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TUESDAY EVENING* JUNE 27th.
CLOSED UP. >
The following order effectually closes up
the liquor selling strops of this city, and the
man who is fond of a “tod” and wants one,
will have to go farther and fare worse.
Mil. Post, Office Provost Marshal, 1
Macon, Ga., June 27, 1865. f
Orders, No. 67.
On and'after this date no one will be al
lowed to Sell Spirituous Liquors to Citizens
or Soldiqp& r All bars and liquor shops of
every kind will he closed at once, ana any
one having a permit to sell liquors will re
turn the same to this office. All persons
hereafter found selling liquor to citizens or
soldiers will be arrested and their stock con
fiscated.
By command of Fbank White,
Lt. Col. Comdg. Post.
J. H. McDowell, Lt. &P. M. '
PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES.
Whereas, The fourth section of the
fourth article of the Constitution of the
United States declares that the United
States shall guarantee to every State in
the Union a republican form of govern
ment, and shall protect eachof them against
invasion and domestic violence; and,where
as, the President of the United States is,
by the Constitution, made commander-in
chief of the army and navy, as well as chief
civil executive officer of the United States,
and is bound by solemn oath faithfully to
execute the office of President of the Uni
ted States, and to take care that the laws
be faithfully executed; and whereas, the
rebellion which has been waged by a por
tion of the people of the United States
against the properly constituted author
ities of the government thereof, in the
most violent and revolting form, and
whose organized and armed forces have
now been almost entirely overcome, has,
in its revolutionary progress, deprived
the people of the State of Georgia of
all civil government; and whereas, it
becomes necessary and proper to carry
out and enforce the obligations of the
United States to the people of Georgia
in securing them in the enjoyment of
a republican form of government; now,
therefore, in obedience to the high and
solemn duties imposed upon me by the
Constitution of the United States, and for
the purpose of enabling the loyal people of
said State to organize a State government,
whereby justice may be established, do
mestic tranquility restored, and loyal citi
zens protected in all their rights of life,
liberty, and property, I, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States and Com
mander-in-Chief of the army agd navy of
the United States, do hereby appoint
James Johnson, of Georgia, Provisional
Governor of the Stale of Georgia, whose
duty it shall be, at the earliest practicable
period, to prescribe such rules and regula
tions as may be necessary and proper lor
convening a convention, composed of del
egates to be chosen by that portion of the
people of said State who are loyal to the
United States, and no others, for the pur
pose of altering and amending the Consti
tution with authority to exer
cise, within the limits of said State, all the
powers necessary and proper to enable
such loyal people of the State of Georgia
to restore the State to its Constitutional
relations to the Federal Government,
and to present such a republican form
of State government as will entitle the
State to the guarantee of the United States
therefor, and its people to protection by the
united States against invasion, insurrection,
and domestic violence; provided that in
any election that may be held hereafter for
choosing delegates to any State convention,
as aforesaid, no person shall be qualified as
an elector, or shall be eligible as a member
of such convention, unless he shall have
previously taken and subscribed the oath of
amnesty, as set forth in the President's pro
clamation of May 29, A. D. 1865, and is a
voter qualified as prescribed by the constitu
tion and laws of the State of Georgia, in
force immediately before the nineteenth of
a. D. 1861, the date of the so
ordinance of secession. And the
invention, when convened, or the legis-
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, J;;N3 28, 1865.
lature that may be thereafter assembled,
will prescribe the qualifiation of electors,
ind the eligibility of persons to hold office
under the Constitution and laws of the
State—a power the people of the ‘several
States composing the Federal Union have
rightfully exercised from the origin of the
government to the present time. And Ido
hereby direct;
First—That the military commander of
the department, and all officers and per
sons in the military and naval service, aid
and assist the said provisional governor in
carrying into effect this proclamation; and
they are enjoined to abstain from in any
way hindering, impeding, or discouraging
loyal people from the organization of a
State government, as herein authorized.
Second—That the Secretary of State
frocedd to put in force all the laws of the
failed States, the administration whereof
belongs to the State department, applicable
to* the geographical limits aforesaid.
Third—That the Secretary of the Treas
ury proceed to nominate for appointment
assessors of taxes and collectors of customs
and of internal revenue, and such other
officers of the Treasury department as are
authorized by law, and put in execution
the revenue law of the United States with
in the geographical limits aforesaid. In
making appointments, the preference shall
be given to qualified loyal persons residing
within the districts where their respective
duties are to be performed. But if suita
ble residents of districts shall not be found,
then persons residing in other States or dis
tricts shall be appointed.
Fourth —That the Postmaster General
proceed to establish post-offices and post
routes, and put into execution the postal
laws of the United States within said State,
giving to loyal residents the preference of
appointment; but if suitable residents are
not found, then to appoint agents, etc., from
other States.
Fifth—That the district judge for the
judicial district in which Georgia is includ
ed, proceed to hold courts within said State
in accordance with the provisions of the act
of Congress, and the Attorney General will
instruct the proper officers to libel and bring
to judgment, confiscation, and sale, property
subject to confiscation, and enforce the ad
ministration of justice within said State, in
all matters within the cognizance and juris
diction of the federal courts.
Sixth—That the Secretary of the Navy
take possession of all the public property
belonging to the Navy department within
said geographical limits, and put in opera
tion all acts of Congress in relation to naval
affairs having application to said State.
Seventh—That the Secretary of the In
terior put in force the laws relating to the
interior department applicable to the geo
graphical limits aforesaid.
In testimony wfiereof, I have hereunto-set
my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at
the City of Washington, this 17th day
of June, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of
the independence of the United States
the eighty-ninth.
[Signed] Andrew Johnson.
By the President':
. William 11. Seward,
Secretary of State.
All About the Freedmen’s Bureau.
From the Augasta Transcript, 23d.]
As the constitution and sphere of this
bureau are matters of prominent interest to
our people, we have prepared the following
digest of all the official acts which relate to
the subject:
ITS ESTABLISHMENT BY ACT OF CONGRESS.
After considerable discussion upon the
subject, in the last Congress, an act was
finally passed, and received the President’s
approval on the 3d of March, 1865, to
establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen
and refugees, and for the appropriation of
abandoned and confiscated lands. The
bureau, which should continue during the
war and one year after, should be under
the charge of a Commissioner who should
be under bonds of $50,000, and receive
a salary of $3,000. He should be asisted
by ten clerks in his office, and by not more
than ten State Commissioners, the latter to
be under bonds of $20,000, and to receive
a salary of $2,500. Full reports should be
rendered by the bureau, commissioner at
eaeh session of Congress, and special re
ports whenever called for by the President
or either House.
To the Commissioner was given authority
to assign the lands to refugees or freedmen
for three years, in the proportion of not
more than forty acres to each male citizens
at a rent of six per cent, upon its value as
appraised by the State authorities in 1860.
At the end of this time, the land might be
purchased by the occupant at its value as so
appraised, they receiving such tithe as the
United htales can convey.
The act which contemplated a prolonga
tion of the war, will need to be amended,
as it prescribes action for the bureau at the
close of three years, and terminates its exis
tence at the close of one.
OFFICIAL ORDERS OF MAJOR GENERAL O. O.
HOWARD.
General Howard, of Maine, late command
er of the 15th Corps in Sherman's Army
assumed charge of the bureau by Presiden
tial appointment, on May 19, 1865; and
issued a circular on that day. He called
for reports from agents already in the field,
to whom all applications for relief should be
made by freedmen and refugees; and invok
ed the aid of benevolent societies, no appro
priate ns having been yet made by the Gov
ernment.
The general policy of the bureau was
announced to be, the introduction of prac
ticable systems of compensated labor, and
the maintenance of good schools for refu
gees and freedmen, until a system of free
schools can be supported by the reorgan-
ized State authorities. The Commission
ers who were soon to be appointed, should
strive to remove the prejudices of the late
masters who might be unwilling to employ
their former servants; to correct the false
impressions sometimes entertained by the
freedmen .that they can live without labor;
and while making a generous provision for
the aged, infirm and sick, to encourage,
nnd, if necessary, compel the able-bodied
to labor for their own support. Every fa
cility would be afforded to benevolent so
cieties and the State authorities in the es
tab’ishment and maintenance of schools.
CIRCULAR IN REGARD TO ABANDONED LANDS.
A subsequent circular, dated May, 22d,
1865, is an official response to applications
made by the owners of abandoned lands for
their recovery. It orders that all abandoned
lands now under cultivation by freedmen
shall. remain in their possession until the
crops are gathered, uokss they shall
munerated for their labor, products and ex
penditures. And no application by any
loyal person for the restoration us his lands
will be entertained by any military author
ty.
DIRECTIONS TO ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS.
An additional circular, dated May 30,
1865, prescribes rules and regulations for
Assistant Commissioners. Their headquar
ters will be as follows: At Kichmond, for
Virginia; *! Raleigh, for North Carolina;
at Beaufort, for South Carolina and Geor
gia; at Montgomery, for Alabama; at Nash
ville, for Kentucky and Tennessee; at St.
Louis, for Missouri and Arkansas; at Vicks
burg, for Mississippi; at New Orleans, for
Louisiana; and at Jacksonville, for Florida.
Texas is not mentioned. These officers are
enjoined to act promptly, as the season is far
advanced r so as to prevent starvation and
suffering, and to promote good and prosper
ity-
Relief establishments will be discontinued
as soon as the return of industrial pursuits
will permit, and in the meantime will add
only the necessitous and destitute. Ac
counts will be kept with each individual or
community supplied, and be kept as a lien
upon their crops. When necessary, loyal
refugees will receive transportation, food
and protection from the Government.
Courts are established in all places where
there is an interruption of civil law, or
where the local courts do not allow the ne
gro to give testimony; who shall have
control of all objects relating to refugees'and
freedmen, and whites, or Indians, except
those in military service.
The negroes are free to choose tfieir
employers, must bd treated withont cruelty
and oppression, and must be paid for their
labor—the agreement being approved by
proper officers, and enforced upon both
parties. The unity of the family and all
the lights 6f that relation wifi bo
guarded. Ordained ministers who may
solemnize marriages among them, will
make a return for registration, as a record
of all marriages will be kept. Medical
Inspectors will report in regard to their
medical treatment and sanitary condition.
Superintendents of Education will collect
the facts in regard to the work of educa
tion among them, for which new provisions
will be made during the school vacations
of the hot months; and assistant commis
sioner#will aid them in gaining legal tides
to land.
The bureau belongs to the War Depart
ment. ‘ Its agents will make requisitions
upon all officers, civil or military, in charge
of funds, abandoned lands, etc., to turn
over the same; and will make regular re
ports and frequent communications.
CIRCULAR OF BREVET MAJ. GEN. RUFUS SAX
TON SPHERE —THE SEA ISLANDS.
Gen. Saxton, a native of Massachusetts,
and graduate of West Point, has been ap
pointed Assistant Commissioner for the
States of South Carolina and Georgia.
He raised and mustered the first regiments
of colored troops iu the U. S. service; was
made Brigadier General of Volunteers in
June, ’62, and was appointed, subsequently,
the military Governor of South Carolina.
His fisst circular, in the new office assigned
him, is dated at Beaufort, June 10, 1865.
He takes charge of abandoned lands, the
educational, industrial, and other interests
of freedmen and refugees, and the loca
tion of such as may desire it on homesteads
of forty acres. The policy pursued upon
the Sea Islands will be continued. The
former relation between master and slave
will not be recognized. *
Acting Assistant Commissioners have
been appointed already for Charleston, Sa
vannah and Augusta. Others will be sta
tioned at various points in the two States,
which, as it will be observed, form our ju
risdiction.
DIFFICULTIES.
A herculean task has been committed to
the Freedmen’s Bureau. The sphere to
which it has been assigned embraces ques
tions of politics, of morals, of justice, of in
dustry, of education, some of them difficult
in themselves —-all of them complicated by
the confiicting interests of two races wholly
diverse in character, opinion and sentiment.
According to the Act of Congress the Bu
reau is a temporary arrangement; and, it
is to be presumed, that so soon as the States
have recovered their places in the Union,
and have adopted such elementary rules
and regulations as are adapted to the
changed condition of things, the civil au
thority will again be extended to all classes
in the commonwealth. How much pa
tience, philosophy and sagacity will be re
quired to complete the structure—to build
up anew order of society out of the wrecks
of the old ! It is the work of a generation,
perhaps the work of a century, that has
now begun.
He that makes light of little sins is in
the ready way to fall into great ones.
THE WAY TO KEEP HIT IN.
BY MARY E. CLARKE.
“Out again to-night ?” said Mrs. Hayes
fretfully, as her husband rose from the
tea-table, and donned his great coat.
“Yes, I have an engagement with Moore;
I shall be in early ; have alight in the libra
ry. Good night,” and with a careless nod,
William Hayes left his room.
“Always the way, 5 ' murmured Lizzie
Hayes, sinking back upon the sofa, “out
every night. I don't believe he cares (ne
bit about me, now and yet we've been
married only two years.' No man can have
a more orderly house, I am sure; and I
never go anywhere, I am not a bit extrava
gant, and yet I don’t belive he loves me any
more. Oh ! dear, why is it ? I was'nt rich
he did'ut marry me*for money, and he must
have loved me then. Why does he treat
me with such neglect ?” and with her mind
filled with such fretful querries, Lizzie Hayes
fell asleep on the sofa.
Let me paint her picture as she lay there:
She was a blonde, with a small graceful fig
ure, and a very pretty face. The hair,
which showed by its rich waves its natural
tendency to curl was brushed smoothly back
and gathered into a rich knot at the back;
“it was such a bother to ourl it,” she said.
Her cheek was pale, and the whole fitoe
wore a discontented expression. Her dress
was a neat chintz wrapper, but she wore
neither o liar nor sleeves.
What’s the use dressing up just for Wil
liam
Lizzie slept soundly for two hours, and
then awoke suddenly. She sat up, glanced
at the clock and sighed drearily at the pros
pect of the long interval still to be spent
alone before bed time.
The library was just over the room in
which she sat, and down the furnace flue,
-through the registry, came a voice to the
young wife’s ears; it was her husband's.
“Well, Moore, what's a man to do.” I,
was disappointed, and I must have pleasure
somewhere. Who would have fancied*-that
Lizzie Jarvis, so pretty, sprightly and loving,
could change to the fretful dowdy she is
now ? Who wants to stay at home to hear
his wife whining all the evening about her
troublesome servants and her bead ache, and
all sorts of bothers ? She's got the knack
of the drawliDg whine so pal, that, 'pon my
life, I don't believe she can speak pleasant
ly” b y .
. Lizzie sat as if stunned. Was this true ?
She looked in the glass. If not exactly
dowdy, her costume was certainly not suit
able tor an evening, even if it were an eve
ning at home, with only William to admire.
She rose, and softly went to her room with
bitter, sorrowful thoughts, and a firmer reso
lution to win hack her husband's heart, and
then, his love regained, to keep it.
The morning William came into
the breakfast room, with his usual careless
manner, but a bright sttSle came an his
lips as he saw Lizzie. A pretty chintz,
with neat collar and sleeves of snowy mus
lin, and a wreath of soft full, curls, had
really metamorphosed her; while the blush
of her husband’s admiring called up to her
cheek, did not detract from her beauty.
Air first William thought there must be a
guest, but facing around, he found they
were alone.
“ Come, William, your coffee will be
stone cold,” said Lizzie, in a merry, pleas
ant voice.
“ It must cool till you sweeten my break
fast with a kiss,” said her husband, cross
ing the room to her side, and Lizzie’s heart
bounded, as she recognized the old lover’s
tone and manners. •
Not one fretful speech, not one complaint
fell upon William’s ear through the meal.
The newspaper, his usual solace at that
hour, lay untouched, as Lizzie chatted gai
ly upon every pleasant subject she could
think of, warming by his gratified interest
and cordial manners.
“You will be home to dinner?” she said,
as he went out.
“Can’t to-day, Lizzie; I have business
out of town, but I’ll be home early to tea.
Have something substantial; for I don’t
expect to dine. Good bye;” and the smil
ing look, warm kiss pnd lively whistle were
a marked contrast to his lounging, careless
gait the previous evening.
“I am in the right path,” said Lizzie in
a low whisper. “Oh! what a 100 l I’ve been
for two years! A‘fretful dowdy’! Wil
liam, you shall never say that again.”
Lizzie loved her husband with real wife
ly devotion, and her lips would .quiver as
she thought of his confidence to his friend
Moore; but like a brave little woman, she
stifled back the bitter feelings and tipped
off to perfect her plans. The grand piano,
silent for months, was opened, and the lin
en covers taken from the furniture, Lizzie
thinking: “He shan’t find any parlor more
attractive than his own, I am determined.”
Tea time came, and William came with
it. A little figure, in a tasty, bright silk
dress, smooth curls, and oh ! such a lovely
blush and smile, stood ready to welcome
William as he came in; and tea time past
as the morning meal had done.
After tea, there was no movement, as
usual, toward the hat-rack. William stood
up beside the table, lingering, chatting, till
Lizzie also rose. She led him to the light,
warm parlors, in their pretty glow of taste
ful arrangement, and drew him down be
side her on the sofa. He felt as if he was
courting over again, as he watched her fin
gers busy with some fancy needlework,
and listened to the cheerful voice he had
loved so dearly two years ago.
“What are you making, Lizzie?”
“A pair of slippers. Don’t you remem
ber how much you admired the pair I
worked for you, oh! ever so long ago ?”
“I remember. Black velvet, with flow
ers worked on them. I used to put my
feet on the fender, and dream of blue eyes
and bright curls* and wished time would
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move faster to the day when I could brlnv
uiy bonnie, wee wife home, to make music
in my house.”
Lizzie’s face saddened for a moment, as
she thought of the last two veara, and how
little music she had made* for this loving
heart, gradually weaning it from its allegi
ance ; then she said:
“I wonder if you love music now. as
you did then ?”
“Os course I do, I often drop in at Min
Smith’s for nothing else than to hear the
music.”
“I can play and sing better than Mis*
Smith, said Lizzie, half pouting.
“But you always say you’re out of prac
tice, when I ask you.”
“I had the piano tuned thia morning.
Now open, and we will see how it sounds.”
William obeyed joyfully, and tossing
aside her sewing, Lizzie took the piano
school. She had a very sweet voice, not
powerful, but most musical, and was a verv
fair performer on the piano
“Ballads Lizzie ?*
“Oh ! yes, I know you dislike opera music
in the parlor.”
One song after another, with a nocturne,
or lively instrumental piece, occasionally be
tween them, filled upanother how pleasantly.
The littlemantle clock struok eleven I
“Eleven! I thought it was about nine. I
ought to ipoligise, Line, as I used to do,
fpr staying so long; and I can truly say as 1
did then, that the time has psssed so
pleasantly, I can scarcely believe it so laic.
The piano was elosed, Lizzie’s work was
put io the basket, and William was ready to
go up stairs, but glancing back, be saw his
little wife near the fire-plaoe, her hands
olasped her heart beat, aod tears falliog from
her eyes. He wss beside her in an instant.
“Lizzie, darling are you ill T What is
the matter?
“Oh ! William, I've beensuch a bad wife!
I heard you tell Mr. Moore last evening,
how I had disappointed you; bat I will trv
to make your home# pleasant indeed I wifi
if you will forgive and love me.”
“ Love you ? Oh 1 Lizzie, you cannot
guess how dearly I love you !”
As the little wife lay down that night,
she thought, “ I have won him back again ?
Better than that, I have learned the way to
keep him!”
[What a beautiful and touching lemon
is taught in the above! What a triumph
of love over the demon of pride, which
had well nigh driven happiness from that
cozy home and those splendid parlors, nub
stituting in its stead bickering and disap
pointment, trouble and unpleasantry. It
tells eloquently the effect of a kind* look,
the power of kind words. It contains a
warning against that too frequent occur
rence, after marriage, of negligence in
dress, so nearly approaching elovenlinesa
as to disgust a companion, however sadly
deficient m taste.] — Gazette.
Death of an Old Traveler.—The
Louisville Journal says, it is not death alone
that removes men from the miodn of their
fellow men. The public are not unfrequent
ly remiuded that persons have been living
whom they supposed dead, by reading the
intelligence of their decease. There are
many old persons who remember in their
youth the intense interest with which they
read of the adventures of Charles Watertoo.
There were pictures in children's books of
his great feats when a traveller. We had
numbered him with the dead Toog ago. But
the following, from our latest English files,
shows that he has been living in retirement
until the latter part of May :
Mr. Charles Waterton—or, as he was
more familiarly called in the neighborhood
of the place where he passed the last years
of his life, Squire Waterton—the well
known naturalist and traveler, died at mid
night on Friday last, at his residence, Wal
ton Hall, near Wakefield. Although ho
had reached an advanced age—iJi.mely,
83—yet up to Thursday he was hale and
vigorous beyond the common lot c r those
of bis time of life. On that day he fell
from a rustic bridge spanning a small stream
which runs into the upper end of the lake
surrounding the hall. Dr. Wright and Dr.
Horsball were called in to him, but the
shock which the system had sustained was
too great for him to rally from. The Rev.
Canon Brown, before death, administered
to him the last rites of the Roman Catholic
(Jhurch, and it is understood the Pope tele
graphed his benediction.
Mr. Edmund Waterton, the Squire’s son
was in Rome with the Pope when the accident
took place. The instructions which the depart,
ed Squire left behind him concerning hisbunal
are somewhat remarkable. A mausoleum for
the reception of hie body has long been
erected near the top end of the lake* This
sepulchre rests beneath the overhanging
branches of two venerable oak trees. The
body is not to be carried to the tomb by
lrfnd, but is to be conveyed across the lake
in a boat; the mourners are to follow in the
wake in other boats. The funeral is to take
place on Saturday, and, if the wishes of the
deceased are consulted, will be of a strictly
private character.' Ihe Squire has written
his own epitaph. It is in Latin. The trans
lation runs thus: “Pray for the soul of
Charles Waterton, bom June, 1782, died
18 —; whose wearied bones rest here.”
There seems to be no doubt that the re
bel Secretary, Benjamin, has made good
his escape to Bermuda—nest of pirates,
blockade-runners and yellow-fever conspi
rators. This intelligence will be received
with much regret by the President. In a
recent conversation with a prominent po
litical gentleman, Mr. J ohnson remarked
that there was no rebel, whose Ranging
seemed to him so imperatively demanded
by public justice, as John P. Benjamin.—•
Albany .Journal, June 15.