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Xotes on tiie Situation—No. 5 of Mr.
Jill’s powerful essays on the “situation,” will
found on this page. It is a complete
tniliilation of the weak and cowardly picas
it have been set up by certain “apostate
,els” of the South. Let all the people read,
tl weigh the argument honestly. If weak
[d unsatisfactory, ropclit; if clothed with
power of truth, no man cau set it aside
[he would. His judgment must respond
ocn, and madness alone will ignore its
imptings.
I Ion. A. H. Stephens.—Wo regret to
im, says the Augusta Choniclo & Sentinel,
it the health of this distinguished gentlc-
m is still bad. In a letter tc a friend in
3 city, just received, ho says: “lam in-
cJ quite fecblo and barely able to be up
ilfmy time.”
Wo learn that bis whole time, when able to
erk, is devoted to the preparation of his
irtbcoining book upon the war, which he
icpea to bo able to complete by the end of
! J tar - • ■ » ,
JornNAL and Messenger.—Our venerable
dntemperary is about to be inspired with
sew life. We are pleased to see, from yes-
litlay’s issue, that the proprietors have so
ured the services of Anderson W. Reese.
ot Athens,' in the editorial department,
lr. Reese has considerable experience in
iiirnalism, is a good writer and accomplished
ntlemnn. While we congratulate the
leaders of the Journal & Messenger upor
heir improved sources of information, and t
w acquaintance that is obliged to bo ti
lejsant one, it is peculiarly grateful to tlij
riser, who lias enjoyed friendly and intimatj
ations with Mr. Itceso for many years, t-j
lcome him to our city and to the editorisj
rotherhood. It will bo a pleasure to co i
rate with him in efforts to enlighten or.
llow-countrymeo of the South, and lea
wm in the path of interest and duty.
Mr. Reese inakeshis bow to the readers of
paper in the foilowing graceful and
irited remarks;
I desire simply to say that I shall, to the
at of my ability, and with au energy and
^severance measured only by physical en
trance, labor to make the Journal and
sender a welcome companion of the
sure hours of every class and condition. In
r advocacy of what I conceive the cause of
glit and my country, I shall speak plainly
it respectfully. Battles have never yet
ten won by pellets of bread; nor does it
come an earnest man to hesitate in his
oiec of decent words when holding up to
blic reprobation the most desperate con-
iracy against the liberties of a gallant
»p!e that history will ever blush to record.
The Sherman bill with its logical sequences
military rule, and the Constitution and
ws Sagged and manacled, seems to me the
WHO CANNOT REGISTER.
We are surprised to learn that some intelli
gent persons believe they are disqualified to
register and vote, been list they hare done this
or that in aid ot the “rebellion.” The fol
lowing paragraphs from the Attorney Gene
ral’s opinion settle the matter in the.clearest
manner: ’
“Two elements must concur in order to dis
qualify a person under these 'clauses: First,
tlie-otlicc and official oath to support the
Constitution of the United States; second,
engaging afterwards In rebellion. Both must
exist to work disqualification, and must hap
pen in thcorder of time mentioned.
“A person who has held an office and
taken the oath to support the Federal Con
stitution and has not afterwards engaged in
rebellion, is not disqualified. So, too, a per
son who has engaged in rebellion, but has
not theretofore held an office and taken that
oath, is not disqualified.”
Thus, a Confederate soldier, however much
lie may have fought the Northern armies, is
not excluded, provided he had not previously
held an office which required him to take an
oath to support the Constitution of the
United States.
So of naturalized citizens: their oath on
naturalization simply puts them on a footing
with native born citizens, and if they have
held no office, as above, can work no disquali
fication.
The Attorney General’s instruction to vo
ters will be found on our fourth page, and will
be kept before our readers as often ns we may
be able to make room for it. It is the high
est authority, and everybody will be safe who
conforms to it.
Wotcs on the Situation---JMo. 8.
• BY B. II, niLL.
Accident on tiie Wilmington & Man
chester Road.—From our young friend
Willie Collins, (son of Hon. Stephen Collins)
who lias just returned from Lexington Mili
tary School, wo learn of an accident on this
road. It happened on Sunday morning,
nbont 5 a. m., at Soldier’s creek, thirty miles
from 'iTilmington. The heavy rains had
caused the creek to rise and undermine the
trestle and wash away the embankment, and
on the train striking it, the engine, baggage
and mail cars were precipitated into the
creek. Jackson Hnrrol, (trestle builder), and
C. J. Bird, (section master), were caught in
the wreck and killed. Henry Whitmore,
(wood passer), and Enoch, colored, were
wounded. The engineer escaped by jump
ing from the train. The passengers made a
most miraculous escape.
The Boston Journal tells us that “it
is proposed in England to devote a part or
all of the money remaining in the Lancashire
Cotton Famine Fund to tho relief of the suf
fering poor in our Southern States. The bal
ance on hand amounts, it is said, to nearly
$000,000 in onr currency; and this money
was contributed, in fact, by the people of our
Northern States in 1803, when, owing to the j b attention is this: These posi
rebellion here, the working men in the Eog- t ; on8 admit that the party, (or power, if yoi
. It is said, in the next place, that if we do
not accept the present plan ot reconstruction
proposed in these Military Bills, another plan,
more odious and oppressive, will be provided.
Further disfranchisement, it is said, of the
white race will take place, and it may be a
total disfranchisement of all but the blacks
and their fellows'in sufferings and former
bondage—the persecuted loyalists; and who
alone will then have the government of the
State.
But if the present plan fails because :t is
unconstitutional, how can a. worse pi as—a
plan still more unconstitutional—succeed-?
If it is not in the power of Congress to dis
franchise a few, how can it disfranchise all?
Congress can neither make nor unmake vot
ers, and every member of tho Congress knows
it. And every act which seeks or pretends
to make or unmake voters in a State is void
and will bo declared so; and every election
held, or constitution formed, or government
organized by voters who are made voters only
b/Congress, is void and will be declared so.
Every man who is-made a voter by the laws
ot his State, and is denied that vote by Con
gress, is wronged, and every agent or officer
of tho Congress or other person who enforces
the denial is a wrong-doer, and responsible
in all the i>enalties and damages prescribed
by the State laws.
The only danger possible lies in the s range
fear of the people to assert their rights,, and
the consequent disposition to consent to tho
wrong. From consent alone can wrong de
rive power, and when once consented to its
power becomes irresistible. If they did not
see. or think they saw, a fatal inclination in
our people to yield, Congress and tho rene
gades would not ask their consent, nor dare
To inflict the wrongs. For to attempt the
wrong and fail (and without consent they
must "fail,) can only bring ultimate disgrace
on those who make tho attempt. When the
burglar knows the owner of the house is
awake and determined to resist, he will not
dare enter; but if ho knows the owner is
asleep or disposed to yield, he is sure to en
ter; lie is invited to enter. A Congress, or a
fragmentary conclave thereof, who breaks
the Constitution to inflict wrongs on an un
resisting people, is .more criminal and far
more cowardly than the burglar; and the
man wbo is within—who is of the people—
and who counsels submission to the wrong,
is far more to be despised than a burglar or
than even such a Congress.
Ot like character is the threat that, if-we.
reject their plan, Congress will, in a new
plan, add confiscation. He is to be pitied
for liis simplicity wbo docs not know that
Congress has no more power to confiscate the
property of a peaceful citizen than has a po
litical meeting or a church mob; and that
the very attempt would necessarily end the
existence of the Congress attempting it.
But, unmanly and without foundation of
either law or reason ns are these threats of
further attempts at disfranchisement and
confiscation, they are of surpassing impor
tance in either respects, and demand the
most serious consideration of our people.
The position urged upon us is this: We must
submit to a proposed wrong lest a greater
wrong follow. We must surrender our fran
chises, because, if wc do not, our property
will be taken also. Novi, the first point to
trusted, even by their friends and co-laborers.
It is safer to avoid a danger than trust to con
trolling it
When we abandon tbe safeguards of tbc : action of the Radical Congress when it meets
Constitution, and trust ourselves to the mag- ; , ,,
nanimity of its violators, we shall embrace I m «tra session, we copy as follows from one
What Congress is to So.
As some interest is felt in the probable
the surest means of procuring tbe loss of all
things. But I scorn to pursue such a line of
argument.
A people who are willing to sacrifice honor
to avarice are beyond the possibility of re
demption. If the very statement of'the
proposition does not awaken a feeling ofi
abhorrence, we are indeed in a sad condition.
If .anything can be baser than degradation
it is such a motive for sinking to it Lbst
lisli cotton mills were starving.”
The Republican Committee in Wash
ington have sent twenty negroes and ten
whites as missionaries to work in the organ
ization of the jinrty in tho Southern States.
Expense op Reconstruction.—General
Sickles has written a letter to Senator Wil
son informing him that the appropriation for
the expense of reconstruction is wholly inad
equate, and the funds devoted to his district
are already absorbed. He says the Navy and
ry incarnation of a despotism that even the Treasury Departments have declined to assist
him with funds. The full sum appropriated
lined masters, of the art in other lauds
)uld not disdain td father. So btlioving, t —».. ... , ., . .. . , .
nsistcncy demands that I declare my un- " as$oOO,000, and tliatnmount is required for
•erable 'opposition to legitimatizing • its ; the Carolines alone.
arpations, and putting my countrymen on A half million to the district, or just two
»rd as consenting to their own shame. ; atu l a half millions, and for what? The
‘he issue wiil soon be made up, aud come -
ad or come woo, I am willing to stand or I Southern States arc as loyal now as they can
111 by it, A. W. Reese, be; all tlicir governments are m full and quiet
— ♦♦— j operation, except where disturbed by Federal
The Ciiild’s Delight,” for July, has j interference; they therefore need no recon-
u laid upon our taldo by the editor. It' struction. This vast amount is to bo spent
■e of tho best numbers that have been by the treasury and paid out of the hard
1, and shows the determination of its . earnings of the working people, for the solo
rising conductor to make it the best purpose of organizing the Southern States in
ipaper in the country. We are pleased the interest of the Radical party. Their rep-
r that it is succeeding admirably, the 1 resentatives might just as well have
riptions at this time amounting to up-' been admitted to Congress eighteen
da of six thousand. j months ago as next year or two years to come,
_ , ' and without all this pother, vexation, ex-
Academy FOR the Blind. The Com. ulragc an d wrong. These Southern
nccracnt exercises of this institution, mQft bc brought back 1{adical or not
cn have been very interesting throughout, } , . . , 1 . ilt
, _ . * , , ° _ J; at all. Tins is the whole case. Ana yet the
re closed on the 27th py a grand vodal ana . * xf ' t i
4 1 people of the North, deceived by Radical
Uumental concert, in which all the pupils J , ,. . r _
, . , * 1 leaders, arc bleeding from their purses and
)tr r»arf Wa ihaha 4 A (.aa tlm lnr/rn 1 Y *
outraging the Constitution and common jus
tice for this unholy purpose! Perhaps they
will learn wisdom atter awhile.
part. We were gratified to see the larg
II of the institute well filled, and hazard
hiag in saying that the performance gave
»er#I satisfaction. Indeed, in view of the
t that every note is learned by car and
Tiie Hose Reel foe Columbia.—The
t in tho memory, the pieces were ren- Charleston Mercury says the new hose reel,
'tl with wonderful accuracy, and always vritli five hundred feet of hose, presented to
■;ooil taste. While points of excellence t ic Independent Fire Company of Columbia,
e discoverable, we shall not discriminate, by the Fire Association of New York, nr-
all did well, and reflected credit both rived there about noon Tuesday, per stenm-
W their instructor, Prof. Czurda, and them- ship Manhattan. The reel, which is a very
T/' handsome piece of workmanship, was imme-
■’ e regret that our engagements have n lately taken charge of by Chief Natlmn. and
■u such as to preclude the po.-.-ibility of placed in Mr. White's warerooms. corner of
jjnesdeg all tho exercises of the present Meotin
Bnnacncemeat, or even giving some detailed
frunt of what wo had tho opportunity of
an 6 hearing. Tho whole system of
jyuction for these children of misfortune
you
I.lra-f.' which proposes the present wrong
has already the will to indict further wrong;
that the Congress which-requires you to con-
scnt.to tho destruction of your franchise lias
already the will to rob you of your property.
Thus, you are asked to place your proper
ty for safety in the keeping of that power
which already has the will to take it. You
arc importuned to escape the power of the
lion by rushing to his' embrace; to avoid the
fang of the serpent by placing your hand In
his month!
This is precisely the point. Will every
man in the South ponde r it—repent it—never
forget it? Disfranchisement, confiscation,
and far worse evils will not come—cannot
come—through our cxisling State govern
ment. Never.' But they can come, and they
will come through the government which
this plan of reconstruntion proposes to es
tablish for our existing State governments.—
Who, in nil these States, fivor or agitate for
•onfiscation except the Northern emissary
and Southern renegade, and the negro, when
prompted and directed by these emissaries
aud renegades ? Are we not warned ? Read
tho resolutions of negro conventions, and
whenever you find one of these conventions
in which these-emissaries and renegades are
the devilish prompters, you will find confis
cation threatened, or apologised for, or justi
fied or demanded. And thc-se are the very
men who are to form, organize, control and
administer, and enjoy the offices under, these
new governments proposed by these Military
Bills. And when we admit the power to
abrogate existing governments and organize
new governments to be composed of such
men with such views nnd for such purposes,
these abrogations and disfrauchisemcnts, and
new organizations, will centinue until such
men do effectually control, nnd such views
and propositions do effccutnlly prevail.
The whole purpose of these Military Bills
is to add these ten States to Radical party-
power; nothing less than the complete ac-
property may bo recovered; burned cities
may be rebuilt; devasted fields bloont
again; even buried children, fallen ftSTtheir
country; will live ngfiiu in tho quickened
spirits of new generations. ' But as with in
dividuals so with people and communities—
the sense of honor once lost is lost forever.
Yea, more; the history of human nature,
singly and in communities, teaches, without
exception ot example, that when self-resjrect
is once lost, self-abasement once accepted,
cities, lands, liberty, country cannot be re
tained.
It is natural, too, that all others should lose
rcpect for those who lose respect for them
selves. If we accept the humiliation propos
ed for us, nil mankind will be ashamed of us,
our childern will be ashamed of us, and our
very enemies, whoso hatred prompted the
shame, will mock aud deride us. Even now
I believe the impression which a few bavo
been industrious to produce, that ourpeo])le
arc willing to reconstruct under these acts,
has damaged us more in the estimation of all
honorable minds tliaii. anything else that has
happened. I do not know Gen. Pope, but if,
as I assume, ho possesses the ordinary instincts
of honor belonging to an American gentle
man, lie. must have felt au almost nauseating
pity for the poor men who gathered about
him in Atlanta, nnd, forgetting the history of
their fathers and the character of our institu
tions, welcomed with feasting and rejoicing, j
the inauguration of military desposition over
one of the Old Thirteen, whose sons were in
the first revolution, nnd who holds in her bo
som the ashes of Pulaski!
A brave man loves courage in others, and
despises sycophancy, especially that syco
phancy which makes .sacrifices to’powcr to
secure safety, perhaps patronage for itself.
Heroism in defeat, patience In suffering, the
preservation of Honor in the midst of mis
fortune, arc the sublime virtues which every
thing on earth admires, and everything in
Heaven rewards, and which never fail to lift
a people possessing them, however tempor
arily unfortunate, to final prosperity and re
nown. And a people, however great, who
propose dishonor to the helpless, who would
take advantage of misfortune to force op
prossion on the unresisting, will surely sink
by the'weight of their own infamy to ruin,
and everything on earth and in Heaven will
rejoice at the fall.
I admit," I have often overrated the intelli
gence, and virtue, and* endurance of our peo
ple. Everything they have done, from tho
suicidal repeaL of the Missouri Compromise
to the criminal and factious demoralization
which compelled, our surrender, lias been
contrary to my wishes and against my pro
test. But I do not believe they are so lost to
every instinct ot manhood as to accept the
plan of State destruction proposed by the
fanatical representatives of other States, as
contained in these Military Bills. Many nt
first were taken by surprise, and were tempt
ed with a desperate thoughtlessness to yield.
But they will reject the- hateful thing they
had almost embraced.
ot^ its most trusted organs, the Chicago
Tribune:
Since an extra session has been rendered
necessary by the attempt of the President to
reinvigorate his pocket Governments in the
rebel States" we are of the opinion that the
vary first act of Congress should- be to'abolish
those bogus Governments altogether. To be
sure. Congress has already declared them to
be “illegal;” but that does not avail against
the obstinate determination of the Adminis
tration to nullify the law; for we find it
solemnly declared by the Attorney General
that these so-called Governments, which Con
gress lia^ declared illegal, are actually legal,
and that the civil officers whom Congress in
tended to be entirely subordinate to the mili
tary arm, are superior to it; that the military
commanders and forces in the South ’are, in
fact, only auxiliary to the civil power, and
that John T. Monroe has a right to command
Gen.'Sheridan, and Gen. Sheridan has no
right to interfere with John T. Monroe.
* '* * * * .*
To abolish these Governments is the un
doubted right of Congress. If Andrew
Johnson shall attempt to resist or nullify such
an act, through the legal quibbles nnd sophis
try of Stnnbery, or otherwise, then it will be
tiie bounden duty of Congress to impeach
him and remove him from office for that
offence. Nor will Congress hesitate to pur
sue such a course, nor will thc.people fail fully
to sustain them In it. The very suspicion
that the President intends to interfere with
reconstrustion has already aroused a feeling
in tho country intensely hostile to him. Let
him once meddle with reconstruction in clear
violation of law, and the unanimous cry of
the people will be, “Off with his official
head!”
The Pope and the Connell of Bishops.
Sheridan’s Insolence.
Safety of Savannah Steamers.—"We
take the following information from the Sa
vannah papers of flic 27th instant:
The Fannie.—Tho. serious doubts enter
tained in regard to the safe arrival of-this
steamship, produced by the recent heavy
gale, were dispelled on yesterday by a dis
patch received By her gentlemanly agents,
announcing her safe arrival in Baltimore on
the 25tli inst., atter a very stormy passage.
The Wyoming.—"We learn by dispatch re
ccived by Messrs. Hunter & Gammeli that the
steamer "Wyoming arrived in Philadelphia
yesterday (Wednesday) morning, at 5 a. m.,
having left here at'10 A. M., Sunday morning.
The San Jacinto.—By a dispatch to Mr. B.
H. HardcC, the agent of the Empire Line,wc
learn that the steamship San Jacinto arrived
at New York on Tuesday, at 8 p. X.
The Cnors.—Never have we seen the crops
in this portion of the State ns promising
at the present. Our farmers used large quan
tities of guano and other manures, xvhich arc
now telling most admirably upon the grow
ing crops. The late seasonable showers of
rain have caused the corn and cotton to al
most, if not quite, double its size in the last
two weeks. It is almost impossible now,
while viewing the verdnnt fields, to realize
that we are in Middle Georgia, they so much
resemble the productive vallics and fertile prai
ries of the West. In the midst of our politi
cal sorrows we must not forget to raise our
grateful hearts to the Giver of all our bless
ings.—Sanderscille Georgian, 0.0th.
It is gratifying to see that even a portion
of the Republican press at the North have
left enough respect for law and official de
cency to characterize the official assumptions
and insolence of General Sheridan as they
deserve. We copy the following censure of
his late dispatch to General Grant from the
New York Times:
General Sheridan certainly pays very little
attention to the forms of decorum in his rela
tions to his superiors. His dispatch to Gen,
Grant on the subject of registration sails as
near the edge of absolute insubordination as
anything of the kind wc have seen lately.
Being directed through" the TfUr Department
to extend the time for registration in Louis
iana until August 1, unless be has “some
good reasons to the contrary,” he assigns his
reasons for not doing it without further or
ders.
If he is ordered to extend the time, he will
do s6. But he takes occasion to say that the
Attorney General’s opinion “opens a broad
macadamized road tor perjury and fraud to
travel on.” He “regrets to differ with the
President”—but takes occasion to say that be
“lias been ordered to execute a law to which
the President has been in bitter antagonism!”
This is certainly very unusual and extraordi
nary language. We remember no parallel to
it in recent military history. If Gen. Sheri
dan Mere engaged in a popular canvass, lie
might, perhaps, properly make such an issue
With tlje President. '■ But he is holding an
appointment 'under the President, ana is ai-
rectfed, as a subordinate officer of the army, to
execute a certain law of the land. How'can
he sit in judgment upon flic orders he receives
from the President in regard to the perfor
mance of his duty ? What right has lie to
recognize—still less to assign as a reason for
protesting against the President’s orders—the
President’s opinion on the subject before the
law was passed ? Suppose every army officer
should thus assume the right to sit in judg
ment on the orders lie receives, and to hold
up the President’s private opinions as a rea
son for hesitating to obey his orders ?
In this matter, as in his letters about tbe
removal of Gov. Wells, Gen. Sheridan shows
a great deal more of temper than i3 becoming
the position he holds. Tho public will sym
pathize with his anxiety lest the law of Con
gress should be evaded, and the purpose for
which it was passed substantially defeated.
But we believe they Would prefer to await
the legitimate and regular action of Congress
to correct the evils, rather than permit in
dividual officers to reject the authority of
their superiors and execute the law according
to their own judgment and wishes. Such au
example, set by a General of so’high position
and popularity as Sheridan, would be full of
danger to the public service.
We presume Gen. Grant will satisfy Gen.
Sheridan that it is not within his province as
yet to overrule the orders he may receive
through the regular channels of the War De
partment.
Since the celebrated Council ot Nice, in
the year of our Lord 325, no more important
assembly of divines 'lias*ever been convened
than that which, on au early day, will meet
beneath the dome of St. Peter’s, at Rome.
Many deeply important and numerously at
tended gatherings of the recognized heads of
the Catholic Church have been held in the
interval; but there was that about the first
Council of Nice which gave it a character
and a prominence which have remained pe
culiar to itself; and there promises to be
something about this approaching assembly
which, unless we greatly mistake, will secure
for it as enviable and as undying distinction.
At Nice the progressive and unifying spirit
of Christianity was made visible on a scale
of magnitude which was surprising alike to
the Church and to the world. Three hun
dred and eighteen bishops then assembled,
at the request of the Emperor Constantine;
and in tbe persons and costumes of the dif
ferent ecclesiastics were to be seen exemplified
the semi-barbarism of the West, the North
and the East, as well as the polish and re
finement of’tbe more central portions of the
Roman empire. The assembly about to be
held in Rome will be gathered from a wider
area, aud will be representative at once of a
more perfect civilization and of a greater va
riety of races. The former represented the
empire of th.e Cfesars; this will represent the
world.
At the Council of Nice Constantine de
clared the Christian religion to be the official
religion of the empire, and thus effected that
union between Church and State which has
remained until the present time—a union
which many have declared unholy, and which
many more have declared unwise; but which,
whether unholy or unwise, or both, or neither,
seems, by almost universal consent, to lie
across the pathway of modern progress. The
separation of the Church from the State, of
tbe spiritual from the temporal power, is the
great necessity of the day. It will be strange,
certainly , but it will not surprise us if this
approaching celebration should resolve itself
into a council, and if, by its solemn sanction,
the work of Constantine should be effectually
and forever undone.
The Holy Father, we have reason to be
lieve, is anxious to come to an arrangement
with Italy. It will be well if the heads of
tbe Catholic Church, in council assembled,
authorize and sanction the step which it is
believed his Holiness has long meditated
but “from which,” according to good au
thority, “he has been forcibly kept back.” It
is desirable in the interests of. Catholic Christ
endom that the breach between Italy and
tho Pope be healed. The abandonment of
the temporal power on the part of the Head
of the Church alone cau heal it.
We can see no reason why the Holy Father
should not be encouraged to yield up grace
fully thnt which he cannot much longer re
tain, and which it is not desirable he should
retain, even if he could. The Church will
gain rather than lose by the change. By
ceasing to be a secular, she will become more
and more a spiritual power.. Freed from the
gross entanglements which have hitherto rp
strained her action, she will realize more fully
the true character of her mission, and will
enter anew upon a career of growing useful
ness and prosperity;
What course the Papal government may
finally resolve upon will no doubt depend, to
a large extent, on the unanimity of sentiment
which shall be found to prevail among the
assembly of bishops. Wc can scarcely doubt
that the decision will be such as shall prove
to the world that the chiefs of the Catholic
CUureh are neither Dtttnl to tba character nor
deaf to the demands of the age. Meanwnttc,
the entire Christian world looks towards
Rome with an intensity of interest which, if
it has been equalled, has certainly not been
surpassed for many generations.—Nl T.
Herald.
aardening- for Women.
There is nothing better for wives and
daughters, physically, than to have the care
of a garden-a flower plot, if nothing more
M hat is pleasanter than to spend a portion
of every passing day working among plants
and watching the growth of shrubs, and
trees, and plants, and to observe the opening
of flowers, from week to week, as the season
advances? Then, how much enjoyment to
know that yonr own hands have planted and
tilled them. This is a pleasure that requires
no great riche9 nor profound knowledge.—
The humble cottage of the laboring poor
not less than their grounds, may lie adorned’
with pot-plants, which in due time will be
come redolent of rich perfume, not less than
radiant with beauty—thus ministernino- to
the love of the beautiful in nature. °
The wife and daughter who loves home
and would seek ever to make it the best place
for husband and brother, is willing to forego
some gossiping morning ealls, for the sake of
having leisure for the cultivation of plants
and shrubs, and flowers. The good house
wife is early among the plants and flowers, as
is the husband at his place of business. They
are both utilitarians, the one it may be in the
abstract, and the other in the concrete, each
as essential to the enjoyment of the other as
are the real and ideal in human life.
Tbe lowest utilitarianism would labor only
tor tbe meat that perislieth. Those of higher
aud nobler views would labor with no “less
assiduity for the substantial things which
elevate and refine the mind and exalt the
aoul.
The advantage which woman personally
derives from stirring the soil, and snuffing
the morning air, are freshness nnd beauty of
cheek and brightness of eye, cheerfulness of
temper, vigor of mind, and purity of heart.
Consequently she is more cheerful and lovely
as a daughter, more dignified and womanly
as a sister, and more attractive and confiding
as a wife.
President Johnson is a non-professor
of religion. Of tbe seven members of his
cabinet, there is only one professor of reli
gion, Secretary "Welles, who is a communicant
in the Episcopal Church. Secretary Browning
attends the Presbyterian Church; the other
five, when they goat all, go to the Episcopal.
Of the nine Judges of tbe Supreme Court of
the United States, two only are church mem
bers : Chief Justice Chase, who is a Metho
dist, and Justice Grier, who has long been a
ruling elder in the old-school Presbyterian
Church. The Unit -d States Senate contains
at present fifty-fourmembers. Of these, nine
teen are professors of religion. As two of these
are Unitarians, it leaves only seventeen be
longing to evangelical churches. They are
distributed among the religious denomina
tions thus : Episcopal one, Reformed Dutch
1, Baptist 2,. Presbyterian 4, nnd Cougrega-
al 7.
The Black Yote in the Future.—Tbe
Nation says that the negro population of the
South will have always to rely ou its natural
increase for its growth, while the white popu
lation is swollen even- year by an enormous im
migration. Let it appear that political tran
quility is once restored to the South, and we
may be sure that, slavery being gone, the
great and advancing tide, which is now cat-
_ every year farther and farther into the
heart of the Western wilderness, will begin
to steal very rapidly into the Southern forests,
and to swamp tbe black rote everywhere.—
There is not the ghost of a chance that in ten
years there will in any Southern State be a
black majority, and that the ballot will'be of
any use to the negro except to defend the
fruits of his own toil. There is danger just
now that Uic. negro may be led astray, and
that his education in ciTliiyaticn niav, by
bad counsels, be made bitter and harder than
it-need bp,
Emancipation in Brazil.—The scheme
for liberating the slaves in Brazil doc3 not
include anything like instantaneous and gen
eral emancipation, and in that respect is a
reat improvement on North American
salesmanship. Most of those now held in
laverv will never be free. The children
‘ wonderful triumph of the human • find,
IS most extraordinary in ite mol's. Hu-
P ingenuity seems to have dor. all that
I? possible to remedy tho defects of nature
L the results of accident or disease, nnd
pc aro practical details that would greatlv
krest the general reader. Wc hope, in the
jrsoiof a day or two, to be able to allude
Bncni, in connection with th
s' 11 tlle A°ad "iny, in a manner more com-
>>ur..te with tboir interest and practical
and Wentworth streets, for cxliibi-
ti-jo, where it would remain until Wednesday,
when it would be taken to the South Caro
lina Railroad depot for shipment Thursday
morning. The reel bears the inscription,
“Presented by the New York Fire A.ssocia- j fte ~, c tQ m51iiary bondage, could not
tion to the Independent Fire Compqny, of ' - -
Columbia, June, 18G7."
Hon. Robeut Tophus.—This gentleman
A-., , - . - i passed through the city on Tuesday, He
coniplisliinent ot tlicpurposc will ieaccepted, j was (ll rovfafor Southwestern Georgia. ‘He
And tins purpose can never bo accomplished | 3 pj )cnre d in excellent health, and expressed j hereafter horn; of persons held in slavery,
hut by disfranchising, impoverishing,destroy- -* 1 - • ....,’ * - I 1
ing and driving off all the true, and noble,
and manly, and country-loving of the South
ern people; and delivering over our bright
and beautiful land to the riotous rule and
miscegenating orgies of negroes, Yankees
and base api's!a‘es from their own kindred,
color, country nnd blood. I would not four
the docile negro, left to himself. lie would
soon know liis true iriends, in his interest,
and bc useful. But the Africanized white
man is an enemy to the peace and the interp
est of both races, and would bc an adniittc-
monstcr in any age or country of barbarians.
I admit, then, that wc are in danger of
confiscation. Those who outlaw patriotism
and intelligence, would not scruple to rob.
The representatives who violate the Consti
tution they are sworn to support, in order
abrogate State government, and reduce
Very Singular.—The management of the
registration of the Southern people seems to
be the most independent. business now
carried on. The commanding Generals dis
regard the construction of the Attorney Gen
eral, and some of the district registers pay
but little attention to tbe instructions of the
Generals commanding.
We hear it said that young men who were
Colonels in the Confederate service, but wlio
never took an oath of office, or held office of
any kind before the war, have been refused
registration in this county! Where is the
authority for this ruling to be found ? Not
in the Jaw, for that clearly makes both the
jirevioiis taking of an oath ofoffice and par
ticipation in the rebellion necessary to work
disfranchisement; nor in the opinion of the
Attorney General, for that recognizes the
necessity of such a concurrence; nor in the in
structions of General Pope, for we have care
fully read them andean find nothing that can
be so construed. If every peddler ot registra
tion papers is allowed to be “a law unto him
self,” why not allow them to elect the dele
gates to the Convention directly, and save the
people all the trouble and excitement ?
[ Columbus SiM.
Atlantic Carles.—It is stated that the
American Atlantic Cable Telegraph Company
of New York, which was incorporated about
a year ago, is making vigorous efforts to per
fect its arrangements fora newline between
Europe and America, by way of Bermuda
and the Azores, having its western terijiinus
at some point on the const of the United
States, and its eastern at Lisbon. The pres
the hope that political matters would not j will remain in a sort of apprenticeship until I ent cables have not custom enough to keep
always bc ns they are at present.—Atlanta twen ty vears old, when they will obtain their I their operators busy more than a few hours a
Intelligencer. *7Ou • ^ W i icn theyear 1900 arrives slavery ^ reduction of rates which
J . J .. _ / would follow the completion of tins new en-
Wc learn of some sales of wheat yes- j in Brazi1 ,s to cease - As the era of emanci-
clay at 50 per bushel. New flour, we un- j pation for those now living is deferred for a
Government Finances.—The following
is the weekly statement of operations at the
Treasury Department:
Fractional currency received from tho
-Printing Bureau, CjQi 100
Shipped to the Assistant Treasurer at Now
. i ork 100 000
Shipped to tho r ational banks and others, 162,391
Total,
National bank currency issued for week...
National bank currency issued to date,
Worn-out notes, etc., returned,
Actual circulation at this date.
Securities held for circulating notes
Securities held for deposits of public mon-
304
$297,370
303,3u!,S2>;
4,911,947
298^91,879
340,511,500
39,102,950
tcrpnse.it is believed that there would be
business enough for all, and a great increase
of profits
‘The Hebrew Governm ent."—We have
dentend, will open to-day at the mill at £7 1 whole generation, the decree of the goveru-
per barrel. \\ c hear new flour to be de- ; luen t w jp chiefly benefit the “millions yet to .
livcrcd in five dars nt $0 o0 per barrel. ,• .. . „
[Atlanta Bra. >e > *od will mot prove very, irksome to the j sccu a peragraph going the rounds of the
■ •" j present race of slaveholders. It is also pro-1 press, and commented upon by many of our
Registration in Savannah.—The books ' posed to institute a fund to be annually ap- exchanges, concerning the so-called “He-
of a fixed : brew government,” which professes to have
been organized somewhere in America since
. 18G4. The “executive department” is now
registered by the Board: whites 5'3, colored ber to be set free by the State, when the issuing proposals for a loan to enable the
151; total 204. ' time arrives for extinguishing the last rem- “government - ’ to dispatch the Jews to Pales-
j.kc.istkavion in oavannah.— 1 ne uooks , posed to institute a tuna to ue am
of registration for this city were opened yes-! p r0 p r j a j et ^ j bc manumission <
terday morning. Lp to the hour of two I - , ... „
o'clock p. m., the following was the number : "»“berof slaves, “so as to reduce
pgr* The first shipment of Georgi:
from this port, this year, was made ye
wheat
9terdny
in 1 lie steamship North Point, con.-dating of
130 bushels for the Baltimore market.
The agents of the Baltimore line informs
II uty Thought. A well known in
0 agent,*i\bile urging a friend to have
insured, said-s “Get your life insured
thousand aollars, and then if you die
" k. the widow’s heart will sing with
’m unnecessary to say that the trien-.l
- wed and took out a
: res'mt, anv sue
_ -to
recent exer- us that they expect their steamships will, I oppress, and the emissary to breed strife and
during the season, take a large quantity of ' to rob ! Alas, we have been robbed—robbed
this wheat every trip, baying with that view | in war and in peace, and by foes and by
made arrangements nt a very low rate of ■' friends. A few are ricli. They prospered
freight. Sar. Hep. 21th. j while their victims were sacrificed—showed
m> a talent to make money while their dopes
Good PnosrECT.—The New York World ' showed a will to lose blood. These might
tides that Southern millers had made ar- naturally dread confiscation, aud, in view ofi
add to their iniquities by taking the little ;
property we L ive left. As a people we have
but little—scarcely enough to prevent star- j
vat ion. All the world seems to be moving :
to send bread to keep us alive. What ncuri- . seven were registered at "Poor House ’ pre-
ous people we are!—fit objects of charity I cinct yesterday—eighty-five colored and
and lit subjects for confiscation 1 The same > fifty-two white
Joe Brown.—The Griffin Star says, “a mu
tual friend ot Joe. and us is fixing up some
The registration in the county will recom- ■ na ut of slavery in the empire.”
mcuce this morning, about two and a half ...
miles from the city, on the Louisville road,
under the direction of the district Board.
; Sac. Xcce. 21th.
_ statistics, showing what Joe was worth when
REGISTRATION.—One hundred and thirty— j lie usurped the gubernatorial cliair of Geor
gia, and what when he abdicated. Our friend
lias unsurpassed means of • information,
train brings the bread to feed, the office
rangements for selling handsome
(lour in New York for $13 per barrel.
family
The number registered at the City Hotel
' was four hundred and one—two hundred and
fifty-five blacks, ami one hundred and forty-
six whites.
A friend writing from Warrenton, informs
us that the number registered there for two
days is one hundred and fifty—eighty-live
whites and sixty-five blacks.
Augusta Chron. tf Sen.. 27th.
i tine, where the machinery of the nation is to
' be put into operation. We do not suppose
; anybody foolish enough to subscribe to such
: a loan—there are not among Israelites people
likely to be victimized after tbe manner of
, the Fenian bondholders. We wish simply to
; suggest to our contemporaries not to give the
1 slightest countenance to this project. It is
as consummate and transparent a swindle as
any “gift enterprise.” No respectable Isra
elite has any connection with this scheme.
All respectable Israelites condemn it as dis
honest. and an unwarranted attempt to de
ceive.—Jar ixh Messenger.
CJ s,
_ . Total 939^647.450
Fractional currency redeemed, f. _ d9,i!i«l
Receipts from customs from June 8th to
the loth, inclusive:
Boston $315,158
Philadelphia, 256,820
Baltimore 175,331
The returns from New York for the above
period are not yet received.
The sum of $000 has been added to the
conscience fund.—Nat. Intelligencer, 25?7i.
23PA letter from Thomasville says the
citizens of that place and vicinity are very
enthusiastic about a railroad project connect
ing that town with Albany. Tbe writer says
the stock is being rapidly taken. The road
spoken of was chartered before the war.—
[ The proposed road connects with the Atlan
tic and Gulf road at Thomasville, and will
place Albany in communication with Savan
nah and Brunswick by a much nearer route
tbau the present via Macon.— Col. Eng.
Acquittal of Rev. Geo. T. Williams.—
Wo are informed that the Rev. George T.
Williams, of Suffol.r, lias been honorably
acquitted of the charge of picking a woman’s
pocket, in New York, and that he was to have
left that city for liis homo in Virginia yester
day afternoon. Tiie indictment against him
was quashed on the- ground of the insuffi
ciency of the evidence and the character of
the witnesses.
The result of the trial will be received with
a feeling of relief among the friends of Mr.
Williams everywhere.—Petersburg Express.
the sacrilices they made to get property, it
may bc reasonable they should make greater
sacrifices to keep what they made, for what
7-!?° Birth cards are now issued in fash
ionable circles in Paris. Their style is the
Registration.—The totnl number of j is honor worth to such l But even these j following : “Monsieur de X has the hou-
>ok out a policy. He names registered at the court house lor two 1 should not altogether lose their reason. May or to inform you of his birth, which took
fli touching appeals as days past is ISO—35. whites, and 151 blacks, j they not be nursing a power tliaf may con- ' place day before yesterday. He and bis
[ Colmnlnit Enquirer, 20th. 'sumetbem? Thieves are not always’to be j mother are as well as could be expected.”
means
among which arc European agents, familiar
with the banking houses there. The object
is not to pry into Joseph's means through
motives of mere curiosity, but to show the
inducements he has for his present course." AwmKK Homicide.-Jo Reeves and Aus-
ST Mr. George Francis Train, although tin l'* re " D 0 ?£ g . ed f in ! , ° dng “ rn ,° n th !-
# 0 . • ar i evening ot the 19tn instant, upon the farm of
a lunatic, occasionlly strikes a vein ot com- j 0 ] )n Duggan, Esq. They had some dispute
raon sense. In a late speech on the summit ot : in reference to their work, aud Baily struck
Pilot Knob Mountain, be said he had no use ! at Reeves with his hoe but failed to hit him,
for people who “love God so much that they i whereupon Reeves struck Baily with Bis hoe*
, 1 1 . , , , kilting him almost instantly. They were
have no time foi lo% e for their fellow -men, brothers-in-law. Reeves, we understand, has
ood hit at certain
The following, from the Atlanta In
telligencer, is pretty well understood :
Disgusted.—It is said that one ot those fa
mous patriots who are hunting for soft places
under the Government, and who recently
went North to solicit alms to aid in running
a Radical paper in Georgia, has returned
somewhat disgusted with his brethren of the
higher latitudes. They were slow in coming
down with the materi al aid. They have no
objection to paying emissaries from their own
section, but don't seem frantic to entrust
funds in the hands of Southern Radicals.—
Perhaps they are right.
Registration—The work proceeded vig
orously vesterdav. 384 persons were regis
tered— iGl whites and 223 colored. Total
registered thus far, 820 — 301 white and 519
colored.—Aug. Con., 20th.
which is a _
present time.
gentry of the boen committed to jail.—Sandersville Geor
gian, 21th.
Senator Sumner lias given up his pro
posed trip to Europe, on account of the deli
cate and interesting condition of his wife’s
health.
53F“ A Mississippi planter says that a belt
of oats ten feet in width around a cotton
field, will protect the cotton from the worm.
If true, it is a pity this information has not
been sooner communicated to the public.