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The Prayer of the South.
In the following poem every nohlc he r» will recog*
nizo the os press crowned poet of the South in hi»
finished measure. Wo are deeply gratified ths.t Fath
er Ryan has honored us hy « tiding It to be published,
first, In our columns.-JV. F. Freeman's Journal.
M v brow is bent beneath a heavy rod I
My face is wan and white with many woes.
But I will lift my poor, chained hands to God,
And for m» children pray, and for my foes.
Beside the graves whe e thousands lowly lie,
I kn el -and w*ephig for each slaughtered son,
I turn my gaze to rny own sunny sky,
And pray, Oh I Futber, may Thy will be done!
My heart is fill-d with a**gu'*b, deep and vast:
M v hopes are buried wi h my children’s dust,
My jo, s have fled— my tears are flowing fast;
In whom, sav ! Tnec our Father, shall I trust ?
Alt ! I forgot Thee, Father, long and oft,
When I was happy, rich, and proud, and free;
But conquered now, and crushed, 1 look a’oft,
And sorrow lends me, Father, back to Thee.
Amid the wrecks that mark the foeman’s path,
1 kneed—a> and watting o’er my glories gone,
I still each thought of hate, each throb of wrath,
And whlspey—Father I let Thy will he done.
Pity me, Father of desolate !
Alas I my burdens nje so hard to hoar;
Look down in mercy oa my wretched fa'e,
And kj*cp me, guard me with Thy loving care. •
Pity me, Father! for IPs holy sake,
Whose broken hear: hied a: the feet of Grfef.
That hearts of earth, wherever they shall break,
Might go to His and fin ! a sure relief.
Ah, me I how dark ! Is this a brief e lipse ?
Or is ItfeJPght, w th no To-morrow’s sun ?
Oh I Father I Fattier! with my pale, sad lips,
And sadder heart, T pray, Thy will he done.
My homes a'e joyless and a .million mourn
Where many met in j >y« tor. ver flown ;
Whose hemes were light, are burdened now, and lorn,
Wli.-re mar y smiled, but one is left to mourn.
And all I the widow’s walls, the orphan’s cries,
Are morning hymn, and vesper chant, to me;
And gro ins ol men, and sounds of women’s sighs,
Commingle, Father, with my praygj to Thee.
Beneath my feet— ton thousand children dead—
Oh ! how T loved each known, ami nameless, ODel
Above their dust I how my crownless head,
Arid murmur, Father! still—Thy will be done. j
Ah I Fatlu r. Thou didst deck rny own loved land i
With all bright charms, and beautiful and fair ; I
But focmen came, end with a pithless hand,
, Spread run, wreck and deed itlon there.
Girdled with gloom—of all my brightness shorn,
And tra> merit and with grid, 1 kiss Thy rod ; f
And turn my face, with tears all wet, and worn,- i
To catch one smile of pity from ruy God.
Around me b.ight. where all before was bloom !
And so much lost—alas I and nothing woe !
Have this- that I can lean on wreclqand tomb,
And weep —and weeping pray, ’Bliy will he done I
And Oh I ’tis hard to say—but said, ’tis sweet— |
The words are bitter, hut they hold a bairn:
A balm that heals the wounds of my deleat,
I And lul’s my sorrows into holy calm.
II in thepr iy rof Pr »yers —and how It brings.
When heard in Heaven, peace and hope to me; !
"When Jcsu prayed It, did not angels’ wings i
Gleam ’mid the darkness of Gothsemane ? I
My children, Father, Thy forgiveness need!
Alas! their hearts have only place for tears ;
Forgive them, Father, ev’ry wrongful deed,
And every sin. of those tour mournful years.
And giv *il in strength to bear their limridh-ss loss,
•\nd I im heir hem is take every (bought of hate;
And wh : !..- they climb their Calvary wfih their cro-s,
Oh! help them, Father, to end ,re its weight.
And for my dead, my Father, may I pray ?
Ah! sigh- may soothe, but prayer shall soothe me
more!
I keep .-teri al watch above their clay—
Oli: res* their souls, my Father, 1 implore!
Forgive my foes-.1l >-y know not what they do—
Forgive the nr nil th" tears they trade me Shed";
Forgive tln m though my noblest sons they slew—
An b'ess them—though tin y curse my poor, dear
dead I
Oh I may my woes lie each a carrier dove
With swift, white wings, that, bathing in my tears,
Will b> nr Thee, Fa,her, all my praters of love,
And bring me peace in all my doubts and fears.
Father 1 kneel ’mid ruin, wreck and grave,
A desert waste where all was erst so fair,
And for my ehi dren and my foes I crave
Pity and pardon—Father ! hear my prayer!
Moist.
*
The Star, the Lily and the Rose.
A lily-bride in the May time,
Two brldemaid buds between,
Paler grow ’r.eath the glances
Ol the bridegroom, Damascene,
Who was the king of the roses,
And she the l.ly queen.
’IBs haughty head was drooping
Over her humbly now.
And she telt his breath like summer
Burning her cheek and brow,
But she blushed not r.s she murmured
Ti e holy bridal vow.
Floi heart in the wave was sleeping,
Where shone a radiant st >r,
• Whose thoughts like wings had wa’ deved
From his palace home afar,
* That was built of the twihglitV amber
And the sunset’s golden bar.
And, looking down to the mirror
Os the orys al lake below,
He had s . ii beside him pictured
A fairer face, like; snow
Or the fleece of Jh# riven rain-cloud
When the April breezes blow.
And the Idly grow to love him
Who smiled so sweetly there.
With silver crest and shining length
Os ango!-haloed hair.
She dreamed not that he dwelt above,
A prisoner prince of air.
AH n>eht she leaned like Juliet
To Romeo at her feet,
AmlJeeling that henceforth her life
Mii't certe.' he tn re sweet
Because she loved Mm. Yet the hoars,
Thoi’tfh beautiful, were fleet.
' (ft 1 " ' '
• An 1 laylltflit daw-evl: th > .hu-kne-s
Fa and from the face of earth
As the can dispel ed tlie shadows
1 Like tlu blest Saviour's birth.
And the lake, like a child on wakipg,
Laughed in innocent mirth.
The Star was gone! and ’he Lily
Wept for a life so brief,
A i ;>i .ed till a sickly pallor crept
Ov. r . ach lovely leaf:
Ah! hitter 'twere she then had died
Titan know a greater grief 1
M antlme the Rose a su tor knelt
And sought her hand ss his.
And with a sigh she give it him
Without a thought of bliss.
For hearts once v holly won know not
Wl.nt alter loving is'.
The bridal ove , at the tryst
Be ide the lonesome lake,
The Lily in her beauty beut
A farewell look to take.
When, Jo! there shone the lover Star,»
fo: love’s, sake 1
Tie night winds heard a sound of woe,
Like hear? strims torn in twain,
And never the king rose Damascene
Saw hit Lily queen again.
IL-r bridal robes wer at his feet,
Iltr coul had fled from pain.
i Louisville, Kr., Feb. 20,1867.
Obituary. —.Mr. John Lewis, one of our j
oldest and best citizens, died yesterday morn- i
ling, at the aye of eighty-five years. The old
gentleman has been confined to his room lor
fiearly two years past, bnt was still cheerful,
(‘only waiting” till the Master whom he had so
long and faithfully served, should send the
summons for him to “come up higher.”
His funeral will take place at 11 o’clock this
morning from the residence of Mr. N. A. Har
flee.—Savannah Advertiser, 22d.
A Black Man to Black Men.
I have no interest in being deceived. In re
gard to the r cw and solemn duties nrismg out
of the late freedom, and enfranchisement of my
race, in the Southern States, nor can I have any
interest in deceiving them. The Messing re
sulting from our emancipation must depend
upon the great blessing of our heavenly Father,
in guiding us to a wise, prudent and energetic
application of the means of impfovemenr,
which may be placed within odr power. We
must notact in too much baste, nor from pas
siou or espousing the creed of any political
party. At the preslnt time, the politics of the
country are mixed up and very unsettled. It
will be wise in us, therefore; to be calm, and
give onrSelves time to examine and weigh the
great questions which bear upon our future
destiny. This 1 have tried to do impartially.—
And having lived in the North and in the South,
and having traveled much and observed closely
the manners and customs of different commu
nities, both in our own and other countries, I
hope the prejudices of party politics and of class
legislation are pretty well rubbed off, and that
I nra prepared to take larger aud more liberal
views of our situation and our future prospects
than most of my people in thi3 country, I
must beg.yotf, therefdre, to hear me without
prejudice. You are my people, our interests
are the same, and we must rise or fall together.
I want us to rise, not like Jonah’s gourd vine,
to wither in a day, but live a tree of righteous
ness of the Lord’s own planting. We can rise
by industry, education and sobriety, and we
must have the patience and determination to
rise slowly and surely by these means. Our
fatherland- and all the world look with the
deepest solicitude to see what* we will make of
our freedom ; and if onr improvements, then,
prove to be equal to our opportunities, we will
inspire energy and hope among the oppressed
and down-trodden of our race in all the nations
whither they have been driven. We should
look, then, not only to the present aud to our
selves, but to future and to the influence
we shalWexert upon the civilization of the world,
and more especially upon our own people. We
arc identified, socially, morally and pecuniarily,
with the Southern people- We have been
brought up with them, played with them as
children nnd worked with them as men. They
know us and we know them, aud we are part
and parcel of their household.
They nursed and cared for us and our wives
nnd children, when sick, as we did for them,
j and although have been examples of hard
: treatment and cruel abuse of the relations ex
isting between ns, yet there is no example in
history where lift* slavery of our people has
been so mild nnd so softened by social and re
ligious culture as in the Southern States.
The facts of history show that they are not
responsible for bringing tis into slavery.
The Yankees and English kidnapped and
brought from Africa the first ship loads of our
people, and sold them into slavery, and the
New England Yankees have continued the
wholesale traffic ever since, up to the beginning
of the war, selling our people ts slaves into
North America and the West Indies.
And, w hen they found that our labor did not pay
woil in the cold and sterile farms of tire Nortli,
they re-sold us to the cotton and sugar planters
ot the South. •
Thus, in their bauds, we have been used
from the first ns a commodity of money mak
ing speculation. They used us for the same
purpose in the late war —not to set us fre<*, lor
the President and Congress repeatedly declared
that the objects of the war was not to abolish
slavery, but to maintain the Union of-the
States. But finding themselves hard pressed,
they used us for the double purpose of saving
their precious bodies from the bullets of the
rebels, and of crushing out Ihe rebellion. By
our help and the blessing of God they succeed
ed ; and now, as a matter of sheer justice, they
proclaimed our freedom, and gave us free suf
frage— that is, if we voty for them. Such free
dom of the ballot box is a mockery, and it re
quires no great smartness in us to see that they
still propose to use us for selfish and political
purposes. Think yen, my fellow-countrymen,
that the Radical parfv of Tennessee would
have given us suffrage if they had thought it
doubtful whether they could control that suf
frage to their own advantage? Why did they
not give us the right to hold office and sit on
juries ? I answer, they are afraid of our pow
! er, for we are a power in the South. They are
; still speculating in our people, a& they have
! done from the first ship load they kidnapped
! and sold into slavery. They flattered to deceive
I us then ; they flattered and deceived us again
when they re-sold us to Southern planters ;*
i they flattered to deceive us when they put us
| in the front of the battles of the late war.—
i They now flatter us .with a mock suffrage, to
i deceive us imo lue support of their claims to
1 office and power; and if they succeed in this —
j mark it, my countrymen —it won’t be twenty
1 years till they will flatter ns that emancipation
is a failure, ap,'that they can afford us better
; support aud protection in a mild state of slave
rv. I cannot trust the flattery aud cupidity of
a Radical, aud I warn you to beware of them
If we join the Radicals, we will, by that act,
declare our approval of that iniquitous law
which disfranchises four-fifths of ih« best<nen
in the State, you join them to heap reproach
and injustice upon your best friends, men with
whom your future destiny is so linked that you
rise or fall with them. Tennessee is only
State disfranchised. It was not done bv Cou
gress, but by the Radical Governor Jud Legis
lature of our State. Do you think it possible
that such a party can long exist? lam sure it
' cannot, and if we do our duty it will be hurled
from power on the first day of August next.
; But the Radicals flatter us that they are otir
I best friends, and our only friends, and that
| they gave v.s freedom. How is this ? Let us
I look into it a moment. Thy* Radicals charge
j that the Southern States brought od the war;
well, so they did, aud the war by our strong
arms was successful, and resulted in our free
dom. The rebels brought it on, and we made
it successful,*as all parties agree. Now, how
did our freedom come? If the rebels had not
brought it on, and if tee had not fought for its
success, we would have remained to this day in
bondage. Therefore, we are indebted to the
‘ joint agency of the rebels and ourselves for
‘ our freedom. I admit that the rebels did not
intend to procure our freedom by the war; vet
they were willing to risk it. Neither did the
Federal Government propose to aboiish slave-
Iry by the war. Our freedom came, therefore,
by one of that class of accidents which comes
i by the overruling Providence ot God.
i Now that our freedom is conceded by all j
1 parties, as an established and unalterable fact. |
! it becomes, our duty, and the duty o! all, to j
make the best of it possible to ourselves, and |
i to those with whom the Provideuee of God j
i has east our ot. The people, climate, soil and
j productions oi the South are best adapted to 1
I our future prosperity and happiness. We
ou jht, therefore, to seek such unity, harmony
; and peace with the Southern people as will
i best enable us to accomplish our permanent
: prosperity and happiness iu this,country.
The rebels, as we call them, who fought long
and bravely against the Union, have laid down
, their arms ; have accented the terms of peace
: offered by the Government ; have returned to
peaceful avocations at home, and have taken
the oath of amnesty in good faith, as their con
j duct for more than two years has proven—and
are now the men of peace in this country. The
i Radicals, especially the Tennessee Radicals,who
never did much fighting, and who never seemed
to get mad till the war was over, are now the
men of war, and are secretly and publicly in
citing and doing all in their power to briug on
a conflict between the white and black races.
This you know as well as I do. I tell you ray
fellow-citizens, 1 cannot trust their lying flat
. teries, nor do I fbar their cowardly threats.
How cau you trust Governor Brownlow who,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1867.
for twenty years, employed bis pen, his tongue,
his press and bis iron wheel to grind us down
into slavery forever ? His scurrilous books,
containing the most hike and bitter slanders
upon our race, are widely circulated North
and Boutb, to be read by future generations.—
He asserts that any pffort to raise our people to
the manhood and equality with the white race
would be as fruitless as to raise the polecat to
eqnalit/with the lion.
But I need not ventilate the character of Gov.
Brownlow, for he has done that himself. Do
you ask me lie doomed us to perpetual
slavery as an accursed aud inferior race? It
was for money and power. D/> you ask me*why
he glorifies us now as better than white men—
the very white men that supported his newspa
per and family for many years ? It was for
money and power. By this matter of fact rea
soning, we are forced to the conclusion thabthe
same motives that governed him in the above
named cases would in a certain class
of circumstances, to abandon us again to slave
ry forever. I cannot trust such a mafa, nor can
I tpist his followers, for they are like him. I
can trust the Conservative party, both Nortli
aud South, for the preservation and unity of
our republican government will be safe in their
hands. Again, I earnestly warn Any people of
the danger of joining a party so violent, bitter
and unscrupulous as the Radicals at Tennessee.
Do not join a party now doing all in their pow
er to make you hate the very people with whom
yon have jived so long, as members of one fam
ily. Your future destiny is so identified with
them that you must rise or fall with them.—
You must safely trust the honor and friendship
of the Southern people, aud if you join them at
the billot box in putting down Radicalism, and
in restoring peace and prosperity to the coun
try, the -bonds of unity, peace and friendship
will be more firmly established than ever be
fore.
The best men, and :he best Union soldiers In
the country are conservative and peace-loving
men. The Radicals are mainly office-seekers
who are seeking to bring on a conflict between
us and the Southern people, that they may be
come rich upon the spoils of a ruined people,
a fallen Republic aud a bankrupt Govern
ment.
You may persecute me and stir mobs <sf bad
men to take my life, but I will still plead for
my people, and pray that God may bless them
and guide them safely through the daggers
that now. surround them. Their lot is my lot,
we must jail together. Let us be peaceful, in
dustrious, save our money, educate ourselves
and our children, and pray to God to lead us
in the good and right.
I would like to say much more to you ; but
must close by begging your sympathy and in
dulgence. Yours, truly,
Joseph E. Williams.
An Attempt to Incite Mob Violence Against
Mr. Davis in New York.
Under the heading “A Word of Advice to
Mi. Davis,” the Nhw York Evening Poet of
Wednesday has the following atrocious article :
Mr. Jefferson Davis will, it is reported,arrive
in New York to-day. As it is possible that our
journal may fall under the eyes of some of his
friends, we suggest to them the propriety of
urging the traitor chief to the most modest de
meanor-while he is here. The public is o-reatlv
•md justly at his release; it desired and
expected to see him brought to trial, and cr>n
demed to the punishment which the laws decree
for such crimes as his.
That he has nos been brought, to trial for these
crimes is, we think, an injury to the country, and
will prove a source of Weakuess hereafter tou«
But as he has been released, a decent respect
for public opinion demands that he should <*o
quietly into an obscure place and live there in
ttie utmost retirement, It is not fit or decent
that he should be seen in New York at all. If
there is any dark unvisited corner where he can
T 1? to it and there remain.
so til-advised and foolish as to attempt
jmy public appearance here, he will, not impro
bably, excite a public commotion and tumult.
. When just laws remain unexecuted, when great
and atrocious criminals are, by the connivance
ot the authorities, allowed to escape punish
merit, the seme of outraged justice sometimes
leads the people to take matters into their own
hands, aud to deal that justice which’ is denied
by the court and other authorities. We do not
mean to justify any such resort to violence ;but
we know that the public mind is deeply and
painfully excited, not only at the release of the
Reading and most impudent and stiff-necked
traitor, but also at his shameless insoleuce in
coming here to show himself immediately upon
his liberation.
Oui stieets are still full of wounded and crip
pled soldiers—the marks of his crime. Thou
sands of our citizens have seen the shattered
wrecks turned over to us from the loathsome
Li my prison ; the poor famished *and frozen
let lows who ennae home from the horrible.pen of
Belle Isle to die, or to live out a few painful
} e;ri*s of suffering*. x\ll know that these foul
prisons were not at a great distance, but under
the very eyes of Davis; when he looked out of
Ins bedroom windows every mornin o * he saw
*°ur starving soldiers at Belle Isle ; when he rode
out lor lus pleasure or health he rode by the
Libby. Nor was his malignant heart content
even to thus starve and freeze to death our
soffiiers, but he added insult to his tortures :
“Do you not all knotv,” said he at Columbia,
on the 4th of October, 1864 “do you not all
know that the only wav to make spaniels civil
is to whip them?” “Does any man believe,”
lie said, “ that Yankees are to be conciliated by
terms of concession? Does any man imagine
taat vve can conquer Yankees by retreating be
toie them or do you not all know that the only
way to make spaniels civil is to whip them ?”
It is a part of his “spaniel” theory to come at
ouce to New York, when he is released. Let
Ins .riends, ot whom he appears to have some
in high places, warn him to be. prudent. He
has no business here ; he has no right to walk
our stieets, to flaunt himself iy the faces of the
" ,?'\ s and orphans his crime and his stiff
ueckea persistence in crime made. Let him
Mink away, over by-roads, in a close carriage,
to &ome obscure' and unknown spot, and there
hid# himself.
The Debt and Finances of Georgia.— In I
closing a long resume of the debt and finances
of Georgia, the April number of Hunt's Mer
chants' Magazine s»y.s :
, “Tlie probable resources of the State Treas-!
,ir b the oar rent year (1866-6?) are estimated |
oopne o*.' ,,je expenditures at $879,- I
■ ■jo 06. the income from each source is thus I
estimated-general tax, 6450,000 ; tax on banks ;
aim ranroaos, each, &5,G00, and on foreign in-.
a^ enCies , SIO,OOO ; tax on liquor sales, !
| »bO boo ; dividends from Atlantic and GuW Rail
i ’ vvPr< atl d net earnings of Western and
i Atlauue Railroad, $l5O 000. The disbursements
L include the Assembly, $76,000 for
| the « IT “ e <WWr ment, and $307,000 for interest
! on toe There is also included in
i tUc estimate of* disbursements $86,000 for the
payment of temporary loan, and $106,805 06
. undrawn balances of eld appropriations—-
i to £ el * ier j sl9*-,805 06 not belonging to the enr-
ex P enses
J'T t^r X^ ;&bOVe reD ’* is Quite ap
parent mat Georgia is rapidly recovering from
,£* usec * b v the late hostilities.
A k-tate that is able to raise such a revenue as
is here estimated, from a population of less
than a million souls, two-fifths the number only
just emerged from the condition of slavery, is
a sure test o.f financial vitality. No further
loans are w anted ; all old accounts are liqui
dated, and once again the two sides of the
public ledger are balanced.
* To the People of Georgia.
There seems to be a prevaleuf misunderstand
ing either of the powers of the Executive, or of
what the Legislature has done, to supply pro
visions to those needing them. I receive, daily,
communications more numerous than I can
possibly answer separately, giving information
of destitution, and appealing for relief from it.
This destitnfton is of two kinds: First, that
prevailing among men of'some property*—pos
sessed of lands and live stock—who have hired
laborers aiid set their crops, without having
secured a sufficient supply of provisions to feed
their laborers and their beasts of burden, aud
are now, in the midst of the crop season, ar
rested, for lack of food. Secondly, that which
arises from the utter destitutiou of property,
and inability to labor.
. Those of my readers who understand the
Constitution of the State, know futFwell that
the treasury of the State is under the control of
the Legislature; they loow that It is ordained
by the Constitution that “ No money shall be
drawn from the treasury of this State except by
appropriation made by law." They are aware
that when an appropriation is made by law for
a specific purpose, it can be used only for that
purpose. These are plain truths. Let those
who have not considered them before, take note
of them now. The last Legislature appropri
ated one hundred thousand dollars (no more)
“ t° purchase corn to give bread to such indigent
widows and orphans of deceased soldiers, and dis
abled soldiers of the State, who, by reason of
their extreme poverty and inability to labor, need
the same." Nothing con be clearer than that
the class »f farmers and planters, whose pro
visions have given out midway the crop, do not
come within the description given' in the act.—
However much, therefore, I may sympathize
with them, (and no man does so more freely) it
is mauifest I cannot relieve them. Appeals to
me only harrow my feelings without the possi
bility of bringing relief to the sufferers. So,
too, the provisions donated by the noble ehari
table as ociations of the more fortunate S'ates,
are dedicated to the feeding ot needy men, wo
men and children, who have neither property
of any kind, nor the capacity to labor for the
means of subsistence. It would be a violation
of the trust to distribute them among property
holders, in aid of agriculture. It cannot be done.
Deplorable, therefore, as this state ot things is,
1 have no power to give relief.
In this connection, I trust I shall be pardon
ed for making suggestion.* We are an im
poverished people ; a large amount of property
wiped out and what remains depreciated in
present value by the ravages of war. On the
restoration of peace we had to begiu life anew,
and to begin it with st very inadequate supply
ot bread—the stall of life. Two crops gathered
since the cessation ot hostilities have been Ue
eidfcdly short—inadequate to the wants of our
people. Last .year the suffering was great, this
year it is far greater. All that the State gov
ernment and the United States Government
and the ever memorable charities of benevo
lent individuals have done, will tall short of
full relief.
' Fellow-citizens, how long shall this con
tinue? Believe ine, it will continue and grow
mere stringent, until there shall be raised, on
the soil of Georgia, in one. year, enough of
bread to feed all her people." Os this result,
there is no hope this year, next year, nor with
in ten years, unless those who till, the soil plant
in ce/enls and other, articles of lood a sufficient
breadth of laud, to secure this result with
moderately unpropitious seasons.' This is a
prompting of interest, it is the dictate of pa
iriotism. This once accomplished, we can.
make a fair start, and wiiii the blessihgs ot
God, take care ot ourselves. But this, Pleat,
is not being done ; I greatly tear there is too
much land devoted to cotton, cotton, cotton?—
There would be hope fyr the State, if thousands
of acres ot cotton were now plowed up, and
the ground devoted to corn. There is yet time
for Is The present cry for bread among’ sub
stantial farmers admonishes all to do this.
Again, in regard to the second class, those
who are provided for by voluntary contribu
tions, and by State appropriations. The in
quiry comes to me daily, why do not the sup
plies come forward? I answer to all: The
voluntary contributions which come to me are
distributed with all possible dispatch, and as
they come in quantities too small tor each ship
ment to be distributed all over the State, coun
ties are classified, (the most destitute and suf
fering being first attended to) and supplied in
order. Concerning the State supply, it must
not be overlooked that to the appropriation "of
the SIOO,OOO, the" Legislature put this proviso,
“ that no part of the same shall be expended
until the Governor shall become satisfied that a
sufficient*}* of corn will not be contributed from
voluntary sources.” Many of your represen
tatives believed enough would be so contribut
ed. I owed to them the.duty of waiting to see
the result. lam satisfied .the expenditure will
be necessary. My operations are in progress
and I donbt not the corn will be distributed at
the most eligible time of the season.
The appropriations to pay .freight on corn
“ donated,” is only 820,000. This will be in
sufficient to pay all the freight which will accrue
on corn voluntarily contributed. I feel it to be
my duty first to apply it t,o freight on .consign
ments to H. C. Horuady, the agent named in
the 'appropriation act, and to other agents
directed to report to me, and to myself as the
Executive of the State. County authorities
sending out agents and receiving and distribut
ing corn by their own volition, do not come
within the provision of that section.
I heartily wish I could buy corn and pay
freight for all. But I trust the extent of my
powers and the means at my command will be
now fully understood, and that no unfounded
expectations will be entertained.
Charles J. Jenkins.
Turning the Tables.—Brownlow’s organs
are continually serving up sensational reports
of disturbances in different parts ot ‘he States,
in which the credit of originating the disputes
is always given to those who were rebels. They
never will allow that their adherents are any
thing but saints, preservers.and lovers of peace
and order. We have got a stubborn fact for
them to get around this morning. The Jones
boro’ Flag, an intensely Radical weekly, inad
vertently publishes the foifowing scrap, in re
lation to a recent fracas in Blount county.—
Take notice that it happened on Sunday and in
a church of God.
“On Sunday, the 21st lilt., there was about
fifty Unionists gathered at tfie church yard,
formed in procession, met the Rev. (?) Mr.
Haynes, told him to leave the county or suffer
sac'll treatment as might follow.
“ They next went to the rebel citizens and
told them if they were caught harboring or
encouraging the rebel ministers in Blount
county at auy time hereafter, they might pre
pare to leave the country, Dr sutler such treat
ment as might follow.”
'The F7osr editoraily endorses these proceed
ings. It says:
“ This is just the way to treat the clerical vil
lains. Our advice to all loyal communities that
are plagued with these reverend hypocrites, just
to wait on them in a body whenever they at
tempt to preach, and inform them that they
wiH be tolerated no longer.”
How> that, for the “God and morality”
partv?* Out of their own months they con
demn themselves. — Chattanooga Am. Union.
Mr. Davis as an Author— The New York
Times says it is already understood to be the
purpose of Mr. Davis to set to work writing a
book—giving a history of the secession move
ment, the Southern struggle, and bis adven
tures from December, 1860, to May, 1867. The
truth of this is doubted.
Extraordinary Villainy of a Massachusetts
'Radical Preacher and Legislator.
Boston, May 13.
This eity has been considerably excited to
day on account of the scandalous conduct of a
person formerly officiating as a Baptist clero-y
--man in the town of East Abii gd >n. This per
son s name is Serene Howe. He was a member
of the State Legislature* a school committee
man and a prominent Good Templar. He was
settled over the Baptist Church in East Abing
don five or six years ago, and has continued its
pistor until last Sunday. By exemplary con
duct he won the confidence*of the community,
aud apparently took great interest iu the wel
fare ol children. The present year he was
elected a member of the Lower House of the
Legislature, and was principal school commit
teeman in his town. Some months siuce-ho
buried his wife and several children. Since
that time thete has been whisperings of Ms af
fection for girls and boys, and that he took im
proper liberties with them, although parents
felt perfect confidence that when in company
with Mr. Howe their chi.dren were entirely out
of harm’s way and beyond the reach of temp
tation. But on Saturday la6t the community of
East Abingdon was greatly shocked by the
statements made by a little girt. Curiosity was
excited ; and it came out that the minister had
almost daily exercised improper familiarities
with children and young ladies. This Ipis con
tinued for a long series of weeks. Howe chose
his dormitory for committing these outrages ;
and in some instances he engaged as bed-fel
lows young ladies a week or ten days in ad
vance.
The statements of the girls were astounding,
and the unnatural practices of Howe were es
tablished beyond a doubt. The citizens resolved
to investigate the matter and acouucil was held
on Sunday. A dozen citizens waited upon
Howe at aud found he had no re
sponse to make to tire chaises preferred against
him. As the temper of the people would allow
of no dalliance, late iu the eyeuing, was
driven out of the town in a carriage by a friend.
He. stopped over uight in Weymouth, and came
to this city incog this morning, and sent in his
resignation as a member of the House of Rep
resentatives. The people pf East Abingdon
are naturally in a great state of excitement aud
indignation at the conduct of Howe, who, it is
said, even attempted to poison the minds of the
young pages in the Legislature* This afternoon
tile Legislature helix a secret session and dis
cussed the conduct of Howe. A member pre
sented Howe’s letter of resignation. Many
members sat. with their heads hung down at
the disgrace thus entailed upon that body, but
several proved themselves equal to '.he occa
sion, and demanded a committee of investiga
tion. But the subject proved' too disgusting,
and so, instead of expelling Howe, his letter of
resignation was accepted. Howe is,a man ot
about forty years of age, and is called smart, but
is idiotic in appearance, aud is vvh.U M. Du
Chaillu would call a simian. His .father resides
in this city. The exemplar ,of “ moral ideas ”
left for New York this afternoon, and intimated
that he was going South.
Gerdt Smith’s Speech at Richmond.
Gerrit Smith made a speech to a nrx- and as
sembly-of black and white people at Richmond
on Tuesday which was frill of characteristic
benevolence, aud contained broader and more
sensible views than the speeches of any other
Northern orator now in the South. He did not
spare the South for its sins and follies, for
bringing on the war, or tor attempting, in some
eases, to run away from the restoration terms
of Congress ; but he blamed the North also for
its share in bringing on the trouble and for its
want of magnanimity. Though under the con
stitution those who took part m fighting against
the Government are traitors to-day, he said lie
was “averse to having his countrymen ("the
Southerners) go down to posterity stigmatized
as traitors. When this strife had advanced to a
great civil war, with a de fftbto government, and
carrying on war as an independent power, they
were no longer traitors. lie wanted thus to
lift them from their supposed degradation.
The North, lie would say, was under a common
responsibility with the South for the late war.”
After speaking of slavery as the cause of the
war, and the North being equally guilty with
the South for establishing and maintaining that
institution, he added, “we of the Nortli reaped
far more gain from slavery than you did. You
but held the cow—we milked it.” He said he
was not an advocate ot confiscation, and ad
vised the blacks not to ask for it, but to seek
homes by their honest earnings. He would
also relieve the South for half a dozen years
from direct Federal taxes to enable the pesple
to recover something of their former pros
perity. Congress, he said, should have appro
priated leu or twenty millions of dollars to
that suffering land. How such broad and
liberal views contrast with the narrow and
illiberal policy of Congress, in taxing the pro
ductions of the South at a t ime when they most
need assistance ! How different is this speech
of Gerrit Smith to those threatening and mere
partisan speeches of Wilson, Kelley and some
other Northern orators in the South ! We
think Gerrit Smith would'do a great deal of
good were he to follow those other speakers
throughout the South, and we-recommend him
to cio so. —New York Herald.
The Wilson Letter. Courier has,a
communication, signed “South Carolina,”
which thus puts certain citizens of Charleston
to the blush. As the remarks are equally ap
plicable in certain latitudes of Georgia, we re
produce them:
To the Editors of the Charleston Courier:
The letter addressed to the lion. Henry Wil
son, which appeared in j our issue ol Thursday
morning, “ By Citizens of Charleston,” is a
verv remarkable commentary on the times.
“ We, the undersigned, citizens of Charleston,
hear icith great pleasure, of .your tour through
the Southern States.” Surely not one of the
gentlemen whose signatures were appended to
that letter but knew the object of his tour, for
that had been foreshadowed by his several
speeches in Virginia, aud his own avowals,
and they now know how well he fulfilled that
object in his denunciations of acts and policy
of the State, from its existence to the present
time. The letter proceeds, “ We receive with
satisfaction the Intelligence that that tour may
embrace a visit to this city. * * *
And entertaining the highest respect for j*our
personal character, &cJ’
There is not probably a man living
rhe Potomac*who has been moire
hostile to the institutions and people of the
South during the last twenty years, and whose
political principles have been more obnoxious
than the Senator from Massachusetts. Hit ouly
claim to any notoriety is because of his slan
derous, abusive and malignant attacks upon our
people and institutions. Yet with this know
ledge of the man we find seventy-four names
of high respectability and worth appended to
this precious document, many of whom we re
cognize as of those who, in the palmy days and
life time of our lamented Calhoun, were his
professedly attached disciples, and some of
"whom were especially zealous in “ the lost
* tt
cause."
It appears from the card of Mr. Barke, in
your issue of Friday* that his name “was signed
without authority , knowledge or consent ,” aud it
may be so with others* whose names are ap
pended ; and if such should prove to be the
lact, it mast be admitted those who had charge
of the “letter of invitation” for signatures
took a short mode of obtaining them, and
what in former days would have been consider
ed a very “ Radical familiarity.”
VOL. 25. NO. 22
Queen Victoria.
“ Burleigh” writes from London to the Boston
Journal: *
“On the death of the Prince Consort the
Queen haa Buckingham Palace dismantled, and
so it remains to this day, all except the private
rooms. The Queen will not drive through the
royal gateway of the Palace, nor has she since
her husband died. She will not ride through
the royal eutrance to the House of Lords, bnt
goes iu through the Peers’ eutrance. She will
not wear.the royal robes, and when she opens
Parliament In person the robes tre thrown over
ttie back of the throne, which is a gilded obair *
surmounted with a gilt crown, and sits bn them.
She comes to London when duty calls, seldom
passes a night in her capital, and has passed less
thau a dozen in lour yeßrs. She remains In •
quiet at Windsor or Osborne. She has no com
pany bin what her official position imposes on
her. The state apartments at Windsor are all
dismantled and are uusued—the massive plate
is Dot used—a plain silver service i» put on
the table—n small, quiet pony and a low-wheeled
carriage the Queen.nses for her private rides at
Windsor, nnd she seldom, unless dutv calls her
to Loudon, goes beyond the private Park of the
Castle. The one hundred fine horses that fill the
Windsor mews are seldom usecl, and the eight
creams for state occasions are not driven twice
a year.
“The room in which the Prince Consort
breathed his last is kept with scrupulous care
just as the Prince left it. The ladies say that
each night the dressing'gown and slippers are
put iu their accustomed place. The Queen’s
confidential attendant is a Highlander by the
name of Brown. Ho takes all the orders from
the Queen —and barelegged messengers come
trom the ‘Queen’s Apartments’ at Windsor
when her Majesty is to be served. This Brown
has been the occasion of a world Os talk. lie is
about fifty—tall and spare—with great assurance,
and attends the Queen to and from London.
Great attempts have been made to dislodge him,
but all hi vain. The Queen has a will of her
own. Brown was the Prince Consort’s High
land servant, anil was held by him in all honor.
While Victoria rules Englnud Brown will rule
the royal household.
“ Refusing to play the Queen, her Majesty has
never forgotten to play the woman. Iler visits
to Balmoral and.Osborne are benedictions to the
poor. She will allow no unseemly honors.
She drives her own pony wagon. Daily she
»oes her round with her carriage filled with
little gifts for the sick, ihe Infirm, the poor.
These she distributes with her own hand. Bv
the bedside of the aged and neglected the Queen
kneels and prays to the Sovereign of All. To
one she daily reads, to,another she presents
some needed coyifort ; and she is especially
tender to little ones who are in sorrow or want.
All through the Highlands she. is regarded as an
angel of mercy.
“ Iler favorite room at Windsor overlooks the
tomb at Frogmore, where Prince .Albert lies.
He was a benefactor to the poor, and the work
he began she seems resolved to finish. The
night lie died the Queen called in a young widow
who was in hqr household to sit with her, and
when all was oVer the Queen said : 4 No ®ne
now lives that cau call me Victoria.’ ”
Bartow County—Removal op the Sheriff *
and Deputy Sheriff. —We copy the order be
low, and the paragraph preceding, Irom the
Rome Courier, of the 22d:
We understand that the escape from jail of
- or seven prisoners, some two months since,
is, perhaps, the principal charge of “ gross
neglect ot dufy ” on the part of Mr. Aycook
and his deputy. The following order explains
itself:
Head’qrs_Third Military District, I
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, >
•Atlanta, Georgia, May 14,1867. j
Special Order No. 13.
Extract.— lll. An investigation by a com
petent officer having revealed the fact that
tiiere has been.gross neglect of duty on the part
of Wm. A'ycock, Sheriff, and Augustus Frank
lin, D *prrty Sheriff, of Bartow county, Georgia,
that criminals have escaped, and loyal men bare
been unable to secure justice through their
negligence or connivance, they are hereby de
posed.
IV. W. L. Goodwin, of Cartersville, is hereby
appointed Sheriff, and Aaron Collins, Deputy .
Sheriff, of Bartow county, Ga. *
By command Df Brevet Major General John
Pope.
G. K. SANDERBON,
Captain 23d U. 8. Infantry, A. A. A. G.
A true copy:
D. Hodt, Lieut. 33d U. 8. Infautry,
Poet Ad’jt, Rome, Ga.
The List. —As we were unable (says the
Montgomery Mail) to give the list in full of
the delegates appointed by the Radical meet
ing, al the Capitol, on Saturday night last, in
our issue of Sunday, we present below the full
list. It M ill be seen that the number is equally
divided between black and white, and without
designation and distinction of color. We copy
from the Radical organ, as follows:
At the county meeting, held at the Capitol,
on Saturday night, the following gentlemen
were selected as delegates from Montgomery
to the State Union 'Repnblican Convention,
which- assembles in this city on the first of
Jtnie: ,
T. O. Glascock, E. H. Metcalf, A. C. Felder,
Wager Swayne, J. Abrahim, I. W. Roberts, J. .
P. Stow, John C. Kcfler, Holland Thompson,
Henry Hunter Craig, L. J. Williams, James
Haile, Isaac Brown, Thomas Calloway, Peter
McDowd, Peyton Finley; W. T. Hatebetf, C. J.
Kipp, J. Jasper Wilson, H. C. Whip
ple, M. D., Vernon H. Vaughan, Cbas. McDae’e,
Willard Warner, H. E. Faber, W. J. Bibb,
Henry C. Semple, Patrick Robinson, Isaac
Cohen, William Bolt, James Foster, Stephen
Hilliard* Aaron Goins, Samuel Barnett, Oscar
Hutchinson, W. McCloud, Gabe Heiilej’, Allen
Hannon, Win Fleming, Sr., Abel Johnson.
St. Michael’s Cnußcti and the Lightnino.-
Ou entering the eh arch yesterday morning the
sextou discovered that the lightning which •
struck the church the evening before had slight
ly injured the plastering just inside the wain
door, twisted cff the upper hinge and running
down the inside of the door, passed out be
neath it, breaking the flag stone below. This
will explain how it happened that the party
who were strdek under ike portico were affect
ed only in their lower limbs. The skiu is peal
ing ofl the right leg of Mr. H. H. Williams and
Rev. G. F. Williams, and also off the foot of
Miss Higham, all the affected parts presenting
the appearance of having, been scalded. Mrs.
Williams found on examination that, although
her dress was only scorched, that several of her
steel hoops were twisted, and in some places
melted in a most remarkable manner. The re
mains of the gentleman’s boots can be seep at.
the hat store of Mr: H. H. Williams, on Broad
street— Charleston Mercury , 22 d.
During our recent visit to Atlanta we were
humiliated to see men of whom we had ex
pected better things, bowing and smiling and
crying, and ready to promise anything, to gain
,an interview with Gen. Pope. While we re
spect and shall reverence Gen. Pope as Qur
rules, &c.— Georgia News.
Don’t “ reverenee” him at all. He is a gen
tleman, but not a particularly reverend one. if
you obey him where you must, it will 1 •
enough.— Prentice.