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Newspaper Page TextA Family Journal for the Dissemination of General Intelligence; Miscellany, Agricultural, Commercial, Political and Religious Information. [PROPRIETORS NEW SERIES. MACON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1867. {VOL. II.—NO. 23 3E0BGIA TELEGRAPH PUBLISHING HOUSE. \V)(, A. REID A. CO., Proprietor*. J. R. SNEED, { Editors S. BOYKIN, j J^iTOns. Terms of Subscription : Gkokoia \Yei:i:i.y Telegraph: $4 00 annum. Macon Daily Tnumiuvii : $12 00 pcrnnnum per JrtTT-'f jxicntion tion. J O It 1* RI If TI If «• ionlur attention will be given to the of JOB TON TING of every descrip- \ Request.—Will our planting friends throughout the South, especially in Georgia, favor us with frequent but short letters on the stnto of the crops in their respective sec tions? The prospects of small grain, the proportion of corn and cotton, the amount and character of labor as compared with last year, the breadth of land planted, &c., <&c., will bo of general interest. Those who nro unaccustomed to writing for the public need not hold back, as wo can readily put their letters in a proper form for the press. P;.axt Corn, on Get Nothing for Cot ton.—Tho New York World addresses an argument to the cotton-mad planters of the South, which strikes them at a point least expected. It says: “It is to be hoped that the experience of the past season will cause the people of the South to give more atten tion to the growth of articles of food. It is a very short sighted policy for Southern plant ers to depend upon the Northwestern States for meats and brendstufis, when a sufficiency can be grown by them in connection with olhcr crops. Leading authorities agree that a principal cause of the dullness and decline ia cotton is the high cost ot food, and one great cause of the high cost of food is the demand to feed tho utterly destitute South. There is no increase in tho production of ar ticles of food proportionate to the increase in tho demand lor them; partly, no doubt, because agriculture in thcNorthern and West ern States has been so remunerative ns manu factures. This is one of the pernicious re sults of 4 protection.’ But, in any oveLt, it is tho true interest of tho South to grow a j greater diversity of crops. It should not put • too many eggs in one basket.’ ” •*' jy* A. telegram to tho New Orleans Times of the 19th, from Washington, says : “I have »een Attorney General Stanbery’s opinion, an( j ( f or their low and rather objectionable defining the disfranchisement clause. It is bu ^ r jch humor, are almost unsurpassable, clear and cxplicit^and will he entirely satis- >piiere arc two de/.en *• yarns” in the book, factory to the people. You may expect it in on0) w j t jj j ta outrageous spelling, comic a few days.” _______ incidents, humorous illustrations, and in- PkrsONAL.—Wo j m d the pleasure, on the tensely ludicrous scenes, calculated to dis- 23th, of a visit from Mr. Thos. C. Peters, the perse the bluest of the devils, special agent of tho Agricultural Bureau, at j This edition is elegantly bound and printed Washington, for the distribution of seeds and j nnd illlustrated, and is bound to have a large plants in the Southern States, and for tho col- circulation. lection of information concerning the crops Houum’Socthkes Fifth Readf.e, for.Schools and iu.uuu s%im a * Families. Prepared under the gnDerviiiion of Prof, anil agricultural interests generally oi our am, f. Holme*. LL. of the university of Vir- section. Mr. Peters will be recollected by | Richardson A Colony. antlior of tlio able and GEORGIA AND THE SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS. We find the following in one ot the recent letters of the Charleston Courier's Washing ton correspondent: It is now believed that the question will be practically settled at the present term of the Court. Meanwhile, information comes to us from Georgia, Alabamn, Virginia and the Carolinas, to the effect that the work of reor ganization upon the plnn dictated so urgently by Congress, will proced with the general assent of the people, and in most cases with tho co-operation of State authorities. It is asserted that the course taken by Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, upon an injunction, is not generally approved of in that State, and > that the Governor had ncted without waiting long enough for the development of public sentiment on the subject. Similar statements bnYo appeared in sev eral Northern journals, and it is dao alike to Governor Jenkins and to truth that they should bo corrected. It is not true that any considerable portion of the people of Geor gia disapprove the action of their Executive. There are many who regarded the movement for an injunction as hopeless, but a large ma jority of them were willing to trust to Gov. Jenkins’judgment and were willing nnd even desirous to have the matter tested. There are also some who have been frightened out of their wits by Governor Brown and others with the bugaboo cry of ‘‘confiscation,'’ but even they would be glad to see the Sherman bill de feated were it not that they fear “something worse” to follow—the loss of their property. There is a third class—thank God, we believe a very small one—who have been bought up with promises from Washington and are ac tually engaged in trying to get up a Radical party at the South. Tiiese oppose Gov. Jenkins, and if reports be true, have been trying to have him removed, because he stands in their way—as every other honest man in the State does—while they uphold the Shcrmnn bill because it is the basis upon which they hope to get up their party. Such nro tho facts as regards the State of Georgia, and we believe nine out of ten of her citizens cordially sustain Gov. Jenkins in all he has done. His friends have thought it inopportune to discuss tho matter as it had been carried into tbe courts, while Iris few enemies have been most declamatory and noisy. BOOK NOTICES. RITUALISM IN ENGLAND. The religious dispute which lias recently so vexed the communion of the Church of England has ascended, says the New York World, into a civil dispute, and passed with in the jurisdiction of courts of law. matters which have proved too seri ha adjusted by churchmen are to be subnet* tfe to the learning nnd wisdom of civilians. All this, on first view, seems odd ; but such is the law of the English Church, and consti tutes one of the essential differences between it and the Church of Rome on the one hand, and the Episcopal Church of tbe United States on the other hand. The Bishop of London lias signed “letters of request” to Dr. Lushington, tho Dean of tho Court of Arches, charging Rev. A. H. Mackonockic, incumbent of St. Albans, Hol- born, London, with four offences r 1. The elevation and adoration of the Holy Elements. 2. The placing of lights on the communion table. 3. The use of incense. 4. The use of the mixed chalice. Preparations are going on to make the trial Annexation. SEWARD AFTER BRITISH COLUM-1 . AND LOWER CALIFORNIA. Sducation of the Freedmen. LETTER FROM GEN. JOHN. The Peabody Educational Fund. | Wendell AN EXPLANATORY ADDRESS FROM TIIE GENE- j RAL AGENT, REV. DR. SEARS. Phillips on the Situation. Political Dr. B. Sears, general agent of tbe Peabody Educational Fund, has issued a circular, giv ing a somewhat detailed statement of the 1 SECRETARY LVMfcr * | From the Brunswick Courier.] The, Washington correspondent of the I Brunswick, Ga., April 17,1867. Boston Post telegraphs as follows: Gen. J. B. Gordon :—Dear Sir : A Conven- , • Since my dispatch of Monday last, stating tion of die colored people of our State will that auother international land purchase was be in 3racon on the 30th inst. for educa-. . . ,. , , . -., - . • on the tapis !* the State Department, I have Purposes, and the colored people of mode-in which the trustees of the fuad pro been enabled to learn with accuracy the fol- G1 J’ nu c °unty have elected Mr. Hosea Slier- pose to apply the noble chanty committed to ; to tuU you ot mv tatere8t jn your labore . yet i do lowiak*iu relation thereto: From the time of Irepresent them m said Convention. the'r charge. He says: j not know that I have anything else to tell you.— the advent of the Derby administration to Believing that you, iu common with many The dircct aim of the a „ cnt - viu be to en _ Thus for distant from life centre ot public affairs, power in Engird down to the present day, Southern gentlemen take an M*" 4 ! cowageandaidCommonsoLoolaintheSouth; I to risk any conjecture before your that is, schools established, supported and THE PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT—THE RAD ICAL RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME—GHH. GRANT AND THE PRESIDENCY. From the Anti-Slavery Standard.] Muscatine, Iowa,"April 5. Dear Standard—It is of course needless for me negotiations h^ve been pending between tbe our welfare, we would be pleased to have Colonial Secretary of Great Britian and the an expression of your views in reference to suite Depart 3ct for the purchase by the I our educational and political interests. United "States of a large portion of British Hoping that you will favor us with a reply, America. Mr. Seward’s propositions have wc are > ver Y respectfully,, been to buv up all that tract of tho British Your obedient servants, Possessions, lying west of the Longitude of John Morrison, 1 Trustees of the the Mississippi River, thus giving to this Henry Bird, > Brunsick country unbroken right ot way to the newly I James Blue. ) Colored School acquired territory of Russian America. . *»«-.«*■ Notwithstanding these negotiations have I Brunswick, April 17, 1867. superintended by the Southern people them selves. Apart from this leading object, the founding and the maintenance of schools will not come within his plan. Usually, appropriations in moderate amounts will be made where such schools are languishing, or are liable to be suspended for the want of the means of support. Similar aid, if necessary, will bo given iu I places unsupplied with schools, whenever tho » ■ dum’d fool,” warped and wove for public wear. By tlcor&o W. Harris. Dick J: Fitzgerald, publisher?, New York, 1J67. 299 pp. Sut Lovingood’s letters arc well known, our readers as the manly vindication of tho South from Radical misrepresentations, which wo published a few weeks ago, and which, independent of the claims of Iris official position, should com mend him to the friendly and cordial atten tions of our pecplo. Ho is now making ar rangements for a sub-agent of the Bureau in every county, nnd where practicable, every magistrate's district in the Southern States, ami we trust much good will result from Iris labors. Tub Handwriting on tiie "Wall.—In the town of Watcrvlict, New York, where the Radicals last year had a majority of one hundred and. three, the Democrats havo swept the board by about five hundred ma jority That’s what is going about these days, all around the country. JSrriie Union Society of Chatham coun ty, celebrated their 117th anniversary at Bethesda, near Savannah, on Tuesday last.— The Rev. Dr. Wills, of this city, delivered the address, which is characterized in the Savan-. nah papers as “eloquent nnd masterly.” It will be published in pamphlet form. The Republican says: Rev. Dr. D. Wills, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Macon, was then introduced, and in an address marked by all those charac- teristices ol oratory, fervor, action and truth which have ever distinguished this divine, held his audience spell bound from its com mencement to its close. In other days we hove listened to this preacher, nnd our thoughts were carried back to old Laurens, S. C., where lie worked and labored with so much zeal in the interests of humanity and Christianity, yet wc never felt moro forcibly the truth, that Providence appointed lrim to labor in a more extended field of usefulness. A Chance for Liberty.—The Hon. C. L. Vail an digit am has recently written a letter upon the present aspect of affairs and the prospects for tho future. Ho gathers hope from recent elections nnd the evident ex haustion of the plans of the Radicals, and •ays: “Iu revolutions a step backward is death, wd a pause midway tho beginning of disso lution. Now is the auspicious moment for us. Providence has once more given to us a chance to rescuo from the destroyers the site isd foundations, at least, of the now tallen tad dishonored templo of free federal repub lican government, and to reconstruct it very Marly after the model ot the old. Shall the c hauce be again cast away? No; let us ‘bun the errors, the entanglements, and the timidities of the past, and let the people ( •peak to their leaders that the work shall go I forward. “If the men of the South will but consent j to be patient, learning to remain passive and j toendurc, all may yet be well. Submission j totjr.u-nic force, to military coeicion, is one thing; voluntary servitude quite another.— In any event, we have our own rights, du ties and obligations to tree constitutional 6®vern:nent, from which no act of any other section or people can absolve us." This is the fifth and last of an admirable series of Southern reading books, which mer its aud receives our highest commendation. Wo sincerely recommend them to all South ern teachers, and can say nothing better con cerning them than what the publishers them selves say, and which we quote: “ In all particulars the Readers of this se ries are as full, complete, properly graduated, and, in pictorial and mechanical features, as attractive as any before tho public. The sub jects havo been selected with a view to please the fancy and excite the interest of the child, and at the same time to illustrate the leading characteristics of Southern life nnd history. The lessons have been arrauged so as to lead the pupil on, step by step, in easy gradations; and a method has been adopted which will insure tho thorough training of tho pupil in the correct principles of articulation, pronun ciation, emphasis, inflection, etc., while the worse than useless encumbrance of formal rules in the primary books—rules that the child cannot possibly comprehend, and which are. therefore, really a hindrance—has been carefully avoided.” American Edition or Bn. ff». Smith’s Dictionary ok the Bihle.—Devised nnd edited by Professor 11. B Hackett, D. D„ with tho co-operation of Air. Ezra Abbot, A. 1L, assistant Librarian of Harvard University. New York; Published by Hard a Houghton. 1367. This is the first of about thirty numbers, to be published monthly, nnd sold only by sub scription, of a Bible Dictionary which “has now an established reputation as unquestion ably superior to any similar lexicon in our language, containing tho fruit of the ripest Biblical scholarship of England, and con stituting, in compact form, a library of itself for tbe study nnd illustration of the Scriptures.” Each number published will contain 112 pages, medium octavo size, making 9,000 or 10,000 pages. The price of each number, in neat paper covers, to subscribers, will be 73 cents, and no subscriptions will be received except for tho entiro work. We commend this work to students and divines, and to all seeking bibical or aclneological information. Address Hurd & Houghton, 439 Broome street. New York. been pending so long, it is only of late that I My Colored Friends: Your note of to-day citizens shall introduce them and undertake they may be said to have reached a point lias just been handed mo. I appreciate sen- their support. All such aid, however, is to where even the preliminary treaty could be sibly the compliments you make me, by this ! be regarded as temporary, named. One of the prominent difficulties expression of your confidence. That confi- j n selecting schools to be aided, or places encountered was the question of including dence is neither mistaken or misdirected.— to be supplied with them, those will be pre- Vancouver’s Island in the transfer, her Maj- You are right in your belief. I, in common ferred in which the destitution is greatest and esty’s Government desiring to retain that with all the Southerners, with whom it has j the number to be benefited the largest. A point for a naval station. More recently, the been my lot to exchange expressions of j small number of those furnishing the most ... English Goverement, through Lord Stanley, opinion, do feel a lively interest in the wel- j perfect models of instruction, will be consid- senrehmg nnd thorough on both slues. 4 lie bas met the proposal to purchase with re- faro of the colored people. Born and reared j ere( j a3 m ore importhant than a larger num- Bishop of London is backed by the Church newed interest, and one of the prominent together, aud accustomed from infancy to re-1 ber of interior character. Here, also, it is Association, and the clergy of St. Albans by desideratums pat forward by Secretary Sew- ciprocate the services and kindness of social j the purpose of the agent to aid others in the English Church Union Lar"e surnsof ard lms been a proposition to make our Ala- life, it would be most unnatural did we feel, j their work, and not to assume the support of b , " ° , - hama claims, in some degree, one of the off- or had we ever felt, otherwise. such schools. Appropriations will be made money arc contributed by the members 1 se tsto the purchase money hereafter to be I am in fayor of extending, by every pos- on jy when the conditions stipulated between these private associations. Dr. Stephens and determined. Not one of these negotiations sible means, every aid towards the intellec- the individual or corporation and the gene- Mr. Coleridge, Q. C., are retained to conduct ’ * ’ ‘ the prosections; and Sir R. Phillimobe— Queen’s Advocate, and the author of the completest treatise on international law that England lias produced—with Dr. Deane, are to manage the defence. The fact that the Bishop of London has signed “letters of re quest” to Dr. Lushington, indicates that the inferior ecclesiastical local tribunals have waived their jurisdiction in tbe matter, in order that at once the questions may come before the Court of Arches. Tiie Georgia and Mississippi Bills.— The Washington correspondence of the Charleston Courier, writing of the cases now pending before the Supreme Court for an injunction against the Reconstruction Act, says: Russo-American treaty to secure the ratifi- confidence, that such is the almost universal 1 Applicants will make an estimate of the cation of this approaching bargain with opinion of the Southern people. It was my i eas t possible amount necessary to meet their Great Britain. The former territory would fortune during the late war, iu the Southern i wa nts, and report the same at once to Mr. B. be literally left out in the cold, unless the army, to command young men from almost ; Sears, General Agent, or to Mr. Jno. E. Arnqs, intermediate tracts became our own. every section of the South. They and their I General Traveling Agent, Atlanta, Georgia. The Hartford Couranc says: parents are my friends, and have been in the j Special arrangements may sometimes be made T , . . . , . . .. , habit, wherever I have met them, of unfold- " * It is reported that the next taut of land . ^ rvi ewswitli great freedom to me, on upon which Mr. Secrctoy Seward ™l try and a]1 kindre( ftopics. I assert With- his new fledged power of annexation will be ... .... . T .. „„ • Lower California. Mr. J. Ross Browne, who °. ut reservation,, that I cannot recall an m- has tho happy faculty of stripping all the stance of exception or dissent to the uniform- subjects which he treats of their thorns, and K J ° ,. lm-nTfonml nr ™nn„ A. PvMhit nni, tbmr iJ toward*your people.. Nor have I found wishes one with these for the purpose of encouraging the industrial arts or for the education of teach ers. The agent will not identify his efforts with those of any other organization by placing funds at the disposal of the managers, but, in any connection he may hold with be nevolent or religions societies, he will pursue of making them exhibit only their roses, is ^ t nevoient or religious societies, ne win pursue now cxnlorin«- the retrion with a view of w k°’ w h ei1 questioned as to his wishes in this ■ his own specific object by such means and now eipioriB B me region, wim a \ieu oi . omnfiatlcaHvth»the is ,. - , . - -x *1 a regard, has not emphatically declared that he making such a report as will favor the Seere- , ’ . . * ,,,. „ tary’s policy. As 1 soon as Maximilian is well "’ ould not . vot f you ba , k lnto sla ' ery, had he *“ V~Z" the power to do so. They who assert or m- f r * p,\.; nn *hio rneVir n min° sinuate the contrary aro themselves the vic- pressure for the ces ion of this rocky P eam - L; ms D f the blindest delusion, or actuated by sula will bo broujrlit to bear upon the Juarez . . . I , J government The demand to P be made will th ° wont motives In seeking to make a diffei- Th* uroat pohtt to be made m, the f^bo* siX of the mouth TZmo Colorado, in order to give Arizona a port on I, Associating '' 4 j" u “ U1 “. “““ uuuu “,' " c the Gulf of California. Of course, Mexico I l‘. av ,,“ ot }° subdue tb ® prejudices and an- is to receive a compensation for this loss of tl P a . tbl “ territory in the shape of some millions 0 f 8ec , tl0 “ s ' The white man of the South ought 7lCcou““ SirEfe“T. best friend of tho colored n?an in the same whole hemisphere, tbe g^cieroof^een-L ect j on why should it be othcr.bc! Ac- the mutual dependence of daily business re lations, all conspire to bind them together.— Ho who teaches you to regard our interests as conflicting, is not a friend to your race. Our interests are identical. If the white man is oppressed, his colored neighbor must suffer for the injunction, is that Congress and the Court itself have, by repeated Acts and de cisions, recognized the lately Confederated States ns actually States of the Union, not withstanding the fact that the people, or some of them, were in insurrection against the Federal Government. The Counsel for the States will endeavor to establish the fact that they were and have been during the late ](md * volcanoas oi Terra dc , F if struggle, States of this Lmon, loyally con-;, ... . - - stituted as such, and entitled to all the rights belonging to States under tho Constitution of; ' * P * ” On tiie part of Congress, it will be urged Military Posts in Georgia. that the States over which the Military Re- . ^ construction Act is extended, are not legally I . The military district of Georgia is divided States, and have no rights as such: but, for , into eight Fosts, as follows: the time being, and for certain purposes, may j Post of Savannah—To include the counties with him. They are embarked together, and be recognized as Provisional States, but: of Chatham, Effingham, Bulloch, Bryan, Tat- the one cannct swim if the other sinks. If subject to any legislation of Congress | nail, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn, "Wayne, Ap- Federal legislation should discriminate It" Georgia, for instance, is a State, the law j pling, Pierce, Ware, Coffee, Chnrlton, Cam- against the iabor of the South—if for instance is unconstitutional. Congress, as declared in j den, Clinch, Echols, Lowndes, Brooks, Be'r- the Congress should exempt tbe great Nortly the preamble to tlio Military Act, holds all I rien, Colquitt, Thomas, Decatur, Mitchell, ern staple—wheat—and place a tax of three the enumerated State Governments as illegal. Miller, Baker and Early. cents per pound on the cotton of this section, Post ot Augusta—To include tho counties is it not obvious that the tax falls on the bale of Richmond, Columbia, Warren, Glasscock, raised by the colored man, as on the ten bales Washington, Johnson, Jefferson, Burke, Scriv-1 grown by his white neighbor ? If discrimi- en and Emanuel. nating legislation oppresses and impoverishes Post of Atlanta—To include the counties the one, does it not thereby, and to that ex- of Cobb, Fulton, Campbell, Carroll, Coweta, tent, impair his ability to employ or aid the Heard, Fayette. Clayton, Spalding, Henry, other? Newton, DeKalb, Milton, Gwinnett and I These trnths are too obvious to your own Butts. good sense to make it necessary that I should Post of Dnhlonega—To include the coun- dwell on them. You should regard him as ties of Fannin, Union, Towns, Rabun, Gilmer, your worst enemy, whether bom on Northern Pickens, Cherokee,Dawson, Lumpkin, White, 1 or Southern soil, who seeks to sow distrust that probably the case may gooff upon this j Habersham, Hart, Forsyth, Banks, Franklin or to alienate the one race from tho other, view of the matter. ! and Hall. The people of the South are not hostile to -«- - ■ ■■ { Post of Rome—To include the counties of the Northern man who co ..es among them A Great Man on Negro Equalitt.—The ! Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Murray, to identity himself with the interests of our following stron" language was used in a | Chattooga, Gordon, Floyd, Polk, Paulding, section. Nor are they so illiberal as to ask „ . it. „ -n-n.iL.rn cfninc Haralson nnd Barton, (formerly Cass, recently that you should not appreciate tbe efforts of speech by a distinguished Northern states- cbanged by ^ ^ 0 ’ f \ heXcg I slat ure.) Northern men who honestly seek your per- man a few years ago: j Post of Athens—To include the counties manent welfare. They will welcome such to While I was in the hotel to-day, an elder-j of Clark, Jackson, Madison, Elbert, Ogle-I their section. But I caunot too earnestly ly gentleman called upon me to know if I was ; thorpe, Morgan. Walton, Wilkes, Greene, warn you against those agitators, many of really in favor of producing a perfect equali- j Taliaferro, Lincoln, Jasper, Putnam and whom make loud professions of friendship ty between the negroes and tbe white people. Hancock. for your race, who at homo cannot brook I will say, then, that I am not, nor never have j Post of Columbus—To include tho coun- your presence as neighbors, and perhaps are been in favor of making voters or jurors of i tics of Tronp, Meriwether, Harris, Talbot, fresh from States that even forbid your resi- negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold of- Muscogee, Marion. Taylor, Schley, Webster, dence on their soil. flee, nor to intermarry with white people; Igtcwart, Tatnall, Quitman, Randolph, Clay, I The friendship of your race, of which I and I will say in addition to this, that there J Calhoun nnd Chattahoochee. j have spoken, as alike the conviction and sen- is a physical difference between the black and Post of Macon—To include the counties] timent of the people of the South, is confirmed white races, which I believe wili. forever pro- j of Bibb, Jones, Baldwin, Wilkinson, Twiggs, bv a very tangible proof to-day. The Grand Mbit the two races from ever living on terms j Laurens, Pulaski, Montgomery, Telfair, ml- Jury, ot which I am a member, (and the bur- of social and political equality. And inis- cox, Irwin. Worth, Dooly, Houston, Macon, den*and confinement of whose official duties much as they cannot so live, while they Jlo ; Crawford, Upson, Monroe, Pike, Sumter, Lee prevent a more careful expression of these remain together there must be the position I and Dougherty. J views) before the reception of your note, ot superior and inferior, and I, as much as j ♦ ♦ « / recommended unanimously, that all the funds any other man, ant in favor of having thcK Negro Swindlers.—It is due to Jbtfun- in the Treasury raised or to be raised for that superior position assigned to the white race, jkhspecting colored people of this State to purpose, be equally and impartially expended appliances as he may select. At present there will be no agencies, excejit a few- in which the services rendered will be gratui tous. Tho agent will not, except in a few- special exceptional cases, have occasion to employ teachers. He can, therefore, aid such in obtaining places, only by giving their names to school committees. This illegality- is the foundation ot the Mili tary Reconstruction Acts. If the Court undertake to deny the fact expressed by Congress that these States Gov ernments are illegal, it will, of course, set aside the Acts as unconstitutional. The Court may decide that it is for Con gress to declare the law in such matters. If, by law, the State Governments are declared illegal, then the Court may decide that Acts founded on that declaration are not uncon stitutional. Some lawyers have suggested It may surprise some whose attention Ras caution them against unprincipled parties, f or education of the two races, irrespect- been but recently directed to poblio affairs,, generally white men, who come amongst ktad* “o”he white comm^ity to know that the sentiment* quoted arc lrom j them soliciting money under various pre- towards you could be given, than is furnished a speech of tho late President Abraham Lin- j^nces. There ore bad men, capable of taking by this single fact. coln, made at Charleston. Illinois, Septem- a( i vanta jre of their credulity to fill their own As , t .° , the 8ub j ect of “Political Interests” ber 18th, 18581 They discuss the inherent, w ° itllout re „ ard t0 tho character of the f n wbl , cb yo « ask an expression of my views, ,. . ’ ., , , . „ , ' purses wiuiout rt 0 aru io me cuanwier oi uic , fc would perhaps at this time be premature qualities of races, which have hardly chang-! mcans employed. It would be a safe plan to I to give advice. The enactments of Congress, ed in tbe last eight years, however men may j distrust all. until assurance can be had from imposing military governments on the States have changed their policy. Mr. Lincoln’s ; 0 ld friends and neighbors that no cheat is and ditesting the most distinguished citizens sentiments wero good Republican doctrine j intended. The lollowing case, taken from of tho South of the right of suffrage, arc, by _ r „ ,i lpvnn f 7 1 tho Griffin Star ol the 23d instant, will serve tho constituted authorities of those States, tlu-n-w ny arc nicy not now. i ^ iUus>tration nnd ^. arning . regarded as unconstitutional. The Govern- Slaveky—Interesting Scraps from} Judge Boynton, of the Bureau, had a novel ore of these States have, therefore, appealed History.—Senator Wilson was replied to at; before him yestenlay. It appear^ from J.the ^imeOwt he^fimi ar n =r to Sr. BCudd. From tho Baltimore Gazette.] Wo append the following startling state ment, which shows that Dr. Mudd is suffering as a prisoner at tho Dry Tortugas under the sentence of a Court which believed him in nocent. It was originally written for the Prince George’s Gazette, but for reasons un known to us was not published: “— , August 19, 1863. “Editor Gazette—Dear Sir : In Wash ington, on Friday last, I met an old acquain tance, one of the highest in military rank of the late Commission, etc. He thus spoke to me: “The Court never believed that Dr. Mudc! knew anything about Booth’s designs. Booth made him a tool as he has done with others. Dr. Mudd was the victim of his own timidi ty. He had acknowledged to the soldiers whom he saw in search of Booth (the day altcr^he assassination) that Booth had got his leg set at his house and went off, and had he, like a man, come out and said he knew Booth, instead of flatly denying it to the Court, he would have had little trouble. “ More of similar purport was said, but the points arc included iu the above. “As I do not know Dr. Mudd or any of bis relatives, it will bo plain, I hope, that this statement is made solely with the view that it may be acceptable to some of his friends.” State of Maryland, Prince George county, to-wit: “I hereby certify that on this eleventh day of December, Anno Domini, 1866, before me, the subscriber, Justice of the Pence of tho said State, in and for said county, personally appeared James L. Henry, of said county, and makes oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that the aforegoing statement is a true copy of one which was prepared by him at the time of its date for the purpose of its being inserted in a newspaper published at tbe county seat of the county aforesaid, but tbe same was not so published at that time. And, further, that the facts set forth in said statement are strictly true, and that the officer alluded to therein was General David Hun ter, who was the President ot tho ‘Military Commission’ referred to, and with whom this affiant has been acquainted for many years, having been fellow officers in the army.” Sworn to before Abner T. Hood, J. P. Suicide of the Late State Treasurer of Tennessee.—The Nashville papers of the 21st contain information that Dr. R. L. Stan ford, late State Treasurer of Tennessee,"com mitted suicide at liis home in "Washington county, on the 16th instant, by taking laud anum. Dr. Stanford was elected Treasurer under tbe Brownlow organization, aud not withstanding his unfortunate associations with that concern, was generally regarded as an honest and sincere man. During his official term the school fund of the State was transferred to the keeping of the Tennessee National Bank of Memphis, by which opera tion a considerable portion of it was lost.— This led to his resignation, and is supjiosed to have so worked upon his mind as to have readers. It seems to us otl here that the Fortieth Congress dares not impeach the President. The patronage Of the executive has been too stroDg a temptation for Congressional virtue to resist.— How gratefully the members pick up every little crumb of comfort that eau be got from any Blight show of deference to their opinion on the part of Johnson I. Again and again have I trembled lest tbe two parties should fraternize; they yielding nine tenths and be yielding nothing except grac ious phrases. Still, I think we may havo great trust iu the stolid obstinacy of Johnson. This is a reliance which has never vet failed us, and the stock seems inexhaustible. Were be an ordinary man, simply mulish, I should be tempted to despair. A little compliance with the temper ot the people, and a seeming submission to t.he mili tary law, would largely reinstate him in public re spect aud sympathy. But with bis sublime Belf- conceit, and bis entire beliet that tbe North is really with him, I think we may trust him so as to astound the public uud exasperate Congress that in due time he will either be impeached or wholly crippled in his executive power. Tbe Kentucky and Tenuessee mules are the finest in the world. If any man doubts it let him watch our history the next five years. Without counting, theiefore, much on the vir tue or intelligence o t Congress, I look for constant progress in the right direction. Lord John Kui- sell, you remember, talked ol the reform billot 1S31 as afinalty. It is only a halt-way house on the congressional road from Liucoln to Stevens. The train stops there to wood and water, gels rid of some passengers aud a large amount of bag gage, to go forward at an increased speed. All our duty is to press constantly on the nation the absolute need of three things: 1. Tho exercise ot the whole police power of the government to hold the South quiet while the seeds ot Republicanism get planted. 2. The Constitutional amendment, securing universal suffrage, in spite of all State legislation. 3. A Constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to establish common schools in any State destitute of them, at the State’s expense. For these measures we must educate the public mind. That is the soil m which the seeds of good government and equal rights eau alone be trotted. But I think wc must direct our care a little further ahead. Johnson is watched, aud will be impeached or crippled. The next important ques tion is, to whom shall the nation give the helm for tho next four years ? If a Democrat gets it we shall lose two-thirds of the iruits ot the war. If a compromiser has it we shall lose one-half. With radicalism at the helm we may save two-thirds of what we have earned. In the next four years the pressure from business men for the government to open in some way aud in some condition, the old channels of business will be irresistible. The re publican leaders, having secured (if they do se cure) a party tiiuwph by keeping the South out of the electoral college ol lbGS, will give way. The next administration, therefore, must be expected to settle the question. The. bias of that man who occupies the White House then will he of impor tance. Now the country is drifting into the presidency of General Grant—a man ol whose political ideas (if he has any) no man can tell us anything. The first sssertiou oi his friends is that he is a safe man because he has no political ideas and will be in good hands. Next time we want a man with bruins and a heart of his own, not one who depends on being girded and guided “whether he will or net.” Astounding madness! Republicans tell us they must nominate Grant, else tbe Democrats will. In these hours when tlio nation agonizes for existence, we take a man (or our leader so lacking principle that he will suit either party equally well. Two enemies in deadly fight, one deliberately chooses lor its leader such a perfect Swiss that the other will clutch him if the first does uot. Lincoln’s fear of Kentucky did us infin ite harm. I hope a truant’s love lor it will not be allowed to do us more. Memphis, New Or leans aud Baltimore are enough to show how Grant does his military duty. Do they encourage us to trust him with auy civil ones ? Wendell Phillips. Demoralization of the Blacks. A late U. S. officer, wiring to the New York Times from Beaufort, S. C., under date of April 11th, thus describes the moral con dition iu which the poor blacks of the sea- islands have beea left after their contact with the liberating army: Thegravest fears are to be entertained by every thoughtful person concerning the future condition pt" these Sea Island people, because of one terri ble evil, which if uot speedily resttained is sure to end iu the moral aud material destruction of the negro race. I refer to the want ol chastity by which the entire race are being rapidly demoral ized. I am speaking of facts, not for sensation pur poses, uor that I may make a point egainst the propriety oi their enjoying human rights. I am living with my family on a plantation among them where I have lived lor the put 4 years, and I am speaking ior their best good. Tbe laets I would state are these: Among the two plantations of people adjoining me on one side there is scarcely one young woman who has arrived at ihe age of 15 or lt> years who has not become a mother outside of wedlock. Uf these children thus born the large majority are half white and were born during the war. But this terribie work, superadded to the habits or slave lllfe, is now going on apace, and I know on these same places of eight married wo men who have the evidences oi" their infidelity about them. In some of these cases the husbaud takes umbrage at the conduct of fhe wife and leaves her, iu others not. The worst feature of the matter is that the conduct does not outcast the actors in it, nor is it so frowned upon as to ren der them obnoxious. Some of the older of them and better ot the people see the evil aud lament over it, “but dese youug people be spile by close freemdom.” These are not exceptionable planta tions. It was not so with them when I first came here. This learlul condition was brought about by Union officers and soldiers. PST* The “Times" on Confiscaion.— "We find tbe following just observations in the N. Y. Times of the 22d inst.: The confiscation resolutions adopted at the late meeting of negroes in Richmond prove the baneful effect of tho political teaching which they receive from the Huunicutts of the extreme Radical party. In the eye of every thoughtful man, confiscation admits of only one interpretation. It is the equivalent of general spoliation, bloodshed and anarchy. There can be no liberty without order, and An Important Legal Decision.—Tho Richmond Examiner says, “in a late case in London by the bondholders of the London, Dover and Chatham Railroad Company, Lord Justice Cairns gave a decision which, if sus tained on this side of the Atlantic, will shake to its foundation the credit of such securi ties in all cases where they are not supported by mortgages. “It was to the effect that the bonds of a railroad company do not run against the _ „ tj i_ xio- t it f rnm • the evidence tliat a young man by the name I decide this question. Its decision will be Orange C. H., \ a., by Maj. J. H. Lee, from Qf Strick]and bu bt f en canvassing among the M^edy. In the mean while, all speculation the synopsis of wliose speech, os given in the j negroes representing himself as special agent I would be idle and, as I have observed, prenu- Richmond papers, we make the following i ofGene ’ ral Pope in be h a if 0 f the freedmen. riire. extract: ] He tells them that upon payment of a bonus I „ My colored in ends, tbe plain putlisof com- f He proved to tho freedmen that slavery had ! of five dollars to him, to pay expenses of con- respectability, ot moral and intellec- the tunc for years existed in the Northern States; that j veyancing, each negro will be entitled to I ^improvement are before • you; and you fund, is not known here. 1 here is a dark the first slave ship was there built, and that. a grant of a 40 acre" lot of land, anywhere Lq may rest assured that none will guide you chapter connected with that transaction, only when the Yankee, with proverbial may select, and an additional forty for each I J 1101 " 6 willingly or lend you a safer hand to shrewdness, discovered that he was not mak- child. It appears that considerable commo- lead you to those ends than the people ofthe ■ Archbishop Sfaldincl—The Baltimore in" money by the institution, a scheme of • tion was raised in Cabin’s District, but the I - 5C > u ’h amongst whom you were reared. lVitii Suu of Saturday says: compensated emancipation was introduced, arrest of Strickland lias prevented any seri- I submission to tbe laws, industry and econo- Many friends of Archbishop^ Spaulding, By the Senator's own admission, Virginians ous consequences. Judge Boynton committed ni y> wlt * ur *iou among yourselves, and cour- ; now lying ill with inflammationror the bowels, were the first and leading emancipationists, him to jail till he could hear from headquar- fcfj" aud confidence towards the whites, you will learn with pleasure that his condition, nnd lie was prepared to prove that when Vir- ters on the subject. Wc would suggest to | wl " reach these ends, and constitute an lm- considered almost hopeless, was yesterday "inia voted for emancipation, Massachusetts, Strickland that horsestealing would be more | p°j"tant element m the^commumtj. evening somewhat improved, though by no induced him to take his own life. It is thought j no order without ample protection for the that Dr. Stanford was overreached by some ' rights of property. Invade these rights, and of the bad men with whom he was daily 1 inculcate the idea that one class shall he per- brought in coutact. The Nashville Union mitteil to seize and enjoy tbelands and houses and Dispatch says: Whether Dr. Sanford has 1 of another class, aud from that moment the divulged anything in regard to the transfer of • South will become a second San Domingo, to funds set apart as belonging to the school j end only in the extermination of whites or ' blacks.' This may be" a strong statement of the case, but it is the truth. And the men who "o about familiarizing the negroes with the demand, aud persuading them of its jus tice. should be dealt with by the military commanders as incendiaries. Vermont, and New Hampshire, defeated the appropriate to liis order of talent; that it measure. The Virginia Assembly prayed the . takes some genius, and a largo amount of a Ivin" to stop the inhuman traffic in slaves, peculiar kind of religious zeal to “come the and always desired the suppression of the giraffe” over Cuffce; a few years in a Radical slave trade. With nil due respect for the . school, where prayers are had three times a property of the company, but only against i mcmor y 0 f the good hearted Mr. Lincoln, the , day, with the face toward Jerusalem, nnd its earnings The bondholders were thus ! speaker showed that before his election the hands on pocket books, might properly grad- turned oin'of court. ** ™^ seized reverted to tl-c possession ot the com- . ri«dit to the jury box, and that after the — ,w “ I most solemn declaration of his intention to ST* Somebody advertises for agents to re- ' ipovo slavery alone, he broke liis promise and tail a work entitled * Hymeoial Instructor. proclaimed himself for emancipation. A cotemporary adds, “ the best hymcniul m- prociaimcu u. r wt* know of IS a JOUDg widow.— puny. l-gf” Ex-Governor Jack Hamilton, of Tex as, has been appointed register in bankrupey at New Orleans. His is the only commission vet issued. _ structor wo know IrsT* The New York Tribune is about to What she don’t know there is no use in leam- erect a new building at a cost of $250,000. ing. I am, very respectfully, And truly your friend, John B. Gordon. means out of danger. His physician, Dr. McSherry, with Professor Smith and Dr. O'Donovan, is in daily attendance, and ifpro- Maximilian Wounded and Nearly Cap tured.—New York, April 19.—The Herald, says: A gentleman who left the City of Mexico on the 8th instant, informs the Mexi can Legation that Maximilian was at that time en route from Queretaro for the City of James Blue, School. Trustees of the Colored To Messrs. Jack Morrison, Henry Bird and tcssional skill and the prayers of the Catho- Mexico, accompanied by about 3,000 troops. . t” J ’* ‘ “ ” ” He was wounded in tbe right arm by a spent bull in the fight at Queretaro, and narrowly escaped capture iu one of the mountain passes. «•» ■■■ ■ - — The protracted investigation of the conduct ot Admiral Persano, who command ed the Italian fleet in the battle of Lissa, has been concluded. In accordance with the ver dict of the court-martial, he has been sen tenced to be cashiered from the naval service for incapacity and disobedience. lie community are ot avail, his recovery may be expected. 1 he Connecticut Election.—Hartford, Drunk and Mad.—A Washington corres- April 19.—The official canvass of the popular pondent says: “The most painful fact which vote of Connecticut shows that 94,153 votes ls impressed upon an observer of the two . v- i • .»nnn i Houses is the extent to which drunkenness were cast, which is 3,000 larger than was fj^eyed debauchery are visible in the ever cast beiore. The majority of English faces ot the members. One-third of the mem- the Democratic candidate for Governor, i3 bers of both Houses appear to be living 987.' The average majority of the Democrats wrecks of men whom alcohol has substantially on Congressmen is 1,394. destroyed. ’

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, May 03, 1867, Image 1