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by & ROSE & CO. BIILfTOTKXAL AND MEBBERCEH. rtiunit is tm, ««*«. «™ »«*' jEBMS: ratm» .., |>t t»«V«•!•••••«$ 1,00 OntMnnth ;* ’ ~ 2,50 Three MonO* - 5,00 Six Month* * 10,00 One Year. ADVXBTISIIfO BATBS. nn4 iasertion-fI.OO. Each subae inwrtion, for first week, 50 cents per square. q week 40 cents per square eaoh msertion. S week 80 cents per square each insertion. Fourth week 25 cents per square each insertion. Advertisements one month $8 per square. Second motSb $7,50 per square. Third and each succeeding 10 Special25 per cent on abort rates, «n 0 in Daily M d 25 cents per line in Weekly paper. WBBKLY RATRS. r For Thrsa Months * • SI,OO u One Year Advertisements inserted in Weekly at SI,OO per sqnare for first insertion, and 50 cents for each subse quent one. . . . , If any of par patrons prefer to pay us in produce, supplies, food or anything we can use, we will take it at the market rates in Macon, for all dues to the office. Our friends who live in the country can send these things to ua by express at oar expense., Persona who reside near each other can club to gether and send their provisions, supplies or corn in one package. SINOLB PAPBRS IN CITY. dingle papers will be sold on the streets and at the desk at five cents per copy. tar We will not receive any money but specie, greenbacks or Macon and W astern and oouth-Wastern Baillroad issues at present. EVENING EDITION. f , „ ■ U,,. .and . ..... - ■ ■■ -a 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 No. $7. 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.