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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1869.
Close of 186N—Open New Books.
With these linos we clone our editorial labors
foe 1868, and take holiday for the rest of the
year and to-morrow. We bid our readers, in one
breath, good night, a happy morrow, and a
Happy New Year. We believe that 1869 ia to
open a new era in Georgia. We are on the
up-grade now, and wo shall reach the high table
lands of prosperity before long. Oar difficulties
will diminish and our speed increase with every
revolution of the wheel.
The Telegraph will have much to say the
coming year on subjects deeply affecting private
and pnblio welfare, and we hope our largo cir
culation will be amply increased, until some one
of our editions shall reach every family in
Georgia. We hope that all our readers, who
see what a power for good a judicious and in
telligent newspaper can be, will fed a personal
interest in disseminating the Telegraph more
thoroughly in his neighborhood, so that an arti
cle in its columns shall reach every reading man
and woman in the State and energize the work
of reform and progress.
Important if True.
We see it stated, on what seems to bo good au
thority, that Gen. Grant informed Hon. E. B.
Washunme and another Congressman, that if Con
gress did not repeal tho Tenure of Office bill, ho
would call Congress together after the 4th of March,
and recommend its repeal in a special message.
The law should be repealed, as it is of at least doubt
ful constitutionality, and ties tho hands of the Pres
ident to an extraordinary ex tent.—Augusta National
Republican.
Other accounts say that Gen. Grant has been
assured that the Tenure of Office bill can’t be
repealed, to which he has responded that he
Will accept no can’t or won’t about the matter,
and that it shall be repealed, or he will openly
defy it and bring it to the test of the Judiciary.
In “konsekens o’ vich,” as Air. Weller remarks,
Congress, ‘motto pnt too fine a point upon it,
will have to back down, repeal the act, and hand
over the Executive oar to the General, for he is
determined to navigate that part of the ship
himself.
He has declared war upon all tho seventy-odd
plunder rings which centralize their operations
upon the national treasury at Washington, and
boldly reared the standard of universal retrench
ment, reform and light taxation. It is needless
to say that, however sore a thing it may be for
Congress to take the back track and make the
humiliating confession which the National Re
publican makes for them, they have got it to do.
A President who raises this banner and boldly
throws down the gauntlet to its Congressional
foes will be all-powerful with the people—pano
plied alike in the popular heart and in Constitu
tional law. Congress cannot stand against him,
and the sooner they see it tho better for them.
The handwriting is already on the wall, and ev
ery man can read it who will open his eyes. The
days of Congressional supremacy, tyranny and
usurpation ore over. Whatever may be the faults
of bad government, hereafter it will at least be
controlled with some regard to reason, common
sense and the public exigencies.
movement of Xorthern Capital -South.
Wo have before us, says the Augusta Consti-
tutionlist, of Wednesday, a letter from one of
Hie largest Real Estate Agencies of the city of
New York, dated December 21st, in which it is
. stated: “We think there will be a large move
ment of men and money toward Georgia and
the South generally in a few months.” This
opinion is from men who come in daily contact
with the largest capitalists of the North and are
thus well prepared to draw general conclusions
as to their future intentions and movements.
From this and other quarters we ore pleased to
see that considerable attention is attracted to
■ Georgia, through the movement lately taken
-place at Macon in the reorganization of the State
Agricultural Society. This Society has a great
work before it, which we have no donbt from
present indications, it will thoroughly and ably
discharge. . _
Tire Labor Question.
From all quarters we hear complaints that the ne
groes are indisposed to make contracts for tho com-
jng year. They seem to think that something may
yet “tnm np” which will enable them to live without
labor. The few who talk of plans for the next year,
almost invariably desire to adopt what is called tho
“tenant system, and by which they mean that the
land-owner will famish them land and houses, and
provide plow stock, provisions and implements and
permit them to liavo the absolute control of the
farm, for which they are willing to allow tho owner
ono-lialf of what is"made.
We dip the foregoing from the Chronicle and
Sentinel of Wednesday. We hear, as yet, of no
difficulty of the kind in this section. We learn
from Southwestern Georgia, that the negroes are
generally renewing contracts with their last
year's employers, and manifest less disposition
to change than at any period since the war. So
far as our information extends, the negroes are
quiet, well-behaved and well-disposed. The
planters are in circumstances to settle promptly
and liberally, and we believe they are doing it.
Wo have yet heard of no case of disturbance in
the yearly settlement. ,
On the whole, we believe the most cheerful
views prevail in Middle and Southwestern Geor
gia, both among employers and laborers; and
we hope their mutual relations, during tho com
ing year, will be more satisfactory than they
have ever yet been.
The (Savannah Newspapers on the
Stock Bargain.
The Republican of the 30th says:
We observe that tho Macon Telegraph states, ap
parently by authority, that Savannah, in the salo of
her Gulf road stock, “had the alternative of on
equally advantageous sale of her Atlantic and Gulf
bo mis "to a company which wonld have given her an
other independent route to Macon, and the benefit
of the trade and produce of a vaBt section of Geor
gia, as yet without outlet to the seaboard." We
presume referenco is hero had to the Macon and
Brunswick road. Tho Telegram does not say that
an overture was actually made by that company, bnt
wo presume it so means, else it wonld not have ar
raigned Savannah for doing a thing which she had
no reason to suppose it was in her power to do. We
have only to say with regard to tho matter that if
our City Council had an opportunity to make the
same contract with tho Macon and Brunswick road
as it has made with the Southwestern and Central,
it has made a great mistake, so far as the future
well-being of the city is concerned. It is unneces
sary to elaborate this view, and wo content ourselves
with a simple) expression of opinion on the point.
The News copies our statement without re
mark, and we are left to infer that both the Sa
vannah papers see the point. As to our state
ment, neither party need go far to get at the
facts. Let them inquire of -people in Savannah
who ought to know.
Can't Come.—A friend who owes ns a small
bill for advertising a treatise on the Bankrupt
Law, for which he was agent, has servedus with
a notice to come and prove our claim and join
in the election of an assignee. Yon observe
here the effect of study and meditation. That
man has been poring over his treatise on bank
ruptcy till he has become fairly enamored with
the law, and nothing will do bnt he most take
tho benefit of it. We can’t come, as he invites;
bat as our claim was contracted in pursuance
-of the ends of the law, we submit that it is an
-exceptional case, and should be paid in fall out
of the sum total of assetts, before division. Let
him pass the amount over to our. agent and we
wifi say no more about it.
Death or a Dtstdiouished Georgian.—Dr.
William C. Daniell, a widely-known and dis
tinguished citizen of toi« State, died at the res
idence of his daughter, Mrs. Le Hardy, in Wal-
thourville, Liberty county, on Sunday night last,
of pneumonia. Dr. Daniell was a native of
Greene county, but early in life adopted Savan
nah as his home, and continued to reside there
op to his death.
General Grant and Congress on the
Repeal of the Tennre-oGOfflee Bill.
We printed on the fourth page of yesterday's
edition what the Washington correspondent of
the Herald had to say upon the sharp issue al
ready raised between Gen. Grant and Congress
upon the repeal of tho Tenure-of-Office BilL
That correspondent declared that the hill will
not be repealed, and Gen. Grant, in tlie demand
for it, “Aw only succeeded in precipitating a
hostility tchich -was not expected to disclose itself
so soon.”
We copy on to-day’s outside what the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York World
has to say upon the same subject
It is one of great practical moment—not only
as affecting the relations of the President-elect
with the majority party in Congress, bnt also as
intimately affecting tho whole character of the
Government itself. The Tenure-of-Office Bill
was one of the chief in the series of measures
adopted by Congress to emasculate the Execu
tive Department, and render it not only power
less for self-protection, but powerless to protect
the people from official malversation.
It prohibits the President from all removals
from office without the advice and consent of the
Senate, and empowers the whole army of in
cumbents of executive and ministerial officers in
the United States to snap their fingers in deri
sion of the constitutional head of executive au
thority in the United States. The incumbent
may be insane or in default to any amount, and
still the President is powerless to administer a
remedy by removal and reappointment ad inte
rim.
But chiefly by stripping all patronage from
the executive office and substantially vesting it
in Congress, it destroys the balance of the sys
tem—the influence and dignity of the Executive,
and perpetuates the conquest and subjugation 1
of the Executive Department by Congress,
achieved during the administration of Mr. John
son.
This bill was vetoed in vain as unconstitution
al by Mr. Johnson. It was passed over his veto
March 2, 1867, in the Senate, by a vote of 35 to
11—and in tho House on the same day, by 138
to 40—Mr. Speaker Colfax voting in the affir
mative.
These facts home in mind, the vital character
of the issne made by Gen. Grant will be clearly
comprehended. He means to go into office
armed with the whole constitutional panoply of
the lofty position ; for he knows he will need it
all, in his great pending struggle with the hydra
of universal corruption, waste, misappropriation
and mismanagement, which pervade all branches
of the public service, and which have raised onr
Government expenditures to 8372,000,000 in
1868 from $63,000,000 in 1860!
If he means to confront and correct abuses,
the whole success of his administration depends
upon his being a constitutional President, armed
with all the rights and remedies established by
law and precedent, and not the mere powerless
and defenceless creature of Congress.
The law and the Constitution make him a co
ordinate department of the government—as su
preme in his sphere as Congress in its—and the
people will back him to the fullest extent in his
efforts to reconquer the ancient Constitutional
boundaries of the Presidential office. Congress
must yield to these just and equitable demands
—no matter how relnctant that body may be to
give np power and confess error and wrong-do
ing. If they refuse a repeal, the President will
disregard and defy the act, and a second issne of
Presidential impeachment under its Constitu
tional provisions will not end so favorably to
Congress as the last one. We hope the matter
will be settled by an amicable concession by
Congress of claims and powers which they will
find it impossible to justify and retain.
Tlie Savannah Banditti Again.
Much of our outside is devoted to the atroci
ties of the Savannah Banditti. They seem to
have pretty well cordonned the town. They
have beleagnred it by land and sea. They claim
the usufruct of all the rich circumjacent garden
plantations, and to employ their industrious
owners in rearing pigs, chickens, cabbages and
other truck gratuitously for the consumption of
the African Banditti—shooting down all the un-
&appy Dutch gardeners who dare dispute this
peaceable acquisition. Greeley says, in this bus
iness the negroes are “actuated by a rude sense
of justice,” and it must be confessed their no
tions of jnstice and the manner of enforcing it,
are extremely rude.
On the water surroundings of the city, the
proceedings of the banditti seem to be equally
unceremonious. They have seized upon what
Governor Wise calls the oyster fundnm, and
the sole control of the fisheries. The unhappy
man who catches fish now-a-days stands a far
better chance to catch a load of ball and buck
shot in his body.
In short, affairs seem to have approximated
to a point in which an issne of force will have to
be made to determine possession of Savannah
—whether it belongs to people who have bought
and paid for it, or to a set of ruffians who have
determined to live by plunder, and trample un
der foot all laws, human and divine.
The whole of this wretched business is simply
an out-cropping of negro-politics. It is the ex
aggerated developement in a class of peculiarly
ignorant, sottish and vicious negroes of those
dnbs of lawless political rowdies which are to
be found in the Northern cities—men who prey
upon society for a living in a less ostentatious
and daring manner, bnt who nevertheless main
tain a condition of armed idleness and substan
tial outlawry.
Such gangs of villains as these which have be
leaguered Savannah are kept in existence by the
political nnsettlement and the confident, though
vague, expectation, that Congress ia going to do
something for them which will dispense with the
necessity of labor and give them the social and
political mastery of the State. These ideas un-
derly every trouble which exists with the negro,
and they are fortunately just now very few. We
believe tho bulk of the colored race have come,
at last, to the just conclusion that, like every
body else, they must support themselves by their
own labor; but the ignorant, stupid and vicious
—those most under the baleful influence of po
litical adventurers—are reluctant to accept this
conclusion; and nothing short of a stem repres
sion will reduce them to order.
We appeal to tho conservative men in Con
gress of all parties to see the great positive so.
cial dangers and evils growing out of this pro
longed political nnsettlement and uncertainty,
and forbear their territorializing operations.
Support the anthority of the State Government,
and let the people amend it to suit yon.
“To Ike True Hearted People of
Georgia.”
On our fourth page, this morning, we publish
a touching appeal, to which we call the attention
of our readers.
To further the objects therein announced, the
ladies have arranged for a series of concerts, to
be given in the different large cities of the State,
in the month of January. The party will con
sist of Mr. B. K. Hines, Manager, Mrs. R. K.
Hines, Mr. J. M. Ogden, Mrs. J. M. Ogden,
Mrs. A. Bacon, Miss Lila Howard, Miss M. J.
Green, Prof. Schmidt, Sidney Lanier and Mr.
Maas.
We trust and believe the citizens of every
point in the State, visited by the party, will gen
erously respond to the appeals of a cause, with
so many claims upon their humanity as that
which is set forth in the beantifnl address on onr
fourth page.
We copy the foregoing from the Atlanta Con
stitution, with onr hearty endorsement. -We
have heretofore, editorially, called attention to
this praiseworthy enterprise, and refer the
reader to the ontside of this issue for the Ad
dress referred to.
Gen. Grant’s Policy.
The Tribune of the 24th gives this version of
Gen. Grant’s declaration against any further
railway subsidies and for economy. It was not
a little emphatic:
Washington, D. C., )
Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1868.)
A Senator of tho United States called on Gen.
Grant to-day and asked a favor, which the Gen
eral declined to grant, because it was impossi
ble. The Senator remarked that he was going
away, and would not return for some weeks.—
The General replied that he was sorry he was
going, bnt if he was in favor of expending any
more money from the Government Treasury to
aid Pacific or other railways, he hoped that
he would go away and stay away. Several
members of Congress were present, and
brief discussion ensued on the subject of
Government subsidies to railroads and other
corporations. The President elect spoke with
emphasis against any further aid being given to
the Pacific Railroads, He said, substantially,
it was very apparent to every man in the coun
try that our finances needed the closest atten
tion, and that it is vitally important, if we in
tend to pay off the national debt and lighten
taxation, to practice the most rigid economy,
and the place to begin with is the bills that are
pending in Congress, granting further sub
sidies to tlie Pacific and other railroads. No
matter what may be said about the prospect
ive benefit we are to derive from these
roads, it is too long to wait, and we should
make tho best possible use of the present re
sources, without increasing the burden of our
debt by incurring expensive risks which are haz
ardous. The Congressmen who were at the in
terview were astonished at the frankness with
which the General expressed his views, while
they one and all pledged him their support. The
General at the same time gave his opinion that
there should bo an extra session of the XLIst
Congress. The existence of the present Congress
is for so short a time, that there will be just
barely time to pass the appropriation' bills, and
it is doubtful whether the great question of our
finances can be properly cared for.
Every sign indicates that Gen. Grant will go
into the Presidential chair with the determination
to be President, and that the days of congression
al supremacy and absolutism will soon be over.
The long parliament will meet its Cromwell, and
and all its devices to reduce the executive to a
cypher will be brushed aside like cobwebs. We
are glad of it. No government can be worse
than that of a legislature holding no responsibili
ty to the Constitution, and subdividing respon
sibility to the people so minutely that it has no
controlling power.
The Amenities of the Press.
The Atlanta New Era, of yesterday, copies
onr article upon the amenities of the press, and
adds, as follows:
Tlie above article we copy from the Macon
Telegraph, and give its argument onr unquali
fied indorsement; but while the Telegraph sin
gled out a paragraph in the New Era having ref
erence to the Savannah Republican, it singularly
forgot to remember a prior one in the Republi
can having reference to the editor of the Era.
Here it is:
PERSONAL.
“ We have no answer to the language used toward
the editor of this paper by the drunken Sing Sing
blackguard who presides over that “ common sewer
of filth and falsehood.” tlie Atlanta New Era. He is
worthy personally of the infamous party he repre
sents, and being wholly irresponsible in every sense
of the term, and without the first instinct of a gen
tleman, we dismiss him and his paper forever, and
only regret that a creature so destitute of every
sense of moral obligation and decency should have
found his way into the j oumalism of Georgia. Such
a man is a disgrace to humanity, much less to tho
ranks of an honorable profession. In all liis wan
derings he has never yet found a community so cor
rupt that it did not spew him forth. Is Georgia to
be the exception?”
When the above appeared in the Republican,
the Telegraph did not see fit to vindicate the
editor of the Era, whom it brutally assails, al
beit the editor of the Telegraph probably knew
that the editor of the Era was neither “drunk
en" nor a “blackguard.” We ask tho Telegraph
to publish this, that its readers may know pre
cisely how matters stand between the editor of
the Era and the editor of the Republican. The lat
ter was among the very first to open a bitter and
unrelenting war upon this paper, and we have
only defended ourself, and, in the main, have
used only sneh weapons as were hurled at us,
distasteful as they were to us. We wish to be
gin the new year, and end it, with a spirit that
will commend journalism to the better tastes of
its readers. We never wished to do otherwise.
We wish to observe a true, not a strained, dig
nity, which will elevate the press in the estima
tion of highminded people.
All this but strengthens the argument of the
article and shows still stronger the necessity of
reform. We gave one illustration of abuse, and
now add another—it was impossible to multiply
them in a short article. It is time to quit all
such stuff, and to remember, if we would occupy
the position of gentlemen, we must at least con
cede it. On the night of the Old year we bid all
onr contemporaries of the Georgia Press a
Happy New Year. Gentlemen, may peace, hap
piness and prosperity attend you in the year
1869. May you see your own business flourish
in a general recuperation of Georgia. May
every interest of the State take a new and fresh
impulse, the coming year—and Georgia enter
upon a career of material reconstruction which
shall never cease until she becomes the most
wealthy and prosperous State of the Union.
Stobm in Germany.—A correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing under date of Berlin,
December 10th, says:
On Tuesday last, this city and its environs
were visited by one of the most severe storms
on record for several years past. Considerable
damage was done to buildings, roofs, etc., and
telegraphic communication temporarily stopped.
Accounts which have since arrived show that it
has spread over the greater part of Germany.
In the Hessian town of Fritzlar, tho steeple of a
church was blown down through the roof of the
building, killing twenty of the worshipersassem-
bled for early matins. Li Dresdon, the storm
was of such violence that many of the inhabi
tants actually believed they experienced a shock
as of an earthquake. Buildings were unroofed,
trees uprooted, and not only private vehicles,
bnt also heavy railway wogons, turned topsy
turvy. Previous to the setting in of this hurri
cane, a most unusual heat for this season of the
year was observable, the thermometer ranging
at twelve degrees above zero, Reanmnr, while
to-day it is at its more normal position of five
degrees below zero.
Sales of Real Estate in Columbia.—-The Co
lumbia Phoenix of Tuesday reports sales of real
property in that city, in which we see that Sen
ator Spragne, of Rhode Island, was a considera
ble purchaser. The Phoenix says:
The property disposed of yesterday brought
fair prices, considering the times. There was
considerable competition. The following are the
principal sales: The “ Kinsler Hall” lot, comer
of Richardson and Taylor streets, containing
one-fourth of an acre, was bought by Mr. G.
Diercks at $7,200. The Kinsler brickyard prop
erty was bought by Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island, for -22,250. The Kinsler “ homestead’ ’
lot, in Cotton Town, two and a half acres, $4200.
The “old homestead,” on Richardson street,
near Blanding, brought sums varying from $120
to $360 per acre. We understand that Governor
Scott and several other parties have purchased,
at good prices, several lots along the canal, with
the intention of erecting manufactories.
Social Equality.—-The Cleaveland Plain-
dealer says:
An American citizen of African descent sued
the directors of the skating rink of this city for
ejecting him from that rendezvous of white
gentlemen, white ladies and children, and the
“colored gemman" wanted $2000 damages for
not being permitted to perfume the rink; but a
jury thought that figure was too high, so they
generously awarded him $300 for the indignity
pnt on him. The directors of the rink have ap
pealed the case to the Supreme Court, but that
institution having “negro on the brain" will
probably sustain the decision of the jury.
When we get niggers on the equality in rinks,
railway cars, hotels, churches, theaters, etc.,
“let ns have peace.”
Mobile and Girard Railroad Bridge.—The
Columbus Son, of Wednesday, says that an en*
gine and tender crossed this bridge the day be
fore, and passenger trains would pass over on
Wednesday. The piers of the bridge are of brick
I upon stone, and the cost of the structure was
about twenty-five thousand dollars.
Cabinet Speculations.
“Leo,” of the Charleston Courier, says:
As to the new Cabinet we have some glimmer
ings. Gen. Grant appears to be on the best
possible terms with Attorney General Evarts.
They are personally intimate.
That, together with the fact that Mr. Evarts
is content to be here induces many to believe
that he will be the Attorney General under
Grant’s administration. Thus Mr. Durant, of
Louisiana, will be shot ont of that office and the
doors of the Cabinet will be closed also to New
York publicists. But one Cabinet place will be
given to New York, and Mr. Evarts may fill that,
with the approbation too of his professional
brethren in every part of the country.
An imbroglio was likely to occur as to a selec
tion of a Cabinet officer from that State, and it
will be settled by retaining Mr. Evarts. Mr.
Greeley will therefore be relieved from the
quandary which bis appointment as Postmaster
General would place him in. He could not fill
that office, and yet take the more potent one of
editor of the Tribune. But a still greater ad
vantage will be obtained by Gene™ Grant in
thus shirking New York. He could not carry
out big own honest ideas of financial reform and
recuperation, if he should be compelled to ac
cept a New York politician as his financial min
ister. The men of New York most competent
for the position are necessarily affiliated with
cliques and ring3, with which they must act in
concert, or meet with a most disparaging and
reckless opposition. The New York financial
rings wonld pay more regard to a financial min
ister who wonld be entirely independent of and
unknown to them, than to one who, however
able, had been associated with them.
Tho two gentlemen who have been most
prominently brought forward for the post of
Secretary of the Treasury are Mr. E. B. Wash-
hum, of Illinois, and Gov. Morton, now Sena
tor from Indiana. Tho subject has been brought
to their notice, and both have played the “non
episcoprL\\ Both have plead delicate health and
preference for their situations as reasons for de
clining the arduous duties of the Treasury.
Still either one or the other may take the post
when offered.
One thing is to be taken for granted—that Mr.
B. B. Washburn may have any place in the
Government under Grant tnat he desires. It is
believed, however, by his friends that he would
like to go abroad, in a diplomatic capacity, hav
ing once visited Europe with much benefit to
his health, ns a private citizen.
General Grunt will, without donbt, take from
the reconstructed States one Cabinet member,
No one has been named as likely to receive the
appointment except Mr. Durant, of Louisiana,
and the office assigned to him by conjecture is
now more likely to be given to the present in
cumbent, Mr. Evarts.
The Ogeeehee Negro Rebellion.
From the Savannah Republican.]
The extraordinary condition of affairs on the
Judge Tason on the Civil Statu.
We find the following response to Coi. Tift's
letter in the Albany News of the 1st instant:
From Washington.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.]
Washington, December 28.—The fear among
the Republicans of a rapture between Grant and
the Radical ^arty is deepening daily. Grant is
known to be in favor of repealing the tenure-of-
office law; of the passage of Jencko’s civil serv
ice bill; of the transfer of the Indian Bureau to
the War Department; of stopping subsidies to
railroads, and of breaking np all the Radical
thieving rings throughout the country. Fearing*
his power, the Radicals appear determined to
hold on to the civil tenure act, in order that,
when they get one pf their own kind in office,
they may bo able to keep him there.
By the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the
War Department they will lose a large amount
of patronage in the appointment of agents, super
intendents, and other officers, and a large amount
of per centages in contract annuities. Jenckes’
Civil Service bill would cut off the immense
revenue of public plunderers, whose appoint
ments the Radicals hope to control for party
purposes, instead of making the offices contin
gent on the capacity of candidates. To all of
these sorrows of the Radicals is added a feather
which will probably complete the burden of
their endurance. This is the assertion of Grant
recently, that he considered the faithful admin
istration of public business head and shoulders
above the claims of party, and that he is an ene
my henceforth of the principle that party ser
vices are a claim for public office.
General Grant declares that he will not re
move officers who have been faithful to their
trust, merely because any political party de
mands it. This being his declared intention,
the question comes as to the disposition of the
large number of faithful officers already in the
Government whom the Radicals desire to get
out of the way, in order to make room for those
who have been of greater service to the party.
The Radicals are also incensed at Grant’s reti
cence on Cabinet matters. They advise him
very freely, bnt they cemplain that he does not
manifest any disposition to act on their advice,
and that they are ignorant as to his preferences
of men. Altogether, the fight seems to have
fairly begun, and it may he looked forward to
by outsiders with rare interest.
The effect of the amnesty proclamation is the
subject of some speculation and especially as to
the indictment against Davis. To dispose of
tho latter, it is suggested that he must surrender
himself into custody, and get ont a writ of ha
beas corpus, etc. There is no donbt here among
officials abont the process or mode to he pur
sued. The proclamation has pardoned Davis of
the offense upon which he is held under the in
dictment. The attorney for the Government
can move a dismissal or nolle prosequi and ho
will undoubtedly do so. Or, if it should become
necessary, the attorney for the defendant would
make a motion for the discharge of his client
based upon the proclamation.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Tho first thing Congress will receive from the
President, on its return, is a veto of the bill re
pealing the one prohibiting the organization of
militia by the Johnsonized State Governments.
Persons nsually informed believe that the veto
will he devoted principally to showing that, as
the people have the right to bear arms, Con
gress has no right to legislate on the subject.
Senator Trumbull is actively working the Geor
gia Senatorial case, referred to the Judiciary
Committee, of whtch he is Chairman. It is un
derstood that the Illinois Senator favors tho ad
mission of Hon. Joshua Hill. There are likely
to be two reports, as Senator Edmunds is strong
ly opposed to tho recognition of the Senators.
fully called on for protection, and if they are to
stand idly by, deaf to the appeals of citizens who
have been driven from their homes and their
all destroyed by a military organization, we can
not see the use of going to the expense of keep
ing np any such institution.
We have no doubt the sheriff is doing the
impossible duty assigned to him by his advisers
as well as he can, but nothing can come of it,
from the simple fact that it is not his province
to cope with an armed force of such magnitude,
and it is unreasonable to expect it of him.
We hope the Mayor, or Ordinary, or some
other officer, will telegraph tho President forth-
wit, stating the facts and asking for protection.
We have no doubt it will be promptly granted;
and in tho meantime, should onr citizens move
in the matter, let them doit effectively, not with
magistrates’ warrants and hesitating as to wheth
er the law would justify this or that, but like
men alive to the true nature of the trouble and
resolved to use the only practicable mode for its
suppression. To talk about a legal way of pro
tecting the lives and homes of our citizens in the
midstof organized rebellion and war, is the worst
of folly.
The Colombia County Tragedy.
The Chroniclo & Sentinel of the 30th, fur
nishes the following additional particulars of
this horrid affair:
Mr. Gabriel Martin and two maiden sisters,
rather advanced inlife, resided in a small double
cabin in Columbia county, situated about five
miles from the town of Appling. They were
respectable people, living in the hnmbler walk
of life, and the brother was supposed to have
a considerable amount of specie in his posses
sion, his earnings, which he had put by, from
time to time, as a reserve fund for old age.
On Thursday night the family retired to rest
at the usual hour, the three occupying one room,
and that room had no chimney to it; there be
ing but two rooms in the house, one with a chim
ney used as a kitchen and dining room, the
other as a sleeping apartment. Sometime after
ward tho neighbors who lived at some distance
discovered, by some means, that the Martina’
house was on fire and hastened to their assis
tance. By the time they arrived, however, the
flames had make snch progress that to check
them or to rescue the Inmates was impossible.
The building was entirely consumed and in it
the bodies of Martin and his two sisters.
It was at first imagined that the fire was acci
dental ; but subsequent discoveries prove that
it must have been a most horrible murder, com
mitted for the sake of a few paltry dollars. The
house was what is known as a double log cabin,
two rooms with a passage open at both ends,
between them. The occupants slept in one end
of the building, the fire, if accidental, must have
originated in the other. We can hardly be so
credulous as to believe that the fire could con
sume one portion of the house and then the
hall, without awakening the sleepers, who were
persons advanced in life and not sleeping with
the heaviness which characterizes the slumbers
of children.
An examination of the ruins revealed the pres
ence of a mattock near the bodies of the Mar
tins, and that their skulls had been fractured be
fore they were burnt. Suspicion rested upon
three negroes named Ned Adams, Starling Craw
ford and George Bormn. Hie latter was irate
employ of a gentleman living not far froovtbe
Martins, and, on the evening of the fire, started
to visit a relative living some miles distant, ta
king with him some fresh pork m a present. . It
was discovered that instead of doing this he had
concealed the pork in the woods, and was seen,
at a late hoar, lurking near Martin's house.
Soon after their arrest, one of the party, Borum,
confessed the act, and stated that he knew where
the money was, offering to disoover the same.
After search, however, -which proved futile, he
denied all knowledge of the transaction, and,
with his accomplices, is still in custody at
Thomson. Diligent search is being made for
proof, and there is no doubt but what the whole
matter will be thoroughly investigated
Ogeeehee plantations, full details of which have Albany Obihjh Denember -M iftfis
been given from day to day, continues to exist, ~ Deoember, 24, X868.
not only without abatement, but with an excess
of lawlessness and outrage that promise to make
what is already serious, most alarming. The
management of . the civil, authorities in its meas
ures for the suppression of the outbreak, has up
to this time most signally failed. Sensible men,
we apprehend, looked for ho other result, for the
whole thing bos been managed with a degree of
indecision and pnerilty that is little short of dis
graceful. The sheriff, with his posse, made a
second attempt yesterday at something—we do
not know exactly what—bnt he had papers in
bin pocket for somebody’s arrest, and returned
to the city without accomplishing anything, his
means being inadequate to the end. In the
mean time tho white inhabitants, men, women
and children, have all been driven from their
homes, their houses gutted or delivered to the
flame, and the results of the entire year’s labor
and capital of one of the wealthiest districts of
the South, either destroyed or appropriated by
the insurrectionists.
Thus matters stand at present, and now the
question is, what is to be done ? The great trou
ble in the whole matter seems to be that neither
the civil nor military authorities appear to com
prehend the situation. They have mistaken the
true character of the outbreak, and like igno
rant physicians, are attempting to apply a rem
edy under an entire misapprehension of the true
nature of the disease. A hurried recitation of
the facts, we think, will make this dear. Dis
turbances of a more or less flagrant character
have existed in the settlement for several
months past, and for more than a year the ne
groes, who have been permitted to hire valua
ble plantations and live upon them with little or
no work, have been organizing and preparing
for some kind of unfriendly demonstration. But
the beginning of the present troubles may be
said to be the appearance, a week or ten days
ago, of an armed band at one of the neighbor
ing plantations, the firing upon the sentinels,
the driving off of the residents, and the forcible
removal of the crop, consisting of some twenty-
five hundred bushels of rice. A number of
these desperadoes could be identified, and, upon
information filed, warrants were duly issued and
placed in the hands of the sheriff of the county
for their arrest. This was all entirely right
and regular. The sheriff, with a small posse
and a guide or two, visited the plantations
and arrested a small party and marched
them to No. 1, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad,
for tho purpose of taking the train and' bringing
liis prisoners to the city. They were not long
at the place before several hundred armed ne
groes appeared, rescued the prisoners, and with
muskets pointed at the officers of the law, took
away their arms, money, papers, etc., and with
a threat against their lives if they ever returned,
ordered them to leave on foot. Every manner
of indignity, except personal violence, was of
fered the sheriff and his party. They were
told that no legal processes should be served in
their neighborhood, that they had posssession
of the country and a government of their own,
and no white man or officer of the State should
molest them with impunity. The organization,
it is said, numbers from eight hundred to a thou
sand—perhaps oven greater—and all are thor
oughly armed and provided with ammunition.
They have officers of every grade, and means of
intercommunication that are almost equal to the
facilities of a regular signal corps.
Such are the facts, and what do they indicate ?
An outbreak in character and numbers such as
tho civil authorities are expected to control and
bring the guilty parties to punishment, or is it
a regularly organized rebellion against the au
thority of the State—an army in the field and
ready for war ? We think no sensible man can
have but one view of this question. Tho origi
nal attack on the plantation and carrying off tho
crop was a small affair, and has become merged
in a general outbreak and the appearance of
hundreds of armed negroes in the field ready for
action. The very idea of approaching snch a
hostile body with warrants from Justices of the
Peace, and after what has already happened,
is the very extreme of absurdity. It is an
army in the field, and must be opposed by force
or left free to accomplish its wilh The outbreak
is of a magnitude which the law never contem
plated should be snbdned by a Sheriff and his
posse, or any other civil means, and our Con
stitution empowers the Governor to call out the
militia in order to suppress them. Private citi
zens, unorganized and poorly armed, can never
effect the object except at a serious sacrifice.
But the Federal Government has deprived
us of the militia, and upon the regular army
now rests the duty of our protection, what
ever General Meade or others may think of it.
It was never before in our history required of
citizens, as a mere Sheriffs posse, to put down
an insurrection on snch a scale, and to talk
abont serving warrants upon such a body ia pre
posterous in the extreme. It is manifest that
the civil authorities were never expected to impro
vise an army for such a purpose from the citizens
at large,armed and equipped as best they can, and
without stores or munitions of war or any pub
lic funds for their purchase. There never was
a case in which the army could be more right-
Hon. Nelson Tift—Dear Sir:—In answer to
your communication, I hasten the following re-
ply:
1. The laws of Georgia are as faithfully en
forced now as they ever have been at any time.
2. There is no organized or other resistance
to the execution of the laws in this State.
3. The civil officers are faithful and active in
the discharge of their duties—indeed crime is
more surely and speedily punished now, in
State, than before the war. Crimes committed
by negroes when they were slaves, were some
times not punished, because of the popularity of
their owner, or on account of his personal influ
ence, and often they were run off by their mas
ters. Now they take their chances with the
white man, and they are not without friends
when they get into trouble. The lawyers, as a
body, stand by them, and they are always ably
and often successfully defended without fee or
reward.
4. The state of feeling between white persons
and colored is as good here as it is in any country
between the rich and poor, or capital and labor.
Persons who were slaveholders almost univer
sally entertain kind feelings towards the negroes
particularly such as belonged to them; among
the educated whites this is very nearly without
exception, and it will always be so with our good
people, who do now, and will always, control
their votes.
5. Differences of opinion on political matters
are tolerated here as much as in any part of New
England. Our people do not love persons who
differ with them on political questions, but do
respect them if they are themselves respectable.
There is very great prejudice against “ carpet
baggers,” and “ scalawags,” but in this section
of the State there are but few of these, and
with rare exceptions they are now and always
have been without character or friends. They are
reckless adventurers trying to get a living by of
fice,. and to that end they have sought to delude
the ignorant freedmen, and the first lesson they
teach them is to hate the whites, and their old
masters in particular. In this effort they have
measurably been foiled, and hence their slan
ders upon our people.
It is not generally known, but snch is the fact,
that, whilst on a recent political campaign these
adventurers eat and slept with the colored peo
ple, bnt they conld not now be received or en
tertained by good men of that race.
C. All of onr people feel interested in enconr-
aging Northern men to locate here, and in my
opinion a gentleman from any of the Northern
States would be just as safe and secure in Dough
erty county as any of our people would be in any
State North. Onr people are not afraid of their
political opinions, or their former prejudice
against ns. We know that the Northern people
are intelligent, industrious and thrifty, and that
when permanently located among us for legiti
mate pursuits they soon become identified with
us in such a manner as secures their cordial co
operation in political as well as other matters
important to us as a people. We need North
ern capital and enterprise in mercantile and
manufacturing pursuits, and are suffering for
want of educated experience in our workshops.
We want economy, industry, energy, and well
considered plans, to remould onr labor system,
improve our modes of culture, and thus bring
about a real and permanent restoration of toil
war-scourged, yet God-blessed section of our
common country.
The hand of a kind Providence is ready to di
rect and bless our honest efforts for deliverance,
but who will move ought in tins matter ? Es
tablish law; banish political doctors, with their
sickening nostrums; and let Statesmanship take
the helm, and proclaim civil liberty to all, as set
forth in the Constitution of the country, and
you will see, even here, a people, a free people,
as if it were “bom in a day,” and earnest ef
fort, intelligent enterprise, and well-secured
capital, will do more for us than all the Korans
of the jlaw-givers of the world. “Let us have
peace!” Break the spears, turn the bayonets
into sub-soilers, and all the implements of Mars
into useful articles of husbandry, and peace and
plenty will again smile on all our land.
Very truly, D. A. Vason.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Mr. Dickson Declines.
The Augusta Constitutionalist learns that Mr.
David Dickson declines the Presidency of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society, and says: i> •
It was so predicted by his friends, and the
Society would have done well to remember
Mr. Dickson’s retired habits, great opposition to
a sound policy of immigration and almost undi
vided attention to cotton. Whether these qual
ifications make him the proper choice, we will
not now discuss. The State Agricultural Socie
ty will have some other man to ohoose, who
combines with a knowledge of cotton raising a
profound acquaintance with political economy
generally, and who is able to recommend ways
and means how best to furthor all of the indus
trial interests of the State.
A Startling Prediction.—Professor Leoni
das, an astrologist of Indianapolis, publishes the
following prediction:
I observe by the planets that a dreadful plague
will commenco in Russia, originating from silks
brought over from Cairo, Egypt, and Turkey.
It will extend across the Baltic Sea, and will
desolate Germany, cause immense mortality in
England, and then spread to toe United States.
This dreadful epidemic will spot the people like
a leopard, and turn their flesh to a purple black.
The pestilence will carry off such an amount of
mortals that there will not be enough left to bury
toe dead, or give them Christian burial. The
streets of our cities, towns and villages will
be swarmed with toe dead and dying. The
groans and yells of horror will fill every breast
with consternation. On all sides confusion will
abound. The death knell will cease to toll as
the malady rages in fury. The stench of toe
dead will become so common that the survivors
will not heed it
Larkin G. Mead, toe Vermont 6enlptor, has
married an Italian lady with large black eyes
and a fair complexion. She has a very queenly
manner, and is much teller to*n her husband.
She ia just beginning to talk English. When Mr.
Mead married her she conld not speak a word of
English, nor he a word of Italian. All his
friends in this country were very much opposed
to his marrying an Italian woman, but he whis
pered that if he did go it dumb, he didn’t go it
blind. He lived in toe house with her for tone
years. Mead is short and slender, and weighs
less than his young wife.
Bonaventube.—A proposal to sell this ceme
tery to toe city, says toe Savannah Morning
News, has again been made, and too matter is
now before a committee of Counted If they
should report favorably, and Council should take
a notion to buy the place, we hope it will not
do so until there is a public road from the city
to toe cemetery, which all can travel without
having to pay a heavy tax for visiting the graves
of loved ones.
From Virginia.
Richmond, December 81.—At Norfolk this morn
ing about daylight, a messenger of the Virginia Ex
press Company, while on his way to the cars, was
knocked down and robbed of ten thousand dollars.
There have been thirty-three hundred bankrupt
cases in Virginia up to date.
PmL.VDET.pinA, December 31.—Gen. Grant visited
the Girard College to-day. He has a reception here
to-morrow.
Richmond. January 2.—For two days past a Con
ference of some of the leading men in the State has
been in session, attended by Hon. H. H. Stuart, of
Stanton; Hon. Thos. S. Flournoy, formerly the
Whig candidate for Governor; JohnL. Marye, Jr.,
present conservative candidate for Attorney Gener
al; Wyndham Robertson, formerly a Whig and act
ing Governor of State; Geo. W. Boling and Job. F.
Johnson, former Whig Senator; Frank G. Ruffin,
Gen. John Echols: W. T. Sutherlin, and others.
Last night after midnight they agreed on a pream
ble and resolution, which set forth, that while the
people of Virginia do not believe that the negroes,
in their uneducated condition, are as yet fit for suf
frage, yet, in view of the expression of public opinion
in too recent national election, and in restoring har
mony and union, they are willing to accept universal
suffrage, coupled with universal amnesty.
A committee of nine was appointed to visit Wash
ington and urge Congress to legislate, so as to
secure these to toe people of the State. The com
mittee is composed of A H. H. Stuart, Wyndham
E. Robertson, J. B. Baldwin, Jas. Neeson, W. T.
Sutherlin. John L. Marye, J. F. Slaughter, J. F.
Johnson and M. L. Owen.
A resolution was adopted recommending toe peo
ple of the State to hold a Convention on February
10 to, in Richmond, to receive toe report of the com
mittee and arrange for the canvass.
“This conference is toe result of a movement on
toe part of too “Do Sometomgs," as distinguished
from the “ Do Nothings.” The former desiring to
make some advance towards meeting too recon
struction acts, and towards averting the disabilities
of test oaths, etc., of toe new Constitution, and toe
latter believing that the people of the 8tate should,
under no circumstances, sanction negro suffrage,
which they believe to be disastrous and degrading.
Richmond, January 2.—R. W. Hobson, ex-Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue, was brought here to
night, charged with def.iuding toe Revenue De
partment by not accounting for $26,000 received by
him. He was bailed in the sum of $10,000, to an
swer. _
General News.
Washington, January 1.—To-day was very disa
greeable. There were, however, the usual number
of receptions, a noticeable feature of which was toe
absence of wines and liquors.
Butler and MortOD visited toe President to-day.
Grant’s staff called in a body.
No commercial news received here.
PirHADTr.-pma, January 1.—Mayor Fox was inau
gurated to-day.,
The weather is sleety and disagreeable.
Chicago, January 1.—The Jury in toe Kbel suit
. of Mrs. Wilkinson vs. toe Chicago Tribune, found
for the complainant, seven thousand five hundred
dollars.
New Orleans, January 2.—A dispatch from Jef
ferson, Texas, reports tho arrest, by toe military, of
OoL B. H. Crump, Dr. Marshall, B. T. Thompson,
B. V. McGill, ex-Cnief of Police, and two freedmen,
on charges not known. Many others are said to be
spotted for arrest „ , • „ „
Generals Babcock and Porter, of Gen. Grant s
staff, are here.
Bprjnoheld. Mass., January 2.—Furious snow.
Trains obstructed.
Washington, January 2.—Wharton W. Bates is
dead.
Albany; N. Y., January 2.—The Union Car Facto
ry baa been crushed by the weight of snow.
Philadelphia, January 2.—Twitchell was convict
ed of murder in the first degree.
foreign Sews. “
Manchester, December 31-Wm. Bruncer 4 Co
amnection *’ a*.
Constantinople, December 31.—The Cretan i,
aurgents have made a submission to the lv-w
80V8nmsnt
Madrid December Sl—The threatened di st5r
bances at Sevffie have subsided, and toe country*
entirely tranquil. y a
Paris, January 1.—The conference on Eas'ert
questions, has been postponed. Its meeting is no »
Improbable. *
Windsor, Canada, January 1.-Morton ant
Thompson, Express robbers, were handed over to
toe United States authorities this evening.
Madrid, January 1.—Disturbances have occurred
in Malaga, where the barricades were erected ia the
streets by a portion of the people. The disorder h
likely to be easily suppressed.
The Carlist agitation continues in Navarre.
CoNNSTANTEtoPLE, January 1—The Turkish Gov-
emment, since too departure of toe Greek envoi-
shows good feeling toward toe Greek residents o'
that city.
The “ Turquie" newspaper says toe Porte has not
accepted, and probably will not approve, the propel
sition of a European Conference. P
Park, January 1.—The official journals ear that
the Emperor Napoleon, in addressing the forekp'
Ambassadors on New Year’s day, will complimen-
them upon the exertions made by toe powers to set
tle the eastern question, as a newpledgo of a peae-1
ful policy which Europe desires. It is reported that
toe Conference, if held, will adhere to toe Turkish
ultimatum.
A dispatch from Athens says toe Greek war JEt,
ister’s Aid has gone to Cerigo to disband the vote-
teers raised in that Island.
St. Petersburg, January 1.—The Journal of St.
Petersburg editorially expresses the hope that the
Porte will withdraw his ultimatum, sent to Greece
before toe Conference assembles.
London, January 1.—A dispatch from Wigan r.
ports a terrible explosion at toe Haydock Collier-.
Twenty-two dead bodies have already been taken oat
of toe mine.
Dublin, January 1—Col. Butts, Jnstice of the
Peace at Tipperary, was shot dead by unknown par
ties to-day. No arrests.
Madrid. January 2.—The Malaga Insurgent-) re
fuse to submit. Gen. Deroda defeated them in the
streets. Order is restored.
Constantinople, January 2.—The Government
received an invitation to toe Conference. It is as
serted that Fand Pasha has been appointed to re
present toe Sultan. Date of the Conference is not
fixed.
London. January 2 Burlingame departed for
Paris after agreeing with Clarendon on the follow
ing principles for toe future British policy toward-
China: First. Necessary observation of tlie existing
treaty. Second. Negotiations to be conducted with
toe Central Government, and not with local authori
ties. Third. Before inaugurating war, disputes
should bo referred to some government.
The general principles of toe Ameaiean treatvwere
discussed.
Parts, January 2.—It is now more than probable
that both Turkey and Greece will participate in. the
conference, Alexdria Bego Baugabe representing
Greece.
London, January 2 Later advices from Hong
kong confirm toe restoration of Mikado at Jeddo.
It is proposed that the owners of yachts of equal
tonnage with toe Dauntless accept Bennett's chal
lenge.
Toronto, January 2.—A well-known rifle-shot
named Giles was accidentally shot dead to-day at a
shooting match.
Savannah. January 2.—Arrived Yesterday, steam
ship Cleopatra, New York; United States "schoouer
Bache, Key West. Arrived to-day, brig Alatoona.
Boston; ship Lady Havelock, Sre Thomas: brie
Plato, Bio Janeiro; bark Albert, Cork; bark Bain:.
Spain, Cleared, steamers San Jacinto and Hunts
ville. New York; Wyoming, Philadelphia; schooner
Fred Fish, Portland; ship Star of toe West Am
sterdam,
From Washington
Washington, December 31.—Gov. Swann, of 3k-
ryland, has too pneumonia.
All the departments will be closed here to-moirv
Washington, January 2.—The weather continv=
erv bad.
The Secretary of War orders Gen. Gillem, com
manding toe Fourth District, and Gen. Reynold:,
lately commanding toe Fifth District, to repon
here.
Customs from December 26th to date $2,421,000.
From Savannah.
Savannah, December 31 The Ogeeehee trout!)
still continues. Middleton’s house was burned las
night. Crops are rained. AR whites have come fe
toe city, with the exception of one man, who hi.*
not been seen since toe first of toe trouble.
The Sheriff, with a posse, went out this momiK
without making arrests.
The negroes are fully armed and in large forte,
and are determined to resist the authorities.
Scouts sent out this afternoon stopped six mils
from toe city. They report all of the six roads le&i
ing to toe city picketed by negroes.
A public meeting was held at toe court-house t-
day, at which affairs were discussed by Gen. Jacks::
and others. Action as to what course to pursue v*
postponed until to-morrow at noon.
Latest from the Banditti.
Savannah, January 2.—Affairs on tho Ogeecha
are without change for toe better. The negroes sr
still armod, and in large bodies are driving off tie
whites and plundering houses and farms of every
thing valuable. No demonstration against them kfc
yet been made. The matter is under consideration,
and a desire is felt to quell toe insurrection withou:
bloodshed. Definite steps will probably be taken
to-morrow or Monday.
From Alabama.
Montgomery, January 2.—Gov. Smith lias K~
pointed J. L. Pennington, A. J. Walker and Cirri*
A. Miller commissioners to Florida, to negotiate its
annexing West Florida to Alabama. They will p»!“
ably start next week for Tallahassee.
A dispatch has been received in thii city
that the Congressional committee investigating w
charges against Judge Busteed will visit Montg®-
ery at an early day.
From Lousi&na.
Marks ville Register, who is also Clerk of the Sev
enth J udirial District Court, reports the total dee trac
tion of his paper by a mob, led on by toe Marks villa
Villager, a Democratic paper published at toe same
place.
The Jury in the ease of W. G. Mauk, on trial for
mi.fl robbery, can’t agree. They have been in con
sultation since yesterday, and are unable to agree
though the evidence against him ia pretty strong*
Hank wae • Brigadier General in toe Union service
during the war. General Bousseau testified his coh
dierty qualities and that be ocmmwided one of the
finest ragnneaiSa in the Union army.
widow of
Mr Ammstna fliekfina. brother of Charles Dick*
New Orleans, December Sl.-The editor of the enL at fa^oitod by telegraph. ^
halinve tontto« wife of Mr. Augustus Dickens 1 ?
Homicides in Albant.—There seeni3 to Ia Tf
been a batch of colored discrepancies in the city
of Albany, during the holidays. The Yews
says:
On Saturday night last, in this city, a ookrt^
husband killed the destroyer of his domestic top*
piness, with a knife, for the very trifling offend
of “pillowing there where no head save iij
should lie.” Particulars : Erring wife, injures
and enraged husband, big knife, dead nigger.
On Monday or Tuesday, another negro sent
one of his race to “de happy land ob freedom-
Particulars : Whisky, location some where intti 5
county.
OnMondaynight, another was shot and killed
by a gemon of color, a few miles below the city-
for using insulting language.
"We have heard of several cases of minor acl
less fatal knife and pistol practice, but deec
them too unimportant to chronicle.
We have heard of no moving of troops, anl
all’s quiet along the raging Thronateeska.
Radicals Approte the President’s AmnesH
Proclamation.—“Data,” in the Baltimore Son-
says:
Several Radical members of Congress ha«
unhesitatingly given their approval of the Am
nesty proclamation, and legislation in Con
gress is suggested in consonance with toe spir
it of that document. Senator Ferry, it is said
will, at an early day, introduce a bill for the
purpose of removing all disabilities whatever
from persons who participated in the rebellion
Of course, as compensatory for this magnanua'
ity, a universal suffrage amendment, ana
some instances impartial suffrage amendment to
the Constitution is expected.
Is it Scandal ob Not?—The New York Time’
The death by suicide of the reputed;
~ r of Chari
believe that toe wife of Mr. Augustus L.—
still living in England, and has been
by Charles Dickens ever since her husband. 0
to thfa country in company ■witK thft lw
decease is now axmotinoed.
is thaln-
W*NDE» Phillips says: “There - ~ - «
dian, a race who have cost us »
lion of dollars." But,air, thaw 4*
race which hat cost tsa three
of in less than eight years. What
you to that? And the sort of tMa negro
naw is stffl going on st the rate of three or foot
hundred miUions a year.
