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Newspaper Page Text* V; T 7Ti i 'fiil’fii iifci raiiiTrnrl WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. I’UULISIIED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY JARED I. WHITAKER, PBOPll IEToR. OF VIVK—Sicond Floor Crtw’s Building. entrance Wide Stairway, AUI ama atre t. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, w^Wcdne day. September 13 1865 I ll K Ct-MINO TRIAL I P JURR DaVIS.— Tl,. N' W York Sun a iys: “ S«*v< ral days «!■(» vi'i; ii:t ! u : cull-.>ffi :inl statement from VV iHimijotiiriha 1 llie Fitsidcnl had decided j,u iiy J |} D.iVih before a c’.vil tribunal,” but lit .1 I lie pu t •« place of I ri il W hi Id not b : drlermim d iimii liie iiri iv.d ol Otiiel Justice Chase in Waal.i'.gD'n. Since then the fbes- idi ii and Mi. On tse. Ua v e becu in consulta tion, and w.- ii »w have the fuiununceineut Hi d Dims will b: tried In-fore a Uuited I'.. iUBCiicnn t'oun—probably at Norfo k ll i ii is Hiould prove liue—and it looks quite probatnr- lie Chief Justic: will preside at IliC uni 1 , and even il some other place Ilian Not folk ah ail be li ally selected, we may reasonably inf. r from ilie foregoii g circum- slai-.cce ili-ii the same bigli auiboriiy will Hi 1 judge lilt; Ci sThis is , x.tcily v\ li it the pubiii: tvani. They have lad a surl.it <d ii. 11 it.try <oinin>9sioii.s, and have no iuclina- linn to sec (his important forthcoming trial in fuch amis. Mr. Chase is a jurist ot the login st euiinenc , and whatever h:a person nl couviciioijg may be, no one will impu'e < vil motives to him wlieii on ilie bench. 1 seems now quite certain that die defence in the case ol Divis Will be managed by Cnas O'Connor, ]£ : q ,-aiu] as be will have the se l,c i n o| such assistance hi he may desire Hit ic will he uo c.iu e to liud fault Willi the Gov mini n . This pro? peel in the cise o JluVis is highly gia'i'ying. The whole civ il /, •.! world will waicli the < lining trial critically, and a ‘‘snap judgment” agaiust the great hind <•! the il ball ion would call forth universal censure. On h ; other hand if tlic li ml t hall lie conducted by our high est judic ial aullioiity, aud U.e ,.risomr lur nished vmiJi the most eminent couastl nihe country, the verdict, whatever ii may be will I I* entitled to rtspict both at Louie anJ abroad ” ricvi tal days ago it was intimated that this tiial would take place at Knoxville, Term W e an*, now inclined to think that ilie Sun bus designated the right, place, and the Jtt(l(;c who will preside. Tables Turned.—An exchange tells us that a young iady by the name of Jones was arrested the other day, charged with loading a young man, aged eighteen, from “the path of rectitude.” The complainant was the young man's father. The paper publishing this item of news says “this is a novel charge.” Perhaps the charge was a novel one, made, as it seems it, was, to a magistrate In good old times, however, similar charges, upon «v hich judicial proceedings were com menced and prosecuted, were not novel by any means, in either Old or New England. Nor should we be surprised now, that one honest, good old father has appealed to the law to protect his son from the wiles of an artful, iciclccd miss, who would lead him on to ruin, no more than we should be at a fa- flier protecting by legal means the virtue of bis daughter. What right, we ask, has Miss Jones, the pretty little vixen, to escape punishment when she seduces from the path of recti I tide and virtue Mr. Barebone’s son? Or what right has the widow Sweetly, who has entrapped and seduced old Moneybags, to escape the penally' of the law ? Neither in morals, nor in law, can Miss Jones, or the widow Sweetly; or the thousand-and-one Misses Jones, and widojes Sweetly, be ex-, ensed, any more than the gallant Lotharios ot the other sex can be, when they go about seeking whom they may corrupt and de vour. The example set by the respectable father in the case of the fascinating Miss Jones, we trust, will be imitated by other respectable lathers. It is as much their duty to protect the virtue and integrity of their sons as if is to protect the virtue aud integrity of their daughters. True, they will all have to exercise increased vigilance, but this is only one of the results of matri mony, a ceremony, honored iu observing, and which they all enter into of their own accord, despite its responsibilities. We are really sick and tired of seeing and hearing so much of female wiles! Every fellow that has been caught stealing recently—'ex cept Ketchum—has had a feminine to keep or spend the “spoils.” Neither young men nor old are free from the temptations of some laseinating griselle, or mourning, charming widow. We go in for a universal prosecution of them all! Fathers, we be seech you to protect the virtue of your sons! Far more are they in danger in these baby** lonish days, than 3-our daughters. We hope the jury in the case of the seductive Miss Jones will render heavy damages against her, and that her victim will never leave home without the knowledge, on the part of his father, that “he is out!” WEEKLY “ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOL. 8. ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 18, 1865. One mercantile house in this city, sold one day recently $10,(00 of groceries. We are told others hav_* done likewise, besides tilling orders tor Augusta houses, so that it sci ms our merchants are “wide awake,” and not negl. clul of the trade advantages they now possess ov.r othi-r ei ie? iu the State, a-, we ha red they were, when we re ferred on yesterday to the Augusta Tran tori jit's notice ol the imk'y sales 1 f one of the business houses in that city. A countryman going into the probate of fice, where the wills were kept in hnge vol umes on the shelves, asked if they were all Bibles? “No, sir;” replied one ol the clerks, “they are testaments." Tin: Ciiolkra we notice is making rapid alvances. The New York World says it had reached Manailies when the last steamer left Europe for America. That city is but thirty-six hours from London, and London bul twelve day's from New York. Hence, the World says that prompt sanitary measures should be adopted in the last named city to prevent its entrance there, to subdue, or to save it from ihedreadful ravages it has made in the Eastern cities it has visited. Tin*. United States Minister at Constantinople writes to the State Department, that had proper quarantine measures been taken at first, the introduction of the cholera from Egypt might have been prevented. It seems to rne, from our experience here, that it will be advisable in the United States to guard against it by the most rigid quaran tine regulations. Otherwise, if it once enters the country, it will be very fatal, in conse quence of the great destitution prevailing in Virginia and other of the Southern States, and of the diseases which always follow' in the train of war—upon which the World says: “As our minister to Turkey has justly ob- ser.ved, the moral and material elements ol our sanitary condition in the United States are just now peculiarly lavorable to the rapid and deadly spread of such an epidemij as the cholera. It may come to us at any mo ment, iu the next steamer that shall arrive, for we know only that it travels with man kind ; that mankind never traveled so much or so last as now; that three weeks ago it had already reached Marseilles and that Marseilles is but thirty-six hours from Lon don, and London less than twelve days, in this fair autumn weather, fiom New York.’ Should this dreadful scourge cross the At- lanlic, we apprehend its entrance will bsrat either Boston or New* York, and its race over the same tracks it made when last it made its appearance on this continent. Il so, in all probability, Atlanta will escape its visitation, as it did ffetore, as will the pine regions of the South. But in our own city, such sauitary measures should be adopted as to insure the city from its frightful rav ages. New' York is but five days from At lanta. The intercourse now between the two is extensive and being extended. Our city authorities should be alive to its danger —our city physicians prompt to study the. disease, and prepared with approved reme dies. The prophecy of our minister at Con stantinople, that it w'ill be very fatal “ir. consequence of the great destitution pre vailing in Virginia and other of thqSouiluyn Slates, and the diseases which always follow iu the train of war” ought not to pass as “the idle wind” to be disregarded ; but it should be received as a warning. Above all things cleanliness should prevail in our houses, yards, ami streets. About tor ^Fbeedmen.—Tue telegram in to-daj’s paper, dispatched from Raleigh, N. O., which stales that a “ Judge Carter, who has returned from an extens.ve trip through the South,” represents that “ the cruelly to the freedmeo and the Dumber ot homicides among them, are increasing to a fear Ini ixie.ul, especially in pl.-.c s where the troops are bciug withdrawn.” Tin* Judge who makes this report certain ly did not visit Georgia. No such treatment ol tlfe I reed man, as far as our knowledge extends, ami our opportunity for observation and receiving intelligence, is not limited this S ate, is it tl ctcd upon the uegro liTed- raen iu Georgia. What portions of the 3 rai.h Judge Carter visited while on his ej•tended lour, are not designated. Distani they must have been from this, lor the Judge, it seems, has “ a copy o' the Southern Sun " a paper we never heard ol*before, which says that “if the Yanktes are alarmed at the killing of a few hundred niggers a day in States where they have the protection ol Yankee Loops to a certain extent, what will be thiir alarm on the departure of military foie s, aud the re-admission into the Union of the States as sovereign p >wcr-,” &c.. &e. We have .-ein no evidences of “ alarm' yet, ou the part ol the “ Yankees,” at the treatment of the lnedmeu in the South, nor do we rcc guizc in ti e military authorities stationed in 'he South, an}’ such dereliction of duty, cr lack of vigilance on their part which the suffering of “ a few hundred nig get s a day ” to be killed, would indicate.— Judge C uter has been imposed upon, or his state nun* is a canard -a weak iff >rtt > keep the Southern States “cut in the cold” until they are s ripped of all th it will make them of viluc to the Union Governor Johnson.—Tne Governor re turned to Atlanta, from his visit to DJton, on business connected with the Slate Road and oiher matters of interest to the people of Cherokee Georgia, on Thursday after noon last. We are gratifi d to learn that he was much pleased wi h his trip along ilie line ol our Srate’s great work, and that the- ohj *c‘s of his visit were fully accomplished. A board of din ctors to receive and take chr »gc i f ihe S ate Road has been appoint ed, which wiil convene iu A'lanta to-uaj\— Wb. n autbnrz'd t * d > si, we shall lay be fore our readers the nam .-sof the gentlemen ns itu ing this board, as well as those of other appointees, into whose hands the run ning of the mad and its general manage- m(nt will be en.ru-ted. The Governor w 1 leave th.s city, for Milled Seville, to-morrow In Chains.—Some one of our Northern ! siorHgmed to be that Weed, not King, was exchanges says “there are numbers of peo- l, * e collector, a very great mistake, as we pin who desire tte Sooth shoiild 1» ruled 0 . f ‘ he a l , P l . ici *“ ts Wl11 a '>' 1 v , , . , , they fj*Vje ; 7?8ade, when certain changes are with a rod of iron. They wish not only to ana ■" c Love in men is like the distemper in dogs. Neither men nor puppies are worth anything until they have had it. depriv* lo r citizens of every right, bul to make them feel, in every movement that they are in chain-s. Fearing lest the North is not prepared to pursue this policy, they are endeavoring to excite ]an angrier and bitterer feeling against the South, and where 1 hey cannot find facts to serve them, they coin falsehood?. Unfortunately, iu many on liters, both circulate as good money. So n last it may c min to pass that the South eru people will be declared a “subjugated race,” having no rights, aud Ihensome oth er people would have a good thiDg of it.” Our observation brings us to the same conclusion. There must be some people so disposed, else the columns of the radical prissat 1 he North would not be so crowded with misrepresentations of Southern senti meat, as we daily see Uiev are. Were the South —the great mass of the people of the South—to be i.ff:Ctfcd by these misrepresen tations ol their purposes and intentions— could they be influenced by them to assume a*iy hostile attitude to the government in consequence of such malignancy—could they* be ^induced to disugard their seli-re spic-, violate their honor, or commit petju ry by these, their taunting and malicious adversaries—then succiss might attend this atrocious policy « f men, or of a party, who would “ keep the South in chains ” and “rule her people with a rod of iron.” But tlie tffort is (u'ile. Vain and weak is the imagination that conceives it.—wicked, “foul and unnatural” the intent. The South is put upon her trial, fn the name of her people we ask, only a t.-or trial M esissippi b is spoken—Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia,--will soon speak.-— Each wilt put the seal of condemnation up on those who w >u'd “keep the S.uth in chains.” fill then, and until each of the Stcediug S iks are rtstore d to the UoioD, iu themagnaninviy of the Government, and in God, will they tiust.. THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE. The official patronage connected with this leviathan insii ulion, 13 second only in extent to that ol ihe Government itself.— Hence the appointment of Collector is lonkcd to not only iu the Cily and State of New York with political interest but it ex tends throughout the whole nation. We copy, iherelore, lbe following description of Mr. Kin».’s ('!;$ new’}- appointed o'oiitctur) advent into the city to assume the duties of his office. It will he set n that there is much fluttering in 1 he ranks of those who have been busy iu ignoring the President’s policy of restoring the South to the Union, and oth- erwi e great excitement prevailing among the 1 ffiee li alders and office seekers of the giral metrop. lis of America : From the New York World. A KING AND HIS CJUKT1ER9. To day Preston King assumes the duties of collector ol this port. Of course, with several hundred appointments at his com mand, he is the observed of all expectant I’ffice-holders. When first informed of his appointment., he went to his home in St. L iwrecce county, in order, ii is said, to se cure a part of the delegation from that radi cal locality to the Republican S'.ate Con vention, for an indorsement of Andrew Johuson’s plan of r< cods* meting the states, and re-establishing the Union. Mr. King, if accounts'be correct, labored hard to this end, but has not succeeded as he or his friends could w it h. Out of niue delegates from that county, it is understood, that not more lhau one or two are willing to let the negro-suffrage question be settled by the States, as the President insists should be done. But Mr. Kmg did his best, and only left in lime to reach New York at the hour appointed for the commencement of his of ficial duties as collector of the port. TnE OFFICE SEEK KBS. Of course, the new collector has many friends, whose good will is only the more earnest, because he has power aud place at hi;- c <mmaud. They congregate iu great crowds ab. ik the Asior House, aud yester day the throng was so numerous as to excite rt*maik. Many strangers, cot knowing what to make of it, asked the cause of such an ek raordinary rush to the favored rooms up stairs, and their curiosity was uot grati fied till they were told that the new collect or was on hand, anil in close conversation with the terrible mar.—Thurlow Weed.— Our reporter, last evening, was a party to a convershti >u to this iff c ! : Otfi c-.eeker—Do you know, sir, whether Mr. Weed stops here? Reporter—I think he does, sir. Office seeker—Where are his rootac ? Reporter—By inquiring at the desk, I have uo doubt 3011 will get the information deoil ed. The gentleman, who bore an office-seeking look ou every feature ol his countenance, went to the deik and received the iuforma tion so much desired, but, evidently, was not gratified with an interview, as, till a late hour, he was stib looking wistfully in the direction of Mr. Weed’s ro.ua, without hav ing reached it. WHO DI-PENSES THE PATRONAGE ? One person, who had been able to effect an interview, informed our reporter that Mr. Weed claims no right to dispense the custom-house patronage, but insists that, as Mr. King is collector, he alone has the necessary power to make or unmake I ffieials. And yet nine out of ten rfflict Mr. Weed with their presence, insisting that he, and he aloe, has fhe “say” in this impor tant matter. From all that we can learn, II is uot impossible that the leader of the Repub kan patty will not be allowed to re main outside in the mutter of a personal re quest, but that he declines to be considered referee or umpire is quite certuin. He is said to have told several yesterday, that it would be preposterous on his part to prom ise anything; that Mr. King had brains and independence enough to,select his own em ployees, Ac. But strange as it may seem, THE REMOVALS. U »on inquiry aUthe custom house, it seems very likely that not a few changes will be made at an early daj\ Under the fostering influences of Mr. Draper tbree- fifih' ot the officials were foolish enough to com out fiat looted for negro suffrage.— Now the President is not exactly ihe man to keep people in government employ who are 1 pposed to government policy. So he has, as report goes in tue custom house, in timated that the newkadicctor should keep nolwfly in the “service” who intends to fight the t.dministration upon the point most dear to the President. In consequence, abnu fifteen removals have been determined upohffo start with, and the first will be-,an nounced about the middle of the montj^-2. NO. T radical; others said that Andy Johnson was not so complete a fool as to put sjich im mense patronage in the hands of an oppo- neqt; and the whole crowd seemed toagtee that as King went, so should they all go, if he only kept them in. the custom-house. It was a merry sight indeed to see these feed ers at the public table, undecided as to whether they should get another dinner at Uncle Sam’s expense or not. PAYING OFF. Lest the prospective changes should work too hard upon thb public servants, they were paid off for August’s work in good paper currency. ’Tis the last full month’s pay many of them will get, and not a few seemed to understand if. One remarl§4, as he got his last 1 oil, “some d—d old Dem ocrat will get the next pay.” THE NAVAL OEFICE. Mr. Odell will assume the duties cf naval collector today. He has as yet made no Changes in important positions will soop be announced. VVh<^tihe unfortunates are lias uot *&&&<' rijafticular arrangements as to the details of pire^JUut the entire establishment is in & office, but. it is understood that several stair.<>i delightful nncertaiuty. Everybody seemf to feel that he is the man, and every body's willing to bet “drinks and cigars” that hjs head is to drop into the basket.— And h the custom house, as at the A9tor Housf, the impression is- general that “the old m m”—as Mr. Weed is -called—is run ning yie entire machine. Not a few will be disappointed in this respect, for Weed is not siregotistical as to suppose that Gollec tor Ki g docs uot intend to do prett> much as he jileases. Wetoan asssure the over anxtou=, howev er, thsi. no rtmovals oL any nole will be made ibis month. It is. not intended to turn out vaiuthje public servants, nor to appoint many lo the sinecure positions which 01 late have 1 -en.xery numerous. In obedience to Mr. Johnson’s request, soldiers incapaci tated f* > the performance of other business will be uelected for those places where they may b: useful, even though stout and healthy-men who have distinguished them selves i-aiy aj ward meetings may have to get the>V “walking papers.” Ot course, the World >oe8 not sp ak “by authority,” but it has 1 -ry good reason to believe that the program me is to be as above indicated. THE FAREWELL OF DRAPER. It must be admitted that Collector Dra per has made many friends in the manage ment of his important department. Yester day, bei a.g hi 3 i as t day of public service as collector a large number ot gentlemen, well known a the political and business world, called to pay their respects. Mr. Draper received them all witb his customary po^ liteness, md once said that their visits caused IV *.a uo alarm, as there was no dan ger of fifjling office seekers among them. It was jgite' a different sight lrom that which characterized Collector Draper’s iu- troductic^ to office. Then several hundred greedy jwdticians besieged his door, crying for placg' and insisting that they had earned Jj, Yesterday staid gentlemen, Folk} a• ,.<? fuch like came L* say good-byr*^ The office-seekers were at the Astor Hc«.se. SIR, VHNG CALLS UPON MR. DRAPER. About noon the Hon. Preston King, who to-day relieves Mr. Draper, called to pay his respects to that gentleman. These gen tlemen are old acquaintances, and, though reputed to differ upon political matters, are yet personally quite friendly'. The eonver sation between them was private, but, as we have learned, very pleasant in its char acter. Mr. Draper said that he had expec ted his removal, and that he regretted any one should suppose he intended to oppose the administration, and did not beljeve the administration thought he would. He left office, however, confident that he had done his best for the public. Mr. King is repor ted to ha.'e said that his predecessor had given general satisfaction, and that he only hoped to retire with as many friends. Re ports weie in circulation about the custom house, th^t the ex-collector had made an appeal for. the retention of some personal friends in office, but whether or not this is so our reporter could not learn. It was quite natural under the circumstances. THE RUSH FOR KING. At noon, when it was known that Mr. King was in the office, there was a great rush of the anxious ones for a personal in troduction Very few were gratified, how- everj as Ihe new collector called, only for the purpose of paying his respects to Mr. Draper. Still some carried their point, and, among these, was a clergyman, who was admitted. The divine is an Episcopalian, who has a son in the custom-house at a sal ary ot $1,500 a year. It may be here sta ted that there are at present in the custom house three sons of ministers, who at every change of administration escaped decapita tion, in respect to the “cloth” of their fath ers. Thistdivine, however, in order to make assurarce’’ doubly sure, was determined to sound the*new collector as to the prospects of his sonlf “You SA'iw,” said he, “that the son of a minister h^3 never been disturbed from any department of the custom house, and I know they should not be removed. You will not, then, remove my son, Mr. King?’’ Mr. King replied, “If your son is a useful or efficient man, sir, he shall not be removed. I'll inquire about him.” The divine then left in a nondescript mood, which did not, however, indicate hap piness. resignation. It is reported that Deputy Collector Rum ple, an inlimate friend ot Mr. Draper, has resigned, it having been intimated that his services w<?uld no longer be required. Mr. Rumple has the reputation of being a very clever official, but of course Mr. King could not keep him in so prominent a position.— Rumor says that Mr. Bia’chtord, a nephew of R. M. Btatchford, is to be appointed to fill this vacancy. This is very likely, as the latter gentleman is one of Mr. King’s sure ties. Yet the radicals assert that they have a show for some other gentleman, and in tend to fight the matter out on this one ap pointment. Iu that case, it is pretty well understood,that the Greeley people will get the cold snhulder. A SCENE. Yesterday, about noon, when it was known that Mr. King was on board, about tweuty or thirty of the t ffiee holders con gregated near the Wall street entrance, and discussed tneir chances of “holding on.”— j “ dodge ” to get rid of them. only a I Some asserted that Mr. King would stand The impres- * by the radicals, as he had always been a T he New Orleans Picayune says of that city : “ The firs lhalf af the week just ended was a continuation of the heated term, which for more than two months had been trying to reduce our citizens into the original ele ments out of which men were made. But Orieuiaes are stubborn, and in their stutK bornuess they found security. They would not milt, and therefore yet they breathe.— Seeing this the weather changed, and with in a day or t\yo we have had some showers and a few hours of comfortable coolness.— From the country we learn that the dryness of the atmosphere and the extreme beat which has of late obtained has caused a pre mature shedding of cotton bolls which will, to some extent, affect the fullness of the crop. Cane stiff carries its head high, and waves its green banner proudly from the few fields on which it has obtained a foot- iug. All other crops in the neighborhood ol the city have been greatly improved’ by the recent showers.” The N. O. Times hss the following items: “ Raphael Semmes, and his son, Maj Oli ver Bemmes, have arrived in the city, and both are now stopping at 248 Canal street. Raphael Semmes ranked as Admiral in the Confederate Navy, and con manded the Al- abaina when she was sunk by the Kearsage iff the French coasf.” From a batch of Mexican papers recj at the Times office in New Orlean£, t itor finds the following and translated it Citizen Francisco i»e Leon, <58Vernor and Provisional Military Commander of the State ol Tiimaulipaa, to:fihe inhabitants and forces of the place. Citizens and Companions in'Larms:—Ary event of the gr« atest interest for the caug£ of the national independence we defend, obliges me to separate myself temporarily nrd ‘^t-sra ovo. IW pokousj and military command of the State, which Citi- 7. u Gym rul Carvajal provisionally deposi ted Wi'h me, into the hands of the well kiiovvu, valiant and patriolic Colonel Citizen Strwando Canales. On leaving, although but'for a few days, the heroic sons of Tamaulipas, who, with so much self abnegation, have undergone with me all kinds ot suffering and privation, when we Lad scarcely any hope of reaching a haippy result, my heart is oppressed and lull of grief, because in each one of you I see, ana have always seen, a friend, a broth er, a son; but I am consoled with the hope that 1 go to labor for the same great and holy principles—the independence and lib- ert}'; of Mexico, and very soon I shall return to your side to share again your dangers and sufferings. Meanwhile I recommend the same con- stanpy, fidelity and valor which up to the present moment you have shown, as well as the most perfect obedience, deference and respject to the worihv chief who has reliev ed me—under whose orders you will gain, I doubt not, brilliant and fruitful triumphs, aud render eminent services to the country. Valiant sons ol Tamaulipas, long live in dependence ! Long live liberty ! Death to Maximilian aud his French mercenaries! Death to traitors ! Your companion Rad friend,- Fkanci-co de Leon. Sjn Fernando, Aug. 5,1865. ' THIS TREASURY, Much misapprehension exists in regard to the counterfeiting of the national issues of notth, aud we have taken pain* to inform ourselves, through ihe proper officers ol tfce Treasury, to the end that the public may be correctly informed of the matter. Atl the postal and fractional currency', both that printed in New York, and that printed in the Treasury, except the very last issues printed at the Treasury, have been couute; failed. Nearly all the denominations of the so- called “greenback” or “legal tender” notes printed in New York, have been cmnter- fii ed or altered to higher denominations, vz: Ones—b ub counterfeited aud altered lo Ten s. Twos—altered lo fifties. Twen ties—counterieiled. Fifties—counterfeited. One hundreds — counterfeited. Nohe of the noti s (except fractional) wh ch have been printed in the Treasury have been counterfeited. The five, six, seven- and-tbree-tenths-per cent, notes, compound- interest notes, &c, have all so far escaped imitation by the counterfeiters. It is only those printed in New York that have been successfully imitated. -The currency of the national banks has hot yet been counter feited, notwithstanding the reports to that • ffcct. Tht se notes were designed at the Treasury De ■artmenf, aod executed in New York. When they are tx> cutcd according to ihe original desigo, it is believed they, like the five, six and sevee-tbree-tenths-per- cent. notes, will defy the counterfeiters’ ski]!. Washington Chronicle PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S FATHER. The following obituary notice appeared' in the Raleigh Star of January 10, 1812: “Died In this city, on Saturday last, Jacob Johnson, who had-for many years occupied an humble; but useful station in speiejy.—. He,wascUy constablc, sextan sindjifirteiLta. ihe Stare Bank. Jn his IasT.illnesa Jjp was visited by the principal irmablfants~ bf the city, by all <rf whom he was esteemed ior ‘. Jiis hone§ty, sobriety, industry »i^, humane ** •, Trie^dly disposition. Among, all, ip. whom - he was known and esteemed, riofie lamented' him more (except, perhaps, his relatives,) than the publisher of vhispaper, for he owes -his life, on a particular occasion, to the bold ness and humanity of Johnson,” Jacob Johnson was the father of the pres ent President of the United States. What interesting associations, asks the JRafcigh Standard, are not the reading of the foregoing obituary calculated to excite 1 ? At the time it was written Andrew Johnson wa3 less than four years old—an age so young that the loss of his parent coaid not affect him at the time, one-hundredth part. 1 • as much as the reading of these lines are likely to do cow—filty-three years after they . were written. What stirring scenes, what exciting events, what political .convulsions, has the orphan boy, then left fatherless, since passed through ! How consoling must it be to him, now that he has reached the highest^political station iu the world," the rt fi ction /bat this tribute of affection and regird was paid to Lis honored father—not by some venal pen—not by some interested panderer to greatness and power—but by the grateful heart of one who knew him well, aud who had beeD the recipient of his unselfish, beneficence. The occasion referred to in the conclud ing lines of the above obituary notice, the ' Standard says, was this; Thos. Henderson was upset in a canoe, and was so near being droWned that life was nearly extinct when he waB recovered, Jacob Johnson was on the bank, ?afe and secure. But he sa,w A s friend drowning before his face. Thought less of self, he plunged in at the hazard of his own life. Be did finally succeed in sav ing his friend; but both were nearly, ex hausted when they reached the shore. The statement in regard to Jacob Johnson being "esteemed lor his honesty, sobriety, industry, and humane friendly disposition,” is con curred in by the old inhabitants now living in Raleigh. The grateful hud generous tri bute to his worth and goodness of. heart is* more to be valued and ^esteemed than “sto ried urn or animated bust.” As such, Pres ident Johnson may so regard it,and no doubt he does. That peculiar trait, so marked in the father—of devotion and attachment to a proved-friend—the son seems to have in herited in an eminent degree. Those who have known him well, and known him long, concur in the statement that where his friendship and confidence are once se cured, he allows no extraneous influences, no ^ariy violence, no whisperings of enmity, no reverses of fortune, lo alienate his feel ings. Such a character is almost uofeilingly ac companied with sincerity, generosity and warjnth of heart. Their possessors may sometimes be deceived as to who are their real’ triends; but they never desert a friend from impulses of sciffsbness, or fickleness of 'disposition. We may well imagine what may be Pres ident Johnson’s feelings on reading this tribute to his father’s worth—preserved in the musty files of a journal of by-gone times. There it has remained in quiet for getfulness for fifty-three years, till brought 10 light by the- greatness and elevation of 4 he then orjjjian boy. Little did the author upj5os”ethat the fatherless child, with whom he, no doubt, decA’y sympathized, would, ra process of time, Jr juire a name aod repu-. laticn coinwith the limits of tha ..., Christian world, f The following extract from Mr. Johnson’s speech in the House of Rep resentatives, on his great favorite measure, “the homestead bill”—delivered April 28, 1852—will show the touching affection he stiff cherishes lor the land ot his birth, iu which reposes the ashes of his father: “Some object to this measure, as calcula ted to take away the population from the old States. Let me ask the Old Dominion let me ask North Carolina—God bless her! for although she is not, as the Romans would call it, my alma mater, yet she is my mother ! Although poverty'—gaunt and haggard monster—expatriated me from her limits, to seek a home in my adopted State, where every fibre, every tendril of my heart, is entwined with the interests of her people—yet still, North Carolina is my na tive State, and in my heart I respect and love her." Strange to say, adds the Standard, the very paper containing the above obituary, is in mourning for the terrible disaster 61 the burning ot the Richmond Theatre in 1812; and the proceedings of a meeting of condolence on the part ot the citizens ot Raleigh, presided over by CoL Wm. Polk. In the same paper is an obituary notice of the death of the mother of Wm. Gaston. Such is life! one generation passeth away and another succeeds. Filty-three years from to-day all who are now the busy ac tors on the theatre of life, will have passed to that bourne from which there is no re* turn^ and another generation will have ta ken their places—and another, and another, in one continual cycle. ^Aktemus Ward on Reorganization — Artemus Ward, in a recent letter, thus gives an idea of reorganization : I have never attempted to reorganize my wife but once. I shall never attempt it again. I’*i bin to a public dinner, and had allowed myself to be betrayed into drinkin’ several people’s health; and, wishing to make them as robust as possible. I contin ued drirking their health until ray own be came affected. The consequence was I pre- - seated myseifat. Betsey’s bedside, late, at night, with considerable lrker condealed about my person. I had somehow gdt pos session ot a hosswhip on rgy way home.— Rememberin’ some cranky observasbun of Mrs; Ward’s in the morning; I snapt the Whip putty live'yfand inAlbud voice said, “Befjsy, you need reorganizin’. I have come Betsy,” I continued—crackin’ the.whip o’er the bed—“I have-eothe to reorganize you.” That nite I dreamed that somebody had laid a ho?swbip over-me several times, and; . . when I wtke up I found she had. I haiut drunk much of anything since; and if I ever : ‘ have any reorganizin’job on hand, I will let it oul The Emperor of Abyssinia is very fond of children. In the last battle against the Gallas, a young general was killed by The odore’s own hand. The next day, the widow, crazed with grief, put herself iu the Emper or’s way, holding out a child, three years old, in hei arms. He ordered his guards to let her approach. “Monster!” she exclaimed, “after the father, the child; take him and kill Him f” and she threw the infabt at his feet. Theodore, without moving a muscle, picked up the child, kissed him, and said— “Woman, what is done was God’s will, but your son shall be mine,” and he keeps his word. Douglas Jereold, discussing one day with Mr. Selby, the vexed question of adapting dramatic pieces from the FrerfcH; that gen tleman insisted upon claimihg some of his characters as strictly original pjeations.—» “Do you. remember my baroness in “Ask no Questions?” said Mr. S. “Yes; indeed, I don’t think I ever saw a piece of yours with out being struck by your barrenness, was the retort.” After young Ketchum was lodged in the tkationhuuse he was for some lime si - lent,j Oa the appearance of one of Jhe de- teciites he requested the loan of his watch key, producing at the same time a gold time piece from his vest pocket. “ This watch, was presented to me by my.f&ther, some ten or twelve years since,” he remarked. “ I was ihen a good boy/and it was bestowed upon me as a reward for my behavior. I doubt that he would give it to me now 1”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 186?-1865, September 13, 1865, Image 1