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WEDNESDAY MORNING, APG’T 30.
reading mattee on every page.
From Macon.
We aic in possession of Macon papers to the
„; m3t . From the Telegraph we learn that at
' n edr ly hour on Monday evening a party of four
attacked Maj. Gen. Wilson, as he
, passing alone a’ong Cotton Avenue. Such
5 .crious resistance was made by Gen. W., that
aree of the rascals were speedily put to flight,
,i the fourth captured and marched to head-
t rters, where, we learn, be vras on exhibition
on Tuesday.
M.u-os Uainn*.—The material for buildings
v i across the river at this point, to replace
, ve that was destroyed some time since, is
1.0-nA rapidly procured'. 100,000 bricks for re-
soilding the center pier and repairing and rais-
• he abutments, have already been delivered
•' 'the ground. This work will commence as
n .is the cement is received from Nashville,
ahich wiil be in a few days. The work of pro-
;ir;DL , the heavy timber for the superstructure
■ .. hi'O beeD commenced, and the whole work
„“| be pushed rapidly forward to completion.—
-:su of the bridge is a good one, and the
. mtractor, C'apt. Maxwell, is one of tne most ac-
..npuahed architects and bridge builders in the
TV and brings to the work experience,
energy and capital', and we think we can safely
• reiiict the completion of the bridge in a* few
inoullis.— Ttlegmj'h.
For general information, the Atlanta Inteili-
ponotr publishes the chaDges that have recently
uken place in troops garrisoning different
points:
The 100th Illinois is ordered to occupy a sub
ivtri.-t of Allatoopa, Ga., with headquarters at
Griffin, Ga.
The noth N. Y. Yet infantry is ordered to At-
lants, to occupy this post, and the first sub dis
trict, district *.f Allatoona, (ia.
The 14 A th Illinois infantry is ordered to occu
py iho railroad one from tdairsviile, Ga., to the
Tennessee line, with headquarters at Resaca,
t,a.
The 21'tb Indiana infantry is ordered to oc
cupy the railroad from the Chattahoochee river
t„ Kingston, headquarters at Marietta, Ga
llic Hon. E. H. East, of Nashville, has been
invited to Washington by President Johnson to
a t in the capacity of confidential secretary to
the prebiect. The Chattanooga Gazette speaks
h the highest terms of Mr. East’s ability to per-
: -m the duties of that responsible and delicate
I vsition.
The military authorities in Macon have
issued the following order :
Headquarters Post, 1
Macon - , Ga., August 14th, 1865. )
f. Until further orders, the following sched
ule of prices for the following named arti-
i i s. wiil be observed in the markets of this
11 of—G to 12 1-2 cts per pound.
Pork—5 to 111 cts per pound.
Butter—2.1 cts per pound,
begs—2,1 cts per dozen.
Oak-ken-—15 to 2S cts each.
O-.rn—25 cts per dozen.
Peaches—ijl per bushel.
Melons—lo to 40 cts each.
II- No marketing will be allowed in the
fr ets of the city. All produce must be
taken to the market to be disposed of.
HI. Any violation of the above will subject
tac offender to ‘arrest and’ confiscation of
article. uttered for sale.
II order of M. B. Archer, Col. command-
‘T l'Ost.
II. G. NORTON,
Lieut, and Post Adj’t.
Kan Off the Track.—The 7.28 morning
tram tor I.ufaula and Columbus ran off the
a s Monday morning near the Brunswick
Kvroad depot, in Macon. The engine was
pretty badly damaged, and several cars re-
ght injuries.
A Returned Confederate—His Vindi
cation.
Clarence J. Prentice, a son of the renowned
“Geo. D.” of the Louisville Journal, who was
a distinguished officer in the Confederate
service, is now the local editor of that paper.
In response to a contemptible attack by a news
paper, he responds as follows :
[From the Louisville Journal.]
A paragraph that appeared in a recent num
ber of the Cincinnati Commercial, and was
copied substantially by two or three other
papers, said of us, (the local editor of the
Journal) that, although-we had been in the
Confederate service, we should probably be
“let up” byj the Federal Government, as we
had killed rebels in street fights, and the
writer had never heard of onr shedding any
Federal blood. As to the amount of Federal
blood we may or may not have shed, we have
nothing to say. We feel deep grief in the
thought that it has ever been our lot to shed
any human blood at all, but we believe that
what we have shed can never cry to us from
tlie ground.
We have never sought to take life, except in
manifest self-defence of what we honestly be
lieved at the time to be a sacred canse of our
country. We had loved the Union, we had
spoke and written for it in Europe; our
hearts, four thousand miles away, had leaped
and thrilled at the sight of the old flag, and, on
return, we did not go into the rebellion until
a profound conviction was forced upon our
mind that the South ought not to be subjugated.
We gave her what aid we could, as tens of
thousands of better men did. We joined her
armies, leaving a most happy home and be
loved parents and child, and went where we
knew we must encounter hunger and thirst
and cold and toil and weariness and the risk of
wounds and death. However much we may,
in going, have erred in judgment or conduct,
our heart was not wrong. There is no thorn
in our conscience, no 6tain upon our soul, no
“damned spot” upon our hands. We feel re
gret, but not remorse.
The South fought long and bravely. We
stood by her from the first to last. We never
in all the war did a deed or gave an order of
which we think that we need be ashamed. We
never committed an outrage, or tolerated one on
the part of any officer or man of onr command.
We never allowed theft ami robbery, or burn
ing, or the maltreatment of captives. We do
not believe that we ever held a prisoner who
would not now take pleasure in bearing testi
mony that he was made as comfortable as our
own soldiers. The South was beaten in the
protracted and awful conflict. Sadly, we con
fess, we accepted the decision of the God of
Battles. But we accepted it in all sincerity.
The Confederacy, to which we had given some
of our life’s past years, being no longer a living
thing, we infinitely preferred the old Union to
any other country on the globe, and we ever
felt a pride in her gigantic strength, though
conquered and humiliated by it. We returned
and took the oath of allegiance. We took it
with no mental reservation. We took it in all
possible sincerity. We took it with a de
termination to keep it though death should
look us in the face. One of our first acts on
coming back, was to offer our services to Gen.
Palmer to take command of a hundred re
turned Confederates, all sworn like ourselves,
and aid ia driving the remnants of the murder
ous guerrilla bands from Kentucky. The
General expressed himself much gratified with
the offer, but said he had no power to accept it.
We stand ready now, if occasion should arise,
to fight for the United States against the world
in arms. But we trust that never again may
our eyes ache with the sight of blood and
slaughter.
And now we ask why it is that we, and others
in our situation, returned Confederates, bound
by voluntary oaths to keep ail the obligations of
true and loyal citizens, cannot be permitted to
live among our fellow-citizens unmolested? We
have not much to complain of in oar own indi
vidual ease. On the contrary, we take pleasure
in saying that, of all the- thousands of our old
lriends and acquaintances here, not one, so
far as we know or believe, has stood aloof from
us since our return, and not one has greeted ns
less heartily than he would have done tl we had
been in the Federal instead of the Confederate
service. Some others, however, have been treat
ed less kindly, and occasionally a paragraph like
that of the Cincinnati Commercial appears in the
papers. Why are such paragraphs put forth V
What is their purpose? What are they intended
to effect ? Are the sneers meant merely to exas
perate? Are the taunts designed simply to
wound? Will the enemies of peace snd harmo
ny never cease to ply their evil trade, ttieir mis
chievous vocation among us?
We have said much more than we intended —
We hope we shall not feel called on to speak of
ourselves again. Of course we have no more to
do with the political character of the Journal
than aDy one not at all connected with the paper.
Would that fifty thousand more such men could
be louud in the south of the same noble spirit
that actuates Clarence Prentice, to cheerfully ac
quiesce in the new and irrevocable order of things
We want a great deal more of this kind of South
ern meterial to reanimate the Sonth and help
onr hand to ratify by the clasp of the right hand
the good will we bear them. But there are thou-
i sands of men here in Savannah to-day, who
eivcd slight injuries. We are happy to state
-a' no injury was sustained by any person, j forward the chariot of peace and prosperity. We
lle caus e of the accident is attributed to the j have hope and confidence in men of this stamp,
' A.; k-ing wrong. The train was delayed : an q wherever we meet them we feel like extending
•" snil jours ia consequence-
Another Res Off.—The down train on the
‘- y W. R. R. ran off the track Monday
r nni£ about half-way between Atlanta and . ,
No damage was sustained, or any : will spurn Clarence Prentioe as they
n injured. The train was delayed in con-j would an adder—yes, and cowards, too—who
- I'u.cce about one hour and a half- J have never listened to the unpleasant
L e Amnesty Oath was administered to 344 humming of “Yankee” bullets, and these same
on Monday at Macon. j vindictive men will endeavor to stigmatize him
1 -mckoters at Macon on Monday charged , ag a doughface or poltroon, and accuse him of
e l.ar per pound for batter, and the next r
order to sell that article for 25 cents
- i- 1 "id was issued from the provost Mar-
“ ii - office, to the gratification of ail the citi-
toadying to the Yankees and surrendering his
principles. We contend that the Southern
heart that feels a pang of regret at the past is
not seared nor callous, and stiU beats with a
latent love for the “Old Flag,” even though
1 be tiring of the morning and evening gon
■**—° f ™> -*7 **
was raised to tear out a few stars from its
‘‘m uar sound overslept themselves.
j, 1 /' Kuhock Iron AVorks, Germantown, Pa.,
. ' “tstroyed by fire on the morniog of the 12th.
‘ re was the result of an accident. Loss
1 lie
g ■ ^ raveller saysffhat the leading house in
' ,? r D was fished by an U. S. Interna! Revenue
ft, who seized a stock of cigars for alleged i
“'■'hi of the Revenue laws.
stana^if 08 ‘‘■SoermiRK Railroads.—We under-
s-Tn-h tfaat . the government stock, used on the
, . ! era railroads, says the Picayune, during the
a oas been turned over to Col. Garrett, or the
- mure and Ohio railroad, with full authority
’I se b '* t0 the companies ou whose roads it has
,J ’ cn '--wd. We learn, also, that the selling
bright constellation. We invite all of onr se
cession readers of both sexes to ponder well
over Clarence Prentice’s manly and magnani
mous avowal of his principles, and the motives
that impelled him to take the oath, and how
he took it, and the way in which he intends to
her]) it inviolate.
Gen. Sheridan and Negro Suffrage.-—
A New Orleans letter to the Mobile News
says ;
Will be reasonable, and from companies
;' l!n condition to pay down, their promises to
“‘ r out of the first net receipts will be accepted.
A (
“I am very correctly informed that Sheri
dan, although at the conimoucement ^f the
war an enemy of Abolition and Abolitionists,
and most likely a negro-hater by instinct,
Yinri,
Question.—Some of the freedmen of i distinctly announces himself in favor of negro
ginia are claiming pay for services render-
t0 Uu-.ir late masters between the date of
resident Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclama-
n ‘' ja occupation of the State by the
m - loaal ^°?P a > when their freedom was ad-
• te<J - This is a question which is of great
’ . “ 'Mance to the people of the whole South
' ( 1 18 tlm e, and we anxiously await the deci-
„ • the ‘ aw officers of the government, to
utu it has been referred.
Uhe Missouri i
all krn^'°”'“ r i papers teem with “outrages” of
Uw P! rpetr ! ted “ P*te of the Stale,
‘essnwa and violence are the order of the
suffrage. I have it, too, from a source equal
ly deserving of credence, that the late equivo
cal utterances of the Picayune have drawn
from him a mild ‘warning,’ which it it quite
evident the Picayune has profited by, j udgiflg
by its recent moderation and change of tone,
it is again laboring under ‘circumstances over
which it has no control^ as it remarked the
other day in apology for its forced utterance
of Union sentiments.”
A little girl in Homer, New York, was recent
ly eaten up by a pet bear,
A negro, in Wilmington, killed another negro
With one blow from a pot-lid.
S O VTH CAR OMjMJYA.
ANOTHER SPEECH OF GOV. PERRY.
Interview with tUe President and the
members of his Cabinent—Their
Opinions on Affairs in the South.
The following speech was delivered at Green
ville, S. C., by Gov. Perry, on August 1st, on
his return from Washington :
Fellow Citizens : I have met yon this morn
ing, not to make a speech, but to talk over the in
cidents of'my late visit to Washington. I start
ed there, three weeks since, as yo ur delegate, to
ask for the appointment of a Provisional Govern
or, and the restoration of civil authority in South
Carolina. On my way, I met a messenger from
his Excellency President Johnson, bearing a
commission appointing me Provisional Governor
of the State. Tois was an honor which 1 had not
anticipated, and never aspired to.
On my arrival in Washington, I addressed a
note to the President, asking the honor o! an
audience for the purpose of receiving his in
structions, and communicating to him my viewg
in reference to the political tone and temper of
the State. After waiting that evening and the
next day, without hearing from the President, 1
paid a visit to Gov. Dennison, Postmaster Gen
eral. This gentleman received me most kindly,
and seemed gratified at the account I gave him
of South Carolina. He assured me that the Pres
ident had not received my note, and very oblig
ingly ordered his carriage and went to the Exec
utive mansion to ascertain the truth of the mat
ter. In a short time afterward I received a note
from President Jobnson, stating that my commu
nication the day before had not been received,
and that he would see me at 3 o'clock. In re
ply I stated that I would do myself the honor to
call on his Excellency at the hour designated,
and that my friends Cols. Orr, Elford, Williams,
Bacon, and M essrs. Leitch, Grady, Gibbes and
Blodgett would accompany me. " We were re
ceived very cordially, and remained an hour or
two with the President. I told him that the peo
ple of South Carolina accepted the terms of his
proclamation, and were disposed to return to
their allegiance to the Union. That from having
been the most rebellious State in the South, l
was satisfied South Carolina would, henceforth,
be one of the most loyal of the Southern States.
That she would reform her constitution and
abolish slavery, give the election of Governor and
Presidential Electors to the people, and equalize
the representation of the State. I gave it as my
opinion that the disunion feeling of the South
had originated in the parishes.
The President expressed himself gratified at
the course South Carolina was likely to pursue,
and instead of manifesting any bitter or revenge
ful spirit, he evinced great kindness, solicitude
and magnanimity. The whole delegation was
deeply impressed with tho courtesy, dignity and
ability of his-Excellency. His political views ex
pressed to us were those of a patriot and a states
man. He wished to see the country once more
quiet, peaceable, happy and prosperous. In re
gard to the relative powers of the State and the
Federal Government, his opinions were identieal
with my own, so long expressed in South Caroli
na. He was equally opposed to the centraliza
tion and consolidation of powers in Congress as
he was to the secession of the States. It must be
left to the Legislature of each State to decide
who shall be allowed to vote in the State. Any
attempt on the part of Congress to control the
elective franchise of a State would be unwarrant
able usurpation. He expressed an ardent wish
to see the constitution of South Carolina popu
larized by abolishing the parish representation,
and equalizing the political power of the upper
and lower country, giving the election of Gover
nor to the people, and also the election of electors
of President and Vice-President.
On leaving the President, he requested me to
call and see Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, and
give him the same information I had given His
Excellency in reference to tne public feelings and
sentiment of South Corolina. This I did in com
pany with the South Carolina delegation. We
fonnd Mr. Seward kind and cordial, aud gratified
at the information we gave him with regard to
the politics of South Carolina. Before visiting
llr. Seward, I had been to call on the Attorney-
General, Mr. Speed. He expressed himself sur
prised and mortified at my speech, made to yon
on the 3 of July. But I soon discovered that he
had only glanced over the speech, and did not
comprehend the tone and temper of my remarks.
I told Mr. Seward what the Attorney-General
had said. He replied, I read your speech this
morning attentively, and considering the stand
point from which you made it, I think it a very
good one. When I was Governor of New-York,
said Mr Seward, I used to make speeches which -
were very severely criticised in Charleston, and
I said to myself, what the devil have the people
of Charleston to do with my speech mads in New-
York ? I did not speak to them or for them, but
to the people of New-York. And I suppose, Mr.
Perry, you intended your speech for South Caro
lina and not for Washington.
The Attorney General expressed a wish that
while reforming our oonstitntion, we should give
the eleotion of Governor to the people, and invest
him with the power of appointing all State offi
cers, with the advice and consent of the Senate. I
told him my theo-y bad always been to give all
the important elections—President, Governor,
members of Congress and members of the Legis
lature—to the people, aDd relieve them of the
trouble of assembling so often to make petty
elections, which generally tended to corrupt or
demoralize them.
I called on the Secretary of tho Treasury, Mr.
McCulloch, and was very much pleased with him
as a gentlemen, a public officer anJ a statesman.
I was furnished in the Treasury office with a list
of appointments which I had to make. In doing
so, I endeavored to fill the offices with men of ca
pacity, integrity and experience.
I likewise paid my respects to the Secretary of
War, in company with the South Carolina dele
gation, and endeavored to lay before this high
functionary the trne condition of affairs in South
Carolina. I regretted not seeing Gen. Howard,
who is at the head of the Frcdmen’s Bureau in
Washington. But I addressed a Utter to him,
giving my views in reference to the freedmen and
asking his instructions. The whole South Caro
lina delegation were earnest in their efforts to
impress t'ae President and his Cabinet with the
impolicy of garrisoning South Carolina with
colored troops. I had hoped to see General
Gilmore on this subject as I returned through
Colaqibia.
”fh«-Iast interview I had with the President,
he requested me to write him, and keep him
informed as to any difficulties which I might
meet with in organizing a provisional govern
ment. I said to him, “I have already, Mr.
President, organized a .provisional govern
ment for South Carolina, by adopting the State
Government. I have issued my proclamation,
ordering all civil officers in Sonth Carolina to
to take the oath of allegiance, and resume
iheir official duties.” “Well,” said he, -‘you
are a most expeditious Governor.” I replied
by saying that my appointment came lata, and
I thought it necessary to work rapidly. I
farther said to him that I would have the State
ready, with the constitution reformed and her
members of Congress elected by the first Mon
day in December, when Congress convened.
•In conclusion, let me say' to yon, fellow-
citi*en.% that I am well pleased with all that I
saw and heard at Washington in reference to
the Southern States. Let ns now do our dttty,-
take the oath of allegiance, elect good and
wise men to the convention, reform our State
Constitution, abolish slavery, equalize the
representation of the State in the Senate, give
the election of Governor and Presidential
electors to the people, and all will be well.
Immediately after die convention has reformed
the constitution, the Legislature will be con
vened to elect^United States Senators, and pro
vide for the election of members of the House
of Representatives in Congress- This may all
be done by the first Monday in December
next, when the State will be fully restored to
all her rights under the cQnstitatiou sail fenroof
the United States.
JYORTU CAROLINA.
THE SCHEME TO EXTERMINATE
THE COLORED RACE.
(From the Southern Christian Intelligencer of
August 5.]
If one-tenth part of the reports are true in re
gard to the ill treatment of the blacks, which are
comiDg from all parts of the Sonth, thicker and
faster, a most shocking state of things exists.—
From localities where there are no national troops
come reports that these unfortunate creatures
are being hunted down like dogs and dispatched
without ceremony. The newspapers in the South
are filled with accounts of the brntal muiders
which foot up to an aggregate cf several hundred
deaths per day, which is doubtless only a small
fraction of the number noticed. An Alabama
paper says that this business has become so ex
tensive and common that some planters even
boast that they could manure their lands with the
dead carcasses of negroes. Seriously speaking
it is a matter which demands the prompt atten
tion of the authorities at Washington.
If negroes can be shot down daily in garrison
ed towns where the authorities are unable to
atop this state of things, it is very reasonable to
suppose that thi^ brutal work is carried on more
extensively where the blacks have no protection.
This wholesale murdering of hnman beings is,
we fear, the practical working of the conspiracy
to exterminate the colored race, which is revolt
ing to the Christian age. A just God will hold
the Government of the United States, which is
responsible for the welfare of these people, to a
strict accountability for every life thus sacrificed.
Deserting these innocent and helpless beings
and denymg them proper assistance and protec
tion in the Hour of need, and thus leaving them
to their fate, is an inhumanity as cruel as the
grave, a crime for which the nation will be pun
ished by financial bankruptcy, chaotic discord
and disunion, or a pestilence, which will not
leave enough of the living to bury the dead.
Our neighbor of the National Democrat, an
ex-member of the “Golden Circle” and a re
formed rebel, in referring to this subject in his
recent issue, says: “This alarming increase
of deaths amongst the blacks is, we fear, but
the developing of the extensive conspiracy al-
lnded to by ns in our last, which has for its
object the re-enslavement of the negroes or
their entire extermination.^ (more likely the lat
ter,) which was not expected would be appa
rent to the public until after the withdrawal of
the national troops, and our readmission to the
Union had been secured. Good behavior and
discretion having accomplished this, then
they—the Knights of the Golden Circle—
count on the protection and assistance of the
State and local authorities, even if the South
ern States are obliged to ratify the constitu
tional amendment abolishing slavery, which is
claimed will be a dead letter, in any event.—
The armies disbanded, all fears of renewed
hostilities removed, and the ascension of the
Democratic party to power, is, according to
their figuring, also to be realized as a matter
of course. Those whom the gods seek to de
stroy they first make mad. Therefore, we
again say that, unless this barbarous work
ceases, we fear that Gen. Butler will succeed
in bis project of organizing a black battalion in
every county in the South, to be maintained by
the proceeds realized from the confiscated lands
of the disloyal, which he claims is the remedy,
together with negro suffrage, which will secure
tranquility to the government, protection to
the colored people, and justice to all concerned.
All this will be realized, unless the Southern
people withhold their sympathy and encour
agement from these malcontents. In thus ex
posing their fiendish designs, we hope to de
stroy their evil influence; and secure our
prompt return to the Union, which will not be
accomplished for years to come, if these con
firmed and irreconcilable secessionists are left
to prosecute their suicidal work.”
[From tho Raleigh Progress, Ang. 16.]
Sttf Negroes Killed.—We learn from Col.
Lawrenoe, Commandant of the post at Goldsboro,
that six negroes were killed at or near Warsaw
some two weeks ago. The facts, as related to Col.
Lawrence, were as follows: The former owner of
the blacks left on the approach of the Union army,
the blacks remaining. They went to work and
made a orop. The former owner returned recent
ly, and the proprietor of the place, getting some
neighbors with arms, ordered them off again, and
on their refusal to go, attacked them, killing six.
These facts being reported at Wilmington, aOi m-
pany of soldiers was sent np, and the affair will
be investigated by the authorities at Wilmington,
if it has not been done already.
Hail Items.
It is said that eighty plantations in Louisiana
have recently been confiscated. These embrace
many of the finest sngar estates of the Southern
country. Mr. Conway, the Government agent,
is making arrangements to divide up thane estates
into forty acre lots for freedmen and poor whites.
This number of plantations will be mem than
doubled by acquisitions from the newly ooenpied
districts of the State.
A seaman, rather badly equipped, applied to an
officer of one of our gunboats to be entered on
the ship’s books. The lieutenant, observing his
ragged appearance, remarked carelessly that he
would not do “I hope,” replied Jack, “that
your honor will not condemn the hnll on aeeonnt
of the rigging.” The reply excitwUfee attention
of the officer, who sect the weatheAeaten tar be
low for a good meal and new elothing. He prov
ed one of the best seamen in the ship.
The Rebel General Ewell is passing the sum
mer at South Kingston, Rhode Island.
The largest receipts from internal revenue
ever received in ohe day came in on Thursday.
The amount is two million and cine thousand
dollars.
Five thousand colored troops occupy the coast
of Taxas, from Indianola to Viotoria, many of
whom are engaged in rebuilding the railroads.
The ravages of civil war hare swept away
the fortunes of the Siamese twins. It ia eonsol-
ing to refleot that misfortune oannot separate
them.
“I mourn for my bleeding country,” said a cer
tain army coctraetor to General Sheridan. “So
yon ought, you scoundrel,” replied Sheridan, “for
nobody has bled her more than yon have.”
Adelina Patti was betrothed, on the 28 th of
Jnne, to a gentlemen of Milan—mercantile not
musical.
A battered minie ball was recently extraoted
from the head of a recovered New Heaven soldier,
after remaining there one hundred and seven
days.
A woman's tears often soften a man’s heart;
her flatteries soften his head.
- The Monument to tbe Founder of Odd Fellow
ship in the United States will be dedicated in
Baltimore, with imposing ceremonies, on the 20th
day of September next. The festivities will be
participated in by a large ooneourse of members
of the Order, drawn together from all parts of the
United S'ates. The monument is being erected
at present, but will not be exposed to permanent
public view until the day of dedication.
Some Canadian negroes went to Rochester a
shert time since, and went to the theatre. Un
der the mistaken notion that they were memberB
of a party of wealthy Cubans stopping at one of
tbe hotels, they were given first rate seats in the
dress circle. Great was the consternation when
it was found, the next day, that they were “only
niggers.”
Donato, the one-legged dancer, died in France
alter a brief career of pirouetting,
Tbe duty of placing the manacles upon Mrs.
Surratt, escorting her to the gallows, and sup
porting her until the trap fell, devolved upon
Lieutenant Colonel W. H H. McCall, of Lewis-
burg. W hen placing the irons upon her wrists,
sbe told him he was no gentleman, or he would
Dot do so. Coi. McCall told her that it was his
unpleasant duty, in obedience to orders, and not
his choice. Her parting salute to him was, “Yon
Ipftl V” whinK nrorn akAiit *1
How Rebel Officers were Taken Care
of in New York.
Wo find tbe following paragraph in a New
York letter to the Charleston Courier .
“Sometimes the penniless southerner turned
adrift in this great city meets with the good 8 i-
maritan. A pleasing instance has come to my
observation. Several of onr Sonth Carolina offi
cers—among them a general—who had jnst been
released from prison, were passing through New
York, and were sojourning here a few days, while
awaiting transportation home. One day they
were on a Fulton Ferry boat, when they were ac-
eosted by a gentleman, who asked if they were
Confederate officers, as their dresses indicated.—
He gave them the card of a wealthy lady, living
in a handsome mansion up-town, with aD invita
tion to visit. That evening, to their surprise,
carriages called at the hotel doocribr them. They
weie transported to tbe home of their lady friend;
received with the greatest hospitality, and taken
into a room where tbe finest and most costly
clothing was stored, and from which they were
entreated to fully replenish their wardrobes. Dur
ing their stay in New York, they were the recipi
ents of the most generous attentions from their
benefactress, and whea they were ready to start
their pockets were well lined with greenbacks.—
Tbe good lady even went so far as to request the
gentlemen to make out lists of such small neoes-
sary articles as their wives might require, and
she employed twp days ridiag.abont in ber car
riage from shop to shop/filling the orders.”
Gen. I.cc Tendered the Presidency of
Lexiagton College.
The Staunton (Ya.) Spectator says i
At a meeting of t^e trustees of Lexington
College it was unanimously resolved to tender
to Gen. Lee the Presidency of that veuerable
institution.
Gen. Lee was long a professor at West Point,
and now that his ‘ ‘military occupation is gone,”
perhaps forever, we trust he may find it ac
cord with his ever patriotic impulses to become
the tutelar guardian of the many ingenious
youths of Virginia who would flock around
him there.
The Fabksrs’ Barometer.— rake a common
piAle bottle, wMa-tnoathed; fill it within three
inohes of tho top with water; then take a oommou
Florence oil flask, removing the straw covering
and cleansing tbe .flask thoroughly; plunge the
neck of the flask as far as it jrill go, and the
barometer is complete. In fine weather the wa-
ter will rife into the track ef the flask even high
er than the mouth of the pickle bottle, and in wet
and windy weather It will fall to within an inch
ef the month of the flask. Before a heavy gale
of wind the water has been teen to leave the flask
altogether at least eight hour* before the gale
came to it* height.
last
are a scoundrel!” which were about the
audible words she uttered.—Exchange.
Society in Pern is somewhat complicated, each
race becoming a caste ofrita own, and the cata
logue of classes including whites, negroes, In
dians, Chinese, mulattoes, mestizas, cnino-blan-
cos, chino-cholos, zambo-ebinos, quarteroons,
creoles, chino-oscnros, mestizo-claros, zambo-
pegroes and mnlatto-oscnros. Among all these
it is somewhat difficult to flKd the Peruvians.
In St. Louis females as well as male cunvicts
are put at work breaking stones lor the roads.
Large numbers of citizens of the Southern
States are said to have lately arrived at Rio
Janeiro.
The Boston Post thinks the reports of negro
behavior at the South are highly colored.
The fall and winter season at the New York
theatres will begin about the 11th of September.
The public lecturer who dwelt upon a topic has
changed his residence.
The gold and coinage of the San Francisco
mint, during the fiscal year just ended, is equal
to nineteen millions of dollars.
-Cortmas is a splendid looking man, and the
most intellectual in appearance Lever saw of his
nation. He speaks hopefully of the canse he ad
vocates, aod thinks that the prompt measures
taken by the Umted States to insure quiet along
her frontier will greatly aid them, as Maximil
ian’s Mexican soldiery is not devotedly loyal to
the emperor, and would on the slightest demon
stration on onr part, desert him in a body.—Cor.
New Orleans Timet.
PLANTERS*' BUREAU
Sheds for Manure.
Soma farmers would build sheds tor their ma
nure if it were not tor the trouble. Others would
do so if they did not fear firefanging, or waste by
drying np. But the trouble is nothing to an in
dustrious man, and if tbe heap is properly manag
ed, there is no danger from excessive heat. By
protecting it from wind, sun, rain, and washing,
its value will be largely increased.
It is doubtless trne that horse manure, alone,
if covered, will suffer from too rapid decomposi
tion. But this oan easily be prevented by mix»
ing with it, as the heap is forming, frequent “di
viders,” of muck, tanbark, or common soil. The
very best way is to throw np rough sheds, with
out siding, over the port holes of the barn, large
enough to cover the dang heaps and a large fiile
of muck. Every few days, after stalls are clean
ed out, let a man shovel an equal amoun t of
muck over the fresh manure, This will absorb the
liquid parts, and prevent “flre-fanging,” and
when the heap is finally shoveled over and sail
ed, the compost will bs as valuable a* an equal
amount of simple manure.
We are continually hearing of famers who so-
cidently learned the lesson we now teach. They
now never think of leaving their manore “out in
fhecoid.” They know that the inqresed value of
their manure is fonr fob 1 greater than the cost of
their sheds,—AjrjcuknrGi.
Gen. Jeff. Thompson, Into of the rebel ar
my, advertises in New Orleans for a situation
in a cotton factorage house. Young, enter
prising, and “having a large acquaintance” in
the Mississippi Valley, be believes he can in-
flhence a large trade.
“Father, did yon aver hav.e another wife be
sides “other r “No, my boy; what ponwssed
yon to ask inch a question ?” “Because I saw m
■Jhe olfl . family Bible that you-married Anna
Domini, IMS, and that isn’t mother, for her name
{was Sally Smith."
Rules for Road Making.
First, in all the hollows or waterways con
struct permanent slnices or culverts large
enough to allow all flood water to pass off
readily, and make them extend several feet
wider each way than the roadway.
Second, do not dig any ditches or trenches
by the roadside in the hollows or valleys for
the pnrpose of getting dirt to fill the centre of
the road ; bat plow and scrape the dirt for
this purpose from the top of' the hill, taking
care to cat it oat wide, and leave the centre
rounded or tumpiked at the hill top, and nse
the dirt excavated tq fill the hollow, which
should be turnpiked in the same manner.
By this means yon will have siefe ditches for
t^e surface water, and will hs ve it turned into
them from the top of the hill down to the sluice
way, and at the same time yon are gradually
lessening the hills at the top and bottom, hav
ing better roads, with less coat, at the end of
five years, than you could get any other way.
It may be & little more work for tbe first year
or two, but after that your roads are easier
kept in repair—to say nothing of the immense
improvement in travelling upon them. On
more level roads get tbe filling for tbe centre
from the little knolls along them, taking care
not to make any deep ditches beside the road.
Cor. Painter Ole Tel.
Amnesty Blanks.
The immediate attention of County
Ordinaries and Clerks is called to the
proviso in Got. Johnson’s Proclamation,
authorising the above officers to procure
at the office of the Savannah Republi
can the requisite number of blank forms
for the administering of the Amnesty
Oath. The Republican Job Printing
Office, having recently been established,
is well supplied with the latest and most
approved fonts of type, and we are now
prepared to furnish the blanks in such
quantities as may be required at the
shortest notice.
The civil officers upon whom has been
devolved the duty of administering the
oath, will please bear this in mind.
For the information of the above offi
cers we would state that all blanks or
dered at the duly authorized offices as
enumerated in the Governor’s Proclama
tion will be paid for by the State. If
procured ah other offices they will
obliged to pay their own bills,
Sshtimshtxl Authembtic—Clienteles thus:
2 glances—make one look; 2 looks—make one
sigh; 4 sighs—make one welts; 3 waltzes—make
on* patpitoto; 8 palpitations—make on* oaB; 2
calls—make one attention; 2 attentions—
Anna op# fool (tame two); 2 fools—maka on*
flirtatlsa qtato2 booqaeU eqsil to
|8hooqs^4 eqml to M»
Headq’bs Sub. Dist. of Ogeechee, 1
Savannah, Ga., August 28, 1865. f
GENERAL ORDER, )
No. 20. \
Pursuant to General Order No. 18,
Headquarters District of Savannah, 1st
Division Department of Georgia, the fol
lowing taxes will be collected to defray
the expenses of lighting streets, cleaning
of city, etc.
1st. Tax of three (3) per cent, upon all
incomes of six hundred (600) dollars or
upwards from real estate.
2d. Tax on all sales of Liquors, as per
General Order No. 13, from these Head
quarters. r -
3d. Tax on all traders, dealers, com
mission merchants and shippers of one
(1) per cent, on all sales and commissions.
4th. These taxes will be paid monthly,
commencing on the 31st inst., to the Tax
Collector, on account of sales and rents
sworn to by parties.
5th. All persons who have received
licenses without paying theLcense fee as
specified in General OrderTlo. 13, from
these Headquarters, are hereby notified
that their licenses are revoked from this
date, and that new licenses will be rev
quired before continuing their business.
6th. All persons coming under the pro
visions of this order will report immedi
ately to the Tax Collector, and register
their names and places of business. Any
person neglecting to comply with.the re
quirements of this order will be Abject
to a fine.
7th. Captain Calvin H. Pike, 153d N.
Y. Volunteers, is hereby announced as
Tax Collector city of Savannah. He will
be obeyed and respected accordingly.
By command of
Bvt, Brig. Gen. E. P. DAVIS.
Wm. H. FolN, A. A. A. G.
Header’s Sub-Dist. of Ogeechee,
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 24th, 1865. \
GENERAL ORDER, I
No. 25. f
Captain E. A. Parkinson, 153d Reg’t
N. Y. Vola., is hereby announced as
Street Commissioner City of Savannah.
He will be obeyed and respected accord
ingly.
By Command of
Bvt. Brig. Gen. DAVIS.
Wm. H. Folk, A. A. A G.
CIRCULAR.
Office of Street Commissioner, )
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 23, 1865. j
In accordance with General Order No.
24, all horses, mules, and cattle found at
large in the streets and squares of the
city, on and after Friday, the 25th inst.,
will be impounded under the following
regulations :
For first offence—Impounding fee will
bb five dollars, and one dollar per day
while the animal remains in pound.
For second offence—Impounding fee
shall be ten dollars, and one dollar per
day while the animal remains in pound.
If not called for in five days they shall
be advertised in the city papers for three
days, and sold to pay expenses, or turned
over for military purposes.
Picketing any or the above animals to
gra?e in the streets and squares of the
city is hereby positively forbidden, and
the above penalties enforced.
By command of
Bvt. Brig. Gen. DAVIS.
Esw. A. Parkinson,
Capt> and Street Commissioner.
Headq’bs Scb-Dih’t. of Ogeechee,
Savannah, Ga., August 9th, 1865. [
The following Order is republished for
the information of all concerned :
GENERAL ORDER, I
No. 2a f - •
Hereafter and until further orders all
Commissioned Officers of the United
States Army visiting this City will be re
quired to register their names at these
Headquarters, stating authority and
length of absence.
By command of
Bvt. Brig. Gen. DAVIS.
Jno. Mullen, A. A. A. G.
All Commissioned Officers not on duty
at this Post will report at these Head
quarters, and show by what authority
they are in the city.
By command of
Bvt. Brig. Gen. DAVIS.
Wm. H. Folk, A. A. A. Q. au23-7
Office PiwjvOst Marshal, 1
Savannah, Ga., August 21,1865. J
Gentlemen wishing to take the Amnesty
Oath will apply at the office on Bryan
•treet between 9 and 12 A. M. Ladies
apply at the office in Custom House
4*1fc Provocfc Manhah
BOSINLSS CARDS.
M. X. WILLIAMS.
J. B. M'lNTIBB.
P. n. WARD*
inns, iuum.
AUCTION AND
COMMISSION
mkbchaits»
Bay Street, Savannah, G-a.
Reference*i
Savannah—Brigham, Baldwin * Co., Gaden A
bridgOECrwta C Hirwa Roberts, W. Wood,
^ew York-8. T. Knapp A Bro., D. H. Baldwin &
Sale days, Tuesdays and Fridays. aug26
J. J. ROBERTA A CO,
generAx.
Commission Merchants;
-A.TJG-XTSTA, G-A..
Wiil give strict attention to the purchase and ship
ment of Cotton, Domestics and Yarns.
Also solicit consignments of Merchandize of all
kinds, especially Bagging, Rope, Refined Sugars and
Coffee; and will remit in every instance as soon as sale
is made.
Refer to Wm. K. Kitchen, President National Park
Bank, New York; A. Porter, Esq., President Bank
State of Georgia, Savannah; Jno. Davison, Esq.,Freni
dent Branch Bank State of Georgia, Augusta.
N. B.—We do exclusively a commission business.
ang8 3m
E. H. BBtTCS, THOMAS 8. MOBUAlt.
E. M. BRUCE & CO.,
288 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.,
B MVKERS AND COTTON FACTORS.
Dealers exclusively in
Foreign and Domestic Exchange, Coin, Un-
current Money and Ootton.
I HAY K this day taken into partnership THOMAS
S. MORGAN. 1 do this in recognition and appre
ciation of his unimpeachable integrity, and high ca
pacity as a business man, and his long satisfactory and
successful management of my commercial and finan
cial affairs, and his fidelity to my interests, (having
been with me almost without intermission for more
than fifteen years, j I do therefore commend him with
confidence to the business public.
angT lm E. M. BRUCE.
JAM. B. CAHILL,
General and CJBmission Merchant,
.A.TJ GrTJ STA, GA.
Holders of Merchandize wishing to realize immedi
ately, will consult their interests by consigning the
same.
strict business attention will be given all consign
ments, and prompt returns made, at the most reasona
ble rates.
Befer to Messrs. Hunter & Gammell, C. L. Colby &
Co., Hilton & Randeil, A. C. Lomelins, Halsey, Wat-
son & Co,, and fetuart & Co. apgia
W. HENRY WARREN,
(GENERAL
Commissi on Merchant,
255 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.,
Dealer in Cotton, all kinds of foreign
and Domestic Goods, Groceries,
Grain; Produce, etc.
Consignments solicited, to which the most prompt
attention will be given.
References—Hunter A Gammell, Hill Gowdy, Jno.
L. VUlalonga, Wm. Battereby, John C. Fcrrill, and to
the leading Merchants and bankers of Augusta, Ga.,
and Nashville, Tenn.3m june20
Horton & Walton,
General Commission Merchants,
287 Broad Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
aug4 lm
W. A RAMSEY & OO.,
GENERAL.
Commission Merchants
AND
AUCTIONEERS.
308 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
BBFXB TO
Robert Habersham A Sons, Savannah.
W. H. Stark, do.
Bones, Brown & Co., Augusta.
Ed. Thomas, do.
W. K. Kitchen, President National Park Bank, N
L jyfo
WH. B. JACKSON,
i. WABEOCK
JACKSON & WARR0CK
.A.U CTIOjST
AND
General Commission * Merchaats,
JACKSONVILLE, FLA
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED,
Personal attention given to forwarding Merchandize
angfo
and Cotton.
lm
TO COTTON SHIPPERS,
ALEXANDER HARDEE
Cotton Shipper,
IS prepared to take cotton on storage, at the lowest
rates, and has opened on the corner of Jefferson and
Boy streets, for the pnrpose of
WeitUng, Repairing, Sampling;,
Classing- and Shipping Cotton
for the public, at the LOWEST BATES, furnishing
Ink, Ac. julyl
Wright & Co.,
COMMISSION MERCHiNTS,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Represented by onr Agent, JOHN 8. WRIGHT, Kflq„
NO. 09 Wall Street, New York.
June28 6m
GADEN & HACKLES
CORNER OF
Bay and Barnard Streets,
on hand and for sale at the Lowest Market
TTAYE o
XI Hates: Extra Family Flour. SUGARS
Crushed, Granulated and Browns. Crackers and
t aken, in boxes and bbls. NUTS—Brazil, English
Walnuts and Almonds. TEAS—Black and Green.
COFFEE—Bio and Java. Spices, Soaps, Olive OU,
Cocoa, Chocolate, Mackerel, Syrups, Currants, RaMna,
Com Meal, Grim, Cheese, Brooms, Pails, &(x, Ac.
* Have also for sale:
Gunny Bagging. Kentucky Bagging Rope, Manilla
Hope, all sizes; Ozkum Sizing (spun Yam, Marline,
House line. Rounding American Hemp Packing Yam.
Kerosene oil, in cans, Hardware, all kinds.
lm
Useful, Cheap,
AND
DBSIRA-BXjJS.
TTUDSON’8 Patent Stamp Cancelling Machines
fAfor stamping Revenue Stamps, Checks, Envelopes,
Ac. A new invention and great auxiliary to the count
ing room. Orders received by
C. F. BOUVE A CO.,
augM MB Bay street. »
lOOSS?” 1
—“XtoksToSSI
ESSS 8
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|E8«for sale by
C. L GILBERT.
landing and
GOWKS,
