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The Greorgia, Weehly Telegraph.
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17, 1868.
• n«rTntiToC ,al> has been formed
,f^ nty w ith the followingofficere:
Bosley Hawes, President,
t *ie Secretary. .
* 'co L. W1 there, Cliair-
I Strother, Secretary; AlexMder
* yy Barksdale, Wm. F. Strother,
P. W. Sale* Edmund Jlnr-
■, Nathan C. Crawford, Jas.
‘TV rellara, and Jas. W. Birch.
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litf Marshal of Atlanta has
' toil to postpone, for thirty days,
*"•*property advertised •<> bo sold for
^'lusilav, 7th lust. ‘ The legality of
: UE’.ption of property sold for
' i '\ ,beca questioned by several of
: of that city.
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OUll PLANTING INTERESTS.
In the y ear 1SGC our corn crop was a fail
ure, and distress stalked through many ofour
sections with gaunt and lowering mien. To
prevent ft mine the hand of aid was stretcliod
out and gilts dispensed lavishly. Eighteen
and sixty six rolled away, and men thought
eighteen and sixty-seven would bring pros
perity tc a poverty-smitten people. The
gleaming ploughshare was to open up the
treasures of earth, and a flcecv harvest was
pemmler II. Stephens, of Geor-
Philadelphia that his phy-
.. is very feeble and that be is
1( times to sit up in bed.
lV _\Yo learn from a dispatch to
Press A Times, what the plau
" ' . ,;, e Convention Hopes to raiso
*'. V j-jj,imply this: “It proposes to is-
v poti-sou its own authority to meet
’ , ailer how that’ll work T” as Devil
yflnrcreor Bullock, the Republican
L, c f Massachusetts, in his message,
, rsHuded t<> hy telegraph, said: “Wo
--member that there are millions ot the
L^ci who cannot and must not always
' ji ae ,j in the position of abject Iocs;
^ whose productive labor is necessary
discharge of national obligations
nun never he repudiated, and whose |
j will and co-operation arc essential to
Litis and tboiough reunion. Let us,
L no more of confiscation and at-
,;.r for the Southern masses."
[B Removal op General Pope.—The
tiw, ,ton correspondent of the New 3 ork
^,1, writing to that journal under date of
fa letters were exchanged between
iW-icat and General Grant on the sub-
4 lie icmoval oi General Pope from the
-lid in Georgia. It is provable that
'rariK* were ot the same opinion os to
ioissity of such a measure, and therefore
iiconsuinmatod ns a matter of coarse.
The Boston Bank robbery Preston, so
titilly arrested in Charleston, will
: iastalled iu a Bay State penitentiary,
4 :njji>iueu front the Governor of Mns-
Kttl
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la PaorosKU Loan to the South.—
llssbingtOD Chronicle, of Friday, says:
hsderstand that Gen. Howard, yester-
uiilrtsseil an ollicial communication to
KB reference to the alleged destitution
•<: iiithem States, and that be dissents
i current opinion in regard to the extent
> destitution actually existing, and also
itbeplins proposed by Southerners re
sumed in this city for its relief. He
soccuisnto notice the fact that Mr.
l Whilcr, of South Carolina, had recently
Tfdkreus committee appointed by the
trei*ofSmitii Carolina, asking him to
iiiiifloence in securing a loan from the
nwot to the amount of $30,000,000,
Ian to be secured by a preferred lien
it creps and mortgages of estates,
it Gm. II. tine* not deny That, great dcsti-
™ 'ii'-cxi-t in some localities, he ex
" • ;>inion that the suffering of the
i f -• ken exaggerated by certain jmr-
* ■ ■‘>oto the piuii ef reconstruction now
t -n^wad l>y others honest in their in-
J. <« imposed on by designed tnis-
• .tstiotis of the facts.”
- Threatened Radical Invasion
--Tire New York Journal of Com-
*'ipresses the hope that the proposed
Bttlcr and some of Iris Radical eol-
■'■'’ the S lutljcrn States, on a lecturing
; ihj abandoned. The editor well
r the whites nor the blacks are in
■t.i receive stones, when they are
Slot bread; und if anything could
’* B the patience of hungry men, it
-«the repetition of such harangues as
! K 'f bis friends arc accustomed to de-
I the North.
_ Washington correspondent states
twal Grant quietly suggested to Gcn-
vard that ho would do well to dis-
,£ ty officer of the Freedmcn’s Bureau
-•procured hi* own nomination for a
ation in the South. The order has
■ted.
-•■a- Instructions.—The following is
•« of the dispatch from Senator Slier-
“• Hopkins, member of tho Gcor-
Radical Convention
tStates Sknate Chamber,
a "asbtugtoD, Jan. 0, 18C8. I
■ 1 don \ *00 how it is possible for
iha ® °f the Convention to
• ground of fear from the opponents
®° o^oad; Congress will
•w* that is necessary for
1 ;‘® n *. What do you want? You
„ ltvi7 10 7 0Urown hands. If artdi-
iJfi .. c ceded, state what it is,
"'mlbe furnished.
\ery truly, yours,
r it „ John Sherman.
**• Borwxs, Esq.
- L, Dalton, private Sec-
' wtrnor Patton, of Alabama, has
^Hshington to protest against tho
^*^00 of the Rump plans of rtcon-
Grant.—Gen. Butler spoke
i '.semination of Grant at the sol-
; n, ?ln Washington, on tlio 8tli in
proposition to hold a separate
carried by one vote.
* fire De;
partment has been organized
Georgia Republican is
ju/7® n P on idea that the white
‘toor to the black.
Association in Chatham
11 D - Arnold, 31. D.-
8. Clagborn, Jolin F.
iVt A. fiercer, John Gaminell,
^«» r geP. Harrison. Secretary;
Bag"
paid, before quit-
W.ykyco, all thecWms on the
h
fit
•••-■ Inswardrobe (oldclothes?)
are l e a show, twenty-five
"fi-Rrunf vw y moderate price, in-
Kj, sunounccs,
,, in Herald of the 4th inst.
tbr(.r• informed that in our
^'^atlief* 0 ” 8 ^ ave died from
abundantly to reward the husbandman for
his toil.
Surely, it was thought, two unpropitious
years con d not elapse in succession ! And
so, many hired numbers of freedmen at high
prices and went largely into the business of
planting :otton, boping confidently that tho
sales of A itumn would make purses plethoric
relieve from all embarrassment, and wreathe
the count mancc in smiles of satisfaction
The Sp ring comes smilingly, and the warm
months lollow, and all are buoyant. .“IIow
much corn have you planted i” “Oh ! enough
to do. I’ re planted a big cotton crop.” At
a smile of slight amazement the respondent
continues: “You sec, at the present prices of
cotton we can afford to buy corn and meat.
At all cvci its, I shall make a bold dash for
fortune and run the risk. If I succeed, I’m a
made man; if I fail, I will be ruined.”
The rnoatbs glide by, and a smiling Provi
dence blesses the corn crop with propitious
showers, i.nd tho acres planted yield abun
dantly; but they can do no more. The hot
suns of July and August, assisted by the
showers of Heaven, make tho cotton plauts
spring forth luxuriantly, and joyous counte
nances betoken glad anticipation.
“ How are your crops ?”
“Fiue. 3Iy corn is made; and, for the
ground planted, is an excellent crop. My
cotton is doing splendidly, and I expect to
make three hundred bales.”
“ That’s a large crop for your force.”
“I,know it; but I didn’t plant much corn.
I planted nearly all cotton.”
The weeks continue to wane, and the corn
crop is harvested, and proves barely sufficient
to last tho year out. Indeed, many were com
pelled to buy corn and meat long before
Christmas. Some abandoned their planta
tions because they could not feed the mules
and laborers. Others gnvc their crops to
those who would support the negroes and
mules while they worked. All felt the folly
of putting too much cottou and too little
grain in tho ground.
“How is it with you now»”
“I’ve come to town to see if I cannot get
iny factors to help me.”
“ Why, I thought you drew on your crop
last Spring, to enable you to operate success
fully till tho corn was made!”
“So I did. But my corn has given out
sooner than I expected. And if I do not get
more help, I shall have to turn off my hands
for want of food for them.”
The factors came to the rescue nobly, nnd,
generally, the cotton crop was made, each
planter, so to speak, having mortgaged his
crop to pay his indebtedness. And now the
year’s end approaches—the price of cotton
glides downward with an ominous surge,
and tho plaster’s face becomes wrapped in
gloomy apprehension. The tax collector
swoops down and, lo! an awful diminution
occurs in the expected profits on cotton.
Corn cribs and meat houses are becoming
empty; settlement day witli the freedmen
approaches: the factors are calling for the
payment of their advances; the planters have
no money, the crop has not turned out as
Well as expected, and, bvery day, necessities
press; wliil; oil the time the price of cotton
is descending lower nnd lower. Where large
crops have been made it does not pay to
gather it, und it is allowed to rot in the
field. The infernal cotton tax takes more
from the planter tlian he can hope to make,
after payin 5 expenses. His anticipated pro
fits arc mil us—doubly minus. The more he
lias made t le worse off he is. He gets for
his cotton what would have been equivalent
to five cents in old times, while his expenses
have been enormous.
“What are you going to do ?”
“Sell out and quit; or rent out my planta
tion. I hare nothing with which to begin
another year.”
“No corn ?” “None.” “No meat t” “None
tospeak ol.” “Money?” “I am deeply in
debt to my factors and merchants. I can
buy provisions nnd jmy the high prices for
negro hire, and so I shall sell out and quit
•‘And you?”
“Oh,” replies another, “I was only running
a plantation for one year, intending to make
a large crop, sell it and pocket tho proceeds,
I’m done.”
“How did you come out?”
“I’m broke. I put in all I had and lost it
“And what are you going to do ?”
“Well,” replies still another, “Fvo sold
nearly all my mules and cows and bogs, and
whatever else I could spare, have cut up my
plantation into small farms and rented them
out to different parties, reserving only two or
three hundred acres for myself, which I have
sown down in small grain. I find from sad
experience that wo farmers have made a la
mentable mistako, in neglecting to raise pro
visions and make meat I find that with free
labor we can’t afford to raise cotton at the
“We must tense eudeavoriug to conduct
large plantations, und operate on a smaller,
more successful, and, I may say, more profit
able scale. There must be more planters, and
each must be a small planter; and they must
turn their chief attention to raising provis
ions. The best lands must be planned in corn
and other crops which sustain life. Our barn
must groan with abundance, and we mu
have no more poor hogs and cattle.
“Our lands must be put la the best possible
order fer cultivation, and fertilizers must be
freely used. Owing to our peculiar climate
there is a season the time of which cannot be
used very profitably except we cultivate cot
ton; so that wc mny plant some cot ton. Bat
the production of cottou must be made of
secondary importance altogether, and mostly
for home consumption. I am unw illing to
encourage that odious cotton tax, and fatten
the horde of cormorant tax collectors which
it sends into our country. If we are still to
be burdened with them, added to the other
disadvantages of cotton cnltnrc, wo shall be
forced to abandon its production altogether.
Wc think these are sound sentiments. It
would be prepostrons, were we pecuniarily
able, to enter, the present year, upon the
ruinous policy of last year. This is with us
the point of departure, and wisdom dictates
a change of course. Iu that change, we shall
find money, happiness and ultimate pros
perity. To say no more, we shall save our
selves from want and famine, and thus lay
the foundation tor a general reaction. And
our people must all go to work, and
deavor, from the benign cartb, to extract the
support ever attained hy honest labur. Vir
ginia this day is a monument of the good
resulting from such a course. Desolated and
poverty-struck by the blasting effects of war,
her people were compelled, unmindful of
former wealth and social position, to take off
their coats anil dig subsistence from a gen
erous soil; and the consequence is that, this
day, though once poorer than her South
ern sisters, she has reacted most, and is in
better condition than any of the war-deso
lated States of the South. An:l it was
absolute need that compelled this a.lvertonre
to toil which thus, upon the ruins of a once
great, glorious and happy State, is erecting
fabric of competence, contentment and future
plentifulncss. Incited by a similar necessity,
wc must imitate her example, and trampling
upon pride, go heroically to work to build
up our own fortunes.
vation in a great degree and give far more
attention to small grain, hogs, cattle and
mules. What folly, for an agricultural people
to be sending abroad tor provisions! What
an insane policy that invites starvation, or
trusts for its obstruction entirely to the fluc
tuations ot a capricious and selfish cotton
market I
“Tho truth is, tho change in our affairs de
mand an entire change in onr planting ope
rations. With the improved English machin
ery, and East Indian railroads, and the large
cotton productions of India and Egypt, wo
cannot hope to compete successfully in the
<*Hton market, especially when we have to
pay a heavy end iniquitous cotton tax nnd a
high price for capricious and uncontrollable
labor. When the great staple, cotton, w,as
so very high in market, its cultivation afforded
great temptation to those who had been such
heavy losers by emancipation and other re
sults of the war, and it really appeared that
planters could soon makeup tlieir losses and
pay for tho provisions they were forced to
buy. So they attempted to cultivate far more
ind in cotton than events justified.
Washington News and Gossip.
Special to the Jftio York Herald.]
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SUPRESIE COURT
AND RECONSTRUCTION.
Washington, January 4.—The cases expect
ed to come before tho United States Supreme
Court shortly, involving the question of the
constitutionality of tho Reconstruction acts,
are giving rise to a good many speculations.
Of course all stories professing to unfold what
will be the decisions of the Judges on this
important question are entirely unauthorized
and based upon the judgments or imagina
tions of private parties. No one can know
in advance what will be the conclusions of
the learned Judges. The latter will hear
both sides, and then make up their decisions
from the arguments and legal precedents ad
vanced, making a little allowance, of course,
for the political Lias of each of the Judges.—
But , this may be said, that should the su
premo judicial tribunal of the land declare
unconstitutional the action of Congress enact
ing the rebel States out of the Union, dis
franchising white voters and forcing negro
suffrage and African supremacy upon the
people of those unhappy districts, the course
of the Executive may be pretty certainly in
dicated even at the present moment
The President, in all probability, would in
that event hasten to proclaim that the rebel
States were never out of the Union, and that,
ergo, the people of those States are still enti
tled to all the civil rights (save and except
property in slaves) enjoyed by them anterior
to the acts of secession; that the subordina
tion of the civil to military authority has
been illegal, anil must immediately be abol
ished; and that all the past action under the
Congressional reconstruction policy has been
null and void. Following this opt to its
natural results, he would, to be consistent,
have to recall the Military Governors, u ith
their numerous trains of satellites, and per
haps would remove all semblaucc of military
surveillance, save such as prudence would
suggest to be necessary to the preservation of
law and Order, in view of the alleged uegro
conspiracies and the supposed disaffection
still of many of the white residents.
THE CASE OF KX SECRETARY STANTON.
It is stated, upon the authority of a mem
ber ot Congress, that in tho event of the Sen
ate acting in favor of 3Ir. Stanton’s return to
the War Department, the President will
throw the case into the Supremo Court, with
a view to testing the constitutionality of the
Tenurc-of-olfice act
llepurt* ot the Committees on Relief and the
Executive Department.
We copy from the Atlanta Era of the 10th
instant, the following reports of the Com
mittees on Relief aud the Executive Depart
ment to the Georgia Negro-Radical Conven
tion :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RELIEF.
3rr. n.irris, from the Committee on Relief,
made the following report, which wns laid on
the table for the present. On submittingthe
report, 3Ir. Harris remarked that the minori-
of the committee would submit their re
port to-morrow:
Your committee, to Whom was referred the
subject of relief, beg leave to report the fol
lowing:
Whereas, By the late disastrous war, the
people of Georgia have lost over $400,000,
000 ot taxable property, also a vast deprecia
tion of real estate, and the total loss of tour
years’ labor, thereby throwing into liopelei
confusion the equitable relations of debtor
and creditor; and, whereas, the indebted
ness of the State to her citizens has been re
pudiated, and her most solemn contracts vio
luted, and sanctioned and sustained by her
ablest jurists, thereby leaving tbe people to
bear as best they can, the increased burthens
thus imposed ; and,
Whereas, The low price of cotton, the
scarcity of money, the unsettled condition of
the political affairs of the State, and the de
rangement and inefficiency of labor, renders
it impossible for tbe debtor to make even
partial payment; and.
Whereas, To undertake to force the pay
ment of indebtedness would only result in
bankruptcy and utter ruin of the great
masses, and concentration into tbe hands of a
few the little remaining from ruthless war:
and, , , •
Whereas, AH or nearly all the inde' tedness
was based, either directly or indirectly, upon
the property thus destroyed or depreciated,
while tho amount of indebtedness is held un
diminished; therefore,
We, the people of Georgia, in Conventiou
assembled, do solemnly ordain, That from
and after the passage of this ordinance no
Court in this State shall have jurisdiction at
any time to hear or determine, or render judg
ment against any citizen of thi3 State upon
any contract or judgment made or entered
into, or for any tort or injury committed prior
to the first day of June, 1805, nor shall any
Court or ministerial officer of this State ever
have jurisdiction to enforce any judgment o'r
execution rendered or issued upon any con
tractor agreement for any tort or injury com
mitted prior to the said first day of June,
18G5. John Harris,•Chairman
C. H. Hopkins,
N. P. IIoTcnKiss,
W. L. Goodwin,
It. It. Bullock.
The committee offered the accompanying
resolution:
Resolved, That the Committee oh the Ju
dtciary be aud they are hereby instructed to
insert in that part of the Constitution which
defines the powers of the Judiciary of this
State, the following section:
■ Section —. No court in this State shall
have jurisdiction at any time to hear or de
termine, or render judgment against any cili
zen of this State, upon any contract or judg
ment made or entered into, or for any tort
or injury committed prior to the first day of
June, 18G5; nor shall any court or ministc
rial officer of this State have jurisdiction to
enforce any judgment or execution rendered
or issued upon any contract or agreement, or
for any tort or injury made or committed
prior to the first day of June, 18G5.
Special to the Cincinnati Sntuirer.]
ANOTHER INFAMOUS ACT.
The Radicals sounded the depths of infamy
to day by passing Upson’s resolution with
Boutwell’s amendment, directing the Recon
struction Committee to report another bill
concerning the government of tho Southern
States. It is understood to be a preconcerted
arrangement, Tbad. Stevens already having
prepared a bill which will likely be reported
at once. He notified tho Committee to meet
to-morrow with this view.
The determination of the Radicals in the
House i3 to place the Southern Governors
entirely at the mercy of the negroes and their
mean white allies; and, to make assurance
doubly sure, they intend, further, to give the
General Government power to designate offi
cers for that service and then attempt to
thwart the effort of the President to amelio
rate the pitiful condition of that people.
The resolution censuring the President for
pro*., price*W. me. .b.»0,a U. cu»i- ^
Stanton letter, was passed by a strict party
voto.
DEMOCRATIC TROSPECTS.
A prominent Radical declared to-day that
the Democracy would carry Pennsylvania in
an election to-day by thirty thousand major
ity. He added: “And if Congress does not
relieve the country from monetary stringency
my party will be damned, and the country
ruined.”
From an official list of the Registra
tion and election in Georgia, which wc find
in the Constitutionalist, we notice the follow-
g as the figures for Washington couuty:
Registered—Whites, 1,251; Colored, 1,33G
Voted—For Convention, 1,313.
It seems that tho colored population of this
county voted within 23 votes of their number
registered, ns it is pretty generally known
that only three white votes were cast at the
election.—Central Georgian.
Ils t few days.”
Incendiarism in Johnson.—The gin house
nnd contents of 3Ir. Allen A. Page, of John
son county, was burned on the night of the
23th ult. His loss is about fifteen hundred
dollars. It is supposed to be the work of an
incendiary. Our citizens ought to keep ft
look out for the gang, who seem to make it a
special business to destroy property of this
kind, and when caught let such an example
: - Tl)C price ol cotton fell, ami the policy of be made of them as will deter others from
engaging in the practice—Central Georgian.
raising insufficient corn and other cereals was
so closely adhered to, that all have suffered
grievously; and whilst I do not conceive
that famine actually stares us in the face, yet
I must admit that the supply of bread and
meat in the' country is too small for the nec
essary consumption of this year, and amoDg
the laborirg classes uml poorer people, there
must be great destitution and distress.
Gw House Burnt.—On Tuesday night
last. 31st ult., the gin house of Mr. D.F. Mer
ger on the Jones place, near Miccosukic, was
destroyed, with about twenty bales of cotton
believed to have been tbe work of an in
cendiary. Thus, by one villainous act, the
labor of mouths of an industrious man has
been swept away.—Floridian.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE DE
PARTMENT.
Mr. Bigby, from tbe Committee on the Ex
ecutive Department, submitted the following
report, five hundred copies of which were or
tiered to be printed for the use of tho Con
vention:
The Executive Committee have had under
consideration the matters relating to the Ex
ecutive Department, and beg leave to submit
the following report:
ARTICLE III—SECTION 1.
1. The Executive power shall be vested in
Governor, who shall hold his office during
the term of four years, and until such time as
successor shall be chosen and qualified. He
shall have a competent salary, established by
law, which shall not be increased or dimin
ished during the period for which he shall
have been elected; neither shall he receive,
within that period, any other emolument
from the United States, or either of them, or
from any foreign power.
■ 2. The Governor shall bo elected by the
persons qualified to rote tor members of the
General Assembly, on , in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and quad-
unially thereafter on the , until such
time be altered by law, which election shall
be held at the places ot holding'said elections
the several counties of this State, in the
same manner as is prescribed for tbe election
of members of the General Assembly. The
returns for every election of Governor shall
be sealed up by the managers, separately
from other returns, and directed to the Pres
ident of theSeuate and Speaker of the House
of Representatives, and transmitted to his
Excellency, tho Governor, or the person ex
ercising the duties of Governor for tbe time
being, who slinll, without opening the said
returns, cause the same to be laid be
fore the Senato on tho day after the
two Houses shall have been organ
ized; and they shall bo transmitted by the
Senate to the House of Representatives. The
members of each branch of the General As
sernbly shall convene in the Rcpresentati
Chamber, and the President of the Senate,
and the Speaker of the House of Represents
tives shall open and publish the returns
presence of the General Assembly; and the
person having the majority of the whole num
ber of votes given shall be declared duly elec
ted Governor of this State; but if no person
have such majority, then from the two per
sons having the highest number of votes, who
shall be iu life, and shall not decline an elcc
tiou at the time appointed for the Legislature
to elect, the General Assembly shall immedi
ately elect a Governor viva voee ; and in all
cases of election of a Governor by the General
Assembly, a majority of the votes of the
members present shall be necessary for
choice. Contested elections shall be deter
mined by both Houses of the General Asscm
bly, in such manner as shall be prescribed by
law.
3. No person shall be eligible to the office
of Governor who shall not have been a citizen
of tho United States fifteen years, and a citi
zen of this State ten years, and who hath not
attained the age of thirty years.
4. In case of the death, resignation or dis
ability of the Governor, the President of the
Senate shall exercise the Executive powers of
tho Government until such disability he re
moved or a successor elected and qualified
And in case of the death, resignation or disa
bility of the President of the Senate, the
Speaker ofthe House ofReprcsentatiycs shall
exercise the Executive powers of the Govern
ment until the removal of the disability or
the election and qualification of a Governor.
The General Assembly shall have power to
provide by law for filling unexpired terms by
a special election.
5. The Governor shall, before he enters on
the duties of bis office, take the following
oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear or
allirm, (as the case may be.) that I will faith
fully execute the office of Governor of the
State of Georgia; and will, to the best of my
abilities, preserve, protect and defend the
^Constitution thereof, nnd the Constitution of
the United States of America.”
section 2.
1. The Governor shall be Commandcr-in-
Chief of the nrmy and navy of this State,
and of the militia.
2. He shall have power to grant reprieves
and pardons, to commute penalties, and to
remit any part of a sentence for offences
against the State, except in cases of impeach
ment.
3. He shall issue writs of election to fill all
vacancies that happen in the Senate or House
of Representatives, and shall have power to
convoke the General Assembly orf extraord
nary occasions; and shall give them, from time
to time, information of the state of the Com
mouwealtb, aud recommend to their consid
oration such measures as he may deem nece
sary nnd expedient.
4. When any office shall become vacant by
death, resignation, or otherwise, the Gov
ernor shall have power to fill such vacancy,
unless otherwise provided by law, and per
sons so appointed shall continue in office
until a successor is appointed agreeably to
the mode pointed out by this Constitution
or by law in pursuance thereof.
5. A person once rejected by the Senate
shall not be reappointed by the Governor to
the same office during the same session, or the
recess thereafter.
(!. The Governor shall have the revision of
all bills passed by both Houses before the
same shall become laws, but two-thirds of
each House may pass a law notwithstanding
his dissent, and'if any bill should not be re
turned by the Governor within five days
(Sundays excepted) after it has been pre
sented to him, the same shall bo a law, unless
the General Assembly, by their adjournment
shall prevent its return. He may approve
any appropriation, and disapprove any other
appropriation in the same bill, and the latter
sb-ill not be effectual unless passed by two
thirds of each House.
7. Every vote, resolution, or order, to
which the concurrence of both Houses may
b<> necessary, except on a question of election
or adjournment, shall be presented to the
Governor, and before it shall take effect be
approved by him, or, being disapproved
shall be repassed by two-tliirds of each House,
according to the rules and limitations pre
scribed in case of a bill.
8. There shall be a Secretary of State, a
Comptroller General, a Treasurer, and Sur
veyor General, elected by the General Assem
bly, and they shall hold their offices for the
like period as the Governor, and shall have a
competent salary, which shall not be in
creased or diminished during the period
for which they shall have been elected. Tbe
General Assembly may at any time consoli
date any two of these offices, and require
all the duties to be discharged by one of
ficer.
9. The Great Seal of State shall be de
posited in the office of the Secretary of State
and shall not be affixed to any instrument of
writing but by order of the Governor or
General Assembly; and that now in use shall
be the Great Seal of the State until otherwise
provided by law,
10. The Governor shall have power to ap
pointed his own Secretaries, not exceeding
two in number, unless more shall 'be author
ized by the General Assembly.
J. S. Biohy, Chairman
Bradley at liberty.
The following correspondence, and the fact
that no riotous demonstration took place in the
vicinity of tho jail, will explain the manner in
which the notorious Bradley regained his
liberty. By his discharge it would seem that
the moral effect was the end sought, and the
sentence has or should have gained it. Brad
ley was about the streets, driving a fust going
team and seemingly of double his former im
portance in the colored world. The follow
ing arc the letters passed between the priso
ner and the authorities:
Savannah Ga January 7 1867
Don A C Anderson Mayor
Respected Sir, I most respectfully dis
claim any intentiou to commit any Contempt
of court being excited from cause, I might
have been objectionable to you. I assure
your Sir, if you consider I have been con
temptuous I most respectfully ask forgiveness,
will you be pleased to grant This my hum
ble pray.
Your most respectful servent
A A Bradley
Will 3Ir. Russell be pleased to have This
Petition sent to Tlio3Iayor
This paper had the following endorsement:
January G, 1868.
Respectfully referred to his Honor E. C.
Anderson. Waring Russell,
Jailor C. C.
3Iayor’s Office, )
Savannah, January 7, 1868. (
Waring Russell, Esq., Warden Chatham Coun
ty Jail:
Aaron A. Bradley, colored, having ap
pealed to the clemency of the 3Iayor in the
matter of imprisonment for contempt of
Court on Saturday last, the 4th instant, and
having asked forgiveness for the same, the
fine and all costs imposed, together with the
jail fees, having been paid, it is ordered that
the unexpired term ot commitment for con
tempt be remitted and the prisoner, Bradley,
be discharged ironi further custody; pro
vided, nevertheless, that in the event of any
demonstration in his behalf, disorderly or
otherwise, appearing in the vicipity of the
jail, the jailor will not execute this order, bat
report the fact of such demonstration in
stanter to the 3Iayor.
Ed. C. Anderson, 3Iayor.
[-Sac. News ifi Herald.
THE PHYSICIANS LAMENT.
BY J. KMMITT HLACKSnriR, M. D.
before the Mo
Mtdieal Ati
I'm sitting sad, forlorn and weary,
la my office lone and dreary:
The day has post,
"Which has a sadder Ie?son t ruirht me,
Nor more of ho^e or profit brought me
~ Than the last.
Ah ! gloomy sit I. thinking, thinking,
Vrhile the twilight shades are sinking
Over ail
The earth; I would not trouble borrow,
Yet forebodings of the morrow
My thoughts appall.
To-morrow bills will be presented
Tor stores, supplies, for house-room rented;
Another day,
Bo sure, not ono will bo forgotten,
But large and small they'll come—and not ono
Cent to pay.
The bills I hold havo long been running,
Tho* I’ve oft been dunning, dunning,
Till hope has fled;
For while fair promise has been mado me.
Not a farthing has been paid me,
Not a red.
Tho Doctor from his peaceful slumber
Calls through tempests, rain ami thunder,
Early and late.
Must not delay—“be quick,’’ the cry is;
But when the bill comes, tho reply is,
“Ho can wait.”
And thus it is wo poor Physicians,
Who prosecuto our God-like missions,
Frit away
Our lives, while other lives preserving.
Ah! is tho laborer undeserving
Of hla pay 1
Can wo in life a decent station
Hold, without remuneration
For our toils?
Can wo support these anxious yearnings
While baso injustieo of our earnings
Us despoils ?
No! like a pajl tho thought. come3 o’er me,
Tho fearful truth wells up before me.
And I see
No ray of hope, this course pursuing,
Alas! naught but financial ruin
And poverty.
While lost in these sad meditations,
Tho deep’ning twilight adumbrations
Fill the air
Around, with figures wan and dreary—
Hunger, anguish, suff’ring weary.
And gaunt despair.
* Are these our hopes—all turnod to vapor?
Was it fpr this tho midnight taper
Long we burned?
That pored wo o'er our musty pages
Till tho truths there stamped by sages
Had been learned ?
That we’ve explored man’s inner being.
Its thousand complications seeing ?
Studied, too,
With caro their manifold relations;
And all Life’s secret operations
Brought to view?
For all tho care wo’vo been bestowing
On tho sick—the constant going
Night and day;
Tho thought—the mental evolution,
Tho wear and tear of constitution,
Is this our pay ?
Ungrateful patients I I relieved ye
Of your suff’rings—you’ve deceived me—
Yes, ’tis true,
Elso, forsooth, you’d now be speedy,
That you’re well and I am needy.
To give my duo.
Ah] see tho bills on yonder tabic,
Como and pay them ye wbo’ro able.
And I’ll bo
From tho heavy cares that vex mo.
From the duns that sore perplex me.
Serenely freo.
But they como not! Where I’m sitting
Still I see wan figures flitting
O’er tho wall:
Still I feel the pangs they gave mo—
Shade of iEsculapius save mo
Or I fall I
•An extract from tho minutes.
Tho following resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of this Association aro
hereby tendered to Dr. J. Kmmett Blackshcar forthe
poem just read, that it be spread upon tho minutes,
and that a copy bo requested for publication in the
city papers.
W. F. Holt, Secretary pro. tem.
D. W. Hahiioxd. President.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 7, 1S68..
Meeting; in Quitman County.
According
to previous notice, tlie'Conser—
vativo Club of Quitman county, together
with quite r. number of citizens, assembled at
the Court House, in Georgetown, on the 1st.
Judge E. Varner, President, and J. E. Smith
Secretary protcm.
The object of the meeting was explained by
.the chairman, alter which, Col. Gucrrv mad#
a brief but spirited address, which was very
pertinent to tho occasion. After transacting
some local business for strengthening and
completing our county organization, the fol
lowing resolutions were offered and unani
mously adopted :
Resolved, by the Conservative Club and
citizens ol Quitman county, that we heartily
tender our thanks to Andrew Johnson Pres
ident, for the removal of that odious and
J the saddle,*
together with
in the saddle,” and in hi*
would-be tyrant and "man
John Pope, and placing him,
liis headquarters,
favorite Manassas occupation.
Resolved, That we tender our thanks to
Governor Jenkins aud Treasurer Jones for
their prompt and manly refusal to permit
that scalawag Convention to rob the Stata ‘
Treasury of the people’s money; und that
we recognize in their conduct correct princi
ples of patriotism and statesmanship.
Resolved, That these proceedings be pub- ‘
Journal and Messenger and,
E. Varner, President.
Mrrn, Sec’y. pro tem.
lisbed iu the
Telegraph.
Joel E,
From Washington.
Mr. Hayes Serenaded.
About midnight on 3Ionday night, the 31c-
tropolitan Fire Company, accompanied
a delegation from the Oglethorpe
Company, called at the residence of 3Ir.
John E. Hayes, editor and proprietor of
the Republican, and tendered him a serenade.
Tho services of the Washington Brass Band
had been secured, and on arriving at their
destination, the sweet strains ot inspiring
music were borne upon the midnight air.—
Tho band gave the “Star Spangled Banner,”
“Dixie,” and other popular airs, with line ef
fect. On being called for, Mr. Hayes return
ed thanks for the compliment and invited
tho party to partake of his hospitality, which
they did, all assembling around the social
board, and disposing of the good cheer pro
vided for their reception.
The kindliest feeling prevailed throughout
speeches congratulatory and complimentary
in character were made by prominent mem
bers of both companies, and all expressed
their gratification at the recovery of 3Ir.
Hayes. Upon adjourning to the street the
band was once more called upon and gave
some fine music. Three cheers and a “tiger”
were given with a will for Mr. Hayes, and the
party separated.
Shortly after another delegation from the
Oglethorpe Engine and 3Iarsnall Hose Com
panies called, and after friendly greetings,
cheered and passed on.
The serenade was tendered as a public re
buke from the citizens of Savannah to the re
cent dastardly outrage inflicted upon Mr.
Hayes, and of the still more recent attempt
to bully and by threats silence a free press.—
Both affairs were condemned in plain terms
by all parties present, and assurance given
that the course pursued by 3Ir. Hayes, in the
conduct of his journal, met with the appro
bation of all good citizens.—Sap. Rep., 1th.
J5F" The Radicals of tho Montgomery
Alabama District have nominated Rev. C.
W. Buckley, late from the North, for Con
gress. Thus it will bo with Radical nomi
nations for high offices fhroughouttho South
—none but imported Yankees are regarded
as entitled to them. The negroes arc expect
ed to do the voting, but important office for
them “nary time.”—Columbus Enquirer.
The condition of the En.press Char
lotte continues to improve. She goes out
every day, when the weather permits, for a
long drive or a walk. She visits their ma
jesties regularly twice a week at Brussels, and
the rest of her time is divided between music
and painting, for which latter art she has a
great aptitude. The Queen,her sister-in-law,
does not allow a day to pass without going
to sec her, aud she receives frequent visits
from the King and the Count and Countess
de Flandre.
Washington, January 7.—A delegation is
herefrom Louisiana, Mississippi aud Arkan
sas, to lay before the President and General
Howard, ol the Freedmcn’s Bureau, a prop
03ition to reorganize labor iq the South,
make it self-sustaining, and avert tbe horrors
of starvation, with which various sections of
those States are threatened. There is a pros
pect that the Executive Committee will have
plenary powers to provide work for each
laborer, white and black, the plantation to
famish all thing necessary to the cultivation
of the land, the negroes to be fed and receive
one-fourth of the proceeds of the crop.
The Executive Committee will be charged
with the task ot obtaining the necessary sup
plies from the North and West, on which
they shall give a lien on the crop. Those
who refuse to work are to be reported to the
Commanding General, who will cause them
to labor on public works.
The delegation contend that if the Frecd-
men’s Bureau will co-operate, the plan can be
successfully carried out, and that, without it
is done, thousands of people will perish, and
that ultimately anarchy will be the result.—
The President regards the matter as feasible.
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
ACT'S.
New York, January 8.—A special Wash
ington telegram says: I have the best au
thority lor stating that in the cases brought
before the United States Supreme Court last
Spring by the States of Mississippi and Geor
gia, testing the constitutionality of the recon
struction acts, the decision of a majority of
the Court will be adverse thereto. It is like
ly that the minority will be smaller than at
first supposed, and there are even hints that
Chief Justice Chase may not care to place
upon record the dissenting opinion. Such an
opinion will break down, at a blow, all the
reconstruction work done thus far, and leave
the decision of the next Presidential contest
in the hands of the North.
Suggestive.—A planter who lost two
thousand dollars in 1866, by attempting to
raise cotton, cleared three thousand this year
by raising wheat.
A New 3rETHOD of Lighting Public
Halls.—The following is given as the latest
invention for lighting large halls:
This
Meeting In Crawford Countj-.
Knoxville, January 7, 18G8.
At a meeting of the citizens of CrawforJ
county, this day, held at Knoxville, to.tak#t
into consideration the action of the Conser- '*
vative State Convention, lately held in Ma- -
con, the same was organized by calling to ■
the Chair John W. Ellis, Esq., and appoint— •
ing J. W. Avaut, Secretary. Upon taking
the Chair the President, in a lucid and forci—»
blc manner, explained the object of the meets- ■
ing.
On motion of J. "\\. Avant, the Chairma%
appointed the following'gentlemen as a com*
mittee of. five to draft resolutions for th»
meeting. D. T. Hunter, B. Lcseucr, B. A,*
Harwood, A. W. Gibson, William B. White,*
who reported, through D. T. Hunter, the fol
lowing resolutions, to wit :
Resolved, That, as citizens of the UniteJ’
States, we reiterate the pledge of aliegianoE'
subscribed to in our oaths of amnesty ; an4 !
proclaim ourselves as loyal as any to theprin-J
ciples of our Government as laid down by
its framers, . ■ I
Resolved, That wo consider it a duty owel'
alike to our ancestors, wiio made this a whit» !
man’s government; to'our own generation^
to posterity and to the negro himself, whosE 1
iguoraDce would only make him the danger--'
ous tool of demagogues, to the ruin of botfc-'
races, to protest against all schemes seeking'
to elevate him politically to a position fb*'
which lie is unqualified by race, condition
intelligence; believing that the safety, pros
perity and happiness of the whole county’
can only be secure by the supremacy of 11®'
intelligence, patriotism and virtue of Dp. 1
white race. *
Resolved, That we fully and heartily so-'
dorse the proceedings of the State Conserve- 1
tive Convention lately held in Slacon, and fat'
the purpose of carrying them practically^
into effect wc’do organize the Conservative 1
Union Club of Crawford County, the object '
of which is to briDg to bear all peaceful infl«-‘
ences in our power to defeat the ratification
of the Constitution which wili be submitted
by the “so called” Reconstruction Conven
tion, to reassemble in Atlanta to-morrow. -
Resolved, That the Club shall be offieere?>
as follows: A. President,-who shall be ex-
officio chairman of the Executive Committee
two Vice Presidents, one Secretary, who shall
also act as Treasurer, and au Executive Com- :
mittee, who shall co-operate with other mem--’
bers of the committee to be appointed, twD
from each militia district in the county.
Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting 1
are due to President Johnson for tbe removal
of John Pope, late military commander at
the Third District, and tor his manly an4'
patriotic stand for the Constitution; and ©
our Northern friends for the manifestation o4 ;
their earnest devotion to the-principles of ot®'
government.
On motion, the resolutions were adopte?
“mem con.”
Under the fourth resolution the following
officers and committeemen were appointed*
Jacob Lowe, President; B. Lcseuer and B. JU'
Harwood, Vice Presidents.
committees.
Sixth District—J. D. Hartley, E. Aultma*.
Castleberry’s District—J. W. Ellis, S. H,
Causey.
Sewell's District—W.
Hancock.
Beasley’s District-
Blewster.
Hammock’s District—J. Hilismr.n, Williat#
Rutherford.
Tabor’s District—William Lowman, Frank'
Lee.
Knoxville District-/Jus; J. liar, Dr. W. %
Oglctree.
Webb’s District—J. L. Parsons, A. J. Col
bert.
On motion of D. S. Hunter, these proceed
ings were requested to be published in thE
3Iacon papers, when the meeting adjourned
sine die. J. W. Ellis, President.
31. Boon, Morga*
-Taylor F. Gibson,
J. W. Avant, Secretary.
Letter from Southwestern Georgia.
The Selma, Ala., Times states that it
informed on good authority that large
landholders in Greene county are offering to
give the use of their plantations for next
year to any one that will agree to pay the
taxes on them.
invention for lighting puplic halls is
of recent date, there being, we are informed,
but one church as yet lit in this manner, and
this is the place of worship in Brooklyn, New
York, of which llev. Henry Ward Beecher is
pastor. The lighfing arrangement or reflec
tor is octagon shape, about twelve feet in di
ameter. It is composed of plates of prepared
glass, of great reflective power. In the cen
tre of the reflector appears the gas drop, to
which is appended a hanging circle of thirty-
six burners. The circle is about three feet in
diameter. There are two ot these reflectors
placed in the ceiling, about thirty feet apart,
and tbe result is that every portion ol the
audience room ofthe church is beautifully
illuminated. The fights are placed so near the
ceiling as r.ot to affect the eyes of either the
speaker or audience, and yet it shines down
with such a mellow glow that the smallest
print can be road with great ease. This ar
rangement is the patent of 3Ir. Frink, of New
York.
|5ir*Lake Erie is fed by one underground
Milford, Ga., January 6, 1668.
Editors Telegraph: We are rejoiced that'
Pope is “in the saddle” once more. Long
may he remain there! We are satisfied witfc,
liim.
Christmas passed away sadly. The gloomy
prospects that have overshadowed us for tl®,
past two months, like a funeral pall, was to#
great to admit of many festivities. Oar
country is financially ruined. I know not
how our people will manage to cultiva®
their farms ibis year. They are without,
money, provisions and credit. • t
But little effort lia 0 been made by onr
planters to procure hands. Some have hi ref
ill this vicinity a small number! giving them'
one-third, they finding themselves in pnm--
sions; others aic giving the fourth, and fus- 4
nishing everything. A few have agreed ©
give half, the hands bearing one-half the ex
penses. From all indications t there will h#
but little cotton raised here. 3fany with',
whom I have conversed say “they inten3 1
to plant but little—turning their attention to
raising corn, sugar cane,” etc. This is wise.
Cotton, at the present price, c'a'ntfhot b6
stream that is seventy feet deep where it I raised with free labor. Our merchants have
enters the earth, and does not reappear until j suffere( i f Bar f u lly by the decline in' the “floec*
its waters have mingled with those of the lake.
J5=T“Ncgro juries ought to excel in trying.
They appreciate ham fat.
staple.” But few of them, if any,* have been
able to collect enough to buy a rope to hang,
‘ themselves. Carrie.