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The Greorgia, ."'Weekly Telegra>pli.
telegraph.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1668.
Drrs, It is rumored that
^anssed to Bullock requesting
I p? j oWD , and also that letters were
K- t „ Brown asking that ho be a can-
I* ' 1 ' Brown calk’d Blodgett and Bullock
e.-tnnlay to Atlanta to consult. There
If**’’ hatoipn alarm among them, they
Bullock.
'lock is reported to be miffed and sus-
: of Brown’s getting up the whole mat-
l„ c tt left Atlanta for Washington
I urday. supposed to hurry up the
#>1 .! of Brown’s disabilities that ho may
I .. tbeircandidate for Governor.
•*'' p in his speech at Marietta, took the
| 'the proposed Constitution did
' t j, c negroes the right to hold office.
, I, jreedmen stick a pin just here—all
I must come into tiro hands of the
' radicals, and the negroes must vote in
1 .j pat them in office. Quite a nice ar-
jjJtStfh _____ ,
'« id DisIKICT.—It is proposed, and wc
iftc generally agreed to, that the Conven-
tD nominate a candidate for Congress
I Appoint delegates to tho New York Na
roDvention, for the Third District, bo
.yjj the city of Columbus.
- jSSW up tub Soctu.—The first nnm-
f this new weekly journal, published at
hjL. T. Bloomc & Co., edited by
r. 'htj Bjsd, and devoted to the interests of
‘ j?i0B u embodied in tho Roman Catholic
■ '!i and to the cause of the South politi-
"v i 3 before us. Tho Banner bids fair to
.’j jjjgi, rank among tho journals of the
. ^ 'fbe introductory number is well
I ."vl in all its departments, and shows that
| nubility and energy nro devoted to tho
iWk. The typography and paper are not
equal to our expectations, but these will
I doubtless improve with tho ability of tho
publishers to carry out My their wishes.-
| wish tho ‘•Banner” every success, and
t aid state that Mr. C. J. Carey is the agent
hr Macon. _
•J- 1 " A negro came near being mobbed by
& own race and the white Radicals for
1 ailing with some old soldiers in cheering
Gta. Hancock as he deported in tho cars
I j!® Knoxville, Tenn.
fi’The election in Arkansas on the Con-
station is passing off quietly, negroes not
I wiling heavy votes. In several of the coun-
Q heard from one half of the negroes regis
rod did not vote. The whites are voting
-.jasimously against the Constitution. The
; Conservatives are coufidenjt of giving 15,000
majority against the Constitution.
So mvs an exchange. And now, let Gcor
Itiissgo to work and do tho same thing.—
They have only to make an effort in order to
Unt the infamous instrument that would
dnnnizc the State.
ftu SroKEX.—The New York Times
i to: “While the rebellion lasted the North
aver accused tho rebels of cowardice. On
tit contrary, wo gave them credit for plnck,
eiicitv, daring, endurance and a determin
es that only death and ruin could break.
I IVtfwho confronted the enemy in the field
«m not the least ready to allow him the
pnonon of these warlike qualities. If any
| :<tpoke contemptuously ot the rebel spirit,
mu not the soldiers who closed with them
lie struggle, nor tho leaders who nttempt-
auoveicometbera in tlicconflict. Therecan
kao harm in remembering this fact in these
ijs, when the North is dealing with a pros-
| late South. There can be no harm in our
fating the Southerners as though they pos-
I «tfd all the bravery which wo put to their
| «count in the days of war; and there can be
whingbut harm in treating them as though
1 tiry had given us reason to charge them with
| tit spirit or bearing of co wardice.”
And we would add, there is little credit to
<mtde by treating us, a conquered and un-
•tsisting foe, in a manner to indicate that you,
J-nrsflvea, are cowards. The truly brave
wer oppress the weak.
hwoHTvsT Admission-.—The Washington
t ’^respondent ot the Boston Post says:
“On the Alabama bill the Radicals have
den in considerable sail. Yesterday this
w * s for ‘The admission of the State of
j Alibama'; but to day its title reads, ‘To
* imit the 8t»te of Alabama to representation
•i Congress.’ What a change came over the
I pirlt of their dreams in a single night!—
fhe Reconstruction Committee now publicly
j i'tmif, and officially recognize, the fact that
Alabama ii a .Sfafc fo tA<s
Union, but deprived
| -her representation in Congress. That-is
■■-tractposition held by President John-
THB SMBO WAKING VP.
For two or three years past the negroes of the
South have been under a sort of mesmeric in
fluence, brought on by the manipulations of
Yar kee adventurers. These heartless wretch
es made their passes over the poor ignorant
crer.lurcs, and straightway they became like
dead corpses in the hands of their seducers.
And it has been along sleep for them, almost
lon g enough for them to wake up and find
themselves on the verge of destruction.
The result of the extraordinary efforts in
this section last week to get up a political ex
citement among the negroes, shows that these
deluded people are coming to their senses.
With few exceptions they had nothing to do
with the wire-workers and political mounte
banks. They remained at home and devoted
to their work, while the leaders, with a few
loyal league dupes, liad the whole affair to
themselves. The fact is, the sensible portion
of the colored people have found out from
experience that politics is not a -paying
business. They have followed it religiously
for three years, and, with the exception of a
few leaders in the Radical pay who have well
feathered their nests, they have grown poorer
year alter year. They get no better pay for
their work; the land and mules and home
steads and money so lavishly promised as a
reward for voting the Radical ticket, have
all “come up missing.” They find they have
been cheated and lied to most infamously,
and so far from benefiting by their connection
with the Radicals, they have had to pay out
momy from time to time without getting any
thing in return. We appeal to our colored
friends and ask them to say if this is not true.
Have they not been plundered by these Radi
cal leaders, white and black, and been
worked upon and influenced by promises, all
of which have been falsified T Have they not
been getting worse off day by day under the
teachings of these false friends! Have they
not found that class of strangers a set of base
rascals and impostors wbo have fastened
themselves upon tho poor ignorant blacks
only to suck their blood, grow fat, and then
nbandon their victims to their fate ?
Wo ask the colored people to answer these
Crops, etc., In Southwest Georgia*
Milford, Ga., March 18,1868,
Editors Daily Telegraph:—Having reeent
ly travelled over the counties of Mitchell;,Cal-
ijuusui uncra
The telegraph brings intelligence that Ar-1
ksnsas has followed the example of Alabama,
and rejected the proposition to put« Negro-
Yankee government over her people. Thua jhoun, and this (Baker) county, I find the
tar no Southern State has accepted the do— I fanning business in rather bad plight,
basing offer as a condition of readmission into I Tho planters generally arc greatly behind,
the Union. And yet we are told that Geor- 1 The heavy rains—the inability to procure
gia has less brains, less regard for her char- hands—the cause. What has been done is
actor and interests, and will accept terms | hadly and hastily done, as a general thing,
which her Southern sisters are rejecting-with I Great is the difference between this and last
scorn. Wc do not believe it. It is a conces- J year’s preparations. Cotton and corn stalks
sion unworthy of freemen, and a libel upon I are left standing in the fields; logs, limbs
tho intelligence, patriotism and manhood of J and brush lie thick over them, rendering it
the State. Let croakers say what they may, almost impossible to plough. The lands are
we feel confident that in a straight- badly prepared for planting, with but few
out-and-out fight on the negro I exceptions. And, owing to past failures in
Constitution now submitted, it would I realizing any profits from their laborers,
be defeated by twenty thousand votes. We j planters seem to take but little interest in
arc not among those who have given up the their plantations. Hands are scarce in Baker
battle betorc the skirmish line has advanced. I and Calhoun. Mitchell scenis to be pretty
We believe that any decent, respectable Geor-1 well supplied. Those who remained in,tbese
gian can be elected Governor over the Con- I two counties work very well,
necticut adventurer, Bullock, and that no We cannot raise more than half as much as
matter who runs, the Constitution erecting I we did lost year.
an African empire in the State will bo trium-1 Financially wc are broke. Politically we
pbantly defeated. Our people havo only to J are a unit. “Garble. ”
take courage, to battle like men for their
Minority Report of the Reconetractlon Com
mittee oa the Alabama Case.
rights, and tho honor, dignity and legitimate
government ot Georgia will yet be main
tained. Wc do not believe for a moment
that any people of common sense Would allow
so arrant a humbug and cheat as “Relief’ to
I Second Congressional District Convention
Democratic Club Roosts, )
Albany, Ga., Alarch 20, ’68. j
By a resolution of tho Dougherty Democratic
Club, I am instructed to request and solicit gen-
. . tlemon in each county, composing the Second
steal away tlieir brains and seduce them into I Congressional District of Georgia, at the earliest
voting for an overthrow of their existing free j practical day, to call a meeting in their rospec-
institutions, and the abandonment of their no I tiro counties to nominate and send delegates to
ble State to negro brutality and carpet-bag [a Convention to bo held in this city, on the 31st
plunderers. It is not true, and we call upon jinst, to nominate a candidate forCongross.—
the people of Georgia to vindicate themselves The election, as you tro aware, comes off on the
against the foul aspersion. * 0lh April, now only thirty days off, and hence
1 prompt and energetic action is necessary- The
The Supreme Court Reconstruction Cases. I S re at and paramount importance I need not
I urgo on men of your known patriotism and
“Data”, the correspondent of tho Balti- I intelligence. The crisis is upon us—wo cannot
more Sun, telegraphs under date of the 18th I postpone—we cannnt.avoid.it wo must act, and
as follows: “The Georgia reconstruction u P on 7°“ and other mcl1 ia other counties, who
. , , , , , know the danger ana understand and feel.our
case as not expected to be disposed of by the ... ,, .. . „ ...
_ _ r r 3 I condition wo mustrelv, to rally tho rotors of tho
Supreme Court at the present term. The distr ; ct to do all , a lhe5r power to save thorn-
court proposes to adjourn about the 4th of I gelve», their Stateand their country.
next month.” I We would suggest that not only meetings be
Another correspondent says of thcMcCardle I called in each county to nominate delegates to the
questions candidly and truthfully, and then I ca « c . “The nnticinations of tho=c wlio ironed Congressional Convention, but also to nominate
ask themselves how it is possible to prosper I for'a' dKirion'^oi'ther^mconstitutionalHy J m^cach^tmn^'and’connt^^ffl-
wlnlc the men wlio employ and have to pay the reconstruction laws through tlic McCar- L®. e $ 0 would urge that none but trS and
them are kept unpo\ erished—while the coun-1 <]j e c&3 e, will hardly be realized. A judge of g0 od men be selected, and In each case put forth
try is kept in turmoil and strife—while the t i, c Supremo Court intimated on tho 19th | the strongest. If we can make a united effort,
Radical party continues to grind our faces I inst., it was not probable that a decision will I and into u with a determination to win, we
with high taxes, interrupt our labor, destroy be rendered prior to the act passed last week TVi11 succeed-nothiog but our apathy and want of
all confidence, and in every other way break bccomimr a law That act takes from the conCdence can dcfe f l U!> Truth is powerful and
- . , ’ c .. „ , } j becoming a law. mat act takes trom tne wm always trluraph over wrong and erron Lct
don n and destroy tiie southern people i— j court the right of jurisdiction in this and all our motto be “work, work,” and success will
The whole South, black as well as white, are 1 ca , es c f the character Tho President it is crown °ur efforts and save us from Radical van-
' > i-esox raw cnaracier. me rresuum. u is M ,| 0 ur country from military despotism.
in the same boat, and must sink or swim to- j thought, will not veto the bill.”
gether. Whatever legislation or other act Thus we gOv What is to become of the coun-
injures the white man mustinjure the black I try when the Judicial power thus conspires
man. The politics that breaks up Southern witb Congress to enforce legislation that
society is as bad politics for tho negro as it j overthrows the Constitution 7
H. Morgan,
Cor.'Sec’ry Dougherty Democratic Club.
Public Meeting.
District Convention—Second District.
As no place bss been officially designated for
bolding the Democratic Convention for the
Second Congressional District, it Is agreed that
be held at Dawson, on the 31st of March. This
Hawkinsviixe, Ga., March 20,1333.
is tor the white man. The negroes arc U-I Upon the question whether the court will L^.u-fhe DUt"rM, Vum^old cf Pcl^kirDooIy
ginning to open their eyes to this important I be prevented from making its decision in the and Wilcox, are requested to meet in Hawklns-
fact, and, as a necessary result, to find out I McCardle case in the event the rectnt enact- I vllle, on Thursday, the 26th inst. A full atten-
tbat the Southern white people are their only j men t should become a law previous to the I dance !s desired, as matters or importance will be
Into friends, and that when they vote against delivery 0 f its decision, the Boston Post has snbmitted for their consideration.»
the whites they vote to their own hurt This tbe following: *”
fact is becoming daily more manifest to the j jfuch feeling is manifested in regard to
hitherto deceived and hoodwiaked freedmen I the decision of the Supreme Court in the
of the South, and we predict that ot those McCardle case, the Radicals expressing the
who vote in this State, fully one-half will greatest fear lest the decision^lie made before
. . . .. J their legislative trick can become a law.—
unite with tlieir former raastcro m erecting a There g* no doubt t w tbcir if it be _ place is central and accessible.
good government that shall protect every come3 a law before the judgment for want of I Bet there bo a general attendance,
class and every interest, rejecting, as they I jurisdiction ; the legal authorities areconcju-
ought, the political speculators and office- I s ' ve 03 ^is point [Hollingsworth vs. Vir-i TIle s 0 _ ca llcd Relief Measures Already
w -- s '
the Northern hive, and, os they think, have | 0 f wb i cb take3 away the jurisdiction, it can From t\* Chronicle Stminel.]
fixed up matters to ride into power, impor-1 no longer be expressed. [Norris vs. Crocker, I Messrs. Editors>—While tho objectof the
tancc and wealth on the back of the negro. 113 Howard, 229.] On the adoption of the white and black Yankees in Atlanta is.to get
Ami Ilipvwill fin ritrht in thiq—ri"lit°for eleventh amendment to the Federal Constitu- their thing called a Constitution ratiied by
Amt they will cto ngm in tms-n 0 ut lor]^ al , ^ suJt3 pcnd5D? by individuals the pcopl£ at any and every cost, they pre-
against the States were dismissed, thougli | tend that their object is the good of tho
several of them had been argued and sub- State and the welfare of the people, and to
mitted to the Court. [Paschal’s Annotated make them believe this, they have embodied
2E=r. i-
The Cotton Supply.
themselves and right for their children.
TIUB CAIWASf IX OBOBGIA.
At tbe breaking out of tho late war,
,,B * w ** # clerk in a tannery at a salary
■"’* efficient for his support. His annual in-
e50 «Bow is said to be $30,000.
KTThe Freedmen’s Bureau is not as pop
■« with Radical Senators os tho friends of
institution would desire. A Washington
■ ‘‘gram of the 10th inst. to the Cincinnati
«ays tbe vote on the passage of the
'•••in tbe House of Representatives was not
A T , i “and ita passage in the Senate is rc-
vAied as improbable.” It is added in the
-•patch: “The question of the propriety of
; iraing the whole thing over to the military
^•nders is likely to come up before tho
‘passes the Senate, there being a desire to
. ***J with the great expense of the Bureau
“ Passible.
The President signified Friday that
j**ould grant a reprieve in the case of Wm
. • Wed under the civil rights bill at Lou-
Ky., for the murder of a negro, so
j* 1 Hie constitutionality of the bill can be
*ed.
®*Tbe Richmond Dispatch significantly
'•• ''Sherman's treaty would, if approved,
" t Adored the Union nearly three years
■ sod brought prosperity before now. ne
be elected President upon a plat-
^ ttade entirely out of that treaty.”
j^^tCAHT.—Symbols ore the universal
^*“*8*. Words change their significance
entirely. But the devices and
are the last and most unerring of
,.\j? Waor ials of nations. A penny pampli-
•;, !* of Odd. Grant is before us,' nomina-
i ^° r Pccsident, on tho vignette title
*hich is a device representing tho
h. l,ut >on of the United States resting
^‘cannon.
ag oa ° r >fiinality of this suljstitute for the
arms is strikingly significant of the
novelty of those strangely
•ij« J 0 ® ruinous sentiments which seek
Ibeir baleiul influence by nominat-
1'in whose honor, with such
r'stir 10 ! 18 melancholy fitness, this sin-
’.nboi bas bcen contrived.
[Nat. Intelligencer.
We have information from Judge Reoee Constitution, note 271, page 270.] In view every side issue that was possible, from repu
.... . ri.HL.r.t;nTi l..- j. I of these decisions the greatest anxiety is diation to the removal of the capitol.
a ’ 1 1 ’ . . manifested here by both parties to catch an I Their relief measures are an injury to the
to be his duty to decline the nomination for | foiling a S t 0 what the court will probably j people, instead of a benefit, and in proof of
Governor of Georgia, so cheerfully tendered I do. A very confident belief is entertained by I this I will narrate the following incident:
to him by the Democratic Central Executive the leading members of the Supreme Court j A few days since I stepped into one ofyour
Committee. It is hardly necessary for us to »• decision will be rendered on largest grocery stores, a house which has for
J 1 Monday next. . . [years been doin<* almost cxcluively a plant-
P S—Our noon dispatches settle the ers’ business, and found the merchant in con-
th, McCarflc T i, r -1
<jcrne<L The Court, turougu. respect for Con-1 an( j m y Se ]f commenced discussing the state
iJLujuc wuiu ULJVi ^ I g rcss > which lias no respect for it, declines j of tho country and the various questions now
however for declm.ng wc know to be pa- ^ a decisioD) as !egIslation involving I engaging the public mind-«aong them tho
tnotic and highly honorable to himself, and “ Uon of jurisdiction is pending. Thus relief measures of the Convention were men-
we accept his decision, with the firm resolve I 4 J , , r . ? . ,1 txoned. when I expressed the opinion that
to banish every personal predilection and do IMth “ ““ dependent body been whipped tbey wonld be productive of more evil than
, . i 1 , . into submission to Radical revolutionary good, and that their ultimate effect would
the best wc can under the change of c.rcum- ^ ^ shows tbat thc couatry °ece«Urily be an entire destruction of the
stances to protect our State against a L thi t0 b {or from that quartcr ._ credit system, which in times Uke the pres-
threatened calamity. I „ , 1 , .. „ ent, would be attcndctl with much want and
It will be seen, from the notice published In a ^ ay or * wo wc . 8ba ' 1 lk y ha suffering, for all our capital being destroyed,
fciitm! Fxec- cuse for fa,1,D S to t nter f er0 an( l prevent the a n we bad j e q was our cre dit.
elsewhere, that the D m . . military from plundering the Treasury of the To this he assented, and f
utivc Committee will meet in tins city on* j r & ' 1 - % ~
say to our readers that wc regret this result.
We regard Judge Reese as the best man for I
the contest and for Governor of Georgia that I
thc people could agree upon. His motives, [
then remarked
, J state of Georgia. We are in a state of anar-1 that tbe gentleman I met there was a planter
Thursday next to determine upon the course .. silent dennis nrc snnrcmc who wanted supplies on time, but he was
which, in their judgment, is best for the chy i th ° l a ^. ar ° sile “J,'f' 3 ! 50 * 8 “ ro su P rcme ’ afraid to let him have them-he had been
r. ri,- to urimf nnilxr mMIm circumstances and W1 ^ C0ntlDU0 UDtl1 pcoploshall grow dealing w ith him for years, and if ho lived ho
party to adopt under existing circumstances. despotism and assert thdrrights. knew hewould pay him; “bnt if he dies,”
Whatever may bo agreed upon by that body 3 1 , r T 1 — — - - --
will be cheerfully acquiesced in by ourselves, Tjjk j jOXa Election.—The four days’ elec
and, we trust, by our political friends tioQ ordered by Qen. Meade in Georgia, is
throughout tho State. | attracting attention beyond the limits of the
State. The Richmond Dispatch says of it:
DEMOCRATIC MBETI5S.
. “—. I The election on the new Constitution of
According to a resolution of JJjbb County j qcorgis is ordered by Gen. Meade to begin
Democratic Club, a meeting of thc Demo- on April 20th, and continue four days. Why
cratic citizens of Bibb county was held at should the polls be kept open for four days
thc Court-house Saturday, at 11 o’clock a.m. in a Southern State to vote merely for or
™ .. „ ’. , , it. against a Constitution, while in New York
The meeting was called to order by CTer y Northern State it requires only one
Geo. W. Adams, who proposed Dr. E. L. day to a multitude of different officers l
Stroheeker for President, and Mr. William | There is but one answer—it is to enable the
Holmes and Dr. D. W. Hammond for Vice-
Presidents, who were accordingly elected,
G. W. Gustin was then elected Secretary.
Hon. T. J. Holt, Sr., Messrs. Geo. W. Ad-
negroes to carry thc day. If one hundred
and ten thousand votes can be cast in New
York City for a hundred different candidates,
the ballots counted, and the result tele
graphed atl over tho country in one day,
urns, James Tinley, C. A. Tbarpe, Gen. W.^S. surely it need not take more than one day to
Holt and Col. T. J. Simmons were elected | gj g’^oShf^Bbuf ® ^ ‘
delegates to the Congressional District Con
vention, to be held in Macon on March 31st,
and Dr. E. L, Stroheeker, and Messrs. John
Barton, W. H. Rosa, T. B. Gresham, Henry
King and S. Zundcrfo the Senatorial District
Convention, to be held on tho same day.
After some discussion, it was decided not
to proceed to the nomination of candidates
for Representatives in the Legislature, and
county officers, but to meet on Saturday
next, March 28th, for that purpose.
Tho meeting then adjourned to that day.
Thc Dispatch is- mistaken in supposing
that thc election is only on the question of
adopting or rejecting the Constitution.
Strange as it may appear, Congressmen and
State officers, with a Legislature, are to be
chosen at thc same time, under that Consti
tution, and before its ratification. Even for
this additional purpose, though, two days
would bo ample, and we regret that General
Meade has subjected himself to a just sus
picion of partisanship by ordering a four
days’ election.
Tke MKMPnis Jefkuevs. The Louisville I Hon Henry D. Washburn, member of
Courier has a special dispatch from Memphis, congress from the Sixth District of Indiana,
from which we extract as follows : | declines re-election. In a card to his constit-
“Thc notorious Radical Judge Hunter, uents lie says: “I have for the greater part
Brownlow’s pimp, turns out to be a defaulter of the last seven years been separated from
and in.il bird! An official document furnished my family, ify duty to them demands that
the Avalanche from Mueu, Ohio, where Hun- I should retire from the political arena, and
ter resided in’l847, shows him in his true I do this with pleasure, only regrettin that
Uffht The court records prove him to be a I have not been able to do more for my coun-
Sulter to Sounty whfle acting trustee try.” There are manydtii«£"*P
to the amount of six thousand and some hun- [ that he has not done more for lus country.
K,‘c"S OU.’jS £?£»”« ,mb«- &r It b» bcc» repo,ted~tbat Dicker
, , , - ’ . ’ • , ’ .„ rm 0 f one rear has sent $5000 to his sister-in-law, in Chica-
and served out another term in tbe Muei jail go. At last accounts that lady had not been
for larceny. They are the kind of men puttsi possession of any facts confirming
Brownlow selects for political tools. Hunter report.
undertook to suppress the Avalanche, but the J ^ u Ja propoaed to form a society in
Boston for the prevention of cruelty to ani-
This will not, it is understood, apply
Avalanche has suppressed him and his court.’’
fXT There are 200,000 more females In mala This-writ not, n i
Ma^achusetts than males. - | to hen-pecked husbands
said he, “I shall lose my money, for his prop
erty would not now sell for as much as tho
Homestead law allows his family.” The
above contains a moral it would be well our
people should “read and reflect on maturely
before casting their vote in faror of the Con
stitution.
In prosperous times, when money is plenti
ful, very few men need credit, but to come
down to the cash system now would paralyze
the whole country. Who can tell how many
planters who have lately been refused credit
for supplies with which to cariy on their
business, owe their refusal to these very meas
ures, which we are told have been passed for
our benefit? Countryman.
Sad Accident—Child Killed ur a
Train.—While the up Western & Atlantic
freight train, on Thursday, was turning a
short curve about two miles below Tilton,
the engineer, Mr. John Helliogs, saw a child
on the track about fifty yards -ahead. He
immediately reversed the engine, whistled
down brakes and leaped from tbe engine
with the intention of running, ahead and
rescuing the child, if possible. Unfortun
ately, however, he stumbled as he jumped
from the train, and before he could reach the
child the engine and fender passed over and
killed it. The unfortunate little fellow was
about three years old, the son of a Mr. Baek-
man, who lived close to the track and near
the place where the accident happened. He
seemed to bo utterly unconscious that any
danger was near, and watched the approach
ing engine, laughing as it came.
° ° [Atlanta Era, 2J2d.
■■ ■ — —
Affray and Homicide.—We learn that
on Tuesday last an affray took place at New
ton, Dale county, between some citizens and
a squad of Federal soldiers stationed there.
The circumstances, as we have heard, were
that the military were assaulting or whipping
some negroes, when a well known citizen of
that town ordered them to desist, saying that
Southerners were not allowed to whip ne
groes, because it was forbidden by tbe Bu
reau, and that Yankees should not do it—of
fering at the same time, if his remarks gave
offence to the squad, to fight them one by
one. The corporal refused to “fight on that
line,” and stepping a few paces back, shot at
the belligerent individnal, but missed him
and killed a citizen who happened to be
standing near him.—Eufaula JNexcs, 21if.
_ 3y- What song do the hens sing after one
has dropped an egg ? Why, a ronnd-de-Iay,
of course.
The undersigned, members of tbe Recon
struction Committee, having carefully exam
amined the report of tbe majority since its
publication, the acts of Congrtss known as
tbe Reconstruction acts, and tbe eon
stitution and ordinances rejected
tbe people of the State of Alabama, submit
a3 their report to this House the following
preamble and resolution:
Whereas, »n act to provide-for the more effi
cient government of the rebel States, passed
March 2, IS67, and an act supplementary there
to, passed on the 23d of the same month, pro
vide for calling a Convention to prepare a con
stitution for thc government of the State
of Alabama, and for holding an elec
tion in that' State for the ratification
or rejection of (aid constitution by those
persons who were authorized under said acts to
register and vote in said election ; and whereas,
an election-was held-for that purpose in said
i State, commencing on the -f ih day of February
last, and continuing until the Sth of thatmonth,
which resulted in the rejection of Baid constitu
tion by a majority of fifteen thousand of the
registered voters under said acts, and who were
expressly authorized under and by the provi
sions ot .said acts to reject said constitution
cither by depositing their votes against it or by
not voting at said election ; and whereas, this
large majority of registered voters were utter
ly opposed to tho ratification of said constitu
tion— . , ;• ...
■ 1. Because it deprives a large number of the
wblte malcs of said 8tatc of the right to vote or
held office.
2. Because it confers the right to vote and hold
office on all tho'black males, thus disfranchising
intelligence and capacity, and enlranchisiBg igno
rance and incapacity.
3. Because it requires all persons before voting
to subscribe an oath that they “accept the civil
and political equality of all men, and agree not to
attempt to deprive any person or persons, on ac
count of race, color or previous condition, of any
political or civil right, privilege, or immunity en
joyed by any other class of men.”
4. Because ia apportioning representation to the
people of the several counties of the State it ig
nores three conntles, and leaves them without any
representation.
5. Because it gives to twenty-four .of tho fifty-
nine counties in the State which are recognized,
having a white population of two hundred and
fifty-two thousand lour hundred and seven, and a
black population of three hundred and twenty-
eight thousand three hundred and ten, sixty-five
of the one hnndred representatives which com
pose tho House of Representatives, and it gives to
the remaining thirty-five counties, having a white
population of two hundred and eighty thousand
two hundred and eighty-two, and a black popula
tion of one hundred and eleven thousand one hun
dred and fllty-nine, but one representative each ;
and because It apportions representation In the
Senate in the same way, as near as may be.". ’
0. Because by these means it places the power
to impose taxes, and alt other legislative power,
in tlie hands ot those who will be nou-taxpayers
when it goes into operation, and deprives a ma
jority ot those who will have to pay the taxes of
the right to vote, or of the power t« protect them
selves against the oppression with which they will
lk' inevitably visited. - . . ^
7. Because it makes no provision for and does
not make it tho duty of thc Legislature to appro
priate . the money raised by law for common
schools, equally and separately, for the benefit of
the white and black children in the State.
I. Because, alter declaring in the first section of
the Third Article “the powers of the government
of the State of Alabama shall be divided into
three distinct departments—namely, Legislative,
Executive and Judicial," it provides, in the fifth
section of tbe Eleventh Article, that “the Board
of Education shall exercise full legislative powers
in reference to tho educational institutions of the
State, and its acts when approved by the Gov
ernor, or when re-enacted by two-thirds of the
Board, in case of his disapproval, shall have the
force and effect of law, unless repealed by the Gen
eral Assembly.
9. Because it divides tbe militia into two
classes—namely, “volunteer militia” and “re
serve militia,” and it is made tbe duty of the
Governor, by an ordinance—which was not pub
lished with the Constitution for tho information
of the people, as two others were which were
Jess objectionable—to organizo immediately one
hundred and thirty-seven companies of volun
teer militia, which are to be armed and paid,
when in service, at the same.rato as United
States officers and soldiers, and out of the State
Treasury, the mounted men to have fifty cents
per day for their horses.
10. Because by tho 20th section of said ordi
nance, which goes into operation with the Con
stitution, “all proceeds ot thesalo of contraband
and captured property, seized or captured by
the militia,” shall constitute a Dart of the fund
out of which they are to be paid, thus inciting
the “volunteers’' to harass the people in time of
peace by unlawful seizures, and bo provido the
means of paying themselvos if tho property
seized Is honestly turned over.
II. Bccauso this Constitution provides for a
government which will cost annually from one
million five hundrod thousand to two million
dollars—a sum which the tax-pavers of the State
are wholly unable to meet in the'ir present im
poverished condition.
And whereas said registered voters believing
they had the right to dcleat a constitution so ob
jectionable as this in cither of the ways provided
in the aforesaid acts, and relying on their own and
the good faith of Congress in this behalf, they
made public their resolution .some weeks in ad
vance of said election not to vote at said election,
bnt to stay away from the pells. And whereas
this large majority of the registered voters, for the
reasons aforesaid, were opposed to the adoption of
said constitution, and did not vote in said election,
and did not go to the polls, thereby avoiding all
occasion of violence or disorder. And whereas it
is now charged by those who favor tho adoption of
said constitution “that there is no reason tadoubt
that a majority of the legally registered voters re
siding in the State actually voted at said election,
and believed they voted for the.constitution; and
that at least ten thousand legally registered voters
attempted to vote but were unable todoso;” for
reasons set forth in a paper published in the Daily
Globe of March 12, ISOS, and sworn to by Albert
Griffin, John C. Kefler, and others, before a notary
ublie of the city of Washington, on the 29th of
’ebruary, ISOS. And whereas those registered
voters who opposed tho adoption of said consti
tution bavo no desire to avoid a thorough and
searching investigation of all matters connected
with said election. And whereas there is good
reason to believe—
1. That the freedmen In large numbers, in all or
most of the counties of the 8tate, refused to vot*
for the adoption of said Constitution when they
saw the great body ot the old white citizens, with
whom they were well acquainted, among whom
they had always lived, and with whom they expect
to continue to live, and who were permanently
Interested in the State, were opposed to it.
2. That their purpose not to vote was strength
ened by the fact that those ‘white men who were
most active in favor of its adoption were new
comers, of whom they knew little or nothing, and
who had no visible interest in the State or the
freedmen except to get office.
3. That in many instances these new-comers,
and those who aided them, used threats of violence
to freedmen if they did not come and vote; in
others they promised them lands and mules; and
in this way induced or scared many into going to
the polls and voting who would not otherwise have
gone.
4. That many freedmen voted who were not of
legal age, and also voted for others who were
either unwilling to come to the poll's and vote, or
were unable.
5. That many of tho freedmen voted more than
one ticket, ana in some instances, when they were
detected, they excused themselves because of ig
norance, and gave the names of white men Who
were candidates for office as the persons who had
given them the roll of paper, and told them to
put it in the box: that it was “all right"
0. That many freedmen voted in counties where
they did not live as well as in the counties where
they did live. This was the case in Mobile, Dallas,
Montgomery, Barbour, Hale, Macon, Lee, Greene,
and Marengo counties,' and to some extent, but
not as great, in several others.
7. By these means many illegal votes were ob
tained in favorof adoptlng said Constitution, and
through the active agency, ins great degree, of
those whose only Interest in the question consists
in the fact that If It Is adopted they expect to get
an office of some sort, .which will enable them to
live on the substance of people to whom they are
strangers, “alike unknowing and unknown”;
therefore be it . ~,v
.Resolved, That the bill and: pending amend
ments be recommitted to the Reconstruction Com
mittee, and that they be directed to send for per
sons and papers, or, if they deem it advisable, to
visit the State ot Alabama for the purpose of as
certaining the truth of these and other allegations
made before the House of Rpresentatives.
James Brooks,
James B. Bkck. '
from thc Bocton Pod.}
At the close of December, 1667, middling Amer
ican cotton wae worth only seven pence in Liver
pool. Ita avenge quotation to-day, per “Cable,”
was 10V pence. An average of 3)^d has been
reached, without producing any check to con
sumption.
A difference In the proceeds equal to an average
of 2 Yd per pound, or 130 per bale upon 800,OuO
bales of our crop, will probably be realizedfin Eu
rope by reason of that advance. This difference,
amounting to sixteen million of dollam in gold,
enures about equally to tbe exporters, or other
parties standing between tbe producers and the
consumers, ana the planters.
This advance pats new life and vigor into all cur
cotton manufactories and the domestic trade.—
Nearly every mill had been piling up goods, to an
extent of three to five months’ proauction', and
stagnation was the characteristic of the trade.—
Goods could be disposed of to jobbers and dealers
ouly to bo settled lor “at value,” and values wore
lower and. lower from week to week, until loss
was the rulo and profit tho exception.
All til's was changed by the advance in eotton
which began ia January. Those stocks have dis
appeared and gone into general distribution, to
gether with the enlarged production since, while
prices have so improved under, this change that
geod profits again rule.
It was a beneficent advance in cotton which
added some fifteen or twenty millions to the
wealth of the country, and in exchange to help an
adverse balance of trade; which changed the great
manufacturing interests of the country from a
condition dull and profitless, to one of activity
and sood dividends—a change difficult to estimate
In dollars, but certainly worth millions in its ben
efits to. labor and c pital; and which lias reversed
the prospect of the cotton crop of 1863-9, from a
very Inconsiderable planting to one whichpromUes
the cultivation of moro acres than have bcen
worked in any year since 1S61—a great benefit to
the Southern States at this critical time.
The low price at the close ot 1SC7 tended to an
increased consumption of cotton and a still larger
redaction in the supply by keeping it back from
market, especially the Indian cotton. The proba-
ability of this double result induced and made suc
cessful the large speculation which was the mov
ing power in starting this advance in prices. Op
posite causes will produce opposite effects. The
advance of SV’d in Liverpool, and 9 cents here per
pound fnearfy or quite 50 per cent, upon tho low
range of December) will draw out every bale of
cotton, American, India and all others.
Other countries besides our own will be led to
an increased planting. Future supply, therefore,
seems to require only a season favorable to the
crop, to be more sure and ample.
Looking to the welfare of the planting interests
in our own country, it would be well to have it
understood abroad that the United States will
'fiant foras large a crop as possible, and may ob
tain three millions, or possibly lour millions bales,
that other countries may be discouraged from
cor. tribntinglargeiy to an over-supply,which would
causa disastrously low prices.
When demand has so strongly the lead as
now, supply has no consideration. So far as
prices of the day are concerned, it is of no con
sequence whether the United States crop now
coming in shall be 2,400,000 or 2,750,000 bales.—
The latter quantities, if certain, would deter no
operator from buying cotton, while tho demand
continues in its present large proportions.
Estimates of supply, however accurate, are but
littlo.esteemcd, because those which prove to
havo been right, seldom command confidence.
They are now worthless. Facts—tho actual bo
far a3 developed—may interest some persons.—
The New York cotton tables made up, and inclu
ding telegraphic roports to the 6th inst., show,
since 1st September, 1867—
Exports to foreign ports bales 1,090,000
Stocks in our ports — 327,000
Manufacturers north of the I’otomao havo
taken for their consumption since 1st Sept.
23 week?, at 15.000 per week...— .420,000
The hold in stock 158,000-
578,000
In transitu—sea and land—excluded from
stock in both Northern and Southorn ports- 110,000
Total to date — 2,105,000
Deduct stock in mills Sept. 1 ,.—18.000
Deduct stock in port Sept. 1 ..—...81,000
09.000
SnERMAX Sees Breakers Ahead.-—
Sherman, tho other day, when a proposition
was before the Senate looking to the expen
diture of several millions, warned the Senate
pf breakers ahead, and this he did on infor-
ihation which reached him that day.
He takes a cheerless view pf thc situation,
as docs Washburne, chairman of tho Com
mittee on Appropriations, who said in the
House to-day he could not see where the
money was to be raised to meet tbe extrava
gant appropriations of tho House, and this,
too, he added, when the Radical party will
be held responsible for all legislation.
• [ Wash. Cor. Lou. Courier.
|5F" Three thousand people have been in
dicted in one county in California Forwitness-
ing a prize fight'; and the sheriff Is travels
ling about arresting the whole population.
Leaving-—....—.-—— —2.006,000
the actual out-turn rom this crop, to date, and
counting any cotton at inland depots and land
ings.
To the class of men who hold that the crop can
not exceed 2,350,000 bales, tho above will be con
clusive that so little remains to come, in cotton
should be worth better prices. To those who re
gard thc old ratio of proportions, the same figures
will equally decide that if thirty per cent, of the
crop is yet to come in, the whole crop must be
2,900,000.
The Solar Eclipse of 18G8—Total Dark
ness in. India.
From Galignani't Mcttcnger, February 13.]
Our readers are aware that astronomers are
looking forward with great interest to tho
solar eclipse, which is to take place on the
18th of August next, and will bo total in In
dia. On this subject M. Le Verricr last week
read a communication to the Academy of
Sciences, informing that learned body that
the line of the central eclipse passes through
Aden, then enters India by Kolapoor, a little
above Goa, crosses the whole continent from
west to cast, and quits it near Mosaulipatam.
It then traverses the Gulf of Bengal, passes
north of the Andaman Islands, crosses the
northern part of the Peninsula of Malacca,
the Gnlf ot Siam, the point of Camboja, tbe
north of Borneo and tne Celebes, and lastly,
skirts the south of New Guinea. The dark
ness will be very long, and last more than six
minutes and a half, varying by a few seconds
according to the localities. This long dura
tion is owing to tbe circumstance that while
the moon will be in its perigee, and, there
fore, has a large apparent diameter, the sun
will be in its apogee, and will, therefore, have
a very small apparent diameter.
Aden is not a convenient station, thc sun
being too near the horizon ; the British as
tronomers have tho choice of excellent sta
tions, and arc already making preparations.
M. Le Verrier then remarked that, as regards
France, the point of Camboja, which lies
within the French territory of Saigon, ought
to be selected for the observation of the
eclipse; that the station for the purpose
ougnt to be prepared forthwith, and its lati
tude and longitude determined, the elements
deduced from the eclipse itself being useful
to correct tho longitude in question, and to
determine the diameter of the sun anew ;
that the spectrum analysis of the sun’s light,
when reduced to a mere luminous curve, just
before the totality of the eclipse,will be of the
utmost importance ; the same being thc case
with the reappearance of the sun’s rays after
the totality, and that the protuberances ought
to be particularly watched in order to ascer
tain whether they really belong to the sun’s
disc.
Unfortunately, M. Lo Yerrrier adds: Ow
ing to the southwestern monsoon, the state
of the sky may mar the observations. The
English astronomers will, on that account,
avoid thc western coast of India, and select
their stations on tho eastern declivities of
the mountain ranges. M. Lo Verrier thinks
that care should be taken to ascertain
whether Camboja is likely to present the
same inconvenience.
XOBU AND HKLlOIOtS MISCELLANY.
The Dying Infidel.—One morning, Dr.
Fletcher, of Stepney, received a request to
visit a man who was a professed skeptic, and
apparently near bis end. On entering the
chamber where he lay, he beheld the atten
uated form of one wbo bad been a tall, ath
letic man, struggling under the ravages of a
disease at once tbe most painful end incura
ble. The doctor addressed him by sundry
kind inquiries and expressions of sympathy,
reminding him of the sufferings of Christ
who gave Himself a ransom for sinners, that
through His atoning sacrifice they mi gilt ob
tain the forgiveness of eirt and be restored to
the favor of God.
Hearing this, the dyihg man said: “Sir, I
don't believe that; I wish I could, as ray
dear wifo there does; she believes all you
say.”
“Well,” said Dr. F., ‘.‘but you say you wish
you could, and that is a great point towards
attaining it, if you are_ sincere. Now, what
do you believe concerning Jesus Christ?”
“Why,” he replied, “I believe such a man
once lived, and that he was a very good, sin
cere man; but that is all.”
It was a principle with Dr. F., when reason
ing with unbelievers, if they acknowledged
thc smallest portion of truth, to make it a
position from which to argue with them.
This mode he now adopted, and said:
“You believe Jesus Christ was a good man
—a sincere man. Now do you think that a
_ood man would wish to deceive others ? or
a sincere man use language that must mis
lead ?”
“Certainly not,” he replied.
“Then how do you reconcile your admis
sion that He was a good man with his saying
to the Jews, ‘I anu my Father are one.’
When they took up seones to kill Him He did
not undeceive them, but still maintained the
fact of Hi3 Godhead; adding, ‘My sheep hear
my voice, and they follow Me, and 1 know
them, and I give unto them eternal life ?’
Could any angel, however exalted ?”
“Stop,” cried the dying man, with an ex
cited voice. “Stop, sir; I never saw this be
fore; a new light breaks in upon me. Stop
sir l” >
Holding up his emaciated hand, as if fear
ing that a breath might obscure the new light
breaking in on bis benighted' soul, and with
a countenance lighted up with a sort of pre
ternatural expression quite indescribable, but
with eyes intently fixed on Dr. F., he ex
claimed, after a short pause, while big tears
rolled down his cheeks—
“Sir, you arc a messenger of mercy sent by
God himself to save my poor scul! Yes,
Christ is God, and he died to save sinners!
Yes, even me!”
Two Pictures of Death.—In a scantily
furnished chamber lies an old Scotch min
ister with thin, gray hair, and wrinkled skin.
Rut his brow is high and broad; his deep-set
eyes are bright and piercing ; a smile plays
round his lips ; and though feeble and dying,
be looks calm and happy. Let us speak to
him and say—
“Do you think yourself dying, dear sir ? "
Ho fixes his ejo calmly, upon you, and
slowly he replies—
“Really, friend, I am not anxious whether
or not; for if I die, I shall be with God; if
I live, He will bo with me.”
Now let us step into yonder mansion. En
tering a richly furnished chamber, wc find a
dignified person enfolded in warm robes, and
seated ia a large easy chair. He, too, is fee
ble and dying ; but the light in his eyes is
unsteady, and he looks like a man ill at ease
with himself Let us also ask him a ques
tion—
“Mr. GibboD, how does the world appear
to you now ? ”
The eloquent historian of the Roman Em
pire—for he it is—closes his eyes a moment,
then opens them again, and with a deep sigh
he replies—
“All things are fleeting. When I look
back I see they have been fleeting; .when I
look forward, all is dark and deubtful.—
Protestant Watchman.
Rejoicing in God.—I will enjoy all things
in God, and God in all things, nothing in it
self; so shall my joys neither change nor
perish. For however the things themselves
may alter or /ade, yet He, in whom they are
mine, is even like Himself, constant and ever
lasting. Surely we are wise for anything but
our souls; and not so wise for the body as
foolish for them. O, Lord, thy payment is
sure; and who knows how present l Take
the sou! that thou hast both made and
brought; and let me rather give my life for
the power, than take the offers of the' world
for nothing.—Bishop Hall.
Generation after generation have felt as
we do now, and their lives were as active as
our own. The heavens will be asbright over
our graves as they are about our paths. Yet
a little while and alt this will havo hap
pened. The throbbing heart will be stilled,
and we shall be at rest. • Our funeral will
wend its way, and the prayers will be said,
we shall be left in the darkness and silence of
the tomb, and it may be but for a short time
we shall be spoken of, but the thing of life
shall creep on and our names shall be forgot
ten. Day slialL continue to move on, and
laughter and song will be heard in the room
where we died; aDd the eyes that mourned
for us will be dry and animated with joy,
and even our. children will cease to-think of
us, and will remember to lisp our names no
more.
It is easy to say ill-natured things, and
thus get a reputation for smartness; but gen
uine humor doesn’t flow from a bitter foun
tain. It is gentle and genial, comes from a
bright and loving spirit, and refreshes while
it excites to mirth and laughter. Less bril
liant than wit, is more agreeable. While thc
one offends by its severity, the other makes a
man ashamed' of his follies without exciting
his resentment
‘Cussed bis Crop Out.”
Ye Stlnkee and the Perry House.
. Yc great Stinkee, as we have chronicled,
arrived in town Tuesday, and while Mr.
-Beales, the proprietor, was absent went to
the Perry House, and was assigned a room.
Late in the afternoon Mr. S. returned, and
when tbe great guano-perfumed gent came in,
he was told that he must “slide.” He threat
ened Mr. Scales with Scalawag ' Convention
vengeance, if any difference was made be
tween Union men and rebels, and “biowed
sligbtuaily.” Mr. S„ of course, had no ob
jection to any respectable white man being a
guest at iiis hotel—he never inquired con
cerning a gentleman’s politics; but Stinkee’s
general character was so had, so utterly dis
reputable, that thc hoarders at the hotel
would not Bit at the table with him, and the
business of the house would be affected if
such people were allowed in it.
Ye “sulphurated hydrogen 1 ’ “simmered
down,” after being told these truths, and ran
on the “plead.” It was then so late he
couldn’t make other arrangements, and
asked the privilege of remaining that night.
He was told he could have an apartment, but
he couldn’t enter the dining room; his meals
would be sent to him, and next morning he
must “pack.” Before breakfast he departed,
and, wonder of wonders, paid his bill—a
thing of greatest rarity with the odoriferous
animal—but returned before dinner saying he
would stop at the Perry House anyhow.—
Mr. Beales told him he was proprietor, he
received no disreputable or wantonly low
characters, and if he didn’t leave he’d make
him. So, much against his will, the ex-over
seer sought refuge at a negro den, where his
smells are perhaps agreeable. He didn’t
want to go to the nigger’s a bit, and would
not have done so had he not been forced.
[Columbus Sun,
The following good one is told of John
M., a most inveterate wag, and one of the
cleverest men in old Talbot. He was in thc
Burcan office at Butler last Fall, looking
over the books, when a negro, who had
some difficulty with his employer, en
tered and inquired if he was “de buro.”
“Yes,” said he, “I’m the mam.”
“Weel, boss, I come to see you ’bout a
fuss I had wid de man I works wid, Mr. B.
You see, boss, I axed him two weeks ago
how much money things I got in de store,
and he told me a hundred and thirty dollars.
Well, las’ week I goes to town and buys
three or four dollars’ wnf of things, and then
he say I owe him two hundred and fifty* dol
lars; and when I tell him dat can’t be so, he
cussed—•”
“What! did he cuss you?” said 3f., ex
citedly, turning over the leaves of the tax
book.
“Yes, boss, he cussed me twice.”
“Well,” said M., hurriedly snatching up.a
pen and making some marks on the book, “I
line him nine dollars for that.”
“Look a-bare, boss,” said the negro eager
ly, “does dey have to pay for cussin us V’
“Yes, four dollars and a half for every time
they cuss you.”
“Den,” said tbe colored individual,- rising
solemnly and putting his hat carefully on the
table " ’fore God, boss he done cuss bis wholo
crop out, aud I'se gwine home to collect my
money.”
The negro made shell road time back to
his employer’s, told tbe negroes of their good
fortune, and the result was that every one’ of
them went to Butler next day to know about
this “cuss money.” B. had some trouble in.
convincing the newly-made, enlightened
voters that “cussing” was not taxable. — Tab
hoi ton Gazette.
piT At a performance of “Ernani,” in New
York, the other day, Pankani killed himself
appropriately in tbe last act, but the curtain
would not dome down, and the dead man waa
obliged to get up and walk off amid thc ap
plause of tho audience.
53)TGrant was seen the other day trying
to walk both sides of Pennsylvania Avenuo
in Washington.