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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
<§rorjia Mcthljj (iflfgvapl).
QPAmong the pardons published ns hav
ing been granted ou the 11th, wc find the
name of W. II. Weems, of Georgia.
gggr* The only persons on the jury who
'voted against Mr. Davis's indictment were
Messrs. Gillingham, of Fairfax, and Robert
Hodgkin, of Alexandria.
of
To Federal Tax Pavers.—Owners
Real Estate in Bibb county will do well to
notice the announcement of the Federal Tax
■Collectors, which will be found in our col
umns.
Devotional.—The cities of Avgusta and
Nashville observed the 17th instant as a day
of fasting and prayer under the ]Reclamation
of the President of die United Suites—which
•was never issued!
Fare Reduced.—The travcliig public will
be pleased to learn that the Directors of tVc
Georgia Road have determined on a reduc
tion of fare to five cents a nook. Let other
roada follow suit.
It will coat about $0t,000 to got up
the new five cent piece. When the coinage
ia complete there will he about tbreo and
half million dollars of this money in circula
tion.
Santa Anna's Intrigues.—The Mexican
'Republicans in Washington fear that Santa
Anna's return of Secretary Seward's visit in
• dicatcs that on his return to Mexico he may
. replace Maximilian by a nominal Republican
> Government guaranteeing the French debt
J3F”Wc published a few daya ago an nc-
• count of the launching in England of the iron
war steamer Northumberland, the largest ves
sel of the kind in the world. It is now said
that she seems to have settled hopelessly into
the mud of the Thames, and will probably
.have to be taken to pieces.
Connecticut Senator.—Despatches trom
both Washington and Now Haven give hope
that the election of General Ferry, the Radi
• cal candidate for the United States Senate,
may yet be defeated by a union of the Demo
crats and Conesrvativc Republicans. The
Radicals were afraid to take the vote Friday
.and the election was postponed one week.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnson and the Ala
bama and Tennessee River Railroad.—At
a meeting of the Alabama and Tennessee
River railroad on Friday, the 11th inst., at
. Selma, General Joseph E. Johnston was elect,
-cd President of the company without opposi
tion. The Selma Times thinks his acceptance
of tho position may be confidently expected.
A resolution was adopted to increase the sal-
.ary of the President at the discretion of the
Directory, provided it should not be less than
$6,000 a year.
Ocr Despatches.—Wc are pleased to be
able to announcc.to the patrons of the “ Tele
graph" that wo have made arrangements
with the Associated Press by which our tele
graphic facilities will be greatly extended.
Our despatches now come directly through
from all points, and wc arc entitled to receive
five hundred words per day in place of the
meagre accounts heretofore furnished to us.
Wo arc sure our readers will be equally grati
fied with ourselves at this improvement.
£t/“Thc trial of Mr. Davis at Richmond
.at the present time would be one of those
great comedies which would hereafter excite
the derision of the world.—Senator Stunner.
No doubt of it; and we wonder that every
branch of the Government has not found it
out before. Tho trial of Mr. Davis at any
time by an honest jury must result in his ac
quittal, and a complete overthrow by the
Courts of the darling political theories of the
North. It is worse than “comedy" to try a
man for that which he is known in law to be
'innocent—it is persecution and crime.
EDUCATION OF THE BLACKS.
This subject, we arc glad to see, is begin
ning to attract attention in the South. Were
our people less devoted, of necessity, to con
siderations involving their own maintenance
and welfare, it would engage still more of
their thoughts. Subsistence is the first grand
object to be attended to; then comes a pro
per care for tlic intellectual improvement of
the poaplc. It is a cruel mockery of philan
thropy to be opening books and reading lec-
wants, and his appetite once appeased we
Tho Civil Rights Bill.
The National Intelligencer says that a suit
has Iwcn instituted by a negro against the
Baltimore anti Ohio Railroad Company, for
refusing to sell him a ticket for passage in a
first class car. It also says that the editor of
From the Christian Index.
Education ortho Blacks.
A convention of teachers was recently held
in the city of Houston, Texas, which adopt
ed. by a unanimous vote, a resolution “to ap
point a committee to prepare an address to
the people of the State of Texas, in relation
“Tlic Chronicle has set the social example of I to the duty and importance of educating the
receiving negroes at his mansion, where he emancipated colored people jriwmton;
entertained them in tho style of luxuriance o^ourTi'^pol'mlnrion
usual with him.” These, as that paper justly -We find in the Houston Telegraph,a speech
soys, are among the practical results of the made upon this resolution by Rev. C. C. Gil-
turesto a starving man. Food is what he enactment of the Civil Rights bill ^
is ™>ting to establish these results but the ]ant officer in the Confederate aray. As the
may approach him on questions of an intel- .adoption of negro suffrage. At least so the subject discussed is one of interest and in-
lectunl and moral nature. That sort of hu- f Republican party believe, and so Mr. Wen- volvs questions that may. ere long, be of prnc-
manity that overlooks tlic former to supply dell Phillips declares in a late speech from | tied importocr^wepoblish TOpiousextractS
«»e latter, is a false humanity, as disgusting which The Intelligencer quotes thi3 extract; I „^ ay ] ^ rn in what spirit’our neigh-
in the right of God as it is illogical and rid- “Negro suffrage means a score of negro I | )ors 0 f Texas are meeting tho exigencies of
iculous in the eyes of mankind. Conyyremen sitting in thei House of Bepre- , be . imes .
Fortunately for «s in this section of the New Orleans and colored Senators in Caroli- “ Aad “npSui^re maln^th^woy'we
South, there is no great amount of actual na. It mean, negro Reprewntatives ‘sharing our old friendship toward
want among the blacks that is not voluntary I ln making railroad laws and other laws. It | ?“ ou,a kaU.1
mws ami owier laws. « ur0 cced to accomplish what WC
kinds—of the man, the woman, the child—is foUows h * r(1 on the } ieel of the ballot-box,and preached to than
in demand, and can always secure at least tbe go U tj x knows it, and she resists negro suf- J'“tend to preach-‘ ‘ d t
subsistence. Though greatly redaced m cir- frage for what must follow it ^ cm bretb ^ a , Un ^P r „ t i 1 „ T , ,, n ,w the new
cumstances, the humanity of our people is A comparison of this with the following I gome of tlicm may ;l little alienated from
still equal to a proper care of the nged and I extract from a speech of Mr. Lincoln’s, shows lIS now; but wc must overlook that and be
infirm among their former slaves. We do I the wonderful progress that public opinion patient with it; it will pass away in time, if
not know a community in the South where has made In the direction of negro equality we do ©nr du^ They eman our en
. . . _ ... I .... , ship now more than ever, i icnty oi men naa
such a claim upon a former master could be within a very few months: interest enough in them to be their friends, to
rejected with impunity. Publiq.scntiment is I “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of Ke them cared tor in sickness nnd old age,
law on that subject, though there are von- making jurors or votep of negroes, nor inter- un( ]cr the old system. They did not need
- , . , , ” I marrving them with the white people; and I friends then : thev do now. We have always
few who need any compulsion in the per- wi jj Myj j n addition to this, that there is a declared that we were their best friends.—
formance of that sacred duty to the helpless. I physical difference between the white and I This has been denied by our enemies. They
We are then, measurably at least, in n con- black races which, I believe, will forever for- woldd be glad for us to sustain that denial
dition to discuss, and act upon to a limited I bid the two races living together on terms of I by showing that as soon as we lost our
„.„nL the (.notion of Mlurntin" fi, 0 social and political equality. And, inasmuch pecuniary interest in them, our friendship
extent, the question of educating;Uie rising astbc y cannot so live while they do remain I us not do our enemies si«* »
generation of the freedmen, ana of such I together, there must be the position of supe- serv ice, and ourselves such an injustice,
adults as may have the time and means to I rior and inferior, anti I, as much as any other “The’ sudden emancipation of millions of
spare to that end. We propose to offer a re-1 n,#n t #ra * n l*vor of having the superior posi- people, right or wroDg, i< amost notable
mark or two on tlie subject and in that con-1 don a8si e ned t0 tbe wb,te man * | event in the history of the world. Their
- 1 helpless and dependent condition, and their
ncction would call attention to an article
copied into another column from the Chris
tian Index. The writer lays down an im
pregnable truth,—a truth founded alike in
enlightened humanity and wise economy
COTTON
PLANTERS* CONVERT- unpreparedness for their new relations, will
qpf ON. I necessarily attract the attention of till tlie
„ ,. ,. .. J philanthropy benevolence nnd piety of christ-
We recur to this subject for the purpose oft ‘. ndom lt is not str ange that it should do
giving to our planting friends some Informa-1 so. Did it occur in any other country, our
, , ... ... . | tion that will be gratifying, viz: that we are I sympathies would likewise be aroused.—
WuCn I1C declares thtlt ICC sllOUiM, WlU WC J . » « .« J • I Ttir>rnfnrn if tro <)/% not. tllG loilfl in tho
.... , . .’ to have a convention in due time and in regu- 1 neretore, li we nonni taae me icauin cue
* f “* i. I necessary and inevitable movement for the
........... ar lonn - proper education of these newly emancipated
tion of the blacks." No one can successfully . “™. e Cetton Plantere ’ Convention of Geor- people, others wilL Societies^ European and
. ... ... ... gia" is an organized and permanent mstitu- American, will be formed, and the land will
A ”‘‘“ ** ”f- V L, tbowh which .11 mnttere b. »„od„l with .gent. tackcrs .bo l»
supply, viz: That the ignorant blacks of the ’ m knowledge and no appreciation of the rela-
Soutls are attracting the attention of good 11 , 0 ' . , ; ^ | tion between the Southern whites and blocks,
than ten days ago, that if he sat upon the
jury that was to try Jefferson Davis he would
“hang him to the first tree that would bear
his form.” It is very clear that these men,
composing the Grand Jury of this court, as
sembled with malice aforethought, and
brought in the indictment ns a matter of
course.
Late Hon. George E. Badger.—Wo find
the following brief but well-merited tribute
to one of the greatest minds our country has
produced, in thedate Tallahassee Sentinel.—
We recollect once to have heard Mr. Webster
say that in point of intellect Mr. Badger had
no superior living:
Jrst before going to press we hear that a
telegram has been received by Col. J. J. Wil
liams, the step son-in-law of Hon. George E.
Badger, of North Carolina, announcing the
death of that distinguished gentleman.
As a statesman. Judge Badger was the peer
of the great names long associated with his
own in the Senate of the United States. As
a lawyer, he bad no superior ia the nation,
nnd but few equals as an orator. Daring tlic
memorable debate in Congress pending the
discussion of the compromise measures of
1850, Judge Badger bore a part not less con
spicuous than Clay, Webster Calhoun and
Cass; and it was after one of his most bril
liant efforts, during that memorable debate,
that Mr. Cass declared it totally unneees-
sary for Judge Badger’s speeches to be over
hauled before they went to the printer—so
pure and faultless fell his eloquent language
upon the ears of the Senate.
A politician of the old line Whig school
he fought manfully for union and compromise
as long as he felt there was anything left
worth fighting for, but when bis State seced
ed he espoused her cause with all the earnest
ness of a great and noble heart—freely offer
ing his property and his sons as a sacrifice.
We shall never forget the impression made
upon us by a speech delivered by Judge
Badger, at Kittrell’s Springs, in I860, upon
the great political questions of that day.
He was an able statesman—a pure patriot
- a Christian gentleman. 3Iay it be long be
fore the country shall mourn another loss so
heavy.
Five Beil Killed*
attracting „
and bad people all"over Christendom, and brought forward and considered. Thelatc | andw hose influence will tend, inmost cases,
they will be educated, to a greater or less de- ^ fusion was rts President to the mst.gaUon of antagonism, be; ween the
J ° and since his decease Mr. J. V. Jones, of I race*, and will in no cose promote the harmo-
Burkc county, First Viee-President, has be- n - v tbat ™ U,d P™* 0 *. 6 £ tbe whole ed-
•” ’ 1 ucational movement were in the hands of our
gree. by eomdbody. This wc >may rely upon os
true, and it is unnecessary to argue the point,
as we have already the.cvidcncc before our
come its official head. We have before us a QWn p eop i e<
eyes in every Southern community. The lctter flom that S entleman referring to the I “Wc have no opposition to the immigra-
great question then arrises: shall we, who P ro P osition of a “Monroe Planter,” publish- tion of thousands or millions of people, from
? . 1 ... . . . .. , ’ La “— nihimns a weeks a™ tta I whatever quarter of the globe. We need
have to live with the blacks in the same so- . ,• . . . , * P * them, and after they become citizens with us,
ciety and deal with them in all .the business “ u _ t lon7e3 u * to atate , * 10 bas not ,een an " they can unite with us in evertliing tending
relations of life, control that education lor of tl,e importance of consultation to t i, e good of the country. But we want
their and our common good, or give it up to amon S tbe P lanteM of Georgia at the present no pseudo-philanthropic adventurers to come
others who are totallv ignorant of what con tim e, and that he has determined, as soon as »m<mg us, to associate exclusively with
omers w no are totally ignorant oi wuat con-1 ’ . . . blacks, to make them believe that they are to
cerns the true welfare of Southern society, if tbe nu ™ ad communications shall have been look a ^ roa d for friends and cclucj^jon, and to
learts at war against it t As be- re-established, to call a meeting of the Con- 9 tj r U p antagonism between the races. Asso-
t we i mve n0 hesitation in dcci- vcntion > n this city, and that all planters in ciations may be formed in Europe and the
ding the question. Asismost justly and forci- thc S™ 11 * wbo desire to co-operate with that 1
bly stated by the Texas clergyman, whose “«f«d “> d ® b ? I J cr ? d ^tution of the State, for the good of our own sode^ .cohtro,
speech is quoted in the article referred to, I be cordially invited to attend. In bis I an( j g U jd c all movements for the education of
we want no pscudo-philantbropic.advcntur-1 Vice-President Jones very truly says: I the blacks. It is our interest to do it; it is
ers to come among us, to associate exclusive- “ No industrial organisation yet formed bas the interest of the blacks that we should do
lv with tho blacks to make them believe thev I CTCr reflected more honor upon itself, or ac-1 '*• “ ? s * n 1 accordance with the principles
ly w itn tnc DiaoKs, to make tuem Deneve tney ^ » governing the healthful development of all
are to look abroad for friends and education, compushod more good for the State and her t hat, we should do it. It is in ac-
to stir up antagonisms between the races.” I agricultural interests, in thc same time, than I cordanco with thc principles for which wc
Policy economy the vital interests of South- tbe ‘Cotton Planters’ Convention of the State contend, and upon which President Johnson
ern seciety demand that we should perform of Georgia’—as was demonstrated by the bas taken his position, that wc have the right
■J “ ouuimi pnumi . , ° . . . I to control tlie Question of suffracc tor our-
this great duty ourselves, and not leave it to] Fa!r ftt Macon, which abated nothing in in-|„i vpa moTOment f„ r the internal Ae-
others. I ' terest tor three weeks in December, I860.”
And now a word as regards the means for
New System of Weights and Measures.
—Hie House of Representatives have passed
a bill to authorize the use of the metric sys
tem of weights and measures. This is iden
tical with the philosophical and simple sys
tem now used by the French; wc are sure that
it will gradually commend itself to the peo
ple of this country. Thc present act only au
thorizes the use of this system; does not re
quire it to be adopted. A set of standard
weights and measures of the metric system is
to be furnished to each State by the Secreta
ry of the Treasury.
A Speck oar War.—A New York journal
aays there has lieen some mysterious talk re
•cently in the matter of a settlement of griev
ances between the United States and a South
American Republic. Thc mystery connected
with these ominous threats is now solved by
;the announcement that Ecuador is tlie Power
•referred to, and that her failure to pay the first
installment of thc award coming under thc
Convention between herself and the United
States of November 25,1862, is the threatened
■eamu MIL The payment was due, but not
forthcoming, on the 17th of last February.
The facts in the case were presented in a
message of the President to Congress. Thc
supposition that Ecuador has no intention of
paying the money due, and that more string
ent measures than those of diplomatic cour
tesy will hare to be adopted in order to cn
force a settlement, has led to the ominous out
givings of the last few days.
Massacre of Friendly Indians.—The
Government of Idaho has addressed a letter
to thc Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in
forming him of tho massecrc of some sixteen
lricndly Indians on thc 11th ofMarch, fifteen
miles above Idaho City, near tho mouth of
Moore's creek, on the Boise river, by a party
of citizens <of Ida county. lie concludes by
saying: “There were but two grown males;
the rest were women and children. Thc im
mediate settlers, miners, reported against thc
murder, and their statement I shall send you
in a few days, showing that the Indians were
defenseless and peaceable. If anything will
serve to bring on a geaeral Indian war, it is
such acts as these. I have gathered the rest
of the tribe, and placed them under thc pro
tection of thc military of this post Thc ex
citement runs high, and I have all I can do
to carry out my instructions agonist thc do-
proved moral sentiment evinced towards the
poor savages. Things look stormy just now;
but when the road to tbe Indian country be
comes passable I shall quiet ‘the troubled wa
ters.’ In no case that I have examined liavb I
found thc red man thc aggressor; but inva
riably thc trouble springs from fiendish out
rage of bad white men.”
Wc gather these lamentable facts from a
Washington letter. What a pity it is that
these poor unfortunate creatures have red
sl'iiw instead of black! This is strictly a
Northern affair, and we have no thunders
from tlic philanthropists of Congress; how
different would have been tlie case had thc
horrible court referred to occurred on South
ern soil, with thc negro es tbe victim.
accomplishing thc end in view. It
notorious and lamentable fact that we have
ia every Southern State thousands upon
thousands of poor white children whom
neither their parents nor
are able to educate—children
selves. No movement for the internal de
velopment of a country, political, industrial
social or mental, should have a foreign head
and foreign inspiration.”
A Great Western Idea.
LETTER FROM “THE COUN
TRYMAN.”
Eatonton, Ga., Slav 19, 1866
Editor* Maeon Telegraph .-—The Country-1 A novel nnd gigantic idea is generating
I s. l...*. itself in the Western head—whether practic-
tlic public treasury man newspaper is dead, but the Countryman aWe or notj rt . Illains t0 1hj It is to at-
lildren of our own I himself “still lives. Aon mortar omnu. In tempt to render the vast Trans-Missouri
race, and upon whose shoulders in another one sense I have become a villager, but still Plains fit for the settlement and residence of
generation must devolve the responsible I remain, in heart and soul, the Countryman. I man by planting their surface with trees.—
Wiiwma r.c l*. The law office it seems, is to be mv future In may now be called the Middle States
burthens of government now supported by T1 c law office, it seems, is to be Lf the Union, Ulinoia, IO wa, &c., nine-tenths
ourselves. For one we are free to say tlint Acid of operations, instead of the green wood of t j le soi i j 8 treeless, while tlie traveler who
we would never consent to the appropriation and the forest. But fate cannot drive the journeys one hundred and fifty miles west of
of a dollar for the education of the blacks, so love of the flowers, and the field out of my thc Mississippi river enters upon the region
long as the white children of tlie South arc constitution. marked on the older'maps as the “Great
„ ® , , . _ . . ,, American Desert,” now called tlie Plains—a
allowed, from want of means, to grow up in I suppose a line from tins village would region with pasg ; ble ^ growing an abun-
idleness and vice. Our first great duty is to interest you. Close railroad and business dunce of grass, nnd supporting countless
our own race; that fulfilled, we may with jus-1 communication between Eatonton and Ma- herds of buffalo and elk, but absolutely tree-
tice look after the interest of others. Icon, would seem to render an occasional | k**- The Plains extend from the British
This difficulty, however, we learn from I newspaper correspondence between thc citi-1 Poraeadona on the north to Texas, a distance
iL.* •’ i pona ce I of fifteen hundred miles; they are about
high authority, has found, and will continue zen s of the two places proper. Your cotton I four hundred miles wide at the Southern
to find, a practical solution. Thc philantliro- factors and your merchants who sell us dry limit, widening to the northward to perhaps
pists of tho’Northem States and of Europe, goods and groceries, would, no doubt, be double this distance. These vast regions are
offer to supply the necessary funds to inaug- pleased to know what our prospects a re to X alu eless to man without trees. 3Vith trees
—. ..j .| o..,!, „ f , , thev may be made habitual, their climate
urate and keep up throughout the South, a h^ ve an abundance of money to trade with rao £ ified ' t h e i r hydrological conditions al-
system of common schools for the education I *h enl next fall and winter. Bad enough, gen- tered, their destructive winds and storms
of tho blacks in those rudiments of knowl- J tlemcn. I have been a farmer all my life, abated, and a new nnd brighter creation may
edge necessary for their intelligent discharge ^ x bttve never known such a poor pros- 1,0 made ^ke the place of the old; and
of tho business of every day life, and as a ba- ^ in Putnam countv for mak l in „ * d thus would be furnished homes for millions
• , „ . I** 1 in 1 uinam couni y Ior ma “ing goou of griefs f rom abroad, or from among the
sis for such future improvement and eleva- crop3 . Ho stand of cotton—com unworked unsuccessful toilers ot our overcrowded cities,
tion as they may be capable of attaining. —ground too wet to plough—everything The question os to what trees to grow, and
Thc only work, then, for us to perform, is to over bead etLT3 “j n t ] ie grass”—strolling l>ow precisely to set about the work of grow-
supply tho educational labor, and at this yogahonds enticing off our negroes: These 'PS them, must yet be determined by exten
sive experiments; but the main thing itself
proposition we snouiu not ncs.tate ior a sin- arc enougll to makc our farmcrs and planters pronoun ’ ced within the liDlit8 ° of the
gle moment, and from considerations already gi oom y a „d despondent, and they avail feasible by the most intelligent authorities
referred to. We can contribute to any ex- t hemselvc3 of the opportunity to the full ex. upon such subjects in this country,
tent in that way There are thousands of cd- tcnt Besidea all thi wheat and oats have Tbe 8 “ f tbis scheme or even the
ucatcd men end women who might enter „„„„ Jr.. .. . proving of its feasibility, would incredibly
that particular field of labor not onlv as „ a . tbe rust » and evcn tbe b,ackbcrr y crop is sc- f^caiS the value of the public domain or
! • * 1 1 i,- * *VT - . P . rtously threatened with the blight But we the landed property of the Government; and
tnots looking to thc safety and best interests s |, a |i a n ]i ve till we die—that's certain. besides its benefit to an unnumbered popu-
of their country, but as prudent, intelligent j ^ leavo to retura you my thanks for I^ion, would produce revenues beyond corn-
people, willing to engage in any honorable n f putation for generations to come. We should
employment for a support * T I f n ^ J °!‘ if some Western men who have conceived
Bu We hLe saireTugh on the subject for nal ’. als °;.‘° , Dr ' otb « r tbe idea would demise a plan whereby the
the present We hope to see it cngaU the ™ blDg fncnds - PleaS0 alk>W mC > tbrou S h “ at ‘ cr “ n 1x5 ***** on a conslderablc scale '
attention of thc Southern Press, and of good k°" r ^umns, also to thank Messrs. Patrick |Y. T. Ttme*.
men and patriots of every calling in life, and * Ha ! CDS f ° r a . bat , ch noW8 P a ^ ra -
that the public mind may be aroused to cf- ™ e f,vor “ highly appreciated, and I insh
forts that will result in ridding Uie South cn-l tbosc gcntleman abundant 8nccess in their
tirely of what we concieve to be a most mis
chievous portion of her imported population.
vocation.
Tiie Countkyman.
Tho Character oftlio Men who In
dicted Jeff. Davis.
[From tho Richmond Examiner.]
As well be seen under our regular tele
graphic head, the Grand Jury of thc United
Ci.tM TMft.Sn ah *• t in aoecion of XT/irfnll.*
About three weeks ago, three young men
went to one Sanders’ house, near the town
of Campbellton, Fla., at niglit. and called
him out. Sanders refused to come. They
then went to the kitchen and lighted a torch,
intended to force him out, when Sanders
fired on the party, killing one, whereupon
thc remaining two fled for a more secure
hole. The young man that Sanders killed
was of a highly respectable family, and of
good moral habits. After it was ascer
tained that Sanders had murdered this young
man,afewofhis friends followed Sanders and
bis cut-throat gang and overtook and shot two
of them. Sanders, it will be recollected, is
an old deserter, and commanded a large
squad of “Bush-whackers,” and has now a
considerable number of thieves, cut-tliroats
and robbers following him, who commit all
kinds of depredations. Where are the au
thorities, that the fiend of hell isn't taken up
and dealt with ? No such a consummate
scoundrel should longer be allowed to breatbe
the balmy air ot Florida, or “drink of tlie
waters thereof.”
Dr. Perry killed a Mr. Rivers, a few days
ago, in Woodville, Henry county, Ala. The'
facts of tbe case, from what wo can gather,
are, that Dr. P., was a surgeon in the V. S. A.,
and had charge of the Hospital in which one
of Rivers’ sons was sick. Rivers went after
his son, and intended bringing him home.
Dr. P., refused to recommend a furlough, al
leging as a reason that young Rivers was too
sick to be removed. This incensed Rivers
agaiust Dr. P., and ever since that time, when
ever an opportunity presented, Rivers would
abuse Dr. P.. he becoming tired of such con
duct, stabbed Mr. Rivers, killing him almost
instantly.
A most shocking affray occurred at Colum
bia, Henry county, Ala., a week since, be
tween two* brothers—Ira and Elbert Elliott
They had a difficulty some two years ago. It
appears that Elbert prosecuted ira for living
in adultery, and since that time no good feel
ing has existed betwaen them. They met at
Columbia last week, when Ira, taking out his
knife, struck Elbert in the face, whereupon
Elbert then having a knife in liis hand, stab
bed lea to the heart, killing him instantly.
Early County Nete*.
White Labor 1h Louisiana. I For the Georg
We have received from Dr. Cottman, chief
of the Bureau of Immigration, a copy of one
of the papers on the advantage of settlement
in Louisiana, recently called for. Among
other subjects the author states facts well
known to most of our people, but which arc
discredited in the North and in Europe. He
says truly:—Picayune.
In every part of this Stute, os soon as you
leave the limits of the great plantations du
ring the season of cultivation, we find not on
ly white men, but women and children, boys
and girls, laboring at all hours in tbe fields,
without regard to the pretended climatic and
miasmatic influences which are so erroneous
ly imagined to be detrimental to white labor.
These people are uniformly thc most robust,
vigorous and healthy of the population. In
the vicinity of New Orleans all the market
gardens are worked through thc hottest days
of thc year by German laborers, men and wo
men. All the canal digging, leveeing, ditch
ing, railroad building, is done by Irish and
German laborers.
The great lumber trade, carried on with
thc greatest activity in the summer, and re
quiring great physical vigor and endurance,
is also conducted by white laborers. For
many years the cotton shipped in such large
quantities from thc Attakapas region, which
is half a degree nearer the tropics than New
Orleans, was the product of as hearty, vigor
ous and prolific a white race as the w'orld can
show. During the late war, when owing
to the disorganization of thc labor, the plant
ers were unable to raise cotton sufficient to
pay their expenses, thc proprietors of ten or
twenty acres would produce by the labor
themselves, their wives andcliildrcn, three, six,
eight and ten bales, as well as thc necessary
articles for their subsistence, and thus clear
very handsome profits. It is believed that
cotton can be more successfully and profita
bly cultivated iu small farms than under the
old plantation system. Thc cotton which is
thus cultivated, picked and ginned in smaller
quantities, and by intelligent and vigilant
whites, always commands better prices in
market on account of its cleaner condition
and superior quality.
And generally it may be said with equal
turth that there is no climate in thc world so
favorable to the European immigrant as
that of Louisiana. Our foreign and ^reole
population of whatever extraction are the
icalthies in the world.
ia Telegraph.]
tribute,
moky ok s. w. aoGEn.
“MACON VOLUNTEERS,” WHO VL1.;'
LY VODlOBAi; PETERSBURG
1864. ’
When tar from home and all the heart t
A lonesome wanderer on a foreign a *
What grief unspeakable it was to hev ^
That he, my gallant brother, was no’
Tlie light of onr home was ho—the nria.
Of doting hearts; so young, so fair
So fondly loved! In vain, too, has he’i
In vain his country’s cause he sought t,
How proudly went lie forth in manhood'.
His sale return wc ftmdly hoped to» .
When tieace and independence crowuej
The efforts unde to set our country !.’,7 I
Months passed away, and L who thought 11
Recalled to mind our scenes of youth w I
Alas! across the ocean came the knell I
Which told that he had winged hU - |
No loving kindred soothed his mortal »• . |
None watched and wept beside his drk
But faithful comrades of the battle plsij”
“I’m better,” whispered he, and the®^, ■
Yes, “ better” Iff that land of happv ; be
Where heroes meet to live forever bU^
No hireling focmcn there thy rights op-l I
No battle sounds disturb thineend!^, I
God comfort mother, weeping for bL. I
Who fella bleeding sacrifice in T»in* Kir
God comfort Cither, mourning o'er his u M
Departed never to return s^in! • • H
( liolcrn and the Freedmen.
Major General Wood, Assistant Commis
sioner of Freedmen for Mississippi, has issued
a circular on the subject of cholera, from
which we take the following, and commend
its suggestions to the blacks, for whose bcnc-fi
they are specially made:
Thc most effective measure of precaution
that the freed people can adopt is to abandon
their villages of huts in the suburbs of the
towns and cities, and seek employment in thc
pure air and thc salubrious situations ot tlic
country. In such settlements thc huts arc so
crowded together as to preclude the possibil
ity of healthful ventilation and effective
policiug. In the hovels generally of the
smallest dimensions, most rudely built, and
usually devoid of the commonest conveni
ences of respectable living, by far too many
persons are usually crowded for their health
or decency.
Thc appearance of any contagious or in
fectious diseases in these villages would un
questionably be followed by its rapid spread
through all the • inhabitants of them. There
is but one means of preventing this possible
direful condition; and that is, to abandon
these low purlies and seek employment in the
country. This course is most earnestly re
commended to the freed people.
It is the duty of the more fortunate portion
of the freed people, those who have thc means,
to aid in baking care of their less fortunate
brethren. The former arc exhorted to con
tribute to raise a fund to be expended in pro
curing medical treatment and hospital con
venience for their poor brethren, should
pestilential disease make its appearance
among them; and to appoint committees oi
their race to collect such funds, and to su
pervise the application of them to all the dif-
: erent objects tor which they may be collected.
Cause of Crime.—Dr. Blancburd Fosgate,
for many years physician to the State Prison
at Auburn, and one of the most eminent med
ical men of New York, has recently issued a
pamphlet, entitled “Crime and Punishment,”
which is worthy of a good deal more atten
tion than it is likely to get. Dr. Fosgate?
who has made the cause of crime a study, has
found that besides rum and ignorance there
are others quite as potent and prevalent He
enumerates among these tlie following:
Thc cheap literature of the day, spread
broadcast over thc land, ministering to a de
praved sensuality or the appetite of a mere
mental dissipation.
The periodical issues of those gorgeous
plates ot fashion, which, among a people who
regard equality in outward adornment as the
evidence of social position, stimulate a desire
for dress, to gratify which health and virtue
are too often sacrificed.
Prison Discipline Societies publishing pris
on bills of fare, that, leaving pauper life un
noticed, make even the well-to-do marvel at
the grade of living furnished the criminal,
thus making plenty appear to the destitute as
the reward of crime.
Legislative attempts to advance through
penal enactments, reforms that pertain to in
dividual conscience only, thereby goading
resistance to law and order.
Thc administration of oaths innumerable,
in reference to almost every business trans
action of private life, bas well nigh ab
sorbed Omniscience in the person of the rev
enue official, tost bartering their solemnity
for lucre or immunity against penal statues.
Secularizing thc pulpit, making earthly
schemes instead at heavenly aspirations the
objects of its mission, thereby losing hold on
thc mystic cord that binds man to his
Maker, and through thc lightning of which
his moral sensibility is exalted and accounta
bility to his fellow mortal and his God alone
adjusted.
God cheer that home, now desolate unu
Because of those so dear forever hut
No more in life can they our hearts o»|L,
Cut down, alas, by death’s untimely t- 'J
>f *
to
Rest sweetly, brothers, whercso’cryomu
Yourhattlca allarcfoupht, yourctm -’.
Sweet joys are yours, while wearekf
And wait re-uuion to be broke no
Paeis, 1S65.
General Beauregard I |
From the New Ywtl f'^ or
For two or three days past
have been seen fliting out and in tL-'Hi
corridors of the New York Hotel, ; If oD
little gentleman, in whose finely cut.sr b >
t'n 1 and Minu-what .-ad Ian-.
tibs-.'vviT, pereh:mee. mi u i.t M*
struction” of no ordinary man,butt),
imposing presence would be little ,7'
mark him out as a cynosure of puV-®“
Yet, that same unimposing little •• P a
has a name that was once a spell—t
which, for good or ill, must live i- l th
because it is interwrought with the«
events ot the mLditi.-: : a
name of thc man whose batteries, in £
ton harbor—more potent than tbe eb d!!
nf flinen onoinnf Trim -
el
Facta and Rumor*.
i : ■» . >T , j,, States Distric Court, in session at Norfolk.
Thoroughly Lnvestigated.-No less than bcen found a tr ’ ue bU1 against j efferS on
Test Oaths Unconstitutional.—Hon. F.. . . 1 nave neon lounu a true
P. Blair, in a speech last week m Missouri, ® a .^‘. l dl ?°Jf- nu ; sl .°. ns , arc “? w ’ r °^ soo , n I Davis for high treason!
made the following statement: | Si/ta th^Zr'Jt "H This does not surprise us, when it is known
ative to the recent riots in Memphis. In ad- L«. V ,1S V „ w-i
riifin,, n* , A . I that such men were ou that jury as Ward-
“ I am here to-day, my friends, to tell you dition to tbe Congressional Commission, and i ,, „ , •
that the Supreme Court of the United States that created by Gen. Stoneman’s order, on , ’ ‘ c0 ? ’ V 5 “S? ’
trustworthy” Dudley,
have already decided that this Constitution I whichGemM. J^ Wright waspTaced, the white I an< J ® onleb ° t, i' cal,ln h r “ u - 7 P a ^f s ’
one of the Judges of tlie Supreme Court in I other, thc City Council another, and°General Iey a ? d 1 a -7 a11 k ' aown bc . re
Washington, and he told me in addition that Fisk,’ of the Freedmen" Bureku, and Gem ™°? d „ “ mem ^T ° f \ « noton A US -
the only reason why the announcement of thc Howard, have each ordered one. ( :J ub > ^ orn to baD => JeAcrson Davis lfpos
decision was not made was, that the minority , ^ible. Three creatures were ordered to Nor-
of those who lehl that the law was constitu- «5-riiipf Tnctiro ri • , . 1f , folk by Underwood for the occasion and to
Chief Justice Chaso, in a recent letter | accomplish tho purpose. Thc infamous deed
tional (four Judges bolding it constitutional) in *Z, ^ S ' Clter f c ? om l )llsl1 tB ®. 1 lla inIan }. 0USucc 1
was tbe four Wsnd that tlie announcement ta th f. Am . cncan Anti-Slavexy Society, says: being accomplished, the conclave dispetsed,
m ight bepost poned tinthene^tcm^ich I ‘‘ Nolbin g profitableithan justice.”- Litlfthc notice that they would convene in
meets in December ” ’ A 8 a S encnd thing this may be true, but there this city on the 2Cth proximo, when, doubt-
tt™ tta—„ fo one ^rf °f justice which the Government less, 31 r. Davis’ trial will take place. Since
Hon. John Hogan, a member of Congress fi n< j s very unprofitable, and it is the Chief thedayswliencourtsandjurieswcrefirstin-
irom Missouri, also made a statement to the Justice at that. stituted, no case on record wilt excite
same effect. | ‘ so much interest as thc trial of this represen-
A Strange Statement.—That of one of
tho first citizens in Tallahassee that a very
large number of negroes, among those in his
employ on his plantations, had" begged him
that they might be allowed the privilege of
getting up a Festival for Major Gee’s benefit.
This gentleman assures us that 500 negroes
would unite in Tallahassee in such an under
taking. We have no doubt in thc world that
such a move, in proportion to thc ability of
thc negroes, would be as successful as the
glorious result of the affair of Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. For the sake of the great
argument involved In 6ucli an enterprise, by
all means let the effort be made.—Talleheuie
Sentinel.
E3F*A correspondent writes that, if we de- tetivo man of thc South. Tho eyes of all the
2a 1 tit U 1 Jl* . oat I Alt>alt*/vrl tvafI/1 mm 11 1 in ♦ 11 m G /l t/1 til O f 111
____ civilized world will be turned to that jury
That’s just what we wain. Suppose box - Tbe impeachment and trial of Warren
Santa Anna.—The famous Mexican Pres
ident, General Santa Anno, is in New York.
His personal npperance is thus described:
“Santa Anna is a man about five feet nine
inches in height, apparently some sixty years
of age, with dark hair, scarcely tinged with
the chill destroyer’s touch, and strongly
marked features, typical of thc intelligent
Mexican and the resolute, self-reliant man of
the world. He wears no beard, so that the
character of the lower portion of his features
are readily legible. Although he uses a
cane in walking, a casual observer would not
suspect that the General had but one “carnal”
pin to stand on, the other, as is well known,
being, like a toper’s last drink on Saturday
night under thc new excise law, a corker.
“Seriously, however, it is surprising that,
after the hardships which the General has
endured, he should appear with thc missing
limb to bear his years so lustily, and fight so
strongly against the growing stoop in his
boulders.”
It is stated that a sharp dodge has bcen
practiced by some teachers of freedmen, on
surrendering their charges, in selling photo
graphs of themselves to the ebony pupils at
one dollar each.
Sixty different amendments to the Consti
tution have been proposed during the present
session of Congress.
The New York Legislature enacted that
liquor selling 19 a disgrace—unless you pay a
license; then it is a virtuous occupation.
A young man recently died in France whose
internal organs were reversed—the heart was
on the right side the liver on thc left, etc.
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, makes
a wicked lunge at the very underpining of
society. He says “tilting hoops enable the
common people to see a great deal more of
good socity than they ever saw before.”
Thc Chicago Tribune says that “the Presi
dent has shown his hand.” Let the Tri
bune’s faction show its hand—but wash it
first.
The London Times shrewdly says: “No
American ever contemplated thc ultimate loss
of eleven States and nine millions of popula
tion. It is firmly imagined that after a cer
tain interval of purgation and punishment
the South will come back cleansed of its po
litical heresies and qualified for orthodox leg
islation. That is where the mistake is made.
It is a natural mistake, but a mistake all the
same. Whatever disqualificatoins affect the
South now will infallibly survive its term of
political proscription.”
Nashville was most beautifully sold yester
day. The day was celebrated ns a day of
fasting and prayer, in accordance with the
proclamation of the President, on account
ot the near approach of Cholera. The May
or issued a proclamation, the banks, schools,
stores, etc., were all closed. Late in the day
it was discovered that the President has never
issued such a proclamation. Rather hard on
Nashville, b u t then it’s not likely tho good
people fasted enough to hurt.—louiatillr
Courier.
of those ancient, who
“Shook the arsenal,
And fulmiaed over Greec#”—
brought twenty millions of freeman
feet, and awoke in volcanic splendor
core of patriotic lire in all the
North.” It is the name of the mu
winning Bull Run and giving the Si
first victory and thc North its firs
was thc means—so mysterious in Go
—of blessing the cause he abused a
he blighted that he upheld. It is i by jn
of him who marshalled the hosted: 4
federates at Shiloh. It is the mb:
whose defense of Charleston Hari
passed in skill, vigor and enduraect
on record, outshines the fame of;
Derry. It is the name of G. T. fti
Gen. Beauregard arrived in this a
New Orleans, on Monday last, and
day in the Scotia for Europe, whitha
in the interest of tbe Louisiana Rail
the head of which he has been since
of the war. Although the whilom;
npw that lie has beaten his sword iz
ning hook, is bent purely on businefe
pose it very likely he will come in fo
share of the lionizing that has alwaji
such of the prominent actors in the
have chanced to visit Europe. And
so that though several Union Ge
gone abroad, Beauregard will be
table Confederate commander whom
friends on the other side of the At
have had an opportunity to "honor
We spent an hour yesterday with
chieftain, nnd though we have ass:
intention of playing the part of Ji
may not be out of place to give a ;
line of what manner of man we fou:
be. And, first of all, the actual fs
man bears little resemblarce to t!
terfeit presentments ” ot him thit
rent. This is probably in part
fact that he has lately* shaven hi:
with the exception of themoustsc
the fact that under the racking ex
war lie lias greatly aged—his once
hair being now turned iron gray,at
furrowed and care-worn. In per-
slight and lithe, and he is pc-rhap
under what is called the medium
The removal of thc mask or beard
lower part of the face discloses a
delicate chin—not weak, indeed,
too feminine for the physiognooii:
of a belligerent, or man of war. Tie
compact, not large, but well put toge
his eyes are fine and gentle. In cot
he lias a slight but quite percepff
accent. If it lie added th it hedr*
simple elegance, this hasty outline
tonnd will be complete.
The qualities of Beauregard's ®' s
as they reveal themselves in convert*
pear to justify the estimate of th<* ,
him to have been among the fores
enemies. If his career did not g
tie to take rank as a first class
it showed him to be at least a first;
class roan. One readily sees in
derfully clear, swift, far-glancir:
man who on the field of battle 1
splendid in emergencies, master
perfect degree of his faculties
the elements with which he haoj
In strategic grasp he had, P I
superior in tnc field; and the j
precision and comprehensive sy^-I
which, in conversation with ns|
over thc salient features of his
showed an intellect tempered to
That he has the qualities to m 1 *
great commander was not made ®
the war. And, indeed, in the coo?
this type of man the moral are<l L ;‘
site as the intellectual parts. 1
ionlng there must go that breadt^
and equipoise which Grant shoffW 1
Grant’s great adversary, Lee, ^
Beauregard docs not range with th®
General Ewell.—Among thc farmers in
this city, on Monday last, wc were glad to
meet this gentleman, so distinguished as a I he at least must take high pj*j
soldier, who is now n resident of “Old Mau- what we may call thejtrofatiu^ ' ‘
ry,” and is going largely into stock farming, j Perhaps he would shine with mo 5t
The General has a magnifficent farm, is en- spec ial field or in the performance
tering upon his new life with his accustomed * ‘ ' 1
energy and zeal, and we hope and predict for
him "great success. He appears in excellent
health and cheerful spirits —Maury County
( Tenn.) Herald.
you commence now with a good roast niece! Hastings will fall into utter insignificance in sented as not mu
of beef and a barrel of flour. | comparison to the interest it will excite in j composed than
Chattanooga Union. t,le milul of t,lc world . M“y yearning
1 hearts in the South and abroad will be drawn
instinctively to him, with the confidence that,
, - . o — ■- —— iu should he be brought to trial by his enemies
have invented a scarecrow so effective that and P ersccutors, he will bear himself as be-
one crow who ft brought back all the; cometli a great man and the late chieftain of
com he had stolen for three years.
Clue for Warts and Corns.—The bark
ot the willow tree burnt to ashes applied to
the parts will remove all corns or excrescences
on any part of the body.—£>.
thc Confederate States. We have no fear for
thc result!
As for Wardwell, who is a party to tlie
finding of thc indictment, he was disquali
fied by his already expressed prejudices in the
case. * We heard him declare, not longer
The Body ok Preston Kino Found.—On
Monday, a policeman discovered a body
floating in the Atlantic dock, Brooklyn, and
on drawing it to shore, it tvas identified as
that of Preston King, late collector of cus
toms at New York. The remains are repre
sented as not much bloated, and are less de-
might have bcen expected,
considering the fact that they were in thc wa
ter just six months and otq day—tlie collec
tor having thrown himself into North river
on the morning of the l:!tb day of Novem
ber, 1805.
Death of Rev. Theodore Clapp.
Louisville, Ky., Thursday May 17.
Rev. Theodore Clapp, a native of Massa
chusetts, and for many years a Unitarian
preacher in New Orleans, died here this af
ternoon. •
The Fire.—A fire broke out about 3 1-4
o’clock on Monday morning in Finnie’s car
riage and blacksmith shop, on Prior street
Thc building being of wood, the fire had
gained such headway before it was discover
ed that all efforts to extinguish the flames
proved inelFectnaL Thc adjoining buildings
all having been constructed of wood the fire
was soon communicated to them. Mr. For
syth’s shoe shop, and the small house in which
lie lived with his family, were consumed.—
Next in order was the store room of Mr.'
Mundny, and his dwelling house, both of
which were entirely destroyed. The fire ex
tended no further in that direction, but di
rected its course towards the worshop of Mr.
Dcwarest, and several small buildings and
out-houses. Tlic dwelling houses of latter
gentleman was greatly endangered at one
time, but fortunately escaped destruction.—
The Tattersall Stables were also in much
danger, but through thc exertions of a num
ber of gentlemen were saved. The carriage
shop is Believed to have been fired by an in
cendiary.—-4f. Intelligencer, ~'2d.
piece ot work—as in the defen#
Thc meeting Betw een E*
Davis ami lb 1'
From the Richmond Enquirer, 9&J
The late meeting betwee* ■
Davis and his wife is described *
—The new Atlantic Cable is beiiiE
away on board the Great Eastern.
coiled
der and affecting one, as ua®
the circumstances of their pr°* ,
tion. Despite the strong ‘Ir
resolute will of Mr. Davis, bj**v [
are as soft as a woman’s, and b” '
tions exceedingly ardent. B ‘y
pleasant circumstance that die i
whi' plays CVrberus over hi u.y-. .
stranger cyis to witm-- 1 a'- r .\ I
ordering an officer to reniats t
Perhaps there was great d*®?,
Davis would hav • spirited ■'
through rata chink orcratofil
walls or grated windows of.<|
It may never have been nc ce ;? '
very closely while there
rescue. It may have beet. |
was at least very brutal. H •;
Miles’ habit to press as c.>“-
battle in his front as he dto •
captive, in a massive pr # •.
soldiers in his cell and at '
risoned by an army—then he ■
than wc have ever heard_1 e
tainly very stern and vii:>- , -‘
1 absurd and barbarous to b-'