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[PROPRIETORS
MACON, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 26, 1867.
Term* of Subscription ;
. u Weekly Tblecbai'ii : $4 00 per
•N DULY TeixoHaiti : 812 00 perannuin.
J O It PRINTING.
•'.cnlar attention -will bo given to the
of JOB PRINTING of every deecrip-
• The Augostn Press learns from Col.
flrhni Johnston, President of tbo Augusta
,-l Columbia Railroad, thnt he has just pur-
«<13,800 tons of iron, which will bo suf-
eBt to lay half tho track.
■ ■ < I H fr- ' i ■ —
k£“ A Northern telegram reports that
lteverdy Johnson soys thnt the Injunc-
: proceedings in the Supremo Court must
: !in injury, rather than in benefit, to the
• ah. <■
Sot Confirmed.—The New York Times
lT i tho “special" telegram from Europe, an
jcing that Bismarck had “demanded” an
.spirit and categorical explanation from
Napoleon of his motives and intentions
.inning France, has not received the slight-
confirmation.
Tho population of Mexico is about
/ ,’at millions. Ex-Governor Harris, of Ten-
r,a<er. who has been there, and knows some-
k; c .« about the quarrelsome nature of the
. • A thinks that if about seven millions
Vi{K exterminated, the balance might be able
live peacefully.
\*r The work of emancipation has been
.-r n in Brazil by decreeing the freedom of
a slaves on the public domain, about three
usinJ in number, on condition thnt they
!er the army. The wives of those that are
Lfrieil are also freed. None have yet de
■red the offer.
TIIE GRAVES OF OUR DEAD. j
JUDGE STARNES’ SPEECH.
We hope that tho ladies of Macon will notj The following is the larger and most im-
forget that the day is approaching on which : portant part of Judge Starnes’ speech, lately
they have determined annually to strew flow- delivered by rcquesUat the Freedmcn’s nicct-
cra upon the graves of those dear to them, 1 jug in Augusta; and we commend it to the
who fell in the late war. careful attention of our colored population:
Many of Georgia’s dead recline beneath the Tho who hag ju3t ndd rcssed you
Striven County.—A Scrivcn county plan
tin'.* the Savannah News a glowing ac
ini of the prospects for cropsjin his section.
mjs they all look finely, and that accord-
tf to present appearances they will exceed
fc.'se of any past season for many years.—
r f first crop is almost unprecedentedly
\>iuUing. The planters are laboring most
Ladoonsly themselves, and their extra cx
rious nearly compensate for the irregularity
:negro labor.
Sormnut Relief.—Collections continue
pie taken up in churches and elsewhere for
L: relief of the South. The subscriptions
tf liberal. An extensive fair is to be held
l: *!u same purpose. So says a Washington
Dependent; while the General Agent of
Commission states that the receipts, up
. the present time, are $103,000. Of this
:a, California sends in gold $31,000, or, in-
• »ed to curroncy, $ 10,000; New York City,
!.«00, and the country, West and East,
'1,000.
Treat.—The wheat crop bids fair to bo
tellentin Middio Tennessee. The editor
tbo McMinnville Enterprise says : We
,rc recently traveled through portions of
(counties of Warren, Putnam, Smith and
Mb, and find tho wheat crop to be very
wnising in appearance. The stand is uni*
air good, with no cvidenco of injurious
As from eitherthe winter or the fly. Tnc
,dth sown appears to be large, and the
iications ore that with a favorrble season
shall have one of the finest wheat crops
have had tor a number of years.
Readmitted to Practice.—In the United
;ates Supreme Court, before Judge Erskine,
Tuesday, lion. Salomon Cohen and T. 'XL
orwood, Esq., were readmitted to practice
die United States Courts.
sod of Virginia and Tennessee and Carolina
and Mississippi; and many of the brave sons
of those gallant States smoulder beneath the
soil of Georgia. The mothers ami sisters of
Georgia cannot, with floral tributes, bedeck
the graves of their loved ones in Virginia
and Mississippi; neither can the maidens and
matrons of Mississippi and Virginia lovingly
decornto, the last resting place of their dear
ones, who fell in other and distant States.
But shall it be that bleeding hearts
must bestow no token of affection upon the
tombs of the loved and lost—evince no sor
rowing grief or mournful regret over the suf
ferings and death of those to whom life’s af
fections clung the strongest ? Oh, no.
Let the mothers and sisters of Virginia,
Mississippi and Tennessee adorn the grave?
of heroes from Georgia and Alabama; and
the mothers and 6istcrs of Georgia and Ala
bama will strew flowers o’er the sleeping
places of the gallant sons of Virginia, Mis
sissippi and Tennessee. Thus will the sorrow-
smitten hearts of every Southern State honor
the remains and memory of the sons of every
other Southern State, that sleep in her borcU
ers, and the fair ones of the entire South will
have tho consolation of knowing that they
are thus shedding tears o’er their dear one's
graves, and honoring the memory of father;
husband, son and brother. j
This offering of affection accords beautifully
with the heart’s tendercst feelings, and har
monizes sweetly with love of home and coun
try. Let the day and its duty, then, not be
forgotten, nor its grateful, though mournful,
task neglected, # . ;
WORDS FOR THE FREEDXIEN.
B" A letter from FaUphi
-pastes of Hungary intend to convert the
ditional present of the kingdom to the
vttign, on the occasion of his coronation,
b a gift which will bo of utility to the
afire. It is to consist of three iron-cased
PS to be called the Hungary, the Francis
*pb, and the Elizabeth.
«y“The Springfield (Xlnss.) Republican
“One thousand workmen have struck
* »t the Portland stone quarries, and have
3 idle since Tuesday, on account of the
large of some of their number for voting
Democratic ticket at the recent election,
^ fifty of tho mill hands at Rockville have
* lost tlioir situations for n similar reason.”
ACttic Railroad.—The latest advices
tbe Central Pacific Railroad—tho main
8 «*t all the eastern branches tending ho
stile Missouri—will reach the nciglibor-
* of the famous silver mines, near X ir-
City, by July next, and that it will re*
' : the cost of getting and separating the
• . . ,il« lit to :i saving of about
* million a year. This is good news,
^femay be a prospect. when it is corn-
through, that we may once more
' "I that nearly forgotten metal.
Home of “Honest A.iik.”—The New
EWorld says: “Bat the unkindest cut
H to the Radical party is tho result of the
in the homo and final resting place
41 t;reat and good man who, according
** e Tribune, could m vi r te l gratt iul
^hto Gen. oseernns for ‘throwing all
**dgttof his into and fame against the
I:i thb -amc Springfield, 11 li-
* oa Tuesday last, the Democrats elected
“ ta Ur» ticket hr ft handsome majority,
Aiiinfaeo of the fact that the city was
?* b y the adicals last fall by a majority
Wc have printed two speeches—Governor
II. V. Johnson’s and Judge Starnes’—per
taining to the present condition and future
duties of the freedmen of the South ; and
wc did so with the special object of reaching
that class of our fellow-citizens, and impres
sing them with a just idea of their present
responsibilities, and of the course in which
tlieir best interests should lead them. We
desire, above all things, to convince them
that we wish to promote their welfare in the
best manner, and to show them that wc and
all the white people at the South are their
best friends. Let them now think what they
please, and act as they may, the time will 6oon
come when they shall find out that their old
masters are their best friends, and that, un
der the present circumstancet, they are willing
and anxious to do a better part by them than
people at a distance.
We tell the freedmen that the people of tho
South have accepted the present condition
of affairs, and that they sincerely desire now
to act so as best to promote the highest in
terest of both the white and black races.—
Wbat they ask of the freedmen is not to dis
trust them, nor to place themselves in direct
hostility and mad antagonism to the South
ern white people. As sure as the sun shines,
the Southern white people desire and will
endeavor to secure the greatest good for the
blacks; and wc beg the freedmen not fool
ishly to look upon the whites around them as
their enemies. We beg them not to become
enemies in mind and heart to the Southern
white people; for the consequences will be
most unhappy. But, if we all live together
in harmony and try to advance each other's
mental, moral and political interests In the
best way, the whole.South will become hap
py and prosperous.
In the words of an able man, the Southern
people now acknowledge the equality of all
before the law, and regard it as not legs just
to themselves and the freedmen than to the
States and tlieir best interests, to aid the col
ored people in their education, elevation, and
enjoyment of all the rights which belong to
their new condition. They know that the
prosperity of a State must depend upon
the virtue and intelligence of her people, and
no wise man will hesitate to do all in his
power to elevate and improve the character
and condition of the colored race, between
whom and tho Southern people an indestruc
tible bond of sympathy, based upon a thous
and happy memories, exists. Henceforth the
white and tho colored man must tread the
same onward path: their political and indus
trial interests—their happiness and prosperi
ty, are inseparably blended; and it becomes
both races harmoniously to advance together,
confiding in and assisting each other, dismiss
ing mutual fear, distrust and jealousy, and re
moving far away all enmity, antagonism and
misapprehension.
The Crevasse in Louisiana.—The Carroll
Record, published at Lake Providence, says
it is melancholy to contemplate the immense
damage dono by the high water in that
neighborhood. After the break in the Bass
levee had been stopped, the people in the
lower portion of Carroll began to think them
selves tolerably secure; but not long after
wards the levee atF, Harris’ place, jnst above
the Madison line, gave way, and at last ac
counts the water was pouring through in a
tremendous volume, half a mile in width,
flooding a number of tlie most valuable plan
tations inTompkin’s Bend, and extending
nine or ten miles above the breach.
The Iberville * Pioneer of the 6th says,
said that a great wrong had been perpetrated
by those who had been slaveholders. That
certain parties had freed you—relieved you
from the condition of slaves; but that we
had perpetrated a great wrong in bolding
you as slaves, and it was not to bo expected
that that which was right could be extended
to you by us.
The resolutions introduced also declare
that the late war ivas made by the South ior
the purpose of perpetuating slavery. Now,
the Congress of the United States declared
that they made tbo war to perpetuate the
Union on account of slavery. Yet to-day we
are told that it was made by us to perpetuate
slavery. The speaker said that we perpetra
ted a great wrong upon you, in resisting an
effort to free you. You can read (some of
you) and ascertain what the truth of history
establishes.
Did I vote for slavery ? Or did even the
fathers of the present generation vote slavery
into being ? No, no, my friends No option
was given to us. Our forefathers, several
generations removed, brought it hero in
ships of old England, or New England. Sla
very has never been suddenly at once estab
lished in any country. It has grown up by
custom. Our English forefathers, who furn
ished their ships to trade in the importing ot
colored people from Africa, anil many ship
from New England, brought it here, and in
process of time, many of us were compelled
to inherit slaves, for we found our property
chiefly in slaves and ourselves in a condition
which we could not influence. Nor did we
believe that slavery itself was morally \tfrong,
for we found warrant for it in the Bible. This
generation took things as they found them.
Wc were not responsible for the establishing
of slavery, and wc could not, at once, if we
had wished, remove it, and so, whatever
might l>e our private sentiments, we were
compelled to sustain the condition of things
as we found them ; and I do not think many
of you believe we are doing wrong, except
where there was an abuse of slavery. When
there came a war between tbo slave! olding
and non-slaveholding States, and when the
slaves became free, then a new order of things
sprung up, and then an opportunity was offer
ed to all to do their duty under this new
state of things. We ought not; to be judged
by what our forefathers have done, if we have
not abused our privileges as slaveholders.
I have announced, publicly, that there are
ties of the strongest and closest friendship
which bind those who lately snood in the re
lation of masters and slaves together, and I
now add that he is a madman who seeks to
sunder them.
There arc obligation? of interest, too, which
we cannot ignore, which aro as strong ns the
might of Hercules, and which we must recog
nize, if we would consult the interests of
race,HHMHPMHHPPHHHHH
What ore these ties of friendship J. The
last speaker forcibly furnished one or two il
lustrations which ore interesting to all of us.
Though the law made a distinction between
us wheu we stood towards each other as mas
ters and slaves, yet it did not prevent a com
munity of family ties. Our attachments were
attachments of the family circle There were
some exceptions, I know. There were brutes
among masters, and there were unfeeling mis
tresses, but I speak of the great masses when
I say there was a strong family tie which
bound masters and slaves together.
Then, I speak with feeling (usd every mas
ter in this assemblage who ban owned slaves
sympathizes with me.) when I say I have the
strongest feelings of friendship for those who
were once my slaves.
I have teelings of friendship for them, ari
sing out of associations, that can never be ob-
1 iterated until death puts itn seal upon my
heart.
When I hear of their distress my purse is
open to them. They can tell you so. When
I remember that they are they who have
nursed my children—who have watched over
the deatU-bcds of my little ones; when I re
member that their hands have smoothed my
pillow in my own sufferings, I can never
otherwise fee 1 that they have be:;n portions of
my household as long as we live upon this
troublesome earth.
It was but the other day I met one of them
who was out of business—a skillful mechanic,
too. I sympathized with him. I put money
into liis hands with which to create business
for himself. Ask my slaves if they have
known any lessening in the waim friendship
which existed between us in the family circle.
I do not think I am vain in saying that, or
conceited when I speak of myiiclf. What I
have done is only wlmt thousands of others
have done, and are doing, if I mention it ns
an illustration, and as showing that, as for
mer owners oi slaves, we want no man to
come between them and our hearts.
Build up your party platform fit*you please,
but first, in view of these thiogs, give us an
opportunity to ask you if we can come to
gether and make some common platform upon
which wc can agree to maintain your state of
freedom, all your rights untouched, without
forcing you into antagonism to cs and our in
terests; for the friendship which we have so
long entertained we desire to continue.
Is this all I This is not all. Ton are now
approaching a crisis in your lives, when it is
necessary for you to understand what your
true interests are.
You cannot fail to see that it is utterly im
possible for the two races to live together
here in this country without a relation of
friendship and an identity of interest.
The last speaker said that you desired to
sustain and supply those who are hero for
these purposes to-day. He recognized the
propriety and necessity for a common under
standing* as to our interests; and yet, in the
face of all that, lie recommended that you
shall ndopt a course which shall express a
want of confidence in us.
Look at the identity of interest between
us. We cannot separate ourselves. You
townsmep, perhaps, do not feci as much as
your brethren in the country, who are more
dependent on the whites. Your former mas
ters own more or less of the lands in our
State. For a great many years you must
maintain the position of tlie representatives
of labor, and the white man the representa
tive of capital. How will it do for us to go
to war then ! By war I mean antagonism of
interests. How will it do to bring into that
sort ot war the interests of labor and capital*
Must not those who have nothing to de-
are brought in here as our laborers—how
many colored beggars must there be in this
land ? How many families must be brought
to distress* Look upon it from the dry nnd
simple stand-point of interest alone. I want
to show you liow you are interested. The
whites see tlieir interest in employing the
blacks.
The example of Governor Johnson is fol
lowed i y thousands everywhere. We are
brought to it by our habits of living ; by our
past associations. It is impossible for us to
feel unkindly to those whom we have known
from our childhood. We prefer to have
those people about us us long as they do
their duty, and they prefer to be with those
who know their habits, and can make allow
ances for them, “those with whom they know
how to get along.” We prefer tint we
should not sever the old ties that bounds us
together so longasour interests run together.
It may be true, as Carter told you, that per
haps none of you have over fifty cents in your
pockets, and, therefore, cannot uj hurt much
by taxation. That argument vil! do very
well for a great number of yr a!
ent, and such may feel that yc '‘a
sufferers by taxation.
Who are you ! Who are you ? Not a very
large meeting of the colored people of
Augusta. You are only a few hundred out
of the colored people of the whole State. It
may be that you represent tbo colored peo
ple of Augusta, generally, but theie are thous
ands of your colored' brethren who have an
interest in the staple of cotton, tobacco and
rice who will be effected by taxation. I have
made the same arrangements and the same
sort of a bargain as Gov. Johnson. Thous-
andsliave done so in onr State—dividing the
crop with the colored laborers.
You see, thus, that these people have in
terests which they share in common with the
white owners of the land. You cannot shut
your eyes to this; Jbd these things show that
in joining yourselves to a party you should be
cautious and careful. Understand well where
you place yourselves and your friends, for
the jiarty you aro, by these resolutions, called
on to join, is the party that is thus taxing the
colored people, as shown by Gov. Johnson.
Let me repeat to you, I wish it to be under
stood, thnt I am not here to represent the
interests of any man. I do not want to stand
in any candidate's wav, but this I say, I would
have been glad, ’(hence I put a card in the
paper to that effect)—before a party was
joined by you—to have gone into a meeting
for the purpose of having an understanding
with tho colored peopie, and seeing if we can
not adopt a platform upon which white and
black could agree, and you could Lave bad
an opportunity of learning what were your
interests.
You are now all free, and you are made
voters by the law. Has that enabled any of
you to read who could not read before ? Has
that enabled auy of you to make a law who
could not make one before?
If you want a law made for you—if you
wish to be defended when you are brongbt
into court—are you going to one of your
freedmen ? Are you going to him to plead
for you in a court of justice? Does his citi
zenship make him able to read or understand
the law ? You have but one answer to make.
If I want my horse shod, am I going to my
distinguished friend Mr. Hilliard, who is
learned in the law ? You know how to an
swer that question.
What we have asked for, then, and what
we now ask for, is that a little time should be
given you to learn something of your true
interests before joining a party. Now that
you can vote, you ought to understand wbat
you are about. Knowing that you can no
more go and make law than XIr. Hilliard can
shoe my horse, we ask you to take a little
time and learn to understand something about
laws.
We might find fault with terms which were
used to-day, when allusion to us was made as
rebels, &c. I know that there are a great
many of you who would rather these terms
had not been used.
You are told that those are your benefac
tors wbo have made successful war on the
South, and have freed you from slavery, and I
did not wonder at Carter when he said that
his race should sympathize with those wbo
gave him and his fellows freedom; but re
member tbat that is one thing; thet it is an
other thing to dtterminc for yourselves what
shall be your duty in your new relations, and
in view of your new interests. You have got
now to look to the bread and meat which
yon want to go into the mouths of your chil
dren. You cannot live without that, and
you have got to look out for that. Have
these persons who bring you hereto day the
bread and meat for you? XVIiere are the
bread and meat to como from but from those
who can give you the means toearn it ? Are
you prepared to cutirely overlook the cries
and wails tbat your little ones may raise for
bread ? Your hearts give answer, and I hope
you see it as well as I do. Those of you who
do not feel yourselves absolutely committed
to any line of policy will agree with me that
I ask*the most reasonable thing in the world
when I ask that you will take a little time to
understand your interests before you give
yourselves up to a parly.
That some of you, at all events, who have
not made a pledge that you feel you cannot
violate, should resolve to see whether or not
the white man, whose interests are identified
with yours, you cannot strike out a line of
policy upon which you can all stand together,
and so together stand by your common inter
ests. ’
There is another subject of very high im
portance to you, nnd of the utmost import
ance, also, to those white citizens who arc as
sociated with you as citizens.
Those gentlemen who are representing the
Republican party hero are like all the world
they are probably looking after their own in
terests, and can you not suspect that you may
be serving the selfish interest of others in
committing yourselves to a hasty policy,
which you do not understand ? Is it not bet
ter to consider whether by- going with them
you may be driving from you the men with
whom you are identified ?
There is another subject to which I have
alluded, and that is education. It is. of the
greatest importance now to both white and
black, that, if you vote, you should be edu
cated, (for I have shown you that making
you citizens does not teach you how to make
laws), so as to be able to understand what
you are about when you exercise your rights.
And that you and your children should be
educated as rapidly and as surely as possible.
How can you obtain these results ? Can you
get them from the Northern people? No
doubt they will do much, but no people con
sisting of millions can inaugurate a system of
education that can raise them in tlie scale of
your children be qualified to exercise intelli
gently, and properly, those great duties which
are now cast upon you. I have many other
things which I would like to say, but must
hasten to leave you to think about what I
have said.
Again, I add that I came here to-day to ad
dress you with no selfish interests, with the
hope that we might arrange matters so as to
produce the greatest amount of happiness to
all
I do believe, and a:u sure, that many of
you, notwithstanding party trickery, will feel
and know where your true interes't lies, and
that you will bo found with all good people,
white and black, in this country, where we
now have a common destiny, striving to do
our duty to God and to man. (Cheers.)
Georgia and the Supremo Court.
From the Columbus Sun and Times.}
The people of Georgia wilt not be compel
led to wait until December next for a deci-
on in the ease made by Governor Jenkins.
y t Tho Court having granted leave to file the
Bui of the State of Georgia, must now de
cide whether or not the injunction prayed
for in the Bill shall be granted. It may do
this upon the reading of the Bill, or after
hearing argument for or against the motion.
It may do so in term time or in vacation, but
must either grant or refuse the injunction, as
speedily as the nature of the case will permit.
Few parties can file bills of injunction in the
Supreme Court of tho United States, by rea
son of the limited original jurisdiction of
that tribunal, and this is the reason why the
public is not familiar with-proceedings of in
junction issuing from that body. But any
body who has cause and right to file a Bill in
Equity in that Court can do so without asking
leave, or through formal motion, as was done
in the case of Mississippi and Georgia. Our
understanding is that the practice in that
Court in relation to Bills in Equity does not
differ from those of other and inferior tribu
nals having jurisdiction in Equity cases. Why
Georgia anti Xlississippi should have begged
leave to perform what they had a right to do,
wc do not know, save that the legal gentle
men, having the case in hand, thought it
proper to adopt this formality on account of
the magnitude of the interests involved in
the cases themselves. The bill being once
filed, the motion then stands for an injunc
tion, and to this the Court must at once ad
dress itself. So in a few days we may expect
the decision of the Court. If it desires to
hear argument upon the motion, the merits
ot the whole question may be elaborated in
the argument, and if argument upon the
Georgia bill is ordered, tlie questions will be
fully discussed. If the Court should grant
the injunction, General Pope will be estopped
from all proceedings under the Military Bills,
and at the December term of the Court the
issues between the Bill and the one which
may be filed in answer to it, will be heard
nnd determined.
We are at present interested in the ques
tion of injunction. 1Ve of course cannot say
what action the Court may take, but we may
express the earnest and heartfelt hope, in
which every true man will join, that a man
date shall issue staying military rule in our
State. Any hopes that we indulge in this
respect rest upon those expressed by Govern
or Jenkins, and tlie very able counsel who
represent Georgia. It is due to our readers
to say, that tho old State rights doctrine was
that the Supreme Court could not restrain
the Executive or Legislative Departments of
the Government, and some ot tiie earlier de
cisions of the Court seem strongly to hint at,
even if they do not directly recognize, that
doctrine. But times have greately changed
since then. States rights have received
severe, staggering, if not utterly destructive
blows, and in the case now made in our be
half we should prefer to see the Court over
ride tlie Executive and Legislative Depart
ments, rather than to witness the civil power
of the Government made subordinate to the
military. But win or lose, we are proud
that Governor Jenkins has put upon record,
for history and posterity, such an able, logi
cal, and unanswerable argument for Georgia,
as is embodied in the Bill which prays the
protection of law for lier people against the
monstrous-and unjustifiable outrage of mili
tary role.
Such is Life.
This anecdote, which Every Saturday trans
lates from Die Gartenlaube, illustrates the pro
verb that no man is a prophet in his own coun-
tiy:
it was a lovely spring morning in the year 1843,
when a little bridal party entered the oflicc of the
maise of a parish in the environs of Paris, in or
der to subscribe there the marriage contract of
the young couple. Small, however, as the party
was, it was not the less select. The bridegroom
was a talented young artist, who now-a-days en
joys a signal reputation, and his marriage witnes
ses were named Ingres and Paul Deiaroehe, two
masters oi the French school of art. The pretty
bride had chosen as her two witnesses two friend's
of herdeceesed father, by name Victor Hugo and
Alexandre Dumas. After the official had written
down,with the utmost particularity, the surnames,
Christian names and station in life oi the bridal
pair, he passed to the witnesses, and turned first
to Victor Hugo with the question as to his name.
"'Hugo y he repeated, in doubt. “How is that
written ? Is there a l at the end ?
The author dictated the name letter for letter,
r •„ i w'-i 1 ..A- n 'il : :- • :iy ;> e r- m i.:- -,i -i-
ty proceeded with tho second question—
“What trade do yon follow?”
“None at all,” rqjoined Victor Hugo, laugh
ing.
“What! no trade at all ? But at any rate you
can write so that you can subscribe jour name
here ?”
To this Hugo assented with great equanimity,
and then came the other witnesses. Wben Ingres
and Deiaroehe answered that they were “pain
ters,” the lunctionary eyed them over his specta
cles with a verj- supeteilious air, and said—
“House Or sign painters ?”
The merriment oi the whole party irritated him
greatly, and ho growled out something about
“disrespectful behavior,” while Ingres answered
him—
“Write down simply ‘painters.’ ”
Alexandre Dumas, however, came off with fly- J
ing colors, for he announced that he was a “gen-
Southern Press Convention.
FIRST DAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
The Council Chamber having been tendered
for the use of the Association, the members
and a number of press attaches, ex-editors
and representatives of telegraphic associations
assembled at 8 o’clock.
The Convention was called to order by the
President, XV. C. Clarke, Esq., of the Mobile
Advertiser and Register.
Upon the roll being called, the names of the
following journals were answered to by proxy,
or otherwise:
Daily Constitutionalist, Augusta; Selma
Times, Selma, Alabama; Daily Telegraph,
Macon; New Era, Atlanta; Daily Mail, Mont
gomery; Advertiser, Montgomery; Daily In
telligencer, Atlanta; Daily Tribune, Mobile;
Advertiser and Register, Mobile; Chronicle
and Sentinel, Augusta; Citizen, Americus;
Enquirer, Columbus; Republican, Savannah;
News and Herald, Savannah; Journal and
Messenger, Macon; Avalanche, Memphis.
The regular Secretary being absent, the
name of S. B. Burr, of the Journal and Mes
senger, was proposed, and adopted by the
Convention as Secretary, pro tem.
The President then announced, that as
there were a number of representatives pres
ent from journal desirous of joining the As
sociation, he hoped they would be admitted;
when, upon the motion of Major Steele being
adopted to that end, all such were invited to
come forward and enrol said journals. This
was done, as follows:
Daily Opinion. Atlanta; Daily Press, Au
gusta ; Daily Advertiser, Savannah; Ameri
can Union, Chattanooga.
On motion of Gen. XVrigbt, of tlie Chroni
cle and Sentinel, all members of the press
present were invited to take seats on the floor
of the Convention.
This was amended by extending a similar
invitation to Erastus Brooks, Esq., editor of
the New York Express, and Col. J. 3.
Thrasher, former Superintendent of the'
Southern Telegraphic Association, and. XI.
XV. Barr, Agent Southern Press.
A resolution was then adopted calling for
the appointment of a Business Committee,
when the President announced the following
gentlemen as constituting that Committee :
J. R. Sneed, Chairman.
Samuel Bard, J. R. Eggi.estox,
J. L. Stockton, J. B. Dumble.
Upon the motion of Dr. Andrews, of the
Americus Citizen, XIr. Brooks, who was in at
tendance upon the Convention - in the inter
est of the New York Associated Press, was
called upon for any views lie might have to
present. This, XIr. Brooks did in a few brief
remarks, in which he assured the Conven
tion that it was the purpose of the Associa
tion, which he had the honor to represent, to
heartily co-operate with their brethren of the
South in all that could aid journalism. After
stating that he would be happy to answer
any questions from gentlemen of the press in
relation to the matter of telegraphic intelli
gence, as furnished by the New York press,
and thanking the Association for the courtc
sies exteuded him, XIr. Brooks took his seat.
There being no further business before the
meeting, this being only for the purpose of
oraanizing, tho motion to adjourn was made
and adopted.
The Association will reassemble this morn
ing in the Council Chamber, at 10 o’clock.
HriiiaflCVsR oi otx%
Relief Order.
The following is a condensation of the mili
tary order of- General Sickles for the relief of
debtors, lately promulgated in the Second
Military District. The practices of carrying
deadly weapons, of punishing crimes by
whipping, etc., and the death penalty for any
crime below that of murder, are prohibited
So also is imprisonment for debt, except in
cases ot fraud:
Paragraph II provides that judgments or
decrees for the payment of money, on causes
of action arising between the 9th of Decem
ber, I860, and the 15th of Xlay, 1865, shall
not be enforced by execution against the
property or the person of the defendant.
Paragraph III directs sheriffs, coroners and
constables to suspend, for twelve calendar
months, the sale ot all property, upon execu
tion or process, on liabilities contracted prior
to the 19th of December, 1SG9, unless upon
the written consent of the defendants, except
in cases of manifest fraud.
Paragraph IV permits the collection of
debts contracted since 1865.
Under paragraph V, all proceedings for tho
recovery of money under contracts, whether
under seal or by parole, the consideration for
■which was the purchase of negroes, are sus
pended. Judgments or decrees entered or
enrolled for such cases of action, shall not
be enforced.
Under paragraph XT, all advances of mon
eys, subsistence, implements and fertilizers,
loaned, used, employed, or required for the
purpose of aiding the agricultural pursuits of
the people, are protected. And the existin
laws which have provided the most efficient
remedies in such cases for the lender, are sup
ported and enforced. XVages for labor per
formed in the production of the crop shall
be a lien on the crop.
Paragraph VII establishes a homestead
regulation.
{VOL. II.—NO. 22
New Illuminating Process—An
End to Gas RKonopolies.
There is a prospect of a speedy termination
being put to the extortions of the gas com
panies, and that iu a way which they did not
contemplate. XXliat the Legislature would
not do for us science is about to effect. We
have from time to time recorded the improve
ments that have been made in tlie magnesium
light; but although the certainty of its suc
cessful operation lias been fully established,
the economical difficulties in connection with
it have not, as yet, been solved. They con
stitute, it is true, merely a question of time,
but one that offers no near prospect of relief.
Fortunately this is likely to come to us from
another source.
Iu some extraordinary discoveries which
have recently been made in England, in the
construction of the magnetic battery, it has
been demonstrated that by their means a
light more intense and continuous than anv
hitherto discovered can bo produced at a
marvellously small cost. Experiments made
with a machine built for the lighting of a
largo manufactory, showed something like
an expense of once cent jierliour. Some idea
may be formed of the intensity of the light
itself, when we state that when brought to
bear in full force on a piece of metal at a dis
tance of fifty yards, it fused it completely.
For photographic purposes, it has been
proved to be far superior to sunlight.
It is stated that all that is required for the
perfect illumination of a large city is a tower
tall enough to project the light to every por
tion of i t, and strong- enough to stand the
concussion of tlie powerful wheel. machinery
employed. The ultimate success of the mag
netic light has never been doubted by scien
tific minds; but hero is a result far exceed
ing any anticipations that had been formed.
That it will bring us immediate relief from
the wretched systim <: lighting that is m>w in
operation in our cities, and free us from ithe
extortions of the gas monopolists, there is no
reason to doubt.
The invention is reported to bo so perfect
and its economical features have been so fully
demonstrated, that there wilL be little delay
in introducing it in this country.—New Yorl
Herald.
The Appeal for XI\ximilian.—As has
been stated, the appeal from, the Emperor of
Austria to President Johnson, iu favor of
XIaximilian, was made on the 5th iust. The
Washington Star, of the 13 th, says:
The Austrian Xlihister addressed a note to
Secretary Seward, by command of his Majesty,
the Emperor of Austria, asking this Govern
ment to interpose in behalf" of his royal
brother, XIaximilian, should the last named
tall into the hands of the Li 1 -c.-i-.iis. now In
vesting Quaretaro. This request was based
on the apprehension that some violenco’might
be done to Maximilian, as the events* at
Zacatecas were fresh in the minds of readers
of affairs in Xlexico. The Austrian Xlinistei
stated that this req-.e.-t I'.mid be with more
propriety made by our Government than by
any other, owing to the friendliness 'existing
between the two Republics.
XIr. S. wai .1. hi ;ii< j .-ply totbe Mioisfet
stated the substance of his interview with the
President, to the effect that this Government
would take the earliest means to commurii-
catc with President Juarez, for the purpose
stated, and further, that Xlinistcr Romero
had also informed him that he, too, would
act in the same direction.
The Secretary, in bis appeal to the Xlexican
Rejiublie, took the ground that the extension
of tho usages of war would be creditable
alike to the Xlexican Republic and the laws
of humanity.
The Secretary sent to the Austrian Xlinis-
ter a copy of his letter to Xlinister Campbell,
who, on'the Gth inst., informed Mr. Seward
that he had, availed liimself of steamer and
rail to send a message to San Luis Potosi
with XIr. Seward’s letter.
Grossc Tetc and Grand rivers arc rising rap- i- . ,
idly, and there is an immense crevasse a | pend on but labor be more or less impover-
mife nnd a half below Indian village. The ished nnd be the greatest .-utlerers m this con- fWl
inhabitants abeve Plaqueminc and on Bayou I tfict * . . j pose you have all heard of him}, annot i
Jacob are doubtless ruined. These were the | Suppose that by now com muting yourselves | that. Xott will have to to trained, and all
civilization, except among nnd by themselves, sldiusr officer. At length the Rev. Mr. Foster was
for and by tlieir own instrumentality. The heard, amt lie said, with emphasis, that while he
wealth of a thousand Peabodjrs, (and ! sup^- ’ *-*-*-' *
Two hundred nnd forty thousand
Mtc -ei/ed in Montgomery, by United
b.tectivcs, having been smuggled
'•*■ ‘‘a-i'ngoirln -rd reshipped direct
to that city.
thriftiest farmers in the State, and bad plant- ' to the love of policy embraced in these reso- the citizens with whom you live
ed canc on a scale varying from one to three j lutions, you place yourselves m such a re.a- to be trained tor this purpose,
hundred hogsheads of sugar, with corn and ! tion towards the white people that they will j will have to put our s.ioule.ers to the w leel,
cotton a trite ea extensively. The Pioneer re- be compelled to say that, it these men make ■ in order to effect this result.
1 l Afu r go much { rou ble to get hands | war on our interests, we must, ior our own | Now. suppose you create an antagonism
Indian Ravages.—Not long since, Gov.
Throckmorton issued a request to the Chief
Justices of the frontier counties of Texas, that
they report the number of killed in their re
spective counties by Indians. Since that
time the Chief Justices have reported for five
counties,.that 17 persons have been killed, 13
taken captives, and $157,585 worth of prop
erty destroyed.
Admitted to the Bar.—Ouryound friend
S. R. Goode, of Doftey, brother to our gifted
tlemaU,” (rentier,) which raised him far above his | townsman, Col. Chas.T. Goode, having passed
companions In the estimation of the official, who | a creditable examination before the Bar at
from that time lorth vouchsafed to address and tM } Tuesday, the 9th inst.. was ad-
pay attention to him alone. These men were then r.*j . 2, .. J Y«.. _ „ : ,
in the zenith of their fame, and yet, well known nutted to tne practice of Ian. Ho is a young
and honored as they were throughout the civilized man of tine intelligence, and will, no doubt
world, within a stone’s throw of the gates of make his mark in the legal profession.
Paris their names were unrecognized aud unre- i r Georgia Citizen 17th.
spre-ted. 1 _ J ' ’
Amusing Scene in a Nokthehn Methodist X iolation of the Revenue Laws.—XIr.
Conference.—In a New York conference a clergy- James Ray was arrested and brought before
man introduced a resolution requiring the Secre- Col. A. XV. Stone, United States Commission-
ffiryto call the roll of delegates, and suggesting cr on t ; )e lfith instant, charged with having
that each delegate respond with either yea or nay T . , -A °
to a total-abstinence pledge. The resolution violated the Internal Revenue laws, in .selling j U1VO
awoke the sleepers, and almost Instantaneously empty whisky barrels without cancelling the I have not confirmed it.—Exchange.
there was a flutter all over the house, and a press- inspector's stamp, the law requiring this to be ' A; j
are toward the Bishop’s desk. Nearly half of the dotmafter the barrels became ernntv Not I ^ , Queo - u be . Rn °P
delegates were on their feet at one time, and the , , > . P J* ^ ' poser of capital punishment. There is a ru—
aislesncar the chaneel were thronged by clergymen being ready lor au examination as to the iner- ^ « - 1 - -
wbo were vainly striving to get the car of the pre- its ot the case, he was admitted to bail, to
~ “ ~ appear and answer at a future day.—Savan
nah Neics.
S3F° Wo learn that Hunter & Gammell,
under orders from John XVelsh, Chairman
Philadelphia Southern Relief Committee,
bought and forwarded, yesterday, to Dr.
XVm. Hauser, Bartow, Jefferson county. No.
11 Central Railroad, 134 bags, containing 250
bushels white corn, for distribution to the
needy of that pourity.—Sac. News, 17th.
C2?” A steiuner left Pittsburg, Pennsylva
nia, on the 2d instnut, for the XHssouri river
and the XIontana mining regions, a distance
of nearly 4,000 miles. She carried a number
of families designing to settle in that remote
Territory, and will take on at Cincinnati 55
Dakota Indians, on their way home from
Washington.
Heavy Bank Rodbery.—A dispatch was
received yesterday, at the headquarters of
tlie police department, stating that the Na
tional Bank at Selma, Ala., had been robbed
of $160,000. and asking that a sharp lookout
be kept for suspicious characters. Particu
lars were not given in the disjiateb.
Intel, *
It is feared the long continued rains
have injured the wheat crops in Northwest
Georgia.
jgtf” Twenty-five thousand strangers visi
ted Florida last winter. *
The Dismal Swamp Canal, in X r irgi-
nia and North Carolina, is being deepened.
Its width is also to be increased from forty
feet to sixty, and its locks extended twenty-
five feet. XYhen these improvements are
completed, it will accommodate ten times
the present amount of business.
Sheep, in Germany, before being
sheared, are rubbed . in vats of very warm
water, with potash. After cooling, water is
sprinkled over them until the wool is white,
and they lire then kept in a clean and warm
shelter until dry enough for shearing.
£5f“A gun weighing 98,915 pounds, with
twenty inch bore, arrived in Jersey City the
other day by the New Jersey Railroad, .from
Pittsburg, where it was made. It is intended
for one of the fortifications in New York
Harbor.
25?” Some time ago they started a female
seminary in Salt Lake City. It flourished
well, but in the height of prosperity the Mor
mon principal eloped with and “married"’
the whole school! For the benefit.of our
fair readers, wc would state that this is a
mere rumor, and later a'dvices from Utah
had been all his life a temperance man in the
strictest sense ot the phrase, he would resist the
resolution which lisd been -prang upon the Con
ference, and he did not hesitate to add that if the
will also have ' roll were csdled he would record his name among
Together we ! those of clergymen who would refuse to be coerced
into taking iT pledge The Rev. Charles Gorsc
XIore Injunctions.—It is said that Sena-
utor-elect Garland, of Arkansas, is iu Wash
ington and prepared a petition for an injunc
tion against the enforcement ot the Sherman
Bill iu that State, and will make a motion to
nnd^flint'ition labor, on the part of so many [ safety nnd protection, carry the war into Af j between yourselves and the property holders,
that thev should be rica. We must sec that white men-ure brought you cause white men to bring other represen-
ulanters it is an outrage that they should be rica.
‘ ’ « i l 1! ' linrn
We must sec that ^ lj j*a- .* unwBM
sodeeiiiViniured bv sheer negligence, for the here-whit,-men to take the place of these ! tatives of white nations here and reluset. to , m iindea thB c
Hickey crevasse might have easily been pre- colored laborers. *: „ you liberally in this nm.-j raKing. __raip-, atte-mi.M
Tented.” r ■ , s 4
pressed the resolution; if delegates were not sound f j j t j ti e s upreme Court next week. Rob
to the core on the question c-.‘ total abstinence he , . rnn
wanted to know it. Dr. Fox characterized the ert Quid, formei !j Contoderate Commissioner
cilllng^of the roll as an inquiritorial proceeding,
and therefore entered his protest. Other gentle
men endorsed the remark, and yet others de-
< aliinsr of the roll. But after repeated
Suppose Liousan
if German*, or Coolies, pose you do thnt. how slowly must you and ; -
introduce amendments the resolution
quashed.—If. T. Tribune:
for the exchange ol prisoners, aud Judge
Crump, a prominent Richmond lawyer, are
said to be engaged in preparing a similar _
billfwbiuh will be presented if the Georgia ; that England intends the seizure of the Phil-
petition is successful. _ i lipine island as a reprisal from Spain.
prevailing in London that she has de
dared her intention to exercise lier preroga
tive of clemency in future, and thus prevent
any execution from taking place.
At the meeting of the Xlethodist Con
ference, yesterday, in New York, the Secreta
ry stilted that there will lie a deficiency of
$150,000 at the close of the present year.
The XX'ashingtou Chronicle says that
$0,000 have been subscribed by tiie Senators
and Members for the distribution of political
documents throughout the South.
A rumor prevails in diplomatic circles