Newspaper Page Text
A Family Journal for the Dissemination of General Intelligence. Miscellany, Agricultural, Commercial, Political and Religious Information
[PROPRIETORS
EW SERIES,!
MACON, GfA., MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1866
iVOL. 1, NO. 18
T liLEGRAPH
A Dnll Business Season—A 'Word of Ad-
rice.
* I From all quarters comes up the complaint
* | of unusual stagnation in business. In Boston
— j it is at a stand-still, in New York staggering
*• and alarmed, and in all the Southern cities
either motionless or moving on at a snail’s
er pace. The merchants and the tradesmen
complain that customers ore few and far be-
-tween, whilst the planter is cramped in his
operations for want of money.
All these things go hard, yet they are just
Ie what every sensible man who conld trace ont
> ! effect from cause, anticipated. The vast ma-
, | jority of the Southern people were left with
out a dollar by the war. A million or two boles
D of cotton were saved from the wreck, and this
thrown upon the market brought money into
the country and gave an impulse to business
e in all its departments. The country was-ex
. hausted of everything in the line of domestic
r comfort, and every man who could raise a dol. I
r lar took it to the stores and laid in supplies I
for himself or family. Business was brisk in I
: all the towns, and we regret to say, many of I
I our people, tempted by the display of luxu
ries ot which they had so long been deprived*
went into foolish, reckless extravagance.—
t This day, though, is now over for a season. I
L The cotton is gone, the money spent and tak- I
) en to the North to settle accounts with the |
i jobbers, and the country left poor .We havo I
. nothing to send out in order to bring money I
> in, and economy becomes of necessity a vir-1
i tue of general prevalence. We must wait I
1 until we create more values before we spend I
more money
Strange to say, the Northern manufacturers I
and merchants were so blind as not to see that I
this exact condition of affairs in the South I
was inevitable, and provided heavily for the I i
Spring trade. They will soon begin to real-1 i
ize the effects of their disappointment. The I,
gradual and heavy decline ol cotton will I
bring them into trouble with goods monu-1 1
■factored of that material, and the falling off I ‘
I of the demand will only aggravate the evil, r
The appreciation of the currency must inevi-11
tably bring down prices, and here again the IS
merchants have cause for alarm. The deal-1 (
ers in this city have, for the most part, acted t
wisely in this time of uncertainty. Their I a
policy has been to lay in small but select 11
stocks of Spring goods, such as the country I'
actually needs. Should more be required, I £
they can readily order them and at a reduced I v
price, and should trade break down entirely. I n
they will not be sufferers to'any considerable
extent
We arc no alarmists, but we think we can I t ]
see somi of the evidences of an approaching I ti
financial avalanche, and hence we would ad-1 si
vise all parties to “stand from under.” Our s]
business men should set their houses in order I
and cautiously circumscribe their operations, a
whilst the people generally should practice j
economy and self-denial, until the crisis shall I sc
have passed. The probability is that, in the
South at least, it will be short-lived. Our ^
people are out of debt, and they have only to
remain so to recover from the misfortunes of I el
the post and enter once more the high road I
to prosperity. All we need is peace, good I ^
If we can wcath-1
SENATOR WADE AX OLD DISUXIOX-
IST.
I Several days ago the Baltimore Gazette ^ , IW
published, and Senator Rcverdy Johnson, of documents recently laid before Congress by
Maryland, used in Congress with striking ef- "
feet, some disunion resolutions passed at a
I meeting in Ohio where Senator Wade and
Governor S. P. Chase were reported to have
I been present. The next day Sir. Wade de-
I nied with great indignation that he had been
I prese nt at the said meeting or ever before
I seen the resolutions. lie did not call upon
I God Almighty to bare his arm updn the oc-
| casion, as he commonly does now in those
I parts of his speeches where most men would
I think an argument useful. But he stigma-
J tized the resolution as “secession doctrine,”
I called the Gazette a “miserable copperhead
sheet.” and raged to and fro till any ignorant
person in the galleries must bare supposced
the doctrine of the quoted resolution to be,
in Wade’s estimation, the most hateful and
treasonable of all forms of opinion.
The Gazette thus pins to the wall this hea-
| then so furiously raging, with a few short ex-
i tracts from a speech of his in the United
States Senate in 1835:
There are some Senators who profess a
great regard for the rights of the States. I
am one of those who have quite as much re
gard for the rights of the States ns some who
make louder professions on the subject than I
do. I am one of those who, not only when
an election is pending, bat at all times, be
lieve in the wisdom, the constitutionality, and
the propriety of the Virginia resolutions of
1798 and 1799. I ground myself upon these
Official Com-poadcnce about Kidnapping WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
The Washington correspondence of the N. OF TnE Georgia telegraph.
Y. Times gives the following summary of the • The proposal to Guarantee a Mexican Loan—Ar-1
- - I -- ■ . guments Before the Committee in Favor of the
the president: ' ~ Guarantee—Why the Mcainrc will not Pass the |
The Prestdent sent a Message to the Sen-i °“ e ' Wastuimrox, March 10,1866. !
ate to-day, in answer to the resolution request- „ „ ... ’
ing him to communicate any information in . Committ f on Foreign A flairs have |
the possession of the Executive, in relation to J 14 * 1 bcfore them, ever since the 5th inst., the reso-1
the alleged kidnapping of colored persons in , lon proposing, on the part of the United States j
the Southern States, for the purpose of selling Government, to guarantee the payment of a loan j
them in Cuba or elsewhere. It appears from to the so-called “Republic of Mexico,” of fifty
the documents transmitted and from a letter . millions of dollars, based upon bonds to that
' written by General Canby, that three colored amount, which the friends of the Juarists propose
children were abdneted from New Orleans to issue. This is in addition to the loan of 930,.
and carried to Havana or some other port 000,000, bonds for which were issued last Norcm-
of Cuba, where it was suppose! they were at her, sad which, as I stated In a recent letter, cap-
the time the War Department wxs informed of italists in the Northern cities would not touch.—
this occurrence. Secretary Sewtrd instruct- The committee have come to no decision on the
ed Mr. Savage, our Consul at Havana, to matter, and will not decide finally until the 23d
make inquiries, in or(tC* tlirit ti** cliil »rcn in«t. Tiiehuiw*n {nitnafnnnaip
If this 1 wr..; announced it did
no -ood, for on t!: *>:!i Gen. Halleck writes
and the committee print:
“In Pennsylvania, officers aqd citizens are
on a big stampede.” On the 24th Hooker
telegraphed to Washing:on: "I don't know
whether I am standingon my head cr feet.”—
Gen. Lee by this time had crossed the river,
and on the 29th of -Tune, Hooker was relieved
of his command. J’ho rest may be told in his
own words, p. 173 :
“On being relieved, I was ordered to pro
ceed to Baltimore and to report for orders.—
After remaining in that city three days with
out receiving any orders. I came over to Wash
ington ; bnt before I'had been but of mv car
riage ten minutes, I was placed under arrest
by order of the General-in-Chie£ With this
ended my connection with the Army of the
Potomac.”
The Philadelphia Age make* some intcr-
' esting extracts from the volumes containing
j the report of the committee of Congress on
I the conduct of the war. The first has refer-
| ence to General Banks and his encounters'
| with the immortal Stonewall Jackson, with
! some introductory remarks by the Age :
GEN. BANKS AND STONEWALL JACKSON*.
On the 29th of May, 1863, the Confederate
authorities announced that Gen. Banks had
been “ignominonsly driven” down the Valley.
Stonewall Jackson literally chased him to the j
tion till dark, but the enemy was so much
stronger that it was impossible to advance.—
In the evening we fell back,” «fcc., (vol. 3, p.
46.) For this, General Pope censured
“Alexander.” The fact is, that according to
his own showing, Banks was goaded into this
battle, for he testifies thus: “In the morning
General Roberts (Pope's Chief of Staff) said
to me in a tone which it was hardly proper
of his decision. The question at issue con
cerned an institution long designated as pe
culiar to the Southern States of the. Union,
,but the events which have recently transpired
in our own colony of Jamaica will enable us
to understand with very little difficulty the
political conflict in America. * *
It was said the public had testified their
approval of an act designed to express the
determined opposition of the President to
sectional and oppressive legislation. Nor
should we expect less from the good sense
and judgment of tho American people. In
this country the courage and decision ‘exhibi
ted by Mr. Johnson will confirm -the respect
in which his policy has been held., and will
entitle him to credit as one of the ablest
statesmen who have ever conducted a great
nation sc ccessfully through a perilous crisis
by firmness, moderation and* wisdom.
Negro Equality.—The venerable Geo.
Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, in a late address
to the people of that State, before whom he
is a candidate for re-election as Clerk of the
Court of Appeals, uses the following signifi
cant language on a favorite radical topic:
Other .candidates may do as they please,
for one officer to use to another: ‘There
must be no backing out this day.’* He said
thisto tne from six to twelve times. I made
no reply to him, but I felt it keenly, because
resolutions, and, standing upon them, I de
nounce this bill as a violation, not only of the
spirit of those resolutions, but os an attempt
to trample upon the rights of the States and
deprive them of the power to protect their
own citizens from aggression and abuse. Do
gentlemen suppose that the States, now
awakened to a keen sense of their rights and
the danger of consolidation, will ever sabmit
to snch a bill os this ? I tell you nay.
Who is to be the judge in the last resort of the
violation of the Constitution of the United
Statet by the enactment of a late f Who ie the j
I knew that my command did not want to
back out. We had backed out enough. He
repeated this declaration a great many times.
‘Tnerc must be no backing out to-day.’ To
‘Tnerc must be no backing out to-day.
be sure, General Pope denies all this, and in a
letter to the committee thus cruelly and con
temptuously extinguishes his refractory sub-
Disloyal Beef.
city paper contains an official advertise-
:: inviting certain proposals for beef, hut
brine that
X i hills will be entertained from persons
nic under the exceptions of the Presi-
amm-sty proclamation, nor will bidsin
buyer should do more than make the
moA advantageous to that Government
I have the wherewithal to pay for his pur-
and when positions are reversed and
| Government, in turn, becomes the buyer
lire at a lo-s to perceive any good reason
| it should impose strange and abnormal
lliiions on the citizen vendor. If I want
brenuhent mule I bid for him, and, if I
more than anybody else, Government
ils me over long-ears and I plank down
psh. The transaction is a plain business
F'* all around—so much mule for so much
'<\v. I get all I can for my money and the
eminent nil it can for its mule; and, like
stnrible men on a trade, neither party
itrs the other about the oath of allegi-
\ condonation of treason, or any other
i foreign topic whatsoever.-
in. when it comes to buying, it seems that
f plain business rules arc not to prevail,
y off, in the Department of the Gulf
ed Republican America should be
fed out into these satrapies—it is like-
provided that certificntiou of “loyalty”
t accompany bids, and this correspon-
e of requirement leads us to suppose it is
c henceforth an integral requisite to pro-
“kiog it in this way, it is proposed
itly to touch upon it—a general rule bc-
cntitled to a notice no single case of the
would receive.
‘f federal Government, let us suppose,
1 <*tl, and you have it. It wants to
an l yon want to sell. But, unfortunate-
-r pardon hangs fire. This new dispen-
a flints you out. You have to secede
the market, and the result of your se-
aa :s > to that extent, to diminish compc-
i. and put it in the power of remaining
Seven of these have been Claimed through ^cy are authorized by president Juarez and tne
the Consulate, lour ol whom have been sent K° vcmment °f tlie Mexican republic. Bat
to the United States, and the other three are U *** demonstrated that Juarez is an
waiting for on opportunity to be sent to New i usurper, and that there has been no “government
Orleans. The Consul believes that such facts of a Mexican republic’’ since the 30th of Nov.
as these gave rise to the charges of kidnap- last * It is said that they are sanctioned by Mr.
ping. j Romero, Minister here of the Mexican republic.
’ .. ,, ' .. , I And so they are sanctioned by Mr. Romero, but
From the Mobile Advertiser, 11th. I . , , ,
A Northern Adventure in Dixie—A Warn- ioe “ p *' ,
ing to Southern Young Ladies. cannot be two governments of tho same country*
Two fair and buxom maidens, who have . andthegovernmenfof Mexico is an Empire,
passed the rubicon of their teens, managed, As regards the settlement of the Mexican
to accumulate a handsome little sum by bard question, it wa3 in a fair way to be peacefully
and honest toil in the city of Augusts, and honorably settled, until this proposal to
embarked in business in one,of the corner rantoe tha Juarist , oan was sprung upon the
stores of that thriving burgh. They were ^ ouw The Emperor Napoleon had announced
bis positive intention to withdraw'the French
troops from Mexico; and a recent steamer bad
brought the welcome news that Baron Sailliard
h%d already made arrangements with Maximiian
Washington*, March 17.—The Senatorial
caucus held another meeting to-day, and re
ceived the report of the committee, appointed
at the previous meeting, on q constitutional
amendment to be proposed in the Senate, aa
well as in the House, and passed, if possible,
at an early day. It seemed to be the prevail
ing impression that no amendment, not
basing representation on votes, couid succeed
and it was therefore agreed that the Senate
should unite on the following:
“Representatives shall be apportioned:
among the several States which may be in- -
eluded within this Union according to their
respective numbers, counting the whole num
ber of persons in each State, excluding Indi
ans not taxed ; but whenever, in any State
election, the franchise shall be denied to any
portion of its male citizens above the age o_
twenty-one years, except for crime or disloy"
alty, the basis of representation in such State.
shall be reduced in the proportion of the
number of male citizens over twenty-one
years of age.”
The Mexican Question.
SIR. SEWAKD'S REPLY TO N.DROUYX DLXRUYS.
Paris (March 11] Correspondence of thq London
[Times.
Mr. Seward anxiously expected dispatch in
answer to that of Mr. Drouyn de lihuys lias;
arrived in Paris. I have reason to think that
the contents will be deemed satisfactory by.
the French Government. The American Min--
ister of Foreign Affairs, without in any way
retracting or'modifying any potion, will,. I,
believe, be found to have disclaimed any in
tention on-the part of the United States to
interfere in Mexico after the departure of the
French army, in terms which will be consid
ered sufficient to warrant t*le Emperor in car
rying ont his promise of a speedy evacuation.
government, and frugality,
cr through the Spring and Summer—and we
can if wc but will it—with reasonable suc
cess to our new system of labor and propitious
seasons, wc shall, by the blessing ol Heaven
upon our labors, enter upon a new career of
prosperity the coming Autumn.
Above all things we counsel onr people,
under no circumstances, to allow themselves I
to be tempted again into the credit system.—
It is an unmitigated curse to society, and ns
the war has succeeded in abolishing it, let it
stay so forever, no matter what may be the |
present sacrifice. The temptations will be
offered, for Northern merchants mast sell
their goods on some terms or go by the
board; in every case reject them os au enemy
to your prosperity and peace of mind.
have ever seen oh the field ef battle. You
conld tell one of his attacks anywhere—and
the turn of the battle was Stonewall Jackson’s
death.
Let any one search these volumes through,
lows:
But Southern gentlemen stand here and in
almost all their speeches speak ot the disso
lution of the Union as an clement of eveiy ar
gument, ns though it were a peculiar condc-
and in all the criticisms on the victorious ar
mies ot the North and its strategy, there is no
words so hearty and earnest as these.
itohtino joe nooKKit.
General Hooker’s career, as here illustrated,
is a very perplexed one. He was in trouble
all the time—before he was in command and
afterwards. One of his Brigadiers (Gibbon)
says that there was a certain Indiana officer—
a Lieutenant—“who was utterly disqualified
for his position, not having the first princi
ple of a soldier in him. At Antietam, ho was
in Washington on sick leave. When became
back to the army he had a Brigadier General’s
strap on,” and then the committee asked:
Q. “How did he get it ?”
A. Through the recommendation, of Gen
eral Hooker, which was obtained because a
pressure from very high authority was so
strong that he could not refuse. I protested
against the appointment and wrote a letter to
the Adjutant General, telling him the man
was totally disqualified.” (P. 447.)
Iu January, 1863, “very high authority”
made Hooker commander of the Army of the
Potomac, and then began a.correspondence
between him and the President and the War
Department, fully set forth in these volumes,
to which no words of ours can do justice. It
is an awful, and. at the same .time, ludicrous
revelation of the inner operations of war.—
We can afford only a few specimens.
In one of Hooker’s letters, he says of Gen.
3Iilroy r “I only know that liisgeneral char
acter is that of a stampedcr.” He then com- j
plains that his recommendations for promo- j
tion are disregarded—and on the 20th March ;
writes in reference to a very distinguished
military man:
“ I should consider the services of the en
tire corps lost to this army, were it to fall
into the hands of General Carl Shura.” Late
in March, the Government urged an advance,
and Hooker telegraphed back, “you must be
patient. I must play with these devils before I
spring. Remember, my army is at the bottom
of a well, and they at the top.” On the 27 th of
man—one of the numerous prepossessing ad
venturers from the North—happened along
one day, and the eldest sister beoune infatuu- meats composing which was even designated,
ted with him. Her affection was reciprocated *nd tho transport vessels, for which service were
by the young man, and after a brief period to be furnished by the French government. Fi-
of love making, peculiar to most marriages, nall _ by t he arrival of the steamer A frff a to-day,
they resolved to unite their fortunes, we , carn |h „ CODfinD ,tion of what I have hcreto-
aml the wedding took place on the first f iUted( namcl y ( that Mr. Seward’s reply to
TO; ™?, ha PPy young trife was in- tho FrencU Minister of Foreign
duccd by the bright promises of her Sweet “• , . ... ....
William to turn the store and cotton into Affairs of Feb. 9th, states that the United States
money and take a wedding tour, after which w * 11 remain neutral towards Mexico, after the
they were to start in business dn a larger evacuation of that country by the French. Bis
scale. She fully confided in him and sold ont. Importantstatement is made in the official news-
The husband got possession of the money, paper of tho French government, and can there-
and left with his wife and her sister for JIo- fore be relied upon.
bile. On the way to this place he made The It was white matters were in this favorablo
wedding tour merry by paying out like a state, that the radical republicans in Congress
sccnsion on their part that they permitted the
Union to stand at all. If they ao not feel in
terested in upholding this Union, if it really
trenches on tliejr rights, ii it endangers their
I . is.i minister at Washington had au
fvH'W with Mr. Seward, and called liis at-
r 00 "ie Fenian organization. Mr. Sew-
I replied that “there is no cause for alarm;
I it is mere smsation—a seven days’ won-
r *“** that the government hardly thinks
prtli dignifying with a notice.”
ie uo r.ot invite attention to this with the
afion of cither disputing or continuing
remarks of the Secretary of State; but
• to remark upon their eminent Scward-
Every one secs in them the same
* T-iplcy Seward who, iu 1861, thought
vxr was only a ninety-days affair; and
»lway» grew hopeful of the situation in
>°rtion os other people became disconr-
(Md doubtful. *
* have no doubt that when the resurreo-
Upon the whole, therefore, the diplomatic as
pect of the Mexican difficulty may be safely
described as promising. I should not, how
ever, be at all surprised to»find later that the-
prolongation of the French occupation, on.
excuse or another-, might lead to complir.
wc are no longer unrepresented in tue de
partments and the lobby. Such a man as
Jndgo Cabiness, if located in Washington per
manently, would lie of immense service to the
State and people, nc has cneigy, sagacity,
prudence, and would be faitbful to his trust
Mr. Stephens is there, bnt temporarily, and
were ho to remain, his physical strength is not
sufficient for the active labors that would de.
volve upon him. By all mean let us have an
Agent in Washington.
Queue.—We published yesterflsy, certain
principles announced by Senator Wade, a few
days ago, which, he said, “arc the great
principles of the Almighty,” “chained to His
throne, and are as indestructible as the Al
mighty himself.”
To-day wc publish certain other principles
of the same gentleman, announced a few years
ago when he was in a more sober mood.—
These maintain the right of secession in the
States whenever wronged, of which they in
their “sovereignty” aro to be tbo sole judges.
Now, we desire to know if these too arc not
tho “principles of the Almighty, chained to
His throne” Ac.—and if not, why not T
- ■ ■ ^ t •
How to put a Bkeak on Conobess.—As
all^ good patriots have grown tired of the
present bogus Congress, it would be an inter
esting experiment for somebody to resist a law
passed by it—no matter which—on the
ground ofthcunconstitntionalityof the body,
and take the opinion of the Judiciary upon
the point. Wc doubt very much if the Su
preme Court would decide it to be a body
competent under tlio Constitution to enact
laws. If they did, they would have to give
anew reading to that instrument.
one
cations.
£J*"A eorrcspondent of the Hartford Times
says he was rather surprised to meet in Hart
ford the other day a soldier whom he helped
bury and read the burial service over in, Vir
ginia in the fall of 1863. The fellow was iu
a trance when he was buried, partly dug him
self out of his very shallow grave,* was dis>-
covered by the rebels, helped out, and sent as
a prisoner to Richmond’for a year and tbrn
to Georgia until the war ended*.
— — —
Du. W. T. I^iantly.—It affords u> very
great pleasure to hear that I)ev. W. T. Brant-
ly, D. D., has accepted a call to return to the
Second Baptist Church in this city. His en
gagement in Augusta will expire wl:h June,
aad in July wo mfiy reasenably expect to.
have him with us. The Dr. is an eminent di
divine, and a polished gentleman.—Fra.
jg?” Henry S. Footo is in Washington, ajid
a special to the Cincinnati Commercial says
he is “urging the passage, by the Senate, off
tlie resolutions <if his son-indaw, giving the
he had changed their boarding boose without ian by foreo. He would bo ot once convinced
saying a word to her about it. This put the that those French interests in Mexico which he
husband off his guard, and she induced him has to defend, (but which are not incompatible
to go down street with her to look at a with the interests of the United States,) were
store which she was informed could threatened, were imperilled. He would at once
be rented very cheap. He accompanied his put a stop to the arrangements which are being
injured wife, and she led him to tho station ma{ j e for the evacuation of Mexico; and proba-
house, where he was furnished with the room w wouId i arge i y augment his forces there.—
to which shehadalludcd. His name is Wm. T ' tho (0 , aticm of tbe Mexican question would
l0 ri er ^f iL„ W n r ra i n , fr0m th ? be further off than ever; and instead of being
-«* .*«• •»"* “rr -
bond of $3,500, and in durance vile, Some being precipitated into a war with France.—
efforts have been made to get him released, These considerations will no doubt present them-
but thus far they have proved unavailing.— ' selves to the members of Congress, and will pre-
The young wife and her sister are now in our Tent *he passage of the guarantee resolution.
city, and in possession of only $280 of the 'Warwick.
handsome sum placed in the hands of this Another SECEBSioxrer.-Mr. Wilson, then
nice young man. a3 now a Senator from the State of Massa-
Retubnkd Home.—The Hon. John Van chusetts, on the 23d of February, 1863, held
Buren returned home in tlie Quaker City on the following language: • ■ ,
Saturday. While here he visited various I recognize the Democratic uoctnnc or
points of interest, including the fortifications State rights, in its application to slavery, as
in the harbor. The special object for which well as to other locifl affairs, and while I shall
he came to Charleston has not been revealed, resist all attempts to encroach upon the re-
althongh, it is thought by many that some served rights o» the sovereign States of the
political movement is in the wind.—Charles- Union, I will stand side by side with my Dc-
ton Courier. mocratic friends in vindication of the V irginiu
Visitors.—Within the past two weeks we and Kentucky resolutions ot. 1«98 and 1799,
have noticed tho presence amongst us of a which they endorsed at Baltimore in 1832.
large number of Northern people; not a few [Montgomery Mail.
of them have made investments in lands.—lb. — '*°*'—~. . ,
Jt'. :. T .. .. ' E3T An Irishman, not Fenian, returned
£37“ Our fMq| Brigadier has thrown aside from Italy, was asked in the kitchen, “Pat.
his should* r- -1rape and gone to firming.— what is the lava I hear the master talking
| ' ' * ‘ crater,” was the
Governor of JCuuchMett , has
•: latii. lin-d sr-f-'O each lor tarring
ng t. at Morose, in that
>ni l.v'iS, who had exulted over
ition of President Lincoln.
p,-. ]). Collins, for more than twenty
v;ir- the Janitor of the Augusta Medical
'(.liege died Saturday afternoon hut—aged
ibout seventy years.
about t” “Only a drop of the
reply.