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Letter of a Suicide—Hon Elijah
Hi so, of Kentucky, Blows His
Brains Out.
The telagraph has announced the ■
death, by suicide, of Hon. Elijah Hise.
of Kentucky, who had just b.»en elec,
ted to represent bis district in the
Fortieth Congress, by a majority of
6,000 votes. No one, not even his
family or most intimate friends, bus
pected his purpose, although it seems
to have been settled in his own mind
for weeks. The deed was done on the
Bth inst.,at his home in Russelville. —
A letter to the Courier, dated the 9th,
says ;
On yesterday he left my office after
a short conversation and w:nt imme
diately home, not distant more than a
hundred yards.. In half an hour the
report reached me he had shot him
self. 1 hurried down and found the
report too true. He had lashed a
couple of eight inch rifled pistols to
gether, and standing before a large
sized mirror, had discharged both
through his brain, immediately over
the eyebrows. The whole top of his
head was blown completely off.
Upon a small table, immediately in
front of him, was found the enclosed
manuscript (a minute copy of which I
send). From this it appears that the
condition of the cduntry bore to such I
an extent upon his mind as to render
death preferable, lie has also been
suffering fur some months under dia
betes null it us, which contributed, in a
great degree, no doubt, to bis despon
dency. He was six-tyfivc years of age,
July 4th, 1866. You will perceive,
froia the date of his article, that he
has contemplated the act some weeks
I believe you now have all the facts,
and you can write such an article as
you may be inclined.
A COPY OF THE NOTE IN JUDGE
Hise’s HANDWRITING, FOUND ON
HIS TABLE.
I have lost all hope of being able to
aid in saving the country from the im
pending disasters and ruin in which
despotic and unconstitutional rule has
involved her. 1 have been brought
into the public service at an age too
advanced, and at a period too late to
allow me even to hope that I ean do
anything in aid of the restoration of
constitutional government, even if ad>
mitted to a seat in Congress, which, it
is said, would be refused.
I am enfeebled by the infirmities of
age and by disease. lam weary of
the world and intend to leave it. I
aui sick at heart and resort to death
for relief. I shall leave a poor, afflic
ted wife and kind relatives and friends,
none of whom have any knowledge of
my purpose. 1 have kept my intent
to seek death, for relief from the sor
rows that afflict me, a secret from all
I do not think even a- suspicion of it
exists in the minds of either wife, kin
dred or friends. Elijah Hise.
Sunday, April 21, 1867.
There is a codicil to my will in my
coat {octet, since placed in the hands
nf mi wi&> VI. Hise.
Three Children Burned to Death
by the Explosion of Kerosene
Oil.
Yesterday evening, about dark, oc
curred one of those terrible accidents,
which causes the heart’to sicken ip
sorrow, at its recital, which has thrown
a happy household into speechless
agony, and has enshrouded in gloom,
the feelings of an entire community.
Mr. John P. Jordan, the worthy
and estimable Sheriff of this county,
had just returned home, about two
miles West of this place, after several
weeks absence, having been detained,
-on his return by a fearful storm at sea,
and was. receiving the greetings of
overjoyed hearts, when a terrific ex
plosion and the screams of children,
announced the sad and awful accident,
related below, as accurately as can be
ascertained: . j
Miss Mary Jordan, aged about 12
years, daughter of Mr. John P. Jordan,
Miss Ellen Gunn, her first cousin,
aged 13 years, daughter of Mr. \V. H.
Gunn, Clerk of Liberty county, and a
colored girl of about the same age,
were at the door of a closet opening
on the back piazza, pouring Kerosene
oil from a gallon can, into what is called
a feeder can. The colored girl held a
small torch light. It is supposed, the
gas from the large oil can oommunicn
ted with the light, and immediately
the explosion took place, saturating
with oil the clothing of the children,*
and enveloping them in flames. In a
few minutes they were burned into a
crisp, and this morning, between 7
and 8 o’clock, retaining perfect con
ciousness to the last moment, though
in great suffering, and expressing a
willingness to die, the pure and sinless
spirits of these two lovely and interest
ing children, the adored at home, and
the beloved of associates, winged their
eternal flight: This is one of the sad
dest events that the pen is ever cal'ed
upon to record.
The colored girl was alive, at the
latest accounts, though beyond all
hopes of recovery.
The hands and awns of Mr. Jordan,
were badly burned, in endeavoring to
extinguish the flames.—.Quiney\Com
■monwealth.
Kelly, (he Radical Missionary.-
We learn, from the New Era, that ‘ this
distinguished jurist and statesman ’’
will visit Atlanta and address the peo
ple, Monday next; and furthermore,
that a meeting ol citizens has been
held “to make arrangements for his
reception and for public speaking.”
Who doubts the hospitality of At
lanta ? Who will say that friend Bard,
of the Era,is not the best-hearted man
io the wo6d ? Why, if the d—l him
self should come along, he would bid
“his Royal Highness’’ cordial welcome
and move the appointment of a com
mittee (and he’d get it too) to “ten
der him the hospitalities of the city!”
—Macon Telegraph.
Hontljern (Interpose
(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C- BBYAN, : : « : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA-:
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1867:
RELIGIOUS UNION.
The Conference of the Protestant
Methodists at Montgomery, has ad
journed to hold i*s next session at
Macon, in 1868. ’flic negotiations bo-,
tween them and the Episcopal Metho
dists, for a reunion, were not success
ful. No insuperable obstacle seems
to have presented itself, but neither
party seemed disposed to make an
easy surrender. They understand
each other, however, and the best of
feelings exist between them, so that
we may expect further efforts, and a
final reunion of these two Churches.
LA CROSS DEMOCRAT.
Tl.is is the title of “ Brick Pome
roy's ’’ paper,-published at La Cross,
in the State of \\ isconsin. Our read
ers have all beard of “ Brick Pome
roy,” and many of them arc as familiar
with his writings, as with tho-e of our
own “ Bill Arp." Nobody' has for
gotten his lulminations against “Beast
Butler,” nor how that “seven headed’’
and “ten horned’’ animal writhed un--
der “ Brick’s ” dagger strokes on the
war. In fact, “Brick” is the Demo>
cratic champion of the Northwest,
wields liis pen as a two-edged sword,
slays everything- before him, and ev
ery effort to frighten him with threats
of suits for libel, treason, disloyalty,
&e , have proved utterly fruitless; and
safe within the pale of a State not
proscribed by the Sherman Bill, he
triumphantly proclaims the truth, and
the Constitution,and hurls in the teeth
of the Radicals the sins and iniquities
they have committed, blackened with
the infamy of their crimes or dyed red
with the blood of their victims.
“ Brick ” is engaged in a good cause
and is figl ting a giant battle for the
South. He unhesitatingly seizes ev
ery missile within his reach, and hurls
with unerring Vigor at his foes. He
has, like Leonidas, taken his stand at
Thermopal*, (in the Northwest) re
solved to stay the tide which threatens
the destruction of his country, or per
ish upon its desecrated altars. In so
noble a cause he should have the en
couragement of his friends in the
South. If we cannot give him the aid
of a strong arm, v e can give lmn the
aid of. a strong purse. Let his papey
be circulated throughout the country.
In his recent trip through the South,
he added 10,00 u to the list of his sub
scribers—let 10,000 more be added,
to enable him to send his paper to'
thousands in the North without charge.
\J iltn* ojurn* ui-uut {ftr «*
Constitution and the country, and will
f redound to the permanent political
good of the South. “ Brick’s ’’ daily
paper is $lO and his weekly S2. The
latter is a small amount, and will suit
the condition of those living at a d's
tance from the Post Office'.
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST
We acknowledge receipt of the May
number of this old established and de
servedly popular work on agriculture.
The information h contains for tiro
Farm, Garden and Household, is of
the most Valuable character, and should
recommend it to every agriculturist
in the country. If those,greenhorns
throughout the country, who suppoit
the Northern “ffift Put-rjrrises," Lot
tcrics, and other humbugs, would spend
•$1 50 for the American Agriculturist,
they would not only get the value of
their money, but they would also find
all their precious humbug Lotteries
and Gift Enterprises, stripped entirely
naked of their charitable cloaks, and
all their hypocricy, deceit, covert and
open li'eing, exposed to full view. The
American Agriculturist endeavors to
guard the unwary against the evil ma
chinations of these col-1 bloolcd, hy
pocritical liars, by showing them up
monthly, and if this was its only merit,
it would be enough to make it ever
dea • to the hearts of the good people
of the country.
Mobile Riot —Fivo men were
killed and many others wounded. A
dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
(Yankee) says, “ an attack Was n.adu
on Kelly,” the Radical emissary, ami
that “about a dozen shots were fired
at the stand,” —great confus on then
prevailed, during which Kelly made
his escape unharmed. Kelly has suc
ceeded in getting up a senkatiou that
will be a God send to Thad. Stevens,
Philips, Sumner & Cos., conyng as it
does so opportunely in a season of
drouth. The same dispatch says, Se
nutor Wilson arrived in Mobile, but.
declined to speak, and passed on to
New Orleans. Mr. Wilson could not
face a city where tho bold J uilee, , Kelly
was driven from the rostrum, fdr even
he seems to have lost his courage, and
declined even tho guaranty of tho
military that he should speak under
their protection. The city of Mobile
disavows the outragos of t lie mob, and
we have no doubt that tlie whole af
fair was gotten up by Radicals to pro
duce a season of refresh inert to tho
waning party North. What do thrfy
care for the death of a few negroes or
Southern whites? They can now es
tablish a lie, that it is not safe for a
Northern man to speak in tho South.
Washington dispatches state
that Attorney General Stanberry holds
the removal of civil officers by the
military commanders in the Southern
States to be illegal, except in eases
where such officers attempt to obstruct
the execution of the law.
DULL TIMES IN &A VANN AH.
The Republican of the 20th, says :
“We take a look back at the past week,
and dullness is written everywhere,
excepting at the Market on Saturday.
The depression is terrific, idlers saun
tcrslowly up and down-the thorough
fares, passing away the time in com
pany with mint juleps and other de
ceptive mixtures, perspiring peripa
tetic locals may be seen here, there
and everywhere, searching out some
thing that never happened, or enlarg
ing on something that has : the labor,
ing classes especially feel the general
dearth,’’ &o.
STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.'
The following resolutions were adop
ted by the Stockholders ,of the Atlan
tic & Gulf llailroad, at their recent
meeting in Savannah :
Whereas, The great importance of
the extension of the Atlantic & Gulf
Railroad to Bairibridgc has been fully
set forth, and is unanimously acknowl
edged by all concerned ; and. *
Whereas, The citizens of Bain bridge
and of Decatur county, in their corpo
rate and individual capacities, have
subscribed one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars towards the project, and
now call upon the remaining stock
holders of the road, rnd the citizens of
Savannah, engaged in the great and
growing trade of Southwestern Geor
gia and the adjacent portions of Flo
rida. and Alabama, to aid them in se
curing the success of the enterprise.
Resolved, That it is the duty of ev
ery stock holder, and of every citizen
interested in the enterprise, to sub
scribe to the proposed extension every
dollar that he or she can raise.
Resolved, That as an inducement
for such subscription, the stock so ta
ken, and to be taken, shall bo consid
ered and classed as preferred stock,
and that a dividertd of seven per ctJftt
p"r annum shall be paid out of the
first net profits of the road, and so to
be continued.
Resolved, That the payment of this
■subscription shall be in five monthly
instalments of twenty per cent, com
mencing on the first dgy of November
next, and that all cash subscribers
shall be entitled to receive bonds bear
ing seven per cent, per annum, paya
ble in years, or preferred stock,
at their option upon the payment of
the last instalment of the said prefer
red stock, with the privilege of merg
ing into the general stock of the Com
pany at the option of the subscribers.
83?* “Cato,” a correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph, in an article justi
fying Gov. Jenkins in his recent ap«
neal to the Supreme Couit, for protec
tion against the Military bill, concludes
his article sensibly os follow*:
“And, above ad, let our people treat
the colored race with that kindness
rnd justice that will always secure
their confidence and esteem. Then,
\ i4 - L -viu-Uinery or oausti
turion and laws. Jet the good of the
colored people as well as the whites be
faithfully consumed. With these great
printiples as our chart and compass,
the new order of things will be a hap
py one. After all the colored people
in this matter of voting will look to
their interest, and that will lead ilu-m
tooo-op-.ration with their white friend?.
For a time they may be led off, or at
least a portion of them, by wicked and
designing men ; but there are-oertain
1 greut truths that cannot be lung sub
verted, which wiTl inevitably draw
them back to duty. Among these
great truths are the following •
Ist. That the interest apd destiny
of the two races in the South are bound
up together.
2d. That, in Georgia the white vo.
tors exceed the colored by 20,0U0, and
that any attempt at the latter to set
up for themselves, would only result
to their injury.
3d. Thai slavery is dead and for
ever liuricd out of sight, and nobody
desires to rev ve it.
4ih. That the universal feeling of
all parties and classes now towards the
Cukrod people is one ol congratulation
on their cnlranel iacment, and earnest
desire to elevate and improve them.
Any enrolling of themselves therefore
under tho transient and fluctuating
banners of partizans or demagogues,
would be exceedingly unwise and dan
gerous. lly their good conduct, mod.
oration ami prudence, our colored peo
ple will securely anchor themselves iu
! the haven of Liberty and Law.
Methodist I'rotrstanl (lanoral Con
j rent ion. —This body, which' assembled
at Montgomery, A'abunia, last week,
was largely attended. It was organ
ized by electing Rev. J. J. Murray, of
Maryland, to tho office of President;
[ Charles W. Button, of Virginia', prin
cipal, and Rev. F. 11. M. Henderson
assistant secretary.
Afier tho appointment of commit
tees, Rev. 8. lv Cox introduced to the
Conference Bishop Pierce, Bishop Mo.-
Tyeire, Rev. Dr. L. Mi Lee and Rev.
I J. E. Evans, us commissioners from
! the Methodist Episcopal Church South
l to confer with this Convention on im
] poitant business. They were kindly
received and welcomed within the bar
of the Convention by the president
pro tent.
Bishop Pierce presented a letter
utid documents explanatory of their
missien in the hands of the president:
The letter was read by the .secretary.
Bishop Pierce then ml dressed the
i convention, with characteristic elo
quence, on the subject of the union of
tho two churches. He was followed
by Bi hop McTyoiro and Ur. Lcc.--
Tbe message was finally concluded by
a hearty endorsement of the sentiments
expressed in the person ol Rev. J. E.
Evans.
A resolution introduced by Rev. 8.
K. Cox, reciprocating the brotherly
love and Christian courte-y of the
commissioners and providing for the
appointment nf a commission to confer
with them, was almost unanimously
passed.
WatifThe Supreme Court, during the
sessipn just closed, disposed of two
hundred cases, leaving two hundred
and fifty on the docket. It, is a matter
of comment that the Court recognized
Texas as a State of the Upton in grant
ing injunction against the payment of
the indemnity bonds, obtained flora
her during the rebellion.
The Justices who were equally divi
drd on the motion to amemPtbe Mis
sissippi bill -were Chase ; Wayne, Nel
son, tlifford, Swain, Miller, Davis and
Field. Justice Grier left before the
Court acted on the notion. With the
dismission of the cases, the subpoenas
issued under them failed.
SSrThe reserve of M r Davis meets
with earnest applause from his friends.
Since his release he has repelled as
personally obtrusive anything like a
demonstration, though he has received
his friends cordially, and conducts
himself in all respects with the quiet
dignity of a private gentleman.
The merchant prince, Stewart, of
New York, returns 880,000 income
this year; UJaiiYi. 8150,000. Both
returned over a million of income last
year. These merchants have sold
more goods this year than during any
year before. Their losses are not at
tributable to lad debts.
Value of Paper Dollars. —The fol
lowing calculation will be found con
venient for those who deal occasional
in gold, ard will be found valuable for
reference.
When gold is quoted at SI 10, a pa
per dollar is worth 91 cents nearly.
When cold is quoted at $1 15, a
paper dollar is worth 87 cents nearly.
When gold is quoted at SI 20, a pa
per dollar is worth 83 cents.
When gold is quoted at. Si 25. a
paper dollar is worth 80 cents
When gold is quoted at SI 30, a pa
per dollar is worth 77 cents nearly.
When gold is quoted at SI 35, a pa
per dollar is worth 74 cents.
When gold is quoted at SI 45, a pa,
pei dol'ar is worth 69 cents nearly.
When gold is quoted 'at SI 50, a pa
per dollar is worth 66\2 3 cents.
SSF'It is said by those who have
conversed with General Pope on the
subject, that ho intends to appoint two
white men and one negro on the li.-g
--istration Board in every county in his
District —Macon Telegraph.
We think “those who have conver
rd with General Pope”.are mistaken.
Perhaps two white men nn-1 one negro
for each Senatorial Districts n;ay be the
rule. We have foi ty 1 >ur Senatorial
Di-tricts in Georgia each District
comprising three counties. As b.olh
races are to be registered, it is very
probib’e that one of the District Reg
isters will be appointed to look alter
the privileges of his owa race.—Allan
la, Opinion. -
Registration w G fen. Pop Di
strict." —A generll or ter published in
the Atlanta papers of the 9t!i announ
ces that General Pope has appointed-
Col. James F. Moline (we presume of
the army) General Inspector of Regis
tration and Chief of Bureau ot Civil
Affairs for the Third Military District.
It is also announced that Mr. I£. Hal
bert, of Atlanta, lias been appointed
Register General for the Stato of
Georgia. Mr. Hi'll ert is tho Superin,
tendent of the Southern Express
Company, and is a man of (iue’ busii
ness capacity. Wc think his appoint
meat a good one,
It is stated (unofficially) that the
registration of voters in Georgia will
commence on the 12th of Juno.
Whirl the Negroes Owe to the Radi
cals.—Vive years ago yesterday Gene
eral Hunter issued bis emancipation
proclamation In Missouri, an act which
was repudiated by the President, and
which brought down upon the unlucky
General the censures of scores of those
very journals which would have us
now Deliove that they have been spe
cial champions of the black man. Con
gress could have proclamod negro suf.
frage in the South just as well two
years ago us last March, hut refused ;
and, ns a striking illustration of the
temper of tiro Radical party, wfceh
they had tho power in Maryland, in
1864, while remodeling tlie Constitu
tion of that State, they refused to con
fer the ballot on the blacks, and again,
when assembled in convention in
Philadelphia, in September last,'they
declined committing .themselves to ne
gro suffrage, T|io negroes may he ig
*n want, hut thaw- are tunny of thom
of sufficient intelligence to know, as
General Garfield frahkly admitted in a
speech made last February, the lladi-,
cals have befriended the negro not
from sympathy for him or from love of
justice, hut from interest. Who ii.
tlie future wifi lul'o a greuter interest
in doing the colo'-ed man justice than
the white men of tho South Na
tional lntclligencet Miy 10.
Rock lalaud, 111., May 13 —One
of the most terriffio boiler explosions
on record occurred at Hampton, 111.,
ten miles up the river from this place,
to-day, at 11-35 a. in. Iho steamer
Lansing, running in c- nflection with
tho Western Union railioad in at
tempting to leave the wharf on her up
ward, bound trip, exploded her boiler,
killing six persons and severely inju.
ring six others. — Chicago Rrpub.
c>sr W c'are informed, says th ■ Nash
ville Banner, by u private letter just
received from Pari-, and written by ;f
gentleman who has every reason to
know the facts, that General John C.
Breckinridge, wlm is at present in
that city, will return to the United
States im mediately on the release of
Mr. Davi«.
Comparative Number of White
and Black Voters in Georgia,
under the Sherman Bill.
’“The fears of our people, it has oc-,
curred to us, have been needlessly
aroused at what they suppose to be the
effect of the Reconstruction act in pla
cing the control of the legislation of
the State in the hands of the negro
population. We have examined into
the United States census of 1850 —the
last that has reached us -and find
that in Georgia there were then but
twenty-seven counties which had more
negroes than whites. Those counties
were, Baldwin, Bryan, Burke, Cam
den, Chatham, Columbia, Crawford,
Glynn, Greene, Hancock, Harris, Jas
per, Jefferson, Jones, Mclntosh, Mon
roe, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Pu t n a in,
Scrivcn, Ta bot, Taliaferro.and Wilkes,
—Macon Messenger.
Our usually correct cotcraporary. of
the Macon Journal <£■ Messenger , is in
error in supposing, that tli'.re are but
twenty-seven counties in the State in
which the blacks have a m jority of
voters. We have before us the tax
returns for the year 1866, and from
these it appears that in addition to the
chuntit-s named by the Messenger,
there were a majority of negro-polls,
which embraces male adults above the
age of' twenty-one and under sixty in
tlie foil- wing counties : Baker, Cal
houn, Chattahoochee, Decatur, Dough,
erty, Early, Elbert, Houston, Lee, Lib
erty, Lincoln, Loundes, M;.con, Men
riwethcr, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph,
Schley, Stewart, Sumpter, Terrell,
Thomas, Troup, Twiggs and Warren.
These tax tables show, also, that
two of the counties given in the Mes
senger as having a majority of negroes,
to. wit: Bryan and Chatham —have
now a majority of white male adults.
They show, also, that the whole num
ber of the counties which have a ma
jority of blacks is forty-five. Wc give
below a full list of these, with the
number of white and black polls in
each, as made on oath to the State Tax
Receiver of last year: -—-
"counties." ~ whites: BLACKS.
Baker, 309 950
Baldwin, 552 647
Burke, 857 2,040
Camden, 216 277
f Calhoun, 288 623
Chattahoochee, 430 463
I Columbia, 463 1,359
Crawford, 547 760
Decatur, 928 1,012
, Dougherty, 371 1,537
Early, 365 674
Elbert, 805 811
Glynn, 204 • 870
.Greene, 69 1; 1,263
Hancock, 7-19 1,188
Harris, 982 1,159
Houston, 807 2,145
Jasper, GO7 902
' Jefferson, 598 93-8
Jones, 498 840
Liberty, 366 556
Liucoln, 300 605
Lmindes, 520 606
J,ee, 865 1,339
Macon. 597 1,053
• Merriwetbfir, 1,091 1,219
Mitchell, 430 566
Monroe, 887 1,266
Morgan, 593 1,0 6
Oglethorpe, 668 1,110
Putnam, 478 913
Randolph, 767 802
Quitman, 238 312
Schley, 258 378
Screven, 531 5*9
Stewart, 804 1,373
Sumpter, ■ .880 1,282
Talbot, 719 -1,100
'Taliaferro, 3”8 410
Terrell, 522 703
/ Thomas, 781 1,325
' Troup, 978 1,146
Twiggs, 403 879
• Warren, 620 708
Wilkes, 554 1,121
Tkavy on the District Commanders.
RWn the radical papers have de
nounced the petty tyranny of Hie Mili
tary Commanders at the South. Selto
field at Richmond, playing the role, of
Louis Napoleon, in threatejiing •to
muzzle the press. Sickles repeating
the trick of Hosier at Charleston. Pope
at Atlanta in menacing Governor Jen
kins with removal; and Sheridan at
New Orleans in removing Mayor Mon
roe, are all condemned for exceeding
their instruct ons in performing vari
ous acts of tyranny The New I'ork
Herald, especially, is severe upon the
role of these valiant commanders who
are now lording it over a poor and
downtrodden people It says-:. “In
assuming tho right to make people
take off their hats to a 'pair of't rowsets,
a hoflp-skirf, or even to the ‘Stars and
Stripes,’ these militay commanders are
assuming too much. We would sub
mit to tlie President, the Secretary of
War and General Grant the propriety
of a general order embracing certain
spec fie instructions to the five military
district commanders in the Mbuth and
tlieit subordinates, to tho end that a
uniform, lib rul and conciliatory course
of action on their part miy prevail
from Virginia to Texas. The rigors
of martial law are out of plaoe in tlie
midst of peaoe and upon a people who
are not only disarmed, submissive, and
unable to help themselves, but who
are anxious and doing all they ean to
fulfill the conditions of Congfvss.”—
Exchange.
New York Market.
•New York, May 17. —Flour dull.
Wheat dull and drooping- Corn un.
changed. Fork dull, at §23 20. Lard
quiet. Cotton quiet, at 284 to 29c.
Freights firm.
New York, May 17.—Stocks ac
tive and somewhat better. Money, W;
market improving. Gold, 137. Go*
vefiiinents dull; 1862 Coupons, 1971.
Cotton easier sale* 1.000 bales at -84.
Fleur dull, declined 10 to 14e.; State,
§lO 90 to 14 25; Southern mixed to
jrood, sls to 20. Coni declined 2 to 3”,
Western mixed, new 1 23 to IJUJoId,
131. Pork heavy,, mass §33. Gird
firmer, 12f to 13|.
A Vigorous Republican Protest.
From all parts of the country the
response of patriotic Republicans to
the threat of Thud. Stevens that the
Southern States shall be excluded af
ter they have complied with the He.
Construction hill, is an emphatic and
unmistakable protest against such vio
lation of honor and faithlessness to
contract. Congress has said- to the
South that it may have representation
and participation in the Federal coun
cils upon certain terms. The Repub
lican party, in every State of the North,
accepted this platform last Fall. Upon
the issue thus made, pure and simple,
that party went before the country.--
And in all the originally loyal States,
lrom Maine to Missouri, it was in
dorsed. Tliad. Stevens, the apostle
of hate and champion of malignity, did
his very worst to secure an acceptance
of his pet theories, “ confiscation and
punishment ’’ lie cajoled, threatened
and ridiculed by turns. He
so far as to vote with the .Democracy
against his own party, when it refused
to endorse his vagaries. Fut Re was
uniformely defeated. Not a single
measure originated by him was adop
ted in the shape in which it left his
hands. Mr. Stcvpns has therefore no
right to speak for the Republican [ar
ty. Its sentiments is truly represen
ted by Senator Wilson, who -assures
the Southern people that they shall
have representation as their reward for
obedience to the laws, Unless the
Supreme Court shall impose an injunc
tion, and the Fresidcnt suspend the
execution of the act in obedience to
it, we predict that several States will
have complied with all the prelimina
ry conditions and secured their repre
sriitatioti.in Congress before the close
of its next session. Put that in your
memory-box and see whether the
event proves that Thad. Stevens or
the Republican party is right.— Eve
ning Journal. *
Ruskin on Judas..
• John Ruckiu, in the Crown of Wild
Olives, characterizes in h'rs trenchant
style those who like to make money, as
imitators of Judas:
“We do great injustice to Iscariot,
in thinking him wicked above all com
mon wickidness. lio was cnly a com
mon money lover, and Like all money
lovers, did not understand Christ;
cotrldent make out the worth of him
or meaning of him. He didn’t Want
him to be killed. He was horror
struck when he found that Christ
would be killed; threw his money
away, instantly and hanged himself. —
(low many of ofir present money see
kers, think you, would have the- graze
to hang themsclvesj, whoever they
kill'd? But Judas was a common,
selfish, muddled-l ended, pilfering fel
low ; his hand always- in the bag of the
poor,-not caring for them. He didn’t
understand Christ, yet lie believed jn
him much more than most of us do;
had seen him do miracaleg, thought, lie
was quite strong enough to shift for
h in self; and he, Judas, might as well
mulca Liu own little by puiajiiisites nut
of the affair. Christ would come out
of itrwcll enough, and he have thirty
pieces. Now, that is the money see
ker’s ideal all over the World. Lie
doesn’t hate Chri.-t, but can’t under
stand him—lie doesn’t care for him —
sees no good in that benevolent busi
ness ; hut makes his own little job of
it, at all events, come What wHI. And
thus, out of every mass of men, you
have a certain number of hag men—-
your ‘lice fist' men, whose main object
is to make money. And they do niajjc
| it —make it in all sorts of unfair ways,
; chiefly by the weight, and force ol
j money itself. or what is ca’lcd the
| power which money, onoc obtained,
j has over the labor of the poor, so that
! tire cap Jalist can take all its produce
! to himself except the luborar’s fofld.—
j That is the mo lorn Judas’ way of
‘carrying the hag’ and ‘bearing what
is put therein.’ ’’
Senator Wilson.— ThoNew York
Times (Radical) says:
“Senator Wilson’s Southern tour
seems? to he a case of great cry and
little wool. Flic flock surrounds him,
hat .there is no shearing done, and he
- is likely to come baok empty-handed,
j The blacks listen to him, hut wonder
: what all the bother is about. The
whites let him alone, and have not
paid him thi compliment of getting
: angry at anything he has said. Me
It s rated them to his heart’s content,
and they hear him with civility, if not
with respect, and then Mr. Wilson
packs up, his stock of platitudes and
diatribes, and takes himself off unno
ticed to the next town. It seems
rather dui 1 soft of work. It is not, we
may be sure,-exactly what the Senator
bargained for. If thero had been a
disturbance anywhere what a theme it
l»ould have suppl ed him with—what'
1 a martyr he would have returned ! As
i it is,' he conies back in the position of
[ one who thought to .move the universe,
and finds that ho has not made So
much stir as a gadfly in Summer. Ihe
I Southern people soon found out that
i it was not an earthquake or a whirl
wind which had come among them,
but only a reed shaken by the wind
And we say that is very discouraging
lor poor Mr. Wilson, and we hope he
will hear up bravely under his adver
sity-” .. _ >
The Ngro North ami South. —The
New York Commercial Advertiser
says: “In Trpy, the Boaid of L-lu
cation prohbiits colored children from
attending the high school. In cities
at the South, ‘such conduct as th,is
is tuudg the subject of correction by
military author.lies There is evi
dently one law for Africa at the South
aud another for Africa at the North.”
John E. Hayes, Ksqr, editor
and proprietor of the fsavannah Daily
Republican, was yesterday appointed
j Commissioner of the United State
Court of Claims for Georgia.— Wash.
Chronic/--. ’
f C *ii BES AND I’UABGEKS.— Peso/ -
red, That the maintenance inviolate
of the Rajhis of tho Stn un(l
pec tally the right of each State to or.
der and control its own domestic insti
tutions, according to iUown judgment
exclusively, is essentialto that balance
of power oil which the perfection and
endurance of our political faith de
pends—Abe Lincoln's Platform.
Patriotism in 1864. No power ore
earth can or shall dissolve the Union,
Patriotism in 1866. The Union i»
dissolved, and all who deny it are
coppcrhca is and traitors.
Treason in 1864. To speak disres.
pectfully of the President and his pol
icy.
Treason in 1866. To speak respect
fully of the President and his policy.
—Montgomery Mail.
Effects of Radical Teachings.—The.
Richmond Titles closes a long artiels
on the receut riot in that city as fol
lows : *
This disgraceful riot is hat another
proof of the evils resulting from cl e
brutal teachings of. such incendiary
etn-ssarics from the North as Conway,
Haywood, Hilton, Underwood and oth
ers, whp have latelj polluted our city
with their presence, and poisoned the
minds of the negroes by their violent
harun-uoe. la it not time that suoL
government-uprooting sentiments a*,
these fanatics are in the habit of ut*
tcring, should he put a stop to by the
proper authorities ?
No Uni <N.—The Montgom.-ry Ad
vertiser, of Thursday, speaking of tho
negotiations pending between tho
■Methodist Episcopal I much and the
Methodist Protestant Church, the Con
vention of the latter being now in
session in that city, for reunion, says:
“It is gcn n rally conceded tnat the
Convention has entirely failed to make
a consolidation of the two churches.”
Liverpool, May 16, P. M.—Cotton
active, irregular and fluctu ting; mid<*
d>ing uplands, lljd; Orleans, ll}d.
Rosin advanced 7s. Turpentine, 355.
3d.
Liverpool, May 17—Noon.—Cot
ton firm ; middling uplands, ll|.d; Or
leans, 11 Jd ; sales estimated at 12,006
bales.
Liverpool,
, closed Grin; sales, 12,000 bales,
USayMn a speech in Cincinnati. Judge
Kelly threafcnc I confiscation, where
upon the Memphis Ledger asks;
How long w owl J a iiwij, who had
settled owa tract of land from which
the owner had been driven by confis.
cation, live to enjoy it? -Let Mr. Kel
ly try the experiment.
TO TfflK
DESTITUTE POOR
or TIIO.TIAM COIIVTV.
rpHK CORN {mrchnfled by the Honorubfe
I Inferior Court of the County Ims arrived,
anti tiio.Be wholmvQ complied with the order
of the Court by making oath that.they are wi
a,,vv» w 11,1 children, or representati vweof Or*
plian children under tive of -ten yearJi, or
or infirm, tuaiiucK, hull or Mind, ami
without the means of support, ami umthlo to
work fora Ibritny, and that they will millhr for
-if i u . il!eßK M id«d»can now come forward ant!
1 their <ju<>ta of Haiti Corn In’ t‘iil)inu on
unrRETs dekLe,
May '■!! Cltfi* Inf (;. TANARUS, C.
IDiiS SBEfIITM
WI LL be wild before the Court Honse door
in I hoiunxvill.-, between the iimml hours
of sale, on (he First Tuesday in July next, tho
following property, to wit:—A lot of Leather
mid other tilings, too numerous to mention.—
Sold ns the properly of Herrin Quinn, to sat.
Pxty sundry I-’i. Fas, Lwin. and from Th-snn.t Sc-,
periof Court, one in fuvof of Hill .V Wright
CL WILSON.
May 21—40d Sheriff.
TAX NOTICE.
Null' K is hereby given, that MeO. I>avi a
lias been re;<uhijrfy apooi-ited by ('i/uneif,
Tux Col lector from the eolpred population of
Tltotmisviile. All those indebted for Street
Tax a-e respect folly requested to call on him
mid settle, on or before tho hist day of Mny,
instant, or Exbontions will be issued iienins!
them, mid the costs fur the smm- will be added
to tho Tax.
lly order of Council:
WM. CLINE, Clerk.
May 21 3t
Three Pianos
ITtOIt SALK CHEAT bv
if. U S. DAVIS.
May 21 ts
IF YOU WANT
A GOOD Two Morse Double Seated Knuuy
cheap, on lona time, cal! on
Ma.v I7 2t ’ P N VICKERS.
jas. j. McGowan,
DEALER IN
I O E!
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
\ * lj"- TMJ
OLD KIRERO ICE 1101 MK,
(ONgrriMi Niiffi In»i*e- Bflwm
Hull nn«l %f r hilnkrr.
NIVANNAn. i < 42KOKGIA.
I'ffOrdwr* from the country, arcompot*»«*d
by reniit tanc«'*, promptly attended to, and par
ticiilar attention trivcn to imckin#-
May 17
GKORGIA TK«mns Vmmmif.
Court of tjrdinank . May 13th, 18*>7.
U‘krrrns, W O I\mde» and II VVoWf,
Adiniiuntmlor# the e»tikle nf Kmrl FTewch,
deceased, make* npphrathm by petition to iwid
Conrt for of i>iami**i<»u from wi»d Ad
ininirtf ration :—Ail p#rv>»»* inHn-eMed are there
fore notifo*d to file their objection* tn »»*d
Court, otherwise .raid letter* will he flT*n4e*l
in term* of the law.
II II Tt POKE,
May 17 Om Ordinary-^
gi:oi:*'tTfc*i***»« j.
Court ot Ordinary, Mi*y I3U», IAK7
Wbrrriia. 1* A. A»drrman make* applies*
lion to U»i* Court, for Letter* of Guardianship
sos the jvrsiMf*. property aud effect* of the
minor heir* of WRinm A Merman, deceased
All peraona interested are therefore notified
to file their objection*in said Court, otherwise
said Idlers will he granted in term# of the law
R II TOOKK.
May 17 Ordinary.
GKOKGI4 IboMM f***«T.
Ni I month* after Ajttd! May 3d. the
undersigned wilt applv to the honorable CoMt
of Ordinary, ol said County, for Letter* of
thwnisiiiv»n frodi the Administration of
K*tute of Geo rife KotaoM, late of said Cotn’.v.
.rosiAii -i Evurrrfc,
M*v 3 tkr Ad&i i