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MACON, GA., MONDAY, J v;.l,Y 9, 1866.
VOL. 1, NO. 3
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JOB PRINTING:
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I Word Before Too Lntc.
■ . troubled with ITetulnche, Heartburn,
U^tioe. T>HUa$s * aer B * tln £. Poor Mem-
Spirit*- Pain In the Baek, Great Weak-
f Bw»tb. or any other aympton of that
L j sifMmtre diseaae, Dyspepsia? If so, lose
I," jut procure * bottle of
plantation bitters.
l(Trar ifr, Strengthen and invigorate.
'^jMt'e* healthy appetite.
' ^ iron antidote to chango of water and
Lvr.-wreom* effects of dissipation and late
•rowngthen the system and enliven the
Ij^rpnnnt miasmatic and intermittent fe-
I-. , parity the breath and aridity of the
Lsitrh
hfTfar* Dyspepsia and Constipation.
J*'"rr ntt Diarrhea and Cholero Morbus.
|' ;,r rsrsliver Complaint and Nervous Head
li.,thing*’of diet is neecsaaryiwhile using
L^,nM Birrrns. Eat the best your money
[ grind sll your stomach craves of it
Irumnov Bitters strengthen the stomach
>f rrstore its healthy action. You‘will find
[ mutable, pure and reliable.
IjjriVc arc attain under obligations to
Williamson, of the National Express,
Ir stirs paper favors.
I v. Jf.xkixs.—Wc were pleased to see
|r. Jenkins on our streets yesterday. He
<n route for Millerlgevillc and apparently
Ibis usual good health.
We arc pleased to learn that the post
er has been revived at Griswoldvillc, on
Central Railroad. E. C. Grier, Esqr.,
stm&stcr.
— ■ —
I Let It he remembered that the Commence-
| it Sermon of the Wesleyan Female Col
• is to be preached this morning, by the
■. W. P. Ilarrison. The usual commence-
1 at esereisw lxgin on Monday, the 9th.
I The Sayaxxah Coi.i.kctorshii’.—The
ibington correspondence of the Atlanta
itlligeneer, learns that Hon. Joshua Hill
• declined the Collcctorsliip at Savannah
1:rronnt of the inadequacy of the pay.
I 'EMTOR Laxk.—The Washington corres-
|:J«ce of the New York Times refers the
I deofMr. Lane to nervous debility, ag-
prsird by ‘‘certain developments that s*cri-
■ j impugned his private and official chor-
Alex. H. Stephens is announced to
a lecture in Indianapolis the coming
Among the other names on the list
; ’m course we observe those of Fred.
Ilomtio Seymour, Wendell Phil
John B. Gough, and P. T. Barnum. The
ir.apolitiana arc bent upon variety.
ibxbukk Legislature.—This body was
-we met at Nashville Wednesday lost to
Ci !fr and pass upon the constitutional
-- lment, but we have heard nothing fur
: Rom it As it is a matter of considera-
M’lie interest, we would enquire if the
Kitted Press has an agent at Nashville ?
| Tmxss,—We are indebted to our old
• Mr. George Nichols, the senior mcm-
F<fthe Typographical corps of Savannah
r ‘ - at watermelon, received yesterday by
fF*. It throws in the shade the pithy
' e P'gniies of such fruit that wo see ex-
‘olin our market, and Mr. N. has our
'•’•tanks for Ids kind remembrance.
IS^Tlie name of the Bainhridgc “Chart
f ioopass” has been changed to the
Ibpn' j „
| last number gives a list of debts,
-Ming to upwards of $30,000 due from
-tfcbants of Bainbridge to Northern
Furious to the war, which have been
p ' in full by paying from 25 to 50 per
f" ft*** *s handsome.
n Istchhal Kevexik Lawb.—An Act
June 30tb, 1864, as amended, and
' ct *mcndntory thereof, approved March
with copious marginal references, a
analytical index, and tables ofTax-
/’"■ Compiled by Horace Dupree. New
L; p. Appleton & Co.
^iiahook in great demand, especially
' ? taisiness men, and we are pleased to
rJr** Messrs. Patrick Jc Havens have made
'taments to supply this section of the
’■ Call at the News Depot.
^pVAi^_Xhe series of meetings tlist
in progress for two weeks in the
rr;p t<t " sn c ^ urc ^ °f this city, closed on
■ '! a ’ght. Several other converts have
| ^ ihe church, or expecting to do so.
* Meetings in the Baptist church will be
during the coming week, as the
, 1 ^tending them is maintained. Six
Kttn ha ve un jj^ writh the Baptist chinch
jp®g the past week, and will be baptized
doming after the usual hour of service.
: ^ Prom 1L
Patrick and II ivons we
s.bo received Peterson's I. .dies Na-
AL (Philadelphia) Magazine, a benu-
** Monthly f or the ladies.
It contains an
w •“graving and handsome fashion
°fall sorts and pretty stories.
L.T* ft ft neatly printed and con-
" •’ **ave also sent us The Moxobei.-
° r thc Radicals—so-called, a satiric
Fheedmen's Bureau Bill—TnE Sea Is
land Phopkrty.—The only essential point
of difference between the two Houses of Con
gress with respect to the Frcedmen’s Bureau
Bill was upon the Sea Island question. The
report agreed upon by the Conference Com
mittee adopts, in the main, the view upon
this question of the Senate. It provides that
restoration of lands occupied by freed men
under Gen. Sherman’s order shall not be made
until the crops of this year have been gather
ed, nor till the former owners of the lands or
their legal representatives have paid the freed-
mcn a fair compensation for all improve
ments. Provision for the freedmen dispos.
sensed of lands held under this order is made
in the parishes of St. Helena and St. Luke,
where Government holds thirty-eight thous
and acres bought in at tax sales made in pur
suance of the President’s order of September,
16,1868. These lands are to bo surveyed
under direction of the South Carolina Tax
Corcmissioners, and divided up into twenty
acre lots, which arc to be sold at $1.50 per
acre to the freedmen, first to those now oc
cupying plantations under Sherman’s order,
and second to those who have been turned
off inch plantations. No person can have
mors than one tract, and payment may be
made any time within six years. The Assis
tant Bureau Commissioners of Georgia and
Sou h Carolina arc authorized to determine
the ralidity of claims under Sherman’s order,
and issue non-assignable warrants on tbc
South Carolina Tax Commissioners in favor
of all persons having valid claims.
U. 5. Taxes Levied during Uie War.
Is the South Legally bound to
l»ay Them f
Fron the Tallahassee Sentinel.]
We answer not; if the principles laid down
by the Supreme Court when Marshall was
Chiif Justice, and such men as Washington,
(Bu.ilirod) Johnson, Livingston and Story,
weiu his Associates, arc still in force.
The Secretary of the Treasury has lately
submitted to Congress a recommendation
that the time he extended within which each
of the Southern States may assume and mnke
the collection of the Direct Tax apportioned
to if under the law of August 5th, 1861. By
that law any State or Territory was authoriz
ed to assume, assess, colleqf and pay into the
Treisury of the United States its quota of the
tax, which should give notice through its
governor to the Secretary of the Treasuiy on
or before the second Tuesday of February.
1862, ol its purpose so to do. And in that
event, such State or Territory was to ‘‘be en
titled to a deduction of fifteen per cent, on
the quota of direct tax apportioned to such
State or Territory.”
If the Southern States be in law bound for
the payment of these taxes, levied in 1861.
and payable in 1802, of course, tbo recom
mendation of the Secretary is wise. It would,
wo suppose, be unquestionably both for the
interest of the United States and of the States
that the latter should assume the tax, raise it
in a manner least burthensome to its people,
and retaining the 15 per cent, for collection,
pav the balance into the Federal Treasury.
il. is the legal question which we desire t>
sec raised and carried to the Supreme Court
for decision. Unless that Court, novr that
Chase is Chief Justice, is prepared to unsay
what all its members said in 1818, when Mar
shall was Chief Justice, at one of the most
memorable terms held during its whole his-
tor?—the term at which were decided the
great cases of McColloch vs. State of Mary
land, and the Dartmouth College vs. Wood
ward—the people of the State of Florida and
of the other States which occupied the posi
tion held by her in 1862 will be held ex
empted from all liability to pay the tax. The
question, unless the predecessors of the pres-
cri; court ore to be overruled in their annun
ciation ot principles, may lie rested on the
single case of the United States vs. Rice, re
ported in 4 Wheaton, argued by Daniel Web-
st«T for the prevailing side—as were both the
other leading cases above mentioned—the
Court speaking unanimously through Judge
Story as spokesman. "" ^
were these:
In 1814, the United States and Great Bri
tain being at war, the British authorities
took possession of the port of Castine in the
State of Maine, and held it until the termina
tion of hostilities, when possession of it was
resumed by the United States. While thus
held and governed by authority and power
hostile to the United States, goods subject to
the payment of revenue taxes under our laws
were introduced into said port. They were
found there when the United States re-occu
pied it ;nndonr revenue laws were attempted
to be enforced against them by seizure. A
bond for the duties was given by the owner,
and it was upon a suit by tbc Government to
collect the bond that the case was made, upon
which the decision of the Supreme Court was
g iven. It was contended for the United
tates that its laws were properly in force,
although the place was at the time held by
the British forces in hostility to tbc United
States, and tbo laws therefore of the latter
could not, at the time, be enforced there;
ust os the tax collector now claims that the
laws of the United States were in 1862 prop
erly in force in Florida, thongb the latter be
ing held by a hostile power, said laws conld
not then be enforced here. See how Judgo
Story, speaking not alono for himself but for
Judge Marshall and all the other membere of
that illustrious bench, disposes of this soph-
* -*We are all ot the opinion that the claim
for duties cannot be sustained. By the con
quest and military occupation of Castine, the
enrmy acquired that firm possession which
enabled him to exercise the fullest rights ot
so vereignty over that place. The sovereignty
of the United States over the territory was
suspended, and the laws of the United States
could no longer be rightfully entorccd there,
or be obligatory upon the inhabitants who
remained and submitted to the conquerors. •
By the surrender the inhabitants passed un
der a temporary allegiance of the Briti«h gov
ernment, and were bound by such laws, and
such only, as it chose to recognize and impose.
Frtim the nature of the case no other laws
could be obligatory upon them, for where
there is no protection or allegiance or sover
eignty, there can be no claim to obedience.—
Castine was, therefore, during this period, as
lar as respected onr revenue laws, to be deem
ed a foreign port, and goods imported into it
by the inhabitants were subject to such duties
only as the British government chose to re
quire. Such goods were in no correct sense
OUR CHESS DEPARTMENT.
Suppose now that a citizen of Tallahassee, I A Xew and Striking Pictur • lor Ike : Capitol when it has once entered it. For this improvident tenants would soon make it of
a consistent Union man if you choose, (for all Rotundu at Wasliing'on. J painting will commemorate the grandest little value, while at present it would yield
are subject to the same tax laws) should hare The W i-hin-ton corresponde ve of thei achievement of tliowar against the South.— ; but a scanty support. To partition it out af-
hisproperty seized in payment of the direct I .. nisi -- m r li in«o tlw The aetmn which the painting commemorates ter the timber has been destroyed in opening - - All those interested in this column
tax levied iii 1801, for collection in 1862; and I * N,e ,T lork Daily Mwa, (Linn jp - , 1 throws far into the shade the most brilliant broad acres for large forces to operate upon should subscribe for the Weekly Telegraph,
the case should be carried to the Supreme I authors of Mr. Davis' wrongs th iol.owing of Grant's‘victories’—even those at the IVil- the eligibility of|original site3 for settlements Macon, Ga. $4 per annum.
Court of the United States lor adjudication, I broadside: 1 derness, at Spottsyl vania, at Cold Harbor and [ has been destroyed. Will it novr remuner-
and Marshall and Story conld be summoned \ celebrated painter in a dl+ not more the Petersburg mine. _ No, no; the nation I ate the proprietor for expenses, he will bavo
back from the realms of bliss to give judg- than a thousand miles from here, uas begin.
ment, would they not say, in the language of and is now engaged upon a histor; lpaiitin w
their decision in the case of the merchant of which he designs to offer for one'of tie va-
Castine, we are all of opinion that the claim cant panels 5n°the Rotunda of the Capitol, to
lor taxes cannot be sustained t By military to be side by side with the “Landing cf the
occupation of Tallahassee, the public enemy Pilgrims” and “The Signing ol the Deilara-
of the United States “acquired that firm tion of Independence.” The subject is “The
possession which enabled him to exercise the Shackling of Jefferson Davis in Pri-onf* and
fullest rights of sovereignty over that place.” as the outline of the figures is already traced
The sovereignty of the United States over the upon canvas, I will append a brief descrip-
territory was, of course, suspended, and the tion of the work, as it will appear .vhen fin-
laws of the United States could no longer be I ished.
rightfully enforced there, or be obligatory There are twelve principal :t * in the
upon the inhabitants who remained :md sub-1 painting, namely, Jefferson D*?Ji:-7 Captain
mitted to the hostile power. ” They I Titlow, a sergeant of the United States Ar-
“.passed under temporary allegiance to my, four soldiers with their muskets and bay-
the” Confederate government, and “were onets, the blacksmith, and the four soldiers
bbund by such laws, and such only as it without arms, who acted as the blacksmith’s
chose to recognize and impose.” From the assistants. These figures are ofthe sdme size
natureofthecasc.no other laws could be I as the figures in the other large painting on
obligatory upon them; tor where there is no I the walls of the Rotunda, and as the picture
protection ” (we gave them none) “or allegi- is of the same size as those mentioned above,
ance,” (they “passed under temporary allegi- there is room for all.
ance” to the Confederate government,) “or The moment selected is that when the
sovereignty,” (the “sovereignty of the United fierce straggle is taking place lretween the
States over the territory was suspended,”) I weak and sick old man and his seven assail-
il there can he no claim to obedience." Tallalias- ants. After a sleepless night, feverish and
sec “was therefore, during this period, (1862) I enfeebled, Mr. Davis had started from his
so fnr as respected the United States revenue rude bed at the entrance into his cell of the
laws, to be deemed a foreign place; and the I heroic Capt. Titlow, his blacksmith, his rat-
inhabitants were subject to such taxes only I tling shackles and his four liveried “assis-
as the Confederate government chose to re-1 tants.” He could not believe that so much
quire.” Would they not add—unlehs we are I baseness existed even at Washington, as to
to go directly in the teeth of our decision in I order that a gentleman of refinement, a gal
the case of the United States va. Rice, and the I lant officer ot the army, distinguished tor his
mnciples there asserted, “the claim to col-1 services in the field in the Mexican war, a
ect taxes now from an inhabitant of Talla-1 former Senator, a former Secretary of War, a
hossee for the year 1863, when he was under I sick and feeble old man, should be ironed
a hostile government, which was actually, as I and manacled like a common felon. His ear-
a sovereign might, enforcing its revenue laws I nest and dignified remonstrance had been
against him, must be overruled. made, and had fallen upon cold and stony
As this is a matter which concerns the peo- hearts. Capt. Titlow announces his inflexi-
ple of all the States lately under the control hie purpose to fasten the manacles, then and
of the Confederate government, and not one I there, upon the honored limbs of the illus-
tax payer more than another, would have trious captive. The sergeant and the “four
been well had the legislature of one of them, soldiers in reserve” are ordered in. Stung to
last winter, appropriated money for the pur-1 madness by the insult, the lion-hearted pro
pose of taking a case to the Supreme Court. I oner declares that such a foul wrong to Iris
As that, so far as we are advised, has not person shall never be done, while he has the
been done, and as the expense of the litigation I strength to prevent it; and when the incau-
would be greater than perhaps any one tax I tious blacksmith advances, with the open
payer would be authorized to incur, it would shackle in his hand, “to fasten it upon the
the war.
Revolution and a War of Races to
be Stirred up in Texas by tbo
Radicals.
cannot afford to let this painting leave the i to incur in erecting houses and other con- . Communications on matters ]>ertain-
Capitol. It must be handed down to all fu- Y’eniences for tenants upon the thousands of * n S 1° Chess are solicited, and should be ad-
ture generations as the crowning victory of acres, now badly exhausted, in Georgia?— dressed to “ Chess Editor ” of the Telegraph.
war i Will the present prospects of free labor justi-; J
fy proprietors in taking of the little that is CLUBS.
■ left to them to risk in this way ? Who is to , ’
furnish teams for them next year ? We know . . i)0 l )0 the prayers of our neighboring
them to be careless and wasteful, and what c *t* es tvfil unite in the formation of Chess
can we promise ourselves when we deliver up Clubs, and get up some interesting matches
The presence in Washington of provisional! STn^SSS^ST. 1£t I * ™ *»
Governor Hamilton, of Texas, has been men- ber of half-starved, vagrant freedmen, sufii- . lolrnatlon ***>>' »nch clubs, and wilt,
tioned. The object of bis visit at this time is cient to consume the supplies in a month tlmt with pleasure, chronicle their organization.
f.v the following letter recently re-„ were apportioned out for the year. It you We know that Atlanta, Augusta and Cohim-
0lived in Washington, and which the corres- risk only the best freedmen, Yvliat is to *be- bus can all boast some fine plaveis
come of that large class, the worst ? Divide 1 '
your plantation into settlementsand let it out ~
to freedmen, and you cannot anticipate, for
any length of time, any profit, unless you rest
one-halt of your lands; lor continuous culti
vation, without a system of manuring, will
so impoverish our fields as to make them too
poor to remunerate the labor of the cultiva
tion in a very few years. But buy fertilizers,
pendent of the Herald communicates to his
paper. Tue Herald's correspondent says that
the writer and recipient ore alike well known,
and the information conveyed in the letter is
beyond doubt. The letter runs as follows,
and Is a curious statement to say the least of
it:
Galveston, Texas, June 6, I860.
Dear : Governor Hamilton leaves here
to-morrow for Washington. From sources j one would repiy; what have we to buy with i
no doubt perfectly reliable I learn that he fact » at eveiy step in the investigation of
goes on at the invitation of Mr. Speaker Col
fax, Senator Trumbull and others, who regard
him, as one of his admirers tells me, as the
great mail of tho Union party south of the
Potomac.
His programme, I believe, will be to pro
duce or accept a rapture with the President.
He will then be serenaded by the Radicals,
and will lay before tbe public the condition
of the Union men in Texas and the Sonth,
alleging that Jthe army alone protects them
from being driven out of the country, and ex
posed to every insult and outrage ; and that
lt^tbe Governor who this month will be elec
tee! by the people of Texas—Tliorckmorton—
i3 permitted to be installed, he will counsel
the twenty-five thousand white men of this
State to overthrow the rebel minority which
oppose and enslave them. An insurrection
this question, the want ot capital is constant
ly before us. Suppose the plan which I shall
adopt next year be tried, of only employing
as many hands as can cultivate one-half of my
land, and select the best lands—what arc to
become of the hands not employed ? Arc
they to forage on the honest, the energetic
and the provident 1 Can we employ them
profitably in the mineral regions of the State ?
The furor for railroad building lias died out.
These are grave questions for Statesmen and
pnilantliropists, and their solution cannot be
attempted toosoon. Here colonization opens
its doors.
Tho truth is, we have no dependence but in
onr own bone and muscle. We are all poor
and we must all go to work, and if, by the
most assiduous and well directed efforts, we
may consider ourselves fortunate if we get as
SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS No. I a» ( i 2.
PROBLEM NO. 1.
First Solution.
BLICK.
WniTE.
1. B to Q ffs 5th
2. B to K B’* 5th
3. KttoQ B'a 3d
j-Uaa no choice of meres.
Mate.
will bo encouraged, and’ they believe the i ““£?> *° ,ive ° f n n3 ™ heretofore wasted.
President will not be permitted to use the I T ^® h ? ve ^ realized half our poverty yet.
i Let the head ol
strongest and bitterest terms as having be-
I I . trayed the Union men of the South, and giv-
be wise, by concert of action, to raise a fund, I ankle” of Air. Davis, the latter, with that en them, bound hand and foot, into thepow-
nndwlien the tax is attempted to be enforced I superhuman strength which is given to men j er of the enemies of the country.
armv against the white’and black Union men j ^ “* every family make the pam-
of the State in behalf of the Yvhite rebels. I ful d.^Mosure al hough lns heart runs blood
Tho President will be denounced in the “ hed ? e ? *V tl * at . h,mself ^and Ins family must
I live mainly by their own exertions. Stop all
‘ extravagance and tell them that they have
carry the question for determination to the I * n extremity, burls the brawny son ulcan
highest tribunal known in the land, and pay to the floor, and stands erect, delying his
it, only after that Court shall decide it to be I foes!
legal. I This is tbe moment, or the moment succeed
ing this, that the artist has chosen. “On to
J him,' my men!” cries the gallaut Captain;
A Gave With the Freedmen.—We find I an d tlie four “assistants” precipitate them-
the following statement in the Atlanta Intel-1 selves upon tbe Head of the Confederacy. It
ligencer of yesterdsv. If the Freedmen’s was a daring charge, and so the artist has rep-
I resented it. The countenances of the four
Bureau is worth nnythin oJ it will look after express mingled shame and dismay
the matter j th c na ture of the battle in which they arc
An enterprising genins has been in this city I engaged, and at the formidable and unex-
for some time post engaged in collecting up I pected resistance they are meeting with. Air.
negro boys between the ages, of 15 and 20 | Davis keeps them all at bay. But he is being
years. To a number of these' unsuspecting forced backwards toward the lied; and it is
yontbs he has represented himself as a son of I evident that in a few moment-: joro the un-
the late President Lincoln, and pictures to I equal straggle will be over. Tue countenance
them in glowing terms the splendors of Air. Davis is os the countenance of a man
of a home he will take them to in Cuba, in battle; but the particular expression to be
which place he gives them to understand [ given to it cannot be decided at this early
is somewhere in the North. He agrees to stage of tho work,
pay $20 per month and defray all traveling grouping of the figures.
expenses. On raechmg “Cuba’ they w, 1 re- ^ Qtb fi in tUc intin£r are
ceive all sorts of good clothes, and plentv to d f „ ^ blacks p mitlj is risin | fro l m
cat and light labor only to be required of h nd anfl hasgot upon bis hani f 8 and
Of them. How successful this swindling | HlUnmmor and the heavv shackles
scamp has been we have no knowledge, and
His speech will be the signal lor a far more
violent and vindictive crusade against the
President and the South than has heretofore
been waged; and the plan is to summon
whites and blacks to the polls to exercise thc
divinely conferred and inalienable rights of
participation in the Government
-. Aly information is direct and unquestiona
ble. W.
Second Solution.
white. black.
1. Kt to K B’s 6th (eh.)
2. Kt to K Kt’e 4th (ah.)
3. Kt to B’s 4th (ch.)
4. B to K Kt's 7th (ch.)
5. B takes P
Alate.
Third Solution.
white. BLACK.
1. Kt to K B’s flth (eh.)
2. Kt to K’s Stti
3. B to Q’s Cth
4. B to K B’s 5th
5. B to Q B> 7th
6. Kt to K B’s Cth
Mate.
llhs no-choice of moves.
Has-no choice of moves.
Fourth Solution.
WHITE.
1. Kt to K B's 6th (ch.)
2. Kt to K R s 7th
3. Kt to K Kt’s 5th
4. Bto K’s 7th
5. B to tt B’s 2nd
6. Kt to K B's 3rd (ch.)
7. Kt to K Kt’s 3rd
9. li to Q Kt’s 3d
BLACK.
1. K to his 4th
2 K'to Q’a 4th
3. K to K'»4th (hest>
4. K to Q’e tth
5. K to K’s 4th (best)
6. K to Q’s 4th
7. P to K’s 1th
knees. His hammer and tbo heavy shackles
are lying on the ground before him, ready for
use. ’ The four “reserves” are standing in a
line before the door, in the attitude of “charge
bayonets.” Capt. Titl >w is pointing to the
door, as if directing them to take up that
of his real purposes we are equally ignorant.
That he lia3 found dopes we can readily be
lieve, and have net a doubt that many havo
been induced to leave comfortable homes.
ft !> as >* en , observed that every Western . ^ tbat t h“eprisonei cannot escape!
train bears hence large and small squat s ; tain id ht;uul [ n , 4 at tic embrasure.-
of negroes, many of whom have no knowl- ^ ^ not drawn & 8Word . H e merely
edge of their destination. They lawi ? e 1 directs tbe movements of the others. Theser-
employed, them present expenses arc being , b btin the fojr armed meDi
paid, they receive kind treatment and flatter- ^ d ^, vn bis but ha , dropped the
ing promises, and that is about all they know ; to tho ound / H C averts histtace from
If th e truth could be known there is fto horri blc £enc. nis eye is moist. He bites
work going on, and poor coffee u learning h5s with shamc and rage. That man has
that his imaginary troubles did not end when .* °
his freedom was attained. | spectators of the bcenil
i _ . , „ . All the accessories ot thc sceao arc faithfully
The Fourth in Atlanta.—We infer from represented. The grated windows; the mean
tbe newspaper accounts that the citizens ot land squalid bod; the rusty tiu plate, the
Atlanta had quite a lively time on thc 4th.— crust of mouldy bread, and the broken water
The Era says • jug, overturred on the floor—nothing is want-
Several disturbances occurred during the ‘vell-knoT^
day There was a collision between the co - Mi , with a 5.^0^ gria of satisfaction at
ored processumaml a party af soldiers, which the 8 ^ ccess of bis ^ort and easy method of
bid fair at one time to be serious. Several tan ,i ng refractoiy rebels. But what lace is
shots were fired, and some whites and blocks 1 - - -■
were more or less injured. No lives were
Cotton Growing in Georgia.
From the Journal & Messenger.]
Perhaps, the most fearful experiment that
was ever made with thc labor of any country,
when considered as to its immediate results
prospective efficiency, or as to the permancy
of its products, is now upon us. A change so
universal, so sudden, the antagonism of races,
the natural effect of the elevation of the slaves,
without a moment’s preliminary training, as
well as the inexperience ol their forftier mast
ers in the management of free labor, all com
bine to make the experiment, not only one of
yet r. home, youth and strength. That our
daughters must repair to the cooking stove, to
the wash tub, and do thc house work; our
sons to the fields, to ply the axe, theplow r and
and the hoe.
Don’t rush into trades and professions use
lessly, for with the decline of the agriculture
of thc South they will languish and not pay.
Alake yourselves self-reliant and self-sustain
ing. With us it is emphatically work or
perish, and let us throw every restraint and
safe-guard around the little wc have left, and
institute every economic means for successful
industry and cheap living.
If there be any rich, let them set the ex
ample. They will be soon regarded as ben
efactors. Honest poverty is no disgrace and
it will be better for the morals of thc country,
and far better for its future prosperity, that
the people should realize their real condition
as speedily as possible.
We can loose nothing by it, and, perhaps,
save millions. .To me the future of the coun
try is covered with impenetrable gloom.—
There is but one plan by which I can see that
cotton growing can be kept up and prosper,
and that is by large investment, of Northern
capital in our cotton lands, bringing with it
Alate.
PROBLEAI NO. 2.
R to Q B’s 5th—many variations, bat Black mates next
move.
embarrassment, bur hazardous in the extreme. -
Without time to adjust the plantation to thc • t ' le matured experience and their system ot
new order of things, by making settlements. I managing free labor. The North certainly
PROBLEAI NO. 3.
BT THEODORE >L BROWN.
[From the Book ofthe Clipper Chess Tournament.]
BLACK.
'■**"*'91
that, glaring over tho shoulder of Sir Hud
. . . son Allies ? Surely we recognize those apcc-
lost The disturbance, we are infonned, grew- t a clcs, those bushy whiskers and that mild
out of some indignity offered to tbe colored an(1 genUe countenance. Has tho Divine
women. • . 1 ---- — — ■ ■
ontof some indignity offered to
omen. | head of thc War Department deemed it
An impolite and irreverent sergeant created neces8ary t0 come in pe raon, to assure himself
another mCHlcnt by knocking Ins superior that his Infamous orders were duly executed?
officer from his horse with tbe butt of his Rea )j y this head is so shadowy that we can-
rausket Injunes not serious. not determine.
These, with a few minor hghts, made up I
the chief incidents of thc day. No one, as official report of the outrage.
far as we have been able to learn, was scri- One more feature of the picture remains to
ously injured. One fellow was shot through be noticed. Outside of, and beyond the
the ear, one had the back of his head cut j grated window, is plainly seen the telegraph
severely, several felt the weight of brickbats, wires and poles. It docs not reqhirc much
some were the victims of clubbed muskets,
and many were gloriously drunk. So tbe
day passed off.
Protest) from an Unexpected Source.-
The N. Y. Times, a strong Tariff paper, can
not stand the New England gouge into the
West and South. It says: “The sectional
ism which is the bane of our politics now
Jiere rears its head more defiantly than upon
tlic Tarift question. It aims at subjecting
general and national interes's to interests
that are local and individual It insists that
the welfare of the West and the South, and
of consumers eveiywherc, shall be prejudiced
for tlic aggrandizment of the manufacturers
of less than half n dozen Eastern States. It
demands that the Treasury of the nation shall
suffer that private pockets may be filled; that
the resources upon which the Government re
lics for thc fulfillment of its obligations shall
be impaired, to provide bigger dividends for
firms and corporations w hose profits during
the war were notoriously enormous.”
Acoubta Hotel.—This establishment, it
will be seen, has passed into thc hands of a
genuine Virginia landlord, who,- we arc free
to say, knows more of the mysteries of hotel
than anybody else. The Augusta
„ keeping
imported into the United States. The sub- 1 0 eloquent over the brilliant com-
senuent evacuation by the enemy, and the re- papers art eioquc
sumption of authority by tbe Unity l States, menccment of Mr. M right, and y lsitors to
did not nnd could not, change the character tba t city would do well to avail themselves
ofthe previous transactions. of his elegant hospitality.
by “ v tlnC of argun 1 !•»t--‘re- The Tribune in-d^TTrather doleful
Horn*, j- r x . ’ Evne. verv expressively, “the authorities ; estimate ofthe cost of Fourth of July fun.—
tattwi C ’°- ^<***'* street. N. Y. It is »n - ( .- Ucd n^bar. would, if there were any doubt, It sums it up thus: fireworks, $1,500,000;
ti* „ . of ftjton’aljnglijh Bards and Scot- be decisive ofthe question. But wo think it
‘ ttv *«wer*," and is very acatking. too clear to require any aid from authority.
loss by conflagrations, 82,000,01)0. At that
rate thc whistle is somewhat costly. . . __
stretch of the imagination for thc reader to
fancy thc following message flashing along
those wires- ^
Fortress AIonroe, Alay 23, ’66—10 A. AI.
Hon. Edtein Af. Stanton, Secretary of IPirr,
Washington:
Sir : 1 have the pleasure to report tlmt, in
obedience to your orders, I have ironed and
shackled Jefferson Davis, although not with
out a desperate straggle on his part. He
made a most unexpected and determined re
sistance, and his imprecations were frightful.
He even dared to speak in a disrespectful
manner of me, sir, and of you sir! Captain
Tiltow behaved in the bravest manner, and
was not at all afraid of him. I hereby recom
mend him for promotion for his gallantry on
the trying occasion. The soldiers, four in ac
tion, and four held in reserve, behaved with
great steadiness and courage. I have order
ed them on extra glass ot grog. Sergeant
Smith, I regret to say, behaved badly, and
manifested a great ’unwillingness for the
work. I think ho is n Copperhead. Res
pectfully, yours,
Hudson Lowe AIiles,
Brevet Brigadier General.
P. 8.—A lieutenant nnd 80 men were held
in reserve outside, but were not needed.
H. L. Miles, b. b. o.
P. 9. 2.—I hope my action in the affair will
meet with the approval of the Department.
H.L. AI.,n.B.o.
THE GRANDEST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE WAR.
It will be some months before this fine
painting is entirely finished, but when it is
done, and placed on exhibition in the Rotun
da, there can be no doubt that Congress will
make a liberal appropriation for its purchase.
If Congress haggles at all about thc price,
Ala&sachusetts will nt once step in and be
come tbc purchaser, in honor of her worthy
son, Sir Hudson AIiles. But Congress will
never consent that the work shall leave the
things, by making
removing buildings, erecting new ones, etc.,
we have been precipitated into all the embar
rassments that cluster so thickly around it,
at a moment the most unpropitious from the
pecuniary exhaustion of five years’ war,
with thc labor of those five years totally
lost. Under such circumstances, it is but
natural that many errors should have
been committed, even by the most saga
cious, by those possessing the most self-
control, and the best capacity for the man
agement of others. In the present status, the
labor of freedmen in the cultivation of cot
ton, I regard as a decided failure, although a
combination of fortunate circumstances may
make individual cases, occasionally success
ful. These will be, not the rule, but excep
tions to it. My opinion, then is, that cotton
growing, under the present system, or no sys
tem at all, must soon languish and mainly
cense as our people are too poor to risk a suc
cession of ruinous, or doubtful experiments.
The end of this year, I am fearful, will find
the South poorer than at the beginning, with
its energy greatly paralyzed at the unreliable
labor offreedmen, as a general thing, the un
certainty of its political future, and the bur
thens of taxation too heavy for its resources.
It is my candid opinion, after much reflection
and close observation, that there will n»t be
enough gathered in this State, of all the
crops grown, thc present year, to subsist
our people nnd employ the same hands and
teams another year. All admit that it has
been the most disastrous season ever known
for planting, but enough has been learned to
satisfy even the most sanguine, that employ
ing the usual number of hands, as heretofore,
on the old plantation, and in working them
in large gangs will speedily lead its proprie
tor to bankruptcy—that unreliable labor upon
badly worn lands, without the means formerly
used to improve them, or the pecuniary ability
to purchase them, must result in starvation.
It may not be too high a figure to estimate
the waste and consumption of provisions at
one-third more, and the labor fully one-third
less than when slaves. Suppose, then, that a
hand that cultivated twenty-five acres of land
when n slave, will now cultivate seventeen,
even twenty acres, half in com and half in
cotton. A*fair estimate will be that he may
average ten bushels of corn per acre, which
will make 100 bushels. Thc mule, perhaps,
Could plough for two hands, and thereby
yield 200 bushels of corn. The hands and
the mnlc will consujne 100 bushels, and to
raise the 600 pounds of pork to feed the two
hands will require 60 bushels of corn at a
moderate estimate, which leaves to the owner
ot thc land nnd mule forty bushels of corn.—
Suppose they make 7 bales of cotton at $100
per bale, and you give your hands one third,
which would be $233, which would leave to
thc proprietor $4GC and forty bushels cf corn
to cover the wear and tear of the plantation,, Every inhabitant of tho United States
teams, wagons, carts, farming implements, to p a y S three cents a day for internal tax alone
support the proprietor to pay his taxes, etc. to the United States government, or the
This estimntc is made upon tho selection of amount paid is at that rate.
best hands, and thc best lands and mules,
the most propitious seasons, and will 82F“Thc following slanderous paragraph
has a great interest in the makiug of cotton,
we have the lands, the mules, skill in its cul
ture. We are very poor, and let them, of
their abundance, come to our aid and we
may yet have a country worth living in nnd
living for. Withhold it, and they, in my judg
ment, jcopard.'iheir own interest and leave us
poor indeed. If cotton growing at the South
can be made prosperous and profitable it will
soon impart life and vigor to every other busi
ness, and if it be destroyed, a stock and grain
country will be sought by the whites because
they can live by their own labor, and live
much cheaper, and far better. It is not the
hopelessness of despair, but the convictions of
my judgment conforming to history repeating
itself. I have been a planter for nearly 30
years, was one of thc first to declare my
slaves free, and promptly entered into a most
liberal contract with them.
They arc not “as ignorant ns the mules
they drive,” as I have always lived on the
plantation with them, never debarred •:licm
the use of books, many of them can read, and
most of them are still with me.
I give them one-third of all the crops
grown this season, feed the mules nnd hands
that work. They, too, have done about as
well as any set of hands I know ot, but they
arc raising their children without manners or
restraint. They are becoming mure and more
sensitive, and very perceptibly doing less and
less work. Twelve months have elapsed
since we acknowledged them to be free. I
shrink from indulging or publishing any an
ticipations of their probable condition at tho
expiration of the next year. Alay we be able
to bring order out of chaos, and may a merci
ful God save the country from penury and
want. • E. J. AIcGeiiee.
Houston County, June 30,1866.
WHITE.
White to play, and give mate in two moves.
GAME.
Played in AIacon, AIay, 1S6G.
WHITE.
1 > BLACK.
w
B
1. P to K’s 4
1. Pto K 4
2. B to B 4
2. K Kt to B 3
3. Q Kt to 3 3
4. Bt?QB4
3. K Kt to B 3
4. P to Q 3
5. Castles.
5. P to 0 3
6. P to Q B 3
7. P to Q Kt 4
6. B to K Kt 5
7. B to Q Kt 3
8. Kt to K 2
8. P toQ Kt 5
9. P to Q R 4
«. P to Q R 4‘
10. B to Q Kt 3
ID, Q Kt to IC Kt.tr
It. 3 to R 4
11. Pto KR3
12 P to K Kt 4
12 Kt takes P
13. P takes Kt
13. B takes p
14. Kt to Q 2
14. Kt to K 8 A
15. Kto R
15. Q to K 133
1A P to Kir 4-
10. O to K
17. K Kt to R 3
Resigns.
17. Kt takttiQ r-
Game between Hirschfeldt and Kolisch.
in Paris, August, 1864.
, (Evans' Gambit.),
The Times, published at Leeds, Eng
land, says that nitrata ot silver (lunar caustic)
rubbed into the wound made by the tectli of
a mad dog, will cure hydrophobia and prevent
all injurious consequences from thc wound —
The remedy should be applied ns soon after
the accident as possible, as tho virus is dis
seminated through the system in about six
weeks, then all hope is gone. Dr. Youatt,
the well-known veterinary surgeon, says ho
has been bitten eight or ten times, and has
always cured himself by this means.
- * ♦ *
TnANK God for That !—Lady Hunting
don was trying to lead one to Christ. To her
urgent entreaties he answered 1 “O, it is of
no use! I am lost! I am lest 1" “Thank God
for that!” said she. “Why f exclaimed thc
man, in astonishment. “Because,” said Lady
Huntingdon, “Christ came to save the lost,
and if you are lost, He is just the one who
can save you.”
white.
HnucnzzLDT.
1. KP2
2. K Kt to B 3
3. K B to Q B 4
4. Q Kt 'oP2
5. PtoQBJ j !
6. Castles.
7. P to Q 4
8. P takes P
9. Q Kt to B 3
10. Q to O R 4
11 QtoQKtS
12. B takes P (ch.)
13. Q to QB 2
14. PtoKj
15. P to Iv 6 (ch.)
16. a t to Kt 5 (eh.)
17. P to Q 5
18 Q Kt to K 4<ch.)
Hirschfeldt mates in-four moves.
ELACK.
Kousca
1. K to P 2
2. Q Kt to B-3
. 3. Some
4. B takes Kt P
5. B to Q B 4
6. P to Q 3
7. P taken P
8. BtoQKtS
9. Ci-Rto Kt 3
10. Bto 0 2
11. Kt toll R 4
12. IUoEO
13. K take* B
14. Pto.K Kt3
15. B takes K 1>
16. K to K Bj
17.. B to K B 4
18. B take* Kt
A wag has invented a new
proposes to place a line of
women three steps apart, and commit the
news to the first ot them as a secret.
prove far above an average crop in this goes unrebuked:
portion of Georgia. This does, not cm- telegraph. He ]
brace the additional one-th 5 rd for
wastefulness over former times. In truth,
planting cotton, after the lands before worn, , l ta - r r
was a slow way to get rich when we had gf* The negroes about Newberc, N. C.,
slaves, for the most certain additional to the w j lo jj ve ou Government rations struck for
yalue of our estates was the increase and w hite sugar instead of brown. The sympu-
growth of our slaves. AIucli attention was tldrlno Bureau agent ordered white Immc-
paid to the making of compost manures, d i ate lv
nnd we could then arrange our work so as to ‘ .*«
have time to fill our lot> with leaves, straw, ;-f?~ Giguntic[omnibusse.i on a new model
etc. Now we have to abandon this impor- have been constructed in Paris. They aie so
tant means of recuperating our exhausted contrivt d that upwards of fifiy persons can
fields. The renting ot your plantation to be seated on the roof.
Ristori.—Airs. Anna Cora-Ritchie writes to
the New York News that Aladame Ristori has
been gh'ing a series of perform inces at Brus
sels. It is said that she will before long ap
pear in America. As Rachel's only rival she
has renson to anticipate marked success where
Rachel's triumphs were so great. Then she is
a very beautiful woman, which Rachel was
not;and bears an irreproocbabla reputation,
which Rachel uid not; ind, possibly, she may
gain some additional charm in a republic be
cause she is titled. Her husband is the Alar-
cheso del Grillo (Grasshojqier.) Ristori's liv
ing impersonation of the terrible Medea—her
statuesques poses—her superb transports of
rage—tbe aw-ful beauty of her countenance in
violent emotion—the thrilling, piercing tones
of her voice, once seen, ouco heard, are not to
be torgotton. But the Italian Queen of Trag
edy is no longer in her premierre (no, nor her
seconde,) jeuuesse—she is the mother of grown
up children; we believe she is a grandmother!
Query: Is the artistic taste of Americans
sufficiently cultivated for them to fall into
raptures, spell bouud by a grandmamma's
genius ? Hous rernms.
An English counterfeiter of green
backs has-been tirrested at Atlanta. Restates
that thc bills were made at Nottingham,
England, and that he. with nine accomplices,
came here for the purpose of spending them!
Three are in New York, two it. Boston, one
in Cincinnati, one in St. Louis, one in Nash
ville, and one unknown. He refuses to des
cribe them, or give any information against
them.
J-gJ" Brick Pomeroy says “the people of
Boston go to heaven through, the big organ.”
This assurance is calculated to disabuse the
public mind ot the impression that abou
nine-tenths of them don't tro there at ali
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