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Tli© Greorgia, Weekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY MAY 1, ISOS. THE GEORGIA. DKMOCRACT. Whether they have elected their candidates or not, the Democracy of Georgia have achieved & glorious victory in the late election. Never did a party contend with such odds. They had the power of law and every species of rascality arrayed against th ein. Many wise men thought it useless to make tko light in e face of such obstacles, but braver hearts that were not afraid of defeat and resolved to save their State from Radical degradation determined otherwise. If theend hasnotjus- tified their expectations—and Are still hope it has—it has at least repaid them for their toils and sacrifices. It has put the Demo cratic party in & position where it will be in vincible in all future struggles where the ballot box is not corrupted and honest men arc not driven from the polls. It may ho useful now to refer to some of tho difficulties against which the Democ racy had to contend in this, their first strug gle. The election itself originated in out rage and wrong. The Reconstruction Act of Congress that ordered it first disfranchised fronT fen to fifteen thousand of our best citi zens. It gave every negro in the State the right to vote. The election was wholly in tho hands of Radical partisans whose interest and business it was to do tho work of their party rather than secure a fair election to the people. The election wns held under an old registration, made for a wholly different pur pose and unsuited to our present condition. Though a Constitution was only proposed for adoption, elections of all officers, State and federal were held under that Con stitution, and simultaneously with tho ques tion of ratification, though tho qualifications for office therein set forth were not allowed to control as to the officers chosen. This was a cunning trick that appealed to the pas sion for office, and mado it to the interest of every candidate, however much he hated the Constitution, not to oppose it; for, as will be perceived, it was only in the event of its adoption that lie could enjoy the office to which he might be chosen. Relief from the payment of honest debts, exemption of a large homestead, and other bribes were thrown in to gloss over the hideous dbse and make it palatable to the people—or rather to compel them, from their necessities, to accept a gov ernment which in their hearts they abhorred. As if all this was not sufficient to override the honest will and judgment of tho people, the law allowed every negro to vote wherever ho might be, on his affidavit that he had registered somewhere^ from which cause alone we have no doubt ten thousand ille gal votes, were counted for the Radical par ty. Then, the Registrars, partisans as they were, had the right by law to strike off all names from the registry that were objection able to themselves, thus giving them absolute power over the character of the vote. In the practical administration of their trust, ne groes of all ages above sixteen, who were willing to take an oath, which not one in ten comprehended or cared for, were allowed to register and vote at the election. In many instances, as tho election was continued through four days, negro registrars were allowed to take the ballot boxes home with them at night, sometimes miles into the country, while nearly all the registrars held them in custody from day to day. That thousands of negroes voted in several conn- ties, no one doubts, and to all this add the formidable Loyal League organizations, by which all the negroes who voted the Demo cratic ticket were condemned to death or some other terrible punishment, besides the great body of the race being made to believe that if tho Democrats were snccesful they would be remanded to slavery, and tho dis tant reader will form some idea of the hercu lean task undertaken by the Democrats of Georgia when they put their candidates in the field and went forth to battle. In view of these facts, who will say that the Democracy in Georgia have not achieved a glorious victory ? [for the Telegraph. Southern Agricultural Reform* The problem for the South is how to ob - tain labor for her lands. So far as the freedman is concerned, for coerefon, something must be substituted in order to make his labor available. Is it not possible that by throwing the freedman on his own responsibi!ityi an J quality he pos sesses rendering him capable of being self- sustaining will be brought out ? It is possiblo tho son of Africa, heretofore among us as a slave, may be unfit for occupy ing ft position of independence and compara tive isolation from his former master. It is true, his forefather in Africa has had an equal chance with tho rest of mankind for advanc ing in civilization, and yet has given no ear nest of progress in the shape of bridges, ca nals, railroads, well-tilled farms or wise laws. It is true in New York city, where carefully collected statistics show that with the opportunities of advancement there offered the proportions of Africans who have risen above the position of “drawers of water and hewers of stone,” for the white race is very small, they filling there mainly the posts of hirelings, and that of tho humblest kind ; such as, carriage drivers, hostlers, porters, waiters, etc., % much of. which is due, doubt less, to the prejudice of tbo New Yorker against a race having a different colored skin, to mark him as once having occupied the place of slave for him or his forefathers. But, notwithstanding these facts tending to discourage us, should we not for their sakes, and for our own, make an honest effort to benefit them and ourselves—to benefit that country which must bo occupied by us and our children, do what we will. It becomes us to use whatever of intelligence is onrs to make our country what we would havo it. * How would it do to divide our lands into farms of, say, forty or fifty acres, put cheap but comfortable houses on them, and lease or sell to tho best renters or pur chasers we can find, black or white, nativo or foreign. * * * * * * History repeats itself. Wherever civiliza tion has existed the tendency has been for the capitalist to own land, and tho laborer, either as his renter or hired servant, to work it. Last year, to a considerable extent, hired labor worked our lands, and in almost every instance proved disastrous. It seems to be the voice ot history reasserting that hired labor, except on a very limited scale, will not prove profitable. It will do to work large plantations by slave labor,5 but hired labor can only be profitably employed on small farms. Con sider bow, after the various upheavings of society in the world’s history, the result has been almost invariably the same. Scrutinize carefully the feudal system, the present sys tem of agriculture in Great Britain, India and the Northern States. Ex-Govcrnoi Thomas H. Seymour, of Con necticut, is, says' the Augusta Constitutional ist, one of the very noblest men in all this land, and one, too, whose garments are free from the stain of blood-gailtiness. He is ashamed of his country’s downfall, and, on the anniversary of Jefferson’s birthday, ad dressed a Democratic meeting in words of burning eloquence and patriotic fire. We quote tho peroration, illustrative of the true spirit of magnanimity and the only pluck to ■win in the coming struggle for liberty. He is in favor of no subterfuges, but distinct principles; no tame submission to a Wade or Butler usurpation or despotism, but a grand rising of the people against the conspirators and their infamous schemes. He said: “The true spirit of magnanimity was illus trated by Napoleon at Borodino, when, in reply to a heartless remark from one of his officers on the occasion of his trampling on a wounded Russian, lie said: ‘Sir, when you have gained a victory there are no enemies, there arc only men.’ [Immense applause.] — I sec you apply tho anecdote as it should be applied. Southerners arc not only meD, but our brothers; and in the restoration of their rights, we aro to have a convention in this city on the fourth of July, 1868. Now let me say to those who may be in the secrets of the delegates alrendy elected, or may know something of the matters, that it is necessary, it seems to me, to tho future success of pa triotic men in this country that their plat form of principles should be so distinct.— [‘Good, good!’] and clear [‘Good, good!”— and applause]—ns to ennble the man of the people to distinguish between right and wrong—in other words, it must be so different from tbo platform on tho other side that we may see clearly where liberty, is, where slavery is" where independence is.— [“Good, good 1”] And again, gentlemen, If we secure a clear, a distinct majority of the electoral votes, and they shall dare to shut out Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky, for the purpose of frustrating the will of the people, it will be necessary for the triumph ant party to vindicate their right toaclminis ter this Government, and inaugurate theii chief on the 4th of March, 1SC9. [Applause.] If you are not prepared for that, you need no! undertake tho contest. And when the victo ry is won, in the words of the poet of Jeffer son’s day, celebrating tho redemption of thb people, with bonfires and illuminations, wj will sing: Rejoice^Columbia’s sons, rejoice: To tyrants never bend the knee: But join in heart, and hand, and voice, Bor Jefferson and liberty. ESP Glynn, Camden and Charlton, consol idated report—give 966 majority for the Constitution. 983 for Bullock, 985 for Clift. THB ELECTION. The returns, mostly official, which wc give elscwhero from eighty-four counties, give a majority of about three thousand for Bullock for Governor. How far the forty-eight re maining counties will effect this majority, remains to be seen. T7o have received satisfactory returns from only thirty of the forty-four Senatorial Dis tricts, which show the election of 16 Demo crats and 14 Radicals and negroes. Our list of members elect to the House embraces 75 counties, which have sent 56 Democrats and G2 Radicals and negroes. These latter elections, however, if General Meade’s sentiments are correctly represented, will bo of little avail to the people of Geor gia. It is snicl that our District Commander has determined to force tho iron-clad oath on all members of tho Legislature, and reject such as refuse or are unable to taka it. If tho President should sustain this decision, wo shall be without remedy, at least until the voice of the American people shall be beard. FLORIDA. We hope our friends in this State will learn a lesson from the late Georgia election. It is, that holding aloof from tho negroes, and leaving them to the management of Yankee adventurers, is a most fatal policy. It is a mistake that the negroes are not open to conviction—that they will not hear what you have to say and take it to heart. The thing has been fully tried, in many por tions of Georgia, and with the happiest re sults. The dangers of secret Loyal Leagues, the tricks of interested Radical white jiarti- sans, tho hollow pretensions of the whole Radical policy regarding tho blacks of the South, the real interest of the latter, are all so patent to the minds of sensible men that it is a cowardly abandonment of the truth to conclude that they cannot bo mado evident even to the humble mind of the negro. Then abandon, at once, the hold-off policy, go niiioe- tho negroes, talk to them freely and candidly, open their eyes to the wiles of their reii cm mica, show them all that concerns cir ruo welfare, face their deceivers and rram tbcfr wicked lies.down their throats, assemble en mam at the polls and give pro-! tcc.ion and conhdence to those who wish to do right, and our word for it, Florida will be 8- \e,\ from Radical domination in the com ing aiocoLon. This year working on shares has been sub stituted for hiring for wages. This has many advantages and may, possibly, be tho best under existing circumstances; in fact may be the only safe system for this year and the most practicable for many landholders for years to come, but if history teaches us any lesson, it is that for the land-owner and laborer to be brought into such close prox imity, when such laborer is other than a slave, is an abnormal condition of affairs which cannot last long. It is too great an undertaking for a single individual, even if he owned the land and some capital, to inaugurate this system of small farms. The improvements to be made, houses and fencing to bo built, wells to be dug, and in the destitute condi tion of the newly enfranchised advances to bo made in the farm of stock, implements of husbandry and provisions to give him a start in the incipicncy of the enterprise, would make the outlay of capital so great as to do- ter private parties from entering upon it.— Though we know of private individuals who are making their arrangements to inaugurate this system, and wc know of one instance where it has been done and has proved a success, so far. As a solution for this difficul ty, we propose the formation of aggregate cor porations, tho advantages of which, for wis dom in planning and efficiency in executing, are too well known to need comment. Wo propose joint stock companies for the purchase of land, said land to bo divided up into small farms, improved and sold or rented out. The shares in these companies can be made small and judiciously invested in land or sold for currency, the whole to be carried on under the superintendence of proper offi cers, President, Directors, etc. The idea is to reduce each enterprise to such a system as will combine tho efficiency and stability of aggregate contradistinction from sole corporations. We would like to hear the subject discussed by the thinking men of our day, and if there is anything in it, let it be eliminated. Bum. Tire Indian Wad in Florida—A Ridicu lous Canard.—Wc see a telegraph dispatch published in the Northern papers to the effect that an Indian war had broken out in Florida. The report is without the slightest founds tion, and so far os we can ascertain arose from the fact that Tiger Tail, the chief of tho Semi notes, having carried some slaves to Now Smyrna to sell, the peoplo refused to buy them telling the Chief that slavery was'nbolishcd. Tiger Tail denied tho right of Uncle Abe, or any other man, to set his slaves free, and car ried them back to the Everglades in high dudgeon. Owing to this and some alleged outrages on the part of tho white traders and cattle dealers, the Indians have been of late somewhat dissatisfied. We aro informed on the authority of Col. Sprague, that theso Indians cannot muster over one hundred warriors, and the idea of such a handful of savages making war upon the whites is sim ply absurd. We tmst our Northern ex changes will contradict tho report, which is calculated to injure tho State.—Jacksonville (.Fla) Union. Ancient S f.h mo ns.—When Nathan preached unto David, the king’s heart was bowed down, and he trembled before the Lord on account of his sin. When .Tonali preached in tho streets of Nincvah, the in habitants became alarmed, and clothed them selves in sackcloth, from the greatest even unto the least of them. On the day of Pen tecost, under a sermon preached by refer, threo thousand men were pricked in the heart, and cried out, “Men and brethren-, what shall we do ?” When Paul stood be fore tho guilty Felix, and reasoned of right eousness, temperance ami judgment to come, Felix became alarmed; and when the same unflinching preacher ot righteousness was summoned into tho,presence ot Agrippa such was the power of his warning and appeals, that tho king cried out tb Paul, “Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” More Banner Counties.—The counties of Washington and Jonfef arjv’entitled to the credit of having cast not a single white vote 1 for Bullock or the Constitution. The Abyssinian Expedition. ENGLISH barbarism. We doubt if there arc any greater barbari ans in Abyssinia than in the English irmy, sent there to fight King Theodore. Tie fol lowing is from a letter in the Pall Mail Ga zette, dated Zulla, March 4: “The authorities here have behaved in a very mean and improper manner to the Turk ish and Egyptian drivers, and I hope the matter will be—as I believe it is to be— brought before Parliament. These men, on joining, were placed under officers who did not know their language. In the confusion of starting an expedition like this they were left some days without food or water. They naturally did not like it, and were flogged daily by fifties, when really the poor creatures only expected to be properly used as first- class mule-drivers. “Intrcpreters were then sent, and Capt. An- nesley, who knows no end of language, offered to take them all in his division. This was acceded to, and they were soon made happy and contented, working like slaves; so well, indeed, that Capt. Annesley was thanked and complimented, and it was further promised that tho threat of discharging them should not be carried out. Suddenly down comes an order to pay up and discharge them all, and to tako away the clothing they had,re ceived from the government. They had all thrown away their old rags, and the govern ment clothing was all they now had. It was represented how unjustifiable it would be to send the men back to Egypt in that plight, but remonstrance was in vain. “They were embarked under an armed guard, and an officer of the department bad to go on board and take the clothes from their backs. In some cases they were allowed to keep their trowsers, otherwise they would have been utterly naked. “This was on the 18th of February, when it is very cold in tho northern portions of the Red Sea, and even in Egypt. Putting the inhumanity of the proceeding out of the question, the policy was very bad. These men will return to Egypt and say, ‘This is how the English treated us.’ Surely such conduct is not calculated so raise either our popularity or prestige. “Let me give you but one instance of the treatment which’ they received: About 150 of them came up jabbering to an officer, who could not understand them, and reported it as a case of mutiny. Forthwith two com panies of infantry were sent down, and 60 of tho Turks were tied up to the triangles and got 50 lashes each. It then leaked out that the poor wretches had been three days with out rations and were only complaining.— However, they arc nearly all gone now, and tho matter has been hushed up; but it is really too bad that these unfortunate fellows should have met with such outrageous treat ment, owing to our own ignorance. It is un derstood that Capt. Annesley sent in a letter remonstrating against tho clothing being taken away from them.” Baldwin and Another War. A paragraph from the Columbia Herald re cently gained extensive circulation, in which the Rev. Dr. Baldwin was reported as de claring just before his death, that another and terrible war would be waged on this con tinent during the presnt year. Tho follow ing facts have been learned from Dr. R. H. Rivers, which fully corroborate the statement in the Herald. In January, 1863, Dr. Bald win wrote a letter to General Thomas Rivers, in which he said : “The present war will not finally settle the question at issue. Especially is this true in reference to the status of tho negro. ■“Another war will shortly succeed this, far more terrible than tho present. It will be to the present as were the Indian and French wars to iho war of the Revolution. This second war will determine, for all time, the status of the negro. He will be made subor dinate to the white race, not only in the South} but throughout tho world.” This letter was shown to Dr. Rivers by tho widow of bis brother, and bnt a short time prior to tho lamented death of Dr. Baldwin. Ho imme diately wrote to Dr. B., and asked him ifhis opinions had changed since the close of the war. Tho reply was, my principles have not changed. According to my understanding of prophecy, another war is soon to convulse this continent. “The issue is certaiD. The Hamitic race will be made subject forever to tho Japhetic race. I do not say that slavery will be re-es tablished, but Japhct must have dominion.” He went on further to say that ho had never committed nn error in the Interpretation of prophecy; that lie was preparing a work which he had read in manuscript to the Rev. F. A. Owen and others, in which he has fore told with perfect accuracy tho war between Italy, Prussia, and Austria, even to the day and hour of its declaration. He said, “My theories have some times been erroneous, but my interpretations have always been such as were established by facts.” Do not tho times appear to indicate that Dr. Baldwin was right and that we arc on the eve of terrible events ?—Nashville Banner. Destruction ol the Abbe Mlgne’s Printing Houie. The Paris*correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes that the great ecclesiastical printing presses and warehouses of the well known Abbe Migne were totally destroyed by fire on the 13th ult. The loss of property is valued at six or seven millions of francs.— During the last 80 years the Abbe’s presses have supplied the Roman Catholic clergy with cheap editions of tho Greek and Latin fathers, text- books in every branch of divinity, reprints of the works of the French divines and the logical cyclopaedias. He has edited 2,000 volumes quarto, or what wo in Eng land would call imperial octavo, printed in doublo columns, varying in price between five and seven francs a volume. The collec tion of tho Latin fathers is contained in 222 volumes; tho Greek fathers, in Latin transla tions, in 167 volumes. He lias republished the collected works of all the great French divines and preachers and of the apologists of the church in originals and translations.— The French pulpit alone fills 100 volumes.— He has furnished the seminaries with edi tions of the scholastic writers, mystic and polemical hand-books innumerable, aids to faith, church historians, controversial writers, canons of the councils, canon law, liturgy and discipline. Several pages of the catalogue arc occu pied by a list of separato cyclopaedias of rites and ceremonies of liturgy, ot heresies and errors, of books condemned, of religious orders, of hagiography, of pilgrimages, of sacred inconograpby, of persecutions, of miracles, of indulgencies, of conversions to Catholicism, of involuntary apologists of the church, of'mysteries, of hymns, of scholas ticism, asceticism, and mysticism, of scien title objection refuted, of traditions and legends, monasteries -and convents, of anti- philosphism and a great many others, in one or more volumns each, filled with curious learning. The Abbe Migne’s peculiar notions of the most effective means of deterring from vice have induced him to publish a dictionary called “Satan, ses pompes et ses oeuvres, con taining fous les divertissements moderes on desordonnes, spectacles, bals f danses, romans, luxes, livres, imptes, nudites, tableaux, jeux, blasphemes, chasses, gourmandises, etc., etc., etc. Among other curious works arc 12 bulky volumes, filled, in chronological order, with all that has been said by ancient and modern theologians in honor of the Virgin Mary.— All publications were stereotyped, and filled extensive warehouses. Shapeless lumps of lead and heaps of ashes are all that remain. The 300 work-people employed by Abbe Migne were controlled with severe discipline, as the laconic warnings on the walls of the printing-house boro witness. Priests labor ing under ecclesiastical censures and turned adrift upon the world found a refuge and a means of earning a livelihood in the employ ment of Abbe Migne. The indefatigable Abbe attained some years ago a great noto riety by his scheme of a company for the dis patch of masses for the dead on commercial principles. By an intelligent application of the division of labor, priests overburdened with orders in the capital were enabled to transfer a portion of their work, through a central board, to less busy country curates.— The French liberal press disclosed the scheme, which had to be given up by episcopal or- der. _ The Bankrupt Bill. A Bill in amendment of an act entitled “An act to establish a uniform system of bank ruptcy throughout tho United States.”— Approved March 2,1867. Be it enacted, etc., That the provisions of the second clause of the thirty-third section of said act shall not apply to the cases of proceedings in bankruptcy commenced prior to the first day of January, 1869, and the time during which the operation of the pro visions of said clause is postponed shall be extended u»til said first day of January, 1869. And said danse is hereby so amended as to read as follows: In all proceedings in bank ruptcy commenced after the first day of Jan uary, 1869, no discharge shall be granted to a debtor whose assets shall not be equal to fifty per centum of the claims proved against his estate upon which he shall be liable as the principal debtor, unless the assent iD writing of a majoritj in number and value of his cred itors to whom he shall havo become liable as principal debtor, and who shall have proved their claims, be filed in the case at or before the time of ibe bearing of the application for discharge. Sec. 2. Ard bo it further enacted, That said act be further amended as follows: The phrase “presented or defended” in the fourtienth section of said act shall read “pros ecuted or defended;” the phrase “nor resi dent debtors” in line five, section twenty-two, of the act as printed in the Statues at Large, shall read “aor resident creditors”; that the word “or” in the next to tho last line of tho thirty-ninth section of the act shall read “and;” that the phrase “section thirteen” in the forty-second section shall read “section eleven;” and the phrase “or spends any part thereof in gaming” in the forty-fourth sec tion of said act, shall read “or shall spend any part thereof in gamingand that the words “with the senior register, or,” and the phrase “to be delivered to the register,” in the forty-seventh section of said act, be stricken out. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted; That registers in bankruptcy shall have power to administer oaths in all cases, and in relation to all matters in which oaths may be admin istered by Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the United States, and such Com missioners may take proof of debts in bank - ruptcy in all cases, subject to the revision of such proofs by the register and by the court, according to the provisions of said act. Passed the House Tuesday and sent to the Senate. For Liberia.—Wc hear of some three hundred emigrants leaving hero this morning for Liberia. They go by special train, ami will sail in the Golconda in a few days for Africa.— Col Enquirer, 28th. Anna. Dickinson on General Grant.— Tho gentle Anna is one of the ablest and most popular orators in the pay of the Radi cal party. She has done good service for the party in times past. Just now she appears to be stumping it in the interest of those Radicals who do not favor the nomination of General Grant. Anna spoke at Elmira last week, and took occasion to hit tho man who does not talk some severe blows. She warned and threatened in her loving way. She said: “The Radical party cannot live upon the memory of its good deeds.” “Your work in the past won’t save you.” “You Radicals shirk the unpopular neces sity of putting the black race forward.” “You want to cover up the negro with Grant” “Unless you give the Northern negro the ballot you wont’t get tho support of the ne groes South.” “It is not sufficient that Grant was a soldier. McClellan wns a soldier. Fitz John Porter was a soldier.- It is not sufficient to write against any man’s name—soldier.” “By nominating Grant you show yourselves cowards and poltroons.” “Grant is no standard-bearer whoa prin ciples are to be fought for.” “You want Grant without a platform for the sake of expediency and winning the next election.” “I wouldn’t have a personal quarrel with General Grant. I dare to say what a great many men are thinking.” “I don’t want Grant for President.” ‘“Speech is silver, silence is golden.’ Grant’s silence is leaden.” “Ho must speak before begets the nomina tion.” “You can’t ‘hurrah for Grant’ and win on that issue.” “Shame, Shame on those Republicans who say: ‘I believe tho black man should vote in Louisiana, hut under no circumstances hero in Elmira.” “Disintegration stares tho Radicals in the face, because tbey are ashamed to come out boldly and openly for negro suffrage.” “Don’t hide your principles, if you’ve got any, behind the smoke of one man’s cigar.” We find an answer to this question in the following eloquent extract from the speech of Mr. Nelson before the Impeachment Court: A great many things have been said, and among the rest an attempt has been made to stigmatize the President as a, traitor to liis party—as disgracing the position held by some of the most illustrious in the land—as a dangerous person—a criminal, but not an or dinary one, and as encouraging murder, as sassination and robbery all over the Southern States; and finally, by way of proving that there is but one step between the subliinc and the ridiculous, as bandying ribald epithets with a jeering mob. My excuse for noticing these charges, which have been made here in the progress of this investigation, is that nothing lias been said in vindication of the President from them. It will be my duty. Senators, to pay some attention to them to day. We have borne it long enough, and I propose, before I enter upon the investiga tion of tho articles of impeachment, to pay some attention to' these accusations which have been heaped upon us almost every day from the commencement of the trial, and which have Jbcen passed unanswered and un noticed on the part of the President of the United States'. If it is true, as is alleged, that the Presi dent is guilty of all these things, if he bo guilty of one tithe of the offences which have been imputed to him in the opening argu ment of yesterday and to-day, then I am wil ling to confess that he is— “A monster of so frightful mien That to bo hated needs but to bo seen." I am willing to admit that if he was guilty of any of the charges which have been made against him, he is not only worthy of the cen sure of this Senate, bnt you should place— “A whip in every honest hand To lash him naked through the land." He should be pointed at everywhere as monster to be banished lrom society, and his name should become a word to frighten chil dren with throughout the land, from one end to the other, and when any one should meet him or see him, "Each particular hair to stand on end Liko quills upon the fretful porcupine." If he was these, I agree that neither I nor those associated with me can defend him.— But who is Andrew Johnson? Who is this man that you have on trial now, and in re gard to whom the gaze, not of “little Dela ware,” but of the whole Union and of the civilized world is directed at the present mo ment ? Who is Andrew Johnson? That ii a question which, but a few short'years ago, many of tboso I now address could have an swered with pleasure. Who is Andrew John son? Goto tbs town of Greenville, but few short years ago a little village in the mountains' ot East Tennessee, and you will see a poor boy catering that village, a stran ger, without acquaintance or friends, follow ing a humble mechanical pursuit, scarcely able to write, but yet industrious in his pro fession, honest and faithful in his dealings, and having a mind such as the God in Heaven implanted to him, and which was designed to be called into exercise and play before the American people. He enters the State of Tennessee, arriving poor, penniless, without the favor of the great, but scarce had he set his foot upon her soil, when he was seized and caressed with parental fondness,, embraced as though he bad been a favorite child, and patronized with liberal and unfounded bene licence. In the first place, tho people of his own county honor him by giving him a seat in the lower Legislature; next, he ascends to a seat in the Senate; then in the House of Representatives of the American Congress ; then, by the voice of the people, he was elected Governor of the Slate. Then he was sent to the Senate of the United States, and his whole career thus far has been a career in which he has been honored.and respected by the people, and it is only between two or three years that charges have been’preferred against liim—such as these which are pre sented now. Never since the charges against Warren Hastings, never since the charges against Sir Walter Raleigh, has any man been stigmatized with more severe reproba- tiontban the President of tho United States. All the powers ot invective, which the able and ingenious Managers can Command, have been brought into requisition to fire your hearts and prejudice your minds against him A perfect storm has been raised around him and the elements havo been agitated. “From peak to peak, tho rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder: not from'ono lono cloud. But every mountain now hath found a tongue; And Jura answers through her misty shroud, • Back to tho joyous Alps, who call to her aloud, Milwaukee has a Democratic paper in the Scandinavian language, called the Free- mad. This storm is playing around him. The pitiless rain- is beating upon him. The lightnings are flashing upon him, and I have the pleasure to state to you, Senators, to-day. and I hope my yoicc will reach the whole country, that he still stands firm, unbroken unmoved, unterrified; hurling no words of menace to the Senate of the United States, threatening no civil war to deluge his coun try with blood, but feeling a proud con sciousness of his own integrity, appealing to Heaven to witness the purity of his motives in his public administration, and callin^ upon you, Senators, in the name of the liv ing God, to whom you have made a pledge that you will do equal and impartial justice iu this case according to the Constitution and the laws, to pronounce him innocent of the offences charged against him. Are there not Senators here whose minds go back to thestirring times of 1860-61, when treason was rife in this Capitol, when men’s faces turned paic, when dispatch after dispatch was sent from this Chamber to fire the South ern heart, and prepare the Southern mind for that revolution which agitated our county, and which cost the lives and treasure of the nation to such an alarming extent ? Where was Andrew Johnson then ? Stand ing here, almost within ten feet of the place at which I now stand, solitary and alone in this magnificent Chamber, “where bloody treason flourished over us,” his voice was heard arousing the nation. Some of you heard its notes as they rolled from one end of the land to the other, arousing the patriot ism of our country—the only man from the South who was disposed to battle against treason then, and who it now called a traitor himself. He who has periled his life in a thousand forms to put down treason, he who has been reckless of danger, he who has per iled- his life, his fortune and his sacred honor to savo its life from destruction and ruin.— He now is stigmatized and denounced as a traitor, and from ono end of the land to tho other accusation has rung until the echoes have come back to the Capitol here, intend ing, if possible, to influence the judgment of the Senate. Is Andrew Johnson a man who is disposed to destroy any trust reposed iu him; a man who has on all occasions been found standing by his neighbors, standing by his friends, standing by his country; who has been found on all occasions worthyofthe high confidence and trust that has been reposed in him. I know, Senators, that when I state these things in your presence and in your hearing, I may extort but a smile ot derision among some of those who differ 'with him in opinion. I know that an unfortunate difference of opin ion exists between the Congress of the United States and the President, and in attempting to address you upon some of the very ques tions through which this difficulty arose, I pray Almighty God to direct me and lead me aright, for I believe in His presence to -day that my distinguished client is innocent of the charges preferred against him. I hope that God’s blessing, which has fol lowed kirn thus far in life, will follow him now, and that lie Will come out of the fiery furnace unscathed. Who is Andrew John son ? Why, Senator, when -the battle of Manassas, as wc call it in the South, or of Bull Run, as I believe it is called in the North, was fought—when our troop3 were driven back, defied and were pursued in haste and confusion to this .capital, when men's faces turned pale and their hearts fal tered—where was Andrew Johnson then ?— With a resolution undismayed and unfalter ing believing in the justice of the great cause country and to the world the objects and purposes of tlie war ; then it w T as that his voice was heard among the boldest of those who declared it the purpose of Congress to stand by and defend the Constitution and maintain and uphold the Government. The Funeral or Gen. Sernmes. The funeral procession that followed the remains pt Gem Sernmes tothc cemetery from the Presbyterian church last afternoon, was a very large and imposing one. The surviving and honorary members of the Columbus and the City Light Guards, numbering over one hundred and fifty men, acted as a military escort—had no muskets of course. The com panies were formed at the Baptist, and then marched to the Presbyterian Church, in the vestibule of which the cbffin, which had been newly varnished yesterday, had remained in statc'since its arrival in this city. The coffin which contained the remains of Lieut. C. A. Bailey, which arrived Friday, had been placed upon the same bier, and commander and subordinate bad slept side by side. As soon as the line was formed the coffin of Lieut. Bailey was carried to the Episcopal Church, where the remains will lie in state until 4 o’clock, p. it., to-day, when they will be deposited in the cemetery. Dr. R. A. Ware was marshal of the day, with Moj. Roswell Ellis as assistant. At the bead of tlie procession was the band playing a slow march, then came the City Light and Columbus Guards, marching in column by platoons, as military escort, followed by the hearse with pall bearers, then came General Benning and staff, Cols. Crawford, R. Thomp son and other Confederate officers, Major Wilkins, the City Council, and a long train of carriages—the entire line being fully a half mile in length. The body was deposited in the Soldiers’ Burial Ground on the south-east part of the cemetery. From the beautiful monument erected by our ladies, around the summit of which appeared the golden letters, “Brig. Gen. Paul J. Sernmes,” Rev. Messrs. - Hall, of the Presbyterian, and Devotie, of the Baptist Churches—the last the chaplain of the Guards —made brief addresses eulogistic of the deceased. Dr. D. related several personal incidents of General Sernmes’ daring and skill, exemplifying the chivalry of the chief tain and the piety of the man. There was j beautiful music from a number of fino voices. A platform had been erected in rear of the monument, and the singers and an organ were thereon. The pastors ot the two Methodist Churches were also soated on the monument with the speakers. The last rite was performed, and the noble dead left to sleep with the brave comrades that so thickly lie around him—no more to be disturbed until the resurrection morn.— Columbus Sun, 20f/t. I For tJiQ 7*» Communicated. _ Macon, April 2? i Qf . Messrs. Editors : Many of the su ' thrown out by your correspondentI in yesterday’s paper, are most excell, , All must agree that the.workin<- ^, . plantations profitably is gone for ' -I yet, as your correspondent remarks^- U- | great an undertaking for a single indivifl 1 * ^ I even if he own the land and some canit T' I inaugurate the system of small farmsv!T’'i fore it will be necessary to form joijT companies, so that all can take part It is generally understood that at th i I meeting of the “Board ofTradtf’aco - I was appointed to inaugurate a planT'” encouragement of immigration. ^ ^ tJ *l not the members of that committee ' themselves into a company, and appoS*l their number a President, Directors and ' ’ otlier officers as may be necessarr effectin a temporary organization-. •so asI Tins Augusta Row.—The Chronicle gives the following particulars : The day passed off quietly up to about 5 o’clock, at which time there were about three hundred negroes and about seventy-five whites in the Court-house yard, crowding around the steps, waiting the closing of the polls, all peaceable and orderly. About the time the military Mayor of this unfortunate city—the man appointed by Gen. Pope as chief conservator of the peace—came out of the Hall and, standing in the portico, flour ishing a roll of greenbacks, offered to bet one thousand dollars that Bullock was elected. This brag, from the chief Loyal Leaguer, enthused the negroes, who cheered lustily. The whites then cheered for Gordon and others. One irreverent individual cried out: “You d d peijured son of a b , you had better pay off your police with that money.” From this time to the closing of the polls there was considerable chafing. When the polls were closed, Bryant advised his friends to go home. The same advice was given by Mr. Christian and Major Crump to the white citizens present. This last named gentleman had just left the court yard in company with Mr. G. A. Snead, when the row commenced. A general fight would have ensued, hut for the reasons stated above. The negroes bran dished their clubs and threw showers of bricks; tlie whites standing firm and ccol.— Soon, at the suggestion of Major Crump, the military squad was put in motion, and the bayonets dispersed the negroes, injuring several, and we bear running one entirely through. Tlie officer in command very wise ly ordered his troops not to fire. Not Generally Known.—Martin Van Buren is tho only man who held the offices of President, Vice-President, Minister to Eng land, Governor of his own State, and mem ber of both Houses of Congress. Thomas H. Benton is the only man who liekl a seat in the United States Senate for thirty consecu tive years. The only instance of lather and son in the United States Senate, at the same time, is that of the Hon. Henry Dodge, Sena tor from Wisconsin, and his son, Augustus C. Dodge, Senator from Iowa. Gen. James Shields is tho only man who ever represented two States in the United States Senate. At one time he was Senator from Illinois, and subsequently from Minnesota. John Quincy Adams held positions under the Government during every administration from that of Washington to that of Polk, during which ho died. He had been Minister to England, member of both Houses of Congress, Secre tary ot State, and President of the United States. He died while a member of the House of Representatives. Life’s journey at the longest is but short. Though our stay on earth be pro longed for forescoro years or even a century, what is that compared to eternity ? It is the grain of sand upon the seashore—it is the drop of water falling into the ocean—it is a moment in the year of time. The grain of sand is not noticed on the seashore, the drop of water is not seen in the vast ocean, the moment is an imperceptible point of time. So man’s lifetime,' yea, and time itself, is so small as to be unnoticed when placed in comparison with eternity. But no ! time is not man’s lifetime; it is only his probation age. He is to live through' all eternity, or —dread thought—to be dying though all eternity, and yet to live I For a season he sleeps beneath the sod; sleeps to awake when God shall call—or awake only to par take of eternal joys, or to suffer endless tor ments. Blest arc they who go to sleep in the arms of Jesus; who ce iso to labor and enter the rest of tho righteous. issue a prospectus to the general p: viting them to take stock, payable in u,' or money, as may be most convenient! ^ Some of our very best citizens are me C 'v of that Committee—men who are • known throughout the State, and inspirp confidence in any enterprise the I inaugurate. • ■ It is to be hoped they will therefore ■ promptly for the good of our common (Ci try. Yours Respectfully, “Geouoii- / -*.<=..* Disturbance in Bairbridge.—iv e; formed that after counting the votes in n-T bridge, a Radical negro was making I ceadiary speech, and was ordered todT 1 by the Sheriff. Disturbance ensued aaK negro got hold of the Sheriff, and en.'f*I voring to kill him. The Sheriff Wa! I for him, and with a pistol brought him d I to a dead level.—Albany Newt. n ■ The Fort Gaines and Macon Rom., I We find the following editorial item intfcl Quincy Commonwealth of the 17th ; A prominent merchant of this plsceI rortw us tbst itt had twenty bales of cotta I shipped to Savannah, from BainbritW dor I tlie Flint to Chattahoochee and thenceml the Chattahoochee river to Fort GiiJ | thence to Macon and thence to Savans^l and saved seventy dollars freight eiptr« I which would have been incurred if tbecctioa I had been shipped to Savannah from Bfi-. I bridge on the Atlantic & Gulf Road. Indian Depredations.—St. Low, A*i I 24.—A Cheyenne dispatch says the indie I attacked a party of laborers in the JB’ickl Hills yesterday, and killed four of them.- j They also captured six teams belonging to t J train. £3F“Mrs. Lincoln’s book is ready forth I pi cs;. One of the most amusing things in i* I is the Logan ring story. A jewel represent I be worth a very large sum tuned outul eighteen-clollar affair. It was worth Gen. John’s veracity 1 CSjTTt is said that the four fastest ten in their several degrees, in this couatir, s| wit: Lantern, Lady Palmer, Auburn' Dexter, are each marked with two or fcl white feet, and a white nose—and allbi--| to Mr. Bonner. jvgFMf Adam had asked Eve to let tints I her, could the latter, without profanity. h«i| replied, “I don’t care^hdam if you dop William Benson, a citizen of Chios! worth nearly half a million dollars, has tel arrested for forging signatures to a deed cm veying a tract of land near the city lit'-1 valued at §100,000. eggfThe ladies of Sturgis, Mich., veil through the motions of voting at the ter election, just to show what they could dtij they were allowed. i^yMiss Nellie De More, of New Tort will next month undertake to walk from tte city to Philadelphia in thirty six boon.’ §1000. George A. Johnson, the Filet ;:: Mass,, “pop-corn man,” returns a larger - come than either of the physicians or nefi ters of the town. • SST” Forney says that to urge on the i®-| pc-achment business in his columns is l- aSj® duty.” If the proper duty were done byte it would be a Stern duty.—Prentice. EeT - The Washington letter-writers,inrI scribing Ben. Butler, call him “full-fare- ^ He certainly has a great deal of “cheeky * Sale of the Bath Paper Mills.-1^1 valuable property was sold yesterday, nounced, to the highest bidder, for cash- was purchased by Mr. Win. Craig, to v-l 000.—Augusta Con., 28th. % ^“Charlotte Thompson’s mother, 6| Clisbia Thompson, died on tbe 1st Rockland county, New York. She widow of the late Lysander Thompse.— eccentric comedian. in which the country was ei was heard here proclaimiii engaged, his voice to the whole Consider, that our good days are generally more in number than our evil days, our clays of prosperity (such I mean, as are suitable to our condition and circumstances) than our days of adversity. This is most certain, though most of us are apt to cast up our accounts otherwise. How many clays of (at least competent) health have we enjoyed for one day of grievous sickness? How- many days of ease, for one of pain ? How many blessings tor a few curses ? For one danger that hath surprised us, how many scores of clangers have we escaped, and some of them very narrowly ? But ala31 we write our mercies in the dust, but our afflictions we engrave in marble; our memories serve us too well to remember the latter, but we are strangely forgetful of tlie former. And this ' the greatest cause of our untankfulness, discontent and murmuring. 53i7”Tkere is no negro slavery now - in tbe Southern States, but a vast amount of white slavery. It is quite time for all decent men to declare themselves abolitionists. [Louisville Journal. Yates, of Illinois, is to address the public schools of Chicago. Whisky is not usually admitted in public schools by the bottle, much less the hogshead.—Louisville Democrat. ■- ■ — . ■-» Drowned— Miss _ Laura Dudley was state of Gcor drowned near Fort Games, on the 19th inst. She, iu company with Miss Laura Weaver and two young ipen, was taking a ride on the creek in a small boat and the boat was upset and Miss Dudley drowned, the others escap ing- Her body had not been recovered up to the 23th inst.—Albany News. Large States.—The four largest Sa^'-J the Union are Texas, 274,35C squareM-rf California, 183,931 square miles; M”'] 112,000 square miles aud Colorado, 1W-- square miles. Special Notices. *S-DR. 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