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Gen. Grant—Tli© TeawenfCMBee Bill/
and the CongresslonaS Majority. {
We published on the fourth page of yest;-*
day’s Teleobaph, the disclosures of a Hen-1
Washington correspondent on the new ad
sharp issue between Gen. Grant and Cocoes*
upon the repeal of the Tenure of Office ML
Hardiy less piquant and interesting a the
following from the Washington correspond
ent of the New York Worid upon the same
subject:
Gen. Grant has on three oeoasioDs\*' nce
Tuesday, expressed his intention, in t^L’® 3
worthy in emphasis of Andrew JacksoD, to
have the Civil Tenure bill repealed. His first
utterance of the kind was to Washburne, at
his (Grant’s) residence on I street, on Tuesday
night, after the receipt of that day’s World
containing the disclosures of Butler’s dcdg e
to have the bill repealing the Civil Tenure
act lie over till after a day long enough to lit
Mr. Johnson pocket it with fatal effect. Jf- •
Yesterday morning a Senator of the Skte
of Missouri, just about to depart home fcr the
recess, called to pay his respects and to say
good-bye to Gen. Grant,at his headquarters.
The conversation got on to politics, and the
Senator rnude the imitative remark:
‘•General. I think the Civil Tenure law has
worked badly, and will work worse.’V
To this opinion Gen. G/aut replied exactly
in the following words:
‘•I think so, too. I aca glad you think so.
That law must be really repealed before I
begin.”
Two Congressmen came to see him. One
was Mr. Washburne. The other is said to
have been Senator Stewart, though some say
it was Senator Williams.
To these gentlemen Gen. Grant declared
that he believed a purpose existed not to
repeal tho Civil Tenure bill in good faith,
and that Congress had better understand
that, if there was any double dealing de
signed there was another Congress to fix
things straight. •»
This in truthful substance, almost in lito
ral words, is what Gen. Grant said to these
two Congressmen yesterday afternoon. Gen.
Grant said “he wanted it understood that he
thought the Congress of 1S69-70 must meet
in March.” Gen. Grant said the same day
that “he wanted it understood that the Civ
il Tenure bill must be really repealed before
he began.”
This means that Gen. Grant believes
the Civil Tenure law will not he “really” re
pealed by this Congress.' •- It means that he
intends to have the next Congress meet and
“really” repeal it “before ne begins.” Gen.
Grant demands that Congress shall back
down from the Civil Tenure law and leave
him as free-handed as Abraham Lincoln was.
I will try to show that plain facts prove
Congress to be opposed to the repeal of the
act. No one has even proposed to repeal it
except Gen. Butler. He merely introduced
the repeal bill without a word of comment,
or statement to tell what the bill was.
The gravamen of impeachment was al
leged violation of the Civil Tenure law. The
burden of impeachment speeches was glorifi
cation of the law. Mr. Williams and Mr. Wil
son made elaborate arguments to prove its
constitutionality and policy, and insist that
it be a permanent part of the government
This Judiciary Committee must report the
bill Butler offered, if it be reported at all.
The committee met every day of the two
weeks’ session. During all these meetings,
fourteen in all, the bill was never even named
once. Every day the committee adjourned for
want of business, therefore they did not con
sider it their business to take up the bill.
Tbe committee are undoubtedly opposed to
the bill. Tbe House undoubtedly follows
the committee. Business languished every
day in the House. Beo. Butler never
once asked after or for his bill. This
proves he has no desire to bring it up nofv
In the Senate cot even a motion has been
made touching the repeal of the law. It is
regarded as a permanent part of the govern
mental machinery. Thirty-five Senators
voted to convict the President as guilty of
violating this act. Of.these thirty-five every
one who made remarks justifying his vote,
applauded the law as not good merely for a
day, but for all time. These thirty-five are
one more than a majority of the Senate now.
They have been reinforced by Southern Sena
tors who slavishly agree with them. The Sen
ate are committed to the law and cannot re
scind it without stultification. The repeal of
the law would deprive the Senate of what
they believe (or profess to believe) one of their
constitutional prerogatives. The Senate
are very strict to adhere to the Constitution
—as they understand it. The law give3 to
the Senate the practical power of appoint
ment. and enables them to dictate the reten
tion of whom they will. This power makes
many Senators rich. It is plain that the Sen
ate will not repeal the law “ really,” as Grant
puts it. But the dodge, as seen,” was to ap
pear to repeal it, yet insure the pocketing of
the repeal by the President out of spite against
Grant. Thisdodge has been exposed. There-
stilt of the exposureis that Gen.Grant substan
tially issued yesterday the first proclamation
of President Grant, convening the Forty-first
Congress in March, with the express purpose
of having the Civil Tenure law really repealed.
It is felt to-day in Washington that the
Congress cannot repeal the law, and that it
will stand. It is felt that calling the Forty-
first Congress will not help matters a whit
That body will not have the two-thirds in
the House to enslave the Executive. Not
having two-thirds makes Grant a majority
and Congress a minority in case of a contro
versy.
Besides, in all proportional respects, and
nearly in all individual respects, the Senate
of the Forty-first Congress will not relinquish
an emolument and a power to any President
who dictates before he is inaugurated.
. It is felt—and Washington is accurately
acute to catch the real meaning of events
that an irreparable breach has been made
between the President to be and the Con
gress as is, which the Congress to be will only
aggravate.
Cost of Canal and Railroad Trans
portation.—At the meeting on the 17th in- •
stant of the polytechnic lecture of the Amer
ican Institute, Mr. McAlpine, the eminent
Engineer and President ot the American
Society of Civil Engineering, ^ spoke of the
great importance ot canal traffic. He stated
that the freight traffic from.the West over the
Erie canal to tidewater is greater than that
of all the trunk railroads leading into New
York. Last summer one hundred uDd fifty
canal-boats passed into Albany every day,
bringing with them two hundred and sixty
tons of freight each ; while an entire train
only carried two hundred and fifty tons. He
spoke strongly against the enormous charges
exacted for carrying freight on railroads,
and tho general mismanagement of tho
railroads. The present cost of freight traffic
ought to be reduced at least two-thirds..
No railroads have ever been located in
this country with a view to the direct
transportation of freight. Owing to the sys
tem of shutting off freight trains to permit
the passage of passenger trains the time em
ployed ; n the transmission of trains was dou
bled, and consequently the expenses largely
increased. A train on the rails not in mo
tion was nearly as expensive to the company
as if it were in motion. Practically, the on
ly difference was in tbe wearing ot the ma
chinery and of the rails. Mr. McAlpine call-
ed on the rising generation to provide dirbet
and cheap transportion, and not to neglect
the immense advantages of canal transporta
tion. One benefit he might point out was its
cheapness. It would cost seventy-five dollars
a ton to send freight to San Francisco by (raii,
a distance of about 3,000 miles. It was
19,100 round the Horn to the same city, s® 1,
it would coat but twenty dollars a ton to ih'F
it by that route.—New Tod: Stockholder.
It is now stated that that remarkable
“The Opium Habit,” was written by Mr. Hi
Day, of New Haven, who has eaten ovei
pounds of opium, but who freed himself
the habit in less than six weeks when he
up his mind to it.
In western Now York lives a man uann
who has had thirty-one children '•>>' on ' 3
He is both a Ring and a patriarch-
1HE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1SG9.
The Atjgcsta and Macon Railroad.—The
Augusta Constitutionalist, of the 31st, says:
We had the pleasure of a call from George H.
Hazlehurst, Esq., Chief Engineer of the above
road, yesterday, and through him learned that
the City Council of Macon subscribed on Mon
day night last for fifty thousand dollars of addi
tional stock to this important enterprise. The
citizens of Macon are fully aroused to the im
portance of an early completion of the road,
and liberal individual subscription will also be
made. We learn, also, that President Magrath,
of the South Carolina Road, and Judge King,
of the Georgia Road, were in consultation in
this city yesterday, as to the best means of
pushing the Macon Road through from ASllede-
villo at once. The distance from the latter
place to Macon is only thirty miles, more than
one-half of which distance is already graded
and ready for the iron. If Judge King and
Colonel Magrath will only determine to have
the line completed, they have the means, and
can put it through in a few months. This is on
important [connection both for Augusta and
Charleston, and we trust that it will not be per
mitted to lie neglected any longer.
Rough Weather on the Atlantic.—Accord
ing to the reports of marines recently arrived
from sea, the weather on the Atlantic, the past
month, has been unusually severe, with violent
gales and storms, and many vessels have put in
to Bermuda and other ports to repair damages,
after vainly endeavoring to reach a Norther*
port; while those that have succeeded in reach
ing their destinations were seriously crippled in
loss of spars and sails. Some of the Western
bound ocean steamers are now making long pas
sages. The Ctrnard steamer Tarifa, Captain
Murphy, is twenty days out from Liverpool,
bound to Boston, with ten cabin and one hun
dred and seven steerage passengers on board,
but as she is a staunch ship, no serious appre
hension of disaster is felt. The steamer United
Kingdom, which sailed four days before her, has
just arrived at New York.
Gen. Grant and the President.
Speculating upon the supposed hostile person
al relations of Gen. Grant and the President,
the newspapers have wondered whether General
Grant would extend the customary New Year’s
official civilities to the Chief Magistrate. The
telegrams, however, state that his staff made a
formal official New Year’s calL Indeed, if we
may judge from the Herald, there is a good deal
of misapprehension in respect to the character
of these personal relations. That paper says
there is no doubt that amicable relations between
the President and General Grant will soon be
re-established. The Christmas amnesty procla
mation received the entire approbation of the
President elect before Mr. Johnson’s signature
was put to it, and as it is well known that the
Genera] has been consulted on various other
State matters it is fair to presume that nothing
remains to confirm the entente eordialc between
the outgoing and incoming Executives but the
formal shaking of hands. General Grant is de
termined to have peace.
B. A. Wise.
Our indefatigable neighbor in tb : House Fur
nishing line makes his New Year’s announce
ment to-day. Mr. Wise’s arrangements for
business are very perfect. Everything of Euro
pean manufacture which he deals in, including
all descriptions of crockery and mantel and ta
ble ornaments of porcelain, glass and bronze -
household and pocket cutlery, and many other
matters he imports directly to Savannah, and
can supply by the wholesale as cheaply in Macon
as they can be bought in the Northern markets—
thus offering a great convenience and economy
to country dealers, who can rely upon being able
to retail these articles as cheaply as they are re
tailed in Macon. His stocks of goods are am
ple and embrace a variety too great for specifi
cation.
W. A. Huff
Announces his programme in his usual style
this morning. His arrangements, it will be seen,
are complete and extensive. They comprehend
establishments in Tennessee for slaughtering
and preparing meat and lard for market, and
for buying and collecting from first hnpttg, and
shipping to this market, the enormous supplies
of all kinds of provisions, breadstuff's and for
age, which Mr. Huff weekly distributes in Mid
dle Georgia. The existence and vast operations
of such a house are very creditable to the en
terprise and sagacity of its proprietor, but for
the good of Georgia, we would far rather its
energies and capital were employed exclusively
in collecting and distributing Georgia raised sup
plies. We hope the time may come when nei
ther Mr. Huff nor any other corn and provision
dealer, will have to go out of Georgia to get the
most ample supplies and still do a vast business
in the collection and distribution of bread and
meat crops of our own production. We do not
think it will be many years before this consuma-
tion will be realized. The fertile regions of
Northern Georgia ought certainly to produce a
surplus ample for all deficiencies in the other
other sections.
Findlay Hilling and Manufacturing
Company.
This company has been partially reorganized
by the election of some new directors who are
well known to the public as efficient business
men, and it is now calling for additional capital.
We refer the reader to their advertisement for
terms and conditions of the new subscription.
Tho effort to utilize the fine buildings, machine
ry, and material left by the late Robert Find
lay, and which have been leased by this company
on advantageous terms, has too much of prac
tical common sense in the idea to fail, with any
reasonable management. The establishment it
self was the natural outgrowth and development
of tho public necessities originally, and a far
more active and urgent necessity for it now ex
ists, ana is rapidly impending, »ly>n its projector
ever saw. Let men, who have the capital to
spare (and there are many such), come up with
additional subscriptions sufficient to start again
all this idle capital and machinery. It is bound
to develops into a handsome business and a
profitable stock, if backed as it shonld be.
The University of the gonth.
reader is aware that for several years the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Southern
States, have been maturing arrangments for the
establishment of a grand central literary and
theological school of a high order. Before the
war, the site had been selected in a highly
Balhbrions region of Tennessee; but the dis
orders of the period precluded further progress^
Tbe “University of the South," however, is
now in operation, and we have the satisfaction
of referring the reader to itsfirst announcement,
in our advertising columns.
Gehtin & Toeulten.—See card of these gen
tlemen. Mr. W. B. Griffin of the old house of W.
B. Grinin & Co., of Savannah and Mr. John F.
Trenlton of Eufaula, Ain - ., have formed a co
partnership for the transaction of factorage and
commission business in Savannah, Georgia.
They are both well known to many of our readers
jig to business capacity and integrity.
Augusta Daily Press.—The first number cf
< this successor to the National llepublicanreached
na yesterday. It is a small, well printed and in
dustriously edited sheet. *, :V.-'” ‘
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF THE
0GEECHEE NEGROES.
White Men Shot at, Beaten and Driven
from the Plantations.
038 MAX SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEES MUR
DERED.
Tbe Women and Children In the Hands of
a L&uleu Gang of Negroes.
NOTHING KNOWN AS TO WHAT HAS
BEEK DONE WITH THEM.
HOUSES PLUNDERED AND GOODS
DESTROYED BY THE BLACKS
THEY DECLAReIEaT THEY HAVE
COMMENCED WAS.
NO WHITE HAN TO BE FER9fITTE2> TO
LIVE ON THE OGEECHEE-
From the Savannah Morning Jtw Extra, Dec. 30:4.]
In the Morning News of to-day we gave a
detailed account of Sheriff Dooner’s trip to
the Ogeechee river plantations, to arrest a
party of negroes, against whom warrants had
been issued for larceny and assault with in
tent to murder. The Sheriff and his officers
barely escaped with their lives, and the
scenes which occurred while they were down
in that country, among the negroes, they
state to be indescribable. The negroes acted
like a pack of demons; they could scarcely
refrain from slayiDg the party, and shouted,
yelied and conducted themselves in a most
outrageous manner. They appeared to be
thoroughly organized, armed with new mus
kets, with bayonets, and to have regular
leaders, or captains, who directed all their
movements. Negroes whom the white gen
tlemen had never seen before, and whom they
did not know, suddenly appeared, and were
recognized as leaders by the negroes.
ESCAPE OF CAPT.TUCKER AND MAJ.MIDDLBTON
The Sheriff and his posse were accompa
nied to tbe plantations by Capt. J. F. Tuck
er and Major Mott Middleton. These gen
tlemen also went back to station No. 1 with,
and left them there, and then returned to
their own plantations. Finding that there
was some trouble brewing, and hearing
threats against their lives, they started on
horseback to leave that section and return to
the city. Knowing that the negroes were in
the vicinity of station No. 1, they struck off
in another direction, reached the river, were
terried across, and arrived at No. 1 1-2 just
as the train was leaving there for Savannah.
They were taken on board, and arrived at
this city early this morning.
SUBSEQUENT RIOTOUS ACTS OF THE NEGROES.
Having driven off the Sheriff and his offi
cers, the negroes appear to have divided them
selves into companies, each under command
of a captain, and they thus marched back to
the plantations. On their way they met
George Baxley, one of Mr. Middleton’s over
seers, whom they surrounded in the woods
and robbed of bis gun and everything that
he bad about him. One of them struck him
with the butt of a musket, and they threat
ened to kill him. The negro women ap
peared particularly anxious to have him
murdered. Finally, however, they released
him, and he started off through the woods
to Southfield Plantation. When near there
he heard shots fired and shouts and yells.
He met his brother, a lad of twelve years of
age, who had fled from tbe place, and who
told him that a gang of negroes had been
there, sacked the houses, and driven his
father way. The two then turned in an op
posite direction, ascertained tbe route taken
by Messrs. Middleton and Tucker, and pro
ceeded to follow them. Arriving at the river,
they found an old canoe, and met a fisher
man who was also endeavoring to escape.
The latter and the boy got into the canoe,
and started across. It was not large enough
to contain the whole party, and George Bax
ley had to swim the river. Having put tbe
stream between themselves and the negroes,
they proceeded to make their way to this
city. They were pursued all the way to the
river bank by a gang of the blacks.
THEIR OPERATIONS AT SOUTHFIELD PLANTA
TION.
About four o’clock in the afternoon one
company of negroes, numbering about twen
ty, with muskets and fixed bayonets, headed
by a captain, with a sword, came marching
up the road to Southfield plantation. Mr.
Reddic Baxley, R. C. Winn and James Don
nell were in the barn yard. The negroes
came into the enclosure and proceeded to at
tack two colored men who were employed as
watchmen on the plantation. These men,
Fortune Brown and George Bunyan, ran,
and shots were fired at them by the party.
One negro was seen to run up to Fortune and
make a lunge at him with a bayonet. He
fell, but whether he was killed or not is not
known, as none of the white men saw him
afterwards. The negroes then turned to Mr.
Baxley and demanded to know where Mr.
Middleton had gone, at the same time utter
ing the most horrible imprecations against
that gentleman and George Baxley, swearing
that they would kill them. They pointed
their muskets at Baxley, and declared they
would kill him if he did not tell them tbe
truth. He made answer that he believed
they had gone over to Bryan county. This
party then went off in the direction of the
river.
ATTACK UPON MR. WINN.
In the yard, one of the negroes had point
ed a pistol at Mr, Winn, and threatened to
shoot him. After this gang left, he went
from the yard to his house, situated out on
the road. As he reached it he saw another
company coming up. Feeling himself pow
erless to make any resistance against such a
crowd, be stood in the doorway of his house
and awaited their coming. His frightened
wife and children gathered about him, all
expecting that the negroes were coming to
murder them. When about fifty yards from
the dwelling they motioned to Winn to leave
the door; and he, expecting they were going
to shoot, jumped out in front of the house,
and away from the door, to save his wife ana*
children from being fired at. As he jumped
he was caught by the arms by two negroes
who had come up, and they held him while
a third struck him a tremendous blow over
the right eye with the butt of a musket He
fell senseless at their feet, and the blood
flowed profusely from the wound. The scoun
drels, supposing him to be dead, left his
place. On recovering Air. Winn arose from
the ground, and sat down upon a chair, with
the blood still streaming from his wounded
forehead. While sitting there, another ne
gro came up, cocked and pointed a musket
at his wife, saying—“You’ve got a gun in
there,—you, bring it out here.” She gave
the negro the gun, when he said there was
another, and be wanted that also. She then
S ave him a rifle which was in the house, and
e went away after saying to Winn, that he
had better leave quick, or they would mur
der him. His wife implored him to go, say
ing that she and the children would beg pro
tection and shelter from tbe negro women at
the quarters, and if that was refused, would
try aud make their way to the city. He then
left the house and proceeded about fifty yards
out into a field, where he lay down in the
high grass to conceal himself until dark.
ATTACK UPON MR. BAXLEY.
After the first gang quitted the premises
Air. Baxley left the yard and went up to his
house. He was sitting in oae of the rooms
when the gang which had attacked Winn
came up to his door. Some of them march
ed intp the house and ordered him to come
out. As he was in the act of rising from
the chair, be was siezed by two or three of
'them and dragged out into the entry, where
he was suddenly struck on the back of the
head with the butt of a musket. A second
blow on the side of the head felled him
senseless to tlie floor. When he recovered
his senses the negroes were aronnd him
kicking him. They then dragged him out
side, and told him that they intended to
k ; Jl and throw him into the swamp for the
buzzards to eat, and told lum to prepare to
die. They beat and punched him with their
muskets, and finally fired. ii volley at him,
The balls vrimtle 1 close p ist him, but lie
was not struck. They then told him to run
for his life, and as he ran they fired another!
volley at him. He went about a hundred
and fifty yards from his house and hid in a
ditch.
WHAT THE NEGROES SAID.
While lying in the ditch Air. Baxlc-y heard
several parties of the negroes, who came
close to his hiding place, declare that they
would kill Air. Aliddleton aud George Baxley,
and that no white man should ever live on
the Ogeechee neck again ; that they were ful
ly armed and organized, and would hold
tlieir position.
THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THEIR HANDS.
All the white men having been driven
away JWinn's) wife and two children started
over to Baxley's. Here they met Mr. Ik
Baxley’s wife.-Mr. George Baxley’s wife and
their children. They then started to go to
the nagro quarters, to beg the negro women
to take them in and protect them. As they
were crossing the yard a crowd of the ne
groes came up and stopped them. In a few
minutes they started up the river, driving
the defenceless womon and children ahead
of them. Mr. WinD, from his place of con
cealment, witnessed this transaction,!but was
powerless to prevent it. What has become
of these poor people is not known; nothing
but outrages, perhaps murder, could be ex
pected from those who thus dragged them
off
THE HOUSES THUNDERED.
The negroes next turned their attention to
Basley’s house. The provisions and such
things as pleased them, they carried off. Air.
Winn saw them taking out goods and heard
them smashing the crockery and furniture,
all the time whooping, yelling and scream
ing like devils let loose upon earth. They
made Air. Middleton’s house their headquar
ters, and occupied it all during the night.
The provisions, and some/rther things which
suited their fancy, they carried off.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED.
The negroes also attacked James Donnell,
a white watchman. Winn saw them strike
him with the butt of a musket, and after
wards heard shots fired, and heard them yell
ing. Nothing has since been seen or heard
of Donnell, and it is feared that he has been
murdered. Fortune Brown is also supposed
to have been killed. George Bunyan escaped
by concealing himself in a large fan, at the
rice mill, until dark, when be left the prem
ises. The negroes are very bitter against the
two last named.
ESCAPE OF WINN AND BAXLEY.
Shortly after dark all became quiet, and
Winn ventured from his place of conceal
ment. The negroes had left that immediate
vicinity, and nothing could be seen Or heard
of them. Air. Baxley’s dog, which they had
shot, was howling piteously with pain, and
the plantation dogs, finding nobody at the
houses, were running around, barking and
hunting their masters. Winn proceeded cau
tiously forth, and was hailed by Baxley, who
had just crawled up out of the ditch. Wound
ed, faint and bleeding, they bound up their
wounds the best they could, and traveled
through the woods all night, reaching town
early this morning. Their injuries were at
tended to, and the two men then taken be
fore the authorities to make their statements.
THE ROADS PICKETED.
This morning Mr. Waller, residing below
Middleton’s place, attempted to come to the
city with his family, fearing further trouble.
He found a heavy force at No. 1, with pick
ets out, and all approaches guarded. He
was compelled to go to No. 1 1-2 to take the
train for Savannah.
Another gentleman who attempted to
come in by the Ogeechee road was stopped,
questioned, and foundj great difficulty in
making his way to the city.
THE INTENTION OF THE NEGROES.
The declared object of the negroes, in these
outrages, is to make it impossible for white
men to live in that section, and then take
possession of the plantations themselves.
They now have matters in their own hands.
They have seized upon the houses, and hold
under their control the rice mills, and several
thousand bushels of rice, which will probably
all be stolen ere they can be ejected.
WHERE THEIR ARMS CAME FROM.
Parties in -this city keep the negroes sup
plied with new muskets and bayonets, for
which they receive an equivalent in rice.
This matter should be looked into by the au
thorities, and the miscreants guilty of such
conduct, brought to justice, and a rope’s end.
SWORN AFFIDAVITS OF WINN AND BAXLEY.
The following affidavits were made this
morning by Messrs. Winn aud Baxley:
State of Georgia, Chatham County :—Be
fore me, Henry S. Wetmore, Ordinary of said
county, personally came and appeared Red-
din Baxley, who being duly sworn, deposeth
and says:
I live on the Ogeecliee, at Southfield
Plantation. I am overseer of that planta
tion. About four o’clock on the afternoon of
the 29 th of December, I was in the barn yard,
when I saw a body of fifteen or twenty ne
groes coming up the road. They were armed
with muskets, some of which had bayonets
on them. There was a man at the head of
the party armed with aswrod.who appeared
to be captain of the gang. They came into
the barn yard where I was and asked me
where Air. Middleton had gone, and threat
ened to kill me if I did not give them truth
ful information. I told them that he had
gone over to Bryan county. They chased
two colored meD, one named Fortune the
other named George Bunyan, who were
watchmen in the fields, and shot at them. I
saw a bayonet lunged at Fortune, but do not
know whether it struck him or not. I have
not seen him since. Banyan hid in a fan in
the mill and escaped. They presented guns
at my breast, and offered to strike me with
the butts of their muskets, if I did not tell
where Mr. Aliddleton had gone. They said
that they intended to kill both Mr. Middle-
ton and my son, and went off in the direction
of Bryan county.
I then locked up the mill and went to my
house, when another party came up. There
were about twenty in the second party.
They came right into my house, presented
their guns at me, and said that they intend
ed to kill me. I raised up out of my chair,
and as I did so they seized and dragged me
outside of the door of my room. They
knocked me down in the passage way with
muskets; one struck me on the back, another
on the sido of the head. I was knocked
senseless. When I came to. my senses they
were kicking me. They then dragged me
down the door steps, and took mo up before
their whole party, telling me that they would
put me out in the swamp, and let tbe buz
zards eat me. They kept punching me in
tbe back with their guns, and told me to
prepare to die. They loaded up their guns
and fired at me, the balls whistling all around
me, but none of them struck me. They
then told me .to double-quick, and I ran.
They fired at me again as I ran. They hal
lowed at me, “clear yourself, you rebel
. If ever we catch you here
again, we’ll murder you. Before they let me
go they took away everything I had in my
pockets, and said that if I would not give
them the money they would go to my house
and make my wife give it up. After getting
away from them I bid in a ditch. While I
was there I heard parties who passed my hi
ding place say that war had now commenced
and that no white men should ever live on
the Ogeechee again. About eight o’clock at
night I crawled out of the ditch. I saw Mr.
Winn coming along and hailed him. I also,
while in the ditch, heard them say that they
had formed companies, and had captains,
and were going to hold their positions. They
alap 6woro that they would kill Mr. Middle-
ton and my son George Baxley. Air. Winn
and myself made our way to town, through
the woods. I recognized one of the party
who assaulted me. R. Baxley.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
80th day of December, A. D., 1868.
Henry S. Wetmore,
Ordinary C. C.
State of Georgia, Chatham .C^knUj—Before
me, Henry S. Wetmore, Oh
county, personally came and*
ard C. Winn, who being duly
eth and says: Hive at Soufchfi
on the Ogeechee river; lam rif
On the afternoon of the 29th <
saw an armed body of negrijfes
aary of said
ipeared Rich-
forn, depos-
l Plantation,
center there.
Ibecember, I
lame into the
arithmetic, book-
barnyarcl and chase Fortune and George | Agricultural Education.
Bunyan. They fired at them, and said to j From the Baltimore Sun.]
each other: Kill the —.kill 1 . . , „ . _ , „„„„ ,
them. I said: Have mercy on them ; don’t I oi A Jul ?> I862 > whlch (
kill the boys. One of them presented a re- ; *PP™P at n ed Jffl bl . lc la “ d ? tbe a “ ount 0
volver at me, and said : Damn you, we’ll fix j 10,000,000 of acres to the endowment
you off time enough. I then came out of the * S® 9 f or l ? 8t ! ucti0n “ agriculture and
barnyard, and went towards my house. This j ge “eebante arts, has opened for solution to
party then went off, as I suppose, in pursuit ^se engaged in cdncaUonal practice a prob-
of Air. Aliddleton and others When I got j • lnter 1 e8 K t a “ d €( l ual Acuity,
to tbe house I saw another crowd coming up i - de t s ’S ced th ® * aftct “ ent >> e
the road.8 They came within-fifty yards of i » ** ™ ds aathor of the
my house, and motioned to me to come out; f hl ’-^ ‘ , c ? m 1 • bill proposes to es-
away from the door. Aly family were stand-! ab! ‘ sh Q at le . as ^college m every State
ing in the doorway, and, fearing that they j Jl. a £U .^ e and P er P® U . 1 , a foundation, acces-
would shoot and kill some of my folks, I i t0 all f ’, but <*pec.ally to the sons of toil,
jumped away from tbe door. As I jumped 1 ^ Cre adthe ne . edfbl fences for the practi-
I was caught by two of them; they took 1 c “* avocatlo , n ? of life shall be taught-where
hold of my arms, and as they did so, another neitbe , r tbe bl .S bcr S ra ?, es of classical studies,
struck me on the right temple with the butt I nor , 1 m,bt . a ty drill our country now so
of a musket. I bled profuiely. They then [ greatly appreciates will be entirely ignored,
asked me if I was one of the men who had • and wbere agriculture, the foundation or all
made the report I told them no. They then j P resent and futur ? prosperity, may look for It is a tonic of acnera! and t, mTO ; no
left me and went to Mr. Baxley’s. A negro ; tr °op so - earnest fiends, studying its familiar) i wel? worth v of the best at'tmf
came ud afterwards and made mv wife "ive recondite economies, and at last eleva- late < > well worthy of the best atteu-
S£ m, p t £SIEMS “as j fit * <*. m m* >»» •< w**-**
leave there, that if I did not they would kill j ■ e i ir eis ^’ ) lavo ^ e comparison with the most
me. I then went off and lay down in the j ac f 7an c c d standards of the world. The bill
high grass. While there, I saw my family , Ef. es , , r eac l 1D S objects, but properly, as_I
and Mr. Baxter’s family go to the negro quar- : \ eavea .f° tbe 8t a f es considerable lati-
tersto ask for protection. Before they reached ; * ude V? car rying out the practical details.”
there they met a company of negro soldiers, j lu the words of the law itself, the endow-
who turned them back. The last I Eaw of ls * or support and maintenance of
overseer of accounts, i
keeping and surveying.
“ Seventy-one mode! farm schools were in
operation in 1851, with over 1500 students in
attendance on r, courseof practical instruction
extending through three years.
“The district or regional schools are a
higher grade of schools oi theoretical and
practical agriculture. They have three ob
jects in view:
“First. To form enlightened agriculturists
by teaching them the principles of agricul
ture.
- “Second. To offer an example, or model
of practical agriculture of a high order and
constantly advancing.
“Third. To make experiments for improv
ing the cultivation of the soil.”—Bernard's
National Education- in Europe.
We propose to continue in future numbers
the examination of European schools of agri
culture, with a view to comparison with our
them, they were being marched off at the ■ *?. ast oa ®.college (in each State) where the
head of this gang. A crowd broke into Mr. lading ^object shall be, without excluding
Mr. Baxter’s house and carried off his goods., , H scientific and classical studies, and in-
I could hear them breaking up and destrov- ; military tactics, to teach such
ing things. They shot Air. Baxley’s dog in ! tranches of learning as are related to agncnl-
the house. I lay in the grass until dark, when I ture a “ d t ,.. e m ®cbamc arts, m order to pro-
I got up and started lor town. I met Mr. ; “ ot ® tae liberal and practical education of
Baxley and we dfcne on to town through the ; the industrial classes in the several pursuits
woods. Richard C. Whin. : and profe^ions of life.”
Sofhday ^fDwtmb^AHL, 1868° ^ f °- sterea g|cufture''by toaTffing^^iSly’.the
* henry 8 Wetmore sciences bearing upon it, and their practical
O-dinarv Chathar^Sntv application. So strong and general is this
ordinary Gbatbam County. i mpre ssion, that the act is commonly called
*what 13 to be DO]SE ? the u agricultural college law.” Yet mechanic
These statements have been furnished the , arts are in its terms placed in immediate con-
authorities, and what they will do in the nection with agriculture, military tactics is
premises remains to be seen. Immediate ac- : included in its requirements, and all without
tion of some kind is imperative, to rescue “ excluding other scientific and classical
the women and children from the hands of studies.” The use of the word “ liberal,” in
these fiends, and to teach them that law and the same connection, helps us to the inter
order must and shall be respected. pretation. Special scientific instruction first
excitement in the city. j agriculture and then in the mechanic arts,
The rumors of these troubles have created a 5 d w ,’. tb tbem such liberal culture as general
intense excitement throughout the city, and edaaatl0n demands,
the people are greatly exasperated by the ; The law contemplates, apparently, schools
reports. We have presented here all reliable i or a PP.li e( J science:in combination with that
facts that have transpired up to this time. i °^ cudure wb,c ^ was looked for in our
_ ; old systems.
i Three States, Maryland, Pennsylvania and
| Michigan, had agricultural colleges already
A Ray of Hope.
T T‘t*i??uoL I>{,p!, ‘ ch ' ] , jin existence when the law of Congress was
« 8 r hH^ J!?^L^ p08,t . ,0n8 ! 0r C0 “" enacted, all of which embraced the same idea,
6 a retu £ n to s P e .? le j and provided in their courses of instruction,
K. a S i PM1 * i >y R- the n0W fam ? as Jay lor in their general plao, for special scientific
Cooke. A Philadelphia paper says that Air. j instruction, with labor in the field or the
™°lre has laid before the authorities at ; workshops, and that general course embraced
Washington a carefully prepared plan not; in 0U r older colleges:
?“ - //° r f ac ^. 0 . m P^ 1 ® bin o . tbis des ? rabIa ; Since the Congressional enactment, Con-
but for funding the national debt. The de- i necticut, Alassachusetts, Rhode Island, New
tails are not given, but that Air. Cooke lias, at j Y or k Hew Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, Wis- . - , - - r , . .
least, one correct notion upon the subject, is j C onain, West Virginia, New Jersey? Ken- incensed wite, took her departure leav-
evident We quote: tucky, California, Maine, Kansas and Illinois, I “« th ? g? llant ? a P tain sad ‘y contemplating
“It contemplates, among other things, such j m „ k i n V with the three first named, eighteen | the unJ ucky contretemps,
a policy toward the Southern States, as will j i n a q t have established new colleges, or ap- ' T
hasten the development of their resources and ; p i iec i to existing institutions the proceeds of i To True-hearted People of Geor-
put them m a condition to take care of them- the land grant. I
selves, and contribute their share toward the • j n Rhode Isiand the land fund was voted ! Again we come before you to plead the
common burdens. By accepting in good faith, j by the Legislature to Brown University, i cause ot our unboned dead. As you may
A Dead Husband has Another Family.
The New Orleans papers tell of an unsol-
dierly trick played by one Captain Hukle,
formerly of Springfield, Massachusetts. Hukle
cut a dash at New Orleans early in the war,
and was a great ladies’ man. Very singular
ly one day the papers, announced his death,
and the captain said it wa3 too good a joke
to be contradicted. Soon after, fie married a
New Orleans lady, resigned bis commission,
and began speculating in cotton, in which he
has been very successfully. All went smooth
ly untilan unpleasant episode occurred, which
is thus narrated:
A few weeks ago a Aire. Hukle, from
Springfield, Mass., arrived in this city for the
purpose of conveying the remains of her hus
band, who died in the spring of 1863, homo
for interment. Bat surprising as it may ap
pear, tbe grave of the deceased could not be
found. Almost in despair, she applied to the
chief of police for information. The officer
knew a man of the same name, and it was
barely possible that he might be a relative.
Inquiries were set on foot, and the street and
number of residence were found. In com-
S any with the chief tbe widow visited the
ouse, aud was hospitably received by tbe
rosy-faced matron of the relative. He was
not in at the time, and she was courte
ously invited to stay to dinner. This she
did, and at the appointed hour the rela
tive came in. But the scene that ensued is
indescribable. In the supposed relative the
lady recognized her husband. Wife second
went into hysterics; wife the first was pale
and calm. She talked like a preacher and to
the point. She told him he had acted shab
bily, and even ventured to call him a villain,
bigamist and other epithets not exactly par
taking of the description of endeerments.
He didn’t attempt to deny them. She was
perhaps quite correct; but he begged she
would think of the exposure. She would
do this. The five years’ desertion entitled
her to a divorce; a handsome sum was put
at her disposal, and the once sorrowing, but
the new condition of things, it will be in their
power, by the adoption of a liberal policy on
the part of the government, to secure the ad
vantages of the national banking system, aa
they have not yet done, and be in the way of
putting their great resources to profitable ac
count. The value of the cotton crop this year
approximates $400,000,000, and with the pro
ceeds ot the rice and tobacco crop added, the
South will have a moneyed basis equal to any
demands that may be made on it. This ele
ment, he maintains, must be taken into ac
count in any solution of the financial problem
that has a chance of success.”
If tlie country is to enjoy at an early day
the benefits of a sound currency it will be be
cause the South will have furnished to it the
means of resuming specie payments. The ex
ports of this section were always sufficient be
fore the late war to furnish the importers of
the North with specie enough to pay for all
their purchases abroad. Cotton, rice, and
tobacco, would, if our rulers were wise, soon
be produced in such quantities as to enrich
the whole country. Without these, neither
the bankers, nor Congress nor all the finan
ciers in Wall street, can bring about specie
payments. But if Congress would pursue a
liberal and statesmanlike policy towards the
South, by removing the tax upon tobacco,
and leaving cotton also untaxed; by encour
aging the negroes to work, instead of bribing
them to remain idle; by freeing the people
from all apprehensions of future trouble, in
stead of keeping them in a perpetual turmoil;
by surrendering to the people the right to
manage their internal affairs in their own way;
by withdrawing from amongst us all such
officers as meddle with politics aud seek to
use the negro as a stepping-stone to power,
thus making him unhappy, querulous, dis
contented, and valueless as a laborer, instead
of happy, contented, and valuable; by doing,
in a word, just what and nothing more than
justice demands should be done—the pro
ducts of our industry would soon make gold
and silver as abundant as they were previous
to our recent troubles. We trust that Mr.
Cooke will be aBle to convince Congress that
in legislating for the humiliation of the
Southern people it does not exalt the negro,
but ruins him as a citizen, and undermines
the prosperity ot the entire country.
Brownlow a Secessionist.
Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, of last week,
comes out for the separation of East Tennes
see from the balance of the State, and its
erection into an independent State. Section
al jealousies, on account of railroad favors,
and the unpromising financial condition of
the State, are given as a reason. But there
are better grounds for believingthat the real
reason is the miserable manner in which
Tennessee has been “reconstructed.” East
Tennessee is the only division that has a
considerable white Radical population. In
the other parts of the State most of the Rad
ical votes comes from the negro population; in
addition to this, it has been found necessary to
disfranchise a majority of the whites of the
State in order to give the political control to
the Radicals, and there is not likely to be
“ peace” as long a3 thU wholesale disfran
chisement is kept up, and that it cannot long
be kept up every sensible man must know.
As soon as the white men of the State are
allowed to vote, the Radical vote in Tennes
see will come to an end. Butin East Tennes
see the Radicals maybe able to maintain
tbeir ascendancy, if it is separated from the
other sections;” and it is doubtless with a
view to the future of the political parties of
the State that its Governor, over his own
signature, assents to a proposition for its di
vision.
If the Radical scheme of forming a con
trolling negro Radical party in the Southern
States is successful, it must lead to the same
kind of feeling that prompts this movement
in Tennessee. All of the “reconstructed”
States have nearly equal territorial divisions,
in the one of which the white Democrats
would have a majority, and in the other the
black Radicals would be in the ascendancy.
It 13 hardly possible to maintain political
harmony in a contest between races, such as
this kind of a division would bring about
Tho weaker party in the State would soon
strongly advocate its division, with a view of
ridding themselves of a condition so annoy
ing and dangerous. One of our most encour
aging indications is that of the failure of the
Radicals to unite the negroes and array them
solidly on their side in a contest of .this kind.
[Columbus Enquirer.
A Cause fob Careful Conduct.—Of all the
many struggles that take place in the heart, there
is none so terrible as when the first convictions
force themselves upon us that all our previous
course has been one grand error, and when the
acts-on which we have prided ourselves, the
wisdom that has made ns win, the vigor that has
proved weakness, the prudence that wo have
found folly, the penetration that has been but
blindness, the meanness of our ambition, and
the darkness of our light, stand revealed in their
nakedness and deformity.
which is pleged “to supply the demand of a i know, the Legislature of 1866 made a small
scientific and practical education for the pres- appropriation, aud appointed us trustees of
ent day, besides which, all the courses of in-! the fund, to bury the dead ot Chickamauga,
• hrown and a ‘ on S the line of Sherman’s march to
structiou given in the University are thrown
open free to the students in the agricnltnral
department.”
In Connecticut, the Sheffield Scientific
School, of Yale College, receives the benefit
arising from the land fund. This is a depart
ment of Yale College, and strictly a school of
science, and has no farm attached to it. In
New Hampshire, the fund has been appro
priated to Dartmouth College, whose “Chan
dler Scientific Department” and “Thayer
School of Architecture and Civil Engineer
ing” are to form “the basis of a national
school of science.” There is no farm here.
In Vermont, the Agricultural College was es
tablished, but by subsequent legislation, this
new institution was incorporated with the
University of Vermont, at Burlington. We
do not learn that there is any farm connected
with the institntion.
With all the other colleges, so far as we are
informed, there is a farm, if not a workshop,
and it is generally provided that daily manu
al labor of one to three hours, with instruc
tion in practices, shall be carried onpavipassu
with the scientific teaching in the schools.
What is worthy of remark is that each
State has independent of_aoy other, and al
most .without consultation or interchange of
views, fallen npon its own course of instruc
tion. All have, we believe, accepted with
alacrity the Congressional grant, and in most
of them the colleges are already in operation,
while others are in course of organization.
Yet in the absence of anything like concert
of action, we find them, almost without ex
ception, making the experiment—for it is
an experiment—of coalescing, of uniting in
harmony, a liberal and a special education.
The leading idea of the experiment conforms
to the suggestion of the act of Congress, and
that agrees with the institutions in existence
in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Alichigan,
when it was enacted. It meanB that boys
must be educated, liberally and at the same
time specially; liberally in general culture,
and specially as to the pursuit they are to fol
low. The language of the charter of the
Maryland College i3 very much that of all:
“An Agricultural College and Model Farm,
which Bhall, in addition to the usual course of
scholastic learning, particularly, indoctrinate
tbe youth of Maryland, theoretically and
practically, in those arts and sciences which
shall enable them to subdue the earth, etc.
What is to be further remarked is that this
is an American idea, and American institu
tions only have adopted it, and are vigorous
ly working it out, with what success, or with
what effect on the interests of education re
mains to be seen.
That it is an American idea, will appeas
from a brief glance at European institutions
of learning. In the first place, we do not
find that existing institutions have adopted
or added to their old course, a course of in
dustrial science, or anything approaching to
what we call practical education. If any
such case exists, it has not come to our knowl
edge. On the other hand, while in France,
Switzerland, Prussia, Austria aud England,
and other European countries, there are
schools of applied science, and industrial
schools of every degree, the instruction is
special, and does not aim to substitute the
teachings of ordinary schools.
Looking first to France, we find a system
of agricultural education thoroughly organ
ized and pervading the kingdom. The law
of 1848 provides for three degrees of profes
sional instruction in agriculture, at the ex
pense of the State. 1. A farm school in
each (86) department, and ultimately for
each (363) arrondissement. 2. A higher
seminary, called a district or regional school,
embracing two or more departments, and 3.
A national agronomic institute, a sort of nor
mal school of agriculture.
The farm school in each department is a
rural enterprise, conducted with ability and
profit, in which the pupils perform all the
labor, and receive a practical coarse of in
struction in agriculture. The objects aimed
at are; first, to furnish a good example of
tillage to the farmers of the district, and sec
ond, to form agriculturists capable of culti
vating, intelligently, either upon their own
property, or that of others, as farmers, man
agers, overseers ol cattle, etc.
“ The sohool h open to pupils who are at
lc>st sixteen years of age, have a good con
stitution, and have received an education in
the primary schools.
“The practical course extends through
three years. The first is devoted to simple
manual labor; the second to the charge of
animals, and the third to the oversight of
various operations on the farm. The hours
: appropriated to study are devoted, first, to
1 copying and writing out the notes taken of
; the Instructions of the different leaders; sec-
| ond, to reading a manual of elementary agri-
• culture, and third, to iessous given by the
Atlanta, and to gather into a common resting
place the remains of those who were not un
der the protecting care of local memorial as
sociations. For this purpose the citizens of
Marietta gave us a beautiful site, immediate
ly on tbe railroad, into which, with our lim
ited means, we have removed over twelve
hundred bodies. Hundreds still remain un-
cared for in the neglected corners and road
sides, and the battle-fields where they fell, to
be trampled by the beast of the field, or
turned over by the plowshare. Another
small appropriation was made by the last
Legislature—too small, however, to continue,
with any hope of success, so great an under
taking.
The general Government has spent millions
on tbe Federal cemeteries of Marietta and
Andersonville. The humblest colored soldier
who died in the Federal service, has a well
guarded, beautiful and costly resting place,
marked with slabs of purest marble; tower
ing monuments attest the gratitude of their
Government, while our noble heroes are stiil
left in silence and neglect. Shall this dis
graceful neglect continue, or can we get suclf
aid as will enable us, with the opening spring,
to place them all in consecrated ground ?
May we not beg the aid of every Georgian ?
Can they continue deaf to tbe cry of their un
coffined dead ? Will not their friends and
neighbors and comrades, in the glorious cause
for which they fell, see to it that their bones
no longer moulder, uncared for on the hill
side? We ask not for graded walks, nor
railings, nor marble slabs, nor Heaven
pointing monuments. We know that Geor
gians will educate their sons to give all
this in the future, but we do ask for tbem
now au untrodden grave, surely that is little’
enough for the most lowly, can it be refused
to those loved martyrs, who, for our honor,
our homes, our flag, our all that was dear to
us, risked their lives, and fell where brave
men love to fall—on the field of battle. That
our cause was lost was surely not their fault,
nor has defeat lessened our obligation to them;
then,in the name of humanity,and in behalf of
Georgia’s honor, we appeal to you as Geor
gians, as Southern men and people of every
community in this State, to remember these
men died defending your right to worship
God according to tbe dictates of our own
conscience, and we earnestly ask each Pastor
to act as our agent in his charge to receive
and forward to us for thi3 work.
As another means to the accomplishment
of this object, by our earnest solicitations, a
small party oi the ladies of your State,
whole-souled, country-loving women, have
consented, for the benefit of this special
work to give a aeries of concerts in the prin
cipal cities of the State, and thereby aid to
wipe out the record of Georgia’s ingratitude,
as it now stands forth in her dishonored
graves; and, in the name of the mourning
hearts or tbe land, we thank them.
AIbs. Chas. J. Williams,
Columbus,
Miss Mary J. Green,
• Resaca,
Trustees G. M. Association.
The Geobgxa. Senators.—A Washington
correspondent of the New York World says:
Joshua Hill, Senator elect from Georgia, who
was assured by Senator Sherman of aduiis-
siorf, has at last gone home, and said he
would not return until he was telegraphical
ly advised either that his credentials would
be received or rejected. It comes out that
Governor Bullock exerted all his little influ
ence to have the credentials signed by him
self, at least deferred until some action was
taken in regard to the condition cf affairs in
the State. Hill accuses him of duplicity, and
Senator Sherman was pretty free in his state
ments regarding him last Monday. No no
tice at all was taken of Dr. Miller, the other
Senator, who has not so openly espoused
Radicalism as his colleague. Senator Pat
terson, of Tennessee, however, intends to offer
Alillers credentials on the oth, and his case
will then be on a footing with Hill’s. v
Histobx with a Vengeance.—Edward Pollard
has just unbotiled his malignity in a fiction
which ho terms an “account of Jeff. Davis’
flight from Biehmond.” The misstatements are
positively disgraceful, and no attempt is made to
disguise the bitterness of the writer toward Mr.
Davis personally. The fellow does not even
comprehend the geography of Mr. Davis’ line
of retreat. He refers to Griswoldville as the
home of Mr. Stephens, where he said Air. Daris
remained for several days, and was insulted by
the ex-Vice President, and thence sends the fu
gitive President north of the Chattahoochee,
from which section the Federal army had retired.
Heaven help the South if such men are to be
her historians.—Savannah Republican.
A Norwich woman thought she would pull a
black stick out of a box of peppers, and picked
up a three foot snake.