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Jmtral (tgltssrapr. ©. Rose *Ss S. R. Burr, ; , > 'tiominitii , , MACON, GEORGIA: Saturday, Hay 20lh, 1865. MORNING EDITION. DAILY JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. FOIUSIIB IN lICM, fIBOBSUi ATARI HORNING. TERMS! SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Month... ..A •••••$ 1,00 Thre* Monthi *«SO Six Months 5,00 One Yssr. 10*00 ADVERTISING RATES. One qnsdt insertion, for first week, 60 ceiats per square. Second week 40 oents per square each insertion. -j Third weefcJO cents per square each insertion.. \ Fourth week 25 cents per square each insertion. Advertisement* ohe mouth $8 per square. Second ; month S7,SO per squire. Third and eaqh RttcceediAg j month, *6per square. Special Notices 25 per oeot on above rates. Marriages and death notices sl. Obituary notices 10 oents per line in Daily and 25 cents per fine in Weekly paper. WEEKLY RATES. . . For Three Months SI,OO Advertisements inserted in Weekly at 25 cents per Hive each insertion. ' If any of our patrons prefer to pay us in produce, supplies, food or anything we can use, we will lake it at. the following' prices for subscription and advertise tig: Bacon, 16 cents per lb: Chickens, 80 cents each ; ggs, 20 cents per dozen ; Flour, 6 cents per pound ; Lard, 15 cents per pound : Wheat, $1,75 per bushel; Cons. SI,OO p*r bushel; Corn Meal, SI,OO per bushel. Oar friends who live in the couutry can send these things to us by express at our expense. Persons who reside near each other can club to gether and send their provisions, supplies or corn in nse package. single papers in ever. dingle papers will be sold on the streets and sC the desk at ten cents per copy. We will not reoeive any money but specie or greenbacks at present. Late Savannah Papers.—We return our thanks to Mr. Asher Ayres, of this city for late copies of the Savannah Dally Herald. J3E* A refreshing rain was vouchsafed our thifaty gardens, dusty Greets and heat oppressed citizens Thursday evening, and the clouded sky promises more as we write. From the country we learn that there have been.favorable rains. hasTjeTTk® Southern Express Company in these eml!Li nT '* lttlbla ad^nct t 0 the press under many obligsft& t ' mo3 ' „ „ ~/ B it for the means of furnishing even the inv . „ ■ - ■ nows, which appears in our n a friend in need is a jndeed." This 4i»***»L y >ol»g trvL a, t\ar friends. ot the Ex press Company deserve to rank highiu the favor of the pros. THE MAGHETIC TELEGRAPH Wo Bre requested tb state that the Tele graph Line's are now in working ordtr West to New Orleans, and East to Wilming ton. * This will be good news to the public, and we trust that the Press Association will soon avail itself of the offered facilities for renewing its communications with the pub lie. LOOK OUT WHISK sIY UKALSBB! • Our military authorities are particularly active in feriting out and punishing deal ers in epiritous liquors. We have lieaf&Gt said that John Barleycdm could throw down any man in a fair tussle, but Gen. Wilson is likely to prove a match for him, and will throw both John and his back ed, if be comes blustering about in this neighborhood. THANKS. Our thanks are due some person, or per sons, (the boy who brought them did not recollect the name,) for copies of the Bos* cobel, Wisconsin, “Broad-Are,” and the New York “ Independent”^—the one of date April 27tb, the other March 23d; rather ancient, but the courtesy is none the less appreciated. We may be able to ex tract something interesting from them when we get leisure to scrutinize their con tents closely. NEGRO VAGRANCY. ; In the absence of a well defined civil au thority, we presume our eitizens may rely upon the energy and promptitude of Gen. Wilson to guard them against the daily in creasing evil of negro vagrancy. This class of people are in anew position—none for which they are unfitted by education, and the benefits of which they will never real ize, until they can have an intelligent ap< preeiation of the obligations imposed, as well as the priviliges conferred, by freedom. They most now be made answerable to laws whioh govern free labor as a social institu tion. They must not bo permitted to roam the streets at large in idleness, trespassing upon private premises, interrupting Uiose who aro employed, and seeking, perhaps, an opportunity to steal something. Tho inter ests of the community, not less than the in terests of the negro himself, require that the latter should be made to-conform himself to the new order of things, and earn his own support by honest, laborious industry, or to he placed where Lis indolent proclivities will &ot lead to vicious and pernicious Hdfauwl, a » umm " >a»sb. The patrons of the Journal & Messenger will, we think, bear us out in the opinion, that boasting is no part of our stosk in trade, nor have we any especial ambition to erect ours into the “leading paper/' either of the Oity or State, unless by “leading'* is meant a just regard for the interests of the reading; public and an unswerving adherence to the obligations of contract. In this sense, we whould like to make the Journal & Messen ger a “leading” paper, and with the co-ope ration of all our old patrons, we think we can do so. But we must be just before we can be generous,and in order that we may be so, it becomes our duty to frankly state up on what terms we can hope to continue and improve the paper. The price of labor is high-—much higher than that ruling before the war, though both business and money are less abundant. To make such a Daily as we desire, will eodt us, for composition alone, $35 per day, or $2lO per week. Be sides this we have to pay a Foreman, a I Pressman, a Mail clerk, etc., which, alto j together will make the weekly cash expense, j exclusive of paper, ink, &c , over S3OO When the Press Association again gets in operation, an additional expense will have to bo incurred on that account. Now any of our readers at all versed in the science of figures, will see at a glance, that nothing short of twelve hundred paying subscriberx will serve to fiaeet the actual labor expense of the paper, and that, as correct business men, intending iodo justice both to our pat rons and ourselves, we cannot hold out any hope of improvement or even of continuance, unless this amount of subscriptions be speed ily approximated. Now, what we propose is, not to make the Journal and Messenyor “the leading paper” of either State or city, but to make it a first-class, truthful and honest Daily, giving all of its income over and above what is necessary for its maintenance and a decent support of it proprietors, to the improvement of the paper. To do this, as we have shown, Twelve Hundred paying subscribers must be had. We know there are old and warm friend* of the paper all over the State, snd as it has for the past forty-two years, honestly labored to serve their interests equally with its own, its pro prietors now appeal to them to put forth a friendly exertion in its behalf, pledging themselves to reciprocate the kindness by the e'xercise of thpir best energies for the The present circulation of our papei will not warrant the expendi tures for improvement which we desire to make, and we place this simple statement before our friends and the public, presum ing them to be unacquainted with the diffi culties in the way of our doing for them all that we wish. It is for them now to say whethei the “old Journal and Messenger” shall be rejuvenated,* and with smiling face and truthful words visit its old, familiar haunts to entert; in both young!and pld with the daily current news, with sad, but gl - rious, stories of the immediate past, and hopeful speculations as to-the mysterious future. What say our friends - shall we inscribe upon our banner, “ The old Juur- nal and Alea&enyer yet liqea ?” It is proper that we should state, in conclusion, that the general circulation of both the Daily and Weekly Journal & Messenger is much larger at present than that of any other paper in the city, simply because we continue to carry out our sub scription contracts, and furnish the papers to these whose money, though of no use to us now, was paid in good faith, and so long as we are able, shall as faithfully re ceive its stipulated equivilent. This state ment is also made in justice to our Adver tising patrons, that they may know their favors have still a wide circulation. Resolutions of tlie New York Chamber of Commerce. The New York Chamber of Commerce has adopted the following among other re solutions: 1; Resolved, That whife we would have nothing left undone that is essential to the complete and permanent restoration of the national authority, we yet trust and itrge that such restoration may be everywhere signalized by magnanimity and and that it may nowhere t be stained by a single act which will, be condemned as needlessly harsh or revengeful by tho cool judgment of the human© und liberty-loving in any part of the civilized world. Resolved, That we hail with peculiar satisfaction the recent order of the Presi dent of the United States “to relieve the loyal citizens and well disposed persons residing in the insurrectionary States from unnecessary commercial restriction, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pur suits,” believing, as we do, that an unre stricted commercial intercourse will prove, to be the most powerful agency which can henceforth be employed for restoring peace and prosperity to all portions of our coun- try. The Chamber speaks within the limits of its 6triet duties, and, therefore, with the full weight attaching to its judgment a3 a representative body of the merchants of New York, when it declares “ that an un restricted commercial intercourse will prove to be the most powerful agency which can henceforth be employed for restoring peace and prosperity to all portions of the eoun* from the Southern Beearder. State Treasury Notes due In Confederate Treasury Notes on 25th December last, and State Change Bills* There appears to be no doubt in the public mind as to the value of is call ed the eight and six per cent. Georgia Treasury Notes* as it is dearly stated in the face of these notes that they are to bo redeemed in specie or eight and six per cent, bonds six months after a Treaty of Peace. And as, should Georgia rescind its Ordnance of Recession, or should elect and send senators and JViembers to the United States Congress, either of these acts would be considered a Treaty of Peace, these 8 and 5 per cent, notes will no duubt be redeemed in bonds sometime next year. But as the State, last year, issued anoth er class of treasury notes redeemable in Confederate treasury notes, many persons appear t > be under the impression that they are no.better than Confederate treas-. ury notes. In this they are ei ti ely wrong, unless the State violates its plighted fdm to these note holders. The lace of these notes read as follows.: “The State of Georgia will pay the bear er five dollars at her Treasury oq the 25th day .of December next, in Confederate treasury notes * issued after the Ist day of April, 1864, if presented within three months after maturity, otherwise not re deemable except in payment of public dues.” Here it will be seen that while the State would not agree to keep Confederate notes on hand to redeem these notes 'after the 25th of March last, yet it agreed to receive them at any time thereafter in payment of public dues, which means taxes or any dues to be paid to the Western & Atlantic Rail road and other public dues. It is true the Legislature in March last, extended the time at which the State would redeem these notes in Confederate notes (the time extended wa9 to|the2sth March, 1866) but it d;d not, c-r it could not, without being guilty of bad faith, alter the original terms of thgir payment, but re affirmed its obligations by the following 2d section of the Act extending the time : “Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the good faith of the State is pledged f r the redemption of said treasury notes upon the terms mentioned in said notes and the provisions of this amended Act.” Thus it will be seen that while the State, in the fir-it instance, was not bound to re deem their notes in Confederate treasury notes after the 25*h day of March last, yet by an act of the 9th of March, 1860, it agreed, if the holder <1 sired tho excha ig , to give Confederate treasury notes for them up to the 25th of March, 1866.' SHiJ, if tnb holder did not desire to exchange them, then the State pledged itself to redeem them for public dues. The matter i-» so plain, we are surpn*ed all have not sh understood it But, while upon this sulject, we have thought it cot inappropriate to give tho f >l - views of the Governor and (Drop cruller Goneral in relation to the game. The Comptroller General in his report to the G- v* rnor on tho 17th October last, while alluding to these note? putable ou the 25 h D et tuber latt, holds the following lan l U ge: “Such is the avidity with which capital ists and the farming classes desire to hold Georgia securities, that, notwithstanding •his efl'tit of the \s gManire t> force the*»e demption of ihese notes, "h rtly after ntaiur \ y, yet 1 doubt mu<*h whether halt of tin tu *i l bn brought in fir redemption bv the 2Vh of Mar* h next, the State is not. bound to redeem them iu Confederate Treasury Moves or Currency,, yet as rbey are now be itig received for Tax-a and all Public 0 ies, and will always be go >d for T;<x 8 and fr ight and passage on the W B‘ero & Yd mi ic R lii road, and go *d for other P ;bi;e D es, tu «ny will prefer and.will hold them even at-er tin* 25th of March next. This is my prediction.’* And the Governor, in his Annua I Message to the Legislature iu November last, uses the following language, viz : “ The debt to be paid in Confederate Treasury notes is $1,411,442 of change bills, and $8,095,000 payable in new issue of Confederate Treasury notes, 25th De cember next, which by the terms of the contract are to be presented for payment by 25th March next, or the State is not bound to redeem them, but they are to be receivable in payment of public dues at any future time.” h The Governor also recommended the issue of similar notes for this year to pay the appropriations until the taxes could be collected. So it will be seen that these notes will be hereafter good at any time for public dues, unless the State violates it plighted faith and is guilty of repudiation. It is true they are not at valuable as the 6 and 8 per cents, because they are not to be redeemed in bonds within the next twelvemonths. But as they are to be good for taxes and other public dues they will no doubt pass from hand to hand as a currency, and will be worth more or less in specie, ac cording to the money collected for taxes to support the State government. If the taxes are paid in non-specie paying currency, then these notes will be worth that much to the holder. If the taxes be paid in spe cie, then these notes will be worth specie to the amount of the holdups tax. Rut, as there arc no doubt several mil lions still out, and as, should the taxes be collected, for specie, these notes will be put in the market for scale, by persons holding more of them than will pay their taxes,they will be worth in specie, for a term, at what they will sell for. The State Charge Bills, however, occupy a different poriti-m from any other notes is sued by the Staje, they are only made re deemable “in Confederate Treasury No‘es when presented ia 3ums of ffvi dollars md upwards** While, then, the State is #i : y bound to redeem these Change Bil s m Confederate notes, yet as she Las long sin • got the benefit of these nuus by us ngti Ci nf.‘derate muuey that were given for the * wU m ah* Ui *9 ta&t Wtt Eat/ J them at her Treasury to the wives &0., of the indigent soldiers families for their sup port, we d«>ubt not but that, they too, will ultimately be taken up atd redeemed. The above are our reflections, upon the ilea that the State will be allowed to man ‘ge her own financial affar*. We have but l«ttle doubt that such wiii bo the eaa We do not pariakj of the fe*rs of some, that our civil policy will be interfer ed with by Federal authority. At any rate we would advi&e our readers to hold on to their State money of every kind, and wait events. From the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. Ybe Canadian Conspirators. The parcel of wretches who organized, in Cat ada, the St. Albans r< bbery aod murder, and the Lako Eii** piratical enterprise, and rbe Niagara Falls pence m g itiati ns. became virtuously itjdigt ant when charged wit ? com plicity in the asst 88 nation of Abiaham Lin coln. A part ot the scouodiels have put forth the followirg maniftsto: Montreal, May 4, 1865. To Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: Your proclamation is a living, burning lie, ko wo to be such by yourself and all your surroundings, and all the hired peijurers in Christendom shall not deter us from exhibit ing to the civilized werid your hellish plot 10 murder our Christian President. We recoguize in many of you** most dis tinguished Generals, men of honor, ar.d we do not believe their association even with you, has so brutalized them, as to prevent their doing justice to a public enemy, under such grave charges. Be this as it may, wc challenge you to select any nine of the twen ty-five Generals that we name, to form a court-martiai for ouj trial, to be convened at the United States fort at House’s Point, or any other place that you will not haVe the power to incite the mob to destroy us, en route: . Generals Scott, Grant, Sherman, Meade, Rosencrans, Howard, Burnside, Hancock, Hooker, Schofield, Wrigh, Dix, Cadwalla der, Emory, Blair, PJe'asonton, Logan, Steele, Peck, Hatch, Franklin, Rodman, Alexander, Carr, Reynolds and Meagher. The money that you have so prodigally oflered to have the unoffending neutrality of a neighboring State violated by the un warrantable seizure of our persons, to be paid over to defray the- professional and other evpenses of our trial, to the lawyers that we shall designate, and whp ar.e in no wise to be prejudiced in our defense. Our witnesses to have the fullest protection, and, upon our ucquitul of the charges pre ferred against us in your .proclamation, we are to be permitted to return, under safe conduct. * In conclusion, we say we have no ac quaintance whatever with Mr. Booth, or any these alleged tu have been engaged With him. V> t; nave never seen or tiad any knowledge, in any wise, of him or them, and he has necer written us a note , or sought an interview with us. George N. Sanders, BaVMiLY Tucker. The Attempt to Hake a ilero of Corbett. It is ox:ivm«;ly 'aughaole to gee what ridiculous piins are takeu tor the laudation of “B ston” Corbett, who shot, Booth. We hto treated to a history of h;s early life ; a eireum.-tanfiii’ uarrati.e -f hi* religiouseon versiou ; a graphic delineation of his per sonal peeultar*ties, ami a«j»i{y bulletin re sp< ctiug his present condition and sayings, [r appiars th « C•» beth is a very eccentric chan Amo> g hi- peculiarities is tba& of dis byiug oru* rs, ami “going it, ou his own hook”—a quiietv not. supp used to'be tie high* st,element of .soldiership. Win n B a»th was shut iu the burning barn, ; r uud which s'Ood twenty l ight mob, wai mg f r him to emerge, as ho must soon have d**tie, Corbett was posted at a certain poiu*, and told to stay there. Instead of doing so, he made an eccentric movement to the hack of tho building, got a favorable position beside a crevice, drew bead on the murderer—a splen did mark, as he sto< u motioulessin the glare —and shot him. Pt maps, as one romantic correspondent asserts, he k h>iT.red up a men tal prayer for the soul of Booth as he pulled the trigger.” All things considered, t:,e --assas-m could not, perhaps, have been bol ter disposed of. But it really is a sugges tive proof of the disposition to manufacture heroes out of dKisLl material, that this rash act of a disobedient soldier should be made a pretext for his glorification ; as though peculiar virtues attached to the incident of his becoming public, executioner, under such circumstances. „ Carlyle says, it is ofren “tho difference betweeu the question of wait ing for hot coffee at breafcla.>t, or drinking it cold, which makes a man great or leaves him otherwise j” and the exaltation of Ser geant “Boston" Corbett furnishes a striking iustance of the philosophic truth of this statement.— Albany Evening Journal . May 4 th. • • - Commercial Intercourse. —Some mis apprehension as to the extent to which' it was possible for the President by his recent proclamation to restore commercial inter course with the Southern States are the sub ject of explanation by the Washington cor respondent of the New York Times : A good deal of annoyance is occasioned by a misapprehension of the President's proclamation of the 29th ultimo, ordering that all restrictions upon commercial inter course be discontinued ia such [art* o? cer tain States as shall bo embraced within the lines of the national military occupation it will bo observed that, the President's order on'ly removes the miiii- ry reaction*, and expressly exoeprs such restrictions aa are im posed by the auts of Congress, ;**nd .regula tions in pursuance thereof, present >l by the Secretary of the Treasury. The .President has not declared, that the insurrection of the 3 f atea named has ceased or bni'ii su; p and commercial intercourse with tho e <:is iricts cannot be carried on except by iht ttwrttary es th» « V • dissolution. ,fTIH£ frro of freeman, P man A Oo ,tstbn«*»* i. ! I by ih 9 *ni*nw#ot L. trvMWoSH t/J fa:«re will be oo ducted urd- r ihe f.-n rmrriVw A INMAN. L PaUUovwwrl cuntltu- ihe-m* i Boot* and Shoe*t> heretofore. T % tfkEKM VN 1 w. k ;nman, ’ MiylT.lMk L: PIIL I LOVE. CBEIP VARIETY STORE. CHERRY STREET ..MATON, QEG. FREEMAN & INMAN BUH continue* to carry ov the wholesale ard retail buai ness ai their old stand. fbe r « ih y are tow aelli&z a ——» variety of GootU, P ov sit ns, Ac . CHKAP FOlt CASH. Special attention will be given as beretofoie. to ail con signments ’ We expect soon to be able to add te our present stoek a fine F t of FANCY GOODS! I It being <ur aim to use every exertion to please and give , satisfaction, we ho>e our friends, and particularly ■ ihe j Indies w.ll bestow upon us the same patron** e In >u’ure thut ba« b. en so libei all extended to us dm Irig the pwst. May liMSc FRKKMAN A INM*N. J. 11. ANDERSON, Produce and General Commission Merchant, MACON, GEORGIA, CORNEA THIRD «r POPLAR WT*.. SOLICITS c< Of PRODUCE, and will buy and sell BAG' N, LARD. ' % STB UP, *LCUR, . CORN, MEAL, * PJKAB, EODA, SUGAR, COFKFE, , SHEETING, 08NABURG8, YARN , LEATHER, COTTON CARDS. may 18-dlm AO., AC. R, B, CLAYTON & CO , Auction and Commission Merchants, CHERRY STREET, (NEARLY OPPOSITE THE TKLK«RAPQ PRINTING OrrtCE.J WILL attend promptly to the sale of all kinds of GOODS and MERCHANDIZE, * HORDES, PROVISIONS, LANDS, Ltc., etc., Either at AUCTION or PRIVATE SALE. maylStf R B. CLAYTON A CO. WM. M. DUNN. THOB. W. MAN&HAM. DUNN & MANGHAM, General Produce Merchants, r, r-y AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ~ DEALERS IN GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS GENERALLY. WE buy and seU 13..con, Lard, Syrup, Soda, Sugar, Coffee, Flour, Meal, Tobacco, Whisky, Sheet* Oiumbuigs, Yarns; Corn,-Peaa, , iJalt, Leather, Cotton Cards, etc.', etc., etc. ;3T Consignments and trade respectfully solicited. RALSTON’S GRANITE R \NGS, aprs-tf Third Si reel, M uo, D . Ga. JOURNIL AND MSSIAGbIt JOB OFFICE. We arc prepared to do all kind* of JOB WORK, at Short Notice and REASONABLE RATES, such as Circulars, 1-Ta.nd Hills, i^o^ters, .liailroad "Blanks, etv*., etc. Mercantile, L»w and Visiting CARDS. PAMPHr.E l S, etc. We have on hand a large assortment of PLAIN AND FANCY CARDS, LAW BLANKS, ETC., ETC., At OLD PRICES. Parties will find it to their interest to give us a call, S. ROSE & CO. 0 * AMftROTYPES AND PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN in the best style of tlm art, at Pugh A Lan qnest’s rooms, Triangular Block, Mil-on, Oa. Having the best light in tbe city Pictures taken at short settings. Children taken in fine Flyle.tf sent at 11 e'clock on felr Jays. PUGH k LUNQUEST. msrsbl—d3ro , JAMFS J. BMIDER, JONATHAN COLLINS. SNIDER <& COLLINS. Prodye* and General Cbinmuslon M<rohauu Macon, Ga. fat H. L. JSirsTT’B OLD BTAVD.) TTTTE solicit Conyif nments of every description, an# VV vril 1 buy and sell Bacon, Lard, Pyrup, Flour, .Cora, Meal, Peas, and Country Produce generally and any other Mercha.nd.ze. m»r4-8n Railroad Notice. ON and AFTER tie loth inst., the following currency will be taken, for ft eight and p*Bs tge over our respect ive rend : All iiau&3 of Treasury Notes of the State of Georgia ; notes of the 11a k of the State of Georgia and Brandies ; Augusta and Savannah Hanks (except Timber Cutter's dank); B.nkof Middle Georgia ; U>.i ted States currency and Specie Pa4*-go will be charged at ten (1 ) cents per mile *nd Fr 'i. ht bt fifty (1,1*) per cent, on printed rates of June ftth, ISIB. Coufe lerate Tru&aprrt&’rtn will bo received from pa roled prisoners, n turning to their homes, for il.tli Passage. Those without transportation wlil be carried free ou pre sentation of their Parole Papers Virgil powep.s. E g A Suti rt. \f R R. - ALFRED L TVLKK, Fup Mncnn k H esters R. R. GEORGE W. A o**lß, n>«y9 wen a*i4j» C. R. R Notice to Piasters aad others, THF Macon Manufacturing Company will exchange their 4 4 sheeting for Bacon, Lard, flour, Meal, Cera, taD, Ac., Ac , on the m >•* liberal terms. W-M. »»*,«J.*»ISWL, ..... §§m^gf