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The Georgia "Weehly Telegx*apii.
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Andrews lia9
^•■ '" Ir the present. Hard times is
^*0- * matter of serious
r-- onr people Whether or not
>' fLe suflicit nt papers to give
*tl' ”* ftftcr awhile. It appears as if
^TinUrmit the extinction, through
-it 1 " 1 ' L of eo many papers that
5,r0D ^ urge will hardly be aide
i 3 going on in the world.
INGTON COHHlCSPOXDENCEe
Joyful AewH—Removal of John Pop«—Ap
point i aent of General Meade to Succeed
liImediate Relief for the People of
Georgia~Dcplorable Condition of Affair*
in Mexico—The Administration Deter
mined to ReprmB all Fenian Movement*
In the Culled States.
' P Whitfield has retired from
f ‘the Montgomery Mail.
[ is |7k»sitv.—Wc invite atten-
Ip*' 1 * criisemcnt iaT Mercer Univer-
ia^Vr, by Prof. Willet. Itan-
inning of the Acxt term—on
‘^“Vlincsday in January—also gives
l “' * . tuition.
h ’"' ,, r dty i> excellently officered,
lurnlty is inferior to none in
W> jutoniM-oi ntwly is extensive
it }i i, js located in a healthy vil-
•••‘^t’lpiicesofboant and tuition are
P- 1 * Tbit College Ins always been
'•• Tm our State, and wo l.opc will con-
f 4 , am its popularity is deserved.
'Clicker 5 * the President, to whom
:t 'iratinn. should be addressed by
, f ; , hIm desk* to send their sons to a
‘drti College. t a Stiffs M
rj ^ , Washington special to the Phila-
v „esijs that “in consequence of
jLjdcot’s order of Saturday last, chang-
J " commander, of certain military d.s-
in the South, there is some talk among
JJ numbers of Cougnss here of the in
Ko” ota bill, 8«m alter the rcamem-
IXhllousU next week, voting in
•tonmt fall powers to «.^gn aad control
, n f these districts, and plac-
jecoamandw ft ^ reconstruc-
New
2 the execution
acts in his hands.”
r\ Washington special «o the
J Herald says that there are several htgh-
. w ,oant cases about to come before the
£' Court of the United States, each of
T aW in test the constitutionality of the
enaction Acts. One ease, the trial o
Unexpected to begin very shortly, will
.'ilc the question «s to whether Virginia is
out of the Union. It is confidently bc-
U.I that the decision of the court will be
^• Virginia, is not now and never has been
L oj t heUnion, in which case the situation
i'j Southern States will be materially
bttgwT -
i0L UiiowNLow ON Bak ik.—In the Nash
, r luion and Dispatch, of Wednesday,
D .1 ,!m 11. Brownlow, sou of Parson Browu-
i fablidits a card, in which, on behalf of
' f, his father, and hit brother, he de
«3cott* unmitigated and infamous
l,; f>1 ) ” the statement of Detective Baker
i,.- ,,. t he Impeachment Committee in regard
D the letter purporting to have been written
1; Pn-sident Johnson to Mr. Davis. In the
itjan of Baksr’s testimony, as published in
L Washington Chronicle, Baker states that
Gov.Br wal.ov’s son employed a negro man
lo tike the letter off President Johnson’s
u !ch««Col. llrownlow’s denunciation of
FTt
President has signified his inteu-
: biQT present at the Eiglith-of-JanU'
i; ehrstion, to be given in Washington
'i: rfl.c'icr.icv. Ail the members of the
I Oi'in r d Grant are. invited : ids.,.
i. ; r !* Slierttian, Meade, Hancock, and
■ si the army, and lion. George II.
am, Chan. O’Conor, Governor Sey-
: f Connecticut, and one hundred and
La other prominent persons.
Washington, Dec. 28,1807.
Gen. Pope : s power has been very great, but
it is ntrv at an end. The same power that
made him, lias unmade him. The Pres
ident has removed him; and although
the official order making the change 1ms not
yet been promulgated, yet it will be made
public in a few days. His successor will be
either 'Jen. Meade, of Pennsylvania, or Gen,
Rousseau, of Kentucky. Either one of them
will bo acceptable to the people of Georgia
and Alabamn. Gen. Mcado is a pcifect gen
tleman ; a man of finished education and pol
ished manners, and a roan of enlarged mind-
and liberal views. So !»r ns the position of
commander of a military department is con
cerned, his sympathies will be entirely with
the citizens, and ho will frown down.any at
tempts on the part of the negroes and their
abettors to disturb the peace and prosperity
of society. He is a man who recognizes the
necessity of labor on the part of tbo laboring
classes, and you may depend upon it, be will
not tolerate idleness on tbepaTtof the blacks,
no matter what the excuse or pretext may
be.
As regards Gen. Rousscan, he is the beau
ideal of a Southern gentleman, and happy
will your people be if he is sent among you,
to mount tiie military throne which Congress
has set up. With Gen. Rousseau in command,
_ new day will dawn to the oppressed and
wronged citizens of Georgia, Alabama and
Florida. There will be no further danger of
negro riots, insurrections, or a war of races.
Gen. Rousseau will at once take the most strin
gent measures lor the detection and exposure
of all negro conspiracies; and every negro
who is found to have any connection with
such conspiracies will be at once disarmed.
Tbo blacks, too, will be made to go to work,
and all who do not labor will be treated as
vagrants. Born, reared and educated at the
South, Gen. Rousseau has viewed with indig
nation the many wrongs that have been
heaped upon the citizens of Georgia and her
sister States, and iff the President appoints
him to succeed Gen, Pope, (as it is most
likely he will do) he will at once sco that
those wrongs arc redressed. The military
government bills, of course, must be obeyed
But they do not authorize the blacks to cut
up the high didoes which they have been do
ing lately; and they place it within the pow
er of the military commander to adopt any
measures that he may deem proper to secure
the peace and good order of society, and to
develop the industrial resources of Ins de
part raent.
As regards Gen. Pope, the most serious
chargee of official misconduct are on file
against 1dm, and there is' no doubt that he
will be held to a strict accountability for all
his wrong-doings.
The latest and hast accounts received here
from Mexico represent the whole of that
country to be in a most deplorable state of
anarchy. Juarez is hated and despised by
three fourths of the people of Mexico, who
are rife for revolution, and only want leaders.
The insurrection at Yucatan is the most for
midable one that now exists, but there are one
or two others, of a very serious character, in
the northern and eastern parts of the empire.
The late Emperor Maximilian, and particu
larly the Empress Carlotta, did much for the
prosperity of Yucatan, and the enterprising’
and wealthy inhabitants of that populous
anti enterprisihg Mexican State will never
Oar New District .Commander.
The annexed sketch of Gen. Meade is taken
from the Baltimqj)« Sun :
‘‘Major General George G.Meade is the son
Of Consul R. W. Meade, and brother of Corc-
mandcr R. W. Meade of the United States
Navy. He was born at Cadiz, Spain, in 1816,
and graduated at West Point, June 30, 1835.
Entering tbo army as Second Lieutenant of
Artillery, he remained only about a year, and
having resigned liis commission in October,
1830,' lived in retirement nearly six years.
On the 10th of May, 1842, he received the
appointment of Second Lieutenant of Topo
graphical Engineers, and, in that capacity,
served through the Mexican war, distinguish
ing himself in the battles of Palo Alto and
Monterey. After passing through the inter
mediate grades, he attained the rank of Ma
jor in June, 1802, and was appointed Briga
dier General of volunteers in August of the
same year.
“Gen. Meade was at the battle of Mechan-
icsville. on the 2Gtb of June, 1802, and also
took part in that of Gaines’ Mill, on the next
day. A few days afterwards he was wounded
but not seriously. At the battle of Antie-
tam, September 7, 1802, he had two horses
killed under him, and was again slightly
wounded. In the battle of Fredericksburg,
iu December, 18G2, when the Union forces,
under Gen. Burnside, after severe fighting,
were defeated with great loss, Meade distin
guished himself by a display of courage, and
two days afterwards superseded Gen. Butter
field in the command of tho Fifth Army
Corps. On the 28th of June, 1803, General
Meade was appointed Commander-in-Chicf
of the Army of the Potomac. He com
menced his career in this capacity by defeat
ing tire Confederate forces under Gen. Long-
street at the battle of Gettysburg. This
success made him for a time the most popular
of Federal commanders, and he held l»is po
sition at the head of the Union forces until
the nomination of-General Grant, in April,
1804, as Commander-in-Chief.
“Meade served under Grant in his memor
able campaign against Richmond, and was
entrusted with one of the earliest f>f the im
portant operations—(he passage of tho Rapi-
dan—when, having been fiercely assailed by
Lee’s forces, he narrowly escaped utter defeat,
tho final charge of tho Confederates bavin
been rendered less effective by the wounding
of General Longstreet. After the close of the
war General Meade was assigned to the De
partment of the East, including the New
England States, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Fort Delaware, and had
his headquarters at Philadelphia. On the
10th of April, 1865, the Fenians having in
vaded-Canada, General Meade wont to East-
port, took command in person, and collected
troops at that point, and he also, acting under
General Grant’s orders, assigned General
Barry to the command of the frontier during
the second invasion, in the June following.
!i r ‘The Montgomery Mail says it is plain- rcz -
^tinted that Judge Busteed was the vic-
'■fa Radical conspiracy, of which Martin
> tut the instrument, and calls upon the
• military commander for an investigation.
«ts that Judge Busteed was opposed to
programme of Swayne & Co., and hence
Itnne desirable to kill him off, particular
's test case, involving the constitution-
|t-7 of tho Reconstruction Acts, was prepar-
’ for hij court, which the Radicals feared
s’tl be taken up to the Supreme Court
lier certain test case could be prepared
same tor the present term of the Supreme
I nt. The removal of Busteed and iuter-
--piion of liis court would, in all probabili-
t* a main feature in the work of preveot-
> xu appeal to the highest tribunal of the
1^1, and of defeating the attempt to subject
|L*- iraa to tho rule ot the Negro-Radical
nntr.
At-tx. n. Stephens.—The New York cor-
ndent of the Augusta Constitutionalist
’hat “the announcement that Mr. Ste-
I will visit some of the principal cities
- North and address the people upon the
of Southern affairs, has called out
: expressions of welcome from the press;
,ri tu aa undefined sense of prudence,
‘Xprissions are not so hearty, nor gen-.
« those which one hears in private
■ He is held in the highest respect; he
■^Mgerly listened to, and his words will
”• - ,f >od I'flect. I do not think that in
- i-'number of Southern statesmen there
-t who U so well understood and apprc-
11 Mr. Stephens, or wh'o can exert so
i a influence upon outclasses at the
I rt# *0neofthe Radical sheets of this State
I bitter upon the gloomy state of sf&tlrs
_ and especially financially, in our
'- : mmonwealth; but we look in vain for
|^ !: ~pucctious expressions indicative of
I ' * U the Radical course of action which
I I on our troubles. Perhaps, however,
I ' bor feels qualmish, and will manifest it
~S■ We are looking lor a change ot
" 5,1 that quarter.
^ Jhe New York Times says: “ Con
"** Msnmed control of tho whole
••a question. It denied and violently
t ^ ’’ ts <-‘nted and defeated the authority
“toExecutive attempted to iMert and
( ' Te rit. Rightly or wrongly, it took
°xn hands tbo whole business of
*- 8 the South —of providing such
*» will command confidence
< 0 ’h® peace, progress anil prosperity
Sootbcm States. And Congress must
•‘ u be held responsible for the results.”
"—~ 1 in
bn* recently dial in Bristol,
* llur ' D B a life of eighty-four
• aniniul food, and cu-
^ health all the time.
Conservative Meeting In Randoljih.
At a meeting of the citizens of Randolph
held at Cntbbert to day, A. L. Hamilton, D.
D., was called to the Chair, and W. D. Kid-
doo requested to act as Secretary.
A large number of “free persons of color”
were present, and seemed to be very much
interested in the proceedings of the meeting.
Judge Jqbn T. Clarke moved that the
Chairman appoint a committee of five to pre
pare business for the meeting. The motion
was carried; and the Chairman appointed
Judge Clarke, CoL H. n. Jones, James T.
Harden, David Goff and W. M. Tumlin the
committee, who, after a short absence, through
their Chairman, reported the following reso
lutions, which, after some remarks by Rev.
P..L. J. May, Richard Davis and Judge
Clarke, were adopted unanimously:
_ 1. Resolved, That, true to aur duty as cit-
. ,~ V’ , „ ,k„ I izeus and our oaths of amnesty, we acknowl-
forget- the obligations they are u - j c< j„ enone ^ our superiors in true loyalty to
ill staired pair. That State can never ” ( ' i rightful government of the United States,
subdued tiy Juarez. F.csides this, Ortega ns the principles of that government are dc-
and the Mexican chiefs arc preparing to fined in the Constitution of our fathers, and
the States ' that therefore we are opposed to all who
make war on the provisions of that sacred
make a powerful demonstration m
ot Monterey and San Luis Potosi against Jua-
It would not bo surprising, therefore,
if, in the course of a few weeks, that bloody
butcher should be driven from the capital.
At all events, it is certain that nothing like
a stable government is to be looked lor in
Mexico under the Republican fohn. v
It is a question which is exciting much in
terest here now whether gold is to fall lower,
on the 1st of January, or whether it will rise-
again to 140 or thereabouts. The Govern
ment will pay out about thirty millions of
dollars in gold coin about thnt date, and this
large sum thrown upon the market ought
naturally to cause a still further decline.
There would bo no question but that it would
do so, if it were not for the alleged fact that
this circumstance has been known anil ap
preciated, awl that it has caused the present
decline to 133. I do not think, however,
that this view of the case is sound; and I
expect, about the 8d of January, to see gold
down to 130, or even, perhaps, 128.
The recent atrocious conduct of the Fe
nians in England in blowing up prisons, and
in resorting to other infamies means for the
murder, in revenge, of innocent people, al
though it was for a time winked nt here, has
at last aroused public indignation hero against
them to such an extent that even their former
antt. recent organ, the Chronicle, has come
out strongly against them.
At present, and while their operations arc
confined to England, our Government cannot
interfere, and indeed there is no necessity for
interference, for tho English Government i~
abundantly able to crush out every Fenian
in England, which is a fate they seem to
court. But if Fenianism should ever again
become rampant in tho United States if the
Fenians hero should over undertake to set on
foot another expedition against Canada
they will find themselves squelched by the
strong arm of the Government, and the ring
leaders arrested and handed over to the Brit
ish Government for trial. The Administra
tion is determined that onr neutrality laws,
so far as they relate to Canada,sball be strictly
enforced in future.
The nrrivnl of the new British Minister, Sir
Edward Thornton, now shortly expected, is
anxiously looked for, and he will find, on his
arrival, all the co-operation he can desire in
repressing Fenian raids agaiDst Canada, and
Fenians movements directed against England.
The Fenian lenders henceforth will have to
conduct themselves with great circumspec
tion, if they wish to avoid arrest ai* a free
passage across the Atlantic. Warwick.
Irkkligion in Connecticut.—The Hal
ford Courant says that a canvass of their par
ishes, by the Congregational ministers of
Connecticut, shows that in one hundred
towns, at least ono-third of the families are
not in the habit of going to clinrch. What
has been the inducement! The man who at
tends a political caucus on Saturday night,
doon't want to hear another party harangue
on Sunday !
compact.
2. Resolved, That we heartily indorse the
manly and patriotic sentiments expressed by
the late Conservative Convention at Macon,
and that we pledge ourselves to do our ut
most to carry them into practical effect.
3. Resolved, That the Government of the
United StaK'S was designed by its ever vener
able founders to Jbe a white man’s govern
ment, and that it has always been so held,
and that we leel it n solemn duty, which we
owe to our revolutionary ancestors, to our
own generation, and to our unborn posterity,
as well as to tho negro himselt, who can only
use political power for the ruin of his o*vn
race and ours, to maintain it still a govern
ment in which the intelligence and patriot
ism of the white race shall be ever supreme.
4. Resolved, That for the more effectual
expression and advancement of these views,
we do now organize ourselves into a Club, to
be called the Randolph Conservative Union
Club, whose purpose it shall be to develop,
organize and bring to bear all possible peace
able opposition to the ratification of the Con
stitution and proceedings which shall be sub
mitted by the Reconstruction Convention
now sitting in Atlanta.
5. Resolved, That said Club shall be offi
cered os follows: a President, who shall be
ex-officio chairman of Executive Committee,
two Vice-Presidents, one Secretary, who shall
also act as Treasurer, and an Executive Com
mittee, composed of three citizens of tho
town district, who shall co-opcrate, when
practicable, with other members of the com-
f/s tee to be appointed, one from each mili-
m district in the county.
0. Resolved, That said Club shall be aux
iliary to the Central Conservative organiza
tion at Macon, to which the proceedings of
this meeting shall be forwarded.
Resolved, That the Chairman of this meet
ing shall forthwith appoint a committee of
five to consult and suggest suitable names for
the above named offices of said Club.
In compliance with the last resolution, the
Chairman appointed E. L. Douglass, Esq.,
Henry 31. Kaigler, Col. A. Hood, David L.
Ferguson and Allen Barber a committee to
suggest suitable names for 4ho offices of the
Club, which committee, through their chair
man, for permanent organization, suggested
for President, Judge John T. Clark; ’vme-
Presiclents, Richard Davis and L. C. bale;
Secretary, W. D. Kiddoo; Executive Com
mittee (central,) CoL H. H. Jones, W. H.
Brooks and Tlieo. E. Smith; 4th district,
Simon Wooten; 5th district, David Goff, Gtli
district, J. G. Ii. Watson; 7th district, John
W. Sealey; 9th district, Jas. T. Harden; lOtli
district, Singleton P. Thornton.
On motion of W. 31. Tumlin the report of
the committee was unanimously adopted. _
Judge Clarke offered the following which
was carried without a dissenting vote: .
Resolved, That we heartily sympathize
with those at the North who arc battling no
bly against Radicalism, and in favor of the
Constitution and our proper position in the
On motion of Col. Hood ,tbe proceedings
of this meeting were directed to be handed
to the Cuthbert Appeal and the 3Iacon pa
pers With a request that they publish the
same. . .
The meeting then, on motion, adjourned.
A. L. Hamilton, Chairman.
W. D. Kiddoo, Sec’y.
December 20, 1807.
A St. Thomas letter says that up to
the 2d ultimo there have been five hundred
shocks of earthquake felt there.
JEFFEB80X DAVIS.
A Pen Portrait of HI* Cliarocter, Official
an a Private, Pertonal and Intellectual.
The following graphic sketch of 3Ir. Da
vis, taken from the Pensacola (Fla.) Com
mercial, is attributed to Hon. S. R. 3Iallory,
late Confed^ate Secretary of the Navy:
3Ien in commanding positions, and ming
ling much with the world, readily acquire
ease and repose of manner, and a control,
more or less perfect, over their emotions, and
especially over all manifestations of surprise;
and we not unfrequently hear them say that
they are “surprised at nothing.”
This important defensive armor is habit
ually worn by 3Ir. Davis. Where and when
he acquired’it, whether when among his
Indian friends of the frontier, or among
Christian hypocrites, we know not, but lie
rarely goes without it. As Cliict of the Con
federate States, he could listen to the an
nouncement pf defeat while expecting, vic
tory, or to a foreign dispatch destructive to
hopes long cherished, or to whispers that old
friends were becoming cold or hostile, with
out exhibiting tho slightest evidence of feel
ing beyond a change of color, a tell-tale
which he could never entirely command, and
yet his sensibilities are extremely acute.
Under such circumstances, his language
temperate and bland, his voice calm and
gentle, and his whole person at rest, he pre
sented rather the appearance of a man
wearied and worn by care and labor, listening
to something that he knew all about, than ot
one receiving ruinous disclosures.. He fully
understood and appreciated the evils result
ing from hasty conclusions; aud, guided by
a stern conscientiousness, and schooled by
long mental discipline, liis irascible and ex
citable natnre rarely led him into inconside
rate action. Like an elegant,polished, liighly
finished, well poised and well cliargwl duel
ing pistol, whose hair trigger responds to the
slightest touch, he could be very readily fired,
but he never went off half-cocked. A look,
a word, nay, his own reflections, may cause
his color to change, his eyes to flash, and his
form to straighten up rigidly; but his lips
remained compressed until judgment opens
them.
He is usually regarded as a ready man
prompt in reaching conclusions and no less
prompt in acting upon them—an estimate of
bis character which is probably derived from
bis administration of the War Department
under President Pierce, and disseminated by
army people; and yet, by all who have ever
been associated with him in public affairs, he
is probably known to be singularly cautious,
if not procrastinating in these respects. ,
As President of the Southern Confederacy,
his zeal, industry and patience in whatever
he undertook wero conspicuous ; but lie
neither labored with method or celerity.him
self, nor aided others to do so for him.—
Whatever engaged his attention, however un
important, was thorough and critically ex
amined ; and, while from this well understood
habit, his opinions upon matters which he
had investigated commanded great respect
among his friends, they daily saw that affairs
of moment were delayed, not only because
lie habitually undertook more labor tlion be
could accomplish, but that much of bis time
was given to details.
3Iilitary life, in all its phases, had for him
a peculiar charm; and military affairs, how
ever minute, rarely failed to command his
patient industry, whatever might be the
claims of other matters upon it. No labors
of the War office were too small for his at
tention, and appointments and promotions
of officers, questions of rank, military law
and usages, routine, etc., very often engrossed
it, notwithstanding his entire confidence in
the experience and judgment ot .the Adjutant
General, Cooper, upon all subjects.
The amount of attention which he habitu
ally bestowed upon details which are usually
devolved upon subordinates, surprised all who
were familiar with his habits; and his ex
alted sense of justice, and his desire not only
to be right, put to so act as to render it im
possible to be wrong, were as visible in these
as in matters of the first importance.
Letters from afflicted mothers, relieving
their hearts by telling him of the virtues of
sons just fallen in battle; complaints of
friendless soldiers, demanding at his hands
justice for wrongs inflicted by those in au
thority ; application^ for pardon or commu
tation of sentence; petitions of wives lor the
release of conscripted husbands, or from
lariuers for the restoration of impressed
stock, were in numerous instances read, their
merits carefully considered, aud respfinded
to by him; and when the applicant for jus
tice was evidently friendless, he rarely lost
sight of the case, or devolved its adjustment
upon others.
A vast amount of such business, which
might well have been referred for final ac
tion to a bureau officer and promptly dis
patch,*. encumbered his table and occupied
his attrition. It seemed impossible for him
to'resist appeals upon his time from friendless
women or the wronged soldier; and whether
they found him at his office, or in the midst
of his family, they were beard patiently and
answered kindly. With such habits, com
bined and methodical labor with him was
impracticable, though he worked unceas-
iagly. . .
His Cabinet officers were in the.habit, in
dividually, of conferring with him almost
•daily, and he usually assembled them twice
or three times a week for consultation. These
meetings occupied from two to five hours,
longer than was required for the thorough
examination and solution ol tho principles
and chief features of current public measures
and business; but from liis tendency to
digression, to slide away from the chief
points to episodical questions, the amount ot
business accomplished bore but little relation
to tho time consumed; and not unfrequently
a Cabinet meeting would exhaust four or five
hours without determining anything, while
tho desk of every chief of a department was
covered Midi papers demanding bis atten
tion.
If to Mr. Davi.-' unyielding will and energy,
his truth and justice, his knowledge of men
and of public affairs, bis patience and in
dustry, hir analytical mind and comprehen
sive judgment were united, the business
habits of an activo merchant or commercial
law advocate, hisability and usefulness as the
chief of a great enterprise or the head of a
people would find few parallels in history.
Whether with his xiecnliar mental and
moral combination, his absorbing desire to
attain an exact fitness, consistency and cor
respondence to all that he attempts, liis dis
position to analyze and exhaust, not only the
probable, but the possible arguments upon
subjects under consideration, any other train-
in" than that which he received, could have
taught him tho just value and economy of
time, as an element in tbe nflairs ol this ra-
pid age, we are not prepared to say; but cer
tain it is, that the discipline of West Point,
his transfer thence to the Indian frontier, his
plantation, political and Congressional life,
were not of the best training for the purpose.
So 'well was liis habit with regard to . time
understood in Richmond that punctuality in
meeting it was rarely expected Irom his en
gagements.
Though apparently cold and exclusive, Mr.
Davis is naturally genial and sympathetic;
and few men prove more attractive in private
society. No man delighted.more to relieve
bis burtbened heart and mind by pleaeant
conservation upon general, subjects,, a taste
which the seclusion of a cabinet meeting and
the presence ot trusted friends prompted him
frequently to gratify; and, .up on suc h oc-
oocinnc nirlpfl hv the inspiration of a
casions, aided by the inspiration
rambling pleasantly over other fields than
tbo^c of public affairs, his conversation and
manner were extremely engaging. His ex
tensive reading and retentive memory, his
accurate observation and acquaintance with
distinguished or noted men, fiis knowledge
of lif£ fiom tbe backwoodsmau's hut to the
halls of Senates aud Cabinets, were never at
fault for striking illustrations of every sub
ject presented. Experiences in the army, on
the great plains, anilin3Iexico; life, civilized
and savage, from the Indian’s lodge to the
salons of fashion; sympathy . with the rich
and great, had stored his mind with a vast
fund of useful knowledge, sprightly informa
tion and amusing anecdote, which a genial
nature, a ready perception of himor, rare
powers of imitation, and a voice full-of
pleasant inflexions, so presented that few
could be in his society at ruch times without
deriving pleasure and information.
He is a good judge of men; and from in
dications which often escape the observations
of others, 1m frequently determines the gen
eral designs of those with whom he is broug'bt
into contact before they have had time to
become reserved. His knowledge, of the
habits of men in different walks of life, their
modes of thought and expression, and pecu
liarity of language, is remarkable; and ena
bles him to bring himself at once to the level of
those with whom he converses,to use their own
familiar phrases and figures, arid to be thor
oughly with them—aspecicsofflattery which
ratifies, and is apt to make them communi
cative. In conversing with an intelligent
English gentleman upon the history, laws,
literature, constitution, or public men of Great
Britain, the purity and elegance of his lan
guage, no less than .the accuracy and extent
of his information,^uever failedFi' surprise;
while the men reared in our "Western or
Southwestern States, upon the frontier or
upon the Mississippi, were ever glad to ta’k
with him, not only because his knowledge
wa3 equal to their own upon their favorite
topics, but because his language, his images
and metaphors were such as they had ever
been accustomed to.
He was a favorite with all the children,
whom he never failed to interest; and his
own regarded him as their pleasantest play
mate.
Mr. Davis’ relations with tlm members of
Congress, from and after the first year of the
war, were not what the interests of the coun
try required. Details upon this subject we
will not give; but, in justice to him, it is
proper to say that, if coldness, misunder
standings, or misrepresentations frequently
followed his intercourse with them, it was
not because he was not ardently urging the
prosecution of the war with the utmost vigor.
In a body so large as that comprising both
houses of Congress there were found, of
course, some men with ivhom public was su
bordinate to private interest; and some whose
zeal for the public welfare was mingled with
selfish considerations. A wound to their
self-esteem told upon their action in public
affairs, and Mr. Davis’ sins in this respect to
wards them, real or imaginary, were seen in
their votes and speeches. .
His business office, and the one in which
he assembled liis Cabinet, was a small room
in the Treasury at Richmond not exceeding
twenty four by eighteen feet in length and
breadth, furnished with a plain writing table
a few chairs, and its walls covered with maps.
A messenger at tbe closed door received and
delivered the cards or messages of visitors;
and immediately opposite this door, anil
only some six-feet from it, was the office ot
the four gentlemen composing his personal
staff, whoso intercourse with him was unre
stricted, and one or two of whom were always
in attendance. A portion of every morning
was given to visitors, and many called by
gpecial appointment at other hours. To r-11
who came upoD public business, to increase
the army, create supplies, or to.advance the
success of the war, he listened with attention
and was ever ready to receive their views;
but the proportions of these. to the number
who came with personal or selfish objects, or
with “axes to grind” was small; and towards
these bis impatience was frequently irrepres
sible. . . ,, ,
Men in high official positions, compelled
at times to listen to all who may choose to
call upon them, very soon discover that, not
only is self-interest too often the object of
those who who crowd their reception rooms
to the delay of public business, but that in
their eager* pursuit of it, impudence, arro
gance and conceit are but thinly disguised
under protestations of patriotism. A. few
years of such experience of human nature
impresses a peculiar stamp upon a man’s
feelings and demeanor in his intercourse with
his fellows; and, however unsuspecting and
sympathetic may have been bis nature upon
the assumption of his office, he .leaves it with
his estimate of mankind materially changed;
and be detects himself suspecting a “cloak,”
and peering about for the “axe”, whenever
“patriots” approach him.
Mr. Davis’ manner of receiving visitors at
times showed that he liad bad much ex
perience in public office. Few men could lie
more chillingly, lreezingly cold. Those who
came without special appointment, usually
found him engaged with a mass of manu
script papers before him, telling as plainly ot
his occupation as liis formal and scanty
courtesy did of the importance of his time
and his sense of its interruption. There was
no waste of words, no ignoring of his pre
occupation, few generalities; and, irf spite of
any amount of self-complacency, sensible
men soon felt they knew not exactly why or
how, that it was wrong to engross his time if
they could, while bores were convinced that
they could not engross it if they would,, and
tlieir stay was generally brief, his face yield
ing its only approach to a smile when he saw
them depart.
I have said that his relations with member,
of Congress were not what they should havi
been. Towards them, as towards the world
generally, he wore his personal opinions very
openly. Position and opportunity presented
him every means of cultivating the personal
good-will of members by little acts of atten
tion, courtesy or deference which no man
however high his position, who has to work
by means ot bis fellows, can dispense with.
Great minds can, in spite of the absence of
these demonstrations toward them in a leader,
nay, in the face of neglect or apparent disre
spect, go on steadily and bravely with a
single eye to the public welfare; but the
number of these, injeomparison to those who
are more or less governed by personal con
siderations in the discharge of their public
duties, is small.
While he was ever frank and cordial to his
friends, and to all whom lie believed to be
embarked heart and soul in the cause of
Southern independence, he would not, and
we think, could not, sacrifice a smile, an in
flection of the voice, or a demonstration of at
tention to flatter the self-love of any in or
out of Congress, who did not stand in this
relation. Acting himself for the public wel
fare, regardless of self or opinions of others,
he placed too light a value upon the thou
sand nameless influences by which he might
linvo brought others up, apparently, to liis
own moral standard. By members of Con
gross who had to see him on business, ids
manner to or reception of them were frequent
ly complained of, and pronounced ungra
cious or irritable. They frequently, in tlieir
anxiety amidst, public disaster, called upon
him to urge plans, suggestions, or views on
the conduct of tlm war, or for tho attainment
of peace, and often pressed matters upou him
which he had very carefully considered, and
for which he alone was responsible.
Often in such cases, though he listened to
all they had to say, why, for example,, some
man should be made a Brigadier, 3Iajor or
Lieutenant'General, or placed at tbe head of
an army, and in return calmly and precisely
stated his reasons against the measure, lie
rarely satisfied or convinced them, simply’ be
cause in his manner and language combined
there was just an indescribable something
which offended their self-esteem, and left
their judgment room to find fault with him.
Some of his best friends left him at times
with feelings bordering closely upon anger
from this cause, and with a determination,
hastily formed, of calling no more upon him;
and some of the most sensible, prudent, calm
and patriotic men of both houses, were alien
ated from him more or less from this cause.
The counsel of judicious friends upon this
subject, a3 to a more unrestrained intercourse
between him and the members of the Senate
and House, was vainly exerted. His manly,
fearless, true and noblo nature turned from
what to him wore the faintest approach to
seeking popularity; he scorned.to believe it
necessary to coax men to do their duty in the
then condition of their country.
ST" Fred. Douglass was indignant because
a Connecticut landlord wouldn’t allow him at
the public table, aud ate his meals in liis own
room and in wrath.
The Dast Order from Gen. Pope.
Below, from the Era, we give the order of
Gen. Pope relinquWiing and of Gen. Sibley
assuming command of the Third Military
District:
[official.]
Headq’rs Third Military District, )
(Georgia, Alabama and Florida,). V
Atlanta, Georgia, Jun. 1, 1800. )
General Orders-No. 1.
I, In compliance with paragraph III, Gen
eral Orders No. 103, from Headquarters of
the Army, dated December 28, 1SG7, the un
dersigned relinquishes command of the Third
Military District, and Department ot Georgia,
Florida and Alabama, to Brevet Brigadier
General Caleb C. Sibley, Colonel 10th U. S.
Infantry.
n. To the- officers of bis Staff, the. Com
manding General desires to express his sin
cere thanks, for their hearty and cheerful
support, in performance of the complicated
and delicate duties to which he was called,
aDd his Jively appreciation of the ability and
promptitude <xhibitecT by them in execution
of the many important trusts committed to
tlieir charge. JonN Pope,
Brevet 3lajor General U. S. A.
Official: H. Clay Vi'ood,
Assistant Adjutant General.
[JrluLlAu.J
mi Military District, )
labama aud Florida,f !•
rgia, J inuary 1, 1868. )
[official.]
Headq’rs Tnrm>
(Georgia, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia, 7
General Orders No. 2:
I. In compliance with paragraph 1, of Gen
eral orders No 1, from these Headquarters, of
this date, tbe undersigned assumes command
of the Third Military District, and Depart
ment of Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
II. Existing orders will remain in force,
and all officers on Staff duty at these Head
quarters of the District will continue in th*
performance, ot their customary duties until
otherwise ordered. Caleb C. Sibley,
Colonel U. S. Infantry,
Brevet Brig. Gen. U. S. Army.
Official: H. Clay 'Wood,
Assistant Adjutant General.
“Abut.Eyasit, Euupuit—John Pope.”—
The departing train ot yesterday morning
took hence Brevet 3Iajor General John Pope,
U. S. A., lately a resilient of the territory of
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and several
staff attaches. The remains (for we insist that
he is dead—decidedly the deadest man on
this continent) were borne to the cars by a
cortege consisting of a very few very melon-
choly looking friends, u so-called,’’ and. tlie
fine military band which has for some months
adorned his court. The musical, feature ot
the solemn occasion made a prodigious effort
to be “inspiriting,” but there was no eager,
expectant multitude, no wild toeing of bats,
shaking of handkerchiefs, and mad clamors
for standing room to catch a last, lingering
"lance of the beneficent countenance of t ue
Separting hero. The usual number of puss-
en"ers on the occasion of a departing tram,
the officers of the post, hotel porters, &c.,
had all the show to themselves. No one was
crowded off the sidewalk, or from the car
shed. He was tenderly armed to a seat in
the hindmost passenger coach, the whistle
tooted, and the dear memories of film ot
“the saddle” alone remain to us now !—At
lanta Intel., 3<L
r An outbreak at Whitesville, Harris
county, Ga., is thus described by a correspon
dent of the Columbus Enquirer:
For some time there has been a society,
Union League, or something of the kind,
composed of negro men, heie. Tdl recently
they have harmed no one, nor has any one
harmed them. Frequently they have ap
peared in uniforms, or with their badges,
marching up and down the streets., with drum
and file, going through the military drills.
The Postmaster, a very aged man, has a
great dislike 'for such displays, and on a
former occasion had let them know it. On
Christmas day the negroes were-marching
by the office, and, with gun ip hand, he called
on them to halt. The gun vrtis charged and
the hammer raised. They took it from bun
and shot it off, throwing him down at the
same time, and made some boastful remarks
obout it. While no one justified the old
man, every one felt Indignant ut me treat
ment he ti at received.
The next day the society again formed at
the usual place of meeting, aud marched to
ward the business part of town. Frank Da
venport, a white man, quite intoxicated, rode
up the street, meeting the negroes, and en
couraged them to come on, that lie wou.d
lead them. He then turne 1 and rode at full
speed, forcing his horse into a store. This
intensified the excitement, and was regarded
by many of the citizens as the outburst of
hostilities, and a fixed purpose on the part of
the Leaguers to overrun the place. Earnest
efforts were made on the part of the citizens
to stop the disturbance. Davenport dis
mounted in front of the house, but could not
bo pacified. James Lyle and others tried to
reason with him, but he was furious. At
this time he received a gun at the hands ot a
mulatto, one of the principal men of the so«i-
ety ; with this he shot Lyle, wounding him
in the arm ; Lyle shot also, killing Davenport
instantly. The negroes fled in every direc
tion, and order was restored.
Gin House Burnt.—A few days since,
the gin house of 3Irs. Thornton of our city,
in Stewart County, was destroyed by fire, to
other with some fifteen bales of cotton,
which had been attached for rent and the
building nailed up. The villain who perpe
trated the act applied fire to the lint room,
aad building and contents are a total loss.
[Cuthbert Appeal.
|gp Tbe Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel says no
white, man- can travel tho roads, after dark
without imminent danger to his life from
lawless bands of armed negroes, and calls
upon the military authorities to put an
eud to this tcrrihle state of affairs.
The Haul—Bead wliat Elder D. T. Taylor, o
Bouse’* Point, N. Y., says on the hair. “The hu
man hair, bleached by age, fright or disease, can
be fully restored to its natural color without dye
ing it. My case illustrates this statement •• truth
fully. My hair for seventeen years has been grad
ually growing white and falling out; but, lo! in a
short time I have back my old auburn locks. My
lmir is as firm as when young: this has been ac
complished by theuse ot Hall’s 3 egetable Sieiliau
flair Renewcr. It dots its work rapidly, is cool
ing, healing, and, in my case effectually, without
harm to brain, body, orgeneral health; this cannot
be said ot anv other iircoaration sold. I do not
know the wondcrtul ingredients, but I do know
experimentally, and by observation in a score of
eases, that it is a most marvelously transforming
compound. Heads of sixty five are changed by it
to the color of youth.” The proprietors, R. P.
Hall & Co., Nashua, N. H., will sell to clergymen
at wholesale prices.
JSfLiszt, the pianist and priest, is de
scribed as having a face livid and apparently
bare offiesh, lighted up with strangely deep
eyes, and surrounded by long, grizzly hair.
His dress is that of the Catholic dignitary
which he holds.
TnE Angola Disaster.—Buffalo, Decem-
ber 31.—The coroner’s inquest into the cause
of the late railroad disaster at Angola, after
eleven days’ investigation, concluded its
labors this evening. The jury was composed
of some of the most intelligent business men
of the city. A thorough and search in" inves
tigation was made. Forty-two witnesses
were examined, and the result of tlieir inqui
ries is that the accident was caused by a bent
axle of the Cleveland and Toledo car -1—the
car that was burned—causing the wheel on
that truck to drop into the wrong rail, thus
throwing the wheels of that truck, and sub
sequently the whole car, off the track-and
that there were forty persons in all killed
therebv. The jury also recommended the
adoption and enforcement of a more thorough
system of gauging tbe wheels of cars so as to
prevent an fmperfect wheel or axle being
made the cause of disasters in the future.
Suffrage—Universal and Impartial.
The New York Times, (Republican.) in an
answer to the Tribune's article on the aboye
subject, says:
We believe that Congress ought to adopt a
policy on this question ol negro suffrage
which will command the assent oj the States
which are to be most directly and seriously
affected by it; one, we mean, which the great
body of the whites in those States will accept
as substantially just, as in accordance with
thv'necessities of the times and consistent with
the public peace and prosperity. The Radical
element insists upon a policy which shall en
counter the hostility of those communities;
they insist on regarding the whole question
as one of force and conquest, not of concert
and concurrence; and any policy which the
Southern States would accept would encoun
ter their opposition lrom that very circum
stance. This is not the road to peace nor to
reunion. It tends directly to conflicts, alike
of races and of sections, and is far more likely
to thro w the nation into the chaos of a fresh
civil war than to repair the losses, anil secure
the results, of that from which it has just
emerged.
An impartial rule of suffrage—a rule which
should require certain qualifications for the
exercise of political power, and confer that
power upon all who should possess them,
would, we believe, secure the assent of a
large part of the people of the Southern
States. It would, at all events, be just,
beneficient and wise, and would be much
more likely to be accepted by the South than
the rule prescribe*! by Congress, in which
suffrage for the blacks i9 universal, while for
the whites it is clogged with conditions which
effect a large disfranchisement.
Now we agree with the Tribune in believ
ing that this question is to enter largely into
the Presidential canvass. It cannot be
“ evaded or ignored”—nor have we any “ de
vice” or purpose of trying to do cither. But
we should like to see it presented in a shape
which will make it defensible on principle,
and at the same time stand a reasonable
chance of success. As it stands now the po
sition of the Republican party has neither
recommendation. It is uttcrlj impossible to
vindicate, upon any sound and accepted
theory of republican government, tiie policy
of giving univt rsal suffrage to the four million
blacks just freed from slavery, while it is
denied to the whites who live among them;
and to our minds it is equally clear that such
a policy will not be supported by the popu
lar vote in the coming canvass.
The Tribune would render the Republican
party and tbe country an essential service by
insisting upon the adoption of the impartial
suffrage which it pretends to prefer, for the
universal suffrage to which the party in Con
gress now stands committed.
In another article on “Presidential Pros
pects,” the same paper says:
As things stand to day, with universal n*-
gro suffrage to be forced upon the Southern
States by military power as the condition of
their restoration to the Union, and in the un
certain tone and temper of the Republican
party on the financial questions before the
country, the “prospect of a Republican de
feat” is not only “reasonable,” but it may be
called brilliant. What Congress may do to
change it remaius to be seen; but if the Na
tional Convention takes up tbo party juBt
where it stands now—if it adopts a Radical
platform and nominates a Radical candidate
—we venture the prediction that it will be
beaten more disastrously than the Whigs
were iu 1852, or than the Democrats were in
I860. 3Iainc, Massachusetts. Vermont and
3Iiebigan may vote for a Radical President
on a Radical platform; it would be rash to
place reliance upon any other Northern or
Western State.
The Poughkepsie Eagle, like a good many
other partisans, thinks that the mere name of
the Republican party, backed by the prestige
it acquired during the war, is certain to
sweep everything before it. The late elec
tions ought to have taught these believers in
hereditary politics a lesson on some value—
and would, if they were capable of learning
it. But evidently they are not. They think
aD issue which was good in 1864 must necea !
sarily be equally good in 1808. They forget
that all those issues have been settled. They
no longer demand public action or command
public attention. The rebellion is quelled.
The States then in arms against the Union are
now most anxious to return to it. There is
no question of slavery pending—for slavery
itself has been extirpated; and neither Wen
dell Phillips, nor Mr. Sumner, nor any other
man can make the people of this country
believe that the contest of next year is to
involve the same issues and the same interests
us did the contest three years ago—or that
the party which triumphed then must of
necessity triumph now.
The leaders of the Republican party must
realize the tact that new issues have arisen—
new questions of public policy demand solu
tion—new interests and new necessities will
enter into the Presidential canvass of next
■ year. If they meet them wisely, they may
maintain the ascendancy of the Republican
party. If they refuse to recognise or to ap
preciate them—if they persist in clinging^ to
issues that are already settled, or in forcing
others for which the country is not prepared,
they will certainly be forced to give placc to
men more in harmony to tho age in which
they live. If the Republicans will content
themselves with holding the ground they
won by the war, and will take as their can
didate the man who did the inost to help
them win it, they can carry the Presidential
election; if not, they can’t. Even Gen. Grant,
on an ultra Radical platform, would be
beaten by Gen. Hancock on a platform which
should recognize the real achievements and
results of the war, provide wisely for such an
extension of rights and political power as
the necessities of the day demand, and _ re
store the Union on the basis of the Constitu
tion and in the spirit of harmony in which it
was formed.
“ Tfie Irrepressible ” Jugg'ed.
That pestilent, pettifogging, perambula
ting nuisance, Aarcn Alpeoria Bradley, has
at last fallen into the hands of the Philis
tines.
• The facts in the case, as we have learned
them, are as follows:
Yesterday evenin" as 31r. John Jl. Hayes,
editor of the Republican, was walking down
the Bay with a friend, Bradley met him aud
commenced talking about what lie called the
abuse of himself w hich appeared in the Re
publican yesterday morning. 3lr. Hajes ask
ed liim how he dared to speak to him, and
ordered him to leave or he would have no
more scruples in shooting him than he would
a skunk.
Bradley withdrew, and 3Ir. H. passed on to
his office. In a few minutes Bradley came lo
the window, accompanied by several negroes,
shook his fist at Mr. H., cursed him anri
dared him to come out on the streo*- Mr.
II. paid no attention to him, !>“*» as 5le was
becoming very violent, Mr. E. L. Beard went
out and ordered him off.
3Ir. Hayes then went to the Exchange to
get a policeman to arrest this disturber of
the peace, and on returning to his office saw
Bradley coming up from under the bluff with
about a dozen negroes following him. Brad
ley called out to him to come across the
street and see whether he would do any shoot
ing, at the same tine partially drawing a
pistol aud cursing and abusing him roundly.
At this time 31r. James Stewart, Clerk ot
Council, and 3Ir. Thomas S. Wayne, City
3Iarshal, came out of the Exchange, an.4
Bradley made good time up the Bay. They
followed him and arrested him near the corner
of Bryan and Whitaker streets. Some of the
ne"roes became quite excited and demanded
that he should be taken before Capt. Cook,
where tbev said they could get justice.
Bradley’was taken to the Police Barracks.
Oil searching him a Colt's navy revolver,
fully loaded, was found on him, together
w ith a large roll of greenbacks and other ar
ticles. He seemed very loth to part with a
memorandum book, which may probably
contain some information which lie would
not like to have known. He will probably
appear before the Mayor this morning.
[Savannah Advertiser, 4tA.