville. December 23, 1868.—Edi
tor* Dress and Herald : 1 see in yesterday’s
paper (the 23d) my name as a candidate
for Alderman m the 4th Ward, of the city
of Knoxville. Bir, for the benefit of wv
numerous friends, I desire to say that I
most respectfully decline such a nomiu*-
tion. I find that everything that shines
is not gold, nor is everything that squeals
“Radical!” “Radical!” a friend to the col
ored man. I look for quailing around the
“inner circles.” lam not willing for my
name to be used for policy’s sake by a set
of . lam a man.
“Yours, most respectfully,
“A. E. Anderson.”
I his is a bugle-blast that will resound
throughout the “loyal” precincts of our
double city. Parson Anderson iutirnates
that he knows a thing or two, and being
the leader of a large Christian flock, hi*
words, we apprehend, will not go un
heeded. So it seems the strategy of the
“inner circle” has failed by its quick dis
covery. l'iie bait was uot large euough
to eouceal the point cf the hook. The les
sou of the silly little trout that disregarded
its mother, is n >w being studied by the
colored folks Knoxville Press and Herald.
December 2±th.
The Hibernia—A story of Terrible
j Sufferings. —Particulars by the steam
ship V\ eser, of the sufferings of one of the
boat’s crew that left the Hibernia, are of a
most painful character. Second Officer
Davie, of the lost vessel, savs they were
out fourteen days. They had twenty
eight passengers, and reached the Irisk
coast with only three, and on landing,
tlieir limbs were so swollen that thev
could not move. The boat had very rough
weather There wasa numberof children
on board, ali of whom died iu their moth
ers’ arniff. They ran short of food aud
water. Nine or ten persons went mad,
drank salt water, and then leaped intotbe
sea. On the eleventh day out, the waves
upset the boat, and washed the provisions i
and every one overboard. The three men
cluug to the keel until the boat was right I
ed, and then they hoisted a tarpaulin for j
a sail, and after three days of intense suf- i
sering from thirst and suspense they ran |
upon tlie beach on the west side of Fau
nett Point. The narrative of Davies is
one of the most thrilling and terrible in
the annals.of shipwrecks.— Louisville Cour- j
ier-Jovrnal, 31 st.
San Francisco and New York Prob
ABLY TO BE CONNECTED IN APRIL BY
j Rail— Omaha, Nebraska, December 2Ath.
The following facts will be interesting
to your readers in New York aud the East!
The two roads will probably meet at Mon
ument Point on Salt Lake.
The Ca ifornia Pacific railroad is now
built from Sacramento.
July loth, Big Bend of the Truckee, IS7
miles; October 23d, Reese River, 300
miles; December 24th, Maggie Creek, 469
miles. This is IS3 miles west from Mon
ument Point and Balt Lake.
The Omaha and Pacific railroad is now
from Monument Point only 138 miles.
Thus only 31S miles part the two roads ;
which distance both companies are build
ing cm night aud day. At this rate of
working the two roads will meet in April.
[ Correspondence N. Y. Express. •
THR SAVANNAH NEGROES--.MORE Ol TR AGES
From tiie last issue of the Xews, we ex
tract as follows:
We have from a gentleman, wiio cam
up yesterday, (Friday) morning, aconfir
ruation of the report that the negroes, il
strong force, and thoroughly armed, wer
lying near the railroad, watching tli
movements of and prepared to resist th
Sheriffs posse which went down on Wed
nesday. When the train moved off h
some six or seven hundred negroe
came out on the railroad, aud the leade
went about cursing aud sayiDg, “Th
white ■ were afraid to com
and attack us, aud havegope back foruaoi
men.” He says that there is a very iarg
force of the negroes at No. I, and that the,
are determined to resist any attempt t'
arrest them.
Another gentleman confirms tiie repori
and says that soon after the return ot th
special train, a gravel train came along
and the negroes crowded the tra"k am
would not move of!’. The train then went
down tlit* road again.
A countryman from Liberty county,y- |
rived here yesterday with produce to ill
He reported that tiie negroes have ts
troyed the bridge over the Little Ogeeiee i
river, four miles this side of Chapnu’s 1
house. He was stopped by five difleat ,
picket parties, each rang numbering ght r
or ten men. They told him to tell lie
white men of Savannah to come on—iat '
they were ready for them. Afterquestn- 1
ing til’s man, they finally allowed hit to I
come on to tiie city, telling him noto ,
come hack again, or they would kill Im. !
The negroes from the Augusta road vre j
crossing to the Ogeechee in large uum*rs ;
yesterday, aud joining the iusurrectiorrv
bands. J |
The latest news wlitch we have f*n
the scene of the trouble represents ias
spreading, and that the negroes, by tines
and intimidations, are forcing those wo
are disposed remain peaceable tojo
them. So rt ! neir operations are
to the “neck,” west of the railroad, ail
between the two Ogeechee rivers, but
not speedily checked it is feared that
will extend into Bryan county. Aidei
•nan Burroughs, who wasat his plantalio
on Wednesday, reports all quiet in tin
section, and his son remains there i
charge of the place. A letter receive
from h planter in Bryan contains the fd
lowing:
“It is unnecessary for me losay how u
gent the necessity is for immediateactioL
as .he badly disposed negroes are all tp
time iu< reasing their force by intimida
ing those who would not joiu could tlig
see any power o protect them. If actio
is deny and much longer 1 fear themischif
will extend.”
I , H ISHINGTON SPECIAL*.
FRANK RLAIR.
Washington, Dec. 30.—General Frank
P. Blair lias been iu this city since last
Thursday, although his presence was un
known outside a small circle of friends
un .il to-day. He has been staying quiet
ly at his father’s house opposite the War
Department, and upon his appeara ee to
day was greeted very warmly by his
friends, who have not seen him since his
last visit here during the canvass. Iu the
course of a somewhat extended conversa
tion with Gen Blair, he announced his
preference for Mr. Henderson’s re election
to tiie Seriate from Missouri, but declined
to and scuss general political topics. He,
however, said he did not believe the ma
jority of the legal voters in the country
were represented by the party in power.
"He renewe t his previous expressions re
garding the character of Gen. Grant, viz:
I That he would drive instead of follow;
1 that he would be more likely to demand
new powers than to relinquish the exer
cise of a single prerogative. He believes
that the liveliest times in political facts
are in the future. This eveuiug Genera!
Blair leT town for the l’iains to inspect a
new section of the Pacific Railroad.
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
fr The Republican Congressmen are in a
lively fight over tiie Speakership of tiie
Forty-first Congress Ranks declines to
; be a candidate, and Sebenck, if he can’t
i go into the Cabinet, prefers to continue as
i Chairman ofthe Ways and Means Com
i mittee. The contest is therefore narrowed
down to Dawes, of Massachusetts, and
Blaine, of Maine, w ith the chances ap
j parently in favor of the latter.
I GRANT AND THE MISSOURI SENATORSHIP.
The contest growing out of the expira-
I tion of the Senatorial term of Senator
j Henderson, of Missouri, on the 4th of
j March, excites much interest here, es
► pecitilly siuce the apparently well-found
ed report has gained circulation that Gen.
Grant desires Mr. Henderson’s re-election.
His opposition to Carl Selimz is based
upon objections extending far back to the
time when Grant commanded the depart
ment of the Mississippi. Tiie President
elect is reported as havingsaid tliatSchurz
is an adventure", having no claims to the
office. — Louisville Courier-Journal, 31sf ult.
THE CABINET SLATE.
The new Cabinet “slate,” revised and
corrected for tli- Christmas holidays and
tiie recess of Congress, is as follows:
Secretary of State—Hon. Charles Fran
cis Adams, of Massachusetts.
Secret try of the Treasury—Hon. John
Sherman. of Ohio.
Secretary of War—General George B.
McClellan, of New York.
Secretary of the Navy—Admiral David
D. Porter, United Slates Navy, of Penn
sylvania.
Tiie positions of Secretary of the Interi
or, Attorney General aud Postmaster Gen
era! are now blank.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE RINGS.
General Grant ssys he is “so much of a
radical that he wnl tear up the whisky
railroad and insular ‘rings’ by the roots
if he lias to till every important civil office
in the country with army and navy regu
lar officers whom he knows he can rely
on for an honest and faithful discharge of
their duties ’’ His pronucciamento will
also explain Senator Edmund’s sihv bill
about two offices.— N. Y. Herald, 3J?/i ult
GEN. GRANT ON THE TENURE OF OFFICE
ACT.
There is no longer any doubt that Gen.
Grant is in favor of the repeal ofthe Ten
ure of Office act. He yesterday stated to
some Congressmen who called upon him
that while lie should not pretend to say
at this time what he thought best to door
t> to do, he still believed it would be ju
st clous to repeal the act.—Cor. Cincinnati
Commercial, 2 >th ult.
SCHEMES TO PLUNDER THE TREASURY.
In the Senate alone, during the present
Congress, seventy-one railroad bills, all
asking tor grants of lands, and some lor
subsidies in bonds, have beeu presented,
printed and referred.
The Ohio and Cheseapeake Road—an
enterprise which proposes to supply new
links and add to t tie trunk line of a route
from Norfolk, Va., to Cincinnati—is or
will he before Congress for a subsidy. Mr.
Pomeroy proposes a great route from
Charleston, S. C., to Memphis or Little
Rock. The Senator has great interest in
the Arkansas projects—or rather his
brother-in law has. Senator Hpeucer, of
Alabama, presents a full blown project
starting at Chattanooga, t unning through
‘iV&* sis'
boundary. Senators Rice and McDonald
ot Arkansas, are well up in the magnifi
cent plans ior making Arkansas “bloom
and blossom like the rose,” at tiie national
expense.
It is understood that the Northern and
Southern interests will unite, and together
make a combined raid tor subsidies.
OTHER RINGS.
They are numerous. Like the devils
which were cast out and ran into the
swine, running thence into the sea. their
name is "Legion.”
Tiie Niagara ship Canal scheme, with its
twelve million dollars of subsidy, has
been haunting the corridors for semedays
past in the person of Horace H. Day, its
ostensible projector aud most indefatiga
ble promoter.
The “Commercial Steam Navigation”
people are mustering strongly, iu the hope
of compelling Postmaster General Ran
dall to do what they want, and to gain the
six millions which lie prevented them
from pocketing last summer.
Another ring is composed of Tennessee
Radicals. I know not if the Governor is
iu it, but certainly some Republican Con
gressmen of that titate are its earnest sup
porters. This, if successful, will net live
million dollars. I believe this is money
due the General Government for tiie pay
ment of rolling stock aud materials pur
chased of tiie Quartermasters’ Department
after the war closed. It may perhaps be
a claim for services rendered durieg the
war, and claimed on account of “iovalty ”
One or the other it certainly is.
Besides these there are the Alta Vela
claim, amounting to several millions, in
which Judge Black and General Butler
are both interested, as active or advising
counsel.— Wash. cor. Journal of Commerce,
2’Jlh ult.
Novel Marriage in Charlotte
County, i tie Danville (Va.) Times gives
tlie following :
A rather novel marriage ceremony took
place in the upper end of Charlotte county,
not long since. The water was high aud
the bridges all gone; the parson lived on
one side and the bride and bridgroom »n
the other But amor vincit omnia—
they were not to be outdone. Ho the par
son stood on one bank and the bridal par
ty on the other— all decked out in their
tiuery-aud in tiie mud. And thus they
were united. Hut a:t ost amusing scene
took piace before thev were pronounced
man and wife. A difficulty arose how the
paison v*. as to get the 1 cense. r i he groom
was called upon, but lie, not being able to
swim, positively refused to take it over.
At length, one of the waiters volunteered,
there was a log over (lie stream, nut it
was covered with water two feet deep He
hesitated awhile, but finally concluded to
straddle it. vV e are happy to say lie made
the trip, and deposited the necessary doc
ument with the parson, which enabled
him to tie tUe knot as effectually as it was
ever done before.
Freedom of the Press -A Baltimore
i j dispatch of the 28th, to the Pniladelphia
I Evening Telegraph, says:
The jury in the case of Daniel D?chert
i editor and proprietor ot the Hagerstown
i Mail, gave him a verdict against the H i
i gerston n emporation tor $7,51)0 damages
j for allowing liis office, types, etc. to be
i destroyed by a mob in I*Bo2, and driving
j him out of town as a secessionist. Other
i eases ot a similar character are pending,
i I his case is iikeiy to he taken as a prece
dent foi numberless suits throughout
| Maryland.
The strawberries of the season
made their appearance in the New Or-
I leans market last week, selling $3 the bas
| ket.
| —Chicago married 3631 couples the past
year and divided 341. Ten per cent, is a j
very fair average.
The one p-r cent, legacy duty on Ba- !
ron Rothschild s property amounted to '
j $2,500,000.
; —Mr. A W. \\ heat, a prominent citi
zen of Campbell county, died last week of
apoplexy.
—Ciruai’s children declined an invit a
tion to a largejuveuile party at the White i
House during the holiday’s.
—At the usual ratio, the voting popula
tion of this country as exhibited at the
last election, would indicate a total popu
lation of 39,000,000.
I.\ (iEsslOV AGAIN.
Congressmeets to-day,again, and among
the very first business taken up. will prob
ably be the case of Georgia. We have
strong faith that by wise managementou
the part of our Legislature. ihe verdict
may be for us Well informed men say
that the Radical majority were rather
forced to go into The tr al, and that they
will be satislied with any sort of decent
excuse to drop it. There certainly seems
no reason to doubt tb.‘ almost certaiuty of
so dividing tbe strength by counter-prop
ositions which both parties to the contro
versy can accept, as to kill the Edmunds
bill or any similar scheme. The strength
of the opposition to that bill is already re
ported quite formidable, though we have
no means of gaugeing it precisely. If
judiciously reinforced from Georgia, we
have an idea that it will be swelled to
such volume as to put m two thirds vote
over a veto, entirely out of the question.
WASHINGTON SPECI ALS.
THE INAUGURATION.
An estimate of the probable number to
be here on inauguration day may be form
ed from the fact that one of the principal
; hotels has arranged for ail its rooms
| against that occasion already, and that
more than two hundred letters of applica
tion have been received since accommoda
tions Were exhausted.
(SURRATT.
Duriug the past few days several wit
nesses for the United States have been be
fore the graud jury, at the instance of Lite
District Attorney, for the purpose of giv
ing evidence on which to base anew in
dictinent against John H. Surratt. Among
those examined were Bronse Shabler and
the colored woman, Susan Ann Jackson.
[Louisville Courier Journal , Ik tinst.
COST OF THE FREED MEN’S BUREAU.
The Freedmeu’s Bureau, whioli gives
up the gli st to morrow, lias cost, by of
ficial figures, the following yearly sums,
in the following States and places':
Salaries of main otlice in Washington
Bureau officials forme District.... 52,640
Bureau for Maryland 10,740
Bureauofficials for North Carolina 55,800
Bureau officials for Virginia 61,980
Bureauotficials for South Carolina 80,080
Bureau officials for Georgia 88 300
Bureau officials for Florida is,Boo
Bureau olficials for Alabama 61,34 »
Bureau officials for Kentucky... 4,200
Bureau olficials for Mississippi ... 53,200
Bureau officials for Tennessee ... 52,000
Bureau olficials for Missouri 36 01 0
Bureau officials for Arkansas 01,920
Bureau olficials for Texas 49,320
Bureau officials for Louisiana 78,400
Total exclusive of army officers... $839,080
Tolal in three years $2 517,240
These figures represent ouiy the official
salaries of the Bureau. The expense of
the army in the South, maintained tilers*
to co-operate with the Bureau, has been
found to be several scores of millions of
dollars yearly. The amount stated above
only includes salaries paid to officers,
whose business it has been to deal out
government supplies to the negroes to the
extent of at least five times the figures
paid to the Bureau hirelings. The num
ber of civil officers relieved of p ace by
tbe expiration of the Bureau cau be told
from the following :
Officers at Washing Officers in Ala. T-j
ton 69 Officers i u Ky 41
Otticers in Dist 590ffioers in Tenu H 4
Officers in Mary- Officers ill Miss 57
land 9Officers in Missou-.i 2
Officers in Va 530fficers in Arkan-
Offieersin N. C 44 sas 53
Officers in S. C 46 Officers in La 68
Officers in Ga 720fficers in Texa5....42
Officers in Fla 17
Total civil employes 711
[ A'. Y. World,'dint.
the CASK OK THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
Mr. Trumbull, the only member of the
Senate Judiciary Committee who has re
mained in the city, has been busily en
gaged in looking into the case of Georgia,
and his researches so far have not caused
him to change his opposition to the Ed
munds bill, remanding Georgia to a pro
visional government. Mr. Edmunds be
fore he left here, professed to have the
assurance of a support of his bill from a
majority of t ie committee, but this has
not deterred those who arc axuonuoii a
i.w.u continuing tneir efforts, in ea-e*tlie
bill should pass, an awkward question
might arise. By being sent back to the
transition sfa'e, the right to lie represented
in either House would, of course, be de
nied. The representatives of Georgia to
tbe lower House of Congress were admit
ted to their seats in July last, and have
been recognized as members and have
drawn their pay as such ever since. To
carry out the idea of Mr. Edmunds, they
must be expelled from their seats and be
called upon to disgorge tiie per diem and
mileage which they have so far received.
[Baltimore Sun , ull.
GEORGIA.
Messrs. Trumbuli and Edmunds seem
to be pegging away durin g the absence of
the members of liieSenate Judiciary Com
mittee, upon the Georgia Imbroglio. It is
said that these gentlemen differ in their
views. Edmunds wants the State re-“re
constructed” out and out, iu order that by
anew deal bis friend Governor •‘Bullock’”
may be returned to the Senate, together
win. some other dyed-in-the wool Radi
cal. Trumbull, on the other band, under
the influ. neeoiJoshua Hill, the renegade
Joe Brown (now a Stub* Judge)and divers
other Federal and State officials, is en
deavoring to muddle up things in such
wav to save their bacon, and at the same
time force the negroes back into their seats
in the legislature. It is therefore proba
ble, J learn, that a compromise measure iu
the nature of a national legislative exnosi
tionof tiie meaning of certain articles and
clauses of the Georgia Constitution wilt be
passed by Congress. Theact will,in effect,
declare that by the true intent and mean
ing of that luudamental instrument ne
groes have the right to hold and enjoy all
offices and honor in the State; and that
this right shall be enforced by tiie Gover
nor with tiie power of his negro militia
aided, if necessary, by the bayonets of the
>ederal Government. As Mr. Hill and
all the State officers were e ecied before
the negro legislators were expelled and
and as the present delegation in the House
could no; be affected by their expulsion
there will be less need of stirring up things
—especially as the other Senator is of
Democratic persuasion, and easily dis
posed of ala Senator Thomas oV *o> r
State. So I predict that Georgia wilt
be re reconstructed.— Balt. Gazette
SOMETUrVG AUDI T THE ART np wit
HEARING. M,T
m i4 rorn tiie Moiavianj
The art ol not hearing i a lu ii y as
-to domestic Lapp! ;iPSS as a ti _
vated ear, for which so , ilU ch time and
>cr aui detract from contentment and
happiness that every one should ce edu-
Isl man fill’ ? r . Bbuto f»>unda at will.
calls mo • I 8 I,ltoa v t 01fc,u i*** ion and
calls me all mauner of names, the first
won! shuts my ears, and I hear „
in on a m r y f V °P g& ° f ifo ’ 1 «=» caught
sen?.tinl' t L 'i domestic wl,i r | w jnds of
fnrM i g ’ ?, 8 lUt ‘, ay earsj > aHa -ailor would
8, i aud ;, mabiu s a ’ 1 tight, scud
I . ie ®n e ’ dfal; totuud restless man
begins to inflame my feelim I consider
wliat mischief these sparks might do in
the magazine below, where my temper is
j Ke f’ l ; »hd instantly close In 9 ,‘, o or. Does
a gadding, mischief-makr ng fc-lio.v begin
to inform me what people are sai ing about
uie down drops the port* uliis of my ear,
and ne cannot get any fu rther.
Some people feel very anxious to hear
?Y e . r y. thing that will v« xor annoy them,
•n ‘Vf. that an* j ( ,ne has spoken
ill of them, they set ab> >ut searching and
hndmg it out. If al’ , the petty thiugs
said of one by beeV Jess or in natured
idlers were brought ho me to him, he would
become a mere waikio g pin-cushion, stuck
ml of sharp remark* . I should as soon
thank a man for ear ;i tying on ini' bed a
bushel of nelties, or setting lo< sea swarm
ot mosquitoes in mj ,- chamber, or raising
a pungent dust in t* ,y house generally, as
to bring rue all tb*> tattle of spiteful peo
ple. If you wou.d f , e happy, when among
Ct.CiS” ««•*> *™>4
It is not worth while to hear what your
servants say wbm . they are angry; what
your children say after they have slammed
you h°a°vlreject et!* r . BaySwLose Petition
~a ve what your neighbors sav
about vn»r E hlt - d en >’ wbat 3’ our rivals say
aboat y°“ r b »sin ess or dress. I have no
tieed that a well bred WO man never hears
an impertinent remark. A kind of dis
creet deafness s aves one from many in
sults, from muc a blame, from not a little
apparent coutui /ance ia dishonorable con
veisation.
TIIE OGEt.C HEE TROUBLE**.
Major Middleton's I louse Reported Burned-.-Tit*
\egroe* Plundering th«* Plantation*— 1 üblic Meet
iu£ of ( itizen*.
. [From the Savannah News, Ist. |
The troubles on the/oueechee plantar
lions continue, a ad appear to be gaining j
strength, The n jgroesare receiving rein- ;
forcemeats from. Bryan and Liberty
counties, aud trustworthy persons Irom
that section report that they are plunder
ing all the plantations, and threatening
] destruction to all who dare to meddle with
them. They are said to have thrown up 1
some sort of a fori itication at Peach Hill, j
j and have all tiie roads aud approaches :
i strongly guarded. ~
I Major Middleton has been Informed that j
| after robbing bis b ouseof its contents, the
i negroes returned on Wednesday night
Land burned the and welling. Whether the
report is Due or m»t we canuot saybut
there is every ren sou to believe it. The
house was located ou Mr. Habersham’s j
Southfield plantati Mr. Middle
ton has been plaiiti Hg. It was one ot the
i finest mansions on ihe Ogeeehee, was two
| strories high ami ; dmur fifty feet square,
aud arranged with regard to the comfort
ami convenience o f those who might oc
cupy it.
Now that the fa miiies of the persons
driven away are in safety in this city,
there is no immedi; ute anxiety on the pub
lic mind, save for a vindication of tiie
law, and the uippiu gos the disorder in the .
bud immediately, e. 'e it lias had lima* to .
spread further. Ft r this there is great
anxiety, and a cons immation devoutly to
be wished.
The Gulf Railroad tub stopped at No. LV
| last evening, as usua 1, but brought no pas- '
j setigers from that se etiuu. At No. 1 all
i was quiet at that tic re.
The negroes liuve sacked the harus and
mills, and carried o. X tire lice. Jt appears
that they have been urged to tlieir present
course of action by i <ort*es who have made
them believe that, til ey Lad been assured
by Radical negroes i o Washington tiiat If
the negroes once can lured and held the
country, they would'l >e confirmed in pos
session of it. The regt Bar hands employed
by Messrs Middleton c't Tucker do not a, -
pear to lie engaged in itr but tiie outrages
are being committed by vagabonds who
work for nobody.
Sheriff Dooner went down to No. 1 early
yesterday morning wi l ,ii a pretty strong
force, but on reaching there, and learning
that the negroes were o ui in force, he con
cluded to return to the city, to obtain a
force sufficient to make ihe arrests of the
parlies engaged in defy lug the law, and
plundering the proper! y of peaceful citi
zens The Sheriff was advised to pursue
this course by prudent counselors, whose
advice was weighty aud convincing. The
return was dissatisfaoto ry to a large por
tion of th eposse, wliotl lought themselves
strong enough to carry < 'UI the law. Soon
after their return, Major Middleton issued
a call for a public meet iug, to take the
matter into cousideratio u. Al hall-past
one o’clock a large nuuil «rof young men,
and a few old aud promii lent citizens, had
assembled at the Court J louse, to devise
measures for enforcing the law, and :d
--vising as to the best cour; «to pursue. We
are sorry to say that the n ien most directly
interested in t'he matter and id not come out
as they should have done on such an im
portant occasion. Not 1 mving received
notice of the meeting may have been the
cause of this absence of , imminent citi
zens.
Major Middleton said tli it there was bo
necessity fora regularly org saiized meeting.
He had called upon the ci liztMH to come
to the Court-house to hear «j: 't/be state <f
affairs upon the Ogeeehee . The newspa
pers hud given a true accr *mt of it, but it
was even worse than had (been represent
ed. The negroes were found to be in
strong force and well ari ared by the parly
which went down in the anormng. After
consultation between th t,Sheriff’ aud gen
tlemen who were pie- sot, it had been
thought proper to retu nn to town, and
make a more formidab It demonstration.
He had no exceptions t< > tiake to the acts
of any man in the pot vc. Toey all did
their duty, and were a Hilfrgtodo any
thing that might be reared of them.
Some of them did not like b aing ordered
back, but it was the w isest plan, under
the circumstances. Tb e u egroes had
burned Mr. Habersham’s lions e, where he
(the speaker) lived, sacki 3d th e barns and
taken all his property. He t bought ar
rangements could he ma de t< » overcome
the negroes, without trouDle or resistance, i
If this state of affairs was alio wed to go j
on it would spread from f’ae O, jeeehee to ]
the Savannah, lie said the p tsse Hid all
in its power, but a large force w as needed.
iivutj jv .lessen sal and tiie ne
groes had violated the laws, \va rrants hail
been issued for their unrest, and tiie
Sheriff attempted to execute * hose war- i
rants, and had tailed. H3- hat 1 appealed i
to h\s posse oomitatus. In thee, ve of Un
law a posse comilalus is any n umber of i
men who may lie about th e Slier iff - at the I
the time of the arrest, upon whon ihe may !
call in case of resistance of liis al ithority. j
The posse comilalus had pa ssed.ai id why? j
The negroes were in larg earmcii bodies,
and occupy a large geograj ihical p -sition,
and so far as they can assii mimic to a iorce
in tiie field, they are one. The m.’scfilof
would not be confined to Lhe plantations
on the Ggeecbee, but won Id extend to the
Savannah. Ami what t hen becomes of
the eity of Savannah, sur rounded c n all
sides by an armed and br ital mob. She
would be ruined. Not a tr, iiu could pass
out on the railroads, nor could people
travel, on the roads. (Japi -id, which has
fed these people, who nre now deriving
sustenance from plunder, would cease to
he in vested here. We are w 'aring against
bandits, armed desperadors, who are ruin
ing tbe eity. The best mon lent to stop the
mischief is now. And we must begin to
effect that; meet organizati* >u by organi- ;
zatiou, force by force. Men nod time and
menus were necessary, al » aims and
money. The city of Savaun ah must furu- j
ish these. We must act use me Rian, and !
if we do not identify ouruelv es wi tli those 1
more Immediately interested we are not
worthy to be called men. He pro nosed to |
call a meeting for to-morro w (this ) morn- j
ing, to organize such a force, wi th such j
means as would enable us to cri isli out j
this insurrection. General Meade had re
fused the aid of the military, and •we must
prove thet we are men enoi tgli to ti tke care
of ourselves.
On motion of Gen. Jaekeion, it was re
solved unanimously to call a puhiit meet
ing of eiti/.ens, to l>e held a t i2o’cl ock to
day, at the Court House. The n leeting
then adjourned.
Arrangements are being perfected, we 1
learn, which will ensure succesi in the I
next undertaking.
Don’t Cultivate Or binary Land
Without Manure.— Recollect, it costs
you, on our average s;i!s, ten do liars or
more to make an acre of corn wit h liired
labor, and fifteen or more to rnal ;e and
gather an acre of cotton. If you do not
look closely after your hands, it v /ill cost
you a good deal more thtui that. Now,
every acre cultivated, that will n< t yield
crops worth at least the above ac lounts,
will not only be no profit, but ran n debt.
Larger crops still are required to o btain a
profit on liired labor. Lands, then .which
will not yield such crops we muse iet rest,
or manure them sufficiently, or we Jose
money. At half of our poor* st, soiis
hitherto devoted to corn and cotton, should
he thrown out to rest and tb e bal
ance enriched. How long will it take
us to exhaust what little capital vt e have
left, if for every acre on which we make a
profit of teu dollars we continue 1 o culti
vate five which ack from three to ten dol
lars each of meeting the actual cos tof cul
tivation. There are few lands* wli iah will
not yield a profit if commercial '‘manures
are judiciously applied.—7 ,outlier n y.ulti
valor.
South Georgia and Florida Rail
road.— \\ e have been askv and the question,
“What will he the effect of the transfer .
by tiie city of Savannah of the Gulf Rail- I
road Stock, held by thatci ty, to theSoutla- j
western Railroad Com pan y ?”
We answer, without hr citation, that it
will increase the value of our stock.
j Tiie Southwestern Be 'ad gave $93 per
j share for the common eU cic, which is not
| now paying dividends < >ur stock is giiar-
I an teed seven percent, fn mi tiie time of its
i payment, and should be aoitb par.
Ibe Central and Sou Ji western Roads
have not the cohtrollin g interest in this
road aud we learu, from what we esteem
good authority, that n> » change will be
made in tiie Presidency ; vud Directorship,
noi is the policy of tiie j mad, except, per
haps, to moderate the cc anpetkion which
has been recently earrie- I on.
• neef l B j e road to U'bomasvillp, and
intend to have it, it w H be a great bene
fit to this section in any event, and it will
depend on cireumstan rs? 8 ‘ how lo D g we
will be dependant on t teat, or any other
existing road We ha re it in our power
to build another road or two, ami will
build them when we fii ,and them necessary
for our protection.— Alt mny News, Ist.
Dr. Is. N. Smith, 1 .to thirty-one yea*-
a prominent physician-, of LaGrange, died
there last week.
THE ERUPTION OF U>n„,
A Vlvtl Oo»<Tii>li«.n o: tha La»a.p| 0 „
The latest account ot the erui.tin
Vesuvius is dated Novemi 24 m, nf
don Times correspondent wriiil,,. „ f ° n '
lows: 6 U!i IQ I-
The eruption of Vesuvius is le> s v ~
than it was, aud all apprehensions
further destruction have ceased. p , J
has beeu a time of such great anxiety *
great suffering, too, for the poor in‘h» ' 1
anti about the foot of the niouutaii,
one (eels little inclined to dwell 0 ,, ' 4t
maguificeuce of the spectacle. l liJ , 1 ’
per crater still blows off a consid,'• L"
quantity of smoke, but not *in-i " “
body as last week ascended high iv/, ..
air; the lava is less copious ;i • ! ,J : "
scientific instrument less aeiiv, “
hope, therefore, that the area’ uai
passed. When I wrote last,several v
or townships were supjtosed to l 1; ’
minent peril of being covered, f, ,
stream of lava was calculated a- 1 , ’
mile and a half wide, and the beiglu j.’ *
thirty leet to forty feet, and, fed as , m
continually from the upper par .
mountain, no one could sav tow li
tent the danger would reach.
Let me try t<> explain the eou:> • 0 f n
deluge, rather than stream Ki m
new cones which were opened , v
since at the foot of the pi j-., ,j "’’
flowed four separate ton: s i;., ,
Fossodella Veirana into tht |■ L;im ;
where-it formed ala
scorise—that is, on the surface, la; „
underneath was living lire. .M0n,,,; ,'.,
appeared, but the sound n* 0 f ?hin ..
agitated by a stormy sea told V(I!J !
advancing, and the pressure oi tresh
! from behind gave it at intervals an n,,,',--
i tus which was perceptible to tin- ev . L
i last it arrived at the edge of tiie F.,(.
I Furaoui, over w hich it rolled a grand IV.
I cade of one hundred feet in depth. j| .
i valley called the F’osso del Faruoni is |.
i narrow to contain tiie mass of matei-.ai
which was continually poured into j> • ~
that, after destroying u bridge, s nne (
tages and land, it diverged in atmtlie ( jj.
; reel ion to the left, toward Ht. Giorgio »
j Cremano. Bt. Hebastiano and jfa..
l which lie on the northeast of Vesuvi
were thus saved from certain destruction
while St. Giorgio was in imminent pen
j and continuing its direction tow ant the
; east, Portici Resini would have been c
j danger.
< Indeed, so great was the apprehend
that the Campo Santo of Portici, wh.d,
1 lie* at some distance from the eit v, v u ;,|
J have been covered, that some person,
sired to remove the bodies of their inn, ,
from their last resting-place. Happily th,.
lava stopped short of it, though then;
was generally current that it lid a1,r..,u
invaded the cemetery. So rapid j' s
course that Professor Palmnii v;i- c
opinion that but for tiie intrjualitie. of | ,
surface of the ground and oilier olistm. ■
i the lava would long since have pour
itself into the sea, thus crossing the i ..
way. As it is, the ruin has been git
j The district at the back of Resina lia- suf
sered the most, especially that purlieu
it known as tiie Novelle, celebrated : i the
rich wines and delicious fruits which i ni
grown there. Many cottages and vili...
too, were buried, and uumcrous pcr-i-i,-
have been reduced to poverty. In tlie
Fosso della Vetrana a large chesttm; ur.
of considerable proportions was tin* tint
victim; and the same observation win
made by others that lias beeu on several
occasions made by mysel:—that w ile the
vines seemed to writhe in agony like .o
many living tarings, the larger tree, sim-il
i manfully against, the destroyer for a time
aud then fell over into the scorching lie i.
! Among other buildings Bwailowed up w
a chapel dedicated to St. Micnael; the
land destroyed in the district of It im,
amounts to upward of four hundred ncre»
of the richest in that rich neighlm: id.
Sailors who were out on Situniay
night tell me they were h.-sis blimicd, ami
i were compelled to keep their tnoulli* shut
; to prevent the ashes fioru entering.
, Around Resina all the pasturage ha- In
i destroyed ; persons who reside . i Hie din
-1 tance of twenty miles from Naph - de
i scribe the same ottects—the smarting of
( the eyes, the covering of the roots el
i houses, of the earth, of vegetation, with
a thin black vail. Wells were closed to
i -revent the entrance of roof water, ml
roofs were swept, and the sweepings pm
served for household purposes. Wlmt I
describe, I saw, as 1 did in 1861 2. One
singular fact I have not mentioned, aud it
is that in a straight line, from north t<>
south, the sea was covered vvitti ashes pro-,
senling a similar appearance to that
which one witnesses outside a steamer,
when the refuse ashes have been thrown
i>v4,rUottrd. Probably these pbc**uiiii-Mi
have been far Ihe lim
its of tbe bay, for ihe wind lias t ten very
strong ; but no ‘report of the fact L** **
yet been received
During the whole of the p»*t week live
spectacle presented all round the moun
tain has been of Die saddest ami ni»-i i‘ -
maikabie character—a general flight "ii
the part of the inhabitants, by order of fig-
Prefect, who, as at Palermo o here, in
S'lown himself equal to any emergent
Every kind of carriage was pressed ini
the service, even to the military train-.
Cattle were driven off, and wine, and ti
produce of the late harvest aud household
goods were carried away t<# a place of
safety. Nothing could save the land, n and
a distressing picture might he made of tin
despair of many a poor man. Mingle
with the sufferers tvere tens of thousand
of the curious, who came to gaze Na pin
in (act, had gone out to Portici, which w*
converted into a fair where new tr*d»
were improvised, and among them that
of the sale of torches, qjjiich flickered on
the mom till dnviiglit.
HOIV THE RICHES» 111 . I\ THE HOHLU
LIVED.
As every one is interes’ed to know Imw
so rich a man ns Baron Rothschild lived,
correspondents are particular ns to every
movement of his dui y life. It is rein '
that he rose every morning at six o’clock.
His body servant shaved and do-s-ed linn.
Meanwhile, M. Baudevill" (a teacher <
elocution, who fils pconh for the stag*-,
read tiie newspapers to him, and told ium
the gossip of tiie gre- n-i-ooms ol I* ' ■
theatres. Ife was dres-ed for the day : -
tbis early hour, putting on even a wh
cravat. He next received a Prus-ian
named Bernard, with whom lieexamin ■
the quotations from the great excliaiy
Europe, and decided U[»on and gav-oi •
for the transactions of the day. H* •'
received tiie correspondence clerk-. !i
from them the more important '■
which required a reply fn m Die JL«r
and approved or modified the pr-,
replies to other letters. Then the ah-'
came in and reported on tiie pool oh* -
aud received new instructions. H** *
went to Madame de Rothschilds -'
instructions.
After the almoner retired tic Bare::
ceived his experts, men who kept u.
formed of ali art and book m -'
made reports or received insiructioie ■■
then went to breakfast. Ail tiie fc
met at lireakfast. and usually one o . ■
j of his married children vv re present
i ter breakfast the Baron went to ni-< ‘-
I (which was immediately on thestre- - -
! separated from liis I ouse by tiie court j*
i —a covere<l way reached from one |<
| other.) to receive peoj:»le. Attwoo.
1 he Wfiuid sometimes go to trie B 1
j oftener to tiie auction nu=rf, 1; r
: fond of buying objects of cun /
: pictures Pie would return to j
' and at. four o’clock drive down '> '••
Chateau de Sureuse or Kois de ul -
returning at fiveo’clock to !ii< club, v
he would play whist at ten sous a '
until <iinner time. During i "- il “
of his life he liecanie eccentric m - - ,
many small matters. He
mounaie wliich v. ! l».v a ; j,.-;#
though he never curried more ,: a ‘ J "
francs about him, if a man earrie-' -
i he is sometimes led to extrataga •;
! pense, lie used to say,) and often 1;
at ail. He carried the key of ; e
] his watch chain. The meiriuers
I club in the Rue Royal used j° • ° aß j
j see the Baron fumbling for his • •
; even bis lock, (ids sight was “ ' jto
' paired,) and when, at last, he - - pr ., D tv.
open tne portmonnaie, to 11 ”' ,
1 Afterdinner he received company at
or went to some theater
ENLARGKIL-The Macon JorBNAI
Messenger cornea to u-, w . jD ap
| year, much enlarges and mip ■ 'lt)J3eVi
i pearance. Weare g»:c h> “ : iu g
; deuce of the coulinued and me e
prosperity of our valuai*-' . an d
Earnest in ils a ! ,iv '. , ' af; ’’ .1", , t Le in'Ju*'
Right, and ardenriy devot - lirn: ,| lias
trial iuteiests of Gtoreia, o J a ndsUP*
a just claim to a liberal pati * K ;
port at the bands ot the citrus
good old Common wcab o. ■\iiist.
\.Atlanta ConsdttAton. -
' ** * Tjje eta*
A Deserved COMPiAMaNi- j \y.
ployes of the publish! g hoi 0 f that
Buike & Cos. presented th ® Aj w . a tch » Dd
firm with a handsome go
chain the other day- „ on tlema n tb ' 9
There isn’t a cleverer gentl™ Bur| . e
side of Kamskatka than Jo ' ,u fhi ’ w nipli‘
is and always has been, and
ment is well deserved. carter t
[LaGrange Report\