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Newspaper Page TextA.RKin & To..] Jwsertes,! TKLiEGHA PH WISHING HOUSE. ^lAM A. REID & Co., Proprietors^^ A Family Journal for the Dissemination of General Intelligence, Miscellany, Agricultural, Commercial, Political and Religious Information. [PliOPlUETORS MACON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1807. I VOL. 2, NO. 11 jfjicKPO editors. [S. Hoykix Term* of Subscription : u wgckut Terror aim : 00 per ^ p 4n ,T TlLBOUAPn : $1K 00 pcrannnnu JOB PRINTING. rt'eaUR attention will be given to the if: ; j,f JOB P1U.NTI-NO of every descrip- Hoc Press for Sale. pl r,, r for axle, on reasonable terror, an uttBtat I** 1 , iitfi Hoh Power Prixtixo jPwsss, order, and cnpablo of printing a jamn paper of the measurement of ' j r ^rapb. If applied for early, a bar- *3 be had. Address Wm. A. Reid & Co. T j t Child's Delioht, for February isbe- comes freighted with the usual J xs tof instructive and amusing reading i-tkt young people. A noticeable feature ' its number is a change Irom ita non-scc- ^ character. The “Delight” now advo- '. 9t he doctrines and usages of the Baptist ,. K b and while designed for tliebenefitof generally, U will look in future for -Tsapport, lea large mensuro,to tho Bsp- . Sunday Schools and families of the iBtl, The editor assigns, as a reason tor •>echange, that almost his cntirecircula- on. after fifteen months’ experiment, is con i' f j to the Baptist denomination—that oth- , T denominations decline to take the “Dc- hecanse they have papers of their *n, whilst many Baptists refuso to patronise t because of its oon-dcnominntioual feature, rhese seem pretty good reasons: at all events be Editor is honest in them, and under tho irrnmstanres tho Baptists of the South ,ouId come to tho support of his paper heeriully and with renewed zeal. Tcrned Out.—A correspondent writes ns ;»t many plantations in Clay and Early saties will bo turned out this year for want ffrredmen to cultivate them. Large nurn- rs have disappeared ol late from that sec- .lofthe State, and nobody knows where .-t have gone. ff“ A correspondent of the Albany News r.:es from Newton, Ua., that at least onc- iri ot the negroes who were employed in kcr and the adjoining counties last year « left, and that many ot the planters aro :utly without laborers. CHARITY SPEECHES. While tho good people of New York arc rgtnlzlng to send bread and clothing to tho Jering poor of the South, wo have thought :r readers would lie gratified to see the sen- acats with which the Good Samaritan ork was undertaken. Wo havo therefore aatfvrml to our first page tho speeches of Italy Hard Beecher, Horace Greeley and toeral Anderson, at the Cooper Institute wlittg, Friday evening last, the proceedings which appeared in tho Telegraph of yes* tdav. , A* many of our pcoplo aro in a distressed, d some in a starving, condition, especially those districts desolated by the Federal ay, and among the idle and infirm blacks irphere who have been deprived of the feeling care of tlieir masters, wo should, ihsps, not be too nice about the messages u accompany the charity of tbo North, lour own peoplo are wholly unable to re vs the suffering, we are too poor to bo y proud, and it would be well take the bread and let tho motives and the iddleof the givers pass for what they are rtb. Wo cannot help saying, however, it portions of Mr. Beecher’s speech arc in 1 taste and spirit lor such an occasion, and would have done credit to his head and irt by omitting them. He rips open the it cicatrizing wounds of the war, refers to u a nation of idlers, and would lmvc us rinctlyto understand that all pur present ■unities are a just punishment from Heaven i our manifold sins. This may all bo *.butwu are not just now in a position to ‘P-Tclate the moral lesson. A man who tbeta kockeil down, tramj»l<d in tho dust i robbed of nearly all he possessed, by a ptriorin strength, is not in the frame of *1 to listen to homilies about Providence •site authors of all liu troubles, and es- "Hliy When the latter seem proud of the 'i^rlunity of preaching them. As suggested 1* contemporary, Mr. Beecher’s chief nrgu- '-t for relieving starvation in the South **■ that it was a refined method of inflict- i rtrtnge 1 IIo seemed rather to rejoice, ‘lie whole, and glorify God that famine overtaken the South, partly because it an opportunity to practice what ho ** pleased to call “Christian vengeance,” ‘Pertly because famine is a necessary est *> in tbs Providcnco of God, of com- ;a S the lazy Southerners to learn habits 'if**: - * , *s will not quarrel with Mr. Beecher •liemotive that prompts him to volun- * in the cause of bread for our starving v*. We do not feel ns sinful nnd guilty j ^ teeas to regard us, and perhaps we T * ** been as industrious in making | nutmegs nnd ucifiiiis as some of his j 15 People; but wo have acted well our parts j as the statistics of national wealth | *i°», and in war we havo proved our- I fall match for double on.- number. ' trt therefore not to bo wholly despised, j •Greeley's speech is to the point, and | y**great object of the meeting with i i zeal. We thank him for it. j . ,!'.V ■ • iy h.r his considerate good sense I • r -ill allusions that would probably j to tile Southern people. . Uta *r»l Anderson's remarks w« may say i !i jiigli only a word, it ii a word ! 1' are, and, from what we know j »8have uo doubt it Caine from his ; THE GREAT NEW YORK SOUTHER RELIEF MEETING. SPEECHES FROM HENRY WARD BEECIIER, HORACE GREELEY AND GEN. (Sumter) ANDERSON. SPEECH OF REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Mr. Beecher was welcomed with applause, lie said: I have, during my life of the la3t nineteen years, been present on very main- occasions in which the citizens of New A ork were convened, to take into consideration the state of the country, nnd especially as af fected by the relations subsisting between the North and South. Tho earliest that I re member was at Castle Garden, where a Union Saving Committee was appointed- a meet ing at which I was not-present, whose results were not peculiarly in accordance with my views. It was after the passage of the famous Fugitive Plavo Law, which at that time was supposed to bo a medicine for all our ills. I think I may say that that great public meet ing represented one extreme, I cannot but th?nk an extremo of subserviency, of profound humiliation. It was a time when the spirit ot liberty seemed almost extinct, and the spirit of evil domination culminated. But the great wheel which God turns has made a complete revolution. And to-night we see a meeting convened under circumstances that represent the supremacy of the conscience of the nation for liberty, and tho utter waste and destruction of Slavery in all its forms. [Applause.] So great havo been the changes that men scarcely know themselves, aud hardly can manintain their identity if they go back for fifteen or sixteen years. Bnt tho change which has taken place in individuals is certainly no greater in its kind than that which has befallen tho whole com munity. Old precedents are gone—no uso of bringing them up. Ideas are changed— changed ju9t as blossoms change to germs, and germs to green fruit nnd green fruit to ripe. The country has changed its views.— Not one man, but millions of men, and not only that—the change went on by reasoning, by deep moral instrumentalities which touch tho very vitals of life. And when there had come that change of public sentiment by which this nation agreed at last to its own principle, nnd was willing to stand, and be fore God and nations to swear its fealty to those natural rights of man without distinc tions made artificially, then that sentiment God, like a smith, thrust into the fires of war and brought it out hard as steel with an edge that oannot be turned. [Applause.] It is im possible that such a war as this should take place on such a scale; the world never saw such dimensions. It is impossible thata war running through a period of more than four years, even in a nationof such abundance as this should end when it stopped. Its sequences are yet upon tho land. Those battles that were fought years ago are still working out their ultimate moral results; nnd those physi cal mischiefs that wnr always brings in its train havo not yet spent themselves, and this great wnr for national unity in nntional lib erty—this great war yet spreads out its pen alties and inflicts them. Fori hold as firmly as I havo any conviction in my soul thnt this whole nation was guilty of a sin than which none could be more atrocious considering our principles. The South was guilty as the holder* tho North was guilty as the abettor. I remember at the time I came upon the. stage, that public opinion, if not in favor of slavery, refused to placo itself against it. I remember that the whole political force of the North was in collusion with slavery. I re member that tho commercial forces of tho North were in favor of slavery. And, though we did not hold slaves, the public sentiment of the North had been correct and wicked to such a condition lor many years, ns it might bo said, not to have drawn the note, but to have endorsed it. And when war camo it was a punishment—punishment, I believe, for the sin of slaveholding; than which, I believe, no sin can be more massive, more ugly, more infernal. (Applause). And now we have been punished, and slavehold ers have been punished. I hear men speak about a punishment of rebellion; that which made it was worse than the thing made. It was bad for communities to break the laws of the nation, but not so bad as it was for them to break the laws of nature and of God before. It was a wickedness—a wickedness in which in various degrees the whole of this peoplo were whelmed. I regard tho blood nnd the maiming* and the deaths and the mournings, the disarrangements nnd incon veniences and changes which have taken place of a grievous end painful character in the North as our part, mercifully lessened so ns not to measure our deserts, and yet our part of that great chastisement by which God says to the people, I do govern ; and I do maintain moral government which dis criminates between right and wrong in the affairs of men and nations. And the South, punished also for the same great crime, is being punished stiil. When, therefore, men say to me, “I believe these sufferings of the Southern people are God’s punishments nnd his witness against rebellion, I dare not step in between Providence and its victims to alleviate tho stroke. When God has pun ished them enough lie will lift Ilis hand. What am I that I should stand between tho Judge nnd the culprit ? I say to them, you arc tho culprit too. And if God has been punishing both North nnd South, if not in equal measure, yet certainly he has been pun ishing us all. As a nation wo arc and have been undivided in guilt and undivided in penalty; and the South, if they have suffered more than we, they arc still suffering for the same national sins. I feel therefore, as though no urging should be necessary of the North ern community to the consideration of the suffering that is taking plncc at tho South.— I think and feel that we are but helping our brethren in another sense than that in which the word is usually employed. Many have an impression that such help as is now needed in the South would touch in some way upon or imply some remission of political princi ples. Not at all. I do not profess to be wise, nor to see what are to be the courses of legis lation. That there is to be some reconstruc tive legislation all meu know. All men know and feel that there is a grcat[work to be done, even though they may not bo able to agree with what is proposed, or to say what ought to bo proposed; they know and feel that there ia to be a great institutional and legis lative work done, but at the same time I sup pose we all ngrei that thnt alone can never settlo our troubles. And when you have made your metes and bounds ot legislation, \\ lion yon have tixed by law certain great policies as the banks and channels in which the na tional life shall rua (would that it could ue soon done !) the great moral and social ele ments will still be needed to complete tho work. They arc indispensable. This nation is not going to be reconstruct ed by an edict. Sympathy again, confidence ; a crain, affection again, the interplay of in- j tcrests, mutual respect at last ripening, after I ’on" Ion" intermission, into mutual love— j this’is reconstruction [applause] when hearts i beat together again, when old enthusiasms come uo again under the old flag, die-1 ncwid applause.] And I most heartily re-| suond to that sentiment uttered by Or. Bright when lie declared that these relicts, these merciful and remedial agencies would go jar toward this part of the reconstruction policy of the country. Justice, let it do its work; and oh, let it be done quickly, that Mercy may do its work 1 This seems to me to touch the very question of brotherhood, nnd to put us to a test of whether or not we do love our enemies. Admit that the South in arms was to have been accounted an enemy, admit that she is still an enemy, and that under the influence of ignorance and prejudice, her peo ple still hate the North—it is not surprising to those that understand human nature; but it would be surprising to those that under stand the Christian spirit if that should be made a reason among us why we should not relieve their pressing wants. AYeare to pray for those that despitefullv use us—not to pray at them, to pray for them; wc arc to heap those coals of fire that have been spoken of here upon their heads; we are bv love, by forbearance, by mercy, to plead with them; and as if God means that wo should have an invocation to the exercise of all these Chris tian dispositions, behold, His providence that has cast down these men, who aro bone of our bone, blood of our blood, flesh of our flesh, into the utmost necessity, that we may now repay them with bread, with clothing, with compassionate relief, in their sufferings, their sickness and their trials. Do you remember that parable, which never will be done having a fresh application, where a certain man went down to Jericho and fell among thieves, and a priest came that way, and did not think it necessary even to go nnd see what the matter was, but passed by on the other side, because it was evident that the roan was not a priest ? If tho mau had been ot the priest class he would have looked alter him and cared for him; he held that a man should take care of his own sect —bis own profession. [Laughter.] Then came the Lcvite who, when lie came down, more merciful than the priest, did look at the man, and passed on. Tho man was not a Levite, and he was not bound to relieve him. Soon after there came down a Samaritan that way, who. not belonging to any of the aris tocratic sects, and being a poor man, a dem ocrat who had no other connection or rela tion with men except that they were his brethren, came where the man was anil picked him up and poured oil and wine into his wounds, nnd set him upon his own beast, walking himself by bis side, and_ brought him to an inn and took care of him. Tbo parable was spoken in answer to the ques tion, “Who is my neighbor?” Neighbor!— Suppose it had been, Who is my fellow-citi zen i Who is rnv brother ? God stands say ing to us, to-night, Who is your brother ? Is he not the man that needs, the man that suf fers ? If it was in the North that this suffer ing was expressed, you would have uo doubt or”hesitation. If it was among those that never had wronged nor sought to injure you or vours, you would have no doubt. Have no doubt now! The same hearts, the same sympathies, tno same sensibilities that yon have, the suffering people ol the South have. God says to you to-night: Go where they arc, pour oil and wine into their wounds, take them up and care for them. Whatever there may be here- ncss on our part now will better prepare the way for a more easy, gradual, efficient and permanent reunion than can be mado in any with their brethren ; anil I think I have a right to say to all the South to-day that we, Abolitionists from tbe beginning, [great cheering] who have urged anil advocated the efforts of the people of the North, and have with vehemence inspired them to .maintain what we then thought, and still think, to he great principles of national safety, justice, and rectitude,—that now thnt the conflict is over, we, more than all others, are the men who feel for sufferings, and would heal their wounds, take awav their poverty, and restore them if we could,* upon a renewed basis of liberty, to that prosperity which before was treacherous, but which now, when it comes to them, shall be as everlasting as the granite hills. [Loud applause.] Do I misinterpret the spirit of the North , Are we not all together in this good cause ? There is but one thing that I. feel in the slightest degree ashamed of; it is that Ia should seem to have to plead for it- 1 know that the feeling of tho North needs no plead ing. There may be by misapprehension some jealousy lest under a partly intrusive kindness there should be masked certain political pur-, poses or ulterior designs, hire fhjt “to-i iejon being taken out ot the way rfnd thJ’quSstion being, shall there bean organization through out the length and breadth of the North that shall supply food to the starving, and raiment to the shivering, and comfort and relief to the dying—I do not believe if yon were to put it to a vote in Maine you could get one dis senting voice, nor in New Hampshire, nor in Vermont, nor in Massachusetts, nor in Con necticut, nor in Rhode Island; and in New York the vote would be ono thundering roll from tho ocean to the lakes. [Applause.]— The whole North is of one mind. We are not malignant. We do not lay up anger.— We haTe no grudges that we want avenged upon the South. We are sure of the country. We are sure that those ideas that originally fashioned our institutions arc in the ascen dancy nnd are going to shape our policy; i\e know that this is so, and that the sun wi 11 sooner go back in hiscourse than these things will change. Now that that is certain, our animosity is dead, our anger is cool, our in dignation sleeps; we have no grudges nor revenges. Tbe people of the. South aie our brethren, whether we arc theirs or not. It may be that they do not like us; in a largo and Christian charity wo love them.— They may call us the detested Yankees; wc shall still say, before God and men, they are our brethren. They may say that we are cruel and arrogant; we shall repay it by loads of breadstuff?, by our wardrobes liberally di vided among them. This is the feeling of the North ; and I do not believe that upon well-ascertained necessity convince the men of the North that the channelsopened for this relief are eafe, and tbal what is contributed will "o directly to the place where it is need- ed; anil I think I may say that there will bo an undivided sentiment in tlie North to feed them, clothe them, heal them, comfort them. Now let me say one word more. Tho waste that takes place in the great operations of Providence is one of tho most marvelous things that strikes me in my reflections upon the moral government of the world. Why could not God have mado apple trees with ffir-JSSSE «r.=,‘W-SE§:tSSS juaw <va rnuuj ~ — _ ^ _ to be apples? Now he makes five hundred thousand blossoms where he is going to havo but five hundred apples ? And why could it . . < X .. iLnt’ iitlian tlio - , r w r 0 ^ fodeed" a good way to nothavc been so aVranged, as that when the flZ.n .n I Sieve 'in revenue - germs set and the blossoms fell, only so many (L^tXrchXy jtark ^ natural | perisb g*& ^hil'KwheS spmt down deep m man ^ heart, a^hng “ ^bevMaken the trouble to be born, go on and live ? [Laughter.] But half tbe human race die in infancy. It was very homely, but it contained a very profound sentiment—the inscription on the tombstone ia the country, over an infant: that if a man wrongs you, you should give him as good as ho sends, and I believe in it and preach it, and try in an humble way to practice it. Make the man just as uncomfort able as you can—lie has made you uncom fortable. (Laughter.) Only you are not at liberty to choose your method; you are to do it by Christian retaliation. If he hates you. give it back to him in the shape of love. If he persecutes you, see what you can do m spite of him that will improve his circum stances, and make him better off. If he reviles you, sink all the bad things you ever hear of him, never let them bo repeated in your presence, and tell all the good things - •»- *— nnf nltnnt him Tf Ilf* 44 If you was so sood to be done for, I wonder what you was begun for!’ (Laughter.) Apothecaries weigh and mens - ure with exactitude. Mechanics cut and fit with entire nicety, wasting the least possible material. So tho goldsmith works, so tho silversmith, and so tbe lapidary works when he is polishing precious stones. But is there your presence, anil ten an me guuu j anything so precious in gold or silver or you can possibly find out about him. If he < precious stones as there is in human life <— damns you, pray for him. (Laughter.) If Why is it that no great change can take we spent more time in praying tor the men place in the affairs of men without the squan- that wo don’t like, and less time in parading dering of generations, and that the world is their errors and repeating tho evil tlin( is : lifted up from one great level to another said of them, I think it would do them nnd ; higher by such enormous wastes? Yet so it us r. creat deal more good than is done to u J j Sj anil we cannot pierce the mystery. And „ ow i this leads me to say that though I mourn anil There is old Massachusetts, a plucky old | marvel that it has cost so much, yet such be- Statc • the very backbone of Puritanism is | ing tho way in which God educates and ail- supposed to run through that State. Now. ! yanccscommunities, lam glad that the South she is a revengeful old State. [Laughter.] | suffers, I am glad she is hungry, I am glad There were so many of her children that per- | she is cold. The great want which slavery islied at Belle Isle aud Libby Prison,'and in bred was the wnnt of the love of work. Noth- the other slaughter pens at the South, that it ! ing would have persuaded a man to work— made the oldState feel revengeful, and her i nothing in the way of inducement from before sons who came back said that tlio boys that j—it was only the pressure from behind that perished should have a monument ot remem- could get him to do it. Nothing short of braoce at the South, so they formed a society, i sickness, nothing short ofanguisliful 1 •ereave- and on consultation they determined that ( nients, nothing short of that last turn and they would go down to Richmond, and would j pressure that brings one to the very point of t ike a building in tlie neighborhood of Lib- j choosing death or work, would have produced bv Prison, and open schools there for the j an adequate moral impression upon so vast a poor white children of the very men that had : scale that the old time laziness had passed persecuted and tormented their brethren in j away, and that the new time for hard, honor- lilue I Applause.] And they have opened ! able work had come. (Cheering.) And those schools, and from 500 to 1,000 of those 1 although they that are the instruments in children are’now in attendance and being ; this change are made to suffer, remember that taught there That is Massachusetts’ revenge. , when God Himself, in the person of nis Son, "•i.T:,. pointed the gun anil raised tbe ; was to lift the world through all the glorious the men of Massachusetts, anil: eras of redemption, it was by fears and blood now suu is avenging herself upon their cliil- ' and death that he chose to accomplish the druu [Applause.] If I could, I would build ; work. ’ J. at Andersonvillo, at Milieu, ami at every other j He spared not his own Son, why shou. he such placo in tlie South, of liidtous memory, spare us ? Anil when after war hnd been, an institution where Christ, in liis love of all He meant mercy to tho South. He smote humanity should be taught, and where should down the bloody sword and ordained that be gathered in the children of those that darkness should cover their land, and, open- were accomplices in those great outrages ing tho vials of his wrath, seemed to scatter there committed. That is tho revenge that becomes the Christian North. [Applause.] disease and distress and woes and tears anil groans; but by and by these plasters shall be IComes ins vnruuuu -V -j --—-i TT . wrnn"ed the iln" has she i taken ofl, anil then behold the sores shall be- HaSt ^,5°v!5hnfsho slninvoursoD is qintoheal; behold health shall again put wronged t! e N' 1 0 ^. ; ^ buried there never forth its signs, and it shall be then seen that ,t your• husbandthat is boned[there what looked like God's wrath was really again to see you,Mlo ;°™ngc ‘ God’s safety and mercy; and when by suffor- unatoned for ? Here is a Chnst.an ^revenge ^ , )ave tau ^ t the peop]e thc rad- to Rhich Ol y • ? vou id not "ive ical ideas of human brotherhood andthedig- &t tl,C wi J h “S £ 2 linralw , nit? of work, and thus made thc truth self- to our b J P , . them the supporting among them, then God’s hand crave. >ii e raiment that they will be lilted and the South will have learned oaf. w; n a tll em naked the great lesson. They will have gone took avi aj . • \ t0 through tho Valley of Humiliation, only that aaC iblv now necd sorX ihen,selves, they o°n the other side shall go up tho steeps anil die, i nnn ,h«r« frriitlblsDin off the of Mount Zion, nobler and stronger than As long as your looms are fruittulspm oU^ ^ whh B fatU re without a yards and i Jj > cloud. Before, they stood on the sides of a s° 'volcanic mountain that might at anytime UiemVavc reviled the North, they now know break out and overwhelm_ them m utterde- tliiin .iav determines’that a thin" • struction. That danger is all gone. They “l4 ate f-.bg, I tbta* through thoir I.st grot,, tlutVij right—they 1 tvi! ['ttau d h as ^nll ii I stand to-night to hull in the future a.re- Mount Zion stands. '[“Good,good.' ] Let it juvenatod South, free, with free labor, free be°understood tliat when the North lias made schools and free papers; free in conscience, un R, rohul to go intc a fight for a principle, free in understanding; no need of darkness U P “ ... the last dollar n’id "ive the any more, no need ot shackles or of whips, “£2“ £ B ’SSiSSVStafS do- Itu. nhich, anbtntod hf tho di™ e st spirit of fml that principle. [Applause.] But that a truly Christian liberty, bound in the bonds w 1 the war is past anil the conflict is over, of a common brotherhood, slmll advance and „ b Wl,e neoDle attlie North sec that thc time march forward to a future full of prospentj. r r l manitv and mercy has come, they will And now, I say again to you, to this hour for J , i,oMof ererv bushel when they are still suffering, relieve them; give half of i be • their looms their and as you relieve then, do not think that stares!'their ships, they \i ill hold in common you are going down into the pit, as they were in their death-throes and anguish. It is their Gethsemane, but there is before them a re surrection anil a glorification ; and the day will come when South -Carolina will shake hands with Massachusetts, not for. political effect, but because they love one another.— The day will corne when New Y'ork and Alabama will know no difference between each other. The time will come when there will be no more warring States, and this nation shall be one, and your kindness and your mercy will have helped to bring on and confirm that glorious day. [Great applause.] SrEECH OF nORACK GREELY. At the conclusion of Mr. Beecher’s speech Hc-n. Horace Greely was introduced, and said that he did not desire on this occasion to speak of the political and social differences that had heretofore alienated thc Nprtli and South, but should confine himself solely to the question of the present suffering of the Southern people. He had been especially called to trace thoroughly and carefully the history of tho struggle through which we had passed and could speak with some knowledge of their present condition. In the first place "there were half a million widows in tiro South caused b the war. They were willing to work for a living, but they have not tbo i;v cilities for doing the work suited to them.— In the second place there are half a million of maimed and crippled men in the South who, in consequence of their injuries, are no longer able to support their families. Our maimed and cripple soldiers have pensions which mitigate their sufferings, and besides tlii3 we have a multitude of charitable associations which afford relief, and which are unknown in the South. Then again the seat of war was mainly in the South, and one can scarce ly realize the difference in tlie devastation produced by the wnr there and here. When the war closed the producing power of the South was almost entirely gone. Mil lions of dollars were lost in the South last year in consequence of the want of good seed to sow, and in addition to this the animals and implements of husbandry were nearly all gone, making it next to impossible to pro duce half tho usual crop, even if there had been the same laboring force as before thc war. All the people of the South of all po litical views were now suffering alike. Look ing at it in tho light even of self-interest, if there were no higher motive, one million dol lars distributed through the South now in the way of food, seed and agricultural imple ments would return ten millions next year. God bad made us one people, and there could not possibly be a genuine, healthy prosperity in tho North while, there was want, and suffering and incapacity to pro duce in the South. There needs to be a complete reorganization of industry in the South—manufacturing and mechanical in dustry was needed there now—and in his opinion this reorganization of Southern in dustry was more important to them and us than any political reorganization. (Applause) Just let tho North speak to the South and say: “Do what you can to help yourselves and we will do what we can to help you,” and this will be worth more than all else for national restoration and harmony. Mr. Greeley closed by exorting every one to give his energies to the work that had called them together this evening. New York, lie said, ought to commence the work, by a subscription of a million dollars; Bos ton, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and other cities would follow, and before spring opens the South would be put in a condition to enter upon tbe cultivation of the next year’s crop with hopeful prospects. Let us say to the South, “Be of good cheer the dark hours are passing away.” The South needs to be cheered and * encouraged, and to feel that friendlv words are spoken to them from the North.* [Applause.] At this juncture a gentleman in the audi ence proposed that they should hear from a guest to whom the North attempted to send relief at an early period of tho war—Major- General Anderson. RE-MARKS OK GEN. ANDERSON. Maj. Gen. Anderson then stepped forward and said: Ladies and Gentlemen : You ought to know me well enough not to expect a speech from me; but I say in reference to this matter that my heart is with you. I believe tho North will open their hearts and their purses to the South, and such a course will be productive of inestimable good. Go on, you cannot .do too mueb. On motion of Mr. Greeley, it was resolved that the clergy of this city be requested to present the subject of raising aid for the South to tlieir congregations. The Cotton Supply. Atlanta Municipal Troubles. Confiscation.—The New York Tribune advises as follows and soundly: A simple provision- .«at no further confis cations shall be initiated, would enable thou sands of most capable anil enterprising South rons to borrow money wherewith to fence and till their lands, or to sell halt of them for the means with which to cultivate thc other. And why not thus provide? If we do not propose to confiscate—and almost every one says we do not—let us state this beyond cavil, so as to allow thousands now fettered and paralyzed to return to active usefulness, and thus contribute to the national thrift and and prosperity. If wc do not mean to indict for simple treason—and every one knows that such indictment would, under the decisions of tho Supremo Court, be but a costly sham let us say that also, nnd dispel tho idle but none the less painful apprehensions of de- Yotcd wivc3 and children. Wc will not hero use the word amnesty, since it has been so grossly and dishonestly perverted; but wc insist that Congress shall at least seem a3 gen erous. as she really is. * - — , • The Star of Empire.—Tho recent discus sion in Congress of female voting, and the speech of Senator Cowan in its favor, seem not to have been without tlieir effect on the country. Already tlie subject has been broached in various State Legislatures, (whose jurisdiction over it is undisputed,) and in Maine tho Legislature has gone so far as to pass “orders” looking to the abolition of all distinction between the sexes in the matter of suffrage. We shall thus probably soon havo the matter put to a practical test in at least one of tho States: and if the Maine fran chise law confers tli« right of office-holding, wg may ere long behold a female Governor with her lady councilors. The sex will then have something else than their waterfalls to think of.—Exchange. Four Children at a Birth.—We learn that this little incident happened one day last : week to a lady of this city, and that this is j the third time she bus thus augmented the number of her household by more than one at a time—first two, then three, and now j four.—Mobile paper. A Brief, but Brilliant Existence.— The Republican, a radical paper, tiro first number of which made its appearance at j Chattanooga two weeks ago, breathed its las. | on Monday morning,the 28th instant. The la- 1 mented deceased w as 1 * born ot poor but respec-: table parents,” and died, as we are credibly | informed, for want of proper sustenance. From the Cotton Supply Reporter.] ] Tiro citizens of Atlanta held a public We commence the new year with some per-: meeting on AY ednesday, which, besides ap- plexitv still as to what are to he our cotton I pointing a committee to wait on the Mayor supplies, though the feverish impatience and and request bis resignation, adopted thc lol- ilistrust which have for seme time prevailed lowing are giving way to more rationfl and hopeful views. We still look to America to deter mine tbe question which is to us of so much interest and importance. The traditions of the past cling tenaciously to the mind, aud it is not easy to shake off a state of depend ence to which we have so long been accus tomed. But there are fact3 accumulating of the highest significance and importance, which show conclusively that we have no occasion, and should not allow ourselves again to be placed in jeopardy. There arc other countries which, if they have not the the skill and energy possessed by the Ameri can planters, have, nevertheless, a soil anil climate capable of producing cotton which in quality'will bear comparison with that-of the United States. Cotton grown in Turkey, from the American seed supplied fop last sowing season, has been sold during the past week in the Liverpool market at 14 J-Sd. per pound, when the highest price of Ameri can was lod. pound; 60 near an approxi mation to equality is sufficient to prove that wc ought not, through the undue reliance upon any one country which lias grown upon us, to under-estimate the capabilities of others If wc can only bring greater energy and skill into operation, with better methods of agriculture, and the exercise of more cave and attention, there Heed be no fear as to the result. India has fairly started on thc career of im provement in cotton growing, and tlie im ports last year from that country, including China, have exceeded those from America by more than 700,000 bales. Thc Indian Gov ernment, as will be seen from an official pa per which appears in our other columns, has begun to adopt vigorous measures to render India a successful competitor of America. The Cotton Supply Association, it will also lowing resolutions: Resolved, That the recommendation con tained in the conclusion of the following extract from the special report of the Fi nance Committee, made on last Friday night, by the Chairman W. B. Cos, viz: “The task of providing for all our necessities for the present year, is one well calculated to tax the very ablest financial ability; but it has been made greater by the wide-spread impression which has gone abroad, that defalcation and looseness of management, coupled with tho heavy expenditures during the year 1SCI3, has wenkened our credit, and imposed burdens upon our people hard for them to bear.—- The constituency which we represent will find no difficulty In placing thc responsibili ty for this state of things only upon those to whom it properly belongs, anil will censure no man where it is undeserved. But there are great interests involved in tho mainte nance of our public credit, which cannot be disregarded or neglected; and with a view t<» thu preservation of this, and the restora tion of confidence greatly shaken, wc believe it would elevate all connected with the city administration to give the people an oppor tunity of attaining these ends, through offi cials elected after these facts have been made known to them,” meets our unqualified approval; and the action of a portion of thc members of Council, and the contemplated action of the remainder, in accordance with the foregoing recommendation, we highly commend as patriotic and greatly tending to promote the best interest of the city. 2. Resolved, That wc recommend that a quorum, at least, of the present Council hold tlieir present positions as Councilmen, till their places can be properly filled under our present chartered regulations; their resigna tions to take effect at thc time tlieir succes- Tnc uotton ouppiy asbuuiauuii, iij aiow noils ill lane cucii in tut; ■■ bo observed, has resolved to make renewed SO rs may be elected and qualified. Dwi riftrnrnmpnf ftllifl offers ot 51 T^r*s:nlvnfl Tllftt tlie nStOUll appeals to the Government, and fresh offers ot co-operation. The entire imports of 18G6, amounting to 3,749,041 bales, are the largest ever known, exceeding those of I860, the great cotton year, which were 3,303,994 bales. ° 'With respect to the coming year, we can see no reason for gloomy forebodings, and should not be greatly surprised by an aggre gate supply nearly, if not fully equal to that of last year. So long as there exists in any quarter an evident object to be gained by un der-estimating tbo supply, and the reported stocks on hand are found to be less than the actual, which has more than once occurred, vigilance and circumspection must be exer cised, or much suffering and loss will again be experienced. A writer in the Tipaes of India, reckoning, as he thinks we may safely do, the American cotton crop at 1,750,000 bales, which, after allowing 750,000 bales for consumption in the United States, would leave for export one million bales, estimates the supplies for the year 1867 at 3,500,000 bales, as follows, viz : American ....bales 1,000,000 Brasil, Earpt an, and all other countries ex- cepfc India...* 1.000,OCX) India, at least 1.600,000 Total. ‘ 3,500,090 Taking the consumption and exports at G5,000 bales per week, which would absorb 3,380,000 bales, the present large stock ot 581,570 bales would be augmented at the end of thc year by 120,000 bales, the surplus of the supplies anticipated. Tho inference deducted from these premises is that prices anything like those at present current cannot be maintained. It seems impossible to doubt that production will continue to increase, 3. Resolved, That the astounding fact3 developed in the late report of the Finance Committee already referred to—bonds of the city to the amount of $25,000 hypothecated to borrow $10,000, which bonds will be for feited, disgracefully sacrificed, and lost to the city unless the means for their redemption be speedily provided; and money borrowed of brokers at 3 per cent, per month, ns well as the enormous frauds and general loose man agement ; checks of the city to a large amount floating about in the hands of the poor, anil sacrificed by them at ruinous discounts to provide the actual wants of life; and tbe stubborn fact that the present Mayor and Council cannot possibly take any steps, adopt any measures, or pursue any policy which will restore confidence, command respect at home and abroad, revive and elevate the cfedit of our city, and raise the means on reasonable terms to meet pur pressing wants, no matter what extenuating plea or fact may be offered—forcibly admonish us that.no time should be lost, and in the opinion of this meeting, both duty and patriotism strongly call upon the present administration to take the necessary steps to provide for a new elec tion for Mayor and Council at the earliest practicable moment. 4. Resolved, That thc course of Mayar Williams in refusing to resign under exist ing circumstances meets with our decidei. disapproval, knowing, as he must, that jus continuance in office cannct result otherwise than in lurther embarrassments—aggravating I our present financial evils —still more damag ing tho credit anil prosperity ot the city— augmenting the distresses and sufferings of the poor—incalculably increasing the taxes and burdens of all, and putting a clog upon and that prices must decline. The supply ana Duruens or an, ana puufug u. ciug ujjwu from India, which in I860 was only 563,200 j]j e success of all industrial pursuits and busi- bales. has amounted during the past year to ncss in this citv: and that if he really has the lilclb lb »» All l/o OIUI * v*. "-{5 ^ - same result will doubtless be witnessed in the Brazils, Egypt, Turkey and elsewhere, and if so any deficiency in the American supply that may occur will year by year become of less consequence. A higher range of prices than before the American war may be main tained without disadvantage, but it is mani fest that a considerable reduction must take place before there can bo a satisfactory state of things. High prices and a prosperous cot ton trade cannot co-exist. Steady supplies from sources on which dependence can be placed, and from a sufficient number to pre vent the loss or temporay interruption of one or a few from causing any serious inconveni ence, will most effectually put an end to tho fluctuations which have occasioned so much disaster. To this end thc improvement in the quality of cotton in Turkey, India, &c„ and other countries, which has already com menced, must be prompted byevery possible means, and will require the continued co operation and exertion of all parties who have any interest in tho result. The experi ence and lessons of the past demand deter mined perseverance, which we cannot doubt will accomplish the object desired. duty is to resign l successor in his office can be provided for. 5. Resolved, That we tender assurance to all creditors of the city, ancl tlie public, thac all bonds, bills, or evidences of debt, legally issued by the representatives of the city will be promptly paid when due, and that what ever may have been the malfeasance or mis management of jiublic officials, we are deter mined that the credit of the city shall be maintained at all hazards and at any cost, and that we will submit to any taxation or burdens which may be neces-ary to accom- plish an object so paramount, a»d to do justice to all who have invested, or may invest, in the securities of the city. HoRRinLE Cruelty in Mobile.- Effect of the Radical Impeachment Plan on the French Polict.—Wc must get to the end ef the month of March before France will be quite out of all possible dan ger ns regards the Mexican question. But, under any circumstances, if Mr. .Johnson is found guilty and removed from lii3 office as Chief Magistrate, the agreement made by France for evacuating Mexico will not, of course, be in any way affected. On thc other hand, this impeachment will prevent any ne gotiations which may have been contemplated ■We copy bv France with regard to Mexico. There is as follows from the Advertiser of Tuesday: The negro woman, Mary Mitchell, who was arrested on Saturday for thc murder of a little negro girl which she adopted some two or three weeks ago, was carried before tho Mayor’s Court this morning, nnd thc case was sent to Justice Starr. When the officer left tho court-room with the prisoner, he wii3 followed to the street by the large crowd ot freedmen who had gone up to witness the trial, and on reaching the street hundreds of others joined the throng, ail most intensely excited. It was proven at tbe Coroner’s in quest yesterday that the woman, after starv ing the child almost to a skeleton, had beat- cn°her with switches cut from rose-bushes and full of thorns, that she would take the child in the morning ami thrust her into a tub of cold water, keeping her there till she was nearly drowned, and that on the morn ing betoro the child died tlie monster had "iven her two or three hundred lashes. The result was the body of the little girl present ed a most horrid spectacle to tho eyes of the coroner and his jury. Thus it came about thnt a great deal of in- 1 ' di"nation against thc woman was felt aiming such of the colored population oftlie city as were acquainted with thc tacts, and for a time, as tiro officer led her to the office of Justice Starr, it was feared that an attempt would be made by the crowd to lynch her, and a line of policemen was drawn up across the street to keep back thc surging mass of colored humanity, among which the excite ment was very manifest. Fortunately, no violence was attempted, and after blocking up Conti street in front of the magistrate’s office until the policemen started to tbe guard-house with tbe prisoner, the crowd ; broke up and quietly dispersed. every reason to believe that thc French has sounded tho "Washington government as to its intentions toward Mexico after the French army has come away, because it is believed here that Maximilian will not hold out long, anil that eventually the United States must interfere in establishing a republican govern ment. Now, when the French flag is with drawn from Mexico, France finds herself deeply engaged in Mexican interests. She lias spent many hundred million francs on the empire, and there is much French prop erty and life to protect in that far-off conti nent. So far as France is concerned, tlie im peachment of President Johnson seems to add to the Mexican imbroglio. The French press appear to look upon this conduct of Congress towards tlie President as a political event which shall shake the foundation of the re public. Your contemporaries generally agree that thc. President may have committed faults, but lias done nothing to invite so grave a charge as that ot high treason. Messrs. Rothschild are understood, to have received a telegraphic message from America which cost 15,000 francs; report immediately declares that there are financial negotiations going on either with the governments of the United States or Mexico, or both. [Parrs {Jan. 15) Correspondence London Post. Affairs in Florida.—New Orleans, Jan 26 —An official letter from Florida says the Indians of Everglades, Florida, are de termined to keep tiro negroes in their tribe as slaves, denying that white men’s laws are applicable to them on the subject of slavery. The negroes claim their liberty, and have ap pealed to the military for assistance. It is feared there will be trouble in Florida touch ing this matter. c It is officially nmorted that the freedmen - throughout Florida are renewing contracts. The arrival of A. H. Lee, who drew There was a large emigration trom South the Crosby Opera House, in Chicago on the 25th is announced. U. H. Crosby is reported to have purchased thc Opera House trora him on the 29th for $209,000. 85gjr- gupreme Court ot the United States has just decided a suit against a dead man. Carolina and Georgia, tor the purpose of ob taining work or colonizing on the St. Johns river or south thereof. General Ely had arrived from South Caro lina with a colony ol eight hundred freed men. Tho colonization agencies in the south ern portion ot the State seemed to bo very popular.

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, February 08, 1867, Image 1